- 5 ei eekl by PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, z LO BIUOLL »..o.u.uivv. ia, Prosifent A. Guild ....Managing Direut: $i and oS Trous : -------- EUNSCRIPTION RATES Daily Editon) delivered in city ear, If pald in advance 8 Sear, by mall to rural offices Le yar, to United States .....:.. 88 Bla And three months pro rats. (Semi. W Sekly Edition) 3 mail, cas Your, if not pald {in adva; ie yuer, wo United States ..... » Bix 204 three months pro rats cine niet Amit iene asm _ Attactied is one of the best Mriviiug olives iu Canada. 4 TORONTO REPREBENTATIVE #1 & Smallpelce 83 Church Bt. % U. 8 REPRESENTATIVES Now York Office 226 Fifth Ave i Frank R. Northrup, Manager. hicego avy a Tribune Blag "rank R Northrup Manager AEUST IN PATRONAGE. The, grievance of the imperial 'ernment is a serious one. It is that the trade, (a very definite term), is combined to fleece the government in fhe matter of war supplies. Th Lond hronicle explains that the go cannot get | quotations fro firms with regard to its wi it asked, in one case, twenty ho Prices go; some ¢ that dealt in certain goods for and but two of them. replied. seetand to act for the others, A combination is suspected, and to the manifest disadvantage of the people. The delect may lie ment itsell. Like another government that can bo named it may have select od these twenty houses from among its supporters, and they niay deem it their privilege to charge what thes like and to redistribute the patronage | "among themselves. The duty of the hour, in a time of war, is to adver tise for the weeds of the army, and let every ome who can tender. Then there will be no. "'hints.of scandal," and no need of "a vigilence commit. tee" to wateh the accounts and de- teet in them the evidence of unfair ness. Public competition is the for the evils complained of. i'h with the govern | cure | A CIVIC DEADLOCK. What is the attitude of the City Cowneil towards the new and repre- sentative covunittee which was or- the hydro advantages which Western 'Untario enjoys. The comments of the commission re- specting the high cost of power under present conditions are disappointing. This high cost is not due, apparently, to defects in wrangement and man- agement. It follows the purchase of an old plant and the gradual im- provement of it under unfavourable circumstances. Power in 1913 cost at the busbars 196 cents per k.w.h,, exclusive of fixed charges. The fuel alone cost 1.09 cents per kwh. A change is very desirable, and any- thing that will bring it about is to te encouraged. The Campbell offer is the only thing in sight at present, nnd assuming that the Kingston Mills plant can supply hall of the current wanted next year, or 1,000,000 k.w., fhe cost will be $6,000, while the oth- er half, or, 1,000,000 k.w,, will costin -{coal, labour, maintenance, oils, waste, ete, 826,861, or a total of $32,861, as against $35,807.77 last year. This nieans a considerate saving on one vear's contract, As explained in a previous article the 'city, at the installation of the service, will have to undertake an ex- penditure which will amount to the savings of a year, but Mr. "Campbell will supply the machinery, without cost, which is necessary to adapt the hydro power to the uses of the city. The contract with the street railway company is embarrassing. It will run for five years, and be binding upon the commission. The eommis- sion intimates that the purchase of the hydro power opens the 'way for the cancellation of this agreement, but the reference to other power was viry clearly the power of the com- mission, so long talked of, and it is not available. No, the local commis- sion cannot avoid this contract, but the company can be required to act upon the suggestion of the Hydro Fleetric Commission, to purchase a suitalle rotary converter, taking cur- rent from the bus-bars, and so relieve the department "of the most unecon- omical price of apparatus in the pow- er plant." duction in The result will be a re the cost of power from 1.96 cents per k.w.h. to 1.15 cents per kav.h, The railway company may not like to invest about $7,000 on a rotary converter, but. it must see the wisdom of accepting some of the cost | of the changes ut the power house see- the Hydro-Electric Commis- sion points out, "'the cost of power, ing, as under the combined arrangement, will be below cost when fixed charges to the plant are added to the operating cost." ' Let us add that the street railway is an asset to the city. It helps in development of the It is in advance of the times. It has been computed that an electiio road will not pay in any place where the pdpulation is under 40,000, the trade and niunicipality. The men who have the enter- prise to keep this road in operation are entitled to consideration, and they have received it, and will re- some ganized somé time ago and for gene- ral rolief purposes ? One asks the question for the reason that if any | misunderstanding exists it should be | removed. When the city was canvass- ed in the interests of the Patriotic ceive it again, in any negotiations that must follow the making of this Campbell contract. EDITORIAL NOTES. movement it was intimated by many rons that they favoured 'a double | or divided fund, and because they felt | satisfied there would be a need of it. | Had the contingencies been anticipated a different would have been pursued. Not that the contributions to the Patriotic | Fond would have been loss generous, but a note would have been made of | all assurances of assistance to the second fund, and the organization, formed for a specific purpose, could have been induced to give its. sup- | port, The Poor Relief Soeiety and the St. Vincent de Paul Saciety have tbeen badly handicapped for want of funds. They have not the' heart to set out for a wearisome can. Vass of the city: and they would pro- bably have a very 'indifferent hearing { i, they did. "The appeal to the Council, under the circumstances, was most natural 'wid reasonable. Under direction of the aldermen, who understand eam paigning, and who would, at this season, make themselves very popu- lar, 'a considerable 'sum was assured, Unfortunately the Council has re. | following | course vod to suggest a counter or al. Bee sclisme. Tt even favours t turning over of part of the civic Foo for patriotic. purposes--between $2000 and $3,000--but strangely | #s0ugh omits the routine which gives | (elect 16 its resolution. In these rent hoes one sees conditions and that are to be very much {80 the kaiser claims. | The minister of militia, with al Liz faults, is the only minister that | is doing amything to help recruiting, The liberal leaders are husy. The govertiment is wholly engrossed with the distribution of patronage. Belgium belongs to Germany now. ut the Bel giana do not belong to Germany. They are to be treated as an alien people, and will not be allowed even the food that America sends them, Recruiting in England, because some of the very young men would rather play football than soldier, and in lradand because the young men would tether listen to the Sinn Fein than the members of the government,' dragging. is I'he Campbell contract means a great saving to the power depart- ment. of the city--a saving of many thousands in five years--and it should be adopted. It has been handled in scinething like a business way by, the commission/ ones atic Prilain's war cost is six million Joutedl: the proposal and it has not VW 8 week; Germany's is seven: teen millions. The kaiser meant the war to pay. France was expected, ih six weeks from the opening of the ce mpaign, to contribute £1,000,000,- 060 to the German treasury. e le tot cit. The poor Belgians! They cannot earn a living. They cannot toil. Thay cannot even accept the alms of of the American people without the consent of the kaiser. It's"a long, long way to subjugation, but his im- the government provided a public prosecutor and the machinery to purify parliament. Public Opition BOSTON, Favors Three Twenty-minute Periods For Intercollegiate Games--Arts He's The Exception. Ottawa Journal. > Although Santa Claus is a Ger- man the kiddies would Jbardly ap- prove of tyeating him as an enemy. Sure Of That, London Advertiser. A few more inubdations and they will be able to float a British battle- ship into Berlin, A Compliment, Surely. Montreal News. Elbert Hubbard says : "Laurier Canada, dt its best," which is a pret- ty fair-sized compliment to the oppo- sition leader. A Timely Warning, Toronto Globe A German Standard Oil steamer has been declared confiscated. Perhaps John D. will now decide to end the war by shutting off the German sup- ply of petrol. # General Sam's Talk, Toronto Star. His talk ought to be censored. If his is his talk that is at fault. I his remarks cannot bs censored by the government then the ought to get together and make a gentleman's agreement mot to pub- lish his remarks in their raw state. All Of a Kind. Guelph Mercury.fl "Germans approaching Warsaw," reads one heading on the war news. Yep--we remember there was a for. mer expedition started in the same direction, and it was about as suc- cessful as that "take Paris or die" affair, Kingston Events Twenty-Five Years Ago Kingston has quite a number of lit. tl girls seling newspapers on the street. Iron rails arrived to-day from Ham. ilton for the street railway on Alfred street. A $2.50 advertisement in the Whig sold the old brewery property for $10,. 000, 100,000 GERMANS MUST DIE, Calais December 10. West Flanders, Nov, 26.--Behind the statements of the German official wireless news, one may read determil nation to continue the attack and confidence in the ultimate triumph of Germany. An effort is to be made this week to burst through to Calais, and half a million German troops will be en- gaged in. it. Within the next few days perhaps one hundred thousand Germans will lay down their lives in the effort to form a passage way for the survivors, obeying the kaiser's or der that Ualais must be taken by De- cember Uh, ; and legions are marching across Bel- gium to join battle with the allies The Germans know how to die, in the decisive contest in this re gion. : I'here' are two dominant impulses which make the Germans fling them selves headlong upon death with such recklessness as to inspire sheer ad- wiration in their "enemies. One is genuine devotion to fatherland. Every German now realizes, whatever his about the war in general and this part in particular, that success for the German arms can alone avert dis- aster to his beloved country. The other impulse is terror of their oficers. The tyranny permitted td the German officer enables him to wake his men's lives a purgatory of torment, and often the men who suffer most are superior to their officers in intellect, education und refinement of mind and behavior. Kaiser Orders Taken by the soldie; opinion SEDITION OF IRISH PAPERS. Six Avowed Pro-German Organs Be ing Distributed., London, Nov. 26.--Irish despatches tell of a most extraordinary situa- won which has arisen in ireland, u sicuation which will need prompt and strong action on the part of the au- thorities. It appears that six sedi- tious newspapers, openly pro-German and anti-British, are being printed in Lublin and distributed throughout the west of Ireland with the primary object of stilling the recruiting cam- paign which is now being carried on there. The news sheets in question are the Irish Worker (Larkin's pa- per), Sinn Fein, Irish Freedom, the National Volunteer, the ' Irish Nation and Ire.svd 'the last has recent jy. been made a daily. Last week a inent German organ gave a ser ies of quotations from . these mew and also gave the address in Dublin at which ans could be bought by Irish is journal also stated that money was being col lected in New York to support the movement, Movements have been held in New York by Irish-Americans who are hostile to John Redmond, land at these a number of Germans ! attended and 'Die Wacht am Reine" "has newspapers : 15 Def I Sek '17 at Rugby. The finest exhibition of rugby seen on the lower campus this fall place on Wednesday afternoon, when arts '15 met and defeated science '17 by 6 to 0. The feams' were very evenly matched by the aris team, on account of its! greater weight, bucked for gains continually, Besides this the arts team had in. terference plays down to's science, and repeatedly = made yards on trick plays. -* Science 17 was at all times in tne running and was saved from. a larger defeat. by the brilliant work of their half life. During the first half Mackenzie suc- ceeded in kicking for two points for arts. The rest of the scoring was done in the last quarter, Mac. kenzie again kicking for a point and putting over a drop, making the final count 6 to 0, At the meeting of the hockey team the motions put through at the an- nual meeting of 'the Intercollegiate of- ticials held in Toronto were dis- cussed. M. R. Byron was appointed (ueen's- representative on! the Inter collegiate board and will act in the capacity of vice-president, The Queen's players were in favor of three twenty-minute . periods instead of two thirty-minute periods. Wueen's was in favor of adopting the N.H.A. rules instead of the O.H.A. rules, as suggested by Varsity and this year the visiting team will be given a choice of goals at the beginning of each game. On Wednesday the hockey man- agement received word that Boston lesired a game during the Christ- mag holidays, and it js expected that the team will play in New York while on the trip. The Y.W.C.A. meeting on Wednes- lay at 4 p.m. was addressed by Dr. Skelton, who gave a very interest- ing address on "The Underlying Cause of Poverty." At a meeting of the basket ball club on Wednesday vacancies on the present executive were filled. Mr Jagey succeeding N.'G. Stewart as secretary-treasurer, and Mr. Prouse taking F. A. Nicholson's place on the sclence committee. Dr. Adrian 8. Taylor addressed 2 large body of students at the Y.M. C.A. meeting on Wednesday. Dr. Taylor, who is a medical mission- ary in China, told of the great work being done among the Chinese by the christian doctors, and explain- ed that much harm was being done by the practices of 'the native doc- tors. . Dr. Taylor also emphasized 'he great need for more doctors in China. Jacob Stein was elected to ve- nresent Arts at the education social evening to be held on Friday night. IN MARINE CIRCLES. Movements Of Vessels Along The Harbor. The . passenger steamer Dalhousie City, which is undergoing repairs at the Kingston Shipbufding company's dry dock, will leave on Saturday. The Mangolia, a large upper lake tug from Midland, will go into the dock after- wards. Reed, whigh Reported The towbarge Isabelle has been discharging a cargo of coal at the Kingston waterfvorks wharf, pulled out on Wednesday afternoon and is waiting for the gjeamer Aber- deen, from Montreal, to tow her to Picton, where she will be laid up for the winter. ed up on Wednesday evening. The steamer Algonquin passed up on Wednesday night from Montreal. The steamers Dwyer and Port Col- horne are expected in port on Thurs- day. The erection of a new life-saving station in Oswego, N.Y.,.will be start- ed early next spring. , A SMALL MAN. de Lacks a Uniform Made Large Enough. Montreal Star, What's in a name ? Denis Small, twenty-eight years old, six feet four inches in height, and weighing 240 pounds, asks that' ques- tion while he waits for his uniform from Ottawa. Imbued with the mar- tial spirit Denis, who hails . from isingston, Ont., came to Montreal oo November 6th, and joined the Victoria Rifles. He was measured for a uni form, and the onlookers gasped. Denis' chest measurement was forty- five inches normal, and when he ex- panded to fifty-two the officers in charge sent "for a civil engineer to complete the survey. Then Denis was promised his uniform, Two weeks have elapsed and last night he ex- pressed the opinion that an order-in- council was probably necessary to out- fit him. y -------------- EMBARGO ON RUBBER NOW. 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