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it has gone down thirty per cent. The best of our young 

 farmers are leaving the country by hundreds. 



The N. P. was to give the farmer a home market, 

 given him nothing but dearer clothes and •'combines." 

 is the N. r. but a set of additions to the taxes ? 

 country make itself rich by taxation I 

 to think so, for it goes on piling up debt and taxes. A countrv 

 trying to improve its condition by taxing itself is like a man 

 " trying to lift himself by his own boot-sti aps." 



The only way of really improving the condition of the 

 farmer is to give him a better market. The best market in iW 

 world is that of the United States. The people of the United 

 States are now the richest in the world, and the readiest to ]'Ay 

 for anything which they need or fancy. Their numbers ami 

 wealth arc always increasing. This market, v/hich is close at 

 hand, not on the other side of the Atlantic, is the natural 

 market of the Canadian farmer. Lut he is shut out of it by a 

 tariff wall. That tarifl' wall Commercial Union, or call it if 

 you like Unrestricted Ixeciprocity, proposes to throw down, 

 giving the farmer of Ontario a fair market to sell in, and at the 

 same time a fair market to buy in, so that he may get the full 

 earnings of his labour and spend them to the best advantage. 



Trade is trying all the time to climb over the tariff wall. 

 Out of our $81,000,000 worth of exports we already sell to the 

 Americans more than $30,000,000. Out of $105,000,000 of 

 imports we already buy of the Americans $45,000,000. These 

 figures would double or treble if the tariff wall were out of the 

 way. 



Out of 18,779 horses that we sold, the United States 

 lx)ught 18,225. Out of 443,000 sheep, the United States 

 bought 363,000. Of 116,000 cattle, the United States bought 

 45,000. Of about two millions worth of eggs they bought all. 

 Ot 1,416,000 pounds of wool they bought 1,300,000 pounds. 



