THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING 00,, LIMITED. [Ay seseens resident ve Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. pal year, mail to rural EE ied DaalsMess , TW vy dion) 1.00 a 50 0 ree oa vaio Pro rats. peiltached pds one of the Dest job BE I in Canada. wine circulation of THE BRITISH is suthenticared by the THE COMMITTEE MISJUDGED. A correspondent of the Globe has it that with regard to prohibition the Committee of One Hundred pre- pared the trap "and that Hon. Mr. Hearst tumbled into it with eyes shut." 'This correspondent forgets that the Ontario Legislature met before the Committee of One Hundred had prepared its plans, and that, at the opening of the session, the pre- mier made his announcement with regard to prohibition. He did not wait until the committee presented its petition, a colossal affair, and con- veyed to the Parliament Buildings with a dysplay that was unprecedent- ed. The government anticipated the trend of public opinion and was pre- paring to comply with it before the committee acted. The premier and his friends did not, therefore, walk into a trap, and they must disdain the insinuation to thie effect. They "professed to be in advance of the committee, but they were hurried in their proceedings. Jf they had to repeat the performance they would probably not be so precipitate in their action, The church attendance was again light on Sunday. The fans men use in their business houses, in offices, in factories and in restaurants, are sad- ly missed on Sunday. MAYOR CHURCH'S CENSURE. The mayor of Toronto, a distin- guished representative of his party, criticizes the federal government very sharply because of its purchase of Camp Borden and the removal to it of battalions which had been so well provided for in London and Ni- agara, Mayor Church remembers that the soldiers who suffer are ci- villans who heard the call to arms and desired to serve their country to the limit of their energy and of life itself. But the mayor thinks they should be treated as citizen soldiers, that their comfort and well being should have been studied, and that they should be spared some of the tasks which are being put upon them in this oppressively hot weather. Incidentally Mr. Church censures the government for buying the camp grounds, which he compares with the desert of Sahara; that the mov- ing of large bodfes of men upon it before it was ready was nothing short of an outrage; that the acquire- ment of the land may have been a good thing for the real estate men, but a bad thing for the province; that recruiting has, .on account of this camp ground, and through its exper jences, reecived "the biggest black eye it has had since the war began;" that for a time he held his peace, though in receipt of hundreds of let- ters containing complaints about the camp; but now he is inclined to pro- test against the further waste of pub- lic money in order to please the "van- 'ity of 'certain military people." The government must accept these and other criticisms which are of- fered by men who have been its sup- porters, and who will again, when the necessity arises, probably do what they can to save it from a fall. Mayor Church says one thing that many will endorse, namely, that had the money which has been spent in Simcoe gone ito the other military tamp grounds and for their improve- _ment, great results would have been accomplished. 3 demands of the human race. MONEY AND WASTE. Arthur D, Little, of the firm of which he is the head, and doing busi- ness in Montreal and Boston, bas been on a tour through the west, and has been telling the people of Al-|M berta of the millions which are be- ing lost in their waste. His was a very interesting talk, and covered a variety of subjects, But the Whig deals with oniy one question here, the question of power, There is, he says, sixty million horse power in engine capacity in the United States alone. It is increasing at the rate of one hundred thousand a day. The whole is greater than all the water power in the republic. , There is, as a consequence, not enough gasoline to go around. There is a shortage in the demand and the price has risen. In addition to auto- mobilies there are 700,000 farm motors, and 300,000 motor boats. Alcohol could be made to run these and to compete with gasoline, which is now selling at 39¢ a gallon, There are ten billion tons of celluloid yearly, and through it alco- hol can be supplied to meet all the Mr. Little's idea is that the distilleries should become producers of de-natur- ed alcohol from potatoes. Proceeding along this line, Mr. Little said that ten gallons of ninety- five per cent. enthyl-alcohol can be made from a cord of word pulp at a cost of 4c a gallon. A bushel of corn produces two and a half gallons of alcohol, and two gallons of molasses will afford one gallon of alcohol. "It am satisfied," said he, "that we can get twenty gallons of alcohol from one cord of wood waste, and theo- retically the capacity of a cord of wood is fifty-eight gallons." The man who can see so much money in the waste of the people-- and he talked of the marvels that colild be wrought out of the wood and straw waste of Canada in the production of paper and straw board --is surely a benefactor of the people. A few men of Mr. Little's energy and enterprise, and scientists, could go through Canada and do a wonderful work in the educating of the people. Some day the economic reforms will set it, but in the mean- time the loss to wastefulnehs is simply incalculable. The Mail, referring to the judicial report on the Kyte charges, says that Gen. Hughes was deceived by Alli- son. The general does not admit that. He still believes that the =p from Morrisburg is an angel in-dis- guise, SOME MILITARY EXPERIENCES. The suddenness with which the war set in accounted for much that was done in a hurry, and in an un- satisfactory manner. Men were wanted, large number of them, and constituting scores of battaliens. These had to bé officered. Many qualified leaders were not available, outside of the permanent forces, and 80 schools of instruction were organ- ized in all the military districts, These schools were attended by thousands of young men, and in time there was a superfluity of certificated persons and to command the platoons as fast as they were organized. Some of the candidates for military posi- tions were anibitious and rose rapid- ly to higher positions, though not al- ways upon their merits. The strip- lings that were lieutenants one day and captains the next had the bene- fit of influences that were not always at work for the good of the cause. Then followed the experience that is inexplicable. Officers were at- tached to battalions for months and then laid off. A surplus was carried for a while, on a principle or plan which no one seems to understand, and them, when the unit was about to move out for overseas, they were dropped and left without employ- ment. "There may be a reason for this proceeding--for continuing offi- cers attached for months, for giving them the idea that they were wantad, for suggesting that they pack up and get ready for moving out--and then retiring them abruptly and unce'e- moniously. It is fortunate that the spirit of some of these young officers has not been crushed, that they have volun- teered for service in the ranks, that some of them have already gone overseas, and that they have, because of the training they reecived, begun to rise in the service in the old land or at the front. No one is debarred from serving his country in a subor- dinate capacity, but that does not dis- pose of seeming unfairness of attach- ing officers to corps for many months, on pay, and then dispensing with their services without apparent rea- son or explanation. The thing has been carried to a length where the sharpest criticism has set in. v, The Toronto News remarks that in power the Liberals stand by the party. They have certainly "been conservatives. The public accounts show how they bleed for the party at| What will some of them do when er at the public crib? getting great object lessons from the || and how the party bleeds for them. |' EDITORIAL NOTES. Sir Sam Hughes knew before be left for his extended trip that there would be nothing in the Meredith- Dus report to make him resign, so d. He knew that when he cin the government would go with him. Harvesters in the west can make $40 to $50 a month and their board, and about 25,000 of them will be wanted for the next two months. What about the cost of travel, going and coming? Will it not eat up about all one can save? The larger percentage of power has been generated on the Canadian side because it least affects the scen- ic beauty of the falls. If the indus- trial spirit is allowed to assert itself, however, this regard for scenic ef- facts will possibly pass away. Universal military training is now under consideration in the United States. A bill, giving it effect, will be prepared now and submitted and passed at the special session of Con- gress beginning in December. If Canada had universal training--ané its most ardent advocate in Britain was the late Earl Roberts--her full compliment of the ary would by this time be 'in line, Fiith and flies have a Jot to do vita} the spread of infantile paralysis, as with the spread of most diseases. Sanitation ig the most powerful ally of the doctors. A civilized commu- nity should be resolute in enforcingi}i public cleanliness, and where it can sensibly and legitimately interfere, private cleanliness. KINGSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS AGO ; The brick work for the new res-|ji : built at the lower} G.T.R. depot was commenced to-day. taurant to be. Kingston firemen went to Brock- ville to-day to take part in a demon- Jj stration. Rev. W, B. Carey is in Ireland, continuing his course for the mission house of Paris. | : WAR ANNIVERSARY. The Ontario Government has proclaimed Friday, the fourth day of August, the second anni- versary of the declaration of war, as a day to be observed by public meetings for the purpose of stimulating the devetion and patriotism of our people and of embodying those sentiments in appropriate resolutions; that the people on that date should re- afirm their belief in the right- 0 of the cause for which | PUBLIC OPINION | Masterly Retreat. (Montreal Mail) British Government has sus tained a teachnical defeat in the House of Commons. But, of course, the Government ay just have been doing a little strategic retreating Gobbling the Profits. (Toronto Mail) Canadian manufacturers who grumble at the war tax should note the fact that Chancellor of the Ex- chequer McKenna is taking 77 per cent. of the excess profits of British shipping firms The Kitchener's Wise Saying. (Stratford Beacon. The late Lord Kitchener said the last million men would decide the War. It is well to remember this when appeals come to us in Canada to complete our 500,000, of which we are a long way short yet. One Step Lower. (Montreal Herald) The official announcement of the discarding of the Ross rifie rather suggests that the "greatest military genius the world has ever seen" has had to come down a peg or two. At any rate, that is how it appears to the Halifax Chronicle. they are fighting and their in- flexibile determination to con- tinue the struggle until victory has been ach'eved. CRP PPEPR PEER rr ere PPE PEPE EPR P ere ered BASEBALL REC ORD. National League. Results Sunday. Philadelphia, 8; Cincinnati, 1. Boston, 2; St. Louis, 1. Chicago, 8; New York, 3. Results Saturday. St. Louis, 6; Boston, 4. Chicago, 5; New York, 2 Brooklyn, 7-3; Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, 4; Philadelphia, American League. Results Sunday. 12; Detroit, 9. 5; Cleveland, 2. Chicago, St. Louis, Results Saturday. Detroit, 4-0; Boston, 3-1. New York, 1; St. Louis, 0. Washington, 2; Chicago, 1. International League. Results Sunday. Newark, 3-3; Richmond, 2-2. Results Saturday. Buffalo, 3; Montreal, 0. The Usual Stretch. (London Advertiser) The - Peterboro Examiner tells Sir Sam Hughes he was boasting when he said his home county had given | 4,800 men to the cause. The Ex- | aminer puts the total at 1,000, and says many were brought in from To- rontp. Dirt and Disease. (Ottawa Journal) | One thing has been made clear. | {187 Jarvis street, Toronto, has been Toronto, 1-1; Rochester, 0-3. Providence, 8-3; Richmond, 0-6. Rev. R. A. Ball, pastor of the B. M. BE. church, Toronto, has received and accepted a transfer to W innipeg. Harry Sheftel, 55 years old, of missing since Wednesday. Richard Drake, a G.N.W, was stabbed during a quarrel onge, street, Toronto, Asn operator, on ALEXANDER HAMILTON. On July 11th one hundred and twelve years ago, occurred the abrupt and unpremeditated death of Alex- ander Hamilton, American statesman and patriot. Hamilton was only forty-seven years of age at the time and was in good health, but was called hence with extreme suddens ness as a result of running into a 32- calibre bullet fired by Aaron Burr, who was one of the lowest men in the state of New York. Alexander Hamilton was born on an island in the British West Indies which was entirely surrounded by water; but when a young man he es- caped to the United States and en- tered Columbia College, where he tied the existing record of skipping chapel. When the Revolutionary War broke out on the body politic, Hamilton joined the artillery and soon became able to shoot a cannon in any given direction. While thus engaged he contracted the puzzled squint which is so noticeable in his earlier photographs. Hamilton put in several years of hard work during the wat, and when it closed he began to look around for some soft pursuit which would pay well and not entail too much thought, so he opened a law office. About this time he did a good deal of writing for the newspapers, which were glad to publish his remarks, Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings," 'made Secretary of the Treasury, owing _to the high price of boiler plate. In this manner Hamilton se- cured the friendship of the weekly papers ih his district, and they elect- ed him to Congress, where he dis- tributed post-offices and pensions with a lavish hand. Later he was! and arranged matters so that one Ameri- can dollar was as good as another, when it was made of gold. | Alexander Hamilton's greatest ser-| vice to his country was in removing| the kinks from the original Consti-| tution and reducing it to a size con-| venient for reading out loud on the| Fourth of July. He also put some-| thing back of the Continental shin-| plaster besides a circulation of fresh | air. For these two acts he will ever be held in memory by a grate-| ful, pork-ridden Republic. When Aaron Burr ran for Gover-| nor of New York Hamilton opposed | him with great violence and a stub| pen, charging him with belonging to| the Republican party and also with' being so crooked that his clothes had to be fitted over a gimlet. Burr re- sented these remarks by challenging Hamilton to a duel, the latter being fatally perforated while in an erect attitude. The lesson to be drawn from the life of this great American is that if Hamilton had killed Burr, instead of vice versa, the duel would he more popular than it is. 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