_ PAGEFOUR ___ The British Whig | BEND YHAR. a. ns hurt the government by its independ-} | ence, it will get all the power which | the government originally promised. | The point of special moment is this) iliat ihe Ontaric = independent of the government, {hat it is not all-powerful, and is not of the kind and "quality which the Op- « 1 CORENSSIST ID | position leader in Saskatchewan has Li A ERI { AN he fed ol EEE ie | | Hf CRN advocated. | FARBWELL. the 21st AFFECTIONATE At an early date | Regiment and the Queen's Hospital | Unit will leave Kingston. | sent destination is not known. | entually they will follow the course, Their pre- Ev- | and the example, too, of those who i | constitute the First Contingent which | | is now in France. { lo» LIMITED, Président | r-<Managiug Dire Director | « 3] ~229 29 Business Office . 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It took the First Contingent some time| to reach the battle line, but when its} battalions did get there they gave | evidence of a valour that has not | | been surpassed in the war. One of} | the finest tributes is that which the | Duluth Herald pays in these words: "These Canadians are making a re- | cord to be proud of, and they are makidg it by themselves and for| themselves, whoever may later reap the direct benefits of their achieve- ments. We of the United States can- not help but deplore the war; but 0 neither can we help but rejoice in| the manner Ma which our closest and | 0 | best neighbors are acquitting them- | selves in the eyes of the world." The men who are now leaving us friendships and relationships that wll continue throughout and survive the war. Our hearts go out to these heroic young men. They carry away the af- fectionate remembrance and good wishes of all our citizens. 'And they | feds, reform, reconstruct. Sir Rob- ert Bosden may have to do now what he should have done long ago; not only reorganize, but put in some bet- | ter and more capable men, and change the methods. Ne more pat- ronage, no more profits in civil ser- | vice appointments, no more of the | leaches. that infest and have infested Ottawa for ten years or more, in sell- ing and refiting to the government, supplying the departments, looting! like professional cracksmen. And 1f loot was taken in former days it is| Wim the soldier boys stand or sit| Huns. not too late for Liberals now in pub- le life to join in punishment of the guilty in compelling restitution. Toronto World, Conservative, , . edited and owned by H. pis M P. i NO BLECTION IN AIN The Toronto News h a special reason why a federal el tion should that the war mayf + pe concluded has expired by that there would tion in 19186, e present parliament g its end, and, but for ré would be an election But the political parties that an appeal must not until after the war, and , If need be, will be carried to thathect. The colony, or the daughter of the empire, as is called, can very fitiingly the mether country in this efflux of time, likely be an In Britain is now near the war, t this year. are agri the Toronto News has another Specl reason, and one less tenable thanghat already quoted. It is that nNexXFyvear there will be an imperial COfference in London, and the prem- and two or three of his colleagues ust attend it. Unless the war is over there will be no conference in 1916, and if it . Is over next year (1916) there will be an election in Britain and the con- ference can await its outceme. Can- ada can take pointers from Britain at the present time and make po mis- take. ' NOT ALL: POWERFUL. The leader of the Opposition in Saskatchewan, W. 8. Willoughby, of Moose Jaw, says he wants the, people _of the province to vote, apart from an election, and through a plebiscite open the liquor question. Tf they do not favor prohibition, he would, if in power--and the "if" is an important . word in this connection--move to have liquor trade put under an in t commission, one free from all political control, and "re- movable only by (he Legislative As- sembly for cause shown." Ontario, 'added, had recently appointed 'a commission. Has it? The me does not understand this to be case. The province has a Com- 'whose members tha govern- 'ment carefully selected, because their politics were of the right color. At the last minute, and without ™ ac- quainting the Legislature of the fact, without making any' announce-| ly E ment with regard to it, Hon. Mr. withheld the veto, upon cer- commission appointments, and exercise it as he likes. If the 1 gives evidence by its , it it satisfies will have the consciousness that they | will be followed by the prayer that| | the God of Battles will be with them, | | to guide and protect them and make | them an hodor and a blessing to the! | land which they represent. | | | TH Grain Growers Guide. . is OF ,oainst both the old political] 'es, has a cartoon which is de-| SF tive of voting in the trenches. | | W¥Fa field are two deep cuts, in] with their feet in the water. In one| an election agent, a supporter of the! government, addresses the men in khaki upon the value of the fran¥| chise. His pockets bulge with £lec-| tion boodle. In a second cut the ery is raised, "Heh! the coming." The answer from one who is climbing up the embankment .is,| "Tell the Germans to come back to. morrow. I've got to vote." In the foreground is the polling booth to- wards which the men are being marched in a line. One shouts, "Who gave us the rotten boots?" and the response, 'Who killed the navy bill?" Others are reading the campaign lit- erature. A 'heeler is passing a box of bogus ballots through the win- | dow, while a second drops a package | of ballots down the chimney. A} third, clambering over the roof, re- marks, "It won't be our fault if we don't get a majority hére."" In the dis- tance a Grit campaigner is pounding out powerful arguments to the men in the trenches, and a free lance, to one side, promises to free three Ger- mans if they only promise to vote right. The cartoon is meant to be pointed, and It is. Tt makes a mock- ery of electioneering in the trenches during a war, and emphasizing a truth which the Liberals have assert- | ed all along--that the men who are] at the front, and fighting the battles of the country, should not be dis- turbed by the bitterness of party poli- tics. "The Canadians," says the Guide, "have abundantly proved their courage and their fighting qual- ities on the field of battle. Their work of smashing German militarism must not he hindered by political strife." EDITORIAL NOTES. The Barnes-Roosevelt libel suit a bluff! A joke surely. No two men could undertake to damage each other, at any cost and inconvenience, as a party expediency. The thing is unthinkable. And yet it originates from political circles in Syracuse. --t---- The government was warned that if it changed the grades and plans (which it did) of the G. T. P. the company niight refusp fo accept and run it; and that is just what has hap- pened. The political juggling of the government has had its effect. Mr. Fisher, a member of the Aus- tralian parHament, says that both new Zealand and Australia made a specialty of the soldier vote, and that in both the governments were de- feated. Sort of Boomerang, eh! Nice thing to contemplate apparent- i ------------------ Look out for an nou nt with regard to dissoln- tion What, during'a war? ] 'war run amuck while the Con. servative party runs an election. The immediate an-§ are nearer and dearer, as a body, | than the men who have already gone | Not that there are so| Germans are { THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915. ing while they argue politics in the} trenches. The Teronto Telegram is persuad- ed that the government will fare bet- ter at the hands of the people by an election after the war, KINGSTON EVENTS ~ 25 YEARS ACO Dead rats under the floor of the and it can-| city Clerk's office are causing much | not imagine what the government trouble The Civic Property Com- is thinking about in contemplating| mittee will investigate. an appeal now. But the die appears to be cast. Prince Edward Island is to have, increased representation in the Com-| date for the Ontario Legislature by! | The street cars are giving good | service. The horses are as good if] not better than in use in similar ser-| Bibbys vice in Canada. { Hugh Smith was selected ecandi-| mons by a change in Canada's con- the Frontenac Conservatives. stitution. But as the petition for it to the Imperial Commons has gone astray the change will not take place preached the. sermon. in an election ordered now. The country is being beautifully served Oliver Mowat had a happy chat re-| I Raincoats at Ottawa at present. Dr. Neely, M.P., is after the tt government--a Liberal in pursuit of! getting 40 the dry dock. Members of Independent Church. Rev. M. Sir John Macdonald and Hon. | garding boyhood days in Kingston. James Redden was elected presi- dent of the Mechanics' pustitete. A citizen timed the firemen From the] | the Liberals, was opposed to prohibi- time the alarm sounded until they tion in 'Saskatchewan, and methods of the government in bring- ing it about. or precipitation, talling it a steam-| roller method. Prohibition is not, then, a party measure, PUBLIC OPINION. | As An Example. (Buffalo Courier.) 1 If those warring nations had de-| liberated as long as Italy has there wouldn't have been any war. Dilatory Mothers. (Oswego Times.) their mothers in mending shoe day yet. Real Senate Reform. (Hamilton Herald.) If the Borden Government were to go to the country with a program of real senate reform, there wou not be so much cause to deprecate | a war-time election. lo - Succeeding Sensations (Guelph Mercury.) other. You no sooner let the fur-| to the Were at the fire was two minutes. He is opposed to haste ¥ { Wanted the Home ete | A Fredericton soldier now on the firing line in Belgium has sent to the Gleaner for publication the fol- lowing poetry written by Sgt. Frank S. Brown ,of Princess Patricias' Can- f adian Light Infantry: What is the call, The bugle call, The call that has no betters? The silver call That beats them all, The music call for letters. You take a silver trumpet It's just one hang thing after au-| Owing to the dilatory tardiness ¢I| And sound the dread alarm, their | T. A.* will spring in action | many more who call this eity their| oo oo" many of the girls have| With his rifle 'neath his arm. home, but because they have been|go far been unable to observe -10W| But if you want to see him Jumw longer in our midst and have formed | Or run like a streak of hail, Just take the same old bugle And sound the call for "mail." | No one who's not been there himself Can tell just what it means 1d) To have a live epistie From your home tucked in your jeans, A tripping sweet John Collins To a thirst you wouldn't sell, Isn't in it with a starving heart That gets a word from Nell. nace out than the ice man comes Or if the maiden's name is Kate, around the corner and wants to re-| Or Jean or Marguerite, | new your summer contract. rr ---- Kulture Increases ({ Woodstock Sentinel) essons | ©7 | For ear he'll be passed by. at" rom t eir "ally, Germany. 3 have fired on the White Flag Suez, and killed letter-bearers, Kul- tur is gaining converts for keene Election Squads' Pregress. * #(Toronts: Star.) If Hon. Robert Rogers ng! Sir * Robert succeeds | * he may find 'that his troops win | anywhere. What is the Secret? (Montreal Mail) Apparently it is about time Admiral Cochrane's secret to brought to light. If the war is Lo] Allies will show that they are able] to fight that way too. Heading For Destruction. {Belleville Ontario.) mond Roblin and Sir Richard Me- scrap-heap and gehenna just as cer- Robert Borden unless he succeeds in deposing Dictator Rogers. Anything Goss, (Toronto World The plain intimation Yo the Allies | is that the Germans are going Lo] adopt any method of warfare no wtter how devilish. Their record | of bomb-dropping on undefended communities, the torpedoing of pas senger ships bearing women and children, and inhuman attacks on] are utterly callous. A Question of Surnames. Springfield Republican. A "genealogist," writing to the New York Times, makes the interest-| ing 'suggestion that sons should bear the family name of their father and | daughters the family name of their | mother. This would hardly help mat- | ters; children are descendants of the | female line as much as of the male, | of course, but this is true of sons a well as of daughters, Hyphens| wouldn't help, for they would soon multiply beyond reason. The modern system of surnames is a development of convemfence, and it is rather mination in it. to explain; forget it, was sour the ten Forget it. kids ha a half 2 mind to soldiers can call a halt in the fight-| the | | His eyes stick | He goes all of a qu. 4. Borden | Until another mail call drags that his troops 'can romp to Pa:- | Him ploughing through the mud. a next winter several miles {rom | He's not a correspondent, | To write his "billet doux." | But when he does, it is beneath tor! A spluttering pine knot taper, be| With a broken nib and an ink-starved be fought without rules perhaps the|On a scrap of cartridge paper. | Now the moral is for folks at home, jand don't say close; The administrations of Sir Rod- | I hope this finds you all right." Bride are headed straight for the] Is the best that you can yield tainly as is the Government of S| To your Tommy in the field. defenceless civilians show that they wii not satisfy the Canadian citizen. | share of the burden of the war. He | ruption, thieving, extravagance and straining a point to find sex discri-|the nurses accepted for this service Has some ome played a" scurvy trick? Forget it. Has some one soaked you with a the memory endure; a scheme of vengeance will not cute a single sore, you may be Sure-forgel it it. Has some pe used your name in vain? clube. Bim it boots not what men say of you: don't a: rag to : Forget it. Your wife EO what if she hits you with a chair? You cannot read for girls and boys? Fo they'll leave the old home shack, and th A scented word of love--him makes A week's dull drudgery swee.. { Why, any mother's soldier son | Who learns the bugle cry, { Just stops his heart and holds breath his "reall a tremble, His hand is ¢ "pat like peg, C-igver, | With the ague in his legs TN | And if his name's not on the lis | He wilts like a frozen bud, And his answers may be few; His opportunities are slim, pen | Don't wait for him to write "Dear Tom---must | A good long newsy letter, | In the way of down-right service What is the call, The cheering call, That every other betters? A silver call, A longed-for call, The music call for letters. *Tommy Atkins. The Whitewash Brush. Monetary Times, "The political whitewash brush He is willing to be taxed for his objects to being taxed to purchase for middlemen feather beds for life. The cause of war justly demands his | mite. The crimes of bribery, cor- | carelessness in connection with the purchase of Canada's war demands immediate action by Canada's prem- | fer." Miss Effie Bolster, a sister of Major Bolster, of Cobourg, who is officially reported wounded and miss ing has just sailed for the front as] a Red Cross nurse, being ome of brick? Forget it. Don't let Forget it. If you are straight ad good You t of work and care to kk wp a beastly noise ? ith, Some fay h you'll wish that ers crack--forget greet it. You've he the floors and in ear? ¥ a tear? orget it. « E Order | of Forresters marched to Chalmers] Macgillivray | aed Men's Spring Overcoats For Men See our $9.00 Cheviots, in black and grey; sizes 34 to 44. See Our $12.50 OVERGOATS English Vicunas, black, grey and fancy mixtures, in the popular models. | | =ll At Wholesale Prices, $2.90 to $18.00 See our $8.50 Raincoat, English Parametta Cloth, See our $10.00 Raincoat, the Grosvenor. See our $12.50 Raincoat, John Holt Cravenette. 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