Invariably and everywhere the sup- pression, or even diminution of 1i- quorâ€"selling helps every line of busi- ness, except such business as that of 1. Local option injures business and drives trade to other towns. In the campaign. literature distri- buted through the local malls by the advocates of the local bar in this town some ï¬ve obâ€"ections are madesto the adoption of the local option bylaw. The objections with the answers appear below. Read them carefully and draw your own conclusions:â€" SOME OBJECTIONS TO LOCAL OPTION OPEN BAR ARGUMENT S ARE ANSWERED Again prior to 1880 the death rate in Michigan and Wisconsin. Iowa and Kansas was practically the same, viz In 1880 the savings bank deposits were $30,000,000. Toâ€"day they are $200,000,000. has never been but one grand jury in its history, and that was twenty- five years ago. in ten years and a grand jury‘is so nncomnmn that half of our people wouldn’t know what it is. In my home county *in western Kansas, there Only one pauper to every three thbus and population. In July, 1911, ï¬fty- three county jails were empty; sixty- ï¬ve counties had no prisoners serv- ing sentence. Some counties have not called a jury to try- a. criminal case The Hon. John S. Dawson, Attor- ney General of the state of Kansas, at a banquet in the Auditorium Ho- tel at Chicago, delivered an address In unhesitating language that car- ried conviction- to his,hearers, he told of what has been accomplished, evok- mg the intelligent enthusiasm that grows out of inspiring facts. During his speech, he said:â€" The growth and extent at the priv- ate and denominational schools isw correspondingly large. With over seven hundred newspapers and mag- azines in Kansas, less thkn a dozen carry any whiskey advertising what- soever. Ill-iteracy has been reduced tram 49 per cent to less than 2 per cent., and that trifling amount is al- most entirely among the foreign ele- ment in our mining regions of the south-east. With one hundred and five count, ies in the state, eighty-seven of them have no insane, fifty-four have‘ no ieebleminded, ninety-six have no inebriates, and the few we do have come from the cities which defiled the law to the very last. Thirty-eight county poor farms have no inmates. FROM $3339 Beautiful Patterns $10.00 What could be more appropriate for Her, this. coming than this latest innovation “The Casseroleâ€? EACH wen-teen to the thousand. After These are made of Genuine Dresden and Guernsey ware, ith holders of pierced silver. The inner dish is not aï¬â€˜ect- ‘iy heat, and provisions may be either cooked or served The newest dining room utility. “CASSEROLES†’1. EDWARDS CO. M. E. TANGNEY We also have a nice assortment of Matting Cov- ored Shirt Waist Boxes and Tennessae Red Cedar Chests. PAGE SIXTEEN The variety of Leather Rockers, Arm Chairs, Fancy Oak Rockers, Desks, Parlor Tables, Music and Parlor Cabinets is larger than ever. Many of the useful and suitable Christmas Gifts are to be found in our stock. FURNITURE Upholstering and Pidure :Framing a Specialty SITUATION IN KANSAS The Post has published, and will publish, abundant testimony to this fact. Business in food and clothes, and books and furniture, and all that makes men and families happier and better oï¬, is always helped when the bar room business is curtailed. As a rule, the class of people who go away and stay away from temper- ance towns, is not the class that helps business, but the class that puts the town to trouble and ex- pawnbrokers, police courts, and oth- er undertakings that flout-ism when poverty and crime are prevalent. 'of a. citizen; and better yet, it has L stopped the breeding and maturing of this species. It has demonstrated that the saloon is not a business, but that it is a parasite on business. It has demonstrated, that while the saloon at night time, with its bright lights, its nude and lewd pictures, with its men going in and out, may look like business, when the inven-‘ tory is taken at the end of the year, it is not a. business. It is a gold brick. Prohibition has demonstrated that revenue from crime and license is a bad business proposition. Prohibition has taken politics out of the saloons, and has driven the saloon out of politics. It has made our poor houses a liability instead of an asset. It has abolished illiter- acy. It has made us the wealthiest of states per capita. It has caused that peculiar genus homo, the red nosed burn, to be a curiosity instead life of that city, over half of them being men and boys. Kansas has fewer connnittments to the penitentiary and jails and penal institutions of its state per 100,000 people than any other state in the union except North Dakota and North Carolina. This is from the. ad- vance shouts of the Census Bulletin. At the close of our law enforce- ment campaign in Bourbon county. Fort Scott commenced todmprove its churches Y. M. C..A. and othermrop- ert'xes, and in a short time they spent $60,000 in this week. The clean-up in the city ï¬nancially and commercially was equally as great, 'A number of big religious revivals followed the cleaning up so successful that 8,100 converts were added to the church thirty years of prohibition in Kan. sas our death rate has dropped to seven and one-half. while that of the other state has slightly increased 18 it not fair to say that thirty years of prohibition had something to do UNDERTAKING LINDSAY Kent, East EACH Xmas 6. Local option encourages home drinking because men who will have drink, buy bottles and take them home‘ instead of drinking at the bar. No one has attempted to substan- tiate this statement by any evidence to show that under low! option there 3 is increased home drinking, while there is abundant evidence of improvâ€" : M ed home conditions following the y . closing of bar rooms. As .a matter of 3’†ï¬t Pt 0t an an 3_ 3 in the amount of liquor consumed in Great Britain, in the United States and in Canada. This falling 05 has been co-incident with a substantial reduction in the number of liquor li- [censes issued. In the year 1874, the amount of spirits consumed in Can- ada was 1 ,994 gallons for every one thousand of the popula ion; last year (1911) it was 859 for every one thou- sand of the population. During the same period of time the consumption of beer increased. If, however, we l 5. Local option lessens beer drink- ing and increases whiskey drinking, because whiskey is less bulky, al- though more harmful. There has been, during the past two years a. substantial falling oï¬ Yes, there may be some devotees of drink who would patronize a bar room under license, but under IOCal optiOn will strive to obtain drink se- cretly, because drink is not sold opâ€" enly, just as other existing laws against wrong doing make it neces- sary for roost-robbere, sneak thieves adulterers, assassins, and other crim- inals to indulge their vicious pro- pensities under the cover of secrecy. The law-breaking liquor-seller seeks to hide his wrong doing just as does the burglar, the incendiary, or any other scoundrel who fears the law. Liquor-selling goes on secretly under license, and there is abundant evi- dence that license, laws are broken oftener than local option laws. 4. Local option drives drinking and drink-selling into secret places, and this wrong doing is more mis- chievous than if it were public. Any reasonable reader will under- stand and admit this fact, after care- fully examining the articles descrip- tive of the local option law. es, the penalties it provides, and the machinery for its operation, local option is far superior to the old law, and in fact, to any kind of local op- tion prohibition that has ever been tried in any part of the Dominion. more just measure than was the Scott Act when it was tried in this province. Even the Scott Act today has been much strengthened and im~ proved, ana is in successful opera- tion in a large part of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In reepect to the area. aflected, the rigidity of the prohibition it imposâ€" This assertion is generally made, only by glib advocates of the liquor trafï¬c, who frequently know that it is absolutely untrue. Without accept- ing the statement that the Scott Act was a failure, which is at least open to discuss on, it may be said that in nearly every important detail a lo- cal option bylaw is a better and Many a. hotel guest has testified to the increased decency, comfort and convenience of the hotels which are not made secondary to bar rooms. or disturbed by the conduct which bar rooms provoke and promote. Statements of well-informed citizens to this eflect have been. and will be published in the Pioneer. 3. Local option is the Scott Act over again. The Scott Act was 8.19.11- ure and local option will be also. ed. In some places local temperance workers have bought out existing ho- tels and conducted them on a better scale than before. In others, the ho- tel men have kept on their hotel business. In both these cases, the business has been operated for the purpose of making money and pro- viding the public with accommoda- tion, and has been generally carried on in a. more satisfactory manner than when it was operated simply for the purpose of qualifying the ho- telkeeper to sell licuor. 1pense. It is an indisputable fact that people who drink least have most money to spend and the business that comes when liquor goes is far larger and better than that which leaves. 2. The result of local option will be to lower the character of hotel accommodation, or deprive the pubâ€" lic of such accommodation altogeth- er. The very reverse has been the case where local option has been adopt- .889 5.812 .806 5,343 .815 5.276 .859 5.434 Mrs. J. D. McMillan, 40 Sussex-st, will receive tomorrow (Tuesday) and afterwards 0n the second Tuesdays of the month. The report of his death originated in a. postcard sent to Toronto friends by Mr. Louis Yeotes of Peterborough who is also at the front, in which he said, “My friend has been killedâ€â€" reierring to an officer under whom he had served. The Toronto Greeks, whoi received the message, how-ever, came to the conclusion that he meant Mr. Douros and the report quickly spread that the latter 'had been killed, the news reaching Peterborou-gh in a short time. Examiner~Peterlborough will be glad to learn that there is no truth in the report from Toronto to the ef- fect that Nicholas Douros, proprietor of the Boston Cafe. had been killed in patriots in Peterborough have had an against the Turks. Mr. Douros' com- the battle, of Monastir while fighting anxious week since the rumor reach- ed them, but their fears were dissi- pated last night, when Mr. Wm. Kouros, of the Boston Cafe, a cousin of (Mr. Douros, received a telegran: from Mr. Douros’ relatives in Athens to the effect that he was safe with the Crown Prince’s army at Oanina. On Tuesday morning the local-Greeks {cabled Athens to inquire as to the truth of the report, and, Mr. Douros’ cousin in Athens wired to Salonica for information. It was found that the local man was with the Crown Prince’s army and unhurt, He took part in the terrific fighting which re- sulted in the capture af Monastir by the Greeks and came through unscath ed. The Greek army is now preparing ‘ to attack Janina. MANILLA - 0NT§ Mrs. WAS NOT KILLED mess, and the cause of most home drinking, is killed by local option. fact the man who buys a bottle of liquor and takes it home is general- ly the man who has first fuddled his brain in a. bar room. There is little danger of sober men purchasing 1i- quor to take to their homes, and it is a. matter of experience that the lessening of bar drinking lessens home drinking also. The treating system, which is the root of most drunken- ntsocnbox, 6for$2. so,ttiaixize,25c.â€" I have gained over 30 pounds since taking “Fruit-a-tivcs"-â€"and my friends look upon my recovery as a miracle. †(MISS) MAGGIE JANNACK. mine. I took “Ma-W md in a short time, I to feel betterâ€"the swelling went ownâ€"the pain: may easieHndoooannswcll. VA kind neighbor visited me and mentioned theg case of Mrs. Fcnwick who had been cured of asickncu like The pain in my side and legs would be so bad that I would faint with the a my. Five diï¬crcnt doctors attend me and all said it was Kidney Disase and me an? 13° hope. 9f gettirag ‘F‘u- _ Fox-six years. I sulfa-ed from dreadful Kidno Disease. My legs and lower omy body were yfearfully swollen. Mitt MAGGIE JANNACK Momm, ONT., DEC. 14th. 1910 “I desire to let the world know the great debt I owe “Fruit-a-tives" which saved my life when I had given up hope of‘e‘ver‘being well again._ _ 7 , SHE FAINTLHI WIIH IHE AGflHY “Prtï¬g-aï¬wrga†{re sold _by a}! dealers “Fruit-Hives" circa Her Kidneys THE LIHDBAY P081. IN BALKAN WAR About 1.30 o’clock on Friday morn.- ing two G.T.R. extras bound for Toâ€" ronto met with a. mishap about thir- ty miles from that city. While the ï¬rst engine (No. 1281) was taking water on a bad curve the engine fol- lowing (1'269) smashed into the rear. The van and several grain cars were LINDSAY MAN I Mr. J oseph'Hickson. Reeve, of Man- ‘vers, was in town on Tuesday, Joe is one of the most popular members of the Counties’ Council. He is again a, candidate for Warden ’a-nd no doubt will be elected. Two years ago he ran a tie with Warden Kelly who was e1- ected by the double vote of ReeVe Millson. who represented the highest assessed municipality in the Counties Cobourg Sentinel Star. REEVE HICKSON IS ‘ One of the cubs was nearest to him ' but he considered it best to take the old one first, as the cubs would be almost likely to stay around. Draw- ing a careful lead he let fly, and the buHet 'went through the head, the bear dropping dead in his tracks without a spasm. Drawing fine on one of the cubs Jim put a bullet through his head. By this time the second} cub was in a great state of fright, and tearing around so that it was difficult to get a line an him with the trees around. Jim is certain he wounded him, but he made off and Jim quite reaii'zed that he had a job before him to get out the two he had secured. They were both fat and in good condition, and the pelts in fine . order. ' {not need a beaten pad for him to ‘follow, It was not very long before he caught sight of his game, an old bear and two good husky cubs. Then he got canny and stole along to a better position. The bears were not very far apart but one of the cubs was showing signs of getting on to the presence of a stranger, so Jim decided it was time to begin pumping a little lead. Bobycageon Independentlâ€"Mr. J am- es Humpreys not being very busy on Wednesday thought he would take a prowl through the woods on Wed- nesday, so he shouldered his rifle and putting- a few cartridges into his ‘pocket went down the road a piece, and took into the woods. Whilej mooching around John Carew’s woods north of the woods that the Peter- borough Forest Products Coy, is working in, Jim struck some bear! tracks. There was just a. flutter of] snow here and there that was fast! melting, and the tracks could only be seen occasionally, 'but Jim is a pretty good man in the woods, and does, not need a beaten pad for him to} follow, It was not very long before‘ he caught sight of his game, an old BEARS WERE SHOT IN NORTH HARVEY ATHENS In common with small towns and villages throughout Ontario, Athens has felt the eflect of the heavy emi- gration to the Canadian Northwest. Despite this fact, howeve, there are very few vacant houses here, and our merchants report a fair volume of business, with increasing cash re- ceipts from year to year. Our hotel accommodation is pronounced good by commercial travellers, and they are admitted competent judges of ho- tels. ALLIS’I‘ON Town is thriving and future looks bright. One hotel closed down and changed into grist mill. Good accomâ€" modation at two other hotels. Law strictly obeyed and enforced. Neither hotelkeepers will sell liquor. Local option has not hurt business nor can I see how it could. Town was never more prosperoks. No houses to let, apulications for houses turned away every day. 2. Not much change in hotel accommo- dation. One hotel partially burned, and not completely repaired. Other- wise better than under license. 3. On- ly business injured is division court, which is much lower than before and police magistrate. Fines under by- laws this year, two dollars. GEO. PEARSEi Clerk. Appended will he found information from three centres under local option in Ontario. The testimonials speak for themselves. KINGSVILLE (In absence of Mayor, Town Clerk answers message as he thinks Mayor would.) PROSPERWS HMS UNDER iiE-SAL OPTION W“ ‘VWM A SANDIDATE IN A WRECK W. A. J. BELL, M. B. HOLMES, Reeve. A’ widow and family of three young boys and three girls are bereft of a kind-hearted ‘husband’ and father. 3 1 3 O .0 go over (lmgory,s Drug Store 010. QUOC .069333 09.010 0 o o O 0 GEO. W. BOOK. On Monday night, Geo. 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