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%- Cérnex Kent and William Sts. é-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%fi% % LINDSAY, Ont. % Owen Sound from b0 i-‘Sr and Against IWe Wish but.) Wr' -' â€" such interest at the present alocal option. W the nan-Wade: by its expressed in commuted *0 Wan” The Merriest You Have Ever Spent sum there are aways “m cry “99‘1“" and m v‘vauld decrease pro and conâ€"â€"Ihe Case of th sidesâ€"What the Business Local Option OWEN SOUND Man? 0! one section wm nave w The article in full reads as follows= dealings with the other. and lose 110‘ Owen Sound. .Dec. illâ€"When Favor opportunity to injure the others tu- Kennedy was asked for his opimon 0n since, and the bad mature of 1111qu local option as seen in operation in it is done not. secretly or on the side, 1 Owen Sound. he produced 91010110“ but opmly. Owen Soul! is a house? ins letter to whicp his signature was divided against itself in this respect. M M! m I he med'mhto name EVILS HAVE INCREASED capable cease inspector, who does W, 0th place. by tho glass. oint- wMt he aim to mom,“ 19"" 1” ‘sids stash. Now “18101th public sentiment is against doing 90. -p .. “a W 1. u 1'5" notwithath 9'0» W 0'49““? vauntgtw; i! not more gm; “1 11...... {A .:- _ h 1:... (“mm . i LIQUOR by which it was cal-pea. _'qur ‘ up still soldinlarge quantities, yet._ .mm every one with costs. AG AIN ST is with us once agam. ngs to millions. It IS the 1 the worlds calendar. liberal patronage r and wishing you we say once again such places in the town. u..-â€" ‘~'The corporation has. tour puuwâ€" men. and the statutes, the by-law ap- pointing them, a. special by-law and special resolution passed by the coun- cil ilately make it the duty of these men to enforcevlocal option. Yet, the ‘ -- nnnv‘n’jflflfi axe cil ilntely map 1.. vuv u”, __ men to enforcerlocal option. Yet, the sale goes on, and no convictions are made by them. Public sentiment is against its enfomementt. ~ “Local trade has been injured by local option. Scores of people in the trade in Owen Sound when license ‘westdn targenowp to Win-ton. Chesley, Port fight Markdde, Mea- . ford, etc. It has divided D - - Aâ€"- 1-1-1 Am siness, and the bud feature of this is. it is done not secretly or on the side. but opmly. Owen Scum! in 9, house divided against itself in this respect. 1 four police- ‘Knightf' Oliver, etc., were brought in for-the occasion. Meetings were held in the chm-ems during the week - â€"â€" LA,“ m Sun- Dion 01 u": 0v"... .- -â€" Court of Revision ndne cases of ap- peal were heard, the appellants claiming that their properties had been lessened in Value by local op- tion. 011 hearing the evidence. the judge ordered that their assessment be reduced $57,750, and the corpor- ation lost $1,857.12 in taxes. The owner of one hotel (the Coulson House) neglected to enter an appeal. or in all profitability another $50,000 would have been struck ofi. REVENUE CUT OFF. , ~"Therevenuc derived from hotel and shop licenses, amounting to $1,694, has been entirely cut on, making an annual loss from these sources of $3,- 091.12. BeSidee, ,the corporation has had to pay for legal advice, counsel fees, etc., fully $500 more defending 091.12. Besides. .the had to pavyfor 1880-1 toes, etc.. fully $500 the by-law. Our cit ‘-‘It was said that under local op- tion, the town would policemen. and the saving to he made m that. way would almost. if not al- togethgr, offset the loss in revenue. It has been found that. this cannot be done. In not, the Salaries oi the ‘ ‘ ‘ L‘ ”AN-l" vorv mn- al men should be put on. There are four now. No-reduction in the muniâ€" 1cipal expenditure of Owen Sound can be made because of local option. A VOICE OF, AUTHORITY. “1 respectfully submit the follow- ing: The writer has liven continuo- usly in Owen Sound for 50 years, «has. been in motive business in Owen and is in employing men dunng all that time, and has a. lot under his control now. He has pecuniary interests in several ' establishments heme, and has occupied the position he m WWI-e; -._-- V lar manufacturin establishments _ ge As It has been currently reported here. and has occupied the position of school trustee, councillor, reeve, amongst the P001310 01 Newcastle mefyor and license commissioner, th‘t 19°33 option has greatly injur- member of the Board of Trade. as :cbus‘muin 0"an tinned ruined ”the one 1 its council as residem, 0mm 0” 0" PubliC. :1 ° ”“1 9 number at leading business men 1;; wwwv-u - - ~‘.‘I have seen uwen ML“- will“ under restricted license, under the Duncan Act, and uwnuu, uuuu. my ___r-, under the present lice Act and fi- mlly under local option; and have no hesitation in saying that local upl 1- n has not lessened drunkenness, basinot improved business or the financial JO- sition of the people generally Nciy ther has it improved the moral h ne of its citizens as a, whole, but on the \coutrary has injured local trade and h wu'ed the naval well-being of very mam. “I deeply regret to have to say these things, but I believe it is my . Vaigned business men of Orono berc' (ngned) MATTHEW “Nigg- by m m in our experience the . tradeoftbevfllagownot in any POLICE COURT CASES. W been injured, neither do we be- In proof of the stagnant that the' Hove tint the truth lormrly done monk o! the community have not. hm has been diva-team other pm ”mat-Imam hastakâ€" whereiiquor u‘nold. w, further be- on figure. iron the each: records, new that our hotel mmmatjlation showing that the .number'o! police is as good u itmunderhceoie. oomtufllastmflflwm andia furnished atthontes usually no this your mama 510. He charged in similar pm; that if “Mined ogdn the A- W- W. .‘ ‘- be m ‘ tho ma ' (new nor- '1‘. Smith, ins. agent. in! will ”a glowed 33- 000W. m - T-- n-â€"‘.-.h.‘ll , Qh‘.‘ m omw. nu. v...“ , you want to see what 1 opuon‘ has done My ionowen 3!! down our W guests and look in at the alt)“: windows and you will see what. we have never seen be- fore in this town. You will and that inundtormonwwmsmw a” hundreds because 0! thetslackness of; business. ‘ WHAT MR. MACKAY SAID. He told me ulao that. Hon. A. C. ‘MacKay, I.P.P., had recently been in his store. and had midtown: 1"! now see my mistake in opposing lo- cal option, I confess. since seeing what local option has done for Owen Sound that the bar-rooms must go it. -1..- haw-“‘- vâ€"â€" all over this Province." He also said : “Right across the street from my stone is; butcher’s shop. and the butcher told me the other day 4 that poor women, the wives oi ‘ drunkards, used to come to his store with five or ten cents in their hands on Saturday night to buy a. bone with alittie meat on it so that they iiigbt get a taste of meat one day‘in the week, but since local op- tion came into force these very same women came to him with five-dollar bills in their hands to buy nice joints of meat." The Rev. Mr. McAlpine told me that the Chief of Police had said that there was not one drunk in a hundred compared with license condi- Iâ€"A nnll‘ 2:; and leading citizens as to :1 fi_ these reports were true. Fm ‘ foljowing statement it will u "e f”: aéen that the aforesaid repor “‘1“ never had any foundation i [00- The W men whose :11 Nci- not on thm Minot were une when the comittee culled athem. Reliable men acted c .I 1W va. a... _.V ,_ that the Chief of Police had said that there Was not. one drunk in a hundred compared with license condi- tions. This same Chief also said nun. there used to be a string of women coming to him begging him' to protect them from their drunken c husbands, but since local option had been enforced he had not received one such caller. Barnum, dry-goods:mer- chants, grocers and boot and shoe' men, jewelers. and all classes oi bu- siness men declared that business was marvellously improved by the change. I LARGELY THE SAME TO-DAY. if i I have not space to tell all i that -was then said. and from the testi- ‘ many of disinterested parties the ,bet- ‘ tered conditions are largely the same to-day. If there has been any change for the worse since then, who is to: blame ? Who but the violators oil the '1aw ? Liquor men have made Owen Sound their Waterloo, knowing that it they could discredit local op- tion there they would discredit it in many another place. They have icitl no stone ‘dfiturned to make lOCal op- tion a failure, and then they point ‘ to the results of their conduct and say: “There is local option ior ‘ you." But notwithstanding all their ‘ L nefarious conduct it is evident to every impartial obsefl'er that even in Owen Sound local option is still a ' great blessing to all law-abiding cit- izens. ; In nearly all towns and cities it has been dimcult to enforce prohibi- ’ tion at first. such as. for instance. ' Kansas City. Portland and Grand i Forks, but aIter ; while the recalci- trant citizens have then hunted to e earth and now prohibition in these ‘I very towns is a glorious success. And ' “"‘-‘ 715‘- lien v“; wv- - -7 so it will he in Ewen Sound. but the friends of local option stand by their guns. it them fearlessly fight the traffic at mothers mine-tenths of the crime and poverty and misery of civilized nations, according to the testimony of Lord Coleridge. Baron‘ Fitzgerald and others, and them will he a reward such as-thoae only who fight {or the uplifting of their race can ever attain. NATHANIEL SMITF'. Toronto, Dec. 14. 1907. ORONO BUSINESS MEN ON LOC- | AL OPTION. About the same date there appear- ed the following in the Newcastle 1n- depeodent :â€" - ______ _L‘_- MnAMM -'r' foljowing statement it. my readily in se'en that the aforesaid reports. have never had any {ounduuon in fact. The buoineeq men whose names are not. on this 3121an1: were absent when the committee called to see them. Reliable men acted on this committee. and every signature is genuine, and was obtained when the statement was circultted, Dec. 12th. 1907. , Having hen asked for our opinion a to-the efloctotlocdopuon onubc trade o!_0rono since tho passing and enlorcem'ont ”of the set, we . Let the mm ”1‘.” “www , ,oyed. Cent-1w a not: done in that than an begn monument ”rink" n ' I not. have ‘0 8° safer. ; 10- 0‘ Lmdggy is 03138“! being Rut there is very litth '7'" my '0’!” W uu-v, ”we- _ :2: . good was bring tort): corrupt. Have you ever cansidered the was: . amount of capital invested in time, option. being at good country to provide accommodation gn “'51“ my .996. ‘ In the tawn- cities. Villages and country places (for $11,761 WI” such c law the . taming pumice This ma, w Wk om: hr 15 years, amount of my would never hem. ~ Wm hem enâ€" been spent. by capitalists, and m; joyed. W e none drinking is Ouch comfortable and commodious hpâ€" thlt M are those who @818 WOUld have been erected but i“ uh! to the “I of the and: the incentive that their profits frog, ordet to get a. drink. 'but they do the sale of liquors ”under license wow ot have to go no . as the town assist in recouping the heax'y “x- 0! Lindsay is ouLvdfew miles away. pm of erecting and maintainin; 3 very little to be ob- them. Never-unless, if local 0min, madman township itself. In- “'0‘!” in some measure lesson 11mg. specter.Thornbury. a. live mim‘and a pse of intoxicating liuuor, it conic faithful 0W, has impressed the ’0 some degvee justified on we pg; thme- hotelkeebers in the township that the few should suflor for ,4,” ._-‘ n..+ we .ttheir Dem good of the many. But there is very little to be 01)- tdned intho township itself. In- spector’l‘hornbury. a. live man "and a faithful om), has impressed the blame hotellneebers in the township with the (act. that it’s at their peril that they dispose of the goods. And yet hotel accomodation throughout the township is No. 1. No com- plaints are made. and general busi- ness was never better than it. is to- day, and the residents in very large part are well-to-do. And a drunken man is rarely ever seen. and our young men. the class most exposed and who sufier most, are in consid- erable numbers identified with the ‘church and .her woxjk. _ There can be vanâ€"c inst Eleiijudgmer n at to local option in Maripoea. and that is, it's a. decided success. So tully is this the case that oilyw'tfie Enerest handful could be got to vote for the open bar. Jesse B. Weldon, Township iClerk. I LOCAL OPTION 1N MIDLAND. According to a fair, well written statement contributed to a. Toronto daily, local option has improved the ltown of Midland, and the business men agree in the majority that it me1 spectability. At Midland an elegant and well appointed tempemnce hotel has been very satisfactorily catering :to the public. The article referred to concludes: "There are three other hotels at Midland besides the one purchased tw the syndicate. When local option was put in force Last spring and the revenue from the bars Was gout on it became necessary A. Cameron, general merchant. L. McPherSOn, general merchant. L. McPherson, general merchant. J. 11. Dale, MD. F. J). Wherry, furniture dealer. John Raymer, blacksmith. G. B. Kennie, principal public guests. There was a 5006 can pdnflng and papering done for this purpose, and one o! the flurniture dea- lers also did 5 remarkably good bu- m“ _._. :- - 1-MA Wu. The net result, therefore, of pass- ing the local option by-law lest May, it was carried by a vote of two to one. in much better hotel as- commodction in the town, a marked decrease of disorderly eondud. and ‘chant8, the employers and the work- ing men and their families. But the most important point about the whole situation stunt alluded to by Magi-tube Jeflery when he spoke of the necessity of strong and deter- mined eflorts to prevent the violation and practical nullifieetion of the. by- law by the illicit selling of liqu0t- by .thoae who were opposed to local op- tim- In the editormfialumne of the To- ronto New: last vieek appeared the following : Mr. John R. ”Booth. of Ottawa, is one 0! those man whom Carlyle calls Captain: of industry. flhgusanda of vâ€"r -Vâ€"â€"â€" v» ,_ev mu m 'in his employ. in the woods- and at his great lunber mills beside the Chaudiere. Mr. Booth knows that the proximity of several drinking ben' to theee milleienota: good thing: {or hie bushes. Accordingly he has and the Ottawa City Coun- altohmmmtohevethefi- cause. 0! these hotels withheld. At. the nme‘tlme he has altered to P83 over to the Council 82.000 to recoup the cityJoronyfinanciatl loss it may sane:- by the mention of the license (can. Tho. proposal is as interesting ultla odg‘ln'ol. Ellr. Booth «ad/imamâ€" C “it“ worth two thousand dol- am to mm the Macy of his man. No applet can be as emcient u it he were a. sober man. therefore mmmvmwnammm Mush-y. No revenue received from any lung: nan-es an recoup acorn- munitrlortblputo industry which has In": cough. 110mm. em INDUSTRY AND THE BAR. 13:05., J; P., general mer- In and- o! the earth .‘dflnk,'hlt they. do any a; terw mues awn!!- ,6” mm to be ob- large Wfihyou «Waste the best nouns o! MIMI! “‘hkleous mom.” ' ' Imiuuypersuad- ed that local option. like the former am. will be charter lived and proxc adhnnl (allure, and instead of in- ure-ping drunkenness will only in- tensiLv R. and for every licensed bar closed two or threedives or dens win he opemd. For. as long as intoxi- cating liquors are manufactured, -‘»’ 3‘ not sold leg-113 they will be 11mm- “The subject who is truly loyal wf‘: neither advise or submit to arbitrzzr; measures." is an indisputable ml ism. The writer has yet to see 1hr; first man or woman reclaimed from drunkenness or debauchery by prthL- itory liquor laws, but can point 1', many who through moral suasion ministers, teachers, and laymen art- now living godly, righteous and m.- ber lives. But all history prOVes ,that prob:- tory liquor laws are the offspring a; foolish parents. For, there is SO’U'M- thing in human nature that resen“ coercion, and the old adage. namely. of i And if your organization would ma pend one tithe of the money and w ergy you are now wasting on 2%.. utopian and impracticable schema. kl ‘sending even oceasionally good. (:m‘: «fearing, reasonable men to assist c..; ministers and others in pointing m and impressing on the masses :3: dire results of drunkenness. no! r‘n‘.‘ for ' time but for all eternity, x'. ‘wbgld then be doinaawnrl: “.- plcasing to God, and your fr-l‘r‘ lmen. You would then, not so now. 'z-l- r ‘- . serving the Golden Rule. and r‘. 51.2 unto others as you would they shout! do unto you. You would not (nor; ‘: . injuring, your neighflor and de:p:.;1'n; his property: you w um not un-n ‘:~: driving high-minded and honoras‘» men out o? the ‘notwl ‘usinncc. an? paving the way for ‘n i-nmoru‘o an? lawless claswto tukn thr‘ir place ' " THE (‘().\'CI.I'SIO.\' ()1" TNT. WHOLE MATTER. To an unprnjudicml OJ'N-l‘vm‘ would appear 10 he a mum-r "\vhvivh side of the foâ€"nvo you hum-'1 to h.“ on," as to tho vimv tukrrg. This: much. however, seems plain. that it .there H: sufficient public Opinion ‘:-r_-- hind local option it will he fmmv‘. zr. be bonnficial to the community. Ti any community by a big mnjrrflj.‘ show their desire for local option. and then honestly assist in hnlping carry out the observance oflhr' law â€"then local option is a successful beneficial measure. It rests very: largely with tin temperance people and the moral citizens of the place 7b}: “Dir assistance or lack of assistant?) , to make or mar the working of 1?.» by-law. WIFE 0F REV. DR. MC 1'3 \Jcn. FORMIERLY PASTOR OF ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH. LIXDSA’V ReV. Dr. McTavish and Mrs. Mc- hviah were {or many years respected and beloved residents of L,ndsay. Rev. Dr. Mc'l‘avish had charge of St. Andrew's Presbyterian church icr several years. They left here 3. ‘or 16 years ago, and since that tin; haw kept, up the friendly oonnm'tfm'. and association with Lindsay peg-yin. “- W‘m-nnm Globe of Monday rurâ€" (’vw‘ The Toronto Globe of Monday 5m, MrS. Mc'l‘avish, wife of RM. 1'. M" 'lhvxsh, D.Sc., pastor of Cemr-c. Pmbyterian Church passu’l mm. yesterday morning 1:: Baltimore In Pit/8.1. .Iter months of suffering, in y‘ DU"! 9F MRS. McTAVISH WWI. Her disease had been pronounced fir.- Operable by physicians here, but :u: tion of Central (‘hurvh re- solved to give their beloved friend m ohenOe pOSSi’ble, and insisted on her going to Baltimore, in the hope "“t “R mm. the professor (f um ua~ ._,, surgery. John Hopkins l'n.\‘uz':u.~, and magnized as the I'Jl'vzxxtn’t in the treatment of that ailment. mifih'v be able to’cure her. A‘he operation was successful, the wound healed W- doing ‘foctly. and the patient was whither heart hailed, and during “- ---‘ h- davs she gradually "haves. Touching reffarence «RI; ’ was_ made was 939°! DR. McTAV'ISH [‘OR OF ST- CH, LINDSAY and Mrs. MC- years reSPC‘C-V-‘d of L,ndsa}'. A charm: of St. her kind' «a; work ad in VJS‘ life (v W other ' Line 60 Sproulc 8‘2- velle 82. N. 79, L. King“ Naylor 74. Parkes 3'3, ( vélle 8‘2 X 79 L. Kin ertson 6-). e1 59. 3‘- 58. “v. A" G Carroll Intyre 51- 51, Roy 5 V, Mercer 5 Jackson 49 Varcoc 17 cer 41.1‘ 1 Mark 3.}. P them D. Sprati C. Waller R. L. Armsv Z. Brow G. Jobh'im Haynes 57 Duck 45. 1 7 J. henm‘ Abbott 78 61, G. Ll 59, A. Bri L. Warner Haynes 47 Coed 41. LindsaY EX¢ Q ~ K. Anders o O'Neill W. Falli: Hand} r9101] rroll