Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 31, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 11 to 18 Freedom of Liberty of Equality of civil rights Fott december 1920 a weakness of collective buying of the weaknesses of government buying and Selling is now being Watn Canada As the Ever since the armistice tie Canadian packing Industry has been blocked from free Success to the British Market because the British government have been concerned about working of vast quantities of inferior United states Bacon which had contracted for at prices that it was expected would net the Treasury a that condition of affairs was never More acute than t is today when Canadian Bacon is virtually barred from the British much the same thing has happened in the buying agencies under the control of the British government some months under an 1m ression that there was to be a bought wheat of All kinds and a alleles wherever they could get it and this much of it inferior n is now being robbed against the protests of Millers and to Wimch fact our Cable despatches have borne testimony during the past few in both Grain and the British government is determined to mate its profit and As it has ample Power to secure a monopoly of its it is enabled to do the expense of the consuming private no matter How cannot hold out against a worldwide tendency in our Canadian refiners form that out they tried to hold their prices at High Levels until they unloaded i the huge stocks they had piled up at top prices in the Hope of making the attempt by the Board of Commerce to make Canada a preserve for them failed because the Public would not stand or if the Canadian government had been handling by what has happened in have exacted the higher prices pal it had cleared itself from possible the result of this policy great Britain is to keep food prices up to War Levels although they dropping throughout the world wherever the Laws of Supply and and Are he danger of buying and Selling being concentrated in the hands of agents is that errors of to which All men Are a under these conditions Are fraught with great danger to the Public because of the volume of Trade affected by these in free buying and Selling go on continuously and Corners Are difficult to achieve but with governments buying and products can be Tai ten off the Market or thrown on it in such quantities that the mis judgment of an individual becomes a National Only if the policy t continuous buying and subject to the Normal fluctuations of he is adhered to will it be Safe to so concentrate buying and Elling that the control of these great trades will be in the hands of a few Canadas experiences during the past year or so with government of the purchases of meats and grains by great Britain have made it Clear that if there is the element of speculation in these transactions both producer and consumer Ruffier in order that the Treasury May be safeguarded against possible voices of futile protest the failure of the republicans to i Refl heir Tariff legislation through Congress in a space of time too Short to permit any real is giving time for the opponents of the Jmes sure to expound their criticisms Jai in some Plain is the Opportunity being t thus the new Tork in recent says congressmen at Washington who through the House the Bun Lombe till to the Farmers filled with Surprise and pain to aim that foreign countries May re Argentina hints at reprise it High duties Are levied on her Voo and Canada May do i Meuying to hit Back for the tax on even France is said to be jut to How unreal Mable it must be indeed a Enchant animal that thus proposes 10 defend itself when 60 far As Congress is its attitude in this affair is a mix Ture of old ignorance and new hum we know ourselves to be so amiable that we think All foreigners must love no matter what we Way should they resent our looking aft flour own if they feel Hurt or threatened ill the they ought not to Lay it up against us certainly should do nothing which shows that Are at our sex to look after their Ana cant they see that this hair trigger Tariff legislation is insincere it is voted for by representatives with a Wink the of flt a grand will have done for the the Senate is counted upon to do some thing for common sense and for de cant1 treatment of it is evident that ail the Loose t41k about America taking care of herself and letting the rest of the world go has brought Back some of the old notions about inter National we think we can sell without we chink we can Straw dabs at other nations danger their being thrown like so Many tobit us on the but the Era of isolation is Weller we wish it so or the United states cannot live unto it sat it has the largest commit ments in world end has got to please its not Tore them to think of Down the old Flintlock Tariff of other Days is the wildest in these times of rapid fire off Percal sensible comments of this f go far in checking the drive How with the present and president Wilson a White House the present measure May not get it but the new sits overwhelming Republican pw4in both will be ready the equivalents and Dingley Mon former hard to knife deliverance during the revealed him As a fervent or i the childish Faith that Are made Rich by shipping out and refusing to bring h was Harding who the View that it would r for the United states to the War debts owed by than to accept payment if the importation of euro be 1 the new regime is in full order the world May expect Fol Slaton by the United states most approved High pro curiously enough the High protectionists in entries that will most Furi against the United states the very policies which of themselves warmly favor As to the Prosperity of their own so far As International economies Are concerned the world is still in the dark Ages with the United states As the very Citadel of invincible naval disarmament at the moment the United states seventeen capital ships under construction and Japan has eight while great Britain has we Bear a Good Deal from some Ameri can papers about British naval ism and its menace to the world hut the figures quoted indicate that they might direct their attention nearer the american programme of naval if carried will give the United states a definite preponderance of dreadnoughts and will inevitably toe answered by a new building programme by great Britain since British opinion is pretty nearly unanimous in the words of the new Radical and socialist the time has not yet arrived when great Britain can afford to sur tender the command of the if the american people Force a re Newal of Competition in the build ing of naval armaments they will make a very sinister contribution to the worlds for in creased armaments Are not guarantees of peace As we jollies our selves into believing ten years ago they Are portents of if this Opportunity for naval disarmament passes it May not recur until the world has again been convulsed by Alberta cities and the natural resources that the cities of Alberta have a direct interest in the restoration to the Prairie provinces of their Natur Al resources was made Clear at the recent convention of the Union of Alberta municipalities these on account of their urgent financial have been insistently de manding Home Rule in the matter of mayor of Leth is reported to have voiced the general sentiment of the convention when he Saad that if the a Berta government did not Grant the cities More Home Rule and broader a collapse was the inevitable he stated that the annual Levy in All the cities of Alberta was becoming a very serious and heavy Burden on the ratepayers because the live tax Roll was gradually narrowing Down each year through default of pay ment by the owners of vacant commissioner of also said that the government had not played the game the province had collected Large sums of he that rightly be longed to the the reply of the provincial government was made by Mit minister of municipal of who said he did not believe the cities ought to be Given the right to impose taxes at will there must be some uniformity and it was not sound business to allow cities absolute Freedom from government re but the minister intimated that the government would be glad to Grant what assistance it and he said that if the prov Ince controlled its natural resources and received the Money accruing from then they would be in a better position to discuss the re Tention the cities of certain Chan Nels of taxation which Are now con trolled by the the natural resources belonged to the provinces of the an the government would Welcome any support that the municipalities might Render in Pray ing the Federal government to Transfer in the question of the natural resources comes right Home the pockets of the the same is True of Manitoba and and will More so As the development of their resources the resources rightly fee Long to the provinces and the reve nue therefrom should go into the provincial this would make possible a More Liberal Divi Sion of the tax Field Between the province and the after there is no use putting any blame on 1920 for what it it was what the people made persons who sit Back and expect the world to grow better Are a Good Deal like the fellow who tried to lift wms Elf by pulling on his Boot the new Tork cd Clef of police is not giving out of the robberies and burglaries in that City on the ground that publicity would help the but to the average new yorker Isio oks As if the gunmen do not need any a Secretary of the great War urges cooperation in dealing with the unemployment Situ it is a Safo bet that More will be accomplished by cooperation than by chivas Call for help will not go unheeded among the of Mani this country is Rich and can afford to go to Relief of a starving it was a Wise idea of Premier Meighen to come West to make is new year resolutions in a Western the Montreal Gazette takes a column of space in order to say How heartily it approves of action of the Board of railway commissioners in refusing to suspend its judgment increasing the railway with newsprint at its present Price the Gazette might have saved something on Japan and the printed find published except so Mun limbo rom nov incorporated under or rom nov incorporated under or heed office and Elmo of 300 car too g the City of president and general registered it the general Post for through tiie molls in the British Inland Revenue Why Venizelos was de some reasons Lor the overthrow of Mentzelos in recent elections in Greece Are Given in a letter received by the free press from James a greek living at Weyburn who thinks that the greek peo ple were justified in retiring the former Premier who guided the destinies of the country during the Chrones says that Venizelos be came very unpopular because he was an autocrat who not Only acted in a very High handed Way during the War but had since suppressed the liberties of the Constantine was the main Issue in the he because the people Felt that Venizelos by his relations with the Allied Powers bad practically com promised the Independence of the and who was driven out with the Ald of the was wanted Back because his return would signify Complete Independence Chrones says that Venizelos aimed to become a permanent dicta Tor but that the greek people could not forget that he boasted of having caused the blockade of Greece in the Winter of 19161917 when hundreds of people starved to death that he held no election after the dethrone ment of Constantine but continued on the parliament of 1915 after purging it of on half its members who were opposed to him that he imposed a severe censorship on the press right up to his defeat that he persecuted organized labor and that he used every possible device to steal the re cent says through his parliament gave the Venice list army chiefs absolute control of the Soldier vote at the in the province of the elections were held under martial the opposition being prevented from nominating any candidates in that part of in certain localities of including the opposition was prevented from hav ing meetings and by order of chief of on the eve of the election the Aegean recruited entirely from Asia minor was brought Over to Athens to impress the on the same Day the Venice list cretan division was brought Over to Patras with the same on the Day Fust before the the entire class of 1915 was demobilized voters being thus As they could not vote either As soldiers or As civilians within so Short a space of on the same Day the British minister at lord the French Monsieur de and the minister from the United Edward gave formal statements to the Venice list papers warning the greek people to vote for Venizelos threat ening otherwise to deprive Greece of fhe Friendship of the countries they censorship in Greece was Genera martial Law existed in Many pro and terrorism by the Venizelo St police held full Sway on election tet in View All this is out of 368 the and Venice list including the from Thrace where no opposition which i Lear rut partisans to this i in tenth of the total Roem Hershin greek Kleven membe1 of the Venizelos Cabinet foiled o Lection in their own Venizelos himself was Defeated in votes and a total vote of and the cooperative spirit of the there Are townships where no advantage has been taken of the new while in others electricity has entered As extensively into the labor of farm House and farms As in the for in from the town of tort three Miles of line were run in 1317 to 31 farms but from the Village of Norwich in Oxford county Are thirty Miles of Hydro lines radiating in various directions to Over 130 the hydroelectric commission is anxious to enlarge the Power scheme by encouraging the municipalities to unite in building electric with the financial backing of the pro this proposition is now being investigated by a special commission Drury asks the in the above cartoon drawn for United states papers can Japan doubt our Friendship and he adds this further question Why in the world should Japan want a bigger Navy the cheerful philosopher Happy new tear All of a Here plan to enjoy plot to employ Young appear new Little enter our my dear year after year ends out of always the next one rouses a Why should we leave it to old Moore and the other Almanack prophets to Tell us what is going to Hap pen in the coming year heres my own Prophesy for guaranteed fifty per Correct and the bet tinge on the other fifty tool january very Low trouble in february Stormy trouble in March unsettled Trou ble in april general trouble in May seeding in Lull swing trouble in june magnify client Trou ble in july crops Burnt Farmers trouble in August labor crop prospects trouble in september biggest crop Ever trouble in october miners strike for More trouble in november wheat prices trouble in december Christmas Trade Breaks All trouble in now that the season has opened for our National Winter sport it May be Well to ask our selves a Are we trying to develop the British spirit of True sportsmanship hockey is peculiarly our we have the worlds championship on its the fastest game on can we say that it is also the cleanest to our a fair Field and no and May the Best team or is win by fair Means or a big hockey game to wards the end of last a writer in one of the City papers complained that the game if any too the spectators would have liked the boys to mix it a so As the crowd was con this statement was possibly the fact is we Are not satisfied with lightning fast game cleanly we want a Little slugging and a Little display up a bit of a scrap to liven it now there May be some people who would rather see a Battle with Sticks and fists than a hockey Man is a fighting animal tamed by and we still have a Good Deal of the brute in our but theres a place for there Are and dog and prize and heres the Point even in the prize ring a Man must keep the a foul blow will disqualify the lowest a foul blow in hockey Means five minutes on the and i can recall at least player who has been the idol or his Home players and spectators alike need to be educated to the fact that sportsman scorns to advantage of an tripping is a dirty from behind that anodes a per out As dastardly As the of who blackjacks you in a dark such tactics spoil a Manly Calls for endurance team play individual Bril in loyalty to the Many Good Porte who pm should be let make clean hockey our slogan for this since last january the a Kaiser has received Over fifty two million Marks for and some people think the allies Are asking too much from heres a rhyme about the last Josiah a patient Many enlisted when the War he shined his Learnt his and went to Settle Kaiser a month or two on Salisbury Plain in unimaginable rain they coached him in the Art of kill and found Josiah very they shipped him off to Flanders the Channel crossing made him sick in freezing wind and drenching Spray he never had a word to the Battle line was mostly mud the rain descended in a flood the Boshe came wave on wave Josiah temper never and when the Waves were beaten they choked him with a Gas at tack and for his he lingered at the Gates of Josiah never cursed the Hun for All the mischief he had he said there Only bred to kill so let the Kaiser pay the and now Hes living on a pension that barely big enough to a few Short years hell cough and until consumption takes him the germans handed Kaiser Bill the Little sum of fifty fifty million Marks last year for sustenance and supper at last i hear Josiah in the Kaiser anyway they ought to put him on a level with traitor Judas and the Devil it does seem a bit that the old reprobate who did More than any other Man to bring about the War should be allowed to live in peace and plenty when Hall Europe a Hoover asks thirteen million dollars to feed the children of Middle Europe this and the people of the United states Are responding at Normal the count of Hohenzollern unemployment pay for the year would just about equal this he had the to demand another Marks As compensation mainly for the loss civil list Marks for loss of the Hohenzollern compensation my perhaps because the allies also have a Little Bompensa Ontario Power Story the Story of the phenomenal development of the hydroelectric Enterprise in Ontario which now serve the towns and Rural District of a Large part of the older Section o the la Well told by big Ger in a Book which has just been this extensive and fam Ous Public ownership in which the provincial Hydro electric commission has invested and the municipalities Hac its genesis in a meeting in Berlin in 1902 of representatives of towns ant cities of Western among these representatives was Adam of who later became the com manding figure of the whole under in 1903 the first provincial commission was appointed to report on a general scheme and later Thi permanent hydroelectric commis Slon was As the under taking the municipal Tiei who were becoming increasingly formed an association for the advancement of the common and this Assoc a Uon has been a Force in backing up the commission in the development of the the commission now develops Power not Only at Niagara Falls by also at a number of water Falls North of Lake Ontario and in the georgian Bay and Muskoka a a Vul greater Supply of Power from the Niagara is being provided by the Chippewa Power which Wil divert a certain amount of water from the River to the new Wei land canal the use of electricity on the farm in actively encouraged by the com Biggar and it adds there has been a steady pro Gress in most parts of the province in the use of this Power on farms of lighting and Domestic such a washing dishes and churn pumping sweeping floors baking operating sew ing in out Ghousi work electricity has been used of filling milking threshing grinding chopping Straw and feed pumping water for stables sawing Wood and loading and unloading in this class of work the Progress has been sporadic rather than general according to the density of settlement Tion Bill awaiting 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who did nearly 250 years was born that things might be stated once for All at their Best Traherne believed that others could be As Happy As he was and this was his testimony never enjoy the world aright till the sea Floweth in your till you Are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the it is a dictum Worth summering and wintering and we must re member the Day of its utterance in a sea Girt Isle when the great Inland spaces were not Public opinion reprints a striking poem by which suits All it is not lyrical until near the but it is the sincere cry of a Lover of his great utterance by a great Lover of his Fellows and of their o lord the children of my people Are thy Peculiar make them o even while i have my Lovely companions like boo in Eden so much my treasure that All other wealth is without them but dross and do Thev not adorn and Beau title the and gratify my soul which hat eth Solitude Hast made thy servant a sociable for which i Praise thy a Lover of a Delighter in equals the inclination which thyself hath implanted and give me eyes to see the Beauty of that life and Comfort wherewith those by their actions inspire the their courts of feasts and priests and Trade and the voice of the musical the Light of and the grinding of Mills Are o let them not the riches of the land Are All the materials of my Felicity in their hands they Are my substitutes and stewards second who by Trade and business animate my which else would be dead and rust in my hands but when i o How they come unto thy fill thy courts and sing thy o How wonderful they then appear Inhat inflaming enlarging seas of divine confirming infusing do i feel in these who Are Shiming Light of All the land to my very wings and streams carrying me unto the sea of goodness from whence they we May be sure that Walt Whitman never read yet there is like Ness of form in the two and its Content brings a great religious Lyric to namely Ebenezer Elliott god save the the 1 birthday congrats nations to pop am born born loom backward forty years ago Joseph Foreman of Suth Erland and Brothers Sash and door was presented with an and Wilress and Meerschaum pipe by his fellow employees of the Scott was reelected Warden of the municipality of col Howell and John Mcdougall were installed As officers of Lisgar and father Lacombe came in from rat Portage for new years thirty five years ago judgment was Given in Quebec that companies incorporated by Dom Inion letters Patent had no right to buy and sell real estate in the pro Vince without a provincial the fish business on Lake Winnipeg Ivas and Large quantities reached Selkirk for distribution to Point in the Snowshoe club was organized in with v As Ropier Marion and tru Del thirty years ago Winkler was elected Reeve the new municipality of among the officers elected by win i Peg knights of were code and l Drewry made a tour of the whole Sale liquor dealers and collected Over s500 in Cash for the general Hospital sur Jestion was made through the columns of the free press that teams be selected for a Lacrosse match on sew years Twentyfive years ago Arthur of the free press miss Daugh Ter of Alex were married officiating and miss Ethel Calder a nil Cowan assist ing As bridesmaid and annual Ball of the Cricket club was held at the Manitoba hotel Mcmillan was unanimously nominated at a mass me tins Lor the representation of Centre Winnipeg in the local Twenty years ago lord Roberts was created an Parl and landed at having travelled from South Africa on the Steamer of the c p r freight agents office transferred to interesting the Catalpa ii of books bulletins and socia1 nerf economic questions possessed the provincial Library has just Bren Truw j catalogue is in Handy a convenient so pamphlet containing 31 witha Stout and be n great convenience to locating and the Vorva mis i Wimch u lists the1 must be close on 2 000 titles riven and the whole Field of economics and of social and Industrial problems is covered pretty there is a very representative selection of works dealing with and a dozen or so on including Trotsky bolshevik and world lenins soviets at every Shade of thought on Portal can there Are Cool and Well presented studies of social unrest is Bakers new Industrial and there Are the studies of soviet Given by George Lansbury in what l Jtj and Beatrix webbs Book on trades unionism and Arthur hendersons Aims of and Thomas new when labor rules pre sent the most recent expression by High Trade Union writers on trip problems confronting organized anyone who wished to do so could make a systematic study of socialist and labor development from the Des capital of Marx up to nationalization theories of sir Geo Chiozza old masters like Adam John Stuart and Mcculloch have their place beside the new and arresting conclusions of Cole and John there Are the volumes of commons on Industrial Good and there is the inter Church world report on the steel Fosters the great steel does not seem to have been such questions As 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