THE DAILY BRITISH (G | greatest care should be taken that | | facts are irrefutable before publicity | {18 given to anything affecting a man's | | character. | | 1 THE DOLEFUL PICTURE, The New York World carries a {cartoon representing Europe as the | naked figure of a _man inside of a { barrel, while U. 8. Secretary Mellon | | stands beside the object, one arm fil- {led with bags of gold, and the other {arm holding the war debts settle- | ments, with Mellon saying: "You | may keep the barrel." We are glad | that the World so skillfully prgpented | {the shameful picture, If any other | paper had donc so it would have § precipitated a lively row. Published Dag b | A BRITISH 'WHIG * PUBLISHING | co., LINITED, KINGSTON, ONT. | RUPERT DAVIES THE PROSPERITY OF CANADA. | So | Canada has definitely emerged | . 2a trom the period of depression which | 2013| inevitably followed the collapse of : 364 the war time doom. No longer is 4 | possible to blame the southward: exodus, idle factories, and empty | homes on the King government. On the contrary, it is difficult to con- | ceal from the public the faot that | the tariff changes made by that | government have had a decidedly | beneficial effect on industry. It will be remembered that Mr. Fielding | made slight tariff reductions on | agricultural implements in 1922 and | Mr. Robb made drastic cuts on the | same articles in 1924. On both oc-| casions the manufacturers, SUPSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) year, in city 87.50 Fear, by mail to rural offices, 82.50 year, to United States , $3.00 DF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: 0 Dei. W. Thompson, 100 King West, Toronto, AL ngrabham-Powers, Ine. La Salle Street. eo the Editor are published | the actual name of the 'over § elreniation of The British Whig LSuthentiented by the Audit Bureau of ti rR, A GOOD NAME, with | their political benchmen, rent the heavens with the usual howls of woe. But what has been the result. ---- | The following table showing the | 'The writer of the Proverbs told | number of persons employed in that | World several thousand years 380 | industry tells a tale that needs no | a good name was more to be de- | elaboration. It is official: | than great riches, and a few spy "1g0p, ..5205 | turies ago Willlam Shakespeare April 1,1923.. .. .... .. ..6580 § Something to say along the same | yori) 1 1994. .. | .6178 ; a8 follows: April 1, 1925 .... .. ., .. ..5793]| 00d name, in man or woman, dear, | April 1, 1926. . -- 11 my Lord, But a more recent example is, the immediate jewel of thelr | ornaps, more striking. All Can- ais my purse, steals trash; | ada remembers how some of the "tis something, nothing; automobile manufacturers made a mine, 'tis his, and has been show of closing down their plgnts | slave to thousands; (for a few hours) when the tariff on | t he Ao filches from me mY | 4 utomobiles was reduced. All Can- gm of taal which not enriches | ada remembers, also, how deluded him, | workmen were inducea to spend | t makes me poor indeed." | their hard earned money to go to "Hon. Ernest Lapointe treasures his | Ottawa on a moaster demonstration od name, and at a. banquet ten- | Of protest at, these cuts. Does all id him last week in the bhistcric | Canada know that these same work- of Quebec, thus answerel those | Men have been busier since the ho have been trying to conned: him | tarift changes than at any other With a trip taken on board. the | time in their lives? Does all Canada roment steamer 'Margaret |know that four thousand more cars "1 entered public life twenty-two! Were manufactured in Canadas dur- i I was young and bad no{ ing May, 1926, than in any other ial Influence. I was poor then: | month in history? Does all Canada little poorer today. I thought | know that the very same plant that ed to the countrymen and to . : . who entrusted me "with their | %cinelly closed dowa (for a few fence to give all of my time to| hours) folowing the reductions, has | study of public problems and to since then let contracts for exten- ® tasks my duties called for. {sions costing hundreds of thousands have striven, to the utmost, tof op dollars. up to thé expectations of my . nds, and, wherever I represented race, my Province and my coun- oredT to, b¥e. all, I so governed both public and home life that 1 id bring humiliation to no one. I8¥6 met with drawbacks, ad- ity; and difficulties, and in the ties I have had to fight and in acoemplishment of the tasks t Were entrusted to me, I have ened my health, which was, I say robust. But it is with! that I can say before you, my patriots, that I never did and It had reason to blush, I am to walk anywhere bold, upright, to look anyone and all straight eye. he only wealth I have to leave ghildren is a name I hold honor- M8 and a reputation I feel is hy. That will be their sole , but this heritage I shall Ro man to despoil, and I shal} it against all slanderers, or small, those who strike and also those who traitor distil poison in the dark. . Melghen has- just given the of this country a despicable first, he hid behind tho | or-General instead of shoul- the responsibility that {s his violation of the Constity- charter of this country And he hides behind a slanderer to mud at adversary that al. I's met him in honorable combat. and gentlemen, speaking to- ; an immengse gathering old eity 6f Quebec, where live | . ne THE KID WITH THE UENT, "The kid with the cent is the great American candy buyer and the true foundation of the Industry." The president of the National Con- fectionery Salesmen's Association fs authority for this surprising state- ment, and he follows it with another no less worthy note, "The Kid," says he, "is also the most diserimi- nating buyér, walking blocks to ob- tain the particular candy he 1ikos." The candy business now ranks sixth among the United States indusirids. ASKING FOR INDEPENDENCE The Legislature of the Philippine Islands by resolution demands na- tional independence. Will the Uni. ted States give it? The Declaration of Independence carries these wonds: "We Nold these truths to be self- evident, that all men . are created equal, that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalfen- able rights, that among these are life, bern) and the pursuit of happiness: "that secure these Fights governs ments are instituted amo deriving their just powers consent of the governed." If this is true--if the governing Of the two great! power, to be Just, must be derived ght on an storie from the consent of the governed-- ; 6 here have ly yy clear that the 'desires of the de hr ant Jurlty Filipinos should be fully met. Will ed the knights of old, I|they? kt to proclaim that the Prime ¥o = country is not a loyal rT or is 'he EDITORIAL NOTES. of r yy N6 even a gentle coward. . W341 lo suspe od] BARE much harder to IF. Of my Conservative | banish the bootlegger than it was to congratulatin banish the Bar. . 3 . ------ ' They say bobbed hair isn't as much trouble as long hair; and it you Lave your teeth pulled out you won't have to brush them, either. Mr. Meighen has been teliicg the People of the Maritimes that the constitutional issue is "humbug." men, m the , | only until June 30. jon July 2 destroyed the supply bill, | together with all the measures which | meeting public confidence. So's his old cabinet, adds the Winni- | Mr. (Manitoba The governmental activities of Canada are being carried on to-day by moneys illegally taken from the Do- minfon treasury and illegally distri- buted. When Mr. Meighen advised, and the Governor-General consented to the "guillotine" dissolution-- the mem- bers being instructed by pages and messengers to pack their bags and go home--the Government was left with- out a dollar of public money. The supply bill had been voted The dissolution though passed, required the Gover nor-General's assent, The destruction of the supply bill meant that no money has been voted for the payment of salaries, for the of interest on the debt, for carrying on the countless activitias of sovernment, for the construction of public works----Iike the Hudson Bay Railway--approved by Parliament, Mr. Meighen, faced with this situa- tion which he himself created, is re- torting to the device of General's warrants ernment in funds. It is in order, therefore, to consider the eircum- stances under which Governor-Gen- aral's warrants can properly issue. The provision in the law is quite specific. It is section 42 of the Con- solidated Revenue and Audit Act. chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes: | and it reads thus: Anditor-General that there is parlia- mentary authority for +hé expendi ture, save only in the "following cages: pon any application for a . the Auditor-General has rve- ported that there is no parliamentary authority for issuing it, then upon the written opinion of the Minister of Justice that thera is such authority, citing it, the treasury hoard may au- thorize the deputy minister of fi- nance to prepare the check, irrespec- tive of the Auditor-General's report; (b) If, when Parliament is not in sestion, any accident happens to any public work or building which ree * Illegal Appropriation of Mo: ; Meighen's Extraordinary Course Free Press) Guires an immediate outlay for the repair thereof, or any other occasion arises when any expenditure, not toreseen or- provided for by Parlia- ment, is urgently and immediataly re- public good, then upon | { the report of the Minister of Pasa | quired for the that there is no parliamentary provi- tion, and of the minister charge of the service in question that | the hecessity ig urgent, the governor: | In-couneil may order a special wap | prepared, to be signed by | | the Governor-General for the issue of! fant to be which shall be placed by the Minister of Finance to a special | they are required.--R.8., c. 29,8. 32; i831. V,e. 7 5 8, | It will be seen that the use of gov | ernor-general"s warrants is Strietlv | having | the amount estimated to be requirad, | acconat, | | against which cheeks may issue from | time to time, in the usua! form, as - | limited. They can be used to repair | public buildings which have suffered unexpected damage and to meet situs- | tions "unforeseen," for which no | provision is made by Parliament. Is a gross and arbitrary use of power | to extend this very Necessary provi-| j 8lon to cover the whole range of gov- | ernmental activities. The Meighen Government eannnt | hide behind the word "unforeseen." | The present situation was not oaly| "foreseen," but - was deliberately | | Created by Mr. Meighen. Parliament refused, most Properly, to vote sun- plies for a shadow government; there- [upon Mr. Meighen destroyed parlia- | oss of the Supply bill. He now seks to meet the situation thus deliberate- | ly brought abont by an unwarranted, | arbitrary and illegal extension or! powers conferred upon the Govern- | ment for wholly different purposes. | It is explained that Parliament at | its next session will be asked to ra- { tify these illegal expenditures. There | Will probably be no alternative to] this conrse; but Parliament will per- | haps make the occasion a really not- | able one and establish a salutary pre- cedent by and-at the same time Impeuching the individuals respons ible for this Sweeping and contempt- uous invasion of the powers and privi. leges of Parliament. TT TT er ee, Lord Byng -Mr. Meighen could not carry on in the House for three days, Who gave the right advice? "Let's be cheerful with our money," suggests The British Whig, after musing on the usefulness of a ten-dollar bill it it is kept moving. Does The Whig propose, asks the To- ronto Globe, to start ten dollars on an endless-chain trip. Now, quit your kidding! Many a holiday is spoiled by filling it with social engagements and the strain that is inseparable from activi- ties of that sort. The stir of camp life is rich in compensation, but when city people go to highly or ganized summer resorts they make a mistake nine times out of ten. They {spend a great deal of money and of- ten come back tired. Rumor says Sir Henry Thornton, president of the C.N.R., is to be sup- planted in the near future by Sir Henry Drayton. This political move should be frowned upon by all good Canadians. Sir Henry Thornton has successfully handled the road until It is now on a paying basis. -He has done wonders, and is regarded as a rallroad leader of the highest type. There is a way in which the tariff can be made to serve agriculture equally with industry, remarks the New York World. To restore tho | 3 Quebec Viewpoint | | L'Evenmeént discusses the dyer) tion of Imperialism which, it says, is! certain to arise in the course of the | campaign, "In the course of the coming eiec- | tion campaign we shall hear many | discussions on Imperialism. This | Suggests a problem, and ft is right that it should be studied in alf its phases, taking into account fl*st of all Canadian patriotism---that is to say, national interest. But before considering our relations with Great Britain a definition of terms must be made and a distinction must be drawn. We are for the most part anti-Imperialists--that is to say, we are not in favor of increasing the obligations of the Canadian people towards Britain op the nations of the Empire. But we are all British subjects, or at least we ought to be, according to the oath of allegiance our" forefathers made, according to the obligation we are under to aec- | knowledge the real advantages the | Crown is and has been to us, and especially according to our attach- | ment to the bond which unites us to proud Albion. Formerly all distine- tion would have been superfluous, for | the immense majority of our pre- decessors were thoroughly convinced ! of the authority of the King. In our! own time, under the infldence of! agitators and other self-exalted in-| dividuals who have misrepresented | balance bétween agricifture and ins Ristory, a different state of mind has! dustry it is essential that the sub.|Deen brought about in too many | sidy which manufacturers enjoy at|PeOPIe. We hear it said that a ques. | the qxpense of farmers be eliminated. Agriculture can benefit from a re- vision of the tariff, but the revision must be downward. The newspapers are beginning to talk a dictatorship for France if it is to be restored. Almost every other thing has been tried. The bloc 8ys- tem has failed; the premiérs have tried political expediency and fail. od. A 'last resort is a dictatorship with real power. He might restore We know of peo- ple leaving Paris for America féar- ing revolution. The U. 8, Postmaster-General was asked In 1020 to report on the amount of fres matter handled] through the post office from the do- partments of government. In 1922 the cost was $10,879,387; in 1923, $14,385,441. This tells why the ser. vice has not been able pay for it solt. It does mot lack ifi efficiency: it gives too much freedom in franke ing. 2 tin tion of race prevents us from a clear | vision: of our dquty and interest. It may happen that even some of those who particularly have charge of the Protection of a sacred trust may lose for the time being the sole wise | orientation of the conditions in which the French-Canadian national- ity lives and moves and has its be- ing. Therefore, we hope that the! wisest of the Speakers at popular as- x He Lights His Own Way. BY AUSTIN H. CLARK. [Lantern fishes are tropical and temperate water. Some kinds come in deep water. Some kinds come up to the surface on calm nights and can then be easily 3 in all [to the interests of its leader, the QlikisNA in deep | the KINGSTON PEOPL Spend a Cool, Delightful Holiday on Board Ship The Luxurious Steamer "RAPIDS KING?" Makes del ightf ul Cruises to Alexandria Bay via Rochester, Canal Bridge, Belleville, Kingston and return to Rochester via the same ports. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday until September 4th, the palatial steamer "Rapids King" leaves Rochester for this wonderful Cruise through the Bay of Quinte and the Thousand Islands to Alesane dria Bay. ~ Steamer leaves Rochester at 9 a.m. (Daylight Saving Time), and heads for the Canadian shore, passing through the Murray Cafial and entering the beautiful Bay of Quinte. Stop is made at 1.80 p.m. at Canal Bridge. Fourteen miles fur. ther on Belleville i$ reached at 2.50 p.m, As evening approachés the steatuer arrives at Kingston----the end of the Bay of Quinte--arriving at Kingston 7.50 p.m. Then on to the St. Lawrence River entrance and through the beau. tifal and Thousand Islands, Passing Round Island and Thousand Island Park, arriving at Alexandria Bay, N. Y., at 1035 pm. Steamer leaves Bay the next morning at 7 s.m., maki the return trip entirely by daylight. Steamer arrives back in Kinases at 7.45 am. Return trip is made to Rochester on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sun. days. On Sun "layover" of one hour and fifteen minutes is made at Kingston for rch Services. Very Low Rates For this Wonderful Cruise ------ For full information regarding rates, eto., ap ply J. P, HANLEY, 08.L. Agent, Kingston, Ont, CANADA STEAMSHIP LINES, LIMITED Right Hon, Arthur Meighen, and his Conservative opinions is a very ex- cellent thing from the polat of view of equity and the interests of the province of Quebec." - . sembles will recall the fact that if we do not always look at polities from the London point of view we nevertheless are determined to re. main British. "If it requires courage to take this attitude, it is a sign that it is high time. that those who place national Interests in front of party advantage reacted against an in wind." La Presse, discussing the western tour recently made under the aus- Dlces of the University of Montreal is bopeful that, slowly but surely the people of Canada, east and west, are coming to understand ome another better. 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