Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 13 to 22 Freedom of Liberty of Equality of civil rights t March printed and published the Manitoba free press a joint Stock company incorporated under the Laws of at head office and place of s04 and Carlton in the City of president and general the sintered it the Gen Gnu Tost Bik for through the Nii iils in the British Isles at Inland Revenue the Lenroot reservation establish air and Montreal and other Eastern centres will undoubtedly do Winnipeg will be the principal the i the so called Equality of voting reservation As it passed the port for International flying in Senate by a vote of 57 for 20 against was in these terms most the air Lanc which now has anyone bloodhounds on until part being the covenant of the league of shall be so amended As to provide that the United states shall be entitled to cast a number of votes equal to that which any Mem Ber of the league and its colonies or parts of an m the aggregate shall be entitled to United states assumes no obligation to be except in cases Collns where Congress has previously Given its any report or finding of the Council or Assembly in which any member of the league and its self governing colonies j or parts or Empire in the aggregate Hare East More than one the United states assumes no obligation to be bound by any report or finding of the Council or Assembly arising out of any dispute of tween the United states and any member of the pm nor league u such or any self governing Dominion Empire or part of Empire United with it politically has the reservation does not imply a policy of not joining the league if the views of the Senate Are not met and an amendment to the reservation by senator Medill of pro Viding for the retirement of the from the league within a year if the covenant is not amended to meet the american secured Only Nineteen the effect of tiie reservation cites such interest when it flies Over the will in a few years become As common As the Street Steps should be taken Here to establish the necessary air harbours in time for the notes and comment suggested putting the Trail the High it is said that the number of thirsty individuals in the United states is growing steadily they Are going Back to the sooner Canada gets Back to a Payas Yugo system the better for everybody personal naturalization proposed amendment to Law meets with general approval by Public by Mary Mccallum the recommendation of the Cana Dian Council of a new Plank be added to the Farmers platform to the effect that All naturalization shall be by personal apply papers were machinery and provided for their doing when a presented to the enumerator be May add their names to the Vot ers the Plank that it is proposed to add to the platform asks that Only naturalization shall naturalization by operation of that is an automatic naturalization of women and minors on the taking out cation seers to have met with general favor and occasionally one does hear a protest against the proposed but this arises an ignorance of the present naturalisation Law and its working out rather than against the principle of Persona Nai r j h this article is written for the selves purpose of making Clear some of the obscurities in the working out of the of naturalization papers by a Hus band or father is a special privilege the proposed Plank asks that All children not born in the British pm ire and All alien born women should take out Personey naturalisation whether there arc who object to Persona naturalization or citizens naturalized by operation of to be dearer this Che the i the Maple sugar season is about to is a declaration that while the i Eastern Maple May join the league subject to what it regards As an unequal syrup is of voting Powers it will not consider itself bound to abide Baycar of Boring holes in any decision unless this is agreeable to the other Resev nations to the treaty Are similar declarations of refusal to recon a strike he jewellers employees has no any obligation imposed by the league without consent of Isaken Piacz in now Tork the Hope is expressed that the strike May Lead taking up a useful Upa vation were it would not result in any increase in the Readi Ness of that country to recognize a moral is no question As to the absence of a Legal support the league in its is expressed t Congress and As those would stand in any Case it is apparent that to Smnith even if the United states objections As voiced by the Lenroot As far As no application Lias yet been made for the moving picture of the latest in German Revo if this seems a Little perhaps this will make Iti 1 every Little bit the grass i now visible in the Parks is a pretty the effect of the thirteen reservations is to renounce an Jamb but it is Rich in the pro to Back up the decisions of the league unless its of visions meet with the formal approval of the effect of the 14th reservation is to renounce All obligations perhaps if proportional represent which i tation was not quite such a fair pro the British voting position it would have More friends the writer is a member of the Council of agriculture and was in a measure responsible for the re in 1914 a new naturalization act was which replaced the old act under which an alien might secure naturalization if he had resided in the country for three years and took the oath of allegiance before a i commissioner of in the existing naturalization act was made to conform to the British naturalization and under it a person who has resided for live years in who is of Good who has an adequate knowledge of French or who expects to reside for some time in his majesty Domin and who satisfies the Secretary of state of these qualifications May be that naturalization to be effective throughout the British naturalization Falls into two personally naturalized per and persons naturalized by i operation of All persons who personally satisfy the Secretary of state that they Are qualified As above stated and received naturalization certificate ire personally those persons who by virtue of their relationship to i Bri Tish subject such As wives and minor children Are naturalized by opera Tion of the act of it is has widely extended the classes of per sons who May seek Persona Natur but the act does not go far the alien born wives of British subjects May not receive personal naturalization the Are them to Force the hand of the government to establish personal naturalization for All and so make that naturalization the basis for in the whole difficulty arises from the fact that qualifications for naturalization and for enfranchisement Are not the for women the anomalous position exists of being a British subject and yet 01 being refused the franchise on the ground that site May not be fully a British subject for a woman who comes to this country from another Talbot declines to take responsibility for letter he submitted House votes in favor of Tak ing referendum on the importation of liquor charges made by the opposition in the legislature at sitting last night of partisanship by the govern ment and the civil service commissioner in the appointing and dismissal of brought Forth Strong rebuttals from Norris and minister of Edu and the latter challenged member for to accept responsibility for a letter he read from by former the minister said lie should have been eminent were not trying 10 give efficient he did not doubt that they were but stated that they continued on Page today and marries a British subject superintendent of neglected j cannot be discussed in its entirety a readers notes world within the world rising from decision in Reachie ii length outranked that of the among those who Are interested in of the first denouncement is far wider than the second and iu1fiiirs at Lle City Ades the latter and closer cooperation by the with the i if the objections upon which tiie Lenroot reservation rests there is thus no incentive to meet these Viscount Grey in his letter indicated As delicately As possible Bat in the actual operation of the covenant these reservations play no real part and in his address to the Cana Lian club at Toronto last hinted that if the were d to come in on their own terms they would work harmoniously Ritli the other Powers Anil gradually forget their fears and Susi melons which Are embodied in the this might be a Way out of the difficulty it the were pre to come into the league subject simply to these mental talc other would politely Overlook these Reser in the barrel in treasure British subject and the Secretary of is on her marriage automatically a British yet she May nut vote until she can satisfy Tho Secretary of state that she has resided in the country for five has an adequate knowledge of eng Lish or is of Good then site does not get per Sonal naturalization but a certificate stating that she has Satis fled the Junise of her qualifications for being added to the voters granting the franchise to women has changed the entire Prospect of j the question of it is proper that women should not i vote until they have become qualified i As men it is equally fair j that they should qualify As men do for by making the qualifications for naturalization and enfranchisement the same All discrimination and unfairness is Eli min to make a person a British subject and yet refuse that person what should be the inalienable right of every British subject to his or her is surely not a fair proposal to the women who come to this country from other How much better that an alien born woman understand when she has Only possible Way in which they May re Skacil forgive Yearsin this j without discussing enfranchisement and this will be done later in the i under the clauses dealing with the National status of married it is clearly explained time the wife of a British subject shall be deemed j to to a British subject and that the i wife of an alien Snail be deemed to religious devotees of the ancient i be an alien with three and Royal game of Golf my find a i the first exception is that the wife Winter evenings entertainment in i of an that a Man who is the enchanted Golf clubs by Roj not a British if she become naturalized by operation of an knowledge of eng that is through Mieir marriage Lisle or is of Good to naturalized British this Etc she Mav herself go to the Julge of coun and receive from a personal him after do certificate of naturalization which settles for All time to come her right i to the j objection has been made on the i ground Itiat ii is no Small Incon i Ven Ienco for Many women to travel i the District court and make per j annal application for it should be pointed out that if the i features of the by elections act Are j embodied in the new and there is every reason to believe that they will then the alien born wives of Bert Marshall take out personal in Tumlir Wheir in the course of the at Ion to do so Sho must a Rutish subjects will have to appear which is a bit of a an exciting j have the same qualifications As Are before the judge to get i tired match on Magnus famous links required for a Man who seeks nature certificate that they May be Addei is in the golfer will be j the second provision j voters Ami after All that i Thrall to its though the very that where a Man has ceased to be a fuss and effectively j terminology is still greek to i j British subject his wife May de naturalized than they were by opera was As Margaret of idly to the Ladi that she wishes to remain it is said also that j reflecting on judge of the juvenile the member de if the which accompanied the is Worth any said it is up to the min the minister answered that the matter would certainly be investigated but he asked the House and the country to take note of the Atti tude of a Man who threw reflections and implications broadcast against an efficient Public official and had not the courage to take responsibility for the charges he dealing generally with the question of partisan Premier Norris said that All the government required was that the civil servants would give honest service to the pro whether a Man were a lib eral or conservative would not be bar him from appointment and Al luding to a list of names Given by the member for the first minister Eaid he could produce a longer list of men who had been in the service of the late government and were in the service of the pro Vince he stated that recently a political opponent had been appointed chairman of the minimum wage the discussion arose upon the third Reading of the Bill amending the civil service to which the objected but did not press their objection to a want liquor referendum prior to this the House had on the motion of attorney general Johnson passed a Resolution asking the Secre tary of state for Canada to make arrangements for Manitoba taking a referendum on the importation of intoxicating the greater part of both afternoon and night sittings had been occupied with Supply and the estimates for the education and agricultural departments were passed after some discussion but without any of thu votes in the printed Sheet being Al a atoms in the Hope that the United states would not remember but it is idea of senator Lodge the Senate in that the other members us the league should Register and whose ancient and ghostly in its relation to the Leuv oot would involve a admission in that tic or Irish dominions Are not entitled jul membership in the this so far As the British motions Are will nut be state Grant her third provision that if an be a subject of an if she were at birth a 1 though exceedingly tangible clubs play havoc with the descendant of his those Happy f of who i turkish Paris turkish May make a declaration that she desires to resume British and if the Secretary of state is satisfied that is Desir he May Grant her a certificate the illustrations by of Stuart the Lgth Century persons Are under the in prelate Beaton in absurd i j pression that under the new act a wonder about the prototype of lord British if she marries an May choose and remain a Bri Tish and that an when that she marries a British May a London journalist managed an naturalization in Canada now car Ries with it naturalization throughout alien j tie Empire and that this will his Ulusc Tacij or uniformity to British Plank effective throughout i the British of parliament of great Britain and those of the various dominions would have to enact similar we Are trying to prove to ourselves and the world that Canada is an autonomous and Here is an Opportunity to demonstrate that us legislate in the Best interests of Canada and Hope the sister nations will follow of Paris 1ork wires that paper euro Jan Puu tical this effect consent has Turk to Uay eur Pian Tali turkish Linglan Rule fran i England ice will not coins edit g the and not let Greece Why the a Nave l tier fail acceptance of the uni tradition Al for vie Are touch a by Bui Cor what ambitions or is in gland work ing cannot forgive us for been victorious the Dar the English government a Strong animosity against the ish led by mus t Bui the nationalists 10 longer members of u simple i political the distress of our humiliations have 1 made All in the Large of the it is a 1 Sun lie Best and Wisest of our should not allowed to be interview with lord Morley the other but the canny old statesman would not be drawn on Public ques the Veteran Frederick har Rison will talk and write on every thing ii my lord several times during the night pro Gress was interrupted through the storm temporarily cutting off the wanted six months hoist when the civil service Bill was reported out of committee of the whole and was moved for third read ing by attorney general Joseph moved that it be read a third time six months hence and read a Long state ment dealing with the cases of employees who had been part Sanly he when the member resumed his seat the attorney general called the Tention of the speaker to the fact that not Only was the statement irrelevant to the matter before the ruled out of Talbot in addition to reciting another list of read j the letter from Billiarde which was dated from Billiarde stated that he had been dismissed without and then proceeded to charge the judge of juvenile court with inefficiency and j other things and submitted an affidavit in substantiation of his Allega j when the member Thornton inquired if he accepted any responsibility for the statements he had made am not assuming any responsibility if the affidavit is Worth anything it is up to the j attorney general it is i Worth anything you take response Iii Ity for it am taking the affidavit of the Man for what is i Thornton the member has answered my he takes no he has put Forward a most serious charge and Given it to the Public on the i single statement of one individual a charge against one of the most Effi russe Llang Western twin Nidis oldest Anil Kent Book co comic Consi Wercks of peace Liy John representative of Hie Jar Irish trea sury at the peace the most Book of the basis of do Rockacy Fly Arthur win Iii 1resulent of Yale sunday Shiomi Zigr to talks of students mid a Book Well Worth Reaidi tub Dover a to Moke Livols by client servants in the employ of the and having done with i All the implications and reflections Liy Oje o the Inui Uhn Sei Litlo on m Bat Profet or of the scientific Book of the in a of Reni o us t dry but a Book Tor to i Lilly am 111 Ity Mackenzie a study Fly third Canadian kid till and Oiler Juv Florence lord la Ifo Beri a edition the humorous Golf the Hammett lev Tiru Lii this or Sinnif n i show How the the ethical quid Serin Tizie proofs was absolutely incapable for the Poi on eighteen months or so ago if round of doctor and social by Clial net it Roll the a or prohibition pro and and Able Sui Minir up of evidence before Jadi Cunt at the Bur of Public the letter carries with he states i Here that he himself will take no responsibility i want members to get the full Force of that j and i am sure the people of the pro Vince whatever the motive he i is without assuming respond to throw reflections and implications like this broadcast against another Man not in the legislature i and not in a position to defend him Case of coming to Deal with what he said i were the facts of the the mini later stated he had made a mistake in not dismissing Billiarde when he came into from the said he had assumed the responsibility of the department there had been nothing but com plaints from those associated with j child welfare protesting that Billiarde he had been asked to resign but had been allowed to remain on for some i time on account of his wife All through he had shown himself As superintendent of neglected j incapable of coordinating with others engaged in and re killings preventatives of the women coun edition 1885 to cil had charged that he had wrong fully committed children to the school at that had been found to of be he should have been Dis the first time nil of killings poems missed said the on account of Winter intervening he was still kept on an because the government acted in a what the House had was the Billiarde had the i minister that certain j including fall and f j were getting double remuneration in some secret the fact was that i the provincial government paid part of their salaries As they paid part of the police magistrate and the i Crown the accounts showed Premier intervening in the said if the opposition charged j that being a Liberal disqualified a collected in one 784 Pures wit i slim Kiel Arnold Bennett it is one of the novels of the companionable pocket 410 pc Alloi dial Jav of a in lord us every said of this Book t regard any bedroom i As unfurnished without a copy of edition just rocket 11kst new the Man of the Zane another Western Story and Inlet up to Zane Grey the Man with to Hibb facts by Harold the of Deur Ilice it arrows tub Cit Oss a Brilliant View choose and remain an alien was pleased me Pra tied to talk about is not the considered thu or the style of Goldwin Smith and quoted Meredith j Tion the third provision which was quoted naturalization by operation of Law As a special country it is and the women of Canada and what by be a should be the last to cling to special possible sex copy naturalization by oper lion of Law where persons so Natur i cd that women on their marriage to a i looked upon Man not of their own j privilege in whatever c May choose their Hubli and the worn but that the member had read his speech which was against All the rules Laid Down As the House did not wish to hear the voice of another per an addressing it through a on both Points to confirm the appointment As saying that the highwater Mark j Ion o s of to gosh Pixie was a Page or two Kritich siriiiot5 tar in in Villette in the Marble thai i i finalized make no Persona Effort to i of Ruttan As City Ere is no provision for Uicker avar themselves of the highest prize j certificate of exceptions a buteo ilor Ruo soul an Minitre Siig John Morley a study in is rare to Hud the perfect fusion of statesman and Gladstone seemed Man in his and israelis flacon and Clarendon Are cited As perhaps the Only examples hitherto acts of to Plank that All in the gift of any certainly j cannot by conducive to that higher value of citizenship which we so i much need in this country in j Trovi died by this act Queens naturalization shall not be granted citizenship Cirii mean nothing either Tho Lomelli women or children unless it is i provisions or while is defined a meaning the status of being a mar ried or a or it is impossible to discuss the of valued and sought As a personal and not something descending upon them As the chattels of 5 so am Tav Rabiy there under the Luio however Aei tic be Tiia mix instance of Ench frankly to control would slant English because of ten Gull of left As a dominating of re Linig at Piaf Josul might become move to the european Ai inert nations these moods of suspicion and Jeal the Turk has found it Oas to game Divide an Xii appalling thing is id Titerence of these and similar phrases mean nothing sex i cent that in the grab game which is being resumed in the there Are both British and French interests that believe there is an advantage to in keeping the Turk in ii weve May be to the moral sense of the people of these each Power prefers the Turk to an Allied Christian Power and France prefers the Turk to joint Allied he cause under these conditions great Britain might have a Shade More in fluence she the men who thus Haggle and in Complete forgetfulness of what the War was fought Are the actual representatives of the Peoples who Stout Side by Side at their conduct con firms the growing impression Ilic Only examples Luiei of that be feet fusion but two of naturalization be a personal affair traditional sympathy for Turkey Morley works Are placed in the Exi without at the same time consider elusive namely the pc mini ment to is ranked ceased to 1 next to Boswell Tor the purpose of the of elections Morrison elaborates the pronounce ment at greatness in Biog a look Dos backward thirty years ago a disastrous fire prevailed on South railway Unsworth resigned his position in to accept work in Bill to incorporate j the Winnipeg and Duluth railway company was Given its second read ing in the legislature among the incorporator were i Salt and i Man from service in the he wished at once to take whether a Man were a Liberal or conserva n k live did not disqualify what did disqualify him was Noi giving j the honest service to the that i was the Way the government wanted i the civil servants to discharge their i alluding to the appointment of Healy As provincial i Premier Norris said it had been Tho Lesire of the late Robertson of Kekiwi Itic Bibbd of the Iobst Ika Peter a of adventurous us i Volt Talbot Kkt and co miss a novel of ital Bow is by Booth Archibald that Healy should be his Success in set Iset Hobert and he added that members of j the civil service who were support ers of the government and had been after the position had been told that i Hoitsu Max of Tiik Jay and iu3iny charge and he mentioned that the j in great shop today at mall orders promptly depends upon various things Here it is Mil in with nvort1 Vii Etc weigh motives and who uni no matter How statesmen of this kind Llave resided in t the 1un Tyrl for his crimes ii keeping with to Long Given a the or the pow fur spoils an1 the jealous o the Mora who have ruined the have not a can Wortley to represent tiie Peoples courage and Mauc Victory Brj of on o leave the a Vei bodies of but Cable loud As to Tini or Cor t to the Tui greater activity in aviation greater activity in aviation s to be expect cd this year and t cities Are be stirring themselves prepare for the regulations i the Canadian air Ern is not so with every oif Esva this think As we please of he was the Foremost Bri ton of his and left his Mark on All the issues of British govern ment for half a in the his biographer is never in the Way and never out of the writing As a st Icsman who knew How to w de stood i conduct their he need fear no least until another glad Stone finds biographer in another objections to such a pronouncement Are disposed one by and Morrison says that even if this biography and these reminiscences were lesser perform they would still be certain of that immortality contingent to the Man and the age they have become historic facts which nothing can the victorian age has now taken its place beside those of Elizabeth j Ufir Anne As a distinct epoch in lord Morley reminiscences j offer by far the most intimate and criticism of the i his apologia for victorian Ifni already silenced some of his chief in the midst of the vulgar Babel of the Chiju Isicc the sweetness and Light of Morley literary and the come sunlight and fresh air do to those who have just emerged from the and which were held at the end of octo ii was necessary to pass a spec to govern those by news forty years ago the Manitoba fever was prevalent in in his capacity of tire made a tour of the buildings in the City and discovered thai Little pre caution had been taken to prevent Twentyfive years ago several Well known Catholic divines arrived in Winnipeg to participate in the consecration ceremonies of archbishop of Morde was appointed License commissioner for District and Itee Sor for District duly promised to a rumours of the new elections act which the speech from the throne promised at the present session of beyond that the new act will incorporate the features of the by elections that act provides that All alien Dorn to despatches and i party of surveyors left the i Point a presbyterian minister to look Cidylo locate the second Ono Hundred immigrants of that Denom Miles of the West of i a nation arriving in the dog trains were sold j by auction in the i Twenty years ago j on the eve of thirty five years ago his departure for was men who Are the wives of British How Long they lie and no matter How Long they have been committee of naturalized citizens by operation of i representing All was a must personally appear before a pointed to look Over and suggest Baker conducted a j presented with an address and purse series of revival meetings at car of Money Mcdonald company was organized at i presided at the and among Birtle for the establish Ament of a i the speakers were Duval and new legislature was called to meet judge of the District court and secure from him a certificate that they Are qualified to take out naturalization improvements to a Iii of the Legisla Ture to introduce the Torrens sys tem of land bylaw was on March deputation from Brandon and District waited on the government to urge the Extension of the West of that to fays ent already favors the of the sultans Power Hias promising the to her lie Tui Foi the i in Constan sir enable to Public a vices Inie it Sponski is Wilcie it the Golden i local municipal ivies before there can i dignity of that victorian the Corr be International machines can j the Bookman that All aircraft and air her Bors must secure licenses within four months from licensed Sinai air Harbor must be established by the political Board require of that Day restore belief shaken by the great War and the doubtful in the place of reason and the ancient courtesies of their time stands As one of High seriousness fortunate in an historian dignified enough to Tell it Many a Longs the comparative s u Sia Tenient by neither land in this country nor de part from it except through a licensed air Harbor which serves As a customs Halifax and ki2a have already taken action to birthday congratulations to Duncan Virden Island of Ila Roh no experience necessary the that bread making is Long and difficult operation is a As bread May now be included in the of quickly prepared for with Royal yeast cakes Sweet bread can be baked and ready for use within four hours from the time the sponge is full detailed instructions Are contained in Royal yeast bake Book which will be sent free upon company Canada other Day a Man who had o0c been an opponent of the government had been appointed chairman of the peaks cvchai5dia new minimum wage then they had the same officials in the game guardians office As when they came into it is not the policy of the govern said the to influence the civil servants to vote for the the members of the civil service Are just As free agents i on election Day As any other citizen i of but what we do of them is that they give honest and decent support to the province in j carrying out the duties of j Dixon on budget Centre filming the debate on the budget Rei feared to the manner in which the old agricultural College had been handled by the present administration in the Public he questioned whether the mistake in Book keeping in connection with this item was attributable to the Roblin As members of the government had made in the original appraisal of the buildings and site in 1915 the valuation was set at and when the mistake was on the total was in the Public accounts for for the Norris government the value was set at in the Public accounts for the following year the he was increased to and again in the year following to Dixon stated that this practice of raising j the Book value of these items was equivalent to padding the balance the site and buildings were t he pointed to the Federal government at a Price practically j the same As that in the Public Aci counts for Dixon stated j that this was not the Only item that j was treated in this fashion and he denounced it As a dishonest Dixon also attacked the govern ment for what he the mulch ing the Telephone funds and the workmen compensation funds for the use of the farm one Mil lion dollars had been taken from the Telephone he and invested in the farm Loans at 5 per this Money could have been invested in securities yielding a much greater return and Dixon named the Victory loan and Bonds the province of Alberta to illustrate his Dixon attacked the education department he showed that in 915 a Grant was sex while in 1919 was in said out j of school population of there i were enrolled or 17 per j in 1916 the figures were school population with an enrolment of leaving some 12 per not with regard to the figures As to the number of pupils who passed the High school Dixon describe themas being equally in 1915 High school pupils to the number of examined1 of which whereas in 1919 out of pupils examined the reason of he was because the method of education was too super i there was not sufficient inter est taken in the lessons by pupils he speaking generally on the budget Dixon said that he did not mean that the ministers of the gov new Spring overcoats i am sure you Are like the Resi of and will be Only too glad to discard the heavy coat and put on one of the new smart Spring we Are showing a lot of Beau ties also a splendid selection of the new rubberized they Are wind and prices and dont fail to step in and see our 261 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