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What will compensate the fishermen about Bay St. George, Bonr.e 

 Bay, and Bay of Islands for the suffering of their families, whose 

 welfare was so ignominiously ignored? The pangs of hunger are 

 dreadful beyond description. Who shall stay the hand of poverty 

 from dealing unkindly with the families of those fishermen who will 

 be deprived of their yearly competence? 



A correspondent asks : Where is the man who in the past has been 

 our supporter Mr. M. P. Gibbs ? Can he not come to the rescue in 

 this our time of great need to give to the fishermen the legal advice 

 they so much require upon the question of their personal rights under 

 this new Act? Sir Robert Bond has proven faithless and worked a 

 great hardship upon our fishermen and their families. Will Mr. 

 Gibbs also forsake them? It is the consensus of opinion hero that he 

 will uphold the reputation he has acquired as the friend of (he la- 

 bourer, and will come to Bay of Islands and vicinity to give the 

 needed legal assistance to those who have given him their friendship 

 and support in the past. By doing this he will be performing a most 

 charitable service, and earn for himself the undying gratitude of all 

 the people along our shores. 



OCTOBER 10, 1908. 



It is obvious, from the tenour of the articles appearing in the Even- 

 ing Telegram, that Sir Robert Bond is exhausting his limited ability 

 in an endeavour to bolster up his freak of legislation. He is shriek- 

 ing himself hoarse, plays a heroicomic part, and, with characteristic 

 dastardly shamelessness, attempts by specious statements and false 

 assurances to offset popular disapproval of his harum-scarum policy. 

 What is this policy? To rob the people of the west coast, and the 

 Colony as a whole, of the wealth of the sea in order that his ven- 

 geance with the American people who rejected his reciprocity Treaty 

 proposals might be appeased. That is the policy of our Premier. 

 Small consideration does the vain, bombastic Premier give to the 

 brawn and muscle of Bay of Islands. Bonne Bay, St. George's and 

 Placentia, and the whole west coast; his own vindictiveness must be 

 satisfied to Hades with the fishermen ! But the people are wrathy 

 and refuse to submit to the Premier's mad policy, which might ulti- 

 mately lead to serious results and international complications. The 

 people's voice may be temporarily quieted, but it is as clear as day 

 and unmistakably sure that vox populi ultimately conquers, and the 

 sooner Sir Robert Bond settles down to this conviction the better. 

 And Sir Robert must realize there is wide-spread determination 

 among the west coast fishermen that the Americans will not be al- 

 lowed to use purse-seines; any attempt to do so will be met with the 

 resistance of an outraged people. Bond's policy will cost the Colony 

 dear if persisted in; and His Excellency the Governor should be in- 

 vited by the people to suspend the operation of the Act relating to 

 foreign fish ing- vessels, and then remove from office the stupid, vain, 

 farcical, reckless blunderer who dared to outrage a quiet, industrious, 

 loyal people. 



We are indebted to our courteous friend, the editor of the Evening 

 Telegram, for the marked attention bestowed upon our humble 

 efforts to place the Premier in the proper light before the people of 

 the west coast. The search-light of truth has been thrown upon the 

 Premier's policy, and it has been revealed that this policy is being 



