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The Huron Expositor, 1921-12-02, Page 1• IFIrmi FTH TEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 2810 SEAFOR' J IR*AY,',. DECEMBER 2, 1921. $2.00 A Year in Advance McLean Bros, Publlabete z ti • leer! handling of the ' Uti&e finances was tellingly, y 'Mrc- kel izievery King is Toroasatedflsb, ,the.. otbesMa da'. That le the extravagant expect- diusas on the Canadian Government Merchant Marine. The .original idea, in eonetructing this fleet of ship', seems to have been that they should be used to repiaoe vessel! subinarinad during the war. 'But only +about a cunpie of them •had been, completed 'when the Armistice wae signed. HAW - ever, the Government' still went on i $h the construction of the fleet. Asad this; although it nowt 'have b¢eit patent to the -meanest • intelligence even to the collective" intelligence of the Cabinet, not only that the nunner- ies/1y formidable armada would be useless -for the purpose for which it was originally intended, as the war was over, bet also that, all over the world, there was. an absolute plethora. of ships to be bought if Canada need- ed them. Altogether, seine sixty- three of these shipe were constructed in this manner, at the expense of the aorely overburdened taxpayers - of the country. To -day, they are an un- mitigated and unqualified White 4t(YWER RATES TOR RURAL DISTRICTS. The following letter from the Chief Engineer of tite Hydro Comaatesiolt,' is in answer. to a series of lettere that have appeared in The Expositor from time to time written by Me. Frank Welsh, of time, and *peeks , for itself: 1 Greig Clothing Co Men's Winter Over- coats, sizes 36 to 44 -The .Finest Women's Coats for t Boys' Mackinaws 6.95 1., Boys' Suits up .to size a.5 for 7.95 Boys' all wool Coat Sweaters11.78 Men's all wool Coat Sweaters 3.98 Men's Trousers 3.28 Dress Gloves 98c Winter Caps 1.38 Heavy Wool Socks 68c Boys' all wool stockings 68c and hundreds of other lines The GreigClothing ��lg Co. NEXT TO ABERHART'S DRUG STORE West Side Main Street 22.50 22.75 'FARLIAMENTART LETTER. With the election within ten days; there is every reason for confidence it, the Liberal camp. In Ontario the Liberal Leader, Hon. Mackenzie King, ie driving ahead with a force that is sweeping all, ahead of him and bring- ing new supporters to the Liberal temp day after day. Splendid recep- tions are, being given to ,the Liberal Chain everywhere and constituen- cies which previously were regarded as' well-nigh impossible, are showing signs of !winging to the Liberals vrith votes 'to spare. From all parte of the Dominion there are coming the eame enthusi- astic reports of Liberal prospects. In the West, where a short time ago it was thought there would hardly be anything but Progressive votes cast, the people are realizing that the Farmer promises are more golden. than their achievement can ever hope to be, and therefore they are swing- ing visibly to the aupport of the party which will have full _power in the next administration. In the Leader's own constituency of North York, the prospecte are very gleed. A. strong loyal executive is ai work in the riding, and they are carrying on the fight for Liberalism while the Chief is conducting the battles of the .movement throughout the whole of the Dominion. As -a result, there is little doubt •that the counting of the votes on December 6th will show the Farmer nominee and Government candidate both de- feated and Liberalism victorious. To the Electors of South Huron : When the next issue of this journal is circulated, the people of Canada will have rendered their verdict, through the ballot, on the problems that confront ua at the present time in our history. This is termed the recon- struction period and the future holds forth to our view, tasks that seem Herculean in their immensity; tasks that will demand of us unity of pur- pose for the attaining of the ultimate object of giving stability to com- mercial and industrial problems. Aa the people patriotically responded to the call of King and Country in giving of their beat in blood and sacrifice during the dark days of the war in what apparently was the impossible, sb again we believe will they emerge with success by a unified effort. With a national debt that is staggering, as ever-increasing expenditure that appears not to lave reaohed the peak, if we take year upon year as a criterion. We believe that our time and closest study must be given to the Railway, Immigration, Taxation, Tariff and other problems if tae are to avoid national .bankruptcy: Railways under Government control must be placed on a sound business management. Bet- ter trade relations with foreign countries must be opened, thereby increas- ing production on our farms and in our factories. In this election there has entered into the political life of the Dominion a distinctly new political party made necessary by the inability of the parties that have dominated the policies of this country for the past half century. Untrammeled by the fetters that have so persistently clung to these parties, we believe that its influence will be the means of estab- lishing a Government expressive of the views of the masses rather than the classes. To the platform of this Progressive Party, we will give our allegiance and as its candidate, we are making this appeal for your suffrage. sly dile record is known to you all. I will take thesame stand on the questions of Temperance and Moral Reform that I have supported in the past, and will, to the best of my ability, endeavor to prove myself worthy of your confidence. with Tortrnwy in Ibis etast4en, ssed since the Liler&11 bpve bean btu to bring out Generat,Teennie, else of the finest soldiers Coeds had overseas, there would appear to be mow. thin a good chance of 1plittin up Tory Toronto in the present tijt. In the Oxfords the Liberal .candi- datee are ma strong fights. E. W. Neebitt is seekbig enppsrt, on the ground that he is an independent supporting the J0 g en to policy, whatever that may ean. Mr. Nes- bitt is regarded at own ant out in the present tight;.: d thebattle. is between the Progressive, lel, and Dr. Sinclair, with the odds feverIng the Liberal candidate. In North Oxe fprd M. G. Dean would 'appear to have a big lead in the light lit Bal- ton, where the Liberal Chielthin al- so spoke due% the week, there is a very strong asalibuod of D,L'R.M. Anderson being *!rowed under and the Liberal candidate W. 1F. W. Fisher carrying the seat. The -same is being told of 'riding after riding in Ontario, --even Melton Comity at the present time • 'showing. signs .of being etrohger for the Liberal candi- date than it has ever been in history. Things are gelpg eptendhily all through the caiapargn, and aa the days progress it becomes more and more evident that Hon. Mackenzie King will be .at'the head of the next government of Canada. • • • This week the Liberal Chieftain has been fighting the battle. in Ontario and has' been receiving a wondrous welcome from electors in the different ridings who showed their anxiety to get the truth on public questions by turning out in thousands to hear him. In his own constituency of North York, Mr. King had a 'hearty recep- tion, at two meetings and won hun- dreds of votes for himself and the party as he made his customary frank outline of the dangers which lay in the division of the forces against the common enemy, the Gov- ernment. Mr, King dealt kindly and gener- ously with his opponents. Both Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Burnaby had been invited to take part in a joint meet- ing! at Newmarket on Nomination Day, and both of them had suffered from cold feet, deciding to hold separate meetings where they could talk to their .hearts' content and at the same time, keep a few of their stalwarts from hearing. the Liberal doctrine. The Liberal leader had much the larger, meeting of the three and had an audience which gave him cheer after cheer as he outlined the. efforts being made by the Liberal Party for better government in be- half of all the people of Canada rather •than on behalf of any special class or group, whether that group consisted of Farmers alone, or the "big interests" alone. . Yours truly, WILLIAM BLACK r 1 Did You Get Yours ? 1 We have already sold a good -many dozen " Christmas . Cards in the last two weeks. Did You Get Yours ? These are exclusive cards and cannot be duplicated. That is the reason you should see them while the assortment is complete The Huron Expositor • Seaforth The significance of the Liberal Party's fight in the present campaign was stressed by MT. King when he laid down the keynote in the follow- ing clause: 'The Liberal Panty stands for Government of the people, by the people, for the people, as against the alternatives of autocratic government and government by class." • -w • Next week Mr. King starts out on his final whirlwind drive. He will speak at one and two meetings every day and carry the message of Lib- eralism to points where he has been hitherto unable to' visit. That he will be able to swing many constituencies from the "likely° to the "certain' columns is confidently expected, as the Liberal Leader's speeches are im- proving with every meeting and the party's • prospects are improving every day! The next letter will tell of the results and Will recount, it is oumfiden£ly expected, an overwhelm- ing victory for Liberalism over both the other parties which it is oppos- ing in the present fight. THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN It was pointed out, a couple of weeks ago, in this column that the Meig- lsenite party's farctal attempt to put forward the fiscal issue as the only issue of the present election campaign was operating after the fashion of a boomerang, owing ito the ease and completeness with which the Liberal leader and the liberal Party have refuted the traves'Cy., as ansi sing as it is amazing, of their-poeition which the devotees of pblitical'^Aunt Sally" have set up. And it was, further, in- dicated that the record of the dis- credited Administration was, in the nature of things, bound to be an is- sue in the election. So it is turning out. As scandal succeeds scandal and as, almost daily, a fresh exposure replaces the last, it is becomingmore and more evident that all that is re- quired of a candidate, in order to en- sure him an overwhelming measure of popular support, is a declaration of strenuous opposition to the Gov- ernment of failing causes and fallen men which the country is about to strip of all pretensions to public re- gard with a rough and angry hand Almost any Government would be better, than that on which the Can- adian people are about to inflict so signal and so well -merited a chas- tisement at the polis., Indeed, to such a pitch of odium has the Government -brought itself that, in a sense, it seems almost be- side the mark gravely .to discuss the issues of the election. There is, how- ever, one issue which transcends all others. It is more important than them all, because, to a large extent, it comprehends them all. And that is the unfitness of the Meighen Ad- ministration for the place and power which it has so long usurped without a shade of moral authority or a ves- tige of democratic sanction. The very sight and sound of the Government, its lame apologetics, its fawning supplications to the people for mercy which is really what its appeal for electoral support constitute, all these things have become a rank offence to our exasperated Democracy.. The ill - graced actors have had their day. The people are resolved, almost with one voice, to bid them "Begone!" But still, for a few days longer, they will "linger superfluous" on .the stage of public affairs until they are felled by what will prove to be the hardest and heaviest blow dealt to a 'political party of which Canadian annals hold record. The Government's own record is the most damning indictment wkich can be framed against it. And, in that tong record of plunder and blunder, of mismanagement and misrule, the manner in which it has dealt with the finances of the country its perhaps, the heaviest count. Liberals are op- posed, in every fibre of their being, to the fiscal policy of Eidgh Protec- tion on which the Tories are stak- ing their all, with a certainty of los- ing it, at the general election. For that policy is, in its form, a denial of the whole Liberal faith, and, in its fruits, the very negation of all Lib- eral ideas and ideals. But Liberals are also, and even, if possible, more determinedly, opposed to the way in Which the revenues of the country, howsoever raised, have been dealt with by the Tory Party in office. To -day in Canada, the old Liberal battle -cry of "Peace. Retrenchment and Re- form!" has lost nothing of its afore - time strength and significance. In previous articles it has bean empha- • • • Nomination day is over and the parties are settled down to the stretch run" with the Liberals gain- ing at every stride. It is significant to note that the friends of the gov- ernment are rapidly feeling their hopes fall lower and lower as the fight goes on. If Mr. Meighen has fifty followers in the next House he will be lucky, according to the pres- ent outlook; and the Farmers are not going to get away with anything of the solid vote they had been hoping for. In Tory Toronto, the govern- ment candidates are having their own troubles and several of them have been hardly able to get a hearing in their own nomination meetings. Sir Henry Drayton had been forc- ed on West York and. the Tories there are making horrible grimaces as they seek to swallow the bitter pill. Sir Henry had the doubtful pleasure of having some couple of hundred people vote directly against accepting him as candidate for the riding and the one Aman in the rid- ing who seems to have a good chance of winning in the vote,on December 6th is Major J. E. L. Streight, who has been in the field for a couple of months and who is making a good fight for the membership. The genial Minister of Finance, af- ter having been rebuffed in Carleton and Kingston came smiling among the West York Tories and talked ;glibly of owning home.for a vote. Just how welcome he was might be guessed from the fact that he- has not been given any open -arms recep- tion, but rather the Tories in the rid- ing are as badly split as ever they were, when they had two candidates in the field and were trying their hardest to patch up the breaks. Elec- tions are usually full of surprises, but it will be a surprise if Sir Henry is able to get away with the mem- bership in this riding. The Government is also having im- mense difficulties in its other moron - to ridings. Dr. Sheard is as good as beaten present Ginn* in his North one meets Im sun ID wilt' Lahr noE James Murdock and the cations are that Tommy riding to the drat defeat camels. On alit sides b iso Just 3 Weeks THEN CHRISTMAS There are so many things in a Good Jewelry Store that are really necessary in a good home that we feel, when we suggest the fol4owing ditto For the Home, that we are suggesting neceesary Gifts as well as "Gifts That Last": Mantel Clock *10.00 up Silver Knives and Forks, the dozen 18.60 Silver Cabinet with 1847 Silverware $30.00 up Silver & Gold Pyrex Case - role $8.00 up Cut Glass Bowl $5.00 up Desk Clocks, with alarm , . $6.00 n • Electric Lampe 110.00 up Brooch for Mother$2.00 up Watch Chain for Father $2.00 ap Pair Gold Spectacles $6.00 up These, from among the "Gifts that Last" at our store, are truly Christmas Gifts. FRED S. SAVAUGE Jeweler & Optician. Rhone 194. Residence 10. SEAFORTH whereas the fiscal policy advocated by the Liberal Party, especially by its leader in the addresses, as not- able for moderation and breadth of view as for their conspicuous ability, which he has been delivering up and down the country in one calculated to ingeminate Peace. It has been emphasized, too, that, in its whole attitude to the condition -of -the -people question, the Liberal Party stands for industrial and social, as stoutly and staunchly as it stands for finan- cial, Reform. But Retrenchment! How stands the Liberal Party? The Tories in office have had "swollen head" in the matter of finance. That seems the kindest thing that ran be said of their method, or rather lack of meth- od, in throwing about the revenues of the country as unthriftily as a drunk- en sailor throws his money about, though the drunken sailor, by the way squanders only his money. They had become accustomed during the war, to the spending of billions of dollars without any effective Parliamentary control, and they have apparently be- come obsessed with a mania for spending. Now a spendthrift may, conceivably he, in many ways, like- able enough, differing therein from the Meighen Government. But he is scarcely a safe guide on any journey save that to the Bankruptcy Court. Lost to all sense of proportion and perspective in matters of finance, the Government has thrown money about right and left. The time of financial "joy -riding" is over. It devolves on the Liberals to do what they may to unravel the tangled skein of the country's finances, to raise once more the weather -worn, but honored and honorable, banner of Retrenchment. Confronted by the necessity of raising an annual revenue of $560,000,000, the task before them will not, and cannot be, other than an extremely formidable one. One instance, perhaps the most flagrant, but at the same time, a very typical instance, of the Government's Mr. J. A. McEwen, Brumfield, Ontario: Dear Sirs- - • . Ia. reply to 'year .letteer, of October lith in eonuection with . ,articles whkh appear in The Huron. expositor, 1 re power rates fit rural dieinnete, we beg to advise that Mr. Welsh in his newspaper article hu assumed con- ditions to suit his argument and baa apparently done everythingpossible to make the rates for hydro' on tbe. farm . to be .exceptionally bigh W'er-? would point out that ,Mr,, els!i brt. arriving at the; capital investment, necersary for the farmer to use hydro power bas included the cost of a cut= ting box, a pithier and a number of other machines which he would use; Elephant, on the farm -Whether be had hydro In his speech at Toronto, Mr. Mac- or not. He also includes the cost of kenaie King also exposed the fact wiring the building. Be then oonre • that, while this,00untry had a credit pares the cost per.K:W,H. with that balance in Great Britain of home paid by. the ,man in the city. He has $3,000,000, as the Tenth of a finals- neglected to point out that the mat tial settlement made in July,. 1920, in the city also_ pays for his own. upon which Canada could have drawn house wiring, lightingfixtures, lamps; requirements all her requireents in the way washing machine and his range. of •armament and ammunitions, the If a comparison on the basis of Government, instead of utilizing this kilowatt hours is to be made, we earl{' credit, and in fact, without disclosing take as an example the Tpwa ad' its existence, called upon Parliament Clinton, where in 1917 the average to provide sums over $2,000,000. dur- cost per consumer was $14.27 for ing the past two years, for the pro- power used, the total amount being' vision of armament and munitions 180 Mowatt hours, making an aver - for the Canadian forces. This sort age of nearly 8 cents per ILWsH. of thing leaves an evil taste in one's If the cost of would is include& wemouth. For it undoubtedly gives rise ra 4 ve. to the suspicion that while disarm- ament was on everybody's lips, an, attempt to accumulate armament seemed, for some reason or other, to be going on. Indeed, the whole busi- ness needs looking into from more than one point of view. Very pro- perly has the Liberal leader pledged himself and his party, if returned to power at the election, to a thorough investigation of the whole question of shell shipments. wised thProtection is, and must needs be, t High a breeder ofstrife, Anniversary Occasion And what of the nonrcolleetion of the taxes due from, and unpaid by, the Riordon Company? This is a sub- ject so distasteful in itself, and has about it an atmosphere so sinister, that it is only with reluctance that one touches on it here. The Riordon Company, a flourishing pulp concern at .the time it neglected to pay its taxes had for its chief executive of- ficers Charles and Carl Riordon, who were also, and still are, .the president and vice-president respectively of the Mail and Empire, the leading Con- servative organ in the Province of Ontario. This company owes to the Treasury of Canada the trifle of $800.- 000, in respect of taxes unpaid. It appears that the taxes for 1910 and 1917, which ought to have been col- lected in 1918, at the latest, are still owing. In 1918 the company was in a flourishing condition, in fact., its prosperity then was a matter of common notoriety and the fact is re.adily susceptile of proof. Yet the company did not pay its taxes. It. bad other uses for its money, in in- vesting in concerns which were ex- pected to be 'highly paying proposi- tions. When the Government has the question put up to it as to why the company was not pressed for pay- ment as other defeaulting taxpayers "re pressed, Sir Henry Drayton has the effrontery to say that, "the com- pany is in the same situation as any other company, that is now, and has been, unable to pay its business pro- fits tax. The rule followed by the Government has been to collect the taxes at the earliest possible mom- ent, short of sheriff's sale" Keep on remembering .the Anni- versary Services to be held in the Seaforth Presbyterian Church, on SUNDAY. DECEMBER llth Rev. D. Banks Nelson, D.D., of Hamilton, is to be the preacher at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m "A man in his own class." "A very gifted man." "A wonderful man." "A great preacher." "A live wire." "One of the meat speakers in Canada." These are quotations shunt Dr. Nelson from men who know him well. Special music by the choir. Special collections. Jessie Alexander, Canada's premiere elocutionist, assisted by the ckoir, will Pereid( an entertainment on Monday evening, December 12th, that will be in the hundred per cent. clue. Admission: 86c and 26c for Adults & Children Be there on -Sunday. Be there -oft Monday. interesting Wiring the house $100.00 Lighting fixtures 40.00 Toaster 5.00 Heater .. 11.00 Iron 5.50 , -- Washing machine 93.50 $256.00 Annual charges at 10%=$25.50 per_ • year, including power used $89.77 or. 22 cents per K.W.H. Mr. Welsh confines his comparison to a calculation of cost per K.W.H., when in reality thin is not the thief concern of the user. The farmer, like every other user, has to decide the one main .point, viz: Can the work be done cheaper and better by hydro power than anyether way? When - this point is settled, the convemen&e, added comfort and the opportunity' of being able to extend the users for - further advantages should be con- sidered. In Mr. Welsh's "Service at Cost" article, he compares the cost of do- ing the same work with a 3 horse- power motor and with a 5 horse- power motor. The assumption is that the 3 horse -power motor would be used 249 days for 11/2 hours per day and the 5 horse, power motor 224 days one hour per day, a difference of 150 hours in the year. How much is this 150 hours time saved worth to the farmer? Mr. Welsh states that pro- viding the line is built heavy enough, no extra charge should be made. If ec:ch farmer wished to save one-half hour per day by using a 5 horse- power motor in place of a 3 horse- power motor, .the line would have to he built larger" to carry the extra power. Further, the use of a five horse -power motor by each farmer would mean that the amount of power purchased by the System would be- increased eincreased and the average cost per K.W.II. would he greater. The statements made by Mr. Welsh show a lack of knowledge of the sub- ject and in general appears to be an endeavor to prove that the, cost to the farmers would be greater than the cost to the man in the city. We d. not believe that the average farm- er expects to obtain power delivered. tc his door as cheaply as the man in . the town or city. as he is quite aware that there is much additional ex- pense in connection with transmis- sion lines and equipment necessary tc Five r. •rvice to a widely scattered district. We trust that the explanations given, herein will he of some assistance to. But there could be no question of .a sheriff's sale, so far as tIN Riordon Company was concerned, ,n 1918 when at the latest, the taxes due from the two preceeding years should have been paid. For the company was then for what it is not now, in an ^sceedincly prosperous condition. The Government was excessively and extravagantly lenient in neglecting to make it pay when it could well afford to pay, and was, in lav, due to nay, its taxes. its leniency to this ou and we conal advise that the• r.nmpany ase misplaced. It w'as an engineers ofe the Commission will at irl�xnayed leniency. Mane individual an time give tuna information which taxpayers have been sorely harassed oy maydesire. and beset. in the last few years, by y' Yours trvl the necessity of meeting their taxes F. A. GA!BY, •,s they became due. iTndnuhtedly - Chief En meet. they will think that the leniency g rhowm to the Riordon Company was not, unconnected with the fact that t:. the two Riordons were the principal BRUCEFIELD officers of the leading Conservative Mrm .. F. A. Gr"ha. eye night ,pecialieq. rxrran. Whether that is the ease or a.;❑ t,e ,r t' S. Swoon!', .reteelry Store. from only Providence, and t.'hi, Gov- t'ecer,V,.-r lit to neeembor nth. •both140 as)* crnment. and the Riordons, in all" nrobabilit.y know for certain. So far Kelly Circle. --The Kelly Circle will Sir Henry Drayton has given an ex- hold its annual bazaar and sale of planation of the transaction which fails to explain; the .Riordons have made ne sign; and Providence, also, has been silent cm the matter, but is expected to speak, and with no uncer- tain sound, through the medium of the polls. "Favors for Friends!" That is for the Big Intereata. Such has been the maxim and the mark of the Tory policy right along. "Let the people pay the piper and the plutocrat call the tune!" Thank Heaver! the time has been too long enacted on the stage of our public life; the day is at hand Wheit the "Favors for Feigned." Government in the plansof by the party of "F !/replay for the' ether. Tar work on Thursday, December 8th, to the basement of the church. Tea will be served from six to eight o'clock. Sale of work will comarente at 8 o'clock. The sale will consist of plain and fancy articles, home-made cook- ing and candy. Notes. -Mr. George Swan, who has aeon ill all summer, has gone to Gravenhurat for the winter. His- many ismany friends here hope to see him return again fully restored to health. His wife and family have gave to Toronto to spend the 'wither. - MT.' Dan Munro has purchased • butcher atop in Egma'ndville.-A very toter - artist political meeting Was Lel in die . fall last Felder Kr,14. ' Wallals,Ur. Bi•ek. and Mr. IRP_ Statesman - being lbs speabers.