IMAGE EVALUATiON TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I lill^ 1.25 m ill m !IIM [2.2 1.8 i.4 1.6 :i m/' oS. ^ op, ///. Photographic Sciences Corporation 33 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 .x>ttomiesg abyss of ruin, the home oonsnmptioQ of tea fell more than 3,600,000 pounds. That is, there was over three-quarters of a pound of tea less used per inbabiiant in 1878 than in 1878. The inCsr- ence statisticians would draw from this litct is that tbe people had got so poor that they had even to curtail their expenditures in the great popular luxury. How does it stand in the years of the Na- tional Policy 7 Under the slight depression of :.876-9 we have seen the effect. If the Na- tional Policy, as 8ir Richard Cartwright and til the rest of them contended, were worse I jiaa useless, a drag upoa the people instoad «f a help, a curse instead of a biessiog, then iis evil effects would have been felt most Iceenly in the depression of 1883-6, which (cntside of Canada) was the severest the world has ever kno-m. The importation of t^a would have gone down below the year 1878. What would Lord Derby find the state of the sAnoRiL roui to ba by Inrf rtigmting the tea returns of this period? In 1883 the Imports of tea for borne consumption were 17,017,609 pounds and in 1885 (when like 1878 they should have (ona down tremendously if tbe Nation- al Policy was uo good) they were 18,463,260 pounds. In 1878 the people were only able to buy and use two pounds and three quarters of a pound often, per head. They had to ptnch in the tea oaddy as well as everywhere else. Tbe penary of the period invaded the tea ohest. In 1886 and in 1886 tbs people were so well off that they were able to buy and use yearly nnarly four paunds of tea per in- liabltant, coming close to tbe Bngllsh stand- ard and considerably above that of the United Htates. Our people have not had to scrimp tbe teapot and sternly repress every desire to make the tea a little stronger and carefully consider how much more water the tea leaves would bear without losing the flavor of Japan or Souchong. This, though, is what thev had to do in 1878. Yet Sir Bichard and Mr. Blake, doubtless thinking thacdrinking.the "cup which cheers but not inebriates " is a bad habit, want the people to return to the old tariff short allowance ot tea, whfoh would deprive every woman, child and man in the country of the extra oae »aA a quarter pounds they have been able to buy and use of recent years owing to the Improved condition of the ccontry under the National policy. TBS SUSAB TSST. Now take sugai. In 1876 the Import fur home consumption in Canada was 109,600,000 pounds. In 1878 it bad dropped to 105,223,- 280 pounds. In 1885 It had increased to 180,610,425 pounds. In 1876 tbe consump- tion of sugar of all kinds was 28 pounds per head of the population. In 1878 it was 25 pounds per inhabitant, and in 1886 it was 39 pounds. Lord Derby and other statisticians wonld see in these figures the sure fact that in 1878 tbe people of Canada were too poor to pay for the amount they had used in 1876. They would at once enquire, "What blight came over the laoi?" We who have experi- enced it would say : "The Cartwright tariff blight." In 1886 and in 1886, though :rade depression was a severe epidemic in other oonntries, Canada, protected by her tariff, was r veritably land of Qoshen, who8e people were able to pay for the popular luxury without bavhig to stint themselves or weigh every ounce and save every spoonful as they did In 1878. Mulhall says, "as a general rale, the consumption of sugar per inhabitant is tcgarded as an indication of the publlo wealth." The rale holds good io Canada, and instead of the experience being that of rapidly decreasing wealth and shrinking In- come as under the old tariff, the experience ander tbe protective system is that there has been an Increase of wealth and income equal to nearly 60 per cent, in 1886 as compared with the condition of the country In 1878. No wonder the people cling to tbe National Policy, and praise and support the party which Introduced It and have been Its friendy when its assailants were strong-kaeed and vehement In attack. TBS TBIRO TSST. Now take Lord Derby's third test — the savings oa deposit ia the savings banks. In 1878, as compared with 1876, the deposits in such savings banks as tbe Caisse d'Economie and the Montreal City and District Savings banks showed a very considerable decrease, There c^n be no doubt that these savings banks are solely for the savings of tbe poor. It cannot ba urged against them that the rich us« them, as has beeu urged agaiost the Oov- ernmental and postal savings banks. The decrease in these two — the Caisse d' Kconomie and the Montreal City and District Savings banks— in 1878 compared with 1876 — was $1,422,000. In 1885 the increase In these same two banks over 18T8 was nearly $3,600,- OOO. Now take the Oovernmeat savings banlcs. In 1878, the Increase In tbe deposits over 1873 was equal to 20 centa per head. In 1880, the increase over 1878 was equal to 63 oentn per head. In 1885, it was eqaal to $4.43 per head over that of 1880, or nearly $6 per head over 1878. If you want to con- trast the two periods you havo tbe material ; 30 cents per heed of an Increase ia the old tariff years ; $5 per head in the proteotive period ; and this, notwithstanding that in the Oovernmeat savings banks tbo limit allowed to depositors had been reduced mora than two-thlrtis of what it was in 1878. TaklDS all deposits representing savings in all the variouij banks— iaoludlDg chartered bank^ and buildiagaod loan invustment com- panies—the savings which had been nearly stationary during tho old tariff period, liava during the proteotive period riaea from $54,000,000 in 1878 to $133,000,000 In 1887. Sinse June, 1886, they have in- creased more than tbe Increase In the wUola of tbe old tariff period. That is, the couotry Is doing so much better that, though ontsida countries were suffering more severely than ever before through general dapiession, the savings banks' accumulations have been greater In the last twelve months than they were in tbe whole five years of the Cartwright tariff. In effect we did five times better la a dull year like 1886 than we did in the whole five years of the old tariff. Employing the R<^atlatical returns by means of which Earl Decoy sought to show the mer- chanis of Liverpool that the resources of England have not yet been vitally toi ohed by the deep depression of recent yearB->pat- ting these STATIS'IOU nH')BU on the palse of Canada wa find that the low- state of Uealtb ealled poverty prevailed undor the old tariff, when everything went to rack and ruin ; that che tonics of the new tariff restored the health of the people and gave In- creased and lapldly increasing wealth and prosperity. Tet the opponents of the ::4ational Policy ask the people not to think about these matters— these minor details of bread and butter science ; not to bother aboat looking to see which side the bread is buttered on ; not to botUoT about such subjects as tea and s'lgar and savings put away for a rainy day ; not to distract their attention by thinking about the "paltry" oo&sideraU.ons of plenty to eat and plenty of money wherewith to buy the popular luxuries of t«a and sugar ; not to recall their sad experiences of the old tariff times ; not to call to mind the fact that wages are higher and grocerieo, clothing, fuel lower than they were in 1878 ; but to give their undivided attention to a variety of other questions, which do not in tbo least degree concern tbe pocket. The Opposltioia ask the people not to disonss tbe tariff which lias wrought saoh a marvellous change in the condition of tbe people, but to pot out the tried friends of that tariff and pnt.tbem in, beoaast 'ome Indian bands stragiffing aeross the frontier were on one occasion half starved for a week ; because soma M.P 's have had to push forward railway enterprises by contributing their own money and se- curing governmental aid ; beeansc there was a readjustment of some Ontario oonstitusnoles that did B9t please a chroulo fault-finder like Sir Bichard ; because there lias been an iaoraase in tho pnbllo debt, for needed and useful railway development, though not in the harden im- posed In tbe shape of interest. It Is a sort of out-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-iaca Idea that tbe Opposition in tbe Federal Parlia- ment are propounding. Any change from tha long tried trusty friends of the National Policy to unreconstructed old tariff men, to half hearted, late oonveited, much promising friends (T) who have had to perform a Juggler's volte-face on the question of Protection — any Bucb change would be detrimental to tbe Na- tional Policy. Such a miMtakt,' if mait, can- not h* r*m*di*d /or jiv* war*. Remember that. m