Cine-lee Dalton. Frenldrll. . D. K. (Inn-lo, Annoelntn Edltnr

Iillllg uuly (founded Iss1» use

r “Q per yen: mulled; In udwnnee In

lliilllllillllilllwll iulllnllli

J. II. Bnrnctt, Editor nnd TIMI-her.

‘nnndn nnd United Hinton.

The boy who rushed

. n-n

’ .

‘FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1923.

and afterward admitted on being questioned that .there ‘ may have

THE POLITICAL SITUATION crs’ salaries nlust be 11101641885-

The electors. towards whom

match of the oratorylof the pres-fine government should be able 100°? U131- “; Benton has been directed, are cgfry on the affairs of the prov-1 pow i1; 11 position t0 PrettyQtbor-iince and pay the teachers’ ln~ cbghly understand the nolltlca-llcreased salaries." ‘Premier B811-

Prcmier Bell.

been only “our cat and another .. one" was not entirely accurate. He jean hardly be regarded as a thor- ,onghly reliable statistician. The

“With t-he-presentrevenue illlwlipercentaie of error was too large

lBLll. morally speaking there is this niucll iii his favor. that on a careful review of the facts he conceded a margin of ill-

accuracy. That. was much better

‘nuuumy 111 audition to the lid-i "T116 lbcst government the prflv- than if he bad persisted in his

dresses given in

thi- leshilfllllr“ ince baa ever had." Prem1EPB@l111.'="°'-Y M the mmlsand‘ they have the Public Accounts and‘ supporters in chorus.

Those hundred vacant schools

tbs official reports of the differ»: "The most cerrlllll- 8°'°"“‘“°miseem to come in the same category ent departments. These are in cold lhe Province has crer had." The!“ the ‘houeand cats. b111- Wilh min-

type and cannot be slteredmhey speak for themselves. That there’ are discrepancies llllS not been dc- 11193 by the government and 81-1 1111-111 have been mane to account fo1- them. “ihether the public B" satisfied with these 1911181115

be seen. Little can be Bained by. "I "an" “'- “ "m" m" °' u"

people.

“The Premier of many surplus- es." The Patriot.

or differences here and there. Somebody started the story lhal one hundred schools were vacant at the time the Arsenaull fiuvern-

"The Premier of broken prunl- ment was defeated in 1919. It

ises." "The

The people. Pay us m mcnt.' The Patriot.

you g0 QOVEID-

turns out on the published state- .ment of the then ‘Superintendent oflEducation, who must have known the facts, that there were ‘inst nine schools vacant at the time. Here

mixing and muddlipB figures wlil¢li'8°'@"1m*"11 1°’ wmk "we o“ n“ “mm ‘here was a large pkmemage

may be nude m prove m, disprove roads last summer. h.‘ tractor.

"1 couldn't gel 11 darned cent out

anything. The accounts with the a discrepancies must stand. - -

Nor can anything be gained h)’

mutual recrimination. The Bell

lTllOlOl‘.

government has pictured in lurid; colors lhe condition of affairs nn‘ d61- tlle previous regime. Whether the picture is true to life or wile-E ther unfair means have been udoD-l ted to blacken and to distort 11' the public will judge. The alleged deficit 0f 8253.000 said y been found when the Bell gov-| ernment came into power, is

case in point. if the public are sub‘ isfied that when the supplies for the year ending December 31, 1919.: were purchased and pnid for he? fore September 9 of that year and

to have:

as under the previous administra- tion." All Liberal members.

“An increase of 100 to 150 per cent. in the land tax.“ CTS. , What do the electors think of

"One hundred schools vacant in the province wliel

eral choir. "Nine schools vacantin the pro-

vince in 1919." The (‘biei Superin-

‘tcndent oi Education.

“Only the same rote oi taxation

farm-

.. A mm" coujof error. amounting to 91 percent.

And yet the author of the yarn liud some vacant schools for its found- ation, just as the boy llilll some

(‘f U19"! 11111-11 51191‘ U16 61059 01 vats as a foundation for his story. the financial year." A small con-‘A very few. and n01 enough!

Just here the parallel ends and the contrast begins. The buy all

111B Libfrflllhmilled his error ubuut the number came into power." The whole Lib-bl‘ cuts. .bllt the ‘Bell (iUVréTlllHIJlH and its supporters have n. thousand L

times repeated the lF-llflifilllfill about the hundred vncnnl schools. For years the newspapers support- ing zhe Government have bidzolletl it abroad throughout the province. Alt-inborn of thr- Government have repented it SGSSlfJfLflflUl‘ stee-iiou in the Legislature, and n score of their SUDIIOTIETS have parroted it after them there. it was hroall-

_r~al meetings during the by-clections oi‘ last summer. And yet it was 91

i Noises by the Way

o+-ro~no

___ ___________ ___ Into his lulu-end; tn IITnIR- homo and told his father, “There are n thousand cats In the yard!"

casted by them in scores of politi-

lthese various pronouncements 0n ltbe manner of handling their mon-

e5‘?

that less than half the he had been collected. and are prepared in believe that the differ, ence between these two constitu-

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I —-i-~-Q-O-Q-ii- -

THE KING CABINET 1

pa: ct-nl. untrue!

Confronted with the facts as stated by the Superintendent of Sailools, we have yet to learn that

(Ki-DDT:

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5

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ted a deficit at September 9th,] then they will. accept the oft-re-

leged deficit. Had the previous government not purchased supplies for the year the incoming Bell government would have had to do so. As it was, the latter took over the supplies bought and paid for by their predecessors and ac- cused the latter of having squan- deredthe money! The bottom has long since dropped out of this so culled deficit and uni people know it.

The condition of the schools also under the previous regime has fur- nished the Beli government with a song which they have sung con- tinuously for three and a half years declaring that there were one hundred vacant schools when

, they came into power. This, not- withstanding the fact that the ‘Su- perintendent of Education had re- ported only nine vacant schools for that year! This song, the fal- sity of which had over and over again, they contin- bed to sing without interruption at the same time vociferously de- claring their own great feat in fil-

been proved

ling these imaginary vacancies.

instances might be multiplied indefinitely in which actual mis- representation was made both of the previous regime and that of the Bell government.

A cause or a party unit must re- sort. to misrepresentation and fraud to lbolster up its case needs watching and we feel quits; sun that the Bell government is being watched as never before. They came into power on the strength of promises [which they have bro ken one by one and are going olll of Dower because they have at- tempted to carry out the fraud by still further deludlng the people.

. SOME QUOTATIONS

The ieoven that is lcnvenlng ihegthey mpy gq on repeating it. The bested story of that $253,000 Bl-‘Mackenzie King Calblnet and lreepflmllldled "W191 5mm“ w" SM“

ing it

the" pearl; to be a particularly virillcnt

one. For

in continual

some months

w a ‘to be changed again and othersislng g0“ m: éelbpralse and u} in ‘.1921. Last yearuthe amount is ti. Presbytcryhé right to oppose B I W their ‘°“dem“**'-1°n 0f the 1M9 3°" .ilnle llCtll‘ the vanishing point, 1\§‘](-[inn ma; 111. deems 111111-1119 111111 l! "m" - named or 11185011111111)’ BPDOUNQG-lernment that it \vill'ile hard to it was less than fifty thousand 41.111 remain loyal to his Church: Barton. Ml). l . - . . . . 11111111 11 110W 0n the eve of a 111.1111 dollars. y ‘ _ H _ yflllvfl she 11811005 aguinst him. lqhe late“ shume‘ a“ anmunced election! And yet they k115i full 11 1s 111-11 rlvssible 111'. '\ c101" 1r win-n the Chll1‘_('|1'S derision is 1111- COPYRIGHT '1'" 0111' yesterday's dcspatches. W0“ that the fabrication is a, the 6111118 11915011 1111K?‘ 2111111011’ lily reaced, u l(‘.\\' will leave-‘nlllcli " [Ill-lites Hon. George P. Graham. lacking .111 [he 11.111.111.111; @1911...“ ,1“,‘Q"'§,.,,SS”'IE§V,,’,Q nj‘,‘,,‘,,‘,‘,§ ‘ighaflf-Jmill21:21‘lgll1gfelfi1-ajétlall‘v13 THE HYSTERICAL PERSON Punish" of Raihvéyfl; Hon‘ E‘ M‘ of "um as was the awry M ‘he “p193. If“ that‘ {rm-m F" wit!‘ mix}: ‘Pl1111-L-11. Fimhmwyihf‘, Wodllld a Dfltient udtnillcd to -.\ic[)onald, Minister of Deienoe, woman‘! ems‘ o?‘ 55:51‘ plrniillgihy‘ a1. lflfgngnlhgfq)$13112‘;-gtafz_“fi_la,giilgg the liortwktiul one d-ay whrl, will said —--_ ‘- __ ‘ _ y ' § _ ' _ ' ‘ to b‘ til ng "fins" regu 811')’. and George K_ Kym,‘ Suncnor Gen I tile Aluelit-an farmcl pas MIDIJCIT liscoyerlng afresh that human na- Th1, ‘my he unwed I was Se,“ _ _ The 111-05; deception and betrayal m1 10 llmdnrc 0111.1’ yer) large 11sec. litre l8 What it l5. and not what it rm, human, and Md ma, a cral, provided it will be colisid- of 1919 has bee" exposed, m0 weighing from 850 to 600 pounds. isn't. and that. wise men try to sergam amiabout eight men we“, lfrcll safe to open his constltucllcy- tangled “'91! the" ‘vmen hflshbee“ in" mlrl l1;n:r1l]§"s thy flitriilifiihci: ‘llomiemtlthemséillveii ‘hm! w“? may holding him down in his special . ' mow w 1a l ls o l e n 1e wort lfl in" 1v r'- _ 111 111w nlefllltinle Hon. George P. a hundred times torn to shreds. t-konlpctition from the United one who has studied hliéman nafllze loom‘ ‘

Graham is acting Postmaster Gen- cral until the return of lion. Char- les Murphy, who found it necess- ary to get away from his collea- gues because of disagreement. preferring the peaceful company of the belligerent and revolution- ary Mexicans to that of his friends at Ottawa. It is a tunbulent cab- inet all right.

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WATER POWER

The utilization water power in Canada is one of the great features of industrial ex- pansion. At present the capacity of all the plants lii Canada ‘s 2.-‘ 973,759 horse power. The known available water pOWer in Canada from all sources is 41,700,000 horse power and the total capacity at present oi‘ all the water wheels

increasing of

seven per cent of these resources. The existing installation rcprll- sents 338 horse power per thou- sand o: population which places Canada in the position of being second only to Norway in the per capita utilization of Water power.

-—---¢o>-—-- EDITORIAL NOTES

“These roads will not cost the taxpayers of this province a dol- lar." Premier Bell.

"One of the reasons for increas-

ing the taxes was to make up rci- transparent the withdrawal of the unto fees 011i P9811116 01' 1111011511 the 0rrlin-_ revenue," Premlgf ary evolution or civilization there

damn“, rm, Mum,“ “on”, m, l break is fealred as a result of dis-l "0119 o! n19 mam" for 111cm“. more pronounced denunchiiiorl of i ___lfll the hm no 11m the tewh- aqlillui rmlyi yum at prudent.

from general Boll,

it may be that out of the poli- tical dishonesty of the pant three and a half years there ‘shall grow

Cflbiflfilltlpon it as n staple argument, il

and tunbmes m Canada ,5 onlyyplaln, shoddy. tailored to sell and

innj: of them will yet admit. the ‘truth. The presumption is than

_-a mouth-filling slogan, they are so

,wholly committed to it. they bar l 181i so often repeated it and relied

But the old deceptions are ignored no longer even denied. New webs are woven to replace the old, uelv fictions, to deceive the credulous. new and incredible exaggerations are set no and twentyiof the Dc- ceivers of three years ago rise one after another In the House to af- firm that they are gospel truth. And again we hear the polite invit- ation of‘ the spider to the fly! School fictions, road fabrications, debt. and deficit. thlmlllc rigs, and 1111111885 0f Richmond Buy mud take the place of the economy, rc- trcnchlneut and reduced taxes pro- nlislell iii 1919.

What ll it all but shoddy from the same old fiction mill? It will 1101- bunt‘ inspection. it will not wear. It is only stitched together and dyed In Liberal colors to allure and again deceive good party men. Like the reckless political game- Bterl who spun and wove. dyed and labelled the rotten fabric and who pretend It is all wool, It is but

serve the desperate political needs of the hour. The stubborn llo m‘ 1919 needs new deception to gloss it over and bolter it up! ft was ever thus with those who practice to deceive.

I

I The Public Forum

‘Ills enlnnn In opg‘p;p Q.

The Hog Resolution

~Slr,——l notice an article in the Patriot of Monday last signed by "Voter" dealing with the resolu- tion HOW before the ‘Legislative with reference to the Tariff on American pork products, etc. “\'oter“ takes exception to the statement that we require a high er duty on these meats. and citesa long list. of different articles show- ing the duties on sanle. and accord- ing to his judgment the present duties should be sufficient protec- tion to ollr farmers. Would like .\lr. “Voter” to ex plain how a 2 cent duty on pork i: going to keep out American pro- ducts when live hogs can be bought in the United States from 21/, to 3 cents per pound less than selling price of bogs in Canada. Also does lie consider" it is a fair deal to ask our farlmers to pay 8 cents per doz. duty on eggs going from here to the American market which is the present U. 1S. tariff ‘W116i! the Un- ited States producer can ship intc Canada by paying a duty of only 3 cents per dozen. “Will Ml‘. “Voter" say this is fair to lCanadian pro fl-ucers? die also states we are fur tlier protected by the Dulnping (Yllluse Art, but would ask him to l-xplllin how slitiil an Act is golns to help nu1- producers when goods are sold at mitrkr-l vzlluo in illc .-\|Ilt_‘f‘ll'flll lllitFkPi. W4- arr also ‘asked l0 tukc liute. 0i‘ the differ- nnl-l- in price-s paid for American zlud (‘uuadizlil bacon WiliCil curtain- ly doles not help millions. Iloes lie think zllly (‘lined-lain dealer would go lo the trouble of importing lll~ o L‘; l :ld:l American bacon paying duty charge: lo szly nothing ofthe cost of handling and additional freight charges: for the sake of ex

business? it i: iinrllly fair to quote lowcsl ‘i/‘éilllltiillll 111mm when giv-

uricau as there is only a very lim- ited qilllutity oi‘ Canadian bzlcon that classes ireunest.

Mr. “\'utl>r" states that Greal Britain imported in the year 1919 from ‘Cfllliillil bacon to the amount of n-ElleLv-blvo million dollars, but forgets to mention what percent- llge of this was U. S. product. H!‘ tnkes the most favorable years.

ing our exporls from ‘Canada to the lluited Stilts-s: besides, we think rliiantilies named by him "are .1 Héiiliilg. lln the year 1918 our lotul export of bacon, hams, shoul- ders-and sides was valued zit. less than one quar e1- of a) mil-lion dol- lars, a very menu showing inteel

,\vllcn one considers lnrge quanti-

ties o.‘ such goods we have for ex- port. lln 1019 the most fnvor-rlblr.» year the amount Wits less than u

States. Farmers ilo not take kind- ly to advice from such persons as Mr. “Voter," who would like, no doubt, to pose as an “expert" in matters pertaining to agricultural interests. etc. ~l am, lsilz. etc.. PETER BRODIE.

l Way Out I

Sin-One cannot. but. recognize tho zlbility and earnest. spirit. be- hind Dr. Drunimonllh suggestion as a way ollt. its funllllmcnlal wveukness is found in his own \Vl)l‘lif~‘ on Page 2: "in my thought. flu- unlls would retzllu their idl-ullly .inl‘~ autonomy." iArwcol-dilig to this there is to llc lln union ut all. This is nothing more than f'O'Op‘f‘l"illl1lll. with a more elaborate inutrliino and .1 new home.

lFlrsL-‘l iilll sensitive about the honor 0i‘ thc lPrrslhyll-rliln Church. She lltls DiPligfN] llersl-li‘ again llnd aguln to ljllillllv—lllll. only the As- scnlbly, but the Presbyteries ziuli the 111101110. (HI lilo basis of illllt pledge the other ill-llonlillzlt-inlls have miulc large slu-riflcus‘ and changed llicir policy to int-ct lhl- new (‘Ontiiliolls which Ullioli would bring in. pl-oplc llflVi‘ tuluell our (Yliurt-ll lit her word illlll given up lllclr tic,- Ilflmifllllillllili identity. believing that their (!illll‘('il would follow them. We cullllnt lwtrlly their trust. it would hi} giving 1i stone to lllosi- who lvorc promised llrl-litl. in ille ‘British ilnuse of (Yrlmmilns.

Christians Again Forced to Flee From Turkey

CONSTANTINOPDE. April 18--

other on enrlll, illly motion may-be reconsidered except where action lhns been taken on it, and then 1t

lbzrlnn Church is not. now pledged to Union. no Church pledged to anything by the action of its authorities and by a policy built on that action. -

wllllrl- n system of‘ fairness has been dr-velopvd superior to nny

nnliot be reconsidered at all. This ule Ihinds us now. ‘if the Presby- (‘an

ever he

porting it to Great Britain to be sold there as Aulcricilu bacon Don't you lhiul: this. would be pour .

‘n5: tl-e zlvcrzige priz-o paid for Am- =

unmeLv 1919 and 1.920. for compilr-inf that parentage can live. He con-

Tllnusnutls of olir own .

a. more general desire for political honesty. Whether because of the trickery of the pres-

"/1"

Chrisvans are fleeing from Alex- nnlirl-lill owing to strained r913. ‘tlnns between France and Turkey, according to officfial fnfiOfl-g from the Anatolian News Agency.

Five hundred Armenian lamlFea, “"9 0119M? departed and an out-

agreements, including that of lilrl

Sill-es against which Fraglca _ test-w‘. to-ffsrksy, __

‘i

t lkl ih th Chester oncevsion of the Unwed "Tlreseng an e number awn‘

pro-ullderst have ‘h d zbllck out

‘S8C0ild.'—Tlll! scheme does not

o-ltbo opposition of their brethren, but now their convictions demand the state of aflslrs

action, ant! 1111-0115110“; the country force it.

OI iv oon-eonnnlnnu . . d 131-

0f uentloln cl no“, D0 11110 11111011 am-way’ an a t: ‘ l“. a greater schism will result than can "Gino m possibly follow action by Union- » It: oer iats. ‘Compromise now means

playing 1mm tire.

Third.-—'i‘hls scheme Provide! 11°

relief (or the difficulties of co-oper- ating charges. lln thousands of congregations members of different denominations lire trout)?“ 11111191‘ one leader. Economic difficulty ls thereby setlled, but other diffi- culties often arise. Presbyleriflhfl are tillisriOllfiilililf, they are still Presbytcrians. biethodists that they are slill .\i9lil0fll$ll§. Tlierc cannot be. the authority in leadership and the unity of spirit. and aim that there would be, if the parent Jhurkllefi were united. A minister of one dt-llonliualioil cannot have the 111111-1-111 the hearts of the mem- bers of other dcuuulinations that 'le has in his 0wn~at ‘least, it is nuch harder to gain. Let Union -ome with the enthusiasm itwould generate for llie United Church oi‘ Canada. null these difficulties would be fused iil the dire of a now zeal for the rausc.

-Fourtli.—~This scheme does not recognize tllzlt co-Ollemm)" h” readied ils llm-it. it has donelmnch l“ new“ Canada, but there are still hundreds of Win15 l" older Canada where wilsteful rivalry D9?‘ sists between these denomlnatioils. who hold the same faith, and, while 11911 111111 money are being poured in there, vast districtsin the North 1,111 \\'.,=1 g0 without relif£101l3 01" i-ilialil-lls. The writer illlrl just hull l 1011p,- 11-11111 11 lPres-liytcry which 111111 Ififltl to bring a number ufcon- gregitliulls iiilo the. $215191" 0T ‘f0’ iperiltiou. ln instance ltfter‘ in- stnniw- the rcply has been given that Ilicy will wzlit until uftcr the Xsss-rnlliy null if the Assembly 11P- ilil-d on l'uioll, they will open no- goliatiolw with the other denoui- inublou-z lvilll ii view to co-opcra- tion. pointing Union, hilt with Uni- in us the i-nndition. The members n‘ our churches here will not be lrlvt-li into unions into which the Thur-ii ill~l"S“if refuses to go, The

c ~ to SOIVF these locnl pro- for the Church as awhoie '0 do \\".l:1I_ lilo cluiiunill. needs of die ('i)llllll‘\' tiQmflilli“-—l0l‘lll one llll-

ted 1m. i/iivill CililTCil to meet 11113 pvfljllvb religious needs. _ 'F‘iftll. — Apart altogether from

these practical leonsitierations, Dr. ‘)ruliinlnull's own reasons for the propnsills are self-destructive. The scheme is ably wrouglit out. but it is simply‘ ll desperate effort to "V3119 lln ssun. it is born of iczlr is lie himself stzltes in the closc- lf his l‘l‘l‘I.'lll letter, and no child

lures up n picture of lgreai. num- bers of l‘rl-.=ily'terians leaving the CilllTCil of their fathers if Union goes through. ‘ll can sec no grounds for sill-ll fears. Some will go. But ~nnny who now oppose will stay with lll-ir Church.- One of the xtron ‘Si opponent of Church Un- ion in 'l‘ornnto Presbytery said. wine time ago". “l do not like this! Union, but if my Church goes intoi

in these last fateful years knows that no greater mistakes could be lnade than to assume that human nature has no higher capacity than ippears on the surface. Call men and women to a great ideal. and they will respond. ‘There 11s the noblest ideal behind this Union movement. it is nothing less than to do ollr part to restore the dis- membered lmdy oi Christ. It ls the (l9i3lf8 to give the Christianity of this new nation it form that will l-xpress adequately its o\vn nature "1111 ‘bring lvftether under one name and for one end people who belong to one another in spirit. There is lln llililllblii)‘ in the ‘wily 111' 1111,- n11. lei-prise wlllcll cuttragc and faith 1111111111. cast luto the sen.