The Canadian election campaign is drawing to its close. There
is no sign that. Lord Byng's .action over the dissolution has aroused any feeling against himself or the Mother Country. The old political decisions remain the important ones. The Eastern Maritime Provinces have their grievances. against the rest of the Dominion. The Province of Quebec remains apparently solidly Liberal, and its French blood does not mingle with the mainly British blood around it, making a difficulty unknown to us at home. But Mr. Meighen has been unexpectedly well received there, and the Conservatives suddenly decided to fight for several seats. The manufac-. taring districts incline to higher Protection and the agricultural exporters to Free Trade. There has been a re- grettable amount of personal wrangling on both sides and, naturally, the Customs scandals are not left alone. Mr. Meighen is probably the cleverest of the politicians, but it is highly doubtful whether he will get the promise of any support from the Progressives, and whether that party will regain its powerful position of holding the balance between the Conservatives and the Liberals.
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