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The Signal, 1917-9-20, Page 2! TatrasDA v, SEPT. 20. 1917 CH- B SiGNAL PRINTING 00., lien. Pvat.taatsu Tips BIYMai. 1. p.blleb./ • every Thursday WS �eaT es the e e Bund eltreet.Oodedob Ontario Tetephoue No. M. 'Jeucrurrlor Taoistic -Due Dollar and Plfty tit. leer year t It paid stnctlr lu dvauoe One �pP 11.r willbe accepted - to oubeortbare to the dimes the rate le Dollar and rift, (Hwa strictly in d a� nc . One$ubeoribetr who all to reoeivs TxO NaiNat. regularly by mail Sill router a favor by wyualutiog the publish• or the teat at u early a dateere poaYble. Whoa change of address 1 deetr*d. both old and tat new address should be given. Remittances may be wade by beak draft, stones money order, rout-otaos order, or registered letter. Saber notions rosy commence et any lima y and ADPEa RT1 Na T\Iola.—sao tfor *savant advertisements will be Oven on apelt- oation. Legal and otbnr .lather )dvsrtIonteua, ea meta per Ione for lest insertion sad tour 0010 per line for each subespwat Insertion. Measured b •*rale 01.0114 nonpawave User to an Inch. Buduges oar s a six lime and under, Pive Dollar. per year. AdvsriLs- meba of Loot, Pound, Strayed. tiltnatlde. Vacant. Situations Wanted, House+ for Sale cc Root, Poem. for Sale to to Reef, Articles R..1., eta., not exoeedlug eight hues. Twenty. eve Cent. each Merrtlm : One Dollar tor e- ,t mouth, rifty Coot. to: set hoshala.00t moot& Larger adeertt emeoa lo iooporrtoAa- oounc,meua In ordinary reading ta. , Teo Cana per line. No notice lege tbaa Twenty - err Gate. guy special notice. the o4 act of which to the pecuniary benefit of any aodlvid- eal or aswdatioe. W be considered an d var. Ueement e114 channel aomelieely. To t'owarerovotere.- a ooappeera000 of our suburrlber• and readier* le oordtally In vit. towards making THE Anew at a weekl7 record f ell local county rind distrfot dotage. No coat munttiation will be .treaded to unlade it coo• fain the name and address of the writer, on neoswarily for publication. but w an svideuea, of good faith. New. item..noel& reach TAE Sr9Nat, oeos not Woe than Wedoeeday soon at each week. ported by a Government commission to be worth nothing? Why should there be an arbitration when the Government may, under the agreement of 1914, by which Mackenzie and Mann received forty-five million dollars, take over the C. N. R without any further payment? M st iple have the idea that, if accounts ere balanced. Mackenzie and Mann would be found to be owing the people of Canada a good many millions of dollars: but The Star does not propose that there should be any "appraisement" of this kited -that would not suit its Toronto friends who hope to suck a few more mil- lions out of the railway before it gets out of their hands. The Government leader in the Senate has promised that a litrgt will be set upon the amount which the arbitrators may set upon the stock to the hands of Mackenzie and Mann. Wilt The Star explain why, if it is simply a matter of doing justice to the holders of the stock, any limit should be set by one party to the arbitration? Does it mean that the Government has already come to an agreement with Mackenzie and Mann and that the pretended arbitration is just one more of the transparent farces which the present Government has imposed upon the people of Canada? „We agree with The Star that the ques- tipn is not a partisan one. In our view the issue is between the people of Canada and the interests connected with the • C. N. R. The Government has taken t side of the interests as against the peo of Canada; The Star ars:, has taken t side of the Interests as against the 0o9 of Canada. Surely it is nut partisanship The Signal to speak in behalf of t people. In discussing this question The Si has barely mentioned the Liberal Oppos tion at Ottawa. but The Star drags it and says that in 1914 the Opposition su ported a resolution declaring that "if t C. N. R. defaulted in the agreement the being entered into with the country it should be taken over at a value to be ar raved at by arbitration, not to exceed 330.000,000." Why should The Sta make such a statement? In the dobe Ottawa a few days ago Sir Wilfrid Laurier touched on this very point. He stated that in 1914. after it had been decided that the Government, in consideration o the grant of =4.5,000,000 then made should be in a position to take over the road without any further payment in case default, tthe Opppsition proposed an R. mgstill ken over by the Government within THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 201917 WHY DOES THE STAR MISREPRESENT? The Toronto Star still tries to keep up the pretence that the issue in connection with the C. N. R. deal is whether the country is to acquire the bankrupt rails way or let the C. P. R. acxlture it. This is not the question at all just now and The Star knows .it. The question is whether the country is or is not to be bled to the tune of fifty or sixty millions for the benefit of Toronto interests that have acquired the support of The Star in what most been rightly termed "the ost daring steal ever attempted on Parliament." in case of default on the part of the C. N. R.. Parliament has power to take over them road without the payment of a cent, hav- ing already paid for it by tmenae grants of lands and money. The C. P. R. bogey is simply an attempt of The Star to divert attention from its own alliance with a gang of thieves. To these remarks of The Signal two weeks ago The Toronto Star rejoins: This is very strong language of a kind much used In politics when an election not far away. The Star is m no ore he pie he le t in he trial THE SIGNAL - GODERICII, ONTARIO A Daily Treat Alw Acceptable and Delicious. Black, Green or Mixed N� IGet a package and enjoy a cap of Tea "In Perfection". it would be a very popular stroke -except of course, with the cold -storage companies who are making big war profits. in The Gavernment commission to vesti gate into the findings of Comra'sser O'Caor in his investigation into the prices of bacon and other foods is no sitting at Toronto. When it has made it report wilt there be another commission to investigate into the present investiga- tion of the former investigation? While the Government's new franchise act was being warmly condemned at the Dominion Trades Congress at Ottawa this week. the Sxial Service Board of the Methodist church of Canada, meeting at Toronto, passed a resolution condemning he same measure. One of the ministerial delegates declared that "nothing more Prussian was ever done in Prussia than the way the hill was put through." Labor and the cloth unite in opposing the breach of faith committed by the Borden Gov- ernment. m n W s in P- he •in the House of Commons the other day An interesting passage at arms occurred n between Col. Currie, the hot-headed mem- ber (or Simcoe. and Sir Wilfrid Lauver. Col. Currie charged the Liberal leader with responsibility' for the men who were r1 "using dynamite and threatening dag- I gees" in Montreal. Sir Wilfrid turned the stables by pointing out that with one ex- ception these men belonged to the cnm- inal class. having been released from f, prison by the Minister of Justice on ' ticket -of -leave. The only one of the lot who had 'any political associations was Lalumiere. and he was a Conservative Nationalist and assisted in the election of ' Mr. Coderre as a member of the Borden Government. Col. Currie did not pursue the subject. WI4AT OTHERS SAY. A Breach of Faith of additional provision whereby the C. N. R it be should NOT defaulti a air period at a sum not exceeding 1)0, ,000, to be fixed by arbitration. This very different from The Star's version R. j The Government had already provided he taking over of the railway if it d become bankrupt; the Opposition shed to provide for public ownership of road if it should become a success- , prosperous concern. Will The Star say that Sir Wilfrid's tement of the position taken bythe position in 1914 is incorrect? If it is 'incorrect, what excuse has The Star its gross misrepresentation of the facts? The Star driven so hard hy its task- sters in Toronto that it has to resort eliberate untruth? he Star could not.conctude its article bout bringing in the C. P. R. bogey. Star knows, if it knows anything, t railways are not bought and sold like 'sages, and that only with the consent he Parliament of Canada could the P. R. acquire the C. N. R.. The Star not get away from the fact that, by ua of an agreement embodied in an Is in i( g alliance with any gang of thieves than to The Signal is. When our Goderich temporary says that the question j now is not, and that the Star knows it not. one as to whether the oau►try is acquire the C. N. R. or let the C. P. acquire it, we can only reply that we not know anything of the kind and refuse to take The Signal's word for it We believe in the taking over of C. N. R. and the express and tekgra l companies that beig to it, andoperating of these as public services, do not believe that there is, or ever w the slightest prospect that the pr Government, or any Governorens Canservative or Liberal, will would confiscate the C. N. R. seize it in the way some people now rash say could and should be done, without arbitration or appraisement of the valu of what is to be taken over. In advocating the taking over of t C. N. R. and subsidiary companies at t present time, we do so because we belie cert rt use 000 is to Is do (, we shoal t he wi ph , the r ful ase, event, Oetpa or not °r for lyI anlls es ma hell tod he vel wit i- The he tha bel cab aof t C. 0 Jcan e vitt that i( it is not done now, when cond tions not only permit it, but force t issue upon the country, it never will •done -not until another generation struggling with the complications of wrong system, musters the courage to end it. It is so easy for political partisanship t denounce the proposed taking over of th C. N. R. as a steal, "the most daring stea ever attempted on Parliament." But ho could any railroad system be taken ov except by taking it over, and by appraise trent of the value of that which is take oVer? Three years o, when the last hand-ou of forty-five millions of dollars was mad by the country to the C. N. R., th Liberals in Parliament advocated the oak ing over of the road, and we have n doubt The Goderich Signal• like The Star favored that course. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Wilfrid 1914 moved a resolution providing for the taking over of the road within a cer fain period. All the members of the Opposition voted for it. That resolution declared i( the C. N. R. defaulted is the agreement then being entered into with the country it should be taken over at a value to be arrived at by arbitration, not to exceed 130.000.000. The C. N. R. has defaulted. and the Government now within that penod, adopts the declared policy of the Liberals of three years ago, and the Opposition denounces the plan is iniquitous beyond anything in human experience. Several men prominent in the Liberal Opposition do not believe in the public ownership of railways. We do. The Goderich Signal will find in that fact a complete explanation of any difference of opinion that exists between The Star and lair. Frank Carvell, M. P., and others in regard to the taking over of the C. N. R. The question is not a partizan one, and are refuse to assist in making it one. if 1 act of Parliament, the C. N. R. property, ,e in case of default, becomes the property er of the people of Canada without any I • further payment, artd any further amount' now paid for the property, whether thirty t , millions, or fifty millions, or sixty millions, e is Just so much wrongfully taken out of _ the pockets of the people of Canada, and o ; wrongfully handed over to the predatory interests that y controt the Government -and The Tor to Star. + ' Street. If he were to appoint to that or- ifice a member of the Morgan firm or a member of any of the other great finan- cial houses, he would raise throughout the United States such a storm of protest Remember the Fair next week. ! as would compel the withdrawal of his nominee. In Canada we have followed The Weekly San, The disfranchisement of naturalized aliens is a breach of faith for which there is no justification. Their number a is too small to influence, in any event, the t election or, in Mr. Meighen's high -sound- not ing phrase, the destiny of our country. • Our conclusion is that these men are de- prived of the right to vote as a.foilJor. the a real enterprise, which is to multiply the snidier vote by enfranchising the soldiers' w women. 't is a clumsy and unscrupulous venture in soldier politics. which, if re- spect for democracy is not a mere affec-' tation, ought to stir every citizen to just 1 in I indignation. The expression of public 1 t opinion having been we are unable to estimate the effect of the Act on OUR OTTAWA LE still hate war their constitutional rights are to be taken away. On the pretext that they are not to be trusted, they are de- praved of their votes, but are still allowed to pay the taxes which make the continu- ation of the;war possible. That they are disloyal, because they are not keen on war, is nut a final state- ment. Many of their sons have enlisted and are fighting for freedom, Canada and the British Empire. There are many Gali- ciana in the ranks. Many Canadian citizens with German names offered, and many were refused. Many who succeeded in enlisting were sent back when they got to England. The enemy -aliens, so-called, were at least as eager to do their duty as the native -burn Canadians. It is a safe guess that any enemy7iien who is bad enough not to be allowed to vote is bad enough to be interned. No- body would object to a Franchise Act which would exclude interned aliens or 1 -- such as refuse to take the oath of alleg lance when asked. To go further than that is to trespass on our charter of free- it'jER dour. Uncle Sam, who has had experience j !j'ijl with all sorts of aliens for a hundred and forty years back, has never dealt with them by taking away their votes. His be - he( is that the cure for detnxracy is more good democracy but the Borden Government d ori m ding thinks the other way about. Its idea of re -a rule is the horsewhip. r one I After the war is over Uncle Sam will be no able to say, "I took away body's vote." chise Canada will have to say. "I did, but it lying l was because Sir Robert Borden wanted to $4N 44s)ByELY.OAD$BY� 4 Ottawa, Sept. IS. -The party of " sports" is now Engaged in railr through Parliat-tinder closu War -time Elections Act, which, unde guise or another. proposes to disfran over two million people. The under idea is to increase the Borden Go ment's chance of winning by steals many votes u passible from the Libe vern• I win an election." The new friend from Europe, hesitating between Canada and ng as the United States, will say, "Me for the hick 1 The War -time Elections Act is fraught rte with apprehensions for the immigrant on of from Europe. He wilt naturally say, "If _di_ ' they take away my vote, they may take nus away my propertyinext." And, indeed, in. what's W prevent. A Government that ked will do the one will hardly stick at the ming other. H. F. GADSBY. are Iin st a hey The of If a hers, ror The War -time Elections Act, w should really be called an act to prom annexation sentiment in the Domini Canada, disfranchises in rem ways redly and indirectly. It is most danger when it disfranchises indirectly. Its direction insists in netting a hand -plc minority in and leaving an overwhel majority out. To be explicit, there perhaps two million women voters Canada who would be entitled to ca ballot at the next general election, i( t were admitted to the franchise. War -time Elections Act chooses, out these two million poesibles, about ha million soldiers' wives, widows, mot sisters and daughters, but bars the d to the other million and a -half w who have not had the bitter joy of se ing their menfolk to the war, but have been doing their bit just the sa helping the Red Cross, collecting (u and in one way or another assuming t share of the burden of war. The Wartime Elections Act- s are the cold figures -enfranchises hal million women but leaves a million a a -half out. When one comes to con the half -million women who are taken with the million and a -half women are deliberately left out, one is constrai to admit that the patriotism. loyalty a zeal for the war of the three-quarters w are left out least equal to that of one-quarter who are taken in One s rals. United States, where my vote is safe." omen nd- who rix, nds heir SAYS SHE IS FEELING LIKE A NEW WOMAN Since Dodd's Kid a Pills Cured Her Kits Troabl.'. Antigonish, N.S., Sept. 17 (Special)_.- That Dodd's Kidney Pills are keepingupgood work in Nova Scotia a evid- enced by Mlss Mary Janu ole, an esteemed and popularng here. Miss DeWolfe a youngufeered fors ven years from an aggravated 'form of lei. y trouble. "I am feeling like a new woman," Mise uch De Wolfe says In an interview. "I am in- ( -a- deed thankful for the good Dodd's Kid- nd ney Pills have done me and I hope they pare will give benefit to all sufferers from kid- ln ney trouble. 1 believe my trouble started who from a strain. I became tired and nervous fled and had headaches and neuralgia. My rod back pained. I did not sleep well and I ho was irritable. My limbs were heavy and he 1 I had a t dragging sensation across the ur- bans. 1 suffered fuer cramp; in the to the ill would be to gi on take away all my troubles." mises that a popular amendme every adult woman in Canada the vote the same terms as the men. If this is not done about one million and a -half good wholesome Canadian women will"rest J under the imputation thyt they were not nt muscles and my heart fluttered. It just ve took six boas of Dodd's Kidney Pills to loyal enough to be trusted with the vote ut as ht ng is be c - If IS d 1- 11 ere I party in Inc House of Commons. but y or an under m war -time. Will they sit still under this odium? It is true that many of these women who are excluded would vote Liberal, b Government as conscious of right he Borden Goverrur anerasys it is tog k+- fees ..anything like that. Bei •' airplay. all they ought to ask y- The women of farads colo Me to decide whether a War -time Ele tions Act that$leaves al million and a -ha oaten out and takes half -a -million in (air play or not. The bill to disfranchise a million an -half Canadian women meets with not g but disgust and indignation from a he;Liberals. On conscription there w onest differences of opinion in the Lib the people. From Canadian history we ' learn that the bitterest controversies have t been about Parliamentary representation, t all the way back from the Act of 119.5 the through the representation by population ou agitations, as far as the disfranchisement of Bidwell. There would have been not th incident of '37 if the Family Compact had fr not taken unfair means to keep its op• portents out of Parliament. The Minister of Finance. riot 11 e Y • r, When a p-litical leader in Great Brit- ain dsc ed upon to form a government. go to the great banking or d moneyed interests (r his Chancellor of th the Exchequer. Gladstone, Chamber- lain, Asquith, and Lloyd George did not wi come from Lombard Street, but were men of the people. When a President of the as United States chooses a Secretary of the col toon this iniquitous curtailment of libert here Is no difference at a11. With one wo exceptions the Opposition is agreed t the bill is essentially vicious and Drage on our democracy. As one member put it, "Freedom e Borden (government broadens down or precedent to precedent until i Irinks to Arthur Meighen's size."And there is much truth in the paradox. When conscription looked like an issue, and union government was in the air, "�rtaln Liberals were asked to join com- ny with the Borden Government. They re one and all rejoicing now that they A• not throw in their lot with e tempter and associate themselves th people who could cook up such in- famous legislation. They are also glad, manly men, that they didn't tie up th the combination which is now trying hide behind half -a -million women's lets. The chances are. too, that the half - Ilion women will disappoint them. Moat them are of the class whd are deeply ected by the high cost of living which is nmarily due to the Borden Government's " Gov with food profiteers like Sir Joseph vette. They will hardly vote for the ernenent that grants than a separatism Treasury, he does not get him from Wail sk mi of aff al Fla the country does not take over the C. N. R. the property will pass into the hands of the C P R. -there is no other destiny for it -and this country will be in the hands of a railway, express, and telegraph monopoly, the greatest in the One wonders on reading the above if The Star really known What it is talking about. "The most daring steal ever at- tempted on Parliament" are not the words of political partisanship: they are the words of Mr. R. 13. Bennett, one of the leading Conservative members of the House of Comrno ns, discussing a measure brought in by a Conservative Govern- ment. The Star talks about an appraise- ment Has it heard t of the Drayton - Acworth -Smith report? How many ap- praieetrtents does it thunk fore should be? Way should there be an arbitration of the Bator d stock that has already been re - EDITORIAL NOTES. Have you made the acquaintance of the same line. Tilley and Cartwright. the tussock moth? 1 Foster and Fielding, were not engaged in Let everyone do his little bit to make Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next a week record days for the Goderich Fair. j 1 if you haven't anything else to show at the Fair next week, be sure to show your i face there. 'Some oT your friends may e be glad to see it. i business of finance. The reason for popular feeling in sueh mutters is well founded. Great financiers nd their associates, however honorable nd upright they may be, are from time o time engaged in financial transactions which are greatly affected by government action and are therefore unable to admin- ster the Department of Finance with an ye single to the public interest. When Mr, Borden made W. T. White Minister of Finance, he departed from the course which we had followed, andap- ppoointed a man who was the head of a I large financial institution intimately as - What a lovely slush fund ought to come from that C. N. R. deal! Anybody who does anything for aGovernment candidate soctated with other corporations which sN only had ordinary dealings with the I vernment, but which directly or indir- I ectly were dependent for their existence pon Government support and assistance. n fact, Mr. White was chosen on the re- commendation of those interests which desired to have a fnend of theirs in office. Protests were raised at the time, not only y the political apparents of the Gonrerri- nt, but by its leading supporters. These protests were unheeded, but we today how fully they were justified t how disastrous it is for the country t at this time when the Canadian1 Northern is raiding the public treasury a J i wan who represents the financial interests Tomato rather than the public inter - of the country holds the position of 1 inister of Ri:anee. in the coming election should see that he n is well paid for it. (,o These nice little foxed economy talks are u all right in their way; but what the coun- try has the right to expect of the Food Controller is prompt and definite action to curb the food profiteers. ► me TheThe Signal advocated public ownership of railways probably before The Toronto ser Star did. The Signal. however, does not tea believe that the public should allow itself to be Ned for millions for every lame duck of a railway that a gang ail grafters sees may want to font upon it. Mf allowance only to hand it over to the cold - 1 storage pirates who are waiting to pounce upon it. Having disfranchised a million and a -half women, simply by not mentioning them, the 'War -time Elections Act next proceeds to disfranchise about fifty thou - ens for thee ole reasonnd s that theal y are ofle zforeign birth. The clauses which exclude natur- alized aliens of fifteen years' standing as British subjects is not only a direct as- sault on our free institutions, but also a gross breach of faith. These men came to this country under promise that they would have rights here which were denied therll in their native land -and the chief right of all was the right to vote, to exercise a Citizen's duty in electing a responsible Government. Another thing these men came to Canada for wile to escape the curse of war which has hung over Europe for centuries. They thought that Cana4., guarded on three sides hy the invu>Itdoie sea, and on the 7ourth by the greatest democracy in the world. would be free of t. Moreover, the >• did us the tbmplinnawt t0 choose Canada in preference to the hat- ter advertised virtues of the United StaleA because no doubt they owisidered Hrit,l s nstitutiona mare midge than American ff public ovmerithip is so dear to the All hearts of certain public perdinages as they like to pretend it is, why do they not ad- vocate the nationalisatiori of the cold - Nara. business? As a war time measure Tom Davis was telling Joe Kidd that the rich are civing the poor more ever day. es. lays Joe. "the mawatrate is giving them three months now. it used to be ten days." "Pridham the Tailor" would ' give theta a fresh start. ing ci sough not c their thouss • W. ACHESON ik SON SPECIAL VALUE IN ehintzes and Sateens English Chintzes, 36 inches wide, in twenty patterns, Paisley aqd neat figured, colors fast. For comforters and draperies, Regular 25c, at per yard. Zet Blankets 12x4 size, largest size made, for biggest double beds, Best quality, with blue or pink double border. 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