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Ottawa, Ont, 3 gs cn Whooping | shoulder prépared to ---- NDS SAD WEAKNESS. DIRECTLY TRACEABLE TO THE DRINK HABIT. | | A Strongly-Worded Letter From i James-H. Bawden--A Glimpse A The Public House--The Mothers of England Are To Blame--The Foundations Of The Nation's Strength Are Being Destroyed. i Wridng to the Whig, iLouis, Missouri, James Yoruerly of this city, has the follow: ing to say regaraing the truth pressed in Kipling's late severe criti cis of the flannelled and "muddled oafs" of England : "Ruodvard - Kipling's latest poem will undoubtedly cause a great intro spection and serious reflection among the people of England, Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and while the 'flanveled fools' fan the air at ericket games, Britain is laboring in the throes of 'a erisis as vital as any in her history. The time was when the gea-girt isles of Britain could carry on great conflicts in the Indian pro- vinces, or in Africa's wilds, and yet the ship of state sailed easily, on an even keel. and the , dire god of war datkensd not the land with the sha dow of his horrors. . "How diflerent the actual conditions tof affairs' to-day ? The terrible drain of the struggle in South Africa is the theme for conversation at all times, and apparent everywhere. . John Bull may hold high his head in proud, ob- stinate disdain at the suggestion of his being embarrassed, 'but he who rung way read," and the evidences of national distress and weakness are only too plain. A gentleman with whom [| dined in London some weeks ngo, who is a very large employer of labor, and who had had eight years | experience in Central and South Am- Terica, during which time he had made a very study of social conditions and lived through three revolations, as- sure me that there was grave cause for unrest and anxiety in the near fu ture in Great Britain. He also stated that his commercial travellers, who represented him "on the continent, found a strong antipathy in every country against Fnglishien and their goods, and that at" times manifesta tions of this spirit of hatred were so strang that they bad td he sappress- ed by the governing bodids of (he various countries where they existed. Beyond question of a doubt the power behind the throne' which com pels the curbing of the popular senti- went is American influence, 1 it were wot known and recognized on the from "St H. Bawden, ex fools' continent, *that we, the blood brothers shoulder to use Our power to keep Anglo-Saxon interests intact, England would be insulted and slap- ped in the face, metaphorically speak ing, all along the frontiers of her dominions, in Asia and Africa, and without question she would have "to submit to any indignities forced. on hor, for she is = not in a position to send other armies to other battle: fields at this time 'Kipling's burning, cutting arraign- went of the populace is practically a wail for ©. England's manhood The Bosriwan hae laid naked and barg to England's eyes, weaknesses where she bad imagined herselil strong. It has {undoubtedly proven the great valor and bravery of her army officers as [wall as their too often foolish reck- lessness and absolute disregard of the ves of their men. It has also estab- lichod the fact thatthe "Tommy Af- king' of today is not the splenaid specimen of fighting manhood who, funder the Black Prince, at odds of five to one, drove the French before them at Crescy and Poitiers, or ho Inter followed 'Old Ironsides' to vie tory. { "A visit to London and a look in- {to the lives of the great surging, {seething mass which constitutes the working portion of this city of mil lions, explains to a great extent this | deterioration. Come with me for a {while and you will realize the sin, the { mockery, the crime, - the curse, that Hollows in the train of 'drink.' It is Saturday night in London, the stars {ave shining away up in the deep blue of the sky, the air is soft and mel- low, as only the air of a September inight can be. Thrifty wives have | done their shopping earlier, and gone | indoors, careful mothers have put their children to bed, and in many a {happy home are talking of events and { friends, and perbé their children's | future. e | "But the streets are not empty, nor lis every home at rest, for this is the {hour when the drink fiend has his | firmest grip, when he most openly pa: i racddes bis victims, bound hana and Hoot, to do his bidding, and his alone. | Men, women, and 'children are his, -- vos, ana the 'unborn child; ill-looking, | unhappy, quarrelsome, dirty, they terowd the public houses, they crawl {in doorways, they prowl the streets. | With a friend one evening I procured | some statistics in the east end. For an {hour or so we watched a public | house, used principally by dockers | their women folk, We saw during that ftime 790 persons enter, of them 209 | are mon, 380 women, 83 youths and { girls; and 133 very young children and babies in arms. Three women are { turned out drunk and five men. There lis one very bad fight and six disturb (ences. Three girls, aged about seven | teen; came out quite drunk; twenty-five Lrhea and plartecn women leave the ies in their arms. At pam. the house bas to be closed Je exception of one small door, coum of a frightiul row. vome on farther and come to we enter and sit down; and orders come in of the English, stand return home, they will scatter broad: THE DAILY WHit, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, a are-yer ! Her history is in her nick nan. "it new and we Out me go the street each of is pidoight with the resi-- and past countless such houses, sending orth the same ren drunk-born, devil ridden It sees 10 me In out 0 and wo wm the great ne men Kev-nots today. he ther to the sitaation in tit HH there and shi Te leony anny snarky | for tention oper labor it may be wi tire wr 1 drink habit haw been des true of Lon prevail in Edinburg and all the la cemires of the Kwgdom It is st that the ratio of mortality from cholic excess bad increased forty-three per cent. among tales during the last twenty years; among feinales iv has in- creased by no than one hundred and four per cemt. Fhese ligures are eloquent 1 their soldiers drink and their mechanics drink they cannot 'bear the white man's hurden® how nisich of it is due to the mothers who gave them an inheritance of drigk in their blood ? * England's land have been won turies by hee bold, Nuch a ¢lass no longer exists. England of to-day is made up of number: of vast aggregations of peo ple gathered together in cities, the masses, ignorant, poverty-stricken, drunken; countless thousands of them living lives of untold, hopeless misery. The peasant or furmer class have been driven from their farms by stréss of foreigh competition in all hoe mar kets for the grain, cattle, sheep, eto, the sale of which formerly made them independent and often wealthy. There fore, instead of having the brawn and the muscle of, the country bred stal wart yeomah to follow the union jack to victory far a-field, her soldiers are enlisted from the weaklings and roust abouts of the slums of the great cities. It is not at all wo be wondered at, that with a foe like this Dewet and among ederd 1, bul similar condition { ab i i less h sO glorious victories on in the past cen hardy peasantry, The a fan sey Sutheriar el vacant ruary andria News or THE HEAD OF A DEPARTMENT JAMES SUTHERLAND WAS SWORN IN. HON. Minto--His Election Oec- February 5th--The Cana- Piecs Lord Ass ociation to inv. Hon fm Orn. in ns How tL was writs a ford Minto, M; tfolio, hy ror rement Anite Davies sUpreine eoch. The in North + place on Febroary 5th adian press association will its annual meeting here in Ful Mr. MacDonnell, of the Alex has written to the may the formation of a lo Ea "18 the the wo Vern renddy Hen, rt Oxford bry re of the oi eiection old suggesting HON.. JAMES SUTHERLAND. Botha with their handful of Boers have been able-to play 'l-spy' and "tag' with them through all the long, weary months of war, 'The Boer born on the veldt with nerves of iron and sinews of steel can endure hardships wifich | | yuickly incapacitates or kills the Bri | tish soldier, Fhe Boer generals and officers live the same lives their men do, sleep in the same trenches, eat the same fare and inspire them by their personal confidence, riendliness and readiness to share all dang suffer all privations. "With a few exceptions the personnel of the English officers is totally differ ent. Little Bobs and Buller are, and have always been, heroes to their sol diers, Usually, however, there is no commanity interest among officers and their soldiers, as.is the cas: am ong the Boers. While poor "Tommy |" Atkins' trudged along with his day's rations and his blanket, the drawing room, ecarpet-bag, effeminate tin sol dier, whose money or family or peli tical pull secnred for him his commission, in state followed by a dozen great Cape carts carrying as his personal effects all the luxuries of a king in his palace. The edict issued by the war department, | some few months ago, requesting offi cers of mobile columing to omit pianos and cooking stoves from their fmped ments, should have been enforced long age. With such poor material, physi cally speaking, in her armies, and such | a bad lack of harmony and mutual | o confidence and respect between officers and men, the duration of the war IT ensilyVunderstond. ¢ «To her England much of Whitover suecess she has hioved in the struggle in Soitth Afri and Joseph Chamberlain only rendered just tributes to a loyalty to the mother cotntry, unflinching, solid and spohtaneous, which exists univer sally among the people of her colonies when he included these colonies am ong the factors poleht in maintaining Eugland in a 'splendid isolation' am ong the world powers. Strathecona's Horse, a body of mounted police from the plains and frontiers of the Cana- dian north-west. have carried terror and death times without number to the enemy, and the Australian con tingent has done equally good sewvice. In her golatfies rests England's hope for the futwe. She is to-day sending forth by the thousand, her young men to Canada, Australia and Afri- ea. Those who, are the degenerate pro- duction of the social evils pictured above are eliminated; those who are intelligent, active and energetic, broaden and develop under the kindly influence of these newer, freer, fairer lands. "There; in these countries where the fondest hopes and ambitions are real- ized, a new spirit awakens and frees |. them from the old bondage of their | n slavery. Slavery in free, merry Eng- | ¥ land ? Yes. Slavery to a condition of social ethics, which has for cen |i turies tended to demoralize and brat- |; alizse the working classes or the lower classes, as they are often insultingly | ( and ignominiously termed, and which has established the criterion for a true gentlemen as the 'man who does not work and who can consume many bottles of wine, without becoming boisterous." Self-respect, dignity and manhood are not compatible with cringing servility and besotted ignor ance. In the fearful loneliness and ster. ility of their existence, it is not sur pricing how many of the English poor turn to the temporary relief from their trouble, 'which "she delivivin of drink" affords them. "Let us hope that England's sons will learn well the lessons of equality ant fraternity in her dominions ac- "oss the seas, where every man's pe digeee is simply his record as a man, where noblemen and gentlemen ae natare's very own, v \ and avery man a king; that, when they © sand] of 3 re W A h rode a is colonies owes | 4 neg oa, u J¢ = hi w te i n R te ] a 1 Ie fc n h le P Ic cast The result. of their observations and studies, and endeavor to recon: struc the rotten foundation and tot fering superstructure of their social syste. "It seems to me Americans would all gladly see this transformation ac complished, for to England we owe our ancestry, and it was precissly the | of énterprise htich in the days made her | t i same spirit v good old intros of the maritime and commencial world, ! thas cal eonmmittee of ranging sompany ers law odgrich enty-vight ye two sons and fn fi the Jate bishop Far drills LICCOES Miss Rielly, Mrs. BE from four to seven o'clock yesterday, freshments from friends situated in all parts from Mr. F., last evening. attendance and a happy evening was spent, d.srovered in © Winnipeg Three taken from Notre Dame street, ave said to he bad cases. to ar- the conven by promin- will a newEpaper nen the executive in affair. At read there operate with for th paper will on Iw nt journalists and he anquet, The proposition of the Ottawa dairy to bring outside milk deal under the traders" by likely I when it comes f the transient to he vigorously oppos hefore council, Some claim that as wilk "re iensed they can't be t out of the city or ever, brought is aldermen i alors all | mider the regulation referred to Commander Spain has been appoint I to. enquire the loss of four who were on barge Marine City was towed by a steamer off The enquiry will likely be Kingston. into on, hich poned in Death Of James Farrell. Farrell, resident an old and highly of Kingston, died ednesday evening, at the home of nthony # Maaire, Princess street, here he had lived for some years. He advanced of sev ved by Mannt, Ottawa; James pected ad reached the and (Dr,) one daughter: one York and the other in Buf Montreal days the deceased was carrier in the city und afters aved as a guard in the King He brother of Hamil deceased was a member of o congregation of Mary's cathe ral, and a staunch reformer in poli cs ne sister, Mra #00 New : the dau y hin you fetter lo hier resides at weds was wll, ton pententiary a m. The St Wolle Island Notes. Wolfe | 15.+The gua was a grand fifty coupl Jan Friday being «land, party last thre 1 attendance, who all thoroughly en wed themselves, The last meeting of t. Andrew's Presbyterian church was ld at the residence of Mr. (Allinson, here go who belong y the sewing Were present Railton, attending nor al school at Ottawa, has been hired + teacher in No. | separate school, Walker is about to go te the city » unuergo operation. Misses Minnie poor and Sadie McArgle have left to ttend the Loretta Abby at Teromio. ke CM.B.A. hall will take place the tter part of this month. over a A BriHiant Reception. A reception was held at the home of M. Chapman, Johnston street, sllowing the marriage of Capt. Don nelly and Miss Chapman. The guests umbered upwards of 150 and were re eived by Misses Ruby Dennelly, Chap wan and Cloge. Those who assistd Irs. John W. Elliott in serving re were Mises Martin, Of rd and Booth. Capt. and Mrs. Pon elly were the recipients of 126 gifts of anadih and the United Staies. Prominent citizens say they infer Metealfe"s words, in Ontario all last sight, that he would be a andiddte for the Ontario house. A sading conservative declares that the arty will not endorse him. The non-commissioned officers of the R.C.F.A. held a pleasant dance in the wige room, court Earl Roberts, 1.0. There was a large A Wolie Island farmer brought to the city this morning a load of press- ed hay. not very sale, the ice in some places being only three inches thick. The crossing, he states, is more caces of small-pox were yesterday. Four The Allan line steamer Numidian from St. John, N.B and Ralifax for Liverpool! Thursday. arrived at Moville on 4. BD. Melntosh, ex M.P.P. for Mani- on, Man. is dead after six weeks Haese. He wos filty-two years old The stall officers of "A" field bat tery entertain their iriomds to a.smok- ng concert this evening. 2 A. Macpheowon, mannger of the hetario powder works, bas gone east ! on a hosiness trp. ] in a gewiral election in Kingston ahout thirty-five years ago, there were 1.374 votes vast A man's nwennit hall the trouble RED DRAGON REINSTATED. Over Which All Loyal Welshmen Rejoice. Bonds Graphic ! There w rejoicing in Wales and loyal Welshmen the world over the Ret Dragon of Cadwal to tind a the ment of of among now that Tander heralds die place ia the other day the o eouneil," "that in i ne Le Oo Bi "tent i Wales the 1 * This ancient badge to be bone us a badge, of course, and guartered in the shivid of the priooe--on the sinister side (the spe tator's raght, that is} of the royal crest as heir apparent, while the an cient badge of the ostrich feathers is the other side, the crest and the two badges appearing * thus in line over the shield, The badge #8: "On a mountvert a dragon passant gules, differenced as is the royal erst with a label of three points sygent." The duke of Norfolk, the earl marshal oi England, iz charged to that the ECERERTY tions be given. The Red Dragon of Cadwallader of Wales is represented in a painting in ome of the heraldic munusoripts in the British museum--a manuscript which comains colored drawings of the roy- LOE: of ihe 18 the prince of Red Drag: not on king Edward VI., and it was presum ably written in the days of Edward VL the Vincent MS., No. 152, in the col lege of drm, shows that that king quartered the red dragon in a banner with his other badges, Henry also us- ed the dragon as a supporter, and it can be seen with the white greyhound in the chapel at Windsor, supporting his time the Tudor monarchs used the dragon as one of the supporters of the royal arms, Henry VII,, descend: wd from Owen 'Tudor, this proclaimed his Welsh ancestry; but the dragon dropped out when the Stuart dynasiy succeeded, and has not reappeared un til now, at ustial gracious sympathy with nation al aspirations, has restored it to the achievement of arms of the heir parent, who takes his title from principality. This ap the admission of the emblems of Wales he come up from time time. In 1893 the com plaint was that Wales was not repre sented on the coinage, and, as Walesa claims to possess a shield of arms as well! as a badge, it was then that these arms (quarterly or gules four passant guardant counter-changed) ought to bo quarter ed with England, Scotland, and Ire fand in the royal banner; while an other suggestion was that. the red question of the i to said lions quartered on the" banner, 3 WF Inquest On Tunnel Horror. New York, Jan. 16 to the Park commenced this Sechoeler 1 The inquest in avenue before attorney J¢ and railroad commissioner Dak prestnt in their official capa It is exp that the inquest nearly a week, from the fact injured in morning District coro ner weeted and some that a f wreck HORE to lea hospi nM. Wiskes t to hee be w home n the eats recovered fron with which h sont t to to hi ents by m rejdy i ng 1 team and fmoke in nel, point that n in running the train ahes » company officials out act lagrant disolx that und 18 mn ompany's rule tions I engineer ted their with theesgreatest caution nan re to run tran Lotta Returns To Stage. loston, Mass., Jan. 16.~The manifested in the first production inter cst Pound," at the Park theatre. to-night, i* greater, perhaps, than is warranted byl the piece alone. - It that "Lotta" Crabtree, the name of "Lotta," reputation as wh under an actress some principal role Miss not intend to return to the stage, strictly speaking, for she is well satis fied with her life of retirement, and with her iw the hillions. But is to be made in her own theatre, and Miss Holbrook, who was to have tak and "Lotta" volunteered to help out the producer - tnd the" cogipny by temporarily teking the part herself. In Honor Of Judge Lawrence. New York, Jan. 16.-- Leading mem bers of bench and bar in Greater New York have completed arrangements for the dinner to be given at Delmonico's to-night in bonor of judge Lawrence, who, at the end of the r, retired after twenty-eight wears' continuous service on the supreme bench of New York. John E. Parsons, president of the New York bar association, will preside and addresses will be delivered by a number of eminent lawyers Worry And Late Hours. Worry and late hours seriously affect the system, causing exhaustion, ner vousness, general debility and sleep: lessness. Wade's Iron Tonic Pills are great blood makers. They strengthen the nerves, invigorategghe, system, re- store wasting vitality and eure all constitutional irregularities. Each box contains seventeen days' Price 25e. at Wade's drug store, Great Sale Of Clothing. 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