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Notwith- standing all the noise about patriotism and the wolfaie of Canada, my observa- tion is this : The practical common-Hense man, if not tied to something called Party, decides that question from the standpoint of what is best for himself individu.'iily. What ia the important question t(< be settled by the forthcoming election, so far as the iudivid^ial vuter is concerned \ The onc g^rea'^ question that looms up over all others, throwing every tiling else into the shade, is Protection vs. Free Trade whether tlfo spirit and effect of our tariff for the next five years is to be in the interests of Canadian farmers, manufacturers and workmen generally, or in the interest of American farmers, manufac- turers and workmen. ]\lanyotiior (juestions will hll party new.spape.-8, and go to make up the speeches of tho politicians when the contest is well begun, but outsiui; those two classes, who cares whether Riel shouhl or should not liave been hanged, or what effect will the deci8i(ju of that or any such question have on the prosperity of the individual voter V I will take the fanner'a case, as he belongs to the largest class, and with him associate the miller, since tiieir interests are tfie same. All the wheat grown by a farmer has to be sold, excei)t what he requires for his own flour and for seed. He has his choice of two claiities to sell to — and only two — the miller and the e.xportor ; the miller of his ..wn town or the buyer for some other Canadian miller, or tiie exporter or the exj)orter'8 agent. Which of the two, the nuller or the exporter, does he sell to { To the one who pays him the best j)rice every time. Whfch of the two does give him the birat price? Which of the two has given him the best price during the past seven years? I want the answer to these (juestions to come from any man who comes much in contact with Toronto exporLcra or their agents at any outside places, such as Auiora, Newmaiket, Bradford ; and I want that man to say how continuously hj hears this remark : "We are not getting any wheat, the millers are taking it nil." Why are the millers taking it all ? There is only one answer to that questicm, and the answer is, because they are paying more money for ic than tiie exporter can allow hia agent to pay. I am not stating more than the fact when I say that nine months out of every twelve the sbite of affairs is exactly as set forth above, and ui many large farming sections where there are plenty of mills, the exporter can scarcely over touch a bushel the year round, because "the mills are taking it all," and of course paying the gnjwer more money than the export price warrants. I challenge any man to establish any other conclusion than this— the millers pay the farmers better prices for their wheat than the eacpor^rs do or oan pa{F* ,«, This is tinder a system of Protection. Chanere that sys- tern. Come back to Free Trade. Remove the duty from wheat and flour, and what will result? The grreat millers of the Western States will send their salesmen to Toronto, and Montreal, and Quebec, and Kingston, and OttaTira, and Lon- don : and later on to the smaller cities a ad the towns and the villages of this country— to every place where there is a flour store with cash enough to pay for a car load of flour—and will sell car loads and train loads of flour at prices lower than the Canadian miller can afford to sell at, even if he gets his wheat at export flgures. There will be no more complaints among wheat shippers that the millers are taking all the wheat. The miller will have to shut down, and silent mills will become as plentiful in Canada as they are to-day in England, Ireland and Scotland. When once thoroughly shut down, workmen scattered— gone to the United States to help make American flour out of American wheat to supply Canada with— when customers are lost, it is an easy matter for the American mil- lers to keep them shut down, and get high prices for their flour, too. The plan is an old one, well tried and found satisfactory by the manufacturers of tlie protected United States who wanted free tmde Canada for customers in years gone by, before the N. P. was taken hold of by this country. I ask any farmer to recall the prices he lias had from millers all the year round, the eager competition between millers in liis own town and buyers who wanted his wheat for millers at other points in Canada, tf> say whether he can afford to kill off this competition for the wheat he has to sell. I am not a politician — certainly not a Tory one — and never gave a Conserva- tive vote in my life except on two occasions when I voted for thie Protection can- didate who was the Conservative candidate aS well ; but I am int rested in getting the best pay for my labor that I fairly can get, and do not propose to give my vote to assist in clearing the way for Amerioap wheat and American flour to deluge this country Mid throw mine on the mercy of the exporter, who, however patriotic he may be, is limited in the price he pays me by the competition he has to meet in the Europefin nuu'ket, Arom every wheat fleld from India to California. In the contest that is soon to come off, there is no place for smaller issues in comparison with this question of Protection vs. Free Trade. No fa. mer, man- ufacturer or workingman in this country can afford to give his vote for any can- didate who does not come out clearly and honestly and say, '* I go to Parliament to support Protection and home industries." No equivocations should be toler- ated. It will not do to say, "There is no danger of duties being lowered ; the requirements of che Government necessitate high duties." That will not do. High duties are not what we require. We require the spirit of Protection to home industries to be first and uppermost and all through our customs tariff. The candidate must say, without reservation, " I believe in Protection to home induBtriet of all lesitimate kinds, ani my seat in the House of Parliament will be on the aide of the leaders who are sound on that question, and who will pre- serve that spirit intact in our tariff." Printed by the IndostriAl League for gratniteiu dirtrilmtioii.>^FBa>nM Nmboim, Suirtkuy, Ttronio, Omitadm,