THE DAILY BRITIS H WHIG. THURSDAY, DEC. 1, 1921. é THE BRITISH WHIG | Published Duily snd Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING | CO. LIMITED President Editor and | Managing-Director TELEFrm $1 Business Office . / Editorial Roeoing Job Ofice Suast RIPTION RATES: (Dsily Edition) One year, deiivered in city ......$6.00 One year, if paid in advance . 5.00 One year, by mall to rural offic One year, to United States ...... .3.00 (Semi- Weekly Edition) One year, Dy mall, cash One year, if not paid in advance One year, to United States $1.50 QUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES E Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal FW. Thompaon, 200 King St. W, oronto. J. G. Elllett Lema i L243 "2902 Letters to the Editor are publisued only over the actual pame of writer. Attached is one of the best --r printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authemticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. ; Married people seldom get along it their tempers are short, Normal times: Those in Which people don't talk about the times, Let me live in a hpuse by the side of the road and sell gasoline to man. Now let's stand at Armageddon afd scrap armaments for the Lord. In some families, home cooking oécasions a greater kick than home brew. E ------------ Crisis: Any general mess brought ". to the boiling point by man's stup- idity. ---------------- Fable: Once there was a Trace that didn't think itself God's chosen people. Still, traffic laws 'are useful as an ergument for the plaintiff after the accident, 4 ------------ If a man doesn't Nft his hat to the ladies, he may be ill-bred, or he may be bald. tegen Some . people use correct English, and some use English that everybody understands. If « man thinks his wife beautiful in last 'winter's hat, he is blinded by love or thrift, The cat has a peculiar taste in the matter of odors, but she never drags in a five-cent cigar. And it may be that men don't go to church because they are afraid that they might get religion. \rhe pleasure of having a wife who pings about her work depends lar- gely on whether she can sing. It Berlin expects its new skyscrap- per, to stay. out, better not get the habit of calling it the All Highest. There are happy, restful homes; and then there are homes where ev- prything is tidy and immaculate, There is a growing suspicion that Lenine"s government has ceased tot- tering and gone in for tittering. "Always boosting; never knock- ing." shouts the Standard. Please don't laugh. The Old Lady is very touchy. Pity the peor man who forgets which set of books he is keeping for private use and which for income tax purposes. Mother and girls are beginning to talk loud enqugh for sly old Dad to catch on to what they want for Chitistnias. - When you look at what some wo- men married, you know that nothing "less than love could have persuaded them to do it. Capt. Meighep® s vessel is going ov- er the falls, gays the Toronto Star, iy he let everyone get off it who Zeatlan's swim. The women are asked to remem- ber Meighen. They will--as one of the men who kept the sugar prices up #0 high last year. It is about time Canada quit hav- * Ing one law for the rich and another for the poor. We cannot all be Rior- tons and give 1.O.U.s for our tax- A LIBERAL TRIUMPH. Never has the 1 ety .0 f King. | ston witnessed such stration as that ' a good thing t out-doors, as the | not begin to hold the eager that desiredAo hear Hon. i kenzie King, the Libera fore addressing the mee len's theatre, a thousand peop | gated on 1 could not gain admittar hall, Every inch of spa | theatre was crowded. | everywhere prevailed. various addresses were cheering, and he w ied to with studious atten { nearly two hours at the Aten "iheatre { he dealt with {he varied questions of } i the day. Forcibly, incisively and elo- | quently, he _ laid bare the short- | comings of the Meighen govern: {and in an impassioned peroration | carried his audfence to a high pitch lof enthusiasm. Tumultuous applause | followed tumultuous applause, as Mr King drove home some thrust at tt tw he spoke 1 le who had ¢ street the fraquent ent nent, he is easily one of the foremost plat- form speakers of the country. In de- bating power, in the mastery of poli- tical and economic questions, in the logical arrangement of his argu- ments, in the forcefulness and at times grace with which they are ex- his hearers. He scored Mr. Meighen unmercifully for his usurpation of power without a mandate from the people; he dealt exhaustively with the railway problem, stating that the | people were asked to pay a deficit of $100,000,000 a year to a railway "| commission that refused to give in- formation to parliament, On the tar- iff question, most explicit. 'The Liberal party does not stand for free trade," he de- clared amid cheers, "Free trade is not an issue. Free trade means the absence of all tariffs, It means, in- stead of raising the revenue of the! tion, we would have to resort to dir- ect taxation. Last year parliament voted $560,000,000. To raise that amount of money by direct taxation from a population of eight or nine millions of people would mean a dir- ect tax of $61 per head of the popu- lation, or $310 for a family of five. The thing that effects every man, woman and child in the dominion is the high cost of living: The high cost of living is influenced by the high cost of government." His plea was for a better, fairer, squarer deal for the common people. He charged that the affairs of Canada are to-day in 'the hands of a little group of poli- tical eutocrats, on the ome hand, who have usurped the power and right to govern, and a group of in- dustrial plutocrats on .the other. These two were working together to serve their own ends at the expense of th at body of the people of Canada' His condemnation of the govern- ment for its failure to revise the tar- iff, as proynised in the speech from the throne, and after it had sent e commission from one end of the country to the other to seek informa- tion, elicited rounds of applause. Meighen's minister of fipance, who headed this commissiog, had not as yet uttered one word as to its revis- ion. : Taken all in all, it 'was a master ly address, such as Kingstonians have seldom had the pleasure of lis- tering to. It was more--it was con- vincing. Liberalism was triumphant in this city last night because it stood forth as the champion of the people and the foe of the vested in- terests, and because ils message was delivered eloquently and courageous- ly by speakers who carried convie- tion to the hearts of their audience. If anyone doubted Mr. Campbell's chancas of election on Tuesday next, they doubt them fiow no longer, SIR HARRY LAUDER. Welcome, Sir Harry, Rotarian Harry or just plain Harry as most people affectionately call you! The purpose of this editorial is not to give you a free ad--there are no free ads in this office--but just to say that everyone likes you because your ministry of laughter has helped the weary world along. We hear that you have been preaching down in Montreal for George Adams, and we will wager that you gave them some eound counsel, and even if there was an occasional ripple of laughter in the sermon, it would be clean, wholesome laughter, good both for the livers and, the souls of the audi- ence, Do you mind, Harry, the time al- most twenty years syne, when you went down the west coast to San Francisco and the select group of the Scotsmen of that wicked city gave you a dinner? You recall how they planned it, the ehoicest food riches could buy and enough champagne and Scotch to make everyone roarin" drunk, And you mind how you took in at a glance the deliberate inten- tion of everyone to get drunk, in a good, glorious, old-fashioned Scotch way. Do you mind {what you did ? Well, "they. toasted: the King and the Empire and the United States and you, and then when you got up to - | cent, government or sketched the eppeal- ing outlines of the Liberal policy. He | pressed, he excited the admiratiqn of | the Liberal leader was | country by indirect methods of taxa- | speak you told them you didn't like the look of them, that the thing yo were least proud of about S¢ was the thing they were ma distinctive characteristic of men away from home, Do 3 {how you grew 3 tender and re and told how from were a miner until the | you King I joe took a shine to you, you had | and | icd to steer clear of drink | strange women, and that you had v never worked at your stage trade {on Sunday? Man, how those Scottish { Americans looked at you. And a | you awoke some latent memo too long neglected, in their hearts. | Do you mind that day, Harry? Some | of them haven't forgotten it yet, they r | tell us. And do you mind that other day when you went up the line in Fland- 'ers in the high pewer car end when- {ever you met the boys coming -eut {from their feast with death, you would climb out of tha car with yur crooked stick and sing to them aad nake them fangh? You, who were going to the grave of your only son. And after you: lunely vigil there, when on the way back you met the boys going into :ha jie, you got out of the car, with the sob still in your throat, you great apostie of lauzh- ter, and you waggled your kilts and you swung your crookea stick and you cheered them o1 their way to { death, You were a brave man that { day, Harry. ! And you mind that other day in {the city temple when--but that's an- {other story and you must tell jt your- po Something happened to you that day; and that's why George Adams got you to preach in Mon- | treal, We're glad you've come, Har- | i ry. Because, quite apart from your | rollicking fun, your very presence here is a necessary palliative to our overwrought nerves, What with the | terrible seriousness of the election, in which no one can see thé joke, the seriousness with which we take our- | selves, so that we cannot feather a | remark about even the weather with a touch of humor, lest we shall be misunderstood and miss a golden op- | portunity of putting in a word for jour favorite candidate, we are real- {ly in a bad way. Why even our women are a sol- emn looking lot. They are new to the sport of politics, and they are ter- ribly serious about it. We are getting alarmed about them. It will wear off the men the day after the elections, but the women! We're glad you've kappened along just to relieve the pressure and spell them off a bit, and take the solemn look from their haggard faces for an hour. You are a good sport, Sir Harry, and you have a great heart, and you have also a rcal message. We think that if Dr, Denney were still alive that the cultured people did not like your gongs. The fact is that now ev- erybody likes them partly because everybody like you. Welcome, thrice welcome, thou apostle of laughter ! HOW TO VOTE. Kingston is thoroughly aroused over the election. Not in ten years have there been such sharp and de- finite divisions between the people not only in. the city of Kingston but through the whole of Canada. The efforts to bridge the gap by the gov- ernment speakers have been unav- ailing end the government is doomed to defeat. The reasons for this are apparent to the most casnal observer of poli- tics in this country. First there nev- er was a government that enjoyed a greater measure of the confidence of the people than the Union govern- ment, The vast majority gave their hearty support throughout the per- iod of the war, overlooking many things that shocked them and which, in normal times, would have been deemed sufficient cause to put the government out of office. They show- ed the greatest patriotism, giving un- stintingly of their time and money, giving till it hurt, bat' how were they rewarded? By efficient and econbomi- cal administration of the public ser- vice? No, the government simply took every advantage of the people's patient acquiescence to carry on the business in the most irresponsible manner, and left them a prey to pro- fiteers Who never paused eithér be- fore or after (he armistice in their nefarious business of extorting the last dollar and the last cant. The government became s0 umn- popular that it dared not go to the country at the close of the war, and after it decided to do so following Mr. Meighen's appointment to the premiership, its friends toured the country and in the most brazen men- ner upbraided the people for lack of discipline and impatience under the most gallmg conditions of depres- gion and unemployment brought about by, the extrevagance and inef- ficiency of the government. It was the victim of its friends whose ra- pacity is shown in the enormous ex- penditures that have heaped up the burden of debt approximately $3.- 000,000,000. It lost the confidence of the people through its inability to meet new conditions, or to realize what was expected of it in the way of initiative or restoring the country to a semblance of its former self. Ev- ery movement was a pretense, the © 4 victory; he would revise his earlier judgment' | Wag BBIE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, AT GOD WILL DO: -- | ! WH He will swallow up death in and the Lord God will pvipe | away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke his people shall he 'ake | | away tr off all the earth; for the | Lord hath spoken jt--TIsaiah 25: 8. ated board of commerce being a fant example. But perhaps the worst feature brought to light and one that exes- | perated the people was the govern- | ment's complicity in the depredations | of the profiteers whose effrontery was shown in the sugar scandal that touched every houseliold. l No attempt was made at retrench- | ment in public expenditures and ad- | ditional taxes were laid upon the people, while industries closed down and production ceased, throwing | thousands out of employment, At | each succeeding session of parlia- | ment appropriations were voted far exceeding the possible revenue, and nothing but a change of governemnt can save the country from bank- ruptey. . The dominant spirit of the people | has been aroused, Thay have had ample opportunity during the past three years to form pretty definite opinions respecting the function of government, and they have detected in Hon, Arthur Meighen and his ca- binet the nominees of particular in- terests, individuals who represent no party, class or section of public opinion in the. country, and none of them are entitled to confidence or support. They have rendered no ser- vice to the country that ~ entitles them to either, many of them being practically unknown in a national | sense, and nobody knows what con- siderations prompted their selection as cabinet ministers, What is needed most of all to-day is confidence in the government and | in Caneda, and this ¢an only be brought about by the overwhelming defeat of Mr. Meighen and the for- mation of a new government repre- sentative of the people. Such a gov- ernment will be free and unfetter- ed, dnd able to inaugurate aggres- | sive and constructive national poli- | cies that will undoubtedly usher in | ment in Canada. The demand for | such a change 'has grown universal, | and has given rise to political orga- | nizations never before experienced. bell, msi ---- SHORT CUTS TO LONG LIFE. to offer a short cut to a long life. | His trick is even simpler than Prof. Voronoff's grafting of apes' glands. It is--radium pills, Carlyle, writing his "Past and social ills of Great Britain, was fur- ious with those who ~demended a | single quick-cure to put alljto rights. | When the biologist in Shaw's play, | "Back to Methuselah," broaches his theory that men might live 300 | years, the politicians at once want to | know the name of the medicine. Perplexed with troubles, men have always dreamed of some direct and magic way out. Be their difficulties | physiological, social, ornamental, they have ever been ready to cry for a patent cure. The alchemist in the Middle Ages toiled long in search of a way to turn the grosser metals to gold. "A little later the Spanish followed Ponce de Leon in quest of the fountain of perpetual youth. Some thing, some device or medi- | cine, would, they thought, bring rich- es or happiness if only it could be found. This persistent faith in a simple nostrum besets many to-day. A book- seller tells us that by reading fifteen minutes a day we can become educa- ted. Get wise "quick." Out in the west a prosecutor said recently that the farmers in ome district had lost '$250,000,000 in unsound securities. Get rich "quick." A doctor announ- ces that he has a tablet or serum that restores youth to the aged. Get healthy "quick." Walt Mason THE PORT PHILOSOPHER THE GOOD EXAMPLE. Ex-Kaiser Bll has stocks of wood, with royal hands he sawed it, and wi.e men find his conduct good, ana roundly they applaud it. He labors, labors every day, his bones and sin- ews wrenching; he's fired Lis gardeu- er, hey say, to do some more re- trenching. Ard now with his own princely hands he'll ply the hoe and shovel, and cultivate the fertile lands around his Holland hovel. "That it's time to cut expense," he eays, "is plain to thinkers;" and he repairs the garden. fence and carries out the clinkers. "It'S \ no use hiring heed- less men," he "I do my duty;" and so he cleans the porkers' , and cranks the motor tooty. ene'er we hear of exiled Bill he's doing something useful, he nalls » board 6r saws a sill, or rears a pump- kin juicoful I used to hate his very name when he was wildly reignin: and putting up his war lord game all helpful tasks disdaining. But waen the kaiser had to quit, and fold hus spangled bannpr, he tepk his soup, we must admit, quite a dead game ' | | SILK TIES That were $1.00 BIBBY'S SILK TIES That were $1.00 Now ..... G0c. purchase. For Real Bargains Every Suit and Overcoat in our store bears a 'notice to vacate" price. Our new prices mean much to you. You'll not regret your OVERCOATS that were $40 and $45. Now $30.00 ULSTERS . That were $35.00 Now $25.00 That were $25.00 Now $15 and $18 ENGLISH OVERCOATS Now $40 and $45 MEN'S ULSTERS That were $28.50 Now $22.50 MEN'S ULSTERS That were $22.50 Now $15and $18 MEN'S HOSE mere--that were $1.50. Now 95c¢. Genuine Melton Overcoats -- MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S YOUNG MEN'S ULSTERETTES Slip-ons, Ulsterettes and Ulsters that were $62.50 and $65.00. Pure Wool Hose--Black Cash- MEN'S PURE WOOL HOSE * That were $1.00 and $1.25 Now 75¢c. BN MEN'S HOSE Pure Wool--that were 50¢c. and 65¢. Now 39c. SWEATER COATS Pure Wool--that were' $4.50 and $8.50 Now $4.98 SWEATER COATS Pure Wool--that were $7.50. Now $4.50 MEN'S GLOVES Silk lined--that were $3.50. Now $1.98 MEN'S SHIRTS That were $2.00. Now $1.48 If you read it in our advertise- ment you are sure of getting it in our store. PURE WOOL UNDERWEAR That was $6.00 per suit Now $4.50 UNDERWEAR Penman's Ribbed Wool--that was $4.50 Now $3.00 per Suit \ UNDERWEAR Penman's Health Brand Fleece --that was $4.00 Now $3.00 per Suit UNDERWEAR. Pure Wool, Ribbed--that was $2.00 and $2.50 per garment Now 98c. Mostly Shirts--some slightly marked UNDERWEAR ° Penman"s Scotch Knit -- that was $4.00 per suit, Now $3.00 UNDERWEAR Penman's Fleece -- that was $1.00 per garment Now 75c¢. each a chapter of progress and develop- ! We must have in Canada "govern- | ment of the people, by the people | and for the people." Vote for Camp- A Chicago physician is the latest | Present," to bare the industrial and | IS COMING TO MOORE'S OYLAND Everybody come out and make this a big event for the kiddies. They have longed to see Dear Old Santa himself, So comel JUST LEFT NORTH POLE MY DEAR KIDDIES: -- Well, Kiddi€s, | sure am.on my way and everything is fine. | will be there rain or shine, snow or no snow. Now be sure and be on "hand to wave at me. [am all prepared for snow and cold weather, so won't disappoint you. Saturday -is the big day, at 3 o'clock. This will be one of the biggest events of the year. Meet me on Princess Street between Ontario and Division, or in front of Moore's Toyland, where | will have a great 'big treat for every Kiddie. Write me, care Moore's Toyland. YOUR DEAR OLD SANTA. AT REDUC ED PRICE Choose Early Now is the time to choose your Christmas gifts. Our stock is larger and better than ever --and you will find the prices most reasonable. French Ivory, Manicure Rolls, BUNT'S Hardware, King St. THOMAS COrLEY Telephone 987. Wanting anything done In the carpen. tery lime. Estimates given on all kinds of rT resnin and wood Soers of all Kinds. All orders will receiv: prompt attention. Shop 2N Queen Street. mannér. He might be grouching all the time, invoking Mike and Peter. and mourning pomp and s*atd sub- lime from which he had to teeter. But since he lost his throne and crown he's set a fine example. Re | piles the stovewood rank on rank, and when he has a penny he puts it in the savings bank, to shame 'he thriftless many. In Persia, women are forbidden to wear hats, OUR CHRISTMAS COSAQUES TABLE DECORATIONS are now open for inspection. Make your selections earl Jas. REDDEN & Gp. The House of Batisfaction Phone 20 and v5, In the Japanese home the in-law is the boss. other- Stationery. Perfumes. Thermos Bottles. If not prepared to buy we will get aside any article until required. Dr. Ciown's Drug Store 183 Prioccss Bt. | : a ot ti tt {It has giways seemed to us that" cultivating some tastes--and voices wus a waste of time. You do not need a watch to have | the time of your life,