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PAGE FOUR ni THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1928 The Oshawa Baily Times Succeeding { Ndmited; Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. Alloway, Secretary. Fhe Oshawa Daily Times 1a a member of the Cana- dian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers' As. { soclation, The Ontario Provincial Dal and the ! Audit Bureau of Circulations, MUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier: Wc a week, Hy mail (out. side Oshawa carrier delivery limits): in the Counties of Ontario, Durham &nd Northumber- land, $8.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE 407 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street, Tele phone Adelaide 0107, H. D, 'Presidder, repre. ' sentative, REPRESENTATIVES IN U.S, Powers and Stone, Inc, New York and Chicago, eh TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1928 i A TT THE BREWERY If the desire of a majority of the City Council counts for anything Oshawa is to have a brewery located practically on the lake shore, within a stone's throw of Lake. view Park, The Budweiser Brewing Com. pany of Canada, Limited, has signed the agreement with the City and tendered a cheque for one thousand dollars, as provided in the agreement, The question was re-opened by the City Council at last night's meeting by the intro- duction of a by-law to repeal the previous by-law authorizing the agreement, This by- law was defeated by a vote of 10-3, Evidence was submitted that the Company has now purchased a property at Dundas which it proposes to convert into a brewery and no explanation was forthcoming as to just where Oshawa comes in in the new pic. ture, It is presumed that the Company in- tends to operate in two places, Council did well to permit the matter to be re-opened, particularly in view of the haste with which the original by-law was passed, While apparently no converts were made either for or against the project, no one can now say that they would have voted differently had they been given more time for consideration or if certain facts which were not available at the time the matter was introduced had been known, The yeas and nays are duly recorded and gll who run may read, We were somewhat surprised at the un- willingness of Council to hear deputations present in connection with the matter, which is udoubtedly one in which many citizens are interested, Representatives of the Min- jsterial Association were present to state the case against a brewery as they see it, and the Industrial Commissioner, also two promoters of the Brewery Company, were in at- tendance prepared to throw light on any points not already clear to members of the Council, But at the instance of those sup- porting the brewery deal neither side was heard. This action we think was discourt- eous to the delegations present and unfair to the citizens, As we have stated previously we think the Council has erred in having anything to do with this proposition. Not only from a moral but from a civic and business standpoint, we cannot see how the city can hope to gain pnything of a substantial and satisfactory character from the enterprise, if it is pro- ceeded with, which at present is only a mat- ter for conjecture. However, the die is cast, pnd as already indicated, a fairly good op- portunity for discussion was given, so we presume the matter may be considered as closed for the present at least. The way to get the other fellow to do what you want him to do is: First, find put what he wants to do and see if what you are suggesting will help him achieve it; second, really like him; really think of him 'as your ally, not your opponent; third, un- derstand him; fourth, believe heartily in [tak vou sre ying to do; Sith, open your mind to the ideas of others, letting . their jdeas mix with yours to work out something mutually helpful. i He who is silent is forgotten; he who ab- ptains is taken at his word; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is over- igiagsed, crushed; be who cesses BENE Ss to grow greater becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end.--Amiel. THE LIFE-BLOOD OF POSTERITY The danger attendant upon excessive for eign immigration was discussed in the first of a series of articles on Nation Building in last Saturday's edition of The Times and commented upon editorially. In that article Bishop Lloyd made an able appeal for the development of Canada as a homogeneous British unit, pointing to the United States as a conspicuous and horrible example of the evils of allowing a country to become a melt- ing-pot of foreign elements. In the second article of the series publish- ed on this page, Bishop Lloyd discusses the railway agreement, which he calls upon all loyal Canadians to denounce. Certainly it is startling to note the enor- mous percentage of increase in the immigra- tion of central European peoples, It is some. thing which should give us food for thought --something which the eminent author of this illuminating series is rendering a great national service in bringing before the coun- try. Bishop Lloyd characterizes this railway agreement, or Order-in-Council, as one of the most vicious things of the kind in the ex- perience of nearly half a century--as an en- emy of every British institution in the coun- try. Such an observation, coming from so responsible a source, is a startling arraign- ment of a policy to which the country has been committed, If these things be true--the facts and fig- ures cited, there is a clear call to action on the part of all loyal British subjects, If these things are not true, the position should be made clear by the Premier and the rail. way companies, the contributory signatories to the agreement, If we are committed to a policy which doubles and triples and quadruples the num. ber of Germans, Finns, Poles; Italians, Ruth. enians and Slovaks in our midst, the matter is one which must be brought to the atten. tion of the people, as it is an issue which strikes at the heart of the country and will change its life-blood in two generations, To-day Canada is a British nation, To. day, as a country, whatever our political per- suasions may be, we are solid for British principles and British connections, Bishop Lloyd sees the collapse of this status with a continuation of a policy which remained in effect so disastrously in the United States,-- a policy which has made that nation the melting-pot of the world and which it is seeking too late and at infinite cost to amend, This series of articles by Bishop Lloyd is commended to the careful reading of every intelligent Canadian who has the interests of his country and the Empire at heart, The subject involves a responsibility which has to do with the very blood which will flow in the veins of our children's children, Can one say more? If we wish to be just of all things, let us first persuade ourselves of this: that there is not one of us without fault; no man is found who can acquit himself; and he who calls himself innocent does so with reference to a witness, and not to his conscience, --Seneca, To know the mighty of words of God; to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonder- ful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful then knowledge, --Copernicus, Bit of Verse THE MAN WHO KEEPS PEGGIN' AWAY Mid the toil an' the strife of our every-day life, With its doubts an' its hopes an' its fears, In the battle for bread that is wolfishly fought, : Amid selfishness, sorrow an' tears, 3 It isn't the chap That don't care a rap : Who makes success venture his way; ° But the man who will keep At the top of the heap ; Is the man who keeps peggin' away, In the race for life's prize that ahead of you lies, Don't you ever get weak in the knees; If some chap makes a spurt an' ahead of you goes, . Don't aimlessly stroll at your ease; 4) Keep a stiff upper lip, Strike a fast, steady clip; You'll win if you've courage to stay, For the man who earns fame In life's uneven game | Is the man who keeps peggin' away. - . | the so-called BISHOP LLOYD ON NATION BUILDING The Orisls! The second of a Series | blood of Articles Pleading for the De- velopment of Canada as a Ho ogemeous British State--Next Article: "The Melting-Pot'. [An open contribution to the news- papers of Canada by Rt. Rev. George Exton Lloyd, Lord Bishop of Sas katchewan. ) The dilution of our National blood began in a very quiet way about twenty-five years ago, as is shown by the census of 1901. But the crisis was brought about nearly three years ago by the political necessities of Pre- mier kive. At a time when his for- tunes were trembling in the balance the two railways seized the oppor- tunity to make the railways pay by extracting from the Premier an Order in Council which is now known as the railway agreement, By this document the railways were giv- en almost carte blance to bring into this country non-preferred Europeans from central and southern Europe. Germany was transferred to the pre- ferred list apparently without any authority but that of the Minister of Immigration, and the process of flooding began, and is now in full swing, The first work of the newly formed National Association of Canada, (in fact the cause that brought it into existence) was to arouse the British population of Canada to the im- mediate need of denouncing the rail way agreement and demanding its abrogation at once. * This railway agreement 'or Order-in-Council is an enemy of every British institution in the Dominion and should be fought to a finish by every true son of the Empire. The parliamentary Immi gration Investigation Committee at| Ottawa showed clearly that they did not like the Agreement and suggest- | == ed that it should not be renewed in its present form at the expiration of the present lease or permission. But that is not sufficient, Startling Figures During the last two years and a half the Agreement has been in force the railways have dumped into this country an alarming number of Europeans undesirables, Belgians have jumped in 1927 to 2,149, Finns increase suddenly from 1680 to 5208. Germans increased from 9,674 in 1926 to more than 15000 in 1927, Italians went up from 1,770 to 3466 Poles jumped from 2,725 to 6,704 Ruthenians went up from 4312 1 10,061 and Slovaks from 2069 to 4,284. And all this is the immediate and direct result of the railway agrec ment allowing the railways to bring in these unpreferred Europeans with little or no restriction from the Im-| migration Department, If Premier King has not the cour age to withdraw the iniqujtous Or | der in Council, then it ought to be | made very plain to the railway au- thorities that. they exercise the ill- gotten franchise in opposition to the will of this country and that fact should be made unmistakably plain to the Premier. If the use of this has done so much harm to the blood of this country in the last two and a half years the next two and a half years will be. much more harmful, The figures given ahove show that very plainly, The whole system « "nominations," "applications" "permits" as applied to Continental immigration is thoroughly wrong. It| is subversive of the British character of this nation, and should never have been allowed. This "agreement" is one of the most vicious things, (from the stand- | point of nation building) which has | happened within my memory of | forty-eight years in Canada. Ques- | tions like reciprocity only affect our wealth in dollars and if found to he a mistake could he rectified by the loss of some millions. But this rail- | way agreement is flooding the coun- | try with undesirable Europeans by tens of thousands and the vitiation of the blood and character of this as a British nation can never he rec- tified. Its results will always be with us, A Drastic Change Three years ago the immigration position in Canada was as follows: 'he doors from the United States were wide open and any one might enter who liked without any kind of question or restriction, and was accorded a welcome. 2. The doors from the British Isles were also fairly wide open to those who liked to come on their own, but invitation was rigidly restricted to those only who belonged to the four million agricultural class in Great Britain. But now all, whether inde- pendent or not, are subjected to a serious medical examination, while those who come from the States are asked no questions as to character or health. 3. The doors were equally wide open to those who came from Scan- dinavia and a few other European countries known as "preferred" coun- tries. 4. The doors were pretty solidly closed to all the Central and South- ern European countries and these were classed as "non-preferred" and rightly so. [It is true that "permits" were very freely used but even so it kept the numbers from these Eur- opean undesirable countries down to some thousands. Then came this staggering national change. Under the railway agree- ment, by means of so-called nomin- ations and applications (many of them bogus) thousands of these non- preferred Europeans were brought in almost without let or hindrance by the Department of Immigration and with next to no medical examination beyond de-lousing. And this flood has been surging in for two and one- half years already. The Govern- ment figures for the fiscal year 1927 show that no less than 64,050 Con- tinentals were allowed to come into the country and of these only 6887 were Scandinavians. And of course the report for the mext year will be far worse. The conditions were so bad that the Immigration Investigation Com- mittee of Parliament. sitting at Ot- tawa, felt compelled to make the fol- lowing recommendations with regard to this railway agreement. (1) that "nominations" should be restricted to the mear relatives of the Contin _already here. (2) That the working of the Agreement should come r the supervision of the rtment of Immigration, and (3) t the Agreement itself should not be renewed in its present form, That Investigation Committee was very little protection for the British and character of this nation. Therefore 1 ask all loyal Canadians to join with the National Association in denouncing this railway agreement before it does another three years of damage. The urgent thing is to write to the Premier and to the two railway Presidents and say you do not like this Continental flood now bei poured into the country by the nar ways, a NE) What Others Say AN ENCHANTING | D (Quebec Le Soleil) It is in the United States that the great fortunes are found. It is in Canada that one finds the most en- chanting places to spend a part of them. It is no secret that our eli- mate in June, July and August is one of the finest, the most healthy and most comfortable in the universe. THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY (Winnipeg Liberte) We have the right to be exacting in our choice of immigrants; for in opening the doors of our country, we have much to offer the colonist. We offer them literally a land of milk and honey--a land of sun, fertility, peace and liberty, To immigrant families, many of whom have for generations eaten the bread of want and oppression, what wealth, ma- terial, moral and political we can confer upon them, SUCH 1S FAME (Ottawa Journal) A two-inch paragraph in an ob RESOURC I S OVI 10) MILLIONS scure corner of the newspapers tells of the death of Col. George Harvey. Such is fame. Ten years ago the name of George Harvey was on the world's lips. He was the man who, as editor of the North American Review, was supposed to have "made Wilson" He was United States Am- hassador to Britain; shocked every- body and got on the front pages of all the newspapers by driving up to Buckingham Palace to see the King in an old Ford; wore white flannel trousers at official functions--did all sorts of eccentric things, He came back to the United States to resume journalism; died on Monday--and gets a paragraph in the press, BRITAIN'S SURPLUS WORKERS (New York World) Several weeks ago the British in- dustrial transference board an- nounced that there were some 200,- 000 workers in Great Britain for whom there were no jobs in the in- dustries in which they had formerly worked. 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