l 1 _ \cleaalng. ~ . ` ' ' f A-eras.; lllrrllli Jtavgrttellierlraoa surmrlptlell Pima . . ._ . . Nm, ,M gan., my Phone . . ....--133 Ngwa mu Em., Nlglrt Phones A 133 Hua olllee at cbarlenmwn. Brine" °f'\¢=° I* 9‘""' mersldo, Atherton. Sourla and Montague- London Qffice, Marconi House. Strand. W- (3- `l».¢»l.l=..l ....... A, A. emlm Managing Editor _ . . . R. Burnett rAoNoAv, MAv 24. vlcTonlA oAv. aellvc. A srA1'- uronv l>ual.lc l-lol.loAv, 'me momvlrlc GuAnolAN wltt nor as lssuso on 1°uEsoAv, 'ms eveulua GuAnolAn wll_l. Nor as lssuso ON MONDAY BUT w|l.|. as Puatlsueu on 'russoAv As usuAl.. Aovenrlsens Pl.EAsE Nor: THESE cHANcEs. _ THURSDAY. MAY 20. 1915 _ AN ANGRY PATRIOT Tile principal difficulty in discussing public questions with our otherwise esteemed Contemporary. ,The Patriot. is its lack of selfcontrol. Immediately it is worsted in argument it loses its temper. in Place °f “S C\lS\0m_8\'i' suave urbanity it gives place to bullylllg 81111 lhf€8\9DlllE- lt refuses to meet its opponent on the ground it has chosen for itself, preferring, like the school boy routed in fisti- cuffs, to retire with all speed to another and distant van- tage ground from which it utters dire threats of revenge at some future date, This lack of dignity and decorum is deplorable and a had example to the rising g91\€l’8li0D- Yesterday we analysed the comparative statements of expenditure of the Governments of 1911 and 1914, and proved conclusively that ou such important departments as agriculture. education. and public works. the DF€59Dl~ Governnletlt spent $181,000 more than did the Liberals in 1911. equal to 127 per cent. more. without increasing tax- tion a cent but. on the other hand, considerably reducing the public debt left by the Liberals/ All this was taken from the statistics hurled holus-bolus at its readers by The Patriot. \\'itboul troubling to examine or analyse its own figures. our t"olltemp0ral'}' lh0\lEhl il C0“ld make D3"-Y capital by merely raising the cry of wolf. A fair con- trovcrsialist would have in the first instance compared the estilnatcs for 1914 lwhich had been submitted 10 the Legislature. discussed and passed unanimously by U19 whole House. including the Liberal candidate for Prince County), with the actual expenditure, That is what a fair and honourable controversialist would have 110118. and he would then have satisfied himself that not only had the Government not been extravagant, but had effected sav- ings on its own estimates which had already .been subject to the keen incisive scrutiny of the Leader of the Op- position before being unanimously adopted. A reference to these would have shown at a glance that the Govern- ment had saved $30,000 ill round figures by economical administration. out of wllich it was able to meet an un- foreseen war expenditure of $21,000 and still be within its estinlated l-_vpelldilure by some $10,000. That is the procedure wllich would have been followed by any ullbiasell critic in presenting a report on the ex- penditure of the Government. Then he would have turned to the year 1911 and 'compared the expenditure with the estimates ol' the Liberals, and would have found that there. too, thc expenditure was within the estimates by some $7,500-ll “suvillg", however. more than effected in at sillglc item, “permanent bridges." for which $20,000 had been voted and ollly $5,629 expended. A fair anti honour- able critic. having the interests of his country at heart. having ascertained these facts, would then have commend- ed the Goverlllllcllt tllat lived within its estimate and con- denllled the Government which had resort to the starva- tion of public works in order to make its expenditure coll- forlll witll its estimates. But, of course, our Contemporary is not an unbiased critic. lt does not stop to discover the real truth about the lillallccs of the Province. It cares nothing for the facts putt-nt to cveryollc that the Province was never ill n more prospt~ro\l.s condition, never more contented, never better governed than it has been during the three or four years the present Government has held office. lt cares for nothing, it demands nothing but instant, violent and irra- tional action to restore to power the party whose policy. according to thc father of the Liberal candidate for Queelrs is “to dash away, levy taxation, run the Government while they can, and then blame the Tories." It is for a wild and desperate leap back to the decade of deficits, deception and decay. The question of progress and development of our resources does not matter to it, the attitude and feeling of the farmers, workers and business men do not count with lt; thc fact that a return to Liberal nlaladmlllistra- tion would penalize and prejudice the interests of the Pro- vince as a whole does not matter to it. All that does matter is that The Patriot's friendsare outjtl the cold of Opposition alld are wearying for' the "sweets of office" which they so long abused. Therefore, The Patriot ill its yesterdays issue threatens to disclose why “some gentlemen are such burning Tories and such ardent supporters of the Mathleson Govem- nlcnt." The threat loses its effect from the fact that The Patriot is indebted to the Govt-rllment‘s public accounts for any "disclosures" it may make. A Government, which of its own frce will and accord, publishes details of its transactions for all and sundry to inspect and criticize is strong in its own integrity. The present Government has never failed to ict in the light of day on its transactions; it has welcomed and invited investigation, and never ollce refused to give information regarding any of its proceed- ings. Everything it has done has been clean and above board, and its record in this respect ls in conspicuous con- trast with tllat of its predecessors. Their policy was to conceal, to cover up, to keep back from the public ln- formation to which it was justly entitled. Naturally so. for _their deeds were dark and could not bear the light of publicity. - _ “KEEP 0FF ;l'IlE GRASS ” In their efforts to clean up the city. the Floral Associa- tion wlll have the support and the sympathy of our best oltlnens without exception, and we have no doubt there will be A general clean up on Saturday. But if the clean up ands on Saturday all the effort. will have been wasted.‘ The good work must be kept on continuously, just as the, careful home maker keeps lt. up-after-"tile spring house- In tmrloltewwn. be doubtless ll. merry other blues we ‘ were many “keep ol the yet we do not keep of! the Shel- Al°l\8 F streets we have beautiful may boulevardnl many of these are-trampled and scarred not only by foot,prlnts buh U7 lloolfprlnu and UUTIIUU tracks: ix .lfllh Juli. beginning to -sprout, has been buried and lad and our boulevard! are scarred, guttered and unsightly. Those who would restore these are deterred by tltecortainty that. if restored, they would very shortly be as bald as they our y the good sense ot offenders. be they children or adultl. een-_ not be successfully appealed to. the city by~lawl moat be invoked and the penalty enacted_ This ia the only cure. where common decency falls. and a few wholesome fines would bring about the desired result. - - l \Ve hbve other habits that are equally injurious to clean- liness and beauty. Our sidewalks are not. left wholly to pedestrians although built and maintained loleiy for these The truckmau backs his load of coal nemo; the sidewalk. dumps his coal and dust by the side of a building, regard- less of the effect upon pedestrians. upon ladies dresses. and heedless also of the fact that these pedestrians must get around the obstruction by going out on the street, often in the mud. Window cleaners turn their hose on windows along our most public streets during the busy hours of the day when the sidewalks are crowded, instead of as in well regulated cities, before 7.30 in the morningg. These matters should be regulated by civic by-laws; we have by-laws now that cover most of these difficulties but, like the “keep off the grass" placards, we do not heed them. If the Floral Association or some other institution would set on foot. an agitation to have our by-laws rigidly and rigorously enforced. it would mean much for the beauty and the sanity of our city. It would mean much, also, very mucll for our young people in teaching them the sac- redness of law. While the world is being cleaned up by the war fires now raging in Europe, it would be well for ua to take some heed to any little peculiarities of our own that may need to be burned out. 0lle` of them, perhaps the greatest menace to our individual, civic and national life, is our disrespect for law, not necessarily the law against capital crimes, but that against common lnisdeamours. against the little things that make for good citizenship. Violation of these latter is easy and may appear to be trifling, but it too often leads to more serious violations and in everv case it means disrespect for law. The civic ordnance "keep off the ggrass" is as much a law as "thou shalt nm steal" and should be as rigidly enforced. WO0L MARKETS To those who arc interested in the question of grading the wool before a sale of it is arranged it might be of interest to know that suclt a nlovnlent is being inaugurat- ed in England where the wool of the world is marketed. ln Yorkshire the farmers have been selling their wool for some time co-operatively with decided advantages. Ile- cently a meeting was held in Lincolnshire alld an arrange- ment was entered into whereby 10,000 fiecces will be grad- ed and then sent to the wool market in Londol-1 to be sold on a quality basis, lf such movements are of benefit in England, the homo of our niocdrn breeds of nlutton sheep, ought not they to be of value ill P. E. l.'.’ English farmers are very conservative alld do not generally make rash decisions-tlleir example lnigllt be safely followed simply because of their. years of experience. \\'e must remember that quality is the great requisite whether we be considering sheep, wool, cattle, milk, eggs, horses or H1911. And the quality tllat counts can be secured only by co-operation. Scattered individuals throughout the prov- ince may raise the standard as high as human ingenuity and skill ami honesty can raise it, but the output of the province \vill be measured by its poorest product. The price of the best will be reduced to the level of the worst and every inferior article shipped abroad will be debited to the province. What is needed here is a Prince Edward Island qual- ity; a quality tllat will cllaracterize every product we send abroad. a quality that will make a demand for our pro- ducts because they are invariably honest and the best of their kind. .This quality can be secured only by all working to- gether, each striving witll the other to produce the best. Farmers in touch with the egg circle movement know what has been effected by the grading system. Tile same can be effected ill all other lilies. Tile practice of selling all kinds of wool, lollg and short, good or bad, is wasteful and unjust to those wllo are sufficiently enterprising to raise the standard of their flocks If the wool of high grade sheep is worth no more than that of scrubs there is little inducement to go to the expense of breeding tlp. By all means a move should be made to inaugurate such a systtm here as that in England and we trust that in the campaign of agricultural advancement now in pro- gress such a move will be a feature at no distant date. ll.__.0-___>.._il THE WASTAGE 0F WAR We arc now accustomed to talk m millions. Millions of men fighting; millions killed; millions wounded, illi- prisoned, missing; millions of dollars in cities, residences, properly gone up in smoke or scattered into useless frag- ments; millions of dollars in ships and ships' cargoes sullk in the sea. _ In all these losses human lives alone count; they can never be replaced either in the nation or in the home. And evell they are lost-only in a material sense; to the nation and to the homes frolu which they have been taken they have left the glory and the example of a well fought. fight and of devotion that will never die, devotion that through ages to come will inspire other saviours of their country and of their race. Yet we exaggerate the material loss, A battleship that cost $10,000,000 is sent to the bottom, alld wc say we have lost $10,000,000. This is not so. In the building of the slllp seventy-five per cent of the cost was for labour; none of that was lost. The workmen received their wage; they sup- ported thetr families, invested the surplus in homes or other property, or in banks. That value ls still intact. ln the case of privately owned ship, like the Lusitania,/for instance, which cost seven millions, the owners are re- couped by the insurance companies and consequently they lose nothing. The insurance companies, who are the os- -tenslble losers, had figured with mathematical exsctness on the probability of loss; they reoccu pled themselves from their patrons and the loss of the ship was thus made good to them. '_ ' _ This is also true of the other material wastage of war, guns, munitions, forts &c. Tile only real loss is 'the ra_w material and even this is not s total loss as the labor ex- pended ln procuring and transporting it has been saved. The war's actual destruction in less of a loss to the coun- tries involved than we usually think. The manufacture of munitions. ships, seroplanes. and the thousand other things with which mon slay their brethren. gives employ- ment to thousands; In making good the destruction of these. employment continues and so tbe"¥or1¢"3oel on building up and tearing down, providing food. raiment abd business, lt would not.. perhaps, be totbnlilch to'(h,‘_t.Itat lo far all material deatrtlcttotuta concerned. the world ls have acquired some had habits. If we an to have u clean and nntnry city, lt city to be .proud ‘ot, we must mln'l`oi|r" Il' 1.. ' ` 1 . . ` ‘ ’ 'att ,»l,»;_ . - _ , _~ I _ _ _ , -_ __ __ ' _ _"Q.'j;§.;..l~L?‘;§._;f,§'5 ’ ‘ ‘b.ii£.l»..»;.‘-si. _ " _-. .Muo- iluMf lt.” ._ _ ._..r.ilt+l¢