PAGES 8-12 7] The Daily British Whig [n= | YEAR 82, NO, 226 Who is for Victory? Calls RECRUITING WORK IN THIS DISTRICT Meetings This Week At Madoc And Iroquois A Demonstration to Be Given at the Tweed Fair---Frontenac to Be Roused. \ In speaking to the Whig about the work of the Speakers' Patriotic League, Prof. L. W. Mulloy, the hon- orary secretary, stated that it had held ten mass meetings since it. was organized less than two months ago, and at these meetings the attendance ran from 2,000 tg 5,000. Many other smaller meetings have _ also been held, and there has beén a great improvement in the recruiting as a result of 'the addresses Young men have been led to think of their duty to the Empire, and hun- dreds have come forward and enlist- ed for overseas service. Local executives are busy holding | recruiting meetings throughout the counties of Prince Edward, Leeds, South Renfrew, Peterboro, Victoria, ete. The central league has had confer- ences with the reeves of the county of Frontenac, and the latter have ta- | ken charge of the meetings to be held in this county. Addresses will be given at various centres, and it is expected that many young men of Frontenac will join the colors this | fall and winter. This week, big recruiting meetings MUST FIGHT HE SAID delivered. | being held at Madoc and Iro- In the latter place Prof. resided for some years be: fore goming to Kingston, and with the assistance of Major the Very Rev. Dean Starr, Lieut. Gordon Gra- ham, and the 8th C. M. R. band of Barriefield Camp, he will endeavor to rouse the people of that district to a sense of their duty. Hon. T. W. McGarry will be the chief speak- er at the Madoc meeting. & are quois. Mulloy | Then on Thursday of this week, the 80th Battalion, Barriefield Camp, is Fo Bs twenty-five men to the Tweed Fair to give an exhibition. The | 8th C. M. R. band will go along too. | Tweed gave the 80th $1,200 for a | field kitchen, and will likely con- tribute more recruits 'as a result of the military demonstration there on ! Thursday. In Kingston recruiting has been better since improved arrangements. . have been made. The tents on the Market - Square, opposite the Whig | office, and the recruiting eflice on Market streef, have drawn many {young men who might = otherwise | have been lost to the cause. he ed. They saved the day for the Al- lies at Ypres, and caused every Cana- {dian heart to thrill with pride. (Ap- Plalse) They held their ground | under an attack so _sévere, so over- KINGS LOY, MEN AT FRONT WONDERING. Can't Understand Why Men At Home Didn't Enlist. Halifax, N.S., Sept. 29. Private 8. L. Chambers, of Truro, blinded in battle at the front, and who regained his sight when the Hesperian was | torpedded, arrived home to-night dnd was given a great reception by | the citizens. train by the two bands. Private Chambers was taken by automobile to the town hall, where patriotic speeches were made. Cham- bers was called on for an address, and made a good reply. He called on the youn n to enlist, 'and said the boys iy e trenches wondered why more folunteers were not com- ing, for all the men Canada could send weresneeded. He was met at the mayor, councillors and ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, Who is for er Loyal Canadian | | 3 ) + % PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS. According to the latest orders at the Kingston Recruiting De- pot, the minimum height for all corps, except artillery, will be five feet two, and five feet four for the artillery. The mini- mum chest me.zurement is 33 inches for men between the ages of 18 and 30 years, and 34 inches for men between 30 and 45. Phebe b bbb b hte * LIISA S404 008 FRPP EEPE PEPER PPR P PPR bb It is sometimes as difficult to prove an alibi 4s it is to induce a friend to | endorse your note. No use to attempt to talk sense to a man who doesn't" understand the | language of sense. ETE SEPTEMBER 929, Right? | enlisted are Capt. i Hodder Williams and Keith Fielding. | ! Major V. Ma sey is instructor of mus-| whelming and sinister that I doubt | subjected to a greater and more try-: Tell the People of To- ing strain. (Applause.) Let me tonto. | our soldiers in the trenches, with our { wounded soldiers in hospitals and address here, and amid great. ap- with men from Britain, Australia plause, R. R. Bennett, M.P., of Cal- |New Zealand and Canada, I bring] "And it is my firm belief that if it | men at the front are determined to had not been for the overseas Domin- | win. They must win if they are tralia, South Africa, and above all should be by those at home. 1 i-of this great Canada, the great Brit- | know they will be supported and re- the plains of France. But I am | doubt as to the ultimate outcome of not here to-night to sing praises over | the war.' you, you gust fight or pay. If vou .€€ . > 9 . cannot fight you must pay, pay, and | Twins om tween great states or powers; it is an issue of whether representative insti- ist or whether it shall be destroyed; , of whether that word 'democracy' 'at London destroyed in the end by a great pow- erful autocracy. That is the ques- | London, Sept. 28.--Two of the Ja- "The issue of this war is just as | are William Bell and. Adam Fegan vital to you and all Canada as if the | who, although not : yelated, already autocracy wins this war, - just so | ' | cause of the similarity in their his- surely you have seen the end of dem- tories... Both are seamen, Befl:being : | burg; each is 42 years old, and has Canadian Gallantry. | seen thirteen years of continuous ser- Canadian volunteers, Sir Robert Bor- | Africa. den said at the same gathering: { Both soldiers are stone cutters by template their achievements. They | land, they were working for the same were men taken from civil life and | firm, in Detroit up to the time they experience of war as war is to-day. | sons fighting' with the British forces : Yet we know what they accomplish- | in France. '"While there ean be no doubt as to the issue of the contest if our Empire and every dominion in our Empire fore us, let no man minimize the magnitude of the task, and let -no man in Canada relax in the effort that is being front forces which, combined with other forces of the Empire and those of the Allied nations; will bring -to us civilization. "If the nations of this Empire within the next few ward, there can be absolutely po doubt in the mind of any man as to what the issue of this great war will bd. This takes that may have been made here and there. Itis a time for inflexible determination to carry on this great WhatR. R. Seanett, M.P., Had to if any troops in the world were ever |say to you that having. talked with Toronto, Sept. 28.--In a brillfant | convalescent hémes, having tal gary, said: | back to you the message that the fons of Britain, New Zedland, Aus- | supported and reinforced as they ish Empire would have crumpled on | inforced; and therefore I have no what has been done; I want td tell! then pay. This is not an issue be- tutions and free government shall ex- 70th Bait. shall survive, or whether ae shall be | tion. | test recruits for the 70th Battalion trenches were outside your gates. If | have been dubbed: "Fhe Twins," be- ocracy in Canada." a native of Ayr and Fegan of Edin- Referring to the gallantry of the | vice being spent in India and South "With pride and wonder we con- | trade, each has a wife living in Scot- with little military training and no! | enlisted together, and each has two Issue Not in Doubt. exerts its full and entire energy to the work we have be- made or that has been made to_enable us to send to the the victory which is absolutely necessary for the cause of months put forward every effort which can be' put for- is not a time for eriticism or lamentation over any mis- war to a conclusion. That is the duty before us. That is the duty I am sure the Empire will perform. "Sir Robert Borden at Torpmte. J More Men 1915 iim, The. Grey Mo ons MORE VARSITY MEN FOR WAR. History Depdrtment Suffers --Pay For Those Serving. Toronto, Sept. 28.--As in former | years, the University of Toronto pre-| sented a busy appearance on the] opening day of registration yester day. The History Department will be very shorthanded this coming term, as three of the lecturers have gone to the front. Those who have| G. M. Smith, R.| ketry at Niagara and will not return) | for the term. A licy of giving half pay to un- marMed men who enlist and Sotiond up the salary of married men what it.was before leaving, has been | adopted" by the University authori- ties. or A itl 1 #' "WITH EX KAISER BILL AT 8ST. "HELENA" A FEW SUGGESTIONS. LARGE CONTRACTS LET. Six Hundred Thousand Woolen Shirts 'or Soldiers. Ottawa, x 29.--A contract for 100,000 pairs of blankets and 600,- 000 shirts hag been placed with Canadian mills: b¥ the Italian Government Commission of London. The nion t of Trade and il meree has assumed responsi- bility for tion of the good ome fu 'of Canadian firms) | sént to London secured the o which. approximate $1,000, 000, -------------------- "Cobourg Has Sent 774. Cobourg, more recruits, who enlisted here ih the ioth Norinumberiand 'Re- yesterday to join he 80th 'Battalion at Butrictield. Ther Sere accompanied by recruit- Supa = . others 'obourg a week This mak Maken 774 "recruited at the beginning of the her ears ed to the band, and crowds Assgubied fo oe the boys "He" Blushed And Then Left | the Armouries ed in a modish style, including the ® 20,000 RECRUITS. Ottawa, Sept. 28 --Figu of recruiting in five of the gine military districts in Canada show that no fewer than 13,608 recruits have enlisted in the five weeks ending with Sept. This does not include Toronto or London dis which would bring the Pp to over 20,000: \ "= A Tries y sis stnattts de ® latest thing in tan shoes,' presented | herself at thé desk of the recruiting sergeant. Giving the name of Charles J Thurston; and a Detroit address, ~ | recruit answered all questions prom- ptly and without arousing suspicion. When "informed" that the next step was the undergoing of a medical ex- amination, the prospective soldier gave a stifled shriek and rushed from! the armories, "his" face suffused with 'tell-tale blushes. To a soldier who followed, the girl admitted her sex, but refused to tell Why she wanted to go to the front. Gompers Is Rigi. A few days ago Samuel Gom the United rg labor leader, at Niagara Falls, and, visiti Canadian side, saw in a hotel pennant which he said pressed his views. He at once asked that it given him, and as he walked the coveted souvenir he HAS SECOND, So ther FRENCH CANADA DONE DUTY Hon. T. Chase Casgrain Defends Quebec Pro- vince, Which, He Says, Has Contributed i Cause | st { Jean, Port Joli, ° Sept. 28. onde ['Hon. T. Chase Casgrain, Postmaster- | General, addressed a large gather- Ing here yesterday devoting himself largely to the war, the part Canwd- | ians are taking in the conflict and the manner in which the Borden Gov- | ernment had acquitted itself in meet- | ing the demands. | "The present war is our war," tsaid Mr. Casgrain. "It is the war of all who hold to the free institu- tions which we enjoy in Canada. | Canada was even more unprepared | than the European countries. We have lived a hundred years in pro- found peace. We were not a war- like nation. Our militia was for | home defence only." However, in the short space of six weeks, said the speaker, Canada had | sent 33,000. troops to the war; a | thing hitherto umheard of | country. "French Canada has done its duty," declared the Minister. bec. in this| | "In my trip | to the West I told those I met of the | part played by the Province of Que- I did this with the object of! | cementing the union which should exist between all races in this coun-| try. What has been the attitude of! the Government and of the Opposi-| | tion? At once the Government pro-| claimed that it was the imperative Well in Aid of the Righteous endeavored to belittle the 'French- | Canadian race or had ventured to in- |sinuate that his compatriots were not doing, their duty towards the Em- pire. Speakink of the stand taken by the Roman Catholic Church in Queben with reference to the titanic struggle in which the world was now embat- tied, the Postmaster-General said he could hardly find words strong enough to express his admiration for it. The voice of the church, he reasoned, was Independent and en- lightened, it was above all party and of her prejudices. And the voice of that church from the time of Plessis down had ever been raised in favor of the Mother Country. At | the very outbreak of the war, there had been read a pastoral letter tell- ing the French-Canadian that & was (their imperative duty to do all mn their power to assist England and | the other Allies. 'This advice had | been . repeatedly renewed in the columns of L'Action Catholique, the organ of the Quebec. clergy. "When we find the church giving us this wholesome advice," said Mr. Casgrain, "when we find the leaders of both parties and the most promi- nent men of all ranks all over the province and the Dominion, united in their ideas as to our duty in this j war, how can we fail in our duty? | duty of Canada to participate in the | England has given us the institutions 'war. This action had received the!of a benevolent andl democratic free- approval of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and dom. To-day our loyalty is on trial. the whole of the Opposition. The Like our valiant ancestors who re- only difference, of opinion had "been | pulsed the invader and remained as to the means whereby the money steadfast and loyal to England in should be raised to meet the extra 1776 and 1812, so will their song to- obligations which had been incurred | through the war." The Postmaster-General spoke in no mincing terms of those who had MEN ON PRAIRIES "WANT TO FIGHT 'Synod Delegate Fro From West Says | Recruiting Opportunities Are Poor. Toronto, Sept." 29.--That many | splendid young men of the more dis- | tant parts of the western prairies were eager to enlist, but were not | given a proper chance, was the de- claration made by Archdeacon Ar- | thur J. B. Déwdney, of Red Deer, Al- day prove that, mow as then, their loyalty is not mere lip service, that it is a loyalty of deed and not of word." 1 berta, who is staying at the Queen's [ma If a call were sent to them on the ranches, they would rush to the colors. Early in the war, he sald, young farmers had gone to the recruiting centres, 25 miles away, at their own expense, only to be told that there | was no place for them. They could {not afford to go again. Although | opposed to the clergy shedding blood, he thought that were Canada or England to be invaded, the minis- | ters would be justified in joining the infantry and shouldering rifles. | Some people are happy with but little, and others are miserable with | less. Constance Smith in From loom and des They carved a way w | But vou know before ! ! they north ! ' The sea-winds bear it, the Who Stands Forth ? Forward they rode from shore and shire, Chaoicest of England's fighting sons; k and mine and fire Splendidly gone to face the guns ! They were pioneers. and they fought for the breach, That the rest might go where they eould not reac h, i With One Flag lording it averhead.!. Who stands forth from these left behind gy: Who forliberty ¥ Who for life ? The victor bugles are on the wind ? The dead are calling from tands of strife ! ! And never a cannon booms, but you Must stir in your ease; and never a roar Of regiments thundering the battle through Who stands forth # And was India stam ! Melbourne and Ottawa rose with a shout ! Shoulder to shoulder, lo ! how they canie ! Who stands forth * "And the Empire' s aut ! . Who is for vietory * Who for right ?- The Grev Mother's calling from east and from Cry, "Who is for Yiberty London Daily Mail. here the track ran red, are calling--who went in the night Who wis forth stars