fully Itefuizes the‘ ‘ O Sptlilflllg during the ButigdrDc- ule in the ‘Provincial Legislature p, ll 2nd Hon.‘ Mr, Myers. Minda- er n! A rlcuiture, referred ilrstto ollle ‘remarks lnade by ‘tlle hon. uni-her who had lust resumed ills ~ out (Mr. Blanchard), who had tak- n up more time alld said loss thim l-obabiy any (ither speaker during ile session. When one deducted lom his address remarks that ilould never have been uilowcllto nus, there war-l so little‘ left that lwould ibe hard to recognize -"t air .speBCh a‘t'ali. Hon. Mr. Myers ontinuc-tl: , 'l'lle hon. nlem-ber quoted mv ril-nd .‘from Charlottetown (Hon. .-_ McMillan) as so)’ m: i-hui a lllrd-claaa teacher was just as good 5 l]. first-class teacher. l think l lll put my reputation for under- [milling and my faculty of hearing gtlillst ‘that of the hon. gcntiettlarl nun 'l‘ign‘ish, and i have ncvcr yet near-d my hon. friend from Char- lliiilflwll make such a statement. 'l‘llc iloll. member also said that we hurl tlftcell less small schools in llif‘ Province today than we hull n yuzlr ago. if be had rclnrrned in llll scat i wouitl have been n-ble to tell hinl tho reason why. it is “cause tho Ufllltlillflllulkhffllifd and me school Act are today being ad- ministered, ns every Act should he administered. fairly. squarely and llnpartluily. During the regn of lilo lillt: Bell Government” tbzly ulrttlc no at-ttlinpt whatever to st‘- ruro llugol" attendance tit our coun- lry schools. if a tcacilcrks nvalagc {ell down alld thc-lo was to be a col msptllldlllg cut in thc salary. all solln of the party hccicrs of the ill-ll Government llurL-to do was t0 conic from that srilooi district. K" to lilo Sulnuillttellzicllt of itlucu- lion, alld ho would say “All rlllill- we will make ll‘p thc iiteflt-icntay." ’l‘ilut has llct-ll irhnllgeil, and when tin-ll- is a deilc cnt-y ill tin». tench- elfl-l salary in the school district now tllerc arc just two things to do. See to lt that tile students ill your dlsttritet attend regularly. tintl the average may bc kept up. or lot tile district ‘make up tile dc- llPlLilCy ill tile ottluiy. That is why rr- have fifteen less sllluli schools ills year than ilercttlforc. ‘lilo mcnrilc-r frolll Tilftlish (MP- iliatlchalil) nlcntioncd lilt- fllct that file city of Ciluriottctown revolves luole bcrlriit tffilfll tho money votied for iilduclrtion than the tonlltryilis- trir-ts. That is_not a ia~ir parallel. it is only stat ng one side 0|‘ ill” vast‘. A»; i silowotl my hon. friclltl when speaknlg on tho Draft Ad- 4j|lig3"'i[hg country students, not- withstanding nny handicap llifly ‘may be under, are ‘more tila-n able ‘to hold their own with the studollls ‘from th‘o city. So fat‘ ‘as the lnltt- ' -ter of expenditure is concerned, i might turll tile ‘tables and oily. "Look at. ‘tho vast artful-l oi JBODB)’ expended throughout the country tilstricts for roads, and in my own Department of Agriculture. I would l ask thc hon. member, “What bone- ‘ ‘fit, if any. is llln Ci-ty tlcrlvingifrom fills?" ‘Wc can't divide thing: up that way. We are a unit. We must put these advantages one against thc other to the best of our ability, and average things up. Mr. Blanchard Corrected. The hon. gentleman took a fling ut the Prohibition Law. He made a statement which l do not think ally other member in th-is House u-onid have made. — a statement which should not hive been allow- ed to go unchallenged; that was altogether beside the fact; and that statement was, ‘that the Govern- mont of ‘today is a rum-selling (lovern-ment. That statement silouid never have been allowed to liii-“s on the floor of this Housema- tnnsc it is not in accordance with lhi- facts. The gentleman knows, A Eamon: Man ‘Pireori nafor of Dr. Pierceh Golden Medical incovar for the blood, u well, ll the “Favori Prescription” for Women, was Dr. y V. Pierce; a lirwfiling hyaiclan in Western Pam- Iyivnnia ht after the Oivil War. Ho earl movcd to Buffalo, d ‘tabi shed Tile lnvalldl . ill up his home , orld a Dispensary,‘ who .8}: - 001's lullapayagi-idnma? _ er I'll‘! all over the U. r quantities nfury‘ fiilaiion r medicine. tl ' ‘ 011 fi n . . e gioig, l.dr|......f;'l , mu gallon . "Plague the blood, o ‘be chin of one and blsmicbqand m ‘ammo women feel cu they did , . “we gully medicinal, in tablet or Reviews Financial Situation, AndSuccess- Levelled at Theliiovernmenfls, Policy u. got ltl (A-pplauoe.) ‘p. vented ntDeil-nlber am. 10h. A IRQ Charlottetown and P. I! imornndliloonhforclrlcl m iobim u: numeral-w- "Writer-mun. - ' Opposition criticism ‘ltd no one knows it better, ‘that this Government, or ‘the late Gov- tr-nmelrt. ha-‘l prac ‘ wally noLn try ta do with the iidmlnicllation of the Prohibition haw. lie knows tllat during 'lbi; Aiztthliszon regime the enforcement of the Prohibition Law .wt.r taktin out c: ii i. n-lrlscf the Government allpgetilcl. A Com- lrlzsts on was appointed. That Cortl- mission was allowed to operate llllL-‘flg ‘the i011.” years of thc Bell iuovrerllment tnd is operating to- ‘tluy. The (lovorament of ‘the day il-We prni-ilcuuy nothing whatever ito do with thc administration of ‘thc Prohibit on low. l think l showed -' hon. friend a fcw night-r ago. lilul as far as ‘thc administration or the Prohibi- ‘tion Law is ronccrnld, it is just .ll-s well, 0r better. lulmlnistered to- ‘dny than ever. i have taken stat- Jstlcs to prove it. The Police Court lermtls of Charlotte-town show that there wt-ro {Lay per cen-t. less coo- vlctions for drunkenness during the past year lllliil :‘.lly other year since records wore llcpt n this City. l think tilat is u complete ‘llLfiWBl to the crii (‘isms of my hon. friend, lcveliezl against the Government wi-til ll-ftrcntro to Pru- hibitlon, (Applause) lie. tells us ‘that the Bell Govern- ment reduced the debt of the Pro- vince $100,000 ‘in four years. klltw that before; l was told li‘ on every platform in lilo Fourth Dis- trict during the inst elect otl. 'i‘here is nn easy explanation for tilnl which l purposeto give later on. He also said that this (lovcrnlnent was foiiowingliln the fconrwps oi the late Government and that ‘the Premier had lately been ill Ottawa at rho Good [load-s (‘onlcrellcc ask- ing for an extension of thc good loads gralrt in order that we might sot-urn more money for expendi- ture on highways. That is not in nccorilance with facts. Tile Premier did not attend the Good Roads Coll- fcrente. He was in -‘()ttawh on otllol- business. .\ir. Shaw wentup ilccauae he was a member of the Conference, nnd' so far as I um aware this-Province did not ask for a single addifonal dollar. ’l‘il<..- nrain object of the Conference was to provide for some of the Western rProvinces who cam}; into ‘thlsgootl lomds scheme la-ter. Their grunt lt.-rd not been taken up and in order to allow them to do so. thn t-inle was extended; rbut no more money has ‘been voted for road work by thc Dominion Government, and my hon. frirnll ought tn know tilat very well. Flnahcec and the External Audit. only this. ‘but We find also that dur- ing 1922 ‘the Sdlkillll Fund levy of $10,470 and $27,978.41 collected-un- MP- Niall". thin w» not only un- sound financing but it was a dis- tlrlct breech of faith with than: who had Invented money in P. E. inland llccuritiel. Proper Buuinen Methods. Province it is necessary from time to time to borrow ‘money for curry- lng on tilc public uffairs,_but one of -tile underlying principles of such financing nluat always be observed, and that is that adequate provision for sinking funds mus-t ‘bl,- provid- cd in order ‘that the alllouut ‘bor- rflWl-(l may be liquidated at ‘the end of the term and the dcht automati- tully discharged. i might remind ‘my hon. friends that there ‘is nothing new in this; l‘t is a practice of business men. It’ a luau wants a ioatl of $5000 or $6000 on a farm, he will ‘be piac-i-tl ullder certain ‘obligations. 'l‘ileso obligations would represent for thc most ‘part the sinking funds of the Provlnce. He would ‘be asked to .1851) his farm ‘In proper condition repair, his machinery kept up to requirements, and bib property ill- sured. in that way, and in tho-z way only, the man loaning ‘the mo- tley on the farm would have his security. lif he finds. on the con- trary, that the tenant of the farm ls allowing things to fall into dc- aoy, practli-ilng ball methois oi arming, so that the price of his iaym would bc. reduced in valuclle would have no other course opcu but to close down on the loan and .-.eli lliln out. That i}: the position my hon. fricndo put the Province .n by their practice ior four yearn. l ‘might read a letter trout ‘Lil'- llolrd Dealers‘ Association oi Can- ada which l have hare:- . ".\t thc inst annual meeting of the Bond Dealers’ Associationof Cilfldilfl, (.'f)ilSl(l8l‘fl‘ll|e uttontorl was devoted to tile sll-biet-t or Sinking l-‘untiai During the year there has ilcen a continuous stream of inquiry front all coll- ceivaille sources, including (ll-cat B-itain and ‘the United State-i, regarding the position of our Do- minion, Provincial and Municipal Sinking Funds. At the ins-t Ex- rcutlve Committee meeting or‘ tin- liond ‘Dealers’ Association a rc- aoiuton was passed, u (‘opy of which ia-ellclosed herewith. "ln view of the critical ntvitudt of ‘these inquiries, especially Oll the part of large investors, rtnti in view of the fact that. at thc present time, our Provincial Sink- ‘ing Funds fail fur short of lili- actual theoretical requirements sufficient to retire the outstand- ing obligations at tllcll‘ maturity, ‘the members of our Association considered it ‘to ‘bn urgent that our Provinces g-lve serious atten- tion to the condition of sinking funds and formulate businesslike policies of debt retirement. it i.-i important that the authorities should ‘take early occnaon to make provision in this connection ‘to maintain the high credit stand- Hc spoke about the reduction of debt by $100,000. That ‘brings ‘me l remember during that campaign heard that story from Mr. Bell anti his followers. that they had added $25,000 a year to ‘the alnkilng funds. which was a reduction of $100,000 in four years. l would just like to go into that for a few minutes and in order to do that I would direct the attention of the House to ‘the report of Mr. ‘Blanche-t who was employed by this Government to go into the finances of _ths Pro- vi-ncc and show exactly where we sfxlod. i would like to read the warrant that Mr. ‘Blancbet received from this Government: 1. “To ascertain the exact debt of the Province up to and includ- ing the 5th day of Sept., 1923. 2. At-lcertain all liabilities ac- crued due and ‘payable up to the amid 5th day of September. A.D. 1927i. . 5i. Ascertaln all liabilities which the Government of Prince Ed- ward isiand is now under and which are not now paya-bie and not accrued due on the said 5th day of September. A.D. 1923. 4. Give a fllli list of all con- tracts relatlng to each Depart- ment made by the Government up to the said 5th day of Sep- tember, A.D. 1923. stalling in tab- ulated lform how much is due on such contracts, how much ls paid. thereon. with dates of payment hereafter to ‘be made. 5. Generally to make such full and complete enquiry into and examination of the finances and affairs of the Province as will enable hl‘m to give a correct re- iport thereon. / 6. To make such suggestions and recommendations regarding the proper system of keeping ac- counts or the simplification or improvement of the existing sys- tem, and respecting such other matters relating ‘to the finances of the Province us he may deem avisable." 'f‘llat was pretty wide scope for an auditor.‘ We did -not say, "W‘ want you to cook up an account to make things look bad for the Bell Government and 500d for us." We “M, "Wg wont you to find the true financial conditio ." We paid him m‘ that: we wnnmdlhc frvlli and nothing but fhc firuth, and we id you turn to Mr. Bienchct‘: re- port (pages 3 and 4) you will ilnd the Sinking Funds invented u fol- lows: ' Charlottetown and P. E. i. bond; .. ..... 134000.00 Victory bonds 5599-00 Government P. ill. I. deposit - receipt! 1,844.5 1min in file wit! iii"! "N . ember 310i: 1022. however, w . a: a differed! story alto titer. for on that m» we flndt e in- vertfnonfa as follows: lng which we. have hitherto sn- joyed._" What action were my hon. friends to the question of the sinking fund. takbg during the ‘pant four 3'08" lto maintain the highly creditable of 1923, from every platform weiatandnrd ‘that we have hitherto ell- joyed? That is the way they 0c- count for ‘their reduction of debt. by ‘depleting the ' sinking funds. which they had absolutely no rig-ill to toucb. (Applause.) And 1 um glad to be table to tell the House that that money has ‘been credited back to the sinking funds. and Wc are in such aipoaltion today that we can approach the ‘bond dealers and put up a genuine proposition; we can chow them just where W0 stand, and we stand just where we show them. A Brief Review. The Leader of the opposition yesterday wandered far afield. in order to cover ‘the ground and foi- low him as l would like to -do it will be necessary for a short Lme to review some of the poiiticaihL-l- tory of our Province. ‘though lgive the House the assurance that i will not go nearly s0 far ‘back into ancient political :hlstory as my hon. friend front the First District. l would just like to review the campaign of 1919, and l do not think there is a member in this House who is in a better position to review that campaign than 1 ‘myself. i bod the privilege of contesting the election for ‘the grand old ‘Fourth District of Prince against the former Commissioner of Agriculture and his colleague. Premier Bell. They always told the some story. night after night. They had‘ it down so finethat ‘they simply couldn't make a ‘mistake. l have a fairly good memory, llnd l hnppen to remember the story very well. Though the tide was against the Conservative party on that occasionyi bad the pleasure at ‘that election of cutting down the majority 0i that wonderful Com- miasionel‘ of Agriculture ‘by over one hundred, and int campaign I uni-visa up m. job. (Annmarie-i You remember. Mr. Speaker, that previous ‘to 1919. owihg to the high coat of living, largely brousllrt albout by ‘the war, the teachers consider- ad- that they were not receivinl voQ LIKE YO I WHAT wouuia gm’ 5R1‘ . i. .l1S4.500.00 mnhmngmtfntaopula ‘ mo’: ...'.....'.....tu.ta€.io. W‘ . allownlr null during m 10ml 1m o» 000000.00 Victory mm, had been sold. and the 91'0"." ‘turned into liberal revenue. Not tiie credit of the General Account. wym an honogf, his fences and ‘buildings in proper. i sufllcient salary. Living 510911888 had almost dun-bled and in order to provide fol this Premier Arsen- d" m” "m" vemc“ A"! W911i- l° auit cattle before the people in 1019 open stattlnellf. that he required ‘more moucy, and cskctl the people to help hilll 3.. lt. What was the attitude of our iron. friends -in the Opposition on that occasion? No one kno a it better than myself, for l liete d to it for ‘tilirteeu or fourteen nights .ll the Fourth District. and on each in carrying on the linancea oftllo and every" 0134;118:011 tilt-y came i...- fole the people Mr. Bell's state- ment was this: “We don't need to do that; there is no neculty for it. Put us in power and with the then existing rcvcnu-g at our d-l- poul, by drsmlulng a numbcnoi nudes: officials and by practicing economy we will not only be able to make revenue and exfluifmm“ ma", “m1 Qlvg gfficlcnt public eer- vl", but wg vu.‘|i be able to double fh tcacllcrn‘ salaries." That wa-i the statc-lnell-t anti l challenge any man ln the Opposition to_ deny it. The people didn't know bull, then: he put that rosy proposition ‘before tilcm and be fooled tilc 119011"!- But you can only “Fry f?" “Q game once. The reaction 1'3"!“ l“ tho rlcxt campaign‘ Am" ‘my turn into power they knew very rvrli they could not curry 0i"- m?! out‘; alltl tile first th n: they ‘lid was to increase ‘taxatioli ‘by ‘U19 famous TAX ACI. 0f 19301 8nd thc)! incorporated. into that, that won- .ler".ul Poll Tax which secnls to b9 so popular with thc Opposition. i wonder just how popular that was. when 11ml Poll Tax came dowli tilt-re was an indignation meeting "n Charlottetown, and all over thc ountry as well; in fact. Wiiefewi‘ these ‘men wont to speak. whether at an agricultural, meeting 0P a meeting of any other kind, it re- solved i‘taeif into an iadiflllflliiil‘ meeting. What ‘They Did ‘in Charlotbcibw" At ‘that mac-ting in Charlotte- owll i i>r“it-:' to save their lives. the {up ntaiivt-l; oi the City had .o promist that tiloy W611i‘! Z0 back .1110 tht‘ ilouse ulld lllake arrange- lnellls Wilt ri by that Poll Taxwould no; npllly o (Jllllllottetown. These .ucll WUYE no. u-ble to curry thflll‘ ljlylnl, "ho Government insisted ‘n pllit n2. i lilfmliiii. ‘makilil "- .ptlatlvc on the incorporated towns i5 well. and that is out‘. of thc 59356113 ‘that at the last election hose two gentlcnlcn were turned lown. it‘ that Poll Tux was so popular. why are lhc books burdened with arrears today? l may My Tight he“, that never until tho present time did we know wilcrc we stood, completely, with reference l0 W!’ arrears of taxation. During "l‘- mm- yenm o; the Bell regime, I think l would be stile in suyinr; that more mistakes wont out from ‘that Tax Ofllcc l0 U19 iiffilii“ (“the Province than in any eight ye!" before. When wc rami- into DOW" and ‘took charge, it would simply wmflze ymp Mr, speaker. to see the careless, haphazard way in which these accounts wcrc ltclit‘. and We have since had to be veryvcflftml‘ ln gull-lg over them to rectify these mismkei M" who had died three years ago were sent out circulars! (Laughter. lnuflng m9 past season I PM the clerks ‘t0 W011i ill i-iii-ii omce- and we have tabulated the arrears fol 1020, 1e21, 1922 nnu ‘i923. ‘w that when a notice goes out we wil-lfbe able also to send the ‘bill of arrears to each individual. They tell us tllait came in they .iound the teat-here on strike. Thalt -ia not quite in au- ggrdnncs with the facts. Theteach era were all rzhl (luring ‘he A“ senault administration. They We" promised an increase and ‘they were watching the steps that werfi taken to secure l‘t; ‘bin "he" m“ Bell Government went through the land preaching against ‘that it; crease, and when after they hi1 ggjned power the teachers in dele- gation afiter delegation waited on them without success until their patience bad worn 01". and "in" the professors oi Prince of Waiefl Collage, "me after time, waited on the Government and received n0- tblng but ‘plausible IJPQmiBQS-"w" it wan, and not until then. that a strike occurred; and the teachers simply rebelled. i am credibly informed that when the teacbe n of the College.—0ui' own Island boys—threataned ‘i0 strike, Mr. lBeii made enquiries from other Provinces for a staff to take their place and he was in- formed ‘that for the salaries he was offering he could not get half l staff. And then he bad to Beldliw" on his knees and make terms. (Ali- pluuse.) I am proud to any, n I member of the prevent Govern- ment, that since we came" in we have received the hcarticat cc-op- oration. not only from the worth)‘ Principal of that College but from every one of the luff. (APDIBUBB-i Conservative Selling Ordcrl. t We might contrast tiff; cam- pmlgn of 1919 with the cam- paign of 1923, and ‘the ‘Manifesto that Premier Stewart put out to the people during ‘the latter evenl- l think I can repent almost every word of it. It was an honest. straight-forward, clean-cut it)!!!‘ form. And than he charmed the whole thing when be brought the wit: womowvt-ztcortc" m Mubn Rock-ta on iT- bu‘! cu uHDER Doc row.» OflDQFJb ' 5O 6lm<s Mt H‘ GLKQS OI’ Mime. AN‘ g - Conservative candidates $089111" "1 BRINGING UP FATHER»-— New. 5mm: v/FVH l 11m cnsatorrcrowu when they‘ ‘ . ..,. . .. - i-c o‘ 1-1-‘9-14- r r 3"?‘ . . .., ,‘ '. r coalition Charlottetown a fcw days before the calnpa-ign opened and maria us ‘this statement: Herc to your plat- form. if any of you gentlemen g0 1° the Pf-Opie and make them any promises. or tcil them anything other than what is contain-ad in this plaeorm, you do so on your own responsibility." That was our Biiiling orders, and that s the only Ellie Wziy for any leader .0 couJutl a campaign ‘before the intelligent c cctolate or Plant-t.- iidlv-ard island. Anti l may say that ii lnybou. friends will have a little patience, we will allow tilcm that every pro- "Iar. we made In that platform will be carried out to thc very best of our ability. ' The Lcadt-r of the Uppusltlflflw al;.i l unl sorry he is not ill his Diiitwfwsjililfg yesterday albout lt.-inn,- lilnllrisnzlis llluile in l't.'l’t.'l‘Blli'.c to ri-tlllllcd soldiers, and among oth- ers, of a junior at tin: ‘Pccilnicui bcilool, wilclo hc said u lcturllcd soldier hail been ilislrlissed and all- (|i|lt‘i' mu-ll put in his placc. l rc- ler to ‘this particular statement of ills rllecatse l happen to know the tictniis. And their, is not one par- ticle of truth on that ctatcmcm. Th¢ Janitor at the Technical School was never dismissed; he held on thcic until the S:hoai was closed, ind h; was not a returned soldier at that. _ ii’ llieic is_uny party that never should mention dismissal of offici- als rt is the party represented by my lion. friends on the opposite side of tllc House. ll is tl-un lhnl \\‘llLil (iovernmt nts change, whcna Llbt-rttl (iovelnnlcnt tioltlt-‘s lnlo pilwcr. or vit-c vl-rsa, after all elec- lllil. -r‘o.e‘\-' (iiflIlliSl. ls a-re sometimes iliiltlf‘. lilat has always ilorn rill- ctlse. but l want to tell my hon. fric-nds tbs: we have nevcr dis- missed our own friends, and ‘that is more titan tllcy i-an-suy. What happened after 102d? ’l‘il ‘y dlad through tileJcllgtil and breadth Of the [ski-nil a number of t-oll- ‘trtictors worllillg on thc roads lncn who did not hold tileir pus lion by virtue oi appointnlrnt ‘but tilmrlgll tenders tulbtllittcrl to ill." (luvi-l-ll- nlcnt, anti their $501) ilontlal w- rc ill tho Public Works office. Notwith- standing lilat, two vinyl; af-it-l‘ tile. election, tircy colnrllclltvctl cutting all these illcn off by stopping the work. I remember a contractor ill my own sect on who spent f1 (‘Oll- sldcrtrbite amount of ‘rnoncy illlyirlg equipment for llli‘ carrying on of thc road work. iio had nrrungi-ll lift-l ‘time no n5 to spend the sum- mer on ihl, roads. ’l‘llc i-Z-gction was on Wctlnesdily, and on Friday thc onglntcr (tame out and told him, “You must quit tonight." Thel contractor strld, “lt in inlpos-iiille ‘to quit tonight. There arc excova-i Lions mudl». across tho road for t-ui-i ‘verts; ‘tho roads arc ploughed and! left ready for the road machine. Give us at least tomorrow, and wc will do our best to flx up rIOlTlG ‘of these plat-cs." "You quit tonightli if you work tomorrow you pay forl it yourself." That was the orderi that went out to these workers -—liot only to tilis contractor but t0 hundreds of tilcil‘ own ranks who were working on the roads, land‘ incidentally everybody in the Province shared in the punishment thatiwas vested llpoil these people by the hon, gentlemen of the Lib- eral pnrty, who proved as short- Islghted in politics as ‘they were ill some other tirngs. llnt let ‘them remember-four years after all is a short period. and that action will not be forgotten when the next election comes aroundl Road: and Highways. A word or two now about the roads. it is not in ‘my line of business, yet after all it is a pub- lic question. When we came in on the 5th of September after these contracts had ‘been tied up and af- ter the Bell Government had held on to office from the preceding July, we cunle comparatively late ‘in the season, when there was no possibility of doing any work in connection with the rottds. We found that the apprqpriat on for that year bad all been spent and none of the contracts wore worked over a 50 per ent. ‘basis. 'l‘hat was the proposllon that_my hon. friend the Mill-is r of Public Works had to fact: when he took charge; and I think it is something Iss5 ‘than lair for the Leader of ‘the opposlmn not to slve lion. Mr. McDonald crcdit for the wonderful way in which he has broughtorder out of chaos and has carried on the road work. The Lender of thc Opposition says we curl icd on the same road policy as our predeces- sors. in a great many cases we could not help it. The contracts were laid out alld we had to finish them. _ Bu-t there is one marked difference. and that is that our contract! have coat from $800 U: $1500 a mile; while their have cos. from $1500 to $3000 n" mile. (Ar- please.) My 150p. friend sometimes ‘gets into a light vein. He told as u very amusing story ‘about lthal. wonderful Western Road that hlld been built by the Liberal party- Nobody said it was not i1 500d "lid- Noboriy ever found any fault with n. But he telia us ‘that it was all right illrtli the Conservatives came mm grower; and then that flm- road wan; n" m plgcgg; that it became so rough and rufty tlla‘t he bloke the springs of his car driving over lt.! it taken a good driver to hi! every hole in the road. He ml" Ngw JQHN ‘LE1’ ME see ~ ova-m. NE were ‘some mama pic. STEAK wvorxvoes Qatar-v.» TEA AND some ‘come back to the House next occ- ‘oe a wonderful driver. Then he told us that almost over night alder trees began to grow up on that load, and I have no doubt, if we have good growing weather during zhls present year. that when we s.un-—i wouldn't be at Iill uurpricdti fr. hcar him telling uu that iihdll; were bears ciimtong .up than: buuheo. tLaughiter.) Uut when my hon. friend com- pares the public road-s o.‘ tb-,- lPro- vlllce to a plcughtd ll.ld, that 1:: going beyond a joke. -rt ..a going further til‘!!! any man should over go who expects some day to lead the deal tries oi rllis Provinct. The peopio tilemsolvea willrtutl his statement and they will say. "Wny,j , -lt is jllltl . in keeping with other of his state-l , ‘hat is not true at all." nlentll along financial lines. We never colllplainod of the ltnds lic- lug they never wero ‘that ‘bad, and they certainly tire l.ot that bud now. l, nln glad my hon. friend is u teln- pcrctnctjnlnn, or l would bc illclill-' cd to be suspicious. (Luughtt r.) l remember ilearitlg a littic story about two triggers in Southern States. Tbcir pay day| tanlc on the r-"llne dad‘,- alni th"y| went to town to celebrate. Thcrc was plenty of iiqilol' thcu and tile (lot-tors didn't tahdrge ‘for prcscr p- . trons. ‘At night they were feeling pretty good. Tiley had an oill Ford car anti they climbed ‘in it. started for home, They were driving about the same way ‘as the Lcadenof the (lpposition must have drivcn-'-hit- tillg every hole. and finally . they loft the road altogether utfd got into ll ‘ploughed field. ‘One fellow mls ill the front and ‘the other in tilc back. Al last, after proceeding Hfllllp distance ill this fashion, Ras- tns was ‘tillowtl from illc rcar "llto lite front seal. "Sam." said Raatlls, "l think you bud better be n lrttic careful how you urn driving." “Driv- "ilg, "iii-CHIS?" said Sam, “l thought you werr driving!" (Laughter and n] pluilscJ Agricultural Dept. Activities. A few worth: no‘.\‘ about my urvll ilepzlltnlt-llt. i llllri some colouri- mcnlu paid lne yesterday. Sum. of tilcm may have Iilccn icft-hatlilod ‘fiiiiiiiiimi-nts. ye-t i lake tilcm all in $400.1 ‘part. 'lhe iron. gcntleln-n all)‘ lilal in my ofllcc i alll always very 00111190111"! and vr-ry kind “loll, it ls out dirty no to in‘, not only in Jill; Department of Agriculture hilt iliso .ll tile ‘fax Office. MU!) t'0ill\1 .ll with difficulties; explallgllong are wan-led anti the hcad of title Dc- partrllent Slltlllld always see to it that tilcae people, when they come ill, reicc-lvo every courtesy and ev- ery kindness. That is ‘my duty; and i want to any right here, that I would not keep an official II" my em-pioy who would give anything has than kind attention and court- esy to everybody. rllut my hon. friend from Sunl- lilat Ibad under the Lberalilgi ‘ the l ‘ .1, i Victory Bond ; ‘ Interest c; a . ' . can be profitably and safely ammo in securities selected from the current issue of Invenment Recommendarionr. We can arrange instalment pcyrncnta for those who periodically have moderate i amounts to apply against the purchase of sound investments. Write for your copy of Investment 132, Recommendation: today. Royal Securities Corporation Limited t Great George Street, (Jhcrlottcwwn Monaco! Torque HclihrSt. John Winnipeg Vlnocuvc bud btcll, fur some pcopic tcqliiikt to read il letter several iiillQH bc-I fore they can tukc it ill. iiowevclg, l will read it again for his ilelli-flt. "Dear Sir: "l beg ln adviiso you tilat ‘tllel hatching season is now oval" and that all things cunsidelcil wc had a sat sfactory season. Welland!- ed ayliroxllnately 40.000 eggs ulld| hatched out bctwccn 1S.000 and 19,000 chicks. We are enclosing ilerewitil a tlna-rlciai statement silowirlg the expenses and rc- criipts up ‘to June 30th. Yoll will. note that after allowing ‘for ali| cxpcnnts there is a credit ‘inti- allrv iii Sltltllitl. "()r ilcllall’ ol‘ this Association and thr- membcrs of the egg c rtii-l; l wish to thank you for your ilelpllli iiliI'l'I3‘~li. and ‘filt- \'t'!‘y vuiunille ‘assistance render- l-il ily your Dcprlrtlneri ill getting lilo: ilatt-llcry under way. "Yours faithfully, "A. R. JONES. "Asst. Mgr." Now that is not "on ilehalf of‘ ritilllldlfiti)‘ who told lng something." That is on ‘in-half of the Egg and Poultry ltsstlt-ttlt-ion. ll-l tilut sut- isfaclory to my hon. friend. (Ap- piausc.) . (ithcr ‘filings were on a ‘par with that (Zlfilitllkim oi his. He referred to the clover hulicr which has been put into operation successfully by- nly Department. Tilc ri-asotl lit-Bill] last called it a “clover illlllcr" was ilccailse he was correctctl by tho, lnetllber from ilunlmeroitlc. illll-"lldc (Mr. MtAlllilii‘) said tilat he d.ilt1’t know at first whether the Department of Agriculture was functioning or not; ‘that l was there nlolc as the Ornament of the llepartnlent. Well, l may be pretty ‘but i am not polite, and i want to toll my hon. friend i-n reply that lt will be a long time before either he or hi! colleague (Mr. Saunders) w-ill be chosen as ornaments to any ‘Rllqrtment. (Laughter and lp- clause.) Mil. McARTiiUR: We are good looking cnotigh-i Mil. SAUNDERS: lthink my ‘iron. ‘trend would be a nice orna- mcn-i up there (pointing to the lvuli oi the Chamber.) HON. MR. MYERS: My hon. friend (Mr. Saunders) mentioned the purchase of an incubator thc other day; he said somebody told him about the facts. That ‘la-a poor excuse to come ‘before the Houst- with. But somebody is going to tell him something right tnow; a-lld that a. that before flu mentions a matter of this kind, let him see to it tilut he gets accurate und lcli- uilie information,‘ l may inform ililll that willie negotiations were pend ag fol the purchase of that machine by the Poultry Associa- tion, not only theconscnt ‘but the uld oi tile Department bad to be secured. Not only ‘that, but they uskctl us it‘ we \\'ould guarantee their losses up to $300 ‘in the first year's operation. l was anxious to ace it put into operation, and i agreed to do so. Even that did not settle the nln-tier. lBefore ‘the purchase could ibe nlade ‘the man- ager of the Egg and Poultry Asso- ciation had to ‘submit the proposi- tion to the directors of the Associ- ation at the meeting dur.ng Farm- era’ Wecir and a vote was taken, and 0n account of ‘the fact ‘that this incubator had at one ‘time been the. property of Canadian Farm Products, the ‘proposition was ‘not well received. Cuntvliah (Farm Products at that f‘lmo (lid not ‘taste vcry good in tho months of these people. if it had not been ‘for the assurance the secretary of my Dapnrlmvnl, Mr. Boiliter, and nly- liell’, gave that nleving, that we were behind ll and would guaran- I63 the projet-t against loan. they would not have ‘boon able to carry it forward, and they only carried it by a narrow margin at that. 1 read a letter in tile‘ haarlnl; 0f the Home ‘the other day. The Iiolllfil‘ of ‘the Opposition. was not ‘in his neat. I do not know that it would make very much difference i‘! IIB started by culling it a That allows wilnl my hon. friend knows llrbolit Agriculture. Pcrilaps he was thinking about those pota- iocn of his that be was "cillilllg" lust fail. MR. SAUNDERS: What is thc diference between u "illlllcl"' and a "caller?" HON. MR. MYERS: in this r-utr‘ fhcra isn't ally difference, inn-nus.- thero ‘ls-nit any ant-h thing as a clover "cuiicr." l nlny infonll ll‘illl that tho machine he refers to was bought by my predecessor in office l‘t was used to a small extent the first year. and it has ‘ilccn lying it‘ aomebodys ‘burn in O‘Lcary ever since. it was lnti to work for tile first tmc, since then. lust year. and in now doing good service. That Lime Crusher. There was something else my ilon. friend did not mention -—— a nluchltle that is not in operation. lt is a lime crusher. <i wonder ii he knows where Miminegash is? Would be ‘take it amiss if l sug- gtsttd that he journey rip thcrc and see it some time? l have my grave doubts whether the Leader of thc Opposition ever saw ii. know i went up there and expected to find an available supply of l rnc rock to crush. i saw nothing ‘but this lime crusher on the thank, and somebody told ‘mc that ulldcr thc tide was whcre thc lime rock is that three feet of sand ‘is piled over the ledge, and it is only an occasional time wilcn they can got any rock at all. lt is rcd island limestone-with a certain percent- age of llrnc; not too bad. But the ldeu—the stupidity, of establishing a crusbllng plant there. How are you going to keep a staff of men to watch that, -to take advantage of the ‘short rperioda between tides lvilcn the fock is available? The matter wan taken up ‘by my Dcpartnlcnt. I told thc people that l would not keep men and teams tilerc to watch for an occasional chance‘ ‘for getting a little lime rock; ‘bllt if tho farmers wentthero ‘tilemselves, watched their cllunct- rind ‘brought up their own pile of rock. than the Department would crush it at cost. Was not that a fa‘lr bargain? The proposal l put up to those men was this: "Some of you men take over this pia-llt. l‘t cost the country some/thing over $2,650, and where it is placed now it is eleven lnilea from any railway; take it over and establish it near the filial- wlly at some central polllt and go ll.‘ work ‘in a liliSifltFrilikf-‘b way nllii nstrt-ltain uilnt thc lmo would 1.5.251 lllillltfl there. Thc-ll wc will klluw \\'lli1l.\Vf' uli- zlt.“ ilut t-rusilini; limo inr our ptople in this Pro- vinrc would be at tile ‘ilcsi a nut-s» iiollabic VGXlIllfiL in lji-ply to tile criticism of the menlbtl" for Sulrlluersiilc that ‘the Department 0t Agricuitilro was not fiinctuoning, I might inful nl ililll that i had a conference with tin.- Minisiers of Agriculture for Nova Scotla a-nd Ncw ilrullswick, and we sllbrnittorl a proposition to till‘ nliwny aulhmitlfs at Moncton and secured a reduction ‘in freight rates for the Maritime Provinces of 70 cents a ton on crushed ‘lime. To- day we can land It at $4.50 a ton at Borden-cheaper than it wan ever landed in this PFOViflb: before. with corresponding rates at other stations. (AppiuuseJ The Fa lconwood Herd. Willi reference to the pure brt-d ilcrll of lilllllgWll Falriluwutxi, to WlLtfli the Lcadlel‘ of tllc Uppositltlll lcfcrrcd when praising the fm-rn-r Colllnlisslilncl‘ or‘ Agriculture \lilii('i' the lute (ioverllmi nt, i have this to say. Wt‘ llavt- a llullrber ofbreid» ors of ‘pure bred rattle in the Pro- vi-ncr‘. alni wo have some nllgllty‘ good ones. One man was able lo securi- $1100 tor u cow within the past tllrce or four months. ’l‘iles.- men havo devoted n lifetime to their work. They are referred to as profi-ssollui ireedtera. That is Hi: just what llluy are, alld l um proud "¢iiilPi‘". ni’ thc fact that we have men who ‘are spending their time and money {in iluilding ilp pltre bred herds. For you l'il' not secure such a herd ~- l-nnnoi buy it; you must build it up. it must bf‘ done by the pro- m is oi i-lilnlnzltion. These men rllrtlngiloni fh. Province have ilcell doing that. 'i‘ilcy are taxpayers of lili- Prov lit-e. alld it is just 1i quas- llorlrrilll‘ ‘po.tlt whether ‘the Govern- ment is justified l‘n taking taxes froln tilt-ac lnell and turning around and investing thc motley in a [)lll‘U bred herd and putting that herd up n competition with their own cat- tle. That is u question which i, for one, have not yct decided. if my iron. friend would enquire from the Medical Superintendent he would find tbnt ilefore that pure ilrt-d hcrd was established at Fal- cmlwtiotl ‘the conditionsJ-lo far as thc supply of milk for the institu- tion ls concerned, were just as satisfactory. MR. SAUNDERS: Why was that? HON. MR. MYERS: Largely on account of the cost. it is a mlgilly expensive ‘proposition to keep up ‘t herd of that kind. During ‘tho past season we have increased orlr milk supply over the previous sca- son ‘by $284.32 worth of milk. The inst season l‘t was 231,671 i‘bs.. as against 216,654. Don't worry. my hon. friend, things are not going back. The farm management and the management of livestock at. Faiconwod today is beirtg continu- ed just as well as ever it was. (ApplallseJ My hon. friend also takes a fling lti. blxllilftlons and questions thc value of theat- centrui exhibitions. l take issue with hilll on that point. i have nlten heard a statement that central exhibitions of this kind benefit only tile‘profess'onai ‘breed- er. The way l look upon these exhibitions la tilis: Very much the (Oont-lriucd on Page 8) Shoefillish for your shoes If saves the leather and - Improve: your personal appearance GEORGE Mcilrl A N US i DON'T THINK‘ YLL HAVE AN‘! OififlfifiT- YOUK @991 TlTE 13*“? VERN C-OQD TODAW t $\R. owwés Wt“: taut on cow-m. ‘r0 ~ conuao ‘ czar we csoowtca OtHNEQ TQN\Q\-\1‘. _ CKKQKER - HM," . a . I/ ‘ s ‘ . u _ ‘ ' I Qffl o! luv-e. firth linen. Inc . Cunt lit-u to» moo-t