Published Dail THE BRITIS WHIG CO., LIMITED, PUBLISIING J. G. Elliott President Leman A. Guild ..., Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. ' hones: Business Office iid Editorial Rooms Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) One year, acliverad in cit XY year, If paid in adva year, by mall to Tal 2 Poon 3 8 year, to United States $2. (Semi-Weekly fdition) year, by mail, cash year, if not paid in advance 3 50 year, to United States _ _ .. 1.6 Six and three months pro Tata. Attached 1s one of the best job printing offices in Canada. ctreuwintion of JRE BRITISH wInG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations ES I IRIE MORE ABOUT COALITION. There are many advantages which would accrue through the coalition for the period of the war of the political leaders of the Conservative amd Liberal parties. The important question of recruiting --the most important before the country to-day, because it inv national honor and Imperial safety --could be solved without either party seeking a political advantage. There are 10 vacant seats in the House of Commons, counting the dual seats held by Sir Wilfrid Laur- jer and the Hon. Mr. Forget, Many of these seats have been vacant for a long period, because of the inability of the leaders to agree, With a coalition government in power it would net be difficult to bring about agreement for elections by acclama- tion, for all the new members would be government supporters, A coalition government would be the means of abolishing the patron. age evil. Patronage lists in peace times are bad enough, but in war times they are a scandal and a curse ~ko-an infinitely greater degree. We dd not ; appeal to Conservatives alone to do the fighting. The appeal is to Liberals as to Conservatives, Let us treat them alike as loyal citizens. Loyalty should be the badge--not politics. When the parties at Ottawa are unified, and there is no good reason why them-cannot-and-should-not be | unified, them we will hive a rallying to the colors which will hearten the brave old Mother Country and our sister dominions and our Allies, and shatter the hopes and expectations which the Kaiser may be cherishing about disunion aud. political strife in Sir George Foster, 11 Toronto, gave a summary of the talk of those who represented the Allies at the Paris Industrial Convention. Here is a man who should have been chairman of the Natibnal Service Commission Why should not the miniwter of trade and commerce be given a job and to his size, WAKING CANADA UP, "All the arts and wiles of a fox, all the servility of a scheming phari- see, all the bluster of a bully, all the skill of a sophist were employed in order to cheat merchants why had the good fortune or misfortune to conduct their business with _gon- scientious seruples." These are the words of Mr. Kershaw, of England, and representing the British Board of Trade, who has come to Canada in the interest of' imperial trade. Speak- ing at a meeting in Toronto he said he was surprised at the determina- tion of the Germans to do business in Canada in spite of any drawback or disadvantage. But it was not neces: Sary to come to Canada in order to get evidence of the audacious things |g the enemy has been attempting. Britain bad, in the heart of Lon- don, a sample of German nerve. The firm which has manufactured Santo- gen, (a good thing, and in spme re- spects without a substitute), had not- ice to get out of business, and did make a start in.that direction. But the managers 'were shown such con- sideration that they made new con- tracts for production and launched new business enterprises. When « Shileq to account they admitted their Sisohedianse af orders, but what of that? shalt not" makes no impression upon the average Hun mind. He "and goes "on offending in the same ola way. ; Germany does nef wat until the and Semi-Weekly by |, 50 people think of it." e war to expand its trade, Kerschaw ne ot express surprise that Canada' is being ex- ploited in its interests, What he should do is wake up the British Board of Trade and have it wake up the business men of Canada so that théy will see that the enemy does not forestall them and rob them of the rewards of their saerifices. British organization may be faulty for the present It is time the kinks were taken out of its machinery. end of th and Mr. The Hamilton Board of Trade is again wrestling with the daylight having question. It is suggested that the people vote upon it in connection with the municipal elections, Why not in the federal eledtion, which is 30 close at hand? The measure, to be effective, must be a federal one. NATIONAL SERVICE AND ITS DIFFICULTIES. The Calgary News-Telegram is sure that had Mr. Murray, the ex-secre- tary of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, remained as secretary of the National Service Commission, something dreadful would have hap- pened. "It seems,' says our contem= porary, "that these industrial patriots would not stop short of conseription in Canada, regardless of what the What awful rofl The manufacturers of Canada are not opposed to Voluntary recruiting; in- deed, it is safe to say that they ap- prove of it, They gwould not object, however, if Canada had a registra- tion such as that which prevails in England, where a récord is kept of all the men who are eligible for mili- tary service, and a record at 'the same time of their occupations. Lloyd-George knew how difficult it was to recruit without a perfect understanding of the men who were to be drafted into the service, He admitted that there were some occu- pations which should not be broken up by indiscriminate recruiting, and he had them protected, Every man "| has a chance in England to go before a competent tribunal and state his case. It is for the court to exempt him for military duty. The minister of war, after the adoption of regis- tration, had some men called back from the trenches and put in the munition factories to rush through the orders as they could not be with- out ample and expert help. Canada is taking a measure of the men who can serve her in the ranks. This National Service is a late-in-the- day proceeding, and it will be months before anything substantial can come so far as the directors of it-are con- cerned---on a purely political basis. The feat that lies before it is-a pro~ digious one. Ald, Polson has the sound idea of it. When the city wants to do some- thing for the whole people it should be at the expense of the whole eity, not of those for whom the Utilities Commission is acting. FOOLING THE POLES. Europe has mot been much im- pressed with the proclamation which Germany and Austria have caused to be made wih regard to the independ- ence of Poland. The country has lorg been diyided betwesn the Ger- mans, Austrians and Russians. {Fali- cia, which belonged to Austria, has been won and lost a couples of tines during this war, Jus{ now it is practically in the pogsessicn of Rus: sia, and will be wholly and unques- tiopably hers when her armias al- vance in greater numbers a little later on Austrie does not wiilingly give it up. But she sees the hopelessness of trying to hold it, and consents, ap- "I patently, to the conversion of it into a Polish Kingdom, under a German prince. i All this is for present and tempor= ary purposes. The mockery is & through with of a deputation visiting Germany and asking for the consti- tution which Germany and Austiia have promised; and, amid great pomp and circumstance, a proclama- tion has been issued, read by a Ger- man, General Von Beseler, and the people are said to have been greatly enthused. The Poles, under a foreign governor, will rule them- selves, and, paradoxically, do as they are bidden. The main idea at pre- sent is to induce Poland to contri- bute to the army | gt: the Central Pow- ers and to the extent of 700,000 men at feast. Will the Poles do it? They may have fo. may be dragoon- ed into it. They may be made as pjioauie of Belgium, ut they ubmissive 45 0 more freely on the groand that they are fianting for of it. The commission is organized-- | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1916. petitioning for the kingdom, Poles ought to know from experience | the kind of rule they ean expect from the Germans. They know that they have been ground dowm by these Ger-| s and been refused the priceless | heritage of being allowed to speak their own language. EDITORIAL NOTES. The tariff appears to have been .a | deciding issue in the United States | election. The war question gave way | + The | telling everybody we had no strate] gists, Charlie Beresford, the gabbiest {man in the British Empire, put it | over on him by pointing out how Ger- many could have won thé war if she { had had his brains. {xmcsToN EVENTS 26 YEARS AGO Robertson & Son, dropping out of to one of high tariff and high living. | the combine, has caused the price of Four years ago Wilson carried 435 seats in the electoral college, but he} had two republican candidates against | {of the him, Roosevelt and Taft. The vote sugar to fall ome-eighth of a cent. The price of sugar to the firm was raised last week by the refiners. The following were elected officers 14th Regiment: President, J. | Robinson; secretary, A. Abernethy; of yesterday more fairly represents |; casurer. W. McNeil; committeemen, the relative strength of the political | parties. The St. Catharines Standard is sin- cerely committed to 'the eoalition principle, desire to see the war prosecuted any! longer by party government and for; the sake of the patronage it can dis- | pense. The imperial navy that is giving heroic aboun and great dreadnaughts tossed about like so many coekle shells. The Sailors' Aid Fund should .not be forgotten under the circum- stances. A British employer of labor wond-, { The beef demand of the Allied forces Be- | exceeds the total importation into the ers why Canada does not go into} shipbuilding on a large scale. cause the duties on materials enter- ing into the Construction of vessels or steamships run from 27% per cent, to 37% per cent. back is a serious one, | PUBLIC OPINION | She Certainly Will, (Ottawa Free Press) If the Deutschland persists in car- rying ten million dollar cargoes she will make a nice fat prize for the crew of some alert destroyer. Financial Conscription, (Toronto Globe) To pay for war year by year in- stead of handing down a debt would be financial conscription. It would awaken a stronger protest than would conscription. ! What's the Use. (Hamilton Spectator) . Oh, pshaw! ,Of what use trying to prevent Quebec slopping over into Ontario, when a Quebec woman has just added the 28th Made an/Awful Row. (Guelph Mercury) A Toronto girl got a cheque for $200 for being the first to send in the name of "Kitchener" to replace that of Berlin, And it has stirred up a rumpus that makes the $200 look like a Yankee cent, . 'What Makes Living High. (Port Arthur Chronicle) The high cost of living in Canada is partially explained by the state- ment that inthe twelve months end- ing September 30, the Dominion ex- ported farm products to the value of about $400,000,000, Putting ¥¢ Over Him, (Ottawa Citizen) Just when old von Hindenburg was Lac Ste. Anne. J IAEA LAY & # PLATO Plato was a prominent citigen of Greece who was born severaf/hun- dred years B. C. and succe in dying a natural death. He had sev- eral first-rate opportunities to com- mit suicide, but preferred to live a long, useful life, surrounded by lux- ury and the treacherous Greek ad- jective, which he finally subdued and taught to eat out of his hand. Plato was a pupil of the unfor- tunate Socrates, one of the best men that Greece ever produced but who came too a sad end by drinking some- thing that caused him tp expire in a heartfelt manner, Plato used to sit at * feet and drink in the Greek parts of speech as they flowed in an unceasing stream from his neatly parted beard; and when Soe- rates had gone hence Plato, took over his practice and continued to operate on the Greek language with good results. Plato was born on an island, bis Our conteniporary has no service is represented in the; North Sea, where tempestuous storms | | are | The draw- child to her brood; another is the mother of 36. Random Reels "Ot Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings" , Jackson and J. Feden. THE FOOD SUBJECT IN ENGLAND London Mail, Since the beginning of the war the price of the worker's food has ad- vanced 68 per cemt., so that £1 to- day will only buy the amount of food that cost 123 before the war. In cer- tain industries there has been a very marked increase in wages. But this increase is confined to particular dis- tricts and trades. The consumption of food, however, remaius high. The purchasing power of the nation has not declined, As to the causes of the increase in the price of food the most obvious is the large consumption of our armies, United Kingdom in 1913. The fight- ing man must be well fad. A second cause is the inereasze in the cost of freights due to the large amount of tonnage required for military and naval duties. As to the measures which might be taken by the Government there is the possibility of complete control of the supply. In the case of sugar this has resulted in the commodity being al- most as difficult to procure as caviar, though for some mysterious reasons confeotionérs are permitted to absorb large quantities of it for the manufacture of sweets. With the wheat supply Mr. Runciman has al- ready dealt by his bold purchase eof 500,000 tons of Australian grain, and he has tackled the meat supply, and bearded the Chicago beef lords in their dens. TONDON TO HAVE HOSPITAL. Council Votes $25,000 for Building for Tuberculous Soldiers. London, Ont, Nov. 8.--London will have a permanent hospital for tuberculous soldiers returning from the front. This was definitely decid- ed when the City, Council unanimous- ly passed a grant of $25,000. Sir Adam Beck explained that the Mili- tary Hospitals Commission had agreed to contribute $25,000 condit- fonal upon the city and Provincial Governments each giving that amount. The building will be erect- ed on the grounds of and in connect- ion with the Queen Aleyanaria Sani- tarium at Byron. NAME EX-GOVERNOR Former Kansas Chief Executive Can- didate for Alberta. Edmonton, Alta, Nov. 8.--J. W, Leedy, a former Governor of Kan- sas, now a farmer in this district, has been chosen by the Liberals as a candidate for the Legislature 'in -- father and mother being present at the time, and at a tender age began to write poetry... He retained most of this poetry until he be:ame of age, as there seemed to be no popu- lar demand for it, when he destroyed it after reading some of i! out loud. It took courage to do this, but how much better it would be if Plato's example were more generally follow- When he was forty hf aze, Plato, who had gone to Egypt to es- cape hay fever, which impeded the flow of his pure Greeian vocabulary, returned to Athens and opened a private school,' where h2 taught people how to be happy tirough good. This was a new thing for Atliens, and resulted in elosing ih& siloons. 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