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There are two courses open to youâ€"one is to "cleanâ€"up and start over again, then run a paper whose criticisms will be clean, square, honest and honorable.â€"the other course is to drop out of sight and sound forever.â€" Enough said. When you started "Jack Canuck" you were going to "clean up" the dirty corners. You were going to criticise wrong wherever you found it, and you were going to expose wrong doing, no matter who the culprit was.â€"Instead of that, you have developed filth and corruption till your paper is dirtier than the places it started to clean up, till its actions are more dishonest and disâ€" honorable than the men and sytsems it has been criticizing. So severe a view did one High Court Judge take of the subject matter contained in the publication edited by you sir, that he forbade you to publish any "slanderous" statements in your paper about anyone, for the term of three years, under penalty.â€"Thus you are the only editor in the Dominion of Canada forbidden by the courts to carry out your natural inclinations to "abuse," ‘"lie about" and "slander‘" people. You call yourself a "Briton" yet you break the British laws of decency fair play and honor every week in the year by the publication of an indecent. immoral, filthy, obscene, lying, unfair, dishonest and dishonorable journai and distributing it promiscuously throughout the country where it is liable to fall into the hands of young and old, modest and immodest, clean and unâ€" clean, decent and degenerate all alikeâ€"the slime oozing from each sheet is sufficient to poison the purest atmosphereâ€"the filthy, immoral jokes, inuenâ€" does, insinuations and suggestions in each issue are sufficient to pervert the ;ninds of hundreds and are unfit for promulgation in hell let alone upon this air earth. It is to be regretted that the name "Canuck" should be tied up to a "Sepâ€" tic tank" of filth such as your publication is. I say you have got away with all this because the "volunteers" and the ‘‘Minister of Militia" and the "Canadian boys" and the "Germans of Berlin and Waterloo" were too busy to bother their heads about the "cesspool of inâ€" iquity and immorality" that you publish every week under the name of "Jack Canuck." You call yourself a Briton and yet you try to divide the people of . this British province into three distinct classesâ€"British born, Canadian born and German born.â€"All of these people are British born or British naturalized Britons and are better Britons than you and they are not saying a word about it, while you are "blatting" your "Britishness" from the house tops in an effort to sel it at so much per "blat." \ You call yourself a Briton and yet at this crucial time you try to set Canadian born Britons against British born Britons (as if any one of them was any more British born than the others) and vice versa, and you have got away with it. s You have insulted, slandered and lied about the decent people of Berlin, Waterloo, Hanover, Elmira, Brussells and dozens of other towns in Western Ontario and got away with it. You have insulted and lied about the "Minister of Militia‘" the Canadian Contingent" and the whole operation of recruiting, mobilizing and sending out of the expeditionary force, and you have got away with it. You have insulted and lied about the "Canadian boys" who volunteered and went to the front, and you have insulted and lied about the "Canadian boys". who didn‘t volunteer to go to the front and you have got away with it. You have flown high enough Jack, me laddie buck and it is time your wings were clipped and I‘m the "Rough Rider" that can clip them for you, and I know just exactly how to do it. The Kaiser found it a "long road" to Paris and a "hard road" to Dunkirk and you will find it a mighty "long road to Tipperary" if you try to ride rough shod over this Irishman, whose ancestors fought for British freedom and British laws, in Londonderry, Fermanah, Enniskillen, Armagh, Monaâ€" ghan, Belfast, Ballinafad, Ballinamore, Ballinakill, Balinlough, Ballinasloe, and on the Boyne, while your ancestors were dodging the revenue officers and consorting with smugglers and pirates around the south coast of Engâ€" land. 6 Remember the Kaiser, Jack me boy, before you decide to march into an enemy‘s country, especially when you are not any too well "heceled" in the ‘""war bogs" or any too well balanced in your gun turret. When you have spent three or four weeks at on of these jobs, my dear Jack, you will be mighty glad to go back to the "bright lights," "free lunch counters" and "barâ€"rooms" of Toronto. Nix Jack!!â€"As far as your sporting proposition is concerned, you are a "dead one." No Jack!! You‘re "in wrong" this time and if ever you put on your "war pain" and march into this district with the intention of "wiping me out," ~I‘ll outâ€"flank you, capture you, strip you ofâ€"your borrowed uniform, dress you in overalls and put you "picking potatoes," "sorting apples," â€" or "topping turnips" on one of my farms. aucs » But that‘s not the worst of it!!â€"Jack failed to pay his "war tax" and he was hailed before the Powers again and upon his pleading ‘"inability" he was ordered to pay a "war tax" of so many dollars per month, until such time as all the "indemnity" and interest was fully paid. Upon being carefully figâ€" ured out it was found that it will take Jack just seventeen years, eleven months, twentyâ€"nine days and twentyâ€"three hours to pay off his war tax, providing he has good luck and nobody cracks his crock before he gets through.â€"Under these cirecumstances, what chance have I to get ‘"my dollar‘" an officer, if I do earn it? f But that wasn‘t all!l!â€"Jack was courtâ€"marshalled and condemned to pay « war indemnity of seven hundred dollars. He was taken over the moat or "Bridge of Sighs" into one of the Hamilâ€" ton dungeons and there confined in a cell, where he was compelled to eat musty bread, drink sour water and fight fleas for a spell.â€"A most humiliatâ€" ing position for a famous war lord to be placed in. What happened? Why Bird put it all over "Canuck"â€"The redoubtable Jack was captured, disarmed and carried off as a prisoner of war. Jack made a warlike demonstration against the Niagara District, about a year ago when he invaded Hamilton and endeavored to capture and carry off Controller Bird and the results are still fresh in the memories of the people of this district. C Jack, in his usual warlike and bombastic style, threatens to invade the Niagara District and shove me off the map.â€"My advice. to Jack is "don‘t." In the first place I said nothing about army officers wearing spectarlesâ€" I was talking about "monocles‘" and in the second place, if I did run round and pick up a few officers wearing glasses, I doubt very much whether I would be able to collect "the dollar" from Jack Canuck, who is already struggling under the load of a heavy "war indemnity‘" imposed upon . him by an exâ€"controller in Hamilton, who filled Jack full of "Birdshot" when that worthy last invaded Bird‘s "chicken" roost. Jack says he will pay me " a dollar" for every English army officer produce who wears glasses (spectacles). Jack wrote a column and a half of bombastic slop and didn‘t contradict either statement, therefore, that incident is closed as far as I am concerned; but Jack made what he calls a sporting proposition and that demands my attention for a few brief moments, as the preachers say, when commencing an hour‘s sermon. y Jack got terribly worked up because I said in these columns that some English army officers wore "Eye Glances" "Don‘t cher _ know" and that the British war office was slow in getting into action in South Africa, a few years ago. I got my name in the papers last week and it didn‘t cost me a centâ€" Jack Canuck printed a whole column about me and I never lost a wink â€" of sleep over it. The People‘s Paper es $1.50 per year in advance. Advertising rates in application ‘UHARMSâ€"Subscribers in Canada $1 per year in advance. In United THE INDEPENDENT JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, Editor and Proprietor. J. QRLON LIVINGSTON, News Editor. MAIN STREET, GRIMSBY, ONT. Publ Telephone 36 Established 1885 set If this is so, he will have the hon f fighting under the sanction of the three greatest religions in the worl Protestant, the Roman Catholic and the Mohammedanâ€"evidently, the K#is®r®believes in the maxim of "Going the whole hog or none." f $ The action of the Geoben and Breslau warships in firing on Russian and allied interests would indicate tha}gf the Kaiser had been successful in getting the sanction of Mahomet, the*P[éphet. f Euie y 3t xo A little later on, when the RusSsian Poles were expressing their symâ€" pathies and giving their assistance to Russia instead of Germany, the Kaiser issued to the Poles, a declaration, stating that he had a visitation or vision from the Virgin Mary and that She was very desirous that the good Catholic Poles should assist the Kaiser in his good work of civilizing and butchering the world. 4 If the Turks declare war against the allies, then it will be necessary for the Kaiser to have a visitation from..Mahomet, the Prophet, in order to get Mahomet‘s sanction to the Kaisef’s* %V}lizing and butching process. When the Kaiser first commenced war, it was, he claims a vision or visitation from the Lord, Who laid upon him the quering and civilizing the world. s If Turkey really declares war and enters into the conflict, it will leave the Kaiser in a most peculiar position as far as his spiritual affairs are conâ€" cerned, because it will leave him fighting under the banner of three great spiritual forces, the Lord of Hosts, the Virgin Mary and Mahomet, the Prophet. In the meantime, the allied powers have issued an ultimatum to Turkey, which reads something as follows: : "Dismantle the two exâ€"German warships, discharge every German officer from the army and navy, pay an indemnity for damage done and enter into an agreement to be good in the future." If If she It is not known yet whether Turkey, in thus declining to declare war, is playing fair or working an underhand game to gain time to get her army moâ€" bilized and get a better start on the road to ruin. The Turkish ambassadors have left London, Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and Bordeaux and the ambassadors of the allies have left Constantinople, but none of the countries have declared war, in fact, Turkey has made an apology, claiming that the action of the exâ€"German warships was a misunderâ€" standing. On the other hand, the German officers, in command of the two renegade warships have commenced operations on their own hook and started a conâ€" flagration that possibly Turkey nor the allies can put out until it has done considerable harm. As a matter of fact, Turkey has not yet declared war and the Peace party in the Cabinet is opposed to war. Early in the war, the German wars ps, Goeben and Breslau, were forced to fly from the French and British warships in the Mediterranean sea. They were chased into the Black sea and in order to prevent them _ from being seized by the allies, the German navy sold them to Turkey and they were reâ€" named and supposed to be manned by Turkish seamen. : ® o otk owk t\* L Of course, the whole transaction was simply a scheme by the Germans and consented to by the Turks to save fhe two ships from capture and _ to keep them in the Black sea as a menace to Russian seaports and other allied interests. The situation up to a few days ago would seem to be that Germany was bound that Turkey would go to war and that Turkey was striving to remain neutral. To see that the whole transaction was a German scheme we have only to look at the position of affairs today, when we find that these ships are under the control of German officers, each of whom is wearing a Turkish fez to inâ€" dicate that he is a Turk, but at the same time wearing his German uniform. At the present writing Tur] allies but she has gone to war sinking Russian vesselsâ€"it is a the march to invade Egypt and the Suez canal. Present indications are th ted against the allies so far is weak to resist the German pre Another complication has ing the past week and the m FOR HUMANITY‘S SAKE Turkey accepts this ultimatum, the incident will be closed for a while doesn‘t accept the ultimatq‘m: Ehgn_God‘help Turkey. FOR OUR OWN BOYS‘ WELFARE H eadquarun for Highâ€"Grade Sundries THE INDEPENDENT, GRINSBY, Call and examine the latest ‘"Clevelands " cation has been adagfl to the European®war conflict durâ€" and the complication| is Turkey. bicycles ever built. Thousands in use toâ€"day, that have been running ten to twenty years. And still giving the utmost satisâ€" _ faction. Without a doubt, one of the strongest "Built to Last" the finishing touch of perf(:,ction t; this famous wheel. e German warships, Goeben and Breslau, were forced nd British warships in the Mediterranean sea. 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