THE DAILY BRITI SH WHIG : Dafly and Semi-weekly b: BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. BUBSCRIPTION ne 87.50 + by mail to rural offices, $2.50 Stat cerie $3.00 RATES: 4 cash } year, to United Stages ..... F-TOWN ENTATIVES: AagHthAn Rowers, Ine, 19 to the lor are published name of the circulation of The British Whig Banthentionted by the Audit Bureau of * NOW FOR THE LAST LAP. _ There are only two more days till to Ottawa to represent Kingston for the next four years cease their labors the last vote is polled Thurs- It 1s the last few votes that decide the issue. Mr. Camp- jilI's election is assured if his nds keep up the good work till e end. STARTLING . FIGURES, are asking the people to believe We are being held down by the t scale of import duties. We Are not being heid down. A We have as time proceeds. To show | progress we have made a com- of some exports of manfac- is here made between the years and 1924. The year 1908 has been selected for any particular eason. It merely happened that "complete official figures for that year flere available at the moment. Any ir year back to 1900 would have as well or better. In 1908 we exported $3,371,283 of agricultural implements. | 1924 we shipped abroad $9,339,- worth. 4 Drugs and chemicals--1908 ex- $2,335,871; 1924 exports, 349,956. Bilectrical apparatus--1908. ex- 8, $98,125; 1924 exports, $1,- 710. : { ~ Leather and leather products-- 8 exports, $2,071,193; 19M ex- $6,364,089. . num bars--1908 exports, $33; 1924 exports, $3,225. 'Aluminum manufactures, 1908 $4,932; 1924 exports, $996, t the current year a ,000 company has been es- hed on the Saguenay River, within ten years we should be tenis of millions of dollars of aluminum and its products. jer--1908 exports, $3,511,104; | exports, $96,957,962. les and parts--1908 ex- Its, $320,708; 1924 exports, $36, ~1908 exports, $75,489; $950,397. | exports, $4,037,853; $46,173,796. 'these manufactures 16,874,090. For 1924 265. increase for 01 Z| tives would have the cut thé guarantee of 100 patients ver | day at $3 per day to 75 per day. It| is a real delight that the reduction | can be made. incapacitated soldiers will be so re-| duced that one sanatorium will be; able to care for them. other institutions. a year while other sanatoria are paid { only for the number that are sent to them and without any stated number guaranteed. Any government that would waste its money for political rather than business requirements is not worthy of support. Some Kingston ponserva- institutions made a home for their salaried sup- porters, no matter whether it was a wasteful expenditure or not. They have been accustomed to doing things in that fashion. The King Government on the other hand is an economical body seeking by all means to save money for the people, whose servant the government is. THE HUMAN INTEREST STORY. Washington #8 a place of political hot stuff and correspondents dish it up unsparingly. Real human inter- est stories seldom get publicity. The other day Attorney-General Sargent was found gleeful over a lefter re- ceived. It was from his little grand- daughter, aged seven, of Ludlow, Vt. The last line read: "I got 100 in spelin yesterday." And peculiar to say that little story undeubtedly interested more people than the columns that are written about debt funding negotia- tions, politics and the like. A venerated ecclesiastic of a Cana- dian church related, to a Kingston congregation he was addressing, the disgust he felt over the work of a newspaperman that gave a few para- graphs about missionary efforts he was informing him about, and put on the front page a story he told him about a creature he found in drink- ing water taken from a tap. He said the newspaper man's judgment was out of all proportions. Was it? The readers of any paper would, as the reporter estimated, be interested in the human interest and local story to a greater extent than in a foreign event. Newspaper men know the tastes of the public to a greater de- gree than theologian or professor. They aye trained in discerning public tastes. HAPPY PARTNERSHIP. It is refreshing to read of the cordial relations existing between Canada and the United States. The other day the Cincinnati Inquirer discussed the matter and cheerfully acknowledgéd that Canada and the United States have demonstrated to the world the wisdom of justice, con- fidence, reason and faith as applied to international association. The re- sult is that each nation is develoo- ing as no other nation ever developed in the past. Canada and the United States are engaged in a supreme in- ternational partnership---a partner. ship in which are incorporated high- er and more important values thy material interests. In any grave crisis menacing the interests of either it is rather certain that either would be found ready to meet the issue by spontaneous and unstinted sup- port. THE OTHER SIDE. The chief drawback to the es the obvious. mutuality of all foreign trade. Carried far enough, aad made universal, it tends to build a wall around each country. If that wall be high enough, and {mpreg- nable, no manufactured goods can come in from abroad. It may. work nation which adopts it, if, at the same time, other countries have a lower tariff or are operating on a free trade basis. Were all countries to adopt the same tariff, however, it will be seen at once that, logically and necessarily, they must cease to trade with each other. And that is precisely what protection will do, ' Emile Daeschner, the French Am- positive doctrine of protection is that it miss-|' to the temporary advantage of the|: taxation. Mr. the duties people form of Meighen wants to raise still higher, and what the ure lead? | The case of the United States and | Canada is in point. .Our neighbors | The Kingston Health Association | already have a high tariff, under before it had been tried. cannot hope for better treatment-- | which they are able to sell us more [back on the record since 1878, no though it gets it--than is 'accorded | than we buy from them. If we raise | man who uses his common Kingston has a| our tariff to equal theirs, one of two | would say that protection ever did guarantee of 75 patients per day for| things must happen: . Either the anything beneficial for Canada. It trade between the countries will be greatly reduced, or we will pay in | high prices for all that we import | across the boundary, Carried to the ultimate limit, we should soon be | thrown back entirely on the home market for the sale of our industrial products, CANADA'S PROGRESS. In 1913 Canada was eighth among the importing countries of the world and tenth in 1924. As an ex- porting country she advanced from tenth in 1913 to sixth in 1924. The United States, Great Britain, France, Germany and British India alone ex- ceeded her in this respect. . If the comparison be made on the basis of exports per head of popula- tion, Canada has risen from seventh place in 1913 to second place in 1924, New Zealand alone excelling her. Canadians now hold 80 per cent. of their own debt. They be- lieve in their own country. And if one-fourth of all the for- eign investments of the United States are in Canada, what better proof could you have of Canadian stability and prospects in view of the shrewdest of the world's indus- trialists? CONTRAST THE RECORDS. History discloses many things and it is well for memories are very short. The Conservatives have been great promisers but the fulfilment was disastrous. Hard times is its lot. In 1878 for instance, a new high tariff was declared to-be the fore- runner of great prosperity. Activity came for a short time and from 1881 to 1891 Canada passed through one of its darkest periods. For these years, under Conservative rule the country was almost reduced to despair. In 1896 the Liberals as- sumed control and relief came. Im- migration poured in. Settlement was on a scale never before seen. The West sprang into life and became one of the great granaries of the world. Eastern Canada felt the same im- pulse. Montreal, Toronto, and other industrial centres grew apace. The product of manufacturing industry increased in the docade from $481,- 000,000 to $1,165,000,000 in value. The population of Canada was iIn- creased by 1,835,328, or more than the increase of the previous thirty years, A Conservative government was returned in 1911. By 1914, the country was again faced with de- pression and unemployment, says the Montreal Herald, which was remedied only by. the terrible medicine of the great war. Soon af- ter the war depression reigned again. In 1921 unemployment was so bad that a resolution was moved in thé House of Commons for the sus- pension of immigration. During the debate Mr. McQuarrie, a Conservative M.P., and Mr. Angus McDonald, M.P., drew terrible pictures of un- employment and bread lines in ur- ban centres. Mr. Horatio Hocken, Conservative member for West To- ronto, argued that a cure would only be effected when the working men were willing to work a great deal harder and take much smaller pay. The Meighen Government did nothing. In Opposition it promises prosperity. In office it brings hard times. The reverse is the record of Liberal Administration. FARMERS NOT PROTECTIONISTS, A Halton County writer wonders why farm organizations or farm clubs do not resolve that protection of farm produce is a benefit to rurfl people. Protectionists are not found in farmer societies; they are found among manufacturers, doctors, |' lawyers and professional people. The real fact is that those who are seek- | ana who do not pause to weigh the matter in a judicial spirit. At first blush it presents the attraction of Experts on the medi-| must do, with such a proposition be-!a "something for nothing" idea. Pile | cal boards are predicting that with-| fore them, is to use their common jon the duties, shut out all competi- in the next six years the number of | sense. To what would such a meas- {tion from abroad, and, presto, pro- sperity smiles on everybody. There were people who believed such a thing was practicable; but that was Looking sense didn't, because it couldn't. The recofd is open for examination by all who care to look at it. It is to be found in the officifl trade sta- tistics, reports of Boards of Trade, bank bulletins, the traffic returns of the railways, and in scores of other publications. Those who point to the United States as an example of what protection can do to promote national prosperity overlook two vital facts: First, that the ' American home market is the 'largest in the world; and second, that Canada exports three times as much per capita as does her neighbor. With 48 states trading with each other on a free trade basis, and a total consuming population of 112,000,000, protec- tion is not the real factor in Am- erican prosperity. The arguments in favor of protec- tion do not find acceptance with men and women who do their own think- ing. They are specious and uncou- vincing. Moreover, we are compelled by our revenue needs to have a tariff which already contains more than adequate protection. The proof of that is found in the significant fact that not a single industry can be indicated which is suffering from the lack of protection. Therefore, while the revival of the old National Policy arguments seemed to cause a stir in the early days of the cam- paign, they are not being heeded to- day. The Canadian people have good memories, and they also have com- mon sense. EDITORIAL NOTES. April showers this year are not in it with the October kind. "Higher Protection and Lower Taxation" is just pure bunkum. The ballot is secret. There neea be no fear on the part of any voter. Success lies not so much in finding a suitable place as in making you- self suitable for the place you have found. Mr, J..M. Campbell does not talk blue ruin. He has too much faith and pride in Canada to indulge in slander. > The person who deliberately fails to vote on Oct. 29th can probably prove many things but not loyal citi- zenship. A vote for those who decry Can- ada and Kingston is not working with the construction gang. Vote for Campbell, A man shaves twenty miles of face in a lifetime and at the end of fit still doesnt know what to do with the old blades. . The weather should settle down after next Thursday. It is a Liberal habit to 'spread sunshine and good will and prosperity. Remember that John M. Campbell has been "through the mill.". He was a worker himself, has been a worker all his life, is a worker to- day. Are you going to give your vote to Mr. J. M. Campbell, 2 man whose interests are bound up with yours, who has devoted the best part of his life to Kingston? The Conservatives are preaching "blue ruin." Have you felt it? Mr. J. M, Campbell has good faith in his industries and tries to spread happl- ness and prosperity in the city. The days are passing swiftly by, and almost before we know it the elections will be over and the coun- 000 to play in New York. 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Hamilton Herald: The most won- derful thing about that Moroccan war is that Abd-el-Krim has been able to carry on all this time with | out floating a war loan. But Was He? Toronto Star: There afe tidfies when we suspect that the editor of the Kingston Standard would never have been a Conservative at all if it had not happened that he was born on that side of the road. : Still Going Out. New York Life: French hair- dressers announce that the bobbed |} head is going out, which is no news to the American father, whose daughter has been borrowing. his latchkey every night now for years. Hope and Suspicion. Ottawa Journal: Special articles in U.S. newspapers give one the im- pression that every Canadian freight car crossing the boundary is at once || an object of suspicion and of hope. Business, Not Sport. Detroit Free Press: An Ottawa hockey star has been offered $10,- We take our sport so seriously in this coun- try that it becomes a business, and thereupon ceases to be a sport. Activity of Can-Opener. Ohio State Journal: The plow is (li regarded by those who have made |} a special study of this subject as the |} most important tool of civilization, but the can-opener seems to be galn- ing. P Safety. . | eld Republican: Tt is esti- t travel by raliroad is "ten times safer than travel by automo- ( The Triumph of the Tip. New York Herald-Tribune. The decision of a Danish court that a 10 per cent. tip should be added to a dinner bill for which a restaurant proprietor had brought suit will occasfon no surprise among travelers. The tip has long been recognized, if not legalized, in Europe. Many of the hotels in France and England and Germany add 10 per cent. to their bills, ex- plaining on those documents that the extra money will be distributed among the help. Americans, who are always a little foggy as to how much they, ought to pay in tips, usually welcome this custom. Whatever the thrifty may think of the tipping custom, it is so well established on both sides of the ocean, although only on the eastern seaboard in this country--being not only entirely lacking, but likewise the subject of a fine, in some parts of the west, notably Jowa--that it can never be eliminated. Americans did not invent it, but they have been 80 liberal in their largesse both at home and abroad that they have done much to raise it to the propor- tions of an evil, Theoretically, the employer should pay the entire cost of service. | HOLIDAY GIFTS It is not too soon to think of them, and something from the celebrated house of "VAN- TINE" is sure to please. Incense Burners In unique designs and de- lightful Oriental perfumes. Bath Salts and Pow- der Compacts-- new DR. CHOWN'S Wit and Humor Measurement. "Why do you insist on regarding yourself as only half-educated?" 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