‘BANK ING SERVICE All. branches" “of this Bank are in a position to” - give the most comprehensive Banking service. Government and Municip-! Securities are dealtin. Foreign Exchang: bought and sold. _ Money Orders and Letters of Credit issued. _ Collections made on all points in Canada or 4+ overseas. IMPERIAL BANK ° LISTOWEL BRANCH, _° . . - - - - Mecager.. ds pd and they intend’to stay here. The The Listowel Banner Manitoba and Saskatchewan Mennon- a ites may arrive at the same conclus- mblished. every Thursday after-/ ion after awhile, But they need to he ‘poon by The Banner Publishing Co.| deeply impressed with the fact that Cc. V. Blatchford the citizens, as well as the state, have President and General Manager some obligations to perform. The ; ° = best and most effective way to im- press that fact upon them is to com- pel them to obey at least the educa- tional laws. The Manitoba and Sas- atchewan governments can teach he Mennonites a valuable lesson in citi- zenship by continuing to demand that they -obey the school laws. If they refuse to obey the laws of the land then the country could manage to get along without them. a) oc? * ‘The Banner has a lirge and grow- “ing circulation throughout North | Perth and portions of the County of Wellington. e No advertising can effectively reach - the public in the thriving district of which Listowel is the centre, without t Bc ppeating in The Banner. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS CLOTHING NOT A LUXURY ww (Ottawa Record.) } Under the new budget, the excess} profits tax is réduced, and the taxa+ r Commercial Department is tion imposed upon . ed of nel people is increased. he latter p Pe = suntnped torturing out the Rent cess is camouflaged by describing nec- 4 essaries of life as luxuries, though it is true that some iuxuries are taxed * #Thursday, May 27th., 1920 also. Common,.sense revolts at the; . nation by classing hats, boots and «| shoes, underwear, coats, waistcoats, . | and trousers as luxuries, merely be- cause they are of fairly good quality. we | FaOM OTHER PAPERS Sensible people have been in the habit FE: d ~ ».| of buying as good clothing as they es ; * could afford, not for purposes of lux-| Fe HAS AN OPTION ury, and ostentation, but for comfort ey e (Toronto Globe. ) | and wearing qualities. a Of course the poor man can now! The taxes, as Mr. McMaster points, on] the! out, bear with peculiar severity buy poorer boots for his wife and fam-| i | persons living on fixed salaries, iy. MINIMUM WAGE FOR WOMEN (Toronto Globe.) | | greatly diminished by price inflation. { Teachers, for instance, are notorious-! l qy underpaid, and have found it ex-; The Legislature yesterday passed; tremely difficult to keep up the de-, through the comnnittee stage with! went appearance which their duties | virtually no dissent a bill to establish: gemand, and which is an important | minimum wages for women. It pro-' element in the maintenance of discip- tects “every female person in any. jjne and influence over children. ~ trade or occupation who works for} In effect, the new taxes amount to) “wages.” In {ts original form no) a reduction of their already small in-| Eapecifc exemptions were made. comes. The purchasing power of: - Minister of Labor was not reestion| those incomes is impaired. The high! See eae BRE ici SPIT to agree with Mr. Dewart’s suggestion] cost of living is made higher by the! |. that it would not be practicable to! new taxes. Clerks in ‘stores and offi-; » apply the measure farm laborers! es are obliged to maintain a nertaia| “and domestic servants because i | standard in dress. The new taxation! are no means of ascertaining what) docks a considerable amount off their! are fair wages in such work, where) salaries. | The policy of restriction of trade, part of the payment consists of board | | and lodging. The House, however, which was formerly applied only to; concurred in Mr. Dewart’s view. ! imports, now strikes at the domestic The bill will become operative on! commerce of the country. The tax © July 1, 1920. A Board of five mem-; gatherer stands at the door of every | bers will be charged with its admin-; retail merchant in Canada, from the - istration. If the Board believes that! great departmental store to the small-, e pene scale of wages in any class of! est establishment; and demands his employment within the scope of the| toll. An enormously inexpensive and » Act is inadequate or unfair, it may re-' troublesome machinery will have to! {quest a conference between repre be devised for checking sales and pre- udatives of 1 and venting evasion. The ult te con: | ‘The conference’ may submit majority | sumer. of course, will hav pay in * and minority reports to the Board.' the long run, but the business of, the | ' which may then proceed to Ppeigiog merchant will be hampered, and his, "ZB minimum wage in that trade or oc’! expenses increased. » eupation. Employers who refuse tol] ‘The country will view with dismay | : comply with the ruling will be pun-, further increase in the ranks of| Ashable by fires ranging from $50 to, officialdom. There is too much gov-| _ $100 for each employee. ernment, too much interference with. | one of the chief reasons for divorce | purchasing power of which has been} , E Ontario is the fifth or sixth prov- iaairiant liberty and initiative. | ie imce to introduce legislation of this; While there is a general demand for | character. The new Board will have! more production, there is a con-| "the experiences of the other provinces _ to draw upon, and would do well also to study the operation of similar laws stant increase in the ranks of the; non- -productive classes, and this tend-| ency will be increased by the necess- | In some of the highly industrialized States af tha Calon, ity for inspection, supervision and’ clerical work which the new taxation! will create. What is required is a tariff that will encourage commerce and indus-| try. and free the energies of the peo- ple instead of hafmpering them. Tax- ation needs to be simplified, not fur-) ther complicated. The government: shirks the duty of rea] tariff revision, | and seeks to put the people off with | makeshifts and irritating restrictions! uvon trade. EY THE MENNONITES AGAIN (The Sentinel ) * The report that eight thousand | |. Mennonites in Manitoba and Saskat-| ~ehewan plan to leave Canada this| Summer in a body can only mean one| ‘of two things: The Mennonites came} f-§nto this country with the intention | | of deliberately ignoring and violating | “the educational laws. or, they hope, | -by making this threat on the eve of a} ‘provincia! election in Manitoba, to; | @ecure a special concession for their| | denguaze from the educational au | thorities. No matter which is cor-| “eet, it is not at all creditable to the! » Mennonites. They were generously | | somngeed from military sérvice on ac-! eount of their religious professidhs, ‘and then they demanded the right to 4 anize the school system! They ‘were able to live in this country in ce and safety, enjoying all the privileges of citizenship, without as- BLOOD LUST WAS AWAKE (Mail & Empire ) Toronto has seen world's cham-' pionships in hockey and sculling de-| cided, but on Monday night had its; first opportunity to see two of the | best boxers in the world at their weight struggle for supremacy. | Jimmy Wilde, the champion . de-| fended his title against Patsy Wal-| lace. To the observer the crowd was|. hardly less interesting than were, the gladiators. Who would have; | . only chance to win was by a knock- _ ft. Amusing, | prize fight and thirsted for more. uardian’s’ Bishop Fallon took occasion to ove utterance to the Liberty sneer at the moral “uplifters” rile had made Ontario “‘dry,”"and he spec- ifically mentioned the “Methodist Al- liance” as one of the “uplifters.”’ Just whoor what he mewht we do not know, but we presume he meant some Methodist organization. We under- took last week to reply to his ill- judged sneer, and the bishop does not like it. Weare sorry we do not please the bishop, but we want to ae oa ourselves to the truth. The bishop accuses the Christian Guardian of ‘‘boasting of the number of Methodists, as compared with Catholics, who are out of jail," and he thinks we have “scriptural war- rant for giving public thanks that the Christian Guardian is not like ‘the rest of men.”’ Evidently the bishop either had not read our editorial, or he had not understood it. We simply published the official figures as to crime in the province, and if there was ayy boasting it was the govern- ment’s blue-book that did it. Those figures hurt. Of course they did, but we are not responsible for them. Hf Roman Catholics, with about 19 per cent. of the population, furnish 43 per cent. of the criminals, we, along with Bishop Fallon, profoundly re- lation upon our statute books 7 whic’ allows rich men to get a ‘divorce and! prevents a poor man securing one. | Moreéoyer, we think, if divorces are to’ be granted at all, a“court of judges is probably to be preferred to fo the Sen- ate as a court of tr And now let us look at the Bishop’ 8 closing sentence... He says: ‘‘Keep to the question and speak out. But if you keep silence, or if you just beat about the bush, then 5, at least, shall conclude that you regard tobacco and beer, racétracks and Sunday news- papers as graver dangers for society treaty into a scrap of paper. Surely you do not propose to strain at the gnat and swallow the camel.” We have answered his question and we have spcken, we think, with ordinary clearness. But we in turn would like to call the Bishop’s attention to the fact, of which possibly he is not a- ware, that the Roman Catholic Church as a church has invaded the ctity of Canadian homes and in aye many cases has “‘turned the marr ge treaty into a scrap of paper.”” If &@ Methodist man marries a Roman Catholic woman our Church may deplore the marriage, but it does not bid that man leave his lawful gret it, and we only referred to the, fact because Bishop Fallon was boast- ing so loudly of the superior virtue of the Roman Church over the despised | “uplifters.” Perhaps the bishop did | not-mean to boast, but only to knock the “uplifters;’’ but he certainly left the. impression upon the public, whether designedly or not those must ‘decifie. who know him best, that in @ great moral crisis the ‘‘uplifters”’ are olly lacking. while his own Chu as doing its very best to Bafe the homes of the people. Of course the bishop would not, and did not, boast; “the upTifters” and the Christian Guardian alone would be Builty of that. But the bishop complains that we have evaded the real question. which is whether or not we are doing any- thing to combat the divorce evi] in Canada. The bishop presumably is aware that intemperance is usually! assigned as one of the chief foes of| the home and the family, and also as’ Asa Church we are fighting this evil! while the bishop apparently takes | sides with the Libery League against, us, Our Church recognizes the valid-|! ity of a divorce which has been grant- | ed upon scriptural grounds, and it. consents to the remarriage of the in-j| ‘nocent party to that divorcee, but not to the remarriage of the guilty party. So far as the present divorce legis- lation is concerned our Church has made no official pronouncement, but it seems unreasOnable to have legis- ' The ne temere legislation of the Ro- wife and children and threaten him with the tortures of hell if he re- fuses. It does not tell him that he can get drunk whenever he wishes and go to heaven, but that if he lives with a Roman Catholic wife, no mat- ter how good a woman she may he, he Must be eternally lost. We be- lieve the Bishop is honest when he pleads for the sanctity of the Cana- dian home, but“we submit that the official action of his Church in regard to the sacredness and validity of mix- ed marriages has gravely damaged that Church in its effort to preserve the sanctity of the home. The Church which repudiates a legal marriage as nothing but ‘‘a scrap of paper’’ can hardly hope to retain the confidence of the public in its claim to be the God-appointed guardian of the home. This is no trifling matter, and al- though the facetious bishop may try to evade the issue with a joke, or with a would-be witticism, our péople are not disposed to treat it lightly. man Church is probably a much grav- er thrust at the home than any di- voree legislation now proposed, and the Roman hierarchy, by its pernic- jous home-disintegrating activities. has dealt the worst blow ever aimed in Canada at the sanctity of the home. This is net alone our opinion, but it will probably be accepted not only by many Protestants, but also by many Roman Catholics, who, while loyal to their Church, are wise enough to de- than the turning of the marriage} in F ootwear. < : price $10.00 at - sole and: heel at - - Ladies’ Black Pat. Oxfords, Coo Grodijear welts sport or Louis heel, A, B-and C widths, at .- $9.00 Ladigs’ Pat. one-eyelet tie, Louis heel, at ° Men's Brown. Calf Oxfords, semisrecede t toe, regular $9.00 : Men's Brown Calf bal. blucher cut, round toe, rubber We Fit the Feet Tt will ¢ pay you | ia : 3 keep track of prices. $8.50 $9.00 - 4 - THE KOCH SHOE CO. yi j is solidly behind him. Progress. “Mr. Belleville Intelligencer. alore its errors. i It was like the cry of the patk when the game is sighted. That Wilde was the popular favorite was forgotten,‘ The fighting instinct, a sort of bloodlust, was suddenly awake and! flaming. There was not a man who! saw the seventh round who did not: feel that if he had been in the ring was able to land just one Blow, he would have been a world's cham- pion. Then the cleverness of the little, Welshman came to his aid. His quick-thinking brain sent its im-: perative message to his tiring. muscles, and in a moment the crisis: had passed. At the end he was gain- ing strength, and had the business’ continued to its grim conclusion might as easily as Wallace have won 'by what the sporting writers call! the ‘“‘dreamland route.’ A painter, | too, would have delighted in the, ; contrast of the physical types pre- sented, the taller, pale, weedier Wilde, and the burlier, shorter, swarthier Wallace, whose Italian ! blood nobody could mistake, a ' tough knot of a little man, s0 easy to hit, so hard to hurt, cherishing his jaw as though it were the im- mediate jewel of his soul. Out- | pointed and out-manoeuvred, he waited in the hope that his oppon- ent by his persistent aggressiveness would wear himself out and leave an opening for the one punch that would win the fight. For Wallace's out, and ten thousand people will testify that he came close indeed to too, was the cry of the crowd, unused to such brilliance as the calcium threw upon the fring. “Turn out the light!’ a hundred people yelled. They might as well have shouted, ‘‘Turn out the fight!” for the light meant thousands of dol- lars for the moving pictures. So Toronto saw its first champjonsiiip ROME AND DIVORCE (The Sentinel) “What is the taking of a drink or the smoking of a cigarette or attend- ing a horse race to the breaking up of a Christian home?” asked the Roman Catholic Bishop of London recently, as he assailed the divorce laws being enacted at Ottawa. @ the responsibilities, while ~Canadians fought and died tu ense of their homes. To them, country was good enough to live bat notgood enough to fight for. ey would not fight for the country. they attempted to evade other re- pnsibilities of citizenship as well, supposed five years at fifteen thousand citizens, including! perhaps a couple of thousand wo-| men, would pay from a dollar to ten! dollars each to witness a prize fight? | In such a vast assemblage one could find any trait of human character he md openly defied and violated the| was looking for, from the man | kaw of the land. They made no effort; whose sudden fierce shout, ‘He's ye live up to their obligations as law-| ‘gone! He’s gone, I tell you!” when Wilde taltered, was echoed by hundreds, to the woman who cov- ered her face with her hands at the! first smear of bicod showing so: swividiy on the white skin of the champion. Until the round where Wilde, hit on the jaw, was totter ing, the spirit of the crow was one Of healthy enthusiasm. Then with the prospect that there was to be a knock-out and a‘ king dethroned, a sort of delirium of excitement, mingled with something harsh ané eruel, seemed to sweep the. stands. citizens. They were granted S concessions when they came © the country, and then they demand-| further exemptions and conces- is. The experience with the Men- es should convince the Dominion ernment that it does mot pay to ; ap ota privileges to any class, Sect from Alberta a short time . NEURITIS | hi "*paralvaing istlebn at 3S wulter an- Gay. Templeton’s Rheumatic Gapsules so quickly e: shdeosurir.’ ears Boz tale pt staple arue- Ask at Stewart's Drvg Store. eae ene eer All Christian people will agree with | this remark. The breaking up of ' Christian home,” or any other kind of | a bome, is one of the most serious of- | fences that can be committed. Bishop) Fallon attempts to convey the im-| pression, as usual, that the Roman Catholic Church alone stands for the sanctity of the home, but that is not Minister, no doubt, Ottawa Farm Journal. true. Every good Protestant regards the breaking up of a home with horror, Every Protestant Church has always stood consistently for the sac- redness of the marriage vows. Protestant Church {is opposed to di- vorece. Not one of the Protestant Churches has a divorce !aw. No Protestant minister ever attempted to separate a wife from her husband or to break up a home on some petty eccleciastical technicality. The Ro- man Catholic Church and her priests are alone guilty of the.heinous offence which Bishop Fallon so vigorously condemns. In the Ne Temere decree the Ro- man Church has a divorce law by which she has broken up many peace- ful and happy homes. decree covers the marriage of Pro- testants as well as Roman Catholics. By its operation, particularly in the province of Quebec, many couples have been divorced who were married aceording to the law of the land, and who never violated their vows until after the priest interfered. The Roman Church shows no mercy to those who fail to obey her mar- riage law, ewhich was adopted by a body of celebates who met at Trent in the sixteenth century. Even the failure of two Roman Catholics, who were fourth cousins, to purchase a dispensation from their bishop, at a east of about ten dollars, has been accepted as sufficient reason for a divorce in the Roman Church, al- though the parties had been married by a Roman Catholic priest. It is only necessary to mention the Hebert and the Tremblay marriage cases to expose the hypocritical claims of the Roman Church. Bishop Fal- lon and the church to which he be- longs regard all marriages of two Roman Catholics or a Protestant and a Roman Catholic before a Protestant clergyman as illegal, and all Roman priests have done their utmost and continue to do their utmost to break up all homes constituted under such circumstances, let them be ever so happy. On Nov. 28 last, Mr. Justice Cod- erre in the Superior Court at Mon- treal, delivered a judgment annulling two marriages in accordance with the divorce law of the Roman Catholic Church. The reason the annuliments| were granted was because the mar- riages had taken place before Protest- ant clergymen and without purchas- ing a dispensation from the Roman Catholic ,bishop. These cases had been adjourned in order to consult, not the civil law, but, as the judge said: “Competent ecclesiastical au- thority." Annullments of this kind are being granted continually by Ro- man Catholic bishops and judges. In effect they are really divorces ad “both parties are free to marry Every | This infamousj} hungry horde.’’—Orillia Packet. nal. the stand he has taken. is really necessary, nity, gazine. increase their salaries. stituents first.’ at least, is in favor of economy, the other fellow.’ PRESS OF PROVINCE CONDEMN ROUND ROBIN ( Farmers’ Sun.) The press of the province, especially the sensi: weeklies, have been unanimous in their approval of Premier Drury's action in refusing increased sessional indemnittes. ' every paper without exception approves of the stand the Premier i has taken, a fact which should convince him that public opinion The following are extracts from a few of the papers: ‘In refusing to countenance an increased sessional indemnity, Premier Drury got on the right side of public opinion.’ Drury held out against the legislators at Toronto for a iarger indemnity and won his point—~-for the time at least. example-’has had good effect at Ottawa.""—Goderich Signal. ‘““‘As the members of the Ontario Legislature are nearly all apprentices they should be well satisfied that a generous public spirit permits them to draw $1,400®while learning the business. To ask for journeymen's wages, plus a whole lot more at the be- ginning of their apprenticeship is drawing it rather strong.’’-— “It must have required considerable strength of courage on the part of Premier Drury“last week to turn down the demand made by a majority of the members of the legislature for an in- creased indemnity, but in taking the course he did, saved his own party from annihilation.'’’"— “Mr. Drury has exhibited many admirabie traits of character since he assumed the Premiership of the province. one day last week he refused the request of the members of the Legislature for an increased indemnity, as he did not consider it proper at this moment.’’—-Pickering News. “The members of the Ontario Legislature who sought to raid the provincial treasury last week, acted like a pack of Wolves, and nothing has become Premier Drury better than his prompt and decisive refusal to yield to the clamour and false pretence of the “Premier Drury’s stand against increased indemnities was squarely in line with his party’s platform of economy. Jt will be admired by the whole province for honesty and courage. to it Mr. Drury, the country is with you!’’—London Advertiser. “Premier Drury will have the approval of the pgovince’ in opposing an Increased sessional indemnity, and in his cautious attitude in regard to the radial railway scheme,’’—Uxbridge Jour- “The tax payers of Ontario will commend Premier Drury on If an increase in the sessional indemnity the members should explain the Situation to their constituents and get their assent before attempting to take the matter into their own hands.” e _ “Round Robins are birds of prey. who were not caught with the political dodge for a greater indem- will be the strongest before the country.” “Premier Drury showed that he had a firm hold of affairs at Parliament last week when he refused to allow the members to All but a dozen of the members in the House were favorable to taking more money out of the treasury while the Premier pretested that they should go back to their con- ‘_-Port Elgin Times. “The firm stand taken by Premier Drury on the demand ofa majority of the members of the Ontario Legislature for an inctease in their indemnities will redound to his credit as showing that he, members are quite pbs that economy should be practised by e As a matter of fact, *"—Preston His the Prime For example. Stick —Farm and Dairy. The U. F. O. members —Farmers’ Ma- ‘ but the majority of his fellow The only reason that is the term used instead of is that the Roman Catholic Church and even the Roman Catholic judges do not recognize the civil law. Every time they use the term “annuilment” or ‘null and void,"’ in separating peo- ple who had been lawfully married, the priests and judges declare to the world that they ignere and despise the -civil law of this country. The Roman hierarchy claims the sole right to regulate both marriage and divorce and refuses to admit that the Cana- dian Parliament has any right to leg- islate in regard to the matter. No Canadian divorce court in the English-speaking provinces will ever grant divorces in such a wholesale fashion or on such petty technical points as are being accepted by the ec- elesjastical divorce courts in the pro- vince of Quebec. The civil courts never break up peaceful homes; they grant separation in cases where vows have already been violated, or some seri- ous trouble has already arisen. The agent of the Romanist divorce court, “annullment” “divorce’’! on the other hand, invades peaceful ang bay homes, and breaks them, up, sitiply because some petty provis- ion of a dark-age decreé has nO\ been observed. If the Raman (Church claims the right to awvorensSoia wie have not observed her wufireasonaAble and tyrannical marriage laws, surely the civil courts. have more right to grant divorces in cases where vows Every good Protestant will hope sincerely that there will he few di- vorces in this Dominion. Decent Prot- estants will continue to live decently whether there are provincial divorce courts or not. In fact, it may be re- garded as a certainty, that few mar- riages where both parties are actual members of any Protestant Church, will ever be dissolved by a divorce court. Protestant Christians regard their vows seriously. Real Protest- ants do not need divorce courts a! all. But divorces have always been granted and there are circumstances under which divorce is advisable. To deal with these cases a law is neces- sary, and if there must be a law to regulate divorce, surely the Canadian Parliament is as capable of guarding “the morality of the homes” of this country as that body of celebates who met at Trent nearly five hundred yearstago. It is certain that neither Bishop Fallon, nor the Church of Rome has any room to bewail the en- actment of divorce laws. The Roman Church has always had divorce laws, and the record of her ecclesiastical divorce courts is not a creditable one. The Roman Church is the only church’ that is guilty of that serious offence which Bishop Fallon claims to regard with such horror” Rays Ford Track— Mr, F. L. Armstrong. general mer- have alrgady been broken and where: chant of Maorking, has purchased a . the civil law has already been violat-! Ford truck from the local dealer, Mr, H. Halliday. 4