Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 9 to 14 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion of civil rights saturday August 8, 1925 printed and Publ hot Manitoba free company. Incorporated u its head office and in the City at Winnipeg at the go for at Inland Revenue Power agreement the now ass the to apportion the business Fields of the Winnipeg system and he Winnipeg electric company has shape. The plan is for the civic system to and Power distribution in the City of Winnipeg. Withdraw from the out Side Field leaving All other areas that might be developed to the Ana Day creasing to n w to the City. Its pass a valuation electric corporation has been made of the assets of the Winnipeg i the City of Winnipeg exclusive of the i and of the assets of the Hydro system in the Sib for the Hydro to t e electric the sum of which. Is value of the two systems in the tem conditions in the proposed contracts Purchase by the City of Power from the company v in the Power already per t a d Iff As the do fied Price the idea being to use up to Power Winnipeg River before spending Toney on new a now in no fairly Concrete form is to go before a development. The Tolg Clov before any commitment is made. Proposed Deal is a matter of first rate importance to All and while it is possible that the City Council has authority without submission of a Money bylaw and and bargain w ire fore without consulting the ratepayers or electors to mos method would be to consult the people by Means of a ebis cite the proposal involves a Radical Siangc i the con re Ami operation of electric distribution in Winnipeg removing it Doe. The element of Competition and it is vital that any hould be discussed with the utmost thoroughness. Change s Kuspert opinion with All fads in the open. A plebiscite would Call out the facts and enable the people to give a competent decision As the free press has stated on former occasions there is no better Way of idea these issues than to place All available information before the Public encourage free and Frank discussion and then let the nubile Sav what it wants. Be required to say whether is fair amount for the Hydro to pay out to effect the agreement. It is a Large sum and the expenditure should be carefully scrutinized the Price which the Hydro will pay for electrical Energy to by purchased from the company is also of prime importance. It is reasonable to say that it should be no higher than what it Cost the City to develop Power of its own. What this Cost must be known to the Hydro engineers. To doubt in both the City and suburbs the contracts in Force at present for the Supply of Light and Power will be carried out for the contract period without change. Provision will also have o be made for the Price to be paid for the electric company s Plant and equipment when the time comes when any of the sur rounding territory May become part of the corporate City of if it is impossible to set the Price at present arbitration machinery should be provided that will prevent a. Squabble and a costly Legal Battle at such time As a Transfer May take place. Announced As having been passed by the progressives at a convention held at Hegina this week. It emphasises what has been said frequently that the end of the two parties is pretty much the. Same though the Means of achieving it varies. Both sets of resolutions urge fur ther Extension of the British prefer ence and a reciprocal treaty with the United states. Both urge the completion of the Hudson Bay railway both have passed resolutions dealing with freight rates. There Are a number of other resolutions passed by the two organizations which would one suspects be found acceptable in. Principle by both such As the return of the natural re sources the Reform of the Senate and the control of Ocean freight the West is pretty much solidly behind All these planks and it would be the greatest of mistakes if the achieving of them was hampered by what May be termed internal differences. Still worse would be the re sult of electing those who Are avow edly opposed to the majority of them through internal differences. It is quite possible that the progressives in refusing to. Go into an Alliance with the liberals Are giving expression to a feeling quite com Mon in the West for this the lib eral party has itself to blame. Its attitude during late years and especially during the session recently closed has no been of a nature to inspire Confidence among the. People in this part of the country. Manitoba liberals and other West in liberals have been proclaiming that the proper policy is to elect More liberals in the West and have them swing the Liberal party from within. The stand taken by the progressives at Regina is a pretty straight hint that they do not believe the Western liberals can deliver the goods. Place of the British Empire influence on world condition to discus red at Institute of politics a books Are a finer world within the. World the opening of Holland House go ounces to tie Public at a shilling a head on saturday afternoon gives the journalists a Welcome occasion Cor copy about the 4 Amous lady Holland and her whig Salon. The inc Lig it for business Between the two systems in the City of Winnipeg and in the suburbs has been carried on As is generally known at heavy Cost. On this account there is a very favourable aspect to the proposal to delimit the Fields of the two Organiza inducing a citizen to change from one system to the other set of equipment being pulled out to let the other go in is an up cursive form of doing business and someone has to pay for it. N the Long run. That person is the consumer. If this were to continue Over an indefinite period of years the economic loss Voricl mount steadily with increasing Cost to the consumer. In addition to satisfying the citizens of Winnipeg the approval of the suburbs where the private company will be carrying the business will have to be obtained. The Issue is certain to Lecome a live matter in the areas surrounding the City. There hould be no haste in Coaling to a decision. Ample time is required o have the scheme thoroughly digested. What the citizens of Winnipeg and the suburbs wait to guard against is to have either of the parties come along and boost Light and Power prices because of the absence of Competition. There might be a tendency to do that and the citizens of Winnipeg Sec to it that they remain in a position to control the into which they have put their Money. No doubt the people of inside of Winnipeg Are equally concerned in the same ital matter. Winnipeg citizens will expect Good service to be Conti trued and to have it at the Price that live sane management should make possible. The announced reason for the change in policy is to save Money by carrying on business at a lower Cost. This looks quite reasonable and is a viewpoint that deserves encouragement. It is possible that it might Lead to lower prices if the scheme works jut As anticipated. Broadly speaking the general scheme looks All right if. The. Arms Are right. should like to have known that great but notoriously discourteous hostess. As a matter of fact Holland Beautiful and. Clover was not to the manner born As they say. Her father was a wealthy planter in Jamaica she married very Early and later ran off with lord Holland the Union being legalized after a divorce. , Calls her a tempestuous Petticoat and quotes some of her noted snubbing of eminent eyerts at. Holland House stories that Garnish the history of the mansion and the period you will find some of them in the lady s Memoir in the dictionary of National biography., she took herself seriously As a critic and attacked her author guests in the most vulgar Rogers 33yron, Mac Vulaj Sidney Smith. Says the d. . In Ticknor the Boston pub Lisher and writer she met her match. Referring to new England he told him that she understood he Colony had. Originally been a convict settlement to which tick nor answered that he was not aware of he fact but that in the King s Chapel Boston was a Monument to be of the vassals. That was her some of whom had Besh among the Early settlers of Massa Sydney Smith known to history is the witty Canon once replied to her ordering him at dinner ring he Bell of yes and shall sweep the during a Din Ner. She ordered Macaulay to Stop Al King. She had had enough hat three times at a round. Table discussion of the Institute of politics now sitting at Williamstown the British common wealth was on the carpet during a debate As the new Brit ish Commonwealth with its self governing dominions and its Back Ward colonies become autonomous is a Benefit or a threat to the of the or. A. C., Coolidge professor of history at Harvard supported the latter View. The task of. Ordin rating the self governing and the subjugated territories of the British. Empire is an enormous he said. During the intermediate period however the British Commonwealth May appear As a Rne Nace to the rest of the world Beca use of its immense numbers. There Only two the United states and. Perhaps rus need have no fear of the British Commonwealth. The danger is that other countries will look at the British Commonwealth with the same jealousy and suspicion which Many. Latin american countries show to the United states which May Lead to. Combinations of other nations and concerted oppose from the signs of which he pro fessed. To see that the traditional English policy of free Trade might be abandoned he argued we have got to remember that protective tariffs legitimate enough Are not ways of making friends and that Imperial preference Between. Canada and England will be welcomed by the the danger. Combination of Mailer nations against British Commonwealth would be greater he h ought in Case of any Alliance be Ween great Britain and the United nations would re Ard this As Anglo Saxon Dolna of of tha Lionel editor of round admitted that the British Commonwealth experimentally fore shadowed a world Commonwealth it this he did not expect would ome about by the British absorbing he rest of the planet. It would ome about gradually probably aking centuries to accomplish. A Swiss View that the smaller nations at be the Security pact the French and the British Are to negotiate a Security act. They have been engaged on task now for some time indeed since the treaty of Versailles As put in operation France and live been trying to work out a Security agreement which satisfy them both the present Security pact is Only the latest in ment in the series negotiations. Far they have failed and from the lews paragraphs which Are appear the present negotiations Are not on very Well there is Little suggest that an agreement is in the Security pact is really a treaty u dance which will bind its parties v Heip Eadi other in the event Olar that is to say. The treaty will that should certain Condi arise and War result Britain March in Aid of France or can y. France will fight for Britain. Under the responsibilities of the treaty. It is a serious matter because when the treaty is signed both Are committed to War and each is involved in the conduct of the other thus conduct by the French which could be upheld by the terms of the treaty might Lead to War and under the treaty Britain would have to take the fled along with her. The statement that this Security pact is full of dynamite is no exaggeration. It has been pointed out that from. 1904 to 1909 it was a Lead ing object of French policy to secure Security agreements Wiki Russia Anc Britain and everyone knows tha she got them. The fact also that five years is Given As the time taken to get them shows that the negotiations dealing with the Security pact now being discussed go right to the roots of policy in both countries i is delaying the completion of t is neither France nor can agree together on the As which will bring common ground it is not surprising to find tha there is a great Deal in common be tween the platform As adopted a the convention of Manitoba liberals at the end of last month and tha of the i jell i. Course one meal she stopped Hia Able talk in the same peremptory fashion. Of ten. She overcrowded the Able " make she said to a who answered it must Cor mainly be. Made for it does not exist. Sird Melbourne the Prince of whigs was ordered to change his place. The statesman got up with he exclamation ill be a coi word with that fiery minister Dine with Jou at All and left4the table and the Bouse. In his second or. E. V Lucas puts a number of from Sydney Smith s letters to lady hoi and. Here Are some of them dreadful controversy has broken out in Bath whether Tea is most effectually sweetened by lumps or the Royal institution which i promised to do i have Laid Down the country Havi two rules of first not to smite the if anything eve two Brace of Gro use cur iou cause to be Noveta wine goes Down i ords leap Over it How Ca million w it or. Car mattethe3 she constantly use beat i stance. 3 doings. For in amazing try Lively and very last he Tea till nearly twelve asked us All with Ennu slam on monday. At the Tea h r and talked like a pea go notable to a lady visitor of mrs believe they woul regard the British Empire As a guarantee rather than a. Menace was the opinion submitted by. Or. William Rappard Swiss member of he permanent mandates commis icon of the league nations. For the smaller countries of he said the existence of a Large British Empire has appeared a a guarantee and not a threat be Ause there Are Large Powers in Europe which happen to be closer neighbors. Besides when you look at the British Empire As represented. N Geneva As a whole it appears anything but threatening except possibly to itself. I agree with or. Curtis that the theory of government of a common wealth of nations that prefers to govern by unanimous consent is one that makes for Friendship the world Over for when you have five six seven or eight elements to conciliate before you can take a step you will never take a very threatening step. You will follow a Middle line from the Golden books Canadian camping song sir James a White tent pitched by Grassy Lake well1--under Shady tree or by a inline rite from the grand old 3 the summer Home for me. Fear no Blaze of the Noontide rays for the Woodland Glades Are mine the fragrant air and that perfume rare the odour of Forest Pine. A Cooling plunge at the break of Day a paddle a Row or sail. With always u. Fish for a raid Day dish. And plenty of Adam s ale. With Rod or gun. Or in Hammock , we Glide through the pleasant Days when darkness Falls on our Canvas Walls we Kin dle.the1 Camp fire a Blaze. From out the gloom sails the Silvery Moon o dark and still now far. Now near and sad and Clear the plaint of the . With song and laugh and with kindly chaff the Birds the wild Woods the wild Woods. The wild Woods prove me the wild Woods of Canada free. I sudden storm All through the hot Days thoughts of Fields winking in the h eat and fears for the deadly rust were continually in the minds City Folk. For there be Many who mind the Farmer and his cares of wheat. The anxious summer weather. It is. A compelling interest and a reasonable bearing part in the Solidarity of this Western country. Where. Else in Canada is there such sympathetic. Concern for the men on ? so it is that Rains and suns and Cooling winds and All Teniera ures a greeting the granary of the world As they say of the Prairies it is that weather becomes insistently a sign the common veal. After hot Days the Relief is great when no news of Hall conies with the morning paper. And our aesthetic sense of the Beauty and of terror in is tempered by thoughts of the crops. This week s storm Clouds driven fast by the upper winds while t was comparatively still below. A tumult of. Light Grey Clouds and Clouds dark As Midnight hurried across the sky and Ere the Sun set behind hem darkness of night fell brightened at intervals by lightning. And a sudden , which seemed to drop from above caught up the dust and made the branches groan. All along the lawns and boulevards. The rights were blown out on the Street and in. The of that beyond making the now pelting storm appear More Beautiful it is a bit of a household Blessing to tie in dark Ness Ocean locally else for t the association s of Candle Light and the Symbol. From one window in every Bouse on either Side of every Street a Little Candle threw its beams on. The wet Asphalt shining like a is it a programme in All matters of world politics which is to the interest of the Small states More than to those which appear As rivals. Far As the Small countries of Europe Are concerned great Bri Tain s interest has been to maintain the balance of Power of the Conti nent which is in the interest of the Small nations of Europe whose e Stence is conditioned upon the existence of that later count Antonio Cip Pico the italian representative got in a fling at the sea Power of Britain. That Power he claimed by control of. The Gates the Mediterranean held Italy at Britain s mercy Case of War because she could make Italy a prisoner in her own sea. In this connection he insisted that the Arti Cle dealing with the Freedom of the seas which president Wilson had packed for his trans Atlantic voyage had somehow lactic. Got lost in the at go on to Hiah school from the Wetaka Lweln times not one per cent of the pull school students attend High school is readily accessible to the great majority. Time when the. Average Jerson considered a Youngjr Man. Was wanting his staying in school Tsey Ond the eth Grade but few opinion Day to far Thane for sue Cess in life a Bov must have at Leus a High school education. Go on High school boys and have communicated Mutual expert fences in a retired window seat til morning. God bless f you miss he repeated three times handing lie Down stairs behind me. At the1 hot torn a demur Hook a nothing but i heard with my wonted Glenness what Yoa a couple of handsome smacks then an almost inaudibly soft bless you. Miss got it is a Ping Livel gossipy letter ending god keep you Ray dear husband Good deed in a naughty world not Worth while to see that series of gleams once More in the tumultuous dark recalling Shakespeare s figure but the lightning flashing far and wide irom Swift thu a Der Clouds and searching the landscape in Brief moments brings Back that unforgettable passage in Pippa surely More probing than Marlowe s mighty and surely More tremendous in effect than Wordsworth s unimaginable vision in the the storms of Day and night on lard and sea take their toll of destruction from the snapping off of a tall Riant in the Garden bed to the Selp or All the political programmes we j have seen this season Are Dull to the Point of desperation. Liberals conservatives progressives alike have heavy statements in which the most ardent Reader Sticks half Way through. As a corrective to the Dull programmes Here referred to we offer the following As a suggested offer it without fear favor prejudice and absolutely unprotected by the copy right Laws in the interests generally of bigger and better and brighter sessions at Ottawa especially brighter because there is Good material available if Only alas it were not so to say running on the wrong trolley line. And now for our suggested political programme. Suppose you Are at Ottawa. Or. Speaker has taken his seat proceed Are about to open but instead of droning out the dry rigmarole about orders of the Day or. Speaker opens with a Little As for it s Al ways fair weather when Good Fellows get would t that be a Nice change and when speaker has finished or. Of then rises and chants i m a Little Pilgrim. And a stranger Here but my Home in heaven cometh Ever and the Prog benches join in close come and join our Pilgrim band we will take you by the hand Lead you to a better land Happy Home on this would be followed by a Saxo phone duet entitled my Bonnie lies Over the performed by the prime minister the right Hon. William Jpn Mackenzie King the whole Liberal party on tin whistles joining in the Send Back Send Back o Send Back our Bonnie to the above As we say is Only a tentative programme for Ottawa but we Are willing to bet that if they would put on a few offerings like it they would at least keep the re porters in the press Mafiery which is More than they can do now. The daily sayings of Sam Slough a tree feature produced by u press writer. Some people carry on an excellent Spaghetti conversation Al length and no speaking of miracles from the St. Houlb Globe Democrat it appears the raffia a can carry on a successful War without piling up a debt of billions. 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