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Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills-What they are and what they do. Their Four Principal Ingredients.

It is an established fact that all diseases spring from one source, namely: Impurity of the Blood. Therefore our strength, health, and life depend upon the vital fluid. When the various passages become clogged, and do not act in perfect harmony with the different functions of the body, the blood loses its action, becomes thick, corrupted, and diseased, thus causing pains, sickness, and distress of every name; our strength is exhausted; and if Nature is not assisted in throwing off the stagnant humours, the blood will become choked and cease to act, and thus our light of life will be extinguished. How important, then, that we shoula keep the various passages of the body free and open, and if assistance is necessary to have at hand that invaluable remedy, Dr. MORSE'S INDIAN ROOT PILLS, manufactured from plants and roots which grow around the mountain cliffs in Nature's garden, for the health and recovery of diseased man.

One of the roots from which these Pills are made is a SUDORIFIC, which opens the pores of the skin, and assists Nature in throwing out the finer parts of the corruption within.

The second is a plant which is an EXPECTORANT that opens and unclogs the passage to the lungs, and thus in a soothing manner performs its duty by throwing off the phlegm and other humours from the lungs by copious spitting.

The third is a DIURETIC, which gives ease and double strength to the Kidneys; thus encouraged, they draw large amounts of impurity from the blood, which is thrown cut bountifully by the urinary or water passages, and which could not have been discharged in any other way.

The fourth is a CATHARTIC, and accompanies the other properties of the Pills while engaged in purifying the blood, and the coarser particles of impurity which cannot pass by the other outlets are thus taken up and conveyed off in large quantities by the bowels.

From the foregoing it is shown that Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills not only enter the stomach, but become united with the blood, for they find the way to every part, and completely root out and cleanse the system from all impurity, and the life of the body, which is the blood becomes perfectly healthy; consequently all sickness and pain are driven from the system, for they cannot remain when the body becomes pure and clean.

Du. Monse's INDIAN ROOT Pits are an efficient, reliable, and safe remedy placed on the market at a price within the reach of all. The Pills being sugar-coated, are pleasant to take, and retain their full medicinal properties. They are packed in amber-coloured bottles-not in cheap wooden or pasteboard boxes-and are thus always fresh and clean, impervious to moisture, anaffected by climatic conditions, and do not deteriorate by keeping us all liquid medicines do

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LOW FREIGHT HOAX.

TRUTH ABOUT THE SHIPPING RINGS NEW BATES.

BY SIR JEO CH FOZZA MONEY, LATE PARLIA MENTARY SRBETARY TO FR MINISTRY OF SHIPPING.

The Press of the United Kingdom on January 27th. was led by an official an nouncement of the North Atlantic Ship ping Conference for shipping ring) to antunee to the people of the 4 pited Kingdom that they were about to enjoy lower freights.

Some of the newspapers, delighted at the news. not unnaturally confited it ( their readers under such headings :

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Cheap Atlantic Freights Big Fall

Freight

Luwer Shipping Freights Effect of Reductions in Ocean Freights. and so forth

Speculation became rite ax to the offe¢l of the alleged ductions. I ware at once promised that food would become cheaper, and that would cogne

int many other blessings Shipowners suddenly be came public benefactors rescuing the public from the clutches of a wicked Gov ernment department which had been pro fiteering in freights and bangling so bad

that shipping rates were much higher | hau they ought to be.

It all seemed so pat. No sooner were ships released from control by the Govern mchi than the patriotic shipowner cut down the rates to enable the trade of the United Kingdom to expand and for the general benefit of all British con sumers of food and other commodities.

It is true, its a matter of fact, that froights are being lowered, is the very reverse of the truth, The new! Atlantic rates, trumpeted by the North Atlantic shipping ring, are more thau twice as high as the rates charged by the Ministry of Shipping.

It is something more than remarkable, therefore, that the North Atlantic ship-

ring should have put out to the Bing Press an ouncement which they must bave known would mislead the public, and, they must also have known, would be unjust and discreditable to the Minis- try of Shipping The aut

Bunouncement made

by the ring is that their new freight rate for North Atlantic cargoes is to be 1 dei, tsay. 4s. 20.) per 100lbs.

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TRUTH AND FALSSHOOD Let me give the actual facts of the Wim the Ministry of Shipping requisi Aloned the liners carly in 1987, soon after it was formed, we determined a rate of freight for North Atlantic cargoes which was estimated to cover costs and make no profit. That rate was 408, per ton

This

rate, arranged to cover Coste, proved to be insuflicient because of the rapid rise in costs and because of the onemy's depredations. After carrying the cargoes for less than cost for aome time, the Ministry of Shipping raised the rate again to cost level. The thing was worked out very entefully, with due regard to all the factors of the caso, at 828. d. per ton, or a little more than double the old rate.

As soon as the armistire we concluded the Government rate was re-worked, again on a cost basis, and towered 429. td.

per ton, or almost the same figure as in April, 1917.

It will be seen that these three figures work out per 100lbs. as follows:-

GOVERNMENT NORTH ATLANTIC FREIGHT RATES.

Per 100tha ..................... 19. 8d. (nearly) January, 1918 35. 8d. December, 1918... Is. 11d. The reader can

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as to the reduct, fr his own opinion in freights of the North Atlantic conference. It will be Been that their 4s. 2d. per 100lbs., alleged to be a

cheap rate, is 2. 3d. per 100lbs. higher than the existing rate, and higher even than the highest Government rate of January 1918.

This high figure, however, is represant ed to the public as a "fall in freights." THE MISREPRESENTATION. How, then, was misrepresentation pos sible?

For

a reason I will simply ex plain. In the war we reached this posi tion-the Government, through the de fartments of Food, Munitions, and War, made nearly all the nation's imp whether of food

imports DI manitions or materiale. Nearly all, but not quite all. As will be readily understood, it was con- venient, when a liner at Port Black was loading,

let her bring home some pri vate cargo if the priority cargo needed by the Government

was not sufficient. Otherwise, of course, the space would have been wasted. Thura were also some commodities, like cotton, which the Stato did not control, and slicno enmo in, ibero fore, as private cargoes. If on these pri- vate by charged the cost freaghta had merely

inistry of Shipping

to

the

which it charged on Government stuff. then the British public would not have been benefited, for the middleman, and aften the overses middleman, would have!

the margin into his pocket. Therefore, on such private cargoes, the shipowners were allowed to charge mora than the Government rata But this, as I have explained, only affected a very! small proportion of the total imports of the country. Nearly the whole, and, in- deed, up to 96 per cent, was Govern ment stuff, carried at bare cost by the Ministry of Shipping.

The existence of the very small amount of private cargo at high commercial freights, however, enables the shipowner now to represent his new rate as duction in freights whereas of coura It is a big rise on the Government rate.

THE WAR POSITION.

THE PEACE POSITION.

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(State gontrol of shipping and supplies). Nonrly all (up to 8 per cent.) of the nation's food, munitions, and other supplies carried at cost price. BA very anall fraction (private car

goes) carried at high commercial ratea. (State control of shipping and supplica relaxing). C-A. decreasing proportion of tho na tion's food and supplim State cou trolled and carried at cost price. D.-An increasing proportion of sup o privato cargues, carried at commercial rates, low na com. pared with J, but high as coin. narod with A. ‹ (Continued of fast of next oblumn.).

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The public will see the danger of the position. The nation's supplice are ossing to be State imported and ingress. ingly becoming privately importal. The now Freight rates, which are so high s compared with the Government rates, will therefore come to apply increasingly to the nation's supplies.

An explanation is duo from the ship owners us to: (1) Why they put out the statement in so misleading a form; God, what is far more important than that, (8) how it is that they and it necessary to charge in the North Atlantio moro than twice the Government rate-a- press.

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