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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1915.

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THE POLITICAL SITUATION

It will be seen by the representations--or misrepresenta-

tions-in the Patriot and by the r€D0l'lS Of U19 "m`i°“s meetings that are being held throughout the Dl'0ViU09» that the bottom has dropped out of the Grit criticism and false charges which began so bravely a few weeks ago. The Grit campaign has devoluted into a wearisome reD9Uii°“ °f charges made and refuted, of criticisms that have been proved over and over again to be unfounded. As to the charges of extravagaiice and waste nothing new has de- veloped since Mr John Richards, the former Leader 0! the party, admitted on the floor of the House that he knew of no expenditure that could have been avoided without detriment to the province, that he knew of nothing in the estimates that were then being prepared for 1915, in which economy could be practised.

it has been shown bythe Government candidates and

the press that the administration of affairs was as ecoiio- mical as the best interests of the province would permit; that the public works were being as efficiently maintained as the finances of the province could afford, and infinitely better than during the previous twenty years of Grit rule; that the schools have improved under the impetus given by higher salaries to teachers, cheaper school books, a heal- thier optiniisni and a. more general interest on the part of the parents; that the roads everywhere throughout the province are in a better condition to-day than they ever were before-simply because of the road system adopted by the Mathieson Government; that the credit of the province has been infinitely improved since the days of deficits and pessimism.

All these things have been proved to the hilt; the

people throughout the province realise and appreciate the general betterment, and yet our misguided contemporary keeps liarping away on the string that was broken; keeps reiteratlng, misquoting and muddling the Public Accounts, dotibtlng their correctness, villifying Premier Mathieson, abusing the roads. the schools and everytbling else that the Government has had anything to do with.

Now this is not politics, it is not Liberalism, it is not

common sense. The people of this province are, generally speaking, as intelligent a class as can be found in any province in Canada. They know what Government means. what taxation means, what deficits and surpluses mean, They had twenty years of annually recurring deficits; they were'famiiiar"wltli the 'perpetual `cryof'poverty that drove ten thousand people out of the province between the years 1901 and 1911. And during the past three and n. half' years they have known the very opposite of this. They have seen deficits tnriied into surpluses; they have seen the courage and faith of our people revived; they have seen content- ment and Oiltimisin take the place of dlscoiitent and pessimism.

And now they are face to face with an election; face

to.face with the question of continuing the new order of things or returning to the old. Within the past three years the value of land in this province has gone up fifty per cent. The Muthieson Government did not do thai, but the Mathieson Government and the Borden Govemment work- ing in conjunction for the betterment of the province did the greater part of it, and the courage inspired by the better times resulting from the better governmen; did the rest. ....l.f‘:’._.‘3i_':‘f;.‘:.';‘;.“::’. ’.:;‘;;:“‘ "= f° “° in the face f tl B ac 'ons and its favours back

0 ie orden Government' to turn down the

Mathieson Government which secured for us in th

half years what th Lib me and a

e eral Government failed to secure

f°" "5 in their lwenly years of mismanagement. and what

tzllieuprcsent Liberal leader and his Liberal candidates,

t“:‘;md they bf mlnrnnd. could not secure for us ln the next

Y years ftliey were permitted to live that ion

,wwe "av" "° “°“b‘ “S *O what the people win no on the

1 1- They will return the Mathieson Government with

possibl , 1 case wilih HS arge a majority as they had in 1911. in any

8 H H m‘1.i0l‘lll' nlltilciently large to show the gratitude n We as the common sense of our people,

siowmo nor AND coin

occllramlllexjagiln llltogers’ time seems to bc pretty fully thrpe such Ietlg e ters of explanation. ln the past week

1 rs have appeared in the Patriot. Yester-

dny he takes the trouble to have published in the Patriot

ni; ‘effusion on his attitude on the automobile question, of wi ch the following extract is the substance:

"At 11 meeting of Liberal candidates held recentl in

on 1 tt t y Nbtlrlf; e ow" this “inner “m0n8 Others. was brought up

3 WHS definitely decided on except what was ex;

pressed in the manifesto. viz: that nothing should be '°'°°d "P0" the People against their win."

Thi

made 9 enigmatical pronouncement is worthy of the Delphic

Hblflgilli Ml' Benjamin Rogers deny that he approached o . e a automobile owner and asked if theautomobilists

would be satisfied with the law as at present enfo d?

win '°°

MP Benjamin Rogers sign the anti-auto pledge;

or will he refuse to grant permission to any district which petitions for the autos .

Wm M’ Beniamin ROUGH! sf/ve the names of the auto-

nwbiiilil Wl10 Sn? they have been given to understand that "lf sustained the present partial prohibition _of the auto- mobile will be done away with when the Legislature meets again." ?

Mr Benjamin Rogers has no policy on the euto. He

seeks election free and unfettered on the question, but would try to make the anti-automobiiists believe that he supports their pledge..

This he may consider good politics, but it is s decidedly

bad principle.

lt is what Mr Duffy describes as “ Rogerlem." ‘ ` __

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“If you vote for an Opposition candidate you vote for

Mi: Benjamin Rogers as Premier.” ~

Bo announced Premier Mathieson in the People’s

Theatre, and the fact is as he states. _ lt matters not that you are particularly friendly with a particular Opposition candidate and _would like to " 0bli80 " htm only by your vote; if you vote against the Government candidate you vote for Mr Beniamin Rogers as Premier.

our readers realise what that means?

‘Romans turning back the h|nds.of the clock to the

Dark Days of Defielts, Despondeney and Despair.

Make no mistake about it. The Mathieeon Government

in conjunction with the Borden Government has lifted the province from bankruptcy to affluence. To replace Premier Mathleson by Mr Benjamin Rogers is to slap the Borden Government in the face.

And be sure the Borden 'Government will not present

the other cheek for Mr Benjamin Rogers to slap.

The Borden Government is strong, is just, is sym-

pathetw towards the Island Province.

But the Borden Government will not take an insult

lying down.

If you would keep Mr Benjamin Rogers out of the

Premiership, there is only one means of doing so, and that is to vote for the Government candidates. _

THE PATRIOT RAMPANT _

The way the political wind is blowing is indicated by

,yesterdays Patriot where the havoc of the gathering storm is already apparent. Threats of personal violence 118111115! the Premier, the inaccuracy of the external auditors, the impending annihilation of the Mattllieson Government, whirl around each other in a mud confusion of screaming capitals. All this and these to defeat the Government and to elect the Grit candidates!

This kind of argument will not go down with the people.

'The Premier will, we have not the slightest doubt, be per- fectly safe in any constituency in which he may wish to travel; the bankers who made the external audit which the Patriot finds incorrect, will not lose their jobs in the banks of which they are managers, nor will they forfeit the confidence of the public in their ability to deal with accounts, and the Mathieson Government will go on doing business at the old stand after the 16th instant, notwith- standing the Patrlot's prediction. '

It would be useless to waste words on the Patriot or

to inform it or its readers that its accusations and its charges are false. The Patriot would still go on reiterating its charges and its readers ‘would go on shaking their heads at the Patrlot's folly.

It would be useless to tell the Patriot that it told

a malicious falsehood when it said that the Board of Education attached “a veiled threat " to the “plttances doled out to the teachers " and " asked them, contrary to law, to swear twice over their returns,” and that the " wording of the statutory oath " was “ changed, contrary to law ”; it wouldii't do the Patriot any good to be told that those charges are false, for it would go on repeating them, and the teachers know-as everybody else but the Patriot knows-that they are as false as they are silly.

The questions before the electors are not whether the

bankers who made the external audit are or are not capable accountants, whether the teachers have been ser- ved with " veiled threats ”-whatever that might mean- or`any of the silly things the Patriot has brought up. The question for the electors to decide, and they will decide it,- is whether the present efficient management of the province shall be continued after the 16th or the era of debt, deficit und despair be mice more inaugurated under the leadership of Mr Benjamin Rogers. That is the ques- tion,_ How does the Patriot think it should be -settled?

AN ACCURATE CUMPARISON

The Patriot publishes two or three different articles,

evidently by different "authorities," to draw attention to the fact that the Guardian did not include in its article on the burden shouldered by the Government ln 1911, a sum of $64,000 revenue due and unpaid at September 30. 1911. This the various "authorities" say, would have made a difference in the amount of the debt which the Mathieson Government had to face.

Granted-if it were all collectable. On the other hand, there was $62,000 similar assets in

1914 which we did not take into account-for the self- same reason. Thus we treated both years in exactly the same manner. ~-»_¢1'~'e|

As the Patriot's various financial "authorities" ought

to know, the omission of these assets in both years makes the comparative statement actuarlally accurate, and does not materially affect the issue.

The external auditors for the three years 1911-1912, 1913,

1914, took actual cognisance only of the liquid assets, and that is the only right and proper method of dealing with public accounts, as the arrears, when collected, are taken credit for in the financial year in which they are collected.

Oliiiiiiiiflltfiii 3 blur srtecnoiis I

bodies sway the tides, do

Fon zpiritualf forces turn the

ear s o men.

God sends us heavenly tid-

es. His Spirit never is with- drawn. Though true religion often seems to ebb, yet from the mighty ocean of Divinity, some current always runs a-

‘I long the channels of our liv-

es. But there are times when tides of grace appear to rise amongst us, penetrat-

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LESSONS OF THE TIDE.

Some of our readers live

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of his Spirit. Silently but _ strongly, as the heavenly

Bing! Dong! School

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Not a ve welcome sound when digging in

the soft, warmrgiand and chasing butterflies are so much more interesting than adding figures on a

slateBut dress your' small boy 'in one of _these at- tractive-suits only $3.49 that have come for his school days and note the difference in the eager little feet.

Dandy little stockings for little feet 2-1 Ribb

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NUUNIIEIJ ISLANIIEH I liiill [IN liiiit Sliiilill

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The following letter has been rc-

celved by Mrs. W. I). MacIiityre,yl'Illls- born Street, i’ro|n her son Vtilliain

and will be of' interest to inuny relu- tives and friends tiirouglwllt U10 1I`°' viiice.

Soniewltere in France,

August 23rd, 1915.

I have been receiving letters from

you addressed to Le Iiarve but as I only remained at the Base three dnyS after being discharged from the Hos- pital, they have some trouble flndinfi inc away up here in the firing line so please address niy letters.

_ 13528 Pioneer,

Pte. W. W. Mclntyrc.

_ 5th Can. Battalion.

lst Can. Division.

France.

Well Mother I have been in the

army for over xi _vcur now und ti pretty exciting year it luis been sure and I ni twenty-two years old now and begin- ning to think I uin ri man, I oven tried _to grow ri mustache Init ii_iy new partn- er Kinney told me it looked like a. baseball team so I got inad and cut it off, but “Never givenp is the secret

oi' glory" so I ani going to try again in I

about a. month.

Things have been fairly quiet

around tis lately, though perhaps you woiildii’t call them very quiet. as we keep making our regular trips into the

trenches, and some poor fellows are .

pretty sure to get it euch trip. My good luck still continues though I have had sonic pretty close calls.

I think I told you that poor Old

Trute has lost an arm. he was hit in a charge about three months ago: when the flftli did some spletiidid work. Mali is still 0. K., lic was wounded in the same charge, but is back with us a- gain, I notice his nanie is not on the list of the Island wounded. I wish you would .see that it is added. it would please the kid, he certainly is a plucky beggar, as stubborn us ever, but that is just the spirit that ntaktm a real good soldier, which he certain- ly has proven himself to be.

You were asking me ubout young.

Gordon, Mother, the boys all called

him Curly, and a dandy "me felinw he was, always cheerful and full of fuii_ The lust time I suw liiin was tit Yprr-.., ho tvns on my right in nn ad- vmmn of the British. I reiilciiiher droppin-1 tlovn: behind lm- sniiie pile of dirt as latin once. und u!'\.\ 1- digging <|t:i'..t>l-_'tis |.~ we haul quite - laik A- btut the |t~'_‘ple we ltitcw' in Monta- ;,uc_

\\ In it we started to 2n¢\\`t: ztguin 9.

shcell burst over us and I was hit in the arm, I went back to ai dressing station, and the next time I heard of hini wus that he was wottiitlo-_'l in the charge ut Festuliert, ani thou that he had died in the hositul nt Bologne, where he is buried in n soldicr's grave. ills inother has thc ;;i~.».tti-at ronsoii ol' being proud ul' Curly, l'or he tiled fighting t'or the right, for if un tiriny ever huti right on its .side God knows the Allies have in this terrible \VllI`.

Your letters cheer me 0. great deal

as I itow feel confident that if any- thing happens to nie,you will not grieve hut he uhlc to hold your head up and ft-_cl that you have done your best for tho (lain-ie.

I received ii letter from Glad yes-

terday, about a month ago I received a tluntly parcel from tier and I-lenry. They had in put a special llmber on ti transport to bring it up to me. It sure wus a dandy. I brought it into the treiit-lie'-i with mo and tho boys helped ine wolf it. t

Pearl Fraser sent some island pap-

ers to ine. I sure enjoyed them, she also sent me some writing pupet' in a. letter, this is some ot' it I uni using. I must hurry tip and write to hor. I enjoy her letters. as .she gives inc nil the town nc_ws. _

Geo I would like to see Mont, he

must be ti buster, l um just ns skinny as ever, only a little inure if uiiytltiiig, a fellows meals are not -very regular in this business, so he doesn’t get much chance to put on fat.

I expect to get furlough in a short

time, as all the old boys that urn left have been promised one week, if I do I will write a good long account ol' my experiences from London.

Tell Mont. and Ted I will write to

them first cliuii<:e_ Is Lille address the same as before?

Well mother darlingiwlll close this

epistle for now and say

BON MIUT.

With love and it big hug, "' '

BILLY.

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and bow with giadness, lift- ed on the shoulders of the ees. Let ue learn the lesson 0! the tidt.

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ue that heavenly influence affect the things of earth. The sun and moon, though far Away, control the move- ment of the tide; and earth, at every point. ig touched and moved by~ heaven. The

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