Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1912, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free wednesday May i ii published every except sunday by Manitoba free press , at their office Corner of por Lako Avenue und Garry Street Winnipeg. B h. . Vicc pc seclent and general manager. Telephone Calls advert Tannir department sir a subscription department Etui trial department Jivco. Is a 6647 main 6649 additional City editor see Telephone directory for numbers. Chicago office Henry Declerque 800 mailers build link. Kew York office Ijo Uia Klebahn. Room 306. No. 1 West 34th Street. Jeaster Canada representative Edgar j. Guy. Canada life bids. Toronto. Wednesday May a 1912. Proposal to Ham string the University. Proof has been piled upon proof Durins the past few years that Premier Roblin. Who on not a few occasions has asserted control Over his colleagues in the government and Over the legislature is himself sub ser vently under the control of in Llu Bences that Are unalterably hostile to the idea of a state University in Mani Toba. There is indeed reason to think that the Bias of his own mind is a Salust Manitoba having a University such As the neighbouring provinces Are providing themselves with and the states across the Boundary have Al ready. That Bias of Premier Roblin s mind fitting in with his views As a practical politician has enabled him to Combine personal satisfaction with political advantage in his policy of using All his Power to obstruct pro Gress towards the building up of a fully rounded adequately equipped. University of Manitoba free from de nomination control. His own Strong inclination and his Peculiar sense of political expediency thus Combine to make him immovable in his adhesion to the policy set Forth in the reaction Ary minority report signed by two out of the seven members of the University commission appointed five years ago namely or. J. A. M. Aikins and Rev. Y. A. Cherrier. The latest manifestation which pre Mier Roblin has Given of this Resolute determination to do everything in his Power to prevent Manitoba from hav ins a University on the same basis As the other provinces and states on this Western half of the continent is also a manifestation of such domineering disregard for his colleagues in the provincial government As would pro Voke Public astonishment at their sub Mission to being thus humiliated were it not that the Public have already had proof of their submissiveness to their bullying master. Three weeks ago or. Roblin being then in Ontario and All the other Mills text except or. Lawrence being Here in Winnipeg the latter after deliberation with members of the University coun cil who waited on a greed to an arrangement Between the government and the University Council was thereupon formulated in a Resolution which was passed unanimously by the Council. The agreement arrived at the members of the Council were assured been telegraphed to the Premier and it was understood Tea c his approval had been signified or at rate taken for granted however that May be the Plain fact stands that four ministers of the e Roblin govern ment namely messes. Campbell min ister of Public works Armstrong provincial treasurer Howden attorney general and coldwell minister of education committed themselves to that agreement with the University Council. Premier the University must necessarily control very largely its whole develop ment and future. It is to be recalled in this connection that he himself on May 11, 1807, made a notable utter Ance at the banquet of the Manitoba University club which was addressed by Capon Cody of Toronto. Canon roast distinguished of the Ontario University commission which reorganized the University of Toronto made a Strong argument on that occasion for a state University in this province free from denominational control. Premier Rob Lin who followed Canon Cody took occasion to say that he was not in favor of any further expenditure whatsoever in connection with the University so Long As it occupied its present the present site is six and three fifths acres in extent the addition of All saints Church property will in crease it to a total of about nine acres. And As a condition of the University be ins Given to two and a fraction acres additional Premier Roblin insists upon lie abandonment of the one Hundred did sixty acres site in , eminently convenient and in every Way nos1 suitable and Worth now More than of a million Fiol .ar.-j. Thus it is that Premier Roblin s endeavouring so far As concerns the University to condemn Manitoba to a humiliating position in comparison with her sister provinces and the states across the line. He sees no reason Why the people of Manitoba should want their prov Ince to have a University like the universities of Saskatchewan North Dakota or Minnesota and in this he finds himself in f Tell Accord with the influence to which for reasons of practical politics As he practices politics he chooses to is to say the ecclesiastical influences wielded from the Palace of the Arch Bishop of St. Boniface. Roblin having returned from the East Lias agreement made by with the University repudiated the his colleagues Council. That agreement As set Forth in the Resolution above referred to which was published at the time was thai the government worm secure for the University the All saints Church property contiguous to the present University site the acceptance by the University Council of that property to be absolutely without condition As to the per of the location of the univer sity or the reorganization of the Constitution of the University this is the agreement which Premier Roblin has now autocratic ally torn up and scattered to the winds. He promulgates it As his decree that the conditions he Laid Down Early in april when h3 first told the univer sity Council that he was willing to have the All saints property Pur a Tichener. A word in season might restrain them from pursuing their cure them of their craze for degenerate re pub and make them britishers once More. In Justice to himself to the conservative party to the endangered British Constitution and to the erring Brethren or. Roblin should speak out loud and Clear and Call halt. A Reader s notes Poots Are a finer world within the of course the moral of the situation created by the indecent application of the spoils system is that men of brains and character should shun the ser vice of their country like a plague while present conditions continue. It is no place for a White Man. Only Way to Settle this univer sity question is to. Defeat the Roblin government i and get a new Premier Wuo will nit be the creature of. Hirs own prejudices. The men who want to. Sea a proper University established in Manitoba must make common cause against the existing administration. It is quite Plain that business can not be done with or. Roblin. Though the University of Manitoba is so poor that if can Only make a pre tence at performing its proper functions it is to be coerced into abandon ing1 160 acres of land in Worth some if it will do this the government will present if with 2% acres on Broadway and will give it a Little More Money provided it agrees to properly subservient in the future to the wishes of the pre Mier in the matters of organization personnel Etc. If it does not agree to this the University is apparently to be destroyed. Swinging the axe. The shameful Ness of the contrast Between the pre election professions of or. Borden and his political associations and the activity of the partisan axe in the Dominion Public ser is revolting to every fair minded the spoils system is be ing put into operation with callous and openly cynical disregard of jus Tice decency and the formal professions of principals to which the conservative stands solemnly pledged be Forth e Canadian people. An instance which is arousing wide spread indignation in Ontario is. The Case of a. H. Stratton who has been dismissed from the postmaster ship of Peterboro. Or. Stratton is the brother of the Liberal candidate for re elec Tion in West Peterboro at the late general election. Just because of this relationship according to his own state ment which is borne out by the Tes Timony of others against which there is no opposing evidence forthcoming he was particularly careful to refrain from taking any part whatever in the contest. In his reply to a ques from the office of or. Pelletier the postmaster general whether he had been guilty of offensive partisanship he stated that to had never visited a committee room or attended a Public or private political meeting and that he had not amassed any elector. When he was notified of his Dis Missal or. Stratton asked for the Rea sons Why he dismissed. The Only reply vouchsafed by the postmaster. Geiger Al was that the dismissal had been made at the request and upon the report of or. Burnham the conservative member. Or. Pelletier takes the View that nothing mire than the word of a conservative member is needed As full and sufficient warrant for the dismissal of a. Civil servant. In professing this principle in his place in the House of commons the Post master general spoke As if he were deeply convinced that he was uttering something fundamentally right. A appeared to consider that he was do ing himself credit by that profession of principle which he has. Been most industrious in carrying into practice. The spoils system is in like manner being carried into operation in other departments of the Dominion s pub Lic service. The axe has been specially Busy in this province recently. When the late Dominion government created the civil service commission and placed the inside service at Ottawa under its control or. Borden commended hat departure and spoke in an admirably High minded manner about the desirability of. Doing away with the patronage evil in politics de chased by the province for the Clarino mra 5elf in of extending varsity must be rigidly adhered to. The control of the commission to the these conditions require that the University must abandon the site which is one Hundred and acres in extent and of which the Esti mated value is this anchoring of the University to its pres ent unsuitable inadequate location be ing plainly intended to secure the perpetuation of the present status of the University and Warp and frustrate its growth. In what other government Dominion or provincial that has Ever Helix office in Canada has a Premier administered such a humiliating affront to his col leagues As Premier Roblin has thus and a Western conservative few set Par accuses a Liberal contemporary of having suppressed Taft s letter to Roosevelt containing his reference to the reciprocity agreement when it reached his office in the n news service. In Point of fact the Canad Jan news service by an oversight did not carry the text of the Taft letter it did nothing but a general reference to it. For this interesting item of news Canadian newspapers Lead to rely upon United states exchanges. This letter made its first appearance in a Western Canadian newspaper in the free press monday april 29. Birthday congratulations to or. A. B. Alexander born Truro , 1872 graduate Manitoba medical College commenced practice in Killarney to Winnipeg 1905 prominent Phy Sican. And curler. Ami Eggertson born Iceland 1873 came to Winnipeg As a boy commenced career As account ant and then engaged in brokerage and building business was Alderman of Winnipeg for two years 1907-100s. Robert Macbeth born Kildonan Man. 1848secretary of the school Boardo municipality for 27 years and clerk of the presbyterian Church for years. Hon. H. J. Cloran b.c.l., . Born Montreal 1855 journalist in Sarij life later a lawyer senator since 1903. Howard Douglas Banff born Halton county orit., chant in Hamilton and Calgary for Many years superintendent of the National Banff for ten years and later superintendent of Dominion Parks. Donald Guthrie . Born Scotland 1840 Liberal . For South 1876-1882, and Liberal .p. For same riding18 86 1894 inspector of registry offices for Ontario since 1895. R. S. Thornton , . Delo born Scot and 1863 Liberal for delo Raine 1907-1910. Entire civil Cervice. Other matters Are claiming his attention now apparently. A Case for intervention the Regina province the chief conservative newspaper of Saskatchewan publishes what purports to be the platform upon which or. Haultain and his followers will seek re election in the legislature at the forthcoming polling. Among the planks we find this in bold Type the adoption of the of the initiative and this action by or. Haultain bring ministered to messes. Campbell Arm a nor him into sympathy with the Posi Strong Howden and coldwell in re assumed some time ago by or. Pud lating t he agreement they entered into with the University Council the attachment of these four gentlemen to their portfolios must surely be Strong if they submit to be thus treated As Mere office boys by the Premier. A determined show of spirit on their part would bring the bullying Premier to time but they have not hitherto giver the people of Manitoba any ground for believing that they possess the requisite spirit to make a stand in defense of their convictions which stand declared in the agreement with the University Council which or. Rob Lin has torn up. Nothing can be plainer than that Premier Roblin is determined As the the conservative Leader in Alberta puts or. Roblin in the some what dubious position of standing alone among the Western conserva Tive leaders in his hostility to the Prin Ciple of the referendum. Or. Roblin for some months past has been expressing his opposition to Iuis proposed alteration in Pur system of government in his most emphatic manner. He has denounced it Asun has described it As a form of degenerate and has characterized its advocates As just a week ago he assured the Young conservatives that while he is on the Jot these pestilential doctrines will make no headway free press has already said to do in this country. Everything in his Power to Warp and it is not probable that or. Roblin could induce the members of the direct legislation league Wibo Are hard at work preaching the gospel of the referendum to recant their Opin ions doubtless they Are wedded to them. But As the biggest Western figure in the conservative party he Lias presumably considerable with or. Haultain and or. The growth of the University by keeping it fastened to a Circum scribed inadequate site abandon the valuable site and keeping if. A University in name but not in fact subject to the control of the denominational institutions a Mere Cinderella. The conditions which he insists in forcing on ideas of a Plain Man by Frank. Crane. Tom Johnson used to live. In the Woods on a Little Clearing at Island Grove Illinois. He was a Good Hun ter a Good fellow and a Good Philo . Once 1 ask a him a question. All around him the e Smiths Browna had enormous farms Many acres in extent. They fattened cattle were Rich and smoked ten Cen t cigars which they bought in Jacksonville. Tom Johnson owned Only Tun acres was poor and smoked kill Zilinick pipe to Bacco which he bought at Doc Price s country store. Once i i Alcert him a question. How much ground does a Man need to make a he re lit his pipe studied a minute and said Well i reckon the Only needs about enough to stain it on if he knows that on to you. It s wort i thinking Over. After you have chewed this idea for a few years you will cease complain of Lack of Opportunity. The real Opportunity is the Man himself. My real resources Ciro under my hat. Das capital is brains. By All Means let us have Public schools and As Tom Johnson would say if i had sense enough i could find out All about the universe from a piece of Chalk. It i knew enough i should tremble As the breath of god when i saw a Lily of the Valley. Tennyson said that if he but knew what the Flower in the crannies Wall is he would know what Man is and what god is. I should like to be of course and buy As Nany useless things As the Smiths Browns have but. The poverty i lament most is my poverty of ideas my dryness of soul my Lack of inward Walt Mason s Corner at this season Man s afflicted with a score of grievous ill Sand he a frequently addicted to the use of costly pills or he buys some bottled liquor made of barks buds and the leaves and it makes him remedy All the sicker till his soul within him grieves. There s a cure. For human creatures there s a Balm to. Them All let Thorn sit upon the bleachers sit and watch the boys play Ball. Pity him who whines and wheezes Over every Little ill if we Brood o or our diseases they will grow until they kill let our ail ments be forgotten while we scratch for fun or Fame and they la find their Job so Rotten they will often jump the game. No one thinks about his liver no one thinks about his Gall while he makes the quiver looking at a game of Ball Uncle Henry was complaining of the aches that racked his form rheumatism1, in him reign Imp made his language Blue and warm and he blew himself for potions till he stood without a cent and he soaked himself in oceans of ill smelling Lini ment. Thau he went to see a Battle twixt the pirates and the blues and he made the Welkin rattle with his . Now there s not a better feeler underneath the spangled Frame every Day he whips a Peeler after witnessing the game t Mason. Will anything new toe said about Browning during the Centennial celebrations i doubt u. No doubt Many old smart slate Mars will be re called. Here is one 1 found to Day that was written in 18g5 in the saturday review starting a criticism or men and just published. It is worthy Jit Tord and the quarterly Crew it is really High time this sort of thing should if possible be stamped. Here is another Book of land Lan Otheir melancholy specimen of Power Waii Toily wasted and talents deliberately act of trat Ion before that Demon of bad who now seems to hold in absolute Posseli Iofe t he fashionable masters. Of our Ideal literature. Cd is a Strong Case 1 or the correctional Justice of criticism which i has too Long abdicated its proper let us glance at a few titles in t he two volumes so characterised. Evelyn up at a Villa Down in the Fra Lippo Upp i a toccata of a woman s last by the Andrea Del one word in a this is though some others As great Are there. It is to our credit in this City that we can recall a looked Housie in the . Some years ago when miss Sutherland read Browning Alt the evening Amoa in the numbers be ing up at a a end in a also she read my last Home. Thous its Fram. Daybreak from Pippa and the Flower s from Garden the. House listened a a one Man and in a Balcony is half an hour Long. I want to quote the Lyric i skipped for gossip yesterday. One of the sweetest of Pip a s singing is that evening beginning overhead the tree to fas but i am going to take the love Lyric from the same drama put in the Mouth of the a Street girl you la love me i can Tarn your love s protracted growing june reared Bun Ohot Flowers you from seeds of april s sowing. I Plant a be artful some seed is sure to strike and you la not Pluck in deed not Lowe but maybe like. You la look at least on love s re Mains a grave s one Violet. Your pays a thousand pains what s death you la love opposition to the hew Home Rule bin those who read or. Balfour s and or Bonar Law s speeches together with. Have no difficulty in deciding that the two men have widely different policies in. View. Or. Balfour s Appeal is ii la diva reducing corsets our 1912 reducing Model will of flakes. Abdomen Back lips and upper smaller without crowding the Inteman Gans downward and out of place vent this crowding the firmly by Means of patented Straw a that the band can be tightened Orloos Aei instantly. It is the ultimate Corset main All sizes 20 to 36. Price per pair. Vul ,5u novelties in women s Coats we have Only 20 of these Novelty Coats which Are displayed in our Street window for thursday s Selling at prices As follows smart coat in mixed Tweed. Regular in reversible Tweed. For regular s-12.00 regular regular Novelty coat for dark Grey coat Large revers and Collar. For Navy Blue coat trimmed with Cream. Copenhagen Blue coat trimmed with Black. Regu Lar for.527.00 Fawn whip Ord coat trimmed with silk and buckles. Regular for Navy coat trimmed with Cardinal. Regular s59.00 for Navy and Black shot Terry cloth Coats. Lace col Lar and cuffs. Regular for.529.00 several others. Regular and ?32.00, for and Don t miss our window display silk waists we Are also showing special lines in waists in window for thursday s they come in Black and White Messaline silk Best Quality excellently tailored and have the new in set shirt sleeve perfectly Plain. The fastening is made in front under smart Box Pleat and Complete with pocket. Regular thursday s see window children s Pinafore just to hand a Fine assortment of Lawn and Nain Sook Pinafore mostly hand made and trimmed with lace and embroidery. Sizes to suit Ages from 1 year up to 4 years. Prices.75c, to bordered voile dresses we have just received a shipment of these deeimm.1 dresses at a Clearing Price and arc about to pass on our Good Fortune to you. They come in Tan Gretl and Green colourings with Fine silk Stripe and deep of 1 Der of Plain Shade. They Are prettily designed. Tip Waist has smart surplice effected by the Border and a Dainty lace Yoke is an attractive Tea-1 Ture. The skirt fits snugly Over the hips falling it 1 Graceful fullness below Knees and finished with jest i Border. Splendid Range of sizes. Regular vital t special women s walking skirts made of Superior Quality Tweed in Many Able shades in striped effects. Made with the Popoli panel Back and front trimmed with a few butter others with Pleat inserted about knee depth and in i Vertex Pleat Back. Sizes. 37 to 43 length 23 Lois j Waistband. Thursday extra special bargain for Muslin blouses these Are made in a Fine Quality with tucks and lace insertion and have panel of cobra to Aery Down front and pleated. Side frill edged ill lace. Sizes 34 to 44. 1 of special Tel Tatul another Good Lino in blouses comes in the Sci if tailored style with front of Fine Era Broider to Ufa Back Long sleeves with Linen has j Lar and fastens Down front sizes is to 44. Special foulard silk dress lengths in to Day s window display we arc showing a very big line of foulard i in a Larse assortment of colors and patterns. In a few colourings we have Tow Nourice two of a kind but in the majority of these dress lengths there is orig one of Mil assure All buyers of having nothing they May common. Regular values of these lengths run from to and anted As this season s goods. Thursday per dress children s ribbed Cotton Hose at pair 100 dozen children s ribbed Cotton Hose on Sale thursday in a medium weight extra Good wearing Quality color guaranteed fast. Sizes 6 to 10 in. Thursday s Sale Price fancy linens for Shower gifts Dainty Little dollies in the new venetian and Cluny lace patterns. Special for thursday. Cluny lace Centrepieces. 18 in. And 20 in. Also pretty dered White Linen centres. Worth to our special Price embroidered centres 21 in. Also Cluny lace centres .0 in. 24 in. Worth up to si.50. Thursday s special Price our shirt counters Are brimful of y shirt values Negligee shirts Outing shirts and work shirts in most instances at Price and less. Special values for thurs Day s Selling in men s Robes and pyjamas. F men s Fine English Flannelette pyjamas in i All sizes a these pyjamas Are made from a soft downy English Flannelette in j quiet colourings in All sizes. Thursday at one Dollar i suit. Men s scotch and English Flannelette night Robes in All this store is famous for its Good night Robes for men. This is an attractive lot and White and fancy Flannelette with and without collars. Full big size bodies and All sizes in regular values. House furnishings deft. 1 i Fri t f Etc h Rel o t c a Folpe t a special Clearing line of scrim and 40c. Thursday Yard. Regular 30c. 35c 25c Sale Muslin for bedroom curtains 27 inches wide lace insertion and he stitched Edge. Regular 2oc Yard. Thursday. Sale of Sample 500 Brussels remnants suitable Flat Long. Thursday each 114 300 remnants Wilton and Axman St Yards Long. Thursday each electric lamps see main Street window 25 Only electric lamps brass stand with Square brass and Glass a Njaa Divinch Bead fringe m both Green and Amber colourings Complete a four Cord attachment plug and bulb ready for use. Regular thursday Sale Only the main to reason to the tolerant intellectualism which when it comes to works on lines of pessimism As to. Human Lite and character. Or. Law s Appeal is to violence. Be is not a very Able Man he just Falls Short of the Standard of refinement which enables a hard lighter to hit the Mark without vulgar scuffling. He is Ulster with an Orange Catholic touch that is to will import into this controversy and has imported into it Ulster s harsh Pride of property and worldly Success tical favouritism. He is now egging on his party to disorder in the we May take it that he. Will freely con done sedition outside it. For our part we do not know that when the hour of final settlement approaches there would be any harm in giving Ulster the Power to say after experience of Irish government in the inter mediate she would stay outside her own land in sulky on. The Imperial Power or join nationalism As a powerful and quite possibly a predominant partner in a self governed Ireland. But we Are quite sure that the shallow in rationalism of which or. Law is the mouthpiece and the policy of Force which lies behind it will do Home Rule All the Good in the world. The old fierce current of unionist feeling has ceased to run. The country Lias received the Homo Rule Bill with perfect Calm Kab critics have been singularly weak and a deep doubt t or. Garnett i proposes to school children o d nil such time As int ;