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'we should prostitute the honor of the fi noehu'x':g thizstou':ltleflgest w 3 @» -- + + 4 Crown. (Applause.) He says his pol | that can be devised. (Cheers.) We 1 ")] icy is an Imperial policy. His policy should have been better satisfied if the * is a bastard policy; his policy is a dis-- | Dominion Government had taken it up honorable policy; his policy is a policy | --there is no doubt of that f that no honest man in this country will | hat. }xphold. No matter how great hl}sl in-- | The Situation Changed, § | i i am-- 4 | M e%!"estswe:;e, 1:: v:)ntlrller':,)lese SS than But my hon. friend from Frontenac, | animated by _ political _ bias, to who made some remarks in reference | stanrd on the floor of this House and to & pamphlet issued in 1894, seemed publicly advocate the breach of an to think that we are acting somewhat | | honorable contract; and yet that is the inconsistently.: My,hon. friend did not | 1 | doctrine that Mr. Whitney calls a Can-- perhaps quote the clause jJust as it is [ n adian and an Imperial policy. | written. It was there pointed out that l | the lumber trade is of Dominion coné | p»tion. cern, not that they were alone entitle ' ' yaifed States Presum; to deal with it; but because it is so big | Now, I say, on behalf af ourselves, | and broad that it is entitled to be | never mind the 'Americans; they are | treated as a Dominion concern. Then, | not a bad people, but we must do what-- it was. and it is, a matter of trade and | ever we can to prévent them taking our commerce. The export diuty is, there-- logs, to prevent them throwing stones fore, a matter of Dominion concern, into our garden. 'They put a duty on and that of trade and commerce also, ~ our lumber which is very bad, and we so that there is nothing in the pamph-- fs, do not like it. I am not going to say let which my hon,. friend has quoted actually that we have no complaint to which puts us in any different posit'ion make or that we Are not in a position than that which we are quite willing l to help ourselves any more than they to occupy. I may say upon that point are in a position 'to prevent us placing that the situation is somewhat different v,i,. a duty on their cotton or any other ar-- now. It is very much changed and t ticle. T am not aware they challenge | modified by those two conditions at-- ; our right in that respect, but they, of | tached to the United States tariff from ' # course, attempted to get even with us, what it was when that pamphlet was | €y precisely what we are trying to do now, given to the public. Therefore we may | ®e not by retaliation, but by the remova" to--day be justified in doing what four P _ of a difficulty which they themselves ' or five years ago we were not justified | have created. (Cheers.) What we do | in doing. It is only during recent years complain of in the strongest language | that large quantities of logs have been which we can employ is not the $2 duty, removed to the United States. Prior to but they are not content with pres('rib- that the quantity was inconsiderable ing their own duty, they prescribe what ard not of any moment. That has, duty we should place upon goods being however, been discussed in the House, exported from this country. It is that and I need not refer to it further than they are not content with framing their to say that It is only within the last ;own tariff, but that they frame a tariff three or four years that the export of A for us also, that we have a right to lo#@s has risen over a hundred million ' comp}ain of; that they attempt t(')nr])ut feet. ># us n a -- cul de _ sac. ey C prescribed _ a sort _ of -- automatic, p A False Claim. e &A self--acting coupler, attachment 'What I want to summarize is this, 3 as it were, which went on to provide that when hon. gentlemen opposite | that if we impose an export duty upon claim this policy as their policy, they | #° our logs, in that case the duty make a false claim. The Government f 6 shall be doubled; in other words, that had put their policy in motion before $ al the duty which we impose on logs shall hon. gentlemen opposite had even taken E. be added to the duty they had imposed it up seriously and introduced their re-- % | § upon our sawn lumber. Let us see how solution in this House, that we have B | that operates. Just in this way : that taken the true method in a matter of | (§) our lumbermen cannot get rid of their this magnitude, viz., of referring it to P lumber, except the best quality, under | the House, and taking the j a $2 duty, arnd therefore it is better | House and the people into the I . for them to ship their logs to the Unit-- confidence of the Government and L ed States, where they will be sawn-- securing their approval of what is be-- i " compelling us, as it were, to have our ing done. Upon a matter so important ) IP > logs sawn in the United States,. That and grave we would not have hbeen ' '% is what I complain of. (Cheers.) We justified in taking action in the privacy i i are justified in doing whatever we can of the Council chamber. Therefore I I do, within the bounds of the letter of can hardly under}?and how Mr. Whit-- \ the constitution, and of the contract ney can expect tci?pubnc to sympath-- | d which we have made, in seeking to get ize with any decJ@ration on his part | rid of it. They went further, and pro-- ; that we have been guilty of a misde-- l vided that if logs that come down the meanor in bringing this matter before | \ St. John River are manufactured in the House for consideration. I have Canada by American lumbermen they rot spoken with a gingle lumberman P -- shall be admitted into the United States on the matter, evén the large deal_ers ' free of duty. They not only prescribed who are anxious to ;lress their .claxms L : in reference to our export duty, but. to consideration. but who has said that i while sending Canadians from t{lelr l\v;: have adopted the truly statesman-- f and boundary lines, and declar-- ike course. EWw ?::r(te:nt Canadian;yshall not go there Mr. Hardy sat down amid vigorous to work, they are saying who shall Ministerial applauge. ,, > $ perform work in Canada. That would The Pork Issue. -- be a further stretch of their supposed 4 . ier rights in connection with our tariff Mr. St. John mmade a somewhat than I have formerly referred to, and rambling speech.,,which opened. with | for these reasons we are justified in any an attack on the (Premier for what he _