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. .\'loNo.\i', Ocroask 2, 1916.

ifiiiiiurs ANn Potirics

There is a tempest in \\‘iniiipeg over Hon. Rob-

ert Rogers' frank declaration that the position of Mr. justice Liault in investigating the constructio1i'of_the Manitoba Agricultural College was open to criticism. The judge resented the `.\linister’s bold statement and Mr- Beck, of The Winnipeg Telegram, for comment on the incident has been fined $500 and sentenced to a moiith’s iniprisoiiinent. Two other members of The Telegram staff went to jail with its editor. Mr. Knox Magee, of' The \\`iiinipeg Saturday Post, like Mr. Beck, goes to jail and pays a fine of $500. \\'e would be sorry to siibject .\lr. _liistice Galt to unjust criti- cism, reniarks the .\'ew.~. \\'e know little of his charac- ter and nothing, of his political sympathies or re- lationships. Moreover, unless for weighty public rea- sons, hostile criticisiii of the judiciary is iiiadiisalile- llut these seiitences are too severe to be easily de- feiided.

l'pou the wliole \vc have in Canada an ahh. and

conscientious Bench. justice is well adiiiiizistered, and in the main without respect of persons, without regard for class, without subservienee to wealth or pogition. Still thcreis a degree of truth behind l_\'lr. Rogers’ strictures. Few of us believe that judges rise superior to all their old political sympathies when they go .upon the bench. Generally they do the best they can, but they ar: liciiiaii and subject to ordinary huiiian emotions and iifiiii- nces \\`e have known Governments to select judges for political investiga- tions with a very shrewd apprehension of what was required- \\'e have even been in danger of develop- ing a class of Government judges. Further we do not venture to go, but the public knows what we mean .

\\'¢ see no reason why judges should not inves-_

tigate charges of political wrong-doing. \Ve doubt if they should render judgments. It is the business of Parliament and the people to pronounce between political parties, between Governments and Opposi tions, and the Bench is bound to suffer when judges expose themselves to the full play of panty passions and prejudices. There is much public work that is open to judges. For example, Sir \\"illi‘ain }\leredith's report on Worknieii’s Compensation was a genuine public service. We believe that the judges ivho investigated and, reported upon the gross political scandals which disgraced Maiiitoba held themselves reasonably above polit_ical prejudice. There seems to be no complaint over the judges who are investigating charges of waste and graft in Saskatchewan. The country seems to have accepted the report of Sir William Meredith and li\lr. justjce Duff on the fuse charges-

litit is ittdesirahle that judges chosen to `iiiake

niuneration? We know that it is difficult in oppose special payipeiit unless judical salaries are improved. We have too many judges in some of the countries, even if thc- higher courts are not over-niaiiiied, but that is no justificatioh for underpayment. We cannot get a skilled inechauic for the wages we pay to :1 day laborer. What holds true in industry is true in the legal projessioii. liacli pursuit has its own known money standards and these cannot be altered by quer- ulous criticism or unintelligent attack. if democracy wants the best service it must pay the price. /\nd the

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political investigations sliotild receive special re-

best lawyers should he available for juilicalpositioiis. _............-. . ._ ',.s._.s.,.

We know that there are those who scoff at this teaching and tickle the popular ear with denunciation of the high salaries which judges, Ministers of the Crown and other public servants receive. But the fact is that our scale of public salaries is disgrace- ful and we h-a‘ve'not even decency enough as a peo- ple to be ashamed of ourselves-

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REILECTIDNS ~

Last week during at least two, days of the Exhibi-

tion between six and eight thousand people visited the Fair grounds. \‘V‘hile the shadow of the v ar hung over the gathering, while many familiar faces were missed, while there was a preponderance of women, the number of young men of military age who were in atiieiidance was a striking commentary on the claim thaltkive have exhausted our resources for further military aid. The remark was made on the grounds that another battalion could have been re~ cruited without going further than the Fair grounds on Wednesday'. \\"ill these men who have been ap- pealed to so eloquently during the past two years yet think bettqer of it and take their chances with those who have gone to iight their country’s battles? It is extremely doubtful. lf they would not hear the call that has already been made it is quite improbable that they would hear it_ today, though it should come to thcin~from their dead comrades in France and Fland-

ers.

lt is because of these that the cry for conscriptioii

is becoming so insistent, and it is because of this that coiiscription must come in Canada at a not distant date. ' - . .

\\'hile the shadow of the war may have been observ-

ed by many it was not generally discernible. Money flowed freely, more so, ive are informed, than on any similar occasion in the past, and so much so that even the fakirs went away quite satisfied with the business they did.

It is well, and as it ought to be, that we can, on oc-

casion, forget the war and its sorrows. It is well that money should flow freely in legitimate channels, including entertainment and amusement, and it is es- pecially gratifying to know that, iii the matter of money, our province has been benefited rather than injured by the war. Prices have increased, propor- tionately, more to the producer than to the consumer. so that the balance is in our favor as we are largely a community of producers.

VVhile these things arc so weshould not forget our

obligations to those who are sacrificing everything for tis stay-at-homes, our obligations to those whose bread-wiiiiiers are on the battlefields. These obliga- tions are steadilyincreasing. Canada is now paying abotit $25,000,000 per year to the wives and depend- ents of the soldiers who have gone to the front. A year ago the separation allowance totalled $1,000,000 per month. It now totals over $2,000,000 per month~ Besides this large monthly amount paid by the Doin- inion Government, the Patriotic Fund is expending about $1,000,000 per month among some 75,000 fam- ilies whose normal source of revenue' has been re- duced or entirely cut off by the enlistinent of their liri‘:iil-wiiiiicrs.

In otir prosperity we should occasioiially glance ai

these figures and consider our right to carry .1 share of the burden. It is our burden even to a greater ex- tent than theirs who are carrying it on the iieldiof bat- tle orin the homes made, perhaps, destitute begause of the absence of the helpers. And in the midst of our enjoymeiits those of us who are physically fit and of military age should occasionally take a glance at the war news and turn sometimes to the Honor Roll and seriously consider our relation to it. There is a Dis- lioiior. Roll, also, iii course of preparation and boil; rolls will long stirvive the war and tis.

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` words he could have uttered.iSo-I decitl. ed I would cheer up. Down at' the dump the lorries were waiting and tho Lt- Colonel of the group was there hlni- self taking note of everything, stay-

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/\ beautiful i»:-ummer that wo have

enjoyed, has quietly slipped into Autumn and these' are the days of re- trospoction. Surely we ought. to thank God for an iibundaiit Harvest in this Province by this Sea, anti' countless

other bleiza'ln?. “Oh that man would praise the Lo for His gootl'ne/as and for His wondejilul works to the child- ren of men."

A great fndliy people think this

world will be much better to live- in, and the people kinder to each other after tho war iq over. After all. this is A personal mi¢._ter and each individ- ual should' aok hllisolf or herself. Has the war already made me a better man or woman, for ten ii.o one, what we' are now we will be aflpr this cruel war is over.

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WHITIS lil INTERESTING Lillfll FHUM llllllll

Mr. George Green. teacher of

Snurli-i. has received the following very interesting letter from Sergeant Allan Cole of the 98th Siege Battery. Sergt. Cole belongs to New London, and was formerly principal of Kensing- ton High Schoolz-

FRANCE, Sept. 5th, 1916.

Dear George:-

I have often intended writing you.

but have never got around to it. The receipt of your letter n few days ago has aroused the dormant desire, and, as I have a little time to myself this morning I shall make an effort to ear- ry that desire ineo execution. It is is

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the day Burns describes in the lines: "November wind blows chill with angry surge," except that in this cane it in September wind. Yesterday too, was very cool. "Sunny" Francs- is. l have found ii misnomer.

Thé lust, ten days have been hard

days, a transition period, for we have left our second position and settled

'now ln; n third. lt seems we must be children of the rain and the wild driv-

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shift we was no

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an mist. for evsry time get wot. weather. This exception. for just as we gundnto the position the gnntto' down and for Th

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chill, nam morning, somethin like*

ing for some hours in the- rain. He has been newly appointed to this com- mand and evlnces the greatest inter. ent in the welfare of the batteries ' under his charge. He handed us out 5 “|09 C0l11Dliment yesterday which appeared in orders as follows: Lt.-Col. If-~ of the -- Heavy Artillery Group wishes to thank and show his appreciation of the splendid work done by the 98th C. S. B., tho last, [ow d“Y5- He B'l'6B¢lY Hllpreclates the rateof fine dliicipllne maintained and the way the guns have been kept in action." When one considers that those four guns lihve shot in the vi- Cllllly of 20.000 rounds. it is some contract to keep them in action. There have |1060 dlys when we could not touch the breech, it was no hot, This is the first time we have been singled out for praise. and. considsrlng the fact that we use twice as much nm- munition as any other 6-inch battery' around. we must he making good use 01 ll. for there is none to waste. Of course there is not 'the least danger of our getting a "swollen head" for over here one gets all the conceit knocked out of one. A smile invol- untarily graces our countenance when we read in papers from home of the "Gallant" 98th. and all the pretty names once more called .sound to ua now like “Bounding brass or a tinkling cym-hal.” We predict a like fate for our even more-favored ouc- cessors the B. B. P.'a and the "Fight- ing" Sth. Once it was the "Pride and splendor of war." Now it is the pride and splendor of bravery which must inevitably give way to the drudgery and hell of war.

In the lut paragraph I have

he-an guilty of A grammatical error commonly known as digrouion. I broke away from what I began to

toll obzpt. We have now dug-outa

all. nn ft in wonderful

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lolid line of batteries. In a his battle like last Sunday .one could see a H36' of hashes u hr as the horimn and one could not but think of Lloyd Georgeh ,dream of a row of guns from the Somme to the sea, so close that the timbers touched one' imotber. lt is Britain's only redemption. To con- tinue about last Sunday it was the bl!- gest -bombardment for a. long time, The artllluy was terrible there seemed to be an incessant roar. Guns blazed away fiercely all day. Such ii. dal’ raises all the savage within one, and I used to delight to hear our' guns firing iialvos.` There is a French bat- tery right alongside of us. an eight- gun battery and when they start Sun- ilre there is something doing t0 SKY the least. Several parties of German prisoners passed by, and I must re~ torate my statement made some time ago that the Germans as a rule area big husky bunch of men. lt was rather laughable to see two or three short little kilties in charge of these big fel- lows. Perhaps you may say then that size was no good to them. but it may serve to discount the tales that Gér- many’s troops are getting to be com- posed of thin and jaded youths. Sev- eral strong positions'-Qvere' captured but it is not yet known whether we have been able to hold them. Ger- many has five times the artllldry she had here when the drive was begun on July lst. lt is just a case of our ar- tillery eoncentratlng on certain trench; es and driving the Huns out. and when our men get these trenches the Hun repeats _our operation, and makes the trench untenable to its new occup- ants.

Thus the war goes on from day to

day and the end doe;in't seem any nearer than when we camo here three months ago. I do not see how a win- ter campaign can be avoided. Those who prate of an easy victory seem to me to underestimate the deadly enemy arrayed against us, aided by all the inventions of science, and not afraid to put them into use. not like Great Britain afraid if she takes strict mea- sures some other nation may not like it. When one considers that Germany has got eight million men coming of military age each year, it is useless to say lack of men will he her defeat. I remember a patriotic meeting in Charlottetown at which the once pop- ular song, “Tipperary." At the conclu- sion Dr. Fullerton made the remark. "It's a longer way to Berlin," and a more difficult way as the cas- ualty llsts show. It is strange over here-. George, how one runs across the little wooden crosses whose pur- pose you know. Sometimes they are near a dressing station where the badly wounded from the trenches have paid the last full measure of de- votion, and are quite numerous. Sometimes one runs across. them in the most unexpected places, graves of gunners of some battery which has been shelled or of some drivers of am- munition `columns. These and myriad others whose remains received not even a burial are part. of the oifering to Freedom. S0 we, at least, in some vaguely d'efl1ie`d sort of way hope. Yet one never hears ii. soldier men- tion "Freedom," he leaves that to the philosophers at homo and contents himself as best he may with the grim business of war. If the price paid is any indication of the value received in return, then great must be the value. O. "Freedom" May we not as Brutus is reputed to have done. “Worship Liberty and find it a dream." But this theme is too deep for me, and I will stop my harping. lest l exhaust my meagre knowledge- and your patience.

l rather like the life row. It is

not so hard as at first as time has shown us better ways of doing our work and things are more system- atized. The night shifts came hard at first but I don’t mind them now. I must not for- get to tell you of nn incident of a few nights ago when my gun de- tachment happened to -be on duty. About ll p. m. someone in the "dim distance" began to “berathe songs into the air" upon his cornet. a very commonplace thing you might say. lie played all the old familiar songs., and for n time we stood still ann listened to the music, catching what snatches of it we could between the bursts of guna. “Keep the Home Fires Burning" came first and the thought of loved ones far away. Others fol- lowed. Never did' we more fully re'nl- ize that "Music hath charms," and we were r`eal sorry when the music ceas- ed. Somewhere behind us is a band which plays every . evening always closing with the "Marselaiase” and the National Anthem. When we came to France first we saw the Highlanders marching to and from the trenches always lead ,by the pipers playing stirring airs. No wonder the kilties can fight: yet. the greatest days of all were the flriit days of tho big offen- sive. From July _10 to 14th are great days in the retrospect. They were days of continued firing. nights of handling ammunition which seemed to delight in arriving at the worst pos- sible time. On July 12th about noon. the Hun started shelling the cross- roads by our position. We got orders to get under cover in the trench be- hind us. anxious eyes peeped over the parapet. I remember seeing :he big shells land on the road, I can yebsee the ammunition teams Bulloplng past that dangerous. corner. I can lee' One shell land right in front of n team and the lead' team fall. the drlvors trying frantically ¢° °¥¢|‘|“'-° themselves out of tho' mesa. some of ua went up and ra- 'moved one dead"1iriver and dragged the two dead horses from the road. When wa came book mme one sold Walter Lantz had been killed. li. ll strange the feeling thai. comes over one when he hears I comrade has pain the _last full manure of devotion to King and Country. For a. while we were dazed, for -Walter was one of our bravest and best. Another home in fair P. E. lslmd"has been nddegndd for their son who llol buried in far- away France, the little wooden cross over his grave proclsiminl 00 U19 world the simple, yet eloquent words, “Killed in Act.ion.", ' .. on .iuiy mit in im ddr 'vt

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rodd was blocked with traffic, and every day we heard that the: enemy -was driven from some fresh P05190” from wood to wood and from trench to ti-eneh.;,No wonder it seems tame now. . - -

Such is life here and it is not with-

out lts diversions. Wh have seen some thrilling slxhta iii our short exllefl' ence l|ere.` We have seen is German

plapo brought down in flames by our aeral batteries, we have -seen the observer in an observation balloon come down in a parachute when his balloon was cut adrift by 8 PIUUG 00|* liding with his anchoring _ wire. Bild one day a big British battle plana alighted right behind our position. N19 reason being some engine trouble. An officer and sergeant were in charge of the machine which carried three ma- chine guna. ln a few minutes ii larK0 crowd had collected arouiin it all eager to have a close look at the huge machine. Soon the trouble was recti- iled and the plane flew away Wllll H" the griicefulness of a bird-

l must touch upon yet 011° F10”

point before I close, the Colonies re- sponse. They ars, here from all Dll'lB~ the husky sons of India. the splendid manhood of Australia, the youthful vigor of Canada. and the strong sons or s. an-tea. and New Zealand- They know not who talk of the disinteg- ration of the Empire.

Well. George, I must close; as this

letter is already too long- Give my F0' gards to all inquiring friends. Sincerely yours.

- ALLAN.

fii5ih Boy on Leave

Sees illr Raid , tin london

September 20.`1916.

The following letter has been re-

ceived by liilrs. Hugh Nicholson. from her son, Pte. J. D. Nicholson, who is in the 105th Battalion' now in Eng- land:-

105th Batt.

A. M. C.

Dear Mother: Just a few lines to

let you know that I got your two let- ters safe enough. and was so glad 10 hear from you. I am well and feeling fine at present hoping this will find you all well.

I am just hack from a. six days’

pass to London and we' certainly had a good time, all through it.

The last night we were there, was

the night of the air raid, .I saw them taking down one of the Ze°ps'. They set it on fire up in the air and it camo down head first and' lt sure was some sight. There- were' twenty- five Germans in lt and they were all killed, So 1 saw my first dead Ger- man. thirty Zepz. came over that night but that was the only one that got over the town. It dropped a lot of bombs handy us' but only four people wore' kllléd. 'lt was about two o'clock Sunday morning when they carme out and we were in bail' but we got up in' time to see lt, before it was hit. It was a dark misty night and it -look- ed jus-t like a big red ball about two miles up in the' sky. I just wish you could have seen it when it was com- ing down all on fire!

I sent some views- of the town of

London to you, hope you got them all right. Well, I will have to close for this time' with lc-ve to all.

Your -loving son,

J. D.

Gunner Harry MacTavlsh of the

98th Canadian Siege Battery now stationed “Somewhere ln France” sdnda' the following patriotic letter to a former companion Mr. Archie' D. MacNeill, _ of Little Sands, P. E. I. Gunner MaeTavlsh who has been on Active Service for over six months is it brother of Mrs. Rode-rick Gillis- formerly of Little Sands' now residing in Eldon, P. IE. Island.

Sept. 4th, 1916 _

Somewhere in France

Dear Friend:-Just n few -lines to

let you know that I am still alive ann' well hoping this finds- you all the name.

Well Archie you will note by my

letter that I ani on tho. Battlefields of France and have been for ii low imonthe. We have been through some hard' fighting, some of our men killed and several wounded. I was lucky enough to come through all right. but I had a good many close calls. Well Archie, the people on P. E. I. don’t know what is doing over here. lf they only saw what the peopild here' are going through and how the coun- try all tore up for miles around with all the little vlllageoj lying inf ruins they would |`1ndera,tn|1d'. I would like to -have a chance to give' you some particulars but we are not allowed to tell news from the tiring line. This is a pretty busy life. Some nights we have to stand by the guna' all night

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and continue till sunrise but never the less' we- arc advancing all the time. The-re hai-i been some terribly hard fighting here to uphold the Olil F-lag but I think that befc-re many' weeks more it will wave its brilliant colours higher than ever.

How is everything around' Little

Sands this summer, I suppose all the girls. are' in Boston and everything pretty dull, I would -like to have n look in at.you. nc-w but lf I was on P.

and perhaps open fire at 12 o‘clock| E. I. this summerl would not think

I was doing any duty in this terrible strll8$'le. I would' rather be over bare fighting for the old Flag even if I do leave my bones in Belgium or Franco. Well I guess this- is all fc-r now. Write soon. From your old' friend

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Gunner Harry MacTsvieb.

98th Canadian Siege Battery

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