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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1887-08-31, Page 3r Nutiee tet Oonireetkre•: �` r Property for Salo--lfrs. Kitt. Many 'I'lrartks—Johan Itobei teen. e lull Gletbiul;--Q. 0 l auce 4, 00. Few (094—Estate repel liudgeus. Our County-pair—Goa. E. Pay Jc Co. New Dress Goods—J. C. Defier & Co. The Huron News -Record Wednesday, August 3lst, 1887 THE RED RIVER RAILWAY ROW. If we understand tho case the C. P• R. contend that the building of the Red River Railway is a viola- tion of sec. 15, 44 Vic. which enacts that : "For 20 years from the date hereof (Fob. 1881,) no lino of railway shall be authorized by the Dominion Parliament to be constructed South of the Canadian Pacific Railway, from any point at or near the Canadian Pacific Railway except such line as shall run South West, of to West- ward of Sonth West ; nor to within 15 miles of I.atittido 49. And in tho establishment of any new Pro• vince in the Northwest Territories, provision shall be made for continu- ing such prohibition after such establishment until the expiration of such period." This Act was •evidently intended to apply to the Province of Manitoba., the only one then or now in the North \Neste for in the lac=t paragraph it includes any new Province iu the North West; clearly showing that the Act was intended to apply to the one at that time existing. The row in Manitoba isover an alleged violation of the provisions of the Aot of 1881 above referred to. The Local Government say that oven though the Dominion Government did ounet that a monopoly of rail- way building should be vested in the C. P• R. for 20 years from 1881, the Dominion Government had no . power in the platter. This is where the conflict between Federal and Provincial authority will coine in. The Grit press will have it that the Federal Government will resort to .armed force at once. 13ut the Gov- ,ernment have given no intimation of any such course, It is- quit evident that the matter will be test- ed in the courts, and possibly at last referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of England. And whatever the decree of that Court is it will bo enforced at auy cost. As in the caSe of idol, those must be one law for all, and when the proper• time arrives that law— the supreme law of the people as passed by their representatives in the Federal Parliament and inter- preted by the highest judicial tribunal in tho EtiSpiro-=Binet be maintained. The O'onfedteration' Act empovcre the D:ruiiuing Parliament to pass an •Act to confer the privileged stn• bodied• iu the 0. P. R. Act or the Compeuty. Those who would nulli- fy --the menopoiy claws; are acting in direct opposition 10 our consti.. tutio:r. Laws tirade. in pursuance of that Clonfeelrratien Act shall he the supreme law of the land and the ;•,,arra are bound thereby, any - thin,,; in the I,ws of -any province to the contrary notwithstendit . DIFFERENT OPINION,''. '1'o strain at a gnat and swallow a camel is notoriously the practice of the Grit partisan press. One of the most aofisele.-as instances of straining wo find in the last issue of our local contemporary. Sir John JIacdonehl addressed a meeting of his fellow citizens, a few weeks ago, in Now 13ruuswick. In his ,journey down there the crops gave every evidence of turning out fully average. Sir John congratu- lated his hearers on the smiling crops and the prospects of peace and plenty. .Bat our totem has found its usual mare's nest when it repeats an alleged conversation it had last week with Reeve Keine of Go•rie. Mr. Raine said the crops in his sec- tiou are "very bad. Farmers who have threshed find that grain which looked very well in the field has yielded very poorly." Tho remarks of Sir John and Roovo Keine aro contrasted and the hypercritical soul of our eotem waxes wroth, and there wells up from beneath his waistcoat an in- dtgnant protest against Sir John for daring to express an opinion re - 'garrUtug thgtcwiok of 40 cotmty ttOlq ',lett�p iii►., corns er leis own` e a On. -bs � � _uca se �' e i 4 r> b . � t. Heine s o#'. A h �� the opinion that crops are bed' iii his vicinity, our cotem charges Sir Join with being' inotrufiliifu'I. But even Mr. Heine's words "the grain looked well in the field" jus- tifies Sir Johp's remarks, were it nocess«try to do so, as he based them on what Ile had seen of the fields and whet had been repol;ted by others who had seen the standing crops. It may seem rather trivial to at- tempt to refute such absurdities as aro contained in the article we are now referring to. We merely du so to show to what straits a Grit journal is driven iu order to make a point against Sir John and to show that he is very untruthful, and .that the respected Reeve of Howick, though just as strong a Conservative as the Premier, isnot '°quite so flip- pant and untruthful." How very kind of our Grit towu cotein to say that Mr. Keine is not quite so flip- pant and untruthful as the Premier!" Tho italics are oars lint the words aro the Era's. And oue has only to allow that journal rope enough and it will hang itself every time while attempting to balance itself on a point composed of the small end of nothing, and yet it will come up smiling the next week on some other visionary subject. In attacking the voracity of Mr. Baine it says this gentleman "is not gltito so untruthful, as the Premier." So then both these Tories are untruthful if the Era is to be believed. Itis only a ques- tion of degree. Sir John is untruth- ful, \It•• Keine is not quite so un- truthful. It is an acknowledged rule of evidence that if a witness is found to be untruthful in only one natter he is not to be relied upon in others. It is also a rule to accept with a grout deal of caution the evi- dence of one who is guilty of the very same offence as the person whom he is testifying against. The Era arraigns Sir John before the public with being untruthful, with having said that there were smiling crops etc. In order to prove its case it produces as evidence ono whom it brands as a p artweps erirninis. It calls upon Reeve Keine, and in placing him in the witness box it certifies hfm to be "not quite so un- truthful" as the accused. The court of public opinion will. throw the whole case out, when the chief. witness called is only one degree a less criminal than the party sought to be, convicted. We shall now put the accuser at the bar and show him to bo the guilty person, guilty of an abortive attempt to brand the Premier of the Dominion a liar an Capt. Laine of Her Majesty's 33rd ibattallion, Hu- ron Militia, .Reeve of Howick and ex -Warden of the County, to be only ono degree loss immoral than the Preinier-that is not quite so untruthful. Th• e Ontario Bureau of Industries figures down the crops of Ontario as two-thirds of .an average, which is not ruinously bad. - In Manitoba and the Northwest the harvest has boon as fruitful oue —beyoud that of any other, year by probably four million bushels. Tho Province of Quebec has a full average yield, and the other Provinces not far behind. When Sir John congratulated the people on "smiling crops," he was positively truthful in the premises. For as Reeve Keine says, and he is a truthful man instead of uutruthfnl as the Era would like the pnblic to believe, "the brain looked well in the field." And it was chiefly on that condition of things that the Pre tier. -based his remarks. But the country as a wholollis to bo congratulated on the accomplished result of the harvest, though that of Ontario is believed at this time to be somewhat below the average, and in Ilowick very much below that desirable state. Senator Sharman told the Cana- dians at Winnipeg that the Ameri- cans accord the whole world the privilege of stealing their fish. Nay, nay, Mr. Sherman, the Americans will not even allow Britishers to fish in waters that aro by the laws of nations open to the whole world. The American outrages on Canadian fishermen aro of too recent occur- rence for Canadians to swallow any such gammon. It are too fishy altogether. - t .m 0#11000114 U flW WENTIZONT, Some G'anadian papers are manu- facturing:public sentiment in -favor. of Commercial 'Union. They are making it out of the whole cloth. Some of the material is the same old brown stuff that has been used many times and oft, been turned over, ie -turned and now presents as good as new. This is suppl rnented by material of Yankee man- ufaetalter•--imported.1expressly for the purpose and warranted as genu- ine as wooden }tams or nutmegs. A Detroit paper has been doing the thing up in fine style and pub- lished the alleged views of repre- sentative Canadians. These views as given are pronouncedly in favor of commercial union or annexation. But in the majority of cases they aro repudiated by those to whom they are attributed. Bore aro a few samples out of many. INVENTIONS. COWtegi.nip tInprn.9pc4,ello. Q witieei, however,1 Q tbougbt % aid bo brolco, even if it took a rebel - Bea tq do ell,: I t ie to bo holtgd that the Domiuiou GQvdLnwent will not persist in driving the people in- to rebellion." Prof. Smith is con- sistent. He has expressed the opin- ion that the Scott Act being nu un - d just and oppressive law, its enforce- ment would provoke rebellion, e - Mr. Carmau, proprietor of the Belleville Ontario, states that he was not in town when the Detroit News reporter visited there, and that con• sequently the reporter's statement as to having interviewed him and the sentiments attributed to law are mere inventions. As to "annex- ation," said Mr. Carman, "we pitch - into some of our friends when they held the Annexation meeting in Amehasburg." MR. BURDETT, M. P. REPUDIATES. Belleville, 22ud Aug., 1887. To the Editor of the Intelligeucer. ,DEAR SIR,—Permit are to repudiate the article published in your issue of Saturday last, copied from the Do• troit News. The article contains so many glar- ing inaccuracies that a contradiction is scarcely necessary ; yet I desire to 'remove any.inforenee that might he drawn by allowing it to pass . un. challenged. Sincerely yours.. S. 13. BDitwr:l,r. HE nUCR's AGAINST I1•. Mr. William Buck, the eminent iron-foauder, of Brantford. and maker of the well-known radiant 'homestove,has been made appear that he had expressed views favorable to commercial union with 'tiro United States, as well as giving it as Lis opin- ion that annexation or independence is the inevitable destiny of Canada and that in the near future; Tho real views of Mr. Buck, as expressed to an interviewer employed by the Toronto World 'aro worth giving in full. , He says : "I am opposed to commercial union because, so far as I am able to judge, the' inevitable re- sult of such a change in our trade relations with the United States will be 'annexation. Many Canadians, who are reported to be favorable to commercial union at the present timo, will oppose it to the death. whenever they realize, , as I clo, thatit must be followed by the breaking up of British connection. As to myself, it is doubtful if I could'esuccesst'u}fy com- pete against 'American wares in my own line under commercial union. I can truly say that Brantford would not be the manufacturing place it is to -day if the Americans were • per. mitted to deluge this country with goods at slaughtered prices. Its con- ditions as an inland city is not favor- able to the overcoming; of such a keen rivalry as its manufacturers would be subjected to by Americon capitalists. Toll the readers of .The World that I am opposed to commer- cial union, and that. I will fight an- nexation to the death." iT Is RIDICULOUS. The same reliable Detroit paper quoted Dr. I(elly, public • school in- spector of Brant; as a friend of com- mercial union. The Dr. was also in- terviewed by the -World and says: "I don't care a fig for commercial union, the thing is ridiculous," and so, for the matter of that, say we all. The thing is ridiculous. EDI7'ORIAL N07'ES. There would seem to be no dearth of budding statesman 'in the ranks of the Grit press. The latest states- manlike effort by those gentry is the getting up a canard that Sir John had asked the Imperial Govern- ment for troops to enforce the authority of the Dominion Govern- mentin Manitoba. Columns of Grit bewailinent over theimaginaryshooting down of Canadians by British troops have deluged the Grit' press—over a state of affairs which exists'only in the minds of the Grit scribblers. Yea, verily, aro they budding Statesman accord- ing to the Napoleonic estimate. Napoleon in expressing his opinion of the Austrian Chancellor \lessor nich said, "M. De. Metter'ich comes near to being a states- man—he lies very well." Talk about dearth of statesmen in the Grit ranks after this ! Sir John states for publication that no such ab surd idea had ever been entertain- ed by bio as to ask for Imperial troops, and a member •of the British Government on the floor of the House said no request of tho kind had boon made. Tho Montreal Witness : "Mr. Goldwin Smith supports the Cana - Pacific Railway contract, though whieh in some cases might bo palli- ated. Mr. Smith bolds the same views witii-rogard to the Manitoba Railway defficulty. Ho admits the legality of the monopoly clause, but would wink at rebellion should the Dominion aifthoritios attempt to en- force that clause The Witness does not exactly approve of rebellion by the Manitobans to assert their illeg- al lleaal contention, but it squints violent- ly in that dirdetion when it expresses the Lope that the Dominion Govern- ment will not drive the Manitobans into rebellion. The Witness never expressed the Lope that the Govern- ment; vould not persist in driving the people into rebellion by attempt- ing to enforce the unpopular Scott Act. In fact it has always held that the law of the land should be rigorously uphold in the case.. of Scott Act. If so why not enforce the law in regard to the monopoly clause of the C. P. R. contract ? CURRENT TOPICS. 1115 REVEitENCI: SAYS •1'Hrti SCOTT AOl' DOES NOT PROIHIBIT. —The iVitness :—The Hamilton Prohibition Camp at Georgetown had a. lively day Aug. 22nd. The Rev. J, W. Pedley, of that town, male sone serious admissions re- specting the failure of the Scott Act to suppress the sale of whiskey. DISTURBING ELEMENTS. Dr. Thorburn also says that the Manitoba crops are superb this year. flecanre through hundreds of .miles of wheat which the farmers say will yield thirty to forty bushels to the acre.—Toronto Globe. Stay ! Is this the laud that Mr. Mackenzie described as "cursed" by its, climate?, But, then, the Grits never did care for :Manitoba except- ing to use it, as a centre for political disturbance. THE GitIT'S CRY FOlt BLOOD WILL NOT BE GRATIFIED. The railway trouble in Manitoba continues to attract considerable attention in political circle:;. The idecrof bloodshed is pool pooed by the Cabinet ministers. A well iufornr- ed Ottawa poi itican said:—"I should. not be surprised* to see tie! Federal Government disallow the Act of the Provincial Government authorizing the raising of a million -dollar loan. Such a step would certainly he within the jurisdiction of the autho•ities .herr. The idea of in- voicing Imperial aid is all bosh." NO COMBINATION. ' Alex D. Frazer writes the Witness: —Will you kindly allow me a few lines to correct your statement as regards the retailers. I have no doubt you have been misinformed, but you are entirely in error when you state "that the retailers fix a price:at which they will sell to the public, and if a retailer breaks the agreement and sells below the fixed price the wholesale merchants are bound by their agreement to refuse -to su'ply•bim °The retailers' do not fix a price at which they will sell to the public. The retailers have no agreement with the wholesale mer- chants as to the price they will sell to the public. No combination or agreement in any manner, shape �r form, either written or tacit, exists amongst the retailers, as to the prices at which they ,will sell sugar or any other article to the con- sumer. SENATOR SIIERMAN SPEAKS. Senator Sherman and his party arrived in Winnepeg the other day from the West and a few minutes later left for the East. He express- ed himself ns surprised at the grand attractions on the Canadian Pacific Railway. In reference to the question of reciprocity, he said "Reciprocity might be simultaneous- ly reached by mutual laws passed by both governments, but it is not within human experience that sea an end should be reached by snob means, There must first be confer- ences, and in any treaty Great Bri- tain would have to be considered as representing Canada, for although the Dominion Government bas the widest measure of Horne Rule, it has not the power to complete a treaty without reference to Great Britain." Regarding the flsheries dispute he had only to say "that he hoped the Canadian authorities would not continue to refuse shel- ter and all other good things fisher. men need, to American fishers. The United States accord everyone in the world those privileges (?) and do not like to be debarred from them, especially by her nearest neighbor." is. Arlt tixo Ax /14F4.I.C4.n,. , Sj ecttzlt7v :-,--Ver the next three yeere tat least. the Oburch of England in Nova Senora will bti governed by an alien. t3i,hop Parry, who has Sust e been mesa Bishop of Nova cotia, is a native of Providence, R. I•, and is and always has been a citizen of the Unita) States. Sec- tion 3 of the Naturalization Act reads ah foliows : Ileal arid personal property of any description may be taken, ac- quired, held and disposed of by an alien in the sante manlier, ie all re. cpects, as by a natural born British subject ; and a title to real and per- sonal property„ of any description way be derive) through, frour or in succession to eel alien in the same mann. r i:] all res!,• cts as tieouoh, frour or in succe•,aiou to a natural born British subject ; but ],tithing in this section shall goalify an alien for any ofiiee.or for ally municipal, parliamentary or falter franchise nor shall anything therein entit a nr; alive to any right or privilege as a Britrah e ubject, except such rights and privileges in respect. of property as are hereby expressly cotrferre d upon sial. Section 8 of the salon act pro vides that an alien may not tithe the urrths of allegiance nod re•silb'r,ce until hu has resides! in Canada for a tarn] of not less than three years. This disalo tty may place the new bishop in rather aa awkward posi- tion. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. We wish, it to be di.st"ectly understood that toe do • not hold ourselves respnusibly fur the optuiona expressed b;/ ca,•resl,ondeats.-.ED, N8ws-Itx60114). - Editor News -Record. DEAR Slur -Now don't use a little word commencing with a big D you recognise the writing of "that fellow Junius." I wish to relieve Mr. Colborne of the odium he might rest under by being eonsidered the writer of the letter, signed Junius, in your paper of last week. Mr, Col• borne is not -Junius nor has there been any collusion between the two Nor is any member of the council Junius. My object--, in writing you last week was to encourage our municipal representatives to do their duty in spite of the bulldozing threats of the press. As a freeholder -rate- payer I consider that in doing so I am exercising a privilege I enjoy and performing the duty of a good citizen. Newspaper men too often assume to themselves arbitrary powers. For my own pari 1 never could see and do not now see that a man, because he has. the means of disseminating what he writes, as a consequence possesses the whole governing power of the community. Our town news- paper men have asserted in words, but will have some difficulty in as- serting as a fact, that the represen• talion of the town does not depend upon the choice of the ratepayers, but is at the mercy of the two editors. But the mass of wy fellow citizens are not deficient in understanding or spirit i they have the sense to fuel and the spirit to resent the usurpa- tion of arbitrary power by the two editors. We elect our councillors to serve the interests of the town gen- erally, net the interests of any two men or any half dozen men. The newspaper ,puncta may continue its attempts to deceive the public with false representations, but they will fail. Even though one of them should treat Junius, on the platform, in anything but__a milk and water style (and we may meet there or 'at Phillipi before the end of the year) ; or though the other should condemn Mr. Colborne with a great -big D and fail to rec•rgnise the council. I no- tice that Mr. McGillicuddy, in referr- ing to his opinion of the action of the finance committee 'regarding his ac• count says he "claims no. credit for making a truthful statement." No, I should think not. It would not be right to claim credit for some- thing that'did not-ex-ist,---His "state- ments'' are all opinions: My state- ments of last week remain, unchal• lenged. One gentleman agreeing with them said he believed the writer was a certain person whose hair was white with the frost of many winters: 1PThen," replied another, "blessings on his frosty pow," Mr. McGillicuddy wanted the council to run after his high 'mightiness and when they met him to salaam to the ground and then express their regret for daring to criticise his account. In regard to this enormous charge, about $110 by each paper, for adver- tising by-laws : Mr. McGillicuddy says that the council had previously paid at the same rate an account for $1 and that the chairman of the finance committee by paying one dollar accounts, which implied a cer- tain rate, had recognised the right of the printers to charge at the sante rate for work 'involving nearly one hundred times the amount. Printers must have a code of ethics that does not apply to other businesses. 1f I go into Mr. Colborne's store and buy $1 worth of a certain article he will charge me his regular price. If I require $100 worth of the same goods at once ho would make a reduction. Is it right when the printers receive a large order at once in one line that they should insist upon the same rate as if the work had been done in farthing dribs.? In any case if the printer's accounts were unfair- ly criticised, it was their duty to of. ter explanations,not the duty of the council' to run after the printers who knew from the report of the finance committee the reasons for objection being taken to the account. Mr. McGillicuddy in the first part of a long letter admits that his account was objected to because "the charge was too high," he appears later on to wish to convey the idea that he did not know why his account had been objected to. IIe allowed a • wont t r l'ti P+��, �1►t1 1n9 , '•i expin.lttt- ` ho, p a8ll<ed ka pomp, tea ford tlld ffipA;la?e$ oomt, tttcf,r,:£_n'" 4 plied that. Iso,aWoui4eta then* in Ila. dee first, 444 liras fee 4hgge01.0#7 man, win!. compleini at ,ti snlctkl'tealj treatment 1 In anythitng X1109,014.- 1 have 'not sought to asperen•ihe character of our town printery, ',tit. • even the loyalty we all laws t4 ott.lr own town should not allow a prem dent 10 be established by which the right of the people, through their bound), to criticise public expendi- ture shall be denied. Our citisena have the right to say what suaount they shall be taxed, and they have an equal right to say how those taxes shall be expended. And frugality is as essential for a town as for an in- - dividual. I can afford to ignore the brag of the ,Star man. He says that my' reference to him in regard to the •. printing is "false and foolish." When ho has proved it to be so, the public will believe him -and I shall retract. In the meantime the great mikado must remain under the stigma which he would attach to Junius. It is not ,tvho I am but what I say that concerns the public. Yours, Juxivs. Mu. Enron, Sir.—Thesidewalke of this town aro not generally very broad 01111 I hold that 'every person old or young Las.an equal right to the use. I want to know if I am correct that where two or three are watking or standing together on the sidewalk, bo they male or fewale, or both, is it proper !Or tbeul to crowd all others off, especially tiro aged ? Is it lady- like, is it gentleman -like, is Wooer - teens, is it good manners, is it doing unto others as you would have others do unto you, is it rLllowing others civil rights, and last, is it having proper regard for themselves or the opinion others may have of, them, for two or more persons to occupy the wlrole,of the sidewalk to the pos- sible injury of those who want to pass by them ? Yours, EQUAL RIGHTS. Clinton Aug. 29, 1887. ENGLISH CROPS. WHEAT NOT UP TO EXPECTATIONS. Tho London Times publishes tiro following about the English crops: —"Wheat comes out as the boat crop of the year, as was to be ex- pected. It is not so great a crop, however, as a few enthusiasts were hoping for. It was not to be ex- pected that it would be. The cold winter and spring and the absence of rain when the plant was young wore bound to have their effect, and thus it happens that the crop, though good, is not an extraordinary ono. It cannot be denied that ow- ing to the extraordinary low prices that have prevailed and a long series, of wet years, the land is not now in that state of high tillage which would warrant us in expecting au extra- ordinary crop. The quality of the grain will be high, and wo take it for granted that a crop of about thirty-two bushels of,'sixty • pounds. each will bo gathered in. Wo may put out wheat as producing a crop of little over 9,000,000 quarters gross, giving a crop, to sell of a little over 7,000,000 quarters, This will leave us dependent on foreign supplies for' at lesst 17,000,000, and probably 19,000,000 quarters, for it must not, be forgotten that the shortness of the. -potato crop will cause a greater demand than Usual for breadstuffs. OUR WEEKLY ROUND UP. —Mr. Gladstone's Leagne reso- lution, against coercion, was defeat. ed by a majority of 78. —Mr. Henry Taylor, ex -presi- dent of the suspended Bank of Lon• don, returned home •Friday. ' —A Quebec paper has a report that the petition against Sir Hector Langevin's election for Three Rivers' has been withdrawn. —A Paris paper says that France and England have come to an agree- ment on the New Hebrides question, In- which the "yelping of the Austra- lians" had some influence. —The Ting of California men who were 'trying ` to corner wheat has completely collapsed. Dreshbach & Rosenfeld, the' leaders of the clique, suspended on Saturday. —Thomas Law, one of the injured Salvationists, had to be conveyed to the Quebec hospital, He is still delirious from the effects of the assault on him by a fanatical French rabble. —Hon. Alexander Mackenzie has abandoned his proposed trip to the Pacific coast, his health having taker an unfavorable turn at Glacier, and he is now returning eastward. —lion. Mr. Most has been spending a few days in the North of Ireland. He sails from Liver- pool on the 2nd! of September per Sarnia. Timothy Healey, • speaking at Hawick said that if the national league was dangerous before it was proclaimed, the government would find it ten times worse now• The Irishmen of Liverpool at a meet ing the other day adopted resolutions protesting against the proclamation of the Irish national league. Similar resolutions were adopted at a rneet- ing of radicals in London. —A revised statement of Domin- ion revenue and expenditure for the fiscal year ending June 30th ,shows a total revenue of $35,801, t