PIER WiiG PORLSNING ©0., LIMITED, {0 Bijou alld ... Maiagitg Dit nt » rector and Bec. Treas. Telephones! B Office ........ Rooms 00| of American papers to criticise 00 | British forces. year, by mail, cas ear, If not paid in advan: 'ear, to United States , 1. and three months pro rata. Attached 1s one of the best printing offices in Canada. Job 5 TARONTO REPRESENTATIVE 3 allplece 32 Church St. U. 8 PR EPRESHNTATIVIR at New 226 FAL York th h Frank R. Northrup, Pa pph. AYe Cheago Bldg. ank RR. Northrup, Tribune Manager. . WHY HE SURRENDERED. Mr. Asquith says that so far about 5,000,000 men have been enrolled for the service of Britain in the army and navy, and a large percentage of them has had their baptism of fire, About 900,000 have been wounded or killed. There is still an army of over 4,000,- 000, and the plan is to maintain this number of British troops against the wastage that is now going on. It may be asked why should there be compulsory service, in view of such an excellent exhibit? Because the 'enthusiasm of recruiting has dis- appeared, and something must be done to revive it. Ordinary methods have failed. Other appeals have lost their power. "The need of some new stimulus towards action is evi- dent, 'and only the Conscription Act will produce the desired result. There has been a difference of i opinion in the British cabinet upon the subject. Some members of it have hesitated to apply force in the recruiting. Some of them have been opposed to it under any circum- stances, Some of them. have advo- cated it from the beginning of the war on the ground that without com- pulsion Britain, can never accomplish the tacks she has set herself to do, Mr. Asquith, and those who have co- operated with him, feel that the psy- chological time hag arrived and that rompulsion is now indispensable. Most men in public life will act when they are sure that they are pro- ceeding in conformity with public opinion. Mr. Asquith is satisfied that the people will support conscrip- tion now, and so he proposes to enact it. Canada is quite as determined as Britain has been to resist conscrip- tion, but the records of the recruiting during the last ten days indicate that sooner or later Canada will have to follow the example of the Mother Country if she is to raise the remain- "der of the 500,000 men which she has promised to Britain. FATE OF THE TRAITORS. The Irish revolutionary leaders have met the only fate that could be measured out to them in view of their offenses. Men who are en- gaged In street brawls, in political disturbances, in resistance or defi ance of constituted authority, must expect at any time the penalties they invoke, ; Peter Pearce, the school master, with a taste for insurrection and with an inflated idea of his own im- "portance, must have realized what he was inviting when he signed the pro- clamation of the Irish republic as its provisional! president; and James Connolly, the commander of the rev- olutionary forces, and a third not named or known, must have bidden good-bye to liberty and life itself when taken red-handed in their treasonable plots. : Sir Roger Casement can hardly ex- to escape the. doom of his fellow traitors, though nothing is really known with regard to the disposi on of his case. He has been called another Emmet, but the coufession fits. Pearce better than Casement, and the misguided ex-comsular chief cannot lay claim to some of Pearce's virtues. Some form of punishment will be . meted out to all of the rebels in - measure according to their deserts, and all of them will have occasion to lament their folly so long as they live. Their revolt may have bean the act of a sudden emotion, follow: ing a long period of disaffection, which disaffection was fed by the ~ John. Redmond has told what he 'thinks of the revolution in the cable- | that it could succeed, land," the nationalist paper whieh is published in New York. He thinks the men at the bottom of Ireland's recent rebellion, or the men who in- stigated it, were the irreconcilables who have beey warring against home rule and the Irish party. The upris- ing was organized in America and] executed in Ireland, and under cir- cumstances which made it impossible The Irish national cause has been injured. It could not be otherwi in view of the damage that has done to the public buildings and p! lie. reputation of Dublin. But the troubles of Ireland, from a certain element, are apparently over, and not a day too soon, Circumstances bave ~cwshpelled a re- sort to conscription in England. The standing army of 4,000,000 during the war, and preserved against all wastage, makes compulsory service necessary. Mr. Asquith et last fav- ors it because he cannot help bim- self. ------ LATE BRITISH REVERSES, Opinions differ as to the J ss of Kut-el-Amara. There is a disposi tion, which is explainable, or the part the There is a disposi- tion also in the Canadian press to say that the British command of the army has not been marked by mas- terly activity. First the American press, as represented by the Syracuse Post-Standard, quotes the late Rich- ard Harding Davis, author and war correspondent, as saying that Great Britain weakened herself and her cause by distributing her forces over too much territory, thus inviting at- tack and defeat where they were not expected. In conducting campaigns in Flanders, Egypt, German East Af- rica, Salonika, and Mesopotamia, thousands of men were diverted from the main offensive. Had these been concentrated in the west of France, Germany's troops would have been driven back, if not routed. "This war," sald Mr. Davis,;in one of his latest books, "should be fought in France. If it is, Germany will be utterly defeated. She cannot long survive another failure like that of Verdun, and even if she occupied Verdun she could not survive the vie- tory." Of tourse, it has to be re- membered that in some instances Britain has been on the defensive, and that it was part of Germany's programme to cause the diversion of power which has taken place.' : The Ottawa Journal represents the Canadian papers which hold that the reverses coming to the British arms are due to the blundering of the men who are higher up. They have never fully realized the dangers con- fronting Britain. That which has surely appeared to our contemporary is the fact that while Gen. Town- hend had been cooped up in Kut-el- Amara, which had been besieged for one hundred and forty-three days, hundreds of thousands of soldiers were in Britain and simply preparing for active military service. "The record of a year is very disappoint- ing," says the Journal; "Gallipoli bungled, Bulgaria bungled. Greece bungled. Serbia bungled. Ireland bungled, Mesopotamia bungled. None of these problems at bottom required expert military knowledge. They did require watchfulness, common sense and determination on the part of governing voices somewhere, The leadership which has brought us to the surrender at Kut is it to continue unbettered ?" Dr, Clark, of Red Deer, a liberal of the liberals, felt compelled to call his fellow members of the Commons to account when they appeared to be frivolous in debate during the emer- gency which is upon the country. The perspective of war itself sometimes fades before the members, and be- cause it does they may indulge in petty discussions. But Canada has, in its political life, been more serious than the Mother Country, where the criticism of the government is both pernickety and everlasting. It is coming to this--if succeeding crises in the government means anything-- that the conduct of the campaign has b&n defective, and to the manifest injury of the greater cause. The imperial government is in a serious position at the present time, and it will be unsettled if it does not go down one of these days. In Hamilton steps are to be tak- en to suppress the smoke nuisance, In Kingston something should be done along these lines and the begin- ning might be made with the Ut.lit- jes Commission whose power plant, |! with regard to smoke, is very offen- sive to the workers for severa . around #t. { ------------ ROOT OR WILSON. The con on for the nomination of a rep candidate for the presidency of the Unitéd States tak: place in June, and with a date so fear for the choice the party is h ganized. The disposition longer pursue a will 0' the wisp; and 80 to drop Justice Hughes as a pos- sible banner bearer. He is out of politics, and will stay out. He is not one who can be stampeded into a face. | mentally, and ome of the strongest and safest in a time like 'this. Mr. Root has spoken on the condi- tion of the war. It was his speech, so emphatic and clear as to the duty of the United States at this time, oot made that great appeal the Mexican trouble had not appeared, Since that has become a party issue, hig spokesman and organizer. in New York, J. W. Dwight, ex-member of Congress and party whip, says: "Does any one imagine that if Elihu Root had been President the fearful conditions would exist in Mexico which we all know do exist to-day? 'The Mexican problem, one which confront us, will have to be solved by a new administration. The Wilson Administration has involved us in serious trouble there by its policy. It cannot get us out. The country has lost confidence in its abil- ity to handle the Mexican situation. With Mr. Root as President there would be no distrust of the future of our relations with Mexico." The attitude of Mr. Roosevelt in the controversy is a matter of some fmportance, He is no longer the bull moose. He has abandoned the jdea of correcting the evils of his party through a new orgauization. He not willing to accept the decision of the nominating convention as final. He has become a menace to the re- publicans. He was willing to step aside in favor of Mr. Hughes. He is circumstances in favor of Mr. Root, want of confidence in a party conven- tion. Mr. Root he will not support. The result will probably be a trian- gular contest in the next pational election, and that means the return for a second time of Mr. Wilson, It is the only hope of the democratic party. EDITORIAL NOTES, There is some inspiration in the thought, Let me like a soldier fa. There is none whatever thought, Let me lke a traitor fail. Ireland will not give a rebellious element any encouragement. There will be no more public drilling and parading except in the service of the king. short work of the trial of traitors, and there are no sensational descrip- tions of the trials ot the results of them. Alderman Newman will be couraged to revive his daylight sav- ing plan in the council, when taken the subject up in the British House of Commons. The expected usefulness of army of lawyers, in connection with the enquiry into the Kyte charges, is pow apparent. They are as so many of the biggest of all the problems) wants' to be president again, and is | not in favor of retiring under any! and especially under an expression of | in the ------------ »v The British court-martial | { ¥ en- he learns that Sir Henry Norman has an brakes upon Mr. Johnston when he gets in the probe. . The pay of at least one member of parliament is voted without objec- tion--+that of Hon. Dr. Beland, who, while doing service as a medical man in Belgium, when the war broke out was carried into captivity by the Germans and is stil] held as gq pris- oner. "Ag a patriot of the first wa- ter he is deserving of the special con- siderdtion of parliament. | pusLic OPINION | j Effect of the Parades. \ (Montreal News). | These military parades should be | suppressed. They make the shirk- {ers so uncomfortable. | Where the Censor Slipped. (Toronto Mail). The sending of Sir John Maxwell to Ireland was the first public inti- mation that he had left his post as commandér-in-chief in Egypt. 'Russians in Evidence. @ttawa Free Press). With the Czar's men pouring into France, it is evident that the Rus- sians want to be on both ends of the pinchers when the squeeze comes. A Good Ruling. (Guelph Mercury) Session judges have decided that a mother may spank her 13-year-old daughter. The family slipper is a good spring tonic even past the 13 year limit. What It Was For. (Grain Growers' Guide) If the Davidson Royal Commis | sion on war graft doesn't bring in a | report pretty soon there is danger of | the people forgetting what it was | appointed for. { Help For Farmers, i (Ottawa Free Press) British Columbia has appropriat- |ed a million dollars for loans to | farmers, which is small in compari- | son to that given railway magnates {and the get-rich-quick artists. Income Tax Receipts. (Stratford Beacon). | Government receipts from the Brit- | ish income tax this year are estimat- | ed to be over $600,000,000. Small | incomes are exempt. There is no | grumbling about "Pay, pay, pay," ith the well-to-do British citizen. KINGSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS ACO Ald. Rees succeeded in getting the City Council to improve the city buildings. Dr. Hooper resigns as medical su- perintendent of the General Hospital. Mechanics' Institute Library re- ports indebtedness of $167.86. Much sickness among the publie school children. Snow fell at Sharbot Lake to the | depth of an inch. . City Council refused 14th Battal ion a grant to assist in a Domialon Day celebration. { RANDOM REELS "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." THE ABSENT-MINDED MAN.. The absent-minded man is a kind well-meaning citizen with a leak memory. There is an appalling number of provident husbands and fathers roaming around this coun try with memories which 'leak fast: er than a composition roof put on by a contractor who has discovered that he short-changed - himself on the foundation. One of the sorest trials thoughtful, systematic wife have is a husband whose mind fails to answer to roll call about one- third of the time. There is no cure for this ailment except ordering the a can stung on the celery. Some wives resort to all sorts of humiliating expedients in order to compel their husbands to remember a shortage of XXX coffee in the pantry. Some go so far as to tie a blue ribbon around the third finger on the left hand of their spouse, but as this is at once covered up by a tan glove and then left in the glove, melancholy failure results. Others go to the telephone at ten minutes to twelve and breathe passionate "exhortations over the wire, only to be greeted at the gate by an empty-handed hubby whose thinkery is on crooked. groceries by telephone and getting. ever, is a great convenience. » The absend-minded man b dangerous at times, Many a so- ciety-loving wife has been overcome with mortification on dragging her husband to a dinner party and dis- covering that he has 'left his neck- tie on' the chiffonier. Then some men become so absent-minded that they will forget their wives for an entire evening and commune soul- fully with some strange blonde. 'When this occurs, our laws give the \ wife the privilege of leading her re- cereant partner home and impressing "the inviolability of the marriage con- tract with an axe helve, if necessary. \ There arge-times when a certain J amount of Jabsent-mindedness, how The / man 'who makes it a practice to bor- row small sums of money from loose-geared friends, with the in- tention of repaying the same on or before death do us part, has almost always taken the thinty-third degree in absent-mindedness and is totally unable to recall the occasion. is reminds us that we should be careful never to loan money to people whose memory needs a new rvof. The absent-minded man should be' pitied, not blamed, for he is the vic- time of a habit which cannot be cur-| ed by putting something in his cof- «fee, Rippling Rhymes : AFTER medowns, ing to i DEATH I do not know just what may hap, when I go tum- bling off the map, into the outer world; I hope to draw a pair of wings, and crown and things, and harp of celluloid. the floor, or lose a chance to sleep and snore, by wor- rying my head about the 1 step off this whirling ball, and line up with the dead. 1 think I've all a man should need, in this, the simple little creed, that's pasted in my lid: "With all your fellow-men be square; be kind and just to all, nor care a cent what others did." If one is square and Just and kind, I don't believe he'll he behind, when they distribute crowns; he'll be a eredit to this globe, and he will swap for snowy robe, his workworn hand- Religions tangled, teased and vext, with dogma and conflicting text, by sages splitting hairs; ows really need is just that simple little creed, to elimb the robe, and kindred But little do I walk ings that may befall when KINGSTON'S ONE PRICE MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR STORE. (Boys' Department on Second Floor). ENGLISH RAINCOATS, Special $12.50. English Pure Wool Cloth, English Cravene Parametta tte Tweeds; new Slip On style, new Military cut; all 'Sizes. Other-Raincoats, $4.90, $8.50, $10. WE SELL THE KING HAT, Price $2.50 See the new shapes, WE SELL THE BORSALINO HAT Made in Italy, Price $4.00. New lines have arrived -- styles and shades. newest NOBBY OVERCOATS SEE BIBBYS $15 ENGLISH SLIP ON OVERCOATS Plain Cheviots, in O Faney Tweeds. CHESTERFIELD OVERCOATS Same style as cut. 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