Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
VOTE DRIVE SPURS
BIG SH|PWAY PLAN
st. Lawrence Work Expected
Within Year Regardless of
Outcome in Canada.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TORONTO, July 10 (NAN.A).-
Wheather Liberal or Conservative forces
crack the whip in Canadas Federal
Parliament after July %, deep draft
shipway to the ocean lanes of the
world will be started within the year,
according to power authorities and such
politicians as have the courage to state
their convictions.
Both parties have brought forward
the ST. Lawrence shipway as positive
unit of policy.
Regardless of whether the waterway
is constructed with Canadian money
or by the United States and Canada
Jointly, it will be an international is
sue" said Thomas J. Hannigan, secre-
tary of Ontario municipalities using
hydro-electric power.
THE ships of both countries will use
The deeper st. Lawrence and the nee IS
sary dam construction naturally Will
extend into American waters. The
power angle is something that is not
settled and which will necessitate con-
ferences."
"Is there any immediate prospect OF
the starting of construction. or is this
nossiblv something that will not mater
ialize in a generation?" He was asked.
Start Seen Within Year.
"No. think we will see construction
started within year" Seven years
ago. he recalled-with conservative bias
perhaps-that Premier King promised
action on the st. Lawrence, mot next
year or next month, but tomorrow"
Mr. Hannigan, who Is speaking
throughout ontario on behalf of Con-
servative contestants, is convinced the
United States should be permitted" to
nav a share of construction. He also
thinks the Americans should have paid
half of construction costs Of the Wellano
Canal.
He spoke of the incalculable benefit
to lower lake ports, including Toronto
and Buffalo, which will accrue with
opening of a seaway to the markets OF
the world.
Mr.. Hannigan and other marine and
power authorities cannot understand
why Montreal has thrown in her lot
with the New York and Buffalo fac
tions, which oppose the st. Lawrence
deepening.
They cannot understand why forces
In the Quebec city have aligned them
selves with American DIRECTORS, who
have no concern with the development
of Ontario's hydro-power along with
the st. Lawrence.
Ferguson Raps Kings Policies.
Premier Ferguson of Ontario, who
diyed headlong into the federal CAM
paign on issue with Premier King over
the waterway development, has
branched out into general Pronunciation
of Kings record and policies.
While Toronto papers carried editorial
4 OF
wav-our way is with John Bull" Pre-
mier Ferguson denounced the British
Empire trade policy of the government
forces as flag waving" Taking this
slogan as text, the provincial premier
launched into a vigorous onslaught on
what he termed liberal pretentions" TO
loyalty.
The unrestricted reciprocity proposals
of 1911 are much like this tin-foil
policy of Cummings" he said.
The Dunning tariff budget provides
countervailing duties, which raise or
lower Canadian rates as tariff rates are
boosted or lowered in the United States
Citing loyalty of the Conservative
party, Mr.. Ferguson harked back
through the political annals OF the
country.
zone has to go back to the days Of
Sir John A. Macdonald" ne said, to
for LOYALTY to the empire. Though ne
sacrificed his life fighting an election
campaign, Sir John had awakened the
people of the country to the danger of
commercial union with the United
States. It was the Conservative party
that fought unrestricted reciprocity"
He called the Dunning budget tin
foil" because, he said, 1t looks good
Gntil YOU examine 1t.
Candidates Nominated.
In seventy constituencies of Canada,
from coast to coast candidates were
nominated this week for the elections
at the end of the month. In all the
20 there was but one acclamation-a
certain indication that the Dominion
sixteenth general election will be the
most bitterly contested in two decades.
Miss Agnes McPhau, Canada's lone
woman member in three Parliaments
was threatened with a three-way battle
but when no Liberal was nominated she
found herself opposed only by a Con-
sentative, as in 1926, at the last election
There is a possibility that when these
candidates submit themselves at the
polls In two weeks many hidebound
Conservative votes may be cast for Lib
eral contestants and vice versa. Close
observers say the empire trade policy
Va b1tC AA16 ~ AdFOA
with many Of the more patriotic Of the
British-born subjects and among the
united empire loyalist stock Of the lower
provinces.
Whereas the Liberals have expanded
their platform and included protective
measures-long held sacred to Con-
sentative policy-as well as the empire
trade preferences, it is the good old
traditional protection for Canadian in
dutry, keep our youth out of the United
States and our raw materials at home, {"
that the Conservatives will ask the cleo
tors to support when checking their
ballots.
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