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2 THoar..AT, November 19, 1908
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which the conibinea spring up and
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for an anti -combine law. It Is diffi-
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GODSIUCH. THURSDAY. NOV, n., ism
MORE MONEY FOR THE FARMER:
If the farmers of Ontario would only
put t° -To operetiien the ipupt•oved meth-
ods of agriculture- and produce -raising
already known tbt• value of the an-
nual products of the farm con!' be
doubled. -
This-statement--.vas--atade-
James. Provincial D.•puty Minister ot
Agriculture, in the course of an ad-
dress to the Canadiau'Club in T to
this week. The declaration is of inter-
est dot to feruieis alone, but to the
people of Ontario generally, a.+ the
whole Proviaee . would benefit im-
mensely from such in iucreas in ih.-
earning. powers of the farms. There
are at present in Ontario 1755011 farms
representingartjnvestweut ofgl.2tal.-
000,000 and with,an annual output of
$200,000,000. Mr.`lawes expressed the
opinion that many \manufacturing in-
terests in Ontario owed their existence
J EDITORIAL NOTES.
would sees to be s what astray in
pro(tatostications. It looks to us
very moth as if Sir Wilfrid would
remain its public life -until lie retires.
The muting picture show has made
a place for Itself as • pleasant,' Inex-
penslte and wholesome mesons eif en•
tertaiument, but it ielnaiued for an
inatitdtion of this kind at Kefforl►to
dentode . us ' 'ties 1 an-
trntr its to ethuh °
other way. A u, an who was poking
at the pictures was stet tied to wee ion
the semen the flow.. of his wife. who
had disappeared wysteri..usly five
years before. 1le followed up the
clue. and it is to ie hoped that by
this time then• has leen a happy re-
union.
Hav'rmg to time' past expressed dis-
I1kit of the comic supplement, Thr
hilknal is plombed .to see that the bag
papers which darted these flaring
mutittrosites are elle by one discatd-
ii,, them, The Boston 11erald the
other day announced that it had
abandoned the comic supplement,
-oinking this comment' : "Comic sup. -
Ste Wilfrid Laurier is going to pleutents-Tiave ceased tb be comic.
In 'II. t holiday. Ile hoe earned Thr have become as Tidier in design
it. as they leer tawdry in color. There
Ls no longer any arualdanbe of art in
Great things are going un just now
r -the rhlne i- iUipitrtitt Boeotian,Llta u•' tint) el there itrs ettX .itirrla Illrs
pkrr low and descending lower."
amt Stackenaie Kitig is going over to
Pekin. Though he had been 'for some yeah.
Another railway crossing accident withdrawn 'from active political life,
this week-thiels-ii!!'.lit 11Fi Ji,l_v .Ir Lotl�jliierr,-,a�hai
death is recottled this week, was one
of the great men of .Candia. As
leader of the Provincial' Liberal party
of Quebec for utsuy years, Premier of
Quebec for a 'shirt term, and after.
wards a member of Sir Wilfrid
Lainier's Cabinet, he insiutained ,tit
stn -.411:.,1 .. ,.tat -t i.... -ter s -man of the
The' 'Grand Trunk Y:kcitic Railway is highest integrity and the must *Metre
already taking a share its the handling patriotism, It is worth noting that
Toronto
51... w -•.tool„ .,wp. Jw,.i„g--(n.aea,l during his Parliamentary career,
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over n roi'lion bushels . i' wheat along although --he was a staunch Pyotet+-
it•i prairie route into 11'innipeg.
tant. Sir Henri held the enthusiastic
support of a constituency and the
Emper'o'r William bee term Fretting loyal altegiyncr of a ,party thet were
some emisitrassuu among11trbtates-' overwhelmingly Catbclie.
teen of has reale .y't tlking too freely.
and the Erie it; has 'aekc,l him to
teemed* t et feuti y',set-sets .h.)uld
not he 1 iwltd limn. the housetop.
A 1 irge numher of re•uunts have
been hell since tile elections, and the
.
y i. e..lt her. been- an- dime•mternte
near hingsco.lrt, n ith the less of
three 1 ve.. - -
The Hamilton Tidem. referring W
the distinction best..wed upon- Hh'
Edward Cloueton. ways "the heredi-
tary fe tube r.(- the honor is not
to the producing powers of the farms
the efli. itttcy and fait nc.+s of the elec-
114.9 officio s. Ansi set Iiia 1 tile i lee
of the . Province and the growing
wealth of the farmers. s. Farming wee
being placed on a business basis mone.
than formerly, and farmern conse-
quently had snore utiuxy to spend.
Much more • could be done, however.
in increasing the torturers from the
farms, Mr. Jade% stating as the chief
difficulties to be overcome the insuffi-
cient supply of labor and the inditfrr-
,ence of a large numbed (ef She fatale'.
themselves. -
The lountf of Huron occupies a proud
plane among the agricultural ,-ommun•
Wes of the Province : but (-vets 0111
most pt•ogres.tve farmers trcognize
that there is much roues Sur itutaen. e.
went in the adoption- of more thor-
ough and businesslike methods in the
conduct of our farms. It, is probably
Kate to say that if the young then, in-
stead of going West. would remain in
Huroni and giar to their work the
same determination and' energy that
they w..uld have tri exercise in order to
achieve.uccetts in farming it. the Wes-
tern Pnuvinees they would find them-
selves its a few years quite comfort-
ably established.- lad they wotrid be
helping to !nuke Huron county what
it is fitted to be, one of the linext com-
munities under the sun.
THE MARINE INVESTIGATION.
Libretti paper. din! -<sot say' them•
was no wrongdoing in the Depart-
ment of Marine and Ftahet•tes.
The appointment of Judge Cassels
to conduct an investigietion into the
affairs of the Department was an in-
dication that the Oot•rrmnent be•
lieved there were things in connecti..n
with the Department that eheitld int'
looked into and set right. The con-
tention of the Liberal oress was that
the Government was not implicated
and could be trusted tn flo its May In
the metta-r. There is no rause to re-
vise or withdraw this contention. A
writer in The Montreal Herald -says :
-_- _"..biome of tin•• Cnnaeryatite news-
paper friends are holding up the re-
sult of the investigationa into the
affairs of the' llarine Departws•nt at
Quebec as justifying their pre-election
fiehlaiel T it a change of (luvrt•nment,.
It must 1t remembered that the In-
vest igation, twice 4. 11 non pattisan
-eoewlesietl. was voluntarily lusti-
Cited by Mr. Brodeur. who was
neriomp -t-moi(
--rept inter -Me 'Department -li7)nlit be
removed. By suspending all of -•et -s
brought under snnpiciou by the in-
vestigation. he bait given renewed
evidence of his intentions, and all who
know the Minister of Marine have
full confidence that he will rest ahnrl
of nothing hut a clean sweep of all
men found guilty ot wrongdoing.
The electors did not. by their verdict,
say that there were no evils to re -
se, but rather that th�epy had r•rm-
fi nce that Sir 1Vilfri.fallind his rnl-
leap es would themselves do the
neves ry hnuserl•tening. Mr. Btu.
deur had bis Int.rom out already."
Tel CONMINE8. 4.
The question o the eoouhines and
how to deal with t eat is again en-
gaging some degree at public atten-
tion. There is evidence that manufac-
turers in veriouse lines he oomed
combinations to raise pricer, At the
expense of consumers, and re-
strict the output, at the expen of
the workers in these industi ie..
tlnch combinations in restraint of
trade are supposed to he illegal, but
the law does not neer') to ranch them
very readily, rind there is a demand
for a more drastic law and for more
effective enforcement.
Ronne people are bold enough to sug-
gest that if the people would refuse to
rdntnin the customs tariff ender
Terry aill hardly Ieliate dist the -(.nits
cuyhlaua tum election +tea -111e auaight.
Sir halward Grey, at t he head of the
British Foreign •011ie.•,.. exp•rt•s.ses
s.ktisfsction with the• moaner to wipt,•Is
the ('tne.litetr Gos eetrnIWt(--- bit't.Ils' I
thee J sjinnese Mintier iii rat dim,ttlty.
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