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' . - inii! *{d - Vol. V, No. 18���Established 1911 VANCOUVER, B.C.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1916 Price Five Cents Mr. Bowser's Appeal To The People of Vancouver He . ��*<7; y. j to endorse his Political Im- morahi^ "ft ';rm him as Premier and Attorney-Gt. vj senior partner in the firm of Bowst.., ;eid and Wallbridge. THE TURNING POINT The varioui legislation passed at the las) *i-*sio�� has been analysed anil fairly criticised elsewhere. The points which have been made haw never been answered bj anj member ol the Conservative party wlm is appealing t" the people for their support. N'o one can den) thai the elections are "The Turning Point." Either wc are k ���iny to allow the evil of party patronage to increase or we are going to give other people a chance to -it our house in were honest ii would be utterly impossible for him t-�� savor do the things he docs and how any Conservative who has the real interests of thc country at heart can support liis candidature i* impossible to fathom. Lei the charges I him be repeated. They have never been denied bin they have been excused and the usual excuse is thai ii we change the government, ii we gel rid of "Bowserism," the Liberals will only repeal the evil on a grosser scale. We have no l>u->- for believing any such thing. The Lib- Do you Realise the Real Question You are being asked to Settle Once and For All? SORELY it would la- utterly impossible ior any politician to give any valid reason for a great deal of the legislation passed at the last session, The politicians, as a rule, do not attempt to give reasons: they follow their leader with superb equanimity and entire disregard for such capabilities as they may possess, Possibly asterisks would best describe tlieir abilities, except tliat iu contradistinction to novels, they are nol of the sensational order. It would be hardly be fair to criticise the abilities of men who never had any chance of showing what they can do, and that is why it is an utter fallacy to argue that the Conservatives and Liberals are on an equal footing���that i that one is as bad as the other. The Conservative candidates ill the majority of cases have sat in the house and shown themselves utterly lacking in backbone. They have voted on measures which no man in liis senses would have endorsed if they were applied to his own business, Politics are evidently a different matter altogether. They are not business, but politics and the measure of every bill is the number of votes it may attract. THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT As an example, take the Workmen's C impensatioii Act. This measure, according to its author, the premier and attorney-general, is the most advanced legislation ever passed. Any candidate who criticises it i* generally supposed to lose the vote of the working man, who it is proclaimed is unanimously iu favor of a measure which hands him over body and soul to the g ivernment, As has been said before, all manner of compensation acts are in force in various parts of the civilised world, yet instead of acting on the experience -if others. Mr. Ilowser drafts a bill with tiie aid of a commission which places tin- whole liability for compensation on the people oi the province, if any accident takes place on such a scale as to exhaust the premium funds at the disposal of the government. It was quite easy to arrange to carry out (lie financial end of an act in conjunction with tin- insurance companies, but Mr. Ilowser, with Ins views oil patronage and an eye on tlie labor vote, determined if possible to make sure of the workmen's support by holding -ut to Mr, McVety of the Labor Federation a position as commissioner, Mr. McVety has devoted his whole attention to Workmen's Compensation and has earned hi* reward. Uilder the1 bill the commission is tin- arbiter of :,!l employees. The government is established as a in mop ilistic insurance agent, and those insurance companies which f >r years have done business at considerable risk i'i Flritish Columbia and have invested large sums in that business, are calmly told to walk the plank. MR. J. S. COWPER LIBERAL CANDIDATE was grant -as, a split |K oi those lees came out of the depositors' money which Mr. Bowser knew the company was -'ill taking although he knew it was illegal? Everyone admit- Mr. B .w*er cann -t escape from that dilemma, Vet there are people who ,- - cusc it on iln- ground that'every attorney-general in Ca ��� ada practises law through a private office. Does it make dishonesty any better because other people are dishonest? Do you excuse a man breaking into your house and steal- iug your money because some other man in his profession lias broken into a bank aud got away scot free'* As a matter of fact. Mr. Bowser cannot quote a single modern instance of an attorney-general allowing himself to be caught in such a position. He dishonors llie whole legal profession by his insinuations���he i.- prevaricating and iie knows it. TAKING FEES FROM BOTH SIDES Look- at the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Mr. Pat .Welch, tlie Pacific Great Eastern Development Company, or the Pacific Great Eastern Construction Company. Mr Bowser, as premier and attorney-general, forced through tin- house, without any investigation whatever, a loan for $6,000,000 of our money. As attorney-general lie is tae law officer of tlie crown, the legal adviser of the people who pay him a salary of ShtK.ll a year for his services. As legal adviser for the Pacific I'.real Eastern Railway, his firm has passed on the securities given by these various companies for tliat loan. Among these securities are town- sites for which Messrs. Foley, Welch ami Stewart have never paid a cent, but which they obtained under the charter of ihe Pacific Great Eastern Railway as a free grant from the people of Hritish Columbia. \s solicitors to the railway company, the firm of which Mr. Dowser is senior partner, presumably drafted the list of securities their clients would offer the government lor the loan. As senior partner in that firm Mr. Bowser presumably shares in the fee paid to the firm for its work by Messrs. Foley, Welch and Stewart, or one of the companies mentioned. Therefore lie is receiving pay lor getting the hest terms he can out of himself as tin- government of Hritish Columbia. Was tliere ever a more flagrant ease: Arc the people of Hritish Columbia going to excuse tliis sort of thing? Are they going to allow Mr. Bowser to calmly take fees from both sides for doing work out of which one side niiisi benefit. Is it criminal or is it not? It is all very well talking of Hritish justice, but if Mr. Bowser attempted to do tliat son ,.f thing in Great llritain. not only w .uld he be disbarred from hi* professro." bin he would be criminally prosecuted. Let there be no mistaka. about that. Mr. Ilowser is lying absolutely ami damnably wheif he says it i.- the ordinary practice in Creat llritain. ASK THE PREMIER % Tliis may seem strong language, but nothing can be strong enough to condemn such a barefaced method of carrying on business, li affects the whole of our public life. Who for instance drew up the Shipping Hill'- Presumably tin- attorney-general of Hritish C iltiinbia pass on it. We know that .'dr. II. W. Brown sat with the committee and advised it. that in fact tin- bill was largely his handiwork, ami thai not one of the members -' 'be commission except Mr. McGowan km-w anything at all ab .;:( shipping. No one blames Mr ll. \\~. Brown or tiie Canada Steamships Company, of which Mr. Carrnthers is the able iiead. and who himself stated that the government h.ei guaranteed his company a return of 15 per cent on its investment. Xo one blames business men endeavoring t i get tin- best term- possible from ti ,- government. Hul wh i i* tin- legal representative in British Columbia for the Canada Steamships Company ��r Mr ii 'A Brown, ir the companies formed foi building ships !- it Bowser, mi Wallbridge: 111- >i -; I the interest of I peoph doing business with thi go nt to go to the I attori ey-general ai ii to Iraw up |legislati orable t I selves. : ��� ��������� ml I be absurd WEDDED TO PATRONAGE ��� Why is this sort of thing done? When explanations HPHE fraudulent Dominion Trust charter which ena led ' ompan* to swindl are requested or suggestions made, all sort* if prejudices 1 by the \ttorney-Geiieral if British Columbia, m '"������- own word, to a coiinni are appealed to. The workman i- :ajoled into believing " the party in caucus." anything he is told, and self-interest i- the Bole appeal. Mr. II iwser plead- that i- In- made a mistake in letl [the illegal chartei If you vote for the Liberal sou cannol ^--t good roads or ing February 4th, 1915, in tiie legislature, lie pleaded that Manitoba, Saskatchewi public buildings, the government will neglect you and so I allowed thc company to enjoy thc same privileges as w i frat lulentl* granted in Britis Columbia forth. Mr Ilowser himself mlj tin other lay in one .. Mr. Bowser endeavored, through the Edmonton law firm of Shortt, Cross & Co. to get Hon. C. W. Cross, At- his speeches, made during hi- t ir if southern Hritish' torney-General of Alberta, who is a member of Shorn. Cross & Co., to give the Dominion Trust the same powers Columbia, told an audience that patr mage .i..- hound lot in Alberta as the Bowser Government had given in British Columbia. The Hon. Mr. Cross refused tn corrupt the MR. BOWSER LIES AGAIN be exercised bv any party, and thai I - ill nonsense Alberta legislature, though big inducements were held out to him. have I Mr. Brewster Irving to gel rid if il All *" N'o one I" other words, a conspiracy was carried forward ;>y Mr. Bowser to deceive all the Provincial legislatures in | knows. This is where asterisl - ire is ii. They lill in the] Canada into granting unlimited powers to the fraudulent ^^^^^^^^^^^^T^a: ,'X,-elli-ni | Mi' Bowser knew tha' the company wa* imt on space which uthe.rwise might ! reasons foi or again*! patroiia As a mailer of fact, M r. How Thai is hi- idea of polities ai friends all you can ami they w "ot gin- ihrni what they want to support you' A more fatu known and it i* against or i ir of British Columbia base to decide at the coming elections. It has been said over and over igain in I esc i ilumns thai the record of ihe Conservatives, sinei Mr. Bowser took office, ha* been a record ��� ���; pat Igi Hid nothing but continued a- an aci plii - >l :lh promoters tronage. These are merely a fev I 'le facts- ,i' eh Mr. J. S. Cow| - terests i ���. ,��� yi in | posilors in the Dominion Trust, was uh i ��� ��� l ,,,| do ' ights of the depositors a- ...... - thiiiki ��� ��� irthco lhat >iiiHiiliiiiii\Biii\iSr ��� - - expected j a dangerous political luacmiie entitle* I H i* never M .'.. tl s policy that tin l tion of t ter, M i t 'i ��wper sli .' his mai - il I of I Hi patronage I-: very pie le rtably ruin ���.-.,- by th.- patronage ii allov ASTERISKS WILL NOT DO Thi* fact must be driven hot The evil cannol be exorcised In ----- leaving ii lo the imagination. Mr, B ivvs whole syslem. and unless the yoke of p and all the e\ ils entailed thereby i. I . increasing burden on the shoulders of r province, the Conservative parti must b son which il should have learnt long ag Wc cannot escape from this conclusi himself has over and over agaii in age. and his own personal interests li spoils system. Ile believes that ��� n an ll to make use of politics to enrich :- -- lie believe* that a man would ��� He believes that a man is no; a thi and the public and takes money I cally. and it may be said sincerely, ling* system. He has challenged tlie people - the people have the-remedy in. the necessary to emphasise this, to drive it i:< of the people in every way p issible in anything that has been Said I' an individual. But he is tin- C rives its color from him anil is his crea will t di 'ing it o is for tin il. 11 pern al thin-i The S , M; r's tivi party M i - hiding thai ' it aa- hd^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H ing �� hal they cai thai M r. I-lew ster a- pi ein auiiol ] vent lishing patronage committees and alii * rasites tojgi latli ii -.ii ie. spoils taught the s.mie L-**i 'in ; e< |il<- ol Britis i:--^'^m^^^m^^^^^^^^^^m ��� ii i- -no-; -in. ui -ii i ,, ... h wc havi . snffi diimbia are about to teach Mr. j also at;.; e* general, deci ni n ler, Then i- i* impossible to exag* whole life and it* slillli is Hoard iir cstigatioti aiai M r thereon did nothing to clean Murphy slated at leas] iivicl ^^^^^^^^^^^Ja mailer of opinion" as to the adi isability of all. business to be done in thi* way. Tiie whole plugging con ! Bowser, li really seem* impossiblt ;���. imagine thai thcjSir Robert Borden and Sii V\ , ;-piracy was hatched .nil bv lhe patronage system, which people will endorse Mr. Bowser's peculiar political moral- So Richard Meliride was ;. !-��� paid Sullivan for the fruits of his labors. That is certain ity. So many of his supporters say that he has done not u temp ted to car v oi theii - ��� ���*' ' ** a* otherwise Mr. Bowser could base brought Scott ha ing wrong, that he is personallj h mesl ami that he is hard laud drawn fees a- sucl fi long ago and given him immunity, It is cowardly hypo-1 working and abb Granting iln- latter, although, a- has have been premier' Realls m. Mr. Bowser|cris}, ^.^ engb)cs vir !���,,,���,,.,. ,,, publicly declare that been shown. I i* abilil party patron- 1]e ^ (>|jl i;ii||,��� |)is ()utv a, auor���ej..Keltera| ,, y, |1as ini| ible to uraut tin I,ll'I.J^^^^^B^^^^M*��.os -he eollllt^��� are not inner I.n in the i ^^m . ;-��� . . I Scott arrested a i- a perfeet right ' '"���I Ids party. to acl otherwise. - in e* himself He eniphati- ; ��� t ��� patronage ���;' this ha*is and a:- hands. 11 is ini in the minds - ;; . intention ;. Bi iwser as . larty. it de- are; Its policies .1 ill the Not only i* it hypocris) bul I contrasts with his actio in giving immunity to such men a* Monty White and ti other conspirators as long a- the* gave evidence favofal to the government X'o such lisgraeeful ami disgust - proceedings have ever before been attempted in a comiti supposedly under British law and with some son of rem talion for fair play. PECULIAR POLITICAL MORALITY | WHAT DID MR. BOWSER GET? uiderful. it isl in ihis light, it is astounding t. -,is record. i the impertinence to attempt ; [general he was presumably un Ile is senior member of the firm of Bowser, Reid and Wallbridge, solicitors. Thai firm was ihe legal adviser of the Dominion Trust Company, which paid ii for its >ei ices fees, which must have amounted to a very large sum. It had il* offices in the -am. building \ iw what [fees were paid by the Dominion Trust t-. Messrs Bowser Reid anil Wallbridge .hiring the last three years of the ompany's existence: What portion of those fees did M,-i'.. ide, but as . premii i hi ��� v. 11 ; idmission utterly tins in his political , mtlook. THE SENIOR PARTNER r. .* sibly ai t ins staea of Tin- truth is that neither by edit m nor teni Mr, ll..us.-r pocket? How much money wa* paid by tli ������ ��� rests in the hands n ' is Mr. Bowser a man w I . days lie does not believe Dominion Trust Company to Me*srs. Bowser, Reid and (-express what m'av h in it. From the first mom,.;-; ,vl en I e attempted to enti ; Wallb.ridg. for the legislation which Mr. Ilowser himself j parently excuse Mr. Bowse public life as a politician he has never played tt 1. 1. irisl !) is.U^^Hkiiiifl'iiiiSHkBH^BH^IH^IH^'H ���ts rid of hii; ih Columbia. party gets rid tti him there is no hope for it in tiie future , honor, publicly he is im; I till! - a- a man iture in- knew to be illegal, bin which, j whether they .!.. or not n fear of wrecking his party?"; Wc an- making our apt ��� .-��� Fees were Mr I'.oivscr's share as servatlves or Liberals. Rei.l ami Wallbridge' What portion ] til ise who desire good | r ^mmmmmm TWO THE STANDARD SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1916 Sty? j^tattbard Published every Saturday at 426 Homer Street, Vancouver. Telephone Seymour 470 Registered at the Post Office Depa-tment, Ottawa, as Second Class Mall Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES To all points In Canada, United Kingdom, Newfoundland, New Zealand and other British Possessions: $2.00 Pe-stage to American. European and other foreign eountrles 11.90 per year extra. The Standard will be delivered to any address In Vancouver or vicinity at ten cents a month. Member of the Canadian Press Association. Tlie Standard, with which is Incorporated the Saturday Cblnook, circulates in Vancouver and the cities, towns, villages and settlements throughout British Columbia. In politics the paper is independent Liberal. Publishers The Standard Printers ernment in the world would not excuse the sort of thing which Mr. Bowser excuses. Our whole attack on the government is based on the question of patronage, and Mr. Bowser's own personal point of view regarding his private practice. If the Conservatives really believe in this sort of thing, they will stand by Mr. Bowser. But, as a matter of fact, very few people really believe these things are true. They shrug their shoulders and say it is done elsewhere. But it is not done elsewhere and there is no possible excuse for it being done here. It is perfectly legitimate to have a difference of opinion regarding the legislation passed at the last session, but surely there can be only one opinion about Mr. Bowser and his views on political morals. He has appealed to the people of Vancouver to endorse his personal and political dishonesty. He has appealed to them to allow him to take fees from his private law firm and draw his salary at the same time. He has appealed to them to endorse his Dominion Trust adventure, his relations with the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company and other contractors. He says nothing has been discovered against his party. Well, perhaps not, according to some lights. But surely everything on his own showing has been discovered against him, because everything is summed up in "W. J. Bowser, premier and attorney-general of British Columbia, senior partner in the law firm of Bowser, Reid and Wallbridge, chief legal advisers to many firms and contractors having business relations with the government of British Columbia." ���CRITICUS. ��� ���'���I ���EDITORIAL OPINIONS! REPUDIATION: The Prohibition Question and Compensation BRITISH financiers for twenty years have placed their investments usually with the motto in mind, "The Empire First." British Columbia offered the investor what seemed to be a desirable field and so millions poured into this Province from London. Were not our naturala resources seemingly impossible to exhaust? Had ws not British law here? Had we not, more important than any other consideration, the protection and the prestige of the British Flag? i Our government advertised British Columbia in the old land. We spent fortunes on literature telling them of the immense timber resources, the teeming rivers, the rich coal beds, the valuable iron and copper and zinc and a dozen other minerals. Our stability of government was an item that was made much of. We canvassed and solicited the British investor to come over to our country. Every time a British banker registered at one of our hotels, we sent our reporters to interview him, our civic officials and our leading citizens. All the time we were anxious for his money. We built up our cities on the money we got from the British investor. He bought for us paved streets, splendid buildings, pa*rk sites and school sites. When we had an industry which needed financing, we merely asked our cousins in England to put up the gold. They built for us our steam lines, our street railway lines, our power companies, our public utility corporations. Meantime it must be remembered that we in British Columbia were not doing our part towards the actual working of our natural resources. We boasted of our future and our prosperity, but meantime neglected such little things as the cultivation of the field. We passed up such insignificant duties as producing our own food and building our own ships to carry it off to market. We let the lumber business run itself and did not worry about ways and means of getting the product to market. We passed up many an opportunity to develop industries and were a trifle lax in observing many of the rules which must be followed if a country is going to be developed along constructive and permanent lines. And all the time we cried to England for succor. And as a father does not give his son a stone when he asks for bread, England did not turn a deaf ear to our requests. She did not pause until along in 1913���and there was no war on at that time. * * * Mr. Edward McKay Edgar, head of the great financial firm of Sperling & Company, London, England, one of the largest financial corporations in the world, was sent on an important mission to British Columbia representing a. group of the financial houses of London and which include Ellis & Co., Wise Speak & Co. (Newcastle), Arthur Gibb & Co., Lord Rothermore (formerly Mr. Harold Harmsworth, brother of Lord Northcliffe). Sperling & Company have invested in the province of British Columbia over $100,000,000, and which includes the money invested in the B. C. Electric Railway, Canadian Northern Pacific Railway, municipal bonds and mortgages. His company also represents the investment of $2,- 500,000 of English funds in the British Columbia Breweries, as well as financial firms whose investments in mortgages throughout British Columbia total millions of dollars, a great deal of which is upon hotel properties. Mr. Edgar came by special train and special boat to the Capitol, where he interviewed the Premier and the Executive Council on Monday afternoon, the conference covering probably one of the most important interviews with a financial significance that has yet taken place in British Columbia. Mr. Edgar said to the Premier: "With reference to the question of Prohibition, I am not concerned, that is as to whether it is good or bad for your province, but I am vastly interested in it from the standpoint of the English investor whose funds have been placed in British Columbia. "I have come on a special mission direct from London to state directly to ynu what the British investor, who has placed his capital in British Columbia in good faith, has to say. "1 understand that there is about to be slubmitted to the electors a Prohibition Bill and that if this bill is carried by a majority vote, the present license holders in British Columbia will not be able to continue their business. "Under the Prohibition Act, the question of compensation is not dealt with. The fact of the case, therefore, is that there is a possibility of a measure being adopted that will mean confiscation without compensation.. "Now, Mr. Bowser, this would mean nothing more or less than repudiation, and is exactly similar, in the investor's opinion, to a case of a municipality refusing to pay its bonds. It may be legally right, but, nevertheless, it is repudiation and no legislator will live long enough to have such a thing forgotten. The Province of British Columbia incorporated companies and granted them charters and now submit a proposition which, in its effect, ends the right granti ri, but with no protection whatever to the innocent investor. ' To this Mr. Bowser answered not a word. "If this bill should paass, you'will have been the means of injury to the very people who have done s oniuch for the development of this province. An investor who has one investment in British Columbia wants another, and so on, but practically all clients are in a group and, if capital is disturbed in this way, it is possible it will be frightened and will result in securities being thrown upon the market. "I say to you, Sir, that unquestionably the gate of finance will be closed to any British Columbia enterprise in London if this Prohibition Bill is passed. I did not come here in thc spirit of antagonism, but came as a partner with you in the prosperity and destiny of British Columbia. We have been instrumental in developing British Columbia, but in order to vindicate our position, wc have to take a decided stand in seeing that no injury is done to investors. "I want you to understand that if Compensation is not forthcoming we intend to take every possible step to protect the money of our clients which was invested, as I have said, before in good faith in a British province under British laws and traditions. Whatever the idea of equity may be in British Columbia, you must look at this matter from the view point of the British resident who is looking at it through British glasses. "Such a thing as the cancellation of licenses in the Old Country is never dreamed of, never suggested would be absolutely abhorrent to everybody. "I ask you to express a nopinion in order that I can send a cable message to London on the question of Compensation that will satisfy my clients. To bring in a prohibition act resulting from thc confiscation of property, means the punishment of innocent parties. "If the brewing and liquor trade was wrong it should not have been permitted to operate, it should never have been licensed, or put within the protection of your laws, but you have not only done this, but you have permitted the investment of $2,500,000 from England in one single enterprise. "Every sane and honest man knows that this is not a right thing to do. The least that can bc said to a government is that it would bc base ingratitude and unquestionably will result in the closing of the financial markets in London to British Columbia enterprises. "This is not a sudden movement on our part, as we had instructed our legal advisor in British Columbia, Mr. E. V. Bodwell, to place the true state of affairs before the Premier and his Executive, and this was done, but the report was made to us that no satisfaction could bc obtained. * * * Commenting on his interview with the Premier, Mr. Edgar said, before leaving: "I regret to say that my mission has been a failure as I look upon the answer from the Premier, that in the event of the Prohibition Bill being carried, a Compensation Committee would be appointed, who would report to the Government, as decidedly unsatisfactory. "The feeling in London regarding vested rights is practically unwritten law. Nothing is ever done or has been done that will interfere with investments of that character." * * * Is this another grab? Our British investors might have put their money in Mexico. But Mexico was not regarded as a country where representative government and British traditions counted for much. But if we play false to the trust these men have put in us we are going to play the part of the greaser. We are going to stab them in the back after they have fed us and clothed us. We grabbed the British investor in our iniquitous Dominion Trust swindle; we got him in our B. C. Securities frauds; in our Fort George Townsit? schemes; in our Co- quitlams; in our Alvo Von Alvensleben promotions; scorched and turned him over in a half dozen other smart enterprises where we took advantage of his confiding and trusting nature. Maybe some of us thought these concerns were alright and lost our heads and fully thought that we would be able to pay back. We are paying back alright. The men who are paying the price for us are the men at the front who are shedding their blood for us. It seems that in view of the part the boys are taking in the war the English investors are prepared to forgive us for being too optimistic, too over confident in our country, too reckless. �� * * Now that thc period of boom is over and we are chastened and sober and level-headed, are we going to deliberately assail what is left in British Columbia of the shattered assets of the British investors? BOYS and GIRLS DON'T FORGET To buy your SCHOOL BOOKS at THE BOOKSHOP, G. S. FORSYTH & CO. Corner Homer and Hastings Streets Are we going to follow the lead of the noble band of patriots of the prohibition caucus, among whom are some of the chief wildcatters of six years ago, in repudiating our obligations and in confiscating the property of men who came to the country upon the assurance that we were capable of giving them the usual protection offered investors in British communities? EVERYBODY MAY GET INTO THE LIQUOR GAME IN WINNIPEG IN view of the hot discussions which are taking place in British Columbia over the liquor legislation which is being voted upon two weeks hence, we give herewith a clipping from that leading prairie prohibition newspaper, the Winnipeg TRIBUNE, the editor of which is Mr. R. L. Richardson, one of the strongest supporters of prohibition iu Manitoba: 'The Grcat West Wine Co., 295 Tortage avenue, is conducting a lawful business under thc Macdonald Temperance act. A decision to this effect was handed down in provincial police court today by Magistrate R. M. Noble. The magistrate dismissed the charge of selling liquor preferred against the company. "Thc case was a friendly test instituted by the provincial license department to determine thc status of ' commission houses under the Macdonald act. No Dispute of Facts Magistrate Noble reviewed the evidence at length. He said there was no dispute over the facts. A man went into the company's store and ordered a bottle of whiskey. He paid 95 cents for the whiskey and 10 cents to the company for forwarding the order to some point outside of Manitoba. In due course the whiskey arrived. '"The magistrate held that the sale was not actually made until the money was received by the company supplying the whiskey, so in this case the sale was made in Kenora, Ont, to which point the company sent thc 95 cents. In short, the magistrate held that it was the Kenora company which made thc sale, the Winnipeg concern merely acting as commissioners. Undecided on Appeal "John Allen, deputy attorney-general, who represented the crown, was unable to say whether there would be an appeal. . "It is expected that tliis decision will have far reaching effects and will result in the springing up of many liquor commissin houses throughout the province. According to J. N. McLean, administrator of the temperance act, there are now more than 100 places of business in Winnipeg which take orders for liquor on commission." If the Hugh Macdonld Act, the act which the people of Manitoba have chosen, does not prohibit the sale of liquor, we ask what chance there can be of lessening alcoholic consumption in British Columbia by the enactment of the bill now before thc people, a bill which is admitted by the prohibition enthusiasts to be much inferior to the Macdonald Act. . It would seem that if this matter is going to be played with that the great cause of temperance in British Columbia is likely to be seriously injured. If the people are deceived today into supporting a bogus measure, there will never be a chance of securing their support in future to a bill which is honestly drawn and designed to actually prohibit' Thc British Columbia act is, like some of the trust company charters, the product of a caucus. The rank and file of the prohibitionists of British Columbia were not consulted in the framing of the bill, did not know what was going into the bill, and did not authorize the Rogers- Nelson-Hammond faction to accept any such terms as are incorporated in this measure. Had those who were in control of the prohibition caucus been honest, had they kept before them the best interests of the people of British Columbia, they would have taken the Macdonald Act of Manitoba as a model and would have worked such improvements upon it as to give the people for their consideration a measure which, when enacted, would meet the wishes of all honestly interested in the cause of temperance. SATURDAY AFTERNOON CLOSING THE conspiracy to kill Vancouver in the eyes of thc outside world continues merrily. Saturday afternoon every shop is closed up tight and the anti-ice cream brigade have made it a criminal offence to buy a canteloupe on the Sabbath. We are in receipt of the following letter from one who has the situation pretty accurately sized up: IS IT NOT STRANGE? "When you consider that when our best fellows were here (those now fighting for us) there was no demand for more holidays. No. That was left for thc slackers to negotiate. "While a lot in England are working for thc welfare of our Country 16 and 18 hours a day in munition .factories and thousands giving their lives on the battlefield, the slackers demand greater power than God, Who decreed 6 days for work and 1 for rest. "I think that for Christians as we are supposed to bc, we make a very poor show. I lived fourteen years among Indians and cowboys of South America, and for good living according to their ideas, they had us all beat. "Remember Sunday is a Holy day, not as so many translate it, Holiday. If you remember that you will be better able to work on the succeeding days." WHY SIR WILLIAM MACKENZIE IS SUCCESSFUL IT is said that in the building up of the Canadian Northern Railway and allied land, townsite, industrial and financial corporations, Sir William Mackenzie has proceeded throughout much along the lines of the ancient chiefs of the Scottish clans in their conquests of territory, acquisition of cattle, sheep, fortresses, t'ols of war and honor, in the good old feudal days. Our information comes to us from a man who once occupied a responsible place in the Canadian Northern organization. To quote what he had to say regarding the railroad baron: '"'Did you ever notice the number of people of either Highland birth or extraction that Mackenzie carries? "Did you ever count the number of Mackenzies, Campbells, Macleods, Mackays, Sutherlands and Robertsons and MacPhersons they carry on the payroll between Montreal and Victoria? "Do it some day. and you will see that their whole organization is largely built up of Highland blood. "The importance of -'tliis, all who know Scottish history will readily understand. These men are intensely loyal to Sir William. There have been times in the history of the road when the pay cars didn't appear regularly and when the outlook was black indeed. These were the times when Mackenzie's hand-picked organization stood by him and made him what he is today. ."I have seen the time when only ruin and desolation faced the company, and when Sir William would come along in his private car with a bunch of capitalists from England or New York and a bunch of politicians maybe from Ottawa, Mackenzie's men, many of them who were personally up against it, stood by the little chief, lied and laughed and put the best front on possible, and everywhere the party called on the campany's lines there were cheerful faces and optimism on the part of our own employees at least. "And then Mackenzie rarely forgets, when things come around, the patience and loyalty of his men, and he rewards them accordingly. "Well do I remember the time that Sir William made application for the last loan at Ottawa���I mean the $45,- 00,000 loan. First he sent Z. A. Lash and Dan Mann to the capital together with Billy Moore and V. B. Hanna and thc shrewdest lobbyists in the east. They came back with fallen spirits and told the chief that the stuff was off���that Borden and Foster were against it and thata Tom White was kicking.and that there wasn't a man in the Government ready lo play the game but old Bob Rogers. "Then it was that Sir William took a personal hand in the business. He sent out a hurry up order to every man on the system with real brains and pull Federally, from one end of the system to the other. Vou see Sir William and all his family and friends were broke if it couldn't be put over, and so was the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and so would have been a great many other institutions throughout this little old Canada. Sir William pulls out with a special train, stenographers, lawyers, engineers, politicians. He reached Ottawa and immediately sent in his card to Sir Robert Borden, who refused to see him. He started in to play the biggest game ever a man played with a government and after days and weeks he began to gain a little . And after a while she began to come our way. And, well, you know thc end of it, how Sir William wlth a special train loaded with parliamentarians, made the grand tour across Canada. He had put it over in the truest sense of thc phrase. But he never could have done it without the help and the love and affection of the men. who arc ready to stand by Sir William, right or wrong, stand or fall. And these men are of thc clans and they like the way that the old man plays the part of Chief. "Mackenzie recruits many of his most trusted employees, from the Scottish-Canadian community round about Kirk- field, Ontario. There are men on the system in $10,000 a year jobs were hauled right off the farm by Sir William personally. He prides himself upon his ability to size up men and boys. And he goes right to his own home and among the old neighbors down there for most of them." This is an interesting side light of Mackenzie's character. There is something about the former employee's story which arouses admiration for the little "chief." It would seem to one that if the Kaiser had some of Mackenzie iu his make-up that he would go further. Whether Mackenzie's influence has been for good or evil in Canada, the way the gang have stood by him is truly marvellous. CHINOOK Breezes of Indignation And Information r^ Vi:-: REV. GEORGE H. MORDEN, Prohibition-Conservative candidate in North Vancouver, was directly responsible for the securing for a hotel keeper at Sechelt, B. C, which is in the North Vaancouver riding, one license to sell beer, wine, whiskey and other alcoholic liquors. * # * THERE IS NOTHING like playing both ends against the middle. * *,+ AS A RESULT of the Rev. George's kindness to the hotel proprietor he is likely to get more votes at Sechelt than apy of the other candidates���more even than William Mc- Neish, who is plainly and frankly out against prohibition, and more than Mayor lianes, the Liberal candidate, who is out against machine politics and patronage of the type fostered by Rev. George II. Morden. * * * AT THE LADNER meeting in the interests of Alex. Patterson, the Liberal candidate in Delta, Honest John Oliver made the shortest speech of his life. The meeting was held on Saturday night and it was after midnight before the name of Mr. Oliver was reached on the programme. * * * "GUILTY OF MANY sins am I," said Mr. Oliver, "and in my long political career I have at times been hard put to it. But 1 have yet to desecraatc the Sabbath making a political speech���please God that I never shall." * * * HONEST JOHN WANTS to keep his title free from taint and his short speech made a great hit with the meeting. * * * LIEUTENANT FRANK J. MACKENZIE, who has been waving the flag and parading in his uniform in the contest in Delta, is no longer taken seriously by thc farmers. Thc doughty lieutenant is looked upon more or less as a musical comedy officer, and the girls of all parties in the riding have got into the habit of calling the young man "The Chocolate Soldier." + * * ONE OF THE best recruiting officers in Vancouver is the big sergeant who holds forth at the corner of Hastings and Homer.- He is a former member of the Vancouver detective force, and gave up a job as a policemaan in Vancouver to help police the world. His genial smile and manly appearance, coupled with his courtesy and diplomacy, combine to invite the young fellows to come forward for king and country. * * * SPEAKING OE BLOWING in the public monies. In 1910 the Province of B. C. paid to civil servants $503,676 in all. That was a busy year, and B. C. was booming. In. 1916 the Province of B. C. paid its civil servants more than a million more than in 1910���$1,766,000. * * * VOTE FOR MR. BOWSER and let's part with everything that we have. �� * * IT IS LIKELY THAT next year the retail merchants of the city will run one of their number for Mayor and THE STANDARD is informed from a reliable source that one of the men likely to be named is that energetic Hastings Street merchant, Mr. William Dick. * * * MR. DICK DENIES that he will ever have anything to do with politics further than to do his part as a voter. "Business," he says, "takes up all my time and I don't care to mix up in the political game." mummumm ��������� SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1916 THE STANDARD THREE The Duke of Connaught, who has lost several members of his household at the front, is further bereaved through the death of Capt. the Hon. John Campbell of the Coldstream Guards. The young man was the heir of Lord Stratheden and Campbell. His <leath is particularly sad as his eldest brother was killed last year, while a younger brother is reported missing. If he should prove to be killed, it means the wiping out of the direct heirs of the family. * * * Miss Jean Bowell has returned from a fortnight's holiday visit to the interesting spots on Vancouver Island. * * * The marriage of Miss Kate Olive Mayne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Mayne, to Mr. Alfred Ernest Marchanton will be solemnized on Aug. 30 at St. Andrew's church. * * * Harold Tennant, brother-in-law of Premier Asquith, has been promoted from the under-secretaryship of war to the secretaryship of Scotland, which gives him cabinet rank. Tennant is a remarkably clever individual and is very ambitious, and is credited with a consuming desire to become premier of the country. He has been in Parliament for nearly a quarter of a century, and before that acted as private secretary to his brother-in- law. * * * Major and Mrs. R. G. Maxwell have moved to Victoria. The major has been recently appointed to the district headquarters staff. He was formerly adjutant of the 11th Irish Fusiliers. * * * Mrs. J. W. Kerr and her niece returned from Victoria on Monday, where they were visiting Mrs. James Ogden Grahamc for a week. * �� �� Mrs. E. G. Blackwcll am! her small daughter arrived from Powell River on Monday to visit her mother, Mr.*. Robert Leighton, for a few weeks. * * * Commander and Mrs. Armstrong are leaving on the Niagara on Thursday for Australia. * * * Mrs. Holmes, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. E. Studd, left today for Victoria. * * + Miss Deva Davis has left for Eng- land, where she will join her two brothers, who left for the front some weeks ago. * * * Miss Bodwell, of Victoria, spent the week-end in Vancouver on ltr way to England. * * * Miss Whitehead, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. George Nes- bitt, at New Denver, for tlu last two months, has returned home. * ���*. * Mrs. H. T. Lockyer, Miss P.ausch and Mr. Leonard Lockyer have returned from a week's visit to Mr. anil Mrs. D. C. Bissett at "Jiggs' Retreat," Merry Island. Mrs. Cleaver Cox was hostess cf a tea at the Jericho Country Club yesterday. A putting contest was held afterward, which Mrs. Herbert Drummond won. Other guests were Mrs. F. P. Armstrong of Ottawa, Mrs. G. Cubbage of Victoria, Mrs. J. C. Shaw, Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Longford, Mrs. W. Shallcross, Mrs. E. P. Davis, Mrs. Hinman, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Longden, Mrs. Ottley, Mrs. J. A. Mackenzie, Mrs. Dubois Phillips, Airs Hargrave, Mrs. Enthoven, Mrs. Mayne Hamilton, Mrs. Julius Griffith, Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. Hopcroft, Mrs. W. Ferry, Mrs. Robert Mackenzie and Mrs. Lefevre. �� * * Miss Maxwell has been the guest of Mrs. Abernethy at Crescent Beach during the past week. * * * The Lieutenant-Governor and Mrs. Barnard entertained the officers of H.M.S. Lancaster and Newcastle to an informal garden party last week at government house. Games of tennis, bowls and croquet were played, a number of ladies being invited to meet thc officers. * * * Miss Ella Walker is visiting Mrs. Adams at Brentwood, Vancouver Island, * * * Lieut. Walkin Boultbee has left for Calgary, where be will join his regiment, the 211th. * * * Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Tulk, who have been spending the last week at Vernon, returned home on Monday. New Goods for Autumn Wear are Opening Up Daily Choose Early and get a full season's wear out of them Suits for Young Men Who Demand Style and Fit Combined with Service and Good Appearance There arc some men who don't care what a suit looks like when it's on, providing it meets tlieir fancy when it's on the display rack. There are others who not only want a suit that looks well, but arc particular as to its fitting and scrvice- gi ing qualities, so they come to this store, where they get satisfaction. Today wc as!- you to view the season's latest models, combining thc quality that prevailed before the war, together with thc season's desired fashion touches��� thc soft roll lapel���form-fitting jacket��� patch pockets, etc. Through thc grouping ol" orders for our large chain of stores we have been able to buy these suits at prices equally as low as before the war, and offer you a range of fabrics to choose from that Fashion has decreed favorite for Fall wear. Every suit well tailored and finished, with thc trousers cut as young men want them, and a perfect fit guaranteed. Prices positively the lowest in British Columbia for equal style and Let us show you? ��M��* W fZZ.DU A Superb Range of Rich Mousseline Satins at $1.50 a yard Twenty beautiful colors comprise this range of rich Mousseline Satins, the quality of which, we believe, stands second to none in the Dominion at the price. This is a silk we contract for year after year in large quantities. The quality is always maintained the same, and although prices have risen considerably in the last year, our price for this silk is the same as before. It is, we believe, our most popular line, and as the season promises to be a satin season, it is especially worthy of note. The colors are vieux rose, electric, myrtle, dark old rose, wistaria, Vatican purple, bright blue, light and dark navy, battleship Java brown, dark brown/gold, nile, sky, pink, mauve, ivory d��| |"A and black. 38 inches wide. Per yard Y * ��������" 25c Ribbons 19c A variety of them, including Duchess Satin and Taffeta Ribbons, 3 and 4 inches wide, and in good rich quality. Shades of white, sky, pink, rose, navy, royal, brown lavender, green, black, saxe and purple. They wear well, and are very suitable for threading of children's wear, hair ribbons, sashes, millinery, etc. Regular value 25c yard. Special 19c Women's Housedresses $1.75 up to $1.95 ���up to the minute in style; made of extra fine quality gingham in stripe and check effects. W'aist can be had with either long or short sleeves, yoke, or pleats down the front. Skirt is gored and with deep hem. Very special values at ��� $1.75 to $1.95 New Middy Blouses at $1.50 and $1.28 ���Cool, winsome looking garments of good quality drill, with collar, cuffs and belt, in stripes of saxe and white, all '. navy and white, finished with two patch pockets and pearl button trimmings. ^ - Special value $ 1.50 Women's Knickers at Half Price ���possibly SO pairs remaining from fast selling line* ol" this season's importing. Made of satin, crepe and Italian silk���some with elastic finished knee; others have umbrella knee; nicely trimmed with niching or pleating. Colors of sky, royal, saxe, heliotrope, purple, red, paddy, canary, grey, fawn and white. Regular values from $3.00 Special for ... $1.50 to $2.50 Women's Housedresses vT;.' $1.28 to $1.48 ���such nicely made and sightly garments as these are seldom sold at low prices like these. They arc made of neat stripe and check ginghams with plain gored skirt, and waist finished with collar and cuffs of self or white rep. Sizes 34 to 44. Unequalled values��� $1.28 to $1.48 Mrs. D. Barker and the Misses M. and E. Barker are visiting Mrs. C. A. Mclntyr.-, Seattle. * * * Mrs. and Mrs. John Gait of Sum- merland and their little daughter, are visiting Mrs. H. Marsden, Townsend road, Eburne. * * * Miss Bemadette Clifford and her litle sister, Shclah, have returned from a visit of several weeks with their grandmother, Mrs. D. D. Bourke, of Xew Westminster. * * * The marriage of Miss Francis M. Lawson of Revelstoke, and Lieut. Harold Reade of Calgary took place on Thursday afternoon in St. Peter's Anglican church at Revelstoke. They left for coast cities. * * * The Right Rev. II. A. Gray, D.D., lord bishop of Edmonton, and his mother, are guests at the Hotel Vancouver. * * * Mr. and Mrs Dunbar Taylor have returned from Eastern Cadada after a visit of several weeks to relatives in Montreal and elsewhere. * * * Mr; William Walsh has rented his house at Shaughnessy Heights ti Mr. J. L. Davidson and has taken apartments in Staanley Court till Mrs. Walsh is ready to leave for California. * * * Mr. and Mrs. D. Kerr and Mr. J. Barclay arrived in the city on Monday from Ladysmith. * * * Those wishing to learn how to knit trench caps are asked to call at the Red Cross headquarters, 20" Hastings Street on Wednesday afternoons until further notice. * * * Miss M. Evans of N'apier Street returned this week from spending her holidays with her sister, Mrs Douglas, at Bowen Island. * * * Mr. J. J. Hanley returned this week from a holiday spent on Vancouver Island. * * * Mr. Clarence Kearley left Sunday night for Seattle and will g-j north from there before returning to Vancouver. * * * Mrs. H, W. Riggs is visiting Mrs. Hugh McLean in Kamloops. * * * Miss Edna Barber of Edmonton is visiting Mrs. A. Lighthall in the city. * * * Mrs. W. F. Brougham is the guest of Mrs. Dunsmuir at Hatley Park, Victoria. * * * Mr. A. Monteith of the immigration staff at Victoria is the guest of his sister, Mrs. A. E. Roberts, Point Grey Road. * * * His Honor Lieut-Governor Brett and Mrs. Brett of Edmonton, Alberta, are in town, guests at the Hotel Vancouver. * * * Mrs. (Dr.1 William Black and children of Winnipeg arc registered at thc Hotel Vancouver. * * + Mrs. A, E. Goodman and son Ellis, have returned home after a month's visit with Mrs. William Hoodie at Long Lake Ranch. Oyama, B. C. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tuxworth of Donlaster, England, are in the city, guests of Mrs. Riach, 17/0 Georgia Street West. They will return to Winnipeg this week. LIMITED Store opens at 8.30 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m. Women's Brassieres in Twenty Different Styles at 85c each IT IS only reasonable to assume that most needs can be attended to in this interesting assortment. We believe that there is about every good style represented. The values, of course, are superior���it was on account of their merit that we selected such a large number of styles. If you need Brassieres now or if you can anticipate future needs you will do well to supply them at this time. You will find both the front and back fastening styles represented. Special, 85c each. 575 GRANVILLE Phone Sey. 3540 equal suffrage and the right to participate in the affairs of state, 'unanswerable.' Iu other words, Mr. Asquith could find no words with which to deny that the women of Great Bri- of your babies from infantile paralysis for instance? "What does a lawyer know about caring for that incorrigible boy in your neighborhood, whom lawyers ?���m.u.a?���f���P.f,"t"5 ' '��^\. "dr?ve put in Jail and sentenced to long terms in jail, though he is but four- (FhrBudsunsBaij Obmpanij IWCOBPOPffTED 1070 MWIIKT MBBjM SWBBCOHHISSIOIItB, AN ADDRESS ON WOMAN'S RIGHTS BY ALDERMAN R. H. GALE, VANCOUVER Speaking at a garden party in Fair- view some nights ago, Alderman R. II. Gale, member of the Vancouver City Council, made an interesting reference to the part the women are playing in the great war and to the need of having women in the government of the country to yook after those departments in which they arc specially trained. In part the alderman said: "The excellent part our Canadian women have played in the Empire struggle, the wonderful sacrifices they have so nobly and willingly made in giving up their sons their husbands, their brothers and, above all o'licr things, perhaps, thc cool, calm and determined methods they have adopted for so many years, methods other that of militancy, have won for them the admiration and confidence and love of every right-thinking Canadian, and I am confident that when the ballots have been counted on the 14th of September, what I say tonight will have been clearly demonstrated by thc overwhelming majority that the men of B. C. will give the referendum. "Premier Asquith, in the British House of Commons the other day, made the statement that recent history had made Women's demand for on the voters' list and if this be true of the women of Great Britain, it is doubly true of the women of Canada, and especially British Columbia ��� Why? ���Well, if for no other reason, the laws of British Columbia which govern women and keep them in tlie same status as the poor, ignorant, and despised Siwashes must be replaced by laws in keeping with the times, and. ladies and gentlemen, these laws will never be changed until the women of the province have some say as to who will represent us at Victoria. "Another reason is that the day has passed when the function of your provincial government is merely that oi making laws and then enforcing them ���to put thieves iu the stocks, to catch cattle rustlers and punish them. Today, we have other things to do. There is work for women to do���there is work for the women's representative teen years of age and unfit because his training was wrong or his environments were wrong, or perhaps he was th* product of tbe gutter or the slum? What do they know about the wayward lassie who had not the loving care and attention of a mother? "What does a lawyer know of carrying on the department of domestic science, an important department of the educational department? "He knows little about these and a hundred other matters which come Under '.he attention of the Government, and yet, where is the Government that is not more than well supplied with lawyers ? "I am convinced, more today than ever before, that wc should have representative government. We should have fanners in our parliaments to to do. There are hospitals to equip l,ook after the interests of larmers; medical men to care for departments for which they arc specially trained; and to manage, there are great social problems to grapple with, there are wayward girls and widows and orphans to care for and who can do this work better than our women? "It is true that they have been doing a great deal heretofore but after thc 14th of September they will bc in a position to accomplish infinitely- more and the country will benefit as a result. "It is true that I could probably shipping nicir' to handle shipbuilding; trained financiers for other departments; trained mining men for the department of mines. Yes���and mothers and sisters and wives for departments where the knowledge and care and tender touch of a woman is more valuable; more precious than anything which gold can purchase. "In conclusion, let me sav that I build a better hospital than any wo- am still glad to call myself a "Man's man here, for that is my business. Let me then build the hospital, but when it comes to equipping it and fitting out the wards and selecting the nurses and carrying out the executive work I would be at sea in such a matter, and so would any man here unless he be a doctor, and I have yet to meet any doctor so skillful and with such curative powers in his fingers as my own mother, who was not a doctor at all but who had just common mother sense. "What does a lawyer know about protecting and conserving the health Man,'' but I would be craven indeed if I were not possessed of sufficient chivalry to give the women credit for the grand work they have accomplished for us. They have won the undying gratitude of the Empire and all loyal men must yield to our noble sisters. "Let British Columbia be the next province to enroll upon the scroll of humanity. "Let Canada set the world an example in releasing the bonds from thc women of the nation and extending to women the right to have a voice in the administration of thc state.'' RAIL TICKETS TO ALL POINTS General Agency Transatlantic Steamship Lines C. E. Jenney, G. A. P. D. Phone: Sey. 1134 W. O. Connolly. C. P. P. A. 827 Granville Street FOUR THE STANDARD SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1916 y-fite��ettwi2& Sandy says Bowser is the Real Guilty Pairty in the Dominyin Trust vate capacity as law adviser for the Dominyin Trust, wis acceptin' fees for drawin' up an illegal bill. Did yae ever hear o* sic a treacherous piece o' bizness? 'll 1 th; cave nae stane unturned in seem that t.:<- ends o justice are served an' that "the punishment fits the crime." Dae yaer duly, freens, an' gie the Hooever. what maks the thing waur i \\\.v Sinner sic a heave on September still is the wey the Wee Fellie at- 14 ,1,.., ; ,.'11 think he's been Mruik tempted tae shift the blame on tae L.{> -, ;.,;���!, explosive. the late manager's shouthers. Dead, , l ours through thc heather, men tell nae tales, lu conversation wi' vin .' the members '.' iln- c -I SANDY MACPHERSON. friend, and not only paid the duty. | Imt the full value oi the articles purchased as well, \t he had said nothing no one would law been any the vvi.-er and it is safe to Bay that he will not tulk- s . much next time. A- it is. Mr. McLeod, the relieving Customs officer, who hails iron, Port Arthur, think.- it is a first-class joke on the smart young man whom he met al the dinner table. Weel freens, It seems kin' o' queer [dug lias hi- day���an' his day's comin' it thi- lime when the fate o' the whole ���on the 14th o' September. cecvilized world is hangin' in the balance, that we al haine here should hae anither important thing tae tak up . or attention, wi' the proveenshial election takin' place on September 14. There'.- absolutely nae true doubts Hooever, freens, I'm nae war ex- pert, we cannie a' be Shan, Shoes��� an' a darned guid job. It wud seem as if tlie war'll gae on for quite a long time yet, an' faur better tliat every mither's son o' us should be hauled as tae the result o' the titanic Strug- up than lhat ony. patched-up peace gie ill Europe. Conic what may, the should prevail wherein we wnd be world can never be at rcsl until the German military caste is overthrown. In the same wey there can be nae rest or progress in British Columby haen the whole thing owre again ill another decade. Noo tae get back tae Bowser's Country. If yaeve been readin' iln. until we hae tliat wee inipideni fellie, evenin' papers and the New-Sad lately Bowser, where he should be. Where that place is I'll leave my readers tae guess. I ken vvliaur I wud pit him if I had his power. 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R- Agent an' been followin' the reports o' the meetin's held by the Wee Vin in the upper country a fellie that didnie ken ony better win! come tae the conclusion that the Honorable Gentlemen (groans) wis haen a'triumfal procession. Hooever, we're no' a' as green as we're cabbage lookin', an' yince a fellie gels a bit insicht intae the "tricks <i the trade" o' journalism, he can generally pit twa an' twa thegither an', like Post, say "there's a reason." I notice where nan heckler in the upper country askit Wullie tae talk somethin' aboot the Dominyin Trust an' the wily yin discreetly side-stepped it an' sain he would answer that tae his constituents iu Vancoover city. Wullie has a whole l"t mare than Dominyin Trust lae answer fur. but that in itsel is enough lae put him outside o! public office for ever an' aye. . 1 hae referred tae this yince or twice afore, bul seeiu' the election is sae close at haund it micht dae nac herni if I jist briefly recoonted the Wee Sinner's connection wi' it. The Dqminyin Trust i.u 191.1 applied tae the Dominion Government for a charter tae enable it tae dae bizness iii the ither provinces in Canady. .The charter wis granted, but tlu- Company's richt tae tak deposits wis forfeited then an' there, as lhe Federal Government only allowed chartered banks tae transact lhal cless o' bizness. Noo the deposit end o' the Trust wis one o' the best pairts o' the bizness (the ready cash wis aye haundy), an' it didnie tak Mr. Arnold l.nig lae set tin- wheels in motion in order tae keep that bizness mucin'. The linn o' Ilowser. Reid ami Wall- bridge, o' which the Wee Yin is the main gazoo, acted as solicitors for the Trust. A bill wis drafted in their offices (which they occupied rent free frae the Dominyin Trust), an illegal yin at that, seekin' power frae the provincial government tae tak deposits, .Mr. Ilowser wis attorney- general o' llritish Columby, yet he at that time pocketed his share o' the. proceeds his firm got for draw-in1 up that illegal bill. In due course the bill came afore the In..isc, an' lhe Wee Yin, siiit'tin' danger if onything should happen, in a half-hertcil���or raither cowardly��� md depositors intae llie haunds mainner delegated his departmental t|le man he never trusted, Phone Seymour 9086 SOMETHING YOU NEED for the safety of your valuables and Documents. A Private Box in our Safety Vault. $2.50 Per Annum DOW FRASER TRUST CO. 122 HASTINGS STREET W. O DR. J. W. McINTOSH, LIBERAL CANDIDATE I-' ihc many candidates whose names are before the public at the present time, none is in..re highly respected than Ur. Mcintosh. In fail tlie election of Dr. Mcintosh is now conceded in most quarters. The doctor is a man of strong personality. When he allowed his name to he put forward for aldcrmanic honors in Vancouver, iln- lii-st people of all parties hastened to offer support, lie is somewhat oldfashioned.in his ideas of li mesty, either in political or private life, ami though lie runs as a Liberal. Dr. Mcintosh is a man of independent stripe anil may be expected to do what he thinks is right, whether or not the party caucus .supports him. The doctor is a Canadian by birth, coining from tin- Province of Ontario to Vancouver many years ago. lie believes thaal in the business of the provincial government more attention should be paid to the question of hospital*, care of the indigent and lhe unlit. Sanitation is also a subject which should receive greater care at the bauds of lhe provincial health department. Dr. Mcintosh is a believer in the plan to bring the medical profession directly under lhe Government and the care of thc health iff the community entirely under ihe public service, ilis views along these lines have received wide attention and have been quoted by the medical journals of many countries. inittee o' depositors that interviewed Bowser after the smash, he tell me that Ihe Wee Fellie adopted a very sneerin' tone when referrin' tae Arnold. In order tae try an' lift the blame frae his ain shoiilhers. lie telt them some funny stories aboot Ar-. noli!, aii' lo hi thai "he never trusted him." an' so on. Yet, mind you, for a' that he never trusted him, this same Mr. Ilowser knowingly passed a bill which was illegal, thereby haundin' owre the laic o' tliree or lower thpU ll solicitor tae go afore the private bills committee tae diplomatically inform ihem that the bill was ultra vires |as ii interfered wi' Dominion legisla- ���n. W'ulle kent the bill wis illegal, an' in his aiu words, in. answer tae quest- > in- propounded by the committee o' depositors, he said. "Mv departmental solicitor came back an' informed me that Till-: PRIVATE BILLS COIYI- MITTKK WE'RE A 1.1. LINED I'l' BY MR. ARNOLD" Further questyined by a member o' the committee as tae why he hadnie then opposed the bill on the flour o' I the house, he replied. "WELL, YOU IKNOW, THAT WOULD HAVE MEANT A SPLIT IN Till-: GOVERNMENT." Noo, frcens. what'ir in a' God's earth ; did vac ever here o' sic a dastardly I piece o' deliberate political thievery? Here wis the attorney-general o' a [British province, sworn in tae act as heid lawyer for the crown, deliberately aidin' an' abctthf thc cruellest o' robberies. Bowser wis peyed a handsome salary by the province in order that he should see that its affairs were hauiul- led in a thorough, strict legal mainner, an' yet the same man. in bis pri- Aside frae a' elflC, the morality displayed by Ilowser in actin' for the croon an' acceptin' its wages, an' act- in' lor the -private company an' acceptin' its fees, is disgraced)', tae ��ay the least. An' lac mak maitters worse, Bowser tries fac mak the public believe that tin- same tiling is done in the auld country, lie kens fine when lie says that that lie's tellin' a d d lie an' a dirty lie He kens fu' weel that if the attorney-general o' llritain ever attempted tae dae sic a thing he wud be driven not o' public life, lie would be disbarred frae his profession, an' UK WOULD UK PIT IN THE PENITENTIARY. It wis Bowser an' Ilowser alone that robbed the depositors o' the Dominyin Trust by allowin' that piece o' crooked legislation tae gae through��� a piece o' work that has brocht trials an' hardships, aye, an' death, tae mony a hame in llritish Columby. It'll be an everlastin' disgrace tae llritish institutions if this fellie should ever be allowed tae hae onything tae dae in a public capacity again. That is the main reason why liow- ser is fechtin' sae hard tae get back tae power, It's tae be hoped that some o' the members o' the new par- ONE ON THE DOMINION ALLIANCE MEN The following from a Fort Frances (Ontario) l.e" ypa.icr relates a good ��� le on two young men who recently vi-itcd Fort Frances and district on behalf of the Dominion Alliance:��� Having toured the country they put up af one of our hotels for a couple of lays iu i.nler to remain over Sun- i day ami hold service in one of the churches. Wishing to see International Falls, they made a trip over the: river on a visit, and while there, purchased a lew articles which they for- jot to report '.. 'In- Customs on their i ������tin n. Sitting at the hotel table during ihc meal hour, one of them (no nanus mentioned i related to a table hoarder an account of their visit to the town across the border and how easy it was to bu\ goods over there and smuggle them across. "Easiest thing in the world." said he; "no trouble ��� why, any person can do it." "Hut." interposed the boarder, "don't you think you ought to report to the Customs and pay the duty:" "Nothing doing." said the Dominion Alliance man, or ivords to that effect. "But you are liable to be arrested," said the boarder. "Not much chance," replied thc student visitor. "Well, I don't know about that," said, the boarder. 'You see, I am one ol the Customs officers and I must request yott to come along with me ;.nd we will see about ihc duty you should have paid." "Mi. is tha' so? Well, that' is one on me. Needless *o say that the Dominion Alliance man vent along with bis Pater���"No, my son; your filial respect misleads you when you suppose that I am one of the great personages of the world. There are many who have the mastery over me. Now. if you can name one." Snii���"1 can, iu uiicc-,-niothor!" /*/ =���=*?, Phone Highland 137 Grandview Hospital 1090 VICTORIA DRIVE VANCOUVER - B.C. Medical : Surgical : Maternity Rates from $15.11 per week Classified Advertising FLORISTS BROWN BROS. & CO., LIMITED, Seedsmen,'Florists, Nurserymen, 48 Hastings St. E., and 782 Granville Street. Vancouver, B. C. WATCHMAKER 10,000 WATCHES and CLOCKS wanted.to clean and repair at the factory, 438 RICHARDS STREET. CALL OF THE COLORS It's fine, when summer's with you, to lie takin' of your ease. Loafin' when you like, an! fishin' when you please; I like a swingin' hammock where I'm shaded from the sun. llui���there's a feller lhat 1 know, a- shouldcrin' his gun I ' ��� it's fine to be a-drcamin'���lulled to rest by bird an' stream .Inset listenin' to the rollin' of the old earth, in a dream! <)h that just seems to suit me���to think the toil is done, But���there's a feller that I know, a- shfjulderin' his gun! I hear the boys a-niarchin' thru the glory o' the day. The pipers are a-playin' an' they answer with "Hooray!" I guess the country needs me. an' I'd l'i- ihc country's son, So���here's another feller that's a- shottlderin' his gun. HOW DO YOU BUY BREAD? Do you ask for, and get, just a "loaf of bread," or do you, like the wise, discriminating buyers, order SMAX and SUNLIGHT "THE BETTER BREADS" These are wholesome, nutritious���made in a modern, sanitary bakery���in every detail as good bread as conscientious effort can make them. Every loaf crisp, tender, delicious���done to a turn. If your grocer cannot supply you, phone Fairmont 443 and we'll get it to you prompt." HAMPTON-PINCHIN Bakersx>f Better Bread SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1916 THE STANDARD FIVE ���"'rM' s"'i" '" of mile he- Mamma was genuinely surprised v>j McTavish and McPTiersr.ri ^��}�� ���'���'���' ":"'" hear her daughter's complaints ol *JjJL*M*,. ' '���' ''-'''y hway, and a good hubby's niggardliness in matters greal emnly iu front of the fire and slowly puffed away with . ��� ��� oi thi and ��� he ot - II out. After a 1 ng pausi. \\ pipe, and remar i ily : n le plea: ire in From Pine to Palm (Continued from Lasi Weel To Walla Walla.- River navigable for hundreds of miles yet Road turns up a canyon and leaves river. Land appears worthless. Once on hilltops mc luni ��� in Ri ���.. .. :,i'. al t al restaurant. From river bai I -i. aim i -i mile dow u I iver Walla Wull.i river flowed in between. Sic nailed with hat dker, iel gee? Decided an hour later !������ go up W. VV., down other sidi i .. '. to boat Reached it���IT only a gov- it is all urn,cr wheat A header is , , ,, , . ,. , cruniciil dredi!!'. Has boal gone vet.' seen drawing 32 mules, cutting, .. , .,, , . ,. .. . , .\n. Put you will have lo go down threshing, sacking when at the rate I . . ., , ��� .- . . .. > river lour miles to a landing. Due oI 1/ acres per day. .\ "moving pic- . ., , ,��� . . , ... ��� ��� ,l-iu another hour, l-.stra haste down t-.ire oi industry. A strip ol good , , , ., ,, , , , . . . , ,, , , only road ���tin- 0. \\ . R. and X. Rock mad m a mess ol sand. Road reaches , ,,' , ,,., . , , , , , , , .ballast track. Wharf only sand beach toward the horizon over a scries oi '''������ and small. Down the Sacramento Valley. ���1 ������<,-,��� .,,,���--,��� ..,, i , , ' "" astonish me, snt said. Be- I ' ' * *'*"""' ��U1'P ' level fore you married I.im I .,.,- assured j tem���� by a,| w , . . . cent disc tint. Hardl . a ������,,- ' *' �� *" "lv,-';,.,. he mav be" wl v>/,^.'/^:. .: ..' ii himself. ' . . 1 nil* - ��� ' ' ��� ' ' " ��� e time, an in i i I 'I i e with a . huge mills in sight. Ate \ . ,i . . i ��� . ��� 'i ' o tight Id friend In... in rain :.,ts and a fru I to hi emale. wu ��� _���- tain. I ^"��� Saw it in earl I. ��� ������' a- small as tin V / if it ��� and ' ���' Paper mill. Did visit a ��� \ >, ,���., .,,.,,, fjg. Mked the L, i, ui, - ''- Hen u woollen mill, all - ��� im ,��� \,,. a ,:,,���.��� ,,,,,: ���. ii City in two levels. Ele , -tasteful. Mounl Lassi ' .. rator to raise peopl, from level ... - ��� ,hc cas1 ,-,���- . ,,., ,. u"" ''' ' level, so abrupt. Salem, capital; ap , -;, ; ., jv*. .,.- tor��� 'I'm oil, til proached up the broad vallej of Wil -.-, ,,,,,, ,..,.,; muff -1 -.. j. - tn take a "ome.' ;-' ���'������ eetl la :'. Strei I cars. Capitol in .y - , Wi i.i ' ;'��� a 15D. acn "and I -lioiihl Im parl ..i firs. Beautiful surrounding farm of the original Spanish Survej "'"'''' ���" '' ""' ,!i' ��� es. Much pavement. \ havini to walk, found myself as far "I -vill." tl ther. 'Conn companied to Albany by another c>- ,,���,���,, ,i���- Highway as l would have round this evenin', - clist. Many prune orchards. Roads had I walk along it. Farmhouse al m'' old man." continue hard, though hilly, Cross junction of roads. Called for drink railing hills covered with wheat. 0n?rmer8^: Boat seen connng Willamette. Free ferry. Riverside Xoticed many fine grapes and peaches *��� Londoner who was staying in reaches it. and is still as far ,>,������ h"*'"""1 ''"'",*1 D'<In t look as though orchards. Apples and pears. Junction N'ever an invite. Got the drink. At Scotland for a little while recently hat point, with tin- same outlook a- '' "'" '"'''* *' " '1"'"'* g C,ty_ha ha' ' ,'1'l"l,~ '"""' behind Vina the great winery of the Stanford I had need of legal assistance. He *ent ead Mud, like \ and Saskatche-1 aved and shouted at -^""'oat five a barn. Investigated. Found thresh- Ranch caughl fire. Still smoking up to a sensible-looking man in the wan.' John Dav r.,c reached. Ferry dayS Iater' Confi,le<l l" farmer' Here '"�� machine. Manager near. Saw a ���,�������� 1 arrived. Blamed on I. W. W street and began: "Pardon me, sir; lu: across, towed by horses on account of l'"'"1 '"' ;""1 lor.eet 'I'1''"11"1 Vou weary-looking, seedy individual (me). Passed Ostrich ranch. Climbed fence are you a resident of this town?" , ..... ,, ,. can catch a train down at the next Manager���-"Want anything." Non- ,,,r ., ,,..., i. .,���,! r,,,:,. ;��� Sacramento \ ��� ������������ , ������ . low water, takings of the ferryman I , ., ,, , ,,,,..., ' ' ' ' Weel, was th- cautious renh ,..,,.. . , .,* ,. I stop i.S miles). More haste over the . chalant v No. Jutnioiinded. An .-in- of home I'suil donu-i1 caoitol ;-i- , , , . ' very high, lhs because he built thej, ,,..,.- , , , ,' .., . , ��� nomt. i suai uomiu la-mui. | | ve Ieeved here a mattter o SO year. \li! then, perhaps, you can help wenl on the visitor. "I'm look- ballast. Train pass, stretch ol mad down to tin- river. ., , ,, i i , , i - I miles along. Sonic mon- ma up a creek bordered bv narrow farms ., , i miu-s to nearest town. .\ tn- to the bare rocky hillsides. Night threatens a storm. Camp in the first barn reached, "Which road?" To the right. Took it in morning, Cross country run over hills and valleys to Rock Creek again. Purchased a "cm-" in lone. Cost 10c, Anticipated cost, 5c. Result broke, i-'inisli- ed ray crossing the driest cross sec-1 attitude���the sorehead, \fter a mile tion ..f country vet reached. Might and almost step on 3 1-2 fool rattler crawl- fifteen miles to town. All! a farm- ��'g across track. Stopped hurriedly house. Deserted! Phew! Prefer the Expected to be afraid rat- Find :in old binder fr*>"*�� '���'���' Thump, thump, and bump, bump te over tin-l chalantly "A'o." Dunifounded. An ,-j| % ,,- home. Usual doni, ilioui two I orchard with ripe apples, Apples mys- \ hurried night view of the city. Rode 31 tcriously found, later outside. Tell ,,���. m,k-|i smooth pavement. The San Joaquin Valley.���Sacra- yi--. tale cycle tracks. Eugene ear lilltte iverlooking town. A Imb city. Twi ni,, citizen tries to persuade me I' ing for a criminal lawyer. Have you one in this town:" two sandwiches m three clays. l-m- isb of peaches. His summary-Westerners hospitable to extent of traveller's demands, and no more���and the seedy traveller need nol :i^k. My sorehea a confidential whisper as he answe "We hiv, but we hinna been able to \nything to eat, pal, nothing but ] inii-rurban lines to Portland and mill- take boat to Frisco. "After 2000 miles. titudinous railroad lines in operation Fie!" Time very short. Try to gel and projected, spreading out, A uni- |��� quickly to Frisco. Rode till -' a.m versity city Foothill country. Early Saw wagon. Crawled under to rest morning riding chilly. Machine needs Chorus of many, "Beal it." I did.i oil. \ barn and farmhouse beside Remember two day- back in Sacra- prove it against him yet. He's ower road. Music within. Enter. "Whal nieilto Valley, how heal melted the sharp." selection. Chaminade's Scarf Dance.jends of the lire.-and made it neccs- ~-~ ���_ A generous supply of more to which sary ,,, spelu| haif uay ;��� repairii strains the nil (farmer'-, flows free- Enter Stockton. City instead of i SAYS CYCLING DAN, I'M A HEALTHIER MAN, AND OFTEN WISH THAT I BEGAN RIDING A BICYCLE YEARS AGO AND EARLIER REACHED THIS HEALTHFUL GLOW. I RIDE A PARAGON YOU SEE AND AM GLAD FRED DEELEY (The Cycle Man) SOLD IT ME. 1126 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER Send for 47-page illustrated catalogue���post free. :0 nit'.onr- brew stone Ripp. Slept on it under stars. Desert, ca tu~. rabbits, snakes and no water. "IB- Blazing sun. Reach an old farm hous" I *'"k''' Empty water tanks. Sign on houj "No minors allowed." Dry a- si ake curled under rail. Nothing do- Lii i j ly. Road up a canyon, so-called. Great Spanish small gully between hills.Wheat replacel ���attl Late up small fence post. nake, and then Guod- ,,,,.'nigbi. t'ui off rattles eight in lumi- ,���,. lier. Plodded along till 10.30 p.m. to ... . e ,-���: Umatilla. Hotel rather tumbledown. One window out, another propped in i snake ol unknown nationality. Got dace vvith chair. Seventeen beds in I him. Farmer, "No, don't know what Down winding incomplete road 1" Umpqua Valley and more orchards. "Sutherlin i- Wet" sign. Trying to run down, unintentionally, chickens and turkeys; intentionally a 4 1-2 foot alley. Wind commenci lo strong thai energy ���ut '. Readied Echo. I'ound own- Returned the amount. Reward Got a fountain and fairly ab- :d water. ' in to Pendleton. Au- i.i' fourteen pumping stations between Los Angeles and Fris :o o:i Standard oil pump line. C mtinucd on till noon mv nit Chose window side b, 2 a.m. Rain all next < ' . t ten cautiful uilding- illy lice of all. kind, but glad you got Inn Rain about! fishing in Umpqua Nothing biting. 1 s Exhibition Detested fishing anyway. Tried bath- ��� lor the roping and lariat stunts at the I seen aud lost several times withinL ,y<\ Pendleton roundup. Catching horse | last two miles. \ city on and among],] ami \i-iiors to the number of 100, I ' often invade the town. Kept o going in darkness along the mac- "v,'r the I adam lo Walla Walla. Arrived there Friday after 300 miles of laborious skunk- and another night at a farm- fruit follow. Night hours old. grinding'' Last 15 miles through the mouse. Farmer ., visitor of 11. C. A signpost, A match. T.. Myrtle . _,,���, miles .ycym Utet Walla Walla orchard country with Ram continues. Reached the Dalles Creek, 10.4 miles. Nothing stirring. Exposition and registered firsl at i ripe apples, pears-and peaches Four and took steamer to Portland. Vessel A bam handy. Enter. Preliminary Canadian Building days' rest.' Walla Walla an unsus- carried freight and passenger-. Dis- supper���the loaf of bread. Sour-1 pected city of 20,000, Its wealth the tancc 100 miles, time 13 hours. Far orchards, fed by artesian water, and 50 Scenery immense. ���'.���bent by the mile. Near here mis-' the Cascade Loci stonary Whitman and party massa t-'i*t arrives, lump in. A life iilti that town. Jolly conversational chaf- "'* =' feur. Pendleton a town of 80110. l'u ii-.g world famous roundup cowbo; , with lariat around front feel from an- hills. A pie, a loal of bread, fruit and t|le other horse's hack. Cut bark to road confectionery supper. Pie disappear- vjc Nol king more excit- ed before .reaching- suburbs. : \n- g than a 25 fool acquaintance vvith To Crater Lake.���Confectionery and g ��� skunk, and another night nl a farm- mouse. Farm Massey-Harris Bicycles For Rapid Delivery or Messenger Service, the "MASSEY" is a general favorite. Built to stand the hardest usage, very easy running. MEN'S ROADSTER, 545.00. IMPERIAL, $30.00 W. H. MORRISON 108 HASTINGS STREET EAST ,al - Merit! and the I i Then ..n to the fci ry. at Ferry Building aat night, Completed trip al the hotel to il lo t! C Reasons Why the Prohibition Act Is Not Meeting with Public Favor Sailed through rred in 1S47. Whitman largely res- opens. Run into another stone sleep. A short cut to Canyonvilli a two hotel, two garage, half doze house town. Enmity between the twi A delicious home cooked meal at In nd. sele. led. Dark looks from othe THE A.B.C. OF THE TRENCHES A is a.in., when thc straffing begins B is the Bochc who is strafed for his I. THE ACT DOES NOT PROHIBIT, alth . il :- alh a Prohibiti, n Act, il i ides I ' Ni satisfied with n ( is the Crump iron, the enemy - rear I) ar- Un- Dugouts that crumps "dis- ponsible for V. S. now controlling I at lower level. Repeat the dose Stop faction Oregon and Washington. The city at Vancouver. Run mi town Get Crater Luke as routed, distance Jo miles further to Portland, miles. Notice road eastward. All have to open. I garage owner. [s there trail fr ides? Yes, but IF 'S the Fokker that -ails overhead of much kindness. Saw sister. Well views. _ repaid for trip. Past many brid, Return to Portland���Determined t.. i To Roseburg.���(.'p the Willamette ride 28 miles to Wallula on Columbia valley, first along hillside boulevard. aud boat to Portland. Left Tuesday I Many suburban residences. The riieht. rode till ilark. Hotel'tie Busch. Clackamas river, where Kipling fish-, ,��� . . ,.,������!, i-i i- -i i ,,, , 1 on II be in wililell Early morning���a whistle six miles ed. a stream like Capilauo. Less tu- . , divide mt" the Rogue \ aiu multuous, Oregon city. Falls ol '!lc st0ck of delicatessen and stan E is the Enemy, liv ing i >r ISH. M IHE ACT IS UN-BRIT- ciul across the Cascades? only a trail." Likely have to will 20 miles. Distance reduced to '���' miles. I'm on. You'll need supplies lill over th distant. My boat? Haste to perhaps catch it. Arrive at Wallula. A Willamette (i is lhe Gas that we use m ;i scrap. 11 the new I lelmct that ' eeps ul the shrap. I for Intelligence, usually dumb, J for the Jam thai is usually plum. K is for "Kamarades!"' heard in tlic ��� fight, I. for Lewi- gun, useful and light. M is for "Mother." the pride of the N is for "Newton" that worries the "Land of the Totem Pole" SPECIAL ROUND TRIP TO SKAGWAY $60.00 INCLUDING BERTH AND MEALS EN ROUTE 2000 miles of luxurious comfort through the famous island sheltered "inside" route by the palatial Canadian Pacific Steamers Leave Vancouver at 9 p.m. every Saturday, calling at all the principal ports and . Taku Glacier on northbound trip. Full particulars from any C. P. R. agent or write H. W. BRODIE, General Passenger Agent, Vancouver. out of town, while a crow.; of di i stood around to see the thing w k. A very acceptable road for 20 miles To Klamath Falls.���Road at first very good down the top of V '���' Creek Springs. Creek flowing Huns. through a region of soft rock, vv, ���- 0 the .lbs,,-ver. correcting the fire, ing a deep chasm with weathered P is the Parapet, ragged with wire sides. Many needles of rock and Q the Quick-firers that "barrage" at- similar formations. Enter the Marsh tack, of Klamath Lake. Indian reservation. R for the Rat thai you find in your Indians today prosperous. Great cat , Pack. tie raisers. "Many white.-, glad to S for the St..k.- thai were so overrun their cars." Old Fort Klamath- looked. remaining���a cottage like Structure. T for the Trenches to which you are where the Americans had lieadquar- booked. ters .luring the Modoc Indian war. U for the Ulstermen taking Boissclle, Road around the shore of Klamath | V is for- Vimy, we'll take it as well. Lake for 20 miles. ' - ��� ��� . onsta- ��� ��� ' ' e pri- ������-��� . pr liis -. if the - THE ACT WILL SEND ENORMOL S AMOUNTS 0! MONEY 01 VINC OF THE PRO W's "Whizz Bang," which no one can atch. To Pacific Highway Again.��� 1 7 .. .- X is for Wipers that s not m tins return to Vancouver some dav. Ke- . , ��� , i - ,- stunt. no, a survival oi the days ot anti- . . ,\7. is the shape nt the trenches m quity. One store, a post otfice, anil a few houses. Store closed, account opening hunting season. Post office closed, account postmaster awav in ihay field. Suppertime. A farmhouse f prosperous farmer. Think, "Per haps an invite to stay for supper, Went ill for a drink. All eating. Got the drink. Never an invitation. Representative of much American hospitality. Give you what you ask for. Never anticipate wants. And the nest house was ninny miles down the forested Klamath Valley. Grades heavy and road crooked. Crossed California line. A signpost only. An orchard. A small amount purchased many apples. Klamath Hot springs a quiet retreat'. Crossed many dry hills. Sim blazed. Lickety-splil down Fun and Frolic hill, when sack- It had been a particularly brutal and sordid murder, and in putting on lhe black cap the judge thought fit to make a few pointed remarks ttn the utterly inadequate motive. "Not only did you deprive this wretched man ol life," he said, "bul all vou obtained by your savage and rc- - nlting crime wis ihc paltry reward of half-a-crown." "Beg yer pardon, me lord." said the miserable creature, "but I'm a poor man. An 'arfa-crown 'ere an' arf-a- crovvi there, il soon mounts up. me apples belli::.. II anv :, thi.- lin lii . am mn ol V dailj - ir 1 ,)i: states v abb rm lin where :: l-l in ighl solute! un unit and un nti- die, uRO- i - pos- 1 . i- tin units ' i. ��� ' ��� ��� ihe \n ' customs. ned guilty ol iiiinl ' ' II re dis ti , ."' * THE PASSAGE OF THE ' .'..'- ACT WILL CAUSE GREAT ,- jjVJ jj UNEMPLOYMENT. The liccm . ���' liquor i ' -nv m Rritisl C ; irectly i ]��� - nearly ; ��� ��� '��� - ' nn ipon ivhom . . ' re an ��� , . ��� . , support ...... ��� ; "" six t tsani ; ers -ns. All thesi ,*ill bi thn wn out of work should thc Act pass. The Vet 3. THE ACT IS CLASS also indirectly means a decrease LEGISLATION, tne tion clause makes ii easy for the " man with money to get liquor, and tlic Act means absolutely ���' nothing to him. The workingman I" or man of moderate means, accustomed to buy hi* beer by tllc glass, is the man who has not the mean- to import liquor in quan- tity, and the Act would indirectly deprive him of something he de- iiisiiiess in very many allied .--.- which now derive a part heir prosperity because oi viiMiii -- coming from licensed 6. THE ACT INCREASES TAXATION. At present every city, municipality and. in thc unorganized districts, provincial authorities, derive a revenue for t.. enjoy. The act is class the licensing of tlu- liquor legislation also ni tliat it provide- that a man who is a boarder .,r a lodger cannot have liquor in his possession, -ind.. further, If the Prohibition Act passes, ibis source oi revenue vvill be entirely eliminated and thc decrease musi be made up. by general ta\cs. that liquor may not be kept iu a which means an increase in tlic hous�� where there are boarder*. tax rate. Read the Act Learn What It Means Vote "No" SIX THE STANDARD SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1916 (The following account of one of the recent Brtish attacks iu the Som- me region has come to THE STANDARD in such a way that it is known to be absolutely genuine. It is an officially accredited British correspondent's report of an interview with a British captain who was wounded in the rapture of Ilazentin Wood, not far from Pozicres. In fact, Bazeiitin is still not far from the front line, so that this story is fresh news. The account gains no small part of its interest from the naively modest way in which it is given, but the facts are thrilling enough in themselves.���The Editor). There is nothing of the professional publicist about the average wounded soldier���officer or man, now landing day by day at Southampton. They are all more concerned���thank goodness ���with action than speech; with doing things and getting them done, rather than with describing them. It is not, of course, that these heroes of ours arc either unwilling or unable to talk. They arc almost invariably, and no matter what the nature of their wounds, in the highest of good spirits; delighted to pay a visit to Blighty; happy to have had the chance of playing the fine part they have played in the great Allied offensive; absolutely assured as to the victorious future of the Push. But they have no very accurate notions as to the relative values of the different, disjointed, staccato, frequently vivid bits of information they have to dispense. With matches, or scraps of paper, or a nicotine-stained fore-finger made to serve as pencil in the nearest conveniently dusty surface, they will give you elaborate expositions of the tactics they have helped to work out. Their little lectures on the strategy of the Push are frequently couched in language more racy and more convinc- ign than the most free and easy of generals ever permits himself to use. And their lovable faces sometimes show a glimmer of disappointment, for that one does not take copious notes regarding these demonstrations. But, on the other hand, they depre cate with almost pitying wonder the odd note or two one does jot down from time to time in talk with them, when, by accident, they do enrich one with some vivid, stabbing little thrust of triumphant scene-painting. * * * "Oh, I say, you know, don't bother about that guff. Everyone knows about that, of course. But, if you really want to know what the plan was in the show, I can tell you in a minute, so far as our brigade went. Vou see, zero was , and wc were on the right flank of the ," etc. At the moment I have specially in mind a young company commander, a captain of tbe , almost the last wounded officer to be landed from the hospital ship last night. He had a good deal of the descriptive gift, and was perfectly unconscious of bis occasional use of it. I strained his indulgence a good deal, and took many notes while talking with him. What I will set down here arc just the bits be regarded as 'guff,' convinced that "everyone knows about that, of course." His fluent strat- [ egy tactics���they shall be preserved in the archives of his grateful country. "Eh? Oh, just an ordinary front line trench, you knotv; rather chipped * * * "I was lucky; met my friend almost directly wc got in. He had you know what the ordinary fire trench looks like; along the north side of the Mamctz Wood, we were What? Oh, yes, we were packed pretty close, of course, while we were waiting; only got there a little before midnight. My chaps were all in splendid heart, and keen as mustard to get thc word 'Go!' "I was lucky; met my friend almost directly we got in. He had been months in that bit of thc line and knew cvery twist of it, so was able to give me tips���poor chap! He took me along to bis dug-out, after I'd got all my chaps in position, and gave mc some jolly good hot cafe-au-lait. Tell you a funny thing about that dug-out, after. Good dug-out, with a darned sight better overhead cover than j most; or it wouldn't have been there, after the pounding the line had had in the week before. had a magnificent arrangement for cooking. I forgot the name of the stove; but you pump it up like a bicycle tire, and then it burns like the deuce; give you a hot drink before you can turn round. I'm going to have one before I go back. We had two good-sized kettles, and after we'd finished our drink we ran a regular canteen for about half an hour; boiling up cafe- au-lait as fast as thc machine would turn it out, and dishing it out all a- long thc line of my fellows, in tlieir canteens. "The weather was jolly then; but thcre'd been a lot of rain and the trench was in a beastly state. You know what it's like, after a lot of strafing, when you get heavy rains on the churncd-up ground. It was like porridge with syrup over it; and wc were all absolutely plastered, hair and mustaches and everything ��� before we'd been half an hour in the place. The Bocbe was crumping us pretty heavy all the time, but it didn't really matter, because, for some reason, he didn't seem to have got our range just right, and nearly all his big stuff was landing in front, or behind, and giving us very little but the mud of it. "What did worry mc a bit was his machine guns. His snipers, too, seemed fairly on the spot, though how the devil they could be, with our artillery as busy as it was, I can't think. But I know several of my sentries were laid out by rifle bullet. I particularly wanted to let the others get a smoke when they could, seeing we'd be there three or four hours; helps to keep 'em steady in the waiting, you know; but wc had to bc mighty careful about matches, thc Boche being no more than a hundred yards off. I hate the feeling of that stinking porridgcy clay caking on your hands and face, don't you? But one didn't notice it after a bit, because it was thc same all over. But one had to watch of a long trench stick that had that, you know. Pretty easy to get out for rifles and ammunition, and all the rifle barrels bunged up, in the dark, you know. Our adjutant came along with three, checking up watches and giving us divisional time. Mine was all right; never stopped once from the day I bought it till that left wrist of mine was hit. See! I registers my first hit: 3.26. I'll keep that; souvenir; but I'm afraid it's done as a timekeeper. * * * "Just before three I got my position, right in the middle of my company. We were going over at 3.25, you know. The trench was deep there, "THE MAN WHO KNOWS" Does not have to seek a position. A position seeks him. Business men seek "Success" graduates. We cannot supply the demand. Why not get ready now? Our Fall Term opens September 5th. The SUCCESS BUSINESS COLLEGE, Limited COR. 10TH AVE. AND MAIN ST., VANCOUVER Schools from Coast to Coast Phone Fair. 2075 Here Are the Standard-Bearers for 1916 COMPLETE LIST OF CANDIDATES THUS FAR NOMINATED FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTION Below will be found THE STANDARD'S tabulated list of all the constituencies which have nominated their candidate for the coming provincial parliamentary elections, along with the names of the gentlemen who are to represent their different parties. Constituency Alberni .. Atlin- Cariboo .. Chilliwack Cowichan Columbia . Comox ... Cranbrook Delta Dewdney Esquimalt Fort George Fernie Greenwood Grand Forks Islands Kamloops Kaslo .��� Lillooet Nelson Nanaimo North Okanagan . South Okanagan .. Newcastle New Westminster Omineca Revelstoke Rossland Richmond Saanich Similkameen Skeena Slocan North Vancouver South Vancouver . Trail Vancouver Victoria Yale Liberal II. C. Brewster Frank Mobley J. Yorston E. D. Barrow K. Duncan John Buckam Hugh Stewart Dr. J. H. King A. D. Patterson John Oliver A. W. McCurdy A. I. Fisher Dr. J. D. McLean J. E. Thompson M. B.Jackson F. W. Anderson John Keen J. B. Bryson A. M. Johnson Wm. Sloan Dr. K. McDonald Leslie V. Rogers David Whiteside A. M. Manson Dr. Sutherland W. D. Willson G. G. McGeer F. A. Pauline R. S. Conkling T. D. Pattulo Chas. F. Nelson Mayor Hanes J. W. Weart M. H. Sullivan Ralph Smith M. A. Macdonald P. Donnelly Dr. Mcintosh J. S. Cowper J. W. deB. Farris H. C. Brewster John Hart George Bell H. C. Hall Joseph Walters Conservative J. G. C. Wood W. X. McDonald J. A. Fraser W. D. Macken W. H. Hayward Dr. Taylor M. Manson T. D. Caven F. J. Mackenzie W. J. Manson R. H. Pooley W. R. Ross Thos. Uphill J. R Jackson E. Miller W. W. Foster J. P. Shaw R. J. Long Archie McDonald Dr. W. O. Rose A. E. Planta Price Ellison Mayor Jones Dr. Dier Thos. Gifford F. M. Dockrill Hon. T. Taylor L. A. Campbell W. J. Baird D. M. Eberts * L. W. Shatford Wm. Manson W. Hunter G. H. Morden Rev. Boulton Jas. A. Schofield W. J.' Bowser C. E. Tisdall Dr. McGuire Walter Leek A. H. Macgowan Thos. Duke A. Sh "art Reginald Hayward John DiMworth Leonard Tate Alex. I uca<> Socialist, Lab. or Independent J. D. Kendall; A. W. Neil (I.) - Geo. Casey W. Prit'ciiard; S. Wrigley (S.) J. A, Macdonald (Soc.) J.'Mclnnes Vs.JiW. Gillet (I.) J. A. MacDonald (Soc.) L. L. Boomer (Ind.) S. Skinner (Soc.) Parker Williams (Ind. Soc.) Robt. McBride (Ind.) W. J. Ledingham (Soc.) Wm. McNcish (Ind. Con.) J. E. Wilton (Lab.) J. Goodwin (Soc.) J. Harrington (Soc.) II. G. White (Ind.) Robt. Cassidy (Ind.) W. R. Trotter (Ind. Lab.) A. F. Fawcett (Ind.) E. C. Appleby (Ind.) T. P. Townley (Ind.) J. H. Hawthornthwaite (Soc.) P. Williams (Soc.) Dr. E. A. Hall (Ind.) P. R. Smythe; A. Morley (I.) Dan Pougard (Soc.) with a hell of a lot of mud and water; but tliere was no set parapet left, just a gradual slope of muck, as though cartloads of it had been dropped from the sky by giants���spilt porridge. 1 wanted to be first out, if I could��� good effect on the men, you know��� but I couldn't trust myself in all that muck, so I'd collared a rum-case from 's dug-out and was nursing thc blooming thing, so that when the time came 1 could plant it in the mud and get a bit of a spring from that. Clad I did, too. I passed the word along at a quarter past to be ready for my whistle; but it was all you could do to make a fellow hear by shouting in his car. Our heavies were giving it lip then, 1 can tell you. I was in a devil of a stew lest some of my chaps should get over too soon. They kept wriggling up and forward in the mud. They were frightfully keen to get moving. I gathered from my sergeant their one fear was that if we couldn't soon get going our artillery would have left no strafing for us to do. Little they knew their Br.schc, if they thought that. "I thought I could just make out our artillery lift, about a minute and a half before the twenty-five, but I wouldn't swear to it. On the stroke of twenty-five, I got a good jump from my rum-box, and fell head-first into a little pool; whizz-bang hole, I suppose; something small. It loosened two of my front teeth pretty much. I'd my whistle in my teeth, you see. But I blew like blazes directly I got my head up. Never made a sound. Whistle full of mud. But it didn't matter a bit. They all saw me take my dive, and a lot were in front of me when I got going. But 1 overhauled 'em and got in front, * * �� "I believe we must have got nearly fifty yards without a casualty. But it's hard to say. It wasn't light, you know; just a glimmering kind of a greyness. Not easy to spot casualties. The row, of course, was deafening, and we were running like lamplighters. You remember our practice stunts at home? Short rushes, and taking cover in folds of the ground. 'Remember your file of direction, sir;' dressin' by the right, and all that. Oh, the boys remembered it right enough. But, good Lord, it wasn't much like Salisbury Plain, you know. "We were going hell for leather. You think you're going strong, and��� woosh! You've got your face deep irr porridge. Fallen in a shell hole. You trip over some blame thing, and you turn a complete somersault; and you're on again, wondering where your second wind is. Lord, you haven't a notion whether you're hit or not. I felt that smack on my left wrist, along with a dozen other smacks of one sort and another, but I didn't know it was a wound, for an hour or more. All you thought about was trying to keep your rifle muzzle up, and I guess the fellows behind must've thought a bit about not stick- in' us with their bayonets more'n they could help. I was shouting , thc local name of the regiment, you know. The boys like it. But my sergeant, who was close to me, was just yelling: 'Down 'em, boys!' and 'Stick 'em Stick 'cm!' for all he was worth. ''.My lot were bound for the second line, you see. My No. 12 platoon, with 13 of 'D' were to look after cleaning up thc Boche first line. There was no real parapet left in that Boche front line. Their trench was just a sort of gash, a ragged crack in the porridge. Where I was, there was quite a bit of their wire left; but, do you know, one didn't feel it a bit. You can judge a bit from my rags what it was like. Wc went at it like fellows in a race charge the tape, and it didn't hurt us any more. tf * * "Only thing that worried us was thc porridge, and the holes. Your feet sinking down make you feel you're crawling, making no headway I wish I could have seen a bit better. It was all a muddy blur to me. But I made out a line of faces in the Boche ditch, and I know I gave a devil of a yell as we jumped for those faces. Lost my rifle tliere. 'Fraid I didn't stick my man, really, because my bayonet struck solid earth. I just smashed my fellow. We went down into the muck together and another chap trod on my neck for a moment. Makes you think quick, I tell you. I pulled that chap down on top of my other Boche, and just took one good look to make sure he was a Boche; and then I gave him two rounds from my revolver, with the barrel in his face. I think I killed the under one, too, but can't be sure. "Next thing I know we were scrambling on to thc second line. It was in the wire of the second line that I got my knockout; this shoulder; and some splinters in my head. Yes; bomb. I was out of business, then, but as the light grew I could see my chaps having the time of their lives inside that second line. One of 'cm hauled me in after a bit and I got a drink of beer in a big Boche dug-out, down two separate flights of steps; my hat! that beer was good, though it was German. But look here, I'm in No. 5 train, that that chap's calling. I must get ashore. Just want to tell you about that dugout of 's in our own line, you know. It was four o'clock in the afternoon and we'd got the Bazentin Wood al| right, then, when my orderly, who never got a scratch, was helping me back, making for our dressing station. We crawled into what had been a trench and, while I was taking a breather, I sort of looked around and made out a bit here and a bend there. Begad, it was the trench we started from. "Seems nothing, but you've no idea bow odd it was to mc; like dropping into a bit of England, after about a century and a half iu some special kind of hell, you know. Seemed so devilish odd that any mortal thing should be the same everywhere, after that day. Not that it was the same, really. My rum-case was in splinters, sticking up out of the porridge, and 1 found my map-case there: torn off my belt as we got over at 3.25. 'Won't be much left of that dugout' I thought, and 1 got my orderly to help me along to see. Couldn't find the blessed thing, anyhow. Went backwards andf forwards three or four times. Then I spotted thc head carried, sticking out through soft earth at the back of thc trench. The orderly worked that stick about a little and thc earth fell away. It was just loose, dry stuff blown in off the front part of the roof of the dug-out, and blocking the little entrance. Came away at a touch, almost, and there was the little hole you got in by. I worried through, somehow. 1 was really curious to see. "If you'll believe me, the inside of that dug-out���it looked like a drawing room to me, after thc outside, you know ��� it was just exactly thc same as when we'd left it the night before. There was the fine stove we made the cafe-au-lait on, with a half-empty box of matches balanced on the side of it, and the last empty tin of the coffee stuff we'd used, with thc broken-handled spoon standing up in it, just as I'd left it; and 's note book lying open and face down on an air pillow in his bunk���most extraordinary homey. "There was I looking at his notebook and his hold-all, and poor dead. Yes, I'd seen his body. And tbe rats, too; the rats were cavorting around on thc felt of thc roof, happy as sand-boys. They didn't know anything about tlic Push, I suppose. "By thc way, wc found only dead rats in the Bochc trenches. They say it was our gas. I don't know; but there were thousands of dead rats there, and millions of live fleas, very live, they were. I must get. Checro!" Thc brave Ally on his first visit to London wished to eat in the English fashion, in order to show his admiration for thc heroes of the Somme. He had his little phrase-book ant! F/'rich- English dictionary all ready, and diligently consulted them before be took a seat in the celebrated Strand emporium, convinced, as all Frenchmen are, that we islanders habitually eat *wr beef ha!;' raw, he carefully looked out "sanglaiilc" in his dictionary, and when the waiter came he torpedoed that hireling with the explosive command: "I wish a bleeding steak." Only for the moment was the waiter staggered, then quick as lightning, he fell into the customer's humor, and countered: "Bleeding steak, yes, sir. Do you want any damn potatoes?" CITIZENS, ATTENTION! Know all ye by these presents: ^ That for Factums and Briefs, no printers give you better satisfaction than ��In? j^taitflaro. 1$ That for Letterheads and Envelopes Sty? &tanoaru is the place to buy. 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Remember, Long Distance telephoning is not a mere word message, it is a conversation���a conversation in which emphasis and personality can be used and a definite and complete understanding reached. There is no waiting for an answer. The mail is quick; the telegraph quicker, but the telephone is instantaneous. There is but one grade of Long Distance Telephone Service���it is not deferred. B.C. TELEPHONE CO. LTD. SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR THE Dominion War Loan TO BE ISSUED IN SEPTEMBER.j By purchasing a bond yon will help to WIN THE WAR and obtain for yourself an investment of the highest class yielding a most attractive rats of interest DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE? OTTAWA. LONDON CITY AND MIDLAND BANK The growing importance of Canada as a permanent part of tlic great British Empire is reflected in the report that thc London City and Midland Bank, Limited, one ol the most substantial banking institutions of England will apply for a Canadian charter at the next session of parliament. Tin- b.Thk has sonic short time ago secured a new charter foin the 1111 - pcirral govenrment which, however, does not do away with the necessity of securing a charter from thc Canadian government. If the Londuu City and Midland Bank decides to assume a more active role in regard to Canadian financing, the event will porvc of interest, l! is the largest British bank and is well known as an institution, taking a leading pat rin the policy of amalgamation that has been so marked a feature of the British banking system during recent years. Originally the bank was a purely country one, being known as the Birmingham and Midland Hank, which was formed in 1836, with a paid- up capital of ��50,000 only. For nearly half a century, as the London Statist relates, the bank pursued the even tenor of its way as a Birmingham concern, and it was not until 1885 that the number of branches open, touched double figures. It is since 1891 that the bank has been transformed from a local institution to the position it now occupies, entry into London business bcirg secured that year by the absorption of- the Central Bank of London Limited. Since that lim'. by means of thc various amalgamations that have taken place, the miiiiDtr of offices has risen rapidly. In 1891 the bank had 65 offices open for the transaction of business. I'.;, th: end of IM! the number was 316, and by the end of 1913. the number hal been bro.-.ght up to 845. The number is now about 1,1/46. Though the paid-up capita! his risen considerlbty during thc past 3.1 years, the increase has been almost entirely due to the amalgamations that have occurred, and only once during this somewhat long period have the shareholders been invited to subscribe for fresh capital. The year 1915 proved satisfactory for the London City and Midland Bank, the net profit amounting to ��1,130,976, as compared with ��1,079,- 086 for 1914, the profits being shown as usual after transferring to inner reserves a substantial amount for the purpose of strengthening the institution. The dividend was maintained at 18 per cent., absorbing a sum of ��745,803, and the whole of the balance together with a large proportion of the carry forward, was utilized for writing down investments, etc. It is predicted by f'nancial men thai Vancouver's fast increasing importance as a world port, and its gi owing trade with the Orient, will no doubt cause thc directors to establish a branch in the Terminal City. * * * AGRICULTURE AND MARKETING Some, interesting sidelights were thrown upon the subject of farming at the recent rural conference in Edmonton. Deputy minister of agriculture Craig stated that only 4 per cent, of the cultivatablc land of Alberta is at present in use. and he followed this statement with one that farming must bc made more profitable and rural life more attractive in order to solve such problems as keeping the boy on the farm. That is a proper view which is slowly gaining ground. Not until governments recognize it and work assiduosly to that end will the farmer get the best out of farming and the nation get the best out of the agricultural industry. The (poor methods of marketing constitute one of the drawbacks to the progress of farming. Mr. Craig drew attention, for instance, to such unscientific market processes as the shipping of Timothy seed from Alberta to Toronto and the reshippmg of some of it to British Columbia for sale. About 100,000 tons of seed were shipped in the grain from Alberta to the Great Lakes ports in one season. While most of these were good for feed, the farmer was allowed nothing for them. There was no loss to the consignees as most of the seeds were ground and sold to the farmers as fancy stock feeds. The industry of agriculture is shackled with poor marketing methods and poor facilities. No other industry would tolerate them for three months. While this factor stays, the price gap between the grower and the consumer j will remain am! the grower will not receive returns commensurate with the labor and the capital expen the ability necessary to carry out his work. MORE PRODUCTION FOR EMPIRE Have we not in thc past madi thing of a fetish of trade? asked Sir George ]���'.. Foster, minister of trade and commerce, recently, in an address at thc Royal Colonial Institute. You have your own opinions about free trade. You have a ri^lu to them, but these arc times which tend I" loosen the soil of our minds, and even Frei Traders may find it necessary to modify their theories. We talk of trade, we struggle- and fight for trade. Wc have gone a long way in the past to exalt a subsidiary thing into a primary thing, and we ought lo revise nur ideas. What is trade after all? It is only an incident. If we make it the ultimate end wc arc on the wrong track. Trade is simply the handmaid of a royal mistress whose lineage goes back to the primal days and whose stock will not run out while the world lasts. That royal mistress is production. Trade and more trade you call for because of the profit you make. Production and, more production should be thc slogan in order that the primary resources of the empire may bc developed. Developed for what purpose? Xot simply that individuals shall make millions to go to their heirs, nut that some firms shall derive immense profits. Profits are good, let them go to those that deserve them in good measure, but thc idea to be kept in view is that development and production and trade by which it is brought about are all subsidiary to something else, and that is thc national welfare, the good of the nation, a great practical, concrete thing, thc uplifting of the nation. Men at the head of mighty establishments and great businesses have said: "I hope that this war will teach us the higher things���teach us to value the intermediary things for what they are worth and no more and to work in earnest unselfishness henceforth for the uplift of humanity." Wc must, said Sir George, define our attitude towards the enemy. Does that need many words? Sometimes he thought No; sometimes, Yes. Make no mistake; right in cherished Britain and in every outpost of the Empire, there arc men, and not a few, who will meet you with this statement: "When war is over we cannot, of course, cherish hatreds. The world is, after all. one family. We shall need what Germany can give. Germany must he allowed to recuperate and rebuild. Let things when peace comes go on as before." There are men, not a few, who are striving for that today, and who will strive for it tomorrow. And you have to be up and wide awake in order to counteract that influence, i am not an apostle of thc doctrine of hate. But I have a memory. I propose to keep it. I am not going to forget what the Germans have done in ignoring sacred pacts, in tearing up treaties, in outraging the humanities, in wholesale looting, cruel and ghastly barbarity, and in that, worst of all, treachery to thc sacred claims of friendship and hospitality, under cover of which they wrought their infamies. These are things I do not propose to forget. Do you? The revelation that has been made of thc German heart and thc German purpose in these two years of war is my sufficient guarantee for demanding that, for this generation at least, German goods, German wares, German partnerships, German businesses, and Germans themselves shall be excluded from the pale of the British Empire. Give them a good long time to repent, but be sure they do repent, and in sackcloth and ashes, befoer they ask to be admitted into the community of decent civilisations. Up to that time justice to ourselves and to our Allies designates our attitude.���Monetary Times. * * * TAX ON LAND VALUES The Canadian Single Tax Association has decided to urge upon the Dominion government the raising of extra revenue upon the land values of the Dominion. It is pointed out in the resolution that the national debt of Canada exceeds half a billion dollars, and at the present rate of expenditure will probably amount to one billion dollars at the close of the war This debt and also the soldiers' pen sion fund necessitates a large increase in Canada'- national revenue. The assi iatioi iggesti that no mat< increase in revenue could be di through - ��� ��� ms duties without seri- ousl* increasing the cost f livirij crippling trade, adding greatly to tbe burden of the Canadian i cople, It Is Time For a Change A Suggestion for the Re-organization of our System of Education The readers of this paper may have ' noticed the criticism of our present educational system contained in two articles appearing in this sheet some months ago. In order to refresh the impression then made, we take the liberty of re-stating a few of thi most glaring defects of the system as lit is conducted in the province. They arc as follows: (a) rinr educational authorities still retain "The number of pupils in her class who were successful in passing an examination" as a standard. 'Ihis has long ago been discarded by the other provinces. (b) This compels the teacher to "cram" rather than "educate" her pupils. Such pupils are unable to proceed when they reach the higher educational institutions and so drop out. (cl The important subject of penmanship, spelling and grammar do not receive adequate attention, and arithmetic as a subject of education is a signal failure. (d) In our high schools the subjects of geography, geology, minerology and chemistry���the fundamental subjects of our great mining industry��� are almost wholly ignored. (e) Our annual provincial examinations are conducted by a number of "Old Heads," selected by the superintendent of education, whose most prominent qualification is a disposition which caan bc easily controlled by the said superintendent. Xo adequate secrecy as to the candidate's identity is maintained, but each candidate may easily bc identified by the examiner. (f) Xo modern methods or educational experiments may be attempted unless such are initiated by the superintendent himself. Xow these are very serious defects in any system of. education, and if they are permitted to continue will finally bring our boasted educational efficiency to irreparable ruin. As an impartial observer coming from a distant part of our fair dominion, we have been greatly interested in the manner in which the educational,system of the Pacific province has been conducted, but at the same time wc are amazed that more of thc educated members of the pro'-ince are | not aware of its glaring defects. We 'are also convinced lhat main- of the teaching profession, coming as they do Horn other provinces more fortunate in their educational aadvisers, are quite cognizant of thes defects, but such is the dominating power of the autocratic authorities at Victoria that it is as much as their professional life- is worth to register any objection t present conditions. As wc have slated iu preceding articles, we are convinced that the cause of such a lamented state of affairs in our educational fabric docs not lie in our teachers. We have examined the records of many of those in charge and find them men and women who have been eminently successful in other provinces. The only conclusion then is the defect must be in the system of organization, ami we think we can easily put our finger on the weak spot. The educational system of British Columbia can only be described as a One Man System. Dr. Robinson, the superintendent of education, has been in office so long that he has hypnotised himself to believe that he is the whole system. He is so permeated with the sense of responsibility that he cannot allow anyone else to test any modern methods, or to experiment with any theory of improvement. Xow, we are thoroughly convinced that i ur superintendent of education is actuated by the best motives when he pursues such a policy; that he is anxious to do the best for his department. But it is a well known fact thai one man cannot conduit any educational system successfully if he attempts to .lo so alone. Our superintendent was, no doubt, a' - ne tii ie, I the ablest educators i" ihc ; ro ince, but thai time has long since ; ; ��� has to a greal e���teni lost dern mi thods lie has i.i- pro* in -i- long and well, and it i- n ��� reflection on him when we ad* isc thai h -nlo '������>��� given a well- rest. Bui. unfortunately, our superintendent has not been successful in ins selectio tmi ntal heads in his office. At present we coin t find on,- who i- well fitted for his position. It is our impression that they were chosen for their marked docility rather than for any marked ability. It it, then an urgent necessity for the new government to make radical changes in thc department of education. Let every branch of it be subjected to a thorough scrutiny and all weak and incapable members be dispensed with. The new government should avoid any appearances of a One Man System in thc reorganization. Let the new department be regulated by those who are the closest in touch with education���the vast teaching body of the pro* ince. Xow, let us here offer a few suggestions for the new organization: ia i Select as heads of departments men who are thoroughly fitted for them and who are conversant with the most modern ideas advanced for the ci induct of such work. (b) Place in charge of the department of education a man who is above all a modern educationalist, and who is willing to listen to the advice of those actively engaged in teaching, and to adopt readily any suggestions which are conducive to thc welfare of education. fc; The department should bc conducted along the lines laid down by an Advisory Council of Education, of which the superintendent will act as chairman, and will be wholly governed by any policy adopted by the said council. (d) Thc members ot the Advisory Council are to be elected by the teachers who are actively engaged in teaching in the province; each teacher being entitled to a vote. (e) Each branch of education should have one or more representative in such Advisory Council, the number being regulated by the school population receiving the benefit of education iu the said branch. i I'.y branches is meant: in public schools���the general course���the kindergarten���domestic science���manual training; in high schools: English��� classics���moderns ��� mathematics ��� science���commercial work, etc.) i f i Such council must meet at least every three m nths, and maybe called more frequently at the discretion of the superintendent i e I The members of such council should bc paid for the time given to ��� such work, a; the same rate as that received in die regular school work, together with expenses. lin The Provincial Examinations should.1 be conducted with absolute secrecy. The examination papers should not be prepared by any teacher who is preparing pupils for that ex- amiation. g The papers should be examined |by teachers wh< are actively engaged in teaching the subjects of examination, and should bc appointed in rotation, and not a select few be given the privilege as at present. These are only a few suggestions thrown out by a student of education, and, of course, must be subject to much modification before being put in practice. The writer has discussed tllis organization with many prominent educationists, and has received the heartiest approval of all. It is our firm belief that if some such plan be followed in the reorganization of this department under thc new government, many of the present evils will be remedied, and thc education of our fair province will be placed on a par at least with those of other provinces which are quoted as leaders in education. 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