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OClarenos Ohambers, Phone, 838; The Phoenix Dry Powder Fire Extinguisher. » 3 the Leading Insurance Paties, mdopted hy the UU. NS. Gove Bent and principle. Cities, Railroads, Soin £te., throughout the U. 8. and « MM®ays ready, contains no liquid 5. Which do as much damage ns Will hot frecse or clog. Price, $2.50. Dawsons stay, High Grage Piangs 'st living prices. ¥Xtor ' Talking Mabhines on eusy pay. | mients. . > CEWPRICE NO DIFFER] . wilt ar wae |THE WHIG, 75st YEAR DAILY BRITISH WHIG, published at 208 816 King street, Kingston, Ontario, at $6 per year. Editions at 2.80 and 4 o'clock p.m. WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG, 16 pages, pub lished in parts on Monday and Thursday morn. ing at $1 a year. Te United States, charge for postage has to be Attached is one of the made Soc. for Duly; Soc. for Weekly. Ee best Job Printing Offices a Canada; rapid, stylish, and cheap work; nme improved presses, The British La anaging Dir , Daily Whig. DUPLICITY Of MR. WHITNEY, How Mr. Ross has unmasked the great Whitney. He has shown, by e reference to the public records, that the conservative leader endorsed all | the Niagara power franchises; and | that he, in 1905, took into the house himself and had passed the act which gave effect to the Electric Develop- ment company's charter. Yet the premier alleged in the house a few days ago that the loeal ~overn- by | reason of something the Ross govern ment did, and the conservative papers took up the ery and referred to the matter as an awful outrage. Mr. McKay let the premier rave away, when simply asked for infor mation ghout the situation at Nia- gara; but some of these days he will ment was hampered and helpless THE D Can assume an for how the commi to pay 1 more power obligation company takes 6,000 horse-power, at 000, at a As for the city acquiring the com- Pany's plant, It has a precedent. The Manitoba government was empowered by the vote of the people to install a telephone system and bought out the Bell company, so far as Manitoba is concerned, paying 3 more, in the opinion of critics, that the property was worth. ! may pay. It ought to under ordipary | circumstances. Competition is thing which public own rship cannot, | stand, . ---------- UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGES, | A correspondent reports that, at al conservative convention in Gananoque, | W. B. Carroll J. R. Dargavel | thundered against the Montreal Her- | | ald and Kingston Whig. These papers and {should feel flattered, since the dissat- isfaction shown is a sign of general circulation and effective presentation of the issues of the day. Apparently | they 'are not relished by the extreme partizan, who would like to win his way by having the other side shut out of fair argument. Indeed, if either of speak, thé willbe a scene, and the people will see Mr. Whitney as others | public maw duplicity, but %he word usd by a conservative with a full knowledge apparently of what it means. ---------- NO HASTE FOR RESULTS. Dr. Hossack, who was sp prominent the last talking freely. in Toronto, he launched his opinions of the British politician for whom he professed to entertain a very high re- gard. His ingly great; he is more picturesque in see him, One could scarcely believe that any could ke guilty of such has been | paper, and local elections, is again At the Empire Club, in independence was exceed- his_ characteristics; he is more literary in Best of all, he sensitive with regard to public feeling, and drops out of office, in the gov- the majority, In- his style. is very ernment, even when in when «change seems necessary. deed ? The Whig's reading and memory does not warrant this assumption. No gov- while it enjoys the Bye-elections resigns confi of the house. may go against it, and they may in- dicaté that public opinion is turning against it, bat it does not surrender ernmer until on some important issue there is a vote of want of confilence. Sometimes a premature appeal is made to the people, and it may go against the government which brings a dissolution of the house about. , This is not, however, a voluntary abandonment of place and power from that high sense of duty with which Dr. Hossack credits the British po- litical parties. As a rule, they' do not hasten results. FOOLING THE PEOPLE. Ontario government The report of the Public come down, and it con- wants The watching. Accounts has tains a great many entries that sho! make the ministers "blush. - That the game of the govbrament was to hurry the estimates through, without the necessary investigation, is shown by whitt occurred in the legislature on Wednesday, : Mr. Smith found on which he wanted light. told by the attorney-general that he had a certain person on the brain. He did not relapse into silence, but pointed to the large sums which were being paid for legal services, and with a record of them on page after page of the ae- several items He was counts, The premier tried and failed. The treasurer criticism would be in order when the Public Accounts' committee met. Mr, McKay challenged: the government on the whole procedure by insisting that the committee Rad not yet been orga' nized or called," and that when the es timates were passed the discussion of the accounts would be a useless pro- cedure, Plainly there was a plan 'the estimates through as quickly possible, to keep the lid on and keep every questionable item out of sight, and to befool the people with a yarn that there was nothing to attack! bluff the his usual said slide as to A TANGLE IN TORONTO, The argument of the Electric Light company, in Toronto, that there is no possibility of the city purchasing its plant, not having the power to do so, #ajses a nice point. The bylaw on h people voted, favourably, gave direction practically to install a diftribution plant at § cost of $2,- 500,000. Tt did more--it authorised a contract with the Hydro-Electric com- mission for power ai $18.10 per' horse power. 2 : The company declines to opsn its 'books for inspection to let the peo- ciation has cemented, ends. nomination for a long time. They are their conservative hive. the speakers had approved of the two liberal journals, the utterance would have been damaging to the general confidence felt in them in Leeds coun- ty--and out of it. No Dargavel or Carroll in theirs, thank you. It is the pride of $he Whig that it is not like the Mail and which are so bitterly partizan, so un- reasonably hostile to everything em-| gome conservative journals, Empire for instance, anating from and every man belong | ing to the other party, that no lib can be betrayed into reading | Liberal papers eral them. are they are fairer more gen- erally - read, because That is the Herald and the Whig. I hey are by and source of offenée in the read electors generally, with credence acceptation, which a long asso- Messrs. Durgavel and Carroll are professional politicians, having selfish The former tion--thie is up for re-elec- latter has been seeking a after votes, and do not relish the en- lightening influences of liberalism in But thisisa free country and they must submit to argument, in their political stronghold. It would be utterly im. possible for the 4wo politicians named to publish a paper as fair as the Whig or the Herald, or to gain for it ane-twenticth of their lease of life, now nearing the cightieth year mark. ---- EDITORIAL NOTES, Hon. Mr. Beck is to get a seat in the governmefit, at the head of the power department. ls the commission even to go? ---- Mr. Ames, M.P., is the man with the muck rake. He has been stirring up some ill-smelling . things, bul without any- advantage to his party. ---- The opposition seandal--that the ten- ders for the timber limits were not open fairly--has been exploded. Mr Ames will not want to hear any more about it. Phe tiberaly inthe legislature will move that all supplies for the public institutions be purchased under. con- tract. This system prevails in the do- minion. -- The local government things. claims credit for doing Most what it has accomplished 'is. the result Government several O of expensive commissions. by commission ! -- Mr. Whitney is anxious to throlgh the session so that there may be a new election. But he is not go- ing to hide anything from the people if Mr, McKay knows it. hurry ------ = Pecause Hon. Mr. Ross is in Otta- wa, in the senate, Mr. Whitney must not suppose that he can say what he likes. He has been "exposed, for his duplicity on thé power question. There is an independent tory party in Toronto, and it has started by nominating a 'candidate in one of the ridings. The president says the party is not made up of upstarts and sore: heads, but men who are against boss rule. Whew ! The Montreal Herald hints-that some civil servants, tories, appointed by a former govermment, have been re quiting the federal government badly by political eaves-dropping and fat: thing. The political executioner is wanted at Ottawa. Many and many are the times when {For | than its expects to get. The Toronto! ost not ta exceed $21. i a million dollars| have A municipal monopoly of this kind | | { j course, no answer to | tering, on | anonymous 'character, and it is an ex actual work should supersede prayers. EE -- ---- -- | LIBELS ON PUBLIC MEN. the Wai, Without presuming to offer any opinion upon the legal merits of the | case, ] sisting in | his action for libel against the Nipne- | teenth Century, {8 Bross attack on the ministef's pri { vate character, and not on his public { conduct as a public man, and | tacks of that nature should be uni- { versally condemned. It is not & little | surprising that a review of the stand- | ing of the Nineteenth Century should published such charges, emanat- {ing from such a prurient source. The { publishers have expressed their "ex- treme regret that any such unfounded and scurrilous gossip should have bees quoted in its pages." They "unre- some- | servedly withdraw the same, and apol- ogize stucerely to Sir Freder k for : - » | a py {any injury whieh could possibly have | shrievalties and | ocurred to him from s ous story." This apology is, of can only go ia mitigation of dam- ges. Iu referring to this matter, a con- servative contemporary said, that moral character of the minister of militia is aspersed, also indulges in re flections, which are anything but flat- | the political and business | virtue of our public men as a class: and, indeed, our whole people are con. demned by it ag possessing a low standard of morality. That such charges should be permitted to Pass unchallenged might be regarded by the | world at large 'as a tacit admission of their truth, and it js well, therefore, that an effort should be made to clear us of such imputations, and that the effort should be made after some such manner as that adopted by Sir | Frederick Borden, With the exculpe- ton of Sir Frederick we éould natuy- ally claim that the general animad- versions on our public men, and on our own good name as a people, are without truth." There will be general concurrence in the justice of this opinion. A' minis- | ter of the erown is a representative of | the nation, and his Personal character 13 In a measure identified with that of | the nation itself, While a libeller can do no more than give the fullest pub- | licity possible to his withdrawal of the libel and his apology for its pul- lication, it is none the less true that this is, in many eases, an insufficient and unsatisfactory veparation for the wrong done. The acceptance of an apology by the party defamed, in- stead of seeking a verdict in a court of justice, is often misunderstood by the public at large; it may exposé him to the imputation of there being something in the libel after all, and of his inability to meet it with a clear conscience. A verdict in his fa- vor may not entirely stifle such im- putations on the part of evil-minded persons, but it is the most complete and effective answer which the law gives to the injured party, He has done all that is possible in his own vindication, and as a deterrent to a repetition of the charge. There have been few men in public life who have | more severely assailed than Sir Charles Tupper; but it is to the eredit of Sir Charles--and his example might well be followed more frequently than it is by the public - then of Canada that he never permitted an attack on his private character or personal hon- or to pass unnoticed. He at once in sisted on a proper apology, or sought the remedy which the law gave him, In fact, the present leader of the op: position was his counsel in one of his latest appeals to the courts for this purpose. Parliament, which has great privileges conferred upon it, should be equally ready to stamp- out this spe- | cies of cowardly detraction. Any member of either house who resorts to it, as did Mr. Fowler on one notable occasion last session, should have his words promptly 'recorded 'in 'ne cordfnce with parliamentary --usage. and be required by the speaker | either to retract his charge on the | spot, or take the consequences of His slanderous conduct. One of the most | salutary provisions in Mr. Ayles- | worth's bill to amend the dominion elections law is that which requires | that every handbill circulated in an election must bear the name of the printing: office which issues it. This is aimed at libellous hauodbills of an { } 2s | cellent provision. | It is sometimes said that a public | man is public property, and within | limits, which are pretty well defined, this is true: but no eourt in this coun- try, or in England, has gone the length of saying that the private char- acter of a sei man is always pub- | lic property. The trial judge in the Emmerson case, which was, however, | a criminal prosecution for libel in which the defendants pleaded justifi- catior and publication in the public ifterest, came as near saying that as could be, but he very properly resery- ed for a bench of judges the poists of law which were raised on the prelim- inary argument, and which might pos. sibly, on a fuller argument, have de- cided the question one wav or the oth- er. That it was not decided is to he regretted, not only for the sake of the parties immediately concerned. but also in the interests of public justice. The courts have, however, expressed no uncertain opinions as to newspa- per criticism of public men. They Eo. held that the private actions and conduct of a public. man is not a matter of public interest except in so far as it affects his public relations; that, in eriticizing his conduct in re- lation to a matter of public interest, base and sordid motives should not be unwarrantably imputed to him: that a newspaper cannot justify a libel ax being a matter of public news, or in the bona fide belief that it is of pub- lic interest; that honest belief is no defence for + that of motives or dis- hse, it is satisfactory to know that | #35, and the city wants a limit of 10,- | Sir Frederick Borden is per The hibel charged was | at-} h a scandal- { the action: vl 'the article in question, in which | {| are i hair in five minutes: AILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1908. re] | The Real Cure. IT News, | Fine or imprisonment is not a deter { rent to the eledtion crook. Fin ¢ imprisonment would be. wento } and His Great Ambition. Toronto Globe | When a representative of the wanls to get on a legislative secures a place on the r | mittee. people jag ke allway com- -~ Tip To Dr. Pyne. Toronto Star. The Minister of Fducation has derod that fire drills be racticed in all the schools. We suggest that the { order Im extended to registry offices, other 'places where lingering around fired. or- there's anybody that's likely to be Has Heard Something. Montrea) Gazette, Mr. Fisher, speaking to the liberals of Mississquoi, told them the general parliamentary elections might come off in a short time or not for nearly two years yet. Mr. Fisher seems to know Just as much about the matter as any of the rest of us * : The Bye Elections. Hamilton Times. Within the year eleven liberals and three conservatives have been returned at byelections. Five liberals were elected by acclamation. In the nine Contested elections six liberals and three conservatives were elected. The liberal majorities totalled 5,313, and the tories 1,500; of this 1500, 1). 035 was given in London, where there was no liberal candidate, Temperance Sentiment. Winnipeg Free I'ress. he motion in the Quehee legislature Ao abolish the drinking bar in the le gislative building did not carry, but it reminds one of the remarkable pro- gress of temperance sentiment in this I'he Ontario parliament no drinking generation, buildings have saloon; the bar of the dature was abolished in the carly davs of the ( The House of eliminated Manitoba leg ireenway government. Commons bar ROME a -- ------------------------ VOOQO0000000CCOO0000C VOOO00000C COOOL 0VKL WERE AFTER YOU QO00000000000000 Or 3 ~ We want you to see our Handsome Spring Suits at $15.00. COO000COT000 COC COOCO0 000 GO DOO ONAN . Our Black Cheviot Silk-Faced Overcoats at $15.00... Match them if you can. 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The output of gold from the Trans vaal in 1907 aggregated ¥1:43,360,292 against ¥119.615,507 in 1906 and $61, 265,575 in 1903, The American Can company ix to erect a modern can factory in Montreal at a of $250,000. Work will commence in the spring. Toronto City Dairy net earnings last year were "the largest in the com pany's history, being = $3800.45 than the previous year, The Albert Manufacturing company, Hillsboro, N.B., will close down then plant and quarries for at leagt two months. They employ about 200 men. The appraised value of precious ag hes entered at the port of New York in February was $200,442.24, as compared with $4,275,200 for Febru ary, 107, The Montreal Street railway earnings for week ending March 7th, by days $7,115, $9,159, $10,292, $9,192, 0,233, 30,057; total, $64,543, an in- crease of $3,824, years, The delinguent cost more "De . 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