gp "time ago. One deputation was com- The British Whig 84TH. YEAR. Published and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING : CO, LIMITED. Ellto ras assess e Re President A A Guiid ces Managing Director : and Sec.-Treas. 292 milltons - of dollars to the western|jt against SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) One year, delivered In sity . 8.99 OAT, pasd Vv © . one 7 : bn rural offices 33 year, to United States : Das (Beri- Weekly Edition) gas JS30 Fat paid-in eur, | One Year, 10 Dnited States x and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R. Bruce Owen 123 St. Peter St. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE ¥. C. Hoy, ... 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIV E: F.R.Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave, New York F.R.Northrup, 1610 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago ttached is one of the best job ning offices in Canada. The drcutation of THE BRITISH WHIG Is suthen te 0 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SOLDIERS AND THEIR REWARDS The conditions in oronto, the riotous diversions there of the mili- tary, representining the returned and invallded soldiery, violently pro- testing against the manner in which they say they have been diserimin- ated against, emphasizes, as nothing has so far done, the inefficiency of the federal government. Insofar as these soldiers are concerned very little has been anticipated. Too much his been left to luck, and the men who suffered for their country ok the indifference of the y any longer. It may plead that it is doing all that it can to meet the emergency of the hour. "What we would like to have," ~gald Col. Oshorne, to the Globe, speaking of the troubles, "is a com- plete registration system of all re- turned 'men so that we will kndw who we have, what they can do, and how they are employe¢d. Then we can get the co-operation of the em- ployers of labor, and when there are positions to be filled returned men will fillsthem if possible. To the re- turned soldier is due absolute jus- tice, and more than that, but we do not want them to act in a way that will set the public against them." There is justification for the em- phatic protest, but nots for the vio- fonce, of the soldiers. They do not find the sympathy they expect from all the employers. Returned sol- diers do not fill the places to which they are assigned, and sometimes they allege they aré replaced with some of the slackers, or some of the foreigners, who are willing to accept of a lower wage. This angers them, and it should not. "'But," says a eritie, "put yourself in the place of one of these soldiers, and you will feel perhaps as he does." The misfortune is that, under the circumstances, there is no aggressive or systematie effort to provide work for the returned soldiers. Those who have profited, as some men have, who have been getting rich out of the business the war has occasioned, should be requested to show the fighting men more consideration; and it is up to the government, which dispenses its patronage among the party followers so lavishly, to see] that this<s done. The disturbances in Toronto are not desjrable. Yet they may be repeated in other mili- tary centges. Inoffensive foreigners cannot, of course, be driven out of the land, but they can be made to report their occupations, and they should see the impropriety of bidding against the labour of the soldier and so depriv- ing him of his opportunity to Hve:| He has earned this favor. : ---------------------------- Is Kipling's vision failing? His latest poem, "The Choice," is declar- ed by the New York World to be ab- solutely without inspiration. Many will regret this very much. : ------------ APPEASING THE VOTERS Two deputations toured the west |' since the Commons adjourned some posed of Messrs. McDonald and Gra- continent and met political allies at ) their wheat, and would disown ana! defeat any party that 'denied them | this concelgjon. | Marvel of marvels the thing that wag denied 'several times by thé government as practically impgssible | has come to pass. As an. alleged war measure, and becausé the Unit- had joined the Allies in the war, the reciprocity feature of the American tariff has been acted upon, and for the present the far-| mers will enjoy any advantage there | is--and it is said to be very great -- 1 in freely selling their wheat to the American millers... The tax of 10¢ per bushel on wheat was a serious | hamdicap on Canadian trade, The war is a current cause pniany somersaults on the part of the The plea is that the tax | | ed States for government, on wheat will be waived during the! war, and this suggests it is only a| temporary expédient® But it is safe | to say that the tax, however essen- tial it may be to the milling and transportation companies, as the minister of finance alleged in 191 will not be retmposed, and it means | grain growers, If anything were necessary to assure one that an elec-" tion is near this "truckling to the Yankees', as the original'reciprocity treaty was termed, supplies it. The 0 government has simply swallowed its | opinions and would, if it were pos-| sible, swallow itself in order to ap-| pease the western votors at the pre-\ sent time. | i On the other side the National Service Commission is protecting the| farm labor.to some extent. The Com-| mission regards the production of | food to be quite as important as the production of munitions. A BAR TO TRADE. that he will not be able, after May 1st, to cross the line and travel, in any direction, >in the United States, with the same freedom and ease which he formerly enjoyed. There are laws, recent enactments of Con- gress, which will stop one at the frontier. It may be that a well- known individual may get access' to American territory without trouble, but if he is not a man of standing he, will have to pay a head tax of $8, which of course he can recovei on his return to Canada. intended to' debar from the United States the undesirables of every na- tion and climé. There are certain things {he immigrant must know. He must, for instance, be able to read and write. He must be able to dis- cern readily the faws of which he should be obediénf. For examina- tion purpoees any steamboat or ferry company which carries passengers to Ametican parts, must provide ample accommodation on which these pas- sengers may be examinedin the pre- scribed tests and pay the mecessary head taxes. ys The effect of these laws, unless modified, will be to close the steam- 'boat connection between Kingston and Cape Vincent. The Canada Steamehips, Ltd., will' not erect the buildings which the law calls for at Cape Vincent, and all trade and communication via this point will be discontinued, The matter is of, suf- ficient importance that the Board of Trade lias addressed a letter to the government at Ottawa. It may know about the legal encumbrances re- ferred to, and it may not. In any case ropresentations must be made to the Washington government in the interest of business relationships which should not, under any circum- stances, be discontinued. The egg offer, of a setting of eggs at 25¢ per setting, to school children was meant for the pupils of the county schools. The school children of the city are ifiterested in the mat- ter, and want to be served with eggs on the same terms, The Department of Agricylture in this county will be requested to take the matter up with the Department of Ontario. MONEY THEIR QOD. Rev. Dr. Jowlett leaves the Pres- byterian Church on 'Eifth Avenue, New York, with which Ie has been identified for some years, in order to accept the pulpit of the City Temple, London, which the famous Rev. R. |a thousand ships, {or intern the foreigners who are dis-| The average citizen does not know hens. There is the further test which is EDITORIAL NOTES, | The American Armada, made up of | calls for 150,000 The first vessel must] All| shipbuifders. bé off thé stocks in six months be in the water in When Uncle Sam of them must eighteen mont kes he can hustle o---------------------- The boom in city gardening is due to the help given by the city com-; mittee in plowing up and preparing | the land. The chairman of the Agri-| cultural Committee, Ald. Wright, is able to'attend to very little outside of this particular movement. The United States government has been forced to put detectives at work to ferret out and suppress, in order posed to act disloyally It is thus war. | So the conservative government is| fn favor of reciprocity. It .makes| wheat free to the United States. | Some one has been feeling the pulse of the farmers in the west and finds the government. i surrender or concession | had to be made. k | i The Ontario government' is putting a tractor into every county, and one| capable of making- either three or] four furrows at a time. The machine will do a lot of work | well, Similar machines are working in England, even durifig the night, and with the aid of artificial light. KINGSTON EVENTS 26 YEARS ACO | & " | John Macdonald, secrecary of the |school board, owns two . valuable They are English silver dork- ings, and laid sixteen eggs in eight days. They rested a dag and laid |sixteen mere eggs in the eight fol- {lowing days. . | Ald. "Billy" Carson will have a {gong placed in his house so he can lattend all fires, | fire department is not efficient. C. H. Corbett has been elected an honorary member of the Ottawa Bench Club. The erection {church at menced next month. of a new Catholic OUR FLAGS: WHY NOT DISPLAY THEM? Montreal Star. Where are the flags? Canada awoke on Monday morn- ing to find that her sons had led the van in the greatest victory of British arms on the Western front since the war began. Today the nafme "Canada" is on the lips of the whole world, London is ringing with praise of the Cana- dian troops, in New York they are saying that our boys overseas have had the opportunity tor write the of Europe, and their imprint will be remembered. The Canadian flag flies high throughout all the world today. ' Eyerywhere, that is, save in Mon- treal. In this, the metropolitan city of Canada, represented on the bloody slopes of Vimy Ridge by so many { miration. Some | as he believes the Portsmouth will be com-4 name of Canada upon the war map| gallant sons, the Canadian flag is scarcely seen, Every flagpole in this | city should today be bearing the em- blem which, elsewhere, men are sal- uting with a new respect and ad- Surely now, if ever, is a fitting time for this small tribute to the achievements of our sons, surasly we can show our pride in them and {in our country by the display of our country's flag. . Where are the flags. GERMANY'S INDUS- TRIAL SUPREMACY Sir Clifford Sifton at Conservation meeting, The possession of Alsace and hor- raines~with their rich mineral resour- ces, enabled Germany to challenge world supremacy in the iron and steel trade. The further loss of her |doing what the government of Bri {industrial and mining districts in the itain was forded to do early«in tlie|early stagés of the war bas sorely em- barrassed our noble ally France. It | was not for' nothing that the Ger- man army retreating from Paris planted its lines where then enclose within German control the great pro- ducing industries of northern France. A practical apprecidtion of what really constitutes national power and really places. a country in a position to resist eficroachment has been the key to German. strength and resist- ing power. It has been no accidefit |of circumstance, but the result of logical thought. Beyond all doubt, in this development of economic thought Germany has been a gener- ation in advance of the rest of the world. supreme in the complete utilization of her resources. She has even gone bevond that conception and has ac- quired in some striking cases a mon- | opoly of the knowledge of fully util- | izing the resources of other coun- | tries. From the metals of Australia {and America, the coal tar of Great | Britain, the natural products of Af. | rica, she has accumulated the finan- cial resources which have enabled her to withstand a strain unexampled in the history of modern nations. WHAT U.S. MUST DO TO EQUAL CANADA | Buffalo Express. When war was declared in Europe Canada had about 2,000 real soldidrs and about 50,000 men enlisted in militia regiments which got ten days: training a year in soiled "redcoais." Canada's sea fighting power consisted af the obselete cruisers Niobe and' Rainbow, neither in service then. Since then Canada has raised un army of more than 400,000 men, 300,000 having gone overseas and 50,000 more being rpady. To what | extent the "tinpot" navy has been !added to is not divulged, but the marine department of the Dominion government has not been idle. To meet war expenses, including high pay for soldiers and separation allow- ances for soldiers' wives, Canada al- ready has kaisld $525,000,000 and parliament hits just voted $400,000,- 000 more. Canada has about ome-twelfth of the population and tangible resourc- es of the United States. So if the war lastgjanother 31 months, these figures wi ave to be multiplied by twelve-if the United States, is to make as great a showing. Canada has done what it bag because Can- ada believed in her €ause, because the men in high places and the men in low places were patriotic. 'The poison of pacifism has not developed because it has not been encouraged. If there has been disloyalty, it has kept under cover. mi THE $12 HOG The $12 hog is a successful atiempt to discourage people from eating meat three times a day. The Canadian' people, as a class, hog in recent years. They have been too busy protecting margins and learning how to adjust the needle- valve carburetor so that it would carb in sequence, When a business man received orders to bring up a small gection of pig for dinner he did so without taking his checkbook out of the safe. When Wwe look back and see how many lean pork chops one could buy for a quarter and then see how far it will.reach in that diregtion today, we can see why so rs ple turn vegetarians over night. The $12 hog is caused by the Eu- ropean war, the same: as the price of uncut dismonds and bronze shoes. Before the war started a stout-legged adult Canadian hog could be bought almost anywhere for less money than it takes to start up in the grocery business. No Sunday dinner was con- sidered complete without a nine TY have paid xgrwlittle attention to the "Random Reels "Of Shoes and Shipe and Sealin g Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." TY pound pork roast whieh could be strung along through the week with- the utmost success. The recumbent form of the pickled pig's foot was seen both in mansion and cottage and produced the same kind of indigestion in each. Now, however, people who serve any kind of pig do so with an air of pride and comment on the price pqr. pound in an awed tone of voice. - The $12 hog has been a priceless blessing to the farmer, however, as it has enabled him to take nine full- grown s and four runts to market and return with enough money to choke a safety-deposif box. Thous- ands of automobiles are being bought today with the proceeds of a few squint-eyed pigs which a few years ago were as much of a drug on the |} sees a farmer lead a few bow-! pigs to market turn with the price produces a lump in as a foot ball. pd Kly ! She has long seen the neces- [Ii quigkly and| giv of making. her home industries IN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1917 ~ REEFERS ; ! _ Spring & OVERCOAT SPECIAL ! New Pinch Back Overcoats Rich grey Vicunas, piped cuffed sleeves; "double and single breasted style. Very 'classy garments. Bibbys price $15.00. NEW PINCH BACK OVERCOATS Handsome blue cheviots; single and dou- ble breasted styles; cuffed sleeves, neatly piped. The smartest coat of the season. Bibbys price $15.00. Men's Chesterfields, greys and black, Special value $15.00. Men's Slip On @vercoats, $15.00. = = Hii RR ALL SIZES AND MAKES CALL AND SEE SAMPLE OF WORK IE a a i atten 1 Tubes Repaired from ~25¢ Up. mn SN NNN he a AI Auto Tire and Vulcanizing Co. Next Moore's Electric Shop. 206 Wellington Street 0 OE REMEDY, No.1. ones CISCHARGES. TTT HER FRENOC THERAP THERAPION THERAPIO SOLD BY LEADING CHEMISTS PRICE IN EXGLARD, Bend stamp address boss & sy 4 on suit; your se. 2 ted Co. FAVE RS TOCK RD N.W,, LONDON, BEE TWAT TRADE MARKED WORD "THERAFION 5 on BRIT. GOVT. STAMP AFFIXED TO ALL GENUINE PACKETS. Sm m------------ eH EEO ERROR BR ---------------- a ----