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PAYING OUR NATIONAL DEBT
Some weeks ago I -wroto a short
article reititled: "Should We Pay
Our National Debt?" To this, there
has been ever two seore replies and
in the whole Int, only ono man sag.
goAf; wo should not pay it.. I point
this out to Conservativio who may
be sesarehing for a program tint will
carry 'them (especially their 1.!ador61
to vi..tory. Here is something the
people moult, Pay off tho debt itnil
the tale of Maw it was done will
"can down the eorridors ot tinie"
like tile story of the "berm:hot
bands of steel linking ocean lo oc-
onn" and "the grand and glorious
Empire on which the sun never
sets." How commonplace sound now
those rcsalintil jhrao 1,‘•11!(.11
thepoliti.••,1 speeches or the /suit,
but let nie e) on with this business
of the debt tn,1 see the viewpoint of
the one pia» who wouldn't pay it!
The Opposition
The opposition to r.,luetion comes
from W. J. Ward, Progressive mem-
ber from Dauphin, Manitolm. Ward
is a thoughtful chap, who has given
considerable study to public prob-
lems. Necessarily as I find it to dif-
fer from him, I tun by no means dis-
counting Ward. Heaven clefend U3
from a nation whore all the people
aro of one accord on problems, pub-
lic or private. In the end, their
judgment, not having been sharpen-
ed by opposing contacts, will bo
weakened and we mulct have ft, peo-
ple of trivial opinions—as trivial,
let us say, as the opinions of "Tom-
my" Church. - Back now to MP.
Ward and the debt. ottss the spring
air whish causes me to drift from
the subject this morning.
Ward writes:—
"So long as we have debts run-
ning into oinny billions upon wnich
we are paying anywhere from to
1 2,i—I refer to debts other than
our National debt—I do not think it
is good business to pay off our Fed-
eral obligations through a process
which will force millions of people to
borrow more high priced money in
order to roduee our National ,1 'ht
upon which we are paying only 5'
and I am surf, there is no student of
Canadian economics who will say
that the present method of raisino
revenue for our Federal Exchequer
is net n vary burdensome ons open
the people,
"A gross injustice is being done to
the question of our financial position
by singling not a portion of our debt
and cantg it our National debt. To
my mind the obligation of the indiv-
idual to his local Bankor or (0 11
Mortgage Company, Life Insurance
Company or to any other person is
just as much- part of our National
debt as is th obligation to the Fed-
eral Treasury and the soouer WI too
monis, that our provincial, Maniet-
Selood Pistries, Individual 1111(1
Corporate debts are part of the Nat-
ional debt of the country, the soon-
er will Wo Vet a proper perspective
or our Financial position.
"So long as 80,g, of the farmnij
operations in Canada are carried on
with 8, 9 and 10% borrowed money,
I and not interested in paying off our
National debt."
There you have it—it's the other
point of view.
Why Not?
FHE BRU$SELS POST
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AINTING
ANI)
raper ping
under:igned wish'.) 1') an-
imunce that 1(1 Id prepared to
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On the face of it, this seems 11
reasonable argument, but the answer
to it seems equally reasonable. In
our raising revenue for every dollar
that reaches the Federal Treasury,
several go to private interests. Mr.
Ward is interested in farming. Let
us take a typical illustration of how
this works out with the farmer. Sup-
posing a farmer buys a set of har-
ness made in the United States, Tha
duty is 30s; . Let us assume that
the set of harness is worth $30,00.
By the tariff, he has contributed
S9.00 to the Public Revenue. That
is, he, as is producer, must pay that
amount to the Goveimment before
they will permit him to use this sot
of harness as a means of production,
But there must be five times as
much harness made in Canada as i'
imported, It follows as logically so
day ;inflows night that the Canadian'
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Phone 6411 Brussels,
manufacturer will make his selling
price eomo very elose to the foreign
price Olus the. duty. It is not pare
ensoidness on his part that he does
this, 11 is natural and inevitable.
His own cost of prnduction is in-
creased, The thread, one leather,
the awl and the machinery he uses
in his factory, all cost more because
of tariffs and in order to revompense
this necessary outgo, he must charge
ths farmer 111011, Let 110 110011111e
that he does not charge the full
amount of the additional tariff. Lot
us say Hint ho only charges 20,O.
over the world price level of this
eroduct and We litiVe $6.00 in extra
price gaing to the Canadian in:inu-
red:taw, - Now 1 have estimated
that We make in Canada five sote of
harness for every set we import.
This is only an estimate, but it 001'-
01%; the point In that case it is
clear that the Canadian farmers con-
tribute $30 extra to the makers of
harness for every $9 they contribute
to Canadian revenues. it's at least
a three to 0710 $110t.
Very Costly!
Now e't.,n if the int •rest rat upon
money borrowed by the Federal
Government is 5,-; and we have to
ens; $30.00 to raiso 719.00 of rig
venue. Tt will be seen that, as a mat.
ter of actual fart hi so far as our re•
venues are collected from Customs
taxation, we are actually paying not
five, but fifteen per cent upon our
borrowed money. Now I do not do.
ny that the process of passing. the
debt is painful, but far worse is the
continued provess of paying the in-
terest on it while our revenues aro
collected as they are by means of
this form of taxation.
When Mr. Ward pays his Munici-
pal taxes it is done by direct taxa-
tion. If he carries a mortgage on
his farm be pays the amount out of
his earnings. The interest rate may
he higher than it is with the Federal
Government, but in the case of Fed -
spat revenues he pays $1.01 to the
revenue and $3.00 to private calm: -
tors. In many eases he pays a good
doal more than $3.00. Under the
eirmonstances is it not the wiser
course for you and I and Mr. Ward
to pay off 01,11' Federal debts or to
make 001110 1110111) towards paying
111001 off and let our private debts
or maybe increase them? That,
ones. all, seems to me the sounder
course in the peculiar circumstances
in which WC11111placed.
PRINCIPAL RETIRES
AFTER FORTY YEARS
C. A. Mayberry Resigns From Strat-
ford Collegiate After Long Sorviee
Stratford, May 9.—The resigna-
tion of C. A. Mayberry, for inure
than forty years Principal of the
Stratford Collegiate Institute, was
received by the Board of Education
at its regular meeting this evening,
and, with deep regret, accepted. Mr.
Mayberry has been in failing health
for some Cm. He came to Strat-
ford directly front collage, and suc-
ceeded to the Principalship after be -
big a member of the staff for about
two years. Mr. Mayberry's resigna-
tion will become effective at the ter-
mination of the present school term
in June.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1 1r27.
SECOND DEATH
IN FARM MISHAP
so. .
John McFarlane, McKillop Lad, Sur-
vives Brother By Two Weeks
!;,.aforth, „Moy Siii•
MeV:111111u., 11 111.1) ,•un of Mo.
niP1 Mr,. D.
1(1111 romiession
Alstal.a,11 ,eVe int, ell al
April l8 in :In aceldent 1111 f'011 -
00s farm itt whidi 1114 1,0011,10,
almost instantly killed,
texasat the home of his pars
mitt on May .1 and was laid to rest
on May 5 in 1.1o, Maitlandbank
tery.
The service, whirls Was private,
sytes conducted by Rev. J. A. Forgo -i
son, The boys had been harrowing;
during the morning of April IS, the I
•
hired man being away on a flay's:
holiday. Their fotheis thinkin.i: the
work was too heavy fee them,
ed them to oet on the land roller and
drive it. No definite infornmiion as
to how the tieeident oecurred is•
known ;but it is supposed that after
looking' one turn of the field, the
boys, thinking it 30113 dinner time,
headed the team for the earn when
the horses started to run and be
came unmanageable. In passing
through the gate the roller straek
the gate post and partly upset. Tho
older boy, George, who was in his
11 year, must have been thrown in
front of the lower end of the roll-
oIolre which passed over hoim, soy1110
his completely jut below;the
shoulder 2(11(1 fracturing his skull.
did almost instantly. John, who
sustained severe internalhl,1..s,
lingered for ever two weeks tut on
Wednesday, May 4, death ended hs
sufferings.
They were both exceptionally fine
lads and the (limp and sincere 5y11.1-.
pathy of the whole community woleh
was greatly shocked and saddened by
the double fatality goes out to thc
sorrowing parerts 111 their berenve-
ment.
JAMES HANNA SUICIDES
AT HOME IN WEST ELMA'
Atwood, May s.—James finnna,
45, of the 8th concession, West El-
m, committed suicide yesterday
morning by shooting himself with a
revolver. Ile had been residing with
his mother, who was out of the
house at the time, and when found
he Was dead with the revolver Still
in his hand, Dr. Kidd was calied
but considesed an inquest unneces-
sary.
Besides his mother, three brothers
survive, Wesley, Joe and Billy, who
reside in Elma and Grey Townships.
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Phone 1913
YOUTH RISKS LIFE
TO SAVE CATTLE
Swims Maitland River To Rescue
Animals From Drowning
111ty Gortield Fits.
ley, 1 it -sans -eh! Low, SVinehain
rishiel his life :hoot 0,20 this
o nernaen 10 re 10,7, - two wittl.. from
in the 'Mai:land River. II,.
\sots assisted rim)(]i-itio the
cue by two lad-', ana, 1 Potter ;old
Rabbiill. who had obtained 11 holt.
A minder of cattt.• were lesiio
driven to pasture lands toes, te.,,
riNa .r when two, tof:,
became friehtened and dashed down
to 25 -foot leink into the river whieli
roe u to 15 fee'depth sat this
peint. Finley wiek.d in after thein
and atteinoted to 111,400 1711111. The
;rightmost animals, however, mad,
no! the oppositi.1 shore, and Fieley
was Tarred to swim across the chan-
nel. Flniilly miceeding in lassooing
one of the animals, the boy mewl
to undo the chains, and with the aid
of the two other lads, 30110 able to
bring the cattle to shore,
Grey Council Meeting
Minutes of Council meeting. held
May 2nd.
Mhoites nf orevious meetine. wise
tn1
A grant of $10.00 was given to
Ethel Public Library.
The tender of Arnold MeRay at
30 cents per cu. yd. for the work to
be done on the Fraser Drain, was ac-
cepted.
By -Law No. 5, known as the Clark
Drain By -Law, with changes in as-
sessments on roads and on Lot 20,
Con. 15, was finally passed.
By -Law No. (3 known as the
Sol -
'ver Corners Drain By -Law, was fin-
allypassed with a reduction of $15
on the Benefit Assessmont 011 Lot
34, Con.. 9, and 3305.00 on roads.
The Clerk was instructed to ad-
vertise for tenders for the work to
be done on the Silvsr Corners, the
Clark and the Inglis Drains.
The following accounts were paid:
Stanley Purvis, work on Close drain,
312.00; S. W. Archibald, services as
engineer, 8525.00; T. R. Patterson,
account as •engineer Silver Corners
The Start of the Indian Mutiny
Seventy years ago, on the 10th of
May, 1857, the memorable native
rising known as the Indian Mutiny,
broke out at Meerut and spread rap-
idly throughout the Presidency of
Bengal.
The trouble had been brewing for ;
many months, and the terrible cala-
mity might have been avoided if the
British Government had heeded the
warnings it received of the impend-
ing revolt, The sopoys, or native '
soldiers, who outnumbered the white
troops stationed in India by six to
one, hart many real and fancied
grievances against their British rul••
ors, who wore widely credited with '
the intention of uprooting the nativo.
religions, and this erroneous Hid
was apparently justified when the .
soldiers were supplied with a new!
type of cartridge which had to be'
bitten beforesit could be used.
The first batch of thoso new car.
tridges given out to the troops had
been smeared with the fat of pigs
and cows, and the mere act of biting
them would . have meant sacrilege
and pollution to the sepoys. honed-
iotely the Government realized the
enormity of its blunder the offensive
cartridges were discarded, but the
harm had ren done and the new is-
sue. of innocuous cartridges were
viewed with suspicion, a fact which
was eagerly seized by the agitators
to foment trouble. -
In numerous instances the sopoys
refused to even touch the cartridges,
and there were a number of small
mutinies, but these 10011e speedily
smelled and there was no outbreak
of a serious nature until the month
of May 1357, when there was a re-
volt at Moorut, an important military
station '25 miles from fIelhi, which
led to 85 mutinuous sepoys being
sentenced to imprisonment,
tho 91:11 of May the prisoners
were publiely degraded and placed
in irons in the presence of the whole
garrison on the parade ground at
Meerut, FM indignity which was
keenly resented by the native sot.
diers, whet Were only ('('strained from
breaking out into open mutiny by the
fact that they were covered by the
loaded guns of the whit, troops.
The shackled prisoners wers 0181011'
el olT to jail and the sepoys returned
to their quarters, where they spent
the night in planning a general ris-
ing' for the following day, which was
the Sabbath.
It was decided that the revolt
should commence while the white
soldiers and population were attend-
ing evening service in the eluirch,
which was to be surrounded and the
worshippers massacred as they lett
the sacred edifice, but this scheme
was frustrated bf the impatience of
the sepoys, who started hostilities at
five in the afternoon, when the
agreed signal, the firing of a rocket,
was given prematurely. The sepoys
at once seized their arms and made
for the jail, where they released
their 85 comrades and 1,400 °thee
prisoners, who eagerly joined in the
work of murder and destruction
which broke out all over Meerut.
For over two hours hell was let
loose in the town, and the inalneers
after murdering numerous offisers,
torturing to death the white women
and children who fell into their clut-
ches, and looting ono burning the
homes of the European residents,
marched off to Delhi, where they
joined forces with the native garris-
on and speedily bocame masters of
the great city.
The success o fthe rebels at Mee-
rut was mainly due to the Weakness
and indecision of tha commanding
officer, General Howitt, who unwisely
decided to stand on the defensive
and kept the white troops inactive
Within their lines. If he had taken
prompt action at the commencement
of the outbreak, or had even pursu-
ed and attacked the mutineers during
their march to Dolhi, it is 'quite pos.
siblo that be might have nipped the
groat mutiny in the lents and saved
the country from many months ot
terror and bloodshed,
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Mont roll for the Twp. or Cr, y for
1927.
J. H. FEAR, Clerk.
KLASS COST
IS BIG BURDEN
180,000 in the Dominion Are Con-
tinually 111, Sir George Foster
Says
Ottawa. — Sir George Foster,
speaking at a social hygiene gather-
ing' here on the subject o» prevent-
able disease, presented some striking
comparisons.
"Two per cent. of the people of
Canada are continuously ill," said
Sir George. That must be of keen
interest to the minister of health. It
means that out of nine million peo-
ple, 180,000 are in sick beds or in a
condition of illness where production
or .self -aid is impossible
"Thu minister of immigmation,
working along with the minister of
oublic health, spends, I am not going'
to say how many minions, each year
to bring itble-bodied men and women
and children from foreign countries,
plant them into our own regions, our
own climate and amidst OUP 03011 0115- ,
/01113. And rightly so.
'It is an absolute siorossity foe
Canada to have a population to pro-
duce and bring to flower and fruit-
age the waste spaces in our groat
yountry.
"But just think that, of the 180,-
000 who are ill each day, 50 per
cent o.f these cases are preventable,
That means 00,000. How many do
we bring in from overseas to people
Canada?
Much Labor Lost
"Does it make up for the devas-
tating work of preventable disclose,
that enemy which is attacking the
health of the people out in the field
of production?
"Along the same line, twenty-one
million days of labor aro lost annual-
ly in Canada through illness. One
half of that—fifty per cent -1s pre-
ventable. There are 10,500,000
days of work uselessly lost each year
lwea Of ),"'V,'1lt10l(l' 51171120.
"8110U111 the ministtT of 1111(01' be.
tbroal 4..qmd With a ration -wide strike
tomorrow, which would liaralyze h
lair to the extent that I bin"? men-
tion...do-1 0,100,000 days of labor
likely to Is, would be a mut-
4,atabk situation. Yet we now face
this very situation (1,0017 day is the
"We would he aetilkg wisely if we
1100104 011' ini,renth and attneked
this f,nerny which is U1111('(',,1i11'117'
d:sabling .sliel1 a large proportion of
Dor
The Limier Commission has order-
ed 1400.000 normits as 0 starter in
the comnaign to reduce the consump-
; tion of liquor.
Brewers reap enormous profits.--
Thoir heart; are where their trees-
ures are, and their treasures are in
the brewing vats.
It is too bad the orgy of law-
breaking in some government con-
trol provinces, uncovered by the cus-
toms inquiry, cannot be blamed an
the O.T.A.
It looks now as though each tour-
ist in Ontario this summer will have
to determine for himself when the
saturation point has neen reaohe 1.
The Attorney-Concral annoonoes
that the new liquor law will be en-
forced withoot a special police force.
The Ontario Government is, of
cougoi, a great moral force in itself.
M'. Bo ma states that no mercy
woll lo• shown the bootlegger during
the Government -control regime. That
"no -mercy" decision is just about
four years overdue.
The oustoms inquiry shows that
for four years strong bees flowed
copiously to Toronto hotels from a
Toronto brewery, older the nose of
the Ferguson Government. It is to
1 be hoped the Administration will
make more effort to enforce a law
1 of its 1(30 11 making than it made to
enforee one with which it had no
sympathy.
One doesn't hear of any resolution
' denouncing the Ferguson Govern -
molt for using histories that say
what Agnes MacPhail said.
The discouraging part about rais-
ing tobacco seems to be that the bet-
ter the crop produced the more 0151'-
1 11)111 it is to go up in smoke soorer
or later.
A fashion note declares "Hips will
be more in evidence this season."
But—we were given to understand
that government control was going
to end all that sort of thing.
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