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THE MARCH 28. 1878.
The Trade Issue-(No. 2).
THE way in which this question is to be settled depends upon the men by whom it
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is to be settled ; and before entering upon |
a -disevnasion of it on its merits, it may be
well to see as clearly as we can the position We have
each repre-
they occupy with reference to ii two parties in the Dominion sented by its Press, its members in Parlia- ment and its leading men out of Parlia- ment. Let us first attend to the Minister- ial Party.
This Party is led by the Hon. Alexanser McKenzie. We have already published some opinions of this gentleman, expressed became First Minister of the Crown. But, as it is highly important that Mr. McKenzie’s views should be widely known, we need not, we feel sure, apolo- gise for again laying them before our read- ers—merely remarking that Mr McKenzie exercised a prudent reserve during the dis-
since he
, a cussion which lately took place, and did not, by any speech, commit himself to an
opinion respecting the question now at
issue :
** As long as duties are levied upon imported articles, they should be levied upon articles pro- duced by our own people.” —-The Premier at Hlamiiton.
‘Sir Francis Hincks stated last year, in his election tour and in the House of Commons, that he was in favor of incidental Protection, | raid, ‘] am in favor of “° " Th Free Trad. (?) Premier.
“As I have said, all partiesin this country have accepted the doctrine I lay down, that our revenue must be obtained by means of
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duties wpon imported goods, and the distribu : :
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OF BENACIT wpon our peapte. [Ton. f{lexaniler Me Kenzie, Premier
*‘T have assumed as a matter of, public pol
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iey—and not one man in Parliament has at
tacked that pelicy—what Sir Francis Hincks
eharacterizes as ‘ Incidental Protection’—mean
lag arevenue raised irom the imposition of
duties on articles imported into this country. Hon. Alex. McKenzi
‘*The result was
that within a vear we found
Y (yr | r 'vent.. though exhorted by the Opposition to DAILY KXAMINER. | ‘ _facturers by lowering the duties on coal oil
jto 175 per
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eaen > amtgrersied pane a-ar os "
hin agnaseneoee = ee
lace them on an equality with other manu- cent., there is just greund for suspecting even Mr, Cartwrights ecarnest- | ioss in the cause of Free Trade, as per John Stuart Mill.
After Mr. Cartwright, the Minister of Mr. Latlamme says >— |
‘The question of Protection, however, was Incidental Protection. ?/ could never be mad the absolute question of dividing parties.
‘There | were gentlemen on the other side of the House |
i who were Free Traders, while there were some |
sile who where Protec- | iman would admit that
» the Government tionists; but every
i there could be but one interest, and that was |
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the GREATEST AMOUNT |
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fand is,
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it necessary to increase the duty to 174 per}
cent., and that 1s the duty at present in exist-
ence. Wie have, therefore,
protection of tivo and a half per cent.
Aad been imposed by the previous Administra- tion.” —Hon. A. MeKenue, Leader of the so- called Free Traders.
Next in importance to Mr. McKenzie atands Mr. Cartwright. It was this gentle- man who framed the Draft Tariff of 1875 which occasioned so many deputations to Ottawa that it is said a marked improve- ment in the receipts of the railway was-pro- duced. This isthe gentleman whose free trade principles induced him to propose a tax on shipbuilding materials—a tax which would have fallen almost entirely upon the Maritime Provinces. This is the gentleman who now proposes to obtain from the elect- ors of Canada an endorsation of his draft tariff of 1875 and and expression of their approval of his contemplated tax of ship- building materials. For the policy he for- mulated the other day means this or it means nothing. It means either that the present protective tariff is to stand as it is— barring a few additions to make good the deficits of the last two years—or it means that the principles of John Stuart Mill shall be applied in their integrity, and that no‘interest in the Dominion shall receive the slightest advantage trom the tariff. To explain, let us take an instance: A manu- facturer, say in Hamilton, makes $10,000 worth of woolen goods. Under the present tariff he has an advantage of $1,750 over the
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English or United States manufacturer who | sends goods of the same class and value to. Canada, because duties are levied upon the | latter to the amount of 174 per cent. of |
their value, while the former are sold in all
lthe last session nothin was superio ) " ast seasic thin; r to the parts of Canada untaxed. Now, if Mr. | popular wilt. . .
Cartwright’s policy be endorsed and carried | the bidding of the people and in order to out, the Canadian manufacturer will have| Carry out their wishes.
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to pay a tax upon the goods he makes equal | to the amount of the duty levied upon the}
goods imported from England or the United | discords have crept in. * : — her of States—in order that the advantage he now} ¥er ©!
neutralized. Take an- A shipbuilder builds a
possesses may be other illustration :
ship into which imported material, entered| tone to suit the whims of a fickle people. duty free, is put to the value of $10,000. | ‘The wave of popular discontent,” as Mr. | Stewart scientifically terms it, which lately
But as other persons pay 17} per cent. duty upon the goods they import, the shipbuilder, who imported his material duty free, has an advantage over the rest of the community to the extent of €1,750. Ié “Mr. *Cart- wright’s policy be endorsed and carried out
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| . . . cord, they say, is not of their creation, and
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shipbuilding materials must be taxed, in or- |
der that the advantage now enjoyed by the,
shipbuilder imay be done This is
what Mr. Cartwright himself says he means;
away.
j passed over the Island, only had power io jmove a few weak gentleman of that House,
to find out what was really the best policy for | the development and prosperity of the coun- | try..—Hansard, 1878, pp. >>.
Next in order is the Mimister of Militia, Mr. Jones says :
‘The American Government, always alive to the interests of their people and all that relates to the prosperity of their country, have recently passed a treasury order, Inereasing very con- siderably the drawback on white refined sugar, the result of which, I learn, has been that the great bulk of that quality now used in Canada comes from that quarter, and their manufacture is entirely abandoned at Montreal, where for- merly large quantities were made; hence, it follows, that “y our trade is to be encouraged or sustained, auch exceptional i gislation as L have ust he met by corre sponding leqisla- . La tier to Sir f’. Hir che.
The opinions of Laurier, Pelletier, and
rejerred to, i fion on our pare, other lesser lights of the Government, are well known.
M. Jette (Quebec) thinks the present de- pression, toa great extent, is due to the want of. Protection. He opposed Sir John ha-
. i power, alford
cause he did not, when in
‘eeit im nearly every department
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oe ge nam ee
; : emis to be educated up to bear all things patient. |
must bear taxation to any eXx-| tent—-sqnandering of fumds—a host of driv- | elling dffide- holders incompeteney and con- | all this | the Davies Government will educate the | people to bear without a grumble. The | veme of perfection has been reached by the present Government, and men who speak against it only show their ignorance.
Mr. Davies is sorely hvmbled, we can ob- | serve, at the prospect of being compelled to patch up the leaky legislation of last session. If Mr, Davies feels his honor! hurt, he has the remedyan his hands. Let | him resign. We, howevér, venture to as- sert that in the struggle betwixt injured hon- or and ambition Mr. Davies’ love of power / will remain master of the field. Hence we | see this lordly young Premier holding up | his Assessment Act and his School Act in the House, and declaring them perfect. And yet the Premier, to please the popular will, must set about tinkering and amending what he deems so perfect. No, no! Mr. Davies will assume the tinker’s apron and go to work, rather than cease to be Premier and Attorney General.
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The Capes Route.
1" ‘ ly. They
Tue marked regularity with which Messrs. Muttart and Irving have, this winter, cross- ed the Straits—and especially marked in contrast with the irregularity of the ‘*Nor- thern Light’s” trips--hasserved tocor¢ -ntra‘e
lic opinion upon the Capes route. We are not surprised to learn that our public men seem to be all but unanimous in pres- ing upon the Government the necessity of making it the Winter Mail route. Mr. Pope has, we see, brought the matter pro- mninently before the Ministry and the House of Commons.
Since Massrs. Muttart and Irving receiv * they have presented us
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more provection.
and still supports McKenzie and
~ Ben O4:en4er uh r . 4} >... sé } Mr. Patterson (of South brant) i — intenance of a tariff which levies in the maintenance or a tari which levies duties on goods which are manuf } — AL; stvitre 1. ane ¥ } ) produced in this country, because he be- ; ? : « a Te lieves that the existence of manufacturing
pier. tis —
InagdUSUrics In OUF MhICSt Is 2 VYEeneuv to our
whole community ; —and he supports Me- Kenzie and Cartwright.
Mr
Narrmc / menin al ae 22 s.OTTIS { OF Lincoln) @iways had veen,
‘tin favor of Protection to home in- dustries.”
Such are the opinions of leading Ministers and leading supporters of Ministers in the Dominion Parliament. Let us now examine into the opinions of one or two of their lead- And who more prominent ; who more trusted ;
ing supporters outside of Parliament.
who more depended upon; who more hon- ored with the confidence of Messrs. Me- Kenzie and Cartwright, than Mr. Joly—the leader of the small Grit minority which now, by collusive devices and high-handed acts, holds the reign of Government in Quebec ?
On the 23th of March, 1876, Mr. Joly wrote :— “G, FT. Ontox, i. F.;
‘‘Chairman Agricultural Committee.
‘*My Dear Docror,—lI only received to-day a printed fourm of questions from your Commit- tee, in the labors of which I take a deep in- terest, and hasten to send.you my answers. | am afraid they are rather lengthy, but | must acknowledge that [ feel some satisfaction in being able to give my views on the subject, however little weight they may carry. Itis a sort of protest against the accusation of incen- sistency which has been brought against me during this Session of the House of Commons, and in the press, for having given up the main plank of the platform of our Patri National. We claimed, above all things. a National Com- mercial Policy. My triends have been twitted with having given it up, and I was brought in as the leader of the Pairi National; but 1 have not given it up. If Lremember correctly, you helped me in 1873 to obtain the exemption of the duty for the beet-root sugar manufacture, and I hope you will approve my views on the subject.
‘*T remain, my dear Doctor, ‘* Yours sincerely, ree aOee..”
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Popular Legislators!
‘THERE is a marked difference in the tone of our local Ministers this year. During
Ministers had taken office at
This year the ca- ence of this melody has wonderfully changed. The Ministry and the popular will are no longer in harmony. Harrowing One or two mem- the Cabinet, however, show them- The dis
selves equal to the emergency.
therefore they have no right to alter their
who ignominiously bent to the blast. This,
; eee ey a ie Si He isstill a Protectionist, | with a Daily Ma
ed the word ‘ go, i}: and there is no doubt, ithat with the assistance = of a “Ismall, stron steamer, a crossing could
be effected at three times every ordinary winter day; and with a shert line of railway on each side to connect the Capes with the Intercolonial and the Prince Edward Island Railways our winter cove niunications would be as perfect as posstbie under the circumstances.
With respect to the Georgetown- Picton route, it should by means of gi od etrong suitable screw steamer be kept up until the
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the Capes two or
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RESERVE yottr Spring Order, LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE,
and get our Lew Quotations
GARVELL BRO’S, acents.
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Straits are so filled up with ice that crossing is impracticable. It would afford a means for the transmission of freight and passen- gers from the Rast end of the Island long after other ports are closed. 2 a>? County Courts.
Tue tendency of the Legislature should be.to lessen litigation, circumscribe the credit system, and abolish imprisonment for debt. We therefore, regret that the House of Assembly voted down the pro- posal t6 hold County Courts quarterly in- stead of bi-monthly ; and, if at all practic- able, it would, we think, have been better to remove the Court at Murray River to Montague Bridge than to establish an ad- ditional Court. Perhaps the Legislative Council will show their value by remedying this false move.
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THe Unton Bayz.—We have the statements of affairs for 1877 of three banks in the Maritime Provinces, which though not at all equally successful, show generally satisfactory results in what cannot be termed a good year. The first we notice if the Union Bank of Prince Edward Is- land. The statement of affairs as at the 6th instant shows a continued growth in its business, and the satisfactory net profit of $36,884 for the year. Its reserve fund— which had no existence in 1875—is now $55,000 ; its deposits, of which about a thid bear no interest, are $50,000 more than last year and double what they were in 1874. A fund is set aside for interest on deposit receipts, and a good proportion of the assets is immediately available. The contrast of this showing with the position of the bank four years ago is most credit- able to the present management, which, in addition to vigor, displays trained banking skill. —Monctary Timss.
received
At the rssidence of Beniamin Heart. Esq.. on the 26th inst., by the Rev. J. Lathern, Henry Sylvannus, eldest son of John H. Gates, Fsq., to Miss Leah E. Coles, of Charlottetown.
Died.
At Government House, Charlottetown, on Wednesday, the 27th day of March instant, Charlotte Julia, daughter of the late Captain Ranald Macdonell, H. M. Glengarry Light In- fantry, and Town Major of Charlottetown, and sister-in-law of the Lieutenant Governor Sir Robert Hodgson, Knight.—Funeral will leave Government House on Saturday at 2
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Will be on the Berth ai Giagow to re-
according to Mr. Stewart's theory, was not what these gentlemen should haye done. It! was their duty to resist the wave, and use | all their efforts to break its force. Bis- | marck, or a lineal descendant of the Stuarts, |
+7 ara} 1, —_— ec aT taf could hardly make use of more energetic |
‘language when speaking of popular opinion. |
thisis what his colleague, Mr. Mills, ‘says!
he means, and no member of the Govern- ment has explained his policy in any other way. The results which must inevitably follow the adoption of such a policy we may discuss hereafter. We may, however, re- mark that, as Mr. Cartwright continues to give ‘‘ protection’ to the coal oil manufae- turers of Ontario te the extent of
and Stewart, until they found themselves
No Government ever fawned more ser-| vilely on the people, until it got into power— | no body of men ever pandered so meanly to | the prejudices of the multitude as Davies| ens@@ced in their offices. They were ready to lick all the popular sores and straightway | heal them. But, unfortunately, under | their care these sores, in place of closing, | have opened wider ; and, when the suffering | patients complain, they are told that they | do not know what is good for them. The,
GO per’ Government theory is, that the people have
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| A LL TEACHERS should send their cer- ; 44 tificate to obtain salary to the Education a by mail, not later than the 8th of April.
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