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VoL. I, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911, No. 2.

Liberals Face Defeat

THERE are unmistakable signs that the power of the Liberal
party is waning, The party is, in fact, in process of disinterra-
tion. Its veteran leader faces defeat fighting to the last, but
without hope of victory, In the very heart of his Quebee strong-
hold Bourassa, the fiery malcontent, is the leader of a fast-spread-
ing insurgent campaign. Ontario witnesses the influence of the
anti-fetiprocity Canadian Leapue, organized by prominent Liberals
and gaining many recruits from that party.- In the northwest
provinces the electors are awaking to the true issue, and there will be
no Liberal landslide there, British Columbia remains the avowed
enemy of the Laurier policy and will return a solid Conservative
delegation, To crown all the premier’s troubles, there is bicker-
ing and recrimination in the cabinet itself and with few exceptions
his most trusted lieutenants are not ardent in their adherence,
Following the desertion of Hon, Clifford Sifton comes the loss of
Hon. Louis Brodeur, minister of marine and fisheries, and Sir Alan
Aylesworth, minister of Justice, with many others of lesser note,
These gentlemen honor the Liberal party more by refusing to
indorse reciprocity than had they blindly followed their mistaken
leader in his desperate effort to force the ‘unwelcome pact upon |.
the country.

The Election Issue

SINCE the proponents of reciprocity practically rest their case
upon the argument that the adoption of the pact would open
new markets to Canadian products, it will profit the voter who
wishes to form a correct opinion on this important question to ex-
amine the evidence presented for and against. The inquirer will
at once be struck with the paucity of imformation presented
by the Laurier government, as contrasted with the voluminous
and comprehensive reports prepared by the United States gov-
ernment, by which it was proved to the satisfaction of American
producers that the agreement would be of great benefit to them,
In great hurry to adopt the pact, the Liberals seek to content the
electors with the assertion that reéfprocity will open to Canada a
market of ninety millions. Let the inquirer consider, however,
that these ninety millions, in addition to supplying their own needs,
export every year an excess production of over $400,000,000, in-
cluding the very commodities which Canada might expect, under
reciprocity, to sell to them. What advantage, then, is Canada to
gain by throwing its comparatively small excess production.upon a
market already over supplied? Is it not a certainty that, with
our tariff wall removed, much of that four hundred million surplus
would flow into Canada, to demoralize our markets? As Sifton
has pointed out, the United States is a, much older, vastly more po-
pulous, immensely richer commonwealth that Canada, and its bus-
iness life is organized and systematized to a degree of perfection
unknown, perhaps, in any other country. © With unrestrict-
ed entry to our markets, in natural products, permitted by this a-
greement, the great American organization of capital would simply
take hold of our products and manipulate prices to suit themselves.
Nor would there be any relief from such domination except in an
annulment of the agreement, which might prove a matter of diffi-
culty once the moneyed interests of the United States had secured
a hold upon the coveted Canadian markets. - We believe the
people of Canada will consider the risk too great to assume.

This is not the time to adopt a new and uncertain tariff policy,
Not only is Canada already prosperous, but she has every aasurance
of long continued and annuaily increasing prosperity by the steady
development of her own great natural wealth.
that as a people we are on the safe road to success,
should we leave it for another road of whieh we haye no certain
knowledge and which will lead us we know net where?

There is a sentimental side to the question, and this also must
be considered. . Sentiment has always played a great part in
shaping the world’s policies, and will again in this instance.
There is no doubt that in adopting the reciprocity agreement Canada
would lose prestige as a nation. By placing our commercial in-
terests in the control of the Americans we should be radically re-
versing the policy which has consistently been pursued by Canada
during the past forty years; and we should be deliberately and res-
olutely turning our backs on Great Britain, on whose aid we leaned
when all other aid was lost, and by whose assistance we secured
the prosperity we at present enjoy. There is a-sentimental . as-
pect to the question, as may thus be perceived, butit is so intimate-
ly blended with many years of progress and success that it ean not
be dissociated from our material welfare,

“Tf it is true,’ says a prominent Liberal who refuses to accept

, Laurier’s reciprocity dictum, ‘‘thatit is essential in the interests of
‘this Dominion of Canada that we should conserve our resources and

; " _ work out carefully, painfully and perhaps slowly, the best, method

of making them available in order that we may have a strong, vir-
-ile and well nourished population, it must be clear that this ia not
‘the time to take down the bars and turn these resources over to
the United States.

oo-"Tf we enter upon trade relations of an extensive character
with the United States, and if all the favorable anticipations which
ean be entertaitied turned out to be well founded, and our friends

“is the nevitable conclusion? Must not dur trade and bus-

We know ndw
Why then

jauch - conditions, : is -
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THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911, °°

‘Voters Disfranchised —_

There is no prospect that the
government will be forgiven . for
depriving the west of some 25

representatives in the next parlia-
ment. The act is so deliberate,
g0 unnecessary, and so unjust, 50
contrary to the spirit of the con-
stitution, and so sweeping in its
disfranchisement that povern-
ment supporters in the provinces
affected refuse to offer any ex~
cuse, says an exchange. What
excuse can there be for dissolv-
ing parliamentin the third year
of the term, when in that very
year the census is taken which
must nearly double the represent-
ations of four provinces? With-
in a few months this readjust-
ment could be made and that
larger half of the Dominion
which is concerned could obtain
its proper: and constitutional i in-
fluence,

British Columbia, -probably en-
titled to twelve members or more,
is allowed only seven. Alberta,
entitled by government estimates
to at least twelve members, is
alsokept downto seven, Saskat-.
chewan, which is officially esti-
mated to havea population calling
for eighteen members, may have
only ten. Manitoba, with the
right to sixteen or more, is kept
out of six of them, Four prov-
inces witha population represen-
ted to be about the same as that
of Quebec, are left with thirty-
five members,: while Quebec has,
sixty-five,

The Economic Aspect

A careful examination of the
trade returns of recent years
shows that, while there may
be individual districts in which
the Canadian farmer will be able
to export his produce in larger
quantities to a section of Ameri-
ean territory which does not pro-

duce the same class of goods, the

net result of the ‘‘wider market”
will be to widen it on the Cana-
dian side of the line for the bene-
fit of the American farmer, This

is not a mere speculative opinion;:

it is a certainty, based upon as-
certained facts. The Canadian.
trade returns show that between
1909 and 1911 Canadian. exports
of cattle to the United States in-

creased by only $48,860; but Am-|_

erican exports of cattle to Cana-
da increased in the same period
over.half a million dollars. In
the same period our exportation
of breadstuffs to the Wnited
States decreased by $175,309,
and American exports of bread-

stuffs to Canada increased by|§

dver three millions anda quarter
of dojlars. Canada exported

his consideration of the first a
pect by asking “Is it better to
have the factory and the indus-
try in Canada or outside of it?”
and he advances a number of
practically unanswerable. argu-
Taents to show that not only. un-
der reciprocity would we lose all
the industrial enterprise: which it
has taken so many years to build
up, and place the Canadian con-
sumer at the merey of the im-
mense trusts of the United
States, but that with the reci-

procity-furnished United States|

products we should still have to

submit to a protective duty, and!

that this duty would be one of 42
per cent. compared to the present.
Canadian one of 27 per cent.-
That is, under: reeiprecity, we
should simply substitute the
United States manufacturer for
the Canadian and increase the
protection 15 per cent.

“Ts the high protection. system

‘with its effecta in the United

States abolished?”’ asks Mr. Fos-
ter, ‘‘when a new state of 7,000,-
000 inhabitants is added? Would
it be lessened or abolished when
the Canadian market of 7,000,-
000 was added to the domain. of
the United States manufacturer?
If there is reciprocity in manu-
factured products between Cana-
da and the United States, there
must be uniformity. of tariff in
both countries as against outside
countries. Which would be like-
ly to prevail, the tariff of Cana-
da or that of the United States?’’

He shows that not only would

the United States manufacturers

discontinue establishing branch
industries in this country, but
that the Canadian manufacturer
could not hope to push his wares
in the ninety-imillion market of
the United States and would have
to succumb to competitive pres-
sure,

“To expose our national indus-
trial system to the assaults of
that of the United States,’’- Mr.
Foster says, “‘seems very much
like a repudiation of. the policy of
30 years, a destruction of the vit-
al forces we have been at so

much pains and ‘expense to:

create, and an Sbnegation of our
present and future national |
ideas,”

The President’s View

Canadians’ may find food for
thought in these statements made | ©
by President Taft, speaking on
reciprocity:

“Canada will have 80, 000, 000

‘ed States: |

people | some day, and it would ‘be , aa
a shortsighted policy that would . y
fail to. provide means to capture

this trade,”

raise more than one-aixth of: one
per cent of the crop of the Unit-
The United States
exports in Canada fifteen times
as much meat-and dairy products
as Canada imports into the Unit-
ed States,’’ .

“The world price of wheat,
barley, rye and oats is fixed
abroad, where the surplus of the

producing countries is disposed
of, and is: little affected by the

derived.”

thoritative statements to the is-
sue as it effects Canada is fairly
obvious, Taft, whose knowledge
of the subject is profound, does
not believe reciprocity will help
‘the Canadian producer.

A Breach of Faith

Laurier’s insistence on the im-
mediate adoption of the reciproc-
ity ‘agreement he attemped to
justify on the ground that he
should keep faith with the Unit-
ed States government. This ex-

the country without allowing con-
sideration an unnecessary policy,
of extremely dubious advantage,
will hardly be accepted by the
electors. who have fresh in their
minds his unexplained failure to
keep faith with THEM. Before
the present agreement was nego-
tiated he solemnly declared there
would be no change in the fiscal
policy without the appointment
of a commission to go into the
matter. It requires some obliq-
uity of vision to see honesty in
the Premier's actions:

The Last Election .
Tn the election of 1908 the Lib-
erals elected 184 members and
the Conservative 87. According
to the statement. of the Clerk of
the Crown: in Chancery the ® popu-
lar vote stood:
Liberal ;
Conservative -. - 579,571
Majority - - -- 16;962.
If the parties had been repre-
sented according to the vote the
membership wouid have been: *-
Liberals --- - - - - 112°

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The application ‘of these au-|.

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$182,677 leas of fruit to the Unit-| #

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Where is the ‘‘Wider Market???

What will happen in the next two ||F

years, if the pact goes into force?
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tory operative is not working full
time,

consequence. Under Reciprocity

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‘And: if. Lede favorable anticipationa are, not: ‘realized, and
it Heat
54 ciprocity treaty,

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tailed his expenditure; and the].
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