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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1882-10-05, Page 4gar AdvatxOc cut#. .3genta wanted -Thompson & Co. Weekly Advertiser -Cameron & Co Harness for sale -W. Cottier. Grand opening—W. Jackson. Tailor's wanted -D. Campbell. Investment Society—Manning & Scott:. The leader—J. Hodgens. Rnrse lost -Canada Salt Aenooiation. Hellos—Jas. Twitchell. Servant wanted—Mrs. R. Irwin. One week longer—T. Jackson. Teacher wanted -P. Cole. Medicines—S. Tapacett & Cu:.. 4ZxntOt : Civ THURSDAY, OCT: 5, 1882. . EDITORIAL NOTES. The attempt made in different places this year to increase the number of Con- servatives on the Voters List is°ahown by the large number of appeals,.entered In ---Goderich-the appeals number—nearly 100 in Goderich township, not much less, while in Blyth there is also a very large nuinber of appeals: Another singularity in con- nection herewith is the fact that in each place the assessor was"a Conservative. When the case of the young man Glenn, who attempted to blackmail Mr. Trow, P., first came into court, some of the Con servatives wereloud iu their assumptions of Mr. Trow being guilty of bribery, &c:,, in connection with the circumstance. Now that the youth has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labor; they're as dumb as an oyster., DR. SCHULTZ, of Winnipeg, ia'tlie latest' addition to the Senate, and- his appoint- ment shows .just how thepopular will.: can be violated by' 'an unscrupulousgovern- ment. At the last election he was defeat- ed -the .people' of Lisgar thus declaring that they no longer wanted him in parlia ment, but sea reward for past services he is placed there, (or where is nearly the. same,) notwithstanding the people's pro- test to the contrary. If the Senators were made elective such a defiance of the popu- lar will could no occur. This uselas en- cumbrance to the body politic should be swept away altogether. .H. Speaking of Mr. Ross, inspector : of the Model Schools, our local cotemlinakes the following candid confesssion:- --" As -Mr. ] oss-isnow-studying '-for the law and expects shortly to :be called to the bar it is altogether likely that this will be his last official trip. The Ontario 'Goven, nneot will have some difficulty in fading as good a man as .11r.' Ross to Jill the position` he will vacate." We admire and applaud ita-honesty and hope that when election time rolls. round ,again, and`M`r:Rosa presenta-himself assa- candidate for the Dominion parliainent;our cotem. will not forget his.good :qualities in. looking at the fact.tliat he happens to. he a 'somber of the Pefcrm party. We are pleased to see that some ofthe county papers are comics to the conclusion reached by -the NEW ERA long ago in reference to the agricultural fair business, viz., that one central` fair for thecounty, would be better than the township ones hold at present." ' The "Goderich Star says :. " It would almost aeem:as though these fairs were getting to be toonumerous, but the question may safely be left to the ` sur- vival urvival of the fittest.' In our own section it is getting tobe generally .admitted that a central fair, to take the, place of at least some of our smaller. shows, would be a more successful enterprise, and secure a larger exhibition." We are -confident that not one of the shows held in Huron this fall will prove a complete success,, financially and otherwise, and thesooner all 'amalgamate 'and ;use theircombined strength 'iii making one good show, the better. It is simply a waste 'of . money to continue the small shows, and our advice to directors is to•dis- continue them until a union show can .be formed. The Mail finds that it has " put its foot in it" in stirring up the Liconee question, and not a few Conservatives are down 'on it for its persistent and wilful misrepresen- tations. Taking West .Iluron as an illus- tration, how llus-tration,how is the charge sustained that the, License Law has been turned into a political machine ? Why; ofthe fifty-three men holding liquor licenses'in West ITu, ron, fifteen are : Reformers. Does that look as -if the Reformers were favored at the expense of Conservatives? not very much. In Clinton two out of seven ho- tels are conducted by. Reformers. Of the thirteen hotels and fiquor shops in Gode- rich, but four aro run by.11eformers, Land the Signal very truly says that the Censer- vative liquor dealers of. Huron aredisgust- ed with__tho'hypocrisy. and meatiness ofthe Tory press on the license question. None of them would care to do business again under the old system. As' a proof . of this fact we give below an extract from a me- morial to the. Government. by, the, Licen- censed Victualers Association, in January, 1876:— " We aro agreed in: this, that the Act of. the Ontario Legislature known as the " Crooks Aet" is, on the, whole, a fair and just enactment,' and if its provisions were strictly carried- out and enforced' (with some slight alterations, to which we shall hereafter refer), we think' ,that intempo ranee would greatly decrease, and the pub, lie on the one hand and the tavern keepers on the other would be generally satisfied."_ Aitousszisr in the West Huron Election case, which was to have been heard on Tuesday, has been adjourned for; another week, owing to the absence of one of the judges before whom it was to have been beard. IT Is now proposed to erect a monument to the memory of William Lyon Macken- zie, as no stone or monument marks his reefing place. It is somewhat late in the day for such a proposition ; ; but . this is, prehaps, one of the cases where it is "bet- ter late than never." MR. MEREDITH has about as good a prospect of becoming Premier- of Ontario. after the next election, as an elephant has of climbing a tree -and we think not one whit more. The attempt 'to" work up a boom against the Mowat government has 's proved, o far, a, perfectfizzle, and no one knows it better than the Conservatives themselves. -0"-- THE Winnipeg Free Press, contending for additional railwayl-accommodation for that Province, urges the propriety of build; ing lines to compete With the -C. P. R. in defiance of the Dominion: Government's veto power, and aiHruia that the people there will insist upon their right to build what lines of railway that are necessary. The`Manitobians are evidently waking HP. Soine of the Canadian papers use. -pretty strong language occasionally, but the fol- lowing reference to apolitical opponent, from a Missouri paper, "takes the cake:" -- "13e; is the only thief -on the ticket,he is the only liar on the ticket, he is theonly swindler on the ticket, he is the only idiot on the ticket he is the only blackguard on the, ticket, he' is the: onlyknave on the tick- et, he is the only sneak on the ticket, he is theonly defamer on the ticket, ho is the' ouly`pnrjurer on theticket, and the only man we ever saw who was wholly depraved' and destitute of any virtue." LET'S, see wasn't the N. P. goino- to keep up the price of grain ? Wasn't it going; to create a home market ? :andwere not far= niers promised' that if they supportedit they would never see low prices again? Oh, dear, yes;' all these were promised,' and just see how the promise is fulfilled iu the case of wheat which brings the, high figure of 85 cents a bushel. :.What .terrible fel- haws the Grits would have been had. they been in power now with wheat at, this price..; If Sir John A. had heard some of the remarks chat we have heard on - the market during the past few days, and from men;who are numbered `among "'his sup- porters,. he wouldn't'' feel flattered at the opinion they expressed of hiss: `We are sorry they are getting low prices, but we: i pe-the—lesson—they' are learning will compensate there -for the ,financial loss,` as it will set . them: thinking, as they most, -certainly did 'not do before, Otherwise: they would most nit. have committed. the error of doing. such violence to com- mon sense and political•ecunomy, as in. attempting..to legialate'.for good prices -.oz commodities that have -to find markets in foreign countries.. When we raise more than we tan consume of any article,. a tar- iff on importations of that Article cannot raise its price. That's a truth that cannot be refuted, and is especially applicable to the article of grain; -just;, now. Fos LACK of something else, .to :do: in this line, the Mail, and allthe lesser lights in conservative, newspaperdom, have tcken'to• ahusina the' )Mowat government in general, and the Minister of education, Hon. Mr.;Crooks, in particular,; for pre - Burning, as they assert, to order the with- drawal of "Marmion "` a poem from the brain of Sir Walter Scott, from the list : of Class : books for our High Schools. .The whole matter shows such- rank -partizanship that we are loath to enter, in the least de gree; upon a discussion of it, and therefore give the following expression of opinion. the Bobcaygeon Independent, upon the subject;, which is a paper nominally inde- pendent, but really belongs to the Censer= • vative ranks' There is a very animated discussion in. progress touching the withdrawal of Scott's poen of "Marmion" from the list of au thorized schoolbooks: Of course polities were the. original -Cause of discussion, for when the Minister of. Education l"withdrew the book. the:Macdonaldites pitched into. and made political capital out of themat- ter.' The facts :are very simple. It is held. bythe department that :whilst `Marmion" is not an immoral book, its plot involves such relations between the characters' as cannot be properly criticised and analyzed by youths and young women: '.It is ,also held -that -no -book should be on the' -`au- thorized.list' of school books which is of- fensive: to any religious denomination.. The story turns entirely on the relations between Marmion:and his mistress, who is, a nun, whom hehas seduced and carried off from a convent, and this nun is his con- stant -companion, dressed in boy's clothes, and waiting on him as his page. To ex- plain this and critically examine it, is not a very suitable thingin a school. Sb again, it is not desirable that the prejtidices of the'Catholics should be offended by:refer- ences to Catholic priests being vassal slaves. of bloody Rome, nor that a model poem. used for critical analysis in the" schools should turn on such topics as immoral nuns, ' tyrannical and cruel monks, and murders committed under priestly sanction and authority- The withdrawal of "Mar= inion'from the .list ofscitttti bcr+,ks recom- mends itself ecom-mends"itself to'cooimon sense, though it will forever remain one of the most tpoou- lar poems, in the English language. Clinton ►Fi TIEIE e anAT� The P v Goods Palace MILTTMTL1ILKS BOSS GOODS, 'lhe.stock for the eason, is:�t the Dry Goods P;ilace AN IMMENSE EXHIBIT! WHOLE BLOCK LITERALLY• CRAMMED ! EQUALLED BY FEW.'! EXCELLED BY NONE ! The assortment for .tha season t&&oughout will be at the Dry Goods Palace. No store in this county carries "a stock so complete. The dry goods business for the season will be done at the Dry Goods Palace The .prices are right. " The attendance is good. The prin.ciples.`upon which the busi- ness is conducted are I honorable, and just. Patronage respectfully solicited. JOHN`:HODGENS e Dry +Goo s dPalace of Huron, CLT rirc•I T, IN I TTT I N. The undersigned having again opened out a general. stook of Goods, takethis op- portunity of thanIsina p-portunity'of'thanhing their old customers for the liberal patronage afforded them when in business before, and trust that by giving Special Eargains to get, all their old customers back, and many new ones. We- intend to keep Tull lines in the following Dry Goods Blue and Grey Cottons, Sheeting's, Ducks,Denims, Tickings, Cotton Yarn, Carpet Warp, Flannels, Grain Bags, Winceys, Tablings,°Dress Goods and Trimmings, Small wares, &c. Tweeds, Coatings, Tailor's Trimmings, Ready Made Suits, and:; Overcc ats. GENEIcAL LINES USUALLY KEPT. ecial value 2n; Z efz & Sugar .HA. T S ANI) " CAPS, FULL STOCK IN THE DIFFERENT MAKES. *i CD C ID: Ca r. - LARGE _ASSORTMENT IN MEN'S, WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S. RUBS R . and 0`VER,SI E( S. As we' are in a position to pay cash for our (roods,' and get them at the lowest possible 'price, parties buying from us may expect to get bargains,. as our motto is" small profits and quick 'returns:" are respectfully requested to call and see our goods andnet prices, as i Y q n gdc , we are bound to sell at tl':e lowest paying prices. old stand Brick Block, Albert Street. Purchasers Hodgens Sept:; '1882: lacwhirter tessal