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81-NO. 146 A Splendid . Opportunity. It requires a three-fifths majority to abolish the bar in a single munici- pality. But a simple majority vote in the legisiature after the 29th would abolish all the bars in the province. Those who are in favor of abolishing both the bars and the three-fifths clause now have their op» portunity. "wil Sweep the the Country. A commercial traveller writing to the press ssys: Sir James Whitney committed a political tactical bhiun- der-in not accepting Mr. Rowell's of- ' fer to assist him in carrying a meas- ure abolishing the bars, as from per- sonal contact with all shades of opin- ion from one end of the 'province to the other I am satisfied he "sould have swept the country and gone back with a larger majority than he ever got. But because Whitney missed his chance Rowell will be re- {isting on the 29th, unless every sign Tails, Who is Responsible Fd the Bar? Three classes are cited as jointly. responsible for the evils of intemper- ance: First, the owners and keep- ers of the licensed bar; second, all who make for the continuance of the traffic by. patronizing the open bar; third, those who by their indiffer- once permit 'the evil to exist or by their vote license the traffic. The. Christian church -must openly declare herself the enemy of every form of iniquity and injustice, the active partner in every great reform and. champion of righteousness in very grade of private and public i No Christian has minded his whole biisiness when he bas said his prayers during the week and gope to church once or twice on Sunday, Put on the Handicap. + What splendid progress has been made in license reduction through the efforts of the Whitney govern- ment, say the upholders of that gov- ernment. There might have been had it not put a breke on that progress. Dur- ing the first two years of its admin- istration there was a reduction of 540 licenses, mainly. through local option. But that -was going too] fast, and at the solicitation of those holding licenses, the three-fifths clause was passed. During the re- maining seven years of their admin- istration 699 licenses were cut off, mainly by local option again. There would have been 108 more cut off had not the three-fifths clause been passed. Dr. Ross voted for the three- fifths clause, and he will not vote for its removal. Not the Supreme Issne, Guelph Meércury A' pretty good indication of the manner in which the campaign is getting on the nerves of the conser- vative party can be foupd in the last final attempt that is being madeby by no less a person than Hom. Mr. Hanna to throw dust in the eyes of the electors in regard to the tem- perance issue by claiming that the biingual schools are the chief fssue of the present campaign. Mr. Hane na, if by this method you can suc- ceed in turning the people of this province aside from their present ob- jective point, viz., a barless Ontario, you will be worthy. of the Carnegie medal, but you can't do It. f ever there was a more flagrant, case of "hypoerisy, we would Hke to hear of it. Within a week of polling Mr. Hanna riges and announces at the bi-lingual school question is the chief issue.. Mr. Hanna, if it is, why did your leader, Sir James Whitney, not deal with it in his manifesto to the electors when he dissoled the house and decided to go to the peo- ple? Surely if it were the supreme issue, It should have got some men- tion at least in so important a docu- ment; Tipping the Scales. Port Arthur Chronicle The majority of electors are al- ways carried along on the tide of their party sympathies or prejudi- ces, but there are amazing cross- currents in this campaign which gre sweeping a very large minority from their past Party affiliations: and it is this minority which decid- es elections. The two parties in. this province were mich more nearly balanced in the last provincial election than the disparity in the legislature indica- ted. Under our electoral system a comparatively slight shifting of the popular vote tips the scales. change of a few thousand votes de- stroyed the Ross government in 1905, and reduced the liberal presentation in the present house to 13. three years ago. The shifting back of a few thousand votes will work havoe with the Whitney gov- ernment'se majority, which is out of | proportion lo its majority in re- | the | opposition goes into this battle | stronger than in 1911? Rowell and Club Licenses. N. Wy Rowell, speaking at nominations at Woodstock, said : understand that it's said 1 am a member of some clubs down in To ronto, and that this is a verv serious offence, | ami a member of the On- tario Club, which is a club just like the Toronto (lub, the National Club and the Albany Cfub where we can go for Juncheon. 1 go to the On- tario Club for luncheon instead of going to one of the hotels in the city. All these clubs have livenses. When the Toronto Club, the National Club was opposed to it and T-gave my woice against it. : "1 say to any who are interested in the question : 'Give me your help and your support and [will see that the licenses are cut out of the On: tarjo, Club, which is a club Just like othet clubs in the province." Signs of a Storm Record There are signs of. a storm brewing. It may or may not be heavy enough to wreck the govern- the "f § Windsor gow 'is that the people are deeply and produce a political upheaval. This temperance cry has -been haunting the politicians - on * sides like the wail of a lost soul. tress, but all, with one accord began 'to make excuses until Mr. Rowell life on the issue to abolish the bar. In vain have government suppor- ters argued that this election was called to secure an endorsement from the people on the good roads measure and the workmen's com- pensation act. In vain, also have the speakers pleaded that the province should have tax reform. and should turn out the tories because of al- leged extravagance or incompetence, The only big, outstanding issue In { which the people whonattend the {meetings are interested in the ques- tion of abolishing the bar. JAPAN'S COTTON INDUSTRY. Spindles in Operation Have Trebled in Taree Years, Baltimore Amer If cotton manufacture is as yetan infant industry in Japan, it ie surely a rapidly growing infant. Last year, owing, it is said, to China's increas- ed demand for cotton following the revolution, 'there was. a tremendous province. And who doubts that the ment, but surface indications right stirred over the abolition of the bar, an issug that may start da landslide | both | They have heard the voice of dis- | came along and staked his political | liberal | inerease. Thus the uw ber of svind-| a les in operation had already arisen {from 760,000 in 1897 to more than 12, 000,000 in 1911, and more than 400,000 spindles were added in 1912. The industry is about fifty years| 'old: in 1882 there were only 30,000 spindles at work, What this imports | as regards America is indicated by | The Japan Magazine, from which we | take the figures above. It says: "Phe industry that, more than. all others, more into competition with the west, 4nd which bas shown the most phe-! nomenal development, is that of cot- ton spinning. In the Orient, where | cotton may-be regarded as a staple of dress, this is but natural; but that Japan can import her raw material | .and place her goods on- the home market and even on the markets of | India and China as cheaply as the! manufacturers of Europe and Ameri- | ca, is what gives food for thought." reat ee isin . WOMEN WILL ACT. The talk about the diver- sion of the drink eustom from the bar to the home is most- ly buncombe, The truth is that for tweénty glasses of li- quor now taken: at the bar there would not be more than one taken at the home. At any rate, the women, who are mostly concerned for the home life, are practically unanimous in their desire to get rid of the bar, which ab- sorbs so much of the wages which ought to come" to them, and they are quite able to. take care of any of the bot- tle traffic which may remain after the bar has been gotten rid of. fester ETE Ti sets ssbtans CHRP RPI PEPE ere TREE EPS ip ed PEPPPPE RRR THE L FGEND oF JOSEPH. Work on Boards' at Lane, Strauss' Drury audi- the last Le- him- i London, June 25.--A brilliant ence attended the production by Russian ballet at Drury Lane night of Richard Strauss' "The gend of Joseph," Herr Strauss self conducting. The audiencé gave the ballet a {great reception but the aritics are not "so enthusiastic. While admiring the splendors of the stage setting, they fimd, defects in the treatment of the story by its authors. As regards music, they declake it has a distine- tive atmosphere, but that it is doubt ful if it will advances Strauss' repuia- tion. Be sure you are right Thefore throwing over the 'high-speed lever, TS the. For the benefit of our customers fs bringing Japan more and | a MIN AT EIGHTY | lw RITES REGARDING THE ABO- LITION OF THE BAR. {Tells of a Township Neighbor Who - ('ame to a Horrible Death Through | Bad Liquor Sold in Bars, Kingston, June 24-- (To the Editor) | We are on the eve of a general elec- {tion and 1 wish. to say that I have {lived in the vicinity of Kingston for lover eighty years and have always 1taken more or less interest in elec- tions. During that time many im- portant questions have been discus- | sed and voted-en by the electors of | the province, but I firmly believe there was never an issue which af- fected both the social and moral in- {terests of the community as does the | temperance question, which is before the people at the present time. Thig question has engaged the earnest attention of all Christian churches, and the prayers and labors of all Christian organizations, toge- ther with thosé of the multitude who have suffered from the unrighteous traffic in spiritous liquors for genera- tions past. Now that it seems to have come within reach of the peo- ple to obtain the boon they have for so long been striving, what a res- ponsibitily rests on the Christian peo- ple of the province to rise in their might and show the world that they are Sincere in endeavoring to- have tus evil banished from the country. I should like to give an illusira- tion of what. whiskey is doing in many cases today. A good many years ago, in my own neighborhood, a man, who in his sober moments was a kind and obliging man, but who would leave -home for iwo or three weeks at a time having a "spree' as he called it, was brought homé one night suffering from a {very severe attack of erysipelas. He "had been aw ay from! hoine for an un- usual length of time and, the attack was brought in, the doctor said, by neglect and bad trehtment while a- way from home He was a hard patient to wait on, and the-members of the family were exhausted, so 1 propoded staying with him for a night. The horrors, of thal night I. shall never forget. 'He cried almost. continually for whiskey and beer for five long hours, only stop- ping long enough to tell me with terrible oaths to hurry up and bring it. His last words on earth were words of hidéous blasphemy and had it not been for that demon drink, he {might have lived a clean, useful life and been a credit to his community. There are any number of such cases and even worse witnessed by sofrow- ing mothers and wives, and still the saloon flourishes. ap There ave many things mentioned in the Bible which we are forbidden to do; we shall do no murder, we shall 'not steal, and so om, but from * all these we have the assurance that by thoroligh repentance and the mercy of God we may be forgiven. How terri. ble is the sentence pronounced against the drunkdrds though--"the drunkard shall not enter the kingdom of hea- (ven."" ' We cannot 'the mercy of God but for the poor sinner "who spends his last moments on earth blaspheming his Maker, the future looks gloomy in the extreme. It seems a pity that the temperance question was brought into politics for it might induce some who seem to [place party and politics before every- thing else to vote against a cause | which. under other circumstances they, {would have voted for; but whatever { the result of the coming election may be, it i= the duty of every Christian man to work on and pray that God will, in His own good time, banish from his beautiful earth the two greatest evils--war and intemperance. In conclusion I wish to say' that the unfortunate man of whom 1 spoke procured his poison in Kingston for years, and still these man-traps are open producing similar cases to this. The townships adjoining Kingston have all decided for temperance. When will this city awake to her duty ? I have done all in mv power {or the temperance and [ believe the work will go on to a finish and tem- perance will rule wictorious 10 our beautiful land --TEMPERANU] CAN I VOTE FOR THE BAR ? A Question a Christian Has Put to Himself. cause 'ofitributed As a Christian, can 1 vote, next Monday, in favor of the barroom ? The Great Teacher said: '""He that is not with Me is against Me." Now no intelligent person can say that the is in any sense on the side We all know that it is one of the greatest opponents, one of the mightiest enemies of Christ -and 'His kingdom I'his being so, and -it can not be denied, can I as a Christian voter cross over and. vote for an in- stitution so destructive to the inter- ests of all that is sacred, pure and good. I certainly cannot and retain my Christian integrity I'his is not politics. I am a conservative, but my religious principles will not al- low me to vote against abolishing the bar There is not a crime in all the dark | catalogue. of crimes which may not at | somé time in some way be 'traged to the barroom, and its influence Aad vet notwithstanding all this, shall 1 vote for its retention ? I cannot; I dare not "No man can serve two masters "Consistency, thou art a jewel. barroom of Christ. set any limit to |, {suffered for three years. 'this letter, mend so excellent a treatment.' Cie PAGES 9 TO 12 . McNAUGHT FAVORS BAR ABOLITION. = Toronto, June 25--W.K. Me- Naught, C. M. G., former con- servative member for North- east Toronto, who lost the nomination at this, election, is another conservative who . favors the abolition of the bar. At Markham on Mon- day at the Bast York nomin- ation Mr. McNaught said 'he was in favor of the bar be- ing wiped out. The meeting cheered the statement, and then he qualified it by stating that the hotelkeepers should be compensated for the loss of licenses. PEPER PIERRE FPP et r 0 The Ballot is Secret. : When a heeler makes. overtukes and intimates that unless you vote for De. Ros "Voli" job will be in danger of belonging to some one else, you can tell him that the ballot is * ret. Vote as you wish. + Strive to become a leader; supply of followers exceeds the de- mand, © Some people worry - because they have nothing else to worry. about. Skin Trouble on the Scalp Skin Dried and Cracked and Hair Fell Out--Cured by Dr. Chase's Oint« ment. 3 Eczema is annoying and distress- ing any time, but doubly so when it gets into the scalp and causes the hair to fall out. Here Is a red fetter from a lady who was cured using Dr. Chase's Ointment. Mrs. Heetor Currie, Ont., writes "1 was cured of a dis- agreeable skin disease of the scalp by using Dr. Chase's Ointment. The trouble started with itching and pain in the scalp ,the skin would get dry and erack, and at times would bleed, and the hair would fall out. I tried three doctors without benefit, and Reading in almanac about Dr. Chase's Oint- ment, I" began its use, and am now completely cured. The hair has grown again, and 1 am as well as 1 ever was. 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