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THCRSDAV, NOVEMB.ER.t2, 1917
WHAT NEXT?
ernment's anxiety to pass the Can.dian
Northern bill, the franchise bill and ether
nefarious measures.
The following remarkable excuse for
the Government's action was given by
Hon. Dr. Reid, speaking on behalf of the
Government:
"The reason no Pensions Bill was sub-
mitted this seisi.✓1 it thit we. hive n'lt
had an opportunity of submitting one. 1
think every member nt this House would
agree that we have had most important
legislation from the time the Prime Min-
ister came back in May down to the pres-
ent moment. legislation that had to go
through, legislation that could not wad.
The financial bills and the other bills had
to go through. There can be no doubt
about that. Even the Canadian Northern
bill was a bill which had to go through
otherwise there would have been a
financial crisis in the country."
Mr. Macdonald: "It is going to make
one anyway.".
Mr. Reid: "No. it will not."
Mr. Macdonald: "It will make a worse
crisis than it nothing at all had been
done."
Mr. Reid: "No, that bill had to go
through and the other bills had to go
through and this session has been kept
busy. l bet eve that in the twenty -sox
I years that 1 have been here there Bever has
been so much important legislation passed
as during the present session."
Mr. Macdonald: "There never was so
much bad legislation."
In other words, the question of caring
for the dependents of the soldiers was
subserved to the question of providing
relief for the Government's coterie of
financial friends in Toronto.
Since then an indecent attempt has
been male to influence the soldiers', vot e
by the passage of a pre-election order -in -
council. providing for certain flat increases
which have no regard for special cases.
It is difficult to follow the gyrations of The matter of adjusting the present in -
the Government on the question of rein- adequate pension provisions will be left
forcements for the soldiers overseas. for another Parliament.
Two or three weeks ago, at Hamilton,
General Mewburn. Minister of Militia,
declared himself in favor of sending not
100,090 men only, but two, three or four
hundred thousand.
A few days ago. becoming alarmed at
the opposition of the farmers to the strip-
ping of men from the land, General Mew -
burn came out with a statement that
farmers' sons engaged in production were
to be exempted.
Judge Winchester, of Toronto. having
stated that class I1. was to be called out.
Premier Borden denied this, declaring
that the reinforcements were all to be
secured from class I. 1f the percentage
of recruits from this class can be judged
from the results already obtained before
the exemption tribunals. even including
\a considerable number of farmers' sons
Who have been refused exemption. it is
dif icult to see where the Government ex-
pects' o get the hundred thousand men.'
At Oshawa on Monday night Sir
Robert Aden held out the hope that
beyond t `100,000 men now to be called
up no furtherreinforcements would be
required. TS,
And the president of the Military Ser-
vice Council at Ottawa. under whose di-
rection the exemption :tribunals through-
out the country are working. says there is
no intention of passing an order to give
farmers wholesale exemption from military
service.
What does the Government mean ? Is
it playing with the people ' Is the coun-
try in for another period of indecision
and vacillation, such as in 1916, when
voluntary enlistment was proceeding sat-
isfactorily and Sir Sam Hughes was asked
by the Premier to "let up on recruiting"
THE LU :KNYON LOQiClAN.
. As a logician The'Ludlam Sentinel
has them all beaten.
It proves—to its own satisfaction. at
any rate—that The Signal is "either
stupid or dishonest." Here is how it does
it:
The Signal charges. or insinuates, that
•Gadsby and Pugsley have been bought
off by the Unionists. Therefore, The
Signal must believe that Fielding and
f,+eU Illad,Pardee and Rowell also have
sold out. The Signal used to defend
Fielding and Carvell and Pardee and
Rowell: therefore. either The Signal was
dishdnest in defending these men in the
past or it is stupid now in suggesting that
they are "vile and purchasable."
1f we may be ailowe.t to dispute this
irrefutable logic, we would paint out that
The Signal does not say, has never said,
and does not intend to say that Field-
ing and Carvell and Pardee and Rowell
have sold themselves. (We are rather glad
The Sentinel did not mention Guthrie.)
The Signal did suggest quite plainly that
H. F. Gadsby was being paid for writ-
ing for the Union Government. If The
Sentinel does not believe this, let it ask
Mr. Gadsby himself. It is well known that
Mr. Gadsby makes his living by his writ-
ings. and The Signal did not blame him
fox taking the Unionist money. The
point The Signal wishes to make is that
thu_,o-called Unionist Government is
buying up everything in sight that is pur-
chasable and silencing opposition wherever
it can do so by holding out appointments
or promises of appointment. Mr. Pugsley.
we firmly telieve, has no more use for
this "Union" Government than we have:
ut realizing the uncertainties of political
life. remembering the old saw that "a
bird in the hand is worth two in the
hush." and being what is called "a prac-
tical man," he took the position as Lieu-
tenant -Governor of Nes Brunswick which
w a: held out to him and ceased tope a
thorn in the le to the Government.
We might hazard a guess as to the
ria'omsactuating some of the other men
who have joined their po.dical fortunes to
PARTISAN ELE(:TI•)N OFFICIALS.
The workings of the new Franchise Act
passed at the last session of Parliament
are discernible in this riding in ,the con-
trol by the Conservative party of the en-
tire election machinery. The returning
officer for North Huron is Mr. Joseph A.
Mallough, a Conservative and no doubt
the nominee of the Conservative candi-
date. The enumerator nominally ap
pointed by Mr. Mallows also are in real-
ity appointees of the Co servative•party,
and instead of voters' lists made up by
the municipal officers, with an appeal to
the county judge as a protection against
carelessness or unfairness—the system
that has been in effect for many years
and has given general satisfaction—we
are to have voters' lists for this election
made upby'enumerators the gr at majority
of whom are frankly partisan. The en-
umerators for Goderich include at least
two who are officers of. the Conservative
party executive. and the rest. with one
exception. are well-known Conservatives$
The Franchise Act is only one of a
s:ries of arbitrary interferences with the
people in the control of their own af-
fairs by which the Borden Government
hopes to snatch an election that will put
it beyond the reach of popular indigna-
tion for another five years.
The people must he 09 guard.
GOVERNMENT SIDETRA , KEO
PENSION BILL.
The contrast between the solicitude of
the Government for its friends, the finan-
cial interests. and its disregard lex the
dependents of the soldiers. iii strikingly
emphasized in a passage which occurred
in the House of Commons on September
19th, 1917, during the closing hours of the
weasion. The Liberal members criticized
the Government for having shelved the
question of increased pensions and for
having neglected to pass a notice on the
order paper in connection with the Pen -
seine Ward which had kern there from
the beginning of the session and which
bad been ridetracketd through the Gov -
thoeeof .the "Union" Government, but we',
do not wish further to incur The Sentinel':
displeasure. We do not concern ourselves
with the motives of these ,gentlemen:
what we do wish to say, and to say as
plainly and emphatically as we can, is
that this so-called Unionist Government
in its manipulation of the electoral
machinery. in its attempts to control the
selection of the people's representatives,
and in its use of tangible '}arguments"
such as the power of ap ntment to
office. is showing a degree el unscrupu-
lousness and unfairness probably unpara-
lleled in Canada since the days of the
Family Compact.
EDITORIAL N JTES,
How will Flavelle vote ?
A vote for Bowman is a vote for Mac-
kenzie and Mann.
Has the Union Government reduced
the high cost of living ?
This talk about a non-partisan Govern-
ment sounds rather funny when you look
over the list of election officials.
A vote for Bowman is a vote for a man
who sipported every iniquitoss dell pit
through by the Bordenites during the last
six years; for a man who makes no
apology for his record in the past. and
who will take advantage of another term
at Ottawa—if be gets it—to disregard
the rights of the people as he has done
,ut under the Military Service .4 t. Un-
fortunately Sir Robert Borden's promisee
must be taken with reserve. He said
Canada would not have conscription; but
Canada has conscription. if the first
class. now being drafted, faits to bring
the 100,000 men called for by the Military
Service Act—and it looks very much as if
it would not --how does Sir Robert Bor-
den propose to get the rest of the men
other than by calling out the second class?
And what about General Mewburn's dec-
,aration at Hamilton the other day the I
tot 100,000 men only, nor 200,003 or
300.000 men, must be sent from Canada.
but "to the limit of the country's re-
sources" ? Is Sir Robert still playing
politics with this Life -and -death issue ?
Occasionally one hears of an opponent
of the Military Service Act who has a son
at the front. In such a case the boy's
vote will cancel his own.—Toronto Globe.
How is The Globe so cocksure about
the way the boys overseas are going to
vote ? Are the officers going to herd
them to the polis to vote as they are told ?
We fancy the boys *ill have something
to say about that themselves, and that
they will not be dictated to by their ol-
eers, or by The Globe. or by anybody else.
The majority of them may vote for tt.e
Military Service Act; but that does not
necessarily mean that they will vote for
the Borden Government. When they
contrast the miserable pittance they re-
ceive with the huge profits which the
Government allows some of its stay-at-
home favorites; when they see along
hitherto. the roadsides the heaps of useless.
abandoned war material sent across the
ocean by the Government at immense
expense. and reflect that all this waste
represents money that might go to help
the folks at home meet the high cost of
living: when they recall the denuncia-
tions by The Globe itself only a few
months ago of the incompetence. the
political favoritism. the wasteful extravag-
ance exhibited under the administration
of Sir Robert Borden, and hear from the
folks at home of the state of disruption
country." into which his blundering has plunged the
country, they may exercise their privilege
The Signal is credibly informed that of helping to vote such a Government
Mr. Bowman, the "Unionist" candidate
in North Huron, has a son of military age
who has not enlisted and wh , has applied
for exemption. The young man, we un-
derstand, is at home on the farm while
Mr. Bowman attends to, -politics. We
suppose that the claim for exemption is
quite properly made for young Mr. Bow-
man as a farmer s son and we do not
'The Catholic Register is under no
illusions as to the meaning of Bourassaism.
After analyzing and exposing the fallacies
of a recent article in Le Devoir from the
pen of the Nationalist leader. The Regis-
ter says: "Mr. Bourama is using all the
talents which God gave him, whether he
knows it or not, in the self -assumed task
of isolating his native Province, of placing
t he Catholic church in a false position In
Canada. and of turning minds and wills
against the service and welfare of their
suggest that he is not doing his duty. like
any other farmer's son. in staying on the
farm and belping in production. At the
same time. the circumstance puts a cer-
tain discount on Mr. Bowman's pose as a
wino he-war-nothingefse-matters candi-
date. _
A noisy crowd of youths. whose exuber-
ance vastly exceeded their discretion.
prevented Sir Robert Borden from ob-
taining a hearing at Kitchener on Satur-
day night. The incident is of course
seized upon by the Government press and
exploited to the utmost for party pur-
poses, and the youthful rowdies in their
rude n44jon of the Premier have pre-
sented partisans a fine bit of cam-
paign ca al. It appears that the trouble
really started in the afternoon, when a
parade of Laurier supporters was set upon
by opponents and roughly handled. and
the evening disturbance was an at-
tempt to "get even." However.. there is
no excqse for such conduct. Sir Wilfrid
Laurier's supporters in this campaign are
fighting for good government in Canada
and for an efficient prosecution of the
war against Kaiserism; they are not
fighting to save the Kitchener crowd
from conscription.
Sir Robert Horden made haste to deny
the statement attributed to Judge Win-
chester to the effect that class two . the
younger married men) would be called
into oblivion. The Globe is going too far
when it impudently slanders the fathers
of the boys who are fighting for us over-
seas by suggesting that they are careless
of their boys' welfare -
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
ng and the wild utterances of a few
political firebrands are not to be taken as
reflecting the feelings or sentiments of the
people of the Province as a whole.
If [realm appears on the streets, in
the new>Ipapers, or in the Senate, let
us deal with it as promptly ani as sternly
as it deserves, but let there be no wild ac-
cusations against a whole people simply
because half a doyen ill -balances in-
dividuals have lost their beads.
How Would FlaysUe Vote?
Surat toed Beacon.
In fetters a foot high this question is
Staring from the billboards at the passers-
by:
"How would the Kaiser vote ?"
Simply that and nothing more.
One question always suggests another.
For example
How wou.d Sir Joseph Flavelle vote ?
How would Sir William Mackenz.e
vote'
How would Sir • Id Mann vote
How would every profiteer and every-
one els- who had anything to "unload"
on the country vote'
The last few questions have not yet
' appeared on the billboards.
The political patriots have evidently
been at work.
Mr. H. H. Dew•art effectually answered
the question as to the Kaiser here the
other night. The other questions given
above are really of more importance, in-
asmuch as these people have votes here
while the Kaiser has none.
Should Avoid Estrangement.
'Chn.Oan Guardian
It would be easy at this juncture to
stir up a world of bitter feeling against
our sister Province of Quebec, but we be-
lieve most thoroughly that it would be
unwise and unpatriotic to do so. Quebec
is a member of our Canadian Confedera-
tion, and must remain so permanently,
and anything which would tend to bring
on or accentuate an estrangement be-
tween her and her English-speaking sis-
ters should be avoided most carefully.
Canada, of course, is in the war, and in-
tends to remain in it, and we cannot af-
ford to tolerate treasonous speeches or
actions; but we are persuaded that the
LATEST PHOTO OF FIELD-MARSHAL HAi(; AND HIS WONDER HORSE.
The most recent photo of Field -Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. Commander -m -Chief of the British Forces in France. it is
an exert mels fine characteristic picture of the great military leader, who has been driving the Germans hack on the western
front for the pest two years. His steed is a marvel and his thoroughbred breeding is delineated in every line. Heise and man
are a pair of thoroughbreds. The photograph has particular interest. for the nictures of Field Marshal Haig on horseback are
rare, and it is doubted if there is another equally good portrait as the one shown in existence.
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New Idea In Home Planning.
"Our architects are gradually learning
that after all it said and done the thing
worth while is to make a home that is at-
tractive. in which people will want to live
and to which they will return with de-
light." So says Louis C. Tiffany, founder
of the Tiffany Studios, in the Decengber
issue of Harper's Bazar.
Mr. Tiffany. himself. has a very beauti-
ful estate at Cold SprS�rir-i-ng Harbor, New
York, and from his des ription of it in
this number of Harper's Bazar you can
gain quite a little valuable information on
how to beautify and make attractive
your home.
SAYS HOT4WATER
WASHES POISONS
FROM THE LIVER
Everyone should drink hot wataf,
with phosphate In It,
before breakfast
To feel as fine as the prover
fiddle, we must keep the liver washed'
clean, almost every morning. to pr* 1.
vent its sponge -like pores from clog.
ging with Indigestible material, sour
bile and poisonous toxins, says a noted
physician.
It you get headaches, It's your liver.
It yon catch cold easily, 11's your giver.
It you wake up with a bad taste, furred
tongue, nasty breath or stomach be-
comes rancid, It's your liver. Sallow
skin, muddy complexion, watery eyes ;
all denote liver uncleanliness. Your t
liver U the most important, also the ,
must abused and neglected organ of
the body. Few know Its function or
how to release the dammed -up body
waste, bile and toxins. Moat folks
resort to violent calomel, which U a
dangerous, salivating chemical which
can only be used occasionally because
It accumulates In the themes, also
attacks the bones.
Every man and woman, sick or
well, should drink each morning be -
tors breakfast, a glass of hot water
Iwtth a'teaspoonfselrot llmeeteae- phos-
phate In It to waib from the liver and
towels the previous day's indigestible
material, the poisons, sour bile and
I toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening
and freshening the entire alimentary
canal before putting more food into
the stomach.
I Limestone phosphate does not re-
' strict the diet like calomel, because It
can not salivate. for It is harmless and
you can sat anything afterwards. It
is Inexpensive and almost tasteless, and
any pharmacist will sell you a quarter
pound, which is sufficient tor a dem-
onstration of how hot water and lime-
stone phosphate cleans, stimulates and
fresbena the liver, keeping you feeling
St day to and day out,
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C.P.R. firings a Tank to Canada
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(1) British "Tank," moving for
a charge on German trenches,
(2' The "Tank" is equally s:
+erne on the level or ..ii.mb-
ing 4ills.
(3) The s`de "::aces the foe.
The shells are poured from
the opening on the right.
—Photos by Crrtfrof Neer+,
EtEY Y one remembers the senaa-
tloil produced on the battlefront
In l'.aoders by the appearan'e
of the Iasi-battleshl/s fatnll,arly
known as "Tanks." Throu,,h the
effort/ of Lord Shaughnessy of the
C. P R., who undertook to ,-oler the
heavy expense of trans.ort. We Brlt-
teb Government has attired tc send
one of the "Tanks" to Montreal io
take part In a great parade for the
Victory Loan, Owing to the urgent
need for this "Tank" elsewhere. t:e
stay In this country cannot he for
long, so that Montreal will be the
only city in Canada to have the privt
Lege of seeing Os wonderfr.i wrapnn
of war. It carries six machine gun..,,
and will be manned by a lyes of
gunners, a;1 of whom have born
wounded In actual "Tank" service at
the front. The Tank ilii tie mar..ri
an4 guarded nig:it ani day by its
owa crew, who sill br assisted by a
large squad of C. P. R. polies.
King George, while recently In
!lenders, rode a Ith the Prince of
Wale• an • "Tank" ■tmost Identical
with the one ,°ming to Montreal.
The strain of rldlnz In a "Tank" en-
der action Is so terrine that after one
day each man Kris a week's leave to
recuperate his nerves fiueh how-
ever. is the competition among volun-
teers to rade In the "Tank-' that there
Is a large welting list of erten who
have put down their names for the
',lvlbge of fighting the Hun In this
w r. int wilt be noted from the close
bf• •'tustratlon that the shield of the
elarnloe gun Is Just Ilk. • human
n
eyeball, but no Oilman ere woe ever
mere watrbhtl titan that at Lbs was
sdtad this gua-