w " "THE BRITISH WHIG 85TH YEAR Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED, J. G. Enmlott Leman A. Gulla . President "Editor and Felephonens Business Office .. Eaitorial Roomy , ve Job Ofice ... » SUBSCRIPTION RATES {Daily Edition) One year, a rored in city + $6.00 Ong year, if paid In advance .. .$5.00 One year, by mall 10 rura; offices 5 50 One year, to United States +. 92.50 (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash .. 31.00 year, if not paid in advanoe 1.60 year, to United States .. .. .51.50 Six and thres months pro rata, id TMONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen i. .128 St. Peter St. ¥.R.Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave, New York F.R.Northrup, THIF Ass'n Bidg., Chicago Letters to the Editor are published only over the #ctual mame of the writer. One One Une Attached is. one of the best job printing offices #n Canada. - The circulation of THE BRITISH Whig Is authenticated by the k AB CO Audit Bureau of Circulations. For hot alr methods Germany still leads the world. Bagcnisin Big Bertha's are having a sorry time in beating it back to Berlin. The Vietory Loan drive advance as fast ag Marshal has. should Focli's going back, The Germans are vi- Boost them along by buying tory Bonds. 3 Germany is talking of a chan®® of ~constitution, but it by no means implies a change of heart! Don't forget to pay up the ar- rears when the collection plate is passed in church next Sunday. At the rate the Austrian-Hun- garian empire is distintegrating, the 'Allies can make peace only with the pleces. + Are you a 'friend of the Kaiser? "If not hit him ith a Victory bond. The old butcher has few 'friends BOW, x . Bésides being something of a "Queen" the average nurse is prov- ing herself a good deal of a heroine in these days of war and flu. The paper shortage is acute. Why waste good paper by continuing the eéfchdange of notes with either Gei- many or Austgia? Leave it wn Foch and Haig. . General Fotheringham wants - t+ suppress the newspapers. Let him start on the new government pub- lication, "he useless Canadian Offi- cial Record. The German crown prince says ho has no desire to annihilate the Al- ifed armies. He tried hard enough. but failed" Present day protesta- tions will avail him nothing. The town of Prescott won the Victory Loan Mig the first day of | the canvas, Ponsiatulations. The ; citizens have's right to be proud of their accomplishment, The public should be warned against becoming impressed with the idea that the epidemic is over and there is mo longer any necessity "for exercising care. Precautions should still be taken. s ] a A -- The United Farmers of Ontario, an organization formed for further- ing agricultural interests and whicn will take part in future political at- fairs, has adopted as one of its . planks * the nationalization of rafl- way, telegraph, telephone and simi- Jar public utilities. & A ------ i -------- Of the ten thousand houses in Lens not one remains. Every house ¢ Peace. -- up bis rn bord- WAT and those of to-day hy Here is one in its points been have that is strikix oth af resemblance and of difference. On the evening of Sedan, General Castelnau went to Bismarck's guart- special message from o had sent his sword to the king sia and surren- dered, in t ype that the king would grant a more honorable ca- pitulation "Whose sword peror Napoleon ers with a Napoleon, wh is it that the Em- has surrendered?" asked Bismarck. "Is it the sword of France or hissown? If it Is the sword of France the canditions cin be greatly softened." "It is poly the sword of the em peror," sald Castelnau "All then remains as it was,' Moltke's rejoinder. To-day it Is the kaiser's sword which the Allies demand as the only condition upon which their terms can be softened THE AMERICAN SENTIMENT. Dissatisfaction with Wilson's dnélination to exchange peace notes with Berlin is growing in the United States. The fear I» gaining ground that the president is too much of a pacifist and that ihiz note-writing will tend to becloud the issue. That issue, as most of the nation's leading men see it, is an unconditional surrender by Ger- many. They would enter into no peace parieys with the kaiser or his puppets, but would "go on with the war" until German militarism is discredited and destroyed. That appears the only safe and sensible course to adopt. This prevailing American sentiment is perhaps best expressed by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, one of the nation's ablest public men. Ha says: "My own view is a very simple one. [There is no German 'govern ment in existence with which | would: diseuss anything. I deplore at this stage, when we are advane- ing .steadily to a complete victory, any discussion or exchange of notes with the German government. The only thing now is to demand uncon- ditional surrender. I would leave that to Marshal Foch and the gene- rials of the armies. When they re- port that the German army has sur- rendered and ceased to exist hs an army in being, then, and not until then, let the Alles and the United Stated meet and agree what terms they will impose on Germany to in~ sure the safety of civilization and mankind." President Wilson, fessed, has conducted ' his corres- pondence with unusual skill, but it is questionable whether such cor respondence was expedient or even necessary. Many of the best thinik- ers of his country believe that it was not. Time alone will tell. This, however, is assured: that the Un- ited States will never consent to a half-way peace with the Potsdam pirates. .It knows exactly what it has to face, and is not going to quit before its aims are accomplished. That, tog, is the British spirit and the British purpose, in the, domia- fons no less than in the heroig home- Japd. "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven." B min gn AVOIDING A BAD PEACE. Future historians will' comment with some surprise upon the fact that the first effect among the Al- lied peoples of the professed Ger- man acceptante of their terms was to arouse a feeling of disturbance that almost amounted to apprehen- sion, says Everyman, the well-writ- ten London weekly. One must ¢on- fess that the grounds for such a feeling are not hard to understand. Deeply moved as we are by tle horror and the havoc of 'the war, (and earnestly as we all desire | speedy - end, we are none -the less convinced that a bad peace, now that vietory is within our reaeh, would'be a far greater evil than a further continuance of the struggie And it autocratic military force, or: ganized with unexampled purpose and persisténcy for "half a century and then suddenly let loose upon a it must be con- {peaceful world, directed, moreover, with callous and wanton disregard of all humane restrictions, against nofi-combatants and neutrals as well as against the armies that op- posed tif suph a force, used in such: a way, were to emerge from this conflict without having been utterly discredited and overthrown, no one will doubt that the peace which registered that result would be a bad It is no wonder, then, that at go tremendous a moment as the pro- sent, so big with the fate ot human. ity and civilization for _|avoldable aud solemn German ve- the present 'manoen : vre hava the effect of sowing ny among the Allied people, and of ing their pacifist and weak-knsed ents an excuse for was! President A its} Sor dna tne cass he well-grounded trust with which even the non terms and id the ac- ceptance of at we had previous- 1y declared our ss to take Visequnt Grey f aw this even- tuality when he clared in a recent speech: "I th at a nightmaie it would be after we got to a peace conference, believing that the end of the then reached we found at that e conference that the military rulers of Germauy were still the people of real author ity, that the German people had re. e subservience to military rulers, and that the time pidbe was be- ing discussed at the conference ff was being undermined by the men who made the war, and whose policy regard to war wonld . never rat must be prevented a: War: was lapsed intg docil the alms of it whole with change all "costs." The same feeling of apprehension exists in the United States, follow- President Wilson's ine¢lingtion terms with the enemy. A rerparkable cocoment has just been issued, signed by two ex-presidents. in which we find these warning words: "The president has indicat- ed a willingness to make a peace by negotiation. He has not demanded, might have done in three lines, that which American puopie demand, an unconditional surrend- er. His exchange of notes with Germany has caused a deep coneern among our people lest he may by his parleying with hey concede her peace around a council table jnstead of a sentence from a court," ™ statement, published in the Whig yesterday, bears the signature of ex-Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. It is in aceord with the thought of all the. Allied people®. German trigué is- more to be feared to-day than German arms An inconciu- sivy§ peace, a peace, would be a colossal blunder. It is to be hop- ed that the terms ofy peace i'l be left, not the diplomats, but to thre Allied commanders in tre field hey know the Hun best, and they ra fully, capable bringing the war to a conclusion ing ty discuss as he in- bad to of satisfactory THE VALUE OF A FREE PRESS. (Mving evidence at the inquest into the death of Cadet N. F. David- son, R.A.F., in Toronto, on Monday, Surgeon-General J. T. TFothering- ham, acting director-general of medical services for Canada, made some startling remarks on his atti- tude towards the press. | The press of Toronto had unanimously con- demned the conditions = existing at the base 'hospital there, and had de- manded to know who was sible, so that they might be reme- died. © General Fothéringham, the ad gufity party, resented § often the case wh are the subject of pre he indulged in a spitefn the press, and declared that, opinion, the press ought muzzied. Such eriticism never has done the coli this, und, as 1 public men s criticism, 1 attack on in his to be press any harm, but, on tne trary, it shows the wielded by the news shows that men "in who have not done arg afraid of the influence of press on public & in case In question, conditions bad and deserved condemnation, and it was the plain duty of the press lo expose these conditions The newspapers Canada exist for the purpose of enlightening and educating their readery. This ject has been steadfastly kept view, and the result is that press has become a power In land and that Canadians are nation broadminded well formed on all subjects of public in terest. Without a free, fearless, in- dependent press, the people would become narrow in their views and limited in their ideas and. opinions A practical demonstration of this is shown in a paragraph which ap- pears on ithe same page of the To- romto Globe as the report of Foth- eringham's criticism A German soldier in a crack Hamburg regi- ment, on being taken prisoner, stat- ed thdt conditions the western front were excellent for the Ger- mans. This was after the fall cf Lille and of the enemy from positions which they had -held for over four years. In explanation he stated that he had seen no news- papers for weeks, but thag it was not necessary for Germans to read them. In conclusion, he told captors that the reading of "Vorwarts" was forbidden in German army, as it had a bad infla ence on discipline. There is traordinary of German affairs among German officers soldiers Does not this speak itself, and is not the great power It aE office, duty fully, the the papers their inion were of ob- in the and in- on the retreat Lue the an cx ignorance and for < respon- tween these two tems japparent? Here lis a German soldier. deprived of ine privilege of a free, indepen- dent press, laboring ander a pitiful delusion thas all is going well with his country, and being mis'ed as to the real course of events. The Ger- man people, receiving only the re- stricted, misleading news doled ont to them by the fearful imperial gov- ernment, are totally blinded to what is going on in their own country and the outside world. This is the state of affairs which Surgeon-General Fotheringham de- rd Rippling Rhymes could do deck,' they said, fraut.' chief, mand, hopes good bye, morrow he will black my eye. lar bone he breaks. Six months ago, than a quince." bunch, and all the rest, brought a wreath and pinned it on my vest. And while ' the allies plugged away, each for himself, without a I had a triumph many kinds of grief. my goat has wandered far from me; all the plans I've planned, in vain is all my strategy. My big campaign is now a wreck, TWO GENERALS "Confound that Foch!" sighs Ludendorff; a giant till he came, and made me seem a sawed-off | dwarf; he's cooked my goose and spoiled my fame. | was a giant, fair to see, a man strong; the German people looked on me, as one who known. nothing wrong "I was colossal brave and "While Ludendorfl's on the) as a [JM his connection he- BIBBYS STYLE HEADQUARTERS FOR MEN AND BOYS Phone 388 VN 7) not; abotatgle SOCIETY BRAND 'CLOTHES . The commanding place in the clothing trade of nearly every city is held by one store by virtue of the class of goods in which-it deals. This store is rated by the best dressed men as Style Headguar. ters. It's the first place they of going. ink See hand tailored Suit and Over- coats. Special HERRING BONE METAL LATH - LAIDLAW HAY BALE TIES "2ND. GROWTH INDIAN HAND-MADE AXE HANDLES BUNT'S Hardware King St. sires to bring course, it lis quite obvious that ideas will not meet with any favo: in lofficial eircles. The whole sug- gestion savours of Prussianism, dnd the people have deen too well edu- cated by theif mewspapérs to sub- mit to such treatment the press the meeds and the deeds of the mation Jhave _ been made To the press belongs a great measure of credit for the sud- i 'we cannot fail of winning out, so we, shall calmly go ahead, and do our ehores, and eat our |°58 of the Victory Loans. The press I was invineiblé, men .thought, the Potsdam and even Kaiser Wilhelm every day, and sidestepped But now that Foch is in com- in vain are I've said to all my to-day Foch hits me in the neck, to- as you'll agree, I bulked much larger; than a prince; but since this Foch mixed up with me, I feel much smaller -- WALT MASON. be receiver, and the Tie : has for- many 'generations been ian- i strumental in correcting wrong econ- ditions, cleaning out sore spofs in the national life, and iu insisting that the principle of justice for ali classes must be maintained. The foolish and choleric criticism of all | the Fotheringhams in the world wili He takes a thousand miles of soil, ten thou- not deter the press from acting ix sand prisoners he takes; he swats me on my sacred boil, and then my col-, the best interests of the public on every occasion. The newspapers of Canada will continue to be, as they always have been, fearless and jn dependent, and ready at all times w triticise and condemn where ecriti- ism and condemnation are needed, and to act at all times as the guar diaus of the people in the high courts of public opinion. {The press is one of the most valuable institutions of a free pation; it is a real necessity for the education and enlightenment Of the jpublie; it is a vital factor in the bringing about of reforms where {conditions show that they are ne- cesgary, but to continue of service |to ihe nation it 'must remain un- ised restriction, free to uphold what ever is best for the community which it serves, and what is Dest for the nation, for the Empire and for civilization. £ into Canada. Of his Through |. trammeled and free from Prassiau- 4 stenissn i acres. "eres, "eres. TJ. Lockhart Real Egiate and Insurance, Clarenca. Street. J -- Died In England, R.A. McLelland has been informed by cable that his son-in-law, Lieut. Bayly Ransom, died Thursday in Ox- ford, England, from pneumonia, He married his eldest daughter, Grace, in London fu January, 1917. + The late Mr. Ransom was a son of Judge Ransom, of India, and a nephew of Commander Ransom, pay- master to the fleets. He was eduo- cated at Marlboro College, England, and Heidelberg, Germany. After taking a military course he received a commission in an Imperial regi- ment and went to France with it in 1914 and was invalided out in 1917. Mr. Ransom was an accomplished musician and brillant pianist. While convalescing in England he spent part of his time, working up musical com- positions and songs which have been eagerly sought for by publishers. These songs have become very popu- lar in England ------ S------ a Instantly! Coms Stop Hortg Corns Loosen and Lift Qut No paint Few drops loosen corte and calluses. 80 they fall off Ty: it!- Hugi! Pure Clover Honey In the Comb is very scarce this year. We have a small quantity which we are selling at 400. per Section. Jas. Redden & Co: Licenge Nos. 8-450, 8-184,