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Tbe NaiDal Policy anil How it vlU Affect ttie Fotiire of Caiaila. It is fortunate that in this contest, upon which the people of Canada are now about to enter, there is a straight issue — that a£Pecting the fiscal policy of the country- At the last session of Par- liament the Opposition, led by Sir John A. Macdonald, moved the following reso- lution : — "That this House ts or opiniou that the welfare nf Canada >equlres the adoption of a Natl nal Poli'-y, which by a Juaicious read- Ju^tmeL>t of the Tariff wil benefit aud f ster the Agricultural, the Mining, the Manuiac- turlng and other Interests of the DoriilnloK ; that such a Policy will retain In > anada ihou sands of ur felluwcouutrymen, now ob i^ed to expatriate themselves lu search of tbe em- ployment denied them at home; will restoie prosperity to our struggling industries, now 80 sadly depressed ; will prevent Canada from being made tt sacrlflce market; will encour- age and develop an active intei provincial tiade: and moving taslt ou»iht to do) In tbe direction of the reciprocity of TariSs with our neighbors, so far as the varied interests of Canada may dHinaud, will greatly tend t<> pro- cure lor this country, eventually, a recipro- oity of Trade." The principles embodied in that reso- lution are those upon which the Opposi- tion propose to tight this battle. The Government frankly accepted the issue. There was a deficit of about a million and a half of dollars, as announced by Mr. Cartwright in his Budget tSpeech Under ordinary circumstances, it would have been his duty to have made pro- vision for that deficit ; but, in this case, he made no provision, and he took that course expressly upon the ground that the issue to be fought at the elections involved the character of the fiscal policy of the country and the manner in which taxation was to be imposed. tlis exact words were : — " All things considered, " therefore, I am disposed to advise that " we should delay the consideration " of the question, whether it is " desirable to impose any further " taxes on the people or not, " and I do this for these several « reasons. A_ oecause, which " is, perhaps, even more to the purpose, " the issue which is about to be presented " by the two political parties of the day, " would involve, if decided against us, so '' great and so radical a change in our '^ whole fiscal system and in our mode of " collecting the revenue that I desire that " the views of the people should be heard "on this question." In order that there may be no doubt upon this point, tbe Keform Association ot the Province of Ontario, in a tract which they have issued to the people, have announced " free trade" as the rally- ing cry of their party. Under these cir- cumstances, therefore, no elector can have any excuse for misunderstanding the issue at the elections. It is a broad public issue, involving questions of public policy deeply affecting the commercial and industrial interests of the Do- minion ; and every man should be regarded with suspicion who, pretending to hold views in favour of protection, refuses to cast in his lot with the party representing those views. Let us look at the position in which the country stands at this moment. It will be admitted that for the last four years we have suffered from a most serious de- pression. A statement of the failures with the amounts of the liabilities for the last five years, sufficiently shows this : ° No. of fail- AmtofUa- uies. blliiies. 1873 »94 $V,Bii,m 187i «H6 7,6ifi,7ti6 1875 1,968 2'H,'4S»'7 176 1,7V!8 25,5 7,991 1877 1,890 25,510,147 This shows that the number of failures for the year 1877, last year, was greater than in any of thd years tabulated, with the exception of 1875, being 189 J out of fifty six thousand traders, or one in every twenty nine, while the previous year, 1876, there was one failure to every thirty-two doing business. As so much ^1 I m !■• ::X)DL1> '7r^?K.l55 Mo ..^, has been said in relation to the depres- sion in the United States, it is worth while pointing out that, in that same year, the pro- portion of failures t'* per8"n8 doing Dusiness in the neighboring republic was only one in every sixty nine. As to the number of failures in England the Engi- neering Journal says : " The lotal number of failures In Knglnnd during 1877 was nearly 10.4()(), the number dur- ing the first half of the year b»-ins: 5,865. 'J he number for the snmc i edod of 1878 was 6,812. or an increase in the flrtntractlnt; p^ril s w'!l t;» at lloerty tu couie lo an under^tand-ug as to tue »>urtix to bo Imposed n the iinportatlun of reflnea sugars tonnd from 8ald countries." Prominent English statesmen have taken the same view. Lord Derby, Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord Aberdare, Lord Hampton, and Professor Leone Levi, have all taken the ground that the interests of the consumer are not promoted by this system of bounties paid by foreign coun- tries, but that the general interest of the public suffers. Lord Derby said in the House of Lords on the 22nd July, 1876 ; ' From our point of view, it is also a ques- tion affecting the general interests of the pub- lic. We aru < onv iuced tbat any advantage of cheapness to the consumer which can bo ob- tained by means of the bounty un fo elgn sugar will be temporary only, becau-e If the bounty were continued long enough, and raided high enoiigh to drive the EuKlit>h sugar refiner and I'olonial producer out of the mar- ket, then it follows i hat the foreign producer would get the monopoly of the maritet in wbichca-^e the price would not long remain at a low rate." Lord Aberdare, at a meeting of the British Association, spoke as follows : — " Of oours It would oe to the Advantage of this count' y to reap the beuefltof the cheaper pruduo Ions- fothe. couutries That WHHthe I rue sp rlo of fr. e trade. but the eflieot of th se larKe bonuNes to the French raanufig industry of this country. When It was destroyed, the price of sugar would rise, an he need scarcely say that the result would be rttther permanently to inoieaae than to decrease the price of suijar. " Lord Hampton, at a meeting of the Society of Arts, on December 8, 1875, said : — t" It was a great m'stake T'*x>«tcte«t. We are told, however, that protection involves, in addition to the duty charged upon articles, a large increase in the co«"t of the article manufactured in the coun- try itself, to the consumer. This is the popular cry with the advocates of free trade. 1 1 is used in the United States by gentietnen like Mr. David Wells, and it is the one argument used by friends of the Government. With a coolness which is decidedly refreshing, they take the duty levied on manuf ictureii goods where similar goods are manufactured in the country as well, and add that to the original cost and assunae that the people have been taxed to that extent. Nothing could be more opposed to our actual ex- perience and to that of our neighbours on the other side of the line. 'I'hat ex- perience has shown that the duty may, under certain conditions, have the eifect of decreasing, not of ir creasing the cost of the commodity Mxed. It has this effect when the country im- posing duty has fa'-ilities for pro- ducing the commo(^itv which it taxes. A familiar illustration in Canada is that of boots and shoes, a manufacture which has, perhaps, been as prosperous, all things considered, as any other. It is within the everyday experience of the public that the protection which induced the manufacture of boots and shoes in Canada, has had the effect of largely de- creasing their cost to the wearer. In the United States the result has been the same. Mr. David Syme, in a paper upon restrictions on trade from a colonial point of view, gives some illustrations of this. We mike one quotation. He gays :— " A i'tx may, under certain oundl- tlons, have the very opposite ef- fect from that which it usually has, for Instead of liicrruslug the price of .he oommodlty taxed, it may have the effect of dlmlnlsblug It. nn import duty h--id. IfAmerl can producers can unilerseil competitors abroad, there cju he no doubt that Amer.can fonsuuiers can buy cheaper at hume, nnd thd duty, therefore, niu^t hive I'een rather a gain thun a loss to them That the iiripositioti of the duty on import"* andthp g owih of the home mann- fac ure, stand in the relation of cause and effect, there can hardly be a doubt, judging from these and other instances I might ref^r to." Upon this i)oint, too, we have another authority, which is important. It is from JKyland's iron tiade circular, published at Birmingham, England, from which we quote the following: — '" The ediC tool traile is wci sustained, arid we have Itssof tie t'ffeots of Arnericaii com- uetltiun. I hat this competition Is ^evere, however, is a fact that cannot be gnored, and it applies to many other branches than that of edie tools. Every Canadian season afTords unmlstkable evidence that some addition -ii article in English hardware Is being supplant- ed by the produce of the Northern Htates, and it Is iiotorlous how Inrgely American ware^ are rivalling those of the mother county la other of our colonial possessions, as well as upon the continent. The ascendance of the p otectionist party In the states c«mtlnue8 to operate most favorably for the manuf during interests there, and It was no wonder that, under such benignant au-plces, the enter- prise In this direction Is swe'llng tooolossBl pn portions, "ihe whol-* subject is one de- manding the serious attention of our manu- fftctiiirors '* Even at that time, as far back as 1871 the effect of protection in the United States in destroying the import trade from Great Britain into Canada was al- ready beginning to be felt. The figures which we have given show how seriously it has gone on since that time. The W^^ft Knot Navnr. manufacture in France is a remarkable illustration of the effects of protection in building up native industries. Mr. Syme gives some interesting particulars in re- lation to it. The commencement of the industry was occasioned by the conti- nental blockade which, at the beginning of the present century, increased the price of sugar and caused the Govern- ment to institute a series of experiments with a view to the manufacture of beet root sugar. At first the littl« success attending it, not more than two per cent of sugar being obtain- ed from the beet, and that of a very inferior quality, involved great difficulty, and little was done until 1836 when the manufacture amounted to forty nine mil- lion kilogrammes. '1 he industry, at this time, was pre ted by a differential duty of 42^ to grammes, as a . "ancs per hundred kilo- .nnst colonial sugar man- ufactured from the cane. It went through various phases until, by means of the fostering care of the Govern- ment, it is, at this moment actually paying a large revenut to the national exchequer, by means of the ex- cise duty imposed upon it. *' France," says Mr. Syme, *'not only produces " enough sugar for her own con- '* sumption, but is also an ex- " tensive exporter. Large quantiites " of French made sugar are annually ex- " ported to England, Belgium, Holland, " liermany, Sweden, Russia, Italy, the " Barbary states, Egypt, La Plata, and '* numerous other countries. It has, in '• fact, become one of the most important " industries of the country, employing a '< large amount of labor and capital." We in Canada, might secure a similar Indus- try. Beoent experiments made with Ca- nadian beets have proved mobt success ful. Professor Trebonski. one of the best authorities on the subject of beet sugar in the world, has made an analysis of Ca nadian beets grown upon an ordinary farm, the result of which has shown that they contain a larger proportion of sugar than the beets of France or Bel- gium. 'J he late Government passed an Act by which they undertook to exempt from excise duty for ten years any manu- facture of beet root sugar that might be established. The ten years are nearly expired, and last session an effort was made to induce the Government to pro long the period of exemption, but, with that persistent fanaticism which has proved so disastrous to all our industries, Mr. Cartwright refused to pass the Act, and those who, at this moment, are making efforts towards the establishment of beet root sugar factories in the Pro vince of Quebec, have received a check, which may prove most disastrous. Pintecilon In th4« ITiiii«>«l NiHtea. Another common argument of free traders against the adoption of a national policy in Canada, is that protection has proved ruinous to the people of the United States, that the depression there has been much greater than here, and that to adopt a similar policy here would, instead of resulting to our advantage, re- sult to our serious injury. There is no doubt that the United States have suffer- ed in common with «ther countries from depression, but people have been apt to attribute to protection what was really the result of an entirely different cause, the inflation consequent upon the war. With all the depression, however, we have the practical fact that while one trader in every twenty-nine in Canada during last year went into insol- vency, in the United States, only one in every sixty-nine failed. If the troubles in the United States have been the re- sult of protection, then England should have been free from them. There have been no abnormal causes in England lo produce depression tuch as the war and Its consequent inflation in the United States, and yet as a matter of fact, the trade in i .i;59B,8>M.,973 $65'',*^37.457 Total imports 6;}S,90tt,I53 176,677,871 4h2,097,540 Bal. favor U 8$7l,fi68,7i)0 $I2'),21S,102 $166,539,917 From this statement, it will be seen that the exports of the United States have been steadily increasing, thttt the balance of trade had in 1877 grown to $166,539,- 917. In Great Britain, on the contrarj, the very opposite result has taken place. The statement of the commerce of Great Britain, which we have given above, shows that the imports were almost sta- tionary, while the exports diminished by nearly a quarter of a million dollars. It will require a good deal of argnnent on the part of our free trade friends to show that the policy which has produced this result in the United States, as compared with that in Great Britain, has been de- structive to the trade and commerce of the former country. The liiteretitM of tli«^ F-triiiers. There is no class so deeply interested in this question as the farmers. Free traders constantly tell us that the prices of agricultural products are fixed by the prices at Liverpool. This is true in rela- tion to wheat and a few other articles whose market is Liverpool. But the ex- perience ot recent years has s own that the farmer who depends upon his wheat crop is pretty certain to get into diffi- culty. The one essential requisite for successful juul profitable farming is a home market for the consumption of the perishable products of the farm. 'J he fact of the depression in the lumbering interest, for instance, affectinu: the far- OL Q( fr bi tl tl tl: ■ i mers of the lumberini; regions, is due en tirely to the withdrawal of home consumers. The dififerenoe in the value of a farm situated say in the county of York, near Toronto, and one situated in the Muskoka district, arines simply from the fact that the owner of the former has at his door easy access to consumers of the perishable products which he raises. There is nothing in the land itself to make a difference. It is due to its prox- imity to a great centre of population. Those great centres can only be built up by means of a policy which will develop the wholesale trade and the manufactur- ing interests of Canada which have suf- fered- from the "fly on the wheel policy " of Mr. Cartwright and his col- leagues. Mr. John McLennan, whose abil- ity and experience make him an author- ity upon questions of this kind, has issued a statement for the benefit of the electors of Glengarry, on the trade with our ** best customers " and what it costs to the Canadian farmers, which we cannot do better than quote in full : — " From the offlciiil returns for the year ended 30th June, 1877 : o e m Barlf y Peas Hay Wheat. . ... Wheat flour. . Oatmeal PotatoeH ... !«awn lumbar. i< Irewoud Wool Flax Horses Horned cattle. Sheep 6/4!^.a^'^ bush. 470,472 " 3«i,94U ll.O"*! 2,890 bdri tfi»,997 brls. bush, m. It lbs. lbs. 2,877,120 2,019,600 7,496 heads 13,ii51 198,820 Value. 4,503,117 379,841 270,001' 376,019 17.S9H9 48,753 1,297 ,.'S67 3,212 738 337,473 681,798 182,979 608,467 268,847 586,618 IJ. H. Tariff 19c bush. 20pc. 20 p.c. 20 p.c. 20 p,c. 4c. lb. ISo bush. 2.00 m. I't. 20 p.c. Ifclb.A 11 p,c. ad val.| 2olb. 20 p.c. 20 p.c. 20p.c. Amount of duty paid na entering U. 8. 9^6.454.95 75.968.20 64,' 00.tiO 75,203 40 84,797.HO 11,991.00 43:^,5«9.4i( 6!19,094.0() 67,494,60 312,709 78 52,890.0<> 133,693.00 or $17. oea. 53,«(69.40 or $H.Kl ea. 107.323 00 or 6So ea. Cauadtau Tariff. Free. Free. Fr«-e. Free. Free. Free. Kre*. Free. Free. Free. Free. 10 p.c. 10 P.O. lOP c. Import of Indian Cora from the U.I 8,260,039 bushels. Less export to Foreign Coun tries 4,081,612 Leavlne 4,178,427 bushels. " That went into consumption, /r«co/dMfi/ In distillerie!) and otherwise, to replace Cana- dian barley export d. at a difference of 16c per bushel at^ainsi us." '• import of coblI free of duty from the United States, t')C<)mpete with our own great supply of fuel,769,6K4 tons, value it3,0'>2,l49." " Espoit of cohI toU. S., 187,772 tons, paying a duty of 7oc a ton " " Import free o/ duty, about 6.000 tons pig iron." " Fxport, subject to $7 per ton, 3,282 tons pig iron." " Import of flour to Manitoba, $40,260, free of duty, whilst the ManHobau cannot send back a bushel of wheat in exchHnge,except at a dif- fert-nce of 2<) per cent." *' Having made our beat offsets, with such odds against us, we have to make sood to our best con^^umers," about fW.Oirti.iMiO in cash, for manufactured gdod.s on which they have all the piofit. It is a wonder that we are growing poor da> by day and roliing up uiflcuncies in our balance t.heet " "There is an item to be considered that is not In the trade returns, but you can supply it from memory : How many .sons and b others have 1. ft their homes to find employment in the United S aies ? And have they gone hi • ther to a fleid more depressed and suffering than exists in Canada, as the organs of the ''Government pretend to tell you ? You know betti^r. the young nnen know better, and the Oovernmeut ought to know better," Free Trnde lu EuKlantl. It is assumed in all the arguments which are used by free traders, that the policy of free trade in England is a settled policy, that the thirty years experience of it has so completely established its ex- cellence that there is no feeling in favour of a change. As a matter of fact, how- ever, there is no subject which, in Eng- land, is exciting, at this moment, greater attention. A letter addressed by Lord Bateman to the London Timts, re illy re- presents the feeling which is fast growing in the Mother Country. It is sufficient to give a couple of extracts from that letter : — " We cannot shut our eyes tu the universal collapse of trade and its aucompanying dis- tress, be it the mineral, the shlppinu, the carrying, the agricultural or the generul manufacturing trade. • broughout the coun- try ihe cry oi depiei-slonand < Istress and ruin Is the same. We have to compete on unequal terms with other foreign couniriep, who are robbing us of our profits, puying nothing to our e? chequer, and under-selling us at the same time. When the capitalist finds that bl8 trade Ih leavtnK lilm, and thnt hln prnfltH are leducert loii mlnlmiun, It folUtwH thnt the wotkmen dttpendlnv upon him tnuHt HUfTur in IlICH prop'rilon, Hud, aH h cniiiie(|iiei)cu, the r«te of wugcs iiiuhi. cr)rtn) dnwn, or unploy- ir\ent nnst oease— H'rtl(>ld hh It Is niUKM - floent ; granted thnt the idea, hy whouiMoevor orlKinated ( nd Hdvo<'Ht('d by no one more conslsiently tliun hy our Koorl and wifte Pi luce lousort), Is t oth ^rand and gli>rl<>us in ItH conception; Kfanied that t<> Kive effect to it has hcen the aim, as it has been tlio long accepU'd policy i f Muoce-slv«' G vernmen 8 ; 11 cannof be denied thai the s'tiig of • want of leclproclly" has, from the (Irst, ch«cl< mated our philanthropic etf'orts. and oblUed us now to confers, after .M years ol trial, that in practice our free trade Is, at best, but oxesldtd; aid that while we are opening our ports to the commero" and manu- factures of the worlil, free and unrestricted, other countries, without conlerrlnK upon us any reclp ocal boueflr, are taking advHiti g^, without scruple, of our mugnanln ous, but disastrous (because one-sided) liberaMiy. • • We havH tritd free trade, Hnd it has been found wantlntc. We hnv done our best to Ini- pre.xs other countries with the reusonHblon^ss of our i)<.lln Hud distress arestNring us iQ the face. Our local burdens are Incrchs- log, our exports diminishing. Our woritlng olasHt8, un.set