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THE NONâ€"ATTORNEY GENERALâ€" MORAL REFORM WAYVESâ€"â€" It is wonderful how moral reform fads s e e e e# ® U A few years ago it was the "whole 1 B OO Comslunta7star karp on One could scarcely pick up a n er items anent the white slave traffic. Pm Pnmgh C C se w1 t E09 P P Cndncaalss ‘The white slave traffic is as much in existence now a8 it ever was; but the moral reformers of both Canada and the United States are paying very Hittle attention to it, except in rare cases where carnest workers in some ef the larger cities are doing what they can to stem the tide that sweeps thousands and thousands of girls to their ruin every year. s 0 e# a # ® s e e * ® ‘The real way to fight the white slave traffic is to not begin at wrong end, as the moral reformers do with everything else; but rather llnrlntcndudmlnmaudmnumrdmmlrehueudhlu eaught in the maelstrom or whiripoo! of vice that surrounds the white slave With this vice, or evil, as with nearly A" MI] TT TDUULLL Snavanti kuman nature hath to contend with, it is far bettor to practice prevention rather than cureâ€"because, if a cure is effected the victim is seared and scarred from its intimacy with the evil. 0........'.. The real trouble with the whole campaign against the white slave traffic le with the who‘® CUPD"®/ 0o wraffic, and against gambâ€" THE PEOPLE‘S PAPER ESTABLISHED 1885 JAS. A. LIVINGSTON & SONS, Owners and Publishers. Ee C dnoe tm terment of the world. terment of the wor‘C. ......ll..'. 'lhnemhllhmdu:h.h“ydflhqnm.nvm the processes followed by moral reformer workers. '...l'..l... (ine ~ e en auc en nee t Hundreds of them; yea, thousands of them, are quite willing to lend their hand ‘to the‘ suppression of the white slave traffic in some Way. a e e e a # ® e & * ® ‘That is, that all are willing to do something to save the girls and the women, in general, whom they have never scon or known; but very seldom will they go out of their way to speak a kind word to, or give a word of good advice to, girls of their immediate acquaintance. 4 6 a e * ® a o & #0% In fact, they are Mable to shun these girls, and to look down upon them; fact, they are Mabi® M ®""" """"o"ife that they, themselves are preâ€" Issued every Wednesday from the Office of Publishers, Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby. In fact, they are HMable to shun thete &MOS, MTD 100C thus driving them into the very mode of life that they, tending to rectify and suppress, A 0........0.0 Ninetyâ€"five per cent. of all girls are naturally good ; ___Ninetyâ€"fYe PS ©05° "" "wnoir own evil nature, but ! Ninetyâ€"five per cent. of all girls are MOUU"7 ®"""% Om eauses entirel that does fall, fall not from their own evil nature, but from causes entiroly eutside of themselves;â€"such as neglect by parents, carelessness of church workers, bad companions and other evil influences. & e e e 6 ® e e & * ® XESER NE TCM\ The tendency of a!l WY evil of, their weaker sistors ence in driving the weaker might save them; and dri become hardened, and alm« ‘The same attention pald to yOI safeguarding them and by eVery O better influence, as is given to th would bring an hundredfold better saas Nothing is so apt to drive 8 W6 'u,.uuubundmmulfl und until these sisters realize that evil is by wll“ll‘l‘,trylu to lead ight path there w be but few st€ Eradication of the white slave traff Neglect, scorn, shunning, and look!nE CD"" the sex, arid then, afterwards, when they ha Mwflcwuntm,uwflvlm nhlhthllhwulflhlnwnm b.filfidlhonblt, .‘.C..0.0l i WASTE OF GOOD PAPERâ€"â€" & umues st mE HER@®® ds OO BSo great was the scarcity of iwo that for several days the W tion, simply because they could of paper, in Canada M ,.,"‘:..... pp: -Ill:q United States, where they of Canada do without. Much of this paper, ! C """ / â€"-aâ€"m:-l'-"""'m '-!.M'M-.‘.ooc mm..‘-.“'lflm -*lll--rn-llll.l“- The trouble with the whole CUPPY®/ ""~"%_ogic and against gambâ€" same with the campaign against the liquor traffic, and against gambâ€" same ie o oha ovile, or supposed evile, that humanity is boir ues thie. OÂ¥1) wb hn THE INDEPENDENT But the time to save these girls and direct their feet into ENC PTRMT T ot when they have become fully bad;â€"but in the early stages when they yet be directed and saved by kindly attention and motherly advice. ..‘.t....... The tendency of all women is to look down upon and shun and speak of, their weaker sisters; and it is this tendency that has a large influâ€" o in driving the weaker ones still further away from the influence that ht save them; and drives them into paths of wickedness, where they n hardened, and almost past the reach of human kindness and symâ€" Train up a child in the wondertut MOW MUTDOCILLLe. ............ w years ago it was the "whole cheese" with moral the crime known as the white slave traffic. on tm s i ce rate Bee This state of affairs HPSSmmm ce nse on is When they composed the Puritan brain Of this redoubted Attorney Rane(y), ‘They had at band tut fow ingredients, And so were forced to use expedients ; ‘They put therein some emall discerning, A grain of sense, a grain of learning; And when they saw the vold behind, ‘They filled it up with froth and wind. --...l.‘.... JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, General Manager J. A. M. LIVINGSTON, Business Manager T. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor Canada, as by the fuel that the P paper‘ mills were determined to , where they could get higher pr er of J .-'-“"-. '."."; a 6 # # ® # ® say our moral reformers begin at the e youth, they allow them to drift int ened and careless they then, by 1a% ns. try to suppress Llc_ evil that ney Themselves WStead of working with a Themselves InStead of working with a vi pt to drive a weak girl, or a reckioss u‘mmhvlumwhorm ters realize that the proper way to i“' trying to lead the younger and v be but few steps forward taken in TELEPHONE 36. .......‘i..' .,lalhnl.vu'uol. and Sunday editions were N ful and Unnecessary. _ _ ; up a newspaper that was not brought fa city of newsprint paper, ( the Winnipeg newspapers would not get paper to P s & e e o# 6 08 0® ikers on the public platform falled to refer 1 NP enasdccs Cns\ Shale way he should go, and he ue y ait PE E00 C000 and looking down upon the weaker members d‘ is, when they have become wicked and caseâ€" m, is exactly like allowing a younk boy, full« _ Las hecome a heavy drinker, and then trying .....". th nearly all the other vices or evile, P ETS en Dor Sn ceua and no action :A 34. & ib ied to look down upon and shun and speak is this tendency that has a large influâ€" ‘u‘ eacther away from the influence that I CMO PMA UA csqcatas traific, and even the ladies, in their other meetings read papers on the _and women did not know any more run in sprint paper, during the past month or g newspapers had to suspend publicaâ€" et paper to print their issues upon. s 6 a # # # ht about so much by the actual scareity hat the paper mills an 1 especially the rmined to ship their product into the higher prices; and let the newspapers ® e ® * direct their feet into the [l!hl .:th Canadian Press u;r;II} good; and the percentage nature, but from causes n:lrolz who are starting out in life, by‘ m0d trying to bring them under sion of the white slave traffic, was not full of articles whatever reckless girl, Jnfo confirmed her more righteous alsters; way to suppress this great er vices or evils, that to practice prevention 11 as a groat part of i read by the people will not depart from Association pald ;mm. But the truth of those remarks and the c< has been thoroughly proven during the past almost impossible to secure paper, even a\ ¢ ‘The United States publishers, especially the | to pay any price to secure Canadian paper to keep in order that the Canadian newspapers misht not . out of business, our Government, after a long iInve fxed the price of paper and forbade the mills to until after the Canadian newspapers were supplied ‘The amount of newsprint that is required by the Canadian newspapers | only amounts to about twelve per cent, of the total output of the Canadian paper mills; but the mills, many of which are owned by American capitalists, were unwilling even to allow the Canadian newspaper publishers to purchase that twelve per cent. and some of the mills were whipping their entire outâ€" put to the United States, even in the face of the threat made by the Govern« ment that they would put an embargo on their shipments if they did not supply the newspupers in their districts with sufficient newsprint to keep them going. w e e e 6 e 6 6 e e e ® ‘The waste of paper that has taken place in Canada during the past twentyâ€"five years could have but one result, and that is the fulfilment of the old adage "A wilful waste makes a woeful want." a a w e e 6 6 e 6# ®# ‘There have been published in Canada, during the past twentyâ€"five years, a great number of utterly useless newspapers and periodicals all using up paper, and many of them being read by none or a very few of the people. |____We do not know what eireulation this paper has, but we do know that many of them are going into nearly all the post offices in the country and very few of them are being read, or even opened. of these ple, and Thank goodness, a nfit many of these have been swept away, probably never to return; but some of them are still in existence, and the "Ploneer," of the City of Toronto, is one of them. _ _ _ _ This paper is serving u useful purpose and never did. It never had any influence even on the subject it was advocating and the white paper used in its publication has been wasted, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ r‘l::m were many oucn of a like nature; but most of them have disapâ€" peared, ‘The worst waste, however, in white paper, has been made by the gov» ernmentsâ€"both Provincial and Dominion; and especially the Dominion. â€"â€" ‘Thousands of tons of paper have been wasted by the Dominion Governâ€" ment, in printing useless pamphicts on every concelvable subject, very few of which pamphiets were ever read or ever served any useful purpose. The only apparent r-n- for keeping this flood of literature going, seems to be to keep men in jobs who otherwise would have to get out and work for a living. It is time that some member of parliament would move for an investigaâ€" tion into this matter and try and put a stop to a large percentage of this useless literature. Smar iY : ol C Ho STONE ROADSâ€"â€" ‘The Hon. F. C. Biggs, Minister of Public Works, Ontario, is growing with his job, and soon will be right upâ€"toâ€"date in his ideas on the road quesâ€" tion;â€"but there is c:;lroln in which he yet fails, and that he exposed in a recent speech in H ton, when he stated it was the intention to build macadam road on the provincial highways. It has been most thoroughly demonstrated that macadam roads or, in other words, the common, waterbound, stone road, will not stand up under heavy automobile traffic, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | ; ; 20 PP M Pm O Rimp UObei es ues c 222200000403 point, the better, because every dofar UMit"Tsâ€"expended on ordinary stone roads on provincial highways will be thrown away. e o e e e e e e e e e ® A good stone road on the provincial highway between St. Catharines and Hamilton will not stand up for one year, much less five or ten years. It is useless, therefore, to build any stone roud on any part of this highway. "BATTLING BILL" AT coUNTY COUNCIL County Council is in week i stormiest sessions ever held is histo chell, the hero of many a M and co ing North GRIMSBY and for matter Roads System is concerned. " is goin his eye and before the session f over body who have done pretty migh as they out their day of autocratic rul is over. is at least one man in the cou this yet ing. As far as the Good(?) Row@ System at least that part of it which our road worth about $3,000. There been handling of the business duringithe past conditions were changed, and imagine to change them and woe be untt who to the old system of spending y and THE INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO Whmomlomlnmflnm . " + Wegeâ€"eesmercs _ l2 424 20 Acdlnaee atina pecially the wealthy ones, are willing paper to keep their eirculations up, and zs micht not be entirly ruined and put er a lony investigation into the matter, the mill« to ship to th» United States at enormous prices commonsense embodled in them, st few yedrs, when it has been "Whisky Price Jumps $2,50 a Case."â€"Says a headlineâ€"that docs@‘t worry us any, as we are unable to finance a cargo even at the old price. We also carry a full line of feeds, groceries, light hardware, etc., etc. THE BEACH STORE Political Economy FARRELL‘S SHOE STORE ‘ ‘Toronto Vancouver (Both Ways) â€" m Eveng Vay in the ~CC fT 3 3 1i3 6 7 mR rCalle12 12 3 14 C:b' ip\ yB hC â€"acom // h s ,.:‘:;@,‘ UnE yâ€"â€"â€"â€" TRY OUR BEST GRADE BREAD FLOUR $6.75 Our Ads: Bfing Sure Results GROOGCRILS May be under discussion by politicians and others just now but personal economy is what interests you and us, a good deal more, because:â€" If you really desire to be economical you will test the durâ€" ability of our shoes. For our shoes outwear ordinary shoes and retain their good appearance a greater length of time. Let us talk the matter over with you. noTHER GoosE on THE 4. C. L, Jack and JiM went up the hillâ€" That fact is not surprising, ‘They should desire to go still higher; All other things are rising. Mary had a ton of coal; She worked ten years to earn it, She froze to death the other dayâ€"â€" She couldn‘t bear to burn it. Sing a son of sixpence A cellar full of rye; But not a single drop of it For sixpence could you buy. umoloh-‘hulnu-u-h sheep, But it isn‘t any wonder She lost her flock of woolly stock With mutton high as thunder. . G. EYRES & Som Little Jack Horner dropped in at the corner A luncheon to buy one day, But he grew very ill whon he looked at the bill And his appetite vanished away. ‘The friendly cow, all red and white, Smiles as, in bovine sport, She gives us milk with all her might, At 20 cents a quart," ‘The hostile hen, all black ang blue, Which cackles like the geese, Will wield one egs, or maybe two, At just a dime apicce. ‘There was a man in our town ® And he was wondrous wise, He could unscramble scrambled eggs THE BEACH STOREmmmuunnmm _ And unâ€"cuss custard pics. . But now he‘s talking to himself Within a padded cellâ€" He tried to figure out a way sumoar, reste s, lesring @enmessing SU°°° ':--q-l\ TORroNToO Day in the Week Wednesday, January 28th, 1g20 GRIMSBY EAST e Oupicalas Toronio â€" Winnipe ME NNURE PRTTTT L .â€"â€"-.-â€"u-ql" i