PAGE SIX er THE BRITISH WHIG 87th YEAR. ublished Daily and Semi-Weeikly by Hi BRITS WHIG PUBLISHING CU, LIMITED J. G. Klett ... _ heman A. Gulid Seassmesaenas TELEPHONES: ness Office torial ob Stoe ses SUBSURIETION X won)" year, piivered | ih ofty ....36.00 : year, if paid in advapce . 15.08 @ year, by mall to Saal oltices $2.50 Jor to United "ee (Bemi- ra on) Loe year, by mail, va }.00 ne year, if not paid in edvance, 14 year, to United States Bix and three mouths pro fain" QUT-OF TOWN REPRESENTATIVES ¥ Calder, 22 St, Jong $t., Montreal. M. Thompson, . L391; msden BIE. Letters to the Editor are published nlx aie the actual name of the ned is one of the best Job axe 'priating offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. Do your coal shopping early. Even Job's personal misfortunes did not include a rise in rent and a shortage of houses. Nottm at -- But what we need is the kind of peace that will permit a reductign in the size of headlines. The desire for liberty never In- spired the Slav to the sublime sac- rifices he makes in the cause of loot. If everybody boosted Kingston like Bushel boosts' the' fair we would goon have a city of aver 50,00 popu- lation. \ Very often a man thinks he is re- strained by his consglence whefi he 18 restrained by fear of getting caught. And now Alaska wants honfe rule. The Eskimos and Pplar bears up there must have been reading the newspapers. "Jt Mexico succeeds in demonstrat- ing that Carranza was a private citi- "gen when killed it will doubtless be a great consolation to his family. Those who sorrow because the next generation will inherit the war debt should cheer up. Present indications are that it will also inherit the war. Germany's fear that the Bolshe- 'will destroy civilization is un- mable. If Germany couldn't do 'how shall the primitive Red? --m------ There seems to bé a false note in Germany's horrified protest against ing troops through a neutral to get at an enemy. So far the only logical objection] he Volstead act in the United tes has been that it interferes the sale of whiskey. 'Two parliamentary secretaries at wa have been dispensed with, ing a saving of $10,000 a year. 'public will appreciate such omy. dvettiseing pays. The Ottawa pment, recognizing this, has in- d a publicity department, other institutions, governments afford to hidé their light un- p tches say than an effort will to establish Soviets in Can- Well, perhaps the sooner the won't learn any other ~~ Toronto Labor Leader' chap from St. Catharines, who artist offers to sell his daughter Tor $1,000 in him pay his debts. If '| There has uplifterg is about on a par with the view that if there had been bars, men who died of drinking wood alco- people what there is in the federal prisons to make the inmates better? The prisoners' lot is made so hard that even honest guards have been moved to compassion by. smuggling them pieces of chewing tobacco, It appears that there ig litfle in the pri- don 'curriculum but work and pun- ishment. The uplifters do not won- der at all that prisoners (not neces- sarily criminals) want to escape from torment... When the federal peniten- tiaries are made places of "reforma- {tion and improve the minds and mor- als of the men and women incarcer- ated, then the uplifters will be con- tent. Perhaps the recent escape, which has caused some humiliation, may help in the campaign for prison x | reform. SAVING A SACRED SPOT. The dean of Westminster Abbey' has issued' an appeal for funds to ald in the restoration of that historic edifice. His appeal should meet with 0 | response from every part of the world wherein the English language is spoken. So many historical and sacred associations cling about this venerable spot that 1t would be a lasting shame to allow it to fall into decay and crumble into ruin. No spot on earth is more sacred to Englishmen than Westminster Abbey, in which our kings are crowned and for long were buried, and which has now become the recognized sepulchre of our mighty dead, says the editor of United Em- pire, Britishers in' the Dominions Overseas will share that sentiment, It is nearly a thousand years ago since Edward the. Confessor raised the first Abbey Church in the Isle of Westminster, but it is with a shock that we realize from the dean's appeal for funds that the present magnificent building, main- ly the creation of the third and seventh Henries, is threatened with grave dilapidation, and even, if long neglected, with disaster. One feels that time should have left these stones untouched; the guardian of the immortals should itself be im- Mortal. But not only is the abbey in serious need of repair; it is poor, and with the present prices of matarials and labor, has nothing like sufficient money to carry out the necessary work of preserving the fabric. No doubt many in the dominions will be glad to testify their respect for one of the spiritual homes of our race. A steady flow of subscriptions should follow as a result of the dean's appeal, MOB LAW IN CANADA. The attempt to lynch David Me- 'Neal at Thorold, who-was under ar- rest accused of the murder of Mar- 'garet Boucock, was a disgraceful pro~ 'ceeding. Never" in the history of Canada has mob law reached the poinb of crime, and it is to he hoped that we may never again see a group of persons attempt to take the law into their own hands." 'In this case, fortunately, the intended victim was given an opportunity before the noose was adjusted to make an address, and he made such a profound impres- sion upon his hearers that he not only dissuaded them from their pur- pose of hanging him to the tele- phone pole, but made ¢f them sympa- thizing friends determined to see him get a fair trial. Whether he is guilty of the crime with which he is' charged will not be known until after all of the evi- the account of the manner in which he overcame the determination of the mob to take his life without a trial, he must be a man of no mean ability. The question that many people will things in favor of McNeal. In the first place there was no color or racial prejudice to inflame the mob as in the lynchings that take place annually in the United States. There was ab- horrance of his crime, 4nd when he was given the opportunity to plead his innocence, the absence of any statement in support of the charge against him compelled ihe mob to leave his case in the hands of the proper authorities. Any other course would-have been without a shadow of Justification on the part of the mob, however righteous their wrath ' |against the perpetrator of a despi- cable crime. The action of this mob was a blot apon the fair name of Canada, and although it did not take a life, all of the elements of an outrage upon justice were present. Had the scale been tiped ever so slightly by per sonal antipathy against the victim, there is not the slightest doubt that he would have met with short shrift. "We don't want mob law in this country and everything that tends to bring' our regularly constituted courts and laws into disrepute should be frowned upen: It is just a ques- tion whether or not this whole af- fair is not a symptom of the con- dition which we have been passing the past two years. altogether; too much criticism of our governments and in- stitutions, on the part of political organizers, irresponsible hirelings often who Yailed to appreciate fully Ith dinest ug ndtrect consequences hol would be alive to-day. Will the | heads of the penitentiaries tell the [and | eraatt of their utterances. nt is in the fa terest of all of the people of the country to uphold the constituted authorities, our institutions and laws, kd political group that carries on a "campalgn to deliberately dis- its government, parliament, legislature and courts is deserving of something more than censure. To all thoughtful people the Thorold in- cident will be a warning that no pec=. son desires to see repeated. PUBLIC OPINION Modérate Profits. (Boston Transcript) Conservative investments, such as mill stocks to yield only about 100 per cent. will mw be the order of the day. England Understands. (Baltimore Sun) that our politicians twist the lion's tail in the effort to squeeze out a vote. Life's Merry-Go-Round. (Cincinnati Enquirer) You may not know it, but when you are laughing at a man behind his back some other man is behind your back laughing at you. A Cordial Invitation, - (Effingham, Kansas, New Leaf) If you do not go fishing or visit- ing, and have no work to do, and the street has no loafers to interest you, you might go to church, and the churches will be glad to see you, no matter who you are. MUSINGS OF THE kan | Get Thee to a Monastery! Reformers ever go to extremes. When we revolute we revolute too fast and far. When we get religion we get too much, that is, if it is possible to get too much of a good thing, which is a debatable question. We always overdo it, which is almost as bad as not doing it at all. I was reading some ancient his- tory the other day and I noticed that when this world got too hot to hold some big men dnd public characters that "he retired to a monastery." Now, there's a good idea that it would be well for us to consider. For instance, we have a great man on our hands who lingers superflu- ous on the stage. What will we do with him? We hate to kill him. In the nebulous past we are informed that he did the state some service, But what will we do with him? To kick him out is an undignified pro- ceeding for the party of the first part as well as<for the party of the second part: Besides, they are gen- erally pretty well advanced in years and an injury to the lower part of the spine would be fatal. If we followed the fine old cus- toms of the ancients we would say to this old feller-- "Get thee to a monastery, quickly too!" THEN--if we found him loafing about the premises next day we could go to him with a fence rail or a sawed-off shotgun. The monastery was a place of peace and quietness immune from agek in the midst of war by either and Of course, England Anderstands » "on the principle of the old-time mon- THE ._DAILY BRITISH WHIG party, and here in seclusion and; prayerful quiet these men who once figured in the strenuous world out-! tide would be lulled to sleep. It was a great scheme and our plan can't compare avith it. When a gent becomes persona non grata with the | great washed and unwashed What | do we do with him? Nine times out of ten we ought to kill him, but we don't--we 'elevate" . him to the bench! Do you call that an jm- provement on the old monastery idea? Surely not! If there is no room for him on the bench we ap- point him on a commission or make him a magistrate, or an inspector of something, or, a registrar, or sher- iff, or any old thing so as to get rid of him--and we don't get rid of him! In the old days when a man entered a monastery he never came out. He bothered, he worried, he dunned the folks no more. It was understood that so long as he stayed in there and never showed his nose outside the gate that bygones would be by- gones and nobody would hold spite; indeed, everybody would be pleased to hear that he was doing well. Sure- ly that was a better place than ours? Modern history hath some terrible examples of this folly. To get rid of Napoleon our fathers made him Lord High Executioner of Elbo and let it go at that. But did that sat- isfy the little Corsican? It did nog! He had a whole island a great deal bigger and not nearly so valuable as our island, but a pretty nifty little old island just the same, and he was actually pald!--paid to stay there---- and he got his dough in quarterly payments just as regular. He own- ed all the distilleries and jails and ice cream saloons, and picture shows and the baseball team-~he had every thing in his mitt. But he made more trouble than he ever made be- foré, so our fathers had to bundle him off to a monastery dedicated to St, Helen--which was a graceful compliment to the fair sex. Some of our once-was-great mpn step out when they are squeezed out and "re-enter" private life, . They don't. They haunt the outskirts of our civilization. Like a lion escaped from a circus they may be toothless and mangy and verminous, but they scare nervous people. I am no cow- ard, but, nevertheless. I wouldn't want any old lion padding about in my sugar bowl. I doRt care how harmless he might be. Here's another way of looking at it. It is unkind to appoint some men to the bench and it is 4n outrage on | the public. If we get rid of Smith, Jones and Robinson by putting them | on a commission or shipping them off to London and W ashington? | When old Sir John A. wanted to get rid yof some offensive partisan he shipped him off to the Old Country as an emigration agent, and he gen- erally drank himself to death in a few months. Sir John A. will have to answer for this, ¥ feag on the Last Great Day, No, my friends, you can't get rid of these people by appointing them to something. The men who lived 4 thousand years ago were . wiser than us. We will- have to follow their example. We have lots of money. Our vast charitable institu- tions and lunatic asylums are prac- tically maintained by the gold pieces we steal from rich dead men's eyes, Let us establish a great institution BA astery and when we want to get rid of some objectionable monster in our midst we will tell him to "Get there, Eli""--and if he don't hé will have to take the consequences. THE KHAN. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont. - Rippling Rhymes It is a stran ship them off in burn the midnig explain just why dence in the case is heard, but from | ask is how he did it. There were two | to taste of gore; and all the boats upon the Styx The peoples all hae learned to slay, and now, if some one's in their way, they see that some one dies; oh, may we see the times again when gents won't swat their fel- corpses o'er. lowmen, as they would swat the flies! ~ a RED YEARS. val of crime, that never stops or rests--the slayer to his vietim wends, and voters kill their lady friends and we find dead gents on every hand, they chatter up the mews, and peelers and detectives toil, and vainly Here where Pacific billows roar three mufdered guys were washed ashore within two weeks or one; and inland other chaps were slain, and no one offered to crimes we all abhor are but the outcome of the war, the years of deadly strife, where men who fought for flag or king soon felt that nature's cheapest thing is | stuff called human life. and death and every time we drew a breath it seemed ge and savage time; there is a carni- chests. 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