Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 11 to-24 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg monday August.5 1929 printed and published Dally cd capt press Coia Pady. By the. Manitoba in to City of Maimoua. E. H. Macklin. President and general Isles at Inland Revenue rates. Euler s inadequate defence sir elaborate apology for the refusal of the Canadian to forbid the granting of clearances to rum boats to t i from no n Inch the s is far from conclusive As a justification for policy for which lie is primarily responsible but for a Vicli. The whole government must also accept responsibility. In none of if Euler s statements does he squarely meet the ease made out Ira inst the government of having encouraged the smuggling of Honor into the United states by permitting the irregular if not Illonal. Relent Iii of liquor from bonded warehouses on the Condi that it be smuggled into the United states. This is a Blunt of putting it but in t it the truth liquor can be exported j warehouses without the payment the excise tax pro wed it can be legally received in. The country to which it is cd sorted. But liquor for the United states pays the excise tax. The parties to whom it is delivered have no right to receive it unless Thev engage to take it out Canada and Plant it in tha Price runs far into the Many thou Sands. Eight years ago Gainsborough s More famous Blue boy was sold to a United Stales dealer Cor. 000, and now hangs in the famous Huntingdon collection in California. This Sale almost sent great Britain into mourning. Articles and letters in the press bemoaned the steady Stream of great paintings from Tion Way the British nations of constitutional importance Lills notice has been taken of a Bill which has passed the committee stage of the Senate of the inst. Free state although the Bill embodies a matter i constitutional importance. The Bi-1 itself is entitled the copyrights preservation Bill but it includes a clause calculated expressly to Render nugatory Britain across the Atlantic. Day i any decision the judicial com Mittee of the privy Council. In after Day passed in thousands procession of people before the United states do not 3ust land of guarantee is required by f e excise officials before the booze is turned Over to the recipients m in effect it is As we have said. The men who take charge of the delivered liquor give an Assurance to the government of Canada s0me Means or other it be got out of Canada. As they do not intend to Export it to countries where it can be received since in that Case they would not pay the excise tax of nine dollars per gallon it. Follows inevitably that the Assurance which is Given whether Oral written or implied is that the liquor be disposed of in the United states. In effect then the government of Canada says to the rum runners you can get liquor from our government bonded warehouses provided that you pay us nine dollars a gallon excise tax and give us the Assurance that you smuggle it into the United states and there sell it in Defiance of american if this does t make the Cana Dian government the encourager and instigator of liquor smuggling what is the Correct description of the relationship f Between the government and the rum runners , melancholy Blue boy in the National gallery where it was placed for British Art Loving eyes to look their last. Tha Sale helped foment the bitterness which a War Bursle Ned England then Felt towards us Distant and wealthy Cousin in North America. But so far As the migration of paintings goes what is sauce for the Goose is sauce for the Gander. How did England amass its Rem Bra dts Holbein leonardos Man Regnas and so on it hot by honest Purchase indeed if the truth were known More than one famous eng Lish collection contains paintings other words owing to previous decisions on append in a particular copyright Case the effect of the Bill now being passed t if not already passed by the Irish free state Dail be to give statutory Force to the decision of the free state supreme court in Defiance of the privy Council. An amendment to the Bill was moved by sir John Keana when the Bill was in committee stage in the Senate last month. The amendment which was rejected proposed the deletion of the clans abolishing the Pover of the privy Council. In the debate on Tho amendment the free state minister of external affairs or. P. J me Gilligan made a statement. I held that the free stats regards the matter As purely Domestic. The in Tention of the free state is to get rid of the Royal prerogative in re pump and Chubby Watrons started out to diet cd fenced upon a custard pie and Cojulun t kelp but try i lk01e.s thought 5lewdekness Stu bytes had per dimmer am Olive of a plate owe smelled Twe doughnuts cooking then there were Hicov Are the result of some War Spect to privy Council appeals or like foray by a Lusty but aesthetic Baron in years gone by. Today is the turn of the United states. The raiding goes on year after year but at least the Modem raiders pay their Way. In the future perhaps Fortune s wheel Turu again and impoverished americanos be glad to sell their objects of virtue to some grossly wealthy and profiteering japanese or australian or chinese. Were if permitted private Trade in liquor in Canada if liquor an Ordinary article of Commerce the situation would be Dif Ferent. There then might be some virtue in or. Euler s plea that there is no reason Why Canada should refuse permission to Export a legitimate article of Commerce. The. Point which or. Euler satisfactorily meet is the statement that there would be no cargoes for which clearances would be asked if the Dominion government refused to permit liquor to be moved from a bonded warehouse except for the purposes set out in the act for Sale to the provincial liquor commission and for Export under Bond to a country where it can be legally received. Or. Euler it is True makes an attempt to meet this in his recent elaborate statement when he says liquor so it goes. Meanwhile the europeans who mourn the loss of their paintings should console themselves by the thought that the new owners May become so refinery in conscience by gazing upon their recently acquired the alternative to allow it to stand with that such appeals tend to became fewer and fewer. Sir John Keana contended a More honest policy would be to repeal in the Constitution giving the citizen the right of Appeal to the King in Council and or. Mcgilligan said that this object might be achieved in time. In the meanwhile anybody in the free state who chose to a peal to the privy Council would do so at his own risk. Rice for Stock feed although Rice growing on a com Mercial scale was Only commenced in Australia about six years ago the production now is in excess of australian requirements. The Rice is grown on the Murrumbidgee irrigation area in new South Wales p under provincial control. The Large profits. Would probably it a grotesque anachronism the appearance of the House of lords in these says the London times when the largest political party in the country is in effect by some halt Doz ii spokesmen in a chamber with a High Standard of debate is a Grote suggests that quor sort tempt hundreds Ancl perhaps thousands of Canadian citizens who Are or Mao Douai. Should solve the not Dow in bus lib Al via i aged in the traffic to obtain liquor from the stores for shipment surreptitiously to the United states by camouflaged railway cars air planes and in boats from Caus Points the Boundary without taking clearance. Thus our own citizens would be corrupted the traffic would be diffused instead being concentrated in official and comparatively few customs pors it can a observed and reasonably controlled. The Canadian Law would then in violated if liquor Laden boats departed for the United states with. Out clearance and the. Duty would be Laid. On the government of Canada to maintain a largely augmented preventive Force along the whole Frontier to prevent and punish the violation of the new Law a Law which after All would Only be enacted to assist in tie enforcement the Law of a foreign country. That under these conditions there would be a certain amount o f smuggling of liquor obtained from government stores by priv prob problem As he did when be was in their. Waist lines Fotofi Olte walked St a. Bakers 51tqfv there. Vie be a _ t _ s w at tended luncheon _ longed for More there her Brough were a a one chocolate Fie k and a Jawahn or hollow stomach s courageous Ascot lube Onte Dav the maid Mape waffles and Tymen Thurk three stuck to counting calories til holu3vj eyed and Blue one choked on pie 1wact Lett Only Tyslo and wished they d Kab k begun a. Cheese souffle took Meav Rhen there was Only i lome survivor weighed herself 10 5ee.howstfe.ll she d done found she d gained a or beauties that they want to give and n. Them Back to the vendors. A countries to the North of Australia. This at first thought seems somewhat extraordinary but when it is borne in mind that the Rice growing coun tries have the Rice eating populations and their crops and stores Are not always enough for requirements the position can be understood. High Grade australian Rice May be welcomed in such countries particularly by the More prosperous Oik. The second Grade Rice he sold in Australia for Stock feed. The director of agriculture is inter Esting Farmers with the information that in another part .1 series of experiments proved last has a feeding the War s beginning office wit moderation and skill that is by ate. Parties ostensibly for their own use May be admitted ably there is smuggling of this character All along the International Boundary under existing conditions. But it is a Mere Rivulet compared with the Stream which pours into the. United states from the bonded warehouses through the Canadian Cus Toms by the medium of the rum running vessels. As things Are at present one of these pirate Craft appears at the Canadian Dock is loaded with liquor to the gunwale from a nearby warehouse clears the Canadian customs and Heads for the United whole transaction in the narrow Waters of the Detroit River taking about half an hour. If cargoes had to be slowly and pain fully collected with the Connivance and by the co operation of a Large number of customers of the provincial stores the traffic would shrink to the merest percentage of its present volume. The re Sale of liquor by a private individual in Ontario is a crime and presumably the Ontario liquor commission which is headed by sir Henry Drayton could be counted upon to see thai its customers did not turn themselves into middlemen Between the source of Supply and the rum runners. Ali arc would be some smuggling but it would be trifling in comparison with the one million Odd Gallons which Are now officially delivered yearly by the Dominion government to the rum runners with an injunction to them to get Busy and dump it into the United states. If the Canadian government refuse to deliver liquor from the bonded warehouses to the rum runners which is a matter clearly within its Power nine tenths of this trouble Settle itself. We doubt whether if this were done there would Ever be an application for clearance papers for a single cargo of liquor since this liquor clearly assembled in Defiance of the Ontario Temperance act would be sizable by the Ontario authorities. This is a Way out of the present difficulty and the Dominion gov eminent is hereby advised to take it. It Cost the country nine million dollars in excise taxes. But that is a Small sum to pay in recovery of our self respect. Appointing a certain number of Peers so that in a House of five or six mindred members there May a a dozen or fifteen supporters of the government. The anachronism would however remain. It is in act i removable. If Lite Peers could be appointed the position would not be quite so difficult but these Are forbidden except to certain judges by a re Striction by which the House of lords in. The past has set great score. To give the Labar party a position in the House lords at All in keeping with its position in the country it would be necessary to elevate a couple of Hundred sup porters to the House of lords As hereditary Peers. That would be a very absurd proceeding 1 possible to find men who would cent. After the South african election the free press correspondent in South Africa writes of the general election there after it had been held. He says the Hertzog nationalists have a Clear majority Over All pos sible combinations and fifteen years the people of Winnipeg were confronted by a streaming red head line in their morning paper Britain and Germany at underneath the glaring head and. Sub head there followed the laconic statement issued the pre Vious evening from the British foreign office owing to the summary rejection by the German government the request made by his Britannic majesty s government that the neutrality of Belgium should be respected his majesty s ambassador at Berlin has received his pass ports and his majesty s govern ment has declared to the government., that a state of War exists Between great Britain and the minute to minute news was megaphone from within. The weather was desperately hot a Winnipeg the temperature reached 94. Ominously enough the forecast called for about nine o clock the 90th win marched Down Portage Avenue the baud playing Solomon it was the first of Many parades. A Little later a ring Boner six footer named William Farmer led a mass of cheering men to government House where Lieut. Governor sir Douglas Cameron addressed them. At the army and Navy veterans club room old so Diers were pouring in to offer their services. At the Barracks. Col. S. 13-, Steele and major h. D. B. Ketchen were perfecting plans for Western mobilization. 13very militia unit o i the Prairies had offered its services. In Edmonton major a. Gries Pink diamonds some sparklers Are Pink acid the largest in the world has recently been found in one of the smaller South american states. These Pink diamonds Are nearly As precious As were the sayings George Ade used to find for Pink. Marsh. The South american republicans celebrated the finding of the world s biggest by giving it a christening ceremony. Before they got through All they could think of was to Call the jewel the Southern Cross. That s not very original. Besides the air plane there s a Pearl of the same name. But where the Pink Stone is Worth around the Pearl can to had for a beggarly the seven Sisters Are not receiving this week end. To a Fox. Fox if woman could but Don thy Grace and with that Grace put on brightness of Eye such As thou has a step As noiseless yet As fast with fortitude and gallantry As great As men expect of thee. She would not need thy Pelt per Chance her own attractions to enhance. Muriel Stevens the London Mercury. A Lethbridge despatch announces that a Farmer in that District is threshing out 36 to i he acre and a message from Hague Saskatchewan says that a Farmer there is cutting a crop of Garret that go 35 to the acre. These Aren t so bad. Let us Hope the reality continues to be hotter than the it often is. 1 was Reading the other Day a bit or an essay on the negro in Litera Ture occasioned by iwo new books a play in Abraham s and a tale both authors in sympathy with the negro race. In deed All writers who write about the american negro Are sympathetic whether in Tong or essay the novel is a. Terrible sort of Book the author Claude Mckay claiming for the negro the closer biological kinship to swell of primitive Earth j. B. S. Haldane in a. Recent essay on the Point of View Points out veil solve accept honors thus shovelled out promiscuously. The growth of democracy has made of lords itself As a political institution a grotesque a political body with which the dominant party in the country has no natural connection is obviously obsolescent. A great revolutionary among the anniversaries to by celebrated this year the Seventieth birthday of a Book published by a quiet scientist named Charles Rob Darwin should not be forgotten. Support of the five labor Creswell they get they have a majority of 18. Over both the Smuts Softli african party and a three labor. Counci Lites. The South african party gains have been chiefly at the expense of la while the nationalists have their position by wresting seats from the South african party. An anomaly in the situation is that the South african party have polled More votes in the constituencies than the nationalists have done but Are nevertheless in the minority. The explanation of this is that while in theory the South Africa act pro Vides for the electoral Equality 01 constituencies an exception was made to the effect that town constituencies might be so delimited As to have a number of voters 15 per cent in excess of thy whole country Stith envies on with. The Germany from August 4." 11 o clock . Bach had offered to raise a new or. Arthur Henderson seems to he giving a demonstration that a. Labor government in Britain and a soviet government in Russia Are not even forty second cousins. Why be suffocated Uncle William wants to know Why the Street railway is allowed to keep some windows in the Cai j nailed Down in the summer. They Are wedged with Little wooden blocks to prevent passengers from opening them. He says that he do us l mind i being strap Hung in the Rush the negro in literature is no in so Loag As Kool off has corns american negro problem. Teresing subject and would provide matter ror a Stout Book. The bibliography itself would till a volume. And today the negro is both subject while Rural the other on hand might have voters rails 15 per . Less than the quota. Thus at is pos sible that the Cliffy ice in the mini be of voters Between a town and a Rural constituency might be As Large As so per cent. As the nationalist party is almost wholly a there were rumours that a great sea Battle was imminent in the North sea and from new York Harbor the fated Lusitania with i lights quenched stole out quietly across the Ocean. Censorship already Lay he a Aurora Over the Telegraph wires and there was Little news from Europe to supplement official statement. King George issued a message to the dominions in which he set the tone of the spirit which was. To Ani mate the nation for the next 51 months i shall be strengthened in the discharge of the great duties which rest upon me by. The confident belief that in this time of trial my Empire stand United Calm Resolute trusting in completely forgotten the thrill of an Oil Boom in the excitement of a world crisis. But under the froth of surface hysteria there Lay the solemnity Tom s Cabin comes first in the Long catalogue but there Wei Many stories following the War of liberation such As the babes in Tho Basket with a negro Mammy Tor its heroine. All the Daisy books had a. Large element of the Rural party if Cable news was scarce there was news and to spare Ancl that largely an Urban one h follows the Dice is permanently loaded the Erl its title was on the origin War in retrospect the present generation has much to be thankful for in that it was privileged to live through the War began fifteen years ago yesterday. Not often in the history of humanity is such an Opportunity Given it was an experience both awful and splendid a tragedy of the greatest kind. But looking Back at it. We realize that we were permit Ted to see a new world unfolding itself. The world of 1914 has disappeared Tery completely. Old empires have vanished new rulers now stand guard Over new formed nations. After z of a Century demo it May be said was Given a Start on a new a wider basis View he War today not so As a destruction of old things but As the beginning of a new Era. The pain and horror of War become to us the birth pangs of a in world which May be made into something finer than humanity has yet seen. It is for that reason that this generation greatly honoured in the experience which fell to its lot. Must work to see to it that the value species by Means of natural Selec Tion or the preservation of Favores l races in the struggle for in spite of the formidable title it was a Best seller in its Day. The whole edition of copies was sold on the Day. Of publication and it has been steadily printed and reprinted Over since. In 1029 it is Folly to discuss whether or not the theory outlined by Darwin is Correct either in their the Sou h african party ver Canada telling the tale of a Youn nation girding itself Tor its great tra parliament had been summoned for August is. Col. Sam Hughes was on his Way to Valcar tier to direct mobilization of the first expeditionary Force. Arrange ment had been effected Between the government and Canadian banking Heads to Avert the possibility of a financial crisis. The West was wild with excite ment. Huge crowds had gathered in front of newspaper offices the night before cheering madly As the occasion Street scenes were j peer. As any tale of South Juis compared with those which occurred when contingents were leaving for the. South african War but the com Parison was false. All realized that Canada was setting Forth on a course that could have Only one ending. The feeling of the Day was expressed from a score of editorial chairs and under the simple title War the free press spoke As follows upon the Issue of the conflict depends the future the Empire and the Freedom of the world. The Triumph of the two emperors would mean that All Europe would pass for a generation under a military j but he declares that before hell allow himself to suffocated again hell bust a the window that cannot be opened. Work is proceeding pm Osborne Street Bridge. The saps in the Metal work have been with Metal and pot holes in the Road bed were heirs patched with our Hoar i tar saturday est congratulate Iii the proper authorities for taking the nationalists owe their Victory to other causes As Well As to tiie electoral advantage to which i Efey ence has just been made. Then pout Ca policies whether one Agres with them they Are National party it is True in the narrowest sense but nevertheless Uei anneal. Is to South african people Nastic ulary South african born people and the european Popula Uon of the Union is South african born to the extent of 85 per cent from the Golden books a quiet soul John old Ham nth on us thy soul within such silent pomp did keep As it humanity were lulled asleep so gentle was Illy pilgrimage be Neath time s unheard feet scarce make writers like produced exquisite literature of the South and we Learned to know several negro dialects. Negro sketches and stories of the various states once supreme in Cotton to Bacco and the slave Trade still appear and a a popular in the Best magazines and appear As Long As any writer writes about the South for the race was lovable and had qualities to suit literature., Many of them Happy in that coalition All depending upon what like was the owner and master or overseer. What like the musters were c his artistic Short stories of James Lane Allen cries what historian of the heart Ever be Able to Stu Justice to those Peculiar ties which bound the heart of the negro in one by to a race of not Al Orthy masters the old to icy. Generosity of vision and we hich. _ t must be confessed is based very largely upon fear is none la u their of what has been so lately Learned May not be lost. Mourning the Blue boys Britain is again mourning the loss of a Blue Romney s portrait of William Tennant at the age of five painted in 17sd. Is now on its Way to Manhattan. Homney received ?250 for his work. Today s principle or detail. The important thing is the influence of the Book upon the scientific and popular mind. The evolutionary theory later amplified by Darwin in his descent of Mam swept through the. World like a Hurricane. Beliefs venerable with age it like Straw men in a Cyclone. Rigort Ous blasts of scientific tonic thought rocked Many an idol on its Pedestal. The theory indeed., liberated thought As few theories have Ever done before. If anyone still believes that the Man of action can do More than the Man. Of ideas he May be humbled by contemplating the life of that tall stoop shouldered invalid who from his Library at Down above the Sussex Weald sent out a message that influenced Man Rind More than any. Other happen ing of i Century. Is favo popular insofar As it it and ably regarded even by those who Are not politically o the of thinking and insofar Aben k Mara Siuth and an Coop o Kin ways w Virginia nurse Drunken vagrant with when he iter dead so Ion ago now she bought him at aug recondition this unfortunate Bridge. May we Hope the Good work the re Moval of atrocious top Struc them Down and the balustrades and paving in Good re pair Osborne Street Bridge be All right. Congratulations to or. Clubb for having removed the miserable Fence on the West Side of the. Parliament Nuil Tuss Awn. When sees How much bettor the Lawn looks now or. Clubb must feel bitter remorse at having perpetrated such an a Osoro so Long. Still he and to Are served in our is responsible for t. Sters the old Jim condition of ui3 sidewalk a had known the cast Between Broadway incl the River deserves All the ill coming to or them. And the p re ltl7p easing to the Republican Bot i old and new. in to i. Situck i the nationalist party s wholly in Inifi. Var South african party is very largely a Coa one. african sentiment is on the Side of stalemate the Way would have been Clear for the. Emergence of part of the moderates to be round All the parties. But As the Posi Tion is the nationalists have no need to worry about a re Orienta Tion of political parties. They Are in and they stay there until they can t stay any longer it is fair to say that now the election is Over there is a Gen eral desire to give the new govern ment a fair Chance. It is Felt that a nationalist government that has a Clear majority of its own and that has had five years experience in administering the country be or the soft journey which a planet guest life seemed All Calm As its last breath. A still Tranquillity so hushed i breast As if some Halcyon were its guest. Ancl there had built her nest it hardly now enjoys a. Greater rest. Us. Motor vehicle fatalities prom the new York times last april the travellers i Sui Tion with her own free Money. They Lell us that the old negro Mammy Type of loyalty and Devotion to her charges and to religion is dying out. She live in the history of the South and in literature. Sooner the Betler. Make this peace and humanity that Ance company of Hartford pre dieted that persons would he killed in motor vehicle acid Pius in the United states this year. 1.he number in 1928 was Statis tics collected since the first of the year indicate an increase of 10 per Moo the de is secure h is Well known that he visit of the prime minister of Britain to her charming the president of the United states mrs. O Connor tells How she loved her Black Mammy and do tested slavery. When her father judge Duval sold the old negro and her two boys the child cried incessantly. "1 want my was the idea or or. Cd want Bell for Many years the London correspondent of the Chicago upon his return to or and Mammy was bought Back Asj few Laye i n fan n 1 Al Luc h they said. She was even More hide bound in her views of class than the Little girl s Mother and the children of the local tinsmith were forbidden playmates. But Mammy the Batees Are very Nice and Mary _ has Beautiful clothes for sunday cent in 1929 periodically the de Bates Chillon Ain t apartment of Commerce published from cities 000. These cities to Exir Aoi a Urti y whereas the South african party in office during the world. War and during its aftermath were dogged by a succession of deficits be nationalists in the last five Bountiful times have had surpluses. The result of the Tion is particularly unfortunate in one Way in that it has made the coming into existence of a new Middle party More Remote. Had the election resulted in a position Tina. Taking probably to the Good that a nationalist government has been elected because one of the results is practically certain to be that the policy of secession be finally buried. If however a South Afri can party government had been returned., it is almost certain tha the nationalists would have revived the secession policy in one form or another. The Usu. A traffic rules Are supposed rigidly enforced. In the fifty two weeks ending july 33 there was 1.1 the seventy eight cities named a the department of Commerce an increase of 734 fatalities Over corresponding period birthday congratulations to we. Fingland Winnipeg born Rockton Wentworth co., c i pc9 j. E. Rice Lake wis Consin Boru Guelph ont aug. .5, 1861. J bad Ain t Savin Dey who Dey grandpa Dey Ain t but v nobody in de Roun Worl Dat knows or Dat wants to know. Now yous of a Gran a an what to Grau a Wiz you is to is not Only the naval question hint wants settlement. This is merely a part and not Tho greatest part of the problem. The area test thin to be understood Between us is the question of what we Are going to do in Case a War suddenly Bucalis upon the world. To Are not pre pared for such an emergency it would catch us napping and but Isle americ in peace would be imperilled. To to British statesman american but dear now Don t you dear Mammy me. 1 seen you fishin1 William Bates yes taday no familiar names when Mammy was on her "an.1 i Ain t Tell to Momma Yit but jes let me Ketch you at it agin dal s the Bookman. There Are obviously two educations. One should teach us How to living and the other How to Truslow Adams. Statesman should rest while conditions exist. _ the moment the Whoie worn knows that Britain and America Are permanently at peace and that they have their faces set against War in any Quarter humanity May at least begin to feel a. Nation s economic credit is like a woman s reputation the Moi a it is debated the More it is Elan sure a. Josiah stamp. English economist ;