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i\beral-Conservative Candidate for | Legislative Council.

the City:

ALEXANDER Horyp, Esq. THE DAILY EXAMINER.

NOV EMBER 8, 1886.

The Council Election.

We trust that during every day and|

; every evening of this week, previous to the} tion,

day of eles

he occupied in preparing for the Council election. consistent, the country must elect

lo be majority of the Conservative candidates; nd this City must elect Mr. Horne.

he Hon. Neil McLeod and Mr. Patrick | Biake were both elected by the ¢ to |

Adi

mmon prudence as

sity

' ipport ‘he ninistration of the day; and |

well as consistem y)

emands that 3! Thomas Walker Dodd] elall not n be elected to oppose and ren- der ineffe: 1e efforts of the City 8 re- |

resentat in the Lower House.

Furthermore, all who are in favor of reducing the Legislature and having one chamber instead of two, will now rally to

and M1 .

two Legisla-

the support of the Government

Horne. The folly of having

tive chambers and forty-three legislators for Prince Edward Island is sufficiently parent

Let us now do what we can to reduce the

nachinery and the cost of legislation. Let it be know -bout the

Organization is

n what Charlottetown thinks by electing Mr. Horne. all that is needed in Liberal-Conservative Party

matter mrder that the Muay again score a decisive victory.

Let not a moment be lost in perfecting all the necessary arrangements for the strug- gle of Thursday next.

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Discreditable Journalism.

Ow Thursday evening last, that portion of heard, that guilty of

the public which reads the Patriot about the the Hon. Donald Ferguson was

for the first time, charge ttempting to bribe Mr. Thomas Annear to »torthe abolition of the

Council.

vo

Legislative

on Friday, Ferguson emphatically denied

Promptly, Mr

charge

over his own signa- ture, tte

‘ir. Ferguson is a gentleman mm no dishonorable act

against has ever been ven; Mr. Annear is the gentleman who, 1 1878, solemnly promised the taxpayers of the Second District of King’s that if lected he would vote for the abolition of the Legislative Council, and who, when elected, repeatedly declined to do so. Yet the Patriot has hesitation in believing Mr. Annear, and disblieving Mr. Mergusen ; and though no investigatiou has

no

heen eld, thoug! advanced charge, the Patriot

no proof whatever has concerning Mr. of Saturday ing last asks the electors to show by their votes on Thursday next that they believe Mr. Ferguson to be guilty of a in other words, it asks condemn Mr. Ferguson Government, of

en Annear’s

evel

heinous crime. the electors to and the entire which he isa member, without trial, and in the face of an emphatic plea of ** not guilty.”

Chis appeal of the Patriot may possibly short- but upon

tem per-

have some effect upon hot-headed, sighted, wnfair-minded electors : the mass of the electors,

thoughtful,

upon the the Cl

te and iristian and

1onest,

produce a iceling o isgust at the Paériof, | (uct of their subordinates, and be required t : 7 , | report, trom time to time, as t 20r *t < In a Yhristian’ community. every | "P ir time to time, as to the conduct ot

an ought to be regarded as innocent wi

e is proved guilty; and under British laws | ll events entitled to | is condemned. The

tempt of the Patriot to obtain ination of Mr. Ferguson and the

und customs, he is at

. lair tria ire he remature iv cond

Government upon a charge of bribery, is in

a high degree discreditable.

Again, referring to Tue Examiner, the Patriot says: ‘*The leading organ of the Tory Party in this Province unblushingly defends bribery.” unmiti-

gated fabrication this is, must be apparent

What a gross,

Liberal Conservatives will|5

and all the

it can have no other effect than to!,

THE DAILY. EXA) MINER, | CT?

can be guilty of it in the case of Mr. Annear ; for Mr. Annear was elected— pledged—to vote for the abolition of the

Annear’s

Even if Mr.

story be true—it is not true—Mr. Ferguson

is not guilty of having attempted te bribe

‘him to vote contrary to his declared prin-

to the policy of the Party to

ciples, or

which he belonged, orto the wishes of a

majority of his constituents, or to his word ind honor as a man—which he had pledged as a guarantee that he would vote for the | The

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abolition of the Legislative Council.

Hon. Mr. Prowse is not, therefore, maintain, to be severely censured if he did lightly regard the charge of Mr. Annear.

ippose that Mr. Ferguson did that |which he did not,—suppose that he did approach Mr. Annear with an offer of |

oftice on condition that Mr. Annear carried | out his pledge and voted for the abolition | Mr. Ferguson’s

been

of the Legislative Council,

would not have one on

the strength of

should

olfence

which the — elec- the

Government’s

i yovernment |

candidates.

tors punish

We are all move or less guilty of this kind of

bribery. Parents bribe their children, teachers bribe their scholars, merchants bribe fhe: stomers, and (if giving offers

to members of their own party be bribery)

overnments bribe their supporters. Gifts,

or prizes, or favors, or places—bribes—are continually being offered and bestowed in order to influence conduct. So far from unblushingly defending bribery, never even said that we approved of this In fact, we believe out of

But we do say that it is not inexcusable, that_it is not a great crime; and we do say that in attempting to mislead its readers with the belief that Toe Examiner unblushingly de- fends bribery of the worst kind, the Patriot

is guilty of an act discreditable to

we have venial kind of bribery. that it is nowadays, in school and

school, carried a great deal too far.

jour- nalism.

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A Step in Advance.

Te following is a copy of a circular

which was recently issued by the Railway

Superintendent :—

PRINCE EDWARD ISLANB RAILWAY.

SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, Charlottetown, Oct. 21, 1886. To the Officers and men in the Railway Service :

l am instructed to say that the Honorable the Minister of Railways and Canals has resolved that decisive measures shall be adopt- ed to impress upon the employes of the Government Railways, the necessity for absolute sobriety, not only when performing their respective duties, but at a// times, to the end that those who avail themselves of the advantages of the Railway and incur its risks, may, as far as possible, secure immunity from the dangers of operating it.

Tae public, having a right to expect that the Railway shall be controlled and operated by men who are always sober,the Minister has determined not to retain in the service any person whose reputation for sobriety is not good.

The adoption of this course has been render- ed imperative, because some of the men habitually live just within the rule which re- quires an employe,intoxicated upon duty, to be dismissed; while others boldly violate the rule, and rely, for protection, upon the goodfellow- ship of their comrades, and their natural dis- like to report them, so that, sometimes, it has been found quite impossible to reach the guilty.

Under these circumstances, the Minister, acting inthe public interests, has decided that he will no longer permit a doudt to exist in a case where it is the manifest duty of ail persons interested to take the safe side.

Railway men must, therefore, in the fu- ture, so conduct themselves as to establish a character for sobriety.

Railway employes will be expected to re- port to their immediate superiors those in any branch of the service who get drunk, or may be known to drink intoxicants in taverns, saloons or other such places; and also those whose general appearance and conduct indicate that ti » addicted to the “‘liquor habit.”

licers, Foremen and persons in authority vill be held strictly responsi! ble for the con-

wey al

‘h of them in this particular. They must iorward promptly reports made to them. When any such report implicates an em- ploye of another department, it will be for- warded to the head of such department for

his obs: ions before final action is taken there I commend this whole subject to your fav-

orable consideration, and solicit your active

co-operation in this important matter. Yours faithfully, JAMES COLEMAN,

Superintendent.

It thus appears that the Minister of

Railways and Canals has determined to

retain in the Government service only

those persons whose reputatioa for sobriety

to every one who remembers that THE}ig oood. It is therefore clear that each ie SAMINER exp ssly é 3 if & \ expressly stated if Mr. Annear ; Railway man must establish for himself a re ** electe Oo preserve the : ‘ € e1€cte to preserve tie “we gislat tive le haracter for : briety, or quit the services. ‘ . = ae j 3 os ies ts ounci, then an attempt to bribe him io vot ic action of the Liinister in this matte

. ‘ ys w its abolition could wy

act to be

; ' uloubtedlu he ve ry

‘ iSgrace, ut tie ‘condemned

and punished by public opinion.”

{tis apparent toeveryone who thinksabout it, that there is bribery and bribery. First, tuere is the bribery by means of which a induced to turn traitor to his principles, to his party, to his friend, to his word. Bribery of this description is a crime against good morals, a crime against the state, an offence to God and man; and far from treating it lightly,

person is

we would con-

demn any one proved to be guilty of it to von’ ign punishmeat. We shall not now top to argue the question as to whether or not the Honorable David Laird is guilty

t this kind of bribery, in 1873, ha

ed Sir John Macdonald to belicve that he

"ld it

tlered Si

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him

in Pai liament, and

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rJohn to introduce him to the ,

eaker,

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and then a few Sir John.

sewend is in Lie Dep:

days after de- Linst obtained his wtment of the Interio

But we do now say that it is absulutely im-

pobsilde that the How. Duneld Forzustm

and

pant be approved by all reasonable per- So0uUs.

It is to be hoped that the course adopted tv protect the public terest may prove to blessing to the Railway man himself, as it certainly will if he can be induced to abandon the liguor habit.

If the Railway official seconds the efforts of the Minister, much good will result.

If he does not, then he should “ get out.’

The public will have no sympathy fo

any person in the Railway service who may

be a

couspire to defeat the commendable action of the Minister of Railways in this very important matter.

a Re Eveerriciry 1n CHARLOTTETOWN. — - Brown has purchased a Dynamo-E lectric M whine, one of the latest improved New rk style. This machine is capable of de-

1 osiiiny two lbs. of silver per day. Mr. Bro wn is how prepared to do Gold and Silver lating second to none in the world, such as

| knive 8, forks, spoons, tea setts, watches, jewelry of all kinds; also carriage work, handles, dashers, etc., at the Athonwum, bor

High ieee Weighed ~ the Balances and HERRICK JOHNSON, D. D., IN THE ‘‘INDE- PENDENT.” Over against High License, with this

quintette of claims (four of which we find stamped by the facts as either doubtful or spurious, ) we are’content simply to put two ager | considerations, and upon these to challenge intelligent and Christian judg- ment,

The first is, that High License does not grapple in any way whatever with the con- fessed and monstreus evil. Let us have distinctly in mind just what the evil is. ‘The friends of High License shall give us the terrible portraiture. They tell us that the liquor trafic is to-day ‘‘the enemy of society,’ ‘the ally of anarchy,” ‘‘a menace to the public weltare” ; that ‘‘the police of every city in our land give a united testi- | mony to this prolitic source of social dis- order and violence’; and that ‘‘something must be done for the safety of the country as against this frightful and growing curse. ”

This is the enormous public, social and political evil, for which High License is proposed as the best attainable corrective and antidote. And the first consideration we put in the scales of the balance against High License is, that it does not deal with this evil, does not smite a single hideous phase of it, does not heal even one of its sore hurts. It neither diminishes drinking nor lessens materially the saloons, nor changes one iota their vile character. The trattic is as prolific in crime and lust and orphanage, and detiance of law, and damage to property, and waste of resources, as ever. There the sore is, and it festers on, and gets no check from this boasted specific. There the curse is, and it continues, just as be- fore, to lay its burdens on home, property, wedlock, offspring, society and state.

But High License ‘“‘helps pay tazxes!”’ Yes, it swells municipal and state income. It rolls up millions of revenue. It docs not pay a tithe ot what the traffic costs. No license tee, piled to any height, can compensate for the ravages of the liquor business. But High License does help city and state to pay some of the expenses. Mark, however, the vicious circle born of this High License logic. Here is the mis- erable go-round. ‘*The liquor traffic is prolitic of vice, lust, violences, crimes and

criminals. . These necessitate increased police, prosecutions, imprisoments. Police, prosecutions, and imprisonments cost

money. High License makes the liquor traflic pay the money.” Intelligent voters, men of conscience and conviction, look at this vicious cirle. Begin at any point in the circuit of its succession, and you come round to the same point again. That High License link just completes the endless chain. But nothing-is changed by it. Nothing is remedied. Vice and crime are made their own successors. The traflic continues unabated its work of ruin. And a great public curse is allowed to perpetuate itself on the one condition that it helps pay expenses! ‘To what shall we liken this? To a community consenting to perpetual small- pox on condition of selling vaccine matter enough to pay the physicians. To a government letting its criminal classes ply their trade in crime, if they will pay taxes enough to meet the cost of . prosecutions. Your answer, thinking men—is this en- lightened Christian legislation? Is it not rather the very imbecility of statesmanship / Can it Be possible that this confession of political impotency is the best answer of our Christian civilization to the demand that something be done for the safety of the country as against this, frightful and S ”

growing curse (

Aud now with the scales in our judicial hands, your candid judgment, good reader, whether the balances do not prove High License politically unsound, and a piece of legislative folly.

But there is a worse folly we charge upon High License. We arraign it for its moral as well as its political unsoundness. Here we know we take issue with a large number of good men, whose motives we would be the last to impugn, whose authority on many questions of morals we gladly recog- nize, who confess and deplore the evils of the liquor traffic, and many of whom would welcome its extermination. It is just be- cause there are so many men of intelli- gence and conscience who give their voice and vote for License as the best attainable thing that we write this artice. We want them on our side, believe they ought to be, and are joyiclim the faith that many of them yet will be.

‘The charge we make is that the License system is a direct sanction of the evil we are seeking to restrict, and wrong in prin- ciple. The claim we therefore make is that advocacy of License, whether High or Low, is not justifiable at the bar of sound Chris- tian ethics.

The reply to this is, that under the Com- mon Law, before License was thought of, everybody could trafiic in liquor without let or hindrance ; that license now restricts the legal traffic, so that only those licensed can lawfully manufacture and sell; and that this was the distinct and only purpose in putting the License Jaw on the statute books.

From all this we do not dissent. It is the truth. But it is not the whole truth. And therefore the conclusion drawn from itis a non sequiivr: to wit, the conclusion that the license system is solely restrictive, and carries with it no sanction. Whatever the intent of the original act, the law, in its practical operation, has not only a side of restriction, but a side of sanction. it is a positive statute autiorization of the traffic, as well as a positive statute linitation of the traftic. The three thousand Chicago licenses read, ‘‘License is hereby given by authority of the city of Chicago ta——— to keepa saloon, and to sell, ete., etc.” Changing the word ‘license’, to ‘tax’ does not change the thing. Esau’s hair does not change Jacob's voice. Putting a stegple on atheatre does not make the theatre a church. Tax is for revenue, not for pun- ishment. We punish crimes, not a legal business. And the saloon business is legal the moment it is authorized. All the same, therefore, whe.her we call it License, fee,or tax, on receipt of either, the Government says: ‘*You are hereby authorized.” No quibble of words can change this simple axiomatic truth. ‘There are restrictions, beyond a doubt. But this is sanction.

Now the thing sanctioned; the actual saloon we license, or authorize, to sell drinks over the counter by the glass, for one year, on payment of fee or tax, is a moral abomination. The High License ad- vocates themselves say it is a ‘“‘school of

ner of Prince antl Grafton Strobe, oft

crime,’ “the enemy of gsoviaty,” ‘‘prolific oF sOLdad dialer and Abie" antl A

- MONDAY,

serving the condemnation of all good men. Your judgment again, good reader. Have we the moral right officially, or un- officially, to authorize what we know and declare to be ‘“‘the open manufacturer of crime?” Would you put your own official

signature to a document saying, ‘by virtue |

of the authority vested in me by the statu- tes, | hereby authorize — to prosecute a

traftic which deserves the condemnation of |

all good men?” Would you not sooner lose your right hand than have “given un- der it” the authority to do for one year the infamous work of one of these licensed grog-shops! And what is the difference be- tween the hand that casts a ballot for the law, and the hand that signs a license under the law?

It is this fundamental moral objection to the license system that will yet command the public conscience. Get it fairly before the mind, and it makes an end of the plau- sible, popular fallacies, so often urged in behalf of license. They are fallacies, be- cause they are half truths ; truths of policy and notof principle. Here are some of them :

‘* A half loaf is better than none.” is it better if poison is in it?

‘* Twenty saloons are better than thirty.” Are twenty murders better than thirty, if, in lessening the number by ten, ernment must issue its formal license to commit the twenty ?

‘We must restrict where we cannot sanction.” Certainly; and therefore we favor every restrictive feature of the license law. But we must not wed restriction to sanction ; and we therefore are unaiterably opposed to the license feature. It is utterly bad morals to restrain many men from doing a wrong by directly authorizing a few men to do the wrong.

But

‘Of two evils choose the least.” Nay, rather, of two evils choose neither if both

involve the sacrifice of principle. It can never be right to choose todo wrong. And wrong isnot made right by being made alternative to another and greater wrong. And between a greater and a less wrong, neither God nor conscience allows a choice.

If the two evils are mora:, we must rejec both, or claim the liberty of choosing between different degrees of guilt. ---— eT = I A ——— Rustico Notes.

Farmers are looking very cheerful, being favored with such fine weather, and thus ena- bling them to dispose of their surplus crops.

The fishing season is brought to a close and fishermen are beginning to count their losses, as the season was very unsuccessful. The general impression of our fishermen is that the hook and line style of capturing the blue-back sailors is out of vogue.

Messrs. Peters Brothers have fitted up a store at Commercial Cross, where they in- tend making a start in the mercantile pur- suit.

Folk in this vieinity are using precau- tions in the housing of their geese and ducks, as some of the young sports from the metropolis have been playing sad havoc among them. Dudes from the city shouid take a lesson or two on the differences be- tween wild and tame birds before coming to the country on shooting expeditions.

Last week the inhabitants of the quiet little village of Rusticoville were thrown into great excitement, caused by the mysterious appearance of a monstrous fish grounding on the shore. The efforts made by the fish to liberate itself were desperate, causing the spray to fly for hundreds of yards. All gazed on in awe stricken terror. None dare venture near it. Finally Mr. Benjamin Houston, blacksmith, prepared arms of iron, and he in company with Mr. A. Gay,after a hard fight, succeeded in kill-

ing and capturing it. It proved to bea horse mackerel of enormous size. It has

been seen by a large number of people, all of whom express feelings of surprise at this sea monster.

A bazaar was held here at Rustico In- stitute on the first iust., which proved to be a very successful affair, notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather, and the attempts at rowdyism by some youths who frequent the beer saloons, which have unfortunately become numerous. The handsome sum of $108 was rei ilized.— Com.

South Rustico, Nov. » 1886.

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