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The Signal, 1911-8-24, Page 2= Tut •am&T, *paved It URI 'THE SIGNAL ; OODE}CICH, ONTARIO arailloSignal ocuwcli ONTARIO. P UBLISHED EVERY THURBDAY yse THL SIGNAL PRINTING co.. Isealtwd T- -pbwe tall Na mb Twee of eabeerwase gulla advise& Nix - ,aw ONSi.e aeatberias To United braise onhee tin.. SUI. • Feer et+ixtb la advaeoet hubs ruses who IOU be reoeiv. Tim Beast radel•rty d4 mea w3 ,safer a !arae h)• ae v� demes oea et the esttraaet�to early • data es W bona addlaer eYeetd b d ted, Nth aid the end now aewrUsk NMee : Legal and other idles advantageous'. leo pr flee ter drat Ia•wYea sed ec per Use for swab wboeeaest lasertisa. Nees rad by • .__1 oxide. twelve Wes to sa hob. Dresses oaten of el: Ueda sod easter. tib per Fest. wraemeereret Les. Teams eissavd. Mt- aselesi WeateiHeas.eler tots r to'01`i. frames for tt.is er to Sit, arta.s ter sue. set .-----Jas iWt thee, Ms mea hearties ; ter deet meati, de male ▪ m i 1i Ameak �e � Largerseadide�advertise wale ser Nea.eItieei a eldesthem lTa�a fes Any et widen is the d w .4 s1 se est bedewed swsad eat emseiienA le Raper for divplay arid oontrart .d reels* er.tr ares! 1.• ed%et. w, •pptle .tpx,. Addrer W eemmo'leaseseee M THE SIGNAL PRINTING CO. 1Jmit L Gedericb oat OOD1QUCIL THURSDAY, AUG. 24. I1ll SUPPERV NEO. Surely no self-respecting elector can conscientiously cast his ballot for a mash who deliberately conceals his op- inions un the great issue which this alectien is to decide. The elector* of West Huron have done pretty well for Mr. Lewis in part rears : if he bay say decent regard tot them be will not ask them to send him back to Ottawa to do whatever be pleases on this ques- tion of reciprocity. 1f he believes the reciprocity policy is a menace to tbe British connection, that it involves die - aster to our farmers, our fishermen our workingmen generally, Mr. Lewis abaci net beIOW* 11. ow tea other . ted, be believes 1t to be for the' advaotage and benefit of the Cana- dian people, he should not have led the convention a bleb nominated him Lo believe that he was opposed to it. Up to the present the only cooclusion that can be reached by the honest elector is tbat Mr. Lewis is deliberate- ly trying to evade the question and for his own selfish ends to make light of the most important issue that Welcome before tbeCanadian electorate in many years. Mr. Lewis should be made to understand that elections are held for some other purpose than to give bilk a comfortable, well-paid ob. DAFT ON TAFT. Our West street contemporary is daft on Taft. One would imagine from ob- serving its alarms that Mr. Taft must be some sort of little god—a wicked little god, with more than 'human wisdom, and possessing some oocult powers over those upon whom he caste ids spell. If Mr. Taft says black is white, or white is black. it must be even as be says. If he de- clares it to be his intention to do such and such a thing. so it will be done. On the contrary, Mr. Taft is just a human being, with the limita- tions of other human beings, and when he makes a statement that we do not believe to be accurate. or em- ploy, an argument that we Lelieve to be fallacious. we are not in the least compelled to accept hie dictum. In the matter 01 reciprocity, it is Mr. Tart's business to make the agreement se preseotabte as po.sible for the United States voter, but Canadians are not bound to accept his state- ments. his arguments, his conclusions or his predictions. Canadians welcome reciprocity for their own reasons. mut for Mr. Taft's. and if be thinks the Hatted States has got a good bar- gain it need not disturb Canadians in tbe consciousness that the bargain Suits them also. Asa reply to the use made of Mr. Taft's statement, by the anti-recipro- sity press, it is sufficient to state that EVERY AGRICULTURAL JOUR- NAL OF ANY STANDING iN CAN. ADA 18 IN FAVOR OF RECiPROO- rr . WHILE THE AGRICULTUR- AL JOURNALS OF THE UNITED STATES ARE OPPOSED TO IT. And if Mr. Taft imagines that •Ibe Canadian -British, bond" can he weak- ened by reciprocity (we do not be- lieve that be thinks anything of the sort) be has yet to learn that Can- adian loyalty is based oro something other than dollars .ad rents. Cana- diaoe a reedy to be neighborly. they are res4 to trade with their neigho bore when they find it profitable t, do so: but their national interest+ are bowed up with the Empire and will ao e emai.. APPLES AND 11110111.10011 1'. lemons°Meal and *owN that Oaeybuit fruit odaers►el e, es to base a small pde crop*M- ama. Demob end wind -storms the awl, premise of a heavy 0sed mime womb heap to 'Marfie the eems l y srtfing i• ielm M1ee free of duty, would subject fruit-grower with his *beet Cto competition from tbe !-eaten Matra —Toronto News. This is au argument that will not impair very strongly to the apple- gror. In the first place. the apple- grois not anxious to put tbe apple- 000sumer in a positioo where the lat- ter will have to pay abnormally high prices for his fruit. What the grower wants is a fair field—the awur•uce of a good market every year for hiscrop. This he will secure through recipes city. in an -off' year, when the farmer has few or no apples for sale, the higb prices paid by the consumer are of little or ou benefit to him ; and be would be willing that the consumer should have the privilege of importing fruit without duty-. In the good crop years, when he has • large quantity of fruit to sell. the grower wants • market close ser hand that will take his entire yield at good price.. In• stead ot leaving his apples on the ground, or selling them et a price that barely pays for the labor of pic king them, be will be able, under recipeocity. to sell all be grows at a good price. There will always be fruit at • reason- a1.Ie prier for the consumer. and there will aJway-s be e good starlet for the producer. Hen procih is a good thing all round. A GAME THAT WILL FAIL it is a great game the Opposition is playing. In Ontario Laurier is to be viewed with su.picion because, say the Opposition orga0$. he is not suffi- ciently Imperialistie. Duan in Que- bec the Monks and other leading Tor- iesare denouncing Laurier and the Liberals as being too British. Rend - in -hand with that daagerous dome - Rogue. Boura•sa, wbo is opposing Laurier because of his imperialism. Borden and his crowd are backing up the Nationalists in their efforts to make Canada a French nation. Hear whet Mr. L'Eeperan,e save. He is editor of the Quehec L'Eveoement. and joint candidate of Tories and Na- tioeslista.in Montmagny : The cry of Sir Wilfrid lanrier et "When England is at war, Canada it at war ! " and tbat of Mr. Field- ing, "Our fleet will have to take pert io all the ware of the Empire, just and unjust." have become axioms of the Imperialists. which to- morrow would be effective against us if no volution were found to the seri- ous dispute between Germany and France. It our compatriots had not been so blinded by this idol with feet of clay. who has presided for the last fifteen year over our destinies, we might perhaps have escaped these regrettable Sacrifices. But the day •of the Laurier Govern- ment are numbered. We are glad to have tbe elections on at last. They come at a good season. e nd politiciane will gled!y) inform the people on the issues of the day. We go into the fight with enthusiasm. under the immediate direction of Mr. F. D. Monk. the valiant representa- tive of Jacques Cartier. who has had the courage to stood up for the right* of his people in Parliament. Victory already smiles on our ban- oer,. Vive Monk and Vivo Auton- omy ! Down with the ravy ! Down with the Taft -Fielding pact! Down with Laurier and hie panty ! The Catholics of the West and the Freocb of the Last will soon be re- venged. EDITORIAL NOTES. 11-E-('-I-P-R-O-C-I-T-1- means the development of (irderich's interest, se a border Tale port, k vote for Borden is • vote for Bourses*. E. N. Lewis wants the West Huron elector to "go it blind" on reciprocity. Can it be that E. N. Lewis really be- eves reciprocity is • good thing? He does bit on the right thing once in a while. The anti-recipr.'-ity organ- don't like tbe slogan. -Let the farmer have his turn." They would rather have it thus : '•Let the farmer be done to a turn. The user.. the 11 onopotists. the grasping middlemen—those who make life unnecessarily hard tor the toilers of Canada—are working for the de- feat of reciprocity. Their are still many so. John A. Macdonald Cootrervativea who will re- fuse to vote against reciprocity is n atural products. wbkh Sir John en deavored to secure for Canada. Mr. Lewis evidently does not read The Star or be would have learned what a dreadful thing rsciprecity is and would bare warned the elector* regarding it in his election **hem., "Mr. Horden. the Conservative leader. pleads for • closer British ooamsetion.- He does does bel air. Borden would foveae, the duties on goods imported late Canada from (Frost Britain. The Stratford Iieraid doesn't see elf+.seer i• saying that reciprocity we riot leer., the cost of food to Oseadiaa, if le is going to Rive the farmers higher prises be IMO Ni caner► M rated. la It ams Wetly b a uote. What doss editor of Tee Herald teed os ---sty **Mr. Boeden,tbsOooarrrativeleader. pleads for • closer British coo0ectioo" —eo bis supporters in Ontario my. In Quebec they tell the habitant tact Mr. Borden is quite a mild man com- pared with that violent Imperialist Sir %VUfrid Laurier. One of the soothing teaturee of the anti -reciprocity campaign is the pub- lishing of letters from ex -Canadians now in the States warning Canadians against the alleged danger to their national existence. Canadians who do not thine enough of their own elldiesidneelitt .rr� ga.es wr11r abet t►1. talk of xnMr dm mutat •oaease. ?my keep up the mm to frighten tbote wbu•e pr•Ndltes ace oveeJa• veloped into imagining that time le some hidden defier w recipmes1ty. But, as The Mall and Expire mays. there can be no "seetinental merger. commercial or political." without the comment of the people of Canada, and ars nobody in Cared* desires such a thing the danger is • purely imagin- ary one. John Herron. the late Conservative member for MacLeod constituency in Alberta, is agaia the nominee of his party, and at the so.aioating maven A Good Thing For ciIll. BROCKVILLE MANUFACTURERS. At the Brockville convention John Gill. president and gen- eral manager of the James Smart Manufacturing Oornpeey, lbs largest industry in Brockville, and one of the largest hardware and edged tool maout•ctories in Eastern Ontario, declared that larger and freer markets in natural products must improve trade cooditions generally and dist benefit must accrue' therefrom. He deposeeted the suggestion that the opportunity for increased proeperity would weaken in any way Canadian BdeIit, to Bri- tain. 'The agreement," said be. "is purely a sound bo -mess one. and Canadians will do well to avail themselves of lits ads entries, altogether apart from politics. I am glad as a manufacturer to have this opportunity of heartily approving of this reciprocity .greeneest and of the sound businesslike agreement secured by "Ir. Fielding." I. too. desire to give my views as a manufacturer." added ‘1-illiam C. ItacLaren, general manager of Halls. Limited. =eau- ; actureri of gloves. suspenders, etc. "I have given the matter 01 this reciprocity agreement a great deal ot thought and 1 have found that there is nothing in it except benefit to the people of Canada. 1 cannot uudereetaad bow manufacturers can take any other position. This agreement in no sense injures any of us, and cannot fail to be a big thing to the fernier, and artisans. i desire to put myself on record as a manufacturer iu complete accord with the reciprocity agreement. and am glad indeed that the farmers are to have this opportunity to secure better returns for their labor.. I do this because I feel. trongly that the un- warranted position in which the manufacturing interests have allowed themselves to be placed is exciting animosity and claw feeling in the minds of the farmers. We should not object be- cause the farmers reap benefits; nothing has been done to inter- fere with the manufacturers, and we. will be well adv;sed to at- tend to our hostiles.. I am a director in one lumber cons - many in Quebec and in another in British Columbia. and I know that reciprocity will benefit both. 1 cannot see why any manu- facturers have been induced to take a stand against it." James Cumming. Lyn, member of the Canadian Millers' Asso- ciation, endorsed the position of Mr. MacLareo, and seconded tbe resolution endorsing reciprocity. WHAT A MILLER SAYS. D. B. Wood, of the Wood Milling Coanpa•y, Hamilton, ways : **Since reciprocity- became an issue I, with others, have formed the Dominion Flour Mills Company, Limited. Our oper- ations include the improvement and enlargement of our mitis in Wentworth and Brant counties, the adding of a general selling organization and the building of a new 2,000 -barrel mill in Mont- real, which mill is already under construction. The contracts for the mill building, the machinery and the large eletator have all been let and tbe worts is being rushed to completioo aa quickly u possible. 1 am a Large shareholder in this company and a director of it. This may be taken as an answer ..a to what my real opinion of the prospects of the milling indu-try are under reeiper.city. ••in my interview trefer'-ing to a previoui statement) I spoke from tbe standpoint of a citizen of Canada. as it affeeta the farmer in particular in my adjoining counties and its probable effect upon bueioese generally. 1 hinted that the industry of Krowing barley would again be reviled ; that the soil and clim- ate and intelligence of the farmers ot three count ie.- would read- ily produce hundreds of thousands of bushels of parley annually; that the growing of hay could be made much moo profitable that the growing of turnips. already fairly profitable. would be greatly improved : that almost everything the farmer produces would bring in more profit. and. as one closely allied to the farmer, not as a miller only, but as a dealer in rosily of these things, I say that I believe recipe/ city opens the way for good money to be made not only by the farmers. but by the dealers in these products. i and already. although reciprocity has not been passed. that some of the shrewd business men of the United States are negotiating by letter and other means to open up busi- ness in all these lines." A PROMINENT SHEEP BREEDER. Henry Arkell. of Guelph. one of the harvest breeders of sheep in Canada. and for year* a prominent Conservative. says: "If the tariff was removed the Canadian sheep producers wosid he eocpuraged to go into the production of sheep more exten- sively. The reawn there are United States sheep coming in here at present is that there is a shortage of the Canadian art- icle. There has been a largelncrease in the population from the old lewd in the pest few years. and they are all consumers of mutton. The tariff restrictions and the limited market that has resulted since the introduction of the Dingley tariff by our ilaited States neighbors are responsible for the shortage This tariff bas discouraged the raising of sheep for mutton purposes in Canada. and where .a man bad a large flock of sheep previous to the pawing of that legislation he has not more than fire per rent. now of his farmer flock. If the trade agreement .s aoss•etf sod tariff reetrictioas removed we can look for • remarkable boom in the sheep industry in Canada it is the veriest non- ..n.e to say that the throwing open of the sheep market be- tween the two countries will kill the industry in Cai.ada, for there is really no industrt of that kind bere to kill Remove the tariff sod watch the Canadian .beep iodu.try grew. 1 voted Coowvatiee fee yeah, hut 1 am for the trade agreeeren•.' position ro t ak "loyalty' to those wbo stay wile Canada and help to matte it "chat it is The map of Maeda wiM keep it. dletM osier, and there will be so efltmdlmg tate the hue south .rf the beim flus There will be no cos - cal. with t eon eat of peopcial or le politi- cal. Camas. and there can be n.-ne with 0,rt it /be Mews r from Tim Tweets Mall sal angle la one of its caelsm.t ion last week ire ere out straight. fix teriprn.ity. He aid that waver. body is Use ct-nautuency wanted It. and be inteteeted to vote for It. (we gi eat poiet i• ate favor. he said, was that "if the peep* do sat ftrwb it to work to their *demotes* it ran be raaoriled by • stroke of the pen." PrIv.te advie•• hoes the West are to the Meta that see, emelt. will sweep fes lamb•.• rharuMs. sari Mr. Bee• teetm•Ealseed wIS heap be wilt the Waw Ate Vs eirr fled Asset •ww.y, Thi Ten ata 1 clew (J. 8. William. dltia heal!) declasses that "the ad- taiteitt• of Aaeriran bops into Canada wotlji be diwstrou►" Well, it is a Ian that there are enough bugs lu Omuta aksady, when you think of the twoasgg.d kited for whom the Yelper gmaia—see who have hese cuiniog welts from tariff privileges for years at the espouse of the farmers, but who would deny the rightof the farm- ers to sell their goods is the most patdtable market. Tote ars a lot of hods of this kited in Toronto ; we do not seed to import any. From the run -reciprocity point of view. isn't this town running a ter- rible risk in entertaining mores of visi- tors from the United States every year t Almost soy (ley during the summer you nam see them o0 our streets. going into our stores and buy- ing Canadit• goods, and paying mosey (perhaps Yankee mosey) for them. Our meecbauts do not seem to realize the chances they take, In trad- ing with these people, of losing Limit. British sentiments and becoming "Americanized." These "American" visitors are usually very aide people, which makes their presence with na (from the anti -reciprocity point of view) ell the more dangerous. Their friendliness disarms us, and we forget that we should treat them as enemies and refuse to have any intercourse with them. Should the town council not take steps to prevent the summer hotels in future from receiving any but Canadian and British guests 1 Surely these are enough ••patriots" in our town coed' to save us from the awful risks we are running ! FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Anything to Get la. Hauer -Me Ontario. Tobrand Sir Wilfrid Laurier in On- tario at a traitor to British 000•eetion and to hound him in Quebec because he is too Imperialistic may be good politics, but the party thattries to ride into power on char such mutually destructive policies is surely riding tor a fall. Reciproaty to Money Bags. Ottawa Fee Prey. Rodolphe Forget, tbe stock broker Montreal is to run in two eoun- in Quebec. in opposition to recipro- city, bat he is not ., opposed to doing business with the United States a, be declares. He has )tut sold nine mil- lion dollars' worth of bonds of the Montreal Street Railway to Boston capitalists. Free trade in finance hut none in natural producta seems to be bis policy. The Oppesitaoe Cry in Quebec. Halifax Chronicle Said Henri Bourasse at Three Rivets last week : •This naval scheme is one which will spill the life -blood of your sous on foreign shores all to bring to Sir Wil- frid Laurier the praise of an Imperial press and the decoration of an Im- perial Government If Frencb-Cana- diens so declare. the nary- will disap- pear." This is commended to the special at- tention of the electors of Nova /Scotia. wbo are being urged to vote against L crier on the ground that be is a Frenchman and an anti-Imperiaii.t. The Boaraesa Peril. Montreal Wit De... ''Reassuring reports," says The Gazette's party writer, "of the de- cadence of the one-man power of Laurier ere corning from the Prov- ince of Quebec." The Writer does not add that those reports, whatever their value, are exclusively based on the supposed ascendency of the one- man power of Mr. Bouraseaa, whose antagonism towards Canadian na- tionality and towards imperial unity - are, however be may explain them at Ottawa,, the one ground work of his popularity-. All who wish to see Can- ada severed from Greet Britelo and dictated to from another direction, all who wish to see rice distinctions more and more accentuated and Canadians • dual people hopeteerly disunited fn sentiment, and not a single nation. should rejoice with this patriotic writ- er and the rest of his party in the supposed new developments in this Province. Wbat they amount to, we do not know : but of one thing we are pretty sure, that if Mr. Borden attains W power he will hold that power at the pleasure and under the bidding of Mr. Boursssa. Are the Canner. Loyal ? sleeve eoe Reformer. Frank Lalnr, 1 ;.ore native candi- date in Haldimawd, and David Mar- .be11. ditto, ditto, in East Elfin, are both canning magnates, Both were weenier, of the last House of Com- mons ; both occupy high places no the hoard of directors of the Dominion Caanere. Limited. Both gentlemen in this campaign pose as exceedingly loyal and greatly ,oseerned es to the future of British ronneetion. A roup', of years ago the Cen0ers ware buying the plate for the manufacture of their cam. in Wales. but a year ago &witched the order to Pittsburg, U. S. A.. on tbe lowerisg of the 10 costs per case by the United States Steel Corporation. At that time no word came from Messrs Mer read Esker. or any other tmsabse et *be Casting board. That bomb 01 bead - WNW. shrewd basses tmmm lleesil its cedes for the,ls ftms sR- gr is to baadrwy M tse dM� with the people wbo end gfee the tet aentbsest 1 thetranse e tto . i1 bee MaIsteslimand ui to ted properly, ly,, by lotbm�mnw A• only efts the elms Mahe to ark !rearm. L.lor sad Mor - abed why they have one Mil for ah. reehres m ed metier Inc code bone- iee ameelineete 1 WIU stomas efts sm- veer lids question : U it as* die - loyal mitab be .mei. ga oldie 'b.: Wako to Pesarrylrsala lir savor ec.ft.sitila414.14grwifirre e tamer M vii `ver d aii W. MONSOON • ION Curtains aid Draperies We have just waived • very attractive � sof Fancy Madras earl Net Certain Mateeiab. paatense are very beat and very elabtw•ae : dap ase is ve Pad mostly, or deep ivory elo omtre ts, and ems* wiv urachi -or floral effects En take; values err snee per yard. erre.. , erre. !/f. Prised, MOM sad ilio Curtain Poles White enamel owe -teak Prise, tall Wag wiedow with heavy silvered tell me acid brass hooka foe supports. Complete at, each Window Blinds Heavy opaque ailed Mods, up to thirty -serves Inches im width, six feat least. oft heavy Neese rollers. Hund' in shades gran and buff. Compi'te, each..... .. Dress Silks New fall Tokio Silks. Heavy. t +eves inches wide, figured Drees Bilks, in 'omelette nasi card pare rear is colren aed shades of epees, =CAM bb1111. oesaR browns, pinks. At. per yes _....elm seiefo. Floor Rugs Hundreds of Rues. All prices. Velvet Squares, 3 x54.......... .s1 ROD Velvet Square*, 3 x 4 fi0,4110 Velvet Squares, 34 z 4...,.. ..««erre *MAO Tem seamless Brownie Rog., Mx 4. Special., sa each.... 5.00 Store timed Wednesday afternoon d.riug Jody and disgust. ' r AFTER .SEEING hARD SERVICE garments made by us are still attractive, because of their superior quality and workmanship. 'Phone 180 MARTIN BROS. Tailors 11 agreement that will permit him to get into the Buffalo market with hie ossa. hay and apples without paying a stiff tariff tax ? FEAR RECIPROCITY. 1[ichigaa Hay Demers Assert It Would C7ees Eastern Market few Them. Saginaw, Mich . Aug. 3.—T16e elev. each annual session of the Michigan Iia Association opened at the Audi- torium today, with ISIY delegates is attendance. who. after heanng Coo. Item Joseph W. Fordney ex- pound on the damage Canadian reci- procity would do to the United States farmer mod his products unanimously endorsed the Congressman's stand in stamOng it an injury to Michigan hay dealers. Convreesmao Fordney gave over his entire time to criticiziog the Canadian bene- fitpacthe �� term, it while would work a bard - ship for the producer. It is asserted by the Pay men that if Canada adopts the measure it will for- ever close the eastern hay market for Michigan.and they will hare to seek other fields to dispose elf tbeir commo- dity, being unable to compete owing to the freight rate. The Signal to new subscribers for the balance of the year for Mc. I . ' 1 Tillenea sr (() I 1 Ect-1::= • t l' • M•1111111 SL Jerome. College ;Mt CHOOL HOES THF' TIME. has coupe again to get your boys and (;iris prepared to start the fall term at school. They will require to hare • gored ser•v{eeable. aurid leather pair of above ; the kind that will blend the toe M any weather we are likely ter have at this ,assort. To get that kind. at the lowest ptmdbb priew4 else .ad see what we have to offer. We hose bees very useful in selecting our atoeb of Seipel Shoes, and are prepared to supply you with the beet that tan he procured fenen trim Isaias o aotwe rs. REPAIRING Downing & MacVicar North Side of Squarer, (indertch — �'