Srvmi eave prima . Presiden Managing Director * and Sac.- Freas. bie. eet eee ttached one of the best job PHN aliens tu Conall J H. Sma x Chen EB tiplece ...... .:32 Churéh St. uu. 8 RRPRESINT A i ork Office 225 Fitth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, mnager. 5. BO. ehenva Yoav. ne Frank R. Northrup, Manager. PILING UP THE DEBT. 'The provincial and municipal debts of British Columbia amount to §165,- 000,000, and they are increasing at a tremendous rate. "The local gov- ernment makes no attempt to live within its income. ' Last year the re- ceipts were estimated ut $10,398,381, and the expenditure was $15,702,- 912. This year the revenue is esti- mated at $5,944,000, and the expen- ditire at $11,300,000. The defieit, therefore, will be over $4,000,000, and it will be, like the deficits which have taken plice for so many years, added to the accumulating debt, The Province, like the municipality, should be able to live within its in- come. British Columbia has not for many a day attempted to accomplish this feat. Without some change in the immediate future British Colum- bia must become hopelessly bank- rapt. ? --------------. SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED, . It is the government, not the com- msision of the province, that is going to develop the power at Queenston Heights. The government pur. chased the Seymour plant and its ap- : h, and may hand them Ver to the control and direction of the commission later on. What has happened between Sir Adam Beck and the Ferguson-McGarry faction in the government? . Sir Adam was very active before the - Public Ac. 18 provincial auditor over the Commission's accounts. He was very active, and aggressive too, at Ottawa over the discussion of the radial electric Question. He was ab- Bent during the debates in the legis- lature on the power question, and all the bills and reports which were handled by Ferguson and McGarry. A deaf ear Was turned to Mr. Rowell when he appealed to the government for the presence of Sir Adam in or- der that light might be nad upon the situation. There is an tion for all this. - What is ft? Here's audacity on an unparall Plan. Toronto Board of Control ties $284,395 out of the estimates of the Technical sol ad $100,000 out the Board of Bau. Kingston's little cut of $5,000 to fhe Board of Education {to appears in a new light, that of a great public life of rll imparity and to lirt men above the dead level to which patrohage has reduced them. Mr. Carvell is a man of boundless energy and power. He is absolutely fearless. He is also chivalric. He could make amends to an opponent when recently it was brought home him that he had reflected unfairly jupon a colleague in the committee: eanatriks 8 afrible blow When it 8 necessary, and declares that he has no interests other than the peo. t| ple's to serve. Now watch him give evidence of his new profession. ---------------------- x The Montreal Star appeals to the people to abstain from travelling much this year, at Baster or any other time, and put the money thus saved to a better use. Advice that is sound enough but not likely to Le acted upon. . ---------- "WHICH ROAD?" The Whig's artist, in his cartoon for this day's issue, points a moral. He pictures a man with a bag of mo- ney who is setting out to make some purchases, and he reaches the part- ing of the ways. In one direction lies the home towm with its busy merchants trying to build up the community, and they are succeeding with the support of the people. The other direction leads out of town and to the merchants who are not contributing, by their presence or means, to the up-bullding of local interests. The man with the money bag hesitates, He debates, mentally, what he should do. He remembers the luring things he has heard and read about these out-of-town chaps. He recalls the manner in which his neighbors have been imposed upon because they were too willing to be deceived, He is not oblivious to the fact that he owes something to the merchants who have bought his pro- duce and helped him to save the money hé now proposes to spend. Quickly the decision comes. He will stand by-those who have stood by him. He will appreciate that true reciprocity which is not always popu- lar. Would that all men, (and all wo- men), were equally wise. Would that all of them reflected upon what they should do before they spend thelr money. If they did the com- munity idea would grow. The mail order business would janguish. The home market and the home town would get the benefit they deserve. Boosting ones city or village or neighborhood is sometimes discour- aging business, But it produces eventually the desired result. No community builder should be = dis couraged, Al things come. to those who work. As an anonymous puts it: Boost and the world boosts with you, Knock, and you're on the shelf, Fcr the booster gets sick of the nian , who kicks, And wishes he'd kick himself, Boost when the sun is shining, Boost when it starts to rain. It you happen to fal, don't lie there and bawl, Boost for the town's advancement, Boost for the things sublime, For the chap that's found on the topmost round Is the booster every time, Let us see. Was not the Orange Sentinel very much dissatisfied with Regulation 17? Has our contem- porary changed front lpon the sub- Jeot?. 3 ahee . A year ago to-day the fight of St. adians saved the day occurred. It is an anniversary of many sacred memories, The Westminster Gazette refers to President Wilson's ultimatum to (lermanyas a "hijgh-toned document." Which is referred to, the diction or the dictation? Once more peace prevails in the I Imperial government. Once more a crisis has been tided over by great nen sinking their personal views for the good of the nation. ---------- John McCormick, the singer, put $37.000 into pletures in the last | three weeks. If they lend sweetness and vigor to bis vocal notes the in- Veatmeu. Xi be » wood une. According to the Hon, Mr. Hanna the province will make provision for. the treatment of inebriates. Has this anything to do with the prohibi- Julien, in Franke, in which the Can- |' surfacing certain streets in 1915 with tarvia. But the legisle- ture has practically said fo the council: "Don't do it again," tt: In the first three months of this year, according to m report which has been made by the minister of militia, on the motion of Dr. Ed- wards, there were 85,575 enlist ments. The nationalities and denom- inations of the men cannot be defin- reformer, whose mission is to purge| ed ------------ On it that Mr. Ross, the Montreal expert, does not approve of the pow. er coptract between the City Com- mission and Mr. Campbell in its present form. He suggests a flexible contract and one which does not ro quire the city to--tgke a certain Quantity of power each day for six 'months in the year. The act which the Legislature of Ontario has passed authorizes the assessment of all ratable property, ratable income and 'business, for patriotic purposes. The only ex- empiions are those referred to in section five of the Assessment Act, Under these circumstances the spec- ial levy will be light. | PUBLIC OPINION | Study It And You'll Get It, {Moncton Transcript). The Times editorial, notwithstand- ing, to the contrary, the chief keeper of Dorchester penitentiary, as every- body in Dorchester knows, was dis- missed by this government because he was a Liberal. Regulation 17. (Ottawa Citizen) Quoting the Orange Sentinel on the bilingual question should do much to disprove the contention of the French-Canadians that the real mo- tive of Regulation 17 is to injure the religion professed by the great ma- jority of them. Province in Trouble. (Toronto Globe) British Columbia's trouble accumu- late, The province has had to pay interest of $316,000 in default on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway's bonds. Richard MeBride insisted on finane- ing until the party revolted and fore- ed his retirement. KINCSTON EVENTS i 26 YEARS AGO Many fences were blown down to- day as the result of a heavy wind- storm, W. C. Carruthers is home from a trip around the world. Twenty-five young Kingstonians left for Chicago, to-day in search of work. LIBERAL PRESS. met A Very Costly Official. Brantford Expositor. Sir Richard McBride, the overfed rat who deserted the sinking govern- ment ship in British Columbia to be- come agent-general for that province in London, draws a salary of $15,000 per annum. The Victoria Times tells how this compares with what other servants of the Canadian and British people receive: It is twice as large as the salary received by the agent-general for New South Wales; five times as large as the salary of the agent-gen- eral for Ontario, the leading pro- vince of the Dominion. It is $5, 000 more than the provision made for the Canadian high commissioner and $3,000 more than the salary paid to Sir Robert Borden, prime minister of Canada. - it is larger than the re- muneration given to Sir John Jelli- Coe, commander-in-chief of the Brit- ish navy, : The above arrangement is a very nice ome for Sir Richard, but it is not likely to last very lomg, if the results of recent bye-elections in Bri- tish Columbia are any indication. What need has the Pacific province fanyway for an agent-general in Lon- don? Anniversary Of A Promise, Montreal Herald. It was a year ago on Saturday last that Sir Robert Borden made the following promise in the House of Commons: I desire to say that any further investigation that may he possible in the matter, either for the purpose of further restitution, if any is deemed possible, or for any other proceedings of any character which may be found necessary to vindicate the public honor and the public in- tefpst, will be taken by the Depart ment of Justice . . . . Let us take the most prompt and energetic means to provide that restitution shall, be made, pad that persons guilty of wrong-doing shall be pun- ished 80 far as the law will permit. 1 want to say, in so far as these men are concerned, two things: First, if the laws of this country permit the courts of justice to enforce resti- tution against them, that restitution will be enforced; secondly, that if the laws permit the wails of the peni- tentiary to encircle them, they will 80 thereé.--Sir Robert Borden, in the House of Commons on April 16th, 1915, CONSERVATIVE PRESS. { Robbing The Hydro, | Toronto World, | The real charge against the gov- | ernment is that of robbing the hydro of its independence and seeking to bring it under political control. It is impossible with the legislation in view, to say that this charge is not Without foundation, «+. Hada. Liberal This is the railway that SIV'iGvernment moved to legislate sim- ilarly, a Conservative opposition would have rended the skies with denunciation. What is bad for one is bad for the other, To the indepen- dent voter all politicians look alike. Hopes For Sir Sam, Montreal Star. There will be a general and gener- ous hope throughout the country that bluff Sir Sam will come out of the affair with untarnished reputation. This does not mean for a moment that the country will want the in vestigation to develop blindness at any point, or to apply the whitewash brush to anybody. The charges are most grave and disquieting. If they are proven, every Canadian will hang his head in shame-- gnd some Cana- dians should be compelled to hang by their heads, at {east metaphori- cally, We are for a full, fearless and unlimited enquiry, The best creed is perpetual good doing. : "Ot Shoes and Ships, and. Sealing RANDOM REELS Wax, of Cabbages and Kings" PREPAREDNESS, Preparedness is something which) everybody is in favor of so long as it does not increase the high 'vost of living. If a big army and navy could be built up and paid for by the rajiroads and the gasolene trust, it would not be necessary for th newspapers to hold straw polls and postcard showers in brder to locat the direction of the wind. There are two schools of prepared- ness--for and against. Both school haye earnest, superheated: advocat who feed long columns of statisti out of a well. The idea of preparedness js t prevent some foreign nation f landing on our shores with both feet and conquering us before w are ready to have it done. It is a disagreeable experience for any na tion to be conquered by people t whom it has never even been intr duced, but who drop in after dark and bring a stout yoke with theni, Yet this has been the fate of many a proud nation which was too busy playing golf and computing com- pound interest to head off the con- queror before he could land his con- | quering instruments. | It is highly discouraging to the | sincere seeker after truth to find | preparedness The plain, every-day, blue- serge citizen reads the ashestos-| lined remarks of these authorities and immediately converts mental! strabismus eand hardening of the | think arteries, There would be | more unanimity on the prepared- ness issue if anybody knew whether our navy is in fourth place or just | two degrees above Spain. A lot of | people who have been helping pay for a first-class navy regret to be told that a battleship of first line could eat our entire navy with- out getting red in the face, then fifteen minutes later receive the assurance that we can whip our weight in wild-catg on the bright blue sea. When somebody has started a general purpose conflagration and pointed it in our direction, it is a good| thing to get out the fire extin- guisher. » Rippling a bough. One tion which dates from September? strikes a stone; his nibs surveys his ribs, 'o find the broken bone. Then, ® mules, and "You foo! ot toe, SAYS, 18, such tricks 1 'er--it is the oldest chore; man's tilled PLOWING » I watch the farmer plow; he's busy at it now; he deftly tools his span of mules, and whacks them with ute, "Haw!" says he; the mules, they haw, and strain and draw upon the double-tree pd Rhymes . minute he says, "Gee!" Next min- e. 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