oe?" : particularly "Hatiure of il it 'appeals to the sympathies of the PASE. FOUR 7s THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY. Ty E---------- 'The British Whig | getting ready for the theatre of war. | This will meas much labour and self- sucrifice, but. it will call out the tivity - and devotion from the ac mil lions which will certainly have the | desired result. The Red Cross Society standg for all that is worthy and noble honorable dnd true in life, is bound to succeed in all its under and and, it takings. THE WAR JUST BEGUN, Horatio Bottomley, in the Sunday Pictorial, thinks that this war differs in| vital respects from any other strug gle in history and that Europe can- not long endure an expenditure of £15,000,000 a day.* He logks to see | hostilities suspended and_peace under Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by | THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING | ©O., LIMITED. ware President | «++. Managing Director | and Sec.-Treas. | Telephones: eo Business co itorial Rooms ... ob Office | sesaniae AMY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city .. year, «sve 38.00 ¥ paid in advance .... $5.00 by mail to rural offices $2.50 | to United States 3.00 three months pro rata. (Bemi-Weekly Edition) One year, by be h . $1.00 Soe year, if not pald in advance $1.50 | ear, to United States 1.50 X and three months pro rata. Attached 1s ope of the best job printing offices in Canada. 3 | TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE HM. K. Smallpelce 32 Church St. U. 8 REPRESENTATIVES New York Office 225 Fifth Ave, | Frank R. Northrup, Manager Bugg. | 0 Tribune rank R. Northrup, Manager A GREAT FINAL CRISIS, Ontario's puttering policy on. the | liquor question is enough to make a | man blush. There was an attempt | to be heroic, in the amendment = to | the Liguor Law, and an announce ment of the forward step to which the Government was committed. But A scare wet in with the appearance | of the deputations of influential men, who represented financial and politi- cal powers, and the alleged brave men wha constitute the local Government | lost heart and courage, The result | was the disappearance of the clause from the Bill which gave it a distinet | cust and effect. It is no justification of the that the proceedings leading up to the printing of the measure were irre gular. The Bill, complete, 1s sup- posed to be before the House when it Js presented and given a reading. Mr. Hauna outlined it in a unstions speech. The Dill wus his pet creation. He had | long meditated upon it. He had | committed the party to it in a cau- | ous. Yet the promier confesses that | it was represented by a piece of | blank paper, and that after its first | reading, (when it was not read), | there was a significant change in the | wording. | The liquor question is the issue of | the hour--in Canada as in the mo. i ther country. Lloyd-George, Bri- | tain's chief social reformer, declares | that drink more than war threatens | the integrity of the empire, and some I of these days Britain will be imita- ting Russia in issuing a command | that, pending the war, and perhaps | later, the manufacture and sale of | liguors must be stopped. Canada | cannot be ' far behind the mother | country on the subject, and Ontario | must take its place in the fopward | the movement. The cause is a, col- | fact | THE RED CROSS SOCIETY. | Mrs, s Needham, of Toronto, gave in | her address some valuable informa: tion with regard to the work of the Red Cross Society, but she could not, in the course of one talk, do more "than touch upen the significance of overent--- Fy CRUSE 158 oT "ils cares and its con » at such a time. Ordinarily women, and of the women in par Wf 7 tally intere "the men, y, at the front, in this 'its greatest beneficiar- crtde | are mot so sanguine, | tive of a long, disastrous, and death- | dealing war. | months of war." | duced by the | been first 4. { the part of the Allie, and a carnage ately 7 18 it a Gave of one, wo, {a8 a local political god? he Mili | discuision in June. But other great men, erities = who are. founding their opinions on infor- mation of a trustworthy character, They take into account many things that are sugges- | "On land," says the London Mail, "the Germans hold all { but the veriest fraction of Belgium, the valuable ' industrial and mining | { districts of Northern France, and the whole of Western Poland. They are only sixty miles from Paris--as near as Oxford is to London. The real fighting has yet to come when the Al lies undertake the task of driving the enemy back and hewing a way to German territory. It will be a long process, a hard process, and one in- enormous sacrifice and los; and prodigious exertion on the part | of every member of the great Alli- No swift and dramatic collapse The Ger- volving ance. of Germany .is probable. they havé pecuniary resources which, according to Sir Edward Hol- den, a great banking authority, may | enable them to face another ewelve Granted that the supplies in Ger- | many are giving out--that copper is scarce is scarce, and most unneces- sary for munitions of war, that food is scarce, that the enemy is being re- | wearing process which was predicted, that many things have occurred to dampen and discourage the Germans, the fact remains that they are far from subdued. It may be conceded that they have | disappointed and defeated at many points, that their diplomats and generals have deceived the Em: peror, that the greatest fighting force in Europe is being gradually re duced, that fault is being found that it is"mot making any progress, and | the truth remains that the conquest | | of these Teutons has not yet been | commenced. The siege of Germany has not yet been commenced, although it is being seriously threatened on the const. | With the opening of the Dardanelles, | (which is a sure if a slow contin- | gency), and the opening of spring, | there will be a forward movement: on | compar¢d with which there has been | nothing yet on record. The Allies | will 'win, but Oh the sacrifice of Jife | and treasure and money ! i EDITORML NOTES. i "The blocking goes on at ihe Pub- | lic Accounts' Committee ' of Ontario. | ps | What has the Government under con: | out at the car cealment 7? What wickedness is it covering up? There is , something i t st the light, that will not stand » lig spirit of fl® Tate Semator Fulford | kas been revived in the devotion of his family. ] A war is a non-politieal event. A Liberal ean go to the ¥oent and lay Wown his life for the but, according to the gospel of the ittee at Ottawa, he k-in at the view of the rascalities it is as patronage col cannot get a war supplies. that well. In are being uncovered Ald. Graham is right. use of passing amy by-law ? It will not be enforced. There is a bylaw, for instance, against the casting paper on the streets, and some of them are littered with the waste paper that is thrown upon them by the people. A few examples would cure the evil. But whighis to make them ? [PUBLIC opiiion } An Experiment, (Ottawa Journal) A town in Wisconsin has tried a "pay-up week" with much success-- everybody paid their bills, But will everybody wait now for next year's pay-up week ? ------ There Is A Preference. (London Advertiser.) Ex-Pre:ident Eliot, of Harvard, says the posssssion of a million dol- lars is a great misfortune. Still most of us would prefer it to the war, for instance. They Deserve It. (Guelph Mercury.) The supply of iron erosses is run ning short, but the German aviators who killed three children in a dmall Northern France will 'have / i town in { muns still have at least three million $0 be. decorated. | men of military age to place in the | | field, A Genuine Scandal. (Saturday Night.) The bringing about of a general | election in the modst of this war will | mark our Federal Government as & | parcel of practical politicians utterly devoid of the first priaciples of states. manship, A Tory View. #Toronto Telegram.) The maintenance of the popular | velo places responsibility for liquor trade conditions where such ry Sponsi- bility belongs, on the people. That responeibility cannot safely for the | Province ér profitably for the Hearst i. Government he taken away from the! people and put where such responsi- | bility does mot belong--in the hands | of a commission. . i Wheat. (Syracuse Post-Standard.) The wheat: of last year's crop still remaining on the farms on Mareh lst | was 153,000,000 bushels.: -The wheat in warchouses is about 60,000,000 bushels, The amount of seed neces: sary is about" 90,000,000 bus on of which has alread ok Iasi bo ms . In spite of heavy ewporis of wheat, the present. stock is about normal There is no n to fear a shortage holon, the next erop comes into mar- t | FicaTo3 EVENTS .25 YEARS AGO 4&, Chown has purchased a hard: | ware business formerly conducted; by 'his son in Belleville. . A meeting was held to organize | lacrosse club, **E. J. B. Pense was elected president and John Oram, se (retary-treasurer. Two ers per day are being turned works, 'he Kingston foundry is crowded with work, ts are being made fora here, ©. rr bicycle meet The Chhncelior of the . Exchequer | says the first battle which Britain | must win is over the drink traffic. | Some of thése days the saloons or | the tap rooms will cease to menace the future, or existence, of the king- dom. Attorney-General Bowser says will have more to do Tell 4b susibda > Tw aS rr tish Columbia. He was on strik three, and out, so far as Sir Richard McBride is, concerned ? pad Sir Richard MoBride is slated to run for the Commons, us & represen- | | tative of British Columbia, and if elected to enter the Government at Ottawa. Has he v out his {to the Whig by "A Reader," wi ! ne | these touching words: "A dear about the | YOUng friend sent me these lines, Perhaps you will be so kind as to 'Such is the Infest an- | But To Comfortsome Mother's Heart The following. poém Has been sent ainking they wonld help meio. 1 thought them so I am sending them to you.. my sorrow. beautiful print them in your valuable paper. They may bring comfort to some other poor mother's heart that is breaking with grief for her boy that is at the front." Not out's to know the reason why Unanswered is our prayer, ours to. wait | To lift the cross we bear. What is the of | | papa ?"<-- Associated i Zines, country, | Strategy. Waiter-- "And will you take the macaroni au gratin, sir?" Officer--" No macaroni-- by gad! It's too doocid difficult to mobilize." | Grateful, Boreleigh--"Some men, you know, are born great, some achieve greatl-! ness--" i Miss Kgen---*'Exactly! ° And some! just grate upon you." i Her Offer. Lady (about to purchase military | headgear, to her husband )--*'I know it's more expensive than the others, ; dear, but--well, you see you're too cld to enlist, and I really feel we, ought to do something!'--Puneh. | An Unsettled Question thes "Is this town on the map?" "We don't know, stranger. "hese! ain't nobody here rich ensugh to buy a map to fiad out. | Willie's Doubts William's uncle was a very tall, | fine-looking man, while his father, was very small. William admired his uncle, and wished to grow up | like him. One day he said to his! mother: "Mama, how did big and tall?" | His mother said: "Well, when un-| cle was a small boy he was always al very good boy, and tried to do what! 'Was right at all times; so God let! him grow up big and tall." > 1 William thought this over ser- | fously for a few minutes, then said: "Mamma, what kind of a boy was | Sunday Maga! uncle grow so! | 'Unconscious Humor, } Some of the finest jokes extant | come through the fact that the prin-| ter's finger slips. Here are some which, like all others, are funny a long, ~long, long time never at the time. A Chicago paper reported thit the | propeller Alaska was leaving port! with a cargo of 40,000 bushels of | cats, } A Buffalo paper, in describing the | scene when Roosevelt took the oath of office as President, sald it was a spegtacle never to be forgotten when Roosevelt, before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Courf and a few wit- | | hesses, took his simplé bath =-Asso- | | ciated Advertising. | Time To Leap. Nora--"Why did you accept him i the third time he proposed?" } Dora--*Because he said it would be the Mast time." "Judge. i Explained, : | { She--"Why do they paint the in-| | gide of a chicken-coop?* | Hé--""To keep tHe hens from pick- | ing the grain out of the wood." Break, Break, Break. """He'ssuing the company that ton-| structed his artificial limbs.'* "On what grounds. ?" ""Non-support."--Buflfalo Express. pts it SP WAR BULLETINS, Leading British newspapers are outspoken in - support Lloyd George's proposal of @! of %| toe B| LEZ EEX + i | hh EEE Ibe bay Sir George tia of some Foster: relioves of the mismanagement which sttdod- ed the early preparations of "the |' . | The minister LEBER IEE EB NY PrP e0b Peete alterward 11 For Men's and Boys' Easter Clothes BOYS' NORFOLK SUITS. : TTT BOYS' SUITS, $4.00. BOYS' SUITS, $4.50. BOYS' SUITS, $5.00. BOYS' SUITS, $6.00. BOYS' SUITS, acres acres $7.50. Acres I. J. LOCKHART, "Bank of Montreal Building, Kingston, MEN'S SPRING SUITS. Ready to try on, fin- ished td vour order in two hours time. BOYS' SUITS, $8.00. BOYS' SUITS, $9.00. BOYS' SUITS, $10.00. BOYS' SUITS, $12.00. MEN'S SUITS, $12.50. MEN'S SUITS, $15.00. _ MEN'S SUITS, $18.00, MEN'S SUITS, $20.00. MEN'S OVERCOATS, $10, $12.50 and $15.00. ee ~ MEN'S SUITS, $8.50. MEN'S SUITS, $10.00. 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