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TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1989

Nearing The Day

fhe election issues are now clearly defined. notwithstanding the innumerable red herrings drawn bv the Campbell Government and their lupporters across the trail. These issues" were admirably presented bv Dr. hIacMillan in his final broadcast message last night, and it is highly significant that lie has made the same challenging statements on public platforms from Tignisli to Sonris without eliciting satisfactory ailswers-—in nianv cases without eliciting an- lwcrs at all——fron1 the Government candidates.

Iirom now till the Government meets its doom at the polls. we may expect an intensi- fication of the propaganda which was exposed in these columns yesterday with regard to the prostitution of the Fishermens Loan Board for political purposes.

This propaganda is as false as it is unscrup- ulous. It is the last resort of an administration which sees the handwriting on the wall. If any- thing were needed to give point to Conserva- tive charges it is this brazen attempt to bribe and intimidate the electors. It is just one more black mark to be added to their sorry record of

_ irresponsibility and misgovernment.

An Unconvincing Conjurer

file only platform Premier Campbell ‘didn't

attempt to review in his final broadcast appeal was the one on which he and his followres got into power four years ago. He made no attempt to explain why, if balancing the budget was ab- solutely necessary in i935, it was not equally necessary today with an additional Liberal debt increase of two million, plus a million and a quarter bank overdraft and unpaid bills of un- known proportions. . He did not attempt to explain why the elec- tion was called with such haste and secrecy, nor why, if the finances are as he alleges in proper shape, the Government should go bond borrow- ing for terms of from one to three years, at in- terest rates three-quarters of I per cent higher than the Dominion issue and on a. much less satisfactory yield basis. If borrowing $300,000 after-the Legislature has been dissolved is evi- dence’ financing, why didn't he borrow, to foundations the million dollars for which he took authority at the last session? Why was the issue ‘floated privately and with such sec" recy‘?

There are many other questions which the electors are asking, and which the Conservative candidates are discussing on every public plat- form. They all have a bearing on the Govern- ment’s record against the background of the pledges it made in the last campaign. By some strange mental process, Premier Campbell has arrived at the conclusion that he can ignore these issues completely. He seems to "take pride in the agility with which he can produce new promises and policies, like rabbits out of a hat.

< But it is the same hat out of which he produced

the mythical “balanced budget" and that is the unfortunate part of it. The quickness of the hand-this time-isn't quite enough to deceive the eye_

Then And Now

Speaking at Georgetown in an address which the Liberal press described as both eloquent and convincing, Mr. (jcorge E. Saville declared:

“If the debt goes on increasing, the Island will lose its right of responsible government, pnd be under a Commission form of govern- ,ment as in Newfoundland. He hoped to sec a SURPLUS OVER ORDINARY AND CAP- ITAL EXPENDITURES." '

That, alas. was in i935!

Mr. Saville last week made another political speech at Georgetown. He didn't say anything about the two million dollar increase in debt since 1935. He didn't say anything about the danger of being under a Commission form of government. He didn’t say whether heyhoped ever to see a surplus over ordinary and capital revenue. He ivas as dumb as an oyster about the financial situation. . '

We quote Mr, Saville in this connection not because he is unique, but because his attitude ‘is typical of every member and supporter of the

vCampbell Government now appealing for re-

election. Theyall deplored the debt in 19'35. They all" cited Newfoundland as a_ barrowmfl example of what we might expect if the debt _went on increasing. They all promised, if elect‘ ed, to put an end to increased debt by reduction “pf expenditure to balance .tlI¢_l1"fl8¢l ‘fmwillly- * Innis, any wonder they prefer discussing arty-

‘ g‘ under thefsun, excppt their '0-»P- 0f

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failute and incompetent: it

71 fofilllé‘

.“purpoiei' $42,000 worth of intoxicating liq- ubrs, How-dare the Government ray that they are mforcinglfha Prohibition Law when con- dition: of flu’: kind are going onf”

“That was four years ago. Gross sales through i government vendors’ stores in 1938, according to the Public Accounts were $210,225.

Some more gems from our LePage anthology. . Patriot, Aprilg5, 1935: ' "The time has come when all Governments

revenue. . .

“Another matter which I object to is the travelling expenses of the Ministers of the Crown. . ‘

“Another matter which I object to is that certain firms who have members in this legis- latureor Government are ho ging the greater part 0f the patronage. The tim has come when the elected representatives must not think they are elected for the purpose of enriching them‘ sleves." . .

On return from his $1,600 Coronation trip: “W1! fir"! England. he said. t0 be the rml lull- ulark of denlocracvP-Patriot. April 9. I938.

(That was about the time they applied the screws to the dispossessed property owners.)

"Helping The Fishermen" What has become of that "direct claim on $43,000,000 accruing ulider the Halifax Award, back in i877", which Hon, J. P. McIntyre in i935 declared was rightly due the fishermen of these pro Laces and which our governments, if they had any backbone, would “get busy and collect"? »

Mr. McIntyre was then a member of the Opposition. He was insistent that "pressure" should be put on the Dominion Government to have this $4,000,000 "distributed equally” among our fishermen-not in the shape of doles or loans, but as money to which they were en- titled and which was being wrongfully withheld from ‘them. His speech on this subject appears in the Patriot of March 2o, 1935, and makes in- teresting reading today.

That four million dollars must be still at Ottawa, but has Mr. McIntyre and his col- leagues made any attempt to get it?

Showing Their Gratitude

The following statement appears in the rc- ports tabled in the Legislature last year: “The year under review, 1937, marks a mile- stone in the history of the Department of Public Health in P. E, Island. This young orgainzation was conceived and brought into being by our generous benefactors, the Canadian Life As- surance Officers Association, in I931. For the succeeding five years the Association contribut- ed approximately 50 per cent of the cost of operation, andclimaxed its generosity with a further gift of $5,000 for the year ending June 30, 1937. On July 1st the Department, as it were. reached maturity and, unassisted from outside launched out into the realm of disease" preventionfi" ' < ‘To show their gratitude for “our generous benefactors" the Campbell Government jacked up the tax by 100 per cent on life insurance companies.

TVas it any wonder they had then to proceed “unassisted from outside sources" in the realm of disease prevention?

Editorial Notes

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Two days to election. a w n- a The Fishmongers Company formed in London this date, i284. e a a e Japan has offered to mediate between Ger- many and Poland over Danzig. “Come into my parlor” etc. a a a u The delay in the arrival of the King and Queen is disappointing to Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa, but much more to Their Majcsties. I i I l

The estimated number of poultry on farms in Canada as revealed in the survey of June 1, I938,‘ was 57,237,000, a decline of 273,100 from the estimates for the same date of the prs ceding year.

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Russia has requested the League of Nations

to delay meeting for a week. We were under the

impression that Prime Minister King had help-

ed to kill the League-that it was no longer in existence.

n n a a Under the lmendments to the Probate Act,

placed in the’ same category as millionaires, and have to pay the cost of probate, instead of getting off with mere regulation of wills as at present. a a a n-

. Is there any depth to which the Campbell outfit will not descend in order to obtain votes? Here we have the President of Council driving a I00 h. p. motor through the Election Act in order to intimdate and bribe the fishermen to . vote for his colleagues on the Fishery Board. But what else is to‘ be expected from men who deprive their fellows of the hitherto inallcn‘ able right and privilege of appeal to the Courts of Justice? 1 i * v '

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.- a iiSpépklng not’ the Treasury Board Mr.’ J.

Walter Jonesylliberal candidate for Belfast.

tflitiljd thdt it'-

mentbers; mitherf- ‘

were on that Boardfandi he said those members cmtlprilfflll fl"! Board districts they represented an

. n.£’8s.l"““l‘, bill.‘ ptdlitllllltlllfidl y‘ i * hafdlfreall-thenfa

therefor ,_ 3,,

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the

heirs to property of $2,000 and under will be w

Ftool: moscgnf the ‘plums M

. ‘ wt , t to theeléetbi-ntn favour 6t Aiectlng l '

NOTES If TIIE V!“

um mum nil- zar: Jiiisiizft... m" famous lieu-ch l: at. on and. The letter sold: "Enclosed one dollar

more such letters about b

trove. silverware and - ductor-docalnil’ —- Omudlln clflc Bulletin.

pull’: present Dull" W‘ dangers our future. The merchant marine la smaller by abou

ships than‘ that. lblewwhtch

Ship

war. Since then we have reduced the capacity of our yards for bulld-

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goes on? To other nations which foster their shipping and ship- building at enormous cost to the State, such industries are a matter of prestige. To our island country and our a u-sundered Com- nionlwealtl-l n. great. merchant fleet ls u condition of survival. -Be'.fut Telfiufflbh.

Although there have been some 90 traffic accidents of one kind or another in the Sault since the first. of the year, there has not. so for been one at the schools and the police are inclined to give a large share of the credit. for this to the school boy patrols which have been organized at three of the

schools where there ls

watched those boys with their d1:- tlnctlve white hats and belts dl- recting traffic, report that elven motorists who ml ht be

to ignore a. red 1

curs to a quick stop when signalled by the youthful officers. And ln addition to that the plan has had effect of making the other pupils ln tho schools more consc- lons of the need for care. — seult Ste. Marie Star.

Yet Signor Mussolini ll not a Stupid man: he must know that if such a. war came his Italy (which he loves and we love) will crumble ln the Mediterranean as a rusk in a. cup of tee. He may dream 0d Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, Aden. Carlo and Khartoum. Yet. he must know that the balance la now tilted against hlin. - 10nd Spectator.

A proposal bu ruched the London, Ont... ‘assessment depart- ment that dogs should be taxed according to weight. It has been dismissed us impracticable, but. there ts some sense to it never- theless. Why a lap-dog which ls rarely at large should be taxed as heavily as a big police or mast-ill’ which roams the streets Ls some- thing that few people are able to understand. -- Broekvlllg Recorder and Times.

There is road new: for the pota- to. Sli- John Boy Orr brought lt. from England: an sir John ls an authority on food. He says the potato is good food, and that ft ls not. fattening. of de resslon humbe "spud"; 1t may anticipate restoration to its erstwhile pride of place on any tab Toronto Globe and Mall.

When a band of pyg-mlec In West Alfrlea kllls m elephant, they usually move their bent vfl- le to the new meat sup b’. ls be g easier than to move e ele- phant to the village. After read- lng this ls Collier’; almost the next headline to meet our eye had to do with the annual report of the Clty Planning (xminlsslon of New York. It rend: "Home; Near Work Efnvtsagegl ln Plan for City

. After all, some of mankind's problems do not. change greatly from one era of civiliza- tion another. - Christian Science Monitor.

All churchmen at some time encounter

n any converlqtlonnl

style.- wltli some emphuls and there, lt. would be much eul- er on their listeners and less try- tng to the nerves. Yet. these rnln- isters cast asldb the woebcgone manner as scon bathe service ls over and become what m! ht be called normal beings 5g , no longer under the spell into which they cast themselves when In the pulpit. ‘The ordinary emtrchgoer likes his minister to be reverent; but, he dislikes acting tn the pulpit. He does not want-and there la n0 necessity for lt- his sermons to be hurled at film as lt they were something very dlswresable and deadly. We have also met. u few preachers who grinned and joked whtle preaching, and look around to m ll their stories me e a hit. That. typ-e ls also obleettonuble. Rellglon normal to normal peo- ple- and services should be nor- ul, ton. -- fill-afford Balcon- l-Ieraltl. '

I wu n t “Illfllflllfl the other day to 11:41‘ of a lady who le- fused to agree with her friends. backing, her optimism with "I

there won't be a war." Clivloluly when chaos baffles- reasonable calculation people will fell back on unreasonable rms d reauuiuncea.

next week or next month. or that Tuesd

e next column). or th

miter u,

or m. All o ant as n symptom of o’ unrenon-to be comps iil"““»ml‘€i.n containers.‘ vm bloom ' q ll

Ml’. 010m

by a third 51nd the num- no

'm pinning my min to Old Moore: 91'

mist-m Rev» i

olvmgimu-‘rrnl enou- . , m.__.._ ' his Pow wuocookod Molnar-p ed‘ lb nod. not- , but of to the tiled. New, mm their ted ,_l1e la _ for o: elr forlorn, open. be a: tulip, wft-b" whet? the immi- I am, B , m» i ' . _ ~ humanism. _ wonpnfuivmalvlcmo Suzi-into theft-ll; bout. : noun , I

no sent. low‘ lnte ram. ling up the pub c debt. _ now. a m: more mllllonl. which will b0 inevitable $15M“ debt-s. and

the‘ some Juggling way they reduced the ratio by col-

lectlnghmany thousands of uddl- ‘

tlonal x5. I am, Blr, etc" BANE ITNANCI.

THOSE DEFICITB

B1r.—'I‘he Patriot. trys to excuse the Liberal deficits saving ln their last three years. 1938-37-38 they only totalled $325,000. If this were

envy truffle. Cttlaens who have '

years, you will flnd thelr actual deficit: would be about

noticed of the $225.00!) lng

8 . .000 they try to bluster about. I am. S

lr. e .. UNBALANCED BUDGET. THE GREAT SCARCITY

8tr,—Names of nomlnators and seconders- of Liberal candidates ts an index of their absoc/ided rank and file. Gone over to the Tories. No wonder!

In other elections lt. has been the custom to get. men of ont- standlng popularity, from the sup- portlnc ranks, to nominate their men. To be chosen for this was consldened an honor. and was alm- ed at to give prestige to the party.

But how are the mighty alien. So em y of leadln" strong men.

that. the strong men were shy of lending name and prestige to a. party in disgrace? To get. candidates nominated at all they had to use party ofllclnls, emplpy- ees. and those feedtng at the c b. to gve this official launching of irlc ms of an un pular Govem- ltneitlt. into the chll waters of de- ea .

I am, Sir, e60. FOBLOEN HOPE.

"rouov “BTEALING"

Sir-The Patriot. says: "We would "not- oh e the Conservatives with he Ltberal policy." How » l It ls only articles of value that are stolen. and Conser- vatives, even if given to theft. would never saunter Into a junk room, where the contents are a.- waiting the 18th to be sent to the dump.

_ tr records there ll not a. factor of oollc prover: lta value to Ll ernmenta. other than those which they deliberately appropriated from tlve policies. Not a. uln- gle one of virtue. of their own creation. No, not one. I lun. Sir. etc.. KEEPER. 0F RECORDS.

MOINDYBE HIGHWAYS

‘I-Its reply was that: "some them were btutlt. lute tn fall In cold weather. and they were sfnld to r‘ trucks m them too noon."

The why, I now Bait. should the whole business of the ‘Province ‘be

some

Intyre rosdl. (which " some carrying strength) all held unbecause o the spoiled late fall highways of

Liberll blunderlng?

Of course they will open after the ism-when cracked and crum- bllnz sealant will not turn votes walnut e road builders.- fr-lt-U-C-K. A PERSONAL APPEAL

8lr.—-'f'l_ie Campbell Government. like some of the means they have taken to try to preserve them- selves tn power and to prevent Cllblfi-Gflll‘. "have proved to be a gl- nn c our.

EWlMndlCll-lfln points to their utter complete defeat.

Dr. Mlewllen has laboured u- lc arty. He In! his time and brfnc about. the Zilflll sup ortera. m the no w. of

own personal Interests. I have noflilnq to my against . Moclltllank polltloll opponent

. fact, worm personal friends. Mr. Irrslnor, however. will un- demand that some penalty must.

I an. Sh‘. etc,

g. be attached? to 12:‘! 5119171}: kg! o.

. my ls a [nod or - pgnv (the bargain advert»: are ln u ..

of superstitious '- numfinaiil t" before Nntir

on the platform, radio. of

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. If ny of your should give I'll explanation of thll k bl :01 Bl: etc.

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NEW’ ZEALAND BUTTER

Sin-Our farmers, no doubt. will be delighted to learn that. several care of New Zealnnd butter were dumped ln this city wlthln the last two weeks. And list near the June grass opening o our heavy production. _ New zealnnd butter ls usually imported 1n bulk paclulea. and repofied lnto 2 lb. blockl for re- fel do. our ure food laws re- quire butter to branded show- ooun of manufacture. Is this law betnx complied with ln fact, or only forms? Ia it sold as “Manufac ured in P. E. Is- land". under regular cicamery registration certificate. If so can butter, imported tn bulk, and made over lnto prints. be legitimately sold as Island butter Or lf ft. is only sent here to be worked into rlnts and sent. from here to outaldb markets, and pr ably sold as fresh from P. E. Is land. can our nlry tanner: rlsk their reputation for excellent quality, ln outside markets, by having New Zeuland butter palm- ed on’ as Island butter? I have seen none 1a yet. on our retail markets. branded as New Zealand. It. may not make its a ~ armoe ln the open tlll after e 8th.. yet we don't. know howmuoh o! lt ls on sale tn retell stores. under false ’ ' ntlons. M only biformatlon la that cars of l came here. to whom consigned. and turned over to creamerles. We are also well advised of the fact. that. here ls no trumpet blowing in t. e Liberal press. nor nor over the this as one of the neat bent-Jflwt-lmm of Liberalism to the farmers olf the Province. I urn, Blr, eto. BUITEB CONSUMER.

THE OBITS LAMENT Premier. 0h! premier Ohl Dee: Premier Thane

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Miami-ulna! OhlDear await...“

wu the budlct youwomlud to

‘Ihetglnbfiwaaeoprolltanttfellall

Aridlf i mum afiebt?”

all verglnlee. But we'll ve to I-dmlt they cost a blg prloe. We ‘lgalézunin this no fa: Theiavrtes shell never. never for- Tlih’ Igtloml Park we! a terrible a We wagon now. Deu- Premfer It.

l The HonJofui Aicliluald "with- Wo odllggnlYlOtlodflfl fa- ttl l

e rim m hlch lieu. A” “m We're up ln the morning sheen of the crows. Dlglgrépelout. dralns and filling up The Tories will get. it, and we'll Bo giiiirmgolngio‘ w all of the dough. u” w‘ w‘ ‘Itnmbolltleal mutton seems all on: emitter. Dur mun ,

‘you l. n u‘ "m," Thvynvfl” for. Macmillan wherever. It. to very bad for the poor lith-

enl sou . _ Nowftbltweknow efewof the 1 fear. Warned! have to m.%a has ordered u: out fai-

I felt. . Bo let Ill l0 quietly. to IIVQ mn- ovm necks.