CANADIAN POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19582, 11 September 1925, Page 7

CANADIAN POLITICS

ELECTION CAMPAIGN. MR MEIGHEN ADVOCATES PROTECTION. Ptou Association—By Telegraph—Copyright OTTAWA, September 9. (Received Sept. 10, at 5.5 p.m.) At Winghara (Ontario) the Conservative leader, Mr Arthur Meighen, in opening his election campaign to-day declared that a “sound, strong, definite protective policy is tho only means by which we can five and prosper.” Under tho Government’s railway poZey the debt had increased by 234,000,000 dollars inthe last two years. Mr Meighen characterised the present administration as “feeble and futile,” and lacking a policy in connection with the main problems of the day. He claimed that half a million workers had left the country to secure employment in tho United States through the tariff policy.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PRIME MINISTER ANSWERS CHARGES. OTTAWA, September 10. (Received Sept. 10, at 11.25 p.m.) At Guelph, Ontario, answerin" Mr Meighen’s charges, Mr Mackenzie King declared that the Government had reduced taxation by 75 per cent., the expenditure by 100,000,000 dollars in .four years, and the public debt by 83 billion dollars. He added that the railway debt was less than was added to it in the Meighen regime.— A. and N.Z. Cable.