T 1 fe ! Editorial Th FE ) -- rari Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED. J. G. Elliott Leman A. Guild ... President Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. Telephones: Business Office . Rooms Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) year, delivered in city year, if paid in advance year, by mall to rural omfi year, to United Stdtes .. Semi Weekly Editi on) year, by mall, cash y year, if not paid in advance year, to United Stat 8ix and three mo nthe pro rat Attached is one of the best printing offices in Canada The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG Is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations THE. LATE JOHN MCINTYRE. No one was 'better known in his day than the late John McIntyre, be- cause of his many activities, and no one will be more missed from the community. He was a citizen of Kingston, and he regarded it as no mean city. Schelarly and sociable, and with a public spirit which gener- aly, asserted itself, he was a repre- sentative man in the very best sense of the term. His profession, of course, ahsorbed the larger share of his attention, and yet from early in life he realized he owed the city something of his time and talents and energy, and so in the City Coun- ell, Board of Trade, Board of Health, Board of Education the General Hos- pital, the Church, and the State, he was a leader in his class, He gave to all of the institutions to which he lent his ald the benefit of his wise counsels. Even when illness had laid him aside he followed the events of the day with the keenest interest. His death breaks, as it were, a link in the chain that connects the pres- ent with the long-distant past. Lives of such men oft remind us of their service, their sacrifice, their ex- amples, and, when called to their eternal rest, they leave behind them fragrant and helpful memories. . - > So in the coming election Bourassa is-to measure his strength against Laurier's, Be it so. The sooner the man who is playing the part of a traitor to his country gets his reward the better. THE SENATE'S VALUE. There is a tendency, every little while, to abuse the Senate and to re- present it as a body of men whose usefulness is. gone, or who never had any usefylness to lose. After liberals attained to power in 1896 the Yukon gold excitement set in, and no- thing would do some advanced poli- ticians but build a railway to Dawson City. It was estimated to cost many millions of dollars, and the late Sir Riellard Cartwright referred to it as "a huge gamble." The Comons pass- ed the bill providing for the railway and the Senate killed it. The conservatives had a majority in the upper chamber at that time, and the government was called upon to conrider how its power might be subjugated. Many expedients were suggested, They ineluded the ap- pointment of a sufficient humber of senators to overcome the adverse ma- jority. Time passed and ere long the liberals had a majority in the upper chamber, but the Yukon railway was not built, and the country had no rea- son to regret it. When the conservatives succeeded to power they were handicapped, or appeared to be handicapped, by the liberal majority in the senate. The 'rejection of some half-baked legisla- tion led to a clamor for a change in the senate membership. The liberals were accused of partisanship. Their ~influence or rule had to be counter- acted. The government proposed a remedy. "It geas to increase the senators to the number in which the last census invited, and the senate objected. It is argued and not in vain, that the 'membership of the 'Commons should be adjusted at the ey time, and that opinion prevail i A < The Senate will never be popular- Jy regardel so long as its majority, at any time, is out of harmdny with the majority in the C ons, dnd it is impossible to adjust the balance of power after. each fon. remedy lies in an elective Senate. Then the upper amd 'lower houses would change from time to time, and for the while the men who controll- the| The THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1916. NEW MUNICIPAL The town-planning convention, Harfllton, the goverr municipal in rent the necessity department in connection with the local government, and which; through its expert advisors can be consulted by aby council upon municipal problems, The idea is not a new one gested that the local government should have officers who could be! consulted upon any phase of civic life. The municipal system is the re-| sult of slgw growth. Men have. had experienc in public procedure. They | have been able enough to serve in a public capacity, and to add in their] service to the sum total of municipal knowledge, But, without study and | research, they have not been able to deal with some issues as they@have arisen, and they have had a need of advice. Where are they to get it? So far as sanitation is concerned, they have recourse to the medical health department of the province, which is composed of able men, and men who are ready at all times to take the lead when crises or epi- demics occur. In municipal law the attorney-general's department may be appealed to, and from it may issue certain edicts dealing with special subjects, In the financing of the utilities, especially whe the power is supplied by or through the Hydro- Electric Commission, invaluable ad- vice with regard to accounting is sup- plied when it is sought But in general the municipal offi- cer of any town or city is left to his own resources, and if the municipality be fore without the guidance of men who have made a success of their own business, and are willing to serve the people in a public way, is that to be a regrettable misdirection of the people's business? Hence the de-| mand has been made, at different | times, for a municipal department of the government, and one to which councils may apply for instruction as they need it. This department could be more than a mere consulting .in- stitution, and for the handing out of advice as it is asked for. It could be clothed with authority to inspect and direct procedure and whenever ne- cessary to insist upon reforms. The petition of the town-planning conven- tion is well meant and timely, and it is hoped the local government will give it due consideration, for a one Toronto had a recruiting sergeant whose main attraction was his abus- ive powers. He had his little say and was then suppressed. If men cannot be induced to join the colors per- suasively they cannot be bullied into it. Better conscription than that. GOOD TIMES AFTER THE WAR. A Canadian public man, and one who is usually sound and philosophic, has been seeing visions, and in them the thousands of unemployed who will be tramping the streets after the war. This man, and all who think with him, should ry Leo Chiozza Money's article in Everyiuan, in which he discusses this theme in a clear and satisfactory way. He re- calls the pessimism in which some people indulged when the war broke out. They anticipated economic col- lapse and universal ruin. Now it is assumed that the depression will come after the war, Mr. Money does not see the dark picture which certain critics have been drawing. There may be uneni- ployment. There must not be the trouble which some persons contem- plate, namely, that millions of sol- diers will find no work to do, that there will be an awful to-do about the women who are now in the men's jobs, that no capital will be available, that a large amount of national capi- tal will be thrown away. According to Mr. Money, the great industries may be prosecuted after the war with greater vigor than before it, and the government can see to it that this is the case. War; he says, will end long before financial exhaustion sets in, and "it needs only a comparative trifle of capital to set gaing" major industries on a scale hitherto un- known in the country." Millions, for example, have been put inta the iron and steel trade. 'The market for these things will remain, and to meet the necessary demand the trade must be expanded. The general manu- facturing has suffered during the war, It will be revived and grow with the passing days. Capital has not been destroyed. There are mo factories than formerly, Investments] have increased. "All that is neces- sary to assure the avoidance of unem- ployment after the war," says Mr. Mooney, "is that the government shall vot suddenly take its hand from the control of industry. That co 1 must remain, and in some direc must be increased." For example, it will be a prime duty of the govern- L ment after the war to set to work on the housing problem in fulfilment of a duly which ought to have been ac- complished long ago. If it does not do-'so, sufficient labor will not be drawn back into the building trade to ensure its propore dimensions in relation to our national economy. In agriculture, 100, there must be a de- finite application of certain areas to certain purposes, if necessary by. com- pulsion, otherwise sufficient labor will not be drawn into aftisaliare to DEPARTMENT. | i i has decided to press upon ir Long since it was sug-|© |a discussion government, It had to ze and reorganize the factories nterests of the war. Later it yave to mobilize and reorganize| ies in the interests of peace | its productions. A crisis gan be ded, and it is well to believe, that a crisis will not occur in Britain Canada and the other overseas Do- ipns will be protected from de- pressing experiences by following closely the splendid example of the Mother Country. fact and AVOl EDITORIAL NOTES. The French papers demand that the | government put an end to Bourassa's traitorous vaporings. And the gov- ernment is afraid: It is time a muzzle {| was put upon the troubler, | Mr. Rowell, who visited Britain and | the trenches in France, as a public man, is the most active agency in re-| cruiting to-day, He is busier than any federal or provincial minister. -- . How would it do to send Sir Hib- | bard Tupper to London as agent- general of British Columbia in place] of Sir Richard McBride? That would be one of balancing their ac- count. way A 'third party is t¥%lked about in Greece. Mr. Maclean, M.P.; should be interested in this. he would be able to give of the Greeian party advice. the leader some valuable the literateur, who was famous for his eccentricities, have to locate in Germany to find himself at home lias discarded him and his works. getting for G. B. Shaw, will in order England He deserves all he is tactless talk. The Labor Congress asks for repeal of the Lemieux Act. The act all right, The man who is operating it at Ottawa is simply - defective. Change the minister of labor and the usefulness of the law will be at © is demonstrated. All the patriotic schemes cannot be without some collision and some confusion. There should be a limit to their number until an understanding has been reached as to how the funds publicly subscribed divided. carried along are to be The correspondent who fears that of the nickel question will affect recruiting should take no- tice of the Bourassa campaign and say what he thinks of it. « The Na- tionalist leader is still helping the Borden gov&fnment all he can. With him it is a case of Borden rather than Laurier. The actions of a father speak loud- er than the words of a son. | have no official finding. | dential election in the United States? | And we were wont to think that' the | Americans If called upon | ' | nis {more the | ene , | i PUBLI OPINION i J Time to Bogin. (Montreal News.) We have a promise from a high source that any grafting discovereg| Sir Charles Peers Davidson will by But we be punished in the courts. The Truce is Over, (Montreal Star) Why is a "political truce" in Can- ada so much noisier than a Presi- over their q got excited politics, Hard on the Professors. (Montreat Mail) It is a gded thing for the univers- ities of Canada {hata dread of mili- | tdrism is confined. chiefly to the pro- | fessoriate and that""the poison of dreamy pacifism has failed to infect | the student body. Jack Fros Work. (Brantford Courier) Jack Frost is just about to begin bis annual job of putiing rich cclor- ings on the leaves, ind pretly 5001 the ice eh we have been paying for all summer will be covering the idewalks free. . Question of Profits. (Hamiltom Herald) The Canadian government appro- priates a fourth of the profits of war profiteers in excess of seven per cent The Australian government appropriates all in excess of a rea- sonable profit. Isn't a reasonable profit enough? Mr. Rogers' Friends, (Ottawa Citizen) Rogers no doubt could find a convenient person for the bench than Judge Galt. There is the ex-policeman friend who ole to ne- gotiate telephone poles ith Mr Rogers. He might have better luck judge than as dredge superin- tendent, Mr, as a KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO Phelan and bride are af New Dr. York. The grain shovellers at Portsmouth sated $41.60 each last week, EC Sliter, F, Raney, E. C. Hill, F. New a H. Squires and C. Hora hav e entered for the handicap bicycle race. « Hull Hotels Out of Bounds. Ottawa, Oct. 5.--All the hotels in the city of Hull have been placed "out of bounds' to the soldiers of the 207th and 230th Battalions, and it is understood that an application is to be made to the Militia Department to have all men in military uniform in Ottawa forbidden to visit the Hull hotels, Random Reels "Ot Shoes and Ships, and Sealing Wax ,of Cabbages and Kings." --_-- THE CAMPAIGN FUND The campaign fund is a free-will offering made by people who would be pleased to save the country at so much per year. About every four years the people decide to vote on President and see if it will raise the price of fall pigs. A great many people who do not own any pigs have to be coaxed to the pofls in an automobile, and this requires a large sum of money. Therefore it is necessary to have a campaign fund which can reach its long, sinewy fingers into every vot- ing precinct and yank the blaze citi- zen to the ballot-box, also instruct- ing him how to vote en route. There was.a time when campaign funds. were made up largely of the spontaneous contributions of disin- terested corporations, who had no in- terest in the election whatever save in seeing the old flag flourish. Some of the best corporations we have paid into the campaign fund every four years merely to keep the pro- tective tariff form beoing strangled to death. And yet there are news- papers which denounce the corpora- tions and demand/ that they be brought under th§fprovisions of the quarantine act. ° Nowadays the campaign fund is provided by the docile and semi-in- telligent office seeker, aided by the hopeful but parsimonious . office holder, This is why campaign funds are smaller than they used to be. No sooner does a party worker get appointed postmaster than he backs up . under the pernicious activity regulation and becomes harder to get money out of than a slot machine. When a man is look- ing for office he will contribute to anything from an apron sale to open ad plumbing for the parsonage, but after he gets in he couldn't be pried loose from his monthly pay check with a crowbar, .The funds in a campaign fund go to everybody but the newspaper, OK MR GFF Youll HELP Us To SEND Tus DRESSES AND TooTh Brushes 75 He Poor NEATUEN \N AFRIKA WONT You -- eee Z re CERTAIN LY -HOWD 'WENTY - Five Do Nes When a man is looking for office he | * will contribute to anything from an apron sale to open plumbing for the parsonage. which is allowed * to print several miles of free plate matter and watch the cornet band take in the money. The campaign orator also works for small pay, but lives in the hope of being made ambassador to some coral isle, where the inhabitants struggle along without culture and underclothes. 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