a PAGE FOUR S4ATH. YEAR. TERE ILE i. f A EAN by Published rt and Semi-Weekly e THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHIN CO. LIMITED. President wlid *... Managing Director and Sec.-Treas. JON RATES Getta) e year, deliver in city .. ons Jour, if padd in advance . . One year, by mail to rural offices One year, to United States .... One yout Bi mall fash ear, mal . One So if not pald in advance One year, to United States Six and. three months pro rata, EAL REPRESENTATIVE rn 123 St. Peter St TORONTO REPRES F. C. Hoy, ... 1006 Traders Mg UNITED STATES RKREPRESENTATI a: FR.Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave, New Yor F.R.Northrup, 1610 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. .§6.00 5.0 2.50 .60 . The circulation of THE RRITISH WHIG Is suthenticated by the Audit Bureau of Circalations. PEBTS OF HONOR. It is not pleasant to léarn that some fifty subscribers to the local Patriotic fund in 1914 have not yet paid their subscriptions and that it may be necessary to prosecute them in the division court to compel pay- ment, It's a pretty mean man who puts his name down for a good round sum of money to a popular cause in order to gain credit for himself, and then refuses to pay up, --Hamilton Herald. Yes he is not kindly regarded, and he does not deserve the protec- tion which he usually receives He is published as a philanthropist and a patriot; but not as one who fails to pay his debts of honor. * The Whig has in its mind's eye one who subscribed to every cause which com- manded the public support. He never promised less than $560 and never paid a cent. He ignored the dung and defied the threats of the collectors. He esteemed them as troublers and pests, and until this day he has escaped exposure. The Patriotic. Committee of Hamilton is not the only one that has had its trials of faith, There were so many applicants for marriage licenses in the larger cities of the United States during the few days following the declaration of war that they could not all be made out, What is the cause of all this commotion? FAVORED HYGIENIC UNIONS, The teachers of Ontario have not been satisfied to discuss ordinary subjects at the Educational Conven- tion which has just been held in To- - ronto. They listened attentively to the declarations of Drs. Clark and Conboy with regard to the danger of herding the sound children with the childreh of feeble minds, and they "| their way. the near future, in June or Jaly. When it takes place it is provided, by an act, that the soldiers who re- present the province in the war shall have the right to nominate and elect three of their number for skats in the legislature. The idea is to honor in this way the mén who have offered their "services to their King and country. No ope saw any impropriety in the proceding for a time. But after the legislature had been prorogued, or dissolved, a conservative and a parti- san, of course, discovered that the soldiers were being discriminated against, that they would not be pro- perly represented in the house, dur- ing their absence, while the foreign- ers, (the Austrians and Germans, Who. are 'strong in the province), would be over-represented. The cure for this alleged evil was that the federal government should be asked te disfranchise all these foreigners, and most of them have been natural ize nd residents of the country for od ree They have been identi- fied with its institutions, and some of them have sons in Franee; mem- bers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and fighting against the forces of the Central Powers. Clearly there is an attempt to cre- ate a racial war in Canada, in the interests of the Borden Government. The feud will be experienced if the emissaries of that government have But will the government play into their hands and attempt that which is so clearly against com- mon sense and prudence, the dis- franchisement of all these naturaliz- ed subjects? We trow not. It is a desperate game, projected by despér- ate men, and it may be that in the proposal, whatever becomes of it, they may get more-than they want. The plan of taxing excess profits will be revised 'by the Canadian par- llament. . The new tax will bring in many thousands of dollars more in the year. It may be more successful. It ought to be. Under the old plan some war profiteers were scarcely touched. --ai-------- THE CRISIS IS ON. The Canadian forces are repeat- ing at Vimy ridge the feats of their comrades in the Ypres salient, and under conditions which command our- highest admiration. Men who have not yet enlisted, who have withstood thus far the appeals of their fellows, some of them returned from the front, bearing upon their persons the smoke of battle, cannot read the story of Canadian chivalry and Canadian: conquests and be un- moved. Under - General Byng the Canadians had proven that they pos- sessed the imitiative. With Cource- lette and, Martinpuich in front of them, they chafed under the re- straint. They were like other dogs of war, tugging at their leashes, un- [til General Halg gave his consent for their release. Then they made a re- cord for themselves. o Again, with Arras behind and Les before, they are surpassing all previous scores. Their accomplish- ments thrill the heart of the reader, and, in the language of Frederick Palmer, caused the little joy bells in the head to ring. Of course, there are casualties. must now speak in order to arouse afresh the interest of the Red Cross workers. The Red Cross Society has succeeded beyond all expecta- tions because its leaders have been {impelled by high and patriotic mo- tives. They have had a vision of the Theld, of the s.ldiers fn action, of the falling~heroes, and'doctors and rur- ses and ambulance bearers at work, ! picking up snd caring for the wound- ~~ assented to the belief that a clog was. ed, aided by the supplies that help of the A being put upon the sound pupils by the pr of the feeble-minded in their classes, In the public school section of the convention the teach- ers put themselves on record as In favor of a law which would prevent marriages until the contracting par- ties had supplied the evidence that they were physically and mentally fit. American school authorities have gone quite as far in discussing this subject academically. The Cana- dians have been slow in giving ex- 'presions to opinion and showing how deep searching had been their investigations, The teachers cannot " . accomplish much by one simple and * direct declaration. Are they in ad- vance of their fellows? They have before them every week the proof in to action." The proposed law may not | be enacted for some time. But it must come eventually, and the soon-|. © er the better, now that the war has deprived the country of its better men, physically, and the race must not be allowed to degenerate through laxity in the marriage' customs, ---------- ina. 80 much to assauge the pain and save ithe life of disabled soldiers The Red Cross leaders "work on, | tirelessly, because tley know the service is required of them. Some of their followers may not be as keen as they were in their pursuits. They have not lost in in the war. They are not obli to its demands. They have simply lost the vision they had. When it is revived, as it must be, when they read of what Canada is doilig for herself and the cause she espouses, they will rally again and put new zest into the ry Sir Sam Hughes declines the calls to service in the war, and ' «+ THE DAILY BRITIS S-- | Le The British Whig 1t|as the whole amount of taxes (apart| Sm thewan there is to be an election in'That is the question of the day looks as if, without compulsion of some kind, it will be a long time be fore President Wilson can review the tivet million men which he calls to} the colors. i In England a lad of five years has | been called to-the colors, in a mis-| take of course, and great fun has| been miade thereat... Is this any fun-| nier than the notices the Kingston used to send out, many| yedrs ago, and to the effect that their | names were to be stricken off the | voters' list because they were dead. The English papers announce that | Sir Robert Borden has*arranged to| remain in England for --some time | yet, or to the end of the Imperial, Conference meetings. And the Yor perial Conference has not yet hardly | started upon its work. So the Can- adian parliament, when it meets on | the 19th, will have to get along with-| out the premiier. i Billy 'Sunday takes a fling at the] men who are rushing to get married | in the United States in order tol dodge, as he supposes, conscription. | Such fellows, says Billy, are slack- ers, and they come mighty close to] being traitors. "It's a disgrace," says Sunday, "when there are more applications at the marriage license bureaus than there are at the recruit- ing stations." - IKINCSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS ACO from local improvements) levied in city of} 4 i | a Market Clerk McCammon today drove a farmer with unwholesome veal, off the. market today, A. McMahon rode from Belleville to Kingston and returned today, on a bicycle, George Sexton and William Gil- our were nominated for the vacant councillorship ¢f Portsmouth It is of these one| | PUBLIC OPINION | Champion Pessimist. (Syracuse Post-Standard) Dr. Alexis Carrel is our champion pessimist. He looks for forty-seven years more of war, Voting Millions. (Canadian Courier) Congress voted Daniels $300,000,- 000 last year and $368,000,000 in March, 1917, for a bigger and better navy. Change of Tactics. (Toronto Globe) The farmers will be agreeably sur- prised by getting labor from the cit- ies this year. In the past they have got only advice. Pays. to be Funny. (Brantford Courier) 'Charlie Chaplin has some $200,- 000 invested in the various Empire war loans. All of which goes to show that it pays to make people laugh. - Toronto's Huge Debt. (Toronto Star) This year Toronto will"pay $4,848, 521 in interest on the city debt and $4,475,607 in sinking fund. The huge total' of $9,324,128 in debt charges amounts to 16 mills on the dollar of assessment. The interest charges this year also almost as large 1914. Poor Time to Shirk. (Exchange) Three thousand fishermen on strike on the New England coast is an un- {| fortunate development when food production is essemtial. It is a pity that fishing has become an organized industry. TO THE PARTY LEADERS AT OTTAWA . St. Catharines Standard, Con. The war is not gver--it is not nearly over. According to Sir Wil- liam Robertson and Mr. Winston Churchill, we are at the most critical stage of the war since it began. That Canada has done well admits of no question. ly, 'but there are conditions in thel} country to-day that would have been better had there been more unity at Ottawa---had there been a coalition or a national Government, which would have had before it only the |i! best way fo further Canada's part in the cause of and civilization which and our Dominion have espoused, |} rather than thinking of what the fut- ure would have in store for them as|i} political parties.. There is as much need to together at Ottawa as at any time since the war began. been a good thing for the country} then. It would be a good thing for the country and Empire to-day. There have been people who at dif-|Ji ferent times during the war have|ll} late to form ai} said that it is too coalition or a national Government; that it should have been done in the beginning. This is very true, but it is never too late to get together. the way to-day than there were a year or two years ago, but we have [J I had the experiemce-of two years orl} more to show the unwisdom of carry- ing on Govérnment by party at a time .¢f national crisis such as we have 'been passing through. CANADIANS AND LAST WON HONORS " Syracuse Post-Btandard. America's congratulations and felicitations to her neighbor and ally. [} It was the privilege and the glory of the Canadians to capture Vimy ridge, where at least 100,000 lives have been lost in battle, In the last offensive it was taken by the French and later recaptured in fighting as desperate and costly as Verdun itself has witnessed. Now progress is eas- ier. . The British and Canadians af- ter two years of training are now superior in morale to-the Germans with their forty years' of disciplined preparation, There is no strategic retirement in the German operations about Arras. They are being driven from intrench- ed positions by superiority in artil- lery and in men . The British have come slowly to an equality in muni- tions, men and morale with their enemy but they have reached and passed them at last, in all three. The French have borne gloriously their burden, The British, slower in getting ready but never slacking their full duty, are now going forward with Gallic gallantry and British stubbornness. And the Canadians are as ever carrying théir full share of the load, ! -- 2 That unruly member, the tongue, is a fight promoter. Random Reels "Of Shoes and Shipe and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings" THE REACTIONARY The reactionary is a person who throws in the reverse lever and thinks he is in high gear. Whenever the chariot of civiliza- tion has tried to progress a few feet, it has always found the block- ed up by the reactionary with his chest thrown out and his mind re- volving slowly in the opposite direc- tion. When Fulton discovered the steamboat, the reactionaries of his day stood on the shore and said it was lucky the current was so strong. When Morse invented the telegraph the rea: tionaries in congress sald he had compound lunacy of the cere- bellum and should be put in a padded cell until his reason could sit straight up: - When Mergenthaler invented the linotype, the reactionaries of union labor fought its introduction until they found that it resulted 'in shorter hours, higher wages, and the gradual but pleasing abolition of the thoroughly saturated tramp printer. . One of the worst which modern left leg of up with is the member of the legisla- |= ture who wants good roads without paying anything for them. Nature has done a great many wonderful things, such as producing the two- headed calf and the odorless onion, but she never made a dirt road that could be travelled at ail times of the year without a pair of stilts. No state in the Union-ever built a hard- surfaced 'road two miles long with- out having to ride over tlie prostrate forms of a few reactionaries who wanted to economize in everything except salaries and per diem. There are reactionaries in the church, too, and they usually think that the pastor can '86 cents a H WHIG, MONDAY, 1 pin dot, Canada has done splendid- {J} 14 liberty, righteousness 1 our Empire ii} ay for the leaders getting |J}i It would have J} | i | COATS There may be greater difficulties in |i} APRIL 16, 1917. 1 1 . OVERCOATS Pinch back style, plain greys," plain blues, fancy AT $6.75 Dark grey, small pattern, two-way collar. "Sizes 34 to 46. : SEE. BIBBYS $10.00 RAIN- COATS English Parametta dou- ble texture, two-way collar. Sizes 34 to 46. grey mixtures, fancy brown mixtures. Sizes 33 to 39. Special values, $15.00. SUITS ~ Fabrics are neat grey cheviots. Cut in the popular three-button good SEE BIBBYS $15.00 RAIN- | sack: style, good making. Sizes 34 to 46. Special value. English Tweeds, Covert - a ee Ji 5 sn SE wr = E SER = A eee rE a BB TIRES RETREADED ALL SIZES AND MAKES / _ CALL AND SEE SAMPLEOF WORK __/ ubes Repaired from ~ 25¢ Up. | ~ = Auto Tire and Vulcanizing Co. oy peck for lay up money on the sa mg drew {n 1910. The lodge ri is one who doesn't want any more members of his own family. In short, the re- actions is a millstone around the progress, but