mo... w- my)?» Y? usual-coin’ ii ‘i. lluilinaon. no.0. muster. s. concussion u-iis u . "w Illwysnrrinslvsncsidsltvelcltcl‘ . ama-ua-‘mw...’ "m. o..." '~ ‘ma. -» Members Audit Bursa nl Olnllstiens ‘The Strongest Memory is Washer than the Weakest Ink.’

MONDAY, us! 1s, 19D

Their Doom Predicted

‘Lord Mansfield. Lord Chief Justice of Eng-

lahd, one of the brightest ornaments that ever

, adorned the English judicial system, at one time déclared 1-

T""I'HELASTEND'I'HATDANHAPPEN'IU

ANYMANCANNUPQNWETDOSOOILEHE

FAILS IN SUPPORT!‘ OF Tfl LAW AND LIB-

ERTY OF HTS COUNTRY (FOR L$ERTY IS

SYNONYMOUS T“ LAW AND GOVERN-

!E1*IT)"_

Could Lord Mansfield have had in piind Premier Campbell and his Government, and was he siwaking of the consequences of their failure to support the law and the liberty of the people of Prince Edward Island when they waiitonly and wilfully usurped the functions of Courts and destroyed the liberties of the people? The doom of the Campbell Govern- merit is sealed.

Still The Mystery Deepens

'\Ve are on the eve of the election, and are still unenlightened as to how the Campbell Government got so heavily involved in debt. It has been shown clearly and authoritatively that the present Government had two million dollars more to finance with than their predecessors, yet they have pursued an orgy of borrowing and spending that has set the taxpayers aghast. Mystery surrounds many of their financial transactions, and the few occasions the Gov- ernment candidates have faced their opponents on the platform, they have been unable to an- swer the pertinent questions put to them. For instance, there is the cost of the hard-surfaced roads, which has definitely been proved from the public accounts to be in the vicinity of $20,- ooo per mile. But the most mysterious part 0i this transaction is the payments to the contrac- tors. According to the statement submitted by the Minister of Public Works, the contract price was $8,000 per mile, whereas the Public _\V0rks report shows the Government handed the contractors $13,000, a difference of $5.000- At Georgetown, Mr. MacPhec submitted the figures to Premier Campbell, and asked how he accounted for the discrepancy. The _ Premier failed to explain, or even to answer. On the the same occasion it was shown that the Prem- ier had been handing out money indiscrimin- aiely in connection with the Prohibition Act. and he could neither justify nor explain his ex- traordinary conduct. The election has been sprung upon the electors for some mysterious purpose. What is_ that purpose, and what is the province to be landed in for next should the electorate, by any unfortunate mischance, send back the Campbell Government for a second term of riotious administration?

l i Exploiting The Fishermen

Elsewhere in today's issue apPeafs ti" ten of .a liriter addressed to “The Fishermen'nf the First District of Kings." It bears the signature of ‘Hon. B, W. Iii-Page, chairman ofthe Fisher- nierfs Loan Board. and the envelope in which it lias been mailed also bears the inscription “Provincial Fisherman's Loan_ Board."

The letter is a purely political appeal on be-

the district, in glaring violation of the Election Ad,

The Campbell Government has boasted that its‘ administration of fishermcifs 10am has 5R" ‘non-political. The letter quoted is proof to the contrary. It is proof that the revenue of this Province is being expended in barefaced ex- ploitation of the fishermen’: needs for the pur- pose of soliciting Liberal votes. _ _

Iii some quarters the Liberal campaign is a6- ‘co/Inpanicd by the threat that the Government candidates have secret means of ascertaining how the relief recipients vote.

_This'pro';1ganda is absolutely false.‘ Our fishermen need be-under no such fear Whfll they cast their ballots. .

This is the last-minute effort of a doomed administration to intimidate the electors.

Dodging The Blame

filing would expect that the Minister of Pub- qlic Works, Hon. j. P, McIntyre, would be pre- pared to defend his action in the Legislature in obtaining authority to dispossess landowners without right of appeal. Rfter all, it was Mr. McIntyre who asked for this legislation in the Road Act which he, introduced in i936, and which belied railroaded through the House r time protests of even his own party sup- er ; ' - _ ‘ " r Hughes, for" example, warned him that dangerous legislation-that either the ' it r-sbniekpgtliii p ildependciit tribunal was ypropver to such - '

Dougsld MicKi u’ quid iiiJvas, s but

' d

Gov‘ ‘ ' rter. . Pigiiuiigbhxiwn thin theFCourts land

" of the Executive Council

half of Mr. Acorn, Liberal representative for"

and‘ in‘ any cue this could not be considered an indepen- dent tribunal. '

Then Mr. McIntyre said there was another provision in the Act, whereby the‘ Executive Council, at its pleasure, could appoint an out- side commission, But it was pointed out that this was no safeguard to the public, as it rest- ed in the Government's discretion (i) whether to refer s case to the commission and (a) whether, after the case had been so referred, they should accept the commission's findings.

Even those members who protested verbally against this iniquitous legislation did not have the courage to aslr for a standing vote of the House. It went through on a show of hands.

That was three years ago, and since that time Mr. McIntyre, in his capacity of dictator under the Road Act, has been playing ducks ' and drakes with the rights and privileges of the property owners of this Province.

Denounced in this connection at the St. Peters meeting by Dr. MacMillan on Saturday night, Mr. McIntyre made iio attempt to de- fend his actions or his legislation. Instead, he “passed the buck” to the Higgs Commission, alleging that» this Commission was handling the cases under the Road Act.

As pointed out, the Higgs Commission has no authority whatever to make settlement in land expropriation cases. Its reports have never been tabled in the Legislature and the public has no means of ascertaining whether they are iii accord with the payments made by the Goverii- ment or not. In any case, Mr. McIntyre's Act specifically states that the Executive Council is the final court of appeal againsthis own val- uations, and he is therefore doubly responsible, both as Minister under the Act and as a member of the Government, for everything done under this legislation.

Why didn't he shoulder that responsibility at ‘St. Peters?

Election-Eve Borrowing

No explanation has been given by the Camp- bell Government as to why, after the dissolu- tion of the Legislature and in the midst of an election campaign, it went on the money mar- ket in order ‘to raise a temporary loan of $300,- 000. The period of the bonds is from one to three years, the interest rate is 2 1-4 per cent as against the I 1'2 per cent for the three-year Dominion bonds floated last week, and the borrowing is on an average yield basis of 2.60 as against 1.72 for the Dominion bonds.

This bond issue was floated privately, ivitli- out calling for tenders. No opportunity was given local bond houses to bid, or local people to invest. - '

Why was the issue floated at all at this time? Only the absolutely necessary functions of gov- ernment can be discharged legally after the Legislature has been dissolved. Were the banks pressing the Government so insistentlythat it had to reduce its overdraft by resorting to the money market in the midst of an election cam- paign? The transaction is unprecedented,,'and otherwise unexplainable. ‘ A

Those Unpaid Bills

It is understandable why the Liberal Public Accounts Committee headed by Hon. Mr. LePage ivercuriable to produce any statement from the Provincial Auditor with regard to the amount of their unpaid bills at Dec. 31st last. All they attempted to do was to quote the Auditor's un- official statement, which the public was asked t0 acceptat second hand. The amount purport‘- ed to be in the vicinity of $70,000, but this fig. urc, as shown by Mr. Frank MacPhee at the Georgetown meeting, gave no indication at all of the outstanding claims against the Govern- ment for land expropriated for road purposes. Many of these claiins originated two years ago, and not even a survey has been made, which is necessarypbefore a settlementcan be reached. The. Auditor has no means ivhatever of ascer- taining the amount of these outstanding bills. There must, as Mr. MacPllee said, be an im. mense amount of these outstanding accounts, and one of the first duties facing the incoming MacMillan Government will be to find what they are.

_ There is also the assurance in the Conserva- tive platform that settlement on a partisan political basis, secretly andon the say-so ‘of the Public Works Minister, will be done away with. The right of all property owners to fair and impartial settlement will be respected. This is British justice, and it is also likely to result in greater ‘economy. The Conservatives do not be- lieve. with the Campbell Government, that our farmers and property owners are perjurcrs. They do not believe that the Courts are in- competent _to assess the value of evidence or to mete out justice. The interest of the taxpayers generally, as well as the land owners, is. they believe, best safeguarded by the application of those principles of democracy which the Camp- bell Government has floured.

Old ‘Age Pensions

Speaking on the subject of Old Age Pensions before the Rowell Commission, Premier Camp-- beltl isaid that cfirtain promises had been held ou n 193i wit regard to pensions payments which had not been implemented, and that the Province, though financially unable to pay a5 per cent, had, been forced to do so because it. "wsrpsyingyin taxes, the federal" pristfon to, other provinces, which were taking advan- tage of tlie scheme. ' e

The Premier should have taken the Commis- sion more fully into his confidence in this rs- spect. He should have told théin tlist has is!

paying 5o percent of "the old age‘ ‘pensions fund to the provinces, the Liberal party in this. Pm- vines incorporated the following, "in cl election platform: “Appnciaiinp ti! l-W¢'¢li9flvvnmni;at,0l "OM ' ' Planck Ad,‘ m

~_._-no (Zl-lARLOTTmWN - ouggoiaiv

‘years lltéi‘, in)!!!‘ dying liouribt the Saunders- Lea Government, an Act wtspllsed establish- ing the machinery for old age pensions titration but it remained for the incoming Stew- art Government to lmplementthe 1907 Liberal promise. The Bennett Government ‘havinfin- creased the federal contribution to 75 per cent made it ‘easier for theiProvince to talcesdvsu- tags of the schema,‘ . . . ’

Obviously, if it was unfair to the “Province to have‘ to pay a5 ‘per cent of old age pensions as Premier Campbell says, it was still more un~ fair to have to pay 5o_per cent, which was the proposal theLibersl party-in this Province in- dorsed in its election ‘pletfoi-m‘ in i927.

The Bennett ‘Government, owing to the de- pression, was not able to pay the full amount as it desired to do, But the fact. that it did actual- ly increase the federal contribution from_5o to 75 per cent was evidence of its good faith. It also enabled this Province, under Conservative Administration, to meet the obligation which their predecessors, the Saunders-Lea Govern- ment, had incurred in their I927 election but had failed to carry out. .

Close Harmony '

Politics could make no stranger bedicllows than the inconsistent aggregation now Reklllg re-clertion as Campbell Government supporters. when i" power they fought likeblazes, thciiigli for the most part iii caucus. Their “debates m the House iverc tame enough, but occasinoally the pot simmered over and one or another of them would get up and said something really irueresting. ._ x

For example the Premier's colleague m the Tignish district, Mr. Gallan: “iliat is .\lr, ‘(ml- lant's real (pinion about the highway projects of the Cfltllfbtll Government? For that one must go, not to his campaign speeches, but_ t0 his comment in the House, before any election was pending. Here we have it:

“With regard to hard-surfacing of roads, Mr. Gallant said he would not regard it favorably until we had OUR OWN EXPERTS AND OUR OWN COMPANIES doing the scraping and f0lllllg."——P3.fflOf, March 3i, i938.

And Mr. W. F. Allan Stewart? “Mr. Stew- art said that the paved road projects for which the extra two cents gasoline tax had been im- posed WERE NOT BEING DISTRIBUTED FAlRLY.”-—Patriot, April 5, i938.

And the Hon. john A. Campbell, still a member of the Government, and seeking re- election as such: '

“I want to say (said Mr.‘ Campbell) that I AM NOT IN FAVOR of the system of road building in this Province. Lam absolutely in favor of any system of road making whereby the money will be spent in the Province, but when we consider the ENORMOUS EX- PENDITURE that we have undertaken through the Department of Public Works to build a few miles of hard'surfaced roads, 1 think we should pause We have material in this Province to make roads whereby we could build fourteen or fiftecen miles of road for what it would cost to build one mile of hard surface. The differ- ence between the two propositions is this, that while we are building gooigravcl roads we are

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leaving the money in the Province, but when’ we build hard-surfaced roads THE MONEY

LEAVES "rue PROVINCE’ ABSOLUTE-i; y

LYP-Pau-iot, April so, 1938.,

A . I‘ Editorial Notes I ‘ mote days tit! the eleaiou. I . t I ll i Dsrilel O'Connell died this date, i847. ‘ i II i

l If the Motor Truckmen had-all the votes on.

the 18th, Big Jim Bill wouldn't even register. . a i_ u iv

talks, likewise the workingmw‘! wages and what it is spying about Prowse and Trainer, is not fit to QfliIL‘ w n- o .

“They fought likeiblazes" in caucus from all

accounts, while keeping brave, smiling faces in

the Legislature. i I o

After a day of rest, and we hope, gladnefii. the candidates will be out again today busy as

bees.

iii‘

Down in Georgetown the Liberals are evident- ly lacking in gallantry. A lady wanted to ask Mr. Saville a question but was ignored by that gentleman, and had to go “empty away," so far as information was concerned.

a s a w .

If all the shoes supplied to Falconwood dur- ing the past four years had feet and all the feet had votes and all the votes were for LePagc what a magnificent majority he would have; but alas, there is nothing in them after all but “kicks."

s a e 1

Adolf Campbell didn't do so bad in just four years, he seized Austria (Prohibition Commis- sion) and then he took possession of Czecho- Slovakia (National Park Lands). Too bad there wasn’t a Free City of Danzig lying around, for he would have had that too.

i i i W -

Messrs. Acorn and McIsaac narrowly missed nomination on Thursday owing to the condi- tion of the roads. They left Souris in good time by car, but experienced such a series of morasses that they reached Georgetown just five minutes before the hour for nominations closed. a

I i I I

Mr. j. Walter Jones hit the nail on the head when he declared the Campbell Treasury Board jiicked the plums-and he might have added all the other fruits of office as well. The trouble is Mr. Jones and his colleagues let them get off with the spoils without uttering one word of

protest in public. What sort of guardianship of v

the people's rights is that? r w n: a

The Hon. Dr. MacMillan has not had time to see many of the electors of Charlottetown per- sonally and to seek their support at the poll :_ he has been here there and everywhere support- ing Conservative Candidates in the short time allowed him since the dissolution. -It is hoped this “will be counted unto him for political righteousness" and entitle him to the votes of the electorate without sjersonal canvas.

NOTES BY TllE WAY

Rumors oi new Federal taxation that would adversely affect mining were shown groundless by the bud- get. brought in by Hon. Chas. Dun- ning, Minister or Finance, on Tues- day. On the contrary there was

EDUCATION

Bin-Alter two join-t meetings

Publi_c__Foram

Lea, when Thane on his knee and

Mi‘. "Now be a good b0 and t-agllPremieijNo. 2

back as 1917.. when the King Government was ‘

given very real encouragement to further mining eitort. Mr.

reiterated the grsat. bemtits than have accrued to Uanada from min- ing, and indicated an unwilling- ucss to disturb an industry-that has meant so much to the coun- try the last few years. There was no sign o! any deviation from the government's announced oi the stability o! taxation on min- ing. New mines are itveri three year tax exemption again, older mines are encouraged and improve by a 10% This will be most; favorably resolv- ed in mining finance circles and will unquestionably assist in re- viving public interest in minim ex- ploration and developme . Force will be given the tee in

I have dread! sold and demon- strated that Canada could not he

was engaged. 1111s is tact we are powerless to ch _ . e question, then, is not to find out whether, in the circumstances, we have any

participation. nless dlgre on: and hysterical out- bursts on the part of s 10w thou-

lsois dreamers will not serve to turn us ssids ir s one merciless i‘! ty. it is impossible

W’ .. it'll: this Province

neutral in ii war in which Brits-in ch

d -l'.rlt.s d berlullh gun some an isnum

Georgetown for Liberal and Nat- 1; 301m u, b, m l Comes-votive inhizests, mine being child welfare. I wanted to ask Mr. Seville a question that. I m, would consider only lint and right for a Liberal voter. mike m e1- on Intlie torsomettmeifwailploottormtotslrths not appealing for an old we pen- 1m dong (q- us? sion. neither was I lookins for s. job for myself or anyone else. But the chairman was s Liberal and tested I was looking for some- glnzg, angk the Party 1s ‘wit; prepar- rn e any more s prom- y“, , so chairman whether through ignorance o! his duty, or ment not, I be heard

tion oin- chi dren. I wanted . Saviile would it‘ be only reasonable

have a. family to sup t. We still. find some iio‘ tar of education at cheaper rates. or better still. tree books, and less muss?

I am. Hlr. etc. Mil-S. MICHAEL BURKE Convener Child Welfare.

—-———--i-. VOIOI IIOM 181.‘ PHNZ

K0 of. “hi... ut GONE he

in; circles that even s. little relief to expect miter Premier Gem ‘s Bits-I wish to advise u“ WQ in the European situation would statement that the system o edu- o! the 1st District o! Prince and st. once seo a crest response in cation was to be reconstru and then di-s tbs

public attitude toward mining, recalling Mr. Seville sold 1940

something that would stimulate we would have a much c caper

employment i... ‘ Quads. and better school sys in

Mr. Dunning deserves Lbs oonzrst- Now what I would real like w been ulatlons o! everyone. -- Northern took to to the Campbell very and trying winter on Miner. Toronto. _ Government is returned to power, the laborer, especially those who

oborers who

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and also what is used on the . WW. Well. M1". bell c have too much oonfl cs tn tns

0t P. l‘; I. whom he ex- p? I to elect him.

own. o?“ W33 3'23.‘ ltlltét l“ - I u‘ be tiig" es that give Mr. Mother- B11 and Mr. Gallant the sll , amt

not have ‘IGWIhASlIIR them i- one tor the next 10in- wars. = I am, Sir, etc, L ABOR . Alberton. m

“THE FORGOTTEN EAST"

Stu-Please grant ms a little 5980s in your valuable pepsin. I would like to express s few facts er "i. dam“ e s int 100KB 6 oepl-vedstreetin Bouris. Not even a blt o! gravel only what tell oil the trucks going thrmich. and then the custom o!- "i .'.'.".,.°..z*ii.*ir-