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THUR(iDAY, JULY b, 191
REFERENDUM Vs. ELECTION.
ifthe counseleof Sir Wilfrid Iaurier
had been followed, a referendum cam-
paign on conscription *tight now be
well under way. AN it is, the con-
scription. bill has not yet posited its
second reading, and then there will be
the c 'ttee stage, which will likely
take another month at least. It. will
for pretty well on to the lot of Septem-
ber before the hill bet -metre law. By
this time, under Sirplan, the
ballots on the referend , including
thcuw front the soldiers in the trenchee,
could be in Ottawa and the people
would have given a decision that
would be quietly accepted in every
pal t tit the Dominion.
When the bill gets through its final
reading iu the Senate, say about the
let of September. the Government
will decide whether to proceed im-
mediately to its enforecinent or to
appeal to the country in it general
' - election for a mandate to enforce the
tact. in order to avoid the serious
troubles that will almost surely attend
;any attempt to enforce 'conscription
without a mandate from the people,
the Government will probably adopt
-the latter course and call an election.
This will take two months more, and
the snow will be flying before any-
thing will be done.
If speed is one of the chief considet•a
tions, then the referendum clearly is
the better plan.
But the vote on a referendum plight
be adverse to 'conscript" , say POMP
people. So it might, if the campaign
were left to melt of the sort who mis-
take invective for argument and who
would rather frame their addresses io
tern's of abuse than in words of ap-
peal. it would lr• the duty of the
advocates of conscription to convince
the voters that the need is imperative
and that the way of comu'riptio is
the right way and the best wa to
meet the need. Such a camps' n
might have an immense influence fi
goad outride of its immediate effect on
the conscription issue, in reviving the
fine enthusiasm which has In sadly
-waned during the past year, in bring-
ing the whole people, from end to end
of Canada, to a realization of the vital
issues at stake ih this war, and in
creating an atmosphere in which con-
scription -of mien and of y alike
-would be accepted as the nat ral
expression of the nstionb deteruu a-
-would
to do its utmost for the winning
of the war.
If an election in held. it will not be
possible to (Seep the issue wholly to
the question of ronsc•ription. Many
other questions will be in the minds °f
the voters, party rind persona( cona'd-
eration, will have weight., and when
the election is over the fee'.ng against
C4iuscriptiun may beetroneer than itis
now. Above all an election on the con-
scription issue is undesirable because
of the racial aeavage it will leave in it.
train. A Parliament elected on this
issue will be divided largely on the
lines of Ontario against Quebec, and
the division will be reflected among
the people, creating a bitterness that
it will take half -a -century to allay.
Canada, has already had far more than
enough of this kind of thing, and if
for no other reason a referendum were
preferable to an election the oppor-
tunity of 'Molding further racial strife
should decide in favor of the referen-
dum.
EDITORIAL NOTEli.
The %mien soldiers resumer) the
offensive on July int and captured
19,0110 prisoners. That was PI I111 i)o-
miniun inay celebration.
The Ilea of making our Dominion
flay celebration mean something was
carried exit euerewtfully this teat, and
for the future it should 1* a part of
every Dominion Day eelebeetiou.
The Gulf's Packet doesn't like the
coon[ "0 Canada" sad gave IG reasons
Eller4Miti The *ural repo liahed
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THE SIGNAL - GODERICH, ONTARIO
what The Packet had to say and made
some comments thereon. Now '1$e
Packet affects to believe that The
Signed war unfair ; but it takes care
not to republish The Signal's reinerke
and let its readers judge for them-
selves.
The general Manager of the William
Devisee (company sands out a circular
to the press stating that meat prices
cannot be affected by (iuverutnent
regulation. Perhaps they cannot :
but the people would like to hear from
the Government Asci controller before
accepting the Davies Company's
statewent at its face value.
IVellaud, which a few years ago was
a email town, emerged into citybood
on Dominion Day. It has been built
up by Hydro power at low rates. The
Signal has said all along that the way
in which the hydro rater are arranged
would result it a concentration of fac-
tories in the Niagara district, while
the towns paying the higher rates
would be gradually drained of manu-
fae•turiug industries. When will the
Parliamentary representatives of the
-outside' districts get together and
press fur sr.uiething like a ttat rata•
The lunger the present system is con-
tinued the harder it will be to effect a
change.
Mr. Frank Carvell, ed. P., admits
himself the Most bitter if rtiitic of Cau-
ada's war (ovet•nunent hitherto, But
at length Carvell sirs the light. The
New Brunswick politician, who male
the path of the Government Kr
difficult by teasunuf his ggnnosaly unfair
representation of the Administration
as engaged in a Pratt orgy,who
helped to picture Canada befre the
world as & nation of war grafter',
now rwinga around and, while still
lacking the candor to avow his past
wrongs, prepares to take a different
routstr
for the future. -London Free
Prean.
This is the kind of thanks a Liberal
gets from a Tory newspaper for acting
independently of hir party. Mr. Car-
vell, while supporting theanuseription
bill, exprestily stated that be took
back nothing of his former charges
against the Government.
Stratford Beacon : It is said that
Sir Wilfrid Laurier would get sixty-
five seats out of sixtyflve in Quebec if
s vote were taken on his referendum
policy. It is also said that Bourasea
and his Natioualissts would get the
sixty-five if Sir It'ilfr•id had joined
with Border* in his conscription policy
and if a vote were taken. For this
latter to happen would mean na-
tional disaster The Quebec Nation -
allot patty built up so industriously
by Tory gold and influence in 1911
would then conte dangerously near
controlling the Federal Parliament.
In fairness to Sir Wilfrid Laurier it
must be admitteti that iu determining
his,attitude on the conscription bill
he was forced to take into al:c ount
this eventuality. The Nationalist
worm warmed by the 1911 Tories to
beat Laurier shows signs of developing
lilt° a serpent which will create much
strife in ('*nada and greatly embarrass
the country in the prosecution of the
war. Truly, as the 1911 Tories sowed,
Canada must reap.
— WAR PRQSPERITY
Lessons From The American Civil War
r- uRl N(1 the year 1916 Cased taxa edbie to secure 'Fella From 1663 to
added mote than tae hundred 1865 immigration from Europe to the
millions of dollars to their hank United States lalcreaaed at a rapid
!epochs. The pertau41a average is /see, yet the demand for laborers was
sivtnpt banks was Increased during So great that Coma= saw fit to
tbla period from 161 to 892.25. Our coact laws to still anther thermos
export trade, daring the year ending this immigration.
Bspiember 1, 1916, reached the grand According to Rhodes' "History of
tectal of one billion and ffty<wo mil- the United States," k wee tradltaoe
Moos of dollars. Canada's total trade to skilled labor circles that times
for the same period showed a gain of were hard Just before the war and
item Sana. -mark that ---within 10% began to too good during the Civil
of Melding the total trade of the War. A.acordtng to this authority
previous twelve months. this wage -.earning medusa= bought
The estimated value at the agrtcut- iota and saved money \during the
nasi production of Clsoada's Western war period. while the tlMta teach-
Provinas during 1916, reacted • firs sed other on a safety
oaf -
iota.' of more than two hundred and fere&
btrtyone m(Illome of dollars. This At the close of the war oases we• •
trete wealth was crested by a Waal rapid spread of enthusiast tett a axe
sopulstioa of only slightly :Dorothea titivation of the eo•o.11ed praapariLy.
rhnaeguseterts of a million people. New enterprises were launched oa
Thews figures indicate wonderful every hand; apeculaUse was rile.
prosperity in Caned*. They tell • Ths returning soldier farmers m1-`
gory of prosperity In a nation at grated in large parties to fertile vat- \
war that is etagere unbelievable- to lags trtbatery to the MiselMppf.
tie outside world. lieetdents of the broadening of the agricultural
United Sertes who cots into Canada oc brought a demand for
apses a.aazement at the signs oe more rail mileage and something
prosperity to be found on every More than 1t.OD0 mils were cos -
land. The crowds to be seem at the etrtacted In the West from 1866 to
theatres and places of amusement 1873. This work brought employ -
and Indulgence In praotkally every vent to thousands. The eat annual
urge etty indicate that our people report of the CommiseloOer M Labor.
save pleuty of 'money to spend. The published to 1886, reviews this nos•
manner in which the war loans have situation period, as follows:
Mem oversubsrrtbed may be taker 'The stimulation to all Industries
u another indication of the flood of reenking from the war, the speoula-
war prosperity In Canada to -day. dee enterprises undertaken. the ex -
But what of the period after the tension of credits, and the slacken -
war? Will this prosperity live! Will lag of production necessarily caused
Canada at the claps of the war be a reaction; but tee period eras bawd -
a gs to maintain the big balance of ly spsltet of by liminess men as me
trade In her favor which Is now be- of any particular hardship. Peseta
log piled up at the rate of half • for a while began to be conservative,
billion dollars per year! When the but the impetus engendered by the
demand for munitions cease, will we war nouid not be overeeotna and It
oe able to transfer all thews factories was not until the crash of 1873 that
to Dermal trade condlUone and still the effects of undue excitement in all
old this war -time prosperity! branches of bushes and trade were
AooepUng the possibility that the thoroughly realized."
war will continue for another year Comparing these Civil War com-
er more. It Is time we were evolving dittoes with those prevailing In (an -
some plan to care for these atter the ada, we see marry danger signals
war conditions. But to plan is not The most Important of these Is the
enough. We must act. That Can-loecesfty for re -organizing _produc-
e faces • serious situation In this ton upon • sound and economic
king ante -war period Is ayes basis after our great munition planta
ted In the history of the Civil War have fulfilled their frnrtlon, and for
the United States. where eon- Increasing our sari, literal produc-
in the Northern States were tlom.
similar In many respects to We dike pride in the lapse agrleul•
which now prevail In Canada. tnral production In Canada, yet It 1s
1862 an to the 'Powe of the I startling the great quantities of
e Northern States showed farm products we purchase every
on every hand. The raid- year from the United States. The
from he C,oaledera e imports for 1913 shows that we
king through tato Pena- bought 6,000,000 domed more eggs
ted back to the half- 'than we sold the Americans, and that
'torts that Northern we consumed a quarter of a mllliom
going ahead as If the ; pomade of butter made across the line
aping upon a well- and mold them pr•etically nothing.
schedule, Instead of ( We purchased 500.000 pounds more
a momentous civil cheese ?rem our neighbors to the
Tribes.' near the south than we sold them, and we
said. "Commerce, ; paid 1100,000 In duty upon 91,000.000
and idder are 1 worth of tomatoes grown In Use
ound peace,' States. We even bought 600,000
us and whirl- bushels of potatoes more than we
sold.
()made ought to produce all this
farm produce within her own borders
and have a balance for sale in the
people world markets.
condi- it V .stfmated that acme 200,000
worker are now employed open
of mualtloo., and that 7554, of this
Pro- number wilt require different employ-
ment atter the way. We will ham
some 200,000 soldiers returning to
our shores atter the war. of which
member. It Is estimated. we will be
fled tepee to fled employment for
Ily 150,900. in addition, there will
be; quite probably, a flood of Imml-
0o to add to the labor market
A meter -al scheme for reorttanl-
sing r enanufactsring production
should embrace • Idea to meaner
America masefseturera to hued
breach pluM. In Canada. We must
make a sty d the aark,t p.si-
btlltles wbi nor masuta.torers wool
have at hem d •sows the entente
rr.tioos char war.
These Mort War problems sew
worthy of the hest efforts of our
est statesmen and thinkers.
Caaada Isaa wee ae'tbnbeod through
her part too the ay.M mar ea hetetf
of the /tap$rd $ . **Id* an npfmr
tenity to davelem Into i wend power
if she betide bar future ripen the
firemen a touwdstlea Rot we
crust art quid * and t&WBg,mtty N
we are is este taw most of tars big
d
In
dl
Sul
those
F
war, t
prosper'
Ing part
Army b
sylvanla
starved So
Industries we
nation was
organised pe
being engaged
war. The (Atm
rlase of the war
business. manufact
going ahead as to a
save with more ins
fog activity than pe ever knew.
The Neo York grouotw t, however,
pointed out that much f the ap-
earest prosperity was , Itouc. ft
declared that the 1
were suffering because of w
boss. because wages had 1
only about 1.1%. while the
living had more than doubled.
femme Rallied P. "Winer, •
nized statistical authority of
day, Demented two Important
clualoma after a careful study of el
war condition: "During the war
period the sdvece In wears was set
eanmee.urate wttb the advance t•
prices." The tae Nelson W. Atd-
r•fe., the great aeoncenlet of di.
Matted States Renate• reviewed the
apparent prosperity during end of tet
tbs Civil stir to the tbltowletr:
-Maw, wages raspesded with int
mimakakle slowness b the Idtatl
tnauof the civil war. In ONE.
whe: stood at 217 as rm'mliared
with 1 e 114i. wages bad only
taw 142"
We 1W deb that the demand for
labor was the Resat** is ti• Memory
kir the *aim, Lop to tint pealed. The
axisrst s. iditerdiRag Men the tame
194 ►dfltTir a
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ninaltlep
lehog
evsrywij}te j.sd ,obs Iasi top
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WHAT THE OLD MAN THINKS.
By H. F. Gadsby, iu'Toronto Saturday Night.
The Old Man 1. seated at his big
table -desk in toe Parliament buildings.
As usual he lends dignity to his our-
rounndtuge. 8ow0bow or other the
chair he sits iu taker on the aspect of
a throne. The Old Man has bees king
for a long time, king be divine right
yf cboioe by the people. Just now he
is a ktog in exile, but a kiag just the
same. He Is giving audience,
The little heated groups which cu
kind gesticulate in the members' root
melt awry at his call. One by o
they drift to the room where the 0
Mau sits. He is teeliug them out. In
feeling there out he adopts bis usual
method. That is to ray, be makes uPP
hi. mind flrtt and consults his ful-
lowers aft., wards. It is this quality
of knowing wart be intends to do
from the start which maker him •
great leader.
stltutionr. A referendum 1 Some-
thing 1, as an anti -conscriptionist, can
move, and Frank Oliver. es a constcrlp-
tloaist, can secoud. That ought to be
good enough. Beside•, it will keep
Quebec solid, 1'. will dish Bout'wa.
Referendum 1 Moderate litre of
talk, no agitating. Let Bourasea rave
on. Let Laurier he all dignity tad
oowpoeure. Good billiards. Coalition !
Poor stuff. 1 can see as far into a
roe millstone as the next turn. They don't
as call me Ls Vieux Coq for nothing.
no
Id I'm o: t to be caught with chaff
The 01d Mao has • crisis in his
bands. But that is nothing new. He
has had many crises on his hoods in
his forty years of public life, and he
has learned what to do with them.
Mostly what he does is to wait and
ser. A very little time may Beal •
very great trouble, The Old Mao has
long, *vire thoughts about 'risen. He
ares far beyond the moment. He
knows that crises wax and wane and
tloslly flatten out until they are more
oke pancake' than crime. He knows
that every crises goes through three
stager --the suppurating, the acute,
sand the convalescent. Experience has
taught biro just when the intlamma-
Lion goes out of a crisis and when the
change for the better begins. He has
never known • crisis to kill yet, and
he feels that this one will not., The
Liberal party will come out of it well
end strong. If it doesn't, then
Laurier is no doctor.
Must of those who consult the Old
Man are in the acute stage of crisis.
It will take awe days for the Old
Man's calm words and serene smile to
take effect. As for the Old Mao, the
crisis baa touched him not at all, save
iu an intellectual way. The physician
cannot effort] W be dick. It is his
bulimias to handle crises. not to suc-
cumb to them. At every stage of the
game the 01d Mao is the coolest per-
son in all this feverish spot. Besides
being too wise, be it too old, to feel a
crisis any then be does • prob-
lem in Euclid. At the moment this
sketch opens he is playing chess with
the crisis iu a stately and deliber-
ate manner.
What a gallant figure the 01d Mao
is as he sits there 1 The white plume
perhaps • little whiter tban it was
twelve months ago, the cheek •.bade
ess ruddy, the shoulders a little mors'
looped, the carriage less resilient, but
brave, blithe gentirman tneverthe-
e .. Eye height, jaw set, chin up.
dauntless captain the Old Mao,
with • heart for any fate. But an Old
Matt and, wayhap, in a hurry. Each
our is his enemy. Time, that pa-
tent soldier, wretches Against him.
Let ur get behind his torebead and see
what is going on there. You must
magine that 8ir Wilfrid is thinking
loud.
Tuo be or not to be! Well, Horden
i. certainly giving-ae every chance
of to he. If 1 went with him into
hisconlition 1 wouldn't last a smuts•.
How can a man who doesn't want to
aoa.cript Quebec join hands with •
lean who does ? It won't miz. Pool
ur troubles ? What a pool that
ould be ! The Liberals to act as the
blutionary fluid t.• wash the Borden
overnment's guilty stains awe ! Of
ouree the immunity bath would in-
lude Bob Roger*. Some pool' 8i-
oam had nothing on it 1
Coalition 1 ‘dhat a sink -hole for
nyself-end Quel.ec-sod tbe Lib-
ras party I Not one of us would
one through. Imagine Quebec with
Laurier on the oppoette side I imagine
urier with Qteheo against him 1
must go with Q,rebec lent worse he -
all. If i did not go with Quebec,
uebec will go with Bouraw. At all
Aosta we must prevent that. i would
eep Quebec for Canada. Bour•ssa
ould keep Quebec for Quebec. He
ould wreck mylife-work.
Bourwa woud bear Quebec away a
rize for the Borden Government. as
e tried to do in 1911. Yee, the good
nget and the bad angel are flghti,i
or Quebec. i am the good angel.
Bourassa is the had angel. To hint I
wt yield a little. f yielded on the
'lingua! question -not mach -just
nough to keep Qoebec-just enough
o he misunderstood by Ontario. I
Just yield again, with th'e usual re -
telt.. I'II have to take my chances
ith Ontario anyway. It never did
ke me. Calls rile Frenchman and
Roman Catholic ! Whet I really am
a Canadian, hut they overlook that
Toronto.
The lion and the unicorn fighting
r the crown. The British Crown, of
ourse. 1 take it thil I'm the lion and
urasea le the unicorn. Bourses•
ante to set up an independent repub-
c on the banks of the 8t. Lwwrence-
is grandfather Pspinesu's dreaa.-
ut the Bditisb Crown is good enough
r me. Quebec, which loves England
ith her head, believes that Canada
ould send no more soldiers to
temp. than her heart prompts.
ben her heart ceases to throh volun-
rily that is the time to quit sending
Idlers. If conscription fa passed
uehec will obey the law -1 myself
vise it. Meanwhile Quebece wants
o conscription. Wben patriotism
as recourse to a pulmotor like cod-
riptitn it shows that tree will ha.
n exhausted.
Canada, • nation. 1 mustn't forget
at. To keep °amide a nation 1
ustn't let Quebec slip. Quebec must
solid for Laurier or ria structure of
,*federation is in danger. Bourses&
onld take it apart to see the wheels
round. A bad m•o is Bourses& I
mnat cieenmvent all hie ways. Qua-
drea not want conscription. To
sop Quebec i must not want con-
ption either. And yet i must not
prise comeription. ey would call
Frenchman disloyal. What is the
ay out ?
A reterw0dtam 1 That's the thing !
neither supporta nor oppose*, It
ly postpones. As a ehamplon of
• poor p.c y. whose sons would he
nserlptad Its tbie Sordes Govern -
et of safe a sflItotwaires, 1 cab
at the people he armeutted before a
Parflantent, eteet.d 0n caber
u.., mad really dead Inc • year heel",
over tela outrage on our tree IS
Conscription- what's there to it ?
T'be Tories are backlog away fr.,w it.
The birchen s are against it, organised
labor is against it, and Quebec is
againet it. It looks wore like a frost
every day. Borden tries to gather
compulsion, as written in the Militia
Act, en Cartier and me. A raw joke 1
The Militia Act is for the defence of
()amide, and my interpretation of the
law is that Oanad• does not mean
somewhere in France, Let Bolden
take ca. a of his own war baby. Don't
leave it on ray doorstep. it's a poor
puling thing anyway. Any fellow
that wants to fight it can find three
places to knock a out. It rests with
the Governor -in -Council to bring it
into furze. That probably means that
it there is a successful election be-
tween now and October the Bordeo
Government will forget all about it.
As a matter of tact, couscription looks
more like a promise than a threat. It
won't hurt Quebec.
But it does pinch her tail ! That's
what Bob Rogers intended it for. He
wasn't thinking so much about win-
ning the war as winning an election. i
have no doubt he is vastly pleased to
bear the screams ot rage from Henri
Bourassa, and the bowie ot anguish
trout Armand Lavergne, and of
1'ancred Marsil gnashing his teeth,
and all the other cacophonous idiots
perforating as per schedule. And I
have no doubt the noise has been
duly noted in those psrts of Canada
whs. re the Boglisb-speaking vote is
thickest. But I doubt if it sets Que-
bec against the rent of Canada, aa was
intended. That geese is too thio. Be-
sides, the people have not forgot:en
the warscandals. The old'flag has
covered a lot of looting here in Canada
in the last three year., The food
p@rofltaers are with us always, cod Sir
Jofeph Flavelle is a bard man to lose.
Noor Quebec 1 When will they stop
pouring *cid on the frog just to see it
squires ? Yes. yea, the war must be.
won. But Quebec wueI be roved too.
I act the matt to save Quebec. A bas
Bourassa !
And it won't split the party either.
It'e not • part question. It's ggo-as-
you-please. fides, what's • differ-
ence of opinion aotoog friends any-
way ? It is conceivable. that there w,li
be a difference of opinion in the Cos
-
servative ranks also. Certainly the
Ftench 0oneervativs will not vote
for the bill. It's • stag, The West-
ern Liberals will go their own way.
1t is their right. They are not the in-
heritors of the old feuds of Quebec and
Ontario. They are real Liberals, those
Western fellows, the natural result of
the boundless prairie horizon,. So
are the Msr,tiee Province Liberia',
sturdy, deep-rooted believers. A crisis
doesn't sweep thew off their feel.
Was there ever • Gibraltar like Ned
Macdonald ? And Quebec -well, Que-
bec's Quebec, and it's up to me and
tbe Quebec Liberals to save the Prov-
ince from B iurassa.
Ws only in Ontario that the Liberals
are tame and in captivity to the waou•
lecturer+. They have no tight in
them. They're in the funk -boles moat
of the tlrne. I don't wean the four-
teen in the House. They'd be brave
enough if their constituents. would let
them. 1 mean the Toronto group of
Lily Whites who would detach me
from the leadership to put Mr. Rowell
in my Flare. Selective conscription, I
understand, was their idea. They
thought it would loosen my clutch and
split the party.
Well. they guessed wrong. I'm cock
of the walk yet, and Leader Rowell
and the other Meters will have to wait
their turn. it way be for years and it
may he forever. I'm sorry we have
two Christian Guardians instead of
two Liberal newspapers in Toronto,
but i suppoee it can't be helped. The
best we can hope is that the let -us -
pray crowd will be conflated to Toronto
fora long time. They tell me they
open the Toronto "Star" with prayer
and close the Toronto “Globe" with
the doxology. it sounds reasonable.
Leader Rowell is not without poli -
God acumen, though posees.ed of a
high falsetto voice. He discovered, I
understand, that the loudest cheers
were for conscription of wealth and
ptomptly shifted to that vantage
ground. But George Graham beat
Mar to it. George had • conscription -
of -wealth resolution on the order paper
here days before Leader Rowell got.
fairly moving. Yes, we know a few
polities down here. George Graham
is a gond player -even better than
Leader Rowell, whose friends figure
that he has dens so poorly in Ontarin
that he would do much better in •
larger vineyard. A huge joke
Conscription of wealth 1 Humph !
if anybody puts the rat in plutocrat
we do, Save Quebec from Houra.s& 1
Yes. But save Ottawa from Rowell,
too.
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