Show THE CANADIAN PRESS Halifax X Herald No country can afford af af- af ford to its Ita agricultural Interests BritaIn has been doln doing so for half a century cen ecu tury but she has learned or soon will wll learn better The farmers are the Indispensable ladle India and indestructible clement o of at every great nation Toronto Globe It n has been estimated by a distinguished visitor that Toron Toron- spend 1333 1233 a a. year rear per head on liquor and collect only 53 cents per head headIn In taxation J Evidently we wo are drinking too much levying too little or both St. St John Telegraph Since 1896 Canada Canada Can Can- ada has prospered Except for occasional checks due to financial depression throughout the most of the world the dominion has gone forward with gatherIng gatherIng gather gather- Ing speed and this year finds it more hopeful and confident than ever Ottawa Citizen The generous mother mothe country has Indicated again and again that If the time should ever como come if we ve can conceive the possibility that tho the peo peo- pie of Canada should undergo a change of ot heart and desire to sever the bond Britain would wish us luck and let us go When we are such a loyal people and so gladly acknowledge the sovereignty of his majesty as Sir Wilfrid has described 1 It cannot be pleasant to such people to be gratuitously gratuitous suggesting that it would be possible to twist the Interpretation of the bond to prove that we are further away Instead of nearer to Britain and the emr em em- pire If we were suffering g from real o or r Imaginary gln grievances c ff there gm m might Tb be some sense In it at least from a political stand tand- point But Hut frankly In tho the clear dear light o of common sense it Is becoming a bit tire tire- some Montreal Gazette From answers to questions In parliament It appears that tha the government is sharing in negotiations the purpose of which Is to secure the closure of the tho Pacific ocean to Canadian sealing craft It is being alleged in the United States that unless all hunters are aro forbidden to pursue the sealing Industry tI tile herd will be destroyed Canadians may not desire to see the last of the fu fur seals disappear but they still less desire desiro to see assent given to anything that will wil put them in a position on the high seas inferior to that which other countries hold The negotiations had better be stopped than carried on in the tho expectation tion that Canada will be he deprived of a common International right |