i "The British Whig 82ND YEAR THER 1 4 1 RL 4 SJ So ES { Published Dal and BSemi-Weekly by SHE ARTTISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITE; i 3, Eilort . +. President J kmmba A. Adutid') 2s Managing Director - and Sec.-Treas. Telephones: PBaginess Office aitorial Rooms, Job Of 0 X Pe ae RIFTION RATES Juily Hatton) One year, 6 \vered in eity Cine Year, if pald In advance One year; iy wall to rural officess te year, to Unlied States 4 3. $x and three months pro rat (demi-Weekly Fdition) (rie year, by mail, cash nie year, i not paid in advance . Ome year, to United States . 1. Bix and three months pro rata. cr ------ Attached Is one of ihe best job prioting offices in Canada. Te ONTO REPRESENTATIVE 32 ¢ Church Bt. 225 Fifth Ave. Fra MH. Northrup, Manager. Chicago aise Blas. Frank BR; Northrup, Manag: LET LAURIE VINISH HIS WORK. 80 he Laurier government imposed the Liiadisn Northern and the Grand Eriink Pacific transcontinental sys- tems upon the taxpayers of Canada. Toronto News. And the Borden government mis. managed them, The Lynch- Stann- bai aid government commissions made n fine record with regard to the one, and a revolk in the conservative camp is the record with regard to the other, "Why doesn'l the~ News ourify the conservative party accord- ing to its deserts ? \ THE SUBMARINE MENACE. Colliet's jokes over the Von Tirpitz OEY, that Germany can bottle up nnd stutve oup Britain, How ? By tor: pedoing | her battleships and cutting off food supplies. Granted that Sir Uonan Dayle wrote a fascinating story, "Danger," , and that four millions. of pgople read it in Collier's, the fact rerhaing 'that the German submarines are becoming audacious, and Von Thpita may figure that if he can only hold ont long enough these dubmarins will do the trick. One hates to ad- mit that the German submarine is en- "dangering Fagland, but the loss of "the last. batfleship off Portsmouth makes him feel that yBritain must tomehow become more © aggressive, und bottle up the German submarines an wall as cruisers, PUBLICITY SURELY PAYS. The Whig took exception to .a state- ment of the Hamilton Spectator and fo the effect that the temperance cam. paign failed in the Ambitious City hecause the people were absorbed in the study of the war. 'The Whig re- marked that the temperance people _ had simply Jost their grip. A third " renson is now forthcoming, and it appeals. very strongly to the news- paper man's instinct. The antis, is having pleiity of means--subseribed to # oause which deeply affected = them 'personally--indulged in wu publicity campaign and won out. Some one, with a fine showing of sense, per- coived that the' way to success lay in the direction of the public jour. nals, that the people read the pa- vers daily, and that the party that ell of thom were tendered for, and the lowest, on, merit, accepted. In the Pritish-parliamént that would not be regarded as a breach of the under tanding on which the truee is found ed Pa , Fhe. agitation of the Capadian gov ernmoent . arises from 'a fear of some exposure, and jf all bas been done regularly #nd dbove board there } should be no gnxiety.* Of course the | Public Accounts Committee can copy from the Public Acconnts Committee #4 of Ontario, and refuse to meet until the house is' nearly ready to adjourn. Then the chairman, after the manner of Mr. Ferguson, (now a member of * [ithe loeal government), can metaphori- 'raiiy sit upon the lid and prevent any ong from lifting it.. This will be only necessary if there $s something that will not hear the light. Sn So -- THE GERMANS ARE BUSY. The one thing about the Germans which commends admiration--and it is about the only thing--is the manner in which they labour for the'father- land, The education of forty years; and all to one end--that the German empire may be the greatest ever, that in time it may be a world . power-- has pot been in vaifi. Children have had it, dinned into their ears at school. Boys have had it ground into them in the shops. Young men have had it preached at them in . the gymnasa and colleges, Such a cam- paign was bhéund to bear fruit. One sees this in the irrepressible spy system; in the costly missionary work in Europe and America; in the con: spiracies of the race in every part of the globe; in the activities of repre- sentative meni neutral territory; in the bids for newspaper favour; in the subtle -resolutions moved by members oi the United States Congress, meant to help the Germans when the export of munitions of war are protested; in the new. threats that Germany will make a note of unfriendly journalistic comment and punish it in due time. . All this indicates the 'incessant ac- tivity, regardless of hazard and ex- pense, of German agents. They are hecoming more insistant and declam- atory, and this can be accepted as an evidence that Germany is not. so hopeful, and: its representatives make up for their want of assurance by the increase in their '"'noise."" The man of the hour is Kitchener, the implac- able minister of war for Britain, At the outset he intimated that he had set 'his guage for a long and trying conflict. The empire had better ac- cept his guidance without question and supply him with the forces, even by conseription, in order that he may make his plans complete. THE PEOPLE ARE DECEIVED. The -Wtilities' Uommission is not dealing fairly with the people. In a sense the people are being deceived. Let- any consumer take up his ac counts and examine them. This he will find, that he is billed at the rate of 106. per killo-watt, for his' electric: ity, and to this charge there has been ndded 506, per quarter for meter rent. Suppose one uses 100 kilo-watts. Tha cost is $10, plus 506. Tor meter rent. And this in the face of the fact thay he is warned that "positively gross rates will be charged after the 20th." Gross rates ave charged already. When the rates are not paid within a speci- fied time there is an addition of 10 per cent. to the grosy charges, for electricity and meter rent, and not a reduction or: diseount which niany people suppose they are getting. The same rule applies to the con- sumption of gas. The tenant or householder who burns 5,000 cubic feet oi gas is charged, at $1 per 1,000 feet, £5. Add meter rent of 50c. per quar- ter and the total is $5,50. 'The con- EDITORIAL , NOTES. . The American government, in grant- ing American. register to a - German ship, which has been commissioned for the American trade, surely in viting, deliberately, a pr. Su with the. belligerent powers. The ont- come of it ean hardly bé questioned. Glauhbitz, the $5000 a véar man- ager of the London electrie -- light plant, is resigning and leaving - the country. As a German he should be interned with the rest of the sus- pects. "The elections made it quite apparent what the people thought ol him. A Montreal paper has it that the boundary between Canada and the United States has been moved teen ty-five miles northward from the fireat lakes to the Pacific. How ould that be done by any agree ment between the govérnments ? The thing is absurd. The Montreal min lias been mousing. The condition of hali-starved Ger- mans, rescued as prisoners "from mud-holes | unfit "for pigs," on the fighting frontiér, was distressing. The pity is that the kaiser and the écrown prince have not been forced to share this experience with the men and so realize, as = Hubbard puts it, that war 'is hell in Germany. HX Dingman, of Calgary, has a scheme for compwlsory saving on the part 6f the industrial classes. He would have a certain percentage oi the earnings impounded and deposit ed. He would, in other words, have government officials attending to the domestic economies of the people and they would be the busiest men in the land, The World 'accuses the Globe of exciting the party feeling in Toronto and so of contributing to the elec tion of T. L. Church. YidienJous, Nothing that any paper in Toronto said about the mayor-elect. induced the people fo vote party in prefor- ence to anything else. The majority, in the Queen City .will go wrong as a matter of party cussedness. The Whig offers no apology for supporting ex-Mayor Elliott in the election and expressing a desire to see him elected to the council. He wonld have been a regular attendant, would have heen 'actively interested in the business of the council, and given the city valuable services by reason of his experience. The ° city wants what it misses in him, Kingston Events | Twenty-Five Years Ago "The folowing aldermen were electod to-day Sydenham ward--James Swift, J. Muckleston, E. T. Steacy, Ontario ward--13, S. Fenwick, Jo- seh Swift, W. Wilson, at . Lawrence Ward, Minnes, J W. Robinso! Redden, ui ry "Anglin, J. fas kin, F. Frontenag ward--G. Creegan, J. Mo- Cammon, J. D. Thompson. u ward--D. A. Givens, D.. M. Melntyre, Gi. Osborne. Victoria ward--J. M. Machar, R. W: Shannon, W. 2 chmer. ppe m its way into "A" Dar today. Twenty-two are) on 'the sick list. Four 'cases of chemical goods arriv- ed to-day from Germany for the Roy- al piiliiary College. Ome hundred men are now employed at the car works. THE MEASURE ENDORSED." Give Women Who Are Qualified Rightto Vote. Toronto, Jan. 6.--Some people said BEVERS ERE a BY © APE POL ic E E. WHE N Hi: Was IN THEIR POWER. Remarkable Slory y of Webel Cont mander's scape Prior 10 Drown. ing Comes Froth South Africa, mandant Général Beyers was arrest- #d while motofing on the veldt, then released Ly 1hé pelice, only to meet his fate by drowning later oh, is & strange story which comes from Sguih Africa. According to the story, published in a South African paper, Beyers was in a motor car with three com- the car was. challenged by a motor eyelist patrol, Beyers, wearing a red handkerchief wrapped around his face, suggesuing toothache The party first tried lull, "but with a rifle facing them, they pro- duced a safe conduct document, part English and part Dutch, signed by Commandant Lemmer, of the Trans- vaal Union, allowing passage to.the residence of ex-President Steyn of the Orange Free State. Not satis fied with this, the patrol insisted that the party proceed to the negr- est farm, wiere he handed 'them over to the Cape Mounted Police, but, to his surprise, the police al- lowed the party to go to its?destina- tion; yet within a few Weeks Déyers was again fighting union forces and lost his life -while crossing a river. The Eastern Province Heralil strongly criticized the union govern- ment on the subject, demanding a full and immediate announcemeént on the matter. War Tidings. The Russians are conducting a ser- ies of violent frontal aitacks on the Austrian position along the Dina- jee river, east off Cracow, and are bending their every efiort to push toward the fortress, which has been their goal for two months. Writing to a friend in Vancouver, an oflicer on the steamer Empress of Japan, which in November was doing patrol duty offi Manila Harbor, says that Americans in the Philippines were -constantly breaking neutrality laws by. helping German ships to get away with supplies, fierman soldiers chained 'to mitrail- leuses to Mrevent their = retreating nn der French shell firg, is the latest instance of what the Intransigeant- which received the details in a let: ter from a French artillery officer-- calls the German officers' barbarity towards their soldiers. Englishmen returning from employ: ment from the Baka industries, and the Donetz colleries region, have reached Kiev on. their journey to Exgland 'in order to enlist in the new army. They, vesigned good posi- tions when they learned of the bhom- bardment of the English coast. "See london im War Time" is the principal inducement which a number of hotels will soon offer to their old American ;Ditrons in' advertise ments that. will be printed "in the United Plates: iW iain - \ A remarkable telegram from Overs pelt, - in Belgium, states that all young Belgians available for 1914, 1915, and 1916 levies, have beén or dered by the Gernian commander to present themselves at the town hall for enrolment in the: German army. A Norwegian mérehant-captain, who has just wveturne®" here from Cibral: tar, says the "Hamburg-American liner Graecia attempted fo. cross the Ai: lantic flying the Norwegian flag, and under the name of: vim, "but that she was stopped by a British cruiser which discovered that her real name had been painted .over. The cruiser thereupon took the - steamer as a prize to Gibraltar. The steam- er carried a cargo of provisions for the German warships in the Atlan- Paris L'Nustration makes a fea- ture of an article on Japanese « "in- tervention written by Andre Chera- dame, wellknown author and' jour: nalist. M. Cheradames déslates that Japanese intervention is certainly not indispensable, as victory for the allies 'through their own efforts is certain, He says, however, that the matter should be 'considered solely from 'the viewpoint of 'shortening the infinite sufferings of the war. WENT IN FOR SWINE. London, Jan. 6.---~How - ex-Com- Janions near Bloemfontein when |} BOYS' 'OVERCOATS For boys 21-2 to 7 years, $4.00 and #, 50 values. x "FOR $2.75 BOYS' OVERCOATS For boys 10 to 16| years. $7.50 values. FOR $5.00 { : xf rer] BOYS' REEFERS | For hoys 6 to 12) years. Regular $6. 00 . and $6.50 values. : FOR $4.50 BOYS' SCHOOL BOOTS Sizes 1 to 5. Regular | $3.00 and $3.50 values FOR $2.35 | | See Our BOYS' WOOLLEN Heavy ribbed wool worsted hosiery, sizes 71-2 to 10. BOYS' SUITS ; Norfolk and Reefer (style, bloomer pants; | sizes 28 to 33. Regular | $6.00 and $6.50 values FOR $1.50 BOYS' SUITS Norfolk style, sizes 28 to 34. Regular | $8.50, $9. and $10 val- | ues ; FOR $6.00. BOYS' WOOL SWEATERS "Regular $1.00 values BOYS' UNDER- WEAR Regular 36¢ and 40c values FOR 25c. BOYS' KNITTED TOQUES 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50¢. sumer is inform that the war would kill all such reached them in fhe i Was the - «poiiivaly ro ou jot, dhe ps eount | movements as votes for women. This | evo ater west Qandrupres SrorKs Tir : 0-stoTY 16 TeCUC- od after the 20th." 'his is of the : ; Fourteen Years. - . tionists had wood arguments, but | following month. The account itself Toronto, Jan. 6-- While the grow- they were not running through the | io jor gross- rates. What is meant, [th th in cattle in the Canadian west has riapers, like continued stories, and |p; is not understood, js that if the | J been encouraging, the increase in the they did not convert or strengthen § : s § swine industry has gone forward ' account is not paid at a certain date with leaps and bounds. In fact the public opinion. 10 per cent. will be added to the . . iy 3 outsanding feature of the year Just gross charges, which is simply out- closed, from the production side, is 'but: hey lowad Fi adver: | ragous, : the output of swine in the prairies. sing Space occupied argu- fy i The total reached approximately 2.- Fments sgsinst "ae reduction, snd [po ar. rales are mob subject to 000,000, compared with less than 1.- » Pablicity. k 000.000 a year.ago, 241,794, in 1901, 1 101,224, in 1891 and 96,074 in 1881] The experience of the western hog | producers during the year just clos- ed was unfortunate. They extend- ed production in view of the profit- able United States market, and at the height of the shipping season an embargo was placed on hogs. On the value however, the western far- mer made money in hogs. 'Last year's experience brought another Issue to the front which calls urgent- ly for the immediate atten of the federal LK i ty fostered for the agricultural prodaets of Canada if production . to be materially en- | | largea ; ow ae Federal Possinilicy In Tondon, London, Ont, Jan. 6--Thel unex- [ri of Mayor ¢ iin io = 3 a Major 1 F als will likely lor Seat e George S. Contrlier Pee George Gibbons, Percy is reported favored by many eon tives ham, th ;