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' Mr. _l. J. Hughes, P. C. S., having exhausted the patience of the House of Commons-has retumed to` Souris and has commenced to try the patience of the' already soul-tried Editor of the Patriot by his inter- minable letters. Like most pro bono publico contribu- tors, Mr. Hughes lacks the sense of proportion and iS careless in the use of language. For instance, his fa- 'vorite expression in a letter in yestcrday’s Patriot is “Sewer Conduit.” Now what is a “Sewer Conduit"? \\'e might \\'ith equal correctness refer to Mr. jg. _l. _]._|. Hughes Hughes." According to \Vebster a sewer is “a drain or passage to convey off \vater.or filth un- derground ?’ while according to the same authority, a. conduit is “that which conducts or conveys; especially a pipe, canal or the like for thc conveyance of water or any other liquid.” If there ever was a human se- wer or conduit it is our ilapliligan fr' :nd from Souris. In the House of Commons and in the Press his are the tongue and pen which convey the dirty water and filth of public life from its source to the public view. His voice and pen know no decency, and whether the source be his own depraved heart and fertile imagina- tion, or those of some other equally unprincipled, evil- minded individual or aggregation, the consequence\ is the same-all decent, respectable people loathe the out- put of the Hughes" political common sewer. We hate to write thus, we loathe to descend to the Hugliligan level of controversy, but there are occasions when it is one’s duty to fling scruples aside and beat a cowardly controversialist \vith his own weapons. Tlierefore, we have pleasure in letting it be known that from no\v henceforth Mr. _i. J. Hughes is entitled to the letters “.l'. C. S." (political common sewer) after his name.

There is little in Mr. Hughes’ lctr.:t that requires

answer. ln the House of Commons he made two

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.that have adoriied the frontlpages of the Liberal press'

,at i\fr. l\IcNeill’s feet and nothing in the way of enco-

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“What is Carvellidriving at then if you don't ex-

pect to prove anything?" “Oh. we are making Cam- pa.

and many of them will believe what they read.”

Elsewhere in this issue will be found an `article

that, through an interview with therchaplain of the American Legion, Overseas Battalion, throws a lurid light on the notorious clgarges and the reason why they were launched.; Mr. Kyte have believedthose -who‘n`i'ade_h_im their catspaw kneig _that the biggest thing ,to bei'u_ia.de out of the chargés 'was campaign Jliterature, and the screaming headlines

since the charges were formulated show how correctly they gaugedlhe situation. That they succeeded in making campaign literature-of the kind-no one will dispute. The war-literature and the literature dealing with the prosperity and the needs of the country paled into insignificance compared _with this overmastering literature that was to-blackeii the government’s gigan- tic achievements iii recruiting and equipping the largest volunteer army that ever crossed the‘Atlantic. To allow General Sir Sam Hughes and the government to carry off ‘such a record as they had made during the most eventful period_in Canada was unthinkable to men of the Carvell type and, ghoulishly they adopted this mode of procedure/ They could not prove the charges, they knew, but the dissemination of such stuff through a willing press, would léltve scars on the escutcheon, some one would believe it!

In our own local situation how much campaign]

literature was made during tlic last election caiiipaign; How much during the recent 'session of the legislature. Contrast, for instance, the charges made during the Souris election campaign against Hon. James A. Mc- Neill, and those made during the session when an in- vestigation was threatened. In the former the Bil- lingsgate dictionary was exhausted, suspicion and guilt and all the rest of it were iiisinuated if not open- ly charged and the pages of the Patriot fairly screamed with hints as to the crime that was attempted if not actually committed. »In the legislature, when an op-`

it to the bottom, the former.denunciators fairly fawned,

charges against the authorities here with regard to the supply"of produce, etc, for the troops. The first was

that the Patronage was confined to Conservatives. For. our part we would not consider that an offense in view '

of the past record of the Liberals. \\`licn the Liberals were in power their attitude towards Conservatives" seeking a share of patronage was-“Let the --- starvc." .»\nd so far as patronage was concerned they did starve. lt would be only htting were the Conser- vatives to give the Liberals a taste of their own medi- cine. llut they have not done so. ln every instance where it was practicable, public tenders have been ask- ed, and as the list we published on Thursday proved, Liberals as well as Conservatives are included among the Goveriiiiieiit contractors. The Patriot has never yet published this list, and for the very good reason that it would prove to its readers, that all its allega- tions and insinuations were wholly without founda- tion in fact.

The set-oiitl charge niadc by .\lr. Hughes was that

the local contractors were making a short-delivery of 20 pcr cent. \\'heii challenged to prove this statement Mr. Hughes backed down at once, and the only con- clusion that one can come to is that his information must have been first hand regarding his own firm only, which is one of the contractors. \\"e need hardly remind .\Ir. llughes that “it is a dirty bird that fouls its own nest." `

Mr. Hughes quotes a letter from Messrs Brace

.\lcKa_\' & Co., in which they give a “fcrv con:/varisons" bctwceii the figures they quoted and those of the suc- cessful tcnderers! \’\'hy did not this firm, which is_ one of the niost honourable in Summersidc, quote the full list for comparison? \’Vas it because in the re- maining half they were entirely out of the rumiing? liverybotly knows that tenders are not accepted in half but in wliolc, and it may be, and probably was, that on the whole tender Messrs Brace McKay &_Co., were higher than the successful tenderers. Anyway Mr.‘ llughes does not state, nor do Messrs Brace, McKay` Se Co., claim, that their tender was unsuccessful on ac- count of politics-nor could they, or we are mistaken on the political affiliations of at least one half of the said firm. `

The one point Mr. Hughes does make is that pow-

dered inilk, or “Klim," is supplied our soldiers instead' of condensed milk. We know nothing about the comfl parative values of thc two articles, all we do know is that the local authorities have absolutely nothing to do with this matter. The whole of the forces in Canada are supplied with “Klim,” and so far as we know not a single man in khaki, either here or elsewhere, has raised a single objection to it. \\`erc the milk supply a_ question of lo_cal ,consideration we would be as one with Mr. 'lluglies or any respectable politician in ad-

_it is generally supposed from the rebellion of '98. At

iniuin upon his character, his honour or his integrity both in public and private life, was too strong. In the meantime the campaign literature at Souris was sup- posed to do its deadly work and the fact that it failed was through no omission on the part of the detractors. Similar campaign literature was issued by these same manufacturers in connection with the patriotic efforts of the government, witness the hay scandal, the oats scandal, the army supply, the recruiting and all the rest of it--all proven false to the hilt and knowii to bc only campaign literature.

It is *f scarcely conceivable that at a time like the

present, when we are actually face to face with serious national danger, when it requires the united efforts of all our people to avert calamity, when it requires the individual efforts of all our people to prevent the con- sequences of the war fro_m being a crushing burdc-ii,i that some men entrusted with serious business should use their positions and their opportunities to further their own miserable political ends. But to such a pass have little politicians come. Fortunately they are becoming known and it is probable that never again will the people submit to such a contemptible attempt to lioodwink them.

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lRELAND’S NATIONAL COLOR

The question raised in the London press, r::ently,

as to what is really the national color of Ireland, does not admit of debate, at any rate from a historical point of view. The national color is of course blue and not green. The adoption of the “immortal green” dates.

that time Ulster Orangemen made common cause with the Irish Natioiialists of.the south, and a green flag was chosen as their ensign because green was the color produced by the blending of orange and blue. The national flag, too, of Ireland, is not the green Hag_with an Irish harp in the centre, but the white flag showing the red saltier of St. Patrick.

The rebel songs of '98 arc, of course, full of refer-

ences to “green” as the national color and thesynibol of liberty. In one of the.less known, namely, the “Shan Van Vogh," which years ago was heard often enough about-the countryside in Ireland, occurs such a refilrenec. After describing the meeting of the pat- riots

On the Curragh of Kildare,

And Lord Edward will be there,”

it proceeds:

“\\`hat color shall they wear?

Says the Shan Van Vogh. \\'hat color shall bc seen, But our immortal green, _ _ llut our iiiiinortal green?_

voiftttitlgfa local 'product",A all other things being equal.

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the package with tobacco and hand- Generally thing: are pretty qulet

here. However there no a little varl-

portunity was offered to go into the question and probe `*l1¢ Welfllfe Of the C0\1Y1U’¥~ But un-

.llfe In its tender ehagm. ~",

M c (Clontinuedl-from page one.) vi l"m» Wd

riineatlons or rifoluuons. um aaro- claglly with reurdto the appointment or-dismissal of 'proucutorsl' Mr_ -PATON dd;-he stood in db-

fthe trouble I.o__¢p”0vor to the Clerk of me City Court to .flnd out exactly how

e City stoood-with regard to drunk-

enness and he no _ d that Inst Year

cases of which were dismissed I I-he lost your of tho Liberal Govern , but-1911. _ were 200 cases, 15

.which _were afauilued. By n compari-

'l'Qll 9f3l°Qe figure. it would be soon _thot there were, nearly 30 eases fewer -190 ll\m_ In 1911. notwithstand- lug 111: tphmber of soldiers who 'ling jbeen . ty for nearly a year nb ‘ltheffact lhore had heeii'two'elec. '_tlons-prov uclal and clvll. During the flrst 3_`,moul-hp of thls year -_there were 23 prosecutions for drunkenness ab against 34 for the some perlodlast year. so there was an Improvent In ithts year over last year. Mr. Paton deprecated the mehtods of the Patriot In dealing with this subject. The ‘glaring mlsstatements contained lu _the scare head lines of that paper would serve, he said, to ruin the repu- Jtatlon of the province In the eyes of _people abroad. , The Island was one of the -best places on the face of the earth, and It was a disgrace that men should seemlnglyglellght ln running `It'dowii. There was no other place is free from crime as this province, 'and he appealed for truth in dealing with this question, for the sake of the Island and Charlottetown in particu- lar, which he defended. Everybody knew that what the Patrlot sald was l10t‘t.rue. The Government had done alljlt possibly could to enforce the law. This 'question of prohibition had been ,made by certain persons nothing but a handle for political purposes_ He hoped that that section of the Alliance would act in future better than lt had done In the past.

Hon Mr. McKINNON sald_that a

great deal of noise was made about the sublect by certain people who were not sincere advocates of ternperance but used lt to further their polltieal schemes. I-Ie sold that the country was llndlng out that the statements made by the hon. _member for Char- lottetown (Mr. Paton) were about cor- rect. He was .satisfied that there were man In the Alliance who were ac- tuated by unaelflsh motives. men who were sincere In their desire to promote

fortunately there were others whose object was to use temperaiice as a po-

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ity of open warfare. As yet I have nev- er_ gone over the parapet into the region known as no rnaii‘s Land." "Keep your head down Englishman” is the title of a favourite song, with the_boys out here, and believe me It ls good advice.

Alr-craft. both British and German

fly about here like birds. Now this is not hyperbple. Often we hear the guns, in the air craft pumping away at the another. There is a German plane on tlie. ground. all smashed to atoms,

nottflve hundred yards from this very apo . '_The climate here is very disagree- able. and has been so ever since I came to this country. There are just two changes in the atmosphere. Yes. .lust two. wet and wetter. But I hope May. will bring something better.

Now as regards the Belgian people,

we flnd them very kind indeed, but extremely dirty in their house-keep~ Ing, In fact I have seen very few of them who know the first. thing about cooking, nevertheless they are always very good to us. 1

I saw Nell Walker, once since I

came out here. He was well and look-l ed fine. By the way, he is not very far from here now. Occasionally I meet many of the Island boys.

Now Dan. I want you to send me a

small dictionary. I forgot to tell you that we often have plenty of time to read, so I spend my spare moments

tlius.

By this time you will surely thlnk

I.liave the writing manla, but I take every opportunity of wrltlng to some one or other on P. E. I. I think I must ring off now. and go to sleep for fi few hours.

Your loving brother CHARLES MACARTHUR,

Downlngton Hall,

Sandbay Avenue.

Belgium

(Pat. please copy) '

DIILY SELECIIDIIS FDR Glllllllllll RERDEBS

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by W. I. Lennon.

' RETOUCHED.

` Bishop Thobum tells a beautiful story about a picture of his dead chlld. It seemed a very Imperfect photograph 'so blurred that scarcely a trace oft the loved features could be seen In lt. But (one day he took the picture to a pho- tographer. and asked hlm lf he could do anything to Improve lt. In three _weeks the bishop returned; and as ‘he qaw the picture In its frame on the yall. be was startled. It seemed as If his chlld was llvlng again before him. The Image had been In the old picture, but. was concealed beneath the blurs and mlstp that were there aIso._ The artist, however, had brought ft out -fn strong, llvlng beauty, until ‘lt was like

In every true dlsclp e of Christ t.hdr_e

ls the image of the Master. It may very dlm. Ito featuresjre overlaid _ blurs’ nd llemlsheb. and are almost uiirecognlmble by human eyes. It In the work of Christ In our llvag to br- ing out this likeness, more and more clearly, utitll at Int It shines ln ini- dimmed beauty. frills ln what Chrlat

,fence or_cI`u'irIottétown in uns mime;-.,

ign literature; the people will read the statei_nents_~ 410" Ill!! Dlivlolllly l\° Md 'f°\°“

W1 there were only 180 prosecutions. 25 of

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Mr. Daniel J. MacArthur of Ken-

sington bu received the following ln- terestlng letter: .

’ Belgium. Aprn 19. isis

_Deer Brother:-Received your let- ter of March 27th. tonight, and also

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Thls fl Wednesday night 11.30 p.m.,

and I lm wrltlng _this 'by cuddle Ilgbt, ln ,my little 'booby'-ln other words

my dugout. I amvrleued to any that this dugout ls _a ry comfortable one Indeed. for lt In high enough to allow ii person to set upright. Some-‘-as you know. do not admit ol thfs and make one think of tharlnstrument of tor- ture, ln which lt ls fmpoulblo to get Into any comfortable position lt all. I :mln the trenches at present but not ln the flrfng‘llnt-_.

at-lon this evening. an there was A glnut artillery duel going on. about two mllea soutlfof ul, and the slglit _vvas certainly bolutlful from our dis? uiice. Certainly there was some dan- gerous ground for someone. The chief shells used were ahrnpnel, which as they burst ln mid-air. made quite A luminous dfsplly. There were also some star shells, which are at great favorite with the Hun. There In con- tlniioul flgbtlngkoliig on here all the tlnio. but not with the marked iiever-

ln doing lu many bf ble ways with us.

"Who from unsightly bulb or slender

root

Could guess arlgbt

The story of the flower, the fern. the

fruit, '

In aummer'ii height?

Through tremulous shadows volceo

call to me. , "

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suppreaalou led the

drag greatly

RESOLVED that this

House approves of the actions of that 'sectlonbf t.he'Alllance which is giving Its aid to the Government in enforce- lug the law, and contldently ,hopes that the better element may soon con- trol the action."

Hon. H. D. McEWEN’ seconded the

amendment, and stated that ln his oplnlon the act was well enforced; If certain men In the Alliance were aB anxious to give information to the- prosecutors se th-xv were to make poll- tlcal capital against the government the act would be even better enforced than it was at present.

Mr. A. P. PROWSE supported the

amendment, remarking that he thought that the temperance question was one which should be above party politics.

Messrs Lea. Bell and others spoke ou

the amendment.

The amendment vas then put to the

vote and carried.

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Dr_’ C. J. McMillan, who made a

brief vlslt to his home In Charlotte~ town, leaves this moming for Halifax where the McGill Unit for overseas service will traln.

The McGill Overseas Unit has a

strength of 159 men of all ranks. There are seven officers, Including a paymas- ter. one warrant oflleer and 151 non- eommissed officers and men, Re- cruiting began the first of May, though practically' the whole unlt was secured before that. The uiiit is lllade up entirely of McGill men. Every faculty ls represented-Science Arts, Medicine, Law, Agriculture and Divliii- ty. Of the officers, exclusive of the Paymaster, four are members of the teaching staff. one is a graduate and one is a student. The Paymastei' also is a graduate. _

The officer commanding is Major \V.

D. Tait. Professor of Psyeology, who lt will be remembered gave an address before the Teaclier's Association in Cliarlottetovvirtwo years ago on the subject of "Defectlve Children."

The second ln command, holding the

rank of Captain, will be Dr_ Cyrus J. McMillan, Professor lu English, ii well- known Charlottetown man.

The Lleutenants are: Mr. Kimball

Keeping, of Murray Harbor, P. E. I.. graduate In Engineering, 1913, now Instructor ln the Siege Artillery School in Halifax ; Mr. C. R. McCort, Instruc- tor in Forrestry Engineering at. Me- Gill; Mr. P.» K. Skelton, Science gra- duate, ofrmerly dernonstrator in Civil Engineering at ll‘lcGlll. and recently manager of the Rand-Ingersoll Com- pany In Slierbrnok, Que.. Mr. F. G. Rountliwaite, student In Fourth Year, Civil Engineering, and Mr_ P. M. Mc- Donald, a' graduate of MeGlll and a qualified Paymaster, who has been re- commended for that position.

Three oflleers and a number of the

men from the McGill Battery will take ii course of Instruction work at Hull- fax for the next few weeks.

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PIUS S. MURPHY.

Plus S. Murphy, aged 58, a carpenter

of 66 Blue I-Illl, Av_, Roxberry Mass, son of the late Hon. Joseph Murphy, of Freeland. Lot 11, P. E. I., dled at the Relief Hospital on Friday, April 7th. of Injuries received by being struck by it freight train, on the Bos- ton &MuIne Railroad, of Charlestown. He lived twelve hours and was fortlfled and consoled by the rites of the Holy Catholic Church. He leaves to mourn a sorrowlng wlfe one daughter, six brothers and two sisters. (May his soul rest ln peace.)

MRS. CHARLES MOLYNEAUX.

.There passed away at the family home 16 Pleasant St, Lawrence, Mass. on May 4th, 1916, Florence, beloved wlfe of Charles Molyneaux and daugh- ter of the late Capt. Hancock, R. N. formerly of Central Royalty. P. E. I. The funeral services were conducted at the home by the Rev_ Donald Il. (le- rlsh. pastor, of the Central M. E. Church. The burial took place in the family lot In Bellerlw Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Molyneaux fofmerly lived In Charlottetown where Mr. Molyneaux car_|-led on a photo graphic parlor where Carter's store now stands. (Patriot

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