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     1718 Brave Leader W10. . . . 
     
     '   Bgroughi‘ a. Brave People Th  agh 
     
        The . World Economic Stormy 
     
    
   
   
    
     fihaihlinjustemmtliroughthethreegreatestlhiancialemllesinworil 
     
     history, all breaking upon her from outside. TODAY, CANADA'S HEAD 
     
     IS “BLOODY, BUT UNBOWED." SHE IS ‘STILL THE_MASTER 
     
     QE HER FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF HER SOUR. 
     
    

    
     Do you suppose that a Government of mere parliamentarians or catchpmny 
     
      could have limuflrtus through the past five years? This was no time 
     
    
   
   
    
     for petty politics and partizan advantage. It called for strong statesmanship and 
     
    
   
   
    
     Iron courage in the Government. And, at the helm, it demanded A MAN.’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     The world will not soon forgettlie great American stoclé and commodity 
     
     erali in the falleof. I929, when billions were wiped out and white panic stalked 
     
     the earth. A Liberal Government was in power in-Canada, with a genial, laissez- 
     
     hire “wait-and-see” policy of inaction, and a leader who assured the Canadian 
     
     people that “economic conditions in Canada were never more sound." They did 
     
     not create  world crisis hut they did nothing to meet it. And when they reaped 
     
     the whirlwind and were tossed out of office in I930, they left the wreckage 
     
     piled up at Mr. Bennett's door—left Canada exposed in the midst of the great 
     
     financial storm with ruin staring her in the face, and left the incoming Conser- 
     
     vative Government to keep the country solvent with the shackles of an inherited 
     
     Unfavorable trade Balance amounting to $l03,000,000§ 
     
    

    
     Mr. Bennett had been in office only a year when the second great crash 
     
    
   
   
    
      ahroad. Great Britain was forced off gold in the great sterling crisis of 
     
     the autumn of l93l, and half the world's currencies tottered with the British 
     
    
   
   
    
     pond. Mr. ‘Ramsay MacDonald, then British Prime Minister, has described- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tlle agonies of that weeh-end of September 20, l93l. It had the most immediate 
     
     reaction upon Canada, and sent our dollar diving towards destruction. IF IT 
     
     REQUIRED RESOLUTE HANDLING TO TAKE OVER IN I930, 
     
     IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM, IT NEEDED IRON STATES- 
     
     MANSHIP TO BRING US THROUGH THE STERLING CRISIS 
     
     WHICH EQR TITE TIME BEING LAID  PROUD BRITAIN 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
         
     
       
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
         
     
       
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     _ In llmfi the Wflild panic  to this continent again. In Mandi, I93], 
     
     after banlc failure upon hanlr failure, with State after State declaring morfloria, 
     
    
   
   
    
     the United States was forced to admit a national panic and to close evuy bani} 
     
    
   
   
    
     in the Union. With our great, rich neighbour prostrate in the grip of a  
     
     pamc—right next door-howidid Canada fare? Not a banlr closed its *0“ 
     
    

    
     rn Canada, not an insurance company failed, not a Canadian lost his savings." 
     
     Sound banlring, and above all a sound people with sound institutions Brought ual 
     
     through. BUT IT MEANT SOUND GOVERNMENT, IN 
     
    

    
     FACE OF IMMEDIATE NATIONAL PERIL‘. AND THE CANA'- 
     
    

    
     DIAN GOVERNMENT STOOD THIS TEST WHILE GOVERN-‘l 
     
     MENTS ELSEWHERE, LIKE THEIR INSTITUTIONS,  
     
    

    
     TOTTERING. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Today we have come through these crises, though we are still fir from  
     
     Promised Land. We are on the up-grade, we are doing better and halal,‘ 
     
     though we cannot dream of resting yet. 
     
    
   
   
    
     DURING THE PAST FOUR YEARS CANADA'S EXP$  
     
     TRADE HAS HELD UP BETTER THAN THAT OF 
     
     OTHER’ GREAT TRADING NATION EXCEPT jAPAN. 
     
    

    
     Our industrial piclr-up from the depression lows has been equally rernarld 
     
     able but we single out export trade since the life of the country depends upon it} 
     
     in the broadest way, and particularly that of the farmer, the miner, the lumber-A 
     
     man, and the primary producer generally. THAT IS A PROUD RECORD“- 
     
     ACHIEVED NOT BY PLAYING POLITICS BUT BY THE 
     
     SIEHFLES COURAGE AND THE GOVERNMENTS LEADER- 
     
    

    
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     The Canadian people have suffered lsiravely throughout tlte world stmlfli" 
     
     a_nd they are making a heroic come-back today. Their heroism called for heroic‘ 
     
     leadership-matching the man and the hour. R. B. BENNETT NEVER 
     
     QUAILED, NEVER FAILED YOU IN THE CRISES. HE 
     
    
   
   
    
     BROUGHT CANADA "THROUGH. LEADING HEROIG a 
     
     p PEOPLE WAS A GREAT MAN, A GREAT STATESMAN. AND 
     
    
   
   
    
     -IABOVE ALB-IA GREAT CANADIAN. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     _ VOTEMCONSERVATIVE, -- prong A GREAT‘ POLICY; 
     
    
   
   
    
     Published for the Conservative Committee