Evening star., 1924-04-05
WESTERN CANADA SEEN
ON WAY TO PROSPERITY
For First Time i'm Four Years Business Now Is
Looking Up in Dominion Provinces,
Babson Declares

more and more a tourist mecca and
the 1928 travel was much greater
than ever before and helped the re-
tail trade substantially. The increas-
ing popularity of the fur-farnfing in
dustry is startling. The fur farms in
this province increased PIG per cent in
the year 1928. However, even here
the outlook is relatively poor. Like
TOBIAS building activity has been
mainly in increasing the number of
residential buildings and road work
programs. Reports for twelve months
of 1928 show that the value of build
ing permits in Manitoba amounted to
about s12,000,000.
Chicago of Canada.
let when considering Manitoba it
should not be forgotten that the
province contains the Chicago of
Canada" l refer to the city of Win
nlpeg. Business is slightly better in
winnipeg than it was a year ago and
should Continue to improve during the
next twelve months. Winnipeg is
not dependent upon any one province
II is the great distributing point for
TINS entire empire. AS western Can
prosper.
OF course such move on our part
is unfortunate in developing ill-will
between the people on opposite sides
OF the border; but whether the effect
VIII ultimately be more beneficial to
the United States or Canada is still a
question.
Acting under the flexible provision
OF the tariff act on the basis of the
Iar1f Commissions inquiry, the Pres
ident OF the United States ordered an
increase of &c cents hundred pounds
IN the duty on wheat flour. and a de-
crease of so PEI cent in the ad va
lorem rate on mill feeds
New Rates on Wheat.
The new rates on wheat will be AZ
cents per buShel as compared with
the present rate of 80 cents: the new
rate on flour will be s1O4 per hun
dred pounds as compared with rs
cents and the rate on mill feed will
be ~ per cent ad valoren as against
10 per cent.
The increase will become effective
IN time to be applied to the flood of
the United States about the middle of
april each year with the opening of
navigation on the Great Lakes.
The advance in rates was sought
TO aid particularly the hard wheat
growers of the northwest, but the
resultant increase in the price of
spring wheat is expected to be re-
hected in the market quotations on
winter wheat raised in the middle
western and other states
1ie 1drlll COMMISSION claims 1t
costs AZ cents more to raise a bushel
Of wheat and s1.04 more to produce
loo pounds of -four in the United
States than in Canada The farmers
expect this new tariff will rectify the
situation, entirely forgetting that the
price of wheat is made in Liverpool
Just what will happen no one can tell.
Western Canada is destined to be-
come the great wheat field of the
western hemisphere. Nothing can
stop such a development A tariff
on wheat may result in a source of
income for the United States govern
ment, but it will not increase the
wheat crop of the states any more
than tariff on sugar would increase
the sugar crop. Furthermore, such
a tariff does two things:
/. The tariff forces the Canadian
farmers to fight just so much more
keenly for foreign markets. What
they are prevented from selling in the
states they will send abroad which
will hurt correspondingly the for
eign markets of United States farm
ers.
.. The tariff compels the farmers
of western Canada to become more
efficient; adopt the very latest labor