Item - PE001326 - Canadian Council of Agriculture publications

7 folded page booklets, measuring 23.5x16cm

Assorted pamphlets issued by the Canadian Council of Agriculture. The pamphlets concern issues of taxation, economic policy, and tariffs, as they relate to western Canadian agriculture. The pamphlets include:

• ‘Where Ought the Revenue to Come From?’: No Author, which argues for progressive taxation
• ‘How to Reduce the Cost of Living’: No Author, which argues for a reduction in customs duties
• ‘Where the Farmer touches City Labor’: By J. A. Stevenson, which argues against protectionist economic policies
• ‘Profiteering: Protection Two in One’: By J. A. Stevenson, which argues against tariff protections
• ‘Protection Does Not Help New Countries’: By J. A. Stevenson, which argues that protectionist economic policy will inhibit immigration to Canada
• ‘Help Old England With Freer Trade’: By J. A. Stevenson, which argues for free trade with Britain as a means to help the ‘mother country’
• ‘How Much Does the West Pay?’: By W. J. Healy, which reproduces parts of a prior 1914 speech by James Aikins, in the House of Commons, which refutes suggestions that the western provinces have paid proportionally less in trade duties than the rest of the nation.