The Seaforth News, 1926-09-02, Page 4UMW
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS,
W 1 -L T,
• .r speaking' `atL ret tier Klug in sPealu o
n
F. 1
North 1a
y lately,
„delivered vve
red himself
aft this fas!hioii=" The Tar?a7n-
page of slatisier: not sri nuc97
s110:0 screen to :'hide the main issues
''It is lsCt011s
of the cauxpaign its f . io
ed to injure the'reputation
of oa's titc,idt
• be men and toDouse t the
minds of the'electors with ;untrue
al-
legations''and 'vile 7ltainUatl0,iS".
. •
tNlr. King legions eight will that m
speaking in this way about the Tory
,campaign i I,c' is saying what tis utter -
1Y untrue, The Tory eaulpaiga is
nota cantpaignof slander. A slaitdet
is a false report circulated with the
iCl cious intention of inju in g c'har-
'aet '.
actcr, The very essence 'of. a'Slander
is its •falsitx•. Aman isnot slandered
vheix he is designated by the 'title
•sihi'elx his conduct gives
him. A Man-
who
anwlio 'steals ` is • a , thief and
he is not atlandered when he
is called a thief. Dick Turpin
would•: not'bave+beeet slandered by be-
ing called a (highwayman. Nothing
has been tittered from ,the platform.
b Conservative speakers about the
customs scandal that has heen harder
on the King .Government and snore
coticla rmatory of it than what is con-
tained in the Report of the Ctistoms
Investigating Committee. Surely Mr.
King and the _members of his late
' Cabinet Will not consider themselves
slandered by 'having repeated against
them the sworn statements contained
in this report. One had not got to
resort to lying in order to condemn
the King „Government. The bare
statement of the inefficiency, the anis-
management or worse of the Customs
Department as revealed in this Com-
mittee'e report is enough.
To, charge the King Government
with legislating Quire in the interest
of the 'United States than in the in-
terest of
nterest'n1 Canada is not to slander it.
but 'simply to -tell the truth about it,
as the following circular written by
Mr. W. R. aforson, president of the
Prosperity League of Canada plainly
glows:•
'Sacrificing Canadian Farmers.—In
twelve months, 'United States farmers
sold to Canadian cities and towns.
$73,000;000 of agricultural products.
In the same twelve months, Canad-
ian farmers sold to U. S cities and
towns $42,000,000, a difference of $31,-
000,000. This means that $31,000.000
went to United States fanners that
justly belongs to 'bhe Canadian farm-
ers. The reason this has happened is
that there has been little proper
thought oe supervision of aur nation -
•1 affairs in/ the farmers' interest. To
ahoy,- why this money has gone to
• United States instead of Canadian
farmers we need only examine the
following rates of duty which show
that we snake no serious attempt to
keep our markets for 'the Canadian
farmer, while the 'United States keeps
theirs for their own. We give some
industrial items also to show how
much more encouragement is given to
production and employment in the
U.S. than is given in Canada,
Lowest 17.S. Lowest Canadian
Customs Duty: Customs Duty:
30c Potatoes, per 100 lbs. • 20c
42c 'Wheat, per bushel Sc
Ise' Corn, per bushel FREE
$2.04 Wheat Flour, per barrel 30e
$4.00I[ay, per ton $1.65
35 p.c. Certain Fruits 15k p.c.
12e. Butter, per lb. le
3c Cheese FREE
Sc Eggs, per dozen FREE
40 p.c. Cattle 15 P.C.
75 p.c. to 1(5) p.c WotIllens 24•ia P.C.
55 p.c. Sisk 'Fabrics 15•ta p.c.
75 p.c. artificial Silk Fabrics
75 p,c. Woollen Clothing 24X. p.c,
75 p.c. AV'Dollen Hose 22f. p.c.
.33 to tib p,c. Hats 20% p.c.
75 p.c. Blankets 2G5 p.c.
13y the uaifairness of these rates
*31.000,000 circulate; amongst Anteri-
caii farmers instead of amongst Cana-
dian farmer.. Imagine what a differ -
cure if our farmer had this extra
531.0110,0011 every year to spend in
Canada. It would keep Canadian Jac-
turies gt iu:.;. and would keep Caua-
11i511 stork^tri, employed. and this
would still 'further add to the farmers'
market. There were nearly 1.000,000
farmer, customers driven out of
Canada in the t years ending 1025 by
lowering Canadian tariff."
\la 1 aga friend, J. S. Woods -
worth. of Winnipeg, ;tater not 3ttng
ago, that certain proposed legislation
was referred by the King Government
to some Yankee capitalists of Walt(
street. New York City for their ap-
proval. previous to its being brought.
before parliament.
WALTON.
Mrs, Geo. Hamilton, „i Caaeouver,
• has been visiting friends in the village
for the past week. ft is fourteen
years .since her last visit here.
tivirs. Grantor and children returned
to their home iu ,keton after spend-
ing a few day.; with tars, A. Gardiner.
Miss Reta McLeod. Rogina, visited
with old friends last week. She tett
Ito Taranto on \Iottday to visit with
her tteo sister, before returning, to
her hone.
\'fo. Albert \ichens, who has been
visiting air. and Mrs. J. FI McLaugh-
lin, returned home last Sunday,
A party consisting of \•1r.
and C Mrs. 1.• (turnings, air. and Mrs.
FIoht. Doodad, Mr. and Mat. Armour
Dundas, \lr, and airs, J. Cuter, Mr.
and Mrs, \b Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs,
Wm. Humphries and !•ft'. and Mrs.
D. Sohier smelt Sunday at Grand
Bend.
Auto accidents, are becntning quite
• common now Careless driving is
mostlythe cause,
M•r, and Nips. Hersh. Manning spent I
Sunday itt Clinton
(Mr. Geo. Kelly Sth bine of Morris,
has invested in 'a Chevrolet serial].
The Guild of St. George's church
met at the home of Mrs. Driscoll on
'4Wednesctay of this week.
Mr. Bob Reid is 'having this -house
remodelled.
l . aIiller and L. Rowland have en-
gaged with J. Carter for the thresh-
ing seasoa,
hresh-ingseason,
The dance in the A, O. U. W. ball
was wall attended on Friday night.
t\fr, and gars. (1. Badley have re -
maned after (IVU t eeka' ii. ,it:ai•s,
\•h•. and i•+1ai.'Tohtt 1.arie of Tucker-
smith, visited ;Mr, Jos. Ryan on Sun-,
THE aEAFORTH ilia WS
day
-yia.Vera Campbell aid•daugh
tcr
,aave.
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a s s •$4 _
s
Heanor and Miss. „Pearl, G
eFt for'then' schools in Northern Ott
'Miss .Nora Gn
n
tlo1 ' To-
`
' otikiu'ti•isited t.
r 'last "week.
t
of
1..
es Dicksonof the.Wt
The 'Mass..
Grey y visited at Mr.. John G. Grieve,s
'on Sunday las:. a.
•d • Cummins,
of. :Galt
Mr. Rtchat x
"[Oita G. ' Giieve s last
visited at M$, T
week.
hLiss .Mills Httllett Mills, of t
S. No. 7, 'McKillop, school
S.
pol on Wed-
nesday.
MissEaimer-
.
Elizabeth Baker, of P
atop, visited W. C. and Mrs. Mc-
Baohern Sunday.
•Mr. W. 0. Robinson, a former
pastor here, renewed acquaintances
in , and around the village - last week.
Tie has just returned from a trip to
GreatiBtiitain and the continent where,
in company with two college friends;
d e' spent about three months. Tate
xen
P
, t
tcjuring included i Et:giat d, Scotlantl,
f ;cane, •Switzenlanci and Italy, aal.atas,.
'E>i'j• interestinglsig1tt \vein seen in
I h4 way i• and It storie moult-..
ya ` - artistic , y
of ar
nteltts.",But alai.. Rob'insoit thiltks.
reatest value of such a trip
that the i
is the 'fact 'that it gives one an tzp-
portunity to get olose to those ,of
other countries, -and thus has a tetul
ency to, widen ones ; 1101:j7.o11 ands
broaden, his;'sytnpat•hies,
Miss Daye11; of
Dublin, is speudiri
a 'few holidays at the honie of Mr.
John McDonald'.
Mrs. George •Clau•ke returned home
on Sunday front is visit at Stratford.
Mrs. Drager returned hone from
London after a serious operation; but
is recovering very rapidly.
• ,spending
r
Miss Grace. Somerville 'is
holidays in Toronto with friends and
also at Niagara Falls, •
Liss :Nears 111limo " nff,r,uu{Pur has
beat vrsilinp her'.pa"tnta, flal9ing the
past wetly
lc C;artlitteroaettentled u'
1ee r-d.ankiti nccddiu in Sea•fo tl an
Friday.
a c u l.Airs. 'prank hlide,, Of St,
'Marys, spent Stitiii-ay al the hone of
Jos.,.R,ya1t.'
11r f-;eri Lott, .uf F'ru;set took the
sc+ iee5 30' the United Cl ^ch -n Sun-
t aired Tut ra,
da•S'.
Min am •A t i V a ck on std
\ i d 1 s :'(G..A J.t cs a. d
Kenneth and Miss Vera Ffaist, of
Winthrop, visited. &sends in I,ttclntow
last Sunday.
Mr. W, •G. !Neal went tat to tite
mining district in Northern Ontario.
\Ir' Silas Johnston was - judging
catde'a't. Tillson'burg last week.
•M'e. and Mrs. "Trott, Mrs, A.
Ai cltegs'an<l MO. Woods spent Sun-
day with Mr. and Mrs, 3. 'H. Mc-
•Lau'ghfih.
Niia. Jennie Clara: tuotored to To
o.a dere she will attend the mil-
{t ,t t 'd' t nnrgs.
s k1
<nrid 1, %ln• of
1 el c.
a• nae '.hlr: l.r,, I:
llaemit ,,.\Lich'„ wcaic motoring from
ly'L'li, 11ltkr cisi;firt the r'i !dbusiit,>'Gr
b,•rlae;'they met with a nasty accident
ust siautl1 of '\Waiton, about •half a
n ileo 't1 car owned apes driven 'hy,j.
Scott of Roxboro, turned oat gun.
Passed Ad.ilu s eat •andn', pass -
1t• f
u g caught the front wheel o ilr.
bliltne's car and turned the' car
and rhe occupants into the
ditch, Mr. [Milne received a had cm
on his ti nt and ASU s, Milne was l,n05-
ed about the head., Medical aid was
summoned and"Ittr. and airs. \[ilnc
were rushed to the Walton hotel, The
car was quite lbadly beoleen.'Mr., and
Mrs .Milne were 00 their way to 'To -
Rev. William Gardiner and Mrs:
Mrs. Gardiner, of Ailsa Craig, and
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1926.
lips. .Ec cr Gardiner, of Myth;
cel al the home of airs. A. Gard'itter,
and `.1'. L', Gad :
Q+ince ori B.rtday.
.•..
4 russets is
t'4ffof,
Catd
tltilSrs . . ; .f'
1 ,li 8 e -of Mrs, William
vtsiten'g'a i tit om,x,.
Woods,• Ms :. as'?"
,' ''.
Pauline xlisses I aulitie aura Getalctiite -tale.
Ewen, of'Goderich; are guests at the
haute of.their aunt, mfrs. George Bad -
HIBi3 cERT,
Mrs.
Mrs. Michael W'a:pS'h,'. \[r, and 11 Ms.
i'ohit \Valsh and•.fam,ily, okiMcKillop,
were'Strattford visitoss on Thursday
lust. - F•
1;L
aud t e
Mrs, Peter FIicknell tot
McKillop, were visitors on Sunday
last at the 'clone 'of theit' uncle and
aunt, Mr, earl Mrs. L'cter McCann,
Hibbert '
alis.. Anna bviolyneaux, of °Dublin,
is holidaying at the ` home of her
uncle aha( aunt, MT. and .Mrs..Micihael.
Doyle, (Hibbert. nurse, of
Miss •Mar 'Doytle, trained t u
etg a - t the home'of
iDet Y roit,,is+holatla'ym
iter, parents, .alp, and Mrs. James‘
Doyle, I -fibbed:,
l of
O'Neill, ,'\'li. =end Mts 'Phos, 1,
: o n sda
ett., istsT n T Y
.,av
Vest l.oruc, .,,n. ej
lira a . Mr. and 'Ma's. P MgCanar''s,
9 t7U I `d
r ' ' arrt, .
daughter 'Miss Annanha Atkinson,au b
Mr. attl •Mrs.. Joseph Atkinson of,
Hibbert, 'left on Wednesday, for St:•
Michael's hos 1?ital ".Toron'td, to traitr
as 'a nurse. _
t Mr.
report- that la.
We are QLicased• to^p
George clri
*. Ata •.'son of Toronto, . ivnko
vias so seriously son,
recently, is 'better
his-rn
r e to
again and'n•etu n dhomefro
`t.'ihfaty'ts hos ital"last week.
5 a n
Many •mothers cam ` testify to the
virtue f ;Mother Grave's' Worm Esc-
>, e o
terminator;;' because they `ktsow front
experience how useful it is:' 1
•
With the customs investigation still far from finished, the King Government
already stands convicted of having co-operated with /smugglers, bootleggers, ,
do esters and thieves,and of,havingthus been a party to defrauding the
National Treasury, strangling legitimate business, debauching officials, high-
and
i h -and low, thwarting the administration of justice, and bribing the electorate !
To cite bat a few instances—already proven---
from its appalling record of malfeasance
Stolen automobiles, smuggled into Canada with the connivance
of Customs officials, were sold for a pittance to friends of the
King Government, and those found gullky were allowed not
only to go unpunished, but to continue their nefarious trade.
s) Smuggled liquor selling was engaged in on a large scale by
Customs officials whose duty it was to protect the Treasury.
42 Corrupt officials were unpunished and promoted; honest
officials were punished and demoted.
A Prison -made goods are on the prohibited list, yet tons and
tons of such goods, produced in prisons where contagio
diseases were prevalent among the inmates, were srnuggleil
into Canada for sale to innocent Canadian consumers, with
the direct knowledge and co-operation of Government officials.
•": ':''••Farms
Police officers—members of the incorruptible Royal Canadian
Mounted—were withdrawn from the Quebec boundary line at
the request of the smuggling ring. Honest traders had asked
for increased police protection, but the King Government
preferred to grant the request of those who were defrauding
the public revenue. -
6 Guilty knowledge even in 1923• of the frauds that were being
practised has been proven against the King Government
beyond the shadow of a doubt. Time and again, in 1924 and
1925, the Commercial Protective Association --an organization
of business men—placed before Mr. King irrefutable evidences
of it, that they had succeeded in tracing down at their own
expense. With his Government hopelessly entangled with
Canada's criminal element, Mr. King did not -dared not—
take any action to remedy the appalling conditions.
5
7 A total revenue loss estimated at $35,000,000 per year was use
result of the smuggling thus condoned by the King Govern-
ment.
8 A $54,800 loss was sustained in one case alone when Mr.
Cardin, Acting Minister of Customs and Excise, settled. for
$3,200 with a dishonest importer, who, according to Mr.
Cardin's own officials, had cheated the Treasury out of duties
amounting to $58,000. This deal was consummated just
previousato the last election.
Free liquoz, from Government warehouses in Montreal, was
supplied in generous quantities to members of the King Gov-
ernment and to Government = officials in Ottawa, in contra-
vention both of the Federal Law and the Prohibition Law of
Ontario.
•
i o The habit-forming drug traffic is one of the worst curses in
the world today. tinder the protection of the King Govern-
ment, Montreal became one of the great dope -distributing
centres of North America.
1 1 The peak of this corruption, and of this interference with the
1 Customs collection and the administration of justice, is proven
by the evidence to have been reached just prior to the general
election of October, 1925, when, at tl}e written request of
Liberal candidates, Ministers of the Croyvn called off the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police because they were enforcing
the law, kept convicted crooks out of ' jail, and sanctioned
Treasury frauds as a means of securing the return of the King
Government to power.
Despite the fact that with Mr. Kennedy supporting thein, the Liberals had a majority on the Investigation
Committee, that the Chairman Mr. Mercier was a Liberal, and that the Prosecuting Counsel Mr.
Calder was a Liberal candidate in the last election, and despite the further fact that the committee sat
almost daily for five months, thus affording Liberal members ample opportunity to uncover malfeasance
on the part of previous ministries, not one ',word of proof, not one breath of suspicion, was brought
against the administration of the Custoins Department under the Laurier, Borden and Meighen Govern-
ments, but only against its administration under Mr. William Lyon MacKenzie King !
• Has anything more disgraceful ever besmirched the pages of Canadian
history? Can a proud and honourable nation, whose people' fear God
and eschew evil, ,afford to condone such dishonesty, such corruption,
on the part of its leaders and public servants
for Andrew
:5l
Hicks
IN 14L112O1i[ 5OUT9I
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And avoid another Election
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