PAGE FOUR The British Whig 82ND YEAR. i Tm = i | i Lat BEE A Published Daily THE DRITISH Lr and Semi-Weekly by WHIG PUBLISHING LIMITED, | had not given the matter the | Me. McGarry to 'one side and giving | him a heart-to-heart talk. Another { break or two like this and his uge- ! fulness will be gone. ABSENT SOLDIER VOTERS. | The proposal to give the | constituting the various contingents, { by legislation, votes in any election that may occur during .their 'absence from Canada, has been referred. to a | special committee. The premier ex- pressed surprise when Mr. Fripp, M.P., submitted his motion.. He did not know' it was coming up and he con- sideration . which it deserved, Which was not saying, of course, that had not heard about it, \and was not inclined to nibble at. it. J Mr. Fripp based his proposition on a bill which had been passed by the New Zealand legislature. Its. a was assuredly to enfranchise the mem- bers of the expeditionary force, and J. G. EMott President Leman A. Guild .. «Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. Telephones Business Office Editorial Rooms Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city A One year, if paid in advance .... $6.00 One year, by mail to rural offices $2.50 One year, to United States 3. Six and three months pro rata. (8eml-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash 1.00 One year, if not paid in advance $1.50 One year, to United States 1.50 SIX and three months pro rata. Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE HH. E. Smallpeice 32 Church St. U. 5. REPRESENTATIVES New York Office +225 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager Chicago. ribune Frank R. Northrup, Manager 14g. TOO MANY OFFICIALS, Sir Robert Borden asked the op- 'position critic of the budget if" he would advocate a reduction in the salaries of the civil servants.. 'This is not but they could stand a cut as well as the employees of the private companies and cor- porations, Better io have a lower, wage than no wage at all. Besides the federal government, since 1911, . dismissed 2,000 liberal f officials and re- "placed them with 10,000. tory officials. Fight thousand of these, In dull times, could be let go. There never was any occasion to appoint them save to find splaces and pickings for men who kad served the party and demanded their rewards. . . BURDENING THE FUND. The charges on the Patriotic Fund are increasing. The epidemic of mar- riages goes on. Women who have been earning, and are capable of doing so, give up their places and marry in order to enjoy the com- *forta which this patriotic fund pro- vides through the bounty of the gov- ernment and the benevolent people. Others, who have been earning, and who mist account for their receipts to the Patriotic Fund, do not like the idea of contibuting by work to their maintenance when they get the maney from the patriotic fund by ab- staining from it, and so they delib- erately give up their services. This is "the experience in other places as well as Kingston, and it suggests consideration for those who have to do with the management of the fund. necessary, McGARRY'S INSULT. The insurance managers of the pre: vince have occasion to sharply resent the attack of Hon. Mr. McGarry. In referring to the fact that the life companies had decided to contest the right of the province to levy the ad- ditional tax he was positively ~in- "sulting, Not tent with an Ing that the tax had not been col lected he intimated that the dizectors were unpatriotic and, at a critical in the world's history, unin. | clined to do their duty to the : ie called them "traitors," and in do- ing so libelled _ unwarrantably; | x Mr. Kilgour, the = homourary secre- tary, ry Mr. i 92 | gested that it yas not safe them unwillingly and | to provide for their participation in any election taking place during their ahsence from the colony. The fact that the measure .was untried sug- to ac- cept it as a piece of perfect logisla- tion. - 4 The debate brought out some queer | political views that did not reflect | ereditably upon some of the speak- jers, Dr. Clark, of Red: Deer, Hid | not see how men thousands of miles | away could be educated upon the is- {anes of the day. Mr. Fripp, basing {his opinion on a letter he had receiv- [ed, said the soldiers knew what was {was going on at home, and they | knew "what this government had done {to take care of them." Mr. Bornham | capped the climax in saying that, as | one interruptor' had put it, the soldiers {could go it blind, that "others go it { blind besides the men at the front." | This is not to the credit of | one, or any class of men. | sumption is that electors are | porters of candidates or parties | their merits. | election, { " sup- on Some, as in the last are influenced by financial {and trade relations. Then one's poli- { tics are influenced by his pockets. But the masses are expected to judge of men and measures according to their deserts, and on great issues they have not hesitated to transfor their allegiance from ome party to an- other. It can safely be affirmed that Mr. Burnham does nor bespeak the senti-, {ments of the large number of elect | tors when he says they go it blind; that they do not want light and ind formation, and that politically they revel in their ignorance, bof ---- \ » OUR PROVINCIAL FINANCES. | The provincial accounts do not fook well. Mr. McGatry estimates the deficit of the, year at $697,928, and attributes it to. three things --~shortage in the revenue of the De partcent, of Mines and Lands, re fusal of the life insurance compan: ies to pay the tax on them, amount. ing to '$250,000, and grants to Bri: tain and Belgium, in flour, which was valued at $297,000. 3 ' The life insurance companies have 8 defence. It is that they are being unduly oppressed. $130,000 to-the On £606,000 to the federal treasury, and ry. They, clusion that they have 'no right to pay a provincial tax, .and the item of 1914, of $145,000, will be eon: tested in the courts. Incidentally Mr. Mcdarry is not warranted in abusing the dirdetors of life insur ance companies, and calling them "traitors." They are protecting the policyholders, and the increasing tax on ins ies is ing quit. of them., Mr. McGarry plans to raise $1,800, - soldiers | he | aim | any | The wns- | H remarkable that Britain will be for- %| ced to lead in this assault. {| beer in: the cily during' the Jadt week, In 1013 they paid appear to have now : the con.' of | government. has been' giving 5 - |= 'Tek DARBANELLES FORCED The most important item of news from the seat of war was that which, | on Thursday night, announced the | 'forcing. of the Dardanelles, by - the | British: and French fleets. This no- table work was done by the fleets working from the Aegean sea, and the | effect will he visible at once on the world's commerce." It gives an out- Jet to the wheat stored in Russia, and, until now, without an easy out- i let through the Black Sea, the Sem | {of Marmors, >and the Mediterranean té the markets of the world. The Dardanelles, or Hellespont, or Strait" of Gallipoli, is the narrow | strait between Europe and Asia, | | connecting the Aegean Sea with the | | Propontes, or Sea of Marwora. It is forty-five miles long. In width varies from one mile to five. The | narrowest, part' is between Sistos | | and Abydos, where Xerxes threw his | {bridge of boats across it in 490 | {B.C. Alexander the Great: crossed | {it in, 334 B.C, It was the scene of | Leander's classic exploit, and | Byron's imitation in 1810, | The strait is 'described thus: "It {is=of strategic importance as it com- | | mands the entrance of Constgatino- | | ple from the Mediterranean. Both | { sides are strongly fortified, and the | | passage is further protected by tor- | {pedoes. On its Asiatic side stands | | the fortified seaport of = Dardanelles. | {In 1807 the British admiral,' Duck, | | worth, forced his way through it to | { Constantinople, By a treaty signed | | in 1841 no foreign ship of war may | pass through the Dardanelles with- | {out the consent of Turkey. | | scrap of paper destroyed. Yes, but {at the instigation of Turkey, which { {would not accept the advice of Bei | 4 tain and Russia and France and al- | { Towed Germany to drag her into the | war." y In "1878 ' a British fleet passed | thraugh the strait te protect Con- | stantinople from Russia, and in 1891 | the sultan gave permission for the | vessels of the Russian volunteer flebt, {even when carrying soldiers and cém- | victs, to pass through. Daring the Russo-Japanese war Russian cruisers passed through the Dardanelles under a commereial "flag, assumed their terme .chracter in the Red Sek, and stopped a number. of British and Ger- man ships. They céased operations onthe" regeipt of instrictions from the 'cdar "delivered fo them by British cruisers Heat" Panzibar. The effect of the opening of the Dardanelles - will be soon apparent. Turkéy 'wit * Surrender 'or Constanti- nol to ashes: and it is it | of | It may mean that Britain will have mibre VaR final disposition 'of this: benyt ol city. : # P00 T ------------ GB _ EDITORIAL NOTES. | Abbut fifteen hundred of the friends of the soldiers, who will leave. for the front i some of 'these days, have bidding them "good-bye." The government professes, through some of their supporters, to have a greal regard for the soldiers' wel- fare. For evidence of this 'one has only to point to the . boot, remount, and blanket scandals. A good many of the wives, mothérs and sisters of the. soldiers who go to the front with the 2lst Regiment Bave "be in the city during. the 0 k,; but few: of them were among fhe elect at the social function in the 'armouries. . .. "Going it blind" is the manner | in which Mr. Burnham refers to the sol- diers and their votes. "Going it blind" is the way .- the soldiers 'can refer to the manner in which the { manner in which their moneys | being spent. : . iter of the interior, boy who whistles to keep | courage. | Berlin by {not regard a harvest of snow {ice as wholly satisfactory | ing Society. Another | } are | i i Can't, You See, Montreal Herald i Herr Del Bruck, the German minis- | says Germany | cannot . lose, *even if the whole world | should be in arms 'against us." That | sounds suspiciously like the small! his | up More Wireless Whispers. . _ New York World. * i *""I'bp idea of starving out ) Likr- | {many is absurd' and "harvesting ma- | chines are following the German troops." These latest words from | wireless indicate either that the German i ing out against «Britain's policy starvation for the fun of 'it, 'or does | and | for. the | nourishient of the people. i ' Smit 4 KINGSTON EVENTS | 25 YEARS ACO '{ was elected president | .A. Literary and Debat- | G. E. Hague of the YC William N ; .aged seventy-eight | years, father of w. F. and Hugh | Nickle, died to-day. | William Harty has been appointed | Canadian manager of the Kquitabls | Life Assurance company at a salary | of $4,000 per annum, replacing H. C. Dennis, of Cobourg. i TORY MEMBERS AFRAID OF TAKING ANY DRASTIC MEAS- | SURES WITH HUGHES, For They Know He Is In a Position | to Hit Back--Opposition To Him | Is Strong in the Party's Ranks. Ottawa, Feb. 26.--While the gov | ernment forces here are deploring | the so-called breaking of the politi-| cal truce by the liberals by means of | attacks on the government's taridf! proposals 4nd' other legislatio® and | administration apart altogether | from the war, these same members! are by no means observing any truce | as regards their war against Cana-| da'st war minister. The opposition | within the government's ranks to! Major-General Hughes, which has| found public vent in many conserva-| tive newspapers, and which culmina-| ted in a stormy conservative caucus | at the opening of the session, is still| being continued: | Difficulties with the minister of! militia with regard to patronage, ! war contracts; atid the non-paréisan | administration lof the _ department | have been accentuated rather than! minimized by thé persistent agita-| tion of the a) ee weeks for his | removal, and #gbldeement by a min; | ster more acceptable to the Roger. | Eroup on the government side of the! house. Discloslires which have been | foreshadowed &¥ to wasteful expendi | tures, unsatisfactory contfacts, ete. l in ecopnection with the expeditionary | forces, are caiis considerable wun-| easiness in the "government ranks. { "While Génersd Hughes himeelf is perhaps the least to Blavie for some of the irregularities arising from the! misuse of patrowage, it is thought by | his opponents that political harmony | within the parti and possibly a 'good | effect. on the dountry might be secur- | ed by a change of ministérs. The op-| ponents of General Hughes, howev-| er, are rather chary about taking any! drastic measures with him, for they! know he is in a pdsition to hit Back, | ang ia In 2 Jisposition te do so, as | e thinks he is being treacherously! attacked. 5 i. ero ir) The suggestion I now made that! Do objection will 'be 'placed 'in his way if he decides to. carry out his personal wish 'of going to the front and getting into the fight himsolf at the head of his troops. Tt is beliey: ed that if the way is opened up for! a suitable command for him' at the front he will wash his hands of pat-| ronage «and other political troubles here and gladly a new world to conquer on the firing line in Europe. The developments of the next two weeks are. awaited with considerable interest in parliamen- tary circles here, sie oY . THEPDAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1915, Shoe Special - Sizes 6 to 11, tan or black, heavy soles, solid leather storm tongue. Good value $3.50; Werkingmen's Men's Trousers $2.15 Tailor-made from choice Wor- steds and Cheviots, neat stripes, grey mixtures; sizes 31 to 44; belt loops; Ie pockets, cuff or plain bottom, BibbysNewHats for Spring | We can save you 50c. to $1.00 on your new Hat, Sir!. . nt for the celebrated King Hats, $2.50. The ft Wolthausen Hats $2.50, N= Wanted I. Loan of about | $4,000 on Farm | Property, worth |, $15,000, and as- sessed for 13,500 2. 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