The times., 1894-05-11
CANADIAN INTERESTS.


preciated by cur Nsi.hbors.
The Canadian press OF March IS,
1894, gives the speech of the minister
Of finance at Ottawa the day previous.
The following are extracts:
NOW, sir, have been frank to adj
init that in the initial stages of pro-
tective policy the prices OF goods manu-
factured under it were enhanced, but /
am here to state another fact, and that
is that jas. as capital invests itself the
industrial establishments multiply as
they become diversified and distributed
throughout the country, the power of
internal competition comes III to take
the place of external competition--a
competition i'll many cases more keen
and destructive than the foreign compe-
tition, owing TO equal conditions of pro-
duction and carriage and distribution
in the country. I"
This is the deliberative opinion of
the Canadian government today, and
tho new tariff now being formulated is
being planned Oh these lines
If Mr.. Fosters words could be used
as club, they would be an admirable
weapon to use on the Wilson bill. Mr..
Foster is not Republican, OF Demo
crat, or Populist. He is Canadian
legislating for his own country and
states his deliberate opinion as to a pro-
tective tariff. He does not find that a
tariff is q tax on the consumer, except
perhaps at the very first. He finds that
local capital, local enterprise, is SO plenty
and so keen that the price is very soon
cut down to net cost
He continues: 81 will state further
what cannot be denied-that, in the his
tory of the national party here, in the
history of protection i'll the United
States, in Germany and in other coun-
tries, that fact is one of the most potent
in the records of the results of such q
policy that, although there is at first a
raising of prices, they tend to come
down by the multiplication of the in
dustries and the competition which re-
suits therefrom until the producers sell
simply at the cost of manufacturing,
plus mere living profit. ("
Why could not Mr.. Voorhees, have
taken "a few lessons i'll political economy
before he opened the defense of the Will
son free trade bill III the senate?
But Mr.. Voorhees, made much of what
he was pleased to term highway robbers
coming to Washington to demand hear
ings and protection for their several in
teresta Mr. Voorhees, saw corruption,
crime and nearly every other disaster in
these remonstrances. Let us see what
Mr.. Foster says on this point:
"But, sir, crowning objection that
honorable gentleman opposite takes 70
the national party is that it is IN off
spring of greed and selfish cupidity on
the part of the few-a desire among
some to rob and acquiescence III the
great majority in being robbed-until
the process is legalized, and then it be-
comes, as my honorable friend says,
'legalized robbery.
Yes, we have indeed heard those
words from the lips of Democratic ora
tors, 10, these many years They have
shouted themselves hoarse and red III
the face and into apoplexy, into mental
and physical Mysteries and bewailed the
utter ruin of willful and peryerse peo-
pie in persisting i'll getting more and
more prosperous each year under 80 vile
system. Let us see how the prime min
lister Of Canada will approach such a
topic. He goes on as follows:
''The very force and vehemence OF an
assertion like that disprove it. -
Could he, the honorable gentleman,
as they say it in Canada, know how
much noise any orator the Tall Sycamore
of the Wabash would put into his speech
within a week from the time he made
so pointed remark?
But he does not stop there. He goes
on. He clinches his statement i'll Il way
that must seem brutal. 1t is certainly
heartless. "This," he adds, is % free
country, tho men of Canada are an in
telligent people, and they make their
representatives understand what they
want" He does not seem to get a night
mare because i'll such free country
people know what they want and love
to say so. He recognizes evidently that
the supreme right of petition, of memo
rial and remonstrance, by those whose
interests are affected so that by these in
herent constitutional rights those whose
lives and financial interests are at stake
can be heard. Senator Voorhees, thinks
it rank corruption stalking shamelessly
through the corridors of the capitol He
should have closed the doors to the dep
utations of working women who recent
ly had the audacity to come here to urge
the defeat Of the Wilson bill. They
should not have been allowed to go about
the capitol menacing Liberties and DEM