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THURSDAY. JUNE 21, 1917
THE DEBATE AT OTTAWA.
The conscription debate is on at
Cttawa. Sir Robert Bordeo, in pre-
senting the bill for its second reading,
epoke briefly. He pieced on the records
official estimates of the number of
men in Canada between the ages of
twenty and forty-five. The main
touts were as follows : Total number
of unmarried men. 790,453 ; married
men, 13.21,1196 ; between the ages of all
and 24. boob inclusive, single men.
819,610 ; married saes. 66.247 ; between
the ages of 25 and IM, sfsgle men. 205,-
125 ; married men, 163,369 ; between
the ages of 30 and 34, single men, 112,-
011 ; married men, 198,E Thies gays
• total. both emu rasa bsti"unmarried,
between the &gee of Maud 34, Tooth in -
derive. of 1,011ti,0100. Between the ages
of 'a) and 34 the total number of single
men was estimated at 930,749, and the
total number of married men between
those ages 429,944. The Premier esti-
mated that • total of 35 per cent.
would have to be taken from this
total as unfit. He asked that there be
no delay in sending reinforcements to
the gallant C•nadiaos at the firing
line.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier followed the
Premier and in calm and moderate
language presented a closely -reasoned
argument against the hill. He pointed
out that since the declaration of war
the Opposition had supported all the
Government's measures for the presto
cution of the war, although often
sorely provoked by the ;While' ot the
Government to measure up to its
duties. In opposing the present bill
he (Mir Wilfrid) did so rather in
sadness than otherwise. The Govern-
ment was introducing a measure
which 'overthrew what bad been the
law of the land from Canada's earliest
days, and all he asked was that the
voice of the people should be heard on
the question. The present Parliament
had no right to pass the measure.
Extension of the legal term of Parlia-
ment had been consented to after Sir
Rohert Borden had given a pledge
that there would be no com-
pulsion in the raising of the 5011,000
men that he had offered to contribute
from Canada. Further, the present
Parliament was not complete. There
were twenty vacant seat,, and there
were twenty more seats to which the
Western Provinces were entitled and
which would be added to the represen-
tation in a new Parliament. Con-
ecription was introduced in Great
Britain only after long preparation ;
k was not brought on of a sudden.
Another difference was that in Britain
the Perlis:neat heti been complete at
all Umar, every seat becoming vacant
having been filled at once by a bye -
election. Thus the Britiah Parliament
was kept in touch with the people.
• Sir Wilfrid declared that the meas-
ure would produce, had already pro-
duced, lines of cleavage among the
people. A strong feeling against con-
scription existed among the working -
people, not because they were less pa-
triotic, but because they felt that If
they were to be celled upon to give up
their Hoeg the wealthy classes should
at least Bite their money in support of
the cause.- As for the people of Que-
bec, Sir Wilfrid regretted that more
of them bad not enlisted, but be
pointed out that enlistment had pro-
ceeded in inverse order to the length
of time men had been in this country.
Those horn In Britain were at the top
of the list ; after them came the Eng-
lish -,peaking natives of Canada, and
after them the French-Canadian., who
had no relatives le either Britain nr
France. Further, since the French-
CrAadIane were disarmed after the
British eonqueet of Canada, they had
been an unm(litary people. Any miH-
tatey organisation that bad existed
had beton on paper only ; It was never
actually established In the Province.
A few rtgimemta had been established
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THE SIGNAI. - GODERICH, ONTARIO
lin the cities, but In the rural parts of
the Province there was no military
organisation. Minos 1910, when the
Conservative -Nationalist alliance won
the Arthabaska bye -election oo theory
of "No participation in war," this
eentimeot had beim encouraged. end
was it surprising there had keen so
little enlistment In Quebec ? What
effort had been made at recruiting in
that Province had beau very badly
bend led.
With such • state of affairs, was it
wise to force upou the people com-
pulsory service ? "Whisk is the
course most conducive to success in
the war—compulsion with Irritation
and bitterness and • sure of intoler-
ance end injustice, or consultation
with consequent unioo and universal
satisfaction all round fTbe solution
of the problem, said ylt' Wilfrid, was
to consult the people, and he proposed
that this should be done by means of
a referendum. When the verdict of
the people bad been given there oould
be no further question, everybody
would have to submit to the law, and
Sir Wilfrid gave his pledge for the
French-Canadian people that every
utero should do service as well as any
other man of any other race.
Sir George Footer, in his reply to
Sir Wilfrid, declared that the men at
the front must be supported, and
voluntary recruiting having failed
new measures were necessary. A ref-
erendum, be declared, wee '•a miser-
able, dilatory substitute" for the bill.
EDITORIAL NOTEN.
Coote to Goderich for Dominion
Day.
Mir John Willison has retired from
The Toronto News and 18 said to be
slated for .senatorship, '•Dehiortuis—"
Perhaps the beet thing that can be
maid for the referendum proposal is
that it will tend to the preservation of
Canadian unity. That is a most im-
portant consideration.
('onscriptionistsahould not be afraid
of a referendum. The great objection
it that thepolling of the people would
deter Sim Attlee of the ranks of the
Canadian fighting forces.
_
Gadsby says the reason Boursesa
and Lavergne are not compelled to
ceaM.' their seditious talk is that the
nils.' they are making is supposed to
be making votes for the Btorden Gov-
ernment in the rest of Canada.
Canada iso reaping the harvest
from the seeds so by the Conserva-
tive -Nationalist Alli of 1911. Had
Mr. Borden good by the agreement on
naval policy established between the
two parties in 1909, instead of trying
to catch Quebec votes by deserting
that agreement, there would not be
the present trouble with Qnebee-
If we remember rightly, it is in one
of ian Maclaren's books that the tient-
OM caution in the use of words is
strikingly exemplified. Among the
people of Naclaren's stories it was not
considered 'rood fern tomes- of a heavy
rain that 'tit came down in torrents,"
as such an expression left no provi-
sioh;for describing the Flood, -The
(ditto of The Orillia Packet evidently
is not of Scottish blood, else he would
not be guilty cf such a piece of hyper-
bole as this from last week's Packet
'Thr Liberal. have again carried
Alberta, by a majority about the Nattte
as last time, practically two to one.
The Opposition had no chance against
as unscrupulous& gang of dice -loading
as
rascals ever disgraced a Province,'
What will The Packet say when the
returns of the Saskatchewan elections
give it another disappointment ?
Hot-headed advocates of e(necriptiun
should bear in mind that violent
language or an attitude of contempt
towards opponente of conscription
will not help their-9augr. Some of those
who now so strongly denonnee anti-
conseriptioniete have not themselves
leen very long in the faith, and they
should not be so hart on those who
are not able to change their opinions
leo rapidly. Am 1 h Toronto Star said
on Tuesday, the question should be
considered "with malice towards
none and charity for all." The trouble
with The Star is that it dost[ not live
up to its own percepts'. The headings
on its front page of the same issue,
insinuating that "exempt.'" and.'vanion
were the main pointe of the addressees
of Sir 1Vilfrid Laurier and other
Liberals, and that the advocate+ of
FL referendum were insincere, were
discreditable to a newspaper
calling Itself Liberal. The ques-
tion is a good deal broader than
The Star just at present appesarw to gee
it. It, is not, How can Canada get the
greaategt number of men in uniform
in the shortest poseible time ? -hut,
How can Nanada put the greatest
amount of strength behind the efforts
of the Allies in winning the war ? To
imagine that the raising of another
hundred thousand troops is the reply
to the question betrays • very narrow
view of the situation. We do not op-
pose ennseriptinn, hut we do oppose
the tendency to make it the sate tool-
ing -point and to laaapoen and an-
tagonize thole who are not In favor of
the measure. Caned& needs the united
efforts of ell its people is this great
eri.ia, and • supreme effort showed be
made W avoid • division of the people.
Hays The Oelltia Packet, In response
to The Signal'r invitation to state Ito
rearms for disliking "O Canada :"
"The worths of 0 Canada aro com-
monplace kith, sxtreme,artd the music
sounds more like a funeral dire than a
stirring call to patriotism of a htu
ynof
probate Has the editor of The Signal
eves watched the faces of a crowd
singing 0 Canada ? 1f s*. has he
noted the slightest siggn of the stir-
ring of emotion or patr'tutisui ? The
sung was written without tion, the
waste was composed without soul, and
naturally it is sung without any effect
whatever, barring. more or less, a
measure of depression. Put 0 Canada
alongside any other national anthem[
in the world, and it is almost a Com-
pliment to call it contemptible —it is
beneath contempt. Or take ' Scote
Wha Ha.' Note the effect of the sing-
ing of it on even au audience of dud.
lands. It would almost put life into
lifrle'es clay ; whereas our poor paltry
pipe is more likely to make omen of
spirit, or wen of mu-ical taste, laugh
and dogs howl. In the nature of
thing's 0 Canada could not be any-
thiug but paltry and unsatisfying,
There it in it no hint or suggestion of
the very tap -snot of British patriot-
ism, which is found in the glorious
history and tratlitiuus of our race. The
ridiculously euwrculated pr duction
was prepared with a single eye to
the french Nationalist market, and in
that market it has been welcomed
with open arms. This sigoiflcant fact
alone ought_ to condemn it with all
wtuose patriotism is not the patriotism
"f the people who are ever ready to
sing 0 Canada., and equally ready to
Mot) any speaker who suggest* to
thew that they owe a duty to the Em-
pire. and to humanity as well."
Tastes differ. We have always con-
sidered "O Canada" a fine piece of
music and observed with satisfaction
its growing acceptance as Canada's
national air. Ae for the words, there
are different "versions," and appar-
ently the
pparentlythe people have not yet definitely
accepted any one of these as their
flnal choice. The decision will come
with time. The Packet is unfortunate
in choosing "Scots Wha Hae" as a
contrast. Anyone who knows any-
thing about Scottish music can name
a dozen airs that are more stirring
than "Scots Whe Hae." We speak of
the music only; as to the worls,that is
a different matter. if the French-
Canadians whom The Packets heart-
ily detests (except when they support
a Tory Government) were to sing any-
thing half so hostile to England and
the English as some of the old Scottish
songs that are commonly' sung, The
Packet would be satisfied with nothing
less than the gibbet for the singers
Anybody who allows hislittle political SALTS IF mica
prejudices to govern his likes and dos-
likes in the matter of music is not
His propositloo warn turned doers, and
Cowaat'vsitve M. P.'a who never Wok
any Interest In the militia In the days
tI /reser were made limetenaot-ool-
otlals had put In comssaed of repl-
enish'.
q d-
etest•. bloat of them are back i■ the
liaise, as the closest they got to the
firing was Eoglaod. 'here Is no
gwstioo that the Duly reason for
turnlag down the offer of an artillery
officer like Flank Oar yell was Niceties
be was a Liberal M. P., and then we
are told there le no politics in the ad-
wlulsiration of our nelitia affairs."
♦�� Sewer, of Mexican dills.
When anyone bends you a floe -dollar
hill take s good look at It before ac-
cepting it at lace vslue. It may be
one of the Mexican variety of the vint-
age of 1914, which are worth just
about 13 cents. The market never
varies more than a Nation of a farth-
ing either side of the 13 -cent mark, the
batiks state. That there are quite a
number of the bill. In circulation ap-
pear. to be certain and many who do
not look closely accept them as five -
dollar Canadian or American bills.
NATIONAL UNiry IMPERILLED ?
The letter in which the Hon. E. L.
Patenaude, sate Secretary of State in
the Ottawa Cabinet, tendered his
resignation to the Premier lays em -
phalli upon • phaseof the ,xinseription
difficulty W which careful attertion
must be paid. The letter is as fol-
lows :
"Dear Sir ttobert,—On the Nth of
Maylast you acquainted the House
wityour intention of preeentio a
bill to provide for compulsory enlist-
ment during the present war. From
the moment you submitted this inten-
tion to the council 1 drew your atten-
tion W its extreme gravity and to
the consequences which to my mind
would follow. I have, however,
thought it my duty in these critical
timer to abstain from say hasty de-
cision, as long as 1 could entertain the
hope Duet these considerations, as well
as the very serious events which were
meanwhile developing, would induce
'you to modify, if not oowpletely
change your decision. 1 cannot now
expect that my hope will be realised ;
you have, in fact, decided to introduce
without further delay your proposed
bill and have it passed during this
session.
Threatens National Unity.
"Therefore, I feel bound to sever
my connection with the Cabinet nn
this question. I have always thought,
sad do et tbink, that the best inter
est& of Canada make it a duty for this
country to give to the cause of the
Allies its most generous support. But
to do this 1 cannot concur in any
measure which. in my estimation,
imperils national unity. The proposed
law. I have every reaeon to fear,
threaten., to destroy this unity, and,
likely to have much weight as a
musical critic.
EDITORIAL GLEANINGS.
Comment is inside upon the fact that
the Liberal osenwjtte as Ottawa
which has been working out the
party's policy for presentation to
caucus is composed entirely of men
who have given sons to the Empire.
The members are said to he Messrs.
Graham, with one son at the front;
Lemieux, with Doe son enlisted ; E. M.
MacDonald. with one son oh active
service and another ready to go;
Oliver, with one eon a' the front and
one killed in action ; Cruise, whose son
was killed in action, and who bas an-
other 1100 at the front, and Levi
Thompson, whose son has just been
wounded at the front.
The following is from The Leth-
bridge Herald, a newspaper owned
and edited by a Grit M. P., the Hon.
W. A. Buchanan : "'The zealous ('on-
servative partisan points to the Con-
servative M. P.'s in khwki and h'
to-
pers', if he does not say it out loud,
We've got all the loyalty, fir zee all
the Tory M. P.'s in khaki and only a
few Grits.' True, there are more Tory
M. P.'s in khaki than there are Lit).
era's, and it would seem that the Grits
weren't given much encouragement to
serve their country at the time the
War beget'. Frank B. Carvell, Liberal
M. P., was an artillery officer in New
Brunswick. Ai an officer during time
of peace. he felt It his duty to come
forward and offer his services when
real fighting was to he bad. He offered
to raise • battery and go to the front.
AND IOwNEvs HURT
Drtak lots ef water and stop sating
nest ase a while if year Ineeker
tavaltles yea.
When yen wake up with h•skasii iM
dull misery 1a the loss region it flim'
meek meet, you have seting lee
, mays • well-known authority.
Meat forms uric acid whish overworks
the kidneys in their effort to filter it
from the blood and t1,ey become sort of
paralysed and doggy. When your kidneys
(M sluggish sod clog you must relieve
them, like you relieve your bowels; re-
moving all the body's urinous waste,
else you have backasbe, sick headache.
(dizzy spells; your stomach sours,
tongue
is coated, and when the matter is bed
1. ou have rheumatic twinges. The urine
cloudy, full of sediment, enamels often
fret sore, water scalds and you are obliged
to seek relief two or three times during
the night.
Either consult a ittwd, reliable
physi-
cian at once or from your
p trm
ist
about four ouncesof Jed Salla
ake
• tablespoonful in a emus of water
before breakfast for a few days and your
kidneys will then set Ane. This fame
salts is made from the acid of
and lemon juice, combined with rachis,
sad has been used for generations to
clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys,
also to neutralize acids in the urine so it
tunel r irritates, thus ending bladder
Jad Ralta is a life sneer for regular
meat sates It is inezpensive, cannot
injure aad makes a delightful, aHer-
vescent litkia-water dri•i.
War Office Post for C.P.R. Maiager
AJOR
George Mt.
Laren
iBrown. Reserve ot
Officers, Canadian
1,11lItla, has been
hppolnted Assist-
ant Director (un-
paid I at the War
Oaee. with the
rank of Lieut
Colonel while so
employed.
Major McLaren
Brown Is the Eu
trope
Manager
of the Canaddtin
Pacific Railway
and was born In
Hamilton, Ont.,
to 1145, 61.
father, Adam
Brown. being s
Reotam.• from
i).m1rleshlre,
sad his mother an
toot ohwoman
Iran h try.
617 he wee StASO t a. Met. DROWN
egMneed stent ter the (]Montan Paeine Railway
Ors yeas Mar to b MEL General at vanroaver. ptrisetd
watisissearttf Mssmoe to tors EreeuU,. Ag Angst Western , o foi sad
mill �V are Oar Dept. sea ()enure[ PPWe i •r Age of Nete1•
IltaanalalD Lassa l• MA Mayor Mown ems appointed pointe e. R.
M rook
ANI anal 1m lila Oes.rat Europese Mas ,ate beta,
/ . Mertes eters lamas'. ft la.
la all lbws paramon IP atm Ott r te aroma Ma skews sites( yaaa.ry
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to my mind, give rise throughout the
country to deep internal divisions of
long duration and even detrimental
to the needs of the present moment.
Indeed, it is better to keep the count, y
united in the present effort than to
attempt a mightier one &t the cost of
national disruption.
"i, therefore, find myself unable to
approve of the intended law, ano the
only course open to me is to offer my
resignation as • Minister of theCiown.
"However, i wish to declare that in
coming to this decision i do not intend
to aseoeiate myself in any way with
the extreme views which from differ-
ent parrs of the country have during a
long time been preparing, and have
rend. eel pomihle the internal divi-
sioos which i have referred to. 1 pro-
foundly deplore these extreme views'
and still bops that all true Canadians
in and nut of Parliament will realieel
the imminence of the danger, will seek
to eliminate its causes and spy t1j
[bear beet efforts to the of upign4ng
this country.
'i beg of you, d r Sir Robert. to
interpret my preset resignation and
the remarks wbic accompany it me in
no way cor.veyin any criticism of the
rectitude of your lotentions, or of the
sincerity of the patriotism wh'ch has
always inspired you in the govern-'
ment of this cnuntry Yours truly,
"(Signed) E. L PATRNADDg."
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