Daily British Whig (1850), 1 Jun 1916, p. 4

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President «Managing Director Bec.-Treas. J. 7 6. Leman A. Gutid wish SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) One year, dstivered in oity One year, if paid in advance .. 5.01 One year, by mail to rural offices 4 50 One year, to United States $2.5 (Bem'-Weekly Eaition) Une year, by mall, cash One year, if not paid in: One Year, to United States vance Ek x and three months pro Tata. a Attached is one of "the best "Job printing offices in Canada. TORONTO | REPRESENTATIVE H, E. _Smallplece ........J 32 Church 8¢ U. 8: REPRESENTATIVES New York Office Frank R. Northrup, Manager. Chicago Tribune Big. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. RESOLUTION NOT RESCINDED. Alderman Newman should have begun earlier in the season upon his daylight saving scheme, and given it effect through a by-law. ' A by-law cannot be repealed except by a by- law, and the council of 1916 does not seem to know this, since it recently undertook to deal with the case of an official who had been appointed to office by a by-law and could not be removed except in the same way Alderman Newman depended upon a resolution, which, once adopted. could not be rescinded until it had first been reconsidered, and on the demand of a maority of the whole council, namely, twelve members. The resolution respecting daylight saving was not reconsidered, and hence it is still in evidencE, though inoperative because there is no way of enforcing it. No one who has any regard for the counci! wants to see it further reflected upon or humili- ated, but some. of its members have earned the reprogches that Wave been sheaped upon them. They should proceed legally, and, If necessary, under the direetion of the city solici- tor in the matter of legislation. Lloyd George has given a further proof of his political genius in secur- ing even a temporary Irish agree- ment, and one that may lead to per- manent peace. The acceptance of home rule temporarily by Ulster is a great achievement. HAS NOT CHANGED. The Monocle Man, in the Cana- dian Courier, has written a manly defence of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He does not see that the vetéran states- man has done or said anything amiss upon the bilingual question. He certainly has not invited and desery- ed. the ebillitions of the Winnipeg Free Press. Notice this fromr the Courier: "It Is not as if Sir Wilfrid has abandoned any political principle for which he has stood, or had asked his party to accomplish a change of front on a public guestion. He has long been known as a champion of pro- vincial rights; and be championed this same provincial rights in his speech on bilingualism. He declared at once against any interference with the Province of Ontario In the educa- tional field by the federal govern- ment, He maintained the right of Ontario to do as it pleased in the matter. That has been his attitude on every 'educational question that has ever come up. (All he did was to rise in his place in parliament and petition Ontario to use its great strength with a tender and tolerant consideration for such of his fellow French-Canadians who happen to live in that province. He did not think of coercion. He did not dream of trying to get the Dominion parlia- ment to intervene. But he stood up asa French-Canadian kesman to put hatever | nal influence he might the service of his . own people. Such is a correct and graceful de- scription of, the faurter position on The every regimert with all that it re- quires. © "Evéry man who has had -anything to. do, with stssblring a or over or $13,000,000, The receipts for the full year will be over $500, 000,000, and this will represent an increase of about $85,000,000. "The great boom in business," says Mr. McAdoo, the secretary of the treasury, "is largely responsible for the increase In the receipts from or- dinary internal revenge. The pros ports of the country, with the at- teridant wider scope of employment and increase in wages, has in itself resulted in a larger consumption of taxable articles, greatly augmenting the government's revenue." Notwithstanding the alleged spread of prohibition--and it covers a wider area--there has been a greater con- sumption of liquor, and the increas- ed collections on account of this are over $10,000,000. In tobacco and cigars the Increased collections amounted to $5,000,000. The com- mon people, in good times, or times in which they earn the larger wages, spend the more, and a larger per- centage of their money goes into lux- uries without which they would be the better off. The Wilson administration will, ef course, rejoice that the financial ex- hibit is so good. There was a great drop in custom collections through the tariff tinkering which followed the enforcement of the Underwood o| Act, and the administration had to do romething in order to fulfill the pro- 'mises made by the Democrats. What they have lost in customs receipts, however, they have made up, or more than made up, in internal revenue, and financially the position is most favorable for election purposes. ------------ Some time ago it was suggested, or moved, in the council that the offi- cials should be present at the sessions of the aldermen. Not a bad idea. If the officials were occasionally con- sulted some of the mishaps of gov- ernment would be avoided. LO, THE POOR INDIAN. The ten Indian chiefs who haunt- ed Ottawa for some weeks are re- ported to have despondently depart- ed for their various reservations in British Columbia. They are less satisfied than before respecting their -| positions and less disposed to accept the overtures that have been made to them by the federal and provincial governments. \ These red men, the original own- ers and occupants of the land, feel that they have been cramped and re- stricted too much, and practically dispossesed of their inheritance. Gradually and bit by bit they have been pushed back into smaller re- servations upon which they are bare- ly able to eke out an existence. What they have they cannot hold except under irksome conditions, and the time has come when they felt that they must protest loudly and lustily or forever hold their peace. They first told their distressing story to the Brifish Columbia government, and then to the Dominion govern- ment, and apparently without much result. The chiefs referred to are leaders of their race. They speak English, and have become well versed with the ways of the politicians. What they think of the wily white man has not perhaps been expressed in words. In number the tribes may not be in- creasing, or they may nqt be expect- ed to increase; otherwise they could not hope to succeed upon their pres ent reservations. One thinks of them occasionally as he thinks of the buffaloes, the other occupants of the great lone land, in the days when they roamed at will upon the prairie and enjoyed the freedom that Ia theirs no more. 'The buffaloes have practically disappeared from their haunts. A few of them have been preserved ag a sort of national curi- osity in the public parks of the west- ern provinces, and they suggest that forlornness which Is rapidly becom- ing the lot and the fate of the poor Indian. EDITORIAL NOTES. Now that the army in the making has been pretty well advanced, would Lord Kitchener not do greater execu- tion in the field? That is the ques- tion of the hour. The Herald reports that many of the business and industrial organiza- tions of New York have approved of the daylight saving scheme. A large committee 18s. been appointed to promote it. en samm---- What will Lord Kitchener say in reply to Winston Churchill? My Iprd has been hitherto silent under attacks of the Northcliffe press. The situation is, however, becoming a little warm. Ho i is time the New Brunswick gov- ernment resigned. Its members ag in such bad repute that in an elec- tion they would suffer severely at the hands of the people: Political- ly, if they escape with their lives, '| they can thank their stars. The prosperity of the United States has been expressed very fairly in the Sopust of the secretary of the trea- © The internal revenue for the fiscal year, exclu- emergency taxes, ue of the corre- the previous year the . And Independent of the action of the council, and without waiting to see whether or not its resolution with regard to daylight saving will be en- forced, some people are acting upon the spirit of it. They are rising and going to work an hour earlier. ---------- The daylight saving resolution, moved by 'Alderman Newman in the ¢ity council, and carried some time It may not be enforced, but it stands as an example of the irregular way in which'the council is doing its busi- ness. New Brunswick is passing through an experience which is very similar to that of British Columbia. The people havo rebelled against the lo- cal government and have demonstrat- ed this by rejecting the newest mem- ber in an election by an overwhelm- ing majority. An ominous outlook for the next election, -------------- If the clocks generally were put on an hour the school children would not be going home at' eleven o'clock and the fathers at twelve o'clock, as one alderman asserted at the last meeting of the council. The fathers and the children would return home the same time and share at the din- ner table the food which industry had provided. Ry, | PUBLIC OPINION | Italians Again Gaining, (Port Arthur Chronicle.) The Italians are on the offensive again. They have not been making the Austrians to walk over. Great Man Withall, (Hamilton Spectator Winston Churchill, like all human beings, has his faults; but he still re-| ics. A Phenomenon. (Ottawa Journal) What a good many péople among the seemingly utter disappearance in Great Britain of opposition to con-| scription. Cut Out _the Frills, (Ottawa Free Press.) Col. Winston Churchill would make | army officers do without servants. After a while, they may cut out all the frills, but we in Canada will still hava honorary colonels, Mr. Kyte's Service, (Hamilton Times.) The Montreal Mail is not disposed to whitewash Col. Allison yet. It] says that Mr, Kyte would have done the country a disservice had he not done what he has done. Right Royal Pair. (Montreal News "Quhat saye they?" asks the Ot- tawa Free Press in connection with the Kyte charges. It might be said yhat y-allison and y-hughes be a Righte Royale Paire to ydraw to. jr EVENTS| 25 YEARS AGO Prof. Fowler and Goodwin have been elected members of the Royal Society. Three brick houses known as "Maple Row" on Barrie Street, were offered for sale by auction to- day. About $1,000 per house was bid, but was refused. E. W. Mullin has commenced the study of law. ago, has HL been legally rescinded. mountain trails all winter just for) mains a giant among his pigmy erit-| us may feel to be a phenomenon is| Montreal Wows. Why should Sir Charles Davidson attempt to discredit testimony such as that offered by the Auditor-Gen- eral? Witnesses should be encour- aged to throw all the light they are capable of throwing on suspicious deals. This is particularly essen- tial in tracing the transactions of an operator with the adroit and de- vious methods of J. Wesley Allison. Recruiting Not Organized. Toronto Weorkl. A great deal of the difficulty is no doubt due to the attitude of the Government, which has been satis- {fied with the laissez faire policy in everything concerming recruiting. One of the worst features of the | present system is the lack of dis- crimination by which men who would be better left in the induns- trial positions which they are filling to the advantage of the army as wel] as of the nation, are taken off to be {37ien for service, while other men who should be serving in the army | are put to learn the work of the men | who bave enlisted, which they can- not do with any celerity, and con- | sequently the industrial machine is put out of order. The waste of effort and cash is | evident, and the Government is on its defence for having failed to or- ganize the recruiting business as it has organized other branches of ar- my service, Whether enlistment is to be voluntary or enforced, the re- { eruiting of the men should be an or- | Eanized business and the best work- {ers in this business should have | charge of it, and the recruits they {get should be distribufed among the various corps as thdy may de- sire and as their suitabi) ty for ser- | vice may dictate, INDEPENDENT PRESS. Manliness Of Sir Wilfrid. Canadian Courler. Yet because Sir Wilfrid does not | play the coward and the cad for the sake of some people's precious party, | they club the old man over the head { with a brutal threat to turn him out of the leadership in which they have {kept him grinding corn for their grist through the best years of his life. He has spoken his mind, for- sooth, Crucify him! We will not {have a public man in Parliament i who has any convictions which he | will not stifle or apy opinion which he will not sell at bidding of any exigency. That is a magnificent way to induce men of decent in: stincts and loyal natures to enter public life! It declares, as plainly as it could be put, that a public man who has by sheer ability and faith- ful public service risen to a high position in any political organiza- tions-- and he can do little if he stays outside of political organiza- tions--must be ready to spit on the grave of his mother, or betray his brother as Joseph was betrayed if he would keep that position or escape bitter humiliation in his old age. Works Both Ways. (Guelph Mercury.) A medicine book says: "If women would eat more onions, they would make fewer calls on the doctor." Oh rats--it works both ways. If they gobbled onions fedks - would make fewer calls on the women, too, Caroline Henrietta Waterman, wife of Sergt, Edwin J. Waterman, of the 139th Battalion, Cobourg now at Barriefield Camp, died on Tuesday. Deceased was born in Campbellford fifty-two years ago. CARRANZA Venustiano Carranza is, or was, when this was written, the president pre tem. of all that part of Mexico which is not being pro temmed by somebody else. Carranza has several competitors in the pro temming line, and by the time this is read may have been quietly and skilfully de- posed by drinking a poisoned high- ball, but as we write he is still on the throne, having his vituals tasted for him just prior to each meal. When your Uncle Samuel found it necessary to send a few thousand fearless American boys into Mexico for the purpose of dispersing Pancho Villa, Carranza did not warm up to the proposition so that it was neces- sary to turn on the electric fan. He had been trying to disperse Villa for some time, and has succeeded in do- ing one of the poorest jobs of dis- present writing. It ranza, therefore, to see a parcel o Yankee boys, any one 'of whom ca do d09 yards in ten seconds flat, come right down into his front yard and scatter Villa in so many differ ent directions that when he is cap-| tured he will have to be put togeth: like a sectional bookcase. This in- jured Carranza in the place wh he Carried his pride, and when youl Rippling Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Seall ng Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." stab one of the ruling: Mexicans in his pride receptacle he is completely deflated. Carranza is an old school Mexican and does not believe in having too many wives. He is a polished old] gentleman with suave whiskers and a mild blue eye, and his ambition is to be president of a united Mexico long enough to introduce a good | school system and put the mint in working order. Under Carranza's reign the Mexican dollar has fallen lower in the scale of humanity than a prohibition lecturer entertaining a rich, amber jag. Carranza is a sin- Jere pdtriot who wants to restore law and order and at the same time make Huerta's get-away look like entering an auto hearse in a motorcycle free- for-all. Carranza is surrounded by a num- ber of able generals. who live a joy- lous life on the free-will offerings of foreign investors who desire to re- tain an intact physique. Whenever few of these generals and collects all of the taxes that will bé due up to 1943. While we admire and respect Carranza, it must be said that if he remains in power for a few years more there will not be enough left of the foreign investor to bark at the tax collector, Rhymes * BIRTHDAYS A birthday is a solemn thing; then, how speedily the days take wing, the days that do not come again. a little slower in my gait, I feel the dump is draw- ing near, and still 1. keep my smile on straight. little failure of my sight; a bit more deafness in my ears; a few more aches--but that's all would not stop the scudding years. 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