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A FORLORN HOPE.
Opposition newspapers claim that
public opinion is overwhelmiegly
against the reciprocity agreement.
At the same time they frantically call
upon the Conservative members at
Ottawa ti oppose the agreement to
"the bitter end." Their attitude is
open to suspicion of insincerity.
If the people of Canada are opposed
to the Government's pplicy, they will
oust the Ooverntnent from office when
the general election taker Place nett
yeas. The new Conservative Govern-
ment could then restore the present
conditions, as either Canute or the
United States is at IRYesty to with-
draw from the agreement at any time.
1a it to be imagined that the opposi-
tion to reciprocit} which the Conserv-
atives
onservatives are now displaying is for the
purpose of preventing the Laurier
Government from committing politi-
cal suicide by going to the country
with an unpopular ,roliry ?
Not much.
What is troubling the Oppo.itiuo
organs is that they feel that a few
months experience of reciprocity
would prove it such a source of advan-
tage to Canadian producers that it
would receive est emphatic endorse-
ment at the hands of the electors.
Their game, then, is to force an elec-
tion before tbe actual beoefltg of reci-
procity can be realized. and in the
meantime to rail,.. such a cry of alarm
that the elector will be etempeded in-
to voting against it.
Tbiv is the Opposition's forlorn
hope, and the explanation of all the
bravado and bluster which accompany
tbe anti -reciprocity campaign.
HON. A. G. MACKAY.
Those who heard the Hon. A. G.
MacKay Is.t Saturday evening could
not fail to be impressed with the can-
dor and earneetne,s of his address.
It was a business question be waa dis-
cussing. and he discussed it in a
straight businesslike way. looking at
it from sII aides and dealing fairly
with each phase. 'There was no at-
tempt to becloud the issue with rhet-
orical nourishes; there was no at-
tempt to stir up prejudices -the audi-
ence was simply irked to follow a
calm, dispaesionMe review of a quett-
tion the proper consideration of
which calls for just those qualities of
mind which the speaker brought to
bear upon it. It was nn address of
education and instruction and will
have its effort in clearing away much
of the irrelevant matter that baa been
brought into the discussion of reci-
procity.
While Mr. MacKay showed his
eapeci-y for self-restraint by leaving
out 'before. whets rhetoric was not
wanted. those who on Saturday night
heard him for the fleet time will have
a wrong impression if they take his
address of that evening as describing
the limits of his power. as a public
speaker. When the higher flights are
in order, A. G. MacKay can fly with a
strong wing : and when a good fight-
ing speech is the right thing the ora-
torical weapons in A. 0. MarKay's
arsenal are found to be strong and
keen.
Mr. MacKay has been subject to
(some criticism became be, a leader in
Provincial politics, has tsk.-n so prone
inert a part in the diacoiesinn et a Fed.
"rel issue. Sir Jame. Whitney may
pave beets in error In eating the Pro-
vincial Legislature to debate and pass
a r.eoliti•rn upon • queatioi with
which it bee nothing to do ; hut Mr
MacKay's activities as a citlsen of tld-
t..rlet and of (:.nada are not to he lim-
ited to a smaller epbare than that in
which arty a .n.rllan feaster may
rightly take n part s. a Canadian
dean ins los beet for his emntry Mr.
Varkay has • rase mee 111 hie fellow
reesatrysseh ,e regent to the great
(Itre.tirxt sow at Welk said to delis -n.1 fai bard gloyaltf.•
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estentilliee
THE SP; NAL, GODERICR ONTARIO
t it he is pet fosu.ing the duty of x
p1{triot and a gifted leader`of men.
CRITICIZING CANADIAN tsAN►:S.
In his little monthly publication
"Ourselves," Peter McLrthur contin:
ties his discussion of the Canadian
banking systenm. He chitlins tbtt tbe
hanks have lent themselves to the
business of ?mining "mergers" in
which watered stock plays a Targe
part, and as dividends must tie paid on
the "water" the wherewithal is taken
out of the pockets of the consumer in
higher prices. Prices cannot readily
be raised. however, unless the
"merger" hes & monopoly. A protec-
tive customs tariff keeps out foreign
competition. and th3 banks smother
attempts at home competition by re-
fusing credit to iodepeudeot eomp.n•
les. Thus the desired result -a mon-
opoly -is secured.
'The writer suhmits it to those who
have been forced out of what seemed
profitable independent concern P.
whether they did not find that about
the time their banker cramped them -
for funds tbe combine did not corse
along with an offer to purchase. The
combine and the Canadian booking
system go hand in hand. What eke
is left fur such a concern to do but sell
or go into the combine? The power
of the hank is absolute in business."
Mr. McArthur repeats his charge
that the hrench hank system is used
to draw money from the farming dis-
tricts' and smaller urban centres to
feed the big concerns and "make mil-
lionaires into multimillionaires." He
soya :
"it nes not been contradicted that
not more than ten per cent. of the de-
posits in the outside branches is avail-
able for the use of the locality in
which the branch is situate, the hal•
anre nt ninety per cent. being taken to
the head office. And this notwith-
standing the feet that there is'carrel y'
a community which is so drained of its
wealth whieh in not tilfying out for the
capital with which to expand its local
business iuteresta--interests whole• ex-
pansion weuld mean more, vastly
more, to the country than the building
up of two Ierge reties and the creation
of a few titlett willioasites.'
Tbereis, of course, something to b.•
said on the other side of the question ;
but Mr. McArthur', criticisms are cal-
culated to have a good effect in draw-
ing attention to the abuse of the
branch tank system -a system which
if not improperly employed hit some
undoubted advantages over the Sys-
tem of independent local blinks which
they have in the United States.'
For one thing. the beads of the great
banks of Yamada must see that hence-
forth their methods of doing business
are going to be carefully .watched in
the interesta of the people. and if nec-
essary the laws under which they do
their business will be amended to pre.
vent some of the 'practices which are
now complained of.
A WARNING FROM THE WEST.
in his speech un the reciprocity
agreement in the, House of Commons
on Monday. Mr. J. G. Turriff, one of
the prominent Liberal members from
the West, gave a note of warning to
certain Eastern interests. He declared
that ttie Menufitcturers Association
and the financial interests that were
opposing reciprocity were creating it
spirit in the West that slight lead to
trouble for themselves. He recalled
the fact thatrhen Mr. Borden visited
his (Mr. Terrill's) constituency in bin
Western tour of Its the large banner
Ttplayed over the filatforut from
which the Conservative leader spoke
bore tbe motto. "Reciprocity with the
United States." That motto was
placed there by the Conservatives of
the district and showed what they
wanted ; and if the 1A-estern people
were thwarted at the present juncture
a feeling would be created that would
not be eetisfieed until a much more gen-
era! reduction, including toanufac-
tured articles, should be brought into
effect. The Manufacturer' Associa-
tion was its own worst enemy, and itis
opposition to the reasonable de-
mands of the Western farmers w -a
calculated to provoke a spirit of re
sentmeut that would not be to the ad-
vantage of tbe manufacturers. East-
ern manufacturer who do a large
portion of their hualness in the West
should be able to Nee the point.
Mr. TurriR had an especially sharp
stick for Bir Edmund Walker. The
men of the West, be said, had their
eyes upon Ibis Eastern capitalist who
presumed to teach them loyalty.
"They note that Mir Edmund Walker
can take the money of tbe fanner and
the artisan. deposited with his institu-
tion, end help to move the Southern
cotton clap at from two to fifty per
cent. on call loans. They see him
send their dollar to New 'York and
l'bl:ago for the benefit of himself and
his shareholder*, and yet it does not
affect Id. loyalty. But If the fanner,
foreoot.b, sends a steer or a pig or a
cerinad of wheat or barley to the
United thane t.e secure • better price,
why. he's disrupting the Empire. and
what not. led ever peen bear sny-
tbine ,tet ahsolutaly absurd r
While the ograsit Mn ref both politi-
nal parties Ira (hast Britain are meet-
ing President Taft half way in his pro-
pxlsals for MINN t• friet,.11y relation.o,
Donis 1,111.' two-hv-nirten in tide
eenntry are trcana to stir rap trouble
between the twe great Fnglieh--peak
ing peoples Aril these little, alsaps
think that. by en titling they ere prove
EDITORIAL NOTES.
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Hon, Clifford Sittoa's horse won the V higb-jamplug coutert at the Toronto
horse dhow the other clay. That other
political failure. Lord Ittoseben`, •iso
owns some good horses.
Now Sir Thomas Shaughnessy
denies tbe truth of the reported inter-
view in the course of which he was
paha to have given the opinion that
war was a good thing to kill off the
surplus population. The Idea is an
old-fewhioned one, but admirers of the
president of the C. P. R. will be glad
kr learn that he is not a disciple of the
crude philosophy of Malthus.
Dr. Chisholm, of East Huron, stated
du Parliarneot that he was a "kind of
independent" mate and might vote for
reciprocity 1f the dead was a fair one.
When the Canadian Minister brought
hack from Washington an agrcriuent
more favorable to Caoade than any-
one bad hoped for, lir. Chisholm
proved the quality of his boasted
"independence" by oppt»ing its ac-
ceptance. The member for East
Huron is about as "independent" .a
the snap at the end of the party
whip. for his wife, I was willing to take it.
It 1s rather significant of the ex-
pected
f
trend of trade under reciproc-
ity that the border American cities
are bolding out both arms towards,
Canada and the increased busineeis
they hope to do under the new tariff
artangement.-Woodet.ock Express.
YEARS OF
MISERY
All Relieved by Lyda E. Pink -
ban's Vegetable Compound.
Sikeston. Mo. -- "For seven years I
suffered everything. 1 was in bed
for four or five days
at a time ever
month, and so weak
I could hardly walk.
1 cramped and had
backache and head-
ache, and was so
nervous and weak
that 1 dreaded to
see anyone or have
anyone move in the
room. The doctors
gave me medicine to
ease me at those
times, and said that 1 ought to have an
operation. 1 would not listen to that,
and when a friend of my husband told
him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and what it had done
Now I look the picture o health and
feel like it, too. I can do my own house-
work. hoe mygarden, and milk a cow.
, I can enterin company and enjoy
them. Icon visit when 1 choose, and
walk es fir flit as ordinary woman
any day In'th. month. I wish 1 could
tall[ tioevery safferingwoman and girl. "
-Mrs. DINA BETSIINL, Sikeston, Mo.
The most s000eeti tl remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms of
female complaints is Lydia F. Pink -
ham's Vegetable Compound.
It is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. It has
cured thousands of women who ,have
been troubled with displacements. in-
flammation,
sflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors,
irb egularitiea, periodic prain.. backache,
that bearingdown feeling, indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after all other
means had failed. Why don't you try it!
There is nothing alarming in this.
The "American" cities can do a larger
bush .s with Canadians only by giv-
ing 1- 'ter terms than the Canadian
cities Toronto and Montreal have
been .. ,ung pretty well these many
year ; new that they are to have
stronger competition the farmers arid
other produrers of Canada will come
into tbeir own.
In his speech against the Canadian
reciprocity hill in the House last week
Congressman Hanna stated that fie
had petitions and reqursrs from mote
than thirty-five hundred farmer, end
business sten of Nortb Dakota asking
him to work and vote against the rati-
fication of the •greeutent and only
flue who asked biro to vote for it..
This indicates a ratio of one to seven
hundred and is just about the correct
treasure of public sentiweut in this
State.
This statement, made by a North
Dakota paper, shows how the ,se•nti-
went of the United States farmers
stands in regard to the reciprocity
pact. And yet there are people in
this country se -be ser' ly argue that
the United States farmers are getting
the better enol of the deal.
The Montreal Star publishes a story
GI the effect that the Standard Oil Co.
is seeking to gain control of the C. P.
R. and then through control of the
road force Canada into annexation.
The Star is bound to find some ezplan+
'Mien for the fact that tiore the reci-
procity proposals are announced C.
P. R. stock has steadily advanced in
Once, instead of declining, as it should
have done if the prophecies of digester
to Canadian transportation interests
were to 1r. believed. Of course, the
Standard Oil Co. could just as readily
gain pogo -scion of the C. P. R. with-
out reciprocity as with it ; but The
Star's object ie to scare Canadians in-
to thinking that freer trade with the
States invent the destruction ofl'an-
ada'r national institutions. Oboet
stories make up & large part of the
anti -recipt(wit y campeign.
Sir Charles Tupper is out with an
"open letter" to Mr. Fielding in which
he state- that Mir John A. Macttonald,
when he advocated reciprocity in 1881,
was fighting contiuental free trade,
The inference is that Sir John consid-
ered reciprocity in natural products
only the less of two evils. Against
such a contention, however, is the fact
that an offer of reciprocity was incor-
porated by Sir John Macdonald in the
"National Policy" of 1879, a dozen
years before the time of which Sir
Charlee Tupper .peaks. All the
"open letters" and humbug Appeals to
what they term "loyalty" that Sir
Charles and the rest of them can pro-
duce cannot alter the tact that op to
three months ago reciprocity in nat-
ural products was the accepted policy
of both political parties In Canada.
And in two or three years those who
are now opposing reciprocity will be
wondering how they ever found any-
thing ohiectiouable in the propxmah
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