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PAGE FOUR The British Whig a ee oo 84TH YEAR. CE thre abandons in the party it] e expected after of the government | partisanship, and the} that there were any 'ex- tperience of two of A nt grosses regards the Fran closure. nise, any that if the were returned assur ance, any Jorden continue its even in to power it 1ld not grossly running of the THE WOMEN NOT UNITED. The Toronto News has undertak- | en the impossible ta of making it appear that W.C.T.U., which met at Coraw recently, servedly endorsed the federal government upon chise Mrs president of the union, unre action of the Pub] Daily aad Semi-Weekly by ThE BRITIEH WHIG PUBLISHING CO,, LIMITED. the fran- the had an un- question Stevens, President . Managing Director and Hec.-Treas. comfortable experience while her ac tion upon criticized the subject was being Yelgionw: Three conservative wo- differ as the had upon the franc 2{ men, representing societies | Mrs W.C.T.U confidentially limiting the | sons. They were instructed to can-| retly. ent Stevens resident of SUBSCRIPTION RATES Stevens, president « (Daily Edition) year, deltvered In city . e year, if pald in advance . by mail to rural offi to United 8 Bon 1-Weekly Edition) mail, cash not paid in advance HH 50 the been consulted effect of | hise to certain per ! vass others sec "Please glean quietly as read the telegram, and so well was this instruction carried out that precious few of the members of | any of the societies knew what was going on. ~The franchise had heel' ey mm owt JOU promised to all eligible 'womien; by printing offices in Canada. the premier, and when, for political '" reasons, he undertook to Imit | 3¢, wile Wartathee by the some reason had to be assigned. AB | This that the relatives: Audit Buren Bt Cireulations. of foreigners or alienc, ---- eed could this time be trusted. | A CALL TO SERVICE Mrs. Stevens took the reason for Clerks at: Borden not '® anted, but she said she the only fit subjects for scrutiny!) that she did personally, and not | president of the W.C.T.U.} under the terms of the Military Ser- She wanted this fact to be distinct vice Act Canada's Military Act ly understood. Of course her ex- will fail to do the work the Military) planation had to be accepted. The Service Act should do if that act|attempts of the conservative papers | does not make volunteer conscripts {to make 'it appear that the women's out able-bodied men |gocieties have cordially endorsed the in the home service of the Militia | Franchise Act has been a profound | Department. Too many men put on | failure. khaki after the war broke awe out and have worn khaki ever since no Spell (4 ' COTES without exhibiting the semblance of EDITORIAL NOTES. ) tine Nite The 'Whig "said' some time ago BE Apr by Me Hghting tive. that the Franchise Bill would kilt | X te Bardeh: gévernment, dnd there is evidence every day that this pre diction may come true F men ar shing | habvings ery. a%.in EE 'of {the city. '18°the counchl thn bd held responsible for the results the bill will be a very heavy one. It'mjght be cheaper to fill up the holes. your information as x and three months pro rata. Ea TREAL | REPREEENTATIVE R. ce 3 Pn aes st. TORON NTO REPRE eT Fr rato, 1005 Traders ani Bldg. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE: F.R. Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York F.R.Northeup, 1810 Ass'n Bidg., Chicago ossible," Pp " reason was certain not at Camp are acted in as the Service | of young and | shortly What is keeping the leading libe« rals of Canada out of the govern- ment? The fear that their gener- osity would He@bused gndiby a sin the-spoils iy - es {The mgtor INSULAS "PO LIBERALISM. Dr. Mithtiel Clark attended a libe- ral eomnvention in Calgary and gave = y ERY. an account of his stewardship in the The Toronto Star raises the Li House of Commons. He had been ina: ir the Borden government can in perfect harmony with the party gisfranchise the aliens now until conscription was proposed. He nothing to _preyeat it, was one of several who supported i. 4 power, but he was not content with saying | catholics, what he thought of the situation, 80 others. far as it was affected by the war. ----------r---------- He was personally offensive to his The strike of the scavengers of old leader. He admits now that he | Toronto because the streets' com- did not vote against the Franchise missioner objected to the decoration Act--he avoided the divisions upon 'of the garbage carts with flags the subjects--though in principle ought to be allowed to "blow itself he was wholly and emphatically op- out." "What follies are committed posed to it; and he was opposed in the name of the flag. also to the closure. He was willing | aL EH'S HS PR. to accept of a nomination only as a A representative of the Grain non partisan Sipporter of 4 national) Growers-cannod possibly: accept or union government. In any event fice in a conservative government | he 'would remain a liberal and be- because the organization stands for come an Active: advocate of liberal -legislative reforms which. the pre. prificiples when the war was over:!mief toald mot grant without 'the Angther may accept the liberal no. consent of! his party. - minapon. which Dr. Clark declined. ~~ PAS Hugh Guthrie' met: some ot the! ' The Borden: Government had | eleffors of South Wellington at plenty of time for everything else-- Eloka. He. voted for conscription; [OF the C.N.R. and Saguenay Rail- which he had a right te do, even as fo, and for the Franchise a liberal, afd he voted for the Act--fbut no time for the pemion Franchise fot and, for the closure, measure, which hung fire for about and. seemed to glory in the fact. He six months. The soldiers can wait offers no justification for his break [oF Justice. with the party, and made it more! TT distinct by impugning the integrity a Shing Jat erase ax of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Sir Wilfrid _~ = 0 0 0 on att Pp oF had behind him, said Mr. Guthrie, parry auatter the spoils system has been most offensively the slackers, the pro-Germans, and followed for the the dynamiters, and this was accept. partisanship of ed as a most deliberate Insult to the Kin every t of th liberals. Mr. Guthrie incidentally marking SiY act of. the alleged win.the-war party. landed Sir Robert Borden as the - ame at only man who could lead a national The three women politicians of government at the present time. The *Poronto--corresponding in manner liberal party in South Wellington is ang influence with the three tailors not disposed to agree with him. It|ot Tooley street--asked their does not resent his views on theifriends by telegraph to glean the war, or the way in which it should i information which they wanted as be conducted. It does resent the quietly as possible. They got the way in which he bas antagonized his | gyutf they were looking for. old political friends and offered} | -------- them offence. 2 apt: Burnham, of Peterboro, The Franchise Act and the clos, seek whanimpus nomination be- ure, which no liberal can defend,| cause he has voted the party tickets are responsible for the intense poli- | from the beginning of the last par- tical feeling which now prevails. | liament to the close of it. Hjs was a partizan support. Now ite he Had the government shown the same consideration for falr play|is fishi r vith eaves his . president of the Con- there is if returned to from dischargfiz the Roman the Laborites, or any last six years, the grossest kind which it showed while the Military Service Act of 1917 was under dis. cussion--had it shown any willing- ness to accept and reasonably treat the suggestions of the opposition--- the/session would have ended witha (Toronto Main It is said that von Bernstorff spent not _less than $25,000,000 for Ger- ntions shows how! | removed from a manure truck. | really | sioner was so particular, | der to | walkover. 'We THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1917. len0.000 bushels, and Argentiaa Zt. {000,000 bushels. New crops will be} harvested .in Argentina -in December] and January, in Australia in Janu-| rary, and in India in February and { March. The coming' Argentin> crop is estimated at 239,000,000 bushels {a record, as against 77,400,000 bus- | hels last season. 4 e wheat | for future delivery is bushel. Premier Hughes of Austrlia says that! bit-| by February Australia will have 6,- 000,000 tons of wheat ip "the coun- | for export. That is about 200,- 000,000 bushels, Unfortunately for | the Allies in Europe, . these far-off producers and their, great stores of grain must be left neglected in order to economize tonnage. Britain has a contract with Australia to ~mave 600,000 tons of wheat each month, | but lately wheat has been stagnant. | Some is being brought to the United States by sailing vessels. Australia {has accumulated sufficient wheat! to fill 50 big cargo steamers. | oa OPINON Fight, Forcing a {Lond The Conservative | self as opposed to a bitter election in | war time, and than procee to make | its attacks on the Opposition as ter as possible. jeclares it- ae eee ee try Hunting the Offender. Windsor Record he The Montre al 8 ar wants to know who took the "eontrol™ ogt of food controller. Tt was - a'chap named | Order in Council, but the country is very much out of order A Great Spender, (Tx nto News) Win nipeg has discovered a woman wi ) £70 nds $10,000 a year for cham- That means about seven a day If she uses the wine | how much does she; now | With these countries storing up sup~ { ples, on account df tonnage scarcity, theré will be a reserve in unexpected | quarters when tae war ends. quarts as an. appetizer eat? g a Start, | The Price of Potatoes. nto Star) Montreal Herald are beginning to! It has been given out from the "reparation," 2s | Food Controller's office that the Lloyd George said they must They | maximum price for potatoes should | now suggest a willingness on their | not exceed $1.25 per' bag of 90] part to share in the cost of indem- pounds. They are being advertised | nifying Belgium. That is not enough, |in Montreal at $2 per bag of 80 but it is, at least; a start. pounds What is the Food Con- troller going to do ahout it? Protests against fixing a reasonable prices for potatoes afe already re ported. If the price is fixed at $1.25 per bag, far- mers will not bother to dig their po- tatoes, but will leave them to rot in the ground. This story is very use- commis- | ful as camouflage for price boosting, in view of | but nobody will beljeve it. The far- the fact that the flag is permitted to 'mer with a magnificent crop of po- be Used [QrParty; purposes 8a reg- tatoés who preferred to get nothing ular thing in ¢hig country, .-. |for them tather'than make ahout aR double the rormal profit would be --. , |a very strange creature. The Tact of the matter is that potato com- | contEmPORARY option], | bines have been at work, ag the eivi¢ § | officials in Montreal havé again and atari amtatttt ae 4 | agai n reperted, @nd when 'combines Forget About It All { start' their price-boosting they will { find all kinds of excuses for. extract} wo fixamir | | the Zovernment that marked |ing ransom from the public to se- ure release for the commaedities| they capture and keep in captivity. The German learn to talk of Abusing the Flag. (Ottawa (Vtize Toronto fraternal society is after the head of the street commissioner because he ordered the Union Jack We don't see why the Peterd Now, the dying days of parliament by pro-| | stituting its majority to forcing the | | most shameless act of legis glative par- tizanship, both in conception and en- actment, in the history of the coun try-----Prussianizing parliament in the interests of winning a partizan vic tory--wants the country to forget everything. Everybody must become Party Contest Probable. } tr ford Expositor The local politicians of Kingston do not take kindly to the suggestion| of W. F. Nickle, M.P., that there should be a fusion candidate brought] out and an election avoided in that| patriots---eschew partizanship, in or- Jo ney. To facilitate his pro-| make a partizan vi tory. Lin | posal Mr. Nickle has already an-| must all take a aipf ounced that he will not b « candi-| in the Lethe of patriotic oblivion date for re-election. The indications| forget the sins of the government--|,g that the contest will now He be- forget all parti izanship, in order that tween' a' Borden? candidate and a partizanghip should-- in the €OM-|y 4p) in'thelwar candidate. 'And ing general elections--win in a ¢an-} io what is likely' to happen in| ter. g n " a good many other» Ontario con« We Joust of 'gourse all help win stituetieien. 0 | the war, bug,are (®e to do it at the expense--at the price of after-waf ro Tower donditiops that imperil the highest The tug 'W. Mauarvay was sunk | advantagds, wes ghpll win by wins ning the war? Must we shut our eyes Suit blindly dg, evil that good may $ 4 me? It is 4 patelotic gluty to coms | dying shortly attshwards, 3 There are now i19:853 returned pound Ipridena HE {4 . @ lavalided Bnd Wohotably 'discharged | * *¥| spldiers who have-seperted to the Ontario Soldberst Nid @ohission? United States hords tothe valua of $2,000,000, 8.9%, -are: offered.on sale. | | steamer during & fog; and Pilot John | Brown 'was" pleked up unconscious: | World's w heat 0 rép. Toronto Mail' $ ' Australia has an export: ai re- serve ofwheat amounting -Fh- 310,000 bushels; India one of ¥¢, Rippling Se HOMESICK There is no siekness more severe than that a fel- low knows when far away from camrades dear, from good old friends and foes. A man may have the croup or mumps, the jaundice or the gout, and never know the doleful dumps, if he's a nervy scout. But courage will not brace him up, when, far removed from home, he yearns for book and chair and pup, and for his fine-tooth comb. 1 used to scrap with David Dose, my neighbor, every day, and thought that I'd enjoy repose when 1 had gone away. [I built me then a little crib, among the mountains bare, and took ~ my taocker and my bib and spent 'the summers there And how I longed' no person' Khows, while 1 lived in that shack, to throw some bricks at Mr. Dose, and sée him throw theth back. Man orgs for oid familiar things when he abroad may roam; no'new' surround- ings ever; bringd the f8y he 'feels at. home. * "Some neighbors envy me my ¢ot beside a snow-capped h#ll, here there are never flies to swat and heat wave do not kill. But when I'm there I huddle up before the glowing fire, and long to' see my cat and pup, my book shelves and my lyre. : -- WALT. MASON. XTRA HARRY LAUDER WUZ LOCKED uP FER TROWIN HIZ MONEY PAY ) very different *spirit. Some: co ment has been made on the fact that all the liberals who voted for con- scription, excepting three, have ye-. da in the United States amount will have to be deducted bill for indemnity Sgainst since the beginning of the war. This! when the Allies present their final}: Germany 7 Full back, sewn patch pockets, cuff sleeves, $15, $18.50, $20, $22.50. - BIBBYS =_S--S-------- Overcoat Time We Are Showing Some Beauties In the Different Correct Styles. Four Popular Models The Belcourt Overcoats / in. sleeve, ting, very $15, $18, The Chester Velvet collar style, form fit- a -........e smart garments, $20, $22.50, $25. The Pinch Back Overcoats $15, $18, $20. $18.50, $ -- Bibbys Display of Overcoats is Well Worth Coming Miles to See. === 70, 80, 82 Princess Street The Trench Style Overcoats 20, $22.50, $25, $28.00. Kingston, Ontario. ig Halifax a 'by. an incoming |. TERRY--4n Hillier, VIANA LSTEN F--aAt BORN. BARBIMR-~At Deseronto, on Sept. 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Barber, a son DEWITT ---At Leinster, on Sept ith, to Mr. and Mrs. Manly Dewitt, a son HAMILTON«-At Strathoona, 25th, to Mr. and Mrs, Adam Hamilton, a daughter KINNEY---In Picton, Sept and Mrs. Kinrfey, a son LEWIS--At Deseronto, oh Sept. 17th, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lewis, a son: McKIINDRY--At BDeseronto, on Sept, 18th, to Mr. and. Mrs, Albert Mc- Kendry, a daughter MADDEN--Ap North "Fredericksburgh, on Bept, 16th, to Me and Mrs. P. W. Madden, a daughter, MORDPEN In Picton, Sept. l4th, to Mr, and Mrs. Clayton Motdetl, a son. SHATRAW At Deseronto, on August 17th, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shat- Taw; a danghter. Sept 24th, to Dr Sept. King Terry, 17th, 10 Mr. and Mrs a daughter, | lona May TFTAYLOR--At Napanee, on Sept. 20th, to: Mr. and Mrs liarry Taylor, a daughter, Napanee, on and Mrs, Sapt 16th, to Mr. Harry Van- alstine, a son w HITMA RSH--At 18th, to Mr marsh, a son. Napanee, on Sept. and Mrs. Elgin Whit- WESLEY--At Napanee, to Mr. and Mrs. C. MARRIED. HANSON-WALKER--On Wednesday, Sept. 26th, 1917, George J. C. Han- son to Violet W alker, both of King-, ston. JEMMETT-REID -- At Eng., on August 31st, cent Reid, to Lieut Jemmett, RN.V.R,, MILLER-MALLABY.--At New York, on Sept. 22nd, Miss . Gerjrude May, youngest daughter, of 8. R. Miller, Napanee, fo Thomas Kortright Mal- laby, New York DIED. ARMITR NG--4At Camden, on 13th, Terhert 'Armstrong, years. HOUGH--HAt Gretna, on Sept Ohares W. Hough, aged 71 yedrs JAMFESON-<:In Hallowell, Sept. ist, Mary Ann Kenny, wife of Rebert Jamigpon, in her 84th year, PALUMER--n Hiller, Sept. 21st Fahstina Palmer, agéd 66 ¥ SHANNON--In Picton, Sept. 17th, ( Cyril Garnet, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Shannon, aged 20 months. SPENCER---In Sophiasburg, Sept. 23rd, Morley E. Spencer, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Spencer, aged two weeks. on Sept. 19th, Wesley, a son. Portsmouth, Edith Mil! Bruce G 1 Napanee, Ont. Sept aged §5 21st, A quiet wedding took place at Spencerville on Sept. 19th when Rev. George S. Stafford united in the holy bonds of matrimony Miss Eva Hyrtle Mins and Angus Colen Riddell. Homemade Peanut Butter demand for \ PURE PICKLING VINEGAR AND A - x N DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK We are all of wus vacuum cleaners? We take up, by in- halation,' the dust and impuri- ties of the air. The conse quence is sore throat or cold in the head. The nose and throat, when sprayed, are freed of these irritating, infections: par~ ticles. For best results .im spraying any kind of liquid, Try the DeVilbiss Atomizer. A A ANN DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 Princess St. Phone 343. Everything for the sick and sick room. AAA AA ~SPICES. THOMPSON'S a a et. # AA AAA NPN 'THE MOST ADVANC- ED AUTUMN STYLES ARE HERE. SEE OUR WINDOWS. | Phone 387. GROCERY. 294 Princess St. | "Ranks with the Strongest" HUDSON BAY Insurance Company FIRE SURANGS fess UMice, R MON REAL PERCY J. ani, Manager, Ontario Branch, Toronto W. H. GODWIN & SONS AGENTS, KINGSTON, ONT. ¢ COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice ! On and after first of May Coal Sales will be for Cash Only. BOOTH & CO. Phone 133. WANTED To rent a farm of 200 acres with priv- ilege of buying. EEE EERSTE W. H. Godwin & Son 89 Brock Street Phone 484 The Sawyer "Shoe Store 212 Princess St. Phone 159. AA Ps SINAN SN CRAWFORD Pegs | to Notify His Customers that commencing May. 1st. COAL SALES Will Be For CASH. At price current for the month when _the order is given, The Coal situation in the United Btates compels this ac- tion Foot of Queen St. Phone 9. §