Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-26
NEW TARIFF ISSUE
IN CANADA VOTING
Liberal Government of Pre-
mier Mackenzie King Goes
to Polls on Monday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, July 26.-On Monday Can
ada will decide whether the Liberal
government of Prime Minister Mac
Kenzie King shall continue in ofnce, or
be succeeded by a Conservative govern
ment under r. B. Bennett.
The Conservative party has been. as
opposed to the Liberals. the champion
of protectionism. It still remains so,
but just before dissolution of Parlia-
ment the Liberal minister of finance,
c. H. Dunning, produced a budget
which offered certain preferences to
British trade and levied some counter
vailing duties against the United States
The prime minister has issued a
manifesto favoring intra-imperial trade
and asserting:
Want Equal Terms.
I'VE have made it clear to our neigh
bors In the United States that while
we are anxious at all times to deal with
them on fair and equal terms, we have
now reached q point where we con-
slider it would be in our interest to
transfer q considerable portion of pur-
chasing power from the United States,
which is apparently unwilling to deal
with us on equal terms, to our own
kith and kin and Great Britain who
has given us a position of absolute
equality with British producers in Brit
ish markets"
Sir Robert Borden, wartime Con-
sentative prime minister, issued this
statement:
IT am Fundamentally in accord with
the fiscal policy which Mr.. Bennett has
eloQuently proclaimed-the British En-
pire first, and within the British EN-
pire. Canada; preservation of our home
market for our own producers; the
maintenance of industries to give en-
ployment to our people; Canada's un-
impaired control over her tariff; SUBJ
ject to these considerations, a system
of reciprocal preferences within the
empire"
Prime Minister King goes to the peo-
pie on the record of his government
the Dunning budget and the representa-
ton which his government, If returned
will send to the Imperial Economic Con-
ference in London.
Blames King Governments.
Mr.. Bennett has attacked the King
government, charging that as a result
of its fiscal policies there Is unemploy-
ment in Canada which has brought
about emigration of Canadians to the
United States.
Last night, winding UP his platform
appearances in Northern Ontario. Mr.
Bennett said unemployment existed
throughout Canada on a scale un-
known in his lifetime. Farmers were
denied the right to home markets
There was depression in industry. For
these conditions, as result of its tariff
policy, the government was responsible
This country cannot long survive q
government Of hypocrisy and can't"
The campaign has been featured by
charges by the prime minister that the
Conservative premier of Ontario, How
ard q. Ferguson, is holding I'D prog
ress on the st. Lawrence seaway prof.
ect. I'VE are going through the prof.
ect, he declared, and we will not be
held back any longer by the tactics of
Premier Ferguson on several occa-
sions struck back at Mr.. King de-
nouncing him as a coward" Mr..
King retorted that he had a great con-
tempt for Tories and the premier was
TORY of Tories"
Issue Remains Obscure.
With an apparent swing of the Lib
eral party under Mr.. Kings leadership
away from its ancient tendencies
toward free trade, the issue of the
battle remains obscure,
The National Liberal Bureau reports
that It's scouts throughout the provinces
nave indicated a majority for the
present administration of 81 in the
house Of 245. In constituencies in the
maritime provinces, Ontario and Brit
Ism Columbia which, In the last cleo
ton gave their support to the Con-
servauves, definite swing toward the
Liberals is noted, says the bureau.