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Even those journals that pretend to hare been converted by the logic of Mr. £lake's promises that '* taxation " should be maintained if the liberals obtain con> trol of the Government, cannot carry out the idea in its entirety. This, that nnd the next one has a special industry which it assails noi* as it did all up to a few weeks ago. One promises that Canadian coal miners will be placed at thr mercy of their American rivals t another that the protection to tha cotton faoto:'i'js sLall go ; still another insists that the woollen mills must be pet on a free trade footing, while all are agreed that the sugar refiners are to be utteily cast oul. They all intensify the belief that the Liberal idea is to destroy the National Policy in detail. Wheii Mr. Davies, the Liberal leader in Prince Edward Island, was told that the Montreal Herald interpreted Mr. Blake's words as indicating that estab- lished manufactures had nothing to fear if the Government that had upheld them against constant assault for eight years was defeated, he openly ridiculed the notion, and sneered at the Herald as a recent turncoat whose assistance could be accepted, but whose voice would not be heard in the councils of the true be- lievers. Mr. Jones, the head of M.-. Blake'i party in Nova Scotia, makes no pretence of being anything out an absolute free A'ader, and is an avowed secessionist. Mr. £ilii, the Grit candidate in St. John, N.B., is a free trader and a self-announoed believer in annexation. In Montreal West, the constituency of all the Dominion that has most largely in- vested in manufactures under the Na- tional Policy, we have the spectacle of a Liberal candidate boasting of his adher- ence to his previously stated free trade sentiments, and advocating an increase in the duty on goods consumed in small quantity, that those in wide use, and whoae manufacture gives employment to many workmen, may be admitted free, that, in fact, legislation should be had to encourage foreign nanufacturers at the •zpense of our own. But it is in Ontario that the cloven hoof is shown in ail its ugliness. There Tve have the London Advertiser, edited by Hon. David Mills, a former minister in the Liberal Cabinet, no later than the 31st ultimo, a week after Mr. Blake had publicly read his tariff platform, saying There Is not a manufaoturer or railroad em- ployee who wni uoi be beueflled by tti3 re- moval of the ooal ta?;, however luuohlt may bs found nooessaiy to retain the general tax- alton of the N. P. That means that the Canadian ooal mines are to be leit to themselves, and may do the best they can in the fight with the Pennsylvania collieries, though the latter ei\joy a protective duty of 75 cts a ton on all coal going into the United States. There are invested in Nova Scotia coal mines twenty millions |Or dollars, and their operation gives em- ployment to ten thousand men. liut all this capital may be rendered itoproductive and the workmen may go to the United States, or to the poor house, because of the Liberal hate of the National Policy and those who benefit by it. It has been proved before that the protective duty on coal in Canada does not ailect the cost to the consumer, that the American combination of mine- owners suit their prices to the incidence of competition, and meet as far as they may the Canadian product in its own territory. Proof of this is in the follow- ing, quoted from the Boston Herald of the 2nd instant : — In the coal trade there hat been no advance in the retail prlceH here. There la Hllll a good deal ol' coal coming forward, lu spite of all stories to the contrary. The IteadI ng « eameia are bringing as usual while there Isalsooool coming from New York. Th 3 prices of coal at retail here are still about as follows for ooal de- livered to the domestto consumers :— Burning egg and furnace $9 S0(9 $B 7S Lehigh egg and furnace 6 009 6 2fi White ash stove 6 509 7 00 Lehlshstove 7SO 7 00 Franklin stove UO* 900 On the same day the same class of ooal, from the same mines, delivered under the same conditions, was quoted at Montreal 08 follows ; — Anthracite, stove 96 60 Anthracite, chestnut S 3B Anthracite, egg ,, 6 00 Practically, it will be seen, the <luty does not affect the price of this commodity as between Montreal and Boston. Though the latter is nearer the centre of pro> duotion, and has open communication b^ water the year througli, its people pay the same rates for domeatio coal as those of Montreal, and as Montreal would do if the duty was taken off. But for all this the Nova Scotia miners are to be punished — because they have opposed the Liberals. Then a day or two later we have this same Advertiser saying ;— . " The laboring classes all ever the Dominion may look, and may perhaps not look In vain to the Liberal leader for a loweriug of the ex- orbitant duties on the lower grades of cottons and woollens." This is, we suppose, ecpecially intended to exasperate those towns that have es- tablished in them cotton mills and woollen factories, the fruits of the Na- tional Policy, 'fhe men who tr') em- ployed in these industries, the mei shanta who supply their wants, and the whole- salers from whom they in turn purchase, the farmers who find a market for their perishable products, and the tradesmen who are given work wherever a centre of population establishes itself, are all to suffer. Take the cotton mills out of Val- leyfield, or Cornwall, or Coaticook or Magog, or the woollen factories out of Sherbrooke or Almonte— and these are but representative towns — and what would be the effect on their general pros- perity ? How long before vacant houses would stare upon every street? Or vtorkmen be driven to a land where home prosperity is looked after first, laat and all the time ? iSfet this is what a Liberal lieutenant tells us the workmen may expect from the Liberals. Then the Guelph Mercury, edited by Mr. Inues, another Liberal M.P., on the 13th ult., quotes and approves of Mr.. Blake's tarin declaration as follows : — What is the policy that Mr. Blake has laltt down for himself In tnts rcspeci, ami v.'hlcbt has been adopted hy the Lib-^ral party as tbelr pUtform? We Klve it In his own words a» lol ;-»»■«:— We declare thai, .Viioies ofsneh prime neoes- Bity HH fuel and brendHlufDi should be free;: that the sugar duties should be no a-> justed ■» lo relieve the consumer from some part of the- enjrmcascxtra price he is now liable to pay to> afewreflnors; that ibeexorbliantHnduaequai duties on the lower grades of cottons and wool- lens should be so changed as to make them fair to the masoes. The principle embodied In these proposals Is^ to our mind, the right and true one and whicht In the end must prevail This Liberal leopard has not cbangedt . his spots at the behest of Mr. jilake. Mr.. Mills assails the ooal, the cotton and the woollen industries. Mr. Innes does the- same, but attacks also the flour millers and the sugar refiners, on grounds tha6 - have time and again been proved unten- able. Mr. Drummond hias effectively destroyed the contention that the price- of Canadian refined sugar is higher be- cause the work is done by Oanadiatk workmen. Everyone knows that sugar to-day is cheaper than ever b'^fore in the history of our msj-ket. The record of our flour trade shows- that we can and do compete with our rivals in foreign markets on better thaa equal terms, which means that the flour duties, while they cause large amoimts of wheat to be ground in Canadian mill» that would otherwise pay toll to Minne- apolis, do not raise the price to con- sumers. Take Newfoundland, for in- stance, a neutral market, equally near to the producing centres of Canada and the United States, and where no other country is a practical oompetitoi, and what do we find f That in 1885 (the last year for which we have complete retums> there were imported from Canada 167,182 barrels of flour, and from the United States only 135,481 barrels. At the pres- ')nt moment otir merchants are shipping to the Island thousands of barrels, and by the long route of the Intercolonial, so- that otir people bave the double advan- tage of producing and handling this mer- chandise, and emplo>ing their ships in its sea carriage. But this is contrary t.o the theorisins{s of Liberal doctrinairee. and, if in their power, they will uphold the theory and kill the trade. There are here openly threatened, five- of the most important industries of the Dominion, ooal and cotton, flour and> woollen and sugar, in each of which mil- lions are invested, and upon each of which thousauds depend for a livelihood, and a score of towns for their chief busi- ness. This is not done by common scrib-- biers, without weight or authority, but by men who have been preferred to promin- ent place in the Liberal party, men who speak as prophets to the mass, li it to be wondered that those over whom the sword b thus held refuse to believe Mr. Blake's studied utterances,^ that can be and are construed in so many diverse ways by his own friends t The people have still to choose be- tween Liberal enemies and Conservative friends of home indusbial development.