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The Signal, 1911-9-28, Page 2TsVDSOAr. alarms eta AK 1W1 TH SbrailkSional OOMKRICH. OPITABJG. PUBLI$H11D BVSRY THURSDAY Sr TSi SIGNAL yNT n *a es.. Limited TelsobTeres et' sires rsease : pew per .teen to elvaaea T. Ue. a els...b las. W▪ SJ s Peer rtsitaly 1a alumnafleilmearthere who ten wirwlselr b safl wwtII o der maibeVs _arr btesu -aoladad se .f the hal .t .. early a date a. Wow aMow et Mine* is dealte& both old the and sew address should b. siren. *4—i grog o- wns : Ioe sl and .tor at oar adv.rtusswK lee pas Um ester t ettttnl Grill s sand lierearebPtor each • \..pard obis" ewtays Ws to se loth. Bseiw .ads d Az !tees and ander. a par rear. Ad .t II.t, roma, Strayed, air- nations wanise. Trim. elartims Wanted. Houma for ♦ale et to Beat Paces. for Sole or to Bio Artlds per Ws stn. ease imertion K�no�tt. rerceediatHaim • tia ter mob 'abasement menti. Lamer advertise- ments first id errti.► war eneelse•fiaa reeding in ordinary +saes Mr Baa Na lr than Maw me Aar Neots notice, the object at 'Mob 1. the opsnyrr bead& et any individual or areal- tloa. co be ooadde ed an adv+ tiermsat and charged accerdhgty. Rater tar display and contract advertise - was win b. gists .a application. Address aL eom.oml.ati.o. to THE 810911 L PRINTING C0.. Limited. Godericb Ont G''DRRICH. THURit4AT. SEPT. n. 1911 EDITORIAL NOTES. A Cabinet -with Foster in it would be a disgrace to Canada. The pork -packers are still .hang- ing up to the limit for bacon. Some people predict for the new Government a merry life and a short oce. There is no annouocewent of a re- duction in the price of canned goods. For the sake of appearance John Ransfoid ought to put on another man or two at the salt works. The Tories had a tine big time at Clinton on Saturday, we hear. •• We" didn't get an invitation. What's the matter with having Hon. Geo. P. Graham back in Provin- cial politics The field is not over- crowded. The Dominion Cabinet will have to be considerably enlarged to take in all the members who ezpeet to get port- folios.. The Bourassa crowd io Quebec is overjoyed at the defeat of Laurier. The same crowd is likely to give lllr. Bordeu trouble. thing tike an in a total vote o,, from 12.(1 to 15,000, isn't The Star's state- ment • slur upon the loyalty of a very number of the people of this y ? The Star should calm melt ; the ty of the Empire does not depend upon election result*. oou ({oo..rvatives are suggesting that Sirl Wilfrid Laurier would no a good man for the High Oomwiemiooer•hip is London. 8o he would be; but they can't Ret rid of him in that way. He is going to remain in Parliament and lead the Liberals back to victory. We fancy it is a pretty good guess that Mr. Borden will continue the Canadian navy policy of the Laurier Government. Our local contemporary appears to be very jealous of The Signal. Well. we don't want to claim any especial credit for The Signals part in the sc- ent campaign. but it the Star man will put on his spectacles and look over the figures of last week's elec- tion in West Huron he may discover that The Sivnal had some influence attar all. Tasking Goderich town, Goderich township. Colborne. Ash- field and West Wawanosh, where this great family journal largely circu- lates, there was a reduction in the former Conservative majorities from WO to 13i -enough to have defeated Mr. Lewis if the other portions of the riding had remained as they stood in ION. It was the turnover in Clinton and Hullett. outside The Signal's sphere of influence, that defeated the Liberal candidate. However. like Mr. Lewis, we .re modest and do not claim "all" the credit. The strength of tbe liberal candidate and the popu- larity of tbe Liberal cause were fac- tors artors in the comparatively favorable results in the nearby portions of the riding. Probably "the British born" will soon have the melancholy satisfaction of seeing the customs duties on British goods increased. Now that the Conset•vatives are in power they should investigate those alleged land deals in which Mr. Sifton is raid to have been concerned. Loyalty and lucre make a great team. The voters exercise their loy- alty and the Big Interests get the lucre in the shape of tat divi- dends. Ulster threatens to revolt if home rule is granted to Ireland. The Ul- stermen are local, it Appears. only when they have their own way. The price of wheat dropped in Win- n ipeg imwed etely after the elections, and the price of hogs fell oft in On- tario. But the fanners voted to have it that way. The proposal for an export duty on pulpwood. which Mr. Lewis i000rpor- ated in his •'platfcrm," will now die a natural death. The Signal always claimed that the paper -making in- dustry on this continent would be .ttra:ted to Canada in the course of time owing to the relative abnnlance of the raw materials on this side of the line, and that an export duty on pulpwood was unneoessary *ad might provoke retaliation on the part of the United States. The Signal's view of the matter is already being confirmed if the statement of The Toronto News is correct, that scores of paper mills are .bout to cross the boundary line from the United States into Canada. The News attempts to create the im- pression that this is the result of the defeat of the reciprocity propoeale, but it gives no reasons to warrant this suggestion. As a matter of fact, the reciprocity agreement had nothing to do with the matter. And while Cana- dians are glad to witness this move- ment of the paper -making industry to Canada, they must not fall into the error of believing that it is a step to- ward. conservation of our natural re- sources. Chopping down our forests to manufacture paper for the printing, of Yankee newspapers le not conserve - Dori, eteept in so far as it is better to chop thein down and ',ell the pulp- wood than to have them burned down. Forestry experts tell to that many times am much timber is burned as is used for commercial purposes. Con- servation means the employment of methods to prevent such waste. The mergers and the combines con- tinue their work of despoiling the people. Some day the people will wake up and. finding bow they have been robbed, will want to hurt some- body. The Tory; farmers who wanted re- ciprocity, but who stayed with their party, thinking tney "world get it, anyway," have surely learned a lee - .on. The way to get what you want is to vote for it. SIGNAL UODERICH, ONTARIO The Premier -elect. iasdss AdreriLer Mr. Borden's re surd s. leader of the Oppueitioc gives no clue to the course he will pursue as leader of the Gov- ernment on any question immediately before the country. lo 19110 the Canadian Manufacturers Association tried to stampede the Laurier Government tato • policy of high protection.' Mr. Bordeu over- estimated the form beLind the move- ment. and hast.sed to put himself at the head of it. Thom who cried "let Well Enough Alone" in the late cent - page and hn..trl that the Fielding tariff n-ae the National Police in green goggles ant false w linkers. must ac- count not only for Kir Charles Top - pet's dire predictions in 181/7. but for the following resolution moved by Mr. Borden in the Horse of Commons dur- Provincial illectieris. Gimlet Y Kemi-offlciaUy the aasonocemeat somas from Toronto that Sir James Whitney will appeal to the country, probablywithin t space brief spaof r-tx weeks, an aoiorwtiou of his ad- miniatratico of Pros-inelal affairs. The announcement 11 not unexpected. It was generally understood that Sir James was going to he guided by the result* of the Federal elections as to the advisability of s. -eking the endor- wtion of the electors at an early date. although in the natural course of events his adnanistr.tion w anN have. rt ill a year 1.. roan to view of the aanounconmut it would seam Sir Jamas is gong to take advantage of the wave of t'ooeervetiam which hoe .sppied over the country before it .uh- sides and that be lopes to sail back to tog the session of ions: power on it. 'That tbe House, regarding the op. Before be goes to the electors. bow- eration of the present tariff as unsatis. ever, Sir Janina in justice to himself factory, is of the opinion that this and those who.. conedeoce he now country requireri a declared policy of enjoys, has some very important work such arguers, protection to its labor, to do. Tb. people will demand. and agricultural products, manufactures have a right to expect . that the con - and industries. as will at all times section of his Minister who stands secure the Canadian muket for Cana- guard over the Provincial Treasury diens." with certain Anancial tranee -tion • It sues about this time that Mr. Tarte with the defunct Farmers Bank. be also thought he saw a high tariff wave fully explained. They also hat a the routine; and. like Mt. Barden, plunged right Ito demand that Dr. Beattie Nee - in. The raid having failed, except it* bits, who. twits than even W. B. arousing the low tariff sentiment of Travers, is alleged to be responsible the West (whom chief spokesman era,. for the wrecking ot'tbat institution. Mr. Mifton. of all men !) the agile Mr. Borden side-stepped the issue as coolly as he had leaped from the Liberal into the Conservative fold when he was a member of a law firm in receipt of fat fees from th 014 Tory regime Later a no ton Toronto Conkerratn•e nese. he inverted in his Halifax platform the paper 810,000, immediately after the famous "India -rubber" tariff plank deposit of 8fie,01rt w•a. made by the which could be stretched to wart toy Government, that should be cleared opinion or party exigency. His i.teet up. Dr. Beattie Nesbitt is the man to curve is the proposal of a tariff com- mission. which may enahle him to shelve an emharraasing question dur- ine his 'hot term of office Mr. ft Orden showed even greater Kimble .s on the naval question. At the hei •'.t of the German panic two years ag,, last spring. in an access of patriotism he joined with the Govern- ment in Iaunebing the Canadian navy project. He made a speech on that occasion against the policy of money contributions to the Mother Country later in the yen. he delivered another at Halifax, expatiating on the•benellts to Canadian industry through build- ing Canadian warships at home. But the party schemers of Toronto and Winnipeg discovered that a golden chance had been almost missed. They reasoned in this fashion : "Laur- ier has given the Nationalists a handle in Quebec by doing anything stall tor Imperial naval defence, and we can make trouble for him in the English - be diligently sought for and brought to justice Dpp Hon. J. J. Foy. Attorney -- General. Thar. are certain things about the deal by which Dr. Beattie Nesbitt received a loan of 125000 and The West acioat er tiasetto says "For our part we never saw in recipro- city any danger to the umpire. be- cause that would mean the Empire depended nn • tariff wall which is in the keeping of the United States." Perhaps Mr. Borden will mod commis- sioners to Washington to hog Presi- dent Taft to keep up the duties against Canadian wheat, barley. oats. live stock. dairy products. etc.. 1a order that the Rmpire may is. marwd. tier mess or less esteemed local oon• seeapessry claim. that Canada was saved to the Rmpire ivy the roman or the .lectin.e last week In view of FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Foresight Montreal Herald. A look at the vote in Saskatchewan and Alberta shows how wise Mr. Haultaio was to keep off the Borden baud wagon. With Colors Flying. Montreal Herald. The Liberal party had to be beaten some time. After fifteen years in of- fice the time could not profitable be much longer delayed. No Liberal who values the party's traditions could wish to see it perish in such death throes r the Conservative party went througb between 1841 and 1896, or hanging on to life by a thread like the Liberal party in Ontario atter thirty years of Mowat rule. in the election of 1896 the Conservative lead- en gave half their time to fighting eacn other. In this election the Lib- eral leaden and the Liberal rank and Ale bare stood shoulder to shoulder and fallen with their faces to the toe. It took the Conservatives teaears to begin their recovery. The Liberals are able to start with unaltered pur- poee on the m,n•ow of defeat. Ne Tariff Inc....., Toronto alar.( We do not share in the opinion that the new Government will have n man- date from the people to increase the tariff. What • majority of the people rejected was not a removal of taxes. but a particular method of removing taxes. They dwclarr& not against the tariff schedules of the agreement. but against the agreement itself. We think that their fears and •nspleions were without ground, but their judg- ment must stand. and must be obeyed. They did not vote against lower taxa- tion. still less did they vote for higher taxation. The manufaetur.rs of Canada have enjoyed unexanipled pro.p•tity under a moderate tariff. The action which poise of them took in the recent elec- tion showed that they is err afraid of dieturbanos. A wire is to disturb- ance would he a demand for tariff lo - crease. The farmer in rtntario is not a lover of high tarifts, and it world he foolish to interpret the rota on rerl- pree ty in that way. Th. Westerni farmer is still less • friend of high tar ifes. The minute surer* will probably the tont th.l the cheat► Huron ridln take the adyice whkh some of them es rave in the recent ateee inn Let Well pies eeabtsed majorities of some Aimee e r up that mystery. Yet be has been wandering around the city of Detroit inviting arrest in the past tour weeks and was never troubled by the Ontario Government authorities, who have placed a price on his bead that would scarcely egeial the reward which a farmer would offer for the re- turn of a stray steer. it may be that Sir Jams@ and his ministers have been so busy bnlping to elect Hon. Robert Laird Borden that they have over- looked this little matter. But the people have no's. It may be that there were certain things which Dr. Beattie Nesbitt knew. as former sup- porter of the Oonservative Govern- ment in Ontario, and debtor or the Farmers Bank, that it would not be wise to acquaint the electors with -on the eve of an election. That is the construction many people have al- ready put on the tardiness of the At- . deyret std fie waythat, they cat M minde to ve dW renily is to bring** . doctor back and p show the ops Ghat there is no oonn•etioa betw..o loans to the Toronto sad Dr. Ieieet10 sed the.o . The he Pros viraeial Goveere.aat. 'Ilse • far adduced would indicts that these M sad Bir JAMAS owes it to himself sed the electors to show that there is sot, if he Gain. Thsre is aaotbet matter which Sir James shasld also maks himself clear ou and that is as argument he ad- vanced several years ago that when there i+ a Cnn..rvae iv. Governwent ie power in Ottawa there should be a Liberal Government in power is On- tario. And whoa then is a Conserva- tive Government in power In any of the Ps -evinces there should be a Liberal administration at the helm in Ottawa. That is ooe of the *mo- menta advanced by 8ir James, than plain Jame. P. Whitney, when be was an aspirant to the premiership of the Province. Be may have reversed his views sines this, esti it be has he owes it to the people to tell them what his views are at the prevent time. Then are several other ques- tions wbich Sir Jaime. r gay be called upon to answer, including his active part in the campaign just closed, but those already enumerated will last for a abort time at least Sir James has now the opportunity offered to take the electors into his confidence. Will his do it? apeaakisg provinces, od the ground that be has not dope enough. Give us a pretest for raising the loyalty cry against him in the English provinces, and let the Nationalist* deal with him in Isis own." The accommodating Mr. Bolden did as he was told. He turned a complete somersault without turn- ing a hair. He denounced the Gov- ernment's plan which he had god - fathered a year before, and declared for a monay contribution which he hal denounced. Obedient to the sig- nal, the hounds of the party started their baying at Laurier. The only Ca- nadian premier who ever moved a hand to aid the MIr.ther Country by sea or land was pelt"! with the epithet of "traitor" in Ontario. while in Quebec the Nation♦list pack was at his heels, with Bnurassa and Monk at their head, yelping at him as the tool of a bloodthirsty imperialism. Thi" would have been the anti- Lanrier plan of campaign in tine gen- eral election had reciprocity not in- tervened. When the terms of the agreemef*t were announced, the op- ponents of the Government were al- most speechless with astoniehutent that the Government had been able Un wring from the United States terns so favorable to Canada. At (east a score of Opposition members found themselves compromised by former .peecbes urging just such a meuure. In fact the whole Conservative party was compromised by its own Huth history ; the Government had obtain- ed what all previous governments had wanted and begged for over half a century. The Toronto News. The 01- t awa Citizen. The'Ottawa Journal. and The K ingetoo Standard, representative Conservative journals. raised a chorus of approval. But the Big Interest*` soon squelched all heresy in the party, and the mas- ter strategists jumped at the oppor- tunity of a more thriving traffic in loyalty than the naval ieeue afforded. The longer of Laurier•s' "separatist" navy was put hack into its box. and the annexation scarecrow took i1. Place. The fly in the ointment eyaa Mr. Bouraseas flirtation with reci- procity in Quebec. Mr. Borden wooed Mr. Bourassa openly and azdently, blowing him kiseee in his manifesto and in his London speech. with much effect that he was hailed as a convert to Nationalist views. "He has appar- ently found." said Mr. Bourasaa's paper gleefully, "that appeals to Into perialiat eintiment carry little weight." Mr. Bourses* showed his gratitede immediately by turning his hack on reciprocity as Mr. Borden had turned his back os Great Britain. Although not exactly birds of • feather. the Conservatives and Nationalists agreed to flock together. This unnatural and unholy alliance prevailed. Mr. Borden will now be asked to pay the price. which is an absolute surrender of the principle of Canada's obliga- tion to the Rmpire in the matter of Imperial naval defense. As he has taken three curves within two years. this artful dodger iv doubtleas pre- pared to take another in any direction that will serve tbe party need of the hour. Not having been a member of the regime which crumbled to pieces in 1886. Mr. Borden ought to have en- tered "re with • clear right of way. but his shiest and ewione have piled op difficulties which confront him at the outset. They will not he thrum - vented by such trickery as he felt tom to practise in the irresponsibility of Opposition. I�. One ENet;on Methods. nitro* Now.. They who have bad occasion to ex- amine the daily Canadian newspaper, have been shocked as well as amused at the varies the ab ondanre the ma- lignity of the deliberate falsehoods (bat have been perpetrated rnn.(antly i on IWt.ide from the beginning b the sad at the eampairn Nothing like It was ever kaisers In American politles a�-r--r . (o'LGL4 ♦ St Th(l:nitsOit' COWL STRATFORD. ONT. Our eegisttataw stesUly eze.edettat at previe. years Why? Om edema is Go bast a its kind in rte West ; beat in °Surma given. beet ie teachers am sad beet In asrdati.g grsawntes to Cor melmatMstare a dense. Ha.lau s the paw th�ree� bade se this spyMm�ittems for halo wkldi we uses eat sappy. We Mrs them &rhesus — twmmmrsia/ Shorthand and Get our hem catalog's* ter tat paetica Oo.sae.ce your Minn steam D. A. McLacwtax. Principe/ "Clothes that look the part" is the way one of our admiring customers described the Semi -ready suit he had bought. We have some really fine English serges at $20 and $25. "Setter thee the leu Tailor's len" McLEAN BROS. GODERICH S CHOOL S HOES THE TiME. has come again to get your boys girl. prepared to start the fall terns at school. They will require to have a good serviceable. solid leather pair of Shoes : the kind that will stand tbe test in any weather we are likely to have at this season. To get that kind. at the lowest possible prices. come and see what we have to offer, We have been very careful in +erecting our etoek of School Shoes. sad are prepared Its supply you wit& the beet that he proennd from the lesdiag asaut.ct'leers. REPAIRING and ran Downing & MacVicar North Side of Square, Ooderfch : a-WirK ""rffi r" W. A ?MOON & MON, FLOOR RUGS We are offering soros ezoeptiosN values in a let a Rage which were very late in arriving for our spying selling. Oriental designs, enroll and floral. in every sins. VELVET RUGS 7; feet * 0. 9 fest z 9 9 feet x 12. 104 fest z 12, 104 fest x 114 feet, at 110.00, 11100, 5.00, 11$,110, eso.ou. $11360. AXMINSTER RUGS Former prices $23.09 to 860.00; now 119.30 to 147.00. DRESS GOODS Special values in new 64 -inch navy and black Dress Saegee ; fancy tweed effects for mita. most serviceable and stylish, at 50c, 75c, 11.00. 91.60. COATS Ladies' long Coma, semi -fitting and loose backs. very etythh, in beavers series and the much -talked -col reversible cloths; many are pattern Corte, that is one of eecb, eioeptloenl velem and very stylish. at, each—$7.54 810.00. 11100 $16.00, 121.00 and 826.00. LACE CURTAINS S ial sale of twenty pain Kates Brussels Net Curtains, X51) inches w' e, yar'3 long, plP nn insertion, applique tr) and trimmed; alar $4 60; at, pair LL•��l Ten pairs Brussels Net Curtains, toil size. very line 4L? �n vine and enroll patterns; regular $5.00; at. per pair. • LINOLEUMS tad CARPETS Our new tall showing is now all in, and the pattern. and designs are very pleasing and very new. We invite your iospec- tioe. All carpets made and laid free of extra charge by ua. r W. ACHESON a SON What Has Created the Demand for Our Clothes?I___ —Bering just a little better than the others MARTIN BROS. A Big Shortage in Pandora Ranges A LETTER THAT EXPLAINS IT3&1Z London, Ont,, Sept. 23rd, 19i1., Messrs. Howell Hardware Co., Goderich, Ont. Gentlemen 1— On account of shortage of Pandoras, we have been compelled to ship you a Pandora with "Gun Metal Finish." We are writing you so you will not expect this to be a regular occurrence. We have simply done this to try and fill our orders as promptly as we can. ..The pressure of business has been so great this year that we cannot keep up with the regular lines. The usual extra on the Gun Metal Finish will not be in force in this case, the ordinary price ruling. WJT/VC. Yours truly, The McClary Mfg. Co-, W. J. Thompson, Sales Dept. As this letter fairly indicates the big shortage in PANDORA RANGES at so early a date in the season, we•would strongly urge upon our customers the advisability of selecting their Range without further delay. We are doing our best to protect your interest, but it is impossible for us to forecast how many will be required, as indica- tions are, from what we gathered at our exhibit at the Fair and other sources, that we will sell far more PANDORA RANGES than we will be able to get. Even if you cannot take your PANDORA in at once, buy it and we will keep it for you. The above PANDORA sells at $3.00 extra, but on account of getting it as we do, the first customer can have the benefit without extra zost. Howell Hardware Co, Limited