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IP no! [HE DURHAM CHRUNlCLE Liberal orators throughout the country are now endeavoring to persuade the people of this coun- try that with the opening of the great American market to the farmers of Ontario. the agricultur- al community of this country will be greatly benefited. They are en‘deavoring to delude the farmer into the belief that larger markets mean higher prices for agricul- tural products, and to induce the farmer to vote for reciprocity in the belief that he will'be benefited in pocket thereby. Before the present treaty was negotiated the United States Gov- ernment employed a small army of experts to examine carefully into the conditions of their vari- ous marke‘s. 21'3"! to (gather statis- fires bearing on every conceivable ous rrâ€"ar-Iw‘s. 71"."1 m gamer SLd’Lla- tics bearing on every conceivable 'when our Canadian representa- tives Went to Washington. Our statesmen had no such facts or figures before them. They enter- ed into the negotiations blindfold. After the negotiations were ended the President sent his message. advocating the passing of a reciprocity treaty to Congress. Attached to that message were a number of tables of facts and fig- ures, showing amongst other things, a comparison of the pric- es obtained for agricultrual pro- ducts in the market at Buffalo. with those in Toronto, and of those in Ogdensburg, New YOrk, with those in Prescott, Ontario. These figures, let us remember, were obtained to show how the people of the United States would be affected. We can rely upon it, therefore, that the figures are ab- solutely correct. and not mislead- ing. These figures show that in Toronto and Prescott the prices for beef, cattle. sheep. hogs, dairy produce and poultry, are higher than in Buffalo and Ogdensburg. E"‘e'°+i(i(“li Taft. in a recent ad- dress. told the farmers of the “United States not to be alarmed, as they would sell Canadians :more agricultural products than We would sell them. In the face of these facts how can the farmer of Ontario benefit by throwing open his home market with its higher prices to competitors in exchange for the large." market of the Unit- ed States with its smaller prices. in Canada. Every farmer owns from four to ten horses, which at $50 per head will mean a [net .loss to him on horses alone from $200 .to $500. How long will it take him to make up the loss on his horses. his cattle. his sheep, and his hogs, from the higher prices it is claimed he may possibly get from the sale of a few apples, a little hay. or one or two other nroducts. too trifling to mention in the American market. In the United States at the pres- ent time, the price of horses for instance is $50 per head less than In what respect do the Liberal! Leaders who are holding out the' inducement that a larger and un- certain market means larger in- come for the farmer differ froml the fake company promoters w ho! hold out glittering inducements of! large returns on an in\e:1tmer1t to'; induce one to part 111th his money and then pay the first few diViâ€"f dends out of capital? 15 there any% '9 differenw? There can be none ‘. IAEGER MARKETS AND SMALLER PRICES. Of ES ‘9 . IRWIN Edits.- anfi Pmnnerm DURHAM. AUGUST 24,1911 8111 TH (33:3 1. URAL I 09 2212329390er his the change the farmer st gain even a little in irc stands to lose a goodly 1-is hard-earned capital 'thm reduction in value of his t cattle. sheep and hogs. {I‘D {fin‘f 1e farmer stand: little in ircome throu Sh 0 Canada out of the American mar- for 1906; “The day may come when we shall feel so grateful to our neighbors to the south as to erect a national monument to the memory of the McKinley tarâ€" iff bill. If we do, we might re- serve a niche for the Dingley tariff bill of 1897. Our trade re- lations with the United States are very interesting. Where they have endeavored to shut us out from their own markets, they have but stimulated our trade in other directions that have in time proved more re- munerative and often when they have excluded us from their market, they have driven us to the great neutraLmarket, Where We have had a perceptible in- fluence in setting the prices for their own exported surplus and therefore their Whole crop. ' 1thâ€"e Can: farmers. i “The United States tariff has forced us to look across the At- lantic for our markets, and there we have sent our products into competition with the products of the United States. “If We were looking for other arguments as to the unintended benefits to us of United States. tariff opposition we [might say that the developemnt of self-re- liance and independence may outweigh even the enlargement of our British trade. To a cer- tain extent we were in leading strings to the United States. We have been developing a Canad- ian national feeling. and increas- ing our self-reliance.” We may be sure that there is nothing that lies closer~to the heart of Mr. C.C. James, than the prosperity of the farmer. He has spent the better part of his life- time thinking for them, and his remarkable success has given him a Worldâ€"Wide reputation. The SIR GEORGE ROSS OPPOSFS RECIPROCITY United States. Our experiences so .far with the Americans has not been very satisfactory. I have not quite forgotten the reasons Why the reciprocity treaty, negotiated by Lord Eilgin in 18:56, was so sum- \marily repealed in 1866. Neither is my iudgment closed to the hostile character of the Dingley Tariff Bin. by which the American mar- ket was practically closed against rthe Canadian manufacturers and BLVV vvvvv spent the better part of his lifeâ€" time thinking for them, and his remarkable success has given him a Worldâ€"wide reputation. The farmers of Canada can be depend- ed upon to reflect most carefully upon the advice of so true and (30111379113121! SOOU-WVIL. n t: cauuuu depend. I prefer to establish channels of mtra Lie \\".i ‘11 ”2‘7": Brit- ain. which I beliexe “i111 be nor- mzmen-t. Wherevour ireasnre is there will your heart be (1150. All We have to do is to enter in and :mssess it with Bri t‘ains assig- ance. In the United States We Would be under a bond and I deciine myself to assume or accept any policy that will place the trade of Canada at the mercy of Congress. or at themercy of a rival‘ nationsâ€"Sir George W. before the Toronto Canadian November 30:11. 1903. TTMES IR‘ GREASE; ARE GOOD Nearly everylody will admit: that times in Canada are good: now. and have been good for‘ some years past. If the Liberals claim credit on account of their; good government. so much thei more credit to the Grits, if thati be the tr e cause. Whatever the7 cause. times in Canada have been: as good as in any other part of; the World, and better than in, many parts. It must be admittetlJQ too, that the policy in operation. during these good times is the judgment the commerce rm .. 0-9-4 W'. Ross 'Lan Club. old “National Policy.” inaugurated by Sir J 01111 Macdonald in 1879, and continued right up to the pres- ent, notwithstanding the vigorous denunciations made against it by the Liberals during the eighteen years of Conservative governmentj No man (to-day knows how reci- procity, as based on the Agree- ment, will Work out :for Canada. Everybody knows that every bar- gain we have hitherto made with the United States has been to our disadvantage. Is it not “highly probable they are gaining another march on us by the present neâ€" gotiations? By so radical a change in our present fiscal pol- icy, We are giving up a certainty for something entirely different. and only problematical at its best. It would be a doubtful and dangerous step to take. Can any advocate of the present recipmcity agreement point out a single bargain «that Canada or Great Britain ever made with the United States in which the United States did notâ€"get :t'he best Osf it? M1. Lloyd Harris refused to ac- cept the Liberal nomination in Brantford. He Opposed leci’pro- city in the :House, and says he be- lieves if the agreement had been discussed by the Liberal members in caucus, ininsety per cent. of them would be opposed to it. To catch the farm vote, the Lib- erals :telrl farmers the prices of every-thing they produce will go up. and to catch the laboring man‘s Vote they argue that the cost of foodstuffs will go down. Can such arguments “go down.” 'With the ordinary elector? If we want to keep free of the big American trusts, we must de- feat reciprocity. The meat trust now has the whole American Union in its clutches, and the huge octopus is reaching out its ten- tacles into Canada, even with its protection. How much worse will it be if allowed to come in free? Mr. Paterson manufactures bis- cuits, and if the agreement goes through he will. get .free Wheat. per cent. duty. Is it any wonder he favors a reciprocity framed by himself, and protecting his own business? We are told that reciprocity. if adopted can be repealed at any time. From Mr. Paterson‘s speech the other day, it is clear it Imus: run for five years, or the life of a parliament. Is it safe to run the risk of tying ourselves up for so long a time to a policy about which there is absolutely no cerâ€" tainty. It is often {much harder to break a bargain than it is to make it in the first place. Canada is committed to a debt of two hundred millions of do- la1s. for the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific. Three ye rs ago Si1 \\ ilfrid Laurier prayed for the electors to 1ote in support of this road, so as to get traffic goâ€" in? east and 11 est i'..ns ead of north and south. The passing of reci- proclit3,1 it seems reasonable to SU1)}')()'?.-e. will take away a large .portion of the traffic this mod was intended to carry, and des- trov its 1alu.e The Government 11111 o11'n the road but it is only so much 11orse for the Go1ernment when the road can be operated only at a loss. . Sir William Van Horne of the 'Canadian Pacific Railway, is op- {posed to reciprocity, and is Will- ing to do all he can against it. Sir George Ross. now Senator -P-.oss, expressed his disapproval Qof placing ourselves under the ; controlling influence of the United ”States, in a Speech to the Can- ga-dian Club in Toronto, in 1903. 'Hon. Clifford Sifton. one of the astrongest 'anad brainiest Liberals in :the House, is. billed. to Speak ,against reciprocity, and Will do all -.he can to defeat it. the eiectors that We had two good marketsâ€"the home market and the British marketâ€"and if they decided on reciprocity, a third good market would be open- ed upâ€"the United States. He didn't tell them that. reciprocity would open the Canadian market to the United States and the twelve favored nations, most of which produce the same articles we produce. and are themselves exporters. Politician like, he gave only one side of the question. THE DURHAM CH RONICLE Your Vote and Influence for ‘R. J. BALL Conservative Candidate, South Grey. POL! : ICAL matâ€":1 m0: In the interest of Mr. R.J. Ball, Conservative candidate, will be held at Holstein and Dromore early in September, and will} be ad- dressed by Hon. Jas. S. Dulf f, Min- ister of Agriculture for Ontario, Mr. 'R. J. Ball, Conservative can- didate for South Grey, Dr. Jam- ieson, anvd otherS. Hon. Creorge E. Foster \vi..l ad- d1ess a political meeting in Hanover on Friday night, August 25th,â€"to-morrow night. He is an able speaker, and will be well worth hearing. He will deal with the reciprocity issue from an Opposition standpoint. There is no country in the worid where so many administrative formali- ties are necessary for the simplest things as in France, and this exc-s; of red tape makes swindling compara- timely easy. The Fran-e1 sxindler a- Quires an exhaustive knowledge of all the needs and trickiness of red tap: and its formalities. and soon discov- ers the weak points in :hem. 7:11.; xillage of Hambridg e posse: ses a. iemar--abie charity. It is knonn as the Alford Bread Charity, and pro- vides that every laborer and house- holder in the parish shall recei-ge bread. The customary distribution has recenfly been made, and every one in the parish except the parson, the farmers, and tradesmen, were reci- pients. The housewives of Berlin'are in an unfortunate plight, and their depend- ent men folk are in a position not less enviable, owing to the remarkable dearth of domestics, chiefly attributed to Germany’s industrial prosperity, g'hich creatzs a great demand for te- male labor in all branches of com- merce and manufacture. An interesting historical discovery is reported in a mummy Whose skin still shows what .are apparently clear evidences of severe small-pox. The body was that of a tall man of middle- age, and came from one of the royZa tombs. SMALL-POX IN ANCIENT EGYPT WHERE SWKNDLING IS EASY SCAROITY OF DOM ESTICS A CURIOUS CUSTOM that we are offering at Twenty-Five Dollars per Ton, in ton lots, and if you need any feed this is the cheapest feed you can buy. FARMERS’ ATTENTIBN We have also a stock of Oatmeal Millers Barley, Wheat, Peas and Oats AUGUST 3rdâ€"Fron- all stations on an lines on and South of the Grand Trum 313:: Line. Toronto to Sarnia. including all stations on C..I’.R.. ”lorUP‘aph Detroit and Branch Lines including Guelph sub-divisxon irom bu South and Brampton South. q ,nia. AUGUST 12thâ€"From all stations North of Grand Trunk Main Line. Toronto ”faint, including C.P.R. points. Bolton Jet. and west ; also Grand '1‘an PO ' Toronto to Calendar inclusive. - 1a, AUGUST thhâ€"From all stations in Ontario. Toronto and East. Orillia and Scam and East on G.T.R. also Azilda and Eastern Ontario. . AUGUST 23rdw-From all stations Toronto to North Bay inclusive and Vi est. Eas AUGUST 25thâ€"From all stations Toronto and East in Ontario and Quebec 3150 Orillia. Sgotia Jct. and North Bay. _____.â€" t of Representative farmers, appointed by Mankcbn. Saskatchewan and Alberta manta “11.11“?“ an?! Agngagglgbofem‘on arrival at \Vinnipeg.‘ . _ 4- n â€"â€" Free transpSFFation will be furnished at Wi mimz to points on Canadian Pile , labqrers are needed. east. of Moose Jaw and Saskuoun. including branches. and at w1 a mug: each_ _way way. thngeofi .m Saskatchewan and Alberta. _ v- vvâ€" uâ€"vvv vâ€"-°â€"Dv .VIVVIVOU VLL “LLLVQI 4th V' ll‘ulp‘bo .fi ‘ 1 ’L. A 1 L-- second We Have a Small Quantity of Mixed Feed Oat Dust, Feed Meal and Pea Chop omwu SECOND-GLASS “aims mm. BE SOLD T0 wm'mm om that we are Offering at low prices. FOR HARVESTING IN WESTERN CANADA LABHEHS WANTE D GOING DATES Additional for Return on F ollowiné Conditions: Durham, Ont. August 24th a 1911 Govern- 1.: Main AugUSt C O I ‘ 'u'lto"'0".".'. I U . 0 O I O o o O .M. on. O LEI August 1 2th August 1 6th August 23rd August 25th Minimum Charge 25c. FROM ALL STATIONS IN CANADA WEST SPCCIaI Low Rates and Train 5 00000 ’ 0 5.4.44» +4» ~:~:«~:â€"-:~-:«z~-:~§-++~z-~z-++4-4-~.~~~.~â€". NEV FALL MIL Full Particulars From am Lambton Street. AND CERTAIN POINTS H INCLUDING: PHIXH u\‘ «i: VIA CHIVAHH. M‘i.:'i'£i SISJHI .XI!IHT1¢_J,\;1 SINGLE FARE ChOice !)r21' $20.00 per am a. Choice Imp \ $35.00 per acre. You can ima. that will adx'amc acre during the m ‘ Wheat 30 Buss. {51315 The estimate “’5 Vicinity this year 3 I have choice Prince Albert u. Fielding, CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHl FOP further ini'(,>1'1: :21? 24th, 1911. tomers that our \E TRIMMED and. L MILLINERY is inspection. had our first displ orders at one: great man} We wish to advi ad a’S fl are prepa ast the a )I'G IN I10