280 Sten dt Sg Es 4 ++; general election. for Ontario a year ¥ fr other whether Ulster will accept noe fis 1.60 rate. t ob of the Dest 3 a , TIVE urch Bt, caseeeee 386 Fifth Ave. rank rthrup, Manager. VaemseRt as imate 1b Bldg. Oni Ti Notibitp: Magee." TEE TTT TAPPED THE RIGHT IDEA "Pr. S. G. Bland, in a Victoria day message to young Canadians, printed in the Winnipeg Tribune, said, in part: "Pirst, we love the place where pur home is. Then 'wé love the province 'we live in. Then we remember wo are not Manitobans merely But Cana- dians. And then like the widening = 'ripple made in waters by a-stone, our love and loyalty expand to the great empire which Canada helps to form and we are proud to feel we are Brit- "ishers."" The doctor has hit thé nail on the head with a poesical hammer. "I" ANSWER REQUIRED. Because the liberals have protested against the unfitness of bringing on cacasiss Bi and a half before the regular time, » merely beoause it serves the ends. of the Whitney government to do #o, the Toronto News suggests that they are afraid to go hefore the people. There is another way of looking at it, says the Brantford Expositor. If ithe government has no reason to fear public' opinion fairly expressed = why | on to carve the liberals owt of three seats, give ttn members to hide-bound Toron®o, and then bring on a contest two years and a tial before the required time ? TO RXTEND FARTHER The ifect of Irish - home rule is likely to extend farther than to Ire: god; it may divide the imperial pow- ik into federated states and bring Sfome rule to Scotland, Fngland and Wales, as well as Ireland, and make a federated kingdom in place of the present consolidated one. The passage of the Irish home rule hill is' a great and epochal event in the history of Great Britain. After all the years = of turmoil since the boguest of Ireland, it comes peace ably and quietly and without ex- citement. It 4s to be hoped that continued moderation will follow, but that, of course, depends upon the character of the amending hill and whether on the one hand the Irish nationalists will accept it and on go Se -------- : HAS BUSINESS TURNED CORNER? ___ Tas business turned the corner ? is question most frequently asked when business men meet these days. A few months ago there was no such question. In. those days, mem knew too well that the bottom of the de- "pression hall not been reached. Now it is different. remarks the Montreal Journal.of Commerce. Men are tak- ing fresh courage: they are making] new commitments: they gather from "a hundred different' sources. small, hut significant, testimony that conili- tions are improving. Practically every barometer by © whicki-men | size up economic "condi: tions point "Fai." In some lines of industry, there are 00: visible signs of improvement, but underneath there ar rable evidences that con-. | however. the improve- 'psychological than fin- largely a restoring of a the "business out- After all, there is nothing quite so contagious and demoralizing ne hesitation. This spreads business men with surprising and proves demoralizing to On 'the Gther hand, optim- courage . are copstructive, in cis the attitude 'of business present time. Thay foel that' . general public and *" SHE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, iod of depression which we have just passed through was but a pause in our path of progress. The very fact that men everywhere are asking if business hastturned the corner is an indisputable fact that the cor nes has been turned. x THE REVOLVER. The appalling number of tragedies in which the revolver: has figured has led to a general campaign in Canadian newspapers: for the rigid enforcement of the act against the carrying of con- cealed weapons. | A similar campaign is being 'carried on in the United States where conditions are worse ven than in the dominion of Canada, Statistics recently published concern- | ing last year's death rate in Chicago showed that the great number of fa- talities were due, to the prevalence of the custom of carrying arms, This custom is one that should be stamped out, There is no place for the armed citizen in modern civiliza- tion. - He is a menace at once to the to himsel; and such a manace cannot be a where there is a law designed to pro- tect the just and punish the evildoer. The uniortunate feature of the situa- tion is that those who are inclined to carry revolvers or other weapons are precisely those in whose hands such weapons are unsafe; to them the pos- session of a weapon means either templation to practise with it or ir- | resiatible inclination to .flourish and i fondle it in public. Familiarity breeds contempt and the very association with the weapon induces a carelessness, which in moments of passion leads to tragedy. There are many crimes com- mitted in haste which would never have béen if the absence of a weapon had furnished time for reflection; fa- tal accidents innumerable have result- ed from heedless . toying with an in- strument of death. The plenty of deadly implements among the people wonstitutes one of the grave problems with which authority has to deal; it should he solved by stern administra tion of the: law coupled with a cam- paign of education which would teach the thoughtless or ignorant the use- less folly of their ways. | HARRISON THE MAN, The liberals of Kingston, last ev ening, at am enthusiastic gathering, unanimously selected Alderinan 1. F. Harrison as their candidate to contest Kingston for the Ontario le gislature. They have chosen wisely. Alderman Harrison has been ever pro- gresgive, and as a citizen is esteemed and respected. He is a man of splén- did xeputation, successful in business, vigilant in his efforts to make King- ston a live city, an able advocate of reforms lor the improvement of the people, genial afid affable with all, and a man whom any citizen can, with pride, speak of. He enters upom the campaign the avowed purpose of winning. He has a good cause .to fight for, and «he should have the support of every man who «is thoughtful and devoted to the best interests of the provinee, As to the policies of N. W. Rowell, he finds himself in hearty accord with them. He is with him heart and soul in his endeavors to curtail the liquor traffic It cam be truthfully said that if it were not that this one issue was before the people Mr. K Har- rison would not care to be a candi- for political advantage social, with date solely LThe Rowell programme of moral, educational, industrial and agricultural advancements tends to make up a platform that. any man, no matter what his. political alle- giance, could endorse and vigorously support. Mr. Harrison recognizes that great issues are~at stake, that the govern- ment oi the day has not been zealous for the weliare of the provinge, that it has not kept abreast of the times, and that in some respects it has per- mitted the banner province of the domifiion to drop inte second place along lines of commercial and agri- cultural development. «It has treated with contempt the proposals of Mr. Rowell and his small band of backers and has turned aside * the splendid schemes as to tax reform, temperance reform, legislation for the hettermsnt of the conmitions of the toilers 'and for the welfare of the general com- munity. The things that the Whit: ney government have leit undone demonstrate clearly that it has been negligent in its duty and bas not served the best interests of the pro- vince. A vigorous campaign of these hratters will be carried on before the people, and we believe that if they will carsfully "ponder over the ' Wtii- tude of the government of the day they will find that it has not been faithful to duty, and that a time for a change has come. ? Mr. Harrison recognizes along with Mr. Rowell that the temperance issue is the paramount question. The gov- ernment has truckléd with the issue, has pandered to the liquor trade and & day of reckoning is at hand. Ti the 'men wha have been tempes- ance allies all their lives will be true to their convictions there is every hope that Kingston will be in lihe with many . other 'of the constituen' cies of Ontario showing devotion 'is agreed that the C.N.R. must 'Ontario. , Mr. to principle rather. than to party: al- legiance. The fest will be made in fe 3 3 ee) this election and the best efforts made so that Ontario shall free itself from being a party to the license system. EDITORIAL NOTES Tren hero medals have been a , 'and not one to the man who stays at home from the base: ball game to heat carpets. - Just rain énough. Now watch the crops grow. low the cattle are eén- joying it in the lush pastures! How beautiful the world is . these days ! "Mrs. Pankhurst's east" end follow- ers are numerous," says the london Mail. Following Mrs. Pankhurst's east 'end strikes us as nearly zero in occupations, : The fight is on,.and it is time for the anti-bar element not to slink away under the cover of party "in terests but to array themselves the hattle of Banish the Bar. for The Toronto Weekly Sun says : The main weakness of the government par- ty is, : perhaps; the rude strength which 'it has used upon its oppon- ents. There is a popular feeling like that of the bystander who sees a big boy ill-using a little one. Sir Fdward Giey's to the request. for the abolition of the cap; ture of private property at sea in war time is encouraging and leads to the hope that a condition of things more suitable to the dark ages may be abolished by international agree- ment at the next Hague conference. , answer The question of aid to the C.N.R. is mot the point at issue; everybody be sustained, and the real question is-- for whose good must it be sustained ? The liberals say for good; the conservatives say--well, they don't say the same thing berals. the nation's Mr. Rowell's temperance policy is part of a large, comprehensive policy for the advancement of the people of Rowell's aim is to make Ontario what it the most progressive province in (a nada, the mo#t progressive commun- ity in the British empire and in the world. ! € ought to be, In the coming election the choice will be progressive, tieth century ideas for -the great pro vince of Omtarig, and fossil, tionary prejudices and traditions. It will; be between progress and stag nation, letween life and deathlike trance. It will be between going ahead and standing still. The pre sent government has definitely tak en its stand against progress. Does that policy satisfy the vigorous, in dependent people of Ontario ? bet ween reac Hon. I. B. Lucas boasts that™of the six seats in Bruce and Grey Mr. Row than that could ell cannot possibly carry more one. No doubt he wishes it way, and if the gerrymander have possibly fixed it to produce that result it .would have been done. . But gerrymanders do not always work out the way they are intended, and a ¥ense of fairness prevails among electors, even of conservative ings, though it does not in the mer who compose the Whitney govern ment and those who support it ir the legislature. : lean PUBLIC OPINION| Had Become a Habit. Buffalo Courier A Fall River editor has just retire at the age of ninety. He is still live ly enough to say : "Now is the tim to subscribe." They're Filled Now. . Indianapolis News. Shorter and fuller skirts are to bh worn, eh ? Um-m, well, of course, som oi them could be shorter, but no many of them could be much fulle and still be sale. > The Law Can't Do It. Oftawa Journal, . The wholé trouble in the tippin busipess is that those of the commun ity who have money enomgh to ti have mo sapd. And we don't thin! law can supply the sand. nS elisa . +A Few Cents More. Hamilton Spectator. A former Kingston newspaper ma: id\to have cleaned up $200,000 i, the Ca¥gary oil boom. That's mor than he could make out of editing i two or' three years, at the very least Divided Corsets Next. Columbus Journal ®Lhis interesting garment, as portray ed by the esteemed advertisements, : getting to come down so far that Suppose the more daring young ladi will be taking to the divided corse before long. Pure Neglects Stratford Beacdn. The overtaxed accommodation at th Guelph Agricultural College, is a wn proach to a government that, whils spending over a million dollars on lieutenani-governor's residence, has ne glected this invaluable institution. Uneasy Lies the Head, Etc, ; Rochester Herald, contemplating the spectacle « D. Rocksfeller ing himsel as the li twen- J born Want worth than those worth six or eight hundred millions. : nme School Vacation Holidays. Montreal La Patrie The sehool vacation camps are one of the best and most touching philan- thropic works of these times. They bring health and happiness to many poor little beings who, without these camps, would stifle in the cities and never know the value of the open-1Y( of the country. % Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. =) / The frost last damage. The dactors and. lawyers of the city had_a game oi baseball th-day. Ald. U. Robinson says it 18 A mis- sake to allow boulevards to be built inside of board walks. Ald. Gilder sleeve contends that the system is all right if it is not allowed to go too far. - ~s night did considerable A : 7 SOCIAL AMELIORATION Ontario's Supreme Issne--And Many Others. ~ Tdrofito Globe, > While the abolition of the bar will undoubtedly be the supreme issue in the coming general election in On- tario, it is not the only issue. In various parts of the province inde- pendent candidates are coming for- ward who talk as if they expect to command a practically unanimous liberal support so long as they are sound on the temperance question, and who seen to regard all other matters in dispute between the two parties as of no consequence. Liberals would do well to indicate to these one-plank candidates that tax reform is, in the opinion of very many electors, scarcely less impor- tant than temperance, and that Mr. Rowell's whole policy, of social amel- ioration is 'of a piece." Ontario, which formerly commanded the attention of all progressive states be- cause of its advanced social legisla- tion, has been falling behind badly in recent years, Care for child work- ers dnd for women in industrial oc- 'upations is not what it eught to be. Vast sums have been lost by ineffic- ient regulation of fraternal organiza- tions in which workmen are special- ly interested. Land speculation goes unchecked, and the natural result is that rents are- high and few wage- workers can afford to buy land in a reasonably central 'location in the larger cities." No realveffort is he- ing" made to repopulate the country- side from which there has been a great migration to the west and to the centres of population within the province. The centralization of power over the entire educational nachinery in the hands of a few bureaucrats in Toronto has produced widespread dissatisfaction among teachers and impaired the efficiency of the system. A These are but a few of the evils! arising under the Whitney adminis- ration which liberals have been do- ng battle in the legislature. While hey welcome the support of inde- pendents in the coming campaign ind are well disposed tdward the nomination of men most likely to wih, whether such candidates are 1ib- ral or in a special sense temper- nee candidates, they will assuredly Xpect some declaration as to the at- titude of independent candidates to- ward such. vital features of liberal solicy as tax reform and the public peration of power, telephone, and iydro-radial services. Candidates or whom liberals are called upon fg 'ote, and who expect to draw the ilk of their support from Mr. Row- Al's followers, cannot be progressive spots. The abolition of the bar § the supreme issue -- but there are thers. FRIDAY, MAY TWENTY-NINTH Principal ¥/iilam Peterson of Me dll University {s fifty-eight years of ge to-day. Ife Las been head of "Od McGiIN™ since 1395, prior to which he was principal of Usi- versity College, Dundee, for many years. A well-trained Scot- tish student, he is today an ac- complished scholar with par- ticular kno w- 'ledge of the clas. sics. He is re. served, as be- comes such a .man, but on oe- ¢asfon has been known to bresk through his shell of calm, x scholastic indir. ference. Oce notable instance of this Jecurred several years ago when Harold Beghie. the Engiish novelist, er 8 hurried four of Canada, pad Ished some ssvere criticisms on the Tudity of the country, its materiak 8m aud the jack of artistic and liter wry culture. His remarks aroused the Principal, who brake s lance In the lefence of Lis addpted country. 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