The Signal, 1917-11-22, Page 2)
2 THURSDAY , NOv. 22. 1917
THE SIGNAL - (;01)VRICH, ONTARIO
from what would be ow sentutlpnta un-
der like conditions. But if western Can-
tiplat ada wants to know the why of this sullen
opposition towards all 'Imperial issues, it
need took no further than this. And if
it wants to know the only cure it will be
found in the word loving kindness. The
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set, Ond.rio► Ontario Telepboss No. 76.
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1917
FORCIN3 GOVERNMENT'S HANG.
Under pressure of public opinion the
taovernment announces its intention of
taking a portion of the excess profits of
the packing -house companies. Sir Wil-
frid Laurier's manifesto is already bear-
ing fruit and the Government will be
forced. unless it is utterly defiant of the
people. to take further steps for the sup-
pression of profiteering and grafting.
The profit-taking plan of the Govern-
ment. it is to be noted. gives the people
no immediate relief from high paces.
Prices may still be as high as ever; the
only difference is that instead of pocket-
ing the entire profits the packing -house
companies must hand over a percentage
to the Government. And if this Govern-
ment remains in power, how mach will
the people benefit if the Government
takes money from the packing -house
owners and hands it out in grants to the
C. N. R., salaries to highly -paid commis-
sioners. and other extravagances ?
THE QUEBtC SITUATION.
No elector need be afraid that Sir Wil-
frid Laurier will have anything to do with
Bourassa. Sir Wilfrid openly opposes
the Nationalist leader and has never
ceased to denounce the "unholy alli-
ance" between the Conservatives and the
Nationalists which has had consequences
so unhappy for Canada. The Nationalists
are in a position to embarrass some of the
Liberal candidate; in Q.eb._ in the pres-
ent election and are seeking to enforce
French are a peculiarly sensitive people,
and will respond readily and warmly to
genuine brotherly kindness, and to that
consideration which is due them as the
elder branch of the Canadian nation.
Let us do all we can to make friends of
our own people. IT WOULD BE A
PITIFUL THiNG IF iN RAISING A
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNWiLL
ING SOLDIERS WE SHOULD MAKE
SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND
ENEMIES WITHIN OUR BORDERS.
HOW GREAT IS OUR NEED OF
STATESMANSHIP AT THIS TIME!"
their peculiar views wherever possible. A
\ few of the Liberal candidates. presumably
in counties where the Nationalists are
especially strong, have taken anti -con-
scription pledges and will be supported by
he Nationalists: but this does not at all
n that these Liberal candidates ae-
ee the Nationalist do, -trines in their en-
tiret •. The situation is vastly different
from hat of 1911, when the Conserva-
' tives besought the help of the Nation-
alists. financed Nationalist candidates.
and after t e election to three Nation-
alists intoCabinet.
The M,ntr I Witn_a. which under-
stands the sit . ion in Quebec, says:
"Tice disunioni
selves Nattonalis
Bourassa's bidding,
to the Liberal part
ently undertaken to
for it. They thus
party in Quebec. as c
occulted it in the rest
This i3 none of Sir Witfri
ing. He openly accuses
tives of having r sen to pow
attng with the Bourassa follow.
ing the seeds of disaffection w
borne such an abundant and ma
vest. It was the men whom Sir
Borden took into h s Cabinet who
the French-Canadian people to h
and tears over the prospect of con
tion. though conscription did not t
threaten. If a clumsy policy at Ottas
has driven those Nationalists into adopt-
ing Sir W Ifrid's policy of submitting the
question to the people. he cannot help it.
"Those who ander at what they re
gard as the wrongheadedness of the
French in Canada in this matter should
ask themselves: Why it is? Is it cow-
ardice? They are the very same stuff
as the French who are showing the high-
est heroism and tenaci y of purism in
the trenches. If their blood was up in
the same way. they would be equally
heroic. as those who have already gone to
the front have proved. is it a preference
for the German cause to that of France and
Great Britain? They have. indeed. been
diligently taught that France is being
punished for turning her back upon the
church which she has disestablished. and
have been told by The Devoir, and in
some pulpits" that•the oppression of the
French in Ontario is worse than that of
the Alsatians by the Prussians. Their
opinion of the European issue IP, how•
ever. a consequence, not a cause of their
attitude of ill -will towards the Canadian
majority, which grows as that majority
increases against them. We have only
to ask ourselves how we ourselves would
feel if we found ourselves a minority em-
bedded in a nation alien to us in race.
language and ret gion, and in all manner
of thinking. and were c.•nstantly finding
our inferiority assumed and our subor-
dination insisted on. We know these is
among us a good deal of Teutonic inca-
pacity for putting ourselves in the other
mans place, and knowing haw he feel,
ts, falsely calling them-
, have now. at Mr.
attached themselves
and have appar-
ry on its campaign
cult the Liberal
iptionism has
f the country.
Laurier's do-
Conserva-
by co-oper-
g in sow -
ch have
n har-
obert
used
roe
n
A QUEER ARGUMENT.
It Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his admirers
want to know what will happen to a coun-
try where the people incest upon the ob-
servance of the "principles of democratic
ernment" while they are engaged in a
de and death war, they may look to
Russia. That giant nation now lies pros-
trate -helpless. at the mercy of any pigmy
which may choose to attack it.
And why ? For no other reasons than
because the people refuse to submit to
authorit • in war time.
Sir Wilfrid with his referendum.. and his
voluntarism would i reduce Canada to a
like state of inefficiency and helplessness.
-Lucknow Sentinel.
The Sentinel might as well go on and
say that Canada should adopt Czansm.
because Russia was able to fight under a
Czar. is it not utterly unreasonable to
compare Russia, where popular institu-
tions have been unknown. with Canada.
where the people have always been ac-
customed to settle national affairs at the
ballot -box ?
Further. the trouble in Russia is not
that "the people refuse to submit to au-
thority in wartime." The trouble is that
there is no properly constituted authority.
Elections have been promised. but none
has ,peen held. and any government there
has been government by faction, without
the will of the people behind it. Affairs
will remain unsettled in Russia until a
government has been •established in ac-
cordance with the people's will.
it is a strange thing that anyone should
argue that, in order to fight Kaiserism. we
should establish Czarism anada- and
that is just what The Sentinel's argument
amounts to.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Have you bought you Victory bonds ?
The Globe' used to be called the
Scotsman's Bible. It is now the Scots-
man's byword. -
Peter McArthur says, "i would rather
be sure that the boys at the front now
have enough than to send over others to
starve with them."
Is Willison back on The Toronto Globe ?
The Quebec -bating to which it is giving
so much space these days is in the style of
The Toronto News in the palmy days of Is it still in secret alliance with him, or is
Willison• it afraid of him. or is it waiting to make a
Don't be fooled by all the patriotic talk grandstand play a few days before the
let looiie by the grafters •and r coney -grub- election ?
bets with the idea of Confusing Iiesues
and getting away with the goods or an-
other term.
"Nothing But Leaves"
Not Tea Leaves intermixed with Dust,
Dirt and Stems but all Virgin Leaves.
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has the reputation of being the cleanest,
and most perfect tea sold. E 147
!LACK, GREEN OR MIXED, SEALED PACKET'S ONLY,
Old Man may live to be once more the
Prime Minister of a united Canada.
It is becalming evident that the hundred
thousand men err not to be secured fggrr
the army from the first class under ttE
Military Service Act. and at Toronto the
other day Judge Winchester intimated 1
that class 11. would probably' be called
out in February. This means that the
younger married men may be summoned
for examination. •
The Goderich Star makes out that
there is no difference between the stand
of the Conservatives and the Liberals in
this election. Neither Liberal nor Con-
servative is called upon to make the
"slightest sacrifice of principle' in agree-
ing on an unopposed election. Why.
then, in the name of reason, did the Con-
servatives of North Huron nominate a
man and force an election? Mr. Hislop
was first in the field by over two years.
The Big interests would like to have
this election fought upon any other issue
than that of the plundering. grafting and
' profiteering carried on under the prote_tion
of the Borden Government. The city
newspapers. more or less controlled by
the capitalists, are trying to make con-
scription the issue and so to protect the
Government and the Interests against
the righteous wrath of the people. Can-
, arta is not going to desert the sol-
diers. The question is, Are the common
people to be still at the mercy of the
Big Interests so influentially represented
in the Government by Sir Thomas
White. the Minister of Finance?
•
The Globe, in its unfair and indecent
attacks upon Sir Wilfrid Laurier, practic-
ally endeavors to place the blame for the
present situation in the Province of Que-
bec upon the Liberal leader. The best
answer to The Globe of today would be
The Globe itself in its saner mind of a few
months ago. The trouble in Quebec had
its ro ,t in the alliance between Sir Robert
Borden and the Nationalists in 1911. and
the country is today reaping what Borden
and Bourassa together sowed. Why does
not the Government ARREST BOUR-
ASSA AND SUPPRESS HIS PAPER ?
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
Mentioning P. Names.
The Farmer's Advocate.
More four400ted hogs are required.
There are already too many of the other
kind.
Salaries L • ke TeeaFson' s Brook.
St. Thomas Journal.
The salaries attached to the Georgian
Bay Commission go on whether there is
occupation or not. The chairman has
drawn since 1914 $17.000, and the secre-
tary $10.600, says The Kingston Whig.
But Sanford Evans may think that he is
worth the money.
No Grafters in Lanrier's Trate.
London Advert uer.
The Toronto Telegram (Tory) a
sizing up the Borden candidates for t
city seats makes the significant remark:
-'Union Government nominees in Tor-
onto need not unanimously be the sort of iani\to control the sentiments of the rank
candidates who want to win the war for and k.-Godench Star.
liberty and win everything else for the ( For r impudence this takes the
corporations." cake. means, in plain language. that
The gentlemen at Ottawa thought they everybody �ust support the union Govern -
Liberals who say that members of that
party should have had a larger share in
the appointments as enumerators. etc.. in
connection with the election in this rid-
ing. should remember that the officials of
the Liberal party organization are to
blame for declaring that party out of
.mpathy- with the Union Government,
far as it is possible for official Liberal -
In making his advanced platfarm. Sir
Wilfrid Laurier placed every one of the
privateers and profiteeers is the train of
his opponents. The grafters and the nob -
hunters will have nothing to expect from
him. The man who wishes to make great
war profits will not wish to see Laurier in
Dosser.
WHO MAY VOTE.
In Ontario those entitled to have their
names on the voters' lists and to vote in
the Dominion general elections. 1917, are
as follows:
(1) -All those (except in the cities)
whose names are on the Ontario voters'
lists as revised in 1916. In cities a
special and entirely new list will be
prepared.
(2) -All women (except Indian women!
who are the wives, widows. mothers.
sisters and daughters of the Canadian
forces overseas and naval forces in Canada
or Britain, whetherthe members of such
forces have been at any time resident in
Canada or not.
131 -AU electors or voters, male and
female. must be twenty-one years of age
and British subjects by birth or natural-
ization, and according to the War -time
Elections Act, 1917, section 32, the
elector is to reside for one year in the'
Province and have his residence and
domicile in the electoral district for thirty
days. both of said periods to be fixed by
reference to the date of the writ of elec-
tion, 1917.
(4) -There are persons who are not
entitled to vote. These are of alien
enemy birth or other European birth
within enemy jurisdiction and of alien
enemy mother tongue or native language
who have been naturalized in Canada
since !starch 31. 1902. In this class, how-
ever, persons who have sons. grandsons
or brothers in the overseas forces or who
can produce certificates of service or
application to enlist. are entitled to vote.
(St -The sons of those men who have
been naturalized since 1902 who were not
I of age when their fathers were naturalized
are not disqualified. Neither are the sons
I born in Canada, whether tie fathers
were naturalized or not. All of the foregoing
classes naturalized previous to 1902. with
their sons, are not disqualified. nor are the
female voters under Section 33A of the
wartime elections act.
(6) -The Russian Mennonites who
settled in Manitoba under order -
in -Council dated August 13,
l 1673, as well as the Doukobo rs
who settled in Canada under order -in.
Council dated December 6, 1)1904. are dis-
qualified unless they have sons. grandsons
or brothers in the overseas forces. All
other Mennonites resident in Manitoba
and Mennonites resident elsewhere in Can-
ada are not disqualified as a class.
(7 l -AU who apply for exeq ption from
batant naval or military service on
The Real Traitors.
Mount Forest Confederate
1f any can be called traitors at the pres-
ent time it is the profiteers and the grafters.
Those who are using position and power
to make money or gain titles are a despic-
able breed and should be shown no con-
sideration at all.
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Ha66a•d Faces of Belgian Children conscientious grounds are disqualified.
"If you could set the haggard faces unless and until they are refused ex-
emption.
that.( have seen." writes a soldier who (x1 -Those who apply (or exemption
made his way through Belgium -"if you for other reasons are not disqualified
could see the suffering pictured there ask whether refused or not, and clergymen.
have seen it. then you would not hesitate. It hough not required to perform min-
iwould give as I would have given, if Lary- service, are entitled to vote.
I had anything to give, you would have (Ali -Returned soldiers are entitlei to
given everything you could to help relieve vote whether they are on the voters' list
them. ' lex at�e�,
'It is not the haggardnese, it was not • flpy Armenians and Syrians known to
the pallor of the wounded and the sick be out of sympathy with Turkey are not
from the battlefield. It was the wan disqualified.
lined faces of the thin and poorly -clad Work of the Enamerato-s.
mothers that struck me most forcibly. 1 The enumerators take the list of 1916
i They are fighting the greatest battle ever and add to it the names of the female
fought -a battle two and a -half years voters and strike off the names of those
Ih'mg, and against that merciless enema% disqualified as above. There are not
vn
Carernsor>x
had things fixed up for a nice easy elec-
h
ent or s ffer the curtailment of his
tion, with everything their
own way.
rights as a Canadian citizen. The Gov, -
They are just finding out that they did not
eminent demands that its candidate be
give the public quite enough chloroform returned unnpporect. or it will use the elec-
t() last over the election. and they are tion machinery is defeat any oth er
untiltrouble keeping the victim quiet candidate. There's'ruseianism for you !
until they tee him up for another five years.
The death of General Maude, the bril-
liant commander of the British forces in
Mesopotamia. is a great los:. In a war
hat has produced few military gen uses,
General Maude distinguished himself as a
strategist and fighter, and his capture of
Bagdad is one of the outstanding incidents
,( the war.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier was seventy-six
years old on Tuesday. His health con-
tinues good, and he is preparing for a
speaking tour of several o. the Provinces
before polling day. The wish of many
ousands of admirers is that the Grand
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The Only MedLC�ne
For Li le Ones.
Mrs. H. Blanche. St. Pamp le, Que..
writes: -"1 have obtained gre results
from the use of Baby's Own ablets.
They are the only medicine 1 k w of
that one can depend upon to pr tly
cure bowel and stomach troubles. ' e
Tablets never fail W relieve the little on
and besides the mother has the guaran-
tee of a government analyst that they are
absolutely safe. They are sold by medi-
cine dealers or by mail at 2:i cents a box
from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co.
Brockville, Ont.
faces of the children. the tear -stained.
starvation. My buriness is to fig
yours to send the food you have to those
silent sufferers." For each bachelor who sighs because
Surely fie appeal could be stronger than he is alone fully a dozen married men
this. Belgium -without resources. with- sigh because they are not.
out money. without food except that
given her -is the home of seven million ' Money doesn't make the man. but a
starving mortals. Will yrs: help? little thing like that doesn't worry the man
who makes the mney.
HEROIC COUNTRY PATRIOTS.
ht, man- n Ontano disqualified.
London Advertiser.
"Since the middle of October t to Red
Cross room here," aayk. The St. M rys
Journal, "has been about the busiest
place -in town. Some of the women have
been there almost every day cutting and
knitting, and, with the Red Cross worker
'in Torunto, can say. 'Nearly dead. but
very �happy?
"Two of the workers. at least, should
be 'mentioned in d.spatches,' both living
tart farms. Onecarne in carrying a large
box. and the committee opened it and
took out thirty-four shirts and pyjamas.
beautifully made.
" 'Surely you got your neighbors to
help you,' remarked one.
" 'No. indeed, 1 did not: i made them
myself.'
Would you like some more?'
" 'Yes. I'll take two doyen pyjamas: I
have to do my sewing at night and I
can't see to sew the dark flannel.'
, "The committee gave her eighteen -all
that were cu -and in ten days they were
returned and more taken out. Another
worker had been helping all week at a
neighboring farm where the threshers
were at work. She had helped to make
forty p es and to prepare d.nner and tea
for twelve men besides ten in the family,
and still could spare two afternoons for
work at the Red Cross noon." -From The
I Toronto GI be, Nov. 17.
Heroic country patriots! Well said!
They are Canada's beloved heroines!
Yet. as such, they do not receive a vote
a the coming elections, and The Globe is
su rting the Government which per -
mi ed them to be treacherously de-
pri ed of the right they won by their
'heroic country patriotism."
i1 a man is satisfied to make both
• endo meet he is sure to have a wife who
' thinks ought to make them lap over.
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BRITISH RED CROSS TRANSPORT PROTECTED BY CAMOI'FLAGE ALONG ROADWAY.
When a Tommy is injured everything poesibl is done to alleviate his pain and suffering. The light railways constructed
behind the lines transport most of the wounded men and sometimes immediately to a Hart where they can be sent home: The
trucks move very slowly so that the men are not shaken up. and they are treated as tenderly as though their own relatives
were caring for them. This British official photo shows one of the trucks being moved slowly to the rear of the lines on the
western front. The roadway is partially ected by camouflage, for even w.unded must he hidden from the eyes of Germans,
who shell anything and everything, w worgzn and children, it makes little difference to them.
for its adoption was defeated.)
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