v A es . eT -- TE -------- THE BRITISH WHIG | snotber election." And His Ex 93RD YEAR. cel- lency so acted, rafusing "my advice | as a Prime Minister" who had gov- erned, who did so ig the face of Mr. | Meighen's chance io do so, by votin | me out and failing, | Mr. King held the People were the | ones' to decide "whether the advice | tendered to His Excellency was or | was not in accopd with their wis | The People, not the Governor, in jany constituted government should | decide who should govern, and with | | this convietion he resigned to allow the people to decide the lssue. Mr, | Meighen took the ground the Goy- | ernor-General was constitutionally fright. Mr. King took fssue on the | point, The matter can be settled | without any violence to the character { { or standing of His Excelleney. | 16 PORLISWING |. The real cause for Mr. King's se. | KINGSTON, ONT. j tio was not because of the camniou- | 158 * flaging of Mr. Stevens and his group { but because parliament was being | : 2413 | degraded by Mr. Meighen's minions. | . aaial Barter and bargain and uneertainty | Were being injected to make parlia- | | ment a den of infamous proceedings | Daan in sity $2.50 and to maintain the honor and dig- | We year, to United States $3.00) nity of the House, Mr, King sought| Wa may expect the balance of the OUT-OF-TOWN REPRUOSENTATIVES; | 107 & new declaration from the Peo- | summer will be a noisy one, at least . W, 100 Xing) ple. His candid, elear and forceful | if the politictans have their way. Street Weat, Toronts. ful [If the politicians y Mo, a William J. Growiey, |hiterances.on tlie events leading ro | a 138 St. Siteet, | dissolution are worthy of being reaq! Mr. Meighen is still in the Valley NEW Y Powers, Ine. | § read | ee a A050 Madisun Avenue, od upon, {of Despair." He sees no Vision of | and contemplat oe Power, Ine, 19] + | Prosperity from that territory. SE The eireviation 4 Authenciented » > uz WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: azcident, it "takes piace" by pre- OFTEN MISPRONOU? "dead," not as in "reach." OFTEN MISPELLED: SYNONYMS: absurdity, fol stupidity, WORD SPUDY: "Use a wor us increase our vo dby's word: REMONSTRATE; remonstrated upen the risk of hes." Fh | . Ed bd SLE i A "=p 5 a -- Perr. Day EDITOR Publishe RITISH + LIMITED, s RUPERT DAV] Please pass the potatoes, is phrase heard in New Brunswick. a hing in lite {s health; ow The biggest t the next -biggest. is sense to kn it. : SUPSCRIPTION RATES; (Dally Edition) One year, in of te rural PE ------ . MADE THE COUNTRY PROS. PEROUS, S---- With the strawberry season at ifs peak the political babblers have a | hard time in imposing themselves on Probably not in the past twenty- | the joyous Canadian. | live years have Canadians had more | ---- | remedial laws Passed than those put | through parliament at its late Ses la soft berth ¢ | sion, The Liberals are certainly to | Don't worry: j be congratulated in Pushing through | eyesight, vet! | measures fraught with so much bene- The opposition was | ' ng but its views on Friday night, of The British Whig ¥ the Audit Bureau of : M to the Editor are published | fhe Actual asme of the | THE PREMA OF PARLIA- " 24 acy or 8ir Henry Drayton. 1 bo Sir Henry has good 'Right Hos, W, L, Mackenzie King is & logical speaker, He never in- dulges in loose language, he never | fit to the people. Speaks without having weighed and | Vigorous and stro ; oanvassed every word, with the re-1and dire predictions could not pre-| ring in his voie sult his utterances are sincere and | Vail and Canadians f tory for well enacted legislation. rejoice at the | vivid and can be comprehended oy | Commendable bills p ut through to! Es ws So i $ither hearers or refiders. Ho does | held the people and relieve them of | The country is thrilled by the not take things for granted he | taxation, As 'Premier King truly | SPlendid record the Liberal admini- studies the texts and consequently | said in Ottawa, "at no session of the | Stration made in the past parliamen- : Ya " | tary session in face of awful odds. | Parliament of (an da d { Sbeaks with complete knowledge and | mgt 0 afd nl 1 ve absolute accuracy. | single parliament hag 25 much been | And these charactéristics mark his | done to relieve all classes of the byr- | opening address in Ottawa, on Fri- "@ay night. In chronological offer | recent session by the L he reviewed the eptsodes as they oc- stration under what is popular] eurred since the new parliament | deserv ------ Premier King talked in Ottawa with an optimistic Premier Meighen tried his best to | cord is much like some of the pre- Y and | miers of France. edly known as the Robb Bud- Opened. To give an effective back- |Bet."" The late Liberal government | qpa sandwiches SEoUnd he related facts of the ad.| took Proper precautions to ses thas | Winistration trom 1921 to 1924. His | the bills, embodying the legislation | joyahle than the s opening remarks had to do with the |-PPOPosed should be ratified as sopn on the people. But there supremacy of parliament, "Let par-| 88 passed and royal assent secured, | abont At you haven't to Hament decide" was the Premier's | tus "by this great good fortune the | them. constant {teration from October to|™ain enactments of the budget 'were January. He took no part In decid- | Saved from the wreck into which ing who should rule, he did not en- most of the remainder of the legisla Into negotlations or bargain or tive programme was brought, either for power. Parllament decided | bY action of the Tory majority in the | with 1,995,567, Of cities with more he carried on with the honor. | Senate, or the Summary dismissal of | ipap 100,000 inhabitants there gre "co-operation of the Progressive | Parliament without so much ag the | 21. The population of the 101 cities pup, formality of a prorogation." represents 21 per cent. of the total "And this condition prevailed fop; It was this legislation, promoted population of Japan Proper. 'months, then politics were fijected, | 40d effectively carried out that has intrigues and bargaining indulged in | Elven every man or woman in the By the opposition until he came ihm direct financial beneft, | It E. L. Patenaude, 'he 'conclusion that with the uncer. | There is not a Canadian family that | leader of a self-constituted Conserva- ty prevailing government could| has not been helped, and that is nog | Ue Party, who preached In the Jast be carried on "in a manner be- | better off to-day as a consequence of | ®/ection that Canada should never 8 Ronor and digaity of par- | the reduction in taxation the Libera] (a%ain participate in any British war Hament" and he appealed to the |EOVernment was able to bring about, | Without an appeal to the people, and refused eneral for dissolution and [This is why we say that no greater | Ne succeeded in' defeating himself INN ---- ~The premier made that Hon. Mr. Stevens' remedial measures for Canadians Hie Teo Stovans Tells Facts As to | countless thousands by the reduction ~ ice In the committee's report | tions in « peeches inflicted is this listen to | ---- There are two Japanese cities with Osaka, with 414,804, and Tokyo, was Hon. | i it quite plain | Dave been enacted by parliament in amendment to } the past quarter of a century, lal committee | Then there is the relief given to on Customs matters did not in any | re have a place in his decision to [In Income taxation, the abolishment | ¢ if dissolution, because not 'a | Altogether of the receipts tax, reduc- Motherwell writing to E ales and excise taxes and [the new Outlook, correcting unfair n and misleading statements about | x "The Canadian Customs Scandal," gives in succinct form the real story of the scandal, which the King. gov-, ernment has no desire of defending, but it does object to the form in which the Conservatives present the matter. It was the Government that | dug up the information of its own | volition, through its own officers, | and, before such officers could con- vey their report, except the interim, Hon. W. R. Stevens' amendment suggested lastly the return to penny postage. 'censure on the government, Mr, | What a superb tecord in the face of Stevens used the words "totally inde-|® Petulant and rancourous opposi- fensible" in speaking of the govern- tion! \ t failure to "take prompt and The walls of blue ruin in Canada re remedial tction" in the Cus. |in the 1925 election--and which affairs, and "utterly unjustifi- | Were untrue----still persist but to a "in reference to one Particular | 10%ened degree for many of the wail of Mr. Boivin. And these state. os Ae ashamed of their pessimism, : ; ; @ real fact jg--a . Bad been enlarged and mt Tp TA. Ting (nets Tuyen. of Customs. Mr. d a8 a censure on the gover! oe id I RO | Boivin, the information was convey- | the administration Mr. | ™ 88 prosperous in years, nor have | oq to Mr. Stevens, acdording to his 88 50 malignant fn speech | 0° COURLrY's business and finances | own statement (Page 734, Hansard, | Put words in the. amendment | been in the splendid shape they are! February 2nd) through Mr. Sparks. | { In today. Look where you will, be it| Over ninety per cent. of the expos | be found in the text. The |, returns of our ratiways, the de. | ures and wrong-doings charged by | Mr. and coterie bid TT In our ba Bo. ing the House of Commons Committes political and in line wity the | nks, the increase in asked for by Mr. Stevens were first m of vile suggestion ang! 0° "UMmbers and amounts of Insur- | brought to light by Mr, Duncan, ex- | i Ee ance policles and building permits, | Scotland Yard officer, loaned by the | the increase in employment, the in: Department of Finance to the new | cféase In Immigration, the rapidly Mi tinter = Sarton. 2 tits on. Mr. Motherwell recites the ror es in a sg Steet ad wR HC of the increased prosperity which has ution bedun its com. come to Canada during our years of | mencement, two other large combi- office." nations of -wrong-doing. were under The Premier's gpeech In' Ottawa | attack by the Government-----one the Was very effective. He showed with a brilliance of expression the splen- 41 record of the Liberal adminjstry. tion and. if again chosen wil add measures equally 'as effective as those which have been of such value to the people of Canada at the pre- i y . Calumuy, abuse, false ac- | Cusation, baiting, intrigue. Innuendo, ila suggestion and slander may be hurled at. ex. I King took time to say that he 3 to shield anyone or to | wrong. Every. be laid bare by a Royal M=-Dis suggestion -- ang ! Mpasrs. A 'and Stevens 8 now ordered. Un every. Judge, nader direc- | dicialls Bot politic. many ; tions on the Atlantic, ment that preceded ug this matter come the dj E Government led 2% be Right Honorable W. IL. Mack King, in the - Bession. of '285, formulated 'plans to at Teast par- tially control these exto, Sthans of She dees, 'but ! n the House and Were inquired into riionate le with no Sir William -- A HE | DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH BY W. L. GORDON CED; censure (blame.) cabulary by master to present a strong damage." > \ J 5} TAL NOTES. {and all his followers. Since then he | Some newspapers are picking out | e that presages vic- | | den of ti : fected |lead the government for three days *h 0 taxation as was effec BC at the | ind then he was voted out., His re | iberal Admini. | at the political | picnic are often very much more en- | more than a million inhabitants | t did nothing to over- his coll to bi ag ot Emery he Ta DAILY BRITISH WHIG eevee --~ ------ 1 h\ At chance or Ly = a deal. Pronounce the ea as in ly, foolishness, silliness, nonsense, d three times and it is yours." Let RE one word each day. To- protest." "We | I | J | persudded Mr. Meighen to repeat his declarations at Hamilton and Bagot {and now Mr. Patenaude is the lone f French-Canadifin star in the Meighen cabinet. | } | i | | The British Whig congratulates {the Hamilton Spectator on its fine | age--elghty years. On its anniver- {sary it issued a number of great { merit, full of enterprise, full of {spirit and a splendid example of | : | Canadian prosperity. . If it is Con- NTRALCAN EXHIBI TT STI > 1 0 ds & a f week of Aug. 23 | servative in politics, it has a wonder | fully Liberal idea that decay and y Qespair do not exist in its horizon. | Come along old boy, and. follow The | Whig, now in its ninety-sedond year. | No infirmities are manifest either in { the Spectator or, its contemporary, Stampede & Rodeo Old Bo Historical Pageant Choir of Parades Championship Sports Military Tattoo Venetian Night Great New Midway Something Doing Eve verybody | The Whig. > aT ey -------------- [#2200209 00000009 | [® SUNDAY THOUGHT. * Fos * Little Cares and Fears, ® ---- | (By Elisabeth Barrett Browning) The little cares that fretted # | mae, + I lost them yesterday '| Among the fields above the + sea, + Among the winds at play; ® at the same time he failed to lay any Among the lowing of the * | specific charges of wrong-doing herds, ® that would warrant a judicial in- The rustling of the trees, «4 quiry thereinto. , Among the singing of the | This was the attitude taken by Mr, birds, f ns, who repeatedly told Mr, Sparks {that he had loaned him the Govern. Tit humming of the bees. ment's officer--an ex-Scotland oo i man-+to dig up the information, and ars of what may | if he could get anything at all upon | * which he could hang his hat a Royal I cast them all away # | Commission would be immediately Among the cloversscented ¢ appointed to investigate and report grass, # | thereon, Among new-mown «| Time drifted hay: @ | Prorogued early i Among the husking of the alla the ast of corn electio on. Mr, Where drowsy pobpies nod, Niro oF Cubes Where ill thoughts dle-and 800d # | during the first week are born, ® but he Aid not take charge of his Out in the fields with God, # | office definitely unti immediately # | after the 20th day of October. Two @ | Or three days after this, according to the sworn testimony before the Cus- | toms Committee, Mr. Boivin asked | Mr. Robb to let him have Mr. Duncan et at the bot- rumors which | te * + @ # ® * HUN TST rr ed TELL P eter oe The foolish fe happen, | + |8i on and the House | n July, 1925, and | ons [+ the IL and a general Boivin, the new was sworn in of Septemher { * [080000020000 0cee -------- \ What He Mcant Employer (who had just discharg- jie sea it a could not g ed an employee: What do you mean | kept growing Ea you've always held your own with On the 15th November, Mr. Bol. vin had 'hig first interview with Mr. {by In r ind secut} EMPLOYEE: Well. I didn't have any thing when I cama here---and I've still got it.--Answers, London. o {then doing. Duncan, who however, could not un-|o dertake the new work until Decem- | ber 1st, because it would take weeks to complete the work he was Accordingly, on the - ist of December armed with fullest authority and power, Mr, Customs Exposure { Duncan procegded to Montreal, under : Mr. Boivin's instructions, to get at | cha the bottom of these horrible Cus- "toms rumors, so that t of the public. Not, however, until ment might have something definite after the passing of the Combines In- upon which to take judicial action. | sioner Ih Bat | inf ia | ruinin vin ta - | 8ver, 4 dence day a contai wrong, Ste three fore, of that Act, take action against the | completed his interim work and from Toronto, a Nash Inquiry, and, | dence and tabulated a report contaln- brought a repor : owever, this report, except the in existed that warranted subsequent | information contafn | number---asleven | next t finally the Recessary prosecutions channel to Mr, Stevens, lumbia, with the result that four ledge of these things an some $200,000, | Siam be found the following a tivities against wrong-doing we did |tective Association, as I have met to the representatives of the Mer-|Orable Minieter that the information o , officer, Mr. Duncan, and every other Sure that of Mr. Sparks." - ¢ mation was not from the multitude of more or less | exclusively from 8 nei was, and, ds the Inquiry cent. of it was Information Teal n Yestigation Act in 1933 did the Hon, In ten days' time, that fs, dy the Mr. Murdock, under the Provisions [10th December, Mr.! Dunean Nash interests, Another Mf. Duncan | amined over forty witnesses, taken young lawyer, pre-| over three hundred pages of evi sided over this after some months of investigation, {ing eleven specific charges of wrong- t to the Hon. Mr. | doing against individuals. Before Murdock, in 1925; which indicated h | abundantly that an actual combine |terim, reached Mr. Boivin the exact | ed therein, Judicial action on the part of the cluding the exact { Government. This all took time and | charges, was conveyed through some tents Were entered against the Nash inter- | placed a notice on the Or 'ests before the courts of British Co-| of the House indicating companies and four private firms | Ing aa inquiry. were fided an aggregate amount of | On page 734 of Hansard, Februar hile we were carrying on con-| mission by Mr. Stevens: currently these two outstanding ac-/ "I have met the Merchants' Pro. not neglect the Customs matter, for | Mr: Sparks both last.year and this we had already partially delegated it j year. But I want to say to the Hon- Protective Association, with Which IT used today is certainly nat the assistance of the Government's | exclusively or indeed in large mea. facility at our command to assist in You will note that Mr. Stevens ad running down something a Hn mitted that the Bl rT. Yague rumors that were being cireu.| dentally admitting that it lated with resnect to bootlegging and oceede in Canada. it was found that at leset 0 per : by Mr. Duncan, 'Mr. Boivin's own N aa cated, can, [112] cluding pr of September the | MoOtor, K and do your business locaily. | prosecute o, {way as we had alre two [upon the report ormation bh t it and bas bad | just tak ex-iand had peditiously as Waa to do. » | the Customs Co the Committee, in. | the public at forty wit Inspector Dy viously In Montreal, and week after week mittes as material, extol CENTENARY FEATURES Week of Aug. 16th y's Home Coming One Thousand ry Min- ED VY Electric Motors I can furnish detail dimen- all particulars, --in- and ices, fo (Save time James B Phone 2504. 398 Spector Duncan ad eed at that very t ng the N Dunean Was proper use ing quite a fellow m en charge acted as ftw g em bled the Duncan mmittee its contents wo mont of this pages of ith, were nean was retalled out ftep ned the ~doing and these out over the wires, tion were someth ee was digg " Committ 25 a matter or four months of o! It would never do, the press correspopden reading pubMe that th would not constitute co if went out ag new ling Mr. St rding entirely that eWs-- hen of it. secured by I LL ER were familia; it was withheld that time, hs or more the econ- Report with the three it it were someth day the press d Se horrible details of P2V 1). N CREATORE & HIS BAND Foremost among the Worlds Ban every appearance, they will be a triu EXHIBITION FEATURES Week of Aug. 23rd : Creatore & His Band Immense Live Pure Food Sh The World" Grand Fireworks Horse Races ow Stock Exhibits s Best Vaudeville Display Great New Midway Dog Show-Poultry Cat Show- Industrial Features rn Show Baby Show & Educational mph at eature during the UCH AN EVENT' | Ee PA Ir any size and money oyd Brock 8t. | ntion of the Government was 'to n the information secured in the same Y Prosecuted, ime were pro- ash interests--baged of the other Commis. of Toronto to which ave already referred. made of this y Mr. Stevens grabbing unwarranted Jas ber who had (Of his Pepartment Quickly and as ex- af possible for any On the 15th of February Mr, Bol. report before . While, how. Fr to] from For the evidence econ- gone over by nesses whose evidence had taken pre- Day after day i | first class furnace; arge su tile drain ta. fice as the ¢ town, iB Nam es i Ap) Wil h Wher Food st te of Ll rice $1850, oa Money to 1 one dwelling, repair; drive about ss dwelling, in | repair; hot water | ood concrete cellar; i and amall sell at n saori. is in goog | house {I ne-half &8rdea. J ORANGE sQuasn, LIME JUICER CORDIAL, 83¢c. per bottle : - REDD PHONES 20 ang EN & CO. this old evi. of the Com- ng new; espatehies we ng up, fact, 1t was 1d. however, for ts to tell the is was the in the Dun- months be- evens and easy 1 at di Bspector Dun- | acrength