EE TS TE He RT erat “Te pai ott tM THR DAILY BXAMINER, CMARLOTTETOWN, MARCH 40, 900. VITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY.” —_——- The best proof that MINARD’S LINIMENT has extraordinary merits, and is in good repute with the publie, is, that iT I6 EXTENSIVBLY IMITAT- BED. The imitations resemble the genuine orticle im appearanee only. They lack the generai excellence ef yenuine is metice is necessary, as injurieus and di rous imitations, ealled Warts LIni- M r, &e., liable to produce chronic in fum- ef the skin, are often smetituted for \RD’ LINIMENT by Dealers, beeause y a larger prefit. Ti 7 all Sell on the Merits and Ldvertising of MINARD’S. v) partiewlar elaiming to be made by a proprietor ef MINARB'S LINIMENT, W simply is a lie. ty ach TNARD'S LINIMENT C. 0. RICHARDS & CO., Yarmouth, N. 5.. CT you . vest S eo In a pair of those Ladies or Mens Boots —that we show ‘a cur window this week - > ye fa. 4 % ‘= —you will be sure of ia getting good velne , tor your mooey. ced lines Pee fa Ines yorth (tn & | 60 to $2.25 All geing at £" $1.25 i a pair i» K. JUSS. Stamper’s Corner. = as we ear political strife. } ‘THE DAILY EXAMINER eee MARCH 30 1900 THE SENATE AND THE GERRYMANDER. ‘ma Guardian displays its wit (shel) we say to advantage ?) when it says that “the bald and spectacled veterans of the Senate, in the plentitade ef their Conser- vatism and the fullness of their power, have rejected the Liberal Governmment’s redietribution bill for tke second time.” Experience is always, and wisdom often, associated with bald heads and spectacles. It is true that the exuberance of youthful fancy and the folly of youthful indiscre- tion extend, in some cases, into the term of life im which baldness and spectacles hold eway. Suehacase may be found in The Guardian office. But it will be ad- mitted that ‘* bald and speetacled veter- ans™ usually possess the plentitude of knowledge and sagacity, while they are re- moved from the influences of passion» whether begotten of persona! ambition or 3 These ‘‘ bald and epectacled veterans — grave and reverend fathers” was the | term applied to Senators in the good old | daye ef Cato and of Rome—have, it is | true, fer the second time, given the six | monthe’ hoist to the Government’s Gerry- mander bill; and The Guardian wants to know why they“ intermeddle in such af- fairs?’ The answer is that, as to the House of Commons, The Senate of Canada under co-ordinate eo the constitution, pewers of legislation ; and that its special duty is to stop legislation that is deemed | by it to be unjust, untimely and inexpedi- ent—all of which the gerrymander bill undoubtedly is—until such time as the people shall have had an opportunity to constitutionally exprees their opinion cou- cerning it. The British North Americs Act provides that the Senate of Canada shall exercise the same powers concerning legislation as areexercieed by the House of Lords in Great Britain ;—and the Houee of Lords bas repeatedly rejected bills reepecting the redistribution of seats in the House of Commons. The Guardian, however, argues that tbe Senate ought not to have interfered with the paseage of the Redistribution Bill be-~ cause it iuvolves only the House of Commens. Senators, it points out, have life appointments, and are altogether re- moved from the strife of politieal conflict : they ought not to interest themselves ‘ about a gerrymander bill for the House of possesses eee an 7 r enn re — PERKINS & G0 seton Tweeds ‘co ch Tweeds Euclish Tweeds Canadian Tweeds ‘vs lish Worsteds _ bglish Serges M.:cton Blanketing Bianketing Res gings ¥ Yarus Ready Made Pants Mencton Double Twist- ed Sanneckbarns are the best. VYool Charlottetown Weol We represent tke MONCTON WOOLEN | MILLS. We always keep on hand a large supply of tweeds made by this celebrated mill, Ask for the double and twisted Bannockburn. they are positively the best goods te Wear that’s made. We also keep a large range of Scotch, Koglish and Canadian 'tweeds, and we take wool in exehange for fany goods,in the store. F, PERKINS & Co . , SUNNYSIDE. Charlottetown. Commons. If the members of the House of Commons only were _ interested, this argument might be a good one. But the whole country and every interest in the country are involved in the bill whieh the Senate has rejected ;—and therefore The Guardian’s argument goes for nothing. ‘Take, for instance, the pro- visions of the billas to Prince Edward Island. It actually gave Queen’s and Prince Counties two representatives each, and every elector in these counties two votes, while it gave Kings County but one re- presentative and each elector in Kings eounty but ome vote! A monstrous in- justiee affecting the people of the entire Province. Surely the Senate had a right to stop the passage of such a bill and to let the people of Canada first say, by their votes, whether or not they are wil- ling that such an injustice shall be perpe- trated | Possessing the power (as it does) it would have been untrue te itself, its bald heads andi speetacled eyes and all that these imply, it would have been un- true to the people and to theclear dictates of justice, if it had not reiected the Gerrymander Bill. But the Guardian pleads that the Con- servalives perpetrated a gerrymander io 1892, and that the Liberals should have been permitted to perpetrate another in 1900. A sufficient answer to this argu- ment would be that one wrong dees not THE FIELDING PREFERENCE. As cheap and useless concession to the Mother Country, the Fielding Preference is all very well. To say that it is of any direct valueto the people of Canada as a whole or that it bas operated to increase the volume of our trade with great Bri- tain is to say that which is not true. While it is true that our imports from Great Britain have, in the past three years, increased to the extent of four millions o; dollars, it is also true that our imperts from the United States have increased to the extent of thirty-four millions of del. lars. Our imports from France, Germany, Spaiv, Portugal, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Seuth America have increased pro- portionately ,two or three times,as much as from Great Britain. Ii is a fact, that while our total imports have increased thirty-nine per cent, our imports from Great Britain haye increased but twelve per cent. Inthe light of the statistics the Fielding Preference afforded to goods imported from Great Britain is little bet- ter chan a pleasing deception. lee et ee eee ed NOTES AND COMMENTS. _ —The Stanley came in at noon today, in fine style, breaking the ice all around the harbor, — Carnegie and Frick haye buried the justify another. Of the Conservative re- distributiens we have no special knows ledge except as to their application to this Province ; aud we know—we all know — ; batehet, and will watch for chances to | make a pile out of the Cape to Cairo rail way. —A Lorenzo Marques special rays the that the redistribution of the five electoral districts in 1892, was about as fair as it could have been made-although it was denounced equally with the redistribution of Ontario, a3 a scandalous gerrymander ! Arguing from what we know ‘o what we don’t know,—we conclude that no weight ought to be attached to this last plea of the Guardian. Then, there is the question of untimeli. ness which the Guardian, astutely, avoids. The British North America Act provides that the redistribution shall take place immediateiy after the taking of the decen~ Surely it would have been going contrary to the spirit, as well as to the letter, of the constitution to pass a nial census. Transvaal authorities are evidently re~ |cruiting actively,as Jarge numbers of French, Hollander, avd Belgiaa volun- ieers are constantly passing through that place to join the Boer torces, —Providence favored the passage of the Second Canadian Contingent from Halifax to Cape Town. ‘The Montreal Star’s correspondent reporis that “ Everybody on board, officers’: and men alike, looked hale and hearty. «Not a siga of the long, trying voyage, cramped up in such o wretched old tub as the Pomerar ian, could be seen on any of the boys, except~ ing the healthy-looking tan that came from the kiss ot the’tropical sun.” —QOur young men do not enlist for garrison service in Helitax as eagerly as for active service in South Africa. The ‘fascination of immediate danger is want- Redistribution bill in the year preceding that in which the decennial be taken! Senators— bald- headed, epectacled, grave and reverend, though they may be—are to be justified» upon that ground alone, in the exercise of their undoubted right to reject the Gerry- mander Bill. At all events, the people wil! now have an Opportunity tc judge between :he Gov- Surely the ernment’s dead Gerrymander bill and the statesmanlike policy of Sir Cuarles Tup- per, according to which al: succeeding re distributions will be made by an impartia! = of the land. —Mr.C.C. James, deputy minister cf agriculture for Ontario, maintains the principle that the wealth of a country Jies in what it preduces. In elucidation of this principle he refer:ed, in the course of & epeech recently delivered‘by him, te fielde, forests, fisheries and mines 28 sources cf wealth to Canada, the firet being greatest, and said : “ Per capita, the fisheries yield $4, the mines $6, forests $16, and agricul - ture $120, showing that the latter is im- measurabty the more important. Gold is valuable, but the entire world’s gold pro- duction, $280,090,600, is only cqual te the returns realized from farm produce in Ontario alone. doubt very important, returning about $30,000,000 annually ; yet our cows re- |; census will | commission composed of the bigh«st judges | ~ Canada’s mines are no! ing in the garrison, Yet there are some | at.ractions to the fatter fora young maa | who desires to be physically built up and | he may beeidee,if Le be careful,eave in eash $100 to $150 in the run of a year. Be- | sides, be will be prepared for active ser-~ vice for which be may, ere long, te needed. Colonel Moore bas been desired to ca!l for afew more recruits. — The Oitawa correspondent of the St. \Jobo Sun rwsrk- th t “ Mr- Pineau, | member of tle kK iward Island As-~ semtiy, has gow Voris. He is not . golog Ou his owu Charges, but is in tke pay of the peopie of Cacada, as a member ot the staff to the Parie Exhibition. There-~ fore he will not be preseat to vote sgainst the Farqubareon Government in the com- ing sescion,as he was elected to do. (It is not likely that Mr. Pineau would have been eentto Paris on his merits. Sir Louis Davies does not send Coneervatives when be can employ Lib- erals, except in cases like tuese, when it is neceseary to subvert the wishes ef the people and deprive them of their represen- tation in order to save a friend from less ef power. On general privciples the the .gectleman whom Mr. Pineau defeated would have been chosen. But that would not have saved Mr. Far- qubarson. It will be seen that Sir Leuis, by the seduction of Mr. Pimeau, accom- plishes balf as nuch as he weuld have obtained by successful bullying of the which was attempted and failed.” Wear the latest and most fashionable present the equal of the entire output turn very near as much in value ae the’ —_ 7 eutput of Cusadiam minerals of al] bat, the Wilkinson, for eale by D. A. sorts.”’ Bruee. tf. 7 Cleveland, WellandVale, Massey-Harris- While these are net the only bicyeles constructed in this cowatry, they re- ot really high-grade bicycles made im Canada by Canadian mechanies with Canadian machinery, *=d have lea for years im material, workmaaship and iimprevemeats that have wen the praise and patronage of the general public. Mark Wright & Co., Ltd AGENTS. Stearns, Columbia, Hartford, E. & D., Scots- man and 20th Century. ——ALL WORLD LEADERS —— MARK WaiGhT & Gt., AGI NTS. electors of Belfast, and Murray Harbor] ne On the Piece or Ready-to-wear Patonk& Co Can sell anything ‘Is the most pernicious falsehood ever stated.’’ The confidence which the public has in this store was gained and is main- tained by selling only the highest char- acter of merchandise at feirest prices. This store’s reputation for Dress Goods was earned by the most earnest and ex- haustive seeking out of the new and beautiful from every home of textile handicraft. The watchfulness is con- stant the seeking never ends. PATON & CO. can sell anything that Paton,buys is a better truism. This be- cause of the taste and skill, the know- ledge and experience with which all fabrics are selected and bought. Women buy Dress Goods with the utmost con- fidence at Paton’s, because they know that a half dozen pairs of expert eyes have examine all, and pronounced the fabric shownto be the best of its kind at its price that is to be found; elas it: ] This is the key to their corfidence. This — would not be found on these counters. Foremost Prov ae oem pe —— a iders — / first—and yet not always first—there is the test of their own eyes. the tabrics with its direct appeal is strongest of all with the brightest store in | 100 pieces of Dress Plaids for Skirts, 38, 40, and 42 lengths; over 150 New Readymade Dresses; 500 New Shirt Waikts; city to see what the y are buying. Shawl Wraps, Clans represented. ‘Historical Clan Tartans,’’ largest range outside Toronto. 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