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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1911-7-20, Page 2VAT "AA S Tut stowee, lots ID 1911 OOLOCItit IL ONTARIO. PI7BLISHRD EVERY THURSDAY ST THE RONAL PRINTING CO.. United ; three maths, Ilia strictly la advaxesi bry sag will seater • favor by ao- es ef tate at as astir a date as reed Wawa • sheep, et address dreirei. both old the sad sew alike= shield be eves. lhake~4 Rafts: mil ether imilar advertsements, pm Ilse fee Idad lasertles and Go per Uso tor eseesseu wale. twelve Sam te as Owe. Illedness sates Nets liaes sadosaller. 111 per etliessaver= Elpeatlese Wasted. Seams fir ash sr treirRct TN!. tar eale sr te hat: etc.. ma eireasdlag mote la peepeaties. Amememosets la maw, readies twee tea Nate ger Hem N. notice lea thee Mc. Any apical setae, the west et wItice le the ittles. to lea= as edverMemeast and be charged Estes ter Negras awl osattect advertise - mecca will be glom se amecaties. Address all asimmualomiess to THE SIGNAL MINT MU M.. Limbed. Gederleb Oat OODERICILTRUIMPAY. JULY M. Intl • INTERNATIONAL TRADE. "Economist," a staff writer on To- ronto Saturday Night, deals with the tariff situation in • manner that should compel Home ser ious tbinhing among readers of that journal. He points out that the arguments offered in Canada totainst the reciprocity iota- gure bear more on the resulta ot the lowering of the United State. tariff then on the lowering of the Canadian tariff. The alarm is sounded that the United States under reciprocity will take too much of tbe products of Canada. But. 'llormembt" MILO, how ean Canada peewee' the lowering a the United States tariff. if the legis- lators on the other side of the border choose to tear down the %%all of re- striction. in whole in part. sod trade more freely with °anode? Canada CAM take, so ter as I can see. is to put on an export duty, and if there is one thing more than another which would demonetrate our utter economic in...city, it would be to adopt such a measure. Suppose that Caned& should take such action. Whitt would be the reply ? "1 c.anuot say bow the United States would reply, but I can tall you how she could reply. She could put an ex- port duty on corn --and I have a mild idea of what would hoppen tbe Can - film could put an on cot - &dish live stock each a case. ton coming to Om a—and once more the result would certainly not be rel- ished by Canada- Sbe could put an export d'ity on a thousand and one things ; but what would probably ap- peal t o the average man more than anything else would be the fact that she could put on export duty on an thraci reel. "What I want to impress upon you is that when parish politicians orate 110 patriottrAlly ois they think) about the iniquity of permitting foreign countries to drain ()made of her re- sources, you might just preserve your mental equilibrium by considering the extent to which Canada draius other countries of their natural reeources. The nature' resources of all countries —of the world—are for the use of people in the world. Many itountries have, at one time or another. adopted measures to prevent the draieing of resources which were of special value to them, but it is doubtful if any country has ever done so effectively, and if she has she proh&blv got her 'self into trouble either pefitic.ally- or economically. No country has a MOD - °wily of natural reeources. What she contains is for the consumption of her own people and to provide thetn with something which they may exchange with other countries for whet they con tain." EDITORIAL NOTES. The weather is cooling off. but we won't notice the difference very much until tbe discussion of Mae power by- law is over. Loudon Advertiser: The Opposi- tion's only &Quito fiscal principle is a refusal to allow Canadian farmers bow market. Parliament met at Ottawa on Tues- day to thresh out the reciprocity situ- ation and to transact other immense. left unfinished et the adjournment. The people of the burned -out die- tricts in Northern Ontario are display- ing a fine eourage in the face of their tribulations. The work of reconstruc- tion is already Well under way. and confidence in the future prosperity of th• dietrict is unshaken. A society has been formed in Berlin. Geressny. for the reforming of men's &Morel Knickerbockers ore tn re- place trousers. linen is to be discarded. and mat and waistimat ere to give way to "a sort of loom blouse bee" tog well Mows to the knees Don't Tea yotweelf going about is rig if Mat descrlptson ft ie reported that the Canadian fierlbens Railway may take over the People's Iteneray. an electric railway WOW ,ICIN.A•noe. eaterpries that hes um& some prog- ress in the ogiobborbood thielph. godericb is one of the obleetive Goleta of both the NOM. Railway and the 0. N. R. -fudging train the butcher cot flota- inerging of milling companies seems to be the favorite amusement among the financiers just mow. The Liberals o! British Chlumbia are conducting • vigorous ca.sopaign on the reciprocity holm. One of Omit of Ooderich. "Mac' is a po Wei on the platform. The following paragraph from The Montreal Gazette one of the leadieg Conservative organs of Canada) a March 10. 1891. shows how eagerly the then Conservative Government eras pursuing the reciprocity policy : "Mr. Blaine flatly objected to the un• til he learned upon what basis the was to aaeure the American Secrete", of State that tbe Canadian Govern- ment is williog discuss the question on the broadest lines, even on the basis of unrestricted reciprocity. *it Sir Cheese Tupper returned to Wash- ington with Sir John Thompeon and The Conservative press never loses en opportunity ot making party c.api- tal out of any misfortune that can in any way, direct or indirect. be connec- ted with the Ottawa Government For instance the Farmer's Bank and the Quebec hridge. If the Ltbseal press wished to indulge in the same kiod of warfare. material emilid be at hand in connection with the Porcu- pine disaater. It is saiii that with proper precautions the fire mould have been prevented ; but it is well known that lire rangers are &moulted not be- cause of their experience or fltnesa but because of their po.rty pull. So Hamilton Spectate' does not hesitate to blame the Whitney government for the failure to put • Map to there - ' tautly occurring form* t north conntry. However. Orfell,10 of last week is not subject for party controversy. and the Liberal Drees, we believe, will not treat it as such. Sir Wilfrid Laurier was anathema- tized by a section of the Conservative' press because he did eot fall in line with every half-baked project that *SO introduced at the Imperial Oonterence. There is, however, • saving remnant in the Comervetive press whieh re- take' to be stampeded into wild-eyed jingoism. Ot this small boat aelect chose is The Smarm) Gazette. whieb believes in progressing slowly but surely. It says : "The Imperial Conference of 1911 stands to be remembered chiefiy for tbe Pho_Oosals it has declined' to sanc- tion. The conservatiam of the major- ity of its members hes been a steady check on those who would hurry events or =Lae changes the meaning of whice haa not been thoroughly un- derstood. It is not s bad thing that touch should be the case. The mechan- ieni of government of the Empire may not be what a philosophic theorist would design. It has worked. and is working. however, with generally sat- isfactory results. meets the demands made upon it by the community of varying interests who have devised it or live under it. and leaves them satis- fied. In this it is something like the constitution of England. which is in- definable but workable. and. while bolding fast to certain ideas, permits the people living under it to expend their atiminigtrstive activities in whatever way the majority thinks wise and well." The Liberal prese is continually re- vamping the story about Sir John A. Mardonald being favorable to recipro- city in 1801. Allowing for the mo- ment that he was, hey. not our eon- temporeriee got sense enough to know that things are changed greatly in both countries now. end that what what might have been good in 1801 is not of much berieflt twenty years after ? But that is the way with the Grite. they hesitate to face the real issue and always endeavor to sidetrack it by a reference to history.—Guelph It seems to um that it is The Herald that is trying to "sidetrack" the issue. said that it would endanger the nee tionel existence. lead to annexation — etc- etc. Advocates of reciprocity have met them statementa squarely by shelving that 8ir John Macdonald and other Coneervative leaders were in favor of reciprocity of the kind that is now proposed. and Conserva- tives will herdly dare to may that Mir John Marione -Id wan an annezation- hit. Conditions eertainly have changed in twenty years; but in theme twenty yea' s Canada boos developed so great- ly that her motional exiatence is now much more 'emir' than it was t wo dec- ade. ago. If there was no danger In Caned* In reciproritv when Mir John advocated it in 1891. 'nisch IP* man there be any inich danger now. when Caned& etands erect among the pro greasiest nations of the orld A• melt:Profit!. it 111 Mello worth while semen' with • journal that would shot ha eye, and refuse to see the ad vantages te the Comedies prods/see of Use naming of • market of sleety I there ta a unmoral outcry against the teddies of the seised eimminsitions during the heated term, when mental smoggy, even more than pbymcai so tivity, V diflM$lt to maintain evea at a normal level, without the added strain of • series of examination.. The d 1cuIty presented by the situa- tioa is that the midsummer memo is n aturally the holiday season. and the elimination period is in order at she conclusion of the year's worts. boilers the holidays begin. It might be ar- ranged to have the examination. a month earlier, which would enable candidates to finish their work before the hot weather usually begins. No doubt the matter will receive attention from the educational authorities, now that such general comment has been made upon the ordeal which the writer on the departmental ezamin- ationui were forced to undergo this year. The population of Canada, accord- ing to the census taken each ten-year period sinoe confederation. was as 1871 338E781 4.336.810 1401 4.891,299 "National Policy" orators tell us thet the countay was in a state of stagnation previous to the introduc- tion of that policy in 1819, hod yet the period from 1871 to 1881 sheered a much more rapid growtb then the period succeeding the inauguration of the much-laiuded N. P. Protection in Canada haa contributed to the swell- ing ot private fortunes more than to any national growth. The Prodigal. Last t the boy rams bac* to ea mein. The immodest boy. ell -credulous of mad - Lead lott. tarwsedered le the ways of mes. Me Cline aad roused me with an oldie He came Um lover lad emits:dant. Shook eels, years. red with enlightesed eyes Sailed at the *bedew Oust the world had seek Aad Leaked at life with all the old burprire And I. the *lave of 'atlases. too* him in. Gave Mai my heart sad made lila welcome hems Thrilied with kis dreams et all I yet may win— MAW. havlag grid. to mei more • bet. —Peter McArthur. ia Ourselves. ht OUR CONTEMPORAMES. An Amorous Subtlety. The lap. When Cupid hits the mark he gen- erally lirs. it. A Hint from Hemel Hemall Observer. Virhy not have electric fans in Hen - sell c.hurcbes ? Once they were put in operation you could hot hire people to stay at home. Mr. Balfour versus the jingoes. London Advertiser. Mr. Balfour rays the British Em- pire is to be •'a coalition of free, self- governing communities. each a which to manage its Olffh &Moira. carry out its own life, end make its own experi- ment. as freely as if it were en inde- pendent political entity." Expellent ! But jingo's; on this side of the Allen - tic stigmatize such an ideal as treason. Getting at Him Both Way& M =Sobs Frye Preen While Mr. Borden was impugning Laurier's loyalty to the Empire upon Western platforms. Mr. Monk was writing a protest in Le Devoir against the propoeed reception to the Prime Minister on the ground that in the interests of Imperialism he bad betrayed the principle of Censgiieu autonomy. The campoign against the Dominion Government does Got lack A Riddle To Be Read. Montreal Herald. Reciprocity. Ire are told. will lead to annexation because °medians will becnine en enamored of trade with America.ns that Uaey will welcome union rather than lose the tradiog Reciprocity, we are &leo told, will do Canadians no good, becauee prices for natural products are no higher in the States than in Canada. And there vou are! Fremcb-Canadians Did Not Funk. Toronto Telegram. Survivors testify that. in the hour of danger at Poreupine, Oanadi 'Wel of French origin were cool. intrepid, dar- ing and helpful. Canadians may differ of French and other origin have ques- tions to eettle in politics. There ques- tions ean settled all the more read- ily if Canadians learn to glory in the •artues which each race can bring to the character of a united nationality. It is a pleasure to recognize the ad- mitted truth that there were no French-Canadians among the few skulkers and panic-stricken wretches who diagrseed the very name of hu- manity in them awful hours in the Per - (supine (*entry. Tbe Lighted Match. MAWS Falb Gestate. The man who drop. a match with- out seeing where it falls or whether it in extinct or not will have to be en- rollei with the summer fool that rocks the boat and the hunter that. ahoote the guide or the gun "projector" who does not know it is ',eider'. During a dinner danoe at the Nantucket Boat Club recently a guest threw a lighted metch on the floor. Instantly there warn a blare which enveloped the boa% house and sienspe w aa difficult for all and impossible for some. Three livea were l000, two pereons were painfully burned, and property was sent up in smoke The hall mom floor had been eamolined —further folly, it le true. —and that fact may not have hese known te the match thm soh He had promibly tamed lighted matches away thousands of Urns. before. tramline that they would be eitintrulebed la th•ir lienelly they are Rows times they are nnt the Baltimore Are was euppreed to have been ' (111/11e4W1 1,1 lighted match that fell Ibr,,,igb the gratis( into • littered ostler. The shirt trek* Sre le New York was almost eertaialy canard by • berm stump, STRONG FOR RECIPROCITY. NORFOLK FRUIT -GROWER WANTS A Lifelong Conservative, He WIll Vote Agreement Is in the Interests of the Simcoe. July 8.—The Conservative party need not look to the froit-grow- ere of Ootario for support when the votes of the next general election am 'milled. On the contrary. they sallit look for losem in many a the fruit - growing constituencies. "Since ths Niagara deputation pre- sented their memorial to the Govern- ment, the fruit men of this coulary have given a lot a study to the ques- tion of reciprocity, and you would have hard work getting any such fol- lowing to go to now. 1 Wive talked to many of the leading grow- ers who were strong in their opposi- tion. and they tell me they have had a change of heart." These words from the lip. of Mr. .1.! E. Johnson, late preeident of the Ontario Fruit -growers' Amociation. now a member of the Associatioo's executive and manager and secre- tary -treasurer of the Norfolk Fruit - growers' Associetion. were uttered in the course of an interview with a Globe representative here. Mr. John- sian. owing to his many years' experi- ence in different fruit -growers' asso- ciations, aod his intimate knowledge ot the marketa of the United States. wbere he was engaged in the commis- sion bueineee for scone time, has 'rained • unique reputation among the fruit -growers a the Province as ea expert on fruit tariffs. Apple Crop and Duty. The Norfolk P.ruitevowers' Associ- ation, of which he is the chief exe- cutive officer. has 515 members. the largest membership of all such as - 'locutions in Ontario. if not in Canada. Norfolk county, which boasts never having had a crop failure. has set out over 100,000 fruit trees- during the past two years, and the Association this year Anticipates an apple crop of near- ly WOW) barrels. At present there is a duty of seventy-five cents per barrel on applee going into the United States. and the tempera of this, Mr. Johnson estimates, will mean a net gain to the thoadian grower of fifty cents a barrel. "If the Aseociatien ships 00,000 bar- rels of apples this year it will lose ap- proximately $31),00n. My own personal crop should reach 5,000 barrele. and on thet I must stand to loom $2,500 be- cause of the duty," he said. Mr. Johnson has forty-two acres of apples. besides & young orchard of apples. pears. maybes and cherries, covering eighty-four acres, and he, like thousands of others in this great fruit peninsula, ia naturally anxious for the succes of reciprocity. To Vote Against Party. Fruit-growetv are gradually awak- ening to an appreciation of t lie terms of the pact. In Norfolk, stronghold of the Conservative party, men are hold- ing views independent of their party, and Mr. Johnson. whose intimacy with the electorate. is indi4outable, pre- dicts a victory for the Liberals. lis is himself a well known Conservative. as ere his father and two brothers, all of whom are engaged in the fruit busi- ness near here. "I am going to vote for the beet in- teremta of the country irrespective of my party connections." he said. "It is high time our homers thought tuore independently and did not permit po- litic.al parties, through the press, to dictate to them." The coming election will he the filet time that Mt-. Johnson hos been obliged to vote against his party. but. he told his interviewer, his conscience bade him do so. "I am very much disappointed in the Conservative party. They should have endorsed this agreement. instead of pursuing the doubtful course they have. They are now working against the interests of the agricultural classea. idiom the time of Sir John Macdonald we Comervativee have been after reci- procity, but Messrs. Melding and Pat- oan now only vote for the party that will pees reciprocity." "Can your view. be taken as repre- sentative of the Amochition ? " he was "1 wieh only to speak for myself." came the reply ; "but I can say there never was such an independence of thought as now prevails among the fruit -growers of this Conservative county. Of the small percentage of hunters and font -growers who say they are opposed to the treaty. almost all are Conservatives who read only their party press organs. But there has been a remarkable turn -over "ince the deputation went to Oteawa." 'Mr. Johnson said be accompanied the memorialists. t hough not in sym- pathy vrIth their views. He had chat - ted with many to •.certain crit }• in the matter. "Many were attracted by the chose nate. and grasped the opportnnit rt seeing the capital, while *end in faith io the agreement," was hoe obesr- vetioo "No one had reason to stay at home, in fact, for the leder of the agitation es to it that they got their portion* of perronallythose w o purtiooa of for rhos. who complained y oould not afford to take the trip lo view of this tact, Mr. Johann believes no simian of the frultgow• ere ever uttered serious opposition to reciprocity. A Betimes, Gain. "Our gain from the business stand- point 1. too clear." said he. "Moes customer mean more trade. For fif- teen hours' run we have only . popu- lation of five millions to consume our 'products. while in the event of reci- procity the same run would place us within reach of sixty minions more." The fact that Canada's northern position renders her capable of grow- ing row- ni g a hardier cInss of fruit. especially apples, coupled with the certain* that the American fruit market wtU never be subject to sudden fluctuation, hyo 000vinn.d Mr. John.oe that in the wider competition that will tollow the enactment of reciprocity- Canada has nothing to fear. "If we were to ►ave • severe winter over here and consequent crop failure reciprocity would prove a Godsend to the C'aoadian cooeumer, and the Oa tario fruit. -grower would not he io- red by the influx of American fruit." he ux ss id. "Farmer . first are reciprocityrst friends and they are not the class to force public ogioioo through paid pram articles," he said. Mr. Johnson has hero asked to al- low himself to be • candidate in the coming elections. his frieods assuring him that the concurrence of opinion his platform would receive would make defeat almost impossible, but his large fruit farm and various As- sociation duties esquire all his time, and he ha. declined. It ie not im- probable. though. that he will eFure ppr minently in the fruit -*rower in- deopeadeot reciprocity meeting, which will be held in this part of the Prov- ioce during the summer W. AOHESON LY LINEN TABLE CLOTH'S Rich satin damask all linen Table Oloths, size II Si yam* 26 only, regular 111.76. for 1111.as TOWELS Pure limn hemstitch buck Towels. 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