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mo chaithoriiarowu GUARDIAN ' , _ ‘ ' . ~,1t was ten {ears later, under similar conditions of secrecy, x’

. I ‘thiil thel fcetfsus o Q88! was nearing completion Months before

I . . . _ . , ,_ _ , lwmm“ M“ W" M") all sorts of'plans"had been laid to get early or exclusive informa- tion in regard thereto, ‘but all these plans were destined to fail. Thelbest I had hoped for was to get the figures for Thg Globe at the same time they were given out to the newspapers support- ing the‘ Govemiiient. And so one day the information was secret- lY gained that the census was completed as ‘to population and that t the tiiain features would be given out the following night to a few only of the ministerial journals. I promptly applied to Dr. Tache, the Deputy Minister, ivho declined to infomi me whether the tabulation was completed or about to be given to the press, or l? Give m1‘ any information in regard to it. The Minister of Ag- f-ICUIKUTC, Hon. john Henry Pope, was not in his gfficg at the time; it was not known when he would be in, and I was told very positively that it would be quite useless to apply to him. This was disappointing, indeed. Then for a time there was a rapid ex- change of telegrams between Ottawa and Toronto, of ufiich the following are specimens: Ottawa to Toronto: “Census coming out, ‘but can't get it.” Toronto to Ottawa: “Must have it at what-- ever cost l" _ - There was much more by way of explanations and reasons

for things on the one hand and of insistence on the other hand. If only I could see Mr. Pope! I knew him quite wit-ll, and he had always been kind and considerate in news matters, sometimes testing me with, "Now, if I tell you this, you are sure you will not use it till I give you leave?" This is sometimes a hard test. and the correspondent may be severely tempted to break faith, lint woe betidc him if he does! I had trertainly kept faith with Mr.

q 3'12, 1921i... ' g "U-rc-iettfi-iifles” ' I g .. y, Sinking Spell: ‘imp 111mm!“ ~- Thin column 1n open for the ‘ -.*r"'“'*“fi..°r.':r.."'..."".":: ’ " ,n Gunman-non

“knot noonnorlly undone the opinions of correspondents.’

applying had a fight l0 ll"? "CW5. and that peace was better than :35; TI-Iiglbgg flilualzet.) lit he uqquld not give the required inforina- could do it ' ea en e department twice already, and \ . again. Bluff was, however, equally as ineffective as Pefslliwffln- He assured me that he could guess pretty well how glgitlgexsjllhafclvlafbi: olgtained before, and that this time the best ef- did not know and h rqgsllondent would fail. zFeelmg sure that he unearthed Iofiereduhl‘! that guess how prl-avlous news had b?” ‘he Promise to admit tlilnt} e Thance of- maklng lhree guesées wnh es were ingenious b B Rot if he conjectured rightly. Hi5 guess. As he would u‘ Celmmy ‘wmlig m “w.” cam ; ‘ "°l 81W up the information. and plans former- ly successful we“ m" again available. l resolved to appeal to Sir glghlzlnxjifitnalctirlnmsfll» allhmlgh very conscious that he would fair-minded ‘Ylskfiélfi’ lllrfnzves to refuse rne. I felt that he was vindictivenesig The fit s was generous and free from petty »- conversation that followed between Mr. Riis- sell and myself was about as follows: "Is Sir john in the department?” “No; he is {ll sihtiht-htth uni." xwm Yo" Rive me a messenger to take a note to him?" ‘YFS- But do you expect him to reply to your note after all the irritating episodes just past.” ‘fl do. The llllmblest citizen of Canada has a right to ask a question of the highest iii the land on flllllllt‘ aiTairs, and expect

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morllliit- that. any or the vendors Rorfi oohboccordiiig to the pro- edhittiwfllow. be closed wt any

a by ineniis 0t “a majority pelt.

_ot lihe community in which tit will have a very reoyraiii- influoncoulion those who have ge-flllflmaqnont o! ‘these stores. 6y will be cumin not to allow xcoaql"- purchnaos or anything also ngadnotjtiho law; for an inter- ested public including the women,

will have an eye upon them.

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o or ALL mp: iahiilii-izi-i. I; u... King of hi1 the earth: yo praises with imderstandlntl-

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- me the clasp that is calm. true and steady; -

- me the hand that will never deceive me; v ‘ t

-. me its grasp that l aye may believe thee.

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» palm or hard hand. ll matter! now-never! .

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not. iiuobher; . ' ~ inc the hand that has never ioveswore, it; -. nie its grasp that l aye may adore lt. ~

ly the pulm of the fair-valued maiden; "Ytllehand of o'er laden; ely or ugly, it matters ‘ not- nover! - - mo the grasp that in trloudl Ioreven.

l ‘the’ workman

- me tihe grasp that la honest and hearty.

‘i ‘by party; that becomes her. the rSummer.

e me the hand that is true as a brother; me the hand that has not wronged another; , palm or hard hand, it matters not-never! ine the grasp that is friendly forever. -

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(By Brltlnh United Freon) NlD0iN, May 11. —-Ganeshi otherwise Birz Mohan. one of ‘s moat wealthy merchant s. arrived in IJOIIdOn recently ing in his vest pocket some h over $2,500,000. Ho was tied nigiht. and day by four lu- private detectives armed with

tlhe. bus new was divided and both ourtererl- heavily. were crippled tin- anclally, and had to retire to the loss uftzho community. The same effect of over-competition has, it

~ appears, ‘been shown in the United

Staten. Business men thoye see. so I have been informed, that. “the odd on; of oompotiltion of‘ a ruth- less and cut throat variety" is not in their own interests or in the interest-s of the country at large. At afmeetiug o! three thousand delegates to the annual meeting of the Ohamhers or Commerce in the United States. it was lately decided that morowill he gained by co-op- oration to elimiiiiote waste and to urrrect trade abuses, than by too much competition. g It is to be hoped that. young men ln P. E. Island who have come iii- to a little money will not go into huhlnegs in oppositi to those wiho are in. but will take up some oth- or lino, and "let the otehrvfellow live," while bhey develop some- thing new and so meet the needs of the people and add to tihelr own wealth. There are openings in several directions. "' ” I mm, Sir. etc., A BYSTANDER

'9?‘ HOUSE‘ CLEANING

.Sir,—-0ne would naturally ex- peot the church to be the went temperance organimtion and alive at all times not only to the evil of lniteuiperance butt to all thins! evil, instead of waking up on W90- ial occasions such as the present. But not: so. Men who like tiheir toddy are taken lnmo the Church and pit. at. the Golumunion taible with the altiotnlner, and all ls well. Again, there are men in the church whose time for a certain number o: hours each day is not their own. ‘r-hoy are paid to work dur- ing these. hours for an individual. n. company or a. government, yet. many of these men use part. of this time to carry on their own private affairs. A poor unfortunate, per- haps. driven by hunger, stools something, he is branded a this! and sent to prison. but. pbe-se men are in good standing, they may ev- en be deaconii. stewards, or elders, and all is well. Again, we have members wtho pretend b0 be shock- ed an, the idea of a man taking a drink of liquor in his own home. before hlsfotnily. Well, it some oi! these men ‘romained home at night, even with n bowls in the house. inotmid or going joy-riding.

they would be men compared to

what theypreolly are. Now the trlergy must know this to be true, chen why not. begin hoigseclenning hr‘ their own congregations instead o: taking part in condemning men who would not stoop to the fillings mentioned, but who believe prohibi- tion a failure and consider Prom- ier Stewart's method a more sult- oblo way of dealing with the liquor duosiionr, and because of that, are

turn.

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which

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senger carried it away.

certain Liberal correspondents servative chieftain.

a courteous answer.”

"Well, try it and see!" So the note was written.

essence being in the following words;

“The amended laud regulations will not be given newspaper in advance of their publication in the Canada GGSPf/t’ tomorrow." TheeFfec; of this was. of course, that both the and Opposition journals would have the news at the

was all we asked for.

I had not yet met Sir Alexander

laughingly.

a and the United States.

upon Sir Alexander Campbell. My card was sent iti, and I ivas at once admitted. He re- ceived me courteously. but was apparently on his guard. At first he would neither admit nor deny that a new postal agreement had been concluded, but cautiously itiquired, “If it were so, why should I give the news to The Globe!“ This gave an opportunity to argue the matter briefly, setting forth that the treaty was something af- fecting all the people of Canada, and doiie on behalf of all, whether Conservative or Liberal, and it would seem they were all entitled to learn of it at the same time. There was something more said- in reference to his well-known courtesy and fairness. Sir Alex- ander rcplied very frankly and promptly that in this case he would give me what I had asked for, although he might not always be able to do so in. the future. lie rang his bell, the Deputy-Minister, Mr. Griffin, came in and was instructed to give me the purport of the new agreement. In this case, if I remember rightly, the news not being applied for thy the Government papers, first appeared ex- clusively in the leading Opposition daily. ' The census of Canada, both in 187i and 188i, as well as‘ since those days, has been a subject of great interest to the reading public for several reasons. Our vast territorial area, sparse set- tlements. and the rather disappointing growth of population in

I did my best on it, and the mes- Hc bro“ h I remained at the department till his re‘-

g t a letter which he handed mo, ofiioial companion w returned. note was placed in his hands.

as a little surprised that an answer had been lie urns more so when, after‘ smiling as I read it, the ll was entirely courteous and friend!

Another ellect was to strengthen a growing admiration for the old Con-

_ _ Campbell to speak with him affairs, when circumstances combined and suggested a call. Sergeant-at-Arms Macdonnell. of the l-lous pleasantly mentioned that on the previou

e of Commons. one day s evening at a ofiicial at Rideaii Hall. he had heard Sir Leonard Tilley in conver- sation with Sir Alexander Campbell pay a perhaps compliment to The Globuk correspondent. “he simply said you were a very dangerous man l" The next day at the telegraph office l was told that Sir Alexander Campbell had been itiquiring what the. new Globe man was-like. and that he had been told in reply, “Why, Sir Alexander, Only yesterday I saw you borrow his pencil at this counter to write a message.” ‘"l‘his had indeed occurred as stated. Moreover, the news had come that clay of a new postal convention made between It was surely now time to call

Pope. lie was astute, shrewd, genial, with a dry humour that, together with his tall figure, reminded me of Abraham Lincoln. , lle was, moreover, a trusted lieutenant of Sir john Nlacdonaltl, and was from time to time acting minister of other departments than his own when the responsible head was absent or a tempor- ary vacancy had occurred.

Mr. Pope was again in his officc during the afternoon, and I lost no time in seeing him. llc knew my business in advance and was very serious in referring to it. “You seem to know,” he said. “that the census figures will be given out to aorrow. I 1 will be quite candid with you ; your information is ‘corxit that far. We are giving the news to only a few of the papers friendly to the Government. I should like very much to oblige you personally. but I fear I would not be warranted in giving it to Tlir Globe."

But Mr. Pope was willing to hear such argument as I might present, and he had a number of formidable objections to urge in reply. It was true. he admitted, that the news was in no way po- litical; equally true that the census was taken for the information of all the people and at the cost of all, and they might be consid- ered to be all etititled to the news at the same time. But that was not quite the way things work out under party government. Liberal governments, as well as Conservative governments, gave some preference to their friends, and in the long rtui the account would be pretty fairly balanced. Moreover. those of the electors who were so unfortunate as to be inoppositioir, could always buy and read a newspaper supporting the Government if they (lesiretl to get early news of the more important doings at Ottawa.

‘The interview was of some length and my filial appeal was to his generosity, coupled with the suggestion that it might be the more popular course to treat the matter in a broad and magnani- mous spirit. Mr. Pope admitted that there might be something in this view of the case, but they had to consider their ‘friends, and

I thought my

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what would the scores of Conservative newspapers, which would not get the news.say, when they’ found it had been given to an' Opposition- paper? In the end he conceded to my request, making mention thattsincethe beginning of my correspondence, The G lolw had treatedhim and the department fairly. When I had thanked him as best I could he rang the bell for Dr. Taché, thc Deputy’- Miiiister. and told him in a few words that lie had decided to give the census to Tlic Globe’, in addition to the (itlier newspapers of which h-eihad a list". “Give him what he wants," he adtlcd,-and then, drawing on his gloves, went out. In the Deppty-ltiinistefs room. with a shrug of his shoulders that spoke volumes of min- gled surprise ,and special favor, Dr. Taché handed me the precious sheets of figures prepared for transmission to the most favored class of newspapers. ‘t i

A little later I had wired jubilantly to Toronto: “l have got the census!" and in reply had received from the managing editor the too flattering message, “You have won fame at a strokel’: But alas, how easily things go wrong! The next morn- iiig’s Globe, which contained the census figures, contained also a paragraph. apparently based on one of my earlier telegrams, blam- ing the Minister for having refused the information he had so

generous] given. This was, of course, promptly corrected in the next issue. with due credit given to Mr. Pope and honorable

“If a motorist could spend

one day with me," says

one dealer, “seeing all

makes of tires in all sorts of conditions- "-~ seeing what they're made of and how-he'd

the earlier decades, contributed to cause this anxious concern. know and appreciate why I sell Silvertowns.

The young nation, like a young boy, was perhaps over-anxious to ETOW up quickly. ‘This very gradual growth will in ‘the end‘bea_r fruit for good. In the meantime, the unsettled “lest has been settled with British and Canadian people, carrying with them the laws and institutions of a British community in advance of any large and uncontrollablednflux of foreign elements. A solid Brit- ish-Canadian foundation has been laid from Sydney to Vancouver. This was important. I Let me ‘drop back for a moment to the census of i87i. It was a census of four Provinces only, but at the time the work of tabulation was completed there was great interest to learn the re- sult. and a prominent Opposition paper had then privately offered $500 for first exclusive and accurate figures showing the Provincial totals. Under this stimulus a number of the young newspaper men attending at Ottawa made persistent effort to get the figures, but failed. The secret was in very fewhands, and those whopknew it and were not ministers, were supposed to be sworn to secrecy. Four of us formed a partnership to earn the reward by each under- y Th“ of m _ taking to ascertain if possible the population of his own Province. he T,“ M,,,,,-]{$.,'§;n,m p. y. Aiiloriku io the bent By close watch and careful inquiry it was at length learned that 110N133.“ lamb gilt to the has" m“ 5m“ “u” the figures had been summed up and would that night besent to . g0 M“. t,“ mnr;,:ef:‘:lx - _ the Conservative press. We had so far accomplished nothing and Baha'i, when‘ he had ' were destined to fail. I did, however, succeed in getting at the . population of New Brunswick. Going over to the Customs De- partment to see the Minister. I casually met him in the corridor. He paused a moment to speak a few words, and lmentioned that it was-regrettable the! population of our own Province was so dis-

classed as wets, rummios, old

Socks. etc.

,- There is altogether too much hy-

pocrisy lu church and state. and it

is high tilme to tear oft.’ the mask. I am. Sir. etc" SELF CONTROL

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iPouti- lne-ioeene oil on an atuthill. ulleb hollow who Haiti's ttilulil wiltore- ever l-t: leads. ilroimifptiae hill. If they the 1i t. atria coming dnbo thotuae and ;<.-0,..h.“_°“ l“ “l” "Md, W.“ the row-autistic so ithcy’ wont ntzcklllece of 204 " I ~ crawl up. , a ed emeralds 0t from 11o 8 gooeacll- VP-lllqd at. more than

101' Armour. Mr. M b - . rgpqeaentitlvo "onyx: grill".

nmouo ll _ at been ohowc: 1.9"” T,’ n"

Mr. Molt-nu

lleil daggers. The object. 0t lint was to attend the Ascot he Derby and to show his pre- fllfm“. which include several e most famous in the world. ends and collectors. , ' = lewels include: ' “famous shah Saliam. or ‘Pal l emerald. the centre piece ch alone weighs 93 combs. "at over $330,000) , _. .88 carat BWPDIHTu declare

amends made.

There were special correspondents at Ottawa other than my- self =in the early years of Confederation, who no doubt had more varied and eventful experiences, closer touch with the great men of the time, and who made fewer failures and better sticcess in that interesting field, butthey have not told their story. Much is known to the few and now gray-haired survivors of that little» band that may never be told. and much is already covered in the, shadows that tenderly wrap those who have gone from life's ac-l tivities. Possibly the loss may yet be felt, and when the Dominion shall come to celebrate its centennial sixty years heiicefit may be matter for regret that too little was committed to paper even in the way of such seemingly trivial reminiscences of the Fathers and their times as are here set down.

“He'd see that Silvertowns are real tires through and through. He'd understand why Silvertowns have won their reputation for dependability and long mileage.

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