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Show CANADIAN ON THE WAR PATH t'ur Canadian friends are somewhat disturbed over the rale of exchange Which causes Canadian money to suf fat a heavy discount. Recently the editor of tho Chealey Enterprise crossed the border to make purchaser in the United States and. when he re-turned re-turned home, he was so perturbed he-wrote he-wrote Ihe following: This "Uncle Sam" exebahga gets our goal, lie is no uncle of ours. We wouldn't even acknowledge ac-knowledge hl&) as a step-father or a forty-second cousin. We had jusi recovered from the shock of 2Gc lor ax change on three meals amounting to $1.80 last summer at Buffalo when v.e got another Illustration Il-lustration on a smaller scale of how our laskiqaetert in the United Unit-ed S.tates soak us on our "taint ed" tUoney. We purchased matrix slides for our llnotvpc. amounting to $24.7fi. on which we paid $3.26 , exchange, because our filthy lucre with ihe picture of King George on it is at a discount as compared with the banknotes and(coin from i!i land of bisr crooked rivers and big crooked statesmen, big lakes and big sirikes, big woods and big MTOOden heads, silver streams that gambol in the mountain and politicians po-liticians thai gamble in the night, roaring cataracts and roading orators ora-tors like Big mil Tall, who (poke In favor of the League of Nations and Supported Harding who was against n, fast young men and I;. t airls. fertile plain- that lie lik. a shed of water, and yellow j journals Hun lie like thunder. I That's enough. We eel like de-Btroying de-Btroying the American union as we write this, but lor the sake of the million and a half ol righteous Canadians in the modern Sodom and Gomorrah to the south of us I 8 wtil let ihe union live on a Utile Ut-ile longer and continue menacing world peace bj building battleships. battle-ships. If we could have got those linotype accessories anywhere else than in New York we certainly cer-tainly would not have purchased them in the United States, for the onlj way 10 make tho Canadian dollar on a par with Ihe Yankee dollar Is to stop buying commodl ties from the states that we can do without. We are in the humor this Mondav morning to vote for Afeigbcn If he will speedily pre vent us becoming the commercial whltS slaves of our neighbors There. We feel better after getting get-ting that off our mind The editor of the Chesley Enterprise la so emphatic that be seems to have been seriously affected by his experl ence, hut our Canadian neighbors can find consolation in the fact that all other foreign money has been passing at a discount In America, In obedience to a law of finance which knows no country and is as unchangeable as the lan ol supply and demand. |