| crn TAGE The British Whig S2ND YEAR IN] TAR i Nl Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIGC PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, J G. Elllott ... iswian A. Gutla President Managing Director and Bec.-Treas. om Telephones: 3 Business oo) ¥aitorisl Rooms ... oe 329 dob Office SURSCRIPTION RATES {Dally Iiditlon) One year, delivered in city v x Ono year, If pald in advan +e00e36.00 One year, by mall to rural ofMcess. $2.50 Ome year, to United States ........$3.00 Bix and three months pro rats. (Hemi-Weekly [ldition) One year, by mail, cash Une year, If not paid in adva One year, to United States .. 1. dix and three months pro rata. ro a ------------------------------ Aftdched Is one of the best' job « prising offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE HM. KK. Bmallpeice 32 Church St. U. 8 R TIVES +226 Pifth Ave. Manager. . Tribune Bldg. Northrup, Manager. QUESTIONS OF FINANCE. Ihe Canadian. Municipal Journal from a well-known lawyer, Mr. Long, of Malone, Malone A the tonditions under which honds or de contains a letter Young, Toronto, fespecting hentures should be issued hy a city. Four suggestions are made hy Mr. Long ; of varions provinces should be ask- (1) That the legislatures the od as well as the municipalities be al lowed to invest in the securities of any province; (2) that there should be a limit to the indebtedness of a lo enact that trusts and companies * / municipality; (3) that the term of the BP debentures should not be confined, to the sinking fund plan and the plan of providing for = the Payment of debentures by annual instalments; and (4) curtailment or elimination of honuses io industries, Ve. Lighthall, . of Montreal, the gec- retary-treasurer of the Union of Muni- cipalities, and a high authority on municipal law and practice, approves uf the fieat proposal, thinks the go- cond a matter % for disgussion; and regards the third as a good thing, But / the fourth *§s a somewhat subject." Tere are subjects should engage the attention of our civic financiers. They should keep in touch with the Union of Man- «Acipalities, and ba represented by mem- bers of the Council or by. its officials every year. How can the and their employees themselves while they preserve, now; a policy of isolation. a BRITAIN HAS SPOKEN. Sir Edward Grey, Britain's foreign Yoinister, has replied formally, and in « n friendly way, to the complaint of tha United States, that her trade has been unduly interferred with in the interests of the belligerents. The docu- ment is such 'an one as Sir Edward Grey would indite. It is able, clear, ana concilicatory. The statistics avail- ables. under the eirvamstancess, during tha stress of war, are fot as complete as Britain would like them to be, but they are full enough to show that Am. erica's trade has not -suffersd very much, and that the abnormal ship- ment of supplies in' certain countries, suggest a service of Germany which is not commendable. . - TITRA has shown a .con- tempt for every convention or phase 'of international daw, which does not linitate to disrupt agreements as it Seas fit, has mo right. to. anv special consideration, and: will not get any from Great Britain, + With regard to two commodities the United States ig deeply concerned-- cotton and copper. Cotton is on the free list, and the belligerents are not objecting to ta shipment, But they do object to it. being 'used as'a means of disguising the capper, which is con- traband, and which the shippers do § mot hesitate 'to conceal "1h or' be- 5 neath the cotton. To check the de- vices of "desperate 'men, Britain may ns now, thorny which oity post as 'dads" has information" ghat waranty them, and they will be made in British ports. fm have to. make 'searches, * when it Lif The cotton will' he weighed, and the presence of copper didoovered in' way. The difficulties of the situation have heen increased by the change of plan +. an the non-publication of its manifests, a change that has not been explained, and that, under the circumstances, fake the vigilance and scrutiny of the British the more necessary. - The controversy is mot closed. Bri that "fain invites a deeper study of some phases of the question, with the as surance that Britain will be as care- ful and' considerate as droumstances «will permit, Xo, Mr. Mayor, the city must not 'nell its fair, grounds, and buy u place x neutral. L AT HIS BEST. M.. Jean Longuet, socialist d puty for Paris, while in London, called on |the chanesllor of the excheqhier, re. | named the "Golden Chancellor," be cause of the readiness with which he jhas raised the vast sums necessary fo meet the expenses of war. I'he | French deputy knew that Britain was 'doing prodigiqus things but he was | surprised when told. hy the chancellor ;that Britain was spending as much 'as France, notwithstanding the rela- | tive smallness of the first army she sent' to Flanders. The monthly ex- | penditure is now £45,000,000. M. Longuet_ asked how that. could be seeing that. Britain's force at the front was scarcely one-sixth that of France. "England" said the chancellor, "has at present 2,000,000 sailors and soldiers under arms. This syatern will shortly add 500,000 to the number on active service, the flower of the empire, between 21 and 36 years." What surprised was the raising which the French deputy democratic revenue the chancellor report- ed. "I did not hesitate," he said, to raise £40,000,000 by the income tax. I doubled it, and unanimously it was passed by the House of Com- mons." M. Renaudel, of Paris, who accompanied the deputy, -and -Lon- guel looked at each other. They look- ed at M. Poinlive, also of the 'party, but all held their silence. "This, moreover, the full extent of our financial effort," con- tinved the chancellor. "It is necessary to add to the enormous resources which we shall have at our disposal through the income tax the amount that our new loan will give to the cause of England and her Allies. This amounts to the colossal sum of £440, 000,000. He touched upon the pro- blem of a definite international peace in a Furope liberated from the atro- cious hurden concomitant--merciless war Then he left for a cabinet meeting, the French delegates feeling quite assured that the finances of Britain were in the proper hands. most is not A REPROACH TO FARMERS. Under the direction of Ontario's department an advanced course in agriculture' was opened in:the old Institute building on Monday, and with an attendance of students which was discouragingly small. Agricul- ture may he learned upon the farm, but the training will be unscientific and faulty. No man ean act as a safe and progressive teacher, no mat- ter how devoted he may be, who has not uf aefidemie~tosoling of soma kind; and the father, or the son, in the county of Frontenac, who as- sumes that he knows it all, or that he cannot learn anything from ex- perts, is surely befooling himself. In anticipation of this special course: at the old ingtitute building, and under conditions that suggest a thoroughness not usually guaranteed under similar circumstances, the offi- cers, of the department in the county sent out advertising literature. They followed this up with calls at the farm houses, and talks with the young men. Out of scores who were seen 'and corresponded with only five présented themselves for this tuition at the opening of the course., There is a cause for this. It is either an indifference on the part of the people without a parallel, or it is a case of misunderstanding, and a result of in- sufficient advertising. In a matter of this kind. the department cannot af- ford to incur heavy expenses; snd to no purpose, while it is presuming to save a few dollars on print ing. The attempt to scamp or cut the news- Paper usually 'has its reward. 'The curciculum of the School Agriculture lies before us, - It 6 principles of live stock breeding, dairying, field érops, feed: ing, horticulture, cultivation of 'the soil and drainage, farm chemistry, botany, bacteriology, veterinary sci! ence, marketing and farm literature; and in addition 'some of the best men in their calling, in the Guelph College and in the province, are hill: ed to speak and teach at certain dates. In short thé Ontario Agri- cultural College is bringing the peo- ple who cannot attend it a splendid corse, and one which every farmer in Frontenac, 6ld and young, to take. It is simply a reproach to the men who till the soil, 'the men who stand to be the great pro- ducers in the immediate future, and Producers of the very best, that they are not in. attendance and that they are not co-operating to. make Venture a great success. EDITORIAL NOTES, The men who advertise, judiciously and regularly, are doing "business as usual." © They learn the trick once, forget "of Jing off. Four thousand British officers of militiarism and its' .Ahefore the Colonial ought this' THE greater part of Furope will be a diso- Intion. M-------- The industrial classes ars again fall. A littlermore adver: ising may bé necessary. It's wonderful how slow the. Educatiog Department and Boar] of Education very the are to leat a simple lesson. 'to feed the school children--in special restaurants, In Winnipeg the : the schools at a New . York proposes children "ave fed (in minimum of cost, and they are not made to feel that they are paupers. ] The toll of the war is very. heavy fost. But inevitable from 'the plan oi officers leading' the men. They inspire, by example. Thera is no. drive with whips - and revel. Very heavy. British vers. No more paving--until we get a chance to see how our ! experiments work 'out. 1t is expedient also io find out just+how much the city has put into the pavements it has. I takes a long time to round up some = ge- counts, of America have against war. And they not going to stop with making mands. The women de- elared de-> They are going to settle the issue, or help to seftle it, at How ? . They . don't say, and shouldn't keep this thing a secret any longer. . once. thev Austria has had enough. of the war, She would have pulled out of it long ago but for Germany. The kaiser had an ambition to become a world's conqueror and had no compunction about using a sick old man, the Fm- peror of Austria, and that other sick man, the Sultan of Turkey pe. Kingston Events Twenty-five Years Ago iE a -- The city has Bo 'men employed the streets at present. R. H. Elmer spent this morning shaving sulierers of la grippe at their homes, Kingston was visited by a eyelone to-day; Several houses were damaged and barns and fences blown down. Roll butter was sold to-day at 18e, a pound. on ------------ Earl Grey's Story. London Daily Telegraph. In proposing a vote of thanks to the Earl of Meath, who read a paper Institute last night, Earl Grey told of a conversa- tion he had had on board 2 German ship, while on a voyage acrods the Atlantic, with a Gérman whom,' be- cause of his outspoken advocacy or unpopular principles, he had invited to his cabin, and Questioned as te the truth about 'German opinion and as. Dirations. "If you want to know the truth," said the German, "there is, deep at the bottom of every German's heart, the desire to take away from you the country you are not strong enough to hold. Can you wonder? hundred years have we beer hung- gering, We have only comparati- vely lately enjoyed the sensation of a full stomach. We are hungering again, and it is you who are prevent- igg our appetite being satisfied." We have seen France and Russia and England always getting something, and we, with the finest army in the world and the second best navy, get nothing. "If you seek the truth --._ and I do not want to give offence -- then, in the opinion of the German people, you English are rotten, through ana through. You are sunk fii sordid sloth and sensuality. Nous sommes des guerriers." he proceeds, striking his breast, "and we mean to take from you at the first opportunity the empire which is otirs by right," Se -------- It's The Navy That Does It. Westminster GQazette. It is one of the commonplaces of this war that the operations of the are - Two |' asa -- -- mma When a man boasts«of being slow bat sure we are at least sure about the slow part ! Occasionally. a man is foolish enough to try to run an automobile on a trolley car income, Maybe So. . Some folks I know will stretch the truth; . Put, then, perhaps they've found 4. There's little oi it in the world, And they want that to go round. ~ Judge. An Important Point. A city girl was taking a course in an Agricultural College. - After a lec- ture on "How to Increase the Milk Flow," she rose for a question. "How long," she blushingly inquir- ed "must one beat a cow before she will give whipped 'cream ?"'-- Judge. a -- Not For Safety First. come ovér to kiss you, Pm - aipaid of upsetting the "rd only boat." "1 ean Opinion. Herbert !"'--1.ondon swim, A Convenient Route. "Pardon me, but how can I quickest to the zoological tion "Better Jugend, get collec- get yourself . stuffed.""-- The Cards Are Out. "Algernon stopped talking about his friendship for Vanessa." "Well, he had to get busy. An- other fellow came along and got interested in the girl." --Chicago Her- ald. . has platonic Retreatinz in Disorder, "Who was that {ough looking chap I saw you with to-day Hicks? "Be careful, Parker! That was my twin brother." - "By jove,2 old chap, forgive me! I ought 10 hive known. Nice Name What is demestic science, hey? That's just a little quirk To keep from searing girls away Who don't like kitchen work. Just Like Him. "My husband is just like our fur- nace," sighed Mrs. Blak." AN day he smokes and at night he goes out." ¢ Hard to Find. "Why do you shift around so." "I'm trying to find a section of landscape," explained . the artist, "that includes no telegraph pole." --p-- 'Disturbing the If any man in mood forlorn Should lift a public wall Like that of any auto hern He'd surely land in Jail, Shylock "Can any one in the audience lend me a $10. gold piece," asked 'the prestidigzator, "On what?" queried the pawn- broker in the third row, -- A good deed is never lost: he who Sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he wha planis' kindness gathers love. ~Basil. Cheap. Mrs. Wyse--I bought a nickel coffee pot to-day. Mrs. Green--Mercy ! any good for five cents. It can't be ; Airy About Ie. Jack--TIt's a fine air castle you've built. How do you' propose to get into it, hy airship ? ; Tom--No; by heiress, With Compound Interest. So you 'have left the Theosophi- cal Society?" 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