- PAGE FOUR / The British Whig S2ND YEAR. tion from the people against the ref: erendum, and upon an examination t was found that the second petition ad been signed by 239 persons hose names were upon the Hist pe The recital bears out the ob- that has again repeated, that if some one set h w tition and ervation been again out with a petition which called for the hanging of his neighbor it | would be signed by many who would 5 od of Fe Sl I 5 4 = Er a] -- -- Published - Dully Semb Weekly by | FHL THE BRITISH G PUBLISBING ©0.. LIMITED, President | «++. Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. J. G E Lema | | One . Telephones: Business Office Editorial Rooms Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delivered in city ....36.00 year, if pald In advance ....$5.00| year, by mall to rural offices . 2.50 | year, to United States «.....$3.00/ (Semi-Weekly Edition) | year, by mall, cash year, if not paid in advance.§1.50 year, to United States 1.50 Six and three months pro rata Attached Is one of the best job] printing offices In Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE H. E. Smallplece 32 Church St. | UU. 8. REPRESENTATIVES New York Office .......226 Fifth Ave. R. Northrup, R. Nc Frank SOME MEAN PEOPLE. When the war. broke out many Americans were The market Some persons alleged to be wealthy were a great | in Europe. money was dislocated. _stranded They applied to | the American Government for helng Then Congress provided $2,750,0007) and sent it to England on a warships) Upon this the distressed people were { invited to draw for temporary relief. It now transpires that of the num- ber assisted about 1,400 have failed to refund the amounts loaned to them, and the indebtedness aggre- gates about $200,000. Some of the borrowers cannot be located. They are unknown at the adillresses given by them. It, therefore, looks as if the United States had been imposed upon in a shameful way, Men, and women too, seem to have taken ad- vantage the peeunliar circum- stances of the case, and borrowed money from the Consuls which they never intended to repay. Their names are now being advertised in the press, buf, as these were ficti- tious in most cases, no embarrass- ment will be felt.' Mean people, you say? Surely, and it is in times of stress or distress that they usually turn up Every one of the borrow- ers from the United States Relief Fund poled as an injured innocent. All of them declared that they had been caught by the contingencies of war. They seemed to feel very badly over it. The 1,409 of them who are gow registered as delin- quents appear to have deceived the American officials who were in charge of the Relief Fund{ and are deserving of no mercy. BOURASSA IN TEARS. Henri Bourassa is in téars over the shamefulness of the British. They wanted a collection for the Red Cross Society, (a worthy and gener- ous thought in itself), and on Tra- falgar Day. Reminding the French of the defeat they suffered when at war with the. British, and through the fleet which Nelson commanded. Mr. Bourassa mourns over the los: of French colonial power, Trafal- gar is the tragic ruin to the great benefit of England of the dreams of Richelieu, Colbert, Duplex, and Montealm. *"Anpd,"" says the Nation- fist "leader, "it is that day, nefar- i0us amongst all dates for France in the history of its struggles against England, that they chose to ask the péople of all parts of the Empire, to famished India, to Australia, to South Africa, to Canada--yes, to Canada, a quarter «of which is French, to throw gold into the coffers to assist the richest country in the world, to help the army allied with France!" That aspect of it does not appear to have oeturred to any one but Mr, Bourassa. There is another aspect upon which he could have dwelt quite so ¢loquently, and it is the general one, namely, that out of Trafalgar Day grew the' British Supremacy at sea which has been a benefit to France as well as to Eng- lid and. is to-day the protection of Mr. Bourassa's Mother Country. The Nationalist leafler would not be hap- by unless he were distorting the facts and finding a grievance against the British where no one else can find it, : -- SIGNING OF PETITIONS. Stratford has been the centre of an agitation with regard to local op- tion since September. Then the temperance men petitioned the Coun- cil to test public opinion by a yote in January. 'The petition, numous- ly signed, had to traverse the pre-| scribed course, and with a singular experience, . The license holders, in defence of their interests, or vest- ed rights, hastily called up a peti | ly stupid to say the least of it. | man should attach his name to a pa- 43 | these | ation. | to | couraged plead later that they did not know of its intent and meaning. Not that this is an acceptable excuse for the performance, for it is exceeding- No per without knowing the purport of it port -of an individual A signature represents the sup- to a scheme, | plan, or purpose, and if he is not in favor of the proposition, and is not prepared to assume any respgnsibil- ity in connection with it, he should not add his name. It is well to say this now since Kingston may have its petition in circulation some, of days, and every signer of it 292 | Should act with the utmost deliber- A wave of temperature seems to be rolling over the land It is coming this way and men must be prepared to meet it. For ob vious reasons the temperance. ques- tion is gripping the people in a most | extraordinary way. FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. Mr. Asquith's reference to the fin- ancial outlook in Britdin, his refer- ence to it as being very serious, re- calls the many things that have been | said and by men who were supposed well posted. Lloyd-George, while he was Chancellor of the Ex- be { chequer, said the nation would win he en- Britain whi¢h had the money, and the thought that would be equal to the financial strain of Several years. She would havd tc husband her resources, but she had them and he hoped she would wise-| |1y use them. A different impression has been left by a writer in the London Daily News, a member of Parliament, who sees in the superstax, "the Dbegin- ning of the end." He had a vision | of what would happen after the war. The whole trend or tendency of life would be changed, and the condi- tions of the present would have pass- ed away--the grand scale of life, the vast hotels, the display of jewels and gold, the costly food and drink. "All would have gone int¢ the darkness leaving not a wrack behind." Sir Leo Chiozza Money challenges all this. The war has added €wo bil- lions sterling to the national debt for one year. A three years' war will mean an addition of four billions sterling. This will necessitate the raising in interest of $200,000,000, or one-twelfth of the national in- come. | Sir Leo says it is childish to suggest that universal poverty will be the result of this taxation. He points out that the people of Eng. land, before the war, loaned about $200,000,000 a year abroad. This will be loaned at home, and its earn- ings will be paid in England and cir- culated there. This will not impov- erish. There is another phase. The Gov ernment spends more money and the people less, and' when the Govern- ment takes the money of the rich and puts it into war commodities the na- tion loses nothing. It prevents the people from enjoying something they can do without, and within ten years from end of the war in Britain may be employing more capital than ' it would have been able to use if t war had not occurred. Thus a per manent check may be put to what Sir Leo calls a permanent folly, "and while a proper amount of oversea investing will take place, we shall not again see the united kingdom de- prived of the fertilizing stream of capital." Sir Leo is quite optimistic as to the future. Luxury and amusement will not disappear from the land. Under additional stimulation Brit- ish activities will increase the na- tional income and there will be a better distribution of the benefits. The experience of the South African War and the Franco-German War will be repeated. Trade will be in- creased vas never before, and the na- tion will prosper by home industry, home investments, and home econ- omics. It is a comforting doctrine to say the léast of it, and is sore thing of an offset to the depressing financial statement of the Premier. EDITORIAL NOTES, Hon, Mr. Blondin is a poor re- cruiting officer. How can he hope to create any enthusiasm for the col- ors int¢ which he wanted to shoot holes during the last election? Has he recanted or repented? 2 Germany plotting mischief in China! Is It astonishing? is there any place in the world where the Kaiser's emissaries have not been at work?' 'The Celestial' can hardly expect to be exempt from their attentions. : 5 A -------------- The Montreal News, Conservative, thinks it is time there was a change | in the Shells" Committed; when bers of &t have jim, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915. | interested." This is a which must be investigated. McKinnon, a banker, getsgout of the penitentiary in order to enlist for the war. Why not give all the cén- victs a chance to serve their cotntry and win back their freedom by work in the trenches? Why should an | exception be made in the McKinnon case? : ---------- Germany is financing the war by the issue of seript which is manipu- lated so that upon it a given amount | may be loaned again and again In. the course of time it becomes worth- less, in which respect it will be very like the paper money which was is- sued by the Kaiser's distinguished grandfather. Mederic Martin has accepted the | challenge of a subscriber to the Red {Cross Fund, and told of what the | | French-Canadians are doing patri- {otically. 'Tis well. He has omit- | | ted, however, from his category the | distinguished exploits of Henri Bou- | rassa. Henri was in France when | the war broke out, and desérted the | colors. KI | torted. | | | | NGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS AGO A bar of iron fell on Joseph Mec- , Ewen 'at the Locomotive Works this morning, and he had three toes brok- en. J. Sloan shot eight pairs of part- ridge in the Sydenham district. Capt. Joseph Dix, of the schooner | White Oak, is making preparations | to open a skating rink. Hon. Lionel Walrond, | member of the House of fo the Tiverton division since 1906, died in Scotland from | tubercular laryngitis as the result of | | exposure in the trenches in France. | He is the seventh member of British] | Parliament to die as a result of the war. . The average man can see where | fame makes some poor selections Unionist Commons of Devon } scandal | § numbers and | than money," | osopher. | ! i | WISE "AND ~ OTHERWISE Fre Fretted Many a good man who condemns a singer secretly eavies him. words man Ww b; The fool delivers his the wise wa ght ---- Fhe man who ean all his money and still retain his friends is a wonder. My Even a wise man goes 'ame when| he gets into a religious or political] v argument. » : We All Know That. "Your dad is an old crank," said the youth who had been told by her father that 11 o'clock was time 16 go. Dad overheard this remark. "A crank is peeessary in case of the lack of a self-starter," he re-| ~Pittsburg Post. Very Clever. Mrs. Dents (excitedly)--Isn't our pitcher perfectly grand, Tyrus?s He hits the club nearly every throw!- Joplin Times. Why He Needed It. "There are things more valuable ruminated the phil- - { "Sure!" retdFted" the iconoclast. "That's the reason I need morey to buy them." --Philadelphia Le izer Convenient Apology. If a boy is real naughty his m~th- er apologizes by saying: "He's just like his father."--Judge A Perfectly Good Husband. Two small boys belonging to the divorce colony in Reno, Nevada, met on the street one day. ma, a divorcee had just married the ex-husband of another divorcee. "So you've-got.a new papa, Billy," remarked Harry. "Yes," - rejoiced Billy, "Mama found a perfectly good husband that some other lady threw away." Judge. } & THE GNOMES HELP THE MUNKS, Once upon a time Mr. Chipmunk went out to gather some nuts to stow away in his hole for food for his three little chipmunks and his wife. He had picked up two or three and stowed them away in his mouth when he heard a noise that fright- ened him so that he fell from the bran¢h and hurt his foot. Mrs. Chipmunk fixed it up for him as soon as he got home and made him a soft bed eof leaves to lie on. The next day he was very sick and could; not go out to look for nuts, Poor Mrs. Chipmunk could not leave him and so the family went hungry. One day Mrs. Chipmunk sat in froat of their home telling the childr:n that she did not know how they ware going to live through the wint>r without food and that she was very much worried. One of the Gnomes was passing and heard what she said, so he har- ried home and told the other Gnomes all about it and they all Wa they CHIP- Sleepytime Tales would go and gather a lot of nuts for théir poor friends. It was a lovely night and the moon shong as bright as in the daytime and the lit- tle Gnomes went scampering from tree to tree gathering nuts as fast as they could. So fast did they Work that in a little 'while they had more nuts than Mr. Chipmunk could have gathered if he had worked zll the fall. They made a big pile of the nuts in front of the Chipmunks home and when Mrs. Chipmunk looked ont the next morning and saw the big pile of nuts she ran quickly to tell Mr. Chipmunk of their good luck. All of that day she and the little ones Jere busy carrying the nuts into the iole and piling them up ready for the long cold winter. That night, after Mrs. Chipmunk had put the children to bed, she sat down beside Mr. Chipmunk and saia; | "lI have been wondering who put those nuts there for us." "Wkv am sure," said Mr. Chipmunk, 'it was our friends, the Gnomes." 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