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FOR THE TUNNEL,

FOR RECIPROCITY.

THE CANDIDATES.

QUEEN'S COUNTY. Donald Ferguson, Patrick Blake.

KING’S COUNTY.

4. C. Macdonald, John MacLean.

PRINCE COUNTY. George W. Howlas, Richard Hunt.

THE DAILY EXAMINER

FEBRUARY 17, i8?l.

Direct Taxation.

mar direct taxation is involved in Un- restricted Reciprocity is now scarcely de- nied by any politician less reckless than

Mr. L. H. Davies. by one who was ior years an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe. It has been afirmed by the Week, an independent journal of high character. it has been ad. mitted—or slusostadmitted~ ‘by Sir Richard Certwright himself. The proposition is plais, and clear. Last year the Canadian Governmen’ collected upon ported from the United States, duties to the amouat of upwards of 37,000,000. That amount will, of course, asa result of the operation of Unrestricted Reciprocity, be last to the revenue. Then we shail, while high duties are imposed upon British and foreign goods and goods from the United States are admitted free of duty, go to the States for everything which we require that the States can manufacture or produce, Our imports from Great Britain and countries other than the States will thus be reduced to the minimum, and the duties collected as revenue will, of course, be reduced in a corresponding ratio. Tue ExXaMINer some time sgo esti- mated the annual loss of revenue resulting from Unrestricted Reciprocity at $14,000,- 000 Fear. Other higher and better ““thorities have since estimsted it at be- tween $14,000,000 and $15,000,000 a year, equal to about $15 a year for every family in all Canada. The amount that Prince Edward Island would, under Unrestricted Reciprocity, have to pay to the Dominion tax-gatherer would thus be upwards of $350,000 a year, or about ten Limes as much as was paid to the Provincial tax-gatherer under the regime of Mr. L. H. Davies! Concerning this point, Sir John Macdonald says :—

“Under our present system a man may largely determine the amount of his contri-

butions to the Dominion exchequer. The amouat of this tax is always in direct pro-

it has been affirmed

arcicles im-

portion to his means. If he is rich and can afford to drink champagne, he has to pay a tax of $1.50 for every bottle he buys. If he

be a poor man he contents himself with a cup of tea, on which there is no duty, and so on ull through the list. If heis able to afford ail manner of luxuries he pays a large sum into the coffers of the government. If he is a man of moderate means and able to enjoy an oceasional luxury, he pays accordingly. li lve is a poor man his contributions to the trea- sury are reduced to a minium. With direct taxation, no matter what may he the pecu- — position of the taxpayer—-times may be hard—crops may have tailed—sickness or other calamity may have fallen on the family, still THE INEXORABLE TAX COLLECTOR COMES ,X EXACTS HIS TRIBUTE. Dots not ours seem to be the more equitable plan’ It is the ene ander which we have lived and thrived and to which the government I lead proposes to adhere.”

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Discrimination Against Great Britain.

Even if there remain a lingering doubt in the min Js of some of the blindest of the supporters of the Opposition that direct taxation is involved in Unrestricted Reci- procity, there can be no doubt whatever about the proposition that Unrestricted Reciprocity means discrimination against Great Britain. Mr. Laurier himself tacitly wimitted the fact when in Charlottetown aud showed that the discrimination would amount to abont 822,000,000 a year. Mr. Wiman glories in the complications which this heavy discrimination will bring about, aud exults in the prospect of another Boston tea party. What have the loyal people of

Prince Edward Island to say about it? Or putting our Joyalty and duty to the Mother Country out of the question, what have the farmers to say about it! If they do not bay from the Mother Country, they cannot sell largely to the Mother Country, unless exceptional conditions prevail; for com- merce is dependent upou exchange. Their sales will consequently be confined pretty slosely to the United States, in which their purchases will, fur the most part, be made. They will thua be compelled to compete with the farmers of the Great West on the same terms as farmers of the Eastern States are compelled to compete. The farmers in the Eastern States have, beyond a doubt, been worsted in the conflict. Can our farmers hope to be more successful in their competition than those of Vermont and Now York? They can not.

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DAILY EX.

Mercier's Plan of Campaicn.

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lv isa notorious fact that the Premier of

: ’ iN. Ouebec wants money to reduce the Provin of course, expect

cial debt. He does not,

from the present Administra-

of

to obtain it

ition, So the whole force his Goverh- | ment 4 being used to secure the return to § “

) 7 sy power of Mr. Laurier and his supporters.

: a { conlemporary well remarks that the

|Mercier plan of increasing the provincial | subsidies out of money Mr. Laurier will | have to provide through direct taxation of ithe people of Canada, is making the Fed- | eral Finance Minister a catspaw to pull the chestnuts cut of the fire for the ineukey to leat.” But the people of Canada will not | permit of the success of Mercier’s plau | ome ———+O+o—

So Easily Satisfied:

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In respect to the proposed tunnel the Editor of the (uardian received a letter from the oftice of Laurier, Lavergne & Cote ; but it was unsigned and consequently worthless. Mr. L. H. Davies also received a note from Mr. Laurier in which reference

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to the unsigned letter which the

is made (juardian received, and Mr. Laurier adds: vale suppose ik will be satisfuctory.” Mr. Laurier must think that the people of this Island are easily satistied ! 7-+ere-

Notes and Comments.

—The Montreal Witness (Independent Grit) is out in strong denunciation of our proposed tannel; and the Grit Heiald, of the same city, is ridiculing the scheme. ’ Give the Liberals (/) their way,and all hope of the tunnel may be abandoned for years to come.

—Mr. Thompson, late editor of the Globe takes iesue with Sir Richard Cart- wright as to Canada’s having control over her tariff under Unrestricted Reciprocity. Mr. Thompson shows that it would be as reasonable to expect that Virginia or Maine should have a separate tariff as Can- ada with the Liberal programme in force.

‘*Desertions from Tory party continue” — Patriot telegrain.

Will the Patriot kindly name one pro-

minent Conservative (or one not prominent

--who is not a disappointed cttice seeker) who has deserted the Tory party/ We can point to several

rather prominent Opposition men, who are aot in sympathy with the Opposition’s present policy. And what about the Chatham Advance, hitherto one of the ablest Oppostion papers in New Bruvswick —outeide of St. John /

-—The Toronto Telegram points to the evil work done at Washington by unworthy Canadians and condemns it in the fullow- ing purgent terms: ‘*Canada owes the irksome clauses of the McKinley bill large- ly to Canadians who aided the republicans by pointing out the spots where their tariff arrows would wound the Dominion.

° Patriot statesmen of the Liberal persuasion tried to ditch their country in order to get the Government into a_ hole, The country is not yet ditched, and Ameri- can statesmen will have tocall their Can- adian agent in to plan a new scheme for the commercial subjugation of Canada.”

—The Montreal Gazette declares that the policy of the Opposition would not only again make Canada the slaughter market of the United States, seriously imperil ber own manufacturing industries and restore all the evils suffered prior to 1878, but would, in addition, mean the practical ex- tinction of Canada for the benefit of our neighbors to the south of us. Our people are alive to the mischieveus tendeucies of the Liberal policy and will act accordingly. The interests of Canada are now in saie hands, our statesmen are patriotic and the majority of the people are the same.

For every traitor in the land There are ten thousand leal and true.

—The Boston Herald says: ‘* Complete reciprocal trade would mean a practical ex- tension of our (United States) nativna! frontier for a thousand or more miles to the noth, east and west. ; : We should have a broad and fruitful field thrown open to our merchants and manu- facturers who would find therein not only new purchasers for their wares, but oppor- tunities of obtaining, at a low cost, the raw materials needed in their industries.” Then follows a train of speculation as to the enormous value such a policy would be to Boston, which we are told would become the great receiving and distributing centre of a trade area extending from the Gulf to

Lake Huron.

—In contemplation of unrestricted reci- procity, the Boston Herald remarks :

“The change would give to Boston an im- petus such, perhaps, as she has never before known, for her geographical position is such she could not fail to be the great receiving and ‘listributing centre of a trade area extending from the Gulf of S*. Lawrence to Lake Huron, This is not a wild speculation; it is but the logical conclusion to be reached from astudy of the causes that have led to the growth of the woild’s great centres of popu- lation.”

The meaning of this to the people of Canada is very plain. If Boston and New Engiand are to do the manufacturing for the Province of Quebec and all the 2astern part of the Dominion, as Mr. Wiman says, and asthe Boston Herald claims is the “logical conclusion from the study of the causes that have led to the growth of the world’s great centres of population,” then it ia certainthat Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are net. The fact is self- evident.

—Hon. William Macdougall, lately one of the most prominent of the sapporters of the Opposition, says : “I do not see how we can meet our obligations and maintain our general government without a produc- tive tariff. Direct taxation is practically out of the question. he provinces are pretty heavily burdened already in that line, and any government proposing to raise, say $40,000,000 a year by direct tax- ation might as wel! secure tickets for Hon- olulu oz some other remote, but hospitable island beyond the reach cf your telegraph system. Believing that a sufficient revenue by direct taxation will not be achieved in our day, I am in favor of reasonable import duties for federal revenue. Moreover, it must not be forgotten that free imports from a foreign country will have to be free to the mother countay. Tariff discrimina- tion against her in favor of foreign coun- tries would soon sever the British connec- tion.” Mr. do is now actively op- posing the Opposition.

XAMINER,

O THE EDIT

+7 5% u> LETTERS 7 OR. i illaielonadl . —_—_ The Egg Trade.

Sin,—A writer in yesterday s La apparently us well y ersed ithe ege trace as he is in questions of simpie Givision—in au attempt to make political capital agai Hon. D. Ferguson, publishes some tigures

} : } | ner and statements which mdicate Cieariy i

absolute ignorance of the subject he writes. By his own process of tgurmg he shows $24 43 to ba the nett of ‘13 cases of 30 dozen each” of eggs shipped to the London market, and then exulnugly

on Whhicu

proceeds

exclaims, ‘* Five ceuts per dozen to the dealer!” A ten-year-old schvulboy would laugh at his arithmetic and ridicule h ; stupidity. Although our egys will realize

more than 6s. per long hundred a!

unfavorable season of {lie year

even at that price, the actval |

shipment of I3 cases (oJ a s) would '

as follows :

¢ ‘

39 hundreds, less 3 for waste, nett oo hundreds, at 6s. Od., £10 los, at $4.86 to the £ $52 44

Charges :— Cartage..... (acne ivan onan sl OO Freight and Piimage... ao ee Commission ete j , 2 64 Brokerage and Dock Cua; 3 84 Iusurance, | p.c. on cost..... 32 Cost of cases (1 to 2).......... 5 20 20 3A

pane P32 06

- . . j or a fraction over oF cents per dozen to the dealer —even at 6s. per hundred—a price

which an Englishman weuld be ashamed to

. ~ . ) ’ offer for eggs of any kind, Ist alone ou . 3¢ oe ryyy gee Ee prime Canadian stock | These fizures are not taken from the disordersd im ath of aman who fails te solve a simp’e pro-

blem inthe simplest of preportion, bu

from the actual

} secatnere OOM la retu is

ana » EK. laani to

ee eggs shipped from I

don market in 1890-——with this differen

however, that in place of Gs, nearly twice that figure was realized ‘A Farmer’: Son” further thinks tliat the country store

keeper gets lc. per diz and the genera. dealer 2 cents per dezen tor handling Deluded mortal! If he cver get into the business he wi! find that the direct profit, both combiued rarely to 4 cent. per dezen, and that eggs are mainly; handled for the custom they bing in other lines of trade. I write as a life long ‘iberw) withort political motive, yet anxious that false impressions

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aAnonots

injurious to the trade may not be circulated to yur injury. The opening of the Knglich egg markets is one of the institutions of

private business enterprise, at least as far a

P. E. I. is concerned, and as such our polit- iciana should be diveztel of all eredits and discredits in the controversy, Under the

freight arrangements at present exisiiog, our Island egg trade with the old country will be greatly hampered. Bat the politician who will secure for us those improved facilities of carriage which the necessities of the busthess demand and which it is in the power of the government to provide, will entitle bimeelf to the gratitude of those interested in this branch of trade, producer and dealer alike.

INDEPENDENT.

(Jueen’s County, Feb. 14, is9l.

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. A Word about the Lawyers. ~

Sin,--The editor of the Guardian to dey in commenting on the Johnsoa alcohol case, says:

‘Just here we might add that it was very pleasing to hear Mr. Hodgson address the coutt when this case was tried, as the cham- pion of law and order. This was a new: for this gentieman, but he argued well and— the liquor dealers no doubt paid him.”

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The Guardian to be consistent with its past record of attacking Counsel for acting pro- fessionaily should have gone further and said, “and we regret to see Mr. W. S. Stewart, the Counsel and legal adviser of the Women’s Christian Temperance Unioa appearing as the opponent of law and order, but he argued well and the temperance people paid him.” I doubt if Mr Johnson paid Mr. Ho 'gson one cent,

For THE Act, _-—--—-— +o Bont Be Bamboozicd.

Sin,—We hope the farmers will study their interest this time. After having Davies and Welsh in power for four years,—what benefit ever did they derived frein them? Tos have Sir John ousted from the head of the Government, they would move the Heaven’s and earth. But the people are disgusted at their transactions,—as well as Edward Blake. Fellow Farmers, don’t be bambouzled with their lowing speech and shake hands.

AGRICOLA. 2

A Disgusted Observer Speaks Out

Sir,—I see that the Grits are at it in their usual style. They are around canvassing with sligh loads of Grit whiskey through

settlements. Some of those parties will get a surprise at the result of the election, In disgrst, Iam AN OBSERVER — ret 6 os The Vernon River Meeting. Advices from Vernon River state that

the meeting held there last night was a very larga one, and that nore than half the people who came to it could not get intc the hail. The feeling shown the Liberal- Conservative Party was good—better than was expected ; and it is stated on good authority that the Liberal-Conservative Party is gaining strength ia this part of the County. ;

News Notes.

James Fedpath, the well known Irish- American journalist and lecturer, died at St. Luke’s Hospital, New York, last Tuesday. Ua the Tharsday previous, Mr. Redpath, while crossing Park Row to the post office was run down by a South Avenue car. The wheel of the car passed over his left upper and forearm as it was bent inward, crushing the bones and severly lacerating the muscles T8e result waa paralysis of the arm and Jeft side and a great shock to the entire ‘system. It is claimed by his relatives that desth was due not directly to the accident, but to b'ood poisoning, the result of improper treatment at Chambers Street Hospital where he was taken after the accident,

Italy's new premier, Marchese di Ruadini, has addressed a circular letter to the ¢iplo- matic representatives of Italy abroad, in which he states that the cabinet programme is one of peace aud conservatism and one which is a guarantee of security to Italy and quiet to Europe.

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Cuvren Scctat.—The ladies of St. John’s Chureh, Milton, will hold a basket social and entertainment at the hail, North Milton,. on

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