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DODERS051. THURSDAY. MARCH so 1911.
ADVANTAGES OF RECIPROCITY
As an antidote to the hysterical ap-
peals to farmers to defeat reciprocity
which are corning from certain
*turves. the calm discussion of the
question hy The Farmer's Advocate is
of especial value. The Farmer's Ad-
vocate is a journal whose devotion to
the interests of agriculture is not to
be questioned—which is more than
can he said of 'some of the papers
which have suddenly discovered a sol-
icitude for the farmers, or at least for
the farmers' votes.
A recent number of The Farmer's
Advocate contains the following re-
view of the trade question :
Without a strong mental grasp of
fundamental tariff prinriples, any at-
tempt tct measure the sdvaotage of re_
cipr °city -asst be like a search for
harmony its Bedlam. The first prin-
ciple of tree trade is that each indivi-
dual, each community and each na-
tion can, by reason of natural and
other conditions, produce certain
articles more advantageously than
tbev can produce certain other com-
modities. The second principle is
that, just as it pays the farmer to haul
wheat and butter to town, selling
these, and buying tea. clothing and
shoes, so it is likewise more profitable
for a district or re nation to concen-
trate its energies mainly upon the in-
dustries wherein it excels, producing a
surplus of these for export, and using
the proceeds to purchase articles
which can be raised tit made abroad
and laid down at its door more
cheaply than it could produce them at.
home. As regards this second point,
there are exceptions to he made some-
times, for special reasons, such as the
t desirability of conserving exhaustible
resources, but in the main the prin-
ciple is essentially sound. The nation
is but a group of individuals, and the
relationship of the fanner to the mer-
chant illustrates the relationship of
one country to another.
Just here we hasten to clear up a
current mieimpremion. Because a
certain country produces a surplus of
grain or fruit or machinery for export.
It by no means follows that some sec-
tion or sections of that country could
not advantageously import those same
commodities from a contiguous por-
tion of a neighboring country, thus
saving wasteful coat of transportation.
Recognizing, then, as a general prin-
ciple, the mutual beneficence of unfet-
tered trade between 'nations, we per-
osive that complete reciprocity be-
tween any two countries on a giv.n
.^ommodity might, and In all probabil-
ity would, be an advantage to the
people of both. All the inhabitants of
a country are consumers of products,
and the whole population stands to
benefit by such a broad measure of
free trade as will enable each con-
. sumer to supply his wants most
• cheaply and insure the employment of
labor in those industries where it can
produce the largest net resulL
Still. there are some producers
whose eyes are so riveted upon the
particular market they are at present
supplying that they miss the larger
view, and fail to realize that the total
or partial loss of this their present
market would he more than compen-
sated by the openirag of a market near
at home. Mr. Morden made • strong
point when he reminded the Stamford
fruit -growers that reciprocity would
open to them $ market of 40,0111,000
Americans living within a tew hours'
rellway journey of Niagara Falls.
Take horses. At the Ontario Home -
breeders' meeting In Toronto, eppre-
bension was voiced lest the wipingout
of duties should etsdanger the North-
west market for horses. And so, not-
withstanding that President Smith
pointed out the probable development
of a very attractive market for Cana-
dian bore's in the Eastern Staten,
there were some few men present who
would bare voted to sacrifice tide for
the sake of preserving the market In
the (anadlan West. That i., they
would rather ship a bora to the West
at a cost of 13 to 20 dollars, of which
abort nine -testes represents sheer
waste, while part of the other tenth
goes to pile up a tea-par-eent. dividend
on railway remit, than to take their
chance le a tuerstive and growing
pnartet beside them In the Eastern
States, allowing the Westerner to buy
hie hovee where he could get them
cheapest. A similar demand le being
pot- teeth IN the fndt pro -ewers Theca
teas extreme passe typify the mi.
taken ;Otitir& of ai1 Danadlane wbo
fear 1peoreii y with the United
Mein 111,
ttegeeetslt.ur l modems Rona
recipfoclty would be a good thing for
both untried', if prices averaged the
earns ungood each side ; Mot it is an especi-
allythio for Canada, .••sing
for ,r wary rase it opens tv u. •
larger and more rapidly -growing tmae-
ket than we &freedy have.
Against one-sided free trade there le
.osu.tblsg to be said, though piob.
ably not so much as is cowwwooly sup-
posed; bili, aro 10 a,mplete teciprrical
free trade in agricultural products be-
tween Canada and the United Stat.es,
the Cau•dian argument is overwhelm-
ingly in favor of the affirmative.
It is a great mi•Iltke to look at any
tariff question from a short range.
The newspapers have been publishing
views and interviews from prominent
business men. raising alarms, and try-
ing to estimate just bow reciprocity
will affect such and such an industry.
The fact is, the wisest of thew do not
definitely know. They might as well,
and about as profitably, ask what par-
ticular molecules of water will flow in
and oqcupythe space where a log has
been ')'out of a stream. An ex-
pert in hydrostatics might possibly
venture at: opinion on such • point,
but the layman cennot tell, and
doesn't need to waste any time chas-
ing this particular eddy or. tbaL One
thing is certain : let a nation in Its
traria policy follow the principles that
are fundamentally sound, which are,
with few exceptions, the principles of
least artificial obstruction, and the
currents of trade will take the most
advantageous channels as surely as
water seeks its level. Hasten the day
of world-wide reciprocity.
"THE FREEBOOTERS
OF THE WILDERNESS
For this strong arraignment of t
government, or misgovernment,
the wild lands of the Western Etta
we are indebted to the pen of M
Agnes C. Laut, whose "Lords of t
North" and later publications ha
gained for her well-deserved recog
tion as a writer. in this last wo
she shows, in story form, the e
with which powerful and unscrup
sous men can for selfish ends Mind
the cause of justice, and by misrep
sentation, or bribes, or threats, p
vent the Government at Weehingto
from interfering with their wholes►
thefts of timber limits and valuate
mining lands. Governmentemploy
ees, sent out to guard the interests o
the people and prevent fraud, are cog
nizant of these thefta and vigorouel
neatest to Washington, but their pro -
tennis are overlooked, or pigeon -holed
or so tied up with red tape that the
do not accomplish their object. A
honest agent in irritated at the fru
ration of his efforts to prevent wha
Ire knows to be gigantic frauds, and 1
'sore" at seeing greater heed paid b
be Government to the enemy's wo
than to his official report., and he netpl
rally feels that it is u.ees to struggl
against such odds. Then the enem
nines with alluring offers of position
Rh good salaries. mod prospects o
vancement (the Government pay i
mall, and ability. apparently, is no
npreciatid), and it is little wonder
at a young roan is often sorely
meted to abandon the losing fight
nd to yield to the worldly way of
every man for himself."
The reader unsophisticated in poli-
ce wonders why the agent does not
ublish such glaring frauds in the
epees and reuse the indignation of
he people. The agent'tries it, of
ourse, to find that the papers are sub-
rvient to the wealthy and "influen-
al" citizens. and repress or alter the
ports so that they become quite in -
,coons. The only thing the honest
an can do is to keep the enemy con-
antly on the alert to thwart his
hemes for opposing the frauds. The
ore trouble he gives to the grafters,
e more they attempt to bribe him to
me over to their camp. Bribes fail -
g. they have other methode at tbeir
ommand. His reputation 'nay be
fled, so subtly and carefully that
e sufferer cannot find redrew,. If he
11 stands by Its guns his very life is
ndangered.
It seems impossible that such things
n occur in this day, ins civilized
untry, but. 10 her preface Miss Laut
eclares that she has kept well within
e bounds of truth.
The book, at any rate, is intensely
tereeting, and it may have the effect
stirring up the people of the repub-
c to a stricter scrutiny of the meth-
s by which the public domain is ad-
inistered. Possibly it ;nay also have
lesson for Canadians as to the need
watchfulness against the employ-
nt of similar methods on this side
the border—tor all the grafters do
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A "STATESMAN" OFF -HIS JOB.
The Kincardine Review, in which
appear the weekly pcintillatlon• ;mom
the pen of Hugh Clark, warrior,
etate•mail and journalist., has diacov•
erect the Minlaen at Ottawa in an
attempt to perform the impossible.
"They have made a pact which is go-
ing t., increase the price of farm pod•
ucts and at the same time will reduce
the cost of living." "it ain't do both,"
declares the warrior-etateernao-journa-
li.t.
Surely it does not require • univer
city training in economics to enable
one to are truth In this scatter where
Oal. Clark disoover°s only s fallacy. A
little consideration will show how both
the producer and the commoner will
benefit from the adoption of the reol-
er'reity agreement Take the nese of
apple. The consumer does cot
to the orchard. buy bis fruit dig
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THE SIGNAL : OODERICH, .ONTARIO
from the grower, and take it ho a in
a b.eket. It passes through a Um-
ber of halide on the road fort the
glower to the consumer ; the railway
takes its freight charges, and every
Pinson that handles at add. to the
price which is finally paid by the con-
sumer. When a householder its Win-
uipeg hands out five dollars for a bar-
rel of apples, a traction of the a ret
be pays covers the original price of
the apples in the Ontario orchard
The difference is made up of freight
charges, Grmmiesionw, profits and
wages to %hoe• who bandied the
apples over the long route from the
producer to the consumer. Or if the
Wiunipegger buys apples grown in
the States the duty is included in the
price he pays.
Take off the duties ; let the Wiooi-
pegger get his apples from the nea
est orchards, and the price he pa
will immediately be reduced. th
amount of the reduction represents
some portion of the remitted duty
of the difference in the cost of Iran
portation. No one nn tell exact
how the remission of the duty w
affect the producer and the consum
respectively ; but say that the co
sumer (in Winnipeg or the Waste
Proviuce.) profits by one-half of th
remitted duty and the United State
EDrrrIAL NOTES.
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'-I-P-O G I•Y means wider
markets for the farwers of Huron
county.
No, gentle reader, thin backward
weather is not a result of the reciproc•
Ity proposals.
The Weekly Sun (Toronto), review
ing the rapid lucre/um of the Proviu-
cial expenditure, declares that "'bete
is need of a roan with a gun at the
door of the Provincial vaults."
While party organs and agents of
the protected interests are telling
the farther of the injuries he will
suffer from reciprocity, every agricul-
tural journal in the country le sup-
porting the reciprocity proposals.
r- The millionaires Qf Toronto and
ys Montreal posinglis champions of the
e tanners present a funny spectacle.
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grower pockets the other half, the
is a benefit to botb.
The acme thing reversed happens i
the East. The United States take
off its duty of 75 cents a barrel, and
the Ontario producer and the con
sumer, say in New York, "split th
difie ,•nes" there will be a subatienti
pares' lege of increased pn.fit for th
grows, and the mac who eats th
apple. will pay lea for them.
This, however, is not the full meas
ure of the benefit which will aocru
to both the producer and the con
sumer through freedom of trade
There is sometimes an overabun
dant yield in Canada and conse=
quently a glutted market, and many
apples are not marketed at all. With
the immerses and constant demand in
the United States hereafter available
for our growers, there will always he
.t market for our apples, even in the
meet prolific years. Its years when
our orchards in Ontario fail, and no
home-grown apples are to be had, the
consumer will be able to get his apples
from acre' se the line, without payment
of duty. Further, the present uncer-
tainty of market conditions tends to
neglect of orchards, but under teci-
procity,.with an assured market for
all the apples he can grow, the farmer
will naturally pay more attention to
his orchard and will plant more trees
and thus increase hie production.
Both producer and consumer will thus
be
A better example still of the bene-
fits of the reciprocal agreement is fur-
nished by the meat trade. Under
present conditions both producer and
consumer are trade to pay tribute to
the middleman. This is why Mr.
Flavelle, head of the Wm. Davies Co.,
Jaw st roogly opposed to the reciprocity
proposals. The farmer in selling his
hogs will have the advantage of a
wider market, and the reduction cf
the duty on the finished product of
the pork factory will he to the advan-
tage of the consumer.
There 10 no miracle about it. ' In the
case of the meat trade, the middlemen
will conduct their business on a small-
er margin, and instead of making :oft
percent. profits they may have to be
Content with perhapi E or 10 per cent.
In the case of armlet., the long railway
haul from Ontario to the West, which
represents an economic waste, will be
to some extent eliminated. In both
cases the remission of duties will ie.
duce the amount of customs taxation
paid by the people. The national
revenue is increasingvery rapidly, and
a reduction of customs taxation is
quite in order. The reciprocal agree -
:bent with the United States, while it
gives the consumer relief from cus-
toms taxation, secures to the producer
the benefit of larger and nearer
markets.
We do not believe that it is •ltr-
gether neceawry to put the matter thus
plainly for the benefit of the editor of
The Kincardine Review. He is of
sufHcieut mental calibre to grasp the
situation presented by the reciprocity
proposals if be rams to do so. in-
deed, his own editorial expressions im-
mediately subsequent to the an-
nouncement of the propitiate indicated
that he realized the advantages that
by their adoption would accrue to the
farmers of Canada. But the Conserv-
ative party and the Conservative
pow have allowed themselces to be
taken in tow hy the protected in-
terest!, end Col. Clark bas allowed
bim.elf to be swept along with the
anti -reciprocity wave in antagonism
The Campbell Milling Company, a
Toronto concern, announces that it
will build a 3.000 -barrel flour mill at
Midland this spring. Mr. Campbell,
the head of the company, believes
that the reciprocal trade arrangeme nt
with the States will help the. flour
milling Indust' y, and he and bit, luso-
crates are prepared to heck their opin-
re I ions to the extent of $400,000, repre-
senting the cost of the [unposed new
n mill. Flour milling ie one of the nat-
e ural industries of Caned* and Canto
if dian flour needs fear no rival.
Give Me a Day.
hive me a day, beloved, that I may set
e A jewel In my heart -1'11 brave regret,
e It, oo the morrow. you shall say' forget."
One golden day when dawn shall blush to noon
And noon incline to dark, and, oversoou•
My joy lie burned 'north a rounded moon.
Only a day- its worth you scarce could tell
From other day.: bat In my life twill dwell
An oasis with palm trees and a well
-Isabel ICoclestone Meittay.
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to the real Iaterestr of tit least nine
oat of every ten of the people of
Hrrre county. When the wave re-
nedes and the anti-reciprocitariana
are stranded hard on the rocks, what
right will ('ol. Clark have to complain
if he shares the fare atf ethers who be-
tray the interests of their rnnatifn
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Those who
derlare
that
annexate,e
wiH result frost freer trail* with the
Milted Biota* .ether are lasineere or
bale a very poor Idea of tea quality
of Osaaditrn Ottam.irir.
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COWAN'S.
PERFECTION
COCOA
Cowan's seems to hit the
right spot. It is a great
food for husky young ath-
letes: satisfies the appetite :
easy to digest: and delicious
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Heir 10 like any other growing this`
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SPRING TERM FROM APRIL 3
CENTRAL
STRATFORD. ONT.
We hare three departments - Com -
mental, shorthand and Telegraphy. All
coarses are thorough and practical. The
teaching is inn by ,.even experienced
instructors and we place graduate. in wood
positions. Some of last year's.tudents are
now earning $1.000.00 per annum or better.
Studentsare entering each week. This
our tree catalogue you time for et once and Writer.
learn what
we can do for you.
U. A. MCLACHLAN,
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Principal.
Boys and
Girls
Should learn those subjects by
which they can earn :t living.
Spottou's Business Colleges are
the largest trainers in -Canada,
and ou: graduates secure the
hest positions. You can study
at home, or partly at home and
finish at the college.
INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION
ENTER ANY DAY
Clinton
Business College
co.'sP0'TT014. ►rinc*d.
Now
IS THE TiME TO BUY
Furs
We are offering any
Fur in our stock at
ONE,.THiRD
OFF regular prices.
Women's and
• Plisses' Coats are
all marked down to
Tess than half-price.
John Stead
Hamilton Street
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A MAGNIFICENT SHOWING OF NEW
RUGS AND CARPETS
Axminster, Wilton and Velvet Rugs,
beautiful and new, direct from England—
the finest and largest showing, we ever
imported.
Asmioster Rugs. suitable for dining -roots, drawing -room or
library e very' size and width up to l j yards long. Prices range
at
M, *10, $12, $15, $20, ass, sae, 540. 550, $110
We invite inspection of this large *bowing, as such values we
have never before shown. All Carpets and Rugs atedlrect from the
English makers.
Table Linens
We scoured a large part of the stock of Linens, Quilts and
Cloths from the executors of the late Nicholas Rooney wholesale
lint° merchant, bought at 26 to 35 per Dent. under manufacturers'
prices. We mark them for ready clearing on one of our centro
tables.
Charming Lace Curtains
Dainty Lacey effects and in new lattice patterns, suitable for
the windows of drawing -rooms or elaborately furnished bedrooms ;
Swiar and Brussels patterns. Very special. 4t, per pair,
$2.75, $3.75 and $4.50
Butterick Patterns for April all in stock.
Delineator on sale -15e per copy or $1.00 the year.
Fashion Sheets at our mantel's'.
W ACHESON a SON
STYLE TODA Y
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demands brilliant designing. The
garments we turn out possess it.
We are strong on quality, both in
material and workmanship.
MARTIN BROS.
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TAILORS
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Martin-Senour
Paint
100 PER CENT. PURE
is composed of pure carbonate of lead and oxide of
zinc, pure linseed 011, turpentine and dryer for
thinning, pure coloring matter and nothing else.
We hereby guarantee this paint toive entire
satisfaction when properly applied and agree to
refund the money for the empty cans if the paint
does not do all we,claim for it.
We stand back of the above guarantee.
Hardware
FRED HUNT
Hamilton Street
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When Spring Comes
Men and women emulate the season by
dressing themselves in a new garb; and the
SHOE QUESTION isn't of least import-
ance. We are fully prepared for this season.
SHOES
for every member of your family, from the
heaviest working boots to the finest dress
lines.
For your Easter holiday trip we have a
much increased stock of Bags, Suit Cases,
Trunks and other travelling goods to
choose from.
We invite you to see our goods and get
our prices.
Repair work well and quickly done.
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W. HERN
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