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The People‘s Paper TERMSâ€"Subscribers in Canada $1.50 per year if not paid in advance. In United States Advertising rates on application. Telephone 36 Sir Wilfrid Layrier has refused to join Sir Robert L. Borden in the apâ€" pointment of a parliamentary committee of twelve to consist of seven Conâ€" servatives and five Liberals, Sir Wilfrid to be one of the Liberals, this comâ€" mittee to work on the new National Service idea of organizing a better sysâ€" tem of recruiting. The Canadian North West is now a prosperous, happy community from the Red, River to the Pacific. What would it have been had Louis Reil and Sir Wilfrid had their way? Although Sir Wilfrid wrote his letter of refusal last Friday, up to the present ‘writing the editor of the Globe has failed to say anything in the ediâ€" torial columns of the paper withâ€"regard to the peculiar action of the Liberal leader. One would think that after all the protestations of loyalty made by Sir Wilfrid that he would have jumped at the offer to be one of the committee to help forward the good work ,ou;li:ne_d ‘b)_f t_he National Service Commission. The real trouble with Sir Wilfrid Laurier is that he is afraid that if he joined in with the work of the National Service Commission that some of the Frenchâ€"Canadians might be induced to enlist and that would be the very thing that Sir: Wilfrid did not want. Sir Wilfrid‘s career as a patriot has been very consistent. He had stated that he would have shouldered his musket had he been in Saskatchewan the time of the Reil Rebellion. Time has revealed how silly Sir Wilfrid‘s action would have been had he joined the rebels as he expressed his desire to do. Sir Wilifrid was opposed to sending Canadian troops to South Africa and because he was forced to do so he has been sore ever since. How could Canâ€" adians h:i've éver held up their heads again had they failed to send men to assist the British Empire in South Africa. 4 j y The territory in which the war took place in South Africa is now one of the most loyal of the British possessions and the work done by General Bootha for Britain during the past two years should put Sir Wilfrid Laurier to shame when he thinks of his own tardiness in grasping an opportunity to help recruiting by joining in the work proposed by the National Service Commission. ~ t , Presumedly Sir Thomas Tait resigned because the man, Mr. Murray, whom he had appointed secretary was objectionable to the government and Sir Thomas Tait presumed upon his powers when he thought for a moment that he had any right to appoint any Tom, Dick, and Harry as secretary of as important a body as the National Service Commission without being found fault with by the government. Sir Wilfrid Laurier fought tooth and nail against giving a contribution of $35,000,000:00 to assist the British navy the very year before the war, and toâ€"day we find him doing business in the same old way at the same old stand shooting hot air in favor of Canadian autonmy and doing all he can against a united Britain. You Are a dead one Sir Wilfrid, and you better find a spade and dig your own grave. Bourassa might help you in this respect as he seems to be fighting both you and the British Empire. n As a matter of fact this is no excuse at all; at least it is no legitimate exâ€" cuse because if Sir Wilfrid was in earnest to assist in this great work he would pay no attention to the resignation ‘ofA Sir Thomas Tait or anybody else. Murray starts out by vilifying and abusing the National Service Commisâ€" sion and abusing and lying about the gevernment, then accepts a position on the very commission that he stated would be no good. Tait resigns beâ€" cause Murray was objectionable to the government and Laurier refuses to act because Tait resigned; a nice bunch of proâ€"Germans all round. I do not believe that the patriotic liberals Of Canada, who have sent sons to the front to fight and die, will back Sir Wilfrid up in his refusal to coâ€" eperate with the government in the work of National Service, and if â€" you show me a liberal who does back him up I will show you a man who has not sent.a son to the front, and who does not intend to send one. Murray, Tait and Laurierâ€" are a nice bunch of Britons, each in their own way trying to help the German cause by blocking and hindering the British cause. I do not think that if Sir Thomas Tait had taken a fine comb and combed the Dominion of Canada that he could have found a more unsuitable or unâ€" trustworthy person to appoint to so important a position as the one he had found. a 5 â€" Thomas Tait is no doubt a very fine man but his ideas must have been badily jumbled ‘when he appointed a man of Murray‘s calibre to the position of secretary to the National Service Commission and Sir Wilfrid Laurier must have been in hard straits for an excuse when he took as an excuse the fact that Sir Thomas Tait had resigned because the government declared Murray was not to be allowed to act as secretary of the Commission. Mr. Murray, editor of Industrial Canada, has done everything in his power to injure the government and to weaken the government in its conâ€" duct of the war. Besides using his tongue and pen in the most virulent terms upon the government‘s conduct of the war he has gone further and spread broadcast through Canada a circular the whole of which was a tissue of lies and which he had to acknowledge was a tissue of lies. No proâ€"German, had he been in the pay of the German general staff could have worked harder or done more to help the German cause in Canada than Mr. Murray did and to cap the climax and to show how little principle there is in the man he accepted the position of secretary of the National Service Commission. 6 This is a repetion of what was done in hundreds of cases by German spies in England when they accepted positions in the British government while they were really in the pay of the German government. It only shows how far a man who is really would do and say all that he could against the and then accept a position of secretary on that ‘ at*" ~’.'¢ / - &# . C 1LUS ar FOR THETZEb:KIDNEYS m a SESRFne: .5 n.g'g“.'_b..'i‘.k', Man,, April 15 Sir Wilfrid bases his refusal on the flimsy excuse that Sir Thomas Tait id resigned his position on the National Service Commission. THE INDEPENDENT JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, Owner and Manager J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor. MAIN STREET, GRIMSBY, ONT. Published every Wednesday At all druggists, 50¢c. a box or 6 boxes for $2.560. We &‘unnteo absolute bu.%:m- on or your mone For free umplcywr‘: to National Drug & aomical Co. of da, Limited PIPROP y_ sAPL 409. g.mongg Drug & Chemical Co., Montreal. _ ar Sirs:â€" I was troubled with m kidneys and I bought a box of Gin Pfl{l. By the time I had used one boxr the pains in my back were gone and my k&:‘n were much better. I can roco%tmond Pills to all suffering from Kidney Trouble as I know they heliped me. & Yours truly, io 2 ofi stt‘ 0 (M. K Feanelt year $2.00 proâ€"German will go when he National Service Commission committee. in advance. $2.00 per per year in advance. stablished 1885 I did not hear any crowing from the prohibitionists this week over the scarcity of drunks and infractions of the liquor law. _ The first week after prohibition came other prohibition newspaper made a great and the decreas of drunkenness. I do not the newspapers of this week. The Pioneer which is the official organ of the prohibitionists in Ontario devoted nearly a whole page in its issue of this â€"week to the report of men arâ€" rested for drunkenness, and men fined for selling liquor illegally, and men keeping and storing liquor illegally. / Theâ€"strange part about the Pioneer and its editor is that they think it is a sign of temperance for men to be fined for drunkenness; for selling liquor illegally, and for keeping and storing great quantities of liquor illegally. I never could see any sign of temperance in men being drunk in a pr’ohi- bited territory. â€" © * I always had an idea in my head, it might have been a preverted idea, it may have been due to my peculiar constitution, but I had it just the same, and that was that a drunken man was a drunken man wherever he: was found and a drunken man was equally an intemperate man in prohibition or nonâ€"prohibition territory. A friend .of mine said to me prohibition ‘is doing a grand work, there has not been a case of drunkenness in the police court in Toronto in five days. The next night I picked up the Toronto News and read of ten men who were arrested for selling bottles on the street. Andâ€"another friend of mine told me how free Hamilton was from drunkeNness since prohibition came into force, and a few days after I read about a man going so far as to come out on the street and offer a policeman a drink of whiskey and the police immediately pulled him and had his little stock Of whiskey seized. Prohibition was workâ€" ing wonders for that chap. $ 4 ‘ Another friend of mine, a traVC}r, told me that he thought prohibition was being a success throughout th@/Province. I asked him of he knew how ;much liquor was being shipped from Montreal and other points in the Proâ€" | vince of Quebec every day. He sgjf he did not know. In my experience on the platform, which has been wide, and in my exâ€" perience in conversation with prohibitionists, which has also been extended and in my experience as a reader, I have always found this peculiar and to my mind foolish hallucination existing in the minds of prohibitionists and that is that if a man is pulled and fined for selling liquor in prohibition terâ€" ritory that it is a sign of temperance or it is an indication of the benefit of the law. I hold an entirely opposite opinion and I hold what I believe, and weat most deep thinking men believe is a sane and sensible opinion, and that is that when men are continually found handling liquor, selling it, storing it, trafficing in it, and drinking it in prohibited territory, it shows that the proâ€" hibition law is useless, or useless just to whatever extent the liquor is handâ€" led and trafficed in‘ TAPLEYTOWN W. I. The Tapleytown branch of the Women‘s Institute, which met at the home of Mrs. Benj. Clark on Wednesâ€" day afternoon last, had a good averâ€" age attendance, and throughout was a busy meeting. The meeting was openâ€" The result of this must be@ that the beer drinkers are to a great extent deprived of their glass of beer while the whiskey drinkers are getting all they want, or in other words, the drinking men of Ontario are forced to do without the almost nonâ€"alcoholic lager beer, and indulge whenever opportunity preâ€" sents itself in highly intoxicating whiskies. The editor of the Pioneer seems to hold an opposite opinion to mine for he seems to glory in the fact that many men are fined for selling liquor, that many men were drunk, that many men were in the police court for breaking the law, and he publishes these cases as a proof that the law is a blessing; I think that those things prove strongly that the law is useless, as it does not incline the people to temperance but rather, if it inclines them at all, it inâ€" clines them to intemperance. & ed by singing O, Canada! The minuâ€" tes of the last meeting were read. Ten dollars was voted to a Canadian prisâ€" oner of war. The Northern Ontario fire sufferers were considered and the branch is going to make two bed com Hundreds and thousands of men were temperate under license laws. Of course all or nearly all of these men will be temperate under prohibitory laws so that the vital question is does prohibition law make intemperate men temperate? Records of the police court for the past week and the report of the trips to Buffalo from Hamilton would indicate that the man who was inâ€" temperate before prohibition came into force is still inclined to be intemperâ€" ate, in fact â€"a little more so. In the seizures of liquor already made under the new law very little men tion is made of lager beer, whiskey seems to be the prevailing word. Such a horrible state of affairs has been revealed by the excursions from Hamilton to Buffalo every Saturday afternoon that there is talk now in the city that some step will be taken to bring about a law to stop this kind of thing. That will be a new thing in legislation but of course in the opinion of some people must be brought about A§s we have not yet got half enough legisâ€" lation in this country. It is an old saying that oneâ€"half of the people are busy making laws while the other half are busy breaking them, so that the more busy the legislators will be in making them and the more busy our people will be in breaking them. Now if the liquor is being brought in for drink it will be drank and if it is drank then prohibition falls down for its object has not been attained. But alas for the prohibition usefulness of the earthen wall. McKenzen marched his men around the wall, enveloped it, and took the seaport of Conâ€" stanza. This is the pertinent question that arises "what is the liquor being brought in for? Surely not for fuel, nor for power, nor for heat, nor for light, nor for clothing. It is surely brought in for one purpose only and that is for drink." . â€" Another pertinent question arises when we consider the car loads of liâ€" quor that are daily arriving in Ontario and the question is what kind of liâ€" quor is coming in? And the answer of course is self evident and it is this, that a great percentage of the liquo arriving in Ontario each day is of a highâ€" ly alcoholic nature in other words the liquor coming in, is far more intoxicatâ€" ing than the greater part of the liquor consumed previous to prohibition. In other words we have changed our almost harmless nonâ€"intoxicating. lager beer for highly intoxicating whiskey, brandy, gin, rum, etc. As soon as there is a law passed to stop people going to Buffalo I will enâ€" deavor to have a law passed to stop people going to Bullocks Corners for many a man got his nose broken and his eyes blacked at Bullocks Corners. The Roumanians foolishly supposed that their great wall of earthen work, built as a defence against the Romans centuries ago, would be sufficient to stop the march of McKenzen‘s Gérman army and save their seaport of Conâ€" stanza. * ) Incidentally in the same manner the liquor traffic is marching round the earthen wall of prohibition with its army of bottles and kegs and cases, suppplying the drinking man with liquor and thus destroying the hopes . Oof the prohibitioniists, if they thought that the earthen wall would protect the inâ€" temperate ones. The situation is even worse in Ontario than in South East Roumania beâ€" cause the intermperate ones are assisting the enemy to march into their terâ€" ritory. There is just one way to stop the liquor traffic and that is to make the people temperate and when the people become temperate the liquor traffic will die a natural death. If liquor is being brought into the Province in such large quantities alâ€" ready in what quantities will it be brought in, a year from now or two years from now, if prohibition remains in force. I think also it would be a good plan to have laws passed to have people stopped from going to Chedoke, CobOconk, Owen Sound, and Galley West. If a small portion of liquor was being shipped into the Province each day then we would have reasonable ground for hoping that prohibition would make the people temperate but if a large quantity of liquor is being shipped into the Province every day then we have no ground for supposing that the people under prohibition will become more temperate. The whole question of the success or failure rests on knowledge. f As a matter of fact more than two big car loads of liquor come into the Province of Ontario from the Province of Quebec every day for six days of the week and probably on Sunday as well. "That lack of knowledge," 1‘ replied, "is the weak point in your whole case. If you knew how much liqior is being shipped into the Province every day, then, I said, you might be able to form an idea whether prohibition was going to make the people in the Province more temperate or not." THE INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO after prohibition came into force the Toronto Globe and ewspaper made a great brag about the scarcity of drunks drunkenness. I do not see any of that kind of nonsense in this week. j forters, which will soon be forwarded for distribution. Preparations will be made for a patriotic concert under the auspices of the branch, date for which will be published in the near futur! The branch will have a large number of pairs of socks ready _ to place with the Red Cross: oversceas shipment of October 25. Much symâ€" pathy is extended by rnis branch to Mr. Allan Cable, second son of the late Mr. «and Mrs. Wesley Cable, of '@r- J. M. Hughton entist â€" Office over J C. Farrells Shoe Store Phone 215 Electrical Equipment GRIMSBY ONT OFFICE HOURSâ€"9,.30 a.m. GRIMSBY, oONT Physician and Surgeon Coroner, County Lincoln Office Hours: 8 to 10 a.m., 1 to 2 p.m and 7 to 8 p.m. Main Street West. ‘Phone No. 1. Grimsby. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public 45 Federal Life Building, Hamilton ‘Phone 754. The marriage took place at the parsonage, North Parkdale Methodist Church, on October 18, of Ella May, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Armstrong, Stratford and James Melvin Merritt, of GRIMSBY. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. J. G. Speer, D.D. The bride was charmâ€" ingly attired in dark brown gabardine suit, with fur trimmings, and hat to match. Directly after the ceremony the happy couple left for Stratford, Sarnia and other western points. Afâ€" ter November 1 they will be at home in GRIMSBY.â€"Toronto Globe. LA%%A%%I{J{R, CAMPBELL, & LAN.l JUMN B. BRAN 1 s * â€" # Bax&ister_s, Solicitors, Notaries, etc. ;Marnage License Issued 25 Ontario St. __ Str. Cargarinxs | _ Generai Convéeyancer, Assignee E. A Lancaster, K. C., . J. H. Campbel1, | and Valuator E. H. Lancaster | : gotelâ€"-G(r)ne gf the firm will be atthe Money to Loan at Current Rates otel Grimsby, Grimsby, every Wednesâ€" . i i day from 1.30 to 6 p. 1. in Smithville. Ont. AA Solicitors, Notaries, etc. Monev to loan at lowest rates. Office, "Spectator Building," Hamilton. S. F. Lazier, K.C. E. F. Lazier. H. L. Lazier. After touring through parts of Onâ€" tario, Mr. and Mrs. Ecker will settle down on the old homestead in Binâ€" brook. y Room 40 Federal Life Building, Main and James Sts., Hamilton, Ont. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilâ€" liam Freeman, Binbrook, a very pretâ€" ty wedding was sotemnized on Octoâ€" ber 18, when their> only daughter, Laura, was united in marriage to Mr. Delmer Ecker, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Ecker, of Binbrook, the cereâ€" mony being performed by Rev. Mr. Demill, of Glamis. To the strains of the wedding march played by Mrs. Johnson, sister of the groom, the pretty young bride entered on the arm of her father, standing under an arch â€"of ~autumn leaves; She was charmingly attired in a gown of white, charmeuse satin with bridal veil and orange blossoms, and carâ€" ried white bridal roses and lillies of theâ€" valley. Miss Edie Ecker, her bridesmaid, looked very pretty in wineâ€"colored silk and carried a bouâ€" quet of roses. Mr. Andrew Freeman acted as best man. The gifts to the bride were costly and beautiful. The groom‘s gift to the bride was a handâ€" some easy chair, to the bridesmaid a camera, to the best man a watchfob, and to the pianist a cameo brooch. About seventyâ€"five guests sat down to a dainty wedding supper. Speeches were delivered by Rev. Mr. Demill, Rev. D. Ecker, Mr. W. Griffith, Rev. Mr. Babcock, of Hanon, Mr. W. Freeâ€" man, Mr. R. M. Ecker, Mr. D. Krick and others. this place, who is now in an Edinâ€" burgh hospital suffering from wounds received on September 4, while in the trenches in France. After a bountiful lunch was served by the genial hostâ€" ess, a hearty vote of thanks was pass ed to Mrs. Clark for her kind hospiâ€" tality. ". Officesâ€"Grimsby and Beamsville. Money to loan at current rates. DR. L. F. JAMIESON F. HANSEL, Dentist, Physician and Surgeon Main Street, East, â€" Grimsby AZIER & LAZIER, BARRISTERS, Dr. R. A. Alexander Henry Carpenter orRr. w.a. srownike DET.TIS\ OFFICEâ€"STE&PHEN BLOCK B. McCONACHIE Barrister, Solicitor, A BINBROOK â€" WEDDING MERITTâ€"ARMSTRONG BUSINESS G4RDS (Second Floor) DENTAL MEDICAL LEGAL Notary Publie WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1916 Civil and Mining Engineers TLand surveyors, Officeâ€"7 Hughson 8t. South , Hamilto® Telephone 1095 McKay, McKay & Webster James J. McKay Telephone 4766 607 Bank of Hamilton Chambers HAMILToN, ont J. DAW, ARCHITECT Opposite N. S, & T. R, Station ST. 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