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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1927-5-11, Page 5Lumber N..Asarco./ Flooring, Ceiling Shingles Sidings V -Match Shiplap MouPding.,,,s FH spnuor. OsMA/3 HEM 1.00K Collar and Hemlock 2 Inch Dressed and Rough gYPROO WALLBOARD . LIE PARISTONE HARD WALL PLASTEH 00,11 make prompt Delivery Phone our expfutse fur Prices phoons-Oarric 13 r.3 Wronotor 626 r 5 R n J. Hueston & ,Jon GO R R E OMTARtio On Parliainent Hill 13y R. J, Deachman, Press Gallon' 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 - • AINTING ANI) raper ping under:igned wish'.) 1') an- imunce that 1(1 Id prepared to , 1 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' tnrra„cw... "The Finish Mat gnclurce 30 MINUTE LACQUER0ENAMELS A Canadian Product, Better Made They dry hard and READY FOR SERVICE in THIRTY MINUTES. Many pleasing and artistic colors to choose from. Easy to apply. They renew and give fresh color to all kinds of interior woodwork and furniture. Lasting finish, easy to clean. 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Coleman 1 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. mar -LOOK AT YOUR LABEL wko,..11.1.11.0•21.6•61 Your Eyes Need Attention If your eyes bother you in any way; If they tire quickly or be- come inflamed; 74 you do not see easily and well; If headaches impair your efficiency or interfere with your pleasure; If you cannot enjoy every minute of your reading? — SEE Maude C. 1;rryans Obtoivintrint Phone 20x Brussels 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. '•• ernen A car of Cemytit for sale at Walton Sawmill. Special Price. n 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, 113 71i1-11. a la, futtl.ane of tie• owl Itt ((10-, 741,, 111.11iy,11,',.t all./ FL111 si."nek of films; (144i141; 11 1 Foe» oae a 41,,e foe 'IM,- ree)ia, .71n opy 04317.e sresh, vsii's is lens guarowtee Itsiess yetis 17 f,, out' JEWELER FL WEND 7- WROXETER If ianydammtwolzyrxerna=an,Irmann,t,-Marlit,......1=2111artri_:,..1.10.0.1.-Mato drain, $244.00; 'Melvyn flllilgapfl00110h to bolds-. John Gibson, sepsis read draos 7. iseali. for ent,-h 012.0(1; John Iirauter, 111S 1.174.1)e p(Oagl, 017,3',T letaing no: ay. •:,:penio;i 741 Godot Jahr: McNabb, 31.00 vnriom patru'.nf 01. •5 9,1 2, Nf meetino June Mb, which will be Court of Iteti:i on on tho 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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