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'-ï-RTi 'î- * - 5fgP"->aSf |P! ^ .i.--^* v ' ■'*S#ÏÏï£*r? xi i ■ V «Çfc'V'Çiy gg~5 §ppi?0 afejSj^sPs s /,; VQv -x» - ^^vjt^iât^a^aiaMaflasaBagBai^iMBj^gm të^Ê^Ê&MsŒmms^fâ&ÈSÊBBSSS&s^ IgflppgFfï#;^ ..; -j Z z-, ■ ' \ y s • / Çx?ïl¥* 1 y ; ; -.. * / ✓S X \ This, the most tremendous question in Canada's history, is to be answered within ten days. y ' t0 be Our answer involves Canada's honour, her freedom- and her future Old-bme party questions are being advanced to obscure the gravest ^ j e ^f placed before a nation. Canada is in real danger. The clouds that obscure her vision must be brushed aside so that the great issue stands forth clear and Hist;nr.*- United Quebec To-day, in our national crisis, Quebec alone among all the provinces stands more united than ever before. She knows what she wants: - { public meetingsjhroughout that Province. The Unionist minority w. Quebec are the victims of organized obstruction. ^ Withdrawal from the war. Bilingual schools everywhere. Weakening of the ties of British connection. Political control of Canada. Prom the Ottawa Pfver to Labrador and the Gulf, à common common purpose actuates Quebec in her determination to profit by the factional divisions of Canada and to impose her will upon all the people of Canada. Within the last few weeks, Quebec has mobilized all her forces to dominate Canada under the unified* leadership of Bourassa and Laurier. Canada knows that these two men in their earlier days were personal friends and political associates. Canada knows how m recent times they gradually drew apart--until in 1911 Bourassa opposed Laurier and helped to bring about his defeat, at the polls. Canada knows that from that time forward, until a few weeks ago, the breach between them steadily widened until envy Mid hatred, each toward the other became the possession of both. Bourassa and his followers were anathema to Laurier. Should not the people of Canada ask themselves, before it is too late, why these two men have suddenly agreed to bury the past, why this sudden embrace each of the other? If we will but let the' scales drop from our eyes the answer is obvious. The all-compelling influences of Quebec have combined to force the union of Laurier and Bourassa in the common purpose of French Canadian domination. domination. n.^kTi? ^ ®" ccessful 111 her determination to rule all Canada, î laS , but to secure a fe w seats in each of the other Provinces Quebec leaders now seek to divide the rest of Canada into factions by insidiously bringing into political discussion old-time party questions questions thC PUbHc mind from Quebec, her purple and he" 'rnmXXTX to quit the war, Quebec would P ?. , d * ded to do likewise. By union only can the , .English-speaking people prevent this calamity. However well-meaning Laurier candidates in Ontario may be, they will be helpless against a united Quebec. " - , Apart from the splendid work of the small English-speaking PatriotkFu^d h C h A? i ! ed the - Red Cross ' has failed thf fal ed m recrultm g and has failed in the VhhrlrZ XT are We J tr V- s ' ° ur soldiers > their wives, their' Idren, their pensions and theft- allowances tb Quebec, that will neither give, enlist nor invest, and which will resist taxation for the support of our men and their dependents? * Canada must decide whether she win become a deserter and quit with Russia, or fight to the end for liberty with Belgium. This decision must not be dictated by the only Province which has shirked its obligations throughout the war. We concede the right of French Canadians to make com- mon cause of anything they think, it is in their interests so to do. This is a free country. But as the French Canadians have already combined to assert their views, it is the duty of the hour that we English-speaking Canadians get together and present to Quebec a united front in the defence.of our rights. This is imperative. . With sixty solid seats Quebec is about to accomplish her designs. Bourassa, thé^eal master and idol of Quebec is in sight of his goal _ . . , To attain her purpose, Quebec has not scrupled to ignore British traditions and to suppress freedom of speech. So thor- oughly organized is her campaign to"prevent even the discussion of the war that Unionist candidates are prevented from holding All Canada knows that Germany has been working through agents, spies and bribes m every country in the world.' The latest evidences are the revelations recently made to the world by President President Wilson. Do we Canadians think the Kaiser has overlooked Canada? If we do, what a fool's paradise! Gerr ?f n ^ ben efits by division among her enemies. Upon sh f lo ^ m Can ada as furthering her designs? Not their colleagues in the Union Government That is certain. But can the same be' said with respect to the leaders in the Province of Quebec whose attitude this war is against Canada's continuation in the war. We regret to be compelled to say these things, but we must not shut our eyes to facts. , rhe Citizens- Union Committee, anxious for the maintenance of British ideals and traditions Urion'ocT P °™ Ca l mer^f Ü unked Q^eblc! Union Government alone can save Canada from the men are nf _ The Citizens' Union Committee A A Non-Partisan War-Time Organization to Support Union Government J. MfcLYON, Guelph, Chairman NORMAN SOMMERVILLE, Toronto, Vice-Chairman ; jiP - Cf- * I > ; < . > 'Br-, OF THE AIR WORLD ALREADY CHARTED FOR AIR SERVICE. Experts Believe That International Mail Routes Will Be Established Insdde of Ten Years. or The world is already charted for arr service. The aero clubs of France;'. ; Italy, England and America have ^ worked otft international routes. London London to i lifax, London to fïew York, London to Paris, London to afl the great cities of the world are main lines of the international map. Lord Montagu has devised a mail route between England and India. As ordinarily travelled the distance is 6,000 miles, but he eliminates' 3,600 miles by an airline over Russia, Germany Germany and Austria. He estimates that the flight could be accomplished in 25 hours--35 hours from London to Bombay! Bombay! . . Another route he calls the Red Route, because for the entire distance the British mailplanes would fly over territory under the British flag, a distance of 5,230 miles to be accomplished accomplished in from 75 to 80 hours. Mail would be dropped at Basra, Alexandria, Alexandria, Malta, and Gibraltar. Captive balloons, illuminated at, night, would be the route markers and landing stations would be arranged at convenient convenient intervals. i I New Era in Sight. The most conservative experts appear appear to believe th^^ national and international international mail routes will-be complete complete '.y established within ten years. There are more radical thinkpv* ' m, ~ ......... jcaia. lnere are more radical thinkers who assert that the experience and lessons of war aviation will bring this bless- ing to civilization within five years. After postal service, which will be the first, great development of the airplane airplane .for commercial uses, it is generally generally agreed will come fast passenger passenger service and regular service for express and freight. The crossing of the Atlantic by air my be, indeed, a matter of weeks and months rather than years. Major Per- fetti, head of the Italian army fliers now-in-this country, believes that the giant Caproni triplane can accomplish the feat easily, and has indicated his intention of attempting it. Henry Woodhouse and many other students of aviation maintain that when the distance between continents is cut down to one day's travel, when the world sends and receives its mail by airplane, and when mankind realizes realizes dominion over the air there will be a new sociologie era; that nations will be brought into much closer rela- * tionship than ever before; that there will be greater understanding and cordiality between peoples and that there will be far more tolerance for tmreren'ce^ of aims and habits. As the airplane has been, perhaps, the most valuable agency for war, it may become, these men think, the most enduring influence for world peâce. !■ A SOUTH SEA MARRIAGE. Sailor Describes Recent Royal Ceremony, Ceremony, in the Friendly Isles. C. H. Hanson, first assistant engineer, engineer, and member of the crew of the motor schooner S. I. pillard, now of. Honolulu, witnessed the marriage of Princess Charlotte Tobou and Prince William Tungi at Nokualofa, Friendly Islands, on September 29. The Government band played all the ceremonial music, and other musical musical organizations assisted it throughout throughout the day, he says. The wedding dress worn by the Princess was made Sydney, Australia, and fashioned m after the latest styles. The .wedding cako, which was eight feet high and is said to have cost more than $500, was baked in Auckland, New Zealand. About twenty^five white people attended attended the reception, others present being chiefs, officials and natives from the surrounding islands. At the wedding breakfast the table extended from inside the palace, where the royal party was seated! F v V out through one of the doors for 25 50 / G. A WARBÛRTON Chairman Executive Committee ALBERT R. ABBOTT, Secretary , Telephone, Main-5824 headquarters: Canada Life Bldg., Toronto feet. The guests were seated on either side. Tapa --a material made from the beaten bark of the mulberry tree--covered the length of the table. Friday was the -big day for all the ~ islanders who happened to be in th° neighborhood of Nokualofa. Several thousand gathered in the palace grounds and the adjoining square in the early morning. The king personally superintended, the-work of distributing hundreds of xoast pigs among his subjects, many of the large porkers having smaller ones toed to them in a decorative way. It was a holiday for all. ' : Work 6f the Experimental Farms. For the convenience of specialists, farmei s, and others interested in the different lines of agriculture < dealt with in the three-volume ^annual report report of the Dominion Experimental Farm, the several subjects have been issued in separate pamphlet form. These include the reports of the Do-i minion Animal Husbandman, of the Dominion Cerealist, of the Dominion Horticulturist, of the Supervisor of Illustration Illustration Stations, of the Domiflion Apiarist apd of the Dominion Tobacco Husbandman, Any of these reports can be. had on application to the Publications Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture Agriculture at Ottawa. . \ 1- X|. '■ : S & . V -• : Z.XX'tX'-.yv-X | • X;;_ I ^ÊÊÊÈÊÈÊÊÊÉÊÊÊ ; 1 ÉÉ . : v * >. • ■ ■ '. v --