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A We u-"eassursdmlth assumed air prov-a! by- sections 0f i110 115°?“ prhfis that the Rt. Hon. iliacktnl“? King "wisely refrained" from 6X- pressing any opini_on on the FY0709‘ ea protective policy of Pram!" Qhldwin. iProtection, they tell us. ia,_a Torypolicy; free trade a Lib- oral policy aha, stranflfilY-Plemm’ King has no opinion to offer as to the. probable effects of a British Protective policy‘ with an inter imperial] preference. llWll "l9 ""19 U‘! the industries cf either the Unit- e‘! Kingdom or its over-seas dom- hiiione: _ _

,1 No‘ policy oi the past or the pre- heat is oi lnore vital importance p Great Britain in its various do iniiriohe than that which is now engaging the thought of British and overseas statesmen, yet Mr. Mackenzie King hue " wisely’ 1'9" trained" from expregsiug an opin- ion on the subject! What kind oi leadership is this? Has Mr. Mac- Kenlie King any opinion on the ‘unseen ls he waiting on he commback to Canada in order to have bib‘ mind made up for him by others!

‘ The interests of Canada are very closely. interwoven with‘ this Bri- tish protective policy. The pro- posal is to impose a duty on for sign goods with a preference for tbe- British Dominlone. At pre- sent British industries are starved hycompstition from the protected countries of the world, including the- British overseas dornlnlons. Theoverseaa dominions are com- peting~in the British market with the manufacturers and the produc- e_r's_of foreign countries. The pro posed protective tariff would safe- guard the British manufacturers ma. producers in their own mar- ket; the inter imperial preference would safeguard the interestsiof the British overseas manufactur are and producers in tho British niurkst and at the same time give themnan opportunity for rau- com- petition in the worldh markets, yet Mr. MacKenzie King, the Prime Minister Of Canada, has “W150i? rofraiii " from expressing an op- inion on the subecti _ So far, during his visit to Eng-

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valence of the dead for whom- wngn living, we had little rever- ence, This, also, is a tlmohonor ed custom and e0 generally vb- served that the least of ue and the

least worthy of us. may 1'01" ‘"5"?’

of praise for things done or left undone , after, though not before. we have passed beyond the bourne. What a much happier world it would be if we used some of the riowere for the living, if we made anti mortem rather than post mor tern demonstrations. The apprecia- tive word and the kindly sympathy of friends are a balm to tbs one who is doing his best, doing it of- ten in the face oi difficulties of which the world knows nothing. There will be no lack of apprecia- tion, no with-holding of symlliitly after the grave closes over our suc- ceses and failures. Fulsome obit- uaries will extol our known and our unknown virtues after our e!» forts havu ceased, but they can in nn-wayligbten our burden during the days of our effort, can ln no ‘way help to turn our failures into sucrrssses.

11v all nreans let us utrew flow- ers nn line gravx of an? daod, but let us not forgetthat the tiniest flower of appreciation, the small- est expression ol sympathy, while living, is worth more than tons of flowers on the graves or colunrne of insincere flattery in our obituar- ies. Let us place the emphasis on the living need rather than on the unneeding and the unappreclnting dead. I -——-—-b0>—--—-

THE PRICE.

Every honest man . is ready t4 payithe price, but the prudent luau will first ascertain, if ho can, whether that for which he is pay- ing is worth the price. We are constantly buying, seldom getting any bargains, but always paying the price.

When the price is only in dollars and cents it matters little whether we pay too much or too little. Dollars and cents may be recover- ed. It is when we pay in time, in health, in character, in manliness that the iprice really counts. I

We want pleasure and we are entitled to it. 'What price are we

land, Mr. McKenzie King has not ._ ‘expressed a definite opinion on any

paying for it? lf we spend sleep iiess nights; if we go to question-

aubect that hes arisen. His speech- es, so far as they have been re- corded, have been Tinade up largely of its and ‘buts and psi-adventurers. Asia’ result the attitude of Canada onany" of the great questions that have ariseuis absolutely unknown. imperial statesmen are waiting for some one to "start something" about Canada, to say where Canada items, ibut Mr. MacKenxie King

A "wisely refrains"- from committing himself or Canada!

m. Mackenzie King has no pol- icy either for Canada or nor Can- ada's trade l-elai-ious with the Un- ited Kingdom or the other over- seas dominions. lls h _still sull- Vlng on the "uncharted sea" on which he found himself when he . or others threw away the chart drawn-up by the Liberal party in 1919. liia ship is drifting wnong Jboalsand rocks. ltistime fora obs/age of captains at Ottawa

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7 owe uirgrllglly aha-ramp;

iabie resorts; if we gain Iour plea- sure at the expense of some oae's good name or of our own, then we are paying a price which we cannot -affor'd.

Wis want wealth and we are en- titled to it, but wealth, too may be purchased at too great a price. When we become slaves in our work: when we sacrifice home comfort and companionship; when we devote ‘all our time, and energy to the pursuit of wealth and neg- lect the cultivation of our minds and our lnteliects, we are paying a price which we cannot afford and the end will be bankruptcy in all that is worth while. We may "gain the whole ‘war-id," if we are willing to pay the price. but, if the price is the loss of our soul, the, lose of character, the loss of all thatia worth while, we have made but a fool's bargain.

honest price, but lot us see to it that we receive iuil value, be it in

ed that we shall receive our rmced '

His method is to ooncentmte the sun's rays by reflecting minors. it ls a consummation most devout- Coal is very costly in those days. and sunlight costs nothing when the sun shines.

' "_ And juat there comes the rub. The

sun does not always shine. At‘ best it only shines hallaa long in, the coldest weather aa it does la, he hottest weather, and it does not shine at all in thewinter nights when nights are longest and oldest. Just when the wise doc- or‘s reflectors should be working

fvith the greatest energy and act-

.vlty for human comfort they vould be idle. There are also the stormy and cloudy days in winter when the sun does not shine. The author of the new method for boating should himself "reflect" on these things.

The hopes of the liquor Interests throughout the Dominion for larger trailic in the future have undoubt- edly been raised by the turnover in Alberta. A plebiscite is to be demanded of the government in Ontario, declares J. A. McCaus- land, M.L.A., a suporter of Pre- mier Ferguson, who polnts out that the latter stood pledged to make no change in the Ontario Temper- ance Act unless it was asked for by -t_he people. McCausland on be- ing asked whether he would de- mand a plebiscite. replied: "Un- doubisdly," and added "lt only re- quires a vote and the extreme tem- perance people .will be swept out of existence." But this is merely the opinion of a strong advocate of government control of the traf- ilc. We infer that a plebiscite in Ontario may be called for and granted in the big province before long.

In the meantime the government of Alberta has issued an official ttltoment that the stocks of liquors in the province have been deplet- ed by over $1,000,000, and that at- tention must immediately be given to laying in an adequate s-rpply. This looks like a preparation for "wet" weather. Premier Venlot in New Brunswick is said personally tn favor government control, whatev- er his ofllcisl colleagues may think of it. The St. John Globe, which gives the Veniot government a moderate support, says the Alber- ta turn-over "will almost certainly lend new force to the referendum demand in other provinces." And the Telegraph-Journal, which is not unfriendly to the governmenz. ex- presses the opinion that ‘there is every probability of other sections of Canada inviting another expres- sion of opinion from the electors."

Liquor prohibition la not in itself a political question. lt is one on

which there is and has been a wide division of opinion among the membership of both the gre ter political parties. lt was under b eral leadership in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island that prohibitory laws were first passed and it was under the Premiership of Alexander Mackenzie that the Canada Temperance Act, common- ly spoken of as the Scott Act, ‘was passed. Now this leadership seems to be no longer held as it once was. The big Liberal pro- vinces o! Quebec and British Col- umbia bave adopted government control. Under Progressive lead- ership Manitoba and Alberta have done the same thing. Neither of the older parties or the new cores to make much sacrifice to save prohibition. it is the opponents of prohibition‘ who are most eager for plebiacites in these days in the hope that prohibition may suffer defeat. It is a good time for the forces of temperance law and or- der to be ou the alert. “How sel- dom do we hear prohibition ser- nions in ‘the churches," said Rev. Dr. Gordon.

Lloyd Gaorga will soon arrive in England, as great a puzzle as he has often been ‘in British politics. During his American tour the cable despatches have kept him con- stantly in the limelight at home. Beyond question his prestige has beep considerably restored during his trip abroad, and as a general election is expected next year he is expected to play a big part in it. But his views on protection, which Premier Baldwin has made tho paramount issue are not known. He is an old free-trader, but he is responsible for the Safe- guarding of the industries Bill which embodies the principle ‘of protection and goes a long way in

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Pigs and Immigrants,

p- 8ir,~—-A ollllllt’. tlme ago while at me sintiorshlpplng pigi." a farm er criisirniougWvffh six of the most beautiful rpeélnlenn" ‘of lire =porlt ont- could ursh to see; but which were‘ overweight and for wlrcir ho ass duly cut on tbe price: very uruclr to his disgust and disappoint- iueut. The remark was than nutrit- thai. they do not want well fed pigs and that it dose not pay to be diligent and enthusiastic in feeding pigs; for. to be such one ls penalized. The owner of the pigs could not do otherwise than accept the penalty, for they were already too heavy and he could sell them nowhere else only under the same handicap; but he was highly disappointed, to any tlw least, after all the earn and atten- tion he bad devoted to those s, not to mention the valuable eed they had consumed over and above what was necessary to bring them to the desired weight to come within the prime bacon class, that he should be penalized thus. When one remembers that it takes from i to 5 lbs. of meal to produced lb. of live pork, and these pigs went at 6%c. per lb. it can be seen that this farmer did not get rich- on that load of hogs. Other re- marks were bandied back and forth between the buyer and oth- or farmers auent the amount of money to be made at farming in this province, and the frequency of local farm sales. and the men leaving the country and finally one bright light from the rear of the group said: "Therell be another farm for sale-and yet they talk about bringing immigrants to tbe country." Now, this little story illustrates very nicely some of tho conditions existing at this time in the farming districts and the attitude of many men's minds toward current ev- ents. Of course, the owner of the overweight pigs had made a mis- take in keeping them too long so that they had outgrown the weight to come lthin the prime bacon class. and so gain tho top current market price. Perhaps lie knew this himself, perhaps he didn't. Perhaps‘, knowing it. he was not a good judge of the live weight of a

og and since it is manifestly out of the question for every small farmer who fattens one or two lit- ters of pigs a year to be in pos- isessic-n of adequate scalestoweigh live hogs, when. else was he to do? .

We will now look a little at the immigrant side of this story. Our authorities are making every ef- fort possible to gain all the de- sirable immigrants they possibly can. even to the extent of assist- ing them to get here and establish- ing them upon fnnns after their ar- rival, with which I heartily agree as a sound economic or‘ ciple and 800d business as far as Canada as a whole is concerned. We need more people to occupy much of our open spaces that they may help to ease the burden of our Na- tional Railways, help to produce greater exportable surpluses of all kinds of. goods and generally to make rn re business within the country and hence all of us more prosperous. Hut is this scheme ap- plicable to P.‘ E. 1.? l wonder who is the best immigrant, — the man who is born and raised here or the one who may come from all!’ 03-119!‘ D81‘! 0f the British Em- pire, not to mention those who may come with a. foreign tongue. I will venture the opinion that the man who was born and raised on n P. E. island farm and who is at pre- sent leaving the country in great numbers. providing of course, that he is suited to remain a farmer. 1s the very best immigrant we can assist at this time. Does it not be- hoove the local government to spends little money. if such is necessary. to retain some of these people rather than be induced to assist in a general immigration, be they the mott desirable citizens from other parts‘!

There is the man who had the Overweight Digs again. May lsug- gest that perhaps if our authori- ties would conduct u better bacon hog campaign throughout the pm- vince that there would be fewer instances of overweight in hogs. and a higher percentage of the se- lwi 550°" W08 coming forward to market and thus bring more monlly to our people. not to mention eav- ing food fro-n producing extreme fat and heavy bacon which the consumer does not want? r won- dcr again if it would not he pos- liibiB to do something for "the younx man who, finding himself‘ crowded out at home for the lack of opportunity to extend or tn- creasu or intensify farming opera- llflllfl. is leavilli; the country in great numbers; and the pathos or it all is. ha usually goes to n for? eign country. He usually goes to the United States, a perfectly do- sirable and admirable place to go t ' but alas. he is lost to‘ Canada and therBritish Empire. Would

that the ex-Premier will ahtacitlte government's tarifl policy, but doubt is expressed whether he can- re-unite the Liberal party under

p" ‘he pm, by m mam’ m, the direction the Premier has indi his owe leadership owing to his

feud with A _ ' ‘. Dilution in the Liberal camp is a source of strength at present to the Baldwin but things may change quickly when" the adroit little Welshman appelra on the

scene and takes a decided attitude‘ ‘ '

manufacturing for. the home rnar- .- ket. Still it is generally assumed '

IRON Men on WOODEN men

A sea yarn in one of the m!!! zines told oi a couple of bid sea- men who built a wooden vessel. They ‘were teased s0 much about

iron or steel that 0nd of them turned on his tormeutor and said.

"Well I guess a wooden boat with iron men is a whole lot bet- ter than an iron boat with wooden men." ‘

One can do some thinking about that old skippers remark.

It is the same old story. Every- thing, or nearly everything is now done for us.

A man docsnii. have a trade as in the old days. He learns to do one single job on one machine.

His body and mind get. no dev- elopmeut because the real work is done by the machinery and he sim- ply atai-ts, stops, or feeds the mach- inc.

Now it would be foolish to ca) that work is not as well done as in the old days.

But which is the more import- ant,‘ work or men?

What am l aiming at?

That irrespeetile of electricity, of elevators, of motor cars, or self feeding machinery, that body oi yours is just the same as in the days of the earliest history we have of man.

What did our early man do? Hunted and fished, and tilled the ground.

And your body needs just the same things as did his, food, work and the outdoors. I - And so the seamen or sailor of bygone days, had to hurry up the rigging, tug at the sails, stand his watch by day and night.

He became verily ari_ iron man.

He could eat anything, sleep any- where or anytime and do a twen- ty four hour spell of work if nec- essery.

You and l can't become iron men at our regular work, and yet we cannot become iron men by any royal road. There is no royal road in acquiring the strength and vig- or of an iron man.

Strength and vigor come only iby exercise, by sane eating, and per- haps by some self denial. It is just giving to that body of yours the care and attention you would be- ‘stow on something for which you cared a great deal.

And what is worth more io you than rt strong healthy body? Noth- lng.

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Daily Selections

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Slow moving, heavy clouds and thick mists hide

From light the mountain tops, deep clad with snow.

But now and then, though

' row on row.

A glimpse they give, when winds have blown aside

Their wraitbs, of splsndeut peaks, as ll‘ a tide

Of light had flooded there, while

yet below

Shadows remain and nothing seems to know

The glory lust beyond, where night has died.

piling

Thinking all dark forever ‘man yet

gropes

Among the petty, base desires of

men.

Following false dreams and empty crumbling hopes.

Till splendid dawns a golden day, and.»then

We see the heights, from which tire mist urirolls

Of earthly things, and know that

men have Bouls. ._Augk|gnd, New Zealand, Critic

not this class of immigrants be worth assisting?

Wculdhe- not ho the very host mun obtainable for some of our vacantfarmsf And we have too rnunyoi the. lattor right hero in our own neighborhood.

l am, Sir, etc..

F. S. REEVES. Eldon. P. E. 1.. .--<<0->--—

"WHY ARE you sitting in the

chair reading, when I sent you to dust the room?" » Servant: "Oh. madam, l failed t_o find the duster, so I am dust- uing the chairs by sitting on each of them in turn."

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their wooden boat, as compared to ~

As a Province, Prince Edward Island continues to hold its high and proud _positlon—at the head of the list—in the criminal statistic! of Canada. But there have lately been outbreaks of Juvenile crime in

public attention. it la pected that this condition in the City will be discussed at the Annual meeting of the Children's Aid ociety, to be held in the City Council Chamber on the evening of Monday. the 19th Inst. »