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TUESDAY, AUGUST 4. 1931 . _.-_--—— , ' bll Works has A Sorry Rvovfd the Mmmm o! P“ c in svel- expended extravasantly 81'

11m; m, 14o miles of road which he claims was gravelled under this policy.

"lnsteadof buvlns so 11111011 1°00 machinery, if the Minister of Pub- 11¢ works expended some money in a motor truck and steam shovel he might be able to spread this S11v0! at least forty or fifty miles from the

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I "We certainly have imilfllved’ the Prohibition law; there is 110 question about that."-—I-ion. Hor- ace wright in the Budget debate. Patriot. May 4. I931. 1 Here ls the manner in which the us-Memtvre-wrieht regret-lam" hgvg "improved" the Prohibition law and fulfilled their solemn

to enforce ull laws, includlfll 1110 Prohibition Act, and who has nev- er yet made a promise to the peo- ple which ho has not fulfilled to the letter!

' of those who were able to stagger

plgdggg m the temperance 1100010. us shown by the transactions in the City Police Court before Stipcndiary usgistrato yaterday 111011111181

Drunk and incapable. s10 or 20 days.

Drunk and incapable. $10 or 20 days.

Drunk and incaipable. $5 or 10

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Drunk and incapable. $20 or 30 days.

Drunk and incapable- estreated.

Drunk and incapable. posts or 10 days.

Drunk and incapable- Qstreated. ,

Drunk and incapable. bstreated.

Drunk and disorderly. costs or 30 days.

Drunk and incapable. costs or 20 days

Drunk and incapable. costs or 20 days-

$6 bail $5 and $6 bail $6 bail $20 and $10 and $10 and

Eleven “drunk and incapablcs" bver the week-end, and no record

home under their own power! This b the "improvement" to which Lea. Government members sanctimon- lously refer; this is the “record of performance" upon which they are appealing for re-eiectlonl

Their Only Policy

The only intimation of any policy which the Lea-McIntyre Govern- ment has given is that, if elected, it will continue to build extravagant hard-surfaced highways on borrow- ed money, regardless of whether those highways, without proper con- crete foundation, will stund up to the severe weather conditions in zhis Province. The MacIntyre highway cost $27,000 a mile. To pave the main highways of the Province at the same rate would cost between five and six million dollars. Mr. Mc- Intyre contends the work can be done cheaper, but his “experlments" show that such work tends to go to pieces, even in midsummer" and will be in constant need of repair. He has already stated in the Legislat- ure his opinion that the farmers should pay more taxes for road worlnnthat we should "broaden out." and increase our per caplta. debt in

order to furnish him with more

revenue in order to compete in ex- penditure with other and wealthier provinces.

The manner in which money has been wasted on the Lea-McIntyre road gravelllng policy during the past three years will give our tax- payers some idea of what they may GXPBct from an administration that ls now appealing on its "record of performance." In this conncc.

system. That is where he has fallen

pit. With the proper machinery for i distributing it he could gravel double the amount of roads will? that he is doing‘ under the present

down. There has not been any at- tempt to develop the gravel re- sources’ of this Province, and the money expended on the gravelled roads has gone out of the Province when it might just as well have gone to our farmers and laborers.’

This is in direct line with the Conservative policy as announced by the Hon. J. D. Stewart, and it will be for the electors to decide whether they want this policy or a continuation of the extravagance incurred by the present administra- tion which has put thousands of dollars into the pockets of Liberal political heelers at the expense of our farmers and taxpayers gener- ally.

A Good Suggestion

A correspondent in Saturday's Patriot suggests that the Mayor and Town Council of Summerslde should clean up the prohibition en- forcement mess in that town. "Have them start," he writes "from book's Corner on Central Street and continue down to Strong's Corner and keep on going cast on Water Street, and how many cars are to be seen parked there day and night with bootleg- gers looking for a victim to whom they may sell their poison, and how many more are hovering around in the alleyways selling rum?" v

What a picture of conditions ex- isting today in the constituency which elected the Hon. Dr. Mac- Neill andMr. L. R. Allen on the specific assurance of securing "the great boon of a banished liquor traffic”! ‘Ihese gentlemen in the last election campaign assumed full responsibility for prohibition en- Iorcement. They were confident that Prohibition could be enforced with the assistance of the Royal Mounted Police, with gunboats and cruisers in the harbor and squads of prohibition officers co-operating with the Customs officials, they were going to make ‘it harder for a smuggler to land his rum than for a camel to pass through a needles eye! Justice was not to be "too much tempered with mercy." Rum runners, bootleggers, and mak-

tion one may again quote the remarks of Mr. Sharp, delivered during the course of his speech oii the Budget.

"The Minister of Public Works," E‘. Sharp said, “neglected the fact that we have in this Province a large deposit of gravel that 1s cqziai- ly as good as. lf not better than, this gravel that is imported from Nova Bcotla; that it can be loaded Ind distributed at different points st a cost which would be less than half of the cost of the Nova Scotia gravel. The money that has been paid out for Nova Scotla gravel could therefore have been spent more profitably in the Province, and lt would have given employment to our own people.

"I had a cclnversatlon with a gen- 110111011 Who had secured a contract from the Provincial Government late last fall, and he claimed that he

crs and sellers of moonshine were to be "put out of business." All tlicsc things, according to the Pat- riot, would have to be done if the Liberal candidates "remained true to their pledges and true to their affiliations with the Temperance Alliance.”

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THE CHARLUPTETQYIE GUARDIAN?“ .

ISJTES BY IilE WAY

Samuel Taylor Coleridge started out as s poet. I-le became a preacher. As an exponent of tho philosophical schools he will be remembered when his poetry is forgotten, if ever that time arrives. The last twenty years of his life he specially devoted to the ven- tilstion of theological - subjects. Whether we think of him as poet, prose writer, philosopher or coiiver- sationalist, he was undoubtedly a great man to whom the" tcmrgen- {us may be confidently applied. Con- sidered as s. talker, Coleridge was voted by those who knew him to be without a peer. Says De Quinccy: “He spun dsllyfrom the loom of his own magical brain. theories more gorgeous far, and supported by a luxury of images such as no Ger- man that ever breathed could emu- late in his dreams."

Lea Organ Discreditetl

Apropos of our oontemporaryis bitter attack upon Mr. W. Mel... Clark, Secretary of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, for his op- timistic message to the Charlotte- town Board of Trade regarding the evidences of omic revival under the Bennett Government, the fol- lowing headlines from o recent issue of the Moncton ‘rranscript (Liberal) are not without interest: “Conditions in Canada Much Bet- ter Than ln Other Nations of the World, is Indication," “Country Will Be Among First to Recover from Depression Caused by World Condi- tions, is Belief."

The article thus featured in the Transcript ls by Mr. F. C. Mears, n Liberal newspaper correspondent at Ottawa. Writing of the Bennett Government's plans for unempl-y- ment and farm relief in the coining fall and winter months, Mr. Meats says in part:

"It is likely to be a hard winter in Canada but some solace can be extracted from the prospect that whatever conditions are here they will be worse In most of the lead- ing nations of the world.

"There are at present about 20,.- 000,000 people out of work in Ger- many. or one-third of the popula- tion. In France, while unemploy- ment and .economlc distress has not up to now been severely felt. it is expected that this winter will produce a serious situation. In Great Britain about 3,000,000 are actually out of work, though there are many more on part time. In the United States it is conserva- tively estimated that at present 6,000,000 are actually unemployed, while there ls another 6,000,000 on part time, or 12,000,000 in serious circumstances, and if one multi- plies thls by four there will be an approximation of the number, in- includng dependents, who are in needy condition, or about 45,000.- 000 people, not far from one-half of the population of that great, industrial and usually wealthy na-

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“It will be seen that, after a glance over the world situation, Canada is, after all, one of the best ofl, and what is also a cer- tainty, this Dominion wlll be one of the first to show signs of recov- ery from the present universal slump."

It ls only the disgruntled antl- Bennett organ in this Province, whose propaganda is discredited from every reliable source in Can- ada, that contlnues to croak and grumble about the federal situation, while at the same time it Sllppfgs- ses every item of news reflecting upon the scandalous maladminlstra. tion of its own party, provincial and federal.

The provincial Liberal candidates, after their defeat at the coming election should hold a post moi-tom on tho oampolsn methods of their party press.

The effects of ‘ industrial and fl n a n c iai depression are varied and curious. The report of the New York Savings Bank Assoc- iation states that there was a gain of more than $500,000,000 in de- posits during the year ended June 30, 193i. The total sum due deposit- ors, including interest credits, was $5,160,391,003 on July 1, 1931, a gain of‘$594,'227,300 or 13 per cent. over the figure for a year ago, which was 84560164503. This represents an increase more than double that re- corded for any previous year.

Canadian motorists and visiting United States motor tourists travel- led over $000,000,000 miles of high- ways in Canada last year, used ap- proximately 500,000,000 gallons oi’ gasoline and paid a direct revenue to the provincial governments in the form of gas tax, auto and driv- ers licenses, aggregating nearly $43,- 000,000.

The Toronto Globe says It is no use attempting to deny the fact that the Beauhamois revelations have discredited the Liberal party. This,

statement coming from the most influential Liberal paper in Can- ada. But the fact is that these start- ling disclosures have thus far dis- credited only the leaders of the Liberal party. The test of Canadian Liberalism at the moment is how it will deal with the men responsible for the worst scandal that has ever come to the political life of this Dominion- It will only be discred- ited by the Beauharnols plracies If it falls to meet the test honorably and courageously. Both Mr..King and Mr. Taschereau have complete- ly forfeited the confidence of the Canadian people.

Loan or no loan, Newfoundland has to face the fact that drastic curtailment of the cost of its ad- ministration and of several public services has to take place, says a Newfoundland exchange.

The cutting down of expenses will be severely felt by everyone. It will mean being deprived of facil- ities that we have learned to accept as a matter of course. It is either that, or being compelled to find. ad- ditional revenue in order to pay for them. and the alternatve would mean additional taxation.

One of life's incongmltieg [3 "m; so many who are young long to be 01d that they may enjoy the fruits 01' Dower and place, fruits that 1n the thought of youth are associated with age, while so many who are old look back ruefully with futile Y00Y111118 to be young again.

Not all human beings reach aftergphantoms. There are some at 01/017 age who are too much con. cerried with the realities of life. too 11111011 engrossed in zeal to do, to W551‘? "101? days and dull their on- "8100 111 impatience or in lamenta- tlon. One such is Thomas A. Edison,

Its what is ahead that interests me, not the past," he says. And that, W0 may believe, has been the thought o! Mr. Edison all his life. The useful man is ever looking 0110041. not in terms of years but in

Champion 0f Whom?

For the past week Mr. A. E. Mac. Loan. Liberal M. P., for Prince 301111111. has been stumping his 00n- stituency in the ixlterests of the Lea Government candidates. He left Ottawa during the busiest part o: the Parliamentary session, neglect- ins the duties for which he is paid by the taxpayers, to come to the rescue of his political friends. His 00°01! flfsuments have been abuse and criticism of the Bennett Gov- ernment. He has been challenged to explain his attitude on the Beau- 1101110“ soondol. and has refused m do so. At one political meeting he

And now, after four years, the same Liberal candidates-one of them in the Government, the oth- or in close touch with the Govern- nient-have made such a show. ins that a, Liberal corres- pondent in the Patriot news- Drmor suggests that to insure $01110 moo-sure of competent law enforcement their election ob- ligations should be taken over by tho Mayor and Town Council of Summersicle.

‘Ibo suggestion of the Patriot 001T05l1ondent is certainly a, ‘good

one. Mayor Lidstone and Council- lor MacNeill should be given tho

W" 10111118 down Island gravel with- 0I>l101111111ty of cleaning up the 1,11,. in a radius of seven miles of the pit Brill prohibition enforcement mess

for $1.50

a ton. compare this with in Summersidel All that is neces-

the cost of Nova Scatia gravel, $2.65 sary ls to vote out the present in. l ton, plus 31-00 or $2.00 for moving cilmpetenis and elect Messrs. Lid- 10 $110 Point on the road where it stone and MacNelll to the Legis- Wll 11000911. and you will have some lature under the leadership of the l“ of 11v wont or money that Hon. .1. n. Stewart who u pledged

forms of accomplishment. And 1; he be o erect man the day will never oome. While he has health and strength. when he will C8359 to 100k ahead.

sneeringly remarked that the "Tor. ies" were "sore" because they did not secure as much 3mg; 1mm Heauharnois as the Libei-sipq barefaced r“ tatement, since Pro. mier Bennett refused to touch any Beauhsmois money for campaign purposes-

._________ Editorial Notes

_-_-__ Offlolob or the mu. Free Sink announced last week ‘that during the first six months of this year 0111? 476 citizens of that country came to us while 1,080 persons in the United States returned to the "suld sod." The explanation of this extraord- inary situation is that the Freg 32'5"‘ cabinet 700011111’ announced

m 1‘ ""9 111110 unemployment in the Iimerald Isle.

, A "m" 1" "10 ollen Gateway" 111111111 port publication says u“: 1" 1-110 11180001‘ of revenue freight con-led by Canadian railways din. 1118 the calendar year 1030 the Mari. “"10 Pwvlnoos more than held their 0W11._'I‘he Province of Prince Edward Island established a new record for s11 time, with 393,393 w“, m w” l‘ 08111181 165.001 tons in mo: 138,231 tons in 1m and 99,413 m“ 101901-0111 other mvuioe in up i i .

'I'he Lea Government press is still frantically appealing to the “m. ers to vote "in their own interests." T1118 1s precisely what they will do "11011 they vote out a. Government led by a Premier who ls autumn. lstlc to the Federal Consgrvgtlvg Govemment, who repudiate; the Bsrlcultursl planks in his own plat. 10"" 0f 1937. and who has neither platform nor P011111! for the future except further borrowings and fur- 01101‘ mortsosine o! the farms and 01mm: of the Province.

says the Sydney Post, is a broad

“uv THE VALLEY or HUMILIA r10 i’.

(The Ottawa, Journal)

Mr. Mcckemlo King's three-hour speech on the Iicauliarnoia rov- elaiions and his own and his party's connection with them, was Ill ggflgm-dlngry, In some ways Ill amazing performance. For more than ‘w, hum, h, hung u; pfoyg justification for bis C...“ ment in Irantlnl u» n I‘ .- “ "c". ” "11 I 111°- ceulon of documents and data In support of that administrative act. All of this was unnecessary, irrelevant. The report of tho-Beauharn- oln Commit‘ did not olullenle, and the country 1s not ohnllenflnfl» uierlebieiautwem ~" lly “lathe” ‘ ‘ r- ‘ On the contrary, there Is and always liu been belief that tho Beau- hsg-nnls projct, from an engineering and industrial standpoint, will 81111 ls a great one, and that this aspect of the case should be clearly sep- arated from the financial and political posltlou- which subsequently developed, and which alone brought about flue existing trouble. Mr

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Guy country expected from him, and all that it expected from him. W110 an honest statement or explanation of when he stood with respect to uiu IIIMIOS um bu party Ind taken $700,000 as n, oamplllll 111ml from promoters to whom he had granted large public concessions, and who, in the knowledge of everybody, were in a position where they must return to him for further concessions. That was all.

Putting the position more specifically, what Parliament and the country expected from Mr. King was an answer to those queaiiciiri:

1. Whether he realised the gravlt, of the Implications of his party taking $100,000 from _. , and his ‘ ‘ , the ' ‘L. circumstances ‘l’

z. waemei- he asked or authorized senators Raymond and 1111111111 to go to Mr. Sweeney or Boauharnols and solicit this campadlll fund? .-

3. Whether, in the event of his having given no such authorization, he was aware of the true state of affairs‘!

4. Whether, In the event of his not being aware of what was trans- piring, he could iustlfy such extraordinary and dangerous 18- uorance on his part, and how?

5, whether he approved, or didn't approve, of the conduct of his high political and , onal friends, and members of his Gen-

mlttee, and as stated in the committee's report?

What does Mr. Kin: reply? To the first and main question. the quesii as to whether he authorized or knew about the BR1111011101- contrlbutlons, his answer is that he didn't know. He, didn't know thfll Beauharnols was putting up money for him, dldnt know who was putting it up- He never tried to find out. ~'

It may be that Canada will believe Mr- KIng. It may be that It will believe that, In a general election, he didn't know that his port)’ had received the enormous sum of $700,000 from a single source. B11!» we doubt it. We doubt whether tho public is In such a state of inno- cence, or so free from cynicism, that It will admit tho 1105811111157 of the isience ~of such an extraordinary position. But, taking Mr. King at his word, accepting his statement one hundred percent. In what position does It place him?

Mr, K1118 says that he could not know, that he was not in a 110' sltion to know, that, In fact, he lacked the time to know, who was contributing u. as party. What u the implication or that? The 1m- plicstion Is this: that Mr. King says In effect: “I D0 NOT NEED TO KNOW OR, CARE WHOSE MONEY OR WHAT SORT 0F MONEY IT IS THAT PUTS ME IN PUBLIC OFFICE. - IT MAY BE THE MONEY OF THE BOOTLEGGER; IT MAY BE THE TAINTED DOL- LARS OF THE RACKETEER, OR 0F THE TIIIEF, 0R, 0F THOSE WHOHIAKE TOLL FROM PROSTITUTION; IT MAY BE THE MONEY 0F A LAW-BREAKER OR OI" THE TAX EVADERé-NO MATTER! S0 LONG AS I DO NOT KNOW, NOR TROUBLE TO FIND OUT. OR GIVE WORRY TO THE MATTER AT ALL, THERE IS N0 WRONG. IT IS NOT THE MEANS TO TIIE END, BUT ONLY THE END ITSELF THAT COUNTS. ONLY POWER." f ' ’

There ls something more. Mr. King says that for him the find- ings of the Beauharnul. Committee make sad reading. He says that he Is r lly wounded, that his party has been 11117118111 "00 1'1" valley of humiliation." Let us put to him this further 011051-1011! IF HIS PARTY HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO THE "VALLEY 0F HU- MILIATION” BECAUSE us: nu) NOT KNOW. AND IF, AS 11E STATES, HE IS GOING T0 PERSIST IN NOT KNOWING, GUARANTEE DOES HE POSSESS THAT IT WILL NUT B1‘- BROUGIIT T0 THE VALLEY 0F IIUMILIATION AGAIN? ‘ ' '

make It Impossible to take seriously the apologla which Mr. K1118 gave to Parliament on Thursday night.

Further: Mr- King Is aware of the disclosures that were 11111110 before the Royal Commission on the Customs scandal, Aware of the revelatlom there that between 1921 and 1926 corrupt liquor and boot- legging Interests 1n this country possessed what Mr- Rowe". the Gom- mlssion counsel, characterized as a "rat fund," contributed large sums to the coffers of the Liberal party. KNOWING THESE THINGS. DID MR. KING NOT CONCEIVE IT TO BE HIS DUTY T0 SEE T0 IT THAT 1N THE ELECTION OF LAST YEAR SUCH THINGS WERE NOT BEING VDUPLICATED? DOES HE ARGUE THAT THIS WAS NOT HIS DUTY? TIIAT HE HAD N0 RESPONSIBILITY IN THE MATTER? THAT HE DIDN'T NEED TO CARE?