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• * * During the campaign the constitutional issue raised

by Lord Byng's refusal to grant a dissolution to Mr. Mackenzie King dwindled in importance, as did also the Customs scandal which at first the Conservatives used as one of their principal weapons. The constituencies concentrated on matters of more permanent interest, and chiefly on the tariffs. Mr. King was evidently right in thinking that many farmers, having less faith than formerly in the Progressives, would Vote Liberal, or at least Liberal-Progressive. There is now every e.xpeeta- tion that they will get the reduction of taxation which Mr. King promised tkem. Canada has declared, indeed, against an increase of duties generally. Mr. Meighen's vision of a tariff wail as high as that of the 'United States Jailed_ to be an attraction:

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