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CANADIAN MANUFACTURES. 
 
 HAMILTON, 12Tn March, 1800. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Seeing the necessity of the Association for the Promotion of Canadian Industry 
 preparing itself for another campaign, to defend the ground conquered in 1858 and 1859, I 
 lately wrote to our indefatigable Secretary, Mr. Weir ; and I now learn with surprise (see copy 
 of Mr. Weir's letter herewith) that he is hampered by the unpaid outlay by him in 1858, of a 
 considerable sum, besides having been awarded nothing for his time and services during the 
 session of 1859. I now, therefore, address you, because I feel sure that the manufacturers of 
 Canada, whom he has served so ably as well as faithfully, have only to be informed of this 
 financial position of the Association to remedy at once the evil. The course I myself havt> 
 taken is to send Twenty Dollars to Mr. Weir, stating that I of course shall expect that any amount 
 more than enough to pay him up will form, in his hands, a fund for futxire parliamentary 
 operations. 
 
 I think you will agree with me in this being our only course, unless the Association is to 
 be allowed to become extinct, and with it all public sympathy for the manufacturers of Canada ; 
 and if you do so, I trust that you will not loose a day in calling the attenti(m of our frieiuls iu 
 your locality to the necessity of moving in raising some money t(» be forwarded at once to Mr. 
 Weir (Propriti;or of the Canadian Merchants' Magazine, Montreal.) We ought to be ready in a 
 week or ten days to make Parliament feel that we are as alive as ever to the necessity of 
 protection to our infant Canadian Manufactures. 
 
 If any apology is necessary for my personally thus appearing in this matter, it may perliaps 
 be found in the fact that, because a foreign Merchant, I have been able to do more for the caiise 
 than others in less apparently disinterested positions; and as an evidence of my continufd 
 interest in your cause, 1 shall send you within a few days a defence of Cana<lian Mauufiictures, 
 which I am writing to lay before the Members of l)otli Houses of the Englisli as well as the 
 Canadian Parliament, being a pamphlet showing that tlie employment of our own ])t'o]tle must 
 hereafter be the first question of Canadian Politics. 
 
 I am, Dear Sir, 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
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MoMTiiEAL, 7tli March, 1860. 
 
 ISAAC BUCHANAN, Esq., M.P.P., 
 Hamilton. 
 
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 I am in receipt t»t' y«"r letter of the ",rd instant, in which you nrgo the importance 
 of my moving and resuscitating the organisation formed in 1858, for promoting tlio interests of 
 Canadian Industry, and fully agree with you, that a tlmrongh union and co-operation among 
 the friends of Canadian Manufacturers was never nutre ne(;cs8ary than at the present moment. 
 Tlie large increase of uumnfactures in Canada, under the present tariff, and the movement now 
 on foot to establish cotton and other man\ifactories, is the best evidence of the beneficial results 
 of the changes effected in 1858, and it is of the highest importance that parties investing their 
 capital in nuinufacturcs, should be made to feel that the fonte of public opinion (strengthened 
 gradually into a permanent ]mblic (conviction) will guarantee to them the continuance of our 
 present commereial jiolicy. 
 
 The effort now being put forth both in England and the United States to destroy 
 the advantages which Canada enjoys in her own market, ought to be met by equally 
 energetic action on our part, the more so as some of our leading public men are still the professed 
 advocates of a Free Ti'ade Policy. 
 
 I regret however to say, that I am not at present in a position to move in the matter. The 
 time and money already expended by me are more than my circumstances will warrant, and 
 while I shall at all times be ready to co-operate to the extent of my ability with the friends of 
 Canadian Industry, I am unable to devote gratuitously any large share of my tune to the 
 advocacy of our views. 
 
 I feel it the greater duty to express myself plainly as to my own position, to prevent 
 important duties being left at my door, which, after the explanation made above, some other 
 more independent friend of the cause may feel called upon to assume, and in doing which, he 
 will have all the assistance in my power. 
 
 I perhaps, in justice to myself, ought to be more specific in this matter, and I therefore 
 take the opportunity to mention that the Association for the promotion of Canadian Industry 
 still owes me a balance of nearly three hundred dollars, being the balance of expenses incurred in 
 1858— the appeal to the different localities, made by the Executive Committee for aid, not having 
 been responded to, except to a very small extent. (I now enclose a memorandum of the details.) 
 
 I have been the more reluctant to bring this matter under your notice, knowing that yon have 
 already contributed largely to the funds of the Association, besides defraying a large part of the 
 expenses incurred and which might very fairly have been charged against the Association. 
 
 I am, Deab Sib, 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. WEIR.