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a
T. E.
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PRINTED
AT
THE
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DAILY
ONTARIO
BELLEVILLE,
1893.
STEAM
PRINTING
HOUSE,
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INTRODUCTION.
Only indisputablefacts, conjoinetlwith
arguments, could
of
"A
United
conclusive
most
the
to chauo-c
politicalpropower
clivities
of the Canadian
pioneers, who fought
States
in 1S12,
and
Rebels
tlie Canadian
in
1837-8.
expatriationof
The
kindred
first caused
to dare to
me
my
writer
received
sudden
summons
a
years
ago the
of his favorite uncle, the last of
his genthe funeral
eration.
think.
Ten
f^
to
the
the
descendant
a
against the
in
have
attend
He
left
widow
a
smd
six
stalwart
Tliese
sons.
sons
American
from
Florida
t')
citizens, scattered
prosperous
Montana.
I stood at his grave, the only male
representativeof our
born
in Canada.
numerous
Standing there I determined
race,
were
^;'
to
ascertain
my
utmost
Rare
the
of the expatriation of
cause
apply the remedy.
opportunitiesfor investigation were
travelled
from
city and.
Many
almost
of
thousands
me
years
The
"
of
I believe
study, the
fellow-citi;cens;
men
convinced
having
dozens
such
;
summary
but doubtless
been
written
of volumes
a.s
followed
of
my
tenacious
of
and
my
would
farms
Canada.
unwillingly arrived
by Continentdl
logicalsequence.
at
cau.setl
embodies
in words
intimidate.
or
it
spared
leave
to
dravv-
our
the
spoken
un-
and unobtrusive
cautious, })atient
of oltl ideas; slow to move,
but once
wish
in time
it is,kindly extend
a
as
only
in
of
langua^'e
observations
some
I
me.
I travelled
assisted
love
is
countrymen
impossible to change
partial
is small
many
The
conclusion
this little treatise
thoughts of
forests, and
I know
tongue.
afforded
West, visitingevery
their wealth.
me
lakes.
m-eat
our
exile of my
The remedy
Isolation.
a
do
to
Dominion.
our
to
lumber
our
North
our
in
revealed
in
all
on
to
hamlet
every
mines
our
mother
a
After
was:
Newfoun"lIand
of miles
inor in seines
is to
kin, and
my
to
were
from
the
it your
and
This
treaties
conclusions.
smaller;
business
:
is
It
disjointed,
incomplete,
subject unexhausted
; but
and
consideration.
perusal
T. E. EWEN.
Belleville,
To
Jan., 1898.
all Canadian
Patriotf",and especvdly to the descendants
Pioneers, I dedicate this little ivork. r"
'
our
of
i
THE
Canadians
Many
mourn,"
the
luioe
of
Carlyie
have
the
with
dernes.s
man's
no
a
"
nrost
them.
from
them
with
couijige.
dangers
Our
commercial
of
We
hopefully.
ouj"
only by ourselves.
of our
justice are
of
of
one
the
and
ours,
to
are
us
if
we
of
we
its hallowed
and
Anglo-Saxon
and
iSo
contains
it is
morally
object
the
of
his kin
right
to
politicalpolicy
j)ro8perity upon
For, in the
be
that
our
words
of
Vmt
to
is
"
"
by
tinental
con-
l)onie
the
the
That
the
is
interests
homes.
Home,
of
word
other
any
Home."
"
to
our
the
race.
If
the
chief
labors,
then
is
good
whose
to
more
means
our
solely
and
welfare
man
of
mentsGovern-
our
Canada
incentive
will confer
homes
we
have
we
supporting
homes,
our
great
Burke,
our
met
they are
by legislators elected
cf
courts
our
judges, hence
t'ie
resources
developing
are
Therefore
us.
equivalent
desires, and
our
but
nada.
Cafore-
lawsbecau.se
our
and
man,
benefit
a
inherited
few,
been
great,
and
wil-
made
descendants,
and
our
than
the
out
They
toiling to support our
endeuring associations,
are
of
first and
patriots, her
importance.
f)aramount
language
to
men
we
Canadian
are
Individually
with
gifts
hands
privations,caused
We
government^
our
the
enacted
creation.
fairest
-not
try
coun-
privations
and
n)emorv
cheerfully obey
own
every
our
stalwart
endured
have
many
having been
We
appoint
making,
own
been
a
of
These
Canada.
their
We,
and
frozen
has
from
direct
solitudes,
their
Our
is"jlation, have
them
of
This
search
in
she
pioneers
land
their
To
allegiance.
our
owe
the
Universe.
out
their.s.
was
the
homes,
which
of
kindly
made
"
Canada
Canada
land
who
considered
then
cheerfully
courage,
their
homes
; hewed
be
workers.
trans-Atlantic
Canada,
the
will
believe
forefathers,
their
but
of
the
and
energetic
of
parentage
forefathers,
a
Aichitect
danger
isolatio!!
has
Our
proud.
their
rugged
Great
faced
in
to
lamenting
manly utterenerfjetically
Canada.
our
to
live
to
made
was
heads,
work,"
to
race
from
farewell
ocean
received
of
homes
inherited
bid
be
was
Man
"
:
andsliakin^
Others
prefer
made
essentially a
Canada
to
the
hands
motto
political policy they
the
to
wilderness
of
"
are
ftu'tune,
crossed
reason
:
ever
Canadians
(juality we
Man
"
which
beneficial
of
t'oKled
existing;depression.
advocate
most
their
iis
I
CANADA.
OF
adopt
sit with
un"l
over
HOMES
happiness an"l
inanfully advocate.
is morally right cannot
greatest
one
which
to
politicallywrong."
Christmas
witnesses
re-united
familie.s, but
in
Canada
at
many
Christmas
a
in
exile
(linnoj* the
have
Ids!
and
had
one
IJniim, by distributing
tinental
industries
manufacturing
and
will
recall
of the
many
great joy
the
Can
I
this
to
him
the
(Jon-
mercuntiio
this
daufjhters
if
policy
family/
overall
and
sons
around
attracting
great
etpially
absent
would
steppei I in
this
an
"
eye.s would
have
ejiis[)ed
clusteievl
have
unexpectedly
ahsunt
Was
mother's
hand
fathtiv's
would
give
hoil.se
the
(h.^ar old
the
tlic
would
which
l"e wrong
how
th(; chiUlren
iiow
tlie absent
How
hind.
foreign
bright";ned I
a
of
Hon
Continent.
of
Can
ida
an"l
This
would
creased
intheir
cause
departure in the future.
it
be
homes
must
not
hence,
happiness in our
only
;
"luty to thoroughly investigate this polic}',using
right, but our
love
f(jotthe
of our
houjes as a lump to lijjhteuand
guide our
prevent
steps.
PROSPERITY.
FINANCIAL
Which
prosperity
be
to
Canadian
our
upon
reader
The
will
reprehended
confer
will
politicalpolicy
of
account
on
in
bear
please
the
hoTues
greatest
financial
?
thwt
iinnd
the
facts
following
is not
writer
the
in
being
istence;
ex-
"
Britain
consistent
and
cheese
beef
States
United
the
regards
exports,
a
the
or
own
beef, of
of
United
containing
discriminate
in
of
fore
nor
will, financially
There
forty
favor
British
odd
of
even
her
benefit
us
on
our
our
is
exports
to
dare
much
neither
has,
As
Europe.
the
question.
is not
from
that
Britain,
cheaply
with
will
that
more
us
policy
provide us
money,
will, like England, buy in the cheapest markets,
or
we
American
the
facture
the goods ourselves, free of duty on
'."""-"'"-",,.
"'";vr
/".:;":".*,.
Canada,
will
pait
a
and
the
Therefore,
on
furnish
our
us
as
British
export
with
mo
'o
allegiance is
Britain,
money
any
from
as
England,
producers,
buying
Show
mand,
com-
not, and
Britain
Great
tlie
transatlantic
Empire.
foofl
own
will
Therefoi-e,
millions, does
allegianceto
our
But
Russia,
from
Canada
whether
the
or
Britain.
always
fj-om
as
Wheat,
more.
markets.
obtain
we
States
less
for
British
financiallyimmaterial
not,
curs.
always
money
and
have,
generously
as
Great
to
(juality
same
the
and
nothing
"
exports
the
in
prices
the
workshop
clnef
our
amount
it is
interests
Canada
same
Russia,
of
are
and
cheese
wheat,
her
Canada,
towards
honestly
acts
with
manu'
tinent.
Con-
:
of
no
money
value
political connection
our
exports
elsewhere
to
that
is
'
-7"
ut'
the
States,
chief
The
produce.
a
of
financial
Union
Continental
therefrom,
dcsin^
which
to
sent
the
policy
the
financial
.' r.v,
{":'.
'"
"""
"
most
that
it is the
conse(|uently
increase
the
\-
;''.v'.^
elsewhere
exports
the
oC
inurkets
fish, himher
for
the
will
prosperity
money
that
will
one
to
provide
for
us
of
Farm
most
beneficial
be^t
Unite.l
and
the
lus
is th("reforo
standpoint,
is
ohtain
will
wealth
oir
to the
minerals,
are
which
policy
thjj.'^esources
he, from
money
if wo
of
Our
homes.
our
principiilly of pio.hicts
consiHt
.from
heiu-flt to
tinmu'ijil
inoro
to
our
Canada.
the
most
advocate
homes.
8-
"
L"
i^'
rnineral
except
every
less phospliorus than
contains
Canada
iron
containing
ore,
duction,
is the
out-pUt
is $50,000,000,
of
sixth
best
to
has
its centres
of
Canadian
on
minerals.
some
on
and
The
of
our
beincr
that
apart
the
causes
American
and
ont-piit only
ratio
75
are
cents
its
too
one-
is
as
limited,
of
cost
portation
trans-
American
ex^jort duty
iron
on
ton,
a
the
ore
th"
are,
duties
pri)States'
United
the
proposed Canadian
the
lignitecoal
contained
co}:"|f)er
bituminous
far
Other
American
the
besides
market,
Canadiin
The
tin.
yet
the
that
Canadian
ore,
;
Canadian
the
reason
population so
the profits.
exceeds
duty
.continent
and
One
is,that the
1
300
the
on
million.
a
MINERALS.
and
and
ore
^
cent
per
Capitalists, whether
of
the
Canadian,
British, American
are
or
thorough citizens
not
world, and would
long be capitalistsif they did not regard
business
matters
e,
solely from their financial standpoints. Hen
mines
in preference to
they wisely refuse to operate Canadian
lb.
the
on
countries
ent
be
subject
either
the
when
American,
-?v-''^
; and
the
to
in
mines
and
the
ore.
markets
would
in
be
difi'dr-
investments
would
heavy immovable
poverty, cupidity, caprice o.r anatgonisui of
their
government.
Sudbury and Lake
Superior districts
nickel
other
mine
in
the
are
only one
science
for
utilized
world, known
to, and
cial
commerby, modern
Look
wealth.
T!ie
at our
undeveloped mineral
purposes.
miles
In
of
da,
Canaat
ridges
Sudbury are actually
long.
copper
is one
Lake
mountain
only four miles from
Superior there
In
nickel
and
unrivalled.
nugget
of pure
situated
only
would
be
copper
is all
not
worth
region
utterly
States
does
for
Let
what
is
the
years
F
us
mines
outside
form
of
an
line.
cf
but
know
idea
Let
side
they have
paid
of what
of
of
amount
situated
the
reason.
can
load
where
the
Newfoundland.
inside
ring they
never
i", it
does
equally
The
copper
visible
it
Britain
at
were
States,,
United
their
ring
ily
unnecessar-
ought
to
be
in
Canada,
from
vicinity,but unfortunately
the profits of just two
ascertain
mines,
last 30
the
Lake
Superior. During
the
us
if it
United
the
material.
raw
American
that
in
The
dollars.
of
thick, which
south,
it, for they have
want
applies
feet
vessels
ocean
transpiring in
the
across
on
and
nations,
go
We
copper
ot
n
the
is incalculable,
it, for her
austible
to
fifteen million
valueless.
want
thousand
one
copper
few
miles
in that
unexh
of
a
copper,
There
is
immediate
to their
owners
an
annual
profitabove
all
N
-9"
of
expenses
of
coasklombly
be
imliistry would
by Coutiiiental
of ours,
and
capital
immensity
of
; and
the
ly permeate
direct
Union
and
to
certainly is both
is sacredly entruste"i
practical criterion
welfare
n
The
civilization
role
The
?
and
cruel
!
country
my
and
Tantalus,
of
part
needed
would
that
happiness
life-sustaininjj ilrauijht
heroic,
^^^
and
is
prise,
enterthe
can,
our
ple
peo-
consetjUentcontinue
why
unattain-
the
wise
neither
unjust
hives
ies
treasur-
if you
result
to
would
that
Canada,
the
enact
wliat
luineral
estimate,
then
beneiits
homes.
our
all those
supplyin;;
And
prosperity
PI:!ture
$1,03 ),03D.
around
markets.
the
self-imposed,
Able
above
creabel
nor
whose
those
to
to
care.
your
the mechanical
of
and
yidvancement
politicians,but
yearly crop
of
iron
of
The
amount
capita
orj.
consumption
/"3r
its
identical
the
of
is
with
its
ternal
innot
mines
necessarily
out-put
of
iron
The
nation
whose
consumption.
per capita use
is the greatest in the world
United
is the
states.
Although it
contains
only 5 per cent, of the earth's
sumes
popu'ation, yet it conof
nation
a
is not
of
its
*'
Mfe.
its annual
"
"W'
'-
annually
two-tifths
right
per
in his
The
into
exports
of
iron
mines
the
and
necessary
to
invvi
for
as
a
state
been
admitted
of the
American
requisites of iron, coal,
extra
soon
rival, if not
The
youth
The
St.
factories
out
of
lake
by
flux
of
of
Tuines
als
minerun-
are
7 million
1889, worth
at
delivery $35,000,000,
I
Andrews,
of
Mass., that
now
the
with
the
Nova
Scotia, having
proximity, would,
in
thi
which
the
Eastern
to
form
welcome
States
them
as
the
operatives. In
congenial employment, without
the
find
co-patriots would
expatriated. As a free American
quantities of coal
ship immense
our
adverse
the
States,
in
80
minerals
freights.
Governor
Union,
and
of
took
of
get
Bruce
out
point
In
of
New
England,
aljacent markets
ir)n
industries.
in
excel, Pennsylvania
great
of
banks
of
the
our
Quebec
are
fleein.^from
stricken.
Lawrence
if its shores
as
were
plague
advantages
biautiful
the
at
globe.
under
to
United
takea
were
$25,O00,()U0, and
has
duty
thsight,inthe
ores
copper
pay
this
plenty
Hei\ce, the
markets.
Therefore,
!if5,000,000, of
foreign mines
a
per,
cop-
tin.
States
United
the
duties,
about
capitalist,having
liaving paid S10,000,oOO
It
its
on
only
were
work
almost
of
market
not
does
American
while
worked;
"8
it is also
the
one-half
mineral
American
country,
own
laws, when
tue
mineral
notwithstanding
cent.
to
best
iron, steel,lead,and
world's
the
of
its coal, and
is the
total
our
which,
'i
door
next
1892
one-third
of
best
of
state, Nova
from
her
Scotia
would
inexhaustable
terial
ma-
future
being
also
mines
""
."
.
""""
.
*'-
"10"
;.-,:"
*
to
bordorinf; New
the
coal.
Nova
In
writer
Scotia,
ei^ht
which
States
are
hun(h-e(l
I'eet under
liours
(10 cents.
for
destitute
of
ground,
tlie
would
Miners
work.
for men's
niciu's wages
North
the
staitlin"f
fact
is a
;In
:"
receive
Here
territories
West
bituminous
deposits of lignite and
Union
Continental
and
are
only
England,
larger than
and
market,
furnish, as an abundant
a.ssuredlypermanent
and
Cohimhia
British
the
all
cojil
will
the whole
Wisconsin
Canada,
and
of
million
a
-equal to
we
mineral
will
in ten
miners,
and
in iron
miners,
million
a
have
years
another
and
employed
copper
population of nejirlytwo
Continental
under
all Canada
will
of
yearl}'increased
the
Wisconsin,
we
If
$25,000,000.
at least
one-
tories"
manufacmillions.
of
increase
the
onl}^equal
and
Michigan
Union,
Uniim
that
fact
ad"litional
for
exports
of the
states
of
one-fourth
additional
men
an
that
supj)Ose
well-known
the
Uni(m,
million
a
coast.
upon
Michigan employ
Continental
of
one-fourth
Pacific
calculations
our
with
eighth
American
of the
Basing
If
seven
work
mines
saw
then
FiHgland
will
add
our
of 2
out-put
have
this
to
a
out-put
00
of S?80,0l'0,(
total
a
annually.
present exports, it will g ve
of
is
ty.
nonentiOur
an
!!r5,000,000 comparatively
present export
No
gigniiicance of
us
freely,fully and
in the
market
Two
and
in minerals,
exports
isolation.
is
Union
nearest
and
contract
to
our
in-
the
solely caused
Continental
perpetually,the
will
by
give
mineral
best
woild.
wdl
men
modities
is richer
mineral
present
our
Continental
suicidal
our
world
countrj- in the
we
unless
not
into
enter
considers
each
a
he
is
receiving in
exchange com
return
goods
-
of
.
equal
basis
Conunercial
value.
"-ontracts
of
treaties
of
no
the
favor.
If
our
every
of their country.
when
the
commercial
treaty
to
the.
the
membered
re-
patriotic
be
M'ill make
Con.sequeutly,they
Canada
advantage is altogether in our
Our
iron being free from
phosphorus is far superior to
for the manufacture
of the higher grades of iron and steel.
minerals
free
of duty, the
were
permanently admitttd
with
would
operations,and
be
are
mutual
their
desire
who
men
advantage
consequences
transferred
would
nations
also
exchange
advantage, on
giving and
receiving equal benetitfi ; otherwise
be
will not be satisfactoryor permanent.
It must
Government
of
that the American
is composed
treaty
theirs
treaties
to
business
to
between
derive
be
that
of
thousands
to
from
Canada.
our
of
many
men
In
minerals
and
their
millions
fact, almost
or
mines
from
would
cease
would
of money
dollar
we
every
their
manufactures
Would
Htloll.'U'taken
be
minerals, it wo\ild
regards our
tolly on the part ofc' the
ti'eaty with
connnercial
of
their
extend
the
injury
not
advantages
Auiericans,
l"enetit
to
niost
to
solely
assuredly,
their
within
their
into
to
most
a
the
will
Uinon
who
countiy,
an
mate
consum-
enter
he
would
tiiey {)ossess
desi/'e
not
States
which
The
tlie
of
act
an
United
Canada,
country.
do
who
aliens,
l"e
Therefore,
States.
United
frotii the
do
to
not
maintaining its laws, and whose
otdy
This
its
is not
at
object is selfish aggrandizement
expense.
whose
Hrst and
li-kelyto be the course
pursued by a nation
only
welfare
its
tiie
of
interests
own
are
people. Consecjuently, the
which
Canada
method
can
^obtain an
by
e(|ua1 share
only
assist
in
Avith
is
the
by
it up
building
or
of the
States
complete
wealth
of
unity
be
derived
interests.
This
to
from
her
"A* !
minerals
Continental
means
Union.
Our
food
present
beef, would
and
for
minerals
our
would
the
feed
to
the
of
opening
give
of
Britain,
Great
sufficient
that
inhabitants
to
exports
be
not
wlieat, cheese
million
two
American
the
ditional
ad-
markets
us.
'
II."
.
The
of
Fisheries
Sea
in
important
most
the
Value
the
Lakes
Great
of
which,
Unitetl
in
is
1801,
the
soil, in
order
exemplified liy the
Erie
catch
of $^^,500,000,
3500,000.
will
convenient
the
to
forever
fishermen
the
cause
and
homes
of
shores
the
is
fishermen
therefore,
in
total
of
locat
their
which
duty
at
are
Erie
Union
to
be
the
Can.adian
along both
would
all probability they
equal quantities of fish, which
would
be
$1
that
erally
genUnion
when
hive
present
than
homes
fish
on
Political
Lake
This
Lake
annual
Continental
duties
liomes
duty.
less
captured
only policy
the
American
shores.
of
total
vessels
These
distributed
;
the
shores.
the
the
their
free
permantly
fishing grounds,
American
permanently
American
catch
on
the
of
out
Canadian
abolish
fish
their
enter
have
and
to
Canadians.
by
caught
flag
Union
best
the
nearer
surpassed,
Here
again,
duty, liowever, being
their
possible unfurled
Canadian
fishermen
the
and
Fislieries
1'he
wherever
that
richest
Water
^20,000,000.
American
Continental
induce
would
fact
be
to
market.
to
the
among
tiie Fresh
about
was
best
fisheunen,
to
arc
while
nowhei'e
i.s our
States
American
Canada
world,
are
^ cent per lb, the
flails and
hastened
on
of
the
FISHERIES.
the
would
equally
and
both
''),000 each.
:',!
ffWt,*-'
"12-
Thi.s would
hounds
V'-"-
Union
increase
the
it would
besides
Canada,
largestand
catch
of
of the
cntch
catch
the
to
catch
increase
fish
of all
cau"jht hy
thousands
our
Canada
having timber
ship building, wo
for
American
be
would
Clyde
the
American
on
the
one
per
La'ces
Great
side
50
Canadian
In
Canadian
of
the
in the
navigation
ports.
is
in
requisition the
in Canada.
But
built
were
hiving
tonnage
during
th"re
18^2
side,ordy
steamers
two
shipping
total
Canal
tonnage
of
each,
8,000 tons
of 200
Only
tons.
Great
Lakes
is
that
pa.ssedthrough
one
njillion,a gieat
less than
was
tonnage
in all Canada.
buildingon
were
to
the
o."i
a
built
the
Cleveland,
it is at
than
world
that
naturally expect
of 2,000
Welland
^6,000,000.
Liverpool being almo^j
and
M'ould
the
have
coast, has
.sea
steel steamers
the
1892
the
to
we
FREIGHTS.
inland
of
which
of the first-class
cent,
Canadian
of
wealth
miles
of
vessels
where, in 1891, new
which
17,000 more
71,000,
was
On
province,
one
LAKE
AND
Atlantic
fish of all Canada
our
illustrated
as
and
to
important system
hy Port Arthur
most
from
e(iuidistant
wide
of the
bc^netit
BUILDING
III." SHIP
the
Erie
tin's rule
annual
probably
hnancial
annual
an
world,
the
will increase
that
extent
the
present Lake
apply
we
nada
shoi-es and sailinf^
vessels Imilt in Calivingon Canadian
in
oider
tht.
be
certain
be
within
to
to
If,
by $0,000,000.
of reasonable
al
probability,we only assert tliat Continent-
those
still
the
If
iinherinen.
Oiitaiio, it would
! 7
times
he three
Canaflijin
and
part'of which was Ameiican
through freightfrom Duluth
Lake
Ontario
the freight
Chicago to American
ports. Whereas
Marie
that passed through the American
Sault
Ste
Canal
was
25
million
and
that
which
I'etroit
ten
over
was
tons,
passed by
million tons, only one
of
carried
in
cent,
dian
Canawhich
was
per
bottoms.
The
follows
No
do
Canada
United
our
allow
not
American
one
permit
to
the
of
a
p("rt
large
Unsted
North
West
takes
its line,so
do
states
nt)t
this raih'oad
leave
'
"
.v
deplorable condition
are
as
"
freightsfrom
from
necessary.
are
for this
:
The
doties
comments
principalreasons
as
cheaper lake
is
means
that
good
proceed
caie
to
routes.
trade
fiom
The
another.
in
The
States.
by
vessels
Canadian
to
of the
Port
Continental
carry
heavy freights from
only piesent outlet
Canadian
freights
no
to
American
Pacific; and
entrusted
Arthur, by
Union
is thi
the
to
it,
wise
other-
only policy
IS-
vvlii( It
ill fil ("]i^li
ot* tliCRe serious
one
cvory
t(" tlio iiiuriitf inteiosts
of (jinuda.
vrtut.'ifros
w
Tl).'
come
experienced
c"me
Ameiiean
niitte"i U)
;iO
sail in
CVvuadian
a
The
Ameiicaji
froju
annual
than
to
Anuirican
and
('(tntment,
the
has
isolation,
shores
Canal
"lia,the
similar
expense,
they do
because
to
tlm
at
to
Lakes
hand.
i^akes
foolish
our
of
Sault
the
nation,
Lawience
lower
River,
Ste
and
its
In-
to
ha*
Kepublic
tlie
the
wealthy
their
Me"literfaneau
of
navigation
and
enlarged
but
the
St.
Though
prosperity
con.stiucti"ai
leason
the
belong
ours.
have
They
the
upon
the outlet
of the
the
America.
of
of
Ainericiin
The
part
any
"
of
sl"i["less.
()r"'at
The
is
jtceonnt
on
accoi-d
C(jntine.it
this
g)'oat expense,
possess
Union
and
all
(wv
traffic would
of
would
has
united,
were
that
.so
Chicttgo
luKKi
of
improv"?d
(lovernment
dchtinies
make
her
not,
at
lakes
is
outlet
the
ocean.
American
";anals
the
in
Canal.
not
of
CJi'eat
yet,
us,
than
tli"; Britain
credit
that
Continental
our
of the
burden.
8uez
receiving
enable
possesses
watei'
it is
(libi-altar
hand
letlects
gi cut
the
lakes
exceetls
eoinmerce
"
navigable
fact
8ld(^ of
upper
it tu)
felt
Republic
^45,000,
by
will
Canada
comparative!}-
are
gone
tie
on
this
When
Union
in
with
Ameiiean
enterpri.sehave
Marie
in
freight and
conspicuous
of
outlet
hivish
l"een
the
cjinals
an"l
ocean
our
On
to
sailed
if he
Lakes'
00.
is
I'olitical
Osdy
n"iles
Metliterranean
natun
20
ol" it
more
area,
$45,000,'
poition of Eastern
inliabited
ing
us,
ofl'icer frovn
receive
able
An
and
Creat
the
(-r-iuula
out,
share
just
the
to
to
V/ages.
an
perdo
interest
better
would
of
al"ont
S.'i,0(
10,000.
td."tain lu^r
The
cent,
he
value
ship-building
now
000
is ajuiuall}'paid
its
J{5 per
than
their
are
Vessel.
total
The
far
pa}'
to
citizens
It is to
vessels.
25
American
only
Americans
is
less
beeouHe
^'*'~
'^("J^VI^^^'^y
IkStafi^and
as
United
the
to
move
hi^liersalaiy
ceiit
(Jnnadians,
youu^'
seainci',
the
oldain.s
per
our
citizens
this, because
seaman
of
uiMJoj ity
disad-
unjust
niu]
the
Port
hugest
an"l
even
river
vessels
be
innnenst*,
Orrat
Lake?
ports,
for
i"
much
couKl
of
teality, oee"n
the
Koil
i!i the
in
unsm
fronj
direct
LiverptA)!. 'Jhis
and
in
sail
would
port.s.
the
world
'I'htj
neighborfor
passed
is unecjualled;and
the mineral
wealth
the prairies of
of
bushels.
west
their jjo'den giain in
ndlliiius
poui' out
and
of the
earth
Hteix'antilo centres
;^reut iniiMufu4L;turing
our
the
conteruplation that, if
widen
all the
deepen ami
the}' would
ocean
shores, for
our
in
now
t(" London
Arthur
lake
tiansform
ty:;
fertilithe
far
The
would
"14"
ha iilorior
our
would
ranoun
ami
inliitnl
wate^,
he.small
in
the
f"f the
coimiierco
with
coinpari.son
of
that
Me"Htoj'CJreut
our
Lakes.
IV."
The
aiiuujtjt of tiinher
LUMBER.
in Canada
annuallycut
is immense.
This
1m^ realized from the ^io-antic
fact may
H^furesnecessary to
o
jf
that
of
when
the productionof onr
use
speakin"T even
]"art
forests which we
the Exports were
export. In 1K90, amojj^
L500,000;'0*" f(;etof sawed
.5,500,000 cubic feet of square
lorrs,
timber, and 1,000,'00 railroad ties.
exporte"limmense
Besides
these there
of har"l-w"X)d
(piantities
were
lumber, cord-woo"l,
etc.
tan-bjirk,shin"xles,
pulp-W(X)d,
teletj^raph
poles,
fM;"sts,
The United States,having less timber per c"(pl.tathAn
even
The duty,however, varies from
Germany, is our fjreatmarket
Sl.OO to $2.50 pnr LOOO feet. This duty caused the Canadians
to
contribute
to the
of
revenue
the
Republicbetween
(ireat
1S65 and 1890 $20,000,000 in onler ^hat access
hepiined
mi",d"t
for our
luml)er to the markets
of tl's continent.
The result,
from- the American
duty and the ^vant cost to send the lumber
into
other country, is that it only renmnerates
to saw
us
for export the choicest, logsout of "^aeh tree that is cub
of inferior
C "nse [uently,nd lions of dollars worth
to any
lumber
down.
have
eyes
rot in ourtimlier
annually left to
lo^sare
limits,as the writer's
seen.
and
Basingour calculations upon the above giant figures,
that
of
our
present
re.$23,(i83,(i7o
only
rememV)ering
annually,
exports
that partof the felled timber
which
is renmnerative
under existing
circumstances, we cannot place the unnecessary
nually.
yearlywaste of our inferior lumber at less than S2,000,000 anContinental Union is the only policy that will permanently
give Canada all the adjacentmarkets of this Continent
will enable
lier to obtain remunerative
free of duty. This
for
of
inferior
her
prices
pine and hartl-wood lumber
grades
and exporting.
"MiH tinjber,
not worth paying the duty on
now
This
wjiste and
annual
(jur
loss would
savingof
now
forests,
at least
allowed
then cease,
to rot
from free admission
them
and
$2,000,000 worth
to
on
the
account
would
we
of the
markets
near
effectan
of the
productsof
duty debarring
af the Unite*!
States.
A
perusalof
the
the tra"le and
veals
navigationreport ftxr 1892, re-
facts,well worthy
followiufif
inhabitants
of the Province
of Ontario
of
:
"
the
attention
of tho
-18fir
They
it
Hvod
have
i
forcMt
of
part
capitalof
the
upon
The
iucoine.
lef^itiiuate
grout
au"l not
Proviuct^
our
of
Hourco
thoir
Upon
iticoirie,th*'
h(;
and
what
tlion ?
CH})italwill hoou
fro\u\
in
thr
ilt:Hci(nu:y
npproachirif^
an
rcvci^ufj,
to
piovincial loi^^i.'ihitures
by "'Ur
(luph(!at";
\v(vilth. by nu3an!^
mineral
of I'oyal'
ou'upon
our
"
Foreseeinf:fthis
attempt
m.uU'
was
forest
thjir
utethod
in
nipped
'/e
w"
th
with
export duties,
ties and
bud,
the
of
it of the existence
cojn;nii'.
investments
dar^.'rio taxable
The
consequence
an}'
large amount
under
in
the
lumber
our
business
United
States
obtain
all the
nead
allow
they
but
they put
of
there
of
but
is
that
the
at
hewer
$1.00
of
wood,
The
United
the
and
this, the Spanish River
prove
of unsawn
logs to the United
that
logs
hist
sawed
were
StateH
district
States
year
sent
These
the
to
United
rough boards
by thousands
States
freight
cheaper
is
and
less
if there
were
duties
no
all the
the
result
lumVjer
of this
carefully estimated by
union
would
also
is
be
true
ai"
between
tinished
and
in
of
for
lumber
Ottawa
one-half.
of many
sawn
the
What
our
United
lndk
'J'hc
ous
numer-
ly,
Consequent-
An"eriean
king, that,
towns
of
has
ami
da.
Canabeen
when
his
l"^ true
nmrkin
lalx)r, it
would
and
Ld"oi'
more
finislied
population
other
the
finished.
our
and
demand
now
it is
workmen.
and
sawn
and
us
l)e
would
Where
crudi;
duty i)\ the
rough boar"ls, and these
lowest
possible duty.
are
powers
fort'. is work.
situated
the
Bay
at
of
into
is
of
mills
Canada.
from
water
our
consummated,
increase
immediately
three
extensive
free
planed
ti
Tt
quarters
the
lumber
the
and
conveniently
more
As
when
in Canada,
ets, almost
then
are
is
linish.
14(",000,(K)0 feet
the
at
Canada
and
and
of American
thousands
upon
Union
all this.
would
chancje
Continental
is far
States
on
that
lumbei*
furtiished
:
at
all
"
)"awn
ail Ijoards
plane
saw,
duty,
roughly
is, that
to
quently,
Conse-
of
free
feet
The
desire
citizcnn.
country
result
City and
Saginaw, Michigan, were
impossible to export it altogether
in Cana"hi
shape of logs,it is sawn
are
ti
Io.sh
^reat
time
sanje
their
1,000
highly finished.
more
ing
investOntario
isolation.
on
duty
per
boards, and a higher duty of S2.50 per 1,000 on
are
plained and groved, and still a higher duty
a
in
in
is another
continental
their
enter
to
ni
fii
po.ssiblefor
logs
e
(Joverrnrjent.
timber,
account
employment
idc
ni
tht; re-sultaut
in
timber,
our
facts, i.nd
capitalistfeels safe
mines
Working
no
our
on
tries
indus-
in Ontario.
money
Provincial
of
inl'mt
tfiese
Wf;r(3thu.s
capitali.rits
above
of
waste
aU
the
is,that
existing
our
Besides
rrsult, that
;
ami
city
tinental
con-
will
of Ottawn.
hamlets.
"T rtror"
.
-"
,'1
/,
:)"'""
X
would
'I'hifi
^Mcatly incrousc
tliouHaiuls
tinploynientto
t(" leave
}"cllu(i
their Caumliati
siiantvinri) ami
river-di"ivoi"H
all extensive
rtud also
pro-^jK-'i-it}',
our
many
travellers
to be
who
Ixvst
.u;
occupations. These fearless sons
|:;enial
eniploynientin our numerous
ciipple"lby accident, rlieumatism
will induce
union
finished
lumber, and
Canada
to
who
"
thus
w
will do
H,dvocate
in Canada,
home
at
ishod
policy that
a
products
the
ami
of
i V"
Remember
Britain's
is not
men.
old
or
their
Only political
duty ott" the
a^e.
take
to
fjictories v.heii
the
of wealth
source
sister.
.".
:
:"""
.
dignity of C-ina^llan state;^is it better
this [)roblem. Whether
to
will furnisii employment
for Canadians
the
natioris
Or
to
pay
I'emain
as
material, the hewers
us
vvc
for
are
the
'."^
lin-
ly
mere-
"
of wood
".
for
eign
for-
?
countne.s
she lost her
their
at
.
liavc other
raw
wm-ld
and
mills
be
lab(U" 't
our
of
[turveyors
coui-
skilliu!
acknowlodiit^J 1"\-
in the
nion
reliufjuishthis ^reat
to
asjiire
well to solve
luirilyand
of toil 'vijuld fclien ol)t!i.incon-
Stat(!S
then
mid
Politicians,who
hien,
United
nhe
Our
univcrsallv
are
'
uunuully
now
^rt.'
honitJH.
fuinish
t.he fate of
vig(i-, and
emigrants
injurious to
EXILES.
CANADIAN
arc
iier.
fron\
Spain
a
Our
families, therefore
emigrants
".;
of hei' young
fell to a
power
I Drained
Hrst-class
chieflyin
^
ai"(;
::
blood,
third.
emigration
/
'
]U!ncii)ally
young
nation
intellectuallyoi- physically,no
can
replace. A nation, whose policyannually'expatriates'
'JMiese men,
cfjualor
must
vigorous young
eventually deterioi'ate both
men,
because
the
tlu
powerful leave, and
physically,
mentally
of its population renmin.
weaker
The effects of a policy
elements
oi this nature
detrimental
to a country than
a
are
more
ence
pestiland
the
weak
or
famine, for these carry off princi["ally
a
tlie aged.
This being the ca.se, it is the solemn
duty of every
li'jrmost
and
patriotto put
a
aside
all mhior
friendlyspirit with
strides of
and
his, brother
ba.ser
motives
and
consult
Canadians,
how
best
in
the
injuriousto his country than pestilence
stopped. This e.vodus of our 3'outh is a fatal
nuiy
blow at the vit^ility
remember
of o\ir nation; therefore, we
must
.that sometimes
desperate diseases require desperate remedies,
and that any efficacious remedy is bet tei* than the couHequences
of a fatal disease.
Let us be patriots to our
beloved
Cmiada,
and look atthe
facts squarely and imflinchingly,
innnediaand
tella us will be the ino"t
telyapply the remedy that our reason
or
famine,
an
evil, more
be
''
''"*"*""
^',!i''"'"'""'"tir^'Tf
-18-
permane:it. It i"
of
politics
ci)heineral
certain and
both
allow
tho hour,
distant
the
of
the
Those
in Canada,
been
always
If
they
difficulties,
even
they
would
next
ten
prefer
eifieminfwyis not
pirovethis, our
on
an
"when
average
Florida
emigrants
and
cold
of
parts
their
as
like
and
of tho
homes
California
Southern
would
houies,
achieve;
If
equal,
were
with
the
convinced
United
Canadian
on
action.
To
countrymen.
our
where
success
to
be
their
go
to
States
then
was
Converse
meet,
you
in
settle
the
sons
fortune,
Canadian
incentive
and
characteristic
a
the
are
determined
Canada.
in
reside
to
youth
as
they
only an
are
ed,
till-
is true
and
men,
of their
are
the
to
This
what
to
young
north
in Canada
success
CaTiuda.
come
there
"'"'^itas are
men
young
of homes
Our
miles
Success
go.
Canmlian
to
that
home
at
success
hope
brightest prospects of
tho
dangers,
of
chances
wultarc
coldei-
Middle
emigration to
Our
the
of
200
were
would
the
as
of Britain
little
seeing
continent
8("on
wilderness.
frozen
favors.
fortune
the
population
from
sires, in search
These
exodus, "ay
prcMont
extent.
climate
a
forefathers,
there
di'ift of
limited
milder
considered
this
cause
a
only the most
hardy sires.
left the
against tliu pro-*ont
recognize the dui)reHHion
existing
of the
that as
; and
be a reflux of
tliere will
to
to
climates
milder
of
wish
not
the
as
or
Canada.
do
wiio
militate
pist.to
and
honiCH
our
has
tho
or
foolish for us to
preJndiccHconcerning
and
wronpf
States
; and
that
further
that
are
this,too,
welcome
them
as
Dakota.
readily as %lichigan or
to
the
The
emigration from Canada
hundred
daily- This includes both those
in foreign countries.
The
population of the three counties
in which
cent,
three
the
during
of
a
the
the
last ten
years.
his
on
time
same
million ; Ohio
Chicago, during
is situated,
home
bordering
states
during
ters
writer's
the
as
and
same
Then
born
is about
three
Canada
and
in
adjoining the county
have
decreased
contrast
this
have
provin"e
follows:
States
Michigan
fact:
increased
New
"
12
half
time, increased
"
per
The
in
tion
populaYork, threo-"juai*million
a
moie
each.
in
wealth
nadians
Camore
population than all Canada, and to-day contains
than
city in the Dominion, west of Montreal, with
any
Detroit has a popn latiou
the singleexception perhaps of Toronto.
of 260,000. Windsor, with
equal shipping facilities,andwith four
railroads
enteringit, has only 10,000. Seventeen
years
ago
and
Manitoba
and
to-day
Dakota
Dakota
contains
started
more
even,
with
people
than
14,000
the
whites
Douiinion
each
can
;
/"'"""
"19'
l"o"ist of Ix'twoon
of
countifH
Dakota
is,
Htrannror
from
r
iho
Jest
Ottawa
Isolate
any
of thi.s
what
of
one
of
part
the
of
States
Continent,
did
will
similar
ho
from
of
that
to
a
come
you
Union
American
the
many
asks
naturally
one
Canada
its fate
and
In
Ocean.
Pacific
tlio
tlie fir-Nt (|uostion that
Well,
"
and
Cana"la.
by distrihuting tlu; attrjictingfactories
this Continent,
opening
enterprises e(juallyover
of tishermen,
niiruis,and ^ivin^ us our
rightful nun"V"er
up our
the population of Canada
ship-lniildersand sailors, will increase
Continental
and
Union,
morcjuitile
several
We
millions.
thousand
many
would
retain
who
more
the
annually
to
the
least
at
HO,00()n)en
leave
south.
assist
to
us
A
of the
out
Vmild-
in
on
country
"j[reat
averafje
ing up
of his country
into the revenue
$1,000 during his life-time
pays
indirect
ta.xation.
in diject
and
Caujulians
tain
reThirty thousand
man
an
hereafter, at $1,000
capita, is $30,0o0,0()0
year
per
If
of
attention
to the
an)ount
enue
revour
annually.
w;e confine
the Unitsd
of taxes
obtains
States
alone, from
by means
each
these
Canadians,
30,000
United
State?5
yearly
a
wonder
Canada
United
States
when
she
rapi"llypay
off
has
their
at four
capitalizethis $30,000,000
per
e"piivalent to a capital of $750,000,000.
wished
of money
to depo.sita sum
thereof,
value
four
at
of
this
per
annual
Cinaila
that
^ft, eijuivalent
is poor
to
declares
it
cent,
per
e.\o"lus, she
been
national
cent,
per
In
other
so
that
would
No
$30,000,00).
to
thus
would
annum,
the
makes
aiding; the
If
debt.
words,
the
we
it
annum,
is
nada
if Can;terest
equivalent to the
re"iuire to deposit
be
$750,000,000.
VI"
IMMIGRATION.
^
+
dissatisified
enr'^rant from Europe is generally " man
nde
desirous
of
kingly
becoming again
; consequently, i'40t
of her most
Gracious
to he
suhjtct, even
Majesty, but wishes
The
with
a
the
of
monarch
18')0, the
of himself.
United
States
Even
got
of
80
the
per
total
British
emiofration
cent.
that
the
Being a part of an Empire, is the principalreason
from
the
Continent
of
avoids
CiinjwJa.
Boemigrant
Europe
all kingdoms
ami empires, Britain
included, for their own
cause,
j-^alousinterests, have
mutually enacted, that taking the oath
wf allegiatico
free any
does
from
to a foreitjn potentate,
not
man
military servitude
to the
laud
of
his
nativity.
The
German
w:'Tl*f;'"
"T-f'-f/t"*?
f'-T,
'./*"'
--"0-
nu"l !^('!Mi(]iMa\liui
uImmi l"'nviii;j
)ilsliomc mH"! fatluM'nniii'rant.,
hut In; fit-sires
t") \"o
laml. ]u\H a iinn intention to rc\isit tlionit,
alile Ui rtitnrtj from Aincricn, without tlw^ IV-urof li"'ii)""
jminto a KmopoHn nr-iny. Me
knows
tlmt th" foi*(M'f"n
)"i"*ss"mI
is ulniost the ttnly
i)ovnAincviran "'iti;'(;n
who
valk
om
ninn,
th"i Mtn-titM of his iinti\*'Euiopcan town
witho"it the dread of
( Jons""(|iu!ntly,
the Kijio])can
to
("()tiscription.
wisely"Mnij,M*at('S
ami not h" a part of the l^.ritish
ICtn"the AiiH'iiratiKrpnhlio,
plro. I'herd i.yalso on tlu* Coiitiru-nt ("f Kurope,anuaifj the
mi.' Scamlinavians,tlu-saMw
"lennans
jculousMvcrsiorj against
Cajwulians have
all thingsICn";li,sli,
that some
thf
ag;uinst
AniericaiiK.
Canada has onlyretained 10,000 r.nt of th("MOO.OOO iinnnthe hust t"Mi
^Tantsthat she has importedfrom Knrope dnrif)ic
of
and
cosf
h.-tween
at
to Ikm-,
a
S,'i,O0(),0("") 84,000,000.
years,
The )irnni;^rards
have, noceptedthe ussist^'dpassa^^es ofllerod
l"y(^laiiadato nid them to reaeh the (Jnited States. Hence,
retaineil Cd^t hei" nearly$200
i-aeh immi;,ri';viit
that (Vnada
of them were
than some
whieli was
worth to
^l!)!).9f)
uiorff
jjjst
"
*
,.
;"'*'
f
any country.
The [Tnited States iinnii";;iatiou
was, at the close of the
the last few years
American
7:;0,0()0annually.Duiiu;^'
war,
the K(;j)ul)lie
has rejt.'Cte
I tlie undesirahle applicants
for ndniission to her country
tht^immi^rmtionto
,andthus j-estricted
500,000
mental
a y".'ar. Unlike
Canada, it did not desij'e to inipoit
moral an"] })liysical
contaminations from the slums of the cities
of Britiiinor tln^Continent,even
if theypaidtheir own
ages.
passThe States have now
of tii'st-class
onlya small "|uani,ity
'.land to ofFer to settlors whicli does not re(|uiro
expensive
,
.,;V
-
'
'H:': i;v;
"..
irrieation.
Canada
f
t^vv
'
poHRpRes ^roat
undevelopedminenil
and
therefore,under
wealth
of
fertile laud ;
areas
larj^e
of the n(!W confederacy
(Continental Unioji,
she will be the pai-t
that will he specially
of the present inhabitl"oomed.
M my
ants
of the Unite"l States will then immigrate
to Kastern Canada,
an"l develop
in new
our
nianundnes.and find *!mploymeiit
industries. There will also be a lar^e
influx from the
faeturi.ipi'
Western States to the ^nuierous paviirios
of our North West.
In
addition,(^anada wdll obtain a great part,if not the ^reat"'r
temds from north
immigrationthat naturally
pait,of the large
is
Union
the onlypoweiAmerica.
Continental
to
vvn
Europe
thatwiJ] cause
the eH'ectiveAmerican itnmigration
agencj'tobooin
fill
t
o
to
North
rcaliise
tho di'ouuiof 20
Cainula,
West,
up our
unoccupiedand
t'MimfAsimii^miii:
-21-
millions
in
40,000
yet
If
nil.
tlunii
limit
wo
an
moans
employtncnt
of
streiitn
luldition
each
of
to
it
normanH,
Slio
!?1,G()0 "lu"rapo
indirect
taxation.
nv(
nn
on
r
"
vi*Mltli.
Cunajln's
to
tliwn
f
innni^mtion
and
Miitons, ScamliimviariH
enorn)("u"
fron"
tloiive
fiiui Incnvtivn
to
tin's tinnunl
AmcricunH,
mon,
would
l)onlers, "uul
our
of
(lii(-:ct and
Ity nuuns
\u^ his life-time
iunni^'rmitHyearly at Sl.Oi'Oeach in 340,000,000
Forty thousand
annually.
The
(l("veri"mentfl must
Canadi.m
consider
immigration to le
this
uiillions of dollars upon
desiralde, for they httveH\)entmnny
of Continental
llrdon
have
tion
immigraan
((hjeet. The advocates
of Canada,
toHuliuwt
the
the
to
of
the
voters
approval
j^ ^liey
of the most
') is one
an"l
jwlvantaijeous
^if^anticthat
lifts fnc
IX
Nvorld.
If
population
offered
un
present
our
France
of
the
to
tieUis with
of any
country
induce
the
could
^overnmt-nt
settle
to
in the
consideration
Canaila,
in
thean, tiny
would
their
all
brin^
and
entire
population or
If the
territory,equal the ad\antaffes offered
hy this policy
induced
the
whole
jj^overnniont aKso
population of Norway,
and
and
Holland
Sweden,
brin^j
Delginm to endgrate to Canada
sunny
all thoii- mountains
and
fertile
yet counterbalance.
not
If
in
neither,
vales
with
all
them,
would
these
in
pelled
comdespair, our
government
and
Greece,
Portugal, Turkey-in-Europe
territories
to C'unand
populations, to also move
Switzerland,
all their
with
millions
ada, these
to
glaring
sinnlar
to
to
inimediate
Canada
is
number
can
nay
the
arc
botli
in
read
the
Europe,
and
and
write
nujjoiity of
each
other.
our
the
pros-
the
than
them
any
(U"
not
live
Theii-
of
foreigners, but
will
United
offer
States
and
to
generations
lar
a simi-
Canada
more
cousumep
luxuries
of
morp
possetjses
trans-Atlantic
nati"'n.
in
Canada
nearer
pe"'ple
Canada.
are
also
This
than
more
/^cr
life, than
Republic
live
own
our
Many
continent.
own
offers
Union
Contine"ital
Europe
necessities
the!",e 65,000,0('0
tc
assimilate
to
assimilate
even
that
of
not
in
before
away,
puHs
of
of
country
home
at
immigrantfi.
population of the
The
capita
imndgration
(J5,OGO,"100,
already
will
cannot
we
able
be
never
a
bo
Canada.
of
The
biethren
would
we
now
offers
innnigration would
possess
not
would
The
j)opulatiou
defect.
millions, for
population
nationalities, would
i.-any
Union
that
Continental
supposed
and
own,
diverse
these
this
""reparable
our
to
population
But
Canada.
and
ejit
the
equal
oidy
belonging
the
any
who
men
But
somo
is true, but
Provinces
similar
to
the
reside in the
Canadians who
distant
of the
populations
York
New
and
the
also
and
Dakota
are
purta
of
Canada
than
to Ontario
State is nearer
peopleare
similar.
more
are
Prince
aach other.
*'"
ward Island,
toba
inhabitants ""FMani-
The
identical,and
almost
Provinces,than th"
contiornons
onlya
i:^
road
8e})aratfcS
British Columbia'and
far asunder
in
Quebec are
tory.
the characteristics of their people,
as
they are di.stantin terriit irf better to accept our
Carefuliyconsider whether
them;
But
"
know
relatives the United States of Britons, about whojn
we
the best and the worst ; or to take 65 million imnii^'rants
from
Europe
to
bosom, about
our
whom
we
know
and that little
little,
often in their disfavor ?
VII"
DUTIES.
We pay $6,000,000annuallyin (iutiesto the United States
in order to get our productsto their markets.
tal
Only Continenand permanently remove
this barrier to
Union will entirely
and
commerce,
payment of tribute
without
States
any
VIII-CUSTOM
to the
of the United
revenues
benetit to Canada.
correspond
ingf
AND
HOUSES
DOMINION
MENT.
GOVERN-
The great extent of the dividingline between Canada and
the United States, a patrolof 4,000 miles,and the ample facilities
necessitates both governments
thus afforded for smuggling,
of custom
officials. It ia stated by the
an
maintaining
army
Government
of the United States, regardingher custom
houses
Canada,
on
lx)rdering
the
amount
with
any
is
collected,
other
Union
belongingto
of
cost
collection,compared
in
large,
disproportionately
part of her
Continental
now
that the
This
revenue.
will dismiss
the
Canadian
the
custom
to
comparison
is also true
majorityof
houses
in Canada.
tke officers
bordering
the United States,and allow
them
to add
by useful labor
to the wealth of their respective
provinces.
The internal government of our provinceswill not be perceptibly
on
changed by Continental
will
their
now
almost
remain
they
presentlegislation,
done
at Ottawa.
ornamental and
salaried members
The
Union.
unchanged,and,
will
Dominion
Provincial
ernments
govin addition to
perform a great part of
Government,
expensive adjuncts,now
and
The
that
with its useful,
numbers
either employed
officials,
over
or
3.50
lounging
-Si-
hi Canada.
population
lack of
tellof
loss shores
lack of markets
a
The
oxisbingcircumstances.
productshere
urjiicultural
in
the
claims continental isolation. Tiiese
in the
depreciation
are
sliip.
undui'
heavy freights
for
of
comparison
and
mines and
unworked
Ouv
for
States
adjoining
pro-*
the chief causes
of the
values of real estate, too
quotations
keenlyfolt
to
re-
comment.
(juire
the population,
Continental Union, by incrcAfliug
volume
and
Held
id
from
will
wealth
forest,
of trade, a
mine, sea,
cause
the ralue of real estate to advanci'^ at least 25 percent, throughout
This will effect a gain to Canada
of $800,
the Dciminion.
During the boom you would
000,000 in rCcd estate values-
doubtless unload
choice
few
a
XI-
lots.
corner
AGRICULTURE.
Last,but greatestof all
industry of agricul-
the
cr"raes
of our
ttirg. Out
populationof 4,829,411 56
derive their livingfrom our
farms. This
2,704,470,
half
over
considerably
reportsof the
market
a
our
A
deplorablefact,that
priceobtained
and
can
Ameri-
farmers
our
the American
by
of
givesCanada
comparisonof the
.situated Canadian
similarly
markets, reveals the
receive two-thirds of the
ers,
million farmers,
cent,
per
"
only
farv
for the two-thirds of our
products,for wl I
a^icultural
continent is the natural, and consequently
the best marke./^
pencilsand
Farmers, take your
for
figureeach
himself
the
of beingdeprivedof your
you lose each year on swcount
rightfulshare of the markets of this continent. Recollect
amount
you
same
We
only lose
not
what
on
send to the States,but also on the
sell them in Canada,
you
classes erfyour productswhen
you
saie in statingthat ^2.03 per acra
are
moderate
acres
figureat
which
actual cultivation is on
under
Canadian
farmer, making
"lossof $2.00 per acre means
000,000
Union
farmer
deserve
total
a
a
an
each
average
of 25
50
each
a
number
very
of
to each
acres
million
loss to Canada
is
year
loss. The
acres.
year
A"
of $50,-
products of agriculture.Only Continental
permanently prevemt this.loss. Is not a Canadian
the
on
will
as
this
to average
much
of
"
man
equalremuneration
as
an
?
"""O-
American
?
Do
not
his labors*
Tt li!ivin;j
been proved
that Continental Union willincrease
and prosperity
of our
the Ixappiness
tiian an}homes,more
other political
let Canadians, by all constitutionaland
policy,
means,
promoteits adoption
peaceful
; hut onlyupon equaland
lionorah'eterms, and with the consent of Great Britain. Let
and persistently.
us advocate it kind y but firndy
SUCCESS
IS INEVITABLE.
-"itr^
"1..:.,^''..;""
,''V'
".
"
''""
'"l"-f 'v
:''""
.'t.
,;,l/^:
Union,
Continental
-o-
realer,
Canadian
""ben
BRITISH
thi^
C9nsiderln"r
influenced
is parainouuUy
PATRIOTISM
by
of
one
subject
tiiree
;
HATRED
THE
OF
UNITED
STATE-?,
CANADIAN
'
Please
mind
your
sentiments:
or
PATRIOTISM.
carefully classifyyourself before
proceeding.
-o-
A
ZOLLVEREIN
A
BritiKh
Of
the
van
love
")f the
of
THK
BRmSH
History
to
Unity
and
NaTIOXS
be
DECLARED
18
BY
Inkvitable.
Freedom
is
elianicteristic of
the
race.
all the
of
trod, united
united
OP
freedom.
with
kingdom
races
nations
the
of
the
world
Eiiglanc?has
Scotland, wh(/"e heath
England, Ireland
of Great
islo8
and
Britain
prospered
and
as
no
a
never
conqueror
in forming tho
Wales
Irelan"l.
other
aTwij's leil in
On
the
European
union
nation
^27-.
The
Ims.
ever
tjiin
their
them
bid
farewell
and
fiiitain,kind
t))e latid cdu1"1
until
people tnultiplied,
millions,
their
to
not
coh"
the
restless
and
daring
among
homes
and
crossed
tiie
Atlantic,
then
the h"ve of the
forgot for a moment
transAtlantic
her
rigorous with
The
well
the
t'l-eedoni
colonies,
as
offspring.
loving
us
parent,
oft'the restrwining hand.
threw
Tlie spirit of Unity still guiding
unite
in one
colonies
to
our
race
pi*on)pttd the thirteen
the United
of Britons.
thca
Since
the rapidit}'
States
people
of their pmsperity
world.
The
and
has
the
vastness
amazed
motherland
has not since
the
ties
liberto
attempted
infringe upon
i'
rncc
generoup,
frceflo'n, and
V
Whs
"
of
children.
her
Britain, had
on
whom
the
their
also
so
when
even
of Britons
colonies
Six
wide,
transplanted world
tained
reprevailed, that
they have
colonies
other
spiritof unity
allegiance to her
their
to
the
dotted
of
coast
jury.
in-
financial
the
continent
them, and they arc
Australia;the spiritof unity breathed
upon
into one
Commonwealth"
consolidating themselves
a name
larly
singuisolated
smal'
scat*
provinces were
appropriate. Seven
of
[(Id
along 4,000
tered
call
they
Suxon
What
one
do
all these
itself.
We
are
well
as
in
as
past consolidated
The
have
the
clans
in
Ixwly,of
of
dawn
of
same
is
race
been
old
Remember
declare?
descendants
tluxse
weak
our
history
they have
a
mule
Anglo*
Dominion.
our
unions
the
of
seen
from
the
to
answer
history
peats
re-
of
characteristics
the
who
men
tribes
hostile
and
the
into
a
in times
great
tion,
na-
It is therefore
Europe trembled.
unless
of history, that
prevented, a
apparent to the student
ed,
of the Anglo-Saxons
of the world
will be formgreat Zollvei-ein
with
in the
center
Britain, the old motherland
clustering
;
whose
at
BY
^rica ; in
A
across
Dominir-
of
upon
nund
miles
We
amalgamations.
occasion
possible
every
history to the uiiion of
lecord
m.
became
warlike
array
"
around
the
her
earth,
be
will
"
the
her
children,
greatest
of
"
free
the
which
British
will
of
nations
North
United
be
Auierica.
heed
race
patriot, in the interests of our
of
the
liave
been
cause
unity,
promptings
and
dominan'
family has only
prosperity. This
Now,
he
power
in
er
ho
on
on
divisions
Britons.
the
the
British
spiritof
who.se
; Britain
The
colonies, ana
connecting link is Canada.
with
her
the
United
Upon
our
two
States
Canada
of
rests
discord
them
constant
or
responsibility of creating between
dis*
constajit
circumstances
Under
existing
perpetual peace.
is declared
cord
History is given
by history to be inevitable.
'"T'
-28"
and
for entertainmont, in-^truction,
US
In all its aofOH and
making
man
be
One
one.
the
two
for wnrniTipf.
espociully
ail its lanmianfesit roitcrate.s the rlanijorof
nations out of what
tho Ahnighty created to
nation
slionld include
groat natural
same
houndries
speak the "no
language,have
laws and are oF the one
blootj.
all those wlio live witliin
who
of mountains
or
oceans,
the same
the
same
faith,obey
Canada
and
the United States
and
quisites
are
formerlyone people,
yet identical in all the rebe
to
again one nation ; even their laws are upon the
basis of the English laws; hence, in remaining apart
common
bly
Penalties are invariaof nature's laws.
one
they are la'eaking
and wiselyattached to the infraction of any of His great
laws of natuie.
of this
The penaltyattached
to the lirea'ting
law is jealousywith all its resultant evds.
is proverlby
This
were
divitled nation in ^ivery age.
Let us confine ourselves to
and watch the effects. The history of the clans
race
of Scotland and the heptarchyof England is written
in bloofl.
Unions
into
internal
On
their
consolidation
brought
peace.
every
our
own
no
separatekingdoms,Englanrt
wage"l war
sooner
on
the
tinent
con-
than
Scotland crossed tlie boi'ders. Pillage and bloodshed pointedout tlie track of her raiders. Tiien, EngUiml returning
of Scotland.
in her might devastated
the lowlands
Union conferred
peace, good fellowshipand prosperity.The
ot
war
1812
Jiritain
was
model
againat
vainlyattemptedto
e
war
the former
historyof
Europe,and
United
I upon
in
w)"est Canada
from
the
her.
our
race.
States
To-day jealousy
between
the divided
nation in America,
a war
of taritt's,
bloodthe next to bloodshed, and oft:;n culminating
in shed.
ever
Union will confer peace and plentyas in the past. Whoresorts
f:
was
to
war
"
aids in maintai lintror fosterinifthe
jealousiesbetv^een
Canatla and our relatives to the South, is guiltyof attempting
to injurebotli Canada
and Britain ; therefoie he is not a patriot
either to Canada, Old
England, or his race, but a traitor to
them all. This union of the Anglo-Saxon,fir.it
of America, and
with
because it is in acconhmco
then, of th(iworld is inevitable,
the noblest characteristicsof our
of
fulfilment
and
one
a
race,
of His laws of nature.
Canada will soon
and
attain her majority,
the guardianship
of England,but become
nation. This will cause
her to attain more
of
of
a
Our
she
separatenation, whereas now
will
in
the
meantime
prosperity
the union
will be upon
Jess
not
an
remain
der
un-
independent
the distinctions
condition.
is in a plastic
be retarded,consequently
advantageousterms
anti Larder
"onofe/lferc/e
-29"
of
Tliu union will not then furnish refisons
toxvard
Biituirj on
the part of either nation.
frrat'tude
Whereas
he
if
the
Canada will feel grateful
union
etfeeted,
now,
to the UiOther who, to benefit lier daughter, sanctioned hei'
union with her prosperous
United
States will
relative. The
also feel grateful
foi-the further giftof Caato the motherland
shores
ada.
The friendship
whose
lietween the Anglo-Saxons,
until time is no
laved by the Atlantic, will then endure
are
Irunt.
accomplish
for
more.
British
the
patriots,
and
your rankft,
a"lvocates of Continental Union are in
no
policythat will not beneHt
at
race
large. The consideration of
will a"lvocate
England,Canada, and our
this policywill be laid at
the foot of the
British
Our
throne.
it.
httr wise
beloved Queen and
councillors will deside upon
of
it receives their sanction and that of the parliaments
When
Canada and ihitain and the Congressof America, then ifcmust
be loyalto adopt it. That it will be sanctioned is certain,for
5
all the events of the past pointin this direction. Why else did
britain in 1815 cede to the United States domain
enough for
from ocean
America
miles
wide
800
nn
across
a
empire, strip
financial
to ocean
her
in
her
aid
?
else
than
child
to
Why
trouble did she giveslier$] 5,o00,0(.0
American
the
close
of
the
at
war?
Why has she in every treatyfavored the United States,
"
"
the prosperous
Republic as her
that
her she, is enand
in
trusting
first-born,
benefiting
the
of
the
hands
of
wise
to the
a
heritage
guardian
in America, includiuir
that of (iiuada ?
except that,she
considers
well-beloved
I'iice
FINANCIAL
BENEFITS
TO
BRITAIN.
The majorityof our
families are more
Canadian
nearly
allied to the iidiabitants of the United States than to those of
Great Britain,
yet Britain is the land we love best after Canada,
of
the only bond
we
though
pay nothing to her revenues,
British
from
the
unitybeingandty and trade. Our purchases
"
Islands are so'^e ^40,00"',000annually,
with a profit
to Britons,
unknov^n
to us, of $4,000,000,just a fe7t cent jnece
personally
British
to each one
of Britain's 40,000,000 inhabitants.
profit
dreamer
of
in
tliis
be
and
patriot,
piactical
practical, not a
age
devoid of anj' pecuniarj^
that are utterly
antiquatedphantasies,
value.
Realize that only in propoition
enriches
as a political
policy
her
creased
inCanada, will it be in the power uf Canada
by
trade to
benefit England. Canadians
tii.aitcially
arc
rin".ftSit""'',*"*'"
-.10-
by increasing
ua
numbers
our
increase
of
The
solely
from
Britain.
This
benefits
the
from
derived
only be
cm
legitimate trade, flowing;
channels.
Utiion,
Cimtinentfil
Only
money.
and
purehrtiinj( power,
can
their
financiallybenefit
to
are
with
nip^ards
never
in
natural,
motherland
the
profits whe
done
from
realizes
on
by
an
forced,
in
not
obtains
enable
Cana"la
purchases
our
her.
We
without
Britain
But, some
buy from
money.
send
and
she
does
for
not
cheese
England
example,
Hay, we
pay
This
is
in
but
manufactured
in
us
nonsense.
goods.
money,
of
cheese
knows
cheese
that
the
president
a
er
buyfactory
Every
I will not
unless
cheese
never
buy your
yet said :
you
take
dress
check
the
No, he gave him
on
goods in pay.'
a
cannot
"
"
Bank.
But
to
sells; in other
sale
the
of
will
that
will
also
experts
trade
our
cause
total of
the
words,
her
increti.se of
the
to
Britain
the
receive
her
to obtain
her
exports
her
for
larger
which
British
regards
as
of
this
continent
the
Britain, advocate
politicalunion
for
than
United
this
States,
policy will, more
population
our
with
more
Bntain's
and
with
money
which
MILITARY
Canada,
will
of
by
abolish
friction
the
and
fact
alarm,
the
battle
In
affairs
Atlantic
that
and
ADVANTAGES
her
uniting
small, but
many
that
these
in the
hare
event
any
furnish
with
and
in the
of
I th
an
j
all of them
uixnut'astures.
United
the
States,
irritatingcauses*
It is
America.
past
often
Canada
war,
sequently,
Con-
Canada
none-tho-lews
Britain
between
war
of
BRITAIN.
TO
destiny
half
market.
British
purchase
to
enable
othar, increase
and
customers,
mone\
fit
financiallybene-
to
of
she
that
best
desire
the
upon
from
money
is the
really
patriot,ifyou
Britain's
it will
; and
u
which
and
of
amount
exports
amount
and
Canada
leave
the
f ro
of money
exports,
will
Union
from
adopting apolicy
upon
population,
our
tran.s-Atlantic
far
a
of
she
Therefore, the
amount
American
number
before,
as
for
depends
'vhat
receives
she
America.
increased
an
from
money
of cash
and
and
Continental
her
amount
Britain
obtain
European
increase
footing
will
derives
from
with
to
us
our
customers.
bame
; Canada
resume
would
an
disputabl
in-
serious
caused
be
again
in
naval
ground.
the
and
and
event
of
powerful
Pacific
Union,
Continental
on
coasts
the
for
sea,
will
naval
Britain, wise
retain
stations.
an
To
island
this
on
the
America.
of the
verliorakions
foi'e these
men
While
which
purse,
in the army,
deserved
of
glory, by
in
treasured
Uniied
presented
of
the
the
will
but
this
Union,
is the
forming
race
Britain'.^
the
this
is
you
British
policy
a
America
propose
to
Come,
be
you
vapid
injuring
of
your
has
also
and
own,
well
as
Europe
and
alliance
Union
the
free
tions
na-
financial
a
out
for, with-
;
dii.iinish
increased
of
military power
patriots,from
guarantee
and
only practicable
world-wide,
will
terest
in-
as
divisions
great
in
defensive
the
it
of
not
OF
in
more
Canadian
or
the
causes
of
perpetuity
redound
prosperity
palid dwarfs,
but
of
great,
and
money,
our
practicalin
who
enemy.
favor
of
How
your
merely
if
by
tell
than
homes
away
you
But,
For,
diverting
hatred.
Union
Continental
else
Canadian
entices
against him,
AMERICANS.
patriot.
Spoliation.
benefit
hate, and
curses
two
Continental
by Canada's
mother,
are
and
men
will
t^f the
statesman-
their
duty
moral
to
war,
HATER
II"
either
tle
man-
filial nations.
and
the
and
whose
advantages,
fratricidal
and
jx"wer.
Perhaps
a
ones
profound
and
great
British
Therefore,
glory, as
prosperous
we
first
globe,
perpetual peace
probability of
her
in
world,
Britain
offensive
an
of the
Britons.
Britain's
a
fate, and
population statistics,and
Britain
is, even
to-day,
Great
"
America.
guarantee
lessening
and
the
world
the
It is your
the
military standpoint, advocate
and
to
of
and
lift! of
generosity
of
feeling of
of
unity
in
towards
of
live
loved
This
warriors
family,
Britain
dominant
will
their
of
Aniericn.
in
the
Continental
advance,
; and
you
compare
the
Gi eater
that
realize
proujote
Greater
nation
will
Anglo-Saxon
tiio
oi
will
they
soldier's
a
they meet
foe, they will bo wrapped
the
refill
not
treatment
it.
Europe,
to
liberal
If
them,
to
made
knows
you
in
of
that
ing
overflow-
an
Kiiropo wouUl
in
sure
bo-,
away
Thoy know,
wi"ih
disbanded,
adiniring
Fellow-citizens
not
bu
luxury.
unparalleled in the history
niost
the deepest policy and
it has
world
will
When
homes,
act
in
whip, for
then
hastoiiing
they
an
States,
been
tlioy will be
army
lifetime
ol' labor
a
f?ices to
their
pussod
Imve
not
tlioStuto.s.
gratefulpeople.
a
fall with
will
cnnnon
to
he
promotion.
atnid
ease
the
the
outering
upon
firKt
will
it not
loudly,
by wresiing
them
to
?
from
Canwda
do
%
If you
sons,
your
irritate
forming
thau
a
have
and
a
you
bor
neighmutter
yourself, without
partnership
with
^
"-as"
hull, you
sell liiin Htones,
can
his boitts
jiniuopiiiite
ik'htN, retiiin your
him
iimke
would
you
causu
bjiujfit
would
III."
for
ov"5
the
1m8
rclieF
at
'r
yo
l)i"(prices; un"l
hoinostoad,"
old
hef)Hrtno)".ship,
the
our
to
a
True
you.
oarn
our
bread
part;
lovo
for
wo
form
actions
; and
and
,t;'i
turn
whioli
in
'
cxpensu.
wo
l"odieH
tlieroin sheltered
those
and
homes
\niy
lots
;
cniHljinMf
I'ATRIOTISM.
laud
whicli
of
land
tho
thu
for
atriotiHrn, is loVe
i:
to
withy""ur
at
ADIAN
CAN
foi* cfO/l inonf^y
you.
vveUroiiio
yourself
patriot, with
Canadian
coru(;r
iutermi!(]"lle
to
not
to
him
^ot
;
sell hiu"
Motis;
H"^roe
fish
pruvinciul t'jirm;you
the
'
iind
viluloss
will
that
;
our
ensure
future, happiness, peace
let
solely
hy tiiese motives,
plenty.
half
mediate
imwith
with
the
full,
no
only
he satisKed
measures,
us
offered
and
advantages
by Continental
permanent
let us
of our
conyioti|ons,
speak out
Union.
Having thi' courage
to
of
homCvS
our
present,
Canadians,
und
the
actuated
manfully.
tho
are
patriots,
you
physically,of the old Gallic heroes,
minds
our
decen"lants,
Canadian
and
Arlglo-Saxons
of
/
the
odds
aie
be
many
off-shoots
on
trembling
the
salvation
Canadian
your
and
of your
homes
pioneer
heroes
should
not
Individually,
}
her
you
fall
be
must
you
I lusiness
slaves
the
but
tho
they
to
in your
business
heavy
the
truth
the
to
will
that
of
line
the
The
may.
lie the
of your
Like
boldly.
love
rectitude
off-shoots
of
cowartlice.
hard
the
policy
out
hew
off-spring
right,faced
sanctions, and
will
you
where
are
conduct
not
speak
to
to succeed
a
of
Reason
governed by
Only
spade.
a spade
nation.
prosperity to a
rightfulpositiorj
among
and
call
will
cowardice,
the
are
olden
the,
that
Knowing
you
permit yourselves to
will
intrepidly utter
battle-fields.
in favor
Canada.
chips
the
let
of
urges
forefathers
You
couj'age.
in
who
Vikings,
heroes, you
slaves
Celts, indomitable
invincible
times, defending the
fought
of
convictions
honest
your
later
hard
the
of
atti'ibute
in
who
n)en,
fearless
the
deified
times
Norse
and
mentally
private business,
practical common
same
sense,
action
of
course
you
will
ercise
ex-
and
sure
en-
desire
If you
country to take
your
of this Continent,
the free nations
of your
nation
on
a
thoroughly
striving against the inevitable, but seizing
quickly passing advantfiges.
with
Chieftain
if our
were
us, he
Many believe that
the
seize
the politicalhorizon,
would
right moshrc.dly scan
basis,
not
"
"
-.14-
to the
iuevitiiMo,
bowing; ;"T"irr;fully
rnent, and,
with
flyinj?colors
intoi)i";
uiii""n
Continentui
towunis
Hrit4iin
ful t(i the
her
her
in the
exist-ed
the
out
Then
stretching
Qjai'cli forwiU'd
in
relative.
of
van
p'ate-
the
tlie
peace
this
alMavH
has
the
of
in
Anglo-Saxons
in Australia,
those
to
and
ing
feel-
ing
Britain, hold-
(Ireater
to
her
whole
the
perniente
left hand
the
out
the
And
(yana(la,and
in
friendship
Mvmi^u
IMPERIAL
will
aniity
fe"l
will
dau^Miter, .sanctioned
_xist
America,
i)f
fcnliii^of
(/aniuia
proHperoUH
States,
hand
for
her
always
JSouthern
ri'^ht
Kiirope, and
and
will
natV'tyniul plenty.
our
nconiplislMMl,
henoHt
to
hi^
Confederacy.
(jreat
will
who,
with
uniity,which
of
hnn^
bt? incieawcd,
will
mother
union
of
Imrhor
his floefc
convoy
civilisation,
fi;dhration
PAllLIAMENT
AND
POLICY.
FOREKiN
ITS
r
'
'',"
"
.
)i '";
;"
.'
,
..'
Imperial
Britain
and
Canada
separate
treaties.
too
the
rulers
the
power
allowing
the
now
nation,
In
into
she
one
co#l"l
The
gain
people
expensively governed.
and
the
and
of
province
to
over
its internal
the
funiis
Federation
proportion
to
according
power
to
be
add
would
is to
affairs, and
tf) receivu
its
by
to
increa.se
from
population
the
in
the
to
centralize
of
instead
and
tive
Execu-
and
expend
The
inhabitants.
centrnlizution.
universal
the
liberty
or
compliain of
now
Federation
a
foreign
make
power
Canada
The
variation
to
cliftracteristiC of
new
no
contributed
would
the
of
.-;.
and
tendency now
higher governments,
full Legislative
exercise
expen.ses.
in
the
money
ach
empire.
Great
oV
military con.solidation
right
every
untrammeled
possesaes
except the
Therefore,
powers
bulk
of
tendency
i" the
Colonies
federation.
through
being
Federation
her
:'l,
bw-is
Imperial
of
presentation,
re-
Farlia-
-35-
ihe ^verninent would he
w)
niftnl,
from
their
are
oli^;irehius
"|UontlyuiiMutisfjict"ry and
more
or
All
oli;""ircljy.
less "\u
unjust, corisevory coiistrtiotioti
in the
transient.
The
mn-joritv
"
hlacks,the ratio hpin;"ah )ut six olacks to
All men,
hoth lilackand white, have equalpolitical
That
this
is
true
h"ts heen demonstrated
beyon"lall
rightH.
United
In
the
million
States
ic
however,
one
cost,
c")ntroverHy.
lives and nine thousand
ini'lions of money
to provy it. Canada
}\as no desire to invest in this prohlein.Conse(juently,
either
britiHh
are
FCmpire
white.
otie
the fundamental
of Imperial
federation
principle
i.sunjust,or
numbered
six to one, will be the political
Free Canada doe.s not wish to be affiliated
the whites, beingout
wlavea of the blacks.
empire the great majorityof which are blacks, and
of this crmtinent,either
in the hiatorj'
retroga"le
consequently
or
ens
by politically
being enslaved by them.
aving black.s,
Neither has Canada any interest in Britain's foreignpolicy.
with
Wo
an
have
than
t^^rritory
more
desire to ac"|uire
more,
Britain with men
and
we
can
utilize and
in no
conseciuently
in
her
wars,
money
blacks
have
need
no
will
event
or
aid
purpose of
for the
we
into the Empire.
territory,
gloryupon Canada, and be of no
One
citizen of the neighfinancial benefit to her.
boring
appreciable
absorbing
more
These
would
wars
shed
buys
republic
V
their
and
no
than
more
a
dozen
Asiatics
and
Africans.
wish to denl,there are
If it be whites with whom
in
more
we
the United States than in all the British Empire. Considering
the relative
to
a
blacks and
you, my
part of an
means,
reader,the child of
pire
in the British Em-
Empire
a
white mother, prefer
ing
beIf you do, then b^'
black ?
empire,essentially
advocate
ImperialFederation.
The
wars
whites
States,the ratio is 40 blacks in the
black in the vStates.
one
Do
uU
of
populations
the United
and
ImperialFederalists propose
of Britain and
the support,in
that the
men
and
expenses
money,
of the
of
the
British army and navy be borne pro rata by all -the nations of
the Confederation.
They propose to minimize the repre.sentation of the blacks in the imperial
Parliament. Consequently;
the
of the
representatives
British
declare
Englaml. Canada
whenever
be able
to
war
would
her share of Britain's
As Canada would
have
Isles,being the
would
majority,
it suited the sole interests of
the silent privilege
of paying
war
foreign
expenses.
demur
this the
against
Canadian
offer as a compensationto her the commercial
of their policy,
which however, are, in reality,
only
alists
Feder-
advantages
a
greatin-
mn.'"NaniMM""
'4
jury
both
to
Tho
"Jeclaie"l
i"een
Canadian
FederaliKts
policy of the
ol'
impiacticahle Viy the Federalists
is not
sanctioned
them,
Howev
hy
he
to
and
Australia,
will
investigate
Canada.
and
Britain
connnorciiil
and
Imperial
duty
no
m^
Britain
tho
at
5
5!.:.
the
of
sea
the
"
"."'"'"
;('"
v;,
"s.
"
,
I-
world's
hying
and
the
her
trader
an"l
he
store
the
of
ai)il the
se,
ships
have
world.
the
she
tluty.Consequently
tli
"
of
carriage
the
her
and
trade,
for
l"oth
market
universal
free
her
oi
cf"mmoi'ce
of
free
of
mistress
being
in
strike
would
policy
consists
England
enter
This
which
gr2atnesH,
outsiders.
this.
to
afjroe
pire
Em-
the
Is
goo
greatness
vanishes.
The
H
not
of
part
component
one
be
there
that
propose
aijainst all
selling,and her
globe. CircumscriV"e
"
i:
duties
goods
is the
of
but
carrier
'J'he world's
in^s of Canada
from
.i^oino-
could
root
we
BRITAIN.
TO
Federal
goods
on
another,
to
,,!.
jr,
it.
RESULTS
The
has
Britain
of
her
the
! Bread
present
he, knows
and
are
the
population,
hold
the
she
ot'
the
of
cost
food
would
'I'his would
meet
in
more
than
j'ather
charge
the
than
more
not
England,
balance
the
an"l
in
power
Bi-itain.
million
st"irvation.
the
of
from
poor
Revolution,
wealthy
this
arouse
the
from
Fre!"ch
their
per
hands
Bread
is
a
tt"
she
though
of
cry
2.']
employing
of
virtually govern
manufacturing.
nieals
deniand
powerful
dare
Unions,
iheir
and
jtancK,
Britain,
few
a
constant
the
increase
policy would
suttoring among
this
great
only
now
Roman
day.
factories
know
cause
been
full well
The
the
Britain
! has
of
time
of
food
who
poor,
Brearl
the
people
tlieir
of
price
despair.
cent,
of
her
and, through
of
constituent
Therefore
of
cost
increasing tho
of
nmnufacturing.
in the keen
luis to
injure Britain
competition she
of the world.
markets
would
This
injure Britain
her cohmies^ benetit
her.
The
people of England,
cause
an
agree
to
for
their
incii-ase
pay
more
goods,
in
for
would
tlie
their
let
cost
tVxxl
the
Ite
and
colonies
obliged
go.
to
They
the colonies
in order
retain
to
they will not pamper
their
allegiance.
the past, this
commercial
Judging the future from
policy
will never
be a(lo]jted. The
CORN-LaWS
were
passed
onco
and
for all time
in the history of Britain.
She
cannot
retrograde.
dare
disciimiiaate
not
in her
now
England has not since, and
taritls
in favor
her own
food
of even
much
khs
iu
producei-s,
now
state
"
-37-
favor of
oura.
RESULTS
CANADA.
TO
if the proposedpolicy of the
Even
Canadian
Imperial
Fodeialistp were
carried into effect,it would not result in any.
the exports to Britain
appreciable
advantageto Canadians on
food ex]f the duties were
of Canadian
favor
in
ports
so
arranged
that
woith
000
realized
we
of food
Just
000,000.
send to
we
on
Britain, it would
the $20,000,-
amount
$2,-
to
increased profitof fiftycents a pieceto
famine tiiinted half-dollar would be blood money,
desire to
with
would
it. What
Canadian
an
Canadians.This
carryinga
advance of 10 per cent
an
cur"e
from the hunger of the
half-dollar,wrung
solitary
of the poor in Britain ?
The policy
of the Canadian
ImperialFederalist,instead of
C)V)tainhis
children
financial benefit to
beinga
Granted
that
would
advance
c.
be
would
Canada,
obtain 10 p.
we
on
serions
a
to pa}'^10 per cent, advance
Britain,we
of our Englishinjports.On account
of the extra
it would
have
the
to
on
price
priceof
food
'
fc: the English
be necessary
themselves,to
charge 10
recoup
As British
injury"^
exports
our
manufacturers,in order to
percent,advance on formerprices.
Canada.Engli.sh
pay no duties on entering
and would chargeus within a trifleof the
cost laid down
pricethat other foreigngoods,which paid(\uty,
goodswould
manufactuiers
could
in Ciinada, and yet be able to retain our
British goods would cost us in our
stores
afi
Therefore,
custom.
nearlythe
same
prices
before Federation.
The
loss will
presentduties
now
appear.
furnishes
Federation the duties
The
large
a
money
part of
from
obtained
our
the
Under
revenue.
be cut off. An
increased revenue,
in the event of Federation, would requireto
be raised,for in addition to our
present expenditure,there
would
be oui' proportionof the
expenditure of the Empire.
Hen' e,
other
we
would
from
Great
be
Britain,in order
So
revenue.
importswould
raise
compelled to
than
largeramount
a
moans,
British
on
loss
our
to make
this
by
our
by
direct taxation
or
piesent duty on imports
good this deticiencj^'nthe
policywould
be
an
amount
equalto the present duty on British imports,plusour proportion
of the Imperialexpenditure.All Uie
present numerous
custom
would
would
houses
exceed
be retained, a;Ri
The consequences
astrous
Canada
*
as
to Great
free of
enforce
of many
policywould be as dis
British goods to enter
Allo\vir"g
increase snnigglingall alongthe 4,border '^ne. The bitterest of feelings
to Canada
duty
would
requireany Canadian
would
expanses
of this
Britain.
000 n)ik-s of the American
would ensue
between
the Canadian
Tlie United States,possessing
the
not
the
the duties collected.
a
double
Govern mentis.
and American
of
pioducts every elinie,docfi
The
piotUicts.
American
tarifi"
prthibitory
i.MpmieiM.."
both
(HintrtT'
ouri-f
Government
importand
.
ex-
port. Canada
R's. have
great R.
These
rate
the
United
of 300
The
few
any
terms.
ourselves
to
Annexation
policythat
no
C madians
upor^
surrender.,
injure oifchori
with-;
mpncy
will
We
of
hungry
kin
our
Eurdpe.
relatives
and
they will
inside
surpass
have
Mentally,
union
while
Canadians,
Let
Union,
but
markets,
to
ance
gain
as
is
equal
superiors.
of
and
brain
select
their
em-,
which
of the great
nations
Therefore,
advantage
now
in the
of
for
tivj
upon
Continental
by
are
only market
is the
and
if not
their
stands
commerce
of America,
fre""
yet solvent, proposei
free
other
any
greati
be
fact i
country
ours.
by Kur-,
continent
will
pre
we
proven
the
lose
those
America
her.
this
their
Their
will not
Canada
We
never
the
onco
our
on
employers
they do not
if
with
equal terms
American
Confederacy.
same
footing in Europe
upon
us
the
states
with
Let
laurels.
Ask
we
to
nations
Physically
Wesi.3rn
in accordance
ployees
to
Europe and
interchange with
free
their
"f them.
A fair field
America.
ring of
enduring.
more
in the
muscle
the
tied
free
in North
to look
the best
had
not
favore.
no
l^een
have
have
we
nations, our
handed
fair field and
a
hands
Our
that
80
is
ask
we
had.
ope,
in
r!;!i
All
have
^
Canadit
nation.
any
the
will
make
can
to
in
daily..
1000
a
at
us
than
Federation.
Imperial
coinplitnents
it,by extracting it from
make
increa"o
unconditional
an
under
being
not
desire
Britain.
Great
or
exact
two
soil.
deserts
in Cauada
supplicate for
policy as
a
We
of it.
none
out
such
with
would
would
would
be dearer
Onr
American
on
populationnow
would
exodus
remained
Rancor
Away
wants
The
boycotted.
feet
and
Our
Food
daily.
States.
who
head
amputated.
be
would
the
their
both
be
would
miles
along 4,000
European
import*
more
of
many
our
proi*
ducts.
for
to ch"x"8e between
Canada
being
necessary
it
left
bebarred
from
and
Were
America,
or
Europe
soie;
totally
If it
ly
her
to
of
favor
al
were
interests
monetary
having
America
as
to
ploy
our
present exports
will
never
the
as
If
ever.
caused
love
United
Continental
Under
Britain
to
a
the father
son
lakes, would
Britain.
Canada
come.
with
union
with
But
does
not
remaining
at
home,
in blood
to be poor
he
to
the
Cana"la
Union,
less,because
intend
without
States
for
enter
consent
where
him
he
eiur
than
more
this decision
into
political
of Britain.
will stillbe
and
allowed
would
consume
was
loyal to
as
no
ance,
assist-
pocket,would the
to
in
addition*
the
States
time
the
be
would
verdict
free market,
the United
a
mines, forests and
our
the
because
populationthat free trade
in
decide,
son
jwjceptaremun-^
his relatives ?
position with
erative, healthful and honorable
Canadians, in the interests of Britain, of Camifla, and of our
-.-X!", advocate
CoDtineotal
the
policythat
Union.
injures
none
and
benefits
all-7
rtJi.VSi'.W,
iiMW-VJiB}
|!^.'^^f*t"'T*'
-r-40"
elect councillors
township
in your
oF the
ratepayers
1 Ivivor
woul
wlic
to
wisest c mr.se
townships ? If this is the
adopt in townsliip affurs, it is also in national ati'iir.s. Gjutiiifarmer
Cana"lian
will give the
ental Union
e"ia il alvatitagjs
be the duty of the ratopayers of
It would
with
the American.
would
benefit
a
poMtical policy which
township to advocate
a
bjnofit all the
If the same
their township alone.
policy would
of
benefits
its
thous iiidthousand
are
a
a
townships
country,
the
of
fold.
Therefore, the duty
patriotsof that country, to
the similar
tim^s greater than
this policy,isa thousand
advocate
singletownship,
obligationresting upon the
ratepayers, of a
benefited
local
would
be
which
policy.
by a
this union
Cantwiian
The
r
loser
the
18
duty
can
to
pursue
at
which
his
his
the
contains
nearest
is raised.
produce
of
the
Then,
in that
locality. Let
and
will
he
that
know
freight he ought to
duty by continental
ivor continental
for
Now,
of
our
by
a
or
has
paid
he
but
na
only
freight
logical
place
place
sarn^
class
there, that
American
then
fararjr
prices,
compare
and
duty. The
defrauded
been
has
of the
the
from
newspaper
by th3
the
method
the
iie
where
faiuier
Canadian
The
of
out
tlie
selfish
politicians.
permanent remedy
and
isohition.
hard
some
reliable
following
facts, regarding
statistics
are
the
from
taken
prolu3ts
the Statistical
and
books
of Canada
for 18S ), 18)0
1831, published
year
of Agriculture,and
the Department
printed by the Gjv*-
Printing
ernment
highept
and
Parliaments
'at Ottawa.
Bureau
official documents
Dominion,
our
tha
he
Amari-
find out
isolation, perpetuateilby
is the
The
farms.
he
pay,
Union
Continental
get
obtained
are
the
States,
that
of the
States.
him
his residence
to
prices that
Let
"
the
enters
amount
the
to
goes
follows:
as
produce
States
in the
be
just the
to
that
produce
would
his satisfacbiori
to
prove
may
of, and
account
on
on
farmer
they
'
:
are
of statistics
Tliese
that
books
the
are
published by
are
especiallyintend -^d for the
our
guidance of
-.""".^.""^^"S-'-X
:"^
BARLEY.
,,,
Exported
United
$ 6,454,603
1890
4,582,563
1891
2,849,269
Statistics prove
with
of Ontario.
sorrow,
Canada
to
Britain.
States
1889
product
from
$ 3,838
12,017
=
that
The
the
greater part of
farmers
of this
that the difference, between
75,225
.
.
this
the
barley was
will
observe
province
the
total
amounts
for
"41-
and
18S0, was
$3,50'),00^. This
exports of barley in 1891
caused
Bill, which
less barley
chiefly owinn; to the MeKinley
and
far
lower
to be sown,
be
obtained
for
it.
to
a
price
Therefore, takiurjoft the duty entirely, would
ley
barcause
more
to be raised, and
the price to be far hifjjher.
Belleville is the principal aarket
for barley, in the Bay of
in 1SS9, 75 cents
Qainte district. The averii,fe price there, was
in 1892, 4:) cents.
But
in a few
hours
a
sailing vessel would
the lake to
the
in 1892, 75
cross
Oswego, where
price was
the
was
"
^
cents.
Therefore,
fanner
from
labor
"
the
United
knows
Tliis
all
is true
is
at
consider
men
equal
to
It
they
remuneration
close
tiie
30
us
pay
malster
the
business
more
similar
bushel
a
of
stockman
or
is devoid
of
Canadian
When
farmers
their
barley, and
that they
prove
they are to the
do
could
not
are
30
get
the
use
"
for
Dear
loyal
more
loved
to
bushel
obtain
and
more
it,does it
in Britain,
strangers
vvi'Jhintheir
sheltered
ones
a
own
?
Neither
British
themselves
enslaved
:--::".
"
Anjerican
nor
be
to
would
by prejudice and
':"."":"'".,
.
farmers
)":,-,-'",
thus
robbed
low
al-
by politicians.
'
^
.
"WHEAT.
^.";;a,.
Exported
.
by Canada
to
^
United
"
1889
u,ooJ
1890
Britain
,.
";"."",.
,
In
.
"
3/9,893
"
'.
the
comparing
yield
Territories, were
for the
all of tlie wheat
exported
in the
North
of the
years
West.
that
of
wheat
recollect
previous yeiar,
an"l acres
of virgin prairie
must
we
grown
wheat
.
.$ 439,863
"';"."""^".
.
613,390
1891
y
States.
20,591
in
that
1891
This
sown
from
remark
succt^ed 1891.
969,134
1891, with
in this
Manitoba
fii'sttime
in
for
year,
and
with
Canada
also
that
of any
thous-
many
the
North-west
wheat.
to
-"I
Almost
Britain
appliea
M
old
sentiment,
cents
to
means
.-If
detestable
unspeakably
cents
"
free
are
for
"-""""*
ceived
re-
tht"
on
the
"
friendships.
no
homes
to
that
seems
that
proves
yet willing
barley, than
England."
than
entitled
are
States.
is
Canadian
not
strange
barley, which
this
is
the
American
1891, notwithstanding
duty of 30 cents
bushel, the greater poi-tionof our
barley was
bought by
Yankee"
for
for
that
barle}',that
?
In
the
Y. State
Canadian
the
prevents
for his
price
century, when
equal, and
and
Is it not
nineteenth
isolation
same
in N.
farmer
inferior.
average
of the
on
obtaining the
the
by
continental
to
was
the
m
42
'
"".sV
.":(;":00r..("
The
"
An
and
with
marketb;
their
chase
and
of
be
sent
the
at
the
by
rail
Europe
question
load at Port
as
this.
tlie St. Lawrence.
But
ancf the
ports
of
the
derived
be
Lawrence
lakes
great
from
When
,:
St.
the
the
this
cause
north
the
water
not
own
wealthy
continent
of
the
transform
great
the
all
a"iVi*tt^geato
?
"
..c
",
the
that
other
no
the
and
this
Th"
porta.
tion
immigra-
the
,and
highways
thus
water
could
up
it does
of
'
ain.
to Brit-
great
half
and
heard
farmer
the
direct
witii
the
to
should
steamers
bulk
to open
incalculable.
are
ocean
water
ocean
wheat
wheat
it, when
the
river
into
Ontario
do
the
furnishes
machinery
will
confederacy for the sake of all
to develop to the fullest extent,
cent
per
navagation,and
afford
not
union
50
present high
The
Maiiitoba
cannot
wil
Republic
to
Manitoba
breaking
furnish
Canada
])urthe
the
the
prices of freight and
the
the
lakes
of
that
so
will
iroji at
America
send
head
up,
sail without
Union
()olicy
lighway and
as
opene^l
Arthur,and
do
North
only
be
25
on
far
lower
will
reduction
possiblefreiglitrates."
Continental
and
from
are
town^;
to
of
manufactures
to
the
and
also desire
They
lowest
should
highways
How
:
is
road"and
tliem, better
schools, churches
more
other
"
tion
large immigra-
a
present generation
to
means
machinery
which
States
prices*paid in the
cheaper. They especiallywish a
of
The
freight on wheat.
map
solution
the
taxation.
reduced
a
.
to obtain
all
population
increased
all this
after
not
bridges;larger home
and
desire
Manitoba
of
immediataly,
dead.
""
'.
farmers
f
=
;
-;
;"
v
";
~
Bill
McKinley
.
would
lower
the
price of his l)arley, he
would
wheat, believing that Britain
more
and
so
enable
But
in
this
with
a
he
million
1890
This
unless
price
that
at
the
run!
she
had
Ontario
nous
iy
a
have
greater part
Western
could
low
of
duty
ly by exiles from
was
prices.
this
This
was
a
Ontario
wheat
Province
cattle
on
of
own
of
and
Quebec,
two-
United
thirds
of
bushels
his
Americans,
wheat,
continent.
with
consumed
who
was
consequence
to the
ground
was
States,
the
continental
because
bushel
its
farm.
observed
tunate
by the unforgrown
jibsolutelyrefused to
and
hog feed, at the
barley. The
obliged to sell it
cents
Eastern
1891
his
markets
in the
the
25
to
and
wheat,
his
be
million
one
had
it for
the
to
access
of
for
payed
in
wheat
Britain
purchase
farmer
wheat
which
wheat
were
about
means
it will
of
only $6,000, they
farmer,
she
For
exports
principallythe
was
imposed
it could
the
dollars, which
Ontario
same
while
his
from
ever
as
mistaken.
barley
purchase
much
as
woefully
was
in
were
wheat.
buy,
to realize
surprise,that
States
of
him
less
sowed
were
tion
isolabefore
The
American
the"iB,chiefnow
oper-
f*
'
"v
"
"43"
/
'-.
.
in the
at\ves
us
how
ed
States,
factories
inseparable are
and
how
difficulty,when
has
of the
misled
Lot
us
our
"**
i.",*
the
ascerttifn
now
of
amount
compensate
add
pencil ^nd
wheat
UnitedStates.
Then
of
in 1891
Subtract
total
this
of
bill
how
this
that
000
-ti"
add
together all
wheat
in
the
the
much
would
they
their
a
gain
barley
soft
that
of
it could
be
never
if
off its
door
your
that
the
to
ed
export-
was
tario.
of On-
wheat
and
1889
over
farmers
on
cau.sed
hy
between
passes
estimate
then
you
the exports
receipts from
Union
Continental
broke
hinges, and
Would
rehung.
wheat
Will
total
the
on
wheat,
and
excluding
commerce
through
tipfhter.
little
creased
in-
the
18*9
which*trade
door
States,
in
barlej''
money
the
was
from
1891
farmers
1889, and
M'hich
money
States, which
t"S-
Take
This
loss to the Ontario
j'^ou.
of S*%000,000
and
wheat
barley
was
their
and
of
of
exported
was
wheat
their
barley.
a
.''^uiiiiti"j"i'
,
and
from
of
Britain
thoy expected
the
on
.
Ontario
barley money
which
of
the
receive
loss
all the
total
closing? the
Canada
would
.
-
barie}
on
to
.
L'.nt-
out
of
is before
$"^,000,000
the
the
loss
"""
s^ovrv
the
us
markets
ii"T
!."""."
nicollect
the
money
United
the
to
for
seperately
p")rtionof the
thiit
189l,ind
You
ton^ether
j"ortionof the
v
total
they
money
them
extricate
iu the
Bill caused
tbat thfi McKinley
{^[ether,
1891
compared with 1889.
would
faith
"""".!.%"*
wifib
connections
cousins
unfounded
This
States.
England
American
our
our
us.
New
business
.
,
..
it not
be
it up,
least
at
took
so
$5,000,-
annually?
Get
Parliament,
and
correct.:
.^V''-!
'
year-book from
for yourself that
Canadian
a
v*"
.see
'""kJa.:;^
f^-'
Dominion
member
of
your
these
startlingfiguresare
'^"";:i-^'
"
:".;"
."!
j.i:.;;-
""""'.,;Jiii
,
WHEAT
United
B-JJ'^'H
States
.
British
India!
OF
CROP
.
.
"/V^^ii'V. /:\
,
1891.
U;'^;612
^ri^
million
ntm
bushels
.
"["""'-"",
.V'i'7i'V;^),'l;^^\'i^'/C.'VV^.V;'i'^265-
.'"j^i"':!.
:'V.1,'-.\
I'T' ;
Canada,
WORLD,
THE
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.'"!'i";*!o/"u.
itovii
'^*..
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.
Ai-gentine
i^'i-^S^^ ..W-otjW"J("vj^,"
RepubHc^U'^'Tl'.V/V.^t^^i^
..:....:
Australia
x^)\xti
I'j'^fe^'-^i^ofci
.':.'' -;'\ i^.'J^'Ji
"
.
But, compare,
fh"mif."
Unit'Kl
Rnvm'ft.
British
'.
.it
Great
.
surprise
Britain
"
:"
bought
'
'
''"
in 1891
-^ """"'
V^^''' "*
"
f'
tVl^.V.
.''.'i-i
iiv'bi"')r{
fin 'jd^ ''"'"^'
Miff
M,.l':l\'U
Ihdi"^kV.'Al'i^vh'}^.
'Sfii'::W'^
"'^'"'*
'Ti)lr""if3
v.*ij*"
from
;'iV,Vv;'iV'.*iy.'i.62| miliiott
States,
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with
.
^..
bu.shel)i
''
"
*
f-.**-
"-
-u-d muii
i"^^
"^"::?V.t'
"44"
Australia
6
Argentine Republic
5
Canada
4J
Germany
Austria
Did
u
as
think
yon
Canada
Romania
sold
Britain
"
"
4
"
"
3A
"
"
twice
wheat
much
ma
?
CHEESE.
if the
But
some
say,
for Canada's
wheat
the
cheese, while
Canadian
average
Here
is the
is sent
best, are
chee"e
to
cheese
to Britain
South
Eastern
it because
the
United
than
numerous
Only
the
Americans
the
British.
the
of not
account
over
a
on
even
an
and
in
annually.
to
imagine
average
recompense.
favorable
astonishment,
of
cheese.
In
people of
States,
fall cheese
her
on
markets
cheese,
her
of
tinent.
con-
their
cheese, on
United
States, is
on
the
Canada
that
each
costs
tories
fac-
and
in the
heavily
farmers
to .sellthem
of America,
not
remains
of the
share
Canadian
the
pound
Tlie
pricesfor choice
looses
Canada
able
ilollars
best
iKitter
fact, continuing
Europe,
in
being
million
In
are
summer
South'.a*n
it ?
eat
"
year
the
wealthy enough to eat the
proportion of the American
; the
of her
the
to
to
small
far
pay
Thus,
loss to the
The
each
a
nation, .sells her
a
and
a
ocean
through being deprived
as
sent
never
sent
afford
not
are
across
because
Canada,
can
clieese.
is sent
is
cheese
children
States
l)ulk of their
cheese
; their
States
the
True
fall cheese, which
The
Western
States.
her
lbs.,and
1 5th
Sept.
of
ibs,
American.
Republic, and only t!ie spring and
England. Besides, the majority of
of the
some
the
after
made
States.
87 million
to
of
bushels
14
million
106
in the
sent
are
cheese
United
Britain
sells Britain
only peW her
is superior
No
:
of the
eaten
in
one,
cheese
reason
out
Canada
States
sell
Americans
is
Canadian
part of
yearly
a
farmer
$300,00.
His
He
gains nothing, absolutely nothi.f^-,
allegianceto Britain does not gain for him
When
consideration.
he
realizes
that
he
visits
Britain, to
Americiin
an
citizen
is
his
more
there than
A Canadian
Canadian.
a
sider
liighlyesteemed
they conis only a colonist,living in a dependent
colony that holds
England's apron.
onto
of
one
be
thus
of the
be
the
seme
American
an
of the
President
day
of
equal of the Queen
of Europe the respect for
A wealthy
on
American,
may
the
yet.
Whereas
greatest nations
is
of the
that
they
great Republic and
know
England herself.
an
American
citizen
free
a
world, and
On
citizen
registeringat
a
the
is
hotel
tinent
con-
greater
in Ger-
-45"
as
many
landlord
olwecjuious
the
of
I. Kin^,of
John
"
addressefl by
Chica^, ^^. S. A.," was
"
as
Your
Majesty,John
the First,Kin^
Chicago."
CATTLE.
The
farmers in Canada, east of
stock and
markets
fat
on
cattle,
of the
account
Toronto, lose
of not
neighboringSuites.
having
Beef
on
free
and
both thei''
toth"
access
stock cattle "v^
in ihe eastern
always higlier
part of New York Stiite than in
of
the Eastern Provinces
Ontario.
Quel"ec and
adjiicent
parts
lose largely
their cattle by being excluded from
the
on
of
the
dense manufacturing district,s
adjacentNew England
the
States.
Therefore,the
eastern
from
exclusion
the markets
connection
political
on
our
suffers serious
continental
isolation.Tins
by
continent,results from our
Brilaiu.
with
liorse dealers
Cattle,sheepand
is
of
of Canada
part
financial injuryin the cattle trade
the rise, Britain
the market
try to ship when
being distant,the pricethere has
in which
to fall before the stock arrives.
Consequently,
few
Cana^lian
dealers,who
continuously
shippedto England,
very
realized much, if anything,from their business.
have eventually
time
Wherea"?
the dealers
place their
can
market8,innearly
as
many
hours
as
stock
the American
upon
it takes
the markets
there are
; consequently,
the shippers
to the States have accumulated
daj^sto go to
and more
wealth.
of markets.
He
surer,
land
Engof
farmer has
the choice
American
can
either
the
millions
65
to
at home
without paying duty,
or
sell,
to the 40 millions in Britain
a total of about 105 millions. The
lions
Canadian farmer has his 5 millions in Canada and the 40 milin Britain
total
millions.
45
of
about
a
Therefore,the
farmer is not half as large,
market of the Canadian
that of
as
An
"
"
the farmer
The
in the States.
lives in
Canadian
hopesof havinga- larger
population
in Canada
This generation
to supply.
will never
65 millions
see
in Canada.
Why not accept the immediate opportunity,
living
of
supplyingthe
For
?
many
65 millions at iiomc
productsthe American
the British,because
with
other
an
next
an
American,
will pay
article,
a
when
door,
market
ent
continour
is better than
on
he is thoroughly
ed
satisfi-
higher pricethan
a
of any
man
nationality.
To come
to facta,
farmer likes to sellwhere he
a sensible
sell
His
the
best.
can
own
prosperity is of more
importance
of the day ;
to him, than either or both of the political
parties
in or out of his pocket,whether
and it does not put any money
man
in the
the
or
country, is' called the president,
"
the head
^
iii*"".'HW"*'"W""*w"..'
"""46
Oovernor-Geneml, und
"'
that is about
iy between the Canadian
all the real "1ifferencethere
Oovorninanta.
and American
SHEEP.
In 1802, the United
States
benightfrom
Canada, 290,000
Britain purchasedonly 32,000 from
"heep and lambsi,whereas
The
American
us.
duty on
sheep i" l$1.50,and on lambs 75
cents each.
Figurtfor yourself,how many more sheep and
lambs Canada
money
would
forever the
would raise, and
how
much
more
receive for them, if political
union took down
American
tariff sheep barriers.
Canada
has immense
of
areas
she
unoccupied land, specially
Near and profitable
would
mancelis
these
hills
be
with
to
covered
tended by experienccause
flocks,
ed
shepherds. Sheep nusing would
develop into one of our
adapted for
greatand
annual
sheep culture.
most
,
would count our
ve
industries,and
profitable
and
but by
thousands
not
latnbs,
sheep
by
export of
millions.
The
than
slip3p is more
finelyflavored
ton,
mutis
Canadian
true
same
as
regards
with the American.
Our Ai"erican neighbors
of the
English. The
mutton
the
when
Scottish
compared
than any European nation,
spend more
money
and willingly
for
a
a
good price
savory dish,to tempt their
pay
will always
mutton
tastes.
Canadian
the
Therefore,
epicurean
command
ready sales at highly remunerative
prices, in the
and
earn
United
and
States.
grindto
Canadians,it will
powder, the Atneric*n
j'^ouwell to take down
pay
tariff walls and sheep barriers.
HORSES.
Since Confedenition,Canada has exported340,000 horses,
adian
the United States
botight 325,000. The Can-
of that number
farmers
made
the wealthy
for the privilege
in duties,
of
000
the above
Republica presentof S7,000,these horses,in what
selling
figuresconclusivelyprove to be our best and most
No matter
what the politicians
natural horse market.
may
say,
horse
the farmer doesjiot relish the duty of $30 on a common
that
that is imposed by the McKinley Bill. For
matter, he
relish any
his own
observing
does not
farmer
farm
can
duty on
a.iy
actions in
common-sense
learn how
producereduced, by
productof
an
to avoid
American
his farm.
his
By merely
stable,
any
having the priceof
tariff
telligent
inhis
When
he ceives
perget out of
of his horses is about to kick, if he cannot
he simply springs
the reach of injuryaltogether,
so close to the
will
union
result. Cfontinental
horse that no illeffects can
one
bringthe Canadian
farmer
so
close to the United
States that it
I
-4"-
low
the CanaJian
duty.
United
StatcH
British
allegiance does
British
mat'kots
Japan
as
way,
the
markets
not
not
charge
by
American
pay
l)est.
and
then
you
way
to
each
upon
as
froi
States
of
^'ood will
of her
ns
farm
and
of
tho
luce !
pro
singlefavor
a
open
of
hens
egg
in the
favorable
as
to
will
had
get twice
get this
breed
of your
la^'ed
hens
hens,
for your
TIim
eggs.
is by advising your
money
money,
of Canada
union
eggs
American
The
lars
dol-
Bill did
priceof
pocket
the
million
one
McKinley
the
change
much
as
extra
for
to vote
the
the
on
States.
better
allegiance co."t
1892
for
dozen
a
United
in the
and
hens.wlien
our
Dritisli
them.
money,
even
half
short
stopped
of
rescue
IH91
5 cents
Ladies.you
I^ritain
the
in lx"th
their
on
duty
a
that
frightened
hawk
year
husbands
the
lialf
upon
are
fully to
come
of Canada
women
dy
; her
w
bestow
not
United
the
for
market
a
st"itisticH show
McKinley
the
oi
for
egg
did
and
into
come
Canada.
to
The
t")
es^^
dependent CaiUMJa
How
and
the States.
HAY.
Exported by
'
United
Canada
to
ri,.
,
Britain.
States,
,
'.
S822,381
1889
:
.
.
.
.
'Ji .$ 84,010
/^ :.
.
........
.
.
.
.
..........
1890
922,797
109,034
1891
375,813
598.567
150,297
1892
When
167,00i
promised
and
all
was
take
ai"l of
tho
to
come
faithfully
politicians
Canaila,
""'"
Never
to
3,000 miles
cheap
our
and
able
be
of the
expanse
of
Britain.
and
Canada
and
to
farm
bulky
realize
a
ducts
pro-
ative
remuner-
freightscut.the Canadian
heavy ocean
Canadians
Therefore,
preferedto
nothing.
bulk
American
the
of their
and
"luty,
ship
the
se
statistics.
dollar
one
been
rarely ever
hay at Lew
much.
ship
to
markets
tvdjftcent
-1"
above
often
Whereas
between
ilmost
^eseive
hay
our
"*'Mh markets,
prir*^
t
all
impossible
price f'
pay
"
intervene
thf
to
the
would
the States.
into
Atlmtic
It is
hay.
our
will
Canada
the
Britain
that
the
passed
was
mind
the Americans,"
they said,
good prices." This
hay and pay us
impossible" any school boy could give the reason.
Alor"g
half of
throw
stone
front
line,he could
our
a
boundary
buy
"Britain
one
Bill
McKinley
the
The
a
$5.00
ton
higher
less than
York
The
for
and
of
continent,
our
freight
pressed hay,
on
the
higher.
Liverpool do
Canada
and
American
$3.00
freightfrom
our
across
to
the
is proven
by
ages
grt^t lakes averas
price of hay
side of the
lakes,
has
and
prices for Canadian
not
generally differ very
Liverpool is stated, by the
The
1
7;:T3*"':''i,'r**'--'':
-49-
Wookly Mail
hay. Wlulo
uf Fob. 2w\, 1833, i,o be $1:^.50 per t'i.i for pronmA
aritl Quebec to New
York
Ontario
it in froiii
%\ to SI a toil.
Ou;- Quebec farmers
receive
about $1.00 a ton
ft"r tlie lif"y
that is sent to Eti;{lathl.
This pays tliem h"\v wages
from
for their w.jrk. ami
fur
iiotliiM;;
HoUtul
it may
Stran^eiM
timothy Imy is
not
the hay
jseijuently
the
tiiere
being
Canada
in
evon
En"(lau(l.
Wst
our
Their
climate,
varietyof seed are all different,con*
article
ditferent,they appreciatetheir own
full
fur
our
Whereas,
prices
hay.
pay
in
ditFerence
appreciable
no
liay.
Canadians,
and
will not
most, and
favorite
a
iiietho I of cultivation
their
to
between
the
hay
in
grown
tiie Northern
and
hay, when of gootl(|uality,
commands
City.
good
Fifty car loads of pressed hay, bought at $6.00 a ton, were
vshipped
during Nov. and Dec, 1892, from Napanoe station to
the pricewa.s then from $17.00 to $20.00,
NeA' Vork city,where
The
to
duty wa.s $1.00, the freightwas $3.50
Hccording quality.
the
dealer of from $koO
to
to $t).50 a
a
ton,
protit
giving
per
Htates, our
pricesin New York
Uiuier
ton.
1 the
Union
Continental
farnierfl wouhl
the
have
ceive
re-
present price$6.00 plus the "luty$1.00, which
to Hell a ton
$10.00, and it pays no farmer
il're necessitycompilled tlie industrious
Hccept $6.00 for hay that
wonh
was
at
of
for
hay
Napanee
lea.st $10.00
equals
less. Only
farmers
to
to them
to
I
t'ciidup
pays
their
on
$10.00
farms.
instead
Agriculturists,tulvocate
for farm
of $6.00
COMMON-SENSE
American
depeyd upon
that Britain
prtj^lucts
elsewhere,
Canada
cheaply
of
to Britain.
with
UMENTS.
Seeming
for the sale of th"3"o
market
need,
not
has
interests,and
selHsh
her
or
been
never
buy
Ciin
under
more
pliments
com-
any
compliments invariablycoincided
if her
interests
had
dictated,
so
been
ada.
readily to Madagascar as to Cangranted as
Anything and everythingof equal value sentfi-om lluHsia,
would
have
Canada
in
does
our
policythat
produce.
AUG
the
We
the
the
the
or
British
United
States, command
exactly the
Continental
markets.
would
Union
prices
same
leave
our
footing as before,and
exactly the same
would
and
fully
permanently the American
up freely,
open
of our
tnaikets, which are by far the best for some
agricultural
products.
exports
to
The
States
hay
that
to
up"m
Canadians
tell the
politicians
not
are
JeeoUoct
Britain
as
well
otf
union
political
that
coinpaie
in order
as
those
will not
to make
parts of each
that
the
in Canada
farmers
benefit Canadians.
fair
country,
comparisons
that
are
in
the
; therefore,they
We
need
it is necessary
equal in date
to
"
f
m
fajV'-f.
-I'^f^il.v;*-
",:'""" "'"t.A'^-.i.
~50"
of settlors,and
settlement, character
ticians
do
this,but
do
not
poH-
quality of soil. The
some
compare
Western
new
State
foreign settlers, with an old part of Canada;
peopled with raw
pioneei"salso had to struggle up
purposely forgettingthat our
Canadians
from
the Vx)ttom of the ladder!
are
generally better
tbe
in
and
soil
the
inhabited
than Yankees,
workers
parts of
that in the States,
is 20 per cent
Canada
more
pro"Iuctivethan
far
richer
be
than
State
to
America, but we
m
so
we
ought
any
have
their
States
off
national mortgThe
not.
neu.rlypaid
are
age
is growing yearly. Goisequently
I'icher
we
; ours
appear
national
When
debt
has
than
our
wo
reallyare; they poorer.
will
the
heaviest
that time
to be paid, and
s(X)n
part of
come,
Union
enable
will
would
union
by
would
have
only
we
The
since
the
The
average
price of
cent
cheaper
in the
of the
is
the
to
Canada
of it.instead of the $300,-
the
ordinary
States
debt
the
the
of Canada
pjirt
four-fold in the
same
nece.ssities of life
are
in Canada.
than
March
since
of
amount
four lokl
increased
has
in
in wealth
United
just
States
community
States
United
which
for
debts
confederacy, and
new
United
the
resiile increased
you
payment,
Provincial
and
fourteenth
one
al
Continent-
Only
this
in debt.
of
Has
of the
pay
now
wealth
1860.
which
to
evade
to
heavj' Dominion
whole
the
are
them
our
cause
be assumed
000,000
ths farmers.
will.as usual, fall upon
burden
the
25
per
reduction
The
188J), is $259
Canadian
the
in
time?
lions,
mil-
Dominion
debt.
for
Now
Government
some
prosperityof the
States
that
which
the
stiitistics,
compare
of Britain, France
and
Canada
States
.$62,610 millions
with
:
"
Total
wealth
of the
United
Britain
'"
Yeai'lyoutputof
United
all ti.e factoriesof
48,036
5,500
States
Britain..
production
American
liritish
of the
"
world's
"
"
4,500
iron, 1892
"
"
33
28
"
.
Eainingr K
Bank
the
people,1887
American
"
"
British
"
"
"
"
French
"
"
circulation
per
family
"
$
.
,
.
S. all
Canada
Total
agriculturalexports
all
rail-road
"
mileage
"
1891
United
States.
"
$
50.00
125,00
$794
1892
1892
one
per
700
in Canada
just
cent,
cent.
770
millions
50
of all Canada
"'
per
1,060 millions
.
U.
"
14,000
State
(Illinois)
14,000
i
"-hi-
Canadian
which
labor
you
No
and
fanners, the remeily for the
man
win
common
in his
sense
private
un"1er
(Hsadvantafjfes
apply
not
or
exercise
and
local
farmers
iu the
of
mana"(oment
the
tit.
see
you
shrevv(lness
as
more
affairs
agriculturist. This is shown
by his
free
when
of
market
a
even
"leprived
of his farm
an"l
the
decided
by
produce,
half
by
is in your
haivls
to
be more
dilisfent or
than
the
adian
Can-
comparative
for
perity,
prosAmerican
the
al)ilitydisplayed
business
of
county
our
noted
of our
ent,
continmen
great majority of the
including all the ablest pi-esidentsof colleges,railroads, and
the sons
of the great Republic, have
been
of farmers.
of (Janada
The
are
majority of the voters
engaged in agricultural
This
the
the
of
the
being
memmajority
pursuits.
case,
bei-s of our
who
would
men
parlianients ought to be farmers"
in the interests
exyrcise the same
common-sense
diligence ami
councils.
The
of aofriculturo in the
do
in
local
and
and
Provincial
affairs.
Halls
Domi-d"tn
Canada
that
thev
has
her
to-day among
private
who
farmers, patriotic men
are
intelligent, well informed, and
possessed of great practicable ability. Farmers
possessing these
the men
who
ferred
conqualities have, in all ages of the world, been
their
countries.
greatest betketiis upon
of
the
English
Hampden,
great champion
Who
the
John
ablest
of his
man
words
the
said
:
"
protection
of
of
business
to
was
first
the
nation
our
The
authority,
and
have
us
have
Those
then
nation
words
of
great general, then
has produced,and
then
a
like
those
dence
superintenthe
were
the
to
country
the
these
the
manage
glib speakers
send
we
?
have
life
sent
not
were
agriculture.
"
who
farmers
well
as
callings in
of Canada
industry
British
of Canada
fanners
their
farmer,
a
not
halls
legislative
the
from
hoi}'keeping."
Would
farmer.
a
of his nation,
dearest
our
those
His
statesman
greatest
Hgain
to
who
Wa.shington,
the
God,and
Almighty
them,
of
of
interests
the
liberty, the
H^ar
intelligentfarmer.
English extraction, !vho,
an
farmer, tilso of
I commend
"
was
position of Commander-in-chief
the
resigning
when
He
?
age
of another
was
become
the
in
to
men
sympathy
These
Parliament
with
have
men
rulers,instead of the
the
who
great
usurped
of
serv^^nts
that have
tissif;ted in
us
policiesupon
country, and forced
the time
not
producing the present financial depression. Htm
oiir
come
men
when
to
citizens,
Farmers,
imndj!(,'
the
Parliament
but
the
to
farmers"
who
the
of
back-bone
will^not
attempt
faithfully represent them
destiny
of Canada,
for
weal
Canadarule
to
an"i
or
-will
their
send
fellow
their
interests
woe,
is in
your
/
Some
object
to
of
Many
morality.
lived
if they had
tiniun
a
tliese
in the
with
the
States
have
ol)jectoi*s
States
valid
of*
ground
the
on
t"ecanse
reasons,
they would
have
account
of boo"lling an"l
heen, before now,
imprisoned on
who
jGjencralrascality. Othei-s,
are
really f^ocx]people, shuttin^j
their eyes
to the crimes
committed
in Canada,
point with horror
the States, and
committed
This
t") those
m
object to the union.
made
class have
never
a
study of States
riglitlaw, for if they
know
wftuld
that
each
State
its own
al
criminha"l, they
legislators
laws, commands
marriage
and
r"bedience
wouhl
them.
This
of
eac'
pn)vince
W'
uld
cease
of
the
place greater
power
would
Canada,
the
to
power
criminals
who
than
interests
dumping ground
a
in
tlie executive
punish
to
further
to
be
to
Britain, and
a
and
them
to
instead
of
for
in
ever
violate
hands
the
Canada
morality.
immoral
the
force
en
of
refuse
migrants
imthrifty and moral
of Britain
and
Northern
Europe.
Morality is greatly
Canada
will
gards
question of clinjatf*,therefore
always be, as rethe
Britain
of America.
and
Scandinavia
momlity,
The
of
a"lnn*t
that ContinentCanada
al
must
respected clergy
would
the cause
of reUnion
to
ligion.
give an immense
impetus
The
wealthier
taxation
of
churches,
our
that
policy
in
comparatively
is
of
of
the
weaker
abler
the
with
strength
by
of
voters
of
order
preaches
present
time
to
to
best
in
caused
in
fore,
There-
Canada,
ed
increas-
State8,mean8
We
union
this
the
oppose
half
the
theological
profound
in
Canada.
a
common
the
this
need
tians
Chris-
of the
million
practicallyoutside
to
by political
denominations
and
direct
in-
them
States.
the
be
and
this
and
eneniy,
Canada
in
churches.
grounded
lawful,
of
blood,
new
in
needs
brilliant
United
religion
enrich
be advanced
tinental
against Conarguments can
of
the
Union.
ain
Britconsent
It is not
disloyal ; l"ecause
be
Canada.
first be obtained
will
it
before
adopted by
well
will
use
now
"it the
No
Only
of
continent,
infidelity,who
are
of
cause
infusion
this
of
the
the
also
Canada
The
are
of these
in
stronger
will
heavy
chiefly causing
would
which
portions
and
to
this
wealth,
who
denominations,
complete union,
the
union,
all these
Chri.stian
our
direct
the mas^jes.
rapidly lose their grasp upon
colleges,the ablest teacliers, and the most
thinkers,
of
one
every
This
Christianity
l"ecause, it is the
wealth,
of
Republic.
churches.
Canadian
the
attract
portion
the
is in
denominati"ms
the
naturally
its advocates
Canada
Parliament
majority
in
and
con.stitutional
our
when
who
to
peaceful
the
influence
convinced
favor
Parliaments,
it.
Canada
of
means
Canadian
will
will
The
voters.
its l)enefit8, will
When
made
be
its advr"cate8
request the
elect
are
bers
mem-
in the
Queon
and