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JOHN 4Q1I'PI', Proprietor
A. c, $M1214, ilfenager
THURSDAY, SI"L'V. 27th. 1017
FRANCHISE TO WOMEN
'fiat the women of Cairada appreciate
the extension of the franchise to relatives
of soldiers, and also appreciate the dif-
ficulties in the way of a general enfranch-
isement at the present time, is shown by
the manner in which the Franchise 13i11
has been accepted by the women of the
country and advocates of woman franch-
ise. Sir Robert Borden has given a pledge
without equivocation that he, if returned
to power, will give the franchise to all the
women of Canada.
Speaking in the House on Monday,
September 10th, he declared:
"We are emerging to the point at which
the women of this country must be entitled
to the same voice in directing the affairs
of the country as men, and so far as I am
co*cerned I commit myself absolutely to
P that proposal,"
Again, speaking the following day he
declared:
"I adhere entirely to the opinion that:1
have already expressed more than once in
this House, namely, that the women of
Canada generally are entitled to the fran-
chise, and if the people of this country
should give to me a mandate at the next
general election I undertake to carry out
the purpose that I have already proclaim-
ed"
The Ottawa Citizen, which is an earnest
advocate of female franchise, and a paper
none too friendly to the Government,
praises Sir Robert's action in the follow-
ing terms;
"It is to the credit of Sir Robert Borden
that he has done more for the
cause of equal suffrage in Canada than
any other federal statesman. He has
taken the first definite sten by enfranchis-
ing women relatives of the soldiers on
active service. He has also extended the
franchise to the women on active service
on the same terms as the franchise to men
soldiers.
The cause of an emancipated woman-
kind is part of the great cause of democ-
racy for which the Allies, including the
citizen soldiers of Canada, are giving their
Ives. Clear -seeing women can afford to
allow Sir Robert Borden a reasonable
time to carry out the equal suffrage pledge
he has given and not try to force the gov-
ernment to enfranchise every Canadian
woman in one step by the War Time El-
ections Act."
It is apparent that the Ieaders of the
woman's franchise movement in Canada
quite approve of the stand taken by Sir
Robert Borden. The following which
appeared in the daily press a day or so
ago indicates this:
Toronto, Sept, 13—A letter signed by
Mrs. F. H. Torrington, Mrs. Albert Good-
erham, Mrs. E. A. Steavens, and Mrs. L.
A. Hamilton, and referring to war time
election bill, has been issued.
The ladies subscribing to the letter re-
present the National Equal Franchise
Union, the Daughters of the Empire, the
National Council of Women, and the On-
tario W.C.T.U. The letter says:
"The result of numerous enquiries con_
vinced these. women, considering the pec-
uliar conditions which prevail at the pres-
ent time in certain provinces and the un-
certainty of the results in granting a full
franchise should be given as a war meas-
ure in order that Canada may do her full
part in the war and remain true to her
sacred trust to the Canadian men now
Igilting the battle of freedom."
Qlorrle
(Intended for last week)
A number from here attended the
western fair last week Rev. G, J. Kerr
conducted anniversary services at White-
church on Sunday his work being taken
by Mr Wilkins. Miss P. King of the
GOrrie Drug Store is having a fortnight
elldays ani is visiting relatives at
Toronto and Bowmanville her place is
'bang filled by Miss McElWarie. H. V.
Holmes manger of the Bank of Hamilton
is having his vacation attending the
Toronto exhibition and visiting friends at
Barre accompanied by Mrs Holmes and
. her sister Miss Perkins.
Ed. Krohh has disposed of his five 150
acre farm one mile east, of Gorrie to
Robert Walker for the sum of 10,500,
C. P. R. painters are applying coat of
paint to the station and water tank quite
an improvement. His honor Judge
Dixon held division court here on Tuesday
last. The only cause was that of Krohn
vs Taylor an Action for damages and trete
piss of the fowel of the latter. The
recision was in favour of the detindent
going to law does not appear to be the
way to get wedress for the chicken trouble
between neighbours.
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SYNAPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTH-
WEST LAND REGULATIONS
The sole head of afamily, or any male over
tipl years old may homestead a quarter seotiou
of availe.ble Dominiolt ]and in Maanitoba„Sask-
ate��Dh�ewan or Alberta. Applicant must appear
n Lands Agenoy or
gal Agin X atany Domiinion Land y.ABr proxy
M not Bdb.Agenap bn"certain Conditions).
Demes-Bix months residence upon and
eeitivation of the land in eaob of three ySears.
,+. benaesteader tank live within nine miles
Tris emeetsad'on a farm of at least 80 acres, en
e r 4ncondition/1. A habitable house is req.
r except where residence 16 Asrformod in
eh* *Solvay.
y.
14.. stook may be substituted for cultivation
trader certi,inoonditions,
a certain dtstrtots�ta bomv.steadorin good
Widelomestead, Price E.0000 r sets.Mons
P�t eetet- eii Months residottoo in each of
three v'earl after earning homestead patent:
also 60 aures extra cultivation. Preempttoti
pat.nttnay be obtained as soon ae homestead
patent en certain conditions.
A. settler tuba has exhausted s hie homestead
tigtit slay take urchased homestead to cop•
tate estvarlete. Price 13 per acre, Duties -
Wadi raeide tit raontbesn.eaoh of three yyear&
Is 1 ival,e sores and er ctra house worth 3300
'
;Meanie Of a ntittvation le subject to value.
*seta ease rough, sorubb or stony land
tinder .r aln eondltlWoy�hp&titutod for cultivation
W. W. (4' sag 6.141, GV,
eputyof theMinteter oithe i c tor.
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'l`11i11'lil YEARS AND AMER
(London Titres)
After three years of the greatest
war of all tine we cannot fail to
pause for an instant in order to
glance back over the hard and stoney
road over which wo have traversed.
We recall with a shudder the truly
lamentable military situation in
which wo found ourselves when wo
were fore,'d, against our will, by the
deliberate and planned aggression of
the Central Powers, to take up arms.
Au army which tit ars merely the armed
police of a great Empire, neither de-
vised nor fitted for aggression; and
able at first to place in the field only
a few divisions, contemptible ludeed
in numbers and armament, but en-
tirely the reverse in gallantry and
devotion, Behind them our few re-
serves, and behind them both an un-
armed and untrained people, and a
policy, common to all parties, of peace
and limiting armaments to the strict-
est minimum. Neither guns, rifles,
munitions, clothing, equipments, nor
a thousand other things needed for
the adequate "expansion of the Arniy
outside the regular forces of the
Crown," demanded in vain by the
Commissioners who investigated our
military procedure in South Africa.
For a fortnight in August, 1914, it
rained ultimatums and declarations
of war. We were stupefied for an in-
stant. The day hed come. The day
against which great soldiers had warn
ed us to prepare without avail. We
had lived so long under the menace
of Gorman militarism that we had
almost ceased to believe that its open)
and avowed aim of mastering Europe
would ever begin to receive practi-
cal application. In a flash the truth
was revealed that we had falsely es-
timated the whole European situ-
ation, and that the state policy of our
front benches was bankrupt. We had
not even thought out what we should
do to create a great national Army in
such a crisis, and our Committee of
Imperial Defence proved as bank-
rupt as the rest. •
The military answer proposed by
Russia to the German military laws
of 1911-13 was probably the reason
why the Gertnan military caste and
the German Great General Staff de-
termined on war, and won over the
Kaiser and his Ministers to their
views. Austria-Hungary had often
projected aggression in Southeastern
Europe, and Germany had restrained
her. Now she slipped from the leash,
with the murder of Franz Ferdinand
as a useful pretext, and Germany
took caro that nothing should arrest
the course of hostilities when it had
begun. She hoped for, and believed
in a rapid and successful campaign,
the speedy overthrow of Fracen, a
transfer of German weight to the East
and the immobility of England, or at
least her impotence. An England un -
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Wipghaw
artnetl and torn. by internal dissen-
sions was to Germany the moat con-
tetrtptiblo of antagonists, She count-.
eel so much en our failure tq, March
that she was not prepared for a war
at sea, and a large part of her mer.
cIntehanrnt fledeet. beealne goad 1"1"1"1"or was
The dastardly invasion of neutral
13elgiunr by the German Armies was
the immediately determining cause
of the entry of England into the
lists, and this act of infamy united
opinion hi England and throughout
the world against Germany as noth-
ing else could se entirely have unit-
ed it. But Germany's aggression a-
gainst France was also treacherous
and base; France had withdrawn all
her troops ten Icllometres from the
frontier in order to give Germany no
Pretext for war, and it was at this
distance from the border that the
first Frenchman was killed. Italy de-
terminedthat her alliance wtih the
Central Powers did not compel her to
march in a war of aggression, Serbia
and Belgium resisted invasion with
all their might.
The uprising In England, and of
her great Deminions, to met the Ger-
man challenge was entirely spontan-
eous, and cannot faithfully be attri-
buted to the influence of any single
great figure either in politics or war.
If Lord Kitchener may loom large to
history, and if our present Prime
Minister has most completely embod-
ied the fighting spirit of the people
in presence of a great wrong, it was
the people themselves , and all the
people in all classes, who regarded
the quarrel as their own, and almost
before we knew how we stood a great
national army was in the making.
There joined by May, 1915, no less
than 1, 239,312 regular recruits, and
469,611 Territarials, and the largest
intake in any one week was in that
ended on September 5th, 1914, when
174,901 Regular recruits enlisted. No
question of compulsion could arise
while this tide was flowing a,nd all
home staffs were completely over-
whelmed by it.
Everything, from the commonest
necessity upwards, was wanting to
house, clothe, equip, arm and train
these masses of men, who uncom-
plaingiy suffered many hardships
while all the things needed by them
were laboriously collected. Tho want
ofrifles, in ,particular, caused inmea-
sureabie anguish, for 'our peace out-
put did not amount to 150,000 rifles
annually. It was soon found that
the tools and gauges necessary for
the construction of rifles could not
he rapidly .provided, and for months,
if not years, many battalions remain-
ed unarmed. The tragedy of the
rifles and the shells scarcely bears
telling even now. It was not till
May 1915, nine months after the dec-
laration of war, that the first division
of the new Armies disembarked in
France, and it was not until after
the lapse of two years of war that
guns, shells, and other munitions re-
quired to place our troops on an
equality with the enemy in points of
armament were found for them. It
was on the question of high explosive
shells that the Liberal Government
fell, and it is to our present Prime
Minister, who applied a match to the
train of powder laid by The Times,
that we owe, above all others, the
perfecting of our armament and the
victories that it has enabled us to win
The co-operation of the British Ar-
my with the French in certain events
ualities had been the subject of con-
versation since the year 1906, and all
was prepared for the dispatch of our
small Expeditionary Force to France.
Mobilization and movements were
admirably, secretly, and expedieiously
accomplished. The Navy covered the
movement. There is no proof that
the Germans knew that we were in
their front until August 20th, and
our soldiers had taken wing without
the general public et home being a-
ware of what had happened. Thrown
into the midst of the boiling eauldron
of war, and opposed to the immense-
ly superior forces and better arma-
ment of the main operative wing of
the German Armies, Field Marshall's
troops fought like heroes, and even
after a bloody retreat retained the
disipline and the spirit which enabl-
ed them th aid the French at the
Battle of the Marne, to cross the
Aisne, and then, side by side with
General Foeh's valiant troops, to de-
feat decisively the culminating effort
of the enemy at Ypres,
The administration of Lord Hal-
dane had not only giyep ps'tile Expe,
ditionary 'pipe in perfected feena,
but ilapt established behind it the
Special Reserve as a feeder, the Ter-
retorialsfieldarmyforce,and the as a
Offeesupple'i'menrainttUgtary
xd'
Corps as a reservoir of young gft1cars,
All parts of this machinery now cane
into play and enabled us to carry on
while the New Armies were maturing.
Many a Special Reserve Battnljon hhs
now given 409 officers and 15000
trained men as sir ftai ar}tl t1ieic ser-
vices haye been beyenfl praise.The
Territorials oek Aver home efense.
served first as units, and, then in clivi-
sions in rranpe, ffound our garrisons,
notably in Yu ia, sepvpxi i}r other itis;
tant fields, and soon bepan}e indist-
inguishablp from the #?.egluars, Great
have been their merits, and valued
indeed have been their eerviceS, with,
in the dreadfully Barrow }lrnits psi
signed to it ljY Pelipy Aho finance the
orgauixatlen Of the slid Ar1nm and its
reserves wets excellent, and we mg
look back upon it with Just pride,
From the day when it first set foot
in France until the present hour our
Army has steadily grown in numbers
and improved in armament. With
these new advantages, and under the
command of Field Marshall Sir. Doug-
las Haig, it has become a very terrible
instrumeut in battle. But the flow
of volunteers began tO ebb in the
year 1915, leaving us dangerously de-
pleted at its close, and' we were event-
ually compelled to pass the Military
Service Acts in order to secure an
adequate supply of men.
Tile Service Acts permitted about a
lttrlltolt 111en• who should have served
r5 tre excepted, amongst others the
eendpiei tieus objectors, who were
aUtho fixed t}y 1;arlia,nrent to place
prtvate'jt dgn ierlt above ,pudic duty.,
a plaint 111iflr0mec} 'of` la' any dtliel.
state. The Beard e f Trade was gis,
perinittefl tp circulate long lists et
exempted traeles, *holt served to de-
feat th'e intentions of parliament
and the pioirntry, a .nil from the first 4,
last iaeba tinei}ts poim'oined against
the Arniy to deprive it of en: lYeypt'
isfa, t y fo noir} at PY }ip It
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For information that will lead 4) MIO,
discovery or whereabouts of tlyd
person or persons suffering front any
diseas,'s of the Nerves -Skirt- Blood
KK. -snit 5.sthnnal i3rt eititia or Catarrhl
'who cannot be eared at the Qntorie
:Medical institute, 2t3.205 5.'oirgo St,,
Toronto, Correspondence invited.
llas waiting bepn on a s (eptly ss, -
cor tiro 1" iA1 i
pf vie* to its })qt SQ new.
Alt tfise ecCQpt 011e tt cl $xentbtiof4
lra,vo 11, d the r) ei't o lel�'illg tt`; t13°
day With some four or v lniUtpn
tblo-bodied. Men of military Age in
Ova life as a potential reserve, end
if the war gees en we shall have to
chit ippon thel)1, TIp PtsIp pf lite
age limit to the German statidaxd w
also open to us, as well a5 the draft.
Ing to the front of youths under 10-.
The campaign in Trance has been
tbo enly o)reof quip military opera.
flans riesigf nt l»r th0 (e3lorhill Staff
*Welt sank o oblivion ' 0l3 ppp
leading soldiers Wetit almond, Lord
Iiltehenev's predbininalace in the Cab.
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inet then caused his to be the only
military opinion to carry weight, and
until October, 1915, the functions of
our General Staff were virtually in
abeyance. Within this period there
were launched three great oversea ex-
peditions, which have caused us heavy
loss of life, money, war material and
tonnage; have dispersed our resour-
ces; and have not yet brought the
war nearer to an end by a single day.
The epic of the Dardnelles with its
futile heroism, the suffering of our
troops in Mesopotamia, and the long -
drawn out tortures of Salonika, are
stories of heroism and of constancy
which will add many bright pages to
military history. But they were lar-
gely political campaigns; two of them
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