Daily and Semi-Weekly by WHIG PUBLISHING BNP AEE i & : Lo WHAT CAUSES PAMARES? ""Concerning - Municipal Ownership" contains many articles which indicate that this ownership is a failure, But all of 'these articles indicate something else, namely, that failure follows bad management. Any business will fail under similar ecircinstances and the Wisconsin Commission does the muni cipal world a favour by defining, as it bas done, in a recent judgment, the financial relations between the city and its public utilities. . The case came from Sparta, and had reference to the obligations of the water department and the Commission made itself quite clear in declaring that a public ptility plant, owned by a city, "should be treated as an enterprise separate and distinct from the city itself." Evidence was taken and it went to ¢| show that the accounts of the water fockor | department had vot been kept in such a as to prove where it stood, ; . x - ; : Ege fo sean we oo SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION RATES | # din ey RI il ear, gies to A ves, iE ad Stat hy iid bing aia Baitiony 3s ux se 4+ §1.00 red 'Staten: .. $1.60 : 5 AA months, pro rata. : tacned la one of the best Job" ATIVR and the Commission ruled : "The city must pay the utility at.a reasonable rate for all service render- ed the city. "The utility must pay the city a reasonable amount as taxes and as interest on the city equity in the pro: $8 | perty of the utility. "The city must provide all funds for capital expenditures such as new , ox tensions, retirement of bonds, ete." * The city, it-was argued, undertook to serve the community, through the water department, in two ways: (1) In giving service for public purposes, for, instance, fire protection, street TORONTO REPRESENT, Be oe rs AT ah Bt.) sprinkling, and (2) by giving service w York Office ...... 226 Fifth Ave. fl 4B R. Northrup, Manager. sed sess asses o Trib Bl OO ok R. Northrup. Manager. as, 'TAKE HIM UP, The Ontario government, which has ever so much credit with its Guelph farm for offenders, will surely do something to reform the Central pris on so far as it contract labour is con- cerned. The revelations of Mr. Taylor ore simply astounding. The idea of any man making from $33,000---never less than that clear--to $120,000 a year out of prison labour, for which be pays four cents. an hour, is enough to set people protesting at once. Mr. Taylor was so candid in his talk be- * jore the Prison Reform Commission that one is inclined to conclude that he has made his pile and does not care how soon the contract is ended. He says the prison can be made seli- 'supporting, that comvicts can be paid at least 8! a day for their work, and $1.50 a day when times are good, so that their product cannot be under- sold, and yel a warket be found for it all. He is willing to demonstrates "his views. in actual experiments, and the government should take him at his word and put the experiment into operation at. once. A-------- The Frankfurter Zeitung, a leading German paper, declares that Britain's chancellor of the exchequer is right in his contentions about armaments and that Germany must follcw Fog- land's example in reduced naval esx- "penditure.' Why?! The Germans groan umder the superfluity of arma- ments against which England is pro- testing. Jk AMENITIES OF THE PRESS The Toronto News pays a high com- pliment to Tord Burnham, of the Lon- don Telegraph, on the attainment of his eightieth birthday, when a repre- sentation of London journalists wait- "ed upon him. They were headed by Lord Northelifie, not the oldest but the more conspicuous because of his remarkable successes, and they includ- ed some of the men who are most in- fluential in the newspaper world. Two or three had graduated from the edi- torial rooms of the Telegraph, with the training of the veteran leader 'they. now hououred, and with many reminiscences of his versatility and judgment. But, regarded as most remarkable, was the mingliog of different political interests, the. originator of the move: ment beivg an urdent conservatgye while the object of it was as ardent a liberal. There should not be anything ° surprising about this. Journalism is a prolestion which one learns as he learns the profession of medicine or Jew. At the outset be is a student of political economy and style; and it does not make much difierence in what | - office he serves so long as he is ag- ive and appreciative in his. ap- 'prentigeship. Tn London the yopmg men who served under Lord Burnham 'went out to make names for them: selves in the field of journalism. Mr. Garvin: béeame 'the editor of conser: 'ative papers of most energetic poli- 'ules, but he was still the friend of Burnham, ond of every other writer of worth. And this is as it should be. Writers for the press may differ journalistical- ly ows public questions, but sociaily and | directly they are the best of driends and can commune on any sub- ject in a: most. interesting way. In- od in ev every local centre there should the press elub, with its peculiar Sharma and privileges, and 'such a is missed in Kingston. Why the who constitute the stafis of our should be so largely unknown 0 each other, and why they should. "engaged in & work of thevgreatest al value from day to day, an opportunity of occasional. discussing their contests and cov: : stands out 2s one "of the wou- of Su dey, EG) to private consumers of water. The city should meet the cost of the first service by payments irom the general funds, and private consumers the cost of the second service by direct rates. Private consumers should not, how- ever, be compelled to bear any part of the cost of the service rendered by th#jcity except as they contribute as taxpayers to the gen€ral fund of the city. Next, if the plant has been built out of the general funds of the city-- as the different plants in Kingston bave not----the city is an investor in the utility and is entitled to a rea- .sonable rate of interest on the invest: ment. The 'city must provide the funds for capital expenditure such as extensions. Consumers should con- tribute through rates only enough to cover the cost of furnishing the ser- vice. This would include operating ex- penses aud a reasonable allowance for interest, taxes and deprecigtion, In this connection two facts are empha- sized : (1) Cash, offsetting depreciation reserve, cannot be used for new exten- sions, and (2) when cash ofisetting the depreciation reserve is used for new extensions no funds will be available when replacements are necessary. So that there should be me tempering with the depreciation account. The judgment concludes ©: "The pur- pose of municipal ownership appears to be to furpish service to consumers at cost without inflicting unjust bur- dens on either the consumers of the service or the taxpayers. The execu- tion of this purpose requires revenue sufficient to cover the operating ex- penses together with a reasonable amount for depreciatfon, taxes and in- terest, on at least those elements of the city equity which result from the sale of bonds and from cash transfers | from the general funds of the city for capital expenditures. Whether "or not the clement in city equity resulting from the appreciation of plant value and the reinvestment of" profits from operation should also be included in the amount 'of city equity upon which interest is to be earned, is largely a matter of local policy and should be decided in the light of local cobgi- tion» If the city so desires, it ap- pears that it should be allowed to earn on the entire amount of city equity." What is the policy of the Hydro-E tric Commission, for its system is to be thehone adopted ? EDITORIAL NOTES There is an agitation which should J © general in favour of holding | the municipal elections outside of the Christmas holidays. Why not have them at the end| of November, the change of office to take place on Jan. lst? Peterboro "is moved to demand a senatorship for some one in sue cession to the late Mr.-Cox. By the way, was he made a senator because he was, or had beem, a resident of Peterbéro, or because he was aman of commanding ability and the kind of man the senate needed ? Now ome can see why Mr. Taylor, the! Central Prison contractor, is such an important man. He is clear ing $33,000 a year on his contract. He could, he says, pay the convicts $1 per day each for their labour and ingke money, but it happens that he pays only 4c. an hour There was nothing to prevent Con- tractor Taylor, of the Central Prison, | from giving as much as he liked to the men he hired for his wood- working 'business. -- He had them at de. an hour, but he could. give thew 0c. an hour if he liked, and. he could have afforded to do it out of his 'morons profits ---------------- e. Chamberlain may not be knight- ed. He declined a title early iv» life, when + it might have been of some use and bonour to him, and he DAILY BRITISH WH1G TussDAY,s dows: not. guprecinte it. in bis: veclip: Mr. Borden has given no sign that he will listen to Mr. Lash, one of the new adyisers, and let go his idea of a permanent naval policy for Can- ada. An emergency grant does not suit Mr. Lash. Canada must have a naval policy and Mr. Borden should he equal ito saying what he thinks "lit ought to be. The conservative paper that ex- pressed the opinion that Lloyd George should hide his diminished head, since Lord Haldane and: Hon. Mr. Samuel did not approve of his armament arguments, spoke toq bas- tily. Public opinion in England, as expressed by the press and by the political organizations, has strongly endorsed the chancellor's opinions, and he can hold his head higher than ever. i The Toronto Telegram is becoming permanently pessimistic. © Tt would be glad to see Lord Northcliffe and Winston Churchill go off on a new movement and lose themselves. The unionist party, it says, has never had a day's fortune since it accepted the guidance of my lord and it would not be helped by Chamber- laifNs attempt to climb a 'mew lad- der. ¥ Our good brother of thé Tele- gram has got the blues bad. i PUBLIC OPINION It Won't Do. Guelph Mercury The conservative idea of reforming the senate is to ° get more conserva. tives into it He Wasn't There. Montreal Herald. A/travip at Kingston stole a min 1ster's coat, yet we don't remember neticing that the parson oficred him his cloak also. Nearly Time, £8 Montreal Telegraph It is pearly time that the tion of divorce was treated - as n matter of justice and not of lobbying amongs. a group of old men in =a quandary. A Great Conundrum Ottawa Free Press We fail tp see why Col. Sam Hughes should make silk bat bets when hats with feSthers and spikes and gold lace arp far more useful. The One Concession. Toronto Star. P Hon. Adem Beck will probably de Fide to "stay with Ontario'y if he can be assured that he will not have to wear a halo all the 'time. z i It Has Been Known Toronto Star. Rev. J. D. Morrow suggests that during the cold weather workless men should be allowed to sleep in the churches. 'There is nothing new in this idea. Some men do it every Sunday regularly. Did Not Forsee Edmonton Bulletin, When Rudyard Kipling wrote that "Fast is east and west is west, and never the 'twain shall meet," he did not forsee that an Indian prince would marry a suffragette. , Apmis Very Retiring London Advertiser. Yes, Cynthia, the mercury these days has a more modest, retiring dis- position than the spinster lav we know who reserves the milstens photo on her dresser before she Yak off her false hair. Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. Hugh Rankin was elected warden of Frontenac. Capt. Fraser is putting repairs to the extend of $1,500 on the barge Southampton. be emploved in the Kingston post office shortly. Competitive plans are being asked for looking to the enlargement and improvement of St. George's cathe dral, | BRTHDAYS OF NOTABLE WE | Tuesday, January Twentieth. John Hendry the millionaire Brif- ish Columbia lumberman and former president of he Canadian Manu- facturers' Asso- ciation, who ob- serves his seven- ty-first birthday to-day, has had a most adven- turous career He carried his pack into the western province in the seventies and worked there for some time as a lumber jack. But he had fore- sight, and early got his hand. on > extensive timber limits. It is s2id that he squatted on the site of the Hastings Mill in Van- couver, property which is worth over a million dollars at the present time, for nothing, the deeds baviag only and #etuaily got this valuable jand recently béen handed over to him by tlie dominion government. He is lo- » day one of the biggest, men on the Pacific coast. PRE ing * days. As Mr. Chamberlain he in greater than he can be as. Sir Joseph. Yet the family have de, gives, aa the family may be hon- aured. Wise. and . Otherwise ques It is likely that night clerks wind SEVEN AGES OF BASEBALL. Al} the world's a bail field And all the men upon it merely players. Tiny ha have their innings and their golnge Al at: tn Bia Wie Hake ary plays : At bat and on the diamond. At first the kidlet BifMing the ball about the vacant lots, And then the *'semi-pro" with fierce am- bition Some day to be as great as Honus Wag. ner And draw big coin, and then the minor-- The minor leaguer--soon by scout discov Bought and given a tryout; then the ma- Jor: The major leaguer--idol of the bleachers, Quiskt on bases, snappy and sure in field ing, Seeking the slugger"s reputation E'en against "Three Fingered" Brown; then--pouf--bench warming! His leg goes bad, his arm or eye or some. thing. He bats 'em out before the game and coaches, In sweater clad, at first or third. The papers All fear he "can't come back." The sixth age shifts To minor Jeagues again, and there he is. He says he's just as good as o'er he was, But gven here too fast's the company For his bad leg or arm. His manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, blames It on the umpire. Last scene of all, That ends his strange, eventful history, is bush league hopelessness and sure ob livion, Sans speed, sans arm, Sans eye, sans everything! ~Puck. The Bass Bawled. "Why," Inquired the Englishman, "do they call this game baseball ?* "The first time it was pliyed," ex- plained the American fan, "the mem- bers of a singing quartet were among the players, and when the umpire said 'Strike 4!" it made the bass bawlL" 8. Holmes, Jr. "Hah!" said Sherlock Holmes, Jr., as he and the doctor sat down in the dining car. "What is it, Sheri?' asked the great detectives 'companion. "Notice the man across the aisle? "Yes." "He is paying his own way. He is not one of the many who have the privilege of turning 'in expense ac- counts when they gat home." "Wonderful! Do you know him?" "No. 1 never saw him before." "How have you succeeded in mak- ing this startling deduction?" "Look at the bill of fare. You will see that they are serving strawberries in this car. He is not ordering any,"-- Chicago Record-Herald. Limited. "I suppose you expect to be engaged as soon as you reach the seaside." "I'm not at all sure. It depends on the men." "I didn't suppose you, were particu- lar." "One can't be particular at the seca- side. I know I couldn't be particular last summer." "Why not?" "There was only one man."--Cleve- land Plain Dealer. Bugs on the Bills. Mr. Mysofobe (tendering a check Wn bank)~Give me brand new bills, please. : Paying Teller--Sorry, sir, but at this moment we're all out of that kind. Mr. Mysofobe (irvitably)--~What's the best you've got, then? Paying Teller--Here are some we'll guarantee won't average more than a million>microbes to the bill.--Bostou Herald. Classified. "That," said a distinguished author, pointing to a little red headed impossi- bility aged six who was standing on his head in the middle of the drawing room during the musicale--"that is my secfnd edition." "Naot an edition de looks evidently," suggested tife acrid old maid to whom be had made the confession.~Harper's Weekly. \ Business. Her--~Why didn't you come to our church fair? Him--I always buy. at the lowest market, Her--But don't you ever 'carry rel gion into your Him--No. I give eae io Cheveland Leader. One of Many. *Yes," boasted the self made man, "I'm of those chaps who never targst favor." t's what you are," rejoined the party who says what be thinks. ot never forget a favor you do any and you never Jet him forget it either. ~Chicago News. -------------------- Paying the Penalty. : "Chauffeurs don't get much exercise do they? "No, and as a' result physicians sa) vi, they suffer from car-buncles and auto wo bile" ~Lipiogotts. spun Saw, HN A + - [8 Spa - teas = ------------------------------------------------------ BIBBYS JANGARY SUIT BALE Copyrigne Wiz. Alfred Docker @ Cohn Annual Inventory Clean-Up Sale It's Inventory time again--and ,right' before we commence our ."'stock-taking'"' we always hold a - Clearance Sale. We want no "tarry overs," and we cut our prices to the' limit in order to make things move at once. In looking through the pa- pers you'll see all sorts of Clearanee Sales advertised, but there's no sale = important as this one. Don't miss it en'h hand tailored Suits, So ciety brand and Semi-Ready, $22.50 and 920.00 Suits for $15.00 1 MEN'S HEMSTITCHED LINEN LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS Sale Price 5c Bach MEN'S PATENT LEATHER SHOES : Sizes left, 412,5,56126,61-2 i. Regular $5. 00 and $6. 00 Shoes, for $2.50. MEN'S PURE WOOL HOSIERY Black Ribbed Worsteds, sizes 91-2, 10, 101-2, 11.' Regular 25 and 35¢ values. Bibby' s January..price, ¥7c per pair. BIBBYS, Limited 78, 80, 82 Princess St.,. :-: Kingston Farms For Sale The following is a partial list of farms we have for sala in Kingston district: : Acres sae tere Tv amas 200 Jou cov sashes Jah maa 130 .., coo nes Won mivanns ABB voc wes aoe nas wes yee $5750 120 ... civ ares nae nes $5780 185 ... ues cos sos eam tes 86000 w Was Wes Juv toes BT000 ee Bene w "Wes 170 ..... 160 ou ninibas tos con Wen 192 rive mos oe Fae woe Won vee $10, Er R00, uc hsv nme vanes $18,000 For further information apply te sess men © Phome 1035, or 1020. KIN , ONT. » SMOKED HALIBUZ '$ LIVE LOBSTERS | Dominion Fish Co. _ ADVERTISE IN THE wHig. ¥ Ladies' Hockey and Skating Boots Ladies' have fleece lining in them and will keep the feet war mand comfort "Low and spring heel, $2.00 and $2.50. _H. JENNINGS, Boots . King Street.