re ed a ol wp" 5 "Montreal at the, Company's _. Yoice-o-phone, the most - ing price of which is $210.00. " PAGE TWELVE SAW SIR GEO KIRKPATRICK OF BRITISH MILITARY STAFF IN INDIA, CHIEF Montreal Insurance Superintendent Returns From Long Tour--Appor- tunities For Canada In East. 'Montreal, March 26.--Having com- pleted a two and a half years' tour of Japan and China, India, the & t Settlements, the East Indies, Austral- ia, South Africa and Honolulu, W, A. Higinbotham, superintendent of for- eign agencies of the Sun Life Assur- ance Company of Canada is back in head office. He has completed in that time a journey of over 80,000 miles. The Sun Life operates po less than ten divisions in the countries through which he travelled. The East is be- coming more aml more awakened, he pays to the benefit of life insurance. Mr. Higinbotham is enthusiastic about (the possibilities of Canadian trede In China, and he believes that it Canadian banks and financial houses directed their attention to that country rathen than to Russia their opportunities of expansion would be greater. Manufacturers too, he holds, must deal in an intel ligent manner, with the question of capturing Chinese trade. The United States would be Canada's chief com- pétitor in the Chinese field, as she is in British India where American houses aré already establishing them- selves firmdy. ' The developmeni of aggressive na- tiopalism iw india was very notice-| able to Mr, Higinbotham, who says, however, that an advanced degree of autonomy, to be worked out in the near future will probably solve the problem. India's contribution to the Allies' cause had been formidable, her troops on all frofits numbering about 1,000,000 men. Mr. Higin- botham visited at Delhi Sir George Kirkpatrick, chief of staff of military operations in India whe is a son of the late Lieut.-Governor of Ontario, and who was at one time mémber of Parliament fon Frontenac. Sir George was formerly of Kingston and is a graduate of the Royal Miliary College. The sugar situation in Java had purchased euriously, sald Mr. Higin- botham. The British Government had offered to purchase the Java sugar crop at i 'Price considerably in ad- vance of the ruling price. Hoping for a still higher price the Dutch author- ities had refused to sell. Great Britain bad, however, gone to the United States for her sugar and the Java warehouses are at present gorg- ed with sugar, which bas found no market, According to Mr. Canada's prestige in the East Higinbotham has been increased enormously by her|' brilliant participation in the Great War, ' $500.00 IN PRIZES, For Best Diary Kept in Dr. Chase's Calendar-Almanac It will be of interest to many of our readers to know that the Diary Competition in connection with Dr, Chase's Almange will be resumed this year with more valuable prizes than were ever offered bdfore. The first prize is an Electric up-to-date of reproducing instruments, the sell- The second prize is also a fine cabinet in- strument, which sells for $110.00. AMogether, there are twenty prizes, the total value of 'which is $500.00. AH particulars about the Diary Competition, along with illustrations and details in regard to the Voice- o-phones, are found on pages 16 and 17 of Dr. Chase's Almanac. This almanac has been mailed to practically evéey home in Canada, but if for any reason you have not received your copy write to Edman- son, Bates & Co., Ltd., Toronto, and they will send you one by return mail. These prizes are well worth trying for, and there is no time to lose if you are to get a fair start in dhe competition, NOT RUNNING BOOM. My. Carvell Says Government Going Out of the Ottawa, March 27.-- "The plain fact of the matter is that we are los- ing on an average of $10,000 per year on the operation of that boom, and we have simply decided to get rid of it and let the Mimbermen bear their own loss," said Hon. F. B. Carvell," when discussing the govern- meént's decision to sell to a private concern the jog boom and camp on the Gatineau river. "We have not discharged any men, but we are surely going to sell the boom. The statement that it has been operated at a profit is all yiohsense and we have lost all the money we intend to lose on it," he continued. * "Why should the gov- ernment run a for the inter ests of wealthy lumbermen anyway?' "Mr. Speaker." An Eoglish election story is old of J. W. Lowther, wig has filled the Speaker's chair in the British House of Commons with distinction thirteen years. He was once can sing for election to Parliament "wien he accosted a farmer on? day, and adopted sweet e meas ures to the usual end. "Vote for you?" exclaimed the farmer, who had basi pi his lot with the 1 . "Vote for you? { i iid sdouer vote for the devil." But supposing your friend doesn't , a pERAL canvasser Ro you Me Your vote in thai MARCH 27, 1919. _THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, JHURSDAY, ' venue, they would substitute for the For Forty Years We Have Been Allies Do you remember what farming was like in Canada forty years ago? We remember very well what manufacturing was like, what there was of it. The farmers were struggling on farms and getting low prices for their produce. The few manufacturers were also struggling, for the most part unsuccessfully. For forty years we have worked together. 'We buy from you most of what you grow. That has been and is the basis of our alliance.. \ male. The manufacturing establishments in Canada employ nearly 700,000 people. ennually nearly $2,000 Around these factories are congregated a hundred other forms of business. and statistics show that this home market is four times as valuable to you as Decrease its buying powers, and your sales $709,000,000 a year. mostly in Canada. these are your customers, your entire foreign market. about Moreover, they buy The Prairie Grain Growers are urging the Govern- ment to throw down the iariff wall betiveen Canada and the United States because they want to save a little money (mainly on freight rates) by buying from the United states manufacturers just y of them. constitute about 20 per cent. of the agricaltural populatic of Canada, ask all the other farmers, whe constitate remaining 80 per cent. ic change the policy which they have supported. for Yorty years Furthermore, to raise he Dominion Government re- tariff, which collected last year about 60 per cent. of 'that revenue, an increase of income taxes, inheritance taxes, corpora ation taxes and taxes on unimproved land values. As it is quite obvious that such taxes would affect the farmer but little, this is the inducement they are using to get you to forsake us and follow the free trade prophets no one knows where. We think this appeal will fail. First, because it seems to be founded on the assumption that the farmers of Canada want to slip out of paying any mcreaced taxes that may be needed for soldiers' pensions, gratuities and They, GREAT BRITAIN is shutting out the goods of other countries (except the Dominions). FRANCE and ITALY are shutting out the goods of other countries by import restrictions. - THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY in the United States, which advocates low tariffs, seems to besgoing out of power, and the Republicans, who always suppert high tariffs, have now a majority in both Senaie and Congress. Po you think that this means that the United State:' tariff is goihg up or down? Have we not both prospered? You buy from us most of what we Their wage-roll is ,000,000 worth of raw material, All lessen and your prices drop. Tne How A Minority Seek to Sever Our Alliance re-ectablishment. We have found in all our experience that the fermers of Canada are not this class of men. Second, because the argument is unsound. It requires Little reflection fo sec that if our market is thrown open and flooded, many of our manufacturers, caught in the struggle to re-adjust themgelvep from war to peace con- ditions, will not be able to going. Would this not result in many of our peoplé, unless they were able and willing to take up farming, leaving for the United States? Would not the rest of the population then, which might coneist chiefly of farmers, have to pay all the taxes? The Grain Growers do not represent the entire popu- lation of the Prairie Provinces. They do not represent the business population; they do not by any means repre- sent ali th» f.rmers. The Prairie Grain Growers' Associ- ations are deminated by a group of free traders whose one idea seems to be to get free trade all over the world. Unfortunately for their theories, just at the present time a'l the rest of the world seems desirous of getting protec- tion. Tariff Policy of Other Nations SOUTH AFRICA is increasing its tariff. Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Japan, Brazil and Portugal are all jealously maintaining their tariffs. Wh is this wave of protection sweeping over the world? In a 'word, because the various countries are t ing to produce ail they need at home, in order to i werk for their own people--many of them returned soldiers. Why then is this Western minority of the farmers of Canada determined to go in the exactly opposite direction? In opposing the demands of the Grain Growers, we do not in any sense intend, as they sometimes say, to show hos- tility to-them. They are our customers. not prosper, neither we nor the couniry can prosper. rity affected by theirs? Agriculture and industry are the basis of the country's strength. Is not our prosp: Beyond all this, if the farmers do But we feel that these demands of the Grain Growers aim a deadly blow, not only at industry but at the whole farming community. What justifies the Grain Growers in demanding that their personal grievances be cured at the expense of the rest of the country? Are they in a desperate position? adversity or too much success? Are they in any danger compar Have they been losing heavily? Are they suffering from too mich able to the one great danger in Canada now? «+ =. THE DANGER OF UNEMPLOYMENT the danger which may place thousands in need of shelter, food and clothing? Most Canadians feel strongly that until this danger i: avoided, and the country safely restored toa Peace basis, the nation should not be disturbed by any tariff controversy at all. When this danger is passed, and the country knows where is stands, and what other countries of the world are going to do, then the tariff question should be taken up and such a tariff should be framed as will suit, not the manufac. \ turers merely, nor the farmers merely , but th" country as a whole, end by adding to the prosperity of the nation, add to the prosperity of each and every class--the only safe path to prosperity for any country or any class in that country; Issued by The Canadian Manufacturers' Association NEUTRALS SHOULD HELP PAY COST Some Became Ve Rich and Their Losses Were ~ Small, - Paris, March 27. -- Following 8 niade _. --- ¥ tials in particulir, though the maker ropodt Bluni gives that through | St I . Is have be- 3 OE TRY rich, and are to-| bas submitted his day better prepared for &xport trade | opinion the than the belligerents. He then points high. The : Vest out that the neutrals' josses through Of War are very small, resulting REVISED TARIFF *' Will Preserve Industries Es- Melbourne, March ations In view: The necessity of pre- serving those industries b to existence through the war; encour agement of contemplated mew indus. | Ban tries and extension and diversions ch. Hu, of existing shtecpries. a on @ great war taught . tralia many lessons," sald the Ae ng | Premier, "amoung thom Ton hat 4 IN AUSTRALIA tablished Since the War. ~~Australia the eity ro until 123 to aes PE. a3 {TON with intends to a 3 a hg of Her tariff laws as soon as practicable with the object of developing her 40- 'dustries, according to an announce 'ment pnt by Acting Acting Premier Watt to-day. The revision.of the tariff laws will h the following consider- Commonyealth's geographical = be dis tion the long ocean ulage ati it md for er to dane i Ie H more self-reliant LW het herciore, Bus Jn view In { mn. proposed tariff amendments the -- vod the confines of the Common we oo and upon which so Tay othes ster ; prises are based 5 Sati New ard 3 pra for a Eine ¥ Picton, 27.--Picton Club proposes building a more mittee Hoy fo appoint HE -- 4 suitable sites and solieh = JAbucrip.