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Perhaps you "Know of gomebody who saved money not Buying & Bold briek, but-that's not progress, that's simply standing still, wand standing still is really going backwards, You make no Progress when you simply say you don't believe the arguments that we put forward in connection with the Many advantages derived bv the « if gas for cooking The question Is "In ft true?" You ballet or dishellef has nothing to do whatever with the facts. It is dis- tinetly up to us to, pruve that we are telling you facts 'an we do it? Vv ean ro indispt bh, hile evidence of hundred: of 'users of gas for cooking Put it up to us to deliver the guods. LIGHT, HEAT & POWER DEPT. FOLGER, . General Manager. Dr. Martel's Female Pills EICHTEEN YEARS THE STANDARD Prescribed and fecommended, for women's ments, a scientifically prepared remedy of proven worth, The result from their use is quick and permancat. For sale at all drug stores. WAH LONG'S LAUNDRY first-class work guaranteed. Drop me a card and I will call promptly ed your laundry. 1565 WELLINGTON ST. wiween Brock and Clarence Sts. MAY SALE OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE Now going on., Come in and gee my-big range of offerings, and the reduced prices for this month only. Will buy or ; furniture, ete, _ L. LESSES, Cor. Princess and Chatham Sts. "Phone 1045, CC, sell all kinds of There is a lot In It, if a name stands for Honest Trading, 'That's what : |OUR NAME : aly stands for IN THE COAL TRADE | presses, 9) THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY. MAY" 20, 1911. wns material beg gan soon alter possession was taken, and it is still in progress. It was shown, too, that the gas ex- tensions wince 1907 were made hy order of the that they represent capital they made with money bank at five per cent. The situation demands prompt tention and to the end that 'the busi- ness of the department may be regu: lated according te modern ideas practice." What does the situation sug est ? 2 THE WHIG, 78th YEAR DAILY Bi ITISH 'WHIG, published at 306-310 King Street, Kingston, On. tario, at '$8 Wad 2. Editions at 23 ana 1 UrTorR pom WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG, 18 pages, pub hed iri parts on Monday and Thursday morning at $1 a year. To United States. charge for postage had te be added, making price ot Dally $3 and of Weekly $1.50 per ye Attached is one of the best rob Print. ing Offices in Canada; rapid, stylish and cheap work, nine improved eguncil, expenditure, that borrowed from. the wera at The British Whig Rablishing Co., Limited J. G. Xitlloy wild, Seer and Leman Sec. Treas. TORONTO OFFICE. 19 and 20 Queen City Cham- Church St, Toronto. H BE J.P representative, of 212.000, and saved Suite ern, 32 Sthallpeice, 'Daily Wing. SCALPING THE PEOPLE. Canadian parliament may (a) The surplus at. the end of 1910, the éarnings, of departments, should be put into a de There apportionment or ap- from the gas' and electric preciation fund, the whole of it. has been no propriation of moneys for depreciation plants passed into B18,000 The not jausoond in doing anything with regard merger, but "% can so Bhat the Cana show purposes since the the contol of the city, now is not a very large sum. (b) A fixed policy tablished ciation fund--that is fixed so far as it {to the cement and regalate the -duty {dian consumer will have some as the Canadian producer. ot it should be es with regard to this depre las well | When this merger was was figured that the trade of Canada fwas about 4,000,000 barrels a year, and the profit should be 37,000,000, Cement Jin" be profitably manufactur 'ed at ' &[ per barrel. Under the com- bine the price went up to £1.50 per or its equivalent when sold duty has can be with a changeable committee, The water department "had a fixed policy, and the council, in its distress, would of troubles of in its need of money which it not raise by robbed it 210,000, the intake pipe are accumulating, and costing thousands of dollars, ghere is A repetition vw taxation, and now that the barrel, Ly the bag, and the bees ubout Hc, per barrel. The amount of thus duty added to. the selling price, the protection a serious deficit in sight. of that experience is not desived, ani Las been |, ; - ae it would not occur if the public utili and it rn ties. were managed by a commission that wos run merits, without vies Df sthe te) The tal ~acedunt of gdebentures presents which Canadian government paternally give: A per barrel, enable them: upon their regard to the exigen to a Canadian business, lowe: duty; of say 25e. to ample, and it would council. would the consumer to find some escape from the actions of a heartless wonopoly. 1 is this feathire of expenditure. made on capi should he met by the Whe for ba the insye at once, shduld a permanent investment, he business which of over 825.000 wer $265,000, 3 ] mains and services, parliament should investigate, Can ad 3% had, with toms' law, the power. to make loaded without limit, and with in ot i us ¥ connection its cu cost of -a bank's discount account ? u (d) The cated so earnestly. by Manager Feolgeb, should be undertaken as dis gas improvements, advo: crithinations when any combine pre sumed to burden the peoplejand ther: So. far they mean the restoration of the plants they should be of the depreciation 'account, and it would he be the the capital be provided in now, was undoubted evidence of the fact. It is true that this law There the has neve: met out always The ce made heen enforced. was some diflienlty in way. very gratifying if' this cost" can borne without bank. plant ment merger appears to have borrowing from indicate that bein: plain its plans, and they, Whatever is needed to get, the scalping of our people is done in an open and flagrant manner cad only come from parliz It is the people's hope, aml not be disappoint in first-class shape, on should The cannot hope for cheaper power and light while the institution is handicapped as it is at present. Finally, the city council will make a serious mistake if it trifles with the vates and revenue at the present time. It would be a nice|thing to wipe out the meter rentals. Can the depart ment afford this ? Those who under- stand the position account, an- Redress other way. consumers ment. this hope should od, PUBLIC SERVICE FREAKS, Complaint is made in the Nation, which is a socialist paper, that th: benurocracy--the permanent official: wf the imperial government--are i - ing all the trouble possible to th government. "There is not," says our contemporary, "a 'liberal or la | what men have to say. bor member of parliament engaged in a : ' social reform who does not feel th EDITORIAL obsfruction of an unsympathetic and| Watertown and | chloride of eithe: with of affairs say not, and the mayor and the aldermen will be acting judiciously if they listen to these NOTES. is trying. a ealcium often antagonistic bureaucracy, for the treatment of street PM ) * reels There when Here the department could enquire about to advantage. is hardly a statesman has there party concern the gradual the old traditions of impartial loyal ty and 'obedience in the public of fices, and the appearance of a and olaims it as a great success. noted it not disappearance. « who is no dust is used. i something works -- I'he new crusade has reached Peal. It men to sell Mon. aims at | PR willed arrogance in" official of stron, adapting the judgment departments are better than +hut the evil is growing ant! where liberal of i administered ¢haracter or unbalanced the religious and unselfish Some work which is the legitimaté privilege How evangelistic others; of "the Christian religion. rt it is growing especially ; for the benefit masses has to be men whose personal feelings and: 8lasa get men into service, Ser legislation vice, has been the problem all through by | the years Lancaster, M1.) is farmers whase desire Mr. the again after loyalty are against them." The old idéa; and the correct is that the takes ceases to be a politician. He on, pase to. organize iden offic doe gnd becomé a power in' the land Mr. man who despises, Lancaster calls sot uwbandon his conclusions ing events. cise his judginent and express it BUT he a political agent," and should not to oppose or betray thé members bf the | and ths work in which théy sre engaged. 'The - British tem has been to retain the public of He is expected to exer is his vote. is not Assume govermment Sve ficials during thé period of their ef v,' during sutceseive ments, presumably upon their effi ciency: and impartiality. It looks as if the time i8 chming, if it has alrendy arrived, when the members of the government, in order to secure loyal support, must dlear out the public offices of those who will not perform their duty in a fair and pro per manner, Tl The liberals of Canada have suffer from the disloyalty of certain mem- 'bers of the civil service. During the Mackenzi regime it was felt "that the ministers were being antagonized by some of their servants, and the Lau- rier 'government has had, in the. dis cussiovs in the house and by the opposition, the evidence. that some of the "departmental st afi have been | ficiency, govern, i not las, R. Langdon. Middle row W, C. Reid, W. Simmons. McBroom, 8. Toland. shown infants, bahies; young things that do not know what they want. No? He may think different]y when they get of [rer Wim 4 Tittle athe wid demand his sealp. a) - Testing the eT ie a which prize fight pictures ars forbidden in the five cent theatres ? That's what going on in Toronto. Disputing the right of the local government to do it likes. - Therd's audacity fm = you, ---- 3 On June 14th the people ofn Nova Seotia will and the torie® will have a increase their membership. They five representatives to the' three of the Yiberal parity. of Tupper and Howe how this thing continue ? * or have thirty: Shades Jong Hon. gue of Sir James Whitney,' the women that they will be the right to vote when "the majority of them have showed themselves - to But Sir James does not promise or say that, The place for them, in his opinion, is the nursery and the kitchen. : The conservative 'members of according to one member, who expressed his suspicions with the concurrence of the party, believe that the € NR. is supplying the libe- with election fands, but. dare A repetition Suspicious, but assures giv en Le in favour of it, the commons, rals not make a clfarge. the Oliver experience. afraid. A characteristic attitude of the tory party. ol ---- Hon. Frank Oliver denies that the interior department has undertaken to import girls from Dritain with the object of marrying them to the young farmers of Western, Canada. Sut what is there about the business of ed ? Can it do better than supply the settlers with suitable wives ? in the newes provinces Winchester, Torontd, has! $500 a year extra for his | Judge been given Services as a police Thera is a tendency the judges to refuse to serve missionerd without pay, sbut of all the cities has offered ward them for the duties by the legislature. Of course servieq is not compulsory. conumissioner, the part as com- on Toronto to re imposed the The opposition beld up the C. N. R.! agreement re the Fort William-Moy- treal branch and the guaranteeing of the bonds to the extent of $35,000 let il purpose, per mile--for a day--and then . fo go through. Grouching to no if the deal thing has a suspicion of any why the still wrong about it was proposition not opposed fur- ther and a division taken upon it? Capt. be the service 1s to to I'he veteran Lesslie his service though been appreciated. congratulated of on city Toronto his "He raised intake doek its has not he broken and ipo for im dislodged delivered = it the while the eouncil, ertising and dismissing him. The eritici®ing and at repairs, in patience, was his work men who hss work patience, was now owe him an apdlogy. . Mark Twain's Works. I vou are interested in obtaining a complete set of all his books at one: hali the former price on the easy pay- ment plan it will cost nothing to get full particulars and a new thirty-two them *° Edgar, B. Ba num: R. Bowron, Bottom row--N. Knapp, J. Perrymag, G. McBroom, E. Simmons, page book. 'Little Stovies About Mark Twain." Address Box british Whig office." * YMCA. JUNIOR | EADERS CORPS. Some of these boys 'are going (ut to Inverary to contribute an item Kingston's at their Empire D y Celebration. Top row, jeft to right--J. Evans R. McGillivray, C. Esford. D. Doug- | advanced leader; A handing out information of '4. doubt: ful or biased character. The spoils' Sysiem is not to he encouraged, but 'some features may mot be « avoided. IA clean sweep of any office is war- ranted when its occupants do nol prove that, they are entitled to the 1 confidence of their superiors. re SOME. TIMELY REFLECTIONS. J * The Whig has shown in two articles, appearing in the issues of Thursday snd Priddy, Tha th Sh in} % Town of Pembroke, Ont. '. 4%% Debentures Mataring April 3ed, 1941. 'Denominstion $1,000. At an Attractive Rate: elect a new legislature, | chance to | will | Mr. Lucas, the latest collea-| : { which the government can be asham of 409, Specialists . in diseases of Skin, Blood, Nerves, Bladder and Special All ments of me One a advisable § it mpossible, send history for free 'opinion and ad. vice Question blank and .book oa of men free. Consultation furnished in tablet form. Hours: 10 am. to 1 pm, sod 2 te 6pm Sundays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. {| . 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Correspondence Invited, Direet 'Private' Wire to our Malan Of- fice, 54.56 Broad St, New York, '$ The Man - : On Watch. : {| Both t godly and ungodly would have held up both hands last Sabbath for the watering of the town roads on that day, so thick and annbying was the dust. The Lampman can see only { good resulting from Sunday street watering. When it is admitted to be right to do good on the Sabbath day, he can see no reason why the town council should not authorize its foreman of streets to order out . the water waggons to lay the dust and make things a little more pleasant for the people. The cost would be trifling, and the Lord's Day Alliance would not dare utter a word in opposition. Last Subbath night, the Lampman took a walk about the town and was surprised at the number of people he BAW their door steps when they might have been in their church pews Of course, all Kingston dees not go to charch, because, if it did there | woulld not be room enough in the re | ligious edifices. on The Lampman has been wondering if the new officer commanding this military district is fond of nice green lawns, If he is, the Lampman would} recommend to him that have his district prepare plans and spacifications Tor the improvement of the 'unsightly gronnds in front of the town armouries. lis predecessors had not the landscape eve of Lieut.-Col Kent, or they would Have set the caretakers to to beautify the surroundings of other cities have surround ing. them, not: be tidy enginect work The armouries nice green plots Why at éan Kingston's least ¥ made school vote | new | that - a public board member received $100 to for a-property pure hase. for a school has never been taken lv. Who in Kingston would be tenough tp offer a bribe of £100? cept around election the iman doubts if there any {here.. The town councilmen, he do not know enough to graft | they did, they would have had road {pavement herd long ago. The fact that Kingston has no road pavement shows "that its councilmen are not | boodlers. | The rumor serious liberal a1 Ex | Lamp | bribery | sav, If | time, shy Lampman re ed roads does not prove that | i [ Just because Kingston has no pav tt up-to-date, the | marks. He still holds that welllaid Hjem roads with "an asphaltic finish 'are good enough for any street {in this town. Kingston has 'stone at her doors; she is built, on rock, and it | seems like "carrying toal to New- } jcastle" to bring. expensive paving | material hore. Western towns which pave have no 'stone. UH thes had «apply, they would not ipave their roadways. {| The Fampman's comment a week iago on a church dignitary and an | jauto car was far from being intended | Las a reflection upan a certain frelate, | 'as hay been sugpested by some pood people. It was intended as a critichem lof a writer's statement that an auto {car was "in keeping with his high. and holy office." The words quoted form feel the basis of the comment, not the "fact of a prelate riding in an auto ear. Clerics have to travel in even i more. elaborate conveyances than such 'ears, vir., railway cosches. The famp- | man's atiention having . beet: called to this matter, he desires 16 s8y that his comment was intended to be pure- ily impersonal, ~THE TOWN JAN HMAN, Infpure Blood. 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POPULAR PRICE SHOEMAN EE Who Paid That Hamilton Herald Your cgnvinced free you that the consumer pays the that he must pay it, that he get out of it, that the dpty ix al ways added to the price paid by the consumer, Sometimes a plain, home ly fact comes into contact with the tred trade theory----and the theory suf fers. N. P. Hull, master of the (irange, was a member. of a tion of farmers which waited the tariff committer of to protest against i cipracity agreement, hie Lof the spokesmen {ov the 'deputation He told a story to back up hie | contention that the American would suffer and the Canadian farmer would gain by reciprocity in natural products. He had attended a public meeting in an Ontario town; he said, had Histone? to anti-recipro | -------------------- ity" will dut can't trader tell Michigan deputa upon the re | one congress the and was farmer an L hy | dex lers' {viming dust buff, agriculture lad divnce said In spite wnt to ship my | paying nm i -- - city addiess fron "Hoo J. S Ontario's ister Wheng the farmer in alt you would mir minister gol the a cay | w enable me through ar of reciprocit it ta Detroat duty, per ed." No doubt every in Déiroit those Canadian consumers, duty--that' they the burden, but those lambs was increased the duty, per centage of profit on without the The head that 1 now charg free trade tell the lambs that paying eaoulan'y the would con the the \ ner were possibl the selling price not ibe. but also b he tut the old better. - Ontario farmer knew ally done bi leane® * "No Housecleaning eetsnomi Milpe's "Phone Yacunm 52 RIVER, GULF AND SEA Down: the nob famed for iis points through the nen, there world miore wire, BLACK DIAMOND 5. id sailings rent By wervies Idbrary, Co Rall Bor ok rigs - -- ade Age to-day for Filust atid free, Lawrence River, poo Fong henuts, and with great historient interest, Gulf and inte the open trip im the Rierest, plea. Ae of - and enjoyment: and He from (rip iendid catein 51. Board. exee «comfort ard vonvent James. Music, ste. . BEY an at Mant raul onde: KR. & O Nav Co ae any o% Are reassnsbie fet, camers Ros every An 'WH le Tie ket Write wi ney. 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