THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ee] 1 BRITISH POSSESSIONS NOT FOR SALE ! ours ' ® (Continued from Page 1) Sens -- S Toke You Now. 0 tical In a conference on American foreign affairs, Professor William Shep- arsapari iy P ® | oupplies § Carribean ood Ey herd, of Columbia, proposed that all the British Islands of the au} bl Purifier 3 40 should be given to the United States as a reward for her participation in | Herb Tablets..$1.0 We carry a wellfilled stock of anything you the' war for freedom. It never seemed to occur to the: professor Hypophosphites might need in the Optical line. . PROBS: --Unsettled with occasional showers on Sunday, BE Many others picked up this suggestion, some going so fir as id futre- [i] duce it to congress. Senator Reed declared on the floor of the senate: "The application of the principle of the Monroe doctrine and strategic consid- erations make it desirable that all the islands lying off the American coast should be under American control." . Senator's MacCormick's Chicago Tribune is one of the strongest voices arguing for the absorption of the British West Indies. The Tribune says, editorially: "Amalgamation would remove from our doorstep what might become as great a menace to our interests in Central and South that, | sink or swim, survive or perish, as Allies, we were all in it together. {0 50c. and $1.00 Wampole's Wine $1.00 Benedictine Wine $1.50 Beef, Iron and Wine $1 Blaud Pills 100 for 25c. L. T. Best Druggist Open Sundays --Reading = | F OR SALE | --Opera Glasses. $3200--Frame, 6 rooms, improve- --F ield Glasses. ments. Lot 909x182, $4 : . 85000 -- Brick, 7 rooms, ai tm. {'--Eye Glass | provements. | . $7000--Brick, ® rooms, all' modern, C ains, But- a, tons, etc. --Lenses. --Frames, all styles. --Lorgnettes, h.w. floo! 3 $5,000--Brick, 6 rooms, modern im- provements, garage. 98, Brick, 9 rooms; all im- provements, garage, large gar- den, fruit and flowers, good location. $8,500-- Brick, ® rooms; all modern; central, \ $2800--Frame, semi-detached, North end, 7 rooms, electric light, 2 plece bath. Montreal Street. $3000 -- Frame, 6 rooms, Semi. Bungalow; improvements. FURNISHED HOUSES TO RENT. Bateman's Real Estate 1113 BROCK ST., KINGSTON Telephone 1925F. We are well equipped to fill Oculist's Prescriptions or replace broken lenses | Urge the June Bride to-Commence ~~ With a Complete Set Start Her Right With This Ideal Outfit' for Vegetables. MIC On VRGRTARLE BROILER ~ Milk, Rice and adjunct Vege table Boller. . MIXING BOWLS--for baking days and the occasional ple crusts, WASH BOWLS---for dishwashing CULLENDERS tor general draining of Vegetables, ete. CEREAL COOKER---for porridge, ete. BUTTER DISHES--keeps the butter free from flies, ete. 'WINDSOR DIPPERS for eral work. ' "SOAP DISHES for kitchen bath y 7 FUNNELS for pouring liquids m Sus venne! to another. MILK JUGS----a few of these are &1Wi ys veeful. ge and small, very nseful. SEAMLESS WETTL r general cooking purposes. PRESERVING KETT ES--for the annual preserving season. Use ful at all times. LADLES--fop Soups and Gravy, EASURES for measuring purposes. WATER PAILS--WIill not rust; handy for special kitchen use and wash MILK PAILS--for sanitary purpoSes; protection against disease. DISH PAN--Very necessary, % NEADING FPANS--Foy the ome who does home baking. AKE PANS--For general oven work. SAUCEPANS--The kitchen utility; all sizes; have more than ome handy. PIE PLATES, ete.--always useful. . ' POTATO For general vegetable ube; lid holds on when con- tents poured out. . ROASTER-For general and special use, Is BLOBS ATRAINER= Appreciated bY those whe have ome. McKelvey & Birch, Limited General Contractors, Heating Specia Hata, Steam Fitters and Plumbers, Jobbers of Plumbers' and Gas-Fitters' Supplies, Stoves, Shelf, Reavy and House Furnishing Hardware, Tools, Ofls, Ber: Supplies, Sheet Metal Special sentiment of the people converned. their allegiance to the Unjon Jack. problems of British statesmanship in association with these dependencies, tion by the United States. the battle fleet of England. take over the West India garrisons, County Rate and Schools Expensive for Renfrew -- Renfrew, May 3.--The tax rate in Renfrew this year is to be forty- eight mills on the dollar for public school supporters and fifty-two mills for supporters of the separate school. last year it was 44 1-2 and 47 mills, As - ---------------------- BRITISH AMERICAN respectively, and the advance is due. J| to an increase in county rates and HOTEL to the dullding of a new collegiate, In Public Service Simce- 1784, also separate school supporters are Canadian goods? her resource: " The more we go into this thing, monopoly that can buy bananas at two to Jamacia, and sell them at ten 'to twenty shillings a bunch in New York, represents a power to be reckoned with, I wish that my Canadian compatriots could come Inte more intimate mitigating against closer assoclations between Canada and the dies, as it were; driving a wedge between us 50 as to favor future absorp- The" British West Indies would provide Canada' with that tory which is the on thing lacking to round out the completeness of America, as was Germany's Heligoland to Great Britain." THe Prince of Wales gave the answer tg all such, when in a speech at Trinidad he said: "The British possessions are not for sale." Britaln does mot barter'the loyalty of her citizens. values in our Empire beyond the values of the market place. Our American cousins, in their proposals for annexation, have ignor- ed the most important feature of all political connection, the loyalty and There are Only by"conquest could these intensely loyal citizens be torn from The Mother Country herself might take lessons fn loyalty to the Em- pire from the inhabitants of Barbadoes, an island that has remained' in unbroken allegiance since 1626, where black and white British citizenship their most priceless possession. The British West Indies belong to the orbit of the New World. In the New World their destiny is as yet unsettled. lance is one with that of Canada, while commercial considerations tend to throw them more and more into the arms of the United States. In considering their future status, we are faced by one of the larger alike count Their political alleg- the New World. A giant American three shillings a bunch In clandestine 'fotces West In- to realize the When they feed out their propaganda about the larger benefits which United States is conferring, one might inquire, from 1914 to 1918 was he Stars and Stripes or was it the White Ensign that maintained the safety of these scattergd and defenceless islands? It's all right to talk about the white fleet of the United Fruit Com- pany, but whén storms begin to gather the West Indies put their trust in I dare to dream of a day when we shall rise to our opportunity, creat- Ing by closer union a British American Commonwealth in the new world, equal in economic resource to the United States; a day when the Royal Canadian Navy will patrol the Carribean, when Canadian regiments wil thus relieving the defence burden of the Motherland, and giving to Canada, on a peace footing, a wider field for the training of her naval and military forces. Instead of paying the United States sixty millions annually for tro- pical products, why should we not delete the Yankee broker, and transfer the bulk of this trade to the West Indies direct, paying for the same with tropical the more we are convinced that {in- terest and sentiment combined should encourage us to stick closer to- her as the Commonwealth of British America, TT Y MOA. BIBLE CLASS. Holds a Banquet--The D. A. Shaw Awards Made. The Sunday morning Bible class, Y.M.C.A., held itz closing banquet on Thursday evening, Jack Reid, the president, occupied the chair, Af- ter a well arranged supper prepared by the Mothers' Council, a pro- gramme put om by Charles Gates Was much enjoyed by the boys. Mr. Gates entertained them with songs, recitations and monologues," the boys expressed themselves much pleased by his kindness, The president thanked the mem- bers and the executive for the loyal support that had been given him in his term of office. He called on the treasurer 'for a financial statement which went to show that the boys had by no means been living for themselves; they have remembered boys less fpftunate and have truly lived up to the "Y" spirit of helping the other fellow. D. A. Shaw, a very warm friend of this class, awards prizes to the best all-round boy. This year the boys receiving these prizes were Norman Smith, Stewart MeMillan and Stew- art Langdon. In the absence of the donor, Mr. Lilley presented the priz- es and in doing so mentioned the good that had been derived from' 'these classes which meet every Sun- diy morning from Oct. 1st to May 1st, M. ROHAN, PROPRIETOR, KINGSTON, Ot the $2,000,000 due from Home Bank ghareholders on the double lability" call, time for payment of - which expired Yesterday, barely making an additional expenditure this year. The town rate, including general debenture, remains the same as last year, ------ Billiard cues, superseding maces came into gemeral use in America about 1820, * $200,000 had been remitted. MAKE YOUR WORK EASY Have the Hotpoint Electric Goéds in your home. We have everything you may need to. bring comfort -- Irons, Toasters, Heaters, etc, Halliday Electric Co. PHONE 94. CORNER KING AND PRINCESS STS. The boys have heard some very helpful and spiritual addresses from the clergymen and laymen of the city with an average attendance of thirty-five boys each Sunday. G. Lawes, on behalf of the class, #pre- sented 'Mrs. W. H. Gimblett, conve- Bor of the social committee, with the Y.M.C.A. emblem and thanked her and the committees for the great help they had been in preparing suppers for the boys and said what a failure this part of the programme would be without the mothers to as- sist them. Mrs, Gimblett thanked the boys for their kind remembrance and sald what a pleasure it wag for the mothers to help the boys in any possible way. Mr. Lilley spoke on the work of the class during the winter and complimented them on the fine ser- vice and programme they had com- pleted. : . FIGHT ON WET-DRY 1860S. South and West To Lock Horns With East, New York, May 3.--McAdoo vs. Smith, Dry Democrats of the south and the far west against wet Demo- crats of the east and middle west. There you have the line of battle in the Democratic national SonYen- tion in Madison Square garden be- ginning June 24th, a struggle that will di ine not only the Demo- cratic nomination for president, but possibly the fate of the prohibition law. . beneath the surface; it will cleave the convention ag it did = at San Francisco in 1920, but in a different way. The wets and drys are not go- ing to waste their powder fighting over a plank {n the platform. The candidate is to be the platform. If McAdoo is nominated, continued dry will be the forecast; if Smith is named, hopes of a moist spell will be held out.- Here, in the damp east, where good Scotch is plentiful and com- paratively cheap and most of the rare old vintages are beginning to reappear on the tables of the rich, you hear much of the argument that It it is desired to split the Repub- lican party an upstanding two-fisted wet like Al Smith 1s the logical Democratic candidate; but if the re- gime of hypocrisy and high priced booze for the rich and poison hootch for the poor is to be continued, the object will be accomplished by ham- ing McAdoo, who is as dry as Cool- idge. Late Alexander H. Johnson Was Boom Master 50 Years ' -- Renfrew, May 3.--Alexander H. Johnson, who died at his home at Castleford, at the age of eighty- three years, was for over halt & cen- tury boom master on the Ottawa riv- er at Castleford. When a young man he built the first government boom there, and soon afterward became hoom master, which position he held 'under different governments until the office was abolished three years ago. Several ' years ago he was reeve of Horton township, alse a He was widely known when, as an owner of good horses of the road- ster class, and was ga regular at. tendant at the. Renfrew exhibition. Deceased, who came of U. E. Loy- alist stock, is survived by four sons and one daughter. ) A i Ii Prohibition is the big issue just| member of Renfrew county cquncil. at Steacy's Spring Fare Refund and Mail Order Comparison SALE!! Id \ Our great Annual Sale got away to an auspicious start to- day with hundreds of thrifty shoppers in attendance. -windows and full page posters for details, See our House Dresses dV a1°1.69/at'1.98 Reg. $2.00. 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