Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1914, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 11-20 Winnipeg thues Dat Athly 30, 1914. Heir offices. 300y.302-304-s06 Carlton it. Winnipeg. President and general manager. Telephone Calls. Of private Branch in to a Day and night. 800 mailers building no West Hill. London. L Post office. E. C. A neral Post office. At Toca gamers 9 through Bra tvs at Inland postal Fredon of Trade Liberty in religion in i needs most of All to every child and every child at school. The his henchme3 on saturday last a deputation re presenting the respectable hotels of Otis City and a number dealers waited of Premier Roblin and demanded that the government take stringent action in regard to the night clubs and the disreputable hotels. The deputation pointed out to the Premier in Plain and vigorous language that these resorts Are causing very serious damage to the liquor Trade in Public opinion in addition to the material damage they Are doing run As they Are in disregard of the provi Sions of the Law in regard to hours of closing. What was said by Premier Roblin to that deputation is being kept Pri vate. It is known however that the clubs and hotels of that class had the word passed to them through the regular channels of o from the seat of the mighty on Ken Street that they were free to do As they pleased. The system it eded their services in. The deferred elections in the North. It is on the cards Char Premier Roblin counting upon carrying those Remote constituencies will thereafter Lasu grate an Era of Tief Jim and of the same sort As he inaugurated last february when it was announced with a flourish in the he bin newspaper that the Mooso. Club i us been closed. Cafici being closed Lor a couple of during which one its chief was busily employed in the Iai vice of the machine the Moose club was opened Jap again by its owner Dusty Hoflen on wednesday february 18 last. On same Day Premier made his extraordinary Harangue in the legislature his last speech of the session in which he proclaimed him self the Friend and defender and pro Tector of those All night drinking Boles and gambling Hells devoting special Eulogy to the Moose club b name. That speech was an open pro Clama Uon to the proprietors of those infamous resorts of nocturnal debauchery that he counted upon them la the approaching elections and the could count upon him. He had jus compelled his subservient majority in the legislature to refuse to allow the charges against those resorts to be investigated. In a word wednesday february if last was a red letter Day signalized by loud and emphatic promulgation by the big Boss himself of the tact that these centres of the disreputable night life of Winnipeg formed a most important part of his system. He up that Harangue by ordering is obedient majority to vote Down the amendment to the liquor License act moved by or. Norris to limit the voting in local option contests to local voters give electors of a municipality Power by a majority vote to limit or the number of licenses in the to give the electors of a municipality the further Power a major Ity vote to prohibit the retail Sale of be subject to punishment by the criminal valiant words Brave words but alas they1 were Only words John t. Haig one of the new men Manitoba politics was also at the Pas. Roblin and Rogers Are the men who Are primarily responsible for the proceedings at the Pas. The doings at the Pas represent the final development of political in Famy and crookedness in Canada a Reader s notes Are world within the world of course when it was a Case of stealing a seat the Job was turned Over to Jim Howden. He stole a seat for himself last time. How completely the things that have happened at the. Pas illustrate and confirm everything that has been said about the election methods of the Roblin Rogers machine it was Walpole who held that every Man has his Price. Some later Day reputations for statesmanship Are based upon a present Day application of Walpole a philosophy. Birthday congratulations to Rev. G. C. Hill born brisk Tol 1s50 Rector of St. Paul s Church and musical composer. Lendrum my jeans. . Born Brantford ont. 1s39 . For South Winnipeg. There is no theatre in London so Lull of drama a says a in the times who has witnessed Many an evidence of tragedy in those famous Sale rooms. Shall we go Chris tying this is the invitation Many a Fady gives her Hus band in. The rising inflexion it her husband or guardian knows the Dan Gers of Chris tying As Well As the de. Lights and he does know is i Ery canny about How def ithe lady May Ibe a Wise one and intent diversion Only in which off they go. Christie a to the eager Looker on is a tradition an institution an a profession am invitation a a peepshow of the past a pageant of the present and an., unchanging course it is with some an but this catalogue does not exhaust its interests. Ghosts of past emotions and passions of the present lock hands the unwilling and the eager and the psychological moments crowd each other even As the throng olt Art lovers a Ollers connoisseurs and Sale lovers crowd each other daily in this most famous Sale roam in the the writer recalls Gladstone there in his later spiritually looking like Dante in the inferno. And he re members Parnell that prese Noe to whom All not of his own world Wadi As and judging by the latest and most intimate record of the uncrowned King of Ireland the definition True. An essay might upon the influence of Christie s there is the careless moment when some future devotee saunters in for the first time and takes a Quick 1-Opk round he or usually heard so much and often of spot. Somehow she has never entered the place where her father bought the wine or her Grandfather sold the Pic Tures. She May not tout in As she gazes she seems to imbibe taste. Something if she be i but Call to her from the past. It May be Only the fashions and costumes in some masterpiece of Long ago or the tour Nure of some trifle or the shape of a Silver urn or All those traces of decoration that seem to As it were from that Pompeii of Tsatis the 18th Century or from that Battle ground of lost and causes its predecessor. Or it May Hie some Clas Sical or egyptian antique1 that recalls and emphasizes the identity of the it May be Soine like that strange Spur sold years of the buried Cavalier still in and piercing through the Wood of the tree below which he was hastily interred. As she roves around very Likely she catches the hum of a Sale of prints proceeding. Some Genius of the place seems to whisper her buy buy she hears an initial from a vulgar Throat of Only almost unconsciously she nods her head eventually is startled to find herself the fortunate owner at five and a half guineas. It was an. Accident More than incident. She did not particularly want the por trait which is of Eom Ebrie probably wholly unknown to her but she reads up the history about him she reads. Herself into her Possession she tells her husband and. Friends How very Lucky she has been. And ills forms a face ginning soap Laos great Bont taxed and refined Haply also a her own .aisi.piioijntment, even embarrassment often. They mean try Prosperity an other question put was How is it that As soon As we got the Liberal government at Ottawa Defeated and. A conservative government in Power we got hard times unemployment Busi Ness Stag nation and the High Cost of living this question was also a stunner for some of the to Blyn orators. When the people begin to think for themselves and. Refuse to a How the politicians to think for them then is the Day of the people s deliverance not far Distant. Then but not till then will the people feel the Prosperity in their pockets. Old Reader. From the Golden books. Victory at last. By Arthur Hugh Clough say not the struggle nought a Alleth. The labor and the wounds Are Tain the enemy faints not nor fail eth. And As things have been they remain. If Hopes were dupes fears Raay lit May be. In concealed. Your comrades Chase e i now the fliers and but for you possess the Field. For while the tired Waves vainly breaking. Seem Here no painful Inch to gain far Back through creeks and inlets making. Comes silent flooding in the main. And not by Eastern windows Only. When Daylight comes conies Jii the in Froin the Sun clan is slow How slowly but Westward look. The land is Bri gift. V 18.0 15.3 13.1 13.4 13.0 14.4 13.6 14.6 15.5 11.8 12.8 11.0 11.1 11.3 10.12 11.s 10.2 11.9 12.3 10.09 1910-11 1911 truer representation needed. Frota the Ottawa citizen.1 a result of the recent in r elections Toronto is represented by 10 conservative members. Although Only citizens voted the Nach lne captured the entire represent were Toronto votes cast for Liberal representation but the liberals do not get one member. Under o. System of proportional re presenta it will be a pelted. In. Public meter Home Rule the minority would Leaver been represented by members. Results in Manitoba similarly help to show the need for a More scientific method electing representatives to parliament. In certain constituencies where three candidates ran for one seat the elected member has not a majority of the votes cast. The Fol lowing Are Good illustrations Winnipeg North seat a Foley. Can. 3.1s3 Willoughby 2.s16 a. Beech seat b Jepe a n. Con. Lowery i b.----.-. Saltzman. 2.0fi8 i in both cases the the seat though they do not represent continued by Page twelve things will never be the same again with Premier Roblin. From Toronto saturday. Night while the Etab Lin government is not exactly is the victim of circumstances. The Ember a Juis with the assistance of the orangemen seem to won a moral Victory which is almost As the real thing. 2vo government can thrive on a majority of four the sort r. H. Gaianey in and out majority that brought the Ross government to ruin if sir Wise he will not seek to kick against the pricks. He will be a and. Let fats overwhelm him comfortably taking ways and Means As no doubt he ,.ha s done for a Serene old age. Belonging As he does to a real estate Ngoi Ern. Men to sir Redmond probably has enough Coal in the cellar Inow to warm the Sunset of his life. Sir Rodmond. Will find., it More convenient to wrap his Toga around him and go Down to posterity in a Sta led Glass attitude than to throw fits foam at the Mouth and Roll on the ground. Let him. Not his Trust in by elections or Dicker Ings with weak Brethren on the other Side. These vanity and vexation. Of spirit and do but stave off the. Evil Day. Let him do Rig it or toe ready to quit. He will pro barfly and try to hang on As our. Politicians usually do. But the Hati Gin a on game never lasts Long. All experience goes to show that an Premier who comes As near toppling As sir can never be Strong on his pins again. The sad plight of sir Rodmond s government of humpty Dunipa to who had a great sail which caused him to look like egg All the King s horses and. All the King s Mien will fall to put sir Redmond to Gether As he was before the Tucler seems to have gone out of him and already he is talking like an Automo bile tire that knows it has picked up a tack. The Lustrous sir Redmond is doing More sighing than blowing on the separate school question these Days. Backward the free press was in 1872. Forty year s ago the sentence of Trie Buffer in murderer was commuted to fourteen years penal a Howard was a Popin Ted clerk of the Manitoba legislative Assembly and Frank i. Clarke clerk of the 1 be court. Thirty five years ago f. Lipsett announces his intention to stand As a and Date for Wood lands. Icon. Gibson of won the Prince of Wales prize at Wimbledon Rifle meeting. Thirty years ago the Edmonton bulletin. Prints a splendid description of fort Churchill the proposed future outlet of the Hud w. A. Hastings was seriously injury a runaway Accident. Twenty five the Manitoba full court decided that Martin Burke must return to Chicago to stand trial for alleged complicity in the murder of or. Cronin. Egan bras. Began cutting Barley on to Lear. Large farm at Headin Gly. Twenty years ago a game of Cricket Between a irlies and gentlemen was a Novelty on the Winnipeg Cricket club s grounds. Or. Was the Captain of the ladies team and had As his Era mrs. Kirby mrs. Barrett miss Brydges miss mrs. Nares miss Wilson miss Buchanan. Mrs. Thompt son m is Senkler miss Sutherland and miss j. Norman Luxton sustained his title As provincial Champion by defeating his challenger f. W. Scott at the gun ;