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_ents and although defeated in the Shquid apply more at [he blessing‘

w. Cheater L. Menu-e, Pnoolaeu. J. n. lumen. Editor one Pnblhhor u b (‘nk- Lift" an.’ ‘ Tax coIIecto u under the Pfitvin

- ;ciaI Government are allowed a

r ear ll - - ~ . ~,

fl-d-fslzlnp-‘ilayl’ ‘it-fix?’ In, fill“! ?-':"tj-'l:¢a“.~‘i?u:$23,252:: ‘i’; 99;?’ Isis-n and in m: il was sues ‘But that is by no means all that it costs to collect provincial taxes ‘A Chief, Clerk of the Treasury was

v

_ TUESDAY, JUlvE l9_,_192s shouting’

i WVhat does all _ , _ _ lappolnted by the economical Admin lmeaajhm do ‘he’ mu“ by ‘h‘3,istration after they came to power

The Conservatives have added "Whiting reference to the bless~'at a yearly salary of $1.800. Thin

tory materially lo their strength inUHZS of taxation. this fear that un-fvml‘? “'55 a n?" "Yfllm" u" the nomimuun on 53am”), of d“. an}. on,“ n,“ Liberal hands served to reward a political friend

_ . h 1 h r __n _ v on the good old-fashioned plan tha Messrs‘ J‘ H‘ MFG“ and T’ Bu‘ e Iuhe‘: ‘H no‘ be pa“! “l”: “lo the victors belong the spoils.’ Bentley all u... Fourth District of the roads kept up? And the spoils derived from 11* game we; came doubled taxation were much large‘

lthan ever before. they;

NOMINATIONS U12

Prince. the cxlstiluency now rep-l into power resented by Premier Bell and Hon. 13395 "H? the 0|!!!’ \\'. hi. l/a-a. ‘knew. reduction of

Mr. Myers has been for somefml." blfiflillg- T048? 1119)‘ are 51118-

1n the lug another song. iaxatkn is the

curse ‘$131301! i119‘ It oo happened according to th Public Accounts tor ‘I921 that tht

‘modest sum of $4.644 was reporte

_ g .:_ being "in the hands of Collect

He blvslnz and the reduction of taxes Orin Just how long i,‘ rfimame t§ a (andjdaflg m; me House 0g particularly the abolition ol‘ the [here we are m; 50);] m, ‘~39; =, Commons a", the last federal genera‘; pail tax is the road to destruction. was paid over to the Provincia t-lecttzon and it was no discredit :0 “'11? l5 35L‘? W111i! nr@_*-“?a5ur'v' h was Mme a hand!“ __ : _ ‘v ‘even then. And grew. it grev

mm ma‘ be ‘as deleted m ‘he as?‘ ‘almost like Jonalfs gourd. for I0 which took The lobe“; have in‘ find beholdf in thelact-ounts 05192 been atlivldualiy and collectively. enjoyed lhf-‘Ye “'35 59-53‘? "if! 159 ‘mmm ° straight twp 11871)" fighi there is no the blessings o: the higher taxation. Couefzori‘ h ‘he-Y relamed ‘ 5°51‘- ‘3133 31-13! b“ 3113 hi5 “BT58 Thet- have received a $500 sesswh hlindmltlfor webklihwhnotd nofwlloflg ‘ ' -‘ ‘ ' "teyha non-o ansll 0

‘>993 YEU-lmei a1 indemnity" where they had pre-v- an equally indefinite period. “'4 are led to Wonder just how mucl |“'il1 be in the same hand‘; at this

year's close.

years a prominent figure

political life 0: the province.

does it p

three cornered fight members

v t

[lace at that time. Had i

mats tvolzid have

r21‘: substantial majofities. As lljgusly received $211“); 11191,- port. was he demOIIF-Tafid by?‘ his difollo members are receiving in- szrength and his political creased Sam-gas;

There was

their relatives

3° b93511; and friends lrave secured fat. cun- Farme" "mefim" wmphmtha 5mm the middlemen between them am Lued ‘ m i i 1 I _ , h _ V _ - _their customers. the consumers, cat

-~ -0 -~9 PP-BC-P 95 -°T W11"! lite-d lllXtlFlOllSl} on the proceeds ocup much o, the“. Fromm we“ he and his party have always unflhe mortgage, what more noun-a] the tax collectors are also middle

swervinsiv swod- He advocated than that. they should glorify lithe“ Th" “m” “ewe” ‘he m‘ nothing that would afterwards have What more natural than if ever fagengnid éhzefirigzzlryéoifndmglhoe; - ' n e er . .

‘° ‘>9 “banlwned ‘*5 ‘lid his “PPOH- again they get ittw noyvcr- clean-incl. l5 their due. Alld. of COUIEG ‘the Chief Clerk of tlle Treasury ‘avg another boost u n-hom we must also class as one

' p-lol’ the middlemen, must bc paldlli» _ ‘$1,800 21' year. That quite anotll Th“ he ‘ml make a g°°d T997959“, Premier Bell has more than onceler affair from the 6 per cent. cti tative no L118 doubtswllo knows him Lin,“ at a higher m“, J,’ taximonlcctor keeping in his own hart-l ' ‘money paid him by :he taxpayers ‘ ‘ ;\\'e must presume that must 0 k ,. _' _ “ohm!!!” “LhIYIQSG l'lll(1(ll9l‘ll8fl Pa)‘ Over the m0

novvtl he v1.1 receive the sufficient I-ulsome laudmion o, the g0‘.er“)"P_v honestly and DFUHIDUEZ support m Ewe mm [he Sea‘ than’ menus increased taxes. It‘ quad- has been sumed by broken Dronblruplillg tlle taxes has brought such

lees and general uselessness during a bmqsmg lathe province M“, no,

‘~55 W55 ‘in 3155 C3591 h? 3d" tracts on road projects; llley have

ballot ozunt he won out as a man give the of undoubted ahliity‘ and honour. “urds. K .

and we feel assured that in the con- being necessary; Mm Purim has stltuency in which he is so welmled its editorial

But if only a few do not do at ‘their number must be increasing ‘or the amount retained “in hand‘ must be larger ln each can: the thousands of dollars having doubl if n ever. Ought this to In

{allowed to continue? Judging b) 828111 S915 ‘I119 011M199 and "0 119M" the past the tax money's. that tnul

an 131111311011 igtéilltk by the way may again double

the preparatory plmving and ,m._'ll another _vea_r if the treasury re imalns under the same hands that

rowing‘ l ed d a l t ‘Z53 Ooolcontrol if now. A good time. ti?

Th6 819E e c l ° - have this matter explained and

[he mos‘ higmy honored and ableshsaid v) have been discovered whemcorrectetl would he just now, he

representatives In our legislature. has beenflore the election. The Govcrlvment

- 1 ' _ land its Collectors would seem In

Mr. Benfiiey B pop“ m. a “Wm m“) shreds as an excuse wrfowe all cxtillillatian to tlle laxpay man of Ills word and one who vmtlltll

Increasing thetaxcs which they'll-ITS lust now that they FIR‘ 0n K119i!

500711 w 011mb o" a ladder c’! prminhad _promised to reduce. New, havitrlal. Let it he forthcoming! 'hl h h ev intended t0’ , —-——-

ms V" c e n “h me ed in: exhausted the revenue 1mm in- The Intimate connection between carry out’ Few men ‘we e r reased taxes and’ borrowed nloneyllhe P0" "V! it"! "It ifififfifllfid lil a political contest with better pros-

larie: of the ‘Provincial Mmlatert peels of winning than Mr. Bent-lei‘

_ h h land increased‘ indemnity to mem does and we feel quite sure that the “am more revenue’ ence ‘ e per-HI"! °7 "'9 l-‘Wlllan-I” i5 "f 95 good old Bedeque district which

|sistellt glorification of the increasewpeda] inter“, just n9“; it appears t d b ltaxes. The Bell Government needs that the iMInlsteFs salary increases has in the past been represen e y.

m he watched and the were. 51,700 yearly and the increas some of our ablcst men wlll on that

ed pay of Membens $9.000 yearly 2m July send Messrs Myerflleeds a "hmlge- making a total of $10,100. Tholpoll ‘ . —- taxes last year were $26,775 which and Bentley t0 SW81 {he [OUOWLIIQOUR EDUcA-HONAL SYSTEM was paw by 8,925 persons. whvm 0f the 119W Premler- M15 J- D-I Is commonly known as the Salary Stewart’ K_ C, one o, the are“, needs o, this Grab therefore absorbed between The Filth District of Prince also pmvlnce today ,5 a genera, “New We m"! "I"! We ha" 0! ‘he 1m" ~ taxes. "In other words, the famous h“ placed two good men m Lhekatm“ and’ where necesan" a re‘ grab. swallowed up the poll faxes field. VI‘- Jflmes A- ‘Mllwenl and vlelon of its educational system. It paid by 3.566 poll taxpayers out Mr. Thomas Linklecter, the former is genemny admmed ma; of 8,925. ‘m9 0f (he be!" Cmnmlssmners 0‘ schools are not producing the re- Ptzbllc Works the province has ever suns expected o; them, not pmduc. hi"! and I‘ ma" Wh°5° “w”! i” m“ lng results commensurate with tlle

the past four years. Mr. 7T. B. Bentley testing tlle seat new occupied lay-imam purposes doing Premier Bell, comes of a political stock whose traditions he is well His father represented the constituency" for a number of years and was one oi

again quadmuple tlle blessing? This.

-i ‘ . “Jo L5 w“ evidently is what the Bell govern; ‘ed in a year.

this extravagant. qualified to maintain.

they came into power

justly

In providing for their friends they

C011 BLT)‘

OUT

WIth a change of Government the poll tax wlll be aholiohed. and It seem! to lbe hIqh time for a change. There are runny voters

Notes by the Way l

9

bond. No man in the province has had a cleaner political record than Mr. McNelII. H-Is name has never been ln any way ttssoclated with a questionable deal or with 5TH" dealings. Mr. Linkletter ztlso has ll clean record both in his public and

00st. The controversy over the Ipro- portion of failures at recent Prince of Wales College examinations Is an time; 0r the general complaint on this score. Tllere ls, It is true, n good tleal of boasting In political circles over Llle achievements of

who seem qulte willing to fllke a

not seriously object to paying something less than $500 each t0 lature. As tllese gentlemen spent

session (at. any. $15 a day each)

rest from paying poll taxes and do

their representatives in tlle Legis-

haIf their time during the -recent

private Ilfe. He has the business ability to efficiently represent. Ills constituency, is a fluent and well ln- fortned speaker and wlll make a valuable addltlon to our provincial legislature. These two constituenc- les have everything I10 Rflifl 8W3 nothing to lose by electing Messrs Myers and Bentley. and IMessrs Mc- Nelll and Llnkletter.

the post. four years, boasting which. If taken seriously. would lead us to believe thnl an educational miracle has been wrought. There Jlas been no miracle however and the bald fact remains that our whole educa- “Ollflll system requires looking into. We are casting no reflection upon the government when we say that there are educational matters OI which I-i. knows little but which those should know in whose hands the conduct of schools is placed. We have man)’ We" "I70?!" ed oducaxlonnllsts in the province from amongst wllonl a committee

In praising themselves and laudlng tlle Bell Government_ that. sort of

thing will be cut. out when tlle change takes place and wIII save some thousands of dollars. The

policy’ of the Prollteers is to retain the $500 each for themselves, and

make the poll taxpayers pay It! They have nailed their colors l0 the maul. head-Toll taxes $3 per head for votern; $500 apiece for members!

To the Int gaop they will fight for their $600 each. To the Iaat gap they wlll fight to make the taxpayer: foot the blll. Every member of the IBell Government stands for that policy. All their supporters In the legislature up- could be selected who would go hold ‘t’ The" omcm m?“ "5'

eerie that It. must be continued. thoroughly into this whole question The Home army o! Be" Government wllh a view to conferring with the omcehnlderi, lax collectors. road government "u. Board 0g Inspectors and road masters stand Education and eo. If possible. nrrlv- '0' n a“ "n9 mm‘- The-Y 99° m"

Ithelr craft Is In danger! The 0p- "18 l" ‘mnclwkm’ "men mum Dflsltlon bender and his party say,

lead to bonel- results. Why not ld-‘ADOHSII the Poll Th! and zlteduce opt such a, method and so endeavour ‘he hdemnm- "M"? l! 5 “"741”!

I .. Wh to Ilnd out just where we stand? nlilsrvom"? $3 3:] :::”n "n"

WHAT DO THEY MEAN ur

There I5 comet-hing significantly o sinister In the reiterated declara- tlon of Premier Bell and his aulb pol-tore that the revenue of the pnovlnce la still lnoufflclenl. l-hfll the additional taxation 1111110196 b!’

niem has been the greatest boon and

tho province has ever elllflYed ""1 that by menne of these additional taxes the 9mm!“ h" “we” mud l of until-inner to e wlll“ °‘ nmco and Indfilwndllw-

THE TOWN GUARDIAN

Phe Great Fire In St-. John

‘orty-olx Year: Ago‘ Today —Fire Fiend on the Rampage in Oanada—-8ovne Prlceo of

an Older Time. etc.

(By W. L. Cotton.)

On this day f0rty~sLx years ago Zharlottezown was startled and =hocked by the news that the sister lty of St John was destroyed by Ire. 1t was stated ln- a special rlegram published by The Dally ‘xamlner that "the city ls com- Ictely gutted. The olllces of the festern Union Telegraph Comtllny re_ burned. also the Victoria H)- eI. both sides of King street, bnlll ides of Dock street. the Market ‘quare, Germain street, Prince Villiam street and Princess street. l‘. gone and the fire still raging."

This notable fire began at Yolk ‘oint on the afternoon of June 19. tld did not finish the work of des- ruction until the afternoon of'th-: ‘ All the buildings on ten miles f streets were burned. -These Qmllriivd 1W0 thousand ttvo blin- pted and seventy houses and storcl; lcluC-illg the largest and finnst at hat time In the city. Twenty mil- ion dollars worth of property was estroyevl and twenty lhougand arsorls were homeless and (for he most part» absoluteLv pennlless. wvflrditlg to a press correspond- -nt of the llme “there were {our llildféfi til-res of leveled bricks." t number 0f per-tons lost. their ves. Among these was Exdllayor eed and four of his family. A roman and her newly born Illlbc. ‘ourtd dead in the street. made ollc f the saddest scenes in the awful ragedy.‘

The promptitude with which food lnd clothing and financial aid wcrc

=2.

llld (ollarl; from Charlottetoivn_~ II subscribed and paid illstanter l)‘ the cillzelts. The immediate re- ulrenlelth. of a homeless people. ‘rom all the towns and cities ‘Ollfldabout were "rushed" by rail o St. John from points throughout Ile coulltr_\', as far “Tet as “on real. Even before news of lllI- errible- cvcllt was general. the Q5. iciallt of the J’, E, Island Ralllvay t that Lillie. with Mr 'l'Ilo:llzl.- ililliams at their head, Ilad f0."- varllled $700. As the news sprctltl. he sympathy" of all Canada was OllriOIl and prllclicaILv expresectl. The year 187T was a. year 0t Ires- throughout New Brunswick. St. Stephen. “bodstock. Portland ml St. John were successively iclinls nf the demon of destruc- ioll. There were also costly fire.- n .\'ovzl Sl-otizl: and lPrlnce l‘;d\\'lll'li island suffered to sut-Il all extent hut tlle IIGCL-Ssil)‘ of a larger and letter water supply than that Ill llc wooden pumps on the streets vas forced upon tlle attention of Tharlottetotvn. "The Flight of tlle “ire Fiemls" “'11s tlle title of one if tlle “llllyllles for the Titties" mpplietl by the ‘late Mr. John I.--- ’a-ge. Reference to tlle great fire, >1‘ Charlottetown in the year 1866 Nils made ill the following stanza:

‘On this beautiful Island. in sum- mer so green,

Flle freaks of this monster have often been seen;

In the year '66, we remember ll well_ _ Ere the name of "Big Donald" was‘: cast oll ll hell. . 3n a fine Sunday morning when! all things around,

Were as dry as the rags 1,3,1 tender box found.

The fiend In his fury flew over our town,

\nd burned VET)’ nearly one-fourth of it down."

Alld Tile Examiner remarked:- ‘Indivitlllal and general vigilance ‘s one of the lessons we are now learning. We note that Summer- ilrle has organized a Vigilance Com mlttee and lmade arrangements fol the patrol of its streets at. all hours if the night. Tile other, towns of the province should do likewise." On the day of the Si. John flre there was a sale of llve stock own- ed by Mr. C. C. Gardiner. The Examiner of the following day stated that "very handsome amounts were realized." rlt may be llttcrestlng to compare these handsome amounts with tlle prices now paid for cattle of the best kinds. A heifer three yrears old was bought by Daniel .\llller for $90; a cnw slx years old was bought by William Bagnnll for $80: and ilso a cow eight years old for 5101: 1 cow seven years old was hougllt by W"llliltm Mnbeotl for $70; a bull calf two months olll was bought by George Sinclair fo|= $21. tnll another of the same zl-ge fol" $31: a ivllitc heifer cull slx \t'eek5 old wan bought by H. B. Smith for $20: a Ilclfer calf. six weeks old was bougllt by James Luird for $40."

At the same time It was slated in the “Financial and Commercial Column" of The Examiner that tlmes were hard and business dull. The reporter added: “Business men have become so sick of waiting for the other end of the beam to come up that they are beginning tn think It will never rise." Flour was-sold then in Charlottetown at $9 to $9150 per barrel; sugar by lllE hogshend for ten cents per lb; molasses for 50 cents per gallon. Shlpotvners here were lIlen puzzl- lng themselves to llnd out how they could keep their tonnage em- ployed. The steamshlp "Prince- Bdward" was eent to Montreal to he loaded with grain for the Euro- pean market. At the same time

market for farm produce wore»- Pork (carcase) 6c to 7c; veal. 4.- Lo 10c; mutton, 7c to 10c: lies-f. 7c to 10c; chickens per pair, 45c m 55c: ducks. each. 26c to 55c." That was several years before the National vPollcy was enacted mid carried lnm effect.

A statement. of Messrs. Fred. W. Hyndman and Henry Wadman. auditors of the City Account»: pub. Ilshed 0n the 20th June, 1877,5445 forth that the net revenue of Chur- lottetown In the previous year mu $20,074.96: that. debentures lo [he amount of $20,040.65 were sold;

. 1nd that the actual expenditure for

cut from Halifax. and llve lllOlli- '

the prices quoted In Charlottetown.

l8 IT BUILDING UP OR WEARING DOWN?

Did you ever atop to thlnk that your body is building up the fooli stuffs illlo your tissues, into "you", and likewise tearing drwn your tis- sues, tearing down “you '.’"

Yet this is going on a.l the time. You take in so much food, drlnlt and air, and you give out. exactly the same amount. every day by means of your skin. lungs, Intes- tine. and kidncqvs.

I lucan that is if you are a fu'l growing HUUJZ in ordinary health. Sow it you are not doing that. something is wrong with that body a! _\'0ur='. Perhaps your building up processes are doing nLre that their share oi work, and you are grad- ually putting on more weight than you want. than you can comfolu- ably curry.

Perhaps on the other hand, your tearing down processes are work- ing Ilurdcr and are tearing down your tissue too than. In tact tnc

er than bluotl can carry lllcnl away. Now neither of these condizlons are normal.

What arc you going to do about old

same CDHUTXOI]

S8IIS8 You know how Nature about everything.

Takes the parts of that U:dy of vours over which you have no con- lml. The heart for Instance makes A beat. rests. completes the 980mm ‘km, {hPIl rests again. \our lungs Wu, k ‘I quilt! way‘. .\ solit of rhytll- mical llt-tlozl. a ‘What llnl 1 trylnfl l0 DTOYE- ’ Slllllll)‘ that the reason that 3.011 put on to; nluch weigh! 1* ma‘ 50E‘ h) (m. ‘hing for top prolonged d perlmp 53y too much eating. 0!: £00 mm, yuetinz, or too little worklllfi- you vou'll have t':- cllflfllle _"°“"

i - I be lcss, the "rest" periods L . and "work" periods ions- l. misunderstand mP harder. rest lcs“ an some thin cllaP. weight. type of body

Now don't _\0ll.lll(\_\' WOPR and cut I955. U1 ulltl yet D111 o“ lions lu be Your sun.

Sllllllllrly’ if 3'1"“ me Jllll t-ll~>l'=>' l‘? S“ , 1- wIIr-s, Perhaps v0“ “wk m“ m" ‘Hill too Ionll. can vllmltzll. so lake bold 0i work out WI" ow“

and‘

yourself. salvation.

(By Dominion New; Service) LONDON. Juno lfi-‘wmuaul Elli‘; of Bffifllll Collage whoxlictl rot-cull?’ 3"“ 19"“

SIS) 000 stilts-s ill his will: "l qucath all m)‘ DWI“-

poration of Southporl-rel“

town most of them We‘ ‘the

"Met ‘“"l{‘.‘$‘.i‘9“¥l°.° left

Spirit. wt ~ n, towards me cost of publlshlnz 9 pocltls.

c TORTOISES FOUND

NTI m” 0N ISLAND

14.——T\\B Galupmtflfl Prof. New has rctur nlul.

NEW YORK, Julio expedition t0 1M Islands headed b)’ Bgubo, cautor of tlle wlvtl-fiui‘ $3.‘: Narnia which carried specimens of animal Ilfe. n. emu :1 giant tortoise of the . ‘ill “in which ntmins n welsh! t‘; I“ o‘ “minds antl lives for llurl rc kne- yelirs. These tortoises are P" Wm ally extinct. ‘The carrzfl 515° fine include Illa!"- "m! “m! _ m“ W‘: lizards WhlCh tire pecul lll tum»; (‘llllnpugofi- an“ n“: mg , fsh l-orlnorants nntl lleufimns- “h c heretofore have olll)’ bee“ mm“! in arctic regions.

The expedition B150 evidence that bnccanecrs Inlltletl on these rellloto Llnerlltionls ago for t‘l:.-lr Illiflltllnfh‘ founilnumberlzss dol-hwlll: "T "- wild cattle, wild cats and Will goats. The zoological Ilfe however Sill" Iielonzs m the age of reptiles- Tlle expedition found the birds. si-als and reptiles tame. ADDBYQPP tly they considered man just an- other species of animal life and showed no fear whatever.