Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 13 to 26 Freedom of Liberty of of civil rights attn two and Manitoba free press conman incorporated under the of of busies Carlton in ii of nil april 1920 tit Hie iut ens for Tiro Tiff the in Tho Brillh Inland Revenue Mackenzie Kings statement exercise of til appreciation of her own Tais education has Acadia has raised the of Canadian literature to a hot the Liberal made in parliament j place on the the Nai defence of his course in the War Ilij Tiona Council or education in pro it y mounts in effect to a statement that in the Vidins for a Survey of the judgment he decided that it was his duty including the used in Cana the new dragon in British politics to stay at at the age which King was when the War Dian will without doubt see j that recommendation is made for the i broke out and under the Domestic circumstances to which King j inclusion of made in Canada pro he was doubtless free to act upon his individual j Canadian anthologies what is equally is that every elector in within recent years attracted wide j Canada is also free to exercise his individual judgment As to the lightness of Kings King will get nowhere by assuming that this is a purely personal and that criticism of the kind to which he has been subjected is an unwarrantable interference by politicians with his private it is quite in order for the Canadian people in making up their minds As to the extent of the Confidence they will repose in candidates who seek their support to base their decision very largely upon their attitude towards the great War and the part they played in the War was the great test for this generation and the people of Canada have the right to take cognizance of How their Public servants responded to this and favourable lecturer on the subject at Acadia in a recent Public address stated that during furlough England the he discovered the professor of poetry at Oxford was passing up and Down the country lecturing upon the Genius and Beauty of literature the Toronto clubs to be plated upon its the prize i May not be princely but it carries a Laurel Wreath with it and in its work ing out should provide not Only encouragement for the battalions of the but prove a decisive step in j the Good work of Canadian recon in it is probable that most people will be favourably impressed by Kings explanation of the reasons Why he did not himself be come a combatant under the circumstances recounted his claim to a right to exercise his option in the Way he did will be conceded Ion of Canadian literary by but this is not conclusive of the whole the War was washed on two physical Battle line in Europe and the moral Field at prom the beginning of the War until Tho signing of the armistice there was a never ending Campaign in Canada to keep the morale of the people equal to the sacrifices Otic the study Mark Twain in his i Atlantic series is the Ablest yet of Gamaliel Bradford american por and the most comprehensive that has Ever come my Way concern ing that versatile american humorist it has the perspective of the genuine critic and is convincing i wonder if the jumping Frog and the innocents abroad and the tramp those earliest j stir the visibilities of new readers to it is conceivable that there will be people Flay As they stirred ours so Long which the requirements of the there were Patri recruiting crusades for the raising of for the countless benevolent purposes of the War at Home and abroad and canadians who were debarred by circumstances irom actual participation in the found in these a moral equivalent and threw themselves into them with an Energy that in Many cases took no count of their own physical a readers notes books Are a finer world within the ers who have contributions to a knowledge of american Irv Bret Joel Khandj Ler Mark even Jack All did this and did it Well they made american customs pop ular at Home and known but were not Public they a idiot advocate today what they Felt i vie should have so far i from the Golden books too late on his own strict and some find death Ere they sir Lova so far apart their lives from the twin soul that their i Iii Canada y a vote i i m tile Jirav j Ontario to rates As men like a Whittier and j Nowell were even aug by still harrier it was on specific or temporary j the overs Rheet but meet j is our nearest to Tupy heart is True j As ail sources it n i the Mark Twain came near i becoming a National figure through i his attacks on what he considered i spiritual frauds and but jigs activity in this line began too late in his his career was approaching the his Fame was is the pamphleteer could make no headway against the humor and when William Dean Howells has seen tit to raise his voice in plea True Adieu Han dab no and if our resources arc to developed by foreign ii Rains to can never Hope to gain the position of leadership that should be the aim of if we admit that out Side brains Are better than ours in i or protest it has been in of the editor in the easy it i has failed to stir because of us mood the solution problems thai George i will have a if 1 have to make one myself we also laughed till we and laughed again when our friends read them i know had i time to reread them a a Bradford had should not again laugh out and not so Many years Marks rendering into English of the French mans translation of the jumping Frog convulsed it is funnier far than Tho original i was Dis appointed that Bradford made no comment on a defence of Harriet Shelley which is certainly a Noble and reasonable will ask King what part he played in these Thev might decline to accept the Story of Kings labors As a to j ail Ejli Lulun Jiuu conciliator Between capital and labor in the United states As Conj to do preparation for his i St Tuting that alternative of service which the occasion this Ivas Kings prewar business which he simply carried Forward into the from 1914 to 1917 the United states was not an ally of the entente countries and the speeding up of the nuni Ion plants in that country was purely a business that the entente countries profited thereby was due to the fact that they Rione could buy and transport these munitions to the Battlefront if Germany had been free to Send ships to the United states sea Board she could have got and carried away All the munitions she iad Money to pay these Are considerations which discount in very considerable measure Kings claim of War service by Way of making possible a larger output of munitions in the United it will not be unreasonable or improper if the Canadian people ask King what part he played on the Home front during the it appears from his statement to parliament that he was a Canada All the King was a Man of standing and influence in the Public life of Canada did he publicly apply that influx twice in the support of War causes King is a writer of Force distinction did he employ his pen in the ardent advocacy of Canadas participation to the extent of her Power he is an Excel i int platform speaker upon what occasions did he raise his voice i Public in support of Canadas cause the Canadian annual which keeps a very close Check upon the activities of Canadian Public records one such speech in Vilien he addressed a meeting in Ottawa in company with sir Robert Borden and sir Wilfrid Laurier no record of any further activities in support of the War in heartbreaking year nothing in in 1917 his name again appears in the record but Only As a vigorous and determined opponent of the military service if this record does not do King an injustice it appears that in the above the Lotical cartoonist of the London daily makes merry Over Lloyd Georges attempt to fasten tie stigma of bolshevism on the British spelling and they Are the prime minister for destroying this Root and and planting another tree with a it was Bor the political situation j then that the Strrm broke in Britain has up afresh All the political Klajbor heavy the result of the prime ministers weights came out with indignant and horrified Savity is fallen Short of the Mark by reason of Ita wait Whitman More than any one else had the substance of the National but he lacked the form and the pro looking backward mediately confront then to run i never Hope to gain an Independent position As a state or it is i pointed out that state or Nti Tut of i the initiative others will do any in siders should look a for such Sii Iii hardly yet tap fwd Public the value i is Tasu then no persons a very old but very True april prohibition is the work tji according to there Are people in a of ution cannot prevent the Advance t and if we do not take feared to the advantages of such in a previous 1 would i like to Lay emphasis on Tho follow ing items that the function of radio com forty years ago Hugh Sutherland was the leading soloist at a sacred in holy Trinity the House of commons the government announced that the contractors contributed Ner of the Gross earnings for the privilege of operating the steel Bridge erected Over rat River was the first Structure of the kind in the Churchwardens of holy Trinity Church advertised for tenders for the erection of an addition to the thirty five years ago news reached Battleford of the safety of the occupants of fort but that in a fight with indians one policeman was killed and a second and that the Hudson Bay company and had taken Refuge in a Friendly Indian Halifax battalion in creased the number of Eastern Volun fusion exertions the preliminary moves for a never National democratic party composed of unionists and j brought j the their guns to Bear on the prime j Supply Bill presented in the legis Teers encamped in entertained at a banquet in be Kirk coalition with Lloyd George As had to be abandoned by a promoters some weeks but the latest Baton of British newspapers shows that fusion has again i become the Leadine political and to the rattling fire of the people made quite a but Tho i la Luft Apo privations were asked a minister and opened the daily congratulated them the accuracy of their aim and then thirty Sjarif proceeded to do a bit of shooting on its own the labor Lifbor is now added the deep toned Thunder of Tho Coni Oliffe Organ an artillery o tile i am sure that All lovers of Mark magnitude is raging in the political and they Are a great must been disappointed at the the bitter of his Humour As the years went however much they listed his common sense and his Bradford Points out that his Humour and his pathos were never perfectly blended that his laughter did not go deep Neath was Ever an element of Wrath and bitterness and and this is Why he is not of the com Pany of Cervantes and acid the Shakespeare of Lamb merriment and St ii Shine Are always the enduring ele ments of the highest his with the labor party As the storm Centre of the the aim of the Fri zionists is to have Lloyd George replace Bonar Law As the head of the unionist Law apparently be ing agreeable to make surren heavy Metal was supplied by a new and one which is rather i strange creature in the labor the London daily mail has come out with full dress the prime minister for his assault on it castigates the National the report of assess ment showed a considerable increase in the population of the number of House 328 for the preceding and the total assessment Chambre promoted to the rank of Captain in the 90th i the exercises of the theological department of Manitoba scholarships were awarded Norman Russell and and among democratic specially Savage with Lloyd George and Churchill declaring explicitly Der in the interests of a new and that these gentlemen Are seeking to compacted and it that the bring a bogey into the sit nation wit ii which the unionist i even in the midst of the the mail keeps its and Liberal coalition lists were to be i head and says candidly we the prizewinners were and Hope Grain was gazetted a Coroner of the to the people of i and the i that fhe radio affords one i the i most effective advertising Means that radio in the West should be under control of the people owing to the essential nature of this Means or it furnishing an emergency Means times of and extending to the More Distant frontiers of our that in radio communication there lies the Opportunity for Large and important business to this Western and the Awakening to their responsibilities and their opportunities will not pass with out a monopoly of this important function to a foreign Organ that two High Power radio sending stations Are not desirable in Winnipeg on account of interference the above items will indicate the direction in which the policy of remaining Active is it will be realized by the people that there Are eyes in the heart of the United states and other parts of the watching or just such opportunities As he at our let us not be Blind and pass up these cities merely because we see them bargains in sets of Standard authors in on annual sife these prices will simply Rataka sets disappear like a Snow pile in one set of Mark works the Hillcrest a har Fine Library Gilt pasted Label the Iet tur i Guy de Maupassant in j volumes de luxe cloth Gargain the Bulwer Lytton Complete i 30 volumes very bar the Shakespeare Larae volume edition 13 half Ruth eke shop at one set of Dickens in 30 volumes cloth with hundreds of the set one set a history of free in 7 massive volumes Hilf a set for one very Fine set of the works of Alexander in 32 volumes richly bound in half old tool sold a set Tor Sel events by Dorsey the tax on vacant Twentyfive years ago work was come need on the enlargement of the Winnipeg Golf Public reception was accorded attorney general of in and he was resented with an of the provincial ten 1 his the under famous in 20 a very special snap for one very Fine set Daudet works English translation i 20 de luxe illustrated son Gold set for George Eliot Complete volumes the set for also one very Fine ton of Eliot in half Morocco binding very richly set for Shakespeare Complete in twelve Handy Sui a Pym edited with introduction notes Good Clear Nice a very special Purchase and Thi the pledges made of the Premier j blazed in on several land of set of ten for in the Bye volumes Fine Horary set for Marion Crawford i twelve volumes the set for one set of henrys works 12 Volun i fill Crimson Fielt regular for Onon Nelson India paper edition set of George Eliot works Complete in to the editor of the free the new conservative recently adopted for provincial Pur demands the abolition of the vacant land imposed by the mor Ris government in As a Meas ure to encourage to provided for a tax of one half on the value of All Umi sed quarters the it in act to encourage or Educ great snap at per was a part fulfilment of i Stewart place is with the bitter fastened together was do not agree that the labor party writers filed a letter with the Board Churchill gave the firs when he declared labor and another Point in this study Mark Twain lacked the deeper historical sense and the finer perception of he could never acquire a love for classical painting and and revenged himself for his Lack of such enjoyment by railing it those who had nature appealed to him Only in her most theatrical aspects Sun he never Felt the in the joint letter signed by himself Charm of country walks in t Wordsworth must have a Bronar and sent to been sealed Book to his coalition candidate for North weapon of used so effectively j which the labor party was against greed and dishonesty and i struck at reverence that an denounced As a bolshevism in Orgaz St hints is essentially bolshevism in theory it a number of com i plaints against the tire and Ivas unfit or we do not agree that asked that action be taken with the to govern the prior ii minister coalition is the Only Refuge i City Council for an tinted the policy when he denounced from the daily mail j Twenty years nationalization As communism in his i being probably More concerned about nationalization speech in the House and the policy was further disclosed following this came the Lel Temps at fusion the prime even Voltaire did who ministers speech to the coalition gel of the world so named by Shakei Aton Smittee sent inlay but when Mark j to Dernus in the grand co had stringed life of there j nothing left but an Hidi Nolien he declared his Home participation in War activities was Hie extent of his very considerable influence the measures Wade it possible for Canada to play the splendid and decisive part a did in the final Campaign of this is part of re h led Ord As a Public Man it will be quite in order for the electors to give l my consideration to it in reaching a decision As to upon balancing his account in the Ledger of Public entitled to the High and responsible position of prime minister which at their Corpse and this Wai in his Hie Lambor a National decimating the prime minister than of carrying Aid to the toys cartoon is a direct onslaught on Lloyd George and Bonar Law who is the prime ministers attendant in most of toys they Are shown at work with Copi Ous supplies of red paint and hot fabricating a fear some with which they Hope to scare unionists and liberals into a new enduring shake off the withering blight Marks satire cast for me Over the whole Art of for years for some of the great s of Relief and but it is not fair to give blame and 110 Praise from Mark Twain had the most scr Upu saving the Peoples Money or else the envelope must be Cut by during the eight months from april to november the superintendent of stationery re or Flor to Stop the notorious i Cei Ved 126 different requisitions from ill i Tia i7io nit if i not r Jin Stikl i re nor waste of Public Money at the government printing at lion our Grid of Allaround through the printing of unnecessary new Abraham lincolns in his own character there the Cabinet was appointed to take parliament and the Public depart ments for five million envelopes of special while admitting in certain envelopes they Are the prize idiots of our As to Sabbath Observance in the education of Henry Adams there is a mordant Para graph about the opinions current in i iffy tory circles in London during the american civil Var about line i Jones communication Coin and Seward they ranked very ministerial association or in a the Par Adams to was Linrud states minister to an of sizes other than those known to the Trade As Standard May be Nec yet the committee feels that some authority should step in to re was developed a mighty human Semi such Steps As they found a thy and he loved and i Jug committee appointed an Edi them monsters of t Cooke Fred be Stract declared a portion of the Welland canal at Thorold was blown up by fires prevailed in the Southeastern portion of the Hudson Bay company stores were lighted by furnished by a Plant installed on the Waugh was ejected Secretary of the Cycle path ferries were placed in operation at James and on the Assiniboine children on Farmer to the editor of the free press h by a Little space in your columns regarding the Many advertisements appearing in the press Reading something like this married couple wanted on separate no child sort of advertisement is disgrace to Canad where can the future generation be reared under better conditions than on the breathing the pure and living away from the Many vices of a City where can you see finer specimens of our country woman Hood than those girls and women reared on tit farm you do not see the girls of the farms spoiling their natural Beauty toy the us of Rouge strict the present which is j and the powder puff they Are raised growing into an the total j to understand the Good Art of keep number of Standard sized envelopes ing the average City girl carried in Stock in the stationery knows More about the leading movie Branch of the department of Public stars than keeping May t do the Farmers object to a married couple having their children Ith them is the Farmer afraid a child arrive whilst the rare in his he or his have a Little extra work to or have to lend them his buggy horse to fetch a let the Farmer consider that his hired couple is As much right to fetch children i into the world he has if All other lines of business were to adopt his so net what would become of our country in a few years would printing is which should suffice Deputy ministers to go thorough for nearly All As a us Stantial economies have been a writer in the Monde to Veau the nhe wanted to Home it Are some supposedly profound upon remarkable Cir a viewed by this Jour history has repeated itself 4 again Groat worthy men Are Ivy Tho cultured j Lisl 01 in of the refer for cji5 s to Wenlu and i Canada i Moscow i Ivy Are twentieth Hood Ury Adrium according to election in the year at Sel when Alo Nague and Wilton were the Norris used these As re ported in the press at the time Progress is being retarded by Large tracts of land being held up by absentees who Hope to reap profits by the labors of the Community Gener in increasing the value of the surrounding and automatic increasing the value of their own a method of equalizing the taxation on land was urgently needed and would receive the at Tention of the Liberal this was pointed out on several platforms before the Advent of Liberal party in in the so this tax on vacant quarters of one half per on the Dollar of its in an act to encourage was the re sult of Norris seeing the evils resulting from the holding of the i land by he had the idea that it would not Only bring in much j needed Revenue but that it would j tend to lower the Price of and thus lie a great at traction for settlers and producers in the re ported the first years result of this policy As being very and Tiow the conservative party in convention demand Rej peal of this measure to surely there must a mistake can it be j really True that that is a Plank in their platform a person using land helps to pay multimillion in taxes to the Ottawa government on the capital he must have to work but hold the land and those taxes Are that the per son who the land must pay millions that he would ret out of paying were he holding it is this not a very great injustice to those who Are actual settlers since seeing the Premier Norris taxes that Idle land one half per for provincial surely no thinking person would of surely there is so much Wisdom and goodness in an act of this that no argument against it can he has the Norris government passed any other Meas ure that shows so much Justice and genuine statesmanship that act does several it restores to All the people More of an interest in their the land gets Revenue for the government without taking anything out of the Peoples earnings it tends to lower the Price of wild j the basis of Prosperity in any new country it tends to relieve by making the land More easily accessible to the actual labourer of the soil it tends to increase pro and thus increase business or trader it tends to make More de Mand for and thus gives j More jobs to the people who Are engaged in making those implements in there is no limit to the Good that such an act the act is sound in theory and is founded upon it has one the tax should have been and pro vision should have been made to in create it year by in the government of British Columbia passed an act taxing such lands one per and Goc the first year for the Saskatchewan government Bas several levies off Tho land held by the platform demands a tax on All land 12 volumes full Levant Gold Oil ribbon markers fully regular net Sale Price if volume of turnover is Chick Klail of Success our 40th annual Sale a the Long is Ujj almost continually Surro Druied with eager Book and they do not of away fresh added Dally and every of f Bonks has a special sales Kij store closes at 6 10 1 lists of a no All decline j heretofore she has raised her representatives an n is Luul the committee and they j was not considered seditious Tiit As world writers chiefly to be Sev a dvrs Are obscurantist o the Bright 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