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i; After all, there is not much new that the Con- ,’ rvative candidates can say about the Cain?‘ bin Government. 11s legislative activities ha“? liowhere been better summed up than by one 0f its own members, the Hon. John A. Campbell. 4'11 Kings. We quote Mr. Campbell from his own ‘arty newspaper: _ _ M n-fhere is legislation passed here that i_s NOT N THE. INTERESTS OF l‘ HE PEOPLE QF THIS PROVINCE. It may be a strong statement to make but we might as well make it as be thinking it . . . . am afraid that we ﬁr. legislating 1N THE INIERESIS or CO - BINES . . . . We have legislated for evBYY ‘cbiicern in the Province; Legislation has been passed in the interests of doctors and dentists and lawyers and officials; legislation in the in- terests of every class BUT NO LEGISLATION AS BEEN PASSED IN THE INTERESTS OF" THE FARMERS."-Patriot, April 20,

i938- ‘ One Reason Why

rlon. B. W. LePage wants to know what ne-

cessity there is for the Conservatives, after the election, to investigate and reveal the true fin- ancial status of the Province.

i One of the reasons is that under the Camll‘ bell‘ Government the Hon. Mr. 118138895 Pm“ eident of the Executive Council and chairman of the Fishermen’s Loan Board, has been usurp- irig the position of chairman of the Public AC" counts Committee-the one Committee in the Legislature which is supposed to inake_an in- dependent investigation into all the flnanﬂﬂl transactions of the Government. _

.Uiider all previous governments, the Public 'Accoiiiits Committee was composed of non- governnieiit members of both parties. Thus the public was assured of a pretty thorough probe into the finances. Where there was disagree- niriit among the committee membcrs,_a minority as \\'Cl1 as majority "report could be brought in.

One of the grave disadvantages of a one- party Legislature was the fact that -with no Opposition members available to sit on the Pub" lie Accounts Committee, the report on the fin- ancial situation was bound to be somewhat biased.

Nevertheless, ~with a. personnel of non-govern- ment members, there was at least the prospect

of obtaining a. more independent investigation _

than the Government itself could be expected to make intoiits own transactions. j

But this was not satisfactory to the Campbell‘ Ciovernment. They didnft watft an independent investigation, even by their own party sup- porters. They wanted to dominate the proceed- ings of the Committee, and so they appointed as chairman Mr_ LePage-—head of a big spend- ing department and Premier Number Two in

Vthe administration—with another Government

member, Hon. L. R. Allen, as his aide-de-camp.

.Thesc men solemnly sat as a court of in- vestigation into their own activities as govern- meht members, and brought in the kind of re- port which might be expected in the circum- stances! . '1 ‘That is one reason why a thorough investi- gation of the Province’s financial status is de- sirable. It is strewn" not the only reason, be- cause we have the authority of outstanding fin- ancial publications that the Government's bond borrowings have been conducted in a manner incompatible with sound financing.

That Special Session

in their first bungling effortsto amend the Erection Act to enable Government members and supporters to grab salaried jobs, for them- selves" our Liberal legislators were not all of bne mind, as they profess now to be, with re- gard to the justice or legality of such pro- tedure. It is worth recalling what some of them uhad to "say at that special session of the Leg- islature called in September, r935.

Mr. W. H_ Dennis, who was not then a Gov- rrnment member, asked why members ‘of the

"jlfreasury Board should be paid’ for doing the

3k performed by purchasing agents. “We [claimed when in Opposition," he said, “that ‘tlfbse purchasing agents had-nothing to do, and

l 71bit the salaries paid them were wasted. WERE

"WE RIGHT THEN,-OR ARE WE RIGHT NOW?" _ . , _ V i

"These men,” said Mr. Dennis, "can D0 WHAT THEY LIKE to‘ buy- and sell for the

‘ Government. Why shouldn't the other members

line the saute privilege?" . i _ i - e thought-at that tinie-“We should. _be tul of what we do in regurd.to___cutting . " ' A ‘ﬂial-mighgguffqerllie, in-

GALLY and _I don't know that there will be

ME A LITTLE SELFISl-I." ~ ~ And Mr. Wade Hughes, Fifth District of

of this House may. also" be a member of the House. i ~ - i At the same session they abolished the vPro-

tator of Prohibition administration. »

tell what amount of expense may be incurred in enforcing the Act under the Attorney GeneraPs administration. As a member of the House l AM OPPOSED TO THE PRINCIPLE of that. I would like to see the Commission con- tinned, an independent Commission. I think this is a little premature to bring up at a special session. At the very least, I think it should have been left to the regular session. Those most iii- terested in the enforcement of this law-the temperance organizations and almost all the clergy-are in favor of a Commission to en

force the Art. I think that until such time as they have an opportunity of voicing their sen- timents before the Government WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO PASS THIS LEGISLATION."

As for their borrowing legislation, also put through at the same one-day session in Septem- ber, 1935, what said Mr. H. H. Cox, Second District of Kings?

“What I object to," said Mr_ Cox, “is giving authority to borrow Three Million Dollars. It GIVES AUTHORITY TO BE EXTRAV- AGANT, and this Govemment is pledged to ECONOMIZE AND NOTHING ELSE."

Mr. McIntyre As ”Economist" The extravagance of the Public Works Min-

building activities, machinery purchases and

‘Falconwood management which are now being

exposed, are in striking contract to his “econ' omy” proposals when in Opposition.

We have already referred to the motion which he seconded at the regular session of 1935, to curtail public works expenditures to the ex- tent of balancing the budget—a motion which, if adopted, would have put a stop to necessary work on the roads and thrown hundreds of peo- plc out of employment.

But that was not the extent of i\1r. Me- Intyre's “economy" suggestions when in Op- position. At the session of 1.933, he seconded the motion of his party leader to cut the-salaries of every school teacher and Government employee earning $500 or more per year. Every Liberal mernbervoted for this proposal; every Con- servative member voted against it, with the re- sult that it was defeated.

The fact that the MacMillan Government

stood firmly by’ the teachers in I933 was used

against it in the I935 campaign, as was the ex‘! penditure incurred in rebuilding Prince of Wales College and Falconwood Hospital. Today we hear‘ nothing about reducing teachers’ salaries, -and very little about the cost of Prince of Wales College and Falconwood Hospital, with the ex- ception of the cost of the Falconwood plans which could be purchased three times over for the extra cost incurred by the Campbell Gov- ernment in running the institution.

I Editorial Notes ;

Five days till election. e a: m Coronation Day this date, I937. w iv v

The sun will shine all right after the 18th, and it will need to. a in n- “They tax the living and the dead" with a

vengeance by the amended Probate Act. o iii a a

“There is none of us perfect, no not one"-

except the dissolved member; from Rustico. r i

The Liberal organ claims that the Campbell Government got $422,831 from Ottawa for the fishermen, What the fishermen would like to know is—~\vho got that money intended for

them? ﬁ 41 i b_

Hon. Mr. Dunning, Minister of Finance, has released figures showing number and amount of Home Improvement loans made to March 3i. i939, in towns and cities with a population of 5,000 or over. These loans, which number 46,-

which now stand at 65,690, aggregating $26.

total of $67,434.99. e iv is n,

Lea, or is it the LXVIII Paraplirasef A i

But the wheel that does the squ ‘ . one that gets the grease.

hard to plﬂse, - .

i ,, nut-tin "dcgthtiﬁs always scratching 1s ‘the H

tblthlis the fleas, nrtof loft soap spree

s halo slittle selfish o" metbefwc illocld MONOPOLIZE ALL THE IIQNEY . . _. .OURSELVES_; Lthink we willgiit a good deal ,. ~ --

of criticism from our opponents. Of course. 1 g suppose we are not supposed to look much to ~ that. but WE HAVE I TO LOOK POLITI- W

~.mucb saved in this measure. IT LOOKS TO . Kings; - “I; think owe ‘are‘ ACTING ilm-J

PROPERLY and on an improper.» principle- when we go so far as to say that an employee

What said Mr. D. N. MacKay, First District hm of Queens? “No one," said Mr. MaeKay, “can

ister iii the. Campbell Government in his road 1y

n: and amount to ‘$l9,r97,47o.95, should not, be confused with total Home Impovement loans

328,621. Charlottetown received 2o! loans for a ' At this time we may appropriately ‘re eel. the favourite 151st Psalm of .the late einlerf

“I hate to be a kicker, I always loggdfor peace, . .. ..ii,ﬁ‘e,.

' It's. nice to he's ‘peaceful soul, nottop I

hibition Commission and voted $500 extra l0 m the Attorney General to become ‘supreme dic- Obi-livid

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. The Milwaukee's soimdlng was 4180 lethoms, uncor- rected tor salinity, pressure and temperature. When corrected the depth wlll be ln excess oil 5,000 latlioms, and will be marked on now charts as "Milwaukee Depth." _ S. Army m4 Navy Journal.

Ia Canada than are three people to a square mils But before mo coming or the Willi-is‘ there were ls: less man wit; eacn lnanu nad at. least. tltteen miles to himself. 1t was tn the name o! their race, of their civilization, ol their pro- gress, at their will to survive, that me Iroquois struggled desperately to prevent Frenun immigration into their country. ‘they were satis- lleu with themselves, with their arrows, their bark houses, their lenced-ln villages, their medicine men and tnelr misery. Groulx-lsm llourtsned among themas it flour- ishes elsewharc, But. the lmml- grant, with Champlain and ms successors, imposed himself by force and 1t l: to hlm that we owe the 1i civilization we have. When l. read the plddllng argu- ments oil the adversaries o! m1- migratlon into our country and particularly into the Province of Quebec, I cannot heap thinking of the Redskins. We are acting ex- actly as they did. thinking as they thought and feeling as thQY lelt... Nothwlthstandtng intense immi- gration, the French seed in this country cannot disappear. I have lull confidence tn the extremely PIOUElO qualities ct our race Let our cronies continue f0 multiply as they have done and particular- let us, by means ct appropriate education, tit our French-speaking Canadians with the armament of llte, with material and spiritual strength, and I am convencecl that. luimlgratlon no matter on what scale lt. ls carried out, will never succeed 1n interrupting the llnc c!

The persecu- tions which are golngon ln Bin-ope are weakening the persecutors and strengthening their competitors. There you see tne infallible law of compensation at work. Those coun- tries which inherit the great men they are driving out will never re- gret. it I! we do not take ad- vantage of the opportunity fate is handing us, we shall have to re- sign ourselves to paddling around another couple o! centuries tn our present mediocrity, which ls the mother ot sell-satisfaction and o! stupidity-Le Jour.

In Montreal, n. clly when you cannot take two steps without meeting the nn llsh language, a few lrresponsilxe individuals de- creed that children, who are

School

no English until the rum yuan... We have learned that on the ad- vlca cl the director o! studies for Montreal, Mr, Pledalue, it lmsbeen practically decided to put forward the teaching ol English one year in our schools. The question is under advisement to; a (cw days, but there 1s every reason to believe that. the maturity o! the commis- sioners are ln favor o1 the propos- ed reform, that only a low taniltlcs are against lt. But that ls only the ﬁrst step_ The battle must be cor- rled on another year, and another, and another, l! necessary, until lmgllshlstlushtnallnlnthethlrd

grid!» ll It ilrbb. — I40

pile. essor of

11117955103’ Nun told his class that the pozrclns Germany were contrary to the common law. Weldmar Epp, a student from Ger- mmy. ed this assertion: and then, with other German stu- dents tn the class, marched out 0t the room. The Swiss students ﬂlé slancd a declaration of sym a and solidarity with the pro cssor Word of the incident was qhutckly conveyed to Germany, and t c German authorities pcln ed out how unfortunate lt. would be for the Klnancu of the univers- ltty, which many young Germans a tended, ll that attendance were to cease. The unlverslty authorit- ies. thereupon apologized to the Nazi students. The Swiss stiiden m?‘ reprimanded. -- Calgary Her-

...Bul. for the underlying reason, the Japanese have been ahead. If their conquest

or Ohns means anything, lt lu- volveo the expenditure ol huge for development. Japan ll som- u outside invest-i

cuts are concerned Prom Bri- and the United States only.

Sin-Mi tiliedoycfioleetion draws nearer it irbecilinigig more 1 .

‘apparent _ that flier; Coiiipboll-Mclntyre-Lehiga. Government‘, anxious to appeal fifths electors and try for c lncirveijdlct before, their bungling influencing and constructing their paved highways

Ah become known, to tlii people.

When controctsvnn Isl lost Winter, a most unusual time for culling" tenders. as ‘no contractor could visit the sites cf the Jivork, the Ministerblevl off flint they were going to build a better high- way than the‘ McMillan l-llghwcy for about $8,000 per ‘inile. i Nov! we have the government members admitting that it cost $13,000

per mils, and o careful oxcininotioii of their ‘own reports show that Edm

it cost over $20,000.00 per mile.

In the P. W. Report 1938 page 263, we find the four amounts.

for paving as follcws:—,

T6-1 Charlottetown to Scuris T3-1 Charlottetown to Montague T1-1 Sumrncrside to Tignish T1-2 Summerside to Tignisli

s 137,215.05 133,385.66

120,109.01 Total 5 587,130.09

To show how they hoped to fool the electors and to ccmou- 0M

flcge their accounts, I could not find in their wonderful Chief

ingineer‘: Report any reference which would tell 1110 the total number of miles paved. However after deciphering confusing l“ c" 1i“ Mm where ln a ofvll not! not a timed sum 0r?!

tables I unearthed from pages 27 and 28 of the Report that they had paved for this enormous sum of money the total cf 45 and six- tenths miles of road, thus making an average cost per mile ~0f $12,875.65. Adding to this amount the 10% which everyone seems to know was held bcckfrorii the contractors, and leaving the balance of the 10% (o very small amount) for unpaid bills, we have the so called "low cost" top of the Liberal Highway costing $12,- 875,65 x $1,287.56 or $14,163.21 per mile.

So much for the top of the Highway. What about the bot-

tom? The Liberals claim they built u good one, but they must be d

osliumed of it or else they dore not tell the electors what it cost. So clevcrley is the cost concealed that I cm doubtful if the real cost will ever be known. In examining their accounts and reports over u period of three years, this is wliot I found.

From Public Works Report 1936, Page 323:- No. 2—Preporation of Subgrude, Coleman to ElmsdoIe-4.12,593.73 No. 6—Portoge Lake Road 16,797.95 No. 10-—Prepuration of subgrode, Wellington to

Pvriiise ‘ _ 12,748.21

No. 20—AIerry Plains, Swamp 792,60 '

No. 45--Prepcring subgrude, Sunimlrside Western . RWd 25,246.47 No. 46-'—Section No. 4—Preparing Subgrcde, . Charlottetown to Souris Road 27,541.17 No. 46—Section No. 6—Prapuring Subgruds, Charlottetown to Souris Rood ‘ . 46—Section No. 7—Preporiiig Subgrudo, Charlottetown to Souris Rodd From Public Works Report 1937, Page 299:- . 1—-Sub-gruding—Summersidc to Richmond . L-Sub-gruding-Richmond to Coleman

16,107.85

$ 61,925.73 ‘ 27,421.73

. L-Sub-groding-Colemun to Montrose 3633755 til-m

. 4—Sub-groding Ten Hill to Siimmerville 35,426.06

. 15-Sub-gruding St. Peter's Rood 2030512 on $ 61,354.61 °

From Public Works Report 1938, Page 263:- R-ZG-Sub-grodiiig-Churlotfelown to Souris _ T3-2G-—Sub-grading-Charlottetown to Montague 70,436.02

Tl-36—Sub-groding—S'Side to liiveriiess School 90,832.10 lemma” T1JG-Sub-gruding-Invernsss School to Montrose 84,948.41 M‘,

Total $ 623,597.25

_ In irrriving at this total I must soy that I did not include any items which do not belong to the subgruding of the 100 miles con- tracted for. On the other hand I have omitted items which pos- ibly should have been charged against the subgruding of these

projects. But so confused and so unexplanutory are the accounts '

of this work, that 1 can only assume that they have fully subgroded tlie 100 miles contracted for, which is doubtful. Giving them all benefits of the doubt the subgrading averaged according to their reports $623,597.25 for 100 miles (or less), which makes $6,235.97 per mile of finished subgrude. Thus we have the total cost f0 date of the Liberal "Cheap Highways" as follows:-

T°P _ s 14,163.21

Bottom ' 6,235.97

Total $20,399.18 per mill

Right new, I ask Premier Campbell or the Minister of Public Works or his upoligists to show to the public when time figures ore v/rong- and why they should not be even greater tbpn we have shown. Their own accounting and reports show what q dllgmmq

they ore in and why they would like to fool the electors before the subs

truth looks our. _ i

but the people are asked to believe that the total cost of the m“

McMillan Highway was $16,000.00 per mile completed, and ‘that

the contractors were paid in the vicinity of $11,000.00»p|r mile for h“

the paving. Without argument lotus take them at their word. This shows conclusively that. the McMillan highways vm cheaper by $4,399.18 perwnile finished than the Liberal Highvnlys.

I have not as yet told the saddest side of the highway story

according as the Government's own reports show, The paving con- m

tracts under th -M M'll Go '

$5,500.00 per niile, iiniioufhs Feddrdiudcivefhiiicnuchlzibbctbd balance of $5,500.00 par mile. Though the bungling of contracts the Liberal liighvroysjodctq have cost the province $6,000.00 p" mile more than the price connected for, or $500.00 per mile mo". than the whole of the McMillan Trans Cdiicdii l-ligliivny court-gm plr mile cost the province» Lat. Ill he vllitlt dinner o! excuse can be given to this statement offsets taken fromftliulr own um.

n» Liberal Gpvtflllﬂlllf has built ‘in’ ms 1...“. contraction, but door to the pockets ‘slag; ﬁgmpinf.

formal that sum tlirLlborol pavement vat moral days old n- ~ - i

placements vmreinifdect Montague audit, llqqngn, , Tod“ n” lieovnllYaro visible, forerunners of future bmkl. Wlic that the, qmmmnni should a t, ‘ "

t the pavement ls- scarcely six inenllli ‘old, hummus emit; m4 up.

tliiio to llml out tliu truth; ’ 1m, and the‘, '

~ vmiead to but". we ugly

F"?

h! 196,419.31 ﬁn» .,, nt “m”!

melee. Arrest .ould be in tiosgkoases 1180,3215 not without n The reason for t-hlsls let out ln su orlty published n , mo.

eltlon o! the law 1051:! pt these may be quoted as tol- "Oh tho other hand. where "the .- certain.

thehot ii wmlnntheiroimritngaxid ba

1 be arrested. tor w e plaintiff lsnclesh . and - to

$16,281.24 In l

in 2 MARS

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What a bush“ ‘h’ will be or lltll *' meymﬂn M time who ti.“

l minia- o obell i: ls unduly oi-iiﬁisea wiipiiaiilemfsrdi

Do the , want this 5.73% l’.’..i;i1il..‘.’€°“““ Wﬂlt excuse

0! . 50110011011811!!! nature, he“.

lone ‘knows

I m slr. etc. W. n. BENTLEY,

ANOTHER MARI‘! NEST ' , 1i. One-II- fcr mo. mu ins" onnnii o! P111“ 111 "Ply. Whlbh the organ 61091-678 1n bkek W90. shows how d Olmbbell Govern- dove tndlmutlon in the coils try re-

fined . '1‘ho“b1ot aNicke" nnswersarv Tdlsh I shadow! hldl wisps. they hone wll

phngsry-vobmto their slnlel ‘Rionewbluﬂ MIN‘! new.

SPRING TONIC HAO’! BLOOD rooo

I03 PM? AND THIN l’ OIL!

onblnntl espocllll ln theufrentment o IIIIOIIUI h e

an im- cf the

Ono fol the greatest remod- lll also in: limit o! Rheu- m .

.. In! ‘ who have lost h Mica Blood ‘u ' INN the roster’. oiri: A,l0l now m. Hall 0rd Prom ' Al h. P“,

MAC’S PILE OINTMENT

%.l‘lll?...i"‘"‘..l than ~A uh effluent rained

m ‘€&‘.‘§‘d“ .25. l...

almost toning urnln .

mseembtlon o’! rifles uni! cure.

7 10* 00!! Ill. 0P

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iwllll-lll Powder 811111‘ 01110 for Pig‘