. ri.- ii _ ‘3»'~r.~». A” _ _ -ji-f’:"i1""~ _“ ig. ~"-ti. ' ' 2” ' 3%.! =‘."`1' ‘if - \ ‘r a_\»\'-`_ ‘L Y. r . F. i ' it c " . . t 1. _ i 1 1 ‘Il . ' his __ ,,.,___ ._ ._ i if ' _ . 3'- i fi.. 5. _ .it - L/ . A ~ "i'» - i. il :: .1 » - _ _ » ‘-'=l 5 _ :_ .i - “ il( ri .,~,1-, ;- i-.~ - z_ »».~i'.~., =i l§_i >..=»~c -\ _ .- "f"'v<~ rr _ age’ £'&f2at»‘r,7 N _ _z $- .7'.'»» Fa . [ll . Elf xl .________ _ ._ _,_ __ _ _ >i'»_=$~.'-’-_'__ 1 _ di if =._~i f. .liiil ' li is ' i 'x ' _iii fi, -3-.i. '. 1-. : -i 'a rr 1*: .1-pr . '.'- . 12;; ¢~1‘.Ji..”l .,,_~i_~ Pi \~.».‘iil’.~’ .- _ __... gif J,” 1--_ _ _j-,..- ..:._..-.1.-:__ ;5f7?'~.`h-i‘i .‘ T'f'."*'r7? -; li* ~z fist tbl’ _ l<"f.»i-. -fir.. 2' .fig pill,” »» »; _ ii~?,l_'<_;li.-.- ;~ ~_"i'-i», . _f~_ '.» .i -~ .il lx., ~. 3,93- .., ~-o;lii._if€al _-Mila ' @_»=i'3;l 'Z iff 'lj `; _:Pal il_,-_- _» __ .f>Lf>.l,if-it-»'1‘~; .alll » f,a_ _ i/"il‘ fr .'1€».l J it .., i-_f _ ‘..;li #- 7 fi i§'tf. I; if sa}=_j-i _ 4.. li 1- F `_\ _ ...-'_ . . f ‘ 1. » »‘. l -- \!°-vw i .. 5 Q / _ , f -.............;.,.........._,,....,.~..__....,,....,...,.... ......-...,.,._.._...,........,... | _ l'()SSI]¢LE ELE("l`l01\' _ . 6 3 1071 at 0i`:t§"Y?.h.aS bee? fur" Mr. lgell in the first place_,a`c_ted contrary to according to our des-' the ex ‘ " ' ° w ther' _»'»'»_ ated P Graham in movi ing `c`oi'iscr~1ption of an ex-tension of- iai eral war party and Mr. 1'. F. Pardee w their colleagues. i he has been playing fast and loose with 6 the Laurierites and scriptionists, trying He has never been Mr. Pardee`s pai't cable. Whether t.he to keep in with botli_ It was to be expected that those who _ ia are opposed to the struct its passage a prevent its enactment unless in addition to its open antagonists in the Senate there is a considerable masked opposition there.,` But in the gamble against it they 'have one, more throw. that for a geiiei'al electionf They ti'ied hard for a referendum and fail- 0 ed. The_v favored a latory manoeuvre. election for the sam carry-the day at the would have had the law. A general election is possible. Sir Ro- bert Borden intimated clearly that unani- 0 mity in *the reouest cessary to obtain th rial authorities for Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his followers fl in Quebec, a few representatives of Na- tionalist constituen as E. M. McDonald and J. -l. Hughes will e oppose it. The Western Liberals have al- sophy of war out ofwhich it grows. But ready united as con tion will be run ont scription or anti- sooner it comes the _ _ stop the haggling and the delaying. Siryli Wilfrid Laurier will go to the couiiti‘y as n the leader of the a Robert Borden will conscriptioinists of The tragedy of it is scriptionists. The elec- li that it will be largely c Quebec against the rest of Canada but toid this pass have the political lieelers broughtf o us. and the crime heads. lo( POLI'I`I(.‘.\ L by Mr. Bell on heh I The campaign that is being conducted' achievements of liberalism in Canada is at a a counties cannot but if not contempt, for the man who, past the a zenith of his manhood, has degeneratcd in- m which could emanate If as that whose absolute lost in this world struggle nothing remains in yesterday morning’s` in to a condition from such a “platform” falsity was exposed Guardian. That Mr. Bell should throw to a the winds all consideration of truth and must go, and must go now, every bit of fairness in debate; that he should wilfully in misrepresent known facts, not in ignor- a ange;-fox' he has constantly by him, the throbof heart passion. All is at stake. __ _ Every Canadian is in it. And thereis no satfsafymg an abnormal ambition to bei- way back, no way out. The one wav is hrough. _ . v pvdqfs of his error-in the hope of therebv= come premier, has only one parallel in t these modern days, that is, the “sink every- thing” order that launched the German subm'arine_warfare.and that has sunk be- yond hope of resurrection all that remain- cip e. _ il ed of German honour and German prin- _ _ I . ' 1 _ I l V E ‘ m _against the government was fully thresh- P ed out at the recent session of the legisla- t H] t _ - f- gi ' 1. d ~ _ to in yesterday’s Guardian. This is the ure Ocuinen ary moo m 0 Cla' dn m style of argument followed by the Patriot nd by its leader, Mr. Bell, regardless of controvertible evidence was furnished to show that there was not a scintilla of truth 3 _ the season which produces the madness. It in his allegations; the country at large ac- __ _ _ _ _ cepted these proofs as conclusive and Mr. is the P01103’ Uf throwlng lots of mud 1" the Bell himself and his olleagues were in many cases pompelled: to admit that their: charges against the government had not been substantiated, and yet less than four monthsafterwards Mr, Bel] rehashes 31| the Guar_dian’s article will understand the these allegatimis, knowing them to be un. nature of the alleged admissions. _ ‘ ._»f__ , - D H 56; g§_1__’_1_=f;1i‘_§___; fiiieiias named in`his"5wn;‘pariy. That the _ . _ _ _ _man _ _ it 'will be i'einem Eiepilltable party should descend to Such a . »' _ _y according to our eorres- el pondeiit, took this step in conjunction with game ` ithout consultation with down been regarded as tri;-kigieiiililaixtl ildassaildllliiilitg; ;._'i;'if?_;d everybody as cordially detests the with the Liberal con- his 5_1 trusted by his party but €,]eC_f;],,_ inthe affair is inexpli- has (1 resolution will be with- the" le drawn and this new split in the Liberal To im ° ranks healed reinains to be seci as he Military Service Bill ingul would do @\'@1‘i'tlii11siH thf~'i1‘i><>W@1'f0 eb- aiiv fe-it bv the best thinking Libeieis that nd to at least delay it Mit B ` _ if they could not defeat it. They caiiiiot_pm.t_v fm. many years to c0me_ referendum because it “'li~_h _ _ gave them a chance to defeat the bill and Which IS NOW h0ld1ll9I UD and 0bStI`l1C- because it gave them the certainty of a di- tm?-f They want a general l0Wl e reasons. If they should WPI] _ 1,0115 the Act would be more especially by those who have for many hem up and ,~@,,.~_.a]@,1 as _soon as the n@W,wceks held up the war efforts of parliament Parliament could be assembled. Even if In H _ _ _ _ _ they were_ unsuccessful at the polls they \Wl§01`~ the C'01lSCl`1l)t1°mSl3S and 3"l31'C0n' satisfaction of retard- SCF1 ing the carrying out of the conscription that . may for extension was ne- make necessary all this marshalling of all e consent of the Iinpe- the extension. 'This uiiaiii- tion mity is not now expected. - the cies and such partisans ways hated it, and hates it now more than he definite issue of con-' cannot dodge. The house of our free and] conscription and the comfortable life ‘is .on fire. The flames better so long as it will. shoot out at every window The Nation’s nti-conscriptioiiists. Sli" fort is demanded. T 'The 'call is now, and in . then as now, lead the th both political parties. stake, the thing which the leagued auto- will be upon their own sh rights of world liberalism against the in- -- trigues and the desperateness of absolu- ])EGEN]‘lRi\(_"-Y tiSm_ lf of his candidates in stake in this struggle. If Germany wins the two by-elections in Prince and Kings in 1 ! arouse feelings of pity, C ng “lVlid_-summer Madness’_’ itsfffyes-_ Every charge brought by Mn Bd] terclaysissiie gives an exhibition -of that ------- ---f \4Hl§_` -_UI ll\"|'\ |._.L| |LI\ * ___= may still make_an impression, that some (F__°m~______ "___ c____mp°mM_) r o _ -_ i lvaninloeiiy (foumioii im) _mn laiivmii or by -fue "V310 ggiinatvggnxearéig bettermay bed- 0_l,,mWA__Th mwmem mae ,__ in coma.. me nun for u. a. A. _ 'eve __ 3 _ . _ _ --D - S ;“’l‘0Ug an ,he _commbua o °F,,d__y by 5,, Rob. _ Mr.'BelI;r1ght- In his desperation, as a la_St Q., B,,,d,,,, ,,,,,,”,,,,, ,,.,,,,.,...i 1... ex. 1”"'""f'"i':;"';"_' --rmiiggnhv, Jugv 19, 1917 l`9s0l't» like the Strget urchin Worsted In 'ending We 1"” °' P’""“'“°“t ww i ' fair combat, he ‘resorts to 'mud throwing l from behind a wall, - forcing this contest upon these two ` co_n_stit_uencies _contrary to the known ' wis ln s_ of the 'fdunstituencies themselves, ho aspires to~__th'e leadership of a once is pitit`ul__ i ___ T terybody loyes a ,clean, well-played and even admires the. man who goes to defeat playing the game square- trickster who 'undertakes to “sink ver.vthing,’? even honour, to accomplish rpose. Mr. Bell has been in the poli- field for some time and whatever ad- reputation he may have acquired, he yed it doubly black sincehe undertook adership of the present Liberal party. agirle for a moment that such means has adopted could possibly__ _succeed mong self respecting electo`i‘s"yvould be an t to the electorate and it is very gener- ell has affixed the seal ofdoom to the lo( S'|`IRRlN(il |.ll}FIR_\ L .\ PPE.-\ L. The Toronto Globe, the leading Liberal' rgan in Canada, is evidently not at one that i'eiiinaiit of the Liberal party C-anada`s efforts in the war. The fol- ng burning words fi‘om thc Globe may be taken to heart by Canadians and futile effort to unite the oil .and the ptionists in the Liberal party, in order, thc party as at present constituted not go to pieces: “It is the war itself,-the very conditions f the war, that, in the Globe’s judgment, forces and all the resources of the Na- in defence of the Nation itself, and of world ideas now at stake in the con- ict o'f all nations. “Hate conscription? The Globe has al-.~ ver, and hates the whole impudent philo- ere War is. a terrible fact which Canada. rst call is for fire fighters. Every man is ceded, every power is called for, every ef- is world conflagration the most precious rats set out to destroy, is the spiritual Welling of the world’s democracy, the ark f the woi'ld's covenant in which is en- rined humanity’s historic pledge of the Everything worth fighting for in all the Europe today, nothing in the charter of nada s freedom is secure. If Prussian bsolutism lives world liberalism dies, ust die. The woi'ld is too small foi° both. the right of Belgium to govern itself is the world worth Canada’s having. It’s ll or it’s nothing. And into the struggle an effort, everynunce of life and energy, nd every dollar of money power, and every )0( NOTES - ' ‘ " The Patriot under the appropriate head’-' eculiar malady by repeating the charges ade in its previous issue and fully replied ' Th 2 t' _ ._ _ » "d 'th f_=='f'tt th`k' Patclish-iterdai{_ii1ere1P_s» lp' the “.,"‘°~‘Xf coiieaiiiiiisasifiiiniivliii itiléiaiiiiiserof liirzaiiiiii P°‘.'~'3¢d‘Wld '_`SUl’l9`¥`1Fg1.I1.¢3,' 3151011 0.-»Ml*`.,_~’GW’°gP " i ninghe has disgusted ydry many of the _ _ n ' ‘ 'VI hope that some of it will stick. It even goes so far as to say that the Guardian “ad-_ mitted” the truth of some of the allega- tions made by, Mr. 'Bell. Those who read lday. greatly interests the p0lillCl8l1B and others. ‘Whether the resolution will be pressed to a dlvlsioii Bild CBI” tried depends to some extent on the gatlltgde of .the Llberals who favor 1 conscrlpllon. A _number of these are .es strongly opposed to an extension as they are favorable tn conscrlptlon. carry. ,but the vote will not be.any-_ thlng llkofunanlmousf The conscrlp~ tlon Liberals mhy favor ii union gov- .ernn_;ent~'-Sume ot them certnlnlydo country and the mandate which would result therefrom ls deslrable ln the ,enforcement ot the uct. ' Likewise' some of .them are objecting to any ,proposal which would be designed _to_ dlsfranchlse naturalized' citizens ol lforelgn natlonallty. The conscrlptioni Llberalsare to have ri meeting in a day or two to consider the situation and `upon the conclusions reached much will depend as to the dlsposi- tion ot the extension proposal. ll ls not expected. however. tlial. any' thing will occur- to hui' the way to al loasi a partial nmalgamatlon of forces for llie period of the war. ll' a iinlor is effected' lt may come at once, but there are not a few \vlio believe that the western members who are warn' advocates ol' conscrlption will await their convention which ls to be belt in Winnipeg early next monlli. Thai gathering ls expected to declare ouf and out lor conscrlptioii, but at thr same time to glve expression to some radical views, fiscal and otherwise under circumstances such as these involves the overcoming of not a fei- obstacles. Next \veek's development: are being awaited with great inter est. What most people want to know ls whether the prevailing uncertainty is to be cleared by a general election The posltlon ol’ the conscrlptlon Lib ei-als will help to clear the air. In cldentally the union scheme mn) come to a head uno way or the oth er. ' The conserlption bill is no\v ready for third reading. So far as genera! discussion is concerned the lon; struggle is practlri-illy over. The Ins' test will come on Tuesday, when th' (_‘omni.ons will vole on the third read ‘ ing. It is_nltogetlier likely that thi nnti-conscriptionlsts will submit one or more amendments, one ol’ then being a demand for a general elec tlon _before the hlll becomes operat ive. But the dlsciiss-ion on these am.. eiidments will be short-lived, and thc result ls a foregone conclusion, Th( final ii_` 'l'lie |