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]\Iarks Act, and, through its influence I think, the situation has 

 been changed. Canadian apples are worth more there than 

 ]\Iaine fruit. And I want these people to hear from Mr. Elliott 

 of Ontario in regard to the operation of that law in Canada. 



Mr. Elliott. When I look over this large assembly of fruit 

 growers through the State of Maine and think of some other 

 assemblages of people of Canada, my own Province, fruit 

 growers also, I am somewhat in the position of a certain hotel 

 man when he was entertaining a large number of members of 

 the legislature in a legislative town. He thought that they were 

 getting just a little mixed in the corridors of his hotel and he 

 put up a notice reading something like this "The members of 

 the legislature will come in to their meals first and the gentlemen 

 afterwards." Well, he thought that hardly conveyed the right 

 idea and he put another below it. "N. B. Loafers and black- 

 guards are not allowed in the corridors of this hotel mingling 

 with the members of the legislature because it is hard to tell the 

 one from the other." I can hardly reaHze that I am across that 

 imaginary line and on that side of it where the stars and stripes 

 rule supreme. There is no emblem in this hall that tells me I 

 am in the United States. I want to tell you that if you were in 

 the city of Toronto, if there was only one solitary representa- 

 tive from across the border — what would we do? Why, we 

 would have the flag of Great Britain that for a thousand years 

 has braved the battle and the breeze, and we would have the 

 American flag, both draped together, emblematical of the man- 

 ner in which all this ought to be. The two flags together — what 

 •could they not accomplish? They could make war, but they 

 would not make war. They could command peace, and the 

 golden wings of peace would descend upon the earth. Those 

 two flags together — what do they represent? They represent 

 alike the liberty of the subject; they represent alike that great 

 principle that every man is entitled to happiness as long as in 

 the pursuit of happiness he does not infringe upon any one else's 

 happiness ; they represent education ; they represent civiliza- 

 tion ; they represent civil and religious liberty. And this they 

 represent, and will continue to represent, as thus they are draped 

 together. 



I am sorry that I am not a fruit grower to any great extent, and 

 I am more sorry that the Canada Fruits Act, that I have carried 



