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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1911-9-14, Page 8• trtoasoar, tluressaea 7 1M1 THE .i.i_Wneuyw. oar.aro 1tECIROCITY MEANS INCREASED c JPROSPERITY FOR HURON COUNT POLITICAL NURSERY RHYMES FOR JACK CANUCK seGnte i'RICES PAID to Tet Arm �� uRODUCER NB14 OVT REyTRICTED BARACT Tot PRODuCER AT The 'iteci Of THE "jIDDLE MAN lits lttt4 pi„ west to feta,rket — This little Pik' stayed itt home OPEN COAR TIThin M Tett sett Of N' PRODuCT5 rtti9 stir rot br taxi a.tuedjaot— Taw Ilam(. p& wet nne t oCP (AND THIS APPLlts TO MAt pNY LINES • OF NATURAL PRoaIicre) Eangerous and lisloyal. v. was eriic. fl that Mr. Henri Bout• deemwould be resent, but illness; prr- ested him. However, his lieutesnu Prevost and Fauteux, did him credit as they used his language ande:press For the Liberals, lel Messrs. (i urthier of L'Assomptibn and Dr. DesJarditee of Terrehonne put up excellent argu• mems in favor of both the navy and reciprocity but the traitorous len- gunge and flag -flying of Prevost and FFauteuxso inflamed the audience th st Mr. (la thier had to appeal to the chair to get a hearing. i- Di. Deajardines got an excellent d hearing, because he spoke before n either of his opponenta. In his ad- s- dress he showed that England had protected the French language and t religion as well as our commerce. We were therefore in honor hound to assist her. His answer to the lan- guage of Messrs. Fauteux' and Prevost. and their cry av they waved the. tri- color was :—" We are all united ars one in one Hag." The Agitation of the Nationalists of Qua ed hid deal sd N. with Whom the Bordenites Have cAllted Themselves. Montreal, Sept. 8.—If the people of Ontario only realized the nature of the campaign being carried on by Mr, Henri Bourn and his Nationalist friends there would not be a sinvle vote cast against Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Ontario. Certainly not in the history of Canadian politics has there been such a dangerous and disloyal campaign carried on as the present one by Bourses*. If Bourses, should obtain office as a result of the present campaign, and then carry into effect the policies which he is now advocating, there would be civil war in Canada within six months. His alms and ideals are anti -Canadian, anti-British and anti - On the other hand. he and his fol. owees plan to set up in this Province an independent French state, more French than old France, and more Catholic than Home itself. His nar- rowness and bigotry are shown in a hundred ways, not only in a political and national sense, but also in connec- tion with economical and financial matters. For example, be advises his fellow French-Canadlans to put their mosey only in Frenob-Canadian hanks, to deal only with French-('ansdian wholesale houses, to tend only French papers, and in every way possible to build up a united French state• on the banks of the Mt. Lawrence. This is the type of man with whom the Conservative forces have allied themselves in their effort to defeat Laurier. Mr. Borden is now tusking a tour of the Province, and, while he ex• pecte to win his way into power by the aid of Hour/outs and Monk and 1 he Xationall,ts, he ha. not mentionest them in hie addresses, net have they appeared with him ori ally platform. t the same time, his Prncinrial u ganizer, Mr. H. H Ain.-. .and i.Ih, Conservatives are secretly engaged in furthering the cause of the National- ists by supplying them with literature and the "sinews of war." Mr. Borden has not come out like s man and ac- knowledged that he hopes to get into power by means of the Nationalist., but in nn underhand way his pnrty allies Itself wit h this (reitornns crowd in this effort to defeat Laurier. Mr. Borden finds himself In a peril liar position in thi. Province. He Is playing second fiddle to men whom be disdains to acknowledge se his co- workers. He talks reciprocity to hia audlescet, but refrains from mention- ing the nary bill. On the other hand, the Nationalists Ignore,reciprocity and concentrate their @Male on the navy hill and Innrier'e imperialism. During his week's eamnpaign in the Province Mir Wilfrid Laurier showed ill) the hollowness and the nnnatural- nese of the alliance bets.., th* OM' operatives and the NaUonalista while Use Roo. Measure. 1.41111100a. Seised and Bureau have term frankly tease the people whoa the wave bill really 4 means, and discussing it and the rec procity bill in a practical, direct an manly fashion. They have show that Bourasea isnot the unselfish, di Interested patriot he posed to he, bu they have shown that he is a di gruntled office -seeker, and that hi methods of fighting savor more of th Ward politician and Bowery (rade than any man who has ever appeared on the public platform in Canada. As,'Liberal speaker told the Nations 1 ista recently : "The British flag which you revile and curse is the only flag in the world which eros) l give you the liberties which you acerae. %Vere you to make those s:uu. statements under the tricolor you would to im pr'isonod for life. The British flan hut, protected you. given you civil and re- ligious liberties, freedom of sp reeh and freedom of action, and now you curse it and seek to separate yourselves from it." Bat theme are the teen with who'll the Conservatives have allied themselves, 8- 8 APPEALS TO FRENCH PREJUDICE How Conservative-Natioealist Party Is Acting in Quebec. St..lorome. Qoe., Aug. 31. —•'This is the flag which we air going to place on higgd on the 214 of September," said H.nw. Jean Prevost today at St. Jrrnuie. as he wave] aloft the tricolor of France. Then fokling. his arms about the flag, he said : 'The red ie for Prevost, still a Rouge: the blue is for Nance(, our Conservative ally, and the white fur aur beloved trader, Henri Rio,rassa.'. Then, leaning( far over the railing to he near his audience, he denounced the navy. England and everything but the French.('nna•liens and the flag of I 1 Fr:.n. e. Wearing a 1.11,.1 'graph of Buurasea, he appeared as the representative of the Nationalist leader, and in language uoatrp meed in bittenseas denounced Laurier, the navy and Hi -kith connec- tion. "%l'e nal never be ready to give our families to be used as targets in -defence of England," he deelared, amid applause. The training ships we possess are schools where our children will learn to shoot, and later "'rve as targets for the cannon of t)ermaD or Japan or China." Equally bitter was the attack made by Mr. A. Monetal. Oonaervative- Na; ionallst nominal in Two Moun- tains. In his addtese on behalf of Mr. Name' he declared that the "Liberal party wail pestilential and rotten. The real object of Rngland In forcing a navy upon us waft not to here the boats or our money, hut. the blood of Freooh-Oanadlans, and Dr. Denier. dine.s, Liberal candidate. Iled when he said anything else." %peaking of Canadan obligations to England, he said "The French in Ude town had one* to fight for their ratel against England." sad thee raddeA "We beep developed our rail- way. and our poria. hut the latter serve for Engli�sb ships. We pay twenty millions of interest every year to England for their fev,eetnentahers mod you may he sire that R1sd has taken the beet ,.a .he shear= W are not going to fight Rneleare battles, if you men are wise you will elect seen whoa ideas are not to plain Kcg1sod. - The rareness was • root. affair, sod HON. MR. SIFTON ON THE TRUSTS In Ilia speech in the Commons on recip-ocity, Hon. Mr. Sifton said that the milling interests and meat trusts of the United States would dominate the Canadia)i West -that the North- west would be a backyard to the city of Chicago. Being interviewed on this subject on December 3, 190;, Mr. '3ifton said: - "No, i do not take much stock in the notion that the American milling in- terests could dominate the wheat - growing interest in our West under complete reciprocity. Trusts cannot work in Canada to the detriment of farmers and consumers. Our political system is such that we can kgpck out any trust in short order as soon as the people went it done. Here Parlia- ment has unlimited powers to regulate such concerns. You saw what we did with the American Tobacco Company last session: we compelled thein to give up their monopoly system by ar- ranging to taste away their license to manufacture if they ,should prove de- fiant. Well, an omnipotent Parlia- ment can get at any trade combination in any way it chooses. We are not made impotent to defend the people against monopolies by such a compli- cation of written constitutions and intricate legalities aa favor, monopo- list in the States." YOUNG FARMERS OF ONTARIO WILL HAVEI BRIGHT FUTURE WHEN RECI- PROCITY IS IN FORCE. Large New Markets Will dive the Chance for BIR Profits that Opening up of New Railways Gives to the West—Will Build up Towns and Cities, Too. What is the cause of the exodus of young termer, from Ontario to the West ? That cause doe. not lie in the possibility of producing more to the acre there than is produced here, because there is no s , 1 1 ,.,.rihllity. The soil of the Western Provinces Is not more fertile than is Ile dual of older Ontario. It does not lie in the possibility of securing higher prices for the products of Western farms than are obtainable in Ontario, because farm pro t.ucts sell at a lower level in the West than they do here. Will Increase Land Values. The great drawing power of the West is found in the hope it affords of rich returns from Irrcre•aing land values. A man takes up a bossestead or buys at a low price a location miles away from a railway. In time a railway comes and then the lucky owner finds himself suddenly enriched by the in- creased value so given to his holding. It it the multitude of stories of wealth SO gained which have caused many young men to leave Ontario botneste.tri and seek new homes in the Went. Net Returns Will Increase 3200 a Year. Reciprocity will do for Ontario what rail ways are doIDg'for the West, It will, by tate opening of the Ante rican market, where the prices of bogs, cattle, horses, and other products are higher than herr. Met -elute the returns from Ontario farms. t'uniers tbonnet ves who have 'studied tbie question pace the annual increase in the returns from an average bundred-aere farm so obtain- able at $3x) t :1.101 a year. With this increase in the annual returns trom On- tario farm' there must Dome .n increase in farm valuer. The`''douhie profit will tend Dot only to check the present outflow of population ; it will promote an inflow. Young fanners now here, seeing lands at pre•ent v,lued at IMO and 570 per acre gradually rising towards the hundred dollar mark, will be led to think that old Ontario is too good a place to leave. Farmers in the United States, seeing land on this side, more fertile than their own, selling at leas than the price of their own, will be led to tome over and invest in our cheaper and more fertile lands for the purpose of supplying their own mar- ket. This will cause a still further increase in land values. This will tend to still further diminish the movement from the land in Ontario. It will tend to promote a mo' entent towards the land. Good for Towns and Cities. Reciprocity is a measure for the re -population of tuna Ontario. The re- population of rural Ontasic seas increased prosperity for urban Ontario, THROWS UP THE SPONGS- Conservative Caellidate Admits Govern- ment Will Be Returned. Windsor, Sept. 3.—A splendid poli- tical meeting was held at Belle River last night, when more than a hundred voter, frorn Belle River and the sur- rounding urrounding country crowded themselves into the town hall to beer the Issues of the day discussed by the Parliament- ary candidates of the two parties. Mr. Oliver Wilcox. the tktnservative candidate in the north riding of Sauer, created the seo.ation of the evening in his speech when he emphatically de - dared that he believed the Liberal Government would be returned to power and that reciprocity would come into (otee. "What diftoreocs does it make?" be asked. "I believe that Laurier will curry the country, and yon will have reciprocity, and therefore a vote for me will not matter." A Word to Workingmen. The working should not be de- ceived by Tory politicians to vote against reciprocity. The Liberal par- ty, both in England and Canada, has always stood for the rights of the workingmen. Prom the Liberal party has come nearly every enactment to enlarge the franchise for the masses and to place all men..pn an equal foot- ing as to ritiaen,hip. We owe to the The Duty on Implements. What It Was Wben Conservatives Were in Power, and What It Will Be Under 'Reciprocity. Appeals to the farmer on the ground that the reciprocity agreement does not. go far enough in reducing duties on agricultural implements come 111 from Conservative sources. The following table is a relnihe as well as an simmer : Conservative Liberal Liberal Yoder Tariff 1804. Tariff INK TaHff 1906. Reciprocity Threshing machines lith 25 20 A rcement ft Winds tickers not listed ars separate item 20 15 PoMwhle rlcgines 30 25 21 20 Hnreie powers 30 25 2n 20 Potato diggers Xi 25 25 dl Fodder or feed ratters 35 26 26 20 Gain rru.here ,,. 35 25 25 20 Fanning mills. 25 25 9f, 20 Hay redden 35 z 9s a) Farm or Geld rollers 3n 25 z a) Manure Windmill, apse 11520 30 ) Pk.ws 100 21 30 9 15 Harrows.. ........ 7r) all r,0 15 Harvesters and respsss . al► >p 17j 15 n.rn.ltnereSl t,9 20 115 Hoene rakes.................. . S 17l 15 Cultivat,rea .... ...... .•• IID 8) 10 155 Bay losdsre . ........... "riot fisted m - iri as separate (tent M al res wagons. Si >6 M 8)) etille the farmer matzo judge who are his tries& is the '„ B.sides cL..(reoge red duty as the ertg implement tinstead ter d at id per •as rate 01 ess«.r Liberals the ballot, mash .od eufrao and almost the entire volume of labor volume laws to be found in the statutes, both Dominion and Provincial. The Cooasrvatives never coati ibut.d any outstanding measure during all tbe year, they were in power for the benefit of the great army of tin this toillers and wry. The Liberals have to their credit the crea- tion of a Department of Labor, the es- tablishing and conducting of the La- bor Gazette, the general act of concil- iation and arbitration, the Alien Labor Act, the "fair wage" policy, the Lem- ieux Act for the compulsory investiga- tion ot disputes affecting public utili- ties and the Workmen's Compensation Act. The Liberal party in the stand it has taken on reciprocity i. (Ightiug the battle of the wage-earner, against the classes and combines. Let the work- ingmen remember that if they want cheaper food, if they want to get away from the high prices brought about by middlemen and combines, they will vote for the Liberals and against the taxes on food. Let the wage-earners stand by the Liberal ticket; let them remember that the independent Labor party, which has placed in its platform the leading changes which the wags earners want, has favored a immereta) reciprocity by an ov..rwheming ma- jority. Every true citizen should at this time work against the restrietion- ist party, which is trying to block the way to outside markets in the inter - este of a favored eburs. There's for severing ke the of friendship. THE ISSUE OF 1911. ?ornate Sue. Let the workiagenae in Toronto ask himself this question : Has • aegis nam quitted the Liberal party on the reoiptoe(ty (erne who did not wild downtown 1e his Met setontlbae as morning he a aetlmea l his deterpiaM tion to break away bon his party ? It is all well snug), foe men of wealth -to whom the high and in- creasing cost of living maawe notbial, more dada a subject to jest about -to 1 resist this measure providi trade relations with oua tthhe better (I toarksb of the world, but in the gen- awl run of men this opportunity should mesa everything. There are men in Toronto and Mon- treal who clearly perceive that they must defeat reciprocity or And them- selves face to face with the necessity of snaking their second miUioo dollars more slowly than they made their 'first. But this reeipr'ocity agreement is in line with the present world-wide movement for the betterment of the masses of the people as against too much legislation In the past designed by and for the nsfair enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. Lloyd George has said of reciprocity that it is a "triumph of o,aumon cense." it is 'a sensible arrangement devised to improve the everyday cou- ditioos of the multitude and is in Ilse with the da -log prayer of the poet -- Make Do more giants, God. But elevate the race at ones %\'e have too iusoy millionaires for R9 young a country. What we want is it better average oonditioo ot the whole people. The great issue of 1911 ie not reci- procity alone. The deeper issue is whether the gemerwl run of men in city and couotry can perceive wherein their own welfare consists, or *beth.( they can be rounded up by partisan cries and induced- W serve interest* diametrically opposed to their own. The Party Man's Allegiance. weseetFrom alleertbe ntryntry corn re- ports that many Oooseevatives are allying themselves with the Liberals in the present campaign. They are doing this, not becalms of any oonver- doa to Liberal doctrines or principles ; but becaugs they have been forced by the • choice between their partyager, ot their lprinciples and devotion to party leadership. They are strongly in favor of reciptoo- ity. They believe it will be • good thing for themeeives and for the oouotry generally. They see that an opportunity has come tothem to se- cure reciprocity, and they realize that if they allow this opportunity to pass it may never present itself There will be plenty of time hereaaffte to call the Liberals to account for their eine ; but it is a cue of "Dow or never" in regard to reciprocity. It must be admitted that it is not an mitoatter for the break with him hamlet t partytions. Under ourey aesceia- pre.ent system party government is necessary, and the honest party man should not give up his allegiance to his party for any trivial cause. On the other band. a certain dement of intelligent inde- pendence is necessary for the proper working of the party system. It there is no element of intelligence and independence io the electorate to which an appeal may be made, the election campaign must become largely a farce. if the party system mer, scramble for office, then its is to be allowed to degenerate into a doom has already sounded. Fortunately for Oonper'vatives who SIR re - A OLEAROUT ISSUE Y, Th. Yse we' Ss.. If ever there wars an election is Oanada ID whicy, the PrivU. egad Few stout amt one side dad the UnprIvll pged Many oo abs other, surely this is that one. The teen who form the bark. hose of the anti-Nciprr,rit y forms are the packers with 1 h eir 50 per omit. dividends ; the malt - sten who have been buying Canadian limier at an ayerage of 19o, baiom Buffalo prices, and Almaden sad promoter. who have rams rs 011easires by the &alias alt atwgpee which the pleased system satltitlere possible. On the other side le the great mass et tswgaalasd farmers won are asking sheriy that they in allowed to easy ssetaiu of their products is what. but for an ae'tilalal barrier, to be removed under reciprocity, would he fur them the highest market in the world. Surely. with the iesiie .o pilo. with the reason for the opposition eo manifest, uo farmer an doubt on which side his ballot sboold be cast. desire to vote for reciprocity the way it made comparatively easy for the, They ase not breaking wfth any hon- ored party traditions, The Conserve bite rt seder all its greatest lead see hpeas consistently advocated mei procity in natural_ products. There is every reason to believe that the gnat mass of the Conservative party i, u strongly in favor of reciprocity today aped ever pum(atas. It was Suite who de memo united to Day t•b • ler of promote by their joint endeavors** eatiereal interest upon some oolplus on which they are all "the 00011111.4the tbjogb party in •a•dthroes*nil eta his- tory th • �e at lreiprot'ity is would Menmets the sit thefts," bulk of air party is can at heart �je� .there can be oci s lit+w y aged -t the Coo. who votes for reel- anyga. He. not the man who kr use has turned his beck ea reci- procity, is doing honor to s tradi- tions of his the party. More than that: Mr. Beedae. the Ooneervative leader, has that the mem- bers of his party an example whirl they are free to follow. 1. opposed to reciprocity. Ilenatly e. se poredHs b per to stand by bconvict ion., even to the extent of brooking with the historic past, es way as with the living present, Beery always• of the Conservative party Was ale& right to his pereonel convictions as Mr. Bor- den ha.. The bnmlrleet Ceseir,ative voter is as free to vote for reciproc.ity as Mr. Borden is to vote against it. If Mr, Hendee bas the right to ask that his motives shall not be questioned when -he torus his bask on the tradi- tional policy d hes party. much more has every Oooeervativc elector the right to ask that his motives shall not be questioned wise hese hie own oonscienoe and Melts ewe time fol- lows in the footsteps of all tbe great- est of his party leaders. Says Tire (Bar) Tim ver may be es e Median of Go- ads, it will sot be ascribed i• this country to any motive or asesid peilen t- We with the loyal m antiexpression �tttltebee to whack =Derides daring the Ottawa debate. given oil Canada hes atm sudsy issibeetat ler f *weeks le the among tib hes been the entreated= ef Imperial end his which sir Wilfrid Laurier tactical effect." were be germ fb give WILVI D AND THE EXTREMA= $ECIPROCITY IS GOOD FOR AL1, EXC WHERE LAURIER STANDS T