A BA HA Plt PARES Ir AULY Lm \2 qa u Cri ttn S Br et tte YEAR 82 NO 281 Che 0 RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE REPORTED IN BULGARIA EXISTING CONDITIONS MUST BE In Kingston Hotels or There Will Be Fewer ::: IMPROVED Liquor Licenses, Chairman Flavelle, of Ontario Commission, Says-- "Pirates To Be Driven Out." of License session in in the Court Provincial Board held a morning the The Commissioners Kingston on Friday Division Court Room, House The present holders of licenses for taverns and liquor in Kings- ton made application for renewal Applications received for a license at Portsmouth for hotels on Wolfe tions on behalf of these heard Chairman it was noc the to give out any ton. He ulso stated tions in Kingston did nat improve there, would be fewer licenses here "hye pirates will be driven out" deeiared. Bishop Bidwell and Rev. Dr gilliveay headed a deputation presented a resolution which was re- cently pased by citizens, asking that the sale of liquor in taverns and shops in this city be prohibited until the close of the war. The Commis- sion promised econsidération. Nearly all the license-holders in the city were present, and the chair- man addressed them regarding the Hguor laws, and declared that the Commission was going to stand be- hirid the honest hotelkeeper, but that they intended to drive out all the men who did not live up to the laws, He declared that the day of "hood- winking" the law had passed. The chairman also stated that he had an interview. with members of the Froutenac Club in Kit _>ton, and that he was led to believe that the! club will close at 8 p.m., the same as the Potels. shops were and two Island licenses announced that intention of the Board decisions dn Kings- that if condi- Flavelle re he Mac- and When the Board missioners convened af 10 o'clock on Friday morning, there was quite a large attendanee of spectators, in cluding hotelkeaepers, men who hold shop licenses, ministers of the Gos p and citizens in general The session lasted for about an hour and a half, and after it was over one the members of the Commisison heard to remark that it had been one of the quietest meetings held by the Board during its tour of Ontario Chairman Flavelle announced at the start-off that the meeting was being held to receive applications for licenses dating from May 1st, 1916, and that the Commission was pre- pared to hear deputations either for or against the granting of licenses Every person will be given am ple time to speak," remarked the chairman He further the purpose of any decisions at of License Com of was stated that it was not the Board to give out] this session These would he given ont at the beginning the new vear, and in the casp of licensesbeing cut off, the Héense would be given ample time to of his stock The Commision then took up the applications for licenses It was that there had been an appli from James Shortt, Ports but that it had been with- The following applications of wny holder dispose stated cation mouth drawn were read Applications Received. Portsmouth--W. B. Westlake' Wolfe Island--J. S. Briceland, McLaren, Kingston-- Albion, Anglo-American, M. Lawless. Brit- ish-American, Halliday & Halliday; Collander, Edward Paradis; Fronte- nae, A. A. Welch; 6. T. R.. Canada Railway News Company; Imperial, P. McKenna; Lake View House, A Simpson: Prince George, J. M. The riault; Queen's, Daley and Hughes; Randolph, James Spence; Revere, Lewis Martin; Royal, J. Cousineau; Whrnes, F. Whitney; Windsor, F teCue Shops N J. "M. Caines: J. R. Henderson, George Thompson, E. Beaupre, J McPar land, Rigney & Hickey, John Gordon, Frontenac Club After the applications were re- ceived, the chairman stated that the Commission would hear any deputa-, tions which might be present. Bishop Bidwell then stepped for- ward and addressed the members' relative to the resolution which was Arr A AA -- | cannot put forward THE WHIG'S CONTENTS. Page" Fdliguor Commission Monastir Want Electric Handling Fund: Drug Famige Editorial: Sleepytime Tales; Menus: Walt Moson's Rhymes Military Matters; Local News Eastern Ontarle News ~Amusements; Announce- mants: The People's Forum Military Matters; Curling League Pembroke Qutrages --'ountryside Tidings eneral Information ~Cheistmas * Shoiping: Review. Fate of Power Germdns: Bomb | otherwise. had the follows viously It pre Commission Bid Rt ngston Dr Macgillivray the Presbyterian K SeCo1 anada the turch of « In which which olf risis through passing efficiency view Empire is now for the f apacity every the ullest service be it request calls on re he utmost « for ol citizen that urgent presented to Board of Ontario and the par solved an License pro Commissio to hibit Bishop Bidwell's Address In presenting the n Bis Bidwell I have hop said been requests deputation to the d by my col to say resolu and seconded the Presbyte- which was Commis eagues on this a w words in ference on moved b by the Moderator rian Church in C recently forwarded sion, asking that the of alco- holic liquors as a beverage be pro hibited in all shops and taverns dur ing the period of the present war on the ground of the crisis through which the empire passing, and of the absolute need for efficiency in every direction which that crisis demands I desire to state, first of all, that this movement is exactly what the resolution declares it to he It heither pronounces for or against prohibition as a permanent policy It is absolutely non-politi cal and non-sectarian in its origin'! It states plainly and unhesitatingly what seems the best course to pursue in the extremely critical situ- ation in which the Empire and our country, as an integral part of the Empire, are found to-day You will observe in the that the ninate sion in the community The grounds on which" was led to move this resolution, and my friend, the Moderator, to second, and on which it commended itself to those who supported it were briefly these We of inadaa to vour sale is to be second not lass or and the resolution does en place diser bet we one © prpfe other all convinced, we have al ready it by bitter experience that are 10 win war, wi need to maintain the highest possible level of efficiency in every direction Those who support this resolution are equally convinced that in the abuse of alcoholic liquors there lies the greatest possible hinderance to this efficiency In this opinion we have great weight behind us, in ad dition to our own observations. - We have the action of King George V we have the drastic measure taken in Russia and in France. Then there is the turther reason of economy We have not in Canada felt the bur den of war-taxation to anything like tho extent that it pressing upon | the Mother Country But there is every reason to believe that we shall feel the full weight of it before this terrible struggle is ended Strict economy ought to be the rule of this time, and no one will assert that the use of alcohol as a beverage is in any but the rarest cases anything but a luxury, and that of a kind that at a critical time like the present, should be the first to be dispensed with It may be dsked why we do not conhne ourselves to the"proposal pr measures restricting the above, in stead of entire prohibition Our re- ply to that question is that however mueh faith we may, in ordinary! times, place 'n restrictive and educa tive measures, and I personally, as one who in the great question of temperance consider that in normal times the best motto is to hasten slowly, for the present crisis there is | in our opinion, only one possible way of immediately removing this admit- | ted hinderance to efficiency, and that | is by the drastic remedy of cutting | out the sale of alcéhol as a beverage altogether, as long as the war lasts We are convinced that nothing short | of this step will really meet the pres- | ent situation, and we feel: that we | ) anything less | than our conviction. We believe | also that the spirit shown by our be- | loved Sovereign is widespread among his people, and that many, probably, the large majority, of those who are | users, without being abusers, of al-| cohol, would be perfectly willing, at | this time when the splendid ideal of | are learnt we this is | sacrifice looms so largely before us, to deny themselves its use, for. the sake of those, and they are very num- erous, to whom it is a spare and a ruin, a deadly bar to efficiency and service. We bave sir, as I have sald,. no axe to grind, politically or! We are moved to make cause we believe that it is the only | ! decision of the Commission, | of KiNGS Count ton neighboring tow can reply ity our there only gilliveay Spoke oke sale Wo po pol Dr. Macg that onsidera remarked 10 Were pre to a k iutron Wi Applied For License, ike w air short t ommodation Id eavored at 10d ac ense shou be re iis business pro Mr. Westlake hotel Ports- and Portsmouth ago by the and een Keepin 1 eight year of James Shortt ut off Provincial Boar T. J. Rigney the transfer Collander Hotel per honestly as g an in His 1 in me mo that were « cense a short t for of the Paradis jade application the license to Edward of Chairman's Remarks Chairman Flavelle iis remarks particularly to the He told of the powers Commiss ion had in cancellihg a license. There could be no appeal from the and had been cut an ad- addressed holders gave being license the dress tels selling after they off, would be regarded as "blind pigs." This power had been given to the members and they woud use it He wished to speak in very plain words to the license holders. It had been asserted that the Board was out after the hotelmen This was not true, ag the members had noth- ing against the man who kept his hotel as it should be Public accommodation first consideration The members intended stand the honest ho telkeeper The liquor business was the same as any other business If a man violated a contract, he should suffer for it. The hotelman who kept the law would protected and the man who did not keep the law would be punished Kept must be the to by he Must Keep the Law, The chairman declared that license holders who violated the law, would be summoned before the Board in Toronto There would be no fine imposed but the license holder would lose his license All tricks of the trade must be put down Their ac tian did not do away with police court charges The Chairman referred liguor to drumken men All of fenders would severely dealt with The Board had no idea of per ecution, but (Ne law must be obey ed. The local laospector would be in structed to report all complaints the Board The chairman declared that King ston would be pretty nearly dry if the Commissibn got any more evi (Continued on.Page 8) to the sale be to LAD ¥ CARSON. Wife of Sir Edward Carson Ul siez "rebellion" fame, whose recent re- gnation fram coalition British cab- inet because of differences of opinion on the question of the Dardanelles, reArly brouznht England into another Cabinet crisis. m-- of McNamara for a time on the Athens Reporter staff, das tak-| | this proposal simply and wolely be-| | en a position as Sua ostioe in the] without the formality. "i proceedings. office of the Orillis Pac TON, ho-! ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DE CEMBER 3. 1915 MISS VIOLET he marviage of Miss Violet mier Asquith, and Maurice Mr. Asquith since 1912, 100k place minster, London, own as "The « Church Union Appears To Be Voted Down l'oront Dec Local leaders of admit tk movement IS 1mpos districts that seem to strongly against union had uted upon, In some instan produce a favorable re hh uhion now that 1e success of the 1ble I have gone wen evident that the would never havel have noted against." leading official of the Church in Canada.! Fhe smaller congregations, to! whom union meant life or death went amost unanimously in its favor, but they have been over-| whelmed by the move powerful and | monied congregations Personally, | I believe that the movement, which! originated in the West, may be-| e dangerous in its tendencies, I! refer the creatign of independ | ent churches, dré&wn from both] Presbyterian and dfthodist. These) amalgamations will be, of course,| only where both congregations are in a week state financially and! physically "But t churches that been affected declared Presbyterian 18 one has to MANITOBA PROBE GOES ON, Sum of $063,000 is the Latest pute, Winnipeg, Dec 3 The sum of $63,549 is the obstacle to the settle. | ment of difficulties over the construc tion of the law courts building by ar- bitration J. 8 Simpson, morning Dis | Hough, counsel for C D. contractor, offered this | before Commissioner Ma thers, to leave the whole thing to a board of three arbitrators, with the provision that the sum to be paid by the Government should not, in any event, exceed the amount of the con tracts, but aside from that contracts | should be set aside. Isaac Pitblado, for the crown, said the Government would agree to arbi tration with the provision that in no event should the Government pay | more for work than the total amount of the contracts, less $63,549 which was the profit Simpson made in sub- letting the contract for addition to the National Construction Company Hough refused to accept this, and Pitblado proceeded with the exami- nafion of V. W Horwood, former provincial architect A FIGHTING FORCE. Lyman Abbott Says Christ Not Preach Non-Resistance. Yerk, Dec That one the vital facts about Christianity that it a fighting force that eternally discontented with injustice and oppression] was the view ex pressed by Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott in speaking at a meeting of the Bed ford Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, in Brooklyn, when he declared that Jesus Christ did not preach the doctrine of non- resistance "lI do not believe that Jésus Christ teaches the doctrine of non-resist- and he said, "for His law was love principally. When selfishness uses force, no matter for what end, it is wrong, and so when love inteliigent- ly uses force it is right I do not | agree with the resolutioh offered by J the Rev. Dr. Charles Jefferson to the effect that the energies of the coun- trv should be spent for peace. 1 : think this country should work no! so much for peace as for justice, for you can't have joy without helpful- ness and you can't have peace with- out righteousness." Rev, id New of is is is Grief Killing King Peter. Milan, Dee. 3.--King Peter's grief over the catastrophe that has befall- en his troops is so great that fear~ for his life are being openly ex- pressed. In spite of his worn-out condition, he insists upon going ipto the fighting line. He has to be sup- ported on his horse by two soldiers. y And Why Shouldn't It? (Special to the Whig.) Washington, 3.--The British Government has requisitioned - the United States steamship Hocking of prize court 5 ASQUITH Asquith Bonham-Carter on Bride's { of repentant MARRIED right-hand princi Nov. 30th at Church." daughter" of Pre- Secretary to West nrivate St. Margaret's, ATTEMPTS TO BLOW Up United States Now Military Revealed Island, Ill De attempts have bes the great United arsenal revealed Washington Burr, comman serie Arsenal Are Rock several destroy tary the Phat mn mad 0 States mil by was to-day report sent to by Col. Ge a small on army of guards the tederal reserva tion at ind no one is try nis the that a all allowed to pass the se approaches posts with out ace I'he November man sending foreign ernment telling what munitions were stored at the arsenal It that in May, 1915, a plot to raid the arse nal was discovered, that on August 21st last a man with 150 pounds of dynamite was arrested and that three weeks ago when the officers' golf club house caught fire the arse- val fire department was helpless be- cause all its had been cut to ribbons ounting for tells of 1914 messages t presence report discovery in was 0 a gOV SAYS hose CANNOT GET P ASSPORTS Peace Party Is Not On ernment Business. Dec. 3 Secretary of anpounced yesterday the peace party on the ships char- Ford will not be to! belligerent coun- neutral states to Ford Gov- Washington State lansing that members panning tered given tries; of to Henry passports but only Europe retary La made the pas ware An itizens f« | sail by to Se nsing plain given to belligerent business made visit there invited by some in those coun tries Mr. Lans'ng explained that distinction was being drawn be tween members the peace party citizens and of the Depart being applied that Ameri ountries sports 3 when Necessary only tL absolutely to fr when they governmental were agency no of American and other the general rule ment of State was TREE, SAYS SUNDAY ur A Characterizes Ford's Trip As Non- sensical and Impossible N.Y Dec 3 trip to Europe on the nogsensical, impractie according to of thinking much chance ancessions from any nations as an un has of getting into Billy oncede a mut France won't artichoke; Syracuse, 'Henry Ford's Oscar able B peace I. is and impossible y's Sunday's way tle's got about of obtaining « the belligerent sinner declared England will not « ton chop or a shilling a franc an won't give a Koper; Aus a goulash: ltaly not a spa- Germany a wienerwurst or what are vou going to '? We dre up a tree.' as leaven release or Russian tria not zhetti, or i pretzel io 80 about it Has Been No Change. (Spec al 10 Whig.) Paris, Dec. 3 There has been no important change on any ef the French fronts within the past twelve hours, the " DENYS COCHIN, French envoy, who 'was associated with Lord Kitchener in the recent pe- | gotiations with the King of Greece of | Hall by a submarine was announced i by | the { Langton Hall i Lloyds aily British Whi EE 3) DA nit Q 7 {J A ic GES LAST EDITION FATE OF MONASTIR IS NOT YET KNOWN Athens Says it Has Fallen---Italians Still At- tack Violently At Goritz---Russian Troops Said To Be Marching Through Roumania. Monastir's Bu posit patches to the Times Telegraph Company confirmation is la B that com Dec known tken it London Tate not vet Phat the 18 have is stated ve Athens de ind Exchange but official Salonika reported to-day munication with the town been severed a.m. Thursday. Prac tically all of the Serb population has left Monastir Bulgar and residents, who copstitute a proportion of the total former intruders in Kit has since 7 already Greek large however rejoicing at t I'he latter undoubtedly on the property The Serbs Gen. Vassith Monastir moved aCTOSS remain Me have been he approach can depend protection of their lives and southern fer which has been making its base, is believed to have estward, or perhaps frontier army in the w Albanian to the Attack Violently he WW 2 Berlin and Italian assaults on Goritz are in progress more violently than ever to-day The Italians apparent were reorganizing their forces dur ing the lull on Thursday, and resum ed the assault, according to the Aus trian War Office, under cover of a dense fog With the mists so thick that the opposing troops could see each other only at range, the Austrians are declared to have beat en back all attacks on the bridge head Repulse is reported also of three asasults on the Austrian Italians Still Vienna, via London Dec. 3 ly short derofeod or odeode fod drododedeod ob dodo dobode ded dobd | + &* 4 * HUNS FOUND GUILTY. %» (Special to the Whig.) New York, Dec After be ing out seven and a half hours, the jury brought in a verdict of "guilty" against the four offi cials of the Hamburg-American Line Sentence was deferred The maximum penalty two years' imprisonment of $10,000 is and a fine 2 + 3 +* LJ +* + 4 * * dpe ded ddd d bd bb dddb ddd Pressure Is Added By Italy Upon Greece Whig) "Pressure Athens (Special to the Dec. 3 Italian Minister at added to that of the British and Russian represerntat to secure from d pledge of non-interference Allies' Balkan campaign Italy is expected conduct operations from the Adriatic of the Aegean seacoast, aml fore is less interested than the ish and French in arranging clear field in Greek territory to Italy's interest, however cure the maximum freedom of a« tion for the forces scheduled to co operate with her It is believed here much influence with Government, inasmuch is known to be extremely Italy's supposed ambitions in the near east, and the Itallan Minister is in a position to relieve Greek aux- fety if he chooses by the has been French to-day efinite th the Paris Greece to her instead there Brit for a It is to se she will have the Athens the latter jealous of ax BRITISH VESSELS SUNK. Steamer and Gunboat Each Get German Torpedo. (Special to the Whig London, Dec. 2 The destruction the British steamship Jangton A Part The with the Admiralty "crew has been is not to-day landed listed A Gunboat Sunk. (Special to' the Whig.) Athens, Dec. 3.---A British coast defence gunboat was sunk in Egvp tian waters by a German submarine Britain's Wealth. London, Dec. 3 At a rough esti- mate the capitai of the British Empire is \ £26,000 600,006 ($159) H00.000.000), and its yearly income £4 000,000 000 (320.000.060.000) Reginald McKenna, Chancellor the Exchequer, told an enquirer the Héuse of Commons recently of in Erges Liberal Subscriptions, (Bpecial to the Whig Toronto, Dec. 3.--An enthusiastic inaugural meeting of the "50M00 Club" was addressed by Duke of (on- J asught who urged every one to sub- ' seribe i Italians En Route Balkans troops are Balkans the Ded now being rushed h pi whic obably w Greek situa March Through Roumania Russians reported ching ans De iy troops Petrograd ian mar hrough Roumania he Balk Russians To Move in Millions London the 0nd Correspondents the class 1e Russ sani Fhe in from lan army say tary « next army fitior are first md millions, not War Tidings Swedish Government has 18 that « ht yrder orman subma sued an rines must not enter her waters on any pretex again issues will continue uting civ the war Invernkip sub lageblatt Germany practice of who take I'he Berlin warning that exe any part in British steamer and sunk a submerged in Straits of Gibraltar pre ilians I'he rammed marine week \ Paris Berne, Switzerland sdys | persons or the last despatch from two hundred wounded in newspaper were Killed line ! food riots in Berlin recently mi IIIS gr DAILY MEMORANDUM ville, Grand, 2.40 and 0 Va yf page 3, right hand corner See for probabilit Xmas Stat ra yaper Lhe top ~~ m ROBERT J. 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