Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1918-01-19
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/pwv/items/1.0374021/source.json
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note: k Week A British Columbia Newspaper and Review [Vol. XV, No. 36—15th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, January 19th, 1918 5c a copy $2.00 a year I Military Police THE military authorities are calling for thirty men for military policemen. The pay is $1.10 a day with 80c a day ration ■ allowance for those living at home, and $25.00 a month ieparation allowance. Just what their duties are are not definitely Itated, but apparently the bait offered to the civil police of $10 per liend for eaeh "deserter" arrested has not had the desired effect and ■he military powers have decided to do the "rounding up" themselves. It requires very little imagination nofv to picture a posse of armed Inen with blood-hounds searching the woods for poor misguided speci- Inens of humanity who have got it into their heads that it is wrong lo take human life and that they have the right to refuse to do so. However, that is what we voted for on December 17th. If we don't like it, it's our own fault. As Mark Twain says, "You can grin and ■ear it—or you needn't grin." Canada is a free country. Anybody Bill tell you that. But not too free. Just the proper amount of Breedom that allows every one to do what they are told, no more and Bo less. And just enough freedom to allow us to say what we are told, lo more and no less. A man is "free" to live on the fat of the land— ■' he can find the fat to live on. If not, he is "free" to lick his chops B'hile he watches the food people who have the fat eat it. "Free," ■ hen he loses one job, to go and look for another, and when his Biddies get too persistent in their demands for linings for their boots ■ml stomachs, he is "free" to take a job at $1.10 a day hunting men ■dio are so foolish as to think they ought to be "free" from being ■unted: men who are so crazy that they refuse to be parties to any ■Ian that would destroy other human beings made in the image of Bod himself. Of course, Canada is "free"! Everybody knows it! ■'hat's why we elected the Union Goover…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374021
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/
is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text