~ PAGEFOUR ~ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY MAY, 1915. The British Whig i | LENE 1 VN s or Published Dally and SempWiaekiy by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLIS a CO, LIMITED. Elliott n A. Guild Président Director eas J. a Lema. ... Manag and Bec.- SUBSCRIPTION RA (Dafly Edition) One year, delivered in city One year, year, One pear, to United States ix and three months pro rata. (SBemi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash One year; If not_pald in advance One fear, tG United States ' x and three months pro rata. Attached Is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE HE Smalipelce 5h iets 32 Church Bt. U 8 AE TIVES New York Office 5 Fifth Ave. Frank R: Northryp, Chicago Tribune Bldg. Ta Manager. POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE, I liberal. While 'stationed in this city} he had occasion many a time te'refer' to aspects of public life which could not be appraised according to Chris- tian 'ethics. No one who heard him,! and knew him, would for a moment believe that he was actuated by any sinister motives. On the contrary he felt that the reverend gentleman was] expressing his abhorrence of wrong-} doing out of a pure heart. To those who knew Dr. Bland, then, | in Kingston, and all over Canada, wherever he has carried the sweet gospel of reasonableness, the abuse to which he has beep subjected by Hon. Mr. Rogers will come 2s a per | sonal affront. If Mr. Rogers has an | idea that his attack upon one of the {-nnest characters in Canada will be | forgiven, or that by him the trumpet | note of a noble spirit will be silenced, | he ig certainly and egregiously mis- | takeh. l STRIPPED THE OOUNTRY. | The British Columbia Government | is to be thanked for bringing to Can. | ada from England an expert account. | ant, M. B. Cotsworth, F.G.8., to acty as Chairman of the Civil Service| | Commission, and redraft, revise and | Committee was held to-day. regrade the civil service of the pro- vince. It was while so engaged, and | while not.yet finished with his work, | though the government was eager, | for obvious reasons, to dispense with 1.00} his services, that the occasion arose! is0| for an important investigation of | For this work he provincial affairs. ! was employed by the Ministerial As-| sociation, and both he and the com mittee under whom he acted an nounce that. they have not been ac- tuated by political motives. The indictment of the government is very severe. . The statements of Mr. Cotsworth are sald to be-based Another politician has antagoniz- | ed his party on the.liquor question and Is in peril of self-sacrificé, Dr.| Neely, M.P., a Liberal, is fighting the! Scott Government on the prohibition | question. 'He has. been repudiated! by the Liberal Association of Hum. | boldt, which he has represented. | Next he will appear before a party! convention, and if it disapproves he! Is down and out, politically, The| question arises, Must a member of parliament surrender his imdepend-| ence when he accepts a party nomin-| ation? Practically he does. He ac- cepts "the candidature to his party, | and in doing so presumes to endorse | its policy. When he differs from his party it is his privilege, if not his| duty, to lay his case before the men | who elected him and ask for an ex-| pression of their opinion. / They may approve of his conduet," in which case he may be said to have reflected the mind of the party on the issue in question. If they do not approve, his duty Is to resign his seat. He may seak re-election as an independent or as the candidate of the other side, which may adopt him. In Dr. Neely's case he is the federal member and he is fighting the local government, which is liberal. He is colliding, however, with his own party, and he cannot do this without injuring him- self personally and politically. GEN. INDISOREET HUGHES, The German-Americans--and there are hundreds of thousands of them-- are seeking an occasion for quarrel with Canadians. They are holding meetings at the frontier citiss and talking of an invasion of Canada, an invasion which will end, it is alleged, in the annexation of it to the United States. The United States may not be seeking territorial expansion * northward, but' Uncle Sam may be asked to accept of a present of huge dimensions. The threatenings of these German- Americans might be ignored but for the fact that some Canadians are in- discreet. Chief. of these is Major- General Hughes, who has been in- dulging in what the Toronto Tele- gram calls "wild chatter" of an irri. tative kind. faving read - of the Lonsdale case, and of the capital ex- perience forced upon the soldier in Berlin, the minister of militia threat- ens that if he is shot three Ger- mans at Fort Henry will be shot. This is very imprudent speech, and we may hear more'about it. What has Canada to do with the Lonsdale case? The soldier .hails from Bri- tain, and-the Imperial govérnment will do all that can be done in his protection. Canada should not butt in, and because it does the berder menace may increase, and keep some . of our soldiers at home. THE ATTACK ON DR. BLAND, The more the Methodist thinks about it the more he feels that he - has been personally and grievously insulted by Hon. Mr. Rogers in the vicious attack which he made upon . Rev. Dr. Bland. The minister of public works has felt the sting of the _ preacher's - rebukes before. Dr. _.. Bland, as a professor in Wesley Col- lege, Winnipeg, and a prohcher£hat is always in demand, has, following the example of the prophets of old, ' not hesitated to condemn wickedness in high places; and some of the cen- sure Hon. Mr. Rogers has taken to himself. : But Dr. Bland has not been a poll. ¥ upon documentary evidence, upon files of the government, upon inform- ation of a public character which has hitherto been suppressed. About 90 per cent. of the available agricultural lands of British Columbia have been alienated from the people to whom they belong. A list is supplied of firms and individuals in Canada and the United States who grabbed over 2,000,000 acres of tillable land.| Laws were made in the interest of the public so that ten of acres could be power of attorney, tgdy nothing of | the hundreds of squ miles of coal} lands, containing migions of tons of coal, that were spld to favorites for $2 per acre. The extravagance and waste in all the public 'departments suggest a prodigal and wasteful rule, | a maladministration of public affairs without a precedent. { The whole story is set forth in a| pamphlet of considerable size, and freely circulated among the people. Meanwhile thes premier is in Eng-| land. He appointed a time for an| election, and later cancelled it, in or- der to pacify his rebellious ecol- leagues. Now he has to face public opinion. The Secretary of the Com- mission, in presenting the report at a recent public meeting, said: "God ft ousands | under a] | { involves a decrease of customs reve-! the victims of German malignity, If] any oné suffers from the brutality! of the Huns he is the representative of 'he nationality that checked the Kaiser's plans. Is the pavement on Wellington! street being dug up, in the search for a gas leg, under the direction of] the engineer's department?. The Works' Committee should see that the Utilities' Committee does not in-| terfere with its duties and. it appears to be successfully trespassing at the present time. KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO A The 14th Regiment has been in- vited to take part in a big military! demonstration in Toronto on Domin- | ion Day. | The police force consists of twelve men. In 1864 there were sixteen policemen and in 1865 twenty-five. Capt. Paul and a gang of men will] commence at once to deepen the har- A special meeting of the Streets] The total sum asked for is $32,000. A great many soldiers in the Bat-| tery are laid up with grippe. The Debt Increase. Weekly Sun. | We %re informed that in estimat-| ing last week the increase of the public debt; we ought to have said] that the proceeds of the $25,000,000 loan latély located in London would | probably be used to pay floating lia-| bilities. Even so, we should not be | convihced that Mr. White has estab- | lished an equilibrium between income | and outgo, and that debt increase, | except in su far as the United King-| dom contributes to the maintenance | of the Canadian soldiery, has come te an end. A decrease of the total foreign trade for the past year of | more than one hyndred and thirty] millions is announced. There. will be inevitably a greater decrease this| year unless thé most sanguine excep- | tations of thé crops are more than realized. As to the crops, we hear that the west is dry. The coulees are | empty and the farmers are seeding in clouds of dust. A decrease of trade | nug and it involves Mr. White in more borrowing. His difficulites are| great. He has been obliged to double | the price of post-office money orders payable abroad to keep his gold sup- ply 'from leaking out through that| hol® ' He 'will probably find it nec-| essary to reduce expenditure on the | Weiland Canal, if not to abandon it| fora time. | | Attack On Mr. Bland. Rev. Mr. Rogers, in Montreal. | A few clergymen, but fortunately | very few number, ough want | of knowledge, are simple-minded en- | ough to venture to re-echo from their | pulpits some. of the misrepresenta- | tions being published from day to| day in the Grit press of our country, | It might be well for these individuals { English-French friction at [half the students are English-speak-| | hind the university. | French university will succeed i Ontario remains to be seen." visit to that island. | with the Canadian troops, the minis- FRICTION IS RENEWED. i Father Murphy Retires From Ottawa College Staff. Ottawa, May 7.--The deplorable] Ottawa University evidenced last summer, when Rev. Falher James Faijon, was| removed by the Oblate provincial] supposedly for his connection with! separate school election, has again broken out. } The latest development in the re | signation of Rev Father = Stephen) Murphy, who was appointed to suc-| ceed Father Fallon and who, a week | or so agogwithdrew from the institu-| tion, presumably on the ground of | ill-health, but, it is said, really as a 'culmination of a state of affairs | which the English-speaking. fathers) and: Irish-Catholic supporters are un- | derstood to have deemed unbearable: {| Father Murphy does not intend to | return. A prominent English Catholic dis | cussed the situation as follows: i "Affairs among the students have} been in a more or less constant] state of turmoil and uneasiness since | Father Fallon's departure and that | condition / has been accentuated] since Father Murphy left. More than | ing, and I believe that féw of these! will return after the present term.| The English-speaking bishops and) priests of the province are, -undar the circumstances, not standing be- | The institution | is now clearly French and how a} in| WIRELESS FOR ADMIRALTY, Powerful Station Being Erected Near | Kingston; Jamaica. New York, May 7.--Great Britain| is erecting a powerful wireless sta- tion on the Blue Hills, near Kings- ton, Jamaica, according to the Rev.| George B. Stalworthy, a Unitarian | minister who returned to-day on the! steamship Juan, from a five months'| He said offi-| cials on the island thought the new] station, which was three hundrea! feet above the sea level, was intend-| ed to 'enable the Admiralty to send| messages to' the warships on the| South Atlantic station. Naval officers stationed at Kings- ton had informed him that 9f such a plant had been in existence at the beginning of the war it would have' prevented the fist of Sir Christo- pher Cradock's fleet and enabled the warships on the coast to have picked up the Dresden and Karlsruhe be- fore they rank so many vessels. Jamaica is raising two squadrons] of cavalry, composed of na-| tives with English officers, to send to the. front. The cavalry will be equipped and maintained by popular subscription on the island. A bat: talion of infantry numbering one thousand men, sailed for 'England ter asserted. FIGHTING NEAR WARSAW, But No Important Ge Move Is Warsaw, May 7.--The absolute quiet which has prevailed on this front for several weeks has given [to better study and better upder-| Place during the last few days to | stand the true conditions before un- | Spasms of fighting on the front ad- | dettaking to enter upon a discussion | jacent to Warsaw, but there are no | of public affairs, for, if they have no | indications of any immediate move- | better knowledge of their Bible and | ments of importance on the part of its teachin@® than they appear to|the Germans near here. The Rus- | have when they undertake to discuss |Slans will take the offensive, it is | public questions, all I can say is, may generally believed, before the end of found. Never in the history of hu-| the unfortunate people that depend manity has there been suc desper.| upon such individuals for spiritual ate need for the investigation of a | instruction and direction. Of course knows what further iniquity will be | God have mercy upon the souls of | | government. . 'They have stripped] the case of Professor Bland is some- ls country to the bone. If we al-| low them to get back into power for | another five years they will pick the very marrow out." Strong language, but not any stronger than the cir- cumstances demand. - ib EDITORIAL NOTES, The war has settled one thing, | namely, the value of the Colonies to! the Empire. It has solidified Great | Britain and under it the Greater Bri- | tain. ' | . It is announced that the British Government is considering the ques- tion of fighting the devil with fire. The devil in this case Is the Hun, and he is suspected of having a very close relationship with his satanic majesty Lowe, since the Chancellor of Great Britain, suspected that the Col. onles would Kick when they were taxed for imperial purposes. . And burdens financially on her Here is a revelation. g¥i Ee iene 3 Even the, Winnipeg paper which js said to be Bob Rogers', so friendly as it Is to the minister of public that have been made on Dr. Salem Bland. For once the elections went too far in his abuse. ied with letting its friends and rob the province of British Co-| lumbia of agricultural and coal lands! . = to the value of millions of dollar The indictment has been put in print. opinion. a y | what different, in that he is a well- they have voluntarily assumed great) t works, denounces the wanton attacks/ minister of 'The McBride Government is charg- It must be met at the bar of public known professional hyprocrite, who has ever been ready to endorse, ap- prove and applaud every crooked act that has ever been known to have been committed by any Liberal. For such an individual as this, who has never been guilty when speaking po- litically to have any regard for eith- er principle or truth, one can well af- ford to look upon with feelings of sorrow rather than of anger. No Lists For Manitoba. Manitoba Free Press The point raised by the Ottawa correspondent of the Free Press in a dispatch yesterday, that in the ev- ent of a general election in June there would be no legal lists for the Manitoba constituencies, is well tak- en. If, there is any election in Ma- nitoba, in June gs is freely predicted, it will be held upon lists illegally compiled by party workers and in polls illegally fixed by the same par- tisan agencies. . These are consider- ations which would mot deter Mr. Ro- bert Rogers for a moment; but it is unreasonable to assume that y will have greater weight with Robert Borden and Honorable C. Doherty, Minister of Justice. "any a family Bible is more orna- mental than useful. adorns his face; to car, to ear and | ar, and west to "The Bayards and say he he is named. At with courtly, old world 1 ; girl he'll sweetly yield; and women. praise him are not all deceased," and home this May. . Growing determination is evident among the Poles to prevent German influence from gaining a foothold when the war is ended, and decisions here centre on this and similar top- ics, rather than the probability of the Germans taking the city, which formerly was the main subject of conversation. The wish is generally expressed here that the war shall be continued to a decisive point, regardless of the misery of Poland, as the Poles are ardently praying for delivery from German industrial and Tommercial dominion, and unitedly hoping that the terms of peace will include. Dan- zig, at the mouth of the Vistula Riv- er, as the new boundary of Russia, thus givicg them an independent out- let for trade with the outside world. . Conservative Game at Renfrew Renfrew, May 7.--South Renfrew Conservatives want J. B. O'Brien to be their candidate for a seat in tha Commons. : He has not as yet been approach- ed in the matter, but that it is the wish to have him run there is no doubt. Mr. O'Brien resides in Renfrew and is a brother of M. J. O'Brien the well-known contractor, whom i' is hoped might be led to remain neutral and give wo help to the Lib: erals should his Conservative broth- er seek election to Parliament. Easy going men often go the wrong way. - is on the street, a charming smile every dame he haps to meet, he bows grace. 'His seat, when riding in a De a | east, the man Bayard isn't BOYS' i A te i sil. CLOTHING . We're pointing with pride to our Spring Suits for Men at $12.00, $15.00 and $18.00 The best the prices ever bought. WE CAN FIT PERFECTLY STOUTS, SLIMS AND REGULARS. « Men's nglish Raincoats ire Wool Paramatta Cloth, cut in the new $8.50, $10, $12.50 and $15. 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