Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, President ea . Managing Director d Sec.-Treas. BSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) deliv in city ..... if paid 1h advance .. maf] to rural offi to United Sia Biares United St x and three is pro rata, MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen 123 St TORO] -a 4 LS Te Hl DAI 3 We him, learned his accents, Made him our patters "to great oo» Songs may inspirit us,-- cence, Forward---Without "Laurier that had loved him so, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, jansunee. He alone breaks from the van and freemen, He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves. * We shall march prospering,--not thro' his presence, -not from his lyre, Deeds will be does while he boasts his quies- Stil} bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire, | followed him, honored caught his clear live and to die! . » --BROWNING. ' A A AA a At tl] NAAN, rt ration) ? return NEITHER with your sword nor on it. WHERE 18 THE PLOUGHMAN? Greater production of food is just as important. ag the Victoyy Loan, and yet nothing has been done by the City Council this autumn to promote it. The Council should have given the Greater Production Committee a few dg. | hundred dollars a month ago so that , New York F.R Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago ttached is of the best job nting offices ne Canada, The elreulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABo Audit Bureau of Ofreziations. EDITORIAL NOTES. Back up, or goon, that is the question you must decide. United we stand. Divided we open a clear way for Quebec domination. Let us put Canada, glorious and true, above all other considerations. "Shall we fight or shall we fly?" -- good Sir Wilfrid, let us know. The best service that partylsm can render the country to-day is to sup- press itself, Save, serve and sacrifice. don't sacrifice your opinions your ideals. But and Canada is spending approximately $899,000 a day on war. Would Laurier expend 30¢? The day when the very existence of the nation hangs in the balance is not the time for exploiting the pre- Judices and passions of parties and sections. There is a limit beyond 6 which patience ceases to be a virtue. Have the English-speaking, liberty-loving, longeuffering people of Canada reached it? The Spartan youth who complain- ed to his mother that his sword was too short was told to add a step to it. Laurier and Quebec would have told him to "skeddadle." that energetic body could have had the many plots throughout the city ploughed up and fertilized, thus en- abling the yleld next year to be two- fold that of the present year. So far no ploughing has ben done, although scores of people have asked the Whig time and again when the ploughman was coming their way. There may be a few weeks of open weather ahead and no time should be lost in starting ploughs around the eity to ald in making the ground more pro- ductive, as next year the people must raise more food than ever. The need is very pressing. A STRIKING CONTRAST Toronto--Tory Toronto--has en- dorsed H. M. Mowat, K.C., as the Un- ionist candidate in Parkdale. He has long been one of the most active Liberals in Canada, and, as the Daily Star points out, there were in the convention and on the platform prominent Conservatives eligible as candidates, but who not only stood aside but joined in tendering the nomination to a Liberal-Unionist can- didate. The courtesy, which Tory Toronto showed to a son of Kingston in en- dorsing him as a Liberal, the city of| his birth ought not to have been ashamed to show to a Conservative Unionist when he appealled to them on the same platform. Kingstonians will remember those who insisted that partyism should come before patriotism. THE WHIG AND THE UNION GOV. ERNMENT. On Monday the British Whig an- nounced its policy in regard to con- scription and the vital questions of | the day. On Tuesday it Bolnted gut, 'that in the application and j out of this policy, it cou rrying not sup- | port the local Laurier candidate, Dr. Patriotism is said to be the last |A- W. Richardson. refuge of a scoundrel, but there are | some politicians in Canada to-day be. side whom such a scoundrel would look pretty decent. Crowded out of the contest in Essex and with no pillow anywhere for his political 'head, Graham will yet bob up serenely somewhere. It is a habit of his. Laurier's sole hope of political success rests upon his opposition to thé Military Service Act, the only thing that can bring relief and as- sistance to our boys in the trencaes. Canadians generally will learn with pleasure of the return to Par.' lament, by acclamation, of Hon. W. 8. Fielding, one of the ablest finance ' ministers this country has ever pro.' duced. S------------------ That the Whig has given, volun- tarily, sixteen of its employees to the war, one of whom his paid the su- preme sacritice, is another reason why this paper supports the Military Service Act. Do your part to win the war. If You can't fight, if you can't knit, it You can't make munitions or pro: duce food. at least you can buy Vie "tory Bonds and vote for Union Gov. ernment candidates. ----------_ ------------ * Yesterday's long list of Ceandian 'casualties--the dead, the dying, the missing--is a mute appeal for re. inforcements to take their place and ~ "earry #0." Laurier proposes a re- ferendum, while he takes the best Dart of a year to think about it. -- -------- ; Alas that you, Sir Wiltrid, who inf the past have been to so many of us| Agama: Solr yconvinced that, period, a one-party George P. j could not successfully administer the To-day it wishes to give some reasons for its endorsa- 'tion of the Union Government. Liberal leaders and Li 1 news- | papers did much to bring about a Union Government. The Whig was at this critical Government affairs of Canada any more than ; such a Government could administer the affairs of Great Britain. A com- bination of parties for the duration of the war was necessary, and the 'Whig lent its support to this mea- sure. The Union Government offered the only solution for a vigorous and sus- , tained prosecution of the war. Op- ; posed to this was the Quebec attitude (of "not a man, not a dollar." To (Blve them credit, they have fairly well lived up to it, Again, the platfotm enunciated by the Union Government is one that we can whole-heartedly support. It em- braces: Abolition of patronage. Franchise to women. Adequate taxation of war profits. Progressive policy of immigration. Prevention of excess profits. Development Co-operation in agricultural pro- duction, with a view to the reduction of cost, x 'Adequate consideration for the Care and provision for returning! * Roduchlon ot pute expenditure. | _ Canadian re. |: SUBSERVIANCE OF ATTITUDE VS. FREEDOM OF THOUGHT. The man who decides to follow the dictates of his own conscience is fre- quently 'villified. The fact that he dares to think for himself, and to give those thoughts expression, is a. veritable crime in the eyes of those people who practice a blind and un- yielding allegiance to long establish- ed customs and usages. This is especially true in the political world. With some people: once a Tory, always a Tory; once a Liberal, always a Liberal. As well expect the leopard to change his spots, as such men to change their opinions. The scorn in which they hold the independent thinker is nothing compared te the contempt they feel for the newspaper which dares to assume a like attitude of independence. Such a paper is sald to be "bought," "chloroformed" or "controlled." been applied to the Whig, to the Globe, to the Star and to other -Lib- sral papers which support the Con- scription Bill and oppose the do-noth- ing, be-nothing policy of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Such silly accusations and suspicions are not going to pass un- noticed and wnrefuted. The Whig in supporting the Union Government, has acted from the highest motives of |'W patriotism and the everyday, ordin- ary motives of comnion sense. We rejoice in having the support of not only the great Liberal leaders in this country, but of such influential Lib- eral pablications as: Toronto Globe. Toronto Star. Winnipeg Free Press. Hamilton Times. Regina Leader. Brantford Expositor, These terms have |; xs BETTIS) Vy Sy 5 Woodstock Sentinel-Review. St. John Globe. Halifax Chronicle, Vancouver Stn. Victoria Times. Calgary Albertan. Guelph Mercury, Moose Jaw Times. And, incidentally, as the Ottawa Journal-Press points out, all the in- | dependent newspapers of the coun- try are similarly lined up, such; as the | Hamiiton Herald, Vancouver World, Ottawa Citizen, The Grain-Growers' 'Guide, etc. Thus one gets a good line an the stupidity of the idea that any Liberal newspaper required any mercenary reason to place country beivie paity ia iho matter af tha war, ------------------ | PuBtIc oPiON | Vie. (The Boston Transcript) Sunday is the day when the grown- ups remember all' the things that the little kids can't do. And When Does Grif Take His? (Putham, I. Record) Mrs. Griffin Smith returned yes- derday afternoon from her wedding trip to Quincy, Ind. War Stimulating History, (Toronto Star) With Venice and Fotusaiom. tizur- ing in the despatches, the study of history ought to be stimulated. " Resourceful Brown. (Montreal Herald) Brown has a lovely baby girl, ° The stork left her with a flutter; Brown named her '"oleomargarine," For he hadn't any but her. The Advise Is Good, Anyway. (Brockilyn Eagle) When the days are frigid, And the winds are zippy. Do not wet your feet or You may get la grippe. ----e-- Best Men in Polities. (Toronto Telegram) bf serviee and sacrifice. The politics 'of action at this juncture of the world's history is the sort of politics that keeps a roof over the heads of gentlemen interested in the politics of talk. Decide War at Sea. (Chicago Trihune) If the latest reports really indicate! that the submarine failed, the world @gainst Germany may breathe again. hat is happening on land is of se- condary importance to what is hap- pening on the sea. There the allies must win or perish. New Light on Elijah. (London Observer) To the stock of child seripture stories there is an acceptable addition in yesterday's Spectator. "One little boy, told to write all he knew of Elijah, speaking truly for himself wrote: "We do not know much of this holy man," and-added: 'But we know that ' he went for (« crulse with a widow." - Rippling to see, a sight out of danger. der. along, through thing's always going wrong, wherever I may journey. But when I motor home again, from my adventures and mingle with familiar men, had the finest time," I yip, while truth grows vague and hazy; "no on all the trip--my car is sure a daisy!" shocking, THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN By GENE BYRNES THE CHEERFUL MOTORIST I crawl beneath my balky car, with fifteen kinds of wrenches, and tinker where its vitals are, gas and grease and stenches. horses shy at me, run off and bust their wagons. skid into a muddy ditch, and hail some passing gran- ger, to bring his mules along and hitch, and haul me rain upon me drizzlind, removing from the wheel a tire, and use some language sizzling. Sometimes the lamps won't shed a ghost of their accustomed splen- dor, and then I run into a post and break a costly fen- A farmer stops me now and then, and asks me, in his dander, to pay for running down his hen, his sheepdog or his gander. Rhymes ---- 'mid When dene 1 am a sight for sore-eyed dragons; and passing I I wallow round in squashy mire, cold O'er arid hills TI jaunt meadows cool and ferny, and some- you ought to hear me talking! "1 --WALT MASON. JUST A SMALL PIECE ! Canada's best men are in politics! i Bibbys of Self-interest "Let's make assurance doubly sure, and buy a Bo Victory Bonds A doubled assurance of continued support to the men in the front line, and of continued prosperity at home. If we would give the fullest support to our Canadian fighters we must keep our industries providing the munitions, food, the cloth- ing so necessary for their success and comfort. If we would be assured of continued prosperity at home we must provide the money to keep the wheels turning. From every point of view it's up to you As a matter of Patriotism, as a 'matter of Business, as a matter Bibbys 78-80-82 Princess Street Limited Kingston DRINK MORE WATER IF KIDNEYS BOTHER Eat Less Meat and Take Salts For Backache or Bladder Trouble. Uric acid in meat excites the kid- neys, they become overworked; get sluggish, ache, and feel like lumps of lead. The urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is irritated, and you may be obliged to seek relief two or three times duving the night. When the kidneys clog you must help them flush off the body's urinous waste or you'll be a real sick person shortly. At first you feel a dull misery in the kidney region, you suffer from back- ache, sick headache, dizziness, stom- ach gets sour, tongue coated and you feel rheumatic twinges when tae 'weather is bad. Eat less meat, drink lots of water; 'also get from any pharmacist four ounces of Jad Salts; take a table- spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This fa- mous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon fice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal acti- vity, also to neutralize the acids in urine, so it no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder weak- ness. Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot injure; makes a delightful efferves- cent lithia-water drink which every- one should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active. Drug- gists here say they sell lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in over- coming kidney trouble while it is only trouble, STAMP AFFIXED TO ALL A cc We Are After VICTORY BONDS Buy all the Victory Bonds you can, it is the best- investment you man make and help to win the war. DR. 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