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Open Cleavage In
Progressive Party

OTTAWA, June 16—That the
action of the Progressives last
night in keeping the Gavernment'in
dffice will recoil upon, themselves
with formidable effect is the pre-
vailing opinion among cbservers
here. By many, indeed, the view
is held that the episode marked an
acute development of the schism
that hag been rife among the farni-
ers for some time. It is claimed
—and the claim igs supported by
frank grumblings among Progres-
sives today—that support of the
Governmeut came almost entirely
from the wing of the party which
has been standing behind Mr.
Crevar, as opposed. to the more
radical element which desires to
depose him. (That everything was
secretly engineered between Mr.
Orerar and Mr, King, and that once
this fact ‘became known to the anti.
Government wing, an open cleay-
age of the party's «ranks may he
likely. :

Had Great, Opportunity to Act,

Then again it ig pointed out the
tame submission of the Progres-
sives to what was a clear negation
of their cardinal point of policy
will destroy their prestige in the
constituencies, When they came
tc Ottawa they expected and open.
ly boasted that they would. domin-
‘ate the House, ‘Holding the ‘bal-
ance of power as between the old
parties, they declared, and their
constituents believed them, that
they would compel the Government
to mould its leg!slative programme
according to . their views. Not
alone would they force tariff re-
form. They would also compel
resumption ‘of the Crow’s Nest
Pass agreoment, substantial. de-
creases in expenditure, anda
wheat ‘board. Nor was their threat
an idle one ‘Led with ability, and
with the right inciination, they
were, undoubtedly, in a position
to enforce their démands. com-
promise might have‘been necessary
to some extent, but py sacrificing
certain points they unquestionably
could have compclled Government
srrender pon a numiber of vital

. issues.

Have Secured Nothing.

As things have turned out, how-
ever, they have secured nothing at,

all, “Mr. Crerar, either through
lack of ay lack of inclina-
threwaway tpiportunity after

“Spbetuniey to secre concessions,

On the question of a wheat board
he compromised in favor of a pro-,
Posal. as different from what the;
farmers want as a salmon is from
a:‘whale (In respect of the Crow's
Nest Pass agreement, he weakly
declined to back up Mr. Meighen’s
demand that the Government de-
elare its policy, and as a conse
quence saw the question tarned
over to acommittee which was
overwhelmingly antagonistic to the
agreement. On the tariff the most
vital demand of al, his party has
tamely submiltted to a budget as
protectionist in character as any
budget brought to Parliament since
1878. ‘On the question of economy
his only conribution has been to
help scrap ships, and naval ongani-
zation to the value of two millions
‘The rosult.is that this great new
party which came out West to
‘ouild a new Jerusalem in our poli-
tics, is returning from its first
skirmish with the enemy without
any trophies ‘of war, Instead of
striving unitedly, it has fallen vic.
tim to intrigue, to schism, to dis-
sensions, and its only achievement
the only report it can make when
it goes home to its people, is that
i, kept the King Governmert in
power. Hence the reason ‘for be-
lief that its prestige has been bad-
jy impaired and that its future 18
considerably ‘blurred,

U.S. Grain Act
May Yet Pass

WASHINGTON, June 1.—The
House Agricultural Committee to-
day reported favorably on the bill
Providing a substitute for the
Grain Futures ‘Act recently knock-
ed out by the Supreme Court, The
committee plang to save the bill
put to ad vote in the House on
Thursday and it is believed the
measure is assured of passage.

Trade Unions
Coming to Reason

LONDON, zune 14.—One of the
Breatest lockouts in industrial his-
tory was broken today when mem-
‘hers of the Amalgamated Bngineer.
ing Union, who have been out since
February capitulated and accepted
the employer's terms. ‘The mea
voted 75,478 against $9,493 to accept
the terms offered and return tu
work forthwith. Three hundred
thousand wornerg are affected by
the decision. Recently 600,000 oth
ers yin engineering trates outside
the union were locked out, but vo-

» ted to accept the employers’ terms
after a month of tinemployment.

The original disputes were over

pilotage dues,

amended so as to
ships exempt from p

ince but also’ ships
tween one part of a port and an-
other part of the same port
ships engaged in towing or salvage
operations.

Confessed to
Brutal Murder
Of Alice Mallet

JACKSON, MICH., June, 16.—
John Straub, 45, former inmate of
Jackson prison has confessed to
the marder of Miss Alice Mallet,
matron of the Florence Critenton
Home here. the axe with which
the deed was accomplished was
obtained at the home of a Polish
family abcut two blocks from ihe
spot where Misg (Mallet met death,

TM less than. half an our after
the authorities haq madg the ann.
ouncement a large crowd gathered
at ‘the jail but there jwas no indic-
ations of a disturbance,

\Lator it was learned that Sher-
iff Larabec had qisguisea the pris-
Oner as a city fireman, removed
him from the building by a rear
entrance and wisked him out of the
city in an auto. is

Straub, according to his confess-
jon attended a circus on the night
of the slaying. After leaving the
grounds he was quoted as saying
he determined to atack a woman.

'He fcund an axe on a wood pile
according to the reported confess-
ino and hid behind some ‘shrubs,
hear the Crittenden home, | until
(Miss Mallet appeared about 10.30.

‘He struck her over the head. he
is alleged to have said then dragg-
€d the body across a block where
it iwas found the following morn-
ing. Then he went to his home
and changed his clothing and re:.}
urned to the city, |

(Supicions actions noted by a
neighbor led to hig arrest,

Evangelical Clergy
Discuss Doctrines

‘LONDON, | June 16.—A private
conference of evangelical hishops
and clergy, organized and presided
over iby the Bishop of Chehusford,
is being held at ‘Birmingham with
the object of. promoting union
where Opinion at present is acute
and divisive,

The conference is due to the
recognition of the fact that since
the war the relations between the
veveral schools of thought in evan-
gelical circles within the Church
of England have become strained
on account of theological dilffer-
€nces, the younger clergy accept.
ing new views concerning tho
Bible, its inspiration,
ment, and other doctrines, and re-
fusing to follow the present evan-
gelical leaders, The older men
are becoming suspicious of the
missionares’ theology, it is said.

The enference at Birmingham |
are known to possess conflicting
views, ‘The laity have not beer ‘in-|
vited to the conference.

Exemption of
essels from |
Pilotages Dne'

OTTAWA, June 14.—Third read:
ing was given jn the House this at.
ternoon to a bill so amending the
Canada Shipping Act as to add to
the list of vessels exempt from
Under the bill, the
Governor-in-Council is authorized
to exempt from pilotage dues ships
of war and hospital ships belong-
ing to specified nations, The idea
is to grant the privilege to such
nations as grant it to British war-
ships. It further exempts Cana-
dian fishing vessels from pilotage
dues, It was explained that Cana-
dian fishing vessels at present pay
no pilotage dues but there was
some uncertainty about the legal
position and the purpose of the
bill is to remove the uncertainty.
Before being adopted, the bill was
ane among

ilotage dues
not on'y ships employed in trading
from port to pert in the same prov-
engaged be;

anid

The Mauretania
Sets Two New
World’s Records

(NEW YORK June 14—Th» steam-
ship Mauretania, which arrived to-
day at Southampton, set two new
world’s records for speed on her
latest voyage, said a cablegram, re-
ceived today by the (Cunard line.

The Mauretania, which left New
York ou June 6, arrived at Cher-
bourg, at 3 a.m. today, with a
crossing to her credit of fve days
sight hours and ten minutes.

Tho Kaiser Wilhelm der Gro3s3
in January, 1900, set a record of

the atone-!

Is Lusitania To Stay
In Davy Jones’ Locker

(LONDON, June 16.—The state-
ment cabled, from New York that
an Ameritan salvage con.pany was
going to try to raise the Lusitania
hag aroused keen interest here,
But most of those who speak with
authority about lifting ships from
the bottom of the sea are skeptical
as to the Lusitania ever being float-

Sir Frederick Young is strongly
of the opinion that it will never-be
done., ‘He had charge of the Ad-
miralty salvage section during the
‘war, and brought in-port nearly 500
ships that had become war casual
ties, Many of them had been tor-
pedoed, and a considerable number
had ibeen sunk. * No one -knows
more about raising sunken ships.

'To an interviewer, Sir Frederick
has said it is very — improbable
though not absolutely, impossible
that the Lusitania could be raised
The cost would be out of all pro-
portion to ther value. After lying
several years at the bottom of the
sea it would cost as mucihj to rein-
State her as to build a new vessel.

To build a floating chamber 900
feet long and 100 feet wide, and to
attempt to raise the wreck by
means of steel cables, would in-
volve, Sir Frederick pointed out.
an expenditure so congiderable as
to make the undertaking by that
means quite impossible on any
commercial basis, The aiteraative
method of raising the vessel by
pumping in compressed. air hardly
seemed feasible, Before that coul®
‘be done she would have to be made
airtight by closing all openings. It
is impossible for divers to work at
a depth of 259 feet, and they would
have to go that far under water to
get ut the Lusiania. The greatest
depth at which divers now
successfully ig 180 feet

U.S. Railway Strike
May be Ordered
From Canada

(CHICAGO June 15—It was rum-
ored here today’ that any rail
strike growing out of pay decrease
decisions by the United States
railrcad Labor Board might be
directed and from Canada to evade
the recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court holding
unions liable for damages caused
by their members. Leaders of the
rail unions said to.be contempla-
ting the move viewed the estab-
lishment of Canada headquarter:
as legitimate—beeause the unions
are international organizations,
Financial penalties in case of a
walkout could thus e avoided. It
was said a new wage reduction
order is expected to increase the
fotal cut. from = nafilway: |jworkers
wages to approximately $150,000,-
000 a year. Clerks, signal men,
Stationary firemen, oilers and mar-
ing department employees will. join
the shopmen and maintenance of
way; employees as victims of
slash,

European Tennis
Champion to Retire

PATis, June 15--Mlle. Susane
Lenglen, European Tennis cham.
pion retire from singles competi-

tion if doctors decide, after a tho-
rough examination tomorrow that
shé is not uble to play, she said to
day. “I have no desire to leave
my tennis future to the doctors,”
she told the United Press. bat
would like to go ahead and play
Mrs. Mallory on my nerve but my
parents object. 1 suppose I should
not ruin my health because there
are many other things in life be-
sides tennis. If the doctors or-
dér me to stop I will retire from
singles competition but will eon-
tinue to play im doubles.”

Bridegroom Fights
His Way to Altar

MUIORENCE, Italy, June 14, —
An attempt by Fascisti to prevent
forcibly the marriage of Deputy
Rabezzana was frustrated today
when the member of Parliament
double] his fists in American fa-
shion and fought his assailants un-
til knocked unconscious, Deputy
Rabezzana was rescued by the be-
jated arrival of Royal Guards at tie
Vecchio palace, where the assault
took place, and was patched by sur-
geons and the ceremony was éon-
cluded, His bride, Signorina Ein-
ma Legni, a famous society beauty,
was with Rabezzana ready for the
civil ceremony when Fascisti fought
their way through an insufficient
cordon of Carabineri and surround.
ed them, \

Signcrita Legni denounced the
intruders loudly but the bridegroom
took more decisive action, he’ flew
at them ahd laid out several with
his fists before going down under
overwhelming numbers, badly hurt
by a blow from behind. After hav-

Wage reductions and employment five days and sixteen hours for jing his injurles treated, he was able
of unskilled man at skilled labor, the New York to Cherbourg trip.

to continue the ceremony,

‘AT. HON, ARTHUR MEIGHEN

QUURES LBD. AN

Ina Mastery Speech
consistency of Bot
Them Swallow Th

‘Speaking in the House of Com-
mons on the Budget, Right Hon.
Arthur Meighen (Leader of the
Opposition) said: Mr. Speaker, it
has become the custom in this de-
bate to make reference to a cfr
cumstance .rare in our history, that
of the same minister presenting to
Parliament a sixteenth budget, )1
have not the least hesitation; in-
deed ff join gladly in the tributes
paid to.the personal worth of the
Finance Minister (Mr. Fielding)
His standing as a citizen and
a public ‘man js well recognized
throughout. our country, He has
earned that place by an unnsually
long public service—by nearly 60
years .unwearied and assiduous
toil,

I differ from him in the articles
of his financial policy; the differ -
ences I have found in the past ex-
ist ‘today. i cannot congratulate
him on his budget; I do not think
that situated as he was he’ made
the best of his circumstances, His
budget speech. was an eloquent con-
tribution to debate, it was an in-
teresting and mostly appropriate
though supenfiaial commentary on
our trade and fiscal position; but

work'jt will be searched in vain for any

full or useful analysis of our fin-
ances as a nation, for any examin-
ation of value into our trade history
and our trade prospects. dt is most-
ly in the nature of a newspaper
commentary on the politics of the
day. ‘There are features of our
financial position that are not
wholly eneouraging. In the main,
though, having iregard to the ac-
complishments of this country in
recent years, ithere’ is little -of
which to complain. It is true, as
the ‘Ninance ‘Minister stated, we
have a debt of about $2,247,000,000.
Our debt increased last yeat~ by,
I ‘think, $86,000,000, and the year
before by $92,000,000. ‘But not one
other country has ‘been cited that
jhas succeeded after the ordeal of
war in really reducing its obliga -
‘tions. If it is true that Great Bri-
jtain has, in a sense, reduced, Great
Britain’s reduction is due merely
to another method of book-keeping
from that adopted here. Great Bri-
tain made her investments iin war
munitions and war materials; all
were added to the debt, and what
afterwards: came to her credit by
sale or otherwise appears as i :e-
duction. ‘In Canada, for the most
part what. would ‘have appeared as
a reduction never in the first place

Embargo Extended
On Sugar Imports

‘UONDON, June 16.—A Reuter de-
spatch from Cape Town says the
‘House of Assembly of the Union
of South Aifrica to-day adopted a
bill extending ifor a year, from
June 30, the embargo on the imp-
ortation of sugar, and also on cer-
tain classes of ‘bcots and_ shoes,
and defining ‘the Government's
powers in the mater of fixing the
price of sugar. The Minister of
Wiance, Hon, H. Burton, in a
|Statment on the currency _ situat-
ion, said the embargo on the ex-
‘pert of coin bullion jwould be allo-
wed to lapse, ‘but’ in consequence
of the unforseen advance in the

D PROGRESSIVES

he Shows up the In-
h Parties and Makes

eir Own Words.
ment what my own opinions are.
On at least two former occasions

in budget debates 1 ‘took occasion
to make them as clear as I could

FULL TEXT OF PROPOSED

OTTAWA, June 15.—The verbatim text of that portion of Hon. Mr.
Fielding’s speech in which he announced the proposed changes in his
Budget taxes follows: i
Now, Mr. Speaker, I desire to call your attention to some proposed
amendments in the resolution of waich I have already given notice.
What I propose to do is to lay on the table resolutions in amendment af
those tabled on 23rd May, so that the two may stand separately, and,
by comparing them, honorable members may see exactly what is pro-
posed. Then, after they have in that way been laid on the table by way
af notice, we will consolidate the two, and in consolidated form the
resolutions will be considered in committee. In the meantime, I am sure
the House will desire to know at the earliest possible moment at least

BUDGET MODIFICATIONS

in [English words—in the session of
1921 and in the session of 1920. It
became my duty as I saw it then
to declare fidelity, continued fidel-
ity, to a system of protection in
this country, protection applied ‘in
moderate degree, within dimits
clearly defined in those addresses.
I do not need on this occasion to

3}go elaborately into that argument.

=

I can rely pretty confidently,
think, throughout this Parliament
on my hon. friends opposite me
supplying the arguments that it
was necessary for me to supply in
previous ears, JI can well recall
how cold a reception my words re:
ceived jat their hands in the debate
of a year. ago and of two years
ago, and I can remember how voci-
ferously and how ‘vigorously they
applauded the speechés and the
theories of the then:small party of
fourteen that sat in the seats now
to my left. I could not help tbut
contrast how feeble was the ap-
plause that similar language drew
forth this. year from hon, gentlemen
opposite, Indeed, I ifelt rather sorry
for some memibers of the \Progres-
sive party and particularly, may I
say, for the hon, lady member for
Southeast Grey (Miss Maephail),
when I recall utterances, similar to
those they made this year, sounded
in those two previous contests, and
thought how if they ‘had only been
so fortunate as to have made on
those occasions, the speeches that
they made in this debate( they
would have received as.a meed of
praise from the Liberal party those
thunders of applause with which
we were so ifamailiar then,

Yes, I can leave for the present
the defence of the cause. of prot
tion to hon, gentlemen opposit
Their policy is quite clear.. It is
embodied in the tariff they -have
presented to this (House. It ‘ig the

dress ‘by the hon. member for ‘St.
Antoine (Mr. Mitchell) as the very
“same ‘that we have pursued for
forty-three years in Canada.” It is
the policy described by the pres-
ent Minister of Justice (Sir Lomer
Gouin) in many of his speeches as
the policy -pursued by the Laurier

they have advanced, and that is
the policy for. them to defend.

was incunred as a debt; consequent-
ly, what appears there to be a re-

ance here.

increased by $86,000,000, ‘but last
year we paid out of. our $381,000,-
000 of revenue all our ordinary ex-
penditure, composed precisely as it
has always been, and paid as well
as the regular capital expenditure
of this country, and paid as well
some $9,000,000 under demobiliza-
tion. We did this, and ‘had asmall
surplus besides. ‘The $86,000,000 is
made up mainly of advances to the
railway systems of this country and
constitutes an obligation iby them
to the country—advances that took
care of anterior obligations of those
systems, mainly the Grand ‘Trunk
—and that found their way into}
capital investment in those systems
bringing them to that standard of
efficiency where they are today. By
virtue of such efficiency thay ren-
der service to this country com-
parable with that rendered by any
other system in the world. The re-
sults of those investments we are
reaping in dividends of service ev-
ery hour, and none are reaping
them more rapidly or more clearly
than those portions of our country
in the far west into which those
improvements and extensions have
to a great extent gone. ‘Those in-

vestments ‘were essential; they
comprised some $115,000,000 in-
clusive of equipment. HBven some

of those ‘have been taken care of
out of the year’s expenditure, with
the result that only $86,000,000 of
an addition to the debt has been
entailed. These facts are not whol.
ly discouraging—by no means are
they discouraging. ‘We are past the
stage where large investment for
that ‘purpose is necessary. We shall
have some deficits to take care of,
but as the years advance and as
the abnormal expenditures that at-
tach to the war and its aftermath
cease, we shall ‘be able to address
ourselves to achieve reductions
provided right polictes are pursued.
The main feature of the budget
presentation was that which had to
do ‘with fiscal policy. This debate
falls into two divisions, There is,
first, the question as to what is the
sound fiscal policy for Canada; and
second, the question, in what char-
acter does the Government appear!
in presenting ‘to the ‘House such
policy, These are distinct and eep-
arate subjects,

As to what is the true taxation
and fiscal policy for this country, I
do not think I need inform Parlia-

duction of debt has no such appear. on its
There have been the usual charges able with Canada. She thas not the|Facta government. New poiticai
‘Last year the ddbt of Canada was !advanced, there have been the us-

There has not, indeed, in my judg-
ment—been any serious attack up-
soundness in. this debate,

ual appeals against monopoly, the
usual sectional appeals, the usual
assumption that this system is le-
signed to oppress the many and
to enrich the few; but there has
not been much delving to the heart
of the question in an endeavor to
show. that any other policy would
give this Dominion a better or any
chance 4n the commercial race of
this world.

The hon. member for Brome
(Mr. McMaster) endeavored to. ar-
gue iby comparison. So far as I
know, he was the done sparrow
across the floor who dared to say
a word for the free trade princi-
ples of yore, ‘He endeavored to
argue by comparison, and he des-
enibed the results of the tariff im-
positions of tcerthin ‘countries
of Evrope. I do not. think he got
to anything larger than the Neth-
erlands. ‘He confined himself to
very small countries, countries that
by virtue of their compactness, by
virtue of their comparative absence
of basic natural resources, are whol-
ly different from ours. But he did
not give the whole facts regarding
them. 1 mention only one, andthe
corresponding argument would ap-
ply to all. He gave us the revenue
from customs of the Kingdom of
Belgium, and its total importations,
and he said: ‘There is virtually a
free trade country. .

\Mr. McMaster: A very’ low tariff
country,

Mr. Meighen: A very low tariff
country—because its importations
are so large and its customs rev-
enue is so small—only one and a
fraction per cent. of the total im-
portations, Well, a country might
have a taniff that only brought in
half of one per went,, and still bea
protected countny, still be a coun-
try that followed the principle of
protection and abandoned the princ-
iples of free trade or revenue tarff. A
country, on the other hand, might
be one whose ‘proportions of cue-
toms revenue to imports would run
from twenty to thirty per cent.,
and still be a country without any
protection to home. industries at
all. dt all depends on the nature

eetrles upon which the duty
is imposed( Belgium, for example,
not having natural resources in
degreé like Canada, resources of
the mine, resources of the eoil—

Mr. McMaster: lif ‘the right hon,
gentleman will permit me, does he

exchange value of the :pound ster-

government and by all governments.
since 1878. ‘That is the policy that.’

ing Britian’s ability to restore her
monetary. position, the Gdovern-
mept thought it best to adopt a
wuit-and-see- policy, instead of
Standing on the policy of the in.
convertibility of golq certificates
which ‘the Currency ‘Commision
recommended last month, The
members of the House of assem-
bly who. are engaged in commerce
welcome the approaching termin-
ation of the Government’s control
of trade.

Says He Was Cause
Halifax Explosion

SBATTUP, June 16.—Canadian
and United States authorities are
investigating, iS became known to-
day, the alleged. confession of Wil-
liam Johnson, alias N. Primatchenk
that he caused the - expiosion of
three British ammunition shivs, in
the harbor of Halifax, N.(S., late in
1917, resulting in many deaths ana
great destruction in the city. John-
son committed suicide in a lonely
spot on Bacon Creek, in Skagit
county, Washington, last month.
The alleged confession, ederal
egents said today, was to J. R. Cox
a mine ‘watchman, a few weeks
before Johnson . killed himself.
‘Cox immediately notified American
and Canadian authorities, who have
been since conducting a careful in-
vestigation,

It has been established that
Johnson, - a native of Finland,
Graduated from a European Uni-
‘versity, and was an expert chem-
ist. {He was in ‘Halifax at the time
of the explosicn, according to of-
'ficers,

; A quantity

of alleged radical

policy described in an election ad-,literature was found in his effects'today. Premier Facta has won the

jafter his death,

+ Lieut-Col. C, ‘Starnes, acting
commissioner R. GC. M. P., statec
‘last night-that no advice of the a
iteged confession had been received

ling, due to the Americans reahiz-

purpdse I will detain honorable members for a few minutes longer.
TAX ON CONFECTIONERY

In the resolutions already tabled, there is provision for a tax on
confectionery of 5 per cent. The tax remains, but we are making a pro-
viso that it -shall not apply to “goods packed ready for sale in cartoons,
or other packages bearing the name of the manufacturer, selling by
retail at 10 cents or less: per cartoon, nor to include candy known as
‘gross goods,’ selling by retail at 1 cent.’? There is a lot of confectionery
that. is made in moulds, and the changing of these moulds would be a
very troublesome and expensive business. I have reason to believe,

the objection taat was raised.
Sir Henry Drayton—Is that the same modification we had before?
Mr. Fielding—In the sales tax? I think it is along the same line,

: Sir Henry. Drayton—It seems to be the same,

Mr. Fielding—That is right. Of course every interest that is touched
feels badly about it. [ would not care to say that every interest is going
to be completely satisfied. Every interest that is touched feéls injured,
and comes and complains that it has been particularly singled out when
it has not. However, we are doing the best we can to modify cases and
meet some of taese objections, In levying taxes for revenue, there is al-
ways a danger that you may shoot too high and miss your mark; that if
you put our tax too high you will affect consumption and you may get
less revenue, I rather subscribe to the doctrine that moderate taxation
will give more revenue than high taxation, Upon reflection we are go-
ing to apply that doctrine to some of these things. Now we have had
representations from day to day’ from numerous large and powerful
deputations representing each interest, and we have ‘aad oceans of cor-
respondence, and we have had the benfit of a long debate in this House.

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Italian Cabinet {Soft Drinks and

May Collapse) © Boxed Candy
Protests

TORONTO, June 14—The mann.
facturers of bof, drinks are con-
sGdering sending a deputation down
to Ottawa to request a further re-
duction in the government tax as
they say it means the end of the
five cent drink The retail con'fec-
tionery manufacturers are also
very much incensed about the in.
justice which they claim has been

ROMB, June 14-The coulapse
of the Facta Government before
the adjournment of the present
session of the Chamber of Depu-
ties ‘was predicted by observérs

‘support of the country by his
foreign policies and Italy is ahead
of the rest of Europe in post-war
rehabilitation, {but through | inter-
nal politics the present cabinet’s

lin Ottawa. /He stated that so faifal is al sertai F

| 3 ne la most certain, ‘ormer/shown them jwhen the excise tax
pe ne new ne inveatleation Waa Propident’ Nitti, it 18) belleved: Was taken off confections in car-
being carried out here of Johnson St will come back to power at the 3

wctivities, ?

Only one British ammunition
ship blew up in the explosion re-
ferred: to.

Mr. Meighen: Nothing compar-
variety of natural resources ‘that
this country has. ‘Therefore, she
does not need to apply her tariff
to ensure the development of her
natural resources. ‘She only needs
to apply it to ‘the protection of
those industries of her own that
compete with other countnies, It
is obviously to her advantage to
admit tu her shores free those raw
resounces she has not at home
She needs to apply only to a few
—but she does not neglect those
few—the principle of protection.
Take, for example, the clothing that
she cheaply produces, ladies’ cloth-
ing, men’s clothing, hats and so
forth, On these she applies a duty
of 20 per cent, On sugar, one of
the greatest. of her industries,’ in
which for her population she is one
of the foremost producers of the
world, she imposes a duty of 20
francs per hundred kilo grams, or
220 pounds, which is a duty very
close to 2 dents per pound, higher
than the duty we have. in Canada,

The range of goods upon which
it lis to ‘the advantage of Belgium
to apply protection is narrow com-
pared with that of ‘this country.
The range, of goods upon which iit
is to her advantage to let them in
free, because they do not compete
seriously with her industries at
home, is large, and ‘that accounts
for the reduced percentage that
the total amount collected bears to
the total value of her imports.

‘in Great (Britain, on the other
hand—even before the Safeguaird-
ing of Industries law—her average
of duties to the whole value of im-
portations was about 8 per icent.;
so at a time when Great Britain un-
doubtedly was a free ‘trade country,
imposing duties only on goods that
did not compete with home produc-
tion, her average would be four or
five or six times the average in
Belgium, But Belgium was a pro-
tected country (because Belgium
laid her duties on goods that did
compete with home’ production.
There comes the difference between
the principle of protection and the
principle of no protection.

For this Dominion of ours to
abandon that system, applied in
careful measure as we have it to-
day, would be to invite, in compe-
jtition with other industrial nations,
undoubted disaster. (Hon. gentle -
|men say, “Oh, there fs this indus:

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| Catholic

suggest that (Belgium has not great;Sible, trouble with Fascisti at Bo-
resources of the mine? jlonga is an apparent cause of in.

toons retailing below ten cents,
such as chocolate ‘bars, Eskimo
Pie and children’s candy, and left
on boxed candy. A qeputation of
the coinfectioners will go (o Ot-
tawa to lay their case before the
minister.

Home Secretary
Exonerated in
"Troe Scandal

LONDON, June 14.—A ntotion to
adjourn Parliament as a protes
against the action of Hon. Edward

shead of a |Soqialist Democratic-
ministry. Important
‘changes in Italian political groups
have made this new line-up pos.

ternal dissatisfaction } with the

elements which ‘brought on the
threaten crisis all develcped this
week. Firat, there was the decis
fon of the majority Socialist depu-
ties to collabordte with the govern.
ment, then the recently fusioned
Demorcratic group split into five
independent groups; third, there
was launched at Milan a new par-
ty iknowm bs the (Constitutional
Union of Socialists, division of the
Democratic fushion renders it pos-

what tae most important of these amendments are, and it is for that

therefore, that this modification will go a long way towards removing -

sible for leaders of various parties
to form- majority combinations.
The situation looks distinctly fav-
orable for ex4Premier Nitti, who
besides controlling the Democratic
group, still remains the only can,
didate upon whom the Socialists
and Poplarican can combine,

Sixty Years in the —
Ministry of Methodists

ISYDNBY, N. S., June 15.---Sixty
years a minister is the record of
Dr. W. H. Heartz, of Amherst, who
wag honored with a cane and an
address iby his ‘brethren of the
Nova Scotia Methodist Conference,
in session here today.

in point of active service,
which he continuss despite his
eighty years, Dr. Heartz, is the
oldest Methodist minister in Can
ada, He told the conference today
that, in spite of the trials and

in

had the thing to do over again he
would chogse the life of a minis-
ter of the
1862.
Dr. Heartz replied to the congratu-
lations of his fellow clergymen in
full, firm voice that penetrated
to every corner of the church. He
sald, among other things:

“Sixty years in the ministry.

haps, might expect. 1 feel that
has been very gracious to me
continuing mercies that I did not
deserve, and in pouring blessings
innumerable upon my head.

God

Would Do It Again.
“T have no apologies. to
not one, for having entered
Methodist ministry sixty years

in many.”

Shortt, Home Secretary, in repriev-
ing ‘Captain Ronald True, was de
feated today, only 28 members of
the House supporting it.

A. defense of the Home Office in
reprieving. Captain Ronald True,
former aviator convicted of murder-
ing a street girl, was made m the
House of Commons by Mr. Shortt.
In a long statement Mr. Shortt
declared re had acted in accord
with custom in seding True to an
insane asylum after experts had
declared him mentally unbalanced,
following his cotiviction.

The Home Secretary justified the
reprieve on the legal principle pro-
hibiting execution of insame per-
sons.

Rumors that True is the natural
son of a titled society lady Jed tn
his ‘reprieve becoming the “scandal”
of the vear, and attacks upon the
government because of Shortt’s ac-
tion were planiéd by the opposi-
tion in Parliament. -

difficulties of the-pastorate, if hey is trie 1 found the Methodist

ministry not a very easy profes-

sion, I have not found it to be a
gospel as he did. in tucrative one, Ihave not laid up
any money through my ministerial
connection, and I atn not here

to
boast of anything that I have done,
but I am here to say that if I were
placed back in the same position
as in 1862 I would do precisely as
T did then. I want to say, more:

Who are they talking agout? Somroyver, that whilst there have been
old man? J have not felt the Infirm. qifticulties and obstacles in
ity of years as much as you,per- way of service,

the
et the compensa-
inistry have een

Declaring that hé has ‘no thought

tions of thie

of retiring, Dr, Heartz coneluded:

“It 1 can ‘be of any service to
the brethren of this conference,
I shall be glad to so epént any

time God may yet give me.
make, think the r
thesay so and I will go somewherq
880. else and do all that I can,” ;

r If, you
‘tend fot service fs its