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Home My WebLink AboutThe Signal, 1908-10-15, Page 84 LAURIER • AND THE LARGER CANADA SUPPLEMENT X"7"\\"1' Manufadurers Have Prospered Under Laurier In no one line has progress been greater under the Laurier Govern- ment than it has in manufacturing. Workshops all over Canada have titan veritable hives of industry in the last few years, and tall chimneys have been multiplied on every hand. '+t, An improved transportation service, a vigorous immigration police and a revivified agriculture have had their natural effect in giving a stimulus to industrial enterprise. The table which follows, Nhowing the capital mu. ployed in Canadian manufacturing, and value of output of factories, for the years 1900 and 1905 respectively,'tells its own story. r •/44 .'TAE -CONQUERING 07 WESTERN OANADA.—NO. 3. -THE AMSIUNITION WAGONS AND TSS ARSENAL. _ ..�. .ewe{e�,.i t u4eawl•,eor.geaw,p-as�{4,•; ' K. tree --beet 'Ortgtfeet or -can l:fa. for errillextint and.MO-teen tviee ore engaged fa - TL - FIGURES WHICH TELL OF EXPANSION 'Capital employed in Canadian factories in 1900... $446,000,000 Capital employed in Canadian factories in 1905 $833,000,000 Increase in 5 years $387,000,000 Value of output of factories in 1900 4131,000,000 Value of output of factories in 1905 $706,000,000 Increase in 5 years $225,000,000 '*11lthe ! em� 1s given n thee and over. We those relating exports. are for establish - How Advanced Le vention of outs 1 CREDIT TO Probably the with which the Huukenaie K1 civil servant w plunge lulu Is moa nioraly mlena Act. -1t 1 the Minister of stated, that the result of recon Mr. 1$ackettsle isle lava.ttgatiot putts. The particular Act la to "aid" settlement of ret certain Induetrl undertake to "I• strikes and In(•k "Old"• in dont. Whet It 2409 dant the striking. 1t etin fore a strike or the parties cow - case fully Invest --- txlnisned -untie Act. the theory cases nut of ten of mtsuuda•r.-t.ut ane- informal site take place belo move. The experlenc shows that this ed. Not less t been referred nn and In oily two ratio Lae take or -awed, one oat the Canadian Pa progress: and th miners at tiprin ---REMARKABLE RECORD OF THE POSTAL DEPARTMENT A Conservative Deficit Turned Into a Big Surplus Under Liberals, While Cost of Service to the Public Has Been Cut in Two. t Terrifying pictures are dtpwn of the graft and. Incompeti nc.• that charac- terize public .undertakings. 1t Is are 'rued that as the work' now done by national and municipal Governments 1s done badly, the fle14:ot'their opet- stlnns ought not- to-he'enierg44. Ons lepartment of (kyrernment. in Can- ada that furnishes no material for such argument le the\Post-Office. There wag's. time when ft had .a deficit of Vet,162. T1He was in 1596, the last year of the late Cons.rvattve Admin- 4!ttatia"n. _Taj -stay It 140_4 surplus .of - 61.101.527. ' Cnnsldering the nature Of she- ..ry a -cad -ate - enortasbw-- and sparsely settled . territory --tablet le covered. this- result L truly remarkable. The result Is not obtained by unduly burdening the persons who use the mail... On the contrary, the service rerafered In return fore postage stamp 1. probably better value than is Ob- talne nr any oiler expendlturs of mnn.•y. Note the fact, too, that while the (net' -Of Mang 'has( been steadily sugm.nted and almost every staple nmmodity ban Increased in price. the et of tr.,nsmltttng letters and other ma er thriugh the mals has been sea, y reduced. Renee -1596 the fo1- ioein reform. have been made: The .rp letter rate was reduced Tile Irl d letter rate" was reduced fr.Zm three nts to two cents. , firtt'r tr--fmm-censda toths rented fates as reduced from three cents to„ eo to te. C In tat Ratsa. larger reduction In the case of news- { Papers and ntagaslnee. This is as 1f a railway company had. Increased its dividends to ehareholders by nearly two million., and had reduced Its peas- enger rates from three cents to two yenta. and had made corresponding or larger reductions in the frelg•t7t tariff. No Need for Surplus. There Is no reason why the surplue should be maintained. ott r wy the Post -Office or any other department - should do more than pay its way. The right use to make of the surplus le to improve the ger-rice. 'Upon this prin- ciple the Government le about to tn- troduoe rural mall delivery. The prob- British Empire has been reduced from lem Is more•difflci•lt In Canada than to eight cents per pound to tour cents per rnfland, In Fntne.. In rrmany, or In pound, or 30 per cent lite [ nited Rtates, fM th(le reason than In connection with the lett-mention- Canada Is a land of enormous dIs- ed reform the Hon. Rodolphe Iterate-umtanc•e, with a very sparse population. obtain• d from the British Postmaster- treat Rrltafn has to area of 120.000 General a reduction of the rale of nnar1t t0 IP les. about hhall the •tzetiof postage rn British magazines and of all Canada. In the i'nited Statesnewspapers coming' Into Canada frond there 1s' an arra no !setter --than that eight cents per pound to two cents of Canada to be served, but -there 1s in per pound• the United States a popalatlon four - Here is a record •which will stand teen times ns creat its ours, and a rev - the severest feet that cotdd be ala enue twenty times as great to hear the plied tos prtvatti twtlneee undertak- met of the free rural mall delh•rrv. Inn. working under the stress ••f the Nevertheless the problem will he faced. most strenuous cotMe4ltlnf• Here we •„d naval malt delivery Introanced and have a asnotal- improvement al' near- • extended a* fast as the clrrumMa.hc.e ty two mflltnn dnilars, enmbtned with of the country w116p.rmit. lit tea cone- • redudloa.ot one-third In the Can- a4feous stop, .end Ila effect wnl 1,. Alan. American. and imperial rate. of ally to improve the condition' of one-half t1 ince!, rade. and a mucht'rup5 life in Canada. SOME FATS THAT STIR THE HEART Figures of Canada's Growth Under Liberal Rule Cannot But Cause Rejoicing. THE GOVERNMENT HELPED Wise Encouragement of Industry and Immigration Were of Immense Benefit. Every patrlotfq Canadian random In the phenomenal prosperity that our country has• enjoyed In recent years, and points w•tth pride to the vast ex- pansion of our Industry and com- merce, It would be absurd to argue that thte growth has been entirely be- cause dur national affairs were ad- ministered by a Liberal Government It le•due In the main to the Splendid opportunttles .wbtrb title country pre- sents to enterprise and thrift to the vast natural resources from which labor and skill may draw almost un- limited wealth. Nevertheless. It 1s true that wile government encouraging Industry. pro- moting trade, and securing deelrable immigration, will Immensely aid ouch development and prosperity. Striking evidence of this is found In the re- markable progress made since the peo- ple turned dlssatfafled frown Conserva- tive mtemanagement, and placed the control of their public affairs to the hands of Eur Wilfrid Laurier and his essnclatee. The total trade Of the Dentin/0n. that ie, the aggregate of the value of the imports and export& of all kinds. =money included. taken ter the alter- nate years of the last metre thecal years of Conservative administration. In set out in the renewing table com- piled from the latest report of the Department of Trade and Commerce: Under Conservative Regime. 6152.072.1110 189,985.776 206,592,661 e 'from - Canada to the ' iishBritain. 3ttd tis, every portion eof d the 'British F.tnDl*q• been reduced from five cents to tw cents. The .-rate-_nir Canndfa newspapere and p-drat-eant sent frotwpubllahe s in ranada to euhacrthere totti<ileat Rennin an,1 other tarts of the Br' Empire has been reduced trete eight !tents per pound to one-quarter Of one cent per pond. The rate on newspapers and polio/It- o-els sent by the general public to Can: ada to /treat Britain and pasta of the 1656 1645 .1690 1892 1894 1996 Different in Recent Years. Theee figures show a substantial ad- vance, but nothing like what is shown by the figures for the alternate years or t115 'twelve years that have elapsed since, during which a Liberal Govern- ment has been doing all to Its power to promote the country's welfare. Here ars the correeponding figures for this tertn : Under Liberal Reaime- 1*9* 6290.222.969 lane 367.287,625 191)2 414 .1711,551 1904 ........... • 464,905,567 1006 ..... 646.947,437 1908 .. 88,380,291 1'nlltlral eMnomieta used to aratie- that a country was disadvantaged by •irpnrtinn more goods than It imported, This theory Is not generally accepted nnw, but In any case. It could not apply to a new country into which was cause the mans of imports would in- clude the posseaelons of the new'eom- ere• and also much of the capital in the form of both money and material which came to be used in the opening up and development of. the country's resources. Therefore Canada may well be eon- gratulsted upon the magnitude of her imports as well uta epon her abrpin• prenincts welch we send to other countrlea. It we take the merchan- dise. imports for the periods above est' ort, but choosing rears at wider In- tervals for the eake of shortening nor tame, we obtain the following state.' anent 1. Tinder the Constervative Terme, 1 R 55 51n0,571,*28 1592 ...... ... 116,140,41f 1996 .. .. 105,391.191 2. Crider Liberal Admintaratlnn. 1500 ........... ... . 51 7 2'. n6.571t 1504 243,690,019 1908 .... 361,926,024 .... ...... 227.694,106 227.354,021 228,272,279 SIR WILFRID READING A QUOTATION. It's Rural Mail Delivery Now Liberal Government's Inspiring Record 1s Continuing—Noth- ing in Borden's Claim. The Dover east's plan of rural man _IIelletgr fd; have been borrow- ed from Mr. en's Iiallfax plat- form. No great ha 1t it had been. No respon *nyiii0.Ghv'ernm,nt ehmtld re- frain from doing a thing merely he - Cause Mr. Borden proposes it tout, as - -,-e.11latf+.e ..t esew:- af:rornt • 4Nacery has been considered by the Post -Office Department tinder thn preernt Government for many years. The ndvantage. are undoubted, the expense is gnat, In a entintry hafting a small population scatt.red over an, tom^nae remain, ('oneequently the Gov- ernment hes proceeded amu win pro: ceed with caution. The charge that the policy of rural moll delivery U borrowed from Mr. Uorden'a Halifax platform would be more weighty 11 that policy represent- ed a reverent of the general -policy of the Government. 1t represents, not a revereal. but a continuation tont de- yelopment of the Government's pollen. Thr Government has reduced the rates .d portage and`nxtended the ser- vice. To rel.'at: - The drop atter rate was reduced from two cents to one cent, The Inland letter rate was reduced from three cents t0 two cent* tat' e.,wra u, ♦ atom enluenr. James Mall.nigh and Secretary Hnh.rt Mcnwain, Mr. Mallough prneentntl; Mr. Bailie with a handsome morns chair and Mr. Mrllu.ain reading the following ;data, . hnnr•••nm•, tact. 5th, tow MR. W w. Ra1t.17. 1)unganna.. eltw The dlrecton and friends of the Dun- gannon AgrMnitunl enMet.y do hereby deet. to @ttyre.. tbeir apersrlatiou of the •eryfeea The letter rate from Canada to the United States wan reduced from three cents to two cents. The letterrate from Canada.to Great Ili -nein, and to every portion of the Brltfeh Empire. has been reduced from five cents to two cents. The nate on Canadian newt papers and p.riodlcale sent from ptlhll.hers in Canada to auhacribe to -- and other parts of -the British Empire hna been reduced from eight cents per Lound to one-quarter of one cent 1,e! tntL The rate On news/inner!' dna periodi- cals sent by the general puisne. 1n Can, oda to (Treat Britain and parts of the e g t cents per pound to four cents per pound, or 60 per cent In conteetton with the Inst-mentlonc Pt! reform the Non. Rndniphe Lemieux obtained from the British Fuatu,aa•ar• G ,-n.-ral - a reduction of the rate of portage on British magazines and newspapers naming Into t•amide 'from eight cent* per pound to two cents 'per pound, In addltlnn to all thin, the Goverm- ent ha. converted e deflrlt of 5781.- 1 under Conservative management !Di a melt,* of 61,int.521, • it ham thu paved the way for rural mall d.• lleerllt and for other rrfnrma, an enter- , prime 'which wan Impoaahle with a deficit o,of three-quarter* of a million -le po-slhle where there I* a aliening of a million inllnra. it ly .net.r to write the words •'1:um1 .Tn11 Deliver," In a petition] Penaram than An administer a depart- ment in such 5 manner an to render rural mall delivery practicable. IT WOULD BE FOLLY. To Abandon Liberal Methods to Re- turn to Old Regime. Everyone nail admit that there is evidence of proeperlty in the export- ing of a largo surplus of the country's products, but it must be remembered that very maid growth tends to lessen this surplus, because so much of what la produced is needed to supply the wants of new corners before the ro- wer of Bildt hissers "are available. ',It is necessary to bear this In mind, to realize how much of prosperity ican fretted by the flatiron In the latter of the following tables, which are for the same years as those just set out -They The increase in the volume of goods prudueed in factories has bee accompanied by a corresponding addition -to the Employes in Factories' - - Number employes in factories, 19110, ........ 339,004 • " 1905 383;000 Increase in five years tion of a city of 150,000 people.. The . ggregate increase in the fiv : years, as shown b f - aeeompanying table, waa 4.1,00 r equivalent, counting ' dependants of 44.000 workers those to whom their gages give employment, tt the cre - The salaries and wages paid employes in Canadian factories, em five lands or more, have grown from 01:3,000.000 in 1900 to $162,000, 1905. Business men do not need to be told What a stimulus an increase of nearly $50,000,000 in the annual wage -bill of arti- sans gives to trade in all lines. 'Wages and Salaries $113,000,000 1905 .. 162,000.000 Salaries and wages paid in 1900 Increase in five Years. . t- • ••Ale pnerinuaty gl yen the rohmttr1•..n was between nigher and wagm in Ian and wage• alone m tens .in tan table the tlgun-e cover feta maxim and wase.. in both year-. $49,000,000 Ontario's Share in It Capital employed in Ontario factories 19(1(3 $215,000,000 • 1905 391.000,000 • Increase in five yearn $176,000,000 Value output Ontario factories, 1900.... $241,000,000 •, 1905.... 361,000,000 Increase in five years $120,000,000 Ontario has had her full share in the industrial re- vival which .has taken place. Nearly. half the in- creased capital employed in Canadian manufactur- ing, and over half the ad- dition to the value of pro - duet turned out, is credit- ed to this one Province. Heat two-yearuld colt. in clamor. 4 d u InainI and earl -tape) - Alex. Uarlow. Judgee - Thos. (iuuJry, lingered, ; D. McCorvie. Clinton ; M. .1. Parr, t4.alertch. Ladien hitching contest- Mina Blake. Mafoking ; Mian I'ruuse, liudet•i.•h township. /1.••t colts aired by -The Pope dine of all kinds from the Dominion: 1. Under the Conservative regime. 1888 .... ........ 6 57.101.144 1592 • 105.808,041 '1 1896 112955,490 tt'nder Liberal Admfnletratfnn, 00 ..... 5177.775,044 ... .... 1964 :I tto.7,.676 190S263 388.953 The Bacon 1s' obvious. It In almply that the methods adopted by the Lib- eral party for the encouragement of usetul tmmarretton, the faeltttstine of Industry, the opening up of ppportun- ttlee for agriculture and other wealth- prnducing operations, have all been more sureeseful and effective than the pnlici.a which they replaced, 1t would he folly to abandon these methods, either to return to the ofd conditions of comparative stagnation:, or to ex- periment with any new schemes which have not yet been even iesar9y tenni- iated or explained. Miss 1'ee.,ie Dreamy ; hnnu- made etre' serves. Mir. 51. Morris, Mre. A. Kills. ,judge •Mie.. 1. C. Mullin. BclAtet. Vegetables and Roots. Any variety notated', C. W. N-, \VtIactn, In*- K,.-kref kit: rah- haKc, W. 1f. McCracken, .Lis. Alun : blood belts, W. H. McCracken. J. McDisrmid : improved sugar beets int. feeding, W. Ii. McCracken, R. Melt In five Ontario cities the value of the output of factories has increased in five refers, 111 116 previous period in Canada's by a little over $50,000,000 history has anything like such a,,record been achiev- ed. All Ontario has bene- fited by this expansion. The cities named have felt the direct effect of the im- pulse given, and farmers have been enriched _ by supplying a market at their own doors. had been. In the promise. favorin earls party. The also badness). an and refused by t of the -Springhill a intake of thr • work on the find work Is now be basis of those f of the Canadian tantalite: the co findinaa of the tion before the be generally ad the amicable sett CMOs rent -red u the Act Is. k -t•er ally when It IOi to the machinery _o that the meth. 1 had tb be learn $frit in each of•Th.-. concerned .nate a etrlke,or lot ko di.put.• was not und.•r the AM. 1 Instance It was the lockout, that lmtwnding, and applied under the four or five ca. pendingin all \\\I\.the recoil •tf the to avert the thre , W. example n nmong,th. dlsput Art may be men tluu.saad employ f f•nmpany of a Board. It the n c..tmy and Its n rtlack. and Aaronni* Chari -Neither sedn tt.ot rangr•rne t of th. but the et fort, Mother set omen •been Sitrrnlited. Art Willa apltl d Prof Shorts; the Civil Sort•1 r«,•,tit was a let tie. and the Concl aure.•ntent. Th ....int have fled Its ealet•nce Prat the alight e -And this succese _-.. loan. ttaan eeuro- eoulA. be indicate all of equal imp,. Dominion Cost 1 - Deputy Minister • congratulated on a measure en be trial Community Expansion in Ontario Cities Toronto.. Hamilton.. ... London...... va!u^ /tetput value e)utput tn-r••55- riot 19116 — $-04.115,000 $S5.714.000 $27,29°- 10 17.122.0110 24,625,000 - 7,503,000 8,122,000 12x626.000 • 4.504,000 Ottawa.. .. :.. 9.838,000 10,641.000 3,003.000 L'stesbAlt►-.--. z - --84-89;000---11-A66,000 7,77-000 i t -000 The most convincing evidcnee of file f41-1eartStg of the Lauder fiscal and general policy is seen in the leap in our exports cif manufactured gnods. A policy that has removed restrictions and given Intelligent aid to manufac- turers bas placed our factories in a position to compete not only in the home market but in foreign countries ax_wetk-= f•TS Seen in the fillte. which tells of an increase in manufactured exports front $10,000,000 in 1S96 to Ya $28,500,000 in 1904. M.�.. increase in 12 years $18,500,000 THE EXPORT ENE) OF IT Export of manufactured products, 1896. $10,000, CC? Export of manufactured products, HOS $28,500,000 The Best Assurance of continued progress will be found in maintaining in power the Government under which such vast progress has already been made - tor a tree nos and let Zam-auk prove Its own case, $se coupon below, PAIL aeras. males -an. alt sets televise en4 411.sa,. M all Mere 4*d tirug- r,•r.. 6n^ rear, nr (ram 7•m INA Ca., T^r^ntn. for prlr.. 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