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After three years of silent whtching and study in the l-louse of’ Commons, Mr. D. A! McKlnnon. M, P., for Queens County, has made a wonderful discovery, twp dis- coveries in fact. One is that therh ls something wrong with the. Na- tlonai- Debt: the other. that there is no hope for the Maritime Prov- inces. "the depopulstion of the Maritime Provinces is inevitable."

Before lldr. McKlnnon made his discoveries public, he assured the House that the Liberal budget was uulte all right and that he would support it._ All this we gather from the Canadian Press summary of the budget debate which appeared in yesterday's Guardian.

"Mr- McKinnon thought.a com- tnlssion of -economists might be ap- pointed to investigate way; vsnd means to meet the public debt." Mr. McKlnnon is a thinker and af- tor three years oi evidently hard thinking and watching the govern- ment struggling with the finances, he has made up his mind that they haven't yet solved the problem. He

does not believe they have reduced the National Debt as Mr. Robb claimed they had, so he thinks a commission of economists migh‘, do something, might be able in borrow money at a lower rats of interest or something! lt was a wonderful discovery, wonderful too, that it didn't snake his faith in the budget while he knew it was a tissue of misrepresentations and

. that nothing but a commission of ‘ eocfiomi s could straighten it out.

Possibly his l ollection of the re duction of the public debt of his native province by the late Liberal Government may have had some- thing to do with his discovery. Mr. McKinnon has no word of hope for his native province. "De- population ‘of the Maritime prov- inces -is ievltable," doomed, pre- ‘destinated, gone. to the dogg! y“, with that unaiterable tenacity that has bound other Liberals and Pro- kressives to their $4,000 seats, with that unconquerable aversion to meeting the electors, Mr- McKinnon stands by the budget that is de.

populating the Maritime provinces‘

and the rest oi Canada. Should the budget go by the board My, Mg. Klunon and his fellow Liberals and fellow Progressives would go too "d they would never set back‘. Therefore there is nothing for lt but to stand by the budget!

Whst is there in the budget that ls going to stop the "inevitable de- Dolliilfllivii" of the maritime prov- inces? Not a line, not a word, not s syllable. Everything-in it points‘ to the destruction of the National P0110)’ Which save the maritime provinces and the rest of Canada the industries which built up our home markets, the only markets we have, the markets without which our farmers cannot live. But the Progressives, who are not farmers

A 1"" V1108! srowers, do not want a

home market, they want cheap food, ‘cheap farming implements and the Liberals want the Progres. lives. therefore we are to have a Progressive budget. What shall it profit a farmer if he saves two or three dollars in ten years on the cost of s mower or binder, if he loses his yearly market‘! Where viii he sell so iii-cause if Cans- dlsu industries arc wiped out? This ls the qlibstion lfr. ldcltlnnon should tsdhlb am. ’ ,.

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TUESDAY, MAY s, 1924

NOTES BY THE WAY

it is true today as it always was that few arc the illls to which man- kind are subject that governments can cure. lt is equally true that the hope-of Canada rests upon its workers, the iffen -who plant and reap the harvests oi the land and who gather the harvest of the sea, who dig in the mines, or toil in the forests, or who expend their labor and skill in -the busy factories and all the varied enterprises of trade and transportation. Upon the activities of this multitude of workers the future wealth and pro- sperity of the nation depend. Not that governmnts and parliaments are not necessary for, indeed they are, although they are very fallible at best and much that they say and do might better he left unsaid and not done.

Fallible and costly. as we know. arc our governments and parlia- ments, and unlike the great host of tellers, they are much given tc empty talk, to wordy desputations and downright idleness. if one were to fancy a farm, or a factory, or a place of business conducted as is our parliament at Ottawa neith- er the owners of the farm ' the factory or the business place would have a roof to cover them at the year's end. The session is the busy season for our government and parliament at Ottawa. It is to them what the planting and the harvest seasons are to the farmers. And the supposedly wise men whom we send to the nation's councils have been already more than two months at their task. .Yet what have they done in that time for the country's good? »

A prodigal host of hard-ridden l tax-payers have housed these men in s twelve million dollar palace and pays them from four thousand dollars to fifteen thousand dollars each for the time they spend l-n it. Millions of workers, busy at their daily toll throughout the

pay the cost. These millions

of

credit be not idle

And said, they

their do

to away l

they did so what would become of

seasons of planting, harvesting and producing in idleness and wordy disputation’! Obviously‘ the home- stead and factories would decay and be deserted and the fields grow up into a forest wilderness again as it_ was when the first settlers came.

That iis why we ssy, All honor to the tellers whose well-directed skill, Industry and thrift have made this country what it is, and who are its hope for the future. And every honest worker acorns the pamper- ed idler, of whom there are a host daily fed at the public crib, yet would be lords of the land. It is worse still when the idlers become wasters and destroyers as we have them today at Ottawa. There is no spot in all -the broad area of Canada where there is s tithe of the waste that is going on at the summit of Parliament Hill, under the eyes and hands of the men that the toilers sent thither to guard and protect their nterests.

When Parliament met two months sgo there was a loud dlitcry throughout the Dominion over the waste at Ottawa, the crowd of pairl loafers, the fifty million dollar civil servlce,.the overbuilt railway mileage. and the alarming exodus Whst has been done to check two months‘) Nothing worthy oi the "him B! its offer to i5 per cent in- crease pf salary to a large section cf the service and the promise-wit superannuation allowances, the cost of the slvil service will be increas- ed not diminished. Building‘ a thousand miles of new railways that cannot earn their operating exl Muses. as tho Government pro- poses lo do. is adding new was to the old. No attempt is be made to stay the exodus, which ca

in all its provisions one that will plvs s single dsyibwork so some!

ssh sdvpcsus u. not

By [tunes A uszv sexes ‘

. ' a». . The manager of a string otbox- are breath-tone onhis feather- Wfllfllll b0§6fl l0 bfiilflfhkflld {way by his physician. .» '- t x ,. ' "There's sométhlng with this boy, and} want y_ou toflnd it for me. He is willing to train daily, and does so, but has‘ lost h.is speed and punch. l-le has plenty of "hurt" because in his last fight he was knocked cut, fell forward, yet avi- ill! ssiiln before the count of ton. and finished the fight. And when fighters fall forward, they generally stay down for awhile. Besides he lives with me all the time and l know h'ls every move- ment. l-le has no bad haolts—-no boy could live cleaner. ‘ i’m trying to put weight on him, and yet he enters all his boxing matches three to five" pounds

found the boy well developed, with a sound heart-and a normal blood pressure. ‘ His teeth were unusually good. His tonsils on first glance seemed to be small and innocent looking, but a closer inspection o ght one showed a cleft which on b ing lift- ed revealed a mass of white cheesy

fore

hers?

sert Christian Guardian."

_ :4 l I , 1 I’: . = The Public Forum ‘ ' This column. ls.‘ no.0:

tbs discussion by pendant! '1' direction. of In

v oi-lulroi-i union

tau-cat. The Charlottetown- Gusrdlsrr deco not nsccssan , iiy endorse the opinion on ‘ pressed by its ccrroaporr ;. dents. ~ i -

Sin-The Unionists are .elated

Manitoba, Ssske‘

the

Let the Unlo s also remem

l am, Sir etc-.

over the fact that, the six prov, laces of P. E. i., Nova Scotia, New Brunshvick, wan and Alberta, havtfpsssed the Union Church Bill, and that there- Dominion Parliament should do the same.

‘e-

her

that these six provinces are repre- sentedjn the Dominion Parliament by 74 members, and Ontario, which has gone Anti-Unionist, is repre- sented -by 82 members. s ould have most weight in the Dominion House

Which

74 or 82 mem- The Unionists will likely say that the 82 are not unanimous neither are the 74.

ANTI-UNIONIST

lighter than is necessary. l can't -—--—,<+>-__- build him up." CHURCH UNION. Th9 Physician on examination .

'Sir,—'ln a recent issue of your

an ~' article from‘

the following from

valuable ipapcr you inserted a let- ter from one who signed himself “lnterwted" which, included my name; also “Toronto ISaturday Night." iln an- swer to same. will you please in- "The

the

haiishiiirllfti

Soon beyond the harbor bar

0'er the world l wander

Wait for me at heaven's

Life and light were all in

Shall l never meet thee

to the States of Canadian workers. whusg in w"; 1 nude;-

others waste st Ottawa in the past 75d“

matter and a broken down dition of the tonsil itself. The other tonsil has an opening more than a quarter of an inch across that poured out material when squeezed.

This then was the cause of

"laziness? his d-ieincllnation arouse himself, that made training almost a nightmare, that

rival managers say that he

stale" from overtrainlng.

Had he been the average fellow, with tonsils exuding poisonous matter he would been down on his back, or perhaps getting around o'n\crutches with

all

ome stiffened joints. '.

. His ‘training by- running on the road, his boxing, his bathing with the rub dbwn following it, and also the plain nourishing food all help- ed to keep him on his feet, despite

he condition of his throat. So while he apparently

‘his

The ‘physician advised

workers are not housed like that “n the dmerflme 1“ ‘We "mm and the are not id ilk tliatflm! ammy to go the "whole

y pa e j-tance" in his next boxing engage- ll-ment. You see being strong sometimes

their time in any such fashion. uh" m’ ‘madvamages .1“ that long as one is on his

feet,

Daily Selections

FOR

Guardian Readers

BELLE MAHONE

This tender old love song. writt- en by J. H. McNaughton,

much loved and sling lluriilg latter part of the past century. it is now seldom met with but can be found in a few old fsollections oi popular songs of the past.

my bark be sailing far. sweet Belle Mahono!

0'er thy grave I weep good-bye; hear, on hear my lonely cry: Oh! without thee. what am I. sweet

Belle Mahone? _

Chorus:

Sweet Belle Mnhone! sweet Belle

Mahonel

sweet Belle Mahone!

Lonely like a withered tree, what

is sllthe world to me? sweet Belle Mahonel

Daisies pale are growing o'er all

my heart can o'er adore.

Dweet Belle Mahonei (Chorus: )

Calmly. sweetly slumber on. only

one i call my own, .

sweet Belle Mahcne!

Belle Mshonel

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harmful

.made was

that have

was fighting a winning fight with the protective forces of against his had tonsils, . less the latter were doing sufficient damage to taktrthe "pep" out of his work.

body neverthe-

‘the yefl-Pmanagor to see a throat specialist. The removal of the tonsils made

dis-

was the

shall

lone,

gate.

thee.

IIIOIG,

lone,

now seems everything, but when comes eternal spring With thee l'il be wandering. sweet

Thanking you, l am, Sir, etc., ROBERT M. BRODIE.

(EnclosureJ _ AN APPLICATION THAT - m! - DOESN'T APPLY

‘i’ We cannot think that the editor

of Saturday Night, of this city, is a great success as an expoeitor of the Old Testament Scriptures. On the basis oi his recent effort to eluci- date and apply that old, familiar story of Naboth and his vineyard we could not,with a 'good consci- ence recommend him for a posi- tion upon the stai! of any up-to. date seminary or theological school. i-ie seems to =ba lacking in historic sense or something oif that sort, and his look into the heart of this line old tragedy does not seem to -be nearly as discerning as it ought to be. Oi’ course, the effort to ap- ply such a story to modern life and make it teach its high moral truth is worthy of all commendation, but such an effort must be convincing, l; it is to be effective, and -for some reason this effort is very far from convincing.

According to this imodern pro- phet, zealous for rlghteousneecuthe Rev. Dr. Chown is the Ahab of our day in (Jflcda. kf-le, and of course those who stand with him as ad- vocates of Church Union, are the hideous and heartless villains in |the play. ‘Naboth, robbed of his little patrimony and done .to death after the most cowardly and iniquit.

in

as he

» mm“ the“? “l” 11° much the ou fashion is represented by those this fair Dominion of ours? What matte;- wm, mm no‘; and pgrsecuted pimple known "("115 he 115 PPf-YBPBCW 5°? 111° as antlUnionlsts. it is not so stat- future ii.’ our farmers and factory ed directly, but the inference is workers were to spend their busy OA-c-Acu m“ Sal-urn?‘ N151“ l“ m9 17311131‘

of the story, a stern prophet of righteousness, whose word, even against kings and other entrenched ' iniqulties, has a. WHY 0f 111111111118 itself. that there are dogs ready t0 18D

Naboth, and that the real tragedy as against those who today seem to have the upper hand is likely to b’: worked out in the not distant future. _ lBefore the ordinarily sensible man sits down to write such utter piflle as that, ought he not to give a few minutes to the intelligent consideration of the subject he is about to deal with. -lif the editor of Saturday lNlght had gone back over the past twenty years oi ec- clesiastical hitory in Canada, even in the most superficial way, he never would have written that ut- torly inane item oii his on "Saving iflabotns Vineyard." ‘He knows. as every other reasonably well-inform.

after Church Union that has reach- ed its climax today has had hack of it all the way through a grow-

purpose. That effort has gone on uninterruptedly for two decades, solely because the , ,‘ in the three Ch-urches during that period were losing their prejudices and narrowness and bigotry and were becoming more and, more willing to make sncrtlices in the interests of s ibetternnd broader and more useful and morewChristlan Church. - And every step in the progress that has been made has been taken regularly and countitutionsllyythe Ch rcbes octlngdn the only way the cesld act for the‘ registration and carrying o of their spiritual purposes and id sis.‘ And the res. istration of conviction in favor of union, as shown in the ifcrmation

- votes of the dilerent Chnrohhbod-

ilt ls even darkly hinted! up the blood 0f “he” than poorqilays -by heart, and that one cdhld

ed ‘person knows, that. the effort

ing g-pigituiqr toleration, a growih‘! ‘breadth of vision and slngleness o!

or local Union churches and the

Sweet-Balls Mshcne, etc. 1

been clsrly-slrown that it will take pray the employment of \..nisny Canadian workers and leave them snd their famlllemwithcut tho means of support. This is, in part. what our very costly governulsnt and parliament have done at Ottawa inning the two months

to the position taken by Bstur Night, .~ssv ad sveuy slnglvtset in t the situation is ignored. And Saturday ‘Night lsflnosacre happy where it mm to-the rela- tihnof the legislature to this issue than when it is dealing with it in

ies and courts. revealed such over- whelming majorities in favor of union that its consummation ls surely among‘ the most s ssonsbis and rightooil propositions. Go that ~

l; absolutely no point at

l)’

the contrary the ltobb emu must :51; 2:‘: ,u:’$:°:"°:.:.: 'Z|:$I-:'ll:s'i» afiiaqilfl u: “m!” M, u“ “u.” h“! m.- - h legislature should ymorcly ~ be - -—-- r, . I'm“ th t of u s rubber s g for w. challenge-tho smnsm - u WW1" 4100-, _ » n» urcis rams ‘swam 1:,- ’ > . . '@“I U! hjlPO - r ' ennui-monumental“. uauuflunthflmwwtme

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cilia is that. e I _ A:

it can be, taken for granted, prob- ably, that there never will come a time when it will be universally ad- Juitted that William ‘saaksspeare a; the author of his own plays. reason is that the more one udles them the greater grows the jvlcnder, verging on i-ncredulity. that they could have been the work of one man who lived th-ree hundred years ago. The idea that they were written by a man who had done no traveling and had little formal edu cation, who had troubles with writ- ing and spelling, who was a poach- er in his youth and a ‘barn storming actor in later life has irevolted many sensitive intelllgences in the pas‘ and is likely to result as many more in the future. Many have chos- en to believe that the Shakespeare plays were the work oil iLord Bacon, ope of the great scholars and phil» csophers of his time. They have overlooked the all ‘important ifact that since bile author was maniiesti a genius‘, social rank and scholar. ship do not account ifor -hi-m any more than social obscurity and lack of culture, ‘it will always remaih an astounding ifect. no matter who may eventually be proved to Ihe the author, that any man wrote "Ham- let," ‘iMaobethJ’ “King Lear" and “Romeo and Juliet."

H

Virgin Queen Aspersed

. Among those who have propound~ ed theories concerningmlie author ship of the ‘plays was Dr. Orville Ward Owen, an American, who died not long ago, He‘ worked for many years to adduce proofs of his theory but died b-elore his task was com- plele. Now his daughter, Mrs. Gladys Owen Stewart. of Detroit, a Shakespearean in her own right, an- nounces that she will continue the elucidatione of her father, and hopes to live long enough to prove that Bacon wrote not only the plays of‘ Shakespeare, but also the works commonly ascribed to Mar- lowe, Spenser, Peele. Greene and Burton. Dr, Owen. we believe, was the first man to suggst that Bacon

th

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This he tried to prove by meansflng to discover ‘he orig-hm] man,» ‘ H“ h“ several “h” scripts of the Shakespearean plays, iwmllg“ me“- "mm"; ‘hem ‘hath/s well as the works‘ of all the oth- er sutlioiefiln the course of his ex» B"! °°1°- "Rwkad '1“ the Grad ploratlons he said