PAGE POUR 'The British Whig - as THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1915. | year ending March 31st, 1915, $455,- | better what the progress meh wm | 1 000,000, | ported by General Botha means. He| . P. ROBLIN S CAREER | These decreases in our purchases | is close to Winhoek, which he ex- i | abroad indicate that there must be| pects to occupy soon. It is between | correspondingly great decreases in|six and seven hundred miles north our purchases at home. It is true of the Cape Colony border. As that our borrowings from England | this is getting well into the interior have been seriously curtailed, but it | of Africa and on one sidé is the great is also true that they have been re- | Kalahari desert, it is easy to credit placed to a certain extent by sales|the despatch which says that "the | | of bonds in the United States, which, | conditions of heat; thirst and hun- since the outbreak of war. have am-| ger called for the greatest resolution ounted to $70,000,000. The people | and grit." To make things worse, of Canada, after\three years of great | the Germans have started to poison { extravagance, have gone suddenly to such wells as exist. There is not the other extreme and lave been| much front page gpace devoted to | trightened into a fit of rigid ecomo-| the task which these recent enemies py. The result has been a serious| of ours are carrying through in the | deérease -in.. manufactured output. | interests of the Empire, but we |THE PART HE PLAYED IN MANL. | TOBA POLITICS, i ee { Twenty-nine Years Since He .First Attracted Attention--Was Then al Liberal--The Story of His Admin. | istration. It is about twenty-nine years since! R. P. Roblin became a figure in the | | politieal life. of Manitoba, says the] innipeg Free Press. At a Liberal | convention held in Winnipeg toward | the end of May, 1886, called for the | | purpose of preparing for the politi-| ical campaign of that year, R. P. Rob- | lin was one of the most prominent | {and promising Liberals. He was at that time Liberal candidate for the! any LILY Id : k I 3% BE = 1] | | iE EN i' 8 School Suits are our hobby! Double HER | and le breasted suits--Norfolk and od '| If every man in Canadi determined nd Semi. W by Tet on Witia PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED. man id" agi Sram «++. Managin . and Soc Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES A e year, deliver ne a year, if pald fn advance . One year, by mall to rural offi One Sear, to United States Ix and three months pro rata. (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, b , cash One vear, If not pa 'ear, to United States R x and three months pro rata. Attached Is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H. E Smalipeice . U 8 225 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager . Chicago Tribune Bldg. . rank R. Northrup, Manager. HE HAD TRUE GRIT. --- The splendid grit displayed by Capt. George Richardson and his men at the battle of Langemarcke is highly regarded by Kingstonians. The discipline and dogged persistence learned in the hockey. arena gave Capt. Richardson the poise and de- termination so eminently 'manifest when flanked by the 'Germans. Kingston is proud of Capt. Richard- son and of his gallant men who stood by him to the death. HOPE OF. DISARMAMENT. Lord Haldane in an interview with the Chicago Chronicle, says: If the Allfes Win--if Germany, who his * carried her military preparations to a pitch heretofore unknown, finds herself 'beaten--~1 do not imagine any nation in the future will: be likely to pin it faith to armaments. If Germany, armed as she was arm: ed, could not win, how could any nation hope to win by means of arms I am hopeful that the world, as a result of this war, will get rid of at least a part of the burden of armaments. IT am hopeful thet civi- lization is going to do something to defend. itsell against war. % " DAYLIGHT SCHEME AGAIN. Ald Newman will be encouraged to continue his agitation for an earlier start at work and an earlier finish by what the Hamilton Manufactur- ers' Association has done. It had before it the proposition to alter the clocks, making the hour for the com- mencement of labour an hour earlier than at present, and disapproved of that. The Association did not see any necessity for tampering with the time pieces. But they did see sense in recommending that the wdrking day begin an hour earlier. ':' That decision may be reached by any com- pany or employers, with the con- currence of the men, for they are principally affected and must be sat- isfled with the change. This move- ment is easily managed, and there is more hope of its success thin any movement which aims at a provincial or national change. Ald. Newman's plan is, therefore, to consult with the local manufacturers, and if they are willing get his daylight scheme into operation without delay. A long evening with daylight, in June and July, would be 'appreciated by all classes of the: people. 1 . -------------- THE DUTY OF SPENDING. One of the causes of the tl industrial depression is the" short. sighted economy of ' those ously curtailed, remarks Industrial 2 is fact is easily estab to do without new neckties for a year, for example, the effect would be severe to the manufacturers who make neckties. If those who have money to spend would spend it within reasonable limits, our fac- tories would be benefited to. at al most incredible extent, employment would 'be furnished to many who need it and the return to prosperity would be hastened. " CONFESSION OF A GANGSTER. Astonishing revelations have been made through the revelations of Ben- Jamin Fein, alias "Dopey Benny," a 00 | leader of the gangsters whose fees from crime have been $10,000 a year. sometimes through the bribery of witnesses. When in gaol his pay has usually gone on. At last he was pinched for a serious crime. He demanded bail. It was not forth- coming as soon as he expected and he '""peached." According to his confession New York was divided into districts and the work of the gang directed" like the work of the Police Départment, It was pald for by fees which were got out in printed schedules. Thus: For raiding and wrecking a small plant, $160. For wrecking the lar- gest of the shops in the clothing and needle trades, $600. For shocking & man in the leg or arm, or clipping off an ear, $60 to $100. For in- vading a factory and throwing a man- ager or foreman down the elevator shaft, or breaking an arm or a thumb, $200. For the .complete knockout of any individual, $200. "Dopey Benny" seldom took a hand in the raids himself, but he was usually very near in order to see how the job proceeded. He was a real "boss" who demanded the ut- most servility from his followers. His patrons he held by agreements which appear to have been prépuatda by lawyers, signed and sealed in the usual way. Several of the con- tracts have passed into the hands of | | the District Attorney, and he pro- poses to refer them to the Bar Asso- ciation with the recommendation that the persons making them be de- barred from the practice of their profession. Thirty-four members of the gang are on the defence. One has been convicted already. Three surren- dered on the advice of their legal counsel. The world is shocked hy what has been made known of gang- ster life. = The gunmen, the thug, the hired assassin, in the pay of any one, subject to call at any time and place to commit any crime, is almost unthinkable, and yet it is the con- fession of one who was a leader of desperadoes and one who gloried in his wicked profession. EDITORIAL NOTES. Straw hats are never perfectly safe before June 1st. Neither can fur- nace fires be damped before May 24th, : The country looks splendid. The &rain is growing nicely. We pray, &s do all, that the good Lord will send an abundant harvest. &® Where did the fifty tons of nickel taken out of the hold of a § steamer bound from New York for Copenhagen came from? Was it Ontario nickel? - es 2 The investigation by the Royal Commission into Manitoba's Govern: ment scandals should go on. The new Liberal Government owes it t6 Fein has been a prisoner re-| 1.50 | peatedly, and has escaped his due | should recognize that it is one of the hardest that British troops have' to face anywhere. PUBLIG . OPINION} " Good Thing It isn't. (Montreal Mail.) a Liberal administration is in, in Manitoba. The "truce" isn't work- ing in the Prairie Province. No One Is Sorry. (Hamilton Times.) King George has stripped ihe gar- ter off the Kaiser and a few of his titled friends. No trade or truck with Germany after this. mice Fight' Or "Pay. (Hamilton Herald.) The Czar has imposed a special war tax upon all persons excused from military service. It is a just tax. Thode who don't fight shoulda be willin; pay. It Dies Hard. (Brantford Expgsitor.) The Toronto News continues to make elabgrate pleas for the holding of an early Dominion eleétion. The Bob Rogers' element in the Conserva- Hative-party dies hard. Weak Advisers, (Montreal News.) Sir Rodmond has for the past three years been . surrendered by weak colleagues and he has been without the counsel of a single strong one. In such conditions the ship of state could not be expected to con- tinue long on its course. A Popular Slogan. (Chicago Scottish Canadian.) "Bee America First!" is the com- monsense slogan of the traveller of to-day. It includes the bigger half of the continent, Canada, the Land of , plenty and progress, the land which, more than any other, will de- light and stimulate every intelligent tourist who seeks an optimistic at- mosphere in his journeyings. { KINGSTON EVENTS | 26 YEARS ACO ' Schooner -Jéssie Breck foundered 'off Nine Mile Point and eight lives were lost, including Capt. Thomas Mackie; Joseph Mackie, mate; Marian Mackie, cook; James Mackie, William Mullen, Frank George, John Mullen, Donald Macdonald, sailors. With the exeep- tion of Frank Gorge, the crew be- longed to Wolfe Isl Kingston Bicycle Club had a big turnout to-day. 1 patrol waggon is needed for the police aepartment. James S. Johnson has been appoint- ed purser on the steamer Norseman. DIFFERENT FROM PIRATES An Example Of British Submarine Commander's Carefulness. London, May 18.--As an evidence of the care with which British sub- marines act against merchant ships, even in the most dangerous war zone the Daily Mail publishes the follow- ing despatch from Saloniki: "A British submarine, which pene- strated the Sea of Marmora,. stopped @ supposed Turkish cargo boat and ordéred the captain to get his pas- sengers and crew off before the ves- sel unk. The captain declar- ed that he and hig crew were Greeks and that his ship had been seized by the Turks to transport Greeks refu- gees. The commander of the sub- marine veri the captain's state- ment and then allowed him to pro- Swedish | coed A World's Record, Milwaukee, May 18 --The world's seconds ith the Hamilton Club of 'Chicago. "The time was 1.42 2-5. . The Roblin Government is out and | '| later the Hon, Hugh J old constituency of North Dufferin, {which corresponded in area roughly with the firesent constituency of Daf. | ferin. | At that time R._P. Roblin was a | Young man of 33 years of age, very | ¥igorous and aggressive, and made a | great impression upon the conven- | tion, particularly by a speech which | | | { HON. R. P. ROBLIN. | has since been the subject of amuse- | meat, in which he crowned the Hon. | Thomas Greenway with laurels as {one who "had fought with the wild | beasts of Ephesus on Kennedy | street." ¢ . In November, 1886, the Norquay | government was returned .to power | with a bare majority of 'four mem. bers. Amongst the defeated was R. | P. Roblin, who was beaten by some four votes by Dr. D, H. Wilson, one of the ministers in the Norquay gov- ernment. The government, how. ever, was .aoon in difficulties; the Hon. John Norquay in 1887 resigned his seat, and a stop-gap government was formed with the Hon. Dr. D. H. Harrison as premier, The Harrison administration was defeated in two bye-elections, Assini~ boia and St. Francois Xavier, the lat er of which involved the defeat of a cabinet minister; it then resi The Liberals, under the premiership of Hon. Thomag Greenway, came into power in January, 1888, on. Dr. Wilson resigned his seat in the house, taking up his residence in Vancon- ver, where he is still living, R. P Roblin came into the house as mem- tion. From the beginning of the Green- way government there was a move- ment on foot aiming at the inclusion of Mr. Roblin in the Greenway cahi- net, but it 'was not suecessful. Mr. Roblin appeared for a time to accent the situation, but after the election of July, 1888, showed signs of insur- rection, and for a year or so as a Liberal of the "old sehool. A position of this kind of "splendid iso- lation" naturally conldnot last, and Mr. Roblin took the ipevitable course of going over te the other camp in 1890. The Conservatives led the Conservative Jay at the gen- eral election in 1892, having Mr. Robert Rogers as his chief leuten. ant. This election resulted in a dis- as trous defeat for the Roblin party, and Mr. Roblin himself was qut of the house for four y gar oh Mr. Roblin re-entered the house as member for Woodlands, in 1896, and resumed his position as leader of the Conservative party in the house, only to be displaced shortly afterward by Hugh John Macdonald. 'The next significant stage in the political life of the province came in Deceniber, 1899, when the Greenway govern. ment was defeated, and the following month Hugh John Macdonald was called upon to form a new govern. ment. . In doing this he overlooked the claims for inclusion into his cabi- net of both Mr. Roblin and Mr. Rog, ers, to their great Pa and chagrin. Bix or seven mon was induced to retire as premier and to contest Brandon for the Dominion parliament in the Conservative inter- est against Hon. Clifford Sifton. 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