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15,000; ve renovate the 4 ew. Minister of Militia, $950 for-carpets, $115 for curtains: Mr, ler spends $1500 on carpets anid Yariture for his Office. : "| Mr. Rowell also. finds that his predecessors, have been: i quarters entirely inadequate in its appointments for his lux- 'urious requirements :and: the' country: must pay the: cost. Have you, 'the' Electors, who pay'tle cost, any reason to ex- pect changed.conditions:under Union Government? There is reason to believe that war. conditions are repre- sented as worse than they:are, With. an 'Annual Divi- dend Policy in the Sun Life of Canada Canada's Greatest Life Insurance. Co. D. J. REBURN, Phone 142. <> Dis. Mgr. tors. Why 'the urgent tele- gram to Liberal editors to try and check the slump.of the sol- ldiers' vote -in- England from Borden? Why-do: the Toronto press suppress. all reports of Liberal méetings and also sup- press reports of organized at- tacks' on Liberal meetings. at Newmarket, Vancouver, - and elsewhere, 1 The Honorary Officers, the office holders support Union Government. Can the private soldier expéct much from it? The record of the past is suffi- cient .answer.- The frantic ideath-bed efforts. now being made to placate public opinion can be.only a matter. of ridi- cule. The concessions may. be proper, but the fact that they are made in the midst of the election brands them as only an election dodge. The soldiers and their wives andthe farmers' sons who are now sought to be satisfied by | concessions may' well doubt | the sincerity of the Govern- ment. . It has changed its atti- tude many times ina few weeks... Is there any guaran-} tee that after-the election, pro- mises will'beKept? "Will not a strong Unionist majority cause a relapse to old. condi- | tions? | 'Within the past week the | Goyernment have paid to) MacKenzie & Mann $6,000,- 000.00 in connection with the B.C. énd of the colossal liabil- ities forced upon the pegple of Canada by the C.N.R. legisla tion last session, _TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH SIMCOE. . : LADIES ANDGENTLEMEN: : 1 wish to again address you. through the public press: on 1. the issues now before the Can- es. - adian people. . ; E @ "An attémpt is being made to place one-issue only before the people. There are many. Asan Independent Liberal | am in a position fo and will, if .elected, support any measure, no matter from what source it: comes, to. win the war and give. every possible assistance to the forces-at the Front. I feel that 1 can do more in that_respect:than a candidate bound to the Unionist Party-- va Party which must bear the odium of responsibility of the: past administration of the Mil- ! itia. Department and for the q. iniquitous C.N.R. scandal and 2 the new: Disfranchising Act. The Union Government is ' backed up by the Profiteers, » the Pork Barons, and the Rail- way Magnates. My opponent is supported by:them all: No Independent: Candidate will receive their support: From which Candidate can the electors of this Riding ex- pect protection of their intér- ests? - : In the midst of war, Victory Bonds are being sold at enor- mous cost-to the people by one Minister, 'and at the same time = Your Christmas Guests ~ And What Their: Presence Means in Your Home. ~ WHAT 2 glorious Christmas it would be if you could have Anna Case and» Marie Rappold, Thomas Chalmers and. Arthur Middleton as your, Yuletide - guests--to spend the holiday season right - in your own home---and sing for you, wheneyer you wish | 'Thatiks tothe genius.of Thomas A. Edison, you can have the enjoyment of their voices, not only for Christmas but for all the days to come," C4 reproduces the Iitnan "voice with. such. fidelity and accuracy thut no\ human-ear | can detect x sliade off difference between . the: 'living artists and the New Edison Re-Creation ot their voices: Before hundreds of' audiences. "have been. conducted the famous '¢tone test,'? "in * which' the artist singealone, then suddenly stops, leaving the New Edison to continue the song. 'Thirty. different artists: have- made 'the test: before more than a.miillion people. /And not one of this vast audience has-been able to tell, except by watching . the singer's-lips; when the voice. stopped IM ind the New Edison began. ~ As a Cliristmas gift, what could equal this the music of all the world... 'Come to our store, and let us show how Mr. Edison has succeeded in Re- Cresting/the human voice-and music. . in order. to stampede the elec- | In additic ae. aymien' e. Gos a has also-paid Sir Byron Walk: er of the Bank of Commerce, to the foregoing weenie within the past week, the sum: of $25,000,000 in liquidation of the liabilities of the C.N.R. to the' Bank, of. Commerce, The significance of these pay- ments on the eve of an- elec- Ottawa of the Governor 'Gen- eral, requires no comment. Nor is this all. Information has been secured that: affidav- its are being bought to 'endeav- or to prove that the Liberal Party is being assisted. by: Alien money--Beware of such contemptible tactics. The war millionaires * will not spare any 'effort 'to. secure another * lease -of'power for 'their friends. T invite the-Suppart of all' who put the: proper and: ener- getic prosecution of the war, the proper control of public expenditure, the conservation of the- national resources a- bove party and personal -ad- vantage. A large Union maj- ority would be a public calam- ity. This is a time for indep- endence of thought. i J. H. MITCHELL, Alliston, Dec..6, 1917." North Simcoe Contest In 1911 COLLINGWOOD urrie MeCar'y ts 89 70 2. 96 104 Bais 8! 68 fa. 58 52 ib 58 69 5a 47 37 bh. '5 46 Ba. . oe Bd 62 BD ie whey ime we 88 63 61! 588 Majority for Currie NOTTAWAS 1--Avening . 46 $- 33 4 aL. 5-- a 26 6--Ratteau .... 33 7--Dunedin .. .. 47 8--Glen Huron. 20 9--Singhampton . 10 10--Duntroon 63 t1--Nottawa..... 54 12-. Lawrenee"s . > 20 430 Majority for Curri FLO: Zerfusonvale 54 Apson's ..- 35 3--Phbipsten ... 89. - 4--Elmivale s,s + 56= Vigo '.. bo itlyerap Ed] lenwuod 36 Majority for- MeCarthy, 35. VESPRA i--Dalston... . 36 5A Midhurst +. al Cundle % 38 Minesing .. . 45 \5--Grenfel .. 48 envale .. .. ORO 1--Crown Hill .. 43 63 Clowes School- 54 42 Edgar)... .. 34 71. 4--Town Hall... 54 68 5--Rughby .. .. . 58 "78 6--Jarratt's .2 . 2% a7 7--Oro Station «; 65 45 332 41k '|Majority for McCarthy, 82. SUNNIDALE {--Brentwood ... 45 33 New Lowell. - 65 78 3--Caing .. sx . 64 BB 4--Crow's Corners 61 EY Soccveracuebiwe: AE 4 \ ae : 273 224 Majority for Currie, 49. ' CREEMORE 93! 55 soe 8 123 Majority for MeCarthy, °32. SUMMARY OF MAJORITIES. {Collingwood ..... ) Creemore .; James G. Keenan Baie, Ont. tion, and in the absencé from |' if forcements. to is Russia. had to be resorted + and are against pledge Coet READY TO SUPPORT itary Service Act. (Continued from 5) Discussing farm production, he said the Government had: done nothing: bu al implements. To get more off the far is necessary to get more: help, even farms. Rural depopulation was to 4 the men back on the farms is to lowe: tari, jing in khaki, Mr. Drury have been accepted for 2 front while he himself could 'not do so. ing 'this attack on. him well awate of them also. Continuin, Currie: did, Canad have efded long go 'After discussing at sonie. le will know.'their si votes from the soldiers, to live up to their promises. threatened to use his power us of parliament. to secure the iny duty. on-raw wire which woul Currie was inter ferris ers) he showed by producing an words attributed by the Tel "T sbhor war and am With He Ht : i for over a year, throwing "'Kamerad". under the Re! for. Union Government. ~ Make No Mistake Canada will send no more ctically means quitting the war and lacing the country in the same class The French-Canadians have "Canada Nationalist support above enunciated policy." This Advertisement is inserted by The Unionist Party Publicity Commities UNION GOVERNMENT Says E. C. Drury--He Also Favors enforcement of Mil- vertise and hold meetings: urging greater production awithout giving any practical us- sistance to the farmers, One way' ta aid production would be to give free agricultur. conseripting lubor and sending it to the extent due to the tariff and one way to get As to Col.:Currie's Giticisn of his not be- stated that he,| in and he refused to: accept a it .post and strut about in iz a fat salary st the-expense of | the people and urging others. to"go to. the the facts in this connection were fully plac i and Col. Currie said, "I-don't know my opponent's war rex. wut this Ido know, that if all the Canadian 'overseas soldiers hid done. 48 Col. art in the. war would h: the War | Pranchise Act, which he claimed was against the right of people to govern them- selves, he said, "We cannot blame the Un- ion Government for this measure, but. we- i rity aehen the election ig over. If they distribute the undesignisted equally over the constituencies and not use-them as a means to save seats, we' will know thst they intend Dealing with thé question of combines, he claimed that the farmers could not: ex- ect any 'relief. from Col. Curri¢ who .had ion of a put out of business the Sarnia Fence Co. because it re- fused to go into the combine in°which Col. rested. fe. doctored. report. of his speech at thé Liberal meeting in July pub- lished in the Toronto Telegram (whose chief editor has been one of Col, Currié's spe enticated. copy 'of the minutes, 'that 'the. to referendum and against conscription in Que i minuites. Hen fi ~ GOVERNMENT Win the War di -our hands and. quitting!.- Don't shout ferendum Proposal, l, Come out and fight ing up : fe , IF LAURIER WINS: (2). 'The the. front, which TO STAND FOR THAT? "tt is because the French-Canadiane have not done their duty thet Conscription - perfectly clear that they do not like the.war 4 participating in it furthef, Some' of them even: go to the length of saying that the soldiers should be brought back from the front. The Nationalists are di to. made it 'that thé'men who have Revolutionist Leader Risks Life' Nestled between two high precipices_ in California is a deep, deep ravine. 'The only: means of connection between the high hills on either side-is a very narrow foot. bridge which has no railings slong the side In the <de luxe edition of the Vitagraph the story:teafs across-this bridge ut a terri- fic speed on the back of a horse who is not that yeven broken to the saddle, ta into.the pit beneath. the filming of this scene ms it if by large' r the com: All' was ig; he a sin "mber at the front. - mat - world. as 43088 = dees i -. _Ahirked. their dut, be the dominating force in the Govern- ment of the country. ARE THE -ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE PREPARED li demanding "been enrolled under-the Military Service. Act be disbanded and sent back to their homes. To secure the Laurier-Liberal candidates in Quebec have signed the following production, "Captain Alvarez," starring ver- |Jép" sutile Edith Storey, however, the hero of |i yyi One misstep |PVen of pig would. have' dashed. both horse and' rider |" The company who stood on one. side of the ravine 'during actually held their) Sist the of this famous Wat-time Sweetmeat are). sent to the soldiers, sailors and aviators: If you have a friend there, sée that every © parcel or letter Paty afew -- a sackage of WRIGLEY'S, the great chew- . 96 confection that is used around the ; sae 2 re ae eee duty in this war will | a hare intil the rider had croased. However, this thrilling and.reckleys seene us quite necessary 10 "Captain Alvarez," | Which is at the Opera House Saturday 6G and 11 cts. inf' ot the Foot Controte advises, amending of pal- regulation' su as to permit the keeping of fowl and in-towns aml cities, ewart has called up- of Alberta to as- elief find The