THE BRITISH WHIG . 88TH YEAR. ™E COUNCIL AND SHOWS. Alderman Steacy, w [ motion before counci evening to grant p { production here of the Pol { sounded a warning that sh { been heeded. It ist | passing thiYough a pé depression which is reflec most every line of activity ETCH Crest eRe SHUT ur po | couragement be offered to any prise that will take $12,000 000 out of the city within days? These people have n in Kingston, and this fail be faced, possibly, with hun the bread line, » It is well to remember, there are show houses already ed in Kingston, and it is not unlike- we dreds in too, that clos- A Dally and Semi-Weekly LA ly that others will close from lack of | BRITISH Wii PUBLISHIN CO, LIMITED | therefore running counter to-all rea- | SUBSCRIPTION RATE (Daly Edition) year, asliveled in city , , if paid in advance year, by mail to rural omices 3 y ar, to United States (Semi- = Weekly Edition" r, by mal L fish «oo $1 » if not paid in a T, to United States <Of-TOWN REPR FB ENTATIVE alder, 22 StL. 10 Monireal Ww. T 00 King st W.| tters to the Editor are published | Wriier over the actual name of the | t Attached is one of the best job | printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. A 'falling oft in stunt aviators is jeported, . i "Stop, look and listen' applies to | itreet crossings, too, And now none but the brave 'will | 18k the fare. 90| stand he took, a position which, our*opinion, must commend him to | | curing suddenly, patronage; and when we see million dollar corporations obliged to close their doors we may be sure that there is very great reason for it. It i to son to_offer any encouragement | parties bringing in these side shows: the in Ald. Steacy was definite In | all classes of citizens at a time when | | we should keep every cent in King- | ston, { lack Shows can bring any benefit We don't know that these Pol- whatsoever to the city and the sum of $800 that the city might receive as' a guarantee is no compensation for the money that will be.taken out and for which no consideration is re- ceived, Moreover, many features of these itinerant shows are based upon CONVERSION. "John Wesley in his journals gives {an account of his conversion as oc- at a given hour, | which to him was the hour of his re- | ligious transformation, So did Saint { Paul. In the case of Paul, he had the never-to-be-forgotten moment on { the way to Damascus, when the vis- { fon appeared to him, and to his anx- Class consciousness: Envy of the jellow who has a bigger wad. Merchant fleets cause international | jomplications, also. war not scrap | hem? vs Babe Ruth's motto: Be it ever so & lusty, there's no place like the home | . late, By this time it is a difficult matter a the crowd to pick out a last year's straw hat. pre The most annoying thing about - joverty is the fact that other people ure rich. ' The waste of war will appear | "doubly horrible if it turns out to be | wasted war. Ring engagements and engage- nent rings are dissimilar. In one the ighting has an end, The hardest part of the Irish ques- fon to understand is why the United itates thinks it her business. -- S------ Women's fashipng seem tg be bas- (8d on never put on until fo-morrow what you can leave off to-day. The only thrilling experience in the lives of some men is finding a Mme in an old pair of pants, War criminals tried before that Berman court don't have to wasth - Aly money on high-pricey counsel, > Le . - One sign of returning normalcy is . that the hotel clerks no longer seem " pftended when you ask for a room. A woman mdy be as young as she looks, but she never is as young as #he thinks the "fixin's" make her look. »r When England and Ireland finally 'make peace, some poor committee . will have an awfu] time making a list _ 3 the ptrocities. Germany is doubtless wishing that - the had paid a little less attention to the goose step and a little more to the side step, A hot day makes a hero of many a man who consents to get into a bath- 1 ng suit along with the erowd at sandy bottom. : ---------- . The next war may be won by cr ists, as the experts say; but as the belligerents will ask God to "win it for them. : We shed tears because the ufti- consumer pays for everything, and overlook the fact that he also sofisumes everything. Idealists. are always surprised when the end of a war finds the world equipped with the same old | amount of human nature. 'When the jury in_a prohibition | Jase in an Illinois city retired it took Bf with It the three quarts of whiskey © und the quart of wing Involved in the 3a88. And when it came out, three a0urs later, ft was found that it had | and | quiry whether | method of genuine conversion, a the judge's charge and had we ito the evidence thoroughly. | fame, ious question as to who the visitant | was, received the answer "I'am Jesus | whom thou persecutest." | sufficient 'There is parallel the conversions as to" their suddenness soundness, to warrant the in- there is any other between But looking at the apostle Peter's | experience there does not sem to be | {any ground for the theory of sudden | conversion in his case. It would | seem that his was rather a procegg-- | indeed that during his career he ex- perienced many conversions. As one of the disciples of Jesus, he had been the spokesman for the twelve when "flesh and blood had not revealed to him" the messiahship of the Master; after the night of Jesus' betrayal when he had denied his Lord with oaths and curses, he had repented and been forgiven; and before the ascension the Master had said to him:" "When thou are convertea strengthen thy brethren." To each of .these experiences we might apply the term conversion. The case of Peter perhaps finds its counterpart in the lives of many men who, born in Christian homes and nutured in Christian surround- ings, can place their finger on no specific moment when they have made the great committal of their lives to the Master of men. Yet they are not in doubt as to religious ex- perience which is at once vital and satisfying. For them the sun has not come up like thunder; it has rather been more like the slowly growing light of the dawn, which in the long run produces full-orbed day. The point is that God fulfils himself in many ways, that he has many ways of winning men to himself, that we vastly limit the pursuing love that will not let us go when we tonfine ft to one particular method, that we do well to recognize the many sided- ness of Christ in<all His dealihgs with men, and that we do well not to forbid those who follow not after our fashion, It were better that we should rejoice with the amgels over one sinner that repenteth, and that we should remember that the New Jerusalem has gates in each of its walls. God not 20ly brings men home from all directions, He brings them home by many ways, WOMEN IN POLITICS. The Party Platforms. Having traced briefly the develop ment of the feminist movement and having shown in broad outline the basic principles of the constitution op which the government of Canada rests and something of the machinery of government and the procedure of elections we come in conclusion to a review of the platform of the various political parties and the trend or existing party divisions. Wé have seen that previous to Confederation the main question that divided the people was a racial and religious one. While to-day differ- ences arising from ace and religion have to a large extent disappeared, there is stil] an undercurrent of mis- understanding between the two great masses of the Dominion which is kept alive by the extremists and fanatics of both sides and which, in times of especial stress is fanned into It is the task of the politiefan uw 1st, two" _ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG | to keep. these diterences sli gat and | Te chalraat derive much P by examining the history of the party now Known as the National Lil and Conservative Party. The -is admittedly clumsy and it Liscent of the Libefal Conservative party founded: by Sir John A. Macs Donald previous tq the launching of na is remin tHe Nationa Poe whith iiposent protection as a fundamental ple of the trade development of Dominion and which with certain modifications has been acenpted parties who have enjoyed power the guiding policy of A few days ago Mr leader of the Agrarian Party, ported to have declared solidly favor of Free Trade for the Domin- ion, and the extent to which the farmers' party Is willing this as a federal] policy in. every pro- vince in both the east 'and the west } will be discussed in the next article. We have traced in a previous art- icle the foundation of the Coalition Government as a consequewree of the war, princi- by ail the Domin is re- in servative Party may be, regarded as an outcome of the movement that 'established the Coalition. govern- ment. It includes all thé Conserva- tives, who were followers of Sir | | i + Robert Borden previous to the war { | | and who returned him .to power at | the election fought on the plank of | reciprocity in 1911, the government at the time of coali- | tion, . Since the armistice some of | | these Liberals have returned to the | nothing less than pure speculation, | if not gamble, and there is always an | | element that is demoralizing whether | | it is a part of the show or not. party to which they. belonged before the war, including Mr. Creraf, who now heads the Agrarian movement, { Mr. Rowell, the Liberal leader | Ontario, has largely retired from | polities Mr. Calder, Mr. Guthrie anc Mr. Ballantyne remain in the govern- | ment, The present platform of the Na- tional Liberal and Conservative Party was drawn up and agreed to as em- {'bodying the party principles on July Dominion Day, 1920. It con- tains several planks that are from those. of the other parties. These include clauses in the platform on rural credits, foreign trade, migration, national expenditure, im- in- land waterways, highways and trade | preference towards other within the British commonwealth. To these may be added, although much { will depend on the interpretation of | the wording of the two clauses or | planks on citizenship and on labor {laws. The chi points of controve: sy between the several parties in the Dominion are with regard to: Revision of the tariff, Direct taxation, Railway nationalization, Disposal of the national resources. The tariff is to-day the main fssue in Canadian politics. The National Liberal and Conservative Parfy in its platform advocates 'a .thorough re- vision of the tariff with a view to adopting such measures as are neces- sary to provide revenue, to stabilize Jnduetries, to encourage the estab: lishment of new industries, to de- velop our -natural resources, to pre- vent the abuse of the tariff for the exploitation of the consumer and to safeguard the interests of the Can&d- fan people in the existing world struggle for commercial] and indus- trial supremacy." The wording of this plank is na- turally vague, but read in conjupe- tion with the speeches of the leaders of the party, both in and out of par- liament, the tariff policy of the party may be described as a high tariff policy. A cynic with some truth has described the difference betweén the National Party and the Liberal Party as one that taxes the manufacturer as much as he will stand and the other as one that taxes the consumer as much as he wil] bear. Yet the. wording of the platform of the National party is clear enough on one score, It sets forth as a guid- ing principal that luxuries should be heavily taxed by the imposition of customs and excise rates, while food and necessaries of life should be lightly taxed and only for revenue purposes. But the National Party does not profess to confine its taxa tion to revenue only for it sets Yorth, apart from the question of revenue the maintenance, stability and pros- perity of Canadian enterprise in tne development of our forests, mines and fisheries as well as our industries and agriculture. The National Party also takes cog- nizance of the effect of the tariff on labor conditions and it lays down the axiom that no Canadian should be forced to seek employment in a for- eign country because of the export of the resources of the Dominfon. This obviously means thaf in any ad- must be given to the right of the Can- adian employee to a standard of wages that will ensure him a decent standard ot living and that the plements and machinery used infpro- duction should be taxed at a low enough rate that they bear equitable comparison with those paid in other countries for similar articles, More- over it is accepted as a principle that uo tariff should be framed which aids the formation of a trust or mer. &er among producers at the expense of the genera] publie, With regard to direct taxation, the the Crerar, the, to adopt | The National Liberal dnd Con: | in | non- controversial and that differ but little | nations | { that the tariff should Have regard to' justments of the tariff considerations: a Nat Party Tavers the mainten- | nt ed ar tion of the | of taxation with a | nereasing the revenug deriv- | this source. In devising the party | is a danger that too crease in direct taxation might lead to the diséouragement of immigration or the withholding of becapital-necessary tortie develops! ment of Canadian industry. On the questiqn of railway nation- alization the National Party only ad- | mits the necessity of flationalization on account of existing conditions. It states the object of nationalization | as being to effect economies in con- struction and 'administration and .it goes on record as being against any | «political interference in the manage- ment of the roads, While the National Party favors the reorganization of the Canadian | Militia system there is no definite statement with regard to national de- tezce or concerning the part which Canada ought to take in the defénce of the Empire. These matters have been discussed informally at the con- | ference of premiers which recently | | sat in London, and will be finally de- | termined before "the meeting of the | Imperial Conference after the leader | has explained his views and outlined the.policy he favors with thé know- { ledge obtained from direct inter- | | course with the authorities in Lon- direct methods of taxation s that there great an «in | together with, don and his brother premiers. some of the Liberals who came into |, The plafik with regard to natural | {'resources apparently favors the | transfer of the public domain still | held by the dominion to the respec- tive provinces.- The issue has become | one -of considerable importance in | the west, and it is likely that before the next .election some -agreement will be reached between the provin- | {cial and the federal governments that will be satisfactory to both parties. | [ The present situation is that while | both parties profess their willingnéss to effect the transfer both have set forth terms on which the effected which the other the settlement refuse to | - transfer could be parties accept, to ---- es -- | PUBLIC OPINION | Glorious Home Brew! fSyrac N. Y., Post-Standard) A spiriti ist' in Canaca says he has seen silver green fairies disporting themselves in the hop fields. Wonder- ful thing, that home brew. Disarmament That Disarms, (Seattle Times) Fortunately for America and the world, Mr. Harding thinks in practi cal terms. Disarmament, to him, evidently means disarmament-- not a naval holiday. He reers very sure that the United States, more than any otper nation, can advance the | cause of real disarmament--and he is disposed to utilize all the force at America's command in order to as- sure the adoption of a policy that actually will effect that end. If Mr. Harding cannot obtain real disarm- ament, he ghould accept nothing else. The world does not wish a mere truce; nor can this country afford to place its trust in half-way measures if persisted in Dy other nations, Religious Teaching. (Brooklyn Fagle) Children in thelr impressionable years go to school where whether the Bible is prefuncrorily read or not, religion seems minimized or non-existent, They grow up¢ in homes 'where family prayers ghave been abandoned. They come to regard devotionalists as "cranks." They come to be dominated by the non- spiritual trend of the age. The churches probably caanot establish or restore "authority." Instéad they are trying homeopathy, turning to more materialism as a remedy for materialism. Parish houses for danc- ing, gymnasium, playgrounds, neighborhood houses, relief "work keep up interest in the church, not interest in religion. The uplifting of the soul of things above the earth. above human comfort, above profit and loss, is the mission that is vital. Exaltation of that mission will eltm- inate pessimism and pessimists. Hu- manity moves forward by cycles, not in a straight line. Let us hope that in the present cycle we are as far down and as far back as we are ever going to be. Then we shall all 'be op- timists. Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER ~ FATIGUE. : When worn from toiling in the sun, from baling hay and cutting ice, the rest that comes when day is done, is surely, surely worth the price, I labored hard and long this week, I sprung new curves in honest toil; the neighbors hear. my hinges ¢reak as though they needed castor oil. 'The neighbors saw me hoe my beans, and cultivate the growing spuds, as 'they rolled by in limousines, all dolled up in their costly duds, The neighbors rode along the shore and up and down the asphalt pave, and found all mortal things a bore, as dour and dismal as the grave, And when, the evening came at last it bored them so they had to weep; they wemt to bed and lay aghast, and cussed be- cause they couldn't sleep. And I, fatigued by honest toil, found peace and comfort in repose; T'd left my trademark on the soil, out where the pallid pumpkin grows. Oh, I had done the best I could to show a line of sterling worth; I felt I had achiev- RT 4 BATHING SUITS A Dandy fo» $1.50 A REAL BARGAIN ! All new 1921 style. $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50. Boys 2 years to 9 years. Our Special , 98c. EACH [3S On sale in our Boys' extension. GIRLS' JERSEY " KNITTED Plain shades: Navy, Pink. [mimavS See Our $1.50 + 'Plain Cream OUTING SHIRTS CHILDREN'S WASH SUITS Values 20 doz. Suits to choose from -- for Depart- ment on Ground Floor, new SUITS Just the thing for this weather. Our The Store That Keeps The Prices Down MEN'S FINE SHIRTS Arrow make; neat patterns. The $2.00 and $2.50 variety. Our Special ) MEN'S FINE SHIRTS Madras, Percales, etc. ~--Tooke, Arrow and Lang Shirts-- The $3.00 variety. Our Special $1.98 MEN'S FINE SHIRTS Woven fabrics, Silk Stripes, very classy Shirts. The $4.00 and $4.50 values. Our Special $2.98 PURE SILK SHIRTS Still going at $35.00 \ All Summer Suits must go re. gardless of what they cost. It 'will: pay you to investigate. MEN'S SUITS YOUNG MEN'S SUITS ----SUITS $18.00 SUITS $22.00 ------SUITS $25.00 ----SUITS $28.50 ----SUITS $32.50 ------SUITS $35.00 BIBBY'S McClary's Gas Ranges The finest finished Gas Ranges made in Canada. 7 different styles carried in stock to choose from. HOT PLATES--1, 2, 3, 4 Burners. BUNT'S HARDWARE to none. EXTRAVAGANCE is what is meant by not. having your tires properly repaired by our system of tire repairing--any size, any kind, any style, any tread. We have machines and moulds for them all and our service is second IF WE CAN'T DO IT, IT'S NO GOOD MOORE'S { 1--100 acres, Jiffy Baby Pants | Ideal for summer wear for babies. Fits - snugly, are of soft, pliable Rubber, eas- ily washed. Dr. Chown's Drug Store 183 Princess St. Phone 843. FARMS FOR SALE about 3 mile from Vil- lage of Sydenham; good, frame dwell- ing in good repair, good cellar, new furnace, new cistern; a large barn with stables in good repair; good drive house; new hen house! new machine house; flew hog per; about 65 acres under cultivation; good black loam and a little sandy loam; the balance is pasture and wood- land; about 2 acres in orchard; drill- ed. well near the house and ever flowing spring near the barns This is & good farm in a desirable location. Price $7. 2-200 acres, more or less, about one mile from good village, with High School; a first class frame dwelling in first class repair, with good Sn lar, cistern, furnace and bath-room; barn 48 feet by 112 feet with base- ment stables and box stalls; litter carrier and milking machine; one of the best barns in Eastern Ontario and other necessary outbuildings. It Is well watered and well fenced, free from foul seed; enough wood for fuel. There. is about 170 acres of cholde land under cultivatiom. free of stone; use a tractor. Price §18:500, We have a large list of farms to choose from and should have Something to suit you. T. J. Lockhart REAL ESTATE ANY INSURANCE Phone 3223 17973. N.B. ~=We have removed our office to § Brock Streat, Kingston ed some good to vindicate my stay ofl earti. And that's a feeling most subMme for any man to entertain, to know he has not wasted time, or let aday get by in vain. And so a spirit calm was mine, when to my couch night saw me creep; there I indulg- ed in fitty-nine varieties of. balmy aleep, ' «WALT MASON. Drought in Britain Is Ended at Last London, July, 16.--After virtually a three months' drought, which scorched grass lands and caused the burning of many acres of furze woods throughout Great Brit- ain, rain fell ithvarious parts of the country and London Thursday after- noon. The unusual sight was watch- ed by crowds in the city and in the west -end. After recovering from their surprise' numbers of persons rushed indoors to spread the news, which brought out other eager watch- ers." The heavies: fall occurred in the south of England and Wales, where a steady three hour downpour came just in time to save some of the crops. FOR SALE New solid brick house; 9 rooms; good location; hot water heating; electric lights; gas; 3-piece bath; fireplace; hardwood floors; butternut, with dull finish. Price $5,600. This place is. worth the money. M. B. Trumpour 1113 Brock s'reet Phone 704 or 1461w. * Thirsty? Adanac Water, Poland Wa- ter, Radner, White Rock, Ada- nac 'Dry Ginger Ale, Gurd's Ginger Ale, Gurd's Dry Ginger Ale, Guard's Ginger Beer, gure Soda Water. . REDDEN & Co. Phone 20 and 990, Fhe House of Satisfaction ( Coal That Suits | a The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Kallroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite The only Coal baadled by Crawford Phone 9. Foot of Queen Bt. "It's a black business, but 'we treat you white." 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