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The Huron Expositor, 1931-06-19, Page 3r; C USW I V1 N tiff MIEN It will be of advantage to you asyour business grows to make a friend of your banker,. He will be glad to consider your problems and give you the benefit of his advice. You are invited to call upon the manager of any Branch of this bank. THE DOMINION BANK ESTABLISHED 1871 SEAFORTH BRANCH R. M. Jones - - Manager - 303 THOMAS McMILLAN, M.P., ON THE BUDGET Continued from Page One As the result of this legislation, no Canadian citizen can go out of Can- ada and get any- requirement at the world's market price and bring it home without having to pay an ex- orbitant rate of duty on an extrav'a- gan'tly high valuation for duty pur- poses. Why has this legislation been passed? Simply because this Government wants to compel Canad- ians to buy all their requirements in Canada and thus protect the special interests oftheir own particular friends. The Hon, Minister of Trade and Commerce, tells us that Canada has been faced with the grossest kind of dumping. This word "dumping" has been the scapegoat for some of the most diabolical legislation ever placed upon the statute books of Can- ada, and now being placed there through the medium of this budget. Who are the members of this cabinet representing in this Parliament? If honorable members sitting on those treasury benches are representing the true national interests of this country, and not the special interests of particular indus ries, then, Sir, you are representing the interest of every citizen in this country, and every citi- zen of this country is just like my- self in wanting to get their require- ments at a reasonable cost. Trade is not a national but an in- dividual matter. Every citizen would like to buy where he can get the best value for his money. I ask the Prime Minister again: Make good to the farmers of Canada the pledge you have given • to them. Allow them to buy their requirements at the world • market price. This government says it wants to prevent the importation of goods in- to Canada at lower prices than they are being sold in this country. In other words, this Government wants to make Canada a most expensive country in which to live and is doing everything it can, through the med- ium of its tariff enactments, to re- duce and destroy the purchasing power of an already overburdened people. When the, charge was made as it has been made by our honored lead- er and other members of this House, that this Government is a Govern- ment of special privileges, and that by its legislation it is handing out special favors to particular industries, the Rt. Hon. the Prime Minister in- vited us to show wherein there is any proof for such a charge. Why, Mr. Speaker, all we have to do to make clear the fact, is to cite the farcical proceedings pulled off on February 16, 1931, by the Prime Minister and his Minister of Agricul- ture in their pretence at open hear- ings on the tariff. It seems to me the whole farce might have been studiously arranged, whereby his other Ministers, and even his Commissioner of Customs, were not to appear until the Prime Minister, after only one minute of deliberation, had pulled down the curtain and departed. Not only so, but he has also told us he has over 1,000 briefs now in his posses- sion, no doubt mostly insisting for higher tariff and to be considered be- hind the screen, where the general public have no opportunity to exam- ine the contents of those briefs, and know what they contain. It reminds one of the words of Thomas Carlyle S�. 9 5 to tiers- end help in keep mOpth fresh and breath sweet—the sugar sup- plies the body fuel that burns tip excess fat and keeps you keen and alert. Wrigley's is good and good for you, . three-quarters of a century ago, when referring to arguments in favor of protection, he said: "During these many years I have heard no argument for it, excepting such as would make the angels and even the very jack- asses weep." This Government shows by its ev- ery action in tariff matters that it is a Government of special privilege. It is going out of its way continually to serve the special interests of particu- lar industries. As I said at the re- cent short session, it has completed and opened its first highway from the confines of those favored indus- tries to the backdoor of the office of the Minister of National Revenue and the trek for the purposes of their spe- cial protection—the hand-out of spe- cial favors—is no doubt going on continuously. This is why I say this is some of the most diabolical legis- lation ever forced through the parlia- ment of this country. This legislation has driven the peo- ple of Canada away back before the days of the Magna Charta—the day of the signing of the great charter of English liberty for the preservation of the liberties of the people, June 15, 1215, which Charter, among other thing's, stipulated that no taxes shall be levied in the realm without the ap- proval of Parliament and that foreign merchants shall have safe conduct to enter England and to leave it, to buy and to sell, without the obstruction of evil tolls. Why were those safeguards to English liberty inserted in those early days? Simply to prevent the exploitation of the people. The real purpose of this legislation is to encourage and teach the busi- ne:ss men of Canada to rely upon Gov- ernment favors for success, rather than upon the ingenuity of their own resources. This legislation in effect is saying to the manufacturers and business men of Canada, "Come ye all and sundry and I will show you through the medium of acts of par- liament, and by preventing the im- portation of goods at reasonable pric- es, whereby you can make money and get rich, by preying upon the neces- sities of the great body of the people." This Government wishes to protect its manufacturing and industrial friends and thus enable them to still further grind the very life -blood out of the great body of our consuming population, without whose efforts this country would never amount to any- thing, and who in this way will be prevented from getting their require- ments at a reasonable price. But underlying all other reasons I cannot help thinking that this is a dastardly attempt at high protection to still further help to produce fat on the bones of big business so that it may be fried out later in the shape cf campaign funds to keep this Gov- ernment in power. If the great body of the Canadian people are foolish enough to stand for this kind of thing, then, Sir, Canada is due for something far worse than the heart-rending experience through which this country came between 1878 and 189.6 under the national policy of protection which was to keep Canad- ians at home and build up a great and prosperous nation. But, Mr. Speaker, when this Gov- ernment shows it wants to prevent the importation of goods into this country at world market prices, I would like to know for whom this Government are working? In whose intvests are they administering the affairs of this country? If it was working in the interest of the general public, you would not see them trying to prevent the importation of the peo- ple's requirements at reasonable prices. It is the prime duty of any Government to so legislates as to en- deavor to do justice to all the people and then allow the people to rely up- on themselves and upon the ingenuity of their own resources to work out their own salvation in life. Sir, it is as clear as the noonday sun that they are catering to and working for the special interests of particular classes. But, Mr. Speaker, what surpasses my comprehension—something I can- not understand—is that type of char- acter, that peculiar mentality\ which will enable its possessor to boldly an- nounce that he will see that the col- lective weight and power of his Gov- ernrnent will be put behind and in aid of apiculture to nourish and support and strengthen it, and in the same breath has the effrontery to enact legislation which has the effect of so severely paralyzing Canadian agri- cultural life as to drive from it the last vestige of outstanding natural ability. Wlhy, Sir, it isworse than a crime upon the body politic and tra- gic in the consequence which it will involve. It is the same type of mind which will enact legislation which will place the great body of the people un- der the iron heel of special privileges 414 t4O `4001 1? , t stare *A be net eXe. *4 004 xl Of oonsuxxlexs, realizes that by; placing the people; the xnerey of the,; interests, or they Thi (immune its legislation it ,is in.. the clutches, a specially fevered would say nothing about the explol> tation of the :people. Before they talk about preventing exploitation un- der such eircuxnstarlces, their should be able to assure us that: they can re- constitute human nature. Their talk is nothing better than the sheerest balderdash. It reminds me of the ex- pression that "They might tell be truth to the people before asserting that they can appreciate nothing in argument but fallacies, and nothing in language but balderdash." As I have said, one of the first acts of this Government was to pass some of the most diabolical legislation ev- er ryer forced through .the parliament of any country, legislation which takes the power of taxation out of the hands of parliament --aa power which had rested with the representatives of the people under the terms of the British Constitution ever since the days of King John, over 715 years ago, and put that power into the hands of one man, and that man the 111inister of National !Revenue, to set the valua- tion upon goods far duty purposes without any reference whatever to the cost price of the goods. To raise the valuation as high as he .likes, put it as low as , he like, and change it whenever -he likes. If that is not an exhibition of high protection gone crazy and autocracy gone to seed, made legal by the solemn enactment of this Government in the face of the strongest protest of the Liberal party in this House, I would like to know what you would call it. It will destroy the stability of trade to such a degree that every prospec- tive trader will be afraid to launch out and do business because he will never be sure of the valuation upon which he will have to pay duty. If any person is engaged in the business of buying and importing goods, would common sense not tell him that the valuation of those goods for duty pur- poses would be the price he paid for them? That would be the valuation upon which any reasonable man would expect to pay duty. But now we have a Government in power which has passed a law nullify- ing that common sense view, and puts it in the power and at the whim and caprice of one man, to place any arbi- trary valuation he may incline, with- out any reference to the price paid and at any time he wishes to do so. With such a club in the hands of the Government- and exercising it in an arbitrary way it not only cannot pre- vent exploitation but will encourage a body of smugglers that will take a whole army of officers to cope with. The truth is that there is no Can- adian in his right senses but who knows that agriculture is •the com- manding industry of this country— that in Canada the constant .condition of agriculture constitutes the great barometer of trade and without a dominant agriculture the whole na- tional fabric would fall to pieces. With the knowledge of these facts staring them in the face it is almost incredible that any Government has the nerve and are so blind as to pass measures as to paralize agriculture as this Government has done and to all appearances intend to continue doing. The present comparative situation of agriculture is, financially, that if you take two young men, alike in pl-Oysique and (mental icalibre, jgive them each an education to fit them for the battle of life, and turn one towards the pursuit of practical agri- culture and the other to almost any line of professional or industrial life, the agriculturist, no matter how pro- ficient he may be, will fail to earn one-third the emolument of his more fortunate neighbor. There is that result, notwithstand- ing that in the first place the success- ful agriculturist is of far greater im- portance to the country, and in the second place the field of agricultural science gives far greater scope for the exercise and full development of all the faculties of the mind, and thus carries with it more of everything that tends towards the further better- ment of the human race. 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