he Daily British Whig KINGSTON ASSEMBLAGE HEARS PREMIER KING SPEAR Means High Taxation, and the People Will Not Vote for That" Declared the Liberal Leac "meron CAPITOL THEATRE CROWDED sires 10 HEAR THE PRINE NIVISTER R LIBERAL SPEAKER Sn red man en (Stirring Addresses by Rt. Hon. Mackeazie King, Mr. R. T. Hunde? ing, Toronto, and Mr. H. H. Horsey, Ottawa---Premier Paid a Tribute to Mr. Jack McKelvey, Who Presided. would be avoided. We have endea- as he ross to speak. vored to do our part in this respect. "I feel honored to have beln ine In the Kingston Standard, of Tues- day, however, that paper undertakes troduced by one who is such an outs standing student of his university, to drag The Whig into a front page article headed "Greetings to Pre- sald Premier King In his opening re= marks. "He is an outstanding of mier King." With a great deal of | the article we have no fault to find. | zen who is going to be one of our best public men in the Dominion It is legitimate political propagands (Applause). "I congratulate Queen's of a sort, although we are told that many of the statements are at vari- An audience that filled the Capitol University on having in her ranks one who has taken such a great part ance with the facts. When, how-| Theatre to the doors, attended the ever, The Standard drags The Whig | overflow meeting for Right Hon. into the discussion in a futile at.| Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister as the chairman of the 'evening and one who played & great part in the field of sport and in the life of the And it was a worthy contribution, for the Premier was greeted tempt to, In some manner, lessen |°f C208da, on Tuesday night. : : P i - the effect of the Prime Minister's Temies' King thrilled. his 'andi college and who in a larger way, counts for so much. I congratula by the largest indoor or outdoor political assemblage ever / . : " fives ence with 'his address, in which he gathered together in the Limestone City. Thirty-five hundred § visit an the electorate, we are bound | gealt with the issues of the day--es- people heard Mr. King give two of the finest political ad- to take issue With our contemporary. | pecially when he sounded an appeal | ] w - you, Mr, Chairman, on what have achieved and also on the great future you have before you." CAPITOL 'NOW SHOWING "NIGHT LIFE OF NEW YORK" With DOROTHY GISH ROD LA ROCQUE bn ---- YEAR 92; No. 246. RECORD "High Protection * DANGEROUS T0 INAUGURATE | os TARIFF POLICY THAT WOULD INJURE" ANY BASIC INDUSTRY Premier King Makes a Plea For a United Canada--Claims That the Record of His Goverment Entitles It to a' Renewal of the People's Confidence. Kingston last night added its contribution to the triumphal four that the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, has made of the country from coast to coast. CAPITOL THURS., FRI, SAT. Richard Barthelmess i hh n "SHORE LEAVE" LAST KDITION i BE * iy 0 a . " for progress, freedom and unity. His tresses ever delivered here, and more than one thousand per The motive behind the reference | was a masterly oration. waite SP sons were unable to gain admittance to the Grand and Capitol to The Whig and the quotations |Pealed to reason and thoughtfulness, Theatres, where the meetings in the interests of the Liberal used is obvious. The Standard rea. | Father than to emotion. candidate, Mr. John M. Campbell, were held. It was the great- lizes that The Whig is giving effec- The Prime Minister appealed for est Liberal night ever held in Kingston, and the enthusiasm tive aid to the cause of Liberalism Canadian Unity and British connec- tion, and at the close of his address, displayed makes the election of Mr. Campbell on the 29th a In Kingston and it fears for its own certainty prestige. What The Whig sald in in which he scored a triumph, he 1921 does not affect the issue to- declared that as Canadians, we first of all created citizenship in our own day. The Whig like a lot more Lib- country, but added that there was Td Captivated His Audiences. When Mackenzie King came to Kingston four years ago to speak in Mr. Campbell's Interest he turned the tide that had been running strongly for the Conservative candi- date, who was elected by a very narrow majority. His coming Juet before polling time in this federal election, and his eloquent presenta- tion of the Liberal policy for making 8 united Canada touched the hearts of the big audiences who listened at- tentively to his addresses, and that Kingston will elect the Government candidate is a foregone conclusion, Premier King captivated his audi- _ences by his sincerity and his clear cut policy. He was acclaimed as the greatest orator in Canada to-day. His arguments were convincing, and his appeal for a united Canada and for this country to continue a part of the British Empire, as the inter- preter of thought andilegislation be- tween Great Britain and the United Btates, drew forth prolonged ap- plause. Premier King showed that his Government had been economical and honest. In the past two months, during which the federal election 'contest had been waged, not one charge of dishonesty or graft had been made by Opposition speakers against his Government. Because of this, and because the Liberal policy of moderate protection was in - the best Interests of Canada, Premier . King clalmed that the Liberal ad- midistration was entitled to a re- newal of the confidence of the people of Canada. He had no doubt of the result, for Mr. Meighen, leader of od the Conservative Opposition, had de- clared that the issue this time was ¢ the same as in 1921 when he had been decisively defeated at the polls. * The people of Canada, the Premier claimed, had not changed their mind on the matter of tariff in the mean- time, for only in June last Mr. Mei- -ghen Med met a decisive defeat on his tariff motion in the House of Commons. The Prime Minister said there could be no other result on the 29th than the return of the Liberal Government, for the people were not going to vote for a high protection poliey as outlined by My. Meighen, 88 high protection simply meant high It was lower taxation, they wanted, and this is what the Liberal party is giving. . At the Grand Theatre. Premier King spoke first in the Grand theatre, which was crowded fom pit to dome at an early hour. Every available place was. occupied, Siding several hundred pecple vn 6 stage and in the boxes. The or- chestra discoursed music before aight o'clock. There was a pause as | the venerable figure of the Hon. am Harty appeared on the stage. \¢_ audience first applauded, then ose and cheered the veteran ex- for Kingston, who has re- doctrine of Liberalism. And later on it was a splendid tribute the Premier paid to the late Sir John A. Mac- donald, the Conservative chieftain of four decades ago, who inaugurated the National Policy, but avoided call- ing it a policy of protection. The Lights Go Out. When' the Premier was two-thirds through his speech in the Grand, the electric lights went out owing to an accident on the Hydro system, which affected the whole district west. The plunging of the theatre in darkness did not affect Mr. King one iota. He went on with his speech, after mak- ing a slight allusion to what he would. . lights came on again. One electric flash light in the wings was used to cast light upon the stage. The lights came on shortly, but remained only & minute, and then there was an in- terval of ten minutes before they again flashed on for the concluding part of the Premier's speech. While the house was in darkness one oppositionist in the audience took courage to ask the Prime Min- ister about the Union Jack. Mr. King had been spéaking about the flag, and a voice said, "What flag?" The interruption was a mistake on the part of the interrupter, for the Premier is a past-master at repartee, and the question gave him a chance tq dwell 'more on the flag subject than he otherwise would have done, and he evoked great applause when he remarked that there could be only one flag and that he Was much sur- prised at such a question being asked in the city of Kingston, -------- Introduces Candidate. Mr. William Harty, Jr., took the chair and lost no time in getting the meeting under way and announced, that as the Premier had to address another meeting in the Capitol thea- tre ,there would be no encroaching by local speakers outside the next member for Kingston, Mr. J. M. Campbell. Mr. Harty called upon Mr. Campbell first and in rising to address the large gathering, Mr. J. M. Campbell, the Liberal candi- date, expressed his pleasure at see- Ing before him so many people of the city of Kingston; he was particularly glad to see on the platform the Hon: William Harty, restored in health, "We are just recovering from a very long and expensive war," sald the speaker, "and we are still feel- ing the effects of it but times have been improving since the King Gov- ernment came into power and they are continuing to imprové. Things are not so bad in Kingston; in fact they are very good." Mr. Campbell said that the King- oe gently recovered from a long lines. | Shortly in RIGHT HON. W. L. MACKENZIE AA AAA A ltr i ston Standard in an article in Tues- day's issue had invited Premier King to take a tour around the city to see the industries here which had clos- ed up during his term of office. Mr. 'Campbell invited Mr King-ty across the causeway to gee where the Meighen Government had spent & quarter of a million dollars there in useless huts, When the Sydenham hospital had burned down the Liberal Govern- ment had housed the patients in Hotel Dieu and the General Hospital at a considerable saving to the coun- try, said the candidate. If Mr. Mel- ghen was returned to power he would want to spend' $450,000 of the people's hard-earned money in rebuilding Sydenham hospital, It had been charged that the num- ber of patients in the Mowat hospi- tal was being reduced. 'This true. The number had been cut 'from 100 to 76 and there had been great difficuliy in getting that num- ber. It Wad hoped that the number of soldier patients would continue to decrease, said Mr. Campbell, until all were ¢ . Didn't Raise Tariff Then, Mr. Campbell referred to the in- dustries that were closed down in Kingston during Mr. Meighen's regime and asked if high protection was to have such wonderful results as Mr, Meighen predicted why it hay not been applied then. The Tories say "put us in and this is what we will do." Why did they not do it then? he asked. : Mr. Campbell stressed the point that all his interests, commercially and otherwise were bound wp in Kingston and he promised his hear- ers that if he was returned as their representative on October 29th that he would do everything in his power to promote the welfare of the city of Kingston and the country at large, at Ottawa. Tumultuous Appiasuse for Premier. The tumultuous applause that broke forth as Mr. William Harty, Jr., introduced Premier King, was prolonged and continued for several S-- was' N------ nn, x fathers and forefathers before them had done, Tribute to Mr. Campbell. The Premier declared that it was 2 priv reve) 'on' behalf of the Liberal candidate, Mr. Campbell. He sald that very few cities in Canada had sent such fllus- trious men to Parliament as King- ston had done and that in returning Mr. Campbell the city would be in no way departing from the high standard set, ' "I need not tell you how well fit- ted Mr. Campbell is to serve you. You know his life;. his sterling worth and unimpeachable character; how well he has served you in eivic and philanthropic affairs. I ask you to give him that wider fleld of service which only the Parliament at Ottawa Offers. "I speak with some degree of con- fidence of the government being re- turned," said Mr. King. "I have no doubt on that score. The only reéa- Son we are 'appealing to the country to-day is to get a larger majority in the House of Commons. If we had been thinking only of power; holding; office and drawing indemnities we would not have dissolved Parliament at this time." . ---- Great Problems to be Solved. There were great problems to be solved sajd Mr. King and these could only be solved when the government had a sufficient majority to bring in legislation without fear or favor. The policies which the Liberal party were presenting were calculated to appeal to the Dominion as a whole. No government had been faced with as great difficulties as those with which the Liberal Goveriiment had to contend when they came to power in 1921, sald Mr. King. The in t on the public debt was them $185,000,000; a sum larger than the entire cost of eral newspapers that had supported the Union Government in good faith in 1917, passed through some trying years. Perhaps at that time, honest- ly believing, as they no doubt did, In Unionism and its ideals, The Whig editors felt that Mr. King was not a desirable leader. Or perhaps, they did not have a free hand in the matter. Be that as it may, while it is 'delving into the past and busy- ing itself with unearthing skeletons why does The Standard not dig a few out of its own private vault. * op Lit desires the public to turn the searchlight on the past it might re- gale ity readers with Mr. R. B. Ben- nett's famous speech in the House of Commons in which he branded Mr. Arthur Meighen as "the mega- phone of McKenzie and Mann." Or if that does not interest them it might publish in full Sir Robert Borden's speech when he read De Witt Fos- ter and W. PF. Garland out of the Conservative party and forced their resignations as Members of the House of Commons because they had done things in the hour of Can- ada's travail that were unbecoming to a Member of Parliament. These men are all running as Meighen can- didates today. If that should fail to attract the interest desired by The Standard it might, seeing that it is terribly inMgrested in the flag, publish that famous speech of Mr. Blondin's - (former Postmaster-Gen- eral under Mr. Meighen), in which he expressed a desire to shoot holes through the British flag. There are many other things that might be printed, while ancient history is be- ing brought to light and we are told that some Standard itorials on Reciprocity would make interesting reading. All of which goes to show that the old Biblical injunction about removing the mote from ofie's own eye before endeavoring to ex- tract the beam from a brother's still has some value. . * We could, however, pass over all that and put it down to over-en- thusiasm, which sometimes _ blinds one's keen sense of Journalistic de- something stronger, &hd love for his country. touching one. Theatre Filled Early, of Kingston and Portsmouth. an ovation. applause. sity. panied by Mr. leader and his companions loudly cheerdd. words, as he knew the had to say. will be good." Tribute to Chairman. ernment," troducing Premier King. future success you are sure to ~ Round after round of here the speaker quoted the lines of Walter Scott, "Breathes there a man with soul eo dead," in regard to a man's While Premier King dealt fully with many of the issues of the cam- paign, behind and underlying every- thing, he said, was his big broads Meighen, at a meeting at Sudbury appeal for national unity, and his ro : ference to citizenship was a most The Capitol Theatre was filled be- fore 8 o'clock, and the fact that the entire body remained until the close of the meeting at 11.15 o'clock, was indeed a warm tribute to the' Prime Minister and Mr. J. M. Campbell, the Liberal candidate for the riding Mr. Campbell spoke but briefly, making way for Premier King, but the Liberal candidate was tendered Premier King was given a most attentive hearing and his ad- dress was punctuated with hearty The meeting opened a few minutes after 8 o'clock, and was very ably presided over by "Jack" McKelvey, of football fame, at Queen's Univer- In addition to the addresses of Premier King and Mr. Campbell, stirring speeches dealing with many of the issues of the day were given by Mr. R. T. Harding, of Toronto, and Mr. H. H, Horsey, of Ottawa, Mr. B..Noble Steacy occupied a seat on the platform with the speakers of the early part of the evening. Premier King arrived at the thea- tre shortly after 10 o'clotk, accom- Campbell and Mr. Michael Sullivan, and as the Liberal made their way down the aisle, they were Mr. Campbell was first introduced by Mr. McKelvey, but Mr. Campbell stated that he would only say a few audience wanted to hear what Premier Kipg "I hope to hear from you all on Oct. 29th," said Mr. Campbell, "and I hope that the word I get from you "Premier King comes to us after four, years of most successful gov- said Mr. McKelvey, in in- "Premier King has been as successful in his leadership as he was in his work as head of the Department of Labor. "I wish to thank you for the great things you have done for our coun- try," added the chairman, "and I al- s0 wish to congratulate you on t have. Grand Trunk Strike. In his address, Premier King touched on all the issues he deal with at the big meeting in the Grand Theatre, but a special feature of his remarks was his reply toi attack made on him by Hon. Arthu on Monday night, in regard to the Grand Trunk strike in 1410, Premier King referred to' the strike which took place among the men on the Grand Trunk. He Ww Minister of Labor at the time. The railway system was tied up for a fortnight. Premier King stated that he a witness to 'the terms of the sett) ment between the railway comy and the employees, and was quainted with the terms of the tlement, One of the terms was t all the men would be reinstated, save those who had been guilty | violence. It was also stipulated th the trouble would be remedied "as soon as possible." But when the strike was over, to the astonishment prise of all, however, came later, when it was announced that the men who had part in the strike would be denied their right to pen= sion--that if taken back on the road, | they would have to start all over again. When Sir Wilfrid Laurier came back into power, and the Grand Trunk wanted seven million dollars for branch lines, :Sir Wilfrid declared 'that the government woul not give the railway five cents until the strike agreement was carried out. At this time, the Conservative party was returned to power, and the Liberals lost the chance to have the agreement carried out. "™ Voted Resolution Down. Hon. Mr, Crothers and Be Robertson came in as Ministers of Labor, and they made no readjust. ment. Premier King stated that at the 1920 session of parliament, he drew the attention of the government to the fact that the agreement had not been carried out, and moved a reso- lution to help the employees of the road. This resolution was brought in by the speaker om April 22nd, 1920. Mr. Meighen and his fqllows ers voted the resolution down." "When I was returned at the election," continued Premier Kin "I took the matter up with Hon. James Murdock, who was one of leaders of that strike, and told 'that I wanted the matter adju I also had an interview with § Henry Thornton, and told him .t 1 did not want any interference the t of the road, that there was one Injustice that to be righted. I gave him the fac ebout the strikers, and the propo settlement. The rights of the r | were restored, and further, the 4 1 of the employees who had p ed away, were credited in that H 4