THE BRITISH li 88TH YEAR. i ished Dally and Semi-\Weekly by BRITISH WHIG UBLISHING €0., LIMITED President in A, Guild ........ Editor and Managing Director | TEL EPHONES: on Office ob Offic SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) ® year, delivered in city 2 @ year, if paid in advange ... ------ year, by mail to Fura offices $2.50 year, to United Stat 3 (Bemi-Weekly year, by mall, cash ® year, If not paid | ® year, to United States Bix and three mon «OF -TOWN Ider, 22 St M. Thompson, T ¥ dition) REPR ESENTATIVES oh Montreal 402 Lumsden Bldg. oronto Letters to the Editor are published A over the actual name of the er. Sithsned is one of the best job print-| ices in Canada The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the BC Audit Bureau of Circulations, III I I cA a a et NaN na New Year resolutions what they used to be. "are not Now Leap Year will do well to muffs. is over the take off the ear The successful men of the world those who didn't Raye sense ugh to know when they ed. were There is Sonothing about the sud- denness of the process of deflation that suggests a large bill for vul- eanizing. Gilbert K. Chesterton, the English @sfayist and .critic, is coming to America to lecture. He sees gold dhead of him. It this mild winter 'Where, and a forcing down of prices "@toss the border. Yeon. J. A. Calder has left on a month's holiday trip to Bermuda. All hope he will come back greatly invigorated. Man has his sorrow and misfor- , but he doesn't feel under obli- gation to expose his ankles and chest to winter winds. Chicago has a curfew law. The bell is rung, we presume, out.--Ottawa_ Journal. ----------------------------a--. From the amount of goods cap-| tured in police raids, there appears "* 10 be more moonshine here than | there has been sunshine recently. Sixty-one persons were lynched by mobs in the United States in 1920. The number is one-third smaller than that of the preceding year, The mild weather cannot stop the Basketball players anyway. Some of the girls' games should be "staged 'where we all could see them, The Toronto Globe notes that fonts and land values are not shar | ig in the price declines.' And they Will not while there is a shortage 'of houses. ap---------- One of the first things youth J8arns is not to draw conclusions as to the appearance of a girl by the sound of her voice over the tele- phone. Premier Drury is said to be try- to promote a "bonne entente" Quebec. Ontario evidently wishes to be on good terms with the _ ¥fench province in a dry spell. Only half of the voters in Ottawa eléctions on Monday. All over the 3 ce electors showed a great Mek of interest in the contests. , Some people think ' that' "O | Eda" is Canada's national an- "God Save the King" is our | anthem, just as ghe Union is our flag. t x Sa §o0 Methodists who are « that the preacher imself in the pulpit to | "préaching the Gos- 'mot forget what John } in one of his letters: more profit in sermons on temper or good works than in are commonly called 'gospel '* And might we not say it Jesus, #8 a preacher, was very as "Weney was. --Christian , den oi girls | continues | there may be a surplus of coal some- | REFORMERS. much of:late of per suggested methods inmates and of the such reforms, the despatches ntucky, whicl Utopi have m H. Moy warden of the Kentu 1st tc , who ¢ tory on Jan. t tive in the | Temperan( | made af jguards in the reformat {ishing various forms of pur | with th al result. Ten {ers es r the {the guard | pet trust ! dering a school teacher. It is a qu that when mingles va with exec tive action in the handling of con- {crete problems disaster is the {inevitable accompaniment. |always knows when he is being rid- driven by a masterful person, any 'cutting up. ) Presbyterian Mora ais ve and a point very noses and two of the warden"s 8 are suspected cof r fact 2 jdealism and he ra ¥. does | But let a v fe reins, the h the change, tries he can go with his Pretty when tive take the quick to gee just how new master. {thing happens | formers start tions that have son . note to far Utopian re- out to f bee is under experienced bands. factorily J. 5, FP. THE Referring to published dn T may say that we t be unfair for we respec ¥and are glad to have all facts bea upsn the brought t. . Wa rutinize t those TARIFF. Mr. Sproule's are 1bject have endeav t he representati who professed to hold precis informatio hat might reflect We confes in the st any it upon the 8 8 fail to s that have been made nce of plained of and operation of the tariff. nothing but by authenfl proof, and .in the proof, the artions cepted as be the general a to often heard. From Mr. Sproule' ments, it cannof be they fairly represent the position of the farmers generally, that { lig) | that we atement public thus far 1¢ hardship com- ittributed to the There ha any evide ve been assertions ported absence of cannot be conclusive or 1 sweepin tatements own contended, if ition has been a serious handicap to | { hig industry. The payment of per year was all that attributable to the tariff, was but we can ter knowing that the government got the money. On the other hand, however, he assuredly received com- | pensating benefits from the protec- {tion of his market, and | farmer gets a benefit why should he benefit to another indus- our raw | deny any [try that | materials, | labor and a home market for dairy | products and farm produce, | the government gets its | from the system ? manufactures not really bulk so large as we are led to suppose when we look at the | question from all s and recog- nize the just claims of ple who share in the prosp every business enterprise by reason of the money placed in circulation. Replying to Mr, Sproul's ques- tion regarding the export of manu- factured goods that are sold in open competition on foreign markets, may be said, from our investigation, that such export represent the sur- plus in many lines. Owing to our seasonal conditions, which practi- cally close the home markets for some months every year, many fac- tories would be forced to stop pro- | duction, but rather than do so, they strive for quantity production when it is at all possible to obtain foreign orders at prices that represent a turn over of capital without ices, We know that this is so in a great many lines of business, but such trade does not fairly represent the ability of such manufacturers to carry on business at purely export prices. They merely enable the manufac- turer to tide over the off-season at home, provide employment for labor and maintajn efficiency to meet the next season's demands. "With regard to farm produce, the prices undoubtedly have been, in a large measure, determined by the world's scarcity of food supplies dur- ing the past five years, but we be- lieve that much of the loss due to reductions in prices, as the world {resumes normal production, can be {off-set by quality production and | improved marketing 'methods such | as co-operation In selling and buy- ling, the development of which {shoul engage the serious attention of the farmers. The farmer's great- est competitor is the farmer, for Canada raises emough farm produce to support a much greater popula- tion than we have, and the prices of much that he produces are deter- mined by the foreign markets. But there is a good home market, and he is entitled to all the protection he now enjoys, and the policy of the government has been to give him protection. It will be recognized, therefore, that freedom from taxa- tion upon the "necessities of life" is merely a cant phrase, for if it rity of all the peo-| it | !per acre in addition to the present | interests of all classes, i {ing every line of productive indus- | A horse | much the same | 1 coddi- | SPROULE'S LETTER ON | sa] of | 5 unsup- | documentary | Mr such | , ac- | justify | state- | | protec- | + an $7 | shown | | | understand that he would feel bet- | when the | provides employment for | while | revenue | 1 to notify | "The big interests" referred to do { | the burglars that it's time to come | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. e' carried out to its toga] con- | on who would pay the taxes ? | consumer has as much right to taxes as the manufacturer or and it is only by taxing | a in common that they | are evenly. distributed and all pay their share. It is hardly likely that the land tax proposed by Hon. Mr. Crerar 1d suit the farmers, although we 11d all like to see persons hold- land for speculation eompelled | }! ) let go. A tax of twenty-five cents Names in Numes, rate lives r pay yroducer, rticles Our Daily Special, Man Free Advice use or All His Futu s his Rame is To these Go oy a a ¥ a man should 2 aaing the 3 1 land tax would prove a hardship to | t© 13 wite i many who do not really feel the pre- | 1 gent indirect tax at all. However, the government has |! now all the information upon the | subject and Hon. Mr. Meighen, who | urbasely formes io g only too eager to promote the best | }¢ has placed | i her, and then nave Hi by stimulat- { sume other girl's glov it wd were rot afraid of m aking f eneffiles out "of our vo rs We would Jtorm them ti vot t t way to solve the Hired Girl prob- 2m. 18 to do your own work. S to us that most of the Op. e nlling either Goldiess ek or Oilles$s Oil Well Sto £3 4 man lets his wife impose on i "she knows that he 'does ao; lave BITS OF BY-PLAY od on why Daught By LUKE McLUKE | 2 t Sk 2h permit Copyright, 1920, by The Cincinnati Enquirer. try, can be depended upon to take | 1o ithe right course. { he us a OPINION Get Out and Boost. (Toronto Globe) tven if you are simple-mi ough to believe the dismal bu ries that are told you by Wafr! A. Kerr don him and the t ike his name make him im do not 1 « im growl. ign painter t they have been told, do m on. Then you won't have any later, when you find that Drunks. dismal stories are untrue. nk blind tiger all day 8 to be th » May. 1 Queen f -------------- More Than Wealth Needed. Express) mor is 'hid on to the man with ty in his soul: the real beauty ry and the jyy of music are reveaied to those who can bring 'm somet thing of the post's and alth you > ymmanti the greatest master- ¢3 of art and surround yourself "| with the finest hangings and tapes- | tries created by man. But | if you have no spirit of beauty, they meaningless things, To under- stand is to live. Changeable Things, > he can tel wk f his ser Wali Mason | THE POET PHILOSOPHER i 1921. We greet the New Year with a T | smile, and say, "Take off your things, | and come right in and stay a while, | and feel at home, by jings; for brand new years are quite in style, and every . joy bell rings." . Men always are sustained by hope, as down the world they fread, and though in dark- | ness they may grope, they know | there's light ahead; they're strong on optimistic dope, and say the past is dead. This spirit always is on deck wherever men abound; it saves their souls from ghastly wreck, and | makes the world go round; and so no | cleaver in the neck can silence or) confound. Old Twenty's weary | course is run, so let him disappear; | we turn to Nineteen-Twenty-one, and | give a ringing cheer; the new year's | blithe and full of fun, the old one's on his bfer. The old year's petered | out and spent, and now we hail the | new, and every dame and every gent | enjoys a rosy view, and every dream | that's worth a cent is likely to come true. This world would be a dismal place, a desert drear and vast, if man should always turn his face back to a troublous past, if he should after | sorrow chase, and groan and stand | aghast, But human beings do not | turn to sad things and forlorn; the | ghosts of yesterday they spurn, and laugh away with scorn; the gods have Oh Joy! taught them how to yearn for bright James Christmas, of Morristown, | days yet unborn. Tenn., should be a mighty ha ma He has a Mary Christmas in D2 nan. =rWALT Mason. every day in the year. Do mot abet | -- another day with | PILES! Dr. Chase's Ointment will relieve you ai one | and afford lasting benefit. 60c. a box; dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co, Yomited, | Toronto. Sample Box free it you mention this paper and enclose 2¢. stamp 10 pay postage. ISAS ES ENNRNRE RESEND AERA EEEER | The Wm. Davies Co., Ltd. PHONE 597 ANOTHER BIG SPECIAL IN PORK 800 Ibs. Roastof Pork .................. 28ec. 6001s. Pork Chops .................iv 356] BEEF Shoulder Roasts .......... Rib Roasts Oven Roasts . . . .. ne blow, and that was all! » Oswald Bing : 1" King!" Bless Her Heart! (Houston (Texas) Post) McLuke confesses to years when he asks me of the o. I. girl who was pe Only antiquarians remem- rer You Know Him. He worships coin, does Oswald Bly, 4 get hold is his aim; judge a picture's value by i The gilding on the frame. Things te Worry About. Snakes have no eyebrows. Is That So! man who never tells his wife like the Lord High Admiral navy. There Ain's no such ke McLuke. She suspects So why disappoint her?--- News-Journal, The ai ge O. Fixem! Ketchem and I. Holdem of the alteration room in 'the big Cincinnati department Ark. Busy. old Ky. Snowball, There was an Vaughn, Who got up each morning at daughn, He d get out of the hay en he'd loaf around all day, And he d vaughn, and he'd yaughn and e¢'d yaughn, fellow named Bang! When a man got loaded h he is a big gun.--Luke McLuke. s thinks po But he won't admit he tw half shot.-- Tole do Blade. -- Sympathy. A. Ish is a street car motorman in Nashville. Tenn. But if you want to sympathize with him, don't say any- .20c. Ib. .28¢. Ib. .22¢. Ib. .18c. Ib. StewingBeef ............. . BUTTER 700 Ibs. choice Whey Butter . . . . BACON Sweet Pickled Bacon, sliced ............38¢cIb. Wiltshire Bacon sti 2 Persad and 45e. Ib. Prime Chesse ese sn nriassne nes BEG per Ib. .50¢. Ib. TT TT mn aa { ff THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1881. SO Ri == HT iil h's BIBBY'S Kingston One Price Men's and Boys' Wear Stores 4 -~ we have it for] x say: Compare! city. lous: | €s8s. ! Compare! Compare! REMEMBER! --when you see it advertised elsewhere, remember --It is part of our business to allow no firm, good, bad or indifferent to undersell us. --Quality for quality, Price for price, value for value, we -- At a glance you will see that we do as we advertise, and meet and beat all competition in this city or any other --What you see in our windows, you see in our store ready for your careful inspection. --Our revised prices make this discount stuff look ridicu- that (MH A BIBBY'S HAE I ---- 3 ' i a nN, TANK H To keep water troughs f ice will form on th rmed walter pay Made in one solid piece of cas BUNT'S HARDWARE. cattle from freezing em and the cattle will drin for itself in one fe ™ EATERS kK more of ason. t iron. No seam KING ST. PHONE 388. No. White Fox Stole 1 Quality $68.50 Gourdier's 'BROCK STREET; - (REESE ETE TERRE CARS i HERRERA Table Waters White Rock. Radnor. Poland. ~--Adanac. ~Caledonia. --=Vichy Celestins, ~--Soda Water, --Dry Ginger Ale. Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 aud 890, FARMS FOR SALE 119 acres, '™8 miles from Kingston, on a leadiug road, § new barn, with slabies 3u by 4 4u feet--small dwelling, ueariy uew, about 45 acres now under cultivation; about 30 acres of valuable wood, chielly maple, Price $4,000. 85 acres on the Bath Read; pleasant location on the Bay of Quinte; over 80 acres first | class soil under cultivation; good buildings. Price $6600, We have also a large lst of farms of all sizes and prices. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance KINGSTON, Ont, Phone 1036w or 1797) EGGCOAL....... STOVE COAL ">" NUTCOAL....... PeaCoal~..............515.00per ton Carrying 50c. extra. PHONE 155. ALL SALES FOR CASH. 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Dr. Chown's Drug Store Try Our Phone Service pure Residence 913w, | Lake Ontario Trout | and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had- dock, , Halibut and Cod. BOOTH FISHEIERS (Canadian Co. Phone 520. 68 Brock Ste No. 9-3240. ---- Coal That Suits Phone 9. A ---------------- The Delaware, Lackawanna an} Western Railroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite The ozly Coal handled by Crawford Foot of "'neen se "It's a black busine... wk tress you whie."