re EE ? PAGE FOUR yThe British Whis THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1915. ! te mt p the contract which spelled ruin for] tion. What he is going to do there himself and others. The Minister of | BO one can imagine as he is not in Public Works, "who ought to have | favour of tax reform. known what was going on, as he/ The Toronto Telegram has been was at the head of the department) { deeply concerned lest the culprits in most concerned, signed orders for Manitoba--the men who plundered { money without asking questions and| 4 disgraced the Province--escaped knewing what they meant. Innocence their. due. 11 Shorid- bile awes. or iniquity generally prevailed. { The Norris Government will now The electors have weighed this] ot after them. party "and 'found it wanting. © The ee full effect of the elections is not ap-! The Minister of Public Works parent at the time of this writing, | boasted that he was not called and but it looks as if the people of the| quizzed about the parliament build- Province have risen in their might | ings' scandal. The probe is now go- and swept the Conservative candi-|ing into the public works which he WISE AND OTHERWISE Things usually look blue to a man after he has painted the town red. NEW SPORT SHIRTS SEE OUR $15.00 BLUE SUITS BIBBYS TO-NIGHT! After accepting crumbs of comfort some people whine for the whole bakery, ae gems It's the easiest thing in the world] to convince the average man that he is smart. How Singular. =m » B A Published Daily Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING C0. LIMITED, President leman A. GulM .. Managing Director nd Sec.-Treas. Tel Business Office Editorial Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RA (Daily Edition) One year, delfVered in city ' One year, If pald In advance .... One year, by mall to rural offices . One year, to United States $3 (3emi.- Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash ... year, if not paid in adw year, 10 United -States ... and three months pro rat One One Une st Attached Is omer of the best job printing offices In Canada ci tht, TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H. E. Smallplece :..82 Church 8t I. 8. REPRESENTATIVES New York Office 225 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager Chichgo - Tribune Bldg. rank. R. Northrup, Manager. A MATTER OF BLUFF. The true meaning of the protest of the United States against the com- mercial blockade by Britain in the North Sea becomes more apparent when one realizes what has been at- tempted by Germany to evade it. The war lords at first stormed over what they called a futile scheme to starve out their people. - Later they laughed at the Tdea, and through the inde- Pendent press announced that they were independent of the world for their supplies. They had a large territory under cultivation; that within the Empire and in the parts of Belgium and France which they had evaded and held they were util- izing prisoner-labour in the tillage of the soil and production of food stuffs, They defied the Allies 'to hurt and depress them. Which was pure bluff. There has been no open running of the block- ade, but there has been all along, and there is now, a most determined effort to procure supplies of copper and nickle and cotton and food- stuffs, through the neutral countries, A great avenue of service lay via Italy until it went into the war. A greater avenue lay through smaller kingdoms on the North Sea. At the present time. about forty crafts are in the custody of the British Admir- alty awaiting the action of the prize court, The Chicago packers are Interested to the extent of 28,274,- 584 1bs. of meat products which the trown contends, and on very reli- able evidence, was intended for Ger- many, via Copenhagen. Dealing with the cargoes carried by four ships, the Attorney-General pointed out that in 1913 Denmark imported i662 metric tons of lard, yet the ships mow in question had on board 5,798 metric tons. The Whole imports of lard in 1913 for Norway, Sweden, and Denmark were 3,386 tons, while these four ships in one fortnight last year were car- rylng 5,798 toas for Denmark alone. For October and November, 1913, the export of lard from New York to Copenhagen was 439,834 1bs.; for the same nionths in 1914, it was 22,- 789,043 dbs. In the face of this exhibit the Ger- mans of Rochester may denounce President Wilson because he does not become bumptious and bulldose -the British Government, and the Chi- cago packers join the Southern cot- ton men in demanding "hands oft" the neutral trade of the ocean. But of what avail. The blockade of the North Sea is real, and will remain until the war is over, . MAN 'S CLEAN SWEEP, The people, of Canada have been interested in the Manitoba election, and they will rejoice that the elec- tors of the province - have #0 em- phatically expressed themselves up- on the questions of the day. There has not been, at any time, an exhibi- tion of venality, of corruption, of crime to be compared with that of the Roblin Government. Had the facts not been established by the evi- dence which Came out before a Roy- al Commission no one could believe that a Government could be so re- Creant to its trusts, so calloused in wrong doing, so utterly abandoned to . wickedness. ' ¥ The meanest feature of the reve- < lations was the attempt of thé dis- credited ministers to cast the respon- | Ton dates jato oblivion. | did not pull enough votes to save | their deposits. They have not only been defeated,but they have been dis- that championed: their cause, Winnipeg Telegram, must share-the | odium of their disgrace. It helped in their ignominy by assailing judges who constituted the Royal Commission, charging bias and par- The Norris Government has been commissioned by the people to make a clean-up of the situation, to save | or-epare no ome who is guilty of wrong doing, and then to give i Province the ripest administration | of public affairs, which it has had for many a day. A LEADER DISCARDED. { The last remark ef Sir James] Alkins, on the eve of the Manitoba! election, was: 'Liberals who have been looking for a walk over are go- | ing to wonder what hit them when | the returns came in." And the first| announcement which followed the close of the poll was this: "Sir | James Aikins defeated in Brandon." | The. self-conscious and puffed-up | leader of the party of purity, the Ljly Whites, met disaster in his own constituency, where he was known the best, where his virtues, politie- ally should be the most approved, And he deserved it. His conduct in| connection with this campaign bas| been a sad disappointment. No one doubts that Sir James is a talented man. He is possessed of scholarship, of rare experience, of training for political service which, under proper alliances, should make him a power in the land. But "he | got in wrong," as the politicians say, | as the leader of the bedeviled and bankrupted combination which he was foolish enough to assume he could carry to success. He has not personally free of contact with the Roblin contingent, though he repudi- ated, and, as far as he dare, called it bad names, He was the solicitor for Mr. Simon, the London architect, who wrote him in December, 1914, about the building extras on which the Government had light-heartedly embarked. Mr. Simon said he had remonstrat- ed against these extras, and had been assured by the resident archi- tect that "the Government had\to make their campaign funds out of them." = With the knowledge of what was going on he made no protest against the iniquities of the Roblin Govern- ment, made no effgrt to win it from its evil ways, or save it from de- struction. - He waited until the Rob- lin Government was forced out of of- fice and its members were denounced and abandoned. Then, under the guidance of the immaculate Rogers, he conceived the idea of rescuing the party, of giving it a sweet-smelling name, and of leading it to victory! Sir James has deceived himwelf, and deceived his friends, with regard to his political strength. He was made to believe that his was a title to conjure with, apd, having a real good conceit of himself, it was not hard to make him feel his import- ance. About the only clever thing he did -- and it was not much to his credit--was to steal or misappropri- ate the best part of the Liberal plat- form, and with this he assumed to carry his deodorized party into pow- er. He might have known better. He might have realized that the peo- gross misconduct of the . Conserva- tive party, would not reelect it, prac- tically as it was before the fall, save that it had Aikins and Sharpe, as its political leaders, in place of Rob- Hn and Howden, The expected in EDITORIAL NOTES, It can now be taken for granted Some of them | owned and dishonored. and the paper | the! the | tizanship in their decisions and ds- | sailing the Lieutenant-Governor, who | had, in his zeal for righteousness, | | brought the political upheaval about. | the | this instance has surely come to pass.| that there will not be a Federal elec- tion this autumn. The election of Friday settled that point. -- : The tastes of the Manitoba elec- tors must be vitiated. * The ides of preferring an auctioneer to a Knight of the Garter for the premiership! carried on as a member of the Mani- toba Govérnment. The Hon. Rob- ert may come inte the lime light a little later on. A coat of whitewash or a hasty fumigation will not make a party, which went so deep into the muck as the Roblin party in Manitoba, pre- sentable. That party is down and out quite as much as the ex-minis- ters and cannot come back until it has time in which to sincerely re- pent of its sins. Sir Rodmond Roblin went back from Prince Edward County, where he was rusticating on the old home- stead, to attend the funeral and bur- fal of the Lily Whites in Manitoba. He probably voted for them as a good party man, but how he must be tickled over the. manner in which the people turned down his defamers. ---- The Hon. "Bob" Rogers will see, in the elections of Friday in Mani- toba, the writing on the wall, so far as he is concerned. The new party, the Lily Whites, was his conception. Sir James Aikins was his cholce of a leader, The fact that both panty and leader have been swept into oblivion has a meaning for him par- tfeularly its own. Fullerton, K. C., the law partner of Sir James Aikins, would not ac- pept the decision of the Perdue Com- mission, that his charges against the Norris Government were framed-up and without foundation. He ap- pealed to the people. They would give a verdict that could be accept- ed as just and fair. And that ver- dict has banished 'his boss and legal partner from public life. a ---- | PuBLIG opinion | Timely Information. (Hamilton Times.) Thirty thousand men are needed for the Northwest harvest. dical examination needed. Holy But Doubtful. (Cincinnati Times-Star.) Roumania thinks it has a holy mission to perform in this war--but it has not yet guite made up its mind on which side to fight. Why Not Disgorge? (Toronto Globe.) One of the beneficiaries of army contracts has disgorged $6,300, but the men who get good money for punk boots are still holding it. No me- A Great Contract. (Toronto Star ) If it requires a million men to make supplies for the British navy, we can understand why there was some difficulty in keeping up the supply of munitions for the war on land. Why Not Take It? (Saskatoon Phoenix) The Ottawa Citizen advocates a referendum to settle the question of conscription. Are the Canadians at the front to be allowed to vote in such a case? Otherwise the result of the poll would hardly be in doubt, The Picnic Pic. (Toronto News.) William Allen White, the Ameri can writer, has denounced the lem- on pie. And yet at our Choir Pic- nic there was a lemon pie with a couple of inches of meringue on it which sort of oozes = througa the memory. The Only Answer, (Brantford Expositor.) It is little short of murder to send Canadians, or any other, troops in- to the war without furnishing them with wrodern methods of and resisting attack. Hence the call for machine guns. Toward sending satisfactory answer to this call Bfsation must be prepared to do ple, 'shocked, pained, angered by the per Mrs. Jones had a singular boy, \ So- singular was -this young Jone That he never made more than one noi, And he played the duets all alone. At school he was rather erratic, For, though mentally quick as a weasel, He would study but one mathematic, And when sick he had only one measel. ~--R. Rudd Whiting in The Century. Advice to Donald. Sister (writing to her brother at the front)--And hae ye onything else tae say, father?" Father--Ay! Tell Donal' that if he comes ower you German waiter that gaed us a bad saxpence for change when we had a bit dinner in London a while syne, tell him--tae--tak-- steady. aim.---Puneh. Easier To Spell. Young Arthur, the pride of the family, had been attending school all of six weeks, and his devoted parent thought it was high time he should find out how things were running. So he asked one afternoon. "And what did my little son learn about this morning?" "Oh, a mouse. Miss Wilcox told us all about mouses." "That's the boy! Now, how do you spell mouse?" It was then Arthur gave promise of being an awful dodger. He paused meditatively for a moment, then said "Father, I guess I was wrong, It wasn't a mouse teacher was telling us about. It was a rat.--Harper's Magazine. A Mystery. "Joan of Arc was x spinster; was she not?" "Yes, why?" "Oh, I was just wondering how she got her armor buttoned up the back."--Louigville Cour'er- Journal. That Uncomfortable Feeling. Helter--Do you think severe re- ligious training really prevents a person from wrongdoing? Skelter--Well, it doesn't exactly prevent it, but it certainly detracts] from the pleasure one gets from sin-| ning =--Life, Getting It Straight | Husband---You spend altogether too much money. Wife--Not at all! The trouble is you don't make enough.--New Or- leans Times-Picayune, Grateful. Mr. Bullion Bag (to Court Spag- hetti, about to marry his daughter) See here, count, let me give you a tip. Count Spaghetti (holding out his hand)--Sank you, sare.--Seattle Times, Safe Conjecture. Tramp--'Please, mum, I'm a Bel- glan refugee." Lady--*"Are you? Mention a town in Belgium." Tramp (cogitating a moment) "lI would, mum, but they have all been destroyed."--St. Louis Post- Dispatch.. ; Liked The Eats. "Did the new cook come morning?" "Dropped in about 12." "How do things seem to suit her?' "Well, she liked the lunch I gave her so well that she has agreed to stay for dinner."---Louisville Cour: ier-Journal. ------------------ | KINGSTON EVENTS | 26 YEARS ACO George A. Cliff was awarded the contract to do the carpenter work in the chapel in connection with St. Mary's. Cathedral. y . T. Carson shipped two spaniel pups to Chicago. Callaghan, McRae and M. Reid were engaged to play ball to-day for Bath. 5 this Bartenders always have a for men with the coin. smile oP) 8) 7 i Bibbys Straw Hat Sale $1.50, $2.5 $2.00, choice for ; SU $2.00 Hats--your Bibbys Neckwear Sale New and nobby Flowing End Silk Ties; 50¢ values 3 for $1.00 o Pw - Bibbys Shoe Sale The celebrated Just Wright Shoe , £000, £5.50 and $6.00 values, All new and first quality: all sizes. SEE Na SUITS UNDERWEAR OUR $1.00 x OUR $1.00 UNION SUITS UNDERWEAR J FARMS For Sale The following are some of our farm bargains: $1,600 $2,000 $2, $3,200 $3,300 . Price $3,500 .. Price $3,750 . . Price $4,000 . . Price «+++. 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