Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 18, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 11 to 22 Freedom of Liberty of Equality of civil August 1920 i Rimrod nil Imp Lilied the Manitoba free Tress a joint Stock company incorporated tinder the of its Hrul office Tancl plume of 3m Gnu Sou Carlton i the City of i 1l j arc Sidcot and Cien Mil registered it tie general Rost Tor Tonsi Mission through tile malls in the Bri Foch Isles at Inland Revenue municipal taxation in Western cities May cities of Western Canada Are i m a if cult financial position on account of the deflation of land values Siace the extent to Winch land taxation was depended on for and die failure o enforce payment of result is a general movement for the broadening of the basis of through the adoption of other sources of Revenue such As tax and while various other proposals Are suggested such As a tax on Public municipal As As Winnipeg has suffered less than most of the other Western but Here the property assessment has fallen from 288 millions o to 236 millions in decrease of 52 million with a contracted basis of and at tie same time a Consi Jar ably higher Cost of the necessary municipal re could Only be obtained by a higher tax rate in tie four this Rose from 14 Mills to 23 Winnipeg also has a Busi tax of 623 per of the annual rental value and derives Sabsi durable Revenue from the increased tax on has created a demand for an income tax As a Means of the property owners of a of their other Western cities Are much worse both because of a much greater drop in land values and a policy which allowed a serious of lax arrears and did not always insist upon the holding of fax sales As regularly As the circumstances the assessed value of the land fell from 91 millions in 1914 to so millions in and in Regina the decline was from 53 millions to 47 other cities had a similar a year or two ago Moose jaw was obtaining 76 per of its Revenue from land taxation and Swift was obtaining 96 with the increased Cost of municipal government and the shrunken assessment one can clearly see the difficulty j into which these cities have been tie average tax rate in the cities of Saskatchewan was Mills in 1913 and in the follow ing four years it Rose to 24 meantime the tax arrears be time steadily greater and Many owners gave tip Hope of redeem ing their land and left4jie City to dispose of provincial formerly made 20 Mills the maximum that any City timid Levy but this had to be amended to help the cities in their struggle with the tax sales must be held regularly in Saskatchewan cities and towns and this provision by the provincial government has helped matters to some extent As far As the nuni to parities Are in Alberta and British Columbia the arrears of taxes became a More serious problem and extraordinary Sieps have had to be taken to secure their Vancouver i toiled special statutory Power for this purpose and Edmonton adopted a plan of taking notes for tax arrears for the years 1914 on the sacrifice and swore to use no fraud in the games to demand such an oath now would be tantamount to the league and the politicians the Field of politics the league of is under the Microscope in tie United governor Cox and his friends assert that if the United states goes in to the league new life and renewed Hope will take hold of every Mankind will press a Resolute shoulder to the task of and a new Era will have dawned upon the anti leagues of tie calibre of senator Borah scoff at such senti ments As Sleazy Campaign stump and the senator himself has announced his intention of camping on the Trail of Secretary Colby when that gentleman sets out on his tour i he states in advocacy of the and demolishing Colby arguments in favor of the league in perfectly ruthless in this amiable purpose the senator is ick cd on by the new York Sun and Herald which remarks that no Man living is better qualified to perform this work of patriots in than sen Ator the ideas that the league is Only a device to make the underwrite the peace of Europe and that free Dom from entangling alliances is the Correct line for the states to follow come less than a simple sue As soon As a few additional facts Are brought under count who is not unfamiliar with american political has recently suggested that senator Harding wih be elected president next March and that then it is probable that by an act of con Gress the War with Germany will be declared and the details will be left to us the the senator Borah and his fellow irreconcilable May Slaughter the sup porters of the league and install Harding in the White but that is not going to keep the from foreign entangling or As count Bernstorff Tufte Candi Date in North York and president of he Canadian Council of was waited on by a delegation who asked him not to oppose Mac Kenzie King at the next but to run i South York he declined to do said in an interview that if he could not be elected in his own Riding he would idiot seek election anywhere the Farmers of North York had chosen him As their candidate and he had no intention of Burn Aby also said that he Hart numerous offers of similar nature during the past he would not say where they had come the Toronto in speaking of Mackenzie Kings visit to to remarked that it does not like Kings lukewarm interest in the development of the National railways and his failure to fight for the nationalization of Canadas water Power resources so that Energy at Cost May supplied to All who want but this paper has no stomach at All for the reborn tory party headed by who in his first address As Premier proved himself the Strong Tower of mayor of has received the Nomina Tion of the Independent labor party for the next Federal and will oppose the Well known Protection in Brant mayor Mac Bride was1 elected to the legislature hut had a difference with some of the other labor Mem Bers when the Farmer labor govern ment was and has since Fol Lowed a More or less Independent from the Golden p what boy you Are How you do got it blowing your Bugle to that one Sweet Kow do you blow it and does she hear Blackbird so far or is it wasted breath Good lord she is so Bright tonight the Blackbird pared with the representation that British Columbia had in the Cabi nets of sir Vilfrid the fact that British Columbia will share with the rest of Canada from the benefits that must accrue from Tomies position in the should not deter it from realizing the value of the representation which the Pacific province has in the Meighen Premier Meighen at Sterling the mail and Empire thinks that Premier Meighen speech at is of inestimable value to the it was the one thing Good crops and assured material Prosperity do wonders in their but unless the people Are made easy in their minds in regard j there is hardly anything lord Rose a readers notes in his study of lord quotes William the most eminent of Eton masters in thelast fifty years of the nineteenth of the Raymond quotes Willia i would give vote a piece of plate if you could get that lad to the nineties there was nothing resembling the nearest approach was the Saloon bar of cer Tain great new the Clos est observer of the times was the working class labor has changed less than any the Middle classes went on As in the Days of they and Sang Tarar Boom work he is one of those who like the Palm without the he wrote in the Cory was a born and Mary one of his pupils after Eton has left for them there never and most probably never will a period like the every thing was cheap but Consols and Home rails flesh and blood As cheap As it in was possible to live a to of Ages or a Dustman the compares Cory Ana lord Dalmeny to Paul and with a the Wisest boy that Ever his latin verses Are different from the he likes the older poets is a Strong but Wise admirer of both a Dalmeny was but a lad of fifteen then and unconsciously secreting stuff for Napoleon the last no the master was doing All he could to make him a scholar he will be an orator if not a such a Man As poets Delight says put his Finger on the very spot when he used the figure of the Palm and the and in that relentless Way of the the mature lord Rosebery did not get what the Young lord Dalmeny want he just missed the but he got a great Deal of the if the people earnestly desire a general the government be Wise in considering the length of their tenure of but the de Mand should he More general than the voicing of Mackenzie King Bery might not have with Good of the famous three successful ambitions of the youth Are marry a great to win the and to become prime but one More Tui Idun were a Wurms it Ciuci in j make the Canadian people uneasy in earthly their minds than they Are Toronto on the other to matters controllable by govern Progress will be More or less there never was a time when demagogues and men of restless ambition were Labouring orator in Meighen is for he is opposed to All these changes which men those better ments which Are being agitated throughout some of them already promised in the he is out to to the conditions which we and Harry Flynn would to i had he is opposed to All these agita says the Ottawa tons for something the nobody believes that King is at All serious in his not Likely to Benefit prime minister was calling upon the prewar conservative party to re turn to the gathering place of and his party is rather in As if nothing had since and outside of one on account support a Leader Strong in every Art the Congress May pass an de expressed by John Appleton in the can Iid the opinion Bankers journal that the situation in the Western cities cannot properly be blamed on the War he says in part of the now leaning on their creditors Tot hampered by legislation intended to be a Benefit to Bona fide but which was taken advantage of by numbers not entitled to any special consideration or treatment in the matter of their civil the present Strain on municipal a symptom of which is to be found in the amount of the advances to municipalities by the chartered is not due to conditions Aris ing out of the except As to the legislation referred but largely to failure to enforce collection of in certain for in Southern Alberta following the drought of special cause for leniency was but else avar by creating so great a demand for agricultural at so High a was material Aid in sustaining the business health of Urban communities in the Appleton also thinks that the Ordinary Means of tax col Lection was blocked by those who hoped land values would lain return to something like their former level and who Clung equities and opposed any Steps to destroy their with careful the Western cities will outgrow their financial they have Stern lesson Aid Are Likely to profit by the Western country will see a great Issue of immigration and general growth beginning almost in and the growth of the cities will gradually lift them Irto a better municipal government contains great pos Wilities for the Public welfare if is efficient and but tee possibilities Are very largely dependent on financial re Trees if All the Revenue can be fairly exacted from the people is required for the mos essential municipal services there Opportunity for other undertakings from which the people i might derive great physical training on College curricula general sir Arthur Prin if4l of Mcgill his an winced that physical training will compulsory for All Mcgill fresh and beginning Ith the autumn term each under Iraa uate of these classes will to undergo at least two Kly Striction is is yet voluntary on the part of the it May when the new University is built with gymnasium Tillat at least to a certain measure such training will be but there is More to the matter than seeing to it that the benefits of physical Iraj Ning Given All the the other swing of the pendulum must be guarded against which in some colleges has Lead to a athletics Are first con physical training pc iteration h brings to mind Herbert spencers remark to a youth who was his proficiency at billiards Young he to billiards Well is the Mark of a but to play billiards too Well is the Mark of a misspent 1 the University problem in this re is Only that of Public the place which sport May legitimately take in a life budget has not been accurately still the crowds at tending matches and watching sport bulletins would indicate that those who flocked around Brasidas at Complete surveys of the physical Sanclary of the various faculties at lie Montreal institution were made urine the recent session and according to the tabulated results it Sas revealed that thuse students who participate in the University sports Sre Superior physically and even in rally on the to their bus one University at least in Canada has taken a definite stand on matter of balancing of mental physical in for years Row athletics have been wide and provision made for Scione As if he were an athlete by me governing but participants have been chiefly i cited to those making the tile rest took out their in last enthusiastic heir year arrangements University with the arid for the use of gymnasiums at certain year an instructor in athletics appointed who will take in Al the physical training and All such in Hiiva Many descendants though reaching the High Pinnacles of far from neglecting the made it a cult As part of the worship of she Divide her population into those who played and those who from the but modern although it May have this adjustment to yet Cla Ingwar to be at an end with but there will be details to work and in working them out the anti leagues will find that the Loague will be one of the Prin Cipal factors in the settlement of the american european the league of May be made a party Issue in politics but the league of nations is a far bigger thing than a party keen Oil from the Maii and the Washington government is making representations to Britain respecting the Oil policy agreed upon by France and Britain for develop ing and other Eastern Oil the British policy is to hold the Oil areas it As a result of the As assets for the future states to be it is expected that Mesopotamia will eventually be an Arab under British the United states Oil interests Are a tidily to prevent any world development of Oil without Vliem As principal Thev Royal dutch Shell group controlled by British capital has a no american production of Only about 3 per of the worlds while the United states has or controls output of 6g per in Washington it is emphatically stated that Tho British Navy is dependent on american and an embargo is talked of if the United states is not let in on the development of Oil in British the British Navy requires Independent sources of within the and regulations barring out Are quite american embargo on exportation of Oil is also the British government is anxious to do what it can to put the Empire on an Independent and its work was greatly prejudiced by the fool boasting of a British monopoly of Oil in the near sir Auckland Geddes pointed out what Little foundation boasting Small is by showing this How British controlled product of the actions of men such As in driving patriotic liberals into the unionist party during the the Leopard has not changed his King is leading the same aggregation often who battled on a principle in and it is hard to conceive where King or his party would secure any direct Bene fit from the holding of a general looking backward time in a from to p3r Wilson was appointed English master in the collegiate de and miss Wilson As Krench Cricket including Mac Wilson and left the City to play a match with the Portage la Prairie forty years ago new potatoes on the local Market at 40 cents per Liay at 56 per ton and Wood at is Pur the Day was observed As civic holi with the provincial Rifle matches in baseball and horse races at the driving and a Lacrosse match at Dufferin new roman Catholic Church at Pierre was consecrated by Bis Grace Arch Bishop chief trader of the Hudson Bay company at fort was the Winner of a 60 prize lit Winnipeg entertainment the Saskatoon says that Premier in his speech at treat the manufacturers situation with the utmost de he is positive in Liis declarations concerning in his reference to the agricultural Indus try he is he that the Tariff Jias been oppressive to the agricultural interests of the Tariff never has been aggressive to agriculture under any and it never will be so Long i have anything to do in determining the Tariff policy of on that Point he parts company with the the West believes that the Tariff has oppressed the and by hindering their Progress has Hurt the Prosperity of All the coun it is Here that Meighen draws the line Between his new party and the supporters of the new National the Saskatchewan Grain growers Hope to win every one of the six teen Ridings the province at the next Federal according to president of the provincial in speaking of their what was expected of referring to their whatever lord Rosebery deficiencies might he United happily As few men can All the e he loved he loved he loved the Empire his imagination could concentrate on the lowlands As Well As expand to the he did not make the mistake of some imperialists of thinking merely in terms of he was a Little englander Only in the sense of not conceiving of Little be was i an imperialist Only in the sense of wishing to maintain and extend j the greatest secular Agency for thirty five Gar ago the trial of was completed at Rockina and the Iury re turned verdict of the Pris Oner being sentenced to three years Manitoba Rifle association decided to Send a team East to of Pele in the Dominion matches and among the members were Millican and aches Cortiz Iwick were awarded Minnie Blyth and Miller was selected Secretary of the Manitoba Iet Stock Twentyfive years ago the company published a glowing crop adding that Cut Ting in Progress in Many sections of the party of Minneapolis and Paul visiting the were entertained of a banquet at the Manitoba Bradshaw was appointed to the Rector ship of Christ miss Kate Holmes and Well known in Winnipeg musical j were married in Twenty years ago Bryce returned from n Holiday trip to the Pacific and while in Vancouver presided at n meeting of graduates of Winnipeg colleges and matriculated students of Manitoba University for the for mation of an machinists and of the c shops were on strike for in creased were invited for the erection of an addition to the Caf and dumb greatest cattle i from die Farmers Canada is destined to become the greatest cattle Raisin country in the Muskox and Reindeer ing the Semi Arctic lands of the fur these animals need no barns nor Able to provide their food and the s n Gigantic the meat of which tastes like beef while its Wool coat is two and a half times As thick As that of a the Muskox feeds 011 grass and the Reindeer on thirty years ago blackly resigned As a member of the Public school was advanced in Price for the second birthday congratulations to provincial police mag Istrate is senator and article of the old practice known to the Toronto world from opposite proves of the speech and Meighen will Force the fight i equally removed highly a there was in All his great Imperial speeches a a j and a As Well As on the Tariff question he a pledged i Fervour of hardly to be to a Tariff that will not drive a single found and this solitary Canadian Industry across the Border or throw a Canadian Workman out of at the same time he will reduce any Tariff item or schedule that is unfair or oppress and for that purpose his col league will tour the country to heat All complaints and representations from All classes in the the liberals Are facing both ways on the Tariff hoping to re peat their performance of Twenty four years when they preached free Trade in opposition and Practised Protection when in but this As Meighen Points they have the Farmers party to Deal the free being will have his Way As against the Mere political the sincere free trader Meighen Calls a the double dealer who talks free Trade and secretly believes in Protection he describes As a political the men and women who favor Canada for the who to see Canadian workmen employed in our Industrial who id give the Farmers a Good Homo Mari Wilt have no Choice but to Supi sure of port the new prime those who Are not for him Wil be against and those who Are against him will play into the hands of the discordant groups that can never form a government unless they accept the dictation of the free platform he said our Tariff Dei the Montreal Herald says that the premiers in which he con mands Are an immediate and sub Stantial Allaround reduction on manufactured with special reductions on goods from great Bri Tain looking in the near future to free Trade with the old we Are not asking for free Trade All but we demand that where any Industry asks for Protection it shall be made in a Public and it must show in its that it really needs the substitute for the Tariff As a Means of suggested by was a land tax based on the unimproved value of the and a sharply graduated income tax and inheritance which he believed would place the heavier Bur Den on those Best Able to support Turners of says that Premier Meighen speech at Portage la Prairie Only confirms the View that he has attained his present position on his record As an Able and Brilliant defender of spec Ial that he has been put into that position by the big inter and that it is to those interests and their followers that he looks for we have no desire nor in Tention to impugn the honesty of the no doubt lie is firmly i t f but the american Oil interests convinced of the Justice of the pol Are none the less keenly jealous of 1 any coming in of new Oil areas in Europe or Tennessee and the from the Toronto the fight for the constitutional amendment which would add More than to the women voters of the United states in the next presidential election is likey to he at present franchise under state were a general Law to be i the whole the in mock would to increased to is it to achieve that the Legislatures of three quarters1 of the forty eight states must fort five to Only thirty five assents on Suff Rajo 1avebeen secured to Short of the necessary in Conse Quence there has been a great Scurry in around for number thirty six in Senate and House representatives split on Tho Tofta governors of Vermont a Pel Florida de to Call special sessions to Deal with the Harding urged action upon Thi former is strongly but Row a democratic is to have a session which will say ves or no to the constitutional Amend and on that decision the is sue for the present right and proper to use every Par Ticle of the great Power which his High position gives him in attacking those dare raise their voices against the present order of but there is nothing to be gained from to persuade ourselves that the Premier is anything to from the Edmonton we Are now informed that the provincial government has made an arrangement with the to operate trains on the for the time this will cause As much Satis faction to the people along that line As did the news of the taking Over of the to the communities Northwest of the with a engage cur sible proposal the Christian few years age 5h Union is now a Pps Between branches which even a would have regarded the Toronto Globe demands an investigation of the charge made by the financial Post that for several generations the International Nickel company and a Small group of Lum Bermen secretly exercised political Power and dictated the appointment of Cabinet civil senator shins favourable to their in the Nickel company gave big blocks of Stock to Cabinet ministers and Public and bonuses sir late Premier of and one of his have denied any knowl Edge of such but the Calls for an examination of officials of the International Nickel com Pany on the it every honorable Man who has taken part in the Public life of the prov Ince in recent years is vitally inter ested in the discovery of the until full disclosure is made All for Mer Cabinet ministers and Public men Are under referring to the Vancouver Sung complaint owing to the Resig nation of Martin Bri Tish Columbia has Only one representative in the ottawa1 journal says that there were years under the administration Uulu when it no the ent tasks working in isolation journal adds that Tolmie is a Strong Champion of British co Lumbia As Well As a very capable minister of and it concludes British Columbia May have Only one represent tip in the Cabi wisely that materialistic damned the general unrest and deprecated the idea of a change of was a direct Challenge to the agrarian and labor groups who have organized for the overthrow of the they of have something to say in in the same Day the Independent labor party which sept Cape Breton in the recent provincial general election announced the intention to place a candidate in the Colchester by election in opposition to Meighen new Cabinet it forms an almost dramatic answer to the prime ministers told it is also certain to be taken up at once by Crerar and ii was a straight protectionist declares the Ottawa while advancing the argument that the present administration composed of liberals and conservatives alignments overgrown and battered it was a definite announcement that the new party composed of the remnants of the old and the leftovers of the Borden administration adhered to the fiscal policy under which the present system of Protection has or Meighen pleads for support for his administration because it was of the its predecessor might have made that claim with some justification in but there is none for a government formed Al most two years after peace was de splendor sufficed to outweigh his occasional descent in other directions into blight seem Mere whim and the Noble stoicism of a finer than the Pagan variety that belongs to the average modern with which he supported Public care and ing private grief during the gives a hint of what might been had the fates been less kind in his formative or raymonds introductory deals with they Are running in the London u was a Golden age compared to the Sun shone brighter the East wind was less the women were certainly prettier and perhaps More modest the steaks juicier the land ladies were a Kindlien race youth was emancipated from the harsher kind of parental control and not yet found a Stern step father in of the Way the world was going of the real forces at the had Little Rome Antoninus was not Moie impossibility of any sat change was already landed Tor ism was giving Way to the new in and that the old parti had been pretty Well the Church Union from the Toronto the Lambeth conference and a number of other recent events in Church life indicate that Church Union a problem which will increasingly the attention of religious ideas within the last few Vears there has been a Dis fact drawing together of All branches of in place of emphasizing comparatively unimportant Points of difference and elevating them into the negation of would mean the destruction of there is now a much better perspective in regard to differences of opinion in Church government and policy and a clearer consciousness of the much larger and More important Points upon which All the reason for this change is fairly in a variety of such As the inter Church Forward move the churches have Beer Soop have found in acting to Ether in committee and appreciation of each others View Point and Good which did not exist another reason is j that theer has been a growing Ion that the various denominations could not Hope to overtake their pres tasks working in Church Union will do it w Supply that spiritual dynamic which the world so sorely to Hope that Church Union would Supply Springs from Madison hats tie new pall shapes Are Nowon display of the famous Madison hat of if you wish a hat that does not Cost too certainly there is no other such Good All Stiles if new with Lux the dainties the garment the More delighted you will be 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