ET 7 Ta St TE SA PLY TR _PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH WHIG S4TH YBAR. Published Dally and Semi Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, President , Managing Director and Sec.-Treas J. G. Filo Leman A. Guild Telephones: Business Office Editorial Rooms . Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delivered in eity year, if paid in advance .... §5. year, by mail to rural offices 3 59 242 22% One One One One year, to United States (Semi "Weekly 1 Edition) year, by mall, casi year, if not paid fn advance 31. 50 year, to United States 1.50 Six and three months pro rata, MONTREAM: REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen 122 St. Peter St, JORONTL RE PRESENTATIVE F.C y 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. UNITED YeraTis REPRESENTATIVE: F.R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave. New York F.R R. Northrup, 1 1610 Ass'n Bidg., , Ohicago TAttac rchec d 8 one of the Job printing offices fn Canada, A One One One "best | The cireniation of THE BRITISH WHIG is suthenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. 29204 50 cost, three-quarters of the amount, as it did last year; but war is war, and when coal costs nearly three times as much as it did a year or two ago and when there will be a deficit in the electrical and gas departments, the Utilities Commission is excused for asking the city to pay in full as the other consumers are doing. But if the Commission decides next year, as has been suggested, to raise the street lighting rates, even with the coming of hydro power, there will be good ground for protest. The city as a whole has as much right to receive electricity at cost to light its streets as the street rail- way company has to run its cars. The utilities (gas, water and electrical plants) are owned by the people the taxpayers of Kingston. The own- er of a business does not charge his own, household high rates, but sup: plies goods at cost. So, too, the citizen-proprietors should get any ad- vantage of low rates. Street lighting is a necessity, and it has only reached the point of being a luxury in the down-town "white way" district. The city council would hardly stand for &n undue increase in the street light. ing rates. If it comes to a show- down, the ratepayers would pretty 800n vote to furnish street lighting at and it is the people who are really the bosses. \ TR ------------------------------------ » AN INESCAPABLE CHOICE Are you going to be true to the memory of the boys who have laid down their lives for you? Are you going to sand by the boys who are fighting in the trenches for you? Or, are you going to line up with Laurier, Lavergne, and Bourassa in Quebec, and with Once more, B, a B--DBuy a Bond. Bond. First thing Kitchener, Ont., Quebec will be jealous. knows, Every family in Kingston should boast that it has a Victory Bond. The boys at the front deserve all-- "and more--that we caf do for them. Buy Victory Bonds and vote for re- inforcerhents. , Laurier's speech at Ottawa wus replete with partizan criticism. To- day the mation needs constructive statesmanship. Kingston may well be proud of her contribution to the Victory Loan, Let us mgke it such that the whole na- tion shall be proud. And now the Americans will have to put up with 3 per cent. beer. They're getting off easter than we did---by a half per cent, A soldier's. widow - in Montreal wants to marry a slacker and has asked the board for exemption. They certainly do things Hierantly in Quebec, A Trenton, N.J., man is under ar- rest for bigamy, having 'heen mar. ried twenty times. A man as brave as that should be in Europe fighting thé Hun. Asm n, Bitzer, Ralz and ller in Kitchener? F -------------------------------- THE UNION GOVERNMENT MUST AOT. If the Union Government 1s 10 sue- ceed in the coming election it nest adopt some prompt and vigorous measures, / Flavelle Is' the 'greatest weight that Government is carrying to-day. "Lord Bacon" is the term the oppon- ents of Unionism are applying to him. The mechanic, the laborer, the salaried man, aMke hold him re. sponsible for 55¢ bacon, and they are not far from being right. He should be made to disgorge the greater part of his 80 per cent. profits and to resign as chairman of the Im- perial Munitions Board. Union Gov. ernment will} pay dearly for every day it hesitates or refrains from such action, Secondly, action should be taken against the cold storage companies. 'While the warehouses are being fill- ed fo the roots with 'butter; eggs, meat, ete, to be held there until the price is further advanced, the people are either going without or living on greatly reduced rations. They know that the Canadian hen is producing 48 many eggs as ever, that the Can- adian cow gives down as much and as rich milk as ever, that the Can- adian hog still weighs a full sixteen ounces to the pound. True, the cost of producing these articles of food is An enemy plotter ate twenty let- | Breater to-day, than formerly, but ters when he was arrested at San !the prices have been advanced much Francisco. Globe ds receiving these days they must have created a terrible dis. turbance im his "tummy." Are you reading the series of ar- ticles, published dally on page one of the Whig under the caption: "Where Prominent Liberals Stand"? They reveal the true attitude of Liberalism to.day. ~Y A WORD TO WOMEN VOTERS. The women's votes are going to be an important factor in this election, and it is essential to make sure that every euch vote is registered. | Through thoughtlessness spme en.! unierators have neglected to tell married women and widows that they cannot vote unless they go on the voters' lists designated by their Christian names, as, say: "Mra. Anna Jones." "If they are enrolled as "Mrs. John Jones" they will 'be disqualified. Watch for this error. See that your own Christian name Is used. Con: sult the woman's secretary at Union headquarters, 187 Princess street, In some houses where the enumer- ators have found several women en. titled ta vote, they have sald: "Well, you'll have to-decide among you which casts the ballot for this house," fo getting that if, for in. stance, a man or woman, on active service, had ten sisters, everyone of them would have the privilege of voting. Dof't be misled, If you have any doubts about your vote, call or phone headquarters. The woman's secre- tary there will be glad to assist you. STREET LIGHTING CHARGES It is not to be wondered at that the Utilities Commission asks the city to pay full price for street lighting this year. If the Commission had the good fortune of a year of prosperity and a fat surplus, it might have let the city down easy and accepted If they were anything! Hke some of the leters the good old | farther than the conditions warrant. Just here is where the sinister work of the cold storage man and the pro- fitter comes in, and the public know it. The consumer does not expect pre-war prices, but he does object to being exploited. The Union Govern- ment will make a grave mistake if it does mot at once deal with the cold storage problem. Thirdly, Food Controller 'Hanna should Substitute fine words hy fin- er acts. © That kind of substitution would be popular. He has been given power to regulate food prices, but has not as yet exercised such power. His task is a difficult, as well as a (thankless, one, but not an imposs- ible one. Canada. 'The pubMc is cognizant of the fact that certain milling com. panies have reaped millions of dol- while the price of bread has «con. tinued to advance, unchecked by the Food Controller. Such an injustice cries aloud for remedy. These are only a few examples of the wrongs that should be righted, and that must receive prompt at- tention #f the Union Government is to be sustained. Fair words will n suffice. 'What the people demand immediate and vigorous action. They ask for protection against those who are imposing onerous burdens upon them for solely mercenary purposes. The Union Government is on-trial. : The mene 0 tv wart sod om by the Bolshiviki of Russia, may at- tract attention, but it will not cause alarm, It is a call to disarmament and the aggressors in the strife have not reached a time when they can What Hoover can do in| :the United States, Hanna can do in lars of profit during the past year, | ville the continent. of Eutope is en' i grossed in the greatest of all wars, | __THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1917. readily acts upon this call, however, knowing that it cannot lead to a prolonged or permanent peace. The acceptance of a truce by all the belli- gerent powers would not result in the accomplishment of the plans of those who make it Russia is passing through an ex- perience which is peculiarly her own. The oppressions of the Romanoff dynasty certainly created a spirit of national unrest and national rebel- lion. The intellectual classes had long plotted against the governmerit of the day, and by ways and means that only touched the masses, These latter have been undergoing an edu- Jcation, the nature of which is made evident in the chaos and confusion of the hour. The peasant classes want a peace that will endure through the ages, and the Bolshiviki teach the doctrine that this peace can never come, or if it come, can never re- main unless the policy of armament has been abandoned, They have an ambition which they think the people generally, of all na- tions, will accept. It is that these people will rise in their might against their government, and that. revolu- tion will sweep over the world and sweep aside all current opinions witl regard to the war. Capital, apd al that capital represents, are regarded as the cause of war, and capital musi go into the melting pot or disappear That is the dream, for it can only be -a dream, while society is consti tuted as at present. True, there #&re signs that the socialistic eletiént is gaining in power, but all 'the discontent of the period is not the product of discord- ant elements, Into the organizations that are considered socialistic many are crowding, in America as well ds Europe, and they have no sympathy whatever with the doctrines of the socialists. - So {ar as they represent Germany and Germany's conspiracies, they compose a class which is ex- clusive in many respects. They do not resemble the socialists of Ger- many who are separated from the war party on principle, and have no part with those who are assisting Germany in the war. The Bolshiviki think the German socialists will fol- low their example and wreck their government, but there is no prospect or likelihood of that. PUBLIC OPINION | Russia's Outlook. (Rochester Herald) resent and for a long time Russia must repeat the ex- perience of France, in years follow- ing the Revolution, One set of mad- men, or of fools, or of murderous an- archists, after another must take its turn' in bedevilling the condition of For the to come, all classes in that unhappy country, until all classes are sick enough of anarchy to turn to some strong man capable of showing the way to order ard security for life and property Much Sooner. (Toronto Star) There will be no more of those ex- cessive profits made in the packing business in Canada during the war-- at' least, if thé profits are made the Govenment will appropriate them. This is as it should be and as it should have been sooner, Decide War at Sea. (Chicago Tribune) If the latest reports really indicate that the submarine has failed, the world against Germany may breathe agani. What is happening on land is of secondary importance to what is happening on the sea. There the Allies must win or perish. Bourassa's Blunder. (Teronto Star) In the United States great prelates f the Catholic Church--Gibbons, Farley, O'Connell, Ircland=-are solid- ly arrayed on the side of President Wilson and the war, And, what- ever may be the aftitude of clerics in the Province of Quebec, Mrg Bouras- sa and those who, like him, would falsely use the influence of a power- ful church to buttress a racial and anti-war campaign will probably find that the mass of the Catholic people f Canada are just as ready and anx- ious as any other class to stand by their country in its hour of trial. POLITICAL NEWS. | Sir Wilfrid Laurier expects to leave | or Winnipeg on Thursday. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King at Aurora took the stand that greater results could be obtained under the system of voluntary enlistment than ander conscription. E. C. Bisson, Socialistic candidate n Brandon, Man., has withdrawn. Tancrede Marcil, one of the Lib- aral candidates in Hochelaga divis- 'on, has withdrawn, and has offered his support to J. E. Lesage, the other Jdberal candidate. Sir George Foster and Robt. or Kay, K.C., of Toronto, addressed an enthusiastic meeting at Cobourg. ® Rev. William Irvine, Labor can- didate for East Calgary, stated that he has not asked for the endorsement of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and did not recognize Laurier as in any way his leader, and did not agree with his policy and in no way endorsed him. Sir Robert Borden will speak in Newmarket on Thursday. Joseph T. Chenard of Quebec City, endorsed by 8ir Robert Borden as his candidate in the riding of Ri- mouski, refuses to be given as such, and announces himself as an abso- lutely independent candidate. John Birnie, K.C., president of the North Simcoe Association, and a life- 'tiong Liberal, spoke in favor of Col. 'John Currie and declared his opposi- tion to Sir Wilfrid Laurier on con- scription. 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