Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1927, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 11 to 20 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg Tatj Kasday Jam Jary printed and published the Manitoba free Pren company limited a joint company Mineor ponied under the of at head office and. Of Btu new. 300 Carlton City of Winnipeg. Manitoba. E. H. Mackle Franl Dent and general beg uttered at the general port office. Lond i enc. Tor Trammel Mon through to mails British Inland Revenue rates. Topics for . People of Canada might do a Little thinking about what the recent by election in Nova Scotia in which is elected in Antigonish Guysboro Over his con or. Mcarthur. Perhaps it was a natural or. Duff should have been. Elected or. Dual is a Ter of the present government at Ottawa and ar2 that Nova Scotia wants from the Dominion govern 88ve tie people of Antigonish git Sboro no were of the Pinion that they had a better Chance of getting something from " threats or hand go tie r feral government by returning a Liberal than from electing a native. H they were not moved by this consideration it t because it was not hinted to them in Plain enough form. Instance in a. Speech that he delivered Oji nomination Day or. R of is reported to have said i do not believe in offering is or offering bribes to constituencies but i have in my a list of Public works that require attention in Antigonish Wboro and if you elect or. Mcarthur you will not get one Collar for these Public or Duff was doing was offering a straight bribe to c people of that constituency. He was saying to them that the Asti Quency needed attention in connection with some. Public the theory is that these Public works were required and Lecause they were required provide the Money to carry them out. If the people of tie constituency would vote for or. Duff the Money would be provided r they did not elect or. Duff the Money would not be provided and the Public works would not be undertaken. The Plain implication of this is that the Money of the people of Canada mostly Iff the control of the Federal government was to be used for the election of or. Duff. The Point that the Public improvements might be required passes out of the picture. The Are told that they cannot have their Public improvements unless they vote a certain Way. The political principles of the ple and the legitimate developments of the Community do not Pei Cut any ice at All. This is not the first time that such a thing has happened. The Montreal Gazette remarks that or. Duff was putting the Trade amment for a government candidate in a by election. It is customary it says to frown upon an Appeal of this character 011 the ground that it Lowers the plane of political thought and discussion. It is equally customary to As the treaty stands Canada Sells several times As much to Australia she buys from that common wealth and or. Bruce says quite frankly that unless the balance can be redressed at least in part he fears the pact will not endure. What then would or Bruce and Australia have said and done if they had been asked by the conserva Tives to kindly consent to such amendment of the., treaty As would protect Canadian sales to Australia while shutting out the relatively slight purchases now made by can Ada from the sister nation if it had remained in Power the conserva Tive government would have had to address or. Bruce in terms like this see Here Stanley old Man we Are All in favor of your buying things from Canada because we simply dote on Imperial Trade but we cannot let you sell anything to Canada because Don t we must keep markets for our own after a plea like Fiat the treaty would have lasted about a minute for or. Bruce also a protectionist and a Friend of Empire Trade provided it does not reak in upon Domestic preserves. Or. Bruce s remarks struck Home British Columbia which has come o put a High value on the austra an treaty. The pointed references which the australian pre Mier has made to this ays the Victoria times Are of vital import to Canada As a whole and to British Columbia in Par other newspapers of All hades of political opinion Echo this sentiment. Apparently British co Umbria is a unit in its support of the treaty. Yet this province last sep Ember voted solidly for the party which would have destroyed the Reaty had it been returned to Ower there is often neither Hyme nor reason a politics. Ted that the per ton mile rate had no relation to the height of rates. The sudden and unexpected de Mise of this Maxim which like a terrifying spectre haunted the rail Way commission whenever an application for a reduction in rates of was made created a vast stir among the Gazette continues to discount the sincerity of this objection having regard to the fact that the Appeal is improper Only eyes of those who for the time being cannot make use of what the Gazette is saying is that if the conservatives were in Power they would be using the same argument to influence the electors of Antigonish ii Sboro to vote for the conservative candidate that one Side is As bad As the other and therefore that nothing Cau be done about it. The people of Canada can however do something about it and it might be timely for them to give some thought to the mat Ter. Has this state of affairs to continue some canadians Arf prone to Point the Finger of scorn at political corruption United states and to say How much purer we Are in politics than the people South of the Border. In the United states within the last few Days we have the Case of the United states Senate Refus in to let a senator take a seat on account of charges that h spent Money freely to obtain election. There was nothing evidence produced to show that the Money he spent was not i. L the Money contributed by us friends. In nov own Money or unmasking the venerated rate per Toi mile i staff correspondence Ottawa Jan. A test whether freight rates Are High or the rate experts who Are attending Low the average rate per ton mile the sittings of the commission was proved to be wholly unreliable at the session of the railway com Mission this afternoon. Many years the average per ton mile has been respected and. Venerated As an infallible test of whether freight rates Are Gigli or Low. Officials of the Canadian Pacific railway and other Canadian railways for years have held up the average rate per ton mile in can Ada for the inspection of the can Adian Public. They have declared that Canada enjoyed the lowest freight rates on the continent and perhaps world. Statements were challenged they would quote the rate per ton mile hitherto All few Cork firmed ingrates accepted the test As final. In answering appeals of the West Ern provinces for rate the rate per ton mile has done Yeo Man. Service. The railways invariably pointed out. That the West Al the Montreal disaster the late or. A. L Hall Scotia the seat according to s Way of looking at it a to be won not by spending his own Money but through the Mone of the people of Canada. The Nova Scotia Case is less or editable to the people of Canada than the senator Smith Case to the people of the United states. This is something about which the people of Canada might do some thinking. Then there is another incident. The right of the senator elect from Maine to take his seat is challenged on the some thirteen years ago he paid to the Premier of a Cana Dian province for his support in certain schemes he had under Way in connection with new Brunswick railway development. The Premier in question or. Flemming is now one of the conservative member of tie Canadian Federal parliament but there does not appear to be any widespread demand that to should vacate the comfortable seat he has won at Ottawa. These events and these circumstances might Lead the Cana Dian Public to some quiet meditation about political morality in this country. It is possible that the Canadian people Are quite Content to have it remain As it is. If that is the Case it ill becomes canadians to sneer at the political morality of any other country. They should keep pretty quiet. The announcement of the death of or. A. L. Hall of Brandon re moves one More name from the Roll Calloe the pioneers of this province and Calls once More for the tribute of remembrance 10 those who have shaped this. West from its rude be innings to the position which it holds today. It is not out of nothing that the past fifty years Progress of this Lone land has been bullied. The Block of Stone was Here As a Heri Tage but it is the Faith and courage and work of the men and women who came Here first that have chilled the statue to its present lines of Beauty and Promise of the future. Among this great company belongs or. Hall. He gave his youth to this country and his manhood. Here he made his Home and Here he gave of his talents not grudgingly but freely. Kindly courteous eager to learn of others in his Homes leading Days he earned the name of a Good Friend a Good neighbor and these qualities he carried with him in his wider contacts in his City Environ ment. Brandon mourns his passing and the whole province is in his debt As indeed it Ever must be to citizens of this order. Ready possessed the lowest rates world. This afternoon to the keen scrutiny of which w. H. Mcewen k.c., counsel for Saskatchewan and h. J. Symington k.c., counsel for Manitoba this ancient axiom appeared not so powerful and All com Pelling As it has done to so Many people through the Long years of freight rate controversy. The witness on the stand was e. E. Lloyd assistant comptroller of the Canadian pact my railway. He was under Cross examination by or. And like a nimble race horse he was surmounting the stif fest hurdles that or. Mcewen could set him with ease. Or. Lloyd pro Well tried Maxim of. The rate per ton mile to prove that canadians enjoyed the lowest freight rates on the continent it not or. Mcewen challenged the state ment feebly. Or. Lloyd replied crushingly that everywhere and by All experts the rate per ton mile was the accepted test of High or Low rates. Of course if or. Mcewen cared to identify himself with those who thought Small num Bers and limited mental capacity could be inferred from the that was or. Mcewen s business. Or. Mcewen advanced somewhat aint heatedly to the attack in courage cd no doubt by emphatic interpolations from or. Symington. Or. Mcewen you say that the average rate per ton mile is a re liable test of whether rates Are High or or. Lloyd answered affirmative and received corroboration from e. P. Flintoft counsel for the Canadian Pacific railway. Or. Mcewen it should follow then that when the average rate per ton mile is High that the. Rail Way revenues and the railway net earnings should be High this seemed reasonable to the witness. Or. Mcewen going Over the re miss Agnes Macphail recommends chloroform As a painless method of exterminating but Why should it be painless King Ferdinand is to be plan Ning to abdicate. Why and will if make any difference who is King Ferdinand the h. Fisher says that people who do not trouble to exer Cise their own minds on the prob lems of the Day Are parasites. But if you Haven t a mind to exercise what Are you a London fishmonger claims to be the heir to the mad Empress car Lotta s estates. Fish Story when a modern icing wants a Little publicity to has to resort to drastic measures in order to get being assassinated for instance. Miss Sutherland in discussing voice production at a meeting of the better movement said that resonance is produced by Small resonance Chambers head. She described the position of these we think that it would a a wonderful idea seeing that these Small Chambers Are so very hard to find if miss Sutherland could arrange for a number of personally conducted search parties and go out and track these Reso from the Tork world it is All very Well arrest the owner of the Montreal 1 theatre in which the disaster of sunday took place it is All very Well to punish him if he disregarded the Law which requires that children be escorted into theatres by adults. But in All decency he As brightly As Shi with a difference. In fact it is David that makes the orphan Angel interesting and. Entertaining though Shiloh is a Nec Essary foil. David proposes to find the twin sister of the Man he has killed to do for her what she May need she lives far West. He proposes to take Shiloh across the continent and that journey mostly on foot occupies the greater part Ottha tale. Seems As if i d like to climb a Hill along about he says to Shiloh on the last evening the voyage. You see i was born Down in Maine and there s plenty politic6 of Hills in them parts. Shiloh if you would come i believe i d go stepping David do you know you have unconsciously quoted a naturally poetic impulse informing a simple he suggests that David should try a Hyma to Liberty. Their adventures by Hill and River across the. Continent As far As California from the Narra Tive which assumes to give the Shel Leyan characteristics of As he lived and wrote and Early manhood. In. His youth always he is commends or. Forke s settlement scheme Strong approval is expressed by Willison s monthly of Hon. Robert Force s colonization scheme. Describing it As bold and it says the plan to Settle acres of land in Manitoba sask acc Jaewan and Albert within fifteen1 Miles of railways is As courageous As it la practical. Ten million acres give Quarter sections and occupation of this area would add Between and to the population of the Dominion this would be to create a new province with All in impetus to business in. Increase of railway revenues and in capacity to Bear taxation. Those of us who doubted if or. Forke was a Good Choice. For minister of immigration and colonization would have to re Vise our judgment if this forecast of the government s intentions should prove to be Strong language by John Evans a banquet Given the Saskatoon trades and labor Council and the Saskatoon progressive association three speakers voiced Nance tragedy of Man. Such a time has now come to place All responsibility on the owner of this theatre an a Leviant for some reason we All rest pasier when we find somebody on whom we can blame our mis fortunes. But it is Only fair to await official action before assess ing Public and private responsibility. In any Case the Man s Pun far deserved we May not yet begun. These children will haunt him As. Surely As Banquo haunted Macbeth. By memory of them he will be followed As Long As he shall live turns of your company i find that this. Theory does not work out in he then gave the following in formation earnings _____361301.691 1_ _ 1915 1916. 1917 191s 1922 1923 1924 11925 _ average rate per ton Ella .733----- ____641 ___.698 ___.847 ____996 .970 Chambers right to their hiding places. And then we might get a whole lot More resonance than is blowing around at present. The Prince of Vales on being recognized in a London crowd was called on to make a speech. Which is a Good reason Why princes often travel incognito. A delegation of american women has asked Congress to make War illegal h would be easy enough to make War illegal. It is the enforcement of Law that is the real problem upon to which the world is at work. I getting vill be off to school As it probably will be in 1957 Willie you ready for yes a got your yes a my adding machine s car How about your penmanship a my portable typewriter s in there i bet you did t get your spell the essence of pure idealism Al ways his magnetic personality does the trick. But David is inimitable. He had once been round the Horn and had seen an Albatross with his own eyes though but a Young Ner mind you. He was born at casting in Maine in a log House fortified against indians. The Bri Tish Burnt that place in and the Young David went for. The ser Geant like a crazy Castine is associated with the founding of University. That is its name. Dalhouse College was founded with Money called the Castine fund paid for an indemnity their complaints that Are. John with the things Evans . For of some sort. The Bookman. Not to be comforted Are a finer world within the world it was Lamb who likened Cole Ridge when Reading some of his own poetry in is. I think As looking in his countenance like an archangel a Little Damag and Lamb loved Coleridge. Matthew Arnold with no such per Sonal acquaintance critically de scribed Shelley As an Angel beating his Luminous wings vainly against the the orphan Angel is his n Elinor Wylie s latest novel which airports to show Forth the poet in n incongruous environment new world. Messes. It is the year 1s22, july a vening and a new England Clipper hip is beating in a Strong wind it of leghorn Harbor. David but Ernut a had with iut killed one of the Crew in leghorn hence haste to. Put a against a Hurricane. Rhc -1 from the Toronto Star the mail and Empire comforted. It feels perfectly sure that the British Empire was done to death at the recent Imperial con Ference and that the Man to be blamed for it is none other than Hon. Mackenzie King. From theory beginning and. Empire has not. Liked that Man., it always Rosetown elected As a progressive with Liberal support was particularly virulent. All the workers in Canada must unite if present conditions were to be rectified he said. Wealth in this country was control led by the few who exploited the workers whose very earnings were used to enslave themselves and enrich the exploiters. All newspapers sources of information seats of learning and Public appointments were controlled by a Small ring of these people. The maritime Weie already bled White from a policy which was concentrating the wealth of Canada Between Montreal and Windsor ont. The West would the Way of the maritime if care was not taken. All the maritime commission proposed to do was to make these provinces pauper ised wards of the Dominion. To deprive the people of the West of their Prosperity capitalistic con trollers of politics and Industry had to arouse racial and religious feel ing to help them maintain their ill gotten gains. The Tariff or Evans described As unwarranted secret and v tyrannical the administration. Shanghai the spotlight on the chinese stage Falls now on Shanghai one of the five ports opened to foreign Trade in 1843. It is on this City that the forces of Canton Are con verging and towards which the British government is Rushing re enforcements for the British interests. Shanghai is made up of two parts separated by a ancient called native town and the three foreign concessions British French Ini american which House modern Shanghai the principal port of Cen trial China through whose business houses and from whose wharves flows the immense Trade of All this part of the Garden of China ships of All nations come to this port. The Swift silk trains that Thunder across this Dominion have As cargo silk from Shanghai. Tea also carries the name of Shanghai. This enormous Trade has been built up through these decades by for eign capital and foreign Enterprise and of the nations participating both As seller and buyer by far the extensive in its operations has been the British Commonwealth. To 1914, tons of foreign shipping entered and cleared the port of which 40 per cent was British. Native shipping in that period amounted to tons. Early it was recognized that if Trade was to be prosecuted at this Point it could not be with the for Eigner As resident of the native not and where plagues Are endemic. Therefore under treaty and at a Low rental the foreign Powers mentioned have held their concessions built and governed by themselves. The British and american conces Sions Are amalgamated under one municipal Council and on the. Brit ish Concession have been established the consulates of the other nations. The subjects of each nationality Are under the jurisdiction of their own courts. On the request of the chinese government after the native rebellion of 1855, the three foreign governments hold ing concessions were invited to superintend the collection of Toms. This Harbor master whose work has at least heretofore been satisfactory to All has always been an englishman. To the foreign concessions have flocked chinese families especially those of retired officials. The last available census 1914, gives the population As of which Are foreign. Of these were British japanese 941 Ameri can and 330 French. The chief Mission establishments of the Christian denominations Are at this . Bliss Carman was t it Balfour who. Remarked that he did t mind people agreeing or disagreeing with him but the Man who put the fear in him was the one who set out to explain him according to or. Allison who introduced or. Carman at his first pub Lic recital Here this year tuesday night at the University the doctor has stood in this peril divers times. E in now a candidate for his Doc Tor s degree at the sorbonne has picked on Carman As a subject. The poet smiled a charming tolerant Friendly smile. He likes peo ple and likes them to like him. There about is All a child like something poets. Bliss Carman Adit . And the australian treaty or. Bruce s Plain talk to. Canadian business men at the coast about the australian treaty shows How fatal to the continuance of the. Treaty would have been the policy advocated by the conservative Speaks the Peculiar magic the North As he has found it the coming hands which he never of doubts and need not doubt mean Jow welcoming hearts. The radiators purr the Frost Over an intoning Shell but the company Are All attention Foi this one who has come among them he reads in his husky Cadenzer voice from slim volumes where the t Glamor his own thought is caught printed Page. Earth deities is the first the Story a student who finds an altar erected High and far off times of the glad Young Cen and there to him come Tho goddesses of Earth. Woven Abou the forms grecian mythology the glory which touched the presen hour came from Carman s own poignant sense the loveliness o Earth of the immortal cadence which All men the song o Canadian Orchards of the sea As i rides its Breakers to the Shore great stanza about the sea closes even to the Prairie Horn we knows not the magic of the Ocea something of that ecstasy Plung ing Waters something of the rhythm of the tide. The second recital was from daughters of the Carman s dream fair women and there through the measures of Long swing ing lyrical metre move those who aspired who dreamed and endured making new the centuries Roll Back As a scroll. Forgets his audience. What Are in rate it will be observed that the rate per ton mile was lower in. 1916 than in 1915 although in 1916 net earn Ings were greater by 917 despite an increase in tins or Tern mile the net earnings drop de and notwithstanding very considerable increase ate per ton mile in 1918. There was further drop in net earnings of and so through the these figures caused considerable consternation Ailway Quarter of the court room. Or Lloyd after surveying the situation declared that he. Was not an expert in these matters. He had always taken it for. Granted. Or Symington remarked that Myone willing to be guided by the rate per Lon mile was no test at. All. The Start up the dicta phone and and your a gee yes that teacher Only give us two reels of Washington crossing the Delaware mind Willie ride along now and. Don t be late for your geography a shucks old Geo Graphy class air plane never does lire it i Start on time Gimme because the k. Akers in life. Articles this Degener ate age Are appearing Lon Don press. We have never seen such articles Canadian press. They would seem ridiculous. It is just As Well to re member that the Duke and Duchess of York Are on the High season their Way to Australia. That places them. In soviet Armenia there Are peo ple living in holes. This is the result of earthquakes not bolshevism unless Heb olthies caused the earthquakes. The London daily chronicle had a conversation Over the Telephone with the new York times thus As the chronicle says bringing to at occupied unchallenged Lons a request they were to there is gel i cry Man and David of is who jumps into the boiling Vaters and. Rescues a strange Beau Wiful other world creature who Mur Murs Shiloh when Aske a his name. And Shiloh he remains to he end of the Book an angelic philosopher quite undamaged and talking like one too. He mentions Edward that would be Williams again Jane that would be Williams wife and Peacock and Mary. Thi Clipper ship makes a successful voyage Landing safely in. Bos ton Shiloh having made Good Sailor while behaving like an Angel As i said. The author makes him Alk to David and the rest in terms of poetry and Kindred arts she makes him remember Harriet and Mary and Claire and Emilia Ani and Jane All in one single reminiscence. And though Shiloh is the protagonist he ms., not nearly so Well done As David the sensible opposed his being prime minister. Now it feels triumphantly convinced that it was right from that he will be wrong to the last. While the mail and Empire is editorially attending to. Its chores As a party paper by trying to incite prejudice against the Liberal prime minister of Canada the great world goes on and the British Empire goes on. Seven premiers Limaye been telling the people of scattered around the world that the conference they attended was a great Success and starts the. British Empire off on a new than Alt its past. Baldwin and bal four in Britain Hertzog and Smuts in South Africa Cosgrave and Fitz Gerald Irish free states Bruce and Coates of Australia. And new King and Lap Lonte in have All been saying the same thing. From the Golden books envoy Bliss . Have Little care that life is Brief and less Thamart is Long. Success is silences though Fame is song. The White House breakfast the Boston transcript Ham and eggs Are have taken the place of sausages at White House breakfasts but in View of the mexican situation it May be tortillas and Frijoles will succeed the Ham and eggs. Birthday congratulations to e a Mcpherson .-, Portage la Prairie born Worth county Missouri Jan. 27, 1s78. A t. Lyddle Winnipeg born Stratford on Jan. 27, 1876. T w Wilson Omni v _ m. Peg born High Bluff Man., Jan. Of the act was. By regarding which the capitalistic press never informed the Public. J. S. M.p., in his speech remarked that no Laboi Man dare use the language of or Evans who was in this respect the most violent member of the House of commons. Tom Moore president of the do minion trades Congress and director of the c.n.r., attacked the government s immigration. Policy government refused to help Youngr men East who wanted 10 make Homes but was prepared to do so for people out Side Canada. There was a Good. Deal of intrigue matter of issuing immigration permits. Lum Ber firms were allowed to bring m workers when surplus Fabor in can Ada was Busy Harvest Fields thas adding to Winter problems the Canadian Senate was a joke on democracy. Inaction of railway Board the Western says the Edmonton bulletin have had to ask the Dominion government to prod up the railway commission and induce that body to hand Down a decision on a Point of Law which has been hanging fire for two years and with which the commission has simply refused to Deal. The Point in dispute is important but not so important As the state of mind of the railway commission that is Dis closed by this persistent Side step Ping of an Appeal from Public authorities for a ruling As to what is the Law in relation to railway freight ates the time was when the com Mission was neither afraid to interpret the Law nor backward about applying it. That was precisely the time when the commission stood highest Confidence of him Public and respect of the railway managements racy knowing kind hearted Sailor 1 speech is steeped rate could no considered that rates these to him he is off on the Hills of time meeting soul to caul these Brothers and Sisters of who have gone before. But Woven All through is Carman s own. Sense of Beaty the if tue cd Luelli. Of tile us j t City was and is party two recent elections colors scents forms As should not be reduced. That there was to rend the net the per ton mile acceded the o bis4 admit realization the great dream of trans it Antic the Conversa Tion was a series of questions ant answers and Ono the questions the chronicle asked the times was to what do you chiefly attribute the marvellous Prosperity of you country during the last few years the answer was partly Good Luck partly absolute free Trade Over vast Domestic territory abundance of Money and credit with speculation held in Check and exportable surplus of indispensable food and raw material Sward Zed manufacture and cunts kept w to Date High wages and consequent consuming Power when the times said that it said Mouthful. As Sweet As the summer rate Abon which poets and children of and which no one Ever quite . Insure your life insurance alike insurance Trust ensures the fulfilment of the purpose for which you carry future Comfort and happiness of your dependants. 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