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_ ADfiRESS. ELECTORS WEST RIDING 0F YORK Bentlemen:~â€" ‘ Having accepted the nomination of [he Patrons of Industry as a candi- ‘dabe for election to the Parliament of Canada for the West Riding of York, It becomes my duty to state plainly the grounds upon which I ask the Bum-ages of those upon whom rests the responsibility of using the ballot. Patronism is common sense in politics. We recognize no party, no race, no creed. We believe in the absolute equality of citizenship, whether on the farm, in the workshOp or in the count- ing house. We believe that no special privilege should be given by legisla- tion to any individual or class that is fienied to other citizens of Canada. Webelieve in i'oynlty‘ to our Queen, to British connection, to our country, and to ourselves. We believe in the reservation of the public lands for the actual settler. “ Land is to us the one Bfolid, natural element; our allâ€"produc- Ing, all-supporting mother, from whose bosom our very frames are flmwn, and to which they return again; our standing place, our work- shop and our granary." And yet, since Confederation 50,154,833 acres of {he best agricultural land in Canada have been given to railway com- panies, while only 5,251,425 acres have been sold, homesteaded and pre- empted during the last seven years, and of this over 15 per; cent. was can- celled. The total acreage under culti- yation in the Dominion of Canada, as shown by the last census, was 28,899,- 181 acres, or only a little more than oneâ€"half of what a series of generous governments have given away to these corporations. No member of Parliament can be in- fiependent and travel upon a railway pass; and he violates the laws of honesty who draws an allowance for Eravell‘ing‘ expenses which he never inâ€" cfurred. This country is ruled to-day by two great railway corporations, and will continue to be so ruled unâ€" fil this evil is stamped out. The law should be so amended as to make it a criminal offence for anyone but the directors, oflicers or employees of rail- Way companies to accept free transâ€" portation. The acceptance of any favors from any corporation or in- fiividual who has business with the fovernment is as much a breach of he Independence of Parliament as the having a contract, and should be just as severely dealt with. The Canadian Senate has outlived Its usofulness, if it ever had any, and Should be abolished. There are still a. few, very few, members of the Senate who are men of exceptional hbillty; but it is gradually becoming merely a partisan political club, com- bosed of those whose constituents had he further use for them, and of Worn- but party heclers, whose old age must be provided for. I will do all in my power by vote and voice to get the further bonusing of railways by Government grants prohibited, as I believe it to be con- trary to the public interest. This country has already given over $50,- 000,000 in cash to railways. and of this amount $24,000,000 has been given to. roads which have no national im- portance whatever. They vary in length from three miles up. and from a. national point of View begin at nowhere) and end nowhere. The Do- minion can make better use of its funds than by filling the pockets of a horde of needy railWay projectors. The four greatest questions which I Will have to be settled by the people of Canada are tariff adjustment, a ‘ Miway commission, the opening up 0! our national highway to the sea, ‘ and the school question. The tariff is a tax, and as such should be used duly for the purpose of raising sufliâ€" cient revenue to meet the necessary expenditure of the state. According to the last census there were 1,659.- 855 persons in this country engaged in the different occupations, and of these over 1,300,000 were either far- mers or wage-earners. who thus make up more than three-fourths of the whole productive class; while the non- productive class numbered only 52,- 986 persons. This being the case, it does certainly seem absurd that the great mass of wealth-producers should be made to pay special taxes for the benefit of the few. There is not, and cannot be, any protn-ction to the far- mer, who has to sell his produce for export, as, ’so long as there is a bushel of grain or a pound of pork more in the country than is needed, he has to sell at the export price. The wage- enrner has only his labor to sell, and as there is no protection for labor he has to accept just what the highly protected manufacturer ofiers or starve, and, unfortunately, too many are enduring the latter alternative. There is in this city a firm who manu- facture agricultural implements who have been paying good mechanics from 80 to 90 cents per day, and are prating about the advantages of the home market which they are providing for the Canadian farmer. If the worker has not money he cannot buy the pro- duce of the farm or the factory, and If the farmers, who form very nearly 50 per cent. of the wealth producers, are so impoverished that they have to deny themselves even the bare necessities of lite they cannot purchase from the Storekeeper, so that he, in his turn. may buy from the whole- saler or the manufacturer. That this is so is amply evidenced by the fact that on Jan. 1st. 1893, the chattel mortgages in the county of York alone amounted to $1,670,670. an increase of $459,930 during the year, and requiring the price of thirty-two farms to pay the interest. The population of the whole country, which is the only home market tor the farmer, has increased only 11% per cent. in ten years. while the production by manufacturers has [11ch by over 56 per cent, and {he ~imfmrtss haVe quite kept pace lahlulhl. The Pntron method of arriving at a basis for raising a. revenue is simpli- city itself. Having found what is the lowest possible sum which will meet the requirements of government, we proceed to divide all the articles oi commerCo into two great classesâ€"on the one side the absolute necessaries, on tho other the luxuries. Then wv tako the greatest iuxuricfi first. such as wines, liquors, cigars, billiard tables, Dianna. sporting and fancy goods foreign fruits and vegetables, and all that cannot be fairly considered as the absolute necessities oi! life for the poorest among our people, and upon those we place the duties as high as they will bear without stopping the importation. Thus we proceed through the Whole list 0: luxuries, or until we have obtained a suflicient rgvonue. with the population. From these facts then> is but one conclusion: that the country is suffering from over-produc- tion of manufactured articles, which will and has necessitated the closing down of factories and the consequent laying off of the wox’kmen. Thus we see that a policy of protection has provon had for the f‘armor. the wage- earnor. the Storekeeper and the manu- facturer. A d - .,,,__ -A .. Should thls prove insufficient we would then take up the list of neces- sities and allot to them the lowest possible duty which would produce the required revenue. and making ab- solutely free as many as posslble of the articles which go into daily con- sumptlon in the homes of the poor and the rich alike. sca, wuu A u... u- u... ._ ._., to so amend the Customs regulazions that each free entry of raw mun-rials shall contain an affidavit that the im» porter is, and has been {or a certain term, paying the standard or prevailâ€" ing rate of wages In his trade. All raw materials for labor should be placed on the free list except where the manufacturers are not pay- ing the standard or prevailing rate of wages, and I will do an in my power ...c ....,- Under‘ the existing condition of affairs ih(- railway companies are so much the masters of the situation that they can dictate to any province. city, town or individual as to what business they may or may not engage in; they can and do fix their rates of height 0 as to build up the trade of one city to the detriment of another. These com- panies centre at Mcmtrea]. and they have been upheld in this to such an extent by the Railway Committee of the Privy Council as to place that city in control at the entire shipping in- Favors Secular National Schools and Tariff Reform, and is opposed to A Canadian First, Last, and All the Time. THE PEOPLE’S CANDIDATE IN WEST YORK Cent Postage. Cent Railway Fares. Parties call him their candidate. JOHN BRowwmfi Ierests OI the provmm-s or umanu an Manitoba. These roads, upon Whun this country has lavished an mucl money, have made a mantle“ of mrry ing the freight of our American cum petltors at from 25 per cent. U: 50 Dr cent. less than for the samu- class!- of Canadian produce. 'l‘héy hit“: in c- losing money on this business, and i' order to recoup themselves have lakl' the difference out of the Canadian fa: mer and producer. They have Ir». ably assisted in this truly la:-:‘.;H_.-' business by a class of monopulisls: 1 whom they havu and are grmiiin; special rates, to the loss and 'o'r’ ment of all honvst shippms. Thy;- have interfered again and again i- the elections, and no doubt will do .9, in the approaching contest. 'l'lu; have created dangerous crussings a‘ over the country, and, with the aid n the Railway Committee at Oxlawo have succeeded in making the mnnici palitles pay many hundreds of moms ands of dollars which lhcy shouh justly have paid themselves. Nu vii; or county in Canada has snficrer more from this thnn the City of 'I‘b route and the County of Yorl: In Parkdale we haven highway whlwl is both a street and a concession lim which was there before the railways but which they refuse to upvn up as the demand of the people. VVlmt i: necessary is the establishment of a Court of Railway Commissioners wlw shall be independent of all puliiinal Court of RaiIWay Commissioners win- shall be independent of all political intrigue, and to Whom all questiom which may arise between the penn‘x» and these monopolies may be reierrvd and settled at the least cost. The people of Canada are (he possessors of the grandest natural highway for the conveyance of their produce to the world's markets that n kindly Providence has granted to any people on earth. Everycent saved on tin- cost of putting the produce of the farm on the world's market is a cent saved to the producer, and the saving at tho very least calculation on six product: of the Ontario farms would be $3.17i.» 285 per annum, if we could ship mu produce from this city without change and this does not include the minor items of trade, nor the saving made by having Nova Scotia coal put on the docks for the farmers and manu~ facturers at $3 per ton, as would then be done. Thirteen million bushels of Canadian grain have been shipped this year by way 0! Buffalo. and our carriers have lost the price of the car- riage and our workingmen the hand- ling. One port, Eacanaba. on Lake Michigan, with a. pubtion of less than 10,000, handle more freight over the 21-foot American system 0! water- Ways in one year than the total Unnaâ€" dian tonnage that was sent out of Canada. Space will not permit me to enlarge on this subject here, but i hope to have every chance to discus; it on the platform. We have at the ‘ mouth of the Humber the best basin for the docking of deep draught vessels that can be found on the north shore of the lakes. It can be made to accommodate 150‘ vessels of the largest size, and a depth of thirty feet is practicable without any nook cutting. I am pledged to the twenty-one font standard, which will make Toronto 8 seaboard port. I have been a. lifeâ€"long advocate of national secular schools, and will, if elected, do all that one man can do to secure the privilege of a perfectly free and untrammelled educational system in this Dominion. The school ques- tion must be settled, and settled now, and as a lover of my native land I protest against the methods of those who are trading upon the prejudices of the extremists of both the Catholic and Protestant parties. This ques- tion should be approached in a. calm and judicial manner, and it is plain that until We are prepared to deal with it in such wise. and on the highest grounds of principle, and not preju- dice, we shall never arrive at a satis- factory conclusion. I regret that there is a class of politicians Whose public existence depends on the perpetuating of this most regrettable condition of affairs, and who, while seeming to de- sire a settlement, are striving to make such impossible by inflaming the warring farticmn. Limitation of Pubfic Employment to Canadian Abolition of Child Labor. Eight-Hour \Vork Day on all Govei'mnent \Vor} The Abohtion of Duty on Raw Materials for Laborv Two Cents per mile Railway Fares.. Twoâ€"Cent Letter Postage.. Toronto 3. Seaboard Portr a: and IS opposed to all M "T "‘8", n .°' ‘ Patron and Laher uh“:_r.,..;:;:; ' 'IP With regard to labor on all govern- ment works. I believe that on all public works and on all contracts un- der or for the Dominion at Canada person shall be employed whb' is not :1 citizen. except experts such as can- not be obtained in the country. I will do all ln my power to get‘a. two-cent a mile railway rate, and 3.136 the reduction of the present rate of postage on letters to two cents. The; eightâ€"hom- day system, as adopted by the Americap Gofemment 3117.311 govvcrnment works, should be adopted here, and I will spare no effort to that end. I will oppose the expenditure of any public money, directly or lndlrectly, for the purpose of assls'tihg, bonuslng or decoylng emigrants, adult or ju- venile, from abroad to Canadz}. WI’ aria utterly opposed to chifd labor, and will do all ln my power to abolish it throughout Canada.._ It should be distinctly understood that the Patrons are not in any sense of the term a trading association. but are banded together for the purposes” laid down in the official platform and for no others. I heartily agree with every plank and am prepared to stand by our platform In its entirety. I have no connection with any other party or assm-latlon whatsoever, and will, I! elected, use every endeavor to secure legislation on the lines I have laid down. Yours faithfully, ANGUET‘S), ANDS, GODLE, JOHN BROWN. monolles. §«