"THE THE BRITISH WHIG| 87th YEAR. Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED I Pusiness Office torial Job Office vu (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city e year, if paid in advance e year, by mail to rural offices $ One year, to United St (Semi-Weekly Edition) : © year, mall, cash ..........$1.00 e year, ff not pajd In advance $1.50 ne year, to United States 1.6 SIX and three months pro rata. 5.00 2.50 Letters to the Editor are pubMshed gniy aver the actual name of the 'writer, Attached ig one of the best job print- ing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. Pn Every Ponzi must have his sea- 3 Jeon of sowing wild notes. The tax om Helinie's shoulders ves little room for a chip. . The "vulgar rich" are people able fo buy the things we. desire. The dove of peace doesn't seem @ble to hatch anything except plots. Tag days in Toronto have been forbidden. Other cities should take note. Sempre At any rate the effort to keep up with living costsjgives one a run for his money. Duty: Noun, very singular, ex- Pplaining why the other fellow should turn the grindstone. Oné who buys a tenderloin in these days is justified in saying that hia fortune is at steak. If Wrangel would demonstrate Ris prowess, let him first take the erime out of Crimea. ¥ - | "Cost of living on a declining Scale," says a headline, Well, that's 'where most of us are living. ~ ~ Heinie's definite decision not to Join the Bolsheviks indicates that he ~ got some profit out of the war. --eii-- Human nature is funny. Man will fight for freedom, and, having won ft, set out to find him a slave. 'When a man remarks that honesty #8 the best policy one suspects he 3 ed as much by hard experience. Russian government. It doesn't b © You can say one thing for the | fash tts soiled Lenfne in public, There are times when one re- ts that Bill Hohenzollern caused RT anguish than Bill Collec ; ; Possibly death and taxes are jinked together because ome con- porns the income and the other the ! Ocean freight rates are down fhirty per cent., but raflway freight fates are going in the opposite . The budding genlus whose lines Ware returned again and again doubt- "ess reflects that poets are born and notpaid. Irish patriots live on and on with- out food, and now we understand how school teachers get along on their salaries, . Many great inventions are acci- dental discoveries, and some home- brew artist may yet discover a sub- stitute for gasoline. Vhen the crack of doom comes, men will sit tight and an- ce thmt they have decided to t developments. . the League Qf Nations has a 6 desire to abglish the horrors the charge, that\ Geneva hotel 't be like other 8 establish- There is ome encouraging ht. When men refuse to tight, lomats may settle their quarrels "person and rid the world of one her. -------- wonder New Yorkers detest bition, as declared in a recent despatch. It puts them to the jeonvenience of walking around to 'back door. LABOR IN BRITAIN. The British labor situation grows | blacker, and with the issue of strike | notices to the miners there does not | seem any possibility of averting the | huge strike. The Peterboro Exam- iner says that the meeting of the miners' executive will be awaited with keen anxiety throughout the Empire, and that there will be a general hope that an unexpected twist in the situation will avert the suffering and distress of a tie-up in mining. THe British government is maintaining a firm attitude and has no intention of yielding to the de- mands of the miners, who have re- fusetl to submit their wage demands to a competent court and who are considered to be menacing the country with an industrial strike for political purposes. The strangest feature of the situation is that while the government has apparent- ly no doubt that the threatened strike will materialize, the British people have no fear of the coming trouble. THOSE WHO CANNOT PLAY. 'Edward Bok, for years associated with women's magazines, has re- cently retired from the editorship of the Ladies' Home Journal in order, 00 | after a life of work, to lead a less restricted and, to him, more plea- sant existence. He was not too old to work. He was not sick or tired. He had simply decided that he had served at his routine job long enough, and he quit it in order to "play." In the Atlantic Monthly Mr. Bok tells how his action was viewed by his friends. | they prophesied, or in a year he { would "degenerate." Themselves, they preferred to "die in the har- ness." Why ? There were younger men eager to take their places, capable of doing their .work as well or bet- ter. There were the usual wives and children who had missed the fathers because business had absorbed them. There were public service, travel, books. Play, says Mr. Bok, is not golf, polo or horse riding. spend the rest of my days on the golf course or in' the saddle." It is a broadening of mind and spirit, a greater freedom of activity earned by years of discipline. conclusion as to why his acquaint- ances could not understand his re- tirement. They could not conceive not play themselves. Few business men can. In the drive at work, which has brought them some ma- terial satisfaction, they have lost the habit of play. THE TARIFF COMMISSION. From the manner in which Sir Henry Drayton and his associates are proceeding with their investiga- tion, it is evident that the govern- ment is determined to. obtain all information possible that has any bearing upon the operation of the tariff. As the evidence is made public its effect upon public opinion wll be found to be pronounced, and the direct 'result will be, a realign- ment in the attitude of careful readers who desire to judge from the facts in their bearing upon what they conceive to be the commercial and industrial prosperity of Canada. It is well to bear in mind at the outset that the tariff is in reality the only 'division that exists be- tween political parties in this coun- try to-day, except possibly the United Farmers, who, in addition to desiring to abolish the tariff, be- lieve that no man not a farmer is entitled to a farmer's vote.' The government and the Liberal party are one in demanding a tariff for revenue, but Right Hon. Mr. Meighen goes further in his declara- tion of policy. He would protect Canadian industries in order that Canadian labor might be utilized to the fullest extent. This means that our workmen will not be forced into idleness while our home markets are loaded up with foreign-made goods. The issue in Canadian politics to- day is purely an economic one, and we must, therefore, approach. the subject from every angle in order that justice may be done to all the varied interests of the country. In the first place, there must be found an annual revenue of $350,000,000 to meet all government charges. This money is now raised by import dutige, income tax, excess profits tax and the sales tax recently im- posed as a temporary measure. As it 1s not necessary to deal with the Liberal tariff, since it has been adopted by the government in so far as it advocates a revision of the tariff downward, we have to choose between the government's pro- gramme and that of the United Farmers who would establish free trade and devise some system of land taxation not as yet clearly de- fined. It is just here that the prin- ciple of protection comes in. Even were the owners of land willing to pay all of the taxes--and this m that the farmeérs would have to pay most--what would become of the industries of this country. repre- senting a capital investment of nearly $3,000,000,000, employing about 693,000 men, the value of whose products exceeds $3,000,- 000,000? Last year we imported two dollars' worth of goods for every | one dollar's 'worth exported. They could not believe | | that nothing was the matter with | him. He would come back to work, | "God forbid that I should | Mr. Bok is entirely right in his | of a life of play because they could | By | the adoption of free trade, or even | an appreciable lowering of the pres- | lent tariff, it is evident that the | Canadian market for manufactured | goods would pass into the control of | | United States' manufacturers, with | whose enormous capital and highly | organized industries we could never | compete. With an over-stocked | market, our industries would be {forced to close down and thousands | of our workmen would be idle. Do {we want a situation of this kind { here 7. . ' | If is apparent, therefore, that we {are going to see labor in this coun- {try stand for a protective tariff, as its interests and the interests of the manufacturers are identical. What- ever bonds of union may be found in provincial affairs, labor is bound by self-ntrest to take a stand for industrial prosperity and the preser- vation of the home market Canadian-made goods. Hon. Arthur Meighen has shown a master hand in forestalling the United Farmers, by the appointment of the tariff commission which will lay bare the essential facts 'con- nected with industry in Canada. A mass of evidence is being presented by the manufacturers, farmers and dealers that shows what they re- gard as necessary to their welfare ; | and it will be the duty of the com- mission to prepare a report for par- | liament conveying its finding and upon which the next budget will be hased. for | MUSINGS OF THE KHAN Caught on the Rebound. More rarely than you would think a girl marries the man she wanted. More often than you would think there is a picture of someone in the secret chamber of her heart who, had circumstances and conditions been different, she would have wed- ded. But oh! his family or connec | something hard to achieve might try | pose for which the pyramids of Egypt tions were impossible, or he was impossible or he was impossibly | { poor or impossibly rich, or he had | an impossible religion or business, | or nose, or mouth, or something im- | possible, it didn't matter what. She didn't get the man she wanted. Young Matt Losee was hired for | a year with ole Mose Sockdologer, | that rich barbarian who lives on the | 6th Con., Gumbo, but he only stayed three weeks and ole Mose he up'n | paid him four months wages to get | rid of him, It was top evident that | ne suitor for his only daughter's | hand could come next or near the | | Sockdologer outfit while this here | | Matt. Losee was on, the premises, | | Young fellows would halt their car | out on the side road and honk and honk till Elizabeth came eut on the porch to see what on earth was the matter, and then they could coax her over the fence and take her for | a ride, but that's no way to spark a girl. It's a pretty hard thing if you dassent come up to the house on account of the hired man. That would"t have cut any ice, but it | Was patent to Ole Mose and her Aun' Delilah, who kept house for them, that Elizabeth liked © Matt. pretty well. - He called her 'Beth. Now, I never in my life ever heard any one, not even her dad or her aunt, call her anything but Eliza- beth. 'She was that kind of a girl. There were other Elizabeths in the neighborhood, but they never got Elizabeth once in a blue moon. With them it is a Liz, or Lizzie, Lize or Lizer, Bet or Betsy. But our hero- ine always got Elizabeth--no one dared call her anything else till along comes this here reprobate, Matt Losee, and starts calling her Beth if you please, so Ole Mose says, "I'll Beth ye, gosh hang yer impy- dents--yoy, git out to-night--onder- stand"; and Matt says, "Yer dippy, my master, my year won't be out fer more'n eleven months yet," an' Ole Mose Split the difference and made it four months and paid him down on the nail. That was three or four years ago, and Elizabeth has not been quite the. same girl since. If the other fellows thought they would have a better chance now that Matt. was fired they missed their guess, for she pretty high set the dogs on them, . A couple of weeks ago she made up her mind she would go to Toronto Exhibition week and stay with her father's cousin, Mary, on Simcoe stréet--it's either Simcoe street or Church street--but she never went next or near the place. "I want this thing on the level," she told Matt, when she met up with him by accident, so to speak. "We'll get married and go home in your car; we can make it by dark. I don't want to go to the fair--this is show enough for me." So they got mar- ried in a clergyman's library, with a couple of servants for witnesses, and they struck for the Sochdologer home on the 5th Concession, Gumbo. This was the blow that killed father -- figuratively speaking -- as you couldn't kill Ole Mose with an axe. He dropped a pail of milk, however, and spilt every drop of it, and for- got to put the cows back in the spring crick lot that night, but he survived. "Look here, dad," Elizabeth says, taking the old man by the whiskers and putting him down most affec- tionately on the back stoop, "you heard tell "about the new heaven and the new earth, and, as ole Dad Slo-| cum would say, 'By hedges, it's here!" Things is altogether differ- ent sence the war, but if you try to make trouble fer my Matt. you'll find out that the same old hell is doin' business in the same old place." "Let me up," says Mose. *T know when I'm licked!" MA 'The Khan. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont. ! ~ Oliver B. Hay, Alexandria Bay, N. Y., an employee of the City National Bank, New York, was cut in the back of the neck by a piece of flying glass as a result of the explosion in Wall street. At Smith's Falls, a pretty wed- ding took place on Wednesday, when Amy Lillian, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8. J.. Wark, was united in | Ye are both dreamer, prophet, sage, { The teacher of the Word and mote. marriage to I. J. Saekell, Goderich, DAILY BRITISH ra ------------ Si | PUBLIC OPINION | Can't Miss Such a Chance. (Ottawa Journal) . Prisoners are to have two new suits a year. Here's where we throw a brick through a window. O00 AT CL) e-- And More Profitable. (Baltimore American) Maybe one reason highwaymen are so scarce is that they find it safer to go into the festaurant business, Slight Sarcasm. Tyrithane (Christiania) . She--*"I never try to parade my virtues," & He--"No, It needs at least two to make a parade." . Try A Less Distant Call, (Colombia Record) Failing to get Mars to answer, those scientists who are looking for to get central. Socrates. (Ideas and Ideals) When they asked him the reason he built such a little box for a dwell- ing, he answered, "There may be lit- tle reason, but small as the place is, I shall think myself happy if I can fill it even with true friends." Ancient Inquiry. (Washington Star) "We are still seeking," said the scientist, "to ascertain the exact pur- were constructed." "Yes, some of these investigations do take a long time." Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER * DEMPSEY. . Jack Dempsey will battle 'em all, the short and the fat and the tall; he'll meet any chap who's intent on a scrap, and plaster him over the wall. Oh, long have we yearned for a champ who'd fight at the wink of a lamp; and it's been a long day, I am prompted to say, since we had a good boy of that stamp! But Dempsey, he WHIG " ---- CC ~ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1920. pine BIBBY'S Sale of Men's and Young Men's Suits Sizes 34 to 44. Blue Serge, Fancy Worsteds, Cheviots, -etc. New Two Button, New One Bu tton, New Three Button models --splendidly tailored by the best tailors in the land. These Suits are sold outs, last one of a lot, n on-repeats, etc. Sale Price $37.50 SALE OF OVERCOATS --YOUNG MEN'S TOP COATS New Waist Seams, new Form Fit, and Chesterfields. Sizes 34 to 40. Nobby Coats, good coloring, smart styles. Sale Price $27.50 BIBBY'S rather would fight, than go to a lec- ture at night; he has no excuse when he's asked to produce "invincible left" or the right. I hope in some bright coming year the prize ring will quite disappear; outworn and outlawed it will rest 'neath the sod, and no one will hand it a tear. But | while it's a human device I think | that the pugs should cut ice, and put | up a mill with a hearty good will | when anyone offers the price. So | Dempsey's a solace to me; I watch | all his motions with glee; a fighter who'll fight is a joy to the sight, whate'er his conditions may be! --WALT MASON. | WE [TTT i THE PRESS. 3 | By Ewyn Bruch MacKinnon. Each hour upon 'this living stage Set ye the drama of the human race, Each hour breaks Perth ths 'vital storm, And stories flash as lightning streaks the sky, Each hour to read the world with one small eye. Clio marks here posterity And Fame the debtor here shall pay her debt, And from your gommon scroll Tradl- tion set Her ever willing voice and speak less free. Ye gleaners of the deeds of man. That delve the corners of the earth Outstrip the sun to gird the span, Ward well the cautious garnering And beauty, 'too, the blossoming bud is yours. ee Gree SGP Gt | Seven Sentence Sermons | if ei nc i i i God never mocks the soul with an impossible ideal, neither should the soul ever mock God with an igmo- "The Finest Finished Ranges Sold "FLORENCE AUTOMAT IC" OIL STOVES Endorsed by Good House keeping Magazine, BUNT'S King St. Phone 388 -- Sold in Canada ati-- CT 0000 ONES McCLARY'S GAS RANGES ------ NEWFOUNDLAND Canned Lobsters We have just received a ship- ment of these choice Lobsters. Sold only under license, 'and passed by the Newfoundland Government. For one pound flat tins, price, per tin ..$1.00 Jas. REDDEN & Co. 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' -------------- Still His Hole, Cardinal O'Connell, the Roman Cd- tholic prelate of Boston, who has ere- ated a flutter in feminine society in that highly-cultured city by asseriing that American husbands are given to petting and pampering their wives overmuch, has the reputation of be- ing a very witty man. A his sole recreation 1s golf, at which, however, he does not great- ly shine. . One day, the story goes, he was badly beaten by one of his parish- foners. t "Never mind, Father," said the lat ter consolingly; "you'll get your own back. when you come to bury me." "That's where you're wrong," sigh- &d the rueful prelate. "It'll still be your hole!" 4 a The death occurred on Wedn: y of William E. Foster, Smith's Falls Deceased had suffered for months from a complication of diseases, the bew-- rn ~ NOTICE Cleveland, Hyslop and Humphrey Bicycles ----At Reduced Prices Bicycle Tires and Auto Traction Tread . Covers. Special prices. See window display. Carpet Cleaning and Laying. H. 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