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AND AT Low. PRICES. = Ontario Observer. (The OMcial Pape of tio People.) FOUNDED iN 1887. A G N TO OANADA. 1V--Immg Jegration, Fin- ance and 1 To the Bitor of Tax OBsRvE: "8Sir,~Two facts connected with the much discussed but all too fittle practiced question of Immi- [ration are generally overlooked. STLY, THAT GOD DOES 'NOT GIVE HIS BLESSING ON- THE LAND UNTIL MEN HAVE DONE THEIR PART IN ITS CULTIVATION. - No corn, meat, fruit or dairy produce were exported from Crnada a hundred years ago, and none isgraised on three-fourths 'of its cultivatable areas at present. SECONDLY, LABOR IS CAPIT- AL IN ITS RAW STATE. In the creation of products labour is i the predominant factor, although in 'the distribution capital is foremost. Much of the capital spent on the country was first tilled from its soil by toil and labour. "We do not want the great Do- "inion to remain comparatively empty with 1.90 the square mile for 5.7, if only one-third of Canada i regrded as cultivated), while England has 618.0 and the United * States 30.9 on the same area res- pectively. The only way to avoid a war in #he pacific is to cease inviting other. Mations to occupy the empty areas "of Canada by leaving them entic- ingly unoccupied. They must be settled ; if with men who are train- ed soldiers the defence scheme will "Be greater. This is the only way ve a white population ia the ourth™ of Canada's "possible ming areas are. yet upoccupied, "There are TWO MILLION QUAR- TER SECTIONS OF LAND UN- "PRODUCING, and tempting alien invasion by their rich and undevel- * sped fertility. The time required and cost in- volved in placing troops on the _"battle-ground of Europe has shown i what would be the case were troops to be sent to defend Canada from glien peoples. It is, however, very doubtful whether the working ~ classes at home would agree to be "i taxed to keep large areas unpeopled By aliens which Canada might have filled up with British people if she Their earnings are not to provide themselves and their families with what should 'be the national minimum of food, clothes, houseroom and recrea- tion, and they argue that the money might better be spent in housing re- , wider roads and other forms of social relief at home. "The people of Canada should also mber that the cost of each soldier sent would be $1,000. ps also produce nothing, are taxpayers, and have to be feed. other hand, settlers produce times as much, as they con- , and are the principal taxpay- It is 'quite possible that any invading the country whether |. with peaceful settle- would pot wait suffici- tadvertisement elsewhere io our - FL "$0 be im- 'are made | under sweating & of labour The purchasers are there- ai employing ated labour, however indirectly, | whilst they themselves enjoy all the benefit of advanced labour legislation and reg- ulations. Moreover, the spending capacity of the workers is thus lost to the Dominion. = Every worker is algo an employer. His necessi make work for others, If a thousand more work- ers are permanently needed in the clothing factories, e.g. than are available, and * seven buadred only are introduced, these will each spend two hundred dollars ahead ($200) each year on food, housing and clothes . for themselves, and supply such'will require another two hun- dred workers, and their needs will require other workers, and so on, until we find that the introduction or exclusion of the first party means the annual i the Sony} s therwi 3 It is Canada and "the Empire at large which. will have suffer most in population from the effects of the war, as the Old Country's losses in numbers are made good by. the re- duction in Imperial Migration dur- ing the period of the War. Most students of labuor supply and employment questions at home are agreed that unemployment will be rapmant after Peace has been signed. Some are, however, doubt- ful of this ; but all are agreed that the numbers of ex-soldiers who will be anxious to come out and settle in the Empire as producers and de- fenders will be numbered in tens of thousands. They have lived in the fresh air and have eaten of the corn and farm produce of Canada, and do not wish toreturn to their former methods of existence. It is there- fore the duty of the people of Can- ada to arrange for their reception and distribution, as they will have risked their lives to defend the Do- minion. Yours faithfully, THOS. E. SEDGWICK. 33, Oriental Street, Poplar, London, E. July, 1915. Colonel Roosevelt declares that during the last' twelve months his country has played an ignoble part among the nations. Montreal News :--The American lady investigators who have been "doing" Europe 1n the interests of peace might try Mexico next. Chicago Herald: --- Everything suggests that the Mexican leaders would much rather-fight for a con- stitutional government , than get one. Toronto News :--TFhe supreme error of the pacifists isthe faith that man to-day is dowered with the ac- cumulated wisdom of the centuries. New York Telegraph :-- Edison, in a recent intreview, says] he owes all to his wife. Imagine a man's wife inspiring him to invent a talk: ing-machine,| Police Magistrate' Dennison, of | Toronto puts poker and stock- bling in the same class, and says both are stupid and dishonest. Or- der, please! Wm. R. Travers, former general manager of the Farmers' Bank, willic be released this month from the Kingston Penitentiary, where he has served well on to four years. A soldier, home from the Front, recuperating from wounds, says he sees three times as many young men in Yonge-street, Toronto, as are tu be seen in the Strand, Lon- don, England. The Western Canadian harvest will beat all previous records. And that is saying a great deal. The Tororto Globe says that if Sir Robert Borden "will announce that there shall be no general elec- ral Criti- at is asked m shall be cism shall cease. is that Liberal honest and decent. Since the war broke out 710 men have left Cobourg for active service at the front. A wonderful record »{ for a town of between four and five thousand, One of the 710 is Dr. Charles Eliott, of [port ? LYING M It will be seen "by Mr. Bigelow sue of this week that he wi the apples suitable for 'evi purposes grown: ithin | very large | k radius of Port Perry for which he is{ The Directorate "of prepared to pay the very highest Petry, Reach 'and Scugog. price. Farmers and others haying | tural Society never had | apples suitable for _evaporating, if idea. of breaking faith public in this communi trict adjoining and the fail years since of the Flying failing 'to fly - was po' faul Society, and in justice fo Directorate as well as. the from no other consideration, will from patriotic motives, see that no commodity that can_be - utilized during thie war shall be allowed to go to waste, so that if the, crop is not large all small apples will doubtless be evaporated and Mr. Bigelow will pay a good figure' for all delivered at his evaporator," To give some idea of the expense of evaporator, besides wages paid to the émployees, Mr. Bigelow the other day at the mine,' in the United States paid $37 op for {= a car of coke, on which be $79: for Fair authorities to 3 that they: have secured running an Age--a Flying: Machine Aviator of renown who § v of y DESIAES Pi wat » making a total of $133.65. The proptietor of the evaporator, 'being an uncompromising supporter of the Allies, said he did not mind the |° war tax but the freight charges were out of sight and regretted absence of coal mines and their accessories in Canada. PersonaL.--Mr. George Powers, of Rochester, N. Y,, is making the town of his birth, Port Perry, a short visit, and during his sojourn here is the guest of his mother, Mrs. John Powers, Ontario Street. The young man has resided in the United States long enough, sixteen years, to appreciate the many ad- vantages and privileges to be ob- tained, and residing in one of its metropolitan cities he has some conception of the push and energy displayed in order to accomplish wonderful feats in every walk of life; the city of his adoption, Rochester, being roted for its great achievements in Art and Science. Mr. Powers is a fine specimen of manhood and bis appearance: indi- cates that he is a grand success at his calling. While in town he made Tue Onserver staff a pleasant call. Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Hossack, announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Ross, te h- Reid, son of Mrs. Hogh Toronto; The w 'place quietly. on Sep The Rev. Dr. Robert Johnston of Montreal is 6 feet 6 inches, the Rev. Dr. McPhail of Pittsburg is 6 feet 4 inches, the Rev. Dr. McMillan, late of Lindsay, is 6 [eet 4} inches, and the Rev. F. W. Anderson, of Oril- lia, is 6 feet 4 inches, Yet they were all brought up the Shorter Catechism. A New York paper asks for Can- ada's views on the Mexican itua- tion. Canada's view, no.doubt; 'is that the United States, while chara- cteristically - ready to appropriate the advantages accruing: to it. from the Munroe Doctrine, shows 'no disposition to recognize the "gorres- ponding obligations involved§ = The Lexington, Kentucky, Leac- er has 'the following : "A -Guigue and interestipg relic in the shape of a pair of home-made "baby shoe; made back in the good old: ploveer historical society at Frankfort. cently by Col. C. E. Merrill, the widely known ex-Confedéfate and {o'clo retired journalist of this ny. The great. eatgrariiaion: and have been worn by three generations 'of of the Merrill family--his -great- grandfather, his' grandfather avd