Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1914, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 11-18 Winnipeg tuesday july president and general manager. Telephone Calls. Fisi ref Issue holidays Trade in Equality in Cotil rights. Tuesday july 21, 1914. Manitoba s Steed. Of that Manitoba needs most of alls school for every child and Ever fld at school. 5ee Campaign in the South. The erstwhile blustering big Boss Bose proportions to rapidly the evening of july 10, realizes among other things As he clings desperately to the precarious premiership of a minority government sat he should not have relied so con gently on the ability of or. Rogers sad or. Veitch and or. Forrester and or. Glube and or. Holden and their assistants in the operation of the machine to capture Winnipeg. He sees now a club which he might Havo of Cong Over the Heads of the electors o Winnipeg and so helped the Jia Caine a its work. This is Plain from a threat which he had the government newspaper print conspicuously in the first column. Of its first Page yesterday under a be Pas Date line. So great was his Over Confidence in that the club which he now sees regretfully that he should Lave swung Over the Heads of the people of this City and of the sur rounding territory As Well entirely escaped his View when the greater Winnipeg water District Board waited upon the government during the last session of the legislature and astred for a provincial guarantee of the water District Bonds. After verbal promises of a guarantee had been Given the guarantee was finally refused without even an explanation guarantee in the London financiers British system of responsible govern ment simply As cog wheels and levers in the political machine tvs threat to withhold the provincial guarantee from the Bonds of be Pas is of a piece with the Roblin regime s sense of the responsibilities of Public trusteeship As shown in the expenditure in 1913 of More than. Of Road in Gimli to secure the l. Taylor out of a total expenditure of on. Roads for the whole province in that year As set Forth in Thev Public accounts. _ the waterworks sewer and electric. Light Bonds of be Pas have absolutely nothing whatever to do with the e present election and this threat to withhold the provincial guarantee is such a monstrous Assumption of Auto cratic Power that the electors of Pas will assuredly As freemen not school Board itself serfs Register their indignant condemnation of it when they Mark their ballots knowing that another Provin Cial government than that which is now clinging to Power minority tenure will give the guar Antee authorized by the legislature this threat which is a Gross Viola Tion of the fundamental principle British institutions makes it Plain that a like threat would have been brandished Over the Heads of the people of this City and the entire greater Winnipeg water District had it not been that the machine counted on with such Confidence to do its work successfully in this area. Immediately following the above quoted threat in the minority govern ment s newspaper yesterday came school Board explains to w census was taken Law regarded children As enrolled if they had attended for Only single who had left school were included As needs higher education ideals than those of present minister of education. Coldwell s hurry to claim Tow result of the Winnipeg school Board s census vindication of his educational policy makes the minister of education loot More and More foolish As the figures Are subjected to closer examination. All citizens interested in. The question of education Are invited to study the school Board s census in the Light of explanations offered by the with great unction injured innocence or. Coldwell claimed that the school Board s census revealed Only 833 Winnipeg children As Unen rolled in any school. He said was a showing to foe proud of. In passing we May note that it is highly significant of or. Coldwey a attitude towards popular education that he should consider the non education of nearly one thousand children in the City of Winnipeg a Mere trifle. But compared to the True state of things in Winnipeg it would indeed toe by comparison a trifle. Kot but this already explaining defeat the liberals Here Are so far from expecting a Victory that they pre paring to explain a defeat. They Are putting Forward among other things an absurd Contention that the location of poll number 4 is Uncertain and they Are hinting that this has been done for some sinister purpose. The fact of course is that the poll will be located at the construction Camp where Ever that May be on election Day. To state the exact geographic location in the proclamation was impossible for the simple reason that the Camp May easily be moved five Miles or More in a Reader s notes bottles Are world within the the provincial opinion of the i would make a substantial difference i in tie Price realized on the Bonds i because of the water District being a Liew organization unknown in the markets of the world. But the big Boss cared nothing for that what he very evidently is sorry for now is that he did not announce that the granting of the provincial guar Antee would be. Conditional upon Winnipeg and the surrounding constituencies electing Boblin candidates. This is the scheme he is resorting to at be Pas. That municipality has issued Bonds amounting to for the provi Sion of the necessities of waterworks sewers and electric Light. The legis lature authorized the provincial guar Antee for those Bondson which 000 Worth has been issued and Bear ing he provincial guarantee have been realized on. There remain Bonds amounting to yet to be issued and endorsed with the guarantee of tie province and the shrunken big Boss unable to cast out the old Roble from himself has issued a Plain threat to the people of be Pas that if they do not Mark their ballots in obedience to his Mukase those remaining Bonds will not be Given the provincial guarantee. No other meaning than this can possibly be Given to the following announcement above referred to which appeared conspicuously in the first column of the first Page of yesterday s Issue of the minority govern ment s newspaper in the form of u dispatch from be Pas guarantee of Bonds misapprehension exists among people Here with regard to the government guarantee of fronds issued by the Pas or elec to sewer and waterworks Pur there is a widespread in that these Bonds to the amount of a. Quarter of a. Million Dol have been guaranteed but such the two weeks Between nomination Day and election it is interesting and significant that this announcement " in regard to the per ambulatory poll no. 4 in be Pas coincides with the Advent in be Pas of a notable addition to the Rof Clin there in the person of or. R. A. C. Manning a celebrated figure in connection with the per ambulatory University site. Disraeli in a Well known passage in one of his speeches on the Exten Sion of the franchise spoke of the franchise As an educating Agency and Theodore Roosevelt has said that the Young Man marking is first ballot and bringing to that act the sense of responsibility it Calls for is performing an act of greater educational importance to himself than passing any University examination. It is no doubt with thoughts like these Seething in his mind that or. Manning that distinguished Educationalist and publicist has hastened to be Pas. He will without delay we May Well believe change the name of that Perambo plating construction Camp polling place to instruction Camp. This idea is full of possibilities which if the machine operators had Only thought of them before july 10, could have been utilized to great advantage. Why not have had Perambo latins polling places Here in Winnipeg or. Dusty Holden and Doc Glube have speedy automobiles in which they take Pride. These automobiles and others in charge of trusty henchmen might have been made polling places on july 10, with Large Union jacks of course waving at stem1 and Stern and their stopping places for the receipt of votes kept a secret from everybody but the men in charge of the Persona Tion Bureau on Sherbrooke Street where lists of bogus and Absentee registrations were spread out in Readi Ness for providing the automobile loads of vote Plu argers with names and addresses. This would have been a truly Napoleonic Way of foiling the arrangements to Check the vote plungers if Only it had been thought of. But better later than never. The per ambulatory instruction Camp poll ing place is evidently going to be introduced in the Northern cons Titu the figure of 833, brandished with intense satisfaction by or. Coldwell purports to represent the number of children Over 7 and under 14 Unen rolled in any Winnipeg school this age coldwell is pleased to Call the Manitoba compulsory school he considers it quite proper and fair to take no account of any children 6 years of age 14 years of age 15 or 16 years of age any school. But or. Coldwell As we showed in a preceding article thought it quite fitting quite proper and quite fair when trying to prove that compulsory education in Ontario feed been a failure to take account not merely of children Between 8" and if the Ontario compulsory school age but of All Ontario children Between 5 and 21. If the method of computation which or coldwell applied to Ontario to prove compulsory education there a failure were to be applied , it would be possible to count not children Unen rolled in any school As the official reports of the schoo Board show but children. Or. Smith s explanation. Obviously the important Point is How was this figure of 833, used by or coldwell arrived at whence comes it does it signify or. H. Smith Secretary treasurer of the Winnipeg school Board has at the request of the free press explained the figure. It appears that under which the school Board s census was taken the amended children s act or the so called truancy act required the school Board to make a return Only of the number of children Between 7 and 13. And in the making of this return the act prescribed that every child registered in the Public schools during the school term beginning Jan. 1 last should be considered As attending school. Or Smith said the Winnipeg school Board had no Choice in the when taking its census of school children it had to enumerate every child registered in the Public schools since Jan. 1, 1914, As attending it did t matter whether the child attended for one Day or for one Hundred Days it did t matter whether the child registered during the first week in january and never attended again the act us to count it As enrolled in Wisconsin s compulsory . A weekly is now edited by that Strong or. Eto Brook Jackson who has turned it into an illustrated paper. This is the fourth paper founded by or. Other three toeing the Sun and. Sold As profitable going and suppose we May expect that in the course of weeks lie Wilt be out with another one distinguished by certain new features in journalism. For . San inventive Genius meanwhile we stall miss Tois characteristic and attractive reviews in of the they Are still printed under the same caption but written toy John o London Wilfrid a. A Buckley and the present editor. The Canadian Magazine for july Conr gains a racy and vivacious article on. Mount toy Paul w. Wallace illustrated from photographs Iby Byron is taken of the race it is itself it is Good to read his Praise of ten Nyson whose idylls of the King Are says professor Crawford the greatest great epic the and indeed it is. All great poets Nave been in. The ser vice of democracy says professor Crawford. I wish the had added a note on Tine literature of America but tit takes a lot of democracy much of Ufa to make very Little literature. And the United states is but a. Young nation yet. Tee Bookman. The Roblin government appearing to b about five what we said As to the a Ance of Power being la the hands o our compatriots assumes Adl the mor force1." to birthday congratulations Claude Isbister born Etrolia ont., 3a80 barrister and Fra Ernali it. A. R. Mann born a on ont., 1861 railway contractor and resident of the Northern construction company. Thomas Miller Moose born a Rand Valley on 1s76 proprietor of he Moose jaw times. David Phillip born Emington Scotland 1862 Onur Hission looking backward ;