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No. 6.) 
 
 A Farmer's Open Letter 
 to Farmers. 
 
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 Fellow Faumlrs, — In common with all intelligent yeomen I am 
 a rcailiT of the press, but perhaps I am a little excejjtional in that 
 I r .ii"! both sides of the press. 1 take one side and 1 find one set of 
 facts and li<^ares, and I take the other side and I find another set, until 
 8i>nietimes luy mind is so confused between them that I cannot believe 
 uiiber. I. have given up paying much attention to these evolved figures 
 becjiusi'. men specially hired for the work handle them for their own 
 particular parties, put in what suits them and leave out what don't. 
 But I do know this, and so do all farmers, from experience, tliat no 
 matter who is in or out the expenses go on. Nor can I say that this 
 is unnatural. Public ahairs, like private, must be carried on at an 
 expense, and in a new country like this the expense is great, because 
 we need so many new public works. Both parties have given us 
 8onu> great and useful public works, without which the new parts of 
 the country could not have been developed, so I iind no great fault 
 with either party upon that score. What we have to consider 
 is where the money to pay for the^ie works is (o come from. 
 Some say abolish the taritT and let goods in fi ee from the United 
 States and elsewhere, and let ua raise the money by direct taxaticm. 
 Xhat means to put all the taxes on the hind, to which 1 
 object Mr. Blake said in a speech in West Durham, which I read 
 in the Globe, that luost of the tarld* wouM have to stay, because we 
 
need jjo much monoy to condiict public aft'airs, but that he WOUld 
 takt- the dutj' off coul and br^adsliiffs. If vro take the duty 
 otY of coal we wili have to put it on tea and coflfee, aud aa tea and 
 collo.e are of more use to me as a fai-iiier I wouid sooner have them 
 Li-re aud a duty upon coal, of which I have little need. Then the 
 «Juty upon bt 4 udstnffs is tlie only (liinj* in the tiiriff Hiat 
 i'avois larniers at all. If Mr. Blake tak** that off, while he 
 loaves the present protection to nmnufaoturers, as he proniisns to do, 
 we shall bo the losers for the benefit of the Inrtje cities Hnd*t(jwn8. 
 Now, fellow -farmers, this is the M'ay I look at the matter: As Mr. 
 lllakc says we must liavc the taiitf, h't u*» hjive Ihe ^vhole tariff, 
 and tiot put all the taxes npen the land, neither tah<> tlie 
 dujy off ♦irain, in wliich >ve ar<' Interi'^ted, and leave it on 
 those things in which cities and t<3v,'ns are interested. It is for this 
 reason that I shall coniinue to support the Nati(n'ial Policy, not for 
 pai'ty, but because it is the best thing oderod us .so far by either 
 party. We must consider our own interests, as otlier people do. 
 
 A FARMER. 
 
 T'libliflhed by the Industrial League, fur gratuitnua distriliution. — Fredkrio 
 
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