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Province To Benefit By Federal Road Grant.

Liberal Propaganda Against Highway Grant Ex-, ploded By Hon .R. Bennett In His Great! Speech At Charlottetown Saturday Night. Conservative Leader Deals Trenchantly With

New Zealand Butter Issue.

to stimulate and encourage it in ev- ery way possible by making grants to the Provinces in proportion to their population, to enable the prov- inces to command the most scientif- ic methods of agriculture and bring them to the attention of the people.

'I‘liis is an age of science. an age o! organization. an age of advance- ment. The changes are all about us. How can the farmer keep in touch with this increasing scientific know- ledge and use it to the best advant- age? We made the grants to the

‘ ﬁe following report of the mem- “his speech delivered by I-lon. R. 5 Bennett, the Conservative leader, m July 5th, at the strand Theatre, gmarlottetown, is continued mun yesterday's Guardian:

The policies of a Government con- gt (z! legislation and trade treaties g bargains, Tariff legislation, com- mercial legislation, trade treaties and conventions-they all affect the life end destinies of the country. Let me put this to you: What has the King Government done with regard to ald-

h; Provinces to stimulate this process. (u) _Ag'rlculture? Mr. King found those grants in force (b) Industry? when he took office. l-Ie discontinued

(o) The general life of the country ﬂ reflected by trade treaties and conventions?

money for agriculture. Well, ladies and gentlemen, if we are returned on the 28th of ‘this month, n appar- The Basis Industry ently the Canadian people desire we l should be, we are going to renew the ‘Those are fair questions. By them grant to agriculture. (Applause). I any Government should be prepared an: mo. going to spend any time en- oo has its record studied and con- deavoring to convince you whether lidered. Agriculture is the basic in- we are going to do it or not; because dustry o! Canada. It still ls, because we are going to do it. And if we by using intelligent effort on the soil, don't do it, 1 want the supporters in live stock and dairy production, whom you elect from this Province in the growing of fruits and veget- to vole against us. ables, men can in a. season or two or three convert into new wealth the raw products of our country. And new wealth thus produced is the great consideration that we have in view. So agriculture still remains the basicindustry. What has the King Government done for agriculture? I went you to listen to me only for a few moments on that score tonight. 1st. They discontinued the grant that the Federal Government made h the Provinces for Agriculture. I recall Sir I-tobcrt Borden's discus- sion in connection with this matter when I first went to Parliament. Realizing that agriculture is the basic industry of Canada, we endeavored

ROAD GRANTS

But agriculture cannot thrive that way alone. You must have good roads. You must be able to reach your markets. And in the Provinces alone you know you can only collect revenues by direct taxation, I sup- pose moet of you think you are taxed enough? But the Dominion Govern- ment collects money by every form of taxation, Customs, Excise, income tax, etc. I think they collected some- thing over $20,000,000 from cigar- ettes and tobacco. We said we pro- pose to give grants of money to en- able Provinces to build better roads.

'Hurrah For Saint Peters

And It’s Annual Big Day, g WEDNESDAY, JULY 16

SAINT PETERS RACE TRACK is justly famed as one of the finest and fastest in this province, and the speed contests given there yearly are among the best of the season. This year will be no exception. In fact we can promise the public that they will see the best yet on the above date.

The CLASSES are arranged to bring together ‘the very FASTEST and best performers in the prov- lnce. All the leading owners have been interviewed and say they will be ready for the starter's bell.

The Classes are as follows: i

FREE FDR JILL’ TROT AND PACE, PURSE $250.00 2.24 CLASS TROT AND PACE ,. . . . . PURSE $250.00 2.28 CLASS TROT AND PACE . . . . . PURSE $200.00

In mixed classes trotters will be allowed three seconds. Races start at two o'clock standard time, three o'clock daylight saving. The above will be raced on the three heat plan. every heat a race. Ten per cent. of the purse will be given to the winner of the race, balance divided into three parts to be di- vided in the usual manner. Five per cent. to enter. no deductions from money winners. Eligibility certi- ficates must be presented.

The meals will be served by the ladies of Rollo Bay parish and the best of ice cream and refresh- ments will be on hand. The grounds will be made as attractive as possible and the track will be covered with “anti-dust" so as to insure comfort to our pat- rons. The Management assure all a good time can be expected if they attend.

In the evening a show and dance will take place in Saint Peter's Rink with orchestra accompaniment so that those who desire to stay over for this can secure their evening meal at the grounds and be all ready for the evening's fun.

Be sure and come and bring your friends. A special train will leave Charlottetown at nine o'clock standard time, ten o'clock daylight saving time, with race horses and passengers from Charlottetown and will connect with train bringing race horses from ._$ummerslde at Royalty Junction.

ALBERT QUIGLEY. Secretary Saint Peters Bay Race Track

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them. Be does not believe in giving -

to supply that service was to give an order to build a car ferry; and though the War was on the bout was ﬁnished, as you know, in I015. (Ap- plause). Why? Because a promise had been given to do it. Now you have been demanding ahother boat after nine years. 1 think the order for the boat has been given. I SHOULD HOPE THAT ‘IT-IE CON- SERVATIVE GO WILL BE ABLE TO HAND IT OVER T0 YOU m 19:1. (Applause).

Subsidy Increases I recall sir Robert Borden, after the election of 1911, saying: "We have got to do something more for Prince Edward Island. They cannot survive unless their subsidy grant is larger." So it was increased by $100,-

000. Then Mr. J. D. Stewart came to I do not know what money was ex-

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farmers of this country? OF COURSE I DON'T. (Loud applause). . EITHER, THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT KNOW WHAT IVAS GO- rrm To HAPPEN-AND r1" SHOULD HAVE—OR IT DIDN'T CARE. THERE IS NO HALF-WAY HOUSE ABOUT IT. (Applause). _ What do you have Governments for? You expect them to make bar- gains better than you can yourself. or you wouldn't have them there. THEIR BUSINESS IS TO KNOW. THEIR. BUSINESS IS T0 SEE. THEIR BUSINESS IS TO STUDY,‘ THEIR BUSINESS IS TO [FINDER-f STAND. You cannot do that; you haven't the time or the information at hand. You trust them to do it. Now what happened in this case? The Conservative party in the House of Commons pointed out what would

‘Ottawa and said: "We can't get along in Prince Edward Island unless we get some taxes on Government property." And I am glad to say he made a better bargain than the qth- er men did for he got $40,000 a year. (Applause).

pended here under the Federal High- ways plan instituted by the former Conservative administration, but I was informed in Summersida that forty per cent of the cost of Water Street, in that town, was made up from the grant received to this Prov- ince; and doubtless you are aware of the extent to which Queen's County also has benefited. But Mr. King says, "No more." He did not believe in giving revenue in that way, and he discontinued those grants.

THE HOME MARKET

But you have got to have some- thing else. You have got to have

been doing to get you mariets for ihe last eight or nine years? And. men and women, there is only one market that you have a right to. That is your home market; and the home market means the Canadian market,—-not somebody else’s mar- ket. You have a right to the Can- adian market. HAVE YOU GOT IT? Do you know that these Maritime Provinces do not produce sufficient agriculturally to feed their own peo- ple? They have to go abroad to buy meat and vegetables at times, and dairy products as well. Why? Because the King Guvwl merit doe not know how to make treaties, so they made one with Australia ivhiph provided that Australia would give us a better chance in their markets for fish and wood pulp and paper and automo- biles and a few things like that, and we would buy their raisins at a high- er price than anybody else paid for them, and we would buy their butter at a cent a pound duty. But Austral-

ia has a law by which they put a

When I looked at this Island to- bounty on me export“ butter: so

d“ and saw ‘he opporfunlties ‘Dries soon as Australian butter came the development of tourist traffic Iv

in we put the dumping clause into realized that there are greater obli- If d h it t H’ m Th gations than ever for mo to see that 1e ect an s “t o“ a age e1 e

~ Australians said that was not fair u“ Province‘ h“ "an! h‘ a“! of dealing because we knew before the

good roads. (Applause). The same t‘ v m h ‘h h d thing is true in Nova Scctia and New {ma} “as m e l at ' ey a a

Highway Benefits

There are some people now trying to excuse Mr. King's action ‘by talk- ing about a Canadian transcontin- ental highway which they say it is our purpose to build. That is just begging the question. We proposed a Canadian highway for three reasons:

1st. To enable more efficient and effective roads to be provided.

2nd. To relieve the Provinces of the expenditure for trunk lines and thereby enable them to build better side-line roads.

3rd. Here is where the national side of it comes in: Because of the tourist trade. Do you know what the tourist trade in Canada was last year on automobiles alone? $208,000,000. The revenues of this Province last year, I would suppose, was about one million dollars. Just think of that. And you can only get tourist traffic if you have good roads.

b t th ' t f bt . Brunswick and Western Canada. Dun y on eh. up“ a u m.

Nevertheless we shut them out. But That. too, is what the farmers must in September’ 1925, the Prime Mm_ have. They must have transportation

i ister, speaking at Woodstock, Ontario, and a little later 1n western Can- ada, said it was all nonsense to ar-_ gue that that treaty could hurt the Canadian dairy industry. Why, he said, Australia is too far away. "And if it should so happen," he said, “I will' take steps to stop it, because you can cancel the. treaty in three

by highway, by railway, and by sea- way.

Narrow Gauge Handicap

“Railway? How is the farmer going to compete in the world markets if he has to have two gauges in one frovince. (Applause). Tell me how any country can do it? I confess to you that I fail to understand how any people can survive as agricultur- ists if they have to transport their goods partly by standard gauge and partly by narrow gauge. Remember, agriculture in this Province has to compete with agriculture in other countries where they have only one gauge oi’ railway, Where ‘they have two chances to succeed as against: one here. ‘That is the railway side of i

and this is 1930. It is something like

subsidy settlement, isn't it? Look at what happened! He extended that treaty to New Zealand by Order-iri- Council. Now an Order-in-Council is Just like a by-iaw in your City Coun- cil except that it is signed by the Government instead of your Mayor. No discussion; Just signed. And on that date this country was selling millions of pounds of butter to all the world. We had markets abroad and people were buying Canadian butter iri increasing quantities. But in 1929, four years later. the Canad- ian people were not making enough butter to meet their own wants, and 1 we bought last year 40,000,000 pounds of butter from New Zealand to sup- ply our own ieq-ilrementn-the dl-’ rect result of that lmprovident New} Zealand bargain. 5

Terminals? This is an Island. How are you going to get your tourists in and move your produce out? when you came into Confederation you were promised continuous communi- cation with the mainland. I recall one of the first actions 'of the Borden administration, made in consequence of a. promise of Sir Robert Borden

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Thursday, July l0 FOUR. CLASSES-A. B. C. AND D

A Canadian Creed

Empire? Of coune I do. Do I believe’ in lug-handled bargains? Of course I don't. Do I believe in bargains that‘ are mutually advantageous to Can-l ada and New Zealand? Of course I do. Do I believe in a bargain thatI destroys the Canadian dairy industry, that gives preference to New Zealand. farmers at the expense of the dairy

Fifty per cent gate receipts to be divided to winners in each class. Admission 25 cents and 35 cents.

Entries close July 7th. GORDON DAWSON. Secretary-

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markets. Tell me what Mr, King hss'

or four months." That was in 1925: I

the promised Prince Edward IsIandiOUR ARGUMENTS? ' plause).

Do I believe in bargains within the i 1

happen. Donald Sutherland, of North Oxford County, pointed it out. It has ,happened just as we predicted. Last year we bought 40,000,000 pounds ‘from New Zealand. This year we have 140,000 fewer milch cows than‘ we had two years ago. ‘This year we! have fewer live-stock. This year we‘ are buying more butter, more meat, ‘more mutton, more lambs. WHY? = BECAUSE WE GAVE THE CANAD- IAN MARKET T0 SOMEBODY ELSE AND TOOK IT AWAY FROM OUR. OWN PEOPLE. (Applause).

Prosperity, Says ‘Mr. King!

The Prime Minister of this coun- try told a meeting in Moncton the other night that the real reason the Canadian people were buying New Zealand butter was because they were [so prosperous. Canadian butter 'didn't suit their fastidious tastes, so lthey had to have New Zealand but- ’ fer; they were so prosperous. (Laugh- ter). I leave it to you, whether you fever heard anything in your life quit: .as ridiculous as that.

If Good, Why Cancel It!

And then, having proved all that Eto his own satisfaction, he wound up iby telling them what I am about to itell you, that in Parliament this year

the Conservatives moved to termin- ate that Order in Council at once ‘The Government moved an amen-l- ment to delay it uiziil they ccul-l make another treaty. and ori the firs‘ Vol Way the Finance Minister brcughv .in his Budget and provided that the iNew Zealand treaty was to be can- ‘cclled on the 12th cf October. ‘i What docs he moan? Does he mo" ‘that it is good when he saws it i" i one of the best treaties in the trnrirl‘ iOr does he mean that that it is i1.‘ JIWhen he cancelled ii? ms c.-i\"“ FIIAVE IT BOTH WA ". IAlFP-lani" ii will ask ihc new Flinsier of Flt!- ieries to explain that to him. (In . creased applause). IF IT WAS A BAD BARGAI.‘ THEN THEY IYERE RIGHT I‘ Tcaivcrzusixo 1r AND Tris: isiiouco HAVE cAxci-zntizo IT FLONG AGO. IF IT WAS A G001’; TREATY, THEN IVHY DID THE} iYIELD TO THE PRESSURE OI (Loud up

Well, you see. there is an electicr in the offing. They want to try to excuse their past by saying it was :- good treaty; and they want io tr)" and divert the attention of the Can- adian people from the punishment in

‘which they are entitled, and so they

say it is had and they are cancelling

it. (Applause). And what

meantime? THE COUNTRY IS EE-l

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