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. _These men will not find much satis
   i, faction in Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s plea
° hat the majority is not arge,
an
_'single vote elected a representvwive.
A' Sucha majority has even turned_
 electors voting at a Scott Act election
' -not a majority, or any certain per--
“'__, oentags of the entire electorate, but
..V`_ a simple majcritv of those who chose
1 one, ten, or a thousand votes, said to
" f bring into force or repeal the act-, that
4 business. Such have been the Cana-
other days in regard to liquor legisla- _ '
tion. power, but majorities may not always 3 
There had been plebiscites and ple- be defied or reouifed with impunity. 'I ' _ _ '
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GUARDIAN.ci~iAu.r.fi1-1;i:'i~iiwN. MARCH is isiis. ` `
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o /_-_ ‘f  > _-. ___ _ .ii-<< _ » ,  _ __ , ._ _
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 1 1 1
- _ _i ' ~‘ .V V ~ i When Kipling was n lleportor
b ‘~ It is not kind to the San Francisco
I I ` h ' d h' C rtin "pf
Moxnav. Min in is. isai.
I N0 PROHIBI TION !
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Saturday’s Gi.'.iiini_iN that was read gthat the majority was not as large aS
yith deep surprise and sorrow by thou-i we had wished for. \Vould it not
sands througli-_int Prince Llward ls- lhave been better for Sir \Vilfrii'l to
land. We refer to the stateiiieiit in  have told us in ailvaiice of the vote ot
our Ostawa dcspatcli that Sir Wilfrid ‘_ 23th Septeni‘oei°,that lie would require
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ff ~ _day stiiry” cnilie man chiefly involved
' in the frauds, :ind who had not yet bee
“_ ` ' ° ' ' I A  ‘Mg
lebis ` _ ' _ _ _ 'I _ tr'
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Q . . .V . '. ' . V o V `as
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Laurier had iiit'oi~nied the Dominion io,
' assuflicient to warrant the in-l
parliament. ‘y t
peoplg had been  to hope for some-
. alections a majority, however small,
D
- enough!
Let us give the Premier credit for
V _ the l`i'ii.nl;:iess ivizli wiiicli lie li is smit-
ed lhathe will not give us the law
liich the majority of the plehiscite
There was one announcement ~_ in voters claim as a right. Let us admit
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majority of fifty thousand, or n vot
Alliance tlirit the government do _~ of half the total electorate, as a con-
not regard the majority' in the plebis- ._ dition precedent to passing an act 2
mee - ` e did not do this, but he di'l assure
.frndiieiiofi of a pi-ohibitory bill in us from time to time that the will of
l he people as expressed in the p _- ` -
Be ond question the temperancelcite would be carried out.
Where in all Canadian history, er
thing different and better than £1118 in that of any other country possess-
cold and curt denial of their wishes. _ing free iepresentative institutions,
oi-is Sir Wilfred find his precedent
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All their political education from the d ' ' ' _
-ieginning had been along tho lille Of for sa jf ing that an electoral majority ` ' _
majority rule. In parlialnenffory iof 13,000 is not sufficient to justify ' _
' ' ' the passing of a law 'l Where in all Q
had always been decisive. In thehistory does he lind a precedent for
' ssuming that a government ought
legislatures and in the parliament it _
Owin to the increased demand for our
a ' U
had been the same. A majority of a lrather to obey the minority than the _ 
majority i By what prooo-so of rooooo~ Hats. we have equipped ourselves accordingly,
A majority of one _member in the ing does he assume that the fewer and have prepared an asqortment that will c0m_
h°“S° defeated “ '”i“‘S°"7 ‘nd “pany '”.“mbe” i”°1“d‘”f"i the i”t°'e"“'ed diS` ma-nd the attention of everv buyer in this city
tillers, brewers, liquor sellers and their
about the entire policy Offbo C0911- 3 customers, ought to have more weight S \-\p"'t0".date in 
try. In our civic and municipal sys- _ with the government and pai liament
tems the rule Was the Same- In Olll' 3* of the country than the larger num- _ And SUp€l'l0l‘ in Qlliflity.
ggciotieo, in public meetings, in all the ljber of sober, disinterested citizens 'l V
multifarious concerns of life in which 1_ We ask these questions now, because
any division of opinion is subjected l, they are questions of vital moment
' to the test of a vote, the one almostl
lilvarying rule has been f-hilt U18 Will answered-if public opinion is to be
treated with respect.
It will perhaps be said by the poli-
onr most advanced temperance legis- ticians and others that public senti-
‘ S lation, the Scott Act, had given us an
t illustration of the same principle in strong enough to give promise of an
3 the matter of dealing with the liquor
_ question. In that act they had crys-
f *tallized into law the principle of ma-
 of the majority must prevail.
» The Liberal party, which gave us
jority rule. If the majority of the -
i to vote-if such a majority, be it of
majority was all powerful to change
the system of dealing with the liquor
dian precedents, political, civic, muni-
and interest, questions that must be
ment in favor of I prohibition is not
effective enforcement of a prohibitory
law. The argument is rather stale,
but it admits of a ready answer. In
fact the people have already answered
it in a manner precisely the opposite
to the conclusion that the government
,have reached. And when the govern-
ment referred the question to the
people to answer, the majority in their
answer assumed the responsibility for
the results, if their wishes were carried
No doubt we are done with plebis-
cites ont-e and forever. But the ov-
Wlrli
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SEE OUR' SPECIAL VALUES.
Hard and Soft Felt Hats at T50. each. Fine
Fur Felt Hats, for young men, neat stylish
shapes. all colors, at $1.50 each. _ Better quali-
ties at $1.75, $2.00 and $2.25. And the best
Hats in the trade for $2.50 each, equal to any
$3.00 or $3.50' Hats. Neat small shapes for
youths and large full shapes for big men. '
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 ..... ..  g... JAMES PATUN & C0.
eipal and social; such was the pre- yet done with prohibition. The i -
eedent set by the Liberal party in majority may be held at bay for a_  
time by those temporarily holding
editor w o rejects i e ou g
Dinah Shadd io recall that he based his
refusal on the ground that the siwv was
‘scarcely equal to the standard of merit
demanded dy _the magazine” Those
weie the days when Kipling, was a
stiuirgling reporter. and in this connec
tion there is ricalled the story of Ki
ling’s third a-d last assignment toa
news story A bu insurance fraud ha
paper io which Kipling was atiached
liiplinc was assigned to get s “second
arrested Late in the afternoon
Walked into the ofiiee with facts “nmol
eiit to justify a three column sp °
allowance But somehow his own p
l
mio the facts, and he presently drift
writen in the inimitable vein which h
about half a million dollars in damag
operations to another field. Said ih
o
` have genius. You will some day mak
Weekly. . ' V _
Calls il White Manh Burden.
Curzon of Kedleston, the Viceroy. m
to the science of medicine as being
the East. '
He quoted Rudyard Kipliog’s ve
in “Take Up the White Mama Burden
brighten and alleviaiethe lot of wom
of India . _ ‘
| m
been unearthed and exposed by the
n
soriality persisted in obtruding itse f
into a scathing satire on the odender
since made hun famous ’1‘hOcity editor
counted exactly fifteen libel suits and
in ihat story, and next morning Mr.
Kipling was requested to trans'ferhis
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edi or,j|in biddinghim good bye . "Y u
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a great name, though I may not live to
see it. But fate never intended you for
me mechanism of news.” --[l.»eslie's
9'!! SWEET-
V Calcutta, March 9.--At the annual
mieiing of the Dufferin "funds, Lord
L ad
an eloquent and stirringspeech, alluding
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greatest boon the West has given to
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I ending, “and bid sickuem_.ceass,"" an,d
assured his audience that Lady Curzon
was determined to do her utmost _to
e
I Lady Curzon left for Slmla on the 5th inst.
_ at B. ll. lIason’s News
` Stand .
bigoiggg in several provinces, taken At present the prohibitionists are left n BY SUGKUNG co.
under the direction of various Libei al in a position of disappointment and
owerlessncss It will be their own
of the principle of prohibition. _These
votes were ineffective, not because
_the majorities were insufficient- we
were never told that -but because
the question of prohibition was a mat-
ter for the federal parliament and
not for the legislatures to deal with. .N
What was then to be legitimately
hoped and expected when a plebisci-te p
ofthe entire Dominion was solemnly
taken on this subject, taken by direc-
tion of the government of the country
and by the unanimous direction of the
parliament _which has undoubted
power to deal with this matter by
legislation ‘.1
We speak advisedly when we say
that the temperance and prohibition
electors of the country were not satis- _
lied with the manner in which the _
Conservative administration had dealt V,V
with prohibition. Whoo tho Liboroil
party came into power in 1896, they \
did so under a. solemn pledge to sub-;
mi t the question to a vote of the peo- l
ple of Canada. That pledge had been j
effective in carrying into the Liberal 
ranks thousands of Conservative elec-E
tors, whose strongccnvictions on the‘
tions in order to obtain the lega _Bros
suppression of the liquor tratiic.
_ ` _ - _. _ . .OF. . . .
' The Reign of The March King, by May Car
CQNTENTS OF MARCH N-UMBEEI
_ The Liquor Problem in Charlottetown
-or coalition governments, in which P ~ _ t I -If I "'i_FoitLaJoie_
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i The Cats of Charlottetown
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‘ Prince Edward Island Coins, by Edward
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_ C _ A Side Talk With The ‘.‘Sports”
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