' f WHIG. T HURSDAY, FEBR UARY 15, 1917. :;. PAGEFOUR The British Whig 84TH YEAR A A A AA A AAA Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED. rashes strates President naging Director nd Sec.-Treas. 1/ G. Elltore Leman A. Guild ... Ma Telephones: Business Office Editorial Room: Job Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) One year, delivered in city One year, if paid in advance ..... One year, by mall to rural offices 2 One year, to United States $ (Semi-Weekly Edition) ear, by mail, cash She Jan 1 ner pald in advance $1 One year, to United States $1 Six and three months pro rata, NTATIVE t. Peter St. $1.00 50 .50 MONTREAL REPRE W. Bruce Owen .. ter TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE ¥. C. Hoy, ... 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE F.R.Northrup, 225 Fifth Ave. New York F.R. Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg, Chicago Attached is one of the est job printing offices in Canada. a The elrculation of in BRITISH WHiG is authepticate y the a TC adit reau of Circulations. THE GERMANS' LAST RALLY. The country fears that it is to have inflicted upon it another great advertising and speech-making cam- paign, like that for the recruiting of the army which broke down so la- mentably in 1915. That means the spending of money unnecessarily and great waste of time. It is the old "wait and see" in the same old form. The statement that com- pulsion will be applied if volunteers do not come forward will lead many to hang back till the state can make up its mind to tell them plainly what to do, and it will involve intolerable delay. The repeated trial of the voluntary system in 1915 wasted six months, and this was one. of the causes why the campaign of 1916 did not bring peace. Germany is to- day, making an unparalleled effort, and to meet her we must have the labor now, or the campaign of 1917 will prove indecisive.--This from the London Mail reads like a Canadian experience. 18 i be PARTY PATRONAGE EVILS. Mr. Macdonald, M. P., of Pictou, has given notice of 'a resolution which he will move in the Commons when it resumes its sessions in April, He is ready, one assumes, to offer evidence in support of his contention that patronage, as 1t 1s now dis- pensed, is a menace to honest and efficient government, that it involves wastefulness, extravagance, impro- videnge, 'and, in. connection with the military service, does' great injury to the country, at a time when politics and patronage should be eliminated from the national service. The Montreal Gazette, which sup- ports the government, accepts the indictment though severe, as "not without justification." But it ap- proves of' political appointments by the government on the ground that it is résponsible and must select the men fof public service, and to order the purchases which are required for the publi use. Patronage, as an in- stitution i8, in the epinion of the Gazette, defensible, while the man- ner In which patronage is sometimes exercised may be condemned with: out reserve. 2 The criticism can be carried fur- ther, because there never was a time when politics occupied so great a place in the public eye. Even the military service is being influenced by it without any justification. The présent federal parliament has out- lived its authority; af least it is presunied to be serving the nation iz a non-political way and by con- sent of both parties. The plea pre- sented when its form was extended for a year was that a war was on, a war that menaced the future of the empire and the overseas' dominions, and that it behooved the people to act unitedly and for the accomplish- ment of one great purpose. Many, many millions of dollars have been voted for war purposes, and large sums have been directed, through Political channels, and for the bene- fit, as far as possible, of one political party. Men, not regardec as parti- sans and not usually made rebellious by what they ; have. fulminated aRainst the government and declared + T ; ) but one effect --to synchronize events that will be vividly affected and zest given to the de- 80 the masses mand that the spoils system be dropped at once or an election ordered. ot NON-VOTERS. ! The Mother Country aims at pre- 1serving alive and up-to-date election i roll which be short | notice should an appeal be made to | the people. Quite recently the fran- chise%was revised, and in two very notable ways. The women, after they have pagsed thirty or thirty-five years, will be permitted to vote in! parliamentary election, and if they! behave themselves--if they are not again misled by Emily Pankhurst and others of her kind---they will Have the age limjt redused to twenty- five. Then they will be completely happy. ., .. X The soldiers will have votes in any case, and they will be able to exercise the franchise wherever they! are, whether at home or broad. The! slackers will be denied the fran- chise. Very expressly and very in-! tentionally it has been enacted that) the man who has objections to serve his country and make sacrifices in its behalf, for any reason, will not be allowed to vote on any of the is-| suas of the day and these generally] concern the war. This means that | manhood suffrage is no longer a! drawing proposal. It had its day. It never fulfilled the expectations of) its advocates and durmg a great na-| tional crisis some of those who had votes proved themselves, by their unpatriotic action, to be wholly un- worthy of them. Taking its cue from the Mother Country Canada can very well con-| sider whether some men have not! forfeited their righ¥ to the franchise. | Those who will not bleed for the country, or even suffer fatigue in its behalf, should be deprived of the| privilege, priceless in its way, of passing upon 'the great ! questions | which will surely grow out of the war. Only those who have served the government in [ts extremity | should be given the Inestimable privilege of expresing an opinion, at the polls, upon the serious subjects of the hour. SN i iain | EDITORIAL NOTES, The farmers are. not likely to get | many retired soldiers as helpers. | Most of them have had all the dig-| ging they wanted in the trenches, | can used on Late experiences in England, re- garding recruiting, remind one of passing events in Canada. Read of them in the extract from the London Mail in an adjoining column. The military 'men, regardless of party, should keep out of polities, When a man dons the khaki and re- ceives a commission he ceases, or should cease, to be a politicign, ~ A belted knight in England assum- ed to build huts for the soldiers at cost, bug later exacted a profit which amounted to £150,000. The solici- tor-general alluded to the agreement as a deplorable one, ' Trim up your lamps.. See that you have a supply of refined coal oil on the premises, The day may come and | very soon when the gas supply of the | city will fail. The Utilities Com- mission has been simply baffled in their attenipts to secure gas oil, { | ick | The London Mail recommends that | the Germans of Britain be denatural- | ized and sent home. They cannot be! trusted anywhere. According to | German law they can be naturalized | and still serve the German empire as spies. A The war is being fought by liberals as well ds aonservatives, and the ex- penditure upon the war is being diverted through conservative chan- nlls. 1s that right? Is that the way to indicate an enthusiastic support of recruiting? X citizen says that yesterday he called on several coal dealers and did mot-get any fuel. There appeats to be plenty of coal in the city, but for 'the patrons of the toal dealers only. These dealers held that they had to look after their customers, What is there wrong about that? Gen, Maude, that is--Major Maude that was, and the terror of the news- paper men of Canada while he acted as military secretary 'to the Marquis of Lorne--is leading the hosts on the banks of the Tigris, What a change must have come over his spirit in the last thirty years, - eager for knighthood. Mr, Glad- &lone and Mr. Bright did without it in their day, and Mr, Balfour, Mr, Asquith, and Lloyd-George, have done without it so far. Canada is being overladen with titles, and they are not congenial to the soil, . : that wever in local or national his- tory have the scandals of patronage equalled those of the ay. Mr. McDonald can be depended u to drive home, with stirfing conviction, some of his charges, ang his wrrargnment of the government ger--and certainly every. government A -------------- { The present government. will not be in office forever--some think it will not be in office very much lon- official who is now acting the parti-|' san will be remembered. He ought to 'recall the commissions which were will probably be added to by the © ton- tributions of others. There can - 4 | appointed by the present government, |and some of them needless, to en- | veller, | Lomdon Mail . got to provide them, and we have he 00 Public men in England are not so| ' quire into ged pernicious a that, and we 'shall only do it if" we tivityof cert fals pr to the provide thé men and keep on h last el tion J ing. 'To stint the < n ast election otder to carry on "business al" z : +. would only mean losing the wa and A married man, who has enlisted | 1.550 the business too in the art ,'S th » 1,600 un ed BT * 15,43 do '| SUBMARINE MENACE to*don th i NOT SO BAD The Government { \ this and invite nplo) : $ | list as an example to others ronte Globe ; : | = British .naval engineers long ago | PUBLIC OPINION | Charige of Weather, (Hamilton Times) In Montreal the thermometer + has this year registered as low 0 degrees. But up at Drumheller, Sg . the mgreury took a drop down to 50 below. Drumheller - has got hold of the wrong name, In comparison Hamilton weather is geniality it self. How Can It? (Ottawa (Citizen) . How can the lesser people of law- breaking tendencies be expected to have regard for the law when the prime minister allows Mr. Rogers to degrade it, and to vilify a provincial | supreme court judge for finding! against him in a commission of in- quiry? » mt = ne Campaign Uncertain. (Tgfonto World) > While the hopes of 'the British command are high, nothing can be] more uncertain than the result of the coming campaign. Lack of prepara- | tion for further campaigning would | be felly. If we fail this year and are | unpreparedgpto carry on, we are d2- feated. Yet in-the presence of this| hazard the present government sits | easy, and-is not 'cencerned about r2- cruiting. ' KINGSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS AGO | J Jones has purchased Nos. 1 and 2 dwellings, Victoria Terrace Montreal street. H. D. Bibby has the .contract for | the city's sppply of hardware. A big gang of men are employed by the Montreal Forwarding Com- pany repairing barges. : George Smith, the well-known tra- | has left on a trip to the| Pacific coast, ri | | i . | | | 1 | | | | | | | | 1 - WAY THEY DO : THINGS IN ENGLAND An. important Order is issued by the Imperial Government, warning the tribumals from the end of this month not.to exempt 'on the ground of business" men who are thirty-one, fit for general service or garrison duty abroad, and not em- ployed in work of national import- ance, such as the manufacture of munitions or agriculture, Ho) Mr, Neville Chamberlain af Bir- mingham, stated our needs in the proper order. First, he said, "thege are the men for the Army. We have got to provide them in a'steady flow," Second, there are the men who make munitions, which includes those who win coal, grow food, and construct ships. Third, there are the men who procure money and help by trade to THE DAILY BRITISH | supplied with artillery as rapidly as | Ish naval authorities are already do-| | effectively as either commerce pro- I ships, under ' proved their ability to reduce them almost 10 impotence in the English noel and the North Sea, and there is little reason to doubt that] they will sooner or later achieve a| like resuit throughout both , thei own .and' the larger German dapger| zone, ' : British merchant ships are being| gun' emplacements, guns, and gun-| ners can be procured; and if the United States has taken or is about to take similar action, that course has begn suggested by what the Brit-| ing. The proportion of ineffective] torpedo attacks is already very| large: say, five or six to one.' This| is due to the submarine being forced | to send torpedoes through too great! a distance, because the farther off a submarine is the harder it is for a missile from her to find its mark. 1f the United States merchant vessels are also to be armed, the peril for the submarines wil be indefirffitely increased. There must now be swarming in the blockade zone thousands of Brit- ish light cruisers, destroyers, mine sweepers, and. submarines, The United States has several armed cruisers quite fast enough to serve tectors or commerce destroyers, and has a large mosquito fleet to guard its own shores or convoy merchant All this might take place without a formal declaration of war, so that almost any day the public may be told war has already begun between Germany and the United States, . - CHANGE OF GOV- ERNMENT DEMANDED ranto World The World favors national gov- ernment, because it will break the strangle-hold that the German nickel trust .and the associated armament trust has on the government at Ot- tawa and the government at Toronto, and has had for years now on leading men of both parties in this country/ It'will break the strangle-hold that the 'Nationalists of Quebec, hédded by Henri Bourassa, have had on the Conservative party. fon about eight or nine years now, and certainly have had on the Conservative govern- ment since it came into office in 1911. | It will break the strangle-hold that the Ross rifle interests have had on bath parties in this country now for many years, 2 It will break the strangle-hold that the railways have had on both polit-| ical parties in this country for some | time and once broken, national rail- ways, telegraphs, express, ete, will come into effect. | It will break the strangle-liold that | the banks and other financial inter-| ests have had on both parties in this| country for years and lead to im-| proved ¥urrency'#%8 banking. Most of all* it will \break the strangle-hold of indecision in regard | to the conduct of the war brought! about by-party bickerings and party Te i | maintain the foreign exchanges. Victory comes before business, The one vital necessity is to beat the Ger- mans; everything else is secondary to - Jealousies; and give us a war cabinet of five or six men whose sole object | will be to win the war before any-| thing else. | - ¢ *- THE EUROPEAN WAR DEBT. The Europedn war debt is a colos- sal attempt to convince oncoming generations that there are several things worse than suicide. When we step back in a calm and unbiased frame of mind and consider that a package is being prepared over in Europe for the taxpayers of the next 2,000 years, we are inclined to wonder*why the average Ameri- can kicks so lustily over the special sewer assessment. If the war hangs on for a year or two more it will cost more to live on the continent of Europe than it does to serve a res- taurant dinner with three kinds of meat for 25 cents per. The European war debt is caused largely by thé use of $24,000 worth of ammunition to 'kill one enemy. 11 over Europe today expert gun- an, are firing huge shells which cost more to produce than "| eylinder brougham, with whip-cord trimmings, without injuring anybody an - eight- Random Reels "Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." XS * | i 4 but terra firma. As these shells pro- ceed to explode immediately upon | alighting they cannot be used over again and are as much of a dead loss | as a delinquent subscription ac- count. War debts are like grocery bills which are not presented until the recipient has moved into another state... England has never paid the debt on the War of the Roses, and in order to meet the interest on her present obligations she will have to live closer than an old-time Mgthodist [| circuit rider with a family of twelve children. It will be a pleasant occu- pation to live anywhere in Europe after the war isiover and have the tax collector lead the family cow home as vollateral. . One of the privileges of the free- born American citizen is the right to kick, but how any American who sees what is being shaped up for the common people of Europe cat com- plain of his lot is a greater mystery than the findings of a petit jury. { | i i - Rippling Rhymes THE SLUGGARD I heard the sluggard say, when he was young -~ LLC Fever Thermometer ~ We Issue a Guarantee A ¢ | Bibbys MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR STORE. WE MEET OR BEAT ALL 7 3 SEE BIBBYS BOYS' SUITS ~ FOR $3.75. English tweeds and worsteds ¥ Sizes 29 fo 33. 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