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Burnett - FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1915. , GOVERNMENT REPDRTS The Report of the Provincial Auditor on the Public Accounts. for the year ending December 31, 1914, and the Report of the Department of Public Works for the same period were presented to the Legislature yesterday- The total ordinary receipts amounted to $525,555-19% me total ordinary expenditure to $445,396.30, leaving a bali\lJ¢6 between these two items of ordinary revenue and expen- diture of $80,158.80. To the ordinary expenditure are added $41,300.86 Qiilll' tal or Permanent Expenditure: $7,343.48,Walter Lowe award and $20,942 War Expenditure. a total of $69,586.34 for Permanent. and Extraordinary eXl>6l1d|i\ll'6B- makin! I1 total expenditure of $514,982.73 and leaving a net surplus of $10,572.46. As anticipated in the speech of ills Honour the Lieute- nant-Governor and, later, mentioned by Premier Mathie- son, there is again a substantial reduction in the debt ot’ the province, aggregating during the three years of the Malhleson Administration in round numbers about $100,000. The rt-port nf the Department of Public Works is also a satisfactory one and shows at the outset that the surplus indicated in the public accounts was not secured at the ex- pense of the public works of tbo province. Ordinary ex- penditures by this department amounted to $78,343.17. while $41,300.86, was expended on works which are per- manent assets of the province. New bridges, many of them with steel spans, were built, very many old bridges were repaired, new roads were opead up in every section oi' the province. Altogether the report reflects the improved conditions already existing and a healthy optimistic out- look into the future. SIR WILFRlD'S TARIFF RECORD When Sir Wilfrid Laurier entered the House of Com- mons he was a Prqtectionist of the Papineau anti-British school. _ As a member of the Mackenzie administration he was a l"rotecl.ionlst, ami in 1876 he used these words in t.be 1-louse oi' (‘-ommons: _ “Tile qucsiion of free trade and protection in any coun- try is not to be appiiedto political motives; but to be treated as a mutter of pure eoonomy,_and its solution de- pends 'entirely on the condition of the country. . . . . . r Protection is a matter of necessity for a. young nation in order that it. may attain the full development of its re- sources. li i were in Great Britain I would avow .free trade; but i am a Canadian, born and resident here, and l think that we require protection." ' - After the defeat oi’ the Mackenzie Government in 1878, Laurier went ovcr to Free Trade ami successively espoused Commercial Union unrestricted Reciprocity with the Unit- ed States, and "Free Trade as they have it. in England." Speaking at the Ottawa Liberal convention of 1893, he de- nounced Protection in these words: "The system of protection which is maintained by the Government. that is to say, of levying tribute upon the people for a private and privileged class, should be con- demned without quallilcatlon. Let it he understood that from this moment we have a distinct issue with the party in power. Their ideal is protection. ours is free trade. Upon this issue we engage the battle from this moment forward; and l ask you once more never to desist until we have achieved victory; until we have freed this country from the incubus which bas been weighing it down for fifteen long years." Two years later Sir Wilfrid toured thewestem pro- vinces, and his words at Winnipeg are worth quoting: "When the Liberal party are in power they will at once give a measure of freedom of trade, and step by step they will follow lt up, and if God spares our lives we shall pro- gress steadily until we have it as full as Great- Britain has lt. I come before you to-night to preach to you this new gospel of free trade. I denounce to you the policy of pro- tection aa bondage, yea bondage, and l refer to It as bon- dage in the same way ao American slavery was bondage." Two years passed and the Liberal leader found himself in power. How did he proceed to free his country from "bnndage'."‘ - In a letter to the Manufacturers' Association he used this language: ‘ f . "Whether a policy of absolute freedom of trade would or would not be inlurious to the manufacturing indttstrihs of this country. is a question which I will not stop 'to dis- cuss here. . There is no-r_`9l'oo_n_fo`r'~'sucb 1. discussion, no the intention of tho Llb6i‘iI»‘j7`irly"‘id not and never wa; to establish free trade In lhlo country." For tho economic record of Sir Wilfrid from the writing of this letter down to 1910 we will pot in evidence the l°|\l|lll0lI!‘_t_>_l_ Mr. Edwagdjorrltt, o.Libernl, a Free Trader, and_._a noted' writer on economics. Dealing with the atti- tude of the Liberals towards the tariff. in his well known hook, “Sixty Years of Prdlection in Canada," he says: "ln 1897,' when for the first'-_time foriwénty years it fell to the lot of the Liberal Government to revise the tariff. the Government unexpectedly broke new ground. It enacted the preferential tariff for Great Britain. adopting on ldoasvhloh had boon ouggootod by Sir Charles Tuppor. llutitltis- done Laurier ignored -the speeches in which it ' ll_lten_ed'- the protective system. of 'Coal-do to the old »taver's‘;sva_tei_a _or _ine egnqt stares ,or tae south. _sir ummm on-twrinit aismtml-from im mliio- tai article of 1810 in the North American Review. and the scores of seltllill lttlcko which 0f1'tho.Not_iona\’ 110|. vi* '°f tm' to iam -. Mr. of ‘any other country, and it is all the more convincing in that much by, the overturn of tho; Government in igss. '1-he ¢xrl°1¢°N`i°§F!ll@`~‘9?¢~Ni¢l _Q1 9°“° .“'°- Newzounanha. sm or can sworn sepia, me tn;-oath, ‘¢¢mpqpy.prm`||¢ting`aad-1tock~lohbing drew to themselves mg uqnfg share or the sixteen million dollars that were dll-_ ‘penaedh-om the Dominion l-realli!! between 1890 B110 1911- conainly did an well under a-'Liberal Government as they could have hoped to have done had there been no break in the rule of National Policy Governments. . - - - - - ~ - Bounties were coatllllldd _brlegisiation in l897.and 1800; and the system was greatly extended in 1001 and 1903. 1909 at t-he instigation of an American' company Dl'0m°l°!` ‘engaged in the exploitation of the iron, ore and timber 1'0- laources of Western Ontario, the clause was illllerted in _the.R.ailway -A'ct which makes it incumbent on companies _receiviogsubsldieo .from the Federal Treasury to lay the roads with rails -made in Canada. The surtax on imports -from Germany was enacted in 1903; and in the some Act amenumg_me__cu,m_ms_ (ru-1_1; or tm- power was elven the ,Government to _impose by order-in-council a duty of seven dollars a -ton on steel rails; and in 1904 the Manufacturers’ Association achieved its first open victory by. compelling the Government to revise the tariff. Finally in 19057 camo tho revision of thotarlff at which the Government dropped all pretense ')af“any regard for the Ottawa programme of 1803, of any adhesion to the principles enunciated in the speeches of _Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir _ltlchsrd Cart- wright. . . ., . .- . for tho consumers tho`\Government had little or no care. . . .-. . . What Influences brought about the betrayofof 1897?" ' Seldom has auch a crushing indictment .of treason to principle been uttered against a political party in this or it comes from the pen ofa friend. _ , Having glanced at tberecord of,»Laurler on ihetarlif. throughout a period of 36 years,-having noted his betrayal of principle to' .party opportuaism, let _the people of Canada ask themselves where. Laurier stands on the tariff today. ‘lt is not more than six years ago since he told the people of Great Britain that Canadians had “turned their backs on Washington." _ __ ' '- “Tbere will be nofurther piigrimages to Washington." he said. "We have turned our backs upon the United States, and are looking for trade with the Motherland." Two years later he made the infamous agreement which would have forever sacrificed the fiscal independence of the Dominion to Wasbingtonl and made Canada, in the words of Mr. Taft. “an adjunct of the United States.” Today the Liberal leader stands without an economic policy. In the West his followers talk Free Trade, in Que- bec, Ontario and the Maritime Provinces they shout for Protection, while one or two in Prince Edward Island would run with the hare and hunt with the hound. Can such a man with such a party ever again be entrusted with the fiscal policy of this country? BRITAIN IS -FAIR The New York Times saysz' The measures taken by England to put a stop to trade between Germany and neu- tral countries are in effect a blockade. The Order in Council declares that ships going to and from Germany will he stopped. lf all ships are to be stopped, that is equival- ent to a blockade. Yet the Order in Council does not call it o blockade. It is open to neutrals to say that, as this is not in form such a blockade as international law recog- nizq as binding, they cannot be called upon to respect it. That objection may be made. But it is to be noted that the chief practical point in which this embargo dlffersfrom a blockade is in the treatment of neutral ships stopped by British cruisers. They are not to be seized and confiscat- ed, as would be thecase were a blockade regularly declar- ed, but are to be sent to a British port where their cargoes will be discharged. and, if not contraband, will be ettber paid for by Great Britain or restored to the owners on terms fixed by the prize courts. _ lt would appear, therefore. that England has refrained from declaring and establishing a regular, blockade in _'order that she may be freeto treat neutral shipswith great- ‘er consideration and indict less hardship on neutral trade. it is a blockade modified in favor of neutrals and their commerce. That fact is Likely to influence the tone and character of such protests as may be made. The owners of the Dacia are to contest in the French courts the legality of the seizure of their ship. The case may become one of celebrity. "The capture can be justi- fied by showing that the sale from a German to a U. S. owner was not made in good faith and that the transfer of registry was irregular. There is that in the practice of war which justifies the captain of the seizing cruiser. The -rules of peaceful commerce would condemn the interfer- ence with a legal trader. As this is war time the chances are that the owners of the ship will lose. when will lr ran? ‘-‘How long will. the war last. with its slaughter. its numbing grip upon social progress, its hideous wastes, its creeping gloom, amid which we dream of the sunlit tasks and pleasures that once were ours?" asks the Church Times. "When will peace return? There shouldbeno shame in asking the question openly. lt implies no weak= ening of resolution. We must see the business through; the fact that this phasehas become a commonplace tes- tifies to the unity of strength of feeling beneath it." ' "Admiral’s Beatty's success had a significance, the full extent of which now even the public scarcely appreciates. As for the land campaign, it is an open secret that those in .high command at the front are- extremely sanguine today. They withhold, of course, the grounds of their-confidence", but of their conddence itself they make no concealment; they believe that the end of the 'war is by no means remote. Significant also are the recent utterances from`Be_rlln, the violent language of which is not that employed by leaders progressing towariiinvictory. ' ’ _"Speaking with all due caution, and recognizing that not optimism." ' - 0 , ____ sorts A woman does not lose interest in a store until that store loses interest in_ her-until it stops :sending to her its regular .‘.'stors news,”'through»its hdveftlsipgfspace, in a coooidershlspart of-the new war taxes. The new that about so por coat. will some mm and the 'remainder .from the new customs special toads 'sro inland ohio” oo hah. I" 7 Descartes- .IN f ’ r"1HE- aTRE‘lii¥iiE$if§ill-Y.IF-RANGE, _I 'rortoN°r0., _`Mei-sa za.-'-LL,-R. der- l_out_-over..the .st_l_rapet,th isnt -tlmi _ _- am. wan- ivwita-o¢w=oussn'»\ Own we.wqw»m\0ll0B “S011 W 9 il 0 “ edour e.ascoo ouse en a - _ bullet chipped church, just about Another man told of Hgesllgnnfrggl done up. We'd covered about 17 man and her children, __ r __ mad miles, not a very long march. it. in her home, qunninghorrniad “we true, but trying, on account of' the swept by bl_l\_§lH» “fl gap 'Gémmm fast pace. Children appeared almost were on one aura; all _ éach other at onco with hot coffee, and we for- on the other. §_ nom woman got our troubles. We slept like like mad. when 1 S ll came down the road with her kiddies Proceeding be says that guide strung out behind he_r. It was l-iw from the regiment their plattion was most. Dill-l10llC¢'__mi';*_5 Igiteggg ssighé to go which met them in the dark. WEB ne" t° y 5' ml Blood and led them around holes ln the hit. 11:11' ll? 134; H 9 °"~ y ground dug out by the shells, and by lllilfve 0\lS~ 9°' - a ruined farm. "The German tren- Thel c0rr€SD0Ddél_l:;__;:l*9“»aggscgggaf ches are about five hundred yards bow tiey WBF0 fi H ____ away." said the guide, quite casual- their dllys ill T681 DS- 9 Sill' - Nearly every one ia the trench was humming or singing as the work of 1-0MM|E5_|N 1-Hgm pUq0U_1'5 preparing breakfast went oh. That . was what struck us most forcibly - - ' be. fallout the regular soldiers. They snide lead llligdgg ‘rgiegr ‘tlzwtxlgld of .Dover Seemed to get grouchy _or cllnging.‘ oiayey much. “'l.`hore's a d0W_l1\1€8-l'l»Bdi_ 1*-1>d__ih°Y-\_1gdm\;3_e““_‘_G') Jack -Joh|mon'h'o]e_" he .|-amapkgd gg- IDS. ll! l-l’BllC 83 Ol' _ 0 1 'we assed a round hole six feet lmanly a few short respltes- . alaniieter, fined with water. we slip- ,` They went about their daily work pod down an incline concealed by 'Singing 300- 301:16 l;_“‘:_et‘;_ gegecffnig canvas screens into the trench. We ‘M0 t 0 mic 0 9 0 P d _ found ourselves on n nm-row .ppmk ofthe trench well that threatens o between banks' of slimy clay. All Sink in: some filled - Handbags: some along one side were bu"-,,w9_ par. baled out water from convenient .haps three feet high and' four feet-\1f5|¢9»i1l\d¢\\\'V3W ii- 0V9l' HN! DB\'8~l>Bt~ wide_ with pots of nharcbat growing The ground is so sodden all about -mhmy_ Emmy faces, wked with that water soaks into the trench _mud bent uve, me mes, may Wm, continuously. and has to be bailed pots' These' were the Tommies. in ‘°“t “Very few m‘“‘"°“ N° °“° 'their dugouts brewing `tea. We Srumbled_ at the work,-however. Our Bhmibled Mon-‘g ana, ou, gu|de`_ past fellows took their turn at the work. dugouts, past 'statuelilte sontrles gaz- 100- ing out into the night over the para- pet ofthe trench. I slipped oil’ the .plank once. and was in _mud and , ‘ water to my knees. SNIPING MORE FREQUENT With the daylight the sniping. i_n- . ""'~"‘ termittent all ight. became more MADE H|MsEL`|§ ~¢°MF°n~|-AQLE _ fl'eql.l0\ll... UUIIGYB. ZlDD6d ,0ll6l' Blillflir' _ ly. every minute or two Our solar o r , _ --Y 1 ~"ers got busy. too. Some of _ .hex ltvtitth “G(ypgs`yi."i'e Imggnt -dgilvngoang °h“D5 W°f° ""7 935°* l_° 5°*-“il °f took our my pwk_-~Gyp_,,y_»» a ,ue,,¢_ ammtanition.. One"-_fellow~_indmy slexc- gblack mustachedr, _steady looking Uizla. 'ed °t"?:i' Y ’f““. ts" G °_ man, hung up my pack. and made -9° he- 9°! 3 _` "' °°,“P° ° .i‘ 9"; me welcom_e_beside,him. "Tea?" he mms- ‘We-i'~°°k. if ‘V191 ° KVM* ° asked, andgave me' a ladle fall-from gall; ,__h.S§l§l I llllzellf _msd lllflitftisl- his mess tin. The burrow was small, °‘? i- 9 me ‘"0 fha 1"’ '_ E l‘_"" pehraps. five feet long. three feet \1°m° das" "5 9 “““31‘ °" 9 nun and tm-ee and a mar feet wide. Wf‘i“Sl\° Mm* °f the f°"°W° Wm -The roof was hem up by phmks and content to stop _quietly in their dug- joists A pair of field glasses hung outs, and observe the methods which on u"mm_ --Got -em from ,I Gm.. make trench life. tolerable. Tommies mm omcenf- he told me_ »-Gypsy" went about their business, cleaning had been out in the trenches since fines- \’¥\i||l1B» and repairing with as SeD,_embe,._ .inure-3 only two hum much unconcera as if the Germans dred left out of the lot that started" were il th°“““d mn" aww- ‘ he remarked, “and only three officers out of thirty-six.” Lately, it appeared. very little had happened in the section of the line we were _ ia. The enemy had done ___ _ ; time for 1 m<>\=r1»'\>\=¢ mire- Anil ....'§f.’l`f.§°°§fir§i‘I»‘L°ii`d.f'.ft .§§i'§°§“§§?y their shooting, no matter what _the 'ofthe 'mkhm of the German cn"-_ Pape" My ”'\’°“t 5" is ¥°°d' :Keep ser Karlsruhe taken from' the Stiftné ‘"9 head d°V“ in the d°'7"l°d' 'um "l‘rdende, whic'h asserts that it ob- GYP9Y» "il md "1 °“" `9m°°h l°°k°d tained the story from -an authoratlvé STORY OF THE .SINKING OF THE GERMAN KARLSRUHE ‘ ' source. ’ - i f _ naar sensations for masts or me aannllin Furnished by lN._8. Louoonr' 3 _ ` . - » ' ' yet are we 'out of the wood; we can ailirm that the military who' were sworn to secrecy concern. dam mill and UOW have ,a ,factor seems strongly favorable to our cause, and may bring - . ' lug the sinking of the cruicer. SPTUCE, H€ll\l0CI{'3l`ld -about a termination of the war far sooner than most of un "M-L THW03-»‘-'~~»'F0R 909.9.-'-' . . " - have dared to hope.. Ai any rate it fully justifies wiv hwmever-' I r ' ` iw "ws tl " dk°f»§§" f _ _ _ _ _ o _ w" canno un ers 1 , , H’oti.1'W.` 1'. White iahls' wsr'budg`et~acoepted and put '}&‘v';d£°“tg_f1:';°t‘;f°m::i;§,‘.‘r,r§',;"f;?‘d'; ' Y into also s new principle _ni its aiacritiutlda or mes- Am, me ,, ,m,,,.,,m, ,,,,.,,, ' ' , vacant pines oil tae wants-or-the-country-a mam-pro . ana mmimniiy bam. - - ` portfooate shore and r`oliove|_ this moans of a part. of the NIU l1°`°\'il '\_f° f‘°\§,°4 _ ¢°_il’l°-_g _ . ‘_ .: f 'rem mf»_u1_qi_a wma-is-.num immunity ;‘-°‘."‘1“*’..-°' “'i"f° " nufwfgm w'ar_taxu _are of- twoiclsooog.-special and customs. it-io WCB-I _- A - ‘ _ 'According to thesiory the crew of *M K'"‘"“*1°."°'° '1“'l‘¢ te" °"° . evening when s. .sudden ,explosion broke the cruiser in two. One half of the vessel sankpmmediately, car- rying apart of thecrew down .With -_it. The other half floated for some lime, which enabled between 150 and W U _ , yup,-_ ~~ . , *200 men to be rescued by the accom ed a German Dort with the survivors, ~ _,.,.. Jef! ‘ 'IQ `\`1 .il MARCH Slot, 1915 _ ’ Creations of Beauty: Charlotiietowylfs Women's ideas reflected in every Easjlef 'SPNUS Hat-Quiet, yet rich in material. Notlung i_nWd_1'Y is allowed on a ‘fl`j‘aton” Hat. That’s~_the secret of the little eiegancies that make you mistake one of Paton's $8100 for a:$10-00 Or $1200 0011C¢ii--¢ . _ .The Easter Millinery Show w_iI_I“demil!ld the attention of every lover of artistic Millinery., . _The .Display will include everydesirable _Hat designed for the coming Summer Season from the Makers, and many Beauties from our own Work- I`00Hl. . 'Miss Beers, our I-lead Miliiner,has»*_rettt11ied from visiting' at the big _Millinery Openings; M188 Doiron has done the selecting. -Eve_ry_La'dy knows Miss Doiron’s ability as a Millinery buyer. _ ` ~ 1 .1 PAT() WORKS IMARBLE elm 1 _ I I i W W MARBLE AND GRANITE 'WORIKS - .Marble and Granite _ Works i A large _shipment of Marble Monuments of the 1915 esmns in different colors, were ed from the ermont Marble_Co. at the works _ in 'Proctor Vt. This selection was -personally ‘ _ selected by the Compan and have been shipped, , and will arrive by the Vilintér Boats any day and _ . , will be placed in our show rooms_Revere flotel ' Building, Kent Street, lately occupied by Acorn &Brown. - - 1 The public are invited to inspect our stock. All kinds -'of Cemetry work promptly attended to. , ' Letterlugaspecialty. A I I 1 The P. C. BROWN &e , __ _ .3 , . Marble and Granite Works ' M H-_ ' MARBLE AND. GRANITE WORKS ‘~ § r-§ s 5 011 ‘ 9150-a-zlmr ' ‘ " Lumber 5 For i .Sole Manufactured-I on P. Write or telephone for T. DQ ,.94 is womts‘ . _ (5 + Last fan 1 bought the aims Timber 'Eldon -panying steamer. This steamer reach` @Id t0 be the b€SII til!lbC1’ ` OUP -an u class