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THE DAIL’ EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN JUNE 18 1900.
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THE DAILY EXAMINER
JUNE 18, 1900
THE PROHIBITION MATTER.
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Tue Guardian expresses its disapproval
of ine ExAMINBR'S criticism of the
probibitory law recently passed by the administration, and reads tbe course
should
Farquharson that
rn organ The is fond of posing a8 an in-
ns a lecture on
pursue.
‘ party Guardian dependent journal, but there are few who attach any importance to its declarations in this regard. Whenever an opportunity
of helping the Liberals presents itseif The
capture votes, and | « sigcretion” raises its voice in approval _ ; s . i the measure and censures Toe ExaMINeR
StOCK. e
We are.in a
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position to quote
you lowes:
prices, We are
at tet ana
here to guarantee
every instru-
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ment sell, We have done it in the pasi—we will continue to
we
do so in the future. It will pay youto buy
“Musical In— struments” from
us,
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Queen} Street.
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Ni ARMALADE.
‘| his week we offer Upton’s M:rmalade in
Glass pots 15c each,
(r 2 pots for 25 cents.
In 7lb Pails only 70c each.
K i'er’s Dundee Orange Ma: malade in
lib Jars 20c each.
Or © Jars for 35e.
In 7\bSoldered tins 95c each
Cairns Ginger and Pine- apple Marmalade in
1}b glass jars 25c each.
Or 2 Jars for 45ce,
All the above are first-class new goods just received in stock at
Beer & Goff,
NOTICH.
The undersigned bicycle repair men have thie day agreed that all repairs and sundries wi)] requireto be paid for in cash on delivery.
Please do not ask for credit as it will not be given Signed, EARNEST RICE, W- P. DOULL, PERCY Ge ARMOUR MARK WRIGHT & CO May ist. 1900,
'namber of which may be organized in
Guardian is oot slow to take advantage of [t apparently seesin the measure of
by the
Provincial Prohibition adopted ‘srouhrrson Government on the eve of is political dissolution a good scheme to
with characteristic
for pointing out its sbortcomings.
But the trick is too transparent. The sensible people of the temperance party will net be hoodwinked by the scheme of political prohibitioa just enacted or the special ;pleading of the Guardian. The temperance people will not, we feel sure, become enthusiastic Over @ measure of prohibition under which the unrestricted | sale of liquor is permitted in clubs, any
Besides, the measure is |
Charlotietown. |
not to become law until next century— |
aod in the meantime ‘“ blood money” ia to be collected from the liquor sellers.
By the way, we have not observed that the Guardian, which claims “‘ some right | to speak for the prohibitionists,” has a} word of commendation for the Opposition | which sought to make the proh:bitory law applicable to clubs and made arn effort | to have it come into force in Decem- ber next. An independent journal usually | gives credit where credit is due.
THES EMERGENCY RATIONS SCANDAL
Tue Liberals at Ottawa are apparently no more anxious to hold a full enquiry into charges made vy the Opposiiion than the Liberals of this proviace were to grant an investigation into the break- | ing openof Mr. Birch’s desk or the state- ment of Pineau that an attempt had beeo made to purchase his vote against pro- | hibition. One day last week, in the House of Commons, Mr. Monk made certain statemen:s regarding the action of the Minister of Militia in connection with the food supplied to the Canadian soldiers n South Africa. He was challenged to make these charges formally and apply for a committee of enquiry, which chal- lenge was promptly accepted. But wher the charges were brought down they were objected to on ateachnicality and ordered to stand over, The charges as submitted were as follows:
That I am credibly informed and believe that I can establish by satisfactory evi- dence :
1. That ‘in October, 1898, Surgeon Lieut-Col. Neilson, director general medi- cal steff of the Canadian militia, wrote to | Heari Hatch, of Montreal, a manufacturer | of concentreted foods, ana the registered
owner of “Hatch’s Protose,” a well-known food, produced in Montreal by the Hatch Protose company, and in use in hospitals ; throughout the country, informing the | said Hatch that the minister of militia, | the Hon. F W Borden, was interested ia |
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the favorable results reported by the hos- pitals, and in consequence that the minis- ter had instructed bim (Neilson) to ark immediate.y for samples of the powder, and that from the laboratery of the Hach
| Protose company in Montreal two samples
of &0 per cent. und 50 per cent. proteid- strength wer2 withort delay sent by Haich
to the minister. a 9. That in February, 1899, the Minis-
ter of Militia, the said Hon. F. W. Bor den, ther, a8 now,a member of this House, promising Hatch 6 first trial order for the mounied police inthe Yukon, asked him ifat any time aeufficient quantity could be had of the powder on sbort notice, in order to avoid delav in delivery ia view of difficulties iu Communication, so that depots might be established where Hatch’s Protose might be stored for any emergency, to which the said Hatch re- plied that he hed all the necessary ma- chinery in his l»boratory, ard would keep readv for the department from balf a ton to one ton of powder, over (0 per cent. proteid-strength, as per the average of the samples sent t> Lieutenant Col. Neilson.
3. In Marck, 1899, the said Gaic’: en - ployed and charged one, Dr, Deviin, of Montreal, to solicit the permission from the Department to make a military tes: of the said food, known as Hatch’s Procose, as an exclusive diet ia order to ascertain if so.diers On active service conld live on itin perfect health, whereupon it was decided that the test would be applied to five soldiers of A battery, R.C.A., at Kingston, Out., subject to etringert con- ditions, imposed by the miniater of militia, namely :
(a) That the soldiers subjected to the test should acswer satisfactorily a certaia series of approved questions; (b) that the test soould last tor One month; (c) that the test should be stopped at once if any one of the five soldiers suffered uneasi- ness; (d) that the test should be control- ed by Lieut.+Col’s. Neilson and Drury, at Kingeton.
4. That it resulted from the said teet so made at Kingston upon five soldiers of A batiery, R. C. A., that the food furnished for the experiment by the Hatch Protose company, of Mon real, and controlled as above, was an eminently suitable food to serve as an emergency ration, ani it was so reported by the minister of militia to Mr. Hatch bimeelf.
5. When the first contirgent of Canadian troops were preparing for departure to South Africa, Mr. Hatch, proprietor of the food tested in Kingston, as above, wrote to the minster of militis, in refer- ence to the supply of emergency rations to the eaid contingent, ia the shape of food euch as tested at Kingston, to which the minister replied, thanking Mr. Hatch, and eXpreesing regret that uoder arrangements made with the home government, al! supplies for the said contiugent of Cana- dian troops wereto be furnisted by the war office in England.
6. That the minister of mititia had several interviews, principally ia Montreal but also elsewhere, with the eaid Henri Hatch, whom he knew to be the sole manufacturer of the food tested at Kiog- eton,
7. That nevertheless, by tender made on the 4th dxy of January last, and ac cepted on the same day, an agreement was arrived at between the minisier of militia and the said Dr. Devlin (herein mentioned,» at Ottawa, by which the latter undertook to supply the d-par mene of militia and defeoce with 2,333 pounas of Vegetable Proteid Powder, in 7,'00 tins for the sum of $4,669.
8. That upon information received by him, that the said agreement was being executed under circumstances calculated to excite grave suspicizas, the said Henr Hatch, on the 25tb day of January, 1900,' wrote the munister or militia a_ letter, which was by him duly registered, in the fol'owing terms :
“ Your Excelleney : I jist happeaed to hear uf a large purchase of proteid food from Mesers. Devlin & Lyons, of this city, for the Canadian contingent. if such ia the case, 1 consider it to be my right and my duty to inform yoa that euch a supply can only rest upon a poor and fraudulent adulteration of my “ Pro- tose,” as it is done without my knowledge, aod has nothing in common with the product tested in Kingston last spring. TI is will be easily detected by the analysis of the food supplied, to which end I in- tend to take the neceseary steps in order to protect my interests. A sample of mine could, of course, have easily beea
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Home Makers.
icles, if alreedy supplied, are not mine, aod canuot be identical with those used at the mili.ary teat. This I thought it ad- vieable to bring to Your Excellency’s knowledge, for any emergency. Your humble servant, (Signed) H. Harca.
9. That the minister of militia and de- fence failed to acknowledge the receipt of thie leiter; avd did not promptly com-~ municate with the troops of the Cansdian contingent, nor take any steps to verify the truth of the information conveyed to him by the letier referred to, of the 25th January, 1900, received from the person whose food he had as above stated caused to be tested at Kingston.
10. That as a matter of fact the food or emergency rations supplied to the Canas di n troops was no: identical with the food te-ted at Kingston, known as “Hatch’s Protose,’”’ but was a totally different article of a verv inferior quality, contain ing scarcely 17 per cent. of nutriment, whereas the foed tested contained over 60 per cet. of nu'ritive substance.
ll. Thesaid food so supplied under vaid agreement was never made in Canada at all, but was brought in from New York or some place in the United States of America, by the parties interested, pack - ed in a certain number of large Saratoga trunke, containing each two large rough bags filled <with a substance closely rea sembling broken biscuit. It was then ground in Montreal by ordinary milling process, to a fine powder and placed hurriedly in small tins, neither sterilized nor hermetically sealed, ani mut have deteriorated even if it bed been suitable food, which it was not.
12. That the said tins bore a label in- dicating that the emergency ration con- tained in them was the product of the Vitaline company, corner Craiz ard Bleury sireet-, Montreal, eaid company having no legal existence and being irre sponsible and baving neither manufactory nor known office in the said city of Mon- treal.
13. That the value of the said food so brought in from the United States does not exceed $300.
14. TLai a sample of the food so pack- ed in the tine aforesaid, was obtained from the drug store where it had been packed and was subsequently tested by Milton L. Hersey, M. A. Sc., (McGill,) of Montreal, andjfound'to contain only 17 per cent of nutritive substance, and said analysis was confirmed elsewhere.
15. Said ting were ebipped to Halifax in large wooden caces, bearing a larg- label steting that upon the food contain- ed in them Canadian soldiers had lived thirty days in perfect health.
16. The usual precautions as to in- speotion were not adopted by the militia department, in regard to this shipment of ‘emergency rations.
17. Theeubstance brought in from the United States as above stated, in Sara- toga trunks, was detained by the custome officers for duty thereon, but under direc~ tion of the government it was allowed to pase wi'bout payment of customs dues.
18. The amount due under the agree- ment ofthe 4tu of Jaauvary, 1900, that is $4,606, was pid to the contractor be~ fore the goods were actually delivered.
19. Tiat under all the circumstances above set forih the Miuister of Militis and Defence, the said Hon. Frederick William Borden was guilty of gross and culpable neigligence (#) in making with urdue haste the agreement hereinabove referred to oo the 4h of January, 1900, for the supply of emergency rations to the Canadiau troops in South Africa with irresponsible parties; (b) in not havign the prepiration 0° said ratioas coatrolled ty competent men and the eupply furny ished to th? troops carefully and rigids ly inspected and tested ; (c) in negiecting after he had received eaid letter of the 25th January last, ‘o teke steps com~ manded by the ordinary rule of prudence to eneure the protection of the troops ; and (d) in paying the amount of the said con- tract, $4,660, in acase where he must have koown that any rceovery of the same was impossible, and without any investigation.
When the charges were next brought up objection was raised to the nineteenth clause and its removal was demanded upon the ground that it was too direct and pre- judged the Minister of Militia. The Op- position objected to having the clause eliminated, pointing out that the Premier, Mr. Borden, Mr. Fitzpairick and others promised a full enquiry. Subsequently the Opposition, seeing that the Government had uo intention of keeping ther promise in this regard, and with a view to meeting the objection raised, propoeed an amendment to clause nineteen as follows : —
‘And the said F. D. Monk also believes that he can establish by setiefactory evi- dence that the aaid Hon. Frederick Wil. liam Borden was guilty of gross and culp- able negligence, etc.”
But Sir Wilfrid wold not accept the amendment and called upon bis support- ers to vote it down, which was done. The charges a8 subm’tted minus the nineteenth clause, were thenjadopied and a committee named. #
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The Law Society.
The aunua] meeting of the Law Society of Prince Eiward Island will be held in the law Library, in the Law Courts Build- ing, 00 Monday, the 25th day of June inst., at eleven o clock, a. m., for the election of officers and the transaction of other business. By order.
F. L. HASZARD, Secretary
WANTED at once a smart
parcel boy.§ Apply to Weeks & Co.
Hatch’s protein food, and impressed by { obtained from any druggist, but the art-
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Charlottetown Steam Navigation Co,
STEAMERS LIMITED,
“NORTHUMBERLAND” and “PRINCESS”
Leave as below every day Sundays excepteg,
From Potnr Dv CuEene (on arrival of 11,50 trein from § Johu) for Summersipg, connecting with express traj te Charlotttetown and ‘lignish. “a
From SUMMERSIDE (or arrival of morning train lottetown and all stations of P. KE. IL. R ) for CHENE, connecting with afternoon train Boston and MontrREAL.
Connection at Moncton with train for Canada and N B at St. John with C. P, R. and railway tor U, § a Uanada, also at St. John with Steamers of International and Dominion Atlantic R. R. Lines, Tuesday and Satyp. day afternoons for Boston direct due following day at noon, and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday morain with steamers for Eastport, Portland and Boston, .
From Pictou about nhalf-past-three on arrival of day train
from Halifax and Sydney for CHarorretowy.
From CHARLoTteTowN for Protou at 8.30, a m. (connect, ing there) with day trains for Cape Breton and Halitax at NoRTH SYDNEY with steamer Bruce for Newfoundland,
At Havirax with C, A. and Plant Line for B ston. Pa*sen- gers from all places on P. KE. I. Railway east of Charlottes town can leave home 24 hours later than if joining Plant Steame:s in Charlottetown ani connect with same steamer in Halifax.
Through tickets to be had at Grand Trenk, © nadiay Pacific, Intercolonial and P. KI Railways, and on the Com. pany’s Steamers and connecting lines in United States and Canada.
Steamers are run on Eastern Standard Time.
F. W HALBS,
Secretary,
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We are proud of our Scotsman wheel. We sell it at $50, by making every economy in the manufacture, and min- imizing th: options to necessary options ozly.
Every Scotsman wheel has electrically welded parts and high grade material, and the tinest possible finish. Like other Naticnal wheels, it is locally guaranteed,
But the price is $40, when it could easily be $50. It is only $49
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We Want To do
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We want your trade in Dry Goods and Men’s Furn- ishings and are doing our best to deserve your pat- ronage.
Our stcie is one of the prettiest and best lighted in Charlottetown, and everything is disp!ayed in a neat, tastey manner that helps to make quick buying easy.
Make it a point 'o give our store atrial. We are sure you wili§be pleased wiih your visit and purchase.
Here are a few lines itint we are*selling a quantity of just now,
Ladies’ Undervests
Ladies undervests . - : ; - - ‘ 5c
Ladies undervests, short sleeves . . 10C Ladies undervests, short or long sleeve - 25¢ Ladies undervests, short sleeve, round neck 35¢ Ladies undervests, swiss ribbed - 6oc . } Ladies’ Base Ladies Black Cotton Hose - - 10¢ Ladies BlackCotton Ribbed Hose - 15c , Ladies Black Cashmere Hose - - - 25¢ , -_ 5 " . ws Workingmens Shirts = - Flannelette shiris—all sizes . - . : 18¢ Heavy knit shirts—all sizes . - - . 30€ Heavy Black and white duck shirts } - - ° O5¢ Men’s underwear—per suit : . f c . 44¢ Men’s underwear—per suit - - ‘ . i . 50c
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