\ RDIAN.CHAR.TiOT'I.`E'l‘¢iWN. MARCH 21 i899. _ VU __ ._ _. ._ V.....T____.Y______.____g____ ___;__,____,-._..r`_i,_*_ _ q ___ ___,§i,|._g _ _ . _ ~f - ‘ _ . _ =» , ‘ if , .- - _\"<= "sf v .a _=_...~.» .ri _ Awe-._i: " V `__,_ ,V -I 0 0 S ' ‘in ,`_ __ . ._ _ _ _. . . _ . _r-~__,,_;~ --~_~, ‘.5 _,gh _.,.__.s._~_....:';-i.~.r_ V V _ _ ' ‘- -~ - “ '“ q §__».. V »+-sis-ima:-d.l¥fa o ,_ qi.: . Z ; _ __:. .,_,.,._._,_,_`_`;_”,;? n__:_,!_ _ L _ V _ q I o 2 GU: Y H? L I *_--_ et as a fact familiar to all old lia ‘Y _ ._ _ A ,_\_ _loroo-rir|maAn~loorl}s_ _ mentarians, important _ business is A _ Unéle _hh-,' If J. .- frequently transacted with fem er than d 2 a, this uorum in attendance The ' s“m“°"u°' THE GUARD|AN .An Independent Journal, untrammelled and fearless: aiming to be Just. impartial, Rolla!-:lei W3*-‘\’5‘_-" ‘szaking at all time; :o furtlicr the best. in ,sweets ofthe people.and recoirnizodtherefore as 'Tho Peop1o’s IFa.;po1‘. i Published at its oiliccs. New Pfowse Bl ook North side East Omce, at the following rates. ;~ yable in vance:- ` ironing Edition. daily (except Sunday) three mont.hs$l.(X);£cr ` Sqn!-weekly E tmn(A'ionu. 82. Thur-l D01' 0 ‘;nl1.50;in_advance` .... .. .................. ..1..5 Weekly naition tinui-~.is.;» per year #..25;in advance . _ . . . _ . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .L00 Branch Offices at the following places, ay be paid,‘news furn- ivn -vorkzintl other bus-. Bookstore-D. K. Currie Bookstore, G. S. Mutrart East. Telephone ofiice. R Seami~..n.Agcnt 3-E. B. MCCREADY, I J. P. HOOD. Editor. Business Manager- jli lolllll p lullmll, ' MONDAY. MARCH 20, 1899. A NEW DOC`fRINE~ ` Sir Wilfrid Laurier in his answer to the Dominion Alliance has pro- _pounded an entirely new doctrine in r representative institutions. In order to make this perfectly clear we quote is few sentences from his famous letter: “We are cf the opinion that the fairest way of approaching the ques- tion is by the consideration of the total .vote cast in favor ot prohibition, leav- ~-ing aside altogether the Vote recorded against its ' ‘-In that view of the question, the shows that the electorate ol to which the question was sub- ised 1,233,849 voters, and of that number less than twenty-three per cont, or a trifle over one-fifth, iamrmod their conviction in the principle prohibition. . . -In our judgment, the expression of opinion recorded at the polls in of ppohibition-did not represent such a proportion of the electorate as justify the introduction by the _government of a prohibitory measure.” “Sir Wilfrid, in order to make as low as possible the per centage of the electorate who voted for prohibition _has taken the total number on the lists, some of the lists were 000 to 20,000 die yearly. Other thousands become. incapacitated by sickness, accident or old age from go- to the polls. Many other _thous- ands are unable tovote because they *have removed from Canada, or from fone province or electoral division to `-another, or are absent from their _homes on the day of the election. _ So that probably a million would rep- resent the total number who could “_ 'have voted in the plebiscite, had _ . 'they desired to do so. Those who `” rated for prohibition number- ' »ed 278.487, or the equivalent of over '27 percent of the available elector- -ate. But this by the way. Let us apply Sir Wilfrid’s own pro- -position that 23 per cena of a voting *body is not enough to decide a. ques- tion. The House of Commons has 1213 members. Forty seven members would be a full 23 per cent of that body. Yet as a matter of fact more then one half the questions submitted to the Commons are passed upon with less than 23 per cent of the members voting in the affirmative. Even mo- tions of want of confidence in which the fate of the govern- ment is at stake, have been sometimes defeated with less than 23 pei cent of the total membership of the House voting in the majority. Futhermore the rules of the Commons provide that twenty members constitute a quorum of that body for the transac- tion of business. _ Twenty members make less than 10 per cent of the full House. And q » ,fsppqlzfir does not count the House, l _ _ _ unless his atteiition is called by ay member to the fact that there is not a quorum of members present. But if the required twenty are there the bars majority of that number are all powerful, whether it he to pass a. most, M important bill, or vote millions of l public money. In the Senate, with a mernbersliip of 80, the quorum is fixed at 15 lmembers, and a less number goes on tention of the presiding otiicer is dir- ected to the want_of a quorum. Thus less than 10 per cent of one of our Houses of Parliament and 19 ‘per cent of the other house are compet- ent to pass upon the most important ‘measures It only requires a majority of the quorum, of course, in either case to carry a measure, so that under the conditions specified and frequenty existing ll members ofthe Commons and 8 members of the Senate could pass any measure. sand men out of a possible million 000 in favor of proh bition Sir Wilfrid objects, not that the majority was not large enough, but that the IDOCIS. ` transacting business unless the at-_ Five hundred and forty three thou- l H were present and voted at the plebis- ‘ _ Ugg ;°;‘e's§xgi§?;*1;;lmml°’ _ cite. Call it 50 per cent of the whole. Sométimes youu, iw _aimut ,ha game There was a majority of nearly 14,- ' . ' _ 5'-1 Wil mm Advice to the lays Written for Tin: GUARDIAN, by Dr. ` Brown, Snmmersido. ' - My boy, store you leave your hams, I want tex sa to ou, ` ' I Y 'I`har’s lots of pitfalls in the world, . _ U To lot young roosters through. " So keopa padlock on your mouth, ' V And skin you west-her eye, ' But never advertise yourself As bein’ wondrous dy. Don’t run to dress. of all the sorts _With which tho world is strewed. The most consarned useless thing Is what they call a dood; And don’s be tough, and wear your hat t A’tilted on your nose, Don’t be forever looting Whar the corn juice flows. I know you think I don’t know much, _But take a fool’s advice, _ and never go to a saloon; ' To play at cards or dice. " For tho’ I don’tihold'_+playin’ at cards, Itself is any crime. I know them baizroom games use up A heap of cash and time. _ And every little `while .you`know, The reg’1ar dripks will come, ~ And likelv come to blows, For you doifltuow, what will happen _ Whar the corn juice lows. A majoritydid not represent a sullicientl T°Z§§&;o3;e'av,:;°t_tggnbgfms hu drink , “proportion of the electorate.” In _ y Hut I think he is this wiwr one ‘ - other words 23 (really 27%) per _cent who 18:8 in be what »u3_ Of the €1eCl'»0l‘&¢€.08»nn0t be permitted i _ But barroom talk and sich does more to speak for the whole body, _though Than drink ter spoil a- man, six per cent of the members of the Commons may decide for the Com- ~ Wil] be fu" of [ntet-est at Pa{0n’5 A Than the stomach ever cm. _ _ _ Car t De artment ` f _ se ii yen win iuanigemy i».a.' ' Surely, in the of all parlia- pe ` p _ Don’t hang about the bar. _ mentary and political precedents this G00d C8l'P€tS C0511 N0 M0l'€ But down your booze, ,and plank yerl is a new doctrine l ` ' _ dues, '- 77 _ _ than the common grades if you know where-to i And get away from gym,-i_ ' For the brain absorbs moropizen _" _ buy them. 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