Of 9,456,000 bushels of bailey they bought all. . Of 8T4:5,O0(' 

 of hay they bought $670,000. Of 8439,000 worth of potatoes 

 they bought $338,000. Of $83,000 worth of general vege- 

 tables, they bought $75,000 worth. 



Wherever an opening is made in the tariff wall, trade at 

 ouce rushes through. When the duty was taken off eggs, the 

 trade rose from a nominal amount to nearly two n:illious. 

 Where is the use of telling us then that the Americans would 

 not trade with us or that we should not profit Ijy tlio trade 1 

 The United States import over Sixty- MiLLiy-N dollars 

 worth of foreign products with all of which Canada could supply 

 them. The horse trade with the United States especially, is 

 likely to develop greatly if the trade is set free. Instead of the 

 horses having to stand at livery, as they do when sent to Eng- 

 land, the American purchaser takes them up on the spot. The 

 Americans use horses more and are willing to give higher 

 prices for them than the English. 



Commercial U aion would give at the same time a free and 

 good market for all our products, for our minerals, in which we 

 are incredibly rich, but which now are not worked because 

 they cannot be sold, and for our lumber and our fish. All our 

 industries would be developed, the number of our peojile and 

 their power of buying would be increased, and the farmer 

 would then be provided with the best of home markets without 

 having to pay taxes or bonuses for creating it It has been 

 said by some who had studied the subject that if our mining 

 industry had free trade and fair play, our farmeit*s would have 

 employment enough in feeding our miners. 



Under the Reciprocity Treaty the Canadian farmer pros- 

 pered. The Government has repeatedly tried to make an- 

 other treaty, showing that it recognizes the benefit of Reci- 

 procity. This is the answer to all the partisans of the govern- 

 ment who now argue that by Reciprocity the farmer would 



