: _ Btates in natural products. Hon. J. C. Blliott very tersely tells Why Liberal rule has been an ad- ¥antage to Canada. "The real ques- tion in the coming 'election," he Poliits out, "is whether the King gov- \@rament has been a good administra- tion. We were told that wheels of ustry would cease to move and hat the hands of progress would be I fluence his friends tarned back for years if the King $overnmeiit continued in power. But festéad we havé had business pro- Bress, greatly increased favorable balance, the dollar changed under par to over par, two- went postage, curtailment of $25. $00,000 in taxes, and to-day Canada experiencing one of the most pros- { periods in history. There was another budget as good the Robb budget, because it alm- at relieving the burden from the of the people who toiled, and y Canadian people have become and prosperous." SR i --_---- 1++<No increase in the tariff, and a reduction in some of the ex- tariff schedules _2--Reeiprocity with the United Hudson's 3~~Completion of the Bay Rallway, 4--Maintenance of the existing limitations of grain ana fates as embodied In the Crow's|' Pass agreement. 1 tion of the Cana- 8--Re-valuation upon a air basis Soldier Settlement Landa. ~ 7A sound system of long term u 'aredits, 2 | 8=--A complete investigation by a felal commission into all irregu- ar In the Customs Department. 18 Mvocating continuation of the A probs, the Progressive X examination be made tuto business methods of Canadian and the conditions sur- the sale of liquor for con- em a hale {n the top of a boy's hedd, pour in a number of facts and them at examination time push in the bung and see what the jad could remem- bér. To-day the idea is to develop in the child the abilities with which it has been endowed by God and the task is to find out what particular phase there is to develop. By a series of intelligence tests it is now possible to gain a relative idea of what the ability of the child really is and to determine if the child is working to its full capacity. No | more fs expected of the child than the child ig prepared to give. Health of children fs an important phase. This is watched from the time kin- dergarten is entered until entrance class is reached." He talks sensibly and to good pur- pose too! THE SPLENDID OUTLOOK. For the month of June the employ- ment situation in Canada was bet- ter than in any month since 1920. The rallways of Canada are doing more business, the banks are doing more business, the automobile fac> tories are doing more business, stores are doing more business, the insur- ance companies are doing more busi. ness; more buildings are going up from one end of Canada to the other. EMBRACED NEW PRINCIPLES, Hon. Mr Stevens recently said if he were retained as Minister of Cus- toms he would wage war to the knife on liquor smuggling. But did he do 80 In British Columbia, Three times British Columbia and other provinces sought legislation at Ottawa which would have enabled the authorities to check smuggling and bootlegging, and each time the bill presented was killed by Mr. Stevens's political col- leagues, who comprised a majority in the Senate. There is no record that Mr, Stevens made any attempt to in- to, support the measure, as he would have done it he had had an honest desire to serve bis country in this way. The city which he represented in the House was the centre of bootlegging opera- tions on the Canadian Pacific Coast. It gained a wholly unenviable repu- tation as a feeder for the Western States. And Mr, Stevens was not sufficiently interested to try to wipe out the trafic which he now declares to be such a menace to Canada's wel- fare. The Attorney-General of British Columbia should adopt the sugges- tion of the Victoria Times and sub. mit to Parliament again the bill de- signed to help that Province control the bootlegging evil, fa the expdeta- tion that Mr. Stevens in his new role will become its zealous champion, Even though he is not Minister of Customs he may still be a private member, and as such, no doubt, would be equally willing to live up to the principles which he has re- cently embraced: ---- CANADA'S FIRST RAILWAY. p---- Ninety years ago last week Can. ada's first raliroad was officially opéned dy the Parl of Goglord, the Governor General of what was then part of Canada. This was the Cham- plain and St. Lawrence railroad, which ran for a distance of 14 1-2 miles from Laprairie, on the south bank of the St. Lawrence river, a little west of Montreal, to St. Johns, on the Richelieu river, to the south, It bad a gauge of 5ft dina. its tails being of wood, on top of which flat bars of iron were epiked, following the common practice of the time: in the United States, where they were used in North Carolina as early as 1830. "Thess wooden "strap" rails cj were still in use as late as 1847, When they were replaced by fron rails. tS The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad company was incorporated in 1833 with 74 proprietors, the ca pital provided for being £50,000. ' | The subscription books were opened dato ist at the Exchange oe coffee Oise {a Montreal, which fn that year had a population of : tely 30,000. In course of the dis. cussion on the charter, the policy of THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: ten." Some authorities pronounce OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Sur, o as in "odd," {as In "it," u OFTEN MISSPELLED: iuld SYNONYMS: poverty, {pauperism, beggary. | | fell into the power of the brigand DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH BY W. L. GORDON destitution, WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us increase our voedbulary by masterifig one word each day. To- day's word: CONFEDERATE: an a, Use "got" in preference to "'got- "gotten" as obsolete. connoisseur. Pronounce kon-j- as in "burn," aceenit last syllable. lang syme. privation, waat, - need, associate; ally; sccomplice. "He and his confederates." \ | nattonal wealth, says the Winnipeg Free Press. How many millions will depend on the state of the weather for the néxt three weeks. The wheat crop is not yet made, but weather conditions so far are distinctly favor- able. The people are hoping for the | best. The progress of The crop is being watched with an interest bordetigg on anxiety on the farm and in the city, for the future prosperity of | | Both now les in the fields. The soll | is the reservoir of the wealth of this | part of the Dominion, and after all | the nice things have been said about other industries it remains true tha. | the man bending over the stubble | with the gheaves under his arms carcies a heavier load than you seo | in his hands. The city man who | thinks the farmer a cantankerous cuss because he stands up for him- self is decidedly shallow, He will reap along with the farmer. EDITORIAL NOTES, Many a girl is single to-day, says a colleague, because she couldn't stay wwake, while a man talked about himself. A At Belleville a new roof is being | put on the police station. Who kick- | od it off? Some high' jinks going on fn our neighboring ety! Now that Meighen has thrown down the gage, it will get hotter than even, comments a paper. We bet ft is so hot he can't pick it up again. Baroness de Rothschild paid 40,- 000 francs to a girl who found her | bear] necklace. Normally that would | be $8,000, but at the present rate of exchange only $848. While the Herriot government n France was falling its leader's wife Was mountain climbing fin Japan. Another indication of the indépend- ence of woman to-day. > ---- , The presence of Premier Gardiner of Saskatchewan and Robert Forke on the same platform, speaking at a Joint Liberal-Progressive meeting, ia bad news for the Conservative party. Mr. Coolidge, at his retreat in the Adirondacks, caught a pike. One tan imagine, remarks the Ottawa Journal, the look of astonishient on thetace of the pike when he saw who hooked him. In 1921 when the Liberals took of- fice the Canadian dollar was worth 92¢ in the United States. Ten thous- and dollars of Canadian coin were paid for $9,200 of Unitéd States goods. To-day a Canadian dollar is 100 cents dnywhere. Liberal admin. Istration changed conditions. In 1921 Canada wag faced with an {whet About The Raliwaye? Toron 0! The siletiee ot Me! Melgnen with regard to a Canadian National Ra{l- ways policy lends color to the con clusions of The Montreal Witness that the fight for fair play for the peoples transportation system is not yot won. There would be considerable satis- | faction in receiving assurance trom | both party Ledders to the effect that they are unequivocally Behind this projéct, which is emerging so success. fully into the financial light after the | long period of unceftainty. But The Witness sees in the delays and sur- prises of Cabinet construction the fine hand of the Montréal financtal group reaching out for the National road. It is" generally conceded that Mr. Paténaude represefits these interests and that his appointment to the Ministry was made at their dictation. This early recognition of thé power of St. James Street and the selection for the onerous Railways portfolio of A man who does not live in the at- mosphere of public ownership, and who, moreover, sought relief from the arduous duties of his own busi- ness long ago, may wel cause the feeling to prevail, in the absence of 50,000 HARVESTERS TO WINNIPEG Soin, Sketches Aan a0 boats ial trains for Winnipeg via Canadian National Rye. will leave as follone; 18; 13 Aue 3; Nk to Wat are Jou, telat to Wineig 'Travel CANADIAN (Union Station) 12.91 JM. 17); 12.30 P.M. 18; 1045P MM. Ti A; Ps Ase. RA In: 0p i 1S ps I Rhae > a assurance to the contrary, that the Public's interest in the National will not be safeguarded any too zealously. The underlying reasons for the or- iginal Patenaude conspiracy, declares The Witness, are found in the opposi- tion of the Montreal group to publie ownership in goneral and to the Na- tional Railways in particular. The party does not count, except as it Tepresents the principle of protec tion. Privilege is 'the main thing. "The Bt. James Street group had no objection to Mr. Patenaude's anti. British declaration: it cared not one whit that he was not only opposed to conscription, but in favor of the | stoppage of even further assistance to Britain in her darkest hour. The group snifled at Mr. Patsnaude's vig. orous 'independence of and to Mr. Meighen, What it 41a insfet iterate st every opportunity the ne- cessity of getting rid of the 'burden' of the National Railways," The Montreal paper further says that the financiers have Plainly indi. cated by the events of the past week «referring to the Cabinet organisa. giving up the fight, ang that they are determined that the National Rafl- Ways must go where they desire 'to DI&es them. It 1s not now because of the "burden" which the natiod 1s carrying, but because the lines pro- mise to be a great success, offering excellént "opportunity for exploita~ tion," 'and more so because they are "shaking uncomfortably all that this 8roup regards as precious." 'The Ontario Hydro-Electric System," says The Witness, "has already proved a thorn fn the flesh. But once 18t the Peopletot Canada from coast to const realize that a publicly owned utility may bp made as profitable as 4 pri. vately owned one, and there is no saying what might happen to fortunes that are based in great part on the profits of monopoly guterprise." adverse trade balanee of thirty mil Hons. The regime of the Hon, Mae- kenzie King closed with a favorable trade balance of $101,000,000, the highest per capita in the world. So much for Liberal administration. Why chalige in view of this fact, -- L The number of omissions in Pre. mier Méighen's Ottawa speech be- come evident as one checks up his Past utterances, says the Brockville 80 many months 8go at Hamilton he stated that he 'was In favor of par- liamentary sanction for the sending of Canadian event of a situation such as that of 1914 arising. Is that a dead issue? Ask Patenaude! SRR RO 'Recorder-Times. For instance, not |el This summing up of the Story of the battle of Montreal rr thet peoplé carries further | ind comment regarding the effect the On was that its spokesman must re- || tion-~that they have no intention of | fle Srp of St. James Street has pen the destinies of the Conservative party. "Within the party the fight goes on," although - temporarily open eamity is submerged in the war on the . common foe. 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