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fisshv: i-hll dilQ-‘July sui. l sem- Tea Party at Georgetown. Fan flESERVE this date. July 5th - tor Tea, Party at Georgetown

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__ as THE school. cl-lfLo- . {have been examined recently os'e with defective visionshouid. nsllli. us and if they need glasses ~. will fit thern. Should they re- pothe service of an ocuiist, we lliadvise them. H. J. "Mabon. plomerist, Montague.

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newsman. MBY 21 - McGlll niverslty in today's convocation ymodonaid Collegge, conferred gDegree of R/Sc. Agr. on the rgest class of students in agri- lture in her history.

incijlded among the 27 graduates here are seven New Brunswick pd Nova Scotlastudents. Three peciallzed in Animal Husbandry. , F‘. Mackenzie, Coxhsath, N. . D. Brass. Moncton, N. 'B. T. Perry. Butternut Ridge, N. ., two in Horticulture: I‘. M. Da- ey, St. JohnYN. 3.; Miss M. L. aoAloney, ‘Fairview, N. S. and wo in Plant Pathology; ~8. J. I-ie- herihgil-On. curs. -N- B-a P- M- immons, Amherst, N.,_-S. All but two ofthese students 00k the first two years of their curse at the Agricultural College ruro, N. S. I _ -

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comics, May 27,-—The beauti- ul executed model of the propos- ml Empire War Memorzal shrine pt Westminister has beenfinspect- ed by the Queen (who expressed her entire satisfaction with what she had seen.) .

it. is intended that the shrine should form the nucleus of un am- bitious scheme. which is to create near Weetlnlnister Abbey a centre and home for science art, and learning. and to erect buildings dedicated to this great object upon Slllfdillllg sites. The scheme, which was originated by Major (Y. .l. (7., Pawley. V. 'D., is unofficial, and its realization depends entirely upon the amount of public support it may receive.

The model is the result of twelve month's work by Messrs Daymonll and Sons, sculptors and modellers. under the direction of Major Pawley, and in the 01111111111 of experts it is the finest of its king yet executed in Enzlilhd. lt_ is constructed in the Qolhzc Y tradi-

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ti?“ completed building is es- . ' ted to cost $2,000,000, and the r of the shrine will be sur- ] hded oy '78 recesses, each of hlch is planned to serve as a memorial chapel capable of de- dication to those who have fallen ~ in the \\i‘.tl‘. Tile building itself will h“ X11 til-s form of a (lreek cross, with a diameter of 300 reet from 01111 to cud of the arms.

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Mr. MEIGI-IEN: Why, of course, practical politics,——a desire to get "in the same boat with the official Opposition. For that ' reason. they have made themselves a poll- tical annex to that party——servile tools and minions of the official Opposition. ready to do whatever they are hid to do. If these Farm- er leaders take a stand on a cer- tain question one day they are ready to change it the next day if the official Opposition say so-— they have done that very thing this session. These leaders are the tools, I say, of the official Op- position-en adjunct, all annex alld a dilapidated anllex at that. If the official Opposition say, "We do not; wlrnt you to run a candi- date here." there is no candidate

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CANADA, PASSING THROP GH j RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD

eighteen articles that were to be free. it is true eleven of t.hem were free when the resolution was

passed.

An hon. MEMBER: Yes, but they did‘ not know that.

Mr. MElGl-IEN: They had to

have padding as well as sh-bstunce so they said all these articles were to be free. Then there was to be a big reduction‘ in the tariff. all round. There was to he.“re- duction of the tariff whereby sub- stantial reductions would be affec- ted in the cost of wearing apparel and other articles of, general con- sumption. other than luxuries, as well as on raw-materials entering into the same." Then the British preference was to be increased tb 50 per cent. But ‘here is the solemn affirmation with which the platform ends:

run. if the official Opposition say, "We think we can run a can- didate in that county better than you can because you dare not say any-tiling against protection there, let us have that constituency, and you keep out; ollr flag is ‘better there ‘than yours,“—in such a case as that the leaders of the Farmers’ party obey. Bu} if the official Opposition say, "We not get anywhere down in such- and-such a constituency-"——for ex- ample, in York and Sun-bury-"we

cannot do a thing there for, the life of us. They know us‘ too well. Won't you run a candidate

dowll in York and Suhbury?" Then of course the Farmers run a candi- date and it. is the free trade flag and the Farmers’ platform flag and the 1918 platform that are used in York and Sunbury.

Mr. 1 HALBERT: What albout North" York. Ml‘. MEIGHEN: -Why North

tilt to it.

again.

"Mr. ' ‘MEIBHEN: so to disconoert hon. gentlemen that they lose their bearings al-

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Z-‘ Early (losing We the undersigned Merchants of Montague. Lower Montague. Kil- mulr and Cardigan agree to class our respective places of business llt

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together. Mr. I-LAIJBERT: What elbout putting Burnaby in the field

tion?

Mr. MEIGHEN: There is plenty of time to flx that up yet. The hon. gentleman knows, of course, that the leader of the Opposition has been struggling hard to get that matter fixed up and I do not doulbt myself that he will -suc- ceed. Perhaps, of course, the play will be continued for the sake of appearances. But what I say to hon. gentlemen opposite is this: Why not throw the mask away? Why not Joint right up? Asm I to be told that I am anxious tokeep these people divided’! I was paid that compliment. by the leader of the Opposition last session. "Oh," he said, "you would like to divide us. We are the forces of ‘pro- gress.’ The farmers may be going one way and we moving the other but we are all ‘progressing’; you want to divide us." I do not want to divide them. I think ‘if l did that is just what would unite them. Why do they not unite? I do not care whether they divide or unite if they will really and finally say where they stand and remain there. if they want to unite let them do so. Let them then throw away both platforms and frame one on which they can both stand and then reimain on it: but do not let them say that one ls still back, on the 1918 platform and the other on the~1919 platform, when, as a matter of fact. each of them has in this House discarded them both. Think of the 1819 platform. D0 hon. gentlemen opposite remember that convention? Do they remem- ber the solemn words of its tarifl platform a definite real commit- ment? Let wne see-tit is not two years old yet, it is a little over a year and a half old. There were

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Cut Conn, for Pipe Uu Cut- Fine, for Cflfllif?"

York is represented in this House by an hon. member who does ere-

Some hon. MEMBERS: Come

against the leader of the Opposl--

-—"und the Liberal party hereby Ipledges itself to implement by le- |glslatlon the provisions of this re- ‘soiution when returned to power." i Pledge! itself to implement that

resolution when returned to power.

Well. why do they not stand by it ‘in between? Where has it gone? ‘Why has it not. been moved this

session? Why was it not moved

ed the session before? Why have they each session patched up something new‘! Now, if I do not get all answer to anything else, may I get an answer to that before this debate is over?

An hon. MEMBER: will.

Mr. MElG-HEN: That inter- jection comes from opposite, and the man who says it speaks t.he truth. l wonder if hon. gentle- men really think that there is any single human being in this coun- try ‘who does not understand the galme they are trying to play? Does any hon. gentleman

You never

cannot seethe whole process

that farmers of Western Canada, who felt that ‘they were deceived in 1896 by promises that never were. fulfilled, and who as a conse- quence comimenced the organiza- tion which today supports hon. gentlemen diagonally across the way,——does any one imagine that they do not understand what is going at this time? Does any one think for a minute that they are going to be deceived by this am- endment put up in this debate, and by the running alway from their platform oh the part of hon. gen» tlemen of the Agrarian party in this House’! They are not deceiv- ed. They who accepted a straight. and direct pledgp in 1893, and who.

know that that pledge was not carried out—~—and I for one say that t-he country was the gainer

because lt was not-they who ac- cepted then a pledge that they could all understand, are not very likely to be deceived by this cir- cuitous sinnosity that none of them cahl understand.

‘ iAn hon. MEMBER: Order.

Mr. MEIGIIEN: Some one says "order." They know that in .1893 and 1896 they were not repre- sented by any speclul party in this House; they know they are to~day; and I think they know that if that party has not the courage to put its pledge before Parliament while in opposition it is not likely to lave the courage to put that pledge into effect if returned to power.

Now. let me speak for a mo; ment-

‘Mr. RINFRET: It is about time. An hon. MEMBER: You are getting nailed up to the mast.

Mr. MEIGl-IEN: We will'have lot of time, but I am afraid that tim will not help my hon. friend. We have had already the assertion from a colleague very close beside the hon. membe for St. James (Mr. RlnfretLthat we will not have any reasons why they sbszn- tloned his platform. .

Mr. RINFRET: '1 think we will.

Mr. MEIGIIEN: He differs from his party friend. There seems to be three divisions now. Well, to abandon s platform is bad enough, but to fail to furnish a reason for its abandonment is worse, and I will give credit to my hon. friend from St. James that he at least having abandoned his platform is ready to give. a reason for the spostusy.

Now, my hon. friend f

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think that any one is so dull that lie of hocus-pocuslng that is going on?

I ‘do not wan?" ‘Does any one believe the

Right lion. Arthur Meigliell Tells oi the Abnormal flask Before tile People oi . ~ Canada and the Measures Proposed ior its Successful Uutcome.

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pounding the cause that he has‘-

consistently espoused in this House, but the incarnation of which in a platform even he has never dared to move, wafieceiv- ed wit/h cheers on the part of hon. gentlemen opposite, although lliley knew that what they were going to vote for had not the relnoteet fa-mily connect-ion with that cause which he was cxpou/ndlngflllld that they themselves had no sympnzhy whatever with the opinions which he was expressing. The hon. member for Red Deer brought in- to the discussion some incidents and figures to which I should like very briefly to refer. I think it is a compliment to him that he is able to evoke applause even from those who differ from him. That is because of the peculiar talents for debate that he assesses. l-Ie referred to a speech I made on the Budget a year ago, a speech of which he had a very poor opinion at the time——and l had not any very good one myself, any one in office will flnd that his time cannot be very much devoted to prepara- tion of speeches~hut

t-hat speech he has done me peatedly for the past

months The organs of my hon. friends have been answering i-t too

to that speech by

any good anyway. not anything to say as to remarks of the professor.

unsupported sarcasm and to

it-all complacency that those who Drofess to rbe trained economists on-ly too often exhibit. But the case presented by the other gentle. man, whom I do not know, did make an attempt to present some. thing that really was material. I believe I can use the argument he put forward in respect of one phase of the subject, which I think was again referred to in this de- bate by the hon. memher for Red Deer. I think I can use Mr. Hull's reply to illustrate just where the inherent weakness of his case comes in. ‘The examination of this will disclose also what folly it would be on the part of a coull- lPY Bil-listed such as 'we are to fol- low the trail blazed by the hon. member for Illed Deer.

I refer-and -l do not need to go any further, because this is really emblematic of the entire reply-d refer to the exception taken to cer- tain remarks of ‘mine as respects the tin plate industry of Wales and its history as compared with the tin plate industry of the United States and its history. I had stated in my address, basing my facts upon the report of a body of bu-siness experts appointed by t.he Government of Mr. Asquith. that the tin plate industry in Wales suf- fered a very severe reverse in the last decade of the last century, and that that reverse was due to the policy adopted in respect of tin hints by the United states in 1891. 'l showed that in 1891 the tin plate of the United States was supplied from Wales and as a con- sequence that country was import- ing some 880,000,000 pounds a year. that after the imposition of the duly the importations went down to 28,000,000 pounds; that at the time of the imposition of the duty the production of tin plate in the United Statel was only 2,- 000,000 pounds, and that as a con- sequence of the duty in the course of a few years not only d-ifiolmports go down fmni 880,000,000 pounds 1° 9343091100 Pounds, but the pro- duction in the United States went up from 2.000.000 pounds to 2.000,- 000,000 pounds. Now, it might have been expected ilhat such a reduction of imports would be re- flected in a curtailment of the total |trade figures of the Untied States, "but. instead of beinl s‘ lose to the United States that reduction of imports was an advantage. ‘The money that would otherwise have ‘gone out was kept within the

notwiths- tanding. hLs very poor opinion of | the can- last session? Why was it not mov- 00111011111811! 0f illl-MVQFIIIE ll re- twelve

I remember one paper in particu- m,’ pubnshed m the (my of wm_ rotted and iile vegetables rotted, nipeg, which did me the very great. kindness of having a. lengthy reply a gentleman called Mlt. Hull, and in the same issue a very long reply ‘by a pro- i-essor from Scotland-vi forget his name at. the moment—and atwo- column editorial as well in rebuke of w-hat I said. ending with the statement, that the speech was not Well. I have

the _ They seemed to me to be charged maln- ly with a lot of unnecessary and be perfumed with an aroma of know-I

l country. There was at the same time almost a collapse of the tin plate industry of Wales, a collapse that it. took it at least twenty years to recover from. a collapse, which, indeed it has not. wholly

recovered from yet. While that was going on there was extreme ' suflering among the miners of

lo the tin plate industry suffered as well. On the one band, while in England, where there was no tariff and where the home ‘market was invaded by those who kept their,own markets to themselves - --\vhlie in Ellgland- there was cou- tlnued suffering, continued depres- sion, continued loss of trade, there was on the part of the United States a multiplied production. a multiplied prosperity and multi- plied increase ill trade,

Now, l was answered by Mr. Hull to this effect: Yes, it is true; tin plate production W811i! up from two million to tlwoibiilion pounds- '\V8il‘l up by "one nhotlsvand fold. lBut oh. what it coslt ‘them, he said. \WI1l/. l'Il0 umoullllt paid the first year, all amount which did not Igo int-o the treasury at ‘all, was ‘some $6,000,000, and the price of ‘tin place increased so enormously -t'h'at severe injury repultetl to the- ‘Qaliilillg industry 0f "the United States. We people have to pay lso lnllcil for Uztlli-i that 1e‘ fruit

and taonsetplcntly it did more ‘harm than good. Thzllt was Mr. Hull's iflfsumellt. Now, let us examine |wlt'h just the same care what. lwere Ithe Pal-ts.

Yfl-‘i, there was an increase but

Wales, and the industries relatedi » l

a tliiflilng increase in the price of ltin iii-aim. There was no increase ~51!!! tfompared with _the year 1891.

I have figures !here, taken firom the

Metal discord ‘official report, which ‘will sliow very quickly jtust what luv-ere the results. in 1890 the -pl‘lce of tin plate, Bessemer coke ~per 198'pounds was $4.80; ill 1891, $5.34: in 1892, $5.30; in 1893, $5137; .1894, $4.89; 1895, $3.87; 1896, |$§i.63; 1897, $3.20: l898-'tlle last [year-given ‘here—$2.09. That is ‘to say, tin plate went up from ‘.1891, when the duty w-a-s imposed l_——it =wen't ‘into effect in l892—-from ,$5.34 to $6.37 ill 1893. It went LIP from $4.80 ‘in 1890 to $5.30 ill I,-1892; that ls the most favourable lyflgure which can be taken from lille "point of view of Mr. Hull. Now, lwhslt does that amount to? Ill. ‘amounts to less than one-half cent a pound: it would ~add to the price rot a can for the purposes of the ‘canning industry one-eighth of one cent. Thiat is the ltotai amount of ‘the increase, and oils-eighth of one cent to a can is said by ivir

Hull to have been so thigh that it dnjured ltllle canning industry of the United States. Could any- thing be more absurd but what happened? It is a ‘fact lIliil. the 17811111118 industry of ‘tihe Uni- ted Siatles suffered from depression in 1891 and 1892 like almost everything else did, through 9W1‘ Dnodutdtion. That is quite true, ‘but it suffered nothing at all from the oneeighrh of one cent to a tin. -.ln the course of sevcn years, insilead of am increase in the price of th-alt product that tiley ‘were making at home, there was a decnehlse ‘from $5.84 to $2.99, or little ‘more than "half of what it was ,whe n-the duty was put on. Does not that pretty well close the argu- ment? Does it not show that ill addition to securlrng a hulluess which Britain had before and in- creasing theptln plate production from two rmiilion to two lbillion pounds in addition to getting all the advantages accruing-to a coun- try from maintain tflllllll tremend- ous industry at home the advantage industry at home the advantage accruing from not sending the money outside in the purchase of the goods elsewhere; in addition to the advantage accruing to the cognislte industries depending upon hind getting‘ hermit from the tin pl-alte industry. In addition to all that they Uctue-lly‘ secured in time. by Jflflllllifildllrhll in their own country on a tremendous scale, a very substantial reduction in the price ofItin pirate itself. 3i do not need to pursue this subject farther. The some result on a lesser scale has hiappened" in our country in aeration to many articles; the same cam be shown in relation to one industry enter anothelr, but I have covered this one alone.