The Signal, 1911-8-31, Page 6Fat'aeDAT. Actaeon 31. IPU
WHERE TRADE
IS ONE SIDED
The Neeesa.ty of Equalising the Trade
eletw.an Canada and the
United State.
! n. buslress men of Canada should
I1go.oualy rupport be effort now bo -
Ina put forth to make the condition
Of trade between the United States
bail (nada more equitable. In the
res. Idles March 31. tell, we Import-
ed odds to the value of $184,1134,7/11
f(otm lib Putted States. Over a hun-
dred and thirty-one minims dollars'
Wont. of this total was duty-free
abode. such as raw oottoa, robber,
Wool. and mor other things
dteeded by our menufsoturer;
Because of the hale taetrt w•11, '
(eteadtug In the way of any return
bade se sere able to export only
$103.812.223 of Canadian goods to the
trnit..4 States
Thane figures do not Indicate a
healthy .ondition of business. Tis
diaparlty to volume between what we
hey from the States and what we wall
tetoo great. One of two things must
happening. either a large part of
R.be United States imports represents
w American Investments In Canada,
r the exports of Canada to other
�onatries mot De used to pay our
debts 10 the United States.
I ft has been Mr. Fielding's constant
ktlm to balance Canada's trade with
e United States- He sees that we
tut continue to draw from that coca=
y, vast quantities of raw =Hat -tali
d of manufactured goods that 1t 1s
kelt oonventent or prof{tsable, even bei
Rind the shelter of the tariff. to scilla
i
ALEXANDER SMITH
'Met Liberal Organiser.
a the Dominion because our consum
'Don is stilt relatively- small. He wants
to pay for these importations by a
I/r'eally increased export of Canada's
natural products. The removal of the
United States tariff on the chief pr
ducts of the farm, the forest, the fish
erle•, and the mine gives an opportun
Ivy to do what the Finance MInlste
e
J. M. $INCLAIR
A I bar.I stalwart In Nov• ricotta.. ,
WA6f S AND LABOR
The Cheap Labor Bogey Does Not
Stand Investigation
The wages of labor and the relative
coat of later are two very different
things. Congressman Redfield, of
Nsrw York. himself a tnanufecturer,
proved very conclusively In a recent
speech that low-priced labor Is not
always cheap labor, and that an ap-
parently low wage may be a very hlgb
one. "1 saw them." he says, "driving
piles In Japan --twenty women. each
with a rope. lifted the pile. They were
paid twenty cents a day In our money.
Yet it would cost tour times as much
to drive those piles u It would have
cost In New York." The cheap labor
bogey does not stand investigation.
Mr. Redfield is a specialist in machin-
ery. He found by careful personal is-
qulry that while wages to Japanese
locomotive plants were only one-fifth
of the American scale. the labor cost
of locomortve, on the same speciflca-
tions was three and a half times
greater in the Japanese shop than in
the Amerl an shop.
INSIDIOUS APPEALS
Mon. Charles Murphy Replies to the
Tactics of Conservatives
Hon. Charles Murphy, addressing a
ILlber•1 rally at Brockville. dealt with
[the character of the campaign being
`waged against reciprocity. it was •
(striking commentary on the sltuaUon
'that the anti reciprocity campaign was
�be"i�n�g abetted by the Tariff Reform
,;Z7iusague of England, and appeals were
made to the British born In Can-
ada
'These insidious appeals," comment-
ed the Secretary of state, "are being
,made to the British -born, the large
p- majority of them sturdy Britlsh Non- I
conformists and Liberals. who in the
otherland so stoutly and aucoess-
•lly opposed the very class whose
iooanterparts are banded together In
o- this country to oppose reciprocity,"
has long regarded aa essential to th
continued prosperity ot,the country.
.4:
t t' ♦ '` Y>wit*, erewithal themselves, when it fa hard to get the
-
ti - - - llvili of Canada.:think it will hurt your loy-
alty
ogalty to secure 1100 there for a horse
you can get only 176 for uow.'•
The Minister of Railways was glad
to find manufacturer, artisan, laborer
and termer all for reciprocity. It
would benefit all. He dealt in detail
with the advantages which would ac-
' crus by the larger markets for hay,
grain, dairy produce. poultry and live
stock, making a specialty of hogs. He
quoted the romparativo prices for hogs
paid in the Canadian and American
markets as computed on the first day
of every month for the put five years
to show the higher prices paid In the
Veiled States. Reciprocity would
benefit both producer and consumer,
bet the middleman would find ■
shrinkage in the 126 per cent. profit
he made at the present time.
r . -
A trade so one-sided as to perm!
us to send only $103,000,1100 worth of
Canadian goods to a country whose
s we buy to the extent of 1284,-
000 In twelve months needs to be
Ect on a sounder bawls. The Dust-
men of Canada should do every
Ing possible to enable the farmer,
the lumberman, the fisherman and
the miner to adjust the balance. Flys
Poem after reciprocity goes into force
Canada will export two hundred mil-
lion dollars' worth of her products
♦pry year to the United States, and
Will still have all the surplus rood-
itatfs that Britain now takes to' ship
baross the Atlantic.
To those who fear that the Increase
of our exports to the United States
will predIspoa.- Canadians to annexe -
lm u■ put this question:
Is Canada less devoted to the Em-
pire now than she was in 1887 whet
F7elding'a tariff was brought 1n'
Every honest man will admit that
the ties of affection and loyalty ars
bit- stronger now than they were In
t.. Forteeo ago Canada's
total trade --Imports, exports and re-
exports— within the )Empire was
1111,0(18.000. last year 1t was 1213,-
67,000. Fourteen years ago Canada's
total trade with the United States In
nru, exports and re-exports was
00. last year 1t was 1404,-
17,0(0
ylp see here a tar greater expansion
of Canada's trade with the United
Rats, than with the Empire. Yet that
lzpanalon was coincident with the
rawiig closer of the imperial tis,
Why should • still further increase of
our export trade to the United 81atei
make us diatoyal'
Bushires men dealing daily with!
b7islneas men and business houses la
the United States should ask theft',
selye, that usatlon 1f they do s•
hon -stir and give an honest
the annexation bogey will havesitsterror f ,r them Tie Globe
Benefit to the Fanner
Mr Hoch Lanett -4. speaking at *-
Philippe. Quebec. sketched the bow
fits which would aromas from realm -
THE SIGNAL GODgillICH :ONTARIt►
Mae. Sydney Paper, Speaking at Mat.
rtston, D1*CMsoed the Armors.
then Cry
Speaking at Harrietoa, Hoa. Mt.
Fisher dealt with reciprocity In his
ooavlacing way sad gave the [arguers
facts. Alter Quoting the figures show -
fag the growth of Canada's trade with
Great Britain and the United States.
he went Into detail to show just how
the farmers would benefit from this
agreement He also showed how the
manufacturers were viewing the mat-
ter In a different light now. Refer-
ring to the cry of "tbe thin end of the
wedge," he showed how past revisions
of the tariff had not been detrtteental.
Dealing with the large amount of eapi-
VI that had come into Canada from
*rope and otter parts of the world
Who past five months, Mr. Fisher
led many personal Interviews to
Reeve that capitalists recognised that
the future of Canada would he great.
Asto the annexation cry, he, pointed
Stat that while Canada was getttng all
the advantages of tree trade in nat-
u ral products with the United States
It was not necessary for Canada to re-
It~qulab any rights or privileges en-
tered under the British flag. Colonials
Mare sot considered subordinate now
pathe Hritlsh-born- The future of the
pare was dependent on self -govern -
Meat within the Empire. 1f Canada
prospered it would only make It a
S tronger BrlUsh country. Reciprocity
Would make Canada more prosperon..
HOPES AGREEMENT WILL PASS. •111.041.1111101111.1 .01.0
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Leedoe "Spectator" Says Reciprocity
fd*end Is Come Sooaet et Later.
The
tirades;
(im'at influential U� onim Cua.era-
ti%el weekly of Great Britain, du -
curbed the reciprocity queetk,n in a
recent irate, shurtly after e rote in
tbe ['mired States &satth
e.
Alter describing the re_ipranity situ.
titian in the United *Melee. and pacing
a tribute to President left for the
"resolution. energy and tact" which
he dial/laved iu advancing the utea-
aure in Congress in spite of fisc stub-
born opposiuum, The Spectator goes
0n to say :
The next [nose in the great bargain
of reciprocity has to be taken in Can-
ada. A lively .'arupetgn betwet
friends and enemies of the wear
going on. Mr. Borden. the lead
the Opposition• hes bravely, bu
trust. vainly, carried war into
heart of the enemy's country. ant
lately undertaken the task of co
ing the % ester o fatmere. a bo are
meet convinced supporteu of re
city. The farmers want new ma
for their grain, and the removal o
barrier of tariffs along the Lo
would give a tremendous impetus to
bu
their ainesa They must be difficult
men to conm
vert. 1t sees just possible
that the Canadian Parliament may
have to be dissolved within • few daps,
lo that case the hall would be practic-
ally the sole issue at the coming gen-
eral election in the autumn. It is
the fashion of many tariff reformers
herr to speak it, though reciprocity
were a new idea in Canada which had
been adopted only because of the
blindness of Jlriti,:h statesmen i n
withholding loon Canadians a boon
which they would more willingly have
accepted from the Mother Country.
We do not wish now to enter into any
economic argument whatever about
reciprocity. We desire merely to look
at the situation front an historical and
political standpoint. The truth is that
for more than half a century the
thought of reciprocity with the United
States has never been •ib.ent from the
minds of Catudian.. For some time
reciprocity actually existed. When
Sir Wilted Laurier adopted the policy.,
of Imperial pte(frence in 1897 it Avis
only because he had fsiled to extract
from the United States the terns
which he was then demanding. There
is evidence that Canada would have
struck a bargain with the United
States at tiny moment if only it bad
been uffered to het. It was n.'1
offered in 1897. Now it is offered.
That is the only difference. The
reason of the change of opinion
among Americans since 1907 is. as we
said above, their- weariness of high
tariffs : there u- the wish to buy-
heaply Canadian wheat, which has
orae unique qualities. and thele is an
rgent demand for certain t'anadian•
roducts wbjele are required by lat-ge
mmer•cial �interesta. For ourselves
e Should have been deeply- surprised
Sir R ilfrid Laurier had rejected an
portuoity of reciprocity with Arn-
ica which he had long sou ht
n t
ure is
el of
t. we
thet has We also wish to intt-oduce to you our Mr. J. G. Stewart,lwho comes
con
BANKRUPT\and CLEAN-UP
HARDWARE SALE
WE HAVE moved some of the good stock from the Lucknow
Bankrupt stock and have disposed of the balance of the stock.
We are putting on a big Hardware Sale, including consider-
able goods from our regular stock.
to us with a reliable knowledge of Hardware, having had some fifteen
ripen- years' experience. -Mr. Stewart was recently in business for himself in tube
rkets Wingham, and sold out this Spring, and took a trip West. Upon his
ntirr return we fortunately secured him.
c
A. B. WARBURTON
or the Liberal standard bearers in
Queen's. 1• E 1 p
CO
:if
IO°
WILL BENEFIT ALL
Yet last Februatt Mr. Balfour spoke
the proposed reciprocity- agreement
"an Imperial disaster." We have
owt. that historically- one ought at
est to have been prepared for the
isa•ter. -'
Non. G. P. Graham at Brockville Diss of
cussed Reciprocity Issue as
kb
Hon. George T. Graham, addressing le
W constituents at Brockville. created "d
roars
roars of laughter by referring to the
anti -reciprocity manifesto of Toronto
financiers. "A few of our good Chris-
tian friends in ,Toronto," said the Min
Later, "who find it all right to send
their money to the United States to
move the cotton crops at big profit to
city The county of laprairle nils
M.Mtft tons of hal 10 the Ptah'". OS
which ib* farmers will save 140 a ear
load. ths straw a saving of SEW •
ton on poultry three data a piss&
8* wheat two and a bait coda a blob -
d. Those profits will revise le the
flamedien fernier through reetpls.
The Mining Trade
I he mining Indu•lry Maayy met a•
vitals, •fleeted by reclere tr, assepg
la • syrepatbetle way Mos pica
have shows es nemeses sesaWag
that they are latorostod la *I din*
avow dlbs tt ter•
corral
Reeleeselty will ole than N
r It does Ohms as gtyw
est sad
b• .*
keflu aaedleflumaM1 M 1 . seer toad
HON. SYDNEY F1$I4jR
Kinkier of Arrlrulturs
1 WHAT JOHN A. WANTED
That I. Alt That the Liberals are
After
In his Speech at S- tratford Hon A.
O. MacKay declared that the resole,
Hon passed at the imperial Center
onCe relating to the favored nations
clauses put an end to any possible
Mager of unfair rompeUtlon by three
nations. Canada has only to object to
Invalidate any of these agreements ed.
far as 1t touches Canada
Widely speaking, the only manatee
tinMg ladustrlee affected are comma
•ail farm tmplement factorise. The
allay afaoturera wUl tl a have pre -
nasalise •
ems- I tlladr'ed million -dollar reveries
•ewstry.
re. tiaoKay declared that the LW
in of taint eaacty what
raedsaaid wants.d to 1818
Ifte Ossearrattree say to lases
troll same! alms, a tribute to the
prosperity of Caws& slice the 11►
dials game lase pewee to t 18s
Owe Nayoel Market
Terming to the 1ms111sa of reetyro
Or. at 8l Malin& , Dr. Roland
do wad fast the Hafted Staten was
our isaharal taarkat. aid that the large
of mor esieaoses was nada
Wawa
The M•am�ctarwn ales*,
gees It Res 11 the tr•sty doss eet M
the tura of the
SIM to *bars the el the
40111111r7 It to fair the to Me
isle is malt tamybe, who wisbbss to
au its Welsh. Oitaaagesaidsirers wows
MR. GRAHAM'S SUPPORT
`I feel grateful indeed.' said Hon.
G. P. Graham, at Brockville, "that I
ant supported by those of you wbo do
loot call yourselves Liberal/ 1 appro-
oate your presence here to -day. 1
know how you revere the memory of
Sir John Maodonald, uid bow you sup-
fiorted him all your 11ves, and It 1. em
eottragtng to know that In an issue
welch aboolt be outakle the sphere of
party politics you are prepared to fol-
low fisc last will and testanseat of BIr
John Macdonald ea trade between
Canada and the United states. Tao
flews of the (;oaseryaUve ebb/Hake ea
(Ms matter in kb last tight mea the-
saeqm•aaced today by Mr. Hondas awl ly; t
advocated by Sir Wilfrid Laurier,` ern
the
stint
ne,
er
Aloe
front
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lain
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Let us now turn to the political bide
of the question and understand quite
clearly w-hy Great Britain, so far from
consentiog to adisast.er in approving
of the reciprocity agreement. would
be courtit.g "Imperial disaster' if she
did anything whatever to prevent the
mrseure from becoming law. The
great political consideration, which,
indeed. embraces all the others, is
that it is never to the advantage of the
Mother Country to make any of her
Dominions "feel" poorer. We are not
even assuming that if the reciprocitt-
proposal failed Canada would be
poorer than she otherwise [tight hare
been. It is enough for our purpose to
know -that if by any urgent advice or
intervention from Great Britain Can-
ada were restrained from making her
fargiin with the United States there
would be a large mass of opinion in
('ands whi -h would be resentful. it
would be said float Great Britain had
followed ber mid mistaken course of
not recognizing that her colonies bad
grown a and were iter communities,
fit eel able to choose their own path
in the world. This is what actually
happened hefore 1845, when preference
was widely- looked upon in Canada as
an onerous bond which made the col-
ony a kind of tied house. Let 0b
grant that the Canadians who felt this
were quite 44-Po/wand misguided and
were utterly ignorant of political econ-
omy : they were still Canadians ; they
were still Brit isbtobjerts: and itwas to
the advantage of the Empire that they -
should have been conscious of . spon-
taneous attraction to the Mother
Country instead of agailingoblige tion
make Canada desire to ake Canada perman-
ently a tied house comes from the de-
lusion that two countries cannot be
pees perotra at the *awe time. it is
childish to say to Oanadians that if
they and Amerieaas both become rich-
er through new opportunities of trad-
ing with each other ('anad* will be
guilty- of a disloyal a -t to (;teat Bri-
tain. Of comae we know that tariff
m
orere here do not say that direct -
hey put the blame oft British (:ov-
mente. But there is no escaping
sipotted
NON. 8 P (MAHAN
sYas.ser er tett war. sad °aa`
mple fart that. after all. the pro -1
re'ciprority agreement is an in -
went between the responsible l;oo-
eni. of tSashington and (>tt*wa
1t the three thousand miles a
ler hetweea Canada end the
d State -tit is impossible to main•
a Chinese wall. The reciprocal
ire of human convenience and
an want a between two peoples
ane the sante laogwq'e would tr-
ibe removal of the wall sooner or
if Canadian, yield to the might v and
potent fart• of geography and say that
the wall shall go sooner rather than
later we have no right whatever to
asy tbe•,e nay. All advice, all inter-
ference on our part, can only appear
to a (retain penrrortion of Canadians -
large or small, frost prehaM very large
-ade'te'rminetion to rule theirte.ekets
foe thein. (Ian one co neeive any wore
remelt for Imperial unite i We Nott
selves can comcetiye nothing worm• and
we earesetuy hep► that if t'anadien•
deelds to adept the reeiproeitt hill
1 be fie *mgge*tioo whatever
thethe y =t atYt dal so sser th e t nHoch
' i tl wImola t oethIng tow eat
ask three.
will
•
We will here enumerate some of the special prices, which are good
until Election Day, subject to being sold out.
Cleveland No. 9 Coil Wire $2.25
Deering Pure Binder Twine, 650
feet. Buy it far next year at,
per lb 8;c
Best $2.00 Carbor. Razor $1,25
H. Boker, Shoo 50c
Antelope, $1.50 90c
Two sets Silver'NDinner Knives
and Forks. Regular 85.00 set,
for s3,75
Two dozen Siker Desert Forks.
. Regular $5.00. Special, per
dozen. $3.75
Two Carving Stets. Regular $l.00.
Special:... 75c
Assorted lot of Scissors, ranging ��
in price up t� S'f.00. Your
choice
.i
Keep the PANDORA RANGE
in mind, as it is the best.
Columbia No. 6 Dry Cells
We have a number of„good Cells
we want to clear at ortce.
Here is a chance to renew
your dry Cells cheap -4 Cells
for $1.00
Elephant Ready Mixed Paints
We find it not necessary to carry
two lines of Paint and have
decided to close out the
Elephant at $2.00 per gallon,
or 50c per quart.
We have still a few Screen Doors,
Lawn :dowers, Oil and Gas-
oline Stoves, and other sum-
mer lines, all of which will be
cleared at special prices.
The Howell Hardware Co., Limitedj
lIMIDO
With Every Bag � of Flour
There Goes A Guarantee
That gnaraatee mesas that 1 believe Cream et Se West M be She
best bread flour on the market It your bread damsel beat any
you ever baked before, it it tails to rice at doesn't give extra
satisiactioe in every way, your grocer will pay yoe bassi your
money on return of the unused parties et the
CreamtWest Flour
the hard Wheat flour guaranteed for breed
1f people will fairly sad bosestly try Carew of the Weal lbsy
will have success wick k. Thar, why use goasantae it Ws ase
sure of it.
The Campbell ARCHISALD wTotreub
Z For sale by Jot n I irnLnlI , Blyth : B.vcotu k Nmol he, Cbnton
weetetwaiereesseeNteeteemerdiedireWef
Plows
We have three of the best
and must popular snakes of
Plows—'8 .
11111r°"wair--mr.---
:...The Veri y now ~`
8 Made at Brantford. 8
Fleury Plow el
t •Made at A'trot a - ass . r
The Perrin Plow i..
�ade xtiynritb's Fail..? ,
Right ..n the'warerooni floor
i--
iVe rarry a large stock of
all kinds of Points
Cali in 'and examine or
Plows before buying. We can
snit you with goods and prices
at •
Robert Wilson's
Hamilton Street
Use ripe peschsx peal
and
�Lcut��t. tisn� �t7hiinn w�nai�mes;
ap7atae with � (moo
a d add a tittle amen
at serving if dense&
A dainty dish
fit for a Queen
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