FOR THE TUNNEL, |

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FOR RECIPROCITY. THE CANDIDATES.

QUEEN’S COUNTY. Hon. Donald Ferguson, atrick Blake.

KING’S COUNTY. A. C. Maedonald, John VacLean.

EXAMINER.

TdE DAILY pees FEBRUARY} 13, 1881.

Sir John's Manifesto.

As Tue Enamtnen’s space is largety occupied to-day by the report of Sir Jobn

‘Thompson's clear statement at Toronto, we are compelled to withhuld the Premier's manifesto until to-morrow.

In this statesmanlike address to the elec- tora of Canada Sir John Macdonald refers tw the ** profound depression which in 1475 hung like a pall over the whole country fact that under the jug-handled

. : ? eg trade policy which then prevaile Can- of

a, being mere hewers of wood and drawers of the

and to the adians were fast sinkiriy to the position

water for the great nation dwelling to

south of us.’ The Liberal Conservative

porty felt that ** Canada, with agricul-

ber

its tural resources, rich in its fisheries, tim and mineral wealth was worthy of a nobler pusition than that of being 4 slaughter mar- ket for the United States. We said to the Americans, ‘we are perfectly willing to trade with you oa desirous of having a fair reciprocity treaty,

equal terms, we are but wewill not conaent to open our markets t» you while yours remain clused to us.’ So we inaugurated the National Policy.”’

Sir John then refers to the immediate re- vival of trade. All Canada re joiced under the quickening impulse of a new found life.

The age of deficits was past. The credit of

thé country mounted higher and higher natil to-day itis higher than it has ever been. Sir John also points to the Canadian

Pacific Railway. He then speaks of the Y cillatjag policy of the Opposition, who hay e basn consistent only in this, that they have uniformly opposed every measure which had for its object the development of our common country. He reviews the policy of unrestricted reciprocity, on behalf of which the opposition has nailed its colors to the mast, showa clearly that it will result in direct taxation to the amount of at least $14,000,000 a year, and asks the taxpayers of Canada how they will like to be called upon by the tax-gatherer of the Dominion Government, and forced to pay a tribute every year of $16 per family present system,” he continues, ‘ta man may largely determine the amount of his con- tributions to the Dominion exchequer ; the amount of hia tax is always in direct pro- portion to his means. If he is rich and can afrd todrink champagne, he hasjto pay|s tax of $1.50 tor every bottle he buys; if he be & poor man he contenta himself with a cup

**Uader our

of tea upon which there ia no duty, sud so on all through the list. If he is able to afford all manver 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 cocasionsl luxury, he pays accord- ingly. If he is man his contribu- tious to the treasury are reduced toa mini- mum. With direct taxation, no matter what may be the pecuniary position of the taxpayer,—-times may be hard, crops may

& poor

have fuiled, sickness or other calamity may have fallen on the family, still the inexor-

able tax-collector comes and exacts his

tribute.”

One of the grit correspondents has char- acterized this address of Sir John’s as the wail of adying politician. The only sug- gestion of death in the manifesto is con- tained in the following paragradh :

‘*The question which you will be called upon to determine resolves itself into this,— shall we endanger our possession of the great heritage bequeathed to us by our fathers, and submit ourselves to direct taxation for the privilege of having our tariff fixed at Washing- imgtoa, with a prospect of ultimately becom. ing a@ portion of the American union? | commend these issues to your determination and to the judgment of the whole people of Canada, wi-h an unclouded corfijence that you will proclaim to the wo ld your resolve to show yourselves not unworthy of the pone distincton you enjoy—of being num- ered dmovg the most dutiful and loyal subjects of our beloved Queen, As for wy- self,—my course is clear, a British subject 1 was born-——a British subject 1 will die. With my ttmest effort, with my latest breath, wiil | oppose the *‘ veiled treason” which att+mpts by sordid means and mercenary proffers-to to lure our people from their allegiance, During my loog public service of nearly half a century, I have been true to my country and its best interests, and 1 appeal with equal confidence to the men who have trusted me in the past, and to the young hope of the country, with whom rests its destinies for the future, to give ine their united and strenuous aid in this my last effort, forthe unity of the empire and the preservation of our commer- cial and political freedom,”

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— Hon. J. G. Carlisle, the present Demo- cratic Leeder, writes : ** Commercial union, in . ae SE means ultimate political union, by the voluntary actiun of the ie on buth sides of the line.” nae

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RECIPROCITY:

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The Government's Policy,

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How Negotiations for Reet procity Were Begun. |

‘country has the ren

the people of Canada accept the policy that wo put before younow, we will go . Washington with a Parliament behind, an we will be able to treat with Mr. Blaine with the assurance that the Premier of this ewed contidence of the

; small people of Canada. (Loud applause. ) WHAT IT MEANS.

Now, we read in the press opposed to us,

|< This comes like a very fine proposition,

but what does it mean /’ It means, 88 it illing to extend |

always meant, that we are Wilin t the trade of Canada in every available direc- tion ; it means, as it always meant, that we are determined to uphold the good rela-

l tions existing between this covntry and the

BLAINE IS WILLING

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Why Appeal to the Country.

ee

THE SITUATION DESCRIBED

What It Means and What It Does Not Mean.

A CLEAR STATEMENT

By the Minister of Justice,

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\t the Toronto meeting, Sir John Thompson is reported by the Empire to have said :

A little over three months ago it tran- sp'red that negotiations were being enter- tained by the United States for the making of a treaty of ree’ pr-city with the colony of Newfoundland. ‘th s'}ug tit ons had no: yet ripened into a treaty, buv they were proceeding on linea which were not uniike, so far as they went, the lines which Canada would be willing to pursue in any trade negotiations with that country, and not, mind you, at the dictation of the British Government, as has been untruly asserted by the press opposed to us, but on our own lines. On hearing that these negoti tions were progressing, we insisted upun the British Government demanding at Wash- ington that Canada should have the: ption if she pleased, of having Canada included in any treaty which might be made with the colony of Newfoundland, but we indi- cated at the same time that the proposed treaty with regard to Newfoundland did not seem to be upon lines so extensive as would suit the wants and interests of Can- ada, and that it might be betrer to avail ourselves at the same time of entering upon separate negotiations on behalf of Canada. (Cheers.) Well, sir, that intimation was promptly conveyed by Her Majesty’s Gov- ernment to Washington, and the answer made by Mr Biaine, the Secretary of the United States, on behalf of his government, Was an overture to reciprocity.

MR. BLAINE WILL BE WILLING.

Now, those gentlomen may assert in this country that it was all moonshine and hum- bug about Mr. Blaine being willing to entertain our negotiations, but it will be proved to you, when the time comes that, in response to that, Mr. Blaine, whatever his sentiments may be—and 1 am bound for the present to give him credit for can- dor—as the negotiations with Newfound- land would not suit the Dominion of Can- ada for a trade treaty between the two countries, he was willing to make a wide treaty for reciprocity and enter upon sep- arate negotiations with her. (Hear, hear.) That statement being made, we are bound to avail ourselves of that to extend onr trade. We have ever declared our will- ingness tu trade with them. On the con- trary, we ire seeking extensions of trade in every direction. The next request from Mr. Blaine was that preparatory to nego tiations being entered upon we would pro- pound a basis upon which the convention should eventually proceed. Wedid.so in a document which has been published in

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‘nited States, and that nothing can be

more untrue than the accusation of our op- | ponents that we desired to disturb! these good relations in the past. (Ap-, plause ) I am sorry to see Mr. Laurier, [ am sorry for his own cred:t, to see bim going about the country

declaring that we are exacting in these hard conditions against the American fisher- men and that we are alieniating the good will of the people beside us. We are do- ing nothing more than upholding the ua- doubted rights of Canadian citizens, whether on the Atlantic or on the Bebring sea, and we look for the help of Great Britain to sustain us. (Applause )

GREAT BRITAIN IS WITH US.

Why, Great Britain bas declared over and over again that we were strictiy within our rights in everything we have done on the Atlantic coxst in regard to the tisher- ies, and if you want tho latest admission upon the subject, turn up the columus of the Globe fer 1888, and you will find that the Government of Canada were ca'led upon to act on behalf of the people of Cau- ada in enforeing the treaty of 1818, and in insisting upon the rights of the Canadian fishermen. With regard to the Behring sea question, after five years delay, waitirg for redress fur a single wrong intitcred, it we talked jingo nonsense, like Sir Richard Uartwright to the people of Canada in 1878, when he said, ** We have the ships, and we willcarry the war into Africa,” whatacry there would be raised by the Reformers that we were trying to disturb the relations of the twonations. We went to the Supreme Court of their own ¢ -untry.

fused plain justice by the American execu- tive, and we said to the American execu- tive: ** The constitution cf your own country opens the doors of justice to every individual who bas a grievance ngaing® you, and, great and powerful as our sovercign is, she has consented that her crown officer in the right of Canada shall go to the bar of that court and appeal against an injus- tice that has been done toa subject of this country. (Applause ) NOT AN UNFRIENDLY ACT.

In doing what we have done, nothing to break up the neighbourliness of the two countries, or anything to bring the parent country to the verge of war, have done is only what every citizen of the United States would despise us for if we did not do. (Loud applause.) [ have said something with regard to what the policy propounded by Sir John Macdonald with regard to what reciprocity means. Is tell you semething now about what it dees not mean, aud you will be able to form sume idea of the limitations which the policy of the present Government has ith- posed upon the policy of reciprocity or any other policy affecting the trade relations and the national relations of this country. I will tell you that the policy of reciprocity propounded lately, and which Sir Jobn Macdonald proposes to discuss in the month of March, does not mean that Canada is ever tv luse the control of her own tariff under anycircumstances. (Loud applause. ) Let me tell you another thing that it does not mean. It does not mean that that the Government of this country has yet arrived at the position when it is willing that the tariff legislation of this country shall dis- criminate against the parent country. (Re- newed applause.) Let me teil you, like- wise, that it does not mean

DIRECT TAXATION,

although, if our opponents were honest, they would carry that phrase upon their banner alongside the term, unrestricted reci- procity. Mr. Chariton, within the last two or three weeks, said that direct taxation

the press, offering to consider the renewal of the Reciprocity. Treaty of 1854, with such mod:fications as the altered circum- stances of the two eountries might call for We asked him to reconsider the abortive treaty of 1888, which settled the fishery dispure along with trade questions, and we expressed our willingness likewise to en‘er into negotiations which would settle the Behring Sea difficulty and all questions upon the Atlantic Coast with regard to the fisheries, and to continne the coasting and wrecking business as well between the two countries. Now, sir, a great deal has been said to the people of Canada about the in- sincericy of all this. It is stated that hay- ing m de that proposition to Mr. Blaine without prospect of its being accepted, without any prospect of its being eventual- ly entertained, Sir John Macdonald has sprung the election upun the people under the pretence that he is going to enter into theee negotiations, while in reality the cabinet at Washington will have none of tt. Let me tell you, so far from that being true, we had the proposition that was submitted to Mr. Blaine; that the answer that Mr. Blaine made t> us was that he was willing toenter upon a preliminary discussion to precede the more formal commission; he was willing to enter upon that discussion and to consider all points embraced in it, but would not be prepared to do so until after the 4th of March, when the term of the present Congress expires. NECESSITY OF AN APPEAL.

In the meantime, sir, what would our position have been if we had not appealed to the country, if we had not gone to the people of Canada! It would have been ssid that in the very last hour of the exist. ence of our Parliament we were endeavor- ing to m»ke treaty which would entirely change the business of the country, and when we went to Washington we would’ have been comparatively weak in the hands , of the men with whom we were negotiating, | because the mea with whom we were nego- tiattog would know that, instead of being there with the confideace of the ccantry | behind us, we had to ask the asesent of 4 Parliament which hid already spent its last: session before the negotiations had practi- cally commencel. (fear, hear, and cheers ) We would have the Government entering upon the most important treaty negotiations without a Parlianent behind

{ us, and what we propose is that, if you and all,

might have a beneficial result, and the Globe said it has lost many of its cerrors, while Sir Richard Cartwright has professed even in parliament a great love of income tax if we would only introduce that into Canada. Whether, it might have a beneficial result if it has lost many of its terrors, as the Globe says it has, or whether as direct taxation, or whether as income tax, it may look lovely, as Sir Richard Cartwright says, it will have no part in our pulicy, and our Canadian laws willin no way dis-riminate against Great Britain. ~

SIR RICHARD AT BOSTON.

Another thing that it does not mean—it does not mean what Sir Richard Cartwright declared as his policy in a recent address before a great audience in Boston 10 days azo. In speaking of the American seaport cities, he declared that practicaliy they would get a monoply of the ‘great regious behind’’—that is Sir Richard Cartwright’s way of describing Canada, ‘*great region be- hind” —*‘and the commerce of it,” he says, “no man can ever take away from yon,” Yes, sir, that is as true as gospel. (Laugh- ter.) 1f Unrestricted Reciprocity gives to the American seaports the commerce of this great country behind them, aa Sir Richard Cartwright says it will, and, as he says, no man will ever take away from them, our policy does not mean that. It-does not mean the surrender of the National Policy under which the industries of this great country have been built in a surprising de- gree. (Applause.) It dues not mean that, for the benefit of the American laborer, the industries of this country shall be pulled down and scattered Why, sir, Mr. Erastus Wiman, the father of the whole business— (groans)—when speaking at the Buot and Shoe Club the other day, making a long

every kind of American manufacture with-

speech describing all the benefits that would follow to America from Unrestricted Reciprocity, said that Canada in return for your markets for her products has to take

out any restrictions whatever, Our policy oes not mean that (Loud appiause. ) WIMAN'S ATROCIOUS STATEMENT.

1 will teil you one more thing that occur- red at that same meeting that it does nt mean. Mr, Wiman, having exhausted his audience, if not his subject, au eminent geutleman arose and made a speech, in

(Loud applause.) Our people bad been re-,

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interests to allow Canada to build up & great nativnality on her northern border, and for his part trade or any other concee- | sions ot any kind he wou!'d not allow. But) what do you suppose took place then ‘ Mr. | Wiman had the utter forgetfulnesa ot the} ahame of Sir Richard Cartwright to atand

up and say, “What Mr. Marray wants

isthe best thing to be had, and the best way to bring it about ie in the way he proposes.” socal

A wice-—"* What about the Jesuits /”

Sir Jcha Thompson—This gentleman } wants to know what about the Jesuits. They sre not in this race and no person shall succeed in deceiving the judgment of this country on any issue that is not before the electors. (Uheers.)

Iy 1T FAILS, Way ?

Now, the most favorite statement that our opponents make is, that this policy 1s going to fail to secure Unrestricted Rect- procity with the United States. Well, sir, if. it should fail, Ll wiil teli you why. It wil: fail because the followers of Sir Richard Cartwright bave put on record whole volumes against Canada with regard to the necessities of this couniry and with regard to her bankruptcy, it she cannot get better trade relations with the United states. If it fails, it will be because of the clouds of | witne:sea he has produced agaiust his coun- try. The records of debates on reeiprocity in the House of Commons, the record of evidence g ven befure commiitee after com- mittee of Congress at Washingtin La the names of these men appended to it, as in- dieating that this couucry can be starved into submission, and contrary to the declar- ations be made in 1878 that the Dominion could afford w live witheut it. Not enly so, sir, but they have vppused every conces- sion which friendly congressmen and sena- tora were willing to make tu Casada, in the fer that it might do the preseat Goy- ermment seme good; and Canada has, as far as we can believe the etvemenis of there men themselyes—I mean the mem- bers of the American Oongress—lost the benefit of coneessions which might have been made to her, because of the strenuous exertions of the self-«ppointed emissaries, who oppose reeiprocity uatil it cau be given to Sir Rehard Cartwright or obtained at the hands of Sir Richard Cartwright him- self. (Hear, hear )

AMERICAN INTERFERENCE.

| Let me say another thing and I shall pass oa as quickly as ] can, so as uot to occupy you tov long. Let me say another thing to you with regard to the attitude of the American press, and with regard to the line of interference fiom the United States iu this campaign. From now until the time of election you will tind every kind of statement quoted from the American newspapers that are jagainst us. They have lately solicited Mr. Biaine to come out and veclare, in spite of what I have told you, that no negotiations are on foot foot for reciprocity with Canada at all. They have solicited the New York Tribune and got it to come out, while it de- claved a little while ago against any recipro- ‘city, to deciare against anything but Unre- stricted Reciprocity. They will presently come out and declare that Sir John Macdonald can never get auything for Canada, and unless you send their frivnds—Sir Richard Cart- _ wright and others—to Washingvon, there is no hope of tra’e concessiuns being made. Let me ask you to beware of tricks and ina- trigues of that kind. (Applause.) We appeal | not to the seatiments of the Uuited Stutes WeWo not, in the words of the gentleman who p-esided at the banquet in Boston and ‘which Sir Richard Cartwright addressed, look to them for the sign by which we con- quer—(applinse)—but we appeal to our Canadian fellow-citizens, and if they sustain us in the policy I have stated to you to-night the negotiations wil proceed in «arch for a fair extension of the trade of this country — net for Unrestricted Reciprocity, not for any surrender of cur tariff coptro), not for any discrimination against Great Britain— but for a fair line of interchange that will be beneticial to both countries, (Cheers.) These negotiia- tions will be carried on at the instance of the statesmen who for the last twelve years have carried on the affairs of the country; and let me tell you that in these negotiations you will not find it necessary to send any United States senators from Oataiio, (Continued cheering. )

SSS, ae Notes and Comments,

— Mr. L. 1. Davies is to be asked to ex- plain his statement that many of our farm- ers are dependent upon remittances from their relatives in the States,

—As the Drill Shed wi!l probably be cold, and as the crush of men will certainly be very great, it is not expected that ladies wiil attend the meeting on Monday next, at which Sir Charles Tupper will speak,

~The Torento Globe declared last October : ‘Unfortunately, direct taxation is out of the question in Quebec and the Maritime Provinces.” Yet the Gl..be and its party are promoting a policy which, if adopted, will, inevitably, necessitate direct taxation.

—Mr, 8S. J. Richie, a shrewd Ohio business man, said : ‘ There is not a single one of the (Canadian) Oppositivn against Mr. Butterworth’s (Commercial Unin) Bill; and every man who is in favor of the annexation of Canada will tell you that is the proper way to bring it about.”

— To convince the farmers of this coun- try that, as Mr. John Charlton said the other day at Waterford, **a resort to derect taxation, toa limited extent, would «ensure beneficial resulta,” is, in the opinion of the Empize, to sttempr a taek se herculean tw ita proportions that it may well alarm eve:

the secret believers in annexatioa itself.

— What, asks the Empirs, is th state «f our revenues at present/ In 1°90 the amount derived from excise was $7 618,118; from customs duties, $23.963 85:3. and trou, other sources, such as railways, public works, etc., $3,292,854. The duties derived from customs were derived as follows : —

On imports from Great Britain. .... $9576 965 On imports from United States..., 822 g4 On imports from other countries... 6,171.69

There can be no doubt that, were all Am- evican goods admitted free and our duties on similar British products raised to the level (prohibitory in mary cases) which now exists in the United States, nearly, if not sl, our imports from the M sther Country would be stopped, and, asthe rule wou) equally apply to other countries, we should lose a large preportion of our entire cus- toms revenue. In this connection Sir Richard Cartwright and his free trade friends might tell the farmer what becomes of Adam Smith’s theory, that trade must be based on exchange of products, and that consequently just as we diminish our im-

which he declared that was not his policy at He said it would never suit American

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