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The Huron Expositor, 1920-09-10, Page 1• 4"- rEMBER 3, 1920.. THE STOR THAT SAVES YOU' DOLLARS. 214 ;HOWING Coats Womens ments are rn in New eId by us. • rED MATERIALS enter into our Coats king, trimming and even he thread have to pass :iency test before, being wonder they are satis- IiliuiiUIlluhiflhlILtlutIiUtiI:I ,ITS ARE EXCLUSITh er sell or take special r any two of the better e. This is only one rear- eur coats are so greatly ad. Your Choice ection) ;-v- Coat stands distinct too, by its exclusive - that we do not sell two nented so on the range ral materials as we are sell, namely "Rogers" best manufactured pro - the highest quality gar - IN SSES n. SERGE rge for on, any r Gar- weaters ayes and Styles a this season and some fancy blouse. Shown • arel Norfolk coat style f01, Sweaters in slip -an ericed $5.40 to $15,00. e -A SWATEE to, play out -o` -doors„ or - r vklue than these iZtVt: just arrived. ente VISH FIFTY-FOURTH -YEAR- WHOLE NUMBER 270 SELFORTII, Y, SEPTEMBER 10, 1920. Women's New Winter Coats Remarkably Reduced NO. 1—Women's Black Cloth Coats in all the prevailing styles, regular values up to $35.00. Sale Price $1.4.25 • NO. 2—Women's fancy coatings in trig, loose -back and belted styles, and favored shades, all sizes. Regular $35.00 lines. Sale Price NO. 3—Women's ilvertone and f cy coats in a coming Winter's les, the coats That will be in big mand. - Regular 0.00 lines. Sa Price . $32.50 NO. 4—Fancy Chat and Pull- ' $5.00 to $ 2.50 er Sweaters, 00- cial Notice After thirty years of continued mercantile business in the Town of Seaforth, during which period we have conducted many big sales, we have positively decided to retire from mercantile business, and in so doing this Last Grand Final Sale shall eclipse all former efforts in every respect—greater volume of goods offered, as most of our new Fall Goods have bee passed_ into stock as we could not cancel Fall orders. • Prices are slashed as never before. We have terminated the lease of our store and all goods must be sold. The Greig Clothing Co. pedal otic We are in a position to accept orders for a. Hot Air and Hot Wae Heating • Pumps and Pipi Eave Tough Metal .W Rad' Roofing Bathro lumbing, including ssure Systems. • Leave your orders at once. Estimates cheerfully given. Ihapire had over 30 years' experience in all kinds of building which enables me to plan your proposed bath- room and furnace work, etc. The Big ..Hardware.. H� EDGE - • • 6••••••••••,.••••••••*ro•••••••••••••••••••••••• {McLean Bros., Publishers - $1.50 a Year in Advance - OLD U.S. S. NO.. -1, McKILLOP SIXTY YEARS , AGO One night, not Jong- ago, I calmly pondered o'er My early days at oichool, Those happy days of yore, When all the boys and girls That I in childhood _knew, Appeared as in a dream, A picture, bright and lAte. But some are dead and gone Whom Barney used to train; 'Some more have crossed: the lines; Some Others yet remain Of all that noble bamt That came with hearts aglow To dear old Number One, Some, sixty years ago. I felt sad and lonely To see them passing by; I heard) their merry shouts; I saw their flashing eye. They Walked in double 'file, Just as in days of old, • Through drizzling rain and sleet, Intensive heat and cold. "Their brogues were good and strong, Adorned! with brazen tots, Which helped them in their fights To overcome their foes. • Such were the sturdy youths That marched' through mud or snow To -dear old Number One Some, sixty years ago. Jack Nigh, Rebec and Jane, Who lived upon the ridge; McCarthy's, Shanahan's, " McCann's across the bridge. And from the west there came The Fortunes and McQuaids, With little auntie Annie, Adorned; with curls and braids. And long, Pat Kennedy His only sister, Kate, Game -wading through the swamp A two and twenty gait. Then all would join in 'glee In tramping down the snow, To dear old' Number One Some sixty years ago. Tom and Mary Halpin And Maggie Dermody Came skipping down the road Along concession three. • The Wards, the Moores, the Harts, Who lived along the creek, Came walking through the fields Five happy dlays a week. • Young Madigan and Shine's From near the railway track, Would join the moving throng, Their books upon their back. Then, some times up the track. As straight as flies the crow, To dear old' Number One Some sixty years ago. Murphy's near the corner,, Miss Julia, Frank and: Jim, Came rushing out the gate, With vigor, health and vim. Kate Roach, from uncle Pat's, Miss' Guerin across the way, Came smiling down the lane On each and every day. Frank and Anne McLaughlin; Still further down the line, With Billy Fox and Frank They formed a 'great Combine. Then round the corner meet, And to the westward flow, To dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. • The Carlin's, Frank and John, 'With Peter, Kate and Pat, Came running through the fields, Eacbawith his cricket bat Mic el Kale and Maggie, With Frawley's, Mick and! Dan, Joined the Moore's and Looney's, All dressed' so spick and span. Sullivan's and Curtia's And! Dinnens on the hill Waited for the Nash's, Miss Mary, Tobe and Bill. Then to the south and west, From angles to and fro, To dle,ar old Number One Some Sixty years ago. Anne and James O'Reilly, O'Neil's and Pete. McCann, McFadden's, Tom and' Jack; Poor Owen and; Mary Ann Came flying down the hill Like bird S Upon the wing, To Web the Hibbert crowd, And to the westward swing. They'd) mach along in glee And never once complain, Through roasting heat or cold, Or drifting snow or rain, But like an army .bold, Quick marching on the foe, They'd steer for Number One Some sixty years agO. Michael Doyle and Mackay, Near Downey's old! hotel, Came prancing in the rear With mighty hoop and) yell • Oney Burns, brave Oney, Who loved' to ride a mule, He with his sister, Anne, Resided near the school. Geordy Lee and Susan, And Billy with the grin, Were always just in time Their lessons to begin. The little gong would sound Like music, sweet and slow, In dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. Jack Oldfield, Jane and Susie, With Lizzie Farrell, and Mike, Came round by Cox's shop Upon the Huron pike. Dorsey's 'round the corner, Some ten or• twelve in all; Three Maggies, Dick and Din, Big Matty, Jack and Paul. Tom McQuade and Lizzie, From near the mountain base, Came with the Lennin boy, Their lessons for to face. Then to the eastward. march, Like arrows from a bow, To dear old! Number One, Some sixty years ago. Recka Glave and Mary, Two little German 'girls, , • With, locks of raven hue And glossy braids and curls, The Devereux's on the hill, Young Ned and' Jack and Kate, With Bill across- the way, Came down the line in state, Tom Downey's hopeful son, D. Joseph was his name, With, little Lizzie Rehill From dear old Seaforth can,. Then' up the graver hills, • - And down the valleys low, To dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. From Andy Kernan's farm, Adjoining Silver Creek, Came Jimmie Anderson, A natural born freak. And young Bob Winters, too, And Billy with the smile, Came down from Harpurhey For only just a while. Tom and) Maggie Daly, From quaint old Egmondville, Came out to Number One Some knowledge to instill; A long and' tedious walk, Through mud or slush. or snow, To dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. Tom. Dullin, Barney's friend, Away from old New York, And Jahn McKernan, too, With step as light as eork. The Reardllns round the horn And by the railway track,. Came over Dorsey's fields, Each with his little pack. .Fitzgerald's from Seaforth came, And some I now forget; They never missed! a day Through weather, dry or wet. No other school I've seen A larger roll could show, Than dear old' Number One Some sixty years ago. I think I tee them all, Who. trod the road to school In eighteen fifty-nine To learn the golden rule. We learned to spell and read, And history to recite, And composition, too, And essays to endite; The simple rule of three, And- fractions most obstruse, With -algebra and euclid, And other things of use. These were the subjects we In, early days did know, In dear old, -Number One, Some sixty years ago. We -played the same old games That others played before, Baseball and cricket, too, And marble games galore; Old duck upon a rock; Jackstones and crack the whip, The last one on the string Would get an awful flip; Football and, shinny too, Those games of great delgiht, We played with vigor then Regardless of a fight. Such were the games we played Upon the green or snow, Round dear old` Number One, Some sixty years ago. Our, then young; teacher too, O'Connell was his name, Is living now in ease, But not unknown to_fam'e. A man of many parts, A giant in debate. On corrupt politics Unmerciful irate, He carries reithawenll ehlisghltoyad.years, Of kindly face and look, . A lord among his peers; Erect and tall, and prim, Hit head as white as snow, Who taught in Number One Some sixty years ago. The same old school is there, Upon the same old ground, Grinding education out By methods newly found. They teach, Agriculture And had to feed a calf; Grow all kinds of grain, -And separate the chaff; On breeds of hens and geese They also must descant minanammorm Telephone N WHEN fYOU PRICES ON TIMOTIrY SE MEAL SHOE TRY s, ANT LOUR, CAIIF ° B AN OR OR POUL- ATCH FEED. W. E. KERSLAKE - SEAFORTH B y order of their chief, The farmer, Mister Grant. $ut things have, changed a lot As time and years did grow, In dear old Number One iSome sixty years ago. My rhyme is almost. o'er, My life is nearly run, For eight and sixty years I've circled round! the stmt. Of those who died in youth I hope they're happy now, Dwelling up in heaven, The Alert Investor What is the present con- dition of the investment - market?, Should the alert investor continue buyin certain securities, or shoul he diversify his holdi among he more co tive bo ds and prfrred stocks? I Our °sit* Review "Th come lder" con an analysis of the prestt situation. A ecia1 feature is our "Investment Barometers" showing the upward or downward tendencies of bank clearings, exports, imports, commodity prices, etc. It contains practical in- formation for income builders. Analyses of securities and industries. Investment suggestions. Send your name for Regular Free Copy K Address Dept. SANS01164 INVESTMENT BANKERS holembpre Toronto Stock Exchange 85 Bay Street, Toronto A crown upon their brow. Of those who fled' the land To live with Uncle Sam, Long may they live in peace, Their lives serene and calm. And when they meet they'll talk Of friend's they used to know In dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. Of who yet reside Upon Canadian soil, Long be our days on earth Ber91 of care and toil; • A when the time arrives o pass from off the scene, May all our heads be decked With crowns of gold and sheen, And on. that coming day, That greatest day of all, We'll hear the trumpet sound And hear our Maker's call: - Come, good and faithful ones, Receiye your just reward, For leading blameless lives And faithful to your Lord. Then from on high we'll think Of scenes that passed- below, In dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. Oh, sixty years is long When reckoning up the past; It seems a longer span .When thoughts are. forward cast. But Father Time himself Was never known to wait Upon a human -soul Who wished to pass the gate; At its own time and 'place, Its future home to gain, But mows them down in scores As sickles do the giain: So, now good-bye my friends Dear friends I used. to know iIn dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. • Petronius Miner. A LONI DISTANCE LAYER As a rule, hens lay ,two or three eggs and then' miss a day. Some good hens will lay more before they take a day off and we have known individual hens to lay five and six dozen eggs and not miss a day, but a record in long distance laying with- out a miss has, as far as we know, been established by the Experimental Farm, Poultry Division at their Kent - vile, N. S. Station, where 'a Barred Plymouth Rock pullet laid 104 'eggs in 104 days. • This Barred Rock .whose leg band No. is 63, did net start to lay, very early. In fact her first egg was laid on. the 25th of January. She laid two eggs and inisiedi a day, laid_ 5 eggs and missed a day; four eggs and missed a day, one egg and a miss, then two eggs, but on the 13th of February she got down to business and laid! every day for the rest of the month, .every day in March, every day in April, and every day in May up to the 27th when she took two days off. After this time', she took an occasional day off until the 20th of June when she became broody. When she went broody her total record was . 136 eggs in 147 days. THE 'LEGACY OF WIN -THE -WAR Now that Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister, and the Hon. N. W. Rowell,,, President of the Privy Council, have said a long farewell to all their greatness, and abandoned the Cabinet iris fairly safe to predict that Union Government has entered upon the last stage of its ill-starred career. To be sure, with the assistance of two or three rather casual acquaintances, it, has courageously announced its in- tention 'to "carry on," an' announce- ment which, considering the circum- stances, the Canndian people received with surprising equanimity, being quite convinced, one imagined, that it was impossible for this Govern- ment to "carry on" with anybody or anything any worse, in the future, than it had done in the past. It is a curious commentary upon the state of mind produced in Canada by the events of the last . three years, that this latest exhibition of flagrant dis- regard for their rights and wishes aroused in the people comparatively little interest Their attitude to- wards the Government, which less than three year ago they 'elected by -such an overwhelming majority, and in, the midst of such dervish trans- ports of adulation, appears now to be, on a 'general average, contemptuous apathy. According to the mass of the people, it is an odious Govern- ment; they loathe it, and could not be induced to vote for it again; but, on the other hand, they seem to have no particular enthusiasm for anwthing they would) vote for. Their political, faith is dead. The times in which we 'live are not pleasant. An'. old order has just passed amid convulsions which have rendered tragic our commonplaces and not least amongst our innumerable tragedies were the tragic object -les- sons received by the people every- where from their "win -the -war" Gov- ernment—lessons which, particularly in the later stages of the war, taught them td despise an'd to utterly dis- trust parliaments. One needs only to have been a fairly good listener to have discovered that mostly they are possessed of the cynical opinion that governments are an organization of adroit and privileged exploiters. So safe has the war made the world for democracy—and that very generally they have accepted the hideous belief —se elevated, is the idealism that the war has produced—that society is composed of only two classes—the ex- ploiters and the exploited—and that as it is very much more amusing and profitable to be an exploiter than an "exploited," wisdom consists in sharp- ening one's wits, hardening one's heart, and doing well by one's self. i When they are asked with what: they would replace these governments in which they have no confidence left. at all, most- frequently the people offer ILO alternative. It is still Blind Alley everywhere. Only they have a rooted conviction that under the - present system they possess k sufficient money, can have any sort of government that suits them. best, quite regardless of the welfare or the wishes of the bulk of the peo- • ple. .Under it, -they are colt -winced government of the people, by the - people and for the people is a myth: —one of the manyeaecepted and' high- • sounding hybocrisies unmasked by the war. In Canada, for example, the' tremendous scale upon which the sin- • ister campaign preceding the election., of our own Win -the -War Union' Gov- ernment was carried on, interpreted the light of that `government's subse— quent record, seem S to have visualized. for them as if they had watched a. picture -grow on an enormous canvas, . the overwhelming power of highly' commercialized! propaganda. From. that, they argue, possessing the - means to set enough machinery :in motion', any interests which agree to ,. combine can obtain a favorable ver- dict at the polls, upon. issues that ave as little to do with the real ones at stake as—well, as little as. the Military Service Act had to do. with providing reinforeern --.. nts ade- • quately and immediately for the Can- adian Arany. Indeed, the Military' , Service Act is one of their favorite• ilinstratiomn of the potency of a,, man.ufactured issue, backed by finance., Supposing one's ideas of the issues. before the country in 1917 were re- ceived from the vehement protests- . ttttl tions of the platform, press -and mil- 1 pit of those clamorous days, one naturally asks if conscription was a." manufactured issue, there where under heaven was the real orie?The people , ea laugh and say that time has pretty I clearly revealed; the real issue to have been that groups of financiers and 'Imperialists on both sides of the At- lantic had decided that a bona fide' change of government, at that time, , was not in their best interests, Sir Wilfrid Laurier—neither himself nor his policies—being what they requir- ed. Therefore, a policy must be fount), which would) be sure death to the great probability of his again be- coming Prime Minister. Interpreted by the people this powerful combina- tion. then cast about and saw their opportunity in the fact that Sir Wil- frid beloAged to a different race and. religion to that of the majority in the country. A question involving race and religion, then, would provide. air excellent policy, because questions of race and religion never fail to de-. stroy reason,.and if that question of' race and religion could, in some way, be connected! with Canada's soldiers, one could pretty well guarantee that . popular emotion would run riot on t that side. Conscription admirably fulfilled their requirements. `Tor," say the people, "they who sprang it, without warning, 41rd without consc- ience, uponthe couatry knew that Quebec. owing to her history and to her robust Canadianism, could be de- pended) upon to vigorously oppose it, and that Sir Wilfrid Laurier woteld never compromise upon' it for the same reasons, as well as because be was unalterably opposed to it, on principle. So much the worse for Quebec and Sir Wilfrid; that was all. They were relegated to the villain's part in the moving melodrama put on for the country, and made to play the role of traitor to our righteous cause, and "friend and secret ally of the Kaiser." At a given_ signal, then, according to the people, the Press, without dis- tinction of politics, took up the clam- or for conscription, authoritatively announcing that failing it, the Can— adian Corps would be obliged to quit' the field; and when a little later, it became a question of a coalition to enforce conscription, "al' the papers," they remind one, "the supposedly Lib- eral as tearfully and vehemently as • the most reactionary, besought us to put aside every -other consideration, and to think only of the honor of our common country, and the urgent needs of our sons and. brothers on the. awful battlefields of Europe." Between the rest of Canada, and that paramount duty, they warned us, the French Roman Catholic Province of Quebec (which they assured us had been a disgraceful recreant to duty in - the war) was seeking to intervene. Be' British, they admonished us, and show Quebec, once for all, that she -- cannot rule the rest of Canada.. "We didn't know how absurd it was they add. We thought surely it must • be true, when all the papers, regard- less of party, and the pulpit as Weil,, said the sante. The pulpit, indeed, rivalled the newspapers, in inciting us to hatred and bigotry against our -- fellow -countrymen; many of the most prominent, eloquent and trusted of the clergy (one in particular, who was shortly afterward 4 singled out for political honors) went up and down the land, exhorting us wi 'apostolic' fervor to remember that o -one side in this contest stood our boys -at -the - front, and ow the other, stood the' Kaiser with his allies, Quebec and the Roman. Catholic Church, and remind- ing us with prodigious impressiveness - that with us rested the solemn re- sponsibility of choosing between the tee two, at the polls. What. ° incredible • rot it sounds now; but then we clgulte know, we trusted them and conscienti- ously voted against French domina- tion, of which there was about as much danger as there was of Chinese-, domination, and we were so engross- ed in preventing the Inquisition from establishing itself on our very door- stepe (all of which had about as much (Continued on page 4) e.„ 4 111111111111 - Seaforth ifricultu ral. Society In 11 111111 it IIIIII Iiiiii 111111 111111 _44 0 Huron County's Most Popular ' Show THURSDAY&FRIDAY FRIDAY!,, SEP'r. 23rd and 24th - - „......„................... Grand Parade of School Childrenfromthe Paik at 1,30. / - Both Rural and Urban Schools will payticipate. SPECIAL PIZ9 FOR FANCY DILL, Etc. ...............„^-,-„,.... 1i • iiiii • IIP iliii111 ° III II II '1.. 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And young Bob Winters, too, And Billy with the smile, Came down from Harpurhey For only just a while. Tom and) Maggie Daly, From quaint old Egmondville, Came out to Number One Some knowledge to instill; A long and' tedious walk, Through mud or slush. or snow, To dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. Tom. Dullin, Barney's friend, Away from old New York, And Jahn McKernan, too, With step as light as eork. The Reardllns round the horn And by the railway track,. Came over Dorsey's fields, Each with his little pack. .Fitzgerald's from Seaforth came, And some I now forget; They never missed! a day Through weather, dry or wet. No other school I've seen A larger roll could show, Than dear old' Number One Some sixty years ago. I think I tee them all, Who. trod the road to school In eighteen fifty-nine To learn the golden rule. We learned to spell and read, And history to recite, And composition, too, And essays to endite; The simple rule of three, And- fractions most obstruse, With -algebra and euclid, And other things of use. These were the subjects we In, early days did know, In dear old, -Number One, Some sixty years ago. We -played the same old games That others played before, Baseball and cricket, too, And marble games galore; Old duck upon a rock; Jackstones and crack the whip, The last one on the string Would get an awful flip; Football and, shinny too, Those games of great delgiht, We played with vigor then Regardless of a fight. Such were the games we played Upon the green or snow, Round dear old` Number One, Some sixty years ago. Our, then young; teacher too, O'Connell was his name, Is living now in ease, But not unknown to_fam'e. A man of many parts, A giant in debate. On corrupt politics Unmerciful irate, He carries reithawenll ehlisghltoyad.years, Of kindly face and look, . A lord among his peers; Erect and tall, and prim, Hit head as white as snow, Who taught in Number One Some sixty years ago. The same old school is there, Upon the same old ground, Grinding education out By methods newly found. They teach, Agriculture And had to feed a calf; Grow all kinds of grain, -And separate the chaff; On breeds of hens and geese They also must descant minanammorm Telephone N WHEN fYOU PRICES ON TIMOTIrY SE MEAL SHOE TRY s, ANT LOUR, CAIIF ° B AN OR OR POUL- ATCH FEED. W. E. KERSLAKE - SEAFORTH B y order of their chief, The farmer, Mister Grant. $ut things have, changed a lot As time and years did grow, In dear old Number One iSome sixty years ago. My rhyme is almost. o'er, My life is nearly run, For eight and sixty years I've circled round! the stmt. Of those who died in youth I hope they're happy now, Dwelling up in heaven, The Alert Investor What is the present con- dition of the investment - market?, Should the alert investor continue buyin certain securities, or shoul he diversify his holdi among he more co tive bo ds and prfrred stocks? I Our °sit* Review "Th come lder" con an analysis of the prestt situation. A ecia1 feature is our "Investment Barometers" showing the upward or downward tendencies of bank clearings, exports, imports, commodity prices, etc. It contains practical in- formation for income builders. Analyses of securities and industries. Investment suggestions. Send your name for Regular Free Copy K Address Dept. SANS01164 INVESTMENT BANKERS holembpre Toronto Stock Exchange 85 Bay Street, Toronto A crown upon their brow. Of those who fled' the land To live with Uncle Sam, Long may they live in peace, Their lives serene and calm. And when they meet they'll talk Of friend's they used to know In dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. Of who yet reside Upon Canadian soil, Long be our days on earth Ber91 of care and toil; • A when the time arrives o pass from off the scene, May all our heads be decked With crowns of gold and sheen, And on. that coming day, That greatest day of all, We'll hear the trumpet sound And hear our Maker's call: - Come, good and faithful ones, Receiye your just reward, For leading blameless lives And faithful to your Lord. Then from on high we'll think Of scenes that passed- below, In dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. Oh, sixty years is long When reckoning up the past; It seems a longer span .When thoughts are. forward cast. But Father Time himself Was never known to wait Upon a human -soul Who wished to pass the gate; At its own time and 'place, Its future home to gain, But mows them down in scores As sickles do the giain: So, now good-bye my friends Dear friends I used. to know iIn dear old Number One Some sixty years ago. • Petronius Miner. A LONI DISTANCE LAYER As a rule, hens lay ,two or three eggs and then' miss a day. Some good hens will lay more before they take a day off and we have known individual hens to lay five and six dozen eggs and not miss a day, but a record in long distance laying with- out a miss has, as far as we know, been established by the Experimental Farm, Poultry Division at their Kent - vile, N. S. Station, where 'a Barred Plymouth Rock pullet laid 104 'eggs in 104 days. • This Barred Rock .whose leg band No. is 63, did net start to lay, very early. In fact her first egg was laid on. the 25th of January. She laid two eggs and inisiedi a day, laid_ 5 eggs and missed a day; four eggs and missed a day, one egg and a miss, then two eggs, but on the 13th of February she got down to business and laid! every day for the rest of the month, .every day in March, every day in April, and every day in May up to the 27th when she took two days off. After this time', she took an occasional day off until the 20th of June when she became broody. When she went broody her total record was . 136 eggs in 147 days. THE 'LEGACY OF WIN -THE -WAR Now that Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister, and the Hon. N. W. Rowell,,, President of the Privy Council, have said a long farewell to all their greatness, and abandoned the Cabinet iris fairly safe to predict that Union Government has entered upon the last stage of its ill-starred career. To be sure, with the assistance of two or three rather casual acquaintances, it, has courageously announced its in- tention 'to "carry on," an' announce- ment which, considering the circum- stances, the Canndian people received with surprising equanimity, being quite convinced, one imagined, that it was impossible for this Govern- ment to "carry on" with anybody or anything any worse, in the future, than it had done in the past. It is a curious commentary upon the state of mind produced in Canada by the events of the last . three years, that this latest exhibition of flagrant dis- regard for their rights and wishes aroused in the people comparatively little interest Their attitude to- wards the Government, which less than three year ago they 'elected by -such an overwhelming majority, and in, the midst of such dervish trans- ports of adulation, appears now to be, on a 'general average, contemptuous apathy. According to the mass of the people, it is an odious Govern- ment; they loathe it, and could not be induced to vote for it again; but, on the other hand, they seem to have no particular enthusiasm for anwthing they would) vote for. Their political, faith is dead. The times in which we 'live are not pleasant. An'. old order has just passed amid convulsions which have rendered tragic our commonplaces and not least amongst our innumerable tragedies were the tragic object -les- sons received by the people every- where from their "win -the -war" Gov- ernment—lessons which, particularly in the later stages of the war, taught them td despise an'd to utterly dis- trust parliaments. One needs only to have been a fairly good listener to have discovered that mostly they are possessed of the cynical opinion that governments are an organization of adroit and privileged exploiters. So safe has the war made the world for democracy—and that very generally they have accepted the hideous belief —se elevated, is the idealism that the war has produced—that society is composed of only two classes—the ex- ploiters and the exploited—and that as it is very much more amusing and profitable to be an exploiter than an "exploited," wisdom consists in sharp- ening one's wits, hardening one's heart, and doing well by one's self. i When they are asked with what: they would replace these governments in which they have no confidence left. at all, most- frequently the people offer ILO alternative. It is still Blind Alley everywhere. Only they have a rooted conviction that under the - present system they possess k sufficient money, can have any sort of government that suits them. best, quite regardless of the welfare or the wishes of the bulk of the peo- • ple. .Under it, -they are colt -winced government of the people, by the - people and for the people is a myth: —one of the manyeaecepted and' high- • sounding hybocrisies unmasked by the war. In Canada, for example, the' tremendous scale upon which the sin- • ister campaign preceding the election., of our own Win -the -War Union' Gov- ernment was carried on, interpreted the light of that `government's subse— quent record, seem S to have visualized. for them as if they had watched a. picture -grow on an enormous canvas, . the overwhelming power of highly' commercialized! propaganda. From. that, they argue, possessing the - means to set enough machinery :in motion', any interests which agree to ,. combine can obtain a favorable ver- dict at the polls, upon. issues that ave as little to do with the real ones at stake as—well, as little as. the Military Service Act had to do. with providing reinforeern --.. nts ade- • quately and immediately for the Can- adian Arany. Indeed, the Military' , Service Act is one of their favorite• ilinstratiomn of the potency of a,, man.ufactured issue, backed by finance., Supposing one's ideas of the issues. before the country in 1917 were re- ceived from the vehement protests- . ttttl tions of the platform, press -and mil- 1 pit of those clamorous days, one naturally asks if conscription was a." manufactured issue, there where under heaven was the real orie?The people , ea laugh and say that time has pretty I clearly revealed; the real issue to have been that groups of financiers and 'Imperialists on both sides of the At- lantic had decided that a bona fide' change of government, at that time, , was not in their best interests, Sir Wilfrid Laurier—neither himself nor his policies—being what they requir- ed. Therefore, a policy must be fount), which would) be sure death to the great probability of his again be- coming Prime Minister. Interpreted by the people this powerful combina- tion. then cast about and saw their opportunity in the fact that Sir Wil- frid beloAged to a different race and. religion to that of the majority in the country. A question involving race and religion, then, would provide. air excellent policy, because questions of race and religion never fail to de-. stroy reason,.and if that question of' race and religion could, in some way, be connected! with Canada's soldiers, one could pretty well guarantee that . popular emotion would run riot on t that side. Conscription admirably fulfilled their requirements. `Tor," say the people, "they who sprang it, without warning, 41rd without consc- ience, uponthe couatry knew that Quebec. owing to her history and to her robust Canadianism, could be de- pended) upon to vigorously oppose it, and that Sir Wilfrid Laurier woteld never compromise upon' it for the same reasons, as well as because be was unalterably opposed to it, on principle. So much the worse for Quebec and Sir Wilfrid; that was all. They were relegated to the villain's part in the moving melodrama put on for the country, and made to play the role of traitor to our righteous cause, and "friend and secret ally of the Kaiser." At a given_ signal, then, according to the people, the Press, without dis- tinction of politics, took up the clam- or for conscription, authoritatively announcing that failing it, the Can— adian Corps would be obliged to quit' the field; and when a little later, it became a question of a coalition to enforce conscription, "al' the papers," they remind one, "the supposedly Lib- eral as tearfully and vehemently as • the most reactionary, besought us to put aside every -other consideration, and to think only of the honor of our common country, and the urgent needs of our sons and. brothers on the. awful battlefields of Europe." Between the rest of Canada, and that paramount duty, they warned us, the French Roman Catholic Province of Quebec (which they assured us had been a disgraceful recreant to duty in - the war) was seeking to intervene. Be' British, they admonished us, and show Quebec, once for all, that she -- cannot rule the rest of Canada.. "We didn't know how absurd it was they add. We thought surely it must • be true, when all the papers, regard- less of party, and the pulpit as Weil,, said the sante. The pulpit, indeed, rivalled the newspapers, in inciting us to hatred and bigotry against our -- fellow -countrymen; many of the most prominent, eloquent and trusted of the clergy (one in particular, who was shortly afterward 4 singled out for political honors) went up and down the land, exhorting us wi 'apostolic' fervor to remember that o -one side in this contest stood our boys -at -the - front, and ow the other, stood the' Kaiser with his allies, Quebec and the Roman. Catholic Church, and remind- ing us with prodigious impressiveness - that with us rested the solemn re- sponsibility of choosing between the tee two, at the polls. What. ° incredible • rot it sounds now; but then we clgulte know, we trusted them and conscienti- ously voted against French domina- tion, of which there was about as much danger as there was of Chinese-, domination, and we were so engross- ed in preventing the Inquisition from establishing itself on our very door- stepe (all of which had about as much (Continued on page 4) e.„ 4