veo Managl rec * and roan Bog Room 111111 (Dally Edition) ane year, delivered in city ...... © year, if paid in advance ....$5.0 @ year, by mail to rural offices . One year, to United States 2.5 (Sem'-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash .. One ear, i not Paid To adv One Year, united States 8ix and three months pro rata. is one of ad Attached printing of 226 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. Chicago . Tribune BMg. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. POLITICS IN WAR. Josephus Daniels, the secretary of war in the United States Government, is a successful administrator, one who foresees the wants of his depart- ment, and who is familiar with every detail of its work. With a change of administration there will, of course ~-or should, of course, following po- litical precedence--be a change of of- fice. The question is being raised, Can Mr.Hughed, when president, find any one better suited for the position? If not, why should competency and energy and success not be perpetuat- ed by Mr. Danfels' continuance in the war department? A new contin- gency has been suggested by the war in Mexico "Abe" Lincoln, the greatest of presidents, and the one whose memory will never die, had a homely adage, "Don't swap horses 'While crossing the stream," and it "applies to this ease. Britain and France and Russia have faced the dangers and perplexities of war, and in each case politics have become sub- sidiary to the national interests. It does not matter what a man's politics may be in war. The great issue is, Is he the man that the country wants in its emergency? Bourassa's idea if inflaming the public mind on bilingualism is that it will cement Canadians. In the opinion of others, the agitation will distract the people, will set race against race. Bourassa and Case- ment are of the same type of mind. They aim at uniting men by making them fight each other. CLAIMING GREAT POWERS. Every little while the Canadian governments, provincial and federal; realize that they have granted extra- ordinary concessions to companies and corporations, that is, concessions which were'not expected to carry the meaning which was afterwards read into them. An object lesson has been presented in 'connection with the Hudson Bay Company, an ancient and very wealthy institution which has been doing business in Cangda under a charter which it obtained from the British Crown in 1670. A hundred years later it came into violent collision with a fur company which was organized in Canada and had its headquarters in Montreal. They amalgamated or coalesced in 1838, and for a time had a monopoly _ of the fur trade in the territory which ~ they exploited. Finally the Canadian government bought out the rights of the company for £300,000, and for every twentieth section of the fertile land in a certain belt, The company still carried on its fur trading in this country, and in certain centres, notably in Winni- peg and in Calgary, established great and successful departmental stores. The company has come into the limelight as objectors to the legisla- tion of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In one province legal protest is enter- ed agian the gulpeatest surtax on land. - This is declared to be in contravention of an Imperial Order. in-Council of date June 22nd, 1870. In the thet the power of the pro- vince tg 'put the company out of the lduor business under the Prohibition Act is contested. "It may take time in which to settle the difficulty. There will be an ap- peal to the Privy Council. It may be possible that the imperial govern- ment hag given the company privi- leges which cannot be affected by pro- vineial legislation, but it is very im- le, Such powers as the com- are extra- ONTARIO'S WATER POWER. Many years ago, long before pub- lic ownership had taken the hold upon the people which it has to-day, the province granted franchises to two hydro companies. These com- panies invested millions of dollars in good faith In constructive work at Niagara Falls, The venture was such as capitalists often make with fear and trembling. It was a colos- sal feat to harness Niagara Falls, and the Whig has gone down into the depths of the power houses and en- deavored to comprehend the tasks which engineers and builders under- took and completed. It was when private capital had made a great advance upon the scheme, when one company at least had erected its transmission lines across the province and began to de- liver power at distant points, that the Ontario government conceived the idea of going into the hydro busi- ness, One company realized what it was up against when the govern- ment became its competitor, and un- der circumstances which operated seriously against it: Now the sec- ond company is required to cut out its contracts for power with Ameri- can industries, and sell 650,000 horse power to the province. The demand ig unpopular, and for the rea- 0 | son that the company is getting a rate of from $20 to $26 per horse power | from the Americans, and is expected 9 | to sell to the Ontario government for $15 per horse power. It may be held that without the provincial franchises the company could not utilize the Niagara power or make it marketable. But the province had not the nerve to enter into the power business when the company launched its scheme, and when the Hydro-Electric Commis sion was formed there were those who thought it should have bought out the power companies and devel- oped their «franchises. Even now it is hardly fair to the company, which risked. its capital in the first place, to be obliged to sell power at less than it is now receiving in order to serve the province. Ontario has the right to appropriate a provincial concession, and when it does the company will be repaid all the money it has put into the enterprise. EDITORIAL NOTES, Mr. Rowell is going to England, there to study. the social conditions and the economic problems growing out of the war. He is certainly a constructive statesman. Roosevelt's attitude, of de- clining the moose nomination and supporting Hughes for the presi- dency, is the only logical one. A unit- ed republican party means a success- ful party. Col, Philadelphia has what is called "beau parlors" in connection with the YM.C.A. A good many people visit them out of pure curiosity, and go again and again as if there was something magnetic about thé place. The promise of Ontario's Electric Commission, through Sir Adam Beck, was that electric light would be sup- plied in Kingston: as cheaply as candle light. That promise was made a long time ago. It is time it had materialized. The American munition makers may be required, by a national spirit or compulsion, to serve the United States Government. In that case the Canadian Shell - Committee, or the surviving members of it, may have occasion to regret the more that they discriminate against Canadian manu- facturers. The Canadian credit of $76,000,- 000,0n account of munitions, has been exhausted. But the psoduction of munitions must go on. The manu- facturers of them are probably able, financially, to proceed with the work without any national credit--and es- pecially the aid or intervention of pesky middle men. Eliminaté the drummer! Oh, no. Impossible. The army of gripmen has wonderfully increased during re- cent years, It has become a neces- sary attachment to all prosperous houses. The average merchant buys from samples, which he "sees and handles, plus the glossy talk of the i scenic artist, ------ Some of the best and most en- thusiastic recruiting officers in Can- ada, including two of Hamilton's stars, have given up the work, dis- couraged by their inability to impress men ' further on the voluntary plan. Still the Government hesitates about registration or conscription. Afraid to make the leap as it were. rl tes. | PUBLIC OPINION | Shortage of Men, (Syracuse Post-Standard) Secretary Daniels admits that the navy is 20,000 men short. It has taken him three years to find it out. 'Britain have been sentenced to try. In September tiie usual weather prevailed. ---- Germany's Irreparable Loss. (New York Times.) Ground may be won and lost and won again. Munitions can be accu- mulated. But this loss in men is ir- reparable, fall --n cepa Manuel Listed. , (Windsor Recprd Former King Manugl ' 1s listed among the casualties. He sprained his ankle while playing tennis. in London. rag -- Orators as Governors, (Toronto Globe) Canada has had no orator Gover- nor-General since Dufferin. Lord Rosebery would find here much to stimulate his great oratorical pow- ers, ------------ Imposters Punished. (Montreal News) Four conscientious imposters in ten years' imprisonment apiece for refus- ing to obey orders. And 5,041,000 men in' Britain have dong the other thing. : A Conservative Element, (Moose Jaw News) The opposition to church union now manifesting itself in the Presby- terian General Assembly shows that there is a conservative element in the Presbyterian Church which does not always manifest itself in élections Congress in Peril. (Montreal Star) Congress had better make a few guarded enquiries at Ottawa before it undertakes to arrest a private citizen for contempt of its highly important self. State prisoners are a bit like white elephants, apt to attract much attention and very hard to get rid of. Hungary Russian Prize, Toronto Telegram Hungary, with its area of 125,000 square miles, its population of 21,000,000, and its annual wheat crop of 150,000,000 bushels--Hun- gary is the prize of the Russian ad- vance info Transylvania. The con- quest of Transylvania by the Rus- sians would be a tremendous blow at the Austro-Germans, The invasion of Hungary at harvest time would withdraw 120,000,000 * bushels of wheat from the sources of economic assistance to Austro-German tyranny. The distances, Czernowitz to Buda Pesth to Vienna, approximately 400 miles, Buda Pesth to Vienna to Mun- ich, in southern Germany, approxi- mately 250 miles, are suggestive of the possibility that Russia may soon give the great general staff of Ger- many something else to think about than the conquest of Verdun. 26 YEARS AGO . b KINGSTON EVENTS The Kingston Cricket Club is now in full swing again. A game has been arranged with Belleville. Ald. C. Livingston and wife left to- day on a two months' trip to Eng- land. Berries sold on market must be measured in Dominion standard mea- sures James Ferguson is now drum ma- jor of the 47th Battalion. He twists his staff in wonderful form. -t-of-them, SOMETHING THE WEATHER MAN CANNOT PUT DAMPER ON. Kingston and the Thousand Islands a 'Great Attraction for the "Newly- weds" --~Couples Are Very Easily Spotted Upon Their Arrival. The wet weather has been putting a damper on a good many things this summer, but there is something that the Weather Man does not have con- trol of, and that is the crop of June weddings, Have you noticed any of the new- ly-married couples who have been in the city during the month of all months for Dan Cupid? Perhaps you have not taken par- ticular notice, but there have been quite a number in Kingston. Xings- ton and the Thousand Island attract a large number of newly-married couples, and it takes the hotel] porters to spot them. "June is sure some month for the brides," said a porter to a Whig re- presentative on Tuesday afterncon. "And we have been getting our share It is amusing to watch them. The other night a couple came into the hotel. I spotted them right away as "newlyweds," but I could see that they were doing everything poss- ible to let on that they were not. The young fellow was pretty nervous as he stepped up to the counter to sign 'Mr. -- ~--and w'fe.' The bride walk- ed about nervously, and her face turned rosy red as some confetti fell out of her hat on to the floor. 3 "I thought I got all of that out of my hat before I got off the train," she exclaimed. "There appears to be no end of the staff,' said hubby, as he picked up a couple of grips and led the way up- stairs. The hotel rotunda was filled with people, and there was a ripple of laughter. Tuesday afternoon a bride and groom got off a G.T.R. train. One of Kingston's custodians of the law was at the station watching things in general, and as soon as the couple landed on the platform the groom walked over to the bluecoat and ask- ed to bé directed to "a nice boarding house." The officer gave them all the information he could, and the couple had a merry time chasing around the city in a taxi, looking for a stopping place, Tuesday morning a couple noticed coming out of one of the leading hotels. They stopped the first citizen they met and told them they would like to see the sights of the city, and wanted to know the best way to do it. "Jump in a taxi and keep on the go all day," said the citizen, who evi- dently did not give much thought to the fact that his plan would be very expensive. A street car conductor stated that he had a newly-married couple on his car for three trips.around the belt line one day this week. Wet Season Destroys Tomatoes, were London, Ont., June 28.--Figures just prepared by experts show that as |a result of the unusually wet season, | 40 per cent, of the tomato plants set out have been destroyed. Peaches, cherries and plums will be a record crop, and apples fair; butter and cheese production will show the greatest jump in many years. Scores of farmers who were un- | able to get their seeding done have | now given up all hope of planting [ee or corn and the fields will lie idle. Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." JAPAN Japan is a small, restless nation which is thinking of homesteading a claim on the Pacific Ocean. There are several] islands in the Pacific on which Japan would like to grow her «celebrated brand of Oolong tea and the flat-footed collie, but she is pre- vented from doing so by the navy of the United States, 'which plants it- self in the right of way with both arms folded and steam up. . Japan has a very fertile soil and produces more population to the square yard than anybody else except China, whose inhabitants are obliged to sleep in layers of pig-tailed hu- manity. Every foot of tillable land in Japan is occupied by people who cannot move in any direction with- out a head-on collision. A few years ago Japan seized Korea sand moved a few million of her almond-eyed subjects into the same, but her birth rate has now caught up with the dis- bursements and most of her citizens have to stand on one foot in order to avoid being suffocated. Travelers tell us that it is harder to get around Tokyo in a jitney bus than it is to secure a front seat at a Sun. day revival meeting for men only. Japan raises one of the most as- ¥ite 'and noiseless varieties of sub- terranean diplomacy known to the civilized world. The mind of thé Japanese He olomat never strays away from home and gets mouthy. The morning papers in Japan did -not know that .war had been declared against Russia until the Czar woke up and found himself short several expensive battleships. This teaches us that while we should love and re- spect Japan as a sister nation, it would be well to keep one eye squinted .in her direction ever and anon and see that there is plenty of coal in the bunkers. Japan sends a great deal of her excess baggage to California to teach the natives of that state how to run a truck garden and lay up money. As a result, all over Southern Cali- fornia have sprung up luxurious truck gardens presided over by the non-prespiring Japanese, who speak several words of English and live on the humble carrot. The Japanese does not care for luxury and will often be found wearing the same shirt 'he came over here in, but he is a hard worker and makes as fine a hired girl as anybody: ¢tould ask for, On this account he should be admitted to this country in small quantities, unti{ the housework prob- lem is completely solved. 5 { : Rippling Rhymes and mourn. great f "Oh, happy day! pay--1'm glad to see you go!" 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