Evening Advocate, 1919-10-07

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THE EVENING ADVOCA1
Official Organ of The F*_&ermen's Pi
Unk» of Newfanvflancl
"Vol.    VI.,    No.
THB   EVENING   ADVOCATE,   ST.    JOHN'S.    NEWFOfl^DlAND,    TUESDAY,    OCTOBER    7,     1919
MAJOR REV. NANGLE REBUKES THE GOVERNMENT FOR BEING M
THE QUESTION OF RAISING MEMORIALSTO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD IN FRAI
The Price of fish and the
Cashin Tory Negligencje
imuJc taken I*y tho Cashin-Monnc papers towardsjhe fish
- insulting to every fisherman who has a quintal of fish   to
have I to Jo with thc fishermen of this country?" that is'
attitude of Cushin, as expressed in thc Casino a few nights
It will bc four or five dojlars lower than at any time last
a*. i> the view of thc Tory newspapers. And if fish fell in
t.tX) per quintal it is an admitted fact that the wreckers,!
J -"rattaHs who make up thc present Cashin-Morine-
:cid outfit would be delighted. Tory times are hard times
jys of the Morinc-Tory Government of '98 would not be'
t thc present clique could cod thc   public   into   clcctins
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The fishermen of this country constitute 80 per.cent obits population and yet Cashin says "What have I to do with the Mermen?
What havc the Government to do with the fishermen? Whit interest
havc the Government in fish prices?"
The governments of Canada, the United States and of Europe,
have much to do with the affairs of the masses at the preaant time.
Thc prices of produce and the necessaries of life are vital questions
in these countries, and their statesmen are, we are afraid, clever, and.
more capable than Cashin; that is to judge from that "school-boy"
document that Cashin calls a "manifesto."
These Governments would never have allowed Grafters to filch
from the fishermen one hundred thousand dollars on salt this year by
selling at war prices, eight months after the war ended.
The .same indifference to the fishermen's conditions exists to-day
in the matter of fish as in the matter of salt. The Cashin-Reid Government knows conditions are unsettled on the other side. They
know that the Governments over there have taken the matter in hand
and set about to make conditions as favorable as possible to their
peoples. The same duty applies on this side, did we have men worthy
of the name of Government.
Instead of strong Government action, the Reidites have said of the
producers, "Let 'em die," and "If you don't like us kick us to hell
out of it."
Instead of grappling with the fish problems agd co-operating w th
thc trade, as the National Government, with Pres. Coaker »nd the
F. P. U, influence in it, to the advantage of the_trade and fisiermen,
the Cashio-McGrath-Ried clique have left the trade to deal with nn-
precedented conditions single-handed, and to-day "litis co-atH-, is At,
the mercy of Government commissions abroad.
The crisis now arisen is more vital to our "economic life" than
that which faced us two years ago. Instead of coping with it, saving
t*-c public funds against its contingencies, the Cashin-Hickman-Reid
outfit allows fishermen to be fleeced of one hundred dollars on salt
alone, squanders wastefully and in direct defiance d*f law and the
people, five hundred thousand dollars of an election bribe, and Heaven
knows hqw much more, waste $10,000 on an arch that was torn!
down a few days ago and issues a manifesto that means "more bleed-
in taxation and a new Reid Deal, that will compel the producers
to repair and build anew the railwaythat the Reid Nfld. Co. should
do itself. I\)
■ Never since Responsible Government was there such a corrupt
and unscrupulous body. Their attitude towards every section of the
•ilectorate is one of bluff, of indifference and antagonism. The powers
,*f Government are subverted to grew and bribery, and the country is
o-day .shivering on thc brink of ruin. Confederation, at Canada's
:erms, must follow IT Morine and the clique whom he bosses are not
Jriven from power.
To Tory Grafters it is a black crime to raise a voice on behalf of
ihc men who have fish to sell. The blackest lies and abuse have been i
.nanufactured against the President of the F. P. U., who has exposed
)hc brutal indifference of the Cashin outfit in the matter of cooperating with the trade for the solution of the fish .crisis. Fishermen
may well thank Heaven that thcy have a Union to-day, and a Coakcr i
, that tbe Grafters, the Reid tools and Confederates cannot destroy.
The F. P. U. is the toilers' greatest asset. If it were not so the Cash n-,
Reid oress would not abuse it or its President as they do.
TJhe argument that Coaker should make the price is a weak
excuse for the Cashin tactics at the present time. The best that can
be done is being done, and if there were no Coaker to-day, fish would
be five dollars per quintal.
It is the Government's duty to co-operate with the trade, to deal
energetically and unitedly with conditions abroad. If they had done]
so no fish would be less than $12.00 per quintal. Why should this
country be left at the mercy of Government dealers abroad? Every
dollar lost on fish, under the rate of $12 per quintal is lost to the
fishermen by the neglect of the Cashin-Morine-Reid Government.
Where is John Stone, he, who wants the past forgotten? Were
it not for his "ratting" to Cashin there would be no fish crisis to-day,
for a Government would be in power to have taken in time anf*
handled matters without a loss to the country of one cent out of the
treasury. "Traitor" Stone has a long list to answer for to the Trin ty
electorate. ,
The Tory party has admitted they are prepared to use one million
dollars to buy their way to power. Their argument against President
Coaker's demand, is that Government action will cost money. Would
not that one million be better spent in giving a higher price for flsh
than wasted in bribery and political corruption? Could not the
$500,000 of an election bribe be better ued than by being "doled out"
to heelers to buy votes with? Should not the one hundred thousand
dollars, fleeced from the fishermen on salt, and now in the Government grafters' pockets, be handed back to the country by helping to
defray expenses of Government action re the price of fish?
The taxpayers must pay for Tory Graft. Away with graft and
political corruption and use the taxpayers' money in a square and
decent way to help the taxpayers in their fight to live.
Three weeks more of Graft, Boodle and Graballism, and the fleeced
PADRE NANGLE SAYS IF THE CASHIN GOVERNMENT
CAN ERECT AN EXPENSIVE TEMPORARY ARCH (WHICH
COST TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS), FOR TWO DAYS' CELEBRATION, NEWFOUNDLAND SHOULD BE ABLE TO AFFORD A PALTRY $35,000.00 FOR MEMORIALS TO OUR
GLORIOUS DEAD.
At last the Minister of Militia, Hon. A. E. Hickman, has been forced to
present Major (Rev.) Mangle*, report, dealing with the matter of the graves
of our glorious dead in France.
, Padre Nasgle, who is popular with every man in the Regiment and loved
by all creeds and classes represented therein, had made certain recommendations
to the Minister of Militia Hickman, asking, apparently, for £1,000 .($5,000)
for six war memorials. Mr. Hickman had telegraphed Major Nangle granting
£100 ($500) for each of the battle memorials.
• The following is Major Nangle's reply, and it contains a stinging rebuke
to the Cashin Executive, who were too much wrapped up in their own affairs to
consider the great work in which Major Nangle was putting his whole heart.
Let the parent* and relslives who have given their all to the Eaapire, and laid
down their boys for the cause of right, ponder over this matter, and then ask
themselves if this Government, some members of which have become millionaires during the past five years of war, should be retained one moment in power
longer than November 3rd.
Here is the extract from Major Nangle's report:—
With reference to your telegram No. A.Y.G. 87-16-46 dated
16-8-19, granting £100 for each of our battle memorials, I do not
think that the situation is quite clear. (From photo No. 1, you will -
see what £100 will do in buying a private headstone). These memorials are not erected to the missing each of whom has his own
individual tablets or stone. The battle Exploit Memorials are being
erected by the other dominions to show Europe and the world what
the Dominions have done. They are monuments to our glorious
dead, and to our just as glorious survivors. They are monuments to
the mothers that bore such breve «©ra-and—the- land that bred
them. They aretobe ah everlasting tribute to the men who gave
their all that the land may live. Surely then, IF ST. JOHN'S
COULD ERECT AN EXPENSIVE TEMPORARY ARCH FOR
A TWO DAYS' CELEBRATION, NEWFOUNDLAND CAN
SPEND MORE THAN £100 PER MONUMENT TO COMMEMORATE IN PERPETUITY THE DOINGS OF HER REGIMENT,
AND HER 1,200 DEAD. IF £100 IS ALL THAT CAN BE
SPARED PER MONUMENT (ABOUT THE PRICE OF A
DECENT PRrVATE MONUMENT IN THIS COUNTRY) I
RECOMMEND THAT WE ERECT NOTHING AT ALL. LET
US FORGET WE EVER HAD A REGIMENT.
SUGGESTIONS.
I respectfully suggest that a Committee of energetic citizens be
formed and a public subscription list opened; the amount raised to
be doubled by the Government Anything under £1,000 in France
per monument would be unworthy, as would anything less than £100
for each of our main cemeteries in the U.K. Wc would therefore
need:—
1 in Gallipoli.. -. £1,000.0.0
4 in France    4,000.0.0
1 in Belgium    1,000.0.0
Wandsworth Cemetery       100.0.0
J    Brookwood       100.0.0
Ayr       100.0.0
Winchester:       100.0.0
Or say, about $35,000 and that is, I think, thc very lowest figure
we can do anything worthy of the Regiment
T. NANGLE, C. F. Major.
Getting Back
LONDON. OcL 6—Great Brjla n'l
railway system was again In opera-
todny as a result of aettlcmenl
yesterday of lho great railway strike
averting what threatened to develop |
Into an onlmourr shroud ot nntlonnl
labor trouble Virtually overy nranj
[engaged ln railway work ln London]
returned to work before noon today.
The various servicer- did not speed-
|ily reach the normal state, however,
|because of the entanglement ot rail-
ay material that had resulted on
»e tnspension of work. In the country district* also resumption ¥M
general ex-opt ln outlying district*]
where telegrams announcing settlement and ordering men back could
not be delivered yesterday.   Railway]
[■••ally regular service would Ur in
lines to-morrow. Work
coalfields which bad been -topped1
[owing to thc lack ot freight car
now being resumed rapidly.
Irish Mall servlco hns also been r
[ed again.
Big Train Tragedy
MBX1CO CITY, Oct 6—Stxty persons were killed today In a wreck
[of the largest Mexico passenger train j
which wan derailed between Venegasj
and Saltlllo. Tbo belief la expressed
that a complete survey of the wreckage will Show that at leant fltteen
more were killed In the accident.
Read The Advocate
people of this country will judge the Tories.for their political crimes
against them.       -
It avails them nothing to steal a new name. The leopard cannot
change its skin. They are enemies to progress and the Tory Grafters
must go.
Affairs in Portugal
MAI mil). Oct. 6—Advices receive
hero rrom Portugal regarding Ul* n
ported revolutionary tnoveme
aro very contradictory In cl
Some of them  present the
i slriko as ot a revoluUc
t. while others do not I
this view, in thia connection a
noted that a Lisbon despatch reporting fire inauguration of President
Almeida tays tbo ceremony Issued
without indtent to the people claiming the President on hla way (rom th*
Congress to the Presidential Palace
snd no mention is made ot th* etrflufc
Wilson Getting Better   *
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—PTMldWC
Wilson  continue a to    improva    and
| passed a satisfactory night, aaya «
bulletin  issued  this morning by   hla
'physician. . 4
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