KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUES DAY, Ottawa Glimpses BY H. F. GADSBY Ottawa, April 10.--The rumour is about that the Hearst Government will go to the country very soon. People who have been keeping tab on the Hearst Government gay 'that it ever a Government merited defeat, it Is the present outfit in Queen's Park, Toronto, There are only two things the Hearst Government does well--taxing the people and spending their money . . "A prime sample of their taxing ability is the war tax of one mill on the dollar, which was imposed on every ratepayer in the Province of Ontario. It's all cream for ' the Hearst Government, because the tax is collected through the municipalt- ties and doesn't cost the Queen's Park crowd a cent, The only reason they could possibly give for the tax was that they taxed while the taxing was good. It was an act of sheer wantonness, and what the Hearst Government was wantin' 'was the money, The tax netted in 1915, two mik lion dollars--for 1916, another two , million, and this year, another two million. Six millions easy money filohed from the peoplé in three years. Filched, moreover, on the falsest preféfices~--that ft was to be spent on the war , As a matter of fact, perhaps two millions have been spent on hospitals, machine guns and such, and the other four millions have been, or will be diverted to other purposes wiping out, deficits and stopping leaks in various branch- es of the public service, There is reason to believe that Provinefal Treasurer MoGarry's alleged surplus is derived from this source. If he hag a surplus, ho ought to be asham- HAD BRONCHITIS FOR YEARS Bronchitis comes from a neglected cold and it, if neglected, will surely turn into pneumonia. The - first symptom 'is a short, painful, dry cough, accompanied with rapid wheezing and a feeling of oppression or tightness through the chest. The phlegm raised from thie bron chial tubes is at first of a light color but us the disease progresses it be- comes of a yallowish or greenish col- or and is very often hard to raise. Dr. Wood's Norway is just the remedy you require as it loosens the phlegm and heals the lungs and bronchial tubes. Mrs. Chas Brean, Amherst, N.S., writes: "I was troubled for years --with- fs, and could not find any relief. I was especially bad on a damp day. 1 went to a druggist and asked him for something to stop 'the constant tickling in throat, He gave me a bottle of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, which I' found gave me instant relief. I think it is the best medicine for bronchitis I know of. I now take care that I always have a bottle on hand. "Dr. Wood's" is the genuine, put up in a yellow wrapper, three pine trees the trade mark, price 26c and 60e. Manufactured for the past 25 years by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, To- ronto, Ont. : ' ed of it. He has squeezed it out of an over-taxed people' A 'Conservative Government has been in power in Ontario for twelve Years now. It is, therefore, rotten ripe for a change, {It saw its best | days under Sir James Whitney, with | whose sympathy and encouragenient, Sir Adam Beck was able to put through his great public' ownership enterprise, the Hydro Electric. But Sir James Whitney died and took his honesty and 'courage with him, and, after that, Eir Adam had to| fight a loan hand. His colleagues | did not love the people as Sir Adam | did, and never failed to put a crimp | in the Hydro Electric when the] chance offered. "What's more, they | told their Tory friends in Ottawa to| do -likewise; so that whenever Sir Adam put in an appearance there he found the Bordem Government as frosty as a step-mother's breath. | The hostility. of the Railway Com-| mittee, the Ipw"s delays, postponed or Juggled appropriations, have all been orked by the Hearst Government to keep Sir Adam down and the mono- polist corporations up. And now that | Mr. Hanna has practically retired to the great affluence of the Standard Oil Co., and has taken his-brams with] him the Hearst Government's work has become very coarse indeed.' It shows no delicacy whatever. While the Hearst Government was itabbing" public owmership in the back, and squeezing a 'superfluous six million dollars in taxes out of a long suffering pedple, it was letting the Nickel Trust off with a paltry $40,000 a year. The Hearst Govern- ment has been doing that for four years, and the Whitney Government was doing it for eight years before that. The other day; largely. through the brilliant efforts of N. W. Rowell and Hartley Dewart, a tax of five per cent. on mine output up to $5,- 000,000 and of one per.cent. for each additional five millions, was imposed by the Hearst Government. This is the regular course of events--it was so with prohibition and wo- men suffrage, and it is equally so with nickel Leader Rowell propos- es, Premier Hearst disposes, and, if it in a case of taxes on a wealthy cor- poration, imposes, when it is no longer possible to get out of it. Under the new tax, the Nickel Trust will pay the Hearst Govern- ment one million dollars a. year, in- stebd of the $40,000 it has been get- ting off with. As the tax is retro- active to 1915, the Nickel Trust will hand over three million dollars to the Hearst Government during the current year. In a word, Ontario's losses are compounded at that sum. If the Nickel Trust paid at the same rate for the twelve years that the Conservative Government has been winking the other eye, it would en- rich the Provincial Treasury by twelve million dollars instead of three million dollars. The Nickel Trust pants with three million dol- lars and save w'ne million. One doesn't know just how many ways that niné millions is 'split, but a good part of it, no doubt, gets back to the Nickel Trust. One way and another, the Nickel Trust ought te be able to pay the tax. Hs profits are sixteen million dollars a year. Only the other day Questions in the Legislature disclos- The Churches and Social Needs By J. 5 WORDSWORTH, Director, Bureau of ,/ Social Research Three anitoba, Saskatchewan an £m HANGED socisl conditions in Canada erogenieous, trial and urban. Under modern conditions even the country demands co-operative elfort. The farmers are realizing this and have organized extensive fnancial and social co-operative enterprises. The educationalists are beginning to realize it and to estabi'sh consolidat- ed schodls. of 5 i g itil SRF. iret : g It w '| bake het r own bread, came dow tree NAPOLEON: ll ttre T v "Why don't ed the fact that during the last three years, some thirteen hundred acres Nickel Trugt at $: less. The Nickle Trust's na are enormously increased clandestine transaction. The (Nickel Trust néveér seems to get enough. It in strong- with two governments--the Hearst Gov- ernment and the Borden Government. The Hon. Frank Cochrane is the Nickel Trust's active friend at Ot- tawa, just as he was in Queen's Park, When the Hon. Frank, like Enoch, was translated higher up he left a nickel-plated Premier behind him in the shape of Wm. Hearst, now Sir William, a little country lawyer, who doesn't call his soul his own. - It's Frank Cochrane who wil explain the new tax to the Nickel Trust. He is the strong arm man. Hearst is only his putty substitute. Ccafident that its friends in Ot tawa and Toronto would®stay put, the Nickel Trust did not even have the decency to stop sending nickel to the Germgas. while the war was on, The Deutechland was the last enemy boat to take a cargo over. The Bord- en Government and the Hearst Gov- ernment may be satisfied with the window dressing the Nickel Trust did when the Borden Government's agent made a gentlemanly inspection of the books, but the people of Ontario are Hot. Too much of our good Sudbury nickel is coming back to us in our soldier -boy$' bodies to let the Nickel Trust get away with it much longer, The Government which took six extra millions in taxes out of the un- fortunate people and dened itself twelve millions from the Nickel Trust was meanwhile spending a million dollars - on ' a Government House, which had to have.thousand dollar rugs and furniture on a similar scale to k it in countenance. The Hearst Government takes a lot of money from the people, but it certa'n- ly spends it free. A drunken sailor could not do it freer. True to form, the Hearst Govern- ment-réfused to support J. C. Elliott's motion to investigate the combines in Ontario, which are so shamelessly exploiting food prices. If the Hearst Government went looking for food combines, it would find them, and that is the last thing the Hearst Gov- ernment. wants to do. It doesn't want to discover its pork-packing and cold storage friends who are boost- ing the price of every necessary of life any more than the Borden Gov- ernment does. - In this matter the two governments work-tegether, The Borden Government cannot hurt the food kings who put it in office: in 1911, so it staves things off by ap- pointing Commissions whose duty it is to report as tardily as possible. When this ruse wears thin, the Bor- den Government suggests a meth whereby, if a private citizen wil start' proceedings, . the municipal council may get permission from the ial Government to take «the thing up and report results to the Ottawa Government, which may take action if. deemed advisable. ot course the investigation gets lost in the wilderness. That is the Borden Government's way of handling the high. cost of living-- diplomacy. The Hearst Government refuses outright. only when people began to that bread n. It was only when penile denied . themgselves potatoes, at took a tumble. The Borden Ei Jp a NES nary powers er e ar Measures' Act, has never lifted a fing- food prices, which are higher In this land of peace and : they are in war-stricken e.. We are even afraidito men- 8 an article of diet for fear forestalling friends of the an_ acre or natural resources by this tion the food NA mr ime - of valuable nickel lands passed to the! APRIL "10, 1917 A VOICE FROM THE PAST. ou ston before yar have.to?-- Vv Borden Government will beat us to it. So far as the Bordan Government is concerned, iis policy from the start of the war has been "All our friends must get rich out of this, After that we're willing to quit." . As the war may last another year, the Borden Government«will ask for another year's extensions It ddes not wish to Teave office go long as its friends can shake the! people down for another dollar. THis means that the Borden Government doesn't want to go out until the ppofiteers have sucked the otange. Wien the war is over, the Borden Goverrment will be glad to leave the empty rind to the Liberals to see if they can put the substance back again. * GERMANS GOT DIRECT HIT ON A GUN--FRED|{D. WELSH TELLS THE TALE 2. ---------- ro le oir " He Was Badly Burned and Shocked ~--Was in Several Hospitals--Able Last Month to Return to Duty. the following letter from Fred D. Welsh, formerly of "Wolfe Island, who is his brother-in-law, and who Is with the Engineers in the British | Expeditionary Foree"in France. "I have been having rather a bad time and I think I haye been in half the hospitals in France, I am now at the Canadian Base, arrived yes- terday, and am liable to return to my unit at any time. I am going to take a chance on this letter. going through may have a glight idea of the things We are up against. "I was working on a Stokes gun emplacement, that/is I was in ¢harge of work and the Freach mortar bat- tery was supplying me with men to do the work. We had finished the emplacement, had gun in position and working some weeks and were then at work on a deep dugout for the gun crew. We had finished a dugout, with a tunnel leading down from the gun and another leading from the opposite corner of the dug- out into a trench about thirty feet away from the tunnel leading from the trench into the gun. The reason for this was that if a shell came close enough to fill one tunnel, the crew would still have an. e¢utlot. This work was all done without the surface of the ground being dis- tyrbed, as it was within 200 yards of the German line, We dug down until there was twenty-five feet of solid 'chalk overheard. Th chalk is very much like limestone only softer. Dugout and tunnels were timbered up like a mine as we went along . All material excavated was put in sand bags, hauled to the top and put in a trengh where at night a crew took them and emptied them into neawby shell holes and covered with earth. "We had everything nearly finish- ed when Pritz got a direct hit on the gun. We found only bits of the gun and.gunner and the explosion put off ninety rounds of Stokes bombs, 1 had sent my working party out to --HS F, GADSBY. _| Captain Van Dresar just received | and give you a few details so you | New York Tribune. SECOND SECTION a THE STANDARD BANK HEAD OFFICE - TORONTO Money Orders and Drafts are issued" by this Bank payable in i "ri ' all parts of the world. KINGSTON BRANCH, ' 34 J. M. Sutherland, Manager. a, A SAO Ata " Security First" EXCELSIOR since || FE conan | INSURANCE If you secure an Excelsior Policy vou will get an Head Office: Lp-Lo-date , contract, Pédmphlets on réquest Toronto, Can. HIRAM A. COOK, Distrier Agent, Kiugwton, gE » Ec ------------ ----rarl { FOR TAXI SER- VICE, RING 960 mn I was all in, @s I. had lost a lot of blood, so they took us all to a dress- tug station and fixed us up, 1 then walked down to. my 'own lines and | reported and went to bed. | Could talk by bed time but was very deaf for three weeks, I fried to] | 8€t out of going to the hospital but | | was nearly crazy with shock and had | to go next dy. I have been hanging | Around ever since, about six weeks now, and am still suffering from { shock but the doctors say I am fit [80 up I go again at the first oppor- | tunity. | "I write this so you will know] | what we go through in our daily | routine in case I do not come back. I still have hopes of coming back, | but if I don't return it will be noth- ing unusual, and you can feel that 1 have done my part well. I am very { thankful that my nerves have stood up as well as they have. The Lord has been good to me and I shall noj forget." . . A later note added said he went up-the line the next day, March 8th. FINANCIAL MATTERS Consolidated Rubber Company's Profits Were $827,580, Toronto April 9.--The* annual | statement of the Canadian Consoli- dated Rubber Co., presented at the annual meeting shows net profits, after providing for bond interest and war tax, of $827,580 as compared with '$534,978, a year ago, an increase of $292,602. These are the equivalent of 29.49 per cent. on the common stock, as compared with 18.99 per cent. last year, Fort William Plant. Fort William, April 9.--At a coun-| cil meeting, Mayor Murphy afmounc- ed that the local plant of the Can- adian Car & Foundry Co.; would be- | gin operations again this spring. { The plant can be completed in 90 { days and partially operated 'as sooh as the material can be obtained. The Car & Foundry Company will start operating with 5,000 cars, Awarded Contraét, Port Arthur, April 9.--J. FP. Hew- | itson has been awarded the comtract for the construction of buildings for the Port Arthur Pulp and Paper Company plant here to the extent of. $350,000. New Member Elected. 'Montreal, April 9.--Charles M. Black was elected a member of the Montreal Stock Exchange, Mr. Black Is a son of W, A, Black, vice president and genera! manager of the Ogilvie Flour Mills, Limited. He is joining the firm of Greenshields Co, : | : Toronto R. Earnings. Toronto, April 9 --Toronto Street Rallway gross earnings for March were $531,080.42 as compared with $618,635.63 last year, an increase of $12,544.77. The city's percentage is $105,875. Total receipts for the last three months are $1,514,317 com- pared with $1,463,047 for the same period last year. Cars. £ Kingston Taxi-Cab CHEMICALLY SELF-EXTINGUISHING 'What do these words mean to you? They mean greater safety in the Home -- Surely something that interests yon keenly! Perhaps you have noticed these words and the notatio *No fire left when blown out" on our new "Silent Parlor" match boxes. The Splits or sticks of all matches contained in these bgxes have been impregnated or soaked in a ch solution which renders them dead wood once they have been lighted and blown out, and the danger of FIRE from glowing matches 1s hereby reduced to the greatest minimum, SAFETY FIRST AND ALWAYS -- USE EDDY'S SILENT 500s We desire to announce to automobile owners that we have installed the most up- to-date vulcanizing plant between Toronto and Montreal. : s ITS OPERATION We have engaged Mr. Frank Pearson, who is well known to eve automobile owner of kn ton, as an ie tire and repair man, to operate this plant. Mr, Pear- son has Just returned from Toronto) where he was in the employ of the Dunlop Tire ompany in their repair department. By GUARANTEED Any work we undertake to do wil be guaranteed absolutely. If we cannot guar-. antee a satisfactory job we will not under ¥