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[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 <listant
market likely to be good for v horses, as the horse may have to
stand long at livery before he is bought Engluid, now that
wheat-growing no longer pays there, will probpoly turn more
to raising her own meat and dairy produce. The value of farm
li^^/operty in Ontario has gone down greaily ; in large districts

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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

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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

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