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Attached is one of the best Job Print- ing Offices in Canada; rapid, stylish, and cheap work ; mine improved presses. The British Whig Publishing Co., L'd ' EDW. J, B. PENSE, Managing Director. TORONTO OFFICE. Suite 19 and 20, Queen City bers, 82 Church St., Toronto, Smallpeice, Represpntative, Dailo Wibig. ROOSEVELT UNDER FIRE. The common theory is that the king can do no wrong. It is well that Mr. Roosevelt is nearing the end of his political reign, since the glamour that has so long surrounded him is almost if not quite gone. For a time suth was the regard which the people had for that they forgave him when he erred. Now the disposition is to magnify his defects. year he had occa- sion to investigate, through his law department, the merger of the Tennes- Cham: H. E action, During the last THE SPARRING AT OTTAWA. The provincial righters of Quebec are not so intense as the provincial right ers of Ontario. This fact came out conspicuously in ihe railway commit- tee when incorporation was asked for the Canadian, Liverpool and Western railway. This line will run from a point on the Grand Trunk Pacific te the mouth, of the Saguenay river, then to Quebec = and Mogiread, all ip the province of Quebec. The Quebec legislature should be able to give it all the standing it' wants legally. It does, indeed, svem ridiculous to the average lay mind that a projec- tion of this kind should be declared "for the advantage of Canada,' and that this magic phrase should lend enchantment to the view, It was sup- posed, ae a result of the breeze whick occurred over an Ontario bill last year, authorizing an electric railway with international conncetiorts, that some agreement would be reached as to legislation of this kind. The re presentatives of this province are keener on the distinction between pro- vincial and federal rights than the representatives of other provinees, This was scen in the discussions of last session, when the Ontario delegmtion practically forced the withdrawal of see Coal and Iron.company with the United States Steel CorpGration. ,At | this | the combinations common in trade; | be- | that | The | was, the outset seemed to be one of | and against the public interest, cause against the competition for a change in prices. information makes attorney-general's however, that the smaller business was | in a critical way and that without the | absorption of the larger it would be | ome speedily insolvent. { Congress has had the case under re- view, and the majority of a commit- [ing their prerggntives should be abol- tee is prepared to report that the | combine is a violation of the Sher- man anti-trust or monopoly law, and engaged in it. did Indirectly Mr. the government wrong ranting its approval. {have dominion over 'hem, The hnnual one bill. It was scen on Thursday in the railway committee when the Ons tario members, rogardlese of politics, stood by the provincial rights' prin- | iple. They wont They were carried away probably solidly the other way. by the declaration of Hon. Mr. Emerson should be brought under federal control or legislation so that the railway that all railways commission could sparring between parliaments regard- : : \ ished in some way. It does not add to the dignity of those who are ba in to * pieces, leaving the city nnicipal ownership man- 8 darkng of m agement. © Get Busy, Please. Guelph . . Ft pod tha the: Ontasih g I 'does something about law reform. Tt js all right to talk it, but then law reform has : talked $0 often that it has become monotonous, Let. the government do something now, % » 5 Oh, Is That It? Roronto ek 'While the House of Lords is. attack: od for being too active, the senate of Canada is _ assailed for not doing - There is this to.be said for the House of Lords, however--it is in- dependent of the powers that be, and 's not a mere recording machine for any government. Using The "Males." Montreal Star, The "sufiragettcs" having failed: to express themselves in any othcor way to Premier Asquith, have called in the services of an "cxpress'" company. The premier, however, would 'Probably be better pleased if they sent their sentiments to him by slow freight. They 'might employ "the mails; but they have a settled conviction against allowing themselves to be' ropresented by males in' political matters. Change In Election Law. Montreal Gazette. It ie stated that the Ontario gov: ernment proposes to amend its elec tion law 30 as to permit voters, who must be away from their pling dis- trict on election day, to cast their ballots beforehand. Their ballots will be dropped in the same box which will subsequently be used on polling day, but will not be opened in the meantime so that there will be no ex- posure ofsthe way they have voted. It this scheme is followed, it will have to be safeguarded with exceeding care: for it swill never do to allow ballots to be put in a bhallot-box 'in the pre- sence of the deputy-returning officer only or without the fullest opportuni- ties to serutineprs for both parties to challenge the veters. Otherwise the "early" voter might be "a bird" and "worm" in a handful of ballots, EDITORIAL NOTES. FEBRUARY 27, 1 = Rev. Dr. Carman and Rev. George Jackson. ? NOT A MYTH, A FANCY OR A That the Lecturs Complained of Was One Calculated to Pro- duce Doubters and Not to eo. Igssen Doubt. ok | Toronto Globe. Rev. Dr. Carman, genoral supcrin. tendent of the Methodiut Qliatoh aan he Globe to publish the following let- Iam in receipt of lptters from com- | petent and loyal ministers and mem- bers of the Methodist church, and others of equal right and merit. have spoken to me, on recently-reported ut- terances of the Rev. George Jackson, assistant in our Sherbourne séreet church. In inverted commas, as from papers handed oui, and to date uncontradicted, they bear the marks of an inspired and true, not 4 mythi- cal, report. > Tt ought to be understood: Jackson is neither a minister nor member' of the Canadian Methodist church. Nor is he amenable to any of our conferences or courte, but a "free ance," not responsible tor any body iy particular, and it is something of a problem to say who is responsible for rim. He comes to us in Canada as a minister from Britain, hired as an as- sistant, it scems, to a church in this country, under some such afrangement as I trust may never be rypeatcd in our Methodism, dishonoring and sub- merging the regular pastorate). and throwing wide open the doors to all manner of irrégularity. The annual conference must. have put some confi- 1 that Mr. The Head of the Church Holds - ee VTL LTLLLLLLLVOTLRRS To-Morrow we Tooke and O Srv ITTIRIILIRIL TANS . resotnt $1.00 and. 1.28 x For 69c.' Ea SHIRT SPECIAL, I 25 Dozen more Men's regular sscassrsesdassnsessane NEW SHIRTS FOR SPRING, 1909. A Beauty for $1.00. ; | | | 02 VAVVVVVRABRVVRABDAES Soft Shirts. esssessases New Suits for Spring, 1909 Ss veaa® See our Swell Young Men's Suits at $15.00. Colors Browns, Blues, Greens, etc, { Trees ttIRTRIARICRIRIRG | Whitney Something To Learn. i | Weekly Sun. Premier Whitney, speaking in the gislature in reply to Mr. McEwing. { expressed the opinion that you could [not arouse any interest in the ques | tion of railway taxation in Ontar opening | to-day even with the axd of a bra of {band for advertising purposes. IJ he They aiist_be beau: | premier could lear something to his . [advantage in regard to this ques | dence in him, for it exacted no bonds. I'be esteemed brethren who. employed him, gencrally careful of church order, must, I think, have trusted him or surely they would not have entered in- yto so unMethodistic and so atterly an anti-connexional complication. . How their cmployec has observed the élaims of hospitality and kept the precious | irust recent disclosures: demonstrate, | To cast upon the conference that.gave | Canada will have lost some of its he should {moral sensitiveness when it recognizes |the necessity of the social evil {undertakes to license it. Roosevelt is held up for criticism, be- he have smashed. 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No trouble to show property. Insur- ance at lowest rates. Money to! loan. { GEO. CLIFF, Real Estate valuatior, etc., at 85 Clarence street. | man | | | | | CRAWFORD, Foot of Queen St. BEST COAL to be HAD chewan, say# it is fiction that he is of grace may not be doing anything the people who have real charge y MacKay has have been hearing a great deal about 1 i 1 th mos VErs, { ithe because Fading out what his cha | ceived. I that | | prev: | | belief (expressed at ignore the proceedings of his critics. By the licans, way, some of these are repub- | whose doctrine is that the par- | and its head are always excusable infallible, f they are not | ( ---------------------- Hen, Mr. Scott, premier of Saskat- roing out of polities and upon the | ailway commission. He is going | outh for a' trip, not red health, but being in rug- he is going to serve such confidence n him. THE COST OF LAW. Mr. Mac Kay the legislature and is doing good work in of reform. The bill respecting is in favour law law which courts, in several defects that Mr. Foy has presents emphasized. "The people the services ands essened oxpense in law, but old tharges for stenographer: The leader of pointed out that the stenographers made the law continue. stamps _dpposition in| ome cases out by exacting a tarifi Avhich is out of eases than the law- { date, for a service which costs loss improved facilities they cess Lo. said nothing about the like all tariffs, The and MacKay vs' tariff, which, | : : | iquitous Hy many respects, | | the electricians unbers and! are mado the butt of many a | No Can | analyze them. But the lawyer sur- | of of thdir awounts, outside the. business technical difi- of | Ae legal men in that the privilege of con- i passes them all in the culty which he puts in the way rges are. v recent conference of foronto' it was suggested | profession have the tracting with clients for a certain | amount to do a the The sooner it becomes a gene certain specified sev- | vice, snd proposal ,.was well re [ ral practice the better | of | Sir James Whitney admitted | { A second matter was the protest Mr. MacKay against the use of law tamps of the pro Mr much condi with the prosperity vince the stamps should go, bul he had not in this prosperity or Kay said | 5 he would | The Foy idea, that law | the hould not object to pay for it] is not with the and that people comiormable preaching of | the party prior to the last election. | Then there was to be law. reform and on, . ¢ { at Law is sometimes forced up- | individua; he does not . sevk | it: RH luxury he cond very willingly forego. on the and fie does not want is A | I'he stamp tax is an iniquity which the rich : province of Ontario should wt continue--for revenue purposes. The Paton Sherbrooke, has put | | Maaufacturing company, | its | meet- on record the annual ing) that the continental depression, not customs' = duties, the the hle led was f sponst v cenditions during 1907 and 1908, are woollen men and ought to know what they are talking about. | Our Lady of the Snows is somewhat and still the eouncil cannot grace throw its members down. |not have another election now. is | business ? § t tures. aldermen know the people have splen did memories, fopinion must can { 35,000 could mot be granted to a tech- (to make in Kingston. spent. only $135,000 $250,000 last year | off the streets. | Montseal has this year against in taking the smow :xpensive in Montreal. ! year | The Board of Health for this to win the applause of the people, fully The governor of Newfoundland will How | is any govewnment, not having the te do it get its sup- support of the house, going Where can plies Those who are summoned to 18 juroks will remember that it Whitney government that 'no" when Mr. Mackay urged serve was he said that $2.50 to the daily pay be raised from pet day. It's to that the tions are a long was off, and that the | $0 casy say elec- {council should not worry about what the of Well, as some people think No ? some expendi the of | { be the law, to prevent license reduction Whitney be there has been any technical There is to another resort to | | in Toronto. says ! public respected, and if it by a special act. | Fhe man with the big stick must bey respected. Tid) | error be corrected The local government has whispered Hamilton that Hydre: Electr of to a deputation from hile the Power commission w financing a grant even nical school. Hamilton has a grie- vance. The government is not using it right. Brantiord's electors declined, vote in the elections, to supply cost of a new Institute by the building. Now the trustees want the council to fur- $73,805 for hew school without asking the leave of the people. Here's "defi" that it nish a would not be sal A member of the legislature that signed the roll com plained the selectors of jure collected ¥6 per day each, though only did The prime minister says the counties soould see and their some of them the work. ! that the selectors earned the money, Cire--Fewer It not necessary that half a dozen should be this members, is engaged in work. Three would dd as well. . IT OF THE PRESS Way To Failure. Edmonton Bulletin, A sufiragette tried to sail over the »arliament buildings in an airship, ut wound up fifteen miles away, An- | i A Cause For It, Hamilton Spectator. i : Chatham, has a municipal clectrie thorizing the formation of a co-oper i tawa to make loans to its members at Was a bill necessary to enable a man {and sister, Burridge, on Monday, Fel | ruary 22nd. J book to the altar. a few minutes' conversation s. Bowyer, Clarke (Bruce). Preston (Durban), and othe: memhers on his side in the legislat- ure. |i these gentlemen fail to con- vince him of Tis error in regard tc the state of publi¢ feeling on railway taxation it will be necessary for the people to speak out in a way he can understand. with Me Yow ney, Dodging The Usurers ? Hamilton Times. member of the Ontario parliament proposes to beat the usurers by au- ative society of civil servants at Ot- a rate not to exceed seven per cent. to lend money at seven per cent. if he wished to do so? And will it meet the need of the chronically hard up 7 Supposing a high-living civil servant wants a loan of $50 for, say, two weeks, till he gets his pay cheque, will the passing of such a bill ensure his getting it for fourteen cents. If so the cure for the usury evil at the cap ital is easy, v Notice. You are invited to see Nofdheime: pianos on view in Kirkpatric Art Gallery, 159 Princess street. Also Ca nadian representatives for Steinway & Son's, New York. Catalogues on ap plication. Room For Spring Importations. Prevost, Brock street, is having a great clearing sale in made-to-order and ready-made clothing and gents' furnishings. See the window display. Notice, Notice. Printing, ruling, book-binding, em- bossing, at British Whig office, "the home of good printing.' ' of voung folks from Godfrey guests of Edward McCann A load wero the Some line selections of piano and violin music were rendered by Mr. and Miss McCann and Miss Howes. "All tripped the light fants tic until the wee sma' hours. Tea grown at gn elevation of 5,000 feet and upwards, where soil and climate combine to give that delight- ful fragrance and delicious flavor is used' in "Salada." Its purity and strength make it much more economi- cal to use than other teas. Earle C. Raymond and Miss Kath- leen V. Burgess, both rof Enterprise, were married on Tuesday, at Tam- worth. The pretty bride was gowned n venetian cloth with hat to match, and carried a beautiful ivory prayer | { "It will pay you to laok" over the bargain counter at Gibson's Red Cross drug etore. 'The preparation you may be looking for may be there then think of the prices on that coun ter. Tt saves you money. W. A. Rockwell, living in Welling- ton, until a couple of months ago, with Mrs, Rockwell, has moved to the westarn statcs. Are You Up to the Mark? If not feeling as well as you should, do not make the mis- take of letting' your health take care of itself. Resort to Beecham's Pills light plani, ihe machinery of which Sold Everywhere, li boxes 25 cents, 5to his Father God, the origin of sin, 1 the most clearly self-evident fact with | man s iim shelter, and 0 upon the body of brethren, the imputation of insincerity in their opinions, cowardice, in their utterances and deceit cven in their silence might at least border upon an abused trust and a violated hospital- ity. He himsdlf that speaketh out is the hero and the honest man ! For a man to say that "'a correct theory of the origin of the universe, the origin of the human race, and the origin of sin is no part of the Christian. faith," shows very superfi- cial and attenuated thinking. We are not, like higher critics, after theorics, hut after facts, and facts in their logi- cal and historic order. What does he make of the Christian faith * A thing of a moment, a bursting bubble on a rolling tide, thin and dark at the top, iust ready tu break before cur eyes? Or is il a well and logically compact- ed system of the being of the Eternal God and His attributes as 0 us, His purposes and His acts ? What would we know of the Christian faith but for the revelations and records of Godin holy scripture through the contuifes ? To make the first chapters of thee records as set down in our books unhistoric and unscientific does not carry the judgment or command the assent of the ripest scholarship andthe best men. It cally forth the fanciful theorizing and tumultuous tanglo-of speakers and writers-more or less instructed, and heve and there taints a reputable scholar. It settles nothing, but fills: the air with cloud and dust, the church with suspicion, confusion and strife. When a man affirms that the open- ing chapters of the Bible are mythi- cal, logendary, I am inclined to ask, What doos the man mean ? Does he mean that the solid positions and sub- lime acts solemnly recorded are mythi- cal and legendary, or does he mean that the literary garb is mythical, le- gendary, or that the rhetoric is more exubarant than his historic sense would justify ? The record of sure and certain facts is not a myth, a fancy, a legend, no matter how gorgeous or how simple the rhetoric. Surely it cannot be that wo are sent to teach truth from a book filled with vain chimeras, misconceptions and lies. The old, solid "reductio ad absurdum' hems in this flighty higher criticism, so called, at every point. If the trou- ble is with the dress, the rhetoric af- ter Oriental style, thinly veiling what is better veiled than emblazoned, it is not the first time, nor will it be the last, when an adventurous man of prurient desire gets tangled up in the drapery. But if he means the origin of 'he universe, the creation and origin of ihe human race, man's clearly implied relation- ships as a moral and spiritual being, which we have to deal this hour, in voluntary - transgression . and alienation from God, he surely is not dealing with myths and legends, but, the foundations of God stand sure, with the absolute certainties that are 'with us in our moral and spiritual constitution and relationships this very day. There is no other explana- tion of this constitution' and these re- lationships. Add to these.iacts of the universe and man and sin the institu. tion of the Sabbath, thank God, yet with us, the institution and true law and intent of marriage, the establish- ment of the moral, social and econom- ic order, all imbedded in the Christian | : faith, and instinct with its life the beginning, yea its historic founda-] tion and practical: essence, and you have a mighty and eternal sy whose face none but a superficial or profane man will stand myth, legend. stem in } up and . say | foundations and on this immovable base find the purpose and the 'stay of covenant and promise, of sacrifice and atonement, of propitiation and recon- ciliation, of pardon and peace, of the purity and power of holy scripture and of the power and work of the Holy Spirit. This is the Christian faith. He will know that the Chpis- tian faith is not a matter of a. few years or a few centuries--a bursting bubble on a rolling flood--=but that itl is a matter in the plans and purposes of the all-wise God through all the infinities and all the eternities, Such a man will not count it an achigye- ment to startle the uninstructed youth in a Young Men's Christian Ageocia- tion, contrary to its genius and law, by attacking the historici®v of holy writ on points absolutely unassailable,' if we have a Christian faith at. all, thus loosening moral bonds, debauch- ing the public mind tand producing ten or a hundréd doubters, where, as he boasts, he might, forsooth, effect pos- ¢ibly the cure of one or two. ---------------- Overcomes Premature Grayness. Dr. Dawson's Hair Restorer renews the life and lustre of the hair and re- stores 'the natural color without dy- ing it. A perfect hair tonie and dress: ing. In bottles, 50c., at Wade's Drug Store, . : Book-Binding. 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