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THIJRSUAY.FEBiLUARY 15. 1917
EDITORIAL NOTE*.
— f
Well, it's • comfort to know the ice
crop is a good one this year.
The Kaiser hes not yet knocked the
chip off Uncle Sam's *boulder. .
Toe' cold spell and the coal famine
are not just exactly what you would
call "a happy coincidence."
The British troops in Mesopotamia
have captured a licorice factory. Now
won't the boys be all *Nuck up ?
The Ontario Legislature opened on
Tuesday of this week. This is the
third session of the present Legisla-
ture.
Figbtiug continues on the Somme
front in *pits of aelrere winter
weather. It n,d.t be cold work, hitt
our boys. with kindly thought, are
making is- Warffar the Germane.
The Toronto lfaos declares that.
Henri Bourses& baa become ' a public
enemy." Then why do not Tbe New&
friends at Ottawa intern him. as has
been done with many les. dangerous
mere ?
in an editorial reference to the
Manitoba scandal, The Christian
Guardian says : "The statements of
Mr. Justice (,alt cannot tie lightly
paused oyer, and they would seem to
indicate a period of retirement from
public life as a desirable thing for the
Hon. Mr. It .ger.."
An unplesaaut duty baa fallen to
new Premier of Saskatchewan,
tb Hon. William Martin, in dealing
wi he mem hers of the Legislature
Who . ve been found guilty of im-
proper ractices. That the members
in quest .n belonged 'o his own pJlit-
ic•l part fide the situation the more
emlarrassi . . Mr. Martin, however,
bas risen t n t• e occasion and in taking
Hippy fon the xpuL.ioq' of the offen-
der* has show Lh.t be will have no
compromise wit wrongdoing. Lib-
erals everywhere ill be phrased at
the stand be has to n, and in Baron,
where the Premier e..nt his youthful
years, there will be .ecisl pride in
his integrity and his co age.
It is announced from 1 taws, that
hereafter no pasports wil be issued
to Canadians going to the d Coun•
try, except for weighty and urgent
reasons. The action taken h been
necessitated, it is stated, by the
nuwher of soldiers' relative., espec
women, rroesing to England in s
of the Government's request and wet
ing. Every additional person there
adde to the drain on the provision sup-
ply of the United Kingdom. Further,
the Government has in mind the diffi-
culties of securing passage back to
L`aoad& for any large number of non -
Combatants when at the end of the
war all available tonnage will be re-
quired for the transportation of troops
to their home countries.
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It ie not surprieing to see Lord
Milner. one of the war triumvirate of
Great Britain, named as ,Line of the
sponsors of a scheme to seen es art im-
mense tract of land in Western Can-
ada fora sort of Imperial farm, to to
nun by the Britivb Government for
the purpose of paying off lieest Brit-
ain's war debt- Lntd Milner ie just
the kind of man to engage in a
scheme of this kind. Ile sees things
in big blotch's. Half a eons meet is to
him juat an much territory to be man•
aged by and for the Government.
That It might be the h..ine trod of
t ho uaands of tartness and other work-
ers. who woulb want to "rue" it for
themselves, does not ecctir 10 hint ss a
matte* of any great importance. At
any rate. that is the impression ere•
sled by lila pohry in South Africa,
wipers. comunetely, as was super
ceded ao4 s liberal policy lnangur.
• ed betels* lbw esleeaief was dose.
Wasesta dams one istesd to gut bee
Western Provisos* under any such
plan es that, In which thousands of
farmers would be in the position of
serfs. Milner and his easociates will
have to look elsewhere for the location
of their big wb•aes.
A new proposal for the reform of the
senate is fathered by Mr. German.
member of the House of Commons for
aVelland. He proposes to divide the
country info ninet y -six constituencies,
corresponding to the nuwbwr of mem-
bete of ibe Situate, and on the death
of any Senator to have • succepattr
elected from theconstittten-4 to whieb
be belonged, for a term of sevrn years,
uutil, eventuslly, all the membere of
the Senate should be elected forpevrn•
Year terms. In rare of conflict with
the Commons over a Government
tlleaetire, Mr. Getntsn's proposal is
that such measure should be pawed
only after a dissolution and an appeal
to the people. This, it seems to us,
would be placing an excessive degree
of powir nil
1-16-116.indiiif Ilia Sento;
which could wlfeck a -Government
withnu6 placing itself at any risk.
'Lite'Senate in its present form in an
expensive, it eotnparstively harmless.
institution ; a Senate on the proposed
pian Wright to the cause of lunch con-
fusiori and delay in legislative and ad-
ministrative action. The total aboli-
tion of the Senate would at any rate
save the expense, 1f we must have a
Senate of some kind, why not make it
a purely advisory and honorary body,
the members having neither salaries
nor votes 7 It might thus become a
sort of repository of disinterested wis-
dom whence should issue counsel+ of
moderation and prudence.
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
What Canada Might Have Done.
London .ldverti.B. _
Aa American writer, H. IL Gregory.
in the Inst nawher of the National
Geogtephtc Magazine, Washington,
tells his people what the Australian
fleet has done in this war—the fleet
that was developed on the same plan
as the one that Mir Wilfrid Leurier's
Government set Ont to build for Can-
ada. In reading the record it should
be borne in mind that Australis's pop-
ulation i• only about half of that of
Canada. .
Australia with its population of lees
than five will.uus all told sent out "its
little fleet of five crosiers, three tor-
pedo-boat destroyers and three Tight
gunboats. built and leaned at the sur.
Lion's expense, which, within two
tuontbs after war was declared, bad
occupied the German Pacific Islands
of Samoa, Marshall, the Caroline.,
Pelew, Ladrones, New Guinea and
New Britain, had captured eleven of
the enemy's vessels, had forced twen-
ty-five others Lo intern, and prevented
the destruction of a single British ship
in any Australian water, Its the third
month of the war the Emden. lying in
wait for Auetralien traneports, met its
fate before the guns of thecrueier Syd-
ney. Later the watchful Austresuan
fleet played ha part in driving v m
Spe*'s squadron flow the Pacific into
the trap set by Admiral Sturdee at the
Falkland islands.
Is Criticism Exaggerated?
Toronto eta". •
Tbere is a good dial of discussion
going on at present in the press and
pplpit of Canada about the drink evil
and the social evil in Inglapd. The
Star is as fully convinced as anybody
can be of the importance of moral eon -
damns on public welfare, tut England
has its press and its. pulpit, and those
agencies on the slot are at work seek -
lug reform and, bring on the spot, arae
in a position to secure *emirate in-
formation end nut throw that which
is evil on the screen ingootrequely ex-
aggerated form.
The main thing •hoot England just
now is not that in which she has failed.
The main thing about England just
now is the scanner it) which she has
made herself the sure and reliable hope
of the civilized world—a strength and
A power Without which other peoples,
however admirable their moral laws
and social condition., would go down
in ruin.
The plain inference, therefore, is
that whatever room there may still be
in England for self-criticilrstl, the na-
tion as • whole is etrong and sound, or
the great work that is being done on
land and sea could not be done. The
tenacity, the self-denial, the resource
displayed woukl be iwpossitile toalace
or nation that really stood in need of
deepairful adtnonisbings from oversee
parts.
That which is evil ought to he grap-
led with, and it eau text be done by
envies that are creie ,enough to lay
de upon what they would reform,
danger is that agitation of such
u ons here will have little effect
i present England by ex -
at which is evil and dis-
of ■11 proportion to *tin-
t'',witb the result that
111 have their faith in
coed at the Pert' time
flcation of it is greatest
ry than ever before
h
Th
q
exec
g. tom ere
e g. ing that
torting nut
•l condi
people he w
England w k
when the ju
and mor. nee
In history.
Tip tar ' octor.
' (m. Yes. Ah remarked the
medico in his jest bre' 'de manner to
hie patient as they ate in the con-
sulting room. "1'11 ger yon the fol-
lowing prescription," and he handed
him three small package'.
"A powder for my head 11e," he
said aloud : "a pellet for soy cher," be
continued ; "and a cereals, r rev
amity foot " Tben be stop and
pnnd.ved deeply for a moment. "1
say, doctor," M queried ,`•' hoer 'II
Ihtis heirs en keels the right plow
wbeu t bey get Inside 7'- Tru
Goer/ Resul- ts en Grain end Sugar
beets
Joseph Haut, Creditor Best, Ostar-
k., .nays
•'Last spring I bought end tts'd
Hoetw-utd ittsr•t.titzers ea Rrs3s and
siseer beets. le bete leetaeeas 1 enc
safely say Islet with very geed r►
waits."
THE WAR.
SOUTH AMERICA AND THE WAR.
Since the hel;iniiing of the war 1
have often happened t . meet people
who t.elieved that the feeling of the
South Americans was in sympathy
with the Germans. The oontra.y f.
the truth. There are still Ge, &no-
philee in South Anietice, but their
numbers diminish from d.y to day.
The behavior of the tieriositie in this
war has caused greet indignation iu
bu all the repot tics of South America,
This is natural when one th tilts that
South Ante ice, is Spanish and Portu-
gurbe\ by origin and t.radilioe, and
has become French by either'. It
hen bee said that Prole is the intellec-
tual cap 1 of South Americans, and
that is ver true. As foe England, al -
thou leas an ow
tilw
g h n
Ftgiot'e, whose
liters.use end• ideas are Wore ',telly
• teak)tiwjn i ifsh Aruto.
(oofseNes i and he Is leader . 1 the
"Uiviiiata" party. This ,peach, whose
rev. rberatlone are air. ady making
hewselvea felt even in North Amer -
a, is an eloqueut protest against all
the crises committed by the Germans
since the declaration of the war. 1
call only regret th..tthe English news-
papers h•ve been w silent about it, w
that In this eoun. i y I K..gleudi every-
one is ignorant of what oust rept event -
wave , en in youth America think
..bout tlhe war.
••1 spore at Buenos Ayres (+aid Ruy
Barbosa) not merely in the quality of
jolt* Consult, but in that of a meu•bdr
of the Hague Conference, as having
the right and duty W preempt easiest,
the attempts at destruction of inter-
nati• nal Iwo.
"How are we to reconcile the H ague
Convention with the violation of neut-
ral cert Rorie* ittv.d».l, o •copied, de-
vastated, annexed ? With the use of
asphyxiating gas, of liquid fire ? With
the use of explo.tvs bullets .ted p
nned wells l With ,he aha -sof the
11 •g of ti'ucattud the Red Oro -s? With
. be .iopo-it ion of ex..• bltanu re-
quisitions and indemnities tee iu.
• • led , egions ? Mtn he Mott'.
bardment Yf undefended Lowes
taIId .ivagrwt VPnti fire - d1r-
Kaiser's Delusion:
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"Between them who destroy Um
law and those who obeet•ve i` tele b
no place for neutrality, ffleutrality
does not imply iwprwitylily, it means'
impartiality. There is hoiwpertiality
to the case of law sad justice. Whole
there ambit treaties which deuce law
and justice, to fight for the observance
of these treaties to tint to violate neut-
rality, it la to lultll ir. Wham viul-
.m a tramples with arrogance upon
' the written node. to fold your at uta is
to side with violeuce. The tribunals
of public opinl•n and eonscienoe ars
1 not neutral be4ween law and crime.
- In the presence of armed insurrection
agalust positive law, neutrality can
not be indifferent, insensible or ti.1-
eut."
1n the hope that the South Amer-
ican tepQublit» will nedwm their cul-
pable silence at the violation of Bel-
gium, he says : "The opportunity is
not yet pawed : the present moment
would not be altogether too late for •
movement reconciling ueutt•ality and
justic«.t)
l
UouIrahe
t Lhief chs
t
ractens !c of
this speech is the high sentiment of
Netter. Seobor Barboaa places just-
ice at ve material interest, but be is
also nvincrd that to practise justice
conatit tes not only the supreme duty
but the supreme interest of wankiud.
He animus chat tiod punishes nations
who sin against ju.trce and re•eow-
leusea inevtt.bly tbo.e who conform
with it. This is the sentiment of moat
Bt.:ilians.
lu a con:eretics at Rio de Janeiro,
Srnhor Barbosa declared that the
United Staten had given • fatal blow
to their glory and to their destiny iu 4
abstaining froru pito estingagaina the
invasion of Belgium and Lha we•hod-'
iced and radical laceration of the Hague
Con yen lion.
"They have lost an unique oppor-
tunity of securiog the first rank among
cations and of being arbiters for the
restoration of peace. We shall mere%
one day baying given to the word
*neutrality' such au aboard interpre-
tation. The smallest state could give
the example. it was not the want of
being great, like the United States,
that prevented us taking such an In-
itiative. Brazil should bay. been able
W takel it withoutpre.umption ortesk.
I should like to see our well loved
country assume this honor, which baa
been declined by other stronger Gov-
ernments."
After defending the action of Bel-
gium, Frauce and England, 'the moat -
proved friends of Brazil,' be then
Lorne towards the delegares of the
Senate and conclude. : "Tomorrow,
gentlemen, I think you will say to the
members of the august assembly, at
the National Congress, that the ueu-
slity which we herr deplore today is
• mpact with crime and • deseraion
of ` duty."—Tbe Nineteenth Century
i Letidon I.
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HI8 PEACE TFRM8—Gissel, In the New York Evening World.
ica great financial and commerci al
prestige. German influence is more
recent, but latterly her pieetiKr had
much increaoed. Referring y6 the
United States of Auterirs, M. Chera-
dame has written : "Before the war,
for different reasons, the Allied coun-
tries were tint held in such high es-
teem as Gerrusny, whose intense
commercial and industrial activity
had won for her s very great pres-
tige." This could he applied to Scuta
America in a certain measure. How-
ever. since the commencement of hos-
tilities, opinion is shown to be gross-
ing against tiermany. Peru and
Chili avoid more arid mote the Ger-
man Empire- In A.grntine also the
pro -Allies movement is growing
rapidly. But It ie especially in Bras 1,
whose southern part is coveted by
the Germane, that the evolution of
ideas Is particularly interesting to
ogee.
At Rio de Janeiro, Pince the begin-
ning of hostilities, there has been
formed an influential pro -Allies
Leaglle, organised by the most dis-
tinguished literary men in Brazil.
This League is par icularly active.
'l'he opitdnn of tbe great wsjority of
the Br.•zilian nation bits found its
most vigorous expression in the speech
of Senhor Ruy Barbosa, delivered at
Buenos Ayres last July. The import-
ance of this speech is not only meas-
ured by the strength of the thought
'-xpreased but also by the authority of
the speaker. Rev Berhorals without
doubt one of the thinker* whose in-
fluence is greatest in South Aweer* ;
he took a considerable part in the ela-
boration of the Constitution actually
in force in Brazil ; he brilliantly rep-
resented this nation at the Hague
ect.ed against edifices consecrated to
worship, ai t, science, charity, historic
m••numents, hospitals and infirmaries?
Wirt' compulsion imposed upon pris-
oners to take part in military opete-
tions agsinet their country, or to serve
as living shields to the enemy ?
With the system of obliging hostages
to he answerable for acts to which
they arc atr. rglibsy against which they
could du nothing and for wbich they
could not he responsible ? Wit b col•
lective puniebment, crushing taxes,
forced exoduses, implacable ex'ermine-
tion of entire population', under the
pretext of deeds for which they were
not responsible? With the useless
destruction of private property, of
suburb*, villages and enure towns, of
establishments devoted to religion,
beneficence and teaching, of market*,
museums, industrial works, works of
at, laboratories of knowledge, as
g'iieral punishments ? With pilings,
fire, the expatriation of innocent
inhabitants, without consideration of
sex. age, condition, or suffering ?
\Virh the shooting of prisoners and
wounded, and the execution in large
numbers 'of coo -combatants ? With
attacks against hospital ships and the
scattering of floating mines r0 tbe
ocean ? With the •rbitrar y extension
of the merit icor sone of the war, with
the destruction of fisbing boats, with
he torpedoing and +inking of neutral
passenger boatel, the *amities of their
crews and pas.engera without warn-
ing- and without *decor, by hundreds
and thousand. 1 -
The English will Pee by the abate
quotation that Brazilians do not for -
REMARKABLE PROGRESS.
San Life Company of Canada Had a Rec-
ord-breaking Business in 1916.
All who are interested in in.ur:nnce
should read 'he meteulent, appearing
on page 8 of this issue of Tbe Signal,
showing the results of the past year's
operations of tbe Sun Life of (' .nada.
The hig Montreal company has
again maintained ica po-ition as the
largest of our Comedian life cum pan lee.
Ito insnrencea in force now total over
8280,011,01W, policies issued and paid
tor curing the year amounting to over
$-t''Ultl,olll►, the bargee' amount ever is-
sued by a Canadiau life comp my.
Assets increased by over 118t110,0011
during the year to$ll2,9311,1100, the Iarg-
eSt resour .ws held by anyCanadian
assurance orgau.z atiun. et aurplue
over all habililie-i and capital now ex-
ceeds the bendsome sum of $X,300.000.
Sun Life of Canada policyholdeis re-
oeived last year total payments of $1,-
578,018, bringing the total sum pond
policyholder* since ti,' organization of
the Company to 111111,2 5-1,071. Cash in-
come for the year totalled nearly $l8,-
5110,000, an increase of more than $2,-
500,000 over that of 1013.
The ,bowing of Canada's largest ae-
Durance company during the year just
past affords grounds for just pride
on the part of the Canadian people aid
for gratification to Rau Life of Canada
policy holders. •
li Pays To Use It.
Calvert Brothers, `Telfer, Ontario,
Sae :
'We used Homeatestl Bone Black
Fertilizer on our wheat and meadow
this fell. We sowed a strip across
the field without fertilizer and the dif-
ference between the fertilized and the
get, any of the crimes committed by . unfertilized is so great that we surely
Germany. On neutrality Senbor I think it pays to sow fertilizer. We in -
Barbosa say, : . tend using wore on the swing crop.'
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e:
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Principal repayable lot October, 1919.
Interest payable half -yearly, 1st April and hrt October by
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the rate of five per esat per annum from the data of purrb•ae.
holders of this woe* will lave the privilege of surrendwing
at par and accrued interest, as the egluvaleat d easb, is pay
moot of any eliotmeat made wader any future war loan issue to
Canada other than an Wu* of Trssnry Adis or other like abort
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Prneseels sf thia stock are few war purposes only.
A commission of one-quarter of one per wont will be allowed
to rovegnitwd bond and stock brokers on allataswnta made in
respect of appiieations far this stock whieb bear their stamp.
For application freer apply to the Deputy Minister of
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