PEERRREEERREREIEEIERED dents taking the Medical Couneil py CEREEEREE amination, and failed. Why should a high fee ($100) be demanded when the money is not needed ? It js part of a! game to keep men out of the profes sion, to make it the calling of the rich. It is is time the council died. | Its ywefulness is past. t GROUCHERS IN THE FIGHT. The conservative press announces that Mr. Sifton is with Mr. Borden in this election and after a confer ence between them Mr. Sifton issued a manifesto on his own account. He esnnot very well retreat from the position which be took some ikme ago a¥ an opponent of the trade agreement, but he shows less courage than a man of his stamp is expected ~~ BIBBYS mg Men's and Boy's Departmental Store nN YEAR DAIL BRITISH WHIG, published ta For TE git 2.30 rio, SAr, ons d 4 o'clock n an m. WEEKLY BRiTisH WHIG, 16 pub ed in on u hg P & year. ns malls price > Dally $3 Is ona o the best Job Print. ces ; rapid, stylish cheap nine proved s/ SOOO] 2 TEV The Montreal Star Quebec the party system has says that in col | work; OD COC) ve ® A SPECIALTY None but the most skill- ful workmen treat these . . Razors during the process } of manufacture. Edelweiss . . .. $2.00 King Cutter Others as Tow as BOe. Satisfactory or money re- turned. Hardware , CORBETT, 022d $000000000000000000000 Sec. Treas. TORONTO OFFICE. Suite 19 and 20 Queen City Shan. ers, 32 Church Bt, Toronto. Smalipeice, J. P., representative, Daily Wig. LOUD TALK OF MONEY, A million dollars for campaign pur- poses, agsinst reciprocity, in the next Canadian election, So the rumour goes. Half the sum from the reform tariff party of England, whose leaders have essayed to subdue Laurier, and the other half from the American pa- per makers who want to see nothing that will restrain them in their fleee- ing process. Talk of your Apglo-Am- erican alliances, This is the most unique of them all, and is the more astonishi when it is remembered that the Edglish and American sub scribers to the reptile fund are actu- ated by entirely. different motives. One is inclined to doubt some things he hears. The financing of the conserva- tive party has been left, in this elec tion, with the Anti-Reciprocity League, presses. Tb hg, PC, Lin Leman A, € Lath, Asphalt Roofing, Builders' Brick, Portjgf@fiCement, Land Tile, Quality' Lumber, Silo Material. Shingles, ree S. Anglin & Co. Office and Yards: 'Cor. Bay and Wellington Sts. PO0O000H00000000000000 Not Long Ago We Wrote One of Our Customers G000000000 0000000000000 00COORROTS 5d Yold Tibi It Was abael time fe d Yor thefyas service we installed summer. We were greatly sur- prised when he replied, "1 wasn't a that I owed you anything. You told me that the gas would pay for ftself fn six months. and it Is ston a year now since 1 had it pul nt That was one op us alright, so we will have to be earéful what we say, sbut we still throw out the challgnge that it. is the CHEAPEST, CLEANEST AND MOST CONVENIENT OF FUELS, COOK WITH GAS. Light, Heat & Power Dept. ¢. C. FOLGER, Gen. Mgr. For Health Drink McOurthey's Ale and Porter. It's the best. Agent, R. J. LAWLER ¢ Notice Strangers and Visitors are invited to inspect my big show- of Antique Furniture. X Sultable prices. Best quality. Cor. Princess asd Chatham Sts. : 'Phone 1045, i$ Buy ae Sell all kinds of X win Furniture. Highest prices. ¥ | deficits in the Canadian postal service EI Mulock there was a new experiehce, a g | better 8 | ficits disappeared. The Canadian pos- nd it was so poor that it shipped its literature by the ton to Ottawa, so that Hon. Mr. Sifton's frank might be used in saving it the postage. This is usually the resort of a bankrupt party. Using the people's mails for the carriage of campaign stuff that is hardly "good enough for the fire ! That does not comport with the dig- nity of mei who are reported to be so wealthy that they are willing to make of half a million a noise at a cost dollars. NEEDS (OM THE HOUR. Responding to appeals from the premiers of Alberta and Saskatche- wan, and from The boards of trade in several business centres, the gov- ernment of Canada, one of its last acts before dissolving parliament, passed an order according to which conl will be admitted into western Canada free. a strike that has been on for wiuch there does not appear fo be ady signe of a tlement. These threatened fuel fdimines made clear things: 1) That compulsory srbitration is needed and would be had at once if public option were obtainable through a referendum, and (2) that sooner or later the govern- ment must operate the coal lands it liolds as a national possession, and |t for the good of the people. There |t two 1 force an' adjustment of their ences, and that force would lie in the law of compulsory arbitration. There has do be some guarantee of a fuel supply, and it can only be had when the national government develops its coal mines as a national under- taking. For these great people of Canada are at present long- ing. t t A STROKE OF BUSINESS. things. Time was when the annual}i were so heavy that it came to be un derstood this was the normal or ex- pected condition. The exhibit durify the conservative regime, and under was very of postmasters, : there came a change and with Sir William conservative bad. Then government, and cheaper "service. - The de- tal department has been able to ac complish many and great reforms, be- cause it has had the money. The United States postal service has passed through a similar experience. It was running behind many millions a year. The outlook was alarming. Hitchcock. He managed the Taft elec- tion and proved his ability to do things. In two years and a half the deficits vanished. The receipts in ex- candidate in any constituency than they will acknowledge premier of Casada to-day. Both have professed an abiding friendship for the grand old man, and both are playing a cowardly part in aiming blows him behind his back. come out into the open, and they do oot fight fairly. their is 4 reason that has been stated. the strike in the western coal mines, |Wa. Rogers and Sifton ! ee four |Deautiful 'combination for you. What | ithe, and one in connection with | Bas united these sworn enemies ? boons the|®Mtrapped by a popular against But that is just what it has done. Its tion It makes a difference who is running fworst of it. It has been misguided in dismay. Not in East Middlesex, to exhibit when he Heclives to hea and to invite the electors to pass & upon his course. / It was a conservative who, hailing from the west, recently observed that Mr. Sifton could not go back to 'Lrandon and seek re-election there, He had a warning, in that he had outlived his popularity, and be had pot then taken a stand against reciprocity and so ended his usefulness as a representative western consiftuency. the last election, of a Mr. Sifton and Mr. Bourassa are apparently two of a kind. They reach- ed distinction by the shortest route, ond as allies and supporters of Wilfrid Laurier, and then both, reasons which have been inferred, not stated, turned on their leader, Sir for The wime minister is a man of the type f Sir Jobn Magdopald, in many respects, but he is not like the old leader of the conservative one regard. of the men who have been ed with him politically. [shows what the old chieftain did | whea Mr. him, and public opinion seemed endorse his judgment, party, in He is most considerate associat- History Chapleau turnéd against te Siiton and Bourdssa owe more to the at 'I'ney do" not In order that the wople may. judge of the nature off] canse they should tell what s the matter with them, for there apart. from any issue EDITORIAL NOTES, Hon. Bob Rogers, of Winnipeg, is said tp have journeyed to Ottawa to consult with Mr. Sifton in managing This is occasioned by [the conservative campaign from Otta- There's a 5 A Mr, Biftbn was announced as an op- ponent of Hon. Mr. Grabam, in Brock- ville, of Hon. Mr. Murphy, in Russell. He will not be a candidate anywhere. s he afraid of the people ? He is not going into retirement, in sulky mood, without a cause, What is it? The member for West Elgin has been ouring the constituency and telling he people what a bad mmn Laurier has to be some 'power, outside of the |i®, and what a bad thing is his trade unions of capitalists and laborers, to |agreement. differ- | heard his campaign in West Elgin and fires The other side will be from when the premier opens he heather. the dissolu- "the sop- The Spectator, before ion of parliament; hoped position would not allow itself to be prejudice popular issue." a possibly sbstruction has precipitated an elec in which it will surely get the ts action. . The Montreal Star appeals to the conservatives of Ontario not to : de- sert or oppose the two liberals who talked against the n the commons--Mr. German, of Wel- trade agreement land, and Mr. Lloyd-Harris, of Brant- ford. dence of the liberal party. They are free to run as independent or conser- vative candidates. = Both have forfeited the confid- ---------- The late member for St. Mary's di- vision, of Montreal, and a candidate for re-election, Mr. Martin, challenges Mr. Bourassa with him. And Mr. Bourassa declines. to contest the riding He wants to be a common soldier in There seemed. {o be no hopé of ending [the battle, a fighter of the Boer the shortages except by cutting off [stamp and firing upon his former some of the rural mail free deliveries. |friends, - the liberals, from _amMush. But a business man took hold--Mr. Brave man! The conservative party, it is said, is united in this election. Where ? Not in St. Thomas, for there a labour and a conservative, is to run, to Mr. Crothers' for there the great and only E. T. Essery is tempting the fates, to the jmminent danger of a party defeat. He is _push- ing Peter Elson, late member, aside. Mr. Fielding read from the records of the house, and from the reports in the papers, about the visit to Otta- uarty is concerned. My. Monk and Mr. Bourassa have formed an alli- ance, and Mr. Borden is willing to! abide by what they may do. But they | are not running the conservative par- | ty, and it has been abandoned in| Quebec by Mr. Borden. Verily the | party system has collapsed. i No Chance of Success. Ottawa Free Press. Even conservative members private ly admit that they do not think the party has much chance of victory in the coming contest although they count on considerably reducing the government's majority. ,. Publicly, of course, for tactical reasons, they pro- jess confidence that the: outcome will be the defeat of the government. Mr. Borden probably sincerely believes that he will win, but older political heads among his followers do not share in his rosy dreams sand al ready are discussing what will hap- pen when he comes back after sui testing afiother defeat. His personal) desire to leave the storm and stress of politics for what he has little } inclination Will probably be gra- Indeed, it is confidently as by Nova Scotia liberals that Mr.) Borden, with the junior member badly beaten' there, The present projanciahy electitns are one indica- tion of that. -------- Tom Paine's Fireplace. 1t has long been a mystery to the admirers of Thomas Paine as to what became of the fireplace in the Paine homestead at New Rochelle, N.Y. now known as the Deveaux house, which is situated in a beautiful park on North avenpe of that city and maintained as a Huguenot memorial by the Huguenot Association. We have 4 several yedrs carried on a painstaking search for this bit of household utility, and have at last discovered the fireplace in the beauti- ful home of Walter Bell at Woodbury, Coun.; also the Franklin stove, used by the great champion of freedom, both of which are now treasured pos: sessions of Mr. Bell, and may - be seen by those interested in these re- lica.--Magazine of American History. Rideau Lakes Nav, Co.. Limited. Steamers leaye for Ottawa every Monday, Wédnesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 6 a.m, For Cla, , every Tuesday, Wednes- day; Friday "and Saturday, at 6.15 p.m. Jones' Falls and return, every Wed- nesday and Saturday, at 6 am. Fare for round trip, 50ec, James Swift & OCo., agents. , J. P. Hanley, agent. : A Warm Conservative Testimony. Guelph Mercury The Windsor Record quotes Joseph Durocher, who had been a life-long conservative of Sandwich West, in Fesex county, as declaring that eighty per cent. alythe farmers . in, that county 'wand - roeity with = the United States. | Hé further says © "We want the American market Not only do I believe that dghty per cent. of the Fasex 'counly farmers favor reciprocity, but 1 am confident that the Ontario farmers as a gen- eral rule are friendly towards the measure, What 1s true of Ontario may be said of the farming classes of all the other provinces of the do- minion."" Religious. New Yerk Life Bishop Mallalieu, apropos of queer creeds that spring up from time to time, said in Auburndale the other day of a coronation visitor : "Well, 1 hope when he comes back he won't bring any more. new religions with him." "Oh, no fear of that, bishop. The custom house is too strict," an Au burndale physician remarked. 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For my part, 1 would pre jer the paper before it went through the press and was covered with mms representations and lies, which seems to be the chief feature of the Mon treal Star, and if we-must go to the great expense of an election, and as the county sends a rvepresentive to re- present the county and the city sends a representive to represent the city, let us be up and doing, and send a man of the maiority of our calling, a farm- We have been misrepresented long enough by representives claiming that they were practically farmers. The only difference 1 find between the prac- tical farmer and the farmer is that onb farms the farm, while the other farms the farmer. We want an independent, not a talking machine with one of those cheap Borden records that takes two hours of valuable time in the house of commons trying to handle a question he knows nothing about. Tt makes the farmers smile to see the re marks he made and sent out in a pamphlet to the farmers®n the com- pari of prices on the hog market of United States and Canada. The doctor trying. to represent the farmers puts the average farmer in mind of two babies playing toy soldier, with pop guns in as much as they talk so much, and know so little of the susject they are trying to handle: Every farmer in Canada knows that United States with its corn fed stands four or five as rogards guality and price, Denmark leading with Eng- land and Canada second and United States following generally from a half to one and 5 half cents a lower than the best any farmer could tell. The minute he would examine the low grices of pork which was barley or pea fed, and which was corn fed, as the latter produces small yellow ker- nels all through the pork from the size of a kernel of corn to the size of a walnut and which is very objectionable motto be vote for 5 farmer or nome G. 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