Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 1904, Winnipeg, Manitoba It i v tar t 1 t j ma1sttoba free it Publ Shefl Weir Manitoba free press at 23 permit Telephone editorial business Job new York office Henry t19 Temple Chicago office Henry 7012 Schiller Bill altar Freedom in Liberty in religion Equality in civil mat our rival at the paper read before the compatriots club in dealing with the policy of Imperial preferences and the Cost of sir according to a Cable dispatch in yester Days free said the whole Supply of Corn needed by great Britain can be produced under conditions within the pm the supplies of meat and wheat from Canada Are capable of great de but Australia will ultimately take the place of Canada As the wheat sir Edmund Barton once said that if Canada was the empires Australia was the Australasia would have been the More Correct term for sir Edmund to have for new zealand has built up an immense meat Trade with great now we have sir Gaillard declaring that Australia is going to be Butcher and Baker to the in this he is but drawing the same conclusion As that arrived at by the commercial agent for new South Wales in great from the figures presented in a paper which Fie read at the january meeting of the Royal colonial Institute in Lance that Australia would also be the empires Dairyman and the figures showing the immense in crease of australasian food production year by and of the quantities of wine and fruit which Australia and new zealand Are Selling in great were Given in these columns some time ago in connection with a discussion of lances sir Hilliards Prophesy that Australia will ultimately take the Lead in wheat production prompts us to look again at the australian wheat to quote the commercial agent of new South Wales in London the highwater Mark of ascertained production was reached in when the crop was and in the following year Bush Els including equivalent in hav ing a value of about Ster were the Harvest of is the largest on being estimated at 73 000 000 which comes within close reach of the bushels raised by Canada in new South which has hitherto taken third place in now Heads list with Vic Toria South Australia Queensland whilst even West Ern Australia shows up with tins total about Bush valued at will be Avail Able for the acreage under wheat in Australia has been increasing year by year by Large percentages and would to a certainty increase still More rap idly under the operation of a prefer ence to colonial wheat in the British that Australia in any be one of the great wheaten porting countries of the future is Evi in this connection it must be remembered Australia has Only just begun the development of her cultivable and that before there can be any great Extension of that develop railways will have to be pro with the opening up of the country by the wheat out put would soon mount to very Large the establishment in great Britain of a preference on colonial food pro ducts would mean an Active Competition Between Australia and Canada in the production of to name no other food but Western can Aca leaving out of account the wheat Fields of new Nova Scotia and Prince Edward could easily furnish every Bushel of wheat required by great so could the present annual importation of wheat into great Britain is 000 Australia last wheat crop yielded a surplus for Export sufficient to Supply close upon on fourth of this at this How Long will it be before the wheat growing in their rivalry to Supply the wheat heeds of great rivalry to which an immense impetus be by a British prefer have More wheat to Export than great Britain can consume this surplus they will have to take into the where they will not Only have to compete among but among All other of the they will Nave against them the wheat from All the existing wheat areas outside the and also from the vast new areas that Are being opened up in a and what Are the things of vital necessity to the of Western to enable him to hold his own in the worlds Market the things of Vita importance to him Are hit Cost of living and of production should be As Low As and that he should have facilities to get his wheat out to the worlds mar the provision of the requisite transportation facilities is As Essen tial As that the necessaries of life shall not be increased in Cost Tariff some politicians in this part of the Are Given to Talon a of the Chamberlain policy if it meant solely a preference in great upon Grain coming from Western can they ignore not Only Eastern but and Alf the rest of the they take the figures of great Britain annual consumption of and dilate glowingly upon a Eolden future in Ovnich Western can Ada shall Supply every Bushel of wheat used to the Mother tyls empty talk was dealt with daring the past session of the legis lature by after pointing out that Western Canada is not the Only wheat area in the pm went on to say James president of the great who is not Given to advertising recently stated that in ten years Manitoba alone would produce All the bread stuffs great Britain would in my is too Long a if this abundant As was that of sols in this prov Ince could Supply nearly that Quantity these people not first been driven out of the Canadian they could not so of the returned and returning canadians from 3 it must be to claim certain responsibility for conservative cd relapsed at Ottawa in its remnants cast our by it be if intent quite in that t so Complete was the failure of the conservative government in the mat terror promoting that the Sants have refused unanimously to do anything the and the author to proceed but wherever the proposal was Favores Djey of eve though opposed by the the Resolution has been declared Fobe an the Money quickly in Australia the holds a barely a third of the Mem Bers of parliament according to a Cable be thrown out of office by a combination of the and Reid this would be Ajic Jim Tatj i we could Supply right Here in this provinces were compelled to take the we by the rest of shall soon be in this difficulty about you will remember that at the Coronation of the can Ada built an Arch in England an Arch of across it was blazoned the granary of the it was because of our known wheat pro during Fertility that that legend was put but Long before our wheat productiveness is exercised to the we shall be growing More wheat by far than Britain can what Good us organized an immigration along Down by the labor Australia also Northwest territories 13 regarded a a sociological Laboratory which adopted a system for tue which All kinds of of sending out represent Ive Farmers to j experiments Are being made in the Art Centre the credit for Reiff government and we could conceive secured was promptly a nothing that would be of More Gen prop fitted by the Ottawa none of work would have had eral Benefit than a thorough test of the capacity of the radicals to carry their be undertaken As such Large expense j policy into if they the will Protection and preferences do us j by the Nal the i Migra rest of the world will be encouraged to then we shall be pouring into a cup that is already we shall have to do As Hill recommended the Farmers of the states to a Market greenways image of pouring into a cup that is already full be comes All the More striking when we remember that what the australians look Forward As sir Gaillard Points is that it will be not wheat that the cup will be filled tinder an Imperial preferential of dreaming the Western Cana Dian being a practical Indi faces the actual he real izes that his welfare depends upon his Cost of living and production being kept and upon his having Ade quate transportation even if a British preference on colonial Grain were How Long could it b coated upon to continue its inauguration would be the signal for the beginning of a determined Campaign in great Britain for its while it remained ithe australian Farmer would make the most of when the relative costs of living in Western Canada and Australia Are it is to be remembered that of As the agent for new South Wales in England one thing that weighs heavily in its favor is the pregnant fact that it has no As it is understood this country or in North the expense entailed upon the Western Canadian Farmer by our Winters is escaped by the australian and yet there Are politicians in this coun try if they had their would raise the customs duties and make the Farmer pay More for his goods and for All his other necessaries of the same political party which is committed to a policy of High Tariff Taxa Tion is committed equally to a policy of thwarting the National trans Contini enal railway undertaking and of sacrificing the interests of the Western Farmers to the desire of the existing railway corporations to bar out come a contrast of one of the most humorous incidents in parliament for a Long time was the assertion made the other Day by the member for East nor that the conservative party Laid the foundation of the Immi Gration from the United this interesting piece of historical fiction was contributed by Cochrane in the course of a speech in which he pointed out that at one time the conservative party government had an immigration agent in the United and that the liberals at Ottawa declared that he was not accomplishing Walter Scott ventured to interrupt with the enquiry what year was that after squelching the Mem for Regina with the crushing re you Are old enough to know with out asking me that then proceeded to adorn the pages of Hansard Voth this dictum it was the conservative party who Laid the foundations of the immigration from the United True the appropriations for Immi Gration work were Large in the Days of conservative Rule at they amounted to no less than in the ten years from 1881 to 1891 and the assertion was on behalf of the conservative government in the last named year that in the ten years named people had been brought into the but the official returns of the census of Cen sus conducted Tyche conservative that the entire population of Canada had increased from 1881 to 1891 by Only or less than the number asserted to have been brought in by the immigration efforts of that de Andev and this says nothing of the natural increase in which at the ratio accepted by statisticians taken accounting for isl of the increase in population from s81 to 1s9l the United states census of 1000 showed that there were at that Date in the United states Cana than 20 of the whole population of the this tinge total tells its own Mie outflow of population from Canada during the conservative who has heard during re cent years of a Canadian Farmer sell ing out to take up land la the United states the movement of canadians from Quebec and the maritime pro Vinces was largely to the new eng land states centres but in Minner Sota and the Dakotas thousands of prosperous citizens were among those who had originally come to Manitoba and the territories to help build up the out had been forced by Adverse conditions produces by neglect Ana Mataya minestra ton at Otta Wato abandon that in Tention and Seet a country where their energies would be better Reward battalions of these people make part of the present Host of in from across Tho Tion work which it was the duty of the Dominion authorities to carry and for which Large appropriations were made been carried on take a Forward step along the same Road if they demonstrate that engaging theories of improvement become less attractive when put into practice instead of its being carried on 1 the lesson will likewise be it was marked by a Complete absence Jin any a term in office will be of system and of great Benefit to the leaders of what business the immigration j has now become an influential political work of the conservative government j party in grew deader and deader every year i of office Phi Ergui educating until where it reached the the in opposition last degree of fall things possible by the failure of the conservative gov when he reaches his Liberty of action circumscribed by tyrannous this the new labor is probably realizing a cablegram from Australia reports him As saying that his pro gramme depends upon his ability to get Ern ment to induce immigration from the lamentable As it was greatly exceeded by the failure to induce immigration from great doubtless we shall have Cochrane declaring next hat the conservative government Laid the foundations of the present British to confine our to the influx from the United the following figures showing the number of settlers from across the line year by year Speaks for itself As to when work of laying the foundation for this movement was the Money he funds to it that out thus policy of 189g 1s07 44 712 All the statistics of the development of Western Canada show like increases the Liberal government took while for the closing years of the conservative government they show progressive take the Homestead for instance 3s92 18jjs Isom the immigration policy pursued Dur ing the conservative term of at an immense Cost to the secured a constantly decreasing num Ber of and of these a con stantly increasing proportion left the while those who remained found the value of their lands de instead of was a policy which Laid the foundation of nothing but discontent in this coun try and it had a main share in Lead ins to the deserved condemnation passed upon the conservative govern ment at the polls in in the matter of the Prince Albert and Edmonton railways messes Walter Scott and Davis have shown themselves vigorous champions of the rights of Western the chief Organ of the conservative Organ the Toronto mail and pretends to misconstrue their action in this regard As being a crying Down of the and says with imitation indignation it is to be hoped that the people of remember the Public these politicians to the West will Effort made by warn off settlers and to drive them when members of Parlia ment misuse their position to injure their constituencies it is time to turn them the people of the especially those directly affected Are not at Al Likely to forget the efforts made in their behalf by Scott and Davis their Point of is diametrically opposed to that of the mall and but then Ever since the the of the conservative government at Ottawa to bind the West in monopoly conservative leaders and news paper organs have been unable to take the Western View of any Western a russian correspondent of a Lon Don newspaper supplies some inter Esting particulars about the subterranean unrest throughout there have been numerous dcostume1 Sif Radical though perhaps approved by the people of has now to commend itself to the judgment of Moneybags of who Are extremely unsentimental if they think the Security not satisfactory there will be no Money forthcoming and the alluring programme will per Force have to be it is things like this temper of the reformer when he reaches office and compel him to adopt More conserva Tive a queer from the Moose jaw conservative whip George Taylor declared plainly in parliament last week that the contract would be cancelled just As soon As the conservative party were returned to of Nova will vote against the present scheme because the line will not run North of Lake Monk fears that the Eastern Section will not be proceeded with by the while Northrup and Haggart Are willing to support everything but the Eye Kern very truly did Young Lavergne say that the opposition rail Way policy is a queer the Yukon from the it is Early yet to make an estimate of the probable but no per son places it at less than ten millions and some go several millions any coutry which can produce ten millions after the Drain upon it to which Yukon has been must be regarded As More than ordinarily Rich in precious it if that the conditions under which mining is con ducted Here Are More favourable than they were a Short time no person will deny that the ground worked now is of less average value than that worked a few years ago and to find everything pointing to an increased output is a significant circumstance that cannot be by Robert a genuine poem of Robert Brownings almost unknown is Here reprinted from the edited by members of Rug by april pages where a prefatory notice states that the poem to have been written by Browning in the album of a Vir Ginian by tills lady it was bequeathed to the present owner now her Sale absent from to whose kindness we Are indebted for the Permis Sion to publish that this poem is Brownings no Knower of his work will whose at Tention was called to it by a has just told me of so 1 looked it up in the British furl february one Dull Day in the Bright Touraine in a Stoeple roofed sheltering out of a Skurry of Down in a dim Back Dusky i stepped into a Brica Brac hardly room to open the heaped with rubbish right up to the strewn with lumber All Over the floor abbess ii tapestries All in guiltless of locks or faded banners and tattered Cushion less Louis Quatorze Arque buses and pistols Clumsy teapots without a frayed and Sticks that would never again hold Candle soundless spines on less slim rapiers Long since Strin sess violas All most Dusty and fusty and Down in a in mildew and rust like Rose in a City like a Butterfly on a a face most Brave and glowing color and perfect line Sun tinged circles of Dar Brown Ary demonstrations in Poland of and these have been so Genera that the government has announced As a of Warsaw and other polish towns have contributed sums of Money to the War these municipalities How not but creations of the authorities in the councils which administer Rural Dis tric shave a More representative and every Rural commune has its special emergency according to the fund of this kind May be used for local purposes if the Rural Council is unanimous in its to null says the Blons or Amboise or tourer which fair town of that joyous land gave her the Beauty can still Panure fresh a it came from the artist s hand whose was the portrait sunny turning Over some casts by we discover the we face like our just its Tuni of the head and bust the same Fine features and Radiant an beneath it a Sweet Suzanne Sarente de la when the with hungry Throat ravished the of wide these medallions were Flung in the terror past they emerged none the worse for their cold eclipse but the where were they correspondent the Central government and lips can not compete with these things of Clay colder and death Lier Roll the Waves where the sea swallows the dark Loirs floods the Graves 1 with blood has Haver such it has either contrived to pre vent unanimity or found a Prete for disallowing the decision when it was these emergency funds amount in some districts to very considerable government discerns in them a source of Revenue for War and is encouraging councils to summon patriotic speeches Are delivered to in Auer the peasants to favor of of making in support of the hand up to profane did one name like of Suzan tie i Steps the last path Snetro in some the Nea dauntless under the Black Guillotine 1 the f never count the Comfort of a Ranc Sefc didst yes but the apr tres Topcoat t i were showing such a splendid Lutfe la waterproofed yarn to my Beauty did she lightening a few years our eng huh Cook and keep House for an Emigrant while he in Leicester Square then Hie Home where the Wildai Loire lies warm in the Light of All i know her Sweet eyes brighten a bit of this world for the Aid to Breeding spark suggests that the government Supply proper of has made the following re port to Sydney minister of agriculture travelled As far As in the East and Calgary in the and delivered Over fifty addresses at various conventions and Farmers in it May be interesting to you to know what my opinion with re Gard to the prospects of horse Breeding in draught the Best the average Farmer can for the Rea sons 1 that fewer mistakes Are main Breeding them 2 that they can be put to work earlier in and 3 that they can be turned into Cash there is a very Good demand for horses suitable for haulage in the Cit and for farm whether they Are of the heaviest the medium Strong backed Bis Little or the express seeing that most far mers Are certain to use one of these varieties in order to do the work of the it is satisfactory to that the surplus ones will and a ready and surely the breeder has the Advant inasmuch As he aah Market the four and five year Olds and till up tha gaps with the which Are coming on year after there is no reason Why the Farmer should nor work this he Breeds at and if he it is Well to aim at the heaviest kinds that his mares Are Capa Leof producing by Onieh i mean that Blocky mares with substance should be mated with weighty and it is usually Breeding draught to select a sire on the rather than on the smaller Side of the horse Breeding commends itself for this that the work of the farm has carried on their presence is indispensable there those which Are fitted be made to answer dual purpose workers and which must be better from financial Point of than if geldings and worked out with no Prospect of renewals except by dipping into the Bank for a fresh when embarking in horse Breeding it and the Only Way to be to keep an end in and to bread consistently for and i would suggest the City Dray As a Good but it is unfortunately often the Case in that the Farmer will Breed the same Mare one year to a the next year to a and another to a a system which is bound to end in Carriage and harness quite a number of really Good ones of these Breeds have been and High prices realized for those bred from the Hackney stallion and the Standard bred mares or Tfir native especially in were the breeders Serin to the class of animal i think a great Deal of Money a to be made in this Branch of the if the Farmers will study the subject and learn How to break their horses properly and entirely discard the use of the Check this would enable the Farmer to get better prices Fortis animals than he does at the present arid certainly the Rich City men would prefer to go to to buy than give so much of their business to the and Saddle there Are quite a number of these bred in Ontario and a few East of where the right sort have been produced Good prizes have been but in this Branch the want of the thoroughbred stallion is greatly recounts for the As the conditions Are at 1 do not think it advisable that the Farmer to Breed army for i do not think it will pay him there Are not the right sort of thoroughbred Stal Lions in the Dominion to Breed them it pay ranchers in the Northwest to if the government would the stallions As is the Case in again if the Imperial government would establish depots in the they might Breed them in profitable Quan As am convinced that the climate arid conditions Are most suit judging at i would respectfully suggest that where the government supplies expert judges at these judges should be left to say if the horses Are sound and be Able to Call in veterinary surgeon if instead of As at Ottawa the veterinary examining the Horge first and thereby taking away the of the judges to disqualify the horse for unsound at the Spring stallion show at the judges both agreed that a certain horse had were informed that the official Veter Inary surgeon had examined the horse the request of the and had passed the horse As so thy considered they Power to withhold the Prie on what were certain was an unsound i have there is a great demand for Saddle and Carriage horses in the Large for draught weighing All Over the which must be very i have also found that and Condit Lens of the country Are eminently suitable to the Breeding of horses in that the de Mand for Good horses of Alt sort Sis school teachers attention you vat a Larga Flag for your Send a stamp for Partl Sujani school conto i pretty a shipment of the latest styles in parasols has just these Are a few specialities bought by our european buyer and consist of London and parisian latest a full description of every one is but you will find White sherred linings Shil lined with Chiffon Black moire wit White shirred Chiffon edges Blue and Green mosque with White shirred linings silk with frilled Champagne Chiffon also pretty styles in Black and White with and without ask to see prices Range each to a full line of ladles surf hades in All the desirable coverings and with a pretty assortment of handles to Tjho goods Robinson 4 limited ladies fashionable footwear specially priced an exhibition of shoes worthy of the store that presents youll find every new every new every new every new leather represented the Fol lowing specials Are Given As a hint of our pricing ladies boots made from Vici medium Patent and self Mili d and c sizes 21a to 7 a most stylish ladies oxfords a splendid Quality of Vici kid self military turn Fine Vici with turn or Goodyear Welt the Best Canadian and american Worth from to a All faces Dongola 2 strap kid turn 2vs to Robinson 4 400402 main Carsley i tuesday and wednesday in i embroideries insertions lace collars ties and handkerchiefs table damask table cloths Tea tease Riffile Cro feet Mats Aiad do Leys Carsley so 344 an ice Cream a a a a sprinkler for the an Oil or vapor everyone of and hundreds of other useful things for summer Comfort youll find in greater variety and lower priced than buying Here Means buying the Best Ash Quarry near Balmoral new Stone will developed by contractor May death of Mccreary Canie As a in oct to the whole gradually he had grown in popularity until there was who washed in so much is Sven among his most bitter opponents his death is deeply Gunn of is opening a close Totte already arrangements have been made for putting a a it is expected work will commence very to Albert Mollari was unfortunate enough to break his Arm last and has to Winnipeg although the Spring has seeding is Well under Forai by the land has dried Trast to reported land seekers Are quite i and a number of parcels of have already changed Barton May Barton today resigned the p of the american red one succeeded by general who heretofore the office of ;