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man Frelderick C. Jackson’’.) Clean po- litics! “O{ course you beliave in that. You could ny: disbelieve in gt unless you are politically uneclean. Ri!?ts and Du- ties! These you alsa-helieve in. You could not dis‘)elieg 0 them unless your idea of what constitutes good govern- ment is pververted. All of which 1s by way of saying that the synonym for good governmeunt is ciean politics. From my carliest days I have beaen deeply interasted in polities. I have as a boy {1 think it was in 19J0) read with interest Rev. Lawetz’s query, given in response to an attaeck on a Draft of Or- dinance introduced by him: *‘lfnot the Council, who then can decide the leality or illagaiit r of the Council’s procedure?”’ Fresh in my m>mory is the defense made by thz iace J. C. Canegata toa measuare to wiiea he was a party, that if a Membeor of {he Council was not to ex- press himself according to his nonest convietion what was the use of any d's- cussion or of his beinz a membear of the Couneil, or words to thit general effect. I mention the absent and departed only. On a few ocecasions I have written on the Council--approvingly and disapprovingly. Whenever it happened to be disapprov- ingly, I nave bezsn told by people who doubtiessly mean well that I should not “*worry with the Council;”’ that before my time it was the same and it will al- ways be the same—unless. This I do not believe; indeed I cannot believe. I have never been able to see that the (Council is any better or worse than yol —YOU, MR. VOTER—MAKES IT. NO MAN SHOULD BE ELECTED to the Council who has no: a live inlerest in the weifare of St. Croix. NO MAN who, in the phraseology of tite master of lyrical poetry, is ‘‘for close designs and erooked councils sic”” SHOULD BE RLECIED. Men who have an infantile {s¢ is it asinine ?) belief that their (?) party is always right, who are not big enough to dare their (?) party when their (7) party dare to dare them SHOUL.D NOT BE ELECTED. NO MAN who thinks it bis duty to agree with anything or to oppose everything proposed by another member SHOULD® BE ELECT- ED. Men who are not prevared to ac- cept the elementary facts that it is not only at election time they should be heard from, and that they could learn much from their constituents were they inclin- ed to learn at all SHOULD NOT BE ELECTED. NO MAN SHOULD BE ELECTED to the "‘olonial C(‘ouncil unless he can be useful—-very useful- in fact, MORE USEFUL in the Council than out of the Council. If a man cannot be more useful to the general public in the Colonial Council than he is out of the Colonial Council, HIS PLACE IS NOT IN THE COL®NIAL COUNCIL. ' You--YOU MR. VOTER-—-what are you going to do about it?, sl Ll A Yl TELEGRAMS. | ST. CROIX STATION. L London, March %2nd.—''The Morning | Post”’, declares: ‘‘We ought to sit on | Germany’s head, until France is again a first class European power.”” The | newspapers foreshowed the plan for a | juint invasion of Germany, vhich Mar- | shal Foeh and Mr. Lloyd George are | supposed to have discussed over the week eni at Chequers Court, it was de- | clared tae pian doubtlessly contemplates | the seizure of the Rhur mining district | in western Germany Marshal Foeh pre- | sided at a meeting of military experts at | French headquarters yesterday, at which | there was a discussion of plans t> be | followed should the Germans be recal- | clirant. ! New York. March 2nd —No business | was reported in the market for raw ! sugar early today. Cuba’s were quoted | a 3fc. cost and treight, equal to 5.77 for ~entrifugal. In refined, the inquiry con- | tinued of fair proportion but refiners are | not accepting much new business as they all already have considerable orders on hand. Prices were steady at 7.75 for fine granulated Futures were 2to 3 points lower at noon under liquidation. Theve was only a smal! trade. ‘ New York, March 2nd.—The Cuban Sugar Finance Committee will sell a suf- | ficient qusutity of Cuban sugar to sup- | piy the requirements of the trading on New York coffee and sugar exchange, Mr. Haviey,a member of the commit- tee, announced today. Raiders have ap- prehended that the detecnination of the committee to sell no sugar for re-sale in this country might prevent further tra- ding in futures ~n the ‘market by ren- | dering it impossible to make “deliveries. | This was brought to Mr. Hawley’s at- | tention by the sugar committee of the | exchange. They pointed out that the ' increase to preserve the usefulness of | thz futures market would be compara- tivelv small and Mr. Hawley said he | could find no objection to supplying it. | London, March 2nd.--Mr. Lloyd George | consented today to the| employment of | armed forces against derman_v, in tlte i event of the non-compiiance with Allied | reparations demands. to the extent of | the oc-upation of Mannheim by British, | French and Belgain troops and also of | the Ruhr reports on the Rhine where | coal is handled. The Premier had hither- | to declared himself unwilling to use." such military measures. The French long ™ range guns have already been advanced | to a point where they will command | the ecity of Eseen, the home of the Krupp plant. ; London, March 3rd.—Germany was | today given until Monday to accept the | fundamental conditions laid down by the | Supreme Council at Paris. The Ger- | man delegates were informed hy the | Allied representatives today that if Ger- | many does not accept those terms the | Allies will take immediate steps. The first will be the occupatio by the Allied troops of the cities of Duisburg and Dusseldorff, and t~e Ruhr region of Ger- many which contains important mines and iron plants. Second, allied countries will place such a tax on German mer chandise as they may deem proper. Third, a customs boundary along the Rhine under Allied control will be establishad. The German dele ation was infor ned the Allies would not raduce the period of 42 years alloted for the payment of the total amount of reparations by Gerzany. Germany’s counter broposals which were submicted to the Allies on Tuesdag« vere no: susceptible of examinatiog, M. Lloyd George told Dr. Simons in sub- stance after today’s session of the con- ference had assembled at St James Pal- #ce at noon, Mr. Lloyd George said the attitude taken by the German empire regarding reparations was in addition a grave violation of therobligations of Ger- many toward the Allies. He reminded ‘he German representatives that their government had not fulfilled the treaty oi Versai les relative to coal deliveries, disarmament, the payment of twenty billion marks in geld and the punishment of German officers and sailors accused o’ crimes during the war., : Washington, March 2nd. —Replies to the League of Nations Council and the British Govt. regarding mandates will be left to the Harding administration, it was said today at the State Department, NEwW YORK, March 4th 1921. Kiour, Blencdad Ciears St. Lawrence J-ran pr. brl. $8.60. Meal, Kilndried per 100 ths $2.10 New Season’s Pork per brl. $37.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $29.00 Sugar---Crystals maximum per 100 lhs. * $5.77 Molasses Sugar 89° test, no quotatio: Cotton, Middiing Upiand, at Liverpool per lb. 6 56-100 d, tixchange, New York and London, 60 days’ sight $3.87 tixchange New York and London, sight £3.90% LONDON, Mareh 4th 1921. Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt. controll- ed price, duty raid 1295. 9d. ‘““ Demerara Crystals free of con- trol, duty paid, 595. 62-. ** Moscovado Govt. co trolled price, duty paid, 1245. 9d. s o free o1 control duty paid it 40s. 50s. o fine 7bs. (zerman Beet 88%; f.o.b. no sal = White Java sugar cif United Kingdom 40s. od. (seillers) Demerara Kum, per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cocoa, Good Miidling Red no- minal per cwt 625. 665. . Cotto Medium Fine Sea Island, at 1.i.- erpool per lb. 28d. nominal. ' Bank of England rate of Discount :.r cent. 7. Consols 46%. - Three per cent rents in Paris Fes. 58.25.