Year: 1864

and, at the same time have all the adyan-
tages of United States markets without
being subjected to any of their taxation 2"
And is that not SO. Within twelve
months after this reciprocity treaty-as
by an infamous misnomer it is called
went into operation real estate in Canada
rose twenty-five per cent, and within
twelve months thereafter it rose fifty per
cent And why? Because my neigh
Dor from the Canadas could go to the
market any morning with me in the same
car, and receive the same price that /
could get for my produce without incur
ring any ofthe burdens which l have to
bear.


/ say, therefore, that this question Of
migration has become a national ques-
tion. Now sir we owe Great Britain no


particular favor, but / would scorn to


bring any such consideration into this dis
cussion. But are we to have no regard


for the prosperity Of our own people !?


Shall the right to be an American secure
less than the right to be a Canadian
Are we to beat the bush and let some


body else catch the bird? | hear men


who reside on the border say, "We can


not bear this we have given our children


to the country, and now we are to be


taken besides" The man on the other
side Of the border says, your country is


bankrupt; your currency is not worth a


fraction; you are going to ruin, while


we arc prosperous and content; go to
your markets, and fill my pockets, and


your pockets are being constantly depict


ed BY this horrii taxation"


Now, sir, one word as to this taxation


and to the Canadians. l do not expect


to shut them out. expect that they


will enjoy cur markets. God knows l
do not want to destroy that people entire
", because some OF them have been and


still are most glorious friends of ours. !


wish could say that there were major


ity of such there, but they are such men


as | honor ! know they have nowhere


else to 60 but to our markets. The


"mother country" as they call has fail


ed to protect them. The markets they


do not suit them, but they come to US for


our markets. say let them come, but


let them not come to rob the brave men


Of our own country, who have given their


best blood for the protection Of our lber-


ties, let them not come to the exclusion Of


those who have birthrigLts and who bear


the heat and burden of the dag. We


will treat them as well as we do the most
favored nation, as neighbors, but we viii


not feed and clolbe them. If they are


to enjoy our markets let it be on the
same terms with other nations of the
world. Why not? Is there any man


opposed 10 giving this notice who can


show what has ever been discoYered du-
ring the working Of this treaty which
2 would induce us to believe that that i,
anything on the part of the Canadians
, that tLey can give US for what we give
| them? What reciprocal advantages can
they return to US? What benefits dC
: they give US for those we confer OF
them? They tell US that we may &C
, to their markets. Why, sir, they have
no markets. We may go there, but wha
f is the use of going there if there are nc
markets? know there are no market;
there l was born near there and know
what l say. Fifty bulIocks from Illinois
would frigbten every butcher out o
Montreal


, The House will excuse me for my
homely comparisons. l am, when a
! home, nothing but farmer, and thanl
] God for it. If it were not for him wha
trade or commerce would we have ? HI
has, by his industry and skill, brought thi
land into cultivation, and upon his labo
7 the past and the future Of our country
j rests securely.


j Mr.. Speaker, you have raised up th'
D manufactures of Canada since this treat,


went into operation. Since its ratifca
= tion at every session Of the provincial
e Parliament they have imposed dutie
e upon our manufactures. Their manufac
t lures are now going on and hourishing
e for the very reason that they are driving
e out our manufactures. Our manufactur
c ers take their capital and workmen ant
+ set up their establishments there. d
n you see anything Aattering in that? /
t. that one Of the reciprocal advantages
r, Do our manufacturing interests ask u
It to continue that condition of things?
e This is a subject in which l feel a
- interest, and l may, perhaps, show som
n warmth, out know that / am right.
IF want the abrogatiOn of the, treaty to b
h unconditional If they want anythin