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NEXT WEBK.« Pull Text of the Inter-Allied Socialists Programme The Week Published by W. B. Peirce, In tbe Interest ol Good Government, Temperance, Single Tax and Sane Socialism Victoria, B.C., Canada, May 18th, 19" * 5c. a copy $2.00 a year THE DEFENCE FUND See fi^ The Vancouver Disaster THE terrible accident to the Vancouver Fire Brigade, which has resulted in the death of four invaluable lives, is a sharp reminder of the risks which firemen run in the normal course of duty. Press reports indicate that the accident was caused: (1) By the existence of a positive danger spot at the intersection of Commercial Drive and Twelfth Avenue, and (2) By the fact that a B. C. Electric car was travelling at not less than average speed. The acci- *dent might therefore havo been prevented by civic improvements at the point of danger oven if these required the expropriation of nearby property; by the installation of a fire alarm system covering all sections of the city; and by insisting ou a cessation of all traffic until after the brigade had passed. These reforms should be put into operation at once. The lesson to be learned is that a stitch in timfe saves nine. And that lesson must be pressed upon the Mayor and Aldermen of this City. The Week is informed by the Fire Chief that there are two danger spots, from,his standpoint, in the City of Victoria. The first is at the corner of Fort and Quadra and the second is at the corner of Pandora and Quadra. These two places should at once be improved to the satisfaction of the Fire Chief, and the alarm system should be extended to cover these two points at least. Prompt action in this matter is imperative. Two accidents to the Fire Brigade have already occurred at these death corners. Except for a piece of miraculous uriving and exceptionally good fortune, the former of the two accidents would have resulted just as disastrously as the calamity in Vancouver. Mayor Todd should make this matter his special business and see to it that before he leaves office Victoria is rendered secrtre from a needless accident such as just brought death to four brave men, bereavement to young families, and sorrow to the whole Province. The cost of placing fire-horns at the points mentioned is estimated at about $1(15 and this is surely little enough outlay for a life saving improvement. Special Privilege on the Warpath SPECIAL privilege is already mobilizing its forces. Under the euphemistic title The Canadian Industrial. Reconstruction Associativa, the parasites of Canada are banding together for united action. Those reformers who have deluded themselves into the belief that the idle rich will, after the war, forego their stranglehold on the Dominion, must prepare themselves for a rude shock. Before the war these men dominated the country; during the war they have accumulated millions at the expense of their fellows; after the warthey propose to march on to still further depredations. With tbis purpose in view the Canadian Industrial Reconstruction Association has been organized. The Provisional Executive Committee consists of some fourteen "Esquires," one Senator, two Knights, one Lieut.-Col., and one Major. These men have issued a circular designed to enlist the sympathy and support of the ignorant and the gullible. The circular speaks of: (1) Maintaining industrial stability; (2) Securing wise and prudent treatment of reconstruction problems. (3) Securing unity, stability and prosperity. How worthy thc purpose and how lofty the ideal to whicli these altruists thus dedicate their lives! The Association is of tlie opinion that "Parliament will legislate more wisely and the public will judge legislation more fairly if actual knowledge of working conditions is disseminated together with a forecast of the probable effects of new legislation." Of course the altrusitic Industrial Reconstruction Association will do the necessary forecasting. It would never do to allow the ignorant masses to do their own guessing. Peradventure they might occasionally stumble on the truth and that calamity must at » all costs '*e avoided. The Association further proposes "to maintain a sympathetic attitude towards projects of land settlement, cooperative organizations, and pinna to improve rural conditions," so long as these do not menace tho domination of monopoly and special privilege. But when they do begin to undermine the authority of the ground-hogs then will the Association become most decidedly unsympathetic. "Facts should be more influential than opinions," says the circular. Quite so. And the purpose of the Association therefore is to supply facts, duly selected, garbled and—if necessary— invented. With the right brand of facts at its disposal "Parliament will he strengthened to resist doubtful proposals." To bo sure. And a doubtful proposal, of course, is one which will inspire doubts and fears in the hearts of the voracious niembers of the Canadian Industrial Reconstruction Association. The circular goes on to indicate two proposals which it must, with mnny regrets of course, place in the "doubtful" category. These are "direct taxation" and "free-trade within the British Empire." "Direct taxation is a grave danger," so we are informed by tbis precious circular. "Land taxation will greatly retard immigration and settlement." Of courso it will. All immigrants much prefer to hand over their linrd-enrned wealth to the plutocrats of the Canadian Industrial Reconstruction Association. To deprive them of this inestimable privilege will certainly ninkc tliem choose lands where governments are more sympathetic towards monopoly. Land-value taxation reduces thc purchase price of land and of course all immigrants strongly object to reasonable land prices. Land-value taxation forces lnnd into use and increases the opportunities nnd remuneration of labour. No wonder these amiable industrial reeonstructors view with grave doubts the proposal to tax land values. They much prefer a continuance and further increase of the customs tariff. Under it they bave waxed fat and its perpetuation ensures that their heirs, successors and assigns will wax fat also. Therefore our self-appointed advisors are quite sure that customs duties must continue to be the chief source of revenue. This naturally leads to a firm rejection of the proposal to establish free trade within the Empire. It appears the Imperial Government has appointed a committee to consider a resolution adopted by the Imperial War Conference, 1917, which declared that tbe time had arrived to make the empire independent of other countries for its food and other vital supplies. This fills the Canadian Industrial Reconstruction Association with great alarm. It seems to pressage a measure of free-trade within the Empire. They, therefore, bravely assure us that "it is important that in any such inquiry ..the interests of the Dominions should not be prejudiced PEACE OVER EARTH AGAIN Rejoice, 0 world of troubled men; For peace is coming back again— Peace to the trenches running red, Peace to the hosts of the fleeing dead. Peace to the fields where hatred raves, Peace to the trodden battle-graves. 'Twill be the peace the Master left To hush the world of peace bereft— The peace proclaimed in lyric cries That night the angels broke the skies. Again the shell-torn hills will be All green with barley to the knee; And little children sport and run In love once more with earth and sun. Again in rent and ruined trees Young leaves will sound like silver seas; And birds now stunned by the red uproar Will build in happy boughs once more; And to the bleak uncounted graves The grass will run in silken waves; And a great hush will softly fall On tortured plain and mountain wall, Now wild with cries of battling hosts And curses of the fleeing ghosts. And men will wonder over it— This red upflaming of the Pit; And they will gather as friends and say, "Come, let us try the Master's way. Ages we tried the way of swords, And earth is weary of hostile hordes. Comrades, read out His words again; They are the only hope for men! Love and not hate must come to birth: Christ and not Cain must rule the earth." —Edwin Markham. M m m m i m m m m m m m M ■fi m m m M m m m m m 1 m 1 I 1 1 m m by neglect or want of knowledge." Of course these monopolists are not in the least concerned with iheir own interests. Their motto is pro bono publico. Nevertheless the public will be wiBO to keep a sharp eye on the future movements of the vampires who comprise the membership of the Canadian Industrial Reconstruction Association. Otherwise the future welfare of the Dominion will be seriously jeopardized. The perpetuation of specinl privilege, land monopoly, and customs tariffs, mean the perpetuation of poverty, slums and preventible disease, enormous infantile mortality, and the ten thousand other evils for which the capitalistic system is responsible. And if these things lie continued much longer there will be an uprising of the common people such as the world has not seen since thc days of tho bloody French Revolution. Only $70 a Year 'HOSE interested in the discussion on 'Whnl Is Capital?' may derive consolation, or the reverse, from figures thai have been compiled dealing with incomes in the United States. They show, according to the income tax returns for 1.010, that 437.0311 persons in America had incomes of more than $3,(100 a year. It was also figured out that if all the rich people in flic United States were abolished nnd their incomes divided among the «*p "0 rest, the net proceeds to the community would be only $70 a year apiece. Figures of this nature do not constitute a very powerful argument'for the conscription of wealth."—Colonist, Alay 12th. We have no wish to abolish "all the rich people in the United States or Canada, and we do not belong to the class who imagine that any system of "dividing up" would do any good. As a mntter of fact, it's the dividing up that, we object to. There is too much of it going on now. We want every man to be able to keep all he can earn. But we do object to tbe Colonist's way of saying "only $70 o year," and arguing that these figures do not constitute a very powerful argument for the conscription of wealth. Taking it for granted that the Colonist is correct in its quotation, it would lie interesting to note just what $70 a year for every member of the community amounts to. ' Taking the population of Victoria to lie 40,d00, it would mean $2,800,000 per annum, not an inconsiderable sum. To a family of six persons it would mean a difference of $8 per week—and yet the Colonist says "only." There are a good many families in Victoria who would be "tickled to death" with "only" $8 a week increase. But the most striking illustration of the value of $70 per head comes when we figure on the whole of Canada. Allowing for a population of eight millions it gives a yearly income of 500 million dollars—an income sufficient to keep our war expenses paid right up to date, and then some. And yet the Colonist talks of it as "only $70" and says that it does not constitute a very powerful argument for the conscription of wealth. lFe beg to differ! In another column we reprint an article on conscription of wenlth recently published by the Great War Veterans Association. It reads well in connection with the above. , Farmers' Exemptions TTAWA, May 9.—"If a scattered.and broken remnant, overwhelmed because not reinforced, should return to Canada, it would profit little to tell them that while ihey were being decimated our production bad lieen largely increased."—Sir Robert Borden. "The campaign for the increased production of food stuff now launched by the Canada Food Board is of the most vital importance to the victory of the Allied cause. The crisis is grave and urgent beyond possibilty of exaggeration."—Sir Robert Borden. It is hard to understand how any man who honestly believed the latter statement could use the former as an excuse for taking men who are essential on farms and placing them in the nrmy. ' As an illustration of this kind of thing there is a farmer just north of this city whose two sons do practically all the work. One is under ngo and the other has been called up. He was a good farmer but will make a very unwilling soldier, und would be worth fur more to his country as n producer than he will ns a fighter. Nevertheless, in spite of the statement flint "The fond crisis is grave beyond possibility of exaggeration," he has to go. "// a Starving army in Flanders should call lo us in vain for food this Fall, il would profit litlle to tell them that we sent lo help them the very men who could have produced Ihe food." Bast vs. West WE are informed that, by recent order of Headquarters at Ottawa, no ollicers from the West may proceed overseas. Eastern officers only are allowed thnt privilege, even with Western drafts. Il wns published that British Columbia had been, invited to contribute tu the Tank Battalion, but highly qualified local officers who promptly tendered their services were met by tlie edict: "None but Easterners may apply." Benson given: Saving in transportation. If is said thnl several officers offered to pay their own transportation to a point within the favored zone, bnt were (old curfly, "Decison final. Mntter closed." They, ns soldiers, can go no further. What is the reason for this discrimination against the West? The Story of Confederation THE subject of confederation was never dealt with more in- . .ructively mid interestingly than by K. K. Gosnoll of this city. His hook, "The Story of Confederation," ($1.60 at all booksellers) is one which should be in the homes of Canadians in general and Victorians in particular. Mr. Qosnoll is evidently a great admirer of the Fathers of Con federal ion. He writes as one who regards political union rather thnn economic prosperity as the goal of empire, lie dwells on the splendid faith mid foresight of the men who brought the various Provinces of Brilish North America into close politoal union, lie is blissfully ignorant or blindly indifferent to the fuel tlmt these men left tllc door wide open for special privilege and selfish monopoly lo bleed generation after generation of Canadians while. Vol what else enn be truthfully snid of tho men who, with the awful example of Europe before them, allowed undeserved mid preventible poverty, disease and death to levy toll on their fellow countrymen i Men were escaping from Europe to avoid the evils inseparable from bind monopoly. Why did these grent iircn with the splendid vision allow similar evils to lie reproduced here? Elsewhere Page Two THE WEEK SATURDAY, MAY 18 tbe march of civilization and the coming of the age of industrialism had brought riches to the few and grinding poverty to the many. Why did not the Fathers of Confederation so sow as to ensure a harvest of contentment and prosperity in this fair Canada of ours ? Rightly directed, the C. P. R. might have become an immense boon to the Canadian nation. In fact and experience, it has become its abiding curse. Given reasonable vision and foresight the broad acres of tho Canadian West might have become tbe home of millions of free and independent citizens. History is demonstrating that in Canada as elsewhere the people are becoming more and more sharply divided between the "Haves" and the "Have nots." The few attain to positions of ease, luxury and independence; the many become dumb driven wage slaves and casual laborers. Tbe Fathers of Confederation had a dream of empire but it was an empire of might and extensive territory. They were proud of the empire upon which tho sun never sets although it contains millions of human beings for whom the sun never rises. Men of vision forsooth! The Fathers of Confederation had about as much vision ns the average monopolist and . multi-millionaire Vision was the one thing they lacked. Thoy were of the earth, earthly. And inasmuch as this side of things appears to have escaped the notice of R. E, Gosnel, we can only conclude that he, too, lacks the vision of the golden age when all men shall lie equal in their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The words "empire," "confederation," etc., huve come to mean little or nothing to the average man on the street. He is more interested in solving the problem of making the earth n suitable dwelling plnce for himself nnd his children nnd of making life itself a little more tolerable than it is at present. Sfi LETTERS TO THE ffl Si EDITOR ffi m as (Letters to the Editor on any subjeel of general interest will be published in these columns. They must be accompanied by Ihe name and address of lhe writer, which will be treated in strict confidence if so desired. Short letters ore preferred.-—Editor.) Federated Lahor Party of Canada Vancouver, May 15, 1018. To the Editor of the Week. The significance of tlie growth of tlie Federated Labor Party of Cnnndn mny he attributed to the fact that each male and female member is a teacher nud an organizer, with the power lo cinch Iheir arguments with tlieir ballot, with deliberate materialistic aforethought. We have a spun of lime before us prior to the next election, nnd, it is to our concerted efforts during this nil too short period of time that I address this cnll to the "gentlemen of lnbor," from Halifax to Victoria, hoping Hint their wives and sisters will not clnim "exemption" from organizing services. Nail the street car conductor ou the back of the car, nlso cntch the interested listeners on the rear end. A heart to hear talk with the employees where you work, in the noon hour, is part of your duties as n member. Pester your store clerk, chase your barber, hound your dentist, quiss the waitress, convince your doctor, grab the bnker, make the butcher bring home the bacon, tnlk to the milkman, tag the tailor, line up your fraternal brethren and club members, rope in the undertaker, tnlk it over with the policeman, get the postman nnd letter sorters by writing on your envelopes, bombard your, editors, slam the "knocker," smile on the booster. Local parlies, get your weekly meetings going, soeinls, picnics, speaker's clnsses, learn lo talk, write nbout it. tnlk about it, work ou it. Leave nothing to George. Are you selling any literature? If you are dead, you need an undertaker; if you are tired you need a bed; if you are dead fired of present conditons, you need a pdliteal change. Deliver the "punch." We desire wizards thut enn "WIZ." Sure you disagree with us on nearly everything, we expect yon to, HUT listen, you agree with us to tin1 point that it is necessary for lhe manual nml professional workers to gain politic!]! control, and we will agree witli every other iliini thing you nsk. If you differ from us on the political issue, well, we arc really alive nnd willing to actively oppose you. We have no personal animosity toward present political representatives. They are nol obnoxious, but Iheir intent or degree of misunderstanding of modern Slate requirements "gels our Angora." Sure! Yes! Agreed! We don't know whnl we wnnl, but we have a pretty good idea, nnd Hint is more thnn we hnve access to right now. Thank the stars that you run write und till in nn application card. We, the workers of Britisli Columbia, comrades and well wishers, offer our sinceri'sl efforts to the Indies nnd returned soldiers nnd invite them to mnke Ibis their medium of achievement:— Victorin: J. linkers. Box 172. New Westminster: W. Yates, 00(1 London Slreet. Vancouver Island: T. Westwell, South Wellington. Siiiiilknmi'i'ii- W. Sinilb, Hedlcy, R. C. Prince Rupert: G. B. Cnsey. Fort George: J. Melnnes. West Kootenay, North: H. Kemp- ster, Hevelstoke. Wset Kootenay, South: F. Pezeril, Nelson. Crow's Nest: H. Beard, Michel. Boundary: J. Roberts, Coltem. If your locality is not represented here, as Hie movement is growing rapidly, apply to W. R. Trotter, Secretary to Provincial Executive, Federated Lnbor Party, Room 5.10, Dominion Building, Vancouver, who will make you "a member at large" until your locality is thoroughly organized, or, better still, organize your own lo- cality und advise the secretary accordingly. We nre getting together nicely, but YOU, come out in the limelight: modesty nlwnys was your failing! This is not a secret service drama, but n reconstructive requirement of a nation, and, as a citizen, lend a band. Apathy bus placed you in the position you occupy today, and political endeavor nlong the rigid lines will place you in tbe position you should occupy. A few minutes daily to help others to help you. will change n desire into a reality. S. H. COOKE. Council to accept that creed. This brings hie to lhe main point of my theme which is tbat nny creed or dogma, when accepted hy a large number of people, becomes always a dangerous, harmful and poisonous thing. It wns an evil day for the world when that creed was accepted because it led to enmity, hatred, tortures, murder and war, in fact the church became the direct antithesis of everything that Christ had taught. The R. C. Church, and most of the other churches are not works of God but were made by men, and that is why they have been such an utter failure, as is proved by thc horrible conflict now raging. Christ taught no creed. He said, "Blessed are the pure in heart," "Blessed are thc meek," "Blessed are the peacemakers," "Blessed aro they that hunger and thirst nfter righteousness." He nlso said, "By this sign shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." A broad statement that, because it can only mean that every man in the world, no mntter of what race or creed, who cherishes in bis heart Hie love of his fellowmen is a son of God nnd joint- lieir with Christ. Humanity lias nlways regarded the way of the Cross as being too difficult, therefore men have always sought for some password, shibboleth or creed wliich would pass them on to an unearned and unmerited paradise. It is not easy to "Do unto others as ye would that men should do to you," nor yet to "Love them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them that despitefully use you nnd persecute you." Yet it is only by teaching all humanity to love and understand whnt is mennt by the Brotherhood of Man that the world enn ever become really civilized. The salvation of humanity lies in inculcating character from enrliest childhood, not in leaching myths, faiths or creeds. The wny is long nnd difficult, but I like to believe that we shall ultimately rencli the period described in the following lines:— "There's a good time coming, boys, A good time coming: Hateful rivalries of creed Shall not mnke their martyrs bleed Tn Hie good time coming. Religion shnll be shorn of pride, And (lourisb all the stronger. And Charity shall trim her lamp;— Wait n little longer." DOMTNE, DIRIGE NOS. BUDDHISM AND WAR PERFORMING 'GETTING BACK TO GOD" Roman Catholicism Victoria, May 14, 1918. To the Editor of The Week. Sir.—It is a strange characteristic of human nature that the thoughts nnd feelings wliich most deeply stir Hie heart nre the ones we nre usually most reluctant to discuss, and religion is no exception. Most men are religious both by instinct and training, yet it is but seldom that they will talk about, it. For this reason I was pleased to see Sergt. O'Brien's letter even though he does not advance much argument to support his cnuse. He makes assertions very emphatically, but such unsupported assertions prove nothing except his own bcliof in them. Sergt. O'Brien calls a renegade a priest who left the Roman Catholic Church. Suppose n priest of another church went over to the R. C. Church, would he also be n renegade? Does the Sergeant call Cardinal Newman a renegade? If not, why not? He speaks of tlie R. C. Church as having "blazed the way in the world's progress." This is indeed strange rending to anyone who bus studied the history of llml church. The subject is too large lo handle within the compass of a letter, but history shows Hint the church hns nlways been reactionary, over a bar to human progress. A very modern example of wbal the H. C. Church will do in defiance of the laws of both God and man is Hie atrocity known ns the "Nc Temere Decree." Docs Sergt. O'Brien ever nsk himself why be is n Roman Catholic? Is it not because be wns born und raised in that faith? Would he not have become ail equally zealous Methodist or Moliannedan if lie bad been brought up iu either of those churches? Perhaps il will he sufficient if we analyze one of his statements. He snys that the R, C. Church wns founded by the "Gentle Galilean Himself." The fact is that there does not appear to be any trace of the beginning of evenls whicli gradually led Hint church through many changes to its present form till the yenr 325 A.D. At llie Council of Nice, held in that yenr, lho Nieeaa Creed was adopted, bul history records thai ils adoption wns bitterly opposed by the majority of those who were present. In fnct. the majority seem not to have believed in tlio divinity of Christ nnd the doctrine of the atonement. The Roman Emperor Constantine, by the weight of his authority, forced the So many minor writers hnve turned religious for tbe period of the war, but they do not appear to improve the parlous condition of Christianity. Speaking at tho City Temple, Mr. John Ovenlinm, Hie popular novelist, said "all this suffering is intended to turn us buck to God." The idea is not new; but what sort of a Heavenly Father is Mr. Oxeuham thinking of, when one remembers that the flower of the manhood of the world is arrayed for slaughter, and civilida- tion iteslf threatened with disaster? Mr. Oxenham had better stick to bis romantic love stories. » • • In the course of the same address Mr. Oxenham said: "If we had won tbe war two years ago it would hnve been the worst thing that could have happened to us ns a nation.'' Interviewed later, Mr. Oxenham said lie declined to withdraw a single word. We must get back to God, and presumably God is prolonging the war so that we may get there. This is quite "Providential," nnd illustrates the goodness and wisdom of the Christian deity. He permits thousands upon thousands to be killed nil over Europe so thnt WE mny get buck to God. And, presumably, lie will keep the war on until we do. And, in that case, Ibe war looks like lusting forever, for Ibe longer the war lasts the farther away from God peoplo are getting. * t • The wnr is, in Mr. Oxenham's view, God's experiment iu conversion. And n pretty job it is when one looks nl it. For one must observe Hint nil tlie killed nre certainly not being brought bnek to God. They die as they hnve lived. At most the people who are benefitted are those who are left alive. Tlio worst tiling that could have happened would have been the stopping of the wnr two yenrs ago—and thus have prevented the sinking of hospital ships, nnd bombing of children, and women, and old men, nnd all the multiplied barbarities of the war. SO THINKS Mr. Oxenham. For we nre getting buck lo God—via poison gns. anil flame-throwers, nnd air-raids. Thc new postmaster of Jerusalem is named .Smith, nnd the Lord Chief Justice of England is named Isaacs. Curious, isn't it? Socialists demand thnt wheat .-.hull be raised to make bread instead of to make profits. Is there anything unreasonable in this demand? In that most delightful of books, "The Soul of a People," Mr. Fielding Hall describes the astonishment of English officers when the British forces invaded Burma. The country was seething with strife, soldiers were everywhere, and yet the Buddhist monks were going about their business as usual, "preaching of peaee, not war, of kindness, not hatred, of pity, not revenge." English officers looked and scoffed. If Buddhism hnd preached hatred to the invaders, bad organized nnd fought, then Christian soldiers would have understood its value. As it did neither of these things they looked on it as not worth noticing. The reason for all this, as Mr. Hall explains, is that Buddhism is not an accommodating creed. It says " Thou shalt not kill,'' and it means it. If the Burmah fought, be did so because the call of his country came to him, and he felt it his duty to obey. But he was under no delusion. His priests told him Hint the unchangeable law—not of their making, but of nature—wns tliat killing brought its inevitable consequence, and the law was the same for all. The priests said, "There is not one law for you nnd another for the foreigner; there is not one law for today and another for tomorrow." "Buddhism is the unalterable law of righteousness, and cannot ally itself with evil." And the result of this inflexible ethic is, says Mr. Hall, that Buddhism "has never bent to popular opinion, never made itself a tool in the hands of worldly passion .... No ravished country hns ever borne witness to the prowess of the followers of the Buddha; no murdered men have poured out their blood on their hearthstones, killed in his name; no ruined women have cursed his nnme to high heaven. He and his faith nre clean of the stain of blood." Buddhists, says Mr. Hall, have fought, "-but they hnve never fought in the nnme of their faith. They have never been able to prostitute its teachings to tlieir own wauls." * « * Mr. Lloyu George and the Churches That is a magnificent testimony to the ethical quality of Buddhism, and by one wbo knows Buddhists intimately. And my mind recurred to the pic- lure on reading Mr. Lloyd George's speech before the Free Church* Council on March 13, Mr. George's avowed purpose wns to gain the sympathy nnd help of Hie Churches—he even nsked "reverently" for their prayers. Tlie request may have been motived by policy or piety, and if the latter it would be only the latest of tllis quick-change artist's plans for winning the war. Still, one is fain lo hope that the British ease is not so desperate ns to stand in dire need of prayer, which is nlwnys a bad indication. For men never pray for what they may secure by their own exertion. "God help me" is as sure an indicntion of helplessness as "God only knows" is of ignorance. But having come to the Churches for their prayers, the Prime Ministei'|had to talk the language of piety. The war was to be kept a "Holy War," which we may remind Mr. Lloyd George is the German name for THEIR war, and we wero to keep it so until "God wills that it shall come to an end." So thc duration of the war is dependent upon God's will. Its length is dependent upon him; and the responsibility for all tlie misery nnd slaughter is his. God is working out his plan, nnd the Free Church Council, and Mr. Lloyd George, nnd Lord Northcliffe. nnd Mr. Bottomley and lho Kaiser are nil instruments in his bands. • • • The Churches and the War Mr. Lloyd George told bis hearers thnl the Free Churches hnd "nobly discharged" their obligations, and ndded Hint- the Churches are "one and indivisible in this war." This is not quite lhe fnct. ns some clergymen hnve been turned out of their opposed llie win', but because they opopsed (he war, but because Ihey held tbat Hie pulpit was not tlie place from which to preach war—but it is as near the truth as one may expect n political! to get. On that line the Churches have everywhere—even in Germnny—"nobly discharged their obligations." For they have been as united in Germany as here, and, not only in this war. but in ALL wars. Cm, anyone recall a war in any part of Christendom in which the Churches of the nations engaged have not been substantially united? It is, indeed, pnrt of the case against the Churches thnt whenever Hie nations have been on tlie verge of war, or engaged in war, Hie Churches have—to reverse Mr. Hall's statement of the Buddhists —preached not pence bnt war, not kindness but hatred, not pity but revenge. All their talk of love and brotherhood hns been, to use Mr. George's own metaphor, "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals." They have been powerful to arouse passion, and absolutely powerless or careless to allay that fear aud passion upon which the war lives. • • » How the Churches Make for Peace! Mr. Lloyd George said the Churches must see to it that "war shall henceforth be treated as a crime punishable by the law of nations." Every sensible and every humane person will agree with that. War, as war, should be pilloried in the civilized world as the greatest of crimes, tlie greater because it is so largely impersonal in origin nnd conduct. But contrast that with all we have heard from the Churches about war since 1914. Has the talk nf men, such as the Bishop of London and Mr. R, J. Campbell, concerning the "spiritual uplift" of war, the "moral cleansing" it has given the nations, etc., done anything lo make tlie people realize that war is a crime? Tlie people are realizing it, soldiers are realizing it, but we have no reason to thank the clergy of any denomination for this result. If war is ever to be treated as a crime, it must be renlized as a crime—a crime on the part of those who initiate it, a source of demoralization with even those who are forced into it. War and militarism cannot have one effect in Germany and another here. To those who read human nature aright, Germany is to Europe ns Hie drunken helot was to tlie Spartan— a picture of what other people may become if subjected to the same discipline, nnd lo the piny of the same ideals. And when to the Church's praise of war, we add their shameful silence concerning Hie exploitation of the public as disclosed in the recent reports, to sny nothing of exploitation in other directions, the case against Hie Churches is pretty well complete. The Prime Minister said: "There is less hunger in this lnnd than there was when Hie first cannon shot was fired. There is no privation." We believe that to be substantially correct. But what nre we to mnke of n society which enn only provide enough food for its members when engaged iu war, and leaves hundreds of thousands on the verge of starvation while at peace? Does anyone need a more complete demonstration of the inefficiency or evil of Christian influence than that? * * * The Crime of Christianity We do not blame the Churches for having failed to prevent Ibis war. The indictment of the Churches, properly drawn, goes deeper and is much wider thnn that. Tlie real crime of Hie Churches is Hint, having exerted so great an influence, tlje European War should be looked upon ns n matter of course, and even hailed as a seed- plot of linninn virtue. Suppose the Christian Church in nil ages had said, as the Buddhist teachers said, "War is evil, war is a crime. You may be forced into war in self-defence; you may be so placed between the claims of country nnd the teachings of morality that to hearken to one means to ignore the other, or it may be that the claims of country is so imperative that one must needs make war and tnke the consequences. Still, the consequences are there. Brutality and demoralization follow wnr ns in- evitnbly as night follows day, and nothing can break the principle of causation in the morn! any more thnn in the physical world." Suppose the Christian Church hnd kept, to this teaching generation after generation; suppose the Christian clergy had said further, "We do not sny you must not defend your country, or Hint nrmies must not bo raised; we only insist that the raising of armies nnd Hie blessing of war is not our work ns priests, It is our task to uphold the claims of a common morality and n common humanity even in Hie midst of wnr." Hnd these things heen done generation nfter generation, and century after century, does anyone doubt but Hint Hie general feeling about war would be very different to what it is? Christians might still have waged war, and our judgments on the justification of particular wars would still have displayed wide variations; but in that case we could have said, as Mr. Hall does of the Buddhists, Christians have fought, but they hnve never fought in the name of their faith; they have never been able to prostitute the tenehings of Christianity to their own wants. The standing indictment agninst Christianity is that it has during the whole of its history done nothing to discourage war and much to encourage it. To reverse Mr. Hall's statement of Buddhism, ravished countries have borne witness to the prowess of Christ; murdered men have poured out their blood on their hearthstones in the name of Christ; ruined women have cursed his nnme to High Heaven; tortures nnd out- (Continned on Pago Three) ANIMALS By D. K. (R-ead before the Local Council of Women and endorsed by them) In bringing before you a summary of certain facts in regard to cruelties to performing animals, it must be understood that we are not making sweeping assertions with regard to (heir cruel usage. Tlie following remarks apply to animnls trained to perform on a stage or to be used for making moving pictures. Nevertheless it must be admitted tliat nearly all cases investigated Iiiivb proved that cruelty does exist in so awful, so tragical a form, that it would bo infinitely better to do away altogether with performing animnls (especially wild ones) than to run the risk of ranging ourselves even innocently on Hie side of inhuman conduct. A shocking case of cruelty came before thc Women's Pennsylvania S. P. C. A. last, year when it was discovered that greyhounds were trained for tbe stage by giving them a very small amount of food so that in tlie excessive hunger they would be more likely to do their tricks in an effort to procure food—nlways placed at a more inaccessible height. The dogs wore in danger of death by starvation. The man wns fined and the dogs taken in charge by the S. P. C. A. until they recovered. At Hie Orphean, nightly Fred Weiss nnd the "Singing Pig" appeared. The whip was pressed behind the animal's ear at tlie singing command. On seizing Hie weapon Hie butt wns found lo contain a spike. (I believe tho singing pigs or others like them visiled Victoria some yenrs ngo.) Mrs. Huntingdon Smith in a pamphlet on trained animals, described a series of the brutalities practised that "we may mnke n Roman Holiday." "So brutal that she was moved to tears," says one witness of a recent show where a lion was beaten till blood ran from its ears. "It wns damnable," snys one of Hie Bonrd of Directors of Hie Animal Rescue League in Boston, sponk- ing of Ibis same performance. In another case n lion exhibited great excitement in public but it wns found that lie wns being tortured by electric wires. Other instnnces of electric torture have been found in the ense of bears and monkeys "who dance so clever- ly." Trainers have been sometimes led lo admit that appalling cruelties exist. (See nlso article in Mnclnre's Magazine. December, 1904.) During n visit to Pnris, Mrs. H. Smith watched one of Hazenback's trained animal exhibits and was forced to leave with the shrieks and groans sounding in her ears from behind the scenes where punishment for "unwillingness to do tricks" was being meted out to a young elephant. In a special investigation made by' a writer in "London Saturday Review," it was stated that showmen were forced to ndmit that fear of punishment, deprivation of food and tlio use of the whip were nt the root of Hie obedience shown by dogs nnd horses. S. L. Beiilnsnn in nn article published in "The Under Dog," gives us a recital of blood-curdling cruelties, with descriptions of training as be hns seen it. A trick we bavo often seen is the acrobatic dog balancing on bis front legs on his trainer's band. He was beaten from 00 to 80 times a minute on Hie stomach, body and legs to induce him to try that trick. . Witli the tears coursing down his face, another artist—the funny mnn of Ihe show—related to Inspector Robinson tortures be bad witnessed. The mnn could not control bis grief. See "Observer," London, June 2.1. 1912. In foreign countries where most of tbe training takes place, there are sights which would turn the average Englishman ill, but there they pass unnoticed. "There nro a few instances of animals trained and trenl- ed kindly," says Mr. Bensusnn, "but they nre too rare to need mention and must pass as tho exceptions Hint prove the rule." The nrtiele mentioned above abounds in information and references to other published articles. I believe if the public could know what goes on it would demand that such shows cease. "If the public could see the training," snys Mr. Bensusnn, "it would lynch the trainer, but seekers after the truth must not go to thc trainer for information. Tt requires the art of a well trained detective sometimes to discover the facts." Capitalism makes criminals and [ben punishes them. SATURDAY, MAY 18 fl^^^^K^^^^HI^^HI THE W E E I^^^^^^^^^^^^^1B>¥ %' GREAT WAR VETERANS DEMAND sS^KrtS NEWSPAPERS IN WAR TIE over thirty repetitions in one edition __^___^^^_____^_^^^_^__„ and to agitate determinedly for win- The levy might be payable in instal- ,™1"" *"* •*"*»' "*" ■••■"■ »*»•«-• njn& no matter whose fortunes or fOMCPDIDTIAM AIT U/CAITU ments spread for a certain period of prejudices are sacrificed, will, for one LUiioLrivIr 1 lUIi Ur YVLnLln years and there ought to be a hi^ *v a* *•* pttv tot-tor thing-be rewarded va jumpia »*■ VVtIUVlIU HVll V« lliMUJiu discount for cash payments. Large BY AN EX-OITY EDITOR elation, the like of which has never land holders could surrender ten per x*ie onget 0f war suddenly made stories in an Eastern daily of the startled newspaperdom. 1 "A Rich Man's War," Mainly, on the producers and workers of the cent °f their holdings. Holders of editors' duties very important. They Mooney case, and it would have hard "Poor Man's Fight" country. We are, however, unhappily war loan stooks would smw have were to moid pubiic opinion, to main- with me if the Petrograd riots over THE KUSSIAN DEBT (We herewith reproduce in full the aware that there is a large and con- 'e.n Per cent of their holdings cancell- ta;„ mol.aIe, Modern warS) they Were **Mun" hadn't followed quick to REPUDIATION G.W.V. A. declaration on the "Con- temptible class of people in Canada ed' In <-'ana<ia we could at least wipe reminded, were fought with printing justify my news judgment. When scription of Wealth." The awaken- who are extremely anxious to add to °ut two-thirds of our national debt pr6sses no ies8 than with artillery. Trotzky was in America I was the ... ing we anticipated in the minds of the their personal fortunes by the war, \,such " V°h% a'ld »fTe °»rselvf It was no time for them to be humble first to get his story, but what was the _fT™'a* '° . rfn,ww !!„ ihl returned soldiers is maturing at a or who, as some patriots have shame- wlth a compartively clean shee to a„d introspeetive. They must be use trying to print it?" tai™ of^J™ iZmS Cr™ rapid pace, and if the advance be- lessly announced, will bo heroically 'f,0" schemes of reconstruction. staIwart and looke(1 up to. The Qov. "Why aren't your American papers ';a7State daVt8 g comes accelerated, we may look for content to see no diminution of their Su*f a Part,al .eomscnption of ernment, failing of a censorship law, more taken up with the war?" was L„tra„iai w «„rm„ a rapid increase in contributors to hoards. ^alth, falling principally upon peo- inci.da9ea their self-importance by thc astounding question put by the U) A" lo™™™f? '7ar™ thc Socialist philosophy.) Some of the mo^e reactionary mem- l)le over military age, would be some makin„ thcm the judges a{ what to the Ministry of Munitions Mission re- ^f. , ,^^^ ,„ '" 5J bers of the Government have been at sma" balance to the eouscnption of print Evei.y Mne of type became eently in this country. Nor did they °'"efl nlLw i,l 1Q17 Th n. This was a war that was ordered pains to deny any intention of con- manhood by means of which the elder- miltter of ,ife and death. Editors, seem to be satisfied when shown our ™mueo™Der is^- ■£„„ i„.„. "ut by rich men and old men and has scription wealth, but most of the ad- '•! PeoPle> themselves only suffering exalted to find tliomselves in the first best papers-the entire front pages "Tbe nai? 9 - been fought mainly by young men and vertisements and inventives to buy "canously, have so far managed to line of defcnse stn,ck the very human and half thc insides monopolized by P ' . . . poor men. Today the rich men and bonds are based upon the plea that thr°w most of'he b«de1n of l\« ™r poSe of *.clo8e „p the ranks. No war news. The Britishers seemed to W aii tne guarantees ror these the old men live in terror lest they the loans were guaranteed by tbe right on the ?0UnS' °"r c,lderlJ P*°Plc w,ho dissensions. Don't start anything expect a change in the papers, an at- ,oa"s "le ^ZL tvnm „„™.,i .« may be made to pay the heavy price of thc Canadian State to all the in- ,ave &?*" so *™\,.,t, "mir "da- Mw. Three cheers for the flag." titude of complete concern over but ^ An '^3 ™^™TiI !„ in hoarded treasure which this war come and all the property of every t.ves, will do well to think about pv- DoubtS) dissensions and innovations one thing, winning the war, no matter ^itionaUv P . has cost.. In the ultimate it is the love citizen within its bounds. "Your jng something of their own; it will be ealne thick but it nevei. oecurred to whose ideas went by the board. They *»• of power and greed of money that has loans," they said in fact, "must be hotter for them in the end. Wipe off edito,.s that theil. slogan iacked ef- seemed to expect the editors to be ,,,,.„„','Vn J, ^ brought the world to this pass. The safe with the Government since the most »f «■» national debt and direc ficienc), Theh. despatches from preoccupied with the search for the 1^ " erest on them wi lnlt ^0^ desire in every country of one class State has the power to draw upon all Ration can be levied at a modest abroad wai.ned that the war was winning way, not a winning way which ln '^h" will Ti ™„1» t« „n « n»r to dominate over the life of all other the resources of the nation for their "S"e' » » true fey «' iave ^ changing everything. Americn,, news- would save somebody's privileges. ",, ?'b„ynnIv I classes passed into the ambition of repayment." The lesson is obvious ° leav? the>r chlldr<!n> bat tb5 wll> papers exempted themselves. These Munitions' officials-Kent, ',PInP(l™tnLons wlm hold -,<•«* the most materialistic of all European that if loans nre only safe by reason leave the"> *"=« f™m. a heritage of With most of them it is m a ca8e Garrod, Baily and Asquith, were ex- J'™*!. W000 rod, 1™ in in commiinities to exercise domination of the ability to conscript wealth, the nat'**maI debt that might some day of .*basi„eS3 as usual.» They look ceedingly interesting and important ,ot e2'LlS™ h. ™L^" over all its, rivals. We, the peoples of conscription of wealth must become lead to »abonal bankruptcy. the snme as „ year ag0, They carry visitors. They spent ten weeks tour- «e™»' Z tn te ZZZ v„ ,„ „f the allied democracies, wiU yet be a necessity if the loans reach the „ Tl'f obligation of property to pay the same advertisements, largely of ing the country, yet hardly anything a^oranJ » tne "om-nal value ol able to thwart this ambition, but it is point where ordinary taxation cannot f?1' tlle ef P?fes °f war lst a? old as sales non-essential to the war. Deeper, was published about them. This was '" '' "Zfnv , »lnnn \t H,. u„i stiU an undetermined question repay them. '"story ltself* Throughout the mid- they ]mm not ch„nBed their tradi. p]ll.,lv through their preference for ^rCia^t Mp™1 R™Ili« rf whether a limited eta in each coun- Sir Thomas White, on the one hand, lUe aSes most landed estates in Ett- tional attitudcs exeept that now what meoting audiences face to face, priv- ™" rTa ^1! n„. ™Z.i!„ try may not be left with complete has assured investors that their loans roPe were originally granted and held th do nol like is .,pro.Gei'mah" in- ately, without publietiy, but more fovlets „ ."" ™?""t not .exceed»8 economic power over the destinies of are safe because the State has the soley on condition of war services. stead o( -Socialistic." Their atti- through their and American officials, ^Jf™™ P™"""8 M0WlnB- ."8 !,the mass of their fellow citizens, power of conscription wealth, and tenures of property have changed. |nre tmvard ,abor is the same They disll,lst of the American newspaper. "T"! P Y 1 Seoner or later the testing time is simultaneously has assured the finan- b"\ tbe principle still holds good, are just as respeetfui of big b„siness. Headed by Sir Stephenson Kent, a . . ' . i bound to come, whether the allied ciers that he has no intention of con- tbat the PeoPle wbo have most to lose i,„,„.. ,,:„„, ,,„ „•„.:„,;„„ „, ^„;. WMuw .n,l.™„„, th.v cnmo to _ I0' J-,eP0Slts ln tbe &tate ^a"ng» are • • , „ «. , ^r bfa'tSml tlt"it Iw ^^JT^wito rf'th^ wealthy coal-operator, they canm to Ba^ ^iti^eZ "potth" m' states will emerge as real democracies scription wealth. The conclusion to be "? a "at onal ereat should contn- anolent standbys, spokesmen promin- talk to employers. Ihey confined , hed u' . er as financial oligarchies camouflag- drawn from this is that the Govern- ^ » "<>» fo tbe ««» „otZfjA f"' <» ^ a»d «"a"c«* ***, ■» ">°re themselves to a recital of their experi- cance]led loans'belo,^ ^j; ed as democracies. To which of the ment will not conscript wealth—until mn"ce '"n'sters should not regard igllm.n,lt lban ever 0f such things as ences. sedulously avoiding to advise. , , ... , , . bvdpbt .„ , two ideals the Union Government it is compelled to do so. - much they take from a,, indiv,- „,k T| stiu view with , Theil, ,as the employers' viewpoint ba ^ *> »b «$»* \t GcZ gives its allegiance, will largely de- There must be an end of tins mis- '• 'C o c nt o^ h nclme ? ',raSt',C meth°dS th.1'eatenT PurlviIeB° am! wh'lc *»* M talk '° ln,bor me" Book of the Russian Socialist He- I pend upon their attitude towards the erable alliance of patriotism and busi- "'m* Je" Pel cent °^lne mcome 0I though these promise to win the war. their main concern was to be ques- ... problem of future taxation. ness, this confusion of public with a ™» *£"?£ £^Tolhold . WiU,U,e ^ T^S ^ "T IT"* Y T^Tl , ^i"1" ^ W Co-operative and other iustitu- Already our debt has passed the financial policy. The war ,s an eces- ™^"'« ^« °r j1" "?"*"^ from the p.por.7 Tins ,s quite the they refused absolutely to voice ^ ' Pernl or democrntic billion dollar mark and every year sary war and a popular war, nnd the X^^."^'^™ „„„,„ ™ost ""P01'^"* 1»^!°» be!°,re, «'- Crltle!Sm f/™"' but .* 1S n° and possessing holdings in the cancell: that the wnr lasts must see an nddi- Canadian peoplo pledged themselves P'ntoetat *«ho ins *5(l,nuu per annum |o,.s t||ese days Things win begin secret that the British Mission went ed ^ * b indemnified in ac Hon of nt least four hundred million on December 17th to see it through. 'ea™,s nim m% a Ter/ amPle miar^1" to totter indeed if the masses want home appalled at conditions in indus- „, ,-,,, th , . .„„,,,„,.:„., dollars. We have grent natural re- The people have tbe will, the Gov- ff"' the necessities and reasonable on- the wni. M in ways diffel.ent ,roln try here. "Appalled" is the right ^^^^^mjo^lt sources, though their volume is often ernment has the power to commandeer .lo.vmeiits ol Me. )he ]n.escripti(,n „f the newspapers, of word—their own. The nppalhng tiling p0,iticlll Ec^nomv ;n aCTeement with exaggerated by enthusiasts, but we all the financial resources necessary An Unanswerable Argument the newspaper owning classes. is the attitude of the American em- thcir repreSentatives if it is proved bave only a scanty population to de- lo the efficient prosecution of the Tliere is no argument against the Newspapers which rah Petrograd ployer, The one concern of these men ^j. the holdings were nennired be- velop them and the necessary capi- war. The money whicli we have late- justice of the conscription of wealth despatches headed "Bolsheviki Rule is to win the war. To them it is main- fore the publication of the present de- Inl mny not be forthcoming after the ly raised will soon be exhausted. There on a large scale. The financiers aud Can Last But Few Hours More," for ly a question of man-power and its eree war in limitless quantities. It is all hns. be it noted, never been nny dec- plutocrats rarely attempt to produce two months, convicted themselves of utilization. To them as employers, ,7 Tne gj.n(.e gan|t jg ebar„ed w;tb very well to be comforted with as- laration as to what percentage of each their objections in public. A man not getting the truth. But the show- the wny out is to recognize organized ^ complete Hauidatioti of loans nnd surances that Germany is piling up loan consists of conversions from the gives his life, or if he is wounded, ing up of the papers was largely the labor and then reach agreements with ^ immediate registration of all hold- an even greater load of indebtedness previous loan. But, be that as it may, part of his life. He or his dependents work of President Wilson and other the unions. To them the attitude of ers oj bonds ;n tne g|.ate jj0ans nnd than any of the allied democracies, the voluntary system in finance will are rewarded with a very modest pen- war forces. The President's message their brother employers here is sim- o(jier jmgs wbenler annulled or not 1 but it is a poor consolation and will in the long run as surely fail as in sion, though it is calculated that the warmly commending the Russian ply flabber-gasting. They see we have ,„. Tne Soviet of Workmen's Sol- not lighten our own future burdens, the shorter run it fniled in the mili- lotal annual cost of the pensions will leaders' handling of pence offers, the men, we have the plants, we have d|m> and peasaints' Deputies in especially as indemnities are prob- tary field, and to recognize that it is exceed in Canada thirty million dol- caught most of the papers with their able directing bends. The difficulty? ' j ... ., , . . ' ably now out of the qeustion. Here- already beginning to fml is the first lars. It the lenders of money and insides full of editorials damning the raced with their silence a questioner ^ w-jj jorm COmmittees for thc tofore, despite the excess profits tnx duty of our finance minister. Hie buyers of Victory Bonds are to Bolsheviki for pro-German crooks, rapped his brow inquiringly with his purpose 0f decidii,"* whether a citizen and the modest income tax lately in- Conscription Inevitable get.all their money baek,-and in nddi- Before this, the papers' own d!s- knuckles. The dignified Briton nod- ;a t0 be classed ns^'indieent " These iiugurated, our government hns in- Conscription of wenlth in some tion we are to pay tliem sixty million patches from Brest-Litovsk had arous- ded emphatically. committees will be competent to oan- sisted on providing the main sinews form being inevitable, we are con- dollars per annum, there is not a ed suspicion tbat the American edi- "There are three sacrifices 111 war" og] entire] a]I snvjngs acq„ired with- of war by loans instead of tnxntion, fronted with the alternative of a shadow of justice in such a division of lorial writers were concerned not so said one of the Commissioners in a ont wor|;i' fo]. thom even in the and great play has been mndo of the bsavy increase in taxation or a levy lhe recompense for "the defenders" much by the Bolsheviki pence policy speech, "the sacrifice of_ men, the cM(j of sums ])e,ow ^m roubieg_ success of their various loans. un capital. Tbe very prospect of the "f their country. ns by their confiscatory social pro- sacrifice of eapitnl" ("which is 110th- Lloyd's Bulletin. Ever since the wnr began there has ]atter idea will cause n shudder in If the financiers who furnish argu- gramme. At present these editorials ing," Sir Stephenson interpolated. * ' been a bitter argument between two mnny plutocratic bosoms, but it has ments for the prosperous classes and are performing for the President the sotto voce), "and the sacrifice of RESURGAM financial schools, one of which urges no terrors for Mr. Bonar Law, the the politicians who tamely accept same service whieh they charged to prejudice." 1914 _ j^ BELGIQUG — 1918 the attempt to pny our debts by tax- British Chancellor of the Exchequer, them think that the soldiers and the Bryan in the Dumba affair, assuring American employers' prejudice ation, while the other advocates the who recently declared as his consid- workmen of this country are going to Revolutionary Russia that Mr. Wil- Indited large^ tn the Commissioners. T gnol, nl.is(1 |]le purer fo], . . continuance of the system of bonds eml opinion that it must be regarded pour millions of dollars annually into son's sympathetic words mean noth- They wouldn't say so. The farthest Wns||cd free nf )ai,|t by martyrdom and loans. The argument in favor as „ possible contingency in Britain, the maw of their masters, they ought ing. they went in comparisons wns this ' amJ tcarS| of financing (he wnr largely by loans When the war is ended our taxpay- to read European papers and keep Are tbe papers any more preoccupi- rmm Garrod: "If one-eighth of the To jnce (]|o happiness of future years is based on the idea that thereby we ers will be called upon to find for the their ears to the ground. ed with winning the war when they labo1' disturbances wo hnve person- Knmvjng my ,,„crifu.(, was not in' vnin' take part of Ibe burden of tnxntion annual charge of the country and the damn the I. W. W.? Suppose the ■•">' observed in two months in this x shnll arise triunipliniit! But the foe off the present, and put it on future payment of interest on the debt, no LEGAL HONESTY great I. W. W. trial in Chicago shows country had happened in England in Wh|| p]an)ed on my soil, the con- generations. Such might be the ease less a sum than three hundred million not a scintilla of evidence against t',e P"st three years, England would queror's heel if many of our bonds were sold dollars per annum. A large proportion \ New Yorw lawyer tells of a the .166 defendants, what will become now be sneinS f°r a disgraceful Fn]| penaitjre nnd punishment shall abroad, but nlmost all of them have of this money, at least one-third, will conversation that occurred in his of these columns of stories of a "gi- Penee' ' fee], been sold within our own boundaries, go towards keeping in idleness a nu- presence between a bank president gantie I; W. W. anti-war conspir- Nqw it is significant thnt while 7 sban al.jSe, yor Christ has healed Tbe result is that the loan? mean tak- merous section of the community who and his son who was about to leave acy?" The country, especinlly the the Mission dared to recite its ex- my woe. ing the snme amount of money nt the otherwise would be compelled to work por (be West, there to engage in busi- West, would not be surprised by an perienoe, so shocking to the Ameri- ' _Ralph Younghnsbnnd. same date, mainly from the same and add tot he general wealth. neSs on his own account. acquittal. What will the country can employers' iden, in private, 1 pockets, by compelling the snme eeo- The tnriff offers no hope of heavier "Son," said the father, "on this, think of lhe newspapers? neither the Mission nor its Wnsbing- y{ you llre cultivating n vegetable noniies ns would hnve been the ense revenues, nnd a heavy income tax the threshold of your business life, When President Wilson condemns ton sponsors dreamed of daring 10 at- garden, eithor al homo or on a vacant if heavier taxes had been levied. The seems the inevitable alternative. Con- [ desire to impress one thought upon the Bisbee deportations nnd editors tempt to utilize tbe American news- |0t. i| would be nn evidence of wis- process of paying the loans will con- aider what that means. It means thnt your mind; honesty, ever nnd always go on applauding them, do newspap- paper for publication of facts. dom to send to Hie Publications sist of taking from the Canadian peo- w0 |ire going to say to every struggling js the policy that is best." ers really think they have the coun- And yet inquiry among the business Branch, Department of Agrioulturo pie ns taxpayers tho same amount that professional man faced with a great- "Yes, father," snid the young man. try with them? When Secretary men who heard the British recital Ottawa, for Circular No. 14, entitled! must be paid in that year to the Cann- ]y increased cost of living; to every "And, by the way," added the Baker flays the perpetrators of the might show thcm not so deaf to thc "Vegetable Gardening nl Home and dim, people ns bond holders. ^ merchant handicapped by scarcity of grey-beard, "I would ndvise you to Bigelow (logging nud half the papers visitors' "win-the-war" labor policy. „„' Vacanl Lots." and prepared by What the loans do accomplish is to capital; to every farmer, confronted rend up a little bit on corporation law. fail to print his rebuke, isn't the nt- The chiefs nf big business may lie ||,r. Dominion HortioulMrist, This give the richer individuals of the witb foiling prices nnd higher wages; jt ,vill amaze you to discover how tittnie of these papers obvious? When adamant against such ideas, but tho circular, which can bo bad free of nil community the opportunity of being to every manufacturer, anxious to raal,y things you can do in a business newspapers bury little items of the hulk of employers are less impervi- ,.„si, supplies information of a prac- the receivers of other people's taxes, transform his business to pence con- way and slill be honest."—Harper's Government's settling war strikes by ous. "I'd do it," said one. nnd an- tioa] ,.„\uri, „„ OVorv vegetable that Since tho life and business of the ditions: "Carry on, but remember Magazine. granting union demands, while edi- other: "I'd give up practically all j* jfl desirable lo cultivate' for do- present day is in nny case shoulder- thnl for (be resl of your life, if you torinls go on calling strikers "trni- my lit tie profit, but meanwhile the m(S|j,. consumption. It gives ndvice ing the burden of providing the funds make a success of your business, forty BUDDHISM AND WAR tors," the newspapers aro simply pub- Government helps the big fellow pile „„ (■„, preparation o£ the soil, and Tor tbe wnr, if is surely the fnirer cents of every dollar you make is go- lishing their own break down. up everything in sight. And if nny- ,M1 planning nnd arranging the gar- course to find ns much money as pos- ino' to be taken from you. Tf you (Continued from Pago Two) '''hose familiar with editor's of- one starts lo agitate conscription of don. quotes examples" of success sible by luxes rather than b.v loans, j„s| contrive to make ends meet, we [ices know why, for exnmple, not a wealth, or even renl limitation of pro- „ebieved *m 1(||7, supplies n list of unless wc think it n fair deal that will probably be content with about, rages innumerable have been inflict- PaPel' in Hie East printed an clabor- Its, just watch the newspapers jump the besl varieties of vegetables for those who ave now able to take few twenty-five cents on the dollar." Is ed under the shadow of the cross, ate communication to Congress from him for a pro-Gorman." different districts and describes bow or no bonds shall be loaded 111 the such a state of things going to in- spoliation and wrong hnve flourished » lnwyer, Amos Pinohot, who hnd col- The Americnn newspaper, like ,|lt Rowing p]nnts pan be protected years to eome with taxes payable not crease the national energy nnd enter- nnder its rule. The Christian convert lated big concerns' reports of war American industry, entered the wnr frnm disease and insect ravages. to those who took just their proper prise and conduce to the regeneration ;s washed in the blond of Jesus; nnd profits. Ho wns called a pro-German with its house nol in order. Bnck in share, but to those who had surplus „f Canada? Men cannot work with that, truly, is a fitting symbol for a pacifist and his researches suppressed, pence times editors were notorious BETTER LATE THAN NEVER wealth lo take nn exceedingly large keenness nnd efficiency, if burdened religion Hint hns so often bnthed in At lenst one paper in Hie East printed for being too responsive In specinl in- share. with n load of debt that cannot pos- biood tl,e countries of fhe world.— the Federal Income Tax Report show- terests nnd deaf to masse's Wants. ;\( tho silling of Hie Socinlist Na- Enriching Profiteers sibly be repaid, and no nation weigh- Chapman Cohen, ing an incrense of 7.000 millionaires That nowspnpers are awakening to ,. . c .. . ., „ Whnt this process nlso means is ed down by a burden of taxation that . in the pnst fiscal year, but no person their respnnsihilty is evident when '"""' '" |,""('''' n" l'Ph™" Hint because our wealthy clnsses, in- may sap its life for the coming gen- Speaking nt tho Holhorn "tank." looked for editorial comment least of one sends 11 trained investigator to Bry 171"' Yandorvelde, Belgian Min- so-far as they are spending less than erntion can hope to regain its lost |*le Bishop of London declared: "All all those who bold the theory that gel nt the truth or the 1. W. W. nnd istor mid President of the T. S. B., their income, prefer to get richer by stability. But such is the fate that. my income is gone." The income of drastic limitations of profits would do the war. at the same time Hint nn- said: "The number nf men, who, on lhe war instead of poorer, the gov- mny confront ns unless other eottr- tbis elderly bachelor is £200 weekly, more than anything else lo unite the other prints Trotzky's bonk on n Bol- a^m sja0 0{ t]w trenohes, believe in ernment and the peoplo of Canada ngcous measures are taken. .sufficient ti) keep fifty families in com- country behind the war. shevik peace. People mny cense to Q decision on Hie field of battlo is arc really paying for the war twice Tax Capital f(ll.| j.je should now be able to np- Here is what an experienced news tolerate our presenl papers, voracious . .'. over, once directly to the soldiers, The obvious alternative is the en- predate the blessings of poverty. editor said in admitting that ho was though their accounts may be of bnt- '""nnishing. Whether they nre right officials, contractors and munition- forcement of tiie finniicinl conscrip- __ . glad lo be doing his war service some- Ho lines in Franco nnd accurate as or wrong, the fnct is there, nnd it is eers, nnd a second time in the an- tion by a levy on capital. Why should q^o workers dig all the coal nnd where else than in his old office:— may bo their spellings in the long impossible not to recognize it. . . . riunl interest and sinking fund, there not be such, cither a direct levy then pny a profit to someone to sell "I believed the war was of nil times casually lists. People will look to Dndor these conditions, il is inovitn- which will have to be paid on loans nf ten per cent of Hie nmount of ench j| (o them, the hour for printing the fnets. I see in their pnpers a burning senrcl, ble for the working classes in all that might well hnve been to a large individual's wealth or n grade scnle printed the first stories of what I" "in the war. not just the way so countries to count less on govern- extent taxes. Loans nt a high rate of levy after the manner of death The workers build nil the houses American Socialists wanted to do nt f"r fnvored by newspaper-owning ments than on themselves lo solve of interest nre bad national economy, duties? There would, of course, hnve and then pny rent to live in the worst Stockholm simply as informntion. I classes. And the first big paper tn the formidable problems arising out and in reality bear very heavily up- to be n minimum exemption of say of them. nearly lost my job. T printed tho first Hmil the word "pro-German" lo not of the wnr." Pope Four THE WEEK SATURDAY, MAY 18 1 That some of her old officers were on board, as passengers. THE DEFENCE FUND That they were feeling pretty sore at us over the loss of their boat. Tbat we should feel the same if tbe positions were reversed, but— c S0TT0_V0CE BY THE HORNET sW Thnt "Fairplay" wonders whether 'the Week will be the first paper to get it in the neck for kicking over the press regulation traces. That Hie Hornet hopes not. tM That the new regulations about loafing will bit some of our insurance men pretty hard. That there are several real estate men, and commission men, and lawyers, and ministers, and politicians, and hangers-on round the Empress and sundry other places, who will have to get a wholesale wiggle on to prove they are not loafers. That after having got after our "loaf," lt is only natural that the Government should go after the "loafer." WThat economy is getting to be the order of the day. That we not only hear of meatless and wheatless days, but now the Hornet hears of sleeveless coats. That these, of course, are for ladies —no one else would think of wearing them, but— That he is afraid he may yet hear of legless pants, and— That when that happens he is going to stay home. sW That one of the latest Government pamphlets on chicken raising says: "Make every chicken count." That this is going a little too far, and, in spite of all press regulations, the Hornet protests. That he has heard of some chickens being trained, but when the Government asks us to "make every chicken count," it's too much—even in war times. S*T That Lloyd George has been heaping unnecessary abuse on what he calls "the Cocoa Press." That his utterances were not as dignified ns one would expect to hear from the Prime Minister of England. That Cadbury's Cocoa Press is gaining in influence. That it can show even Lloyd George a thing or two worth knowing. WThal Mr. Dooley and Rev. Mr. Bowden havo been chasing one another all around the "Capital." That they are both very good humored over it, and— That they both write very entertainingly. That Mrs. Gcorgina Seymour Kent also writes a long letter to the Colonist. That she talks about "military training" nnd "fighting nations," and "mighty arms," and about "abominnble conceit," and "vicious temperament" and about "segregating wrong from right," but— That she leaves the reader in a wholesale muddle ns to whnt she is driving at, and only succeeds in convincing the Hornet That a whole lot of words sometime contain very little sense. That Georgina must not be discouraged. , That there nre mnny more of us who use up u lot of space and don't sny much. Thnt there is B. J. Perry and the ' Hornet for instance. ONTRIBUTIONS for the Defense Fund are coming in from all quarters. As was to be expected, there are no large sums to acknowledge—those most That as they m^not, it's all right, interested being persons of small means. The first visitor sw~ That civic employees nil over to The Week office with a contribution was on hand at seem to be as bad as any other work- about nine o'clock last Saturday morning, and since then a steady little stream of visitors have been "keeping the pot That they ail want an increase in boiling." If the Editor of The Week needed any encour- wages. agement it has certainly been forthcoming during the last That ihe firemen in most cities few dajfe. One little working woman called with a five- have shown that they not only want dollar bill and said it was from herself, her husband and ogej . family, and that she was sorry it was not more. When asked Tlmt ihey generally succeed. her name she said that didn't matter' Many others drop in mi , ,i TT" ,. , i i and talk the same way. Below are extracts from some of That the recent big fires ought to . . , J wake us up to the importance of see- the letters received:— ing that our own firemen are well paid. Victorin, lMny 12. Please find enclosed $3.00. not much but our heart is in right place, and we might be able to come again if required. herewith one dollar. I am a reader of This is J'onr paper, and while I do not agree .. witli all you stand for, still I am of the opinion that n fearless, outspoken paper such as yours is an absolute necessity at this time in this eity. Willows Camp, May .13. Enclosed find one dollar toward Esquimalt, May 12. I notice in your last issue that you J'0"1' Aetence fund. You have made our fight your fight, so I feel that the I am just going to put down the lirst thing that comes to mind, and this is it: ^^^^^^^^^ If you would walk as free as air, lu'e appealing for funds to fight a Five things observe with care, '">el suit for $10,000 brought against lcast tte can do ls sllP J""1 a httle Of whom you speak, to whom you J™' in connection with your exposure speak of conditions at the Willows camp. Of what, and when and where. To what extellt the dead soldier's In days of darkness past and gone criticisms may or may not have been (hut may have been just a mere nur- justified will no doubt be brought out sery rhyme, but it looks like ten- at the trial, but one thing is certain, carrot wisdom in this era of Hinden- the PeoPle of this district can ill af- burg. Even your own brother is like- fora to have the only publication left ly to have you "pinched" if he hap- that stands for anti-Prussianism and ^ pens to hear you express any synipa- *"^A, «np^ at th» hm^ obscruritanism;from an anti- thev with General Maurice. I therefore hasten to enclose you $2 ' FREE LECTURE! THREE GREAT MONARCHS WHOSE THRONES ARE TOTTERING: . SIN - DEATH - DEVIL SPEAKER: C. E. HEARD, OF VANCOUVER PRINCESS THEATRE YATES STREET SUNDAY, MAY 19 At 7:30 P.M. AUSPICES ASSOCIATED BIBLE STUDENTS ADMISSION FREE!. EVERYBODY WELCOME! EVERYBODY COME! NO COLLECTION! I defence money. For obvious reasons, 1 must remain a number only. t # * Victoria, May 13. Enclosed find five dollars from a British-born enemy of Canadian Prus- sionism. * • • Victoria, May 14. Enclosed find $1 against absolutism Victoria, May 14. Herewith is small sum ($1.20) for Superior Fruit Service Dan W. Poupard » Fruit Specialist War's One Virtue One thing—in the theatre of war you don't have to get up to let a fat 'couple find tlieir seats after the show "has started.—Florida Times. they with General Maurice. ^m^^^^^^_ • • • for your defense fund: "Now, boys," said the teacher in the juvenile Sunday School class, Mav 13> 1918* "our lesson today teaches us that if Enclosed please find $5;*$3 to go to we are good while here on earth, when wards your defenee fund, remaining The Week Defence Fund. I will give we die we will go to a place of ever- ^ f01' a year's subscription for the $1.20 per month as long as the attesting bliss. But suppose we are bad, P"Pe1'* More Power to you nnd your fair lasts, by going without the morn then what will become of us?"' little paper: you express my views to ing and evening paper. "We'll go to a plaec of everlasting a T, and I hope you will beat them * * * i blister," promptly answered the small hands down, but it will be a tough Subscriptions to Date Binks Worried boy at the pedal extremity of the hght. They are out for your scalp, May 11th.—Ho. 1, $5; No. 2, $10; class ' and will get it by fair means or foul. No. 3, $5; No. 4, $1; No. 5. $10; No. " The Lord knows how Blinks made • • •* ... 6, $5; No. 7, $10; No. 8, $2; No. 9. $2; bis money I" Last week a correspondent in this Shawnigan Lake, May 12. No. 10, $10; No. 11, $10. "No wonder ho always looks wor- paper gave the Roman Catholic Sir.—Since it ceased to be a politi- May 13th.—No. 12, $5; No. 13, $1; ried. "—St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Church a big boost. Allow me to cn' rubber stamp, I have been a con- No. 14, $2. give it another one, just to show what stant and satisfied reader of The May 14th.—No. 15, $3; No. 16, $2; it isll't how much an insect eats a beautiful Christian spirit pervades Week, and look forward to its com- No. 17, $1; No. 18, $1; No. 19, $1; No. that makes him a bedbug, it's how he thc universe: ing each week. I want to. at this time, 20, $1; No. 21, $1.50; No. 22, 25c; No. j,ets it. It isn't how much a man has German Roman Catholic mission congratulate you on the article, 23, 25c; No. 24, 25c; No. 25, $5. that mnkes him a capitalist, it's how- priests who were to be deported from "Cowards," in last issue. It hits the May 15th.—No. 26, $5; No. 27, $5; |ie gets it. Togoland, sold the flour and wine used nail on the bend. Enclosed find one No. 28, $5. for the Sacrament rather than leave dollar toward your defence fund. > May 16th—No. .29, $1; No. 30, $1; them for the use of the French priests •■•• « . No. 31, $1; No. 32, $1; No. 33, $2; No. who were to take up their work. Victoria, May 14, 1918. 34. $2; No. 35, $1; No. 36, $5; No. • • • In reply to your request re defence 37, $1.20. The folowhig is takfen from an fund, I take pleasure to send you Total to May 16, $123.95. American paper. I refrain from * making any comments. I just wish to ask yon if that sentence about ministers, brickbats, and the bou-' quets. is correct. The. embarrassments of public criticism nl this time, manifested by various disciplinary or monitory measures, suggest to a Tribune reader a plan to avoid our difficulties. There, are rather serious disadvantages in setting up a doctrine of lese majesty in a republic and to hedge in a President with the divinty whicli is presumed to defend a King. Monarchies have escaped these disadvantages by seeing to it that, since" the King can do no wrong, he does nothing. The King remains immune as the symbol of the majesty and infallibility of the state. His ministers act and take the brickbats and the bouquets. Now our reader observes that republics feel the craving for an out- word and visible symbol of their ma- Balmoral Block Douglas Street, Victoria Phone 3321 A. D. 1918 Garfield Zinck leaving Victoria for Westminster Penitentiary to serve u sentence of two years confinement for refusal to bear arms. We understand u—i^——.1-11.1111.11111 seven years in the jesty and infallibility. But, obviously, , ,, ,. , , ., . , ;« ... o.iri.1. »u:»« .... •• an honorable (ischavge, and that lie ir our fallible chief executives were * ' to be held infallible, if we were to «'»s at U"3 time of his discharge express thc transcendental coneep- given exemption papers for military tion of the state in the formula "the service. President can do no wrong," wc He j9 „„„. ,„ ,,,use ooll||n„mont, N„ should at once find reality outraged one is allowed to sec him nnd he i bv nn unavoidable collision between _^^^____^_^^^_1_^^_ oiir doctrine nnd the. fact that our ""' permit led to communicate will Presidents occasionally do wrong. any of his friends in British Colum So our render suggests that we de- bin. He may write one letter every be with you till we meet ngnin. work with uniform on and I refused to do so. The O. C. said that I would have to soldier like lhe rest. 1 said, "Sir! I can never be a soldier." He said I ought to be sent to France and put in a wire cutting party where I would be killed, which would be a good rid- ance. 1 told him 1 was not afraid of what man could do to mc. I was then, yesterday morning, tnken to a cell and put on brend and water. This afternoon Hie O. C. was around lo see me and ho asked if 1 was willing to soldier and I told him 1 could not do so, so he gave orders to keep me in here, and not to give me too much bread. How long I will be kept here I do not know, but the Lord's Grace will H be sufficient for me, and I find that that he served although I am shut up I hnve more Navv and holds °t "'"* Pence from Above and although it is loo dark to read, the time goes quite fast for 1 am not nlone, Hie Lord is with me. All things, I know, nre working together for my good. 1 do nol know how long the draft will be here. I am looking forward to lhe day when we shall meet again when we shall not need to pnrt. God bless you ail, dear ones, nnd C. H, SMITH &CO Photographic Supplies Pictures Picture Framing Other Things Too! 611 Fort Street MTNEBAL ACT (Form P.) Certificate of Improvement! NOTICE. Arrow Mineral Claim, situate ln the Victoria Mining Division of Sooke Dls- ' trict. Where located: On lot 93, Sooke District. TAKE NOTICE thatl, Wallace C. Munkley, of Victoria. B. C, the lawful holder of the above named mineral claim, Free Miners Certlflcate No. 17198-C, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant for the above claim, And further take notice that action, under section 37 must be commenced before the Issue of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 24th day of April,, A. D, 1918. WALLACE C. MUNKLEY, Owner. June 22. Victor Vlgelius, Agent. elnre the Vice-President the symbol two months to his friends in tin Your Bonds. brother by His Grace in Thero is no doubt Hint Christianity WThat ono of the Dutch boats which have been taken over by tho Imperial Government was at the outer wharf last Tuesday. That she is a very fine boat—in some respects better equipped than our Empresses. of the majesty and infallibility of the state. Under our system he does no ... wrong because he does nothing except . to preside in bored dignity over the fhe following is n letter written by Senate, and even here his decisions n "Conohie" to one ot Ins friends ,„ does encourage feelings of love and arc provided by rules interpreted by v,elorl11* He is now on his way to brotheliood. The Daily Express of a parliamentary expert. Then, since the f,'ont' Rei,,,er8 wl" Ple»se "ote March 12 reports the Rev. C. A. Eaton the Vice-President can do no wrong, 'mt ™» d.ate ° ' letter ls A* D* of Madras Avenue Church, New York, let ns declare him infallible-, sur- ms "ot A' D' 18' . , ,,W1 T , . . , „ ' ,,. ... ,. ,. . ., ,,^ , ' ¥l„ ,„, 1(11(! as saying: "When I stand before the round him with the divnntv that doth M"} tsl, .tltlo. . , , . _ hedge a King, and declare it to be Hear Friends. judgment seat of the Almighty I want lese majesty lo lift the voice of Greetings once again in our dear to be able to look my God in the face criticism against him. Redeemer's name. I am writing this nnd tell him that I hit tho Germans This loaves the free citizens of the hi the gunrd room, and the cell I am at least one good wallop before I republic free'to complain if the man hi is very dark so you must excuse shuffle off I sny to 'Hell with on the job, the executive, and his I he bad writing. the Germans I' " And in case a agents nre not working satisfactorily. Two dnys ngo I was told to get into "German propagandist" is encount- As applied fo our present situation, uniform ns I was to drill and go out ered, Mr. Eaton advises "Hammer his this will relieve Mr. Creel of his some- on route march. I refused to do so, face off. You have ropes here and what difficult, if congenial, tnsk nf so it wns put on me, and I was made steel girders. Use them." We hope^ showing that the administration can to go. Wlrtm wc got buck I took it when Mr. Enton does meet God Al- do no wrong. It is desirable to avoid "H and put on working clothes, nnd mighty, he will rimind him of whnt a too violent -a discrepancy between it was again put on me, nnd this hap- terrible blunder he mnde in creating doctrine and fact. pelied several times. T was told to lhe Germans. Bargains in Homes! 5-Room New House (Victoria West); basement, good plumbing, house well finished; lot 46 ft. x 112 ft. Near car and school. Price $1,300; $250 cash; balance to arrange. 4-Room New Cottage (Oak Bav); basement, house is we'll finished. Lot 50 ft. x 140 ft. Near school. Price, $1,650; $450 cash; balance to arrange. 3-Room New Cottage (Victoria West); with chicken houses and outbuildings; some fruit trees. Lot is fenced. Lot 45 ft. x 118 ft. Near car and school. Price $1,200; terms to suit purchaser. 5-Room New Cottaga (Oak Bay); basement, house is well finished, and is in a very good part of Oak Bay, close to car and school. Lot 41 ft. x 128 ft. Price $2,300; terms. Currie & Power 1214 DOUGLAS STREET PHONE 1466 In answering this ad say you it in The Week UXHEBAL AOT (Form P.) Certificate of Improvements NOTICE. Safety Mlenrnl Claim, situate In the Victoria Mining Division of Sooke District. Where located: On lot 93, Sooke District. TAKE NOTICE that I, Harry D. Reld, of Victoria, B. C, the lawful holder of the above named mineral claim, Free Miner's Certificate No. 17199-C, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant for the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the Issue of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 24th day of April,, A. D. 11118. HARRY D. REID, Owellr. June 22. , Victor Vlgelius, Agenl. MTVESAL AOT (Form F.) Certificate of Improvement! NOTICE. Trlonal Mineral Claim, situate in the Victoria Mining Division of Sooke District. Where located: On lots 93 and 153. Sooke District. TAKE NOTICE that I, Annie M. Maxam, of Victoria, B. C the lawful holder of the above mineral claim, Free Miners Certificate No. 17197-C, Intend, sixt days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant for the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issue of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 24th day of April,, A. D. 1918. ANNIE M. MAXAM. Juno 22. Victor Vlgelius, Agent. LANS REGISTRY AOT. Section 14 IN THE MATTER of part, 6.2S chains by 32 chains containing 20 acres more or less, of Section 0, Range 1 East, North Saanich District. PROOF having been flled in my Office of the loss of the Certlflcate of Indefeasible Title to the above mentioned lands, Numbers 4771 ln the name of George G. Sayles and bearing date the loth day of July, 1908, I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE of my Intention at the expiration of one calendar month from the flrst publication hereof to Issue to the said George G. Sayles a fresh Certificate of Indefeasible Title ln lieu of such lost Certlflcate. Any person having any information with reference to such lost Certificate of Title Is requested to communloate with the undersigned. DATED at the Land Registry Office. Victoria, B.C.. this loth day of April. 1018. J. C. GWYNN, Registrar G-taeral of Titles. Aprl3-Mav
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