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GODERICH. TBURIwAT. SEPT.:. till
' LAUVIER ANO HIS IMPERIALISM.'
The quality of •'loyalty-.. prevailing
in the restrictionist party- must be
somewhat below par. if one is to
judge by the attitude of the party
press towards the Bourawa anti-Brit-
ish campaign in Qaebec. The Toron-
14, organs of Borden never tire of tell-
ing of the hold which the Botulism.
movement has upon the French-Cana-
dian people, aod while Sir Wilfrid
Laurer and his supporter are using
their influence and energies to stem
the dangerous agitation the Borden-
ites coolly calculate how much politi-
cal profit cal be brought to their own
party by the appeal to the racial and
religious prejudices of the Quebec
people.
The London Free Press. the chief
Conservative citizen of Western On-
tario, on Wedne-Jay of this week re-
ported a meeting at Hull, Quebec,
which was addressed by Mr. Boureesa
"His speech lasted nearly two hours,"
says Tbe Free Press report, "practically
all of it being devoted to the navy. He
spoke on the same lines as at St:' Hya-
cinthe and other places, denouncing Leer-
ier and his Imperialism, desc-ibing bun as
a renegade to his principles and asking
support of Louis Coniine, Conservative
candidate in Wnght county, who he said
bad signed an agreement to be a follower
of Mr. Monk."
(ontlu anything more clearly prove
that :+ Jinn and fast alliance exists be-
tween the Conserv-ative party and the
anti-British Bourassaites? And io its
editorial page The Free Press chortles
neer the prospect of decreased support
for Sir Wilfrid Laurier from, Quebec.
When the ballots :re counted on
the night of September 21st we shall
know what the people of Canada
think ,.f the Borden-Boutassa pact.
pro make, we want to know
what they a . They should be made I
as openly as they w era submitted to
FertiamrnL Public opinion should be
beard upon them. end there the wet-
ter should rest until the Crited States
Congress bad given its sanction and
approval to the action of its represent -
//Lives. 1t would then be the duty of
the Parliament to take ,imiler action
if ip the public interest Na to do."
Thee conditions bave been carried
out to the letter
Perhaps this is why Kr. Robe has
not had a word to offer in criticism of
the arrangement made by Messrs.
Fielding and Paterson. It is in-
teresting, too, to notice that Mr. Roes'
.on. Duncan C Row. is the Govern-
ment candidate in West Middlesex
and is thoroughly in accord with the
reciprocity policy.
And perhaps, while they are on the
subject. the Opposition edilulb might
let & curious public know bow and
when and why they decided to take
up O. W. Rosa ss an expert on national
trade affairs in preference to Sir John
A. Macdonald.
CANADA GETS SOLE RIGHT.
Anti -reciprocity- papers say th&t the
United Sates would have reduced its
tariff anyway, even if Caned& had
not consented to a reciprocal agree-
ment.
This is not at all sure. The low -tar-
iff party is not iu power in the Sates.
and may not be for many years. In
the meantime, by the, agreement ar-
ranged by Messrs. Fielding and Pater-
son, Canadian producers obtain THE
SOLE HIGHT to ship their goods free
of duty into the United States mar-
ked That is they obtain a huge mar-
ket that is protected against all otber
countries.
If the present opportunity is re-
jected by Canada. the United States
may enter into reciprocity with Ar-
gentina, end Canadian products will
be bat red.
Let us tale the United Mates' offer
while we have the chance.
MR. SIF T ON CORRECTED.
The Weekly Sun deals with the
statement made by Mr. Sifton that
lift pet cent. of Canadian farm prod-
ucts "are sold in the home market.
it slices pretty conclusively- that Mr.
Sifton is so far wrong that his state-
ment is ridiculous.
A MORAL QUESTION.
The Montreal Witness rightly bolds
that reciprocity is not merely a ques-
tion of dollars and cents, of material
gain—there Is a great morel principle
fHE SIGIs GODERICH :ONTARIO
EDITORIAL NOTES.
R -E -C -I -P -R -04.:1-T-1" means in -
Crowed prosperity for ninety-nine out
of every busdied peppier in Huron
county.
The anti -reciprocity party is play-
ing the pule of the trusts and monop-
olistic
The
every
involved. It save :
it evinces -..me lack of moral
perception not to Fre that. from a
gove-amental point of view. recipro-
city is eminently- a moral question. It
goes indeed to the very core and cen-
tre. both .1 national and of inter-
national morals. There are few ques-
tions that affe t man's wellbeing that
are not motel question*. The venti-
lation or a church 111 ay seen to some a
merely worldly matter es compared
with the sanctities to which the
church is consecrated. But the need
of oxygen for human vitality, and
therefore for vital religion, is as much
a divine law as "lnuu shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself. and the failure.
to supply- it i- tin -rebore a sin the
greatnels of which is measured by the
greatness of the sanctities imperilled.
But when we come to reciprocity its
mural side is only too obvious. It is
surely the first kw of nations. as of
men, that they should love ..ne an-
other and have all possible hrtdherly
intercoutse with each other. Those
who argue in favor of tariff walls
never cease to invoke tbe opposite
sentimenL With there the nest law
of nations 1- to have as little to do
with each ether as ps.seble. Tbere is.
and cannot help being. a continuous
propaganda of ill will. A more un-
holy attitude of mind than that whicb
underlies its whole appeal there could
mot be.
That is the moral quality of the
question internationally speaking, and
it is almost time our preachers and
people came to realize. it. Then as to
the question between man and men in
our own country. The object of a
tariff, f.otne might once have said. is
to raise revenue for the r try-.
People have almost forgotten that
purpose. The object of • tariff in our
day is to exclude the goods of other
countries that certain persons in our
own may get more for theirs. its
effect is to make the country a dear
one to live in, taxing all for the bene-
fit of some. The moment this process
begins there follows a general scram-
ble for bermes to tax the people.
Everyone who can goes in. These
contending Interests are neceesa,ily-
selfish. and tbeir rule is a reign of
setae/mem. There is nothing they
will not pay to keep in P:uliament
amenities tbat will sustain them in
their privileges, so that the reign of
special intermit becomes a reign of
political corruption. R -hen it is ma-
terial and mundane intervals that are
at stake men seek to gain by ma-
terial and mundane methods, and the
electors/ system of the country is
poisoned. Protection from outside
competition tender' possible combina-
tions against Internet competition In
order to keep prices np u hlpb as the
tariff will protect them. Privilege is
ever the mother o1 corruption. it.
auccwa.ep, moreover, become the
sourer of bitter dissatisfaction, me-
rest and class hatred on tbe part of
three who do ant sham theirs nese
also start forming eosibinatioss t..
fon* the hated of society is their own
favor. is it not a Menai Question
1e it art, as tar a goeteusaeet M con-
cerned. the bora[ quesden t
The Sun ear.:
"According to the Canada Year
Book, 11110, published ,by (he Domin-
ion (.overilmtnt. the total exports
by ('aiieda to all countries in
1010 of agricultural produce and ani-
mals and their products was $144,i80,-
:ft2. The total pre ducts of the farts
for 1910 have been estimated by the
census department at Ottawa at i6lCl,-
L41I.(ale (See summary in The Globe's
FinancialMurvey, Jen. 2, 1911.) The
total ezp•'its are, therefore. 21 per
cent. of the tote! products se eetiruat-
ed. The remainder. 7t1 pet cent.. is
not -old in our home market. but
consumed on the farm and sold in the
bum. market. The proportions eon -
sniped tar tbe farm and sold in the
born? market cannot 1.. accurately
estimated. Probably they are nearly
equal. If so. not more than 37 per
cent. of the total products of the
('anadiau farm is sold in the home
market. That such is the rase mac
he gathered by a perusal of the details
of the Census Department estimate.
Three million, seven hundred and
eighty --eight thousand tons of silo
cont are given and valued. 1s any of
that read in the bone market? elo
with thirty -fru, million Nobel* of
itangels. forty -Dine million of turnip.,
aid one hundred and two million of
este..
G. W. ROSS AND RECIPROCITY.
Opp Mt[ton papers are quoting Soma -
toe G. W. tees ,.e reeetprarit y. Kill.
set u. two.
Mr. Rose mimed 'tiniest a treaty
with the States, end there is no treaty.
It ie simply an agreement for concur
rent Insolation. and either party ear
withdraw from it at any time
fie reel ted that the United Ptatee
tmtrerument should snake tbm flexr
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tletde. The i rotted States (ieseern
Mot did mak. th. Met ran. .
11ir. Ross maid
"int es resolve thaw repreeentaUdyes
with the mimes' esommeey, They have
1 Canada 'will *bow by their votes oa
election day that they resent the slurs
thrown troadoaet from the anti-rect-
proeity peers and platform.
The an wbo vote" for a Borden
candidate votes fur Boni &s a. They
are bees in the same hive.
The Opposition mese tseps telling
"loyalty" cry is au insult to us of hard tines across the lire.
true Canadian. 'rho people of And yet Mr. Borden if he were placed
Tore is ody 0/41 resipl,rity rand .
deer ie West Here■, end rat is re.
Cameron Mr Lewis* pleined to eyes
analog recrprecity.
Res tpr-rrit y would drifter me
the hands of the Yembee trusts,
the r•srstrieteeniet. Yet the Yankee
torts moi o d he&vn ase& earth Eying
to prevent its adoption is the Milted
Ikon's. and they are ammeeled of eel -
Meg tip money to defeat It Is Vesal*,
into
say
The Benefits of Reciprocity.
Editor Signal,—In my letter in your last Tome, 1 dealt
mainly wit.b the loyalty cry, and showed conclusively, 1 think. that
our future reste entirely with ourselves, and that. 'whether recipro-
city- proved injurious or beneficial. tbe claim that it would lead to
annexation is wholly without foundation, and is made only by
those who are ignorant of facts. tot, stupid or prejudiced to reason
intelligently, or determined for party purposes -to misrepresent
their opponents. I propo a in tbis letter to give what seem to me
to be :uflicient reasons for supporting the agreement as likely to
prove of great benefit to Canada
At the outset. however. it may be well. as in my last letter,
to deal with two or three preliminary facts, regarding which some
people seem to have some difficulty in getting clear ideas.
l It is not only p,+rible but usual for both parties to a
her•gain to be heoe4ted by it, and our whole system of guying and
selling and exchanging. whether by individuate. communities or
countries. is based on this tact. 1t doe, not follow, therefore, that
because the United States supportere of the agreement believe that
they will gain material advantage- from it we Canadians must
have been hoodwinked and have got the ov'oret of the bargain.
2) It u not only possible for reciprocity to benefit both Cana -
in producers and coosuniers at the same time, but it is reasonably
✓ 'sin tbat it will do so. For example. the present duties on hogs
and bacon practically give a monopoly to the" capitalists and
middlemen who control the pork -packing industry and enible
them to fix the buyinr price for hogs and the selling price of
bacon. The consequence is that the farmer has to take less fur his
hogs than he would get if he had the option of selling them free
from duty in Buffalo, and the consumer ha- to pay more for bu
bacon than if it were allowed to come in at a lower rate from the
United States. Similar conditions exist in the case of tomatoes
and many other canned goods.
(ori The loss of one market may be more than your tert.alanced
ley the gain of another larger and better one. For example. 'f the reci-
procity - agreement le ...looted the Ootario horsebreeder- and, buyers
may lose the Western market, but in return they wilt have
a nearer. more lasting and better -paying one open to them in New
England mina New York State. Meantime, the Western Provinces,
which in a few years will produce all the h irses they require, will
buy at a lower price from tbeir American neighbc.rs to the -outh of
them. Thus again both the Ontario seller and tbe Western purchaser
will be benefited, And so, too, it will probably be with many kind- of
fruit. tsimilar reidjust,dents will follow in regard to other articles.
and in other parts of the Dominion, but we need have no fear of the
result. History and res..oa alike teach us that trade in natural prod-
ucts Nourishes best when it is least shackled by restrictions. Under
reciprocity' it will adjust itself to exisitiog conditions. and will
naturally seek the shortest and most direct channels, tied thus 'all
parties but the monopolist.+ will be heneflted.
Bearing three facts, then, in mind. 1 think that any fair-minded
reader will adroit that the following are valid reasons for support-
ing the reciprocity agreement :
11 I It will benefit the producers. and.gepecially the farmers,
stocl-raisers and fruit -growers. lumbermen and fishermen, by
giving them additional market*. more competition among buyer,,
and consequently increased prices for their products.
t2) It will tour give a great impetus,in Ontario to sto.ck-rsising.
fruit -gnawing, and high-class farming. Our Ameri an neighbors
want the best and are able and willing to pay 'or it. end Ohtario
•an supply them with it whether it be hotases. cattle. fruit or
barley.
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Whatever benefits the farmers benefits the whole communi-
ty. If they get better prices for their products they will employ
mote wren and will buy tome lieu the menutacturers and the mer-
chants,
(II It will lower the price of many foodstuffs, and thus benefit
the consumers. especially in the case of wage-earue1s 'and salaried
employees. by reducing the present high cost of feeling the house-
hold.
51 It will in one way or another benefit all the Province• of
the Dominion. and will. therefore. tens. to cement Confederation
and strengthen national feeing.
RI With very tew exceptions, the only classes that will he
injured by it are the middlemen and the capitalists. who are the
lest in need of sympathy ani the least entitled to it. Even these
will not be ruined, but will simply he compelled by ••ompetiuun to
content themselves with smaller and more reasonable profits.
(74 As the benefits will thus be ger erally diffused suing prac-
tically all classes, the result will be that people will he more con-
tented as well as more prosperous.
181 With three thousand miles -of frontier between Canada and
the ('ni Sed States, it is impossible. even if it were desirable, to
maintain a Chinese wall between the two countries. Tbe mat who
says, as a Conservative speaker did publicly a few days ago. '•I
am Dot in favor of any truck or trade with our - •uaiw to the
south or of having anything to alo with them io • soci:el way." roly
make% himself ridiculous. intercourse and trade there must he and
will be. and it i. desirable, therefore, to remove as far at can be
done, without int iry- to either country. all cavae, or friction and
irritation.
1411 The removal of duties and vexatious tariff restrictions from
natural products passing either way will contribute meterielly to
this desirable result, sad will in this way nelp to strengthen peace-
ful and friendly relations between the two countries.
Il1h It is now a matter of history that the ttecipr,eity Treaty
of 1144 made Canada more pro.per..us and the people more local
sed contented. and it is resannable, therefore. to expect that the
ptcpoteed agreement would have a similiar effect.
4111 Ever .ince the Dominion was formed the loathes of hot
political parties in turn have been in favor .•f reciprocity ie natural
products.. and we 'Mould be stultifyisg oars ivee if now, wben the
American., having recognized their mleieke, ban. taken the initi-
ative in propelling sling ead adopting is fair sM•aatrm we ebouid rested it.
.12t The opposeste of the sesr.ere admit that the .issue- is in
All exceedingly prosper.'.r ensdltisi. Now the Ilovernrseat under
which the rountry has proweeed es fres y these last fifteen year
ran have oro motive for t'eveaiog its policy, and m •t therefore he
trusted to judge whether the mwave le likely to further the inter -
esu of the Dsmistioa.
1181 Lastly, Lilo •poosests of the measure bevy fulled to tering
forward valid remotes for opposing it. Ibey bate followed the
lawyer s advice to hie son. "Whoa you have no case. &beer your
oppoart-" They give es aesestioae issued of argerwente. decla-
mation issteed of reason. They aslsetate facts and misrepresents
MM. They treat rnpps ltlons a. Net.. and Iben draw serepins
and aboundi ldereeo.s.
Ret 1 have&bendy trespa -.4 tee much on your spade sad woe
reserve the rest of what 1 w1+ to say for root oast iris*
IRBk41
in power would copy the high protec-
tion policy that has bedevilled the
1 trade of the United $iaide.
,Tnere is only ems reciprocity- candi-
date in West Huron, and that is M.
0. ('aemroo.
Vote foe reciprocity and give our
ttsbermen a chance to make • little
more money.
We can best streogtbeo the Empire
ty strengtbening Canada aod by cul-
tivating friendly relations with the
United States.
Caudidate levels iei doing the "Mill
hunt" act. That is the right sort of
campaign for the man who wants to
mislead the electors.
Organized labor in the cities is com-
ing out strongly for reciprocity. The
labor leaders see through the mune
the m000prlista are trying to play.
No wonder the Toronto millionaire*
are howling against reciprocity.
There is going to be a !eduction of
their inordinate profits. and a million-
aire kicky as much over losing a cent
as a poor man dote.
West Huron electors must not he
deluded into thinking that they can
vote for reciprocity in any otber way
than by supporting Mr. Cameron.
Mr. Lewis is pledged to vote against
reziproeity.
While thousands of copies of the
reciprocity agreement have been circu-
lated by the Liberals, the re+.triction-
iste busy- themselves in misrepresent-
ing its terms. Wby do they not let
the people know exactly what the
agreement is ?
The British -born should remember
that it wae the old Conservative Gov-
ernment that refused to assist Great
Britain in time of war, and it was the
present Liberal Government that first
sent a Canadian contingent to help
fight the battles of Gib Empire.
Mr. Borden evidently thinks he is
a greater patriot than Sir Jobb A.
Macdonald was. some voters wbu
supported Sir John before Mr. Borden
wee beard of will help to open the Op-
position
pposition leader'seyes on election
night.
The workingman should bear in
mind that hi,. employment depends
upon the demand tor the good. which
be helps to manufacture. Good times
for the farmers means an increased
demand fur all kinds of goods. and
consequently increased opportunities
for employment.
If a pet -on were asked to came any
cbodition that more quickly than any-
thing else would make Gederich a
city. he would. if he were candid, re-
ply : 1be opening up of a -.hipping
trade ac roe- the lake. Remember
that Goder Ai is the natural shipping
point for a large part of Western On-
tario.
The Landon Advertiser points out
that while fail land in Wayne
county. Mich., is worth $'ladle) an acre.
farm land in Essez county, quite as
near tc Dettoit,• is worth only $50 to
$00 an acre. Why, is the difference?
Because the Essex farmer 'has not tbe
I►rger market which reciprocity is go-
ing to give him. Every farm in
Huron county will 1.e increased in
value be the opening of the United
States market under reciprocity.
The London Free Press quotes from
a Philadelphia farm journal which
had :t notion tbat reciprocity would
lead to annexation. This journal took
is "straw vote" among its readers with
the result that a large majority de-
clared against reciprocity- with Can-
ada. Evidently the readers (United
States people. remernberl did not de-
sire the tion of Canada. or they
did not believe that reciprocity would
lead to annexation. The Free Piess
should try again.
A writer in The Arne rican Magazine
says he travelled 6.000 miles through
r',neda, talked with two hundred and
forty former citizens of the United
States. and "Dot one of them as much
M asked me one question about the
old home.- Antt yet we are told that
thee. people are :,nmexaticnisu at
heart. As a matter of fact. many of
the people from the United States
IA ho are emoting Seto the t'aabdiaa
West are not American -born : many
of them are former (Anaheim. retai s-
iag to their own rn.btry. and others
are people whose parents came from
Greet Britain and !rebind. Norway,
Germany bat other F.oropae count -
rise. and settled ir. the States within
the last fifty years. It will not be a
difficult matter to wake exccllest
Canadians of theta.
There .. Daly Ori. reciprocity resdi-
date t. West Hums, red Met r Mr.
Cameras Mr Untie r pledged r vets
awe* reemming.
4r. NewMtde-- 'Roe, Men Hrnr
thee.'" a sake at elle- One tMt 1
nt pelf. ,tows ! - Mother -- , .non
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