in Regina. The authority formerly quoted in this article had this
to say about Calder in 1917 when Calder took office in Ottawa:

"About the time of the Winnipeg Convention I was talking with the same
man whom I have already quoted, and we were discussing the enigma which
Calder's character and public record seemed to present. I knew that my
friend was not especially a friend of Calder's, so his words seemed to
carry greater weight.

"'There is no person in Canadian public life,' he said, 'who has been
trying more conscientiously and consistently to be good than Calder. I
will not say that his motive may be higher than that of political
expediency; but he has been and is more scrupulously careful to do
nothing that may reflect in any way upon his honour and integrity. I
believe that he has set before him the highest possible ideal of public
service and that he is doing everything he can to live up to it.'"

A prominent citizen of Regina who has seen a good deal of Calder, both
in his home city and in Ottawa, has the same opinion; adding that
Calder never bamboozles a deputation with suave words or false hopes;
what the Cabinet thinks about any particular programme of a deputation
he already knows and suggests that a typed memo, which he will present,
will be as good as waiting days for a personal appeal. In 1919 he
informed the writer that he proposed to enact much-needed reforms in
immigrating Canada, especially as to the quality of new-comers.

Why has Mr. Calder never made a big study of this absorbing question?
When the Premier went to the Imperial Conference, with his mind pretty
well made up on the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, why had he not in his
grip, to show the Conference, one common sense, powerful little book
signed by Hon. J. A. Calder, Minister of Immigration, giving a complete
exposition of Japanese life in Canada? When we are all talking about
the good _entente_ with the United States why can't we get from the
Immigration Department in Ottawa a hand-book giving a complete picture
of what Americans have done in the West?

However, the Sphinx may have the best of reasons for not doing these
simple things. But there is scarcely a Department of administration
that does not regard itself as a machine for winning elections as much
as for serving the people who pay for it. Apart from all he has not
told us, I have no doubt Mr. Calder is doing a big reforming work on
immigration in Ottawa.

The Immigr