WESTERN CANADA AND IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Tariff Reform and Imperial Preference are again on tapis. It may not be out of time or place to say that the farmers of Western Canada, or more properly, of the Prairie Provinces, do not wish to have Preference for their wheat. They believe this would mean a tax on the bread of the already over-taxed people of the Homeland. What we do want is to be relieved of the burden of Protectionist tariff now imposed upon the commodities we use on our farms and in our homes. We believe that this is the greatest hindrance to our pros- perity and the development of the country and is the cause of much of the present discontent. The people of the Prairie Provinces are not disloyal. We are proud to be citizens of the British Empire. We venerate British institutions. We are for British fair play. Protection is neither British nor fair : it imposes a burden on the many in the interests of the favoured few.—I am, Sir, &c., A NOR'-WEST FARMER.
Sask., Canada, November 18th.
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