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like the railway situation, be solved while the suspense continued. Presi- dent Wilson defended the Shaniung rrovision of the treaty and s2id that the league covenant section referring to the Monrne Doctrine. had been inserted to give the Monroe Doctrine right o1 way in the western hemisphere. He declared that it is his convietivn that it wonld do so. Kansas. Sept. 6th.——President Wilson avpealed to a Kansas City crowd today to support the peace freaty as a charter for a new order of world affairs The people, said the President, had been mis- led about the treaty by men w 0 look at it "with the jaundiced eves of those who have some private interesis of their own’’. When these men were ‘'gib- beted’’ by public opinion, he said, they will regret that the gibbet is so high. “If anybody dare to defeat this great instrument’’, he continuad, “‘then they will have to gather their counsellors for the world and do something better. A negation wiil not save the world. Ger- many, he said, would be the only great nation left out of the league, unless we decide t+ stay out and come in later with Germany.’’ The President asked th- au- di2nce not ,to think he had come out o tight or antagonize anybody. I have tie greatest respeet,he said,for the Senate of the United States but I have come out to fight a cause that is greater than tno Senate and I intend to fight that cause in ofiice or out as long as I live. Paris, Sept. 6th.—(Hava’s Despatch). A Bareclona despatch today reports the assassination there of former Police Ccmmissioner Brevo fortillo who was discharg>d from his post in 1918 for havi ¢ tfurnished Germany with in- forrma ion which aided her submarines in -he torpedoing of Ailied vessels. The cirumstances of the Killing are not given, New York. Sept. 6th.—Sterling in the las: few days have been comparatively steady, but international bankers have no: receded frorm their former position and consider lower levels will be wit- nessea before tde ®exchange definitely turns upwards. They see nothing to pre vent the further depreciation of ex- change in view of the disinclination of the British Government to establish credits on this side. Some of the deal- ers anticipate a reaction toward the middle of the present month. when they expect commercial bills to appear in vol ime again, but a good deal depends upcn the action of London which now holis the whip hand in the sterling ma ket. lLondon, Sept. Tth.—Sir Agckland Gecdes, Minister of National Service and Reconstruction, has informed a deputa- tion of toymakers that the Govt. declined to dopt the policy of a three-years’ em- bar z 0 on any imported goods. The Gov- ernment information, was, he said, that Germany had only a small accumulation T ROX A Y 1S | of manufactured goods ready for ex- | port, VMioreover, the cost of manufac- | ture in Germany was rising enormously and Germany was pitifuily shor: of raw materials and coal. The Minister be- lieved that there was nothing to {fear from German competition, Germany trembling on the verge ofa collapse and | unless she could get her trade under { way she must sink. British industry, . Sir Auckland Geddes declaraed, would be i helped rather than injured by trade with Germany. é Montreal, Sept. 7th—From His Majes- ty the King, from all over the empire | and from every province of Canada | * came greetings yesterday on the occa- sion of the unveiling of the monument in this city to Sir Georzes Etienne Car- Y tier. From the sister nations of Canada ! in the Empire, South Africa, New Zea- land, Ausrtalia and Newfoundlaad were mescages that told the work of Sir Georges had gone bevond the confines of the Dominion, and had played a mighty part in the development of the Empire. The sister provinces of Cana- . da, and especiallv those in the west, acknowledged in their greetings that it bad been Sir Carter to whom the very existence of the western pro- vinces was largely due, nor did they . forget that it was to his vision that the fact of a great country stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic was owing. The King’'s message was as follows: “‘in unv iling the Cartier nionument, which ceremony, thaunks to the marvellous agency of eleciriciiy, 1 am abent o perform a a <isiznce of upwards of three thousand nides, I am glad thus to join with th people of Carada in commemorating the centenary of their illustrous ellow-citizen, whose nanwe - will ever be clcsely associated wth the consolidating, progress and prosperity ! of the Dominion’’ (signed) Georg 2 Bl | London, Sept. 6th—The Government . is taking drastic measures to fight Ame- . rican packers, says the Hera!d, the la- | bour organ this morning. This deecision . was dictated according to the ncwspa- per, owing to the strangle hoid big . American packers are exerting on the | provision import trade and the ar l ranzements virtually have been com- | pleted for the establishing of a ‘ brokers pool for those v/hose business ' has dropped to almost nothing owing to | the alleged operations oif the packers ‘ and who refused to throw in theirlot with the packers. The‘‘Herald’’ quotes an offi- ‘ cial of the Food Ministry as saying:- [ “We are trying to make arrangements ' by which British traders may have a share in the trade, which fornerly was in the hands of the American pickers agents.”’ London, Sept. 7th.—Lieut. Jones, head I of the British prohibitionists, in ou:lining his impending campaign, positively de- nies any intention of manoeuvring under cover. He states his chief desire is to trace developments step by step and hopes the limelight of full publicity will he focussed on each move of the United Kingdon Alliance from the start of the campaign in Manchester in Qctober un- til the loeal veto bill is introduced in Parliament next year. While the cam- paign is being constantly prosecuted in London, successive attacks will be made on Manchester Liverpoool, and New- castle. The Scottish Temperance Act comes into effect in January and an im- mease conerentration of platform work- ers will endeavour to persuade the eleec- tors there to use referendum to clear all liquor out of their districts. The world ¢ prohibition congress takes place in Edin- * burch during the Spring and the grand finale will come in the form of an inaug- ural meeting of the World’s Womens’ Temperance Union, Lady Carlisle having charge of this side of the movement. Licut. Jones declares himself satisfied that the time is ripe and is persuaded through many gquiet talks with business men that the prohibition movement is making great headway. NEW YORK, Sept. 9th 1919. Flour, Blenced Clear St. Lawrence Erand pr. brl. £10.25. Meal, Kilndried per 100 ths $4.60 New Season’s Pork per brl. $52.00 Heavy Mess Pork perbbl. $56.00 Sugar---Crystals (Confirmed by Brokers) per 100 lhs. $7.28. Molasses 89° test pr 190 Ibs. no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upland, at Liverpool per Ib. 18 15-1004. tixchange, New York and London, 60 days’ sight $4.114 Exchange New York and London, sight $4.144 LONDON, Sept. 9th 1919. Sugar-Demerara Crystals duty paid price. fixed by the Royal Commission per cwts ’ 575. 9d. -88s. od. Muscovado, 39~/ basis, floating terms in bond, Ditto duty paid. 555. 6d; - 765. 9d. German Beet 88°/¢ f.o.b. no further sales during the war, : Java 96°/ Gibraltar or shannel for Orders floating terms, no quotations. Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal., Trimdad Cocoa, Good Middling Red per ewt. 12bs. ~d. 1275. Cotton, Medium Fine Sea Island, at Liv- erpool nominal per Ib. Bank of KEngland rate of Discount per cent. 5. Consols 502 Three per cent rentes in Paris Fes. 61.10 All prices subject to correetion. as good as new for sale cheap. Apply at this office.