I ST Sp RE " PAGE FOUR rs British Te He SARD YRAR 83RD YEAR Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING C0, LIMITED. J. G. Elliott ..,. President Leman A Guild ... Managing Director . and Sec.-Treas. Telephones: Business Office ... Editorial Job Offic SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily Edition) year, delivered in eity ... year, if pald in advance _.. One year, by mall to rural offi One year, to United States ..... «52 (8emi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash advance ...- 31.50 One One 8 One year, i" not paid in One year, to United States _.... x and three months pro rata. Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH "HIG Is authenticated by the audit Bureau of Circulations BONAR LAW'S CABLEGRAM. Sir Robert Borden personally ap- pealed to the British government in erder to be saved or screened from attacks which have been made upon him in connection with the nickel question, Bonar Law, the colonial secretary, has responded, as he was requested to do. The admiralty, we are told, assumes all the responsi- bility for shipping nickel to the United States. Mr. Law does not say that the nickel has been wanted for use in the munition factories of America, and on work for the Allies, It ig inferr- ed from his remarks, As for the Mertons the German element, it is sald, has been squeezed out of the company, at leagt as far as appear- ances indicate, There is nothing new in this assertion. It has been made by others, but Mr. Law speaks with the authority of the.British gowvern- ment, and in its hehalf. Two poin remain "unsettled: (1) The metal carried underseas by the submarine Deutschland: was of Canadian origin, and it has not been explained how it réached the hands of enemy agents and later became part of the exports for Germany; (2) the allegation that some of the metal going to Germany came from New Caledonia implies French carelessness or criminal in- capacity for which there is no atone- ment, The federal government is suffer- ing enough, from other causes, with- out being loaded with this nickel trouble, The Law epistle may save it from some criticism, It will not dispose of the fact that the agree- ment with the International Nickel Company should be ended and that the refinement and export of nickel should be controlled by the Ontario or Canadian government. The grain growers of the west are becoming a great combination. Last year they ranked with the biggest buyers and exporters of grain, and they are becoming more portentious by absorbing some of the smaller organizations, Good luck to them. a -- en -- MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT. There was a public meeting, a great concourse of people, in Toronto on Monday evening, when resolutions were passed concerning the cost of living. The government was com- mended for what it had done in seek- ing to get all the information poss- ible with regard to cold storage charges, and to put in force the law with regard to combines. But the people, as represented at this great meeting, were surely dissatisfied with prevailing conditions. Legis- lation was urged for the following "1. Municipal stores for the sale of natural and manufactured food pro- dvicts. 2. Municipal coal yards. 3. Municipal monopoly for the sale | of bread, milk, coal, and other com- modities. 5. Municipal commission to inves-' tigate the prices of foods. 'The Bureau of Research, of Toron- to, has demonstrated one fact most clearly. It is that many of the mun- i¢ipal reforms for which the people are clamoring cannot be inaugurated or enforced until « municipal depart- - ment has been organized by the On- tario government, Dr. Brittain, of eau of Mentor municipal systems and tH satisfactory-operation of them. At a meeting in Brantford, which the provincial secretary was willing to give this municipal department his consideration, and the probability is date, "It is not complimentary to Ontario that it is behind Alberta and Saskatchewan, both of which have municipal departments and find them of the very greatest advantage. The west wants a new party, and one composed entirely of farmers, or men of the soil, with a low tariff, or no tariff, so far as wheat and agri- cultural implements are concerned. The older parties have no hope of placating these men. PROSECUTING WRONGDOERS. The Brewster government, in Bri- tish Columbia, has begun its career under adverse circumstances. It was hardly formed under the presidency of the man, who has made so many sacrifices in the interest of public honesty, than he faced a new experi- ence. His attorney-general, Mr. Mec- Donald, was concerned or involved in 00 glection irregularities last Fbruary, and though some explanation has been made in his behalf his own party has not been satisfied. For the time being, and pending evidence of his innocence, he would have been the better out of the lime- light. His ability, however, marked him out for political preferment, and Hon. Mr. Brewster must have been persuaded that he would be able to vindicate himself or he would not have been called to the government. The re-election of Mr. McDonald will be opposed, and by the Liberal Association of Vancouver. At its head stands one who has spent thou- sands of dollars in purging, or seek- ing to purge, the community of its political offenders. Mr. Brewster as- ssures the people that political in- iquity will not be tolerated, and he is willing that a Royal Commission shall investigate. There is this pe- culiarity in the situation, that the prosecution of the offenders will de- volve upon the attorney-general, and propriately take action against him- self. The times are good and bad--for some people. The men who produce munitions and food do not worry over high prices. The men of low or fixed salaries are the sufferers. THE RELIEF OF KELLY. The counsel for contractor Kelly, of Winnipeg, has petitioned the min- ister of justice for a new trial, and on grounds which with one or two ex- ceptions are not new, It is said that the lieutenant-governor of Manitoba 'threatened to dismiss the Roblin government if it did not approve of his choice of commissioners to inves- tigate the charges dgainst it, and that these judges did not follow the rules of the court in taking evidence. Is any commission restricted to the proctices of the courts? Its purpose generally is to get at the facts, and the commission in this case has not been charged with following any pro- ceaure which was unusual or which the circumstances did not warrant. It is alleged that Kelly was not given time in which to prepare his case, He did not take advantage of his privileges in this respect. He challenged the right of any court to try him, and eventally, when he call- ed in counsel, did not want his trial to precede those of the ex-minlsters, and because the court was unwilling to accept of his plea his counsel re- fused to act. Every phase of the case, now called into question, has been discussed before the Court of Appeal in Manitoba, and its decision has been given against him. One new feature has been magni- fied. The Norris governm: by special act, provided for plenty of jurymen for the trial of Kelly and the ex-ministers and it is argued that the Crown was able to summon an unlimited number and set Kelly up against a "hand-picked dozen of Liberal partisans." The minister of justice may be impressed with this assertion, and he may uot. He will have the evidence and the judgments of the courts before him, and the country Will await with increasing interest his treatment of the case. A Good Fellows' Club! Why should Kingston not have one? There is a ot work it can do about was addressed by a public official a _ day or two "ago, it was stated that that it will be established at an early ~ he cannot very conveniently or ap-, } ) 1 so--wib-come-the beginning = Ake Eagland's population by this popular; end. The governor-general resembles | Grey more than anyone who has i his high office. He has a love r domestic life and domestic ani- and showed it at the Guelph cultural Farm. The boycott is the only hope of the Canadian people. The law, and the government behind the law, appear to be helpless to relieve the situation. [To deny themselves, or starve them- { selves, is the only escape from the manipulators of foods. The Canadian Retail Merchants' | Association come into the limelight las the defenders of the middiemen. Secretary Trowern's opposition to the municipal probe into high prices create a suspicion that the middle- men are the cause of the high prices. The imperial government gives the Canadian government an object les- son in serving the people. The state acquirement and control of the Welsh coal mines shows what an administra-; tion can do which is composed of men who are not afraid of the capitalists. | "They Will Do. Germany says she will add 3,000,- 000 men to her army strength. They'll be wee-men surely. War or Peace. (The Montreal Mail) Are we prepared. for a political war in Canada in the midst of a world war? That, after all, is the ques- tion. The Borden Family. (Hamilton Times) We might as well object to Sir Robert Borden because he once was a Liberal, and because he is the only Borden in his family who is a Tory. Why All the Row. (Montreal Star) 4 Why all this excitement about a safe conduct for the Austrian Am- bassador to the United States if, as Germany avers, the British blockade doesn't' block? | re ------------------------------ Poor Reasoning. : (Toronto World) Mr. Meighen said. that a bullet made with Canadian nickel wouldn't [hurt a Canadian soldier any more nickel. That amused the crowd, but lit will not brighten the homes of people who have lost sons at the front, - Canada Worsted (Ottawa Free Press) Quebec milk is being sold in the States; Canadian potatoes are under- selling the native product of Maine; and Canadian fish are sold to Amer- jcans cheaper than they can be bought in Canada. Is it any wonder | it costs a lot to Hve here? Zeppelins Costly. (Syracuse Post-Standard) The last Zeppelin raid upon Eng- six this year with an average of seven and one-half civilians killed per raid. It has cost Germany $3,000,000 in | destroyed Zeppelins--more than $15,- 000 for each man, woman or child ; killed. At this rate it would cost Germany $690,971,070,000 to kill off than a bullet made with some other ' '| well, which is ahout sixty feet deep, land brings the number to twenty- | method. { J ancSTON. EVENTS| 26 YEARS AGO | Bets are being made that less than half of the City Council of 1891, will be re-elected. A night school has been started in Queen street school. Twenty-three boys were present at the opening sessions. Dr. William Spankie concluded his lectures at the Model school to-day. ANY COMFORT IN THIS CRITICISM? New York Tribune. The German campaign in Rumania is a superb parry .of a blow that might have been fatal: it is a brutal disclosure of Allied ineptitude: but it does not win the war or affect the winning of the war. It leaves the issues to be fought out between the main combatants,and it leaves the enemies of Germany no weaker than they were on the day Rumania came in, in numbers or in resources. Rumania is another Gallipoli; it is a new graveyard of Allied hope; but on the offensive side, it is not significant than Napoleon's great campaign in Spain, that ended only at the seacoast, because the vic- order mor: | PUBLIC OPINION dle is not a military success of first \' U i | e (Montreal News) | tory Napoleon sought was not to be found at Madrid. On the other hand, | Britain discovered in the Napoleonie | instance that she had misjudged her | Spanish task, and it took; Wellington and years to accomplish its RIVER FORMED OF PURE INK | Strange Stream in Algeria~--Freaks of Nature Elsewhere. The London Tid Bits. A river of ink is formed in Algeria by the union of two streams, the wa- ter .of one being impregnated with iron, and the other, which drains a. great swamp, with gallic acid. This combination of iron and acid forms |a pure ink. All rivers of Africa seek {the ocean that is farthest away from | their source. | In Siberia rivers flow over ice, old and solid as a rock. A tributary of the Lena river has underneath the soil which forms the bed of the river a bed of pure ice over nine feet thick, | A freak of nature is the lost river in ! Kentucky. It is known as the Hid- den river, because no one knows its origin, and it vanishes into a cave, leading no gne. knows where. It flows without a ripple, and is of a pale bluish cofor. ¥ A singing well is one of the natural ¢uriosities of Texas. In fine weather a sound like that of an Aeolian harp is given out by the well. At time the sound is clear;: then it recedes, as if far away and then it reaches the ear very faintly. These changes take place every few. minutes, and with great regularity, With an east wind blowing the water in the well gets very low, and the mysterious musical sound is faint. A strong west wind causes the water to rise and the sound to increase In volume and clearness. Before a north wind the well plays its wildest pranks. The water rises nearly to the top of the and gives out wild, weird noises. | A woman is seldom satisfied when {an old dress is forced to do her a | good turn. You can't please everybody and mo man knows it better than a preacher in a small town, A preacher's life would be awfully tame if it wasn't for weddings. Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax; of Cabbages and Kings." THE SILVER DOLLAR The Silver Dollar is a once des- pised coin which now makes the currency of other countries look like a link of bologna at a six o'clock dinner. For hundreds of years the best. kind of money to do business with was the English sovereign, which was made of gold and weighed six- teen ounces to the pound. When the great war broke out, however, the English sovereign and' the French franc and the German mark and the Russian kopec began to shrink faster than the attendance at prayer-meet- ing during the dog days, while the Silver Dollar took on flesh and crowded up to the head of the table. As a result the American Dollar will buy more groceries and smoking to bacco and lima beans in foreign lands than any kind of money which has escaped the war chest. * Despite its popularity abroad the Silver Dollar is thought very little of at home. It is the clumsiest form of money we have, and when deposit- ed in the side pocket a new pair of pants will eat its way turough in a very short time. On this account, all the silver dollars coined are ship- ped west, where people are strong and rugged and cap carry them with- out becoming stoop-shouldered. In the east the graceful, free-flowing $1 bill, which can be carried in large wads and looks like real money, has made the Silver Dollar harder to find than a munition maker on a peace committee. 'The Silver Dollar can be counter- feited by anybody who has the tools and a desire to study penitentiary life at close range. It is a sickening sensation to proffer a bright, new Silver Dollar in payment for nine pounds of beet sugar and then have a cautious clerk bite into it with his front teeth and discover that it is made mostly of Wisconsin lead. In some quarters this has caused the sil- ver dollar to be looked upon with more suspicion than the stranger who sells mining stock whenever he can tear away from the church service. |Gift. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1916. (7 See Our Boys' $3.75 Suits Sizes 30 to 33. $7.50 Blue Suits L Sizes 28 to 34 Men's and Boys' Wear - To Do a Little Better is Our Constant Aim. Our Clothes Are a Badge of Quality. 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