Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 10, 1912, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free pres May 10, 1912. Published every the Manitoba free press company at their a Rolce Corner of Par Taffo Avenue and Garry Street Winnipeg. B h. Vico Preal Dent and general. Manager. Telephone carbs advertising department main 5495 subscription department main 2909 editorial department. Main 6547 City editor main 6649 Sec Telephone directory for additional numbers. Chicago office Henry decl Reffue. 800 a Hera build Lar. New York office Klebahn. Koom .306. No. 1 West 34th Stercl Eastern Canada representative Edgar j. Guy. Canada Side. Toronto. Friday May 10, 1912. To change the presidential term. Heretofore no president of the United states has Over taken Tho stump in a Campaign for re election. A president renominated has always remained in Washington arid Lias Leon Content to stale his position in letters and to leave his Campaign to the Active advocacy of his supporters m Public meetings and stumping Tours. This has been regarded As the Only course consistent with the dignity of the great office of chief magistrate of the United states the Man hold that office being not merely a party politician and Leader out the executive Anil titular head of the re Public and president of All its. Citi Zens irrespective of their party the present develop parents in United states politics however have made it Manifest that hereafter if a president is to be eligible for re election he will have to g of into the rough and Tumble o t. Election campaigning unless he is Content out after one Terra and the re sult is that there has been a remarkably rapid growth of sentiment in. The United states in favor of extending the presidential term to six years and making the president ineligible for re election. The movement in Congress for this change in the United states Constitution has quickly reached Large proportions. Sel Dom or never has a. Proposed change in the Constitution met with so Hearty a response throughout the Union regardless of party. I. Leading i members of Botti parties in Tihe House of representatives land in the Senate have declared their approval of this suggested change. President Taft has _ made Public declaration of his toeing in favor of it. The proposal has been formulated in a. Resolution for a constitutional amendment to the states. This Resolution has been favourably reported to the judiciary committee of the Senate toy a suib comm tue of who id. Senator Root is chairman and likewise been referred to the judiciary committee of the of. Representatives which it is stated is to report it favourably. In the Senate where the majority is Republican the Resolution is of Republican origin in the House where the democrats Are in the majority it is of democratic origin. Says the new York world tilds Resolution of amendment is protest against the unseemly spec Tacle now imposed upon the nation of a president of the United states forced by an ambitious demagogue to descend into the political Arena and Fig lit like a. Ward politician for the. Customary endorsement of his Tihe pop Lii Fie us Republican Points out that Lille the Roosevelt s third term ambition is the immediate cause of the sudden growth of inter Eft in Congress in the proposal to extend the presidential term to six years and make the occupant of the office ineligible for re election Are other reasons Why the question is commanding special attention. The Nev system of party primaries at which up candidates for the presi Dency Are voted on appears to make it inevitable a president desiring re election shall throw himself into Active Ca Mai signing first ill the party contest such As is now being waged Between Roosevelt and i aft for the rep Tiomi Natton and if he secures the nomination lit Fine pc lotion Campaign. Says the re publican How can the official dignity of the office be maintained unless a change of the sort suggest Dis made with present they Are the president is being dragged More and More into the mire and is being made More and More a kind of political circus per former. He is More and More of posed to the unrestrained verbal abuse and malicious misrepresentation that disfigure partisan struggles for place and Power. The effect cannot toe beneficial under any de cent arid orderly Rule of the people. Indeed the effect of depriving the presidential station of those Safe guards which tend to preserve in the popular mind the Conception of the office As embodying the Majestic sovereignty of. The nation regardless of the individuality of the occupant must be to make the office More than Ever the particular spoil of. Theatrical sensationalist gifted with the to ent for popularity and the cheap tricks of a Good Deal is heard from the opponents of Roosevelt about the dangers of Caes arism or to use an other term current in political Dis Cussion in Tihe United states at the present time the Mexicali izing of the country. That there is any real Dan Ger of the sort is not to be seriously believed for a moment. At the same Lime it is plainly not in Accord with the spirit of Republican institutions that any Man Roosevelt or another be regarded As indispensable in Hijii office. The Macdonald vacancy. Ottawa reports indicate Early elections in the four Dominion constituencies now open. This course May be pro per enough in three of these scats but there is one very sub Stantial reason Why the by election in Mac Oriald constituency Mio Ald not be held until later in the year. The annual revision of the lists in this constituency will begin within ten Days and the new lists will not toe available until july. A Wajs attached to the great Van Alai ringtone who was copied from Sci edits Grana father Jav Melchizedek Meredith of foils Mouth a socially ambitious merchant tailor of that it As said that the novelist did not deviate at All from the original. His f thei and his aunts the daughters of the Fah ears. Appear with very Little verisimilitude in the same Book Ivor. S. M. Elifa a second Cousin of Meredith has traced the immediate paternal family of the novelist in a paper in the fortnightly and he de scribes the Grandfather As a sporting englishman a and an officer in the yeomanry who kept horses and hunted. When joining the freemasons his name goes Down As thirty five years of age and a his wife same sort and they were a singularly hand some couple. They married off their four daughters into uncles above Theu own one to a Btu Nerv one to a con sul general abroad one to a Prosper Ous Brewer and one to an officer who Rose to Knighthood. The last named beg the Grandfather of or Ljalis in real life the great Tifel died at the age of fifty one and his widow carried on the business until her augus the father of George Meredith a .was1 old enough to Lake it Over she de after her grandson was born. Augustus married Jane Macnamara of the same Tow who died when George was five old. The boy was looked after by his paternal aunts. One of his cousins George Ellis is portrayed to the use As crossway Patterne in the egoist or. Ellis nays that Meredith must have spent ten years in the at Portsmouth for in 1837 his father was living there. But he let the business go to and went to South Africa where he succeeded no better. It. Has often been told How when receiving from a Friend in South Africa a copy Harring ton he read. It with considerable dismay. He returned to England and . In 187g of seventy nine. He a second time. When his father left for South Africa George was. Placed in a arid later at the age of fifteen was sent to Germany the Money for his education being a limited inheritance1 Froin jigs Mother it was then that he Cut himself off from jigs father and All the Portsmouth connection. Or. Ellis dwells at seme length on Mere Dith s unkind travesty of the aunts in Evan notably his own grandmother and her husband and he. Shows How Many years a ter an Opportunity came for some amends to the son of general. Sir Samuel Ellis. It was in a literary Law suit Vand George Meredith eave evidence. It was parodied in punch with a car Toon portrait entitled by or. Ellis has a. Theory that it May j have been regret for Evan Harring ton that caused the nox list s continued secretiveness concerning his relations. The Bookman. Taft s latest Blunder. Prom the new York Post political motives Are obviously be Hind the flurry which the English conservatives Are raising Over pres ident Taft s letter on Canadian reciprocity. Similarly in Canada the an reciprocity press has seized upon his unlucky phrase about making the do minion an adjunct of the United states and is loudly proclaiming that it justifies All that was asserted last year about reciprocity being Only a disguised form of annexation. In England the violence with which the e been taken up by the tories will de feat its own in d to arraign. Ambassador Bryce As being privy a plot to dismember the Empire is so absurd As to excite laughter or. Bryce had nothing to do officially with the , except pos Sibly to report their Progress to the foreign office. The whole affair was. Left to the Canji Djan government and any interference by the British minis tiny would have been deeply resented. All this is Jar factly Well known to the House of commons and it will prob ably take Only a quiet statement of the facts by sir Edward Grey to. Put an end to the matter there. Yet the that it was most Indis Creet in president Taft to publish entire his private letter to Roosevelt about Canadian reciprocity. It was wholly unnecessary language was certain to be misunderstood or twisted. Strictly speaking he referred Only to a commercial and Finan Cial but it to jump at the conclusion that he meant Politi Cal. The to his equally gratuitous slip in speaking of Canada As being at the parting of the explanations of such blazing indiscretions Only make them worse when we recall that the i Junco letter was. Passed upon by the full Cabinet and by other advisers of the president the mistake of giving it out appears the More inexplicable. Efficiency As a gospel. From Harrington Emerson s efficiency efficiency is not Only not a menace to those who sell their time and skill but it is the. Broadest and pleasantest path of escape from retrogression and disaster. The efficient Man will have employment urged upon him where the inefficient seeks it in vain the efficient corporation will be seeking workers when the inefficient Corpora Tion closes its doors. In of world rivalry the efficient nation holds it own and ahead while the inefficient nation inevitably Falls to the rear and uses ground. Efficiency does not consist in extreme Effort but in the dismissal of undesirable extort and waste of All kinds the elimination of child and woman from competitive labor efficiency comes to determine the stand Ard time needed to execute a task and then guarantees each worker High or Low a special Reward in proportion to his individual efficiency leaves from a London better Book by. Robert Machray an absurd the Lon Dion express says that the British Board of an absurd anomaly making for dilator Ness and inefficiency. It is the Hap Hazard growth of Over a Century. It includes among its archbishop of speaker of the Irish House of commons and the master of the mint. This Board never meets All its Power Beilis Dele gated to a president who is a Mem tour of the government of the Day. From the Golden books. I denouncement. Alice Meynell 1 Shelite thought that a tired yet is in Allae Blue and in the sweetest passage or a y Tomt but it must never never come of Siili i must Stop Short or Thea the whole Day but when convey to close each difficult Day Naglit gives pause to the Long watch i keep be and All my Bonds i needs must Loose must doff my will As raiment Laid away i with the flush dream that comes with the first sleep .1 run. Rioin 1 am Rai Frad to tour London april and in deed everybody and everything Here and throughout the land have been quite overshadowed since i last wrote in these leaves by the terrible titanic disaster. The news came at first in such misleading and conflict ing telegrams that the Public did not Realise How awful As the calamity had taken place but As the in Menso sweep of the tragedy was brought Home by succeedm0 de up itches the whole country held and gripped by indescribable emotions of gue-1 sympathy Pill ind Norioki we Are above All a maritime you is o i the Duccan c ind it is Well nigh impossible to in Ignilan of and other 1 ind which would so stick us. To the heart As this h Laid our Pride so Low in the dust Foi we were proud what we t bought a just Pride of these great ship of Ouis that so splendidly expressed oui Conquest of these i we ire our a practical people who give heed to the bitter but salutary teachings of experience and we now understand that there is no such thing As in unsinkable snip Good will come out of thib dreadful Eata Strophe in Moie adequate provision beat made Lor the info of life ind in other wave the official Inq Nieb instituted doubtless be helpful in these respects the British court of ii Quiriy As its president Loid a Leisey those name seems to have a curious appropriateness he will be better Reinem fired perhaps As or Justice Bigham who showed himself on the Bench As a Man of the Lush est judicial Type. Over Here there is to by Peic Ched at the moment a feeling of some irritation with part of the pro a ending of the american senatorial committee "all1 of whose Mem Bers Are to exhibit the Neces Saty calmness and impartiality for such ban investigation but the Circum etmoes of the ease Aie so unusual that there seems Little room for really hostile criticism except on the ground Otth ii Lack of any wide nautical knowledge. Meanwhile the general sympathy of our people is being evinced in the most direct manner by the raising of a Fei eat sum o Money for tie Bene fit of the Necess Itous survivors others who h we been injuriously affected by the disaster. Never was a subscription taken with Keener enthusiasm of the com As Welt As Rich Are Send ing in their contributions to the fund which was opened by the lord. Mayor at the mansion House As As the magnitude of the sad event was Dis closed. Of our leading to n Don contending in a Friendly rivalry which of shall gather in the largest amount from its readers and human nature being a Many sided it is said have made by those More immediately interested in the newspaper world As to which shall . Too May help to swell the fund it is thought that at a dollars will be collected on this there is besides the Fui id being formed in the states and it May very Well be the fact in the result that some will presently be better off than they would have been Lead the titanic not gone Down. My last letter dealt at some length with the introduction in the House of commons of the Irish Home Rule measure by the prime minister who a few Days was compelled to take a Holmay As he was completely tired out not so much speech on the Bill and to which it led As by his work in connect Ion settlement of the Coal strike. Only a , or. Lloyd George had to take a rest from his parliamentary Evi Dence of the severe life imposes on the leaders in the fight. While there is no question that the i retirement of Zvir. Balfour from the leadership of the opposition was greatly influenced by the antagonistic attitude of some prominent there is also no doubt that considerations of health had a chief part in bringing i about. But since his return Ija Ali Merit in better health than he has had for several years and so plainly in. First class fighting trim it is being asked whether after ail he is not still the e real unionist Leader with or. Bonar Law As a sort of Superior under study. Both of these gentlemen will utmost however this May be in the struggle against Home. Rule but the Man who on that Side stands and will stand in the front of the Bat Leiis neither the one nor the other and will toe sir Edward Carson the representatives of Dublin University with sir Edward chair of opposition to Home Rule for Ireland is a sort of religion he. Might almost be called a. Are Many More of the same stamp in Ulster. In the. Former struggles Over he took a leading. Part As. One of or. Balfour a lieutenants and the passing of tie years has Only made him the More determined. He Man of Power As Well As of rather grim almost speaker keeping much to the Point and an effective parliamentary debater absolutely courageous and indifferent to consequences once convinced of the justness of his cause. As a lawyer he holds a unique record in Ireland to Llie. Position of Irish solicit Tor general and when later the became a member of the English bar he achieved the eng Lis a spec Tor generalship. A writer in the press gallery of the House of Comino is has Ithily described one aspect of him in the words he can say the cruellest things in the calmest and he is almost the Only Man who can be relied on to shake or. Asquith s the Goyer Maeirt of Ireland Bill As Ali e Hom e Rule measure is officially termed has. Now been before the country for or More in full 6teta.il, and has received the Blessing of the nationalist convention which was hell a two ago in dub Lin. Or. Redmond the nationalist Leader naturally received at time Many congratulations of the great Success which has attended his so far and on the hopeful Prospect of their full fruition within a couple of years at the furthest. Even his bitterest enemies must concede to him that he has fought a great fight with equal patience and ability. To speak the truth however England ind even Radical Scotland up to the present been somewhat apathetic Over the it is evident that it has not yet aroused that passionate feeling for or against which was shown Over the previous Bills. Of course the provi Sions of the Bill Are being discussed throughout the length and breadth of the two kingdoms but in a curiously academic spirit when the Bill comes a up for its second Reading All this will Likely be changed. Another Large measure a Bill for the disestablishment and partial Dis endowment of the Church of England in Wales is also before parliament. The question involved is one that in the vast bulk of our demo in the slightest degree they think if they i Hank about it at All that it is a Welsh question pure and simple and that As the great majority of the Welsh people Are nonconformists and by far the most part of their representatives in the House have been sent there to support the Bill the Welsh should be Dis established. On the other hand As a including some liberals Are opposed to the Neasure tout thing is Mere certain than women s rubberized for showery weather in these excellent Coats one finds All then requirements embodied As Protection from the weather is concerned. With a rubberized ;