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I January 81, loon. THE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE. 7 . SPORTING COSSIP OF WEEK Clan A gna'.i 8:ill Ior at Emit of Chicago '"netion. BAN JOHNSON'S CONTROL IS COMPUTE Ilia Rnni for Tnrnlng Dona Grill Was that ttao letter Had Written Criticisms ot th Bis Man's Coirit. Content t Not much they're not content. The mag nate of the Class A lea rues do not like the experience they underwent at Chicago, ben the mlcrobee of the National associa tion ran all over them, any better now that they have had time to think It over. While the drafting; rule for which they made their fight hai been enacted Into law by the Na tional commission, and will govern proceed ings until chanced, the Class A men feel that the Interests of their league are Jeo pardised by having them nnder control of a body made up to suit Ban Johnson and Garry Herrmann. It is a dangerous condi tion, but nothing can be done until the next session of the minora, when the little fellows may have had a light shown them on the question. Base ball politics moves lowly, and Just now the eyes of some of the men who have votes are blinded by the glitter of the halo that surrounds the heads of some of the big league magnates. After these little fellows have become more ac customed to gating on the effulgent forms that now overtop them they may be able to descry the sinister features that menace them and be willing to take some further steps fof telf-protectlon. Class A teams are Diost In danger from the big leagues, for the great bulk of the graduation is from their ranks. The little fellows have to give up their players to Class A. Isn't It more to the advantage of the microbes to be on good terms with the men with whom they have to deal, and whose Interests are In a measure their Interests, rather than to be tied up with bunch whose Interests are opposed to all minor leagues T All the minors can do for the big leagues Is to graduate play ers. A close organization among the minor leagues might be made of value, but an or ganlsatlon in which one end Is opposed to ths other will always be weak and of little service. Ana inst is just wnai Man jonn son wants. It suits his purpose to have no opposition, and Just at present he has nona 4 Ban Johnson explains that he dli not object to J. Ed Grillo on a personal basis, but because Grillo bad criticised the great Ban while writing base ball for a On clnnatl newspaper. Here is what Mr. John son says: It is not a personal matter between Grillo and myself. by any means. The trouble started a year ago when the minors were asking for a new draft lule and Grillo was one of the most bitter writers at the time In condemning the American league for the attitude we felt forced to take. Tebr-au, Griffiths, and Btalllngs were so bitter against the American league mat thev were ready to do most anything and the conduct of Griffiths was such during the summer that the national oommUslon felt that for the good of base ball Us bad to be put out of the game. We talked this matter over then and the minora aa-reed that only men who we.e ac ceDtable In every way would be put on the national board again. When Grillo was elected ha was nut aarreeable to me and to several others. It was found out that ha was one of the men who wanted the Class A leagues' organisation continued for a purpose Inimical to base ball and his conduct altogether was such that he waa not fitted for the place on that nt!.mal Hnarri which should be made ud of men who are willing to decide cases on their merits and not for Dersonal purposes. Chairman Herrmann made the minors promise last summer that no man would be named on that board but what would be tierfactlv aarreeable to every member of enmmtsaion. Grillo resigned. The draft rules were all accepted boors h raatirni1 N'nw Herrmann, the real owner of the Toledo club, has orrtered nmin the nrealdent of the dub. to with draw the club from the Class A organlsa tlon. . If EM Grillo earns martyrdom for having spoken what was In his mind In way of criticism concerning Ban Johnson, what sort of a' crown do you suppose awaits Joe Vila for the fulsome flattery with which be has beslavered the mighty Ban during the last two or three years T Clam A organisation tained. should be main- Tim Vurnane shouts gleefully over ths "harmony" that prevailed at Chicago. Sure, the session was harmonious, for It landed Tim and his dinky little New Eng land league away up In the high place where he will always have a chance to vote Just as Johnson wants him to, and be as big a man as though he were a real magnate. Kavanagh of the Southern league thinks ths Class A association has done Its work and ought to be dissolved Kavanagh thought so a year ago, when ths Class A teams were making ths fight against ths drafting law that amounted to a raid. The American association Is dl vtded, four and four, and the Watklna- Qrltlo snd of ths struggle is In favor of disbanding. This Is principally for the re on that the Tebeau-Havsnor end of the dispute is in fsvor of keeping up the or ganlsatlon. Much work remains to be done by the Class A teams, for one ot the great est abuses of the draft system has not yet been done away with, and that Is the "waiving of claim" clause. Under existing Conditions a player ones drsfted by a big league team does not revert to the team from which he was taken in event of the drafting team releasing him until after all the other teams in the big lesgue have Waived claim on hlra. This means that the team that dsveloped the player may never get hlra back, even though the big leagus team doesn't want him. - Another abuse, and ona that ranks atari with this waiving of claim Injustice, is the fact that a player once drafted Is srolled for service in a minor league by the very fact that he was given a chance. He gets a taste of big league pay, and thinks ha ought to have it. no matter where he i lys. Generally this Is more than the minor manager can possibly afford to give, and the result is he has a discontented player on his staff every time he takes back a major discard. Here Is lots of work for the Class A organisation, for unless these points are settled, they will always haw more or lesa trouble. The fight must be kept up until ths drafting rule will be on such a basis that the big leagues will draft only such players as they want, and will keep them when they get them. At present It amounts only to taking a joubg ter for a try-out, and if he make good he may be kept or farmed. If he doesn't make good, he Is thrown back to soma of the minora, a discontented, disappointed man. his ambition checked, his pride hurt, gad his disposition turned Into that of a ball player for salary only. Consider Clark Griffiths' present squad of forty-three, for The keynote to the whole college ath letic situation wss sounded by th writer who suggested thst too small a percentage of students are sMe to take part In college sports ss they are now played In American colleges. In a university of I.WO students about fifty play foot ball, another small squad rows, another train for the field day events and anothar tries for ths base ball team, many being members of two r more squads. Only those mho have a pecialty in aome Una are thus able to get the exercise which the right kind of sports would give. Come scheme should be evolved by which a larger percentage of the students could take part In the out-of-door healthful exercise. A game should be originated In which fifty could play foot ball on a aide and thus accom modate many more students In the free and open air. President Bchurman of Cornell university has said that athletic keep up the discipline, of the schools and make courts and trials' and policemen un necessary- If this 1 ths case with only the limited few taking part, how much stronger would be the Influence for good If all the student were exercising all the time? Some go on ths principle that a boy has so much animal spirits which he must work off in some way and that it la far better for h(m to do it by athletlo exercise than by mischief or rowdyism. Other universities are settling the coach question snd Nebraska will soon be In line. Phil King and Eddie Holt, the Princeton combination which worked so successfully last season for the University of Wisconsin, will sgaln be found doing team work for that institution. An effort will be made to lower the colors of Tost, Stag and Dr. Williams, surely a hard combination for. a team to go against In one short season. These coaches were eager to stay and finish the work which they began so well, but they wished to flirt a little on the salary question and this they did with good results. Although it is not officially announced, it Is understood that each will have a substantial raise in salary. King to receive $5,000 and Holt's figure not given. The team lost by four points to Chicago last fall after having outplayed the Maroons, and lost to Michi gan by one straight touchdown and a fluke. They realize thst they will have to practically build an entirely new team. but still they have great hopes from the material on hand. - , The question of a coach for the University of Nebraska is still in the air and the ap plicants are still presenting their claims. for recognition at the hands of the athletic board. A coach at a university such as the great University of Nebraska has a much easier time than did the coaches ten years sgo, when foot ball in the west was in its Infancy. Then the coaches not only had to develop foot ball players from entirely green men, but they also had to look after management of all kinds, as well as the physical training of the team. Not only all that, but they had to play and captain the team as well. Such was the condition when Frank Crawford, the Omaha attorney, was coach of the Nebraska team. Crawford had been coach of the University of Michigan team and coach at Baker' university, Kan sas, when he was elected coach of the Ne braska team. Since that time all is changed. A faculty advisory board looks after. the financial end, a trainer tends to the injuries of the players and looks after their physical welfare, plenty of material is on the field from which to choose a team and there Is plenty of money with which to buy sweaters and uniforms, something which was lacking In the olden times. Herrnsteln seems to he the favorite for the position among the students, but the press reports say that each fraternity has a candidate which the members of that "frat" are working for. Tim was whsn the eastern schools were run in that fashion, but It Is stamped out in nearly all the larger colleges and a man can make a team on his merits. 4 Omaha is to have the honor of holding the Transmississlppi Golf tournament next sum mer, as the executive committee of the club haa decided to accept the Invitation of the Omaha Field club, and the tournament will be held during the latter part of June. The crowded center. Harvard does not mention any specific changes which might be good except that officials should be more effi cient and numerous. Ice skstlng at Cut -Off lake and Manawa ha had to take a back seat to the more exciting pastime of Ice yachting, and ths splendid weather of December and this year, to date, has been a great boon to this sport. During the past week the warmer weather has been a sort of a set back, but It haa given the boat owners an opportunity to overhaul their boats In anticipation of the colder weather which 1 coming, that Is. If the Ice man Is to get In his work before summer. The whole lawn In front of the Manawa boathouse Is filled with boats which were being over hauled and put in shape for the better times. Match races will soon be the order of the day. Many different types of boat are to be seen and on the day of the grand competition many surprises will be sprung. President II. C. Pulliam of the National League of Professional Base Ball clubs does not believe that thers will be any material change In the playing rules from those that prevailed during the last cham pionship season. When asked whether ths game could not be made mora interesting by the elimination of the foul strike rule o a to produce a better exhibition of batting, he said: "I thmk it would be suicidal to change the foul strike rule." For an example, we will take the world's championship series of last year. There was no very great exhibition of batting In any of these games, but there was an extraordinary display of pitching and ex cellent fielding. Not a single unfavorable comment that I heard was made as to the batting. The games pleased everybody. While there was a slump In batting on the American league, t ie same cannot be said of our organization. We had twenty one batsmen with averages ranging about 290 to too and over last year, against about half that number the year before. No, it Is not the foul strike rule that is chiefly responsible for the absence of good hitters, but it Is the efficiency of the pitchers, and the National league had with out question the champion in Mathewsdn. Patrons of the national game are as en thusiastic over skillful pitching as good batting, and because a man who Is known to be a reliable batsman has two strikes called on him because of fouls, I cannot see why the foul strike rule should be condemned In consequence." President Pulliam further said he would meet Presi dent Johnson of the American league at the joint meeting of the schedule committees of the two leagues in New York, and would then announce his staff of umpires. The National league executive said it was un true thst he had difficulty in selecting the proper men to officiate as umpires. The views of Phil King, as published in the current Issue of the Illustrated and Out door News, are unusually Interesting, the more so as there are few men better qualified to speak on the subject. Phil King waa not only one of the greatest play ers ever developed at Princeton, but slnco he waa graduated he has acted as coaoh for Wisconsin, one of the strongest foot ball universities In the west. His Ideas and sug gestions follow: y was discovered last winter at the toot of the trestle work leading Into the valley of the steep hill is being blasted away so as not to hinder the flight of the riders. The slight curve at the lower end ot the course is being straightened, and a retaining wall is being built. With these Improvements it Is expected that last year's records will be broken by many feet, bringing the jumps above the lUO-foot mark. There Is danger In connection with ski jumping, but as yet no accidents have ever marred the pleasure of an Ishpemlng meet. Usually thousands of people throng the hillside to watch the skiers on the perilous flight. Considerable agitation has arisen In ths rank and file of New York bowlers In sup port of the idea ot taking the next meeting of the American Bowling congress to the metropolis. Estimates as to the cost of pro viding for the congress should it go to New Tork range from 120.000 to $50,000. The lat ter amount seems more probable when it is considered that some extraordinarily large building would have to be procured, a small fortune In prize money distributed and an army ot attendants employed. Charles H. EbbeU. a bowling authority, especially qualified to speak In this connection, seems to think that New York is better fitted than any other town In the country to hold the affair. In speaking of the idea Mr. Ebbete said: "I hav been trying for years to bring ths grand national tournament to New York, but for one reason or another the project has always fallen through. Sev eral of the smaller towns like Buffalo, In dianapolis and Milwaukee have been favored, but the metropolis has been over looked. Many reasons are given for this, the principal one being that eastern and western bowling organizations have been at odds. Just lately an affiliation has been ef fected, and the time Is ripe for New York to speak for the tourney of 1906 if it wants It. There Is no other city so well qualified to entertain the visitors that such a meet attracts, sad the benefit to bowling In the metropolitan district would be very great." Resolutions condemning the use of the so-called automatic shotgun In the hunting of birds and other game, and requesting the New York legislature to pass a law prohibiting the use of the weapon for such; a purpose, were passed at the annual meet ing of the New York Zoological society. Bills for such a law will be Introduced In the legislature of thirteen states this win ter. There are already about 18,000 of these destructive weapons in the United States, and should each of them on an estimate which the society considers conservative kill 100 birds a year there will be 1.800,000 birds killed in the next twelve months. A game protective bureau has been estab lished at 1269 Broadway for the purpose of pushing the agitation. LONDON, Jan. 20. Having tried unsuc cessfully three times to "lift" the America's cup, the Internationa blue ribbon of the seas. In his next campaign against the New York Yacht club it is stated Sir Thomas LJpton will build a good, wholesome type of a boat which will be absolutely without freakish overhangs and other eccentric features. Plans for the new challenger have been seen by insiders, and those who "are In the know" desert that the new trophy hunter will be built for business. tlal tariff, and the dsy will com when she will give us a preferential duty on our wheat and flour. When that occurs there will be a howl from your grain farmers which will reach Washington. Tour eon grtsi will thn revise the tariff, and you will cut your duties to the bene. That Is on of the certainties of ths future." FRANK O. CARPENTER. Blended Proverbs Mind your own business Is business. First In war, first In peace to his ashes. Money Makes the mare go west, young man. Grin and bear it never rains but It pours. Revenge Is sweet are the uses of ad versity. Never go back on a friend In need is a friend Indeed. Fine feather make fine birds of a feather flock together. Flattery 1 the food of fools rush In where angels fear to tread. Procrastination is the thief ot time and tide wait tor no man. Facts are stubborn things are not aK ways what they seem. Ignorance of the law excuse ho on good turn deserves another. A drowning man will- catch at straw tell which way the wind blow. Two head are better than one good turn deserve another. New Tork Times. COME TO SUNNY ALBERTA! THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE Paid-up Capital, $10,000,000. Reserve Fund, $4,500,000 HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO B. E. WALKER, General Manager ALEX. LAIRD, Asst. Genl Manage A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED BRANCHES IN THE CANADIAN NORTH-WEST ALBERTA CALGARY INNISFATL NANTON STRATHCONA CLARKSHOLM LETHBRIDGE PINCHER CREEK VF.GREVILLB EDMONTON MACLEOD PONOKA VERMILION HIGH RIVER MEDICINE HAT RED DEER WETASKIWIN SASKATCHEWAN KINISTINO MOOSE JAW NORTH BATTLE- REGINA LLOYDMINSTER MOOSOMIN FORD SASKATOON MELFORT PRINCE ALBERT YELLOWGRASS MANITOBA BRANDON ELGIN GRANDV1EW' SWAN RIVER CARMAN ELKHORN NEEPAWA TREHERNE DALTHIN GILBERT PLAINS PTG. LA PRAIRIE WINNIPEG A branch of this Rank has been recently opened at COBALT, OCT., In the new silver mining district CANADIAN NORTHWEST In the Indian Head and Francis Districts, the two richest districts In Western Canada. Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Hudson's Day Co., C. N. W. Land Co., and private lands. Small cash payment.. Easy terms. 60,000 acres on my list, both wild and Improved. Any Information cheerfully given. H. H. CAMPKIN, Indian Head, Saskatchewan Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Page Four.) . I am heartllv In favor of changing the distance to h gained to ten yards In three downs, providing some other rule Is pasxed to Drevent the wldenlnv of tha Una nt A. fense. which wnuM he tha r,g ahnnlA (h. above rule be adopted, t'nder the present up by the middle or latter part of " r" oimcuu piay 10 ptij October. As the season goe on they through. Make the distance greater and -k, . .. , " " . u" "'e we would have a gradual lengthening of I char margin of a few cents a bushel the defensive line, which would result In a l cover the risk of a possible nonshtpment see-saw kicking game. I am primarily 1 down the lakes, and this margin is some agalnst passing any rule that wou d re- 1 ,, .,. ,n "me quire stated positions for the defensive tlme Increael 10 cent a bushel if the team. This would add to the already 1 "heat has to be held over. It actually uneroua uuuvi 01 mi iMunaia. r-ermnung costs between 7 and 1 rtnti tn the first man who receives the ball from the center to advance at any point In the line would have a tendency to keep the op posing team from spreading Its line of de fense, thereby making open play, such as end runs, long passes and double passes, easier of execution. Ten yards to be gained will certainly be a hard proposition for any team unless some other rule, such as above. Is passed, which will give a team an opportunity of regaining the ball long eriourh to make a score. Another means of opening the game will be to require the side having possession of the ball to keep seven men on the line of scrimmage at all times. This would pre vent a massing of too many men at a given point. Another Interesting: chanre would be old course will not be In readiness for the to allnw forward passes behind the line of tournament, but the great event of the west I ;rimmage or. v. This woum aid end run- ..iii k k.A .a l. . n'ns; materially. Ar-rvllsh the try at goal will be held, on the old links. The eoata . - n.,nv.jn i-t,i. i. nave orowaea on an tne roughness from t mi. is an individual enort ana orten decides ; " nyping ii proauct to Qreat uhnnh I "e result or tne game, r or example, tne HUUUgU D.-.,.---.r,nrrall rrv. nf 1... Th.nt.. giving day ana numerous o triers keeD a Dusnei or wneat in the elevator from win ter to the opening of navigation on the great lakes. Canada's Big- Floor Business. Many of the country elevators are owned by the milling companies. They are used for receiving, cleaning and shipping the grain, and also for storing it over winter. Winnipeg to the chief milling center for the northwest, although there are other mill now building throughout the wheat belt and large mill havs been conatxuetad In the Rainy river country, 140 mile east of Winnipeg. On of these mills has a rapacity or 6,ooo barrels of flour per day. the new coarse, but the greens, graded, would not be in condition for the tournament. Secretary Heyward O. Leavltt will take pride In the Omaha meet and will begin work right away to make It one of the big successes of the year. Omaha has many golfer who can hold their own with most of the player of the country, being completely outclassed by but few. This waa demonstrated last season In the events In the middle west in which Omaha was rep resented. Bprague Abbott was looked upon as a winner for a time, but he fell down at the finish. E. H. Bprague, Stockton Heth, EM Boyer, the winner of the tate cham pionship last year; Ouy Thomas, Dick Kim ball and the other local cracks may be re lied upon to uphold Omaha's end In the tournament in good shape. They will have the slight advantage of being used to the links, although many of the best players of this city are member of the Country club alone, atill the interchange of ga,mes which waa inaugurated last season ha given the players a chauce to play on both courses. Under the ruling of President Eliot of Harvard, unless spring games are played this year to , demonstrate the wisdom of changes which may be made in the rules, Harvard will havs no foot ball team In the field this fall. The board of overseers at Harvard were not satisfied with having Harvard's representative put on the rules commltte by the reform board, but insist that the old board of governor, which waa self-constituted, but which had Itself ac credited by the various colleges, have noth ing to dp with the changing of the rules. This Is practically insisting on the part ot Harvard that Walter Camp and the other dean of the game baok out and let aome new bloods frame a game which will be satisfactory to all concerned, if possible. It Is believed that the combined wisdom of the sixty-eight colleges which are rep resented on the reform committee would have wisdom enough to frame some rule which would pas mustsr. but Harvard has the Ides, and rightly, too, that the old com mittee is so wedded to the old game that it member would not consent to enough changes to make the gam any different from what It la now, Ths game as it to now played is almost an American gam and 1 played nowhere els l the world as It la here. In no other country I there aa much Interest taken In foot ball as in the I'nlted 8tate. with the possible exception ot England. The question to whether the American public and the American col lege want the gam changed until It to similar to basket ball or croquet. The sample, and bear In mind that not over eighteen of them will be kept for tne High- j roughness of the gam 1 on of it Wrong Minders during in coming summer, and you may get an Idea of the danger ot the situation. Orifllth will turn out lae-ity. feature. It I a contest of man against man. and may the best combination of men win. Would S0.00O people turn out to see a v disappointed players from his ona team j basket ball game? In base ball the in this season. Other teams la the big ligu will contribute each lta hare, and the total amount qf harm don by the indis criminate draft may be Imagined. If a draft were a sal outright, the major would exercise far mora car la the pro cess. A it to they don't ear a picayun, tor the minors have to stand the expeuae aod the trouble. It to to bring about a further correction f the abiw that the dividual effort of a player are more evi dent than in toot ball, but the rule can be so changed that It will give the Eck ersall and Benders and other sprinter more of a chance to break Into the open and make the game spectacular. Harvard claims that with the men lined up as they are it to almost Impossible for official to see what to going on and that much of ths rough work to don under the cover ot th Teami have been classed superior and champion- j ships won in this manner. ! I would define more olosely unnecessary roughness, and. In addition to disqualifica tion, give a penalty distance sgalnst the offending side, althnurh. after all, the rules can be enforced properly by competent offi cials. Do not add to the number of offi cials, for there Is already , a scarcity of good ones. Enlarge the duties of the lines man by making him also Judge of all out side plays In scrimmages. This will permit the umpire to watch more closely for hold Inc and unnecessary roughness. Whatever changes the rules committee makes let It by all means. slmnllfy the rules and uniform the penalties. Kor at present It requires a constant study to memorise thm. and I venture to state that not more than 3 per cent of the players are perfectly familiar with the requirements of the penal-tie. - t - Alfred Vanderbllt ha entered a t50-hors power automobile, cy an oads tne most powerful machine of It kind ever con structed, in various events to be decided at the Ormond-Daytona Beach carnival. Mr. Vanderbllt' entry disclosed the faot that he is pot only the owner but the builder of the new creation, which will be a thoroughly American car, designed to compete with the high-power machine now in this country or enroute from France, Germany, Italy and England. Although several members of the Vanderbllt family have been prominently Identified with au tomoblllng, thla I the first case on record that a Vanderbllt ha built a car. W. K. Vanderbllt, the young man' relative, waa on ot the very first to take up the sport of racing high-powered car In thla coun try, and hi mil record of Si seconds, made at Ormond In 1904, was sensational at the time and for some time afterward. That record wa made with a German Mer cedes. All the Vanderbllt cars have been foreign and their successes have been cred ited to builder abroad. Alfred Owynne's racing machine last year and the year be fore waa a SO-horse power Flat,, built In Italy. With Sartor! driving It finished sev enth in the big .cup race on Long Island last fall. Th monster to to make a bid for American prestige In motor car build ing. There to no guarantee that SO-horse power can be controlled by the hand of man, but Mr. Vanderbllt believe it pos sible and I desirous of crediting the achievement to horn Industry. He has Implicit confidence in Sartort, whom ha ha named as his driver. Sartor! has shown his nerve and gameness on many occasions and la well qualified to hsndle anything In th line of motors that .may be entrusted to him. A great throng of ski Jumper, soma of whom will com from Scandinavia espe cially for the event, and many hundreds of spectators are expected at 'the big ski tournament to be held at Ishpemlng, Mich., qn Washington' birthday, February Z., Th Ishpemlng Ski dub, which win have charge of th meet, ! already making prep aration for th event Th expenses of the foreigner are guaranteed, and they will no doubt In addition carry off a num ber of prise. Th slide on which th ski Jumping will take place I being Improved at great coat Th todg ot rocks wbJoh We offer for sale, at prices varying. according to location, some of the finest lands In the great Canadian Northwest and In the vicinity of Vermillion on the C. & N. Ry. extension and O. T. V. Ry. These lands are located in Alberta, and without a doubt among the finest In Western Canada, comprising wood, prai rie and good water, thus making it the Ideal country of the farmer. The build ing of these railroads hns also brought , markets within easy reacn ot all. i Until these roads were built this ' particular region was almost unknown, no one had ever penetrated it except Indians and the trapper. 1 For cattle, and in fact all kinds of stock, this region Is unexcelled In all Canada. The timber affording shelter for the stock, which requires but little feeding during the winter months; but few stormy or cold days during the entire season are known. In fact it is a paradise for the stock man. As a grain producing country enough has been seen during the past season to convince the most skeptical as to the capabilities of the country in that re- j spect Oats grown on breaking near j this town during the year 1905 have i produced, nearly 100 bushels per acre i of the finest quality. 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There ar mill at Calgary which will soon be producing :,000 barrel, per dsy, and other will be constructed a tha area of winter wheat increases. Winter wheat flour to especially desired by th Japanese, and the region wher It is being raised lies within -uuui i, mjies or tne Pacific coast Canada and American Flonr. The Canadian don't want Am.. flour, and I And some of them object to our taking th Canadian wheat and manu facturing it in bond. I met at Montreal Mr. Robert Meighen, president of the Lake of the Wood. Milling company, which haa om of th largest mills in Canada, and talked with hlra aa to reciprocity. Said he- am opposed to having our wheat go Into th United States to be ground for shipment abroad. I believe In high duties on American flour and would make you Americana come to Canada and build mills If you want to manufacture our wheat." "But, Mr. Meighen." said I, "would not Canada profit by reciprocity with Uncle Bam?" "No." was the reply. "We would rather hav commercial war with" the United States than commercial peace. If t'nele Bain would build a trade wall ninety-nine feet high across hi northern boundary from the Atlantic to the Pacific, it would uit u down to th ground. We believe It to best for th North American continent and for the world that we should be op posed to each other as far as trads to con cerned. W want a protective tariff high enough to fore your people to establish branch factories here and make with Cana dian labor such goods as we use. That to what to going on now and what will be don more and more In th future;" England and Protection. "Tour idea are different from those of your mother country, Mr. Meighen." said L "Bhe to for free trade." "That was so In th past." replied th Canadian miller, "but It 1 not so now. The English are beginning to understand th situation, and they will soon retaliate against the United States agricultural Im ports In such a way as to force Uncle Bam to his knees. 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