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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1s, 1921

loaded III I80 Quint, ‘tdnllolplnnlvnooetnttnnﬂo. ll!

know we have heel ("f9 3 ‘WW6 on the team sud 131M, 618F981"? m; mg huffettlngs. the knocks. the falls and the baton MDOB- 1W a" u, phy the game to a ﬁnish. We do not know and cannot know the whys and the wherufores In this game or life we only know that It is our duty to go on “and with God Ibothe rent." " J.

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The Provincial Legislature bl mongh dragging out to a somewhat wear-twine and MINI lonsth is not dimgether ladrlngdhaanvlng grace of humor, The humor, when it ro- veal: itself, is of the IMMUNE"! and unconscious variety» Incongrn. ons in m; absurdity and in»! l8 all surd in its lnconxrniv- The swel- er part of two n,‘ was spent ever a fishing resolution the only oh. 1cm of ‘which wasto show the mm anmen how ‘their representatives loved them and looked after their Interests. This appeal to various groups of electors has always been ttllnrdvtvrisﬂg‘. of the Liberal party more pmnouneedly so of tho little pollticiatr Bcfun- the election, when every elector in the province “as n cog in the wheel that W85 be- ing turned to lift tho ha"! Into power. all tho different groups wen) appealed to separately and collectively. The famous platmru lmiilt. by “r, Bell to win the elect ion by Cﬂlltltirunl ma‘. nrornlso to fishermen: "ﬁshermen. An expert to be sent among thorn to instruct In the best methods of catching. curing and marketing fish." The resolution over which the govern- ment supporters oralc with more or less illogical eloquence solemn- Iy asks tho Dominion government m send this expert! Before the election the Liberal government, ll‘ elected. would send this expert tlusmselves.

llkrorl- misc iqiystiou Ids-o they were going take the soldiers tinder their wing. ll‘ the Dominlav Un\'\‘l‘Dl'Di.‘nI lulled to give them $2.000 each then. the Provincial gov ernmellt would do it‘ and in one

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rm, remark n olton heard that our fisheries are second in import. once only to Ilrktulwre. Though this is not strictly true with re- speot to the whole of Canada It l5 quite true with respect to Prince Edward Island. By way of cornpar lson it will be interesting to know the respective mum or Canada's greatest resources. Taking these values for the year 1918 they stand approximately as follows]

‘Forest .. .. .. ....$IH.908'864

‘Fisheries .. 61,368,502

Munufacturw .. .. 3,015,577,940

Yhllineraln ....21l,30l,897 Agriculture . » .. . "$309,177,000

0i‘ the above Prince ‘Edward Irr- land's ﬁsheries are valued at $1.- 7755000 a year Prince Edward Is- land's aarlculture at about $13,000,. 000 per- year. sdthotvfe see our fish cries are really-of great valuelann are worth conserving in every poss- ihle my. It is known that the yea» ly values are changing and that in sotna respects there has been n. fall-lug off In recent years. This is especially true of the mock erel lishlngindnntry.

UDui-ing the discussion in the is... lslature the other day a suggestion. was made which ls worth constri- 0I'IIJK_ This was the remark made by ll. D. McLean, M. L. A, f0‘ Sour-is. whpn he said that some ' international regulations might be lprlliﬁlble for the conservation of our lllenlandet] that beam trawlers be, ﬂlslwries’ He ind that “treats had iprohibired from operating in ourl m Filtered “to by Canada an lit-raters. Two years agowhen asimill me vmtw states {or the protecb

i011 <11’ mizratory- birds and Intinmt ~1- lha: he saw no reason why similar international regulation could not be made for the protect. ion of cur valuable fisheries. lie

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u!‘ lwn eases at least, the cltndidat“: it the Provinolni (lovermilent dhl not do it they

promised that

' would do it tlleinselves. This time/ consuming resolution \

zir resolution was prepared by the lpnrtgc now in Opposition it. was un~ qualifiediy denounced by those who [are now advocating l1. ln :pralclicaily'

feveryllrlng; as remarked once upon a time by lion. A. F}. Arsenault.

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pointed our that in former years

5 large schools oi‘ mackerel came and

they arc ‘blessing today

went through the waters around the blisritluiu Provinces. These followwl by Foiled Slit-It's seiuers who succeeded in itlllliYt depleting tlro fisheries. '

Little is really known of movements ol‘ fish and it ‘would

Alley curse-I two years ago_ The unconscious and incongrtn 0'15 humor of the situation ll-‘s lu lhvr sang fruld with which they» do ‘the blessing; tho hallowed wisdom ‘with which they expound the luv and the gospel, fishing and farm- ing. catching and curing. for the bone-lit of the constituents.

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appear that this subject could very o attention or gOVBFIIIIIODLS. ‘There arc“ evidwn‘

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as in the movements of migratory birds. TDQYIQOIIUUIHMCBIO‘ place no ‘doting for trimming purposes and there ls no l-mmon why. if these seasons were iknown. semi‘ protection should novbe thrown aronnrlthom during the spawning

season: We protect our inland (Ish- erlt-a ' clone seasons. Why could

not. lh. saute method be adopted

In this shuttling? shifting world of cure with its mysterious ﬂow of good find cvll. each alternatel; predominating; with its losses and disappointments. its blasted hopes and its occasional and‘ apparently zrccidcntnl fortunes and misfortune»: 3001i Is sometimes tempted to won ‘IdI-r if it is not all a ‘ruad whirl In‘ amgnidrtl nun uncontrolled cause and effect, sometimes cvcn (Projects would

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Sea. IlliIlGPlPﬂ_ Canada has the larg- cvt. fisheries In tho world. and the proportion of these fisheries own- cd by the blurlthriti provintxos is

i l . v-lfccl without cause. ‘u Irich. lrutnanly- speaking. ileum-I'll. humanity fall {the ground m1 if struck u) a. fiendish hand while the crafty iwhentor ﬂourishes "like at green lmy tree", enriching Lilo few, ruin- ing the many. Bereavement, loss disappointment fall like the devast ntinz: cyclone upon the inst and Jihe unjust, upon the worthy Imd lthe unworthy, upon the useful and the useless)

wry large, Canadian fisheries ex- tend along twelve thousand miles of coast. Fivo thousand miles on

m,‘ Autntibc‘ Uonelitndewvcn thous and on the Puclflc (mast. besides

two hundred uml tvvepty-l\vo__squar¢.~ miles of fresh water fisheries. On the Atlantic Coast our, territorial tlshluc lmmnda extend from the ‘Bay of Fundy to the §trlill ohloii- Isle near the Arctic ctr lo and these In the midst of these uncertain fisheries are oil a-va bio to tin.-

" ill-H‘ of the-w questions that cannot Mnritlmo lvrovlncell.‘ IIKBIIIlI-IIIK ‘ hc answered. these apparently nn,l"rlncr- Isdimurd Island. In addition zjllllllﬂﬂ [circus- cl‘ which we are to what ls ordinurlly tanned. deep the prey. only one course Is plain. sou flailing. these waters nlso hr namely to “play the game" to tho clgrdo the seal fisheries. which are cnd. it matters nothing whether valuable and which are as

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A. E. TQOMBS

167 Queen Street Charlottetown, P. E. I.

the only thlnglavullabie to Prince Edward lslunll that mailers is how we play theles to Newfoundland and Lnhrador. game. What we in _o-ur ignorance In tact we are as near to all the call losing or gaining may be the great fisheries‘ of the reverse. We do not know the pnr- Coast as any of our sister pro pose of the game. we do not know vlncea. and there la every reason what the end is to Ibo. we only why we should develop them.

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~ of s-theirl scrapes that Premier Bell tried to out of In Ills minaret sheen-II was that in connection WIIII Gov- elnmellf. House. Ilere too he

w“ shelter under the pettlcnﬂlﬂ o: a ‘Liberal Government In the lat century which had the "COUIB- IAGE" to pass a law diﬂllenulng WIIII Government House. But he didn't mfer to the fact that that low WM 5o unpopular with the people. that alter running his election the Pre. mler who passed it had to abun- don lt, and no Government from that day since has dared to In)‘ their unholy hands upon this sne- red hospitality o! our people. until the present meckers cmmuencnd to scuttle the ship. ills second

erunrent should. in his opinion. provide sufficient salary for tllé Lieutenant Governor to enable him to provide his oven residence; Yes but the Federal Government are not expected nor inclined to pro Vida a stale house for the enter tainment. 0f visitors and the trons- rtction of business purely of u pro~ vlnclal character, and not In nus’ province in Canada. or in any sub- I government In the civilized world, , has such a preposterous Hum; ' been undertaken. Only in this m- tle province o! ours, of all other»; In the world. is the door o! hum» ltality closed to the representative of our Sovereign, and this h; that combination that has either‘ bun-v. led, disgraced or cursed Civfj“ thing in the nature ol‘ public busi- ness towhlch they have set tllclf‘ hands.

f ﬁohably Llte most laughable lea ' tura of hLs address was when no denounced as o wronr: principle the slogan “To tho victors belong the spoils", and volubly declalmul up on their own virtues in “letting ‘n- tender,” regardless of the political ¢°II1DletI0n of the contractors, a process which he said was dlsplea. sing lo his own political friends. In point of tact outside oi‘ lhc High- ways work’ compel-Ital by the Fed eral Governmcnt to b0 by 10min! them “'11:: never A sxtmnnrzfr PROPORTION OP THE PUBLIC‘ REVENUE let by tcudef than un- der iheirinurnageiurntllc Instant-evil the Annual Reports, four oi‘ which had been printed nt the Guardian office "RDSIJIJYING IN A SAV- ING T0 THE PROVINCE.“ ll ItiusL have been indeed a sacrifice of pol- itical ‘principle not to give this Work l0 the party henchmen, On the same basis of li-rzurlrtg. hon-

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EBoard o-l‘ Trade, in the early Pa" 0| 911g Season’ brought the mutter m their attention uzuln- Ml III“

‘not, receive a favorable reply,"

5 ‘Perhaps; Mr. Brodie can inform us, in the Legislature. or through

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Thin column l: open for the dlncuulon by corrﬂlWmI entn of questions of In!» out. The Oharlmtetuwn Guardian doe: not necess-

mml? “TIIOL'S.»\.\'D‘S 01-‘ DQ1,_ I-ARIS." was lost. to the country on "l"? DFIIIIIIIIZ which wzui given to llwir own supporters. at their own ‘Brit-Yrs, and without regard In out- side tenderers Bill this Quail-up)‘ becomes still more interesting when we 5:0 Into the Public Accounts. We ill-cider]- ll‘ "III"?! I0 intruding the name; oi business concerns lu the PIIDIIL’ Bret-ls’ ZIILhOIIKII in olden political “lily-h ll was :1 familiar Lrustufrl. (in- . '.\' under strong necessity will we f do so. in relation to outside houses l“ has“ b“ We IQPI less delicate l In TBKIITII to those occurring seats on the floor of lhelloust- ‘whose flflflﬂmr corporations In vrhlch they ‘ have an interest, have he...“ pun. f in: from tlm ‘treasury f“ m“. l lore-front oi’ this list. is Ilic Brace Iiloluty (71).. Ltd“ the centre of Mr, freelman -.\l;(-.1\r1hu‘s lbunlncss act. Ivltles, Xthtlﬁtililil: own Lefmgm llrady s. r'o_ tut. $4,344.54, fo-I- "PWBII 11>‘ Ike Ilushes Drug ‘Cosmo. 701' 3309-92. the latter only .1 mod. a eat expound but the alcohol is no“. .$1I|l1>hcd- by the Prohibition (‘om- K. rnlsnlon. Then the matter ‘of Inrrur. _¢tflco ls not apparently monopol- Iwl by llfonswwulvoir lu this

i Daily Selections Guardian Readers

Purnllhod by W. l. L°lllon_ com-z vs -DISCONSOLATE

Como yo disconsolntc. whertrer ye languish: Come to theﬁncroy sent ferv- ently kneel; Here {bring your wounded Imnrta, heretell your anguish; ‘Earth has no sorrow, that ben- ven cannot heal.

Joy oi’ tlu- mmfortlosm, light. of the straying. llopo of tlhq- ipenlient, "ml flllf"; Herr: speaks the Comforter lend- erly snvlng~ E-irlh has no sorrow, that hea- ven cannot heal’

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Herc see the Brand of Life: waters flowing Forth from the throne of God pure from shove.

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Atlantic (‘orne to the feast o1 love; oome. eel friends. We ore not. n: is“: l

ever knowing Earth ‘has no sorrow, but hea- ven can remove.

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lrlly onion-re the opinion: expressed by Ito corru- pendent-o-

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1mg (W888. just ‘where fllIS mill. which is paying lhe farmers fifty lI-euls n bushel for their potatoes. ‘is located? MR_BRODIE AN POTATQFLOUFh _\lr_ Brodltlfs statement WOIIIKI ygzive one the impression, that this gpfpwln your report of Mr. Ilro- pa“ yu-snuﬂp was using up all the die-Z». speech in the bezililillllfﬂ‘ m‘ New Ilrunswlclr surplus potatoes, cefrtly, you quote him l» refills" iwllllc New Bnmswieh panel's of n "He declared It u 50H‘)- duy for P] rebeflt :Iate_ state that there never H. l._ “when tho potaio flour 1niili“-_-,_, 5,1,4,‘ a “my” o, Forum“ in lWOlcct nus knocked cup 11ml New Brunswick 3.5 there is at the Company Iiavn: their nnill in Ncnfprcpem time, Brunswick, and were now paiylfta Thanking you lMlr, Editor tho ferrmers fifty cents for tin-Ir m“, vrllvuqblu space, polhwes. while we have over a, i um Sir. Etc. lRII-IIOD. bushels in our lacllurs. wlllr i . Mljngrrvxr out prospect of n Il‘l&'l'III§l—-"-’—," "The following is an ﬁXlfa-(lf from a letter recently received. from o’ business mun ltr Woodstock, N. I3.‘ w-hero lire IPaIk l"o._ irroptrscnl cs3

talbllsbluf; their mill l‘

SlIlb-Jlvc have noticed n great vnmny letters In the Press recent ly regarding the alleged reasons (he Pa“ for poor canned lobsters plucked American mow“, mm“. corpora, lust season. Aruong them a len- Hgllty letter from M-r. McLeod of g mini-rin- lRlvor. in the Patriot. mini»

there ar e arontl lot f ~ tltn ‘lltggg Insurance (‘ﬂ- Md" "Ingﬁ irluints 3mg; I-hutyo: au-cgmftmtywif

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Distinctive still?»- moderately priced

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DRESSES

A splendid selection of styles for

The collection comprises simple tailored frocks for street, wear and elaborate afternoon gowns,

embroidered. Dress-

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colors are navy and

brown, but grey, taupe and black

presented. Sizes 16

years to 40 bust. We have dresses and styles of figures. Trim tailored sty effective use of the new wool em- broidery, silk floss stitching and

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formers expense Whether the fact‘ o! the legal weight beingrs uuced would make a better quality paekQWe don't care to discuss Ir these columns, but class qn Md kgpL ‘well which were of i‘ weight. and contained a n. amount or pickle. so that we ca. lnot see why 1|,‘ some packers an able to pack under these condldm why all cannot‘ Another point we wish to emphatically state, and that is, il‘ the lobster business in to ﬂourish and continue we consider I: absolutely necessary to have a EIIXPII legal ‘weight. This means llluu every {maker Is on the sumo ‘looting and all have the some or‘ pensc and is absolutely the onl? fnir way Ilor both buyer and sellvr. Whether It would he better to ti: the legal weight at. lei-is than II lnorw in effect is or course a matter [for dirmussion, but If this ls fluced it simply means, of ovum. that the price of the ﬁnished can. ncd nrllclo would have to be W IILICNI accordingly because no , buyers. the world over know tint l“ a ball flat can they are suppos- cd to got 6 ozs. of meat. Natural- ly if this quantity la I duced anrl I110 198M Wuilrht fixed at less‘ they would not. ‘b0 willing to pay tho some price say for a can contain Ins: 5 i-Z nzs_ of uncut an they would for 6 ozs.

d am lSIr kc. .1. w. wimnsotlt. Ltd_ pcr A. ‘B. Ftﬂliilll. (‘lr'tvwu. P. u. L, April s, 1921

. ., ,. Parr”; "xfjifnit" the increased wclgzlvr cruising the lluu. j ll. mu, for on. yuly allot. m" ﬂlmmy "f goods "Baku" w”. inrent of $618.68 This does nut ln- "Gum's-that a gram “may M m“: elude the rattle purchases which compmmm are caused from um as yet have all obscure origin. We mm M M?‘ McLeod Mates h‘ his- havo never known tlusse parties an 10mm that pm Invruaﬁcd “ﬁgm- Ive-lug nctlvr» In (Tonsnrvntivv. mmum ﬂddumné‘ fsxmnﬁb m pack‘ {ranks yang. This we believe is lhn grunt,‘

' lcause of the complaints about the ‘weight business. and of course‘ this strict Govcvmm-nt unforce- mrnt of Wglghla‘ has possibly work. MI Iianlslilp on certain packers nzno have been In the Irnblt of pun ' 131m; up short weight goods. 3h. McLeod lnsln-uates that belorc this aaldltlonal weight. went into effect there was never any trouble ~ ItIIOII/t WQIEIIL. but might we may! emphatically contradict this, As range exporters of weights. uml w, p had numbers of letters from Illr§e_ users of lobsters in Europe at um. ercnt times hbrsatening lo llisrun llnue the use of lobsters entirely, stating lint in certain cases the, practically were paying tor lobe ‘tern and were being given salt water. and there ls no doubt but that before the lewd enrol-came“; was put In to dome, p m“ who lwas an honest conseientlotns pac-

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when we get lnlo thl- outside ‘business hortues tho list ls of course larger and much more lor- IIIIIIMIIO. Sellurutn. and apart from the Highways crtpendllureJvllﬂfll THE FEDERAL GOvERNMl-LVI‘ ‘COMPEL-him ffllﬂlil T0 LET TO Tim LOWIEIST TIDNDII_ the vllrovrinclel Sllpplllls were purchas- ‘ed almost absolutely PROM LIB. EILALS, and enormously WITH- OUT TENDER or public cumpet; lllon_ The Public Accounts estnh- llsh this beyond veradventure, svlrere hlro goode liarrnlshed, and the names of l-hose who supplied‘ them are recorded in elon- cold lflw- IN ABSOLUTE CONTRA- DICTIION OP~PREMIIER BELL’! Btmlﬂthat they hm procured these from friend and foe alike to the "dissatisfaction" of their pomp

The (Id Gardener Says

ll’ you lutve ‘linen starting plants in Hm house, he sum llmi. you lmrdon l-bcm olf well Iieforo you transfer them to Lil-o open ground. This moons irrndually ox- poslng them to Ibo outside nir. of‘. mutter still_ selling them in n. ‘XJQ Ira-mo whkzh mm be covered at night. If you haven't any glass for such n. frame, you can cover It with prepared clotlnwhlch b.- mnrh cheaper and lust l9 sntlsrnctory‘ '

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