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;.• 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
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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
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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
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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.