PAGE FOUR The British Whig 84TH YEAR. mh Published Dally and SemiWeekly by THE WRITIE WHIG PUBLISHING NW €0., LIMITED. lg. G BlMott ... .... President Coman A. Guild , aging Direct and Sec.-Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dadly Edition) June year, delivered in city Ome year, if paid in advance .... One year, by mail to rural offices ma your United States ..... «9 50 | REPRESENTATIVE Peter #t. TIVE | . 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. MONTREAL R ce Owen 123 St TORONTO REPRESENTA . Ifoy .. TE. Attached 1s one printing offices in -- of the best job Canada, The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG 1s Sutigntiontes by the ! Audit Bureau of Ctrculatio; LAURIER AGAINST RACIALISM. Sir Wilfrid Laurier is in Toronto conferring with the liberal leaders there with regard the political situation. He has been grossly mis. represented and maligned all along, and has held hig peace. He may eventually = retire from public life rather than participate in an .ele~ tion upon the conditions of which he does not approve. He was not in favor of conspription ®arly in the | year. Neither was Sir Robert Bor- den. Both gave Thelrwords that it would not be resorted\ to without consultation with the pkople. The premier has receded trop this: con Sir Wilfrid says \ne is will to dition, ing to abide by tha decision of the eleciors, whatever that may be, and that without a referendum cn day what they desire. That was the attitude of Sir Wil frid All through the last session of parliament, When the Military Service Act wase finally adopted, however, after a tempestuous seige of several weeks, he annéunced that he was In favor of its enforcerient. It was the law of tha country, and expressed the authority and wi'l of panjiament,. and he has a profound regard for them. The Ottawa Citizen, an independent paper, and probably speaking on the matter hy the book, reports that the French Canadians later were anxious . that Sir Wiltrid should announce hom- seif against the Military Service Aci. He respectfully and Smphati. | cally declined to do so. The Citizen #oes further and adds that *e Yiade it clear that ~e was not going into an anti-conscription campaien, ang for this noble and independen: course he must be warmly applaud ed. Tn contemplating the events of the last six vears one can admire and commend Sir Wilfrid for lis very manly ¢onduct. In 191! when he favored reciprocity he was, in Quebec, accused of many a'roclons | things. The Nationalists charged | that he was puilty of cruel designs upon his counirymeu. The Borden party co.opera'ed with them im the Mmeanast racial appeal of wiieh there is a record. The combination won out and Sir Robert Borden truckled to nationalism as long and as far as he codld. Having served his purpose he now repudiates them and ¢ppeals to all others for his salvation. It is a pitiful plea for a re- Dutably great man. In the strongest contrast stands Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who has always refused to debase himself by mefarious appeals to raclalism. It would be just like him to leave public life rather than to compromise himself with any party now. no one a Tt is just possible that the Bor- den plan of building a new cabinet may not work out. Some of the new men in the government may not be quite acceptable to those who will go in later. Then what? OPERATING ELEVATORS. The strike of elevator employees at Fort Willlam and Port Arthur in. volve a complete interruption in the traffic of the Great Lakes, and at a . time when, If continued, the results would have been, most deplorable. The Whig has at different times wit. nessed the throbbings of trade at these Lake Superior ports, has seen the hundreds of men, principally foreigners, at work, constituting a force which appeared to be docile acting could the effect under imagine, now- | would be if | illiterate men, the wheat | an and the Mother | he Government contem e end 'would be of strike go on, and, tard- in with a re | placed the power in the nan of the Graia | as he liked, even taking over the] employing the offi- to operate them. | by order-in-council, | respective man- | do, in the way terms with the men. But | for contestation | it is a time for | compromise. reasonable - ar rangement will approved which will keep the elevators in operation at time and the grain moving towards the seaboard. spokesmen, supply aa Count letti enough, stepped It hands of the ily medy. elevators and eials and Th dictator may men do what the agements would not of making this is=not a tinie or dispute; rather Any be i this Educational League Franchise Act as it| passed the Commons, "it tampers with the These are the words | of the chairman of a meeting in To. ronto Mrs. Ralph Smith ad- The is against been Political the has by and because democracy." which dressed. REGULATING THE MILLERS, The government done some- thing towards regulating the mili. | ers and the cost of flour. The owy- | ers of a mill which is capable of | turning out one hundred barrels of | flour per day will have to secure a| license, practically to do business, | and agree to do certain things, to | wit, produce flour of three grades | from different brands or blends of | wheat, and fyle every month with | has work. His profits will be limited | to twenty-five cents per barrel of! flour and offal from the wheat. The margin looks small, but it is esti- mated that the millers will elear up between tHree millions and four millions of dollars per annum, and this will remove them from the possibility of suffering. The one unsatisfying fact is the declaration that at the present price of wheat the cost of flour must be about $11 per barrel. "The profit limiting or- der will, therefore, not chafige ex- isting prices materially," is the sum. mining up of the Toronto Mail, and it is very sympathetic in its attitude towards the government and its re gulations. r EDITORIAL NOTES. The dictator at Fort William and Port Arthur will have extraordinary power. He can imprison any one who refuses to obey his orders. This power is safe enough with a discreet man. Russia's calamities have been succeeding each other very rapidly, and one of the greatest is the an- nouncement that Kerensky, the last hope, is a failing man, through ill health. What about the cards which the women of the city have been asked to sign and having relation with the conservation of foods? Is anybody following up the procedure and see- ing that the pledges are being kept? A chapter of gossip over the out- look of the conservative party ' in Kingston, and the curious ambitions | of every local man, would make very interesting reading. A chiel's amang you takin' notes, and he may prent them. The manager of the Willlam| Davies Company does not appear to worry over his alleged indictment for manipulation of trade. A prose. cution of any friend of the govern- ment, even the biggest profiteer, is not to be expected just now. New York has the most expensive base ball outfit in America, and it has a champion team. Chicago has a less expensive club, the White Sox, which Is the champion of its class, and may become the cham- pions of the world. Its stam In the final series of games is promising. In this assertion of Mr. Guthrie correct? "Many of the alien ene. mies came to this new country as part of the German policy of world conquest, so that Germany might have friends here when she needed them. Pieces of paper is the shape of natuarlization will not make good Britishers of them." These people largely came to Cabhada un- der the auspices of Sir Clifford Sif. ton. What do you think of it? 's (Montreal Star) "Let us gnash our teeth and not say a word about peace," says Hin- denburg, It always is safer to stop talking while gnashing the teeth, One Kind of (Brantford Expositor) It is a poor which seeks to put ¢ ! trained | | whom he held in | wil | that it | come what SR an) them a sense of pat-! to deny the riotic duty dictates. | | knowing the facts. Sir Wilfrid must { be given credit for loyalty to his con- He Loves Laurier. (Hugh Guthrie) Thera wa an in Canada wet than | pect him | declared, | taken in his no Sir Wilfrid Lau and [I love im "though I think he is m | opposition to conscription." Canada's Gredit Want, ( Bele : { Canada's fuel comiroller enjoys a salary of $25,000 a year from various sources, . The man who is wondering | where he Can locate a ton of coal will | be pleased to know this, as the con- | troller! will not have to worry much | abotit his own supply of coal, what- ever price it may be. | Wants a Curfew. f tM real Gazette) ew by-law proposition S | th, oppositiondn the City | it fails of emetic there till remain machinery to look | after the youngsters. The police can and do to a certain extent keep an eve juveniles in the streets at | night. Curfew legislation has not been a suc s generally, and might make little if any practical difference inthe case of Montreal, The meetin Council. If urf on Public Ownership. (Otitawa A. Holman, of New South Wales, the premier of a state where people pwn their publie utilities; and he could give an in- teresting account of what has been | done in New South Wales to develop | Citizen) Hon, W, the | national service rather than private | | gain in the essential war industries | Commonwealth. and supplies of the CONTEMPORARY oPINION| Sir Wilfrid True. Ottawa Citizen, Ind The fac are that a Quebec wing of the Liberal party insist upon the leader agreeing to rescind the con- scription measure, and to make this 'the government a statement of his | promire to the Quebec element be- | fore the election. With anti-con- | scription as a war cry, the Province, | this element asserts, could be swept for the Liberals, but Sir Wilfrid has, | according to the best information, ab- solutely refused to agree to this pro- position. He takes the stand that con- scription fs nowsthe law of the land, must be obeyed, and that, | may, it must stand on the statute books fo far as the call- ing to the colors of the required hunidred thousand men is concerned. "The Liberal leader has placed his alternative before the Quebec section. If this element wil not accept his views the will at once step down. Only on condition that the law as it stands will be respected and obeyed in Que- bec will Sir Wilfrid retain the lead- ership. This ultimatum of the Liberal leader has brought about the present crisis in the fortunes of that party. It is not related insany way fo the appointmént of certhin nominal Bib- erals to office'in the present Adminis. tration, and has no reference what- ever to Union Government. If the Quebec Liberals fall into line Sir A Ai | wirrria will { land. His position in this matter must {that { the support, of the anti-conscription | element. | choose?" asked Mr. Guthrie. | frid suffers none in comparison with continue as leader; if not he will abdicate. "The public will be interested in victions and respect for the law of the immeasurably increase his influence in all parts of the Dominion outside] the Province of Quebec, and even in part of the country his stand must entitle him to the respect, if not The Citizen has differed with Sir Wilfrid's views of the con- scription measure, but Tecognizes that in the present instance he is showing hini€el?t above party in- fluences, and that he is prepared to leave political life rather than pre- cipitate confusion, if not worse, im this country by an abuse of power." Not Good Taste. indsor, Record. Hugh Guthrie, Liberal member for South Wellington, who parted with Sir Wilfrid Laurier, on conscription, is reported as saying his former lead- er had with him all the pro-Germans, slackers and dynamiters, Laying down the two policies (the military service bill of Sir Rob- ert Borden and the anti-conscription stand of Sir Wilfrid Laurier), which do you think the kaiser would Ww This statement is rather harsh, and comes with bad grace from a former supporter of Sir Wilfrid. It wasn't necessary for Mr. Guthrie to go that strong. A Tory might talk like that and get away with #t. Many Liberals were like Mr. Guthrie. They were sorry to disagree with Laurier, but they still loved their old chief Apart from conscription, Sir Wil- Sir Robert Borden for ability as a statesman, and his record of 40 years in the house of commons--15 as pre- mier in Canada's brightest days--is not excelled by any living parliamen- tarian, Conscription Liberals are at liberty to think otherwise than Sir Wilfrid on the military service act, but they needn't foul their own nest by throw- ing dirt at the veteran leader, one of the greatest men Canada has pro- duced, IN MAKINE CIRCLES Movements of Vessels in and About; Kingston Harbor: | The tug Davis and barge, arrived | with about 140 tons of coal off the| steamer Keystone, i The "steamer Jeska arrived at| Crawford's wharf, with a cargo of} coal; from Chariofte.* The steamer Jex cleared Monday for Oswego. M. T. Co's Bulletin: The steamer India arrived with. the barge Bacon, from Port Colborne, grain laden; the tugs Bronson and Glyde arrived from Montreal, with light barges; the steamer Joyland transhipped a cargo cof grain from Port Colborne and cleared for Port .Colborne. Canada Steamship Lines: Steam- er Rideau Queen from Picton to Kingston and retyrn; steamer Had- dington passed on her way from Montreal to Erie; steamer City of Ottawa on her way from Montreal to Hamilton and Toronto, Rippling Rhymes are blazing, and quility amazing. drifting. on the us. I aye with trifles f I sit and watch ting, keep tab on Jupiter and Mars, and watch the dog : I count the mountains of the through cloudland"s shreds and tatters, and do not star setting. care a picayune sit and watch the mob go past me, erowding, straining, and hear a'laugh, a sigh, a sob, a curse and much complaining. They fuss grieve, and try to bilk the neighbor; and nothing achieve is worth the sweat and labor, and fret and chafe and that they may Amn. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN SERENITY I sit and sizzle in my grease when summer days blows that makes my heart less merry. Not heat or cold or rain or snow, should make us sad or joyous. We should not let a tinhorn woe distur' us or annoy The mind that dwells on cheap john things, that's wings, friamphant and elated; the next it's shaken off all mirth, it's like a raven croakin' it drags itself along the earth, its pinions crushed and:broken. yet my soul is filled with peace, tran- I sit and shiver when the snows are prairie; the wintry tempest never reighted, one minute soars on shining At night the stars, earth's little things forget- moon, for any worldly matters, Serene I --WALT MASON. 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