Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 26, 1902, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba morning free press Winnipeg Friday december 26, 1902. V editorial department Telephone bu3lness office number a _ Job department 1v a Pronto office the it. J. Dyas co., in Toronto Hevr Tori office _ Henry 719 Temple court. Oldom m Frad Liberty a Era Ziti in Civ Friday dec Bakber 26. 1002. The grand trunk s Pacific project. The transcontinental project of the trunk has been advanced a Stag by the formal notice of application for a. Charter at the forthcoming session of the Dominion Parlia ment. The route is outlined in Only the most general terms. The Road to run from Gravelli rpt or Noil Bay f. Inlet or port Simpson six May be determined Horca iter. The provision fur the builder lines to Winnipeg. Nii l Guiry air shadows a rout but just How car North events must Deu Imin. It is very unlikely thai it will Norilia of Winnipeg it will in Bably crots the red River of Kirk and Winnipeg. This Wii uld trains to run in an 1 of he City without Fri ious of us time the whip u for. Islet to be Lumi 1 a without Miflin tis with c. P. It. In Havins its Easi Ooi Chi a i it Likht . Liri Yards of . Uru i Al of to build it As a rail Way. Or. Mor i . N in when it was intended the. An to have one or More transcontinental roads they will probably have to give Aid to secure them. In that Case they expect the government to make the Best bargain possible for Hern and above All things to safeguard their rights in regard to proper ser vice and reasonable rates. The proo position is made in some Ciu arters that the government should build a trans Continental line of its own. The Coole of the West would probably not object to this being done but no one familiar with Eastern Public opinion believes that this is at All within the Range of possibility. Twenty five years hence this scheme May be practicable but a railway built about 1930 would not do much to meet the difficulties of 1003. We have to Deal with facts As they Are and things being As they arc we can look for increased rain was communication with the East in the near future Only from the two Rai Vevay corporations the grand trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern who Are now laying their plans to build surb roads. N i dry Losis Tudini seized the rout Jill at North Cay Prince Allert. Edmonton the Pacific irm Inus and convenient Points. This will Nuitt really to Cost of the til grand trunk will Havi to pay l charges i a materials to rival b j Thor will to Tion in uie rapidity with Why Ilic Rund will be built. H is quite apparent from various which have been made Public that much remains o be done in perfect in thu scheme. The View which has been persistently put for Ward in this Rity by certain interested Faithf a that the Wisiol Mcter has been arranged Between inv i Way company and the government As to where Tho line is to run and Aid it is to receive is an entirely erroneous one. Have had wit Iii the last Days inc positive Altai it by a Momber of the 1 Jovi in intent that Ai yet tit grind trunk managers hav i prop of any Kijl of lii1 to talk what govern ment 15 to Ilo fur Tho trunk is t univ it. I finite l.chi.l--. . The Mir. J Isu a of the Interior has one or j references to trunk j proposition which Fli Oulu Tond to re assure those timid people who have been i a to believe from alarmist but j utterly unfounded Artimiss the it a great scheme of a is afoot j or. Sifton on occasions has j in the Opportunity of saying that the j whole q vestion of null to Tho Urail j trunk is no open one yet. No pro position has been made to the gov j . Nor has it on its part Siven the any consideration. But or. Hil i a made in this connection two St. A r Ems of much Imp Trince. One Vas Tho grand trunk need not look Tor Pii Vilior Aid unless it would on its part contract to a can Adian , open Ali Tho year round. Its to. other was Tiku t Nore be a n lain the Road. Or. . Third Tho trunk in an interview in . His res Root at thu at by or. But do nit 1 i at Lio com exp it any in View of Iho no Stiop. Vieli tie liberals took in opposition and have strictly adhered to in i v. R that arable land Mast not be i ans. Rex to railways As an Aid to their construction. To the Genera cd p. Sub Sily to Trie grand trunk this is a matter which it is scarcely possible to excepting on the basis Urivi no circumstances Ivy a then. We do no think run of Are i adv to take Itiat awhile. By they Are to Nitich More than in times past of propositions looking inwards it will be a. Iki Eai tar for rail ways to make out a. Very Clear Case for Aid and to offer specific advantages to the up Jive. In return . Tho Oil Days and unconditional a gone. To new transcontinental Road need expect a repetition of the assistance in to the Pioneer Road. Conditions have changed. The object for which the Canadian Pacific railway was so lavishly powered has been accomplished. The West is no longer an unknown land. Business is Here ready for any Road to the moment i is in a position to offer for it. We need More railways we Shah them. Ave can probably get Branch railways from the great systems of the South at no Cost to ourselves such roads would pay their Way from the outset. But we doubt whether shall Ever see a transcontinental Road from a Canadian port on the Atlantic. To a Canadian port on the Pacific built without some Mea sure 01 Public assistance. The Bri Durins of the Long stretch of wilderness from Here to on Tario would be Apt to be regarded by railway capitalists As a proposition too big for their purses. If the people of Canada think it would be a Rood thing the proposed reciprocity in Coal. There is among the protectionists in tile United states a Strong movement in favor of reciprocity arrangements with other countries chiefly with can Ada but the sort of arrangement de sired by these protectionist advocates of reciprocity is the obtaining of the reduction of Canadian and other for eign tariffs in return for alleged con Cessions that would not be sufficient to allow the importation of goods into the i United states from the countries in question. They do not put it in this form but this is the Only mean ing to be attached to their insistence that i United states industries must not by is identical with the attitude of or. Borden and the manufacturers association in this country towards the British prefer ence. The latter Are willing to Grant All sorts of Tariff concessions to great Britain Short of any that will allow the importation of British goods into Canada. The free press has More than once Given expression to the feeling entertained on this Side of the line in regard to reciprocity with the United states namely that the in neighbourly exclusion St policy pursued so Many years by our big neighbor has been an important contributing Factor in the development of Canadian com Merce and Industry along lines thai Are Independent of the to nixed states. We in Canada arc not without appreciation of the benefits that would re sult from Freer commercial relations with the neighbouring Republic but we Are getting along very prosperously As things Are and we keep in mind that the benefits of Freer Trade with the United states however great they might be. Would have the disadvantage or being dependent for their continuance beyond a fixed term upon the decision not merely of Ottawa but of Washington. So far As any action by Canada is concerned things will remain As they Are. If the United states decides to admit us into its markets Well and Good if it decides to continue in its present course Well and Good. An interesting Light is thrown on certain aspects of the reciprocity ques Tion by the action of senator Lodge a protectionist of the protectionists at Washington in introducing in the United states Senate on saturday last a Bill giving the president Power to strike off the duties on Coal entering the United states from any country which admits United states Coal free of duty. The object of the Bill in of course to provide reciprocity in Coal with Canada. There is no other country to which the Hill could apply. The advantages of reciprocity in Coal Between this country and the United states Are such As to make them selves peculiarly and strikingly Manifest even to the protectionist mind. In the Case of no other product Are these advantages so obvious. The International Boundary line is More than three thousand Miles Long. There Are Canadian deposits which Are nearer to certain markets across the line than any United states Deposit and versa. Canada admits anthrax Eue free but taxes bituminous Coal. The Only Coal which Canada exports to the United states is bituminous on which a duty is imposed when i enters the states. But in spite of the tariffs Canada imported very considerable quantities of United states As much bituminous which had to pay duty As Anthracite which is the United states likewise imported very considerable quantities of Canadian Coal. The economic conditions overcome the Tariff barriers. The Trade and navigation returns Low that for the fiscal year ending Rune to last Canada exported in All tons Worth of which the United states took 40 j tons Worth or very nearly the whole Newfoundland coming next with 120.4.07 tons Worth for the same twelve months Canada imported tons of Anthracite Worth and 027 tons of bituminous Worth 070. The effect of the tariffs on each Side is to make Consumers in certain sections pay too much for their Coal whether the extra Cost is paid in the form of duty to one government or the other or in the form of transportation charges and excessive prices which would be Cut Down by compe .-.tlon, if the Tariff barriers were re a overt. If the reciprocity in Coal which senator Lodge is anxious to bring about were established to Morrow nobody in either Canada or the United states would suffer on the contrary Many people would Benefit. There would be a readjustment of markets of course but it would be a readjustment in accordance with Nat ural conditions. The maritime pro Vinces would get the new England Market now held by the Pennsylvania Coal producers who in return would get to a greater degree than at pres ent the Market of Central Canada the Northwestern states would draw their Coal from our deposits the Souris Coal or instance going across the Border in great quantities while British Columbia would course continue to Supply the entire Pacific coast As it does now the Consumers in the coast states paying the duty. Senator Lodge s special interest in this matter May be explained by the fact that he is a new England representative and the new England manufacturing industries with free Coal from Nova Scotia could Supply their needs at less than they have to pay for the Pennsylvania Coal. The new England Cotton manufacturers especially who Are meeting with keen Competition from the rapidly expand ing Cotton manufacturing industries in the Southern states where labor is cheap and the raw material at hand Are deeply concerned in senator Lodge s Prospect. It is one More in stance of the fact that Protection As a principle cuts no figure with protectionists their attention is concentrated upon their own pockets. The proposed new states. One of the questions agitating the minds of the legislators at washing ton is whether or not to admit new Mexico Arizona and Oklahoma and Indian last two con joined in the standing of states. Une of the factors which is playing a considerable part in the situation is the fact that a Henchman of senator Quay s is certain to be elected by the new Mexico legislature As one of the two United states senators from new Mexico if that Terri tory is admitted to the Union thus giving or. Quay three votes in the own that of his colleague from Pennsylvania senator Penrose and that of the new mexican. This is a says the new York evening Post which ought not to govern any Man s vote in the matter of admitting new Mexico. If the re Public is to stand or fall according to the amount of influence that Matthew s. Quay can Montro in the Senate it will not be saved by the admission of one More or one less state into the the opponents of admission of new Mexico urge that while in Mere num Bers new Mexico has the population requisite for statehood the majority of the population do not understand the English language and comprehend american institutions still less and moreover that there is Little evidence that they desire statehood or would know the difference Between it and territory Hood if admitted. The population of new Mexico by the census of 1900, was and that of Arizona Small As compared with new York and Pennsylvania but the stare of Nevada has Only inhabitants or considerably less than the population of Winnipeg while Wyoming has Only of Oil and Idaho All of these states Are inferior in Point of numbers to new Mexico and two of them Are inferior to Arizona also. In 1sso and the Republican party rearing lest it should lose its control of the Senate admitted five territories As states and divided one of them Dakota into two thus Mak ing six. These states wore Idaho. Montana North Dakota South Dakota Washington and Wyoming. Idaho and Wyoming each had a smaller population than Arizona has now and All the others except Washington had Leas than new Mexico has now. By the admission of these Sis states the Republican majority in the Senate was increased by twelve. Poetic Justice followed speedily for All these states except North Dakota turned around within a few years and elected democrats or populists to the Senate and Kansas Nebraska and Colorado went with them. The Republican party was saved from de feat in the presidential election of 1s9g by the division of the democrats in the East. All the new states went for Bryan. Thus did the whirligig of time bring in this revenge. There Are perhaps no such motives at work now for either admitting or rejecting new Mexico Arizona and Oklahoma and Indian territory As brought about the admission of the six new states in 1ss9 and 1s90. The House of representatives has declared in favor of their admission. The Senate is hesitating. New co operative company railway employees and others inter ested in establishing grocery stores. A meeting in connection with the Manitoba co operative company now being formed among c. P. R. Employees and other workmen or con ducting grocery and butchering businesses was hold at the . Library on tuesday evening or. We. Dodds in the chair. The committee having in hand the arrangements for organization reported Good Progress hav ing secured shareholders with fully one half of the railway employees remaining to be canvassed. Owing to Small attendance of members at the meeting Many hav ing other engagements it was decided to postpone the meeting until the second tuesday in january when a Large attendance of shareholders is hoped for. Fixing the blame. Tom after n year s the Wuy. Old Man Ore you still engaged to miss Ney Tho engagement is off. Why How s that minister is to blame married us six months ago. Self Reliance. Lawyer to the Law gives you a third Madam. The i m not going to take any chances in that direction. I shall proceed to Hustle for Ray third just As i id fur my first and second. I was cured of acute bronchitis by Minard s liniment. J. M. Campbell. Bay of islands. I was cured of facial neuralgia by Minard s liniment. We. Daniels. Springhill n. S. I was cured of chronic rheumatism by Minard s liniment. George singlet. Albert co., n. B. Have Choice of the passes available routes by which the Canadian reach the Pacific. When we. President of the Canadian Northern was in Treal or. Sunday last he was asked the question will you reach Edmonton by the end of next year with the rails of the Canadian the reply elicited the following information that is a Long distance to cover for it it almost 501 Miles from the end of our present Grade to Edmonton but if we do not reach that place by the end of 1003 we will get there Early the following year. As a matter of fact our sur Veys and locations Are now completed right into Edmonton. The Crossings of the Saskatchewan Are near Batoche Osier Battleford and the fourth and last will he at fort Saskatchewan some Twenty Miles or More East of from Edmonton he declared that a distance of 200 Miles would take Thorn to the Foothills of the Rockies and if the peace Kiver route is adopted the mountains completely disappear. Or. Mackenzie then spoke of the chartered routes to the Pacific Ocean possessed by the Canadian Northern which they obtained either by Legisla Tion secured by the Canadian North Ern or by the Yukon Pacific charter which had been purchased by Mac Kenzie and Mann. They can legally reach the coast either by the yellow head pass the peace River or the Pine River pass. Then the question of the grand trunk Pacific was referred to or. Mackenzie saying that the question of routes was a Little vague in the no Tice of application but no doubt it would be a Good Deal clearer when they get Clear of the railway com Mittee. All that or. Mackenzie would say was that the country up there was very vast. Or. Mann was also seen and the question of Hon. Geo. A. Cox s connection with the Canadian Northern was referred to. The statement had been made that senator Cox was interested in the Canadian but or. Mann said that this was quite incorrect adding that had it been so the senator would not have taken up the grand trunk. Hon. Or. He added was president of a Bank with which we did a Large business and our relations with that institution Are still very pleasant. That is the Day after Christmas Little observed in Canada but an important Holiday in great Britain. In Canada very Little account is taken of the Day after Christmas. But in England Scotland and Ireland it is a Srery important Day. In eng land and Scotland it is known As boxing Day and is a Universal holi Day to Ireland it is called St. Ste phen s Day or the Day sacred to Stephen the first Christian Martyr. Why the Day set apart for the honouring of the memory of a Martyr should be Given up to the most boisterous and rollicking merry making is a Puzzle but the customs Practised on St. Stephen s Day though some what modified Date Back several centuries. It was for Long a noisy riotous carnival the Young men and children dressing in grotesque cos Tumes not unlike those donned by Canadian youngsters on halloween and going from door to door begging and carousing. It was from these customs that originated the ancient Nursery rhyme hark hark the dogs do bark the beggars Are coming to town. Some in rags and some in tags and some in velvet gowns. In the modern Celebration of St. Stephen s Day in Ireland the pretty Little British Bird Jenny Wren plays unfortunately a. Most important part. On Christmas night the Young men and steal Forth into the Woods and among Hedges and Low Bushes and take captive All the Wrens they can succeed in Surpris ing and these they tie truth Gay coloured ribbons to Small Holly or Evergreen Bushes in readiness for the morning at Peep of 4ay All sorts of Odd and outlandish costumes Are put on and the parades. Or hand beggars As they Are called their faces covered with cloth masks March from House to House begging for Coin and tid bits and singing Mer Rily the song of Fie Wren the Wren the Wren the King of All Birds St. Stephen s Day she is caught in the Furze though her body s Small her family is great Riss up then Landlady and give us a treat. Up with the Kettle and Down with the pan. Tend to us quickly and let us be gone. Before we leave you the curse of the Wren. This skylarking is continued until afternoon when dresses and masks Are removed and then in the evening comes the Climax of the festivities when Young and old in Holiday dress gather in barns where they dance and make merry till Dawn with the Money Given them in the morning. One of the customs is the tying of but sets filled with Flowers wit ii a tiny Wren or love letter in the Centre to the door knobs of their sweethearts houses by the Young men of the Village the Lucky girl that has the greatest number of baskets Hung to her door being the envy of every other girl in the neigh Borho oel. Orange River Colony to the glory of god and in memory of those who have fallen in the War. Under the above heading the Fol lowing circular from Bloemfontein Orange River Colony has been received by the free press it has been decided to add a Tower with Belfry and baptistery to the Cathedral of the diocese in Bloemfontein As a thank offering for the restoration of peace and in perpetual Mem Ory of those of our fellow subjects who have fallen during the War and Are buried in the Colony. To ensure this tablets will be placed inthe building showing that the Tower is erected by contributions of the military and civilians and on which it is hoped that the names of those who have fallen in the War will be inscribed. When it is remembered that about officers non commissioned officers and men Are buried in this col ony it is Felt that Many members of our Church will be glad to assist in raising a Central memorial to thei comrades and friends who have Dier from wounds or disease and whose Graves Are scattered throughout the Hoover co. Wish All their patrons a merry Xmas. Soliciting your further patronage and thanking you in anticipation. Correct clothiers. Cor. City Haj Street the Imperial saturday Blouse Silks. 400 Yards fancy striped Broche and Plain Blouse Silks 21 inches wide All pure silk almost every Shade. Res. Is. Saturday 39c on Xmas Trade was even better than a hence we Are obliged to As sume that the strict Busi Ness principles of giving finality and Good value Are appreciated by the Winnipeg people. If you have received a Money present you can inv St to advantage in our store As we still have Many pretty things. Lace collars sat. 65c Sample lace collars and Fich in Cream and White made. Of Beautiful Quality laces. Reg. To s3. Saturday 65o mirrors saturday 7c mirrors Only 3 dozen left Fine Nickel frames Sood True Glass. Reg. 15c. Prints. Saturday tour Choice of any Loc print Light dark reds Black and Whites. Reg. Nic for 7v4c Wool blankets sat. Si.99 six la. Pure Wool blankets extra line Quality. Reg. Satsi.99 Wool vests sat. 57c Jug is dozen ladies Wool vests Fino rih Hecl. Quality natural color Shri likable Ami full Yashica a. Of res 51. Saturday ladies hosiery sat. 29c p 30 dozen ladies Wool Hose in. Plain or ribbed qualities pen loss and fashioned. Res. Me. Wrapper ettes sat. 9c wrapper ettes unit cashier irettes in All colors and patterns. 12 jul so. Saturday 9c toys and games All toys and games in the has Monc at one third off. The Imperial dry goods co., Ltd. 460, 462, 464 main Street Winnipeg s popular store. Special for Friday and saturday Robiin Soin ;