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ther is here

our roomy, servicable

HAMMOCKS l We have a large stock dil- l ferent sizes, fast,

strong and well made.

Couch Hammocks

steel frame

With or without

t - for verandaWs or under shade

turf. tin spots. you pill. ‘ with Packard s

remarkably‘

osion IBFP”

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CHICKEN

SOUP V

Serve "Clark's" Chicken soup next time you want flood one-it is Que ol the 18 delicious

Lam-cs souPs

l ‘~ wash-no Ion cook-

HAMMOllKS

Now that the warm wen- mske yourself

comfortable by using one of

»\ ‘ trees. Our prices are right.

i‘0 “Break III” New

them on llllllrll .:f the deception practised iliiACK-(l .0 for 'i‘atn airplyiflf-i llllt-‘Tlll’ n the leather‘ and rublnnt: ivell The ‘leather is softened and \\tll.i He“ yo“ purine shoe on expant wre the prasstiri,‘ is and wt flag-lump Tip» Imus-h oi hi.‘ _ black and an

d its use preserves

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J. R. Burnett, Editor and Publisher seoclats Editor

THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1923

THE COMING EL ECTION;

l the‘

On the 26th of this ‘mnnih

their stannp of arpprovwl or disnp-i provslflupon the record of the Bellt Government. What are we to at)" prove or to disapprove and what; will such approval or disapproval; mean tu the future of ‘the tprov-lnce?

Four years ago the Lilberal party. through their candidates and theirt recognized press, made certain rc-

l

‘rpresetttatiotis and certain prontls-I ies. They ‘promised to tnainlain the administration of our pu-blic sffulfli wvithout increasing taxation; they promised nut to accept the forty per cent. Highways Grant on the expenditure of the

tplea that the

remaining sixty per cent. won-id he,

would tiecessitate increased taxa- officlal staff and theruby save province many thousands of dollars. Theytnade numerous other ‘prmnis-

t t l

‘ retrenchment.

instead oi‘ reducing taxatiuti they increased it four-fold. One of .their first acts was to accept ‘the

kept.

Highways Gram “vmclpbeio... qmlr a total of $54,061.64. v (Public Ac- clection, they had denounced as an 0011MB, 1913. P» 4-)

"infernal scheme" twhlch would in- z volve a ruinous expenditure. They 1 I launched into a general system oi‘ 1

road improvement which has cosqyttars 01- m, the WIN/lime ""111? times the actuailcotititry, the land tax amounted to lvaiue ot‘ the improvement-s 9H0Cted.l$9g'33()_93_0n1y who“, $49199, more

"Ilium"? may ‘mdenwk enormous amounting to $26,775.00.

mxpendiipro-w whit-it the)’ ‘had speci- lflcally flmn-kgd ‘not to, ‘and in ev- ery ac t»: theirs links-v took the ' 05,, nflme from that “which

l 1n short, they violate] every pro-It liaise they made previous to their], up , . film,’ premised to “pa, l And now they are appealing 51a renewal of their icontrau with‘. t l

people for a renewal of the confid-

lenco reposed in them ‘four Yellfgm

‘ago! i l What. would such a renewal oti

Pacts ‘confidence tmcan to this ill'°l/l"c97' ~ l lout |l< would mean in the first llllwe- alyrm ~'. . ‘ l! ‘our new . l” ‘L Wm“! lnilitetlitttrii/‘pwbhc endomemfinl by [he peaple-ot’

uponl‘ them four Yeti" list». it would

the Bell Government I

mean Ell/l"

1 carte at their promises as 1

“nment permis - 1e the taxes, l increased

item. .\‘ltiri>

N"

‘iugiy worried over lite ‘tale of our

an ‘unjustifiable extravagance which lenqg,

tlun. They rrontlsed t0 reduce the happen an» farmers of this pro- ‘llll? vlnce when the tpoll tax is abolish- ei.

es along the lines of economy itntlc°vemlnelll b95311 country, the real estate llf‘ land tax

Noun“. 0111,95,. promjspslms been amounted to $39,624.66. ln arltiilitm to this ‘there was a War and iit-alth ‘Fax, of which titetfnrmers pair their iprtyportlott” aimountittg to $14,436.98.

meylis not a property tax; nor an in-

\ Iomlcome lax; not even o fox tax! lt

_ a the people, they are asklns the’ 111d fishermen and others to relieve 1e tanner!

Acco

and

. 1,0 promise yvhatthey 1922 ‘f:

‘t would mean ttlvv a

lmniidencei’. After their four years

shameful record, shall we

them again?

‘Dwple m‘ ‘his provmce Wm "ilacedng us shall we again tell ‘them to

go ‘ahead and deceive us some nrcre? .

The 26th of this month will tell the tale, will tell ivheiher we up- prove or disapprove of conduct un- worthy ot' honorable ‘men, ‘will tell whether we are or are not prepar-

ed to share in their guilt. {Os-

THAT POLL TAX

Our Liberal .i'rietids are exceed‘ farmers wthen the poll tax is abol- ishetl. with tears that the poll tax ‘be not runoved lest the farmers will ‘be called upon t-o make ‘u-p the differ-

They are pleading almost

Let us see just ‘what is going to

In 1918, the year-before the Boll

to save the

tin 1922, when the Bell Govern- nem had devoted the four best, and n all probability the only four,

‘life, to saving ‘the

ban in 191x. But in addition w,

trust Arm- openiy decal... ‘lug, in his budget speech. estimat-

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Way

Notes by the

The latest session of the Domin- ion Parliament lasted five months. it. failed very sadly in “making onds meet," which our local bib- erul friends hero assert to be the most important duty oi.’ any Gov- ernment 01- party. Hon. Mr. Field

ed that. this year's revenue from all sources will be $372,577,000. Parliament voted appropriations totalling $496,912,000, or over $55 per head. This expenditure of12-l millions in excess of the estimated revenue wns recommended by the King Government and 1ratssed.

in addition the Government ask- ed for and the House of Commons voted $28,000,000 a year forthree ‘years to build a thousand miles of new railways. ‘Tilt-s measure was defeated ‘in t'he Senate. in a word, tthe King Government asked fo

pact. if this were carried out. i

000.000 this year to the nationa debt of the ‘Dominion!

We must all ‘hope that the rev enue will be more than Mr. Field

ernment has provided for.

‘have stated. Extravagaince

by Preruiet‘ ‘King and Fielding.

promised lion. Mt‘.

during taxation. The Kln,‘.‘; erntnettt, in Catt-ails. itdiis to the taxes your by year and swells the national debt by scores oi’ tniiiioti dollars yearly.

The facts, alarming as theyare, cannot be disputed. A specimen of Liberal spending is -the flve~year contract. given by t'he King (lov- ernmettt, to Sir lienry Thornton as President of the Railway Board.

his there was in 1922 a poll tax

This ‘poll tax, our Liberal friends

llS it? Who pays it‘!

“Y e who examines the Ptroiicl

ts will see this l'or himself. I prevolus issue we pointed

eadl roll

flit

‘wt? s; f“

year. lars goes that way. Men with $50,-’nndot‘ this swim-tn. You \\‘ill saw’ _ salaries have large ideas. w" us‘ '5 “h” Saved [he farmerTilenry Thornton in his large way, Wilt 1B not a land tax they tell us; lliconcltt-tled that ‘wnat tyur Natl-male ‘Railway system most fneeded wzisfu. Headquarters Bullibicarts, till about 111g in Inn-is! Am] foy-[Ihwlii] bcqlotitls would iliilkl‘ one l'ull ioaiLl

people ‘about. it, two tmlllion dollars was in; pi H1] mnmy ‘HR. |expended to buy a hotel in farmer tpfl-Ys tfour-fifths-ol‘ itnciiy (or {he Dm-posa

ltiona’ Railways were sinking from flnv to ninety million dollars a

providing a salary of $50,000 a A quarter of 1a million dol-

Sir

urgeuiiv

1531331131,] by Li"; (wiles and iownslrore one in u hundred flwusand;"i‘iitat‘c‘ is a boss, but not all the,

in Canada knew attything that

This was done while the

Na-

in deficits. ‘Their earnings that much less than the cost mration. ‘The King Govern- approves of what Sir Henry tls Board of Directors did in nutter, and asked Parliament 1e the money, and it was vot-~ cordingly. The Honorable E. Siinclair is a member of Zing Government. ‘Messrs. VioKinnon, J. J. Hughes and lcbeztn are supporters ofthe fiovernment in all that it Solid Block of ntost subser- upporters. Ottr Province ‘mas er voice but theirs in the of Commons.

session must see another- of the taxation screw to more money from the pea. pay for such reckless wastel

meantime what say our

hard-working farmom and ‘s. their wives and sons and era, to this riotous extrava-

D0 they realize the mis- llili’ made in electing the "our in 1921? Or will they iilt these four tnen in t-ltecr» t'he Ottawa Puck of Spend-

Wc all saw what Ontario Lrnry. W0 shall see in n lily-s what Prince l-Jdivard Wlll do to the Bell (lovem-

t

tily goilections

iardian Readers‘

RSE AND A DOG AND A FIRE

so to ride and a dog tlo love, fire to mrarm 7mg thy; v ltd 0f Uhe trail, and his]; mim-

W99!) 0i’ the star-lit sky.

‘hat is (‘here more than a man should ties-ire

t. horse, and a dog, and n. pine. Wood flre?

arse would bear me swift and

far,

l8 would guard my rest

1y me down on a dead-leaf irlft,

o the thrown earilh‘: breast. . the pain of an did desire,

Candidates at tho time of our last. local election, though I voted for the Conservative party for many years. time ttttito heavy when the Liberal

preached me stating the Cotiservzt- tlve government had a ntuch ltigh- er tax on the farmers

The Public Forum

This column is open for the

wt. ,. of questlflnsyof Interest. The Charlottetown Guardian does not necessarily endorse the opinion expressed by its cor- wspondents-

Farmers and their Votes

Slr.-as our local election is soon to be on l was interested in the report which appeared in the (iuardlati whore the Cotiservatives in Ontario defeated the progres- sive and Liberals by a large mn- jority, and are now called on to form a new governntcttt.

I am n ntut-h devolved farther who voted for our local Liberal

my taxes nt the enough, still, (ftllltlillillllfi ap-_

l found

than nec-

liibgtt

Jamar of

y £01m;

Brian. MD-

BUJI$I s

LIKE A HOUSEF-YOUR POUND. ATION

You know right away how import- ttnt to a house is its ‘fountdutiott. The builder chooses hard gl‘0llIld—— not su-ltd-and then Iputs in a tuund- atiou of ‘stone, brick, or cement- something hard that will stand the wveisht oi the ltouse. \ And so when ‘the foundation oi‘ that ibody oi‘ yours ‘had (a ‘be plan- nod, it was delalgned tfor stroniztlt and stwbility. ‘1 refer to the frame- work of lvones that carries your or- gans inside, and your muscles out-

of Every D

Up Every ( Ul-

and the House of Commons voted to spend 575 millions, with only n revenue of 375i millions in pros‘

would mean an addition of 5200c

lng has estimated it will be, and the expenditure l"! than the Gov- utility: t» land n an» is m u.» con~ The cold and alarming facts are as we runs riot at Ottawa. No attempt is made to practice. economy sot-inns was

it is ‘now ai- tmcrst five ycans since tho war end» ed. B-ritaitt and t'he Utti-ted ‘Stairs are paying their war tiebts and ro- (lov-

r essary. and they would reduce the

taxes in many ways it‘ elected. l vo- ted for them. instead of reducing taxes i found. the first thing they t did was to raise their own session- al allowance to more titan dottblo what it wasnatttotttttitig to tltousv l ands of ilollxtrs, put on poll tax, and other taxes till when my next years tax bills canto to tne my lax- . on were neat‘ 60 per cent ltlgitcr than until-r the Conservative nov-

side.

ei v c-V mi

orntni-nt and still int-rt-ataitig till l began to think, where tin‘ furnnrrs

tittuetl‘! Soon as tin-y formi-tl a governntt-ttt l found them doctor- lttkttp the public uccottnts to show bow Lltwp the out going emu-ru- ment had loft thonritt tit-lit. They were eiucivtl in Stiptctnbvr, tin-n ntadu up tin». whole _v<-:tr‘s oxpvll- diinrt‘ l'or that your‘ up to ill-coin» bot‘ 31st and voliecti-tl littii- or no tax for that yutat- but. carrit-tl it over into llll‘ next _vt-at‘ to tin-it‘ own trrt-dit, leaving no ('l‘i‘(lli. to the (‘onsi-rvativo. Gnvi-t‘ntttoni. it Nnw u] is ufti-t‘ St-ptontbvr itt any yt-zti"lm_,lbunv that taxi-s art- (‘tiller-lied to any invlcufilpleté] tent, and if tin-y had been hottest‘ , _

in this they would ltavt- eniiecttttl "m! Me that saint‘ yn-ar and found enough 10111111‘!lIlIUXllUIISPS left. by this (lonsor\‘zttivt.- govt-rntnvttt for that year, and ton tnany of us fnrntors trottld not st-i- into this uann‘ till too iafv.

Now tin- fout‘ huntirvtl tbousatitl dollars that is to llt‘ laid out on

illtt lugs weight, a that tin- arms

of itcarln

Ami so

bcr that

Why the very .flrsi. food you rec~

fortnaitioti of tbone.

Did you ever stop to ‘think of that wonderful foundation or ifrzttntsw-ork oi‘ yours? The inrge spinal column rpiled one on top of the other that give support you in the erect position. ' and incidentally proteut- that. prer- ious nerve bundle, your spinal cord. Then the framework of ribs pro» tecting heart anti llnngs.

Also tho lheavy boney case, tho skull, protecting your brain.

Think also of the huge ‘lmtios of

support

‘Idvctt (‘he flnur or special StlllSPS

ySllit-lllllg vitavi‘ a foundation of Ibono sttpportina: tin-m.

w om an lt-ood .

stcr growing up with round sitoulil- i-rs, low shoulders, ‘bow bees, knot-k knees, sway bank, ilwt fut-t, ‘it-erup- inn itock and so fottlt, just rr-ntetn-

Qnrrn .S'lrt‘t‘l, U/t/‘uxl/t? Jltirlrvg Ilntixt’.

ik-ls meant. to thelp in the

‘It'll/l I-lit‘ um‘ {jtltlt/A‘.

ltettvy tbones 0i the \

you carriage,

A good, pure, tasty Salt

lends a zest to a meal that nothing else can equnij, If you knew the extraordinary pains we take to make

that utr-ry your entire nd t-he bones oi‘ the atrtns the fitter nnuseles of

and ltands. "the Suit of the Century," the

purest, cleanest and whitest o1’ all, you’d understand that there a is a bi difference in Salt, and the di ercnce is all in favor pf Century Salt. At your Grocers.

Dominion Salt 6a., Limited, Manufacturers and Shippers, Semis. I l

c, stat-lug. spculkitt: and

titotteli you are horn with -fr no, it does not become y "set." as it were, until grown to mnnnltood or

when you see your youttt-Z‘ i-urrt-rti-tl at least in part. fort‘ tln- tinal strut-turt- 'i‘lns is tin‘ contiitioti of tin-it‘ foutdation and tilt-st‘ faults in tin‘

So \\"illt‘ll tin‘ tnuntintioxt.

you are the one respon-

"stream 4 ‘- .. ~ ~

our roads: ls it. worth any tax pay- ers while ti) take uotict- tbt- zttnoutit

i

. A. McDonaldl

(‘tnnr in um! It‘! ux xlmw you mu nu-it‘ rlurv

‘ | Slllllf! if (‘iivst- otmtlittimts are no: foundation sitould ‘be i"tll‘i'l.‘i'll‘il ho- ntluit nutn» ltoud or Wtliiiiliilllillil is i‘l‘ll('l|t‘ll.

of road building that is going to ibc done for that illlltlllill of tnont-y,

little boy's only about ablu "fol hold liu- ruins tart-r a ltorse and) cart, ixaulitn: clay at $3.00 a dzty.l and men and boys‘ with pick anill ysltovui loading etiougit in litostg lllFUlJ oi’ such‘

Itimc at the jnb so tin-rt‘ is plenty‘. ‘time for talking poiit' s or Hililllb: I are sin-b] mites on sonn- of titost: roads tuatie‘

iin this ntanni-t‘ taostittg bi-twtu-n {three and four thonstttttl dollars-A ithat, comm-tutti men who know} and state could be done withl proper outfit for moving clay and in tho itands of propt-r tnatiain» tneni. for ont- hall‘ tlfu rust that is Delhi: doth‘ with pit-k and slnivei,

which is itbout 5U yt-ars bt-itiutl the ‘age. it now looks as if tho tour huntlrt-tl thousand dollars

will be spent for half the nntnber of titties which should be built for so ntuch money. lint this tnnst be paid, and we tax payers may as well prcparie for more taxi-s nro coining.

Some farmers are lotikltn‘: altratl trying i0 sou where we are likr-lv to land if ‘this tlXtl'il\'2ll.{il11('l' is ti) uotttinni‘, and come to the conrlus- ' ion that tin-re is a [icissibiiity that we will yet. in‘. joinmi up to ont- of the ncieltborini; provinces, \\']l(-|l we find wt‘ cannot titanagt‘ our own ltffairs. Now l utnlorstatttl the (‘on-l servatiycs it’ elected titoun to n» mince this sessionai pay and make retltttztlott in titht-r taxi-s put on by this present party. 'l‘his time the so called Liherztls may got a mun. her 0f titose little job Htibiklirs, those who havi- got Jobs tn vote for U191". but l and many tnoro who listened to titent tht‘ last it|,_,(.um, will vote for the (lonsi-i‘vtitivt~..~i till»; time.

i ant. Si‘. vie. VFARMER

.________p_ lllfllll. and it) lite King tiovt-rpmpnl when iln tinto routes. 'i‘ltey n“, “q tnrrcd with t'he salute stick!

Surely it is time fora cinnge, And the change is coming swiftly. 1'!“- ileli Govcrnmentt is failing it) p101‘. es before our (ayes on the ova m" the election. 0m- of the pillars, one of l-he corner posts i); itonso, ihas tumbled down. Tin. Attorney General has fallen out! 0'" “ml-ll W0 Hill’ ll is a let: that ltas fallen off the ilecayitti: body of i)“. ‘Bell Government? VWhai stronger evidence is needed oi‘ its lIODPlQSG deorepituile‘? Farley a G0vQrnmpn[ running an election race on one leg! tls it mot laughable?

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More Young Men's Suits at $18, $20 & $22

We would like every young man who wants a good at a low price to see those special values.

T1110): are suits worth many more dollars which we a1‘ e c 6011118 out as we have only two or three of a kind left. Sizes 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,

You’ll save dolllilrs on your suit if you come before they are Dlcked up. r ‘

Special Tweed ilainooats $10 ~

The Best Buy in the City

Henderson. 8t (ludmore

- ‘ 101 Grafton Street ' t

suit