PAGE FOUR a : J The British Whig sss 7 | A REALLY HERGULEAN TASK. The Toronto World said, some | | time ago,. while the Commons was still in session, that "if the Léndon | Government is to survive it must con-| | tess, reform, reconstruct." Confess, | { Reform, Reconstruct what? There] { is a serious Implication in the lan- ! guage of Mr. Maclean, M. P.--for it] | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1915. = them is this, Has the American Gqy- ernment any responsibility for its own citizens who are travelling op an un-y armed padsenger vessel ? That is a question that will receive! serious considération,- for Americans | are jealous of their rights, and their | honour. | EDITORIAL NOTES. KINGSTON EVENTS | 26 YEARS ACO A Sons of England lodge compus-| of young men will be organized in the city. C. H. Corbett has been appointe? JUST WRIGHT SHOES. $5.00 { { | { JUST WRIGHT superintendent of. the dog show to| be held at the fair grounds. Five hundred dollars have been granted] tor prizes. i | is assumed, no doubt correctly, that | | he penned the indictment from Otta- | wa--and he should bravely amplify The Works" Department aims -at { increasing the efficiency of the Engi- | neer's Department by crippling it. FOR SEMI-READY EON. r- =. Em - - 34 EER in HE RET Published Daily and Semi-W. by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO,, * LIMITED, 1 a Billot Bd Ssnaain Priaident Leman ul «se. Man n, rector and Boc~Treas. Telephones! Business Offce .......... Editorial Rooms ,.... Job Office fetes arsesnnnes sesssnese 343 seees 329 cssssess 393 2 SURSCRIPTION R. (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city ...... $6.00 One year, if paid in advance .... $6.00 year, by mall to rural offices $2.50 One year, to United States 3.00 Ix and three months pro rata. (Semi-Weekly Edition) 7 mail, cash .. .e If not paid in advance oar, to United States ...... x and three months pro rata. Attached Is one of the best job printing offices In Tanhada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE HEB Bmalipeice . Frank R. Chicago Trib: rank R. Northrup, Manager. A CRAZY SCHEME SURELY. There is a demand, originating in Kenora, Alberta, for banks whose purpose would be to lend money to the farmers at a reasonable rate. The capital to be® boirowed on the credit of the municipality, and se- cifred by the issue of debentures in the usual way. The Province of Alberta has a Municipal Commission, and this proposition will surely be held up when it Is lald before them. There are some things a municipality can- not do, and one of them is to run a4 bank. The average municipal legislator has nerve enough for any- 'thing, and occasionally we have the evidente of their . incapacity. A couple of towns fn the far West are, at the present time, in the hands of their creditors, the people who hold their bods. They cannot pay their debts as these debts mature. That i8 to say they have been living, muni- cipally, too fast, and, in the de- bresgsion, have fallen into financial difficulty, Now if they cannot run the usual loenl improvements, safely, with the brakes applied by the banks they do not control, they cannot finance these fame improvements with the aid of the banks whieh they control. A bank must be run with trained men. A municipality would be the bet- tor if it were also run by trained men. In any case the people may be depended upon to metaphorically "ugit on their representatives when they give evidence of mental as well as business unfitness. ------------ To be called the world's champion Jack-the-Ripper may tickle and please the Kaiser. Bat he is the only one that be real proud 'of the title. SOME PRISON REFORMS, Every one who has read about our prisons, and learned from our Commissions the conditions that pre- vail in the Kingston penitentiary, will rejoice that there are to be re- forms, ; Some of the things the Commis- sipners recommended will be car ried into effect. The dark cell will form the manner in which the report of 'the Commission was received in , life, and damned would he be who -| matter while Hon. "Bob" Rogers and fH | it and make it clear to everybody. | | He did intimate that the Premier | bad heen deferring some ministerial' | programme of the greatest import-| | ance. He should have got rid of | some of his colleagues, and put in| | better and more capable men; and | Just one has been dropped, Hon. Mr. | Coderre, the newest and weakest of | them all, a man of no leadership and! influence among his own people. His | place taken by Hon. Mr. Tellier, the| forlorne leader of the Conservatives in the Quebec Legislature. There were to be more than minis- terial changes. In Mr. Maclean's opinion there should be "no more patronage, no more politics in civil service. appointments, no more of the leeches that infest and have in fested Ottawa for ten years or more, | In selling and renting to the Govern- ment, supplying the Departments, looting like professional erocksmen." And the only answer to this #8 the announcement of the Premier before the House rose--that there would be a4 prosecution of all and sundry, without respect to party or place in first cried out "enough." Sir Rob- ert Borden could not attend to this his allies worried him about a Gen- eral Election. But now that he has dodged this issue, thanks to the strong public opinion that prevailed about it, he may be able to apply himself to the herculean task that { Maclean has assigned to him. | The German murderer's apologize to Uncle Sam, for the assassination of his subjects, is the climax of war literature: It is without a parallel in history. There may never be anything like it again. BIG GAME ! Hermon Ridder, of the Statts-Zei- tung, New York, declares that *"the sinking of the Lusitania will clear the atmosphere. It will teach the Brit- ish Government that Germany is not bluffing but is in dead earnest--a les- son it should have learned months ago but which even yesterday it seemed not to have grasped in the slightest degree."" The article from Which these words were taken shows? the: "'mentality" of this partieular type of German-American or Ameri: can-German. He says. "that so long as the German submarines confined their attention to cargo boats and trawlers, passenger lines and passen- gers had little peason to worry, The fact which now seems potent beyond the possibility of a doubt that their| attention is turning to larger game alters this condition essentially." _ More than two thousand unarmed non-combatants, including weak wo- men and helpless children, thrown into the the ocean at a moment's notice, More than fifteen hundred lives sacrificed by these naval assas- sins. This is Hermon Ridder's idea of larger game. He remarks incidentally that "'the Cunard Company has long advertised that, it had never lost a puassenger.'" What has that to do with the matter except to reflect a feeling of envy and malicious delight that German submarines have achiev- ed a brilliant victory.\_ We are not so sure that this shame- ful deed will cleay the atmosphere; it | i ' 1 tH HE i i ] i Hai i Ha Is that good business? The Council can only hope to in- duce the people generally to clean up when it makes a start itself. The waste paper nuisance of the city, on the streets, is an abomination. Japan avoided answering what it purposes to do with Kiao-Chau, which it took from Germany with an avowed purpose of restoring to China. It now looks as if what- ever Japan has she will hold. President Wilson is waiting for some official report before he can say what he thinks of the loss of the Lusitania. By that time things will have cooled down a bit and the language used may not be quite so scorching. If by reading of the grafting in Canada with Canadian firms the Germans of Fort Henry were made to revolt what must be the effect of this grafting upon the Canadidn electors? It was a good thing the election went over for a while. France is taking from the United to the value of from $140,000,000 to States, monthly, manufactured goods $160,000,000. The Republic is therefore deeply interested in the trade routes of the Atlantic and had better help in their protection, "In complete unity with all par- tie and with all quarrels put aside we swear to pursue by every means, and until victory, the end we have in view." The declaration of the French Minister of Finance whieh was cheered again and again at the Chamber of Deputies. In order to save 25c in cartage some people burn their refuse in the yards and suffocate the people for blocks around. Is this not prevent- able under the city by-law? Or has the city at present any by-law which the people are obliged to respect? PUBLIC OPINION. | Bad Example. (Hamilton Herald) The Ontario Government in evad- ing the payment of the postal war tax is setting a bad example to the people. Bullets And Ballots, (Hamilton Spectator.) As to bullets and ballots, honors seem to be even between Italy and the Canadian Government, in keep- ing the common people in suspense. Of Method. (Belleville Ontario.) Savages of old fought with pois- oned darts. The modern savages, to wit, the Kaiser's "Kultured" brutes, fight with poisonous gases. The Newest Thing. (London Advertiser.) No one has yet suggested that the next Contingent be armed with good Canadian hornets' nests for close in trench fighting. Indignant Language. (Brockville Times. Toronto Saturday Night continues its asinine sneering at the Hon. Sam Hughes. Saturday Night is more in its element in recor@ling the pink teas and society flapdoodle of its cod- fish aristocrats and social "climb- ers" than in throwing mud at a live Lots Of Nerve. '_(Ham'lton Herald.) The action of that little British trawler turning on a German destroy- er, ramming her and putting her to flight, was as surprising as would have been an attack by a sheep upon Something In A Name. {Brantford Ex or.) There is something in a name when the 3 Win mamed clation his McKelvey & Birch secured the contract for work at the new asylum in Orillia. DISTRICT NEWS, Clipped From the Whig's Many Bright Exchanges. W. B. Northrup, K.C., M.P., and Mrs. Northrup, Belleville, have offer- ed their splendid home and grounds to the Government for the use of con- valescent wounded soldiers. This year is the centennial of the town of Perth. It is a hundred years ago this summer that the first settlers of Perth came trooping al- ong and decided to pitch camp there. E. D. Otter, Secretary of the Com- munity Y.M.C.A.; work at Pembroke follows P. G. Orwig as superintend- ent of the Secondary Division work of the Ontario Sunday School Assoc- fation. On Friday night Harold Bertrand, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., aged fifteen years dropped dead. He had a mo- ment before been wrestling with an- other lad. He had been troubled with a weak heart. The Community Movement at Pem- broke closed on Saturday. The rea- son for closing the Movement, was 'the inability to get twelve men to form a board and who would inter- est themselves in the work. At Cape Vincent, N.Y, W, E. Stanley's hydroplane is being pushed to completion as fast as possible. The craft will be equipped with a 150 horse power motor, and it is expect- ed that the boat will show remark- able spéed. Besides being fast the craft will be of handsome design. On Saturday Col. W. H. and Mrs. Cole, Brockville, celebrated their dia- mond wedding, sixty years of married life. Their two children joined in the celebration as also Mrs. Lalonde, Toronto, sister of the colonel, and the only one living besides the eon- tracting parties who witnessed the marriage. SOFT IMPEACEHMENT. To-day when Willie's neighbor Fred, Came over to take tea, : He winked at me and then he said, "Bill's girl is Helen Lee!" I smiled and studied Willie's face, Which red and redder grew, And wondered if he had a "éase", If Fred's report was true, Yes, this explained his cleanliness, Till now a mystery, His polished shoes, his love of dress, His frequent loans from me. 'When Baby Jim took up the cry Of "Willie's girl," with dread I saw a look in Willie's eye That boded ill for Fred. And Lucy---she should be ashamed To tease her brother so -- In gayest banter next exclaimed, "Ah ha, that's where you go!" I bade her cease. The boys went out And, from the yard below, I heard a sudden angry shout And ther blow after blow. 1 summoned Willie; he came jn, With swollen nose and said, While he caressed his bleeding chin, "I had to settle Fred." START THE DAY. Detroit Free Press. Start the day with smiling, Start the day with cheers, Don't begin reviling, Don't begin with sneers, Don't start out with whining, Quit your bed and say, Here's the sun a-shining, Here's another day! Yesterday has vahished, All its cares have fled, All its woes are banished, Yesterday is dead, Don't begin with scorning Cares that troubled you, Here's another morning, Bright and fresh and new,. Here's the sun a-shining Here's 4 day of hope Don't begin by pining. 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