THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG a SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, Kingston Markets | | Friday, Oct. 186. v. was 40:50 5 2e..40-80] asian vo 35-401 es +. 10-38] ' +0030 $1.75-52.00 | " granulated, » .. .. ....8] yellow, .. .. .. ..: acing, I... .. .. o.oo. r, standard, cwt .. ..$5 plled oats, 1b.. .. .. .. ee.8) BY, bib. pall. ... .. .: 'vs. MAY, Comb .... .. .i «2 ses Dairy Produce. tter, creamery, 1b.. ... . butter, 1b. . +... .. rl ne as ae a Haddock, fresh, 1b.. .. .. Halibut, fresh, » .. .. . Xp se val.13 $11-512] Hay, loose, ton.. .. .. ... ..$10| Oats, local, bus... .. .. .... ..50]| . ..$38.00] vi ee» $32.00; . ..31.45 'ders, roasts, . . fous nk ov live weight, cwt.. .... ., 1i .... a. amb fronts, Ib. .. .. . Be, ts re-5000 «+7 coup to $3.23 3 9 rr -- AKING OUR RAILWAYS PAY The sure way--the only way--that our perplexing railway problems can ever be solved. Temporarily our Canad] way system is in a hole. To 'would be rank untruthfulne importance would be sheer folly. But this huge public ownershi CAN and MUST be pulled out of t its up to the m Canada to do it! A Loaf Big Enough for Two If our foresight had been as good as our hindsight, we would never have built the °xcessive railway plant we have today. But what is done cannot be undone. There is no use crying over spilt ntilk. The problem now is to chart for ourselves the course that will most quickly and most surely place the Canadian National Rail- ways on a paying basis. Thus far the main effort of its manage- ment has been to get more business-- freight and passenger--for the C.N.R. by taking it away from the C.P.R. By that method, the cost of 'securing business is greatly increased for both systems, with no real advantage to either. They are merely fighting over the division of a loaf, which isn't large enough to provide sus- tenance for both. | The only way our railway problem will ever be solved is for the voters of Canada to see to it that our railways are given a bigger loaf to divide--a loaf of freight and passenger traffic that will be large enough for both systems to thrive on. We Have the Acorn, We Must Grow the Oak How to increase freight traffic--that is the kernel of our problem! The average Canadian freight train earns $5.00 per mile travelled; the average Passenger train earns only $2.00. So it's upon the freight end of the business that we must concentrate ! Of course, some kinds of freight are more profitable than others. There is very little margin of profit in carrying grain, first because the rates applicable to it are lower per ton per mile than the rates on any other commodity, and second because the grain movement is a peakload traffic, calling for an enormous investment in cars that are idle the greater part of the year. But there is a substantial margin of profit in hauling general merchandise. What can we do to ensure our ra'lways getting more of it? Higher Tariff the Cure Increase our population--start a big immigration movement--and the rest will follow as a matter of course! Easier said than done? Not at all! All we have to do to start the tide of immigration flowing through our ports is to hold out to the prospective immigrant the assurance of a steady job at good wages, or the chance to engage profitably in farming or some other. form of production or service. A higher tariff, that will be a real Rro- tective Tariff, will give him a guarantee covering every point. And nothing else under Providence will! A Lower Tariff is Poison A Tariff policy that allows the Canadian market to be supplied more and more by outside workers, automatically' operates to reduce the freight traffic available for our railways. . When for instance, due to insufficient tariff protection, the Libbey- Owens glass factory in Hamilton was forced to surrender the Canadian field to its sister plant in Belgium, Canadian railways lost the hauling of 2,000 carloads of raw material per year! If Canadian cotton and woollen mills only had the making of the textiles that an National Rail- deny the fact ss, to belittle . its enterprise e hole, and en and women voters of we import every year, our railways would have the hauling of another 50,800 carloads per year of raw material freight. Picture to yourself the scores of , other things that under a low tariff policy we import, when under a higher tariff policy we would be making them in our own workshops, and you can hardly fail to realize that the sane--the sure--solution of our railway problem is all ready-made for us, and awaits only our order via the polls to put it into operation. The neces- sary traffic is there. All we have to do is reach out and get it ! Increasing Imports Mean Bigger Railway Deficits Every time that low duties take away a portion of the domestic market from a Canadian industry and give it to a foreign industry, our railways .suffer in four ways. JA. They lose the hauling of the raw material that such industry 'would\ have used. 2. On the finished product, instead of the full local rate, they get only their proportion of the through import . rate--a much lower net. When it results in the Western Cana- dian market being supplied from a U.S. factory, they lose the long East and West haul, and get only the short haul from the international boundary. They lose the hauling of all the mer- chandise that would have been con- sumed by the workers who, due to the resultant unemployment, emigrate to the United States. 1987 i -------------- - aA a SE pe Lower duties throw people out of work. They just as surely throw railways out of work. We can never save our railways by giving them less work. We must use our brains and our courage to secure them more work--better paid work! Higher tariffs will do it. VOTE CONSERVATIV FOR HIGHER TARIFF AND FOR LOWER TAXATION [ « ..up to $1.50 , rendered in cakes, Id ..08 wild, Ib... .. .. ..$10.00 washed, Ib. ... ... .. PITTSBURGH FARMERS At Brockville At International Plowing Contest. Plttsterry, Oct. 14.--The silos are jw filled in this vicinity. Some of farmers are digging their pota- and report a very light crop. of our enterprising farmers the international plowing ast held at Brockville this week. 5d demonstration of farm machin- and the team drawing contest 'of great interest to many. ly number from. here at.|™™ Frey - : n nf = "poll meeting held in| !08 8 few days with Mrs. E. Orr and Widdis expect to spend the winter Commandments," at Brockville, this, A Swedish scientist nas invented a vancing temperature. the old days when a corset ad. wa daring. titute also with her niece, Mrs. Joseph Bd-| in Toledo with Mr. Glassford, whets week, and all speak « highly of! paint which changes color with ad-] And yet people were naughty in| considered Wong : Hl: aad Briana Te Or. Joseph Tid. he holds a position with D. T. & 8. [the attraction. Mr. and Mrs. s. rn ' § Isabel MeLaughlin, Willow Bank, | Line Railway. Smith, and baby, of Detroit, Mich., SO. | spent the week-end with her friend, | Rev, F. G. Robinson left Monday, | are visiting at the homie of Mrs. mt 1 ale Miss Edna Spence. to attend the conference of The | Smith's' parents, Mr, and Mrs. D. Miss Lillian Halliday, Wolfe Is-| United Church of Canada, at Petet- | Dickey, in the village. ; land, 1s a | boro. Quite a number from here are| ot Liberal-Conservative Victory Committee, 330 Bay Street, Toronts 3