3 PAGEFOUR °' The British Whig/| HEN Te LE A N Ushed Dally and Semi-Weekly by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING r ©0., LIMITED, J. G. Elltott President Leman A. Gutid .' ..Managing Director and Bac Troan. Bditorial Rooms or Offic: SUBSCRIPTION RATRS (Daily Edition) One year, delivers in city . One year, if pald in advance One year, by mail to rural offices yobr "ym 00 One year, not WA "in advance 1.50 One year, to United 8 1.50 is Attached the best job printing offices in Canadas est J in Canad TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H BE Smalipeice 8 BS New York Office 225 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup. Manager, Chica ribune Bldg. rank R. Northrup, Manager. A COALITION IN CANADA. The Globe some time ago called at- tention to the fact that some of the manufacturers who desired them had not been given orders for war sup- plies. To no purpose, apparently. Now the Toronto Star emphasizes the same fact. The committee on war supplies, which was supposed to be so impartial and efficient, and cap- able of independent service, is fail- ing to meet expectations. The cause - of failure is not stated. We hope it is not owing to the butting in of those who are on the patronage list and the harmful' influence they can exert. The war is not supposed to be conducted by any party and for political purposes. The honor and the future of the nation are at stake. Every man irrespective of politics and creed and color, and physically fit, is called to the flag, and hll those who can, irrespective of politics and creed and color, are supposed to be at work in their interests; and yet, Bo far the appeal for unity of action is marred by political considerations. The Globe and the Star have made the situation clear. They have ap- pealed for a non-political service so far as it can be obtained, and if this be not possible under a party gov- ernment, it surely will be under a coalition government, and there is talk of this in Canada. Mr. Bryan, in a statement handed to the press, refers to the President as an arbiter of the old type, with a sense of wrongs that can be only cor- rected by war. But the people are behind Mr. Wilson. They are old- fashioned in thelr ideas, of course. -------- nim TRUTH CAN'T BE CRUSHED. The mysteries, or at least some of them, in connection with the Winni- peg scandal have been cleared up by the evidence of Mr. Horwood, Pro- vineial Architect, and Mr. Salt, one of the building inspectors. Mr. Hor- Wood was not the designer of the building, but the Supervisor of its construction. It was his: duty to see that Mr. Simon' s plans and speci- fications, (prepared in England) were carried out. He was embar- rassed during the sessions of the Public Accounts Committee when he realized that on fictitious certificates Province had been cheated out of dreds of thousands of dollars, The crisis came when Mr, Salt's 'book was presented, showing altera- tions in the quantities of cement or concrete put into the caissons in order to make them tally with the quanti- ties in the accounts Which, had been paid. Mr. Horwood asked Salt to make the records agree, and by changing his. Salt declined. There was no help for it, but to get him out of the way, while some one else com- . mitted the fraud. The story of the PIOL SHOWS LDA TWO DL Lue misses h keep away from Winnipeg, The first consignment of $10,000 was lost n the way, by the messenger, Hood, | done under the circumstances. i | appears to be lying, and some one | needed for the fathers, the mothers, | | be indicted for perjury. What a mess! What a chapter of | rascality! The Ex-Premler ran awl | from it in disgust. His first | clusion was that Manitoba suffered | { from the riot of -efficial dom. His | 1 Second' conclusion must be that in| | his Cabinet he had some terrible siii- | | ners, The American Chambers of Com- merce have discovered that Freach orders for many war e¢ontracts, and representing millions of dollars, | have been cancelled because of the disposition of the receivers of these contracts to fleece the Governmept. These plunderers should be treated as enemies of the country, and in- terned or--shot. THE STREET RAILWAY CASE. Members of the Street Railway Company have appeared before the Utilities Committee and stated their case. The enterprise was never a great financial success, and it has certainly not been a money maker since it passed undér new -manage- ment and undertook to provide the people with an improved service, The Utilities Commission has been 0| invited to examine, through an ex- 0 pert, the books of the company, in order to satisfy itself as to the rev- enues of the railway and its ability or inability to pay a higher rate. This examination is now being made. When the result of it has been re- ported, the Commission and the City Council can consider what should be The | City does not want to own the rail- way at any price. That point was duly considéred some years ago and by a Council that | put into the subject a great deal of serious thought. The city, it was felt, was not likely to practise the economies of a private corporation, and the enterprise would become in time a white elephant which the council could not manage. Though the city does not want to run the railway, however, it is interested in the operation of it. The question of power is the most important, and it is for the Council to determine what it can do in order to aid the railway. Several expedients have been sug- gested. One is to ask the Hydro- Eelectric Commission to define the actual cost of power. Then, it is for the Utilities Commission to pro- pose that the Council provide the dif- ference between what the company can afford to pay and what the Com- mission can afford to sell it at. That would partake of the nature of relief which the city could very properly be asked to give, and it would solve the difieuity. ,The Whig favors this policy. The sum to be provided annually would be about gr a trifle over $3,000, and there should be no hesitation about giving this, as the city must have the railway and without it would be in- jury to an incalculable extent. On the company's side, something should be done to popularize the road. A quicker service at a lower rate would go far towards cultivating the car-riding habit, the absence of which is so conspicuous at present. A commuted rate for a limited per- fod is worth the trial. . DDITORIAL NOTES. The "Grain Growers' Guide de- mands a farmers' party in the Do- minion. Impossible! The wants of the farmers in the West are not the wants of the farmers in the East, and they cannot form a coalition. They are without any organizaing power The Russians are again pushing the Germans back and into the holes that were made for the enemy with- in the war zone. In other words, the Grand Duke Nicholas and his ponderous army are rolling the old chariot along towards Berlin. The Toronto Telegram charges that Russian and French war con- tracts filter through jobbers in New York who must have a 25 per cent rake-off. Cannot the Canadian Gov- ernment stop this? something that will divert contracts direct to Canada, and to all who can perform them satisfactorily ? Mr. Taft has intimated that Ameri- ¢a's mobile army numbers 24,602. On cthis information it is assumed that ® year must elapse ere the United States could go to war with any pow- er. But in respect to munitions She could compete: with aus wv wars and in Teed Supplies keep the Allie alive. -------- ; 'The scandals in the last session of Parliament would have been at least lightened had the advice Wile the con- | | Can it not do| ed {and wives and sisters whose hearts are torn by private griefs compared { by which publie anxiety is joy.' 1 PUBLIG OPINION : True to to Mission. (Ottawa Journal.) The ruling passion is strong in death, A German Zeppelin mortally wounded over Belgium yesterday, dropped on a convent and killed two orphans and a sister, England's Great Wealth. (Now York Post.) "At present, as in the twelve years of the Napoleonic conflict, England is largely sustaining her Allies; and England's reserve resources, now as | then, are enormous." ' Ashamed of His « Jountry. - (Toronto Globe.) "When I was a boy I was proud to be a German," said J. H. an American citizen born in Berlin, Munich, "but now, grown grey, sorry for my country: a' madhause. mad." The nation has gone Asking Questions, (Windsor Record.) Queries for Hon. Tom. Crothers: Is there a high-cost-of-living com- mission in Canada? If so, has it fin- ished with its report? Who are the members? Where have they been? How have they approached the sub- ject and what have they recommend- ed? Have they got a life job? KINGSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS ACO F. W. Eward was elected J. D. G. M., at the grand lodge meeting of the Prentice Boys. Clerks in the waterworks office complain that their quarters are too small and ask for a larger office. Thomas Hanley led in the inside boulevard improvement and Welling- ton and Earl street in that section will carry off the palm for neatness: BOAR MAIMS AGED FARMER. Cut In Places and Tossed By Vicious Animal. Chesapeake City, Md., June 12.-- Randolph Borem, aged seventy-one, was seriously injured on the Wob- ley farm when he was attacked by a viclous boar which cut him in more than a score of places with its sharp teeth and tossed him about. Borem had gone to the pasture to drive the cows to the barn when he was singled out for the boar"s at- tack. He managed to escape. by work- ing his way toward a fence, which, after considerable trouble, he man- aged to'get over: Dr. Clifton C. Laws found it necessary to sew up a [umber fot the deep cuts. Worman, | ard for five years consul-general at | Iam] Germany is | CELE PRPEPLOER EAS STIR tT eta eRe WAR BULLETINS. In an enthusiastic meeting at + Cardiff, Wales, on Friday Lloyd-%| George secured the promises of ten thousand workmen to work night and day making . shells "and bring an early end to the war." A Russian steamer and a British trawler were the vic- tims of submarines Friday af- ternoon, Dutch Government on Fri. day afternoon asked Parlia- ment to vote six million dollars for warships "to protect Dutch trade and colonies." The British Nght cruiser, tor- pedoed by an Austrian submar- ine, reached port safely on Fri- day not much injured. Gradisca, in Austria, has been taken by the Italians, whose general advance continues. It is learned that the Unit- ed States will ask the Allies to alter, their blockade policy to rest Germa~y's modifica thom of the submarine com- paign. All Petrograd and Berlin despatches corroborate the news of Russia's big victory in Galicia. Louisa Marksfelt, aged nine- teen, is under arrest in Toron- to, charged with being a Ger- #% man Spy. +> FELL LOPLI PIP FL PEPE LLP R PERE RPGR bet b * PHF FEEE REELS EPP L PR TP EPH The War Contract Grafter, Toronto Telegram. "New York is to-day infested with Canadians, some of whom have lived by their wits. Others lived off the country. A few weeks ago some of these Canadians could not have riis< ed sufficient money to take a box of paper collars out of pawn, "To-day these personages are unanimously housed in palatial apartments. They are approached with difficulty. Cards have to be sent in by Canadians so- liciting contracts. The amiable, con- fiding weakness of Sir Robert Borden has allowed a horde of middlemen to thrust themselves in as high-priced | intermediaries between European | Governments that wish tb plate or- ders for war supplies and the Cana- dian manufacturers who wish to fill these orders. Let Sir Robert Bor- | den prove himself as big as his oppor- | tunity and the whole race of contract | jobbers will be scourged out of the line of communication between the demands of the Allies and the facto- ries of Canada. . Is Sir Rob- ert Borden or the Canadian Manufac. turers' Association content that Fran- co-Russian contracts should be given to a putrid crew of Canadian middle. men, who never owned a factory, and jobbed out to the Canadian manufac- turer who does the work on the basis of twenty-five per cent, commission to the middleman?" 1" -------- | The Issuing of Your Daily Paper | The average person as he reads the daily paper does not realize the work that is accomplished from the time that the news is collected until it reaches them in a clean, neatly- folded sheet of Printed paper. To make possible e production of a paper foreign newspaper correspon- dents have braved the dangers as the jungle for a brief news item, war Journalists have approached the very firing line of conflicting armies for a paragraph of war intelligence and regular city reporters have hurried 'night and day through the streets and various buildings of the city for special local notes, and to complete this splendid work the editors, jour- nalists and last but not least the day at the cost of their health and eye-sight.. Before the public sees the news it has to be written, read and re-read to correct mistakes, gi- ven to the Linotype operators to form into type and the proofs must be read and checked. Finally the com- positors receive the type and make up the pages. These must be put into the press, which is itself a mar- vellous invention for time-saving, and the paper is ready for the peo- ple. To do all this in the shortest possible time is the object of all newspapers. As an example of what is possible, the case of the famous Robinson trial at Napanee, might be mention- The verdict was given out in the open, court at Napanee at 3.45 P.M. On the same day, and only seven minutes later, the British Whig appeared on the streets of Kin- gston with a huge heading across the printers have also labored. night and' front page, reading. "Dr. C. K. Ro- binson found 'not guilty'. This was not a really exceptional case, as almost daily news matter that comes pinto the office a short time before going to press is taken care of in the same way.. Speed in putting into the printed paper the latest matter from the te- legraph despatch is not only neces- sary, but the time in which it takes to send, it in is also of vital impor- tance. In the case of the death of Lieut. C. W. Day, at the front, the news was received in the Whig offi- ce even before the family could be notified by the Militia authorities. It was one of the Whig staff whe first conveyed the sad message to the sorrowing family. This message had to came from Belgium and yet a very short time elapsed between the hour of the fatality until the pub- lic were informed. - The newspaper men of the night are also an extremely important part of the great system. By seven or eight o'clock each evening the copy begins to arrive in the . composing room and the clicking of the Lino- type keys becomes musit 10 the ears of the worker. Headache and eye- strain, so prevalent in the life of the newspaper workers, are quickly for- gotten for the time at least. 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