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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-1-27, Page 5Thus, McMillan Kr, (Continued fr0111 j, 4) ;.• 17,..i,000,000. bet lit 192 they tverf.sticed by nearly 814,000,000. And yet, Sir, with this healthy trade, with the tainnufnetured products of our owe eountrY going to ihe United States and the reduced ‘,..iiitune of ittatinfaetured goods coming into Can ada. Inn' friends are not satisfied. Then then tell us Slat our peonli., ore all going to the United States. The- hon. member fly Aisantimil Gu (Sir eorg. Perley) told s yester- day, hashes his statements largely on ns the returof United States inn - its, th:ot many of our lass. tale ViOrt, .1.erniis and maiden .110111., in he Caited States. That t•••• mind. nu- of the reports that egir• turned. in by the same officials be- tween 1910 anti 1920. They revotti• ,f1 tis.t during those. ten years over 7 I2,1MO Canadians went across the beril-r to make their 'tomes in .ite • 17 n States. But when official cen- sus of 1920 was taken it revealed the fttet. diet titer,. were over 78,000 few- er Camnlians across the bordem. than there w -ere ten years previously. Then iny hon. friend for South Wnee-s; toll u; that wii should go back and what the great leader of the Con- servative party did years ago. We ean v....11,1111)er that in 1878 we heard the same cry from friends of hoo. gentlemen opposite. They told the pt•ople of that day that if they would only give them an opportunity to put into operation the national policy of protection it would not only hold in Canada all immigrants arriving here but it would keep our Canadian peo- ple here as well, and the people of that day took them at their word. With what result? After that policy had been in force for twelve years and the census of 1891 was taken, the fact was revealed that while during the ten years the number of immigrants had been 88(3.000 only about 36,000 remained, and over and above that over 980,000 Canadians load left the country. When these facts were appreciated by the people of that day, they dismissed the gov- ernment, lock, stock, and barrel, at the earliest possible moment. The fart is that there has always been a migration back and forth between these two countries, and probably there always will be. During the last ten years of the Laurier administra- tion 235,516 Canadians crossed the herder, but during the ten year per- iod of the Borden-Meighen achninisi tration that number was increased to .757,672, The right hon, leader of the op- position (Mr. Meighen) also told us at Guelph on October 24 that in or- der to keep workers in this country wages must approximate those paid in the United States, and that the only way in which that could be clone was by the establishment of a system of higher protection i0. this country. What are the facts? For years the American people had a high tariff system, but in September 1922, the United States government adopted the highest, tariff duties ever enact- ed. Their argument for so doing was that it would give more employment and higher wages1 to the artisans of the United States. The cotton and woollen industries of that country were given the benefit of the highest tariff duties in 'existhime, with what result? While in 1923, the year fol- lowing the adoption of these duties there was a revival of business, in 1924 business fell off, and over 2,- 000,000 American work people were thrown out of employment. Between June and October, 1924, the number of eniployees in American industrial establishments decreased 12 per cent, The American Woollen Company of Massachusetts, the highest protected industry it the TJnited States, sith thirty-six of the largos mills in the country, cut wages by 10. per cent. The official dispatch from Washing- ton lit September reveals the situa- tion. It is as follows The Labour troubles of New Eng- land ere erstallizing into a demand for tariff reduction. This will be re- sisted by the Coolidgeadministration, which desires to postpolio all tariff legislation until .after the congres- sional election of 1926. The cut of 10 per cent in wages has for the first time arrayed organized labour on the side of tariff reduetioa, The situation was summed up recently by President Green of the American Wreeciona from Fable •it.% Inatikodi • Nottrifits Neuralgia. Thousende of Canadiana have found that Tat,C.'e inc quiekeet and sureet relief front Paw, T.Thent e1 &Many en theindeohe that entwo the tadn, They Contain 00 deneorouo or habit forming drugs, Your drum:tot soectre. toendo thew,_ Send few for sonorouo tin* Tonegotons, woronto, Itheuessaset 50c. tietoteelsat Romeo', sousendo SIZt1 Lurnbueo Tile) 1191:APPLLTI147:11104 S RI-CE.UNIAlrfC "Leaped For The Wall But Missed Ledge" In the opinioe of Lloyd Geo,', Mr. Winston Churchill'a stock is now lower than the Frond: franc. The rushing of the gold standard, says the Welsh wizard; is acknowledg.-d te have been a first-class blunder, hearing all the worst defects of the eharacter. Federation of Labour when he said: Wages, employment and working con ditio es in textile manufacturing in- dustries are such as to bring the blush of shame not only to those who own and operate the textile mills but to members of congress who have aided them." Athough protected by practically a prohibitive tariff, the textile manufacturing industries have unceasingly tried to force down the living standards of their emploYeas to a mere existence level. While these- and other textile concerns are complaining of reduced earnings A is interesting and important to bear in mind that the American Woollen Company has largely increased its -capitalization in recent years. Its common stock is $40,000,000, an in- crease from $20,000,000 in 1920. In that year also it authorized an in- crease in its Cumulative 7 per cent Preferred stock from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000. Regular dividends gee paid quarterly on that cumulative preferred stock. There is the skuation, Mr. Speak- er. It shows that in the United States, as in every other high pro- tection country, protection has the effect of ensiehing the few at the ex- pense of tile many. It encourages monopoly and impoverishes the great body of the people. What has high protection done for the farmers of the United States? Has it made them rich? The Fordney-McCumber tar- iff of. 1920 was to make the Amerie- an farmer wealthy, but the subse- quent deflation in farm values and in wheat prices brought about a panic in the western states which smashed hundreds of thousands of farmers and 552 banks which held their notes and mortgages. Between the first of January and the 14th of February. 1924, in those six weeks When the panic was at its height, seven nation- al and. 95 state banks had to close their doors. Senator Borah speaking in Congress upon this subject last session, said that in the northwestern states the taxes on improved land had risen to $2.50 per acre and in some counties in the state of Washington as high as $3.80 per acre,. and that in 1923-1924 over 630,000 farmers, embracing one -forth of the wheat growers (el 17 states, were bankrupt. Here is 0 statement from the St. Paul Pioneer of December 23, 1925. 1. may say that I was in the western states in the month ,of December last during the holding of that great CCM' ference at Des Moines, Iowa, repre- senting one million. farmers, The ex -tract reads: Representatives of a million west- ern farmers issued' their manifeto at the closing session to -day of the con- ference of the con belt Committee and the executive .committee of the American Council of Aviculture. They repadiated the President's speech before the American Farm Bureau Federation convention at Chicago. They assailed the Fordney-McCum- boy tariff. They made an overture to the agri- eulture of the south for union with that of the West for a common effort for a common and. They authorized the organization of an agricultural statistical depart- ment to be situated at Des Moines, comparable in efficiency to those maintained by railroads and other groat interests. The ponferenc6 asks, if the tariff is of SO great benefit to farming as the President said, "how can the fact be explained that although this tariff has been in operation for five years, agriculture is cot this hour staggering on the brink of complete collapse?" At a meeting of thc Reconstruc- tion League at Washington. D.C., held oil Deceniber 38, 1920, Dr. Ed - hinder, of the National Institute 01 Economies, in opening his address cm the cattle indutry said: • The "proteetioe now aceoadod the cattle industry through the 'duties on cattle and beef is not only f ntile :from the standpoitt of the industry, but mafiosos, and will inereaasegly 1)11.. , potty both Upon the inthIstry itself and the • esitiatnning. jiublic, hardens THE BRUSSELS POST which for outweigh any possible /Vilna. The production of range wa- lk will decrease rather than inerease in the United States, and the Atm.: - ken eattle grower will not be injured by placing cattle and beef on the free list. • . At the same meeting .President Me. Mahon, of tlie International Textile Workers, said that the average 'wage in cotton mills wits $15 per week, and enuld not be lowcr even wider frt.-- -trade. The report continues: The trend of speeches and 00111. ments by delegntes evidenced a gen- erally hostile- anntiment against the Fordney-McCumber tariff. Herbert F. Baker, President of the League, declared that the tariff duties against Canadian wheat and other agricultur- al proclucts were merely "bunk." . Do we, Mr. Speaker, want to bring about in this country conditions sofa as these by the establishment of high- er protective duties? On October 27, 1925, the /ender of the °pont- . tion in this House, speaking at ;Kit- chener, said: "There is only one path to treatl. Give no preference- in return."' Mr. .Spealcer, he would do away with the present British prefer - owe, and yet he comes before thi; House and presents this dovelike, a- mendment regarding higher duties on farm products. That of itself is bad enough, but do you think if the peo- ple of Canada gave him and his party the opportunity they would ever stop at that? No. Sir, he cannot, he dare not.; so we may just as well tear the screen off that dovelike amendment and walk into the camp. He dare not, I say, stop at this simple amend- ment, because he is tied hand and foot. shackled to the ramparts of gold of which lie was formerly Wont to speak. We might well ask, where are those ramparts .of gold today? I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, notwith- standing all that has been said, that those ramparts of gold are more the eallse of the small represent:040n OC Liberals from the province of Ontar- io in this House today than any other one cause. The hon. member for South Bruce (Mr. Hall) tells me that he saw its streak in every corner of his riding. The hon. member for South Perth (Mr. Sanderson) tells me the same thing, and the same it true of North Bruce and Lambton counties All over my own riding, Mr. Speaker, I could see nsen who, I knew right well, would never put one foot ahead of the other unless they were getting some return, keep going for weeks, and I can assure you that I am here today not as result of any meagre ef- forts of my own, but because the good and true men, and more particularly the good women, of the South riding of Huron stood bj their principles and elected me as their hmnble repre- sentative in this Reuse. And. Sir, when I heard the statement hurled across the floor the other day that the noble women of the province of Que- bec were not so well informed as other women in this country, I took that expressly to heart. Because 1. have a considerable number of the same good Canadians in my own con- stituency that stood by me almost solidly just as they did in days gone by. When I say this I am sorry the hon. member for North Waterloo (air. Euler) is not here. Those peo- ple stood by me in the last election just as they did in 1917 all through the period of selective conscription and its mate the War -Time Eleetions Act. I can tell you that If it had not been for the fact that Major Haste - wood was despatched from London, and hiS headquarters there for two weeks before the election of 1917, and sent out messages all over West- ern Ontario to the, effect that the far- mers' sons would be relieved from conscription, I would have been in this house at that time. Not only is that the ease, but eighty-nine of the good citizens in my constituency had their names removed from the voters' list dyring the operation of the War Time Elections Act and they have never forgotten it. Whilst those yery sante people are Canadians of German descent, I can tellyou it was a pride to me to know when I Went amongst, them that a large per - cottage Were goodmothers who had their sons at the front fighting for freedom and civilization, and when called upon them they would say "De not spend your time here, we are going to vote for you. .Go where you can do some ,good," t consider, Mr. Spealcer, that too muelo has been said on the subject .of cot- acription—. Some hon MEMBERS; Hear, hear. Mr. McMILLAN:---in this House during the present session; and when I henrd the eulogies by the hon. member for South Winnipeg (Mr. Rogers), of the utterances of the menthe): of Kent, N. B. (Ntr. Dotteet) wondered if lie had forgotten that peper will never refuse ink, Sits I say that if the leader of the opposition anti his friends were in power tomorrow they could not atop at this amendment In fact the right hon. .gentlotturti himself. •has told no that he will rot.atop there, that ite• will. de nWriywith the -Rakish protert e.,.....61.1.93,•:*1011•vornarnasrvisol,10011111101011.0 ris Keep your hens laying by feeding Ground Bone, which is well known to be the best egg -produc- ing feed, Try it, Place your order in ad- vance as it is impossi- ble to keep a Supply on hand. Baeker lar s. •11•1•01.001•11MONISON. 1111.111••••••..11.1[01.11.001M11/101M....0 elite. What does that mean? 61r. STEVENS: I•wish to rise to n point of order. • It is this The hon. gentleman has twice stated in the absence of my right hon leader, that he has declared that he will do away with the British preference. Now, my hon. 'friend knows, I think, that he is in 50001'--- 1 81-. McMILLAN: Possibly the state. ment may be denied, as others have been. ,but let my loon. friend wait a 1 moment. Mr. STEVENS: I should like the hon. gentleman, if he will, to per mit me to state. my point of order. The position taken by my right bon. leader is that there should be a pre- ference given in return for a prefer- ence given hy Canada whether to Bri. Lain or any other country; but he has never declared, to my knowledge, that he would do away with the Br:- tish preference without any qualify- ing statement. I submit, Mr. Speakec that it is not competent for an hon. gentleman in the absence of the hon. gentleman to whom the reference is made to misstate his position, especial- ly that of all hon. geettenen holding the important office of leader of the opposition. Mr. SPEAKER.: I do not see that any point of order is involved here. If the right lion. leader o•f the opposi- tion denied making any such state- ment, his denial must be accepted by the House. However. from the state most of the hon. member for South Huron as I heard it I do not see where any point of order arises. Mr. McMILLAN: Possibly I might have made an error, but I am within' the judgment of the Speaker and the 'House when I say that my statement was that he right hon. gentleman had said he would give no preference to Groat Britain without a return. Mr. STEVENS: Yes, that is right. Mr. lair:Milian: That is the state- ment which I made. The right hon. gentleman has told us that he would give no preference to Great Britain without return. Mr. STEVENS: That is not the statement you made just now. Mr .11,1cMILLAN: That is the state- ment I made when I referred to the subject at first. What does that mean? It means that for the twelve months ending October 31 Great Bri- tain was our very best customer tale leg over 8458,000,000 worth of our goods absolutely free of duty where - es on the other hand the Canadians charged the British people over $29,- 000,000 in duty upon $159,000,00' worth of British goods coming into this country. And yet, Sir, the eight hon. leader of the opposition is net satisfied. He also said in reference to the tariff, .particularly referring to farm products, that he would make it just aS hard for the American farmer to get his products into Canada as it is for Canadians to get their products into the United States. In other words if this House will give him the oppor- tunity he will enter upon a tariff war With our American naighbours just at a time whon the troubles in the New England states and all over the Union arc crystallizing into a demand for a lower tariff policy in that coun- try which will result in giving the Canadian peoples and more particul% arty. the Canadian farmer. freer ac- eess into the United States market, the world's best merket,right at our own doors. Sir, I should like te ask the members front the Maritime nro. vetoes if their people would not like to get bettertariff- privileges with respect to the entry.of their precincts into the eastern states? Let hoe, gentlemen bear this in mind, that on November 4th, 1925, Senator Hale and Representative Hersey, both of . Maine, pleaded with President (Truitt - (Igo to remove the Anterican duty npon Canadian potatoes. Would we , not like to hate that benefit? Sir, 1 have been in the Maritime provinces and T know that the fartnera there Would be proud' to get aertess to the markets of the eastern Statee•for the nreater part of their agricultural pro- ducts. Arid wink about our Canadian west? When 4 was in Mianesota a- bout two or three weeks ago, I found that -Canadian potatoes were contiag down hy the carload, paying the AM- Right ltev M V Falion, llitthop 01 enicata dtitY, and enjoYing- tile market .10adoe, has aeft. fot Florida *Tuft' there at 01 fair margin Of profit.. What he -inspects to spend, ' the next; aix sire. the facts? 4 have ' the. 'returns •Wealta, 0. T. A. IN DANGER W. E. Raney, lemler.ef the On- tario Progre:sive owl fernier attorm.I.-general, vsbe ikclared at Newmarket that the Ontario Temper- ance Act is in 4:Inger of destruetioto unless the tempernnee forces disht for its retention. showing the shipment of pmatoes ftir the last three months. A ret Lien whieh ienne -from the nurem, n f Statisties day shows that for the thr--..! months of October, November and December 1921, we shipped to the United States $2,436„91 worth of petatoas, pay- ing, 50 cents per hundredweight, and finding a market for those artistes in that country. Would it not Lai of benefit to our 'Western people to have free access or frees IlerfYSS into that great market for 001' I:tittle. We would then be in sight of the best market in the world Jn Ontario, dur- ing the last four years, when we had free access for our cattle to the mar- ket, I was able to get, right on my own farm, within BO rents per hun- dredweight of the highest quotations on the Chicago market. It would mean all the difference between suc- cess and failure in the live stock and fat cattle trade of Canada. and the live stock business is, as every farmer knows, the very right arm of a per- manently successful agriculture. If hem members of this House wauld give my right hon. friend the leader of the opposition the opportunity, be would begin at once to raise the tariff. With such an object lessen right at our door, with the condition of unrest among the American farmers on accouat of high protection, why should our government not encour- age trade between the two countries? They should eot neglect this market: They should cultivate the friendship of the American people and try to obtain the benefits of that market. Is that trade between the two coun- tries, in the face of the two tariff walls 'built up by each -government against the products of the People. not at once a tribute to the power of natural trade laws and an indication of tho only rational policy? Yet, in the face of those two tariff wing, for the last twelve months •ending 31st October, 1925, over $1,020,000,000 of goods jumped over the two tariff walls back and forth between the two countries. That gives you an idea of what the people think, namely that trade is not a national matter. It is O matter between individuals. If a Canadian wants to buy anything a- cross the border be does- so for only one reason. He thinks he can get better value for his money there than any other place in the world. If an American does business here it is for the same . reason. The citizens of the two countries think this inter- national trade is so mutually benefi- cial that most one-half of our entire foreign trade 1,s conducted with •the United States. These are not petty, partisan matters, hut great problems of government which appeal for -solu- tion to the sonse and judgment of AWAY TO FLORIDA WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27, 192(1, sas Ievery member of this House regard- less of political leanings. Therefore solleit the support of all hon. mem- bers,- -not as Liberals, 1101 12$ Con" eerV1,n,:05, Alla as Progressives or 1:t- itle-I:dente, but as 13anacli1n citizens - with the true interests of this renn- try at heart—in order that UPP',11101' ma), id rongthen the hands of the prssent goveronteid a.7o that they may !Ivry. to further fruition the policis they have put in operation. A great deal has been suid respect- ing the Prime Minister, hi his el,- .once.- whisti ought not to have been sabl. I have know the Right Hoe. Ms, Mackenzie Ring for many yeats. There is no man in this House or out of 0 more scrupulously eager to up- hold and Inweree the high traditions 0:' parliamentary practice; and, Sir, his eourse on this momentous occas - ion has been suelt that in years to i.m oe, when this generation shall har;• „1.CAT O.K. FLEmmimc,.. , ----........—.... ... .. r passed away, other men representing , pill the most exemplary conduct of former Prime Minister of New Bruns- 311,- Canadian people nail recall with the Prime Minister of Canada on his Ivs,i_ck....wilso, detclakre! that the IVIaritim:: teeneleees le-nbte their economic oceasion. grievances, are not "going to racs. V.......kraupowmoory•Msowra,:f end ruin," I can assure this House that in tn.: hands of our brilliant leader Liberal ism is not a decadent force in this ditions than we enjoy—if that is our eountry. Liberalism in his hands aud spirit then it is our duty to strength - through the medium of his policiet, n the bands of the brilliant leader is a vital, living, active, progressive ef thia government who in the space e force in our political life, and a force of ma: parliament has demonstrated which is always striving to make the his capacity most efficiently to repre- achievements of to -day simply the sent Canada both at home and a- base of operations for the progress broad, and whose government has Isl- and advancement of to -morrow. ready "gown its ability to correct Away with this little petty partisaab n uses, cheek monopoly, restore el'- spit of Gritism or Toryism, or 1106' ficiency, reduce expenditures, lighten other "ism," which can never look 11rtxbil fav - past its own doorstep but is always o°1,ablaemair.en'"npnew andkdets,feostuerterde,andwondering what will give us this sec- withal encourage and build up a spir- tional advantage, or that personal or it of unity and co-operation among party favor, regardlessof the true in- all sections of this country and st.• terests of the country. Away with mong all classes of our Canadian peo-, such a spirit. If we as members of ple. this House look upon ourselves mere- ly as the creatures of a day, th tn, POOR DIAGNOSIS Sir, it makes little difference what ,,yes,,, exclaimed the doctor, "I never made such a mistake before. we do, or whether we rob and despoil this rich heritage which we possess. UsuallY I guess right, and nobody On the other hand if we as true re- presentatives of the people will look can accuse me of a wrong diagnosis n humanity as a self-perpetuating with any of nay cases. But I'll ad- uporace and upon ourselves as trustees mit I fell down on that patient you for those who nine after us, en- mention. You see, I didn't know he was deavoring to maintain the present eitisiLicheExcranugghto have appendi- e. good conditions and to make them even better, that those who come About 1,300,00 Ogallons of gasoline after us may have a fairer dwelling are produced in the United States place and more congenial living con- every hour. Plate Depicts Discovery of . Indian Sea Passage A magaificeat silver dish, twenty r'S. inches in diameter, presented by King Emmanuel of Portugal to the famoun explorer Vasca da Gama 111 1499 in recognition of the latter's discovery of the sea route to India, was recently on exhibition in the windows of the downtown offices of the Canadian Pacific Railway on St. James street. The dish is now owned by Rene Dupuis, graduate of the University of Nancy, France, a resident of Montreal. The dish la circular with a wide border and 1; a beautiful specimen of the most exquisite repousse work of the celebrated European silversmiths. In the centre is admirably depicted in practically every detail the quaint old ship, the San Gabriel, which was Da Gama's flagship on his famous voyage to India. Around the figure of the ship are striking if:Imre:talons of wild beasts and flowers. On a raised border of silver around the vessel are two inscriptions, barely visible to the eye. The first reads "Emmanuel le Grand to 'Vasco de Goma, 1409", The second inscription is: "Marquis Niza- da da Game to M. Anne Duportal, Commandant du Cygne, 1846." The second inscription was placed there whet the relic was given to Com- mandant Duportal for saving the life of the Marquis, it descendant of da Gn111(2. Vases da Game was called to the Portuguese court and given an ex- pedition to discover a sea passage to the Indies. He atm &ill the follow- ing instructiona by his king, "Go south as far as there is water, And when you have reached the edge of the world, turn towards India which we know exists becanao we have made land jOUrae,vs there." On July 8 1497 a • heimeted, PoWerrai figure stood on board a vessel waving adieu. to Lisbon. Determination was de- picted in the powerful jaws. An iron will was evident in the steel -grey eyes. Every motion, every movement this mighty man made told of his high resolve to do as he had been com- missioned by his king, The San Gabriel rounded the Cape of Good Hope after da Game had quelled a munity of his rebellious sailors and reached the coast of Malabar, the south-west corner of India in May 1498. On September 1, 1499 the vessel sailed ,proudly into Lisbon to the accompaniment of loud shouts from the huge crowd assem- bled to greet her and the heroic com- mander. It was in that year that da Garna was awarded the historic silver dish by a grateful monarch as an ex- pression of esteem and regard from an admiring eourt and a thankful nation. Da Gama made another voyage to India in 1602, planting Portuguese colonies at Mozambisme and other places, and returned irt 1608 with a rich cargo. For this work he was awarded a title and appointed ad- miral of the Portuguese navy. Some twenty-one years later he made his last voyage to India. Helen ill on the way, died in Cochin, IadosChina, and VMS' buried ou the Malabar coast where he had cowed into subrnission a sullen crew or mutineers twenty-six years before. But the gallant; ad - mind's friends would not let his body remain in foreign soil, So it was brought back to Portugal and hurled in 1638 with Blithe honor and homage due a natiotual hero. • It is interesting to note that fl Canadian Pueblo liner, the Emprpro of Scotland la at present saiimg around India through the very waters thiieh Vasco de Gams was the flret tatropean to treveree.