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CHARLOTTETOWN, CAIQADA SATURDAY, OOT.6,1923

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‘ It’s agreat thing to be a Canadian! Have you ever felt that way about it? ' -Have you ever asked WHY?

I Canada is one of the most favored nations

tinder the sun. With the possible exception o1’ J the United States-and there is doubt 0n "the ” point-—Canada is THE most favorednation.

Canada, it is true, has a large national

_ debt, but Canada has resources, some of "them = developed, that make her obligations small indeed. A large part of this debt, too, is the direct outcome of the World War in which Canada, along with the other nations of the British Commonwealth, performed her duty with outstanding distinction.

The financial load is heavy but it. is far from being overwhelming. While other "nations find themselves in a position from which there appears no avenue of escape, Canadas finances represent no problem that

Country 2 Unequ

Oats . . . . . . . . . . . .386,825,295 bushels Barley . . . . . . . . 61,540,140 bushels i Rye . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,376,560 busiherls Flax . . . ., . . . . . 7,193,026 bushels

The indicated value of these iicld crops-- according" to the same authority CXDFCSSGd in terms of dollars and cents at the Fort Wil- liam price of the day and after tliscounting" wheat for g"rade,is no less than $641,670,990.28. Read those figures again-six hundred and forty-one millions, six hundred and seventy thousand, ' nine hundred ‘and ninety dollars and twenty-eight cents!

And, in addition, the West has enormous quantities of cattle, sheep, swine, horses, poultry, butter, milk, furs, minerals, fisheries and other commodities. W heat. is still the big crop, but not, by any means, the only crop. Western Canada is harvesting its greatest wheat return, but it has a large and satisfac- tory showing" of the other field crops. A rapid

plans put forward, in respect to wheat market- in g, but the farmers are still waiting‘ for relief. lrlvcn "the casual observer must see, though, "that co-operation in this matter is of vital im- portance. It is perhaps, better, that the farm- ("rs should form their own marketing" organi- zation lthan that the (iovernmcnt should take a hand in the matter, but certainly "the sympa- thctic support of governments, "federal and provincial, should be given to any reasonable an d well worked out plan. "

Wheat and other farm products in which (fanada excels, do not provide the only reasons "For optimism at this time. The Canadian Nat- ional Railways "lform another, despite the fact that a not inconsider-able body of Canadian public opinion views the nationally-owned system as a liability. It is not "that. Unless our view is very much astray, the Canadian Nat- ional is one of the greatest of Canada’s many gyro-at assctss. This is true for a variety of reasons.

development of mixed farming is taking" place

“rf,,c'annot be met by the resources, the energy, f‘ ‘the enthusiasm and the. courage of her people. l I a -

The new Canadian Government refund-

, ing loan has proved, once more, the faith and

é - prosperity of our country. The Rt. Hon. Wil-

liam Stevens Fielding, Canadafs vetenan

-" Y Minister of Finance, and now Acting Prime

ll Nlinister, has put the matter in splendid form. Fielding says:

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“I have received with great pleasure, BUT NOT WITH SURPRISE, the news of the suc- , cess that promises to attend the issue of "the new loan. The Canadian people have always t responded to every call made upon them for subscriptions to the Government loans. The M-Governm nt is now offering" an issue of bonds Q ‘ gzwitions which permit investors to ob- I "tfiin secur ties, backed by the entire resources “ of the Dominion, and yielding an income re- ‘ turn which places them in a class by them- I selves among bonds of STABLE COUNTRIES. The. subscribers will give the Dominion the de- served financial support, and at the same "time ake a profitable investment.”

., Mr. Fielding knows the Canadian people. He has been serving them, in a public capacity, for more than half a century. He knows thlat here has never been an occasion upon which >, .;" hey have not responded to the call of NAT- NAkNEED. They responded before the - er. during the. War, and now they are re- Ondingafter the War is over. M. .. , t , _ Canadefs Will to "Do has been tried and sted many times. Canada has never. failed. .3‘) gangda will never fail. Her people are not that 1' f, .- . _ Turning. to another field of national en- efillm’, let, us, consider. the situation in West- " . n. Canada. There the greatest wheat crop in

the Co-operative ’ means a well-balanced

the farmer, more even

been considered wise.

In the year 1915 "the prairie provinces had; 13,867,715 acres planted in wheat and a total; crop of 366,904,800 bushels. This year "the esti-j mated. wheat acreage is 21,662,960 and "the- estimated crop-as stated—--452,503,1o‘9 bush-l, els. The second largest crop came in 1922 when the final government return sh owed 21,223,446

acres sown with wheat and a production of. 375,194,000 bushels.

The greatest problem that liaces "the W est- ern farmer is that of marketing" his product advantageously. It had been hoped this year that a voluntary pooling scheme would be worked out and serious steps toward that end were taken. The movement, thou_c,"h,' was ap- parently launched too late in the season and for this and other reasons, has fallen "througrhl Next year something of this kind may be ar- ranged and carried through to a successful conclusion.

It" is generally zidmitted that "the Western farmer can never hope to get the proper rc-

in all the provinces. This is a good "things". Put-j _ ting" all one’s eggs into one loaslqet has neverps ti"1e_,g"reatest railway system in "the svorltl. " lfiurely this is something to be proud of, espec-

ln the first place, the Canadian National

lially when we realize that the Canadian Nat-- ional belongs to the Iieople of Canada.

Secondly, so far as mere dollars and cents are concerned, the Canadian National is head- ing rapidly in the direction oi‘ successful oper- ation. Only the other day, the Prime Minister made the interesting" statement "that the sys- tom had a net gain of $5,000,000 this year overi last, with "the most productive part of 1923 operation still to come. Indeed, Sir Henry Thornton, the ilirecting‘ genius behind the (Janadizin N ationalhis said to have predicted that the cnteirprise.» will beat least breaking‘ cvon three years hence. Sir Henry has worked wonders with the road and its allied proposi- tions since assuming: L‘.0l1l}l.'Ol. Let us hope that he will make goml on his prediction.

The fact is that until the co-ordination of all the lines comprising; the National took place this year, "the system did not have a chance to make a real showing. Since co-ordin-

. . I ation took place, however, great economics

turn for his effort unless wheat and other pro-

ducts are marketed on the co-operative plan. speeded up and improved in countless ways Individual sales by thousands of farmers at~ the same time mean a temporary glutting of the market and a reduction of prices below (Flown (fling

lid-bits on thelipcif Evprybocl

reasonable lihe. Stllllflli"

market with the re-

been quick to sense this new spirit and to ap-

have been introduced, the service has been

and a new spirit has taken hold of the entire organization. The people of Canada have

preciate what the Can-

‘ iadian National means

‘. wto them. Patronge lig- - =iures prove that this is

“e | w - true.

lease of the desired

antities of wheat m. “vm. 1. No. l1 O “¢ii=.|..ii.ii°wi.' ‘o;{..+;;."a, 1192s‘ ' i FREE - ' " fr: "1: :~~.:..~' .: ~ -- ..: r; '**.“'*:;_—_;_—- -— - <1". _ other product as the Trinidad ‘We. wt or o» wrlwy d9 The Canadian Nat‘

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Ontario

As a suggestion of" haw far the fame of Muir's Chooolsten and Biscuits ls spreading. one clay brings orders from Demur- ara, Grenada. and Trinidad, from

need arises. This en- uures a better price for

market conditions and

you care, For?" "I'm not fussy: lust glve me some of. the moat." .

‘ll0llal Railways, the success of "the Canad- 1an_Nat_ional,should be an inspiration to every

Thlt’: the way ‘many people fool about Muir's Chocolates- Hard Centres, Salt Centres.

AInnuuI Sulnuerlpllunu Ivkllvevro-d lly Mull, (‘ullllcllruifl 17TH.‘ l. $1.50 . .

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klanada can do big thing's in a big Wily. The Dominion 1s making historysgreatest experi- ment 1n ownership and operation of public utilities. » The experiment mustfi- and will; succeed for the sake of Canada's reputation abroad and for the goorl of her finan dition at home. i

' Nor must we forget that other great rail- way assev-the Canadian Pacific. With many persons these days "there seems to be some de- sire to crowd the C. P. R. ofi the map. There are those, unfortunately, who think that the Cana- dian National must be made a success by put- ting the Canadian Pacific out of business. Let them get this silly idea out of their heads. The Canadian Pacific is prospering" and will con- Liinueto prosper. There is room enough in Canada for two great railroads. Canada is in- terested in the success of the C. P. R.“ in much the same way "that she is interested the C. N. R. Millions of dollars of Canada's money have been invested in the C. P. R. In the. same. way, the C. P. Ii-strangt: as it may seem-isfvit- ally interested in seeing "the C. N. R. succeed, for the very good reason, as President Beatty so, well expressed it, that the C. P. R. is the big- gest taxpayer in (‘anada and the C. N.‘ R. is owned by the taxpayers. ~

, 'l‘here will be, and "there should be, friend-. ly rivalry between the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific, but "there is nothing sound in the contention "that one must fail in order topennit the other to succeed.

- But Canada's assets are not confined to crops or cattle or railways. These give us rea- son for genuine optimism, but theye are many other reasons. Our fisheries, for ekample, our timber and our minerals. Ontario is particu- larly "fortunate in respect to the latter. Her irreat Northlanil is filled to "the bursting‘ point with mineral wealth of almost every descrip- tion. There has been much mining but only the surface of the possibilities has been touched. With the world crying for gold, (lntario hasit.

told, lie in Northern Ontario‘ awaiting ‘extrac- tion. And besides gold Canada has silver and nickel and copper and coal and other natural products the value of which no man is in a position to estimate.

Can a country with such resources as these afford to be pessimistic?

Can a country with such resources as these havc any doubts as to the futiue? Should a country with such resources a".- these go ahead or stand still‘?

The answers are obvious,

Canada cannot afford to be pessimistic. Canada has no reason for doubts. Canada" must go ahead-despite “The Whisper of Death” and other puny and equally unsuceesg- ful efforts. "to dampen, the spirit of the Cane - ian people.

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