[commercial union club leaflets — I ] 



What Commercial Union will do for 

 the Farmer in Ontario. ' 



T is time that the Farmer sliould begin to look to 

 his own interest. It is time that he should claim 

 a voice in the Commercial Icf^islation of the 

 country. Hitherto, the head of the Government 

 been closeted before an election only with the 

 manufacturer, though the farming interest is by far the 

 mobt important and pays the bulk of the taxes.. The outlook 

 for the farmer in Ontario is not good. Wheat growing in this 

 Province will never again be what it has been. The English 

 market is being more and more supplied with Indian and Rus- 

 sian wheat. In India, the extent of wheat land seems to V)e 

 almost unlimited, and, as the Hindoo needs only a little ricfl 

 for food and hardly any clothes or fuel, he can send almost all 

 he raises to market; he only wants railways and better imple- 

 ments, both of which i& government is giving him. Then 

 there is likely to be vact competition from the North- West.' 

 While the manufacturer is 'protected against competition by 

 taxes laid on the farmer,' the farmer is taxed to bring down 

 competition on himself by building the Canadian Pacifio Rail- 

 way to open the North- West. England as a cattle market for 

 Canada has failed; it'istoo far off. Still less is the <listant 

 market likely to be good for v horses, as the horse may have to 

 stand long at livery before he is bought Engluid, now that 

 wheat-growing no longer pays there, will probpoly turn more 

 to raising her own meat and dairy produce. The value of farm 

 li^^/operty in Ontario has gone down greaily ; in large districts 



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