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BRITISH WHIG | THE TORTUOUS COURSE OF MR; | HOWARD FERGUSON, Mr. Ferguson bas pursued rather' a tortuous course in connection with the Ontario Temperance Act. Spesk- {ing at Spencerviile on May sth, 1323 be said: "The peopie of Ontario by their | Votes declared for prohibition. Pro- { hibition must prevail and be obsery- ed UNTIL THE PEOPLE BY THEIR VOTES DECLARE AGAINST IT." A few days later at Sarnia, Mr. Ferguson stxted that he would not! change the Ontario Temperance Act one {ota UNLESS THE FEOPFLE DE- MANDED BY PLEBISCITE THAT SUCH CHANGE BE MADE. In 1924, before the vote was tak- en on the plebiscite, Mr. Ferguson assured the temperance people that it the law was maintained by the vole on the plebiscite, the Govern- ment would bend every energy to {carry their wishes into effect, and a sea after the vote he gave assurance in «++ 3613 writing that the popular vote would gerkes 614 | be recognized and accepted, and that ithe act would remain of the statute i book, adding that no self-respecting government could do otherwise. By 18525, Mr. Ferguson had UET-OF- TOWN REPARSENTATIVES: changed his mind somewhat, and be- {fore a convention of hotel men at {Toronto earned thelr applause and IRL Prema. tnea| made himself a big fellow by telling . a. ne 1p | them that there would be no more veri alle a 5 [direct votes of the people, no more 2 the Editor ate publishes | Piebiscites or referenda. For the the actuni same of the future his government would take -- {full responsibility of dealing with -_ circulation of The British Whig | the liquor question. { rei ae 2 the Audit Burau u i He had forgotten all abeut IEA Ae ne =e | gneech at Sarnia where he was mot NOMINATION INTEREST KEEN. |golng to change the act till the peo- | ple demanded by plebiscite that they | wanted it changed. This is the man who today has the effrontery to ask people to have con- ; fidence in Kim and to give him pow-| er to deal as he sees fit with the li {quor question. He has changed his position whenever a new idea struck him. He told the people he would do one thing and did another and yet i this is the same gentleman who | Th | wr ha lb EE nA ] ] | | Ld BE .- _. 6 oy Sis - - ee ae NTE = SUPSURIITION RATES: Svan Edition) the The interest shown by the electors of the riding in the nomination ad- dresses on Saturday afternoon was yemarkable. Nearly 1,200 people gathered at the old Ontario hall in (8 the city buildings to hear the issues i of the day'debated. Mr. Nickle was yight when he said, last week, that fhe great liquor issue demanded fhorough debate so that the people 'might know what was involved in £ SWS Think wrongly. if you please; bad : \ TISH ___ THE DAILY BRI Monday, November "EDITORIAL NOTES. - | N35 . : AEA) a oR » in all cases think for youreelf Approximately 150,000 persons | lost' their lives during the last 20 | years as a result of automobile ac- | cidents. ! Economically, morally and social- there has been ly marked advance | in Ontario since the passing of the i OTA. ~ The Women's Institute, born at Stoney Creek, Ont., had now become | 8 worldwide organization with 3,-! 800 branches organized alone in Great Britain. -- An automobile manufacturer pre- dictssthat in fifteen years there will | be 40,000,000 automobiles in the United States. Maybe they'll want | some 'Of Canada's waste areas for | parking spaces. Mr. HO W. Ackerman,' dry candi- | date in West Hastings sald to an au- | dience: "I am as good or a better! Conservative than Mr. Ireland, as I | am standing by the true platform of the party as adopted in convention.' Canada {s receiving many flatter- | ing compliments from the press of the United States as a result of the visit to this province of American jurists who have come to study the methods of our eriminal couris. No contest in the Province wiil be watched with greater interest than! that of Kingston, says the Toronto Globe, and perhaps none will be of | greater importance to the province} jor to the Conservative party. s Does government control scotch! bootlegging? An advertisement in 8 Montreal pfper by the Liquor 'Com- | mission sets forth their liquors over the dangerous gers! the advantage of uncerts and brands of the bootleg- ---- ! The Ferguson liquor policy is not | 77 " "I talked him i iY 7, J) Ee out of it--" . I had only known this would happen! So suddenly! So unexpectedly! And when everything looked so promising! "And to think that time after time he wanted to increase his life insurance and I talked him out of it. - 22, 1926. the policy of government control of the sale of liquor by permit sys- fem. Mr. Nickle, on whom the eyes | 'of the people of Ontario have been focused since he created such a sen- sation by resigning his position in the Ferguson Government, in pro- gest against its decision to serap the stood up in Toronto and striking a| | herole attitude stated in ringing! i tones: | 1 "1 want to say to you that there| { 1s no gift, no office in the gift of the | | people, not even the prime minister. {ship of the Province of Ontario, | | great position as it is, that has suf-| ticlent attraction for me TO CAUSE | {ME TO VIOLATE AN OBLIGATION & temperance alternative to the O. T.A. It is a retrogression in the march of temperance progress. Pro- hibition is the practical goal of that progress; it should be maintained and enforced. This is the view held | by the Brockville Recorder-Times. | T.A., should it be successful at | GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE." | 'the polls, declared that tha Act had | Mr. Ferguson has falled the peo-| been of great benefit to Ontario in |ple of this province and failed them | making the people more sober and | miserably. He should be turned out | gdustrious and that it could be en- jot wifice and taught that prime min- 4 {isters are expected to In the United States, the billboard | is being = banished from the rural highways and from vacant cit lots | alike; while more than one large! billboard advertiser has voluntar-| ily discontinued this form of publie- | tity as a matter of good will service | How hard I worked against myself and against my own interests. I wanted a bigger house. I wanted luxuries! I wanted everything except the protection he was urging me to accept. "I got my own way, of course. The Life Insurance was not taken. I robbed the children of their education, of my care, perhaps of their future success in life. I robbed myself of the children's companionship. For now I must leave them to earn the money needed to keep our little family together-- the money that Life Insurance would have given me if he had had his way-- "--and I talked him out of it." It has been truly said that, "If every wife knew what every widow knows, every man would carry adequate Life Insurance". : keep their | Two things in Mr. Nickle's ad- | promises. dress impressed themselves mpon 'fhe large audience. The first was | "fhat he objected to his former as-| soclates in the Ontario Cabinet throwing the question of govern- t control of the sale of liquor | tario Temperance Act in weaning a and publicepirited citizenship, SAFETY WITH THE BEVERAGE.| The Guelph Mercury says the con- | sumption of alcohol declines as fa-! cilities are withdrawn. This is] {shown by the history not only | 1 The educative value of the On | prohibition but of the licensing sys- j tem. The fewer the bars, the less the i vortex of party polities. | whole generation away from the age- Ln 4 ge i oar ye EE) And too often it is the children who must pay the tdrinking, Even it i A a de- [01d custom of intemperance is what Buch a question should not be { \ . prohibition were | : th ommercialized liquor traffic) SALT ere TR) 1 Sided tn a political election, for it the commercial quar tra li€ | remarded as too lene a step to taxes | penalty of the wife's prejudice. : fears, remarks.an exchange. From | ot be dome properly under | y : . oh ro : : iri No other govern-|thelr point of view Ontario has had | it would be very foolish now to re | : t had throws this moral issue |ten years too much of Prohibitien. | trace the Step, uiter the fuitial dit. -- the political pot, but each made | Each passing year accustoms the | ficulties have been largely over-| i the question of a. plebiscite. {people that much more to the fact | tOMme. {that -a people, with a few glaring] { The other point that Mr. Nickle | ' { 'Newly-wed, replying fo the real] was in reply to an interrup- | exceptions, can get along Sumton- estate salesman who is trying to sell | tion of a spectator who shouted ably, prosperously, nad mately ithe her a home: "Why buy a home? I| #raltor" because he had deserted I tie beverage waa of alconol. was born In a hospital ward, réared | Bis political leader The Jurmer | : {in a boarding-school, educated in a | Attorney-general replied that he was | | collage, courted in am automobile no traitor, for he had taken the ac- --- { and married fin a church; = get my | tion he had done because a greal| The Brockville Recorder and | meals at a cafeteria, live in an apart- oiple was at'stake. Thy Premier [Times is convinced that in spite of | ment; spend my mornings playing iad broken the word of himself and {all the talk of intemperanca under | golf, my afternoons playing bridge; Na Cabinet associates when he in- the Ontario Temperance Act it is | in the evening we dance or go to the | troduced government control as hls | jipossible to avoid the conclusion | movies: when I'm sick I go to a hose 7 . , 88 he was on record as de- that the comsumption. of liquor in | pital, and when I die I shall bé bur- Wa 3 - ron " Raith nn» <i \ 4 Bower. that. the will of the people, { Ontario will swell greatly in volume | jed from an undertaker's. Why p83 expressed by plebiscite, would |if the government sale policy is ad-| should we buy a house, I ask you? d until it was revoked by plebis- | opted. And as for the evils of law-) All we need is a garage with bed- . Some of the most noted Conser- | breaking there is every reason to be- | poom." leaders of the province had [lieve that vigorous enforcement ot | n with thelr party on the same | the law against those engaged in the | { ONE OBVIOUS RESULT. Life Insurance Service Never Dies" & - Pr a. ai LS ------ ------ I -------------------- ------_------------------ ~ | Qiks ATURE Dr. Vincent A. Martin|[ PANO TUNING . Plano Tuning. Repairing and DEN TIST Player Plano Adjusting. Norman Evenings hy appelstment. By Arthur N. Pack. j The marmoset cannot etand How would you lke to have a pet co'd. H. Butcher, 27 Pine Street. 272 Princess Street. 'Phone 105 'FHONE 184. ree that just ffs in a water glass * {peture will have a body above six Exaggerated. ! The marmoset monkey widl. He inches long while the tall will be Brockville Recorder and Times: lig 4 very itkeable fellow and "smart eight and a half fnches long. This HANLEY'S ' Ottawa bandits held up five persons, [gor Nis size," as some folks say of makes the marmoset a gymnast of but thelr aggregate haul was lems | ahidren. |great ability. than $30. They complain that the| In Brasil "the woods are full of| Some people call the marmoset tha {Established 1871) The premier of Ontario wants the! figures showing the per capita wealth sham." If you ever have the chaace squirrel monkey, and it is a rood IS h : liquor control policy he has stam tol the Capikal are exaggerated. {to take she famous relroed ride to name. He bas very large ears, acd i teamsh1 Py passages ciated to de decided by the electors ! {the ooffce plantations near Sao vou can find them if you look In the boo Oo parts every one registering his or her op-| i have great fan odd, fan-like tufts of bair on the cked to ul P of € world, ass- ports arranged. Througn ticwets sued over all Trans-Atiantic, Trans-Pecifie, Alaska, Where Poppy Money Goes. Paulo, you . will inion at the polls, by voting for or Ssnsgiu Lesknuty: Out of ree Te a oa ad. ars ate lk, Bermuda, Wes Indies. Mediterran ean, Round the World Bteawship , and they were not traitors for | illicit liquor traffic will in time re- ing for a principle. | sult in curbing more fully this traf- Mr. Nickle made a great Impres- (fic and restore the respect for law upon his hearers and his cause and order now alleged to be wanting. grow in strength as the days Jt will be a great fight in ton between Ald. Kidd repre- g the government control side | Mr. Nickle the O.T.A. Many who 'fntended voting for government t have changed their minds Mr. Nickle has had the cour- to take such a firm stand the policy of Premier Fer. and the other members of the fo Cabinet. They realize that a man of Mr. Nickle's standing break with his party om such mtous question, it Is their News and Views. the As a rule this queer quirk of J ---------- ---------------------- PAPER HANGING, PAINT- ING AND GRAINING : i Walnut and Mahogany Grainlag | - : ABSOLVES HIS PARTY; EXPRESS A CANDID OPINION. Specialty. Firs class work. Prices reasonable, ° 198 COLBORNE ATHLET REAL ESTATE | For Sale or Rent--116 Harrie St. For ReatewAveamore Apartments, For Sale--Dwellings, $3,000 and up. Lots, all in best joentions. Oak Fark Farm, 132 acres, well equipped. 3% miles west of King. son. Lake fromt. {dollar contributed on Poppy Day, [gles along the way. The manner in [ot quite an inch long and of a gray- against Seusersative Sandidates *10. pitty cents goes directly to the | which they scamper from limb on Oy is Spread & back and & ap- are pledged tu suppo . benefit of the disabled and depend- 'jmb in the jungle end the chatier | pears to ba streaked black and red- word be passed along that party af- eat, either in form of assistance oF ghey keep up is astoriching. dish brown. filiations do not count in the elec-'of wages. The other ten cents cov-| ~ tiom; it is the expressed opinion of ers materials, shipping and the es-| the electors that is desired. Every. ®endial work of administering thei1.000 or 2 2,000 second-feet of water. | to stand with him if Ontario is along moral lines. one is free to act according to his or her inclinations, at least this is speech at Picton. Party predilections! do not count in this election. The issue Premier Ferguson wants de- cides is: Whether the people ap- prove liquor coatrol.as he has out- lined or the continuance of the Om< tario Temperance Act. The premier absolves his party supporters to give [a free and frank opinion. Which | side are you on? : rr -------------- the view taken from the premiers | distribution, also assisting ad ost. ment service work. {Chicago has dreams of becoming aa! ocean port on a dedp-walerways &ys- | item. Te Coughed It Up. { Los Angeles Times: A Chicage dishwasher stole 8 $10 bill of hs Calgary A PePhe Liberals of employer and indignantly deciared Omtario in the coming election sre his virtue. When taken to ile PO- [defimitely behind the Ontario fem- Kies maton his clothes examined Act. What seems even more without 'giving evidence of his| important than that is that ther are crime, he was suddenly seized with opposing & government which re- a fit and coughed up the cash. HE coives mandates from the peopin in conscience could not stomach the the most definit fashion p and orime. {then proceeds quite calmy¥ to is The Cat Out of the Bag. New York Worl: Ilinois has now | « transferred her calm to Great Lakes water : -------- The Important Point % Loniiona, are demanding! L'Evesement discusses the ques a Iskerdo-gulf Waterway. ton of colonisation in the Sast Tee canal. thal: "The president of the Canadian -army oagineers have Pacific Rallway recently éonvened a thal a barge canal could) meeting of the prime ministers of | Present commerce wilh of Immigration and oclonization. This initiative was probably due to jr oriticiems which have beer made by the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick governments on the eud- ject of the injustice committed to the eastern provinces through a pro- posal being uniquely directed to set. tling immigrants dn the West. The cost of the policy of immigration is borne by all Canadian taxpayers and each province has a right to a fair share of the new settlers. The guests of Mr Bealty profited by the oc sion to point out that there are thousands of acres in the Maritime Provinces om which Immigrants might settle. The course taken by Mr. Beatty testifies to the fact that be properly appreciates cerinis oriicisms as they concern the immigration policy of the Canadian Government, and it was an sot of diplomacy and courtesy on his part to show such marked regard for the interests of the governments of the eastern provindes. Perhaps nis in- figence may likewise be useful to the province of Quebec: for, in v ' Insurance in ail its brasches. KINGSTON AGENCIES, LTD. Tel. 708. 67 Clarence Street. J. 0. HUTTON, Mgr. | -- SA -------- lo ng -- matters of immigration, ®t i= . tain thet our railway corporation: exercise wore practiced influence than the ministers and high of ticinis of the Canadien Government A number of provincial ministers have already suggested that the fed. Zot to beby svoted to coloni- mation purposes in thelr respective they maintain in Europes several of the provincisl governments are i: a position to serve the immigration in an effective manner would be in favor of this funova- tion * dommine. With the agescies tha" Public opinioe in Quebec cortalinly | Lines. 2 Prepaid passages arrangea for it you desire to bring relatives or friends from abroad. For full particulars apply to or write J. I'. Hanley, C.P. & T.A, CN. Kiys. Office, Canadls- National Kis. Ontario streets, Kingston, Ont. Open day and night. 'Fhaces 99 or 283; New Goods | " New Table Raisins New Brazil Nuts New Shelled Pe New Sweet Cider Jas. REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 and #90, eral authorities might well entrus | to the provincial governments their | fair abare of # immigration bud-! cages of | Station, corner Johnson ang 2