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Thursday,'lay 5., 111_l.
A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.
The ratepayers of Goderich did a good
day's work on Monday in voting to endorse
the municipal bylaw to assist the National
Shipbuilding Co. by a guarantee of bonds.
The vote of 577 to 157 was a splendid
testimonial of confidence in Mr. W. H.
Hutchinson and his associates in the
management of the C ompany. 1t is also
a declaration that Godericie intends to
maintain its industrial position and wi
make reasonable concessions to manilla
Luring companies rather than allow th m
to drift away to the larger centres. he
Company is now under obligation to art'
out its commitments and to demo -trate
that the vote of confidence it has eived
has been well placed.
It is exceedingly unfortunate that just
at this juncture the tire of Tu qday night
should occur and destroy a v luable part
of the Company's property. At this time
of writing it is impossible t
will affect the bylaw, but i
that an arrangement can
which the Company
hampered as possible
of its program.
say how this
is to b• hoped
be made under
ill be as little
n the carrying out
ED1TOR1IL NOTES.
Germany is 11 sidestepping.
Has Drur
And
becau
succumbed to Beck
Value Supreme
is in every packet of
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such importance, the Mal stages were
reached atter midnight, and there was a
protest [rum the Opposition which made
it look for ■ time as though the Govern-
ment would have a fight on its. hands'
Hon. Mr. King protested against the
raiiroading through of &h railway mea
ani tt1 . urea, which in the past had tlwaYs re-
sulted in the Government's coming back
and 1 asking Parliament to correct the
errors it had made due to haste. This
Woe. however the protests s eR.
formal. on. .
James Robb (Huntingdon
Lemieux 1Maisonneuve andtie Ho public owner-
ship)re-
corded themselves against ptl r boll was
of the roads. When
introduced at midnight a looked for a
time as though the House would be kept
in operation fora few hours, but the
Ebert' lit 11 t of formal protests were over in half an hour
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generous
Large Immigration
- Somewhere, somehow this cvuntry has
reater
been absorbing immigrants 3: a B
ole leaf will yield its t1 quoa and the House got away at 1.30, which is
sgOOdnftLs:s• Sold is sealed packets only. good time in these busy days
is supported by the evidence of others
who have tratelled over large portions of
the Province in retest weeks. Factories
clesed, men unemployed, and business at
a standstill, is the r -port from mPny
places. Goderich has not altogether
escaped the general depression of trade
THE WEEK AT THE CAPITAL
rate during the last two years than it ever
did before. That is, auvrdtng to the
tigerq of Hon. J. A. Calor. who assured
oy Iwo Duoelss 1 the House, in connection with his esti-
mates. that there had been a bigger
Ottawa, April "J.—whether it it an I influx of settlers to Canada during' those
Imperial Conference that is to be held in l two years than at any time, even through
y outside of
June, when the Prime Minister hopes to the boom days. Since n o
go to London, or merely a Prime Minis- the Immigration Department officials
port
thousands 1
d industrybut there jmuch to sup- ters' conference for a sort of preparatory appear': to have seen these t
port the claim that for thh e present, at discussi m of matters to come before t people rushing through the country during
any rate. it is "the best town in Ontario." real conference later, the Prime Mtniste recent
years. the figures eaten by Alr.
Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen, has the support Calder are somewhat hard to credit. but
The Globe seems to be unable to dip- in his Parliamentary following when he since they are official they m st.ofst course. (erentiate between corporationist option- says that he goes there without his hands be "accepted as such. The'and guidance
I being tied. asking the House for advice
'
ents of the Provincial Hydro power Mr. Meighen, apparently, holds that as to what he should dose the future in
system and those citizens—a large and, this is a sort of preliminary canter without regard to admitting some Ur all of - the
we believe, a growing body- who wish to discussions of such weighty subjects as thousands of people who are anxious to
naval defence and co-operation of the come to this c ,untry and aro" up with it.
et rid of the unfair and otherwise undo domi'liions theretobut. on the other There were many, he s id, who would
gstill
arable manifestations of Hydro policy hand, David Lloyd George and Winston' open wide the flood-gate-and
out of er
The Globe may deceive itself into thinking Churc i
there must be a middle muse somewhere
That all is well with the Beck system ; but
the last year or two has sten the rise of a
widespread and determined opposition to
the present methods which intends to
make itself heard and felt. Tne cities
have had their own way in Hydro
yes the lowly dandelion is in favor matters ever since the system was inaug-
of its cogent "kick." urated ; but the end of the reign of the
cities is at hand.
Churchill. who are usually given credit
for knowing what they are talking about
when they launch out into Empire affairs,
convey the intimation that this is the
real thing in the way of ah -Empire
Cabinet.
whowould keep every y'
and that was what he hoped to strike.
The Minister will probably get Plenty
of advice as the debate on his estimates
proceeds. for apparently there are all
des of opinion represented in the
Biness ought to be better now that
th ood of money orders to Quebec has
str5pped.
A Mitchell poultry man says he is get-
ting five eggs a day from four hens. This
is pretty good laying --or lying.
Hon. Howard Ferguson is not satisfied
with the Farmers' Government of On-
tario. But did anyone expect him to be'?
Ju.,t borore rhe iw•gislator• ad-
journed on Saturday 'minting Mr.
Drury brought lu a hill under which
want to see this Dominion bound over to
rural tinier oars way be nonuser! to
H S i
House Has . usp ai
ons. and many of -the members seem
The House, with the exception of 'the House,hard.y to know whether a ss,ould beVbest
Government supporters who attended the to let the people in to cat qp the Vacant I
Government caucus early in the week, has land or keep them out vtthere is still
'
its suspicions, as evidenced by the -tact danger of unemployment. Many of the
that sixty-four members voted to ensure members take the position that there must 1
that the Premier and his one or two fol- be more people here belay the country
lowers who attend the conference would catches up with her railway development
not tie Cant da down to participation in and that immigratton is the best way t0
any costly ventures at the present time. get them.
Also Mr: ting and his suppofters did not Driving for a Finish.
any constitutional changes without full
tow -extent of one-half 51t. the (.,.st of consent after consideration by'Psrliament.
the traIMwiesiun Iin+s. The hill was
passel. antenna' some mourners oar the
Goveruwent side ..poke against it and
In favor of the 1srol'al of tow Leth-
hrhige comm
1 1 a $2 tax oa
The Prime Minister followed out the
usual custom of submitting the matter to
a caucus of his followers before debating
it in the House, and then sounding out
his support. The resultant debate was a
sort of 'statesmen's day" effort, in which
nota few who Here only sdbe oul - stater
It begins to look as though there will be .
a drive for an early finish. with the House
winding up its business say about the fust
of June. At thi caucus the o, her day the
Government supporters were given t
date to paste in their hats and also in-
formed that the "Government had very
littlw in the way of marle1r'lation W
throw into the arena. There i of course
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H)-Iro power. The hill will hardly be men managed to have their say. It was a bill which would throw open the old I
air
ad' ed oho t tete• w.wpulp-, ratty prohh•m. but a good should 1 havele
d off the debate and this after all a wonderful incentive to securing
c�ns'id,•r.l a satierfaetory-aolurion f fitting, course, f that Sir Robert Borden range of Government jobswhich e.
Inc Legislature has lours wi u 1 he did thoughtful manner a certain class of par
in his own party workers. That
sexing Hon. Mr. Ferguson's promised Wild deal may happen before the next ISMO laying down the law to the House and ' bill is now before the House an! will go to
West Show of na ling hides to the fence)• slow of the la•glalature in the way of a tracing constitutional history away back' a special committee for consrieration as
Mr. Ferguson, by the way, was mighty
d' and shad days of the past to amendments in, the Civil Service Act.
eneral shakinir-up in connection with Robert saw Canada's o portunity in the budget will probably come own
lobo the dim
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lucky to get away with his own hide.
the Hydro srtem. her remaining as one of the ester nations about Tuesday and then there will be a
weeks' debate on its con
It has taken a campaign of nearly a PR,O�'LyiCIAL CEMENT PLANT.
hundred years to knock out John Barley-
corn. T.hiis mmaibee,,..so�me comfort to the Gowning" l'rs—oaes to Assuye sup•
devotees of Lady Nicotine sits; 1 ear the pt'- of feria[,
reformers will next attack the tobacco A vote of one million dollars to prbvide
habit. for the erection of a Provincial cement
plant was passed by the Legislature last
week. Toronto may become the home of
this new enterprise, according to Hon.
F. C. Biggs, Minister of Public Works,
who added. however, that the depart
meit was considering some three or four
alternative locations
the Province and that it hadnotyet
An agricultural representative has been
appointed for Perth county, and an office
will shortly be opened at Stratforl. Perth
was the last county in the Province to
hold out against the appointment of a
of obs Empire, two or three wee '
Mr. king's AmesZiei— ! tents. There will not ikely be much in
After a day or so of discussion on the way of tariff revisiort so that the talk
should peter out in th course of two
matters sornewhat parochial. the debate weeks. The esti is bens
up, however. and that le the apparent meet can get thein th h, and thereusraan
apparent effort to get the skids under the
oaths- ?gime Mli'aistere' conference carne thRo(Igh the mill aa' as the
as an elevation to a higher plane.
There is a matter which needs cleaning ppa
rest of the work, so that when the budget
difference in the Canadian and British
viewpoints as to the purpose of the Con-
dehate is over there will be little le
teren�, And there was this little differ• d�Committees are hammering away morn•
ence in the Prime Minister's statements ing and afternoon, and hearing a lot 01
which led to the moving of Mr. King's witnesses on subjects ranging from coal
amendment to the motion to go into supply to national railways and re-estab
otopPlY• li11hment of soldiers. and, while there will .
0 in various Darts of . The Progressives, led by Dr. Michael undoubtedly be some recommendations
Clark in the whence of Hon. T. A. from those committee in the aurae of
district representative, c alive, and some "die closed options on any of them. At the Crerar, who has gone a -campaigning in
bards" in the county council are still present cost of labor, coal and material, it the Maritime Provinces, were apparently the session, the important ones have
hardly gone tar enough as yet to allow of
opposed to the innovation. is estimated that the new plane could in favor of letting good enough alone. any indication as to what their reports
1 retail cement at (east a dollar cheaper
When Mr Carter in his address on � than the current Canadian price of $320 a barrel. jaunting overseas to talk when there were
so many matters at home to be straight -
Tuesday evening spoke of a certain tidy The Minister stated that it was the ened up. and Dr. Clark thought Mr.
which for many years has elected a intention to proceed with the erec ion of Lloyd George himself could find enough to
Mayor, not because of his business - a one -unit plant having a capacity of do in the -tight little island" just now
capacity, but because of his qualities as a 1 �,0 barrels a year. The object was without taking days or week ends off to
to supp y cement at cost for municipal talk to the Dominion Premiers.
"gladhander," he didn't need to mention development, but if the municipalities for Mr. King's amendment was a safeguard
the name either of; city or of Mayor. any reason failed to place their orders against any entangling decisions of the
Everybody knew, with the, Government. the Provincial conference. for while M. Meighen had
I works would be capable of ab sorbing the I declared that the conference was for
I total output of the factory, since it re- drscutsiuu the British leaders had mu.e
The military authorities of Tipperary !quires.] thus amount each year to resurface I than intimated that there would be some
ds. It was estimated that the municip• mighty important decisions reached. So
he wanted to make assurance doubly'
sure. The Prime ttlmrster, shale In hist
talk he more than leaned in the direction 1
of the amendment, was not goi'ig over to
the -conference tongae-tied, and his sup-
porters voted down the amendment by 96
to 64. Andrews, Davis and Gauthier If, m
the cross bei chcn voted against the
amendment.
They did not think th.s the time for will be
have issued a warning that civilians with aloes outside of Toronto required irom
' hands in .their pockets are liable to be 1200000 to 300,000 barrels of cement a
fired on. 1t has always been a sure sign year, while in the city from 50,000
of trouble to be lound with your hands in I to 60,000 were used annually. 11 the
other people's pockets ; but the Irish' dem old justified it. the new cement plant
d be extended into a two -unit one
official version is a new one. However. with a production of 700,000 'bar(ele i
.'it's a long way to Tipperary." year.
Mr. Biggs said that the Government
had been impelled to launch forth on this
undertaking by' three considerations,
MILLIONS IN
PROFITS
. a•a koiaj petit to die shsre-
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SAVE MONEY ON GROCERIES
The coming of May Day is in many
places a signal for strife between labor ; Firstly, during the past year the Province
and capital ; but in Goderich the day 1 had been forced to cancel contracts for
saw employers and employees working bridges. culverts and cement roads be-
cause it was ut,able to obtain sufficient
supplies of cement. Secondly, a 350 -
pound barrel costs 13.20 in Ontario. while
a 376 -pound one costs only 12.20 in the
United States, and. furthermore, the
Government was cs nfident thst it you'd
sell for a price less than either of these
figures. 1 hirdly, a modern plant with
up-to-date machinery could produce
cement superior in quality to the product
at present being offered on the Canadian
market. Mr. Biggs emphasized the fact
that the Government had no desire to
enter into competition with private con-
cerns on the open market, but that it
merely desired to provide a reliable source
of supply for municipal and Provincial
needs.
together, side by side, to secure the pass-
ing of a bylaw which is in the interests of
ell. This is the way it should be; ,progress
comes through co operation, not through
strife.
The Federal Government is backing up
on its "no patronage" program. The
members on the Government side of the
House are not content to allow the plums
to be picked without having some say as
to who is to have _the fruit, and the Gov-
ernment, which has travelled a long way
down hill from the lofty elevation on
which it perched in 1917, is not strong
enough to stand by its own policy.
Faalis descensus Averni.
The vote of 157 against the bylaw on
Monday is evidence of a considerable
body of opinion opposed to bonus bylaws
and such concessions. This is a safeguard
against the carrying of any bylaws which
do not sufficiently guard the interests
of the general body of ratepayers.
While The Signal is confident that good
results will follow Monday's vote. it has
no quarrel with anybody who voted
against the bylaw in the sincere belief
that in so doing he was performing his
duty as a ratepayer.
14r. Anderson's statement at the public
sleeting last week that Goderich is better
d than ninety per ant. of Ontario towns
Grans) Trunk Arbitration.
Another step in the Grand Trunk situ-
ation has been taken in the third reading
of the hill giving the Governrlient power
to extend the time for the arbitration 1
award to be made. As usual with bilis of
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Formally Announced.
Toronto 'I\•legram, ( April 20. )
Thio .morning Ur. J. W. S. heet'ul-
lough, head of the 1tegiatrar-Geneettra
i)epartnsrmnt, received by orad the fol-
lowing death certificate on the printed
postcard named to doe -tore and under-
takers' to he went to the registrar -gen-
eral In ease of hearth:
(loumy—i Itocoln.
('ity- Mt. (latliarirrcrt.
Name of decwawed—John fiarleyeorn.
Age -2,000.
ttex--Roth.
irate of (Math—April 1R.
Date of burial—April 1R.
Where interred- -Ontario.
(ghees• of death --Women's sotew.
Nasse and addressor of phyaleiao in
amends ns'n--4,iber•ty League.
Nome and eddies. of person twining
burial eertilleate—Rona of Temperance
Signature and addtwm of undertaker
—R. C. T. U.
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