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M lands never did belong to the people ._-_£__, ', "'I'llll'!‘ Olive Oil 3 Perfection ‘ Perfect olive oil should be more than pure; it should be prepared under coudxtlons that insure delicacy and rich- mess of flavor. Such an 011 is our ITALIAN BRAND Prepared from selected 01- the proper stage and expressed with- out heat, it is the finest prod- duct we have ever found. It costs you no more than the inferior grades. A. HIBIIBOIHAM DWGWT. Nearly opp. post ofice. Lind“! ""l “no ' “ ““IWW-oSJ-wr . V“ . r o u - ”‘v'M.’I‘~". 31m". ‘1'? ‘I- 5 Would you press me :Your Eyesight? Too many persons are indiffer- ent and unpardonably careless. Wise care is shown in having your eyesight, with the first suggestion of trouble, tested by us, where correct and sci- entific testing is certain. Perhaps the trouble shows itself with headache, or pain over the eyes. Whatever the symptoms, cor- recting. testingâ€"properly done --is wise. ' Consult us for correct testing and then correct fitting of glasses. ill. B. ANNIS, Oph. 1).. EYENGIIT SPECIALIST 92 Kent-st. (Over Neill’s Shoe Store) Lindsay. Elie. Weekly most I. “ROI, Propl'lflm LIN‘DSAY, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2nd. A FEW GIIOST STORIES Big Sam Hughes and Little Sam Sharpe held a joint meeting at Manil- la Thursday night and entertained the electors with a magic lantern and a few ghost storiesâ€"Sam Hughes with the ghost of his GREAT South African campaign, and Sam Sharpe with the ghost of McGreevy. We shall, of course, deal with Sam Hughes' ghosts later, but it may not be out of place to lay the ghost \of McGreevy, as far as Sam Sharpe is concerned, while we are on the subject. Little Sam, with great solemnity, and with a view to assuing the el- ectors of the sweetness and purity of the Tory party, asseverated that the Conservatives prosecuted Tom Mc- Greevy, and had him sent to prison for milking contractors to swell the Tory campaign fund, and that he lay in prison till he died, full of disgrace. That anybody could realize such a thing is, of course, beyond compre- hensionâ€"it would seem so foolish and so ungrateful on the part of the party that they should so treat the man who supplied them with the funds with which to corrupt the dif- ferent tidings. Were it not for the facts, we should be inclined to believe Little Sam, be- cause he was going to school at the time of the occurrence, and of course was as deeply absorbed in the afiairs of the country as the schoolboy us- ually is. Unfortunately for him, though, it was not the Conservative government that began the prosecu- tion of McGreevy. The ball was started by the late J. Israel Tarts, who was afterwards Minister of Pub- lic Works in the Laurier government. Neither did McGreevy die in prison. As a matter of fact, his friends in the Tory government pardoned him after he had been but a few months ancarcerated, and it was not for some time after that he died in the luxur- ious mansion that was built out of money squeezed from contractors for ‘the public works of Canada, and really paid for by the people of Can- ada through the connlvance of the Tory government. Little Sam's memory :and his dreams are foolish. PAGES “OI IIIS IEOOID Will the people of Canada think what it means to place in power over them a man of Foster's stripeâ€" a grafts! over his own signature â€" an Applicant for a free timber “flit-n man described by the head of his party as a traitorâ€"a manwhose na- cm W refused to elect sin - is ‘bad, a discarded and rejected political can- didateâ€"a man whose business asso- ciates discharged from their employâ€" a political purist who was unseated for corruptionâ€"a man with a general all round unsavory reputation. What does Canada want with a man of this kind in high ofilcial position ? The fact that this man is making every effort to gain political office should be a warning to the people to use every effort to make him under- stand once and for all that Canadian public men must be without reâ€" proach, of clean lives, public and private, and against whom no omcial recorh exists which stamps them as undesirable factors in public affairs. If you measure Foster by the stand- ard with which he measures others, he would not measure an inch. The man is offensive to his party, as, freely stated by the party organs,» and his record is a stench in the nos- trils of the public. Since George E. Foster was found guilty of gambling with the trust funds of the widows and orphans of the Foresters, which funds he placed in peril by illegal dealings, he has become an impossi- bility as a Minister of the Crown, and undesirable in any public posi- tion of trust. HONEY WELL EXPENUED Money well expended will good results. Such expenditure is be- yond criticism. The Liberal party regarded it as monstrous to expend $40,000,000 a year, with a falling rev- enue unequal to carry the burden of ordinary expenditure. This was the basis of their criticism of the Con- servative policy previous to 1896. What was the position in 1896 ? A public debt increased by $118,000,000, and a yearly expenditure in excess of the revenue. Such a condition of af- fairs demanded a remedy, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir' Richard Cartwright pledged themselves, if re- turned to power, to apply the rem- edy. Either the revenue must be in- creased or the expenditure must be lowered. By the application of intel- ligent.statesmanship, a policy was adopted which quickly changed the financial conditions of the Dominion. From the very first day the Liberals assumed ofiice until to-day there has been a surplus over and above the ordinary expenses of the country. Hon. W. S. Fielding, Minister of Finance, traversed the whole subject when he said: “The lesser sum ex- pended by our predecessors was ex- travagance, because they did not have it to spend. The larger sum we have expended is economy, because we have lived within our means." The vitality infused into every de- partment of commercial life through- out the Dominion on the advent of Sir Wilfrid Laurier to power quickly brought gratifying resultsâ€"the dark days of deficit had ended and an era of surpluses commenced. The Conservative Government was a government of deficits. The policy followed was so little adapted to the needs of the country that it failed to produce a revenue sumcient to pay the ordinary expenses of the country. were compelled to borrow money to pay living expenses. In other words, the Conservatives The last three years of Conservat- ive rule resulted in a deficit of $6,- 000,000. In sharp contrast to this is the re- cord of the Liberal Government. With the exception of the first year, when the government had to carry the Conservative burden, there has been a larger surplus each year, shown as follows: ............ 3 1,722,712 1898-9 ........................... 4,837,749 1899-00 ........................... 8,054,714 1900-01 ........................... 5,648,333 1901-02 ........................... 7,291,398 1902-03 ........................... 14,345,166 1903-04 ........................... 15,056,984 1904â€"05 ........................ :.. 7,863,089 1905-06 ................ f .......... 12,898,719 1906-07 (9 mos.) 16,427,107 1907-08 ........................... 19,000,000 Grand Total ............ $113,146,031 Compare the above with the last few years of Conservative rule. 1893-4 ........................... 8 1,210,332 1894-5 ........................... 4,153,875 Total Conservative deficits $6,214,739 THE CROW'S NEST PASS Speaking in Halton county on Mon- day, Hon. Sydney Fisher gave an ex- planation of the Crow's Nest Pass “deal," of which so much has been made by the Tory press, and which has been made to appear in so hor- rible a light. Mr. Fisher's words are clear and unmistakeable, and should serve to clear up a mare's nest that has long been bothering the Conscr- vative press. He said :â€" “We did pay 3} millions to get the Crow's Nest Pass Railroad built. We paid it to the C.P.R. They tell us that Sir Charles Tupper had made an arrangement whereby the road was to be built for a land subsidy and insin- bring _ of Canada, but to the people of Britâ€" ish Columbia, and had been given by the Tory Government to the British Columbia Southern Railway, which was never bullt but turned over to the C.P.R. after these gentlemen had 80*; possession of the lands. We gave over $3,000,000 and we got the road which has developed British Colum- bia; we got 50,000 acres of coal land to hold against ‘a possible combine. and we forced the C.P,R. to put un- der Government control freight rates over the Crow's, Nest Pass Railway. There has been a reduction of three cents per hundred pounds on all grain shipped. This means a saving in one year to the people of more than the Government paid‘ for the road." fl LIBERAL IIEL! POI AGRICULTURE 1‘”â€" It will be remembered that before 1896 the value of rural property was very low. Farmers found it difficult to dispose of their farms, although their business was in such a state as to tempt them to do so. The pro- fits of farming then were almost no- thing. The draft from the country to the city was great, and in those days the course lay to the cities of the United States, and the best young blood of Canada was helping to build up our rival. Then the ag- ricultural exports of the United Stat- es largely dominated the English market because they had better means of transportation to the mar- ket and a better reputation in it. Canadian farm products, with the ex- ception of cheese, were hardly known as such in the English market. Aus- tralia and New Zealand had efi‘lcient mechanical cold storage, placing their perishable food products on the Eng- lish market in good condition, not- withstanding seven thousand miles of voyage through the tropics. Canad- ian butter, cheese, fruits and meats were carelessly handled by the ship- ping companies without supervision, and there was no proper accommoda- tion on the ships to prevent injury to them. In 1896 sales of Canadian cattle were almost impossible. The embar- go in England prevented our store cattle going into that market; the quarantine arrangements prevented our young cattle and dairy stock be- ing admitted to the United States. In the depressed condition of our own agricultural and our own market there was no sale for these in Can- ada. The farmers were going out of the breeding of horses, because there was no market for them anywhere. By the enterprise of our Ontario dairymen, Canada, under the diffi- culties as to transportation, was sending to England a considerable amount of cheese of fair quality, which she was selling at a fair price. No progress had been made in the trade in butter, and as a matter of fact much less butter was exported in the ten years previous to 1896, than there was in the ten years be- fore that date. In the ten years 1877-86, to- tal exports of butter were ........................ $22,706,360 In the next ten years 1887- 96, total exports of but- ter were ............... 8,250,088 Decrease ..................... $14,456,272 In sharp contrast to the Conservat- ive period (1887-1896) is the ten years under Liberal‘Govcrnment (1897-1906), when the butter exports amounted to ..................... $46,599,783 For the twelve years under the Lib- erals the exports of butter were ........................... 51,680,095 This failure under tge preceding Conservative administration was due to the fact that in their day our butter had to be forwarded in com- mon freight cars, and in ordinary stowage on the vessels, and in Eng- land had to meet the competition of American and Australian butter de- livered on the English market by means of well eduipped and up-to- date cold storage transport. Similarly, under these adverse con- ditions, there was a very small ex- port of bacon and halfi, the produc- tion of which is a natural adjunct of the dairy industry. The total export of bacon and ham was in the ten years ending 50th of June, 1896, only $17,671,000, as against $115,000,000 in the ten years ending 30th of June, 1906. Contrast the state of affairs prev- ions to 1896, with the present condi- tion of our farming business. We have now a complete equipment of cold storage transportation for our perishable food products. The me- chanical cold storage in the ships from Canada to Great Britain is the most modern and best in the world. Our refrigerator car system, started and helped by the Government, pro- vides perfect condition of carriage from the interior to the ship's side. Refrigeratioh' at the creamerics and local stores throughout the country has been encouraged and stimulated. There is a complete systematic sup- ervision of the handling of Canadian food products and their transit from the point of production to the steam- er in England. resulting in a very careful handling and proper stowage with a complete ”stem of checking. which keeps the transportation com- can my roar. LINDSAY, FRIDAY, 0mm H. Our Fall Suits are 3 Revelation in Style, Workmanship and Value All the good, new stylesâ€"particularly as they are authentic. of fabric ideas. IN STYLE our suits are as varied _ . those of the “Directoire” influenceâ€"are represented in a great variety IN WORKMANSHIP the suits cannot be improved upon. Made by skilled tailors in. leadin; tailor shops, they possess the fit, finish and fabric goodness which it is lmposmble to distinguish zit-1.; the custom made suit costing twice as much. IN VALUE our suits are unequalled. Ou as low as others charge for inferior garments and inferior worth. New Styled Winter Coats for Women and Ch ceful lines, with broad or narrow lapels, splendidly tailored and hand- But then we can’t describe them and do justice r prices on suits of style and perfect workmanship at» Iowa than you will pay elsewhere for garment- Cut in long, clinging, gra somely trimmed in fancy braid and button effects. their beauty; come and see them yourself. But one thing is certain, there are no newer or prettier st This is the first offering of the new models for this season. They are made of desirable materials in heavy and medium weights. The color mixtures and shadings are decidedly new and novelâ€"very attractive and becoming. But come and see them, inspect them at your leisureâ€"buy or not, you are cordially welcome. yles in Coats for Fall and Winter. We Disclose the New Skirt Styles and Some Pleasing Values The leading fashion books tell you that skirts will be a trifle longer this season than during ilp; past few seasonsâ€"longer and more ample. You also get from the same source that an indication ml" the: “Directoire” in closed panel effects will be fashionable, vieing with gored and circular styles in popularity. Your vieWing of our carefully chosen, great assemblage of new Fall Skirts will disclose the fact that our skirt styles are absolutely authenticâ€"judged by authentative fashion book style notes. Nowhere will you see so many dashing expressions of the Fall Skirt Ideasâ€"either as: fashion or fabric. And no tailoring could be better nor skirts more perfectly proportioned or better fitting or becoming. EfiEfiEfiHiHiHilfiflitfihfihfihfilfiH-itfifl'itfibfi did in South Africa, but which no An' where 1. 3 panics up to the mark, and 'rcv-lnts that damage to these delicate pro- ducts which in the old days was one of the chief reasons for their bad re- putation in the English market. The result has been that our goods are, placed before the anlish consumer in the“ original prime quality, leave Those workingmen who wish to pay m“ “ "Puma” "hid“ 1‘” ”“3“ $1.75 for :1 woollen shirts will please . < I about the splendid increased prices .0 l hol d up their hands. evident during the last few years, end , has occasioned a ready sale of "017' It would be a nice thing '0 nuke thing we have t° send there. a man pay two prices for his woollen # underwear in a cold climate like EXPORTS OE [All PRODUCTS this. quilts I :vi'tv; Jest a-tak.:‘ ;~. ' .r .';:' ‘ studyzn: .' While I go : or meander i As I wander .v: 1‘... ... them mat": " For my Jenn.“ ‘ take he: 1 EDITORIAL NOTES. man has yet been found to corrobor- ate. Let Lauricr finish his work. Even if Sam Hughes did do the work, as he claims, that Lord Rob- erts and Lord Kitchener got credit for, does that entitle him to be a member of the Commons while being a paid servant of a big railway cor- poration 7 The Conservatives seem to be badly stung on the Crow’s Nest Pass. I don't envy 1» - 3' " concerISr: For the barker: cutlon grand 53' The low scurrility of a letter pub- lished by Sam Hughes and which he addressed to Mr. R. J. McLaughlin. K.C., about reaches the lengths of When I see vL: .‘5. ,5 blackguardism one might expect of I hear the the South African humbug. It is Then I'm m;;_v‘:.:;: sla‘ needless to expect sweetness from 3 around rte :r, 1.." sewer. For there's cg: 1": t assaxaasxxaxxs new We: ‘fifii... . g . 33 consumes or g; 3 AN mu: cmxg n ,°rrrrrrrrrsrrrrrrr : lYou may talk about your theatres, your concerts if you like. You may go to see Salome do , . g1 What do the Foresters think of Foster's speculating with their fund â€"-the funds intended for their own widows. . _____________ . _.....â€" How advantageously the Liber Government has advanced the inter- ests of the farmer and how intel-’ ligent and statesmanlike has been the legislation looking to the extenâ€" sion of market for the farmer's prod- l Could Sam Hughes vote for a two net is told concisely and briefly in ' cent railway fare, while his other cm- the following figures :-â€" ploycrs, the Canadian Northern Rail. Last 12 Years of Conservatives. Way. want a three cent rate 7 # Year 1885, total trade $39,855,397 ; Sam Hughes has a new job. He 1886. $39,718,212; 1337, $43,073,172 ;l 1888. 340,155,657; 1889, 37,303,313 ; h” “In“ ‘0 Mdlmx free pas-es to a magic lantern show, in which “Me 1390, $37,015,035; 1891. 89,634,599 ; ,, 1892, 350,103,131; 1393, $58,735,939 Had my mu Turpin. figure largely. l 1894, $49,559,522; 1395. 850.106.8911 :1- ' we“ my “I“ 1896, sensuous. Total. 631.513.5354 my date on comic oprys, my count a circus great, But ‘0' Mains amlmcmcnt I get on my feet to state and they I" learning more u" That there’s nothing half so pleasant day hhnmomm. Sam's_warcryis”ls and Kylan’mddthfifllatsuit the fancy as M'V‘and he wants to be elected, W stat county tut. bthmadinfiouuofCommou thtuo. autumnalwmuun up mm" “mguuoxm the you . for several. ~ ~ 1955 than 6 Ulllll have ngralm’l 3 America. and 1 necessity of ‘ bounds, and vhf."