THE DAILY BRITISH \ WHIG a Canada's export OP-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: i Joronte, 22 St. John Montreal. ORK ~ Ingraham-Powers, Inc. Madison Avenue. Bewem, Ine, 19 La ' the Bdit ished Ne acemas" abe" of the elrculation of The British Whig tieated by the Audit Bureau of VOTE FOR J. M. CAMPBELL: r. J. M. Campbell is asking for suftrages of his fellow citizens on 6 eve of the day when the decision be made as to who will repre Kingston in the next parliament. We ask the electors, the stalwart and women, young men and ng women, to pause and reflect "size up the situation and vofe prdingly on Thursday. Campbell is esteemed by his citizéns. They honor him for unselfish work for the advance- t of Kingston, his adopted home. 18 & man of high probity, un- business ability and genu- concerned in everything that es for the best in Kingston. His sts here are large; all he pos- is Invested in milling, marine { electrical business.- He has suc- ded to a marked degree. His and his sturdiness of purpose everywhere known and appreci< . He is entitled to the fullest ort at the Jolla, from his fellow Mr. Campbell is In the fullest ac- with the policies of the King nmént, He has confidence that, a reasonable majority in parlia- ¥ nd Premier King will got ~the Liberals will be able to do 8 that will promote the best in- qf Canada, The splendid re- made by Sir Wilfrid Laurier in day will be surpassed. by his successor, the Right Hon. |' im Lyon Mackenzie King. ) fact that the King government again conduct affairs in the 80 period, is a special rehson this city should be represented ment by a supporter of the nt, At this critical peri 0 should havé a man, fin with the powers that be--and can better fill the Josttion than 'M. Campbell? Campbell knows Kingston's he has been in constant touch the issues that have been dis- in business and educational and he can bring «them to} with & government with he will have confidential rela- Kingston has an opportunity (bring about a state of affairs that be. helpful and fruitful to an these. and other reasons we 'way of reaching an end. In such a situation, it is the duty of every eitizen to carefully weigh the issue and give a decision on high \patriotic grounds. No country can be permanently helped 'by. such an unsound method, and Mr. Meighen should not be permitted to try it. re ---------- THE TRADE TEST. Trade * is the material test by which nations measure their growth or théir decline, It is not the high- est test, mor the most important; but it is apt and significant when the polley of protection {is under consideration." If Canada has been gding backward, every step in the process of retrogression would have been marked by a shrinkage in both production and export business. The opposite is true. Protection was first applied in 1878. During the next ten years trade grew from $79,154,678 to $90,185,466. Be- tween 1888 and 1898 éxpansion car- ried the total wp to $159,529,5645. The Liberals eame into power in 1896, and the succeeding decade should have been marked by a sharp decline, if our Censervative friends are to be believed; yet the growth between 1896 and 1906 was from $116,314,643 to $246,657,802. The succeeding ten years saw our exports grow to $779,300,070. Eight years later, or in 1924, they had reached $1,068,563,297, Official figures could scarcely be more con- vincing. They show beyond all ques- tion that production has been stead- ily increasing during the past twenty years, and that our exports per capita are the largest enjoyed by any nation under the sun. Why tamper with the tariff under such circumstances? It might easily do harm, It certainly could not do any good, BROKEN PROMISES, We care nothing about what "Mer- chant" in The: Kingston Standard says about The Whig, for we pre- sume what it says about the state- ment of R."Y. Eaton is also meant for our contemporary which pub- lished the statement. We would iike, however, to correct the statement that Mr. Campbell has broken any promises. Mr. Campbell promised to Ldo certain things if he was elected to Parliament." He still stands ready to implement these promises if given the opportunity to do so. TIT FOR TAT. Protection at this stage of inter- national relations is based upon the fallacy that while we can make it harder for other nations to sell to us .they will not make it any harder for us to sell to them. In other words, {that we can get pn advantage by means of tariff legislation. It simply can't be done. Every nation will be on guard against that sort of thing, and will meet us with a retaliatory tariff. In fact, the greatest menace at the present time to world progress is the tariff war which is fast taking shape. If such a calamity should' happen that Mr. Meighen will be givén an opportunity to put into effect his protective policy, two things will follow: First, our trade relations with other nations, now so satis- factory and promising, will be dis- located; and second, we shall immnie- diately have the cost of living for everybody raised. Surely such mad- ness will be avoided by the assertion of public judgment at the polis. ~ THE GLOBE AND MR. MEIGHEN, Now it is all very well to quote | what The Globe says about Mr, Mac- kenzie King, but what does it say about Mr, Meighen. Nothing very complimentary, as the following ex- tract will indicate: "The country can from Mr. can look for little Meighen, .who regards al Liosiems a8 the Suture of the owned. National Railw, iihetaduing 'his assurance of sition to amalfiination aud Lawrence deepening velopment is in danger of being and whose attitude on such for ays----not- | PI and power de-| being do-} ment minated by his Patenaudean and |b: fering for the lack of it. He points to official records as proving that' Canada is doing as well as any other | nation under the conditions develop- | ed by the war, and better than nine- | tenths of them. It is all a question of the facts. | If any elector is in doubt as to the | way he should vote, it would be well | for him to take a look at the tariff, | and then at the official trade figures. ! He will be amazed to find liow high] is the scale of import duties, made necessary for revenue purposes, and also what tremendous growth has taken place in production during the | past fifteen or twenty years. Can- ada is actually exporting three times | more per capita than does the Unit- ed States, and stands absolutely at the head of 'the list in that regard among all the nations of the world. Why tamper with progress so sat- isfactory and sound? It will con- | tinue if we do not give effect to the | revolutionary and unsound methods urged by Mr. Meighen. ---------- POOR CHAP. The gentleman who has written 80 many letters to the editor of The Kingston Standard during the cam- paign will have a hard time, when it is all over, identifying himself. He won't know whether he should be "Indignant'"" when he only desires to be a "Lover of Fair Play," or whether he should confine himself to the view point of a Merchant when he wishes people to identify him with the Canada. First party. Poor chap. He has hidden behind so many noms de plume during the campaign that about the only two left are "Pro Bono Publico" and "Old Subscriber." Why not try those. ~ They .are a bit hoary but they will do in & pinch. ANOTHER ONE NAILED. It is quite a job keeping up with the mis-statements that are continu- ally appearing in print regarding this or that "tried and true Liberal" deserting the Liberal party. The latest is a report published in last night's Standard to the effect that éx-Senator O'Brien of Renfrew is a Liberal and that he and his family associates are in this election sup- porting the Conservative policy. Now what are the facts of the case? Whether Senator O'Brien was a Liberal or not in his early days we do not know, but we do know that he has not been a Liberab for many years. In 1917, he supported strong- ly, his nephew, Col. Lawrence Mar- tin, who ran as a Unionist candidate against I. B. Pedlow. In 1921 Senator O'Brien was not active although he was opposed to Hon. T. A. Low. t He was made a senator by the Borden administration, but for some years 'has taken no active part in politics. The most powerful and influential member of the O'Brien family con- nection, to-day in South Renfrew ig Mr. O'Brien's son-in-law, Mr, J. L. Murray, the mayor of Renfrew, and this -is what Mayor Murray said at the momination meeting last Thurs- day, as reported in the Renfrew Mercury: "Mayor Murray of Reénfrew was the "first speaker, commencing by saying that whatever else he might or might not be he was from the bottom up a Liberal. In this elee- tion he was a supporter of the Gov- ernment and every ounce of effort and energy he had would be given toward bringing victory on the 29th of October to Tom Low in this eon- test. And he: believed furthermore that in conjunction with his eol- leagues in the Government it had been possible to bring -this = great country of ours from the mire of des- Pondency and depression in. which it was in 1921, from a state of financial embarrassment, from & state of hard times, from a state of unemploy- ment, from a state of disinion rte a position of stability, solidity unity. . The. Government was ry making an appeal on & record of ac- apl t, of things well done, to eftect a policy good a policy Witieh A was opening oy Bd ahd aa Sr as would enable this prove that 'the 20th cen- 'to: Canada." Mr. Mur- the Govern- [ance ser howl. That It taxes we already have ample protection, | 1925 Toronto has grown so rapidly the mahy for the benefit of the few. and that not a single industry Is suf-|that it has passed Buffalo, Milwau- kee, Washington, Newark, Minne- apolis, New Orleans and Cincifinati. Montregl has Washington, Milwaukee, has also overtaken Pittsburg and San Francisco, - What we want on the part of the leaders of the Conservative party, is & little more faith in Canada, and a few more facts and less fiction. Montreal has jumped in 25 years {from 267,730 to 655,800, while To- |ronto in the same garter of a cen- tury, has increased its population from: 199,403 to 549,429. THE KING TARIFF BOARD MEANS FAIR PLAY FOR ALL. Fair play for the manufacturer, for the workman, for the consumer, fair play for all, That is the object of the Premier's Advisory Board to deal with the tariff, the most con- structive tariff measure in all Can- ada's history. Contrasted to this, what has the Conservative party to offer? Only the same old hide-bound policy of a sky-high tariff as a panacea for all the country's {lls--real and fancied ----a policy that the Canadian Gov- ernment 4id not daré to offer when in power and which was overwhelm- | ingly defeated when submitted to the country in 1921. Clear away all the old partisan rubbish about the tariff. Elect John M. Campbell, who advocated regu- lating the tariff on a sound, working business basis that will give adequate protection to Canadian industry ana safeguard the interests of both pro- ducer and consumer. BLUFFING THE PEOPLE. Hon. Howard Ferguson seems to think he is a second James Whitney and bluffs with a show of bravado that the man he seeks to imitate never did. There was integrity and honesty in Mr. Whitney's declara- tions that Is missing in George Howard's utterances. The hotel keepers of the province met in To- ronto and asked the provincial prem- fer to address them. He did so and said the day of referendums and plebiscites on the liguor question were over. His govermment will de- cide the temperance policy in future assuming full responsibility: "pnd the consaquences. This sounds as though Mr. Fergu- son is shutting off the right of the people to lay their proposals before Ris government, Has he found the appeal too-great fro 0s and antis in regard to' ?% The government will act on its own Initi- ative and therefore does not want ad- vice. 'This is a fine way to treaz vs» people of Ontario; Mr. Ferguson takes the position of boss, not that of servant. © Well the people of the province will have a chance to get back and surely they will resent the autocratic attitude of Ontario's first commoner. At the last election it was understood temperance matters should not be re- garded as party issues, now Mr. Fer- guson -by-his declaration has thrust them into party politics. The Con- servative regime in Toronto will act off their own bat in determining what will be done with the O.T\A. Interentially too the premier has spoken just now and in the manner he did in the hope oMsteadying the hotelmen of Ontario in the Dominion election. fom DO YOU WANT TO HAND OVER THE NATIONAL RAILWAYS 10 THE C.P.R. Mr. Patenaude, who is Mr. Mei- ghen's chief lieutenant in Quebec, and to whose tune Mr. Melghen wii dance should he chance to be elected, is an enemy of public ownership. He is being financed and backed by a group of Montreal men who want to kill the Canadian National Railways. Read what he said in a speech at Farnham, Quebec, in support of a 'of Meighen candidate: "Both Mr, Mp. King and Mr. Meighen have tendencies toward 'main A aint. a | ars as of not only overtaken | New Or-| leans, Cincinnati and Buffalo, but it | Stanfield's Underwear BIBBY'S BIBBY'S Headquarters for Queen's Sweater Coats An Overcoat Display INTERNATIONAL IN ITS SCOPE 'Hardly a nation that can contribute to real Overcoat quality and style but what has representation in this magnificent display. There are wonderful hard and fleecy fabrics from English looms;. Tweeds and Bannockburns from Scotland; fine Friezes from Ire- land; Montagnacs from France; Chinchillas from Italy; rich Norumbos from our own mills. It is without question the finest and widest Overcoat display we have ever presented--a world of Overcoats from a WORLD'S PRODUCTION No better Overcoat values to be found anywhere in Canada. Some Real Beauties at $35, $40), $45 Tooke, Arrow and Lang Shirts' iy aman rr THE CONTRAST OF MEN. The personal factor cannot be eli minated from the issue now before the people of Canada. In a broad sense, government . consists of & group of men. It can be no strong- er than the sum total of the indivi- dual units. It is therefore of the first importance, in choosing a gov- ernment, to look at the men who will compose it, and to measure their fitnesg for high eXequtive re- sponsibility. Right Hon. W. King will stand the analytical test. He is a fine man--educated, refined, courageous, clean, sincere and cap able. He is a big man. No one can hear him or come into contact wita him without feeling that he has all the qaulifications which make for jeadership. He stands for all that is traditional in' Liberal statesman- ship. And he would have about him capable and trustworthy men. Right Hon. Arthur Meighen is educated, refined, courageous and clean. His bitterest opponent would not deny him these qualities. But his sincerity is open to question, and he is distinctly lacking in capacity for leadership. He has taken up pro- tection as a vote-catching expedient. Being an educated man, with a well- trained mind, he must know that it is both sunsound and dangerous. He is thereby disgualified. He could not. being, about himself a group of strong men who would sink all sel- fish purposes in a vision of a greater and richer Canada. Protection does not lend 1 to that kind of a view. Quite the opposite. THE TWO POCKETS. Fairly viewed, protection is a policy which takes money out of one pocket and pute it into the other. | That is the best it can do, It can take money out of one pocket in the form of taxation and put it into the other through the distribution of money in the ordinary course of commercial 'But at that point everybody should' and think. There are a great L. ' Mackenzie |: *| enough to say the Liberal party will |} again be In power. The Patenaude|'= sa ite word around the sanctum of our esteemed and genial con por-; ary, whether it is doing duty in an | editorial skit or in a letter to the editor. Voters, in marking your ballot at the polling booth, put your cross op- posite the first name on the ballot. High protection is a tax that never benefits the consumer, Take no chances. Vote for Campbell. A vote for Campbell is a vote to bring Kingston in line as one of the places supporting the government in authority. A vote for Campbell is a vete to bring about electrical energy for which Kingston and Eastern Ontario is starving. Mr, Patenaude would divorce the C.N.R. from politics. Is this so it could be free to unite or marry the C.P.R. plotters, A vote for Campbell will help to make Kingston the deep water ter- minal for grain transhipment, a greatly desired benefit for the city. A vote for Campbell is a vote for good government. ee single charge has been madd gainst the King administration of dishonesty or maladministration, A vote for Campbell is a vote of appreciation for faithful public ser- vice and public benefit for Kingston, even when its sitting member was in opposition to the government in power. ing Is Kingston favorable to such high |} protection as to shut out Pennsyl- |} vania anthracite coal to permit Al- _berta coal at its high 'costd to be used here? This is one of Mr, Mei~ ff ghen's yropasala, ¢ Hon. Ernest Lapointe is quite sure that the Conservative party will not !}} win a seat In Quebec. That is good It is not too soon to think of them, and something from the celebrated house of TINE" is sure to please. Incense Burners and Incense In unique designs. and de- lightful Oriental perfumes. Bath Salts and Pow- der Compacts-- new designs and odors. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 PRINCESS STREET 'PHONE 343, Sweet Cider 50c. per gallon Jas. 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