Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 8, 1911, Page 13

RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA AS THE FARMER SEES IT (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) T'm a pretty fair Granger, as Gran- &ers go. I am a cherter member of WMy grange, a past lecturer and past master, and have been lectuter of my Pomona, It would hardly fair to acouse me of disloyalty to the order, and even of i erence to its welfare. But I confess I am chafing at the way in which the national officers have succeeded In wtysn& it, officially, against reciprocity with Canada. On this large question of international statesmanship, the national officers have chosen to take the reactionary side and have di the grange it- self over the them. At leas they have succeeded in inducing vari ous grange meetingg to indorse their stand. To the autside world they rep. resent the whole body and congress- men are being bembarded with ap- nec's to eppose the reciprocity agree- ment because “the grange is ag'in’ it “iue acuiers are agin’ it As I've said, I'm a Granger; also a farmer. In the last month, talking the matter over with other Grangers and farmers, I've found a great many ‘who are not opposed to the reciprocity treaty; who are distinctly in favor of 1 Tndeed, nearly all with whom I've b the chance to exchange views belleve in the idea, though none of us pretend to understand all the details of the proposed agréement. Nor, of course, are any of us prophets to foreses and foretell just exactly how it will work in every little clause. Tt is too bad, we of this opinion feel, that the great body we all belong to should ha: aken a Bourbon view. It s worse yet “at we who believe in progressive nelg, “orliness should be put in the seemi * position of in- dorsing and support.ag an opposition we really condemn. If .1 were alone in my feeling—just a.single crank flocking all by myself—I would ‘keep atill and save ink But if a majority of us in this one little corner are rest- ive in the attitude the national officers have forced us into, it is reasonable to suppose that thers are others, else- where, equally dissatisfied. 1 don't ‘want to leap into the arena as an antagonist of the national master and t. But I do feel that those officers misrepresent ought to have some sort of spokesman, in Justice to themselves, even if they be & hopeless minority—which it is very far from being proved that they are. When this country first took up the policy of protection, It s to afford protection to our “Infant industries.” ‘hen those industries had reached maturity d full growth, the policy wag adhered to in order to maintain the higher American standard of and lving. If, in some ca. tariff levied on imported goods to pro- tect Amerlcan industries and Ameri- can labor has resulted in a temporary increase in the price of American- produced goods, that has been an evil we have accepted and borne, for the make of a greater good. But, a5 a pro- tectionist myself of fixed conviction, I mever before heard of anyone seri- ougly defending protection merely and solely as a priee-booster. Yet, so far as 1 am able to make out, that is the very thing which is being harped upon to arouse opposition to the Canadian reciprocity agreement. - That is to say, we are asked to take a certain line of action because that said line sustains one of the evils we protectionists have hitherto sought to excuse, but never to defend. e have pleaded that oc- casional and temporary high prices be borne patiently for the sake of a much more important and permanent good. But now we seem to be asked to array ourselv in defense of high prices, for themselves. I, for one, decline to be wheedled or dragooned or lassooed into any such corral, And, as I have #aid, T find there are others who agrec with me. As to the details of the proposed agreement, there has been a good deal on both sides. How it will work, dopted, the Lord only knows, for But it promises some advan- tages to us, looking at it solely from the selfish point of vi For ono thing, our fo things of the 4 ve cut them and slashed them till now we sudden- 1+ find ourseives confronted with their Deli and gentiy reared, women will find in #li Use scazons of their lives, as maid- ens, wives and mothers, that the one simple, wholesome laxative remedy, which acts gently and pleasantiy-and | naturally and which may be taken at any time, when the system needs a laxative, with perfect safety and real- Iy beneficial effocts, 18 Syrup of Figs end Elixir of Senna. It has that true delicacy of flavor which is so refreshing to the taste, that warming and grateful toming to the stomach which responds. so favor- ably to its action and the laxative ef- flect which is =0 beneficial to the sys- fem when, ocedsionally, cleansing s required. The genuine, always bearing the pame of the Cslifornia ¥ig Syrup Co., Toay be purchased from ell leading druggists in original packages of on¢ size only, price fifty cemts per bottle. ———e MARSH’S PIANO BARGAINS CAMERON; mahogany returned renta Sale price. SCHUMAN & y case; factory sample; ly $200.—Sale price....... CAMERON; Colonjal; mahog- any case; used a menths only; regularly $350.—Sale price... HUNTINGTON ; ma- £7 0y used; 25 se regularly D Marsh atel, , F?ormed its gentle | | lieved trom paying high duties on them. tan S. MARSH finish. We have but a very few more years' supply if we keep on at present rates of lumbering. Nay, we are not able, even now, to get all we need of certain sorts for certain uses from our own woods. The price of lumber Nas been going up for years and is still climbing. Even at present exorbitant rates, we cannot get in our own bor- ders all the pulp wood we need for| paper nor all the lumber we reed for building. We are bringing in from | “anada over $18,000,000 worth of rough | lumber, such as is used in housebuild- { ing, every vear, and the reciprocity agreement would save us $1,250,000 a year on that item alone, if we import | no_mora than now. We farmers have | to build barns and houses, too, since we have graduated from the tree-men and cave-men class, and mighty few of us in the east are able to cut the lum- | ber for them in our own woods. The | raciprocity agreement makes rough ! lumbep. entirely free, opening to us all | the forests of Canada, hundreds of thousands of acres, wherein never vet | has been heard the sound of axe or| saw. Whether it would reduce the! cost of a new barn to me or mnot, the | throwing open of this new supply | would at least tend to give our own timber a chance of life and be a direct | conservation of our own resources. The pretence that reciprosity with Canada would expose farmers to com- petition with cheaper land and cheape labor is largaly a pretence and nothing more. The report of the tariff board, transmitted to the senate last session, shows that the values of occupied farm lands in Canada are higher than the values of similar lands in our own border states, except in the northwest. | “In the New England border states— Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont— land values fall below those in al the eastern provinces (of Canada), except New Brunswick, where the value iis th> same as in Vermont, and slightly lass than in Maine and New Hamp- shire.” Michigan and Minnesota lands both average $4 an acre less than On- tario land. The prices of Manitoba, Albert Saskatchewan and British Columbia lands are advancing much faster than the prices of land this side of the line. As to wages of farm labor, they are practically about the same in Canada and the United States, except in the extreme east. They grow higher to the westward in both ¢ountries. There is also a direct advantage given to many farm products of the United States by opening to them the markets of a country where they can- not be as successfully grown. Already we are selling Canada about $1.000,000 worth of vagetables every year and shall sell her more when she is re- Last vear the fruit growers of the United States sold Cana, under vari- ous rates of duty. o $1,250,000 T worth of fresh fruits, whila we import- ed from Canada only $233,000 worth. Reciprocity here seems to help us about five times as much as the Cana- dians. There are scor items in which can be found a decided advantage to us of the United States. But figures | and statistics are hard reading. Let! me add, they're not exhilirating writ- ing ,either! Really, they're not so aw- fully important. - There are other ways | to look at the thing. There are other | elements to be considered. Canada and the United States are neighbors—next- | door neighbors. There is nothing but | .maginary line running | through | three thousand miles ake and river | and prairle and mountain to separate us. There's nothing sacred about that | eyor-drawn line. There's nothing | in it to change human nature—noth- | ing to change neighbors into enemies. | At present it's a government conven- ience; nothing more. There's a line| separating _Connecticut from Massa- | chusetts. But not one man in ten go- ing from Narwich to Worcester or Palmer knows when he crosses it. Con- necticut has its own sovereign state government. So has Massachusetts. But neither one keeps up a barbed- wire fence against the other, mor| builds custom houses to take toll from | interstate traffic. I do not say that| we should consider Canada—a state under a foreign government—in exact- | Iy the mame light as our sister in the Union, Massachusetts. But she is our | neighbor, just the same, and the duty | of neighborliness is only less impera tive than that of self-defense. There| s no reasonable ground for fearing serious attack from Canada, either armed or economic. Therefore, with | her, our highest mu good neighbors. very highest statesmanship. tual duty is to be | Moreover, 1t is the| ideal of far-sighted | It is by nmo means olear that the advantages of reciproeity to us would not he greater than the advantages to Canada. But, in any case, while the should, of course, be considered, the: should not be made the ruling factor | in the problem. It should be approach- | ed on a higher plane and considered in | a_nobler spirit. Great governments | sHould not_seek to split hairs in bar- gaining. Kindred and neighbor; tions should not haggle iver p profits, like hucksters in « They should take larger and longer i idering ihe future even > present, and remember- ing that times may come when a friend by one’s side is better than an enemy at one’s back. . ARME Those Loud Colors. Again we have entered the jo season when the smell of fresh pai is heard In the land.—Pittsburg Chron- icle-Telegraph. Aldrieh. for reciprocity! Wonder he can recognize himself when looks in the glass.—Buffalo Time: it | he | CAMERON; mahogany case; used in store regularly $350.—Sale price $275. oak case, taken in change for piano-player: regu- larly $250.—Sale price. . O nicely decorated; only; $75. ANGELUS: mahogany case, in fine condition; regularly $250.— Sale price .. S ok PIANOLA; ebonized case fect repair regularly Sale price . 230-252 State Stu New Lendon; Cons ! New London’s Horticuifi;fgl Society to Pro- mote Rearward Beauty ] A FLAT SCHEDULE FOR CARPENTERS Central Wharf Rebuilt—The Need of a New Town Clock —Canvas Covers for Garbage Carts——Licensed Scaven- gers Must Not Litter Health and Beauty at the Mouth of Thames. Heretofore the city fathers have al- ways found ways and means to meet all emergencies and there is no valid reason why delay should continue in placing a new town clock in the stee- ple of the First Church of Christ. The present worn-out timeplece is beyond repair after a service beyond the years allotted to the life of man, and it ig a black eve to progressive New London to have its official town clock at a standstill, or giving out incorrect time when it is coaxed to run for short periods. Better no clock at all than the old one in the church tower, for then there would be an end to the talk that is detrimental to the up-to- dateness of the city. Some time ago, Alderman James F. O'Leary of the public property com- mittee ‘made report that the old clock had outlived itself and to install a new timepiece, with electric lights to illumine the face at night, would cost $6060. The committee had no money to do the work and the alderman made appeal to the court of common coun- cil and it was decided by the coun- cil that there was no money available at present time for a new clock, but it was voted that an appropriation for a new clock would be recommended at the first special city meeting that was eld. That was all that Alderman ©'Leary could do. He put it up to the council and the council will put the matter up to the city at the first op- portunity, provided the vote adopted is honored. But there is need of that clock and it 1s needed now, and it would seem as if the wise aldermen in their wisdom would find a way to get that clock in position, pending the action of the ccial city meeting yet to be called. Such things have been done before and can be done again, for the people want the town clock; not only by reason of the convenience but for the good name of the town. The lack of the time- honored timepiece i not in keeping with the present progressive efforts to make New London grow. _Ever since the coinage of the an- cient phrase, the parson told the sex- ton and the sexton tolled the bell, the clock in the steeple of the First church has ticked off the time until the present collapse and the ancient custom of ringing the bell at noon and at nine o'clock at night, the curfew, still prevails, and thereby emphasizes tne mockery of the silent town clock. Tt is a matter of too much moment to be del d, Micawber-like, and the sooner a relfable town clock is placed in_the old position, the sooner public confidence will be restored in the city fathers who manage municipal mat- ters. Special city meetings have been call- ed for matters of less importance and If a special is absolutely necessary in order to restore signs of activity rath- er than decay in public progress, that call should be issued forthwith. This timely topic is entitled to the early consideration of the aldermen of the city of New London, It was announced at the recent meet- ing of the court of common council that the newly formed horticultural society was about io undertake the beautification of the city and that the result of their work in that direction would be appreciable before the real opening of the summer season. In or- der that this work should go forward to success it was explained that it was esgential that the society mem- bers should have the hearty co-opera- tion of the whole people, including the city officials, and that it was up to the proper rather than the individual to set the pacing example. So a start was made which may. help some, es- pecially in .the early morning, The garbage collectors must have canvas covers for their carts so that no part of the stuff collected will drop to the streets, and the licensed fellows who go through the garbage receptacles bafore the regular collector comes along will not be permitted to scat- ter any of the contents on the side- walk after delving for paper or any- thing else that can be sold for junk. The policemen will also assist in the work by seeing to it that all garbage receptacles after being emptied are returned . immediately tp the vard or| building from the sidewalk. Health Officer Black will make a tour of the back yards as soon as he returns from his military tour of duty on the Mexican frontier, and will see to it that all disease-breeding piles.are removed, and the maver will probably issue a public request that all. baeck ds be cleaned -by a given time to d the horticultural society in making ew London a cisaner and even healithier city than in the past. It is understood that representatives of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company will unite with the city in this general spring cleaning and put in tidy order their rty beside the tracks from the Shaw cove bridge to the trestle work i Vinthrop cove. Almost the whole ‘e is now in an unkept condi- tion and is e a discredit to the rail- road company and to the city. Such a condition can hardly be known to the | department of the raiirond company having such matters in charge, as it a general principle of this great railroad to keep its property in the es and towns where located in a presentable condition. Now that New London is on the map, it is proposed to make onz of its attractjons its gen- eral cleanliness, which someone once said is next to godliness. It will be a happy day, perhaps in the millenium, wh:nyllbar and- capital, or, more properly, employer and em- ploye, can adjust wags and work hours amicably and without resort to strike, which is detrimental to all concerned, win or Jege. This strike business is t liah! and 2mployes that can never i, and where the best-of feeling had previously existed the one will look_upon the other not with eyes of friendship. Instead of pulling to- gether for the good of both sides, these strikes are liable to cause a pulling apart spirit that usually proves to be a general loss. Men have the right to organize and set the price upon the value of their labor to them, they have the right to demand for that labor their set price, and all that sort of thing. But in’ all these matters the man that must figure to get work for the other fellows and get together -the wherewithal to pay the men wages ould be given some consideration, Just a little. There is just now on in New Lop- don a_strike of the union carpenters. who demand an incrzase in pay of from 23 to $3.50 for an eight-hour work day. and no difference is made in the wualif vations of the workmen; the competent “and the incompetent, too, 1 Then, create a breach hotween the | Streets—A Move on fcr must get that $3.50 per day, no more, no less, for all carpenters are allke in this respect in New London. No distinction is made between the work- man who can hsrdly drive a nail straight and who never served full apprenticeship and the man who can do any kind of carpentering work, one who can commence and end any kind of ‘a job and one who has served a full apprenticeshipin the general trade of ‘carpentering. Some of the master builders opanly declare willingness to pay competent mon the increased pay, but chiect to paying the same wages to men who are not worth half the amount in comparison. again, it is claimed that to demand an increese of pay of 33 a weak is fore then the business in New London warrants at the present time. One of the contractors said that he was disposed to treat his men fairly, but _he did not consider the demands justiiable. He pald that building has been dull in New London for the past three years and that he paid his help 318 a week, about the same as he paid himself, which was all that be could use for the support of himself and fymily. He told his employes when they talked strike this fact, and the satisfaction given him was that he must get more for his contract work. Which sounds well to all ex- cept the fellow who wants to have a little home of his own, but which is delayed by reason of the high cost of labor and material. This contractor sald he belleved the master builders would have been satisfied to grant a reasonakble increasa to avoid the strike and its consaquent disarrangement of Dbusiness. Fie had hopes that the whole matter would be satlsfactorily adjust- ed in the very near future and that all of the men would return to work. He said there was some work commencad that must be completed and if neces- sary non-union men from elsewhere would be called {n to do the work and given permanent amployment, but that would be a last resort. is commonly known as Central d just in the rear of the union rajlway “station,” has been re- built, newly planked and the piles above the wharf surface paintasd, with a beard fence on the north boundary line, making a waterfront enclorure that is at once attractive and in keep- ing with the city plan of beautification. This is the wharf where the stzamer Block Island Janded prior to the steamer’s passage into the ownership of the New Engiand Navigation com- pany. The northern boundary of this wharf i3 about on the line of the old Prison street line and was the slip of water that {t was supposed the city owned and which was located between the Bishop wharf, so-called, and_the steamboat properfy where the Nor- wich line steamers formerly berthed. ‘When the site for the present rail- road station was purchased it was generally supposed that the water- front at the foot of Prison, now At- lantic, street was reserved by tha city, but years afterwards it was ascertain- ed that this was a mistake. When the baggage room now north of the station was being planned the city au- thorities filed robjection, as tha build- ing would cloge this particular water- front. It was finally decided that the railroad compamy had the right to build as projected and that the ecity had no waterfront privileges at the foot of Atlantic street, and none in the vicinity save the Groton ferry slip and the space occupied by the adjoining fish market; also the right to use the waterfront upon which the railroad station proper abuts and which is now utilized as a public boat landing. What wharf, locat ' TO TRAIN POLICE DOGS. New Kennels Started in Norwalk the First the United States. Norwalk will have the first kennzls in the United States for the training of Belgian police dogs in -attack and de- fense, says the Norwalk Hour. The steamship Manitou, arniving in Boston on Wednesday, brought four splendid paiice dogs for the Josse Hannsens company, which will start the training | kennele. The animals are from the {‘best Belgian kennels. They will be seen at the show of the Long Island Kennel club in Brooklyn on May 30. This strain _has won high awards wharever exhibited in Europe. Josse Hannsens is a graduate of the Ypres Schaol of Cavalry, which ranks with the Saumur sehool. He is considered ia superior trainer of dogs as well as of horses. Among the dogs for Norwalk are two Berger de Groenendael and two Bar- ger de Malines, purely Belgian breeds, enlisted by most of the police depart- ments in Europe. Troopar Hannsens says they are ideal watchdogs, while their high in- telligence leads them to discriminate between burglars or dangerous trés- passers and peaceful persons and friend, Splendid comradess, on foot or horseback, they are the admiration of all true lovers of fine dogs, he holds. The European police departments, as well as the New York police, have sa- cured good results with -these animals. Associated with Mr. Hannsens is { Henri Duardin, a well known trainer. | The Frank F. Clark place has been Jeased for a considarable time and here the dogs will be bred and trained. Mr. Hannsens comsiders it an ideal location. Kennel building will shortly be started. N Haven Station Delay. The New Haven road in an official statement says that work on the new station will not besin until the requi- site extent of land is secured. This means. copsiderable delay, as the mat- ter of taking land i before the rai road commissioners and there might be necessity for an appeal to the courts. | Owes Vote of Thanks. Mr, Bryan says he refuses to dis- cuss Governor Wilson as a possible presidential — candidate. 1t strikes us that the doetor owes Mr. Bryan a vote of thanks—Philadelphia Inquirer. The Better Way. How much better it would be for the Beef Trust to-plead guilty and throw itmelt on the mercy of the court. It has money_enough to pay the fine.— Pittsburg Posl... /One of Many Kinds. ‘There are various kinds of fools, but the one who neglects his work in the interest of the other fellow gets the least out ‘of his foolishness.—Atchison Globe. Also to Sidesten Others, You will observe that Colonel Roose- velt ig still able to pass a given point at the same old place.—Chicago News, inspection, ings, Shoes, Hats and Caps. Piece Goods. TODAY at 8.1 WE WILL GLADLY WELCOME ALL OF OUR OLD CUSTOMERS AND AS MANY NEW ONES AS WILL FAVOR US WITH THEIR PATRONAGE. On the first floor we will carry a complete line of Men’s and Boys’ Clothing, Furnish- 252 Main Street, We wish to announce to the public of ffobwiqh and vicinity that we will open our New Store at 252 Main Street, Franklin Square, Norwich, Conn., for public ] The second is devoted entirely to Ladies’, Misses’ and Infants’ Wear, Notions and' . With a fifty-cent purchase or over we give away a Beautiful Silver Butter Knife. This Knife is finished with Rogers’ Heavy Nickel Silver Plate. You may make our store your headquarters, as we are where all the cars stop and we hope you will become better acquainted with us. You will receive prompt and courteous attention from our clerks. The store will open at 8.15 a. m. this morning, April 8th, 1911. The National Shoe & Glothing Go. - Franklin Square Use of Applause. There is a place and time for manual acclamation, but it is not always in season or appropriate. It is at t a poor way of manifesting approval. A thoughtful person who has just lis- tened to a fine performance of a sym phony or a stirring apostrophe from an | orator must feel that to bring one’s hands together repeatedly and noisily is a lame and impotent mathod of showing how deeply one has been af- fected. But no better method, as yet, has ‘been devised. As a matter of fact, as there ara “thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears” so there are emotions roused sometimes by the performance of music which seem to us to tran- scand any possible outward demonsira- tion; we are so deeply moved that we are silenced. confused—as may easily with a failure in appreciation. quite the contrary. Applause, spontaneous and unforeed, 1t is This result is not to be | happen— | is a great inspiration te one who ap- pears in public and through any me- dium is attempting to make his cause prevail or his message heard. The ap- plause of a hired claque, the prolonged artificial enthusiasm when a standard bearer is nominated at a political con- vention, is a very different matter. Ap- lause means nothing if it is inspired by any other motive than appreciation and the desire to indicate cordial and disinterzsted approval. — Philadelphia Ledger. Vocation of Motherhood. ‘What would most of us have been if motherhood had not been a vocation, a deep, o serious, an all-demanding vo- cation, when we were born? Whence came the first, the final impress of character, the bent that ma%kes or mars? In what school was the learning which is life itseif acquired? For grown man or grown woman the an- swer is the same. The anclent voea- icha April' ShowersBring T ripps it R oo bring colda gripve and dher,opting comple | Ao hel youpxgid.'. SR e Fim.o.us v ale A =) 7 f o .name TR tion of motherhood is responsible ter the best that we acquire. In the days of half-cynical youth we ara generally prone to look with & cer- tain skepticism on the ascription of the strong man’s strength, the good man’s goodness and the successful man's success in large part te mother. Before lifes' larger experi- ences coms it seems a harmless sort of conventional courtesy, meaning practically nothing; a tribute. not plain historical and hiegraphical truth. But as the years go by and the vision grows broader and life’s lessons be- come clearer we understand the truth that lies beneath the conventional ex- pression. We realize how greatly the vocation of motherhood has shaped our own lives and the lives of other men.— Chicago Inter-Ocean. Waiting for Wall to Fall. Nevertheless, Hon. Porfiric Dias in- sists that he .ds unable to see any handwriting on the wall.—Chicage Rec- ord-Herald.