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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-11-28, Page 2avelrbr ook"s Empire Tirade Manifesto 'he Following is the Beaverbrook Empire Manifesto Released for Publication in Toronto on Fridayf'by Mr,'C. J. Ketchum, theSpecial Foreign Correspondent of Lord l3eaverbroak's Daily Express The crusade for Imperial free trade, All entplre food will enter Chia couu- launebed only three months ago, has tt•y tax free, au( the tax on foreign already bad such groat Mitercusetous imports will serve .only as au induce - on the palltioal life and thought of meat to increased emplte production. the empire that the time is ripe for Our, supply of food,, therefore, will a restatement of the policy which it not shrink and its price will not rise.. is preaching and a re4eclaratioit et Only its source will be changed and the mitts and ideals which inspire its we shall, buy what we need fromour leaders, own people instead of from,foreigners The idea behind the empire crusade who can give us no compensation in is tins: return. In the dominions, colonies, protea Feted Resources of the Empire torates, and last, but not least, the But, says the critic, how do you jue- soil of our own couutry, we have a tlfy the statement that the empire can potential source of supply of allthe supply itself with food? food and nearly all the raw materials The answer to this question Iles in which the olnptre requires. the map of the world. Remember that. We have, 'too,, a standard of jiving the British empire is an extraordinar- and of wages far higher than. those fly varied collection of countries, current iu the European countries spreadover the whole globe and en - which now compete with empire pro- joYing every type of climate. It eon - ducts in our markets and which, with- tains a quarter of the world's Land out buying the geode we have to sell, surface and a quarter of its entire export large and increasing quantities population. of goods to us with damaging effect Within this vast area almost every on our own industries and agriculture, kind of natural product Is to be found, We who comprise the langlisli speak and there is soil suitable for raising Mg peoples of the empire, have ties any crop and feeding any animal, of race, of loyalty and of outlook Whieh Already the empire is nearly self - must 'inevitably elfmust'inevitably prove stronger than supporting in some of the staple corn - the chance of geographical neighbor modities of food and in many others hood, which indeed grows less import- opportunity for expansion is wafting aut dally as transport is continuously and will be taken the moment that a accelerated and Improved, secure market is available. Yet, for all our political and racial Wheat, the most vital of all our unity, we have uo economic unity food imports, is already mainly de - which will enable us to take our fair rived from empire sources, Although share of the world's commercial pros- the British official figures have hither - verity. to obscured the. fact, by not entering All over the map we can see a grow- as empire products the Canadian Ing tendency towards the grouping to- wheat sent to this country through gether of interests and nations into 'United States ports, the truth is that powerful federations which are self- already 70% of our wheat imports are supporting and able to detend them- umpire grown, and Canada and Aus- selves against any Iliad of commercial tralia could more than satisfy our re - aggression from outside. TheUnited manning needs from the surplus they States of America, an empire consist- now export to foreign countries. lug of 52 different units, is the most Eighty-four per 'cent. of the mutton Powerful and prosperous ot the na- we eat is raised within the empire and tions of the globe to -day, and its pros- 56%, of out beef. Moreover, these per- perity Is due to the comlete and ua- ceutages could be easily and rapidly fettered freedom of trade which its increased by stimulating agriculture in citizens enjoy within their own iron- these islands,, and by perfecting the tiers and the ample protection which methods of chilling beef so that it they receive against foreign iuterfer- would remain fresh an the long I -e^- 1 ence, age from Australia. There are enough Seppo:e the British Empire were cattle now in Australia to supply us • welded into east such another econ- with ail our beet, bat at present ?tus- mete group! Es resources are great- maliau beef has to be frozen instead . of chilled, and is therefore of inferior quality to the South American pro- duct. Scientific research has already brought us within sight of meeting this difficulty. For bacon and dairy produce of all kinds we are still largely dependent on Denmark, but it has long, been re- ognized that no country in the world is more suited to this branch of farm- ing than our own, and with the addi- tional stimulus in the shape of a steady market which empire free trade would give, there can be no doubt that we could go far towards supplying ourselves with these com- modities without difficulty or increase M price. We have moreover in New Zealand a splendid and increasing source of all dairy produce. The growth of her butter industry in the last ten years is one of the romances of recent his- tory, and shows how rapidly the lat- ent resources -of the empire can be developed once a sure demand is created. In. 920, only nine years ago, New Zealand sent us 275,000 cwts. of butter. In 1927 the figure was 1,252,- 000 cwt, or nearly five times as great. Similar increases to this are possible in nearly all the staple foodstuffs which we import from our overseas possessions, and it is the purpose of empire free trade to bring them about. Future Developments. Despite these great figures of exist- ing production the empire is at pre- sent grossly underdeveloped. In the aggregate less than 10 per cent. of the land surface of the do. minions and India is under cultiva- tion, whereas no less than 50 per cent. of the land ,of the United States is now being farmed. In Australia only cue are in every hundred is cultiyated, in Canada the similar figure is 21' acres, and in New Zealand and South Africa 9 acres. Throughout the empire there are mil- lions of acres of land now lying idle which could and should be used for the production of food. In western Australia a scheme of agricultural development is now afoot to increase the wheat lands of the state by another 8 million acres and- to ndto show the vast increase in food sup- plies which may be expected from 'a fuller development of empire re- sources this scheme alone should re- sult in an output of 12 million more bushels of wheat. Many more instances could be given of the vast potentialities of the em- pire as a source of food but enough has been said to show that given the sure market which the new policy would create the food production of the empire would be ample to satisfy its. needs. The cry therefore of "dear food can have no application to the policy of 'Empire free trade and the principal objetlon of the critics is destroyed. Our food supplies, thou, are safe,, food prices will not rise, but the farmers, both of the Dominions and title country will be guaranteed a mar- ket for their goods wlbicli will enable them to increase production and reach now level of prosperity. All the World Loves the Kilt On Youind Or Old SCOTCHMEN, Tamm AND LITTLE, IN WINNIPEG AT HIGHLAND SPORTS MEET Sir Harry Lauder's visit to Winnipeg coincided with the annual Scottish Sports Day,, Sir Harar is seen here with gay lads and lassies et the eventful occasion, Beside him is Jock Coghill, son of Winnipeg's police kilties pipe -major. Effect on Industry What will be the effect of the policy on industry? rivet and foremost it must be laid down that it is not and noder can be a part of the policy of the eiupire crusaders to destroy any industry that now exists in any part of the empire. So tar from tending to eliminate or haudi-cap the infant industries of the dominions, empire free trade is de- signed to strengthen them and give them fresh opportunities for expan- sion and development. From the very beginning this rnaxim- uta been an integral part -of the ,.kite -y• "No part of the empire shall •+!r ht the expense of any other p, •• : 1 :,ti ,hal share equally in the Drs tic .' which belongs to the em- pire as a st•h, e." er, its it ea :,r;.r, and Its interests no lees; i ri a. Le; is i tee throughout our world- wide emu ., f:•ce trade, free commerce and a h goer standard of living than our less fortunate neighbors can Pos- sibly enjoy, and let us protect these great benefits by means of tariffs against sweated imports from abroad. That is the ideal which inspires the Empire crusaders, In polities, however, au ideal is use- less ttnles it can be translated into practice. The next question is, there- fore, can a practical policy of empire free trade be framed to give effect to this ideal, and, if so, on what lines? New Problems and a New Policy First and foremost, it must be real- ized .that these proposals are some- thing entirely new in the history of British politics. They have nothing at all in common with either narrow protection or rigid free trade. They are in no sense the same as the pro - deet put forward by Joseph Chamber- lain at the beginning of the century. The country has never yet had a chance to consider them, and the rea- son Is that a new set of circumstances has arisen which none of the old policies fit. In the last 20 years the development of transport, the growth of populations have changed all the old landmarks, and the roads our fathers used will uo longer lead us to our destination. Chamberlain asked that a tax should be put on all imported food with rebates to the Dominions, in return for preferences to British manufac- turer's. The Empire crusaders demand that food from the empire should enter. this country absolutely free, unham- pered by any tax or involved in any clumsy system of rebates. They claim that the empire le already virtually salt -supporting and ask that there should be true free trade through every part of it. But to achieve this end there must be an iuducement to the farmers of the empire to expand their output and the bust inducement Is to guarantee them a steady demand for 'their pro- ducts. It is proposed to give such a guar- antee by imposing a tax on foreign wheat and meat entering this coun- try, ouptry, if in return the dominions will allow our claim for free entry of Bri- tish goods lido their territories. By this granting of reciprocal ad- vantages, not only can Great Britain regain her former prosperity, but the infant industries of the dominionis are given a unique opportunity for development An Outworn Fallacy At this point an objection that has already been made to the new policy must be mentioned and answered. It is the old cry, "your food will cost you more," However true this may have been a quarter of'a century ago, it cannot fairly !Mused, against these new pro- posals, The baste of the empire crusade is that the eiupire can supply itself with food, sY Industry ,nd agriculture must go side by si. Caundian industry and British fait a: ng must each receive the fullest rt gnition and support, and any tali- o, making Great Britain the sole woiksihm of the empire is dan- gerous folly. One can go even farther. It is the belief of the Empire crusaders that the fostering of key industries in the dominions is of vital importance not only to the prosperity but to the safe- ty of the Empire as a whole, and that every effort should be made to main- tain those that already exist and en- courage their growth where as yet there are none. For this reason a pire. The dominant tendency of post- measure of protection for certain in war industry has been towards laarge- dustries may well prove desirable, scale amalgamations and in the hands even against imports from other pot.- of -able and experienced business men tions of the Empire, at the outset'0f the same, principles could e applied to the scheme. empire industry in such a manner as Duties for Revenue Purposes completely to solve 'these problems. There are, moreover, in many parts Instead of competition there would of the Empire important duties which be co-operation. Instead of fluctuat- are levied for purely revenue Pur- fug markets and underselling ot Bri- poses, and it is no part of the pro- tisk products by foreign goods manu- posals that these should be repealed. factored with sweated labor, there The security of the revenue Hurst be would be a wide and steady demand maintained and a still higher duty im- and full protection for hours, wages Posed against foreign imports. These and prices throughout the whole em. exceptions to the general principle of Piro. The greatest political unit in use of the vast natural resources which are available to them and that, protected against .foreign dumping, they would find new and .steady mar- kets for their products within the boundaries of British rule. Ae in food, so in raw material, the resources of the empire are immense. At the present time nearly 44% of the world's wool, 70% of its gold, 90%'. of its nickel, 60%n of its rubber and over 43% of its tin is produed Within the etnipre. In quantity and quality its labor supply exceeds that of any, other 'nation or group of nations that there has ever beet. What is now proposedisthat in the first instance this great. common- wealth should combine to satisfy its own needs.' To a highly industrial- ized country like our own the advents ages are evident and striking. Every One of the dominions is still. compel- led to import the bulls of its manufac- tured goods; under empire free trade these imports would come, so far as is possible, from Great Britain or other dominions instead of from •for- eign countries like the United States. Pet at the same time there need be no cut-throat competition between the manufacturers of the different units of the commonwealth. The cartel system, which has al- ready been sucessfully used on an in- ternational nternational scale, is ideally suited to such a federation as the British Em - complete tree trade throughout the Empire are conceded but' the most orthodox free trades would not cavil at them. The Export Market There remains the overwhelming advantage that the industries of the Empire would be enabled to make full three paragraphs:— the- world would become also the greatest economic: unit, and a new era of prosperity would open for the whole British race. This Is, the ideal and these are, the arguments of the Empire Crusaders. Their policy can be summarized in 1.. Tire empire is to be regarded as a single economic group and trade -be tween the various parts, subject to the. qualifications made above, is to suffer no restrictions. 2. The interests of this group are to be conserved by a tariff Walt against the rest et the world.' 3. Within this group, the economic interests of the parts are to be strengthened by a policy of agree- ments, quotes and; compensations. Remember, tt is a new policy, a practicable policy; and the only policy that offers a real return to national and imperial' prosperity. .114 "Endurance dyers give most people a pain in the neck." Old Book Brings Big 'Price A volume. that brought only $3,000 in London several years ago was sold at auction in: New York for $13,000. It was a first edition of Holland's "Baziliologia, a Booke of KIngs," published in 1618 and known as the Sir • Thomas Brooke cr py. The buy- er was Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach. It was an item in the library of the late John J. Williams, of Morristown, N.J. Life may bea cell, but most people spell it with an "e." Lumbering and Vacations Go I -land in Hand A PICTURESQUE UNSER CAMP IN ONTARIO'S FAMED ALGONQUIN UARK Canadian Ships Unknown 'Verses of 'Force Passage Home, Siweet• Home Hudson Sought The "'Yorkshire' /Welting Nevrelh ems. tains tyle tellOWihu exohtsiveh oontrt Progress Through Arctic Re- bation sent by to Special CUrrespetuli. calls Aim Set in Bay11 It will come as a' surprise to, most Company's 1670 04to learn that here are two. verses of Charter 'I--ionie,` Sweet Slone' whi'olt' are neves' Montreal r.Q, Mare than 300 stung, `i'lieY aro ozuitted• Ueeause;. uaa til a' few days ago, they 11e4 never years after Henry Hudson's tout at been publiabesi. Tl at, liowover,. bus. tempts to discover a route to China boon remedied, for they aro tnclud= At - the northwest passage has.boort ed in' a man seorlpt copy of the song forced by the Hudson's Bay Com, whish has just been. given to the paay which tails fulfills 1110 mato ob- I,lbrary of Congress at Washington jest for ,whlchlts charter• was; grant, by MMI, Leander; MaCormiok Goodhart, ed by Charles II in 1070. Cominei'Unl Secretary of the BrU1 k Tete Bay cumin, which left Van-' pintbassy, cover last summer' on Ones annual "The verse read: voyage to the' Arctic, toaolted Cam- bridge Bay in August,' Her, destine- "'To us, in despite of the absence tion on the soutltdin coast of Vic- of years ' torte Island has recently become tam- How sweet the remembrance of home ous as tlto haven reached several still appears! days ago by Colonel C. D. H. McAl- From allurements abroad which but pine and his follow explorers and flatter Ilio eye from which word of the partys dis- The unsatisfied heart turns and says• oovery was relayed to civilization, with a sigh; Ship Driven Ashore "'Home, home! 'Sweet, sweet home! The Port James started from Nova Therm's no Place like home! Scotia and Newfoundland a year There's''no place like homet earlier on her quest, sailing up Davis Strait to Pends Inlet, around the north ,'Your exile is blessed with all' that ot Baffin Land, through Lancaster Pate can bestow— Sound to ,Somerset Island, and thea But mine liar Ilam chequered with down through Peel. Sound and Prank- many a woo! lin Strait to the Magnetic North Pole Yet though aiff'rent our fortunes, our at Cape Adelaide on Boothia Penin• thoughts are -the-same, coda, Sine wintered in the divinity And both, as we dream of..Columbla, of King William Island., it Gjoahaven,. exclaim; and was preparing to continue her voyage last spring to Cambridge BO' ",'Home, homer Sweet, sweet ltomol, when she was driven ashore and dam Boforsthe damage could bero- There's' no place lilts• home! aged her vudder• There's no place into Home! ' . paired: heavy lee formed and Prevent- "John Howard Payne; the author en her from- 'mrced to remain progress, of this naw world-famous song, wrote, and she was forced to another the extra verses in „1829, as a per- wi>vtor -in northern latitndos. 'Jittrires and the Bay Chinn), however, Water conal tribute to the `exile' of the, contact was; made, between the Fort verses—Lucretia • Augusta Sturgis Bates, wife of Joshua• Bates, a, Len - by the motor seltooruer Port Ma'cpher- san, which cruises, continuously witk- in the Arctic Circle; carrying supplies between the Hudson's Bay Company. posts, being used also for explora- tion work. East and West Linked She met the Buy Oildmo first at C'ambrid'ge Bay and Wren traveled 250 miles to join the. Fort James. Thus the- three vessels formed an unbroken chain of communication between the West ands Plast coasts of Canada and achieved one of the. principal pur- poses for which the- IIgdson's Bay Company was formed 259 years ago. The gale that drove the Fort Tames ashore was partly responsible • for the elvilized' wend recefving word of the McAlpine party arriving at Cambidge Bay, Being equipped with a radio sending set she was able to communi- cate` with the radio operator of the• Department of Marine at Port Churc- hill. Otherwise civilization would have remained ignorant of the situation and further attempts to discover the explorers, `'lost for eight weeks, wola have been made after ice had cover- ed the lakes to a sufficient thickness to permit of ski landings by aero- plane. Radio Contact Reported Information has just been brought to Montreal by a representative of the Hudson's Bay Company, who.pro- ceeded north to Ponds Inlet this summer aboard the Nascopie, that he established radio telephonic com- munication for the' first time between the eastern and western shores of Canada in conversing with the cap- tain of the Fort James, which was about 500 miles away in the vicinity of King William Island, Although at that time the' noth- west passage had not been entirely forced, details of the most difficult section,. traversed were. obtainable. Subsequent .wireless reports convey- ed the news that the attempt had proved successful...—N•Y. Herald -TM. buns. Prohibition and Government Control Le Soleil (Quebec): "Nova Scotia's vote on the subject of the sale of Iiq- uor.in the province has brought Can- ada almost wholly within a system of Government control of such sales, a system. which compels a certain con- trast with conditions that exist in the United States, If our neighbors would reflect well on this subject, they would realize how easy the traf- fic in liquor could be regulated if they were to once and for all reject official hypocrisy and adopt a regime similar to that which the Province of Quebec inaugurated. ' If the Gov- ernment of Mr. Hoover would take the initiative and give the several. states an opportunity to appvovo such a system aa a preltlnhtary to; the modifldation of the eighteenth amendment, It would bo far more practicable than asking a foreign Government to interdict tite exports- tlou of all alcoholic liquors into the United States; and It would be far less 'costly than maintaining an army of agents and detectives in an effort to enforce the Volatead Act. It 15 certain that a comparison between Canada which is non -prohibitionist and the United States, where prohi- bition is law, will show that temper- ance is not on the side of prohibition. Wo in Cauada are net by any means perfect, but its the matter of the con- suhiption, we certainly present a bet - don baukor. "Both Mr. and Mrs, Bates were na- tives of Massachusetts, but for many years they lived is London in luxury and blessed with popularity. Payne who also spent most of lids lite out of- America, fAmerica, was-ltomeiess, and, al often• as not, dismally unhappy. It was hie nostalgia which caused' hint to write the song. "When he met Mrs. Batesshe ask • - ed hint to, inscribe -tike words in her autograph book. He agreed' to do so;.. and, as an especial favor, added the two verses. At the time lie' said, have added' a: few word's :mono ad- dressed to you. .. . What 'tiSis trifle. wants Iu, poetry You, wilt do me the justice• to beieive is made sups ha truth.' "Payne, ended his days in Tanis." .round; Glass Not Harmful Berlins—Science seems to hire dis- Preyed , another myth—that ground glass taken into the human digestive system causes death. A series of scientific Investigations were made here after stories were published that a well known physician had been murdered by introdut3ng pul- verized glass into his food. The in. vestigations proved that the physician died from spoiled sausage. Dr.H Kuhn, writing of recent in- vestigations in ,"The Review," con- tends that in many cases where ground glass was given as the cause of death, science has proved that death was caused by jagged pieces of un- ground nground glass cutting through the stom- ach towach or intestinal linings and not by the supposedly poisonous effect ot powdered glass. "Experiments on rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs and rats with pulverized glass have shown that this substance works no harm on the stomach and intestines," Dr. Kuhn wrote. "Siadsky Imo reported the case of a shoemaker who three times dailytook a teaspoon- ful of a mixture of sugar and powder- ed glass without injurious results, "These investigations have reveal- ed," Dr. Kuhn concludes, "that only iu fiction do daeths through pulveriz- ed glass continue to play a role." ' l i Algonquin Park, Ontario's great northern play ground, is also a noted timber area, The picture shows the ter spectacle than some of rho rya -- -- — 0 who live on the outer stele of the in+ A mannequin is a girl with a do - lower section of a mile -long wooden chute ter floating logs down to a lumber camp, part if which is also s1t wu. ternational boundary line," finite walls to life. Traffic : Accidents La Petrie: "Automobile accidents in the course of the last season were more numerous than ever before. This may be explained by the fact that there were more automobiles on the roads, but it isnot the whole explana- tion. What is the cause of these acci- dents? One cause is lack Of compet- ence on the part of the drivers, but the most common cause is careless- ness. A Brenbh expert, M, Mortimer Maigret, declares that observations he has made over a period of 30 years leads hint to the conclusion that the great majority of automobile accidents, not to say all of them, are due to. the individual—his unskillfulness, care- lessness, excitability, inability to think fast enough, and that terrible and im, beeilo vanity on the part of many drivers, which consists in 'a desire to show titat they can drive faster than others.' . In effect, it is a lack of moral aptitude, the forgetfulness of duty, the asenco of all sense of responsibil- ity which results in such havoc being wrought by automobiles on our public highways: It is as Colonel Ranson said recently, "the day when autoino- bile drivers understand the sense of the word courtesy, there will be fewer accidents to be ittt ti ad to 'automobil ism',"