Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1921, Winnipeg, Manitoba I j editorial Section pages 13 to 24 Freedom Al Liberty of Equality civil mss december use your judgment next weeks election a not like the a Toba not than fort six candidates Are offering Hose electors who Are supporting the Meighen government of Coure Eft no they know in constituent Iodate they 4vote n to try that in three out of the fifteen seats in Mani Cre Are no official government candidates but no government Fer in or or Provencher has any doubt As to is expected to m ters Are not 80 single for the electors who Are opposed to Don though in at least ten of the seats there is a perfectly for the elector who desires to cast his vote for a change of the third candidates in South Portage la Macdonald and Marquette offer no a vote them is a vote wasted or a partial vote for the candidate favored by the this is so apparent that it is difficult to believe that a Gle elector who really desires the defeat of the government will cast i vote for some of these candidates Are patently in the Field in the Hope that they May draw votes from the real opposition candidate Ted thus improve the chances of the government there Are five or sir seats in this province in which with one govern ment candidate in the there Are also several candidates amongst whom the opposition vote will be divided offering a for a govern ment Victory on a relatively the situation is further complicated by the presence in some of these constituencies of candidates who can be justly described As in these constituencies the situation can Only be saved by the judg ment of the the first consideration for them is not to waste their vote for sentimental reasons upon candidate or candidates who obviously have no Chance of if that Rule is followed the chances of a government candidate being elected on the vote of a Small percentage of electors will he largely obviated intimidation by suggestion in addition to Plain Uoti among employees of the Canadian National railway there has been carried on a Campaign of sue Gestle intimidation along the line that if the a Meighen government is Defeated the Canadian Pacific railway is going to take Over the Canadian National and with it the jobs now filled by the parties whose votes it desired to if the result of the election were Jess is doubt there might be consider Able effectiveness in these but the governments defeat is a proof of the close affiliation of the government with the big when dilate in Wright showed that the government ha3 failed to collect the War taxes from the Riordon company Lor three or four with the of finance made the defence that is department could not collect the tax while the company was prosperous because of the difficulty of making assessments and of getting the machinery for the new tax in working order that when the government was ready to the company was in financial difficulties and that to have forced payment certainty and assurances of have brought much trouble in Tuo Cluj of Predl deut and Reese Trent at the general pout for throne the la the Brt twi n Revenue and in the face of what is one to think of Crossings recent speaking performances in South Winnipeg in attempted disparage ment of Hudson capability air while the robbers were Clearing off a Public Man the new style of Camp Aiping in the Herald has been publishing daily statements by the candidates for Thrity Bennetts contribution to the Issue of 28 is an attack upon the internal management of the with which Bennett by the is interested in a rival string of elevators is profoundly Bennett complains that the and Protection by a government candidate Are quite the employees of the Canadian National railway must not upon a government which will be thrown out of office next but on the Good sense of the incoming Parlia there will be members in the next parliament opposed Tor the continued operation of the Canadian National railway by the the obvious friendliness of a group of French liberals to the idea of turning Over the Canadian notional railway to the Canadian Pacific railway on any i of the Riordon company in the United the plan states paid some in taxes i Woods Wofle and i or in return for As Subj reasons Given sir Henry for upon others besides the As proof of the governments innocence he also said that the coat Pany owed the province of Quebec several Hundred thousand dollars i overdue this latter statement was promptly denied by Walter who j was provincial treasurer of Quebec until a few weeks and who states that the Riordon company overdue taxes amount to Only it has also been shown that while the Federal government was neglect ing to collect its a subsidiary company paid too for its hos Pital at port Arthur that it made a poor business Deal when it established its Agency that its elevators in which compete with Bennetts Are of inferior that its lumber business is not profitably in an adjoining column the Calgary lawyer As an in is opposing has his say but he fails to live in to the opportunities of the new style of he discusses pub Lic whereas to be up Odate he should devote his space to Dis cussing Bennetts private Busi Ness and knocking him As for could express an opinion that Bennett was not much of a lawyer that in conducting Suchan such a Case lie made a rare bungle of the business that in some other Case his charge was out of All proportion to the Worth of his services and so Forth and so if Shaw had done there would have been no Bounds to Bennetts from every platform he at the rate 300 words a denounce this intrusion into Hia private affairs As impertinent and uncalled quite rightly too but it would have been a bit More impertinent than this business of Bennett sticking his nose into the affairs of a private the is a cooperative company with some shareholders the matters about which Bennett is so concern Only them and the manage ment of the considering How partial they Are supposed to be to the rights of the conservatives have set some precedents in this Campaign Wowch they May yet have occasion to v Gest cd by Koch has Boon an awkward circumstance for King in this fur Here Are elements in the conservative party equally hostile to the continued operation of the Road the there is no that these manoeuvres will the declarations of All Oliree leaders Ferar this Point Are quite the progressive without whose support no scheme like this could be put is pledged to the last Man to resist any attempt to alienate or mutilate the Canadian National a symposium by the Toronto Star revealed a virtually unanimous purpose to support the Canadian National rail ways on the part of All the candidates contesting Ontario regard Lizs of the employees of the Canadian National railway need not they can show the door to the 1181 03 Auiona Tjai that if the government is not sustained their jobs will not be the Riordon scandal one of the Moat damaging things that has happened to the government in this Campaign waste revelation that the Riordon distributing big had been Ruble to avoid paying its excess profits r taxes year after year during the when the government needed every Dollar it could sir Henry Dray minister of admits that the overdue taxes of the company now amount to about in attempting to excuse the government for not collecting these he the still More damaging admission that Many other Large companies wire in the same it has estimated that the overdue taxes i excess profits which the govern ment has so obligingly allowed to amount to sir Henry Drayton has himself and Lutted that total at least by Micro sir Henry Dray and other members of the have made file operate Borts to explain and excuse this but the country refuses to i wept the Independent i Pinion condemns the government a sparingly for being so considerate business while Humble Are severely penalized their taxes Are not paid promptly not collecting the taxes Long have Boen received with general in cred Liv even the Montreal Gazette that the la Gordon company had not been checked up ii Ore and expressed the Hope that the tax collecting Branch was now Able to carry on in a proper the financial Post condemns the finance department in unmeasured terms for being so it says it warned the government some time Anc it tells of numerous companies which were ready to pay their taxes but were waiting on the whose delay endangered collection through possible reverses to the com me in the Case of the Riordon the Public will refuse to believe that it is a pure Accident that the father and who Are president and respect of the company and who deceived from since approximately a million dollars in Aro also president and Vic president of the company which publishes mail and the chief of the Meighen government in it would be highly interesting to the names of the Many other companies whose taxes the govern ment has been equally dilatory in col sir Henry Drayton Las been asked to publish the but he re fuses to do the Public will be unable to avoid the conclusion that he withholds the information in order to prevent further embarrassment to the in the midst of a general election in which the government was already a desperate it by this Riordon became hopelessly mired and All attempts to extricate it Are vain and a Little bit of history in the jail of 19u h became known in Winnipeg that there was a likelihood that for private would retire from the position of attorney Gen of the general feeling g this would be a Public misfortune found expression through a delegation of leading business and professional men waited upon Norris and Hudson at the parliament indispensability of Hudson to the Community and the necessity that he should remain in office despite personal private Rea sons to the they come the whole is the spokesmen for the Dele a bps re is taken As a convincing final Tion were Isaac Woodsworth the arming of Bank clerks is worrying his supporters his publicity people Are trying to gloss the matter and they Are doing so by misrepresenting avoid Worth himself and the free which first Drew Gen eral attention to statement about the iniquity of giving Bank clerks the necessary Means to protect themselves and the Money in their charge from the armed violence of Holdup and Bank in his said he had no apology whatsoever to offer for his sentiments As expressed in the article in which that Arm ing Bank clerks was equivalent to anarchy be stood by his guns his publicity Are trying to ease things off for him an to remove any bad impression that avoids Worth extraordinary ideas May have on the electors of Centre they print the following paragraph in the current Issue of the a Woodsworth deprecated violence even a Bank the free press advocates not of Bank the free press is run Ning True to putting property human life and human the statement instead of helping makes his position far worse it makes him advocate the disarmament of Bank the free is charged with Dis not of Bank clerk avoid Worth accuse the free press of inconsistency if he Learned that the free press was favor of not of the disarmament of policemen the policeman is a Public servant who is armed against criminals in order to preserve Public life Anil the Bank clerk n of a Public servant who is Armeil against criminals in order to protect Public property and his own avoid Worth would dare accuse the police of violence time they resisted a criminal yet he does dare to come out and accuse the Bank clerks of violence when they attempt to defend themselves and the Money in their to Post from armed the paragraph in the in dependent makes it Clear that puts the violence of the Bank clerk defending his life on the same level Astle violence of the gunman who tries to Rob a it is he no difference handing a a Bank clerk is to him quite As bad a thing As allowing a thug to carry a he they carry weapons but he would disarm he would diminish violence to the extent at least that in Bank robberies the clerks would be prevented from be coming violent with the robbers with the Noney in the Bank this is the meaning of the statement that 1 Woodsworth deprecated violence even by Bank he considers it violence for a Bank clerk to try and fight off a Bank robber he takes up an attitude if it were would leave Bank in at the mercy of any armed criminal who cared to try and loot it that is position on the arming of Bank clerks As it comes out of statements printed in his own Campaign it is holding such views that Here sents himself for election next a policy Meighen constantly uses the term moderate Protection and seeks to convey the impression that his policy does not involve Tariff in but the whoe character of the Campaign which is being waged on me Ghens behalf is misleading unless it is the Given the to give the country a stiffer dose of thus we read in the Grain grow ers and Canadas Tariff just sued by the Canadian Industrial re construction association we continue in dependence upon foreign countries for great Quanti ties of manufactured goods which and be produced in this country under a constructive policy of encouragement of adequate Tariff that certainly foreshadows the raising of the duties upon goods Al ready taxed or the levying of duties upon goods which now come in either course Means an increase in the Price of these articles to the he will be expected to a Little the Prospect is certainly a pleasing one to the con Sumer who is pretty Well convinced that he is paying All he can stand should consent to reactions Tariff says the Canadian reconstruction association in a pamphlet just is sued in support of the governments Tariff policy in the Case of those industries Well established prices of Madei Canada goods Are no High Erthan prices of comparable goods in the United then there should not be the slightest objection by them to the lowering of the tar Iff to a Revenue basis which would still leave a considerable ratio of incidental for himself in his addresses to the electors of South has Dis cussed the issues of the with precision and Jackson has contented him self with saying in effect that he is standing on the governments plat that is to Jackson lets Meighen speak him while Hudson Speaks for not forget this in the Dominion elections in the three Winnipeg seats next tuesday the old system of voting will be in Winnipeg citizens have been using the transferable ballot in civic elections and the proportional representation ballot in provincial elections must Bear mind next or they will spoil their electors next tuesday will vote for Only one candidate and they will indicate their preference by Mark ing an x opposite the name of the preferred do i not use numbers in marking the a matter record this Story Jack sons speakers that course in the election 1917 was not just what it ought to have been does not fit in with the is i a matter of re that twas Hudson who placed George Allan in Nolnar Tion at the fusion convention in but slanderers have adjustable Brief but to the Points from Syracuse pos Standard hero of and now governor general of talks Ashe fought without wasting but plunging into the thick of it without hesitation with a punch that carries in sixteen words he sent an armistice Day message to the people of Canada Means More than my message to the people of can Ada is the dead by the the Pithy Warrior of Many Friday the engaged in the world War paid Honor tothe dead Here we gave wonderful Tri Bute to an buried in historic to Morrow and for Many Days to come of disarm the thugs we have splendid Opportunity of following the Sterling advice thugs do not advertise the that b f readers Flores books Are a finer world within the world Burwash lecture Canada and the Given last april at the North appears in the last Ssue of the quarterly pub shed by that from the Lay of the earliest recorded Experiment in imperialism to the present the obstacles to centralization have been diversity of Lan social custom and religion 2 diversity or opposition of local economic interests 3 difficulty of communication and Between the Centre and outlying parts of the Empire 4 the conquered races o remaining in a condition of ser Vit Deor and the spirit of and National in but i can not help quote nor the reasonable exposition of that attempt so briefly recorded in genesis which Reader might consult the scheme proposed embraced centralized its capital dominated and defended by a lofty Tower or Castle and intended to Wield an in Fluenc whereby nil the known parts of the race should be but he hand of no doubt operating thenas now through social and economic Defeated the a rapid divergence in language place Between the More or less Isol Ted communities of the first As our own Indian in the in sence of written have been known to develop very quickly great differences in hav lost the Bond of common language upon their own Ribal the people of Babel were scattered abroad from thence upon the face of All the and hey left off to build touching briefly the Rise and fall of the mighty empires of the Burwash comes to the British pm showing that three institutions Peculiar to the nation worked to Gether for its the first was he English language he English Legal no personal personal lib erty and the of property to All i Thor of parliamentary govern he sketches the development of Canada within the Point no he been addressing i had for re Mem the a whigs and the Manchester school looked Fercana Dian by glad Stone even had come to the opinion hat if the colonies would not take he initiative they ought to be deliberately shaken i Well remember hearing my elders say that England would let us go but by and i grew up thinking As Burwash glad stones pro Osal startled stung t into Active and the spirit of imperialism glad stones attitude to the confederates n the american civil War was there we Are Here told about Gladstone to Goldwin then at asking him o be an informal intermediary be him Gladstone and this was the proposal authorized it the president would the South to secede and thu Stop a bloody civil England by Way of compensation to thai Goldwin Smith Burnt the Etter and Lincoln never knew any thin about and Burwash adds in the proposed cession Ocanada was at least As great a breach of that we have recently come to knows Ashe coercion of but even Gladstone was quite English opinion vans based on a deeper if less articulate insight into the relation of he Mother country to her colonies ban the party of doctrinaire had arrived at As this is a very and present no the political relations of Canada and the Mother country Down the the from the Golden books the soul from by by Brand the soul is a child which we Bear within it lips and a which throbs and beats with Little fair and there Are dark some like the Mcton Are round and some Are lean As a some As should never be others Are and striking with against windows and and tapping the Walls some hop and Spring like Finch in not knowing what they others with hands crossed like an image Are Calm and ashamed of tharr radiance hide in cellars away from others climb to the Housetop High and strip themselves to stars and i but All of Small Calm v dark or a firmer the selfsame of the or leaves on a like boys in or bees in All sleep live the same All watch through the night All await the suns Notest comment of says he finds everything to cheerful and prosperous in America that can hardly realize that Europe is tottering on the Brink of there Are some advantages on living on this Side of the mail clerks in the United states Are being armed with Juns for Protection against its shocking what a capitalistic government will do in j maybe what Canadian Industry needs Isa Little More Ginger and a Little less the Farmers of hav ing a hard time today and everyone knows what effect this is the country there is no doubt As what Canadas Ideal Industry the fellow who does hot out and on tuesday is Likely to be the Man to do the most the next four years about the terrible kind of government the country is in View of present conditions in Canada it shows considerable nerve for the government to Eay in their election literature the steady Vork at Good the Tariff will make Canada says the governments lit Why this use of the future tense Why docs it not make can Ada Prosper now Saskatchewan newspaper after attacking senator calders estimate of 105 seats the government As an obvious attempt to mislead the goes on to say that Lemieux estimate of 130 sure including1 65 in is fully both Are jokes made for the purpose of fooling the peopled i the elector who wants to help candidate win will him self a committee of one to see that Bis own votes and the votes of his family and his friends Are duly polled on educating our children our secondary schools according to the last annual re port of the department of Educa Tion there Are 74 intermediate 28 Hish 5 col Leger Ite and 10 collegiate there Are also several Junior High and in All ids consolidated these Are the Schoplik train ing is throughout our province there is a growing appreciation of the Nual to of the mental and moral train is Beins riven in these the students in these schools Are at that important age when hot Only Are their mental Powers Alert and heir passions Strong but when they Are forming ideals of Busi Ness and civic conduct that Condl Ion their usefulness to it s that period during which Fri feel teachers not Only train Young peo ple in the purely intellectual branches of human Endeavor but when they can do something of far greater importance quicken hair sense of arouse their an impart Hish ral ideals of Public and private the period of the War afforded Opportunity for teachers to impress upon the students of the secondary schools the supreme values of Pati and there were few set lessons upon such yet the very atmosphere of the the background of All teach the suggestive lessons in his tory and literature resulted in a quickening of personal duties Well As stimulating keen sense of consecration to common Edu cation is Richer through the exercise duties during the time of War their continuance Dir Init the time of peace Are most essential for the of peace hath her victories no less renowned than War the tasks of the secondary teach ers during the War were but the teachers readily and fully adapted themselves to the changing conditions and grappled new problem with courage the people of our province owe much to our secondary debt that is being cheer during the present period the teachers Are taking hold of the new problems before them with equal intelligence and not the least of the duties of the secondary schools is the preparation of Young men and women who shall soon take charge of our Rural this is a phase of our secondary education that receives in sufficient but intelligent and far seeing citizens Are realizing and we Forward to a period during which More Atten Tion will be paid to this phase of Pur education whilst Concrete evidence of this is to be found in the increased salaries being paid to these devoted men and it is a source of satisfaction to find our people Awakening to a realization of the great value and wide influence of the work being done by our secondary a recognition of this cannot but be Good both for those who ate served and for the teacher whose work is thet essential of Thev classroom will there be peace from the Ottawa the chief obstacle to sanity in the matter of disarmament is when Germany treated her solemn pledge with regard to Belgium As a scrap of paper she did almost As much harm As she subsequently did by her High the seeds of Universal distrust were the they have thrive in a soil soaked with blood Al countries realize two the less very definitely that wars Are futile As a Means of settling anything and that further wars must mean the wrecking of organized they the Only yet Trust is the absolutely essential basis of any cooperative measures for ending of and that is the one thing most difficult to find in the world hatreds Are the sure crop of and where there is hate Trust yet a Way May be Back of the purpose of the disarmament conference Are All the Peoples of the j on their Knees Pray ing for it is a and at the same time a tragic it reveals in ghastly nakedness the separation Between and dynastic what the popular voice demands the responsible Heads of government Are slow to this is a which cannot it is not conceive Phlp that the ambitious Japan lit the the just cry of for National of the fears of can Render common purpose fall other nations at these obstacles May cause and push ahead the final Triumph of the conference hut the world has set its heart on the aim which fails today will by other Means win tomorrow Europe can take the Sash Keri or proof lems of reconstruction with a courage bom out of the Assurance of and pass quickly to the reviving activities of com until then we shall have be patient and f birthday congratulations to t Rev anon s Winnipeg to 4v Winnipeg getting our pneumonia Uke iss ways with in is worse under the line than in cold countries the Afri can negro More Likely to succumb to it than the yet none Ace exempt we civilized beings Many opportunities to our Neu Monia each to his occur the churchgoer gets his in Church the Patron of the movie May pick up the pneumococcus before eth Silver screen the Mart of affair be come infected in car or at a directors meeting none May be sure of not harbouring the pneumonia germ at any but during cold Days As those through which we have november obvious no leading up to something More prac tical and no can do much harm to a healthy or our first duty be Tot choose our ancestors be careful to inherit constr then take car of it it you find business does not agrees with that tired business dont hesitate dont let any fool Friend persuade other if you lose your Job you starve before but Bethink Ful if you Haven the Money to ride in crowded cars or go to suffocating Halls of for you will not probably die of at the risk of inviting sacred Tad it must be admitted there Are churches in Winnipeg which might in league with the doctor and the in temperatures like those we submit wheaten to ire our bakeries imperfect ventilation and then a plunge into the nipping air of a Manitoba Winters evidently it behoves our ministers to con sult with their Sexton regarding proper temperature and fitting Ven Why Sioux Falls press by Way of perhaps for the mayoralty outcome in new York the new York times has canvassed the standing of newly elected mayors other and brings out the following information Frank newly elected mayor of Isa Brewer who feat ured his Campaign by a Promise that he would so to Washington in person and flight for modification of the vol Stead Fred elected mayor formerly was chief of police department in that City and was dismissed the civil service commission on charges of conduct unbecoming an the was filed by former mayor later Secretary of Miv Kohler did not try to justify Post record and did not set the claim that he had been unjustly he merely Reliance on his personal popularity Lew of Indianapolis by a plurality of 20v began life As a clog dancer has stage at his candidacy was opposed by sail of the highbrow organizations in and opposition was the direct cause of his elected mayor of Youngs moved in from country about three months before the Tion and established his at a the principal his platforms were to permit ing in the City Parks fire the police Force to Street cars an sub statute Briand says France maintain a Fiig army and a Good bit of Navy the French Are a Peoples they will have to be in order to pay for ii Branck main a will Jam by monday morning december i our new savings Bank Cor Ner main and William will1 open for As another unit in our Chain of i n developed in our Effort to extend to the City of Winnipeg the fullest possible measure of thoroughly modern office particularly convenient for All downtown annexed our head office this newly built addition offers unusually at Tractive and banking accommodation for savings we invite you to cart during opening manager new savings department bar v ;