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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN MARCH 25, 1898,
THE DAILY EXAMINER
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MARCH 25, 1898, DON’T BE ALARMED “ sOYS. ” | Tue Patriot says: “It” (the Government) “ promises to , grant this Province direct steam communi- | (
cation with cold storage to Great Britaio, ” | the temperance men and probibiticn, they
Will the Patriot dare to say that the gov.
pendently of the result of the Weat Priac®
election ?
Again
“*A second winter &teamer will be provid- ed at no distant day, probably to rua be- tween Summerside and Cape Tormentine, if the experiment be successful.”
the r itriot
Says _—
Suppose that Mr, Hackett is returned to his seat in the Houseof Commons, will the Government dare to back out of that prom- ise ?
The Patriot will not say so;and there- fore the electors of West Prince may vote for Mr. Hackett without apprehension that the Government will punish the Province by depriving it of facilities definitely prom- ised,
If the Goverrment should break its promises on account of the of Mr. Hackett, it will also break its pro~ mise even though Mr. McLelian should be elected.
election
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BURKING PROHIBITION.
Tue temperance workers of Canada are tobe disappointed. They fancied that a Plebiscite upon the juestion of Prohibition pure and simple.
there was to be ‘his was the expectation held out vious to the general election by Sir Wil- frid Laurier, Sir Louis Davies and other It was believed that
pre-
prominent Liberals. if @ majority of the electorate of the country at large should vote for prohibi- tion, prohibition would be granted. No one supposed for a moment that the Gor- ernment of Sir Wilfrid Leurier—the
ekirk their responsibility for quences of the people’s mandate. Macy persons supposed that upon the aecession of Sir Wilfrid to power, prohibition would follow forthwith,—and voted accordingly. But they were deceived. Two sessions of Parliament passed and nothing was done— beyond the reception of certain delegations of liquor men, Soon after that, statements were sent abroad to the effect that ques- tions of prohibition and direct taxation would go together, and that qualifications would be made as to the Plebiscite vote to be taken, mixing the matter up in the minds of electors and rendering the eucs ceas of the prohibition cause doubly difficult. Protests on the part of the temperance men wert: made against this mode of procedure. But these protests have been mad¢ in vain. At a meeting of the Charlottetown Lodge, held last even~ ing, @ letter from Sir Louis Davies to the Rev. Mr. Kirby read in whieh it ie clearly intimated
Was that the plebiscite will be taken upon the questioa ot “New Taxstion” as well as upon Prohibition, and in which Mr, Kirby is to infer chat the people are to be left to consider whether—having provided the Government with ao’ additional million of dollars on tobacco--they are prepared to payeight or ten mill ons more on tea: We do not know what the temperance men of this country think of this intention of the government; but we think it a mean and cowardly way of shirking a pre-election promise. Wha confidence is to be placel upen men who do such things? The responsible for the adop‘ion of raise a suffizient revenue. going to throw a portion of the responai- bility upon the electorate? Have they aot back-bone enough to face all the consequences of their pre-election promise to the temperance men of this country ? The people of Canada know all the evils of
will
government are means to
Way are
the liquor traffic. But they are not pre. pared todeal with the details of gov ernment finance. Itisnot fair or right to Impose upon them & question as to how eight or ten million dollars are to be reise ed. The government dida’t appeal to them about the additional tax on tobacco, ne~ Gessitated by the requirement of au addi- tional million of dollars to make ends Why shoul! the government dis tract their minds from the main quertion of prohibiti
meet,
nn by forcing upon then sidera'ionsa3 toaduty on tea or taxation, frightening miny of them with the idea that they aret» be born: down by taxation iu crder that Prohibition may prevail throughoat the }end. Wo such ideas or conditions were attached to their promise to hold a Piebiscite on Prohib « tion and we submit thatit iwa breach of faith with the temperance men who gave their votes on the strengta of the' pro- mise, tc impose these ideas and co aditions now. Bat their ireatment of the temperance
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ernment will pct perform this promise inde~ |
they
men of Canada, in this regard, is perfectly |
consistent with their action in regard to Preferential Trade, Protection and al- mostevery other question about whieh they were pledged before the election,— not to speak of their violated thousande of individual
the country,
promises to throughout [tis their practice to break In the
men
or shirk their promises, case of
evidently intend to “shirk.”
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
—The Patriot raises a question about what the late Government didn’t do in- respect to the Drummond Railway, in order to divert attention from what the present Government did do!
~—All the colored porters on theI. C. R., have been discharged in the plea of economy. Curious that government ecouowmy usually takes the favor of squeez ing the poor man.
—Russ‘a has ordered a 10,000 bhorse- power ice-breaker of the Armstrongs, to cost $800,600. It will be ready in October, and will be used to kee» open navigation to St. Petersburg throughout the winterr
—Referring toa letter which appeared | in Tue Examiner last evening, we are in- formed tnat the policemen of this city, do not, asa rnule,carry clubs and that the statements contained in the letter are great exaggerated.
—With an eye to the elections, the Patriot urges government has been liberal in grants for improveme:t” Yes, they threw away twenty thousand dollars on the {Petrel and they will spend twenty thousand dollars more On curves at North Wiltshire, the | work being practically valueless to the | ceuntry.
West Prince that “the
P, E ISLAND NURSEs,
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The proceedings at the Kindergaten
Hall lastevening were more than usually interesting and enjoyable. The hall was
bright and prettly decorated and a large number of interested spectators and friends of the hospital were present. The matron of the hospital and the nurses who received diplomas were in their pro»
; i. : | fessional costume and oceupied the stage ** Business Administration ”—would try to | f ceupie ze,
the conse- |
together with the speakers of the evening. The President of the P. E. I. Hospital, Mr. Charles Palmer, was chairman. In his introductory remarks he referred to the work already accomplished in regard to the new hospital aud mentioned the amount already in hand for that purpose.
Dr. Beer stated the conditions upon which the purses entered upon their duties and outlined the work they were called upos to study and perform.
The graduates, Miss Bella Sinclair, Miss Aona Koss, Miss Polly Wiggins, and Miss Gordou were then gived their diplomas. At this point a pretty diversion was made when the little glris Helen Grant, Helen Peters, and Willie Dawson, presented the matron and the graduates with boquets.
The valedict-ry was read by Miss Gor don, and an addrese was given by His Worship Mayor Warburton. Mi-s L. Lefurgey delighted the audience with two readivg?, and Miss Annie Hyndman added to the pleasure of the evening by her sweet voice. Last but net the remarks made by Rev. James Simpson, who was in adecidly humorous rei+, completed the evenings programme.
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tt eineiitain The latest complete and reliable com- parison as to the spread of the modern languages, is for the present century up to 1890, compiled by Mr. Mulhall, the lead~ ing British statistician. It shows the number of’persous speaking the English, Freuch, German, Italian, Portuguese, Rus- sian and Spanish languages, respectively, at the beginning of this century, together with similar data at the end of ninety ears thus:
In 1800. In 1890,
English .....0.. 20,520,000 111,100,000 Frereh ..... reece 31,450,000 51,200,000 Oe Gece 30,320,000 75,200,000 I i. 15,070,600 33,400,900 Portuguese .......... 7,480,000 13,000,000 Russian +++ 30,770,000 75,000,000 Spoish ............6+ 26,)90,000 42,860,000
The English increase during those
ninety years was five anda half times ; the Ruswian two anda half times, the German equal to the Russian. No other anguage approaehed these in growth.
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ESTEEMED EXCHANGES,
Montreal Gazette: The Sultan Morrocco is reducing his army. He is a! barbaric Mobammedan despot, and pot at allto be taken as an example for eulighten- ed Christian nations. They increase their armies whenever they can.
Ottawa Journal: It is very kind of the press correspondents to refer to the 45-lb. rails for Mackenzie and Mann as “m- dium type.” The reguiatiou rail is 70 lbs. or over, Ottawa, years ago, wonldn’t allow rails as light as 45 lbs. to go down for her street cars.
Monctoo times: “The feeling grows that the Laurier government got power under felse pretenses. The people are counting the days aud weekethat must! elapre before they will have an cpportunity | to show by their votes that they made a_ huge mistuke in June, 1896.”
Monetary {:mes: The Canadian fisher- les are the most extensive in the world. |
rom the Sira:ts of Belle Tale to the Bay | f Fundy on the Atlantic coast they cover | a distance of 5,600 wiles ; On the Pacific the tisheries of British Columbia extend 7,150 miles, or more tian double the ex-
tent Of the coast line ef Great Britaia and Ireland. The salt water inshore area ex- ceeds 1,500 mlies, while the fresh water area of the Great Lakes,which belong to Canada, is placed by the antBorities at! 72,700 square miles, This latter esiimate | ¢ does not include the numerous smaller
fresh water Iskes, which exist in nearly | all the provinces, especially in Outario,
Manitoba and the Territoriee. ~Montreal Witness: The picture 0’
Queen Victoria inspecting the etatue of
Queen Boadicea wich base been erected | at the Westminster end of Westminater |
Bridge, bas a jivmantic interest in the|
fact that ‘.e neme of the fifst great i Briti-h queer known to history, Bodig, ! = y ICTGRIA ROW has tue same mcanipg as that of the last. | pi
Lue first Victoria, though shegrode to! chariot, lost ber kingdom, The last, though throughout |
ber long reign her islands have not even
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seen war, has added more to the empire than all her warrior ancestors put together more in proporticn even tothe great em- | pire she found than did any of them. She |
those of war. Britain’s real conquerors, | her missionaries, her explorers, her colon- iste, aud for that matter ber anilitary offi- cers, ommiseioned and non-commisioued, | who are to-day doing police service and peacemaking in more than a quarter of the globe, have nevertheless had as much call for courage, heroism and chivalry as | had the fighting knights of old, who kuew | no respectable occupation but war,
A gentleman iu Ottawa, writing toa friend in Moncton, says of Sir Charles | Tupper’s effurt in the great debate on the’ Yukon railway bill: “Well, our great debate is over, Ag usual the Maritime Provinces have borne off the honors in the | discussion, primus et maximus old Sir |
Charles. He is really a great man. Age | dues not weaken, nor custom stale, his |
infinite variety, Last Thursday night, or | Friday morning, Ll sat in admiration of bee |
giant. For haifan bour he was rather tame; then brain and tongue | and body worked with ao
electrical energy fc two hours and a balf that waseimp'y marvellous, Arment, fact, wit, repartue seemed to respond to the call with a readiness which I never saw equalled in my life. The way he clouted Sifton, Laurier aud Blair around reminded me ot a cat playing with mice. Every inter) ction met with a Roland for an Oliver, Domville’s interrogation as to whetber or not Sir Charles’ company did net intend taking an immense qvantity of , whiskey into the Yukon evoked the rep~ | artee that the maneger of his (Iom- ville’s Com pany) required all | theirs for home consumption, | Blair devied having stated what Sir Char- les claimed be said. Sir Charles broight out from a pile of papers in the twinkling ofameye the crushing proof. Davies, Siftun aod Laurier in quick successicn | shared the same tate, Every member | j
that feced him met an instautaseons knockelown amid the thunders of ap- | plause from the opposition bencher. When I reflect upon the age of Sir Charles, the work he went throvgh the previous week aod then think of the colossal evergy, the | perfectiy volcanic outbursts of iudigni.- tion, the playful wit, the mastery of fact, | the marshalling of arguments that char- acterizes that thrice learned speech in the | morning lam simply prond that Canada
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