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nitrous fire in Chafloitetown as

0f ‘It. S. A. McDonald was com-

' 1 _in adtltion to this the goods in‘

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YEGTERDAYS FIRES

‘Not since 1913 the form- er Dunstnne was dc: £10101! has there been allcb a dis-

‘tblt of yesterday: when the store

Uletely gutted and every dollar's u ION-ll 0! goods in it destroyed.

the adjoining building of M85587!» lorris and -Smith. including the large wholesale stock of Messrs A ldPlge, Brady Co.. were practical l! If not completely destroyed. ‘fflte 10m Ito these enterprising merchants at this season of the your with their stocks of goods If. their maximum and ready for um Christmas business, cs deplor- ible and they will have the full- eef. sympathy of both city and country. And not only to the dir- ect losers is this a serious blow. bilb to the city and the provimce

At a time when the country struggling under a burden of war debt. trying to make good the loss es of years of destruction. the des- truction of s0 much property value fails upon all. Every dol- lars worth of goods destroyed is

is

a loss to the world and more es- pecially lo the country ~11] which the loss occurs. We sincerely sym- pathize with Messrs McDonald; Morris, Smith and LePagc in their caIamfl-ous loss.

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BEGINNING TO SEE IT

‘It takes a. good deal of qucstilon- nble Liberalism to scare the Pat riot and we are pleased to note by its Wednesday's issue ‘that it is at last beginning to see what others have been seeing add lam?‘ eating for several months past.

Under the caption “Flocking to. the IIn-ited States" the Patriot} humbly confesses to its readers! that:

papers that during the past nint- months lit is reported that some fifty thousand people left Canada for the United States. there to locate. This that caTls for immediate action. other- wise the prosperity of our coun- try will be seriously affected."

Further on in this illuminating confeosilon the Patriot says:

“In the Canadians closely in touch with the situation In Great Britain and the conttlu ent point out that now Australia clearly has the call for scrttlers fnom the United Kingdom, with Africa holdling out considerable In ducenient."

Had the Patriot kept its ear tn bhe ground Ilnstead of trailing ii along t'be ground in the wake oi Its owm DOIJIlLCflI guides ii woultl long are this have made these dis coverles and ascertained thn causes.

Why are people leaving Canadr at the rate of fifty thousand ii. nilne mouths? Why are Bltitisl emigrants giving the cold should or to Canada‘, hitherto the land '1 their choice? Does the Patriot no know? ls there any intcltgen man or woman in Otinsds Whl does not? Let us toll it ln the fair est and mlhiest possible manne lo that the "smoking flax" of lt-

. some: euqulrled be not quench7 ed. Let its tori lit iii/the words o: another so that ‘here shall be n4 nuepicion of local bids In oui telling. Here is what the Londor rm Press. a thoroughly falrand reliable authority, says aljont .11 In the course of an odltofllil deal

» Ing with Illie "lent Itraw" piled OI (be camel's back by the Mo:

Rennie lfllng government. the re

ls something

meantime

FRIDAY, DECEMBEEZZ, 1922.

taxes the government was show in: any signs of economy or if the war debt was being decreased. In both Great Bnitaln and the United Slates taxes are almost as severe as in Canada. but in both coun- tries the war debt Is being stead- ily reduced. Despite all this super- taxation. the debt of Canada actually growing. During the last campaign one of the chief grip‘:- ances against the Meighen Gov- ernment was the taxation. Lunzd pictures were painted of the coun- try staggering under the load of debt and of the terrific burden on the poor promises of economy were made on the platform. These promises seem to have been as lightly for gotten as the Ufberal platform of 1919."

This is the answer. Canada is being strangled not by excessive taxation alone but by the criminal extravagance of

ifs

taxpayer. innumerable

the government in esiing up these taxes as fast as they are being collected. We r2- ferred the other day to the junk- c-tlng of Canadian ministers tour- ing in Europe and elsewhere with their wives and daughters, to the quarter mllion dollar train which sped through the hfaritlnie provin- ces like a rocket last weekkon a tour of so called inspection. Thr-

Pat.i.ot then. before it began to ..

get the measure of things. ca.‘ :1: our remarks a "discordant note’ Wt.- have increased our national

“b! b_ u, n r _ exodus. Canada for sixty years ( 3 Mme “n” me “vent-h past ha." ': 1n curscil with n bleed- two millions in the past year lng ext '1 w wlzir-ii has lost to us|

while our LHXC-s have been creased by hundreds nf millions. l5 il an." wnnih-r that. knowing

this. bearing this burden. scent!

our taxes roll up. our rich‘. siilllstatgs 5mm Canada which we Hfljuseful Wm!‘ ma“ they are enwgul

growing and the future c‘ - I Ofllllliry morisascil-us it any won-i

our;

rler our people are leaving us, ii:i_» wonder the emigrants we vsouirl gladly welcome are going where?

else-

Patriot ‘has become thoroughly alarmed at the federal iiituatlon. If it continues its-investigation it will find a similar situation right here in Prince Edward Island, in- creased‘ taxes and expenditure out of alll proportion to the in- creased revcnue. And exodus will as surely follow here as ‘it Is now

doing In the rest of Canada.

NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY

iFifty three yeana ago, Dec 21, i860. Mr. Alexander l-lorno of this :lty opened hlajirst store. it was a. modest beginning iln the sale of igrictrliural implements. Today the firm of which he is the head s one of the largest agricultural mplement depots in the Maritime ’rovlnces. And a greater, more mportant and more illuminating ‘act ls that the customers who ‘rusted hlm and had faith in htlm ‘my three years n30. those oi "hem who still ‘live. trust hlm snii leal with him today. This. It is 186dIOHB to say. is the secret 6i ils success, the capital upo.. vhich he began business and on -vhlch it conillnues to thrive. We wurvlly congratulate nim 0n his 0M and successful service. Ht- s still the head of the business IHIIUuKh he has many more iii ieln hum than ziie ltfld flftytthrec - were an. He fls mu "going ‘FTOI-IB" and we trust has many Bore years of giood honest service n store. His career, otll-l in‘ its ‘EIIPIII. is an object lesson to Olll young people the great majority if whom have as much material ‘lbltal to begin with as he bad when he began and who have the tame opportunities to nuke good II he had. provided they make s-

which an Canada la We rdtellltillt~ i,

100d use of Again we congratulate hlm on hi:

flfiv mutxannivfrur! _in basin-_in a with‘ A

them n he did.

lm‘ inciiy more yahru of

people to decide Is whether land shall ‘be peopled by the des-

of Canada and of every one of its

Canada _ hai- 500d Q

taxation has not checked the exo- dllfi; it has only hastened the out-

keep our people at home than did the building of needless railways. Greet as ls the cry for more poo- plc. the cry for more employment Is greater still.

all tbb/ptovlllces In the pioneer days, when the fnyaiists came and

i Notes By The Way

Tho famous Commonwealth Club of San Francisco In its re- port for October discusses Immi- gration and Population. These are now questions of timely interest throughout the United States and Canada. The club "(@1794 1° 55 a prominent memiber of a B01195 of

organizations est rvu8h- out the United static’ reiare thousands of these ‘clfilulhb 0b-

ject of which as defined .hy their

constitution is “to investigateaud discuss problems affecting the

commonwealth and to aid In their solution."

The conclusions reached byihe San Francisco club irelerred .to are set down as follows"

"The law of population thathas led to the decline in the Ameri- can birth rate substantially equal to the nimrber of immigrants ad- mluted is in operation today just as rigidly as in the past. lt will govern the century to come just as lt has governed the century

that is gone.

“The question for the American the

ceodants of those now here or shall pass In large part to those who will come from other lands.

“Except for brief periods, immi- gration will not increase the popu- lation above the figure it will

reach without Immigration. If wel

admit those from other lands we shall decrease by a like number those who will be born of those now here.

“The question for consideration is: Do you want the soil inherited by your son. or by the son of one who now’ toils in a foreign land?"

Our circumstances in Canada are different from those in the United States, There, in the older Jements they have a declining birth rate. attributed in part at least to immigration, but have never had any considerable

lfi-llnilliflnt: rt nlir own people. And if? [immigration has 'inisheil birth rate across the bor-l

caused a dim-

der, has: ii not been a more fruit- ful cause of the migration to the

so greatly deplore zuch to be the case.

We believe

So far at least itll the many millions expended by the Dominion upon Immigration have been worth but little to the Maritime Prov-

I e t b c. Th Fr n irtiwierfl" W110 Swim“ him i° b“ I We are pfleased to note that iliol no s or o Que e e e c

"We note by aespatches imthe‘

speaking province, better than any other, has kept its native bom sons at home. The cause of this lies In part in the fact that they are of a race less migratory anil perhaps less adventurous than others. Except for some hundreds of miners who have come t0 Nova Scotia. what has all the Immigra- tion to the Malrltimie Provinces amounted tnflftyynars past‘! Put the exodus has gone on unabated. and from Prince Edward island,

the worst of all. The reason is obvious. We have few factories.

no lumbering, pulp-wood, or min- ing Industries. For flva 0r six ‘nmiihs of the year the hulk of our people have little to do. The want of profltalble employment the year round is driving our people away.

Nova Scotia has mines. factor- Ics. fisheries and lumiber indus- tries that afford constant employ ment to tens of thousands, New Brunswick has this winter over l0,000 men employed in the lam/her Moods at advanced wages, be- sides the thousands employed in the factories of St. John, Mone- tou and other towns. But no ono of the Maritime Provinces has much to hope for from Immigra- tion. Their best hope for growth In population lies In keeping their people at home and retaining their natural Increase. To do this there is no other way than to flindi more oonitnnt employment for them In their native land.

It ls true that the greatest need

provinces ls a larger populatjog. lafid euofigli, r03 sources ample jgid. railway; en- ough for thirty Ihilglong p! pap.‘ hie. We ibuilt too much railway mileage. it did nonstop the exo- ius, which now goes on In larger volume than ever before. High

10W 0f Oil!‘ Debbie to alorelgn land. Building improved highways at great cost has done no more to

Immigration‘ was of benofluto

_wou ‘not be Inch fiiz-‘pt-fli

"fimh"! "4 "MW- later wbelrtho settlers came chief-

w- zw-i "nw- ~ '-

they)

. met: will settle the Wmlktiom

litany Beggars vEarn Handsome Incomes.

Through some painful error on the part of the New York police, they arrested a few days use Mr.‘ Horton A. Malone. He was char god with begging on the street and while he was not lit a posi- tion to deny the charge an Inves- tlgatlon of his affairs showed that be llved. in luxury with his fam- ily at a hotel, maintained an auto mobile pod a chaifuer and had money to spend In diamonds. ills:

fortune was made in begging. Pro bably like other successful busi-

nessmen he felt that he would ‘be lost without his congenial occupa- tion, and unlike them he was handi cailllcd in the matter of gamBS f0! Mr. Malone has no leg‘. How he lost them is not mentioned, but it certainly was not In the course of any martial pursuits. However. the charitable, when they see a legless man shabbily dressed and apparently in distress. do not iu- Vestigala the cause of his misfor- tune. They sllp hlm a lttlfl-lvl‘ 0|‘ a dime or sometimes a bill. 'Mr. Malone has made himself wealthy by appealing to their sympathies-

A Million Beggars.

An American organiznlion with headquarters has been formed for the purpose of conducting it ria- tion-wlde campaign against 1195' gars and vagrflnlfl W110 have bank accounts and are In every respect more effluent. except perhaps in the number of their limlbs and or- gans, than the people WIIO $111999" them. The army of beggars 19 B5"

‘timatcd to number 1.00.000 of wliom 40,000 are in ‘New York City. These mendlcants in some

cases have their regular quarters where they do business. Times ‘Square after theatre hours is said I30 he a VOFIIJIlbIB mine for then. iBut the maturity of them travel laihout to difierent parts of the city and to different cities. They pro bnihly- have some sort of Dull)" exchange arrangement whereby [one will prey on victims of zi bro- itlicr ‘beggar w-hile the briilhel‘ linsit-ns to the victims the other has [Qnlpofafily abandoned. The beggars are by no means all frauds, but the great mfliitrill’ °i -thein. cvcn when maimed. are ca-

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~ mm GHARI-orrrnwowuxiussotsn .~’.--'

The Public Forum

This column In open for tho dimension by correspond- ' nits of questions of inter- ut. The“ Charlottetown Guardian does no: necessar- lly endorse the oPIIIIWII QI- prqgggd by it: correspond-

;

QQQQQQQQQ MOON SHINE

Slr,—lln your issue of Tuesday. “Prohlbitlonls? elects to enlighten the public regarding the coming referendum. and his remarks we note. and iiiutfvtiaw- N0“? “wuld “Pmhib|tloni>t" be so kind as l0 inform us, ii-liy he, and all other prohibition advocates. so carcfull)’ avoid saying 011v ‘"1"! "I'm" m” thpuiqantls oi‘ lltlle bri-iverlies that have (lgyghpvll, and nuw flourish in this province. under Prohibi- tioii? is i», iii-cause "Prohibition" is duly aw-art», and heartily afliaiiled of its undesirable and unilcnniltlc oft-spring “.\lUf)ll~.~'IlllIU'.'"

» l uni Sir. ‘etc. TEMPERANCE.

Railway Extravagance

|Sir,--YQ\1|' ri-niiirks _in ll rcccn! editorial‘ ciiiiilmyiniiig tile 111111100!‘ of sit- Hgnry 'l‘iiiirniltn‘s first com- ing was qllllt) proper. The justifi-

' cation gftt-rcil hy the Patriot for

the display \\'=.IS the warmth of his fflcepllhlln‘ everywhere. That is, let us lizivc 2i big ilisplay rc- gardiless of cost in start our com.- omy. This reminds oni- of u suy- ‘ing of Lord EIISIZHW‘, Percy:

“l distrust any policy W! °" root with the waving of flags and the beaming of drums."

Nearly twi-iily ycarii ago Sir tvlliritl Lnurii-r Iiegiin his mud ralliway program with all the ci-lat

possible. First the country was committed to iin ocean lo ticcan railway, ivliich was tn cost only

some 8li3.iiu0.000.000.00 but ‘rt-ally did cost $500.000.000.00. Then he saddled nit‘ (xouiitry with McKen- zlo and Vunn railways. costing another $5ii0.000,0(l0.00. And ‘ rc- mciiiber all these foolish burdens irnro IITIIJIISIWI on us against‘ the opinion and protests of his own hlitiister or Railways. Mr. Blair. whose estimates were flouteil but since shown to he too low instead of being ion high.

Now “'4' have another flourish of trurript-tsfSlr Henry is

ncss! And he ton. according

'pa'hlc of being trained to do more

_ ln.

iwill remember the Sherlock Hol-

lmes story concerning the frflllil- wilio lived comfortably in the ‘country on the proceeds oi pen-

lnies dropped in his hat by Lon-

|mutllated, whereasi he was per ifectly sound and healthy. Plenty ‘of counterparts in real lI-fe 0i’ this character are to be found. Tlllll‘.

to be penniless were in posession of plenty of means. One of them ilnciiutlously begged for o 111ml: ikto save his life from a New York detective. The dime was given, and the detective followed the man to see hlm accost others. Then he arrested hlm. When searched he was found to have &1,517 concealed in his clothes. in July another New York-street beg gar was picked up with $2.000 lu his possession. An Albany beggar giving his name as James Tolson had $15,000 in bills and Liberty bonds when examined at police headquarters.

The Champion Beggar.

A skirted beggar asked for pen. nies for her starving bufbies, but made tho mistake of asking n Ile- tectlve who retorted. "l can whiskers under your rouge." At the police station the beggar tum- ed out to he a mitn who said that he was begging to get a nest egg for his wedding, which was t0 oc- cur the next day. Thomas Camp. bell claims to be the world's Lan- tcst beggar, and admitted tlialthe took in at the rate of $60 an hour in Times Square from the the- atre cmwds. He wore a unlforni as he walked and many medals clnnked on his breast as he dis- played his wrllf. from which the

iy from the British isles and were of the class oi home nuikersand workers, SlnctgConfederatIon half the money epenton it has been wasted in bringing hither Douk- hobors. Mennonites and remittance men, who bad to be got’ rid of afterward and in propaganda whose chief object was to pumD the people of the Eastern Prov- lncali into the Nortb- West. Can- ada's present urgent pmblem ls how to keep her own people in the country to atop the exodun and find ‘employment for her poo pie wt home. If that Ii done the natural lncreele of our own sturdy

question in the best possible way. "For one nstlv lprn altiltiii ‘Is us-

t- ‘.43., ' H

nally worth"

lsliupe and passed

and time again investigation has: showed that vagrants pretending] In.

see -

Hfldfiodfmln‘

I I _i__ l Most of our readers, we 5000056.; i .

lie}

Ilianil "had: been‘ iiiiiputaloil.

said he was u soiuicr but itivcsii-

cr. A Beggars’ Trust

-Snme flinc- ago tho wiio or it New York magistrate saw ii wpil sst-il man piloting a blind man ‘n il point of vantage Iii-or ii suh. way i-nlranco. For this ilflllilrirllll)’ kindly act the prosperous looking inzin was arrested. and at IllSlPlilI it Wéla‘ learned that he hail Organ. lzcil u ‘begging ‘trust. Ilc hired PTllltilr-s and the biillil at $3iiduy and iIii-y turned over tn Iiliii their takings which enabled hlm to live luxuriously. On the some ilay that this fact came Io light an Italian beggar was arrested and found to be In the possession oi iicrly $6,000 'l‘.lie police estimate that many pro- fcssiunal beggars earn 815.000 II your. iindthey say that. many of them are fit to Ibo long-shnremgn

so far as bodily health is cerncd

c0n-‘

high railway freights and tho rzii gallon showed that hi,- was simply! a llnr vrliirlruil nzi-t with his sic-i ‘t-idcni when he was it strike break

i Hairy. who accept-i Mr. Hanna's piiina in toto, but plans the costly, (Il'~'])Ill._\' When tho building of the: Transcontinental was inquired ‘in-i tn it was found that $40.000.000i was squandered iii tho i:on:;truc-| iioii during Hi0 Liberal regime. aflj (hfi Frst display was expensive.‘ What is the DFHSOIII oiit- lining tn

n“, Co“? i; u... pace “][‘Li“(lv gl-t liv..-\. l\'. Rlui-oiiibcris MOSH mvlpml us m" m. m” wndphsir Henry is any ma,“ u; whahlttilt-(‘S ziiiil llllIt-fi at Dllflflihl i Rid. mils to come, the prospect ‘... lIlt-t Patriot. must ho ahovc critc "$501105 l