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JANUARY 12, 1891. 4

Weak or Strong—Which ? Tux Patriot is troubled about the ** weak position” occupied by THe ing the Scott Act campaign. inte that position. Tae Examiner could not conscientiously

go for a continuance of the Scott Act vio-|

lated ; for “‘alaw not enforced does harm,”—to use the forcible language of the editor of the Presbyterian Witness, “dead laws on the statute book, however good they may be, are a source of danger.”

On the other hand, Tae ExaMINER could not conscientiously go fur license ; for we were not sure that a license law could be obtained, and we were not sure that if cb- tained, it could be subject to the principle ot local option.

In view of these premises, THe Ex- arner determined (1) to have a free and open discussion of the whole matter, from every point of view, and (2) to ask, on the one, hand for guarantees that the Scott Act would, in future, be enforced, and, on the other hand, for information concerning the prospects for license and local option.

Now, we are willing to leave it to any fair-minded man or number of men to say whether or not this was a perfectly reason- able and honorable course to pursue.

More than that, we are willing to leave it to any fairminded man or number of men to judge whether or not Tue EXAMINER'S course was not more more honorable, more consistent than thx pur- sued by either the Patriot or the Cuardian? ’ in favor of the

reasonable,

These papers ** tovk sides’ Scott Act,—although the Patriot had em- phatically eadorsed the Rev. Fred. | Lloyd's declaration that, under the Scott Act, ‘*Drunkennesa, gross, persistent, habitual, is alarmingly prevalent in Char- lottetown,” and though ths @uardian had

declared, after nine years of Scott Act, that ‘“‘there are three hun- dred drinking saloons in Charlotte-

town,” and that ‘there are few cities, we believe, in the Dominion that are so oom- pletely in the hands of the rum element as Charlottetown.” These journals (particular- ly the Guardian) strove, throughout the campaigu, to prove that their own state- ments were false, asked the iurelligent electors of Charlottetown _to follow their Jead, denounced those who declined to fol- low, insinuated that Father McElmeel and the Rev. James Simpson were influenced by motives unworthy af clergymen, and called Tue Examiner “the champion of the rumsellera ’ and a tool. Let the public judge which position was, morally and logically, the strongest,—that of the Patriot and the Guerdian or that of Tue Examt- NEA!

That Tue Examiner's position was, from some points of view, apparently weak, we are ready to admit. A one-sided position is always more easily understood than a posi- tion from which both sides of a question are impartially viewed, and it is not so open to misconception and misrepresentation. Moreover, itis always more difficult to work ‘tall round the whole matter” than it is to work on but one sida. Basides, it is so much the custom to take sides in polities and football matches, that people have be- gun to think that it is the right and manly thing to do, in respect, at least to all quos- tions in which the public are interested. But we have assurances, both verbal and written, that the difliculties and weaknesses of the position were rightly appreaiated by the reasonable men of this Province. After all, it is not so much the position he holds as the way he behaves himself in it, which reflects credit or diseredit upon the editor of a newspaper or any other man!

There is another point in the Patriot's article which is, perhaps, worthy of some attention. The Patriot says :—

‘* While we are not going to justify all the statements of the Guardian, we cannot but regard the mistakes of any journal, committee or person 4% very poor excuse for any news- paper or elector turning agsinst the Scott Act.”

But, suppose a man who hadn't quite made up bis mind,—who was, perhaps, in- elined to vote for the Scott Act, as if any- thing the least of two evils, suppose such aman reading the Guardian's disgusting paragraphs, —who will say that the Guardian was not responsible for the loss of that man’s vote, or that that man bad not a fairly good excuse for staying away {rom the polis or even for voting against the Act! The Patriot should remember that the question wasnot one in which an import- ant principle was involved ; it was simply & question of ways and meansto deal with the liquor traffic.

Ra:tway Statistics —The Railway A says: “During the year 1880 twenty-nine rail- roads in the United States, representing 3,825 miles of road and about $182.500,000 of funded debt and capital stock, were sold under fore closure. Twenty-six railroads, representing nearly 3,000 miles of road and over $100,000,- 0090 of securities, went into the hands of re- ceivers.” The aggregate mileage sold and placed in the hands of receivers about equals the construction of the past year.

An Ixp1an Sacuirice.—Some months ago a young Indian boy strayed away from his home at Beaver Lake, Northwest Territories, and no trace was seen of him until ten days ago, when a skeleton supposed to his, was found standing upright between two trees, It is presumed the poor victim was tied be- tween the trees and left to starve by Indians #2 a aacrifice to bring good Juck in hunting.

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EXAMINER dur: | Let us look |

A Sign of Weakness.

Tur Hox. Donato Ferevson pointed

| out, in a letter addressed to THe ExaMINeER,

\that Unrestricted Reciprocity means, 4¢- | cording to Mr. Laurier, discrimination against Great Britain to the amount of labout $22,000,000 a year. The Patriot thereupon adduced, as a set-off, figures to

|provethat there is, under the National | Policy, discrimination against Great Britain. Mr Ferguson then addressed a letter to the editor of the Patriot, showing that the Patriot's figures were wrong, and that, properly stated, the right figures would give an entirely different result. This let- ter was published by the Patriot, together with an article, To this article Mr. Fer- guson wrote a short reply, couched in the most friendly terms, addressed to the editor of the Patriot. But that reply has not yet appeared in that organ of public opinion. [t appeared in Tue Examiner upwards of a weekago. Why has it not appeared io the Putriot? Perhaps the editor of the Potriot feels that even a one-sided pos- ition is not always without its difliculties —particularly when the position is on the

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The Lymph Does i's Work.

MAGGIE DOYLE GETTING BETTER,

(Boston Herald )

The daily reports given out at the Massa- *chusetts General Hospital are that another and another inoculation is made, that the symptcms are as expected, and that all the patients are improving. S.

So far as this information goes it is satis- factory, but it is exceedingly meagre. ‘-Improving” is a weléome word to rela- tives and friends awaiting in anxious sus- pense, but it throws little light on the case.

What the public want, and especially what the thousands of consumptives, lupus and trvberculosis invalids want, is some in- formation about the stage of the disease afflicting the patients aow under treatment, and what effects they themselves already feel from the inoculations. ‘This informa- tion can now with scme completeness be given.

Of the phthisis or consumption patients, Maggie Doyle was about breathing her last breath ten days ago; now she site up in bed, takes more food, sleeps well, and is so far on the road to recovery that the experi- mental stage may be said to be past, and in two weeks the physicians expect to send her into the country for final recuperation She has had three inoculations, and they will be repeated every two or three days for the present.

A week ago Sunday she was so low that she received the sacrament of extreme unc- tion, the last rite in the Roman Catholic church, administered only when a person is near death. So rapid an improvement is looked upgp alike by the physicians and friends as an impressive testimony to the success of the lymph treatment.

Maggie comes from Prince Edward Islane, is unmarried, and a very sunpy-natured and pretty girl. She has not been well for many months, and about four weeks ago she went to the hospital. When the physi- cians were examining patients for the besck inoculations they found her suitable for treatment, and she was one cf the first chosen.

She says she feels much better and stronger than before the inoculations, She continues to cough, but it is a cough of the favorable kind, for every time comes up matter that has been acted upon by the lymph. To her friends her outward ap- pearance is not altered, but her own feel- ings are very much better, and she herself is now confident of recovery.

Jack Frost on the Move. SEVERE WEATHER IN ENGLAND AND THE CON- TINENT.

Lonpon, Jan. 8.—Suffering is naturally very great, the cold weather being felt throughout the country. The body of a man frozen to death was found on the streets of Preston this morning.

Hamburc, Jan, 6.—The severity of the weather causing much suffering among a number of sailing vessels ice-bound in the lower Elbe. Many are knownto be short of provisions. There is no means of ren- dering assistance.

Paris, Jan. 8.—Bitterly cold weather prevails here, causing much distress among the poorer classes.

Beruin, Jan. 8.—A snowstorm, phen- omenal in its severity, prevails throughout North Germany. Reports from various sections show that the raila are blocked on all the northern lines, and in many in- stances trains are embedded in the snow, causing considerab'e suffering to travelers. An express train from Berlin to Aix la Chappell is snow-bound near Madgeburg. Atrain on the Berlin Central railway 1s stalled in thesnow. On all the railways in Mecklenburgh and Brunswick treffic are more or less impeded by the snow. Lonpow, Jan. 7.—-The new year has not opened auspiciously in London. Twenty- three days of continuous frost, the mercury at times reaching within 5 degrees of zero, has given the population a ixtter concep- tion of rigorous weather than they pre- viously possessed. No such weather has been known in England aince 183), Hares, rabbits, pheasants and wild animals gener- ally are dying by tens of thousands Sea- gulls are seeking shelter in London, hug- ying close to chimney stacks for warmth, but frequently perishing from hunger and exhaustion. Great hummocks of snow- covered ice are fluating down the Thames, and piles of snow inevery thorovghtare outside the main city avenues give London the appearance of an Aretic city. Upper reaches of the Thames river are entirely frozen, and at Windsor and Walton fairs on the ice have been organized. Bullocks and sheep have been roasted, stails have been erected forthe sale of gooda, and numerous ice picnics have been carried out. On the frezen waters of the London parks over 109,000 people disport themselves oa skates daily Te curious feature about this severe winter is that it is confined to Londen and the scuth-oast of England. Beyond one or two sharp bur ts of frost, lreland and Sec: tland have been favored with comparatively mild weather.

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Bravo Canada. FOREIGN APPRECIATION CF WHAT THE CANA- DIAN GOVERNMENT HAS DONS.

(San Francisco Call.)

The Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Occidental and Oriental Company had better leck to their laurels. The three new steamships which the Canadien Pacific Company has built for the Asiatic trade are nearly completed, and will zo to sea, at intervals of a month, in Jaauary, Webruary and March next. They will be magnificent vessels, each 5,700 tons gross, 485 feet long, and 51 feet beam Of course, they do not compare with the mon- ater steamships which ply between Liver- pool and New York. The Teutenic 1s 9,685 tons gross, 582 feet long and {7 fee’ beam. But they surpass the largest Amer- ‘can built vessei salting out of this port, ‘he city of Peking, which is only 5,000 tons gross, 408 feet long, and 47 feet beam. The contract under which they were built requires them to make 19 knote in asmooth sea, which is considerably more — than any captain would get out of the Peking. It is reckoned that they will make the voyage from Vancouver to Yokohama, sailing to the circles of the fourties, in something like 12 days, *:

Under the pressure of competition the steamers which now sail out of this port for Asia will make better time than they do, but they will not strive, as they msy, cross the ecean in as short a number of days end hours a8 the Canadian steamers, which fol- low the shorter sailing circles; and if merchandise and travellers do not take the shorter voyage in preference to the longer, it will be the first instance on record in which they have not done so. The danger that these new steamers will seriously in- terfere with the Asiatic-trade of this port is real aud imminent. The energy with which the Canadians are stretching forth a long arm to grasp that trade is as note- worthy a the supineness with which their efforts are witnessed on this side of the line. Ten years ago it didnot seem pos- sible that British Columbia an 1 its chief city (Victoria) could ever compete with California. and San Francisco for the commerce of the Pacitic ocean. The British culony possessed none of the pre-requisites for foreign trade. It had no surplus pro- ducts to export, and no population that could consume foreign imports, It had no money, no banking facilities, hardly any people, and no connection with the Atlantic coast. But all these drawbacks have been overcome. British Columbia has a railroad which carries passengers and tea as swiftly from the Pacitic coast to New York as they can be conveyed over our own lines — It is gaining population, and great English banks have established agencies and corresponding banks at Victoria Now it is going to have a line of steamers faster and larger than those which sail out of this port. The struggle for traffic is guing to be no child’s

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GEO. CARTER & C@.,

Market Square, Quee'EFtreet.

Monday, February 2nd, and would specially request that all accounts and balances of accounts unpaid for Fall of 1890 be paid before the above men- tioned date, We trust that all concerned will attend to this matter. In most cases the in- dividual amounts are not large, but the total is considerable, and a prompt payment by all will greatly oblige us.

We are now busy preparing for the Spring Seed Buriness, and as we have tco much of some lines of Groceries, and want the money as well as the room they occupy for our Seed Department, we will give extra value in Groceries during the next two months. Call on us for any of the following articles, viz. Flour, Tea, Sugar, Molas- ses, Kerosene Oil; also Bran, Shorts, Oil Cake, Stock Food, Cracked Feed, ete.

GEO. CARTER & C@.,

Grecers and Seedsmen, Market Square, Queen Street,

Ch’town, Jan. 12, 1891—dy law wky

\W E begin Stock Taking on

WRECK SALE.

The Hull and Material of the Wrecked Schooner ‘* BEATRICE,”

Of Halifax, 78 tons, stranded on Hogg Is'and, (®ast End), about two miles north of Mal- peque Harbor, will be sold by Auction, for the benefit of underwriters and ail concerned on

Wednesday, Mth January,

AT 1 O'CLOCK P. M.

intending purchasers had better examine her in the meantime, as the sale will take place in Malpeque, at or near P. McNutt’s

store. BENJ. BEARISTO, Auctioneer. Malpeque Jan 3, 1891—jan5 dwli pio frts,

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The above sale is postponed until further notice, Jan 12, 1891.

MUSIC.

A ISS AMY MOORE will he pleased to receive a few more pups for instruc- tion on the Piano-forte or Cabinet Organ.

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S HEREBY G}VEN that the Annual Gereral Meeting of the Shareholders of” Tue Examiner Lublishing Company will b “4 held at the office of Tue Examiner News 9 per, on WEDNESDAY, the 28:h January, | inst., at the hour of Eight o clock in even ng. W. A. F. SCOTT, Secretary.

DISSOLUTION OF PART cROHP:

: = partnership between the undersigned. — es Barristers and Attorneys, under the’ style of PALMER & McLEOD, having ter tuinated by lapse of time, is dissolved from this date. 2 Dated at Chal tretown,

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Barrister and Attorney-at-Law,

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