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market for the farmers of New England ? From thou- 

 sands of miles away to the West, the consumers of New 

 England are being supplied with farm produce. " This 

 4,000,000 of people use grain," but 96 per cent, of their 

 breadstuffs are sent in from the West. The West sends 

 them annually upwards of 500,000 tons of grain, $20,- 

 000,000 of breadstuffs, $3,000,000 of butter, $55,000,000 

 of provisions, $45,000,000 of wool, besides hides and 

 other farm products. In all, not less than $200,000,000 

 of farm produce per year (or equal to upwards of $300 

 for each individual employed in manufacturing in New 

 England) is supplied by the West to the consumers of 

 New England.' 



In the Maritime Provinces manufacturing towns may 

 spring up, but any increase of demand for farm produce, 

 consequent upon this, will be met by the Western or 

 Ontario producer. We look over the advertising col- 

 umns of the dailies of the manufacturing towns of New 

 Brunswick at one time, and we find that the markets are 

 being supplied by Ontario apples, at another by apples 

 from the United States. And yet the Nova Scotia 

 farmer looks to England for a market for his apples. Is 

 not the hovie-market theory a delusion ? "^ 



Driven from one horn of the dilemma to the other, 

 protectionists will tell us that the policy is necessary for 

 the purpose of binding the country together, to create a 

 national sentiment. Such schemes maybe necessary where 

 rulers and people are in a semi-civilized state. But in 



' Mr. James G. Blaine to the Western farmers. 



^ Including grain and flour, the annual shipments of the products 

 of the farm from the Upper Provinces to Nova vScotia, now amount 

 to $2,500,000; in other than grain and flour $100,000 annually; 

 whereas such shipments from Nova Scotia to the Upper Provinces 

 has not amounted to $50,000 in a quarter of a century. 



