£ mith earnest "+ Published Dally me BRITISH WHIG 7 PUBLISHING L CO, LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. « BMUPERT DAVIES BU Act has, nevertheless, id . " year, by mall to rural ofl wen, $3.50 year, to United States ....... $5.00) I ------" -------------------- -------------- FOF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ROANTO=-F, W. Thvmpsen, L00 hing | Sireet West, Tervate. MONTHEAL ~ William 4. Crowley, 81. James diree op Ne oot Powsins ae, | Avende, a idan Avent: ine, _ fouth Lu Salle Ntrvew -- -- Letters to the Kditoy are published SBly over the ariual mame of the Writer, The circulation of The British Whis | Anion dented by the Audit Hureas of | intions, i a a a sg AN EXCELLENT START. % If the enthusiasm manifested at Hon. W. F. Nickie's first organiza- | Rion meeting last night is any in- Mication of the feeling among hi: supporters all over the city, he should be elscted on December 1st) By a large majority. The committee | Tooms on King street were crowded workers from every § 'ward and the nucleus of a first-class i § Organization was quickly budlt up. Elections cannot be won withou: hard work, however. AlN citizens of Kingston and Portsmouth who are! anxious to prevent thé Mquor traffic from again gelting a strangle-hold on dhe province of Ontario sheuld fore, rally to the cause of Mr Nickle. A good start has been made, but there is still lots of room for workers. PRINCIPLE ABOVE PARTY, The St. Thomas Times-Journal de- glares in a splendid editorial that M0 man in public life stands righ or in public respect and esteem the Hom. W. F. Nickle. Of high '@hinence in his own chosen profes. of law, he has not allowed it monopolize his time, but has had we regard for the claim of service ing from the province and from wider field of the Dowmiakon. felow citizens of Kingston have wn their confidence in his char- and abilities by electing him to the Legislature and later to House of Commons, In 1922 he made atiorney-general in the Cabinet. ~ = Mr, Nickie's testing time came, ues the St. Thomas paper, his chief finally determined to 0 the electorate on the issue of ernment controlled sale of liquor nst the Ontario Temperance Act § errforced In the province since its mactment in 1916. The Attorney has not only been a staunch steady Conservaiive in politics an equally convinced believer in prohibition of intoxicants for purposes, elector who has followed course of provincial politics Premier Ferguson crossed his on and burned his boats be- him, koows that Mr. Nicki: without hesitation the ster severed him from his cabimet| wes and placed him in the! i of an oppouvent of controll 'Mquor sale. In accordance with | fine reputation he has so de-! dly earned, Mr. Nickle has announced that he will con: Kingston on the prohibition We imagine that nothing would have satisfied Nis com. and it is safe to say he to-day higher than ever in estimation of all politica" even his own. : ¢ men of Mr. Nickie's stamp, des the St. Thomas paper, are too plentiful, and his action s time possesses a value far its immediate concern. ---- EASTERN ONTARIO. Highways Department of On: ~ DRING +1 {be toward decentralization, so that {the city will sfrawl out more spac- '| lously, and perhaps even cease to be {a downtown ince. Is Western Ontario to always receive the Hon's share? THE LIQUOR DEBATE. wo To- v The liquor debate comes now this, says the Farmers' Sun, Mr. Ferguson proposes abandon prohibition and to substi- {tute for it the unrestrained sale of | liquor by the government ¢o . al! | reputable persons of Q | i tweasty-one | years or over. He justifies his pro-| | posal on the grounds that prohibi- { thon has mot. been effective and, he {says, cannot be made gffective with {out a greater prpular support thar that which has been shown and that | as a consequence of ineffective en-| forcement, the administration of the | law falls into discredit, bootlegging | thrives and the young reem=and women are generally or, at al of OVENS; alarmingly taking to drink. Mr. Ferguson's opponents say in answer, continues The Farmers Sun, that his statements are, for | the most part, inaccurate. They say | that, although Ontario has not heen made dry, the Ontario Temperanca| been a suc. | cess. The proof of that is the unde-! | niably greater sobriety of the people! result'mg in greater efficiency of in dustry, better housekeeping and | generally greater happinese They | say that the evils alleged by Mr | Ferguson are grossly exaggerated. | The existence of bootlegging is not] a pood reason for sounding a retrea | from the advanced posttion of pro- hibition, but a challenge to the re. forming element of the people and! to its agents of law administration. {| At all events, bootlegging does not result merely from the operation of | the Ontario Temperance Act, but) wid continue as long as the price of| t liquor legally sold is high Boot- | legging will surely persist under | government control to satisfy those! who are not reputable persons. The allegations made with respect™o the! young men and women are mn tact |a gross exaggeration and an af- | front to the parents of Ontario, who hava not lost the disposition or the power to maintain social order. Mr Ferguson's opponents add a grave | acousation, and to the effect that the disorder. | ly résistance to the law, at this time, | is to a large extent due to Mr. Fergu- | son's failure to stand firm, during the past three years, To these allegations of his poments, Mr. Ferguson makes answer. op- no AN OUTSIDE OPINION. A distinguishdd Manitoban .re- cently in Kingstom hoped that gov- ernment, control would not succeed n Ontario. "We," speaking of the western provinces, 'look to Ontario for leadership and in the matter of Hquor control it would be a back- wand step to overthrow the O. T. A I see marked improvement in your province every time I come down! Its people are prosperous, sober, daw abiding and intensaly moral and righteous." FATHER AND SON. The. Winchester Press quite right- | 'y claims that if tho electors support | and vote for government contro! they will have no right to complain | or find fault with thelr son .if he comes home at night drunk, "and: you have to help him 'to bed. He | will throw it in your face that you voted to make it easier for him to get liquor, and you have no right to| complain if the liquor you voted hie | could procure makes a beast of him! and is eapping Ms physical and moral well-being. The fact that yon voted for your political party wou': ease your conscience then or make | the pill any easier to swallow, will ®t?" | A en ------ THE FUTURE CITY. Thomas A. Edison, in the Forum | Magazine, predicts that the city of | {the future will have, flying over it, i a great buzz of airplane traffic; that | the roofs of buildings will serve as | landinggfields; that it will have | elevated streets running one way and | depressed streets running the other | way, as a means of relieving traffic congestion; that it will be incom- parably noisy, but that citizens may develop, as a protection, partial deaf- ness. And ai] this, since we are un- able to comprehend any world ex- cept the world we see before ue, seems quite strange, and a little in- credible. = In point _of fact, the city he pre- dicts, rema the New York World, différs from the city of to-day not a tenth -as much as the city of to-day differs from the city of, say, a cen- tury ago. But is he right? Will the city of the future tend to greater congestion right here in New York. It does not seem too much to hope that the tendency, from now on, will { | i, i a city at all, but become a collec tion of towns. The trend im that direction has already started. In some American cities, large corpora- tions, harassed by the problems ot location, have moved. out in the suburbs. To do this ther have had to dulld larger numbers of honses, so {hat employees could be {around .one big gnterprise. | work? | works very wall. | ment | treatment i Ontario, | dangers of free expressed by Mr. Nickle.!a ston is about as near their work; and the result, in affect, what one hears sit Perhaps the move- will become general. nstelad of Mr. Edison's city of end- eas we shall have a city made up entirely of suburbs. "From noise, EDITORIAL NOTES, Have you started to save for the A Christmas presents? In the sporting arena ing of many champions. ----p-- A scientist says we ali shall be bald in a thousand years from now, but inasmuch as we shall not be hers {it wom't trouble us much. . What about the municipal elec tions? Fudge, we can pick a counei] in a week's time! But what kind? Can you name any' community j that has been made a better place {#0 live in by the free sale of booze? Once again "the trade" is seeking to enforce its sordid dictum in the politics of Ontario. Wil the people stand for this shametu} attempt? Having heard of the violet ray a Hollywood gil wants know if it can be obtained a: drug stores in shades to match he* | costumes. > to Are there many Kingston etector: { who are agreed to pay the debt of through the debauch ery and degrading of the people, by a wider sale of liquor? the province The Ferguson Government has wilfully challenged the good name of and the morale of the young people. Will the challenge be flung back in his face. We hope s Hon. W. F. Nickle 1s to maxe this week vivid with reasons' why the 'O T.A should sustained. The people will be fully informed of the 80 they will knowledge of what be sale, vote with full Yote means! Judging by the remarks of Mayor Angrove and Alderman Kidd, W. F Nickle's decision to run in King. welcome as a mouse at a meeting of the Ladies' Ald, comments the St. Thomas Times-Journal, The Guelph Mercury says that Mr. Nickle will be a great strength for the cause of prohibition if elect ed. His personal support of the cause of temperance and prohibition has never beem doubted nor eves: questioned, which is & mark in his favor in the coming election. Hon. Mr. Ferguson hopes to im. pose the free sale of Mquor in the province by his big addition to the ridings in cities. Will the country folk stand for this desire, or will the people say, as they have said before we want no liberties but we want restrictions of the traffic? "Hush, be calm, be moderata dom't grow excited," is the wish of the Moderation League to the people in this liquor election. The League is afraid the monster Traffic | will be awakened and thelr game i | up. The trade needs the profits, but that~shouldn't be disturbing! An unanswered question to the wet candidate on a Toronto plat form was: "If we had government | control fifteén years ago at which time' the streets were filled with drunken men, how has it come about that nowadays under the O.T.A. you rarely ever see a drunken man?" The Hague, quiet, sleepy little capital of Holland, hes installed the) first commercial radiotelephone in| existence. It is a municipal system, as an ordinary city telephone. It starts with more then 1,000 sud | scribers. And first reports indicates! that it is operating successfully, During the third quanter of this! Seu thirteen Canadian companies | stock issues on the market PH value of $18, 460,000, accord- ing to the Monetary Times' esti- mate, and brings the total amount of Canadian 'stock issues up to $8,481,704 for the nine months end- ing Sept. 30th. The total for the nine months' period exceads all pre. vicious record, when new stock fis- sues totalled $5M558,400 for the entire year of 1925, $50,721,000 for 1924, and with $26,925,350 for nr Then, | the year | 1926 has been featured by the pass- | is a smal as anit Does it | | Neon ond Vion -- A Great Crop. Lethbridge © Herald Thirtytwo } thousand bashels of wheat f Champion farm. A 'ortune %a oma | year: 1 -- Profits From Tourists, ! Vancouver Province Tourists | from the United States spent $190 - 000,000 In Canada last year J. M Wandle, chief enginesr of the Can- adian Natlonal Parks, told the Good Roads Asspitation at Edmonton, the | other duy. The sum is more than fv: times the value of the output of all the goM mises of the country for the year, and is 62 per cemt. greater than the output of sll our meta! mines. As the tourist business good business, since it is aM done on a cash basis, and the profits are immediate and beyond question, it would be the part of wisdom for' Canada to do what she can to ex- pand it. This can be done m two ways by inducing more tourists to come and by indocing those who come to remain longer * (Toronto Globe) Kingston supplies perhaps the the most spectacular contest in the election in the fight between Hon. W. F. Nickle, former Attorney-Gan- eral in the Ferguson Cabinet, and Ald. Thomas A. Kidd, a straight sup- porter of the Ferguson policy. Mr. Nickle's dynamic personality, his dramatic resignation from the Gov- ernment on a question of principle, and his strong belie! in the merits of the Ontario Temperance Act, | make him a notable figure in the contest. The absence of a Liberal candidate in the riding makes the] struggle a clean-cut one on pro-| greesive temperance legislation, Al-| ready he has the assured suppor: of many Liberals, and this suppor: is bound to grow, both on the maris| of the caididate and the streng'a of | his cause. There are other eminent and wor- thy warriors for the O.T.A. in this election, but in Mr. Nickle's case there i& a special interest because of the elements of courage and sacrifice For the sakes of his principles he re- signed from the Cabinet and weit back to private life. He malatained silence for some weeks, and then, with no promise or expectation of office or other reward, and with no other desire than to aid the cause he bhulds dear, he suddenly threw | himself into the contest. He will fiercely opposed by the Ferguson ma- chine and the wet interests. Indeed, he may have to fight the . hardest battle of his political life. He is not a man to shirk from that duty. All Ontario will watoh the strug- gle, &nd all Ontario will expect the | 1s Mr. Nickie's Battle he who value courage and principle in| public life, to rally to Mr. Nickles | support. He will be needed In the | Legislature, and Kingston should | make certain of his election. | sandering Canadian Youtn| | i (Kincardine Review Reporter) Never before has the youth of a provigee been so deeply stirred as? the present time in Ontario. In| the colleges and universities meet- | ing are being held and in the cities mass meetings are. being held, ant | these in protes: of the | at slanderou utterances recently made against the youth of the province. Never | before was such revolt seen amongst | the youth over the entire province. | Statements that belittle, stander and | stain the mame of Canadian youth | have been made from public plat. | forms and made by the Premier of} this Province. In quick defence the indignation of the youth rose up and | now begins a series of refutations by | the young people in am effort tol oram the Fe back down the throat of | {the man who manufactured #t. "It{ { used to be that a gin! wouldn't look ! [ae a man who carried a flask, but now they won't look at him if hel y 4 intended to serve the same purpose | hasn't got one!" That 4s one of the | statements made from a public piat- | form by Premi¢r Ferguson--and | there were others of lke wuature | How could the youth of this prov-| | ince stand stl under a lash ke] i that? The falsity of it: the mockery: of it; the roltenness of it bites to; { the quik in this province of clean | youllg people. In ai thelr might may | they risé up and fight such an up- | holy attack on them. Premier Fer- | guson must prove his statements or! take them back. But he can't prove | them. They are fiendish concoe- tions of his own mind and be should | be made to swallow his words even | ir they strangle him. 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