3 blished Daily and Semi-Weekly by Ra WHIG PUBLISHING C0, LIMITED, J. G. Rlllott sresheinasnnsy President » leeman 4 Guild ....Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. Telephones: Business Office Editorial Job Office 43 Rooms SU One year, One year, One year, One dl BSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) delivered in city ..... $6.00 if pald in advance .... .00 by mall to Jura offices B20 1.0 1.50 One year, to United States ...... $1.5 Bix and three months pro rata, Attached 1s 'one of the job 2 best printing offices in Canada. it ten ante aiia TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H. B. 8Smallpeice 32 Church St, U. 8. REPRESENTATIVES New York Office 225 Fifth Ave, . Northrup, Manager. BO «sivas RT Tribune Bldg. Frank R Northrup, Manager, OUR CRIMINAL INSANE. If nothing else some good will follow, the enquiry into experignees at Kingston penitentiary by a special commission. It will he remembered that considerable attention was given to the care of the insane. Fxpert opinion, outside of the prison offi- cials, was 'to the effect that the in- sane convicts should be regarded as special wards of the people," and giv. en the treatment which special cilities afforded, During a discussion of prison mat- ters in the commons the premier made an important announcement. It was to the effect that arrangements were about. completed for the trans- Jer of the crimipal insane from the | federal prisons to the provincial asy- lums. . The criminal dnsane were for- merly treated in the provincial asy- lume, but they were removed to the | asylam' wards of the prisons on the grounds that it was not.fitting that criminals should be confined with the non-eriminal. ' fa- The mixing of the two classes was not regarded as according to the dternal fitness of things. They should not be herded together, and il' they are not the cost of providing ° for them, in separate buildings and * pre- mises, will be quite as expensive as if they were, within the prison en- closures, given the accommodation, the attendance, and the comfort «for which witnesses before the Commis- sion contended. | ----------------------. ANSWERING THE CHALLENGE, The first lord of the admiralty, Mr. Churchill, talks in a boastful spirit. At least the Whig thinks so when it contrasts 5 the studied silence of the minister of war, Lord Kitchener. Of course the empire has 'a right to some information. - Through the lords and commons it is the prerogative of the people to ask questions and sug- Rest answers. But they have learn- ed to expect wery. little from the head of the army, K| of K., as he is Ia * miliatly called, will not, say any- thing that weveals his plans, and ing about the things that have been, Mr. Churchill may have felt that he was compelled to say something in reply to the German challenge of a blockade: of Britain, 'and the an- nouncement = that he made, that the BRITISH EULOGY HIS BAN The Mail quotes, from the speech of Lord Haldane in 1913, a compliment to the kaiser. My lord represented him as a great man, and a great leader of the people, and as one who possessed that which the German peo- ple, and others, so much loved, man- ly spirit. The war does not make it necessary that Lord Haldane should retract anything he said to this ef- fect. He was toasting the diplomats at a 'public dinner in London. He was much in order on state occasions. A year and a hall later the German em- peror became the great war lord, still possessing the spirit the Germans like, and plunging into a war under # great delusion. No far as personality goes the emperor was still a leader, but deceived by the men on whom he re- lied for information. The war party misled him. The Von Molke or Von Kluck, or Von Hintenburg plan mis- carried. The naval party was misled through Von Iripitz. The Von Ja- gows, Von Bernstorfis,| Bethmann- Hollwegs, and others, fed him on dip- lamatic pubulum that was hurtful to his constitution. The expensive spy service failed him in the crucial hour. The kgiser would have been crushed long ago had he not been possessed of the spirit which Lord Haldane lauded. The eulogies in 1913, of men, however, who are now fighting him to the death, are not giving Wilhelm I. any comfort. WHERE'S THE ECONOMY ? The alleged "war taxes" are not They are to meet the deficiency in revenue, su- perinduced, to some extent, no doubt, by the exigencies of war, yet devoted to the cause of general gov- ernment. When the revenues began to run behind, and by the millions, and when the fact became increasing: ly evident from month fo month, did the finance 'minister éall a halt = in the expenditure on any account ? There is no evidence of it in the re- cords of the government. There was no conference of isters, no parley as to the need economy, no call for reduced outlay jn the varions departments, At least there is no proof of it in any of the publié documents. On the con- trary there is the proof of a tinuation of that © prodigal expendi- ture of public fonds which may he good for the party, hit Sannot good for the state. The for the purposes of war. min- con- tion, revises his expense account and' cuts off here and there the items which can be conveniently omit while ry generally the ciency of his staff. » The federal government has! mot been cutting off anything so far as one can see, and the financial riot is to be continued because it is a good thing for the party. And this greed for spoils, for public patron- age, grows on some people. It has been growing on them in Kipgston, and, in their greed, they are dis- posed to publicly grouch if they, do not get all the 'orders they expect. "War taxes" for this sort of' thing is a scandal and a shame. -------- MAY BREAK THE TRUCE. Dr. Pugsley, we are 'told, nearly smashed the truce which had been proclaimed in the commons during the currency of the war, and because of the sherp criticism of the purchase of the Chilian submarines. = I was an awful offence to intimate that "there was a possible juggling in finances, and the' premier, in a passion, meta- phorically shook his big stick at the opposition and alleged that he would not stand for recrimination without retort in kind. : The Globe, in its usual editorial fearlessness, calls attention to the "Wire Hot being imposed and collected on war account, but fn order to meet the ex- cesses of expenditure over 'revenue by 8 government which has been rather reckless in ite administration of the public business. "War or no war," a to the Globe, 'a smash could not le 'long deferred." The Pub- extravagance and waste. four years of the I "pale E. | indulging in the eulogies that are so ' of | be | business man, very much /against his inclina- | BRITAIN'S IMMENSE WEALTH. ! At 'different times since the out- break of the war one has heard about the wealth of Britain. She has been husbanding Ler resources, and, though the Chancellor of the Exchequer has intimated that they are ample for all purposes, the fact that he has counselled economy ' and thrift have suggested a limit to them. Now the situation has been made clearer by a glimpse into conditions that has not been hitherto available. Mr. Lloyd-George has been meeting the financiers of Russia and France in Paris, and they have been uniting the financial strength of the powers they represent, and this appears to | be prodigious. It becomes apparent "when it is said that, at the present rate of expenditure, Britain can carry on the war, and allow for large de- preciation, "out of the proceeds of her ihvestments ' abroad," for five | years, and France can carry on the war, at" the present rate of her ex- penditure, for at least two years, | "out of thé"proceeds of her invest- ments abroad." Even then: the allies would be able to help, as they have been doing, their less fortunate asso- ciates in the struggle. What a com- forting fact ! Of Russia it cannot be said that she is so well off, financially, but she is better than they in another way, namely, in the productiveness of : ber péople. © This is secured in two ways, (}) by their sudden and extraordin- ary gobriety, snd (2) by the large in- crease in the fertility of the soil. She can feed her own people and the peo- ple of other nations, if necessary, by the multiplicity .of her products. For the time being, and all along, Great Britain has been bearing the bigger part of the burden, because of her varied interests throughout the glabe, ber importations, and her command | of the sea, bit so far as they can, | and according to a given plan, the allies will help each other, and the | first act of the British people was to | oversubscribe the Russian loan of $50,000,000 in London this week. Allogether, from the monied point of view, (and it is the main one, | since » war cannot be run without sn abundance of ready cash), the out- Sook for our allies is exceedingly (bright. It is not enough to know {that John Bull has a healthy bank | account, but that it is practically iu- | exhaustible. EDITORIAL NOTES. Why should the city officials resign las a preliminary "to any rearrange- thent of civic duties ? There is a humiliation about the proceeding which should not be put upon thems CHIE iei------ - The pollution of the waters of our lakes nnd rivers must cease. It may mean the expenditure of money, mahy 'millions, by 'the frontier cities, in diverting their sewage, but )the sal- vation of the people depends upon it. . The preachers of New York talk of running & revival without the pre- sence and aid of "Billy" Sunday. They can do it, but it will not be a Sunday revival. "The finest play without a star would be tame enough, "Brockville, with its hundred. cases of typhoid fever, appeals to the gov- ernment for some action which will mean the purification of our water supply. But that action isnot clear. The Waterways -- Commission till wrestles with the issue. You Bernstorff, the German, ambas- sador.. at - Washington, - is said to have a call to return to Germany. He had better go somewhere. He is all the time reminding us of the flunkeys" whom the' cartoonists sketch as the bane of Mr. Jiggs life.. [There may be method 'in the coun- cil's manner of doing things,' but to order a staff - of officials to resign $76,641,000 to $87,740,000, or a over $11,000,000. During {WISE AND OTHERWISE. The heart of a pretty girl may 'be as chilly as a dog's nose. Some men are. good because they find it cheaper than being bad. The man who does thingk can af- ford to let his wife do all the taik- ing. A woman's work is never finished if she is trying to reform some man. The Diagnosis. The doctor. looks at Europe, His stethoscope dizdains: "She's suffering," says the savant, "From acute shooting paing." --Philadelphia Ledger A Thought For Yesterday. The very society of joy redoubles it; so that whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon me, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine.--R. South, Their Difficulty. Student--*I hear your depesitors are falling off." Cashjer--*'Yes; they can't keep a balance,"--Yale Record. He's one of the most conscientious men I know. So ? Yes. He always says: * Give me a match, please, instead of lend ine a match, J Naturally. Sunday school Teacher--"What is the outward, visible sign of bap- tism 2?" Johony--"The baby, mum. "--Phi- ladelphia Public Ledger. Two Reasons, "Don't you love to wander out in the country where the little lamb- kins play?" : ; 8 "And the graphophones don't. You bet."--~Louisville. Courier-Journal; nbc. abr With. but three minutes to calch his train, the traveling salesman 'in- quired of the street-car conductor. "Can't you go faster than this?" "Yes," the bell-ringer replied, 'but I have to stay with my ear."-Hzr- per's. - Its Note Of Protest. "So Miss Banger played for ygu? She claims that she can make the piano speak." : "Well, I'll bet if it spoke it would say: 'Woman, you have played me false." "--Boston Transcrips. Only Human. "Why do you write articles on how cheaply people can live if they try?" 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