I A | { kd . 3 ao "le Ne = PAGZ FOUR. » THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, MARCH te, 1ofo. A sien, . same buy it in Halifax or Vancouver or anywhere between, because the tins preserve flavor and aroma. Hardwood Slabs Price $5. 50 a Cord De- livered to Your House Best value in the city. No edgings. All sound, thick slabs, cut from live timber, the pro- duct of our saw mill S. Anglin& Co. "Fhone 06, NEW wid ah SPRING SUITS JUST IN, Beown and Grey Wor. Patterns. Latent style, Prices, $10, $12 and Blue, Green sted Fancy Best of tailoring $16, Our $16 Sant taflor-made suit Hoots and 8fces at 1p per cent. off . ISAAC ZACKS, 271 PRINCESS STREET. i® superior to the best """CIif's Real Estate Agency ESTABLISHED 1882. Where you can Buy or Sell Property. Also Insurance written in best companies. GEO. CLIFF, 85 Clarence St. 2 & FOS TUT DR Sa Cleaning Your Kids vo Our way of cleaning kid gloves has been proven by long exporienge Ja be the best. No offensivd "6dor left "on the gloves. | St, Kingston, Out. EEC Ae 'Must Burn OUR COAL to i rd i It is known as 'on passing events out loud, read that | shipping '| licity to what they withessed. " emphatic and stringent enforcement of THE WHIG; 77th YEAR DAILY BRITISH WHIG, published at 306-310 King Street. Kingston, Ontario, at 3s PT year. Editions at 2.30 and 4 CERRY BRITISH WHIG, 18 = published in parts on Monday an Thursday morning at United States, charge to be added makin Pe of Daily $3 and of Week! iy $1.5 Attached is one of the Does "job Print- ing Offices in Canada; rapid, stylish, and cheap work; nine improved presses. The British Whig Publishing Co., Lod. EDW. J. B. PENSE, Managing Director. TORONTO OFFICE. Suite 19 and a Queen City Cham- bers, 32 Church Bt, Torcnto, HA E Smalipelce, Ten representative. Daily Whig. DEMAND FOR HORSE FLESH. Mr. Haycock, who is now an active and useful government official, and not giving to expressing his thoughts or postage nad the British government had fovbid- den the export of old horses, and he remarked, sententiously, "England short on horses and long on navy." "The remark called attention to condi- tions of a most remarkable character. News came to the London Daily Mail that the regulation of the board of agriculture had been ignored and that great eruelty was being practiced in to Holland and Belgium many of the animals whose age or abuse "had rendered them unfit for ser- vice. So a member of the Dally Mail stafi and the secretary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, investigated. They went to Antwerp and gave pub- The on England. report was a serious reflection "The purpege of the present enquiry," said the Mail, "is to report on the state of the traffic in the séabon of Tough seas and when the demand for horseflesh Yay the Belgian butchers and sausage makers is at its height." The result was a denunciation of the traffic ard an ap- peal to put an end to what they call- ed 'England's shame.". The boats wore seen: to dump their awful cargoes at Antwerp, the horses being blind, lame, aged, exhausted and bleeding. Some of them were unable to tra- verse the distance from the quay to the slaughter stables. Some were dragged along the streets, limping and gasping, Some were killed on the wharf and drawn to the stables. In one cargo over thirty were found dead at the end of the water passage. The secretary of the anti-cruelty society said his experience was too horrible to think or write about. There was a public meeting in Lon: {don when the Daily 'Mail gave its ex- : Wonuieo and at this meeting the | Duke of Portland, who presided, con- fessed that no fewer than 50,000 poor, asppled, old horses were "ammually thelr cruel fate on the con- tinent."" And such was tho indigna- tion which was evoked that the de- partment of agriculiure ordered an sent to the law agpinst the traffic. Mean- while, in the commons, Lloyd-George is challenged when he speaks of the carrion that is sold in Germany. He cited. from 'the statistics of the Chem- pitz slaughter houses that 646,000 Tbe. of horse flesh had been sold for con { sumption in the previous year, and 150,000. Ibe. of dog. The chancellor of the exchequer was warranted in | protesting against the social condi- | thom of Germany and England being | The subjtt is an of put an contrast. ! interesting one for the students | ECONOMICS, -------------- ' | ANNUAL FINANCIAL, SCARE. The annual. panic at the city hall has set in, and some of the aldermen are contributing to it. It is given out that large demands are being dade upon the council; and that the only way to meet them is te do some extraordinary act which the situa- tion "does 'not justify. Certain things ! are alleged te bo necessary, to wit: | Additions must. be erected "to the i General Hospital and the Orphans' Home in order to meet the wants of the days the city ball, or the north ern wing of it, must "be reconstrit:ted so that the public offices may have modern conveniences, amd that mo- doin ways of heating may be intro duced, the school board has an ex- | travagant streak upon 'it {so report 'says), and the streets and other de have _dlaborate schemes access to a plethoiie all partments which imply bank account. Let us look at lis for a moment. \ Larger and rapidly growing 'cities have revenues which meet thelr in- creasing wants. If our city were add- ing a million or two a year to the assessable property the "council watld bo excused if iv dipped into sn oc casional extravagance. ~ But &¢ cen: not do that now. There is absolute- ly mo. warrant for it. Granted {the public charities of the city fn need of mew accommodation, generosity ? wealthy people. =. there not such a thing as private Toronto, with all its wealth, feels it necessary to enbourage' and depend po the gifts of « its Kingston has ifs eich citiofhs, its men who can, if they | 0 would be well, of course, to fit them up with the opulence whith a bank displays, but if the money is not available the improvements can be deferred. As for the school board it does not meditate any attack mpon the city finances which will be alarm- ing. The increases in salary--mado necessary to get and retain compe- tent teachers--do not assume undue proportions; and .as for the sanitary work which the property committee contemplayes §t can be met by a very smali addition to the debenture debt. "}1t is as well that the situation can be surveyed calmly, and that Bo one, without cause, indulge in pobitical bys feria. According to the report of the works" department the streets are to be improved with money raised on the local improvement plan. It ap pears to be the most equitable man- ner of meeting a just Mability, and the chances are that it will be ap- proved by the council, There is, therefore, no need of tak. ng the funds which have been saved by the (tonomies of the water electric light departments. The pub- lic utilities should be managed so that the people will receive their wa- ter and light and power at the low- est possible cost. If the receipts will warrant a further cut in the rates let it be applied, but the city should be financed without any plundering on any account. Let it be remenibered that ample aad sufficient depreciation accounts should be maintained, and that with, the earnings over and above that necessary improvements' should be made. 'Then the issue of some debentures would be avoided, © and the average citizen certainly does not believe if paying 81 sn interest fof every dollar that is borrowed by the city for twenty years. and tp -- -., EDFFORIAL NOTES. As soon as the city commences to milk the public utiliies--and milk them dry--the troubles of the council will have begun in Jn earnest, The Wholesale rom' Guild won in the case against them, for alleged con- spiracy, but their defence cost 812. 000. It takes a lot of money to es- tablish one's innocence sometimes. -- Canada should have an agent Washington, one who can be found when he is wanted, and who can act quickly. Communication via Downing street is a little.slow for this age. in The hotkey clubs will own the town this evening. They will be in dress parade in the opera house, and the boys will be out to see that they get all that is coming to them in the waywf bouquets. The closure is very much wanted iu the commons. The waste of time and public money in the naval "discus. sions' is enormous. .And the cost will be increased if a key has to. be issued to Hansard, seeing that some. of the speeches have to be interpreted before they can be understood. So the progressives are again in command in the London county coum cil. The progressives are the men who experiment in social questions, They were defeated by alleged reformers in the last elections, but the reformers proved to be back numbers, and have been sent into retirement.' Ss ---- , Xr. Southman paid originally $1,- 250 for an auto, which he sold to the Hydro-Electric Commission for $1,600 through the Automobile Supply com: pany. I4 is hardly necessary to add) that this deal does not look well, and it will be surprising if that blunt man; Sir James Whitney, does not say so. " } The New York Herald intimates that unless the United States is given con- oessions by Canada the maximum au thorized by the. Payne-Aldrich: bill will be, applied. - All right. Let it go at that. The higher the tariff fence be- 'tween Canada afd the United States the more trading will be done Across the horder. The Mail excuses . he _rising expendi- ture of the Ontario government by saying that the money goes to agrict i. ture and railway development and for oletteic Power. Are the municipalities nat eventually to pay for the work of the commission ? If the municipalities were spending thal money, by the way, | would not be putting any of it into' automobiles. ; More Waik For Them le in our city cannot be © rel t providing more work. ore work will mean more money paid in wages and the of Mo) 4 in Wages means more money : grocegies, 'dry-goods, clothing and a wii the necessities and luxuries of life. All this will come to ue if we pass the shiptpatidlng by-law now hefore (ras. S gigaretion Gibson's Red Cross Drug ore. A man isn't necessak.ly hab headed because he wears a stovepipe Truth is wot to blume robs dr ie wie house, $200,000 for the new wing o corporation. the | Timed it prefer people who have SPIRIT OF THE PRESS A Sign of Weakness. Ottawa Journal » The speaker of the Manitoba house has ordered a speech stricken from the records of the house, and has for- biden the press to puitinh it. Such prohibition can ma hacdl enforced, it being contrary to ge spirit of the times, which says that every word or act of the 's representatives shall be r to the people without let or hindrance. Any other system would be a lapse to. the days when parliamentary government was still in the 'making. ii, How the Money Files. Toronto Globe. The province plans to expend dur- ing the fiscal year ending October 31st 1911, the -- of $7,623,745.66. Of this total the sum of $6,960,845.66 is erodited to curfent expenditures, $535, 900 to capital account, and $118,000 to other purposes. The present year's total estimates are $6,508,004.19, showing an inerease of over one mill- ion. The special large appropriations in- clude $100,000 for a new government of the parliament buildings, $67, 100 for additions and repairs to Osgoode Hall, #50,000 for the new provimeial Lake storage dams, $60,000 for new trunk Toads, $118, 00 for eoloniza- tion roads, $200,000 for the hydro- electric transmission line, and - 000 as n grant towards the provincial museum. Whe Dreadnought Squealers Are. Vancouver Sunset. In effect the conservative party 'is asking Canada to display the white feather for the empire. Canada is be ing asked to advertise to the world our qpinion that the empire is in danger and is umable to take eare of itself in the present situation. If the' leaders of the conservative party in Ottawa could be acctpted as authorities on the question of em pire defence their utterances would make comforting reading in Germany if that country "is really harboring | bes sixh evil igns against the empire as the Canadian comservative party would have us believe. Iv is notewbrthy that on this'const at least the leading Dreadnought fus- sers are not native born Canadians and such Canhglians as are fussing speak English with an acquired ac cent. These people know little of Ca- nadian history and have mo sympa- ihies with Canadian ideals. Not Amounting to Much. Montreal Gazette. . The government has introduced in the Optario legislature a bill to give to muricipalities im the province whigh enters into contracts with elec- tri¢ power companies the right to themselves build electric lines, if the consent' of the railway and municipal board be obtained before an electric railway lays tracks on public streeta, relieving the city of Toronto ils obligations under the con: tract with its street railway com- pany as they have been interpreted by the jddicial committee of the privy Leouncil, giving the railway and muni- cipal board power to remedy condi tions 'op electric rallways in regard to which complaint is made, and pro- viding' that the law 'shall apply not- withstanding any agreement made Le- tween a company and a municipal Contracts with Ontario muvcipalities after this bill becomes law are not likely to be regarded as meaning much. Hi-Luck of the Bakers. Saturday Night. ow any one chances to be a baker 1 ean't imagine, for it! is the one bhusi- ness on eurth that outsiders are con- stantly meddimg with. No sooner does the Ottawa government give up the attempt jo interfere with bakers all over the dominion than our own legislature takes up the talk. Just at present W. K. MeNaught, M.P.P., is endeavoring to make 't uncomfortable for all concerned. He says that people want a smaller loaf. Perhape they do. However, if the legislature would give up meddling ith the bakers for a time the people, through the good old fawg of Lr and demand, would get short weight bread or poor bread, or a loaf tou big or toe small, is going to live in Toronto or in any other centre over long. Like the manufacturer of any other he procession or fall behind, -- aeasion or {all bu. and out and done for.-There would be just as mpioh sense in Jogislating over the site of a hen's eggs, the thickness of the soles on a pair of boots, or the bia measurement of a head of cab- "The bakers from all over the pro: vince are callmg upon the legislature to let them alone, and I for one don't blame hem. That august body 'might Opposition tp the | the Leghintur. Toronto Globe. 'Ihe liberal opposition in the On tario legislature is small in number, {out lierals have never had reason to "alurh for it. it has never agted as if (it bore a grudge aganst the slectors Or pasting 1b an Subusi-on. to has not gome about i question the oar or honesty of its opponents. It has; on the con trary, challenged them on advis- ability and wisdom of acts. It has exhibited a "helpiul spirit period sad dome dae and | Mould conduct prison at Guelph, $15,000 for the Dog | "ox what they want. 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Some Up-to-Date Spring and Summer Goods on Sale this week. their Sndigmation at being in opposi- ton from the housetops from Janu- ary to December. Their standard of uct should be lazgely based on hing the course of the Ottawa op- Indeed Sir James Whitney po Mohjetimes gia. in Parl amen dignit ram wou a leaf from Mr. MacKay's book. A Royal Municipal Commission. Toronto World The World takes the liberty of sug Sir James Whitney, that he appoint a high-class commussion fo report on our miwmcipal institutions, so that in a single act provision can be made for improved city Rovenmeni on the limes of : A paid civic comission Snatend of aldermen A public service utility commission, to take over gas, power, street cars, ete, wii uate financial power. The same commission could report on the expansion of the railway aod municipal - boafd of Ontarws into something like the Public utilities com- mission of the state of New York, with control over the financial opera- twns . of all publie franchise-holding corporations. The world is growing very last these days, and municipsl metitutions need to be brought wp to date. Municipal institutions bave rotten in many places, and something better ought to be tried You ean get business ari. ministration with commissions, you cannot with aldermen, Sir Willimm Meredith, for instance, would make an admirable chairman of such a commission. -- « Is. Good: Tea" Itisalways worth the price slew en _ # rn ww ---- aie price Ca --