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Here it is at your service on quick order-- bright, well screened coal in all the standard sizes at standard prices for better even than stand- and quality. R. CRAWFORD Phone, ® Foot Queen St. CORES FR ---- fair wage scale is to be. put , ON : all civic in gmnipeg featherbloom at Waldron 's 81.4% and £1.69, worth $2.50 and $3. contracts skirts THE WHIG, 75th YEAR DAILY BRITISH WHIG, published at 806-310 King street, Kingston, Ontario, at $6 per year, Editions at 2.30 and 4 o'clock p.m. " WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG, 16 pages, published in parts on Monday and Thurs- day morning at $1 a year. To United charge for postage hes to be added, making price of Daily $3 and of Weekly $1.50 per year. Attached is one of the best Job Print- ing Offices in Canada ; rapid, stylish, and chesp work ; nine improved presses. The British Whig Publishing Co., Lt'd: | EDW. J. Managing Director. TORONTO OFFICE. Suite 19 and 20, Queen City Cham- bers, 382 Church St., Toronto, H. E. Smallpeice, Representative. Daily Wibig. | SOMETIMES HE IS DUMB. Mr Jorden is in favour of trans- | and, therefore, of an im- | provement in the waterways. To be | sure he is--occasionally. At broke, when asked about the Georgian Bay canal] however, he was dumb. portation Pem- | MORE CROOKED WORK. The Colchester bribery case has not | "fizzled out," as the conservative | papers aver | The grand jury found a true bill | against the darling of the party, | Alonzo R. Bayne, and his trial was arranged for. Then it was discovered that a ma- | terial witness was necessary. He fail- | ed to appear on a He | could be found when a warrant | summons. not was issed for him. Was he spirited away by interested parties ? That was the feeling, and no hesitation in de- | the judge had ferring the trial. Sy | CHIDING THE SENATOR. { has been greatly Senator Sullivan chided because he has declared that | on grounds of common gratitude the people of this city should re-elect the | Hon. William Harty as their repre- | | | | accused It is probable that the senator ex- | pected the reprimands of his party, but he has been sufficiently represent- ative of it, and sacrificed enough in | ite behalf to feel that he may an opinion upon the situation quite | candidly. | Senator Sullivan remembered when |¢iong of the world, has increased $ , the local industry was closed, when | the men it employed had to go else- | where for employment, and when he | recently visited the works and saw the its thrift and success he | could not refrain that the man to whom the transformation evidences of from saying was due should receive from the peo- the only recognition they could | ple give. Mr. prive" he will not "'de- | omotive | Borden says Kingston, of its loc works. Well, George, the will see that he does not. What they | by people have they'll hold. | WAS VERY RESERVED. very careful while HE Mr. in Kingston to avoid any definite an- Borden was nouncement on the question of public He local, con- ownership or public management. incidentally endorsed the servative paper, but he does not seem to have unreservedly endorsed' its | course, because that would have been | to repudiate himself on one subject. { It will be remembéred that early in September the Standard had occasion it not follow Mr Borden on the government ownership It did not think the country was yet ready to follow My Our contemporary saw in the scheme to say that could of all public utilities. Borden on this issue a very serious obligation, the frequent of obligation, that it would place in the changing rulers, and hands of politicians a formidable and dangerous power, one that would work to and hurt of the country. When Mr commend the lasting detriment to our Borden was invited the of contemporary in this campaign did pretty work it is safe to say he not commend the sincere calling down which a plank in | his Halifax platform suggested. MONEY Mr press and denies (1) that he was ask- ed to retire or did political field, because of his timber IN TIMBER LIMITS. Fraser, of Ottawa, writes to the retire from the deal, and (2) that his connection with the voke hostile comment honestty. transaction is such as can pro- The facts he recites. ' Some years ago he and others saw the limits (timber berth No. 938) ad- vertised for sale. They tendered for it. I'he syndicate's offer was the highest, £1,650 . Later a bought for 83,750, second berth was In addition, there was to be paid (no dodging of dues, as | the 85, per mile of ground rent, and 50c. thousand feet for all the lumber In twenty life of the berth, the payments to the government total "871,400.50. At the time of the purchase the cost under per cut. years would of lumbering was so great that there | Later the prices in the west went up by $2 was no money in the business. to $3.50 per thousand feet, and rail- facilities made the limit access- ible. Then Fraser interested some Am- capitalists, way erican and, calculating that th ere 120,000,000 feet of merchantable lumber on 'the they offered 3100,000 for it, offer was accepted. was limit, and the At the same time they acquired an- other limit which was given by the conservative government, without ! da. | staking out, surveying, | veying, ground rent, etc., being offer | tanada has been the further | conservative government) | the estimated | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1908. competition and without bonus. This latter limit was estimated to contain 100,000,000 feet, and they paid $100, | 000 for same, or $1 per thousand. The Whig, some days ago, said that no doubt Mr. Fraser acquired the lim- it legally, but that its sale involved a | sacrifice of Canadian timber limits. Mr. Fraser explains that he did not ask the government to put up the He saw the advertise- | ment, and he bought the limit because he was 'the highest bidder. He adds: "This company has put up large mills apd subsequently branched out in other parts of Canada, and invest- B. PENSE | limit for sale. ed a very large sum of money, and is giving employment to a large number of men. "At the time purchased, the ground rent, dues and bonus paid was evidently the full value, as we acquir- ed it by public competition. The in- crease in value is only the common experience elsewhere' throughout Cana- In one case a sale was made in the Ottawa Valley, at about $150,000. It was worked for three years and a large profit made. At the end of three years the price asked was about $300, 000. "In another case a limit was offered for sale at about $100,000. The next year it was sold at $250,000. It. was worked for two years and a large pro- fit made, and one of the owners told me they would not sell for $1,000,000. "In another case in British Colum- by simply and paying the annual ground rent, and on three years they were sold for over $1,000,- we bia limits were acquired 000, the total cost originally for sur- less than £25,000." The to buying and selling cannot be ques- There is grafting only when fortune be made in land tioned. the domain of the people is exploited and personal purposes, the Fraser syndicate cannot of that. They were "lucky" for political and be but not crooked. FACTS BRIEFLY PUT. In the last twelve years the trade of increased by about per | | | | 1 | hundred millions, or 175 If the trade of the principal na- by 175 per cent. in the last twelve years, the fact has escaped the notice of the expert statisticians. four cent. The capital invested in manufactur- ing establishments increased from $146,916,487 in 1900 to $833,916,155 | in 1905, or over seventy million dol- | lars per year. The wages paid to lee} bor in factories, increased from $113, 249.350 in 1900 to 8162,155,578 1905, or nearly ten million dollars per | in | year. In eighteen years the conservative | | government voted 56,000,000 acres of | hope ? land to railway companies, or enough | to supply 411,000 homesteads of 160 acres each, whereas, in contrast, in twelve years since coming into power the liberal government has not given acre of land to a railway. the in away one The land- has been reserved for settlers, who got 35,000,000 acres homesteads. The financial condition of Canada is Her with securities guaranteed by the Brit- | time for a change. sound. securities list on a par | ish government, and the confidence of British capitalists is shown by act that in the first seven months of this year, British money to aid Cana- | sent in of $143,000,- dian development was England to the amount OO. | 1 . as In aiding to t railways to open up the | country development, the liberal government has simply invested The conservative way was The liberal no gift, a condition money. give bonuses outright. way of railways must régard them as a loan is to make the liberal grants being that the and pay in return, by the carrying of mails, an equivalent to a fair rate {of interest. Po. | MACHINE CANNOT WIN. The voice of public opinion is not the party conven- in | always heard in have occurred of tion. Instances which the choice the 'convention be the choice of to { be made accordingly. The experience | has net proven to | the party, and a change has had | ig not confined to any party. In the liberal discovered, ere the campaign had fair- {ly begun, that théy could not com- mand the united support of the par- ty, and so they voluntarily retired and made way for those who could poll Ottawa candidates every liberal vote. In one of the Quebec constituencies candidate--the nominee by the a liberal { the premier to retire and give the party, convention--was advised | without combination, a chance to say | whom it wanted to carry their stan- | dard in the contest. In the last local election in | county there was a rebellion against the conservative candidate. fedt that | of the party, and an independent con- announced his candidature. scared off the track, without reason, and his party engaged in the clamour which led to this result. this It was he was not the first choice | servative He was the The candidate of the conven- Once more -there is trouble in party. tion for the federal house--the choice of the same packed convention--is not the ' acceptable -to party generally, Ontario . Quebec ...... . Prince Edward Island . Manitoba North-West Territories. British Columbia ......... Yukon oui hi. test holds power only by virtue of his ma- jority in Quebec, let us exclude see what will he the result : | Ontario veuns raid Nova Scotia ... { New Brunswick | Manitoba | Saskatchewan | British | Prince Edward Island . | Yukon {ing in a minority without LWilirid has lity, and | government without the vote of a sin- | gle one of his supporters from | province. {the next house. The number of {members will 'be increased by seven, ism, the machine did not explode, and | | fight is the | from | to | of | and produce revenue, we have had | buoyant and prosperous conditions. | We have found the money to develop the resources of the country. and Mr. Avery is in the field as an in dependent, and with every prospect of success. Mr. Avery has felt all along that he had been jockeyed out of the race | ly party men, and after looking over the ground, and counselling with his friends, he has discovered that the people want him, and with the sup- port of the independent poters he will be elected. If Mr. Borden were as thoughtful of his followers as Sir Wilfrid Laurier --if he had the same influence over men--he would interest himself in the Frontenac election, and see that the machine did not put the party in this county completely out of business. TORY HEARTS HEAVY. It seems to be the policy of a num- ber of the tory organs that hope to profit by race and religious prejudices to propagate the idea that Sir Wil- frid Laurier owes his majority entire ly to a solid Quebec. This is far from being true. The present house is thus constituted : i hem i What particular policy will Hon. Mr. Borden pursue if elected, to en- | sure more work and better wages for | the workingman than he now has ? If | Mr. Borden has a policy of any kind | to benefit the workingman it has yet | to be disclosed. works will be taken care of by the conservative party," says the Standard. In what way ? Be more specific. The old way was to let the institution die, and the treatment of the past is to be the treatment of the future. "The locomotive Mr. Harty has not said that the locomotive works would close if he and the liberal government were de- feated. But he would do with less work, and his employees with less wages. That was the experience when Mr.. Borden's friends ruled at Ottawa. Dr. Ross says the conservatives have the best policy for the country. Give the details, as, so far, the leader of the opposition has not digclosed his plans. People would like to know even his labor platform, for conserva- tism has never yet helped the work- ingman. ; Conservatives. Liberals. 47 39 Nova Scoti New Brunswick Claude Macdonnell wants to know why the' liberal premier does not get rid of all those whose reputations have been tainted ? The people have a right to know why Mr. Borden does that [not drop a few of the unclean persons i {by whom he is surrounded. (Can't he shake them ? Total aii ope Liberal majority Now, says the Hamilton Times, the assertion that Sir Wilfrid yrovince from the computation, and 4ib- Conser- y -- " Lib CORSET" | when Mr. Borden talks of not de- érals. vatives. ig . A : 39 4 [priving Kingston of its locomotive 17 . | works" one wonders what he means. 8 {He has not the power to remove the { plant, but if he favoured the grotec- policy of his party the engines the Intercolonial rail- tive Alberta five {built here for |way would be made in Philadelphia. Columbia 0 3 1 a se INFERNAL MACHINE. Total G3 The figures show that instead of he- Quebec, Sir twenty-three of a major- carried on the | Glasgow Girl Receives Case High Explosives. Aberdeen, Scotland, Oct. | Aberdeen police are investigating | mysterious affair. | A young woman about to be mar- that [ried in the city received in the form lof a wedding present what proved to A new factor must be considered in jes perfectly equipped internal ma- | |e le the | 9.--The a | { | could: have | | | Owing to some flaw in the mechan: | four from" Saskatchewan and three [the police declare that a tecrible eala- | , 3 1 of 221, |mity was narrowly averted. | from Alberts, makings total o ) Although the authorities prefer to Even the conservatives, however, ad- | maintain reticence, it is understood mit that with all the gains they could |that they have traced the sender as | hope for in Ontario (and truth to tell, belonging to Glasgow. The whole cir- | at heart their hopés are nil), the most | cumstance is believed to be the action fa of a rejected lover. optimistic do not expect to make any | Inquiries show that the girl had | serious inroad into Sir Wilfrid's mag- kept company with a man resident in | . P F 31" { nificent majority. Why should they Glasgow. She returned to Aberdeen, | They have no policy; they from which place she is said to have | . come, and was about to be married | they have a record of failures; they |{hero to another mas. While at Aber lack leadership. Behind, they have a deen she received a box, which, she past which they would fain blot out. thought, contained a wedding present. { They war against rogress. 'and the When it was opened, however, it was | y gal P g ' found to contain a revolver and a suf- | only weapon with which they enter the | ficient quantity of a high explosive to | the poisoned dagger of slan- | destroy a house and all its occupants. not | There was an ingenious contrivance | { whereby when the box was openetl the | revolver would be discharged into the explosive. The parcel was despatched from Bir- mingham; the revolver was fully cook- | ed, and had. the parcel been opened by | lother than expert hands the result | {might have heen disastrous. der. The country's confidence is given to such men. EDITORIAL NOTES. Laurier and the larger Canada. Twelve years of prosperity. It is no Only One "Bromo Quinine." That is Laxative Bremo Quinine. | Look for the signature of | Grove. Used the world over to Cure | a Cold in One Day. 25ec. 1 | Keep Fdster, Fowler, Lefurgey and | Pope out of the public treasury. canonization by his will come when ho Laurier's pre- | After the fool parts with his money | |the separation, most generally, is | final. ! Pears, red grapes. J. Crawford. | The man, who considers patience at | all times a virtue has something to | learn | A good many times marriage is con- | sidered as an investment. | Saturday sale at Waldroun's, Heatherbloom skirts for $1.48. Theory alone never proved thing. The dude neods no label to nate him. THE BUCKLEY HAT "The young men's favorite." sent enemies is dead. | . bias i | Sir Wilirid Laurier is for the whole of Can- a statesman {who legislates ada--not for any section only. The saying is over 1,900 years old, "the better will land as true as ever, that | $2.50 | a man deserves the worse they speak of him."' L Don't wait till after the election. Remember, every vote counts; every | bit of assistance counts; every bit any- desig- of | confidence counts. . Hon. Mr. Fielding at Owen Sound pithily described the tory scandal talk soap manufactured " "ounce of iinto a hogshead of lather. | The choice of Mr. Duff, of West Sim- | Buckley & Sons, LONDON. EG MAN CURED OF RHEUMATISM. { | { 1 | jas an for the post of minister of agri- [eulture, can be explained only on the {ground of party expediency. ---- | pI most unwise to accept + WINNIP statement of any man against the | veracity, honesty or integrity | opponent without re- to substantiate his Remarkable Case of Cure After Specialists Failed. -- 18 | honor, of a political | liable evidence | | charges. | ' -- And do not forget that no charge of | Cr 5 | wrongdoing has ever been preferred au peL, oe op eth | against a single member of the pres | gong does not wish his name mentioned | ent government. No member of the | publicly, but who" permits us to show | opposition has dared to take the re- | ha letter 30 interentel erquitets, wiles | R ibiki : sa at he was sudden en | | sponsibility of doing so. | with excruciating pains in the Yuck aad | side, which were pronounced by his { physicians as Rheumatism. Hot appli- | i Our local contemporary is certain that if the locomotive works would | coins were at once n ted to, the suffer by the defeat of Mr. Harty it | usual medicines administered, would recommend his re-election by | mented by electrical treatment, Mr. Harty is the to no purpose. In his desperation . Ask him, and | took Gin Pills on his own account, Be 'nm, | in a few hours after taking the first Pill the. pains ed to subsid | He continued taking them and in 48 | hours he had not an ache or a pain left. 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