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 -TO THE- 
 
 ELEGTOHS OF THE IIID!|4G OF flDDl|lGTOJl 
 
 GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1896. 
 
 Gentlemen, — 
 
 Four years ago it was )'our pleasure to eled me as your representative in the Parlia- 
 ment of our country. A stranger to many of you, untried and unknown, you neverthe- 
 less honorfd me with your confidence and support. It was with a keen sense of the 
 importance of the duties you entrusted to me, and therefore with much misgiving, that I 
 entered upon their discharge. For four years I have represented you ; whether worthily or 
 not it is for you to say. 
 
 By voice and vote J supported only such measures as I believed, and etill believe, to 
 be for our country's welfare. 
 
 I advocated the freeing of trade from the shackles of protection, and that the cus- 
 toms tariff should be based upon the requirements of the public service, and not, as it is 
 now, upon the principle of pr'tection ; that it should be reduced to the needs of honest, 
 economical and efficient government, and so adjusted as to make free the necessaries of 
 every day lif The existing tariff has developed monopolies and combines. It has 
 enriched the manufadturer, but it has impoverished the consumer. It has increased the 
 population of our cities but decreased our rural population. It has enhanced the price of 
 
 city property Lut ruinously lowered the value of farm lands. It is class legislation 
 
 oppressive, vicious, and unjust. 
 
 It is called p. National Policy, yet undei it the destiny of the North-West has been 
 placed in 'he hands of land speculators instead of in the hands of adtual settlers, by whose 
 toil alone the country can be made great. 
 
 Under it v-/e have failed tu dcv-elop o-ar mines. Untold mineral wealth lies in the 
 earth untouched because we lack the men, money and markets promised us by the advo- 
 cates of proteftion. 
 
 Our North-West unsettled, room for millions there, yet we fail to hold the emigrants 
 who come to us ; and sadder still, we fail to hold our sons. Land in abundance, here in 
 Ontario as well as in the North-West, yet by class legislation we see driven from our side 
 those stalwart young Canadians, forced to turn their backs on the land they luve, sent 
 abroad to spend their splendid energies in the upbuilding of another nation. Our public 
 lands must be reserved for the actual settler ; effeftual legislation must be enadted that will 
 protedt labor from the oppression of the combine ; markets must be opened up before we 
 can hope for that full measure of success which should be the lot of M Canadians. 
 
 By windy declaration of their loyalty, by loud proclamation i their attachment for 
 the mother land, by frantic assertion of their faith in British connection, the advocates of 
 the policy of plunder, which they misname the National Policy, seek to drown the demands 
 of the people for relief from its oppression. 
 
 I denounce their policy. It is a disloyal policy. It imperils British connection. It 
 robs Great Britain of the fruit of that connection by impeding her trade with us, and 
 discriminating against her. It levies a heavier duty on dutiable goods imported from her 
 than on similar goods imported from the United States. It diredts our trade to the Ameri- 
 can rather than to the British manufacturer. Yet it fails to open to us the American 
 market that we may freely sell therein. 
 
 Having regard to the position of the two countries, I think it desirable that there 
 should be the most friendly relations and broad and liberal trade intercourse between 
 Canada and the United States. The interests alike of the Dom inion and the Empire would 
 be advanced by the establishing of such relations. I believe an honest attempt to negotiate 
 a trade treaty on terms honorable to both countries, just to Great Britain and profitable to 
 Canada, would be crowned with success. I believe silch a trep^y would meet with the 
 hearty approval and sanction of the Imperial Government, and should be made without 
 delay. 
 
 The revelations made at Ottawa of the utter corruption in the management and 
 expenditure of public moneys, which for years past has existed under the rule of the party 
 in power, must have deeply shocked many, who in the past g3.\ro that party their confidence 
 ana support. Wrongdoing in public affairs is as indefensible as wrong doing in private 
 concerns— nay, it is worre because it involves a wilful breach of trust. Such wrongdoing 
 as was revealed at Ottawa degrades the fair name of our country and calls for the uncom- 
 promising condemnation of the people. I desire to see our public service freed f/om the 
 presence of men— be they ministers or messengers — who have shown themselves to be 
 unworttiy of confidence, incompetent, dishonest, or corrupt. 
 
 I demand the strictest economy in the expenditure of our public funds. Self-denial 
 and economy must be pradliced if we desire to free our country from the enormous debt 
 now crippling her. 
 
 I demand the abolition of the Fianchise Aft and the repeal of the gerrymander 
 
 twin evils, conceived by the party in power, born of a desire to hold office whether the 
 people so willed it or not. 
 
 The experience of the quarter century of its existence has demonstrated the utter 
 uselessness of the Canadian Senate under the present mode of apjrointment. It is inde- 
 pendent of the people, uncontrolled by public opinion, and is out of harmony with the 
 principles of popular goveinment. It should be radically reformed or abolished. 
 
 From time to time I have submitted to you the official report of what I felt it to be 
 my duty to say in the House, in support of my views on these and other public questions. 
 I hope you have done me the hom^r to react these reports. They are the record of my 
 standing on the public questions at issue in this eleftion. 
 
 1 have the henor to inform you 1 am again a candidate in Addington for a seat in 
 the Hnase of Commons as your representative. Judge me on my record, and if you deem 
 me worthy, permit me most respeftfuUy and earnestly to solicit your vote and influence, 
 and to remam, i. 
 
 Ever your obedient servant, I 5<« 1 ^ 
 
 PLEVNA, ONT. •«.