A

ae

__- ee

TRE pepe, MRR ge 6

Ee RN

gh

PP BR i a ee ae

*

th ee

GP RRS:

OF

*, .

Be Oe es PAE J Die abet

¥

Ra OE ORES Ge SRS Pe SNS ey ee

CLAIMS

THB DAILY EXAMINER.

QUT OF 2000

fon

dent Co. for last yea used Co pedestri-

: ry. sidcwatsr

LAtng ON The

THE OCEAN ACCIDENT

Insures against all kinds of accidents

s are low, and it issues a

re - 2

Polic j

G. IU. Brow

General Agent) Charlottetown

- d yood

THE VOICE OF THE SPECIAL PLEADER.

Tue Hon. Frederick Peters has changed base in regard to our Provincial finances. When $50,000 were owing the banks six years ago, the Province was, in his view,

ever head and ears in debt. It was then necessarv to proceed at once to the sale of $125.000 worth of debentures! But

when the floating debt amounts, on his own

now

admission, to $393,825.96 —apart from heavy liabilities unaccounted for—the Pro There

are, he points out, “Cash Assets at Ottawa

vince

is not really in debt at all ! amounting to $895,279.69;” and, instead of

Sebo, “there is a balance in favor of the province of $501,453.73 ! ”

So Mr. Peters reassures tbe electors and says ineffect, “Let us go ahead boys! We're not in debt. There are over $500,- £00 in cash yet to draw upon, not to speak ofafl our public buildings and public Don’t take. any stock in “the

attempts of persons who orght to know

works.

impression that the indebted.” Give mea majority again ; let me go ahead ; it

better than to create the Province is heavily will be all right.”

fs it all right? Itis all wrong. Mr. Peters has no right toset-off our cash assets, —secured by the wisdom and foresight of Liberal Conservatives who have gone before—against the large cash debt which he has done so much to create. He didn’t set off those assets when he was in opposi- tion, though they were larger then than they are now. Why does he do so at this juncture? On the eve of a general elec— tion, he desires to lull the people intoa state of fancied, but false, security. He wishes the people of Prince Edward Island to be of one mind with the spendthrift, who seeing that he still has some money in the funds as well as some real property inherited fromm his father, gives notes and mortgages to pay his way. We all kuow what the end of that map nusit he, and by that end we may judge what the end of Prince Edward Islaud wil] be—if the electors continue te tofhow thv lead of the Hon.jFredericx Peters.

Mr. Peters’ cuange of base in regard to the finances is for the worse —not for the betier. It is the resort of a special pleader in a tight place. Mr. Peters says that “comparatively speaking, no other Province in the Dominion can show as good a balance sheet.” This statement is altogether misleading. Prince Edward Island is not in the same position as any einer Province in the Dominion, and therefore it is grossly unfair to compare its finances with that of the other Provinces. The other Provinces have besides their gash assets at Ottawa large resources in mines and minerals and Jumber, etc. This Province has its public lands alone, and these have for the most part been frittered away by Mr. Peters in discounts made for for political purposes. When the Hon Mr. Fielding—at present Finance Minister of

Canada—had increased the debt of Nova Scotia from a few thousands

io upwards of $3,000,000—he had only to add a few cents tothe royalty exacted on account of each ton of coai taken out of she wines ot Noya Scotia, and aided by the operation of the National Policy, he re- ceived enongh money toenable him to pay the additional interest incurred. But this Province has no such resource. Apart from our subsidy and the interest on our sash assets at Ottawa and the few thousandg

/.0 be spent

THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLCTTETOWN JULY 2 1897

i.

coneerned, Mr. Provinces |

have fallen into the hands of unscrupulous f all their awn emolu-

Peters may be right. Other Prince Edward [sland men seeking most 0

ment. But in so far as financial

position of the Province is concerned, he

is wrong; because the other Provinces have resources to draw upea which this Province bas not.

We pass over Mr. Peters’ references to The

people know whether his administration

our roads, bridges, education, etc.

in regard to these matters has been better or worse than that of his predecessors, and they can judge

whether or not another administration is | kely to doas well. We pass over, als >» his boasts about the savings he Las effected and the “economy” he has practi-ed on behalf of the people of the Province,—in view of the fact that his gross expenditures have, year by year, been very much larger than

those of his predecessors! But we cannot passover his remarks concerning “our claims.” It is to be noted that Mr.

Peters says nothing whatever in regard to

an increase of subsidy. In view of the positive statements of the Canadian minis- try in that regard he has been forced to abandon the idea with which he beguiled the electors previous to the last Domizion His scheme now is to place the the Province in arbitration

and get the amount awarded into the

election. “claims” of Provincial Treasury. These claims arise chiefly out of the excessive expenditures by railways in

Mr. Peters

the Dominion Government on

other parts of Canada. But

says :—

“Let nfe be clearly understood: The arbitration proposition is not intended to include any question as to the Railway extensions in the province now under con- sideration. These stand by themse'ves. The right to have them is clear, and no arbitration is necessary or will be asked for with regard to them.”

is to be without

If the amount of our claims

expended upon railway extension arbitration, how are we to get it to put into the Provincial Treasury by We cannot, possibly, even as the result ofa

whbitration

costly arbitration, “eat our goose and have it.” Upon this point Mr. Peters’ mind seems to have undergone a remarkable change within a short period of time. It is not long since he wrote the letter to Sir Louis Davies in which arbitration was suggested. We have not yet had the pleasure of per- using a copy of the whole of that letter. But judging by the extracts which have appeared in Hansard we conclude that it js an extremely interesting public docu- ment. In the course of it, when settivg forth the claims of Prince Edward Island to be put up to arbitration, Mr. Peters says :-—

“The next claim that we make is that at thetime we entered confederation the terms agreed upon were based upon the ciatement that a certain sum of money was on the Canadian Pacific ®@ Ce:tain Other sum oa the Intercolonial Railway; that t! ese snms were, in both instances, largely “exceeded and that we in this province received little if any benefit from such excessive expenditure. Further, that @ new policy was inaugurated by the late government of subsidizing railways of local interest, and immense sums of money were spent in this direction, none of which in any way benefited this province, but to all of which we had really to subscribe our share. This claim was put forward by the Sullivan-Ferguson government about the year 1886.”

Yet Mr. Peters now says, in his address to the electors of Prince Edward Islaad that “ the arbitration proposition is not to include any question as to railway exten- sions in the Province, now under consider- ation.” If this statement is true, why does Mr. Peters not press the Dominion Government to build the “ railway exten - sions” at once; and suggest arbitration as to the balance that would be due the Pro- vince after this matter, about which “ no arbitration is necessary,” is‘disposed of ? That would be the business-like course of procedure. We greatly fear, in view of his representations to Sir Louis Davics, that Mr. Peters’ representations to the electors lack the essential element and

Railway and

a year that we can still screw out of the Land Office, there is only taxation in some form,—taxation which, however applied must come, directly or indirectly, out of tbe pockets of our struggling farmers” Mr. Peter's attempt to hoodwink our iarmers with the idea that “comparatively speaking,” this Province is in a better

financial position than the other Prov- inces of Canada is much too thin. All intelligent men must ree

through the thin film of fallacy which zovers Mr. Peters’ falee and untenable Tn so far as the ba!ance sheet is

por ition,

about how to do it. We have

steck.

HOME MAKERS.

‘that he desires the grounds upon which

? | 21st instant.

ine --=- aby Days.

These June days your doctor will tell you that it’s wrong to keep the litt!e folks indoors this kind of weather. baby plump and healthy. See that yours gets it,

ting late, we will make the prices interesting on the few remaining in

Mark Wright & 00. Ltd

our claim to railway extensions are based to be put to arbitration in order that he may lay hands upon money to enable him to go on as he bas been going for the past Belfast,

Murray Harbor, New London, East Point - >

aix years, The people of ete., may theu whistle for their railways, If this fear is not well founded, Mr. Peters is evidently a “little mixed” on the ques- tion involved.

That he is a'so “ very bard up,” politi- eally, is evident fromthe fact that he has been forced to the last resort of a special pleader. He has gone outside the record and seized upon a proposition in respect to education laid down by Mr. W.S. Stewart, Q. C., a gentlemen in private life. as the only point upon which to condemn the policy of the Opposition. It is needless to say that Mr. Stewart does not presume to represent the Liberal-Conservative Party. He expressly stated at the outset tnat it waa not his purpose to cut out an Opposi- tion platform. The views expressed in his letters were his persona] views; and his proposition in respect to education was promptly repudiated by members of the Opposition—notably by Mr. Cyrus Shaw. Yet Mr. Peters is so hard up ti at he must needs attempt to fasten Mr. Stewart’s per- sonal opinions upon the Liberal-Conserva- tive Party.

=<

THE CARDIGAN DISTRICT:

Srr,—It is rumored that the Cardigan district is again at this election to have a non-resident thrust upon it. This time itis to be the old sea Captain from George town whom the district rejected at the last election and whose native town George- town twice rejected and who will be reject- ed this time if he is foolish evough to con- test this district.

This time as before it is not the elec- tors of Cardigan district who are asking for this political adveoturer. He is the nominee of Premier Peters and the con- vention will be expected to ratify his uomination. They will no doubt be in- structed todo so. But the electors of the | Cardigan district will not ratify it on the

| During the last election every device of | a corrupt and dishonest party was used to defeat Shaw and McDonald: lies, rum money, religion, offices and promises of office. Shaw and McDonald came through it all with honor and credit and a good majority and they will come through it this time but with a largely increased majority. The farmers are determined that Shaw and Jas. E. McDonald shall be the representatives of the Cardigan dic- trict and what they say is law.

Dundas July 1, 1897.

-+e+e

ELEcTOR.

NEWS NOTES, A blight upon the foliage of apple trees is reported through sections of Ontario. — | A set of the works of Aristotle, the | Greek philosopher, printed oa vellum and of the date 1483, brought $300 at a sale in London yesterday.

Mr. Harold Frederic’s description of Barney Barnato as ‘‘a vulgar, boisterous, treacherous, loathsome, little cad” sums up a career that wealth made only more conspicuously ugly.

The Brazilian minister in Washington is blind and has his daily papers read to: him by a secretary, so that he is obliged to form his ‘mpressions entirely by sound.

A recent bride numbered a handsome bicycle among her wedding gifts. On the whole it is agreeable to find the list of bridal presents extending in this direction.

The Governor-General has been inform- ed that Canada’s reply to Her Majesty’s gracious greeting was the first men@age to reach Buckirgham Palace, on Jubilee Day.

The largest veesel that ever entered the Miramichi, passed up the river to Nelson a few days ago. She is the British steam- ship Lord Kelvin, of 2,232 tons burthen, and is loading deals at Fleet’s mill for Great Britain.

Sovereign Cocoa Wine is pleasant to take, is certain and gratifying in its effect: in cases of loss of sleep and enervation. as

ee ——

Wone as Gcod as E. & D.

The spring air will make No need to worry the Carriages, and as the seasonis get-

; ing the best characteristics of his race.

‘SOVEREIGN

DRESS STUFFS.

Two lots of Dress Stuffs—we’ve filled two counters fur

4OS2O404427 284 BOLLVSVECITVVS

you

Monday—one with 15¢ and 20c goods and one with 25c. That’s what the price tickets say—the values range considerably higher,

Come and see our special midsummer offer on Dress Goods, Blouses, Corsets, Gloves, Millinery, Flowers, Hats, Capes and

JACKETS

Sce our Straw Hats and hot weather Jackets in silk and

lustre.

ORANGE BLOSSOMS.

On last Monday morning a very happy event took place in All Saints Church, C: rdigan Bridge, when Mr. Francis Binns, the proprietor of the Cardigan meat and fish market, was united in marriage to Mi-s Annie Griffin, daughter of the late John Griffin, of Cardigan. The bride wore a beautful dress of grey silk, andthe maids of honor, Miss Julia Binns, sister of the

groom, and Miss Sadie Flannigan, decked in snowy white, looking charmiug. The

groom was supported by Mr. George J. McCormice, of this city. Rev. J. C. Me- Millan, D. D., pastor of All Saints Church, perfoi ned the ceremony after which be celebrated the nuptial mass. To the residence of the brid’s parents where a number of friends awaited them the wed- ding party returned after the ceremony. After partaking ofdinner the company spent the evening very enjoyably with song, dance and music The bride was the recepient of many valuable presen's, We wieh Mr. and Mrs. Binns a very happy journey through life. o_o ee > Congressman George S. White, of North Carolina,the only colored member of the House of Representatives, is nearly 6 feet tall, weighs about 240 pounds, is well proportioned, show- He claims some Irish blood as well as Indian and negro ancestry. It is said thata Kentuckian who recently spent six weeks in Washington in what finally proved to be a successful effort to have his wife appointed to a smail post office, actually paid out more money for expenses than the office yields in a whole year. In a New Jersey church on a_ recent Sunday the pastor delivered the sermon, a phonograph serving as his proxy in the rest of the service. It rendered a _ violin solo, read a psalm in an eloquent manner, led in prayer, saug a hymn and pronounced the benediction.

MARRIED. At the Manse, Charlottetown, July Ist, by Rev. T. F. Fullerton, Duncan Living- stone, of Bonshaw, to Bessie Taylor, Harcourt, N. B.

Jan., Dec.

A drink for all the year round is

LIME FRUIT JUICE.

Ask your dealer for it. How un- pleasant is Lime Juice whenaccom- panied by that bitter and mouldy tase. You will find neither ot these faults in SovereignL-ime Fruit Lime Juice. Ask for it.

Simson Bros. & Co. Manufacturers

Masonic Temple Co

The Annual Meeting of the Masonic Temple Company, will be held in the Masonic Temple, on Wednesday, 14th day of July, 1897, at 8 o’clock; p. m. for the election of Directors and gen- eral business. By order,

D, MacLEAN June 28—d3i, wli

LOST.— A Fox Terrier (female) collar on

neck, with owner’s name, J. Worth. Finder will be rewarded on leavirg same at Worth’s

4

Don’t Let these

suspicion,

examine what we have.

goods cheaper than any firm in the city.

McKay Woolen Co.,

High Grade Tailors.

-«- Rattled

Wild advertisements should be read with considerable

kind of ads lead you away

from the established fact That We are the leading Hat- ters and Gents’ Furnishers in the city. Don’t Buy a hat. cap, collar, tie, white or colored shirt, undershirt, draw- ers, socks, gloves or anything in bicyele goods until you first WE WILL sell you all thejabove

Try us.

Berdeaux Claret Co. (La Compagnie des vins de Bordeaux)

__ SUMMER SEASON, 1897

Wines for everybody, guaranteed pure, ound and imported direct from the vine- yards of France.

Bon Bourgeois Claret at $3

Per case of 1 doz. quarts.

Montferrand Claret -

Per case of 1 doz. quarts. $1 per case extra per 2 doz. pints. our

Champagnes, Burgundies, Sauternes Sherries, Ports, Rhine and Moselle Wines.

’aS"Call or write for our new complete Price List of Wines, Liquors, etc.

(ur Assorted Bodega Cases

Of fine Wines and Liquors ranging from $5 to $12, according to con- tents, are used with great satisfaction by

BORDEAUX CLARET CO.

30 Hospital Street. Montreal

TENDERS

Sealed Teaders will be received up to Saturday, 3rd July next at 12 o’clock noon, for the building of a fence around the proposed Ch’town Amateur Athletic Association grounds, according to speci- fication to to seen at the office of

PETERS, PETERS & INGS. Ch’town, 28th June, ’97. 150—5Si.

Meeting of Delegates,

A meeting of delegates of the 3rd elect- oral district of King’s County, will be held in Cardigan Hall, on Monday, uext, July 5th, at 4 o’clock, p. m., for the pur- pose of nominating candidates in the in- terest of the opposition.

D. C. MORSON,

; Political Meetings,

We, the undersigned candidates im the Liberal-Conservative interest in the 4th electoral district of King’s County, will meet the electors in the following places, namely:— .

High Bank Hall, Monday, July 5th, at 6 o’clock, p. m.

St. Mary’s Road Centre Schoolhouse, Wednesday, July 7th, at 6 o’clock p,m. Brookiyn Schoolhouse Thursday, July 8th, at 5 o,clock, p. m.

Montague Bridge Hall, Friday. Jaly 9th at 4 o’clock, p. m.—joint meeting of the Murray Harbor and Cardigan districts. Murray River Hal], Saturday, July 10th at 6 o’clock, p. m.

Glen Williem Hall, Monday, July 17th, at 6 o’clock, p. m.

Peter’s Road, Ist Schoolhouse east of Commercial Road, on Tusday. July 13th, at 6 o’clock, p. m.

Lower Montague Hsll, on Wednesday, July 14th, at 6 o’clock, p. m.

Valleyfleld Hall, on Thursday, July 15th, at 6 o’clock, p. m.

Murray Harbor Routh Hall, on Friday, July 16th, at 6 o’clock, p, m.

Commercial Cross Hall, on Saturday, July 17th, at 4 o’clock, p, m.

Heatherdale Hall, on Monday, July 19th, at 6 o’clock, p, m.

Opposing candidates are repectfully invited to attend.

ALBERT P. PROVSE, MURDOCK McKINNON,

Murray Harbor, June 28th, 1897.

dy 2aw—wtd.

VALUABLE PROPERTY

AT AUCTION

I am instructed to sell by auction, on, Saturday, 3rd July, prox., at 12 o'clock, noon,

The valuable property, ‘Willow Grove,” the residence of the late d. W. Morrison. This property com prizes nearly two town lots: front et

on Rcechford St,

Dwelling house heated by hot water and register grates, cellar 9 ft deep, drain to river, stables, and coach house, wood house, etc., etc.

Terms at Sale,

C. I. MORRISON,

June 28— Auctioneer — nunca

A few toarders can be accommida ted

Livery Stable. 151—1 wk pd,

Cardigan, June 18—wli

Mrs, John. McIntyre’s, on coraer of Bay and Great Geo. streets.

anti

trance on Grafton St., rear entranc