PAGE FOUR rok DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1917." The British Whig 84TH. YE Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by 'THE BRITISH WHIG CO, LIMITED. LS, Whitote .......... .. President | A. Gulla ... Managing Director | 8ec.-Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) One year, geilvered in city f paid In advance year, by mall to rural offi year, to United States .. (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, cash .. Ome year, if not paid in ad One Jeo. r, to United States "cro owoo 22 coco MONTREAL REPRE R. Bruce Owen TORONTO REPRE: 'WP. C. Hoy, ... 1006 Traders UNITED STATES REPRESE F.R Northrup, 226 Fifth A F.R. Northrup, 1510 Ass'n B Attached is » of the best printing offic n Canada AT hag NT The wm A Audit Bureau of Circulations. h-------- THINGS The certing plications perienced plication has anticipated en without out waiting tent he enjoyed its fidence. upon presently 1 TO news from It such as have BE DEPLORED. Ottawa is discon implies political com not been ex The im Borden in many moons is that Sir Robert his party, has spok due reflection, with ot to ascertain to what ex and con the support Conscription is rock which the ship of state The seemed to express the mind of those who represent of the house, may we wrecked premier the government side and appears conservatives it na- that without tionalists, and now he made the mach consultation, of hig fellowers him wpon he has been a little The pity is that announcement and finds out of tonch think too previous. Hughes the subject hey Sir Sam did not move for the enforcement of | the Militia do this Tong time while he that it was the most exg of getting the required It that be said he w checked in his recruiting gratify the plants were being listments, and manned Realizing something was needed eruting, and that WAS necessary, mder of what he It is the proper thing, Bill when He ago favored this course a have felt, f militia, He may was minister ¢ troops that Canada i remembered back in order to Their en. will be 8 held manufacturers left, thréugh weakly inadequately that to revive re recently a little compulsion he informed the pre going to of course, was do to advise the leader of the government | or house when one makes a-fmove of this kind, and the premier anticipat- at Ottawa--dnclud ing the cqdrrespondents who listen to the day, in the acceptable that Robert did not matte much consideration. He re- ferred it at only one cabinet 'meeting His announcement lowed and was something of a sug- prise. Now the question is what is to be done about it? Conscription yo men of most form---say Sir give the to is dividing the members of the house | Party lines | in an unexpected way. are being broken wp. A vote on the subject will show, probably, registration of conservatives liberals and nationalists in new for- mations. In the face of this, preparation for it, of the cabinet is suggested, a cabi- net made up of conservatives that could not control legislation, and, wrecked in its efforts to rule, would dissolve the house and appeal to the | people. Is this the way to avoid an elee- tion during the war? The difficulty now is not a party one, except it be a difficulty rant to run a war on political lines, and a party who want to run it non politically. The times or in a reconstruction 1 call ada bas had too much polities far... What it needs now is a 'war! cabinet, such as Britain possess=s, a | cabinet composed of the strongest men in parliament, if prssib'e, Paisament and ont of creat ideals and purposes and the :apacity to put them in's execution If what one hears. he true--that!| petty politics influencing the or in are men at Ottawa in this great crisis of | his own party, he means. He has to must do | Xo. tape nation--every pa'cior plora it. It gives sowe Ind cation of! what democracy suffer: when vation's best men are out of ha: mens and action, PUBLISHING | 31ty staff Job | some with | he started to editious way | and | and present it fol- | i al and | between the men who | for | something different from this. Can-| thus | it, men with | the | THERE WILL BE REPRISALS t expe done great deal a marine but up warships >» the deep 2 gagements are craft that pes another an ts and put Y The had thing admiralty has one I'he premier has been probing ings |on his own account, and recently ted a reconstruction of the admir-| Under thi ynstruction » is to be a new sti in service. | | beat all that even in a war| ome officials actually to sleep. | As for the id sl of » German gO aerial craft, those in Eng | will be] after week who oppose reprisal their sentimentality bombing of last s rids the people of the the Zeppe over idea that after a long lull,| Zeppelins lin raids, The servite apparently, {are are in and they have with them smaller air craft and Eng | stopped through] EO have been carrying great havo the This must be ils Let peace-mongers {injury to border towns of | land | repri them on though | the croak and protest |against them British and naval at their best when they The are alr fleets kept hecome | are in motion. the As soon as they inactive work. Germans get in their WIN-THE-WAR If the eri {anything it GOVERNMENT. at Ottawa mean sis the Borden gov | | { | is that ernment cannot carry conscription lin the Commons, or that if be iwning carried it Apparently it nment | enforced upon ti operating during a time during a period when it could | | not hold office éxcept with the libe | ral support, it by difficulties cannot is d 18 gove that, of truce, being it is confronted | that | cannot over- come \ A | for national This It should premier government "must be declaration now. have been foreseen. ! The and trusted | colleagues have surely realized that | they not carry on the war, to a finish, without a war one. whose sole gbhject would be to-accomplish the purpose its existence. Conscription been avoided too long. noir It cannot be si and yet, relied med is the his anost could it ministry, or | carry of has It has been of both political pac- virked any fur- if the Ottawa reports | the bete ties ther, can much be upon, there is not! in authorizing it, ing to put it through the House, | til the war ministry | ed. t try-! un- form- use or has been A referendum has been suggested. | It would be ohviously | and Jmproper incomplete without | soldiers at the front, and who that iis in his right mind would think of | | that at the present time. A w.n-the-| | war government this juncture, | nearly three years after the entrance | | of Canada into the conflict, | be considerably handicapped, the best and available, and for what it be tried. | a vote of | | at would | but it thing | worth | may be only it is may EDITORIAL NOTES, Lavergne advertises himself as a| | pro-German and anti cQuscription- ist. Why is he not put in some in- camp? What. is the ernment afraid of? terment gov- JLavergne not so long since said he wanted conscription. not want it under any circumstances. There is something unmistakably yellow about this man. Now he does The talk of t conevripti on has sti- mulated recruiting. Last week over four hundred men donned the khaki in Toronto. What is the matter with the people in the east? | Some members of the federal gov. ernment may resign, expecting to stay out of the new cabinet. Rogers lis not one of them. He knows what { will happen should he resign. Mr. Balfour' hae been selting a | new-pace in speech-making. His ad- dresses wo models of clearness and | conciseness. He does not pretend to be an orator, but Is better than that. [He is a philosopher. i There was an excursion to the Mohawk { Aviation Station on Sun: day. A large number of young men {thus advertised themselves as slackers. Some of them may be | surprised later as to how they were | picked out for military service. | -- -- Hon. Bob Rogers attribptes Judge { Galt's report against him to a de sire to suppress one who is a men- {ace to the liberals A menace to { With such an unsavory repu- tation Saltpetre bs save him. The Jabor unions. ase again st con- scription. They think the war cam most | ug-i g still! which]; ence | remain | which take | ladels. 'echina jof | brides have | honeymoon and upon checking up the | wedding count- atter with- zs fight- given would and pos- there could heads" in such.a n » men who are over 1ada's batt depleting conquest cannd les matter of many months, ~ sponsibility 5 NOW arise! which the Ottawa hav ever sin their ad thods inste in National e regis- plan applied to defence, the for overseas, clamour lack of of fue nne give } and power a Se 8 L governed ness to honor labor me lik 0 © war, mi Arthur Hende alting isen hy sheer ability in the why ? the voluntary ; for home in recruiting rising tide of popular war profits and the effort at control over i The government could grappled with all ques tions had it strengthened itself by coalition or by summoning to its 'councils the best men available from| the business world, bat it disregarded] can the precedent set by son, of Britain, re the 8 to places Any hown > tration, enlistments inction reason = . ollapse Viv in publi matizes his tt makes Balfi ddresses He he savs. The er jani and ur ctions ? inst be tae Ye these veals in a speak have innermsd 18 charming way. Both without affeetation. Tt the M.P's. [ess with advantage ey- ven ms they + 1 : he udy holding on to office atrany cost any device. to be hoped that the the existing along, and by Iti te result of ill he the formation of a war' administration at Ottawa, which - will be. bold enough enough to put through ary measures which the nterests may. demand (Continued on page 11.) WIN-THE-WAR MINISTRY NECESSARY a in strong tnecess much said about e part of the a refer- members of 1 throughout the coun-i 1s. i method | Australia Using Sir t. on the other hand, Great| (amilte I'nited States and New Premier ~ Border n's lemocracies, introduced | looks like a case of out any such refer-| Hughes' thunder of the necessities of lm Sam will rejoice tional the Sam's Thunite r. stealing Sir with long the hecause war situation One objection to In his own fdreeful way, ae referendum is the delay it would in-lcountry A : "Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax, of (abbages nnd Kings." all else, é and four THE CHURCH WRDDING pepper sets, ere he to stock ym pit paons three or cafe The social function with great plea the bride's after church wedding is a costly parias The ing occasion for the never sure whether in his lower left-hand swallowed it on the try who church wedding bridegroom. put vest which is anticipated a ver) sure by everybody but father, who is obliged to is the guests have gone ring and settle up with the orchestra and ket og the mezzo soprano who sings "0 Pro- When called upon to produce mise Me' four tones away from the begins a frantic search through key in which it is being played. Many eral pockets which are per ctly em- a proud father who walks down the pty, and in the meantime is perfor- aisle with a sprig of .orange blofsoms ated by the reproachful gaze of sev stabbing him in the right ear. has eral hundred guests who have had-the entire ceremony spoiled for tried to locate the l4-carat ring clad him by the prospect of this ordeal in white kid gloves and beady per- Marriages performed in church are spiration If there were more church not any more durable than those weddings there would place in the front parlor, measure of sympathy underneath an evergreen horseshoe, groom but they call forth more congratula Church weddings have tions, hulled rice and engraved soup hearsed with great care, There is no better or surer hest man will not put a of securing a setting out of throughs, the bride's train and cut glass in triplicate than by being married in a church with rented pews and a seating capacity 2,000 lorgnettes Thousands of returned home after the he po way it be a for the bride to be so that stray and re foot way cause mony. ciating clergyman yehches rest. On this account, people a weak heart should always be mar ried by a justice of the peace they and found that forks, salt presents have enough meat A AA AAA A AAA A AAA At A AAA Rippling Rhymes THE SOLDIER'S FAREWELL The soldier for the battle leaves, and to his "My pet, I've donned my vambrace and my , my pauldrons, helm and solleret. My country calls, and I must go, to fight for her, on land or and every time I bag a foe, I'll think, Miranda Jane, fhree. We'd planned our wedding for this spring, month of June should sée us one; wreath or ring until this righteous scrap is done We'll join'our hands when | come hack from scenes of he says, greaves of jack. but, dear, [ love my country more. You could not honor me, dear maid, if in your knew that I was shrinking and afraid, waved and bugles blew. girls that they may dodge the battle line; alas, are casting pearls before the cheapest kind swine Unless 1 have my girl's respect, 1 do not ask her for her love; and so I go forth to collect a lot of German scalps, dove. My tassets, cuishes, and so one kiss, and then I'm gone, to make some Prussians run a race." --WALT MASON. secret SILT MASCA THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN By GENE BYRNES THE BUNGALOW 15 COMPORTABLE AND ¥ SURES 8 de fo i» RR A ug; LM a gop fag ed gina) firm con 1 failures high) other coun-| tries at war, and preferred to blunder] immedi-| situation| "Win-the- one and | any na- announed 'ment | Sam same all the same.| puts! e! ilver the never | larger the a hurried postponement of, the cere- The bride's father also has to | be educated so tha he will not try to give the bride wh: before the offi- a four-bar with girl sea, the but there will be no heart you when banners | I hear of young men wedding | phat our store is stocked with the those brides, | of my shield are on, my gorget's fastened in its place; | A AAA AN aA ANN ni int | vo sizes 13¢ and 25c. ani tuation! to the| We Meet or Beat All Catalog Prices. Mail Orders Promptly Attended To. 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Style The popular three button sack suits; the nobly soft roll two button coats. Trousers plain or cuff bottoms. MEN"S FINE SHOES SPECIAL VALUES $6.00. While others are selling the Just Wright - $8.00. Our price is still $6.00. MEN'S SOFT HA SPECIAL VALUES 2.50. Newest styles. For Sale Brick Dwelling Detache hot wa Band C place, 9 rooms, furnace; mantle, gas, oak finish, all in good repair, and large barn. This property will he sold at a sacrifice as owner is leaving the city Now is your ghance to get a good home cheap. d fire T.J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance. Montreal Bank Building Clarence Street Genuine English Felts. WE Eggo RECOMMEND Baking Powder 1 1b Tins ... .. 3be | We also carry a full line of Me Lare n's | foreign and domestic cheese, includ- | ing Star brand white cream, Roque- fort, Oka and Limburger. Choice vegetables and fruits, 'UNITED GROCERY, ' 138 Princess St. Phone: 267. The home of choice | groceries. Automobile Owners, Attention ! The place where all troubles are made right. supplies of all kinds; washed and stored. work a specialty; prices sonable. Call and give trial. Always open. DALY'S GARAGE 335 King Street. auto Auto us J) FOR SALE A 1916 Studebaker Four cylinder, first class | condition. | { | | | In 2-1b. | pails, which we are selling for one Boyd's Garage 129 Brock Street. "GLASCO'S Pure Scotch Marmalade and Jam. In glass and the milk, 15¢ per tin. COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice ! On and after first of May Coal Salts will be for Cash Only. _. BOOTH & CO. Phone 133. Wood's Fone BE ERE will cure. We Have a Nico Assortment of Pure Cora Syrup tins, 5-lb. pails, and 10-1h, week only at the old price. E. H. BAKER Montreal and Charles St, Phone 1263. Cor. CRAWFORD Begs to Notify His Customers . that commencing May 1st. ' COAL SALES Will Be For CASH At price cenrrent for the month when the order is given. The Coal situation in the United States compels this ac. tion, Foot of Queen St. Phone 9.