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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1911-5-11, Page 2t TUvuat, Mae 11, 1911 uODRR1Ca ONTARIO. EVERY THURSDAY a► AL PIUNTING CW.. Limited Cali Nall. Tseme M ouaaor.atise Liiipszaansa in advance les ; tars months, Ma To Ueit.d Mates subscribers, $1.6u • year strbatty la ads asset Bebsortbse.wbo fall to receive Tan BIGNAt esoteric by small will sainting mot trot � early • date as ci sibie. Mara • Miami at address L desired, both old and the saw addrw should b. liven. Attiwslita wets : Least aad ether elmtlar advsrttementa, 100 pet tin. for Mt iaaertloo and b per line for each subsequent tnaratlon. Measured by s n onpareil seal*, twelve Un.s Wan inch. Rosiness cards of six lines and under, IN par Advwtlssme to of Leat, Found. 81reyeed, Stt malaise Vammt, Situations Wanted, Hoose. for 8a1. or W Rents Farms for dale or to Rent Articlestor Sale, eta. not exceeding eight Itnert. vee each In+turn ; $I tor tint moothkoto - tor .rob subsequent month. Larger advertise. meat& In proportion. Annocm•mentt lc ordinary reading type ten OWL" per Urso. No notice less than tie. Any special notice, the ob)ert el which 1s the D iary benefit of any Individual or asr+d- Woo to be oonddred an advertisement and le shareed ,000rdingty. Rata for display and contract advertise- ments will be riven oa alrolicttl•c• Address all oommueloeuooa W TAF. SIGNAL PR!NIINOOOw Limited. Oodwich not 0 )DZRICH• TRUItW*AT. MAT 11. 1111 CANADA'S OPPORTUNITY. The recipt'ocity agreement, cpening the markets of the Potted States to Canadian farm products, is just what Canada has been wantipg tor the last fifty years. It will increase the profits of every Canadian farm. and directly or indirectly it will benefit the vast majority of the people of Canada. It will not affect - in the slightest degree the loyalty of Cana- dians to the Imperial connection. It will noUyinder, rather will it acceler- ate, the growth and development bot a strong, self-reliant Canadian nation. There is not a eubatagtiaL argument against re'iprocity which re based on public interest, Sectional Interests are opposed to it for their own ninth reason.: combines) which for years have battened on monopoly see in it the destruction of their opportunities for inordinate profits : but for nine out of ten Can,udians the agreement means larger opportunities and in- creased returns from heir daily lab r. But we are told that Mr. Taft says so and ,o, .and Senator Somebody nays something else, and hecauae of what they choose to say Canadian, should withdraw from the agreement! Pres- ident Taft and his followers may bit hard put to it to justify the agreement to tbe pimple ot the United States. and they may say things and use argtl- taletlts in addressing their own people which do riot appeal to Canadians ; but that is no wagon wby Canada should refuse to take advantage of the offer which is open to her. What sort of Cnnaiientam is it which is div- erted from its purpose because of statements trade by the politicians of ,another country? Canadians are not babies tbat they do not know their own minds or understand their own business. The agreement is before us in black and white. We do not need to en- quire whether it will benefit the United States or not, We do not need to care wbat arguments are being need by {'resident Taft or any- body else to persuade the people of the United States that they should en- dor*e it. The question for us is, is :he agreement a good thing for Canada? The Signal believes that the agree- ment Is the biggest opportunity for material advancement that Canada has bad within theist fifty years and that it ehould'have the endor•eentent of the Canadian I'alliameot at the earliest opportunity. WHAT PRINCE SAYS—AND DOES. THE SIGNAL, GODERICH ONTARIO Port Arthur west the l'aoadlan Northern line is already completed to the Rcckies, end when the I'e.aflc cant terminus near Vauoouver is reached another ocean -to -ocean rail- way will be added to Canada's great system of transportation. According to the resolution of which notice bas been given in Parlia- ment by the Minister of Railways, the bouds of the company are to be guar- anteed uaranteed to the extent of $16,000 • tune for the whole distance from Port Arthur to Montreal .1a Sudbury and toe Ottawa Volley. As recurity the country is to have a first mortgage on the road, and also on the line from Hawkesbury through Ottawa and To- ronto to the Niagara River. It is, of course, expected that the company will be able to meet the payment* on the bonds, but in case of its failure to do so the Oovernmeot would come in- to practical possession of nearly 1,400 miles of eompleted railway at cost of IMM() per mile, and this stretch of reitway would be a natural extension of the Interoolonial to tbe bead of the Great Lakes. A feature of the agree - w t is that the railway company is to hive an undertaking that export traffic, unless rpe cific&Ily routed other- wise by the *chipper, is to be carried to Canadian ports. Canada has bad such great develop- ment within recent years, and her financial position has become so strong, that neither the completion of another great railway aysteni span- ning the continent., nor the liability which the country incurs in helping to finance the undertating, will create ss much interest end discussion as would a much smaller project some years ago. Still, the proposition now placed before Parliament and the country should be thoroughly examined, so that the public interest may be well safeguarded. Canada has done a great deal in the way of assisterce to private railway enterprises, and Per liameot may be justified in giving fur- ther assistfrncefrom „time to time in the future as conditions may seem to warrant ; but in giving such assistance a clear case must be made out for the contention that the project is well cal- culated to advance the Wailes interest. Macken.ie and Mann; the leaders of the syndicate who own the Canadian Northern systelm, are not exkctly white -winged patriots—in popular estimation. at least—and the Govern- ment May expect .Dome criticism of any bargain made with them. How- ever. if the project is one for the up building fff Canada, on side conditions, the personnel of the promoters is of minor importance. Anti -reciprocity organs make a great deal of n sp e erh by Cotngtev«- MU) Prince io the House of Repre- eantatives at NVaalringt..n. He is re- ported as saving : 1 «ay to our neighbors on the north, be not deceived. when we go Into a te try and get control of it, we take it ; it i.pur hiatury, and it is right that we \bould tae it if we want it. The Speaker has pro said ; the party hack of hint has said. and it does mot deny that t bat is its desire. Now let us ere if the people of Canada be- lieve in reciprocity and aonezation." Wbat the "anti" papers fail to tell their tender. is that iwme.liately after waking thi. d.r-laration itepreeenta- tive Prince VOTF.D AG.%INMT THE RFt'll'ROCI'I'V t(.I-MI MENT. TO ASSIST THE C N R. 1t U anno„tn.•ed et Ottawa 'het the dr.vernment will eek Parliament to nein the l :•oadian Northern Railway by • guarantest4 bonds for the Ulmer end-milelink between Port Arthur and Mootreal Tose building of this .ins sill prartieall •n iiplete the third 1 sttedorn .ranenonunental lin•- Moe its through tram, f...m Motor a' •.•gt t.. the ABente nate the . V R is to use tee Interoofontaf hoe emir AN OBJECT LESSON IN TAXATION. EDITORIAL MUTES. Between theta the Ikea mower and the va_uuw cleaner can make quite a raceet these fine goring mornings. One of the United State* Congress- men says that Toronto is strongly in favor of commercial union with the States Col. Denison ought to buckle on his sword and proceed to aveuge the iosult. The Toronto World commends to Sir James Whitney's attention the difference between tbe tax systems of Vancouver and Seattle, and their re- spective results. Vancouver encour- ages improvement by exempting it from taxation ; while in Seattle the Ontario system prevails of .niGg a man for progressiveness by Increasing his taxation whenever he n.kes any improvements on his property. The World quotes from an ertic?e by Al- bert Jay Nock in The American Mag- azine s. -me statements in illustration of the contniat between the Van- couver and the Seattle method. Itis it& Vancouver city, and in its effect upon property development that the operation ot the new tax sys- tem has most interest for Foronto and other Ontario cities. Vancouver has grown in ten years from 28.11110 to 100,- 800 people and Mr. Nock anticipates tbat in twenty years It will be by far the most powerful city on the Pacific roast between Cape Horn and the Pole. Fifteen years ago Vancouver wanted to encourage building and decided that the best way to do it was to stop fining and penalizing the persons who promised to build. So the city authorities began to lighten the tax on improvements. They began by assessing land at full value and im- provement« at 75 per cent. In a few years. when equilibrium was restored, the tax on improvements war reduced to 50 per cent... in a few years more to 25 per cent. and finally improve- ments have been entirely exempted. leaving the tax tate undisturbed at 2 mills. The transition was made with - nut the slightest disturbance of any kind. and everybody is satisfied. Mr. Nock mentions many instances of vacant leets with fine bedding' next them. the taxation in each cave being the *tome, while in other instances the vacant lot pays a higher tax than the one built upon. If you were going td build would you build in Vancouver or Seattle? asks Mr. Nock. He would substitute Toronto for Seattle if he were here in the contrast with Van- eouver. An example er given. "Mr. Jamey Barron of Everett, Washington. owns land there and also in Van- couver. He made praperatinos lief byear to put up a substantial brick lock on Hewitt &venire, Everett, but corresponded with Vancouver and changed his mind as any sane moan would 1 sow his correspc,ndence when i was io Everett. In Vent—trivet his brick block e,ista him nothing : in Everett it weed probably have been amassed higher than his land. He built in Vaarrtntet." And an would a Toronto man who owned property there and here. And The World in conclusion asks : Why d..ea Sir Jame. Whitney re- fuse t.. allow Ontario t . adopt this sensible system of taxat ra in ? tt he /Mould Canadian. carte whet I'e.e•ident Taft Gaya .!abut rerlpvrs-ity latnadan• arc n tay.w .1 reel noreity for their .we reasons. not for Mr. Taft's Reciprocity was to destroy east and west traffic, and tiers is the Canadian Northern Railway planoiog to build a thousand guiles of cast and west track. The anti -reciprocity arguments do not wear well. An allegorical figure representing the free trader should be drawn with r.o ears. sightless runt and an Abnor- mal development e.1 jaw. Thie would illustrate his inability to understand logical argument. or to comprehend cb.tnges io toonoruic conditions, while it would set forth with quiet force his infinite. capacity for talk. This from The Toronto News. Un- answerable, isn't it P We do not want to be pulled up for contempt of court ; but we cannot help remarking tbat if that old Duan, Michael Eraser, of Midland, regarding whose marriage such a fuss bas been made, is not out of his mind it is a wonder, cunsidermg thesy be has been pestered by the lawy)rr and the judges. Probably ■t the time of his mart lege he was about as level-headed as m a men are on their wedding - day. W. \'. German. the Liberal tneunber for W.:.intl. bolted on the reciprocity question, and now he is threatened with opposition at tbe nett election froru Leslie McMann, ex -Mayor of Thorold and a prominent Conserva- tive. who says the reciprocity agree- ment is the hest thing ever offered to Canada. Is the time really corning in remade w ben people will not look at public gJeations merely as party dif- ferences ? The Se*fortb Expositor publisher a n ote from a subescriber at Sheldon, North Dakota. who left Scafortb thirty years ago ; "i tee that you are petty strong an Tteeiproeity. I1do not think a man would have for be very .inert W see a great benefit in this agreement for Canada. - \Ve are wending a large del- egation from the Western States to Washington to fight against the agreement. You are getting tbe big end of the stick. and if the agreement gases through you may consider your- selves smarter than Uncle Sam." The Right Honorable David Lloyd - George batt week introduced in the British House of ('ommons another of those schemes for social amelioration with wbich his name is identified. This is a ecbeme for the insurance of workers agsinat unemployment and illness. Prominent memb.re of the Conservative party have already en- dorsed the measure, which is described by one of them as the greatest legislm tive experimeet ever introduced in any legislative assembly in the world. FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Amazing to Contemplate. Prince Rupert Optimist. It is one of for amazing things to contemplate, that the people of a country should have to be argued with by the Government to induce them to see that a proposal to remove 93.000.000 tales from their food bill is a wholly desirable thing. The Good Roads Movement Henan Observer. Some of our county exchanges seem to have come to the conclusion that Huron coetnty is making a big mistake in not taking up the good roads move- ment, and securing the Government assistance that other counties are receiving. Thee are right. A Man's Work. Woodstock Sentinel -Review. 1►r. Macdonald. the editor of The Globe, is going to England. it is said, to prorncte the movement for plating tbe relatiooubip of Great Britain and the Coifed States on a perpetual peace basis. it le a man's work, and it is a work for which Dr. Macdonald has shown both inclination and Benne. I:Anode is directly and specially inter- ested in the peace movemeol and should not begrudge to do her best and give ber best for its promo - Lion. The proposal te mark the ceo. tenaryof peace on the international hordeby the adoption of a treaty be. tween (treat Britain and the United States is one that will appeal te the highest patriotism of this country. Do Not Want Anaexabee. ( eleland ilain Dealer. The people et the t-nitel States do not look with favor upon the nugget, tine of annexation. They do net want the Dominion minion tinder the Start and Stripes. They tee not expansionists at heart. hitt would prefer to rife their present continental territory higbly developed rather than to tithe in more. Like the Canadians themselves, they are seti•fled with the attunequo. The Englisb-wpeaking perspiese of the earth need on this North Anlerieen rorttinMI two stron independent na- tions to steed shoulder to shoulder in defence of western rivilizatlon against whatever forces may hp burled toward it in the years to .•ossa There is far more weenie in aucb . defensive sill - ante. with its Breech onnertion, than could po..lbit Ire ram to a .Ingle na Gen •tr.•tebit.g from the (coif of Mex- ico to the Amor caner. rh. ' nited mates a •nada met •. s .,mla.n ant part of trade. tear as • meter se. tion with idsstteal .mbltione and I metal earnsstann to defend '8. rrn.tin- ant .Telntt aggreacie e. AFTER 7 YEARS SUFFERING 1 Was Card by Lydia L Pi■t- Laarrt Verdant' Composed W surtka, Okla —"I had female trou- bles for seven years, was all run down and eft nervous I could not do any- thing. The doctors treated me for dif- ferent things but did me nogood. I got so bad that I could not sleep day er night While in thiscondit3ort 1 read of Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound, and began its use and wrote W Mrs. Pinkham for advice. In a abort time I had gained my average weight and am now strong and well." —Mrs. SALLIE STsvINs, R. F. D. No. 3, Box 31, Waurika, Okla. Another Grsdeful Woman London, Ont —1 feel as if 1 could not tell others enough about the good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound has done for me. I was so weak and tired that I could not rest nights. A friend recommended your Compound and I soon gained health and strength and could not wish to sleep better. I know other women who have taken it for the same purpose and they join me in praising it—MRs. Ws.. A. Burry, 905 Dame St., London, Ont Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound has surely cured many cases of female ills, such as inflammation, ulcer- ation, displacements; fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, back- ache, that bearing -down feeling, and nervous prostration. CENTRAL STRATFORD. ONT. \ L.\IUIK elCIteIOL, A t;001) S('HOUL 'THE MMI. -.Thla school has a continental reputation for high-grade work and for the acro. of Its ',indents. We have three de. pp.a tmen•s.—C:ommerelat Shorthand. and Telegrnphy. Ambit young men and Nom«n .honld -tendf et nnee for cam large fre.- c.tt«!corn. Write for it at to .-o .ted see what our graduates ars doing. rho 1s s gond t terse of the year for you to enter our el.a.e+. ..dent- are entering each week. 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Martin Bros., Tailors J FOR TASTY JOB WORK, TRY THE SIGNAL Howell Hardware LIMITED you have many requirements at this season of the year. We have the goods you need. Screen Doors Yru need to get theta on be- fore the house is filled with flies. 1 We have a splendid range. We sell a g.s.l, strong door with hest quality of wire screening, panels are nicely stained, with pair spring hinge.. all and book and eye, complete for.... 91.00 Other lines nangitng in price up to, eacb. $2.30 Window Screens No person needs to keep the windows closed. in a/I widths to suit. Prices range from lfle to the Screen' Wire Perhaps you hate an old does needing new wire cloth. We have it: in width* lg inches to 38 inches, and nut price et right. ideal Fencing Ideal Fencing, the best feoeing. is what you must have. Ideal M the fence far you. 7 wines, all bard steal, ell No 9 terms nitro wire per nod .. •le. • Poultry Nettie& After getting the garden in good shape, don't let the bens de•etr.ty it. We have Poultry Netting in widths from 12 lodes to 84 inebee. We sell it in mils, or .gut lengths to suit your requirements. It no' only reinoves every particle of duet, dirt, grease, stain and scratcher from pianos, furniture and woodwork et one sweep of the cloth. but it leaves tole surface shining with it beautiful, glo•.v newnewe. it is very simple to use ; a child can do the work. Paint We hare iboot fifteen gal- lon+ of Paint In one-half pint. pint and quart tins of the Rob- otism make. which we mast clear out at once. Last of the Nide-Aeon mock. You ran haat- whet avewhet you need at 10c belt -plot or Me per *quart. This is lees than most paint vests today. The Wet Kitchen Cabinet value. made in oak : very enss- plte. only $25.00 .+a j 1