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THE HURON EXPOSITOR
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Established 1860
if ePhai1 McLean, Editor.
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SEAFORTH, Friday, July 19, 1935.
Still Marching
The agitator led unemployed and
discontents from British Columbia,
whose march upon Ottawa was Halt-
ed at Regina, have all returned to
their western homes.
Butithe same class, under the same
leadership, are still marching in On-
tario and towards the same Mecca.
To what end? None. Parliament
is not in session, and even if it were,
itcould make no difference.
A deputation from the Western
marchers has already been received
by the Prime Minister and his Cab-
inet, _ And, let it be said they were
courteously received and generously
.treated as individuals, even if their
demands—and they had nothing but
demands—were not complied with.
What more can the Ontario march-
ers hope for or expect? Nothing.
Why then do they march? That
is the question which is being given
very .serio'us consideration in the
minds of many Ontario people, in
town and country alike, "to -day.
And it is time Ontario people were
giving consideration ;to this question.
It is true that the unemployment sit-
uation is practically unknown in the
smaller centres and the country,
compared with the cities and large
centres, but that does not alter the
fact that, unemploytnent relief comes
out of the pockets in the country as
well as out of those in the city.,
The Government has no money of
its own (contrary to a widely held
belief) ; it only spends the money the
taxpayers provide. And the taxpay-
ers have reached the limit of tl ieir
providing.
When thecountry. has been blessed
with a record harvest, and that har-
vest is elying out for men to garner
it, the farmers in the country can not
see why they should be taxed to pro-
vide a free living for thousands of
men who are marching upon Ottawa
and about the country,demanding
that which they refuse along every
step of their marching.
There are no six -hour days on the
farm, and no fifty cents an hour
rates, but there is an abundance of
good food and good living accommo-
dation, and there is work and a wage
for the man who wants work.
Work and living conditions, which
are good enough for the farmer,
should be good enough for the un-
employed. If that is not so, then the
farmer is worse off than the unem-
ployed and he should no longer -be
taxed to provide a free living for
them.
And he will not do it indefinitely.
That is a fact the won't -work unem-
ployed have got to learn, and learn
very quickly.
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The Stevens' Platform
The eagerly awaited political plat-
form of the Reconstruction Party
(Mr. H. H. Stevens) has been made
public and from it one would gather
that there is still much truth in the
old adage that on derives more
pleasure aid profit from anticipation
than one does frdm realization.
It was a little mean of Mr. Stevens,
although it proves him a good show
man, to so work on the feelings of
the people that they had expected
him to show the way to a new heav-
en and a new earth, only to come to
the realization, by the publication of
his platform, that he bad nothing
ever,to promise and nothing new to
give by becoming one of his follow-
ers,
rrn of the Reconstruc-
r..Stevens) contains
nothing new, nothing original. Its
construction consists of, many planks
stolen from the Liberal party, a few
from that of the Conservative, and
one or two from the C.C.F. and
Socialist. His solo part is to bind
these planks together with promises,
and promises are not original...
Some of us are gullable, we must
admit. But that there are enough
gullable voters across Canada to put
. Mr. Stevens in power, or even to
take him and his party seriously, af-
ter reading his platform, we have the
gravest doubt.
We even question very much if the
Reconstruction Party's appeal to
youth will bear him much fruit.
Youth would have to 'be very young
indeed to be taken in by Mr. Stevens
considering his parliamentary record
of the past five years and what he
has stood for before that period.
It is true that Mr. Stevens profess-
es to have seen a new light and to
have had a change of heart. But it
is equally true that last-minute re-
pentances are usually looked upon
with ,much doubt by true believers.
And the true believer in big busi-
ness privileges, in high tariffs, in low
tariffs, in restricted markets and op-
en markets, are .more than likely to
take a doubtful attitude towards Mr.
Stevens' promises and Mr. Stevens'
repentances. °
How could it be otherwise? Take
'agriculture, for instance, and we in
the country are interested in farm-
ing above other things. Mr. Stevens
has promised agriculture reciprocal
agreements with other countries.
And other things.
If there ever was a death bed re-
pentance, that one, on the' part of
Mr. Stevens, is it. Unfortunately,
however, for him, like the "Witch of
Laggan," he was a stage too late in
reaching the churchyard with it.
Only a few weeks ago, in the House
of Commons, 'Mr. Stevens fought
tooth and nail against compensating
the farmers of Huron and Perth who
lost over forty thousand dollars
through their dealings with a cattle
importing company, bonused by him
as Minister of Trade and Commerce
and allowed by him, in the same posi-
tion, to get away with the -farmers'
money.
At long last the farmers did get
the money for the cattle they had
shipped through the bonused corn- •
pany of Mr. Stevens, but for that
their thanks is largely due to the evi-
dence dug up and produced in the
Fouse by Mr. Golding, the member
for South Huron, and not at all to
Mr. Stevens.
What Mr. Stevens and his new
party would do for the farmer is a
promise only. What he, himself, has
done to the same farmer, is on re-
cord, and it, is a record of shame, if
not of crime.
As it is in agriculture, so it is in
other walks of life, as far as Mr.
Stevens is concerned. He has been
a big business man and failed at it.
Now he has failed big business—now
promises to cut its throat, in fact.
He has been the highest of the high
tariff men. Now he promises reci-
procal agreements with all people
and all countries.
His. was the most stubborn ' and
able. advocacy put up in the House
of Commons, in favor of making the
new Bank of Canada a privately
owned institution. Now in' his plat-
form or reforms, he promises that
the Bank of Canada shall be nation-
alized, that it should be owned and
operated by and for the people -of
Canada.
Mr. Stevens is a man of ability.
There are no two opinions on that
question. But—if within the next
eight weeks or less, all he has at his
disposal; he is able to reconcile, in
the minds of the Canadian peoPle, the
promises contained in his Recon-
struction platform, with his past re-
cord in public life sufflciefitly to elect
his party to power, then, we be-
lieve, there will be no two opinions
on the subject of his being a super
mgn as well.
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.
Might,Be Worse
('Oheeley Enterprise)
Though we have 'hunger marchers in Canada
it might bei worse; we might have earthgvfakes,
dr'oughteor floods that drive those 'near the large
rivers frrozn 'their homes to sleek refuge in the
hills.
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•
Years Agone
Interesting items picked. from
The Expositor of fifty and
twenty-five years ago.
From The Huron Expositor of
July 22, 1910
IM'rs, Alex. Johnston, of Stanley,
passed away on July 7th, an old and
esteemed resident. -
Mr. Peter Whitlock, the well known
cement brick and tile manufacturer,
of the Thames Rad, Usborne, has
the distinction of • being, the only
farmer in this pert of the country
who has drawn in his hay crop with
gasoline engines.
rMessrs. Leiper and John E. Taylor,
of Hullett, returned home a few days
ago from Scotland, where they went
with a view to the .purchas.e of Clydes-
dale stallions. They brought home
seven fine animals.
Mr. Roland Cudmore and his men
are making splendid headway with
the brick work of the new hotel in
Iiensall.
Several from Hensall took advant-
age of the special train to Bertin last
Friday to witness the game of foot-
ball between Niagara Falls and the
Brucefield Rovers.
Mr. George Sternigle, of Manley,
met with a painful accident when
working on a scaffold in the barn.
A board gave way and as he fell he
caught the overlayer- to save himself
and hung there until help arrived.
After being removed it was found
that the muscle had been torn from
the bone. Another serious accident
happened to a six year old son of
Henry Byerman. He ran unnotieied
in front of the mower and the knives
almost severed the loot from the leg.
It, required 14 stitches to .close the
wound.
Miss Elizabeth Rennie passed her
examination at the London_,Conserva-
tory of Music, taking first' class hon-
ors.
On Sunday evening an automobile
passing through Seaforth caused a
runaway near the Woollen Mill. The
rig was upset and the occupants
thrown out but not injured. .
Stewart Bros., of Seaforth, have
added a millinery department to their
store.
Mr. Joseph Scott and Duncan Mc-
Gowan each had a field of fall wheat
ent 'and in stook on Wednesday.
The Brucefield Rovers journeyed to
Berlin by special train on Friday last
to play with Niagara Falls to break
the tie for the W.F.A. championship,
The score was 4-1 in favor of Niagara
but according to tele play it should
have been 2 all. It was heart -break-
ing to lose and next year they will,
no doubt, be on top. Nearly all of
Brucefield attended and they came
from as far as Zurich.
(Mr. Fred Beaver, son of Mr. Nich-
olas Beaver, of Stephen, won the gold
iedal at Chatham Business College
in the typewriting. contest.
.During a recent thunderstorm a
driving shed belonging to Mr. Geo.
Naylor, of near Donnybrook, w a s
struck by lightning and burned.
.Mr. A. -P. Gundry, Principal of the
Clinton Collegiate Institute, has re-
signed to accept a position as Prin'-
cipal of the Strathroy Collegiate at
a higher salary.
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From The Huron Expositor of
July 24, 1885
It is stated that last year Mr. Wm.
McLean, of Goderich, bought and
shipped about 4,500 head of .cattle,
handling over $360,000.
-Messrs. Gray, Young & Sperling,
of Seaforth, have made a contract
with Mr. Arthur Forbes to cut and
deliver at their salt works during the'
coming winter, 1,500 cords of wood.
The wood is to be taken. from the
land in front of Mr. David Dorrance's
farm.
Seaforth Fire Brigade distinguish-
ed themselves at the Stratford tourn-
ament on Wednesday by carrying off
firs/ honors. In the hose reel race
they won the first prize of $40 in
competition with nine other compan-
ies. The following composed t h e
team: A. Hendry, Geo. A. Sills, Geo.
iIurray,
J. J. Beattie, Geo. Hendry,
James Sutherland, James Robert, H.
Baines, J. Smith, J. Neville, S. Jack-
son, R. McDonald, Jas. Beattie, Geo.
Smithers and Jas. Davis.
As George Whitely was driving in
from Brucefield on Friday evening
last with his fast team, the hind .axle
broke in two pieces, but no one was
injured. "
Mr. A. Charlesworth is placing an
additional storey on his residence in
Egmondville and is having the whole
building brick veneered.
'the fall wheat in this district is
now nearly ripe and harvesting will
be general next week.
:Miss. Id'a Golding, daughter of Mr.
John Golding, of the 4th concession
of Flay, has lately completed a quilt
which contains 2,840 pieces.
The friends of Mr. A. McKibben
will be pleased to learn that he has
"ery successfully 'passed the Arts
matriculation examination at Victoria
University, Cobourg.
A peculiar accident happened to D.
Mackay, of Goderich, recently. While
helping to remove a body from one
grave to another, he slipped and fell
into one of the graves, bruising his
face and arm considerably.
One day last Week as James Bird
and wife, 12th concession of Grey,
were going to Ethel, they met with
a serious accident. They were driv-
ing a younglhorse and it was fright-
ened and upset the wagon and then
ran away. Mrs. Bird was quite ser-
iously injured and ten dozen of •reggs
were all broken.
Mr. A. Ewing has sold his farm of
92 acres, Lot 27, Con. 4, Hlullett, to
Mr, Adam Weir, of North D'orclhes-
ter, for the sum of $6,800. The farm
has a good ,'brick house upon it 'and
being under good cultivation is not
dear at. this figure.
Rev. Mr. Taylor, lately of Bayfield,
was suddenly taken ill with some di-
rect ailment of the heart. It was so
serious that two physicians were
called.
SKETCHES FROM A
FARM HOUSE KITCHEN
No. 2—It's A Hay Year
By Mrs. Paul Doig.
, Yes! That's what everybody is say-
ing, "Lt's et hay year," and foe once
everybody is right. It is not only a
hay year but it is a sweet clover year
as-adtyone who has been struggling
with a •-eroip of it will fervently and
profanely aver. -
The •proud but unhappy possessors
of a bounteous crop of sweet cloves
may be heard throughout the land
asking leach ether: "And what did
y'ou do with yours?" ° The usual re-
ply is, "I turned it, and tedded it,
and turned it again. It's in the barn
now, and my wife and rtake turns
at getting • up in the middle of the
night to see if the barn is going up
in flames."
Haying is hot, hard work but there
are few more gratifying sights to a
busy farmer than a barn full of green
well -cured hay. He looks forward to
the days when the "Snow is on the
ground and the rune is en the pane"
and he is stuffing mangers full of the
good green fodder. •
Everybody works on the farm at
haying time. The men pitch and build
and tramp and drink great jugfuls of
cold water from the well, occasional-
ly asking wistfully if we couldn't find
a wee drop of Something to put in it.
The cook drops her dish cloth and
paring knife and goes out to drive
the team on the hay fork; half the
time turning tea short on the return
trip and getting the "gee" 'horse so
milted up in the traces that only an
expert solver of Chinese puzzles could
unrayel it and them. The children
workhardest of all getting in every-
body's way, and running themselves
blind to catch a ride on the wagon
going ''back to the field.
Will some student of entymrology ex-
plain the usage of the term "coal" of
hay instead ,of "coil"? To this day
we feel that we are putting on airs
if we speak of coiling hay instead of
"coaling" it. Is it an Ontario idiom
or a Huron •Count•y idiom or just
plain Tuckersmith? We' have a
vague feeling that it may be a Scot-
tishism like pronouncing supple
"soople." But these things are of
such small importance that we will
follow the advice of R. L. Stevenson's
donrinie and "Be soople in things im-
material."
Haying has been speeded up like
everything else. We can remember
when "coals" of hay (we still stick
to it!.) sat in the fields for days at a
time before the farmers even thought
about hauling it 'in. The practice of
salting has had much to do with in-
creasing the tempo at haying time.
Nowadays we 'see barns full of hay
that was cut one day, raked the next,
and hauled in the next. The barns
seem to survive this treatment and
the beasts thrive on it. _"The old or-
der ehangeth.'.'
JUST A SMILE OR. TWO
An Irish recruit in one of His Ma-
jesty's riding schools had the misfor-
tune to part company with his horse.
According to custom, the sergeant
strode up tot him and demanded: "Did
you redeive orders to dismount?"
"I did, sorr."
"Where from?"
"From hindquarters," said Paddy.
—London Free Press.
e.e.e...e.eeee.eleee fere
Old Maid (smiling): "Yes, I lov-
ed and won."
Other One: "How do you make that
out?"
Old Maid: "Oh,rhe jilted me and'
I had a lot more fun with the $50,-
000 heart balm he had to pay than I
ever' would have had with - him."—
Rosetown (Sask.) Eagle.
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• SUNDAY AFTERNOON
• (By Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.)
0 Lord, Thy judgments give the king,
'His Son Thy righteousness,
With right He shall Thy people judge
Thy poor with uprightness. '
The people's poor ones He shall judge
The needy's children. save;
And those shall He in pieces break
Who them oppressed have.
His name for ever shall endure;
Last like the sun it shall:
Men shall be blest in Him, and blest
All nations shall Him call.
Scottish Psalter.
S. S. LESSON FOR JULY 21, 1935
Lesson Topic—David (The Great -
,Hearted).
Lesson Passage -I Samuel 26:5-12 ;
H Samuel 1:23-27.
Golden Text -Philippians 2:4.
David was the youngest son of
Jesse, of the tribe of Judah. Accord-
ing to the common reckoning, he was
born in 13. C. 1095 in Bethlehem, and
died in Jerusalem B. C. 1015. While
a fugitive from Saul, he headed a
band of freebooters, whose centre of
operation was the cave of Adullam,
amid the mountains of Judea near to
)3etnlehem, according to tradition. We
read of his great -heartedness in the
:'.2nd chapter where it is recorded
that his concern for the safety of his
patents led him to make a perilous
journey from his cave of safety into
the land of Moab,..wirere he sought an
interview with the king and pleaded
with him to obtain protection for his
par nts—"Let my father and my
mother, I pray thee, come forth, and
be with you, until I know what God
will do for me."
In the first part of to -day's lesson
there is an incident of extreme large -
heartedness of one man to another
who is at enmity with him. Saul
was in David's ,power and he did not
take advantage of it. It was an op -
pr. rtunity for showing the real qual-
ity of the heart and David seized it.
This is the sublime appeal of the
gospel. God does not crush us by
mere power. Love, truth, persua-
sion --these are the weapon's of God's
warfare. But "as 'I live, saith the
Lord God, I have no pleasure in the
death of the wicked; but that the
wicked turn from his way and live:
turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways,
for why will ye die? (Ezekiel 33 :
11).
In the second part 'of to -day's les -
,on we have David's lament over the
death of Saul and Jonathan. •
From what we have learned of the
relaiji•orns su'bsis'ting be'tw'een David
and Saul, we should have expected a
sung of triumph rather than a song
of lamentation, over the death of the
l:isg. David's life up to this point
charmed us by its simplicity and hero-
ism; now we see it in its highest
mood of magnanimity. We see' his
noble -minded forgetfulness of all per-
sonal injgry. -
In these verses David gives us a
glimpse into the father heart of
Saul. Though there were rifts once
or twice, David saw - now only the
lovely, Pleasant relationship between
father and son. David, 'here calls up-
on the nation to mourn ,for their
king, he does not under value what
Saul had done for Israel.
The lament shows how 'bitter is the
distress which follows' the irreparable
losses of life. "'I am distressed for
thee, my, 'brother Jonathan: very
pleasant hast thou 'beete unto me: thy
love to me was wonderful, passing
the. love of womem" Let us learn
from this separation and the lament
that We are every moment unposed to
the possibility of irreparable loss'.
Let us se live, that death will be
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t441tat.;
Lost- Markets
(By R. J. Deachmwa)
Japan has spoken and we are- oto
lose another market. Japan has imp
posed a special surtax on wheat, Yum
ber and other commodities.
There is nothing surprising in this
—we asked for it and the blow fell.
In 1930 our exports to Japan were
$30,475,0001 --by 1935. they were al-
most cut ixn two, $16,935,000. Mean-
while imports from Japan d
from $12,637,000 in 1930 to $4,424
in 1935. The figures are for fiscal
years.
But the whole thing is typical of
our attitude towards foreign trade.
We need markets—need them desper-
ately. Canada is a great exporting,.
and necessarily a great importing
country. All our physical machinery,
docks, 'harbors, railways, is predicat-
ed on the idea of a great nation do-
ing a big business—our political con-
ceptions are those of a hermit seek-
ing a hole into which he may crawl.
Total Canadian exports to foreign
countries in 1914—pre-war days--••
totalled $192,900,000. Under ration-
al policies this trade was built up to
$740,600,000 in 1930. Then under the
driving force of tariff repression it
dropped like a shot partridge to ,oiily
$318,100,000 in 1935.
The tariff was not the only wea • .n
in this straggle for the destruc.'on
of markets. By arbitrary regulat
the government ,placed false value
upon imports. Buy to -day goods val-
ued at 1,000 yen in 'Japan and the
aeeounit ,•ean be met in $290 Canadian
money, but the customs officer will
look you straight in the eye, tell you
that you must pay duty o,n a valua-
tion of $490 and in additio to the
duty there will be of course, the 3
per cent. excise tax—a duty levied
Under another name, plus the 6 per
cent. sales tax—both levied upon the
duty paid. valise. •
What does all this mean? It means •
that in an item dutiable at 40. per
cent. on which, if the code of civiliza-
tion still prevailed, the duty on your'
1,000 yen purchase would be $116,
you must now pay:
1. 40 per cent, on valuation
of $490
2. Dump duty—the differe-
$ 196.00
ference between $290, the
real value, and $490, the
artificially set price 200.00
3. Sales tax op duty paid -
value, 6 per cent 41.16
4. Excise tax -3 per cent. on
duty paid value 20.53
but a momentary separation. In
dwelling upon the love of Jonathan
for David and that of David for Jon-
athan, let us remember that there is -
a Friend that sticketh closer than a
brother.=(From The People's,,Bible).
In the Encyclopaedia of Religious
Knowledge there is found an article
on the character of David. From it
we quote the following:
In his own day David was the idol
of his people, to the subsequent pro-
phets and priests he was the model
king: to the later Jews, his kingdom
typified the kingdom of the Messiah
of whom he was himself a type. His
piety, his zeal for Jehovah, his tender
compassion, his generous sympathy,
his bold enterprise, his dauntless
courage, entitle 'him to admiration.
The psalms he wrote attest the depth
of his love for God, and his unwaver-
ing confidence. He was by no means
perfeot. The struggle with his pas-
sionate nature, strong and proud, was
kept up incessantly, and, though oft
defeated, he conquered at last. He
vas the man • after God's own heart,
and in his sins, but in his repentance
and in his earnest effort after a high-
er and purer life.
•
. WORLD MISSIONS
A Prairie Minister Stands By
The great war made popular' many
phrases. "Carry on" is a good ex-
ample. Ever since time began men
and women have "carried on" under
conditions that merit great praise and
win one's admiration. Sitting in my
study one morning I was visited by
two of my congregation, man and
wife, one of many couples who these
days are-fightinfg desperately -to save
their homes and lives. For. over
twenty years they had toiled' early
and late—building a home. In those
twenty. years over twenty thousand
dollars bad been paid orts the land,
and in addition buildingsKerected,land
fenced, implements and machinery
bought. Twilight years, were in the
offing and the promise of the easing
of the load and lightening of the bur-
den—but it was not to'be, for along
came "Depression," pitiful prices and
meagre markets, and• with depression
in our area, drought; and with
drought, grasshoppers, a terrifying
combination—terrifying to witness—
hut to experience and in the experi-
ence see your- while life's work dis-
appear and your home slowly vanish,
well, wards just simply cannot de-
scribe such a tragedy.
They wished to unburden their
hearts and see if I could find a way
out for them. Hour after hour we
u. orked over figures and....with those
figures tried to think our way through
to where we could at least save the
home. Towards morning the tragic
truth 'became clearer and clearer—all
must go—there was not a vestige of
hope.. It was a sickening experience
to go through, especially if you knew
their lives and realized how they had
toiled and saved. All those years
the mother had toiled not only on the
farm and' in the home, but in the
church. Every Sunday saw her lead-
ing in the service of worship as or-
ganist until we were all sure we could
not have service without her. ,Two
days later they moved over four miles
away to ',start all over again on a
new piece of land and in a small
shack no larger than their previous
living room. I dreaded to go to
church Sunday ---'how could I lead a
service of worship and praise with,
that loveable familiar personality net
in her aeeuetome'd 'place at the organ,
the place she had so efficiently filled
for so many years?
('Con'tinu'ed On Page 8) •
Total $457.74
Just 158 per cent. and Japan re-
sents! Why shouldn't Japan resent
it? This is a hypothetical case—but
I have a •copy of an invoice on my
desk before me as I write—an invoice
of Japanese silk. The actual levied
rate is 244% per cent. Is there any
surprise in the attitude of Japan?
We asked for it and we got it.
The ,totals given abo'w-e show a de-
cline.of-over $13,000,000. The exports
of wheat to Japan during the last five
years have been as follows:
1930 8,400,000 bushels
1931
1932
1933
1934
7,600,000 "
6,800,000
4,99'7,000
4,343,000 "
And Belgium is another country'
•from which we are likely to hear one
of these days. Our exports to Bel-
gium in 1930 totalled' $21,692,000, by
1935 $11,780,000. Imports fell from
$13,019,000 in 1930 to $3,613,000 in
1935.
How long is the madness to last?
If we may take the word of Mr, Ben-
nett it should last forever. Speaking
in the House of Commons in June,
1935, he said:
"These clearing house arranges
m,ents (arrangements by which
we ag-ree to take commodities in
exchange for Commodities) are
impossible unless we are prepar-
ed to accept the manufactured
goods of other countries to dis-
place ICaaadian production. If
we are willing to do that, all we
have to do is to say,so . • ."
We must take payment in goods—
that has always been true. There is
no other means, under heaven, by'
which we can be paid—and Mr. Ben-
nett says: "We can never do that."
So the people of the othercountries
must go without wheat and the peo-
ple of Canada must go without goods
and the unemployment situation con-
tinues as was while these votaries,
of a strange creed tell us that the na-
tion can get rich by 'passing laws
which proclaim to the world our un-
willingness to do business. "We shall
get rich," they shout, "by refusing to
accept payment for the goods we
sell." Was madness ever equal to
it? What a savage creed! Will the
world ever return to sanity? It will.
Not for all time shall the mass of
mankind strive • for wrong—not al-
ways shall we lave in the blind con-
ception that to 'injure our brothers
and ourselves is the first, the last and
the only eomrrnand'ment of Canadian
citizenship.
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The Canada Temperance Act
and The Ontario Government
Editor, Huron Expositor:
INow that the Supreme Court of
Canada has decided that the Canada
Temperance Act is in force in Huron,
Perth and Peel, and will remain in
force until voted out by the people,
these counties are vitally interested'
in what action the Ontario Govern-
ment will take regarding the thirty-
four or more, authorities that have
been issued illegally in these coun-
ties. When introducing the C.T.A. in
the Dominion House in 1878, Senator
Scott is quoted as saying: "There
are considerable sections of the coun-
try where, a large majority of the
people are impressed with the belief
that society would! be very much bet-
ter without the use of intoxicating
liquors• that if it • were banished
from their precincts crime would de-
crease, and they and their neighbors
would enjoy 'better health and moraI-
ly and :physically would- be superior
if deprived of the use of that stimu-
lant. In such section's I believe the
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