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Thursday, November 11th., 1920. THE BORDER TRAGEDY Knowing both Spracklin and Trum- ble, the principals in the border trag- edy that has stirred the province, and accepting the former's statement.that “it was his life or mine,’”” we com- mend the minister, under the circum- stances, for his wisdom in pulling the trigger first, preserving his own life while engaged in doing his duty, rather than proving the victim of a troublesome law-breaker and pro- prietor of a notorious roadhouse. Spracklin is too good a fellow to be sacrificed for any of the whiskey gang and we don’t blame him for not wanting to give his life so cheaply. We'd have done the same thing were we in his position. There are some who think he is too good a fellow for the job at all. They say it's no work for a minister, and we don’t ‘doubt that most ministers would de- eline the job. . But there’s no denying, Spracklin has done splendid work and accom- plished more than anyone else to- wards breaking up a nefarious traffic. If he hadn't taken hold no doubt con- ditions on the border would today have been more disgraceful than ever. ..In a perilous task, he has shown great courage. We admire him for his zeal and fearlessness. And Spracklin is no quitter. Hav- ing put his hand to the plow he shows no sign of turning back. Instead, he announces his intention of prosecut- is with a treacherous, unprincipalled class, with millions at stake, some! one may get him yet. Oo we say in all earnestness, that! if the government who took Sprack- | lin from the pulpit, and at the risk! of his life, put him to the unpleasant task of cleaning up a disreputable condition of affairs, they should do! all in their power to see that some-/ body doesn't “get him.” Spracklin has been playing too much of a lone! hand and if the government means business and isn't going to sacrifice} the life of a most faithful officer of the law, they should give him all| kinds of support. If necessary, as| seems evident, there should be a whole string of boats lining the water front and the cost of these would be| cheap compared with a man's life. | ‘As it is, the bootleggers’ chief enemy! is Spracklin, and the feeling ig that! if they could only get him, as more than once appears to have been tried.) the traffic could be continued without serious molestation. So, much as we admire Spracklin for his courage and what he has ac- . complished, we would consider it wise } discretion on his part, to throw up the job if the government is prepared to sacrifice him by fafling to go at the | job in a way that will satisfy the bootlegger, that even though Sprack- |. good, for there would still be numer- Ous others to carry on. If the government is earnest in its desire to remove the stigma from the _ Essex border, Jet them show that they mean business by tackling a big job in a big way. + ale ; ; FROM OTHER PAPERS | © “ NO MORE WANTED (Toronto Globe.) The widest possible pubiftity “should be given to the fact that there mre a lot of unemployed people in To- ‘Tonto. SACRED TRADITION BROKEN (Farmers Sun) We are reluctantly forced to re- mind Premier Drury that he has brok- pen a sacred tradition in the political | 4ife of the country. Doesn’t he know | that thieves have never been made | to disgorge their ill-gotten gains? He | is establishing a precedent in prose- Puting the Umber thieves, ing the work with renewed vigor, and, our only fear is, that, dealing as he! | the least of all before the war; to- OPEN THE ST. LAWRENCE (Ford’s Weekly.) The more one hears of the object- fons which eastern citiég.are making to the proposed deepening of the St. Lawrence River and the creation of a deep waterway from the lakes to the ocean, the harder it is to under- stand the opposition. Certain New York interests say quite frankly that they are opposed to the deepening of the river because they fear the loss of the traffic with the great Middle West. That is selfishness. Other interests believe, or profess to believe, that the opening of a deep waterway to the heart of the United States would open the country to a naval invasion by an unfriendly for- eign power. That is stupidity. But how shall one characterize the minds which keep putting forward these futile objections when they know they cannot possibly prevent the deepening of the river, that Canada will build it alone if the United States refuses to co-operate? The only possible result of this campaign to keep the United States from being a party to the development of this mighty waterway to the sea, will be to make us an outsider when the canal is built; to compel us to pay tolls to an enterprise in which we might have been equal partners. It scarcely seems probable, how- ever, that this can occur. A nation which built the Panama Canal will scarcely fail to see the advantages of a water route connecting its great in- dustrial centres direct with the ports of other nations. CANCEL THE WAR DEBT? (Ford's Weekly.) . William Jennings Bryan would have the United States cancel the in- debtedness of ten billion dollars ow- ed by the Allies to us as principal and interest on loans made by this coun- try during the war. His contention is sound: that the Allies, to pay us, must get the money from the defeated powers, and that by mulcting the van- new war A chart recently published reveals the appalling increase of governmen- tal indebtedness of the countries. Sums so huge as to be staggering mean little when poured out in a bewildering array of figures. Roughly, Germany owes $48 for every dollar she owed in 1913; the total is more than forty-eight bil- lions. France is not far behind with a total of more than forty-six billions; France, however, owed six times as much, approximately, as Germany be- fore the war. The United States, of all the larger nations engaged, owed day she holds the unenviable position of ranking fourth in the amount ow- ed, being outstripped by Great Brit- ain, France and Germany, in the or- der named. America owes pes for every dollar of her 1913 debt. In the opinion of many who study such problems, there is little or no chance of this country ever getting back from the Allies the money spent to aid them when we went into the war. The interest charges alone, in addition to those on the debts incur- red internally, are so great (and so little has been done to meet them) that the total will continue to pile np for years to come. Incidentally, these debts, and per- at some time to pay up, are not to be disregarded lightly as a fine jn- ecentive for an outburst of ill feeling i that might well produce war. Mr. Bryan's declaration approaches an idealism hard to grasp by most of the Rev. J. O. L. Spracklin remains us. We are far too selfish and, per- on guard. haps, too shortsighted to realize that ten billions of dollars thrown away| Know No Limit— e (as it would be called) now might well result in the saving of thrice or lve times that by the establishment of FEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EE EEE EEE EEEPEEEEEDE EAE SS o quished the seeds are being sown for| . lous enough. the feax of the law into the hearts of the lawless. to be done with a pistol. courage, who has ‘got religion’ on his motor nerves, is given the alterna- tive of preaching a funeral sermon over an assailant, or preached over him, haps the pressure by our government seems altogether reasonable. tion, but sin is a reproach to any peo- ple.’ This in effect was the verdict of the Coroner's jury in Windsor, and threaten another advance of 3 cents per pound on news print in January. a permanent reace. | It is up to Premier Borden to operate THE WINTER OF OUR DIS- OONTENT ‘ The Eleventh of November is with us again. be easy for many of us to think ourselves back into the wild delirium of joy that came to us two years when we learned that- the hideous nightmare of war was over. Does peace that we hailed that as a great, new, glor- ious thing, the dawning of a golden age in human history, seem worthy of the acclaim we gave it as we think of the months that have come and gone, and look out upon the world as it stands to-day? Not many of us, probably, could answer that question with an altogether enthusiastic affiirm- ative. - And yet, when we look into the matter closely, those years have not mocked, us alto- gether; indeed, they have not mocked us at all. Is not one of the things that we complain of most to-day the unrest and disturbance and dissatis- faction manifested in every walk and way of life? Men re- fuse to settle down and be contented and happy, and the peace that we looked forward to so eagerly, and so surely thought was coming, seems no nearer than it was two years ago. Ours is a restless, out- of-sorts, unhappy, discontent- ed world, and the way of its happiness and _ satisfaction seems very hard to find. No wonder that it gets on our nerves a great deal, and we wonder and wonder if, after all, we are much better off than when we were in the midst of the great struggle. But that condition may not be as unfavorable a symptom at all, but quite the opposite. If we had séttled down easily and maturally it would only have been because we had + lightly forgotten the hopes ‘++ that had come to us during ‘+ the war, and had let the vis- ‘’ ion splendid that that terrible + struggle brought to us fade + away without any real effort “+ to realize it in life and his- ‘% tory. <A great part of the ‘+ reason for the unrest and dis- bee ‘+ satisfaction of our time lies in + the unwillingness of men to + let that vision pass away. + With sight clarified through + ‘** sacrifice and struggle they ‘* ‘> have seen life whole and as it + ‘+ ought to be, and their souls + ‘ are filled with a great anda + + divine discontent, as-they + + hope for that which seems so *, Oa ceaeeeeeeeteteneteeteerieetrertreteerieetenterrttettoettrtirrt tert r tt: ‘led is $25000 repayable in WHEREAS it is expedient and nec- to take the vote of the Electors of Listowel entitled to vote on a By- Law to loan $25000 to a Company to be incorporated to manufacture mot- or car wheels and other accegsor ies. ’ Beit therefore and it is ‘hereby enacted by the Muni Council of the town of Listowel that the vote of the Electors of the town of L shall be taken on By-Law No. 783 on Saturday, the 27th day of November, 1920, to commence at the hour of § F. M. — no longer \ That B. L. H. Bamford shall be Re- civatnn Shoe and that the following shall be Deputy Returning Officers. viz for Bismarck Ward, Geo. Adams, Dy. R. O., Askew’s shop. page Ward, Wm. Bradley, Dy. R. O., Bean’s shop aibadteus Ward, R. J. McKenzie, Dy. R. O., Hall. Dufferin Ward, J. D. Philp, Dy. R. O., Wilkins Hou : ‘Lansdowne Ward, G. Raines, Dy. R. O., Public Library Ana the following shall* be Poll Clerks for the election: Bismarck Ward, Fred Johnston. Gladstone Ward, W. R. Clayton. Vietoria Ward, M. oo Dufferin Ward, F. C. Kelly. Lansdowne Ward, J. R. Grant. Passed in Open Council this Ist day of November, A: D. 1920, J. A. Hacking, 3B. L. H. Bamford, Reeve. Clerk. 3tnp Town of Listowel SYNOPSIS OF PROPOSED BY-LAW NO. 783 OF THE TOWN OF LIS- TOWEL. The Purpose of the proposed by- law No. 783 is to issue debentures of the corporation for the sum of $26,- 000 and to loan same to a company to be incorporated to assist in the establishing of an industrial factory and plant for the manufacture and assembling in Listowel of motor car and motor truck disc wire, wooden and other wheels and other accessor- ies, parts and equipment in connect- ion orth motor car, automobile bicy- ele and other trace and other art- icles. The amount of the debt to be creat- twenty equal annual installments of $2179.- hard to bring to pass. These + are birth-hours in human his- + tory, and we cannot expect that they should be happy, + care-free hours.—Guardian. . Ye ofe ae 4 sfeabesndenletestenbetesfenbenfendecestonboelnstendocbesteedecdetoetoce European! A TRIBUTE TO CANADIAN JUSTICE Detroit, Nov. 9.—C 9.—Commenting edi- torially upon the manner in which the Spracklin-Trumble tragedy was dealt with by the courts, The Detroit! Times says: r} | electors being obtained thereto after “Canadian justice of splendid tra-| dition moved expeditiously and un- erringly in the exoneration of Rev. J. O. L. Spracklim, who took the life of a roadhouse keeper in the dis- charge of his duty as an inspector. “To have made the minister suffer} for doing his duty would have been just the thing to make a byword of) law and authority along the Windsor. shore. “The situation has been scanda- It was necessary to put It is a pity that it hed “But when a cleric of Spracklin’s having one his preference exalteth “Righteousness a na- Wiarton Echo—The paper mills lin were picked off, it would do little|. COAL RELIEF (Mail and Empire.) At last promise comes of relief from the coal hold-up. After being exploited to the limit, the coal users of the United States and Cen- tral Canada may soon find an eas- ing of prices. Senators Calder and Edge, members of the Washington committee on Reconstruction, de- clare, in a joint statement that ‘“un- “less the coal industry reforms itself “and cuts prices to a reasonable “figure by December 6° (date of opening of Congress) “they will in- “troduce a bill for the most strin- “gent regulation of every branch of “the business.” They also declare that “the coal industry as a whole “stands self-convicted of practicing “gross extortion on the whole public “of the United States. - Most of “the leading coal operators realize “this, and are seeking to-day to “clean up their business from within. “That is their only salvation. If they “can't solve their own problem, we “will have to use drastic means to - ‘solve it.”” So far in 1920 about 40,- 000, 000 tons more of coal has been ‘}mined than in’the same period of some a mill for the benefit of Ontario. This thing will lead to government owneér- ship. The present prices have driv- 61 each. The interest charge is six e per cent. The Company, before being entitled to the loan, shall invest in buildings, | plant and machinery at least $30000 ; and deliver to the Corporation a ' mortgage with full covenants for the | town’s security. There is a fixed ass- ‘essment of $10000 on which the Company shall pay taxes. Take Notice that the above is a ; true synopsis of a proposed By-Law which has been taken into consid- eration and will be finally passed by the municipal council which publica- tion in the event of the assent of the A.M. and to continue until § o’clock R > ae be = a a ca ae eS =e High-Grade Cece Choicest Home-Made Candies Delicious Hot or Cold Drinks -and the Best in Ice Cream Dishes Patronize the ‘Diana Sweets’ y, RESTAURANT THE - STORE - OF - QUALITY Rubbers! Rubbers! ! Now is the time to buy your winter supply Pas, mr Men's, Boys’ and Youths’ Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s ~ Men's Knee Boots, Ist. quality, sizes 6 to Il,a pair $5.75 Boys’ Knee Boots, red sole and heel, sizes | to 5, at $4.25 Youths’ Knee Boots, red sole and heel, sizes I] to 13, at . $3.25 - - We Sell and Recommend “Dominion Brand’’ Rubbers. The Koch Shoe Company: We fit the feet. Cash and one price. the expiration of one month fr the date of the first publication thereof the date of which is the 4th day of November, 1920. | Take Notice Also that the votes of the electors qualified to vote in that | behalf will be taken on the said By- Law on Saturday the 27th of Novem- ber, A. D. 1920 at a poll to be held | by the duly appointed Deputy Re- turning Officers and Poll Clerks be- tween the hours of nine o’clock A.M. and five o'clock P.M. of the said 27th day of November, 1920. The Mayor of the said town will attend at the council chamber in the Public Library at ten o'clock in the forenoon on the 25th day of Novem- ber A. D. 1920 to appoint persons to attend to the various polling places and at the final summing up_ of the votes by the clerk on behalf of the persons interested in and promoting or opposing the passing of the said by-law. The Clerk of the council will at- tend at this office in the Council chamber at ten o'clock in the fore- noon of the twenty-Hinth day of No- vember, 1920, to sum up the num- paged ef votes for and against the said y-la Take notice further that any tenant who desires to vote on the said by-law must deliver to the clerk of the muni- cipality not later than the tenth day before the date appointed for taking the vote the declaration provided for by subsection 3 of Section 265 of the en many good papers out of business and unlike the care of sugar, potatoes, ete., the price is getting worse, Municipal Act being Chapter 192, R. 8.0. 1914. The istowel: Garage For Tires and Tubes examine our stock. We also carry a full line of accessories for all makes of cars. Best Makes of Oils and Greases Let us show you the Best Polish. All makes of Batteries Charged and Repair- ed. Our repair shop is recommended by many of the most careful autoists as the only place to get your work done satisfactorily. R. O. Hube & Son B. L. H. Bamford, Clerk of the town of Listowel. 3tnp 1919, and consumption now of bitu- minous coal is lessening. After the turn of the year, probably a sur- plus will be plainly visible, and prices must come down. In soft coal and coke, some declines have already oc- curred in certain flelds. The evil of the coal business is the large num- ber of brokers, and other useless middlemen who have been using scarcity propaganda as a means of extracting large profits. Sometimes as much as $5 a ton is added to the consumers’ cost, through these mid- dlemen. Canada has resumed fuel control, but for some reason, an artf- >. «+ ¢ © 8 © @ &© &© & «& * * bd NOW IS THE ACCEPTED ° . TIME . bd ° >. e¢ © © €©& © @ © @ @ @& @ (Geo. E. 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