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lat letter reà y safe1v vnn I* ýent, in 1France, to what we 0see, nada, and the people and their o! doing things are worse yet. !ellow lias to get acnstorned hat seema like a. lot o! old- oned inethods, when he cornes bere. Tbeir freig-ht and pas- ,r cars are what catches 'bis eye The !reight cars are juat a better than hlai the length o! and they are coupled tog-ether e old style ,with hooks and The wheela have spokes in thei, instead o! being solid, and one won- dlers why they don'V go to piecesý when they see the rate ait which they travel. For that la one thing "I an say for them: once Vhe Fr'ench engineer gets bis train startedl he <ertainly makes iV go. I have been travelling at the rate o! aeventy-five3 miles an honr since my arrivai here, and nio one seema Vo think it any- tbing ont o! the ordinaiiy. Some o! the simaller farmers have a curious trick o! piaiting their fields ont in strips o! one kind o! grain and then another. There wIl be, perhaps, a strip V-wenty feet widÂe o! wiý,heat, then as muech of aifaifa or ciover ha.y. T'hen~ somie potatoes or sug-ar beets, and, flnailly, another twenty feet of wheat or oats. They may have sone good reasoii for this systemi of theirs, but 1 f ail- ed to g-et the idea. The whole country, in certain places, iooked ,omieth-ing- like a crazy patchl-worký quit and reminded one o! what kjind of a f armi they niight expect Vo see i connection wlth a lunatic asyluni. However, the French farimer is worrying along and in no great dan- ger of starvation. lts very likeliy he"s going to pull his country cnt o! the hole (along with the heip of American tourists), and bring fier back to the condition o! prosperity shie was enjoying before the wr A day or two after we arrivoýd' in Paris we joined,,an excursion that was going ont to 'visit the battie- fields along the River Marne, and as far as Rhelmas and Soissions, and some more of those places that we were ail talking aibont six or seven years ago. Wýe were in a big siglît- seeing cat, and had what they EkIe to eall a guide, *or lecturer, along with ns. The first thing we had pointed ont to ns was. the Marne River, near where, soine say, the deciding battie o! the war was fought. There la a statue o! General Gai- ceni erected at one point on this river, in honor of the uian who took on hiniseif the responsi!bility o! coin- mande¶4ing ail the taxi cabs in Parig in the 'first days o! Vhe war, and bringing the city garrison onttVo meet the Gern'ians anid prevent thiem marching right' iùto the city o! Par- is. He accomplishled bis purpose, and, very likely, cbanged the course of the war. For this reason the statue lias been erected Vo bis ineni- ory. Shortlvy after nasýsing this point we regular picnie. They stretch lotheslines ncar the -scene of operations, and by the time they have finisbed gossiping the elothes are dry and then they carry thein oome on their backa. Shortly after leaving these scenes of peace and war behind we came ta the first Italian soldiers' ceietery we hadl seen. The crosses, in hs case, were decorated wjth a sort o! rosette, but otbhrise they were the sanme as those o! the French -and British. From Jiere, also, cQold be seen the house in which the German guiiý were stationed when they undertook to bombard the city of Rheims and îts gteat cathedral, which was sup- posed ta be the iuost wonderful thing' o! its lkind in Europe. This honse is on a high hli, and gave the Germians just the chance they want- ed for their work. But 1 guess l'Il have to leave the story o! how wel hey did the job for another letter, as no one can give a description, in a f ew woirds, of what Rheims and 'its cathedrai look like now. One couid fil a book, but we'Il try and convey some idea of the thing in our ne xt epistle. Here is is soe very bitter' medi- cie medicine for the Conservativeý, but they must swailow it-Lit lis thüir own words as reported in Hansard. Remeniber the Hon. Arthur Meighen waa Premier and hia Government ln power up te and incinding 19 21 election wlhen it -\as oveiwheliniing- iy defeated. Abcove conditions with those of the dark days of 1921. So widespread was the unemployment at that tiiie that a French Ganadian member of Parliament, Mr. Deslauriera, moved that immi-igration be suspended. It was during the debate on this res- olution that Mlr. McQnarrie, o! New Westmninster, B. G., one o! Mr. Mâeighen's supporters said: - I was in Hamilton last week, and I heard there that a lot o! the Hanm- ilton factories were ciosing down and that a great rnany men woui4 be out of employment. Included in the institutions which are closing do-wn, I thînk ia the International Harvester Gompany". Sir Henry Drayton, then Minister o! Finance, concluded bis 1921 Bu&- get speech wvith a peroration from which We qujote: "Mr. Speaker, we in Canada have a great task before u;. The world th~e following kinds of work: ce- ment walks, floors, blocks, silos, po.sts, flower urns; plastering; Èl kinds of Iuasonary work froin roof to cellar; aiso shingling; double or single teaming; ploughing; aýîeý and debris removed. Phone 206r5, write or cail at above address. Es- timates gladly furnished. Distance mnakes no difference. They havea car. 12-t Going to England, Christnmas ail. îngs fromn Saint John, N. B. Re3erva- tions can now be made with M. A. James, Ocean Steamship Agent, Statesnian Office, tf is sadly ont of tune. TRUST AND CONFIDENCE ARE SADLY ILACK- ING. GLASS INTEBESTS ARE ADVANCED WITH SELFISH IN- SISTENGE. UNEMPLOYMENT IS WITII US. FAITH IN OUR FEL- LOW-MEN IS WEAKENING. Doubt of the future is often voiced. And what is the trouble? The sun still ýhines. The rivera still sparkle. Our lands are as great and fruýt- fiul as ever-Qur resources just as vast". Back in 1921 we sold the United States agricultural products to the value of $146,539,883. After the F"ordpney U.S. Tariff of 1922 weint into effect ini the United States we sold themn only $51,337,733 worth. By raising their tariffs the TUnited States farmers have put about $ 100,000,000 per ann'um more into their pockets and the ',Canadian farmers have lost it. What is the lesson to the Canadian farmer? On what terms is the Cariadian fariner competing wlth the farmer of the United States? They are terms that not only forbid the sale of his products in the United States but compel him at the same tii-re to witness United States farmt products replacing his own in the home markcets of Canada. Let us examine some of these terme. PRODUCTS For Entrance into Canada the Americas;pay: Potatees......35 cts. per 10 bs. Eggs.........3 ets. per doz. SButter.......... 4 cts. per lb. Cheese...... 3 cts. per IL Cattle.........5 Hay. .........2. 00 per ton Wheat Flour.....50 ets. per barre! Wheat... ......12 ets. per bushel Corn................ Free Certain Fruits. .......2j% For Entrance into the, Unitedi States the Canadians pay: 50 cts. per 100 Ib's. 8 cts. per doz. 8 cts. per lb. 5 cts. per lb. 40% $.0per ton $2.04 per barre! 42 ets. per busbel 15 cts. per bushel The United States raised their tariff, in order to protect the American Earmers, and the purchasing of foreign farm producte was reduced. It was, therdfore, to the American Farmer's benefit. And wç prove it. In the next cohimn we liet a few Canadian products imported by the Ujnited States uncler the 1921 tariff and under the raised tariff of September 2let, 1922. These figu.res are quotecl from the "CÇom- mercial Intelligence journal" published hy Ottawa Qovernment (26th September, 1925, page 324). Martyn Bros.' Bowling Alley a y Uccreation Club le attracting crov 1 0 ach afternoon and evenirng. Ybi and old, men and women are taki a keen inteirest iu this, healthiy sp, fand exercise. Alleys are or r daily from 10 a. mn. to lilp. Everything isdean and up-to-d. inciuding reat roems up-stairsJ the ladies. e Special alîcys are reserved for1 aladies each a!ternoon froin 2 to when price la fixed at 2 games1 25C. - Misses Una Allin and Ne] C larke were the prize winners ladies' events last week. Standing o! teams Up Vo Sat, f day, October i17th are: n Mei's League Teain No. Captain 2 Roenigk 5 Mitchell 16 Harding 12 Harris il Nichols 4 Edger -a Bonnycastie 9 MeJMann S Little 15 Gibbs 7 Ormiaton 2 4 4486 3 ware payiug $130,000,000. I s n tur- Total Won Lu st Score Pts 6 0 5636 8 6 0 5545 8 5 1 4999 7 5 1 4755 7 4 2 4110 5 3 3 5326 4 2 3 4829 4 3 3 4064 4 2 4 4565 3 2 4 4527 3 6 Stark' 2 4 4j 1lVarcoe 0 6 4 10 Rotary "A" O0 6 3 Ladies' League <2A. Church 3 0 S 3 U. Allin 3S0 i 10W, Varcoe 3 0 I 5 Mrs. Candier 3 0 1 8 Mrs. Cameron 2 1 , 7 G. Layton 1 2 1ý 4 L. Anderson O 3 J 9 Mrs. M~ainprize 0 3 1j 1 H. Osborne 0 3 Iý 6 G. Mutton 0 3 I 300 Bowiera to date-F.V 340; P. MeMann 334; L.1 324; B. Coiwell 315; W., 307; Ed. Rundle 306; J. 300; C. Osborne 300. In 1924, Vhe amount o! uew life insurance taken on by the Ganadiau people was over $600,000,000, the greatest jamount of if e insurance, exciusive of group insurance, ever writte~n in Ganadian hiatory ia single year. In 1921, Canadians were paying for~ life insurance ecdl year $99,000,000.' In 1924, they Canadian Farm Exports to the United StteIl otsedn August 1921 and Il mozïths ending Auguist19ÈË5 ni Articles US- Horned cattie. . Free Poultry, ..Ic. per lb. Sheep.......-.Free Qats (busheý ... 6c. per bus. Fresh Béef- cliilled or frozen (quintaIs). ...Free Potatoes (bushel)Free Eggs (doz.)...Free 1921 Quantity U.S. $14,970,944 1V2 te 2c. per IL $2,897,753 plus $2 per li.ad 769,060 3c. per lb. 611,529 1,184,950 $2 per head Z19,878 2,822,129 15c. per 32 ILs. 389,280 47,735,082 42c. per 60 lbs. 13,408,152, 1925 Quantity 237,782 2,581,037 And now a great reduction has been. made by the Can- adian- Australian Treaty which just went into effect on October lst, 1925. Under this treaty Australian (and New Zealand) f:arm pToduct8 will enter Canada at the followlng 'tariffs. 3e. per lb. 50t.~ per qtl. 63,408 566,115 For Ejitrance PRODUCTS * ute -Canada the. Australians pay: Eggs, per doz .......Free Cheese............ Free Butter...........Iet. 1per lb. Honey......... et. per lb1. BsWx.-,.:...,Free Fresh Meats.. ....... ct. Canned Meats. .......5% Canned Poultry ....... 15% Lard.........Free Tallow..10% Canned Vegetables....Fr.. Apples and other Dried F'ruits.... .. .- . 10%, Quinces, Pears & Apricots 25 cts. per 100 Ilà. CaninedFrits......Y2,et.per lb. For Entrance into Australia the. Canadians pay: 18 ats. 6 cts. per IL. 6 cts. per lb. 4 cts. per lb. 3 cts. per lb. 5 cts. perILb 40%' 407, 4 ets. per lb. 1 et. per IL 30 ets. to $2.10 per doz. cans of 4 te, 4 pints 8cts. per lb. $1.50 perlO0Qbs 30 cts. te $2. per doz. cans, accord- ing to size Canada AiI be flooded with faimn proclucte from other countries a.t these Iow rates,, but Canadian farmn proclucts are shut out of otl3er countries by high tariffs. Meanwlille haif a million Canadians have moved to the Un~ited States beçavse of th'e tariff red çtk>p 4tahave cdpsed up or slowed clown Iiundreds'of tactories. That is, haif a million buyera of Canadiazi farm proclucts have been!oat.The. faru' Vote fQ Proctjon Frthe ,Frmn Idustry ) 1~ IB~W.~f~v Lwsus oU Ou..4, 4W êuu.j 8*. Woa~ t~s The"nfair eal Canadian. Farmers are Getting MIN,