PAGE: FOUR Government, farming them out and | {ors on a bare. majority vote. Is i making considerable money, without DOt about time the Conservative work or service, may not like expos. | embers of the Ontario Legislature | VERY AMIABLE LEADERS, i { The gods smiled upon the Cana- | dian, Parliament in the formal open- took similar action? "acting more deliberately to the end * { most amiable terms. nl 1a BIA ra atte PuWlished Daily sad Semi-Weekly by YHE BRITISH WHIG FU BLIVHING ©0., LIMITED, i 9 Elliott Leman A. Guid {.. Presidént Manag, Director nad Bec.-Treas. Jelephines:. Business Office . "4 Bditorial Rooms Job Office SULSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) esr: fslivered in city paid In advance ... Jour: by al to rural offices . ye . to United States Sap. Weekly Edition) vone mall, cas year, ie not paid 4 advance 7ear, to United States Attached 1s one of ig printing offices In Canada ee Sy aman. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE. E. Smallplecs 2 Church St. U, 8 REPRESENT ATL BS dew York Office 225 Fifth Ave Frank R. Northrup, Manager. Tribune Bldg. | cthrup, Manager. best THE BALKAN EMBROGLIO. The Allies are taking a more deci ive stand with regard to the Balkans. | of making a demon- | The only hope stration agains the Central Powers Is through Greece, whére the King and Government have been a source of anxiety forggome time. Montencgrd surrender was understood at first. There digposition to criticize Italy, had which of the not smaller state. But Italy is to blame for Montenegro's fall. 'nt the necessary suppliés for Ser- uid Monteneg¥®™ and they were t er forwarded nor used, but were left to rot or waste in public places. Montenegro sold out to Austria be- fore the war, In anticipation of a eri it ceded to Austria Mount Lov- cin, and the whole proceedings, be- tween the time of the Austriaps' ad- vance and the surrender, were the veriect sham on the part of Monte. negro. To this development, so startling and so unexpected, may be due the stiffer policy which the Allies have assumed towards vouztry has a King tht have lost their power, 8i8 Greece, This and Government They are only nominally recognized; yet they have been or- dered to dismiss the diplomats or consuls of the Central Powers be- cause these are plotting constantly, and can only occasion haym to Greece and the Allies. This dismissal of officials will be! tantamount to a' décl by Greece, and, under the circum It"must be a declaration the Central Powers. ------ women of Saskatchewan are! the franchise. And seats in the Legislature? By and bye, eligible men become scarger, as they will, the women will have to ri in the | parliaments of the west, and they can do it quite as whll as some men aration of war stances; against The to have of thé VERY DEFECTIVE LAW: he Stale of New York a year ago | pasged an agt which embodied five! different forms of Municipal Govern ment. The idea was that any muni- | cipality under certain circumstances could, by vote of the people, pass | upon one of the five forms, and | adopt it: Z Two of the cities, namely, New- burgh and Niagara Falls, -N, Y,, agreed to {ry Council and City Man- ager form, and 'compMed with the prescribed routine. But it has been held by the 'Attorney-General 'of the State, who has moved a little too slowly, that the Legislature must sufiplement its aft in order to clothe the cities with the authority which they need in changing their form of Government. The Attorney-General has given a peculiar ruling. It isto the effect that the Legislature can- not secure 'relief from its duties by a general delegation of them to the ci- . ties, It was never understood , that there was to be any delegation of au thority by the Legislature to the mu- nicipality. . The Legislature passed a general Act which seemed to be comprehensive,and if it lacked in any essential the cities which acted un det it are not to blame. The experi- ence, however, will suggest to those who have prosposed a general Act for Ontario, providing for changes in the Municipal Government on the iq.' itiative of the people, the wisdom of that when the law is passed a city may pot be prejudiced in its desire 'for a reform, constitution, Job Bi and munitions. not | was a @ vital interest in the salvation | influence ana! when | 'of the Patriotic Funds by direct tax: {Ing when the leaders of the great | parties expressed themselves in the pe roration » Sir Wilfrid Laurier's was this: . | "Our supreme aspiration, is that { Belgium shall again be free and pro- | sperous as she was, if it be possible {| that ever she may he as prosperous | as she was, in view of the awful des- | truction she has stiffered. It is ai- | so our aim that Fraace shall have | her lost terfitory and her natural | boundaries restored to her, and that | Great Britain shall retain unimpair- ed, undiminished as ever her prestige ! and her power in the world. It is . our aim that both Britain and France | shall resume ag early 'as possible their onward march toward the fu- | tare enfranchjsment or the human race from the shackles of passion and prejudice, and that in weakened Ger- many democracy may be triumphant, and that the German people, sobered from their dreams of conquest and | domination, may return to the paths | of peace and benevolence, which at { one time characterized their race." | Sir Robert Borden in his speech used these words "The mills of the gods grind slow- | ly, but they grind exceeding small. I | believe we have still a long way to go before we see the end of the war. But I also believe that our Empire 'will have soon jn the field armies wore thoroughly equipped than | those of any other belligerent nation, with all the, essential forces' of men If we are but in earnest. this struggle can have but | one conclusion, and that is victory for the Allied arms. And with the fierce flame of this war, in the ordeal | of sacrifice which it entails, the | strong elements of the Canadian na- | tion will learn the better to under- stand each other, and through that I understanding' will be welded into a | more perfect ahd splendid - unity | than ever before." | J Montreal balks at giving $300,000 ure, but they deserve it. Dr. Pugsley has alleged in Parlia- would not give a contract to a Can- adian firm because it refused to put Up a commission of 1% per cent. Neither thé Committee nor the Gov- ernment can afford to let that charge 80 unchallenged. % R---------- ¥ rest in New York, and awaiting ex-| tradition to England, has escaped | from a Deputy Marshal with whom | he was out diverting himself, This | case may emphasize (he i ufferable | looseness with which the with high-class offenders. The Mayor of Montreal, still 4 member of Parliament, wants lo} know what the Government is going te do about supporting the ployed. tionally unfortunate In Kingston | there are no idle men or women. At least, neither man nor woman can be | secured for an occasional job. endless unem- An chain, started in New York by a couple of young wo- men who conceived this idea of rai ing money caused a mowwient cannot be stopped. of goin al in twenty-five cent pieces, the flow of coin continues chain is .supposed to he are the contributions. ang | endless, The Canadian Falls, a Huges' constituency, got a fat con | tothe Patriotic Fund in 1916." The city's borrowing power has been ex- hausted, say the Alderman. The taxing power of the city remains. course of the Council is clear. EXPOSING THE SCANDALS. The debate on the Address in the Commons took a lively turn when Dr. Pugsley criticised the Government, and most sharply, for its failure to provide for the tramsportation o Canada's greatest crop, and for the disposition of the Government to Ci- rect war contracts for the party's benefit. The results are scandals "that have brought shame to Can- ada." In dealing with the transportation question, the member for St. John gave expréssion td the sorest griev- ance of the Western farmers. They had been appealed to by the public men to do their very best, to sow the highest possible acreage, in view of the war and of the great needs for food which it would cause. The farm- {ers responded, only to. find that, thfough a shortage of cars and shortage of storage, they could not market their grain. The Whig knows of this through personal let- ters it has received from the west and from old friends there. These have the grain, an abundance of it, but they cannot get it moved and cannot realize upon it.- To be sure, it will | keep, and may later command as high {a price as it would command now, {-but-this-is-smail-consolation to the { men who need the money and cannot | realize upon their crops The grain producers are not to be | despised because in their distress they 'clamor for relief, and seem to find one way towards it in {ree wheat. This means that if the Canadian | Government will remove the duty, {the American Government will do so 'also, and a market jn (he United States will be found at once for a large part of Canada's surplus stock. Then there is surely 'ground for an investigation by a committee, or by | several committees, into the war | transactions of the Government. A couple of committees, during the last session of Parliament, opened a lot of very.unsavory transactions. The jovernment was overwhelmed with | scandals, and the experience should | have been a warning against a repe- { tition or continuance of them. But Hit seems not. Dr. Pugsley demands a Parliamentary Committee for en- quiring. into his charges. © He pro- mises to prove hig allegations, and he canont be denied without. creating suspicion that the Government has something it would like to hide. The Shell Committee has been declared a. British institution, and acting for the British = Government. nt is therefore, hinted that as the accounts have been pased by the Minister of Munitions, no-one in Canada, not even Parliament, has a right to criti cise them. This is an extraordinary position to_take, and one which is en- tirely untenable. EDITORIAL NOTES, . The Legislature of Saskatchewan proposes to" meet the requirements ation. - This fund cannot be main: tained in a more equitable way. - King Constantine amd (Queen So- phia may be the power before and behind the throme of Greece, but they seem to be remarkably helpless these days. They are reaping the rewards of broken promises. -- The members of Parliament whe { planing mill, i men entered into a pg together tract for shell boxes from: the Gov ernment and sub-let it to Alfre Freer, of Fenelon Falls, appearance of regulagity, the the time being. But ther the it? 's same, PIE -- The Clearest Evidence, Troronto Mail) The fact that Bourassa and La- vergne are permitted to remain at large is a sufficient answer to their assertion that this country is denied | liberty. Total Disarmament. (Montreal Mail) Miss Jane Addams, a leading American. pacifist, says she favors to- tal disarmament for the United States. Oh, leave a fountain pen or two, Jane. Suing Themselves. rantford Expositor.) The ar members of the Manitoba Legislature have found it] desirable -to square themselves, possible, with the temperance senti- ment of Manitoba by voting for sub- mitting a prohibition act to the elect- ment that the late Shell Committee | Lincoln, a German spy, under ar-| United | States administers its laws and deals | Montreal must be excep-, for hospital purposes, has | which | So far over $5,- | 000 has been poured into the hospit- | As the | frozen feet owing to g route 80 | Lumbermaun char- | ges that C. W. Burgoyne, of Fenelon who own al To give the thing the | "two | nership for | a job all Who is responsible for| { PUBLIC OPINION | Different Fighting? . {Toronto Telegram.) Ontario Orangemen are fighting for the preservation of the Frencl { language in Flanders, while Ottaws | raclalists are fighting against the | toleration of the English language iin Ontario. Hearst's : Alaztmont. (New York American.) : Why, even a little, despicable, cop- | temptible bandit nation like Mexiec | murders our citizens, drags our flag in the dirt, and spits at and defies | this nation of ours with truculent im ' solence and I without pucishment! Allies Can Do It. {American Review of Reviews.) It England should put forth su preme effort in the coming year, anc Russia should obtain sufficient equip ment for her men, it seems to us that Germauy would be brought tr the pass of urgently seeking terms o | peace well before the end of 1916. { Nv Canada's Borrowing's. (Torontp Globe.) The comparison may be made in another way. In 1913 the Govern ment borrowings were only a Fttle more than fourteen per cent. of the {total Canadian bprrowings. In 191% they were 47% per cent. of the | whole, agaiu Jeaving out of consid eration the hundred million wai { loan. Hard Lines. 3 (Toronto A correspondent Winnipeg reports men of the Star.) writing fron that ninety-five 78th are faid up wit} march on January 6th, when the tempera ture was thirty below. Zere.. Our | soldiers are not training "for an Arc | tic campaign, and surely \uo mig~-win- | ter exercises should be uirdeftaken | that will fritter away the effective store-keeper in the Sir Sam! | ness of E00] men, men. 1 KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO "A" Battery held a parade to-day. Major Drury was in command. John McCaul sold a handsome bay | horse to Sandford Calvin for $2560. Market Clerk William McCammon | seized four qparters of veal on the r market, which were unfit for use. LIBERAL PRESS. Speaker Sevigny, Ex- Nationalist. | Mo mgreal Herald. { | to whether Mr. Seviungy is giving-his | electors a square deal in throwing over his Nationalist views and ac- [es pting the lucrative position of | Speaker, thus identifying himself | with political principles he had | sworn to 'combat. If Mr. Sevigny has changed the views for which he was elected to Parliament, our con- temporary. holds that he not only ought to make public confession of | his*change of héart, but that ¥he ought also to abapdon the mandate which he can no longer honorably fulfil. "We must, then," it adds, | "in the name of public morals, pro- test against this election (to the if | Speakership),'which will have the ef- fect of justifying, as a precedent ev- | ery violation of the plighted word, | and every treason against the cause . THE MALE QUARTETTE The male quartette i$ one of na- ture's protests against law and ord- er. It is composed of four unterri- fied song-bifds who would. rather stand up and sing than engage in some law {uf occupat'on and thus en- Joy p consc'ence void of offense to- ward man and beast. The mission of the male quartette is to take a piece of sheet.music and shred it into Jong strips of harmony which will not fit any other instru- ment. These strips are then pieced and violently expelled against the ear-drums of innocent parties who are unable to dodge. Four intrepid songsters in full dress shirts and aggressive bearing, with sinewy, "leather-faced vocal chords; can produce enough harmony in two hours to last a careworn business man for several years. > One of the most valuable adjuncts of a good male quartette is a first tenor who can stand on his tiptoes and reach the high notes w'thout rupturing three or. four blood vessels. Some first tenors sing with the voite that was given to them at "birth, while others introduce what is known as the falsetto, 'which is a - RANDOM REELS "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealln;, Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." cross between a-siren whistle and a high soprano with the ate] Some very thrilling effects are pro-. duced by the use of this voice, and when listened ~to without interrup- | tion until 11,00 p.m. will banish dull care and sleep at one aud the same | time, No male quarteite can be said to be complete without a bass. singer who is able to drop into the subway at a moment's notice and devour the low- eat netes ever written with a trium-| phant look. At times it becomes quite painful to see a thick-waisted| low bass reach gropingly for fome| note which -has sunk several feet be- low 'the surface of the sidewalk, and then come up empty handed. When- ever this happens, the audience is as- sured that the singer caught cold sleeping in a cattle car with pores open to the elements. Male quartettes are much in de- mand wpon Chautauqua circuit, and are myich to be preferred fa great many( other things that happen in 'this life. When carefully trained to keep on the key and breathe togeth- er with a rhythmic throb, the male quartette is a greater luxury than shock observers on a corn cultivator. Va Rippling mes wheat ™* tamed coughing, strangling, sneezing ? 2 have been getting odd jobs from tif THE WHEAT 'The weather 'man is busy inventing new designs in storms and tempests dizzy, so- Mr. The frost is in his galways, the slush issn his shoes, fand he is having, always, more snow than he can use. And as he does his praying for less of slush and sleet, the Optimist eomes, saying, There comes a beastly drizzle, that soaks you to the bones, and life seems all a fizzle, a thing of grief and groans. adown the sloppy street, the Optimist comes, saying, "It's splendid for the wheat !" rotten, so frightful everywhere, that ey erything's for- gotten except your load of eare, when chunks of hafll. are flaying your form from head to feet, the Optimist comes, saying, "It's splendid for the wheat !" What odds if people suffer the tortures of the blamed, and AX blizzards, wilder, tougher, "What odds if you are freezing, among the snow and sleet, and it's splendid: for the wheat. = Man repines. "It's splendid for the And when you're sadly straying When weather is so come whooping down, un- Le Canada raises the question as | First bers, wiz] Bibbys [meme Men's & Boys' Wear at Wholesale Prices Sale of 100 Pairs Workingmen's Shoes pecial Price $3.00 Heavy Black and Tan Calf, storm tongue, heavy solid leather soles, sewed and pegged, military style, as well as regular style; sizes 6 to 11. uality Rub. 1 per Pair A ect Att bia SALE OF MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS $15, $16.50, $18 and $20 Garments for $12.50. Young Men's Ulsters and Ches- terfields, heavy Storm Ulsters, ete. No old styles in this lot. Absolutely new and popular models--no.. two coats alike. Last one of a"kind, ete. Sizes 34 to 44, Suits are Tweeds; sizes 33 to 4 Sale of Boys' Storm Reefers $5.00 and $5.50 Values for $3.75. Seoteh 9 we and. English aay MEN'S UNDERWEAR AT SPECIAL PRICES See our $1.50 Combination Suits, winter weight, elastic ribbed; sizes to 44. POLAND to The Military ' | . GURD'S CALEDONIA | IMPORTED GINGER ALE { Y - IMPORTED CHAMPAGNE CIDER | GURD'S GINGER ALE . wv GURD'S SODA WATER | Jas. Redden & Co. Phones 20 and 990, Re | Blue Chinchilla Cloth, Herring. hone. Tweeds; two way bation up col- lars; sizes 22 to 33. TABLE WATERS] RADNOR | "RERRIER / We Can Supply Your Wants, To: --- MILITARY BOOTS that one has sworn to defend." It al | ty loyal to country and Empire are| is, indeed, remarkable how swiftly | jibe conscientious gbjections of Na-! tionalist after Nationalist have dis-| (Eppeared once the sweets of office] came within their reach. These | {men who get into Parliament by | preaching doctrines antagonistic to] | British citizenship, who make it their | business to stir up prejudices and promote racial antagonism, ought | not to be rewarded with positions of | | honor and considerable remuneration | | which men who have been consisten- | TAN RUBBER BOOTS STRATHCONA BOOTS FOX'S SPIRAL PUTTEES. LEGGINGS, SPURS, ETC. For Nurses Going Overseas We Have: -- CARRYALLS TAN AND BLACK SHOES -RUBBER BOOTS AND STATEROOM SLIPPERS | J.H.Sutherland & Bro. 'The Home of Good Shoes. | passed over. @ | CONSERVATIVE PRESS. A Reasonable J Proposal. Toronto News, Mr. D. Dubuc, of Sainte Sophie de ievrard, County of Nicolet, writes to! | La Patrie a letter, of which the fol- lowing is the translation: "Will you | perutit the following suggestion from a reader? Do you 'not think it would be more practical to offer to the Kaiser of Germany Henri Bour-| assa in exchange for { Dr. Belaud, | Member for Beauce? or -o. RAILWAY his} the ex Ge nada would gain much by change, and the Emperor of many would also gain in having a. faithful friend more.' INDEPENDENT § PRESS. In Saskatchewan. Duawa Citizen G Mitchell, a Regina fodder dealer A defrauded the Govern ment in the business of supplying horse feed to the Militia Department | has been sentenced to two years in| the penitentiary. The incident is one that should at- kind to date. Another is that it concerns one of the small and petty grafters, without 'prominence or in- fluence, Another is that it magks the difference in treatment meted out the grafter and that to the war profiteer, who arhiéves the same ob- ject--swindling the country---by less coarse methods. The thing would be were it not so pathetic, such a travesty on justice and com- mon - sense, such a commentary on the influence of partyism and the party press, The poor scapegoat in the Regina cell in filling a bigger roll than he realizes and it is to the inter- est of all the other war grafters and profiteers to prevent the public from thinking why he should not be given plénty of congenial company. COMMERCIAL PRESS. Ownersliip Of The O. P. R. sopzpal of Commerce. 'OQur English friends and even Some ot our Canadian neighbors seem to be alarmed lest, in the mo- humpron biliza of United States and Cana- 4 \ : wih [DRG tract attention throughout the Dom- inion r several reasons. One is] that it inthe solitary instance of its were it not | J rie "British House of Commons' SYSTEM Hi | Local Branch Time Table } IN EFFECT MAY 30TH. 1818. ia will leave apd arrive at city | Owpot, foot of Johnston street. | No. i 2 So No. 130 508 ® Began - ONeam- y weber ® B83887 ie | No. 33--Local to i Brockville No. & -Mall No. 14--Intl. Lid. No. 28--Local to Brockville 6.58 p. 7.37 p.i Nos. 1, 6, 7 18, 14, 16, 15 19 run ally sther trains dally ex except Su ¥. rect route to Toronto, Petorbors | Hamilton, B Lo oN lleago, Bay City, tawa, . Quebee, Por il Aaifax, Boston and New York { For full particulars apply J. P. HAD GEY, Rallroad and Steam eamship Agent | "or. 'Johnson and Ontario streets Sau" vp ppl : Gi hos Su a.m. ia pe 3 pis md a oe wo ian securities, New York interests | will be able to gain control of the big Canadian Pacific system. Cousid- eting the fact that in the year 1014 no less than 1,639,000 shares of (a- nadian Pacific were sold on the New York Stock Exchange, and that wp! to date this year 1,420,874 shares bf the same stock have been traded iu, such apprehensions are harmless, for if control was the object aimed: a: it would have been attained befure this time.-- Financier of New York. { Egan E. {ara Falls, | date against | Wetlana, raser, ex-M.L.A., Niag- 4 . Conservative candi- W. M. German, M.P. in| hag enlisted for overseas | come resident and employed 5 SONG OF FRA OUR CUSTOMERS . sav they cannot blame us for incessantly Singing the the Praises of Our Coal Experienee has tanght them it's the best they an. buy, and that it 8s no more than other {Coa Try It Once-- ' Join in the Chorus CRAWFORD, Foot of peel Street. Phone 9. - adopted a Government amendment, the effect of which Sill be to extend the Military Service Bil tog : and other Colonials who avy Be- In Brit ain since August 14h 1915, n