PAGE FOUR THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1917. commis The Bri ad 3478 YRAR. Pablished Dafly and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, i a. Flore x n A. Guna Managing and Sec.-Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 5 Daily Edition) area in city ..... $6.00 I paid in advance .... $5.00 by m&fl ¢o rural offices 2 50 to United States 2.50 by mall, cash 1.0 if not paid in advance $1.50 , to United States .50 x and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPRINT ATV B R. Bruce Peter St. TORONTO HEPREBARNTATIVE raders Bank Bley. SSTATES RRPR ERENT ATs JR.Nosthrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York P.RNorthrup, 1510 Asa'n Bldg. Chicago Attached 1s one of the best job printing offices in Canada, r ~N The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is hi by the . ABt Audit Bureau of Oireziations. EN MMI NN iM --~---- A MESSAGE TO CANADA. "I want to bring this message {o you from your boys at the front: that they have taken the measure of the Germans. I am speaking also for the British troops at the front. They have hoth taken the measure of the Hun, and no matter what | happens on the eastern front, never again will the Teuton be able to break through the western line. This winter the Hun will be fighting down in the mud and our men will be standing up on the hill. Our men are on the hil now."---Stewart Lyon in his Toronto Victory Loan Bond speech, Sir Wilfrid Laurier is not an ad- mirer of thé Miltary Service Act be. cause of its compulsory features, but in his 'Quebec speech he said the first and pressing duty of 'the people was to share 'in the war. DEPENDING ON HOT AIR. Tr now wppenrs that Kerensky has- tened his own downfall by truckling to the Bolshivikli or Maximalists, who, representing the military and workmen, demand the maximum of national rights, privileges, and pre. rogatives. When Kerensky had tried everything in the way of adminis. trative policids, and every form of government save a return to ' the antogracy of the Romanoffs, in vain, he played for public support by de- claring that "Russia was worn out by the strain and that the Allies should shoillder the burden of the war." He revealed his own as well as the country's weakness, and as fast as they could the Bolshiviki rushed results." They seized the seat of government and forced inte sub- mission all the representatives of civil and military power at Petro. grad. For a few days there was a lull in events, and that was taken ad. vantage of to strengthen their posi- tion and impress upon the army, in its disorganized condition, that re- slgtance would be a folly. The Am. erican Government had voted to Russia & war credit of $326,000,000, but had paid over only $210,000,000 when Russia as an ally failed. What #8 Russia now going to do without funds or eredit One of the first things the Bolshiviki will discover is that they cannot run 'a government on hot afr. Bourassa denounces Laurier, and still the conservative papers 'perist that they art travelling in the same -way 'in this campaign. ) TRUE TO R. The most extraordinary evidence of the political .perplexities of the} day was that afforded in the won. Yention which was called at Win dsor | and for the nomination of a Libera) can- didate. Hon. Mr. Graham wiws ore. sent by invitation, and is with two others, I ao The Proceedings were harmoni: ough until the time of vo! i Graham had been given 'a patient hearing, but he was Tere or less heckled, and at one tin ly asked who his leacier was. of} ve "ting the Union] ment of the conven clon 'was Tunning | strongly for Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and this became *panifest in the first ballot. = Gra'sam received eighty. 0 | election. only Graham and Atkin in the fie'd, the vote stood: Atkin, eighty-nine; Graham, eighty-eight. The total was one hundred and seventy-seven. The scene that followed was tumultuous. Order was complétely lost. and proceed the chairman declared the convention closed. ed the Laurier element, and it quite evident that the constituency is wedded to the "grand old man." Uncle Sam asked for three billions in his Liberty Loan campaign. He was offered $4,670,532,300, 54 per cent. more than the amount asked, of more than all the money that was subscribed in the four years of civil war. VICTORY LOAN BONDS. * True to previous arrangements, in. conformity with the plane of " publicity committee, the Victory Loan Campaign was inaugurated this morning with all the eclat which was much eppreciated. The campaign in connection with the loan will develop special means of acquainting himself | with the trend of events), it will sur- pass in importance everything else, and may even side track the federal The hope of Sir Thomas White is that the Canadian people will consider the loan their own, but they will realize the fact that they have a chance for the first tfme to participate in a transaction of this kind, and that they can, ¥ they will, subscribe a million dollars in city. The objective is $600,000, there is reason to believe that the amount will be exceeded. In con- nection with the third loan $800,000 was subscribed , in Kingston, and this but 3 there was not a canvass as in this case from house to house and for the purpose of reaching everyone who had money to invest. EDITORIAL NOTES. The United States Government will { have munitions made in Canada dur- ing the next year and to the value of many millions of dollars. This wili revive the shell business and give it a new boost in Canada. Tons of Spanish onions in Toronto going to waste after being held if f cold storage for an 'inordinate time. Oh, the scandal of it. Cannot the food controller make an example of some of these fellows? The finance niinister is authority for the statement that the Victory Loan campaign will make a Side show of the elections. It will not be surprising. The loan is all the talk, and proceedings have only coms menced. The invitation from Quebec East to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, to again con 1est the division fur the federal par- liament, was signed by seven thou- sand persons. The venerable leader of the liberal party was accorded the greatest ovation 'of his life. Paper clothing is the latest in Germany. Rough clothing is made from a paper yarn which is used like jute, and has already been put to the test in the trenches and in the homes of the people. A man's suit of paper material costs $5.00. The garments of thé women and children of the same material cost even less. Sir Wilfrid Laurier was nominated years ago; ang, most interesting of all the proceedings, the man who nominated him, the venerable Joseph on the platform. They were very proud men. Piling Up. (Hon. Mr, Garry) Canndians had "four hundred mil- lions of dollars more deposited in savings banke than when the war began. Fi No .M (Guelph Mereury) | Stulen now. We We deal in estnuts the thro! that as direct whole year Mr. "Athim, . farmer of Atkin represent- | is | | Hon. with the passing days, and, accord." ; ing to the finance minister, (who has erendum on conscription. The Hughes Ministery has given the vol- untary system another trial, without success. If this fresh demonstration of the necessity of conscription does not émsure its success at the polls Australia must drop gradually out of realizing that it was impossible to| the war. ee een Rubbing it in. (Montreal rald-Telegraph) They are talki ng of sending the Mr. Hazen to Washington to represent Canada. Would it not be the irony of fate if one of those who attained power by the use: of the slogan, "No truck or trade with the Yankees!' should be the first Cana- dian High Commissioner to the United States? ' 2 3 |} VICTORY WAR LOAN | Sir T as White. "It may mot be known generally that the Finance Depantment at Ot- tawa has handled for the Imperial Government since the war began over $1,000,000,000 in gold," he said, adding how special trains meet 'the shipments, convoyed by the navies of Britain or of Japan, at Halifax or Vancouver. A tide of gold had flowed through Canada to New York. But he entry of the United States ac- tively into the war-dand Sir Thomas paid the States a high tribute--had automatically closed the borrowing market there, as the States became the "bankers of the Allies." The Am- erican obligations for the next year were $18,000,000,000, and their ad- vances to Great Britain and the Al- lies would be more than $500,000, 000 a year. Naturally the bulk of that had to be spent in the United States, and Canada's importance in the scheme lay in the fact that she could supply the dollar credit to the Imperial Government which was so necessary. It would not do. merely to pay in pounds sterling. 'Do not fancy that Great Britain," said' Sir Thomas, with emphasis, "is at the end of her resources, Far from it, but she cannot find the dollars which must be used on this continent. It is only a matter of dollar credits on this side." "In Canada, when we floated. the first loan of $50,000,000 with hesita- tion and fear, the response was s0 good that we made it $100,000,000, and after that we followed with an Imperial credit of a second $50,000,- 000 to epable them to continue to buy the munitions in Canada, We have gone on and have now estab- Mshed a credit of $25,000,000 a month, or of $300,000,000 a year, which is for the object, I repeat, of purchasing in the Dominion. As a pantial set-off to that the British Government pays for the troops while on the other side, and in other ways the balance is struck by the system between us. We have long since overtaken the debit balance in the accounts with the mother country, and to-day the Dominion Govern- mend ia the sreditor, not the debtor, of the British Govesnment." ' wingman The Russian embassy in Washing- ton announced Saturday afternoon that it would refuse to recognize the authority of the Maximalist Govern- ment. The average man.hss~more than one kick coming--to him; jonTEmPORARY opinion} Something to Be Remembered. Ottawa Citizen. The German rush into Italy looks ominous but we are apt to overlook that the Germany of to-day is not the Germany that swept into France in 1914, or the Genmany that conquered Siberia and ocoupied Rumania with- in six weeks of the latter's declara- tion of war. Germany to-day is us- ing up her reserve strength in the attack on Italy and just to the extent that Italy avoids the blow-and makes the onrush indecisive and costly for the invader just to that degree does she weaken her assailant. The Teu- ton machine is still dangerous, it still strikes with energy but it can no longer sustain an assault. It is for this Teason that speed is vital to Germany in her Italian campaign and why delay is beneficial to Italy. The invaders are getting further from their supply bases, ad experience has shown that the great guns essential in modern warfare cannot be' trans- ported quickly, no matter how per- fect the system, Considering the relative resources of the JEntente powers and Germany it may turn out that the Teuton invasion was a particularly ill-judged expedition. The repiilde of the Italian forces and their expulsion from Austrian terri- tory, it would seem, would have served the purposes of ermany equally as well as an invasion into enemy territory which can only be carried through wat the expenditure of none too plentiful resources in men, manitions and other material, J Russia in Despair. Syracuse Post-Standard. There can be no disguising gravity of the Russian situation, The Russians held for centuries in virtual slavery by a cruel and grasp- ing bureaucracy won their indeépen- dence suddenly. In time of peace, with their neighbors helpful, their maintenance of restraint would have been a task, In time of war with a shrewd and unscrupuléus enemy working with its myraid of agents among them, as well as with its ar- mies against them, sanity became im- possible. Russia has seethed with rebellion since its sudden overturn. It has been prey {to visionaries, graft- ers and traitors, Anarchy has been throned in the garb of liberty. Kerensky has been the single per- sonality which has held the contrell- ing elements of Russia into some sort _of cohesion. He has had the support of the men who accomplished the revolution and who determined to retain its fruits against reaction- aries and red-eyes within and Ger- mans within and = without. They fhave stood with him even when he compromised. with the Socialists, who gulped without tasting the Ger- man bait of "no annexations no in- demnities."" They felt that upon him depended the maintenance of govern- ment. The unthinking: intoxicated with nostrums made 4a' Germany and drugs manufacturéd in the labora- tories of untrained imagination have unhorséd him, Petrograd has dis- missed order and' discipline and set up vain theory in its stead, Russia has ceased to be'a nation and be- the come a gollection, of independent Rippling Rhymes noise, jaws. in Quebec East on tiie anniversary of | 'his entrance into public life forty Gauthier, occupied a seat beside him | Mhey're selling chestnuts in the to a Shs column. | line's large. THE REJECTED It gives my soul & wrench, that I can't join the boys, and excavate a trench, and make I stick to my abode and do my. daily grind, For me no hero's wreath, no garlands or applause, because I'm pigeon toed, knock-kneed and color blind. because I've store made teeth, swayed back and lumpy I see the boys go by, with buoyant step and free, and shed a weary sigh---the march is not for I may not hear thé drums, or join the gallant charge, because I've shriveled gums, because my waist- Ah, well; a gent can do his littlé stunt at home, if he can't pot a few beyond the raging foam. By humping all the day, and buckling down like wax, methinks that I can pay each added wartime tax. By helping liquidate our Uncle's grievous bills, I'll keep my record straight, though shy of martial thrills. I'll pay up like a guy who wants to do his share; so when the boys go by I'll get no stony stare. a gun or wield a snickersnee, because I wéigh a ton and have the house- maid's knee; I'm troubled with the gout and failing of the hair, but that won't let me out--I still can do my share. a warlike 1 cannot pack --WALT 'MASON. THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN DONTCHU 6OT ME MAD OR | 6I\F' You A GOODT PUNCH nN THE. Mount! $18 Bibb S cess Street Men's and Boys' Wear Store Clothes of Distinction The new Collegian suits and overcoats which + we are now showing express the latest and most authoritative style tendencies. In these garments you will have the comfortable as- surance that you are clothed in accordance with fashion's - latest dictates. The popular belted models 'are strongly represented and all the newest and handsomest weaves, patterns and colors are in evidence. We are now offering some unusual values at $20 $22.50 Limited groups of independent men; with the thoughtless and crooked generally in command, Russian Leader Deposed. Rochester Union and Express, Professor Meyer Jacobstein of the University of Rochester in a recent lecture on Kerénsky called him the only statesman of gréat calibre whom the war has brought to the front, and predicted that if he brings or- der out of the Russian chaos he Will be acelaimed as the most wonderful man of the century. The difficulties with which * he struggles are far greater, according to this observer, than those which confront our President. He must hold together the congeries of small nations which compose the empire. He must satisfy the land-hungry peasants and at the same time satisfy the workers in the cities, some of whom are demanding absurdly short hours and absurdly increased pay. Another problem is the division of authority, for the Council of Work- men and Soldiers' delegates often is- sues ordens at variance with those of the head of the state. Kerensky organized this council in 1905, picking out men in every large factory and regiment as a nucleus for 4 revolutiopary uprising. They made possible the gverturn in March last whieh deposed the czar, and the downfall of that despotic government was the hardest blow to kaiserism and the most important contribution to the cause of human freedom since the war began. The world owes this more to Ker- ensky than to any other man, and 4f Y | he suceeeds in keeping Russia in the war, "even though her military achievements may not be great, he will have performéd a greater ser- vice for mankind than any other indi- vidual of our times. Why He Was Delayed. Manager (to late m ): "You've been away over half an hour and only to go round the corner!" Messenger: "Please, sir, a man dropped half a crown in the gutter." 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