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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1882-03-30, Page 4Li 4t crfigiCrne1tt5 L. Ouimette. Jackson. R. Beesley. —J. Williams. editors—A. H..Manning. $tock—A. H. Manning. sidings -John Stephenson. e—A.4. Bennett. - Jackson. ing-Pay Wiseman. fashions-Craib, Maewhirter & Co 'bit—J. Hodgins. B . c i ering business— A. Couch. CT.troceries &c.— J. Cugingliame.... Apprentice wanted -W. Taylor & Son. (lzxtnton �v 'th&' THURSDAY, MARCH 30;188 2. THE GOLNTIt TOWN. Last week's Goderich Signal said . The Ni V ERA, of Clinton, in its lastissue,_• puts in a claim'for Clinton for the shire'toivn of Huron. The chief' plea advanced: is the better railway facilities for persons called -to', the county .town on legal, county, or ether public business. Of course, the capture of the county town would materially help' Clin- ton, but if the fact of having a second railway, is its chief claim, (and from the'article in the' New Erano better one' can be advanced) it is quite possible for Goderich to get even with the inland town, if proper steps be taken by our town Railway Committee.. But it is dif- ficult to --satisfy our Clinton brother, for if a 'Second railwaywas agitated -hereto -morrow,, that gentleman would forget his solicitude - for visitors to Goderich, 'and claim that no increased railway facilities were necessary at the county town. We hope our confrere will keep pounding away at . the county town question, until such time as our Railway Committee .satisfies him by getting in a se- cond line to Goderich. By that time he may possibly be able to advance anotherreason why_ the public buildings should be levelled in Goderich anthraised in Clinton. We did not anticipate that our Goderich friends would be at all favorable with our proposition, ^ and are not, therefore, dissap- pointed. But the fact of Clinton's better railwayaccommodation was not the only plea put forward by the NEw':ERA. Even if Goderichg ets a second railroad, which is ex- ceedingly doubtful, it would not then be in as favorable a position as Clinton in this respect, and what they would do with a eecond.;rail- ro ad, no one on earth knows. A town "which, has shrunk from a population ot:nearly 6,000, to the neighborhood of 4,000, cannot hold out much encouragement for a new line of- rail- way. Our ootem }mows perfectly well that the county town is `not. in the most favorable position ; they know that it would bo better .for" the people of the entire' county; if it was located in Clinton ; tfley know that A there is a !strong inclination among county councillors to make that change, and they know ,that sooner or later that change will be made, but they feel they owe it to the people ofnGode- rich to make some sort 'of defence before quietly submitting to the inevitable.' If Goderich had forty railroads, they would- not revive it, because there is not the business to sustain the place, and in spite of everything Clinton hasbecome the: most important town in the county, and will'continue'as such whe- ther it becomes .the county ",town or not, but we believe that it will become 'the county town in spite of all "that the Goderich people pan do. FU1tTIIER' EVIDENCE... Last week w'e published Eno ei-idence.of Mr. Noxon, a well known to nufacturer, to show that the farm rspaid the increased dtit. yon ninanufactures, and we publish another below, from the evidence:of Mr.':llarris, of Harris, • Son cv. Co., Brantford, :which is to ,precisely' the 'same. effect as that of Mr. Noxon. Prom a fair;.and careful' comparison that prices and q 'alrties ,eve have ascertained that during the p ,t •few years since::the N.P. was introd ce d we'. 'v u d a e � gbeen -a in -from t r m a little P above $6,000to a little '.under .$8,000 of 'in- creased duties 'on onr:raw, materials. 1,Ve have reduced tits weiglit"'of our implements, but on the other hand'' have had to secure the advantage of '' strength ;'"cembine3'with light.draught by using better aiid raore-ex-- pensive material. Our prices have not ad- vanced much, and we pay more for the 'cost of production, "sothat we have not, the mar- gin that we had before the .increase of ti>;o tariff." Prices-are"slow' to rise in response to the increased cost' of production,: so that we' had for a time to share the payment of the new duties with our customers.- Trade has finally adjusted itself to the new order of things, and reecolleet:fi'om the farmers;' the amount of the 'increased duties: This. is to say, the keenest'of the;home coinpetion would force us to sell lower -by the amount of r the. duty were that duty removed. • In ou'r coin-• putations^of what wewill sella" machine: for we always take the, duty into consideration, and it is "our ietmtio,r to.make bat,' ctbsto)herd• pay over to.us•the dritiee we pay o*dr to:;the Government. T , .:• Could anything be clearer than that? :. The duty on grain was only put on to blind -far- maers,-•-beeauso it does not and cannot bene. Jit them,—so that they night not see ltew they were compelled, to;ipay, hig Iter for . their manufactured articles: Iglr. Harris says their firth pays.88,000 increased duties on raw ma- terials, and aecordin 'to' his g own adinissfon; the .farmers who buy implements.have to-. pay that 88,000. extra, which" stande to ,.reason:; Farmers' how.•loiig will you stand this 'unjust incl unnecessary taxation ?" -es �e-ee iNCONSISTENCY. It makes all the difference in the "world whether- a f,onservativo is in opposition Or in power,. what his 'utterances Will he. • Sir Charles Tupper has 'repeatedly boasted of his: consistency; but the following eatract-tf/rorh the official report of his speech on the Budget, i in -1875, (when in Lw pppositioi) chows that his boast is not'we11 founder "I say the Government have no have a surplus. If they hate `they ,should endeavor to get rid of -it, and' the best.tvay to • do so is' that,pursued. byue and by the Gov ernment of Great Britain—by liglitening the taxes on the people -l'? gt :low very contistont (?) with, his utterances at the present time.: • PLEtiT]i I OR ROOIU We hope thata. large number of old noun try tenant farmers will come to Ontario this season. It' would be a first rate movement for them and itwould be equally beneficial to us. The capital, intelligence and labor which -many in the old land have put into the farms they have rented, only to find themselves at r, the end of twenty or thirty years worse off than when they started would, in Ontario, have made them long ago perfectly indepen. dent. Why don't they come? They don't know, and they are afraid to make the Plunge.—Stratford Beacon. : ' There is; yet plenty of room in Ontario for the accommodation of a large number this class, and it would be decidedly to their own interest to emigrate. One who has ',resided in -England eau easily undeistandl the diffi. denoe with which the people leave that noun - try, but this must be overcome if ,they 'wish; to better their condition, and emigration is the only remedy. • Parties in this country' who have friends in the •old land should re double and persevere' in their efforts to get: them to move out. • ''here's ""room -for; plenty more in Canada, and work of some, sot -t: for those who are willing to 'Rork. But tenant farmers in' patticalar should pull up stakes. and come out.• C AN tl)I N mita HE. The following letter from, ivlr 'Hibbard;„ American Consul at Goderich; to Ike State" Department at Washington, upon the subject of the trade of Canada with the,United States, is an 'impartial.' evidence of what causes the.: good times in this country—the exportation of farm produce toy the United States and Great Britain—thus totally ignor ing the N.P, Tlie'salt interest here will also see that the market for\their manufacture is. • being enlarged, and' that; it would be better for them to leave the tariff, a on`salt alone. "There has been a marked\increase of ex- ports "from this, locality, parttcularlyhorses,, sheep and -barley; also the' less important ones, which heretofore were. so limited as not. to be specially noticed, are ' now. reaching a:'. constderbble volume, such as hides, butter," &c. " Now, with .:all the restrietionsy.\and. 'duties -imposed by our Government, this conn try seems, so far as, my limited `observatitm- can determine, to be able to find' a ,`paying` market with us for many ot, thefarming pro ducts, probably on: account . of ,the rapid growth of ipopulation.in the EasternStates Sind. the short and ,cheap transportation there= to. One stiecial feature"in the exports here ie the large increase in theexport of the dairy salt. While noticing the exports -to our own country,'and the increasing trade between the .UnitedStates and Canada, in" many respects,'' Ilcan, hardly avoid directing, your -attention to the eatraordinarygrowth of the cattle trade between tlue'country and Great Britain, end the alioatFunpreced'ented'development of the,; Canadian,,:+ orth•weet, •which:is said to be' as' fine *grazing and grain•growing, "coantry as eicifitS'eff,iikAniericari continent. . Many of the merch'ante and men of -capital are daily, • leaving tfi"ie"tricinity:,te make investments in Winnrpeg'and other cities sitnated on the line. of .the Canada Pacific Railway, which is con trolled by =a wealthy syndicate,.. and being pushed with a vigor and persistency " only equalled in the -construction. of our own trans • - continental'lines: :A,large amount of Ame-" rican capital is also finding ^its wap into those' .places,-and'so far is this the'ease that visitors speak of the city of Winnipeg in particnlar as' being in a ;;business way very like 'our own fast growing western cities," EDITORLAL:NOTES. ' WE OBgEat!E that of late severaldiiiapers, in' 'their editorials, refer personall•y to the` ed•,"rs it of. their.cotemporaiies by name. 'iasis is a: mean style•ot discuu- rsn, and Ilse sooner it, is \dropped''the better.:" Sir Jen .44DONM.D has accepted the nomination for Lennox on th'e condition that he: is not,required to personally Canvas the, constituency. \1.'er. are free- to say that his: election is,probablo;" hut' we have"hopes hiss eleetion:will he 'for tire' Opposition. As EyIDJ&act that, sooner: or later,'retribu tion will overtake the wicked, take the case' of Mr. J. Blackburn, of the ,Loddon" Free Press, who stepped,throogh an open trap door and sustained.' Orions injuries the;:other- day. Our friend has our heartfelt sympathy, how. ever, in his misfortune,.all;joking aside. CotisEI vnxtvte' in Clinton are not very jubilant over the •noihination of Mr.: Fred, Johnston;""barrister'' (?)"In fact a good' many entertain tha;..sama:view as ,was ex-' pressed, by one of -the most iietive ones, who' remarked'- the other, day that "If there is such a thing "as•a.good, upright Reformer,.A! 111‘.. Boss was one." WE aJABN from:-privateeouroets'that the Govenment intend to 'change the N.W. land regulations after' the "1st of May,fso' that a• Man Homesteading, j and • afterwards selling'. his.hontieatead, 'may homestead' again: The foolish regulation, allowing'a •man to home stead only once, has driven many settlers' into Dakota, and the new regulation; though conaing.late, will give satisfadtion to many' intending settlers. Ar A caucus .in Ottawa last week, Sir John Macdonald made a:speech in which he an- nonnced that there was no telling, what mo, ment it K • cold be found advisabls•'to dissol1 ve the House and have a general election, and he -warned his followers to be prepared for' such an -event. The Conservatives- "are- der. tainly making their preparations throughout the coutytry:for an election, and it, behoves Liberals to be not behind, but the unsettled state of ithe Quebec Government may delay, the time, In' is reported, on wht, maybe considered. al- t r nth _a o tl�' in the '"inti n {'. r s, than re -distribution o of constituencies to be made by the 'Dominion Government, the -Centre Riding of Huron is, to be gerrymandered. 't tinWing that the de- feat. of Mr. Cameron is impossible, in the S uth Riding, 'and :that any change,. in that Riding will make no difference,, the. Govern ment intend to add the township of Goderich tothe Centre Riding, hoping, by that eans, to overcome the large Reform malty in that "tiding. That they willh not accomplish their object, even with this change, we .feel I quite confident, 882.. CWgIRTE WILL OPEN THEIR NEW SHOW ROOM ON .WITII A, FULL AND COMPLETE; STOCK OF SII L N L v LLI THE FOLLOWING; LADIES WILL BE IN- ATTENDANCE : i ..1 ha and a Miss Walker,....Miss Ch ale Miss Shaw, number of assistants., this' season are Our importations ease a e the largest .in the history ofthe DryGoodsoods trade of this tow n for many years, and prices are cut down by us to such a low basis as to . call forth the whining re- monstrance from ' one of our Dry Goods firms here, who wrote a“ large Manufacturing House, business, advising with "whom we do in them not to �. g sell` us ;goods, stating that weruined the trade by selling without a profit, which is "true when com- pared " with outside 1pr•ices,but such no.' s ch cowardly practice could " shake, our position, our orders were preferred, being on a larger scale and al- most 'as lmost`as large as all the other houses in Clinton combined. Our ' financial position is such, that we ' have a monopoly as far as Clinton is concerned, ; of, bily- ing from the largest, wealthiest, and best whole- sale Houses ,in their several departments in this Great Dominion, and which absolutely rifle prices -and styles. in Canada.:' • The finest:: stock of BLACK. and COLORED SILKS, BLACK CASHMERES, and FANCY DRESS GOO'S. in the trade, the stock is too well known to deed comment..' �tle Departmen Since the;colnmencelneit.,of' our business we: have always made it 'a point to; never be'';without a FIRST-CLASS MANTLEMAKER, :in this we have been remarkably successfl,"the de-- partnient is now, - and , has been for nearly three years under the able .management_ of MISS WALKER, wliose work' pro claims lxer;'to be the only reliable mantle cutter iia tows, . Ladies in' want Of a first-class article ,should examine our '.styles : and, make hefore going to Houses who have, neither the will :no7 the more to employ first-class artists but who try to make. .Y P Y r.:- t.. u for deficiencies byfalse' and absurd statements in ;their. p. . advertisements. See the styles of our SCU1.G" 'II TWEEDS see'' the' pnces of our Scotch' Tweeds, we have no hesitation in/saying "that our present display will not only maintain abut extend the, very' en- viable reputation our Tailoring de artment;-,enjoys as against 1 an and: all coinpeti'tol s As every ratepayer should feel that the town's intereeats:aiid prosperity are identical with their own and should :'all" unite in doing every,',tling in their°.power to place; catii and advantages entitle' it in,tlie pre -en -Anent posltloii-'which its natural to b` it to. occupy:.We.'-ate endeavoring •to keel "it -the GIiEA'? .Dtt -GOODS CENTRE'�..oF:: e• s keep we'are now\ coliifortabl_y settled TEE COMM-, 111 Iltoh w ad =t w store; , L.zm„h ""Esso \ , fitted' and ,fiurnished.'in an, .elegant:style, far surpassing anything in our am- bitious town, niakiiig it one of elegant of., the IYIUD. - We t liocettpj',. ace whole" of is immense stoic "' no- part being reseryecl and is the largest one=in the county. i a DONT FORGET THE 'St11 OFAPHXI�:; Cr'aib, The Great Dry: Goods. Men Of elinton. 1,' The Month is the Month of .April: " The Week' is the .first' week" of : April. The day is ;Saturday, the 8th day, of April, 188Z When We make ,our :First Grand Exhibition of ew tr mre MILLI ERY GOOD endGeneral DRY, GOODS, FOP .THE, SI'RING SEASON OF 1S82.. The'most brilliant display of the kind ever made by us and to which' we ask the attention, of our friends: "and the :public in general;. We have " the services of an A 1 Milliner in char .e of the Millinery Department t We <have the servicesof an A l Mantle Maker charge of the Mantle Making Department. We "have the most magnificent array .of Mantle : Materials . Cloths, ,Silks, Satins, Satin -de -Lyons, Brocades,: Mories, Orna- ments, Fringes, Hats, Bonnets, Flowers, Feather s, Laces, .Rib- bons, Trimmings," and general " fancy goods ever made in the town, and any order placed in either department can be relied on to be executed in the most correct manner and to.the ::.satis- faction of the ctstonier.. EA RY G OODS. PALACE ZONV "'C0 N�' TSE �II�NII�li6l�l no wt o ,,t o i, o 1,1- omemmmmmmmmmzmumm®rmmneaar.a®u.nellp l 11111111111111111111111= "111,11011111111 '11lli 191101PIIItII,Lry: , -i ii it f;TA,Im1,(,;711': n!Inmpnnnp:ononnmin. BL _ ET SQUARE, ._' PERR N BLOCK, OCK NARK , CLINTON. HAVE- A .STOCK OF From tho leadhag' American And Canadian manufaetur re, at moderate prices. Also m OB1ebia'd' Doherty Organ.: The supremacy of THE DOHERTY ORGAN is ir-revocabl'y established; hav- ing been awarded First Prizes, Medals and_Diplowas at ; the. Provincial and Industrial exhibitions' in ."deistical Elul Toronto. 4 largo stony - of Violins, Cone rtinas. Flutes, rifos Shootand,, Book Music, 7 on hand ° at the =bet - n. - rb•asonaialo. -rices ' ANYTHING IN 'L'1IlI ABOVE L'INEa, NOT IN, aT.Ot.l,s, 111.Ot,LJRuD ON - THE SHORTEST NOTICE. E T FOR RV VOANED GENERAL. AGENTS ® THE • A WHITE" SEWN CHI a'