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E; FORTH, Friday, November 5.
A New Chairman For Hydro
Rumored changes in the personnel
o$ the Ontario Hydro Commission,
which have been prevalent for some
time, were, apparently, founded on
fact.
'On Saturday last Premier Hep-
burn announced the resignation of
Mr. Stewart Lyon, as chairman of
the Commission, and the appoint-
ment of Dr. Thomas H. Hogg, as his
successt5r
The newly appointed Hydro Com-
mission will -consist of Dr. Hogg, as
Chairman; Hon. William Houck,
Member -of the Legislature for Nia-
gara Falls, vice-chairman, and Mr.
Alfred Smith, Mayor of Kitchener,
as the third member. Dr. Hogg will
also continue as Chief.' Engineer.
Dr. Hogg would appear to be em-
inently qualified for his new position.
He joined the Hydro Electric Power
Commission in 1913 as Assistant Hy-
draulic Engineer, and in 1925 was
appointed Chief Hydraulic Engineer,
and for some time has held the posi-
tiion of Chief Engineer, and has, in
addition, an international reputation
as a Hydro Engineer.
Since the advent of the Hepburn
Government Hydro power has as-
sumed a new meaning to the people
of. rural Ontario. Under Mr. Lyon,
Hydro rates for power and light
have been reduced to the level of. the
rural pocket. Country people have
become interested to the extent that
each year has seen Hydro power ex-
tending
xtending further and further into the
back concessions.
But there -is still need for improve-
ment. Need for still cheaper rates.;
need for a more equitable adjust-
ment of rates as between cities and
country, .and less favoritism shown
to localities near the seat of power
at the expense of the large majority
of other Ontario municipalities more
distantly situated.
Rural Ontario, has become Hydro
minded to such an extent that the
working and policy of the new com-
mission will be given a very close at-
tention from now on, and we hope
the expectations of rural Ontario
will be amply fulfilled. -
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Mr. Rowe Is Still -Conservative
Leader
Hon. Earl Rowe is still the Provin-
cial Conservative Leader. That fact
was 'settled at a caucus of the Con-
servative big fellows held in the Al-
bany Club in Toronto over a week
ago. -
But Mr. Rowe will lead his party
from the outside of the Legislature.
From Ottawa, in fact. That was
made quite clear at the Conservative
gathering too.
Mr. Rowe had been offered a seat
in the Legislature; by acclamation,
"but nthe only seat he was willing to
accept was that occupied by Hon.
George Henry, and Mr. Henry could
not see his way clear to resign and
offer that seat to his new leader.
Consequently Mr. Rowe decided to
i ...succeed himself in the Federal seat
d; Diz eri-Simcoe, and will direct
e Ontario Conservative policy from
there. -
An it may prove a wise decision
be part of Mr. Rowe. -Certainly
Cara has been more kindly dispos-
0: ards Mr:. Rowe than Toronto.
said to be highly thought of by
'nriett,' arid. is popular with the .
ane of his party in the Com-
r as with, the other mem-
neer ha,'d h fol-
ftd if he ever
prodnet
alot
' 3 111et•
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,:'yk any, illi
Psi Sba'tr,?
hate Mr. 'Rome more,
Even the Toronto T legraai.,n,, the
only out and out Conservative daffy.
an the city, and one of, the most sun-
ential .dailies in the Province, did not
support him in the recent election.
And as for the old Conservative
guard in the Legislature, they were
not even luke warm towards him;
Under the, circumstances the gen-
eral
eneral public, outside the Conservative
party, is pretty generally of the
opinion that Mr. Rowe made a -good,
though losing fight, as any gains that
were made by the party are freely
attributed to him.
But the direction of the Ontario
Legislature by a non-member from
Ottawa has its disadvantages. Ev-
en Mr. Hepburn found out under
similar circumstances, that absentee
control did not always function with
the members.
With a former leader of the party
and several would-be leaders; hold-
ing seats in the Legislature, it is not
hard to visage Mr. Rowe's position.
His hand will not be at the helm.
Some one else will have to do the
steering, and with several grabbing
for the wheelat the same time, the
party discipline and party policy is
likely to describe a somewhat zig-zag
course, with the blame, of course, be-
ing shouldered on Mr. Rowe.
However, that is something for
the Conservative party to worry
about. And, let it be said, that party
is already doing considerable worry-
ing about it. Mr. Rowe was a great
leader after the West Hastings by-
election, --but not such a great leader
since the recent general elections. He
still seems to have a strong follow-
ing in ' the rural ridings, but in the
cities and particularly in Toronto—
well, that is different.
1 `VS
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The Passing of a Great Minister
and Author
Rev. Charles W. Gordon, widely
known in Canada for his church
work and as an author, died in Win-
nipeg early Sunday morning.
Dr. Gordon was a son of the Manse
and was „born in Glengarry County,
Ontarib, his father having been sent
to Ontario as a missionary by the
Free Church of Scotland.
In 1921-22 he was Moderator of
the Presbyterian Church in Canada,
but two years later joined the Unit-
ed Church. He retired from the ac-
tive
ctive ministry of St. Stephen's United
Church, Winnipeg, in 1924.
Widely known as hewas in the
ministry of the church, he gained,
perhaps, even greater recognition as
an author, under . the pen name of
Ralph Connor.
His first book, "Mack Rock," was
published in 1898 and was followed
a year later by "The Sky Pilot,"
which sold more than a million cop-
ies. His greatest book, however, in
the minds of the youth of another.
generation was "The 'Man From
Glengarry," which was written at
the turn of the century,,,and is still.
one of the most popular books • in
print. -
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Growing Tension In The East
The people of Ontario have been
so fully occupied .with the elections,
the stock market crash, wet weather
and numerous other things, that the
war in the East has • been occupying
a very bad second place in public at-
tention.
Thee is, however, a war in the
East. Worse, it is a real war; and
still worse, it would . appear, by news
over the week -end, that the tension
between Great Britain and Japan,
arising out of that war, has been
stretched just about as far as it can
0
g It is almost unthinkable that
Great Britain would be involved in
another war so soon after the last
one, the horror of which is still in
the minds ot every- Canadian. But
the possibility of war is there; and
it is said to be no secret that the Bri-
tish Government is deeply cdncern-
ed and worried over the incidents
arising out of' Japanese. bitterness,
and what would appear to be a bid
for trouble, •through their continued
shelling_ of B
ri
tish s
oldiers
The.Eastern situation has a
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wa5
s
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serious,
arta
its seriousness
been seri �
Would appear to be increasing rather
than showing any. signs of a de -e.
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' Intte'eatirne, ;hemi Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Fifty and
Twentyfive Years Ago:
From The Huron Expositor
november 8, 1912
W. F. Clark, Y.S.,- of Goderich, has
been appointed, an inspector of stal-
lions under . the P.rovinciel Act for• the
southern district, and has already en-
tered on kis ruties•.
Mr. Robert Lydd, of the 4th con-
cessi'onu of Usborne, met with a very
painful and Unfortunate accident one
day last week. With a number of
others he was engaged in •cutting
woods with a cirouinr saw, when, a
piece of rock elm struck him, ooh the
arm, almost severing it. ,
The slaters from London have plac-
ed a fine slate roof on the new Pres-
byterian church. at Walton.
Miss: Selma Weseloh, of Zurich, has
gone -to London where she has secur-
ed a position.'
Mr. John B. Dinsdale, of Kippen,
has, been .appointed agent for thel,
Hamilton Fire Insurance CO,.
The annual meeting of the Sea -
forth Hlarticultural Society was held,
in the N: Clue & Sons office on Mon-
day evening last. Though the num-
ber present was not as large as it
should' shave been, the meeting did
,not lack interest. . The officers eiect-
ed are as follows: President, Bert
Cluff; vice-president, W. D. Hoag ;
secretary -treasurer, H. Hartry; Direc-
tors: Jolm Grieve, James Wright, F.
Sills, Charles Stewart and W. R.
Veale.
py Harry J. Boyle)
SIR TIMOTHY
You know it's strange what public-,
sty will to either maneor beast,
Just to take a case of it, I have an
example down here at Lazy Meadows
in the person of Sir Timothy, who has
just recently anashed a few ,newspa-
per headlines and a few columns In
some of the agriculture,' papers.
-Up until this sunme , Sir Timothy
was a quiet 'and oantented '• sort of
beast, and he seemed to be satisfied
to settle downs to tile task of foster-
ing my cattle herd; and notgo pok-
ing
oking into other people's business
but that was this. summer. The ag'i-
cultera,l representative came in one
day, and he happened to see Sir Tim=
°thy standing down in the far pas-
ture. Right off the bat, he wanted
me to take him down and show at
the Fair.
Now, I wasnrt any too particular
about venturing into the show busi-
ness but he was a persuading sort of
fellow, and in a moment of weakness
I consented to do it. If you have been
reading the -newspapers, you would
have seen the picture of Sir Timothy
I was the ene with the straw
hat on in the pictiire. For the first
time in' a .good' many years I had a
real prize-wina`er. The young news-
paper reporters came flocking along,
and honestly I never realized I was
such a fine fellow until -I read the
newspapers.
After the Fall Fairs were over I
could hardly do anything with Sir
Timothy. In the summer he would
frolic with "Suchansuoh" the new
pup, but not after the fairs and the
blue ribbon's. oh, no! He was above
all that, and be kept quite to him-
self.
I had two newspaper fellows come
in to -day. One was lugging a camera
,and the other wae swaggering along
with a notebook stuck out of the cor-
ner of ,his shirt pocket. Both of them
were wearing red shirts and fancy
pants, tucked, into shiny, new boots.
When they told me that they were
after a feature story, I suspected that
the costumes bad been more or less
added to give the effect of atmos-
phere to their story.
"Well, boys," I told them, "there is
no use of you writing a story on me.
Go over there and ,see Sir Timothy
in that pasture, and get his picture
and I'm sure he can give you a story
that would make the front page of
any newspaper. They took a look at
each other as muck as to say I was
While out West a month ago, R. F.
MoKeroher and James Kerr, of Mc-
Killop, purchased• some townsite pro-
perty in Baseano, Alberta, and last
week refused an offer of $50 per lot
advance.
A Swede turnip grown on the farm
of Noah Bowman, Grey Township,
weighed over 23 pounds, and many
,otherrs scaled over 20.
• Morris Township council is' offer-
ing .$15,000 worth of bonds for sale,
the proceeds of which will be applied
in the payment of new bridges being
built this year and next.
W. J. Palmer, of Brussels, has pur-
chased the Hammond Bros. sawmill
at Gerrie and will remove it to Mow-
at, Parry Sound, where he has se-
cured a big contract of cutting tim-
ber.
Mir. J. C. Monteith, ex-M.P.P. for
North Perth, has been appointed post-
master at Stratford station.
•
From The Huron Expositor
November 11, 1887
Mr. John. Bell has' been appointed
tax collector for Blyth at a salary of
$40.00.
Preparations are being made in the
back part of the Township of Steph-
en for a big lumbering season during
the coming winter. Shanties are be-
ing erected at various points through-
out the swamp.
Mr. George Crawford is giving up
the hotel business in Dublin this
week and moving to Egmondville,
where he has a situation in a carriage
shop at his trade.
Mr. Laughlin McNeil, of Grey, had
a' logging bee on Tuesday of last
week. The bee was closed by a pleas-
ant gathering. in the evening.
Messrs. Colin Bethune, Jas. Has -
tie, Jas. Hogg, George Duncan and J.
A. Wilson have been elected Elders
of First Presbyterian Church, Sea -
forth, in addition, to those already
acting.
Mr. Donald Smith's house in Stan-
ley is nearly completed.
The McKillop Reform Club met at
the Temperance Hall, Winthrop, and
discussed the subject of "Commercial`
Union with the "United States." They
decided to have a. debate on this. sub-
ject, the affirmative side being J.
Cowan, G. E. Leach, A. Dickson,• A.
Govenlock, A. Johnson, R. Govenlock;
negative: J. R. Govenlock, M. Mur -
die, G. Turnbull, J. McFadzean, T.
McMillan and Geo. Murdie.
About two o'clock on Wednesday
morning the villager of "Winthrop'
were aroused from slumber by the
cry of fire. The cheese factory was
in flames. About 200 cheese, together
with all the machinery, was com-
pletely destroyed.
Dr. Stanbury, of Bayfield, has re-
modelled an old house and brick ven-
eered it and made it Iook like a new
house.
The officers for the Caledonia So-
ciety in Seaforth elected on Friday
evening last, are as follows: Chief,
Alex. Stewart; first chieftain, . Dr.
Campbell; 2nd chieftain, John Lyons;
3rd. chieftain, John McIntyre; chap-
lain, Rev. A. D. Stewart; secretary,
W. G. Duff; assistant secretary, A.
Dewar; treeasurer, J'. S. Roberts; pip-
ers, George Smith and F. Beaton;
bard, W. G. Duff. +'
Mr. Ja'mes Campbell, of McKillop,
has sold 50 acres of his farm, Lot
10, Concession 14, to Mr. Arch. Clark
of Grey.
•
• "You were late last night," remark-
ed the wife. "I beg your pardon;
dear," said the -husband, - "but the
clock was only striking 11 as 1 came
in the front door!" '
"Yes, I know. But what time did
you' reach the top of the stairs?"
•
Tourist: "Fine corn you have here."
Farmer: "Beat in the state."
Tourist: "How do you ,pier that
steep field,?" . -
Farmer:
"Don'tp
lerte It
'`When the
spring thaw giomesiereeks roll
•
d'a'te the hill and tear it •tip atewe'
can plant corn,' ,
'I"dtrriat: "And he* do Yen last
int?"
reenter; fri�e�r��s; "Donut tpatly Plead9t.
net eland in, my back deiiptand Sheet
tlyd%met ha With a. ifo lfr
crazy,.•aaid they bad better 'humorr mei
by going „ _oft dowse and seeing the
beset,
1 stood there watching Tabby tease
old Solomon, 'the gander, for a few
Minutes when there wao the: awful
lent, blood -curdling yell from over the
hills I elippedi over _past the driving
shed, 'and was just hi.. time to See two
gents come 'legging it. up over the
edge of the little gully. _They were
in the lead, but the red gentleman
was a close seoend.
"He's made - . ." yelled the fellow
who threw the camera and made a
,redoubled effort to get out of the
a road.
But I knew Sir Timothy better than
that. He was only fooling with them
and I had a hard job to keep from
laughing. But I eased' over and de-
cided to shut the gate into the' pas-
ture. Sir Timothy dodged over .,..that
first rail before I had it rightly ,fast=
ened, and` he steamed on after the
two reporters. Now,can name off ,
hand several places Which would be
more suitable for _running in, than a
barn yard on a 'mucky fall day after
a .rain.
The two fellows plunged once or
twice and went down, yelling as It
they were miurdered. I guess they
fully expected•their names would be
in the papers as being gored by a
mead •bull. Now, that's not true about
Sir Pimathy. He was only foaling,
once he had worked his peeve off
and the red shirts were so badly plas-
tered that you would ;swear they nev-
er had even seen red dye in,. their
Iives. ,.
• When they had sort of recovered
after I took Sir Timothy into the box
stall, they told me about coming in
around him in a quite easy way to
take the picture.. I guess the fact
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Editela '!'h8 IluL'98 Expoeitlr:
Dar SIP diadems fr'on1 the l'e-
sponae to; ;n y .last article e• in yoltr
rower regarding the i#uugl" , afehW.,
in Ontario, it will not be. bet of pia e
to write another. -
T stated in my last that the enn
deuce of my tllou•eamd voters', as, wells.
as the knowledge Of the {},aekiug' 01
thousands • of other temperance peo-
ple in Baron, acts its a challenge to
us to advance to t'he spot\.where 'there
is the greatest need
Sincethe beverage room menace
remains for another four years, at
Least, prov%slop. must be made to pro-
vide f,or the casualties --the ever in-
creasing number of unfortunates al-
ready . helpless, in the . toils of the
traffic. A place for treatment of-°'
these is of immediate and vital im-
portance.
1. It must b8"'place where the
patient will be really rehabilitated,
not merely given a 'temporary <naus-
eous experience.
2. It must be a'. place: where, the
cost of treatment is not prohibitive.
3. It must be a: place free frona.
the stigma of the suggestion, of: an
institution for the insane or/mental--
y
r/mental-y weak. -
We know of no institution, inOn-
tario -where - there are all those above
mentioned requisites present.
Now how are we going, to get It?'
Your first thought, as was mine, af-
ter the election, may, be to ask the
Premier to relegate a part of the liq-
uor revenue millions for this purpose.
But second thoughts are often best
thoughts, and so perhaps inthis ease_
In the first place, is it likely the
Premier would entertain our proposi-
tion? He might lightly say, "There
areplenty of local physicians to give
him a shot, and that will easily put
that they hadn't asked his permission •him off the booze and he'll ` know- bet -
and had been calling him Tim, sort ter the next time," or he might say:
o+' riled his dander and he just up "There are several_ private institu-
and after them. cions to go to, and if this fellow has
money enough to spend lavishly for ,
Now, I .explained, to the boys just 'drink, he can easily enough spend -
hew it was. "Sir Timothy" has been
spoiled by publicity, and when they $200.00 a month for treatment," or he
committed those grave outrages to might say:. "We have already pro -
his dignity he just decided to throw oiled and are providing mental hos-
some ,fear of royalty into them. He pitais and if people are weak-minded
did because they just glared at me, 'enough to get the habit, they're weak-
and gathered up the odds and ends minded enough to go there."
of their equipment and left without ' But even if our Premier should en -
even so much as a pleasant "Good- Certain our idea and meet our rem
bye." quest and give us a pittance from the e
liquor revenue, would we not be Wee-,
Now; I still ing,the liquor interest in a position so
feature story, they could say, "Well, we do admit
write it!, after all that there is a trifling num-
ber of weaklings, who have 'to be con -
am waiting to see that
but I. guess they didn't
JUST A SMILE OR TWO
An old Highland soldier got into a
train travelling to Inverness. Rather
unsteadily he sat down beside a Sal-
vation Army officer. For some time
he gazed -at the officer's uniform
with profound concentration. At last
he broke into speech. --"What's yer
regiment, man? I canna' mak' it oot �'
The gfficer replied, "I am a soldier
of heaven. I go to Inverness to fight
the devil, to Aberdeen to fight him
again, and then to Dundee, Edinburgh
and Newcastle."
"That'sright, ma man," said the
other; "keep on heading the blighter
south."f .
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"There were a crowd at the Town
Hall last night," said the 'oldest in-
habitant to his wife.
"Snmmat special on?" asked his
better half.
"Oh, aye! It were burned down,"
was the reply.
aigimay
• Radio and the Public
••
A Recent Ad- •
dress by R. J.
Deachman, M. 0
P., on the op-
ening of Sta-
tion CIkNX. •
I esteem it an honor to -night to be
able to say a few words to you at
the opening of this new station. It
is not "new"in one sense of the word,
for ,the first broadcast over CKNX
took place in February, 1925, but with
its improved equipment, its increase
in range, in power, in capacity for
service, it is indeed a new and dif-
ferent station.
To Mr. Cru_ ikshank, the founder; ,to
Mr. Howard Bedford, comlmercial and
program manager; to Mr. Harry Boyle
who gives us such interesting aceouuts
of daily events, and to all ethers con-
fleeted
ornnected with .this. organization, I ex-
tend, as I am sure you do, heartiest
congratulations and best wishes for
the years to come. To do a great
work if you have plenty of money, is
not a, tremendous, task and the work
itself may not provide any particular
enjoyment, but to start` front the bot-
tom, to build up brick by brick and
stone by stone, to increase from 10
watts to 25, from 25 to 50, from 50
to 100, is real creative achievement
and' -something decidedly worth .while.
Radio is to me one of the most fas-
cinating things in the world. It is a
profound cultural and educational in
fluence ' which will ` increase in the
years to come. It is -hound to create
a new technique in the art of public
speaking. In the old days men spoke
as long as they liked and did not
have to pay anything for the priv-
ilege. Nowadays when we :speak, to
a gads•° audience it costs: money. We
must measure our words. It will bring
to the art of public speaking a touch
of Scotch thrift and that, believe me,
will not be without marked advantage
to the Speaker as well as the audi-
ence. - -
It is easy to speak with an audi-
ence in front of you. It is much more
difficult when standing before a micro -
Phone. The audience gives to the
speaker a, contact . He knows as he
gazes into the faces before hint some-
thingof what they are thinking and
feeling, but never did I meet an audi,
ence so unreslionsive as this wooden -
legged, nieklethearted microphone be-
fore whieh 1 stand this moment, It
never says a word, good, bad or in-
different. At audience- may go to
sleep en you if the story gets,. too,
dull, but the microphortb never does.
Sometimes se 1 face a radio "mike" I
wish the Manager would dress its
bare lmrbs and give it abald bend
,
then I might feel it Wag almost his
mmn.
I like the story of thO,.`pi'eaoher
*ha was delivering a. • air ineo .,over
the .radtn• and boyo' elaate& hia'data
nI'ITpeel' frein .hit Unita 10 Paiteed at
tiilenteiit, hent se1d:e:?`s1'ttt4oil fatap n `
friends, a nut is loose in my pulpit;,
wait till I tighten it up"—then he
went on with the sermon.
President Roosevelt is often men-
tioned -as the beat radio speaker on
this continent. I imagine. if Lincoln
were alive he would thrill his';"audi-
enees' with the touch of his voice, the
depth of his sincerity, the warmth of
his human feeling. He was a man
who had suffered much and loved
more and it is the understanding
heart which gives -depth to the power
of expression and brings forth speech
which flows to melody. True oratory
never can exist without sincerity.
I shall not mention the great Cana-
dian speakers of to -day, you must
form your own judgment upon them.
I have no doubt that if Laurier and
Macdonald had lived in radio times
they would have fascinated the audi-
ences by their power of appeal, but
I would like to list another man, now
passed from the scene, a former Min-
ister of Finance, I refer. to the Hon.
W. S. Fielding. He<rhad a fine, calm,
sequential mind. He made his appeal
to reason. Ile never tore a passion
to shreds and tatters and' the radio
audienece% ,of to -day and still more of
the future will want reason, logic and,
a'bs'ence of bitterness' and partisan-
ship in the ad'dlresses to which they
listen. If the radio can 'help -to bring
this new approach to public discus-
sions}, and I am certain It will, then
it will have 'made a magnificent con-
tribution to our national life."
What tremendous progress we have
made during the last few years. A few
years ago my `soon brought home a
copy of a paper Called the Ulster Gaz-
ette, printed in the. State of New York
and bearing the date of January 11,
1800. George Washington lead lust
died. Napoleon bad landed . back in
Europe from his Conquest of Egypt.
Ite h,ad', kindled the flame Which. was
to flickd out and ilie fifteen years can
er at Waterloo. Among the advertise-
ments ins this paper was one, offering
some lumber and a few•o'gher things
for sale and •among them was "one
strong, healthy negro wench." A lit-
tle
ittie more than 137 years ago, scarcely
the life span of two hu . an beings,
Yet Slavery* Wee 84111 in', taxistenee in:
Ame:rioa, and • emainedl 1 i existence
for 65 years after that. The ititiim:au
race was then 7S years from the prb-
diletion: et the self=bled r, •There *ab
fip Derain cable.,, .in • those dnye. •. wO,
had noVtelle'grapi g or, tel no°
motor care. co fiYbig tnaaliirt js, .1V1 att
ittliwed grain by 1i d ,And ejtit' t with
o etradles.: ' 111610 ry »redtteti8iii• of
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sidered and we are quite willing: too
increase our liberal givings fromour
legal and respectable business to -help
ameliorate this unfortunate complica-
tion, and so would we temperance peo-
ple notbe really in league with Elie
beverage liquor traffic to that extent
in the acceptance of their donation?
Of" course, it would not be any
worse than what we are doing right ,
now, accepting 'as a sop a percentage
of the liquor license fee from the
beverage room to meet our municipal
expenses, but this would be even
more of an evident sop if we accepted
direct toll from the traffic. 'Phe fact
is that we are right now as slamsblt
under the- control of a dict `•-h as acts
the people of `Germany or Italy and
tha- dictator is the Liquqr Interest of
Ontario.
'Unless the Premier gives us rn a la.
more of evidence of bis bravery in'
the: meantime, we will,be going on,.
just as the liquor traffic anticipates-
we will, splendidly apathetic, untie'
the next election.
In his pest election speech -the
other day, Mr. Rowe, as coroner
made some enlightening pronounce-
ments. He said in explanation for
defeat, "Apparently the drys didn't
trust us and the wets were afraid of
us." Mr. Rowe never uttered any-
thing nearer the truth. From his
weak parrying plea for another year
of beverage roams what else than
distrust could he expect from the
drys; and as for the 'wets being afraid
to vote for him, he explains that im
another quotation's from the same
speech when he says, "Apparently for
every dollar the Conservatives had to,
spend on publicity, the Liberals had
$10.00."
If Mr. Rowe had have had in his
pre-election mixed coiacoction more or
a stimulation ingredient for the wets,.
he Might, have had the balance of the
10 to 1 on his side. Mr- Rowe-missec1:
his chance. If he had come out four-
square on an anti -beverage liquor pol-
icy he could have proved that there -
was at least one party leader who= ,
was willing to 'cut the slimaytentacles-,
of the Liquor Interests.
Mr. Hepburn is supposed to be able -
to handle ea good sharp knife. He-
llas plenty of Opportunity to use it.
now, or is the Liquor Octopus quite i
sure that he will not. We want Mr..
Hepburn's'point of view, and we hopes
soon to write an article entitled, "Re-
port of an Interview With Mr. Hep-
burn on the Liquor Problem in On-
tario."
Huron County is no better than any
other .Ontario county, but the election
has taught us that there are many
thousands, of voters in the Province
who are looking at the problem with
both eyes open and there are thou-
sands more with, as yet, just one eye.,
open, but we see enough and haves .
learned enough in the actual cam-
paigning to know that the liquor traf--
le
has a strangle hold on this' prey -
ince, "and with its weapon of anillionea
is prostituting all moral' and human
intet5 ts, and even, detnacracy itself.
Are we disrederagedf, .1i places,
yes, but not Oatm' ally so. We have
tlheinaa'hda of recruits in the :Temper-
ance cause. Besides' the ministers,
and Vir..C.T.U.'s .did Irederation, all et
When( have given Much ,personal ser-
vice 115 the ,past, woe now have work-
ing with us Wdmbn's Institutes,•.
%Young Peoples-) ;Clubs, the pressto a
Vintextent, and in fact the. 'Melte
entrla of the province. We have a
Prettier who has a well-earned repu
tetk!i fee• Courage and a gaod1y
n
um-
bex o em�e1an0e candidoids elected
46' par_ent
solo a `f'i'affi°, living
welk 11.P. •tal its snpii'tatiot as a menace•.
to We and- iiiora,Ie, soh .n --
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