| - * elec a Ao a ie eee —- F nN (Pane mM mR Fe ES +e mae mean | i j _ THE THE DAILY EXAMINER. NOVEMBER 25 The Canvass. the unonth there have been | several meetings, several sermons, a thood im the newspapers, a lot of talk on the streets, and’ much quiet discussion at table and fireside. Whatever the result of ballot to be taken to” morrow, the effect of this agitation can fail true . tem- LN past of letters and articles the hardly to be beneficial to perance The causes of the admitted failure of the Scott Act inthe past are not far to seek. In the main they are (1) the strength of men's appetites for stimulants, (2) the practical weakness and practical insincerity of Scott Act sentiment in Charlottetown. Some persons see, or affect to see, as a result of the canvass, a prospect that the Let will tantially supported by public sentiment in the fature. But lovking to tangible results, we must confess that we, at least.can see no good or sufficient ground for arriving at that conclusion. The efforts put forth in the ps m mth or two are, in our opinion, ealy the spasmodic efforts which usually precede a Scott Act election, and which are sure to be followed by relapse or collapse after the election has been held. The strength of men's appetites for drink remains the same; and the promoters of the Scott Act tell us plainly that they will do nothing in the matter after the election ~—but change the officials! What hope,ther, what hope can any reasonable man entertain that the experience of the future in respect to the Scott Act will be different from that of the past / None whatever. Now, we say that, as public sentiment is not strong enough to uphold the Scott Act, the right, the honorable, the manly and to to fall public sentiment reasonable pursue is h ack will uphold. course upon a law which We have no disposition to palter with the Liquor Evil; and we deem it wrong in principle and a highly injurious practice to adopt a law which we have neither the will, nor the power, nor the in- Better have no law at all than adopt one only to talk against it, tention to enforce. treat it with contempt, and permit it td be violated every hour of every day. This is our answer to the letter of ‘‘ A Parent,’ published to-day. The Rev. Mr. Whitman, the only clergy- man in the city who has spoken out against the false morality and hypocrisy which ha been made apparent in the conduct of this community respecting the Scott Aet, hesi- tates to go*back to the We have as little liking forthe License system asMr. Whitman. Butourold License Law was, admittedly, law, and worked good results—because it License system in its way, a good was practically supported by the voice of The more stringent law which the body of the people will uphold, is, we argue, likely to do more goodthan alaw which public opinion allows to be treated with contempt. Should such a law result from the voting to-morrow, the community. same law, or any the community will not, at least, stand in the undignified position of one who commands that liquor shall not be drunk as a beverage, and then, with his hands in his pockets, looks on complacently while drunken men—ay, and drunken boys and women—reel about the streets. The words of Mr. Whitman are worth repeat- es ing. If,” he says, — ‘ If our citizens are not satisfied with the present law, and are unwilling to make the necessa: y effurt to enforce it, and it seems to me that five years’ trial is long enough for them to arrive at some conclusion, then, in the justice get some law that you will enforve, and if -you cannet prohibit the trattic, at least bring it under some lawful re- straint! : Lame ol But it is not strange that, from the same facts, as to the Seott Act, other clergy- men as well as laymen, have arrived ata different opinion,—when we hear the widely different interpretations placed ‘upon the Bishop's letter. The Scott Act men con- strue it to mean that His Lordship is still in tavor of the Scott Act;while those who are not Scott Act men declare that the good Bishop says in effect: ‘‘] am a temperance man, as you all do know, and | sympathize with the femperance cause ; but I can’t support the Seott Act in this election as I did in for- mer years and | won't receive your com- We offer no opinion as to which interpretation is right. mittee.” On two points we ure clear: Bishop Melutyre js. a temper- ance man—pfactically our foremost tem- perance mau } and his attitude towards the Seott Act is not what it was six years ago— not what it was three years ago. We shall not,at the close of this canvass, make any strong appeal to the electors, or presume to tell them how vote, they should Let every man vote, to-morrow, ac- cording to the dictates of his own reason Tothe judgment of the majority, whatever it may be,we shall and his own conscience. eheerfully bow.~ We shall impute no motives; indulge ip no re- criminations. Whether the Scott Act receive a new lease in Charlottetown, or the License System be again introduced, Tus Examinex will do al) that a public journal may orcan do to maintain the law. Or if it appear that the Rev. Mr. Harrison s right in his contention, we ghall be found inting to theshigher and better law which commands to ** be temperate in all things ;” to neither eat nor drink anything cal culated to make o brothtr to offeutl, which pronoufices a woe alike upon those who tarry long at the wine and upon those who put the bottle to their neighbors lips to make them drunk. a word of gentle pro- One word more: We protest against the idea that a His Worship’s test. Christian pardun—Christian man, cannot vote for the repeal of the Scott Act. Such a temperate and intelligent layman as Mr. Goldwin Smith and such a prominent and stainless the George. M. Act on gentle—-we beg Rey. Seott clergyman a8 Grant are opposed to the principle. In our own community, @& clergyman of the highest character --a teetotaler and a prohibitionist —has declared against it,as ** non-enforeed ” in Charlotte- town ; and many of our leading laymen — ; } hants judges, lawyers, aoctors, inerchnants, £ and mechanies are in favor 0: insinuate that if these gentlemen dare to and eunsciences its repeal, ‘To vote as their reasons dictate they are to be classed as outside the pale of Christianity, is presumptuous and insulting. Only this Province and a few cgunties in Ontarie, Nova Scotia and New Brangwick have accepted the Scott Act ; and if adherence to it is to be deemed a test of Christianity,other parts of the world will, of course, be ranked us still in heathen darkness ! 6 i 8 em —It is stated that Scott Act fnes yo into the City Treasury, and that * the city loses little or nothing — because nearly as much money is taken by the city for fines w would be taken for licenses.” This is a vuiy mean canvass, particularly mean when it is used by a Scott Act canvasser- and it is false. The amount of fines imposed under the Scott Act are held in trust, to be ap- plied only to the purposes of the Act. Commercial Union. SENATOR HAYTHORNE'S SPRECH BEFORE THE BOARD OF TRADE—SUMMARY REPORT, Hon. Senaror, HayrHorNE said that it might bedeemed somewhat presumptuous in him, who had never engaged in trade, to venture to address the Board on a question of this kind. But he had lived long and been a close observer. This is a many sided question. New phases of it are constantly appearing. Since he came to the meeting phases of it had been presented to his view, whieh he had not before contemplated ; and he would very much regret if Canadashould act hastily, or before she saw her way clearly in this very important matter. The vld Reciprocity Treaty was, without doubt, highly beneficial to this Island. During its continuance there was an active demand for eur produce, not only in Charlottetown, friend of his (the late Hon. Mr. Dingwell) had told him that while the treaty was in operation he had often sent two cart loads of potatoes to the shipping place and! received ‘in return two five dollar gold pieces. The farming part of the community then received fair prices and trade was DAILY,.EXAMINER, - - ~~ '$940,009,000. ‘moved, how many brisk, Similar advantages might be ex- pected as a result of the proposal under dis- capita in 1860, increased to $11.21 in 1870, and to $13.36 in 1880. Who paid for all these goods? Clearly the agriculturist. No one else but the farmers, with their corn, meat, tobacco, .cutton, etc., paid for the bulk of the goods imported into the United States. The woolen exports of the United States for 1880 were only $331,000; but the imports of foreign woolens were $39, 000,000—plus'1 23,000,000 Ibs. of foreign wool valued at $23,000,000. The Anteri- can carpet exports in 1880 amounted to 8,541 yards; the imports of carpets to 1,443,000 yards. Mr. Wells is an anti- protectionist, but he is nevertheless opposed to any radical or immediate change of the poliey which has encouraged the invest- ment of capital and the employment of labox ; and if this policy be maintained, it is very probable that we shall have to draw eur imports from the United States. One of the probable consequences will be that Wngland will withdraw privileges which she now extends to the Canadians. In the exports of cattle, for instance, Canada lias the privilege—and a great privilege it is—-of sending live cattle into the English markets, while American cattle are all slaughtered at the porgof entry. . If this »rivilege alone were withdrawn, Canada would) lose many. thousands of dol- lars every year. Our hope in _ the Fisheries, lies in the maintenance of che Treaty Gf 1818. But if we give our trade to the Americans, is it at all likely that England will exert herself to preserve that Act religiously, or to assist .us in case of need in the protection of our fisheries ? in ease of Commercia! Union we would be the weak party to the contract; and we shovld have to accept the position. But it wust not be imagined because he had in all candor put forward sore objections to the proposed Union, that he saw no advantage dom of trade with the ? ’ (#4 eA Vatnhed Thon Ti United Stees, Mr. Wells, whorhas already been «4 i! 1, suys, hypothetically, that four ‘million: of ;cople in the United States ex~ change 6. nodities annually inter se sing value a thousand “millions. population of» Canada ittin 1882 aPdgur millions, he says that an equal volume of trade between the two countries might be transacted were the hostile trattic removed; ‘whereas in 1874, the whole traftic between the two peoples was but $770,000,000, and in 1879 only 356,090,000, a loss of national trade, measured by resy!ts in 1879, of some Could the barriers be re- wheels, engines, cars, spindles, looms, hammers and «strong ha- man arms would be put in motion.” { Applause. ) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - Letter from Rey. E. Whitman, Sir,—-It was my privilege afew weeks ago todeliver adiscourse on ** Temper- ance” tothe young menvf my congrega- but in ail other parts of the Province. Af tion, and in the course of the discussion | employed every argunient, rational, moral and evangelistic, tu persuade them to take the safe and manly course of teetotalism., ‘Those two words embraced my temperance sentiments: Prohibition ! T'eetotalism ! In the course of my remarks I took occasion to express my unqualified disapproval of, the attempt to throw the entire blame.gf the non-enforeement of Seott’Act on ‘the cussion. But when we come to look closely ; Stipendiary Magistrate-and his force. “My into the matter, we shall easily see that! opinion has been, and is, that the law can very great dilticulties stand in the way, | only bessuccessfully enforced by the joint while consequences might spring from hasty: action which we should never cease to re- gret. The Americans area very diffeult, people to deal with. How many times have agreements with their government been arrived at only to be repudiated by Con- gress. Only last year an arrangement with | their Government was~broken by the Senate, and Canada was, without reason, spoken of in terms anything but compli- mentary —terms such as he would not care to have repeated. Some years ago the government of the United States agreed to pay to merchants in this Province a rebate on fish sent into the United States mar- kets. With what result ?: Congress refused to ratify the bargain ; and the Government of Canada had at last to step forward and pay the United States’ debt. Remember. how they contrived — to outwit Great Britain in respect to the Maine boundary, the Orevon boundary, the San Juan difficulty and the Newfoundland fisheries difficulty. Their Alabama Claim resulted ‘in the award to them of so large a sum of money that they did not know what, to do with it. Almost the only case in’ which we came out on even terms in & negotiation with the Americans was in that: of the Halifax Convention. It is therefore necessary that we should use caution in respect to any agreement we nay desire to make concerning reciprocal trade relations. . The former Reciprocity Treaty included only anumber of specified articles, and. except in respect to them, we retained full tontrol of our own tariff. But the proposed Commercial Union resembles so very closely a political union that it should be regarded with the greater care. In_ the event of Commercial Union, Canada would certainly stand ata very great disadyantage, com- pared with a wealthy and powerful natjor such fas the¢ United States. It has been stated, and thg statement is no doubt true, that the union of this Province with Canada has not been a great success from a commercial point of view. We sell tov littTe to Canada, and we have to buy” too much. It is to be feared that Canada would suffer in the proposed union with the United States much in the same way tha< Prince Edward Island suffered in her union with Canada. The United States would be very unlikely to pledge themselves to maintain an uniform tariff for a number of years. The tariff would be subject to revision, and it is not hkely that the interest. of Canada would always be consulted. The people of Canada should investigate the arrangement as closely as possible. It becomes us all to regard ix with caution; and before consenting to 1% we shoifld be sure that every provision like- ly to result prejudicially to this country ix eliminated. - Fhe. Hoa... David Wells ik known as.one of the first statists ~in Amer: ica. In 1882 Mr. Wells delivered a lecture before the Young Mens’ Democratic Club, in which he instituted a comparison be- tween the value of agricultural and manu- factured exports, showing that in 1859-6) the manufactures exported were 17.5 per cent. of the whole; and in 1869-70, after ten years of high tariff, the manufactures wers | 13.4 per cent. of the whole export; and in | 1879-80, after another period of high duties, they were 12.5 per cent. On the other’ hand, Mr. Wells pointed out that the im-' action of its friends ; and I hold that if th people who have undertaken to champion the temperance cause in this city had done their duty, there would be less cause of oes ane These two words, wjited action, would do more, if put into practice by the Scott Act supporters, towards securing its observance than any amount of faults tinding. Talking is the easiest thing under the sun, and scribbling for newspapers under an anonymous name _ is the kind ‘of work that is suited to’school children. The thing that is most wanted to compel: a wholesome respect fer the law, to clear illicit groggeries and to put an end to per- jury, isthe determined agd ynited action of the supporters OF the Seott Act, Let j this experiment be tried, and keep all the ordinary agencies for the promotion of tem, perance active, and brighter days will dawn upon us, But if the old course pre- vious to the beginning of this election cam- paign is lazily followed, the direct. .testi- mony, | fear, will be from ‘*bad to worse.” -In this connection I did say in closing my sermon that ‘‘ if our citizens are not satisfied with the present law, and afe unwilling tg make the necessary effort to enforce it, and it seems te me that five years trial is long enough for them to arrivé at some conclusion, then, in the name of justice get some law that you will enforce, and if you cannot prohibit the traffic, at least ,bring it under some lawful restraint.” These are the identical words and I have not the slightest dispusition to alter them. If I had despotic powers I might have commanded the citizens of Charlottetown; but being one of themselves I am bound to abide by their decision. But while grinting my fellow townsmen the right .to exercise their own judgment, | must mildly protest againsh the attenipt which has been made. by some. unknown party on that gecount to quote me as an advocate of license. When] assume that role I will give the public due natice; that until then I shall be thankful if others— those who are representing ne as a member of thes Licensed Liquor Dealer's Associa- tion "-—would cease their libelous slander. Personally, 1 am in perfett syrapathy with the work of temperance reform, and if the Seott Act is sustained on the 24th, as] confidently believe it will be, I shali be satisfied ; and if the same degree of enthu- giagm is directed by its friends towards its enforesment as is now dispiayed.towards retaining it, the feeling gf satisfaction will be widespread. J have written this note not for the sake’ of taking part in the present discussion, but because some parties unknown to me persist in’ misrepresenting my position in regard to the question at issue. Epowarp Wurman. ~_-_——~s.ee— ---— Gpinions Differ. Srr,-——True, some zealots in their canvass in faror of the Seott Aet utter uncharitable things against all temperance then and women in this city to-day who do not see eye to eye with them as to the best and most practical means for the suppression of intemperance. Mr. James admits that theie*are a ** large body of Roman Catholies who are Known to be in full sympathy with the temperance cause” and that His Lord- and ptrts of fbyeigt; gods amduntell 810.80 per ship the Bishop ‘‘ shv'ws clearly that he is - WEDNESDAY, Assuming the in full sympathy with the friends of temper- ance in this important issue.” There are also hundreds of Protestants in this city who are in “full sympathy with the temperanee cause,” but who differ with Mr, James and his new temperance platform friends. Yours, ete., PUBLICO. A Pee Liquor Licenses. Sim.- 1 ata somewhat ‘surprised at the position taken by Tue Examiner for some time past upon what, perhaps, is the most important question ever submitted to the, electors of this city, and the result of which may tell, for weal or woe, upom the next geueration, I refer to your persistent op- position to the Scott Act, and advocacy of a License Law, because of illicit: selling,and (the assertion) that more drunkenness apd perjury exists under, aud as the effect, of the Act than formerly; theretore the Scott Act has failed, and we must fall back on a License Law to regulate the traffic in in- toxicating drinks, notwithstanding the fact that legislation must first be had, and judg- ing from your leading editorial of the 19th inst., the chanees for a stringent License Law are very slight, and in the meantime rum is to have full sway in our town. It is but a few months ago since you very truly described the rumseller as ** Cursed of Ged, and all good men, who put the bottle to their neighbor’s lips, making them drunken withal, and sending their souls to damnation ?” When you penned this statement you enunciated a great and solemn truth, and it is just as true to-day as then, why, there- fore, now advocate a License Law which would authorize men to ‘'make men drunk- en &nd send souls to perdition?”’ The artizan who completes 4 piece of work points to it with adegree of pride as an evidence of his skill and good workman- ship, and like an honest man ean_ look his fellow-man_in the face and say, **Phat’s my work, look at it;" but you donit find the battan whé is li¢ensed tv ‘‘ make? drunken” atep outside his bar-room or store, calling to the passer-by, and point to the man, (his partially completed work) reeling on the street, or lying in the gutter, and say, “That is my work, look at it.” No, not at all; that is am industry he cannot and dare not acknowledge, with the honest ride that the artizan evidences, in his fendfwork, (the man who Wrote against the Scott Act with the view of substituting in its place a License Law, must take his share of the responsibility attaching to this kind of industry. ) The plea that the Scott._Act, as such,leads to perjury and illicit selling is worthless. Do you never hear of illicit selling and false swearing under the License Law? Do you never hear of selling. to a minor, to an Indian, or on the Sabbath Day, and of fines for violation ia these respects? Did you never hear of any man who held_a store license, which authorized to sell not Jess than one quart, being fined for selling a smaller quantity / Are you aware that’ some of those en- gaged in the traffic, and who are prominent in their opposition to, and in violating the Seott Act, sold for months during the oper- ation of a License Law,without taking outa license so toalo / “Tam no temperance fanatic, but I have had opportunities of watching the working of, and enforcing a license law, and my pdeli berate conviction is that you cannot regulate the traffic in intoxieating ‘drinks #the man who will sell either at the bar or store cannot be regulated, he has no regard for any law, humana, or divine, he recognizes no law beyond that of selling all he possibly can, in any way snd - manner and tu anybody and atany time. Let.all, then, who haye regard for law, sobriety and morality, and for a happy home vote on the coming Thursday for. the retention of the Scett Act. 4 PaReEnNt, Nov. 20th, 1887. g aa invelerance. Str,—Do you thiuk it possible for aScott Act devotee to act courteously towards any one unless a slave to his hobby! The nasty, sneering abuse indulged in by these ‘‘dnly and origina)” temperance men is intolerable. Whi, sir, they do not even know the definition of the Word TEMPERATE, They are intempervte in their language, in their ideas and in their modes of canvass. They are the small soul of intolerance, and seek by working upon the gullibility of the people ta carry their pet Act. - 1 can tell those misguided people that the electors are nut so easily wheedled and know that among the opponents of the Scott Act are some of our staunchest temperance menewho, as receutly” remarked editorially by the Patriot, seek the repeal of the fad trom a TEMPERANCE STANDPOINT. Electors, ‘you live in a free country. THINK FOR YOUnSELVES. Scott Act Defenders. _WE publish the following correspondence by speciab-request :— CrarLorrerows, Nov. 23, 1887. To Cnarues A: HynxpMaAx, Esa., Dear Sir,--As it has been cufrently. re- ported that-yoa have stated publicly that a short time aga yen were presén® when four men, who are active members of Orient Division, and who are chief movers ef the agitation against the repeal ef the Seett Act, in your presence and with your assistagce, Arank a b ttle of Scoteh Whiskey, speeially blended, this is to request “you to answer whether the above statements are true. W: N.-RicaGs, Secretary of Repeal Club. Briguren, Nov. 23, 1887. Dear Sir,--In answer to your note of this date, I beg leave to say that I made the statement which yon refer to, and can testify that it jis correct, Will giye the names of the parties on application. C. A. Hyxspmays, To R. N. 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