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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-8-25, Page 6N193ANESDAY, AUGUST 25, 102(1. You Pidne Good dream and want the best results under the new Grading System, ship your Cream to THE PALM CREAMERY, Our Creamery will be operated 24 hours a day in the hot weathe and your Cream will be in our Creamery and Graded 15 minutes after arrival in Palmerston. Thus assuring the farmer who produces good Cream the best possible Grade and Price, We loan our Patrons cans and pay cash for each can of Cream received, You can ship on any train any day and be assured of prompt delivery and pay, Send us a trial can to -day, The rahro Emmy Co, -Palmerston) lint, The American Tariff Commission By R. J. D, <tclt.n.ttl Speaking; in Calgary on August 2, Mr. R. B. Bennett, Minister of Fin- ance pro tens, in the Shadow Cabinet of Hon. Arthur Meighen, said: "A tariff board such as they have with the Tariff Board in the. United States. is not quite so sweeping in hiscondemnation, he holds that it is still possible to stake the tariff board a workable organization, but that it must have turned upon it the cleartsit THE BRUSSELS POST in the United States should hear all searchlight of publicity and that its the evidence, and make its recon- past performances have little to com- mendations to Parliament, in order mend it, and that its standards and that Parliament might make the duty-practic,s are wholly out of conform - at such a point as would furnish suf- ity with reason and common sense. ficient protection, and not make a de- Yet, that is exactly what Mr. Bennett wants: a tariff board such as they fic4.�ncy. This is the position. By *hat we stand or fall. We do not be- have in United States, subservient to the print: c.ti't•e interests, ignoring the consumer, hut bowing to the heck and call of those who have acquired the privilege and right of public ex- ploitation! Costigan sums up his conclusions in these four terse state- ments en the conduct of a board, which, in the opinion of Mr. Bennett, is an id, al to which the Conservative party '...•sues with envy and with ad- tn ratio. :ha• deep an -1 profound: 1. "T w'in the last year the United ate- Tariff Commission has taken : a }t'ho;e, abidcated its func- tion of --interested non -partizan in - depend: 2. '::t the suppression from public . -.tiny of a number of the Cunni toe's most important findings end reports ht- militatel against the e9lciency of its work and prevented ny ;nformed pnhlic conunnnt ort a number of fiscal questions which vit- ally affect the whole country." 3. "That the flexible provisions of F"rdneyMeComiter Tariff law late been brought into play for the benefit of special interests, and a Congressional investigation of thair recent operations should take place. as a prelude to legislation which would correct the present tendon- les," end n -ie, 4 "That until adequate safeguards are estahliehe':I that the tariff w31 re- sume its original role and conform to ,iieinter -ted standard: of public ser- vice. Congress should refuse any fur - '}ter financial :appropriation for its work." lieve in rude experimentation." We take it that this represents the tariff policy of the Conservative party. They are to have a tariff board. That tariff board is not to be a tariff board such as we have at present under the Liberals. The tariff board of the United States places the entire con- trol of the tariff in the hands of the big in terests. It makes a mockery of dcmoneracy. It gives in a nation which founded its existence in a tight against taxation, without representa- tion, absolutely autocratic control of the tariff, to a President and Tariff Board elected by the big interests, controlled by the big interests, and functioning perfectly along the lines for which it was selected. That 1 propose to prove. The U. S. Board It is stated in good authority that in all the experience of the U. 5. Tariff Board reduced duty twice, once on bran and once on live bob- white quail. It has investigated the sugar duties: its report on this inv,-oti gation has been presented to the President and the President has re- fused to make, public the report. So close were the big interests linked up with the operation of the Tariff Board in the United State::, that ac- tually the representative of the sugar interests was present on the Board in the person of one H. H. G las-bt, who belongs to a family which owns extensive sugar plantation,. Com- mon decency would have dictetrd that this gentleman shnulri abstain from sitting on case: in whsrh hie Personal interest was so apparent. Mr. Glassie refused to do this, Con- gress passed a special law removing; )Ir. Gia: sie from the pay -roll of the nation until the case was finialtad. Yes, lir. Bennett is right, under the Conservatives, we would have a t ri• 1ff board precisely the same as they have in the United States. How blind is the ahoration of sone, of Our Imperialists for the structural beauty �r rn is insti- tutions. of certain i�n Amer( n autos , t a H Meanwhile when investigation i+ threatened, of the conduct of the board in this connection, Senator Smoot, who personally owns 400 shares in the Utah -Idaho Sugar Com- pany, and is associated with various other sugar interests in tine United States; proceeds to exert all sus in- fluence as a senator to block investi- cation. All this i3 mixed un with the• notorious speculative sugar market of 1921 when the tariff rates an sug- ar were being fixed, when the exploi- tation of the American people by the sugar trust was one of the mast notorious instances of the looting of the consreure by predatory interests ever brought to the attention of the American pubiio. Is It Hopeless or Useless In the united States at the pres. eat time there are two different opin ions in regard to the tariff hoard. Dr. Taussig of Harvard University and a .former chairman of the tariff commis - et' n of the United States, expressed it as his opinion at a meeting of the American Economic Association early in the year, that the interests involv- ed in the results of tariff making, are so powerful and can exert such in- fluence upon the party in power, that disinterested and non-partisan action is practically impossible. That may be an extreme view though it Comes 'from a man of maim and reasoned judgment, and by no means a bitter opponent of the paliky Of tnniff pro- tectiOn. Mr, E. P. Costigau of T3am- ve', 100 also has hitd eicperience Huron Tories Fighting Within Their Own Ranks Disputes Over Court doh and Crown Attorneysiupp Split Party Clinton, Aug. 19.—Huron Tories are fighting within and without these day,: and Sept. 14 result, ale likely to be unsatisfactory to the party on that very account. With J. J. Merner, ex -51.P., Sea - forth, and Dudley Hohnes, I<.C., of Wingham, competing for the vacan- cy at the Goderich courthou e, occa- sioned by the :mating of Dun McDon- ald as county and suriar;ate Court ,.� :i , and eellav, ''t_- of bate time ex- erting every possible pull at Toronto, the party is badly split. Mr. Merrier was Conservative mem b.•r of Parliament for South Huron from 1911 to 11121, wh'•n 11,• was defeated by W. A. black Pro "ret' - At r , and now he has 'welt p rsard over in Andreae Welts, former 1, F. O. whip, Centralia, getting the nom- ination for this election, Ile feels he deserves the court position, car- rying $5,000 or more in fees per an- num while Mr. Holmes, always an ac- tive worker in North Huro•, riding, feel_"that he, too, deserves the job. -lir. Holmes stands in line for the county crown attorneyship them Charles A. Seager, K.C., retires, but is said to want the clerkship, because it's a Lobes thing. Mr, McDonald quits office on Sept. 1, and meamshile the merry battle goes on between bit'. Merne'r an.1 Mr. Holmes for the post, A Real Board But it may he said in a rawer to :til this that the Liberals have alt- poi4lted a tariff board; that is true, but there is a differenee. A tariff board, where the sittings are held in the open, where all the evidence can be brought to the attention of the public, handled as the tariff board has been handled by the Hon. George P. Graham, can function and func- tion with value to theCansdratpoo. pie. But it would b,, difficult to con- ceive of anything more viciotta, more unwarranted, so far as Canada is concerned, than a tariff board such 11s they have in the United States. It places without challenge or power of interference the vital economic life of the nation in the hands of the privileged few. Its coursa of con- duct will he one of the most vlulent subjects of controversy at the next general election, and if there still re- mains within the American nation the .spirit of' the fathers, this most vicious and autocratic medium of ex- ploitation war cease to exist. Are the Canadian people to accept as the corner -stone of its fiscal poli- cy, a system so reckless of conse- quence to the common people, so powerful in its capacity for evil? 4+44 F64•411'O'!•4e'i• 4-44'h•4'4d.e,•t'e'i'a•r 4' 4 Fil E :,.., ••1' 's • • WANTED •. iHighest market prices ; a paid. °I, • See me or Phone No, 21t, I31us- sets, and 1 will call and get ,I, yetis •Tenn. '` lilts oIIic [1 444444.44444.4444+14.44 a' -o Industry Never So Prosperous As By OBSERVER A'n TI(`LE 2 1- aving specified scores of evidences el Canada's forward march in the rli51 article • of ems series, more de laud proofs will be given in this and ,.ueceedin0articles. and even these are :ally a part of the available mater- ial. It will be a case wnel•e the nal/ will not nave PE en told. out what. is Nov upon to drink the "dregs of depres- sion" under Liberal rule! The Automobile Industry It does not look as if the automobile industry is going to the dogs in Cana- da. We have exported during the first toppled sideways. few months or this year autos of a "The under dog, every time!" eller- value of over 51,000 to no less than tied Ben complacently. fifty-six countries, w!•ile a record pro- The young loan whom Ile had saved duction was attained in 1925 from the from having a broken skull, perhaps eleven factories, producing a total of worse, had gained Itis feet The man 101,970 cars, an Increase of 22 per cent, ransacking the automobile fled precept- mem and Foe fir MATILDA FRANCES PFEIFFER With a roll and tt yawn, Ben Bustles awoke upon his nest of leaves itehind n bush at the roadside. Then be cane bolt upright and stared, wild eyed amt open mouthed. An automobile had come to a sudden halt, checked by Its driver at tt barri- cade of Criss -crass logs, Two vicious - looking men sprang from behind a great tree. One of then darted up to the occupant of the machine, bodily dragged ]rim from his °seat, flung lint to the ground, and sitting astride of him, began striking at Itis unprotected head with a heavy slungshot. srhe oth- er leaped into the automobile and started to ransack it. "Thunder!" uttered Ben. "It's a hold- up!" Ben snatched from bis pocket his knife. For three seconds he was, busily employing It mysteriously about his knees. Then he raised in one hand an odd-looklasg object, bulging at one end, running to an obtuse point at the other. He rushed quickly past the foliage. Swish 1 The object described a parabola curve in the air. With a ('ricking sound It landed on,the head of the as- sailant, who uttered a scream and t•eSOI•tled will make even more rtdtetl- teas the woeful utterailet•e of some Conservative newspapers and speak- ers. Agricultural Wealth Let us take agriculture 11005 as one of the fundamental sources ot wealth in this country. The steady climb of field crop values nae been outstand- ing, from 0931.505,000 in 1921 to 01,159,- 000,000 in 1925, or a total m the five years of over a billion a year. And with test than fifteen per cent. of the available tillable land under cultivation, even this degree ot in- crease is almost sure to be maintain- ed, especially as Canada has become the world's chief exporter of wheat. This item, too, will increase as the United States becomes an increasing consumer of its own crop production, and bas therefore less and less to sell outside its boundaries. This increase of wheat production, combined with the continued hign average yield compared with all other wheat -growing lands, andthe enlarg- ing areas under cultivation as new homesteads are occupied, point, as nas been said, to a steady enlargement of the above results. Or take the gross agricultural wealth of Canada, which includes field crops, lands, buildings, live stock, etc.—the figures are as suggestive as they are encouraging, with a total of 97,365,- 013,000 in 1923, 97,508,257,000 in 1924, and 97,832,942,000 in 1925. These spell relatively large annual increases, based on fundamental grounds of a nation's prosperity. Prosperity Follows tete Flow If It be true, as it 1s, that prosper- ity follows the plow, then Canada is genuinely prosperous as indicated in the wheat yield alone. How small the yield of 55 million bushels in 1900 loops besides the 410,000,000 bushels of 1925, or the value increase from $36,000,000 to 8465,000,000. Truly wheat spells wealth, as it does food, and that the best in the world for its body-buiid- h n to be able qualities. And then. 1n& qua to sell nearly 0365,000,00D worth in 1925—which meant an increase of 0113,000,000 over 1924—further em- phasizes our fortunate position. Wheat means much more than tete 7 the h for there s to in the rough, , gr matter of flour. Canada has now stepped ahead of the United States in flour exportation. Our trade in wheat flour is Indeed one of the most spec- tacular. In the ejtrlier years It reach- ed few foreign countries, whereas no less than sixty-two bought nearly $70.- 000,000 worth in 1925-26. Further in- crease may be expected as the Oriental awakens to the value of flour es a food, a process which Is marked- ly , under way. And our American friends, despite a high tariffpagainst Canadian wheat, need large quantities to tone up their own flour and bread standards. The Canadian farmer over 1924 and ten per cent, over 1923. The total value of this production. m 1925, (including some parts and repair worst) leached the big sum of $110,- 935.000, as compared with 988,480.418 in 1924. With nearly eight in every hundred Canadians owning motor vehicles (or 728,005 in 1925) it looks, one repeats, as if this particular in- dustry is marching forward, despite lately. , The other desperado had stag- gered off. The young man fixed a grateful glance upon Ben, who was grinning with satisfaction. "You've done me some service—" began Dean Forster, and linen paused, staring 'in wonderment. "Why," he added, "you've got only one limb, and the other one—" "Is,the old wooden peg I've worn for dire prophecies when a slight five Years," returned Ben,' waving the read- justment of duties was made. wooden object he heft utilized as a Finances and Banking weapon. He proceeded to strap this Tile finances of a nation and a back into plaoe, adding: "Those fel- people make a measuring rod of pros- lows seem to have been laying for perity or adversity. Judged by this 7011, mister." standard, Canada is doing well. The "There's no doubt of that," respond - chartered banks say they are handling ed young Forster. "I travel for a Jew - more checks than at any time since elry tool and supply house, and I sup - 1920; bond sales thus far show an in- pose one little package of watch crease at good prices, and savings bank springs in my sample 01150 alone rep - deposits of nearly two billions make resents over ten thousand dollars. a tidy credit sum per capita, stands Now, then, what can I do for you to higher than ever and' the dollar is show my appreciation of your timely worth more. Foreign capital—British aid?" and United States—continuos to find There was plenty to do for Ben, and its way into Canadian enterprises or Forster proceeded to do 1t. From a 'by the purchase of her securities, and thriftless wanderer with a wooden in this department of •the aaCional stump Forster transformed Ben Into a life the outlook is brighter than it has respectable looking. well dressed men been for years and the pulse of the with the most comfortable artificial limb money could hay. Then he se- cured for him a posltinn as watchman I in the great plant of Warren & Co, at Acton, for whom he was a traveling salesman. slaving made the old than comfortable and considering his grate - fel duty complete, Forster turned his attention to wooing and winning Alice 1 Lane. That precious privilege met with but one setback—Forster had n rival, or rather an enemy, for such Ralph Dykes became. Both young 111011 were in the service of Warren & Co. Ono day, to the amazement of the town, Dean Forster tuns arrested, charged with theft. There had disap- peared from the 'firm something over $10,000 worth of dental gold. The only evidence agninst Forster was that the stamped and prleed wroppings and tags of two of the missing packages h in a n bed ,act .had been found, pushed drawer of his desk. T -Tow they came there Foster had no ides. Ben Fulties betrayed a sleep Inter- est in the case. His indignation at the arrest of s the favorable balance, the last year Forster changed to Close watchfulness of an excess of imports being, strange- and suepteton. ly enough, 1921—as a result of Con- One evening Forster was with Alice servative rule, the Liberals might be et her home. eThey wore dimming justified In claiming, the approaching trial In Court, when No wonder the Wall Street Journal a ring at the telephone sent Alice tells its readers that "Canada finds i thither, herself in a much improved position I ' It is a call from Mr, Warren, He to-day—much better than Is generally wishes you to 00100 at once to the realized south of the St. Lawrence," plant, ,rhe told Forster. and which adds: "The dominion's ' He hurried away. At the oflice at recently ended fiscal year showed a the factory he found his employer surplus of nearly 934,000,000 and a $22,- end Ben Buttles. 300,000 reduction in her net public "Now, then, env man," spoke Mr. War - debt. Her foreign trade continues to ren sharply to Ben, "you said you had grow, totalling for the last fiscal year made some important discoveries about 92,298,000,000." the thefts and would disclose them only, Tho trade returns for the year end, In the presence 01 Mr. Forster." lag Jute, 1926, just in, tell of another "That's tight," n.nswered Ben. "I increase of 9153,366,719 in the value of hove cornered the real thief. Ile 18 goods imported into Canada and of .Ralph Dyke." 9258,880,700 in exports. I "Be careful what you say, Ben," A further significant fact Is the - spoke Forster. trade increase with the Orient, Wipe- "Oh, that's all right," said Ben, un- cially with Japan and China, 1925 straPIlieg his artificial limb, itevers- showing a marked development of this ing It, ire tipped out various packages trade in both volume and value with that filled its hollow space. The an accelerated rate of Inereaso dur- amazed Mr. Warren stared, a8 there ing the first months of the present , was revealed a variety of some of the year. Specially marked is the in- most valuable articles carried in stock. "Where did you get all this?" was asited wonderingly. "Well, I burglarised the room of the man I suspected, and I also Alongside 511 these cheerful Figures is the equally important fact of the tncreasingly remunerative status of the farming Industry to Canada, show- ing a constant rise to revenue since 1921. Good crops with good prices make fine antidotes to "dregs of de- pression" or predictions of national "storm and shipwreck" that make one smite. The federal deputy minister of agri- culture is credited with saying that the average income of the Canadian farmer during 1925 wait $1,500. Thos represented the distribution of 1,500 millions valuation of the 1925 farm products among the million farmers of the dominion, Not so bad( Then the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in a recent address in Lon- don is reported as stating that the yield of Canada's farm produots in 1925 was equal to the yield of all the coal minor In Great Britain—truly a etarthng comparls-oh 1 ft la doubtful, tf the farmer of any other C0un- try Is faring better than the Canadian one, basad on standards of revenue and living, Ile at least is not called onebusiness world is a healthy and buoyont one. All of which makes cheerful reading and warrants a modest optimism. Canada nas no falling franc, lira, kroner or drachma. Her dollar is stable and her credit high, Trade Prosperity What does the trade thermometer reveal? In no department 1s a govern- ment, held more responsible, whether rightly or wrongly, It Is an 01d familiar topic in election controversies, and cabinets sometimes fall on a fall- ing trade market. Judged by this standard, the late Liberal administra- tion lived through a period of substan- tial and ever-increasing "favorable trade balances." The last one is higher per capita than that of any 0 bin the hu t tat other country, reaching e g of $401,131,400 in the fiscal year end- ing March 31, 1920. This record has been exceeded only once in recent years, and that daring the war boom. For five years therefore there has been a steady a d rapidid increase In creased demand for our wheat and flour in those lands, where the Cana- dian quality is held in high „favor. And it is no doubt true that the Oriental market is capable of considerably Cured some memoranda that. will con - greater development in the neat vinee you that he leas been it systemat- future, le thief for a long time. Another feature is that trade be- 1 "1 hid them in the limb, for it he tweet Canada and the United States had caught mo, I would have been passed the bIUlen dollar mark dur- searched. I hope justlee will now be ing the peat year and also that Can- done, to an innodent mon." eda'e favorable balance of trade was So, stanch, though bumble friend, almost entirely within the Britton Ben Buttles bed a second time proven Jdmplr6 . his loyalty at a e;all that for a time Alt of which makes gaud reeding, ' 'menaced the geed manta and happiiia,i Se will article Ne. a. AI ax bean ;Forster, Cream Means ding ETTER CREAM E'l'TER BU'T'TER ETTER PRICES \V't' are now preparers to (trade your Cream honestly, gather it twice a week and deli vs: at our Ctcirutety eaeh day the lift it, il'e gather with eover,ti truck to keep sun nit i1, We pay a Premium of 1 cent Per Ib, WIt.er-fat for hpro- ink over that of No, 1 grade, and 3 cents per Ib. butter fat for Ni', 1 guile over that of No, 2 grade. 7`he baste pvinrlple of 111(' improvrnteut, in the quality ot Outtu-iu butter is the elimination of Sevond and off grade to earn. This may he neeoinplished by paying the prnd111e1' of gond cream a better print' poi' pound of but (01.001 1btu iv paid to the 111111(1 11001' of perm 1.11'11111 S1'e,selleit ytntt' patuu1- age and co-operation for better market, ,tv We will luau you It OW1, See our Agent, T. C. McCALL, or Phone 23 so, Brussels, The Seaforth Creamery FALL FAIR Brussels Atwood Bayfield islyth Dungannon Exeter Fordwich Goderich Listowel London Lucknow Mitchell Milverton Ripley St. Marys Seaforth Teeswater Toronto Winghan Zurich DATES Sept, 30, Oct I Sept. 21-22 Sept. 28.29 Sept.' 22-23 Oct. '7-8 Sept, 21-27 • Oct. 2 Sept. 8-10 Sept. 27-28 Sept, 11-18 Sept, 23-24 Sept. 2a--29 Sept. 23-23 Sept. 28.2e Sept. 23-21 Sept. 28-24 Oct. 5-6 Aug. 2S -Sept. 11 Oct. 7-8 Sept30 -Oct. 1 SCHOOL FAIR DATES, 1926. Grand Bend Dashwood Crediton Winchelsea Wroxeter Bluevale Ashfield St. Helens Colborne Hensel' Zurich Varna Blyth Ethel Gorrie Sept. 7 Sept. 8 Sept. 9 Sept. 10 Sept. 13 Sept 16 Sept. 10 Sept. 17 Sept, 18 Sept. 20 Sept. 21 Sept. 22 Sept, 23 Sept. 24 Sept. 25 Sept. 27 Walton Goderich Twp Belgrave Dublin . , Clinton , . ..... "J, P. Morgan sailed this morning for England, where he will spend his vacation in Scot- land," roads a news bulletin. 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