he YEAR 84: NO. 1 WAR RESOLUTION OF WESTERN LIBERALS Says the Sword Will Not Be Sheathed Until the Allies Win a Lasting Vic- . Winnipeg, Man., Aug 9.--The followed with the suggestion that Dr. win-the-war resolution was given. to! Neely's motion should receive the ad- the convention as soon as the even-| dition of the words "by compulsion ing session was ppened last night.| if necessary." The speaker sa'd that Dr. D. B. Neely, M.P. of Humboldt, be wished 'the resolutjon to include was selected as the chief mover of the principle in order thas all Lib- the resolution. His gpeech was the!erals might be represefited by it. Mr, feature of the entire day's proceed-| Turriff made a strong defence of his ings. He pletured the present seri- position in the House against Sir W.i- ous ngtional crisis in Canada, and, frid¢ Lauriér and in favor of conscrip- laid the blame for it at the door of, tion. Reviewing his own record, Mr. the Borden Government. Reviewing! Turriff said that he had always fol- the period that had passed eince the 1owed his party in everything, had last extension of parliament, he prais- even placed party interests first. Now ed Sir Wilfrid Laurier for his patri-' he stood absolutely true to his own otism in in facilitating that first ex-| conscjence and with a full apprecia- tension. It was impossible, however, tion of what it meant to break with for Liberals to approve of an exten-| one's party. He said that he had salon fow, That would be sanction-| gone to Sir Wilfrid and urged him ing the evil administration of the last! to recommend a thorough trial of three years, and especially of the voluntary enlistment, but to say that past fifteen months. Premier Borden's' fadling voluntary enlistment he sudden precipitation of conscription would support the idea of cothpul-| on May 18th, was described as "no-igory gervice. Sir Wilfrid bad re- thing short of an insult to the Liberal fused. "My Quebec friends wafited members of Parliament." Union g0v-| 4 referendum on conscription before ernment had been rendered , impos- | expressing their support of it," said sible. The position of those Western: My Turriff "but that would have mombers who differed with Sir Wil-| meant that every slacker between the frid Laurier on the conscription is- : 1 and the Pacific, ns sue was defended. "They did the only or 30 ey ows | Atlantic vould have voted against the war." thing they could do," he said, "and | would: have B a acted entirely on the strength ¢| In conclusion the member for ponecion re Ol! Assiniboia urged union Government, Seathing reference was made to the "Die expressing his knowledge that whitewashing' of Hon, Robert ROE: | foie i rojo) wis dd ers. "Was that an earnest endeavor] rar no anlivard e of the Prime Minister to extend a} dows, Mr. Turift Tereived ah ove, cordial offer of union government to| ion in recognition of his courageous Western Canada' asked the speaker. | expression of opinion. The fact that no concrete proposals f IF, H. Clarkson of Melville second- of such a government were before the #3 the amendment, country today made it necessary for| 'George P, Smith of Camrose, Al {he Liberals to prepare to lay the Derta, spoke very briefly in orposi- evils of the Borden Administration' ton to the Turiff amendment, ex- before the people. Could not the for-| Pressing satisfaction .with the Neely tunes of a union government be het-| Wotion, ter left to Liberal leaders? We are not of the breed that takes up arms in defences of liberty only to lay them! down before the victory is won." v The Neely Resolution. The Neely resolution passed in the following terms: In this war for defence of democ- racy against military despotism the | conditions call for the putting forth 'by each allied belligerent of its full] power as the only assurance of vie: tery. In times of peril the entire re- "sources of the country, moral and material, man-power and wealth, are | justly disposable hy the State for. the | preservation of its national liberties, ressive ideas. {The imperative duty of the people of less he middle have ean, i Jthak} Canada today in regard to the war is was a visitor at the front trying tf ons anq vigorous proseet- do my bit | : 35 from Canada, As disciore of vas, (1) BY conferring with tho, British spirit 'lof Canada first, 1 have no fear, SO'°rnment for the purpose of de- that Liberalism will fail in its duty| [MIloly ascertaining the scope and in mattaining the strength of the character of the services that can men at the front. The resolution | 70% be rendered by Canada in the which I shall present to you may not onduct of the war, cover everything you may desire, but | (2) By the maintenance, in unim- it does make pamitive the necessity of DAITed strength at tne front, of our insuring the presence of Canada on|[8htInE forces, and the taking of all the battle line when victory will have 908 necessary to secure required re- frowned the efforts of the allies » | Mforcements, for for, this purpose. Lieut. C. B. Relity of Calgary. a (3) By organizing the productions returned soldier, Seconded A e of our other contributions to the v's speech iti & few Awords 'He cata | WAT: such as food, munitions and that he had hed the : i ' other war necessities, upon lines of crossing No Man's Lad. into oe the greatest efficiency. German oe ah the H (4) By the complete extinction of "Whrow ah, Seeing ok Un | profiteering in all business having "ne a Han and cry "Kem-ii, qo with munitions and the neces Srl oid Canada's duty 40 stay | saries of Iie] if necessary, by the na nls a until the whole tionalization of these industries, or by ¥: 5 it to. its knees and is tho adaptation of the British system orvig kamerad," he concluded. of control of controlled = establish- os : ments. Compulsion, if Necessary. (5) By the recovery for the public J: G. Tarfff, M.P., of Assinibold, 'treasury 6f undue profits obtafned ; Need Not Fear Liberals, "You need have no fear of the sin- cority of the presecution of this war by the leaders of the Liberal party.| The strength of that Libera) thove- ment will depend largely upon strong representation . of Liberals from the West who will'go to Ottawa to enforce the adoption of their pro- i WAR STAB . | Plateau, but they were repulsed Daily British French. als. Aug. 8.--The official state men by the War Office Wed: nesday night reads: 5 © *"The artillery activity was rather violent in the region of Pantheon and la Royere farm, as well as on the right bank of the Meuse in the regio the Caures Wood and in the sector." - "In the early 'of last night there was marked activity of the ar- tillery of Both sides over the great: est part of the Aisne front. Detach- ments of the snemy tried to reach our lines to the east of Vauxaillon and to the west of the Californie in-the« Livan Fos far Resolution: Reve to, Put 4 Fine; Incidents ".Cogvention: The our fire. § é "North 'of St.. Mihiel and in Ypper Alsace, enemy surprise attacks were repulsed. The night was calm on the rest of the front." : & « Halian. Rome, Aug. 8.--Wednesda: Otfice report says: on "On the Trentino front yesterday y's War reconnolitring parties led to minoi encounters between patrols. On the Carso our concentrat fire damaged and Harassed the en eniy &nd drew his fire. Our batter-. les answered with accurately direct rod salvos. vo ; r "On Monday and yesterday bombing flights, notw 'heavy anti-gireraft fire, ur tons o turned safely to their bases." ' FT ---- : greater. activity on the port of ourf} ol sl ongly probable. b PAGES 18 "KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST -9, 1917. LADY BYNG, MAJOR-GENERAL TURNER V.C., LORD BEAVERBROOK, LADY JURNER. Canadian war. pictures. «Lady E. W. Turner is head of the C adian wonder. A group of perséns prominent in Cahadian affairs were he ré pictured at an exhibition of yng is the wife of the former Canadian commander. sir nn. nadian army in England, and Lord Beaverbrook is the Can- > since the beginning of the war by the exploitation of the interests of the geonle for the present requirements of the State. =~ (5) By the application of a combin- ed system of sharply graduated tax- ation upon incomes and excess profits which shall insure that every citizen phall bear his or her full share of the war burden, according to his or her means. (7) By thoroughly organizing the pation and carrying out this program by whatever means may be necessary Yor its accomplishment. Other Resolutions Passed, State ownership and operation of ld-storage plants was recommend- The Government was stamp out combines in trade. * The Government's prorcual to. pay an abritrated price for the "C.N.R. common stock was condemned, ! A tax on war profits for the dura- tion of the war was advocated, he convention went on record as approving of an incthe-Brit- $h preférence to 50 per cent. of the I tani, "with a view 'to ulti- mate free trade with Great Britain," the latter phrase heing added in the convention as an amendment. . The tariff resolution also approved of im- portant atlditions to the free list. The resolution on banking approv- ed the creation of a national bank and the formation of a Commission with wide powers to control the systems of the country. Amid great enthusiasm the wes- tern Liberals to-day voted a complete urged to restraint of course. f *® - - Together By Governor {Special 'to the Whig.) Ottawa, Aug. 9. -- Sir - Robert Borden, Sir Wil- frid Laurier, Lord Shaugh- . nessy, Sir Lomer Gouin, and Sir Clifford Sifton were all summoned fo special ' conference with the Governor-General in Rideay Hall today, and while' nothing official is ven out .it is understood hat the JSrihos com- exily o e¢ present : Political situation brought .. about this conference. «It. is thought certain here now that tlie union government scheme is all off, following the western liberals' practical endors- ation of Sir Wilfrid Laur- ier, with his leadership, if 10t his policy of referen- m. That being the case, inet reconstruction from within the nea party is iney e an * tlech on at once is Called men who eonferred endorsation of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's |' policies: and confidence in his future MISS RANKIN ASSAILS »THE "COPPER TRUST" The Congresswoman Demands Federal Control of the Cop~ per Mines in West. TWELVE LIVES ARE SACRIFICED "== Smgrs™ : | legislation to enable the President sh to take over and operate for the na- tional defence the copper mines in Arizona and Montana whee strikes are now curtailing production, Miss Jeanette Rankin, member of gress, made her first set speech in the House on Tuesday. [ | | | | | { 1 { i i When the Schoober George A. Mar Foundered Im Lake Ontario. Miss Rankin was heard by crowd- TRAGEDY IN THE STORM 5. TWO SURVIVORS REACHED LAND | 0,00 of the House who is how in ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. | Washington. She was liberally ap- The Schooner Batted With the trust." Stormy Sea -- Had Ooal For Rock- { wood Hospital -- Strvivors Pick- | HALTON WOMAN ed Up -- A Dead Child in the Lit- tle Boat, | enc » DROWNED Capt. J. Smith, wife and five child- ren, of Belleville, William Watkins, mate, of Belle-| ville, George Cousins, deck Belleville. 5 Mrs. McLennan and child. # Ny Next Lord Mayor of London. | reason to expect that the next Lord hand, ' Canadian. C. A. Hagson, MP. for | men of the City of London who are | eligible for the high office and the DIED. FROM EXPOSURE | probabilities are that he will Child of Mr, and Mrs. McLennan. SAVED i William Smith, the brother of Oapt. Smith, of Belleville, and Mr. of Belleville. Mansion House in November next. of Hanson Bros., of Montreal, Mr. Hanson is widely known in Canada. He married a Halton (Ontario) ---- 11 lady. Twelve persons lost their lives, whé®t the George A. Marsh, a three- masted coal schooner, of Belleville, foundered between Nine Mile Point and Pidgeod Island, at 5 o'clock on! Wednesday morning in a strong gale! which swept Lake Ontario fort twenty-four hours or more. } Mel British Wheat Crop Enormous. London, Aug. §.--<In" a h winding mip with debate on the torn the Board of Agriculture, is. the worst which has occurred on this part of the lake in many years, was received late on Wednesday af ternoon; from the Whig's correspon- dent at Bath. Early Wednesday morning a report wes received here about a schooner having been sunk, but although 'inquiries were made at variouq places, the name of the ill- fated vessel could not be sécured. 'Out of the foufleen people who Were one the coal schooner, but two were saved, Mr. McLennan, husband of the woman who went to a watery! J cotton supply required Britain last year. pi | plauded as she assailed the '"'copper TO BE LADY MAYORESS Anglo-Canadian - {0---be the London, Aug. 9. There is every of | Mayor of London will.be an Anglo- 'Bodmin, is the senior of nine alder» h be | i elected in September to enter the As a former member of the firm Winnipeg, Aug. 9.--The western Liberals refuséd to directly endorse congeription or compulsion in the war resolution. The Laurier faction secsmetl to be winning out, When Hon. G. W_ Brown present- od a resolution calling for control of combines of which he said the bank- ing system is the greatest, he said: bine is linked up with it. Do you suppose that Sir Thomas White would occupy tae position he does to- day if he did not stand 'well with the five or six men who author the bank- ing interests of Canada, who curtail the money of Canada which is really your money? He Is the appointee in the Borden Government of the Banks of Canada." A * It had been pogsible-in the. past for Canada to be "profiteered" hy | the interests without feeling it very much, but with the burden of war longer the case. We have been told that to win this war we need to send another 100,000 soldiers across the water. I would go further than that, and say that before this was is over | we will have to put on the altars of ! this country the entire wealth of the country as well as its entire man- (hood. Any country which submits Con- to combines are a slave-ridden peo- [ ple. They represent the ardly way of stealing that you ean [tmpose upon the people." | Brown Given Ovation. Mr. Brown was given an ovation COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN KING'S PROPRIETY Prince Henry Deliberately Mis- stated-Faots-of the Cone - ference. (Special to the Whig). London, Aug. 9.----Complete confi- dence was expressed to-day that with {the inquiries in the House of Com- mons as to the assurante the Kais- er claimed King George gave him that England would keep out of the war, it will be, found that His Maj- esty acted with all propriety. Unofficial statements to-ddy were that Prince Henry had undoubtedly deliberately misstated the facts re- lating to his conferences with the King. regu cesses NO BELGIAN ANNEXATION. Germany Made the Promise to tain in 1914. Aug. 9.-Lord Robert Minister of Blockade, stated Bri Lotidon, Cecil, production bill in the House of Com- | yn the Housé of Commons that, so mons, R. E. Prothere, resiagnt of far as he was aware, the German po t that if the bill succeeded to the \ | extent anticipated in adding 'to the News of this awful tragedy, which | home-grown wheat acreage, there would be released sufficient tonnage | whatever to an to bring from America the entire put from the temor of communica- by Great Government had been careful not to remind the world that they had ex- ,pressly promised In 1914 to Great {Britain not under any pretence nex Belgian territory; tions emanating from sources ap parently inspired, this was a pro- mise which, if they could, they pro- posed to repudiate. Replying to a suggestion that the new German Government should be as whether they adhered to fhis edge, Lord Cecil said that the Brit- Government had no means of communicating with the German ent. y ) War Tidings. u REFUSED T0 PUT CONSCRIPTION IN The War Resolution Before the Liberal Con- vention in Winnipeg---The Control of Combines. "More than that, every other com-| financing on the country this was no | most cow- | 'grave, and whose two children were also vi + the Duke of Devon- this morning were rs of conscriplionist iptionist ries. ng at His Ex- icy's invitation is re- das highly signifl- Russia's troops have again as- sumed the defensive on the Austrian Several villages [Show a decrease in the submarine "he Germans are trying to cut oft Russians in the Catpathians and Rumania in * b~ London, Aug. 9. Reuters corres pondent at British Army Headquar- LAST EDITION mm {when he declared that "Were it not | for the legal stealing and mismanage- { ment of the people's money the boys | would bg coming forward today for | endistment in numbers far exceeding {the number required." Instead of {that he said the Government is re- warding "the men who are fattening on the men in the trenches of Flan- ders." |" Hoi, Dunéan Marshall, Minister of ('Agriculture for Alberta, declared | that this way of killing countries and | municipalities would be to destroy {the mother of them, which 1s "pro- {recting." (Loud applause). But in {Canada it seemed to be necessary to destroy protection by slow strangula-~ tion so her children may be attacked {in the meantime. Free tradé in { banking, for instance, would do much to remedy banking troubles. Against Banks and Bankers, The convention's hete noir seems y to be banks and bankers. The only i resouition not accepted holus bolus to date and sent back to committee for revision was that having to do 'with the banking system. The dele- | sates resent the arrogance of the ! hanks, which charge for money more | than twice what they pay for it. They {resent the huge and ornate bank | buildings ,the red: tape invplved in seeing high officials, and thé lveried | attendants. They also gave an en- | thusiastic reception to a delegate who attacked Sir Thomas White as |"the banking representative in the { Borden Government. | The convention is out and out for public ownership, but the details of the C.N.R. purchase do not suit it. = 20 --------------. TOWNSHIP OLERK i IN ROLE OF SNIPER ' Exchanges Shots With Dyna~ Cornwall, A «~The town hall ;at Osnabrook Celitre was burned to the ground Sunday night. The fire is supposed to have been of incen- | diary origin. An old unoccupied i hall, formerly used as an Orange Hall, was also burrned, and the Episcopal church was scorched. H:. E. Hodgins, township elérk, heard a sound like a blast going off at a small' bridge near his home. He went to investigate and saw three men at the bridge. They fired at him, and he went to a neighbor, pro- cured a gun and also on the men. After an exchahgs of a few shots the strangers made off in the ark. German advices say ile submarine will concentrate against British slips A total of twenty-thiée {sols were sunk by | ines last week. DAILY MEMORANDUM Limestone Lodge, No, 91, AO.UW. meets to-night, § ovliek. tor provaniitien. © rend corner, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIO Is on Sale at the Following Olty Stores. Ahern, J hy Ir. ooo 308 Best wh ves- T= DIED. ingston, : Aug. af fg of OMver rances Marshall, relict of Jat Charles Marshall, Mary's, Sat. a ""n A Remains to taken to StL Mary's Funeral (private), " Tw MunoRIAN : ving mensory' af our mother, ° Mre I Co ERO, who died AGEN MWARSHALL--In #th, 191 Chown, Sth, 1516