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Ju^=L
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^''ei.e-ted by
TO THE ELECTORS OF GLENGARRY.
(rKNTl.KMEN,
AVheii you invited luc nearly two years ago upon very
short iiotite to become a candidate for your representation in the House
of Commons, T did so in deference to your judgment, although under a
sense of disadvantage owing to the long interval in my residence in your
midst and inten-uption in my ijcrsona' acquaintance with j'on. The
representations tlicn mi;de wore justified Ity the iai'ge vote recorded in
my favor ; and now that you are pleased to renew tjie invitation with the
emphasis of mature reflection, 1 thinU T am justified hy your choice as
well as by what 1 learn of the growth of ofjinion in the cfumty, in entering
acquaintance
not bee?)
the field with good hope ot success. Two years of better
yo".
and 1 hope have
ye.'irs of common
in the necessity' of
suffering
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have not diminished my desire to serve
unfavorable to me in your estimation. Two
with you have very much confirmed my belief
change in your representation.
I propose to show you that opinion has not gi-own hei'e and thi'ough-
out the land without something to feed on. But before discussing the
main issue upon which you are clearly asked to decide between the Gov-
ernment of the day and those who, like myself, assail its policy of finance,
I desire to point out the utter colli pse of the other and then important
pretensions uj)on which the friends of the ]>resent Government based their
right and claim, as they so often and so euphoniously stated it, to " hurl
from power" the Government that preceded them ; their wiser method
foi" the construction of the Pacific Eailway ; and the determination to
practice gi-eatei' economy in the ordinary expenditure-
Having exhausted the plan of water stretches, and having proved the
impossibility of carrj-ing on public works by the agency of partisan s t-
vants iind supporters of even a pure Government, the policy of aiding the
construction of the Pacific Eailway " by utilizing the Dominion lands,"
after the manner of their predecessors has been finally and fully returned
to. Meantime a large yearly expenditure has been carried on through
agents svho, when summoned to give account of their methods, defy par-
liament ; and what have we got as the result : a very small part of tho
road located ; a matter of 200 miles under contract, that when finished
will have no permanent connection ; the bit of branch road that ay
give us access to Manitoba through the United States, proposed to be
leased upon terms that will not bear the scrutiny of parliament, and the
first minflter (and a reform minster) threatening what he may or may
not do in defiance of parliament : then we have the Neebing Hotel, and
the Fort Frances lock; and an investment of $3,500,000 in rails that are
not for the facility of traffic '.u' truvel- but accu'iiulatitij? interest and. rust,
and chai'ges for storage.
In the ordinary expenditure wv have no re<liU'tion — uo pretence now
of reduction ; but, while there is a reduction of about $50,000,000 in the
aggregate trade, and about 83,000,000 in the revenue collected, it is con-
sidered sufficient for the Ciovoi'nmcnt to say that the increase of 81,400,-
000 in 187G over 1873, in the cost of ccUection, was provided for by the
legislation of the previous Government ; the real reason being that every
avenue of collection is crowded with appointments, made for merit in
supporting a pure administration. As for the higher " tone,"' and the
' regard for the well understood wislios of the people," of which wo have
had so much " pi'omise to the car " from the Keform ])arty when in
op])osit;on, how utterly has it been '' broken to our hope," let the record
tell of the session just closed, in which the Government lias led in every
vice of personal abuse and vituperative speech, and has developed every
form of arbitraiy obstruction to fair and reasonable inquiry. But the
main and clear issue upon which appeal is made to your decision, is the
question. Is it in the power of Parliament to assist by legislation the
industrial interests of the country ? I maintain that such power does
exist, and venture to say that the negative was never adopted by the
responsi bit representatives of any people in the world before ours ; and
it is one for cho decision of which it is not necessary to obtain evidence
from Manitoba, nor from the Departments at Ottawa — the proof lies
within your own observation and your too bitter experience.
For some time after the advent to power of the present Ciovernment
there existed widely a belief that the logic of events woiild induce a
change in their free trade proclivities; so much so that representatives
were elected (notably in the City of Montreal) on a distinct assurance
that the Government would bo prepared to reconsider that theory. All
that is now dispelled — the illusion fled upon the accession of the Minister
o!' the Interior. "The fly on the wheel," is the simple metaphor that
iljUhUaies your attitude in the declared opinion of that new ruler. And
now, in the face of a deficit f()r the two past years amounting to $3,361,-
000. the Minister of Finan e, after an eloquent description of the
•' unlimited field open to the enterprise of our agricultural population, of
" which there are many cheering signs that they are heartily disposed
" to avail themselves," leaves the deficit to bo maf'" up by the fruits of
those cheering signs, or by time, or by chance, o. anybody else that
may, because " the issue which is about to be presented to the country
" would involve, if decided againstus, so great and so radical a change in
" the whole fiscal system, and our mode of collecting the revenue, that I
" desire the voice of the people to bo heard on the question." (See
Budget Speech, February 1878.
The Minister has come to recognise, too, that— though no fiscal
policy of our own can help us —
" It is impossible for us, a small people of about 4,000,000 of souls,
" placed along dmost our whole frontier in direct contiguity to the
" American natioji, not to be seriously affected by the fiscal policy they
'•' have chosen to pursue."
Further on he draws some novel conclusions :
" I desire to sav not only that I do not see in their policy any reason
>' for imitating them, but that they themselves are beginning, I think, to
•* admit that they have made a very grave and serious error, and that there
" is a very strong disposition to retrace the mistake they have committed,
•• and that they iiav o become t-oiivinced as far as Canada is concerned, that
" their policy has resulted only in driving us to seek other markets, and
s
ing Iz:'": ';;£:^!^- ;ir::^£- "i^ - « j;- ..? i .mvc be. ,«,k.
" retrace their mistake " LumShnf tL, i Araer.cans • „e begun to
l.eKU., in any wav to do for iHwlfatln h?,''?''t'"°''''i' ""'■''"''''' "■• •'"'e
»l.ould,eael>\,stidofwt,r„lves a r/ofj^^^^^
what fi™.,io„ of ou,. „.„.|e or pro«t:hl^c°e.:ai^' t ,!'l«-'' '"'""'"'"
l.-»( year, I.lrcw a te t o L ,„ ,,1" .""""*■• "f.™" i" February
the Utiitid States, a, rthodhnmnf '''"^'' '"'""' ''"l»"» 'r'
l.roce,, h„, co„.i,;ued ^d wlS 'i™ taZSn': ^^ """ T"''y ' "^■■
t;;>^o..t,«,i,ai,. „ear,y balau,. eaeh :S:Ztl!Z::^Z:SZ
•oni
lUt
|)ortM
Goods oMtoi-ed for cons.iniption from iho
I nited States ^in o^n n^-i
Exports to the u,.ited states..;;:::;;:::::;?^^^^
1877.
^51,312,669
, . "T"",^.^^ 25,775,245
An nicj-ease for the year of onr iinDoi-ts of STT'^I^-^^rT' ':^
tlie year of our exports of 86 15s"u n.^ .%»•>, -42,636, and a decrease for
the balanee of trac e nU sttfi'lm^S m<? "" '"."'f f ^'^'' the year in
roaches in the aifLmu.^ue snn/,|cJ^^ ^'''«"^'« «^'«i"«t us
surprised at the'na^^ i ude o he!^ tuT^^^^^}?'' '^'''^ l^''«»^a'^b' be
the crushino- ettec^/i; Sm Z,^^^^^^^ ^''^'I "^^''^ugh you have felt
and youV young nK., the l^t and s a.v ThonVV>f t',""'^' ^T l"^^^«'
seeJcing new fields in Manitoba orexnatri.fi ,*^'*' country, are
wealth of the United States ThL.^? '"^ themselves to swell the
trade (or have been so) 'a^; ^^^ f, ^!^ ;^'^' ''^? ^''^ ^"^^^^ >"
eompetitioi, without re^L^inUitvnntil ^PPling of your trade by
»« manj-, relatively to t^he mUe o 'f^^ ^« twice
The Minister had the coun'.e o eon^r- tn^l^^^^^^^ Tr '" ^^^" ^"^^^^ States.
ti;!^s^^^^-^r^frSSn?^^^^
time when ti" bSt^ .^ Xo^;; W ^ ^'^7; "^^T ^^" ^'^"^^-ber the
that brouirht a reward v„ , n H ?r'''''* ^""^'^" ^°^' ^ho cutting
in,-, ],rot«.ted l.v th /nc> Hd ."^^ofl '^W^'"' ^^^^ of your cleai"
bountiful harvosts,,f w Jl^t S;^,^^^^^^^ ?"^*.the snows of winter, yielded
and your wheat was rom, x.l to lied fo -on ^^^ </''^ ^''' ^'°^'* ^^^^er,
or, if there were a mn^hlttu
charge of seeking J ei^^/n a^^^^^ T''^^'^^ ^'«» to mtot the
H'orks were oarritd on t^prov de fm- voC n^o?' f '^'"l"^^^ «"^^ Public
season of minilao-o i« r.n«f l"";'"*^ j^i >our increasing trade. But your
bogging „■;„?& '■\c„,lr.irsi"viir--f"»' """ r- '°^^-
"nd yet you are dependent ..po,, ibreiffne.Vfh tU tTl P.™'''"? '^''°'"'
.v™ are not ,„.,.,P,„, .,Zie„f ^^^ I.tC^rrt^^^n^'-iS^
wmm
temporary expedient of exporting cheese and cattle, and it in well that
you can tide over a term in this way, l)ut you well know that grass anfl
cattle will not grow pcrenially without change any more than pino trees
and wheat ; they are governed by laws more sure than those of th»^
Donvinion, Then you will have to do as the people of Old England did
(and manifestly the sooner it is done the more you will save), that is, learn
to make your own goods, and so not only market your bushel of wheat,
Jmt your bag of potatoes (that I am told to-day are going a begging at
ten cents a bushel because there are no home consumers!), and your
poultry-, and your fruits and vegetables, and eveiy product of field and
gai-den and barn-yard, and not only so, but the value of your products, as
well as that of the goods you buy, will remain for the improvement of
your own country. It is the same policy that the people of New England
adopted (and that gives them such a " pull" over ou/ folly to-day) after
they had gone thi'ough the usual phases of a new country, and liad
exhausted (as I hope we have nearly done) the delusive doctrine of tree
trade, built upon cries from across the sea, a doctrine indeed that was
adopted in England only when it was a>sumed that her skill and facility
in manufacturing was such as to assure the retention of the mst of man-
kind as tributaries. But the laws of nature and the instincts of self-
preservation have been too many lor the^ wisdom even of the British
manufacturers, and to-day " the tide seems at last to have turned in some
degree," and we read in a pamphlet circulated in England by a distingu'shed
public man (Lord Bateman) these ominous words :
" AVe have to compete on unequal terms with otlier countries who
" are robbing us of our profits, paying nothing to our exchequer, and
" underselling us at the same time Granted that the theory of free
" and unrestricted commerce with all quarters of the universe is as bold
" as it is magnificent, granted that the idea, by whomsoever originated,
" is both grand and glorious in its conception, granted that to give effect
" to it has been the Jiiin as it has been the long-accepted policy of succes-
" sivc governnieuls, it cannot be denied that the sting of want of recipro-
'• city has, from the first, checkmated our philanthropic efforts, and obliged
" us^iow to confess, after thirty years trial, that, in practice, our free
" trade is at best but onesided ; and that while we are opening our port.*
•' to the commerce and manufactMres of the world, free and unrestricted,
'* other counli'ics. williotit conicn-ing on tis any leciprocal benefit, are
•■ taking advantage, without scruple, ol our magnanimous, but disastrous
'• (because one-sided) liberality AVe have tried free ti-ade, and it
" has been found wanting ."i.. AVe have done our best to impress other
'• counti-ies with the reasonableness of our policy, and in return they
" scoff at our blindness, and turn a deaf car to our remonstrances."'
Could words convey a moi-e grapliic description of our miserable ])osi-
tion ill relation to the United Stales, and if the fellow countrymen of
Cobden and A'illicrs, and Peel and Bi-ight are beginning to hark back how
far a field must be our village philosophers who have donned the old
elotljos of those economists without regard to our entirely different cir-
cumstances.
Your own experience is daily teaching you the faMacy implied in the
statements by ihc men of the piesent *^ Government, " that no one
" industry can be piotected but at tne expense of some othei*," and that,
the expedients of protection by legislation arc but " taki?\g money out of
" one pocket and putting into"tlie other." AVith respect to the first pro-
(>
c'?:;;u^L:^uS!i<^;tz."b?:!';:' ?• ""'" ^^^ •"['"^"^•- '-^ ^'- ^-t in
itiif m(,nov <>ut o^hn 1 V^i / ;* umuscmcnt in H^mpMnson wi }, tak-
I have refeiTeJ T ^n rero i. h '''f ^^ """^^"'' ''^' ^""^''^ ^o which
that tl,e " national Scv'-mnnn 1 r''""' »'-^'""?ent addmssedto farmers
simple instance wilfS-o in ". • ••'^^"' Ktrv o^ ^"'''^ \'''- '^">'- ^
lias been closed under iho n pJ. f i-' i>'^l"«t>-y of sugar refining, that
H high tariff Sa" ^a ow^^^ r V^\ "'^ dependent much less on
of tLexisfrrnT^i^^rn^- ''^L^ ^''^>' *'" ^'^^'"^^^ material. The result
intered for coilun '^^ L T7T /f ^''^-'•^'»<«'- P'^'-t of the sugars
infbrmed on tile S^Lit^a^, o,. i; ^U m" "^^.^fli^^J^"^ fan.
in Canada.) that at loast m o' / ^ o"e orTRc-Tai^rcst dealers
r>Ol in IfitO, as COmnnrOf wit), «(71 r. n»-o l i. X »aiuDUl «-i,Ui}B,-
greater bulk of^'ugarl. ""Portat.on h;.s been in the cheaper and
tlon ^^r^^i^Sl^ lo3-al opposi-
people," and will form the basK f . v^^ Our own markets for our own
n.n alone, and let n ic boo- of w n J^^'^j'^c sheet upon which we can
. inc-ease ax-.-Ui . As ?n^ l'. 1 'T'^^'^^- ^^at there is no ,)roposaI to
sTT^i-ltdKsTmo c,t^'' , e ClI !« 7 ^''^^-^rade demagogues), but only
dollai-s)- to Wt iKr-^ '^^'S''^o^%'> ('-'I'out 2;} millions of
ploymenttoo Momlo^^ '^^ ''' ^''" ^'^''P ^^' ^«^->»-« ^m-
rru ^ n.creasc our population and wealth.
awo??:;i^"tSV''nha:S''l"" '" "^^?' -'1-V^cment that deserves
und possibly omo of v,^ ' v I ;'"';^; "^''^'O"'^ under the (lovernment,
from the outlay 1 ,^|"'{ ^^ ^''^, «0'«e temporary sop of benefi
tW>m one po& t:;, ' Juh.g t, in'tU^^iUir'^rt't-tr'""'^ '"^"^^
when it coun\ed i t'^^^^T '''i '"''M'^-' '•>' <1k' late (Jovernmenl,
been can-ied on i uVe fuc / • ii r"- ^' ?^f^^' -^"^^^^'"-^ t''"^'^^ ^ ^^ has
here cert'n-nh ; fi V- ^ Ji deficit and of trade driven awav • and
sl^uld^I;;^'^oml h" ^'"^•^'•'"-"^ ^-' ''-' -3- policy of econ^m,"';!
of lo^af':;L!';;er^:..:i''t;.tS:'"^^i T r'^'^'y - '>'^--. --e mattes
been made fi:^;" "n H 'o "n lif' "' ""^^"^^'^'^ !'^'"*''^"' '^"^'^
1110 question of your ivpresentatif)n. One of
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theso is the Cotouii lunl Utluwu Uaihva.v. Vou arc awaro this question
was c'haractoriHod hv oiio of Him- MajoHty'H .Iu(J;<oh as having Infon
"unfairly" uh(m1 oh "'an cliH^ion dodgo." I regret to notice that the
Uailway Ih Mtill held dangling is a prize lor those who i)rove faithful to
the political party of tho President and Directors. No man who has any
interest in the County can bo inditterent on the question of the construc-
tion of this Kailway ■; but I ask you what man of the Corporatoi-s huH
ventured a dollar of his own money in it? Where was the list of share-
holders that should, ill all fairn«}S8, have been forthcoming when an
extension of time was obtained in tho late Session of Parliament, witii
some HtatQment of the payments on capital account? This you do know,
for there has been a neoo-sity for proving it, under their own statement,
that two at least of the Directors have taken money out of the enter-
prise, and (under the name of wages) turned it through their own
pockets. How much more lias gone into similar channels is matter on
which you have no information. You know, however, that you are
paying— and have been for some years paying— taxes for the interest on
your contribution to tho Company that was organised to build tho road ;
and you have no knowledge of any other use of your money except as
an " election dodge." One woi-d more on this subject. 1 yield to no man
in tho interest we have in common in such a road, and will do what I can
with anybody or party to assist in obtaining it; and J think that its
construction will become a necessity Avhen some part of the railway
westward towards the Pacific is made— and 1 submit that all the evidence
so far gives us the best hope of such a link being formed under another
administration than the present one.
It has been made a matter of complaint on the part of my friends,
and, strange tu say, much more on the part of my opponents, that I have
not visited von tioni door to door. Now, my friends, there is a word to
1)0 said on this nuitter— perhajjs two words, and perhaps there may be
two sides to it. I should like very much— much more indeed than my
o]q)onents imagine or pretend, to know every elector in tho county, and 1
trnst that you will acknowledge that when there has been occasioji in the
natural and ordinary way for our meeting, 1 have not been insensible to
the duties of a friend and neighbor. You are aware, hoAvever, that a great
part of my life has been devoted to pursuits and spent in fields that took
mo away from among you ; but I ask you candidly to say if you think I
have returned to make my home in your midst for the purpose (as has
been absurdlystated) of cajoling you into sending me to Parli.mcnt ! lam
sure that no man of vou who kixnvs me will accuse me of any Sv-ch motive.
Again : I lind it has" boon the custom in tho county foi- youi- representa-
tives to visit you from house to house, and in the way of business — so
much so that "the discussion of public questions in public assembly has
until quite recently been considered a secondary means. Tho position of
3'our representatives and their relations with you in l)usiness or profes-
sionally made ii almost a matter, of course, that they should have a wide
personal acquaintance among you. Is there, however, a man in the
county Avho will say that this has been for your benefit or satisfaction, or
if it has not rather" been for their objects. Or, is it protended that yoii
have each and every one individual interests that are to be known and
cared for apart from tho interests of your fellow countrymen at large. If
any man says so or jiretends it (for such jibsui'ditics are not usually jnit
in categorical form) he is either no wiser than he who tells you that "the
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'^till ivnia.,,, an.l could cToatc an, nil . ''•' .'""'*' ^''^ '•^'""tn' uoul 1
"0 wlMlo that tlHM-o :n.o ni'^tr -v^^^^^^^^^ «"<! to ren^omber
iJ'M.umon at lar^^c, a,.<l of wi > , , 1 ! /'"por anc-o oonimon to tho
"pon tl.o vvi.,|o,n of Parlian.n.i. ' '^'"••'"".'^' ^'i^"'i«<-an,.o .l<,,,o,uIcnt
I llll\-o Iw.riit ....!.„ II . .
I Iiavo been askod uhv F ,i<» .. ,
<o the candidate. I bc^r you wTll I o.? '"v^'-^ "' ^''^' ^'''""tn -idvantal
••'« independence of i)Pinc lo cm i v"' ^■"" ''"^'^ ^■"«^^" "t" Huch a thhS
yo^'Ay ihv nny bait o r .t^ i ,?/ „Z ' '?/'; ''^''^ ''^« '•<Ti-oson nUve ^
m'ty. I am not an I.Hlepe k t 'hL '"' '""^' /"" '" ''•' ^vav f mm any
k'f.er independcn.v ol' . t ,il t '"""i . ^"' ^ '''"im to hold J
1^0 sins or impoH.c,ions- Ld In S^^^^^ "" ^''° <"'« J'aml ft> •
pant; nor, on theo.hcr ha„d ot e ,cH ^ ' m-'Sw"-^'- ^•^'^'^'"""ont of th^.
;?'• choice, of (he crumbs of li-c * d ' . '^. ^"'''"" V"" '" 'i'''^'^' W neoo.s tv
:; !-o. This is tUosunnn^i^iJ^l^^^'^^^
tut ve ol my native co.u.tv 'nul h V V ^ *'''''"*'^' *'» **«« in the renro
^^t hu-p of which therJ s\:, V t ecir " ,'''"'r"*"^'«" ^^^ the^m ''
ronsKlerationofeveiy vote.MVKr,osl ; " this platform I claim th'e
'n the only true and ^^ood sense. '' ^''"^^'■'^■^' '-^"^^ ^^'^o is iiidepemllSi
I shall look rvvheflin.' •'.. r»,..i-
Opposition for tlu> nu!, ^ J, t'nld "" "^^^^ ''' ^'^ '"^^^^l'-- of the
ment as «■<• nc-ed, an.l of w .ic s^e ,' 1^^"'"'^^'' ''' ^^™ •""^"h ^^ Govert
'" Powo.-: and I have L^.od ones , U ?,^^^''' '''" l''""'"^^^' "' the party no v
present (Government to the Z le s ll *' T^ "^'*' '^"^ warn.n^/^f" ^
cabinet upon the basis of mer^ t iM '(" ^^-^P«'"'^'»ee, and form the h
come from. "'" '^' <'''^"'^' the best men wherever th^- may
•'«.^«".^' new and further develLme.f;;^ '""^'' ''"^'^ "" «PPO'-t"nity of dij
--n^newandturiheriK:,;:;;.:^:
Meantime, I remain,
Yours, faithfidly,
% the Lake,
Lancastei-, l<$th May, 1878.
JOHK McJ.ENA'AX.