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_PAGE FOUR _ The British Whig 81TH YEAR ally and Semi-Weekly by SH WHIG PUBLISHING C0, LIMITED. Eihowt Guild uhusacy THE UR President . 'Managing Director and Sec.-Treas Lacan Telephones: Business Office .. Bditortal Rooms Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, dellvered fn city year, if pald in advance year, by mail to rural offi year, to United States .... ¢8e n1-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash year, if rot pald in advance One Jon', to United States ... ix and three months pro tal i 60 1.60 MONTREAL REPRESE NTATIVEH n 23 St. Peter ®t. REP RESBNTA' TIVE PF, C. lfoy ... 1005 Traders Bank Bldg UNITED STATES REVRESENTATIVE #.R.Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave, w York F.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n BldE., Chicago Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIiG te Suthenttcated by the B ) Audit Bureau of Circulations. mn POLITICAL ACTIVITIES. Borden has secured a new man for his government, oneyof LATER ir Robert them ('. C. Ballantyne, of Montreal, a Liberal it Is claimed, but one who has not been leader in his party. He is is one, however, who cannot claim of a following in Que bec. The premier may find others to act as his colleagues, but when he had resonstrueted his government the question will be, Will it com mand the support of the people? Sir Robert missed his mark when he dil not give evidence of his complete unselfishness and vesign office so that one of the others named by the western 1s could be given chance to show what he could do. &ir Robert is not a stréng man. He iac ks in resourcefulness, notwith- standing the praise'of his political friends. and he is certainly not go- ing to succeed as he expected. * To- day Hugh Guthrie, M.P., Guelph, was added as solicitor-general. Mernwhile the conferences liberals in Ottawa, Montreal, e'sevhere, point to gome significant movement? Rumor it that Sir Wilfrid Laurier may re- tire from the leadership of the liberal party, ~ At seventy-seven he ean hardly enter into the winter | campaign which is now outlined. He may appear in some of the principal cities and give an account of his stewardship. He may, incidentally, as a duty of the hour, dissipate the misconcentions or misapprehensions | which conservative speakers have | labored to propagate. These ex- planaticns will have to do with his attitude towards conscription ard its enforcement in the event of a change of government. The one thing most essential with any party, or candidate, or leader, is the promise of constant and un- deviating devotion to the" purposes of the war. One can quite with Mr. Guthrie in the sentiment which he expressed at Guelph, that Canada must have a government that will carry on and win the war, but that government need not, ne. cessarily, be Sir Robert Borden's. The country is evidently tired of his attempts at the formation of a union government, judging by scme ind'- cations, and largely contributed to by his insincerity, which Hon. 'Robert Rogers so severely scored before he left the government. muoh iber a of and | and | has new . Married women, no matter how clever and comely, complain shat they are not wanted in the offices or businesses of England. There is a prejudice against them. Why? BAD EFFECTS VISIBLE. A conservative, who has heen visiting the city from the great west, and who is familiar with the various shades of political thought, tells the Whig that the disfranchisement of the aliens, for political purposes, is doing more than the government ex- pected. Many thousands of men who have ben colonized in Canada. whose interests are altogether Can. adian now, have their friends who sympathize with them, and that they resent the imault they have been of- fered In the Franchise Act. say quite reasonably, "It may be our turn next, aad it will be for us, re. gardless of political affiliations, take care of the to government, and {age of its inspiration. agree J These |. ] deprive us of our) have the power." | German by birt rs a teacher in On too, on account suggests that the have accomplish- pro- following a ng at, the by ion of State, dtfferent pler course. Every 'suspect' who will d- ke, in voting, a di «could have required clar now be been new allegiance. Any th could have beend with the ballot. it would | one taking this safely I Any de automatically The ing to take ne anchise himself. Canadian Courier, comment Reithdort i upon the gugge remarks: "On this we have no iat at a oninin to regret ft tim government needed and vement in thi » should be reg cept national all bat an try, the fr ed by eit party-pc achi ancl her course aliens disfranc Liberals in the Conservative in Ont would be the same if it worked just the other way. What we want to! got at is that the right to vote in this country should never have been tiad | up with the fortunes © isfortunes of eit party, but only the State and the privilege of the c.tizen, The Military Service Act] was conceived as a national measure, The Wartime Elections Act will be| a bad second to that measure it becomes a party measure at the hands of either party i Mr. Guthrie has explained that he | fs a win-the-war not.a politician. When the war over he will be liberal again and | fight as vigorously as ever for liberal principles. » thing er the good of advocate now, and is ANOTHER STE P FORW ARD. Dr. Sandford, of the University of | Toronto, is of the opinion that the | education of Ontario, advanced as it | is supposed to be, several years | behind the times He finds fault | the grade is with the standards, the uniformity which is follow ed in the provinces, and with the re- sult that the individual status is not | affected as it should be. In spite of | what is' being done---more less | mechanically--there are many thousands of children in Ontario who are not being educated all, and many thousands of others who are getting a schooling which is al- together inadequate. What is to happen after the war | is occupying a large attention. There will be an immense immigra- tion from Europe, and of people who 'will hunger for an .education such as Canada should afford. These | must be anticipated and provided | for. Then thousands of soldiers will | be seeking the vocational training for which their crippled condition calls. The occupations they had be. fore their enlistment will have to give way to new occupations, and for BYyS- tem, or at | these they must be trained and fit- ted. In technical schools Kingston has been deficient, but it must be prepared for action without delay. The Education Department is in- erested in a new departure in this respect, and the Board .of Education | will be warranted in taking advant- | The invest- | ment in equipment will be consider- | able, but in four years it will be re- | paid by the province. The province | will also pay half the annual salar. ies of the technical teacher and the | teacher of domestic science. The | way is open for advanced teaching | in the institute, and it should be used. EDITORIAL NOTES. A visitor from the west told the Whig that the liberals would send a delegation of forty members to the next parliament. _The only chance for Sir Robert Borden to form a union government is before the election. There will be no chance for it afterwards. The premier will make a tour of Canada and seek to justify the re- cord of his govegnment. He will not go .s0 far as the western provinces. Sir Robert 'Borden is going to re. tire several of his colleagues to com- fortable billets in the civil service. They will appreciate this change very much. Mr. Stewart's plea for a win-the. war election, (non-political), in Hamilton, is that he was most judi. i scripti ponder | ornamentdi than useful, | hand, teaching the bigger and wi tract refracto Kelly ineSouth ed in favor of want Evans We Mr to opp« He 1 Wellingte late He sons); iberal con- | elected | not onist in Sout Mr Jorden was wr Guthrie its | ng in not proposing a | the beginning Robert union government at of the war. Sir rin the campaign as a party enterprise, and |! wants now to be forgiven for all his | bung and partyism--because the { war 18 on | ix at Sir Robert | U U | | | | I CONTEMPORARY eo . Northcliffe to America. Mail American eem to me ww! AVe know tates in Eurc,e Bt will un- re in office od the Repubil- (« oncervatives) ae The system, so far, is rather like our own, but the head of the na-| jon is a President whose char racter | appears to me to be a ish caution and tenacity | American unexpectedness. A wri the ter in an English paper says business will be al in the future. It will of- test scope for ambitious aerop.ane absorbing fe ing ¥ nen demand »-day, so the aeroplane demand in the years to money makers the 11 be the aviators. in ears wi PUBLIC OPINION Getting Their Reward. (Han on Spectator) If every profiteer gets his reward, both great and small, 'tis very sure that had will not hold all. The: dis is very human. ee tvee-- 3 them ase Wearing Bussels. (Guelph Mercu They-do tell that the women | going to start we arin' again. 1 Of they'll C "We won't do it." But, 'em, we will. are 35018 course, 101 bless Money in Onions. (London Advertiser) One onion grower expects ize $40,000 for his crop Let on the thought the tears his product will bring from anguish- od eyes. to real- nim of A Changed Maude. (Belleville {Those who saw "Ma jor- General Maude while was in Canada, and formed the opinion that he was more will have to he revige their estimate Bod st. The Biggest (Ottawa ( The biggest hoost pea Hanna has ever received, and just at a time when he most needed a helping is the demand of Hon. Mr.; Rogers' Winnipeg organ that he re | sign. C ayade' s Money Bags. (Tofants (EHD Canada's national revenue for the past six months was greater than { ordinary 'and capital expenditure by | $24,000,000. This is satisfactory, , but not so satisfactory as if a great er proportion of the revenue were levied on wealth instead of wages. J Students in War. (Montreal Gazette) According to Principal Peterson, in his address to the students of Mec- | Gill, the fifty-four universities of the smpire have supplied some seventy thousand men to the British armies during the present war. McGill's contribution is some 2,500 men. Scholastic training makes for mani- less and devotion to public duty as As the motor car is in| {| White House | cidentally well as for other useful things. AR mm. | Witness the reply to the Pope, Ca-; bles from Europe contained mealy- | mouthed meanderings from Contin- | ental newspapers outlining-all kinds of suggested temporising replies to his Holiness. Suddenly came an al- together at W whole miasma of pacifism and all the | rantings from soap-boxes were at an { end. | ally | Democratic joy in the President's reply. My Republican friends, n critical of persons and things :, shared the nation-wide the well-meant Papal rings, so with the embargo Well-me aning European statesmen have too long provided the Grman armis with matrials for making shot | and powder and with food through | greedy and gain-loving neutrals. The American mind wondered Why. I went one day to have a look at an American transport ope, in which the soldier boys clus- tered like bees in farming time. In- my guide showed me a great number of neutral ships load- ing up with grain for Germany. There came another bang from the Big Gun at Washington, The ships are 8till here I should not be surprised if they As with peace offer eventually helped to carry food to the | France and to I am very certain they will American armies Belgium not carry one grain of wheat to Ger- many The right of neutrals to pro- long the war is not conceded by. the United States. The ers who are 'sending their boys to face submarines in the Atlantic and high explosive in the trenches have no sloppy sentiment for Sweden or Spain, They are sorry for Holland, but the motto 'America first," though not perhaps always suited to an alliance, is undoubtedly a formid- able war eration with characte istic in war-time, in the drastic suddenness of American mentality The Orange Lodge. Toronto Telegram, Con A few Orange lodges have passed resolutions tending te' encourage an archy and promote a strike in the | street cleaning department. The members of these lodges should take pattern from their brethren in Ul ster to ignore all minor grievances until the war is over. vant who is just as deweted to the U nion Jack as Capt. Crawford is himself. The Orange lodges of Bel- fast do not pass resolutions inciting | take a fair, the civic wage-earners. to just and generous employer by throat in wartime. The Orange Order in Toronto has proved itself the motive power of progress and publi¢ * ownership in Canada. The Hydro-Electric cause could have never made pregress in | had | if the Orange lodges nn Ontario Rippling Rhymes It was my duty them. wrong, nations. foregoing things of beauty. lovely buds, with care I grow and tredt them, and' I have not much use for spuds, excepting when 1 eat But then the sages came along, "with taunting sneers and joshes, and said my beds of flowers were I should Be raising squashes. needed sifted peas and other wholesome rations, not columbines and things like these, to feed the fighting And so 1 planted peas and beans, uprooted all my lilies, and raised a thousand tons of greens, and now I have the willies. the truck I raised with so much ardor; No man will blow a single buck to fill with neighbors all have done the same, great piles of fod- FOLLOWING ADVICE Last spring wise people came around and said to plant to spuds my garden ground, I'm fond of flowers and it his - larder. der growing; the wise guys steered them to the game just as they set me going. sass, no king or queen. has rubbered my squashes, plain or Hubbard. and priced my peas or Sparrowgrass, So I lament my roses dead, my cup of sorrgw drinking; next year the nations will be fed by someone else, I'm thinking: --WALT MASON. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN cious and fair in his distribution of jx * patronage during the war. Oh! That is a, sign of neutrality, eh? What about Kingston? It would certainly be a mistake for the government to make con- scription the ofily issue in an elec- tion, as Sir Alen Aylesworth sug- gests. Suppose it were defeated-- which the fates forfend--what then? Wouldn't the resuits.be most em- barrassing? President Wilson believes in teaching the children in the schools war polities. Mr Plewes, the Con- servative candidate in Kent, and the i MAM THERE NOT ( Radi-| in Oppisl-| mixture of | with | unexpectéd bang from the | natur-| Special Values at $22.50 OTHER LINES $15.00, $18.00, $20.00. The Belter Overcoat -- $22.50. Fancy Cheviot Suits -- The ~ Belter -- $22.50. The Pinch Overcoat, $22.50. See Bibbys NEW HATS, NEW SHIRTS, NEW RAINCOATS sailing for Eur-| American moth-| weapon when put into op-| Belfast has set an example to | the whole British Empire in the de- | termination of the "Belfast workers | The Orange lead- | ers of Belfast do mot go round stir-| ring up trouble agaigst a public ser- The country For no one seems to want My No nation comes to buy my | | $22.50. The Formfit Overcoat, $22.50. Fine Blue Suits -- The Pincher, | Flom en not filled the ward associations with supporters of Adam Beck. The Orange Order in Toronto is hounor- ably associated with support given | to strong heads of departments with- out asking questions as to the party leanings of such administrators as Thomas Bradshaw. The Orange Order should prompt- ly withdraw from an impossible posi- tion of hostility to efficiency | independence in the leadership of a civic department. The employees oi the street cleaning department should abandon an attempt to show enmity to people who have always shown friendship to civic employces. The city oceupies cannot surrender. The have advanced to an unjust position and should surrender Wants of the North-West. Hamilton Times The north-west is wants more freedom. It wants to trade with the United States with- out let or hindrance. It wants freer trade with Great Britain. And be- cause the Borden Government is op posed to all,these things that the north-west wants, the people out { there are opposed to it, and will | vote-ameiast it at the first oppor- tunity. Al] classes--British, Can- adian and aliens--object to the Tory policy of restriction of trade, with | its graft and mismanagement, and the aliens have been put out of busi ness politically in an effort to save the Government from defeat. There | will be few, if any, anti-conscrip- ist candidates in the north-west. Un- der these circumstances the alien would have littla-chance to vote against the carrying on of the war. The Government disfranchised these people sb that it might win the elec- tion--not the war. Liberal. It A pretty wedding was celebrated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Marshall, Lyn, when their fourth daughter, Miss Myrtle B. Marshall, became the bride of J. Mackie Hen- derson, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Henderson, Athens. The Redemptorist Order of Cath- olic priests have purchased a farm near 'Brockville and will erect on the property a college for the edu. cation of candidates for the priest- hood of that order in the Catholic church, Homemade Peanut Butter Feeling the increasing demand for this popular food Jroduct Te hate installed an JAS. REDDEN & CO. and | a just position, and | strikers | | DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK We are all of us vacuum cleaners? We take up, by in- halation, the dust and impuri- ties of the air. 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