IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) I 5/ >*■ '^ 4Ko ^ z ^ 1.0 i I.I Uitll §15 ut Itt 12.2 2! 144 ■" ^ us. 12.0 L25 11.4 il.6 /: O / ^ I o^ CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICMH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical ISAicroreproductions Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques 1980 Technical Notes / Notes techniques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Physical features of this copy which may alter any of the images in the reproduction are checked below. D D n Coloured covers/ Couvertures de couleur Coloured maps/ Cartes g6ographiques en couiaur Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ Pages d6color6es, tachet^es ou piqudes Tight binding (may cause shadows or distortion along interior margin)/ Reliure serr6 (peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distortion le long de la marge intdrieure) L'Institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire qu'il lui a 4t6 possible de se procurer. 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The following diagrams illustrate the method: L'exemplaire f ilmi fut reproduit grfice d la g6nArosit6 de I'dtablissement prAteur suivant : La bibliothAque des Archives publiques du Canada Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour dtre reproduites en un seul cliche sont fiim^es d partir de I'angle supirieure gauche, de gauche A droite et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n6cessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la m^thode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 6 6 Wh ^r\ \ ^^ ,>) s most for tl Prov mark siaD almo for 1"( he ra ment there Whi] taxes comj way Can? mark stanc whea to ra [commercial union club leaflets — I ] What Commercial Union will do for the Farmer in Ontario. ' T is time that the Farmer sliould begin to look to his own interest. It is time that he should claim a voice in the Commercial Icf^islation of the country. Hitherto, the head of the Government been closeted before an election only with the manufacturer, though the farming interest is by far the mobt important and pays the bulk of the taxes.. The outlook for the farmer in Ontario is not good. Wheat growing in this Province will never again be what it has been. The English market is being more and more supplied with Indian and Rus- sian wheat. In India, the extent of wheat land seems to V)e almost unlimited, and, as the Hindoo needs only a little ricfl for food and hardly any clothes or fuel, he can send almost all he raises to market; he only wants railways and better imple- ments, both of which i& government is giving him. Then there is likely to be vact competition from the North- West.' While the manufacturer is 'protected against competition by taxes laid on the farmer,' the farmer is taxed to bring down competition on himself by building the Canadian Pacifio Rail- way to open the North- West. England as a cattle market for Canada has failed; it'istoo far off. Still less is the '■*' It ha8 What Can ii The government seem^ it has gone down thirty per cent. The best of our young farmers are leaving the country by hundreds. The N. P. was to give the farmer a home market, given him nothing but dearer clothes and •'combines." is the N. r. but a set of additions to the taxes ? country make itself rich by taxation I to think so, for it goes on piling up debt and taxes. A countrv trying to improve its condition by taxing itself is like a man " trying to lift himself by his own boot-sti aps." The only way of really improving the condition of the farmer is to give him a better market. The best market in iW world is that of the United States. The people of the United States are now the richest in the world, and the readiest to ]'Ay for anything which they need or fancy. Their numbers ami wealth arc always increasing. This market, v/hich is close at hand, not on the other side of the Atlantic, is the natural market of the Canadian farmer. Lut he is shut out of it by a tariff wall. That tarifl' wall Commercial Union, or call it if you like Unrestricted Ixeciprocity, proposes to throw down, giving the farmer of Ontario a fair market to sell in, and at the same time a fair market to buy in, so that he may get the full earnings of his labour and spend them to the best advantage. Trade is trying all the time to climb over the tariff wall. Out of our $81,000,000 worth of exports we already sell to the Americans more than $30,000,000. Out of $105,000,000 of imports we already buy of the Americans $45,000,000. These figures would double or treble if the tariff wall were out of the way. Out of 18,779 horses that we sold, the United States lx)ught 18,225. Out of 443,000 sheep, the United States bought 363,000. Of 116,000 cattle, the United States bought 45,000. Of about two millions worth of eggs they bought all. Ot 1,416,000 pounds of wool they bought 1,300,000 pounds. Of 9,456,000 bushels of bailey they bought all. . Of 8T4:5,O0(' of hay they bought $670,000. Of 8439,000 worth of potatoes they bought $338,000. Of $83,000 worth of general vege- tables, they bought $75,000 worth. Wherever an opening is made in the tariff wall, trade at ouce rushes through. When the duty was taken off eggs, the trade rose from a nominal amount to nearly two n:illious. Where is the use of telling us then that the Americans would not trade with us or that we should not profit Ijy tlio trade 1 The United States import over Sixty- MiLLiy-N dollars worth of foreign products with all of which Canada could supply them. The horse trade with the United States especially, is likely to develop greatly if the trade is set free. Instead of the horses having to stand at livery, as they do when sent to Eng- land, the American purchaser takes them up on the spot. The Americans use horses more and are willing to give higher prices for them than the English. Commercial U aion would give at the same time a free and good market for all our products, for our minerals, in which we are incredibly rich, but which now are not worked because they cannot be sold, and for our lumber and our fish. All our industries would be developed, the number of our peojile and their power of buying would be increased, and the farmer would then be provided with the best of home markets without having to pay taxes or bonuses for creating it It has been said by some who had studied the subject that if our mining industry had free trade and fair play, our farmeit*s would have employment enough in feeding our miners. Under the Reciprocity Treaty the Canadian farmer pros- pered. The Government has repeatedly tried to make an- other treaty, showing that it recognizes the benefit of Reci- procity. This is the answer to all the partisans of the govern- ment who now argue that by Reciprocity the farmer would \ giin nothing. The N. P. Tariff Act contains a standing offer of reciprocity in natural prodicts. But this ia a mockery, ae the Americans will not admit our natural products unlofs we will admit their manufactures. ^ . •, The JCnglish murket, whatever it mar be worth, will not be closed when the Ai erican market is opened. It will re- main just as open l|kt is now, and we shall have the advantage of both. M A ,.%... As to tfte Annexirtion Bogey, see Grip's woodcut below. Reciprocity did not annex us, or show any tendency to annex us, when we had it befiore. Why should it annex us now 1 On one side is the party Shibboleth : on the other is the fanner's bread, and that of his wife and children. Will ho choose the Shibboleth or the bread 1 >:'^. i Vl fc^ < *• Printed by Hunter, Hose d: Co.^for the Commercial Union Club of Toronto. ng offer eery, as I era we 'ill not rt'ill re- antage below. annex w ? is the »^ill he mto.