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0 VAL BYE ogg we R Perry A carload of Slt just arrived ; See our stock of p SWEATER COATS | ~ UNDERWEAR BOOTS & SHOES PRICES RIGHT J. FP. McCLINTOCK Port Perry = Ontario x medts De yourealize, Tai means to. fron? Cail and convince yourself or pheve ish ~Bell : | Government to-day = But the Govern- | | ment is not yet completed. 1ptedged! «The Prime Minister has stated to my word when I undertook to estab" you the basis of the formation of the v1 leton, John Tinsley, Eagli of late and they all look O.K. Bill Lynde has a BE of and so far Fisher and Stone have not been out to France. ( ; the telegram was received by Mrs Belnap of Prince Albert 6 a regret to inform you: No 4749 Pte William Belnap, infantry, previously reported missing, 'now officially. reported killed in action May 1917. i 0, (Signed) Director of Records, Ottawa Word was ecelived Bete a few days ago that Signaller Gordon Brad- ley was in the military hospital at Ottawa, being ill with pleurisy and tonsilitis, We hope he will soon recover. = Pte. Randolph Switzer wrote home as soon as he was admitted' to the hospital in Belgium. He says that the gas attack which he suffered . was not severe and that he hopes to be able to report again for duty in . a short time. ~ We hope so, too. Word has also been received from Pte. Clarence Purdy, who says that the wound in his head is only slight. Port Perry people are glad * to hear that kind of news, both of Clarence and "Cy." Switzer. Pte Will Stoutt is reported wounded in the shoulder, having been admitted to the hospital on the 11th of November. . Again Mr Wm Midgley hasbeen called upon to lose a son in the great struggle for freedom. A few days ago Mr Midgley received word that his son Robert, who enlisted in the West, was killed in action on ths 7th of November, . This is the second son to give his life in the - cause, William having been killed some months ago. Word was received from-Signaller Clifford Jackson who was then in Halifax on his way overseas. The Union Government Meeting. The town hall was fairly well filled at the organization meeting in the interests of Union Government on Saturday evening. Col. J F Grierson * occupied the chair, and opened the meeting with a brief address urging that prejudice be thrown aside by the electors. He said that as soon the Goyernment had time the matter of ensuring sufficient labor on the farms would receive attention. Such matters as the Franchise Act, the C.N.R. Purchase, etc., could be remedied if we were victorious in the war, but they would not matter if we 13st. Warden F L Mason is glad to be with the Union Liberals, who have not become grafters simply because they favor Union Government. - ~. They are honorable men. He believes that the filty-fifty basis of repre- sentation ifi Parliament is guaranteed by Sir Robert Borden. He is sure that the Unionist candidate will be elected, but the contest will not be a walkover, Mayor Conant, of Oshawa, spoke at length, giving due credit both "to the Liberals who stay with Laurier, and those who support Union Government, but is not in accord with Laurier's war policy, as it would - retard the prosecution of the war. Some say Canada has done more than her share But what we have done is simply more than we thought our share would have to be when war first broke out. To substantiate this claim, Mr. Conant gave the following estimate as to the number of men in khaki in some of the Allied countries: France, 1 out of 6 men. New Zealand, 1 out of 13. CANADA, 1 out of 20, Mr Wm Smith, ex-M.P., spoke of the important part the ladies are to play in the coming election. In all his thirty-five years of public life Mr Smith had never seen a time like the present. The need for men 1s great, and to introduce a referendum on conscription would stop the progress of the war, as Laurier cannot bring op-a referendum until next March, and even then the Military Service Act would have to come be- fore the Senate before it can be repealed. Mr Smith urged that the electors give Union Government a mandate to vigorously prosecute the 'war, and give proper support to the boys at the Front. Brijan, 1 out of 7. Australia, 1 out of 13. The Fifty Fifty Basis of Representation A subscriber has brought in the following answer to our question 'as to the guarantee that Union Government will be on the basis of 50-50 "I am very glad indeed that eight and labor. That pledge will be car- leading men, representative of the ried out or I will not rémain at the | Liberals of Canada, are in the Union head of the Government. --Sir Robert Borden lish it that it would be completed on , Government," he said, 1 have ab- | the basis of equality of representation solute confidence that "the pledge of | between the two political parties; with the Prime Minister will be fifty-fifty." | getiite Xepiesentation. to agricsleste) --Hon. N W Rowell - ¢ yrofitable reas addition Re en covet - © Aay Branch of this Bank will take Fo your subse: Br a PORT PERRY BRANCH H. G. HUTCHESON, Manager. RR RR STR The Election Address of Mr W. E. N. Sinclair, Liberal Candidate to the . Electors of South Ontario. Ladies and Gentlemen: -- Having been nominated as a candidate in the pending election, you are entitled to know from me my views on matters of public concern. An entirely new situation has arisen, and the Conservative party, which has always had a candidate in this Ridihg, Has none by that name to-day. There has until about a month ago been a Conservative government at Ottawa with Sir-Robert Borden as its leader. Parliament dissolved without any change With an election in sight the. Borden Union gov- ernment was formed by the withdrawal of certain cabinet min- witers and their appoihtment to more lucrative positions, while certain Liberal partners were taken in, enough to.sound large, but not enough to have an equal say in the affairs of Government, and the conduct of the war. The: program of these self-constituted cabinet ministers, repre- senting no constituency, and having no mandate from the people, was to carry out the same thing in all the Ridings by having a few men meet together and elect a supporter of the Borden Union government, without any reference to the people. The Press which has in the past professed to stand for the people has largely joined in with the Government. But the people in spite of all this have thought their own way, and to the credit of the people of South Ontario they have refused to be deprived of a say in the affairs of the Country and the conduct of the war, and I have been called upon to voice their views in this contest A glance at the frame up known as the Union Government should satisfy the most casual observer that it is a Union Government in name only. Sir Robert Borden, whom the press of the country, irrespective of party, have been criticizing for his inaction in the conduct of the war, is at its head. With a cabinet all of his own faith he has made a failure. How can the peo- ple expect him to do better with one composed of men of such diver- gence of opinion as his present one? A real Union Government, formed after the resignation of the whole Cabinet, was in the hands of the Goyernor General, and made up of the best brains and business ability of both parties, with proper representa- tion for the agricultural and laboring classes. would have been received with rejoicings in the whole of Canada. The Country could then have had a non-partisan business administration for the prosecution. of the war, a thing which should have been consummated months ago, at a time when the energies of the whole nation could have been concentra- ted upon the supreme issue, and when voluntary enlistment, then at its zenith, could have been carried on to the close of the war to the lasting credit of Canada and Canadians. But a Union government chosen by Sir Robert Borden and built upon the record of the Borden administra- tion since 1911, and more e8pecially since the outbreak of the war, with «the recurring war scandals so ingeniously covered over by the ever "present white washer, with the ever increasing cost of the necessities of life so absolutely ignored, save at a late date when a food controller was appointed to make regulations which do not regulate, and with the carnival of profiteers going on to the dismay of the common people, without any attempt to take a share of the profits for the prosecution of the war, cannot expect a hearty response from the people who are suffer- ing. The Borden Union Government formed to profit at the polls by the Canadian' Northern Purchase Bill, the War Times Election Act, and the' Military Service Act, all forced through Parhament "by Sir Robert Borden, the present Premier, under closure, without the right of free discussion, which is the glory of all British Legislatures dearly bought from the autoggacy of the past, cannot expect to be regarded as a true Union Government of all the sentiment of Canada, even though it has changed 1ts personel in part. And so the call comes to me from the people to allow. them a choice in their selection of a member forthe next Parliament at Ottawa, and to frustrate the attempts of the few to take ~from them the choice of that member by selecting in' private caucus a supporter of the Borden Union Government to be elected by acclamation Let me say first of all that I am for winning the war. Whatever 1 can do in that regard, I will, so that that this sorrow stricken country may again know peace and prosperity as soon as pcssible, but not until the freedom for which we are fighting has been established for us and for all the world. &But I do not cry win the war as a play of words ae has so much become the habit of late, but from a sincere desire to dou my part in that great and glorious undertaking. The management of the war by thé Borden Government, with the rush for safety first jobs at the expense of the country by so many, who apparently for the cause of freedom took up arms, has created distrust where confidence should reign, and has led the people tv look with suspicion on' the loyalty cries of many, who with the ability to render service, are only' making a pre- tence and costing the country a lot of money. By the action of Premier Borden, voluntary enlistment was retarded as the public records show when men were offering faster than they could be utilized =~ When once this took place it was difficult to restore confidence in the minds of the people while the same Government was in control, and so conscription is men, a thing unknown to Canada, was introduced althouph Sir Robert Borden had repeatedly said it never would be, and although ther Toronto Globe said no responsible statesman would propose it. By its introduction the Government 'assumed that patriotism and valor were. dead in Canada, whereas the fact was the people were disgusted with the war administration of the Government, The young men of Canada are as loyal and chivalrous as ever, and are prepared, as their forefathers oand to die in fresdou's cause, : Those who bedevilled the of voluntary enli nt say that system is at an end. Ido it, and I do Lf er men of Canada are as ready as f to 'offer their services in the war, provided. they have confidence in oe tht and in the malin of military affairs, and pro- also there is conscription of wealth to back them up. They will olunteer in thousands to serve their King and Country, to keep our to standard, and Telicve those | in the trenches who offered their services and are' Is of Sie Wilind Laurier SE