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New   Suits 0 
for 'the Boys
The most complete line of
l\ew Suits shown here for
many days, in the new
pleated Norfoiks inverted
backs. and plain D. B. Suits.
An extra pair of knickers go
with most of these Suits.
Call in today 'and look them
over. Prices $5 O0, 6.00, 6.75,
7.50, 9.00, 10.00.
Girls Dresses
2 to 14 years
In white lawn and voile, fini-
shed with lace and embroidery
insertion, new style, long waist
and short skirt, prices $1.25, 1.50,
1.65, 1.75 to 3.75.
Colored cotton and chambray
dresses, some Middy Suits all
smart stylish dresses prices $1.10
to 2.50.
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Arrive Safely through the War
'Zone from Great Britain
Our first shipment of Dress
Goods in Tweeds,
Worstc ds and Serges have arrived from Great Britain
they include the new shades and novelties for the
incoming season, the values are based very closely on
last years prices.
S. A. McDonald
New Coating Cloth
A glance at the new Coating
Cloth will convince
you thu we have endeavored to secure an unusually
large assortment of cloths for your selection, the pat
tems are the seasons latest shades, the weaves, the
designs will surely suit the most critical.
New Winter
Coats -
_ Many comments are made on our $10.00 Coats..
A lady declared that she had paid $15.00 for one no
better than our $10.00 special. We have already made
a large number of sales May we ask you to come and
inspect this $10.00 Coat.
Corsets
A large shipment of the well
known D. & A. make. .Prices
50c to $4.00.
New Idea Patterns l0c
The only seam allowing pat-
terns in the City 10c no more
no less. All styles 10c.
S. A. McDonald
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but, fortunately for the delegates and the welfare of the
province, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, though still leader of the
Liberal party, was no longer Prime Minister of Canada,
and a good and just man filled his place, who threw the
doors of Parliament open and bade the delegates welcome.
There they found a sympatlieilc Cabinet and friendly
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time by the granting of an increased subsidy of $100,000 ii
YE!" l0 the province as a payment on account, till the many
claims of the island could be taken up and finally and _ wEEK'5 END'
sat sfactorlly settled. It was in this way the $100 000 was nl
’ B W it. Mason.
obtained and for the reason given by Finance Minister y .
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iiliarluilalown Guardian
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Subscription Phone .............................. _iii-2
Advertising Phone  132-3
New, mg gan, mum Phones  182 1183
President   a. A. Bartlett
Managing Editor  J. R. Burnett
 sncrunoav sEP1'EMsEa 11, 1915.
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‘ A TAL1: or Two suissinn-:s
in 1887 delegates representing the lllffelenl Province’
oi Canada met in conference at Q\19b90 and agreed “lm”
a scale of iiicreiised subsidies to be paid to the p\‘0Vll1C@B
by the Federal Goverbment. Prince Edward lBl9“‘l Wa”
not represented at that conference, but according to the
scale of increases agreed upon by the delegates present
she would he entitled to an increase of $70,000 Del' annum-
No further action, however, was taken in the mailer l-lll
in 1907 when the different Provincial Governmcllts WHB
invited to send delegates to Ottawa to discuss and finally
settle the matter of increased subsidies. The dele8H¢eS
were Premier (Arthur) Peters and Mr George E. HUGHES-
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who was then Prime Minister of
Ciinada, in speaking on the subsidy question in the House
of Commons stated in unmistakable terms that the settle-
final as the Federal Government did not “ want any more
delegations coming to Ottawa knocking at the d00l'B_ Of
lllariiament tor an increase of' subsidy," and thgt there
should be no mistaking his meaning he had inserted in the
Bill granting the increases the ominous words, “ final and
unalterabie," thus closing for all time the doors of Parlia-
ment against all future Liberal delegations seeking in-
creased subsidies. The Ottawa conference adopted the
twenty-year-old scale of subsidies agreed upon in 1887 at
the Quebec conference, hence the Island received only
the patlry amount of $70,000, the smallest sum that could
be given her. Our delegates nrifortuiiately asked for no
more nor could they receive any less, but a splendid
opportunity was given them to obtain a handsome addi-
tional griint when the Government requested delegates
having any further claims in behalf of their provinces
against the Federal Government to submit such claims in
writing.. Premier McBride, of British Columbia, who had
received a large increase for his province, seized the
opportunity to secure an additional grant and submitted
ii memo of special claims, with the result that he obtained
an additional grant of $100,000 a year for ten years, or a
total of $1,000,000. But what did our delegates do on
behalf of their native province? Strange to say, notwith-
standing the example set them by Premier McBride, not-
withstanding that they knew the pittance they were receiv-
ing would little more than pay the interest-on the 'debt
they were accumulating, and notwithstanding they were
told by Sir Wilfrid Laurier that the then settlement was
to be final and unaiterabie, our delegates sat in their seats
dumb as oysters. and uttered not a word, practically
admitting by their silence that the island had no further
claims against the Federal G0veriiment._____>'lfhus Yt_i_i_rough
neglect of duty, indifference or incapacity, to present the
claims oi’ the Island, our delegates lost the greatest oppor-
tunity ever offered to public men to secure justice for their
province. Had the Island then to speak for her a Premier
Mathleson, an Aubln E. Arsenault and a John McLean,
instead of Premier Peters and Mr George E. Hughes, just
think what a difference there would have been. Mr George
E- llllslies, who so utterly failed to grasp the golden oppor-
llllllly to do a much needed servicn for his province, is
now asking t_lie electors of the Second District of Queens
to semi him to Parliament. W'ill they do it? Surely not!
Now look for a moment on that picture, and then on
this_-
A few months after the Mathleson Government came
into power ti delegation, consisting of Premier Mathieson
and the lions. A. E. Arsenault and John McLean, proceeded
to Ottawa to present the claims of the Island for an
increase of subsidy. The Liberal politicians and Liberal
press of the Island ridiculed and---laughed at the idea of any
delegation going to the capital on such a wild goose mission
-rccollecting, no doubt, that Sir Wilfrid _Laurier had
locked and barred the doors of Parliament against all
such delegations. The delegates were reminded of this fact
0" ‘1f1'l\'-|08 at Ottawa and of the still more painful one
that the Island dslesntes in 1907 had consented to and
aslssted in the bolting and the barring of the doors. In
proof of these facts the delegates were shown the cast
iron signs which Laurier had nailed and riveted on the
doors of Parliament-reading in great big black letters-
No admittance for Provincial Delegations seeking ln-
crease of Subsidies.. This rule is-final and unalterable.
Fiiiuiice Minister and clearly and fully presented the
lsland's case, which was satisfactorily adjusted fo t e
White in introducing the Bill, when he said “I am ova
1 m d How s st -
to introduce this Bill owing to the able presentgtion 01 ly in the El0Bhlll1S. U19
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h l I d' week’s work done. YU" '    
no ea: a case by Premier Mathleson and the delegates pricdy wages drawn; to mst I
soo a ed with him and In justice to the little Slater of and read the winds your , »
Confeder tio ." T '
8 H hus the $100 000 was obtained many days
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before Mr J. J. Hughes woke up to find the delegates were W3¢°l\ "I9 Chlldfen Dlal’ UD- -
in Ottawa. on the lawn. Iltell yo; this, ' '
my grouchy fr end an ne 5-
The delegates toak a friendly leave of Sir Robert hbon therein mush; 9"
Borden and his Cnbliet. who did not lock the doors of tli more soothing to they t 0  '
Parliament behind them as Sir Wilfrid Laurier ha :still than rest that follows For Ladies’ Misses’ Boys and children a G  .
» d d ne . ' , -
in iso1.inniemn<nn was open with his moan i- weicnnle -- “Y” °-‘ °“""°" "“’°" "“’ , . “We have secured the CLASSIC SHOE SAMPLES which weoffer to you at
to greet them when they returned for a final adjustment to" mn brings B “gm” bug ‘ ` ' '
and settlement of the lsland's claims. :lv‘:ilil:il,ltl12'pl?lll‘: 1?! :atb gr , \ A V  p c 
Ana uns is the uns of nie two subsidies. Electors, beauty. the raids Hilti 1:5111 ~ » » , ° ° ‘ f
pause and look at _this picture and then-on th fl t d "le che" °f °°“ “F -- °' , ` , »  V F0 I8 0
Lchoose the one youprefer, and ask yourselves thi? qiirigstililliz 3,613” do-gulillillydu-t.ty\:awi?t: ilgln;   OCPSBIC
Which of Premier Msthleson and his able experienced his tggks, and ptrive| to-.do ,' _~ - ' - - *A
supporters in the Parliament, or Mr Benjamin Rogers and them wen Beneath his vine A dm” f
News and Edit. Day Phones ..................,.... 188_a
nicnt then about to be made was to be understood as-
iSlsned) Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Leader of the Liberal Party. .
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”  . ~- ...r ,- THE MEN THAT COUNT
_  F 5'- 'ln 5 political campaign the candidates who count, the
f *LAL ""' f '_' -u »-Fur-».,§
tpyers. are the men who stick to facts. This was'evi-
,danced in the meeting at Montague when six candidates
‘tor the Cardigan and Murray Harbour districts addressed
a
joint meeting of electors. Messrs Bruce, Inman, Car-
ruthers and Johnston delivered practically the same sort
of speeches that have been doing duty for the Grit candi-
dates all over the Island. There were charges of extra-
vagance without vouchsafing d_e,t.ails; there was the resur-
`rection of the oats fable without one word of explanation
,of the facts as given by Premier Mstiileson; there was
‘the challenge of the accuracy of the external auditors'
reports. All these fell flat and roused no enthusiasm in an
udience which already had heard both sides of the
questions. i
On the other hand, Messrs Prowse, McKinnon, Dewar
and J. A. Macdonald mdae an excellent impression, simply
because they confined temselves to facts, and dealt with
the facts in a manner which convinced the audience of their
sincerity. Mr McKinnon had a particularly fine reception,
which left in no doubt the regard in which herls held in his
own community. Mr Prowse drove home the facts regard-
ing the nuances of the province, and was particularly
effective in his denunciation of the hole-and-corner political
nianoeuvres of socalled temperance advocates in the
Murray Harbour district. Mr Dewar was eloquent in his
review of the benefits conferred by the Mathieson Govern-
ment, especially when he foretold the certain triumph of
truth over all the sopliistrles and misrepresentations of the
Opposition candidates. The hour was late when Hon. J. A.
Macdonald rose to address an audience which had already
been three hours in the hall on an oppresslvely warm night,
and the effect of his personality, popularity and earnestness
was such that, in spite of the fact that a number of the
supporters of his opponent made for the door, he retained
the undivided attention of the huge audience for another
twenty-live minutes while he related in plain unvarnished
language the record of the Mathieson Government. His
address was admirably pitched and went direct home to
an audience prepared to consider facts, and which had
had a surfelt of iiights of fancy from the Opposition
speakers. The four Government candidates in these two
districts should have no difficulty in retaining their seats
as the result of the polling on September 16.
‘ ' _ ONE BY ONE
One by one the misrepresentations and untruths of the
Patriot and its servlle followers are being exposed and the
organ and its friends discredited before the whole country.
Whenever our contemporary desires to circulate a specially
brazen misrepresentation it resorts to its correspondence
columns. It is an old trick and deceives nobody. On
Wednesday and Friday it publishedi reports that there
was to be no widening of the railway gauge and that the
lntercolonial Railway was to bring men fom the other side
to handle the goods at the transfer shed at Carleton Point.
We knew from experience of our contemporary’s tactics
that it was merely spreading the report in that way _ln
order to avoid editorial responsibility for what it knew
.to be untrue. In order to obtain an authoritative contradi~
tion we communicated with the Premier, Sir Robert L.
Borden, wiio does not hesitate to designate the report as a
gross libel on his administration.
The Patriot .and its friends have been so accustomed
to the double dealing of the Liberals when in power at
Ottawa that they cannot find it in their heart to credit
Sir Robert Borden and his Government with being men of
a totally different calibre.
’i?'When an election was on Sir Wilfrid Laurier did not
litesitate to dangle a tunnel scheme before the electorate
and then l'0l'§et all about it and the Island 'welin the cam-
paign had been fought and won.
, Similarly when a local election was on the Liberals
at Ottawa had civil engineers busy all over the Island
surveying for railways] which never materialised.
The Borden and Mathieson Governments despise und
ablioi; such hazy tactics.
`Sll` R°l>él‘f Dromised a car ferry and did not delay many
weeks after his return before placing the order with the
iii; vilulldlefslilnll D3SSlng the estimates for the terminals.
the cailllglas are “°W §'11DldlY approaching completion,
V y steamer is in Canadian waters, and all that
remains to be undertaken is the widening of the mllw
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lgguge- Already the railway sleepers of the necessary
ngth have been .-substituted whereverold ones had to
Ile replaced, and _ine ncinai widening will ink., place
mmediately the ferry is completed,
Ev°'yb°dV l‘"e“' “"5 1° be the case. but our sinnn
minded °°"¢¢mi>0rsry thought to make n nine onlin 1
capital out oi' a report that 'a transfer platform wg; to 1;
erect d '
e at C‘"`lel°“ Pollll Delldlllg the completion of the
scheme.
The attempt has fallen as flat as a. damp squid, thanks
i0 the telegram on the sublect which Sir Robert Borden
sent us, and which we republish in thin issue,
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NOTES
it would be refreshing now, just on the eve of the
election and before the final revelations come in, to have
the Patriot give a, truthful report of some one meeting
and get out one issue without a slander on the Government
that is destined to continue in office for the next four
years. The truth must be told in the end, and it might
as well begin practicing now.
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pomp and state he wastes
no time in sighing he knows
how oft such languages lives
have' queered and past
his home the mot-
or cars go flying, by
men in debt and divers
bankrupts steered. A cot-
tage home that’s yours and
fully paid for, a happy frau,
ii sense of duty done; that
pleasant lot a millionaire
might trade for, and get big
value for his heaps of mon.
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READERS
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Ding! 'Dgdnigl School
Bells are Ringing
Not a ve welcome sound when digging in
the soft, warmngand and chasing butterflies are so
much more interesting than adding figures on a
slateliiut dress your small fboy in one of _these at-_
tractivetsuits only $3.49 that have come for his school
days and notethe difference in the eager little feet.
Dandy little stockings for little feet 2-1 Ribb
' and 4-1 Ribb at 65c, all sizes. - _
Tan Cashmere Hose, sizes 6, 7 and 8_ only,
` 25 f 19 ~
reguliifsegrcaiitri Coiit Sweaters for School.
Our Ladies Cashmere Hose for mother worth
40c for 30c is motl_ier's bargain- _ ~ _
Coatings, Suitings, Serges and Blanketings
arriving every day also good strong wool hose for
Boys 25c _ - _
Large shipment of Black, White and Grey
Knitting Yarn. '
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P New M Fall
Hats
_ Now is the tnnc to
select your New Fail
'Hat Ourfallstock of
Stetsons and other
makes have just arriv-
- ` ed and we believe we
| ‘V '_ [ [Im] can show you the most
Rl l' h Jn I s ‘_ varied and up to the
minute styles in both soft and stiff hats ever shown
alkllna
Prices $2.00, 2.50, 3.00 and up. _Q `
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New Tweed 
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` Caps. 
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Handsome New Fall Caps in ,   .
rich tweeds, Colors greys,  ‘ 
browns, greens, mixtures, etc.  I *ig
just received by express. Buy  | `
your fall cap here where you '/// "/5;-/‘  `\<,
can get the new ideas. I 
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arises ssc, $1.00, 1.25, 1.50  
Henderson & Cudmore
Swell Hatiers .
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against every con-V  '-ll _ 
tingency with \   
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p 61 Queen Street Charlottetown
The Oldest Insurance Agency in the Province.
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d atisfactory settlement of our claims t . . 9 A _ Q
lbttawa? And as you decide so mark your ballots on tile? 3::-;lip“l:|¢‘:;:,{|'|n¢ “rife _"li: chudféll G SCFIOOI Sh0¢3 ..
liitli--for the welfare and prosperity of the province. knittlhg, around his feet the ' Th¢ H0mC Of G00d SIIKI ‘
secure a full an s 4 y °..`his bills are paid, some rou- lfents t0 ¢t “ICU
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