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A Christmas Offer In liiannelette i
At Patons
The question of the past few 1110111115. Whercto get good flannel solved by Patons. -L[d~v who have, owing to favorable ex- change advantages, been able to exceptionally fine English goods. which for quality. width and patterns is unexcellcil ‘ - and the prices quoted will be a bleed 1s that the pleasant surprise to P. E. island. Rigular 50 and 5-‘- 1-1-1.
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shoppers. quality, nvliite and striped flannel- ette. now 40 ccnls per yard.
36 ccnts klllll now 30 cents i. yard.
Niirrowcr widths iln white Cents and 28 cent a yin-l.
Splendid grade while doiiiat flan- nclette crciiiii onli’ 35 cents, about 200 yards.
Striped patterns worth 60 cents now 40 cents per yard.
English speiro llnflllclcil! in white oxfords was 75, S5 to $1.2.’- now 55, 60 and "l0 ccnts. i
There are several other good patterns liriii quality and‘ servic- able patterns zit corespondingly low prices.
Another snap lliut will appvai to the mothers of llltlt- girls i.- 400 yards of glngliaiiis, wide width and good patterns marked to clear at 27 cents per yard. 2225-12-14-3i.
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I Clr Oil Cake Moll (old oroceol).
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1 Cor Bran, (but quality). 1 Cir Middllnql.
- 1 Car Cornmell and Crock- ’ H1 Corn.
l Cur “Rubin Hood" and Rolled Oat:
lCar "Gold Mndal" Flour ind Food. "
Flour
Schumackor Food. Furs i Linseed Meal.
Calf Meat cni¢k Food, Bono Moll. ..Crulhod Oylter bhoilo, Poultry Grit, etc. ...8olllng n ioweot Pfluoll, .
Wholesale Ind Retail.
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Teapots
J u st received two Crates of best English.‘ Teapots, an exceptional as- sortment to choose from i‘
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‘HIE FARMER AND FREE TRADE
Mr. Crerar who is now the recognized head of a definite political organization, the United Farmers, is a free trader. One of the tenets of his political foreign market controls the price of Canadian products and that the home market has nothing to do with it- This proposition is worth look- in}; into. \
There are eight million of us Canadians of whom some three millions are farmers; There are one hun- clred and ten millions of Americans of whom forty millions are farmers. Will Mr. Crerar seriously tell the (lauadian farmer that it would make no differ- ence if the forty million American farmers enter- ed into competition with our three million Canad- ian farmers in our own market and on equal terms? Even if the American production, particularly pork and other meats, were of equal quality with our Can- adian, it would mean very serious and very unequal competition for our Canadian farmers, but infinit- ely more serious would it be to have our markets gluttcd with cheap cornfed American pork and with farm products marketable weeks before ours. A year or two of this kind of fre-e trade would ‘show Canadian farmers whether the home market was any good to them or not, would show them also that they had no home market. ‘
A Brantford, Ontario, farmer giving evidence the other day before the Tariff COITIITIISSIOXI said ~“We are not so much interested in ‘the price of grain as we are in the home market. Brantford has been a fine market for the farmers and the stock raisers on account of the large population and the demand which the workers in the industries create for our products. So any damage which the government does to the industries by the lowering of the tarifi is certain to come back and hit the farming c0iiini- uni-t 1”
N?) one with any common sense will believe for a moment that the opening of Canadian markets to such competition as the United States could offer would not be a serious blow to Canadian agriculture.
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Some of the arguments advanced for the abolit- ion 0f a protective tariff would be ludicrous if it were not for the fact that in some quarters, they are taken seriously. Protection, they tell us, has built
up the factories ‘and around the factories cities havc
grown. The factories and the cities are enticing men l and women from the country; the cities are being built up and the country is being depopulated. Re- medy? D0 away with protection and so reduce the number of factories and the population of the i _ cities! Is not this the remedy‘ of the old lady who would not teach her boy to walk lest he should run away? Why do our young men and women go to the , cities? Is it not because the cities offer opportunit- ies that are not to be found in the country? Are we t0 cut these opportunities off in order that the boys and the girls shall stay on the farms? And if we did cut ‘them off in our Canadian cities what would hap- pen? Our boys and girls would go to the ctiies in the United States where the opportunities are avail- able. - It is regrettable and unfortunate that the farm with all its possibilities and its tippoi-tunities is in so many cases less attractive and evcu less remun- erativc than the factory orsthe store or the office. _ How to overcome this handicap is the problem. It will certainly not be ‘overcome by placing the city “out of bounds” for the young man or the young woman. They will go where the inducements which , they are looking for are available; this they have
a right to do and it would be criminal folly to de- prive them of the privilege even if it could be done-
When the farm offers equal advantages with the city, as m-any of them now do, then the boys and
girls will remain on the farm. There are farms in this province today from which no city alluremeiits
could draw the young people because they know they are much better off than they would be as em- ployees in the city but such farms are as yet the ex- ception. Eventually we hope to see the ambition of our boys and girls ‘drawing them to the free, inde- pendent and profitable life on the farm.
Farming pays and we have given proof of this in former issues of the Guardian. That it has its (lrawbacks no one will deny. One of the great draw- backs is the scarcity. of laborers. We have no sur- plus laboring class in this province. Young men a- vailable for employment have been attracted by the greater wages in the cities, here or elsewhere, wages
- which the ordinary farmer cannot aifford to pay.
The remedy for this would appear to be importation of foreign labour as is being ‘done in farming isect- ions of Ontario where many Belgians are employed, but that is another problem. The thing is that farm- ing prudently carried on, pays and there is no reas- on why farming should notbe as attractive as any other calling and infinitely more so than uncertain d"ay’s work in the city- t
EDITORIA I. N 0'1‘ ES
It is pretty generally conceded that any ma- terial lowering of the tar-iii‘ would result in the closing down at "all W many of the two hundred American branch factories in Canada. This is an- other warning that tariff reduction will mien losgof home markets as well as lower la i va ties- '
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‘HE ciiinuuiéinwii GUARDIAN
THE CHARLOMETOWN GUARDIAN.
CURRENT coiniiini
The United Farmers Guide pub-
__ " ilshed a dissertation on the subject
of Britain under Free Trude by
the Right Honorable J. M. Robert'- son a specialist In the old country who makes this subject his, hobby. While disclalmiiig interference with Canadian politics as “no busi ness of mine" he adopts an lsolat ed passage in the address of Hon. Arthur Meiglien, the full report of which is in Hansard, as the. foun- datlon for a lengthy criticism of a few things which our Prime Minis ter did say and of a great many other things which HE DID NOT SAY, and not even by "INFER- ENCE" as this wily English critic pretends to interpret his utteran- ces. The passage quoted was part of au- argument cited In answer to Dr. Michael Clarke. tlip proceed - lug speaker, who In his address
first declared for Free Trade as they have it in England and then insisted that Canada MUST HAVE AN EXCESS OFEXPORTS OVER IMPORTS n. ensure prosperity. The Hon. Mr. Meighen quoted Brit lsh Trade Returns to show that
from the date of the adoption of free trade in England the former
balance of trade in her favor was immediately reversed and the EX- CESS OF- IMPORTS OVER. EX - TORTS increased yearly iintii the balance against them amounted to .L150.000,000 or lii our currency ii‘ out $700,000,000.
Mr. Robertson does not question the accuracy of these or any of the Prime‘ Minister's figures, but attempts to dispose of them by more , processes. Ho lays: "It ls painful to point out to a minister of Mr. Malghen’: status that what. he represents as an an - nual loss was the annual giiln of the nation as a trading and invest- ing body." No such tncaiiing was possible from any remark made by Mr. Meighen. and no man possess- ed of common sense would reach any sucli conclusion. l-Iiicess" of
lii as much as the imports rcpre -- sent capital assets as an tilTzs-ct to the liabilities incurrcil. But from the economic standpoint i: would be infinitely better for the country to he able to make these purchas- es from her own people and within its own boundiiris. Our British critic then suggests that this stir- plus of imports “is not something that lius tn be paid for. it is. the profits bf the nation on its international ileiiliugs. " That also n. true, but. if the Right lion. Gentleman will only observe it, the whole force of this itict conllicts with his theories. 11c ~- ttirus upon capitol. S'I‘OREI) Ul‘ AND EARNED UNDER A PRE- VIOUS PROTECTIVE POLICY li-i NOT A PART OF THE CURRENT TRADE 0F THE COUNTRY. llUT A DRAFT UPON lNHERiTl-JD WEALTH AND THE INCOME DE- RIVED TIIEREFROM.
He talks of teaching "tiie A. ll. C.. of international economics, he- cause, alas, Mr. Meigheu has not yet mustered it." in this. ut least, the Premier has taught him a les-
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Dilly Selections i Guardian Readers
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BE GLAD.
is ll. ruining, little flower? Bo glad of rain.
Too much auti would wither tlicc, ‘Twill shine again.
The sky la very black, ‘tis trite. But just behind it shines
The Blue.
Art thou weary, tender heart? Be glad of pain; in sorrow the sweetest things will grow ' As flowers in the rain.
sun When clouds their perfect work Have done. ——Author Unknown. l
purchases or imports by a country.
God watches and thou wilt have‘
son in his own stupidity. His knowledge of "buying" and “sell- ing," as he puts it, is that of u capitalist doing nu business, as he ls constrained to admit, upon his inherited and invested funds. from THE INCOME OF WHICH HE_ IS ENABLED 'I‘O MEET THE COST OF THE EXCESS OF IMPORTS OVER EXPORTS. Had he learned the A. B. C., of what he was talk- ing about he would have made note of the fact that CANADA IS A round comm-av WITHOUT PREVIOUSLY EARNED AND EX~ TENSIVE FOREIGN INVEST- MENTS, that shc must pay for her excess of imports EITHER IN CASH OR FUNDED LIABILITY and must of compulsion arrange her fiscal policy to meet these con- dltlons. He gives some trade-elm- iles to illustrate his point. but if he will persue the “whole of Iilr. Meighens speschhe will find ev- ery one of them referred to sud tllsposad of. and he will find many more facts mid statistics in con - ncctiou with the trade and com - inerce of Great Britain that he
most studiously avoided ‘mulling any zipproiiclinient to.
Iilr. Seddon, of New Zellllllld; took the ground, which was per - tcctly logical in his own country, having no foreign Investments, that nu “adverse trade» balance" must be mct by bullion payments, and Mr. Robertson goes out of his way to tint-lure that “apparently Mr. lilviglicii is of tliut school." lt would he more fitting if he would attempts to reply to what our Premier said himself without tra- versing the southern seas for some utterances to attribute to him. Mr. illelghen was ' not indulging in school-boy economics. but‘ dealing with plain. every day facts, not one syllable of which the Right Iloii. Gentleman has questioned the accuracy of. and in the course of his speech both accepted mid eii - larged upon the very arguments iiiadc use of by his English critic. That Great Britain was able to t'i- nance not. only herself but ollicr countries (luring the war is not rlis puted. but it is equally true that she (lid so through the medium of iicr national credit, and Inherited ivctiith, and it. is further indisput- ably true as stated by Mr. Meir;- iicii that. "Great Britain is sinking deeper and deeper into debt every year since 1850!”
Quoting Messrs Gray and 'l‘uru- or, statistical economists. and Sir Henry Campbell-Bamierman, and further emphasized by Sir Wlliiuin Booth, Mr. Meighen stated that 13,- 000,000 or 30.7 per ccut of the pop ulatlon were "below the poverty line" nnd “on the vcrgc oi‘ hunger," iii Grout Britain. ‘lhc Right lluii. Mr. Robertson's illlfiliif-Pl‘ is that this is also “ti-tic oi‘ China. Japan. India, Europe uud Aiiitirlcu. This does not touch tlic point at lssuc. Famine and starvation prevails lii these and to a worse extent in some of the war-stricken couu - tries. BUT THE FISCAL POLIC- IES OF THESE COUNTRIES ARE NOT HELD UP T0 CANADA AS PATTERNS FOR IMITATION OR EMULATION. The comparisons made were as between the tradc policy of our own country and tiu- mother land. and with incidoniul roferoiico to Ifrunco. (iormuuy and tliii Uiiitcil Sluice in rolatloii t» UH‘ ivorkliig of tlicir protective [Klllliltffi And tlic indisputable conclusion ls that wlillo there is an abundance of wealth amongst. the upper class in Free Trade England. tlicrc is on the other hand l1 larger [icrccnt
‘ age of poverty titan in any ut‘ tlitrsic
countries.
Aiiotlior strong pnliit uiudc liy lion. Mr. hiciglicii. lii answer i0 Dr. Clarke's contention tiiut Free Trade as in England would encourage zig- rictilturc, was tliut under protec-
tion thc agricultural population of Great Britain was 49.8 or pract ically one half of her total people. In the your 1913. just before the war, the agricultural population had declined to 21.3 per cent. This decline commenced lii 4850. after the adoption of the free trade prlu cipel uiid continued steadily down
,wiird until it dropped from one
ttpoitd your lilo lreri». tiorni mult- hni; an opporl. lint? of doing u hind \ noss, speaking i true word or n-ifli. something in tho theory of trans-
lf ull our misfortunes were lllld-lllllf to one fifth of iiic forinor up in ouc hciip. whence every one rlculturiil population. Ouc million must take an equal portion, 11105:, are now employed lii agriculture. people would be content to tukg In tho British lt-iloii under tlic frcn tlicir own and depart. ltrarle banner whore ovcr two mil- ‘ lion wre engaged in the sumo work licfore tariffs were abolished, in 1851 it was the farmer who wanted ‘protection and the mechanic that fought for free trade.' and Mr, Melghsn quoted a speech from Lord MacAulay. delivered on the occasion of his last election, be - fore the University of Edinburgh. .0851). showing tliut some politic- ians were as double-faced then as the Government opponents are iii Canada today. We quote the-words "He went into tho country and found that there were standards and prititod flags wlicrovei- the au- rlcultural poplllltlui‘. prcdoniliiutoil hearing tho legend. ‘Von for Siinui
THINGS THAT COUNT. Ily Spencer M. Free.
‘Th; the human touch lii this world that counts. The touch of your mine,
Which means far more to the tulm. lug heart
Than shelter and bread and wine
For shelter is gone when the night is o'er.
And broad lasts only a diiy.
[i-it the touch if the hand and the sound o.‘ the voice
Sing on in the soul always.
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Tea Spoons in 1847 Crom- well, out Colony, Fiddle Berkshire, Vesta, Community Plate. Price $7.50 per doz.
Dessert Spoons in Vesta, Berkshire, Old Colony, Coni- iiiunity Plate. Price $13.50 per doz.
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Spoons in 1847 Cromwell and Coininuniti’ Plate. Price $2.20 per bu» Derry Spoons, Tomato Serv- er, Butter Knife, Pie Knife. Sugar Shell, Cold Meat Fork. Gravy Ladle, etc, in Atlanfs Community and i847 Crom- ycll. From 75c up.
Coffee
whole your through by giving i; piece m- our henyily Plated Silver Ware. Our stock is a0 . complete that you will have no difficulty in making the cholce'ot' an attractive Xmgg Gm
a ~ LASTING“ . a ChfiSImaS Gifts
hlake the." Merry Christmas Spirit last the
Dessert Knives and For“ ‘"1347 ROKBrs and Comm“; lty Plate. Price $2.50 1051359. per dozen. -
Table Knives and For“ [P0111 ‘$.00 l0 $15.00 per 41M
Cream Pitchers and Sugar Bowls in different patterns, Price from 5.00 up,
Price from $6.00 up.
. English Carving Sets
This is something that is used every day. We have l-l beautiful assortment of the very best Steel Carving Sets.
One of these sets would make a vary acceptable Xmas Gin.
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Pocket Kuives~a Gilt that always pleases
and is ever useful. Price from 35c to $6.00.
break.
Skates for boys and girls.
celebrated “Starr” Skate, guaranteed not to
Prices from $1.30 up.
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We carry the
Electrical Goods
Aluminum Ware
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We carryu complete line oi‘ Electrical sup»
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Perculutors, irons. 'l‘0astci's, Vfasliing Much- incs, Vacuum Cleaners, etc. One oi‘ the above
would muko a very pleasant gilt.
prices.
1n our annex you will find a lull liiic nildt- clien utensils in Aluminum Ware at dlflfilefll
A piece of Aluminum Ware us ii Xiiuis ram» ciuliraiicc is always acceptable.
The Rogers Hardware Co. Litl.
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llauiess, Sleigh Bells, Horse Blankets
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Our Sliighs for Our Roads
We are showing our usual complete line of SleighS and Cutters. The assortment is right up-ito-date and
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These lines are now complete. We carry-a Wide range and can suit all styles and tastes. \
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We have almost every style to choose from and a complete line of harness parts.
Lowest Prli-cs-Jtlaiiy 'l‘crinn to salt Customers.
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