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‘as $1 for we ttons were 1111‘ States in 1“” rotective t ‘1 {untried y Tweeds, G roceries. rer 0' nth €85 t “E F” ALMOST AW E W...â€" a. s. McILRAITH 1 I.QO§* '. Furniture ! Furniture I‘ FIREWORKS DISPLAY EVERY EVENING Next Door to RESS Post_ Office ' THE TORONTO NEWS THE NEWS WILL BE Is now recog’nized throughout the Dominion as the chief Newspaper Advocate of the forces under the leadership of MR. R. L, BURDEN, which demand WESTERN FAIR W ggwn Town Shoe Store ndm, Canada, Sept. 8th to 16th $28,000.00 3‘ . «A \Hu‘ rs“, __, a;:-\L-~:f‘ DRS‘KEKN EDYB: KENNEDY 14-2L ALL-In M â€" ment in “in A}; us Personélly can at. our Median Instigute Labpatfe.“ 111 our \V’lndsor ofices Wthh Crawl-y for Canadian business only. Ad DRS. KENNEDY 8r. KENNEDY: ‘, REID, President. Mam? \1 9. THE FLUURâ€" Rugs. all sizes and colors, I Hrs. Flour Gilt-10th of different colors. R T H E \VINDOVVSâ€"Tapesny Curtains. Lm Shades. Bobinene P0198. Brass Poles of difien H 'I'IIE KI'ICHFNâ€"Tables. Chairs. 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Lace Curtains, hFTER TREATMENT TREATM'EVT and (36?!) 5 Extension and 1t drough “You needn’t sneer at your grand- father," said I. “My dear sir,” he answered, “you have no right to say that. I honour my grandfather.” ‘ “Your grandfather was an immi- grant,” said I. “and I have no doubt you could cut his dialect with aknife.” Let me ask you something: Where would Canada have been without the tide of imn’tigration of the last ten years? And what is the place of the British-horn in that wealth-producing tide? ‘â€" We are all in the same boat. Some ‘ of us are immigrants direct. Some of I us are immigrants once, twice, thrice ‘ removed. Let us join together in ap- I preciation of our common creditor-= ship of the Empire. For we are its. 'creditors, and we are debtors to one' another. 1 Ever think of that? The unique! glory of the Empire is not the central l kingdoms, magnificent as they are.‘ France is bigger than the Unitedt Kingdom Germany has fifty per: cent. more pOpulation. France has states across the seas. So has Ger- many, But compared with the Bri- tish states overseas the French and German countries are puling pigmies. .They are dependents on their Euro- pean owners. We are the partners of John Bull, and we increase daily in power. The Future of the Empire is in our Hands. Great idea, isn't it? The Empire has been made by Emi- gration. It will be perpetuated, mag- nified, just so far as it learns the les- sons of the Immigrating experience: (last thy Emigrant upon the waters. and he returns, after many days, APJ IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. The future of our intcr~lmperial re- lations is the future of the Imperial Conference: the most remarkable, Parliament that has ever been con- stituted. The Imperial Conference is the Emigrant Returned. "A.“ vâ€"_â€"._...' - You will be a far wiser man if you discern the importance of the future Lauriers, Fishers and Strathconas, when they arrive in the new country looking for work. 0 _ _..:‘l There, are three-quarters of a mil- lion Imperial immigrants in Canada endowed with all of the rights of citizenship the moment they set foot on Canadian soil. They are raised in the atmosphere wherein all the great institutions, the noble ideals that be- long to the Canadian Confederation, were begotten and nourishtd with vastsmead power. They have only one thing to learnâ€"to give Canada the first place iftheir affections. All t other things will be added unto them. even a better accent and more com- mand over the aspirate than they ever knew. i Among the things to be added will be a greater insight into the condi- tions of the land he has left, and a curious detachment in the way he looks at the affairs of that country. :He leaves Britain a strong partyman. He imagines that the words “Liberal” and “Conservative” have the same meaning in Canada as they have in the United Kingdom. But, unless he is unhappily swept into the midst of some party organization in Canada, he will soon find himself wondering what sort of new political affiliations he will make when he has had time to feel his feet and take his bearings. I‘1‘ LUCK “AU 53"» wâ€"â€"â€" If he has been a Liberal, he will marvel haw it is that the Liberal party in Canada, after calling aloud, and almost with tears, for a reform of the Senate, which had become a party instrument, has for fifteen years ap- pointed practically nOthing but Liber- als to the Senate, until it is as parti' mm a body as the House of Lords it- Ban a body self. ”V-.- If he was a Conservative in Britain ' he will marvel that a Conservative‘ Government like that of Ontario should be a pioneer in such radical legislation as that which established the Hydro-Electric Commission, that is distributing the lighting through the province over four hundred miles of transmission wires. Clearly he: must sort things out for himself and i be in no hurry to tie himself to either side. If he cares to learn of my ex- perience, it is that though I took in Canada in 1885, 6, 7, and 8; 1890-1; 1904, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, I have not _-‘12L3A _- . perience, it is that though I took in Canada in 1885, 6. 7, and 8; 1890-1; 1904, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, I have not yet joined either of the political par- ies; for the only thing about which I have made up my mind concerning them is that I wish to Heaven they ere both a great deal better than ey are. I am going to vote against the Government on the twenty-first. i The Imperial immigrant, if he be iobservant, and especially if he go to Ethe West, will find that his relation ito the Empire is more direct and vivid {than ever it was in the Old Land. t'I‘here he was one of forty millions, to whom the ideals of British institu- itions, the historical heritage of all who were born under the “Union Jack,” have been taken for granted these scores and scores of years. ---‘A “_ - Lucuv UVVâ€" vâ€" Perhaps in his desire to vote for a candidate who advocated one man one vote, or the taxation of land val- ues ,or the crippling of ~ the veto power of the House of Lords, he has never experienced the direct respon- rumCUL UH LL19 " " Vu‘J ...... an 1’“. uuvnavvv- w-v - y â€"- - nperial immigrant, if he be 15 it decrepit? Sir \Vllfl‘ld isnt. t. and especially if he go to ‘Sonie‘of his Ministersarent. Butras 11’ will find that his relation {an entity, it has livedits day. it gut}: npire is more direct and vivid inc signs of originating polic1es. d 31' it “'35 in the 01d Land. Edoes what it feels obliged to doâ€"‘an : was one of forty millions, to zit does it in that kind of a way. 'Iake ideals Of BI‘itiSh institu- :an example: . :36 historical heritage Of 311 t The GrainGrowers demanded certair; re born under the “Union 'things which were never dreamed 0 lave been taken for granted lwhen the Government. came into ores and scores of years. power, Some of those things are (lion; :8 in his desire to vote for a ceded~becauseâ€"â€"Well because the}; at he who advocated one man {to he conceded, or power in the we? a, or the taxation of land val- l would flee. But other things so 2mg: the crippling 0f - the veto ,declared years ago to be Sta (1: re« f the House of Lords, he has Espectable government in ante.l will xperienced the direct TBSDOD‘ ‘main untouched, and appareno 3;) e re 10: Imyerial existence which so rem.- The Senate was - int-IMF“ “MAJ!” f‘fig“ m BUREAU CHRONICLE L He takes those things for granted; ‘ but if he happens to fall into a settle- ment of the West, in which Ameri- cans, Germans, Galicians, Scandina- ;vians, Doukhobors, abound, and it he §should be the only British-born they 'know, they will judge Canada’s con- ;nection with the British Empire by ‘him, and almost by him alone. They iwill observe his every peculiarity. It ; he displays a lack of knowledge of the EEnglish languege, they will wonder if ?all the British are like him. Do you not see that to them he is the pattern {Imperialistâ€"a living epistle known iand read of them? Do you not see ;also, that these people to whom Can- Eada, at the beginning, is a foreign !country. attractive because it offers {new chances to acquire material fwealth, will. to a greater or lesser ex- itent, judge. the political wisdom of the tnative-born Canadian by what they Tthink of his Imperial yokefellow? is implied in his contribution, definiu or indefinite, to the army and navy, which were the essence of national and Imperial life centuries before he was born. Nowhere, in all the world, has the individual Britisher a greater respon- sibility than in Canada. He has charge of his own reputation; he may worthily represent the Imperial con- nection; he may bring discredit on the native-born. There has begun, especially in the West, the process of turning out a new racial amalgam, similar in es- sence to the amalgam which took place in Britain during the centuries when the early Briton was joined by the Roman, and then by the An le, then by the Saxon, then by the Dane, and then by the Norman. The West is the real crucible of Canadian na- tionality. If the British immigrant exhibits contempt, ill-nature, ignor- ance, towards those who are being moulded in this newest crucible of the ,Empire, he will be an ingredient of : fateful weakness to the amalgam. He may go to Australia, where there is practically an entirely British popuâ€" lation, and become an excellent part in the making up of that nation. But the responsibility, the Opportunity, the privilege that belongs to his emi- gration to Australia, is not. comparable to the privilege belonging to his im- migration to Canada. 'l‘here no for- eign flag ever appears to challenge the devotion of Australians to their National Emblom. In thousands of homes in ("shada a foreign flag has the place of choicest honour. And we are told that in the more important (2f our relationships we are at the parting of the ways. The Imperial Immigrant unlike all the rest; finds above him the accus- tomed emblem. For him there surely can be no parting. Zovernments are the strangest in- stitutions on earth. They act for the nation. but. they represent a party. Sometimes they are bigger than their party. sometimes they are not. Woe betide the country whose Govern- ment is no bigger than the party that makes it into a Government. Happily, in British countries, the spirit of independent freedom is such that most Governments serve the country pretty well. That is espe- cially true in their early years. New Brooms sweep clean. N‘ew Govern- ments try, as a rule, to sweep clean. It is an exhausting enterprise, espe- cially where many of the functions of government are bound up with the in- d'uâ€"stnial development of localities. Public offices are meant for pure- minded patriotsâ€"a scarce breed. The custom of rewarding with public office men who have worked for party ends is a bad customâ€"but it is inevitable in a worldly world. For, if there be two men equally fitted for a public office and one has worked in an election and the other has loftily held aloof from the turmoil of a disputatious episode; who should get the office? . HL 'VLLU UAAVu-v. C’V' -.__ The best you can do is to do the best with available material. What is the use of a high-minded man, against whom nobody can say a word, com- plaining that the country is run by indifferent politicians if he refuses to turn a hand to make political contests clean and honourable. We need the best men we can get in public life. We need to treat them decently. 0t- tawa is only the reflection of the rest of the country. A clean country means a clean Ottawa, and vice versa. 1 have been preaching the doctrine that, up to the limit of his capacity and Opportunity, every voter is his own Prime Minister. If his voting is the sole active exercise of his politi- cal duty it is as important to him as :a decision to bring in a great bill is Limportant to the Prime Minister. lie is the ultimate authority for the Prinze Minister. The Prime Minister is his servant; not his master. Governments tend to become arro- gant when they have comfortable, :obedient majorities. _.....1 We need not imagine any more“ superiority on our part merely becau‘e we are not in any Government. Huâ€" man nature is pretty much the same I!" in Grit an'd Tery. Heaven save us from becoming perfect political Phari- sees. - _____ .10 How can Governments be saved: They should die young, lest they for- get. Take Sir Wilfrid’s Government. It shows too many signs of autocra: tic decrepitudeâ€"a phrase that IS no. as paradoxical as it sounds. 11711:”:A :n",+ ;,,,S§”““ ’13: m $1.:ng azzmgm: gawk “3:3: any moral formed, because it had become a party refuge. The Senate is as strongly House-of-Lordsly rartlzan now as it was in the days when Sir Wilfrid con- demned it. It is Liberal now; it was Conservative then. The creditors of a. party in power are apt to increase, and senatorships are convenient. So much for decrepitude. What are the signs of autocracyâ€"I mean the signs that everybody can see without taking a trip to Ottawa? They are abundant enough. They are found in the way little things are magnified and big things are minimized. Take. two: . The Navy. The decision to build a navy was taken without reference to the people. and without that amount of general discussion by the country which we allow on occasions to take the place of a general election. The impression has gone abroad that the Navy is neither fish. flesh, fowl, nor good red herringâ€"thatit is founded more on party expediency than in national wisdom. However wrong the impression may be. it is the direct fruit of the Government's assumption that it is the master of the people An earnest Liberal told me it was one of the things that had to be under- taken without. reference to popular discussion. because of the unreason- able nervousness of Quebec. But it hasn’t done any good in Quebec. The penalty of autocratically assuming things on behalf of Queebc is already being paid. Recimocity. An ex-Cabinet Minister has said that the Reciprocity Agree- ment was never discussed by the Cabi- net, until it was completed and the whole thing. by arrangement with Washington, was ready for immediate submission to Parliament. The Gov- ernment had not “caucused” on the subject with its supporters, whose only alternative was immediately to obey or to slay the Government. Those who were directly responsible for the Aaromnent were the Elder Brethren of the Cabinet, who, to judge by the sequel. had no real conception of the change that had come over Canada Sim-e they were enamoured of good words from Washington. “Auto- cratic decreMtude” exactly fits the situation. Canada is neither autocratic nor decrepit. The people in the country cannot afford to be less vigilant to- wards a Government merely because it has been in office a long time. They must run Ottawa from the country, and not be run from Ottawa. After we left Madeira, on the way to South Africa, before the wireless news services were being given to ocean liners, a journalist who was on board issued a daily paper that was full of alleged Marconigrams. The first number explained that he was going to run the world, for once in his life. He succeeded, as far as we were concerned, for he gave us news every day that might really have come through Fleet Street. The man who votes in a general election is just as much Prime Minis- ter, to the limit. of his capacities, as Sir Wilfrid himself, and he ought to take as much interest in the questions that are involved in his approach to to the ballot box as friend did in arguing lems of the world for of the passengers of Castle. The obvious answer to the sugges- tion “If you were Sir Wilfrid?” is that you would do as Sir Wilfrid does. But I do not mean to be as precise as that in the heading I have given to this article. What I really mean is, Wilfrid’s place?” It is pretty hard, of course, to put yourself in the place of a man who lives an entirely different life from that of practically all of his fellow- countrymen. Sir Wilfrid is 3. states- man, which is infinitely more than a politician. Every statesman is com- pelled to make a politician of himself; but all the King’s horses and all the King’s men could not make a states- man out of most of the astutest poli- ticians who keep their eyes on public Opinion, in the hope that they may get their hands on the public purse. One of the many disabilities of the statesman, I am sure, is that he can very seldom do as he would like to do. When an ardent young spirit begins to get interested in politics because some great question appeals to his mind and conscience, he draws mental pictures of an ideal Prime Ministerâ€"â€" a veritable two-edged sword of right- eousnessâ€"cleaving his way to ever- lasting honour; destroying the evil; despising the mean, and generally de- serving a high place among the apos- tles and idealists of the race. Unhappily, that. view of things can- not survive a long experience of this damaged world. Most of us are not highly idealistic persons. The Spirit of public service for the sake of pub- lic service does not too widely abound. One of the first things you have to learn is. that the peOple who do not‘ take an exalted view of public duty are citizens just as much as those who would die for their country, and starve for itâ€"a much more serious sacrifice. I came across what struck me as {fairly a perfect illustration of this in ithe conversation of an excellent citi- had“ put men to work in Halifax just ' about election time on jobs which had more relation to the necessities of the ' election than to the needs of the Inter- loolonial Railway. I ventured to sug- gest to him that probably the Minister 'would far rather not do that sort of thing, but that he might feel himself :obliged to do it because of long-estab- lished custom; because of certain ob- ‘ngations which have been incurred in my journalist out the prob- the edification the Dunottar MI. [and Hunts! Leek Hate 325 ACRES close tn Proton Station, brick dwellingfine large out~huildin Windmill 820.: buy, 2 tons to acre. on v $5,500. KxTocks the sunshine ofl‘ Ai- berw bargains. 533 ACRES near Proton Statim 3nd Sangeen Junction. fine brick residence. ep'endid barns. splendid soil. good Watél', orchard c. Will #1611 less than $35 an acre. ’11 bargain surely. m u... ..-\_â€"_- 3‘ HARD WARE and 'I‘insmith Bra neszs.Grey Cmmty. fins: affine in 00mm“ ior Less than $10.0?” win buy 40 acres of hum store and dwelling. barn. other 1‘. :ul «1 walling and 34 0(1) stovk. SI... GENERAL COUNTRY STORE {‘h .' miles from Durham; very chap. Large number of cheao farm propeztisu Marley to Lend at Low Rams. Lands bought and Sold. Debts calimted All kinds of writings drawn. No my: who doie< businesq with H. H. wn r :9 ever sut"fied to go eI-Lsewbel'e. Our methods seem W please. "Alway.~ anpf, â€" Nevm Vpgfigent.’ H. H. 3“ LER People’s Mills \ SHIN” or huge hm! ()t a. fine gram. vhitq. nutririuus flour, is sold as. nur mum}. Have ynu evev erd it? Ge 'mu- ,1: new to give you our kind no ZEN." in"! see. Lhe supv-finr baking qua. - '1.‘2,r- I'r. p()RS{‘SS<’S. Better and mum A‘hsflvswnw. humuse of a, secret, pl'Ol'PSI hut we put the whwu. thruugh. Don’t forgvt-. \ and mfg Manibnhn :13de Ontario JVwM and is a strictly fi'xst chat family flour la mmie f:- r n .«4 l: l 1; t‘ v 1‘1 tn u he ”d is n wuperinr arririp for makmg pastry. etc. \H up-m-date flour and fped :«n {rm-erg keep our flour for salv. cum" gnu-er dues not. keep it, Now“ t' '0? mill and we Will :19? yon "i ht Call us up by Lelnphnnp No. .k, 11 kmds of Grain bought at Mama Price. 7hopping Done Every nay huuls delivered anvwhere in URINE. npcial Radar-tiara on flour in 5 and 10 Bag Lots. «1r pure Manitoba flour. made ‘iv-mn 1». I Munimlm wheat; cannot be neat w virhm- makers or douwstic the them cogent in practical politicsâ€"tin“! in fact a Minister might be very much in the position of one who, while he feels that the tipping system in ho- tels and other places is essentially wrong and under some circumstances. iniquitous, still submits to the custom; and so far perpetuates something which in its way'is as bad, if not, worse than tempting of men to vote; through giving them a temporary 101).; I am not excusing the evils of poll-i tical life. They disgrace polities tart too often. They will continue to din-1 grace politics until more and more: peOple understand that politics is thn} science of Government, for which the] highest-minded amongst us have a Special responsibility, whether we raj .. --...I- cal-uni -' rvmngnizcd as “Canada's Hifii ommercial School". The» inst. .~ :msnlutMy first-(21335. \intv at' ”112' free catalugm'. Enter 1 Imagine what 8 must be when he 0 fifteen years from I hazard a guess would like to ma} any Govern: in office m the habit of ing wait tell that John McGowa n PAST RY FLOUR flanover Cmveyancer SOVEREIGN ECLIPSE TORONTO. ONT. MILLER l‘ H E Opposite The Re House. Hanuvc Class