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Show the trade of the Canadian merchant ana un-lorlt un-lorlt a "practical monopoly of a great region ' to the Hilton merchant. Jt would lociithe door against ICnglund and unlock tho door of loyalty to a forcltn nation. It would close the avenue of protection to our manufacturers and open the way of protection to An erlean manufacturers. It would thxov down our revenues ami Incidental protection tariff aud carry thu United State tarlil line admit th,i entire noitliern continent. It would nil) us of our tin IH -making power, nu I aci v us the, Anierlcau tariff, open the do,r for Cauud.aiui to eontrll ule to American war pi'D-lon , UruiK ahout potlth'ul union and complete aiiialnama' tlon of pi'op,' aud purpotos. It would lock up our K'.o I Ca'ia Han in -icy and unlock the dour of tin- Oliver li.ll. It would lockup our lmtf fram hlxes and un'ock the force hill. It woiud haul d im ii Ilia I ni in jai k and nail up the stars an I Mrl,es, The iudictment wonhl be severe were it true, but its sophism is so transparent trans-parent that the. opposition should havo no dilliculty in riddling it to pieces. This country is not auxians for mere reciprocity with Canada, nnd the bene-lits bene-lits thereof are all the other way. And it would be in the eternal fitness of things were the tories hoisted by their own petard. A MK.HIIOlll.Y Kl.KC'TIO.V, Hecause the election in Canada tomorrow to-morrow meaus more than the triumph of liberal or tory, and more than tho success of reciprocity or exclusion, because be-cause indeed it mean-, annexation as its ultimate result, it is that the strugulo waged across our northern frontier is .o tierco and the interest taken iu it in tiiis country is so keen. When Sir Jonx MacDunai.d dissolved dis-solved the dominion parliament he had a tory majority of J.!) at his back. The question now is can the liberals wipe this out of existence? Thuy contend con-tend against a formidable combination headed by the Canadian Pacific rail- j road, flanked on one side by the Catli- olie clergy under the lead ot Archbishop i Fa Bui;, and on the other by the privi-i privi-i leged classes, and backed heav ily by I the treasury of the government. Ntiil they fetd conlident of success expecting expect-ing heavy gains, amounting almost to revolution, in Ontario and Quebec. How far this feeling may be justified will appear iu the returns tomorrow. One thing is apparent, whether the gains bo sufficient to sweeu the liberal party info power or not, they, will demonstrate the vigorous vig-orous growth of the American idea ia the dominion. Meanwhile the appeal of Sir John's organ, the Empire, to the pockets of the electors, viewed from I his side, is extremely ludicrous. The wages of reciprocity, that mouthpiece mouth-piece declares, would bo to "lock up tho Canadian faclorv." It would lock up C uiadiitn-KanUh capital and unlock th" cp:nkrs o." American far-torios. far-torios. It would lock up Canadian barley, utiri letloow rivers of Yan tec honrbon and New Knglaiid rum. It would lock up Canadian pork and unlock the American hojr. It nrnuUI lock up Cmadiau cattle and let loo-e the Texas Meer. Ii would lock up tho winter ports of St. John, Halifax, ami unlock lloston as the entrepot en-trepot ni Cinadhin trade. It would In k up Nova Scotia co:il mines aid open the door to the iVenmylv ania combine. It Would lock up |