Ea Baer Nome oom RATES «s ss » «EGitor and Managing-Director. : en wes ses sease W043 "a wsass ses gee 329 adva «+ +35.00 b¥ mall $0 Furs: oma to United «s #+33.00 (Semi- Weekly Edition) One year, if not paid in savance " n One year, Jo United States .. ...51 Nix and three months pro ra - MONTREAL R BPRESENTATIV R. Bruce Ow » Potor St. ¥ H.Northrup, 2 238 Fifth Ave. pg York SR. Northrup, 1510 Aswn Bids, Chicago "Letters to aohe Waitor are published Ser over. actual name of the is one of the Dest job ne Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH . WHIG is authenticated by the Audit Bureas of Olecuintions. Winnipeg should eend for ote Hanson, remarks the Syracuse Post- Standard. The day is gone by, never to re- urn, when it is safe to count on a sucker being born every minute. The obligation of Canada to its defenders should not end with their reception, Their future should be our grave concern. § "Lord Northcliffe has successfully dautched a weekly newspaper for children, and believes that he has thug responded to 'a real need of' the mes. Flower dhieves are busy all over the city. Those who take ' pains d incur expense in beautifying their prémises are justly Inaiguan at such vandalism. * Premier Borden has mo light task ahead ot Jim in straightening out the labor troubles in Canada. Ha will find that every bit as difficult as arranging the terms of peace. The Isolation of the city of Win- . mipeg was perhaps a good' thing for the rest, of Canada last week. It Is * glways hest to isolate a dangerous disease or a fire in order to keep At from: spreading. A consideration of the efficiency of the nation leads to a demand for a dominion-wide enforcement of laws for the protection of heaith, the conservation of life, adequate housing and a proper control of immigration. : In Hamilton the women are agi- tating to have a woman as a mein- "ber of the housing 'committee. If « 'woman were on the - Kingston Housing Committee, we would pro- bably: have had the - 'whole matter cedent that the high schools collegiate institutes of Canada might well lollow. It would cer- tainly have the hearty endorsation of all parents. and MUZZLING THE WINNIPEG PRESS The action which did most harm to the cause pf the strikers in Win- nipeg was the muzzling of the public press. The executive of the strik- ers' organization explained that it was necessary at this time to muzzle for a few days the enemies of free- dom and truth. This explanation has led some of the thinking people to at once conclude that the cause of the strikers'was a weak one, and col- lapse soon followed. Those men who are in touch with public affairs are naturally amazed at this attitude of the striking ele- ment. The public press has, with a very few exceptions, always been found on the side of truth and free- dom. The freedom of the press is one of the most valuable and jealous- ly guarded institutions of the British Empire. The press has always fought consistently for the liberty and freedom of the people. The press has always been the first to espouse and support any righteous or just cause, The press is the only channel through which the strikers could have made their case known to the public and through which they cotild have gained that very essential factor, public sympathy. But they had the mistaken idea that they could ride roughshod over the rest of the populace, and the result was fail- ure, This failure was largely the result of the muzzling of the newspapers of Winnipeg. Had the cause of the strikers been a just one, they would have found mo stronger supporters than the press. Canada has been fortunate in that its newspapers are inspired by motives of -the highest type. Patriotism 1s dominant, but it is tempered with a determination to ensure that the people of our na- tion shall have everything that is necessary to their comfort and well- being. Any movement which is for the betterment of living and working conditions will always meet with ap- proval and support. The strikers claimed that their movement was for such a purpose, but they closed up their most efficient mouthpiece. The |, result should be a lesson' that the press of Canada must be free jand untrammeled, that it must bow to the wishes of no party, and that it must be kept as if is now, the moulder of public opinion and the mouthpiece of -all causes which are worthy and Just. ' A GLARING FOOD SCANDAL. Baily we hear complaints abou! the high cost of living. We have recently been told by those/in au- ti®rity and in a position to know that practically all of the labor un- rest in Canada is due to high cost of living which forces almost every man to spend all his earnings in an effort to ljve in a comfortable man- ner, without being able to make any provision for the future. There- org it is 'with great indignation that the people of this country witl read the news that during the first four months of 1919 no less than forty-seven tons of foodstuffs had to be destroyed in Montreal as un- fit for human consumption. This food, the report states, was kept too long and was allowed to go bad. and it finally was taken to the in- cinerator and burnt. 'When working men, who are struggling in these days of high prices to keep their heads above water, read of these 'things, and realize that this food was in all probability being held in stock in the expectatign of an advance In price, it is only natural that they city of Montrol alone so large sn amount has to he destroyed because of being kept in storage too long, it is time that the cold storage plants were thoroughly inspected, and steps taken to prevent a recurrence of this glaring scandal. William Pitt Born 1754 May 28.~-1f, as the astrologers profess to believe, the destiny of a man Is influepeed, by the stars at the time of his , then William Pitt the younger, who was born one hun- dred and sixt years ago to-day, must have been' fibhered into this world under the most favorable juxtaposi- tion of the inclining planets. He inherited a name which at the time of his birth was the most illustrious of the civilized world, and as Macau- lay says, "was pronounced at that time by every Englishman with pride and by every enemy of the country with mingled admiration and terror." During the first year of his life ev- ery month had its illuminations and bonfires. In Westphalia the Eng- lish infantry won a great victory over, the armies of Louis XV and stopped his career of conquest; Bos- cawen defeated one French fleet off the coast of Portugal; Hawke put to flight another in the Bay of Biscay; Johnson took Niagara; Amherst took Ticonderoga; Wolfe died under the walls of Quebec; Clive destroyed a Dutch armament in the Hoogli; Coote routed Lally at Wamiewash and es- tablished the English supremacy in the Carnatic, and for all these vie- tories the majority of the people of England give William Pitt the elder the credit. The boy who was the second son of his parents early dis- played a precocious mind, and al- though he was physically weak as a boy owing to his rapid growth, yet his intellectual development was the surprise and wonder of his parents and their friends. He first entered parliament as a member for Appleby in 1780, and two years later he was offered and accepted the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1783 he became Prime Minister, and his first administration lasted for mo less than seventeen years. Through- out this long session Pitt displayed An Empire Galcndar. 'in the highest degree -talents of a parliamentary leafer. After living a short time in retirement. political conditions rapidly developing, forced him to undertake a second adminis- tration in 1804 . ' He died two years later on Jan 23, 1806, which was the +*wenty-fifth anniversary of his tak- ing his first seat in parliament. eters to the ir | Saluting the Kingston," May 28.---(To the Bai tor): Patriotism has grown "§ince Canada entered the war, but there is yet room for improvement. As the men of the 21st marehed down Princess: street, so far as 1 could see, only in one instabce, and that 'was 4 man in uniform, was any at- tention paid to the colors as they passed. In contrast with this let me meption what I saw in New York when the 27th Division marched through the ' streets of that city. I was in the midst of a vast erowd, and there was scarce a man who did not lift his hat when the colors passed him. 1 wouid Mke to ask if this neglect or want of knowledge is due to the fact that it is not emphasized in the schools? I know it is part of the child's edu- cation in the United States, and 1 am one of those who are willing to accept the suggestion no matter from whence it may come, so long as it has In it the element of good for our country. Let us from now 'on begin to teach the children to salute tha flag, for no flag in the world stands Tor more than the flag of our em- pire, for it has braved 'for a thou- sand years the battle and the breeze." Canada's glorious part in the war should have taughf us the need of loyalty to the flag, and may it 'ever remind us of the great deeds of our sons and brothers in this war and at the same time help us to ¢herish a love for P the flag. that spells for us Nberty and freedom to all the sons of Canada. J. GALLOWAY. Not the Right Moisture. (Guelph Herald) Mr. Weatherman may be doing his best to remedy "dry conditions," but he. will have to provide some thing better than moisture to pla- cate a man who is dry. ; 'When It Hurts. (Toronto Star) It is admitted by ATIy every- body that the world should hence- forth be made a hettgr one to live in, but a good many seem to draw the line at any change <hat "may disturb themselves. A Real War Oredit, (Buffalo Courie: Canada and the United States have never been very far apart in friendly spirit during fhe last halt century, but the events of the war and common service = have drawn them closer than ever--a real war credit! More Work For League, (Buffalo Express) Beging to look as if the years of heavy artillery' fire jarred the earth off its usual to such an extent that seasons will never run true to form again. We had summer all last fall, ing the winter, March weather In April and now we are getting April showers in May. Let's have a weather administrator in the league of nations! / Seven Sealcace Sermons Let your religion make you more considerate, more loving and attrae- tive, more able to think of and en- ter into the pleasure and interests of others. -- Bishop" Hall. . . - If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be de- stroyed --Archbishop Whately. * * - There is no friend like an old friend Who has shared our morning days, No greetings like his welcome, No homage like his praise. ~ =----Oliver Wendel Holmes. . . When God calls you, be ready to ge; and if you haven't courage ask God to give it to you, and he will.-- D. L. Moody. . Be perfected ;be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you~~II. Cor. 13: 11. . . . He's true to God whose true to man; wherever wrong is done, To the humblest and the weakest 'neath the all-beholding Sun. --Lowell. -. - - 1 do not know bat that, if we were fully the Lord's, the greater.part of the good we did would be that of 'which we were not cognizant. Ser- vice would overflow from us.--A. J, Gordon. ------------------ WATER WARNING. Sprinkle, sprinifte, water cart, How 1 wonder where thou art. Never can I find thee nigh, When the dust is flying high! When the streets with rain are wet, Thou 'art certain to be met, Then, of course, thy streéam's in sight, Sprinkling, sprinkling, left and right! When I'm dressed up in my best, That's the time thy power to test, Then thou tak'st a sudden ove, Deluging me through and through! Fiore a Surning to me, p'raps, 0 stop king 'beer and sohnapps, So I'tl choose the wisest part-- I'll get on thee, oh water cart! ~=Cartoons Magazine. 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