PAGE FOUR THE BRITISH -WHIG S4TH YBAR. Published Daily and Semi-Weekly THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISMIY LIMITED, 0. A. Guild Editor and Managing-Director. Leman Feleptip mew: Business Office . Editorial Rooms. Job Office . BUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Kgdition) One year, delivered In clty 7 One year, if paid in advance One year, by mail to rural o Ome year, to United States . (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, bw mail, cash year, not' pald in advance ear, o United States x and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen 122 St. Peter St. TORONTO SEER EN ATIVE C. Hoy ... 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. NTE D ST! ATE S REPRESENTATIVE: F R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave, New York F. RNorthrup, 1510 Ass'n BME. Chicago Attached ™ one of the best Job printing offices In Canada, ove one ©38 oc One The cireniation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. CR Britain has got Jerusalem, bnt if she wants to get the Jews she will have to come over and conquer the United States. Our idea of war-time economy is to have your friend send back to you this Christmas the greeting card you sent him last Christmas. Armand Lavergne announces that he is out of politics. It seems to us that the pgople of Montmagny left him no chdice in the matter. Let the kiddies' stockings be well filled to-night, no matter what the rest of us may have to do with- out. Make their Christmas a happy one. tried to take Canada out and failed. Quebec is take herself out of In this she will also Quebec of the war, now trying to Confederation fail. A Tulsa, Okla.; man dropped dead after handing some money to his wife. gWe will leave it to our women readers to make their own comment on this. ' The Government Labor Depart- ment to-day reports an increase in the cost of living in November as compared with October. We all knew that in November. It would be interesting to learn what the Kingston members of the bon erntente now think of Quebec in the light of last Monday's elegtion! Space is being reserved for their re- plies. For once we can agree with Bour- assa. It is when he says: "The Libe- )» Tals who sincere their party will remain true to the coali- tion as long as the reason for their change lasts." The total catch of sea fish in the whole of Canada during November realized a value of $2,145,240 at the points of landing," or double the value for the same month last year. That is the kind of increased produc- tion that counts. ""The extent of the Halifax disaster is scarcely realized in Ontario. Nearly 1,000 wounded people are still in hospital and the. cases of total blindness may reach 500. The suffering and the anguish have been indescribable. PS, 2 There are said " to be extensive beds of peat in Eastern Ontario. Peat fs a substitute for -coal, and coal is to-day becoming an expensive and precious article. Is the Govern- ment doing anything to encourage the development of the peat indus- try? : Rencwber this: The party sys- tem in Canada broke down---broke down not partially but completely-- during. the war. The period of re- construction after the war will de- mand at least as much; if not more, unity of thought and action. What hope, then, to expect a recrudescence of the party system? -Ex-President Taft declares that the United States must send 7,000,- 000 men to France, that 2,000,000 won't do. '"There is only one alter- native," he adds, "beat Germany or arm ourselves as the German people have been doing for the past fifty years." "unspeakable CHRISTMAS, 1917. Bethlelryin ord shone br dwelt in ght! To have sheltered the h On that blessed Christmas night; To have kissed the tender, wayworr Of the Mother undefiled, And, To have oly wanderers feet with reverent wonder and tended the Holy ( sweet delight, And to-day men of our racé and kin the lit- the oth- er Palestine villages where Christ vis. ited and taught, suffered and died, and where His sacrifice und resurrec- and language are dwelling 4 tle town of Bethlehein and in tion purchased immortality for man. Christinas takes on a new significance this year because of the fact that at long last the Cross again reigns: su- preine over the Holy Land What a Happy Christmas it' must he, indeed, for the oppressed peoples in the land of Christ's nativity, as they see the hated, usurper fice and listen to the steady tramp of 'the triumphant le- gions of liberty, béneath whose red- cross banner is the assurance of free- dom, and peace, and plenty. Oh, happy day for these redeemed places, that knew the' Saviour man! boy and In a world overwhelmed hy mighty war, where society is torn by discords, where every city is a scene of strife, where the temple of the god of iH-will is crowded evermore nit is just such a world that has need of Christmas It the message of peace and good wil], now so sorely needed in a War-stricken universe. It proclaims once more to all races and that God has made blood all the nations of men, brings of one and that He gave them His most 'prec ious gift --His only Son--to suffer and die and to be again raised from the dead to prove the power of love over hatred, of peace over the sword of life eter- nal over death and decay The Christmas note is one of good will, service and sacrifice of earth blind us so ofteh; standings, hurts and heartaches will come ,and lives that are dear to each other drift apart. But the very soul of the Christmastime is love--the love of the Father, which overflowed all barriers of ignorance and wan- dering, and bent down to us with its love"; the love of. the Christ who came could not, peoples The mists misunder- sin, to us because would not, go to Him we The Christmas season! grows 'dearer to us with the of the years. What old, fond memo- ries it recalls, what recollections of pleasures, what remembrances of sor- rows. Life's heart beats strongly, but death is busy in its midst; we strive for the beautiful, the true and the gbod; we hide our faces in help- agony of shamie and remorse; yet again comes the dear day of days, with its blessed associations, memo- ries, hopes--Christmas. Do you re- member what the word meant to you when you were a child? What a mysterious halo of light surrounded the day! How the very sound of its name. suggested the fragrance of the fir tree and wax candles and marvel lous, toys, and the far-off tinkle of sleigh-bells, or beat of tiny reindeer hoofs upon the snowy roof! Has the approach of Christmas but an in- different charm in this grown-up. work-a-day world of ours? If so, let us strive and pray for those delicate sensibilities .of 'childhood that caught and joyed in the fragrant atmosphere of the day; that could hear, knowing naught beyond the bliss it brought, the voice of the Founder of Christmas blessing little children, as it blessed them in distant Palestine over nine- teen hundred years ago. it passing How less But there are those in our midst to- day upon whom war has laid its heavy and merciless hand, whose hearts have been well-nigh broken by the loss of loved ones. To-day their Christmas cannot be a happy one, They see the vacant chair; they listen in vain for the happy laugh; they visualize for a moment, in memory only, the dear, sweet face of the dead. Yet to such Christmas holds out the touch of hope, with its message of life. beyond the grave Christ only can assuage the.anguish of their bereavement; to them He can leave the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the ih 5 pride that must be theirs who have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Under the blossoming flowers and beneath the kind skies of 'a foreign field they sleep. - They died for us. They are at rest. Earth may run red with other wars--they are at peace. "In the midst of bat. tle. in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death." On 'Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. But listening love. can catch the echoes of the angel message. The hand that rolled away the stone from the sepulchre can lift the burden from 'the troubled hearts. He whose birth- day we celebrate at Christmas proved by His own death and resurréction that they we mourn are "not lost but gone before." So let the Christmas bells ring out. Let the Christmas carols procthim the messagej of peace and, love. The voorest of earth, with the love of Gad in his heart and a trifling gift for THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, DECEMRER 24, 1917, child or friend in hand, pleasure can find im measurable in every Christ- mas anmversary . The war cannot go Peace must come some day. kind of a peace will it What be? Upon the hope, noy, manity. If it is to be a peace dictat- ed by Germany, then life will not be worth the living for those of Anglo- Saxon blood 'and Anglo-Saxon ideals of freedom of conscience and action. Aswan eminent writer has said, world war has reached a stage where millions on beth sides is becoming for peace. hope, the the new in. what the supreme of Peace is irrepressible demand, \ year. It must come. form? A peace made Jut in as the war itself, a compromise preg- nant with new wars of ever-growing frightfulness, a monster plotting the spoliation of the weak and the over- throw of liberty, cloaking meantime with the garb of, friendship the in- faniies of German diplomatic trigue. A peace dictated by any | single belligerent, or made in the interest of any singlé social class, might be i calamity almost as great as the perfidious & erman peace. True péace is as far from these as heaven fram hell, and the difference mea-| sures the greatness of the present | issue. The goal towards which turning has seemed remote, but ng | longer sems unattainable, and prize, like its cost, almost finitely great. The terms are slow- | ly shaping for a world's peace, al peace "just and lasting," because based, so far as human wisdom and | sincerity allow, on righteousness. To | win it is to make even the war worth | while. To lose it is to lose the high- * est hope of humanity, to make the world's four years of agony a use-| less sacrifice. On the eve of the'Christmas ad- journment of the House of Com- mons, Lloyd-George, Britain's clever | and courageous premier, re- stated | her war-aims and her conditions of | peace. She stands firm for the com- | plete restitution of occupied tefri- | tories, compensation for losses sus- | tained and the destruction of German | military power as the guarantee of | the future peace of the world. Un-' til these objects are realized, Great Britain does not intend to sheathe the sword. Herein speaks the un- ited voice 'of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. There must be no CcompaQ- mise, no hoMing back, no hesitancy in" 'making further sacrifices, no weakening of the British spirit, if the Prussian menace is to be wholly and completely destroyed and a perman- ent peace secured. is Conspirator Fined. San Francisco, California, Dec., 24. --George Rodick, former German Consul at Honolulu, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to foment revo- lution against British rule in India, was fined $10,000 by Judge William C. Van Fleet of United States district court. THE COMI " {. on forever. Ip Ever of Quebec the answer to this question depends | the very life, of hu-| the | the vast murmur of the unconsidered | more and more articulate in the cry | Germany would be a disaster great' humanity's almost despairing eye is |Sonable vision of right and justice. 8 | judgment, he imagined that his name the .| was in- along in his train, | succeeded ? PORTIA TTT [i is | ADDRESSES QUEBEC i 'Evenement, ' of Quebec, says: you have got what you wanted, Under the spectre of a leader in whom you have for! so long placed your confidence, and who has condu¢ ted you into so dan-| gerous a position by placing you in opposition to almost all*the rest of ithe Confederation, you are now really isolated and alone in your corner, un- able th do-anything either for your- self for anyone else." To your pro- vocation and to, your votes by the thousand given to the candidates of your own choice, Ontarie replied in the same tones, Manitoba replied by crushing majorities, and all the other provinces sent out an answer whica cannot be misunderstood. All of the ministers are returned except our own two, and the personal tri- {umph of Sir Robert Borden in King's gives reliéf to the crushing defeat to your great leader in Ottawa: Sing victory, then, men of Le Soleil; you have done a noble, work, so let pus {hear your most glorious hqsannas, {and let your shouts of triumph sa- {lute the disappearance of the man | who brougiit about the sad result of yesterday, to satisfy his own am- Lition and the rage of his partizans! 1 He put his last hand to the work of | separating his province from the {rest of Confederation, deliberately | forgetting that Canada contains two , races called upon to live side by side. He opined that the sy mpathies of his compa¥fiots for Great Britain-in the {crisis through which she is now pass- f Ing, had no raison d'etre, and that Wwe {could refuse our assistance in the { most critical moment of the Empire. He placed a bandage on the eyes of | his province, which obscured its rea- | Eaten up with and pride without sufficient to bring hig country He dreamed that he was concentrating, in his gsugust person, the ideas and opinions of his party, wishing alone to give a new j mentality and 'a new orientation to this country. In what, pray, has he He has given the coup | de grace to a reputation already bad- br shattered, and his ship, conducted vy a blinded pilot, and without a compass, has landed on the rocks. God only knows what the result will be, yet after all we count upon the commonsense of our English compat- riots, who, during their long history, have shown time and again that they have not held spite in certain irrita- ting circumstances, and at times have {even gone so far as to forget when % was necessary. The great English colonies have received blows much more violent than that which Sir | Wilfrid wished to give yesterday, yet {the Empire is ever erect, strong, vig- orous and victorious by the admir- able and harmonious cohesion of the different races of which it is com- posed." { i he UNION GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAMME What the Union Government has in hand is its pledges to the electors for: Conscription. Food Control. Fuel Control. Strong Drink Control. Profits Control. Income. Taxation. National Railways. Stricter regulation of aliths and things arising out of the war situation. Rhymes The highbro mists are saying riot. Come, let 80 wise from eat heart if you cou efel and grayling. And all the time, b ' YOUR CAUGHT QUT or $22 750% AT Tw NOR - EATING FI'5H up the human brain, and that is what we re needing; the brains are punk beneath our hats, and in our bel- fries many bats forevermore are speeding. is the proper diet, if we would help the allies' cause, and make the gory Teuton pause, in Europe's brutal patriotic dish, and it will make us brainy; we'll grow ture out when it is cold or rainy. brooks and ponds I search, for catfish, suckers, cod and"perch and other finny critters, and I am getting 80 blamed smart my cleverness old brain expand and gather force to beat the band, my. intellect is sailing, my intellect that once was limp ----and all these things from eating shrimp and mack- wish, conserving swine and cattle; and as I chew a six-foot eel, within my glowing breast I feel I help to win a battle. Te Pies THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN HON THIS MAN coming) I'T WITH IN THE. MORNING Cardroc w scieatists explain that fish builds Econo- 'now that fish is better than a cow, it us fill ourselves with fish! It is the ing trout we'll know too much to ven- Through all the would break your Id hear my twitters.. I feel my good y eating fish, I'm doing what the allies --WALT MASON. | DONT BELLIVE THE PRISIONER HAS AN HONEST FACE -- DISCHARGED SPP P Bebb rere Bibbys ens and Boys Wear Bn Kindly Remember ir Hospitals The Kingston General The Hotel Dieu AT CHRISTMAS TIME CAN YOU SPARE A DOLLAR ? & 1ibbys Limited -- The Grand Cafe SPECIAL Christmas Dinner and ' Supper, $1.00. HORS D'OEUVRES--New York Counts on Cracked lee; Colver Taltines; Nest Tomatoes; Stuffed Olives; Celery en nch. -- Consomme n Creme de Vol-au FISH---Breaded Mounta in Brook Trout, Tartare Sauce; Fried Fillet of Shad au RBeurre Noir; Pomme de Ferre Farces, TRERS--RBraised Pigeon Cutlet a la King; Angels on Holwe Back, Maitre d'Hotel; Small Patties of Oyster a In Princesse; Bolled Philadelphia Capon: Proveucaléd Sauce; Macedoine Fruit Eelair, ROASTS--Prime Rib of Christmas Beef, Yorkshire Pudding; Stuffed Manitoba Turkey, Cranberry Frappe: Domestic Dusk, Red Currant Jelly; Young hicken, Chestwut Dressing. SAT AD=--=Lobster en Mayonnaise. VHGETABLES -- Steamed Whipped French Victoria Potatoes; Peas in Cream; Stewed T DESSERT «-- Deep Apple Pile; Lemon Meringue Ple; Hoe Mince Ple; New England Pumpkin Ple; Boston Cream Pie; Steamed Christmas Plum Puod- ding; Cognac Sauce; Grand Almond Ice Cream; Fruit Cake. Canadian Stilton Cheese; Maclaren Im. perial Cheese: Cafe Noir; Cafe au Lalt; Cafe Melange, 8.piece Orchestra From 8.30 pm. to 11.30 p.m. Supper a la carte, Usual Prices. Ia Impratrice; Dutch Bulbs Hyacinths-- Narcissus-- Daffodils-- Tulips-- DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE 185 Princess Street. Phone 343. Stop, Look, Listen! AND BUY 7 Our Christmas Goods Are Here. Come and buy early and often at The Bon Marche Photie 1844. Cor, King & Earl i COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice ! On and after first of May Coal Sales will be for RS -- ACCIDENT FIRE INSURANCE. J. B. COOKE 332 King Street, Phone S308. Residence 542, AT THE Maple Leaf Grocery Cooked Meats of All Kinds. Baked Ment Loaf with Cheese; Jork Sausage: Cooked Shoulders. Headcheense; Empire Frankforts; Jellled Tongue; Cooked Ham; Ham Bologna; Jellied Hock, reat: assortment always on ud, Alex Potter. Phone 732. 12 Ridesu St, Ay FARMS | FOR SALE! iF Tr ER For particulars apply te T.J.Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance. Clarence Street, Kingston. Phone 1085 and 1020. For the Boys ut the Froat. CHOCOLATTA "The Ready-to-use Chocolate" Contalus the Chutoiate, Milk and ling Water Only. Ne Cooking or Milk Required. For Sale By D. JOHN M. PATRICK CRAWFORD COAL SALES Will Be For CASH. At price current for the month when the order is given. The Coal situation in the United Staten compels this aoe Foot of Queen St. Phoned.