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_lifgqpigrdayl May 24th, being V i`ctori`a Day, and 'Ia
.rtati2tir_r_y”liiili`d¢iy,  Morithig _G`uard1'ari _rt-ill not-be
issued on‘Thur.rday~. - The  Guardian will not
be piililislicd on W`edne.rday.'bui #jill be published or
miial on Tliursddyf  _please iuite these
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_ \Vizi>i~'i-zsoiw, Mar i7, 1916.
THE PA'l`llI0‘l"S llECORD
The l'atriot professes indignation and disgust. that
the Guardian should apply the epithets contained in its
own coluiiiiis ever the signature of Mr. _I. J. Hughes
to that gentleman himself. It squeals and protests
and alleges that no such journalism was ever hereto-
fore experienced in this province. We stated frankly
yesterday that we 'hated to write as we had done, and
to descend to the depth plumbed by .\lr. Hughes in the
Patriot, but on the plea that desperate diseases require
desperate remedies we applied to .\lr. Hughes the lan-
guage he himself had used about us? And with what
results? The Patriot is pained and perturbed. Why
did it not feel thus when it published iii bold editorial
type and doubly emphasized with black letters the very
language of which it now complains? The reason is'
obvious and easily explained, the Patriot has a record
for mud slinging second to none in Canada, but like
all such thinskinned controversialists it resents when
the very same language is applied to itself and its
friends; it begins to squeal and protest. ,
Our coiiteinporary complains that such method of ;
controversy is new to journalism here. \\'e wish that,
were true, but alas, it is not, and the Patriot knows it.,
We turn at random to the files of our contemporary
and this is what we find in its issue of Sept 19,1909. A
"The Patriot Editor is accused of ‘indecency’ andf
of doing “the dirtiest kind of party work” because heh »
happens to cdit a newspaper of Liberals leanings. .
The-si: epitliets place all who have any connection with ~‘
the party press in a very low category.” _ -
So that even seven years ago the Patriot was ac-°
cused in the Guardian of practising the same “dirtiest‘
kind of party work,” it is still continuing in. _ N
A leopard cannot change its spots.
Turning back the pages of the Patriot to Scptem-_i
ber 19, 1909. we find this choice paragraph in its edi-jf
torial.
"l~lissi1ig over its defeat the Guardian tl1en»turiis
:ind squirts its venom at the Editor of this paper. Let!
ns tell the Guardian right here that a belief firmly held
by many people whose judgment is worthy of ~coii-3
siileratioii is that the real reason why that journal for,
the last five or six years has consistently suppressed
and iiiisreprcsciited the facts in connection with the
Dominion Government, and why it has persistently'
maderor iiisinuated (thc meanest form of lying) falsek
statements with regard to what the Government has
done or is doing is because the Government did not
fake its Iiilitor at his own valuation, and did not think
him to be of sufiicient importance to be advanced to
positions or employment.” i
Could anything bc meaner or more conteinptiblc
than such personalities? Anil _vet we are now told by'
the Patriot that formerly it and its contemporaries con-,
ducted controversy on a high level of journalistic cfhics`
The Examiiier, too, we are informed by the Patriot
was always a Simon Pure in discussions. If that be,
so, what is the meaning of this from the Patriot of
February 17, 1909?
“Yesterday Mr. john A. Uatliiesoii, Leader of the
Opposition, had the temerity to state that a scurrilous
and abusive article had appeared in the Patriot regar-
ding himself * * * It is no justification of the
]'lxainincr's coarse and libelloiis article on the Pre-
inicr to try and fasten such scurrility upon the Pat-`
riot * " * VVc have never descended to such dis-
graceful or degrading depths, in the abuse of public,
men' _that our contemporary-the Tory organ-hasl
been guilty of !" ' 
This, we suppose, is what the Patriot iioiv reférs to
as the lofty tone which pervaded the discussion- of pub-_
lic questions in days gone-by. We are _afraid ourron-
temporary is wofully ignorant of what the ethics of
journalism ure, or, if it is not, it has bccii, woiidcrful,ly`-
successful in ignoring them in practice as it has 'done
sim-nic 1-ion. David Land vacated me editorial
chair. V `
\Ve need not refer to recent history, tlieblackgnar-
ding of the I-Ion. J.  McNeill, and the iinputations
against the integrity and honour of the business men
who were concerned in the shipment of oats and liay
C0"tl’i§?f5~ NDI' l1€¢d,»'we~'talte notice of otl r t
, _ ie attacks
01' =\ iicfsoiwl character. to which the Patriot has open-
er by
Ill' mann by
Phono >...,~....;......1ll._,v¢n ya;-5 ago, and may have been in-ltype for all _wc
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“the cold, and the snow o_f_a winter in which the tem-
. __`_witli,micc around it. _ _ '
cause the British blockade is shortening their food sup-
_ _ _ ever marked the grave of any  the nations that have i'
eil its _coluiiiiis-seurrility which would dcmean the s' lth - 1
_ic
irresponsible _iounialisticdlg ¢V¢f Published
The Guardian has ever maintained a high standard
of j6uruiilism,,'and  diseussed'»th; subjects irhas
with on their merits. This every one_~recogi\izes,
and it is simply because the Guardian has, for a change,
taken the language found in the Patriot's own coluiniis
and applied it tothe Patriot’s own contributors, that
our contemporary is chagrined and .waxes \vroth. The
language of its editorial yesterday isstiikingly reiniii-
Let ourcontemporary change itsfways, removing,
_ is tio mote in the eye of ` ltsneighbors. 
,   ,_A nirfoi‘“iiis'roiiii
An interesting sidelight has been thrown upon the
complaints made bythe German Chancellor and the
press of Germany over the starving of innocent wo-'
men and babes by the }}ritish blockade, by the publica-
tion iii the London Times from its columns of 1870-
71 of some facts on the siege of'Paris when the Ger-
mans were starving the civilian population of that city
into surrender. The article is well worth reading in
the light of present day events. W'e trust it has found
'its way into Gemiany. No doubt the German press'
of that day would also afford some food 'for thought
among the starving women and children there at pre-
sent. Perhaps, too, it might lead them 'into serious
reflection upon such abstruse principles as “retribu-
tion," the “sins of the fathers,” “whose ox is gored”
and kindred topics. Here is'~`an extract from the zir-
ticlc:
“The Germans arrived before Paris in the middle
of September. - By October 8 our columns report that
the daily consumption of horseflesh had risen enor-
mously. By November 20 no more beef or mutton
was to be had. _
“On December 6 our correspondent states that “rat
hunting is now vigorously earriedon, to meet the de-
mands of the restaurants.” When the frequenters of
the restaurants were eating rats, the diet of other
classes must have been terrible.
“On December I5 the population were put upon a
ration of horsellesli. The allowance was 30 granmics,
or about an ounce.
“On January 15 the bread ration was reduced from
500 to 300 grammes. less than Io oz. for adults, and to
half that amount for children. This bread was a black
_and indigestiblc compound of rice, barley, buckwheat,
oats, and even hay. Long files of women and children
gathered before dawn at the bakers’ shops, in the rain,
peraturc sank to 21 deg. of frost.
“The animalsiin the _]ard’n des_Plantes were eaten.
.lilepliant sold at from iof. to 45f. a pound, and even
“cotellcttes de tigre" arc mentioned. There were mar-
'kets for dog flesh and cat flesh, and an English writer
partookoffa feast at which the sole dish was a cat
1 “There was no fuel "and no light. The people starv-
fcd from cold as .well as froin hunger. On February
14 one of the English party who brought food into Pa-
ris after the arinistice told the Mansion House Relief
Conimittee what he had seen. Some of the persons
assisted were “barely able,” he said, “to walk to the
place” of distribution, and when the provisions were
handed them, "they were unable to carry them home.”
iscent of its pharasaical reference to the Examiner se- ufied in making this Advertisement - g ~ - ~ _ ~ _A __
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know 1 ~ Urgent Important and Personal
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A3 per .cent or 50 per cent does not seein‘inuch_ __
when you are talking of prices of Shoe Laces but when you tion
_cometo Carpets, Rugs and Liuoleums. it MEANS -MONEY. 
. Now buy all the Floor Coverings you need be_eause you
know yourselves you will not see our present prices again
for a long time. ` '
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CRUWN LIFE
You N0odn’t Walt For Profits. ' ‘
We give them in advance in the shape of guuran
feed reductions of each and every premium after
the first. That’s only one of the benefits of our
Guaranteed Premium Red iietion Endowment Policy.
- Why Ill Mft Clif Ilia! Crawl Life Polic] D-Ja) f
T¢>,m_m-row you may be iiniusiimble. `
. Lot uc and you some new Insurance fsck
’ H. H. BEER Provincial Manager, Summerulde, P. E. ll.,
' s Agents wanted ln unrepresented districts. gg ' ‘
I I li l im 3
About_ _the best form of
health-giving fun you can
have is-looking after your
garden plot.
“ Make the Most
of Your Garden ' But to get the most good
. from your work you need pro-
Pl t  Year per gardening tools.
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And here is the right place
Practically everything
to get them.
you could desire in propel'
tools for your gardening work can be _found here.
And the quality of each is well up to the high standard
set for everything else sold here.
V Come here for your trowels, spades, hoes, rakes,
weeding hooks, watering cans, garden _hose, lawn
mpwers, whe_el barrowscultivators, pruning knives,
. trimming knives-in fact everything needed for the
garden worlt can be found here at your old reliable ,
T ardware house. _
` | ' vicronin Row
_Fennell & Chandler ‘
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The-time of these happenings was not so long ago
but that many Germans still living will remember them.
They will doubtless reinember that at that time whenli
it was F rciichmen and French women and French ba-
bies wlio were starving, it was a fine game, perfectly
legitimate and proper. Now, however, when Germans
are suffering for food, when German women and Ger-
man babics are liable to be iiiconvenicncetl-not starved
as the poor Parisiaiis were, it is a different matter, it
is “brutality/’ ‘ '
‘ The /London Times also records from its li‘es of
1870-71 that when a plea was made from Paris in the
last extremities of the siege, for milk for dying babies,
the German reply was that the only way by which Pa-
ris could get food was by surrendering. The death
rate among the Paris children during these terrible
days was enormous. In one week 5,000 children pc-
rislicd for want of food. It was of conditions in Paris
at this time that Bisinark said of the Countess Bis-
inark that she cherished “ferocious hatred of the Gauls,
all of whom she would wish to see shot and stabbed to
death down to the little babies who, after all, cannot
help having such abonimable parents."
' This was the Geriiianisnrof forty'-five years ago;
it was the 'Hunnishness of eighteen centuries ago; it
is thc Hunnishness of to-dlay. 'We havge _had within the
past twoiyears well authenticated stbries of German
soldiers ii=npalit1g`Belgian bahes”on their bayonets and
carrying them off in niock-triuiiiplnstorics of Huiiiiisli
ficndisliness thatcannot be published, so revolting are
they, and we now have the whine of theirfrieiids be-
plies. “The mills of the gods grind slowly but they
grind exceedingly small,” and if Germany is ground!"
according to her deserts, the deserts not of the Hun
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Patons Limited    or 1 1   
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B-ll on il urea li-nlnnio
becauoelt In all ll- G°°\'\l° '
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Think ot that, only $45.00 for a good piano ! And three
more in the same lot, but the highest priced selling for
only $95.00. Did you ever in you1°_life get a better offer on
a good piano than this-and the instruments he1‘€,5 ready i
for you to take home today. - _ »
These Pianos are the good old-fashioned squares. They
are somewhat larger than the modern upright _pia_nos but '..
ii] you have a large parlor or sitting room they ate Just the p `
t lt) .
They have been completely overhauled, thoroughiy'
cleaned, repaired and returned and though second-hand
they now look almost as good as new.
If there is anyone in. your horiieiwho
would like to learn to play a piano, there
is no reason now why there should-not be
a good instrument in the home. 1
For here today you can make your
selection from four good squares, the |
highestpriced at $95 and the lowest
se ling or only $45. 1 _
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Q Put one of these good piano bargains
in your hometoday-use it and enjoy the
izood entertainment it will bring you.
L_ater, if you want to buy a new upright
piano, we ‘Will allow the full purchase price
of aiily of these squares on a new upright.
- his offer will not last long-S0
lM1i.Li:n amos T12” "ef 1
fathers in past centuries but the Huns we are fighting 
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Piano for--- 45’ P       " ` 'F'
are never found on bargain
counters, or at so»called
"slaughter sales." They can-
not be made to sell at a
sacrifice price. Foot ills and’
shoddy service are too ex-
pensive a price to pay for
bargain shoes. il Examine the
new models which are _now
on display at .your dealers.
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Slr'-, Lust néghfs Patriot contains
'A fdlir. slgne "Catholic," agp;-ooo.
ting the manner ln which. the. Guar-
iltli:“§\t|wer¢d Hr J. J. Hughes. This
is t _akcond letter of like tenor that
hu » red lu the Patriot within
?o_ couple of months. The ln-
elpected to be drum ln that
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?u\ iiiuo calming. utimiiiniiiif
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mam 'iii“£finii¢T°'~'"°"°° ’""“
§~"=i‘4€'i"filitt.¥.tt'.*“.':'..':*.*::.“.‘:.':
Public Works De rt
themselves. -Sonic time ago Mr, -J,
J. Hughsi. ln the House ot Commons,
held up tothe lcogi of all Canada the
appointment, by o party ln pqwgf,
to 1 clerkship ln the Publlc Works
Departmgnt ligre ol l ibgn by the mme
of 0 Brlén. urely this nomo ts Irllh
enough. 0! course the ilnllliig Mr.
0'Brlen received from Mr_ Hughes
on the tloor or the House was not su-
ilicloiit. for-Inst Saturday the Patriot
publllhed to the world. under scare
headlines the w ‘
. hola debuts.
I aiirlnlormod that between the
Pl t e Ml.-
rin¢ Department there are over twain ' .  r'  » 1 150
__ ’ . . . Aurmnw-wruotrc-. _
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pofmilhent employees, and that Mr.
0'Brleii ls the~only Catholic ln the
ibuncb. Had he not as much right to
get ln appointment. as the Liberal par-
ty _hid to appoint u whole army ot
Pi-otestantui `
The writer. "Catholic," calls on lr. ,
Dalton to pat the Liberals and they
Patriot on the back when they rldl-
oule lrlsh Catholics. and to muzsle .
the Guardian when lt defends-ltlelf
and them against auch attack. Can-
alntent lin't it, "Oli mon 0’ boy”l .
ment and h I am, Str. etc_, `
o-day, she will be ground into the 'finest dust that has  -' r I
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