The Huron Expositor, 1922-06-16, Page 1Mb'�'aCg 'YEAR
WHOLIN NiUMBER 2844
SEAFORTU,
HOLY NAbgl SALLY
The annual Heng' erne Rally, rep-
resenting the start 4;• of 'Seaforth,
Dublin, St. Colt
Clinton, was held in
day afternoon haat,
Stewart Bros.
Beauty,Novelty.‘nd
Economy in Wash;Goods
A Big Department fairly sparkling with the
Brightest, Cleverest and Appealing Wash
Goods we have ever shown.
Dotted Swiss—Green, Navy, Copenhagen, Orchid, Black
and White. Price $1.25 to $2.00.
Organdies—Orchid, Green, Blue, Pink, Peach and Maise,
45 inches wide... Price $1.00 to $1.25.
Voiles—In New Small Dots and Figures. AU colors, 36 ,,
to 42 inches wide... Price 50e to $1.25. �,
Embroidered Organdies—Orchid, Peach, Green and
White, 45 inches wide. Price $1.50 to $2.00.
Ratine Suiting—Rose, Copenhagen and Buttercup,
36 inches wide. Price $1.25 to $1.50.
Galatea and Juvenile Cloth --For Children's Sui t
and Rompers. All the best colors. Price 35c yard.
Prints—All the new colors and patterns. Excellent
Quality. Price 30c to 40c.
Ginghams—In New Checks and Plaids. Price 25c
to 35c.
In Our Corset Department 4
We make a special feature of selling
C/C A la Grace Corsets. Long years
of experience have sltoWn us thet
•
Ci%ara
Corsets
give the greatest satisfaction to ow customers, not onlyl because
of their ver9 fashionable lines, but also because of their durable
materials arid comfortable fittings.
We carry a complete line of C/C A le Grace Corsets, o7hos..%
prices range from the- most moderate to the aer9 elaborate.
Stewart Bros:, Seaforth
Logan and
iforth on Sun -
;en upwards of
seven:hundred men rbicipated.
A procession was tarried at Victoria
Park, and headed by the Seaforth
Highlander's amid ; Wad followed by
four boys trona the parish, carrying
a Union Jack, the J4 ting clergy and
member of the Society, marched up
Main Street and doVvat-bbderich Street
East, to St. 'cameo' -.Church, which
large edifice was entleely inadequate
to hold the im'mense'tbir'ong that had
gathered for the serwide. The parade
of so many_men who were pledged to
abstain from perjury, Itlasphemy and
profanity was one of; the most im-
pressive sights ever witnessed in the
town.
Rev. Father Stanley, Diocesan
Director of the Holy Name Society
for the London Diocese, was the
speaker of the afternoon and gave an
earnest and most inspirational address
from Ecclesiasties 1248: "Fear God
and keep His Commandments;' in
which be explained the object and
aim of the Society, which had its in-
ception in the 13th century and which
is doing more for 'Ole country in
which we live than any other agency,
its principal object being to trans-
form its members into perfect Christ-
ian men. The duties incumbent on
followers of the DIvine Master were
first in the domestic circle, commonly
known as borne life and also in so-
cial and commercial circles. He said
the •Chr.istian home, Catholic or
non-Catholic, was the' foundation
of the state in which we live.
The home enjoyel rights and
privileges that can not be taken from
it in this world nor in the next. The
Church and State can only assist
those placed there. He, deplored the
tendency manifested by the parents
of the .present day to ehift their re-
sponsibility on to the church and
school. The parents should never let
any power rob them of that Divine
riglht. There is no influence as great
as the apostleship of example. Fifty
years ago, be said, the children obey-
ed their parents, now 'the parents
obey the children. Father Stange./
exhorted his bearers to ahvays exdr-
rise bhe spirit of justice and equity
towards their fellow men, no matter
what their creed may be. Those out-
side the dhurch :have a right to re-
spect an example, and when they do
not see one, they have a right to
complain. Never be guilty, he said,
•of using profane language, nor of
telling an obscene storythat will
polu:te body and soul. e is a
growing disposition on a part of
our time to forget the Sunday as it
was kept 'by our forefathers. fa
referring to conjugal lid-lity and the
double moral standard, he said:
There is no such thing as the latter.
Men expect their wives :rid sisters In
Garden Party
and
Strawberry Festival -
on
G. W. WHEATLEY'S LAWN
One-half mile east of Constance
on
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28th
An excellent programme will be
rendered.
Feat served from 6 pm. to 8 p.m.
ADMISSION — 50c and 35c.
the revenue. Our good frriends to our
right almost declare that unless there
is high protection, you cannot manu-
facture goods in this country. If
they want high protection, I would
advocate the imposition of an excise
tax, and then some of the money will
.ge into the treasury of this country
instead of all going into the pockets
of the manufacturers.
Let as consider some of these manu-
factured goods. In the first place, I
think we could easily reduce the duly
on boots and shoes by oneehalf. And
let me say right here that the boots
and shoes that have been rrtanufactur-
cd in Canada during the past six or
eight years have been hardly fit for
any man or woman to wear. I have
known instances where children's
boots, coating between $3 or $4 a
pair, coating out of the factories :here,
have gone to pieces after three weeks'
of wear- The manufacturers of these
.particular articles should, 1 think, use
more brains and better material in
making them, because the class of
goods they turn out at present is cer-
tainly not a credit to them. As one
honorable 'gentleman near me suggests
they should put Ipore leather and less
paper in bhem, and there is a good
deal of truth in that. In the year
1921, there were Imported into this
country over $2,000,000 worth of boots
and shoes, while the exports toed
over $1,500,000. Of these e Ansa s
Some $354,000 worth went osa e
border. Now, if these manufacturers,
can compete with' American manufac-
turers sending this quantity of boots
into the United States, I think they
should be able to meet the compe-
tition of the boots exported from the
United States into Canada. The ex-
ports of boots and shoes from Canada
to Great Bribain in the same period
amounted to $904,000.
I think the Minister of Finance
should have given more consideration
to the question of building materials
and agricultural implements. I 'have
been informed on gond authority, and
the fact was mentioned in the House`
yesterday, that 'the Imanufarturers`
`be pure as the lily, and they in turn warehouses are filled to the roofs
have the right to dentar:d the same
of them. He warned the members of
the Holy Name Society against per-
jury, which a prominerr Judge told
:him was increasing every day at an
alarming rate.
At the close of ti'.is excellent
address, the ntenihcrs repeated the
Holy Name pledge in concert.
This was followed by 'he benediction
of the Blessed Seer: ient. Special
music was rendered flitting the ser-
vice by the choir, :. -:ed by Mrs.
L. Fortune.
The visiting clergy .. re: Father
White, S t. Colunih.i0; Father
Kelly, Logan; Fath. r 'MeCardle,
Dublin, end Father Calfney, Clinton,
and the boys who bore '".e flag were:
Patrick O'Leary, Gordon Reynolds, J.
Daly and E. Devereux.
MR- BLACK'S BUDGET SPEECH
The following is the Mansard report
of the s'peeoh delivered by Mr. William
Black, M.P., for South iluron, in the
House of Commons, on June 2nd:
"Mr, :Speaker, as this is ,the first
with farm implements, and I under-
stand that the same thing is true in
regard to other manufactured goods
that are used in building in this coun-
try. If these gentlemen would only
lower their prices, as the farmers
have done, this Dominion to -day would
riot be in the condition which is so
generally deplored, and there would
not' be so many men walking the
streets, because people would be able
to buy and money would be in cir-
culation. I know that the cem,mon
talk in my part of the country is
this: "We will not buy implements
until these men decide to bring down
their prices." That is the attitude
of the people in western Ontario, and
i for one do not blame them. If these
hien keep their manufactured product;
in the warehouses in the hope of be-
ing able to sell them at exorbitant
prices, where are the farmers going
to stand? •
There is a further consideration in
regard to the manufacturers in Can-
ada. They are given a rebate on the
duty they pay on raw material enter-
ing into the manufacture of goods
which they ship out of the country.
time I have spoken, 1 '' eve a consul,- I 'contend that this is unreasonable,
crable feeling of diffidence in the because I think that they can com-
pete with the manufacturers 'across
the line, or with those of any other
country.
There is a good deal of talk shoo;
the want of population in Canada,' but
I rld,not sec how we can hope to in-
rrea'e our population or retain the
people we have already, unless we
can improve conditions and make the
country more attractive to intending
immigrants. In the last decade, tak-
ing the natural increase with the im-
migration that came into the country,
our population ought to have been
11.000,000, and it is quite obvious
that conditions in Canada could not
have been such as to appeal to the
people who left. When the honorable
member who apoke a few moments
ago (Mr. Low) said that 73 per cent
of the produce of this country was
consumed in Canada, I was al st
staggered. That may be rte.', and I
ant not going to douft the h morable
gentleman's word, but 1 can hardly
remit the fart.
T do not want to take up much
time, but, I desire briefly to refer to
rho railway situation. Let me tell
the Minister of Railways (Mr- Ken-
nedy) at once that as a good Canadian �
T believe that, the Natinnal Railways'.
can he operated and made to pay in -I
cirle of three years, provided the right
men are placed at the 'head of the l
system. I might as well express the :
opinion here as in the back conres-
sions of my constituency, and I will
tell the minister that the sooner he
Changes the management of the rail •
-
ways the better it will be for them.
He must begin.n vigorous use of the
pruning knife, and most of all he 1
presence of the many old parlia-
mentarians whom I s around me
and who have been it his House for
se long a time. I mu>: at the outset
confess that I have 1 n rather dis-
nppointed in bhe budge' ,hat has been
brought down by the Minister of
Finance (Mr. Fielding). In the elec-
tion of 1921, the Liberals, when they
came out to oppose a-, told us that
the two parties were eracticatly the
same, but r differ greatly with that
statement as I take my stand in the
House. Last fall at. Calgary the
Prime Minister (Mr. M,kenzie King)
delivered an address in which he spoke
about bhe downward r, vision of the
tariff and also a comp'.e,e elimination
of those duties, which we have had
for many years; hut :'fere is surely
something radically won•g when we
compare those statements with what
we 'final in the budge' 'hat has been
brought down by the Minister of Fin-
ance, This reminds nil• of an address
that the ex-Presidenl if the United
States made about. a year ago, when
s •e stated that he hod never seen a
minister of finance deriver a budget
speech without a joker at the end of
it. Had fanm implements been left
as they were instead of a reduction
Of two and one=half per cent. being
made in the duty and Chen there be-
ing added, as it were, as the ex -Presi-
dent of the United States said, two
or three jokers, I would have been
quite well satisfied, especially if my
honorable friend bad put An excise
tax on all those articles that are
manufactured in this country.
The minister speaks as thought it
were a difficult undertaking to raise
el 'iFl .5ngni 4.:.,tti,
must have at the bead of
ways a snarl in wiionra i'
Stave the fullest confidence.; iNo one-
bas' any faith in the man who is $04
day at the bead of,t}te rail*aye. Ts
is the common view all over the sea
ern part of Ontario, and the sooner
the minister gets a young man 'with
a broad viaion, who, bas, this name to
make,"and places irim in dh'arge, the
sooner will the National Railways be
made to pay for themselves.
I might go on to speak of the mer-
chant
erchant marine, but as the time is short
1 shall not do se. I should like, how-
ever, to say a word or two about
the Civil Service. I thinlf the service
is over -manned, and I was about to
suggest that it could be reduced by
one-third. At all events; I do not
think then is any doubt about the
fact that it could be curtailed to ad-
vantage. But if I mistake not; there
will be as many civil servants in•Ot-
tawa at the end of this year as at
the beginning. In my opinion the civ-
il servants could be reduced by thou-
sands, and I would ask the Govern-
ment seriously to get down to busi-
ness in that direction and see that
the service is cut down wherever
there is over -manning, Any minister,
if he goes through his own depart-
ment, can, I believe, find instances of
this.
There is one other matter I shall
refer to before concluding; but in
passing 1 might suggest that a good
deal of time has been wasted during
the past week in this debate. I think
that the man who talks for over 'half
an 'hour, apart from the leaders of
the parties and their lieutenants, is
taking up too much time. However,
to proceed. Our honorable friend the
Minister of 'Finance visited Washing-
ton some time ago, and we often hear
it said that he might as well have
stayed at home. Now, I do not agree
with that, for I believe in dealing
with our first cousins across the line,
if I 'might so describe them- The
United States is our best market and
probably always will be. Just to
spend a few moments on the question
of our trade relations with that coun-
try, I might refer to the reciprocity
treaty of 1854 Under that treaty
b►utastill have: a
and the Amerl04n
market we. 'have.The :weal 'boom ewpe .
19135 viten some,aS�t'ie44
were,eplaeed:on Sur d
list, and tunes Ind`. Ines rwar-
ly reduced. As a 'result oar
of .wattle alone to the 'United„
dusting,the seven years flout a 191
1920, inclusive, averaged 260,000
Per year, as against 28,000 -heed lir'
1918. Our exports of all animal*
and the .products of _animals. ad:vianeeft
from leas than ,018000,000 in 1013 to
$118,000,000 in 1920. Ohr exports of
other agricultural products went up
from $27,000,000 to $52,000,000 et tllo
same time, our fisheries advance*
from $5,150,000 to $18,500,000. ;a1 4.
our forest products from. less 4h&*
$30,000,000 to $71,000000. ,Alt to
there was an increase in our expo
to the United States it all lines he
-eight years from Iesa than $140,0004100
to $464000,000. if any atrouger an.
gument is required as to the value of
the American market for Canadian
producers,"llLi': Speaker, I should Rice
bur good friends to the right of 'as
to let us know about it.
The last American tariff went into
force on the 28th May, 1921. In the
first six months after that tariff was
introduced our exports of weal to the
United States amounted to only
$13;660, as compared with nearly
$1,000,000 for the same period in the
previous year. Our export of pota-
toes was only $447,000• in the first
six months after the new tariff casae
into force, as compared with $2,000000
in the same period of 1920. Milk ex-
ports were less than $200,000 during
1921, While they were $1,295,000 in
the previous year; our sheep exports
were• 4421,000 as against $1,500,000;
our cattle $2,369,000 compared with
$17,000,000.
Now, Mr. Speaker, I am entirely in
accord with the sentiments of the
last speaker (Mr. Low) in regard to
Canada's exports to the United States immigration- I believe our own Can -
increased from $10,750,000 in 1864, adian boys are worth two or three of
to almost $38,000,000 in 1866. Twenty any class of immigrants that we can
years later, in 1886, our exports to bring in. I think the Minister of
the United States were only $34,000,_ Immigration would do well to try and
000. Our exports nearly quadrupled get as many as possible of our Can -
in twelve years of reciprocity. In urban men to come back from the -
twenty years, when comparatively States, instead of encouraging toe
mild tariff restrictions existed, they 'many immigrants from the Old Land.
declined by $3,500,000. Later on, We need immigration to solve our
when real restrictions began with the railway Problem, but at the present -
McKinley tariff, the effect was more time I am strongly against spending
injurious and was felt by the farmers so much money to bring in dmmtd-.
of Canada with particular force. In I grants until we are able to bold the
1888 Canada's export of animals and people we have here.
their products to the United States
amounted to $7,500,000- In the fiscal
year of 1893, when the McKinley tariff
had made its full effect felt, they
were down to less than $4,000,000.
In the sante period our exports of
other products of agriculture shrank
From 410,0041,000 to $4,000,000. About
that time occurred the darkest period
in the whole agricultural history of
Canada. Potatoes were sold on the
Toronto market at 20 cents and 25c
per bag, while good cattle in the coun-
try sold for from $12 to $15 per
.head. The only wonder was that
farmers were able to exist at all. A
great many of them left their farms,
and a great deal of the best blood of
rural Ontario emigrated to the United
States during the dark days of the
early nineties.
The first relief came in 1897, not
with any easing up of the American
tariff but merely as a result of the
removal of quarantine regulations.
About the year 1891 there had been a
ninety -day quarantine against cattle
moving either way across the border.
Hon. Mr. Fisher, when he became fed-
eral Minister of Agriculture, secured
the removal of that obstruction, and
'as s direct result, although the Amer-
ican tariff still remained, our exports
of cattle across the border jumped
front 1,646 head in 1896 to 90,000
head two years later. The effect was
Football
Brucefield Rovers
Kinburn Kids
To be played in KINBURN, on
FRIDAY, JUNE 16th, 1922
This will be one of the fastest
games of the season, and as Kinburn
were the Champions for 1921, and'
neither Team have lost a game this
season, we expect a game worth coan-
in.g to see- Be a sport, and help the
boys hold their good reputation. Come
along and tell every one you see.
B. B. STEI'HENSON, Secretary.
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