Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Or. Position the charge made at Washington that John j. Raskob and Pierre s. Dupont evaded taxes of on their 1929 incomes the figure is Given Only As an probably be regarded As the latest incident in or. Roosevelt s Battle with the big shots of american business. Or. Raskob and or. Dupont Are wealthy captains of Industry. They were prominent in 1936 in organizing the Liberty association which asked for the defeat of or. Roosevelt on the ground that his new peal was destroying democratic Freedom and then cancelled its own effectiveness by presenting As its front rank an almost solid line of millionaires. Or. Raskob and or. Dupont Are accused of exchanging shares in 1929 at prices far Betow the that they might claim deductions from taxable income. Or. Roosevelt and big the leaders of Industry and now on the worst possible terms. Everyone who has had a recent Opportunity to listen directly to american opinion testifies that or. Roosevelt is among the prosperous people the United states the most hated president since the civil War. Outsiders whose impression of or. Roosevelt is gained mainly from his smiling and Gallant appearance in the magazines and the news reels cannot imagine it is said How violent the anti Roosevelt feeling now is. One of the editors of the London economist recently visited the United states and an editorial headed the american deadlock in the current Ssue of that journal is certainly from his pen. Considering that he economist is Well informed cautious and staid these words rom the editorial Are striking it is not merely that the president is at Odds with a Section of the population containing not far Short of half of All its Mem Bers and nearly Alloe the More Well to do the language that is being used has grown in i moderation until it is out of All rela Tion to the reality of the matters at Issue. A Small notion of the atmosphere prevailing can be conveyed by the fact that the person of or. Roosevelt is now guarded More closely than that of any other president of modern times. And nobody who has sampled the conversation to be had in Board rooms at dinner parties at Golf clubs or in any of the other resorts of the More comfortable can doubt for a moment that the precautions of the secret service Are very that Means in Plain terms that hostility to or. Roosevelt is so vehement that it endangers his life. This hardly squares with the common notion of the president As a Man whose personal Charm and generous nature have won All american hearts. But the economists account of the situation is confirmed by other sources. Briefly put the counts against or. Roosevelt by his critics Are these he is acting a inductively against the Ablest business men in the charge against or. Raskob and or. Dupont will unquestionably come under that head in the Golf club conversations. He wishes to be a dictator. His policy has no coherence and is altered recklessly according to his whim. In Short he is a dangerous and irresponsible menace to the american in or. Hoover s phrase meaning the system of free Enterprise s that is the opinion it seems of nearly All the wealthy people in the United states and of Many Small business men and professionals. On the other hand or. Roosevelt certainly has nearly solid support from the chief beneficiaries of the new Deal Farmers Industrial workers and people on Relief. And recent unofficial polls of Public opinion suggest that he still has a majority of the whole nation. The favourable View of Roosevelt As John Chamberlain put it in a recent new is that he is the first progressive president to hold on to both his ideas and his office and therefore made of sterner stuff than Cleve land. Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow on this View the anti Roosevelt feeling now surging is a product of propaganda by greedy and Short sighted industrialists who will not co operate to save the capitalistic system. As it looks to an outsider the accusations by the anti Roosevelt faction Are wildly extreme but have some foundation. The most valid seems to be that he is unsure where he is going and reckless in Experiment. The personnel of his inner Circle of advisers has changed Many times since 1932 and so has his apparent direction. A Chart of the Roosevelt monetary policy for instance would be difficult to draw. He is for budget balancing in the abstract but the practical effect of his pro gramme has been the most unbalanced budget and the highest National debt in american debt now More than twice the 1930 figure. Recent new Deal measures have unquestionably deterred Enterprise though Roosevelt defenders declare that any slow up in Industrial Progress has been deliberate sabotage by the owners and managers of capital. Or. Roosevelt is about to come through another political test an off year election. The name is Given to american elections half Way through presidential terms. They occur be cause each House of representatives remains in office Only two years and because one third of the Senate hold their places for six every two years. This fall a new House and 32 senators Are to be elected. Or. Roosevelt now has majority support in both branches of Congress. Often in the past a president has lost control of Congress in the Middle of his second term if not earlier and or. Roosevelt is actively working to hold his strength. In particular he is trying to secure the nomination of new Deal democrats As opposed to democratic members of the last Congress who voted against him unusual performance for a president and part of the Evi Dence of his dictatorial tendency. Or. Roosevelt seems Likely to win the 1938 election. Mean time what the economist Calls the american deadlock still persists. Strongly backed by labor and Farmers or. Roosevelt is As the London paper notes by the Over whelming majority of the leaders of Industry Commerce and state of affairs which is not making for recovery from hard times. Fic ency tested by examinations annually and they willingly maintain their membership in the organization that is As familiar to the Public As it is commended for its first Aid work by Industrial corporations leave to hold a tag Day next saturday has been granted the St John ambulance association. This will give the Public an Opportunity to show by its response its appreciation of the services Given by the brigade with skilled unos tentation often on occasions when great crowds Are enjoying themselves. First Aid tag Day wherever a crowd is gathered and someone is injured or an Acci Dent happens everyone Waits for toe uniformed attendants of the St John ambulance brigade. Its members Are always on hand Eady to take charge and to give Aid. They perform voluntarily. This practically the whole member of the brigade m Canada is composed of working men and willing to keep themselves to perform the varied emergency purposes always left to j hem. In Canada there Are 30 j divisions with a male person of 27 divisional surgeons divisional superintendents 31 ambulance officers 11 . A and privates. There Are 20 Nurs divisions each under a sur with 18 lady superintendents nursing officers 31 lady Amu officers 10 nursing Sisters w4 ambulance Sisters. Members of the St. John Lance brigade have their of printed and published Winnipeg free press limited. 300 car too. Street. Winnipeg Manitoba. J. Victor Seton president. General manager. Registered at the general Post office. London. Eng. For the the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Peace Celebration Early next fall if present arrangements carry through Large scale Canadian american Good neighbor Celebration will be held simultaneously in this coun try and in the United states plans Are being made to form commit tees which in both countries will Lay the groundwork for the event. Among the reasons for the Cele bration is the fact 1939 Marks Winnipeg thursday july 14, 1938 the 125th anniversary of the treaty of Ghent which brought to an end the last War Between great Britain and the United states. Since then countless differences which under a happier Circum stances would have led to War have been amicably settled. This Long period of peace is Worth con Stant remembrance not Only for our own satisfaction but As a demonstration to the whole world of what is possible. A Canadian committee is being formed to sponsor the Celebration on this Side of the line and Vari Ous experts in different phases of Canadian american relations will prepare suitably for the event which deserves a measure of Public support. A horse ran away a horse hitched to a bread Van ran away on a shaded Street in fort Rouge in the summer peace of yesterday morning. The Placid existence of this suburban Section of the City was convulsed by the rampage us outrage. Nothing else mattered. One of the world s most modern planes flew Over the Street but was unnoticed when the horse ran away. A Street car crunched to a standstill on Cory Don Avenue but could not move till the horse galloped by or was stopped careening. A few men sweeping the shaded Street skipped to the Boulevard As the horse swept by them. Other men starting for their offices in the City shouted whoa to the horse but got no answer. One or two Brave Fellows stepped Vali Antly into the Street ahead of the horse but nimbly hopped Back As the bread Van lurched by them. A few automobiles parked on the Street escaped being crashed As the Wise horse wove by them. On the next Block a police ser Geant took in the situation and stood boldly in the Middle of the Street. He waved his arms like a dutch Mill turns its wings but his setting up exercises were mis understood by the horse. Either the horse galloped around the police sergeant or the police ser Geant Side stepped the horse for the sergeant was on the sidewalk while the horse was still running away. The Little treed Street became populous and excited. People came out on their lawns or took to the Middle of the Road after the horse had passed. Only the perspiring Driver of the horse kept on with the Chase. The big smash was expected to come at the end of the Street where the horse would have to turn but nothing happened except that the Van went round on one wheel. The horse galloped on probably thinking he was being encouraged by the Folk shouting at him As he Flung his shining shoes in new found Freedom. But As he vanished round the Corner the convulsion ceased. Peace was re stored. Folk went their Way thrilled by a run away horse. Jewish communism the amount of Eye Wash hit Lerian propagandists spread about and. Excuse for the silly and cruel jewish purges in Ger Many is one recalls mein kampf a abjuration that the very enormity of a lie contributes to its no doubt Hitler was paying attention to his own pernicious advice when he claimed that jewish communists controlled the German government before he came into Power. The facts of the Case As set Forth in a pamphlet called Hitler s communism in show the assertion to be absurd. In the first place Ger mans voted communist in there Are Only jews in Germany. And curiously enough communism in Germany was strongest in those sections with the smallest jewish population. In the second place the govern mental positions were rarely held by jewish men. Of the 550 Federal officials of highest rank Only 15 were jews or even of jewish Ori Gin. From 1919 to 1933 there were Twenty cabinets with a total of 260 whom Only seven were of jewish origin with but two of the seven professing jews. And of. The minor positions but three tenths of one per cent were held by jews. In the third place of the 89 communist deputies elected in 1932, Only one was a jew. While of the 608 deputies of Ali political Stripe but one was a professing jew and Only 13 were of jewish origin these facts reveal once again the utter unscrupulous Ness of Hitler Ian tactics. Anything for very enormity of the lie contributes to its birthdays judge a. W. Will la Winnipeg born Monaghan ire. July. 14. 1874. Thomas Lennon Elm Creek Man. Born ont., july 14, 1850. Not the three men new Leader same platform Tariff compensation plan ate thoughts on an old ques Canadian Are submitted by l. A. Skeoch. Of la fleche Saskatchewan in a communication to the free press. Arguing that the Dominion Treasury should non Industrial parti of Canada for Iosub in i flicked on them by the a Way to help Tariff or. Skeoch suggests a Way of doing it. He would Levy a tax on Price enhancement due to the Tariff the tax to be payable by the Canadian manufacturer. Or. Skeoch s argument parallels to some degree evidence Given be fore the Rowell commission. In each Prairie and maritime prov Ince the commission listened to a statistical demonstration that the Tariff costs Western producers and Consumers Money yields them Al most no advantage in return. The Novelty of or. Skeoch s argument is his plan to tax the beneficiaries of the Tariff to create a compensation fund. Or. Skeoch submits an estimate of the Tariff Burden on Canadian Consumers for the four years 1928 to 1931. He uses a statistical method worked out in Australia and Ada Teci to the Canadian situation by prof now the Hon Norman Rogers. There were Many citations of or. Rogers s work at the Rowell commission hearings. Or. Skeoch calculates that the Cost of the Tariff i to enhancement of prices of Canadian made around in 1928, in 1929, in 1930, and in 1931. This Bounty to the manufacturers or. Skeoch notes exceeded the Dominion. Government s Revenue in every year but 1930. It exceeded the proceeds of the country s wheat crop in All four a wide margin in the last three. In 1931 the Bounty was nearly three times the value of the wheat produced. These comparisons of course depend for effectiveness on the accuracy of the Tariff calculations. When figures similar to or. Skeoch s were presented to the Rowell commission the commission was disinclined to accept them unreservedly. Examination of wit Nesses brought out the extreme difficulty of computing in terms of Money the Burden of a Tariff. More impressive perhaps is or. Skeoch s comparison of dividend payments by Canadian companies with wheat Revenue in the years 1928 to 1932. Dividends if dividends for 1928 kept up be called 100, they were roughly 155 in 1929, 187 in 1930, 150 in 1931, and 115 in 1932., taking the same base of for wheat income it dropped by almost equal yearly amounts to below 30 in 1931, and in 1932 was around 33. Or. Skeoch s Point is that the Tariff sustained the income of manufacturing industries while farm in come was falling disastrously. Compensation for the Tariff Bur Den is proposed by or. Skeoch because he thinks the alternative not practical politics. Any person at All conversant with the realities of the he writes is aware that for better or for worse Canada is committed to a High Tariff policy for some time to again or. Skeoch takes a View several times put to the Rowell commission. The Brief of the Edmonton chamber of com in behalf of All Alberta in the absence of the provincial government from the notably explicit in asking that the West be reimbursed from the Dominion. Treasury for some of the costs imposed by protective duties. This proposition was examined with care at the inquiry. Two objections were offered of which one is the evident difficulty of computing exactly any province s net Tariff gain or loss. The other More Subtle is that it plan is would be anomalous to not easy set up a system of Federal payments expressly intended to offset or counteract Federal policy. The presumption had to be made it was argued that Protection was adopted As a Canadian policy on a National mandate and for the National Good. It was noted that in the Tariff elections of the last fifty 1911 and the West gave the protectionist party Strong support. Or. Skeoch writes explaining his proposal for compensation suppose it is found that the non Industrial regions of Canada Bear 40 per cent of the Tariff Burden it is proposed that the product of All protected manufacturers be made subject to an excise tax equivalent to 40. Per cent of the enhancement of Price allowed by the Tariff. Such a tax we believe would fulfil the requirements Al ready Laid Down 1 that the tax be paid by those benefiting most from the Tariff and 2 that the Burden of the tax be shifted to other groups. As for the first requirement the manufacturers profit most from the Tariff and they would pay the tax. The second requisite should also be adequately satisfied for the manufacturer could not shift the Burden to the consumer in higher prices without making it profitable for foreign manufacturers to pay the duty and sell their products in Canada. Nor could the manufacturer shift it to his employees in the form of lower wages and longer hours if adequate legislation on wages and hours were enforced. Nor would any new principle be involved to bring such a tax into Force since it is provided in the Tariff regulations that in the event of producers of goods taking advantage of any duty under that provisions of the customs Tariff the governor in Council is empowered to reduce or remove such duty and in the Case of a pro Ducer violating the provisions to impose upon All his products an excise duty equivalent to the amount of customs duty which would be paid by such goods if imported under the provisions of the general or. Skeoch Here quotes Section 17 of the Cus Toms Tariff act or. Skeoch agrees his scheme would run into some administrative difficulties As in the calculation of amounts of compensation to be paid but suggests that these would be offset by advantages conferred. The plan he writes would enable provincial governments to lower taxes and so reduce the Farmer s Cost of production. It would tend to Jyro Duce a More healthy attitude to Ward the Tariff and to make Clear that it is designed for one purpose give a Bounty to the manufacturer to which he is completely and honestly entitled. At the same time it would assure him of the Home Market. And most import ant of All it would end the feeling in the non Industrial provinces that they were being exploited for the Benefit of the Central prov today s scripture from i Peter 5 feed the flock of god which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy Lucre but of a ready mind neither As being lords Over god s heritage but being an ens ample to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear be shall receive a Crown of glory that Vadeth not away. Likewise be younger sub Mit yourselves unto the elder. Yea All of you be subject one to an other and be clothed with humility for god resist eth the proud and liveth Grace to the Humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of god that he May exalt you in due time casting All your care upon him. For he Careth for you. Complete Harmony is not to be expected at re Marks the Edmonton journal conservative of the Conven Tion at Ottawa but it suggests that the party was Lucky m that there was greater unanimity than seemed at Al Likely prior to the assembling of the the absence of anything very new in the platform that was adopted is generally noted. The resolutions keep Well within the Toronto Globe and mail observes. They Are described As progressive bul not Radical by the Calgary Herald conservative and the Edmonton journal notes that they do not depart to any Radical extent from those on which the party has appealed to the electors in the rather shrewdly perhaps the Saskatoon Star Phoenix Liberal surmises that the delegates were not much concerned about the they had their eyes fastened almost exclusively on the selection of a Leader and they almost certainly recognized that the course the party will follow will be More influenced by the Leader than by any there is Little difference be tween the conservatives and the liberals remarks the Star Phoenix on the policies of de Fence amending the Constitution and monetary policy. This is a circumstance it says into which the Public will. Read considerable it proceeds but it leaves the Way open for a National Reform party. The conservatives have Cut themselves off from that Field. The liberals can still enter it. Or a new. Party May come into the new Leader is most emphatically no says the Montreal Star conservative which thinks Well of or. Manion but it discounts the importance of political platforms. It says no one knows better than he does How political platforms Are made. The one thing they avoid As the very Devil is a real Issue if no political Leader or party Ever proposed anything unless it had previously been carried by a convention afraid its Shadow such Leader or party would never win an election except by an advocate of railway amalgamation the Star condemns the by no Coward vote by a Pussy footing it says even if the new Leader shrewdly sense the mind of the convention before it voted can kill the railway Issue they waited for the report of the Liberal Rowell commission to Dodge the constitutional Issue by they would not wait for the report of the conservative senatorial committee on the railway rather bestowing a Blessing the Globe and mail says that the Ottawa resolutions will confirm Confidence in the National conservative party As an organization of steady convictions and in this respect ought to be Gratifying to ;