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The British Whig Fa I | --. i E J | ' 3 . EE e-- Ll } | ~ ~~ Published Dally sad Semi-W »; THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED. SUBSCRIPTION RATES { ly Edition) Sue year, delivered in city . e year, If paid In advance One year, by mall to rural offi One year, to United States (Bemi-Weekly Edition) One year, 4 mall Sanh ince One yewr, if not paid in , to United States . and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen 123 St. Peter St. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE ¥. C. Hoy, ... 1006 Traders Bank Bldg. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE: F.R.Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave, Y F.R.Northrup, 15610 Ass'n Bldg, Chicage Attached is one. of the best job printing offices {in Canada. The cirenintion of THE BRITISH WHIG Is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. Pr NANNING WHOSE HANDIWORK 18 THIS? If the extract given below were printed apart from the context it ouwld never be suspected as an ex- tract from the circular sent out by the Ontario Resources' Commission, of which the lieutenant-governor is the chairman, and the premier of Ontario, the vice-president. But such is the fact. Indeed the. whole com- mittee is composed of men whose alliance with the conservative party no cne questions, and it must be as- sumed that they concur with the sentiments which are expressed in this circular. Certain facts are set forth. There is the menace to Great ""Britain's food supply by the submar- ine campaign, the crisis that would follow. by the failure of Britain through any cause fn the war, and the unpromising outlook by a late season and a late sowing in Europe and America. After quoting from the New York Morning Telegraph as to the need of America's sustaining power, the circular continues: In Canada, as in the United Sta- tes, at the Telegraph says, there is no need for panic about food. But in<Canada there is real need for a panic about the government. Little or nothing has been done or seems likely be done at present, to regu- laie t conditions, as is urgently needed, of production, of prices, of storage and distribution, and of pri- vate hoarding. It is the fear 'that the gaovernment will not take the precautions necessary to prevent the people becoming panicky. ' Their ex- perience with coal during the winter tid not tend to allay their fears or restore confidence. What is needed is government leadership, and that is what is . mainly wanting. Private enterprise, at the behest of the prOvincial gov- ernment, is doing" all that is being * done for the stimulation of produc- tion hereabouts. We need a food minister, who would have the feed- ing of our Allies as well as of our selves on his conscience, and the propgr &teps to be taken in his There ought to be an immediate veto by the government on the rais- ing of prices. This is what is driv- ing the people to panic more than the fear of scarcity; they know that thelr wages of salaries are fixed quantities, .and they see prices soar- ing, 'and continuing to soar, until they feel that if the middleman is going on indefinitely in his business of bleeding the pablic there will come a time when tke people cannot afford :to buy. Tae price of coal is an outrage. The price of wheat is a crime. The price of potatoes is a isgrace heart out of the people Those who are well-to-do lay stores. Bu 1 o while. M. THE HEART OF FRANCE. The appeal of M. Viviani, repre-| | senting the French delegation and {the mind and heart of th people, delivered in the parliament of Canada, -appears to have ben the | most touching address that has ever been heard. M. Viviani was not a | commissioner to Canada It was {a happy suggestion, however, that { while in America he should visit our | Capital. His was a message at once | most powerfully demonstrative of the | heart aches of the French republic. Read down, in cold print, and un- influenced by the fervour of the speaker, it is moving envugh But as {an expression of an orator it became la living force. And its import? That {in defence of all that a nation holds | dear, in Mberty, integrity, honor, and | ite itself, France had gone into the war, and in repelling the ruthless ih- vader had suffered severely. She had been supported loyally and truly and effectively by the British Em- pire. Canada had been represented in the great . struggle by an army whose exploits would live in history. But the end was not yet. The peroration was the climax. With outstretched hands he begged for the continued support of those whose sons would help to mould the destiny of affairs, and under his im- passioned speech men and women wept. This was a visitation worth Viviani could go away satisfied. He had spoken to a sym- pathetic audience. Parliament no doubt awoke to a new sense of its responsibility. It may still juggle with a great issue, and smother its impulses and emotions in its regard for petty polities, but it ean never lose the inspiration of the great man who reflected in his presence the heart of a chastened France, The scandal season has reopened in Ottawa. The Camp Borden land JAransaction is now in the limedight. | The correspondence so far put in shows that $8 per acre was. offered for some of the land, while for some of it $12 per acre was paid. There is a whole lot yet to be learned upon the subject. SLACKERS IN THE STATES. It is said that the government has officers at the frontier towns and cities, making notes of the names and number of those who cross in- to the States, in order to évade military service. The suggestion is that later, and through an agree- ment between the Canadian govern- ment and the government of the United States, these slackers or de- serters from duty, will be identified and forced to return. Think of it. Recording by the slowest and most incomplete methods the men who can and will not serve their country, and hoping that by still slower meth- ods the government of the Republic can force them to return to this country and enlist. If the govern- ment means business--and it has not meant this so far--Iit can at once, as it has been urged to do, enforce the Militia Act, and without much delay proceed to supplement te forces it has already sent into the war. The men at the front have a right to ex- pect this, not to be abandoned, as it were, to thelr fate. They had reas son to believe that they would be protected, as far as possible, in the fight, that their places, were to be taken as they retired, wounded and incapacithled, and the whole ma- chinery of the government to this end appears to have broken down. Kingston can do without "Sunday basebau, *n. public places, and by young men who should be better ém- ployed. Shame and reflection may produce their effects, and if they fail the police magistrate may teach the offenders the necessary lesson. - DOUBLE PAID OFFICIALS The federal government pleads that it cannot stop the double pay of) certain officials with whom, When war broke out, it entered into s compact] that while -in the military service, they 'would receive full pay. Some! rash promises were certainly made to the civil servants. They were told that if they enlisted their positions would be kept open for them and EDITORIAL NOTES. Horse racing should be tabooed until after the war. Of all things government in 'licensing it commits al great offence. Taxation of profits and | provincial revenue do not mitigate, the evil. The farmers of the west are likely | to become hopelessly involved in po-| litical parties with different aims and | conflicting plans. The Grain Grow-| ers' Association and the Farmers' League are likely to destroy each] other. i The destruction of Jerusalem is threatened by the Turks. They de- clare that they will lay it in ruins; rather than see it pass into the pos-| session of the British, and they will probably be able to give effeft to this threat. = Up-town pay stations, in connec- tion with the Utilities Department, have been advocated. They may cost a trifle, but not very tiuch. Shop! men in digerent parts of the city! should be able to collect the monthly rates on a small commission. The loss of the Prussian Guard, in the attack on the enemy at Fon- taine-lez-Croisilles, recalls the sac- rifice which Napoleon made of the Old Guard at Waterloo. There are times when the battle-scarred veter- ans of any army fail to carry the day. Does an extension of the parlia- mentary term mean a national gov- ernment? Ms the Borden party will- ing to surrender on. this point? And if so, are the liberals of the federal house willing, at this late date; to co-operate with the conservatives in forming a war ministry? Three strong conservative papers have pronounced in favour of con- scription--the Ottawa Journal, the Montreal Gazette, and the. Toronto News. Are they paving the way for a surrender of the gbvernment? Or are they forcing results through an e French|it should be spared in Canada. The | expression of public opinion? | PUBLIC OPINION | - Who Does the Calling. (Hamilton Times) ' Everybody is calling for conscrip- tion but the slackers and the Do- minion. Government, All, Our Way. (Toronto Globe) The Greek Throne is tottering. Pro-German rulers everywhere are being booked for Salt Creek, and German rulers are. likely to join | them' later oh. No Yellow In It. (London Advertiser) The Zeitung Am Mittag says that the United States is only a "biown egg shell." 'But Germany must real- ize that there wasn't as much yellow in that egg as ang counted on, Slaughter Goes On. (Montreal Star) Just as the new Russian Govern- ment grants full liberty to the Jews, Germany's cherished ally begins an- other Jewish massacre in Palestine, a circumstance which will scarcely | be overlooked by Jews the world over. What Borden Meant, (Exchange) The reiterated refusal of the Gov- ernment to go into the manufacture of munitions suggests. that when Premier Borden talked of consecrat- ing the whole power of the nation to the war he meant the whole ver- bal power of the leaders. New Head Wanted. (Hamiitn Herald) Mr. Crothers is a good-natured, easy-going elderly lawyer who means well but is hopelessly lacking in the energy necessary to efficient ad- ministration. A new head for the Labor Department is urgently need- ed. As a fudge he is still capable of service; or he would make a digni- fied Senator. "As a war-time admin- istrator he is a fatlure, Ca Random Reels "@f Shoes and Shipe and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." THE DINING CAR The popular conception of the din- ing car is that it is a portable r taurant which is owned by the rail- roads and paid for every thirty days by the passengers. Dining cars are operated for the benefit of people who are averse to the hard-boiled egg aml the Ben Davis apple as tm¥eling-cahpanions. It has many convemiences, including & polite conductor, and. a bill of fare with the prices printed upon Jt in plain, menacing type. A person who is traveling through the Rocky moun- tains and turns to scan these prices will not have to lower his eyes'over a thirty-second of an inch. Dining cars ve small, well.ven- tilated kitchens which conceal the tood while it is being cooked, while at the same time advising those in the dining-room that somebody has ordered beefsteak smothered in on- jon. The menu card is a great dis appointment to frugal passengers who wander in under the impression that an egg sandwich and a glass of milk can be obtained without split- ting a §2 bill both ways from the middle, and it is not an unusual sight 3 to _see an embarrassed tourist with- draw noiselessly to the smoking car and console himself with a seed or- ange. Most people, however, re- main and, pick out, a few . durable dishes which théy; can. pronounce plainly with an indelible. pencil. Dining cars are constructed on a swinging plattorm, which, provides the guest with mixed rations at no straighten out with ha the motion h narrow! je stabbing them- selves in The, Tort sar : Dining ¢ars make a specialty of serving ¢pffee it could win the polé vault in' the pic games. It is also oné of the few' places yet extant where the iron-héoped, chrome nickel apple pie is considered a delicacy, Nevertheless, if it were not for the dining car, thousands of passengers would go hungry from t Lake City to Seattle. We should also remem- ber that the man who kicks the loud- est about dining car rates usually gets up from the table leaving noth- ing visible but the water bottle. oping tyme: 1ibbys Limited a WE MEET OR BEAT ALL CATALOGUE PRICES; KINGSTON CASH AND ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE. om ew=< Handsome Spring | A Store that Satisfies. Overcoats | We. are showing some dandies for See Bibbys Form Fitting Overcoat With belted back. - Fine grey or blue chev- iot cloth. Special value, $15.00. Seb Bibbys Slip-On Overcoats + English, a id Scotch tweeds; neat black an white checks. Fancy cheviots, etc. Spec- ial value $15.00. . See Bibbys Balmacaan Raincoat . Good rain or shine. Tweed finish, thor- oughly waterproof; neat patterns. Special value $15.00. Fresh Garden Seeds, In Package and Bulk, from all the best seed Al de : It is a pleasure to deal with a man or store fair in i , square in » ser. || vice m 'be had at the UNITED GROCERY, 138 Princess St. Phone and swords, and Now, more than ever, we should salt our kopecks fo a fireproof vault. He is a prudent man and wise who sets in to economize, befo tives; he'll save, and checks We've talked about H. C. of L. and did some groan- ing for a spell; but Shep Uncle Sam'l needs the stress of war ar- is spendthrift wives. our hosts to battle rush and ush, to pay for snickersnees off the foreign hordes, the cost 267. The home of choice Pure Clover - Honey 20c a Section We Have a Nice Assortment of Pare CornSyrup In 2b. tins, 5-1b. pails, and 10-Ib. pails, which we are selling for one week only at the old price.