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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, APRIL 1, 1899

joke day wasan opportune time for pass - ing out of the city disgnised as peasants. A women on the street recognized them and cried tothe guards that the captives were escaping, but the sentries only ' laughed, thinking it good hoax. Later, when one of the officers heard the joke, he ordered an investigation, when it was found that the prisoners had fled.

THE DAILY EXAMINER

APRIL 1, 1899.

A PROTEST.

A Quetec despatch to the St. Globe ree ports tpat,—

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ARE THEY IN EARNEST ?

“As soon as thenew steamehip for the winter ferry acrossthe Straitsot North umberlahd arrives from Europe, the Stanley will be brought to Quebec and placed at the disposal of the Intercolon ial Railway authorities, to be used in winter

keeping Open communication between Quebec andthe Intercolonial Railway at Levis.”

We take the earliest opportunity of en- tering, on behalf of the people of Prince Edward I land,an emphatic protest against thie

So many “ live questions have lately oc- cupied its attention, that The Patriot has not about Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s refueal to im-

bad time to say much, if anything

plement the pre-elect'on promises of the Liberals by bringing down a prohibition bill in accordance witb the reqnest of the 14,000 majority of the plebiscite. But i, has seized upon, and eagerly published, a The Guardian. The Guardian bad suggested that the Libera Conservative party should now make pro-~ | hibition a part of its policy. In reply, Tax

ly disappointed ifthe S:enley should be} pyawiver bad suggested that the prohi- taken away to Qoebec.

proposed movement. Two winter

steamers are needed here. It was under- stood that second winter

Edward Island.”

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biuonists shou'd first show their sincerity and determination by “ hitting back” at the Liberal leaders by whom they have been disappointed and deceived. To this proposition the Guardian responde d :

THE BRITISH PRACTICE.

Tax Illustrated London News pointa out that, in Great Britain, “the citizen who

holds aloof trom the contest is supposed nib Tur E : i ; tion LHE KxXaAMINER’S proposals wi ; prohib: Pp to be aconsenting party to the will of the ‘sound something like this: “We are not

majority of those who really do care for for pruhibiton, neither are we against it. the contest; and from that point of view | Our party is divided. Mven our advanced the event (of the Plebiscite) ought un~ | temperance wn oe late Sir Leonard ao aa ~ ite irc doubiedly to follow the vote.” Everyone Tiley and Thom bite, with Sir Charles

: oe Tupper, Sir Meckenzie Bowell and Mr. knowe that the Canadian practice is sim- Foster, believe the time has not come when ilar to that of the Britieh. But the Can-

probibiton can be enforced. Therefore, we adian Government declares that it must

cannot make avy promises as te taking up not be eo ia reepect tothe probibition cone } prohibition, but if you will hit Sir Wilfrid : and tarn him out,ihea we will consider teat. Yet the Guardian and Patriot see no reasen Why the probibitionisis should

what we may do for you.’ The Patriot quotes this psragr aph and “hit back” at the Government

eayer:

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“That is the way it will naturally strike the liberala who are prohibitionists. : Tkere is in the proposal too much of a Ir is remarked by a writer in Self i desire to bit Sir Wilfrid and too Jittle

Culture that the word “April” comes from | willingnsss to take up probibition. And the Roman Aprilis, ard was gives because | ®S to other probibitionists—ne mean those this ie {be season when the buda begia to f-whe ace for prcbibition few ard for party

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: of ; afieywards -Tue Examiyga’s proposal has open. The origin of April Fool's day } tao mach of partw and foo little of prin- jengt known, I[)

tion after they have ehowr their earne ¢- ness and golitical power,—not before. The probibitionists have now » grand oppertunity to obtain a controlling posi- tion :n Canadian politics. They have only to vote solidly against the party which bas flouted them taken the liquor dealers’ horn. This will test the sincerity of those among them who have hitherto voted for the Liberal party; but the alter- native has been cast upon them by their political leaders and cannot consistently be avoided, “Carters’ Seeds Grow”

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Qur Liberal eoptemporaries ou ght 10 cea little further nad aeked their)

that it is thought to havecome dewn from seine very old traditions, possibly the relic of some heathen festival. Oa this day the playing of little tricks which bring ridicule to the unguarded is observed more generally in France than in Great Britain or America, The Frenchman who \s caught by some carefully planned hoax is celled “un poisson d’avril,” that is an April fish. In England or the United States such @ person is called an Apri fool; in Scotland, a“gowk.” Tbe far-! away Hindus practise similar pranks on the thirty-‘ret of March, when they hold what is called the Huli festival. Some- times a joke has been played on a large scale, asin Londonon the firat of April 1850. “Many prominent people received

! is a custom among go | ciple for the also.” have gow : : ? “ll it s#trike the

temperance friends how w ane

' prople of Canada a large, and how wi. t erike the world, which is looking on, if they fail to hit back at Sir Wilfrid Laurier ‘and his friends, and so visit condign punishment upon the po liticians who have tricked them? Wiil the mass of the peo- ple of Canada, who are lisposed towards temperacce, be influenced by such condvet to come to the eupport of Prohibition ? Are moral or political reforms of ALY kind usnally carried by men who prefer their party to their reform,—even to ‘he point of being tricked, deceived, and Gis. % appointed without hitting back ? Ww, "1 ask these questions not of jn. Patriot or

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thinking sadependent prohibitie . a : héletofore supported nists who -_ . ‘ ppe the Liberal party? Toe probibitic

wists must exhibit coo ’ . ome oq, 3 : . ‘ ® ‘ "id to view the auouat S&emmony of | their earncetners, ‘ost show that they

washing the white liors, @y Sunday, prefer princip! to party, aud that they are April 1, 1579. Admitianee only at the not to be cricked and flouted with impnn- White Gate.” Cabs came rattling up to | "¥,—before they can expect to carry their the tower all day imavain effort to Rad ! point by means of either political party. the “White Gate” ; and it was diffeult io | They have an opportunity now to assert make plain to the many visitora that they | their indepeudence and show their power; were the victims of an April joke, A bit | for they have been cheated and insuletd. of French hietoty tells how Francis, Duke | Will they hit back ? Or will they condone of Lorraine, and ‘bis wife the deception practiced by the Govern~ bondage on Agril 1. ment of Sir Wilfrid Laurier ? Of this they

tivity st Nantes, and determined that the | M4Y be sure, they will obtain prohi-

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WOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that an appli- cation will be made to the ‘Legislature of the Province of Prince Edward Island, at its next Session, for an act to vest in the City of Charlottetewn, the title to all that tract, prece or parcel of land, situate lying

avd being in the City of Charlotte. town, being Town Lots num- bers Sixteen (16), Seventeen (17)

Ninety Three (93), Ninety-four, and part of Town Lot No, (18) in the 4th hnndred of Town Lots, in Charlottetown, being the property known as the West Kent Street School land and premiser.

Dated at Charlottetown this 1st day of

March, 1899. JAMES WARBURTON, Mayor of Charlottetown H.M, DAVISGN, City Clerk. 52—dy 4w & R. Gaz.

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