THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN
zirvcrrro REMEMBER 1
It is now obvious to the electors, from the nature of the Liberal press propaganda, that the Lea Govern- ment has no stomach to fight the provincial cam- paign on provincial issues. For that reason it is ap- pealing to the people to “remember” everything under the sun but its own record of incompetency, extrav- agance, and broken election promises-a record which was well summed up by Mr. Bruce Butler, ex-member of the Lea Government, when he publicly charged it with having “flouted every principle of democracy.”
The electors, we believe, have a much better mem- ory than the Lea Government seems to imagine. Here . are some of the things they are not likely to forget '
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That when the Lea Government assumed office it did so on a platform of (among other things) econ- ' ' - _ omy and a general reduction in taxation. That shortly after the election the Patriot newspaper congratulated the Government on taking office “under peculiarly
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favorable circumstances” for carrying out its pledges. That there was found in the treasury a substantial surplus of $70,697 augmented, shortly afterwards, by the first annual interim subsidy payment of $125,000 secured by the outgoing Stewart administration under the terms of the Duncan report.
That in less than four months, according to the Public Accounts submitted at the 1929 session of the Legislature, the Lea Government had turned the Stewart Government surplus into a deficit of $159,- 129.21; in other words, it had gone behind to the ex- tent of $229,826.39, and this apart from the highway ac- count in connection with which $60,000 was borrowed in November, 1927.
RAKE’S PROGRESS CONTINUES
The electors will not need to be reminded that the Lea Government’s first act, at the 1929 session, was to borrow $100,000 for the unauthorized expenditure incurred by the Minister of Public Works when he ordered this amount of road machinery by telephone from agents outside the Province. That its next act was to borrow $300,000 for highway work and that this sum would have been increased to $500,000 but for the protests 0f the Opposition.
That the Government then violated its promise of a general reduction of taxation by boosting the gaso- line tax from three to five cents a gallon (subsequently raising it to six cents by order-in-council), and passed legislation saddling additional expense on the Province to provide for the employment of twenty-five Liberal campaign henchmen as road superintendents.
That at. the end of 1928, despite greatly increased revenue derived from the interim subsidy payment, from increased tax arrears over 1927 of $88,237 and increased revenue from motor vehicle licenses, gaso- line tax, succession duties, real estate and personal income, road, horse and dog taxes, the Government came out with increased liabilities of $192,685, and a deficit on ordinary account of 81,559.15, as shown by their own Public Accounts.
That in the following year, in face of the Provin- cial Auditor’s statement for 1929 showing increased liabilities of $246,048 and a deficit on ordinary account of $13,434, further borrowings were made of'$200,000 for the Public Works Department.
That this enormous liabilitywas incurred notwith- standing that the Lea Government collected and ex- pended, since it came info power, two and a half million dollars over and above the revenue received by its pre- decessors.
1919 OAMPAIGN RECALLED
In 1910 Premier Lea, Hon. J. P. McIntyre, l-lon. B.
' W. LePage and other members and supporters of the Lea Government canvassed the Province abusing and criticising the Arsenault Government's road policy, charging it" with committing the Province “to vast ex- penditures amounting to $875,000 in five years” under the Dominion Highways Act. They damned that policy as an “infernal scheme.” Today, as the electors are aware, the Lea Government is spending more revenue on one mile of roadwork than would build several un-
on Malpeque Road, built at a cost of $27,000 a mile, is already falling to pieces under the summer sun.
The electors will remember, also, that despite its
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increased squanderings _and_ borrowings in the Public Works Department, WlllCll lS today costing as much as it cost to run the whole affairs of the Province un- der the Stewart administration, the Lea Government has secured not one cent of additional subsidy from Ottawa. And this in face of the Government’s solemn pledge, embodied in its election platform, to exert its
utmost endeavors to press our claims for increased subsidy" and the argument advanced by the Liberal leader on the advantage of having the federal and pro- provincial governments in line, so that the Province would have “a friend at Court” subsidy settlement were presented at the infer-provin- eial conference in the fall of 19.27.
PROH IBI TI ON I
Nor are the electors likely to forget that the Lea Governmentpledged itself to l0_0 per cent enforcement of_the_ Prohibition law, as admitted in a post-election editorial in the Patriot (June 27, 1927) in which it is stated that “bootleggcrs, home-brew makers, and sell- ers and smugglers of liquor, it’ the Liberals remain true to their pledges and true to their affiliations with the Temperance Alliance, must be put out of business." And that instead of this promised “great boon of a banished liquor traffic” (Patriot, May 23, 1927) boot- leggers flourish in greater numbers than ever before- proteftcd and encouraged now under the Lea Govern- ments Ticket of Leave Act which Cflllblca them, even offer convrctzonato evade punishment-and the result is seen in the Police Court records, which show a great- er number of arrests for drunkenness, a greater num- ber of accidents caused by drunkenness, and a greater number of deaths from drinking liquor, than at any time m the history of the Province since the days of
Free Rum. OLD AGE PENSIONS
The Lea Government (the electors will remember) endorsed the King Government's old age pensions scheme whereby this Province would have to pay fifty per cent of the cost. They promised to put this scheme into effect in this Province “in a manner consistent with our revenue.” This pledge, embodied in their el- ection platform, was absolutely ignored, the Lea Gov- ernment not bothering even to ascertain the cost of
der the Conservative policy, and its election speedway ,
when our claims for»
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in the Province until a few months ago, when a census was ordered to be taken by their road superintend- ents, obviously as an election gesture and to mislead the people into supposing that theyhad some con- structive policy in mind.
time when it can assume responsibility for the full cost of old age pensions, has increased the federal pay- ment to 75 per cent, and Hon. J. D. Stewart has stated that, if elected, he will put old age pensions legislation- into effect in this Province, the Lea Government has
criticism. MONEY TO SQUANDER» y ~
ectors that the Lea Government- thoughxit had no money to pay old age pensions, to increase the teach- ers’ salaries or to fulfill its election pledges, could af- ford $8,000 of the taxpayers’ money to cover up the Andrew Fraser Mitchel scandal-a scandal caused by the bungling and stupidity of the Bell Government of which the present Premier, Hon. W. M. Lea, was Pro- vincial Treasurer and Minister of Agriculture.’
Nor that $1,200 was paid, without Legislative auth-
_ ority, to the Temperance Alliance out of the rum prof-
its of the Prohibition Commission, and another $1,400
to a. detective from Montreal, who, according to ex-
Premier Saunders, was himself a drunkard and was
incompetent to deal with the organized activities of the bootleggers in this Province.
that the recommendations of the Education Commis- sion have not been implemented by the Lea Govern- ment, though these recommendaiions were presented over a year ago in order to settle questions which even then were considered to be of the utmost urgency and importance both to the teachers and to the Province.
Nor will our farmers be likely to forget that the Lea Government in its election platform promised “to promote the growing of cranberries, blue-berries and small vegetables, and to thoroughly test the feasibil- ity of establishing a canning industry in the Prov-
ince,” and that Premier Lea, (who is also Minister of‘
Agriculture) has not only ignored this-election plank but has done his level best to discourage his colleagues from putting it into effect.
THE CONSERVATIVE GUARANTEE’ "
Furthermore, the electors will remember that the Stewart Government's platform of 1923 was implem- ented to the letter, and at the earliest opportunityaf-
they can_ have of the good faith of the Conservative leader in the present campaign.
These are the things that concern the taxpayers lh the coming provincial election campaign, and they are the things about which they will expect the Lea Government candidates to speak. They will not require to be given a rehash of the federal election campaign issues! ’l‘hey already know that the defeat of the Mac- kenzie King Government was due to its ostrich- like inability to see the economic crisis that was fac- ing the country—to its tariff tinkering that resulted‘ in the exploitation of the home market, and to the boast,
lieve unem Ioyment in any “Tory” Province. They know that the
ment in giving effect to the comprehensive and construc- tive programme which Rt. l-lon. R. B. Bennett submitted to the people at the general election. They knpw of the special session called to relieve unemployment and of the voting of $20,000,000 for that purpose. They know of the revision of the tariff for the protection of Canadian agriculture and industry, of the extension of federal aid to agricultural and technical educatioh, the Increase by 50 per cent in the appropriation for‘ old age pensions, the formulation of a national fuel pol- icy-the most comprehensive scheme of the kind ever launched in this country-the appropriation to aid in
euch a scheme or the number of pensionable persona 1 l
the transportation of wheat amounting to more than 5.100.120.0010. the ealsrrment and finalisation of. the anil-
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nothing to offer, one way or the other, but abuse and
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~mn gfgfdelepiasmsf’, apparitionsl
_ _ ' a faculty" f regurgitation, possess- ter assuming power, and that this l8 the best guarantee Y o
typical of its leader's attitude toward his responsibll- - ities, that it “would not give a five-cent piece” to re- '
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other measures directly in line with the assurances given by the Prime Minister during the campaign. They know that no Government that has ever held office " irtCanada has gone so far in honoring its pledges in its first‘ ten months ‘of office, and that, with the im- provement in the economic situation already noted by Mr. W. McL. Clark,’secretary of the Canadian Cham- ber ‘of Commerce, in his stimulating addresses before the Boards of Trade of Charlottetown andSummerslde, ‘there is every reason to expect that the Bennett Gov- ernment will continue its splendid record, holding the iconfitlence of the people and the approval of all but. a disgruntled remnant whose political aspirations have been defeated, and who, it may be expected, will be- come gloomier and more vituperative with every step which ismadeyunder Conservative policies and ad- ministration," towards rehabilitation and prosperity!
SPIRXTUALIS TS HOAXED
‘LONDON, Aug 4. (British Unit-
ieadiaigspiritualiats, members of the London Spiritualist Alliance,
most remarkable hoaxes, from both the medical and psychological points of view, that has ever been perpetrated by anyone claiming to be a medium.
No fewer than 45 seduces, at a cost. or hundreds of dollars, were given to the London Spiritualist Alliance this past winter by one OI the clevercst "mecuums" who ever practised. She and her husband have nowdisa/ppeared after being exposed bymembers of the Nation-
for a substantial consideration, These experimental,
impressed all the ‘London spiritual- lstlc societies with her amazing powers specialised in the produo- ___'_______ ___
which seemed to exude from he!‘ body, Tihese ghosts‘, due to the per- sistence or representatives from the the National Labratory were shown to be in effect nothing but 1M8? pieces of cheese cloth to which various flat pictures had been at- tached. This cheese cloth, though
ed probably by barely‘ one human being in ten million, was actually swallowed‘ bythe medium, and reproduced so a8 to stimulate the telapiasm.
While all London was crowding to the seances given by the London Spiritualist Alliance, at which the
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new medium presided, the National Laboratorydor Psychicai Research , was harboring its own suspicions. °d ‘P'°‘§)'"H“nmd$ o! the worlds Finally/the medium was approach- ed and asked by representatives of , the Laboratory to submit to some have been victim's 0f one o! the scientific experiments. After sev- eral refusals, she finally consented
‘ seances, which were held in bright. 11mm. were witnessed by a numiber of famous medical men and psycholo- glsts. Africa she displayed a series of teieplasmio phenomena. $01M- times the apparition fell in a long festoon from the mouth of the medium, while at other times it coiled on the floor, entenglxi lt- self arcunde the chair, or complet-
“1'I;;“°°”°°’Y l“ fsymuwl m‘ ely enveloped her. In the. eric it
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was sniped off and carefully ex-
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