(*1. rrv JULY I6, 1931 conflnued from pare 5 5e machines would af- ‘Nt ° “fiff. horses. and w forth: h“? to- would out down the ex- mat “m: and PE)’ 1°!‘ memsew“ m lemma: e of a few years. That was ‘h’ “férusnwne, but how has it work- metup? flow much more shell-lily c they built roads than they m bu," previously? Did these gfiirines save so much? Let me tell ,. that n. tho‘ three yew in “hm, “my have been 0901M!!!‘ My have cosh-not for operation, but for repairs, nn extra. amount of $8010 do, M; 1n another year we shall h“, pnld for thesc machlllel. I103 $100,000. the 0'11"“ m" h“ mm" Mo; .,,..r this additional expendi- ture will continue. I?" 5"" 7°"- TM; was money that was borrow- “L and will have to be P!“ 55°3- Moreover, in funding imtlicy gm- road machine work. the ordin- "y revenue of the Province is beinI robbed cf that aruount. If you i!“ “m, nloneys out of the revenue sud set it aside for sinking fund or interest, you cannot spent it as rov- cnuc. You cannot have your elh and eat it. Therefore you have that much less money every 1°" i" u" on ilie other public services o! the province. (Applause). The Government borrowed o. cer- tain ulnount of money for gravelllng puppuges, We quite approve of the principle of gravelling; we began it in our time in s. modest way. But having borrowed that money ~10!‘ mo gruvelling, we contend that it should have been spent among the people of this rrovincc. We say that if we have gravel in trua Province, the Government should buy that gravel from our own people and use it on our own roads. That, ladies and gentlemen, will be our policy- Up to the present. time a very large part of the gravel used by this Gov- ernmeni. has been imported from another Province. A very large part has been supplied by tender to n man who no doubt has made a good deal of money out of it; and YOU are the losers. We say that that is not a good policy. It is bad enough to borrow the money, but it is a grent dcol worse to waste it after it is borrowed. (Applause). FARMERS SHOULD BENEFIT lo this Province we have valuable m"! deposits, equal to the mater- ial imiwrtefl by- this Government from the mainland, and hops better; gravel that nlll he dug and hauled to where it can be used by be our policy. There is where we blame the Government, because, having borrowed the money, they have let it go completely out of the Province, and the people have not obtained any benefit except snch as they have received from the grav- eiied roads. I might be criticised if I were not to soy something with regard to hard surfaced roads. It is very dif- ficult, at the present time, to make any statement, because the whole matter is in an experimental stage. We have had an experiment by this Government which, I must say- ancl I think you will agree with me —is not very creditable to the Gov- ernment. I believe a great deal of experimentation will yet have to take place before we can obtain for ‘ this Province hard-surfaced road: within the means of our pockets, or that we can afford them even on ber- rewed money. The time may be very near when that kind of road will be obtained, but what have the present “Deriments shown? We find n piece of road, near Charlottetown, less than a mile in length, built last fall st a cost of over 826,000. I put it to you, can we afford to build _roads “ throughout this Province at that cost? I think the nnsweris very obvious. ‘ But they any now that o good deal l! that expenditure was wasted, "i" they can build other sections h‘ m" “heflplv, because this work was n »- xiv-i done under condltims of frost, when the days were short, and so forth. g Well, they took another chance, ind built another mile this sum- mer. The mils that went through the winter has not broken up yet. Blrr THE Mum mar was Burur m automor- warm-- firs. WHEN rim elm was sam- Aii Arm szvmvrmno savou- [s E. rs ALI. oaaoxno. THAT THE suns-non; Arm AN‘!- som WHO pawns OVER rr W‘ 831-1 1'1‘. (Loud applause). pounrrrur. uxrmnnur we do not lmow what ‘o... noni- :3? "M: we have no account of ° ‘Xllenditure incurred. Thu ‘are \ our own people and our . own people will obtain the wages nnd remnneratl That will building another stretch on the 5t. Peters Road and we do not know what that is costing. But don't you think it requires a great deal of faith-more faith than they have shown in many other things that aremore useful-to believe that a road of that kind, three or four inches in depth, laid without any foundation on the ordinary surface of the road, will stand up against our winters and all the weather variations that we have throughout the four seasons of the year? Per- scnally I do not think it is possi- ble. These things have to be test- edlbut is it evidence of economy for a Government to continue to build one mile after another, at heavy expense, without waiting to see whether the road will pass ens test of one severe winter? It seems to me an utter disregard of the fin- unces oi’ the Province. srcruru ulaoun When this Government assumed power they did away with statute labour. They condemned that sys- tem as a thing of the Dark Ages, which served no useful purpose in “Win dflyfi: it was Just. an oppor- tunity, they said, for the farmers and other people to have a day's holiday at the expense of the Gov- ernment. The people, they argued, should all pay their taxes, and the money should be expended under the direction of the Government. That went on until the by-clection in the Second District of Prince. when something very curious hap- pened. Some sort of information was passed ix) them during that el- ection campaign; because they had a change of heart, and this year they passed an Act-not to give cv- ery taxpayer an opportunity of do- ing statute labour, but to give their own friends an opportunity of wurk- ing out. their taxes on the roads. If you had driven over the roads as much as I have during the past three weeks, you would have secn how that Act is working out now- how admirably it is being exploit- ed to suit election exigencies. All the Liberals are being given an op- portunity of commuting their taxes by statute labour. We claim that every man in this Province, what- ever his politics may be, has the some right to work upon the public roads, and our policy will be to see that every man has the same op- portunlty of commuting his taxes in this manner. (Applause). . There is such a thing as carrying politics too far, and I submit that that is onexinstance. I quite admit that widening of the roads, in many cases, is good work. It has probably made a bet- ter and safer road: In some places, also. they have straightened the roads, and that also is proper work. But I must stop there, because when it is claimed that they have given us smooth and beautiful roads, I cannot agree for a moment. The Patriot newspaper suggested recently that I must have enjoyed my trip over the roads to the Georgetown races. Well, 1 may gay that it was not a beautiful road, land I didn't enjoy it. Anyone who calls that a beautiful road should get his glasses changed. MACHINE WORK NOT ' ROAD BUILDING The difficulty is that the Gov- e- ‘ is depending almost cn- tirely cn its road machines. They say they have built roads cheaper than we built thcm. but the fact of the matter is that they are not building roads at all; they are simply machining them. It is im- possible, therefore, to make any comparison between work such as was done by the Bell Government and ourselves, with the road mach- ining that this Government has undertaken. M's‘. flea, the other nlghtpspoke about our roads as costing 82,500 a mile, and said that his Government was building them for about $250 a mile. That state- ment. I may sly. is not true. It did not cost us $2,500 a mile; it cost Ill I little over $1,200 n mile, but It cost the Bell Government about $2,500 n mile. We built the same roads at fifty per cent loss cost. (Applause). But any Government that could not run s road machine over r. mile of road for will-well, I think they should resign. There is nothing in that achievement to take credit for. (Applause). Ono of the assurances given by the Government was that with all this rosd machinery they would be able to get on the roads early in the Spring, when the work should be done. Iiavc they accomplished that? Has there been s year since they came into power when they have had the machines oporltllil even at the preeenrseuon? Last spring hrs was an excollontop portnnlt when the_ , Ines?" They are oberating now, of course; in fact, most of the work has been done in the latter part of June and July, when they are mak- ing a. demonstration for election purposes. They are breaking up the surface of the roads at a busy time, and what has been the result? We say that this road machining should be done in the spring of the year, making a firm, smooth road, the surface of which should be kept In conditionby dragging at the prop- er season. That is our policy with respect to read machining, and it is the one we mean to pnt into cf- fect if returned to power. (Ap- piause). 50 PER CENT MORE REVENUE MI‘. Lea spoke of the "terrible" roads he found when he came into power in 1927. There were some spots where he nearly got lost, I believe. Well, I have found some pretty bad spots this year, also. I suppose we have all done that. It merely goes to show that none of us have attained to perfection in road building. The Premier referred also to the number of culverts put in under his regime. That, too, is a relative statement. In some in- stances he has put in more than we did; in other instances we put in more. Over and above all that, you must remember that this Gov- crnment had fifty per cent more revenue to do all that work than we had; and that makes quite a difference. (Applause). I"'."‘ - PROHIBITION I come now to another matter; it is ‘not an issue in this election, but it is necessary f'or me to make one or two statements with regard to it. 1 refer to Prohibition. Our attitude, as I said before, is very plain. At the last election. we put forward a platform with the best of good faith. We believed at that time that it would be for the ben- efit of the Province, and it was condemned. That is the privilege of the people of this Province, and they expressed themselves with no uncertain sound. They expressed themselves the second time, on the plebiscite. Now the matter, for the present in this Province, is settled; that the Prohibition Act is “the law and must continue to be the law until the people decide otherwise. Can I make it any plalner than that? (Applause). Mr. Leo. has made the statement that some of our people are going about, canvassing in onelplace on Government Control. and in other places on Prohibition. I say that that statement is not correct. (Ap- plause). We have not a. record of that kind. (Applause). It is perfect- ly true, and I admit it, that we put forward the platform of Govem- ment Control at the last election; but we did it honestly, and the people having decided ' ‘ it we are prepared to stand by the decl- Bion of the people and can-y out the law of this Province. And I say no man can assert truthfully that the Conservative party ever took any other altitude with regard to the laws c-f the country which they were attempting lo govefli. find that any man who would attempt to make n. canvas of that kind ls rccreant to the party to which he belongs. (Applause). So much for our attitude an Pro- hibition. What of their record? Did they go into this thing honestly and sincerely, with a single eye to the good government of the people and the enforcement of temperance and sobriety? What was the key-note of their campaign? It was the icttm- which Mr. Saunders wrote to his followers, advising them that the important thing-the paramount thing-was the interests of the Lib- erul Party. We may have erred. ladies and gentlemen; but we did not attempt to fool the people in that fashion! ' STILL “STANDING BY"! So the campaign went on, and so it was woni Let. us glance at the pledges regarding prohibition which they embodied in their platform at that ‘time-that platform which Premier Lea, according to the Pat- riot newspaper, "proved" to be im- plemented until the hall rocked at Hunter River: 1 ."'I‘l1s Liberal Party will stand by and adhere to the Prohibition Law with such u dments as may be deemed necessary to make its administration more work- able." ' And they are still “standing by"! (Laughter) They stood by and sow the law violated; they stood by and ssw_ more liquor brought Into this nce in the last four years than wdg ever s_e_t:_n or hesrd- of since file l 5011' M‘ Vi} hi rm: cHARLoTri-finwlv GUARDIAN TUB sIoT/ REA DJUS TMEN T" 1s PRESSING ELECTION ISSUE 5A YSCONSER v.4 TIVE LEAD ER ed the poor man to be taken and fined and committed to jail while the big man, the party heeler who was making hundreds and thous- ands of dollars out of the traffic, went unmolested.‘ That was the way they “stood by”; that is the way they enforced the Prohibition law during the past four years- And these are the men who say that we have not been honest and ' re! (Prolonged applause). Another of their pledges was to make the law "more workable." It is the easiest thing in the world to pass amendments. You can pass enough law amendments to fill this buildin with volumes; but what would be the good of the amend- ments if you did not-enforce them? (Applause). They passed one amendment to the effect that if a tenant sold ii- quor the landlord would be penal- ized. Did you ever hear of that be- ing enforced? I could take instance after instance of amendments to the Act, and show you that they never attempted to enforce one of them. They were simply making gestures to the people, to the Tem- perance Alliance and other bodies who areseeklng temperance in this Province. in order to placate them and keep them quiet. ‘that is why those amendments were passed, and the result speaks for itself. Have they succeeded in any way in m. curing a better enforcement of the law‘! What have they done to sup- press the liquor traffic? That is the question, and it is a question which requires no answer by any person with a. knowledge of the conditions existing today. (Loud applause). MORE BROKEN PLEDGES Another pledge was "the appoint- ment of three Prohibition Prose- cutors for each County." Also "co- operation with the Federal auth- orities for the enforcement of the Customs and Inland Revenue Acts to prevent smuggling of liquor and illicit stills." ‘ Do you remember the aign assurance about the Mounted Po- lice? (Loud laughter). Do you re- member how this Province was to be over-run with them? I saw one. He was crossing on the car ferry steamer on the eveningi of the el- ection. But he disappeared; I don't know whether there were any oth- ers with him, but I never saw or heard of one in this Province since. Do you know of any “co-opera- tion" they .. have ever attempted with the Federal Government in or- der io enforce the Prohibition Law? I never heard of it. It is quite true that the Federal officers are oper- ating; they are operating because they are engaged t0 do so by the Federal Government. But what happens? A Prohibition officer fol- lows them about, and when they catch a mun and fine him, the Pro- hibition offlcer catches him and fines him too.‘ That is their "co-op- eration." (Laughter). It is a pretty one-sided “co-operatlon," isn't it? The Federal man does the work, and the local ‘officer gets the sec- ond fine out of the same party- THREE TN ONE! In place of the appointment of three Magistrates having exclusive jurisdiction to enforce the Prohibi- tion Act, we have one. The Three- ln-One! (Laughter). Another pledge was “reduction in the sale price of liquors for medl- cinai purposes." I do not know whether they have implemented that or not. I have never had occa- sion to buy one. (Laughter). Those were their promises, and as I said, you can see the results. You know of the riots that have taken place in the jail; you know the quantity of liquor that has been smuggled into this Province; you know of the violations of the law. You know also of‘ the violations of the Motor vehicle laws. All these things have increased ten fold and a thousand fold in the last four years-flourishing under this Gov- ernment that gained power on their solemn pledge to you that they would enforce the Prohibition Law. Do you think that they are en- titled now to further of your con- fidence? To be returned again? Do you think they are the people who should be entrusted by you with the ‘orcement of the laws of this Province? A STRAIGIITFORWARD Auswan I am not going to say any more about that; I think I have said enough. I have a letter here that I received from the secretary of a temperance organization in the Province, the Prince Edward Is- land Temperance Federation. I have been asked to answer it. and I am going to answer it here. in the presence of you all. I mo" r“ ‘(that ' n delegation from r’ er temperance organization wait- ed upon me some time ago, and I gave my answer then. I intimated the policy of the Conservative par- ty; it was published in the news- papers and you, no doubt. have lead it. Here are the questions which I am asked by the Temper- ance Federation: We respectfully ask the leader of each Party, in his official cap- acity. to .be good enough to ans- wer the following question: “is it the policy of yourself and of the party which you have the honour of leading. that you ac- cept the votes of 1927 and 1929 as the verdict of the people of our Province on the Prohibition ques- tion, and if returned to power, will you and your party do your utmost to carry out the will of the people so expressed, by main- taining, strengthening where ne- cessary, and vigorously enforcing the Prohibition Act? I may say, in brief, that l’ answer both of those questions in the af- firmative. (Applause), We were accused of legisiatlng for office. Mr. Lea has gone so far as t0 say that that is all we did- You would imagine that a. gentle- man who would makc such a sweep- ing charge as that would be very careful of his own skirts-that he would avoid falling into that trap himself! Yet this is the gentleman who passed, this year, what Is known as the Ticket of Leave Act, the object. oi’ which was to enable the Government to release prohibi- tion offcndcrs from jail before their time was served. I hear that the Act is being very well “patronized? (Laughter). Things of that kind speak for themselves. It is not nc- cessary for any one to offer much comment upon them. PROVINCIAL POLICE We had some measure of en- forcement for a time, when the Prohibition Commission had control of the matter. Mr. Lea took par- ticular care to emphasize that lost year, in the by-election. when he said that if there was any blame to be attached to anybody, it was the Prohibition Commission; they were the responsible people. Ap- parently they are not the people now; the matter now is in the hands of the Provincial Police. I do not object to a. Provincial Police force. I think perhaps it is a good institution, and I know they have it in other provinces. But it can be carried to excess. lIcrc they have a staff costing from $30,000 to $40,000 a year. You see them about, in great numbers, and they are dressed very fine, wearing mag- nificent uniforms; better than the soldiers’, perhaps better than the officers’ uniforms. And it is allot the expense o-i’ you people. Thai would be all right if it were neces- sary, but unfortunately this or- ganization has been used for pur- poses of party politics. They have appointed men who are simply par- ty heciers and who have no qual- fications whatever, and I say when they are paying men of that stripe as policemen they are throwing away your money and they are holdingup this Province ln ridicule to the whole of Canada. (Applause). They say it is for the purpose of enforcing the Prohibition Act. The trouble is that they are not en- forcing Prohlbition, because ever since it fell into their hands the prosecutions have almost ceased. There are enough of them surely, to enforce the law in this city. When I was attending the Provin- ciai Imglslature I noticed them swarming out in the morning like bees, or like a flock ‘of pigeons, from some place up-stairs- EDUCATION 'll.-:- is very little to be said about Education; nothing at all in favor oi’ this Government's record with regard to Education. We know of their fiasco with the teachers; we know how they appointed this Edu- cation Commission, and why. Simp- ly to tide over u. difficult situation; not apparently to benefit the cause of education, but for the purpose of placaiing the teachers and pre- venting a strike. which would be iuifortunate for the Government! The strike was avoided, and the Commission's report was prepared and submitted. One wonders what it was forl 1t cost something over three thousand dollars, and what has ever been heard of it since? They made some recommendations that were very proper; for instance, that there should be a Minister 0! Education, and a reorganization of the Board of Education. An Act was passed in the Legislature, with all the solemnlty necessary to pass an Act of Parliament; it was as- sented to by the Governor; and there it stopped. We have still no M‘ ’ ‘ of Education; we have the some old Board of Education as we had twenty years ago, except as to the personnel. They managed to pielr up enough courage to pass the Act, and there their courage ceased. l would not like to suggest that they did not have a rnan qual- ified io fill the office of Minister of Education, but at any rate they didn't rviolnt one. "" r" \" in power we pro- Education; we endeavored to im- prove the teachers’ training by ap- pointing a capable man-probably one of the most capable in the Maritime Provinces or in Eastern Canada-and that man did wonder- ful work. He was placing the teach- ers‘ training department on a splendid basis. But he is gone now, and they have not replaced him. It is true they have appointed sn- other man, against whom I have nothing at all; but he does not re- place Professor Bhaw by any means. There has been a degener- ation in the Department of Educa- tion, and it is our intention, if re- turned to power, to have the teach- ers’ training department placed on the basis on which We left lt- (Applause). CHEAPER TEXT BOOKS We have always felt that if the Maritime Provinces were using unl- form text books we could purchase them at a cheaper figure. I think that policy will appeal to all the people of this Provnice, and we are going to return to that policy ll’ we get the opportunity. I believe we shall be able to succeed in ob- taining for the people (licaper school books. (Applause). TEACHERS sALAnms some one may say: What about paying the teachers more salary? You know what steps the Govem- ment has taken; they have prac- tically intercepted any policy which we might attempt to adopt with regard to that question, because they passed an Act, following the report of the Education Commis- sion. to provide for a plebiscite. ‘Phat is, they are going to ask the people of this Province to vote whether or not a special tax should be imposed on the people, to pay increased salaries to the teachers. Tux Bill will be passed at the next session of the Lcgislrlrure, setiZ-uig the amount that will be required and levying that upon the people in the form of a personal tax. Pending the result of that plebis- cite, thero is not anything to be said. It is a. matter that you people will have to decide, because you will be invited to decide it on elec- tion day- I may say this, however, that if these gentlemen had performed their bounden duty, if they had pressed our claims at Ottawa. and obtained the money they should have obtained, it would not be necessary to place any plebiscite on the election ballot. We would then be obtaining from the Dominion Government the money they now invite you to levy upon yourselves as a. tux to pay the teachers. (Ap- plause). AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL TRAINING I would like very much to invade the territory of my honourable friend the Premier, and discuss Al;- rlculture. But it is too late. I am sure Mr. ma, if he were present. would like me to discuss the Tech- nical School. It has always been o. very lively subject of‘ debate be- tween us. However, I hove discuss- ed it on many other occasions. I have not the time to go over that ground this evening, but I may soy that it is our intention, if returned to power. to co-operatc with the Federal Department, of Agriculture to establish agricultural and tech- nical training for our young men and omen. The present Minister of Agriculture, I believe, is working out a scheme of‘ that kind, and it will be our endeavor to co-o-perate with him, so as to establish it in this Province, because we all admit that agricultural and technical edu- cation is very important l in this Province. CANNING INDUSTRY Another matter that was dropped by this Government-orlthough they had it in their platform-was the promotion of the growing of cran- berries, blueberries, and small veg- etables, and the testing of the feas- ibility of establishing a canning industry in this Province. I would have enjoyed hearing the Premier describe, at the Iluntcr River meet- inlf. how he "more than implement- ed" that pledge! (Laughter). I will tell you how he implemented it,- by dismissing the very capable em- ployee that we had engaged to deal with the fruit industry in the Prov- ince. I think we all believe that this Province is capable of great things in regard to fruit growing. It needs encouragement and direc- tion, and we had engaged an expert who had begun to do special work. But Mr. Lea dismissed him within c. month after he took office, for no reason that he has ever given to my knowledge, and he has en- gaged nobody to fill that man's place. We promise to return to that sys- tem. Personally, I am firm in the belief that the canning oi vegetable products is perhaps the only line of manufacture that we can success- fully earry on in this Province. At least it deserves a very careful trial, and that will be port of our policy- ‘: :--,' essential ' to (Applause)? If you say “Yes," then of course the _ 0L0 sou PENSIONS New we come b0 Old Age Pen- slons. I do not need to‘ go into the history of this matter. We know there was an Act passed by the ing Government establishing an old age pensions scheme. So far as the pwnclple is concerned. I do not lllilll’. there was any debate over it in the House of Commons. The only alebate was as to the method in which it should be carried out. There the two parties divided-be- cause. the King Government's Act provided that the Federal Govern- mcni: should pay 50 per cent of the cost, and the Provinces the remain- lflg 50 per cent. They believed that that: was constitutionally necessary. We did not agree with that, and if world conditions bad remained stable, if times were not so strin- gent, the full payment of old age pensions would be implemented by the Federal Government. But you know the situation. Pending full payment, the Federal Government has passed a statute to provide for 75 per cent of’ the cost, and it is our intention, if elected, to provide the other 25 per cent from money which we believe has been wasted by the present Provincial Govern- ment in other things, and so carry out this pledge which was made to tile people of this Province. (Ap- plause). The manner in which the money should be paid, the persons to whom it should be paid-ail these details, of course, cannot be gone into now. They will be dealt with in the arrangement between the Province and the Federal Govem- ment, which ‘will pay three quar- ters of the total amount. The point I wish to make is that that-ls I part of our platform, and ‘will be carried out ii’ we are returned to power. ASSISTANCE TO ‘FISIIERMEN Another matter that we had ar- ranged to deal withgvhen we were defeated in 1927. wasithe encour- agement of the fisheries of the Province. Our fishermen are a. very important part of our population, and we all recognize that nothing very much has been done for them by Provincial Governments. We had intended to co-operate with the Federal Department of Fish- eries in carrying to the fishermen of ‘this Province special instruction in the preparing of fish products for market, etc. It was the propos- al of this Government that we send men to Halifax to take a course of instruction in this mat- ter. That really was the policy of the Federal Government -- not the Provincial Government. This Government pledged itself" to act in co-operation with the Federal Government in the promotion of all branches of fish- cries within the Province, with a view to assisting and opening up new and better markets, and also assisting and securing better trans- portation facilities for fresh fish." I know of nothing whatever thaL was done by this Government to im- plement that pledge. As I said, we intended to deal with that matter after ihc election of 1927; and if re- turned to power now that will be a. part of our platform. (Applause) WINTER ROADS There is one matter that has been causing our people a. good deal of trouble for many years; that is the problem of our winter roads. We shall make an attempt to deal with that—to devise some policy with re- gard to the winter roads, to give somerellef to travellers in tile win- ter time. I know this has caused a great many people discomfort. We believe that if the Government is prepared to mnkc an effort and give the necessary amount of study to tlufquestion, it can be satisfactorily dealt with, and it. is our intuition to deal with it in that wny. RAILWAY CROSSINGS Anything that destroys life is a. serious problem, and deserving the attention and consideration of any Government. We have a grunt menace in this Province in the shape of level crossings. Unless somebody takes the lead in this matter, nothing will cvcr be done. We believe that it is the duty of the Provincial Government to take the lead and to sec, if possible, that something shall be done. It will be our duty to press upon the Canad- ian National Railways and the Fed- eral Government the absolute ne- cessity of having this matter dealt with, so that we will not, year af- ter year, be losing the very flower of our youth in this Province by being killed upon the railway crossings. (Applause). I have endeavored to present to you the issues, as I see them, in the coming provincial election cam- paign. I ‘have endeavored to do so fairly; to give you the iacfs as I find them, for you to weigh and consider. lmi. m" rcpmt again that ilon it i.- if":- on. enue. ffltliild. the Government of this Province if there is one thing, l0 my mind, of paramount lnnvprrtwnec in this cloc- {Eon of our rev- As l said before, we need The time has come when if/Nlii SEVEN Central Guardian BIS ‘for St. Peters Bay Horse Races. A pretty spot, a lovely track, goot meals and a good time to all. . T} DON'T MISS ST, PETERS 381cm Wednesday, July 22nd. They are sure to draw a big crowd and you will meet all your friends there. GREAT ENTRY LIST-Secretary ‘Albert Quigley of 5t. Peters Race Track took in the big races ai Northam yesterday, and got in touch with the horsemen there. He says that he has received s, splend- id entry list’ and that Wednesday. July 22nd. will be a banner race day at St. Peters. ‘ IDENTIFICATION UNKNOWN- The Guardian has received a. re- quest for information pointing to the identification of a. woman about 65 years of age who was found dead near hlagnolia, Mass, on Tuesday. A letter on the person oi the woman was addressed “My Dear Anranda," was signed, "Dan", and was dated "HcatherdaleFThq letter mentioned somoriiing about not being able to get used to the red. roads. Tile woman had heavy grey hair, was dressed in a black frock, andyhad a tiny white loco collar with a bar pin. ’ should not be permitted any longer to play hide nd seek, and blind man's bluff‘, w h this matter. We should gct our claims, we should have them implemented without any further delay, because for want oi’ that money our public services are suffering, and our people in many cases who have to perform public Services are not paid as they should be paid. THE GREAT QUESTION For these reasons I ‘ to you that gyou should elect whichever party you consider is most likely to succeed in. inlplenlcnting thcso claims. You have had four years of experience with the present Gov- ernment. You have had some ex- perience‘ before that. You. know what the Conservative Government secured from an OPpositioriGovern- ment at 0ttawa—un adverse-Gov- ernment, and you know the record of the present Government, with its own party in power in the federal field. When this Govt. took office four years ago the door was open for them to deal with the matter of u subsidy settlement. They had, as I said, a. favorable government in power at Ottawa; and you see the, result, or rather you soc the failure of any result. Mr. Saunders told the Legislature in 1927 that it was a good thing to have “a friend at. Court.’ He said that when he was looking for a. change in the Provincial Govem- ment. Might I be pcnnitied to say it now? It would be a good tiling for the Province to have a friend at Court; to have one who has had some-expuience-anci, I trust, with. some knowledge-of these matters. I think the people have learned, in very many ways, in many lessons, that it is better to have the Govem- mcnt of this Province in line with the Government nt Ottawa. (Ap- plause.) THE PEOPLE'S RIGIIT 'I‘11ere is another important ren- son. That is you owe it toyour- selves, thc people Of-tllis Province, that you do not permit to remain in power a Government; that would squander and waste the moneys paid by the taxpayers. You have a right to sec flint public affairs are dealt with in mo some way that you, as individuals, would deal with your own affairs. I want. to thank you most heart- ily for this opportunity, and for your patience and forbearance in listening so attentively. over such a lengthy period of time. I know that you all realize the responsibility that rests upon the shoulders of cv- cry citizen who exercises (he [P1P ohise. It is a privilege that was won by our forefathers after strug- gles of which today we can have no realization. They are now things of D1151 history; hut if we neglect those privileges. if vvc exercise them im- properly or improvidcniiy, it may not be very iozig hcforc we will lose them, and we may return to a 6011515011 V"! mllch more unfavor- able to us than the conditions under which we now li\'c. All I ask of you and I ask it of all the people of the Province-is that you weigh these matters very carefully, and that on (‘lcrilnn day you cast your bnilot. conscientiously for what you consider to be in tho best interest of this beloved little Province of Prince Edward Island. (Loud and prolonged applause). CLASIFIED ADS WANTED —-blAli).' APfTL-I‘ A’! Davies Hotel. 74867-10 2i TO LET-LARGE RCOhZ-Y GAR- age. 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