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THE SIGNAL - OODERICH • ONTARIO
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THCRSDAY, OCTOBER I1 1917
SIR WILFRID LAURIER
AND A UNITED CANADA.
The retirement of SU Wilfrid Laurier
from the leadership of the Liberal party
at the present juncture would be a na-
tional calamity. It would mean the
triumph of the forces of discord and dis-
uiiiiiin in lliis ciiutitrjr "rife ostratixin of.
Quebec, the disastrous division of Cana-
dians on lines of racial and creed differ-
ena a ,. No sane Canadian can desire
such a state of affairs.
\ Str Wilfnd Laurier understands the
petiole of Quebec as no other of our lead-
ers in public life understands them. We
want the assistance of Quebec in this w•ar.
we want a united country after t ; e war.
The enlightened element in the s ster
Province will listen to Sr Wilfnd Laurier
as to no otter man. and we do not
doubt that under his leadership as Prime
Minister of Canada Quebec would re-
spond heartily to thecall to service in the
cause of Great Britain and her allies. The
boys fighting overseas 'have the right to
expect that affairs will be so cirtdu..ted
here in their absence thatvAshen they re-
turn after the war they will find a country
in which goodwill and harmony dwell.
The cultivation of goodwill and harmony
among all classes and races in Canada has
been Sir Wilfrid Launer's lifework. His
withdrawal from leadership at this tome
would signify the failure of the effort to
build up a united Canada and would bit-
terly disappoint the hopes of tbise who
have seen in his career the earnest of a
great future for this commonwealth.
We are glad to believe that -Sir Wilfrid
wilt not retire. Since t he dais :aper- a few
days ago forecasted his aithdrawal from
tie chieftainship of the Libet al party he
has received assurances of loyal support
from all parts of the Dominion. even in
benighted Toronto. and the city papers
are revising their forecast.
With a united Canada under Sr Wilfnd
Laurier. this country- could redouble its
efforts in the cause of the Allies by direct-
ing its energies to the fight with the Hun
instead of dissipating them in quarrels at
home that have been brought on by self-
seeking or stupid politicians.
MR. McEVOY S DEFENCE.
privations and sufferings to which Lt.--
lot.
t.-lol. Lewis is a stranger and are getting,
Instead 01 id,0t0 ox $7,0IO0 a year. the
tinne•el). sum of $1.10 a day.
The ground of the very general con-
demnation of Lt..Col. Lewis in this riding
is that he is drawing,.two salaries when he
,y�"
should have only 7' and especially in
these days of war's stress it is exasperat-
ing to the ordinary man or woman, who
has a hard enough time getting along, to
see one man getting two men's pay, total-
ling an amount several times as large as
the ordinary man is get ing. As the letter
before us -written by a former Conserve.
rive -says: "The public have a perfect
right to condemn graft. particularly at
this time when the country is fighting for
its very existence and the political
party aiding and abetting graft should be
put out of power."
EDITORIAL NOTES.
As a level-headed Liberal remarked to
the Signal the other day, "What the party
needs is not a new leader, but a new
Liberal daily paper at Toronto."
Sr Robert Broden seems to be having
great difficult' in forming a Ministry with
which to (ate the rleytors. In somewhat
similar case a much bigger man than Sir
Robert Borden -namely, Mr. Asquith -
retired from the Premiership.
Mr. C. C. Bal'antyne, of Montreal. and
Mr. Hugh Guthrie. M. P.. of Guelph:
have joined the Borden Government. Mr.
Ballantyne is a fornt.-r Liberal who lefr
the party on the reciprocity issue in 1911
and a ho represents the moneyed interests
of Montreal in somewhat the same fashion
as Sir Thomas White represents those of
Toronto. Mr. Guthrie has been nibbling
at the Conservative hook for several
months and has finally swallowed the bait.
.The.defertiou-2f1 men from the Lid
ral ranks has not caused. any great nom -
motion.
HUMANITARIAN WORK
AMONG BELGIAN PEOPLE.
In a measure the food problem of Bel-
gium has been solved by the Belgian
Government's financing the relief work un..
dertaken by the Dutch authorities by
means of loans from the United States.
But the daily- ration under the present
conditions cannot exceed a bowlAf soup
and a slice of bread to each person per
day. and while this may stay the pangs of
hunger for a grown person it is pitifully
inadequate for the growing child. with the
result that hundreds of thousands of
Belgian children are suffering from tuber-
culosis. nckets and other ailments due to
underfeeding.
The Belgian Relief Commission still
calls for funds to carry ren the very essen-
tial work. two branches of which will ap-
peal to every Canadian who realizes how
Belgium stood m the breach when the
world was in danger.
The first is the Belgium Children's
Health Fund. This us to enable the
bringing of starved. consumptive. ailing
little ones from Belgium into Holland,
where. under the guidance Of properly con-
stituted Dutch authorities selected by the
Belgian Relief Commission and approved
by the British and Dutch Governments,_
they can be cared fol.. housed. fed. medi-
cally- attended for a period averaging six
seeks- Report= show that at the present
moment more than 15,000 children are
among in Belgium fpr their turn to go to
Holland and the number increases weekly
because of the German deportations of
parents.
The second fund is the Belgian Or-
phans' Fund What with the rapid over-
running of Belgium by the German, army,
the wholesale removal and cruel deporta-
tions of whole populations. Ole dea h of
fathers who fought the Hun and the ab-
sence of thoee still in the trenches. thous-
ands of children have.been left acme lack-
ing fond. clothing and attentum and in
ignorance whether their parents are dead
or alive. An organization has been ef-
fected so thorough that, at a cost of Iµ1.70
per m )nth per,ehild. these waifs can be
fed. clothed and educated. Further de-
tails regarding both these funds may be
obtained and subscriptions forwarded
through the local committee of the Bel-
gian Relief Fund.
The Signal has received a letter vehem-
ently attackin. Lt. -Col. E.N. Lewis. M.P.,
in reply to what the venter terms "a sense-
less article" in The G,den.h Star signed
by Mr. Dermot McEvoy. in which an at-
tempt s made to defend the member for
West Huron from Ole cnticum that he is
drawing tan much from the public treas-
ury. As the name or the writer of the
letter is nut given for publication. and as
the letter goes perhaps further than is
necessary in pointing out Lt --Col. Lew
delinquencies. we do not publish it: but
at the same time we to not feel like allow-
ing Mr. McEvoy 's articl' to go without
comment. a- we consider the stand he
takes is detnmental to the public interest.
Mr. McEvoy cunningly couples Ole
name of Dr. Gallo* with that of Lt. -Co(.
Lewis. though we have never heard of any
cnticism of Dr. Galk)w's military activ-
ities The positions f the Lao men are
e_raenually diffe:nt. Dr. (;allow Sas an
active officer of the militia long before
the war broke out. Lt. -Cod. Lewis was
not. Dt. Gal fist Has riven up his meds...1
practice to engage in military sec vice.
What has Lt. -Col pais given up' As
Mr. McEvoy says. Ili. Galina may be
called overseas, where we know he could
do effective service as a med cal officer tn
the 11 Id. But what about Lt. -Col. Lewis
- they don t need recruiting officers in
France. and we can hardly Imagine his
being placed in command of a battalion.
Mr. McEvoy pictures a acid in which
there shall be no covetousness and nobody
will worry- about the money other people
are getting. But should not his sermon
on the text be addressee) to those who.
h e Lt -Col. Leiria, are getting more than
their fav share"Get into the sante
dass." be says to the Colon, Fs critics.
But this is impontible sithoet political
",pull.' and favoritism. Thousands 0f
Camedlana are endtsN hardships and
MR GUTHRIE S FATAL STEP.
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packed right. It brings the fragrance
of an Eastern garden to your table.
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of the truest citizens are put in a false) perceive an advantage in a stand against
position as regards conscription. and no' conscription. but he is tow shrewd. mad
one so much so as the illustrious Liberal though he be with the sight of power, to
lewder; false as regards the interpretation choose that stand couplroi with the 'fame
that is put upon it and false as regards of Su Wilfred Laurier. recognized the
those who might support him at an elec- world over as the rrrost distinguished
tion. If the French-Canadians had been statesman in the; British Empire beyond
Properly treated and rightly handled, as the seas. that part 01 it which. more al -
they would have been if Sir Wilfrid Laur- most than anything else in it. shows that
ier nad been taken inch a union ministry it is the eternal, implacable and remorse -
tau years ago. it is very doubtful if there less foe of all that he desires and is fight -
would have been any more need for con- ing for. And Mr. Guthrie knows all this.
scription on account of Quebec than on Yes. Mr. Guthrie is dead politically.
account of other Provinces. except for the'
traitorous Nati,ataiists whose political Would Not Be Without
power was strengthened and ,whose dis-
loyal agitation was fanned into flame by Baby's Own Tablets.
the unholy alliance made between Sir
Robert Borden and them in 1911. And Mrs.A. C. Smith. Goodwood, Ont.,
this if these obviundeous rele elements did in- writes: "I have used Baby's Own Tablets
hind
casr, for obvious reasons like
that
be- for the past two years and have found
hind a true democratic stand like that them the best medicine a mother can
Sir Wilfnd Laurier, it does not follow that give her little ones and i would not be
a Government led by him would not prove ntaur them."The Tablets never fail
immeasurably superior . to that now in to banish the simple ailments of childhood.
power. John mitchell when first a coak. They regulate the bowels: sweeten the
haddate for the himmTammanyy of aNnd York. stomach and make the cross. sickly baby
behind and all its bnght, healthy and happy. They are
brood, but he has proved the best Mayor sold by medicine dealers or b
New fork has had for many, many yearsi mail at 23
cents a box from the Dr. Williams Medi -
Then as regards the cneap melodrarW cine Co., Brockville, Ont.
of Mr. Guthrie's peroration: "Laying
down the policies of the two political lead- E FAMOUS MAYO BROTHERS
ers side by side. which do you think would
rite Kaiser choose ?" -Even Ole Kaiser -
F ono The St. Marv. Attu,.
Mr. Guthrie's political career is at an
end. Not because he broke from his
leader. not because he fell in with the
policy of the other party. not because he
advocated conscription. all of which he
had a perfect right to do. but because
he Imputed Impure motives to men who
have been above suspicion, denied auto -
\\e the nghtt to hold and ex-
press opinions to those ho differed
from him. confused the i with in-
nuendoes and omissions. darkened counsel
with half-truths. tempered his passions
with smallness. peevishness and pettiness.
dipped his words in bitterness and Malig-
nity- and. to crown all. ungratefully and
treachenusly played false with a great
and magnanimous leader. who. after al-
most half a century of public service and
leadership in the tierce light that heats
upon the life of a statesman to a modern
democracy. stands out as a knight sans
peur et sans reprnche. Well might Sir
Wilfrid Laurier say. "Et t0. Brute !" if
Mr. Guthne has ever had the distin-
guished honor of being admitted as a
Brutus to Laurier's Caesar. To make the
statement that Launer "had behind him
all the pro -Germans, all the slackers and
dynammters,•' a statement venomous with
nasty double entendres. malicious innuen-
does and lying implications. is worse than
a Brutus stab. Its sole result will be,
not the hurt of Sir Wilfrid Laurie, Mut
the revealing of the character of the man
who. to make sure of-- as he thinks -a
following on election day. would play to
the baser elements of racial and rrli.itus
faction, and prin., false to a great friend-
ohtp. His tender gave him the privilege of
going his own way and generously On-
knowkctged his right to do so. Why did
ire not as rrobis respond, as others have
done eve. when they dtfered4rruo their
leader ►
The prevent Government has so ti hitt et
the affairs of state that Isaa of thousand*
too wise a man to choose between the ex- Two ,Gear Beat of Their Salvia(' as
ternalities of the policies of two political Gift for Besets of the People.
leaders- He would want to see below the
surface. And. seeing below the surface "Have somrthint the world wants
and reviewing the past of these two men, and th.ugh you may dwell in the midst
he would avoid as he would his eternal of a forest it will wear a beaten path to
enemy that for which Sir Wilfnd Laurier yam. door." Sb runs the famous proverb.
has stood and with which he has identified a proverb that has been brilliantly ex -
himself all his life - British democratic emp:ifiei by the two Mayo b others.cafled
institutions. In these institutions he has by admirers the world's master surgeons.
shown an unshakable faith and to them These men. who maintain the noted sar-
an unswerving devotion, and to.give them gical hospital at Rochester, Minn.. a
a name to live the world over his life has country town. have just given =1,1434000
been a long single-minded. strenuous to theUniversity of Minnesota for med- �
effort. There is not in all the world any- ical research. ,
thing that Kai,erism and Prussianism "We turn over to the regents the bulk '
fears and hates so much as that for which of our savings as an outright gift," said
Sir Wilfrid Launer has given his life to Dr. William J. Mayo. elder of the two.
build up. and with which he has been "The money came from the people, and
illustriously identified in his long public we feel it should return to the people."
career. The Kaiser might on first thought That fine sentiment sums up the life-'
work of these men. Since fame came
to them many years ago they have labossd
aealously W relieve suffering with
thought of self than any men of their
time. The story of their beginning and
later achievement is one of spetal appeal.
Dr. W. W. Mayo, father of the surgeons.
lett New England as a young man and
practised in several Western towns.
Eventually he located in Rochester and
it was there that the two boys were born.
During their youth they worked in a
drugstore. Waited pharmacy and then
aspired t0 be ph sivana_ Their college
days over. the others came back to
Rochester and settled down to toe life of
village doctors. But renown was not
long in finding them out. In a sma,1 way
at hest, working with the eldest Mayo,
also a man of much skill, they performed
operations. No case seemed too dew
perste fur them and they effected cures
where o her men had given up.
By degrees their local fame spread un-
til the sack and the maimed began to
visit Rochester in search of their aid.
That was the begiruung of the present
(xispital, wtnere dozens of major uperatwra
take place every day. It was not long
until the Mayo brothers came to rank
among the greatest surgeons of the
country. Today they are recognized as
the must distinguished members of their
profession and other surgeons coxae to
them lnxn all over the world for instruc-
tion and advice.
One of the brothers noon will go to
France with the American army and
after a time the other is to relieve him.
Plans for handling the American wounded
are beingdeveloped with the Mayos' help.
In surrendering their life savings that
humanity may he served they have set
a new seal upon the greatness that bas
come to them. The path to their door-
way has been beaten into a broad highway.
One of the surgeons associated with the
Mayo brothers in their w'0rk at Rochester
is Dr. James Mas7xn. sOo of the late
Judge Masson of Goderich, and nephew
of Dr. H. I. Strang. _
THOUSANDS IN NAVY.
11laar Canaduas Have Joined Valens'
Naval tisrvtces Stece War Ila/r•
Ottawa. Oct. s. -Since war ban
Canada'* awn of fighting age baste paid
A WORD FOR MOTHERS
11.5 grew mistake for mothers to
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inseoe-this only leads to chronic sick-
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If your work is tiring; ll your nerves are
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world diaapper ll distinct and direct speak-
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