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The last. session of the Bell ad-

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AY 3, 1923. snow cover-ins dislwem. 11111 11 smiling lahdscape has already 1111- en the place oi the winter 3815-01

ministration closed yesterday with me p“, h‘, monqm The winter‘

the usual ceremonies. The IHouso was in session for a little over pix weeks, and the results are, or shortly will bq, before u...‘ people as the ‘proceedings have been very gully reported Fby the prcss. The practical legislation enacted has been meagre in the extreme. more mgggre probably, than those ofany previous session. For its barren- h9g9 there are many reasons; the Government vlas on the "defensive from start to llnish and the defence was difficult, fact impossible. There was no time for anything but defence and explanation and attempted concealment, ‘but on ev- ery hand the defence “'35 broken. the explanations did not explain. and the hiding places were fereted out. ‘Ilhore was pracrlcally no leg- islation; one or two minor bills of little consequence went through; onu or two bills "were introduced.

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it is ‘true, was severe. hard 11111 honest, end without any malice 0r treachery hidden under 11-8 B110"! mask. There were occasional in. conveniences in travel by 1'11" 01 team, but no losses of any 111111-99’ quence and the winter is now 8111i‘- ing gently into spring and summer. Truly, we have a 80111)’ 111114 m‘! its goodness is at present being gu-“ngly emphasized by the con.- trust with other countries and other ports of our own dominion.

Like many others we have com- plained oi money strinflelltly 411111 some of us have been lured away by the false lights of bigger wages and assumed prosperity. Many "of those thus lured avlay have already discovered their mistake and will return when they can. Those who are content with steady progress. who are prepared to "sit tight" dud

let. the temporary stringency pails.

thrashed out, found unworkable and abandoned. The most preten- tious bill was a gerrymander bill introduced dulting the dying hours p! the swsion by Zilr. A. C. Saund-. ers, which {proposed to cut of!‘ some twenty or thirty (Jonservativ- es from the Third District of Prince and include them ill 1119 second District‘. (This was 1101 the wording of the bill, but it was the intention.) Like the young man who decided not to marry the wo- man of his choice when he found that, she and he.- parents were

are the of u.» earth" and wlill find themselves in the long run much better of! than those who, to get rich quick. have dropped aslow but sure certainty for a tlnselaled uncertainty. We have a goodly land. a land capable of infinite de- velopment by hard and honest toil;

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UNSTABLE A5 WATER.

We note that the Hon. W. S. Fielding had announced two differ-

violently opposed 1o the match. Ml‘. Saunders withdrew the hill when he found that even the Lib- veral party were almost unanimous- ]y'0pp0Sed to it. and that it was so transparently a serrvmclldvr that it would prove a ruinous boom- erang to the party. As it was. the folly and the "cheek" of the bill has placed Mr. Saunders in a ch88 by himself, and has shown the fatal want of unanimity and 00-00918" tion in ‘the ‘Liberal rartv- T1111 lPremier, the Attorney-General and other members of the Govefllmefll oppflsed it.

We shall miss tile genial mem- bers, all of whom made friends in the city. However much one might desire it, they shall not all return;

the coming election will no doubt

make changes, probably many. 11111 we have sufficient faith in our Dro- vince to believe that when these changes are necetisflfy 1119? 51111" he cheerfully m-ade. iln the mean- time we wish them ~ali good luck

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Prince Edward island politician. _-_

OUR PROVINCE.

Our despatches these dsyfl Si"? gm-ne idea oi the blossednoss 0i our province as compared with our much

sister provinces and our

vaunted southern neighbor. the. Over a million dol- In New Brunswick, and a number of lives lost. carried away by wrrerlts while the stables! New England 811m 11111111- od and families obliged to take re- lvlany

United States.‘ isrs‘ damage by floods

trying to release cattle from

fuge on the higher hills! Manitoba towns and cities isolated by floods! These and similar new:

‘been featured in the This

press. for sevsnal days past. yweek our mails from the upper pro

Nhlces have been held up-by wash- buLs on ‘both transcontinental rail-

yays and the end is not yet.

(Here in Prince Edward island of the past winter is quietly soaking into the earth and assuring on abundant crop for the coming sea» pon. Not a bridge has been mov- bd, not a stick displaced by flood! or otherwise. The gloss, carefully

the‘ lmlmuaily heavy snow fail

nurtured by the unfrozen

tinder a covprinl 11! mow. 1pm.... “Q living verdure as soon aethe

ent dates for the bringing down oi ithe budget, the last date ‘Tuesday of this week, has again put off the evil day and will not be ready for the job before next week, perhaps not then.

(Why are people leaving Canada by the thousands? Why had such a general exodus never taken" place in Canada until the Mackenzie King government came into pow- er? The reason is the same as that. which prevents Mr. Fielding from presenting the budget to par- liament. He is afraid to move; in-

Idustries because of tariff wncertain- ties; manufacturers are waiting to see how the cat is going to jump. whether in the direction’ of free trade or protection; they do not want to take on more men and some of them are discharging the men they have: discharged men and men seeking“ employment‘ are going to the United States! in bl'ief. is what is the matter with Can-ads today. The Mackenzie King government has no tariff policy because one section of its supporters wants a lower tariff. another section wants a higher tariff and still another section docs not care ‘a hang whe- ther. there is a tarifl or not salons as they can retain their seats‘ and u... lobe. The Progressives also, on whom the government depends for its existence, are divided on the tariff question. Quebec, inbor- nl in name and Conservative in practice, insists on a protective tar- iff; Western Liberals, some of them’ at least, insist on the tariff platform oi 1019, which was awai- lowed by Mr. Mackenzie King and afterwards dlsgorgcd at tile dicta- tion of Quebec. There the ‘govern- ment stands. ihrdttled by dissen- sions in its own ranks and threat- anod by the lProgresslves, and the population of Canada is wilting llfly- ~ ‘in our own leghlsture the other day o resolution articulated to ‘btrengtilen the hands of the federal ‘government in protecting the Can- adian farmer was deliberately strangled by the Bell government because unopened. to clash with, I section of federal Liberal policy. is it any wonder lnet Ganglia is mofiting awoyfiliovr much melting” ‘will It stud before w; have a

and conditions of our isolation, every one of whiclnis more or less a drawback. mineral resources and ness of’ our forest wealth make our, province >l1l0l‘0 dependent than any let us be thankful for it and stand. pther federal unit oi the union up- on agriculture. industry 80 per cent. of our people are dependent, and more than any other great industry in America agriculture is now in adepressed

are and with our one productive |industry languishing as it is. what is the lesson of -the lhour to ollr

beinggovernment and people? _ to pracugg the 5mm“; ec°nomyglittle story written by an American

Ivforo our province can recover from

ivestors are afraid to invest. in in-Lwml ilfiillvfiflcy- W8 are Wholly de-

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nuns, u u. in mo classic longti- yge of one of its renrooen liven. "entirely surrounded by water." The other eight provinces oi the

federal sisterhood are all connect- ‘smq on“ ‘under u “one

ed by. railway. v We have but a "u. rukn m‘. “an u.‘ “ms terry connection and have had too extremes. .1 have read o good that for only a few years put, Oth- many extreme views in_ tho Public u (mum, of m, Mum,‘ u.‘ Forum. I may baveheen enlight-

. ooodnloroor less by them. Ilgen- found in our diminishing popula- m“), mun“ bflwaurtm "m hon. in the fact that our people

_ _ draw s. line there. and form Ill op- are almost entirely native bornand inion. There are two extremists without any infusion from abroad, "1 my mind ht DNBOM.’ 0M l5 in having but a fraction of indoor

tho drunlnrd. The other is the manufacturing‘ industries and so ‘Amman. f w My I l‘

thinking mind will ‘Pitt. lhose two on par, although the tom, aunt: fanatic is the' most suitable tothe age. d-le generally hos some object in view, in some cases a Very self- ish motive.

‘libero is s good deal of popular- ity these days in being a good tem- perance worker. That is a good motive for those _who cannot let popularity in any other way. We have a good many of such tern- perance workers in Charlottetown and all ova.- the province. We have some who are trying ingot their names down -in history as temper- ance pioneers. Tllere are other reasons also for being good temper- ance workers. They ~sa ‘they are waging war aslinstillt uolittnce. They are going to fight it to o lfln- isb. They will write long sorawls such as one who called himself “Prohibitionistf has been writing during the Piabiscite campaign. They will go out on the street and set the officers nu a. poor victim who happens to take too much. run him into a police station. imposea severe line on him. and let him go. worse than he was before. ‘ heart is turned hard as granite lig- ainst his native laud. its laws and officials. Those workers love to go out trying to flnd something 11o do. They will write some nonsense. They will get together and waitcn the Government. in order to get something else added io the con- struction they are building on lilo Quicksand. They are s-till building and shouting how well they are do- ing, praising and patting themselv- es on the back. ‘They are busy decorating the roof, while the boot- legger and moonshiner are pulling away the inundation. ‘Some tiny it is going to topple over, and the moonshiner, the bootlegger and the

.0 A," "19 01hr provinces are Flfoteltld In string-like fv-mltion across the broad continent. . A threefold cord of railway and tele- Bfaph lines binds them together and through this the great currents of social, commercial and political life’ have been flowing for fifty years post. Nova Scoiio clasps bands with New Brunswick, New iBrunswick with Quebec and so on, with Ontario, Manitoba. Saskatche- wan, Alberta and British Columbia, 'l‘ho other and larger provinces standin single file. but in touch with each other from been 1o ocean. Our island, a tenth part the size of the smallest of them, 518.1105 physically apart. likeapearl diitachcd from s. necklace, and the more isolated and liable to neglect because of its diminutive size.

Such are some of the elements

The absence oi’ any the scant-

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Whilst driving with a friend one any a youngster who wu with lle - oomplainedpf hello! "F1011 11¢ 11111 stomach." A: we were near to our destination i thought flotilla: of it.

i was bidding my friend flre- ‘- well when the youngster, who had hurried into the house on our ar- rival came out again and started to play around.

"Why." said my friend. “ll thought you were sick." '

"And so i was, but, 1i know s trick. and 1l‘m all right. now." - '

‘My friend turned to me for an explanation. "Oh." I said. "I guess she put her finger down her throat and got rid of that conglomerat-ion- of stuff fllut was upsetting her."

iii is n suggetiotl that is worth something to you should tho need arise.

You have dined somewhere whcre your good sense advised you otherwise. Perhaps you huvg 9m. on something that your good sense has likewise condemned. Some- times, indeed. your very Imaging. hfgc hiijférflersggfelgfilixflngu ‘graft; 5?," 110i out of the gutter and make him

t ' a ood res ctable citizen. How ‘gygljelglous even D°'s°“°“s"° dogs he dean? By decent treat-

NO,“ why worryaboutmoreven fiezhmlsrakin! him realize that he r332]: eihzglc: w Eh n‘ when the The lSalvation Army saves more gm, downp themthr "an"? the m1‘ drunkards in'ono month than the m" or [he troubled’? Willi relieve Temllemnce. Alliance can save in ‘literally’ . gum "MY “d zh-lifdlllllllthtifllidf youth nelaver hear

‘ em a oil llg - roln t e lousotops

‘Sometimes ‘he flckun“ "f u"! 0r wailing on the government.

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a drunlnard he or V the error of his ways’! The towll is zuuol bootl reel-s. 11w “"11"” full of nlootish ners. the M1018 province full of consumers. 111111 there are the great 10111991111169 '19‘ formers preaching. Wrltllls 111111 waiting o the government.

Henry _ord can take a drunken

éliew Curtain giuoted are all" under the present market/ quotnétiqflg;

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32c and-we pelryard.

1n- , at45caild58c pet-yard. , _

beautiful. denim. m. lace

~ 7 A swell assortment of ScrimlandMadl-as suitable for '

side at . . . " “CoverediArt Sateen and Sllkollne at prices ranging

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an? can my o1 them tell us of ’ she saved from .

throat with a feather is 1 rather than the finger. amp oyéd ‘Th; slight irritation producgd by‘ 13° nger or feather induces the a omac to exlpeii its contontc Th1, very muscular act on the part of the stomach is really benaflcga] m 1119 111011111101 itself.

-,\0W. it is possible that you may do this at limes when it i not neces- sary.

But it is better io be surg u..." 11011.1‘. and not. wait until the in- lurious substances get, further down the intestine and other means

. l ‘ "m-‘i 1'19“ be 9111111031111 i0 secure relief.

temperance hypocrites‘ wifil perish with it. They are’ all one in dif- ferent ways. ‘The poor druukard is the victim. He is the one to be pitied. Bin you will find more principle in him than in the class already tlrscrlir. ls it notyd. He is rightly pictured in al I

condition. Thus isolated as we

author, as follows:

“Two young brothers helped an old farmer to drive some, oattleJ When they got‘ the cattle home the! , farmer gave them each a dime. and. " as all young boys are likciy to do when they get a few cents, they headed for the confectionery store,

in expenditure a-ndlin every p09- 1111111 "fly 10 lighten the burdens of taxation‘!

The ltaqnaflon of trade during tho long ooldf-moniiho of the pant winter rigorously enforces the some lesson. At best it must be long be-

home with their purchases. One went to the woodshed, crawled in behind a barrel and had a. glorious time by himself. The other fellow went straight to the house, tapated his little sister and his mother, and enjoyed the treat better by-having them enjoy it with him. The hog behind the barrel in the woodahed afterwards turned out a temper- ance fanatic. The big-hearted. off- llsnded lad, through being a kind,

the great world earthquake of the war which has bankrupted and overthrown great nations and threatened our own beloved Empire

pendent upon ourselves. Other provinces will not assume our bur- dens. ‘The Dominion will not come to our aid. Last year added forty- flve millions to the federal debt! What can we look for from that qtllllrtler but. lfurther additions to

our federal tax burdens for years to come?

away to drink." '

The fanatic, tilrough selfishness and a desire for popularity will start a law and order campaign against his brother and have him locked in jail and fined $200.00. Such is what is going on in this province.

'By this letter you will nudge that the ‘writer is not s temperance man. that he wants the old traffic back again, and ‘that that. is the reason he is firing point blank at the temperance workers. Not by any means! l believe in temper- ance law-s and temperance workers. What kind of a. law? ISome kind. The only Prohibition we have so far is to decrease thequality-and in crease thc price, ‘chasing properly _1_!li\fllll.'1t.'llll'Pl| liiquors nut of lhn laud to make- ililsiness ilrisk for the

l‘ ‘l It, lWlt-a time and under limb conditions thit our province In‘ litldied’ With a guvgrnmgng whose wicked and reckless you, doubled, the, people's burdens and d°“b|°4 "19, Provincial burdens in n single yenrl ‘This Wtlilill wit“. incredible were it not prnv..| 1,9 ymld question ‘in be on flhHOLllP

fact. it is an unpl-ocnllnniwl r,..-._ moonshine. The ponr- victim who L9; Mston. he soilrrhm “m, Hw-nlusl imvn it cannot got decent '" " ' ‘stuff. it u. prohibited. llc turns

search will ho nlluiu ill ‘iilill. L, find where evcr ill n frrt- ,,l,.1.. “m1 Ill time of peace such 1m outrage. 111111 been Dflflletrulcd. This W65 m“ in "m6 "1 Peace. lit was done 11y the IBcli Government. tit has done 11111-0111 1115111)’ to our province _nnd people. it is u. main impelilng cause oi‘ the bleeding exodus m... is driving our. best and bravest in- to exile from their native land.

Daily Selections - ‘_ won ' Guardian Readers From them. Louoony collection.

¢++o++o+0+0+o+oo0+o+¢ou THE ILLS 0F YESTERAY-

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The authors of this flagrant terday—- _l__ wrong must shortly stand at m, Tile deed unlovely and the speech bar of public justice to be ‘ud ed "n-mst‘ for their misdeeds. They dejceiged The nggisgirfrd hml—betrayal o’

1119 11601118: they burdened the peo- ple as never before llnd they been burdened; they seized upon the people's money and hook it to themselves. They became Lords or ‘Misruie in our peaceful land. They have proved themselves. faith- less to their most solemn promises, '

faifle to. their professions, callous ‘BM |pltiflthgny'pnss‘ [be mm“ ma, and cruel in their neglect of public . gflgygd 1.5 “m,

duly. But the end draws near, the Behind His back God casts the sins incubus is about to be removed, 01 111911.

we uilgnéejhoruy to bB-flmwd. Repented of, remembering them no

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That struck Faith's chalice from ollr lips away,

And trailed hcr graceful garments in the dust;