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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1929-04-18, Page 2Wash Day Is Easy Now 'Particularly if you have a .modern Connor Elec- tric Washer in your horde. No tearing of clothes,, no back -break- ing work. Just fill the tub with hot water, drop in the ' clothes, turn a switch and the work is done. WIN GRAM ADVANCE -TIMES Wingham Utilities Commission Crawford Block. Phone 156. GEORGE SPOTTON SPEAKS iON BUDGET (Continued from Page 1) speech there as .hedid this afternoon, but it did not mean a thing. He ad- vocated some kind of reform of the senate, as he has done in this house, and he had an example before him— T think he roust have been a teacher at one time, becatt e he believes in teaching by exempt& He had on the platform with hitn a senator who, has .since gone to his reward, and after the Prime Minister had said "I have appointed this roan with strings to him, and I can pull therm atany' time. He must support any legislature that I may propose for the reform of the senate," this senator got up and said, "Yes,-thatis correct. I -was appoint- ed under those conditions." A fine way for the members of the other chamber, who are supposed to sit as judges in the land, to be appointed, that when "aunty pulls the string" they win obey his order. Right in this house in 1924 the Prime Mini- ster made a characteristic grandstand gesture in regard to reforming' tate senate, He told the country prior to the opening of the session that the government were consideringlegis- lation looking to a curtailment of the powers of the senate, but, that the government were anxious that the country should be convinced of the necessity before pressing it on the attention of parliament. He assured the House of Commons: I desire to assure the house that when parliament reassem- bles steps will be taken by the government to obtain, if possible, means whereby bills may be en acted by and with the advice•and consent of the House of Com- mons under conditions `sintiliar in principle to those whichhave been sanctioned by the parliae xneltt of the 'United IS.ingdom. He wars asked by the Right Tion. Arthur ; Ieighen, just what steps he proposed to take, and the Prime Min- ister declared that the government would consider the matter duringthe recess, : Well, the recess passed, the house opened, and the Prima lVlittiater informed the house that he proposed to call a conference with the provin- ces upon the question. Near the end of the session, on June 18, 1925, Mr, Meighen again asked whether the.'. government had anything to lay be- fore the proposed conference, and the Prime Minister replied that the gev- ernment bad considered no recom- xnenc1ations and had nothing to offer, but would take up the.: matter in the recess. Sir, there have been many recesses and many sessions since then, and 1 cart only think that tite gestures of the Prime Minister were made for vote -catching purposes. I take it, Sir, that when I heard the Prime Minister in that grove at Ex- eter declare that he would reform the senate, either he meant what he said or he did not If he meant it, what does he propose to do to -day about it? If he did not mean it, then I ask this house and this country what con- struction can they put upon future pledges of this man so solemnly giv- en and broken, a pledge like this one? Again, speaking at Richmond Hill, and I remember that he spoke in the same way at Exeter, the Prime Min- ister said that lie had been handicap ed by lack of a' majority behind him the house. He had in the back of his head some great beneficent and benign legislaion for the good of the people of this country, but he did not have the necessary majority to crys• tallize his ideas into legislation, and he pleaded with the people all 'throu- gh that campaign to send hitt' back with a strongerfollowing in the house, or he -would refuse to carry on. Well, Mr: Speaker, he 'Sweatt to the country with 117 members be- hind him and he came back with 101 members and still hung on, notwith- standing that he was defeated; he tried to direct the government of this Dominion ,jroiu the galleries, and he thought that I should not enter- the +,;ext,,:. 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Detailed description of all Durant models will be mailed to pa .ort request , .. or better still ... is obtainable near-by—at your local Durant dealers'. tvc+aI 'lr't::uc ItIILT DUJRANX MOTORS of CA14ADA UMtTED TOROtettF CAt teen. t N ,jrt 0 rt/ TON tA'1ACITenS ENINGER, Win ,•:..ha:Ontario R ! T. A. Me orre, n•; 10 house because I_did not have a per- manent leaden- at the tune of nay el- ection. Those were two of the Penalises which the Prime' Minister made He also said that he would lower tate cost of farm implements to the farmer, of Canada, So fax as 'Ontario is con, eerncd, fans implements are no cheaper than the day on which the 1'rinie Minister mach that statement:. He also said that he would lower the cost of living for the common people. Yet the Minister of Labour (Mr. Hee- nan) telae us that the cost of living is higher to -day than it was then. But 1 aM not going to take up fur- ther time to enumerate further pro- mises which this government has broken. This administration is long on promises and short on perform- ance. The Prime IVfinister said this after- noon fternoon that the government had done a great deal for the farmers of Can- ada. I have prepared a little budget for a 100 -acre farmer in my constit- uency. He does not agree with nee politically, but he has a good 100 ac- res of land and that land with the. implements and the stock on it are valued at $10,000. I submitted thi little budget which I prepared and which was approved by some of my agricultural friends. This farmer has $10,000 invested in his plant. He has as good a right to have interest on his capital investment as any busi- ness man in this land, and 7 per cent. on $1,000 is $700. I.. know there are men in this house who think that anybody can farm ata profit. There are men who have made a success in, other lines of business who think that. anybody, can make a -success in the science of agriculture, bat what I want to tell you, lair. Speaker, that it takes a man . of special calibre, special fit- ness and special training to make any kind of success in agriculture at the present time. I am also allowing in this budget a salary of $1,200, or $100 a month, or $23 a week to thefarm- er. Surely the man who has tine abil- ity to manage a; farm and toil from the rising to the setting of the sun should be allowed $23 a week,, or as much as a mechanic in a factory; that is, $1,200 a year. His taxes and in - harness, and so on, $100. His wife on buildings and fences $200; depre- ciation' on implements, work horses, harness, and son. on, $100: His wief is tnor,e than a housekeeper; she spends at least half her time with 'the poultry and dairy,• and I am allowing her the magnificent salary of $12.50 a .month; that:woitld be $150 a year, He cannot run this farm alone, he usually has a soh fifteeen, sixteen or seventeen years of age, who, if he were in the city would be earning, some money; I atn ailowing.that boy $7 ,a week`—$365 a year. 'Chen, as governments always have a place for contingencies or incidentals, I am al- lowing the farmer incidentals of $185. This means that on his 100 acres of land he would have to make $3,000. in order to secure a bare living. Ac- cording ; to the Minister. of Labour that wouldleave nothing for clothing and many other articles; it would just be a bare living and intereston his investment. Now, to make him prosperous 1 think he should have $1,000 a year to the good if he wish- es to send his children to high school and later to University. This would give him $4,000 a year, which 'I think a man ought to make on 100 acres of land in my county before you can say' farnting there is prosperous. I leave it to the judgment of this house and, as government meiribers say, "to the country"—they, are partic- ular about the country whether er• not 100. acres of land should return the farm -owner this surd of money annually, A fanner—not of my political per- suasion --has 'given this definition of a farm: "It is' a piece ' of land sur= rounded by prosperity," Well now, if it is bounded on the east by banks and trust companies, on the north by great manufacturing and industrial concerns, on the west by brokers' and so on, and on the south by depart- mental stores and chain stores, then I think the definition is. correct. Row, this : is }tow prosperous the farmers are in my county, , I am borne ottt in this; statement by any colleague from South Huron (Mr. McMillan), as he appears from his speech in Hansard, where he states that his constituents call hien in. and, discuss very seriousely whether diet, should advise their sons to stay on or to leave the farm. There has been a revaluation of soldier lands. A soldier in' one of my good townships had a loan of $4,200. The government inspeet,,r carne around and allowed him $1,000 off the [nen, The' man thought that was not sufficient and referred the inspector to the reeve of the town, ship. The reeve said: Inour town- ship', council we passed unattiniottsly a resolution that the 'farm lands in tete township of Mot-ris are to -day worth only 60 per t=eae of what they were worth in 1920. 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There are lots of farms for sale in the cottnty of Huron, one of the best agricultural counties in the Domin- ion, a county where we have as in- telligent farmers and as industrious find these companies is the only place where there is any prosperity. .Take The Robert ' Simpson Company in Toronto, one of the best departmen- tal stores in the Dominion. After paying interest on their investment and putting money away to 'meet de- preciation and contingencies, they show'a profit' of about_ two tnilliou twenty thousand employees, but they. are not getting a dollar more than they diel in 1921, and to -day the dollar is not going quite so far as it did' then, Stockholders prosperousl Yes, one hundred stockholders probably; but thetwenty thousand employees tate people who live .in the cottages, farriers as. are to be found in the (Continued on ?age 7) province. If that is the case there, I ask, where is the prosperity that is:1,sr���lrrr■�rrrsrrelrrrl�rr,rrr r>Nw�rrrrrl supposed to be enjoyed by the farm- !e nig community of Ontario? The frm farmer used to be able e totake down a carload of hogs to Toronto and 'have five packing houses com- peting for his stock, But under 'this government the' accumulation of cap, hal in the hands of ,the big interests has resulted in four of these packing hooses amalgamating. Now there is practically no competition on the live stock market, and the farmer'has to sell his hogs and cattle to this com- bine .at their awn price, jr saw an article the Other day in the Globe stating that all the vinegar factories of Canada are uniting, and that it would place them in "an enviable position." To -day the farmer has to sell to combines and buy from conn - hikes, . Now, Mr, Speaker, I pin sorry to bo compelled to pursue this tenet and I do it with no pleasure at all. 'S7U'e_ have had hon, members on tite other side of the house read financial state- w■ rt the W. thatrtltei financial try is pt00peouurwrr�rrrrl� r statement,. a 1 r �lrrrrrl91r� sto NI Why take a LOW price o►rice NI P when. we will store them for YOU tall price getslighe�r. �s Pool Eggs -----ter. r �, m k i. THE on °.A EIIS' 'CO.OPER :., ii it ANY, LIMITED. is Whighant, Ontario. Phone 271..