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‘ orrosmou clulYL vows  
Mr. Bell and Mr. Johnston are to be pitiedf as well
as blamed for the mess they have made of 'their politi-
_cal stewardship. The scene in the H0US¢. }'@Sl¢fd3y»
'when they crawled down, and were even_pulled_ do_wr_r‘
by their colleague`s,fon the charges they 'made against
the Honourable James A McNeill during the Souris-
campaign was about as humiliating as any humiliation
\vell could be. They had conducted a campaign on
this slander, had carried it around from meeting to
meeting, had flashed .it in capital lettered headlines as
a “damning accusation” against Mr. McNeill, and
when confronted with an opportunity-or rather a
demand-'-that they substantiate their charges' they
crawled down and out and in their abject fear of the
investigation demanded being pressed, heaped deserv-
cd encomiums upon the head of the man whom they
had villilied and slandered during the election _cam-
Peisn- '
In other words, during the campaign, they made
charges for political purposes, which they hoped would
drive the Commissioner from public life and bring
the Government down in his ruin._ If they had suc-
ceeded in making the electors of Souris believe the
fimputations and insinuations they wished to be drawn
from the now notorious affidavit, the consequences'
might have been serious for the Hon. Mr. McNeill. But
they failed to deceive the electors of Souris, thanks to
tl1e fact that Premier Mathieson, Senator McLean and
the Commissioner of Public Works were in a position
to prove the utter falsity of the allegations. ' ' 
Notwithstanding, however, _l\lr. Bell and Mr. _Iohng
stun still pretended that they believed in the affidavit
and Mr. Bell went the length of stating during the de~
hate on the address,-as reported- in the Patriot, that-
it was open to any member' to draw their own infer-'
ence from the "damning evidence” whirh he purported
to set forth. This could leave no other impression
and was intended to leave no other impression than
'that Bell believed that thc Hon. the Commission-
er of Public Works, had acted with a corrupt motive.
\Vhen called upon by the Premier to have the courage
of his convictions and to ask for a committee to in-
vestigate the charges he made and applied, Mr. Bell
declined, and the Premier intimated that the matter
would not be allowed to rest there but that the House
would be asked to appoint__a committ_ee‘_`_f_o'r ,t,he"pur4
pose. The resolution f'or'the 'appointment-'of such a
committee of investigation yesterday found Mr. Bell
in quite a chastened and humble mood. There was no
more bluff and bluster in him. Ho denied' that h'e"had_
ever thought or imputed motives' in connection with.;
the Arsenault transaction and said all there was to it
was that the Provincial 'Auditor had been guiltyof
incompetence; or carelessness in signing a cheque in
'excess of the amount due. All the members of the
Opposition seemed to vie with one another in ex-
pressing their _confidence in the Commissioner of Pub-
lic Works- and as all charges ot' corrupt act or impro-
per motives were withdrawn, the necessity for an in~
vestigation was removed. And so by a standing vote
of the House the matter was allowed to drop. Surely
this will be a lesson to the Leader of the Opposition
and hisfright-hand lieutenant to pursue dillerent me-i
thods in'any future campaigning' It also at¥ords a
_of the province '\`v'ould be stopped short, all thc public
,l .. .
3|'
One of the greatest, as well as one of the most
asinine political crimes ever attempted by any political
party was that undertaken by the Leader"of the Op-
position when, at the close of. the debate onthe Es-
timates, and whep the_motion was :made that the
estimates be .passed enffbloc, he rqs"e in his place in the
_House and. asked _that`rio'such grantbe given. ~ tp
__ This, after two whole nights had been wasted in
pure and ~. unadulterated _obstruction; after every item
§n the proposed' expenditure had been passed without
'li solitary objectionibeing' raised by the leader of the
i0position or any one of his, followers; after every
dollar in the Estimates had been scrutinized with a
view to lopping ot? any one dollar the expenditure of
which could be avoided without detriment to the pro-
vince, and after the Opposition members had failed
to place a linger on any such!
The Opposition would have been perfectly justified
in holding up the Estimates indefinitely by every
means in their power, except physical force- if they
had been refused any information they' asked for with
reference to the`expendit_ures _ under coxisideration;
they would have _been justified in holding them up if,
they could show that any of the items of the proposed
expenditure were unjustitiable. Yet they had no such
excuse. All the information they asked for was
cheerfullyigiven; every dollar proposed to be spenti
was held up to them and examined and they could
offer no objection to the expenditure of any one of
them, Yet they held up the whole House for two
nights-by every means in their power-of speech
and villitication. Such a tinale to a debate on Supply
had never before been experienced in the Prince Ed-
ward Island Legislature and probably in no other; Mr.
Bell’s only argument, his only reason, was not to
grant any “Supply to His Majesty.” -
_'Had his desire' in this case been confirmed by the
House, what the_n?_ ,_'_I`lle whole financial machinery
offices would be _closed, our schools would be para-
lysed, our teachers would be out of busiiless: our jails
would opentheir doors, our lawvbreakers would be free
to move whither they \voulcl! Our public roads and
bridges would revert to the condition in which they
were left byuthe Liberal' government and even the
Leader of the Opposition and his followers would go
without their sessional indemnity!
This is the record, thus far, of His Maje_sty’s loyal
(?) Opposition and its Leader, Mr. Bell. And this,
too, in a year of serious conditions, a year of life or
death to the Empire! , ‘
The vote of the Opposition in 'this case makes a
reco'rd'which,-if~such deeds live in history) will be a'
standing disgrace tozthe Liberal- party.- For futurei
reference-we givetlte vote as 'it stood on the question »
of gran'ting_"Supp_l`y to His”‘Majesty.~‘ The Nays, that
is, those who could raise no _objection to a single item
and in desperation oi"'pti're cussedne'ss` voted against
the whole thing en bloc. are inscribed in the journals
of the House as follows; "Bell, Gallant, Mclnnis, Mc-
Millan, David McDon:ild, Howatt, Dennis, Johnston,
Lea, (9). Those \vho, after scrutinizing the items”
and inviting conference with their political opponents'
with a view to making the amount as light as possiblejl
and who voted for the \vhole amount because in the
interests of the province it could not be made less,-_
were: “Mathieson, Arsenaulb McKinnon, McNei,ll;
Dalton, Kennedy, jenkins, Wood, McEwen, _Prowsc,~'
Paton, A. A. McDonald;”' _
planting-season is a-Serious matter, butl
mrigemqit practically clears up  whole dif~
_qs the three or »fp\1r1'weé,lts'»igr'anted_
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_'ills s31é1\i1f\ll`6lili¢rf‘_inili.*\l’1`\lfbs _taken ad-
am of bye largefnlnifber o`l~`<`nir `sol7di‘¢rs»`lenlisted
f"unenli.1'te_`d. llnithis way the yall-'s crop will be
yep.  `an_d‘tllp _e_r,o§dit of 'the province-maintained in
 eaoing as be for the empire. 
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,We understand a large proportion of the members Many of our best _citizens _will gladljtwelconio such
of the lo5t'h Regiment and of 'the new Siege Battery a service and we._tru_st the Patriotls forecast will be
riow_,0r_gar\izing are taking .advantage of the recent or-I fulfilled. .Such a ‘service is one of the greatest needs'
:¢l¢_,_r permitting -soldiers to work on farms during the-_ of the city at and we- might go farthcrandi
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that before the coming summer is ended there will be
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say that a ‘automobile service, bus and
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