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Jn^tT ^ ,F®*^ <*' the success of vidence was on SrS '^The^^^^^^^^ T'^''^ '^""^ ^'^ success to misfortune, over which we iS"*^""'° °^* ^^'^i' which they had no control • Kn* *i!^ ^*^ "® control— over ^ the counti^was theS^'of thl r^f'*^^* ™'«f«''t««eW Period W one of. daS™ nof 1„^"'*T**'^« P'^'-ty- The all Christendom. and'^e^So^^^^Vth^^^ was due to theoalamltir^ ft« ♦?^°"^®Jn''**^''®l«^^^ S^ntiythatitwanKi^fS^rn ^'T^' ^^^y toW the we hadf inflicted. to?Xh* ^™ r""''!^ *a°^ ^'^^^^^ '^adj to heal. Timo a^d the&Jfr"^ Samaiitans, were curing the disease, but the cou^t^ nlwT"**''^ abroad, i« t. danger 6f dyi^ ^00/^^ SS ^T ^J^lil" ' -1 "I ( { (-.. - -^ m < I" ] ['.'IS ; It hft« rdH of corpraoroial UoproBtiiou the owIh and tbo bat« alwayo ^o abroad. i Sir JOUN A. MACDONALD. VHoro they ore at home you Bee. 1 \ Mr. WtLLS. ^Now that tjbe comrtnercial condition of the country bus improved, I t^^JtHc that Iho gigantic proportions which thJttowls nnd the bats aHsiimod in thp public minda, can bo iikoro cloai ly oBtimatod. There i««, Sir> a fltnoHS of tbinga inltho biucosh of thoHO genilftnon during a period of darlineBB. It is in the night thiat the owls and bats come forth to peek thoir proy— the light \4 unsujted to them, Tlie seemingly gigantic proportions which darknoHH gives them disappears with the light; and a« they become incap- able of Bcoing, they arc themselves seen with %llt*i« more di«tinotnoHS, The hon. geJitieman boasts of OTfr^sstatea- Tnanshipof the Tory leaders, ^yhat important raoaBuro has, si 000 Confederation, forced itself upon the attention of Parliament which these hon. gentleman have Huccessfully grappled with ? Was it the Washington Treaty in which freat interopts were sacrificed, and important trusts etraycd ? Waf Public Works and his friends that the measure Of the Government o^ which he, was a member, was of bo Odious character, that it justified a rebellion ? l?hat hon. gentleman spoke of that measure, as one of such of the Award. This question moitt soon come up again, and every One knows that the opinions hold by gentlemen oppoHito will put thorn out of Court. They cannot obtain a fhrlhing without abandoning their views upon Protection. Thoy could not have obtained an Award of a dollar had they controlled the afTairti of this country when the llulifax Com- mlHsion sat. Tbo hon. Preaidont of the Council has referred to the railway expenditure, and the railway construction of this Government and the late Administration, and his statement is on diningenuout) as such a statement could well be. . Ho saj's, that when the late Government retired from office, that there was not a mi|eof the Poolflc Railway open for traffic. That from Lake Superior to English River, ninoty-seven milos wore built. That now there are from Lake Superior westward, 242 miles. That from Selkirk eastward there were seventy miles constructed there ; that thorc are now 130 miles; that between Emerson and Selkirk, there were then twenty-two miles ; that there are now eighty miles; that from Winnipeg westward before the advent of the present AdminiHtration, there was no road ; that now 13^ miles ar^ in operation. And the hon. gontloman has rofdrrod to their pajtriotic endeavors to sqpply the missing link. If tl^ hon. gentleman had striven to muko a statement calculated to mislead, cal- culated to make impressions wholly at variance with the facts, he could not have mad^ one which would have better served his purpose than the one ho made to this House. Why, of this 131 miles, west from Winnipeg does the hon. Sentleman pretend to say that any portion of it is completed. >oes he not know that the ties are laid down without any portion of the road being graded ; that, in many cases, they are laid upon the ice, and that when spring opens, when the frost disappears, the road will bo impassable? Mr. BANNERMAN. Not for 120 miles, it is all graded. Mr. MILLS. The hon. gentleman says it is all graded ; he will have an opportunity of considering that at another period. Mr. MACKENZIE. The hon. gentleman knows that west of y^innipog the road has been moved several miles to the soutlf to another track. There is not. a mile in use of ■what thoy pretended to have built. fi "•^SKPSaKTS, "J?- >-_::> Th?J?t"ftht .^.f i?^^^''^; '^•' '• ^^' ^^ point. menffi tii i«/^"n""- «•"»'«">«" i« making h Sat»^ ?ent rnmnTH th J K '"'" Admir,iHtrotion ? Tho hon for flSo KJ^! ^T "^r "*^* "'•'^ °^ <»'i« 'O'^J open untr*h«* .^''^^^'■rta'nilonow. It cannot bo oponod S Tho hon lZ':r ""'"'^ ""'^ •* continuouH ZX S^?; flvf -r* ^t^^'c^on «ny. that but twonty.two of the were runn.nK upon it a few weeks after Zde/oa toft he Bubject L l^te"/"' ^^ ^ iBwinformed upon thi. that a coniralSf M^' '' T*' '^^'^ *<» the public ^Vantage should JSJ^t;rJf?l°?J'^'"°"*'" ofthe central portion conetrucUof of «^/ '^'i^^ ^°"^*'''?^'' "^'^^^V •«' for tho country wn« inL, •u"'^' app«^nched completion. The . mTt"e7aXot? ?r*''' «^^«P*> ^^^^^ of the two extr^ SiddX^eclion If .n !^^^^ for the construction of thU tho contr^ nHp« f^'^ ^*^' ''^ o^^i^alent to increasing wh.twou.drvX°tdiS^iorra''',tm'''S°d?.'' J^„(r.„S u """ '*<'" nocossarily conaned to those rt Ji^rv ?^\r '""«'•."" """"/moan, of ingro*^ '- , . *■" t'enw ^a lb. on every ci'ow-bar, 4 ill * ■hovel, Rpade, pick and b«rrow, takon at tho n««reitt point of oiMrutloti, and yot tho hon. |{ontl«m»n «ip«otii thecoanlry will ngroo with him in hU wild ftnimndvomionN ii|>on the , Uto AdminJHtration ibr not beginning railway conMtruotion ftt pr>inttt-whieh wero for the time being inaccetwible. The hon. gentleman haa referred to tho 13» miles of road bnilt from Winnipeg woBtwurd. This in a very tender topio ; ono which I wbh NurpriHov«rnmont hAve kept no£,^y at th« n T'lf^«^»^«^'y«rithou8and«abi-...d. AccorSIa l^thi^"'!"'* 9«ftteH lm.ni^ra,i.,n returr.* our omiK'.ntlon thither was, in 1878^ 21-174- in 18*70 qi mn. • i^oiT 99;000 and. in 1881. iKoj'o' Tho yeir' lHvl'''^J'l '^ in which tho Tariff wa; in oVnt^m foT a ' iltX Canada incroaHod ..pwai-da of 10,000. *^Tho noS ywr it was more .than four time. ' as groat as It wa^.nthe yoari878, and during Iu8t year* t wa« baual to tho emi,,ration for tho flro fearB for wh oh the late mZ^'Zm thi'n '"'"•. '^'^ 'r- *f-"oman'^art SrrinrWe tari^-.8fo 'iF ? «8*i?"' •!;?«'» Uvowo gained in population by tho offorts ^t" ^ho hon fwr""\^' is jho^ height o^f abHurdX to count the Canadians who go from Ontario to tho N^rth-Wost aa a ff ixcen^tt n""-- I '^'^^^ "«^-^- ^«^*^ ^' Buch a calculi^ Mm n ^*" *'*''® whatever advantage it may afford Jn"V.^" "^-^ *^'^*''°" * ««''«'• teacher gave a class ofTva Ibout nl'^ >V"^7P^'tion. One of them wrote an e3 ««S?.l /L- ?° "i^"". '^iJ' ^^^'ing that pins were^^y ?;?« iJ^lT^'' ^^r *^^^ ^'^ *^° ^h« n»«an« of saving ?he InThe .Lic^'k^ *«««»'«'• '^^^ astc^n^shS, and he asked his pup.l how thousands had their lives sav^ ■^ * • ^ . \ ... ;-■' --i . «' > «^ . ' ' ■ ... . -,■ . ■'^ttl .. ' '■ ^' 1 ljll^^^_ ■ . .' -- - ■■ , •- ,;':■•.. "-W.,,. •-..;. ■ I ' . (• / li ,b by pins. " By not swallowing them," replied the boy. The Minister ftays the Gov^nment have added 1100,000,000 to thd > wealth of the country, and when we ask Id '.what way ho says, by keeping 100,000 Canadians at homo, who are cheap at $1,000 a j>iece. Why did the . hon. Minister stop at $100,000,000 ? Why did he not not coutit the whole population, and lie might have made the Hcr'vice of the Government to appear much more valuable. Although living may be dear at the present time, human / flesh and blood is cheap at $1,000 a head. A good steer is cheap at $50, and anordiuary horse is worth $100, and why should not an intelligent, industrious, aobor young man, be valued at $i,000 andplaced to the credit side of the minis- terial account ? 1 tiK inclined to think that most young men will resent the ministerial calculation. I am inclined to think tlioy will r< fUse to be put in the ministerial balance when the political day of judgment comes, and be weighed andpoldfor the advantage of thj Govoi-nment. The hon. gentleman mny take whatever consolation he can get from the Trade and Navigation Keturns. He may appeal to any monopoly that owes him gratitude ; but he can hardly venture yet, to look upon thid country as a political slave market in which every man who ventures to go from one part oft he Dominion to another part, is to have a value of $1,000 ])ut upon him, and then have this sum creditoil 1o the wealth-producing power of the Government and the National Policy. I am not sorry, however, that such a line is taken, and the result , will be as woll unclerstood as the argument. The hon. President of iho Council says that upwards of 21,000 ajditional hands have been engaged in manuJacturing estab- lishments since the introdution of the^present Tariff. He says that these represent from 80,000 to 100,000 of an addi- tional population. He ought to know that this is not the case. A verj' large number of these 21,000 are children. In many of thecotton factories, all the children of a family are engaged, and the number of the population repreeented by the!?o 21,000 would be less than 50,000 in all. The "annual increasie in the number of those engaged in skilled pursuits before the introduction of the National Policy was •more than double the number who had been added since. We ought to have had an addition of 44,000 instead of 21,000. It is not true, then, that the National Policy has helped us in this particular. Many mochanioal pursuits have been seriously injured by the poliry of hon. gentlemen on the Treasury benches. I have seen it stated that upwards of 90 per cent, of the stone-cutters have been driven frorp Ontario by the exclusion of Ohio freestone from the Canadian market. We do know that there has been Ni- •f'.f ■'.4*-' .■i«' {\ X Minister of Finance. Thev are unvfMn^ X / hon. tho of 113 per cent 7 tW 1 ^°^^» •1.174,750, an increase was. f^K,0«(?%dTl8tf.T4l8?o7'""'S« S," '?^« ■ »ttf 18 "per- ce.;t '^( S^' °^ ««"- agriculturists, 84 per ^M^oth^Xll ^^"^ ^T ' ^<»^''*''* = TOodnctA tM Q9 w ' T I^' ''»°'- i <"''«™> <4 POT cent • Mndoffa^m'^rnHn^fT ^v?'TP^*'**"^"- Almost every San ?o Ka3l.t ««"v W ^''gt?^^^!"^ i" Massachusette United sST 870 ^Ji 1 f ^^."l *^^ ^'ensusof the this purpose that ]ll\ ^ ^"^l Y^'^*' "''^ available for all wCri find that ainif '^°. ^?"- e*"^^*'™^" «™ ier population enaate?^n„"'^*^'w^'' *^"^ '^^'^^"^ of fi07.000 enffflir«d ?«^^?u "^ agriculture and she has iad 375,000 on^^^ that Illinois in otherpuS T finT f "'^"Ik' /"? ^^^'^^O® «°gaged of fermp?StB is J at ll?'wW Ik" I"''^' P"' '^^•"^ "u^ber of acres of cultivP ifn^lts, in'Snitli^ut _:^ ^ , / ■■ \ <■ \ \ \ I-^I ■^^1'' ^F / / . J \l it . diminiHhed daf ing tho decade /botwoon 1860 and 18t0, 184,000 aoiW; in MaBS!»chu80]tt9, 1860 and 1870, 88,000 aoros, and ir/Kbodo Islaiul, 1800 and 1870, 46,000 acres. I find that tlio value og farm /lands in the Now IDngland States haft'fallen, and- piifit none of those i-osults, which are 80 frequehtly picturod^ii) glowing terms, as t^e oonsoquence of eztei/sive man ufactarios/ have there been realized. The ton. gejtttiemaD has refli)trcd to the shipping interests of Canada land of the United Sta'es, and he has endeavored to show thiat the shippinff interests of Canada are in a satis- factory \condition. The testimony against him on thia point IS unariimoas. We have had a great many attemrita made to explain the decline of American shipping. We were told for some time that it was xlue to the piratical enterprises of the Alabama and her consorts. But, after all such, piratidiil raids bM come to an end, /the decline continiiixl; andr ,when it was no lougef. |>ossible to assign such tt cause it was theii ttttributed to iron shipbuilding. But Canada built wo6deh ships, Norway built wooden ships, Italy, built wooJenAships, and the tonnage of all these countries continued t6 increase. Their commercial marine prospered in spite of the iron ship building of the United Kfngdom. No sooner, how- ever, is a highly protective Tariff adopted hero than our ship building begins to decline, and our tonnage is dim- imshod,and,hon. gentleman opposite impoit from Wash-^ ington a reason just as %l)ey imported from Washington a tariflF. Do they Wuppose that the House or the country will believe thi)m? Do thoy suppose they can make the Eeople believe that iron ship building, which did us no arm down to March, 1879, has suddenly become injurious aince that period ?, How is it that iron ship building in ^ England wrought \kuch havoc with ship building in ther ^United States at least ton years before it did any mischief here ? How is it that wo did not suffer from it sooner ? How id it that noitheivNo^rway nor Italj' suffer^iom it now I Do hon. gentlemen ' suppose they can per9,uade the people of tfib' country taf accept their reasons which they assign for ttte decline of a most intportant industry, as well as for\the d^line of our commercial ma- rine which has hithertOi been the pride of Canada ? The hon. ^President of tho Council has\nd6rtaken to explain the Bmaltness of American manufactured e^orts, by saying ■ that the United Kingdom, ik a very fejjaaall .country and tho United Sates is a. very large one; and thii^tho only fair " way to make a compjirisou Nis to mai-k oiit the size of England in the north:epst part\of the' United States and to count^l that is consumed elsewhere, exports. This, indeed, is almoiit a novol style of argument, I remejuber only one ::-! ^^ 18 complained that bi^a^LTTi^r ^^ the IriHh , BarfS He said Curran was Tver? i^M*'"*^ ''•' *°"°« of cq, alTty dffflcuU to hit than ho. - We w l^r.,""^ ^»« ">"«'» mofo* that aha I „ofc %e counted' T? fi' ^K^}". «"t.'d« of have a larger territonr thev h^L .^ ^""^'^ ^'atos larger popalation, an7 the ifinLnfe? * ^®'-y much population are carrvi„„ on dolT'^°^ °^ «^c««« in ttenjselves, a8 well V the 36 oTo oon ""T^^"^^" ^or gentleman is willing to count >Pk^ 'f ^. ^^'^'^ *he hon. turing cotton is of f e^^Xrn ^nwfi"''"ri ^*' "^"""fac land and the United sX aCt^lTi^' ^^ ''««'^" '" 15n«- Jhe United States had the advanti^^'''"". P'"°^ of the raw material. For a t?mFui° t domestic suppl^ , japitel At this momen?[here i?« Jj&'l? ^"^ cheJjer England and about 9.600.000 ?n^?^ Uni ed/tates are notffl Mnl fi,^"'^^^ '3^"*o«- The the United Kingdom. In finfflAnH Vk ^^ P^<*P'® outside employed in the manufacture of cotl!?°"'°.^*<^0 hands dlw to each hand. Now when Tte"*'.^ have heen submitted toThirHon J J'^ ** i''*' '^turns which elusion that thev are dtW^rTf^l"? to the con- tjon whiph has Been given iJZlnnifTf ''•' "^« in^orma- than to inform us of the flotlfT^^^ mislead rather Finance Minister l,iS bSht dn^ '**'"^'«- ^ho K shows that since 18Y9 Tn? „ **^ ** ^'oturn which been established in thea.on^oTatXi'"./"r'^ Ce 120 hands. One at nStnn f , .^^^''^' e'nploTinff one «t,;CV>atioook empSi oqn^'rt^ 125 Vnds^ Cornwall employing 225 Kd/?n ^f^'t ^^'^ o^o at Commissioner^ which th«if.„' '"» «!' "^OO hands. The they inspected tWrteei cotC T." -"^^^ W>inted sa^ persons, j^hose %nrrshowlL tS?«« employing 4.O2T of 40 per cent, has n6t prXced 8o^nVr'P^**H«"^°I»« f'"'*?"^ as we might have e^nSf^JP'^^ifS'^'^^^o^ 8pec|«dly to direct tEe atSon^fTh!^ ^"^ ^^^^^ ^ ^esiro according to the Bnfflish SJ L«h„£i fi.-^®"^° to, is this : that torepresfnt390.0oS!p ndfe^*"^^^^^^^ th«/?K^ cotton spindles iri Canal ^ndlT f"" ^^^'^^^ or that there may not be tn««^ ' *"*^ -^ **ni /not at all sura jn^tiy than^';^SVZ,'^^",r*«"««^ SS that even if this represente th^ wh^? gentian. tTo sea "i-^. :f i f k t :| I \ '). F i^ I r; ■ \ ■■'■■ ■ i A u '■ "4 cotton goods cheaper than they over ^ot thera before he if. ranking a statement which it is impossiblo can be true. No such yfasteof capital and -skill can be reconciled with the statement of the hon. tlie Finance Minister. The President of the Council disputes the propoHition of the hon. member for Centre Huron, that our imports. would have yielded us a sufficient revenue under the old Tariff to have enabled us to meet the expenses of Government if economically administered. Thi^ the hon. Minister denies, but it is plaip to every one that if we would not have imported so largely, then the present larifT has wholly failed in its main purpose, which is to exclude foreign goods from the Canyilan market. The hon. , Minister says that if we obtain as much Customs business under a low Tariff as under a high one. we arc burdened as much by the one as by the othen I deny his proposition. I am astonished that he should make it. He will find no authority to support him. Facts and reason are equally against him. If the Governniipt put a duty tfpon cofltee and tea, whether it be high or low, the public get the tax, except it increases the price of sotiae . Sthor article which is in part substituted for them ; but I know none such. ' But this will not hold good with regard to spirits. We put Customs duty upon imported whiskey. Do we stop there ? Not at all. Wti say to the distiUer^o have imposed a duty of 80 ^ents a gallon on impoffed whiskey. The price of your home madQ article is in conse- quence | advanced 80 cents a gallon, ^ndrthia sum belongs lb us. It is no part of the price which ydn by your labor and industry give the article. It is an additional price n hy an Act of Pakiament, and -we shall apprgfjiriate it xo pubttcuaesv Nowthai would nc^^je^the^oss a tax if tho Government neglected to take it It would b^ receiveyby the distiller instead of the Excise officer; butt it would b» paid by the public all the same. ; The hon. Minister of Finarice imposes a duty upon bi-bad stuffs. He tells tho prodjcer, that, in consequence of this Government inteiference, ho gets a higher price. He tells or should tell tho consumer, in consequence of this int^erence, you are paying ap Excise duty to the pilBducer of domestic flour and cornnieal, and to the Gov- ernment on imported flour and corhmeal. Is not this so? If this coBiontion b« correct, then the burden is the same upon the consumer of the domestic! article as it is upon the they have bSien^^ mpS^^'"n"r "^ '« ^Tu*^' '^°<* do no Li\piz B^Cen^s?;i.%rf;rr"^h -* ratTfghrifZir^'^oSi^^^^^^ collected is lot a moasire of tK^^ '*™^""* «^ ^""'^ pute their propoeiursll sav thlv „^°"' .rnposod-I dis- reason and exiorience I Sv &.„ ***''?! *^"'™'-y *» - producer, but^ey tave bSIJntSJ ll""^* °°^ benefitted'' the look for' one momoL at fh« ^^^ ^pnsumer. ^t us the country. ThesTgUUn' K?\S'tf:1"l ^' we can hep you bv aiiiT nn aJ« • ^ ^^^ faribers,. came free ffom the TTnU„/™o*''*" *'^'"*"'«- J^arW barley wm ax^ 16 h^Yt- "* k®^'''?' ''"^^ CanadS^ CanaJa into thi UnilT sfates"''' m^ The Americans have Scased thi n^nnflT^"'. h«ppened ? • duced in their countrv dnrlrl Jk *lV""*'ty o^ barley pro- eight fold, and U^e re2i'lt^« h?. ^ i"'' ^*" y«^^«' »««-ly b^ley has largely faZn off and h^J"'^'^^ ^^" ^""«**'«^ at al4vents, hTSropZ «lln nS? ^^ '° ""^'i^""" ^"*«'i«» ^ or branch o^ a^cuff ^ ^ °^ "'^"^ '^^'^^"^ P«x^"ot tha^'inTs^''- ^'^^^^ "^ "'o^^ l>'^rley grown last year V^J'T^i hardiSrcSaTr""^'^'^^"- T"^* • market value is less than 25 c«„8 T»^ ' **"* mai^ket value in OntarTo liwt v^r oJ ri' ^^ ^'^^^ ^T***!. 22 cents per lb. ^ ' Canadian wool was Mr. PLUMB. The alpaca was manufactured. tec^nift,^w^M and if the duty was only ELle sufficientlv Wh W "^"^^ ' , population of Canada 4uW irive nn tif ^^^-^^^ ^^™'"«f ^f a:-"- ;f»' ■;■■■:'»» "\ '!>' 1«- there Is a duty on wool that does not. If the Government would exclude the wool that compotes with Canadian wool. I underotand that the woollen manufacturei-s will be obliged to work up the Canadian wools, and the public would bo obliged to wear the cloth produced from them. But the Canadian Government takes good care to iniposo duties on those articles not to be affoctwl by the tn/kation. Somo have a tax on barley because none is import^] into Canada. There was no barley brought in bo|bro except what was im- ported to koo^ the seed from deterioration. Mr. ORTON. How about oats ? Mr. MILLS. Dbes the hon. gentleman eay t"hat it aflfoctl the price? ._^____ ^ ^ ^ . _ ^ ^ Mr. ORTON. Yes. Mr. MILLS. I know that in the section in which I live the vali'e of oats has boon increased, but it was increased before the adoption of the National Policy, by the building of oat mills*, which made it possible wien the oats were converted into meal to transport thom to a distance in that form profitably, which cannot be dine while the oats are unmanufactured ; and some oat mills havo been shut up by theTariff because they could not get the necessary supplies to keep them running throughout the year. I return to the sub- ject: wore wo overrun in consequence by the importation of American barley ? Was all the produce of that other barley farm' to whiph the First Minister so frequently referred, a few years flgb, imported into Canada? No, except dmall quantities imported to improve the yield. We did not im- port from the United States; large quantities were exported thither from this country. Why? Because they produced less than they required, and wo produced more than wo could well consume. Every one knows that the tax on barley has not been of tbe slightest consequence, except to incon- venience the farmers who which. to prevent degeneracy of ^ the product by an importation of soctl. Now, when We come to manufactured goods, where the home production is . leas than sufficient to meet the home demand, there can be no doubt whatever that the tax will increafio the price, in many cases, to the amount of taxation. It was for this reason, mainly, that an increase of duties was demanded. Every one who chooses to exercise his common sense will 8oe that this must be the case ; and 3 et the hon. gentleman proclaims that his Tariff has not failed ; that prices have not been iiicroased ; that goods, wares and merchandise, were nevet so cheap as now. A short time ago the Am6ri- canshad a very high duty on quinine. It wa^ repealed, quinine was placed on the free list, and it is now in the American market sold nt one half the price it brought four u-i^ 17 • "il" not, lonR "jo wo J '"**'r' V'° *■"""• >'">'• Sloo° »ao « ^„, «^„,,«i''„ X; 'voir''?;'- •"'"«"'«■ «iK>" «nJ ho aajTs that tho aZSms n .: in'^f *"' ^'"^ «"«' Tax. which sold n fc^. darS n n , " u ''" "I'"'*t- Tho coal HollH at Detroit at 80 r" Wn 'lirAr^-''!^^^'' """'^ "^8 7^50 ^mtitwillcot amount of roveniioindor^hiJm *'''''*'" *'»« sarno no«d to import «2 OOOOoS ^*.^'"''*' ^" ^^•^^"'^' Tho Tariff has thm-^r.^^ , '^°'"^'' '""'"o /roods °"t o, the %ouX' and '^^ *'''.''^'^^^ --t' markot.to this extent, l' wlmlv .r^' /l^^^'" ''^ homo .«^ont. po purchasing powe'oKh^r"^/':^'" this .tatc '» a flxod quantity, if voii Jn^L .^ P^°P'° 'nanyono year and of all they wear of rli ?'^ ^''^ P'^'^'O of all they ca/ not tho wholo%T|3i SeO otn ^1 ''^'''' '-^ ''"*^» po ti^,r ;• pnoo leaving bu rsmalKm i'f S''? "^ \T ^'"'^ '•'•'JitiJn.-^ Every one rau.t see tCfe f l^n ^. ^''''^'^'t''^""' purposos ineocuringhetterp'-tl ^feS"*'.^." bave LlZi money will bo repaired J 3^f^' n " P''''" that 7,:oro commodities. Tho i ^ momV /'". ''° "''"'« "'"^''"t of the manufacturers of Howi^rmo'i ■'"' ^>'*'^^'°" told us (h" c't.zens, that they ahvays dXin? .^''7 .^''' ^« ^''"^'' own statement is aceuratrwt?n ^ • ° '^''^'' ««tiiat irhi.s bo imported into Canada iaV.n'"" '^^'^'''"«-^ ^•'^" "^ v doty at all. Both tho hnn„*i'^'^''>' ^'^ 'f there wan no of>inanco haVV B^il^^^ulfi^^. -" ^ tho hon. Mint.er foods wero as cheap i«rVr^, °r"^'^""^«eturedt H/jher wages arc paid %nS jJ . ^-'"^3^ «'-o to-day. yet every man is bettor ofl'?iaknn if'' . ^^''^■"t' «" « told Qs last year that fiurin/WC"''"'''"^''*' ^•«'"tlvvo;i f^en under th^ present Tai?ff ifo^iT: T. '^'^^^^ ba. bor rightly, that it is f^m 40 fn'«n ^^'"^ "«' it'I romem- / iNowwhat follows? ; -^ "■;v' 18 Th»t 0«nada novor wan a Hoorlflco market ; that Kiii;H9|t and Amerioaa goods wore not lont in horo and M«r'«o«l. Mr. DrummomCof Rodpath's firm, inlbrmod uii, in 487«, th«two|wore Kotting Aniorican nugam at loan than their actual 3).t, bociiuBO the American rertn«rwusjm.orou» bwinoHH ! Tho name ntory is told of cotton manufactures-that it is prosporously lowor now than tho iuinously low prices of 18787 and yot those lower than bankrupt prices aro produc- ing- handsoL profits! I would like to a.k the P«;«»J««J of tho Council what ho has to say to this? Can ho fliid no couplet from Biglow or Butlor which will properly charactorizo tho statoraontof hi« col league ? 1 havo already pointed out the extraordinary features ol the hon Minister Sf Finance's statistics. Lot mo horo notice tho eaioioncy ot our sugar refining. Tho hon. gentleman's coramissioBorH visited four refineries in which they say 885 men aro employed. Mn^lodstooe says, thirty-nine men wi I refino 100 tons of loaf sugar every Wook, or 2«2,000 lbs per man each year. If wo take tho mixod sugars of the I i tod Kingdom we find that 6,174 men refine 18^2,000,000 lbs., or 350,000 lbs. to each man oraployod. Now, it the information furnished tho llouso by tho hon. Minister of Finance isat all tobe relied upon, that wo bavo 885 men enirkod in tho refineries, they ought to turn out 300,000,000 Ibs'Tf ordinai-y refined sucar, nearly threo times tho amoSnt refined in Canada. The hon. Finance Minister hus mad^a etatomcnt which shows that tho refinewo« here, either owing to tho dofociivonoss of f thoir rtiachinory or to some other ^auso, are producing not more , than one-third of the quanflty produced in the Uuitod Kingdom with tho same amount of labor. I ask this Uouso to sfy whether sucttlabor is well employed? I ask it to say , whetlier the country is not compelled to pay for this inefficiency? It may be that these rofinerios are not so wretchedly managed as the hon. Finance Minister, would havens believe ; but if they aro not, is it not plain to eveiy one that this House has wholly unreliable statements laid /before it? It is impossible that this statement can be true, it is impoesiblo to believe that men greedy of gain—anxioos to irrow suddenly rich, would so mismanage thoir business, as to employ three men to do the work of ono. I observe that tihe hon. Finance Minister, in bis Budget Speech, estimates the increased consumption of Canadian wool at tipwards of 1,000,000 lbs. Ho says, that the "5T"^« -iHooii. 4870, I their )ountV path IM •rioe of paying »\nem ! t it ifl icoH of produc- eeidont Jan ho roporly ih'oady linistor jiicy of iHiosont on arc 1 rotino bs. per Unitod 000,000 ow, if iinistor )85 mon 000,000 aes tho tor hiMi jtinorjefl [r tboir ot moro ( Uuitoil s llouso it to say for thia ) not BO r, would to every enta laid true. It txioaa to lioess, aa '. observe Speech, an wool lat the a 1881, *V®^'J?i '^•' •"** *•* concludoa from thfa f«ot that the dinerenco is duo Jo a larger quantity of Can»- .u*". !7,, .^ ""*'•' '" manaftctuHnir. I do nbt lf"iLn"i* '^Vr.: J^y^P'"'"" •■'•. that* the number SfJ. I i'^i"P,m''^, *^° nirmorn hrwi boon very greatly rf^minlHliod Tho farn.««, of Oaniwla turn their attention to ^0 production of whatovor payH thorn the bout for the time Doing. Until the appearance trf" the wheat midgo, tho weatern iM)rtlon of Ontario wom largely devoted to the pro- duction of w.ntor whont. When tho American war began. trnSr'ir^/"/* ^"l* «;:P.^"* "* ^"'•'^'y t«o'' tho place oAho growth of whoat. In 1H60, thoro wan losa barley grown in tho Unitod 8tato« than in Canada. Within ton you rn tho ?.^®"rl'"'!^'"'**''* **'®''' ?''"'^th of barley eightfold. The ET^f K ^1?y "^"^ ^r*"^'^ '*^'"*=«^' Thi priJeof Canadian ITl^Ifw '"°" ^.f ' t^. y^*""- Cochin? wool, laat year. wa« not worth more than 22 ccntB, and the roault is, that Hhoep raising and barley growing havo coascd iii the West to bo agricultural productionH. The dairy business, which, for a K-T T!"' ^u" •.'««^'»« h'-nnch of agricultural industry, has again fallen into tho back-ground, and, during the I?Iii .I^T"' ^^*° f'° of wheat exceeds in value that ?Lfm •'''". k'"" P'"o^"?.t8 taken together. I do not say that this 18 the most satisfactory method of farming, but I am simnly stating a fact. A better price for oats las pre- vailed during the past six years than before, but it has f h« n^AoM ^.i!*"o ^? u''° *^'"'^^"<'" of oat-mills, which send the m(jal to tho Scotch market. I have no doubt whatever, in .^ ♦ f^ Minister of Finance were to put a duty of ;l«v ' ^ i!'""'^ ""I^ ?"" '^""'"' the CnnadiSn manufac Ih«nrl ri ^"^ ""^P"'^*^ f'^^ homegrown wool; and if his Itiyn- *mT ''"',J'° '" ^'^ ^'^'i estimation he would havo WoLif'"; The hon. member for West Toronto has loferred to the fact that manufacturing industries hare been recently extended, and he attributes tho large con- sumption of homegrown articles t,o the exclusion of foreign produc 8. Thi« has been a favorite stylo of argument upon ♦ inn n? ^K r^^' '"mI ^ot « very cursory examfna- TK« K ^® {"J"^' """, "'^^'^ 't to bo most fallacious. . J bo hon. gentleman admits that the importations of the past year were very much greater than in 1878. ivf niTr?^** ^'' 1881 were $105,330,840, and for 1878 •Jd,uai,4J7. Hon. gonllomen on the other side havo all along argued^ that the demand for home productions in J\lZ '^J^^V ^^V' «"d yet the foreign importations of 1881 exceeded those of 1878 by moro than $12,000,000. If we take the years 1872-73, which hon. gentlemen refeWed to as a mo6t prosperous year, wo find that the imports e^oecacd ip value 9138,000,000, being «35,000,000 morq ""^'i^'^^^l^''^ w ^ 20 Uian Ilia year IB18, And y«t lichi. conlloracrj do not wiy that pr^ honi© monuftcturorf w««^ driven to tho wmH in thono y«fl¥W by cicohmIvo iinpoi tiuion><, Tho fnit in that homo ond.for«ign produttH mo, to u great oxtorif, cotnplcmontHfVT oach other. Th^^y nro iiliko tioccuNiry to complolo (ho • iiNiDrtmetit of thu iRHcr^tujoit mid tho luxurieH of* liio in thin country. When tho pundinNhig jiower of tho ootnmnn- ity in from anpr caiuo diniitii^hud (t cffoct* lht« iMMxrtment Jill rounds \\ hiti ihero i«i n dinumition of ImportH, thoro in uUo ftdlmlwution ii) tho dciniitid for homo mnnufa<5tnrcd artlclon; undx«l».t jonrs of tho imulloil importa arc ^ «ho tho yttMvrxiji wljich homrf nrnnnructiironi oro.'^J in leoMt dtunaiid. It tn |>ocmi,-o iho Kumo cjuhom^i-o oporu- lin/x vvitli ul'iiiMKV to onehr-J^ifl^^omhor for Went ToronW huM tiaid tliat llu- t|iKMii(m of I-Vco Tnulo an« Ia not wholhor CuttomM duties Bhall ornhall not Lo al»olih|icd. No ono hftn i|i|K)kon ■ in favor of l-'roo Trado on thiipitio in tl>o hcuho of wholly removing tho ^hackI(•« of ci'jjpni.i <.o. It in not n nuoHiion tt.i between diiwt and jlidirect ta.xation, and tho hon. i^iBmber \n (»ii!y dealing' (andiilly with thin ^ido Of tho JlourtO when ho rocoj,Mii/o.tiliut fact. I hno never hcHita(cd lortdy, if ttliix ()f :0 per (,cnt. in nfcc»8ary to moot tho necohitifH of Ih'oGovornraont, then 1 nm roadv to fuvor a tax of 20 per conl. If wo cannot got on with Ichh than 25 per cent, then i am in favor of 23 por cent. I Bot out with . this nropoHitiun, that taxation in no form can in itself bo p; anything oIho than a buidon on the propio; that it HhouM bo irhpoMod only for public purposoi and UHod onjy f9r the' publio benefit. Thoro aro certain canons whicl to observe, I think, in tho Ji^poHition of tJixe^ Hhould'bo ijnposod no an to ta^ as little monoi from the people beyond what finds its way infWmrjiuDire Treasury. It nhould bo distributed fairly oh between tho .j.^*"o branch of tnd Jtrv mVi? "l^^^^nt, (foubtcd (hat any bounty dlrectSy^^inffe^Iy^i;;;:"'!^? X '^ «"ffi"«ont I believe l8 b»st left^o