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JUDGE tzxehk as a. -mmox-E t 
 
 And consider before voting If you can risk a return to the dull times 
 
 between 1874 and 1878. 
 
 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.