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8 LT THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1920. ee Tr -- ---- THE BRITISH WHIG 87th YEAR. Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED . President 'ditor and sing Director TELEPHONES, ice Business Editorial Job Oftic SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) One year, delivered fn city 6.00 One year, if paid in advance ......$5. One year, by mall to rural offices $2.50 One year, to United States . . 3.00 (Bemi-Weekiy Edition) One year, by mall, cagh One year, if not pafd in advance 'One year, to United States Six and three months pro rata. Letters to the Editor are only over the aotual name writer. published of the Attached is one of the best Job print- ing offices in Canada, The _circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. A woman's favorite weepin', weapon fis The signs of the times don't in- elude "To Let." There is never room In the eternr) triangle for a square deal. ------------------ The failing oil supply isn't so dis- tressing as the failing toil supply. You can trust almost any man ex- cept the one who brags how good he ie, Sending mail by air is new, but sending hot air by mail is an old story. When prices finally come down, let's slip through a law making them retroactive. A ball player can't bet and keep his right hand in ignorance of what his left hand is doing. For a few decades Heinie must pay more attention to propagation | than to propaganda. Prices may be on their way back, but there is little need of traffic €ops along the route. ---------------------- There are too many people to save the world, and not enough trying to save money. tax will come out of your farms, but | If vodka made Russia a backward | 2 | bation, what kind of stuff are they drinking over there now? The reason some people fail is be- cause they waste too much hunting for sympathy. When a public man says he has Ilana, and from nowhere else. For it | nothing to say, one wonders whether it is an evasion or a confession. The undertaker's best friend is the man who carries a chip on his shoul- der or wood extract on his hip. When the office seeks the man there is no need of a campaign fund £0 pay the expense of the search. Hang it, can't 'they produce a movie in which the hero doesn't mix "imself a Scotch and soda in each reel? ---- The bitter-end feminist will never be happy until somebody discovers & way to stage a wedding without e groom. -------- The coal operators are only human and it is so much easier to get it our of the public than to get it out of "the mines. The man who eats too much en- ters the suicide class om an almost equal footing with the man who re- fuses to eat at all. One judges by the death rate in Russia that Lenine's little plan to _ establish an Eden requires himself 1a the role of a lone Adam. yy mii -- One good thiing about these pro- Ribition days is that when a man ©omes home late o'nights he doesn't iave to struggle with a nimble key- "The more one studies man's efforts 10 Straighten the affairs of the world, 'the firmer his conviction that some- body should proclaim a day of er. Phase are terrible days for the FIER man. If he brags about what § Is making, the income tax collec- oF will get him ; and if he doesn't BIAS, he is accused of keeping silent to hide his profiteering. Hundreds, #2 not thousands, are 'Morry that the rain spoiled our fair. {"1 am sorry to the extent of $25," says Dr. G. W. Bell, as he passed over the How many will | follow this excellent example 2 } money M.P&. REVOLTS, Ju a table before me mine enemies, for over," demandeta Brantford's memoer al house and a fore- r. The governmant, & tn curl his tongue, 3¢s to submit At- torney-General Raney is the man le MeBRIDE, "Prepare t he presence of my cup Mayor McBride neth most he says, tr { accuses of enleavering to shut him | nd his liberty-loving spirit re- bel : idea. In other words, he must be free to talk or he will die. And now he demands a seat on the C(ross-benches at Toronto where he can say what he pleases, which he lias apparently been doing a!) along. i Ic Is perhaps this fact, or fraility, or fearlessness, that has prompted the attorney-general to suppress tha voi- ptile member for Brantford. In a | Statement just issued Mr, McBride "Hon. Mr. Raney a few months ago | wrote me a letter in which he took | exception to my expressed opinion {cn the question of Hydro-radials, and | as & minister of the crown undertook | to tell me that, as a supporter of the » 1 was not to have the freedom. of speech." . Some time ago J. J. Morrison tried to impose his rule upon the farmer | members, and was severely criticized [tor his action. Now it is the turn of | the labor members to be censored McBride, for one, will not submit. Consequently he has asked the speak- er of the house to place him on the cross-benches where he may express Lis opinions as he likes. Labor, ha further declares, is considerably dis- satisfied at the general course of ev- ents in Ontario. Whether labor is as | dissatisfied as Mr. McBride is re- { mains to be seen. At any rate, the | next session of the house seems like- ly to be enlivened by some plain talk from the irrepressible member for ! Brantford. THE LAND TAX. The leaders of the United Farmers who put forward such plausible argu- ments for free trade have not ad- vanced any practical solution of the | question as to how the money is to be raised to carry on the government. If you wipe out the customs taxes, whicl: provide the reveaua at the {present time, a substitute thai will {meet that deficiency must suraly be adopted. Theories will not do, | the money must be raised. The esti- | mated revenue required is this year [$350,000,000. Last year all that was realized by dffect taxation in the |torm of income tax, corporation and | business tax, war profits tax, etc., {was $80,000,000. How is the other $270,000,000 to be raised? Tne leaders of the Couucil of Ag:i {culture and J. J. Morrison, the chie! of the UF.0., say that they will Iralse it by. taxing the land. and for fear the farmers throughout ihe |couniry may become alarmed over trying the demand it will impose upon them | mobilee las the large proprietors of land, |they say: "We do not mean that the {only out of the unimproved land, .Le land that is non-productive." We fail [to see anything logical in such a | statement, for how can you get any- thing for nothing? -- Where is the time {money to come from in such a case® It wil come out of the productive the non-productive land produces nothing, the farmer will have to pay out of what he produces from his till- jable land, just to the extent of the |acreage of his non-productive land. | The only alternative is that he will | be forced to sell his waste land, and who will be foolish enough to buy it under such circumstances? But [what about vacant town and city building lots? The situation will be- | come precisely the same. Nobody is {going in very strong for such lots {just now owing to the cost of build- ing, and the prospect of additional [taxes would throw these holdings on {the market. We hear so much criticism against {the customs taxes, which bear fairly [equally upon all the people, that it iis 'necessary to find out what is ' 'meant by the land tax, and who is going to pay it. It seems hardly fair to expect the owners of farm land to shoulder the greater portion of the taxes; but if the customs tax be abol- ished and a land tax adopted, this is precisely what will happen. And lwoat will it mean? It will mean putting a tax on the farmer's capital, for his land is his capital, just as much as the banker's money is his | capital. The farmer derives his liv- ling. from his land, and by the labor land skill he puts into its cultivation he produces his stock and all of his {marketable produce, upon the sale of which he expects a reasonable re- turn. In all schemes of taxation {capital has been recognized as justly exempt, and if it is unfair to tax [capital in one form it is equally un- {just to tax it in-another. Nobody com- /plains about the present taxation for |the maintenance of roads, schools, fete, but when a land tax is adopted | for national revenue, and every farm- ler with one hundred acres is taxed {one or two dollars per acre addi- tional, an intolerable situation, akin {to oppression, is bound to réBult. | The more this question of the |earite is discussed the more reason- {able the advocates of extreme mea {sures appear to become. They begin {merge and by mutual as | to find out from the investigation of | fine appearance. facts just where they stand and how the consequences of a proposed line {of action are likely to effect them, with the. result that ail | to con 8 find a common ground This very thing is gradually taking placa to- day. ions pete MUSINGS OF THE khan | In the Presence of Death, My Basket Baby plays second base | on the girls' soft ball team and Sar' AunAvas togging her out for a game. I asked if it was quite necessary that | every stitch she had on should be of the very best. Prior to that she | had been washed and wiped off and polished same as if she was a lamp ci'mbley, a precious vase or the statute of the "Greek slave on the | clock stand. Sar' Ann explained that the pore young one hed to go more'n a quarter of a mile to get to | the fair grounds and she might be | knocked down by a car. | An automobile can claim to be! the greatest civilizer in civilization at the present time. Many of us*as we come out of the front gate of our homes and glance up and down | the road thronged with swiftly mov- | Ing devil waggons are moved to back into the house and put on a cléan shirt and a presentable pair of socks. Our sisters, our cousins, and our aunts have been wise in the pres ence of the grain reapers for many moons. I guarantee that there is | not a girl in town who would think of going out on the street without being clad in the very best from her skin out. Not that she contemplates i that she may have to stand before her Maker inside of an hour, That's | not it at all. She wants to look | presentable at the inquest and defy criticism at the post mortem. That ig"the reason that you see so many | clean, attractive and beautifully- | dressed children playing on the streets or making their devious ways towards the school. Who wants to | g0 down to the Morgue and identify | an unwashed young one clad in rags? | On the other hand it is a real com- for to go down there and see her | lying on the slab looking so sweat | in her clean pinny and her nice | Stockings and her pretty shoes and her hair ribbons without a crinkle in | them--not to mention her beads and her blouse. It is a great triumph to elbow your way through the gap- | ing throng and say with just pride: "That's my young one!" I admit that Sar' Ann sometimes makes me pretty tired. She don't nag exactly, but she has awful bossy | , ways and a feller can't do as he likes around this house, even if he is the bread winner and all that sort of thing. I wanted to go down to! the post office the other evening | | just to. d\op a letter and it wasn't | worth whfile fixing up for that-- everybody round here knows me any- | way, 80 I dodged out the back door and was making a sneak through the | orchard when Sar' Ann nabbed me | just as I crawled through a hole in | | the fence and she walked me back | | to the house. I never was so humily | | ated. I had to put on a fresh collar | and another tie, and then she brush- ' ed me off, making a hissing sound {all the time like a hired man curry- | ing a horse. | "I'm only going as far.as the post- | office," I snorted, some impatient. "You don't know where you're a- | goin', she replied in solemn ac- | cents. "Ef you was hit by a auto- where would you go to?" You will be pleased to hear that | I maintained a dignified silence. Be- | sides I know better than to get into an argument with Sar' Ann. She could debate me to a standstill. If I hit the golden stairs it was vitally | important that I should look like a | gentleman. If, however, I went to the Other Place it was most import- { ant that I made a good impression. | Besides I have so many friends there | j fairer than day, as witness the re- | to hell or Hamilton you got to be | decently dressed. { with death 'and if we trip and fall | ev ening papers! | PUBLIC OPINION | to a flock of sheep; why not goats? | Ot pork and beans one time we ate, She would point out that clothes make the 'man and even his Satanic Majesty would treat mie with more consideration if 1 wore a plug hat and had an aster in the lapel of my Prince Albert. Raiment don't cut any ice in the land that is ception Lazarus got, but if you go In this age we walk side by side We never rise again. Let us take example from our sisters, our sweet- hearts apd see to it when we dress in the morning that every rag on us is up to date, for our very socks may get into the noon edition of the The Khan. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont. . - More . (London Free Press) The public is sometimes compared Oh, About 'Steen. (Woodstock Sentinel-Review) Another drop in the price of sugar has been announced. We wonder how many times it will have to drop be- fore the consumer gets the benefit of the decrease. Get After the Spooners. : (Guelph Herald) "To the many regulations which have been adopted regarding the driving of automobiles, one against the driving of cars by one-arm spoo- ners ought to be added and vigorous- ly enforced. The Modern Difficulty. (Manitoba Veteran) But barren quite of these our plate And empty is our fork, Since in these cost of living days It is so very hard to raise The beans to buy the pork. CC Synmummmm Beautiful Girls In Store, (The Argonaut) We will undertake to say that we can find more pretty women in de- partment stores of San Francisco than Among all the millionaires' wives and daughters of the country, and if we should unexpectedly find ourselves short of one or two we can run over to Oakland and make good the lack in about ten minutes. And | with sufficient encouragement we are prepared to do jt. Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER USEFUL BILL. | I watched Old Wilhelm as he] wrought, and knocked the \\ stately yew trees cold, while down his regal dome of thought the sweat of honest | effort rolled. Of old this Wilhelm seemed no good, when he was hoo- dooed by a crown; yet now he whacks up cords of wood---you can- not keep a good man down. There is no nobler task. than his, now coal | is scarce and hard to get; I watch | him make his bucksaw whiz, and cy, | 'Old Bill's our one best bet." When he was ruler of a realm he earned no, high and rich reward, such as he earns while sawing elm and pulling down six bits a cord; now, when he goes to roost at night, he has no crimes o'er which to fret; the record of his day is white, and Wilhelm is our one best bet. If we'd all do as Wilhelm does, and ply our bucksaws in the sun, the bats that in our bel- fries buzz would find their futile er- rands done. We ply the swift and tireless jaw until its hinges creak and smoke, whea we should wield the trenchant saw and pile up ricks of helpful oak. ~--WALT MASON, | | hat it was due to them to make a Western Stewing Beef . 1,000 lbs. Pot Roasts ° ., . Boiling Cuts Choice Oven Roasts Rib Roasts Beef Green Picnic H a a i The Wm. Davies Co., Ltd. PHONE 597 | GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE OF WESTERN ~ BEEF 1,000 pounds Western Round Steak * te sews SPRING LAMB Loins, Legs, Fronts, Stewin AMS, 4 to Smoked Picnic Hams, nice for boiling . . .40c. Ib. Wiltshire BACON---sweet and mild--sliced ERE A ....30c. Ib. .. .15¢, Ib. : ....18¢ Ib. . . E00 -- BIBBY'S SEE OUR About forty Coats to choose from. SEE OUR EXTRA SPECIAL! Kingston's Only Strictly Cash and One-Price Clothing Store. Sale of Overcoats $27.50 Overcoats Styles are new: form-fit, new waist-line, new form-fit and Chesterfield models. $35.00 Overcoats Splendidly tailored, from All- Wool Cheviots and Tweeds, Friezes and Meltons--all this se ason's models. cannot be duplicated elsewhere for less than $45.00 to $47.50 Sec ourBlue Suitsat vue... vu viiinina. $37.50 and $45.00 Foxes English Serge; all sizes. BIBBY"S ET ---- gE £ 5 2 E E E == | These Coats = rT ------ McCLARY'S GAS RANGES "The Finest Finished Ranges Sold tu Canada" "FLORENCE AUTOMAT IC" OIL STOVES Endorsed by Good House keeping Magazine Sold ati-- BUNT'S HARDWARE King St. Phone 888 iy \ ------ Gourdier's || For cv. .18c. Ib. .v.22c. Th. we + -28¢. Ib. . . i ; Chops--at low prices Ibs. each . ...35c. Ib. 48c. and 52c¢. Ib. --- a= OAC ™ | NEWFOUNDLAND Canned Lobsters We have just received a ship- ment of these choice Lobsters. Sold only under license, and passed by the Newfoundland Government. For one pound flat tins, price, per tin ..81.00 Jas. REDDEN & vo. Phones 20 and 990. | CHOICE MEATS ~--Spring Lamb, --Cpare Ribs, --Tenderloins, ; --Pork Sausages. Choice Western Beef Daniel Hogan GIVE YOUR POULTRY OUR SPECIAL FEED and get results in the egg lasket and in thriving chicks. This feed is one of our specialties and those who use it are its enthusiastic admirers. Try some and note the improvement in laying hens and growing chicks. W. F. McBroom Lake Ontario Trout and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had- dock, Halibut and Cod. Dominion Fish Co, Canada Food Bourd License Ne. 0-3348 42-44 Princess Street. hone 1656 Crescent Wire Works! Fencing, Guards, Baskets, Flower | borders, Wire Work of all kinds, maru. factured by: -- PARTRIDGE & SON, 62 King Street West. Phone 350. Residence 913w. REPAIRS! REPAIRS ! Welding is not a side-line with us. We guarantee our workmanship aly al de 'as dirong as ate Packets and Sank Cases weld- ed without heating. 8 KINGSTON WELDING SHOP 43 PRINCESS STREET. Wiltshire Pickled HOCKS ......... .15c¢. per Ib. Cooked PIGS' FEET .............2 Ibs. 25c. 1,000 cans SALMON, large tins . . . . . .2 for 35c. 1,000 cans } tins SALMON ............10c. each OLEO MARGARINE, equal to butter . . . 42c. Ib. Davies' TEA still selling ........... 45c, per Ib. FARMS FOR SALE 90 acres about 10 miles fro Kingston on the York Road, 2 miles from Odessa, first class buildings; about 80 acres good tillable land; well fenced; well watered; price $6,500. ' A very valuable farm of 290 acres adjoining the Village of Harrowsmith; frame dwelling, two large with stables and other outbufldings; over 200 acres of very fertile soil has been under Cultivation; good fences; plenty of water; 'enough wood for fuel and some valuable building timber; a choice farm; splendid location; must be sold; a reasonable of- fer will be accepted. T. J. Lockhart Clarence Street, Kingston, Ont, Phone 1033w or 13873 Dutch Bulbs For Fall Planting For winter blossoms there is noth- ing so easily grown or more beauti- ful than bulbous plants. Our stocks of Holland Bulbs has arrived, and in- cludes besides NARCISSUS, HYA.|| CINTHS aad DAFFODILS for indoor growing, splendid large TULIPS, CROCUS and FREESIAS for spring blossoming in the garden. Come in and make your selection before the choicest varieties are gone, The four-pound loaf has been in- DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE rr Coal That Suits creased to fifteen pence in price in Britta, $85 Princess Street. Phone 348. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Cele brated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite The only Coal handled by Crawford Phone 9. Foot of Nucen St. "It's a Black busines. bul we treat you white."