Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 1914, Winnipeg, Manitoba V ? � " re a a editorial Section pages 1322 Freday Mab a 13,1914. Free every Day except sunday by Manitoba " press company limited their offices. 300-302-304-306 Carlton aet Winnipeg. Manitoba. K. K. Mack in j president and general manager. Telephone Calls. 6 to private Branch Exchange Carat in " ill department Day Ane. Anil Public holidays ounce Leto cd Erique. 800 mailers building. No. West route. I Row Cannon Fth Mill s the British Isles at Inland Noa Taes rates. Porf Ord c. At the Frt Tom of Trade Liberty in Equality in civil rights. 5h1dat, March 18, 1914. A feb. Manitoba needs Mot of All Geh ool for every child and a term a drool. The fat emf Al trass Continental. The excessive Zeal of messes. Lynch Taunton and Gutelius in making their fictional transcontinental report a piece of election Campaign literature is exceeded by the Halifax Herald the conservative paper in Premier Bor Ilen a Home constituency which de clares that the Lute Dominion govern ment " squandered $173,236,524 on the National transcontinental. The ver Sion of the government newspaper Here in Winnipeg is that " $40,000,000 was the actual fact is i that the report it messes. Lynch St Auinton and Gate Pius says that by adopting lower standards a Une could have been built Itiat would have served tie purpose Well enough which is not a charge of dishonesty but an indictment against the policy of mailing the National transcontinental first class in every respect. If messes Annton and Gutelius had chosen to say in. Their report that the Road should never have been built at All hat assertion would have been in like manner a criticism of the policy adopted by parliament and endorsed by the people. It would not have been a charge of dishonesty. As a matter of fact it is becoming in Reasin Gly evident that the present outcry against the expenditure on the National trans Continental is in a Large i Neasure nothing else than a revival of the original party Campaign waged unsuccessfully against the National i transcontinental policy in the do minion general elections of 1904. That tie London papers realize this is evident the Toronto news refers to. A financial article in the London times As a condemnation of the late govern ment but the fact is that such condemnation As there is in that article is directed against the policy of build ing the National transcontinental. And the London Standard of Empire says " Ali publication of the report of the Royal commission on the Cost of the National transcontinental Ball Vay has been the chief event of the " week. Public opinion has been seriously aroused by the finding that " about eight millions Sterling has " been needlessly expended. No specs " Fie charge of corruption has been made. It is not denied that the Road " has been Well Laid with a minimum " Grade of 1 in 250, and without Sharp curves but the question is was " such a line called for in the Circum " stances the truth must come out in the Long run. No blame which the late do minion government or the National transcontinental com Mission is justly liable to can be hidden from Public View. Thus far the fact that stands most unquestionably established in. This whole connection is that the gentle men who commissioned to once a. Mass of material for use As party and unit on in the approaching general elections have been so Over " the general proposition that the Bra Tish preference has been but the figures Given by or Dray Tot show that in the specific to stances cited the advantage of the British pre Ference has been partly absorbed. Industrial Canada talks As though the argument for increase of the British preference based on the increased Ocean freight rates were wholly false unless it could a shown that the in creased freight rates wholly counter balanced the Tariff preference. The significant thing about Industrial Canada s argument is of course that it is a manifestation ?7s in 1913., it is a Tri Palfe combination of rail Lake and Ocean transportation corporation with interlocking director ates which thus imposes heavy exaction upon the producers of the wheat it controls the Carriage of the wheat on land on Lake on canal on River and on Ocean from the station to which it is teamed from the w text Field All the Way across to Liverpool. Parliament has yet to give the first sign of a real determination to grapple with the problem of curbing this combination. The fruits of militarism. Newspapers to hand from the old country throw a vivid Light on the Way Armor plate is supplied to the British government. Determined efforts to prevent the estimates com Mittee of the British House of com Mons from violating the traditional sanctifies of the admiralty do not appear to have been wholly Success Ful. For in its report of last summer s investigation since issued As a Blue Book Hie estimates committee refers to the difficulties involved in obtain " ing competitive tenders for Armor " plating and gun mountings owing to the existence of in his evidence before the com Mittee or. Macnamara parliamentary Secretary to the admiralty made the following significant statement we have secured reductions in the Cost of Armor plate Wilbin recent years but we Are not in the open Market at present for it. There Are five great firms and we have so far " Laid it Down that we must not be " dependent on foreign Are the five films asks a writer in the daily news and Leader. And he supplies the answer As follows they Are arms Thongv Whitwo rth Antl co. Vickers Ltd. Ca Jumell Laitur and co. Win. Beardmore and co. Jofoam Bro we and of. To Liese Hugie. Oon Cerns Over thirty millions Ster Ling of capital a wet fury a and As to Tely directed make profits. They have risen by a process of co Wreb nation after the Maimer of the lady awl the Tiger As Arr Strong swallowed Mitchell of Newcastle arts , of Mant Guirgis which Are doubt less Wiser than speculators to Mote Antarctic mining companies in London and to engage tin the1 business of supplying contract labor f rom Tern Del Fuego. The lecture Over. Is Ernest a s . Feet probably to move a. Vote of thanks i should like to have heard him and so would Ever Man who heard a Irh speak in Winnipeg he gave that audience a thrill i know and banish red utilitarian desires for few Fine Glon Lous moments. Says the essayist who now goes deep into i discourse these Roseate hues of Early gain the brightness of the evening How fas they fade away under the disillusion ment of sir. Ernest Shacklet on s own subsequent speech he ascended into very thin air Hucom Furta Bly High above the Coalfield level. He said the main object of the coming expedition a simply to Cross the South Polar Contin ent from sea to sea. He admitted i was spectacular he said they were out to do something not been done Fofo re. He Saidl their object might not even Ibe called Scien Tufic. There is sentiment attached to it a cried and then Hie ventured upon the sentence who a to our mind proves Tois courage More definitely thai All Bis other exploits. Sentiment he said has been the ruling Force a every great work that a Ever be none in Ere was a blow to util itar lans with an by on. Prospectuses no a word about threw in a mention of fou in eol Oglas who were going. He even offered to take As Urany Geol of tots a they liked of people would find �30 00 or � 40,00-0 More and there is no ques to on about the general Utility of olo gifts. But sentiment who is Soin to promo the a company for the exploitation of Antarctic sentiment n Concession to Prospect for event pm in has Ever yet been Man o peas urn. Neither by slay labor no ruling Torce age ment and consent of the Dominion parliament the Bond guarantee passed parliament without opposition very critical situation dangerous alike to the railway company to the credit of the Dominion and the provinces mos of whom Are on the railway company s paper to the extent of Many millions and to the general business interests of the country has resulted. This is a problem which the present Parlia ment must Deal and the proper solution of it is not apparent. What Ever the decision reached if will doubtless be open to severe criticism but the is accept the responsibility of dealing with a Situa Tion for which it is in but a Vismal measure responsible. In reaching this solution the two considerations whih must be Paramount Are the Protection of the Public credit of the Dominion and the Protection As Well of the Dominion Treasury the ques Tion is too big and too dangerous to play politics with. Recognition of the interest and rights of the Public in the utilization of real estate has gone so far in. Jer Many that Prince Blucher. Olio recently sought a permit for the Erec Tion of a hotel in. The midst of a residential Section in Berlin was met with firm refusal by the authorities the ground of the refusal was that a hotel would be seriously out of. Har Mony with the architecture of the District. The dissatisfied Prince warned that he would Appeal to is Friend the emperor. But according to report the emperor merely expressed his regret or some thing of that sort that he could not interfere with the municipal edict the Ocean of Bates question. A interesting Side Issue in connection la the or Obama create i by the action of the rail Lake and Ocean com Bine in increasing Ocean freight rates v presents itself in the fact that while due rates on British shipments to this f win. Try have not been increased in anything like the same measure Asne rates from this country the in Art of the world objectionable. The news paper reports say that the crowds Are heckling him but Are act silencing him an4 that he replies to the most pointed and ill natured thrusts in a Frank and temperate Way and begs no Quarter. He half reforms which he would introduce among them Economy and the elimination of graft. By great i cannot help recalling that is Ernest s Pithy sentence is he Gist o a correspondence in Parsi Caslon con be ruins Canadian Onatter waged by myself some years agro. That was guide it and it Oare right to the sequel. Farther on Tihe essayist con Titues " sentiment has bean the re been then in the records o British history Are we who hav been called the blood and god s own gentleman and All Mariner of Nice things to be1 excluded for Ever fron greatness it is not to be though of. Sur Ely there run St be a Mistak somewhere perhaps the mistake lie an then Aning of that very word sent men to we look it up in the great dictionary and in not very ancient Tini is we find it was still uset for Lotell by emotion o prompted Fly Paas Ion even Neare our own Day we find Emott onal regard of Ideal considerations As a principle o action or judgment this meaning is supported by a quotation from Froude s Oceana " la. Nation i with a i of sen Tim pm is nothing is on Itlie Way to cease to be a. Nation tall. That was written thirty years ago it is True and the word a s declined m Honor since then chiefly owing to the growth of Gold mines and othe imperialist developments. But still Ude actually wrote that sen Deuce Wlton living , and Froude was a master of words of and off acts. Does it not seem Likely tha sir Ernest Shackleton had much til same meaning in mind such sentiment May very Likely not bring in sixpence and anyone who possesses it will Mio St prob any not one pet Iii tie Jeiter. Xor is it a com foot to diligent cultivators of feeling finer shades. There 1s nothing tender melting or ref toed about it. The Woi becomes almost identical with passion or even greater because the thought Ful element of Ideal considerations i added. Per chaps after All Tihe explorer May have been Light As Well a bold. Is it not passionate thought minted by Lideal considerations tha has accomplished All the great deed of history and the present world Joan of arc setting out Barefoot to Crown a King i Livingstone turning Iback from the rest and safety of the coast to escort a natives to their Distan Home Laif fling in Sicily with this thousand it was passionate , prompted by Ideal considerations that inspired them All Ana a com Pii shed their great works. To the credit o f Mankind one could instance plenty More. All the Reat pages o history a Botma with examples. Sent. Ment in. This meaning is the. Exact apposite of the prudence which Blake described As a Hoh ugly old maid courted toy incapacity. Between Pru Deuce and sentiment there is Perpetua War and the 6ne thing that All the followers of passionate thought in common As that from the beginning they have been despised condemned hated reviled and mocked by the 1m hosts who cling to. Prudence an Are out for uhe six Penn gain. " Sundh greatness As comes of manipulating the exploitation of Coal Gold Copper Antimony and moly Denite does not fall within the meaning of the great works of which the explorer Sal. That sentiment has always been thei to ruling the Bookman. Birthday congratulations to Alexander Henderson . Vancou ver born Oshawa. Ont., 1860 libera . For new Westminster 1898 190-0 attorney general of British col Urebia 1899-190-0. County judge 1901 1900 comm iss Foner of Yukon 1907 John e. C. Ton Oman Regina born Glasgow Scotland 1864 Farmer in territories 1s85-1ss7 in Northwest Deputy minister of Agricula Turo 1903-1906 now librarian at re Gina. T sir Hugh John Macdonald , pc . Winnipeg born Kingston. Ont 1sdo conservative . For Winnipeg 1891-1893 and 1s96--1897 minister of Interior 1896 Premier of Manitoba 1000 now police magistrate of Winni Peg served in fenian raids and North West rebellion knighted 1913. Samuel Herbert Mackay Brandon born York county. Out 1872 i barrister in Ontario 1s94-1905 and in Manitoba since. Louis Theophile maroc Hal k7? Montreal born St. Heni pc Montreal 18fi4 one. Of the leading lawyers of Quebec and a conservative Leader. Johp Mcdoug All Ottawa born Pic Tou n.s., 1s4s conservative . For Picotti 1891-96 a amp missioner of Cus Toms since 1-896. To Hui Patrick Molloy. A . Morris 31an. Born Arthur ont1.s73 Liberal . For Provencher since 1 s 0 Ujj Edmund Guthrie Perry ph.,d. Winnipeg born Ottawa. 1873 professor of theology at Manitoba College. Samuel Simpson Sharpe ,.b is p Uxbridge ont born Zephyr ont., 1873 conservative . For North on Tario since 1908 one of the conserva Tive whips. William Trant Regina born Leeds eng., 1844 journalist in Britain for Many years police magistrate of re Tina since 1907, prom the Golden books. The Manly heart. By g. Wither shall i. Wasting in despair Oie toe cause a woman s fair my Cheeks make Pale with care cause another s Rosy Are 3e she fairer than Che Day 3r the Flowersjr Meads in May � so be not so to me what care i How fair she Ibe shall my foolish heart be pined cause i see a woman kind r a Well disposed nature joined with a Lovely feature 3e she Meker Kinder than Turtle Dove or Pelican f she tie not so to Roe w Haf care i Osiow kind she be 3-Reat or Good or kind or fair will Neer the More despair if she love me this believe will die or she Grieve f she slight me when i woo. Can Acorn and let her go for if she be not for me what care i for. Whom Abe Ibe correspondence the Road to follow. To the editor oth few. Rill at T e accredited Hope to gain by the attempt to bludgeon the sberal convention into a Plank pledging the abolition of the bar is More i can understand. Last a concerted Effort to this end is neing made no one cognisant of evea Naif the facts will attempt to deny. As a ref Ennor laying at linear the cause and ideals the Temperance people claim 1 Wii take second place to non. A. To the methods and Means some of the leaders advocate i am absolutely opposed. 1 the Joey that i these methods Are logical ?on�l1 Toni if he Temperance forces will be driven into a very compromising position with irreparable harm to the cause. Demo Erata there can tie question but the stand of Leader Norria on Temperance As the Only sound policy has Posti of Tat Nief in an invitation to the Temperance people to draft with the Aid of he Ibert Legal Talent Avail Able any Cind of legislation up on which they can agr a with the pledge of a reference to the people toy Means of a referendum and an effective administration of any Law 6 endorsed. The if ply to this is Liat the Liberal leaders Are insincere and certainly history has demonstrated that tie plat room promises of Ane none too Demeji a a i ask f.otlnuc1more sincere would they be if they acceded to the import unities and veiled threats of the Temperance people the Liberal leaders Are charged with hiding behind direct leg 1 and Are called cowards. They will earn the encomium 11 they permit the Temperance leade is to scare or Stampede them tieto a fail Sis and mock talc position., i read tha statesman. To toe editor says there is no occasion for a a Efer Wendum on Temperance if the liberals attained Power with banish the bar in thir programme. They would Nave a mandate. How does toe know How would they know Tihe Liberal Campaign is being waged on at last three other important issues. If r Liberal government is elected it May come in on compulsory education direct legislation equal suffrage or As he result of a general to evil lion from the debut every of the institutions of government by the party present dominant. Upon such questions As direct legis lation and equal suffrage it might logically be argued that no referendum was necessary for involved in these issues Are the natural or equal rights of human kind who cab to deny savors strongly of despotism. Temperance legislation is different it must toe of a sump uary nature and certainly should and must if it is to of effective have Public opinion behind it. Temper Ance leaders Jive Long Clam ored for a. Referendum on hanish the they have a great majority of the a cutters were with them. Now it appears that is not what they want at All. Do they know what they want if they Don t want a. Referendum asking Premier Goblin for it was an insincere Shain. The whole trouble with Temperance propaganda in tills province is too much of that. If the social service leaders have concluded they were wrong in asserting Public opinion was behind them and for that reason do not want a a Efen Dum How in treason s name do they Hope to make anything but a further farce of Laws enacted without popular consent to get anywhere you must know first what you want and then How to get it. Let the Temperance people decide what they want. Direct legis lation is the Way to get it. The tem Perance leaders would be Well advised to enthuse Over the policy or. Norris has Laid Down and then exhaust their fuss and fume in securing and bringing out candidates who will support or. Norris so Long Asih a is tight and turn against film the moment when on a matter of principle the goes wrong. Support or or for Ris with men whose sincerity is unquestioned make him scratch the line and toe the Mark on direct legislation. That attained we reformers can go throughout the land with the lamp of knowledge in our hands and in education secure the fair est ideals of which any of us dream. Robt. L. Scott. , March 11 statement by r. B. Bennett. To thet editor of the free press sir.-r-1- observe that you have stated in your editorial columns if hat at Mont real i had declared that one transcontinental Railroad was sufficient for Canada. I made no such statement. What 1 did say was that one additional trans Continental Ira inroad to the Canadian Pacific was All this country could pos Sibly Su-.rt. Any student of rail Way economics who to Tead the transportation i Story of the United states will know How absolutely Cor rect that statement is. Notwithstanding your very evident desire to make unfair references to my attitude towards the Canadian North Ern railway company i Trust you will make Tine necessary correction of your erroneous statement. For your information i May add that i would advocate this parliament pass ing legislation1 preventing the absorption of utly the scene on that easter Day was a memorable one. Roman catholics orthodox greeks lutherans. Presbyterians baptists As Well As anglicans Caune. Together we Saag Mofit heartily the Church s one foun Dation is Jesus Christ her to Gether we Knelt Side by Side and Par took of those sacred elements which variously interpreted meant Lor each and All the holy communion the Pel lows to divine. Personal privacy by or. Frank Crane the instil not of personal privacy is the bar Iwest and the least re cloned with of All the forces that push us. A Hon we to lame the Froy for it her Are three. First the doctors a Busy. This Anay not toe a Vury Good. Reason never the less it in a. I Kive it Here As number one. Second there is the dread of in anything that savors of advertising. It is awful Lor a. Doctor to advertise. Just occasionally a card Eltta address and office hours merely to let you know that die is at the same old stand with the same congenial so a that if All. I would t dare to publish Liia except Over Mynom de plume. But aside from a Busy Lif a 3 a healthy dread of unprofessional Aav a using Tho Thor a reason is in need the main one after a. And it is t he the i doctor delights to Deal with acute con editions. Nothing is to depress in a to i aim As to Ibe run Down by a p Talenti who is neither Vury Eick nor a Wal. But who has had All the diseases in Tho i almanac and has tried All the remedies rom Tho very simplest and silly rtg-ht1 up to the wonders of Watkin e idea ment. From Mich a Patmont the doctor abut re is off. But lot some definite crisis i or condition arise in a patient who is convinced that something Radical Tnuett be done and the doctor becomes abort with All his medical and surgical paraphernalia. And so with the tre Aunene of the liquor traffic. So far you have Only been trifling with the quack and Tho charlatan. Toftey i have applied Thole soft soap poultices and their porous plasters with Here and there a trial i at he hot air treatment font is t Nimby Pamby methods Are Only ror a people partially aroused. When the men and women or this province learn to appreciate to Tho full the toll of disease and death Ann Bones each we by week lie used of j. J. Jocks seek Tho Bank Anil de obit l few i on no Bucks to throw at ducts and Dia monds on his phallus. In youth a worked and never shirked though hard Vas his Gnu Lourm it hit life wan clean and now Icrene in ago he Fin is enjoyment. Mason. Looking backward the it from Foon Dod in 172. From Cus thirty five years ago today 1879 the City jut Clurs have or Nze i u. Cash system demanding is towers and any Ling Caa ii for they . � Cliplef Justice Vooth a William Kennedy an Arctic will deliver a lecture on the Northwest stage in the Temperance Hall the evening. J. F. erect a Baik so or Brick building on the nor Hwi St Cor Ner of main Ami Mcdermot strip Eta. Lasc evening c. W. Sno a slide of the to. By i l Lig t p r l t. R t Sno 8la� via i , c. V. Cd of the current for two lamps in an Rah a Nodal won by h pm Fol go 1 a apartment is Only $4 a year. Of 30.000 died or a to Al won to the editor of the free pros. Sir i have been Reading Ai article in j our correspondence by m. Now Ell of Winnipeg find i a heartily endorse what the says. It seems to no that up to now they Lave nothing to offer that would in face a Man to make a special Effort o place them in. Power As against their event regime unless As or. Nowell says they make a decided and clean Ssue Oie direct legislation the. Referendum and the recall. Will the Liberal party choose a Poisl Tive platform on these lines til edging self to carry out the ideals of British tights in Educa Tion religion and Law. J f Tihey Hlll give sub Stantlay Guaran is of these just reforms then the i Beral party will find itself in office merged into a. Governing body of a great country which places the Good f that country before selfish gain or spurious popularity. W. P. Spoon by. Carrivale sask., March. 5. A Canadian the Bishoo of Cale Donla in the London times As an example of How special Cir eur no stances for a. I inc ral Rater Preta Tiomi t a rude drawn up for Ord in Ary con Aitkins May i be permitted o mention an incident which i regard As one of the most precious experiences apart cents of two rooms and a Idt Chen Only 3,100 Are supplied with elec tric Power. The of the houses and Many of the tenants having been unwilling to pay for the installation of separate meters and current i l t n i t ers. This difficulty Bias recently been Over Cote by conferences bet Ween the director of the Power Plant and the House owners. Installation costs have been reduced by nearly one half am a. Tenant will pay hereafter Only 27 cents a month for two Lai ups. In Stavanger Norway which has a municipal Plant the prices Are so Low that even the a Well legs of peasants and fishermen living on Tho fjord is lands Are lighted by electricity the Cost or current for cooking and heating was recently reduce. It had been the same As the Price Cor lighting 3 3-4 cents per kilowatt hour. Now it is Only half of a cent or 3 cent per kilowatt hour the Rosito changing with the time of toy when the currant is used. Trinity to promote the use of elec for household purposes the in the hurdle raw. C. 0. Rec Kunds was j res it esd with to Clort cup which h9 won at the rect it rices. Thirty yearn ago today 1884. The legislature met to Diu for the first time m the ,. In Uili Ings on Kennedy Street which is l a cont Rantore. Or. Braden of the Oal Yary Hera. Arrived in the City last a Itrat having been s in in 3 a Lulf trip. The train Siisi Stalle. Mclntyre. Win Lueg g. A. My Jarer , in my life it was five or six years ago. Easter was approaching. For Many months had Heen the Only representative f the Christian ministry in the own of Prince Hupert Widich was Strug gling into i Steucy on she Shore of Aien Island. Members o All de nominations had been attending our services. I told them that As a. Bishop f the anglican of Huron which waa first on this coast by Many years i. Mounted it a great privilege to minister to id hardly recon Izo him in be Aew o them and i toe. Imagray valued a director of the Power Plant has organized classes the provincial exhibition i Rutt Nethlyn for that town. Twenty five years ago today1889. adv it r1 of tray la of Well tilt irate a ia-n4 planted Fruauf soot House Ami Sta blvd. Oin and i uru railed fro a Jerst Oftle. Apply Oro try i Cross ,-3it�.\ Toronto third. Colonist party of Tho season aft her tonight for Manitoba an Jtj. Nor Lac s t. 15, was made up of eight special to in addition to the sular Conr is the Public school or year ass Gate $hio,724.s7. Are enrolled at the. 32 of , Nopo Atlon. Twenty years ago today1894. Dual 1-Lhtate , a i built Nlnp-room-�0 House with a foot frontage on r j tone foundation w a a.1-1 modern conv to , t Osri House and Street railway j2.t j. T. G. I j la j3ord i l e f t or f 3. I to interest capitalists a a Cir fun to Ultsh a. Man. Manag i Corsit h. Cymru. A of cd eur talc _ _ a s company is ii Eresli 3 in t uvin Gas company ;