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ever, that the Khan has singled out as the “Undesirable Desirables.” He hits harder on those who make a loud mouthed profession of their principles when they’re at home, but get the regulation “jag” on as soon as they get ten or fifteen miles away. It has already been admitted that such class- m exist to the injury of the cause, butafter allit wouldbe asorry day it the world if immorality were al- kwed to run looseandthemenlforces .‘ dthe communityto sit with folded-1 DURHAM CHRONICLE The Khan in the Toronto Star writes some very good things. There is only one Khan, and it may well be doubted if another can be fOund to develop an idea and give expression to his thoughts as he does. In arecent issue he gives an article on the “Undesirable Desirables." which refers to what is generally regarded as inconsistent ad- vocates of temperance and local option. SANCTUM SIFTINGS. THE UNDESIRABLE DESIRABLES. No sane person will deny the exist- ence of temperance hypocrits, but there are. hypocrits in the church and hypocrits that drink whiskey. The man who drinks, and even the drunk- ard, may cast his vote consistently in favor of a measure that will curtail the traffic by which he is enslaved. Such a person may indeed be more anxious than his so-called pious neighbor, who has no eXpeI-imental knowledge of the drinking evils. ’ When the temptation is in the way of the drunkard he may not have the moral power to resist it; remove the temptation and he feels a certain amount of security. The same man Who casts a vote in the interest of temperance may again be drunk. Even so, it is far from just to charge him with hypocrisy or inconsistency in the casting of his ballot. of liquor, declare openly that they would support any measure having a tendency towards temperance. \Vould the vote of such a man be regarded as inconsistent even if he got drunk the next day? This is not the class. how- We have heard men in this town, who were often seen drunk and who were seldom known to refuse a glass Tooth Preparations And Tooth Brushes MacFaflane 61 00. DURHAM, NOVEMBER 7, 1907 Druggists 'and Booksellers W. IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. Are a blessing few people possess. Of course you want sound. You can them proper care from now on. 3311 and see 0111" It will pay you. THE The Lord Bishop of London is much ; pleased with Canada. and while here; was taught to eat corn from the cob by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. We have no idea how Sir Wilfrid does the little chore, and would like to know his exact mode of operation so as to be‘ able to put it in practice at the nexti swell dinner we go to. We don’t mind: exchanging plans with Sir Wilfrid, , and after carefully comparing notes we’ll adopt his method if it is better than oms, and allow him the same privilege of making a choice. The first thing we want is a good big dish 01 com, eve1y cob ofa fair size and not too 1ipe. \Ve then dive f01 the can deny. but it’s hard to solve the problem of annihilating the evil. drunkenness is aglaring eyil no one biggest cob on the dish, grab it firmly, I one hand at each end, set our elbows‘ on the table, arms nearly perpendicu-i lar, advance the cob to the open mouth, pressing firmly in so as to fill up the vacuum, then close the mouth, withdraw the cob and chaw. Repeat again and again and again several thousand times. If this method doesn’t prove satisfactory there’s something wrong with the operator, and he should enquire for further in- structions. If Sir \Vilfrid finds this method better than his he Will be at liberty to adopt it, and may also ad- i vise the Lord Bishop of the advanced idea of eating (torn from the cob. Talk is one of the cheapest things in ‘ this world. and the. man With no inter- est at stake, and with little or no rc- sponsihility, is usually the man to Open his mouth and let his tongue wag. Many of the wiml-jammers might be estimated about in the same way as the. Indian estimated the fit’st COW-bell he ever saw. He found it in the woods but didn't know what to call it. On examination he decided that “it had a big mouth. a long tongue and very lit- , tle brains." This is about the size of the most liberal advisers of local jour- nalist.-. They are full of pointers, and if they could only find a paper to use their ideas as they ought. to be their opponents Would come out in worse shape than a dog does after he tackles a porcupine. It isn‘t safe to give these chaps too many privileges; they may get a person into trouble, and when they get one there they’ll sneak off and hide like a (log in a tlmndcrstorm. It‘s well general] y to keep away from those who are (_)verlozul¢:-.d with Wisdom in their own estimation. Too many of them are fashioned after the. model of the ('(j)\v-l)ell. (The News.) There is nothing in the bye-elections to show that the (iovermncnt- has either lost or gained materially in On- tario. The Circumstances of London were altogether exceptional. The fact that the Liberals did not nominate a candidate furnishml conclusive evi- dence that they were convinced that a supporter of the (iinfvi'iiiiieiit could not be elected, and that it was sound policy to withdraw from the field. It is doubtful if there is any similar inci- dent in the whole history of our poli- tics and, regarded as a Liberal confes- sion that defeat was inevitable, if not deserved, it has its encouraging aspect. There is reason to think, also, that the local leaders of Liberalism were secret- ly favorable to the election of the Con- servative candidate, although no doubt the Liberal vote was divided between Major Beattie and the nominee of La- bor. There IS nothing remarkable in the size of the vote which Mr Jacobs polled under the circumstances, and it was to be expected that with the Gov- ernment out of the contest a compara- tively small vote would be. cast. In North Wellington there was a party contest of the old-fashioned character and the Liberal candidate was elected by a substantial majority. North IVellington is a normal Ontario con- stituency, and the vote there gives no indication that there is any serious defection among Liberals, or that the Government is weaker than it was three or four years ago. East Nor- thumberland, on the other hand, is a ' Conservative constituency, and it is to the credit of its voters that, notwith- standing the desperate appeal of the Government candidate to mercenary considerations. he was soundly beaten. Now that the election is over the Lib- eral press could well afford to express a frank opinion of the methods which Mr. Mulholland adopted in his can- vass. For twenty years in Opposition the Liberal press and the Liberal lead- ers denounced with bitter and unceas- ing vigor the system of offering public buildings, wharves. canal improve. ments and railway subsidies in order to induce electors to sacrifice their honest opinions and vote for Conser- vative candidates. If the Liberal press today is too devoted to the party in- terest to condemn such methods during the actual progress Of a contest, surely now that Mr. Mulholland-is W l‘:' w . - Jamil- my» . H,” . , - i ‘ i . I ~s-’.~' .' ' ' . paign, and it would be well for every one to weigh carefully all he says and does. It will never do for a man to lose his head on a public question. There is no use making had friends over it, and to avoid this it will be necessary for both sides to discuss the question, on its merits and avoid per- sonalities. One side must win, and the battle should be fairly and honestly fought. .. * LOCAL OPTION AND HIGH LI CENSE (By Rev. Wm . Farquharson.) The license system and the prohibi- tion of the retail trade in spirituous liquors under Local Option are both creations of the temperance sentiment of the community. Nearly two hun- dred years ago, according to Leeky, drinking habits became general among the common people of England. Cheap drink and absolute liberty in selling it gave the opportunity of pre- senting it at every corner. Shame- lessly the basest side of drinking was advertised in such flaming signs as “A drunk forapenny, a dead drunk for two pence, and a straw for. noth- ing.” This state of affairs raised the cry that such disgraceful scenes must be stopped. To accomplish this end! laws were passed prohibiting the sale of drink by all except those permitted to do so by a special license. The holder of the license was to give evi- dence of his good character and the pledge that he would carry on the business in a respectable manner and in the interests of the public. This system with its prohibition of selling to all except those specially commis- sioned is our present license system. If you ask why I am opposed to that system, which, in its day, was looked upon as the hope of the temperance peo- ple, I answer frankly that it is because the system. whateverit was at‘first, has outlived its usefulness. License hold- ers, as a rule, have been more interest- ed in filling their own cofiers than in discharging a public service, they have defiantly floated the public in their demand that decency and respectabili- ty must be maintained according to the terms of their license, and thus they have neglected the very duty on 'fisn .91.???1011 their Privilege to SHOOT THEM ON SIGHT. THE BYE-ELECTIONS. 5555 THE‘LogAL OPTION CAMPAIGN. The Local Optionists secured ‘a peti- I tion of over twenty-five per cent. of! the voters on the last revised list and ? submitted it to the Town Council, : praying that a by-law be passed and a : vote taken at the next municipal elec- tion. The Council met 1n their regular . meeting room on Monday night when l the petition was brought up for con-1 sideration. It was not a full meeting, a as Mayor Calder and Mr. McLachlan; are in Muskoka and Mr. VVhelan was absent. In view of this a resolution was passed by which the consideration of the petition and the Council’s action were deferred for an adjourned meet- ing to be held on the evening of the 18th inst. Reeve Saunders and Mr. Cochrane felt there was no need of de- laying action as the Council had no al- ternative but to submit in granting the request of the petitioners. Mr. McGowan and Mr. Lenahan were evi- dently fair in the position they took in regard to the postponement, and with the support of Mr. Swallow, who showed himself very unreasonable in his quibblings, the motion was carried to defer action till the date mentioned. The list was evidently a bona fide prayer of the petitioners based on the last revised list, and as the law now stands the Council is forced to accept it whatever their personal views in the matter may be. This the Councilfully recognized with the exception of Mr. Swallow, whose action at the meeting was anything but commendable. The louncil, we think. should have accept- ed the petition, on being assured by: the Clerk that the petitioners’ names were all on the list. Mr. Swallow evi- dently doesn’t want Local Option, and told the Council and electors present that he would leave town in the event of it being carried. Members of the Council are elected to carry out the will of the people in accordance with the Statutes, and any man assuming the responsibility should be willing to sink his own personal feelings and pre- judices in submission to the public will. Mr. Swallow, we are confident, gained nothing in personal popularity by the position he took, and if he thought by so doing he was standing up as a champion for the liquor inter- | ests he was sadly mistaken. That the hot-e1 men were interested in the matter was not a surprise. It would be strange if it were not so. It will, no doubt, be a personal injury to them as a. class, but in a democratic country where government is made by the people and for the people they’ll have simply to submit to the will of the majority. Scarcely a law IS made that doesn’t interfere with somebody, but on this account we mustn’t cease to make laws. \Ve are now on the eve of a. cam- paign, and it would be well for every one to Weigh carefully all he says and does. It will never do for a mzm to lose his head on :L public question. There is no use making bad friends over it, and to avoid this it will be necessary for both sides to discuss the question, on its merits and avoid per- sonalities. One side must Win, and the battle should be fairly and honestly fought. \- The license system and the prohibi- tion of the retail trade in spirituous liquors under Local Option are both creations of the temperance sentiment of the community. Nearly two hun- dred years ago, according to Leeky, drinking habits became general among the common peOple of England. Cheap drink and absolute liberty inl selling it gave the opportunity of pre-! senting it at every corner. Shame-l lessly the basest side of drinking was? advertised in such flaming signs as? “A drunk for a penny, a dead drunk for two pence, and a straw for. noth- ing.” This state of affairs raised the cry that such disgraceful scenes must be stOpped. To accomplish this end laws were passed prohibiting the sale of drink by all except those permitted to do so by a special license. The holder of the license was to give evi- [dence of his good character and the pledge that he would carry on the business in a respectable manner and in the interests of the public. This system with its prohibition of selling to all except those specially commis- sioned is our present license system. If you ask why I am opposed to that system, which, in its day, was looked upon as the hope of the temperance peo- P18. I answer frankly that it is because the system, whateverit was at‘first, has outlived its usefulness. License hold- ers, as a rule, have been more interest- ed in filling their own coffers than in discharging a. public service, they have defiantly floated the public in their demand that decency and respectabili- M CHRONICLE ial report can hardly find words? to ex- press his horror and disgust at the way some of the hotels are kept. The tee- 'timonies he quotes are of the following character: “The conditions are rascal- ly,” “Some of them are not fit for human beings to live in,” “I do not know how to express adequately the filth and abomniable condition in which these hotels were. We were amazed and horrified,” and so on, ad inauseam. Evidently these conditions are not because there is no money in the business, for Mr. Starr goes on to state that last year 47 tavern license transfers were applied for in the city ‘ at a sale price of $1,155,650.00 or at an average price ‘ of $24,588.14 each. “Every time,” says Mr. Stat r. “ the license commissioners issue a license fromtheir board direct to a. licensee they make him a present of 324000.00.” Through this monopoly in liquor, houses are ‘tied’ in the interests of the brewer, and all are bound in an associ- ation for political purposes whose pol- itics in every case is the interests of the liquor men. These facts taken from a public doc- ment, published on the 8th ofSeptem- ber of this year give proof positive that the license system is a failure. What we propose in its place is that the prohibitory clauses in the license act be retained. but that our license commissioners be prohibited from is- suing any license in our town. 'lhis is proposed not because we have no fellow feeling with the license holders in their present position, but because of a broad ground of opposition to the cause wit-h which they have identified themselves. “Had the young David but sat first to dine on his cheeses with the Philistine he had soon dis- covered an abundance of common sympathies. He of Gath, it is record- ed was born of a father and mother, had brothers and sisters like another manâ€"they, no more than the sons of Jesse were used to eat each otherâ€"but for the sake of one broad antipathy that had existed from the beginning. David slung the stone, cut oil' the giant’s head, made a spoil of it, and after ate his cheeses alone, with the better appetite for all I can learn.” Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pinder, of Guelph, visited their friends, the J ohn- ston family, at the end of the week: as also did Mr. and Mrs. \V. Pinder, of Orchard. Miss Eliza Patterson has been home from Toronto for the past two weeks visiting her parents and ren-zwing old acquaintances, but returns again this week. Mr. Iohn Calvert has returned again from Manitoulin with 100 head of cat.- tle and five times as many sheep. Let ( \ ery elector, on the 6th of I (m- uary next, for the sake of “one broad antipathy,” with his trusty ballot cast a. stone at the head of the giant liquor traffic and many a wife and child will eat their bread and cheese with more relish and in greater abundance, else I am sadly misinformed. \Ve changed the hum drum of farm life last week by taking a holiday in Toronto, and We don’t see much change about the place as a conse- quence, but if Corner Concerns seems to be lacking about three days in the week you will know What is the mat- ter with them. r an‘ Everything is bustle and stir in the neighborhood now preparing for the new church opening on the 17th of Nov. by his Lordship Bishop Williams, of Huron. Services at Ii a. m. and 7 p. m. ()n the following evening the. Rev. R. S. \V. Howard, of London, is going to give his limelight views on Pilgrim’s Progress, the christian guide, and consideration is going to be given this week to supplementing this great treat of treats by way of tea and eat- ables. At all events all have decided to show the very best hospitality to the crowds that are expected at all the services. The Durham church choir will be present to assist our own, who are putting forth their best efliorts to give effect to all the services. The sheds are being built this week, so that all may be complete for the event and all made comfortable. hinted that Rev. Bice is amongst the highest ranks in the community, and-A There were deep feelings of sympa- thy for Mr. and Mrs. John Sharpe on Sunday. when it was thought their bright little girl, Grace, was in such an advanced stage of appendicitis that there was no hope of her recovery, but latest reports are more hopeful, and we trust yet to be able to’ report her complete recovery. Mrs. Robinson, of Toronto, came up to spend Thanksgiving with her broth- er, James Eden. ~ We are sorry to hear that Mr. J as. Brown, whose wedding we reported last week, is laid up with an attack of appendicitis. While we like to see real merit ap- preciated, we also like when we refer to any one possessing such for some good evidence to put in an appearance to show that we are not giyen to using any undue flattery while making up Corner Concerns. We have sometimes Corner Concerns. (Continued on page 5.) 'o'Lâ€"____________________.__ alsWfl‘eosegeoo_s c r): if {Einéiig E H. H. MOCKLER Highest price for butter and eggs. 52%: Nov. 7, 1907 .m" LyJaoJ 7 94*; (at):