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The Wingham Advance, 1911-08-31, Page 5Canadian National Exhibition August 26th rr TORONTO w September' 11th CORONATION YEAR LEADS 'THEM ALL LinOld ai Atrkalhne Greatest show on cortin, cat! Special Prises of 11500 each. Increased Frites la all classes. Aft --Gems from Euro- MamifKtitis * Greatest peen galleries --masters display ever shown in from best collections in Amental Goods rnan• Canada and United ufactured while you States, wait. THREE GREAT SPECIALS t iM liS � AdWar Blneiltk tilt Wave .. -�-- tctur� �IlrrSt N Et�ratl it I l> ing the glories of the Core Musician., of the Royal Showing a battle between Giusti* ceremonies. 1,500 Household, by spe��cial a Dreadnought and a Wormers in uniform. permission of the Ring. Submarine. HOSTS OP OTIlltit A'If'f'I netts i1*VAIt.& kessasi--40aktle 11ey Smuts ltevi�eve--Vaeaeritia- ii a Bi teri Twelve 7,I 'dile' r 'iS+rirds--Trani 'sad ruses sm. MIAGNIFICENT DISPLAYS OP CORONATION FIREWORKS Pet iii blur's alis t writs lkfUatae j'. O. WA, Cley hail, 'Demo. i BIG SALE OF REMNANTS The Clean Sweep Sale has been a Great Success, and now we are putting on a Big Sale of Remnants. Prices marked low to CLEAR OUT QUICKLY. Short ends Dress Goods, Silks, Prints, Ginghams, Towellings, Flannelet- tes, Table Linens, Embroideries, Ribbons, Laces, Linoleums, Oil- cloths, Carpets, &c. Remember that the quantities in most cases are small -- but the prices are smaller. So don't be latebut come early. H. E. Isard Coj WINGHAM THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF I9II THE Western -Fair. London, Can., Sept. 8th to 16tH. $28,000.00 IN PRIZES' AND ATTRACTIONS Exhibition of Live Stock Best ever seen in Canada Many Unique Special Attractions, including AERIAL, MILITARY AND HYDRO ELECTRIC FEATURES JUMPING AND SPEEDING CONTESTS BIG CAT AND DOG SHOWS FOUR SPLENDID BANDS A MOST ATTRACTIVE MIDWAY. ---BEST EVER SEEN IN LONDON FIREWORKS DISPLAY EVERY EVENING Reduced Rates on all Railways. Prize Lists, Entry Forms and other information from W. J. REID, President A. M. HUNT, Secretary 4 THE TORONTO NEWS FROM THE FIRST HAS LED IN THE MOVEMENT AGAINST RATIFICATION OF THE TRADE COMPACT 'WITH WASHINGTON THE NEWS WILL BE SENT DAILY BY MAIL TO ANY ADDRESS IN CANADA 3 EOR ONE DOLLAR AND A•BALF A YEAR THURSDAY', AUGUST $t, 1911 r• • •••••'''•• • SCHOOL RE=OPENS SEPT. 5th Every Boy of School Age Should be an Hand that Day With a New Suit. The fact that school re -opens on Tuesday, Sept. 5th, probably means that the Boy will require a New Suit. We have anticipated this want, 'and in order to make it easy for the parents, are giving Boys' Clothing Values that are exceptional. Below we give you the regular prices and the cut . prices, as well as the sizes we have in stock at each price 2 piece Suits, sizes 22 and 23, reg. $2.75, cat price $1:75 2 piece Suits, sizes 23, 26, 29, 30, 81, 32 and 33, rep's' $3 75 and $4 00, cut price $2.50 2 piece Suits sizes 21 24, 25, 27, 29, 30 and 31, reg. $3.25 $4.50, cut price 2 piece Suits, sizes 28, 30, 31, 3'3 and 33, reg. $5.00, cut prior $3.50 2 piece Suits, sizes 28, 29, 30 and 32, reg. $6.75, cut price $4.50 3 piece Suits, sizes 27, 32 and 33, reg. $5.00, cut price..$3.50 3 piece Snits, sizes 27, 28, 31 and 33, reg. $6.50, cut price $4.00 3 piece Snits, sizes 28 and 33, reg. $7.00, cut price $4.50 3 piece Suits, sizes 32 and 33, reg. $7.50, cut price $4.75 3 piece Suits, sizes 31, 32, 33 and 34, reg. $8 00, out price $6.00 We Take Eggs At Highest Trade Prices. McGee & Campbell CLOTHIERS MEAT'S ?URA* ETS POLITICAL MEETING.. Hon. (leo, P. Poster Delivers A Magnificent Address. Oa Thursday evening, Wingham • Town Hall was crowded to its utmost capacity to bear Hon, Geo. R. Foster in the interests of Mr, Jas. Bowman, the Conservative candidate. Over 150 extra chairs were added to the seating capacity of the town hall, and the side Melee and back portion of the hall was crowded until there was pot even standing room, and many could not even gain admittance. Mayor Spotton occupied the chair and in an effective and pleasing way referred, to the contest, and to the speaker of the evening. A, H. Musgrove, the popular M.L.A. for North Huron, was the first speak- er. 11e reviewed briefly the history of Reciprocity, and quoted Sir Wilfrid Laurier and W. S. Fielding to show that until very recently they regarded repiprocity as a dead issue. The vital relation between the manufacturer and the workman was referred to. The speaker closed with quotations from American sourcee showing that behind the pact was thedesire for the annexation of Canada. Mr. Musgrove spoke briefly but effectively. Mr. Jas. Bowman, 'the Conservative candidate, next addressed the meet- ing. Be declined speaking at any length in order to allow the speaker of the evening full time, and hoped to address the electors of Wingham at a future time. He referred to the old issue of unrestricted reciprocity, now appearing in new guise. The building and cost of the railways of Canada bad been undertaken to bind the provinces together. Reciprocity would practi- cally render this vast expenditure useless. The value of the home market was shown, and the danger of losing it emphasized. Mr. Bowman was well received and made a favorable impression on the audience. Ile is an excellent speaker and will be heard again before the campaign closes. Dr, T. Chisholm was called on, but refrained from speaking at length. He announced himself as now devot- ing his time to Mr. Bowman's cam- paign, and was confident of his election. Hon. Geo. E. Foster in opening, paid a high compliment to Dr. Chis- holm, East Huron's representative for the past 7 years. He also referred to the candidate, Mr. Bowman, as a likely winner, saying -"Mr. Bowman knows what he means and can tell what he knows." Mr. Foster's address was eloquent. It was not so much a campaign political speech, as a patriotic address on the responsibilities of the hour. There was no bitter attack on those who thought differently, and nothing was said to wound the feeling of any. The present issue, said Mr. Foster, is "the moat important that has come before the people of Canada since Confederation." The responsibilities of added years since then should be seriously considered. As Canadians we are engaged in the task of nation building, and referring re to Confedera- tion, tion, he said, "we have not dine badly in those forty years. Yet confedera- tion was but a union on paper and we bad to link up the provinces by means of transportation and communication. When the C.P.R. was being built where was the white plume of Sir Wilfrid and where was it leading? Those who followed it then were not a led either to honor orsacsuccess. . (Ap-plause and laughter.) In 1878 Sir John A. McDonald preached the doctrine of using our own resources and building up our own industries. The people endorsed it and the Nation- al Policy has never been taken off the statute books since. THE *WLIsrGH.A.31 A VANO The speaker referred to the great railways and canals of Ceuade OA the arteriae and volute but these were valueless without the life blood, , This is the Inter -provincial trade -that le the life of our nation, "You are pro - riming in Wingham goods that go out in the utilizing interprovincial trade of the Dominion;" said Mr. Foster. "Some one tonight spoke of horses,. Last year $10,000,000 worth from On. tario were distributed in our West. Otte thousand careof fruit were sent out there from the Niagara district.. Would it be better or worse for us if one of these productions were inside of Canada and the other outside ? That is the essence of the whole thio?•, Is it better that the producers out there should buy all their maehittery outside of Canada ? The men of 1878 battled with geography and distance and beat them both to a standstill. That's what makes a race fit to build a nation. (Applause.) Now, be mighty careful that you keep to these lines. If that was the d'esigner's sketch, what are we to get up and say that we have been proceeding on wrong prin- ciples ? Then we have never laid a beam or a keel, but what we have helped, the mother country, Did you ever see what God and nature has done for us. Our streams and water courses run east and west and we have built transportation lines east and west to keep an ever vigilant neighbor from taking our trade. We have spent money like water in doing it. Why did we invest two billions in this way if we did not mean it ? "To -day James J. Hill has some thirteen railways with their noses against our international line between the lakes and the Rockies, They are waiting for this pact to pass. Then these snouts will elongate and every product now carried east and west will be carried off to the south. You would be putting leeches on to suck your life blood. The United States wants our Western wheat, not to eat, but to be ground into flour and sent from New York and Baltimore to London, handled by United States carriers and middlemen, with profits to United States workmen and rob- bing our ships. Do we want that sort of thing? Shouts of "No." "I'll trust the people of Canada to decide this issue if they have the dates -before them. This is a bigger quer tion than the mere raising of farm pro- ducts. The farmers' business is big, bat the transport system of this coun- try is involved and it is a question as well of fiscal policy for the whole of Canada. The delega,tion of 1,500 fruit growers which came to Ottawa told Sir Wilfrid that they believed the fruit industry of the country would be ruined. Sir Wilfrid had to admit that the Government had stripped itself of power never before out of the hands of Parliament and could not temedy their grievances. "Sir Wilfrid said at Simcoe that agreement could be changed in a half day. He knew that it could not. Sir Wilfrid comes back from Great Bri- tain and tells his compatriots of some imaginary battle for Canada's autono- my and then place his hand in Presi- dent Taft's and surrenders Canada's fiscal autonomy. Eggs Are important, but they may go bang if they inter• fere with the health and high inter- ests of the home. This cuts across these ideals on which are built local colleges, homes, art, philosophy and all that goes to makea nation great. "I am the fourth speaker and none of us have waved the old flag; we have spoken of the economic side. Now we have a right to wave it if we like it. (Cheers.) Sir, this reciproci- ty pact would have the effect as the proposed unrestricted reciprocity of 1891; we gave our veto to that. and I believe will give our veto on Septem- ber'21." . Applause.) The meeting was closed by singing the National anthem, and cheers for Mr. Jas. Bowman.` Ii Dainty, Disappearing Doughnuts. Devoured near as fast as you {make 'em. 'Golden tooth - teasing - able - bodied nuts of dough. Made from dough that Tastes Ltke sVuts,{ 'you know. Use FIVE ROSES flour. Get that individual toothsomeness Of 'Manitoba wheat kernels. Doughnuts with w Palate -Pleasing P.rsonailty. 54w 'ern bob sap in tiro rich deep tat--sws8tn, who textured. A hole ♦ntlrely circled with Light Dlgetttbl. Food. r Fat without being fat -for FIVE ROSES is the sturdy glutinous floor that resists tat absorption. Just enough to brown deliciously, to crisp{ qulakle. No prosiness, hekvinese, sogginess. Filler a vaesat place se plootontli with never{ sal 'aufragcsi stomach. " 4 Like thee. mike YOURS. We FWE. ROW, 1011113111 1III1111IhlH1111I1II111I111l I� Dig 'RiIIU I, I j! I p c A � I� 1 { { i { r I l { I l f. I , :,� q lo, I I ,I � � 1 �. ILII rt , , IIi . .II �,IIII�11 lutrl�llll�0l6 s I�.��l.11r ,illi �II�I ! 111'1{ I kIll��� �1.E{Illi !i, �I ,V 9�II I . �, d �llt6l ���� Vit_ e� ecuAted 1�1�IGilul�ll1211111( , I1I I1`h1i111 t 4111 �1111I91 I it;ire9'�,'G 11r[�1gV fij�p� P*°" .rr,rN.., nranieac�►.. II1, What We Can 146104 Tach The Americans lay AnTHU1t UAWfcE$, Von You teach your grandmother to suck egga? Sometimes; for grand- mothers aren't alwaYe clever, "I'm very sorry, Mr, Bisfit" said an 'eminent judge to a lawyer who had. argued with him instead of arguing ;before him, "but I can't teach you any law," "That is so, my lord," drylY replied the lawyer, and sat down. The Americans are more willing to the taught than we suppose. They have more to learn then they suppose. Not many of them think they can learn fanything from Canada or Canadians. fro them the idea of learning from us pi about as sensible as the idea of au ;elephant teaching a gress-hopper to hop, A while ago a party of United States editors was travelling to Win- inipeg from Chicago,- The talk turned to Canadian affairs and presently to selections. Said one from Kansas: "But they don't have elections in Canada. Their public officials are appointed from England, aren't they?" The Kansas editor's idea was a little too typical, His countrymen regarded is, I was going to say, as a poor rela- tion, but we were scarcely in that class. The notion was pretty`weil ex- irressed six months ago by the Wash- ington Star, which said, "The native 'Canadian . . is merely a dispised colonist, a species of political outcast, like the man without a country." This kind of talk represente a. tra- ditional habit of despising the state of Canada, and of expecting that the country would come to the United :States like a pile of filings to a mag- net, Our neighbors could not under - 'Amid how any white people could `want to remain outside their political fence. At first when we declined to join them they were amused, then they were amazed. Then they were dis- pleased, and they put up a tariff wall that was intended to starve us into a political marriage with theca. • That was when Canada of the St. Lawrence valley had no winter access to Europe except through American ports; and when only a few men of the long vision saw a prosperous, popu- lated Canada; the acknowledged leader of the younger commonwealths of the British Empire. They thought we must come in. I have often been asked, in the United States, before the present revival of Reciprocity was put on the boards, whether I didn't think Canada was bound to come into the Union. And now that Reciprocity has come to serve the very policy for which the United States denied it in the years ago -I mean the aggrandizement of the United States -it is taken for granted by our neighbors that union is bound to follow. The new phrase among the foreign diplomats at Wash- ington is truthfully reported to be, "From the Pole to Panama." Now, what is the answer of our Neverlooks to this dominant temper in the United States? It is that if they want union, we don't. The fool that rocks the boat always forgets that there is a great deal more water than boat, The little fellow who is told that he must choose whether he will travel his own way, or with the big fellow who personally did all he could to thwart his business ambi- tions; and who chooses the big fellow in the belief that he is serving his own permanent interests -well; it doesn't seem much use telling him he is at the parting of the ways. The American says, "Train with me. Come my way. Never mind the plans you have been making for yourself." What will you reply? Can you teach him anything? You can. If you were Canada's spokesman this is about what you would say: "Permit me to offer you the lesson you taught me. When I'was a national infant •I thought I needed your help, and that without it I could not attain the stature of a man. I wanted to sell my goods to you. You turned your You i itman times. d on me. did Y You showed me how to rely on myself .,and my kinsmen across the seas. I did not know what I could do till I tried. "The last time I sent my represen- tative to you he came back with the story of your own hardness, and with the news of the sure foundation on which my prosperity could rest. His name was Laurier, and he informed you, he informed the rest of the world, that I had turned my back on the hopes that had centred in you; and had turned my face to British busi- ness, and was building railways to make secure and permanent that same business, "The difference between what I thought I needed, a long time ago, and what I now know I can do without, is the difference between a poor, timid farmer looking for a loan and that same farmer turned bank director, "I admire you. Your business abil- ity Is marvellous. You have a perfect genius for obtaining control. "I have discovered that linked with the mere buying and selling across a counter, and with the hauling of wheat in a box -car, there are deep and strong tides of national life. You don't hesi- tate to tell me you want to control my trade. I don't intend to have it con- trolled. You had your chance when I was young and green, I've got a country that hasn't all the advantages of climate and variety of resources that yours has. tut it is one of a world-wide cluster of countries that have the greatest possible part to play in the world's history. It reaches out to the Old World from its Eastern courts. It touches all the wealth of Asia and the Islands of the Sea, from its shores on the Pacific. I have an asset in the Old Land that you have forfeited. I have a stake in the Orient that you cannot -hope to emu- late. I have a destiny, which a course, unfettered by entanglements with you, will help to make glorious. You tell me that I am at the parting ways. So let It be. You go your way; I'll go mine." And the American will learn a wholc let When you talk to hint like that. Jas. Walker & Son WIN€IIIAlli UNDERTAKERS `r 'Wekter cul gssltited t1' dee. ors sttwl era, said k tut der* togas r Holes note 111 What The Amlericians Can Teach. Us Hy .4tUT [OI1 11fAiNY{>IAN. Next to being born a Capadiao, f Other think i would like to be born lin the United States. It Is a wonder- Wui country. It carries a 'wonderful 'people. They are an example to us in many things; a warning in others. Wherever they are admirable they aro utteu excessive -it is a natural defect bf possessing immense productive ter- ritory, vast populations, and a rather short political past. They can teach ;US Very very much that we ought to )[now, Take four of their splendid eebaracteriatics ; I One, Their love of country. ];leavens! How they boast; how they wave their flag. They insist of ;carrying it, -flaunting it, it you like --- in every foreign country; and they pet touchy as a bear with a sore head If you show your flag on their soil. They believe in their country; in its institutions. The flag is the symbol ;of all their strength, ambition, glory. There is a reason. Millions of people have come from all the ends of the earth to the United States, They know little or nothing of the liberty and opportunity of. which the States ars full. They toms to better their conditions; to place their children where they can grow into prosperous citizens, The flag has been made the emblem of all their hopes. It, flies from every school- house. The sight of it engenders a flood of patriotism in the native-born and the alien -born. The American can teach us here. (Our flag has flown a thousand years. 'His is a product of the day before yesterday. We have a tremendous Variety of alien blood and alien speech in our midst. We impress too little upon them the magnificence of the. things the flag has stood for and stands for, and will stand for. We are apt to forget that 1n patriotism. Those who come to us have to be born again. If ever there was a coun- try in which patriotism should burn witha vehement flame, it is Canada. Look to it. Two. Their willingness' to adapt themselves to changed circumstances. Tradition le splendid, within lim- its. "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be" is not an in- fallible political principle, for this is a progressive world. There is danger, too, of falling into the habit of the fellow who said, "These are my sentiments; if you don't like 'ent I'll change 'em." The wise man often changes his mind, the fool never; but the wise man does not change merely to suit somebody else. The American is pre-eminent in the world for his readiness to change his method of regarding questions of trade and of politics. He thought he could freeze Canada to himself by a high tariff. It didn't work, so he tries Reciprocity -which we asked for long, long ago. If we go back to it we show that we, don't adapt ourselves to changing conditions. We have outgrown our notions of commercial dependence on the American. We must not be ca- joled into going back forty years for our ideas. Sir Wilfrid Laurier leaps backwards over 1907, 1903, 1901 and 1897 -years in which he emphatically repudiated reciprocity. He is like a venerable man who goes out to meet an old sweetheart and expects to find her young and blooming as she was forty years ago. Three. Their unbounded faith in the future. Sir Wilfrid has had his spells of this splendid quality. He once said, "The Twentieth Century belongs to Canada." Inconformity with this he said, "The best and most effective way .to maintain friendship with our American neighbors is to be absolute- ly independent of them." Last winter President Taft said, "Canada is at the parting• of the ways." Canada is 'ex- pected to make reply, "Thy way, not mine, 0 Taft." On the reciprocity question Sir Wil- frid spoke again, only four years ago he declared to the Imperial Confer- ence, "There was a time when we 'wanted Reciprocity with the United States . . We have said good-bye to that trade and we now put all our hopes upon the British trade." The future was to he as the past had been -a development of com- merce, of social and national senti- ment, east and west, and not predomi-i nanny north and south. We express-. ed our confidence in the future. Noth: ing was to draw tis into the seductive embraces of the United States. We began a new transcontinental railway; that will cost three times as much as: was intended as a proof of our dis- tinctiveness from the big neighbor.; And then we began to play his game.; From turning our back upon him we' began to turn our back upon ourselves,] When you bec!me afraid of your Fu ture, good-bye to your Future. Four. Their determination to Hoe'. their own Row. I never heard of a man who chose hoeing as a holiday occupation. • I never liked it when I was on the farm: But you can't have a garden without: plentiful use of this familiar compan, ion of the backache. It's the hoe that puts potatoes and beets, carrots and' beans, and all the vegetable luxuries' on the table. What was the hoe in the national' development of the 'United States? It was protection of young Indus: tries. The United States decided to' make the most of their own resources' by helping industrial expansion with a; tariff. They became the greatest man-; ufacturing country in the World. Then have done it by hoeing their own row.; Canada took a leaf out of their book, She could not have had her big in- dustrial cities any Other way. Her home market would have been a negli- gible quantity if she had been content' to be merely a getter of raw material for somebody else. The Americans want her raw Mater - 'al. Let her learn of thein and make 'he most of her own raw material. It rill be wise learning. An exchange thinks there are too. many fall fairs, and points in evidee e which Wilson, the tonet w tl . tbe t Superintendeat, has reeently lotted, This flat totals- 290. This gives an average of between slx and seven to every county in Ontario including the new dietrioti. There is no need for so many, atty. our eicohan e, Uodorabt- edly some of them will be ftnannlal failures this jeer. The law of the surstreal of the fdtteet has been doing eomethlog totraurdsthinning them out, atn4 it HIV probObly de tit he yet T, r - : _ nevi I - . _ t V 1 ' = B l 1 ., _ ___ Capital Paid Up g 2,75o,000 Reserve and Undivided Profits . 3,150,000 Total Assets 40,000,000 ('-7-.... ���, i }. m .... - Besides offering an incentive to save, a savings account affords a safe and con- venient method of keeping the accumula- ting dollars. Safe custody is of paramount impor- tante-either for the hsrd.earned savings of the worker or for tress funds.�� The Bank of Hamilton invites your savings account, whether large or small 9i Agent - w INGHAM ' C. P. SMITH, g igi,Z iiQ� ii ll �1 i> llisi 51' 1 r �I'� 41 i , lit sib: '.,V If' i' ' l 4 v• �„ POLITICAL MEETING.. Hon. (leo, P. Poster Delivers A Magnificent Address. Oa Thursday evening, Wingham • Town Hall was crowded to its utmost capacity to bear Hon, Geo. R. Foster in the interests of Mr, Jas. Bowman, the Conservative candidate. Over 150 extra chairs were added to the seating capacity of the town hall, and the side Melee and back portion of the hall was crowded until there was pot even standing room, and many could not even gain admittance. Mayor Spotton occupied the chair and in an effective and pleasing way referred, to the contest, and to the speaker of the evening. A, H. Musgrove, the popular M.L.A. for North Huron, was the first speak- er. 11e reviewed briefly the history of Reciprocity, and quoted Sir Wilfrid Laurier and W. S. Fielding to show that until very recently they regarded repiprocity as a dead issue. The vital relation between the manufacturer and the workman was referred to. The speaker closed with quotations from American sourcee showing that behind the pact was thedesire for the annexation of Canada. Mr. Musgrove spoke briefly but effectively. Mr. Jas. Bowman, 'the Conservative candidate, next addressed the meet- ing. Be declined speaking at any length in order to allow the speaker of the evening full time, and hoped to address the electors of Wingham at a future time. He referred to the old issue of unrestricted reciprocity, now appearing in new guise. The building and cost of the railways of Canada bad been undertaken to bind the provinces together. Reciprocity would practi- cally render this vast expenditure useless. The value of the home market was shown, and the danger of losing it emphasized. Mr. Bowman was well received and made a favorable impression on the audience. Ile is an excellent speaker and will be heard again before the campaign closes. Dr, T. Chisholm was called on, but refrained from speaking at length. He announced himself as now devot- ing his time to Mr. Bowman's cam- paign, and was confident of his election. Hon. Geo. E. Foster in opening, paid a high compliment to Dr. Chis- holm, East Huron's representative for the past 7 years. He also referred to the candidate, Mr. Bowman, as a likely winner, saying -"Mr. Bowman knows what he means and can tell what he knows." Mr. Foster's address was eloquent. It was not so much a campaign political speech, as a patriotic address on the responsibilities of the hour. There was no bitter attack on those who thought differently, and nothing was said to wound the feeling of any. The present issue, said Mr. Foster, is "the moat important that has come before the people of Canada since Confederation." The responsibilities of added years since then should be seriously considered. As Canadians we are engaged in the task of nation building, and referring re to Confedera- tion, tion, he said, "we have not dine badly in those forty years. Yet confedera- tion was but a union on paper and we bad to link up the provinces by means of transportation and communication. When the C.P.R. was being built where was the white plume of Sir Wilfrid and where was it leading? Those who followed it then were not a led either to honor orsacsuccess. . (Ap-plause and laughter.) In 1878 Sir John A. McDonald preached the doctrine of using our own resources and building up our own industries. The people endorsed it and the Nation- al Policy has never been taken off the statute books since. THE *WLIsrGH.A.31 A VANO The speaker referred to the great railways and canals of Ceuade OA the arteriae and volute but these were valueless without the life blood, , This is the Inter -provincial trade -that le the life of our nation, "You are pro - riming in Wingham goods that go out in the utilizing interprovincial trade of the Dominion;" said Mr. Foster. "Some one tonight spoke of horses,. Last year $10,000,000 worth from On. tario were distributed in our West. Otte thousand careof fruit were sent out there from the Niagara district.. Would it be better or worse for us if one of these productions were inside of Canada and the other outside ? That is the essence of the whole thio?•, Is it better that the producers out there should buy all their maehittery outside of Canada ? The men of 1878 battled with geography and distance and beat them both to a standstill. That's what makes a race fit to build a nation. (Applause.) Now, be mighty careful that you keep to these lines. If that was the d'esigner's sketch, what are we to get up and say that we have been proceeding on wrong prin- ciples ? Then we have never laid a beam or a keel, but what we have helped, the mother country, Did you ever see what God and nature has done for us. Our streams and water courses run east and west and we have built transportation lines east and west to keep an ever vigilant neighbor from taking our trade. We have spent money like water in doing it. Why did we invest two billions in this way if we did not mean it ? "To -day James J. Hill has some thirteen railways with their noses against our international line between the lakes and the Rockies, They are waiting for this pact to pass. Then these snouts will elongate and every product now carried east and west will be carried off to the south. You would be putting leeches on to suck your life blood. The United States wants our Western wheat, not to eat, but to be ground into flour and sent from New York and Baltimore to London, handled by United States carriers and middlemen, with profits to United States workmen and rob- bing our ships. Do we want that sort of thing? Shouts of "No." "I'll trust the people of Canada to decide this issue if they have the dates -before them. This is a bigger quer tion than the mere raising of farm pro- ducts. The farmers' business is big, bat the transport system of this coun- try is involved and it is a question as well of fiscal policy for the whole of Canada. The delega,tion of 1,500 fruit growers which came to Ottawa told Sir Wilfrid that they believed the fruit industry of the country would be ruined. Sir Wilfrid had to admit that the Government had stripped itself of power never before out of the hands of Parliament and could not temedy their grievances. "Sir Wilfrid said at Simcoe that agreement could be changed in a half day. He knew that it could not. Sir Wilfrid comes back from Great Bri- tain and tells his compatriots of some imaginary battle for Canada's autono- my and then place his hand in Presi- dent Taft's and surrenders Canada's fiscal autonomy. Eggs Are important, but they may go bang if they inter• fere with the health and high inter- ests of the home. This cuts across these ideals on which are built local colleges, homes, art, philosophy and all that goes to makea nation great. "I am the fourth speaker and none of us have waved the old flag; we have spoken of the economic side. Now we have a right to wave it if we like it. (Cheers.) Sir, this reciproci- ty pact would have the effect as the proposed unrestricted reciprocity of 1891; we gave our veto to that. and I believe will give our veto on Septem- ber'21." . Applause.) The meeting was closed by singing the National anthem, and cheers for Mr. Jas. Bowman.` Ii Dainty, Disappearing Doughnuts. Devoured near as fast as you {make 'em. 'Golden tooth - teasing - able - bodied nuts of dough. Made from dough that Tastes Ltke sVuts,{ 'you know. Use FIVE ROSES flour. Get that individual toothsomeness Of 'Manitoba wheat kernels. Doughnuts with w Palate -Pleasing P.rsonailty. 54w 'ern bob sap in tiro rich deep tat--sws8tn, who textured. A hole ♦ntlrely circled with Light Dlgetttbl. Food. r Fat without being fat -for FIVE ROSES is the sturdy glutinous floor that resists tat absorption. Just enough to brown deliciously, to crisp{ qulakle. No prosiness, hekvinese, sogginess. Filler a vaesat place se plootontli with never{ sal 'aufragcsi stomach. 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Not many of them think they can learn fanything from Canada or Canadians. fro them the idea of learning from us pi about as sensible as the idea of au ;elephant teaching a gress-hopper to hop, A while ago a party of United States editors was travelling to Win- inipeg from Chicago,- The talk turned to Canadian affairs and presently to selections. Said one from Kansas: "But they don't have elections in Canada. Their public officials are appointed from England, aren't they?" The Kansas editor's idea was a little too typical, His countrymen regarded is, I was going to say, as a poor rela- tion, but we were scarcely in that class. The notion was pretty`weil ex- irressed six months ago by the Wash- ington Star, which said, "The native 'Canadian . . is merely a dispised colonist, a species of political outcast, like the man without a country." This kind of talk represente a. tra- ditional habit of despising the state of Canada, and of expecting that the country would come to the United :States like a pile of filings to a mag- net, Our neighbors could not under - 'Amid how any white people could `want to remain outside their political fence. At first when we declined to join them they were amused, then they were amazed. Then they were dis- pleased, and they put up a tariff wall that was intended to starve us into a political marriage with theca. • That was when Canada of the St. Lawrence valley had no winter access to Europe except through American ports; and when only a few men of the long vision saw a prosperous, popu- lated Canada; the acknowledged leader of the younger commonwealths of the British Empire. They thought we must come in. I have often been asked, in the United States, before the present revival of Reciprocity was put on the boards, whether I didn't think Canada was bound to come into the Union. And now that Reciprocity has come to serve the very policy for which the United States denied it in the years ago -I mean the aggrandizement of the United States -it is taken for granted by our neighbors that union is bound to follow. The new phrase among the foreign diplomats at Wash- ington is truthfully reported to be, "From the Pole to Panama." Now, what is the answer of our Neverlooks to this dominant temper in the United States? It is that if they want union, we don't. The fool that rocks the boat always forgets that there is a great deal more water than boat, The little fellow who is told that he must choose whether he will travel his own way, or with the big fellow who personally did all he could to thwart his business ambi- tions; and who chooses the big fellow in the belief that he is serving his own permanent interests -well; it doesn't seem much use telling him he is at the parting of the ways. The American says, "Train with me. Come my way. Never mind the plans you have been making for yourself." What will you reply? Can you teach him anything? You can. If you were Canada's spokesman this is about what you would say: "Permit me to offer you the lesson you taught me. When I'was a national infant •I thought I needed your help, and that without it I could not attain the stature of a man. I wanted to sell my goods to you. You turned your You i itman times. d on me. did Y You showed me how to rely on myself .,and my kinsmen across the seas. I did not know what I could do till I tried. "The last time I sent my represen- tative to you he came back with the story of your own hardness, and with the news of the sure foundation on which my prosperity could rest. His name was Laurier, and he informed you, he informed the rest of the world, that I had turned my back on the hopes that had centred in you; and had turned my face to British busi- ness, and was building railways to make secure and permanent that same business, "The difference between what I thought I needed, a long time ago, and what I now know I can do without, is the difference between a poor, timid farmer looking for a loan and that same farmer turned bank director, "I admire you. Your business abil- ity Is marvellous. You have a perfect genius for obtaining control. "I have discovered that linked with the mere buying and selling across a counter, and with the hauling of wheat in a box -car, there are deep and strong tides of national life. You don't hesi- tate to tell me you want to control my trade. I don't intend to have it con- trolled. You had your chance when I was young and green, I've got a country that hasn't all the advantages of climate and variety of resources that yours has. tut it is one of a world-wide cluster of countries that have the greatest possible part to play in the world's history. It reaches out to the Old World from its Eastern courts. It touches all the wealth of Asia and the Islands of the Sea, from its shores on the Pacific. I have an asset in the Old Land that you have forfeited. I have a stake in the Orient that you cannot -hope to emu- late. I have a destiny, which a course, unfettered by entanglements with you, will help to make glorious. You tell me that I am at the parting ways. So let It be. You go your way; I'll go mine." And the American will learn a wholc let When you talk to hint like that. Jas. Walker & Son WIN€IIIAlli UNDERTAKERS `r 'Wekter cul gssltited t1' dee. ors sttwl era, said k tut der* togas r Holes note 111 What The Amlericians Can Teach. Us Hy .4tUT [OI1 11fAiNY{>IAN. Next to being born a Capadiao, f Other think i would like to be born lin the United States. It Is a wonder- Wui country. It carries a 'wonderful 'people. They are an example to us in many things; a warning in others. Wherever they are admirable they aro utteu excessive -it is a natural defect bf possessing immense productive ter- ritory, vast populations, and a rather short political past. They can teach ;US Very very much that we ought to )[now, Take four of their splendid eebaracteriatics ; I One, Their love of country. ];leavens! How they boast; how they wave their flag. They insist of ;carrying it, -flaunting it, it you like --- in every foreign country; and they pet touchy as a bear with a sore head If you show your flag on their soil. They believe in their country; in its institutions. The flag is the symbol ;of all their strength, ambition, glory. There is a reason. Millions of people have come from all the ends of the earth to the United States, They know little or nothing of the liberty and opportunity of. which the States ars full. They toms to better their conditions; to place their children where they can grow into prosperous citizens, The flag has been made the emblem of all their hopes. It, flies from every school- house. The sight of it engenders a flood of patriotism in the native-born and the alien -born. The American can teach us here. (Our flag has flown a thousand years. 'His is a product of the day before yesterday. We have a tremendous Variety of alien blood and alien speech in our midst. We impress too little upon them the magnificence of the. things the flag has stood for and stands for, and will stand for. We are apt to forget that 1n patriotism. Those who come to us have to be born again. If ever there was a coun- try in which patriotism should burn witha vehement flame, it is Canada. Look to it. Two. Their willingness' to adapt themselves to changed circumstances. Tradition le splendid, within lim- its. "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be" is not an in- fallible political principle, for this is a progressive world. There is danger, too, of falling into the habit of the fellow who said, "These are my sentiments; if you don't like 'ent I'll change 'em." The wise man often changes his mind, the fool never; but the wise man does not change merely to suit somebody else. The American is pre-eminent in the world for his readiness to change his method of regarding questions of trade and of politics. He thought he could freeze Canada to himself by a high tariff. It didn't work, so he tries Reciprocity -which we asked for long, long ago. If we go back to it we show that we, don't adapt ourselves to changing conditions. We have outgrown our notions of commercial dependence on the American. We must not be ca- joled into going back forty years for our ideas. Sir Wilfrid Laurier leaps backwards over 1907, 1903, 1901 and 1897 -years in which he emphatically repudiated reciprocity. He is like a venerable man who goes out to meet an old sweetheart and expects to find her young and blooming as she was forty years ago. Three. Their unbounded faith in the future. Sir Wilfrid has had his spells of this splendid quality. He once said, "The Twentieth Century belongs to Canada." Inconformity with this he said, "The best and most effective way .to maintain friendship with our American neighbors is to be absolute- ly independent of them." Last winter President Taft said, "Canada is at the parting• of the ways." Canada is 'ex- pected to make reply, "Thy way, not mine, 0 Taft." On the reciprocity question Sir Wil- frid spoke again, only four years ago he declared to the Imperial Confer- ence, "There was a time when we 'wanted Reciprocity with the United States . . We have said good-bye to that trade and we now put all our hopes upon the British trade." The future was to he as the past had been -a development of com- merce, of social and national senti- ment, east and west, and not predomi-i nanny north and south. We express-. ed our confidence in the future. Noth: ing was to draw tis into the seductive embraces of the United States. We began a new transcontinental railway; that will cost three times as much as: was intended as a proof of our dis- tinctiveness from the big neighbor.; And then we began to play his game.; From turning our back upon him we' began to turn our back upon ourselves,] When you bec!me afraid of your Fu ture, good-bye to your Future. Four. Their determination to Hoe'. their own Row. I never heard of a man who chose hoeing as a holiday occupation. • I never liked it when I was on the farm: But you can't have a garden without: plentiful use of this familiar compan, ion of the backache. It's the hoe that puts potatoes and beets, carrots and' beans, and all the vegetable luxuries' on the table. What was the hoe in the national' development of the 'United States? It was protection of young Indus: tries. The United States decided to' make the most of their own resources' by helping industrial expansion with a; tariff. They became the greatest man-; ufacturing country in the World. Then have done it by hoeing their own row.; Canada took a leaf out of their book, She could not have had her big in- dustrial cities any Other way. Her home market would have been a negli- gible quantity if she had been content' to be merely a getter of raw material for somebody else. The Americans want her raw Mater - 'al. Let her learn of thein and make 'he most of her own raw material. It rill be wise learning. An exchange thinks there are too. many fall fairs, and points in evidee e which Wilson, the tonet w tl . tbe t Superintendeat, has reeently lotted, This flat totals- 290. This gives an average of between slx and seven to every county in Ontario including the new dietrioti. There is no need for so many, atty. our eicohan e, Uodorabt- edly some of them will be ftnannlal failures this jeer. The law of the surstreal of the fdtteet has been doing eomethlog totraurdsthinning them out, atn4 it HIV probObly de tit he yet