PAGE FOUR Epy---- The British Whig 84TH. YEAR, gL) A Published Dany and Semi-Weekly by TEE BRITIS WHIG PUBLISHI 00, LIMITED. . Eliott ..... President A Gul .,. 'Managing Directdr d Sec.-Treas. uBR RATES Dally Edition) Ome year, ately J ih city "ee 6.00 One year, If paid in advance 5.0 o Jaz, by mail to rufal offices $2.50 to United States .....J2. apkly Edition) three months pro fia? MONTREAL REPRLSENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen 123 St. Peter St. cTSRONTO REPRESENTATIVE F.C. Hoy, ... 1006 Traders Bank Bldg. ITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE: .R.Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave, Ney York F.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bidg., Chicago -------------------------------- Attached is one he best Jol of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG Is author? by the ( Audit Bureau of Circulations, p, ------ POWER OF THE PRESIDENT. The. president of the<Hnited States is personally the influential man in any nation or republic He is the dynamic force behind legislation, which, but for him, would not some- times succeed and find approval. Mr, Roosevélt wae regarded as the most forceful president that the United States ever had up to the end of his administration. Congress metaphori- cally caught its breath when on one occasion he sent. a message to the house on some important subject, and practically told its members what he They fell into most wanted them to do. line, somewhat reluctantly, of course, for the legislators disliked to have it understood that they must do the president's bidding. But no president seemed to have quite the perspicacity and persistence of Mr. Wilson. He is no academic dreamer, but a most practical man, with the power to express himself clearly. upon any subject, and with the vision that makes him to say the right thing at the right time. He got behind the Selective Draft Bill, and though some legislators baulked and stormed they realized the wisdom of acting upon his direction, and the bill was carried by a large majority. Later, and only last week, be became the sponsor of the Food Control Bill, and it practically as it was drafted gave it--his en- dorsement By the way, drastic in its character. the manipulation form---storing supplies, limiting the quantity of them, restricting their distrbution, or reducing the produc- tion or manufacture of them--an of- fence which is punishable, on con- viction, with a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for two years. The bill goes furthgr--it places in the hands of the president the power to license those who, in obedience to the law, shall be engaged in any busi- ness, and it gives him authority to pass regulations which will make conspiracy to defeat it impossible. A dead set was made upon these fea- tures, but it failed when the presi- dent gave the house to understand he desired them passed. Great is the president, therefore, and greatly to be respected. passed because he the measure is very It makes of foods in any Rev, Dr. "Williams writes to the papers to say that he was only re- cruiting among the English-speaking people of Quebec, But he was adver- tised as Canada's chief recruiting of- ficer. Which was a mistake? GOVERNMENT, SHOULD CONTROL. The labor department of the fed- eral government has made a report upon the cold storage comverns of Canada, and the impression has been given that it does not reveal any thing alarming. No? Well it show- ed this: That the one hundred odd plants handled during the year 46,,- 000,000 Ibs. of butter, 70,000,000 Ibs. of cheese, 28,000,000 dozens of eggs, and 189,000,000 Ibs. of beef, on which the profit was. $4,750,000. The only way to determine whether these cold storage plants are an ad- vantage or a disadvantage to the people is to put them under govern- ment control. They were subsidized originally for what seemed to be a very wise purpose, namely, to pre- serve and protect and save to the community the foods that would oth- erwise be lost. There are times when the market is glutted with certain articles, and, after the people have -been supplied at reasonable prices-- » of {under | maintain the { storfige institutions has 'been in vain. (comp | tained the quantities of certain goods | whigh have been {and | cleared. | by the question. Have the goods been | cornered lana sometimes these fall when the {supply is generous or plentiful--it is | well that the sipplies can be put in Sooner or later the and the storage and kept demand for this will revive, sale be made at lower figures cold storage are circumstances, used the long a plant these for preservation of perishable goods, well and good But if they are used as a means to an end and that end is to high of government the object the cold prices, in aiding has only ac- it has ascer- The labor department lished one purpose: placed in sterage, profits which have been The other phase is covered the in the interests of high prices? An answer is desired. | there was a faint attempt to the French, by French-Can- but that was after the serious by Yes, recruit adian officers, situation had been made the faulty work of others, OUR PATRIOTIC FUNDS, The finance minister promises that some of the demands for a conscrip- tion of wealth have been heard be- cause certain reputably wealthy men have ignored the Red Cross Society and its needs of assistance. He has suggested that in any new system of taxation those must be exempted who have generously contributed to the patriotic funds. That would be way of making what are called our tight-wads loosen up. If they do not subscribe liberally to the pa- triotic cause they will be touched the heavier in general taxation, and to the end that there may be an equal- ity of burden bearing. There is a (feeling extant--and it is growing from day to day--that there is more money making in business to-day than there was before the war, and men are giving evidence of it in the prodigality of their expenditures. They are enjoying themselves to a rare exteat, while their fellows fight their battles, and the spectacle is hav- ing its irritating effects. one That "Uncle Sam is tired, and that if will be too That will What's this? getting slow and he does not look out he late to get into the war. never do. SINN FEINERS' TROUBLES. The government released the Stan Feiners unconditionally. Some of them had been committ #0 prison for serious offences. THe rebellion in Dublin was attended by a sad loss of life, and a contingency of this kind could not be easily overlooked or forgotten. At the same time it ap- peared that the Irish convention, for a free, untrammeled, and friendly in- terchange of sentiments, on the sub- ject of Home Rule, could not be ex- pected while any class was chafing under the restraints of government. The liberality shown towards the Sinn Feiners has been badly requitted. The raising of the republican flag; the violence of the mobs; the attacks on the recruiting offices; the resort to machine gun fire, with all that this implies, all imperils the success of the convention and cast a gloom over the whole of Ireland. The events of the last week add to the sorrows of the Irish people. EDITORIAL NOTES. Horse racing has been suppressed in England. It will not be resumed until after the war, and only then in the interests of Horse breeding, France sets an example to the Al- lies. So impressed has been the gov- ernment with the universality of sac- rifice that since since the war began it has not conferred civil distinctions upon anyone. France becomes a model in this respect. » The Food Control Department of the United States will not lack for the sinews of war. The bill in its favor is accompanied by an appropri- ation of $1562,000,000. Hoover, with all this money at his " command, should make things hum, The liberal premier of England is hearing from the liberal party tor his willingness to make hereditdry earls and viscounts and barons while he is fighting the hereditary system, and "dealing faithfully with the dukes." No person seems to be free from awk- ward ambitions. -------------- Rev. (Capt.) Cameron, of T6Fonto; after a short visit to his home, goes back to the trenches. He says the church cannot deal with the réturned soldier on the old basis. He has the spirit of the crusader, and will rally only to the church militant in its at- titude towards the forces of evil. -- A writer in the London Chronicle protests against the practice of af- fecting with Britain's musty feudal- ism, class prejudices and class dis- tinetions, the self-governing domin- ions, "whith ought to be pure and clean democracies of the modern type." This is pungent, to say the least of it. 7 ------------------ Certainly Did. : From Pearson's Wewkly "When she hit him with the golf ball, did it knock him senseless?" "I think.sa. kL understand, they are soon to marry." | So THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1917. WRLC OPNON | wld Laying in of Hands. (Peaterboro Examine An Anglican Synod has the conscription of wealth holy hands laid upon the ark of con- scription. voted for more un- Couldn't Take n. (Brantford Cou A despatch from Monte al late Senator MacKay "left" 000 Evidently he did not of it with him. says the $50,000,- take any Close Comrades, (Brantford Expositor The relations between Sir Sam Hughes and Premier Borden seem to be about as cordial as those which usually exist between an iceberg and a seething flame a ------ Ten Years Hence. (Winnipeg Free Press) Ten years hence no Canadian will] care to be reminded that in the Great War, when men died by tens of | he was the con sands for liberty, of the unconscious agent thou scious or Kalger , fr ns ; of Titles. (Toronto News) i nquestionably the man who worries himself to sécure a title or a baronetcy or a peerage is a foolish | person. a title has little social, or political value." Too Much Senate. (Toronto Telegram) country would sooner This lished at Ottawa than help build up| an Imperial Senate or Pan- Britannic | House of Lords to be established at! London, England De| pending « on Canada. (Exchange) . Lord Rhondda, the new British | Food Controller, points out that the provisioning of the Allies from 'this time forward depends mainly upon | Canada and the United States. This fs a fact that should curb extra- vagance and stop waste until the war, is over. HELPING RED CROSS WITH GREAT GIFTS \ Montreal Gdgette. Fifty wealthy bupiness men in Buffalo will meet together for the purpose of eating a dinner that will cost each of them $10,000. Five hundred thousand dollars will be the gross amount, and this magnificent sum is to be handed over to the Red Cross Society to be spent for the benefit of the. brave boys who are battling on land and sea to redeem the world from the curse of Prus- sianism. The menu for the dinner will be remarkable for its simplicity, but it will live in history as one of the grandest contributions of wealth in the cause of humanity. Those wealthy business men ¢ould have quietly drawn their checks for $10,- 000 each and said nothing about it; but the giving will stimulate others, and the closer -men of the world draw to each other the sooner may we look for the millennium. Thank God for the hig-hearted wealthy men and women who are giving liberally to the Red Ross. ! 11,683,694--and older {up to the age of 60--ean' pass must- | private gain. He will quickly discover that! commerce ial) A [come URGENT NEEDS OF CANADA NOW awa Citizen "According to the statistical esti- cate of R. H. Coats, quoted by Sir 'Robert Borden last Monday, there are in Canada 760,453 unmar- ried men between the ages of 20 and 45, and 823,096 married men be- tween the same ages. The whole force of this nation cannot be said to be behind the men on active ser- vice until every possible man of the men at least er as being engaged in an essential war industry, if not on' "military ser- vice. But, before men in a decomeracy can be drafted imto compulsory na- tional service, the essential war in- | dustries must be actually operating service and not for Such industries as the heavy metal in- dustries and eoal mines, shipping and shipbuilding, munitions and other war supplies, and the storage of food and fuel, can be supplied with an abundance of labor from the civilian armies of men still in Can- ada. By organizing the essential i for national transportation, | tries on a war service basis, wifh 'company allowed to retain more than 7 per cent. of its annual sur- plus during the war, as the share to capital, not only would the man | power be available and the material | power mobilized, but such a demo- | cratic national effort would at once | enlist the moral power of this na- tear | '| down the Canadian Senate now estab- tion. EVADING DIVISION ON RACIAL LINES | 2 oy | Catholic Record, London, | "Partizan politieians, and, to a | more alarming degree, a partizan press, have suddenly discovered they | have been playing with fire. Even after it had become evident that mu-| | tual understanding, goodwill and co- { operation, if not coalition, had be- imperative, the discussion of the crisis was carried on with an eye [to party 'advantage, and a reckless | disregard for what all profess to be| lan issue of paramount [to Canada, and with equal disregard | for the serious mortal and material [effect it may have on the conduct of | the, war.' 'If the people of Canada voted against conscription it would estab- lish the fact that the people of this self-governing country refuse to give the government a mandate for con- scription. If conscription were car- ried, Quebec would undoubtedly abide by the result. In either case the division on racial lines which menaces the peace and unity of the Dominion would be obviated." A friend writes: It would be a good idea to put this paragraph in your window alongside the '""bullet- ins': May it not be said without irre- verenice that if Great Britain claiins dominion over the seas, if Britannia "rules the waves" it is because her A Good Idea. Rippling Rhymes old machine; mind Serene. the hole. clouds ovérhead, my biz, better cry "Hip, Hip, Hooray," by looking glum all day, so he is and sings, and says, I am inclined to whine, fierce, protesting words of mine will lift things from The weather sharp will not dispel the gray wish that I were dead. gray, continue to collect; Hooray, or words to that effect.' I cheer up other gents; they say, 'Great Scott, how blithe he is!' and borrow fifty cents. Some droop and mope because they think our war with Kaiser Nd UA, J Bill will put the country on the blink and all fair prospects kill. But moping will not help to slay a single foe, that's flat; far and let it go at that. HAPPY ANYHOW I know not how the weather man may run his I'll' be as happy as I can, and keep my Man cannot change the course of things ise who whoops Whene'er "Hip, Hip, Ho "No I murmur to my soul, because I stand around and yéll, and So let the clouds, all wet and I still shall cry Hip, Hip, Thus, as I go about --WALT MASON. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN By GENE BYRNES ONE THING ADMIRE ABOUT YOU 1S THAT YOURE A MAN OF A FEW woRrpDs! SILENCE HAS ALwA\S importance; | of Lords in legislative I rule has been the rule of absolute justice to all the nations of the earth. Truly, as has been said: -- "The sea is His; He made it; And Britain keeps it free." TO DECIDE FUTURE OF HOUSE OF LORDS A Conference is to be Sum- moned by the British Government. London, June 26.--Significant in- dication of even greater democrati- zation of the British Governmental system was contained in am an- nouncement by Bonar Law, Chancel- lor of the Exchequer, in the House of Commons yesterday that the Gov- ernment has decided to summon a conference to deal with 'the future | | composition of the House of Lords. 'The conferees will also discuss the { relation of the two Houses of Par-| liament. It was Lloyd George, as Chance'lor | of the Exchequer a few years before | the war, who put through the Par-| lament Bill mdically curtailing the | powers and privileges of the House enactment, The power of veto, which the Lords | had exercised over all legislation, was practically abolished. It was in this fashion that Lloyd George jammed through his famous tax budget biH, which had violent opposition in the House of Lords. Of late years the House of Lords has become merely an appendage of the British governing eye system. THE WORLD'S NEWS IN BRIEF FORM Tidings From All Over Told In a Pithy and Pointed Way. have vated for a strike unless an in- crease of fifty cents par day is granted, The gift of $100,000 sent by Major Napier Keefer, Toronto, to the King for use in whatever way he deemed suitable has been allocated. Grand Trunk earnings for the third week of June were $1,441,424, an increase of $288,984 over the cor- responding week of last year. The Duke of Teck takes the new title of Marquis of Cambridge and Prince Alexander of Battenberg be- comes Marquis of Carisbrooke. Two thirds of the workmen ix ihe great Berlin shops of the Prussi s'ate railroads are on strike to force their demands for a nine-nouf | day. Hughes of Australia is expected"to make the announcement shortly that the voluntary recruiting system is on its final trial, and that if it fails the meed for conscription must be again submitted to the peo- ple for their . : Rev. 8. G." nd, D.D.," Winnipeg. would like Premier Borden to call the leadérs in all Canadian circles-- govermental, labor, commercial, pro: fessional, women--to Ottawa to sult and to effect the complete Sifiowtion. of all the elements in Can- a Canada's Hot Paris, Jihe 26.--Le Journal in a highly appreciative article on Gouer- al Currie, says his talent is that he Jomats, "Canada's hot stuff-- ie, ---- Most of the things you discover are second-hand discoveries. BIBBYS Classy, Swell MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR STORE WE MEET OR BEAT ALL CATALOG PRICES. and Exclusive. New Shetland Plaids. Same style as cut. special values. The Oxford Tn The Harvard, silk lined .. .. .. Fine Overplaid and Pencil The Blazier. See Bibbys Nobby Suits. Two and $18.50 $22.50 a $20.00 $15.00 'Homespun three piece styles; light, medium and dark shades. Sale of Mens' Sample Straws. $2.00 and $2.50 Straws Regular $1.50, values. Bibbys Spec- ialprice .. .. .. .. .. 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