PAGES 8-12 tet ttt The Baily YEAR 82,JNO. 272 ENLIST IN 59TH BATT KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUES SECOND SECTION YOUR BIT" DENOUNCED THOSE SHOWING DISLOYALTY Hon. Chase Casgrain Would Fight Himsel-- Too Old to Enlist, to Help in At Quebec, Hon. Thomas Chase Casgrain, scathingly denounced those few Canadians, who have set them- selves on record against Canada's participation in the present war, in a brilliant speech he delivered at a banquet given to the Conservative leaders of the counties of Quebec and Montmorency. Canada's position and her duty to the Mother Country was clearly indi. cated. When he heard young men without experience or responsibility say that Canada had no interest in this war or that it was a crime for her to join in, he could hardly believe his ears. Not only had the crisis of the two great parties in Canada sunk their differences the moment the war began, but every other right-thinking man inthe Dominion was of the same opinion as they were regarding the issue. In this connection Mr. Casgrain re- minded his hearers that at the begin- ning of the war the organ of these malcontents had placed itself on rec. ord as being of the opinion that Can- ada should go the limit if necessary, in the matter of sending men to the front. The ancestors of the French-Can- dians had fought hard to win the rights which they now enjoyed. It was incredible that they should ever think of staFting the struggle all over again as would be the case if they were forced to change their allegiance as a result of the war, "What about France?" added Mr Casgrain. "France, whose tongue we speak, whose sons' we are, whose brilliant history' we admire; France which is fighting so bravely and glor- iously for her life to-day? What about England which has ranged her' self so heroically by the side of France? When we see these two great nations uniting together in this manner, will not your love for France and our fidelity for England, rise su- perior to every other consideration and make us resolved to do our ut most to ensure the final triumph of the Allies, "What had the French-Canadians done. Already eight thousand five hundred had enrolled for overseas service. Their work at the front had already been eulogized every- where. In every other province there was unbounded enthusiasm and men were enlisting by the hun- dreds and the thousands. To be sure Quebec was doing its duty but if French Canada listened to some of their would-be advisors the result would be far from satisfactory. What would be the outcome if they failed in their duty? queried Mr. Casgrain, would thigy be able to look their fellow countrymen in the face and listen to such questions as "What® were you of Quebec doing 7 But Going to Ask her Way. while our men were risking their lives in the trenches? What exist- ence would be possible in such an event? No! Every part of Can- ada must bear its share of the bur- den "We must rally to the flag as oth- ers are doing Even though there be individual traitors in our midst, the great majority is all right." Mr. Casgrain's speech was enthusiastical- ly received He regretted infinitely that his age precluded any possibil- ity of his volunteering for active ser- vice, but the moment that he re- turned to Ottawa he would go to the Minister of Militia and make the re- quest that he be used in some ca- pacity or other to further the cause of the Allies. Other French- Cana- dians, he knew, would soon give practical evillence of the some spirit. *Hon Mr. Chapais also spoke along similar lines. He stated that it could be only a blind politician or a rebel who could contend that Canada should not participate in the present war, the result of which had such significance to its very existence un- der a general rule, He also reminded French-Canadi- ans that the fate of Alsace-Lofrgine| would likely fall to the lote of Can- ada in the event of umph. | THE VACANT RANKS The following poem was written in the trenches by a member of the 11th Battery. We are asked to republish i: On the road to Tipperary, There's a place that's vacant still, There's a rifle lying silent, There's a uniform to fill. True, at home they'll hate you, But the march will soon begin, On the road to Tipperary, With the Army to Berlin to In the Morris chairs of Clubland Are you' there content to stay? While others guard your honor, While the Germans boast day," For your King and Country need you And we want to count you in, On the road to Tipperary With the Army to Berlin. "the Have you seen the lonely crosses-- Boys who'll never come home, Will you idle while they're calling Wiil you leave them there alone? | Oh, Duty is calling, and vengeance is | For they're calling, calling, calling, And they want to hear you sing On the road to Tipperary a German tri-| 1 | Ere you feel the throb that With the Army to Berlin. , When from Mons they fought each footstep, When their lips with dumb, 'Twas the hope which trenches Never doubting you would come. Through the frozen hell of winter, Midst the shrapuel's racking din, They have waited never fearing You would join them in Berlin. pain were held their On the road to Tipperary There's a crimson debt to pay, There's a land of awful darkness, Patient faces, tired and gray. Sobbing women, ruined girlhood, Strew the train of Cuitured Sin, Can't you hear the call of vengeance, Won't yon join us in Berlin? On the road to Tipperary, Sleep the boys whose day is done, Don't you hear the voices calling * To compete their work begun? There are ghostly fingers beck'ning, There are victories yet to win, On the road to Tipperary, With the Army to Berlin. On the road from Tipperary, When the boys come home at last, Won't you wish that yon had listened 'Ere Old England's cal] had pass- ed? But the gate of manhood's open, You your part can still begin, On the road to Tipnerary With the Army to Berlin. The Roll Call. an Australian soldier in the danelles By Dar- paid the price, we have braved and battled and bled, And set in the shrine of our brave brothers-in-arms are the names of Austrglia's dead. We hive given our share of the grist that goes to grind in the War God's mill-- But every place that another has left is a place that you can fill. Oh, some were killed in the open boats before they had time to land, And some were killed in the rally and rush across the sloping sand; But whether they died in the break- ing surf, or whether they died on the hill, Yet every gap in the ranks this day is a gap that you can fill, You scan the scroll of our sacrifice, and you hope that the list will end tears your throat as you say, "He was fAnd #'s "Poor old Bob, I knew him well" --or "Bill, Bill" my God! net { But every place that a pal has left lose | is a place that you can fill. | Do you remember the day they left, | that day they passed "through town, When the bayonets glanced like a spray of steel on a river of rolling brown? | And now? re town to-day there who're slacking still, | All blind to the fact that the place | that's left is the place they've got [ 'tof. r The far-off note of the bugle call and | the pulse of a distant drum | Tell not the tale of the men who've goné, but the men who have got to | come; In the same old are slackers | | calllng--their cry shall never be i, still | Till the last of the gaps in Austra- aches and ills-- coffee, with such tion, heart trouble and appearing, you'll know That steady nerves and a clear br ular tea or coffee drinker. Our work is to tell the facts about tea and coffee--then It's Up To You to decide from your own condition and feelings whether to stick to tea and handicaps as biliousness, headache, nervousness, indiges- sleeplessness--or make A Fair Test it both tea and eoffee absolutely. for 10 days, and use the pure food- dries both Then take count of le = > If you find, as thousands of POST Canadian Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Windsor, Every Day Someone . . . . . . finds out that tea or coffee drinking is the unsuspected - eause of various "There's a Reason" . for ain are often impossible to the reg- ers have, that the old troubles are dis- % Na : --sold by Groce cers eve : D & We have tendered the toll, we have | H ister of p= Who gave all they had "Tis true that our victories This past year of war with Two paths lie before you. ~---------- lia's ranks hy Australia's sons are filled WHY RECRUITING HALTS. ~ | Misleading Statemenss in Circulation | --A Seftled Policy is Necessary. Journal of Commerce, Montreal It is a great pity that the patriotic | work of the Citizens' Recruiting| | Committees and other organizations | | engaged in appealing for recruits is| { handicapped by the repeated state of | the head of the Militia Department, | Sir Sam Hughes. If the Minister of | | Militia is correct -- and he certainly | should have the best knowledge of | the situation -- the extensive, and | to some extent expemsive, compaign | | that is being carried on in the inter- | est of recruiting is unnecessary. In| every speech in which he refers to] | the matter, the Minister tells the | public that he has plenty of men. Be- | fore leaving England he informed | the British public hai there was no | need of recruiting meetings iin Can- | ada, as men in abundante were vol- unteering. His utterances on this side of the water have been along | the sama lines. At Ottawa, a few days ago, ih an { address to the Canadian Club, he | said he had plenty of men; what was | needed was training. In a speech at | Toronto more recently, he spoke in} { criticism of "people who, unable to! go to the front themselves, or not earning to go to the fromt, feel it their duty te drive other men to go to the front." "Men," said the Min- ister, "young, strapping fellows, all | up and down the length and breadth {of the Dominion of Canada, are | awaiting the opportunity to enlist. Every week there are letters from | one part or other of thé Dominion, asking where they can enlist and how they can enlist." It is a gratifying state of affairs { that the Minister describes. But if there is this abundance of men all | over the Dominion anxiously seeking opportunity to enlist, what need is | there for the machinery designed to {drum up recruits? With the Min- Militia telling us he has abundance of men and another Min- ister stating that the Government have all the men they are able to {arm and equip, the speakers at the recruiting meetings must find their | efforts severely handicapped. { There is much need of a clear and HAVE YOU ANSWERED THE CALL? Out of the darkness a voice loudly calling, Calling to you who have yet to depart; Remember St. Julien with its loss so appalling, Your King and your country demand you should start From the heart of the ocean with mystery laden, } The voice seems to roll over storm waves so drear; It wafts to you memories of loved ones in Heaven, From the 'dark, dismal trenches a prayer is arising, Oh God---those at home, why still do they pause When we need every man in the battle for freedom, To ensure between nations respect for their laws? But we see past the cloud the lining of gold; And the names of our soldiers will ever be honored, Their deeds by posterity proudly be told. Has revealed to the world the traits of the Hun; And Britain at last is awake to the menace That threatened the freedom we thought we had won. A present inaction, a future in thrall. Or a little self-sacrifice, pain, wounds, and glory And a heritage left that is "Freedom for All"? \ for their country sp dear are few and are scattered, its murder and pillage, What shall be the story? --"Anonymous," Toronto. J | and support. authoritative statement of what is! required respecting recruits. If more men are needed than the num- | ber who voluntarily come forward, the recruiting meetings, and all other agencies for persuading men to| fall in, desezve every encouragement | But if, without such efforts, men are coming forward as| fast as they are required and as fast] as the Government are able to supply | them with arms and equipment, the] greaer part of the present recruit-| ing movement is a waste of time and money. : | The Men's Task. { F. F. Long, Campbellford | U'er the rugged path of glory hangs | the shadow of the tomb, But we British must not falter | though the path appear in gloom. { Comrades true will fall in battle; we | must take their places then, | For the Huns who war on women | must be hrought to book by men. | Sad the fate of little Belgium, suff'- ring in the Prussian hell; Murder, pillages, outrage rampant, homes destroyed by torch and shell. We must free her from their bond- | uke; drive the beasts back to their | en. " | Let the Huns who kill the helpless | meet with justice dealt by men. | Let ug not forget the victims of the German "fright" campaign, Babes and children, wives and moth- ers, have been numbered with the { slain, | "Tis no time to halt or parley; we can | do so only when | All the Huns who murder children | have' been brought to earth by | men. | Now behold their latest outrage; deed | as dark as Prussian night; | That would make the acts of Satan | stand out like a ray of light; She who nursed the sick and wound- | ed, caring not for wealth or fame, Done to death by Hunnish bistchers, | to their deep eternal shame. | Edith Cavell--"Just a woman"--but she scorned the Prussian might, * | As she faced the murd'rous rifles, in the solemn hours of night. On her breast the badge of courage, { 'twas a warning there and then | | she would be avenged by men. That her death would be atoned for: stage how | us at home have to We te." not excuse the young men who have 1 £8 FE chere. ont. oo More and more young men are needed able length of the war is interesting but futile. we must give all we can =o long as the. years. ho are talking about this war attempt rey ng the courage and efficiency displayed by the battalion we i t the other battalions that om now in front. what pest or duty is assigned to them, they will quit them all praise and all honor, but let 8 ¥ Speculationdas to the prob- | No one can tell us at this | 'Canadians will be required, or how much money those of | a contribute to the various funds of mercy grow- | must not attempt to set a limit in these matters. | be required--we must keep on supply- 'We should not attempt to estimate disguise from ourselves the solemn not yet enlisted by talking at That will not do. or who have enlisted and are on 2 sense of duty as any men in the | the presidency | K.C., N. W. Rowell, K.C., leader of CANADIANS IMPROVE RECO Have Done Well But Hight Do More, SHOULD RD 5 Says Mr. Rowell---Leader of Ontario Oppo- ~ sition Spoke in Montreal on Live Issues. Sd Speaking .to members of the Mon- treal Reform Ciub, who met under of A. R. McMaster, the Opposition in the Ontario Legis- lature, declared that Canada had done admirably for the Empire in this war, but. could do better, and | that only a vigorous lead by the Gov- ernment was needed to ensure a bet- ter war record for the Dominion, "Canada's Duty in the War," was the title of Mr. Rowell's speech. He first traced the struggle for demo- cracy. put forward by the people of Britain, France and Germany, then turned to the great change that had developed in the policy of admin- istering the British Empire. At one time British statesmen thought self-government for a pos- session was inimical to the Empire's interest. That idea was dead, and with good cause, for this war had ably demonstrated that self-govern- ing units formed as solid an Em- pire as one controlled from the par- ent land, The Kaiser was deceived in thinking that the strong arm of the German army might shake the faith and loyalty of the British Do- minions. Brave Canadians. Of Canada, the speaker said: "Our brave men at the front, unac. customed to bearing arms, have been | carrying them with stout hearts, the courage and independence character- istic of the Canadian people, have s0 acquitted themselves as to add lustre to the name of Canada." | The women of the Dominion had performed magnificent = work would for ever bear them honor-- many would rather forget. It was, Mr. Rowell thought the opinion of the mass that every man found guil- ty of wrong-doing at the expense of men who were laying down their lives shbuld be punished to the full limit of the law, The Dominions had done excellent. ly, yet in some parts it was popular to underrate the part being piayed by the Mother Country--the from the seas, the nation which had raised big voluntary armies such as the world had never seen before. Having referred to the superhum- an effort being made by France, Mr. Rowell continued by showing what respective countries had done in sup- plying men for war. Britain had given 8 per cent of her population. France hatl given 10 per coat. Can- ada_had sent 100,000 and had 70,000 in training; dedueting 30,000 for cas- ualties, the Dominion was represent- ed by less than 2'per cent of her pop- ulation. Improve Record. It was claimed that Canada's pop- ulation was heterogeneous; so was South Africa's, and, to a much less extent, Australia's. If these two pos- segsigns, in' proportion to their size and, that, could do better thaw Canada, the Dominion should improve her record. That Canadians were ready to do so, no one would deny; it was for the Govermunent to set a vigorous lead, and the people would follow whole- heartedly and patriotically. The disappearance of the hyphen ated Canadian was referred to by Mr. Rowell last night at the Bafon de Hirsch Institute, when he spoke before the Young People's Society of Your Hashomayim, who met under the 'charmanship of S. W. Jacobs, K.C. Mr. Rowell declared that the war had banished for all time the idea of English, Scotch, Irish or Hebrew citizens in the Dominion. All were Capadians, and citizens of the BFit- ish Empire. "The mere fact that you are able to attend to your business to-day," said he, "is due to the British forces and the British navy, which has driven the enemy ships off the seas, and has protected Canada from. the fate that has befallen Belgium and Northern France. This is a struggle in which we are vitally interested. Our interest is as Canadian citizens, without regard to the land of our or- igin, and we must all he prepared to make every sacrifice necessary to continue it to a successful end. Any man coming here is privileged to share our sacrifices to that end, and we must forget all radical differences and religious animosities in our struggle to preserve our British lil» erties." Having congratulated the Hebrews on the part they were playing in the fight for liberty, the speaker declared that from the present struggle would | yet among ail these demonstrations! emerge liberty for the weak as well of loyalty things had happened that] as the strong, or a despotism that would mean nothing but German dictatorship. All men are more or less preju- diced--not because they want to be but because they can't help it. Never twit your wife because of her foolish ideas, Except for one of them she would never have married land | you. whose navy. had swept the Teutons' Best for Body Building - --- and the Worst is Yet to Come CUTTER BROS. SAW MiLL.. Alt KINDS OF PRESSED LUMBER.