The Daily News THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN DRITISII COLUMBIA Publish! Dally and Weekly Guaranteed Largest Circulation li HEAD OFFICE: Daily News Building Third Avenue. Prince Rupert, U.C. Tel. OS. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING - 50 cents ief inch Contract Rates on application. DAILY EDITION Saturday. Oct. 20. 1917. A THHIQ OF THE PAST There is no longer a Horden Government as we have known It for the past six years, The Horden Government has ceased to exist. The long looked for Union Government now is. The Liberal members who have joined some of the members of the late Horden Government In forming this present Union Government are not assuming the responsibilities for the acts of the last one. They cannot be expected to. The new Ministry as a whole will want to escape from the burden of the blame for the many blunders and sins of the old Borden Government. They may escape the blame but the consequences will require to be faced. For instance, tho blame for the HON. FRANK B. CARVELL three years idleness of Prince Newly appointed Minister of Pub Rupert's drydock may belong lic Works. to the late Borden Government. The contlnuence of that idle ness is a consequence which in the public life of Newfound-land will be up to the newer admin accounted for his oppoint-ment Utralion. The idea of the and Mr. Carvell delivered Chairman of the Munitions a speech in the House in which Board and apparently of the he showed why this selection late Government has been that should not have been made. the Prince Rupert drydock The result of that speech was plant could not be ulilixed in Morine's resignation. It left any way in the winning of the Sir Robert with no other choice. war. That view has not been Mr. Carvell's genius for un shared by the people of Prince covering corruption was revealed Rupert, nor by many of the responsible in the investigations by men in British Columbia. the Public Accounts Committee Let us hope that such into the purchase of supplies a view is a thing of the past. for the first Canadian Expedi To keep so much capital locked tionary Force. The result of up, rusting, is not good business. the attacks led by him follow. Prince Rupert's drydock ing those exposures was the plant is one of the resources retirement from the House, at of the nation, which in certain the Prime Minister's request. other of the belligerent countries, of Messrs, Garland and Foster would be greatly appreciated. Then came the indictment of the Shell Committee, the ac The new government s said tivities of one John Wesley to be a War Cabinet. As a war Allison and his association measure, the cutting of the red with Sir 8am Hughes. The tape which has tied up the Shell Committee ultimately wheels at Hays Creek would be went out of business; so did a very popular one. Allison. Then Carvell found that in his own province the HON.FRANK B. CARVELL Flemming Government was engaged Hon. Frank B. Carvel), who in some very dubious has been sworn in as Minister operations. After looking into of Public Works, has a large the situation he buckled on his t'etfreftwe h tri f and varied collection of hides armor and leaped into the fray gained on his different hunting with the result that Flemming trips in the jungle of political had to resign and the Government corruption and maladministration. shortly afterwards was A patient, tireless investigator, overthrown. Thus Mr. Carvell "For the Red Cross" a relentless hater of is a critic with a "knockout graft in all its infinite variety, punch in each hand." If he impatient of incapacity, and a should prove as forceful and strong, effective speaker who aggressive as a Minister and never minces his words, he has come into conflict with the Big Ye that have gentle hearts and fain And yonder where the battle waves been one of the most striking InUrests there will be a battle To succour men in need. Broke yesterday o'crhectd, figures in the party to which royal in which, we predict. Car- There is no voice could ask in vain Where now the swift and shallow he belongs. Not long after Hir veil will not be the loser. graves With such a cause to plead Cover the Robert Borden Knipirc's dead: assumed office Neither lie iior those who accompanied he made the mistake of an lif in from his party The cause of those that m your care Think how your sisters play their part pointing A. B. Morine to the into the new Ministry will com Who know the debt to honour due, To serve as in a holy shrine, head of a Public Inquiries Com promise with Hie profiteers-Victoria Confide the wounds they proudly bear, Tender of hand and brave of heart, mission. Mr. Morine's record Times. The wounds they took for you. Under the Red Cross sign. Out of the shock of shattering spears, Ah, by that sytnbolj worshipped still, S. S. PRINCE RUPERT Of screaming shell and shard, Of life blood sacrificed, Snatched from the smoke that blinds and sears That lonely Cross on Calv'ry's Hill, WED.NESOAT mldnlrbt for Anjrox. THURSDAY MldnltHl rr Swanaoa Bay, ocean Fall. They come with bodies scarred, Red with the blood of Christ; Vancouver, VletorU and Statu. And count the hours that idly toll Ily that free gift to none denied S.S. PRINCE GEORGE Restless until their hurts be healed Let pity serve you like a sword, And they may fare, made strong and whole, And Love tridc SATUROAV Mldnlfbt for Anjrox. 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