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SPEECH 
 
 DKLlVt^RSD BT 
 
 Mr. BUNSTER, M.P., 
 
 . O^ ^rilE TARIFF. 
 
 Mil DAY. MARCH Jind, 1877. 
 
 (From tliu Hansard Report,) 
 
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 Mr. BUXSTER said lie hoped l.o 
 would not (loUiin the Hou«o hy siu-h 
 an hiirani^ue a.s tlie huii. srL'iitUninn 
 had just delivered. It fipp(.':ir<'d to 
 him that the hoii. iroiitleman trom 
 -Noi-th York had not sufKciont hrains 
 to ileliver n sjHKudi of Inn >\vii, ami he 
 was obliged ihoi-efore to qndtc from 
 Hon. .ti^entle.'neti who IiJia brains. Coin- 
 inji more, to the suhject under discus- 
 Hioii, lio wouhl say tluit ('aiia<litin 
 barley had a very high ro}Uita(ioii in 
 the United .States of America, unci 
 every nmadian felt proud of it. 
 American Brewers coveted Caiiadinn 
 bai-le\' ill oi-der to make a good ailicle 
 of ale. it would seem as if the Finance 
 Minister begrudged the pooi' lone widow 
 her cup of lea. When he came to the 
 House there was a free breakfast 
 table, but now, thanl« to tho. present 
 6rovernnient, the import lax was live 
 oonts a pound on tea and two and 
 hall' on sugar. He did not ihink it 
 cre<iil;abie that the necessaries ol' lift 
 should be taxed in this way, wlnm the 
 luxuries wore allowed to go free. 
 This was owing to Ll;e fact that work- 
 ingmen ha<l no voice ii; making the 
 lawH, and the ricli men wore boun<l to 
 t.ako care of their own luxuries. The 
 hon. gentleman who had List H])oken 
 made a personal allusion to him, and 
 
 said he w;h a slavish suppo'-ter of fho 
 right hon. nn'vnber for Kingston. 
 
 Mr. DYMl.)ND : Not a slav-sh sup. 
 [Hurler. 
 
 Mr. BUNSTFR said the hon. gentle- 
 man Wduld prote(-t, his own language, 
 if he h'ul any of his own. In coming 
 to this House, his (Mr. Bunster's) 
 determination was to sup])ort that 
 party wmch would baiM the ('anadian 
 I'aci lie Rail way and would make aUnion 
 of the Dominion, as they would per- 
 ceive on reierence to Morgan's ' Parlia- 
 nicntary Con)]ianion." That was the 
 party he wanted ro follow, no matter 
 who the leader might be; as long a» 
 that leader had the necessary briins to 
 carry out the work, lie would follow 
 him. Jle wab not going to support that 
 man who went to England and said 
 that British C'olurnbiu was n')t a fit 
 countiy for a white man to live in. He 
 utterly .scouted such an idea, and 
 claimed that British Columbia had a 
 more genial climate than, and an 
 hospitable a people as, any Province in 
 the Dorairii(m. British Columbia 
 joined the Union for the purj)ose of 
 socui'ing the Pacific Railway. British 
 Columbia did not expect to build the 
 railroad herself, but thought that 
 Canada, with the assist an«je of British 
 
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 gold, would lie able to do so. (i wiii 
 hoped yot that L'unad.'i lia<l suflii'icni, 
 hono.sty and inlo^rit}' to build tiic road, 
 jind thus carry out, hoi- har,<^uiti with 
 British (.l(iiumi»iu. Wliocvor wanted to 
 Boe Caiuida rit*o to he n <:froat nation 
 might well look to our noiffhhours fur 
 an oxani]»le, who curried on the cdu- 
 fttruction of their Pacitic Ruiiway 
 during the war, and huilt it in live years. 
 With reference to the l.ai'itl', it must ev(>r 
 be reniemliered that beer was the 
 national Britisl bevcraj^(\ lie was 
 sorry to see the lion. niemlnM- foi- North 
 York throwing ridieuhi u]>on liis own 
 country's beverage. Mow did he know 
 but ho wfus Huekled on it as an infant ? 
 
 Sir JOHN' A. MACDONALl) : \ 
 suggest that the hon. member has mudo 
 a uiistake. It is generally at (he end 
 of life rather tl m at liie beginning ihut 
 men want their bier. 
 
 .VIi-. BUXSTER said the hon. mem- 
 ber for North York hail chosen to 
 taunt the right hon. inember for 
 Kingston with not atVordiug |irotectiou 
 •when he was in jiowor; bin lie (Mr. 
 Bunslei') must truly say that ho l:ad 
 found much more pi'Oteclion to '.he in- 
 dustries of this country during the 
 rfijhne of the right hon. men»lier than 
 h<' did now. Very lew mem tiers oi 
 the IIounc understood tiie American 
 echenio of jirotcction. When an 
 Americini exjtort ■'d aiything njxm the 
 impoi'taiion of which a duty was 
 placed, be it ever so small, he imme- 
 diately went to the (.'ustoms officei's 
 and got his drawback. Probably, if 
 British Columbia had knowni that lier 
 indu!>trie8 would have been unprotect- 
 ed, and that the Pacific Railway would 
 not have been built accoi-ding t<i agiee- 
 mont, she would not have been .so 
 ready to join this grand ('onfeder-acy. 
 The sociiej" their industries were pro- 
 tected, ULid the 1 ailway built, the better. 
 It was not riglit to allow articles to 
 come in from our neigjiboui's free, 
 while our local manulactui'cs were 
 taxed. The brewer had to pay a tax 
 on malt to the Governmeiit, which was 
 twice as much as the price of f)arley in 
 Ontario; and this, too, when the malt 
 was to supply the national British 
 beverage. Besides the tax on malt, 
 the browera hati to pay a license of 
 $350 a year,<^nd keep up an oxj)ensiv« 
 
 establishment. The l\on. member for 
 North York said that Mie right hon. 
 member for Kingston would not have 
 spoken al)out Mr. Scott if he was 
 present , but the hon mcml>er for 
 North York would not have sj)oken of 
 the Hon. William Macdougall if that 
 gentleman wore in the IbMi'-c, i()r ho 
 would tind him more than a match for 
 him, either in the House or outside of 
 it. Ho (Mr. Bunstei') woidd ;isk all 
 hon. gentlomen on the other sirle not 
 to give the (iovernment a slavish su])- 
 port. on this cjuestion, but to give an 
 indepeiuh.nt vole, and attem]it to revive 
 the drooping industi-ies of (he counti-y. 
 He was surprised that the Govern- 
 merit still refused to aid the cripjded 
 indu-^tries of the country, but pro- 
 jxvH'il tlie most extraordinary tarift' 
 policy ever thought of Whether it 
 was intended to include the new malt 
 tax or not he did not know, but he knew 
 that the manutactui-e oi' malt,, ale :ind 
 porter was an industry of a very 
 important nature, seeing that the duty 
 on these ai'tieles furnished a very 
 considerable proportion o\' (he revenue 
 of tills country. The Finaiii'c Min- 
 ister, to his utter astonishment, had 
 said in bis Budget Speech that he pi'o- 
 posei-l to put one cent per pound more 
 on malt, making the duly two cents a 
 )>0'.md — ^^just double what the farmer 
 got for his bai'ley, thereby injuring 
 the farmei', He quest ioni;d if there 
 were one-iburth of the mendjers of 
 this House, outside of the Government, 
 that knew what that annonncemout 
 mearit. or if there was half that num- 
 ber who c.ared to enquire. He pro- 
 po-.ed, therolore, to give (his House 
 some intoiiuation as shortly as pos- 
 silile as to what it really did mean. H 
 meant one dollar per barrel additional 
 duty on ale and ])orter. The ])iesent 
 tiix was oiio dolliir ]ier burrcl, which 
 the present Finance Ministci ju'oposed 
 to double; besides which, brewei-s of 
 an aviM'asie annually of eit'lii hiindr'd 
 liarrels had also to pay u license equal 
 to Hl'ty cents per barrel, viz., ^250 for a 
 malt license and $100 for a brewer's 
 license to the Dominion Government 
 for the privilege of manufjicturing; 
 and a Provincial license of $150 for 
 selling when made. These exactions 
 when julded together made two dol- 
 lars and a half per bari-el on strong 
 
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ale antl porter — n tax thai ox(;cedo<i 
 that o\' uny country in the world. 
 The Unito<1 Rtatop, with a debt of two 
 huiulnxl thounatid roillions of dollars, 
 created by the late war, only levit'd ono 
 dollar per l)arrol on aio and porter, and 
 lllnglund, with licr onorniou.s publii; 
 dobt, cuuHed by two hundrod years oi' 
 foreign wars, levied not inoro tiian 
 half the tax of Canatla, wIkmo thorc hud 
 boon no war but the Fenian invasion. 
 Another fact that shonld not U- lost 
 slight of was that in Ei)i>land an ini- 
 mon.sc (juantitj'' >»f mild lablo beer 
 was niado out of the same malt after 
 the strong ale was taken out, which 
 asnisted to pay the duty. That, iiovv- 
 ever, in this country could not be sold 
 at all. Ilo tbuntl, by the Jidaml 
 Kevejiue returns for the fiscal year 
 ending .Jurie.SO, 187'', pages UO and 27, 
 ihat there bad been a gi'eat falling 
 off on malt and malt li([iior. Foi- 
 the fiscal year, ending June .'{rd. 
 187r', the malt TuiUDr lOxci^e duties 
 amounted to $2!),it7'>.r)(! , and Ibr tlu^ 
 liseal vear eniling June .'JOtb, 1871), to 
 S!ld,18S.2S, showing a <lecrease o\' 
 815,7S8.28. For the fiscal \ ear ending 
 June .'iOth, 1875, the nnit duties 
 amounted to S35 1.389.82 , tor the ti.scai 
 yvtiy ending June 30tii, 187f', ;o 
 $;{27,70i).n, .showing a .lecrease of 
 823,67H.35, while on spirits, the 
 receipts h;id increase<l by $122,t!71.0<i. 
 The deticicncy on malt in round imni- 
 boi's was 840,000, and j ('presented tour 
 million pounds of malt, or nearly live 
 ami a half /nillion pounds of barley. 
 Vet in the face ol' this, tlie Finance 
 Ministei- thought it exj^'dient to ham- 
 per thbs indusliy still more. It seemed 
 to him a str.ange policy to increase the 
 U\x to such an enormous extent on 
 ))r()ductions that were languishing, a.s 
 
 was plainly shown by the al»ovo 
 returns, while spirits, that could boar 
 an additional amount without sullcring, 
 were allowofl to remain as betoro. 
 lie ha<l noticed tli;it, when they eiitercil 
 a bar-i'oom for a drink, the I'ar-keeper 
 generally jdaced down a de<anler or 
 bottle of whiskey before tiujm, ;ind 
 said "Which will you have, ry(Mjr 
 proof? ' But he Inul oflon stopped 
 them by asking Ibr a glass of ale. lie 
 nnuitionod thi-i to show that the bar 
 keeper knew thei'e were fai more 
 ju'otits to Idiii in serving his cu-l'imer-^ 
 with a glas>^ of whiskey ili.-ni with a 
 good glil.^> oi ;tK . Fv<m if ibis was 
 iu)t sutjicient to show the unwise policy 
 of such a ciiur.xe, iho faet that ale. beer 
 ami jjorior, brewed entiiely froiu malt, 
 were perishable inthoir nature, ni that 
 brewers lost heavily every 3-oa!' '.y the 
 .soiuing and utter destruction of their 
 manulat tares, on whiib lluyhavu paid 
 duly, whilst spii-its impi-oved by keep- 
 ing, and there was no loss entailcil b\' 
 having to hold them over, ought, in 
 the O])inion of rea.sonabl(( people, to 
 induce a more libei-al policy in dealing 
 with the article of mail lie ag.ain 
 askeii every inilepemienl mend)er ot 
 tins House to think of the great injus- 
 tice he was doing (he fannci- anil a 
 large majority of bi.^ c "istituency, 
 both in town and country, if this tax 
 should become law. It was also 
 stiange ibatevciy Increase was jihvays 
 made liy Order in Council, and not by 
 the representatives nf the peopb', as it 
 ought to bo. lie hoped the proj»osul 
 would not carry, for, if it did, it woidd 
 luing I'uin on many, to the grea*- dis- 
 advantage of thbs country, and to the 
 inju)'y ot" the (iovernnieiit for forcing 
 sutdi an obnoxiou-^ law on the people of 
 this country. 
 
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