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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1929-3-20, Page 6k*.eFCxtrs WEDNEiSD4X, MARCH 20th, 1.929 And teas from finest. gardens make the blend. "S:' LAD E A 'Freshfrom the gardens' kind is mature enough so that we ought In our life -time to find a way to permanent peace, Contrast these words with the blustering, defiant mood in which' the hon, member for Fort William jumps on to a big "if": If at that special session called by President Hoover any more restrict- ions are placed upon our sales to the United States , then we in turn should deal fn red-blooded Canadian azo manner with their tariff ':attitude to- wards us, But even that doesnot satisfy him and he becomes still more vio- lently bombastic, and proceeds: I think we have been taking too white -blooded an attitude towards the United States all the time, and I submit that it is time for as to stand rn and take a good red-blood- ed Canadian attitude. That is the blood that courses through the veins of any hon, friend from Fort William, and it is also the blood which coursed through the veins of every member of the "sha- dow" cabinet when, in June 1926, they sat on the treasury benches, when the present Prime Minister metaphorically speaking, laid every one of them over his knee, and, after administering a sound spanx±ng com- pelled every one of them to admit that not one of them had taken the oath of office and that they were Policy of Government Aids Canada's Trade Says Thos. McMillan I 1 IP' (Continue from Page 4) fresh meat. He knows further from Mr. McMillan: That (policy Mau- the lips of the Prime Minister of gurated eighteen Canada (Mr. Mackenzie King), in a I g years of stagnation , in Canada ,with trade dead, debt in- declaration made openly on the floor creasing, population at a standstill, of the house, that if Canada receives r immigration reduced to a minimum fair treatment she is open and a - and migration at full flood the great bvrb ard and willing to cooperate est period of migration from Can- in eerylegitimate way, in so far as ada, more particularly to the 'United federal jurisdiction will permit, in States, It was the dreary, hopeless the development of the St Lawrence period of Canadian history. During waterways towards which he himself the eighteen years in which t`,rat has set his heart. In the face of all THIK *KUS$ZI4$ (QST STOPPED HIS STOM4 lI TROUBLE "Frtrit-a.ezves" Made Him &1uth'e y We i 5fs o Alit.. BOVAY "I wish I could tell every sufferer in the world what. 'Fruit-a-tives' has done for me," writes Mr, Roy A. Bovay, Trenton, Ont. "For years I was troubled by Bad Headaches, Nervous Dyspepsia anal Liver Trouble. Then I commenced taking 'Fruit -a- , Very soon my condition im- proved, and now, thanks to this wonderful medichle, I am once more entirely well." eFruit-a tives"regulr tesstomach,liver, kidneys, bowels and skin—purifies the blood—and tones up the whole system. 25c. and 50e. a box—at dealers everywhere. guilty of endeavourling to mislead in London, and during the past year and deceive parliament and trying Canadian dairy products have rang - to put over the most indefensible act ed for 21,z cents to 3 cents per pound of power usurpation ever attempted above the world market price. Yet an the floor of the Canadian parlia- thehon.ge gentlemen ien en of the Conserva- tive a- tive party want the consumer of butter in Canada to pay a still high- er price for that product. I want every consumer of butter in Canada and more particularly the mothers policy strangled Canadian develop these facts does anyone believe that meet. ment, our total exports increased the very first international act or But that is not the spirit in which from $79,154,1J75 to $116,514,543. President-elect Hoover will be to Canada should maintain the proud During the single month of July, :hand out a serious economic handl- rositian which he occupies through - 1927, our exports totalled $80,770,- i cap to both his own country and I s p i out the world today. Canada has 1 believe the United States people achieved a high position in the minds of every family in every town and the total was $127,366,623. Thr, in- crease of July 1928, over July, 1927: have elected to the, presidental chair was more than $9,000,000 greater •a great American who will prove 925, and m the month of ,Tuly 1928, 1 Canada? I refuse to believe it; I and hearts of European, nations, city in this Dominion, to know that Great benefit has accrued to lier that is the policy of the Conserve-. himself worthy of the name. But through the sojourn of the Prime tive party under their present lead - than the entire increase in exnorts Minister. in Great Britain and on er—wanting' thorn to pay a price during the whole eighteen years un 1 deprecate the attitude of hon. the continent during the past year. higher than the world's market price, der the national olicy. Thepara-reetlemen on the floor of the house pHis timely message of international and just to that degree to destroy lyzing influence of that eighteen te%r r l the United States people race,goodwill and conciliation cath- the purchasing power of the Can- erd t That p than armaments as a means of adian people. settling disputes has lifted Canada On the 25tth of October of last to a high place among the nations of year the hon. leader of the opposition the world. Do these hon. gentlemen in the city of Montreal said: opposite want to discredit our proud What are we dein to safeguard position and trail it in the dust? our agricultural life, not only for to - Canada has assumed the role of in- day but for tomorrow? terpreter nation along the lines of. peace, as a means of settling inter - years of high ,protection in Canada an n Poen . attitude in should never be forgotten. Canada both a ,re and expression manifest has never yet shaken herself entirely • ed at this time for purely partisan free from the blighting effect of that Purposes is beneath the dignity policy, and I urge upon this govern- Which should characterize the pro• ment that its duty is to proceed more ceedings of this deliberative assenib- rapidly along the lines of a well- ly, After repeated assertions by considered tariff reduction. The t':e hon. member for Fort William danger cry has always been: Oh, we (Mr. Manion) listen to the follow - need the revenue; we must be care- ing: national disputes. The peace of the fan treaty, he continued: ful. That argument can no longer 1 But, I repeat, President, Hoover world depends more upon establish - be used. Every successive tariff has recently announced a policy of ing good relationship between the The dairy industry cannot be built increasing the United States tariff United States and Great Britain and reduction has verified our opinion inup in a day or in a year. Jt is be - that farmers. that it has yielded a greater revenue. ing destroyed. I dispute between Great Britain and France I urge them again that we can do' p to the imputation and I bi- than pen any other single factor. His inference is that nothing is this kind of thing only in periods of :Ate the hon. gentleman to quote from The people of Canada, largely made being done by this government to good times. 'We cannot do it in President Hoover's inaugural mess-up of two dominant races — the safeguard the agricultural life of times of adversity. Now is the gol- 'age one syllable which will bear any 'trench and the, English—have learn- this country. I wonder where the den opportunity and we should be . such construction. Mark the differ- ed by experience to respect and hon- hon. gentleman has been sojourn - taking advantage of it. Apparently, ent tone of President Hoover's words our the respective characteristics of ing when he thinks that the Canad- however, they seem inclined to mark in regard to the tariff: those races. We have long since ion dairy industry is being destroyed, time,Limited charges cannot, in justice, blended together those traits of r Has he actually sunk into such depths Mr. McMillan: It may be wise, 1 to our farmers, our labour and our character which enables us to work of real bachelordom? If any of our do not know what the special session manufacturers, be postponed. I other bachelor leaders should develop p hand in hand. and with the heartiest of the United States congress wilt Listen also to his noble expression feelings of kindly cooperation have !such density we would have 'them do; I am no prophet, but I know in regard to permanent peace. .married at once. That, Sir, is the President Hoover has never shown Some hon. Members: Oh, oh. himself to be a foolish man. There Mr. McMillan: My hon, friends is no doubt he has a most friendly opposite are laughing. feeling towards his northern neigh- Mr. Cotnam: Why not? And after referring to the import- ations of Metter under the Austral - i • Ii f i I hour, He knows Canada is his best: Mr. McMillan: Bear yourself in customer. He knows, further, Can- silence. When the hon. gentleman ada has a standing offer to his gov- speaks, we will listen to him. The ernnient of reciprocal trade in food fact is that when hon. gentlemen op - products. He knows that 66 per posite rise to speak in parliament it cent of the United States people live is very seldom they have anything in incorporated towns and cities aoitlr saying. Listen to the noble and desire a lower cost of living. He expression of President Hoover re - knows in our own particular lines s1 pectin Canada produces the finest quality of g permanent peace: foodstuffs in the world. He also The United States fully accepts our own knows there is e. decided shortage 011 the gres , p prosperity andd truthat peace, are fresh meat products for the domes -interlocked with the progress, pros, tie requirements of his own country. i perity and peace of all humanity, , In 1927 there , was a deficiency of I • It is impossible my countrymen more than 400,000,000 pounds be -'to :peak of peace without profound low the enrotfon. In thousands of homes in previous year's production America, in millions of hone., around and in 1928 there was a further de- the world; there aro vacant chairs. ficiency of some 642,000,000 pounds, !it would he a shameful confession of Canada is the only country from ani' unworthiness if it should develop which the United States can secure fort we have abandoned the hope for which all men died, Surely efvi- a supply of disease-free, high-class lization is old enough. surely man - ii? anted .. We pay Highest Cash Price for Cream. 1 cent per lb. Butter Fat extra paid for all Cream delivered at our Creamery. Satisfaction Guaranteed Brussels Creamery Co. Phone 22 Limited mimumnsamommonw enthusiastically set ourselves to the task of building up a great nation on the northern half of the American continent; building it upon the nob- lest principle of humanity, namely, Hansard the facts in connection with the principle of peace on earth and butter and the Australian treaty. I good will towards men. happened to meet some of my good With such a prospect in view, and Tory friends out in the eorrldor and living alongside a nation with whom they said: "Say, Mae, where is that butter?" "Boys," I said, "I plaster- .ed you all over from the soles of your feet to the crown of your head and you could not help yourselves. That is where the butter is." Ap- parently, however, their hon. leaders have never thoroughly cleansed in her power to cement closer and themselves and are now living in an closer those bonds which exist be atmosphere of such lacteal density tween us. But we also hold it in our that their mental peregrinations are most amusing. They call to mind surest cure for any such ailment, The whole thing reminds me of an incident last June after S had put on we enjoy the most friendly and inti- mate relationship, this Dominion un- derstands and can interpret the French, the British and the United States characteristics. We are, therefore, qualified to act as an in- terpreter nation, and Canada holds it power, by just such expressions as I have indicated coming from the that divine injunction, "Pian; know op- posite side of this house, to blast our thy,elf." The greatest study of mankind is man, and, goodness knows, we members of parliament good reputation and discredit Can- ada's prestige throughout the world. Hon. gentlemen opposite would have a wonderful opportunity for convey the impression that the Aus- `curly along that line. T often won- tra]ian trade treaty has been an in tier where the hon. gentleman was jury to the Canadian dairy industry. I ran not going into en elaborate 'ina- lysis of the effect of that agreement, br•owning mentally when, in 1915, the American government removed every restriction against the; import - but the fact is that it has not been of Canadian finished live stock detrimental to the dairy interests of and fresh meats and also placed Canada. Every economic student %%Treat, Hour and potatoes on the ten - of those condition knows that until ' tativo free list. Ile was then very very recently Great Britain has I close to the members of the Cana- dian an ovi+rnm . been ent, the v •r'• g Whydid he Pills best market for d not dairy products and consequently the then show his appreciation and safe Can - greatest distributing and price-re-'griard the hyo etocir industry of Gan gulating market of the world. But ada by insisting that the government what happened? On October 1, remove the duty on like American 1925, the Australian treaty came in- ; products coming into this country? to operation. From that time on le it any wonder that after five years' there was a steady advance in the I experience; of an entire lack of ap- price of butter in Canada till March I predation, during which time the of 1920 when No, 1 pasteurizedbut- I Tory' government in Canada main - ter was ten cents per pound higher an almost prohibitive duty a - in .Montreal than the price 01 Aus-;gninst like American products, the tralian butter in London, and germ...! American government saw tit to ally, it has remained higher ever withdraw the privilege? That' was since. During the whole or the year ' the time when he and his political 192(1, the average price of No, i I friends should have shown some con - pasteurized butter in Montreal was cern for the interests 'and welfare 2.46 cents per pound higher than !! of Canadian agriculture, but they Australian butter in London, For !were asleep at the switch.: the whole year 1927, it was an aver- I However, we do occasionally get age of four cents per pound higher a glimpse 01 their hon. leader's mean- , in Montreal than Australian butter! dcrings, Speaking at Cookshiro, in the pi•ovinee of Quebee, fast, sum.- nisr, ho said: There Should be in Canada a tariff commission such as. the have in the United 'States , , , This should de- termine the conditions under which our manufacturers and our produe- err have to ineet the competition of the world, Accordingl to press reports, on the 2nd of October, 1920, in his own city of Calgary, he made a similar statement; A tariff board, such as they have in the United States, should hear all the evidence and make its recom- mendations, By that we stand or fall, What kind of tariff board have they in the United States? It is in effect a tariff commission for the purpose of giving the manufacturers the full power to exploit 'the con- sumer. For instance, it investigated the sugar ,)duties, Its report was presented to the president. From that day to this the president has failed to make that report public: So 'close were the big interests linked up with the operation of the tariff boari3 in the United States that act- ually the representatj�ve of the sugar interests was . present on the board in the person of Mr. II. H.1 Glassie. Common decency and common jus- ticethat should have intimated to gentleman that he should abstain from sitting on cases in which his personal interests were so apparent. But this he refused to 'do. Congress passed a special law removing Mr. Cassie from the payroll of the nation untIS the case was finished. Yet this is the kind of thing that passes for a tariff board in the United States. Naturally this aroused some storms. Investigation was threatened. Sen- . ator Smoot, one of the bg sugar men ofe the United States, was al- ways on the job to block investiga- tion. All this is mixed up with the notorious speculative sugar% market of 1921 when the exploitation of the American people by the sugar trust was one of the most glaring instances of the looting of the consumer by predatory interests ever brought to the attention of the American pub- lic. Yet this is the kind of thing which the honoured leader of the great Conservative party apparently wants to have in operation in this country. Naturally very strong opinions arelvoiced in the United States regarding the work of the American tariff board. For instance, Dr. Taussig, of Harvard University, and a former! chairman of the tariff commission at a meeting of the American Economic Association two years ago, expressed it as his opin- ion lthat: The interests involved in the] re- sults of tariff making were so power- ful and exercised such influence itp- on the party in power that disinter- ested and non-partisanship action was practically impossible. Those are strong words, but they came from.a man of calm and rea- soned judgment, a man who:had ex- perience on the tariff board, and who was by no means an opponent of, tariff protection, Dr, E. P. Cost - igen, of Denver, who also had exper- ience with the tariff board, said: It should have turned upon it the clearest searchlights of publicity, that its past performances have little to commend it, and until it conforms to disinterested standards of public service, congress/ should refuse any further financial appropriation for its work, There is the situation. Possibly i the hon. gentleman) would like to re- vive the battledore and shuttlelock methods which were in operation just before the Conservative party was defeated in, the fall of 1921. It might he interesting to lift. the 'veil for a moment on one commodity --sugar--to disclose the/ true situs= tion. To really understand the !facts, it should be known that when !James Murdock resigned his position i as the last remaining member of the original Board of Commerce of that day he preferred serious charges a- 1 gainst members of the cabinet. Rather than investigate those cliierg- • es, the government filled the vacan- cies on the board by appointing three paid servants of the government. There never was a case which show-• the ed more plainly the absurdity, injustice and the injury to the con- suming classes of the. enactment of customs duties than did this sugar. monopoly in Canada. In. the whole muddle one fact was clear ,that the sugar trade of this county was largely in the hands of a group of refiners who for most purposes act- ed together, and who for many years had very successfully controlled the sugar situation in Canada to 'their own exhorbitant profit through the kindly aid of the tariff. In this par- ticular ease -1 regret, Mr.' Speaker, that I have exhausted by forty min - vies. G Although white rats usually chav,r pink eyes, specimens of a new vale iety with black eyes, have boon found in central France, I the Master Salesan to, the people of the earth do me homage. 1 am the •herald of success for men, merchalnfss manufacturers, municipalities and nations. I go forth to tell the world the message of service and sound merchandise. And the world lis- tens when I speak. There was aday long ago, when by sheer weight of superior merit, a business could rise above the common level without me, but that day has passed into oblivion. :For those who have used me as their servant I have gathered untold millions into their coffers. Self More Merchandise per dollar of salary paid me than any other sales- man on the face of the earth. The fabled lamp of Aladdin never called to the service of its master genii half so rich and powerful as 1 am, to the man who keeps me constantly on 'his payroll. Hold the Business of the seasons in the hollow of my hand, I com- mand the legions of fashion, mold the styles and lead the world whithersoever I go. 1 drive unprin- cipled business to cover, and sound the death -knelt of inferior merchandie. Frauds are afraid of me be- cause l march in the broad light of day. Whoever Makes Me Their Servant for life takes no chances on drawing down dividends from my untold treasures bestowed with a lavish hand. I have awakened and inspired nations, set mil- lions of men to fight the battles of freedom beyond the seas and raised billions of dollars to foot the bills. Nations and kings pay me homage and the business world bows at my feet. 1 sow broad fields for you to reap a golden harvest. i Am Master Salesman at Your Service I Am Adv&tkii Waiting Your Command —as— The Post BRUSSELS