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stouffville september 2 1926 whitchurch tp council whitchurch township council met at the township hall vandorf on saturday last aug 28th members all present reere in the chair jllnntes of last meeting were read and confirmed a communication was presented from york county hospital gltlng notice of admission as indigent patifflit of richard atkinson claimed to be a resident of whitchurch a number of bills were presented treasurer was instructed by resolution to pay the following accounts j a mabley constable 39 00 36 ft culvert 41 40 f bell 200 yds gravel 50 00 jk brown 125 yds gravel 31 25 h legge cutting weeds 12 00 wh sprozton road work 10 90 geo rood 44 yards gravel 11 00 fred monkman road ditch 9 84 earl connor 85 yds gravel 2125 an widdifield gradingetc 65 17 a emmerson raking stone 13 05 j sticwkood cutg weedsetc 10 86 other resolutions passed accepting the bondsmen offered by the collector instructed councillor crawford to ascertain whether richard atkin son was a resident or whitchurch at the time of his admission to the york county hospital council adjourned to view roads opposite lot 18 con 9 and to meet again on sept 25 to bent 124 acres at lot 8 con 4 uxbridge excellent buildingo dwelling and plenty of water apply mrs john collins on premises c 28 car for sauk mclaughlin car 22 special tour ing gone 7000 miles good tires spare rim and tire never used lea ther finja good as new 800 d baird 921 college street toronto phone lombard 6675 28 wanted young calves for vealing purposes also highest prices paid for fat calves j fchurjyt phone 6405 31 for sale young holsteln bull and ona sow with pigs r j smith phone 713 wanted large quantity of buckwheat honey sam golden at pennocks livery bend the tribune to absent friends every farmer needs one i have a number of firstclass farm scales and good truck scales in stock they are guaranteed the same as new ones so why pay the big fancy price while these bargains are waiting round for you second hand farm implements of all kinds for sale call at my yards h herman phone 102 stoxflffville for sale ford coupe in excellent condition art lehman for sale good driving horse dark bay quiet and reliable double or single mrs w lewis rr 4 27 poultry wanted highest price paid for fat live poultry also for feathers wool hides junk etc ben rexlin stouff ville phone 7821 for sale about sixteen acres of good mar ket garden soil crop on now good apple orchard and large luantlty of small fruits good brick house and outbuildings about one half mile west of stouffville on good road jjus passes door apply mrs wan lewis rr 4 stouffville 27 black diamond tlow shares saved the farmers in ontario 10000 last year get your share of that this year they stand up well in stoney land and q black diamond share at 100 will out wear two steel points worth from 5 to 9 o m madill ahona ontario phone 9005 stouffville with the customs investigation still far from finished the king government already stands convicted of having cooperated with smugglers bootleggers dopesters and thieves and of having thus been a party to defrauding the national treasury strangling legitimate business debauching officials high and low thwarting the administration of justice and bribing the electorate to cite hut a few instances- already proven from its appalling record of malfeasance b 1 stolen automobiles smuggled into canada with the connivance of customs officials were sold for a pittance to friends of the king government and those found guilty were allowed net only to go unpunished but to continue their nefarious trade c i- o smuggled liquor selling was engaged in on a large scale by r customs officials whose duty it was to protect the treasury o corrupt officials were unpunished and promoted honest officials were punished and demoted a prisonmade goods are on the prohibited list yet tons find tons of such goods produced in prisons where contagious diseases were prevalent among the inmates were smuggled into canada for sale to innocent canadian consumers with the direct knowledge and cooperation of government ofljcjais 5 police officers members of ihe incorruptible royal canadian mounted were withdrawn from the quebec boundary lineat the request of the smuggling ring honest traders had asked for increased police protection but the king government preferred to grant the request of thoe who were defrauding the public revenue f guilty knowledge even in 1923 of the frauds that vere being practised has been proven against the king government beyond the shadow of a doubt time and again in 1924 and 1925 the commercial protective association an organization of business men placed before mr king irrefutable evidences of it that they had succeeded in tracing down at their own expense with his government hopelessly entangled with canadas criminal element mr king did not dared not take any action to remedy the appalling conditions j a total revenue loss estimated at 35000000 per year was the result of ths smuggling thus- condoned by the king govern ment q a 54800 loss was sustained in one case alone when mr cardiri acting minister of customs and excise settled for 3209 with a dishonest importer who according to mr cardins own officials had cheated the treasury out of duties amounting to 58000 this deal was consummated just previous to the last election 9 free liquor from government warehouses in montreal was supplied in generous quantities to members of the king gov ernment and to government officials in ottawa in contra vention both of the federal law and the prohibition law of ontsrio r r- the habit- forming drug traffic is ori of the worst curses in the world today under the protection of the king govern- inerit montreal became one of the great dope- distributing centres of north america 1 the peak of this corruption and of this interference with the customs collection and the administration of justice is proven by the evidence to have been reached just prior to the general election of october 1925 when at the written request of liberal candidates ministers of the crown called off the koyal canadian mounted police because they were enforcing the law kept convicted crooks outof jail and sanctioned treasury frauds as a means of securing the return of the king government to power despite the face thatwith mr kennedy supporting them the liberals had a majority on the investigation committee that the chairman mr rvlercier was a liberal and that the prosecuting counsel mr calder was a liberal candidate in the last election and despite the further fact that the committee sat almost daily for five months thus affording liberal members ample opportunity to uncover malfeasance on the part of previous ministries not one word of proof not one breath of suspicion was brought against the administration of the customs department urder the laurier borden and meighen govern ments but only against its administration under mr william lyon mackenzie king has anything more disgraceful ever besmirched the pages of canadian history can a proud and honourable nation whose people fear god and eschew evil afford to condone such dishonesty such corruption w on the part of its leaders and public servants col t rl lennox for north york r h mcgregor for south york and avoid another election ltbitalconervative victory committee 36 etal street eejt toronto 3