PAGE FOUR The British 'Whig ablished Dally and Semi-Weekly by MN BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, J. @, Wott .........00000.. President smax A Guilt. . Managing Director wessensnssnesvanss 343 UBSCRIPTION RATES, (Dally Edition.) Jue year, delivered In City!..... Jaa Jour if pald In advance 6,0 'ear, by all | 3% Jufal offic She ig to ited Three Moning, rata. (Bomi. W epli¥ Edition.) Om mall coves LOO Ome Year, 3 United States ...... L8¢ Si and Three Months, Pro Fata. Attached Is one of the best Job Printing Offices In Canada TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE: EH. BE. bmalipeice- 82 Church St. U. 8 REPRESENTATIVES: New York Office .......226 Fifth Ave, Frank R. rup, Manager. +ssss«Tribune Bldg Frank R. "Northrup, Manager. A PERTINENT ENQUIRY, The one thing about these alleged failutes of conservative papers is how the thing happened with a benevolent government in power at Ottawa, . a government that is passing out its patronage with an unstinted hand? By the way, there is another which the papers no Jonger discuss, Why should government advertising be confined to the party press, or the press which supports it ? There was a time, not #0 long ago, when certain papers, then were asking a liberal government some very nasty ques: tions. One. of them was why ad- vertisements which concerned the whole people, and were paid for out of the people's funds, should be published in liberal papers only ? = The argument along this line was very powerful, and in it, if the Whig recalls the facts cor rectly, the Montreal Gazette led. Is the subject out of order now ? Or is it up for ventilation only when a libgral government is in office ? pont conservative namely, in opposition, The minister of labour sends his de puty to the maritime provinces to propose a settlement of the Inter- colonial railway strike. Why did the minister not go himself ? By the way, he has been two years in office and has yet to show that he has set- tled any strike in Canada: A GOVERNOR ON TRIAL, Canadians are not deeply concerned with American polities, but they can: not he indifferent with regard to what is happening among their neigh bors in New York state. The central figure in wu series of exciting {s. Governor Sulzer, a democrat, but an independent, and engaging in succes- sive controversies until now he and his party, wo far as it is represented by Tammany Hall; are completely out. The difficulties in the wav of = the governor date from his entrance in- to office. He differed with his politi- cal leaders with regard to patronage, and there is no one who allows it to inflaenge him much who can hope to escape the toils eventually. From dissenting to the nomination of partly men the breach extended until "the party in the Jegislature objected to his appointments and nullified them. As the war went on new embarrass- ments went on, Many vears after it is alleged to have occwrred a woman was found who sued for breach of promise of marriage. It was a social scandal for which Tammany was lia- ble. Now a crisis has been reached in the threatened impeachment of the governor for a misuse of election funds. ' While a candidate for office he was the recipient of political eontribu- tions. The law requires a man to acknowledge all he receives and ex: pends in an elections The charges are : [25% That he did not swear to a correct statement of his receipls ; (2) that he handled thousands of dol- lars he did not advertise, and that he used some of it in stock gambling; (3) 'that of the parly funds he apvro- priated to his own use about $20, ono, A committee has the case under con- sideration, and whatever the conelu- sion' of it, the effect will be very un- pleasant for the governor. The ex- perience shows that there is no row so bitter as the political one, and when the politicians quarrel they do not ware who is sacrificed. events A secretary of state billed like a _ circus company to. speak at a sal w in a at fakers fill- with "juice '| number AVOIDING PUBLIC DEBT, Ww. i. Stewart, in the Canadian Courier, discourses upon municipal financing, and contrasts the public debts of the cities of Toronto Mantreal with the public the cities of Detroit, Buffalo, Newark, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. The two Canadian cities have debts of fifty and sixty-seven millions respect- ively. Detroit's is a little over six millions of dollars. The Am- are similarly public debts, and debts oi other favoured the comes erican cities with question naturally arises, this great disparity ? Mr. explains that it lies in the difference of plan on which American and Cana- small and H ow Stewart dian civic government is conducted. The Americans favour the policy oi most of the civie«- improve; ments out of current revenue. The councils or the commissions--and the of commissions is constantly with the idea making increasing---are imbued that the less borrowed for civic improvements the better. As a rule they against public loans, and us a rule the councils have' no need of them since the annual levy, as ap- the hoards of estimates, are proved by contains a sufficient for all purposes during the year, and usually the axes are paid so promptly aftér the dates on they fall that there is money on hand for all necessary lank sum which due purposes, drafts are a rarity, Mr. Stewart, upon it, without makes clear oue other fact--that the system of financing is by far the best that calculates on expatiating very important American The average council borrows large sums sonpally years, as much as Think the many thousands paying, in twenty its loan amounts to in interest. of the thousands, one does not dare to even suggest the amount lest -which this city has expended on interest account gest or approximate it scare the ratepayers in the last twenty-five vears, or since it embarked It is possible to save in usury, is 'the word when municipal command gix per cent., and of Ontario this week of- fered their six per cent. for sale at par. But the saving cannot begin until the city, some time, under a council or a commission, shuts down on the borrowing, drops improvements for a while, and adopts the American principle, and only un- dertakes public improvememts each year for which it has provided the money. Think of the walks Lhat could be put down with the fortunes spent in interest or usury, And on top of the waste--for all money lost on borrowings is waste-- recall the attitude of the banks which the municipalities have patromized so and which, for usury, refuse the in municipal ownesship. for usury bonds two cities bonds well, city the accommodation in requires. The Stewart article Would that each official read it, is all right. civie fall the debt alderman and and, as a result, a meditation as to how. of public into hideous nightmare - might be ended. EDITORIAL NOTES, A bankrupt concern in Brantford cannot pay its taxes, but it has a re who £12000 a year. Something 'wrong somewhere ceiver draws counselled on going to Torom- to, to use the 6 a.m. train. It re peats the admonition. The Trunk is keeping tab on the number of this. particular to report The Whig has Kingston people, already Grand passengers who use train, and will not hesitate if it is mot patronized. Mrs. Rupp had her husband arrest ed in New York because, on the out side of a crowd, he interrupted her sufiragette talk by advice to go home and>mind the kiddies. She had him locked up for disorderly conduet, she broke up 'her home at the same time. She surely is what is called a fool woman. but The battleships provided for by Ca nadian contributions were to be in ad- dition to the increase provided for by the admiralty. Now it is said they were not, and the constrection of three other 'battleships is to be hur ried, with the consent of the govern ment. And the liberal party of Fng- land is said to endorse the conserva. tive policy of Canada. So the Toron- to News says. Has any British ister said as much ? min Scores Napanee School Board. Napanee Express. The school board is losing the ser of U. J. Flach principal of the school for. thicteen vears, and has been uniformly suc lcessful, Under Mr. Flach's guidance the school maintained a high stand- ing and the action of the school board in actording Mr. Flach scarcely gen tlemanly treatment is to be regret. vices Chance For Geologists. Toronto Globe. It is a pity that Uwstario canvot produce suthcient coal to make it m- dependent of the United States, Ier- haps the brilliant galaxy of geolo- gists who are in Toronto at present mhy be able to locate fields here which' will banish the bogey forever. aye. hel X thet a man who is al pin § wif, Athime dur- ing b pn ie ra by his oe Ln as "ag 1s th in re hen- packed clam? { THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1918. ~~ ™ [PUBLIC OPINION] Will It Now? Ottawa Free It will be quite fair to refer to any of Chicago's women policemen as "the Queen of Clubs." Press. ---------------- The Usual Request. Hamilton Times. Huerta refuses to resign, President Wilson refuses to interfere, and un- happy Mexico continues to suffer. The Very Latest. Brantford Expositor. When it comes to looking after the flotsam and jetsam of life's sea there's nothing the matter with Hanna. The First to Fall. Ottawa Journal. Rev. Dr. R. A. Torrey, famous evangelist, says Adam was not the first man. Well' he was the first man to gain any notoriety, anyway. A A High Flier, Montreal Herald. Armand -Deperdussin, the aeroplane inventor, has been arrested for for- gery after running up debts of about seven millions. He was, it appears, fiving a little too high for his 'in come. Criminals' Retreat. Montreal Star, robberies, and riots, to nothing of epidemics of pocket picking and a wide-open Red Light distriet, would indicate that the po- lice' department is being administered to the complete satisfaction of one element of the population Murders, say Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. Frontenac cheese board to day there was boarded 2,082 boxes of cheese. They were ofiered for sale at 9¢. but the buyers could not meet the price and no business was done. During the rain storm last night a great many sparrows were killed. Three hundred boxes of canned sal mon arrived from British Columiia to-day. The are being AL the Andrew's church pulled down and a hard time the contractor had in doing the work. The mortar was so good that the stones had to be drilled a- part While trolling on Sharbot Lake Dr. Coutlee caught forty-five bass 10 three hours. T SORT OF "CHAOS." walls of St. RIGH Dr. Macnamara's acts on Insurance Act Boon. London, Aug. 1l.--Dr. Macnamara, M.P., speaking at North Camberwell, gaid that under the parliament act great radical reforms to 'which they had devoted all their political lifetime were passing slowly, surely and relent lessly. * Referring to the insurance act, he seid that the less reputable tory jour nals continued to ery out "chaos' and "'failure." Yet every week 500,000 persons were receiving medical treat ment and attention; every week 270, 000 people were receiving sick pay, and 15,000 maternity benefits were be ing paid. Up-to-date 28,000 people had" receiv ed treatment for consumption, 10,000 of them in residential institutions. In six months from nine to twelve millions of people had received medi cal benelit- at a cost of two and a hali millions of mopey. In six months from five to six and a hali millions of people had drawn two and a half mil- lions of money in sick pay. In six months nearly hali a million of ma- ternity benefits had been paid, costing something like £650,000. They would have to live a lifetime before "chaos" and "'failwe" of this sort, would ever stand to the eredit of toryism. Ii Mr. Lloyd-George had not held on with splendid . tenacity, unflinching courage, and indomitabfe determina- tion, the vendetta against the scheme would have made it. impossible for him ty give these striking particulars of wérk actually accomplished. FARMERS BUYING WATER. Missouri and Kansas in Throes of Drougit. kansas City, Aug. 11.-So many rivers, ponds and wells are drying up as a result of the drought that farmers in Missouri and Kansas are trying to buy water for their stock from the cities and larger towns. A Jackson county farmer, to-day, asked the fire and water board of this city for em- ough water to supply 250 eattle. An- other farmer wanted three large tank- londs a day until rain falls \ water famine ' developed at Ol- athe, Kan., two weeks ago, and since then the tows has obtained 60,000 gal- lons daily from this eity. A Wish. IH. HH, Barston To ince each day of life, Nor finch from any task, To front the moment's strife | who has been | And only courage ask. To be a man unawed By aught but heaven's couwnand, Though men revile or plaud, To 4ake a stand--and stand. | To fill my life with toil With God's free air and light; To shun the things thut spoil That hasten age and night; To sweat beneath my bod, Nov ask a better gift From self or man or God Than will and strength to lift. To keep my spirit sweet Though head and hand be tind; Fach brother man to greet, Nor leave him uninspired; To keep my spirit fed On God unceasingly, That none may lack his bread Who walk this way with me. Never forget that your neighbors have an eye on vou even if they are looking in another direction. . It takes a fussy woman to believe that neighborhood gossip is true when she knows it isa't. : Wise and Otherwise Don't waste all your energy troub's, making generally lasts as holds out. A honeymoon long as the money Most women feel that letters could be twisted into a success. ful novel their love anxious to good opin. The one thing a man is share with the world is the ion he has of himself. A woman can generally be depended upon to make a fool of a man but sometimes he saves her the trouble. in a way, people weigh it have to say, they say it, Now conversation, Depends on how the The less some people The more persistently Why Married Men Live Loug, The reason a married longer than a single man is the single man leads a selfish existence A married man his plea sures Any time he streak ol good luck it tickles him all but it makes him feel Lwice as good when he tells. his wife anout«it, and she is so pleased and jooud that she feels lke a two-year-old, There isn't =a chance in the a man's arter- ies hardening or hi weakening when he million dollars' worth of making his wife man lives because can double has a aver, world of 8 heart sant get a pleasure out of happy --Cincinnati Enquirer Explained wife seemed to en- last evening I no- with Pe Actor--Your joy my reading ticed her applauding thusiasm, Ide Fatte--Her great en mistake, old man She thought you were giving an im tation of me when | lose my dollar button She says I'm funny fo: anything. too A Supreme Moment, His hand lay on her hair, Her face Upturned to Bespoke the And he, with Her thought did share A shriek--a whizz! He had the tocth Scott Co. so fair his, truth subtle care (Miss.) Gazette Willie Was Wise. always best to have company was demonstrated evening by a story told by Fletcher of Florida, little smokefest school That it too much the other Senator Duncan during a pleasant In a public is not in one of the southern states some tivhe ago, ran the tale of the senator, the teacher 'was having some difficulty In keeping the class in the middle of the mathemati- eal road. Several questions were asK- ed without making much headway, and then she turned to a lad named Wil- Ve. "Willie," she asked, "If your father do a piece of work In six days, and your Uncle William can do it in sexen days, how long wonld it take them to do it together?" . "Ten thousand years" was the prompt reply of Will'e; "they would smoke all day and tell fish stories.' -- Philadelphia Telegraph. can Got the Rest of Dad. "What good are you anyhow?" ed the exasperated father, "What good @m I?" retorted the lai "Why, dad, I'm a. consumer, and I'} like to know what would become of the farmers if there weren't any con- sumers."" And the old man went out to the barn and threshed the wheat within an inch of its life roar- Family Resemblance "Pray, whom do you resemble most,' 1 asked the little girl-- "our father or your mother? stroked a wayward curl, "We never have! any of our own"--in accents sadly sweet 2 "They say I've mother's features, 1 have my father's feet." --Lippincott's Not. "Mother, when you married did you reslly lave Lim?" "Of course I aid, my child suppose that my love for came after I got to habits?" And 1 but Magazine Of Course papa You don't father bad your know his Food for Thought. "Married only a few days and down- cast? How now?™ "You should have heard my wife's inaugural address stating what she proposes to do"---Washington Herald A Dietetic' Ditty. Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't kep her; Even in a London cell They couldn't keep her very well = Cornell Widow. For the First Comer. Young Man--So Miss Ethel is your eldest sister. Who comes after her? Smal Brother---Ncbody ain't coms yet, but pa says the first fellow that comes can have her--Boston Trans- » + eripe, BIBBYS Kingston's One Price Clothing Store. Men's Outing Shirts Special $1.00. Fine cashmere and silk mixtures. ('ol larg attached, plain white, tans and blue, neat stripes, ete. Sizes 14 to 16 1-2. Men's Bathing Suits Special 50c. Plain, 50c. Plain tan, Dbl black, grey oreens. Double : { and heels. Sizes 91-2 to 11. navy, one- piece. Some with skirt attached. Men's Silk Hose and toe ue, Our To-day we place all our genuine Panama hats on sale. Your choice for $3.75. Eos $6 hats. Special five only, 2 regular $10 Panamas. anama Hats Must Go Your choice for $5.00. Regular $5 and IES New Blue and Black Suits Price $15.00 $18.00 $20.00 To the men who have always been privately taped and chalked and who have been paying the custom tailor inflated prices, we extend a' most urgent call and see onr new blue dnd black suits, Society Brand Clothes Copyright 1912. Alfred Decker Cohn invitatic guaranteed. m to A perfect fit BIBBYS 78, 80, 82 PRINCESS STREET. ------------ F. J. JOHNSON The Leading Florist. 324 King St. All seasonable cut in stock. Wedding floral designs of all tions a specialty. Phones? Store 339. Residence 1218. Greenhouses 2305. flowers bouquets; descrip- ess can FOR SALE 1. Frame (nearly new) York street; will sell below cost to quick buyer. . An up-to-date frame dwel- ling, Albert street, south of Princess street. . Four stores in this city. A good country store in good location; the price is away 'below cost. 5. Two first class dwellings with stable and gardens in village of Sydenham. . Good brick dwelling, store and blacksmith shop, includ- ing four acres of garden and orchard; good location for business. 7. A large list of farms for sale in Kingston district. T. J LOCKHART, Clarence and King Sts. 'Fhone 1085 ox 1098, nhl ol bi Red seal, unfermented wines,.. Dalton's lemonade .... Dalton's orangeade Lime juice, gt. Lemon syrup, qt. ... Strawberry syrup, qt. .. Raspberry vinegar .. ' 35¢. Shirrift's grape juice, pt. and Soda Water. The Store of Quality, 59-61 Brock St. . per Summer Beverages | Drinks for the Old and Young 2%5¢. . per bottle. per bottle, per bottle. Alike per bottle. bottle. bottle, per bottle. per bottle. per Canadian and Imported Ginger Ale Henderson's Grocery 'Phone 279. READ THE WHIG WANT ADS. OUR CUSTOMERS KE CRT ARE YOu? USE. RAW FORD'S pd» XW TE rN