Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1912, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba bbb pm tote published every Day except by Manitoba free press company at their office Corner 6c port orb Avenue end Garry Street. Winnipeg. B. H Macklin vice president and general manager gaels department main 5493 Buber Letlon main 2909 editorial department Jialin 6647 City editor main 6649 Bee Telephone directory for additional numbers. Chicago off co _ Henry Declerque. 701-3 Schilter Bull deny. New York office Louis Al Eljan room 306. No. I West Street. Eastern Canada representative Edgar j. Guy Canada life bids. Toronto Freedom of Liberty in Rel Ion Equality in civil tuesday. 30, 1012. Globe and Western rail Way rates. Today Tho Dominion railway Coin Mission sitting at Toronto will resume tin investigation to determine tin equitable basis for the whole stale of Western railway rates. What Lias Ai is Ady been established before the com Mission thanks to the Resolute Force and directness of m. 1c. Cowan k.c., counsel for Saskatchewan and Alberta is the fact which was established last year before the bar of pub no opinion by the free press with its series of articles this country s Burden of unjust railway fact namely that the rates in the West Are grossly in excess of the rates in the East. A fortnight ago today when sir. Cowan delivered his Broad Side of roots which has staggered the railway companies. Judge Mabee unrounded the decision of the commis Sion that or. Cowan had made out a Pima Cade Case that the rates in the pc St Range from 20 per cent to 160 per cent higher than the rates in the East while the Cost of operation is it33, and the density of traffic greater the West than in the Bast. The railway companies Are thus for Tho first time put on the defensive in regard to this whole vastly important matter of their unjust discrimination Tir inst the West. Not Only has or. Cowan put till pm on the defensive but has done so wholly with run uni Fon furnished by is to say by the figures of their own s. The answers Given under oath to i questions put to their High officials int the statistics which the . Was to pc led by order of the Commir Slon to furnish in regard to comparative Cost of operation and density of traffic East and West. Under the c ear Cut provision of the railway act the counsel representing the interests the people of the West Are occupation of the higher ground commanding the railways and from position they cannot be dislodged. The Heights have been captured and wide breach made in the Walls of j the Citadel of railway injustice. There is nothing for it but Capitu j it by the railways. The question that arises it is one of immense importance the people of aves Toru to what extent Art the railways going to tie Able to design the actuality of their impending de feat will they succeed and if so ii a far in preventing a Lull re Medy of the heavy injustice under which Tho people of the West now la Bor in having to pay rates which Are exor Lut Antly High in comparison with the cast of the great lakes a specious transparently false plea is being put Forward against any remedying at All of the existing injustice of Western rates. It is a match t the plea put Forward in the United slates against any revision downward of the existing duties. Say the beneficiaries of the High Tariff j the Strong concerns Are now solidly but think of the smaller concerns that absolutely need the existing Tariff to build them up. They be ruined if the Tariff 5s it is deplorable to find a paper like the Toronto Globe arguing in like manner in regard to Western railway As follows the Globe knows As everybody in this country who can read knows that fihe Canadian Pacific railway is be coming too Rich As Well As too Power 1 us. But it knows also that a reduction in freight rates that would not Hurt the . Its Prin Cipal Western lines a Well settled country. Would mean bankruptcy for the . And i the present stage of development of. Roads and the territory through which they the. Globo goes on to Ash whether the advocates of reduction of West rates would reduce . Freight rates alone in the West or All freight rates taking Hie Chance of driving the other corids into bankruptcy for the Benefit the and continues . Rates Are to be lower than 11.t rates of the other roads the result would be the As that which would follow a forced , for the .. attract the business from the other reads at Al l . Points. W est Ern could be lowered by the simple device of Bounsing the . And . To the extent of in Taring them against currying freight p. A loss. it May yet prove necessary to Force rates downward1 and leave to time the the. Question to whether the lower rates would so increase the volume of business on she . And . As to make them but that question so j Aras Export Grain is concerned is not the vital question for the West at the moment. Larger markets Are of far More importance than lower Grain re it is True that this country with its great and rapidly increasing surplus of Grain needs larger markets. Noth ing could be More obvious except tie in slowness of the argument that while the . Could stand reduction of the unjust rates in the West the other r i always could not and that there fore the people of the West should be compelled to continue to exorbitant tribute to All the railways. The Globe Speaks As if lower Grain rites were the Alpha and Ortega. Of whole Western railway rates ques . It is the whole scale of West Ern rates that is unjust. On every of his necessaries of life on every necessary of his Industry the Western Farmer is compelled to pay rates that a High percentage of sheer railway robbery Over and a just charge for the transportation ser co rendered. Surely this country Star a right to expect better of the Oronto Globe than that it should lend to e. Plea for consecrate find Canon izing a vested wrong and join its voice with the cry hands off. The sacred tables of the railway the of the e of freight is the charge whit1 allows the Best managed and most efficient Lilia t. A j. Fair profit on Tine actual capital invested. Other railways should have to. Face the necessity of doing business to. The same rates or paying the Busi Ness penalty of incompetency and in efficiency. As for the assertion that the Canadian Northern and the grand trunk Pacific would be. Bankrupted by rates fixed on the basis of what would yield the . A fair return on the actual capital invested it is without warrant. The figures show the comparative costs of opera and density of traffic West submitted by or. Cowan to tie. Railway commission taken together with the comparisons Between tire in these provinces and the rates i i the adjoining which the free press has presented very fully have a bearing upon this matter which does not indicate that such an Assumption has any foundation in fact. Certainly no such Assumption should be allowed As a Mere Assumption to stain Al in full and sufficient justification of the existing rates which impose a modern feudalism upon the people of the Prairie prov inces placing them in. Vassalage to. The railway corporations. A Reader s notes books Are a. Finer world within the world there is Lions in the path. In the North american review1 for april col. George Harvey in an article the on written Law and the great recapitulates t he argue in cats against a presidential third term. When the Constitution was being made at Philadelphia in 17s7, Jefferson objected to the re Eligiia ullity of the presi Dent for a second term and washing ton Iri self although lie said that we could see n propriety in precluding ours does from the service of. Any Man who on some is eat emergency shall to doomed universally most capable of Sot nit the showed what his belie was by steadfastly refusing a third term. Congress agreeing with him expressed by Resolution the earn est wish it Bat his example might be a guide to his successors. Refusing a request that lie should stand a third time said should a president consent. To be. A con v Date for a third election n Atli about 1 Trust he would be rejected on this demonstration of in Vitious Andrew Jackson Jcj the passage of a Law definitely forbidding a third election. To wards the close of Grant s second term i movement was set afoot to secure a thir term the Otise of representatives by a. Nearl. Unanimous vote declared that such a of ours would be fraught with peril to our free inst Ltd. Another attempt in 1sso, to secure a. Third term for Grant on tha that lie was the Only Republican to in the then state of Public opinion would be elected was Defeated by an Adverse vote in the Republican National convention president Roosevelt upon entering Tipon his second term declared that the Wise custom which limits president to two terms nothing about regards the substance and not the form and under no circumstances will i be tolf ladies Sample Hose 500 dozen Lisle and Hoso on Sale wednesday ;