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] ERY LE | RUPERT DAVIES "ess0s President TELEPHONES | eee Mackenzie King in a wrong light with the Canadian public, we feel | called upon to remind it of a few things which it would, perhaps, like | to forget. Let us deal with the flag first, and | Mr. King's attitude regarding the | constitutional connection between | this country and the Motherland | with which The Gazette claims, the | people have "already become ule | favorably familiar" Mr. King | stands, as he has always stood, for a | strong = British connection. He | honors, as does every Liberal the | grand old Union Jack. But Mr. | King has too much love and respect | for it, to drag If through the dirt of a political campaign. Mr, King | very properly takes the attitude that | Canada is a sélf-governing nation within the Empire, and as such is | entitled to be governed by the repre- | sentatives of the people. In a word | he stands for responsible govern- | ment, ° While discussing the matter of "the flag under which the Doniinion | ¢ame into beiig and has prospered" | let us not forget that it is the self- | same flag through which Mr. Blon- din, a member of Mr. Meighen's | former government, wanted to shoot | holes. Let us not forget, too, when | we are discussing loyalty, that Mr. | E, L. Patenaude, minister of Justice | In Mr. Meighen's new government | :|and the only Quebec minister, while | to Editor are published a di Bame of the cirewiation of The British Whig The is ted by the Audit Bureau of v A FLAG WAVING CAMPAIGN. The Montreal Gazette seems de- termined that the coming. election campaign shall be one of the old flag-waving variety. A few days ago sits leading editorial was headed "Under Which Flag." Kingston- {ans will remember that these iden- tical words were hurled at Mr. Mac- kensfe King while he was speaking a member of the Borden government | during the war, supported the mo- | tion dgclaring "that the people's welfare called upon us to put a stop | to the sending of troops to the front." . He algo stated so recently | as the last Federal campaign, "I am | not ready to admit that when Brit- | Aln is at war, Canada is necessarily | at war." And we must. not forget that Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen re- | cently approved of Mr. Patenaude in | his Montreal speech and stated that | he (Mr. Patenaude) during the elec- | tion campaign was preaching true | Conservatives doctrine. ! Then we have our friend Mr. Mei- ghen, and his famous Hamilton in the Grand Opera House last Octo- speech in which he completely swal- ber. They will remember, too, his _ foble and patriotic reply to the héekler. In its issue of Thursday, July 15th, The Montreal Gazette "heads its leading editorial "The Coming Blection," and it says: . It augurs well for the future of Canada that the Conservative party enters the election campaign with a strong Goverment and a strong form, The Ministry which Mr, Raster has just formed at Ottawa will stand for well-defined principles, for principles with which the people Canada are thoroughly familiar, id In which they trust. a Cou, EVAL] rty stands to-day, as 18 Riwayy done, Tor tarth srabiies. It industrial and social progress, of the development of Canadian re- on: in the interests of Canada: and it stands, as it has always done, br the flag under which the Domin. i came nto being dnd has prosper- This ought to have some mean- Ig for the Canadian people, and it Mean something to them. They 10 it In 1911, when much the ame danger confronted them as confronts them now, and they show. od it last October by a vote which not ld: ken, They saw fruit of their effort taken from » by means which they resented apd have since condoned, and they cannot do other than welcome the opportunity now being afforded them to repeat and emphasize their |, lowed his patriotic ebullition of 1922, when he shouted "Ready, aye, | ready," and advocated that before | Canada again sent troops to take | part in the defence of-the Empire, we should have a general election. Is this the sort of super-loyalty that The Montreal Gazette loves. Or is it just detérmined to try to discredit Mackenzie King, irrespective of facts. 'With regard to industrial pro. gress, the Liberal party has a record to be proud of. Everyone knows of the progress made in Canada from 1896 to 1911. Everyone knows, who has followed trade returns, that there has prem a constant improvement since 1821; until & total of §2,161,- 000,000 was reached in 1925, whieh Was an increase of $2905,000,000 over 1924. Canada has flourished under the Mackenzie King govern. ment as never before. Daspite the flag-waving of the Tory press, the Liberals are certain to be returned to power again in September and they will continue the good work that has been temporarily interrupt- ed, dar The Gazette makes certain state- ments which cannot he backed up by "It is endeavoring, of course, relled inuendo to convince peo- 8 that the Liberal party has not #tood for tarift stability, tor indus- ial and social progress, and tor 0 whic the Dominion Into. being and has prospered. dittle turther on it continues: Nor has their anxious appreciation @ things been altered or modi. tl Premier's attempt to i ); on the 860 in Mr. William 8 Ki attack Bpon nal connection be- Country dnd the Mother- bold expres u of an atti workmen a8 they really DO WE WANT VAMPS IN MOVIES? -- We are to have a new vamp to exercide a friumphant refgn upon the screen. But do we need a vamp anyway? Are the pictures depicted through this creature worthy of the Intelligence of the age. The Mon- treal Star, in discussing the sate, very clearly sets out that "when one thinks of the. possibilities that lie ready-to the producers' hand, it sebtis little short of eriminal negli- gence that all should be passed by in favor of a melodramatic creation that is neither human nor devilish just a coarse , combination of the two." : > Those who supply the bulk of the films on this' continent, the paper continues. have &ot no farther away from their original crude ideas of litg than a ebild's hand can spah. It might reasonably have been expect &d with the tremendous advance made in the technical side of the _THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Patenaude's Vote DALLY LESSONS IN ENGLISH | Fr WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: bound to fail." OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: "time." ment, skirmish, bout, contést, WORD STUDY: ocab To-day's word: AVERT low these instructions lary ; to turn \ A dead stop before You reach the crossing will prevent a dead stop on the crossing. ---- The U. 8. Department ture looks for a continua prices for hogs at least a nee of good year. A theory propounded by an Eng- lish newspaper, that a new jce age is about to begin will be gratifying to no one except Possibly the coal man. -- A good harvest in the west will enable the entire\Dominion to make enormous strides forward in the re- covery of abounding national pros. perity. The Toronto points out why certain ex. should not be candidates for re- election. It should send a marked copy to DeWitt Fister and WwW; F. Garland. -- A policeman flashed a light in a sleeping man's fdce, and the latter cried: "You fool." the first words he had uttered in ten years. Now he is talking excitedly to make up for his long respite. ---- On this page today we publish a short sketch of the new Minister of Justice in the Meighen administra. tion. It is interesting reading, and bears out the truth of the old. say- ing that "Politics makes strange bed- fellows." -- A dear old couple spoofing and €poonin park, and a heartless ed them. not the court, were caught 8 in a Hamilton magistrate tin- "Let love abound" wag motto observed by the How can we help the street rail. Way to keep going? By patronizing it, and by &etting the neighbors to ride om its cars. Loyalty to King- ston's institutions demand this. "Wea never miss the water till the well runs dry." -- If there be a wholesale cleaning out of the returning officers appoint ed by the King Governm be eyidence that the s still has powerful supporters in the Conservative parts, is a candid opin- ion from the Hamilton Herald. A special correspondent of an eastern paper, describing agricultnr- al conditions on the Prairies, says the farmers work fourteen hours a day during eight months of the year. Deducting hours for sleep and meals | little time is left for golt or. picture | shows, ' -- ' "In discussing the right of a Can- adian prime minister to a dissolu- tion when he asks for it, Chester Ww. New, professor of history in McMas- ter University, Toronto, states em- phatically that if Lord Byng had tol- lowed the British practice, he would have granted dissolution to My. King. ------ . A Cambridge, Mags., man was told that soaking his féet In gasoline would cure his rheumatism. tried it and to while away the time he light? a cigarette. His next Stop was at the hospital with. badly blistéred feet. He isn't sure yet er his rheumatism is cured or A BY W. L. GORDON Say "destined to fail." OFTEN MISSPELLED: Poughkeepsie, SYNONYMS: battle, fight, combat, conflict, encounter, engage- "Use a word three tim and all danger can be averted." J AA --- EDITORIAL NOTES, | of Agricul- | po f Mail and Empire ent, ft wil] | He Don't say "She business was carbine. Pronounce the | as In es and it is yours." one word each day, ; to prevemt. ' Pol. by mastering aside or away | THE TOWN "WATCHMAN {- The wise municipal counefl wii! always levy a sufficient tax rate to finance the needs of the year. It does not pay to stint; better fix the | rate £0 therd will be a little surplus. {The Watchman knows that some | municipal legislators take the view Ithat when there is & lot of money {voted, there will be a tendency to | spend it all no matter whether it is {needed or not. But this should not { The Kingston baseball club is not |, | the ofily organization that has suf- fered through lack of public patron- age this year, T very poorly | patronized this season. There are 180 few prisoners incarcerated that [the chores can hardly be given at- | tention, However, there have been other occasions on which the turn- { keys have had to turn in and cut the {grass and shovel, the snow at the | court house, Having heard the condition of the | street railway company, it is up to | the people to patronize the street cars and ply increase their revenue. {No one wanfs the cars to stop run- ning, but thers is grave d of that happening. Street railways as well 'as steam railways have been 'given a rude jolt by the motor cars. ! a "It appears stra ge to see a notice in the post office telling tourists f trom other countries that they must juse Canadian Postage stamps for {cards and letters mailed on this |side, Yet there are many people Istupid enough to place American {stamps on their mail when they visit { Canadian towns and cities. {ada is not a part of the United States, although we are cousins, When nearly two-thirds of King ston's taxes are paid in over two months before they are actually due, the majority of the people here must | be in: very tair circumstances. This | city loses next to nothing of its taxes and it stands at the top of the cities of Canada in that respect. : Another of Kingston's oldest busi- ness houses is the Prevost--clothing tors on Brock street. This business has been in the same family since it poils 'system | | ago. In the old days, it furnished all the French-Canadian raftsmen who used to be employed at Garden Island, and it did a big trade in that quarter alone. Prevost's is still go- ing, the son succeeding the father, and doing a thriving business, It is good to again See on the Upper St. .Lawrence tugs almost daily vowing #rain-laden bargés from Kingston to Montreal. The old days have been revived by the James Riéhardson forwarding company, whose . Kingston elevator is busy again receiving grain from the west and shipping it into river barges to the metropolis. We may never again see timber barges operating on the Upper St. Lawrence, but it is at least good to ses grain once more being carried 1g large quantities from this port eastward. Some one has said that the glory of the Thousand Islands hag depart- ed, but that idea 4s Wrong. The glory of the jslands can never fade, gy it they no longer are the J of the thousands" used to sum- Mer upon them. The automobile has caused a depleted sumnfor popiila- | tion among the island resorts, but their glory remains, There is reals ly more activity ame p on the Canadian ton of the Thouskn long odds ¢ +No, Can- | h | Was established over half a century h Justifies Face - Quebec's Doubts re 10 re- Y,. or Henry Ford ve all his fortune to Presi. Coolidge and the Republican party. It is black setting in the with the ho turning white, the sun pan the hare running e he would: never coat politics, the Andy Gump of the last on. He wore no man's collar, no party's jrasy. Over and over again he said solemnly and publicly, "I am in SFEry way free, I am free from Mr. Meighen even as I'am free from Mr. Ki a 2 io campai slogan as country before party, not "portfolio before principles." y 4 , "~ Has Done it Before. It is the young electors of Quityec who, remembering October, 1925, will get the most shock out of Mr. Paten- aude's circus feat, Old timers who remember 1911 and October, 1915 will not be so surprised at Mr. Patenaude's political Joop the loop. ¥ is history has repeated itself, He t is the man con. 0 and the new gederation of Quebéc voters could mot penetrate his mask and unravel his mystery. In brief he kept the who province guessing and the cleverest of his opponents could not extract from him' that secret of a cighen affiliation which he has only now revealed by accepting a Meighen portfolio, Now that he is 2 member of the ROV~ ernment it is of interest to recall his public policies as proposed by him last ctober. They were summarized by the Canadian Press as follows: - As to personal status in politics "I am free in every way, as free from Meighen as I am of ng." As to Imperialism: "I am attached to those who favor British bonds with- in the empire, but Canadian interests must be domipant in Canada. . We must orient ourselves towards the most complete autonomy." i 5 As 'to what he termed "military im- perialism," he gaid: "I am not ready to admit that wifen Britain is at war Canada should necessarily £9 to war." And then he showed where and from whom Mr. Meighen got his Hamilton speech: "No definite decision should be taken toward pulling Canada into warfare whether it be a matter of finance or of Died, Nano a appeal to the people." Mr. Meighen has grap- pled him to his soul and cabinet With hoops of Hamilton steel. ' Would Sell C.N.R. Having no prophetic knowledge of LEMON SQUASH, ORANGE SQUASH. LIME JUICE CORDIAL, 8Bc¢. per bottle Jas. REDDEN PHONES 30 and & CO, this year's record earnings of both |] railways he spoke of "the mad race of disastrous competition between the two companies." \le¢ ridiculed "the false pride of having a national railwa ." He declared that he would sell the Nation- al Railways if necessary to free the shoulders of our people from the load that is crushing them." Something like this was the railway policy of St. James Street. To give Mr. Patenaude credit, in en- tering the Meighen cabinet, he is vio- lating no literal and public pledge. He mever said that he would not enter the cabinet. He only said he was "as free of Meighen as of King." It was only these who had the Ros etta stone of his political past who could decipher the worse than Runic enigma of the sphinx and say as con- fidently as Mr. Taschereau; " aten- aude is practising subterfuge. He is not a sincere man. Once before he deserted Quebec to go.to Ottawa, There he pre- tended to incarnate the Canadian race, but he abandoned his post. He came back to the legislature in 1923, but he has been useful neither to his race nor to his province, He is body and soul for Meighen." His decision to: enter the cabinet must be a surprise to Henri Bourassa, for Mr. Bourassa said last January when asked if the votes for Patenaude were votes for Meighen: "Poor Paten. aude is dead. He has now no political future in Quebec." . on October the 6th, 1916, he Was sworn in as minister of inland ge- venue in the Borden cabinet. A Montreal critic Jast October called him a political chameleon, In 1917 he Was ohne of the nin > troops to the front." On June 10th he resigned after informing Sir Robert Borden by letter that he could not sup- port the proposed conscription bill. Later he moved that it be given a six months' hoist. 3 He bolted public life as well as the | Conservative Party and did not emerge from retirement untit 1923, when he was elected for Jacques Cartier and opsosed Taschereau in the ' Quebec ouse. He himself declared at Lachine during the federal campaign that he was dragged from the provincial to the federal arena by "the people's cry of distress," but it was rumored that the agonizing people of Canada spoke through the soft and persuasive lips of the Hon. Robert Rogers. It is known that he hesitated long and coyly and that he made his own terms with Lord Atholstan and St. James street, Sphinx Without Secret. the campaign the role he played was that of a sphinx without a secret to. those who recafled 1911, 1916 and 1917. But like the sphinx he had been "In ve Surprise to Himself. Mr. Patenaude's decision must be a surprise to Mr, Patenaude himself, for he said to The Star the day after the last election when asked | he would like to go through it all again. do not think so. I am not enamored of politics. They impose a severe strain on a man who likes to be sincere and honest. And, after all, the public is not grateful." \ But the person most surpri by Mr. Patenaude's back flip i Mr. pointe's chair of justice must be the editor of ihe Montreal Star. On Sep- The name. + MeCALL! in the world of MEMORIALS is a of DISTINCTION vie Gand * QUALITY. Bhe McGallon tember 23¢r t Cardiy' denying Mr. enaude was a Meighen man, he wrote: "When Patenaude says that he is 'in- dependent of Meig is ei ing the truth or he is a is a hypocrite, if he is man at heart, how ceiver intend to do it without Quebec finding it out?" And the Montreal Star added: "Whatdver his desires, simply dare not de it. ed as a Quebec Je i Meighen' he must rémain go. prove his sincerity after the ¢lections." Qil Vinegar. Mr. Patenaude is a tall, athletic handsome man, a real not in the first bloom of youth, for he long covered by the sands of oblivion A roe fre is 50 years of age. He Arann en RE: fitleness and 'cour: ast campaign Rratulated him this gay de-| Fi he is unlike caustic, He i Bu sy wil Meighen Adonis, though persuasiveness to that he is is the soul of! of King." at Fo as unlik vi all hi is wit is ki) lover of flowers tesy. During the § Opponents con. » not and ident of a beay- Laval k- o sur Lag loo ce and t it would appear that no kind of can get him out call a bad poli bunker. otill "as of tical fos of ey Jt will take uebec Qu the r Cc as | | | | | | | | | Your Next nicely designed any business. . quality. ~~ ¥ we ¥ on Business Stationery Well printed, to give you first-class print. give yo id ¥