From the News

Dated: December 6, 1916

ON THE ROLL OF HONOUR

Now Hon. Frank Oliver's son has laid down his life for Canada and the Empire.  Only a few days ago the son of Mr. J. G. Turriff, of Strathcona, was struck down.  Mr. Oliver and Mr. Turriff are Liberal members of Parliament.  The quality of their devotion to British institutions is attested by the sacrifice of those they held dearer than life itself.  It may be that we do not send our sons into battle.  They go out of their own gallantry and courage.  They die that institutions we love may live.  But to the households out of which they are taken the old zest in life never can return.  Even when the bells ring for peace they will not come back.  One can only think of what they were and be glad that they were brave and enduring.    Nor may we forget that Patriotism is not measured by rank or condition, by class or party.  "Killed in action"  strikes as cruelly into the humble home as into the imposing mansion.  Mr. Oliver and Mr. Turriff have fought many a strenuous political battle.  The courage they have displayed in the hard contests of civil life their sons emulated in the red fields on which they fell, sympathy unaffected by old quarrels and contentions, unbroken by political or personal ivision, goes out in overflowing measure to the households from which the sons have gone forever.  We think only of those who mourn, of those whom "it pleased Almighty God to take out of this transitory world into His mercy."