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o" o"!!! W"! m on (hitter Says

mt cnltltnnrruwuf GUARDIAN

. | v j . . m..." u...’ nan...‘ .““ u’. .- HOW AnOUT A frho Government, in imaginary Tb t ,6. gurus“ maker _. i $.00 n: run- quinine-orb‘ vuoe t-"EI-‘Z, “X's-u to :1‘. s. n. LnTi-l FATWNCGT ‘floatation of the ostrich hiding its cup? meflui m Iwtst a t-nw , ’ a w» Mm» 0-» I ‘W’ “' m" "’ “W “m .i:..r‘::“;::~"..ii."zfziitl: .

a ma“ tion. have spent more time a-ppnn

"filled l" Plly the coward say that public ownerohlp or tho enuyin tIYl-Ilg to cover up andmou- Xililfzllfll MINI-it's w“ mm" u” ceal their doings than they have Oll l . '

but easy tu if you

in ‘the market ixrmv theln at llflilltd. tluose a variety like St. Ill“

FRIDAY... APRIL its, 1921

i/z/nramunnunuuz.

public men"

sinful days. With more titan his customary vehomenco Mr. saunt era used with burning eloquence such expletlves as "lying" "deliber ately lying" "falsifying". ‘slander- ing". i-lunderers" in connet-tlou with the Guardian. and its editors It was significant hgwever, that while indulging in method-i of con- troversy so snlemnly and picttn. \'Si|\l(‘|_\' reprimanded in others, Mr. Saunders did not attempt to dis-I pmvc. s-xrept by flat denial any or.‘ tho >L'lf~fllt"lll$ made by the (luarti-l inn, lt was sonlewllat disconcerting; also to those who were about to by given the oath during the after;- noon. to hear the Honourable F‘, Nash clip back to the vernacular.‘ of thr- Patriot of the day's tieforo it was washed by n vote of the} ltell govern-intent. Refer-riot; t0 (DP; Guardian and no doubt, carried} ' away "by the exuberance of his; own verbosity" and speaking tronli painful experience. C he‘ exclaimed,‘ "I deh; the Devi! hitnsen t6 11168‘ it". "But", recovering from hi»; temporary defection, he declarcdl ' with a tritlmtphant burst of elo-i qur-nco "truth is mighty and wlrii prflvitil and the gateyof lleil shall not prevail against, it". Those who the by the Patriot before the lil<l clot-H

reca‘ led "truth"

m“ stuiletl blanlily 21,-" they $10011

siFOHK to denounce tht- Guard

hm‘: criticism of the He!) tgoverlr

:r 11,, When the L’:

snllvgrts slfiwl ‘m in srilctun 5li“l‘lt'<' and it-Ph fat.

-~.~' shining

with the llv>'.\'l_\' tl"'l'lil

mi right-lo llnfflin‘ a tzetltleznail on’

wit». the our saill "now tltPy sillillid ~El1g Th» new version of wvhitet than snow". '

This imbecile ztttvlugrt lu gag til,» l-F-rss and to reraile t-riticlstn re mills‘ 8D incident whit-h ooourretl ill the New Iirtlnswick legislature sonn- years ago. A ult-tltber of the Hotlso incurred the tiispleusnre of the KOVeflltttent and he was sum- nioncd to appear ‘before the bat of the House ‘file speaker ordered

tinl to kneel and listen to the t-lutrge and then ordered bilu 1| Vise and apologize to the lions‘

Rising. he looked straight at the, hlu-rtker. and said: "l apol "2124: to the House," then slowly banding and brushing the dust from this knees, added; Will! a significant gesture "But “H. n damn dirty house.”

The Bell Government during uh‘ brief existence has made many; rniiitakeu and has admitted somtr; m‘ them by (ZIIPP-fl" act tar-amend; tncnt v otherwise. but its crown-l "It: folly Wits when it tried to gag the press, its well fqlgflgd moms. 1v ttql truthfulness when scolding und whining at the (‘zuardiaws orpoo urcs, ldeceived no one and their dttoention and incompetence could; nt-i have been more clearly demon.‘ titrated than when they modg mo]; Bl"! flllempt on Vlfetlnesdayt after- noon ‘to intimidate the Guardian,

. become protectionist in their lP-idi‘

no sews: or uuMon j The Patriot... is lnexprossibltv shocked at the levity of the Guar-j dlan which persists in treating a joke tibia solemn incident in the.‘ Legislature on Wetlnesday often‘ noon when every member of the legialuturowexcept the nppositlon- -l "rose in Jtis place in the legislot-i lira and declared that not only had] lu- been mist-emitted but ‘no that. he had been miemyroaanbpd and t-tlandered broadcast in the rulutnns of the Guardian"

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estanderillx °li and incompetence have been export- i‘ W" ‘rm’ “mimlmfii ed by the (hlardlan. Still we be akin to a shock that thosc in the‘

douse during the éi'3'llllg session: hoard .\ll'. sanudels, one o! thou, washed during the afternoon re; vert to the langu-uge of the party's!

promulgated -

Yen. tut the Ivan-lot put; t1, ympi»

- ~ out lleoinftho humour of it. "wbatin the

lleve the Patriot is not so wanting in the saving grace of humour a; not to see a joke h; its declun ion that because of the Guardian's exposure of these precious “public ruen", "farms are being sold" "the population is not increasing as it used to be" and that “people atc constantly leaving our shores"

it the Patriot and "nearly every uleinber of the legislature"~that is, every member of the Govern tncut side-would see themselves us OihPrs see them. it and they avoulti seo the joke as everybody also has 399D it. -If it were not for tht- .ilisfortune that has tflacer] tm affairs of this province in such hzzllfifi. Wednesdays incident and tho Patriot's remarks upon ii»- wollld be the joke of Prince Ed- ward island history for all time tr» come and re taunt the pr’ diction that such an incident will never occur again, y

.\.1 to that "one mnrnher o! the legislat-

1.7m JPatrl/ctbi .,< (‘tlf-YHPIIY.

um immediately nlltcr the llmlse the s-cltrrilous writers on the Guardian editorial stuff and demanded an inzlnediltto aptlogy or, take the cnn~ sequences” and the Ftpolofi-

adjourned wont to one 0t

wits very quickly and very lttlnlbiy giv- en" well, we need merely remarl this statement i.» as “Tiflhy m‘ crederco as that about the farms and population. ,\'o titetniber of the staff wrote anything (c take hark. nor

Guardian's editorial ever n-as s4) approached. it is true that u zllenibel‘ of the leglvztttlre threlt lined 7,0 assault a lztyvtlbilling t-lti zon within tltt- pr-"tnrts of lilo House. zlnli his ill-t of llolsilevisnl tile lhtrricu not only IIPIPINIS ‘w arenas to giorjr in. Jleltnwlliie tli.-_ luczllbel" i'(‘i:"l‘l'91l to boratno ~o JL-LWQUIDPG of his cr-ildilct pr so friulit ened of the consequent-cs of his) took

first train home and has not bm-n

hzrlyinx; that h»- 4h.-

wvn since in the lt-gisirltttrt-

-_-_._4o->-___ BRITAIN Tl'll.\'l.\'G T0 l'll0Tl£("l‘iO.\'

When the great \\'u,t' burst upon the world all the great nations with a single cxcotition had

'. illzed

policy. The United Kingdom con- -titutcd the single elocoptlon to the

rule. Even. within the Etn- piro the t|vt~i'>‘&fl.~; Dom- IBIUIIH bud adopted a protectivu troiicy one -hy rmtt. ’,.

is true that in the original tncun- lug of tho term Britain was not it tron trade country’ in 19H, but it was still farther from being pro tertlnnlst. lier inelulilr pflfllllflfl. her-vast international trade, her netld of foodstuffs and of raw materials for hr-l" oxlensivc nlanu» falcturlng industries. held the no tion for over seventy yen trut- to the nominal nfllify of free tradi- with certain tnodiflcatittmq which

I'll

we need not here consider. lt re- nlalned the policy of both tho great, political parties, although

with growing doubt and wavering.‘

‘The war overturned and chant-r‘ ed many th|ngs_ The peace that followed is likewise ibeing produc-

i tot-y DYOKHICIS. “made. in‘ Get-runny"

Ahtionnl Transcontinental. it couraged the parents to bring them into the world. it was an era of Brent prosperity and Breat expect- ations and the laurifer Govern- ment rather lost its head. it was in a great illllTy <0 exploit that twentieth celltulg: ivliich tit-cording‘ to Sir Wilfrid null; Canada's own. At that time “'0 “ere not thinking of the Germans- or what they might beto our prospects. A! all events the rnlk/ing l-ry was "Cox can't wait" and with that slogan on its banner. tire IAIUFIPI‘ Government [lluntzed headlong in tile tide of frenzied filltlllcv. Even now we ran renwnlbl-r .\ll'. Fieldlmfs proluisp \ll;lt thc whole thing could hc done nu Sixtm-ll. llliiiifllls doll- nrs actual cost, all the rest being mere book-keeping. . Of course lt has 30st tnang: tllues sixteen miliion dollars, not only for bringing the babies imn tho world but for clothing and focdinlz them and for hreoknges. Having had all tho responsibilities of a IWiYWr tvkbnut the privilege»: for :1 ion; time. we have .11 last taken lht- children ovcr and if there is any profit in their future careers it becomes ottrs.’ Meanwhile the mortgagc on our hopes runs into a lot of I|l0ll('_1'. \~ste:ltl of saying "aakn your brats“ tho Meigleen qoveltlment adopts the orphans, f-ranltlv ad- milling that. it l, going to cost a lint to bring them up but express- ing :1 hope that time will Justify the expense. Meanwhile nobody has n. kind word to say for theso im-ndllnfla which set ue- back sev- "ity million dollars n year and in some quarters- th ‘re is a tendency m blame the .\iei=zhen fiowrnlnent for sonlethinn which is its tilts- fortuue but the Lullrlerie Govern IIIQDu-i- fault... . . _,\ ttmpt-o t-ilevire hos collie over the trhrlnltiions of public ownership r =ince ‘i: urn; tliscoverwl that mo?" drc-"tn co=t MODIF- .\ word or twn of praise from friends 0t‘

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had seriously invaded the British

ISWS iteforo the \\'lil'l now Iii"! threaten to t‘(lllll* ill such a .~'\\'Pf‘l> cudaltuel- the cx-

vita! British in-

ing flood its u lstence of than)‘

tlttstries. 'I)(E>'~PEI‘.'IIP llllliililiUs alri- said in: n11 \'

tho Fniotlist governwllt-nt is

l't*lll("ilf\fi_\' turninu "twill"! U" zuloptinn mt‘ a policy which is in its castnt-e >ll't>ll2l\' prulectiottis-l. Tho to ln- lt-

l .

govern ment hill purport <

tneilz-"ltrt- for tariff prulmiillll

t-i-rtttill in1lu>lriPS and tinder ill-i guise t-t’ an ztnii-tltlltlllilltl l'I‘-'1l-*'1""’- gate to very] with: possibilities. It

(HSLLIIIS duly oi’ Zitl l-tl per cent for‘

scents in open the pFOliOst-s it

tit-l- yours on thc inlpurts 0f opti- g-j- - instrutlu-nt,~_

scientific izlasstvure. porcelain and

cal

~, optical

instruments_ tungsten and its Div. ducts. synthetic and organic client‘ icnls. coloring nlilterizll ext-opt die stuffs and The. ilulrtl m‘ ’l‘rttdt> is itisti llutllorizctl

fine. rahcnlicals.

to declare a duty uf lilo Fillllt‘ ratt- on any articles which itlTlnbfllll-M sold or offered in the United King tlom below the cost. o‘! prmillfiliflllt or at tiricos ‘which are ltr-low those at which dlritlsll industries province tllent- .

lit-r" ltpponrs not nltLV "IF “"0- it tint; wctltzc" but the wetiitr drll’ on home of a protective tariff gun-lg cd at ‘.13 1-3 per cent which (‘an-ad- ‘lilllli tnust regard i!!! a fairly hint: fitzurta. And itl atlditlon the British Purliiintent. ‘in pilsslttg a govern- int-nt lllPfll-‘illft! inlpotlnt: fl 50 D01 l-ctn tax on imports front Gernlmm Doubtless there will be a stlfl’ f-igltt over those pleasures before litey can be ‘adopted and if they can be tult.ptetl_ Favor for free trade

Hi .1

rive of great economic, industrial and commercial changes. Before rile war Germany ltnd become Bri-i tom's very formidable rival in man-l ufzwturinz and shipping. Ger. many lion her ships, but retainer!

her factories undamaged durintgi ltnd ofter- the war. Wages are much lower tilt-re than in England and German tiporativcu are, nmro Willing to work long llotirs daily I01‘ small puy than Ilrltlsll tiporn

tiveanre to work xliort hour.» fin the llgliérixvttwltc. as 1.1 cridcncvvi by 8. comparison nf i-tlmt- troubles mm t-tiurtlrit-e (‘heap rut»

Hllilh

is by no means dend in England. The proposed highw protective tar- iff, for such it in_ can only '11)» adopted as an tart-rt" and it must be nteniture at that, its nubmlsnlon t.- Pn rliutnent marks an era ilI/Hfiiiflll tariff legislation. umi should it lu- into

emergency gomtlderetl ll bold

enacted law we shall lie-n" little in thc future about “fret- IrmP it is in England." Tho lit.-t pHip in FIIPPWI’! or the Finn and is

ntturkvti with sturdy blown from

ilk‘

(‘rerar economic policy lit-int»,

B10118! with uiitt ro-

shall

piHliiPFiHlH.

we prt-ltetl : w»

fplir-tl Willi all inforllllltion.

to withhold from the people some- thing which they have a right Lu know, We have for the last year been showing up their nlanipuln tion of the Rlblic ACCOUIJtQ to pro vent the people from IGGHIIIg the financial condition of the province, and since the House opened we have several times had occasion to speak 0t their holding buck infor- mation asked for through the Or- der Book. and_ more particularly of their tendency to keep back re ports and information from the press. Only a few days ago Hon. .\fr_ Arsenault had ‘to exercise his parliamentary right and hold 1gp an important =bill until the intro duccr agreed to furnish him with a copy, The estimates. of which in other yrears copies were alway furnished to the press, were this yrar rostrlcted, 4N1) Roy]; 0F- FPIILED TO Till-l :P.'~I'ESS.

O ~ ~ - ' , C. .. _ Likewise, it ould mm .. ., , v . . ~ t h.‘ nzvsnsioni OQZQBACKSHIDINu. i5 realty _a.,serl0ns mutter vlttn to m“ mm “u. "m, "m. 1J0“ in wvw 311M110" 1° guild? bu» I (i. _ y; _ _ ___ , ‘gm-d to us is treated as a Joke" children but the offspring of tho-M“- ‘m5 ‘m’? a ‘"14" i‘ mop“; are finding ‘h... i. l . _ 4; ffl§ffiaiinesa meeting‘ o! by u... “QM...” mortar oocernmenc which huIwli-bel on the rpoor bird. for it tent. pa... w have a ,8“. em.“ v V so“, _ d " 1 4 ,._ ' . b“! "F! "I! the Melahen GOV/entry] foolish as the Bell combination.‘ rml-nbprt-ies t‘, sell to their <

., Wednesday tomoon vi l u sLlll‘. This is whore time shoe pinches mom. doorstep, and in not doesn.‘_._adopt m“ neighbors. as [he d(nz“fll“l I

. (the most saintly SUPNIIFZB of we Patriot n ls. we knot “a 5,3,. olwtgwwgtghi hfgyefltt tglgenltdacgior ‘may men“... m, 'm..ceahnen. Ifimhls 1-,..." no“... “PM w l

~ . , t; . . ~, ' , _ - 5 » the Bell love 95 ‘chime! W?!" to“; utter" ‘with regard to the Government 51a not actually ugitf; livery move they make seems to b” ““'“"""" ' " Md ‘mverftie ailexed-vvitindnéie of the rknig5$bfnment that its falsity MR1! la the (‘anldiflll NOfl-llefl! be in one form 0r another an ef- ,____ Guard.“ and “s - the Grand Trunk Pacific and the to" m cover up mo". ‘racks am n,“ .

at PUBLIC rotuli '_ *- l

This column is open for the dtoeuulon by correspond onto of quest-lone of in!!!" at, The Chlrwtteibwn Guardian does not newsl- arlly endorse the opinions apt-u.“ by it! horren- pot-demo.

LAQA

104

Road Cleaning-- A Pine lree

Sir.—0u the side of the blalllvql-lv Road near a place called ('lll'Llti .\lill.~:,'there once stood a lttrgt null beautiful pine tree. A lcw lnolllh-i ago this piece of road was svld ill auction for the P11717056 o1‘ cite-r- ing some of trees, scrub. etc. ‘ill-- pine, a valuable ont- llWlt] tit», money point oi’ VII-ll’ Wfls i" ill" words of the flllClltlllPvl‘, “an nrnnw‘. ental tree, and must llot be wit."

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‘If the Government imagine for a moment that they are going to?

. prevent their doing reaching the‘

people by methods ‘such as ilk-IS! they have reckoned just as foo!- lshiy in this o: they do in other. filings. In this enttghtened age tho.‘ public look for information which. our newspapers are ‘entierprlsing enough to qzivc. and they usually have strategy enough to got that lnformaton despite the tactics of half-balked p0itlcians_ Questions! have been asked through the Order; Book in m8 Iiouse, and instead oi’ reading the question for the pur-' pose of earning the nature of the. infomiation desired. rile phrnseo-Y logy and wording is closely studied to see how little of the informa- tlon can be given without violat- ing the exact wording of the orm er, An instance ot this ln-ccttrred when one of their own supporters nsitetl the Department of Agricul- ture. whelllei- correspondence hurl‘ tie-en ror-civeti from society's or tn<titutcs upon Iii. sultject, and be» Pfllllwf’ the word “ntliz-itllutls" hllti u-tt been included in the order it! \\‘il,\ taken ll<l'\':tl]it’i,.‘t‘ of to an»

_ _ . _. . . _ _ we? i" ill-e newltivc. llllllutWii i'ltl'- Slr.-»l iTJVI‘ r-wlt! P111111‘ u“ m]. LWMWMW mnledles‘ ‘lnllilllfll’ t-nqtllrr t-‘livitctl the tutti thatIUYUPhIIIF ‘m l"'l""t‘~'" lmhb-‘r-V’ PW‘

mun)‘ letters: llzul bcctt received iiom lllliiVliillfli-‘t. tlnvertltilenls in Tile past ilztve :tl\v;t_\'.~ upprezciiltoti lilt- setvics-s n! tho press in giving |‘lliI|ll'll_\' to thi-ir doings. llnd lllt ]H'P.\~i gallery \\';t.\‘ n!“ - wt-ll nu,»

tutti}, r- "UNI. is .~'ll(‘ll that tilt-it‘ who!» sandy how null-ll they

in tllt- 1tt't-.=vnt‘_ir~~ill' tin-it is‘ ll, st-t- Pitll \\ltll~ hold. . t

Alter rllvfltlillg, or wilstitlg. large portion or Lin: time at thi- opening of tlll- s '~‘:\iu|l. in tietlut-lz» tipn of the. Guardian. and lll(ll't'

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¥ilaily Selecliiillii i l Guardian Readers j

Fa-nlnhcd by W. O. L°ulon_ Z 0 OUOUOVQUOI LOOKING TOWARD THE LIGHT

l asked tlle robin as he stirang

"rout brunch to brim-ch and swoci- ly song.

Wbnt mode his breast so rottnd and

red.

‘ "Fwau looking toward the sun."

‘Ito said

l asked the violets sweet and bluc. Sparkling with the lll0l1lillg dew

whence canto their color_ Theil. so fill-Y.

Tbvy unsuieretl. "Looking toward Hill SKY."

I saw the roses tne by one Unfold their petals to the sun. l asked. what made their tints so ibrlght. Tllley atteiworetl. the ligiht."

“bolting toward

.- hand its in former day's it would not

A few days ago it difiilplitlilltfll, probably ctlt for its excellent lum- ber. For the past few years an oi? fort has been made in [his coumly to have our Ilflfllrfl, fflflilx, school grounds and roads. ' m nlorl- beautiful. l wish ti, .l:k ‘Nhlli l.~. the. use of planting lrérn ‘by lflt- rund- slde ii‘ such pilfering is allowed to Z0 unquostionr i‘! It nouli sci-m to be proper, iirst to lfltlllwib- iii" moral virtuw.» o.’ hotlwit- ' ettu, and Illfilt it‘ snot ‘ul. pan‘ the trecs. .\'0t only trees. but ovum lmltl. is sometimes seized upon h} grabhcrs, who have no title. The uWDPJ‘ ot‘ (he adjoining land did not take this tree, as he is in the West. Mr. Frank Sounders of North ltiver bought this piece of roml~ rivilfillil. Auctioneer Alt-Kinnon. ovtrsoer, sold it. Those nit-n will likely hour Willikkx‘? to the truth o!‘ ilit- sulrenlent that tree was not to be cut. What, S ,

ipillitlll regarding this kittd cleaning‘? Should not tin. Guvpf". lllPlll itiqtlire into the lliiilttlt- “m; tilde-as: make the offender pay tho flrltt- in lull.

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it-

ls your oi‘ road

l am. Sir 44¢“ RESIDENT

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LOBSTI R INDUSl RY

.4 rt iclrs

mi‘. me in say .i few words zlllillé ~oi|lc lines, l lllil)‘ so)" lllllt filllllt“ tiling will itrlvt- to ht; tiilllt‘ or iht‘ ‘iltsillt-ss will not +.\'i.~t. i“ "'1 7'11‘ fir» >011! conditions it is itllllllhl lm~ pt,_.-_,ip1p_ ft»,- [tlv- or any tuner tony»- py pill-her to rull, lnakc ultrdolln-t ‘YllllU lllliivl‘ Ill» prert-ul YCLZllili- litms No puc-kcr can get the rcqulr t:.l nunihtu" of rains iwr huntirctl [nnlnds nor gt-t quality. as the can will not t-ntttuin swell ()llil('t‘>' u.’ uitht and liquid. or plrltie t-llntlull ['1 make good lobsters. in tilt; first place it‘ wc bad to seal lbt-tll by

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be donc, but with the . lling mach inc you can pat-i. seven iIilIJCP" oi.’ int-at. ZIIFU picklc at packing talhlc, but wileu the cuvcr is tilact-d on tho can and pressed timvn lnto p151 tion b)" the settling lltocltillc. the pit-klc is about all sqtiezzeq our m; ulztwllnl of till‘ luont being farahovq lllt’ top m‘ tho min and thc contents ilrc practically dry, nud an- not good lobsters as has bcctt proved, in retort-tire to tho t~.\'tf':l nnucl- [wi- -:m it i.~: Jlti lnrgt- an zntlnum zis can int soon as ono case of llzllf potmug rotltaln llint-Lv-six calls, which means 96 ounces m- about t3 pounds per case at say $25.00 menus n loss m‘ about $3.00 per coke in the tum- nees. Now when Ulla occurred tho packers‘ IlPOYI-u were rattler smart and lat-t nuts wt- pat-twp 7 L2 o“. 0i‘ meat. as it is lmposuitle to pat-k evct-y can to contain 7 ounces ex, "“'- ""0 if “'0 WWW- liuht WI" ‘t-mlld not H8" them and by no doing left n. lot of bad lobsters and the market in n bad situation. l. for one, he. ltove that if our Department t-untin tits to tnake such serious chnngetz lhut it will nlcan n closing; om of the liltsinmts, whit-p h.“ b,“ u trout source on Prince Ed ' rd t9. land and other places as wit" m, now.