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The Liberal party is going to the country on its same old policy of "Liberalism for Liberals". The United Farmers of Ontario party has come out with the announcement that it is going to the Coun- try on the same platform as it was elected upon in 1919. . " vincial elections will probably be held about the last week in June. Premier Drury has announced that the Ontario Leg- islature will dissolve about May 4th and that the Pro- A Platform To Be Made-- The Common People pay the shot and this great army lives at its ease on big salaries, supported by these com; mon people, and do not give, in the course of one year, one.dollar-bill’s worth of true value or Service for all the salaries drawn. And who pays for all these magistrates, crown at.. torneys, lawyers, police officers, whisky informers and whisky detectives?--) same old people that pay for everything-the Common People. _ There has been opened up a new line of business for the magistrates; there has sprung up a new line of busi- ness to keep the lawyers busy; and to keep police con- stables and license inspectors busy; there has been pro- vided a new line of business to keep an army of pro- vincia2 officers, at a cost of a million dollars a year, busy-and that new line of business is the looking af- ter of a few bottles of whisky. You may talk about unproductive labor, but I will tell you the people will pay the shot for all this. The thing that impressed me most about the case, was that fact that two police magistrates, one crown attorney, one prominent lawyer, a town constable, a license inspector and a hundred and, fi‘fy private citi- zens spent a whole half day in idleness over such an insignificant thing as a bottle of whisky that has never been opened. T And Who Paid For It All? I doubt if Police Magistrate Campbell ever has had a case of this kind_before, and he gaveAhe counsel six days to make their arguments in writing, showing legal authorities on the case. In this particular case, the liquor only passed through the hands of two persons-the owner of it, who ob- tained it legally, and Millward, who held it for a short tirne and then handed it over to its owner to be con- veyed to its legal destination. _ The counsel. for the defence claimed that liquor legally obtained at a dispensary could pass throu'gh the hands of twenty-five people on its way from the dis- pensary to the legal owner's home, without any in- fraction of the 1aw---providing the liquor reached its proper destination without the bottle being opened. The Conservative party has not announced its policy house for a short time, ind turning it over again to the local owner. _ In brief, it was for carrying the liquor of another party a short distance on the street, keeping it in his house for a Rhnrf titans, 5hr! furninn‘ " -xqq n~n:u LA And for this reason, it was that Police Magistrate Kidd called Police Magistrate Campbell, of St, Cath- arines, to his assistance-the case was so highly techni- cal that Kidd preferred a man of greater experience to deal with it.' A Ticklish Point of Law-- The case of the Crown against Millward was one of the most peculiar and one of the most highly technical that. ever came before the magistrates of the County of Lincoln, or for' that matter, before any of the mag- istrates of the Province of Ontario. H“ “mus "ps"--, .‘n'lmipye our police magistrates are places or for obtaining liquor by Illegal means; out the case against Millward did not come under aiy of those heads: . . But the Constable should know that an oath in court, and especially the oathaof an officer of the law, is a very solemn thing and that all statements made under oath, in a court, should be absolutely the truth, and nothing but the.truth. lUl DLAA I suppose that Constable Morgan thought he was- making a "big fellow" of himself when he swore that the officers had made a "thorough search”. e Millward, in his own defence, swore that there was no "search"--) King took the small bottle off his table and that he, himself, took thd larger bottle from his cupboard and handed it to King. License Inspector King swore that they did not con- duct a "thorough search", but that he saw a small bottle of liquor on Millward's table and that Millward himself produced a larger bottle from his cupboard and gave it to the inspector. Inspector King was ab- sent from the court room when Constable Morgan gave his evidence. _ .z. o-o-o-o-o-o-s-o-v-oar-o-tro-o-o-tfoo Constable Morgan swore thacthe officers had "con- ducted a "thorough search" of Millward's house, and secured the liquor which was exhibited before the court. - It was rather amusing to hear our Constable Morgan swear positively to one thing, in the case of Rex vs. Millward, last Friday-and to hear Lincense Inspector King positively contradict him (Morgan) in his fol- lowing evidence. ' The Value of An Oath-. .tor-o-o-o-o-oq-o-o-""-""-"""""-r"'- PAGE TWO The usual cases of breaches of the Ontario Temper- By Frank Fairborn FANCIES FACTS AND r c. No man is so powerful in his own imagination, as the lunatic----:: lunatic confined in his cell is a monarch, a ruler of miiiions of people, the commander of mighty armies, the admiral of tremendous navies; but it is all in the imagination of his diseased brain. _ The leaders of this Russian Ciovernnwrirealizrthat the hand of every man is against them, and they have determined that their hands shall be turned against every man-or, in other words, they are building up a fighting force of airmen, infantry, cavalry and naval- men, to fight the world. _ It is now being revealed that the Government of Rus- sia has visions similar to those which appeared to the once powerful Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Far better were it that a female child in Russia should starve to death in her innocent childhood, than that she should live to be the slave and harlot of the brutal soldiers and brigands, who set less value upon their women than they do on their cattle-who look upon women as only fit to serve men in the most bestial manner. . _ Far better were it that a male child, in Russia, should die of starvation in his innocent babyhood, than that he should live to become a trained brigand, murderer, defiler of women, and a debauchirr of the church of his native land. Far better were it that a child in Russia did die in innocence, than to live in debauchery and crime. In my comments, many months ago, on the sending of money from Canada and England, and other coun- tries where civilization still rears its head, to help the starving children of Russia, I made the remark that it would be a greater act of charity to allow the starving children of Russia to die, than to assist in keeping them alive-and the actions of the Russian Government, dur- ing the past two months, has clearly proven that I was again right in my analysis of affairs in that country. And, to keep in idleness, and in some cases, luxury, thousands of men who are living vultures, gaining their lvielihood by the robbery, debauchery and demoraliza1 tion of their fellowmen and of the churches of their own land. A great many charitably inclined people have been very busy during the past' couple of years sending money to Russia to help the starving children-while Russia has been busy a part of that time in exporting wheat to Germany and other foreign countries, from which to secure money in order to keep a standing army to murder the wives and children of her own citizens. . All the Protestant and Catholic churches of the rest of the world will not be so keen on gathering money subscriptions to send to the starving Russian children, since the Government of Russia started in to murder the priests and bishops in that country. The Lunacy of Russia- The whole theme and conversation and action of a ' _ ‘Se younger class of men is whisky. , I assume that lee people are navtrrtt" theft eyes opened to this fact, and would go to the polls and vote for a sane, sensible law providing for a wine and beer license. . The assurance was given to the people of Ontario than even prohibition did not cure the old topers, it would save the boys-this has been proven to be an absolute fallacy and falsehood, because prohibition has helped the old toper, but it has been a curse to the boys. The one eternal subject of conversation amongst the boys of today is, in a general way, of whisky, "Have you a crock?" "Where can I get a bottle i"'. "Dp you know where I can get a little drink?" "Come with me tonight, I know where there is a crock”. And worst of all, when they look around them they find that this whisky is not in the hands of and is not consumed by, the old topers, or old heavy drinkers, but by the young men, by mere boys who never in their lives bought a glass' of liquor over a hotel bar-boys who were mere kids seven years ago when the bars were abolished. When they look around them and see the fact that a decent man cannot buy a five-cent glass of beer, yet whisky is flowing like water in every direction-it must disgust them with the Ontario Temperance Act and its operation. There is a possible chance that with this plank in its platform, the Conservative party could carry" the country-and it may be only a chance, but it is dhe, and no group or party has the slightest chance in any other way I may be wrong, but I am strongly of the opinion that a great many people in the Province of Ontario who formerly were strong prohibitionists, or were mild prohibitionists, or were indifferent, are now sick and tired of the blind pig, illicit stills, bootleggers and rum runners. . . There is only one thing that will bring abdut a situa- tion wherein any one group will have a majority of the Houses-and that is if the Conservative party is bold enough to come out with a good, substantial plank in its platform, for a wine and beer licence, in straight opposition to the Ontario Temperance Act: None of these groups will have sufficient strength numerically, however, to control the Government- hence the Province will be landed into a worse jum- ble than it is in at present; God save us! as yet-it is a profound secret) may something, and it may not. But I will tell the Conservative party one thing, that unless their leader comes out with a good strong, bold announcement on that party's attitude toward the On- tario Temperance Act, it might just as well save the time of its candidates, for it Will not get anywhere. Russia has overplayed herself iance mot THE INDEPENDENT, ‘GRIMSBY, ONTARIO lount And the closing sentence of his "Religion of Humanity" is "The ser- vice of humanity, the only service I much value, is a heart full of loving sympathies and a life full of humane acts". This definition he appears to have gone far in illustrating by his life. . And still the merry game goes on in the United States'of creating fool laws apparently with the object tof putting those who love liberty to such a severe strain as to destroy their {respect for law altogether. The lat- est instance is supplied by the legis- lature of North Carolina, which has passed a Jaw making it an offence to play any form of billiards, even in private homes, with more or less se- vere penalties attached. Undoubtedly the English murder rate is so low because out of the 63 murders committed last year the po- lice brought to justice M of the mur- derers. The shortest time consistent with pustice is allowed to elapse be- tween arrest and trial, and between conviction and punishment. In his belief, it is most important that the criminal class shall know that a sen- tence passed on one of them will not In this connection hear Sir Basil Thompson, the head of Scotland Yard for eight years and in the war years in charge of Britain's Secret Service. "If respect for law is to be observed. no law must be passed that is not enforceable and that is not intended to be enforced. The judiciary must be above suspicion of political or any other influence. The police must be efficient and not subject to removal or demotion except for faults as police. Punishment must be quick, certain, definite." Harrison was the chief exponent in England of the positive theory of Au- guste Comte, the French philosopher, and Positivism, as defined by him, seems to be not far removed from the essence of the Christian faith. His definition is as follows: "Positivism on the religious side is in itself an effort to revive the moral and social efficacy of Christian ages on a truly scientific and historical basis-Facing what is permanent in these institutions on the firm ground of sociology in- stead of revelation". still survives. But it has been said with more truth, that not since the time of Bacon has an Englishman written so much and so well upon so many different subjects as Frederick Harrison._ He wrote about literature, law, religion, economics, politics, an- cient history, and he touched no sub- ject he did not illumine. called ians." the 9176:; _lrritou.ssjde-rafolte iordductibn. Hydrd"h T Its chance in the North, and not nly did nothing but played the part f the dog in the manager, a role Av .has been played by the Hydro anman more than once. As a matte? f fact while Hydro had the oppbrtu Fty to get off with a splendid start, t ‘ay both Quebec and Cali- fornia urder greater rate than On- tario is. N . The read, fact is that the power shortageljefn Northern Ontario is due entirely le a mandate having been given thei'Hydro Commission some years a-goé to the exclusion of private enterprise Years ago application was mad by private parties for the right to develop certain powers on the Mo treal river. The answer made w suhat these powers were being r erved for the people and would bt developed by the Hydro Commis In, Private enterprise was held up. -.Of late, however, private auras-m-isj fi 'ur-Atv-st" a, chaowton A prominent Toronto broker has been grumbling at power shortage at the Northern Ontario Mines and wants the, Ontario Government to stand aside, and cease worrying the Hydro Commission any more, but to give the Hydro Chairman a mandate to create in, the mining district of the north a consolidated power system which will enable thousands to be em- ployed. _ held up? Of l; u-ofrn-ni';<r’ r an" '34 the midi; 73.12% Hydr0"ha Its t and not nly dit the part f the d role w h has Hydro 7 airman a matte? _ f fact opportu ity to g ttart, t ly hot NOTES AND COMMENTS JV, ON CURRENT EVENTS BY PETER PETERKIN 'tasrtaMlll, . [er C] ss1an Governmeht had commenced E - V Biteiij. P . . triiiElllil ' __{;,brutal persecution of its own Royal iifiiNl ti,fjeitl the aristocrats within the borders of 4,1235: figs had, up to the present time, the sym- Illlilllill $ii'ii,uiitrrt of all the ultra-democrats, dema- 'llliill " Irfiiiirists, socialists, red radicals, anarchists IttllBi. mroughout the world. 'iiii'ii,iitiillllill “sand foreign policies of the Russian _ttr_j,'italll Biijiii, shown its leaders to be lunatics- _,i1)'i"ti'illiilll 'i"iiCitiitur of the Iunatic; with all the under- Rri:; d cajolery pf the maniac; but with none _l"i.ii"'scieiliBll FiiwtiCiples- of the sane legislator. - V1ewpo1 lunatics ,, Illitl))strperformed by them shice they came i'i(iiiair " gyears ago, can be twisted so as to show 'c% :35: . u ,5: F _ . tl,tittaal IF,jjiitv.e,n the semblance of sanity. 21, me. all 0 the world Vithout a shadow 0 wpoint, the leaders 1115C orces, al it is with tht se they can rhig titl priests tCT in ot nor? til t! this, because thesc men are lunatics ot the great Victor e, however, is scarce mg as Thomas Hard: Jef. thi w of a doubt, and surveyed from any lers of the Russian Government are lead aimed n et upon of the Russian Government. at and trample under foot ecausc they can murder and C' they can imprison and kill ey can control a band of Iccent clothes to their backs , a bunch ofaoodh1ms in a. tl can command mighty the seas, tremendous nto the air tremendous 11 use in the conquest The lowest or adv tendei. not miiees sarily accepted. W. _A. MteLJIAN, Department a V Public Highways, Ontario Toronto, April 10th, 1923. A marked cheque for $1,000.00, payable to the Minister of Public Works and Highways, Ontario, or a Guaranty Com- pany's bid bond for a similar amount must be attached to tenders for pave- ments. A Guaranty Company's Contract Bond for 50 per cent. of the amount of the tender will be furnished by contractor when contract is signed. All bonds must be__mad_e out on Departmental forms.’ Plans, specifications, information to bidders, tender forms and tender enve- lopes may be obtained on and after Wed- nesday, April 18th, 1923, at the office ot the undersigned, or from A. N. Fellowes, Resident Engineer, Hamilton, Ontario. A marked qheque for; $3000.00, payable ston. 2 native) miles. Contr o'clock noon for the follov Highways: Separate sealed tenders marked "Tend- er for Contract No............" will be received by the undersigned until 12 g’clock n..o9..n on Monday, April 30th, 1923, The land is entirely cleared and sown to white sweet clover. Young trees are planted the first spring af- ter the clover has matured. The clover is plowed under when qbout 3 feet high, or it may be disced into the soil after the mature plants have fal- len to the ground. An important discovery has recent- ly been reported from the Ohio Fruit Experimental Station, and it is that sweet clover will rejuvenate the worn- out soils of old orchards so that a young orchard may be planted on the same land after a crop of the clover following the removal of the old trees. If the soil in the old fruit land is not rejuvenated before planting to young trees, uniform stands and vigorous growth are rarely possible. "Poor old Jim's dead, I 'ear. A two-ton block o' stone fell on 'is chest." Ah, 'e always 'ad a weak chest, 'ad Jim." lesion. "Tommy1Joneis,'i she safir, "what was there about George Wash- ington that distinguished him from all other famous Americans?" "He didn't lie" was the Qrompt‘answer.‘ ' be watered down by boards of laymen. In England the indeterminate sen- tence applies only to those between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, committed to reformatories, and others sentenced to preventive deten- tion. Sweet clover has also been credited with starving out the black peach aphis, which does great damage to young peach trees, especially if plant- ed immediately after an old orchard is removed. Bituminous Penetration Pavement Conract No. 1002. St. Davids to Queen toy, including grading, 2.4 miles (alter INDEPENDENT ADS PAY 1llllflllli Ill (lllllfllll0ll; n t1' CS) NoHarns act No. 1002. St. Davids to Queen 4 miles including grading (alter Deputy Minister of H Concrete No. 1000. mu, .-W....nuu " U mn Ilit CHEMICALHORN STOP stops horns. One application does it, Apply to calves 3 to 10 days old. 50u. a tube Postpaid or at your dealers, FLEMING BROS. 426 Wellington W. Toronto work On -the Proirinbi Pavement Burlington Beach 4.4 But the Russian Government is losing the support of thousands of these people-mot because they hate Britain the less but they love their church the more-- and Russia has attacked their'church. strong grounds, for the assertion that the Roman Catl lic Church is interfering in affairs of state-but 1 murder of a few priests will not correct this evil matically, carefully and wisely-and if Government proposes to do away with Catholic Church, within the borders of it must be prepared to put something better .---and that it evidently is not prepared to d But its attack upon the church, and its brutal murder of the priests of the church will Check the enthusiasm of fifty per cent. of these former sympathizers and supporters, _because many of them while false to the state, are still true to their-church. Many people throughout the world the classes which I have mentioned, l: thetic with the Russian Government, b have been anti-British-anything that would receive their support. Thousands upon thousands of people in the United States who were sympathetic with Russia, are now cisrs- ing the Russian Government because it has dared to lay hands upon the hold priesthood-the attack of the Russian Government, upon the Roman Catholic Church is only another evidence of its lunacy. . '.' '. ' * . g OPTICIAN ."r"i'iiid-iiNlt The correction of this evil must be gone about diplo- I i ‘ There may be son/e grounds; and no doubt there You'll like the way FLEMING'B CHEMICALHORN One application aives 3 to 10 days "stpaid or at your Abingdon,..... ... Ancaster. . .. .... . Beamsville .... ... Bertie .... ....... Binbrook...... ... Cayuga....'.. .... Dunnville . . . . . . .. Fenwick .... ..... Niagara-on-the-Lake Smithville _ . . . . . . Thorld .... .. ....' Welland ...... ..., Wellandport .... ... TUESDAY, APRIL 24th---0n this date I shall sell by public auction for David Librock on Johnston Sann’s tarm on the Gravel road, near the lake, one mile east of Beamsville G. T. R. Station, a quantity ot farm stock and implements. Everything sold without reserve. Sale at one o'clock. Terms: $10 cash; 5 months' credit. 4 per cent. cash over $10. Jas. A. Livingston, Auctioneer. SATURDAY, APRIL 21st---0n this} date I shall sell by public auction at the home ot Mrs. T. Heady, Couse House, Beamsville, a. quantity 'of household furniture, carpenter tools, books, etc. Everything will be sold! without reserve. Sale at two o'cloek. Terms: Cash. Jag. A. Livingston, Auctioneer. - "H+oe.q.tqo-qq Thursday-More fun in class today wen teacher was lasting us about are Ancesters. When she come to Tony Sporacio he sed all his Anserters had got drownded in the Atlantic ocean wile they was takeing a trip across to live in th's country. I sed Drank then she ast Elsy what was the past tents ot sink and she sed Sank and then she ast Blisters what was the past tents ot w'nk & he sed Wank and we all latted harti11y until teecher wrapped the desk with her Ruler. Wensda.v---sToday teecher ast' what .i_s the past tents of drink str'ney days and I am afrade he is going to go threw with it and that means that I am going to be kep rest less most all of the summer time wen it cums time to go fishing and playing base Ball. Monday-pug Stevens has got all the kids skinned when it comes to haveing bundles of nerve. Today he ast 'me to lone him 15 cents and I sed I only had a dime and he sed Well you can give me the dime and owe me a Nickel. Of all the nerve. Teusday---Pa is a getting rest less to make a garden these nice warm sun Sunday-l was ast'ng ma wh-tvr:s the difference between a bride G 'CriT'rt and a husband and she sed about the only differients she new of was up» a Bride groom always washed the dishes wen he was a setting around the house on Sundays a reading the Sunday paper. She sed it loud as it she xpected it to have sum affect on pa. But it diddent. F'riday---We had qwite time here at are house morg Ect. Saterday----Pa ast Jake' beleaved in Infant d----------, 1rrs.y)ptyoipyty1sae/gelyia/if cheaf 1' day sum time ago AUBTIDN SALE DATES By ROSS FARQUHAR gage MATS' DIAR k FALL FAIR DATES ssertion that the Roman Catho- the c had qwite a Romant'c are house tor the last few recent days, wile my cuzzen Harriet was here a visiting with us. She got interduced to a yung man of are aquaintence and they got rite thick on lst s'te of each another. They met 1 week ago today and by las Tens- day he was a calling her by her 1st name and now she is calling her self by his last name-dn other winds they are marryed and pa says he hopes they disside to take there Honey moon trip soon or else he w 11 half to :ar for more groqe Yr", am afrade he is with it and that going to be kep f the summer time .. ....Oct. 5-6 . ..Sept. 25-26 .. ..Sept. 14-16 , Sept. 18-19-20 . ..Sept. 21-22 . . . .Sept. Ib-M ....Sept. 11-12 . ..Sept. 25-26 .. . . .Sept. 21-22 . . . .Sept. 12-13 To be arranged . ' . .Oct. 2-3-4 . . .. Sept. 28-29 ith th " 1ts a not included irf ave been sympa- rcause its actions was anti-British th Russ ut the ol m e are Classes are held every Wednes- day and Saturday, at 2.30 p.m.' Collective treatment _'fl given without charge of any kind. ' All are welcome. Mr. F. P. Macklem, having been authorized by Monsieur Coue, to teach Autosuggestion, has opened a Free Clinic at the White House, Grimsby, Ont. 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