l= THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, Y, MAY 7, 1908. -- ------------ -------- - - THE WHIG, 75th YEAR fication: or imstFaction as to the non FER FERER EE SFE ERT EEE ATI ETERS 4FD nPAILY BRITISH WHIG Jublished at. ner in which the work should be con 9 King See ee, Co io oer ducted." What will' Mr. Kirby lay be. ¥ T WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG, 16 pages, ges, pub fore the people ? A plan of a street S £2 71 MN & oI. AE ¥ in paris. va Monday w and Thursday morn. . od ing at $1 a year. To United Seatss, charge | paved according to his design ? An for postage bas to be made §0c. for Daily; : i . estimate of jts cost, and an assurance Soc. for eekly, . olarist £530 se dt JT hat 4 wil lon' ro mary sure? | [MCT EQS TM Three Years Under Whit- Doubtless. The 'British Whig Publishing Ca, fd. But has Mr. Kirby anything t§ show He scion. that the city and its engineer have ney ut 2,500,000. examined his plans and specifications Daily Abi and approved of them ? Has We any- s------ = g. pane to show that the comcil regards The Extrapagance Most Noticeable in Ministers' PARTY OUT FOR SPOILS. strsol gurl ; i 1 wr "SPOUSE, wo which be lave willerve| Own Departments ouse and i The political campaign is developing | the people acceptably, according to m the H ed » seme notable experiences. The local | heir views ? TY, operty Excur ion e pr y owners may government was supposed to be 8 mo- |g pyer ay anxious for paving, but the : 3 Jaunts. od of its kind, _l ht bis So Way | desire for it is one thing, and the of rare excesses, It is charged against | jiahility for it is nb he i : soon : ; quite another. The| The Whitney administration took of-;y The grant io chariti one license inspector in New Ontario, | discussion in the council was certainly | fice in 1905 at wm time of great pros | really advanced, : ag ® ae ho » Fills a Long Felt Want : that he used his office and influence | 4 edifying. There was no real in| PEs of surpluses and increasing re.| though the succession vluty was based i Makes Old Lawn Mowers [a] 10 hi® trade advantage, As a piano | formation it in about Mr. Kirby's SIA00 58a ph io the treasury was (upon this class of aid. The increase of i. Better Than New. Lmmproves agent he conceived the idea of position, It was described as the Tost o SBS: She. Income, ot es pre Shiftypuing pur Sent, ia, amount is. vet pe New Ones. making music the stellar attraction of ever, and yet ther a os org) hi fron i in ayia] Wo he growths uf ude hospitals . | every hotel, and he managed to un- e was nothing in hi o 1 320,419 in 1907, over fis pox other institutions of relici. The Handy tool 'to sharpen the debate which conveyed a clear| Millions of a gain, which might mean | allowance has so dwindled down in load several of bis instruments upon idea of what it renlly 'was. Some al. much in thé way of new public aids|proportion to total cost per diem that or enterprises if economically, or even! delegations are sent yearly to Toron- BD Tocls or anythin that a by] the liquor men. "I tell you," said ute BE A 4s. be ye poring ao rs _-- ae Sethe n are either not studying muni- carefully, controlled. But there has|to to beg for a reasonable allowance " Parry Sound, "that if ever there was cipal questions very much, or they are | been a riot of expenditure in the de-| The contingencies in crown lands y S , ? A%| not telling the people what they partments, while a number of deserv.| branch have advanced from $19.759 to Spring Goods Arriving SOLD ONLY AT 6 | an investigation needed it is in this know. ing and needy institutions, like hos-| $44,980; in the provincial secretary's, y y. pitals and reading rooms, are demied| from $4,155 to $15,306. in the inspec Corbett's Hardware le wathe Foronty or at . scandal was uncovered by Mr. Starr,| "A cheap, low speed automol a reasonable support, tion branch, from 83.428 to 822.413, ' i i K B « Starr, hile, i > Men's Nobby Spring Suits in fine Tweeds, newes - >vy PITTI TITIES people metaphorically held their noses, safe, and easily controlled, seems to mn -- In 1904 the liberals engaged forty oot patter $8" i ' Suite. n fin s t out, new VIINITV: yIvVaSs | obnoxious were the fumes it | be one of the want h ad Liberal Beginning. sessional writers, stenographers and Patterns, : ? and $12. itted, Th Shot 3t t n m ot the day," Saye A large part of the money now being | MSSENgErs, at cost of F518; in 1907} emitted, There was a rumour that to|® contemporary. But he is mistaken. | scattered for the conservatives e ! vant » : : : : : . 4 ur t : : 3 party friendshi and conservatives engaged seventy: Men's Nobby S § Ser guard against a repetition of this | What is wanted in a high"speed ma- advantage had re source in Paral seven, though the session was short-| : 12.50 ht; Sytite Suifs, Tn Fine Survishs we niin, Come to The Bargain thing the government would recon-|chine that means a finish to the man legislation in the face of opposition, thi and _work not so great. In 1908 Ge struct the license system, and at the!who operates it. otften long and persistent, from the con- this staf was still further increased} ; i ' ; Fi ! same time purify . But Bony the a . ' servative party in the house. The re- and $18,950 voted, or practically dou- Bibby's $15 Specials, Hand-Tailored Suits are beauties, in east J $ > | y 1. i Pp venues of 197 included ; ble, There was not enough work for fine Blue and Black Worsteds, Fancy Worsteds, ete, es tm doisd <i proach of an election the talk of re-| THEY ARE ARRANT HUMBUGS, | From succession duties $ 833,503 the large stafi engaged to fill one om Sol ngs offered this | f,rm cegsed. The government 'with its| The loyal opposition has dec lared| | Supplementary revenue 672,24 third of a working dag. It was a wil sek i 8 : : so Re i Sit forty of a majority in the last house | that it will sit in Ottawa until hrist- Letters patent and Fi- Eerge or orsted uits, . < censes ese 40,000 black or blue, best quality $11,00 be Suldely Secount outed. ; 0 al mas before it will allow the govern-| * Temiskaming railwm 335.090 Costly Help. ¥ine Spring Roots the restraint in the interest of purityimenpt to amend the election law.| * Mining sales and leases. 1,184,716] This government, which largely in ; . Ai : : ' 2.75 | i» off. The party is again out for the | There was, by the way, 100 much pro. " Mining licenses and fees. 272 397 | cfensed its own personal. salaries. is Dajaty Ruckwaar, Our display of Spring Neckwear is worth Heavy Working Boots, per spoils, and any old thing goes. Politi- |fession on the part of the conserva- Mining royalties ...... .. 207,945] an expensive institution in another any man's while coming to see, 25¢. and 50c, pair 1.40 | cal morality has been laid aside for| tives. Political history has the re- "83.645 90 a Jt ism governuent hy: commis . . J 6 Hr | sioners ir F i "een * t. 8 » rnnaacts : , ' Te 3 + a Shirts, Fancy Designs .69 | the presen I 1s an academic phrase, cord of some queér transactions in| The first three items were the pro I'he Hydro-Eleetric commission has, Well-made Working Shirts - 48 | and good only for dress occasions. the name of party, but there was a] duct of entirely new creations of rea. | in two vears, cost $72,000 dr general repentance of all crooked | Sonable taxation by the liberal gov The revision of statutes for the past Up-to-Date ts, from 50c. up. The dec i i 8 Bip-to-Dats Hala, up The declaration : of the Whig that work, and an apparent desire for|®fment, and the acts proposing them | year Pa part of the work has cost record of the conservative is |: were contested and. denounced by the | 33 Try Bibny's Great $2 Hats. ISAAC ZACKS, the clean and wholesomé proceedings at : S I i i lad i aot Yaci everywhere the same, a record of } ) & party now in power, collecting them undry investigations, such as were 271 Princess sireet. lavish promise, Rob. a: severe. twist the polls. and enjoying the privilege of expendi formerly conduc ted by departmental in the type-setti Fancy the effect Mr. Borden offered his services to | ture. Nothing could better show the officers at trifling expense, cost 89 249 i ng. *" I the government in a joint and happy hollowness of the opposition to liber {in 1997, and the accounts not fully a record of lavish and wnbroken pro- effort to al administration than the complet | rendered 44+ HAE F244 44444 +3 HAIL IFIED E 1 4 46444 F444 +. A444 2 PEE E 0444 4. +E THF 4% AN = - v, Fancy Hosiery, new creations, handsome style, 25¢. and 40c. per pair. 2 ful waste, for party grait. TIES Spring Shirts. We've bevies of beauties, in Spring Shirts, 50. RS new patterns and very handsome, 75¢c., $1, $1.25 and $1 a ----, HEHE devise a law whic " T, i i HE H. D. BIB BY G0. a vich would endorsement of all its financial meas The Toronto University commission mises." It is enough to make anyone } . put the corruptors out of business. | ures hy the men who Slenounced these has absolute control of a round half on SESSA RA ASSERTS laugh. Ww Mr. Alcorn exercised his legal mind by | measures. When undertaken by the Ross gov The special fees to lawvers, outside go : i a drafting what he regarded as a clear ROOFING ! STRONGEST MAN IN ENGLAND. election bill. But * when Mr Avie ernment, the Temiskaming railway | of crown counsel at assizes, in 1907 | S---- mm ---- The premier of England has been be- |, \ town. his bi : "°° | was an_ undoubted enterprise. The | were $28,177. The liberal expenditure wor! brings down his plan ol secur-| e,ngervative opposition spoke of it a: in that line in 1904 was $7747. iL. CC. SMITH LEADS LIST y extent for |. : : ' a ; fore the People to some : ing a fair and square election, guar-|a dedr eoncession to the "land of the The new Railway and Municipal Oshawa Galvanised Steel fl | years. He has been known as & Vf, ing to every eligible person the | blasted poplar and stunted pine," as | Board, which relieves the cabinet of Big Dividends In Service. Shingles, made by the Ped- akle man, intellectually great, and yet right to vote without fear, favour or| Hon. J. P. Whitney expressed it. It [many of its cares, absorbed in the 5 phox Public opinion is the L. C. Smith lar people, will make a first- in cldsest sympathy with the heart of |. timidati the " bokted. was attacked as a line that ran into | same year $24,579. Typewriters lead over all other wra- class roofs at : a. moderate the. commen: people:. He has Yoomed intimidation, e opposition holted. | (he wilderness, with its terminus in e The Text Book commission cost u ing achive, of the 1:0. Saith an cbs. ; Towavef" wines' ho. assumed It is discovered that in Manitoba and [place called nowhere, But it has not | 37,202, and its results are so meagre pop arid isu of the 1: C: Smithin They can be easily laid by TP arge, GWEVEL, \ SI a ) British Columbia the voters' lists will only disclosed the rich mineral wealth | as to be indeterminable mendous volume of . sales and the * any handy man. No solder the duties of the late Hon. Mr. Camp- not be under the control of the local | Which produced the revenue above : AGA Seung. Tvpawrit- no paint, no dirt : bell-Bannerman, and in a few weeks iobbers. and at once .there is. alivight stated from mining of $1,665,061, but Were Gcod Fellows. . ers all over the world are receiving . . p p there is : : : , h J ' 'lit has itself been avin © These iteins . , Ct Bia ) enormous dividends a paying enterprise These items appear in the public ac . i dioidna vre. pald. in 1 the Rain Proof, Snow Proof, form of splendid service, which 18 just HESS +4 { wm 2 5 4 has demonstrated that he is admira- ; . a 5 " ! Fire Proof. See the Shingles bly. fitted forthe. plate' he ugbupies: Mr. Aylesworth points ou that there] long before its completion, as the wounts for excursions, ete., at the peo- at Anglin's Lumber Yard Sie all : "cannot be in the provinces referred | revenue of $386,090 attests. The lib | ple's expense, under government n as good as the GOLD. v Heo is essentiallys man of courage. 3 i i - OT eral government not only brought aiden i : i 'Buy L. ©. Smith's! Buy L. ©, to & correction of the voters' lists to N ' VANE i AuSpICe Smith's 1" That's the cry of men who ew Omtario into life, but has madd | Apmorican Society of Engineers, 86.305 r= w h are posted on the "inside" facts of N the typewriter situation. ------------------------ N i i one] ueio; § s ] No one dare question this conelusion, cult the federal constituencies under]. en. of fi : : who realizes the 'stand he has taken 42 oo. fit a source of financial strength to} pagidative members 1574 | I P D present conditions. The opposition, in {the province at large at . . y There's absolutely no speculation in - on the License Reduction Rill, Here is ii 3 the 'hill i y British press, small party . . 8,976 buying L. C. Smith Typewriters. The place of improving upon the hil, so ---- Prince Fushimi- ...... . ie 1.268 ol 4 L. C. Smith is worth gver one bun. 8 : i dred cents on the dollar--never American Chemical Society 1.200 n "passes" a dividend, never suflers a Pritish artillerymen 245] "slump." and always leads the list 1 --, . In 1903 and 1904 t als spe Shrewd, far-sighted men---the Hulls and Bears of Business--are squipping their $150 altogether in ea haraly Ph offices With L. U. Smith Typewriters kX COLUSIVELY--Because the wople had an economical, safe adm'n L.C. SMITH TYPEWRITER (The Standard Visible Writer) = "has an efficiency of 100 per cent. every day in the week and from one year's istration then and did not sufficiently | 3 £0" (he other. It's: a simpie as A BC, and complete from A to %. crease of revenue last year was $1, : : ippreciate it. Tt was a government It tneets the need for rapid work with speed to spare. It fits into any business groove as though it were built to order being verified, England will have gone : a it in ei . lec refor; t is simply : rin Good Opportunities rv 1 th ili { d about election orm i PY 1 170,940, and the surplus is only $606, dry, anc e millions of dollars or . " , ) Id . . 1 s 1 bho 2} shamming. The first Aylesworth pro-|y74 sold enough to be economical. Its I r 3 uit to . aii po Cw rounds now Investec i i : x ' * v N " 0 " The L. OC. Smith Typewriter original in design, perfec Bn . constructio . Pa . i i it liquor posal is a fair and honest voters In 1904, the last year of liberal con Sloe SSar ie not hold enough to ix brilliant in performance Bl Eat trade will have heen diverted into oth- list. Without it there cannot be a fair | trol, the expenditure was $5,267,453 | honest with the funds It has overturned ail typewriter traditions and es my. : y er channels or been tied up. With the : + : : In 1907 it was $7,714,245, an increas ------ cords in the typewriter world--set up a new standard of results | 1s \\ - . 3 p. and honest election, and in opposing I rs pdm, OI , Have our demonstrator call and show you the machine, We bear all expense n ; evidence before him that this propos his thee rvalives have advertised of about fifty per cent. under the Grand Inconsistency. Keep your eye on the L. U. Smith ! 18 le conserva . 1 M 3 , int 3 The ip s - t Whitney administration. The item: Premier Whitney opposed the making . a measure whick, carried into law i : : Foot of Wellington St. and euloreed;" means' a gradual dimi- hee 3s will mock the Sequicemants of Some Contrasts. nution in the quality of beer, and 13 country, an pro oe ae rer] .idn 1903 the increase in Revenue ht ae Yi . "| resorts to obstruction, and will not | the liberal goverment was $1,175,570 spirits which can be drunk in public. have the reform at any price. and forthwith $1,026,171 was added t Don't Pass by In shigty_ years, present eplaiflations So that when the opposition prates the cash reserve in the bank. The in precedents--~broken all re I i | : : b £ pom U J. E. FERGUSON CO., Eastern Dealers, 205 Queen Street, Ottawa. $ 1 is 1 be desperat esisted i | SHLE Wy : cs al woud . Soap hig So a. BOC] themselves as arrant humbngs. most controllable, being the immediate § + portfolio for a minister of agri- ~[OCAL AGENTS arth evidence tha a er ------ . > Tati . instar - Bi 3 $ > ra. 1 ' ' expense account of each minister, arf oujture, and now votes one $533,000] NEWMAN & SPRIGGS ELECTRIC CO., 79 Princess St., Kingston with the mighty force had struck the goverd- EDITORIAL NOTES. { those of civil government, or the de | of vous A full stock of Typewriter Supplies for sll makes of machines always n . , 3 ¥ 3 . 11 stock © 3 Supplie o 1 makes o . 3 ol partments in the parliament building He moved to abolish the minister of hand, Second-hand Typewriters ment hard in Manchester election, Mr.| The prison labor grievance has not | pe i nt Asquith passes his license reduction | heen removed. The contract which They show the. rea} disposition. af th wducation and has voted him $1,600 ¢ s § overnmen ards onomy, a " { _ bill; and carries it through the com- | Mr. Hanna made goes on another cation is by no DE friendly w for Toe, = fad s of : Lintbay § ' : 3 "tod ] : e opposed appointment of a drain mons by an overwhelming majority. { year, Meanwhile, the election will be | Ci¢il government eost : age referee and has appointed two of I'he lords may kill the bill, Let them. | over, In 1904 oo i cnn S344,000 | them, costing $8,210 a vear Mr. Asquith has w t8Wviction, and he : Sehggadont : In 1905 .... i. series . 374.970 He contended against a superinten- does: not' falter in his action for . a] In ovOry city where there is a letter | Jn 1906 er . 428,280 dent of neglected children, vet has in == 1907 | wr somes sees ooo DISA ¥oreased the cost of his work to $9,600 Much of the money that bas been made | moment. He is a stalwart in political « 61023C} For years he opposed a clerkship of $8 this country has been made out of "ti inch i i Jieal state investments. Very few pro- | life. acting on principle, and braying work for the letter carriers, and more | OF An aseeriding seale till the cost ir | forestry, and yet he bas added to his 0 oe nearly double, with no added depart {| very useful activities, and has created When buying a Gas Stove, buy the best riies decrease in values. On the other | any displeasure rather than show the nel, th ndency, n w 4 . SORE 3 and, the tende either in town or pév. of course. ments to show for it. y+ forestric branch in the Provincial Ber js to increase in value oar by white feather for a moment. He is the The i a ter Joba itini ¢ ° r. ® have 'some very goo oe : " =r . he increase in this line. under John niversity. " you are hinkip of investing in gilt stuff of which wiaysamen ate made, | The Whitney government is through- Sandfield Macdonald for three years | He opposed surveying of townships { Toe be ' 9" edge properties. le buy, se an ex- | sifted for emergent public service, and ly scared. That is evident when the | was five per cent. on the. average. in new districts, and in the last two Saas ca W i ir- | years tris voted for this class of sur : change Heal Estate of all kinds, and x 4 ! N the best fitted for the tasks that are premier is begging for "a square | Under liberal administration for thir- ty-four years it was six. and a hali | veyvs the large sum of $250,000 would" like to do business with you. set before him. "*.C eno dot k . i deal"; Uonetience . doth make co» 1 ¥ 0 He opposed an additional normal is acknowledged the best Gas Stove manu- 1. Js Lockhart, The editor of the Globe must be | Vo" Of u» all. nde _ comervative_aduigistration {shoot at London, yet is building fous factured. - They comprise all the latest 3 { . Fl . EF Ve i py to F y . Ow. Real Estate and Insurance Agent | tickled with the Whitney iden that as | The election: bill the conservatives I ra al ot ars aed tr abolish. 'the public improvements. Simple in operation, made 159 Wellington Street. " - ~overnor of Toronto University he want is one that will serve their ends 1908, : : works department, yet its expenditure * of the best steel, handsome in design, dur- Kingston. is "a hireling of the government." {onlv. That is the meaning of ' their | Salaries--Iikerals, 1904 ..8265,068 [in 1908, as granted, will he $1,627, That is one way of retaining the in-' protest against a fair voters' list in| Conservatives, 1907 ... ... ... 373,396] 170. able, and having the best burners made, About. forty. per cent, addition. they are economical in the burning of gas. terest and self-respect of an opponent | Manitoba and British Columbia. Print a i iti ---- » Contingenci don, A904 ... J 78,442 ovident An gRTressive, E : xamine Them Before Purchasing. in politics. ; . : : i Mr. Whitney says his government 1907 . . 165/036] Liberal governments in Ontario se cured these valuable public benefits : THE PEOPLE WANTING LIGHT [could have gerrymandered the pro- | Considerably over double. r What kind of pavement is Mr. Kirby | vince so that not five members of the ---- 'ree grants or mining lands sold or TT 71 PRINCESS prepared to lay in Kingston now that [opposition could have been elected. Proportions Of Increase. (raed, hb 000 oo _. lopization EL LI1O BROS., ST. he has permission to canvass Jor it ?{No, he could not, or the trick would | Comparing 1907 with 1904, these, re- | s 'built Or Tepal " SOE STSTISOOIE s He may have stated the facts in his [have been attempind: . - ot arises pret: | "Those help paired. were. insti CEREBRO REE eX s COPTeeEee ese letter to the council; but it has not ------ Civil government ..$194 469--or 56 p.c.| tuted : -- . "Ask 'the Ontario Educational = As- | Legislation ... .. .. 23316 " 11" | Farmers' Institutes. 3 ¢ on Fislihd, wd - iu sociation," says the Hamilton Times, | Administration of 35 nme Dairy school. : po ith 1 justice gai oe 97,138 20 "| General dairy instruction. : San own whch aed ah Bk of the Pr rp te 0 ggg." | Ee dey tn ECTTRCrT) | HOUSE CLEANING MADE EASY | Whig, there was no reference to the . ¥ 0 make | py - ; Aid to good roads. q y ig H the appeal. Evéfyone knows they are Agri 70131° "35 " | Bureau of labor | By Using Our Furniture Restorer pine, through and through. y "3 "| Provincial hoard of health. ; rr Charities Fi A Ji5 3 Fidseries cupurument, JI RT Your labor geems in . vain ie $10,000 Is Stack. izati ds 141,25 The Toronto Mail, leading condirva- | if you do not add something new Chapwan, Lf y T--Miss Alice | oy tive organ, said : "The Ontario gov- from our well assorted stocks. ut who has given Bible read- | yogi " |ernment's management of the finances of B dl nga Various churches through- n "42 7 [has been thrifty, judicious and clean." @ x rass an ron Bedsteads er a te. Jat' night, pre. Springs and Mattresses to fit sented with, $1000 $16,000 worth of, 'mining = = 2 ds i tock by a Detroit admirer vill: H. G. Brown, Peterboro; J. ; = Also Dressers and Stands in John Guest, D. Lyon, G. T. Pearce, | Charlebois, Hull: J. 0. Keller , and great variety, at W. D. Morley, RB. H. Tyler. T. Tim- wife, Detroit; A. Dimsdale, Windsor; » The Leading *Undertaker berlake, G. ¢ Tarwant, William Dorn, | Nat. Sellivan, Port Hope; B. L. Lan og rta er, Toronto; Wikiam Rutcnburg, H. Vine- | caster, Petrolia. Jamies Reid S, Phone 147 for Repaiving. berg, SE. Surwe, J. B. Un Matthews. : me - Wetsher, J. J. Anderson, W. 3 Here's A Warm Thrust. --_-- ca on Re J. Wiewall, TH. G.| Queen's weivérsity protessors talk of ; Sapper, Lea v vy Ws tal Mooney, New York; Ji H. aa, David undenaminationalinng the institution : Tin, Zinc. 'Hall, es eoee | 10.24 to get on the Carnegie peusion Send us your inquiries. 3 J, Bas abut Eh *} fund. amiutary Jape of Sa : Ee EE Te RR vor 5 Canada Metal Co.,Ltd, rokowto; ot Li) Sm CB NC HT carrier system the drop letter postage | In will be dropped to one cent. More Estimates 1908 ... .. . (EBRD TR