I -- The British Whig 82KD YEAR. | *y : : {ders whether the people. of Detroit Lor of wrong-doing we can lock out have read it, for squalls. an ------------ ONTARIO"S FINANCES, There may he ar' early federal elec- It may be forced on the gov- ernment, and accepted, as a of snapping a verdict before all truth' with regard .to the militia partment - has come out. The The over, budget debate of Ontario is | tion. amd ome is curious to whether * the satisfactory know result has been quite to the people of this Last year was an ufifor- means the de- province. tunate . one, because of the depres- ex~ ¢ which kh sel in early, and accentuated by the ywar. son 'which was The business of the government was afiected like every other business; in- of its departments unduly affected, The revenues fell off amazingly. But the expenditures did not fall off accordingly." The advice to wall, with the outbreak of the war, was to curtail expenses, to economize direction. The government doesnot seem ito have profited very deed some were in every TN bs Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by . 8 THE BRITISI WHIG PUBLISHING seen by the following exhibit €0., LIMITED, 1904. 1914 3a Eltott Leman A. Guild . Actual in- President come ...§ 6,128,258 $10,747,768 75 p.c .:. Managing Diréctor Actual ex- and Bec.-Treas. penditure | Surplus Deficit 5,267,453 14,942,239 186 pc 860,905 Telephones: much by this admonition, and wil be Ipcrease hibit thus far is shocking. And the half has not been told ! Major-General Sam Hughes attend- ed the amnual meeting of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ontario West, North Bay, and made an address. The major-general's connection with the Orange Opder probably at accounts for his defiance of the men who, even in his own party, have demanded hid decapitation. Twenty-nine accountants and finan- cial experts have applied for the position | of permanent city auditor in Hamilton. Out of that bunch the {city should be able to get one who { will hold the crooks in check. And {he will mot be the cheapest man, Business Office . Edjtorial Roo Joo Office .. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) delivered in city 8.00 J if pald in advance .... $5. One vear, by mail to rural offices $2.50 One year, to United States 3.00 !x and three months pro rata. (Bemi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash $1.0 One year, if not pald in advance $1.50 One year, to United States 1.60 Six and three months pro rata. Attached 1s one of the job printing offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H. B Smallpelos ........ 32 Church St U. 8. REPRESENTATIVES New York Office ........ 225 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager Chicago Tribune Bld Frank R. Northrup, Manager 243 229 292 One year, One year, best A COMMITTEE MESMERIZED Hamilton has been given, by special act cf the Legislature, permission to issue debentures to the valyg of $150, 000, without appealing to the people and getting their consent. 1. this a wise What particular the representatives of th: Council put up in order to secure this mcs#l unusual concession? Keep in mind the fact that. Hamilton last year had its own public scandal i the rivelations which came out before tha county judge in his serutiny its affairs. A city. which by 'gross carelessness proceéding ? argument did in of or mismanagd ment, the most serious irregularities, "natural and business growth has not | ¢ tolerated, | to an 4,204,471 Pub, debt 11,709,651 40,405,000 245 p.c. | oither, or the man who is willing to | The expenditure includes the amount work for the lowest salary. | spent on the, provincial railway' and | ------ the I Iydro)E leetric 4 work. Commission's | The Government ' of Great Britain | that will suppress or limit the liquor The comparison of receipts and 'ex- | traffic will court defeat, for the com- penditures during the last five years |mon people love their beer. But it is even more remarkable : { will inaugurate a social reform that 1910 1914 Increase | will save the nation. Lloyd-George Actual Pe. $ 9,231,601 $10,747,768 16 p.c lis disposed jo venture a great deal. benditurest 9.676.074 14,942,230 G5 pc. | Put he is 'only one of the great out: | Deficit ©, 444473 4,204,471 | standing figures in the public life of Pub. debt. 22,083,430 40,405,000 83 pc. | py ogny The statements are very sugges- tive. They tell the story of financial i ' On- | tario is growing, to be sure, but'its * PUBLIC OPINION | recklessness with a few figures. been equal to its' Legislative growth, | or Tax a Mistake, growth in extrava- | (Toronto Star.) The who have. been | The incredsed tariff handling the finances have not been |£00ds entering Canada a8 'economical aw they were expected to be, or as they promised to be, judging them by the professions which they made while in opposition. Legislative men on British was a mis- take, and the sooner the fact is ad- mitted and the mistake rectified the better. | gance, The Last Call. (Brantford Courier). ! Germans up to 'filty-five years REVOLT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. age have now been called on There {join the army. [Pretty soon tish Columbia, and, strangely enough, it is the result of a quarrel between the premier and his finance *minister, and over the propriety or impropriety | : : : . ng 4 .' | There is a growing feeling the of still further aiding a railway in public service that an $800 clerk which the province As largely interest- needs a $1,700 automobile in ordef to is a political crisis' in Bri- to the grave. You Don't Say (Oswego Times.) in of | to | they | {will be taking them from the cradle | with financial loss and embarassment; is hardly worthy of the extraordinary favour which has been shown to it by the Private Bills' Committee of tha local kouse. How was this commit 16s mesmerized anyway ? ons pliuss tell us ? to | couver to Fort Groorge. Will some | | I'he railway i s now being built by Foley, Welsh | & Stewart, 'well-known | contractors, SALE OF DEBENTURES. | who are also the principal owners. The: eity has sold its debentures, { Of the 450 miles involved 127 are valued gt considerably less than | completed, and grading is finished for £100,000, at_an advantage, and this | the balance of the "way to Fort is & matter of great congratulation, [Gorge. The province has already seeing that other municipalities have | guaranteed the company's bonds not been able to dispose of bonds, bearing the same interest, 5 | contractors say they will be, forced per conti, ut 8 premium. : The re. to close down if further aid is not walt iy to be attributed to two ,eir- | forthcoming. . -3 ¢umstances, (1), that the money mar- | The portion of the Pacific kot is 'not glutted with manicipad de- | Fastern, between Vancouver bentures at the present time, (2) that the credit of the city stands | tion of a railway iftended to place high among. those who are ' buying Vancouver in direct touch with the and selling debentures. - The Whig | reat Peace' River Valley in northern has been looking" over. the financial | British Columbia. The ple "of Al- position of some of the older cities | berta, through which the fower Peace of Ontario and. realizes that + King- | River passes 'northeasterly toward ston compares favourably with them, [the Slave River, near Lake Atha- 2 it is most desir: {basca, are spending all their energies able Ut should maintain, Tf i pos: {to making {the entire valley of the sible to load up a city with so much | Peace their own commercially'. The debt that it is hard to finance, sand | British Columbians wesent this, and our Council must be cgreful lest it | Sir Richard 'plans to stit ap = the roaches that most undesirable posi | people of his province, in' an alleged tion. | protest against Albertan ambition, { by helping the railway. at)any cost. «The. province cannot afford the ex- pense, or luxury;.and Hon. Price Ellison, the finance minister, seems to have objected strenuously. As. the ireat and SIE ADAM HITS A SNAG, ft i 'nbt quite apparent how it Lajipen.d, but Sir Adam' Beck has got ns tinself into bad odour with the peo- be bought any time. Bir Adam was at Dutton, discuss ing his. pet subject, power, and he had occasion to refer to the negotiations 'of the Detroit Council This, it was expected, could be sup- quite freely from Windsor, now that transmiseis. 1 fines hive been oar- there was no alternative for lison but to retire from office. At = » i it Fr £ g Hpi to | their | the extent of $37,500 a mile, but the | and | Prince George, is only the first sec: | Me. (FI ed, {perform his duties efficiently, Sir Richard McBride proposed {loan seven million dollars' to. the { Pacific Great Enstern Railway for | the completion of its line from Van- That's a Blunder. (Hamilton Spectator). Faults? Who has them not? 'used to be said of the founder | Confederated Canada, in his palmy | and yet unsteady days, that "the peo- | | ple _would rather have Sir John Mac- {donald drunk thay any other man | sober." | ; . The One Exception. (Windsor Record). I The Ontario. government is obliged {to impose a war tax on all assess- {able lands in the province and to {cut down Jhe grants for agricultural | societies in order to make sure there {will be no delay on. the million dol {lar palace in Toronto for the lieuten- | i Nobody home but the | | ant-governor, | gherifi and he's going out on execu- {tions ? '5 i) KINGSTON EVENTS | 25 YEARS ACO * . Catholic lodge of foresters in the city. A large number of medical stu- dents, 'graduating this year, are tak- ing Trinity medical college degrees as well as Queen's. ~~ Capt. W, Bloomfield, - wiil likely command the steamer Hero. Capt. Nicholson will command the Norse- man. a The Grocers' Protective Associa- tion has seven hundred 'dead beats" on its books. : Another Invasion Of Canada, Oswego Palladium. Rumors have reached Buffalo, ac- cording to the press dispatches, that 100,001 Irish assembling in the latter city prepara- tory to an Invasion of Canada on April 1st, the centenary of Bismar- ck's birthday. Chief of Police Re- looks upon 'the rumor as an Ap- ool joke. However, our Canadian cousins not take the matier fhat way. have been expecting and wait- for an invasion of their country Buffalo way ever since the war out. We can now expect | that the militia at Toronto are it | of | A movement is on foot to establish | i { IS FEELING THE EFFECTS OF | FOOD SCARCITY. The Kaiser Makes It His Personal Business to See That the New Re. gime Is Carried Out. Paris, March -11.--A diplomat of a neutral 'powes, Who has just arrived 'from Berlin, discusses the rigid verity of life that prevails at the court of Prussia. There are no more receptions, no chatty "five o'clocks" in the afternoon, and the number of domestic servants has been redueed to a minimum. The effect of the i general strain is veginning to be | felt in the royal household as. elge- where. The empress palace with its se- has left the vast and deserted apartments which gave 'her pro- found depression. She has betaken herseli to 'Mon Bijou, which is a con- glomoration of several pavilions in old Berlin, She bas in her entourage | only two ladies of honor and two | chamberlains. From' tim¢ to time the kaiser makes a brief appearance' at the court. On such octasions he | makes it his business to see that the | necessities of the food regime are | being strictly followed, and, in con- sequence,® the mode of life at the | court has undergone a radical chamyge. Meals are m®dest to a degree. The Empress Augustus Victoria's break- fast consists of a cup of tea and ope | plain boiled egg.. Lunch at midda consists -of soup, a single serving of | meat, and some fruit. For dinner she has soup, a single dish, and a -plate i jor vermicelli or marcaroni, Potatoes lare served in their jackets, as peel-! ling them in their raw state is ne | garded as a waste of good edible material. The kaiser never tires of recommending the virtues of war bread, and he forces the members of | his suit to nibble it in public. royal | i +1 HHP PIEPEILII EIEN NY | * * WAR BULLETINS. + + --- % The captain of the German auxiliary cruiser Eitel Fred- erich declared: at Newport News Va., Wednesday afternoon that he would neither intern nor surrender to the British ships waiting outside the harbor. The Berlin war office official- ly admits that the Germans have made no progress recently in France or eBlgium, and warns the Germans that the Al- lies are réceiving very heavy reinforcements. In Carpathian regions the + | Russians 'have met and defeat ed and Austrian army corp, capturing three thousand pris. oners and several heavy guns. Confirmation was received at Athens, Wednesday that the allied fleet, - bombarding the Dardanelles forts on Monday, destroyed thirty mortar guns. The British won a brilliant victory in Flanders, capturing the village of Neuve Chapelle, with a thousand German pris- oners. hin fb i oid Sob dbdd : In the German reichstag on Wednesday there was no talk of peace, but it was stated that the emperor's armies were like walls of steel and iron, . | * % + +* 8 | 4 + * + * * * + +> * + | oe *» * | +* * * a * = * * * + + LJ + * +> + +> > * + | | %* > + * The Turks have all been driv- en two weeks' march from the Suez Canal. Germany officially admits the loss of four submarines, and says seven others have been missing for three weeks. 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