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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, ILIUS
NEW LIGHTQN THE HYDRO BYLAW
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When The Signal. Inst week ex-
pressed qualified approval of. the Hy-
dro bylaw to bit suhmitted to the
votery on municipal election day, it
bad not sized up the situation with
any degree of accuracy, rind after fuller
consideration it finds ieself obliged to
withdrew that support. The impres-
vita was given that the bylaw was
merely a test of public opinion on the
abstract question of the extension of
the principle of public ownership 1.0
tate development of power. If it were
merely this, The Signal would say Yes;
but Lhis I not ibsqueetiom ask image-st
all The principlsof public ownership
is sate : what the Hydro people want
is an endorsement of municipal owner-
ship, as exeniplifird in the Hydro ay.-
teut, es against Provincial ownership
through the Government of Ontario.
Municipal ownership by means of
the Hydro system uteata control by'
Toronto and a few other Targe cities
which are large mere of •power. The
smaller wunicipalitles; like Goderich,
have as much to say al , t it" they
have about the governme '`t Qt Maws.
The Provincial Governmen our the
other band. slwaye alien We in
some degree to/public feeling 1. the
.&nall'trr wunicipalitles, if for no
reason than that it Is always lookin
,tfo,,vote,. For inetance,if we are ever
to seem •uRa
new edjtiuent of -t g
that Will o away in some measure
with the etpessive handicap under
which the outer municipalities labor,
inn
c mpai•ison with point, nearer to the
source of power au ly at \ iagara, the
readjustment. is mut: more likely to
he .,,rued thiouRb . Pearl rieial
Government than th the Hydro
1'nnee.
No timely, if the bylaw rec vee t
expected ,ertdoriernent cif -The-
cipulitie. throughout the Niagara
taw, the reit step will be the suing'
0
shot Y)(Nh lawassume
y to the h rine c',
n t
oldigati..n which will be; IJIvuled i
the ►mw power scheme. it- onto a
the other tante cities will want t
backing king of all the entailer uu,nicipal
ties in N ;scheme which will atilt forth
inrreare the advantage\ of the !erg
cities overtbk Smaller 0 ici ti '
p Ittle
, like Goderieh. Lu;t)lrytt, we are being
a ked t e -play the gate of the big
cis ire. Why not hold b and time
ny influence we ttosaees to' secure a_
ter distribution "of the benefit@ of
�Iublic•owned power ?
It 'mot do Gtdei ich any harm to
• to -A on the bylaw. it. tnay d
Gbderich some good, in calling
attention o' the Hydro $uthouities to
the fact tha we are alive and would
like to haves attention paid to our
clainn and some ttempt made at is
fulfilment of the
fie
0
red utt
he "'oh
i. toter e
e
full benefit Mare it no proposal for
the Uovw•ntuent to retain any of the
profits of the project.
Finally, will the Hydro scheme. he
any more workable under wurlleltal
ownership, when a great number of
t.nfver plauts spring up 1 ttrougbout the
Province. The whole North country
is full of potential electtic energy -is
this the. -hest w«)• of ensuring its de-
veloppfoeni? •
We bevy an corn mind on the sub.
j •ct and would like a (slit discussion of
the subject.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
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A Merry Christ&nAe to you, dear
reader.
Danl. miss the oratorical treat to-
morrow night at the town hall
Sir Max Aitken has berg elevated to
the peerage. ' One more Roup or
the House of Lords.
Do your Cbrietwas shopping early-
Satutdpy morning. Or at any rate
earls Saturday evening.
Judging from comments that have
reached us, The Christmas Signal ap-
pears to have struck the public fancy.
We aiw to please.
Hope no kiddies it. (�oderich will be
dieapi+iuinted Christmas morning. They
ereu't supposed to know anything
about' the high cost of living.
A new title, of course, goes with the
peerage that has been conferred upon
Sir Max Aitken. Oanadisos •would
like him -to be called Lord Meager of
Watered Stocks and Supremegall.
They are awfully proud of him.
%Ve hole the boys over in the
trenches will realize on Chi iettttae,pay
that the folks back iii the old home
town are thinking of them. Catch
this on the wireless, boys : "Good
luck to you, and God bless you!"
THE SIGNAL GODERIOH • .ONTARIO .. ' '
life. Conscription b desirable. Corp
ecriptiuu is also unattainable in Can-
ada. The population of Australia it
a1 t of entirely British origin. The
[emulation of Canada includes alatnct•'
1110,401) Austro -(:,mans in the West I
and revers' hundred thousand antl-re-
uruitery in Qu ec. If the p'iodation I
of Australig_viuld not give Mon. 1V.
M. Hughes a mandate in favor of non- i
PCI splint:, is Sir Robert Borden likely
to secure such * utandete from the
population of Canada?
Should Squelch Bourses&
Sliueue itefutwer.
A Qnetwc �.trel.,t.e«,wbo has recently
returned (ruin r visit to the mgr zone,
states that the Getman, arse printing t
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eminent does not litre up to its full ••••••••••••••••••• 11••••••�•••••••••••
measure of responsibility.. -et has dls•
trlbuted a considerable amount of •
rrspoh.ibility among ninety Royal
Uuwmieriour-but heaven know. i
T
there is enough left for it to tee re. / A �� T * T� rr /1 w T A rr �\ 1 T •
epon.ible for even after the Comptis-
slone are rubtraoted, Piper shoes,
battle charger. with she beaver,
the •
fuse contrautr, the Bertram Shell
CVulwi►tee.41olonel John 1Veeley
Al
'iron, W. It . Garland, M. P , Arthur
DeWitt Foster, M. P., Camp Bolden,
Sam Hughes, a forty per cent. tariff, 11111
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high living -due preference. •
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an abbreviated Br.tiih lreferr
coat ofving ue largely to
the
as
List of Articles Useful
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friends, the food wu iopol,Eer. -and •
P 1 , 1•
and circulating ►•-pe is .1 H u.:.raa'.
operches and writing', W wave that i
many other things too numerous to •
neutron. The Bordeu Government LP' and Practical for Cifts
does well to follow the good old (frit- •
ii�,nadianr are divided AN to the war.
H •utassa should be compelled to make i
his
next speech to the wire boundaries i
bathe. I t would- tasks more
than
of an internment , tom feu£_ rriVwiaa
of`Ownada. If he talked In Germany c
about Germany re he talks here in a e
II. itish country about Britain he
• take A firing squad.t.0 toad their
of
sh custom of taking the roll blame- .
for its ci imee and nut tryiug W sh
t with the Liberal*. it is rather I
n the day to think of iwmun
are •
ate •
; ; Withgreatest care the goods for holiday season have been • ,
hat.11•_ selected and secured by us for months past. Read•
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get • the list of some, of sour best selections.
ern- i• •
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would remain a ive just as long es it 0
hog makes its bed
oalitian to wash out the Burden G
rowent's guilty stain..
The common sense of Canadians
ver the country favota the Wei t
w ri Government
hould lie- In it until it is time to
up -which in the Borden Gov
menu's cube is October, 1917, or as so
before as it may find convenient.
is worth rewemberiug right here t
the Borden Government way find
convenient to go to the country bet
next October, when its extension
pire.. Tbo,e who heard the debate in
the House of Commons on Parlia-
mentary extension will recollect that
Mir Wilfrid Laurier gave Bir Robert
Borden tw•o opportunitiethu declare
that there would be no election during
the extended period, and that Sir
Robert Borden chose on both occa-
sions to ignore the suggestion. He
did mot give a dint answer, nor, tor
that nutter, even a tacit promise.
He allowed the country at Targe to
believe that his honor was sot staunch
that he wouldn't think of having
election while the Goveppwent was
parole, too to speak, hut, at • the sa
time, he bed mental reservations
which he &night use if necessary.
Thane mental reservations are now
being employed, and rather cleverly,
in an argument sotnewhat like this :
"If early in the year 1917 the .Opposi-
tion does not agree to a further ex-
teq Sion which will carry us over to
October, 1918, by which tittle, and per.
haps long before, the war will he over.,
the
n we shall have to go to the couh-
tt y, and the Opposition will he -guilty of
bringingon awar-ti,ue election." Thus
dees sophistry weave its veil of Jere
around the fact that threBorden Go
eminent:it idea'of a coalit-ion is some-
thing to postpone its own doom whi
at the pule titne it defers the -- brig
prnspecta of the Libe'ale .
Of course nobody will he reepn
,dile for a war -time election excri
the Borden (iovernnient, which is.u.
the write. It l* a responsibility whic
it was not perticielarly anxious t
avoid in the fall 01 Dill, when M
Rogers was yarn IIB for the yr
diet of the peoplie wan not th
only Cabinet. Minislettwho asp yam
mering at at-t%t. 'They, here a
keen on get ting a snap verdict tha
would t the q► out of the two le
reach or flee ears. and the thin
at prevented tI tit WAS not tbs fin
utiles they posed as posakeirig, bu
truth., albeit fl intimal en fro
f .e.nciel urs rt one r4 Canad
st they WOuk1 ore their vote and i
enc, Against the Borden Govern
went' U it attempted an election at
no when everybody was in a M.
, k and the , busiseer of the ou�.r
1 the "pimps.
hat feeling has disappeared ion
ago. Everybody knows who will wit
cities.
Make the Lawyers Behave.
Stratford Heaton.
"1 sin not going to allow you to
browtleae these wltnensese." declared
a judge in -a Toronto court the other
day to a 1«wyer,who was exercising
hi. all trio fatuities. loneliest of abus-
ing an uuf'Lunette Witrtese whom be
was supposed to he crows -examining,
Judges night more frequently inter
fere on behalf of .unfortunate-
tasses. - If flay did t -be pe ocedurc of
pubhlc courts would receive more re-
spect,.�, It is little short of scandalous
the eztmnt to which lawyers are el -
lowed tla go In the browbeating of
witnesses...---. ,
Not the Time for Frivolity.
ataxia New kat.
Collegiate students at Goderich will
forego their annual social dance in
view of the large number of ex -
students wbo'are serving And syeriflc-
ing at the le et. They will ex-
pend their a erg its 1m the preparation
of an entertainment to supply fund.
for the Red Crone and other patriotic
purpose,,. A similar impression is
growing in featly another community
and is meeting with the approval of
the sober-minded folk who have be-
fore them. in thought, the trenches in
France and H- Igiufu and the PrneT-
euey :dressing stations and hospitals
ith their orcupants,'many. from the
Dominion 'ref Canada. It is not the
tithe f)�.hivolity -
The
Pur�thceusri
%There, ,oetirtbing that compels ad-
irat ion in the attitude of ex -Premier
gni, h in the rr i.is through which
he Britisb Cabinet has now .11 hut
fely passed. Although r man leu
arge in spirit might have regarded
be rircuustances that led to bus re -
solation sax personal affront, and nn
fort ground fought the issue, Asquith
as shown that he is of a huger
r.elihre than that At the
rat opportunity - he appealed
to the Li 'erele • to sapport the new
- Since The Signal made x rnild en- g
grslry„two weeks ago, as to what had w
-become- of the- Uoderirh Board of
-Tisdwr�esletingef that body have
been held. First thing we know thio
great family journal will be getting a
reputation a. an *Ural clock.
The wnnouncetuen\or•f the death of I nal
e
Mr. Georg.. Hughes Hite, one of the 1Y•
publishers of '1'be Orillial PAr'tet, is re- ta
ceived with a sense of personal lose by t
bis fellow-journaliate, _The editor of Ni
1'bgtiigusl never met tlr`Nalj, but t
through the weekly petusi of The
Packet had formed an idea of hie fl
unique personality and am 'ingrudg.
ing ad •anon of his abilities ars\a
journalist. • Mr. Hale leaves two sone
who have beeDlia sociated its 11te pub-
lishing of The tacket for some years.
Sir %Vilfrid Lttiri•r i, pleading for a
settieunent of the Irish question. Of
w .e, it is all right for a wtveer, a.t_
omist to meddle in Old t'uunury
slim s. -,Sail and Empire.
Thite\of, course, is'1'w, it sarcastic. '
W e ehohld likelm know,• though, why
states.u,ln Who-realiz-a the benefits
of self gove silent tn.-Canada should
not urge the tension of the sante
boou w another tion -of _the 'Rm•
vise. A lwlief in tuoomy as a pi
tilde of government \��\do���rs not debar
the one who holds it our taking a
henefl.ieut iutrre«lin his Uowutea.
A t:
u.lrri
cb township '
at MAUI in con-
versation
h
ve I
rsation
with
1te,i
Signal al a
R fair days
o waxed indignant over some I Bent
rances of The Toronto News win
t to the. rouecutiun of
P the MAW -
minter... which The_Newa, it
r' tenons, as. sera to regard as political
e persecution\ The Ooderich township
s nun, is a •go4t1 Tury, but he doesn't
agree with The'- News when it talks
this way. He happens to own --some
property itrManitutts, and -as he has
-a-peelers-eighktef •do e•tte treats when
the hands perpetrated in that Prov-
ince under the late Mobilo Govern-)
input tie a matter directly sRectiogi
(> hie personal rights. "They robbed
1e. he declared : "why ehoukln't
th bre Pr,'n1'onteiii1- The trouble
wit The News is that it lives in a
world f its own in which petty par.
ti.an po ice form the realities, while
such thin as honesty and fair deal-
ing between men are mete trivialities
that need hardly he taken intoaccomnt
at ,ill. As a coneequenoe the ordinary
man, who hecomds leas and less a
politician, fails to '`respond to The
News' editorial views.
mites that were
given to us when the Hydro contract
was signed by this mudtcipality.
%Ve find in i'he St. lifary4 Journal
(Conservative) the following editorial
reference to this matter : \
The proposed •.te on municipal
ownership of sources of electri(. I
energy instead of the present plan of
Government ownership ,,pens a ivies -
'tion in which we are more or Ira. at
as . What is the object ? There ran
he o question am to the Advisability
N t people owning all these power
itee, tit Is there any Advantage in
he mun tpalitire owning them lather
hen the vernmentP As things staod
t present to Gown nment is respon.
hie for the ureessful working out of
rt is power *cheeses. Would that re-
sponaiMlity he taken sway ? Political
patronage and its attendant evils do,
not prevail in the Hydro O .m.oiarinn,
so we have nothing to gain nn that aide.
1e this part as scheme prop gusted by
Toronto's Mayor and a few city patters
to have the whole Hydro prnjert
placed in the hands of the municipal-
Itiw P ff it is so the plain i' not in the
interest of the entailer places. We
have no desire tb as Toronto and a
couple of other glues In control of
Hydro. The Government w.e,tld he
much Isere sensitive to the nerale of
the sw.alker places than would the
WHAT. OTHERS SAY.
'Billy Sunday's Influence.
Toronto MDU and K noire
A Nese Fork boy is *aid to have
stolen sht in order that he might got
to Rostra to hear Billy Sunday preach.
Csnicriptioa Unattainable.
Toronto T&Msram.
Conscription\ in its mildest form
'mild not poll a majority of the VOL.,.
**corded at the referendum in Aus-
tralia.
Australia would bit aided by geo-
graphical conditions in the working
out of coeect•iptton. Thep condiUoos
her every outlet against fugitives
from conecription.
Canada would he hstdicshped by
geographi wl eonditk,ns in the work-
ing nut of ennsetip ton. Thee onn-
ditinns open a thousand east exit. to
Canadian fugitives from conscription.
Con.crip.,ion le the tante just and
fair and righteous method of raising
wen for the defence of the nation's
on •
It
hat • Ladies' Hug -me -tights
don • White wool knitted Hug -me -tights,
ex- •
• a coat or fo. house wear, each .. $I.25
•
• ' ' Kid Gloves
• • Ladies' lined Suede Kid Gloves,
• 1 Perrin's .;I 30-
• Waists
• Silk wash Waists, - Jap Taffeta,
.n • neatly made and good quality, 34 to
013 • 44, at each $2.00
Crepe de Chene Wash Waists $5.00
• long sleeves. Very cosy for under
it
v-
le • Automobile Rus - - -
h` • Or Couch Rugs, in heavy wool, --
n- • plaid and tartans, beauti(pl, wa'r'n
t • and almost indestructible. _at each
h • • • • • • • $4.00 and $5.00
r.
r- a Blankets
e • Large size, 66x88 double, white or
11 • silver grey wool Blankets. soft and
t IA lofty, per pair $6 50
• Cashmere Hose
• Cashmere Hose, pure all wool, Pen-
• man's best seamless, at...........60c
• Handkerchiefs
• Beautiful pure linen, all initials, for
• men or women, beautifully boxed,
each 25e
th
that the greet Nin, of all moat he the ser
winning of the wet. And Aegnith has th.
made himself dour, y strong by reason th
of this att itude. - fin
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OUR OTTAWA LETTER b
NNNN Be H F GADSBY
Ottawa, Dr ,fiber 19. -'Che coalition
talk which sfenic..tricken Unrtrrva-
tivee were indulging in afortnightfago
seems to have etched. The stout heakts
in both pities have apparently de-
cided' that itis h,'tter to p(iGjt to the
good Old way fdoi tfiitgs�namelr,
*Go
vrt•ne F
tat
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rr. s b.
on i i
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end- .
P
wition i n
re!'i, o
t criticise
hiiakl e genital'
alas
Y R of the. • Anglo.
Maxon rare nude its tnott ec.nventrnr
expression - in .the patty system hot h
for
the e Itl
all '
On of
in '
trc
I aterohlem t
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and prompt. action thereon. A biter
method of rhornttghly winnowing at
garstion het yet to be discovered than
the party debate.
Itis,
mite tate that n -
' the Borden o (i.v
re
I Ladies' Plush Coats •
Satin -lined, stylish attd`of ,bt>�t glial- •
ity English Seal Plush, each •
....$25.00 and $30.00 •
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. Men's Fur -fined Coats •
Men's fur -lined Coats, Persian Lamb •
collar. Canadian Muskrat No. 1 •
lining and sleeves. Shell of best •
English Beaver cloth, sizes 38 to 44, •
at each $73.00 •
Black China Do --Coats i
Quilted -lined, Bocharan ` b- col-
lar, skins all No. I, at each...:.,$23.00 •
Furs \ •
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Black Wolf and Blau:' Fox Mita, • •
Scarfs and Boas, at c* h.
f_... , ,• . $7 ODs. �.� to $ii.00 • -- -.
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national GOvrrrment, holding out
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Sweater Coats
Men's heavy Sweaters, in khaki or
grey, high collar, well made, special
each . , ... .. $ I . S0 and $2.00
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Men's Kid Gloves
Lined, 2 dome fasteners, all sizes, •
best English make, at per pair..I$t.$O •
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the wan now -though it will lea woe
of time. Confidencea
h a been restored
and business Ita going ahead es usual.
Moreover, the people have grown used
to Overtime elections, there bating
been five already ••ince he war started
-Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island,
aQ"tu`-ebec
, Manitoba s
td
8, anal Colon
,-
-and the chanced are that they
would not object to another. especially
if it threw an in potent Gore'..
•
I witb one party ind would consequent- One needs to have
k prret,••e to do what
wentputand put a good usiw,_ A L
At all events the people are not
thinking much about coalition/a just
now.
Thune w
hoh av
ken
e • o
o•
P for it
may he divided broadly into three.
clnsees-disinterested altruists who
make the lnisteke that a coalitions is
doubly wise, embittered pereons who
Were not
we to do what they liked
4N FLECTION OR NOT?
Toronto Star. .
A nem► ▪ of Ontario newspaper./ on were the Literate as a party to win
both sides o(rpolitics have declared for 1 the election acid inhr,it the ettoblems
the formation Of a National (ov n-, that the Borden Government hal
tam incanes* doting the ierfodofthe!shirked - with a sore and angry Con -
seer av the oolygat, ey which the strife 1 servative press and linty in et ery sec -
of a general election can be avoided- I lion of the country seeking to avenge
and, even mote important still, es the pyo a new Ministry the defeat suffered
only west by which selfish -and distrust -teat the polls.
ful p'u-tizrnahip can be Made to give I 1f an' election were held one party
way to earnest patriotism in the con- would win land the other would loft.
duct of national aff,ira through the 1 But no matter which won or loot the
trying -times that stretch &heed of us. ' country would loee the unity Which is
Evidently,we are in for a long war. I so essential to the prosecution of the
Nobody can foresee what measures it
may become plotter for this coantey
to adopt -difficult uveaetINig, it nay be,
which no partizan' Ministry would
venture to take.
Utter Ontario newspaper. on both
sides of politic/ declare against the
proposal that Sir Rupert Borden and
Mir Wilfrid Laurier should meet and
form a National Government. Theme
jourrtele, each @peaking from it
war, and the Empire and the cause of
the Allies would suffer from the an-
tagonisms arising out of the fray.
Nor would a partizan Government
when elected, this one or another, he
In a strong enough position to enact
the stringent legislation that the
neeesaities of this war 'nay impose he -
tore we have done with it.
it if, however, out of the question
s own for Sir Robert Borden to expect that
party standpoint, object to unity for he can gap \po year after year
the same professed reason -inability receiving so extension of the
to co-operate with some person or per- life of Parliament and of his ad -
sons in the other political party who ministration at the hands of Kir
would he included in such a Ministry.Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal party
Motthey go at it, take up every od if the nee he proposes to make of that
animosity they can think of, and es favor is to go right o, conducting An
fiat ais possible turn their discussion of out-and-out party (iovernmens' down
the proposed unity into the hest kind to he emaile.1 and meanest particular.
of election nampalgn literature they The party victory won in Bill hag
cab make of it. heen outlived. It is by •irtue of the
These journals, on both sides of cnnsent of the Opposition in Paola -
politics, want an election and expect meat that the Premiership of Pir-
rone.'ach believes that when there Hobert Borden at present ooutintiee,
is an election their own party will win and the moment its existence became
it. and that they probably regard as dependent on that consent the count' y
the greatest good. was entitle 1 to a non-u artisan Admin -
We do not gee any good in it, nor istretion. Only. on the offer to furnish
how a Government such as the times a Natinnel and non-partizin Onvern-
require can enwe Mut of it if there Is • meet should Mir Robert Horden a k or
sezppeecct an extensir.a of his p. trod of
office. On no other terns is he justi-
fied In asking it. Unless he vuiu,.teen
to he. at this time, the leader, not. of a
party, but of the w bole ppeeae,pie, Ir. hair
.10 right to repent the wh,.le people to
unite and confer on him that grant of
further nflee and authority which his
pary cannot prorating for him without
the haserd of a general election.
general election and a party Hght, one
side winning and the other losing
1t ie not easy to see how the Inter-
ests of the country would be served hy
a general election it It were to result
in the return of tits Borden Govern-
ment to continue its timid paltering
with issuer that. it 11 afraid to handle.
Nor can we ..w that the intereate of
the country would not he jeopardised
ly bedevil hoth, and wily schemers wh.
woald besmirch the Liberal party with
ithe Government 'to Iolid past and its
still more lurid future. None of these
people deserve ars sympathy Y s y P by ezcrpt
tthrdisinteeeNed altruists who realty
think that ",!alitions Are a good thing.
The advisability-#---eonfitirme is -
norm, quest too: What has happened
rd
.
in8 i
taints
ace h r
is
the war started e far
[roto proving that coalitions are all
that they are 'marked up to ire. The
coalition Government would never
have ,
h r taster
I e
g longse it has '
if 1 teenier
As nth
u had not been at the brad of
it, an imperious harmon;z•r, a trained
{cheater with a large experience 111
drivingwild wold horses for some seven
year.. In short, Premier Asquith has
,'ucceeded in keening a coalition Gov-
ernment together for no other reason
than that he was a seasoned coali-
tioner long before the war started
PreneerA. i
Ifr1 th has duce.
Excusefnrcoelition there certainly
wax in-Hiit.in-its eioereie.v to the
war, the iruwinenre of the danger.
On the other bend, ()Anode is three
thnuaend utiles of blue water away
f'
the
struggle.. b
which h
hnc
RR should tar
enol ,
fah off to inewe clear think ng,
end bath puttee ire united to don y -
thing that will win the war. There ie
no oiscs--ity for s coalition to placate
the ruffled feelings of * privileged
claim
like
the
17.1 li!
h
ars t,ec •
R rA•
y
whin h r
h n j cowl to paying for a war
that they didn't help to manage.
Over here, rich and pone, we e11 do
(nor hit and cry not a word shout it.
ft the Government fails
to make grael,
an much the worse for the Gower nnoon t.
We Are far enough away from shot
and *hell to change the Government
withou, feeling the jet. • '
Moreover, if Premier Asquith -the
SIddge-Hamenserle what t y call Irhw
-in. Ot el)Ir to wake his c it ion toe
the in GI what iucees, t
i%,
ii,
think
Bo, d,•trprnu
W have at aims
Premier Horden, wh...sa. Mir
S.uu has frended, can't keepaCabinet
all of one piety-eowplezion from
gouging each .,ther', rye, out 1';711sere
have hien th Coalitions in the hie•,
tory of Cana s -the coalition tie\
abolish the cler•g reserves, e
tb ooslf.
tirm to carry 1`onf rrs�oo,-f6e `-wog-Tj.
tion Cabinet !het p t the wsebinery
of Confederation
i
n o
Term ra t
r,tt
Pe dam.
,
Sir John Macdonald w in dlnfthe.a.
Smooth and skilful corn miser se he
was, .Ily ' gond fell. and May
mixer, it John Mad/mai ound that
rnalitiotlI. w.-rw
the devil's wn Joh,
Get
Mir
'Jo.
h Pre
I•'e . life
f
hien. iir'John
s remarks q
k on co Nona
oat
and then tisk yourself what mind of
fist P.e,uier Borden wontd make IL
H. F. (:Atelier,
Preriti
ler job ?
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