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WINDSOR, June ll-"l-Iers are n, m, people of the British empire, ,,n,.qusrter of all the world's peoples, iggusing all that we would need, all m; umber, all the minerals, all the foodgtufls, that can make us indc- pslldent. If we could only bring about that unity that would make the em-

independent in itself we would hive solved our problem. g-Therefore, I say, if I were placed m‘ g, position of rm- nsibility where fcdllld do so, I promise I would have ¢alled within six weeks an economic conference Jsnd said: "You may deny

“,1 here, or deny us there but - we, with all the world's mdcwrnentl will wade ' within

ourselves.‘ That issny answer."

His voice ringing with the depth o; his fervor as he lirnsxed an im- pgglpntd address before a gathering o1 the electors of South Essex at Windsor Saturday night, Hon. R. B. gerlnstt, leader of the Conservative opposition in the federal parliament mew-cred the question that he had huried to his listeners s moment earlier:

"what 1| to he done in-Canada?"

My, innettk pr ouncement on a pails-y of inter-empire trade which would make Canada and all the var- ious far-flung reaches of the British commonwealth independent of the rest, 0f the world, came during the in. augural address of his tour through ontsrio during the next two weeks.

During the early part of his address he had reviewed Canada's position in the economic fabric of the world. Quoting figures time after time, he brought the audience to their feet cheering agate and lklln, and when he“ culminated his review with his definitedeclaratiua of policy of in- sépencenoo-he-hari to pause for a minute before he ‘could continue.

ECONOMICALLY DEPENDINT , . Canada, “declared Mr. Bennett, is economically dependent on other nations. He attacked the ' present tariff schedule as having brought lbout a condition by which Canada is being drained o! her natural re- sources,‘ of her young people and in return receiving ‘nothing. In lieu of {hat policy he offered British econo- mic independence. .

"When I came into your city 10-day lflfl-IOOKNLICYOS! the great river, I realized I was within the shadow of a great people." he stated. "They are about 120,000,000 in number. The British people number one-fourth of all the world's peoples. We in Canada are only lass than 10,000,000.

"Our twocountrles are placed side

‘by side, spfllni of ihe same stock,

speaking the same language, the com- plexity of our problems increase for rhas reason. And these complexities resolve themselves into economic problems.

"We in this country have a great heritage. No other people in so short a time have accomplished so much with such a limited population. We have established a skeleton capable of supporting 20,000,000 people, but i‘. doesn't."

The life of a liatlon is its trade, declared the Conservative ~leader. Phat may be external or internal. Canada has a vast external trade but it is of such s type that the dominion has been made economically depen- dent on other nations.

"Canada sells goods to all the PW‘ pie of theworld," i-lo stated. "Last

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ducts _of the _soil,_'p1 tl-lg “g, o; o‘ forests god of our mines. Therilpx: He? the products "oi our faeisyrial, but of the total ‘trade you wiirooothii the latter was comparatively small. Prom our fsrhis we sold's0’ll,000,000; from our Jolests . in -p\flp, paper, W900. $300,000,000; from our miles “37-1199-11110; from our fisheries)“,- 000000. and of certain beverageg-aggp 990M0- Tbe balance was partly from our factories. . __ , "N?" 1t‘ i4, Perfectly‘c1_ear that. we °""1°t replace fills; forests lwithin a generation; that ‘ourjgnfilimly ‘g llwlyl beso productive ‘and true-gl- mines will never bofreplscedFWoTsi-‘e dfilmihl the resources ofour stl . "3110. hernia the point. We can send our products loail pirts of world. Try to send somsof your duels across this. plm u,“ nearby. ‘Irv w acne carousel-insurer, "m" °1 Your _ wheat, barley, mim- Petltoee, any kind ofvegd- tables, cheese, 1 y?“ ‘jg? name. That is the tariff of our neigh- bours. . ’ _ _ “At first we madoymild complaints but to no avail. frhen thesgtarlffs started inqeasing, came the Ilbrdney- McCumber tariff. new comes en's mil. lty-smoot tsrlfffNcw we are told that we will send our goods farther afield. So treatiessrg formed, why; Mr. King came into power there were 14. Now there are 63, and, somehow." the administration never “m; wry»; able to form a tresiythat is ‘any 800d for the country. __, * ' , “From our neighborswe buy goods. Last yesr Canada purchaseirslzsa- 000,000 worth of-goods'."'_2‘t1o third; of that was from our-neighbors across’ the ldver. It was spent to give em- Dlfiiyment n01, to the people: ofthi; country, but m those who findem- ployment in manufacturing our raw Droducts into goods itobe acid fa us. ‘ "Goods bought must be paid for. Yet our American neighbors bought from us nearly $400,000,000 is“ than we bought from them. They decline to buy from us any goods which en- ter into competition with theirwin- dustries yet they buy the rawpro- ducts which they wish m’ manufac- ture and rs-sell in _us.jThst is business, why shouldn't theyl, ey do it because they want to increase their country's prosperity, 0o be fed by American farmers}. - . . -~, "The problem is-wheihcr we will or will not develop our. Owmdfltlhtfyf? continued Mr. Bennett. "Tskmyour motor cars, your big industrynlf the tariff is lowered aufliciently» to out $100 off the price of? a carbeilll brought into Canada. the Canadian manufacturer must lower his price also or go out of business. Yet he,“ competing with aitradejwhich is 8110" plying 120,000,000 people. "'"‘

. 1 , . Displaclng of Labor.

“Flee trade, as_my honorable friend suggests it, iitb displace labor and move it into another _c0mmuni‘_ , into‘ another land.‘ Tilers ‘ isaschoolyl thought, internationalisrn, which ‘be- lieves in no teriffwsll, no frontiers or boundaries. There‘- _are 1200001100 people on the North American conti- nent who donotbclieve in itn-Yet we have in thsihouse a minister. of ithe crown, the - minister--of justice, who believes in it and advises it. The 05110! day he talked of it seriously. .

Then there is the other mchool 0! thought-free. trade. Th0!“ 111°‘ 1

rear we sold 81.800.000.000 of our foods to the world. They were 91'0-

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ljoelng business so they‘ rtlyyui on a as per cent. tdriff1 gillflfifimerlean _ or]... _ Now Mr. e has a factoryin England. That to free trade. :“_!\’\i1t. l our ' products which Wmllitqare barred. You city‘ people ‘$117M! are satisfied; let the Amer- ican, fruit and ‘vegetable grower dump his seasonal crop into Canada lust as Canada's fruit is ripening. But, you reckon without the thought that our producers will go out of business and you will be at the mercy of a foreign onopoly. “Which will it be? Will we accept a- lower standard of living 0r will we close up our factories and say we will depend on foreign production to serve us? Mr. King and his minister of- justice and-his leader in the sen- ate boast that Canada of all coun- trieshas lowered her tariff. Do you want it to continue? It is for you to ll!- If you love your country you

. "Ivory time I near of a man or woman outofsjlobinmnada I wonder howlnany men and women across that imaginary line are work- in: while we buy the products of their ‘hands. we have everything but work: 200.000, Canadians went to the United States in 1924. Our friends put on tariff or quota on Canadian brains. Why? ‘Because we are buying roughly, half a. billion dollars worth of goods every year from them which we should be mak- ing‘ here.-

Selling Our Rssdllrces

"Heaswe are going along selling out our national resources. It's Lea- gue‘ of Nations‘ free trade; the pleasureofselling out. The minister of justice says the League 0f Nations advises free ‘trade. The prime min- ister comes in and says we will meet thrproblem when it comes. but in thsmesntims we must not provoke our‘ neighbor. The other day. in dis- buasing British empire free trade. the prime minister said. Don't talk higher British preference, it might proioke the people of our south.‘ "We will see that Canadians get a fair chancel It is not what Mr. King or w; nonnow ‘will d0." It it what you and I and the other voters will do. We will place‘ the Canadian workman on s. level with the rest of the world. It is not a question of til-ill ‘oi-‘arkwbaelrs, it is a question ~ of fair chance with‘ outside competi- tion. - -' 1 - - ' "I-sometimes ssk-‘nlyself the ques- . tion "who will own this country if we keep-on.‘ Young Canadians; stay in Canada’; see that a government is in i powerwlliclvwiii isordevalop our rc- l suvllceswhat, u: trade will be inde-‘ peiiallnt -6r"u others. , ' ‘You may take about status. I care not loi- it,‘ important though it is. if .you troy/lining a chain which binds you ‘to others. Do not be put off with Vague generalities. Study facts your- time ‘and ponder what I have said."

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During the afternoon Mr. Bennett} spoke at a picnic in Lakeside park,‘ Kingsviile, when a large gathering of the Southllesex electors gathered. Although darkening clouds had sug- gbeted the possibility of rain earlier in the afternoon, by the time of Mr. Bennett's arrival the skies were smil- ing- and a-baseball game between the Tory old-timers and the youth- ful ‘members of the Macdonald- Cartier club of Windsor was in pro-

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vfwllen the Conservative chieftaln ammo the park he was greeted by cheers in which even the venerable members of the gathering joined. The balLgalrte immediately broke up,’ the spectators hastened to the band- stsnd- in the park, where the speak- are had assembled.

i’ Bennett ' vigorously assailed gbepresent tariff basis upon which fora goods, enter Canada. Quoting

duct of Canada excepting those na- firs‘! ,1 rsw. products. sought by the Unftid etstosyere barred from that chunky by1 tolls iwhich precluded the‘ ‘poasibility of reasonable trade. Inreturn ~Canads tllrows open her . confer the entry of American lune. \

"cum; hand I hold a copy of that Maren given by elroolin A. Mac- don in this‘ country. on sept. ‘l vigil-l," gsclsred Mr. Bennett in open- ‘ingltladdrsll. "I was struck by the . ,,,

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address you that the ‘sentiments , contained in that address of 52 years

ago are not wholly at variance with my present sentiments." _ l Paying tribute to the women voters i who constitute half of the dolninionb electors, Mr. Bennett said they could interest. ‘They can through their demands in the markets of Canada create a. sale for mada-in-Csnads goods, as theyform l B5 per cent. of Canada's domestic, purchasing power. '

Heritage of Canada

The heritage of Canada is a faith‘ reposod in the present generation by i the fathers wllo have gun-e on before, l who came and carved a home out ofi a wilderness and built Canada to the high position which she has come to command, he declared.

"But if I point out to you, that you

should organize and exert your force at the polls it is through no selfish motive," he continued. “We must serve our country, for after all _it is a vasrjcountry and it is not an easy country to govern. Each province has its problems and there are many races to be fused together." ‘ History, he declared, repeats itself. History shows that Canada. has ad- vanced under the guidance of Cori- servative governments, When Can- ada's boundaries had to be extended from sea to sea the genius of Mac- donald 11nd achieved it. [When a. transcontinental railroad was discuss- ed Edward Blake, Laurier and other Liberal leaders had laughed and tried to prove it an unwise thing. Mac- donald had lvorl the railway and Canada had since proved its worth,

“And now we have the problem of developing Canada," he continued. “It her, not yet been solved. The mvelop- ment wisely, of those vast resources. our mines, forests and fisheries. These are in our hands and the generation to ccrne must bcneiii; by what we do.

“Sir John A, Macdonald saw the position of Canada and created the great national policy; a policy that would make all happy and prosper- ous. that labor would have a decent opportunity for toil and reasonable hours for leisure. The policy o; Mac- donald was a. policy to unify the peo- ple of Canada and not leave them dependent on anyone.

"Happiness and dependency cannot ‘

march side by‘ Side. south, of us is a great republic, a united people under One flag. One hundred and twenty 1111111011 Pwhlo, This makes the prob- lem more difficult. We are divided by an imaginary line; people enjoying the same freedom, speaking the same language. They are making l; greet BENNY)’, happy and prosperous. North of them are nine and one half mil- lion trying to develop their country.

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"Vlhen l. was younger rind lived down east ‘the fishermen of Canada

used to take their fish to Gloucester»

and Boston and scll them in the market. The some with other pm- ducts, butter, eggsl- poultry, hay 9\'51'Y111in£. ‘Then the American people said we will charge a. toll, fishermen paid one cent on his fish and the farmers paid m; their pro- duce that they sent over the line. "Then the toll started growing h1khcr and higher. In 1021 came an 511191201103’ toll, and in 1922 the fam- ous so-callcd Fordney-McCumber tar-

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back to us when they are manufac- tured into articles of sale.‘ “

“What has‘been the answer to tbisfi Nothing except a tenden y ‘oi-rths‘ part of the Cans“ government to,‘ assist this end. Tolls on' manufsctur i ed goods, made in the States from! raw Canadian products, were lowered? A5 a result 0'7 cents of every. dollar‘: eipent by Canada last year went to“ izio United States for these goods. '

“The United States took your nat- ural resources and sold them‘ back 00 you. How far can a country stand this? Yourartisans follow these nat- ural resources to the S ates in order to obtain work. In 19 46,000 "Can- adians went away, in i023, 115,000, and in 1925, over 200,000." " *

Making of Treaties

Mr, Bennett reviewed the King gov- ernment's treaty-making propensities, pointing out that 14 trade treaties", had existed when it went into powerjr These are now increased to 43. An example of them was that ‘Vwith France. Canada. was tn receive the “minimum" tariff rate with'l"r;ance. That minimum has been increased 111106 $111188 by France, yet that coun- try receives the same rates "from Canada as at the signing 01 ‘the agreement. ‘ - ~-

“Mr, King's government somehow can't seem to make a treaty that will benefit Canada in any wayflqMr.

wish to do that, but they can't ‘seem to do anything that does Canadalany good. These are things I cannot change, but some day 1 hope tgj be able to. , , ,_ "They say they will seek new mar- kets if the present markets 8170,3310 off," he stated. "l believe in the Inf-l’- ket of the great Canadian peopleilgou wonder why we are ‘treated so. We '_'are 0,500,000 against 120,000,000, vetlilwill strike upon the people whose ancestors carved a home here. I have great

iff. Milk had gone to two cents, cream to 20 cents nnd fruits, hay, cat- tle, everything found increasing tolls.

"Wily was this? Because they found they could best promote the prosper- ity of the American farmer by so do-

Ang. Kiley don't care about Canada,’

they rirc lcgislatillg for 120,000,000 people of the United States. Your duty is t0 legislate for the people of

the dominion of Canada and no otheri

people irl the lvorld." Continuing, Mr. the American tariff system whereby

the president is able to bring into

effect any tariff rates which he con- siders necessary. The other day, he said, still higher duties were placed on Canadian products.

"But," he declared. "the products of this country which they wanted they did not increase. Take your products, bran and shorts. They must feed their livestock so they cut the rate on that in half. All our great natural resources,

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common-sense of thsCanadian p00- ple. I leave the problem to you. What brooks it ' inseam» our financial blirlg but win our political independ- ence?" ‘ _

In concluding the Conservative lea- ds? llllmmented on the Liberal chief- taiifs suggestion that "it would be provocative" to retaliate by placing embsrgoescn "American goods. This

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During his address Mr. Bennett was interrupted often by choc"; and ap- Plluse by thehuge gathering. Be- ION his address the 21st Regiment band played popular and martial strains, but many of the audience in- vaded th0'l1latform' to be near the

speaker and drove the band off,

TOMGHTS GAME

The second game of the City Leap gueseries between the Rovers and‘ All-Stars takes place this evening at 6 o'clock.

Managfl’ Jimmy Power of the All- Stsrs says‘he has a sllfprlsg in store forthe fast north-end team, and so much so that hefexpects to romp home with the popular verdict. Tonight's Star-battery is onnouno- ed as McFarlane and Francis, and this added to the fact that Melv Diamond will-be back again- in harn- ess savers good for a strengthening up'in the outfield and inner garden. Should theevening be fine a, good crowd‘ of fans is expected.

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tishy clans in announced for July 1st

this" year 'at Vernon River,

“ These Games, always looked for-

-wa‘i"d to from year to" year with much

‘anticipation have sllthe ear marks of being‘ bigger and better than ever. ‘Besides Tether attractions, twelve atheletic‘ events ‘are on the bill of role-and as usual, liberal prizes will

bejwerded the various winners.

‘ After‘ the ‘morning parade of clans- men, "a special train will leave the

' _city'at‘ 10.30 ‘ajm. games starting at 130.

Postmasters Seek Government Aid

UYPAWA, June _ 22—A form of superannuation in which the post- masters and assistant postmasters in the uommlssipn offices throughout Canada will be given Government as- sistance in the purchase of Canadian Government jmnulties to provide for their old age, will be asked shortly, according to a resolution passed un- animously at today's meeting of the Canadian Postmasters‘ Association.

._At present, postmasters in corri- mission branch offices are not allow-

. ed io contribute to the civil service

superannuation fund by the deduc- tion of 5 per cent .of their salary as other civil servants do. As the rev- enue of a postmaster is not fixed and depends pn_the toiaisaie of stamps at his office which varies from time-to time, such a. contribu-

- tion of a fixed percentage is impos-

sible, Therefore, the postmasters have asked ifor, themselves and their ss-

_ sistanie that the Government pay

half of the cost ,0! an annuity to provide no‘. more _thsn $500 annually for postmasters and $300 for assis- tent postmaste Ii.

ctsnu ‘Nswsroissnn » BATTER-Y IS s WONDER.

DUBLIN, June _22-_-_A new type of railway electric battery which the Irish Free State Government claims will chespen and shorten railway transportation will be given tests on the Free State's railway shortly, it wasleai-ned 50-day. .

One of the chief merits of the new battery is the claim that it can be charged every few minutes. Twelve mun srg required to charge the type now infuse.

- q-overnment engineers also claim- ed, that the power the battery would generate would. enable a railwly journey ‘npw_ requiring 4% hours to bmcompleted in 21.4 hours after- all

_ milways are electrified.

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