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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26; 1917. ___PAGE FOUR _ 5 ws = t us A a 1 us : 0 FEA 4 2. SE Published Daily and' Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING €0., LIMITED. LG, BIHOME ...coernass ase President Sa A. Guild ... Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. »Telephonest Business Office Editorial Rooms Job Office UBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) eo year, delivered in CIty ceness 6.00 One Joan if paid in advance ..... 5.00 One year, by mail to rural offices $2.50 One year, to United States «+ $2.50 (Semi -Weekly Edition) 1.00 r, by mail, cash ........ One Jo 1¢ not paid in advance $1.50 One Year, to United States ....:. $1.50 Six and three months pro rata. LF MONTREAL REP! , Bruce Owen TORONTO REPRE ¥. C. Hoy, ... 1005 Trade dg UNITED STATES REPREBENTATIVE: ¥.R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York ¥F.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg., Chicago Job ENTATIVE 3 Bt P 8 CTATIVE s Bank Bldg Attached is one of the best printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is suthenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations, =F TESTING OUR GRIT. I ask you to read, and second time, the statements of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and get a perfect view of the state of things. It is undoubtedly one that calls for the gravest measures. If we take it in hand, at once, and take very drastic measures, we can cope with that peril. I am not going to with- hold from the House the fact that if the nation is not prepared to ac- cept drastic measures for dealing with the submarine peril there isy disaster in front of us. The Govern- ment are proposing measures which we think will be adequate. It does mean enormaus sacrifices on the part of every class in the community. The national grit is going to be tested by the answer that is given to the state- ments 1 make to-day on behalf of the Government-- Lloyd George, Pre- mier, in the Imperial Commons on Friday. read a Once more--and through the New Brunswick election--the federa ad ministration and its friends can "ead the hand-writing upon the wall. HK gpells defeat in the next eleci'on. THROW THEM OVERBOARD, No one in Ontario can appreciate the true meaning of the political battle 'which was fought in New Brunswick on Saturday. Into it was put all' the physical force and fin- ancial energy of the discredited gov- ernment, and that this government has been defeated is not at all re- markable in view of certain facts. For the record of any party is that when it forgets itself, when it be- _comes corrupt and abandoned to evil ways, when in its Tall from grace and decency it becomes defiant of public opinion, the people apply the remedy. It is to scourge the re- creant government and purge the province or the state of its inqui- ties. The Murray administration had absolutely nothing to commend it to the electors. Its leades, Hon. J. A. Murray, who took office' only on Feb. 1sL as premier, in place of advocating a new aud clean policy, or a policy gf advanced and ecouomice legislation, condoned the offences of his prede- cessor. He offered resolution in the legislature which assumed to dis- pute the judicial report upon the Fleming transactions. He called those who exposed the wrong-doers slanderers. He promised to walk i the footsteps of the displaced an + disgraced ex-premier. What could be expected from one who began his administration under such ynfdvorable auspices? The in- evitable happened. The opposition, which held only three seats in the last house, has defeated the govern- ment in the election, and this govern- ment h rty-five seats before the dissolufon of the house. words, ' there were forty-four elec- tions on Saturday, the liberals win- ning out by two. Four elections have been deferred, and these the liberals have the chance of winning. : «+ The Murray party should learned a Tobeon from a Diish Columbia, and cast the po- es doa te Pp in the tempestuous political ---------------- The political reputations of some men in New Brunswick looked bad enough before the local election. Af- ter the election they looked a good attendance is larger than usual. a In other} COLLEGES AND RECRUITING. Toronto be closed during 1917 {1 of ed worthy ol special consideration. | time. The decision is to keep the univer-| ------ - ity openg for many reasons, includ-|} The question : + ing these: That the college is airy is 3 Mr. B KINGSTON EVENTS great recruiting institution, 1,600 of Rational service its students out of a total of 3,300 the Militia Act 26 YEARS ACO having, fince the peginning of the his commission got 1 : ni . ciway? i tgs - war, enlisted; that not much money | 3 EE YYW, would be saved by closiug the in] There only one way to win pud | the Asylum Baseball Club, who were stitution since' most of its €Xpenses Hic favor, politica and that is bY | offered positions at good salaries on would have to be cqntinued; thatig,ying (he game fairly. The Mur-|the St. Louis Baseball teams, have in New Brunswick lecided not to accept the proposal. r military ser- the physically unfit f nder age, and vice, the youngy men could not be given war since' then they would 'be occu- pied and not immediately available for educational purposes, Moreover to close Toronto University would be to close @ll the allied institutions, and they are dependent upon it for certain services, including the con- ferring of degrees, In England the colleges have not been closed during the war. of course, the attendance of students ig r, but fhe attendance of fresh- The aver- | smalle men and women Is larger. age attendance . at all the British} colleges annually is 45,000; and this 22,000 students have registered, 2 year and of these 14,000 have been women, ~The experience is not un- In Arts like that of Kingston. Fad Medicine the attendance of ¥ ung men is small, but in all the depart-| ments which are open to women the | For | the sake of all these the colleges must be kept in operation. -- Did Hon. Mr. Hazen gO off to Eng-| land with the premiers for a purpose, | to get away from iie re} New pruns-| | and tha: sponsibility of going into wick an) taking parygn the electron: A good many will think so. et EXPENSES AND THE WAR. The cost of living is being felt by | every class in the community though one would infer, from the number ersons who patronize the plages of p ¢ that' there is no want of amusement, 'or pinch In Kingston. is made very largely, it is said, by the beneficiaries of the soldiers, the recipients of the government's boun- ty in maintenance allowances and patriotic funds. No part of this money should be wasted. Thé time will come when it will be wanted, and that time will arrive with the end of the war and the discontinu- | ance of all these extras. | The pity | is, in view of all the circumstances, | that the dependents of the absent soldiers do not see the wisdom of economy. They are advertising them- selves unfavorably, and the citizen who said they should be called to- gether and given a serious admonl- | tion certainly showed a sound philo- sophy. : Of course the beneficiaries of the government and the patriotic insti- tutions are not the only thoughtless ones. Some representatives of the industrial classes are flush of funds, and they show it by their spendings. These, too, will have occasion 3 a- ment their lack of forethought a little later; for assuredly the slump will come when the production of munitions is stopped. These classes excepted and the community is not in a position to stand any new {nan- cial pressure, and this applies to. pub- lic bolies as well as to"private indi- viduals. The offitials and teachers of the city are deserving ef higher salaries and would receive them-but for the effect of increased taxation at the present time. The merchants and manufacturers may be, and no doubt are, able to pay more taxes, and it Is to thé credit of some en that they are witling that their taxes should be raised. There are others--much the larger number--who are, not bene- fited by the war, and they cannot easily pay any more in public rates. For these the council feel, and it is said that all readjustments in the "public finances should be deferred for the present, On this account all salaried people, and especially those who derive their earnings from-pub- i i contributing to the cost of the war directly and Indirectly, EDITORIA NOTES. Mr. Carvell has had his revenge. He has helped the people of New Brunswick to. put the seal of its dis- approval upon the Murray govera- ment. It was proposed that the university | There was pl and 1918, and the matter was deem- led it was not { i {ray governn 'would not liquor, law of 1916. This exhibit | } "af ; +000. Only $76,000 President Wilson is waiting, or is it x for .a message from British al Admirally that all the G ian sub- or the ele marines have been ca ih its -{dragnet?" | ------r------ ent jefeated this day had The waterworks department have e defeated 1is day hat | issued warrants to some of the most the young women, wo d be deprived chased its evil supporters into polit "| wealthy and influential citizens of of their education, w le no One|. ..1 exile | Kingston for refusing to pay their f r , cal exil . yah suggested that the me ical classes - ---- : arrears for street watering. 3 tire stice uleg that a should be discontinued. A Montreal Th a a liquor | a ; tniv f 's doctor can order ahd dell a i 3 Toronto University, 1i Queen's | € hibition 5 University, has, placed allN{s avail- any place for a patient. Prohibi An CANADA HAS TOO en ' (oid Piawé have C e r for him An- able buildings at the disposalQf the Jaws have NO Seryos ! aise t of { MUCH GOVERNMENT ! a SO 'hy the. auiniste of Hospitals' Commission, and - others other rea . - AY . 1 the federal] , justic } amend » fede up' until after the justice should a Toronto Telegram Canada may be short of coal.and troubled with a slight scargity of re- cruits, But ome thing she has in great plenty®is government Whaat with governors, lieutenant-governors, parliaments, legislatures, etc, her available supply of statesmen is fairly well eaten up. Anything that is left over goes into the make-up of the commissions that do much of the work ordinarily done by other forms of government, If the pension list grows so large that it is necessary to cut off the salaries of 'sundry statesmen to provige for soldiers in- capacitated in the fight for civiliza- tion, then, and not till then, will some wise men realize that war is all that Sherman said of it. the New Brunswick il be pointed to as the itivn The fate of government wi result of what happens to a coal administration. But it should pointed to as the resultsof what hap pens when the government of amy kind gives itself up to a corrupt and disgraceful career. i -------- | PUBLIC OPINION | Willing To Go. (Windsor Regord) Surprising what there are who are and ready' to go overseas ernment will only make them. g be a of chaps "perfectly willing if the Gov- AN. EVIDENCE OF SOUND PRACTICES (Hamiltc Ontario's licen members, draws down salari a 3 ctator) board, of five aggre- . RA . ~ $20,500, One of its members | Montreal Gazedte, Co : gating $20.5 CTIDRRSALION, Can he In laying before the Legislature of be really compos mentis? Manitoba a statement of the pro- . > : vince's finances, the Treasurer ex- plained that the revenues were not sufficient for the requirements of the present, to say nothing of what might arise in the future. This is not a The Boys at Home. (London Advertiser) Speaking of the Red Cross work, one would imagine that they would have a lot of socks knitted for the | new story from a provincial financier, boys at home. There seems to be|Something that was new cae, how- quite a number suffering from cold | ever, when the speaker added words feol. ™ , which indicated that, when the time came, the amount would be raised by taxation within the province, and direct taxation at that, Some of the Manitoba ministers have courage as well as sound views as to how money for provincial purposes should be used. ud Yard. Municipal Coa st, Caghar) s- Standard) While Hahilton is discussing the question of possible municipal ae- tion * to relieve the fuel question, scores of St. Catharines families are rejoicing in the heat from municipal coal. A * -- Stop the Imposition. (Hamilton Herakl) Even those officers who 'have done good service in recruiting and train- ing 'battalions cannot reasonably ex- pect to keep on drawing pay-and ren- dering no service for it. They might better return to civilian life. - SIR WILFRID LAURIER SEEMINGLY SAFE 4 . Ottawa Citizen Manitoba gnember of - parliament wishes to know if Premier Norris would put Sir Wilfrid. Laurier ip jail for endorsing the views of Mr. Can- pon in Dorchester, We don't know Price Not Yet Fixed. (Guelph Mercury) There's just one danger of givin lic bodies, must realize that they Xref the votes to women, and that is they may not appreciate the market value. The old price used to be §2 and a drink of whiskey, but the prohibition schedule has not heen drawn up yet. Still Waiting. (Toronto Mall) Is it really for an 'overt aet" on the part of a German submarine that what the premier would do, but per- sonally we think the Liberal leader is just as safe as though he had swindled the country out of a few hundred thousands in a war con- tract, OSvivester Church is making ar- rangements for the erection of a new canning factory git Hadden's Point. -- - in a Random Reels - "Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings" outed THE DOVE OF PEACE, The dove of peace is a bedraggled bird with one eye closed, four tall feathers missing and both hips out of joint. It was in goud health un- til August, 1914, but has not drawn a sober breath since, The dove was chosen to symbolize peace because it Is one of :the few birds in existence which can be de- pended upon to turn'the other cheek. Nobody ever saw a pair of doves climb down off the ridge pole and go six rounds with bare knuckles. The chesty, red-breasted woodpecker van walk up to a whole flock of adult doves and extract an apology alone and single-handed. While we admire these qualities in the dove, some people are unreasonable enough to object to including them on our social, religious, political and na- tional life. ? The dove of peace was established in order to prevent war and blood- shed, and for several years it oper- lubricated manner. Then came the ated in a highly successful and well - J 937 in 1915, and 629 in 1916; and at Bibbys WE MEET OR BEAT ALL CATALOGUE PRICES % Double Texture, Sizes 34 to 46. Special value < x English Parametta * ¢ ~ Raincoats $1000 ' Our Raincoats are good tq wear 'any day, but on rainy, damp days, when the air is full of snow and sleet, they're a prize. - MEN'S RUBBERS, FIRST QUALITY, PER PAIL... $1.00 KHAKI OIL SKIN RAINCOATS. SPECIAL VALUE .. $3.50 MILITARY RUBBER BOOTS . ... .. $5.00 i = . | ; Bibb PRINCESS STREET i LIMITED -- Electric Fixtures -- HOUSE WIRING =m si MANITOBA LEADS IN SOCIAL REFORMS . Toronto Star : The first issue of the Manitoba bulletin js a record Pof remarkable progress, The Temperance Act car into force last year. kt was followe by a decrease of 87 per cent, in drunkenness, The total commit ments for crimes of all kinds were great war, which showed that brotherly love is a gtod thing when it doesn't interfere with business, and the dove of peace went into total bankruptcy. Millions of men are being thrown under the sod over in Europe because half a dozen other men controlled the levers which opened the bloody gates of hell, made every cabinet a mad house and trans- formed the dove of peace into a red- eyed vultlire with gory talons, Many attempts have Befn made to revive the dove of peace, restore her plumage, remove her splints, and put her back on the pedestal, but at this writing it looks as if nobody is go- ing to be thoroughly 'satisfied and pleased until everybody is whipped. There is one consolation, however, The next time the dove of peace gets back on the job it will not be Jeft to five or.-six men to kick her off the nest. The people who are doing the fighting and paying the bills wili have something to say about the next war, and they will say it in a tome of voice that will not have to be run through a code book. Rippling ymes The tory politicians at Ottawa who had theif ears to the ground on Sat- urday night heard something th must have made them feel very umn- easy. - ------------------------------------ A former member of the New Brunswitk governnient sald $100,- 000 had been extracted from one railway builder for political pur poses, and when the election of 1912 "deal worse. occurred there was a fund of $237. i i other picayune. ofie more gun-metal re uns o'er their s of folly brood, and ly bet. ct, ' : - CONVALESCENCE ~~ When one's been lying sick in béd, with plaster casts upon his head, and poultices upon his feet, re- covery seems, oh, so sweet! couch of straw, have plied the squirtgun and the saw; for weary days that endless seemed, I tied myself in every brand of agony. when full of convalescent bliss, a fellow feels how great is health--far greater than the whole world's wealth. And he ean clearly realize how dippy, batty and unwise, it is to sacrifice that boon, to gain an- A million m straining every bone and ne dollar to their store. Some day they'll be where I have poultices from feet to chin, and when they lie in solitude, and they'll say, as I am saying yet, that health's The doctors, round my , for every ache that has a name knots and screamed, held wassail in my stricken frame, and many aches not classified whizzed through my sinews and my hide. At last I fell into a sleep, an old time slumber, rich , and when I woke my form was free from "Tis at a crucial time like this, , yo'may observe) are , year after year, to add | | the working of prohibition is not yet | fully shown, as there were five | months. under license in 1916, | Direct legiclation has been enact- | ed, but doubts exist as to the validity | of some 'parts of the law. Woman | suffrage is in force. Agriculture re: ceives special atention, In-one part of the Province, where the country is rough and scrubby, but suitable for. stock-raising andmixed farming, the settlers are assisted in acquiring farm animals. Practical and ener- getic men are eyidently in control of affairs, : i Mrs. (Captain) D. B. Christie, Pic- ton, fell on the icy street, near her home, breaking her arm at the wrist. IY McLeod's Drug Store : A Small Quantity of Milkweed Root "Received Today. "Will be glad to have your : der. McLeod's \ - STORE _ LIGHTING We are showing the most complete and up-to-date line of electric fixtures in eastern Ontario. The Leading Electric -- oore's Shop. . Dominion Fish Co. ~ Bulk Oysters 60c and 70c a quart. "Ranks with the Strongest" HUDSON BAY Insurance Company FIRE INSURANCE Head Office, Royal Insurance Bidg. MONTREAL PERCY J. QUINN, Manager, Ontario Branch, Torente W. H. GODWIN & SONS AGENTS, KINGSTON, ONT. ¢ mr USE HONEY Extracted -- Classes . .- ~*. .. 20c * Pint Sealers .... 35c uart sealers ... 50c 5b. Tins... pes. 79¢C In the Comb-- . Sections . . . 20¢, 25c¢. JAS. REDDEN Mr. and Mrs. H, F. Hawkins are & CO. | ANOTHER SNAP \ IN ROLL AND PRINT BUTTER 43c per lb. --- AT THE BON MARCHE | Cor. King and Earl. Phone 1844 i Caverly and Bradshaw, DALY GARAGE 335 King Street. Phone 363. We furnish auio supplies of si} kinds; gasoline, motor oll, ete. stored at rea pair pily attended to. Satisfsction guaranteed. J. P. Daly, Prop. -- il CRAWFORD Foot of Queen St. leaving Cherry Valley and will make their future home at Sutton, Ontario, where Mr Hawkins has purchased an --WALT MASON. | old established hardware business. Phoné 9 ~ 5