had { THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ys and Sembvaslly No 8! WHIG PUBLIS ED, KINGSTON, ONT. | however, has a great deal to do with = = CANADIAN SILVER. Canada now holds third place among the nations in the production | of silver. Mexico and the United | States rank ahead of her. Since | 1858 there have been recovered 451,-| 000,000 ounces from our mines, and during that period the market price has fluctuated between $1.35. per standard ounce 945 fine and 51 1-2] cents. The total value of mined] silver has been $280,705,533. | The silver output of 1924 had a value of $13,519,043. This came | chiefly from the mines of Cobalt, South Lorrain and Gowganda, in the | province of Ontario. During the) past twenty years those districts | have turned out 357,000,000 ounces, ! or 79 per cent. of the total produc-| tion since 1858. Our progress in mineral dévclopment is therefore | proceeding on a rapidly rising scale, and the aggregate production of the | current year promises to approach | our total foreign trade at Confedera- | tion. That is something to think | about as indicating national growth. OUR TIMBER RESOURCES. It is estimated by the Natural Re- sources Branch of the Department of the Interior that Canada has 482,000 million feet, board measure, of saw timber standing, to which might be added 1,280 million cords of pulp- wood, fuel-wood, posts and so on, British Columbia has 70 per cent. of the saw material of the Dominion, while the eastern provinces are rich- er in the other classes. Accessibility, the immediate commercial value of standing timber, and that applies to both saw material and pulpwood. If all our store of timber of both Rebel: A liberator before he puts Jt over, The only maritime term known to Jandlubbers is "deficit." Fruit Is high, as usual. A green costs about four dollars a visit The true servant problem is to ends meet with the wages they : Jt isn't a covetous spirit that 'makes you want a neighbor's phono- graph. Wild instincts are usually lost by all domesticated animals except hus- | majority rules the majority. 8 minority goes blandly on its in- ual way. _ A true financial wizard is one who Gan get money from those he stung Canadians are sprinters, not long- distance runners. A filvver seldom A Jingo is a patriot who would his last neighbor to protect 8 national honor. 3 ; The average man's idea of a free " gountry is one in which there is no decimal in the beer content. "The need of the times is a trans- parent substance that won't maim those who dive through it. Correct this sentence: "I'm gain- again," sald she, "and I'm going on & rigid diet to-morrow." "Religious liberty" doubtless in- 'gludes the privilege of thinking the other fellow's religion silly. Don't worry if your boy is an aw- fl liar. Propagandists have an easier than the cannot fodder. by J Tt is estimated that 87 per cent. of the wonderful Investments are those tn look very good at the | feel pain until Burbank shows 1 a suffei pod with green ap- in it. bride with thirty pickle forks is this sentence: "We pack- efully for the camping trip," he, "and didn't forget a single dal thing." ° are obscure things. The doesn't cackle because she as an egg. but because she is 1 could be made available, there would be no urgency in the matter, of either conservation or re- forestration; but it is well known that more than fifty per cent. of it is at points which cannot easily be reached, and could only be turned to commercial account at figures far above present market prices. We have unquestionably been prodigal with our forest resources, and now necessity compels us to think con- structively about the future. RURAL CREDITS HELD OVER." The Senate did not approve the Act which had been passed by the House of Commons in respect of what has been popularly understood to be rural credits. As a matter of fact, the measure as presented to Parliament was entitled: "An Act to authorize advances to assist agricul- ture by providing for long term farm loans," As Mr. Meighen pointed out, that purpose scarcely justified the use of the term "rural credits," which he contended, and probably for sound reasons, was a somewhat different matter. Be that as it may, the action of the Senate renders nugatory for the time being what was recently done by the House of Commons. The discussion which took place on the third reading of the Bill dis- closed very conflicting views on this rather important measure. The op- position came in the most positive form from members of the Progres- sive party, and, on the other hand, the strongest support came from that quarter. No one can read the discussion which took place in the House without being confused as to both the expediency of attempting this form of aid to agriculture and the adequacy of the provision con- templated by the Act. It was, for example, asserted that $10,000,000 was worse than useless, and with equal earnestness the House was as- sured the amount was more than sufficient to serve the intended pur- pose. Mr. Robert Forke, the Progressive leader, was among the opponents of the Bill. He denounced the whole proposition as "a joke," on the round that $10,000,000 was piti- insufficient. He suggested that es that amount would be re- to meet the need in western a. Right Hon. Mr. Meighen looked upon the measure as an effort to relieve the loan companies of bad loans. As concerning the experi- ment in rural credits and farm loans tried by the Government of Mani- toba, he had this to say: "I know that fifty-odd out of seyenty-four are now in the hands of the provincial government as liquidator. But that is the rural credit scheme, good or bad. They have a farm loan scheme too, and I am not sure which has been the greater failure, the farm loan scheme or the rural credit scheme." : Mr. Robert Forke presented an- other aspect of the alleged failure in Manitoba, He said: . , The weakness of the whole situation' has been that the local board has not been selected with sufficient care. Ido not think it is wrong for me to say here that some cases local merchants and others who 'were interested in col- lecting debts from those who were || borrowing money were on that i, and a favorite arrangement , the borrower to con- debt. That is, to bor- row sufficient. money ¢o pay off his and then apply to the : Hon. geatle-, men can see how it worked out. He paid the debt, but left a large debt to the rural credit society, and they made failures, while the merchants got their money." To this Mr. Forke added, as has just been intimated: "I seriously think the $10,000,000 proposition is just a joke. It would not begin to do anything, so far as rural credits | are concerned." On the other hand, one of the best speeches made during the debate came from Mr. McKay, Liberal member for North Renfrew, who expressed the utmost confidence in the sufficiency of the money pro- vision of the Bill. He did this on the strength of the experience of the United States, and in that regard he made some statements which must have been astounding to Mr. Forke and other opponents of the Govern- ment measure. Mr. McKay pointed out that under the American scheme the amount of primary loans did not exceed $9,- | 000,000, and of that sum the United States Government had advanced but $2,000,000. The secret of this small capitalization was thus explained by Mr. McKay: "The liabilities of the inmstitu- tion are farm land bonds outstand- ing, $914,000,000 odd. And the only capital held by the United States in these banks is $1,670,- 000. At no time have the United States been asked to advance more than their initial loan of $9,000,- 000. How has that been done? It has been done by a revolving scheme. I can illustrate that in a very few words. When a man gives a mortgage for $2,000, $3,- 000 or $4,000 on his farm, that mortgage is turned into what is called a mortgage bond. Those mortgage bonds are sold and, ac- cording to a letter I hold in my hand, those mortgage bonds in the United States are picked up like hot cakes." It was therefore the contention of Mr. McKay that the proposed ad- vance of $10,000,000 by the Domin- ion Government would put the Cana- dian scheme on a much stronger footing than the Amegican had en- joyed at its inception. And so the debate ran through several hours of time, one member pooh-poohing the whole thing and wnother approving it in strong terms. Just where the truth lies it would be Wifficult for a disinterested listener to discern. There is, however, another fact at the bottom of this matter which can- not Ye ignored. The part which the Dominion proposes to take is simply to advance $10,000,000 to the prov- inces, taking in return the bonds of the provinces as security, The ad- ministration of the loans, and every other detail, is léft wholly with the provinces. The Dominion Treasury Board was to be the sole arbiter as to the amount of eacn loan to apply- ing provinces; and at once a rather serious difficulty is suggested. By what process would the division of the $10,000,000 be made? The Bill itself suggests no basis. But that is not all. As has been said, the Dominion has proposed to play the paternal part of advancing the money to the provinces. The latter become the active and respon- sible agents in all that takes place subsequently. Very good. The prov- inces, however, have not shown any keenness whatever in the matter. In- deed, not a syllable was utféred in Parliament to show that they de- sired to be parties in the way sug- gested. If they do not co-operate, the whole thing collapses. In this situation of uncertainty, perhaps no harm will be done if the measure is allowed to simmer for another year. Meanwhile, the Government has shown a sincere desire to come to the relief of the western provinces in the important matter of rural credits. bs HELPING ALL CLASSES. When Mr. Meighen told the coun- try that the Mackenzie King govern- ment, while it had made changes in the budget had not reduced the price of agricultural implements, the Con- servative 'leader 'was wrong, and should have known better, or if he did not kdow =the facts he should have been more guarded in his state- ments, 3 As a matter of fact the 'cost of these implements has been very sub- stanitally brought down, and farm- ers are not likely to forget this when it comes their turn to aid and assist the Liberal cause. In December last the Massey-Harri§® stattement com- tained the following: "Many examples of price réduc- tioms could be enumerated, but the following will indl- cate what has been done in the way of reduced prices: Binder reduced by $10; mower by $4.50; rake by $2; bay loader, $5; gasoline engine, $16.50; wagon, $5 and gang plow, "» 'In November the president of the hurt us at all.........The duty on T | raw material entering into the maa- || ufacture of the machines made at | | the local plant. With the duty off our raw material we can manufacture! our machines so much cheaper that | we can undersell our American com- petitors without any difficulty." | In other parts of the country the | same story is told. It will be remem- | | bered, however, that the government | was assured that it was ruining these | | implement firms and a tremendous | | wail went up. This vocal effort, it | | appears, was entirely wasted, for | | the Massey-Harris Company showed { an improvement in operating earn- | ings and a net profit. It comes to | this, that in year since the gov- | | vernment took éffice that very im- | portant concern has been getting a | little better off. Here, it would appear, the policy of the government has bengfitted both the manufacturer and &) ag- riculturist. Add to this the f that last year, for the first time in seven years, the cost of living line drop- ped below 150, the average prices in 1913 being taken as equivalent to 100. Here is proof that this most im- portant matter has been engaging the attention of the administration, adding to their already creditable record. They do not ask the people to live in hope. Promises are all very well; they are something to gtart with; but W. L. Mackenzie King and those associated with him believe in fulfilling their obligations and they are doing so to the best of their power and ability. Our duty is to stand by the gov- ernment that keeps its pledges and tries 'to benefit the country as a whole, let us perform it unhesitating- ly and whole-heartedly. ¥ NATURE LORE Wallace Havelock Robb "Come..on out looking for birds, Jimmy," said Roy, one nice morning in July. "Ah, who wants to go bird hunt- ing on a morning like this?" answer- ed Jimmy. "Can't you see perfectly well that this is a fishing morning?" Roy looked a bit peeved, bat Jimmy continued, "You just come on with me, Roy; I know where thefe are a lot of minnows and we can catch them easy too, and it is up a crooked little creek, and I know a good place to keep the minnows in, a dandy pool, and we can catch them and dam the place up and keep them till we need them and we can catch tons of great big whoppers of trout, Just as soon as we gét enough min- nows saved up in the pool." And away they went. Jimmy led Roy up the creek, over slippery slimy stones, until the little pool was in sight. Then the boys be- gan to catch minnows, with a wide plece of mosquito netting. About a dozen nice fat minnows were made captives in the little pool, but the luck seemed changed and no more were in sight, so Jimmy sug- gested that farther down there might be more. Down they went, farther and farther from the pool, but no minnows did they see, for they frightened them down stream. At last, Jimmy said, "Well, we've got enough anyway, and we might as well go back to the pool and get some of then I will show you how to really catch fish, Roy, for fish are more Interesting than birds. Don't you think so?" Roy was just going to say that he thought birds are more entertaining, when Jimmy, who had arrived at the pool first, stood so stalk still hnd staring, that Roy rushed up, "What's the matter?" Jimmy looked most, astonished. "Why, there isn't one single minnow in the pool, and no holes they could have escaped through, and--" '"Haw-haw-haw-haw-haw," laugh- ed a pretty Kingfisher, as he dashed away up stream, having stolen all the boys' minnows. "Let's quit fish- ing and follow the bird, Roy, for he seems to have all pur bait," said Jimmy. | [3 it : oii | fi Ii : i 2 £ Bat BIBBY'S Big Sale Summer Wearables v Straw Hats | Fipe Shirts All our best Straw Hats. $2.50 to $3.50 values, for $1.95 Here's where you can pyramid your savings and amass a lot of economy while you outfit your complete clothing and haberdash- ery needs, The reductions are great -- the quality fine--styles choice and var- ied and every thing you buy a real bargain. 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