Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg thursday August. 13, 1925 bar in let it k. Ii. Mack1.ix, president and Genera d at the general office. Of of cml for Chr Ouirt die mails in lie Dell us Inland Revenue Ratel. Peace or War in Europe ithe european Security pact is kept before newspaper readers alter Day in Small and non informative despatches from a Ion and Paris. When the league of nations meets in sep Ber Security pact will sprout up overnight like a beanstalk c a the Backbone of War by Morris the biggest item of foreign news on the front Page of on the North american continent. About All h t can be made out of the Short despatches now being printed that France and Britain Are trying to agree on the terms which fhe Security pact should contain. The i scission which has already taken place on this pact is the head of the average citizen. This discussion has been red on in the terms and language of the foreign office officials d nobody Ever knows what diplomatic language Means indeed diplomats and foreign office experts May pot know what it is themselves. And their Job consists in interpreting each words and trying to find out meanings which the experts on the other Side deny. This Security pact has been discussed in the French and a Irish parliaments in the French British and German and t exactly what it Means is not agreed upon by any of the on sible experts who have discussed it. Or. Austin chamber Lin says it will stabilize Europe. Or. Macdonald says it will Load to new wars. Or. Lloyd George says it has undesirable features. These three men Are experts on foreign policy they All disagree on the meaning of the Security pact. What Chance Ras the average citizen who reads the newspapers this Security pact is interesting because of what it indicates. It indicates trouble. The peace treaty was signed at Versailles five and a half years ago but during these past years there has not been peace in Europe. It is now being said by men like or. Chamberlain that if something is not done pretty soon that will bring peace to Europe the conditions now existing will develop into another War. There is no peace in Europe because there is no sense of Security in Europe. France and Britain still have troops in Ger Many. Germany is hoping to improve her position in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Poland Shivers Between her two great neighbors Russia and Germany. Czecho Slovakia bordering 011 the truncated German Empire is determined not to surrender and of the rights and guarantees it has obtained. Russia is a sort of bogey nation to All the others they All fear each other so much that they Are too Busy standing on guard with their guns to Settle Down to the task of european reconstruction. This is where the Security pact comes in. Its leading ideas were suggested by the germans. They said they were willing to sign a paper that would preserve the boundaries Between France and Belgium and Germany on their present lines for Ever. This would mean that Germany had Given up Alsace Lorraine for Ever find not go to War to regain it this meant Security foil Vance. But Germany is not satisfied with her boundaries in Eastern Europe. She Lippes some Clay to get them altered in her favor Germany has said that she is prepared to work for such changes As she wants by Friendly arrangement and Mutual and will not seek them by recourse to War. This if done As suggested would mean Security in Eastern Europe. Or. Chamberlain or. Macdonald and or. Lloyd George have been profoundly impressed by the German attitude and the Busi Ness on which the diplomats and experts Are engaged is in draft ing up a document which will embody the German ideas and which will also be acceptable to France and Britain and then in turn be acceptable to Germany. Such a document would be the Security pact but to what extent agreement has been reached on it it is impossible to Tell from the items which appear in the news columns. The whole thing will come up for ventilation at Geneva next month. May be out of employment his Farri by need not starve. This in simplest term Atti Ude of the Home crofter in eng and. It too is in a sense the bought which induces the citizen to ill his own Garden City. It s commendable but is not to be too limited in its scope. Economists see n its fullness the resort to which he Industrial convolutions must Lave recourse for the conviction items to grow. That if the race is to Are for itself it must retrace if us Steps and be a cultivator of he soil if it wish to remain an Industrial agent. Where the Money comes from the free press in defence of Western Canada s position on thu freight rate question has asserted repeatedly that tie railways make a profit derived from the vast volume of freight which is produced each rear by the grata Fields of the Prairie provinces. In maintaining this position the frequently has been ridiculed. Railway experts such As sir Henry Trayton formerly chairman of the railway commission and now Finan Cial critic and Deputy Leader of the conservative party have vigorously denied that the Grain under crows nest pass the railways Best earner. Sir Henry declared a parliament last session that very Little profit was earned by he railway companies in hauling Grain. The real source of profit he said was the Short haul High Classi station freight which is continuously moving in the industrialized sections of Ontario and Quebec. This year the Canadian Pacific railway is experiencing some difficulty in keeping abreast of the Revenue record of previous years. The figures for the first six months of Calendar year show a decline in. Earnings. Severe cuts in expenditure leave is result Only worse Ihan in 1924, notwithstanding these difficulties the . Stock still at about and for the very Good reason that the crop movement is to compensate for the lean Mouths in the year. There May be some significance in remarks of a financial paper the standing of the Wall Street dealing with the situation new York publication says Selling around 142 Canadian my present Price compares a of 142% last year and to s n 1923 Road s Cross and net f St of this year was below Sunila period in last four years. The trend of Railroad earnings is closely linked with in prospects and the out Marge crops with Good prices promising. Thus pros or Canadian Pacific for last half of this year Are Good. Grand traffic will be much heavier than last year and the increase in Pur chasing Power of the Farmers should stimulate business Hames rolling even the word Home Crofting it self has a fascinating sound and the pleasant expectations it. Inspires Are not Lipset by the explanation of what it implies. It concerns the cultivation of the Small lot say less than an acre and is becoming a Hope to phase in the. Serious Industrial conditions existing in England. It is not to be confined within the Borders of a Mere Garden or to be confused with the efforts of the smallholder for instead of being a Means to pro Duce for Sale it is a Means adopted by the Man engaged in any Way in Industry to produce a portion of the food he otherwise must buy. it forestall the sharpest of unemployment and enables a Man for a time at least to be Safe even though deprived of his occupation wage. This May seem a simple under taking to us in and b rights should be so but it is a com pies problem to people living within the congested Industrial areas o England. As becomes More involved and its fortunes More inter locked with world forces that which is implied by the self Effort required in Home Crofting affords the Safe guard necessary where unemployment must exist. A industries hours May be shortened but his Day is As Long As it Ever has been. The hours that May be someone else May he fewer hut at his own disposal Are More numerous shall he waste them he would spurn the suggestion. Then How shall he occupy them Why not in a Man tier that will complement the Sain he derives from the time in which he is industrially engaged. H draws a wage part of his time Why not implement it with the production of part of his food in some of the rest of the time by doing so h removes himself from abject depend Deuce upon the wage Check. H a Reader s Flores Are a finer world within the world i suppose the Clever Caus curs of the Day have no difficulty whatever in writing the weekly miscellany. A Liberty but May i buy tie Book Oft he thought it scarcely fair Beine apparently honest but at last lie took the Coin and left the Book. I languidly opened the pages and my heart Reading or. Bejoc agreed with ills critic. What with affectation in one place and false rhetoric in another and Slipshod construction in a third and a Ghasi in Lack of interest All i Wiliie l from the Golden books a True a poem rift in manuscript by bus. Browning i stood by a chamber door and thou Fht within its Floom to hide i locked the door and the while forgot that 1 stood on the outer fide. Australia May Buck on treaty Sydney july the arrival f or. The Canadian re Lasatow a the Federal government to Dis cuss the revision of the Canadian Trade there Lias some discussion of the n the australian press and a state ment has been made by Bruce the prime minister. On the whole says the australian correspondent of the free press the tone of australian business opinion is not favourable. Public opinion is silent or indifferent or. Bruce said Little beyond that Whethe can Udland definite he Wii it submit it to parliament and if Rai t fled there it would go into Force. To know by cables that. Of has accepted a schedule which is presumably that which or. Rosti has brought with him for Dis Cussion but this is different from that already adopted by the australian parliament. The line of opposition in this coun try concentrates on three or four classes of those connected with the paper business Point out that preference to Deal a heavy blow Trade in news print. The agricultural interests fear that there will be Little or no advantage to them in that part agreement and this. 16 where Australia is most vitally concerned for we have no lumber or paper or flesh and Little machinery to exp Oil to Canada whereas at least in the re verse seasons we have Lully goods fruits wines sugar vegetables and to on for which we wish to find markets abroad. The protect onlust groups stress the Adverse Trade bal Ance even More marked in the Case of Canada than in Tifaut of the United states and anticipate that by ing our Market with manufactured goods Canada will Rean All the advantage of the agreement and we none it will be interesting to see what the House representatives will do when the new form the agree ment is submitted to parliament. The government is St enough to Force it through both Lious j s. But or. Bruce will be. Chart of antagonizing Large Section of voters. Labor will probably oppose it Oti the general principle that an opposition a Sihu 10 oppose and Delav whatever the ministers propose. Outside Parlia ment and Vailous interested groups their is Public but the More instructed Goa orders trus t that i e will be Lati fled. That its effect will he beneficial both countries and that the examples will be great Britain and Africa. There is to be a revision of the Tariff this session. Suppose its said we asked Canada for bread and received a if we must have Canadian imports let. Tire a carry such taxation As will limit con the daily Teleg Tripa to Sydney comments As follows the outcome of the proposals for reciprocal Trade Between and Canada. Is being by those with stake. An a ree Jent tilings it has already been pointed out have a far reaching ;