"PACE FOUR 1 The British Whig BIBI 82ND YEAR. REA FY FHL HIG, WET * NATILY RRITT # FI] Y BRITIS NEST R TSDAY SEPTE |] ES : HOLDING TROOPS BACK What is the Meaning Of It? Men Get- si ting Blue. Toronto Globe. . | A few days ago the Royal Cana- dian Regiment, a fine body of regul-| ars which has been doing garrison | juty in Bermuda for almost a year, | returned to Canada in the hope and! expectation of seeing active service! at last. When the war broke out the regiment was ready to the last buckle, but greatly to the disappoint- ment of the men they were assigned to garrison duty, while raw volun: teers after a few weeks training were sént across the Atlantic and -have been in action so frequently that they have become seasoned veterans. A correspondent in western Ontar- io gives The Globe another illustra- tion of the Curious process followed by the Militia' Department in the se lection of reginients for active ser- vice. " | "Thé 34th Battalion has been] in London since last January. They are a magnificent body of splendidly-| trained men, and they are still par ading around Carling's Heights and nearly biting the ends of their fin- gers off in their anxiety to get to the front. There is.a very decided feel- ing that it is rather a peculiar thing 'for the Government to be asking for -further recruits when these men are kept here practically twiddiing their thumbs. It is now rumored that they are to be sent from London to Guelph, to be wintered there, so as | | istence of the troops and the nationfbeer' looking after his constituents depend. ' | Who cah blame him? . i S------------------ | A WISE DECISION, of the Government, | with regard to regimental equipment, and to the effect that it will supply this 'equipment as far as necessary will strike many persons as exceed- | *Ppreciate ingly wise. It has always impressed | StAnces. them as remarkable that the men! In Ottawa | who have been called on to do a pub | battle between the English and the | lic service, often at great personal! pranich. and the) English and the | sacrifice, should be grpected to en- [commission appointed by the Ontaric | dure any privation. They are en |Government, - are in the ascendant titled to 'good clothing, and a suffic- {ror the time being. There are some f tency of It, and to good food, pre | mighty men "Tined up in this con- { pared in a presentable: and appetiz- | flict. ing way, with the other incidental! A------ | requirements which are designed . to | x ptreal taxpayers have = been | keep them healthy. | aroused and. a Black Hand Totjge |: The human machine transcends |has been sent to the men at the City Published Daily al Semi-Weekly ay | iD importance all other machines, | Hall that it is death io {he one Whe THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING | and it must perforce be provided with | talks of raising the rate at present. --i 0 LIMITED, [all that'is necessary to its up-keep (It is announced that of the boodlers Soa: Elliott he Dineent|and efficiency. The appeals which and parasites the city has had 5 ~Treas. have been made, then, to the public | enough. 243 Ai Bathize Jus for kitchens, amd Senator Cloran does not see the 229 p n {sense of worrying about what may 2393 | purchase the things the Government! en to the Fedetul Government | does not furnish, (according to cur | and Federal Parliament after Octo |' rent statement), were numerous and 1918. 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Tel Business Ofce Editorial ° Rooms bb Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delivered in city vear, If paid in advance .. \ \ § { { { { { One One One ber, {then and the people will have time year, by mail to rural offices . year, to United States ..... (Semi- Weekly dition) One year, by. maf), sh . One year, if not paid { One year, to United States .. | Six and three months pr | of the Canada One is one best job | NTATIVE | 32 Church Py ATIVES » LL. 2256 Fi Northrup, Manager | Tribune Bldg. | Northrup, Manager | EX-MINISTERS ARRESTED, | Four arrests have been made of | men who have occupied representa- | tive positions in the public life of | Canada. Reference is made to Sir] Rodmond Roblin, Hon. Dr. Mon- | tague, Hon. Mr. Howden, and Hon. | Mr. Caldwell, who were in the last Conservative Government of Mani: toba, and Premier, Minister of Public| Works, Attornéy-General, and Min- | ister of Edugation, respectively, Public rien have grievously of- fended 1n the past, but never before have so many been indicted in Can- ada on so grave a charge, ramely, that of permitting the public treas-| ury to be looted for political pur- poses. No one supposes that they in=| 7 dividually profited by what has tak- en place, but they all blinked at the most serious crime and some of them aided and abetted the men | who were involved in it. It cannot be chafged that the Nor- ris Goverrment is acting in a partis. an way and that its members are actuated by unworthy motives. The report of the Mathers' Commission could not be shelvel or iznored. That. report was most definite and specific in bringing home conviction of these men. They will not be pun- ished upon the evidence which has been. submitted to the Mathers' Com- mission, but on similar evidence which will be sifted by the court and modified, or affected by any de- fense which they may make. The. prosecution has been urged on the Government by the people regardfess of party, and .some of thifSe who have been the loudest in 'their denunciation of the ex-Minis- ters have been members of the same marty and have been politically bene- fited by their service. FARMERS IN DISTRESS. The Federal Government, in ad- vance of the arrival at Ottawa of Sir Robert Borden, announces that it will hot buy the whole Canadian grain crop in order to guarantee it a market and safe transport ' to the Mother Country. The Government nas reasons for not acting upon the request of the grain growers. One is that it cannot finance the transac- tion. It cannot procure the¥need- ful capital. . There are at least a quarter of a million bushels of wheat + for sale, and, less tH cost 'of trans- portation to Port Arthur, the selling ~ Brice Is 80c per bushel. It was $1 per 'bushel last fall. It was still higher last spring. Thus the outlook for the farmer is depressing enough. His big erop will not yield him the benefit "for which he labored. He has only the One customer, and everything de- pends _ on whether Great Britain takes his. wheat' at a reasonable price. . There is a duty of 10e per bushel on the wheat exported to the United States, and it°can be removed <x by the Canadian Ga¥arnment under _ Such 'reciprocal proceedings as the circumstances may suggest, ' The Governmeént 'may satisfy the grain growers that it cannot finance the season's crop, But will have to do something in order to convince these men that they are not the vie- tims of unfortunate circumstances. They have a right to expect that the Mother Country will make som# sac- rifices on their behalf. They "will prebably insist upen a further and a more serious consideration of the facts. : ' " It will not do_to 'tell the farmers who have worked so hard to produce . a greater crop-that the Government is helpless. They can borrow many millions of dollars for military pur- - poses. They should be able to do as well for the men who have pro. ® {clined to "'bleed' as often as neces- | resenting all the people, and voted |}, for | a war tredit unstintedly, should omit {nothing in the way of useful articles] | regiment. | connection with the | present the true perspective in this ly, the same classes. These were in-| to talk politics. They terested in the war, ;. lin which were in and ta . . have not time for politics just now. | The - Northcliffe press need not | worry about Canada. She: will be | ready for conscription as soon as the rep: | Mother and that will not Hence she sary in its behalf. As a result there: was some criti- cism It was felt, and freely ex pressed, that the Government, Country, some time yet. {has no need to commandeer her foun- dries and.shops in order to secure munitions. . The shops are.willing to fill all the orders that has been given kit of the soldier and his It is a dignified cours: to pursue, and the Government is to be congratulated upon adopting it. The relief from taxation for ma- | hull, dccording to Mr. Thomas, chine guns, regimental kitchens, and other expensive things, does not| Dr. Magill, the Calman of the mean, of course, that the people are. Dominion Grain Commission, should to be excmpt from the many works, talk He the Gover: to which they have been devoted ment can do no more than the indi- Rea Cross and) al with a 300,000,000 bushel Other movements. These remain to} wheat crop with the British market excite their interest and generosity,! ard to these men and women shouid| But who is discussing the closing of the. British market? It apply themsglves with the greater ; assiduity. from the to them, and some of them could get {more orders if they had a. greater sense. says closed. x is the only market that is open to | Canada and the only market that can | be kept open with the aid of the | British navy. : THE TRUE PERSPECTIVE. Dr. Edwards in his public address | in the Cricket Field on Tuesday- af-| ET ree Sn Bee ternoon, in the presence of an enor- | PUBLIC 0 INION mous audience, delivered a stirring] V) Ih \ political address. Its object was 10] bose | Bottled Up Sure. ; i o y it war. It is SHionuIte, and yet it| (Hamilton Tine) is true, that great asions some-| With British submarines in the a -- times suggest, with some people, sel-| Baltic it will be unable for German fish motives. They lose the thotught|Ships to leave the Kiel Canal by that in a great conflict, which may ®ither the front or back door. mean the death of the nation as well | as the death of the individual, there | (Saskatoon Phoenix.) should be but one dominating im- There has 'been handed to The pulse, that which concerns the wel-| Peenix a piece of tailor's chalk | ' f the St | | bearing the following 'inscfiption: Are of the State, " "Robert Darling and. Co,, Toronto, The patriot forgets all else save| Ont, Germany." This is what might the gocd of the cause which he| be called annexation in advance. espouses, and the contiruance of it] beyo ti ep whi its in-| yond He struggle Which its Jpains) (Montreal Mail.) tenance involves. The fact that] An Indiana preacher, whose life here and there an individual is to bz| had been threatened because of his found who thinks of himself as much | Pro-Gernmian utterances; has been as he thinks of the King and Em-| found murdered. That kind of neu- | trality appeals to a good many Am- pir2; or thinks of his personal inter-| ericans whose ftiends are murderec ests first and nearly all the time, 2 iat sea to be regretted. That tndivifiuai| should not be encouraged in his sei- fishness when it becomes an Issue The effect of the war tariff ac- with the Government. Dr. Ed-| cordingly has been that the Domin- wards finds that, in connection with | ion of Canada gets no increased re the war, there are some things | venue, but the people of Canada are which he cannot eiidorse or condone, | (haletod higher Diigas or Sons, tie and in publicly discussing them It} facturers. This is the effect of the may be that he would accentuate his | tariff. a point of view and impress it upon/| the Government of tie day. Incidentally he essays. to correct the waywardness of the press in. de- flecting its views upon the 'German- American controversy. The press has a part .fo do, and a part -from which it cannot shrink. The editor of a Canadian paper is most patri- otically inclined. He tunes his lyre to express in dulcet tones only one thought -- the duty of the State to the individual and the duty of thel Individual to the State. His vision does not change when he looks abroad and commentsegpon the duty of his political neighbors. His judg- ment is the same with Tegard to their affairs as with regard to his own. His ole question _is, What is Anticipating the End i i A Mute Appeal. t ----------iians The War Tarifi's Effect. (Calgary Albertan.) Overcome With Scandal. (London Advertiser.) | The country has been sickened with the scandals of the New Bruns- wick, Nova Scotia and Manitoba Conservative Governments. In the last few years, Conservative rule in| these provinces has used the pub-| lic" purse for its purposes. Carvell| and Norris are the type of men who have revealed the rottgnness Lucky Man. 4 : (Hamilton™ Spectator.) 1 Count von Bernstorff, German | Ambassador to the United States; is| far more fortunaté than poor. sid | Sackville West, who got his "walk- ing ticket" from Washington, dur. | ing the Cioveland regfme, for writ- | "Vote | ping on a parapet, ing a letter to an 'alleged English-! man, who asked is advice how fo] to make room for the 70th and 71st Battalions that are to be recruited. These men in London say they en- listed to fight, They didn't enlist to be made an exhibition of, parad- ing around grounds, and there is a very nasty feeling amongst them. This ought to pe explained in some way if results are to be got." When similar complaints were made some time ago on behalf of other regiments eager to get to the front, it was explained that the War Office in London knew the facts, and that Canada's soldiers were sent for ward at such times and in such num- bers as Lord Kitchener indicated But Lord' Kitchener wants men and ever mor® men. If he were told that recruiting is likely to- be hin- dered by the continued presence on this side of the Atlantic of iens of thousands of well-drilled men eager to get into action he would probably] give the 341h and many other regi ments marching orders. Has the MI- litia Council put the Minister of War in possession of the facts? 'Does he know that there are in Canada splendidly-trained . men "nearly bit- ing the ends of their finigers off in their anxiety to get to the front?" | ------ LE | | | ' "Salutary Medicines." Winnipeg Free A German | Press. | chemist, Dr. Schweit- || zer, resident in the United - States, has contracted to purchase daily || from the Edison works 6,000 pounds | of carbolic acid. He announces | that this has been purchased in or-| der to convert it into 'highly salu-| tary medical remedies, such as sali- | cyelfc acid, salicylate of soda, salol, | and especially the universal medie-| ine, aspirin." : | There is thus no prospect of afl failure of '"'salutary medicines" - of || these descriptions; since It is esti-{| mated that 1,820,000 bottles of car-| bolic sdlution could he made daily from the supply at the dfSposal of Dr. Schweitzer. | In reality, this purchase is for the} purpose of taking. this . amount of | carbolic acid off the market. Car-| bolic acid is convertible into picric|| acid, one of the highest explosives| known; and the Allies are scouring the world for it. Dr. Schweitzer is,| of course, simply an agent for the | German Government, which: is thus] seeking ---- quite legitimately, - of | course -- to hamper the Allies in| their purchase of raw materials for| the making of munitions of war. | Little Activity On Canadian Front. | London, Sept. 1.--News frm Can-| adian forces at the front show that] there have been no attacks for] some time. Nevertheless, casualties] occur daily from sniping and trench | shelling. - The Canadians are work: ing night and day. Eight men were | killed and 14 wounded in a battalion | in one day recently by shells drop-| NGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS AGO Folger Bros. are 'bringing record erowds to the city on their boats. Close on to 2,000 people arrived in the city to-day. There were three hundred schol- ars present at the meeting of the Brothers' School which opened to- day. The officers of the penitentiary were allowed to attend the Midland Fair to-day. 8 Some spinsters advance step by step until they finally become step- mothers. . srtham ek right? His desire is to follow the dictates of his conscience at all haz ards and without regard to comse- quence. : 3 The average Canadian edifor does!" not cringe at such a time. He stands] erect: and. expects 'his neighbors to, ¢ do their bit ase proposes te do his to his generation and to his country. TTR a . . I bought a EDITORIAL NOTES, United States Government lost, last year, $25,000,000 in revenue through the enforcement of prohibi- tionys, Who says that the cause is failing in its significance and effects? "burn, tan, I'll seem an also ra The Welsh coal men's strike has been settled." Happy thought! Again the influence of the Minister of Munitions' has been used and feit. What a busy and useful little man he is: to he sure, bi : ba; Tue : Calgary gets a $6,000,000 shell : : coitract. Mr. Bennett represents it] um suit rag he: as in the Commons, and visited England £3 non Nga ther torrid! time 3 son long! mate makes me don; Muced the foods upon which the ex- with the Premier. Mr, Bennett has' the spring, made heavy payment for Palm Beach rai- "ment, and hoped to look a king. bakes us," I said, hollow, my glances to command; and wealthy widders will'then be bidders for my old. heart and hand. The other fellows will all be jealous, the way I win the . ® gitls, and counts and princes will all seem quinces, * -and likewise belfed earls. O Summer, hurry! I.fret and Worry to wear my gorgeous .rags! It's simply horrid the way the spring- tether, and started off dead wrong; the rains were "pouring and torrents roaring, the whole blamed sea- I 1 view with loathing the winter clothing im those grand Palm Beaches, peaches, were long since placed 'in pawn. . 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