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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1887-01-05, Page 4ditity InPEtta.TIvn tate.,-- All pattjp of the universe had made p mist* indebted, to Tun Nle. tt-Itavo a t1 Owing before utankind,'far thbir for oue or more yeareasab6crIpt iti ,inatruCtion and, edification, Ilia re - are requested to pad up,. We Otte adding new and expensive mR- cleinory to our plant and intend iaaakittg greater improvements in. Inn Newa•REa RD before long. .1 very dollar owing this office fur Subscription or Job Printing should bo paid immediately. P. O. honey order or registered lett') at our Tisk.--WRItELY & TODD. The (Huron News -Record Wednesday, January lith AN, IMMORAL VICTORY. In the height of their generosity and out at° the. depths - of • their- sympathetic heinsympathetic souls, the Grit press are saying that the Conservatives of this Province will take heart of grace over their recent unsuccessful aattompt to oust Mr. Mowat from power, and claim the• result as a "moral" victory. The Co.uservattves will die. nothing of the kind. They will class the outcome. of the recent elections as an rna•,itoral victory for Mr. Mowat and his Grit following -4 victory secured at the expense of all that is held dear to lovers of British free- dom, manhood freedom, sectarian freedom, religions freedom, civil freedoin.-victory secured by deny- ing the most vital principle in our time venerated constitution, a free open Bible and the.- infallibility of its varied though wondrous teach- ings. Mr. Mowat'a victory is an im- moral one because it was brought . about by a combination, 'on a coer- cive basis, of the executive civil power of the commonwealth with the politico -clerical executive heads of a religious minority of the Province, aided and abetted by the politico clerical influence oflomo of the executive heads of the Anglican, of money for it.." Many Canadians • - -Method Presbyterian- bodies ` antmeently av+ould-suppress-thee-Bible . Tho intolerance of. Mr. Dlow al's M•ond even though they had to take a leeaslation issoa`pfaienl that'he hundred pieces of money or a snag fiat office for their nefarious treachery -tv theft calling and to the best in- terests of society. Dlowat's victory is an immoral one because it gives as if sanction to the conduct of the affairs of this Province by which it has been brought to the verge of bankruptcy -sanction to extravagant waste of the resources of the Province: - sanction to favoritism in relieving 'offenders against the laws-notor- ionsly against the Scott Act -front flnerited punishni'oht-.-senetiou to establishing an oligarchy, in Toronto which hes been gradually taking away from the ninnicipalities the right to rnanags their own local' affairs - sanction to Mowat's sympathy, with Reel and rebellion-sauction • to Mowat's approval of the right of Nova Scotia to secede -sanction to Mowat'l special legislation which gives one creed special privileges denied another -sanction to Mowat's setting creed against creed. ,Mowat's victory is an immoral one because it is siguificent of the ecimb•irtatiorl, of •Church and State against the Liberties, civil and re- ligious, of the people. A moral however is deducible from, eveu, an, immoral victory. It generally hatipens that the evil and remedy ,grow up about the same time. The remedy may not ho as .apparent as..the evil, but it is within reach all the sante. The enteral haw which imposed the itnmoral,vietory will also as,sutelypreduco ilseffects. Light has already, appeared to glim- mer, and though we may fo.r a few, years be doomed to bear tonipo.ral and :4pirituni tyranny, another elec- tion will cause tho light to. break ford' from the clouds of partyism and.tho day of one law for all, ir- roSpectivis. of, party, - race or creed, will appears. #sated Word. These Rtotestant latter day worthies who earn their bread and butter by at other times preagtzling p14 -.open Bible and its general' distribution among saints and sinner, barbarian and civilized, during the recent 'political contest championed the cane of those who hold that the Word of God, its in- effable ;race and Wisdom, is -only calculated for the elect few and that o'er children shall only have lead to them such portions as these cen- sors of the wisdom of the Almighty shall see fit to place before them. Mr. Mowat's victory is an im- moral ono because many of his Pro- testant clerical supporters, Rev. Mr. llrilIigen and others condemned him for his etnasculation of the !Nord of God, and yet sank their conseien tious opposition to his system of Godless education at the behest of Mammon and political, partisan and factious exigencies. Mr. Mowat's•victory is an immoral one because it was brought about by the work of .those who declared their belief in the immoral tendency of the teachings of portions of the inspired word of God. Mr. Mowat's victory is an one because it has given immoral aid and comfort to the enemies of the Bible. Mr. Mowat's victory is an immoral ono, because it is the result of an attempt, though a puny one, to undo what o.ttr forefathers straggled - for generations to et}ct, the free and untrammeled use of the whole • Bible. Contrast the eager desire of the people for the Word of God in the early days of the Reforn►ation with the half-hearted appreciation of it by some in these degenerate days. "Englishmen," says a scholar of \Volsey's time, "were so pager for the gospel as to affirm that they would buy a New Testament oven if they had to give a hundred pieces EDITORIAL 11i`2'ES • • The Globe. po4bk.paol1's the idea gf one-seventh of the people of this Province ruling the other six - sevenths. But supposing three - sevenths of the people. agree;;as the case of Mr. Mowat's' aupperters, to be ruled. by the one•severrth for the purpose of enabling their party to hold office, the oue-seventh does rule the six -sevenths. - The political necessities of Mr. Mowat has caused him to sow the seed of undne prejudice agtrillet Catholics. That ptieitnlice will re- act upun himself so that either the Catholics or 'the Prbtetftants will have ' their hands upon. his traitor throat are many •years. He has aroused religious anirhositythat will prove a Scourge to 'Whip --iso own back with. Exeter Times :-"In accounting for lUr. Swenertou's defeat we can only attribute it to the lack of sup- port on the part of the "professing" temperance men. Had they sup- ported him as it was their duty to do he would to day have been ureas, bee fur South Huron, and the repu- tation of the constituency which was won by the carrying the Scott Act would have been maintained." Prof. W. Smyth, Professor of Modern history in the University of Cambridge, in his annotations to his published lectures says in reference to statutory laws regarding religious sects : "But neither on the one side nor the other are the spiritual pastors and teachers to be listened to. Statesman will never advance the civil and religious' interests of •the conrnmunity, if they aro to wait till they can settle in a -manner sat- isfactory to the Dissenting' teacher and the Established Churchman to the Roman Catholic and to the Pro- testant minister, • their opposite claims and opinions DIr. Mowat's victory is an. imm�»r- al one because Bishop Cleary, Arch- bishop Lynch and other venerated teachers of their Church.' hurled divine anathemas. at, the opponents of DIr. Mowat, -- I.t (natters not that theso.clergymon alleged than a civil. Tight guaranteed by our Coustituticn tatlieirpeople-that of having Sepal= ate Schools -was in danger of being wrested from theme,. For the Cath- olics will believe their spiritual ad- visers eve n,age i,nst the well atteste3 evidcuco•of their owu senses. The Catholic dew have:.-•w.h;it Arch - modes wished fir -another world - on which to rest the firlcrum,of'their 'religious liver and thus move their own particular world. The• terrors of spiritual punishment overcame tlia Conservative political sym- haihics: of the Catholic people of the•l'rovince, and .probably 99. out of ©very hundred of -them voted for Muwat's supporters. Mowat's victory..: therefore was an immoral ono because it was thus: obtained -obtained upon, untruthful statements by the Grits-that:Catholic civil rights were. threatened by the Conservatives;; also that the unre- stricted right to teach the}r faith to. their own people in their own way iluperilled'. While there wisnot the slightest foundation for the basis.upouwhic1 was built Catholic antipathy to Con- servative success, we believe that the.virulent mouthings, of the Mail' gave color, to the lies of the Grits. As. we have net; read;,the Mszil for, several year's we. Can only judge of the position taken by that journal from the tenor of casual extracts from it which we from time to time find in our. e:riehau,ges, ,lir. Mowat's victor'•y is an im- moral one because leading Protost- aat clergymen, stultilled;i themselves. by declaring that the Word of Al- mighty God, His stratemeots, teach- ings and commands as contained in the Bible aro dangerous tin&corrullt-. i;iq. If over a class of mon wore a, garb of heaven to serve the devil in,, it -was the Protestant clergymen who preachedisepnlpit and on platform • 11.1 -wise, Omnipotent ruler. -A gravestone career says. that forty out, of fifty epitaphs contain More ar. lees falsehood ; but ho lays duwu. mallet and chisel to add :-- "However, (sang, a man. who won't lie a little to help a.dead,l arson Out el a had fix," ZVrr..bi Y ..r ;A;:i'F " y ,.2 >:"1".2 who looks into our 'ptrblio legisla- tion cannot fail to see it. And in- • tolerance to the majority, through the acquiescence of a renegade minor portion of them, is as reprehensible as intolerance towards the minority. Intolerance begets reprisals. The Protestant majority will sometime arrest its supremacy. Pray ,God it may exorcise . it with moderation. The intolerance of our arlecstote in the form of reprisals produced,tho abominable fires in Smithfield and Ile penal or disabling laws against .d'issenters'and Catholics in England, Scotland and Ire:latnd. •• The Montreal !Witness in referring to the recent elections draws errone- ous conclusions from the result when it says :-"The campaign has "shown that the people of Ontario "are zealous Protestants, and will "not turn a deaf oar to the charges ,"of pandering to religious preju- "dices. They have shown them- selves to bo especially jealous con- '°cerning the efficiency of the public "schools." The- Witness'- observa- tions are more just when in referring to, Bishop Cleary,'s pastoral it says :- "It stands to reason in it church in "which the clergy do not act as in- "dividuals, but at the bidding of "one man, and in which the voters "obey the clergy, the one Man must "become the real 'allot of the •coun- "try and can dictate terms to any "government. There have been in "some countries verdicts of undue "influence when the clergy were "proved to have threatened the ter- "rors of an unforgivou eternity "against theme who did not vote es '"iustructed. Such a finding was "eminently just. If the promise of "money. or the threat of the loss of "a situation is undue iufluence, "surely, to implicit believers, this "stupendous spiritual"threat is more "so. Reasoning from this, we have "hoard very astute Roman Catholic "lawyers declare that to their co.- "religionists o-'areligionists such a.throatt is.always "implied in the issue of a:comrnand '4,n the part of the church and that "ithorefore (readmit .is at an end the "m..or,ent tbsitltergy; beg u. to titod- ' Le.. T he. Exeter f acnes pr'eviuus to, during and since the carrying of the Scott• Act;,;► firm and intell seut sup- porter of the Act, has this to say about it in its last issue :-.-"The de-. feat of Mr. •Swenerton, in. South Huron, implies more thana viotery for the Reform party ; it means a victory for those who are opposed to' the Scott Act. The enforcement of the Act is in the hands of the Mowat Government, and it is unnecessary to say that their officials have been very derilect in their duty, yet the majority of the electors/lave .said by their votes that they approve of the way in which they have neglected their duty. Mr. Swenerton was in the field as a temperance candidate, and is a temperance man nut merely in - name, but in reality and iu prin.ciple..and that the result uf_ the election will have the effect asstated above cannot be gainsaid. The Scott Act, although right in prin- ciple, world be better repealed than retnain a dead letter incurring large expenpiture and redneing the re- venue. The Mowat Govornmeu t have demanded from the Co. of lluron $1,327 to assist in paying officials, siich as License Inspectors and Commissioners, for doing ninth - The Evangelical Churchman, eon-. trolled by the Blokes; the Christian Guardian, controlled by Dewart,who supported O'I)onoghute against Ein- erson Coatsworth, a class leader in his own church; and the Presbyter ian,coutrolled by Blackett Robinson, who is controlled by the public printing lie gots from Mowat, were among the faetot's that manufactured false alarms for the Catholics who opposed Mr. Meredith's supporters. These alleged exponents of liberality and rroteetantism were united in the recent contest in Ontario and each strove to. excel the other in pandering adulation of Mr. M,pwat for his sacrifice of principle, These I'rotest•amt perverts may have acted upon the Montesquieu principle. That profonncl philosopher says "To overthrow any religion, or auy particular sect in religion, we must- assail ustassail it by the good things of this World and by the hopes of fortune ;, not by that which 'makes men re- member it, but by that which causes them to forget it; not by that which outrages mankind, but by every- thing which soothes them and,thus facilitates the passions of humanity in obtaining, the predominance." Veeily, Mr. Mowat is endeavoring to overthrow the Catholic religion by a killing -with -kindness -policy. Sl'lJ1G"T AFFECT TILE • I,1 WLNWN. We observe that even at this early day, the journals sapporting Mi. Mowat aro taking his success as -TO OUR - HUNDREDS of CUSTOMERS For their patronage during our Sale, making it ono of the 1VXCcosa-t 4e036f 2i We have ever bad : many hundreds of dollars' worth of goods have - been sold to rejoicing nialtitudes. _ THE GREAT GIGHyTIC GIFT SALE CONTINUES UNTIL HIE 3LST. The balance of our Gifts mast ga. Rey your parcels early, as the• weather may become rather, unpropitious, No profit naked for the buy. Ile must board himself. IMPPY NEW YEIR} ROBE i���'SO N' TOALL. Great Cash Store. 0 FROM '!The Vote bi East Unron. The following are the complete returns of this ridingas certified to by the Returning t,)fiicor Gibson Hays 'BRUSSELS. No. 1 46 Nu,2 53 No. 3 41 139 Dfajority for Gibson -16. otter. 69 54 103 54 69 75 74 49- 9 No. 1 No. 9 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 30 58 35 1'33 53 22 • 31 3•i 4T. 49 40 Majority for Gibson -215. MORRIS. No, 1 58 No. 2 7 2 No.3 53 No. l 6.... No.5 66 Nu.6 50 36- 0 Majority for Gibson -39. No.1�1 N o. 2 No. 3 • No. 4 H U LLETT. 61 85 42 63 283 49 30, 57 67 78 3'31 36 36 29 35 251 146 Majority for Gibson -115. No. li No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 :No. 7 No. 8 testuOP. 45 65 55 • 26 56 42 23 15 32- 7 presaging the defeat of 'the Mac -.Majority for Gibson -25. donald ministry. Blit tho past HowIcK. No. 1 50 96 No:. 2: 71 66 'Co:. a 61 98 No.. 4 65, 93i No.5 • 87 73 No.6 55 63 34 23 55. 47 35 43 27 42 302 proves all such reasoning fallacious. After the great National Policy vic- tory" of 1878, when Ontario sent down twenty of a majority to sup- port that principle and Sir John Macdonald; the local elections were held. Conservatives were confident that the wave of . public opinion would defeat. Mr. Mowat, 'btt'it did not, he then securing about the sante majority as ho has now. This in rotor* animated the opponents of the National Policy with the int pression that at the neat a.ppoal to the Dominion electorate, they eould defeat the Government, but when. that appeal was over, the result, while slightly roduciug tile major- ity, still left it quite considerable in Ontario, and larger, • if anything, than before the house was dissolved, in the entire Dominion, • Ouitanio sent down to the House 50 conser- vatives to 38 opposition, yet when main, but a few months after, the Ontario. ministry- fraud the electors, they wore able to go back with some eight or nine majority.. ?'rovaiiiaial and Dominion issues aro so widely different than there is room for di- verging from striiib, party lines, and• all the reeords.of the hast show that the electors fully reaeguize this. In our own, county we know several• electors Who supported Col. Ross. but would not, have done so had they thought that the sue oss of Mr. Mowat meant• thou`defeat uf. Sir, ,iultn.. A,,1Wtc�tonald:, • 389- 439; Majority for Hays -100. WRoxETER. No. 1 61 • Majority for Gibson -32. TURN BERRY. No. 1 50 No.2 88 No.3 88 No.4 55 281 29 47 421 42 50 180 Majority for Gibson, -101. Total majority for Gibson -443. Total vote polled -Gibson 2,306, Hays 1,863. • -Phil Wilkins was brought be- fore the mayor of Galt lastjweek ansa fined $20 and costs, or thirty clays in jail. for disturbing the Salvation, Arany. Galt magistrates are determine-- od,to protect the Army. -A serious aeeident happened to Miss Amanda Ziegler,. a. young woman working in the shifitrftetory, Berlin, on Tuesday afternoon last. By some means her loirg, hair gut .caught in the shafting when she was drawn in. and carried once itround' the shaftbefore she torrid be reacted, receiving such serious i tim% that her: life is now despaituil'of., The Vote in We Iiuron.- 'fire following are the official fig- ures ie ures for this hiding : ie 14 -' Diunietpulity, to 1 ° H 3 a; r-,. M a° c P. a Godetich Town.1 41 50 2 44 5f 52 48 61 35 45 47 56 47 32 39 30 - 65 38 73 41 43 �lshfielx3._ 1 57 64 2 67 75 3 69 43 4 36 60 5 101° 15 6 83 17 7 63 26 W. Wawanosh 1 5 l 70 3 4 5 6 7 Guderieh Tp....1 5 3 .75 62 4 93 36 9 179 53 F.astWawanosh.l 77 39 ... 2 81 57 3 64' 43 ... 4. 58 37 104 Colbdrne......,.1 84 51 ... 2 24 52 .•- 3 86 79 . 4 47 54 Wingham 1 36 32 ••. 2 33 33 . .. .3 40 411, ... 4 59 54 ... 10 ... Clinton 1 27 - 24 2 -44' 23 3 37 30 .... 4 • 41 37 ... 5 30 25 6 '29 33 7 11 37 8 41 3.4 - - 17 IIullett ,5 3.2 36 6 57 33 ... 7 63 29 - 55 Blyth.... 1 35 53 2 37 40 - ... 21 7 76; 2358 2021 434 67,• Total: maj. for Ross, 337. ASSUMING TOO MUCIf. - The Toronto' Neuss, Iudependenft Grit, says:. Thetriumphant returin of Prmier Mowat has made the Grit press more confident than, ever, in. thair 'predictions of the defeat o£ Sir John Macdonald when the - Dominion elections take place. It is assumed that the factors and in- fluences which have decided ',the case as between Mowat and Meredith are the sable, or nearly so, as those, which will settle the question be- tween Ottawa parties. As the News% has previously puiuted out, exper- ience has shown that that is not .the case. lu the first place the con, stituencies aro not the sante. Sir John and Premier Mowat have each, gerrymenelered the Province to t strengthen their own party. Second- ly, the more fast of a Government going in possession gives it a prestige and, an influence worth many thousand votes. This toll on the 28th Decennial. on the Grit side,,noxt election it will count for the Tories. Third ly, the conspicuous weakness of the Provincial Tories is the lack of oorunetent and recognized leaders.,' To-vuiostmi put Aluw;at,ciut,,