Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 20, 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 13 to 24 Freedom of Trade Liberty of Equality of civil rights of Tiv if w a Matutis Winnipeg tuesday August 20, ,1929 printed and published Manitoba free press company. Line cd. Conant incorporated under Laws of Vili Lecta t its head office place of business. 301 a Irilan meet in the City of Winnipeg. Manitoba. C. H. Mackun president and general Buna Eer. Crl Elered at the Genera Post office. London. Enir., for transmission thro Ueli the mails in the British mics at Inland Revenue rates. Why not do something capital to come to Canada was that it could not be borrowed by canadians upon As favourable con r of it is desirable to extend inter Imperial Trade As to which As those which were in Liere is general agreement so far at least As agreement is in posed by the of Tho United caught in v move states. Those competitive conditions still continue. 1c there is any attempt to tie up the Export of British capital to Caiu Ula with extra financial conditions there will a a lessened demand for the capital. That is All that will happen. But the investment of British capital in Canada in the Ordinary course of business will tend to increase British exports to Canada since delivery in part at least will be certain to be taken in goods and this in turn will tend to the and a should civic a preference Jie and great i employment of workers in great Britain. Or. Thomas had better let and finance take their natural course and not stick his dictate cd by talk what is the matter with Canada doing something ii her thus following her own example of 1897, instead of for conferences that will never be called or if called i i turn out to be elaborate utilities As previous gatherings of the kind have always been the references at the time of Bisof hn3 _ death to or. Fielding did in 1891, in which to was called the father of Imperial preference Drew a protest from Alexander formerly my for North Bruce who emerged from a silence of Many years to explain that in 1891 he As a conserva Tive member of parliament moved a Resolution declaring for a in Cherem of upon British goods coming to Canada. He did indeed such a Resolution but what were its terms they were that can Britain save a reciprocal preference on Canadian products sold to England there m As no bargaining in granting Tho preference to British goods in 1897 it was Given without question or St Pula lion As an acknowledgement of great Britain s action in keeping. For Canadian exports the Only free Market in the world. Practical Steps for the encouragement of inter Imperial Trade have been timid and ineffective because they have been dominated by the it and when idea which was set out in the Canadian conservative declaration of 1891. Most of the advocates of inter Imperial Trade in the dominions and practically All of its advocates in great Britain have been fanatical adherents of the View that nothing Worth while in the Way of developing Trade Between the various parts of the Empire can be accomplished unless great Britain can be persuaded or coerced into abandoning her free Trade policy and going in for a protective Tariff which will enable the granting of. A preference on Dominion Finger into the machinery. The Airship the vision of the future is blurred by the Safe Landing of the Graf Zeppelin at Tokyo Early yesterday morning. The flight the third in its round the world series transcends the imagination and makes elementary the classic Jour Leyings of Marco Polo himself. It leaves the mind gaping into the probabilities As confusedly As did i the natives of the kids of wilds now that were Rich King Doms up at the unknown j Mammoth floating above them. They forage around for a Little moisture and that they Buzz. Alii of which we Are prepared to be Lievow. Well then what is to pre vent the resident of new York from keeping bees a hive of them out on the fire escape we have an idea would end most of the trouble i he is now heir to. The person who turns his loud speaker out of the window for example and then soul fury beside it while be takes the summer air would be pretty effectually silenced. Noise irritates bees we seem to have read some from the Golden books Churchill to 1901 Winston Spencer Churchill m.p., famous War correspondent of the London morning Post whose name is familiar to All the civilized Wor d since his romantic escape from where and one or two of them Boer prison at Pretoria lectured would be very Likely to that last evening to the largest audience pc person a visit. We Are willing to leave it to a popular referendum As to whether the ensuing scene would not be Worth the entire Cost of the hive. Then Liere is the Riveter. In All seriousness we ask you now would it be pleasant to see a Bee would t it sting then Riveter or there is signer Ever gathered in the Winnipeg this extract from the Manitoba free press of Twenty eight years and seven months ago recounts the previous visit to Winnipeg of Pina Ripa Strawberg to cent. This offender would have the whole hive on his Back Queen Bee and All be cause bees Are very fond of Straw berries and the Price does t mat Ter. As for the ukulele he would be wiped out before he got his string completely in tune. And the Beauty of the Beehive Young Blond smooth faced Man slightly above the average with an open Manly the Winston Churchill of yesterday already a member of the British House but whose chief Fame a that time rested upon a series i Thev Are so near so Bright. From Miami Barbara speak not i Pray nor make one human sound. Stand Here upon the Lious top Ani behold the Young Diana draw Lior Pullol Bow above the fading glory of the that has gone Down awhile into the Ecsi. Now she conies she draws her Silver Bow upon he sky the arrows of her Beauty Are Swift More sure than any sight or any sound ten thousand arrows from a single Bow. The gardens tremble and the wind cries Jow with the Sweet pain of the desired wound. The heavens Are shaken and the stars Lea p out like jewels Flung i rom Sonie great hand. Thrilling adventures As a news paper correspondent in the that it is going to stay anywhere i african War. You put it. Did you Ever ii ear of trying to steal a Beehive j surely our Casc a Lisurs reaching Thali touch Liem w cause of the gotten strike imports. Ashen the Chamberlain drive bras at its height the upsets those ideas of transport that colonies As they were then called were rather to line1 up with or. Chamberlain and make it Plain to old John Bull that if he wanted to keep the Empire together it would be necessary for him to get rid of his old fogey ideas about free Trade. All efforts fulled in the face of the scrupulously Correct Atti of the other colonial these tude of sir Vilfrid Laurie r and some premiers. Had reached fixity. So often has the utmost in trans port agencies been reached Only to be surpassed that Man no longer hesitates to doubt that the impossible May again be accomplished. The Pinnacle of the steam railway o the steamship passed when Man a Quarter Century ago lifted him self above the. Earth he had always retort from the employers chair patronage War in . Evidently there is the most Seri Ous kind of trouble in the conservative party in British Columbia or. Churchill s engagement to but no. The White Young Moon speak at the Winnipeg theatre j White laughter saying the evening of january 22, i nor shake was made under exceptional the Iii Down cum stances there was word from they Are not blossoms growing on Over the control of patronage Over Nabil for there is also a revival the bitter Intro of patronage am i English history had be Ity to satisfy All Ihu for government jobs with paralysis. I will Man who ordered All outsiders lne Bowser fact. Refrain from meddling with Thui Ancl the rest o the conservative but the Hope of associating the dominions with a British trod and flew to his pre arranged political group to put Over a particular policy has never died. I destination. Science and invention there is a Good Deal of evidence available that the official economic conference of 1023 was called with the expectation that it would give or. Baldwin a pretext for a general election in which the Dominion premiers would appear As his allies. Certainly the Dominion premiers were invited on that occasion to state their needs in the matter of Tariff preferences and the oblige g or. Bruce hastened to respond with his five demands in a descending order of importance which for a week or so held the attention of the British Public. But the Canadian and South had overcome the Law of Gravity of Long As men s engines did not fail them but science and invention have in the Airship circumvented oven nature s attraction. Affairs of the Cotton Trade and by inference at any rate repudiated the idea that lie and his fellow employers had anything either to repent or to be ashamed of. In face of facts universally known and published broadcast by Many authorities this attitude is merely ridiculous. Everyone knows that in the Short lived Boom which Fol the formal announcement of the temporary settlement of the Lancashire Cotton strike makes All the More necessary an understanding of the reasons which led to the shutting Down of the Mills for nearly two weeks. As Analysed by the now statesman when the strike began the actual Issue in dispute in the Cotton Trade strike in Lanca Shire and Cheshire is quite simple. The Cotton employers want a. Re he basis " of the most absurdly optimistic valuations. The working capital ol1 the old Linns was swept away and went to swell the speculators profits and the re floated concerns party. The. Trouble is revealed by an exceedingly outspoken editor Ial in the Victoria colonist conservative.1, England that Queen Victoria then the latter half of the sixty fourth year of the longest reign had been not a Vine. They arc my children s children and mine if her majesty or. Had said bluntly and frankly. But the latest bulletin from London be fore his address began indicated improvement in the Queen s condition and the address was hence an Bear nearly anything in the j nature of a Shock still his Cool was worthy of the Best Trade of his great service. In Sydney bulletin. Slating a clique for rank disloyalty proceeded with. To the party and in two very remarkable speeches by or. Pooley the soon began to v i Ivo attorney general and by c. H. Dickie Federal conservative Mem Ber for Nanaimo offering to do c Lowed the War the Cotton Trade theil. Utmost to meet the deluge of was the victim of the biggest for positions or a that taken place in any Vors my. Nickle is ready to Dis miss valuable Public officials Whon Industry within living memory Here re floated and Recap firms w wages to which the Trade unions sri use to agree. But the questions underlying this Issue Are not simple at All. The employers maintain that costs production Are too High to enable them to compete effectively in world the balloon the oldest form of j markets and that rates of wages Aerial ascent has become manage Abie in the Airship and been or dered to re spout to the route of navigation tit defies Gravity but can it confront the elements when preferences involved parliamentary approval and later went to the country to get a mandate which would authorize the government to overhaul the British Tariff system in this and other i respects with results which made history. Various proposals for Empire conferences for Ferencek of Trade bodies of business men of representatives of now being made in various quarters. Some of these of or. Bennett a for the old idea or some kind of an Imperial Tariff scheme which will involve a change of policy on the part of great Britain. Canada while the Liberal s arc in Power will be officially make bold to say at no conference which meets with this political Bee in its Bonnet. Canadians whether they arc members of the government or business men Are bound in considering the ques Tion of inter Imperial Trade and How it is to be extended to assume that great Britain is not going to change her Tariff policy. Accepting this As a settled fact is it desirable that inter Imperial Trade should be encouraged and., if so How can this be done 1 Ible Means of transport. The Airship however has passed beyond the experimental stages of its feasibility in these amazing flights made by the Riddle aged or. Hugo Eckener. He has transported nearly .100 persons across the Atlantic from East lowest from West to East and to has borne As Many across Europe and Asia from Germany to Japan. This though is not final proof. The Airship yet has to demonstrate he gets a. Chance in order to pro vide jobs for party workers. It is As says the Victoria wrote the Veteran free press reporter now deceased who a l been assigned to or. Churchill s meeting that there was in the speaker a vein of wit and originality of to common order and soon the found themselves hanging upon his every work with the closest attention. At one Point opened business with an intolerable gl.esi3 for some time past. Weight of debenture and i others they have Attema though there has been during the intervening years a substantial fall in the general level of prices. An adequate wage reduction they say would enable them to get Back lot Trade and thus to the opera Tives As High wages As now be cause the lower rates would by offset by More continuous employ. This sounds plausible enough but it does not convince the opera Tives. The saving in costs charges on their backs and with the necessity of looking to the joint Stock Banks for practically the whole of their working capital. Whereas previously most of the capital was in the form of shares and therefore its part a colonist that something should be Early in his narration lie slopped said about certain political machinations that have been in pro among to make or. Paley one of their Vic Tims Ami the goal aimed at is to undermine the reputation which the present provincial government enjoys in the estimation o the people of the province. This Campaign is it must he Over years ago that we read Aboin. Boswell s Ebony so Munji unpublished material having been discovered at Maia hide Castle the residence in Ireland of Doswell s great great grandson. They were put up at fiction bought by a l american collector colonel islam who refused of reveal the Price but meeting the ups and Downs of Cujic til in a and remarked apologetically but. Have old you All this in a Book which though it would be Unbe coming for me to recommend it 1 earnestly Hope you May find in hid in a Coal mine by the mine documents sumptuous one report at the of their changing hands was that the Nev. Owner had insured them for the Senera title s Boswell papers Mishani collection in 3s and i and Iii and in Ritvo been published Pri manager a by no Means altogether Liberal Churchill where my Only com propaganda. There is something Pantons very numbers of rats with res to Tlle Pink eyes i was furnished every rely by a clique of Thoss morning with copies of Boer news the new largely of Loans had to be paid largely on purely. _ fictitious capital whether a. Trading were believed to be friends profit was made or not. The result was that the operatives who could be stood off or dismissed or Given s. E old result from Tae lower Vage v juts tin s Tii u j a .1 its commercial feasibility that Assurance which is beyond reason Able risk. This has not yet been proved in its demonstrations. It will yet have to pass through the suspense of suspicion through which has passed every Means of transportation that is prosaic ally practical today. The cart wheel the steam train the steamship the obviously Only by making it possible for goods from great has been held to be a evidence that the 4. I an absurd prediction. Aerial Navi i vers ave taking the work of rates proposed by the employer would not they say be enough to get Back any considerable amount of Trade even i were passed on to the overseas purchaser. But it would not they argue be passed on. In the Case of most firms it would be used to help in meeting the Burden of the losses which Are now being incurred and to save virtually bankrupt firms from the of reorganization the be rates therefore would Lowe not but employment were Brunt the de followed. Loan interest and there was not enough left to a living wage without incurring actual Trade losses. W v in these circumstances the opera Tives Are clearly justified in re fusing to have their wages assured in accordance with the employers ability to after All capital been met. Every a Cassity of have been met. Wer wage rates therefore would who has studied the con t. Bring increased Thoj knows that it would leave the condition i _ re Al Reaty very Low. And a ,1 jju63 c j he Trade unchanged. Be reduced further without bringing Many of the less skilled workers almost to the verge of starvation whereas there is Fai More Hope of cutting Down the reply to the argument that wage rates have not fallen in correspondence with the Cost of living the operatives add that earnings have fallen because of Short time far More than in correspondence and that they simply cannot afford to to further sacrifices above Britain and the dominions to come into Canada in greater vol ume than at present. In the Case of great Britain this can be clone by in creasing the preference that is by reducing the pres ent duties on British goods while Trade treaties can he made with the other dominions which will have the same effect. Canadians who Are not prepared to accept these consequences of a policy of common Carrier none dare say gation was not More derided than was submarine yet continents have been sailed Over and oceans steamed under. The amazement of the past belie every doubt of the future. If none can offer positive affirmation that the Airship will become i a ate reorganization seriously in hand. Other costs of production by Scal ing Down the nominal and supporters of the conservative cause. It is unnecessary to men Tion the name of the political organization under which they masqueraded for the fact that they conspired in camera makes it de or. Lately under the Editorship of or. Geoffrey sex in author of the por trait of Tho dutch whom loved As a the volumes already issued Early a tour of the German sizable that they should pass into juiced in the civilized oblivion with the same measure of Churchill related How after Public contempt As they -1 papers in which i read accounts Oil with Rousseau and vol 11 i Ira nor Nylon of a re my own capture in different Dis guises each Day in respect of Fertile imagination i can say As a journalist that these newspapers were the equal of anything pro during their Brief career. One of spending four an a half Days in the methods in the modes Operand the Coal mine he was. Smuggled to of this political clique was to de Fame members of the government. The attorney general was one of those selected for Trade Cioni need less to say since its methods were such the clique was wrecked on the rocks of its own contriving. It was a political plot which will Only be remembered by the few who knew of it with loathing and disgust. Delagoa Bay in a car loaded with Wood from whence he took ship for Durban and arrived in the British Camp in time to eat his Christmas dinner with sir Redvers Buller. Or. Churchill concluded his re Marks with a characteristic compliment to the City which was his eluding the borrowed to the fact that there in the Industry More nearly to the political Midi real value which it represents. This is no doubt a bitter Pill for the employers to Swallow for it helping Empire Trade ought t o Stop bleating about their Zeal for the cause. They have got to face the fact that we have got some Way or another to increase very considerably the volume of British goods that now come into Canada. At present Canada has much the Best of the inter Imperial _ interchange of goods which affects her. In the twelve months ending june 30 great Britain Ati Otralia new zealand and the British West indies took Canadian goods to the value of in the same space of time goods from these countries to the value of found a Market in Canada. We were therefore ahead Exchange. The figures certainly suggest that Canada might do a Little More in the Way of encouraging imports from these countries. The Way to do this is not by cancelling existing Trade treaties with other dominions like the australian treaty nor by so modifying the preferential feature of our Tariff As do make it British goods to enter Canada thus enlarging in or. Bennett s phrase the area of Competition for the Cana Dian manufacturer. Plainly the Way to encourage Imperial Trade is to buy More Imperial goods. Why not make it possible thus the narrow Broadens out into the Lem of the organization and ardency of the Cotton Trade. These Are matters upon which the govern ment has just appointed a special committee of inquiry but they Are obviously germane to the present will not. The flight of the Graf dispute. No committee under Zeppelin from Germany to Japan upsets All staid convictions it envisions new visions of the next half Century. The peace River Frontier from the Calgary Herald demonstration of the rapid growth of the peace River country lilo i ii to i Industrial courts act unless it cd fled itself purely to an interim and temporary recommendation could possibly help dealing with them. For the operatives Case a reduction in wages largely depends on their allegation that the real cause of Lancashire s competitive weakness in world markets lies not in High wages but in excess v. Was Given this to be clone or. Tomas idea in Canada. He seems to think tha we Are in such dire need of Brit wish capital that conditions othe u we Are 10 judge from Cable to re srams from London right Hon. f to h. Ttomas is bringing some rather payment can be imposed. In this the peace River country not in High wages out m be it is to Premier j. E. Brown capital charges due to product w to r. Wallace of i inflation in the past leading to Bact with lout cont. The Maiier producers As Independent farms Aud a recognition that Many who invested then Money in the Industry during the Boom have lost practically All that they put in. It is natural enough that the employers most reluctant to face these facts but the question is whether they mus. Not be faced before the. Trade As a whole can be placed again on a sound footing. In View of the growing severity it was in answer to that plot a i Don t he said Why you should Call yourselves nip Eggers. A Shorter and truer Way to say it would be winners Are the occasion of a remarkable article in lie latest num Ber of the quarterly it is entitled Johnson s life of bos Well and is written by sir an Drew Macphail who builds up i singularly interesting defences of Boswell the Man. Proving John son s knee upon for him. Boswell knew his hero face to Fane for Twenty years and Forgath Isreil with him 270 times. Tho biographers of Boswell and editors of his letters were never fair to him. The latest one. Professor tinker s Young Boswell is the worx of a scholar and admirer who is apologetic when there is no need of apology and explanatory when there is nothing to refer ence is made to the 1 Seccombe who in 190k, re edit 1 Boswell s letters when he was it affords the Opportunity of draw Are still those in our political who can adopt a code of Dishonour which is revolting in the present Day stage of an amazing speech was made by air. Dickie at a political picnic in Esqui Mau in an Effort to appease the patronage hungry members of the party. When we get into he said you people will be the first to be considered. We will consult the conservative associations and make of them As perfect a machine As there Ever has been in the coun try. Wre May have to ditch some Good men who should not be thrown overboard but the executives of the party associations must Britain it is quite Clear that., the be and president r. C. Wallace of inflation the University of Alberta on their recent tour of the District. The scene of action was Debolt 15 Miles East of the Smoky River and 40 Miles East and North of Grande Prairie eighteen ago there were Only 20 occupied homesteads in the Debolt District and 20 More in the Sturgeon Lafe and Valley View districts farther East. Today in that same area of roughly 50 by 20 Miles there Are Over peo ple located on More than 400 to that number one or More Ara being added almost every Day As the tide of new settlers flows into every Section of the peace. Organization in the present. Trade unions hold that As Ong As the employers persist in the at tempt to carry their present casual burdens no conceivable wage reduction can place them m a pos Tion to recapture most of the t Ace age reductions , rib uting anything coming to Canada in 1921, As pro Fessor of English in Queen s a Ersita at Kingston which is in Ontario he thought he was going to Kingston in Jamaica and As sailed a thousand Miles up the fit. Lawrence he expressed a Mihl or. Bennett trying to the and going says which is a Story with Point. Electors coming that the australian treaty is to to Uon that has. Been lost. They feel that is Aey believe that if they agree to accept lower wages now the effect. Be to allow the employers to it to Hile with the solution of the major problem will be most Likely paid into the Bank accounts of men who have claims upon the product of Lancashire s Trade. That Way lie Rrt her degradation and decay Ami s order to Vohl this disastrous conclusion it is to be hoped time the government will use Ever. Effort to bring the dispute to an Enorch Lufa and n the Pioneer who crossed the country by might and Mam has a grandson who goes by plane and train. Indianapolis ideas to Canada with him he to see More British capital coming to Canada and he wants its employment tied up with a stipulation that if this capital is employed in the construction of works British be specially imported we presume is 10 be employed. Thomas does not appear to he is entirely mistaken. In the years following the War very Little British capital came to Canada. For this there were several reasons. One the effect of which has teen much exaggerated was a senti mental desire on the part of some people to punish Canada for its alleged ill treatment of the grand trunk shareholders. But the read Well informed about conditions explanation of the failure of Brit birthday congratulations to w. F. Alloway Winnipeg born Queens county ire., aug. -0 3s52. J. P. Sweeting c.p.r., Winnipeg born Worthington eng., aug 20, .1872. G. J. H. Malcolm Birtle sex . Born India aug. 20 1s65 Clifford Barclay to in Dall born Aberdeenshire Scot. Aug. 20, 1s77. Edgar a. Guest born England aug. 20, 1ss1. Raymond Poincare French states Man born aug. 20, i860, t will stagger on for a while out touching seriously the Nesary but distasteful task Down their capital and Reorg Amz their methods of production and is Benld the Many of the Mil. Now closed quite uner to open again under control but the opera Tives whose savings have been for the most part exhausted during the on depression will be left utterly out of or. Pooley told of his mail stacked two feet High with letters of Job seekers and of working fifteen hours a Day mainly because of Call s upon his time by party work ers seeking their rewards. With other members of the government i realize that Many of you men Are entitled to he said in his Frank a patronage policy. He urged patience until other affairs of the government were straightened our and pleaded with the Job seekers to write to him rather than Call on him. Write me a note and i la do my he said. Their applications would be tabulated and indexed and filed for use when the Opportunity arose he assured them condemned because first has decreased the Price of butter an-1 in the second place it has in creased the Price of meat through a higher Price for cattle. But if he is right perhaps the advantages and disadvantages of the treaty to the Dairy Farmer cancel themselves out. In the Best naval. Tradition one morning taking the air of Hervey Bay upon the Quarter deck j a Jan of and note of the flagship soon after that los any person of English immaculate area had been scrubbed no Jas not read the Book 11__i sir Andrew remarks that no Man Ever lived who a amply As Boswell supplies evidence for Tho six test by which a life May be tried. The tests Are ins main achievement in life his Friend ships his financial conduct his personal integrity _ Persona his conjugal relation the attitude of his Chil Dren towards l Pon my word i believe it is a True Ami searching statement touching the verdict of one s fellow men. Well Boswell s main achieve no in was Sale. The Case a lower wages is it that the. Employers Are mat ing enough profits to enable them in reality to More but that the lower the wage level Tae less the Prospect of serious reorganization. It is the Coal mines problem Over again the attitude of the employers certainly lends color to _ this the times ventured in its s manner to hint that the Cotton masters would be Wise to think about setting their own hous e s. In order and that they had not. Dui ing the. Past decade managed the affairs with perfect Wisdom. This s the workers despite Pineir Veak strategic position have been holding out against the employers claims. The Busy bees of Media prom the few Yori world this store from Media pa., u about the bees gives us an idea in Case you did not seek a reliable associated press t was w despatch which tells How a number of persons have filed suit to pre of persons Ven Mills keeping bees. It seems that or mugs s bees Fly around and sting Ana that they Abbt on the out on the line As of Eso Urc e the feeling that this situation is rather in con without ;