CEA A PT PAGE FOUR The British Whig . S4TH YEAR. mi Published Daily and. Semi-Weekly by THE BRITIS WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED. J. G. President Lema + Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) delivered in city ., h if paid In advance .... $5.00 , by mat] to rural offices $2.50 , to United States 2.50 , by mal, cagh 1.00 » it. not paid in advance $1.50 ear, to United States 1.5 X and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPR ESENTATIV B oe en ' SSRU NTO VE oC One 81 REPRESENTATIVE Attached 1s one of the best job printing offices In Canada, The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC \udit_ Burean of Circziations. tte at CRITICS AND THEIR TALK. Sir Sam Hughes is inviting the contempt of all sensibly-minded people by his destructive eriticism of the new government. It is of small account what he or anyone else thinks about it, or about the circumstances under which it was formed. There had to be a general destruction of the partition walls that divided men politically before & Union Government could be form. ed. When the walls | went down there had to be a general subsidence of current political opinion and ex. isting political prejudices, before men who had criticized each other most severely, could be expected to live and work in harmony. To meet the necessities of the hour the keenest politicians had to act as statesmen, or 'men who were willing to serve and advance the in- terests of the state rather than the party. The Union Government, un. der these circumstances, b®came an accomplished fact; and gradually the men of Canada, liberals and coh. servatives, have realized the wisdom of giving it a fair and honest trial. The spoilsmen of the tountry may rave, and to no purpose. This Union Government has been formed for a bigger purpose than to ladle out patronage, or study the ambitions of party men. The question of the hour is not, then, whether the old gOv- ernment could or could not have won in a party election. The premier, alone it is said, rose above party considerations and accepted certain, prominent and progressive liberals as his colleagues, The old parties had better forget their dreams and buckle into the fight with the de. termination that until the war is overy they have no time to think of anything else, Sir Sam Hughes is simply a dis. turber 'of the peace. He cannot de- ceive anyone with his tremendous pretentions. He had his chance to do big things and failed In many particulars. It is his part now to disappear from the public view, and feed, like aM of his kind, upon his tonceits. Hon. Mr. Meighen, too, must forget the past. He cannot minimize the influence and affection with which Sir Wilfrid Laurier has been regarded by the liberals, and through his attacks upon Sir Wil. © frid and Hons. Messrs: Calder and Crerar must havé by this time, after . their experience ih Regina with him, : will be tried out in all the depart. ments. "Hereafter," says a Toronto 'paper, (The World), which profess. 'es'to know, "there will be no patron- ing bureau. All supplies will be bought on tender after public ad- vertisement or circular addressed to all known sources of supply. ir means a saving of mHlions to the country and-adds.another potent ob- jection to any policy that favors a return to party government on the old lines." This will not be welcome news in some quarters. The men who have been selected to de Government work, .all during the war, virtually af their own prices, because they be. lofiged to the conservative party, be. cause they believed in the spoils sys- tem, because they had become so rich they could afford to give away some of their wealth, will feel that evil days has fallen upon them. They may hope that an end will come to this new order of things very soon. It may, however, last long enough, and be recognized as an improvement which the war has brought about and with every ex. pectation that it will remain. -- est, Winnipeg is the centre of politi cal confusion, with labor candidates, Laurier and union liberals, single taxers and conservatives in the field. If the electors are.queered it will not be the candidates' faults. THE PROMISE WAS DISCOUNTED Rev. Mr. Boyd made an hofiest and heroic offer to meef the re: quirements of the farmers with be- lated crops, and if he did not find conveyances and places for all who reported on Saturday for service in the field the fault was not his. Mr. Boyd is a busy man. He has many calls upon his time, but his is a keen sense of public duty and he has never hesitated about doing any- thing which has for its aim the pub- lic well-being. As a member of the Board of Trade he has been ever dttive and alert, and if all the mem- bers were similarly minded the pub- lic interests would be studied to a greater advantage. The Whig knows about the trouble he took in providing help for the farmers and sympathizes with him in any disap- pointment which attended the Sat- urday assembling of helpers. Evi. dently the promised assistance of the school boys was discounted, and this is to be gjncerely regretted. rennin The men who succeeded best with their gardens this year will prepare' now for next year's crop. 'The soil that is turned up or ridged for the winter will grow the best food later on. : A REPUGNANT TEA. It is announced that on the re- commedation of the militia depart- ment all the medical services will be placed under the direction of the Army Medical Corps. also," says the same authority, "that the Military Hospitals' Commission is 2 be changed in the readjustment as &inder the Union Government it is said to have Jost its political value." Here is the most surprising thought that the treatment of our woundec and disabled soldiers was originally committed to a commission with political designs. Can any one who is interested in this hospital work, and realizes its connection with our soeial life, imagine 'a Government that would make it contingent upon political considerations? The re. flection is repugnant in the extreme. A conservative spouter refers to the new government as a mechanical one, whatever that may be. - Who can give the correct definition? WILLISON AS A PROPHET, Sir John Willison was repudiated by the Toronto Conservative Club at ticle which he contributed to the New York Tribune, hinted that the end of the war would see the dis- appearance of the 'conservative party, and Vice-President Le Viscont wanted to know who gave him authority to speak for the conserva tive party. Who? Was Sir John not the prophet of the Borden Gov. ernment, its counsellor and friend? And since it is no more, is he not authorized to moralize as he pleases and give vent to his reflections? EDITORIAL NOTES: All must comply with the Military Ser- vice Act "just as other active militia * Judged by their vaporings, jit is {time & few political organizations in | Toronto followed the example of the | Regina 'politi-al 'organizations of and Rent out of business. | ir Sam Hughes wants to know. "%ho talked of union go of it he professes to be its supporter. "It is stated Port to interior Canada. a recent meeting. 'He had, in an ar-| 28 detached military officers} officers or as the ordinary citizen." | first." It is very certain that he| | did not, though after all bis criticism stiri condense in him The rule of the present is, and cannot be, accepted by the democracy. -- The interference of the Union Government in the 'elections i§ re. sented. At the same time it must ible, defeat of the union cause, which is the success of Canada in the war. What is Kingston's objective in the Victory War Loan, thé canvass for which begins in two weeks? Only $600,000. A lot of money? Yes, but $800,000 was subscribed on the last loan without a canvass. | PUBLIC OPINION It Must Not. {Toronto Globe) The Liberty Loan drive in the Uni- ted States is asyured of guccess. The Victory Loan drive in Canada must not fail. f i ------ | lb The War Loan Next. (Guelph Herald) Anything yo have left over after helping the Red Cross you can put in to the War Loans No man need carry a wad of money aroupd these days. Louks That Way. (Toronte, Globe) Professor Robertson says that beef will be taken offithe Canadian dietary hrext spring. Wé'may yet have to fall back on bacon. 4 ree gltebi It: Might Be. (London Advertiser) Would it not be permissible to. al- dow Sir Joseph Flavelle to deduct the amount of campaign subscription from the profitg'of the William Da- vies Company ¥* Something is Coming. (Hamilton Herald) Pretty soon Colonel Watterson's Slogan"To hell with the Hohenzol- lerns™ may be. echoed from the Ger- man warships and the German side of the battlefront. There's no telling. More German Rascality, (Ottawa Citizen) German medical agents have, been arrested in Seattle for offering to perform throat operations on men eli- gible for military service so as to render them exempt. The law might do a little throating Operating in a case like this without much com- punction. Our Girls Object. (Hamilton Herald) The most unpopular 'English news- paper amok the Canadian girls is sure to be the London Daily Mail when the girls learn that the Mail is promoting a campaign the aim of which is to marry off as many Eng< 'lish girls as possible to Canadian soldiers in England. A Very Fishy Story. (Toronto Mail) Newfoundland has piled up neatly 200,000,000 pounds of fish awaiting ships to export it. Cannot this store of food be sent to Canada? Mr, Han- na reports British agents buying up Nova Scotia fish intended for trans- Why can not the Newfoundland surplus be taken?/ There is something fishy in this situation. a i absolute THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, "MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1917. ~ BibbyS Men's and Boys' Wear Store Give this Store a Test this Fall on the Boys Clothes Proposition ! CONTEMPORARY OPINION] | The Machine at Work. [Ottawa Citizen. . { 'There are evidences throughout be interested in preventing, if poss. 1 the country that the party machine {--the Conservative party machige-- {is attempting to comtrol the new'ad- | ministration and to dictate its roster fof candidates. Some local associp- tions which have hitherto found the {disposal and dispensation of patron- {age the height of their official dut- ies have suddenly become convinced of the necessity of winning the war, { particularly since winning the war { became synonymous in their minds with the retention of their privi. |leges. Some. of these organizations lin their zeal have decided to change {their familiar appellations to 'more | high sounding fand superficially pat- { riotic titles. Tt is' the machine' ele- | ment in the new administration, or | the machine element which would | identify itself with the new adminis- tration, which constitites the real danger at this time. The way to combat this influence is to" permit | the electors free 'choice of their can- {didates. Union government mem- i will have no party patronage to dispense and wit this necessary | lubricant Jacking the local party {machines will soon find their way to ithe junk heap, where they rightfully belong in a real democracy. WILLIAM T. MINNES Who succeeas J. B. Walkem, K.C,, on the Military Exemption Board. The Lokal Anzieger of Berlin says that Maximilian Harden, whose radi- cal utterances have caused on several occasions the suspension of his news- paper, the Zukunft, has been forbid- don to deliver Tecotures. King Ludwig of Bavaria and Chan- cellor Michaelis were denounced as the two great obeticles to peace by Deputy Symon, & Socialist, in the Ba varian Diet. nal Cel, Dan T. Mdo¥e, commander of the J10th Field AMilléry at Camp Meade, Mass, , is thé man who knock- ed Teddy Roosevelt blind. He puns ished him with the gloves. 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