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THE PAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, MARCH 1, 1893.

a — : j ; ; { ‘ : } 2 ciiieihcnes - 2 retry ‘ ; r ¥ i } i} 4 3 i i LAs . ABLY REVIEW BY $ . ; SON Overwhelming Ara im eri nt (F “FT eo as i Ww i¢ ot ~¢ t g ‘ I} i ‘ oS Dd aa wa al r 8 wi n i of 0 I am Lé Ss made, @ able al in 1! y SaX i to , wl | portfolio of Justice in this branch cf] } } ee ie ee pat ment; at ilar i tO Dad that } in filling that 01 have & da gentieman who « oct ; la posit ou | jn this House and . eonniry as the hon. gentleman who now leads the goy- . hie 7 As ts } ait, ernment in this House, While I say so, I must expres? my regret that, the’

goveroment did not avail themeelyves of | thi: opportunity of carrying out the pledge which they made of seducing the ministers, so that they would have had the credit of fulfilling one pledge which they made to the people of this country, But there is also a matter that we may note ia connection with the vacuncies that have occured in thie House in which the government have fallen short of their duty in anoiber important respect, We have noticed thatin addition to ‘Sir

cabinet

ls thir like $!

Ol ve: Mowa'fbeing removed from us, two ether chairs in this Honse had become vacant by the promotion of their occnp- ants to Lieutenant Governorshipa. While Ihave not a word to #ay against the ap- pointment of these gentlemen yet we must bear in mind that a very strong plank of the platform of the party that is now in power waa that members of Parliament should not have sucli positions dangled before them because it would tend to effect their independence; ani one of the members of this government wear so far as to intro- dace a bill in the House of Commons which would remedy what be called a very great evil, and which provided that no member of parliament could accept any office of emolument under the crown uatil twelve months had elapsed from the time that he vacated his seatin parliament before he accepted the office. The gentle- man to whom I refer is no less 4 per2onage then the Postmaster General in the present adminstration. I find ihese are the remarks that he made an in- trolucing his bill:

“If the government o* the dsy can dangle public offices before their followers and ine duce @ few, and produce perbaps an in- creasing number, to aspire to those posi- tions, they become mere parasites upon the administration, Not oniy do they do that, sir, but moving among their collesgues they Sccome ag [is were corrtipting agencies amongst their own ranks, and so 4 smal] precentage of persons in that position are hikely to impair the incependence of the whole body. So it has become now, in my opinion, a very crying abuse, and parlia- ment is cast down from its high position, and not only is the will of the people inter- fered with but all through the country the electorate noticing theee things are coming to the eonclusion that the hignest aim of & man.can bave in seeking public life is that he may, through parliament, fiad his way into a comfortable porition for life”.

I do not endorse these views of the Post master General, by any means. Ido not say that they are my yiews; but they are the viewsof a prominent member of the government and views that were coincided in by other members of the government as well; therefore I wish to draw ,attenticn to the fact that, in this respect as well as many others, the govern- ment have departed entirely from their policy, the policy they proclaixed before the electors. Hon. genticmen, in speaking in the interest of the government, especially my hon. friend the leader of the House, referred in glowing terms to the prosperity that exists in this country at the present

moment. They did not go quite so far us to claim that that prosper ty was altogether due to the actions of the present govern ment since they came into power; it is only a coincidence, they say, but I would say to these hon. gentlemen that it is, per~ haps, a little too soon to crow very much about the prosperity conrected with their administration. It would be more prudent to wait till nearly the end cf the term and then a better estimate can be made as to bow much of the prosperity we have in the country can be traced io tieir legis- lation or administration. I would just remind these gentlemen that in 1878 wnen there party were going ov: of power, there was no such prosperity a: this existing in

rv: according to their own state

‘Vy waN il @ very denk rable

I qure eayv Dou.

rgotten the remarks uid: often ry that we are reat a reduc

ii volume of

‘ jue eTiy ouereirom as we

the la:1 two or three atew yeors 00,01 0 souls

ereas azo, ) ; : vy 127,00 LU0U0 worth o } ' } nd ourselves witk a popuia 06,000 importing a little er

rin, In ot}

s shrinkage in the lumber trade

Institutions has gone alto. d al estate and long prevailing,

1s loss, Onur

epression in re

Imnporis pecanse we have

net been

heen ¥O

buving

i! Ly Mr. Mills—Fourteen years, Fer ‘rson—[ nope

oO | has Deen in

an. «four n years he can

when my power even less pointto the perity such as he says Canada enj-ys at moment. had a peculiar manner of the people’s burden ina few yeare, viz.,by increaseof pop- ulation. It would be verv much more assuring to the House and to the country ifmy Hon. friend would tell us that the public burdens were to be lessened bya strict policy of economy and reduction of expenditure on the part of himself and his colleagues. I think that is what we have aright to expect from my hon. friend ins stead of this assurance that when there comes avery larze population into this couutry the burden will be lessened be- cause there will be more shoulders to bear it.. “It ie quite true when the population is increased there will be more shoulders to bear the burdens, but if the policy of my hon. friend and hia colleagues, as shown in the Jast two budgets brought down in this parliament is continued, they will at least in the matter of public expenditure, keep pace withany increase that may occur inthe population of the country. My hon. friend the leader of the Houee expressed himself to the effect that our position yow waea very happy oae from the fact that Canada had secure ed the friendship of Evgiand through the efforts of the Laurier administration, Ia reply to that I would say we have had the friendship of England fora long time in quite as great adegree as at the present moment. Itis not a new thing for Canada to enjoy the friendship of the mother country; but my hon. friend is wrong io his views as to our receiving the friendship of England now for almost the first ime—one would infer that was the state of thinga to which be was referring — I have, in answer,te h m, toeay that in my humble opiniou the conduct of the government of which he is a member, and particularly the leader of the adm‘nistra- tion, hag been to minimize the advantages we hadaright to expect to arise from that friendship for Canada. We have had & great desire in Canada fora number of years to obtain a preference for the products of Canada in the British market. Un that question a great deal of

eee a eS ee

on ' j he hon. rentaeman

toat

1

resent SpOWwInNg aD

wueld be lersencd

—

S$crotula ' Snake-Like

in its subtlety. It lies hidden for years in the ambush of the blood, and when it strikes it voids its venom alike on strength and beauty, disfiguring the one and undermining the other.

Ayer’s

Sarsaparilta

is a specific for scrofula in its worst and most malignant forms. Scrofula is a blood disease. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is a blood purifying medicine. Mineral medicines only drive scrofula below the surface. Dr. J. C. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is a vegetable remedy and it eradicates the disease. There is no remedy for scrofula equal to Ayer’s Sarsa- parilla,

“T was cured of a long-standing case of scrofula by Dr. J. C. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. The disease first manifested itself when I was a child, by breaking out in red blotches all over my body. I was not free from the trouble until I took several bottles of

Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. That effected a per- manent cure.’ —Mnrs, E. H. Snyper, Lehigh-

ton, Pa. . pe

years, » We importe

with a i f

words, the have falien off from an the very

;

‘and th? Coslonies.

gentlemen made by : vei Cartwright on the occesion

; .

nthe commercial history catled ugon to press or had impress ds the yn not merely

ur trade, but also |

discussion has trken p'ace, an! there was ®& conseans of opinion mn Oonada that that was avery importaat question were tranght with grea. veoefit to us, [ thought there was buionre opinion in Canada on that aubject. Not very long ago the oaly | doubt we had was whether we could public mind ion to S8Hey

look at the

Bat

1m.

lof Great Britain on that quest adegree as would ‘ead them to subject as we were looking at it. very fortunately within toe last few years, an important change has taken place in

pil | Cc men of

the minds of many of the ; : relations of

The change

found in remarkable speech delivered b- fore the Canada Clubin England by the Right Hon.Jozeph Chamberlatn,Secretary of State for the Colonies, in March, 1893, On that orcasio | hands—The R

that

donithe commercia Sritain towardsthe ¢ slonies. ally notable instance of that

OT Se@ntimM 1. ON on 18

that (ue a |

1—! have the epeech in my ght Hon gentleman indice'el » Speaking for himecif, aa he said, and it was tound later on that he spoke for many prominent men as well as himeelf willing to depart

—he ueclared pimself

‘ . : , ss from the strict princioles of free )

{rade in ' , ; orager to meetany desire inal may ex ip

7? 2 ' : the colonies to establish me s6ioser

’

roing forward ina state ef pros-

i |

| the boards of

ralating 1% AL10

i M yiner Count As far as [ could hear him the hon. See

purporied to read

3 setae te is heteen the

retary of State irom

Hos. Mr. Cl

that epeech and claimed that the occasion expressed hims

had on that

very strongly against any such proposition » Or an hing Of toa

4 . with 1f COIONIEB, mv non. friend >t

AS Commer Ly militia . l 4 i . « ’ must either have failed to reag } attentively alitwith a view of extracting from its contents

the see, ormc i mid at hh ir

ym ug

urposes off

, vn ,

Hon. XT. scott(—ine speeco

which Lhave real was a months afterwards at th?

trade,

from livered some

conference of

Hon. Mr. Fercvaon—I qwiil come to that speech. The remarks I have applied to the speech before the Canada Clab will | have to apy and extracts from the delivered brfore tne con trade of the different parts of the a few months later. ri the Canada Club,the Right Hon Mr. Cham i berlain discussed this question, anz while | he said then, as hedidin that anabsolute federation of the empire po! litieally and commercially was not practic able at the present time, he expressed the | strong conviction that the day was coming! and not far off, when it would be regarded as practicable; as i he went on to comment on the speech made by Mr. McNeill in the House of Commons, and the motion mede by that hon. gentlemen, which attracted a! good deal attention at the time; and Mr. | Chamberlain showed that the propose! would not meet the views of the British people. Itistrue that he went that far; but what is the cenclusion he arrived at atter having reached this point? Was is thit the whole question was One not open for discussion ? Nothing of the kind. It was that the colonies should better their ofter, and he wenton to speak of a despatch which has been referred to also by the Secretary of State, that of the Marquis of Ripon, of the previous year, 1895,’concern- ing resolutions passed, in this very room by the great colonial corference of Is)t with referenc= to improving trade r-lations withia the empire, ard be, Mr. Chamb-r- lain, pointed out that even Lord Ripon’s despatch was rot an absolute negation of the whole question of im- proving the trade relations of the empire or even of a zollverein of the em- pire. And he laid down four propositions he first wis that there isa usiy ersal esire for cloaer anion = Tha. secoad was that such union can b2 best approached on the commercial side. He said we should reach the question on the line of the least 1esistance. The third proposition was that proporals already made by the colonies were not sufficiently favorable to Great Britain, and the fourth proposition was that a true zollveretn is a proper subs ject for discussion. He went even further and he pointed to the fact that it need nut beon astrictly free trade basie; that it could be ona basis of a revenue tariff, and he pointed to the fact that Great Britain, although strongly free trade in her policy,imposed heavy duties oa articles which he enumerated for revenue pur- poses, and the different colonies might be allowed to select art’cleson which they could collect duty for such purposes. He furnished ground on which such an arrangement could be made. He weat fur- ther and said that although he was a dis- ciple of Cobden he had not euch @ pedan, tic admiration for the doctrines of free trade, that he wasnot williog to depart frem such principles for a substantial consideration. He wanted a quid pro quo, and he said thatwas what Cobden did whea he negotiated the French treaty , and added “surely we are not expected to be greater free traders than Cobden him- self.” But my Hon. friend says that he referred to another speech, made by Mr. Chaimberitin when addressing the Cham- ! bers of Commerce for the empire some | three months later than his speech before the Canada Club, and it was from thie}

speech my Hon. friend zlaimed he found | euch comfort in addressing tlie Houre as furnishing an absolute negative of the, doetrine of preferential srade. I have the} epeech in my hands and I shall read a few .

' extracts from it. He said:

“The establishment of commercial union throughout the empire would not only be) the first step, but it would bethe main atep, the decisive step towards the real- ization of the most inspiring idea that ba entered the minds of British statesmen.

That does not look like a negation of the

1 2 , ly ray bon. friend’s comments

other speech boards of

emnonire : i

‘ess of

In the spee [p by Tore

olners peecnes, |

~~ »

| whole principleand he spoke of several! | ‘ propositions before the public on this | question. He said: “The first of them is a propoeal tbat the colonies should abandon their own fisca system and should accept ours; that they ‘ should carry out fully the doctrines of

| friend

| For whereas

take on both sides in’ =6wwhich neither will pedantically adbere lto preconceived conclusions, in whch

freee trade; that they should open their markets not ouly to us bat to all the world; aud that they shinld abandon entirely the protec- tive duties upon which now they rest very large y for the revenues which they col- lect. This isa proposal which is support- ec by tne Cobsren Club by exireme—I 2 ppose I Ought to s LV rihdox——free trads ere, and there is, no dunb', a great deal to

be said for it. Ldo not deny that possibly it might be, for all cuncerned, the best solution. «Hear, here) At the same

time, [am bound to point out thas wonuid not bring about commercial unioa in th ja Which we have generally under- stood the word, Lecause that it would be in the direction of cosmopolitan union, bur it

Se, 8:

W vuld oti.’ po pee ilar advantage to ithe trade of the empire as such. But,to my mind, @ much more fatal objection is ihe

fact that, Speaking generally, the colonies t adopt this We consider it, therefore, as counsel of fection, and if we are to wait

with o proposal, must pre-

until the

colunies gencrally are converied to our

views in regard to the advantage of free

trade, jet us recogn'ze the fact tiat ina

tha case we inust postopone tse

hope of a commercial union to i ¢ bagi :

the Greck Kalends, (Laughter and

hear, bear). Geatlemen, free trade in this

country has been developed, no doubt, to

the great advantage of thie country tor the period of half a century (hear, hear) but, in spite of that, it has made to converts. We donot find, and again lam speaking

generally beeause I know there are ceptions, we do not fiud that thereis a i considerable approaca to our system on, the part of the colonies, and tuere is no approach atail to it on the part of foreign ( Hear.)

very that my hon. th Secretary of State, with this speech in his haud did not sce any of this fam reading from the speech jas! as it comes before me. It is very remarkable that my hon, friend’s eye never happened | to strike this part of the speech of tue Hon, Mr. Chamberlain.

Hon. Mr. Seou—lI

cvuntr.es

it’ remarkabl:

read the

e gner . Pp Vill

' statement, not the sentimental parts. > .

jon. Mr. Ferguson—He is now dealing with specific propositions. There is no

sentiment at aliin what [bave read. He

' bad discussed one proposition which came

t raders He now

from the orthodox scnool of free in Eogiand, and he dismissed it.

| comes tO Speak of another proposition,and

thatis the one which the colonies are making. He says: { pass on then to the second proposal

whicn has been Jad before a similar con- gress to this, which found expres- sion at the great congress held at Oitawa a yearortoago. Tunis 16 a proposal which bas been advocated with great force aud eloquence by colonieta aud is the very reverse—in spirit at any rate—to the pro- posal which 1 have just veev considering. the first requires thatthe colonies should abandon weir eysvem in tavor of ours, this proposal requires that we should abaudou our system in favor of theirs; anditis in cffect that, while the colonies should be left absolutely free to impose what protective duties they plase both upon forciga countries and upon British commerce, that they should be required to make a small discrimination

iu favour of British trade in return for which we are expected to change our whole system snd to impos:

duties on food aad on raw material (hear, hear.) Well: gentlemen, I express again my own opinion when I say there is not che slightest chance that within any reas: onatle ume this couatry, ortbhe pariia ment of this country, would adopt so one- sid:d an agrvement. The foreign trade of this cuuntry 18s0 arge and the foreign trade of the colony 18 Comparatively so ema!l that the mail preference given to us upon that foreign trade by the colonies woull make so smalladtf rence would be sosmall a benefit tothe total volume of our trade ihat I do not believe the work- ing c.asses of (this country would consent to make a revolutionary change for what they would think to be an infiniteismal gain. (hear, hear) Well then, gentiemen, you will see thatso far we have only arrived at a dead lock. We have a pro- posal by British free traders which is re« jected by the colony and we have a pro- posal by colonial protect‘onists which is rejected by Great Britain. We have, therefore if wa are tomake any progress at ell;

My hon. friend the leader of the House Says hear, bear, Wuru he bears tue state- ment that the British proposal is rejected by the co.onial protection.sis; Sureiy my hon. friend will not say that Canada is now represented by the pro‘ectionis!, but my hon. friend must consent to put himseif iu the position of colonial protectionist since he applauds the rejection of the British propusal. Mr, Chamber.ain goes on to say:

“We have, therefore, if we are to make any progress ai all, to seek a third course, & course in which there shall be give and

the good ofthe whole shail subordisace the separate interests of the parts. I admit, that, if f understand it correctly, I find the germs of such a proposal in a resolution which is to be submitted to you on behalf of the Toronto Board of ‘Trade.

Now, what was the resolution of the Toronto Board of Trade? We will thus getat what was meant by Mr. Chamber- jain when he found what he thought was the germ of a practical ,proposition on which this great problem could be worked out. Here is what the Toronto Board of Trade says:

ecolved that in the opinion of this con- ference the advantage to be obtained by a closer union between the various parts of the British empire are so-great as to justify av arrangement as nearly as possible of the nature of a Zolverein based upon the principles of the freest exchange of com- modities within the empire, consistent with the tariff requirements incideatal to the maintenance of the local government

colony, now forming part of the B-jitikh { seee@mace

0 F vs S798e¢3ses0ee8e family of nations

We have the distinct declaration of B MONEY TO LEND Joseph Chamberlain, that he sav t salts clad germs ofa practical pronosition in 11 — ere resolution of the Toronto Board of Trade. |S «0. SOBRINS TOW

Santi.What hecaine ; Ro aia Mr. Scoti—-What becam orrister at Law,

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SER surers PT ORBEA 99M OCORSS

Hon, resolution? It had so } ee ie that it had to be withdrawn. el

(To be Continued.)

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After a Government Official : We are in the Dairy Supply business te stay, notwit — standing the unfair competition of an official whose travellin expenses are paid out of the public fends. We pay our ow | and will compete with any of the Quebec houses thus repre 7 sented, for quality of workmanship in cheese vais, cream 7% vats, either single or duplex, portable or stationary, temper i ing or receiving vats, and all other Uairy Supplies in stock or 9 to order at short notice. : We have on hand Alpha Separators which returi, ~ more money to the patrons than any other, Separator oil that will msure safer running at extreme speed than any other on the market. ? a Butter Boxes for storing and shipping butter in. : Dairy plants that will run without an expert engineer on hand. . . Boilersthat will save fuel over any other that bas been ~ imported so far. Engines that do not require to be driven at ~ extreme speed to obtain enough power,» All work warranted for une year.

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All oraers for Coal will be issued and payment therefor” received at my office.

Prices and other information furnished on application,

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h’town Feb. 22 1898—1 aw (th) tf

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ONLY THREE WEEKS

since We Opened Up Business—aasey

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