THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1915. PAGE FOUR oa * | a good Tory, declaring that when he | RASCALITY AT OTTAWA. {Sunday schools a Sunday or two The British Whig saw the boots which others had made for our soldier boys, and was invited to make similar footwear "for the Government, he declined. "Ie did not want to make any money out of men's lives." J. H. McQuarrie, Honorary Major and attache of the Militia Depart- ment, humbly confesséd that he had accepted of $1,200 from the Wylie Limited, of Ottawa, in 1912, for his influence with General Hughes in se curing an order for three Gramm trucks, without doing anything earn it, having no influente to sell | 82ND YEAR. aie me Liv to | or exert. i ting that [ly | bodies Published Daily asd Semi-Weekly by | THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING ca €O., LIMITED, 1. G Ellott ..... x us nnes dus President | 'Leman A. Guild ....Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. Teleghones: Business Office .... SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) i One year, delivered in city ...... One year, if pald in advance ..., year, by mail to rural offices One year, to United States y ix and three months pro rats, 1 (Semi-Weekly Edit! One year, by mail, cash «eo $100 One year, If not pald in advance $1.50 | One year, to United States 50 Attached 1s one of the printing offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE HM. ¥. Smalipeice 32 Church Bt. | U. 8. REPRESENTATIVES | New York Office 225 Fifth Ave. | Frank R. Northrup, Manager i Bug. | beat job 1 ribune Manager EY anh R. Northrup, COMMISSION IN CHARGE. According to the Canadian Elec- | tric News the Light and Heat Com. | mission of Guelph made a request, to | the Hydro-Flectric Power Commission of Ontario to he allowed to collect their accounts quarterly instead of monthly. The reply of the Commis- | rion was that "inasmuch as the hy- dro accounts' with the municipalities are all based on monthly payment, they have, for this and many other | reasons, found it necessary to adhere! to the monthly payment in :all except | rural municipalities." The value of | comparison is quite obvious. But this can be mained and preserved | without the expense of monthly bal- | ances. Meters have to be resd, and! accounts have {0 be made out and! served and collected twelve times in | place of four, and this means labour which has to be paid for. The rate per month can be stated, for the pur- pose of comparison, without putting the city to unnecessary and serious expense. 'Fhe point of importance is that once the city makes a contract through the Commission for power, it tenses to control or dominate the sit- uation. The Hydro-Electric Commis "sion practically runs the business, cand the Local Commission becomes its assistant or subordinate. 'Lhe advice of the Commissior is sought ocoasionally, and it is appreciated, but should it dictate with regard to their manner of collecting the rates eesdkam the people ? KINGSTON BUSINESS INJURED. Kingston is one place that will feel the detrimental effects of the Bor- den Government's increase in: the Bri- tish Preferential Tarif. This city ! does a very large American tourist | _bysiness during June, July,. August and Septembér, and even since . the Lpupier Government gave ' British ~ goods a preference merchants dealing in certain lines have sold to tourists from across the border thousands of dollars. worth of materials. ~ When President Wilson came into power at Washington he reduced the import on many articles. This made . the American duty. still * higher than the British Preferential rate 'levied _ by Canada against import from the Motherland, -but-it - ennbled American ~dealefs to 'at 'least compete with Canadian houses in the sale of -Bri- tish goods. Now the Borden Gov. ernment adds to the British Preferen- stinl rate, and New York stores can sell British ; pif not good; hii x bebe s g § i 5 8 t ' | specifications, | unsuitable material, 00 | improperly made, that hundreds 00 | pairs had been burned, and that, by | | inspecting boards | price, approve ? } The same Honorary Major, admit-| through somebody's blun- dering, on the specifications, the Kel- Springfield company for autos, to the value of | $22,000, and that they were unser-| viceable and on the Government's hands. Several employees of the boot fac- | tories insisted that the productions | of their factories were good when | there were stacks of letters, reports, | and other evidence, to the effect that! the boots were not made according to | that they that contained | thay were of | and commanders, | they were pronounced unfit lor ser: | vice. And all the time these spectacular | things are going on members of the! Commons' fill the committee rooms, | | wide-eyed and open-mouthed, aston:sh- ed at the results of the spoils and| grafting ®Fstems, and yet ready to] vote for their continuance. The ques-| tion is, Do the people, who pay the OUR LAND WORKS. i The Finance (Committee has mado | an appropriation of $100 for a very | worthy cause. It is to mark certain historic spots about the aby and in! a way that. must interest the thou-| sands of visitors to Kingston every | year. During the summer season the | excursions from points down the riv- | er are very numerous, and knowing | that Kingston is rich in historic as- | sociations, many of those arriving | for the day, or for a stay of several hours, express an eagerness to see the land marks. When shown them they are astonished because there is an absence of thé tablets with which | to tell the stories in brief of the pro- | foundest interest. The Whig remem- | bers one man, the ex-mayor of a large | American city, who, fn contemplation of the house in which the first Leg- islative Council met, declared that "no other city would treat with such indifference the memories that should be dear to every citizen." A party from the Rochester Chamber of Uom- merce, last year, spent part of a day in sight-seeing in Kingston. Tt was Sunday, and not a good day for getting around. But they walked and they drove, and regretted that the city did not have in some econ- venient form certain historical facts or records which they could carry home as souvenirs. One. sees in this experience the necessity for two things--a marking with suitable tablets of the land marks, and the printing of thé facts in connection with them. There is work, therefore, for both the Finance and Publicity Committee. SUPPRESSING THE FACTS. "The performances of Hon. Mr. Fer- guson, at, the meetings of the local Public: Accounts' ('ommittee, are not to be admired. The 'plan or pur- pose of the Committee is to examine into everything of public 'interest, so far as the accounts are concerned, and no question should be. ed because it is felt by the Govera- ment, or its representatives, that it may elicit an answer which is not had made | | contractors were fleecing them. | would be | parties tp it be reached, when | were now on active service. While at ir I The Ottawa Journal flatiers the | Jorden Government by saying, of the several scandals it has on hand: "Every facility has been offered for | *Thia policy in striking contrast to that of the Gov- | investigation. is ernment which preceded it." This is about.as gross a misrepre- sentation as can. very well be im agined. There 'has never been a sit- uation such as one finds in Ottawa to-day. There has never been an ex- perience of the kind, and, therefore, there can be no comparison with it. The Journal thinks the Government | is deserving of praise becamse it per- mits enquiry and revelation, As if it dare throw any impediment or] hinderance in the way of exposure. It | is culpable in: allowing of conditions which have culminated in the greatest political infamies. The Government that 'the They | made this fleecing possible by provid- that Government supporters | knows ing | should be given a chance to make some money out of the war. The dis- tribution. of patronage was the first} consideration, and the Government's patronage committee will have to atone for a great many sins before | the campaign is over. The Journal lauds and magnifies the ministers because they are not | imitaty the ministers of the Local] | Governfpent and preventing the facts| They could have | some cases, Or it would have from coming out. kept the lid om in tried to do 'so, and been the worst thing they could do The contractors having' done up the| Government, the soldiers, and the] people, are not entitled to any con- | sideration, and an example must be made of them. Our contemporary, the Journal, | the better of a denuncia- | tion of the rascality that has been | uncovered, and jit cannot do any | good by hinting that there was some thing like it under another Govern: As a matter of fact, it and common honesty and | decency demahd that the] pos- ment. 18 | unique, common gible, and properly punished. THE MILITIA AND KINGSTON. _ During the discussion of the militia | estimates several mattérs came up of | very great interest to our people. | There was an, explanation, which was ! timely, as' to why the men of the! permanent force, after being recruited | {up by the addition of four or' five | hundred men, were sent to Bermuda. The Militia Department expected them to go to the front, but the War Office ordered sthas they first relieve replace the Lincolnshire. regiment * at Bermuda, and they are in Bermuda still. The ' minister's idea was to place some members of the permanent force among the Canadian regiments for instructional purposes, but the officers of tHe department thought the Royal Canadian Regiment should be kept intact for. active service if need be. | They are people ago. It is particularly commended | to the consideration of the Minister of Mines. The Ottawa Journal talks as ii the Government was doing the peo- | ple a favour by letting the scandals develop in Ottawa. Could they. be! supprsssed ? Js it possible to put and keep the lid on any of them? It is now said that Billy Sunday got $51,000 out of the Philadelphia revival. A while ago it was said he got $100,000. He certainly got an advertisement. that was worth more than a bag of money. He must | be very grateful to the press. The county member thinks the Roy | al! Military College cadets should have | new class 'rooms. The Minister = of Militia agrees, but says the money | cannot be spared this vear. There | would have been plenty of cash had | there been less grafting in connection { with war supplies. ' A commission has been appointed | with power to open schools any | where, and. especially where bi-lingual | ism has closed some. classes. This. is one way of solving the difficulty. A | second way would be the abolition of "Regulation 17, as amended." po * { PUBLIC OPINION | What Is Politics. (Toronto Globe.) What is politics ? Not the petty | wranglings and deceits of party ad- venturers. Not that. Politics is the| science and the art of government. The Very Latest. 'Cluelph Mercury.) i The latest thing at Sing Sing pris- | on is a baseball team. All the mem- | bers want the job of going over the} back lence aiter the foul tips. i Well, Does It ? (Ottawa Journal) t We suppose some people will be dis- | appointed that the 'Government | should rotiieve $6,300 from anybody. | who have the idea that the Government dares not inter- | fere with rake-offs, Worse Than War. (Hamilton Spectator.) i An Erie, Pa., paper bemoans the | fact. that, while its ball team had, last year, three first basemen on | hand, apd none $l, this year there is | but ome, and he's in hospital. There surily are horrors worse than war. | Who Is To Mourn. (London Advertiser.) 1 The question is not the punishment | of the drug clerk who took $6,300 of | the Government's money, but whether | his employer, a Uonservative member | of Parliament, can hold his seat af-| ter such a thing has been proyem. | A { Reasonable Kick. (Brantford Expositor.) } When Major-General Hughes concurs | in the protest made by Major-General | Lessard against the action of the On- | tario ~ Government in singling out "men in uniform" and putting them | on the Indian list, it is a pretty good sign that the round for protest $s a | wide one. Hon. Mr. Graham made enquiry about the cadet corps, (as the an- nual grant on'their account' had been reduced), and the minister said that an hundred cadets had gone to the front with the Seaforth Highlanders of Vancouver and Victoria, and that between 10,000 and 15,000 of those who had been trained in cadet corps 26 YEARS ACO Kingston was visited by a blizzard today. There was a very heavy ! snowfall. The storm played havoe i | KINGSTON EVENTS Salisbury Plain he had seen a num- ber of lads from . the Mount 7 Louis In: .itute in Montreal, "and no regular soldiers had handled them- selves better than these." Dr. Edwards paid a tribute to the gentleman cadets who 'had enlisted for active service from the Royal Military College. Of a class of thir- ty-eight - graduating in June, 1914, two had accepted imperial commis- sions, two commissions in the Cana- August twenty imperial commissions were given to graduates .of the col. lege and members of the senior class returning to college in September. | But, when we ol ii: with vessels, { | The Young Irishmen's Benevolent 'So- | ciety is organizing a brass band. i a) Jockey. -and Hunt Club will be {organized in Kingston. | How Philosophers Work Socrates asked questions when J He would teach young gentlemen; | He asked "Why?'" They said, ""Be-! cause." 3 Golly, what a cinch it was! Everybody else said, "He's Some sage, is old Socrates!" 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