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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1887-09-28, Page 4_ .p�!!�V' .4.a n.:i...a �.•sil..,�vtlfr, clae•it+cc��►�. - i➢i11FIttep. 3.n?If • P�Bi �_ ,. __.T . ..- ...xx+3a au,s�s +,res -- -., rt - �V `aka tit 't:i :r l eiTt. i i ' Hilal D. Hodder's Itetnedise. C.beap Clothiug-Jaokson Bros. Woolen Goods -p. E. Corbett. , Grand Opening -John Robertson. Childeeu a C1othhig-Jaeksou Bros., A 'Wath for' $2.75 -stub. W. Coats, Tenders Wanted -A. Gobeil, eeor'efary. Special Troia for Californta-E, Kenny. Clinton Court of Itevisiou- W. Coate,clerk overage of '35 'cants Per iiuitdrod may 01100ee to enact from time to dollars jtesaestiteut for'stat,e purposes bee.idae, There is not much in these state- ments to lead Cauadiaus'to risk the •icaorpetuity: 9f the riebtat nhocitanee that any equal nutuberiof poople on God's footstool are blessed with iu this year of Brace, :1887, . • Nor would our business increase The Huron -News -Record with our taxation under commercial or political; annexation. •With slight 1587 exceptions the produce of our farms would bo lessened in value by having the immense product of 60,000,000 o? people brought into competition with that of our farm- ers, thus while increasing our taxa- tion lessening our paying power. Tho Many prospero-us manufacturing towns throughout the Provinces whose artisans are now fed with tho 'product of Canadian farms would then, if not fed here with the cheap- er product of western 'farms, be transferred to American soil, and the Canadian consumer of the great bulk of Manufactured goods would have the pleasure of supporting what would be literally an alien population upon alien soil. Commercial annexation or union weans a• depreciation in value of the greater part of the produce of Canadian farms and a consequent lessening of the value of farm pro- perty. It means Canada for a time a slaughtermarket fertile manufactures of wealthy Amarican firms, the anni- hilation of nine -tenths of the money invested in manufacturing in Can- ada, the depopulating of the coun- try of thousands of artisans, and an ultimate paying two prices for American manufactures, so soon as American capital had crushed out Canadian industries, which would not bo long. Wednesday. taept• 28th. CANADIAN PERPETUITY. The vory Moment we aro penning these lines a meeting is being held iu Clinton at the instance of United States agitators to stip the founda- tion of Canadian perpetuity. But, though not a prophet, nor the son - of a prophet, we hazard the state- ment that Canada will be a nation, oue and indivisible, when the country to the south of us will have boon carved up into several. Somo of the profoundest Atneri- cau thinkers aro already applying to the American republic the remarks of Gibbon on the oxtousiou of tho Roman Empire :-"The unlimited extent of the Roman Empire, and the consequent despotism of its centsalized government, extinguish- ed 'all emulation and debased the spirits of mon, 'Military govern - wont succeeded which rendered the lives and property of citizens insecure. and proved destructive to the necessary arts of agriculture, manufactures and commerce, by which th8 immense empire could be maintained." There are no doubt disintegrat- ing elements in the American re- public which are industriously sap- ping its permanency, and which will require strong military power to overcome, and military power feeds and grows upon itself. However, as Canadians we have to do principally with ourselves just now, and we would warn our poople against any entangling ars • rangomeut with a power which can hardly. even now protect. its own citizens within its own bor- ders.. The speakers in Clinton will toll us that commer;ial union does not mean political union -that it will not endanger Canadian perpetuity. The many extracts which ivo give elsewhere \will show that nothing short of the absorption of .Canada into the American body politic will satisfy that people. Let us be- ware in. time. A,thoughtful American magazine writer says : "Wo do not need a ship canal around Niagara Falls, because we shall. have Canada before long,. and •the Welland Canal will answer all liurposos." That is pretty cool, not much equivocation or commercial union, or unrestricted - recipro.city tergiversation and bun- combe about it. And, again, says •the same writer : "Tho Canadian provinces, inhabited, as they are by people of our own race and lan- guage, accustomed t0 public educa- tion and self government, will be brought to see how barren of pro- . mise is their colonial condition. . Without compulsion or nnfriend- liness on our part, but simply as the result of a' ii isc, persistent '.polio' looking to' their voluntary anno:ition, they sl&ill finally become states of the Americcits.,USion." The preceding extractsfll show what is the American feeling towards. Canada. 1'he.y are not the vapor- ings of Mahal') politicians, but the real views which the policy shaping people of the united States have of Camila. They will not promise to deal fairly by us unless we become states of the Union, and when they gel, us in their power their gauge of fairne.i; is what will snit themselves not what Will suit Canadians, who will be looked upon as step children by a step -mother. And what good would it do Can- adian Provinces to become States of the Anterieiu 1'nion 1 The net Provincial debt will average $1.51 per head. The net State debt of the various States will average •$1.15 per head. Not Much attraction for Canadians is the pros- pect of having a debt to pay as states three times as great as they now pay. '1'lhen the annual taxation for both National and 'Provincial purposes, which Canadians have to pay, aver- ages $5.26 per head, while the United States pfy $5.28 per head for National purposes alone, and an COMMERCIAL ANNEXATION. Notwithstanding what Messrs. Smith,Fuller,and Wimau may urge iu favor of Commercial Union with - .out political union, the thing will never be accomplished. The people of the United` -States tlifougli -thaiT representatives in Congress, in this year of grace 1,887, said so. The press 'of the United States, which in another • way voices the views of tho people,- are a unit against Com- mercial Union. Without political union. But were the Americans in favorof Wiman �1r Co's scheme an- other insuperable objection would arise -the Canadian poople would -oppose it as inimical to our interests. Fair reciprocity Canada has been willing for years to enter into. But they will never consent to tax part of tl►emsolves-Great Britaiu-aud permit Free ''ride with the United States whose interests are opposed to ours. To show that the American pee - plea. as voiced through their .press, are opposed to commercial annexa- tion without [political annexation, we subjoin the follo'iving extra;ts from leading American journals : ONLY A STEP. Since: the Canadians show so Much" favor to the project of Commercial Union, it seems reasonable to assume that the idea of• Political Union will soon cease to be obnoxious to thein. -13ufi'alo Courier, BECOME .1 STATE. 13y Commercial. Union United States tariff regulations will he ex- tended to include Canada -'Europe will he shut out, aud so far as all practicable trade relations are con- cerned, Canada. would 1)0001110 a State of the American union. - Buffalo Commercial. IT )I1:ANS NOTHING ELS):. \ir. Butterworth scorns the idea that Commercial Union means poli• tical union. ft !menus nothing else, Free trade with Canada and protec- ttou against the rest of the world, would he a constant source of squab- i,les worse than the fishery. dispute. Free trade with Canada will not succeed mitt[ we aro living under the same government tis the Canadians or have adopbul I'reo trade with the world That is why commerce should not be as free between Canada and New York as between Now York and Pennsylvania. We want no Conimcr- '111 i.'nien without political union.- wraense Standard, 7'A)IF1' UNDER COMMERCIAL UNION. If the Detuiniuu Will take. our tariff laws as they are, and as Congress may chonac to modify Hien(, and as our Treasury dopartniunt and courts may construe thein, well and good. This country may agree to such an arrangement as that, but it will never agree to accept the Dominion laws, or to put the whole business of tariff making ont of' the hands of Congress and into the hands of some joint high commission representing tho trenty-malcing functionaries of the United States and British Gov- ernments.. Unless, therefore, tho Dominion is prepared to make a complete and unconditional surrender of all control over its own tariff, and accept whatever tariff our Congress turret the sohethe of cotnnreretal uuion,in this sense which that phrasa is used, is entirely ou.tof cluestiou.- Chicago. Ti cues. Toe PRAOTfOAL DIFFientsries• L Sue, it dares not seem to the Times that Mr. Wimau has tluoceed- ed iu showing how to overcome the practical difficulties in the way of Consummating the kind of Commer- cial Union proposed ; and Professor Goldwin Smith, who also spoke at the meeting, did not succeed any better. Neither of them explains bow the kind of Comtnerdihl Union they advocate is compatible with the' nlatultenance of the existing political status of the two countries. It should not he forgotten that this 'proposition also implies a complete surrender by the Dominion -Parlia- ment to the American Congress of all control over the principal source of the Dominion's revenue -the tariff. Whatever it may please rho Ameri- can Congress to do regarding the tariff, that the Dominion Govern- ment must forthwith accept. Our Congress would have more power over the Dowinion tariff uuder this arreugeircut than it would in the event of political union, because the people of the Dominion would have neither vote nor voice iu Washington under the proposed. Commercial Union, while they would have both under political union. Not only would Cougress prescribe aud change at pleasure all the tariff taxes exae• ted from the people of Canada, but our executive officers and our courts would make alt tho rulings and.de- cisions affecting rates for the Do- minion as well as for the Cuited States. -Chicago 'rises. ANNEXATION OR NOTHING. The prQapect of unrestricted trade between the two countries can only be realized by the accesion of the Canadiau provinces to the union, aud so long as that is not practicable commercial union will remain an un.• practicable scheme. --Buffalo Conrier. eoen FOR THE U. S. BUT DAD FOR CANADA. Free trade between the United States and Canada with a common tariff for both countries against the old world would be highly advan• tageous to this country, but a bad bargain for Canada. - Louisville Courier Journal. EDITORIAL NOTES. The convicted Chicago anarchis'. who murdered policemen 'by bomb throwing stand a fair chance of swinging for .choir crimes. The New York Tribune says, the pardon -of these men would multiply a hun- dredfold every danger that exists to -day from this class in the popula- tion. The Methodist preachers of New York invited ex -priest McGlynn to ventilate his views at a meeting the other ' day. The preachers wore afraid to endorse the political idea that land should bo held in common but thanked the ex -priest for his theological exposition. .Judge Howe, of Indianapolis, being told by an attorney of the court that ho would like a divorce case put through before adjourn- ment, that it would only take five minutes, remarked that "no divorce case could be tried in five minutes," and added, "the old fashioned ideal of marriage was that it was marriage for life and it' would bo a good. thing when that idea shall become prevalent again." Thorn is some talk of a colony of Mormous setting in Canada. The Globe remarks that there is no room for thein as.Mo vinous for they would have to obey the Dominion laws. which would punish polygamy. Tho London Adeertiser or The Hon.David_ Mills, says that marriage comes' under provincial rattier than federal ,jurisdiction. The Hamilton Spec- tuhn' sets the matter at rest by quot- ing what the Imperial law officers declared in 1870 "Marriage and divorce," which, by the 31st section of the [British North America] act are reserved to the Parliament of the Dominion, signify, in their opinion, all matters relating to the status of marriage, between what per;ens awl under what cir- cumstances it shall be croatVd, and (if .at all) destroyed. There are many reasons of convenience and sense why one law as to the status of marriage should exist tltronglnont the Dominion which have no applies.. tion as regents uniformity of the procedure whereby that status is croatecl or evidenced.. A harried man near Windsor rill away with his employer's daugh- ter, aged fourteen, whom he induc- ed to marry him, she not knowing that he was already monied. The 1Vitni'...�� comments on this :-"Tho newspapers chronicle this horrible crime under the heading "A Way- ward daughter," as though the im- moasnrablo cowardly. cruelty of the grown man was entirely lost in the sin of a young girl who fell under the glamor of a will stronger than her own. Our Jaw, in harmony with the spirit of the ago, affords little f } I t. '.e or uo or t to wast of all crimes. 'ij'hoeti tocip:t R J "" tette bigamists, who aro becoming strangely cotntoori, should bo -flogged. ,No other punishment be- fits their crime or is calculated to roach their degraded nature." The Chicago Journal has just found out that very few uon•pro- fessionel Americans aro aware that debts contracted in a foreign coun- try and for which judgment has there been obtained, can bo collect- ed in the United States, the sante as if contracted- there, by get- ting a certified transcript of tho foreign judgenieut recorded in the proper American court. One would have supposed that every business than in the United States knew this. But there is something that the Journal does not yet know when it says that "no such proceedings would bo entertained in a Cauadiau court against all Ali el'1- can refugee hoodler long enough for objection to bo made to the order discussing it." The Journal is in error. A judgment obtained in an American court for debt con tractod iu the United States can bo collected from the defaulter if he is residing in Canada, and has pro- perty that can be levied upon. But a forcigu defaulter residing in Canada cannot ba made to pay if he has not the wherewith to levy upon. The debt, however, is col- lectable just the same as if it was contracted in Canada. And so can a debt contracted in Canada be col- lected in the ' United States the same as if it had been contracted there, providing the proper steps aro taken. One Way To Work. We are asked by "Temperance" to give space to the following: A man who solicited the vote of a friend for the Prohibition ticket was answered that the latter didn't "believe in prohibition. 'Moderate drinking," said the friend, "is no injury to any man." "What doyou call moderate drink- ing?" "Oh 1 not more that four or five drinks during the day and two 'or three in the evening." "Drinks of what 1" „Why, whisky, gin, or whatever a man uses for his tipple." "And you call that reoderatedrink- ing?" "Certainly 1 do, Some men drink twice that, but I think that's oncurll. If any laws would stop a gutter drunkard, I would vote to Make them, but you can't stop a man who is a hard drinker, and no set of men can possibly slake laws that, will prevent a. man from gett- ing n drink of liquor in one shape or another if he is bent upon it." "That may be, as things are now, but a prohibition law might operate favorably to stop the moderate drinkers," "Yes, to be sure it would, and that's the trouble with you pro- hibition fellows. You can't benefit the real drunkards, and yet you would limit the people to whom drinking is asource of pleasure and no harm: Look at the ; do I look dangerously ill 1" "No, you don't ; but you surely don't take from eight to ten drinks a day 1" "Don't I , though ? Sometimes, when things are rather festive, 'I <firhik tniore ; but I drink that much every day." "Well, I never could have be- lieved it by your looks." "Couldn't you ? See how a hob- by snakes a plan blind to facts. Now, you would be better if yon drank a little yourself." "Would I1 I don't agree with you." "Yes you would ; yort-" "Wait a moment. 1 don't deny that to many men the exhilaration produced by a drink of liquor is a positive pleasure, and seine selfish, brutish men are• apparently more human when their thick hides are warmed up by alcohol ; but the danger in drinking doesnot lie there. I believe that every moderate drink• er is simply an embryo drunkard." "Nonsense ! do you mean to say that I shall ever become a gutter- snipe, or fall under my own table 1" "What I say is that you are in the way of it," "Not much ! I've reached my limit." "Oh ! then there was a time when you didn't drink eo much as now." "Well, you know I didn't drink when I was a baby, and I reckon my reputation at college was as good as yours for sobriety." - "My dear fellow, I don't pretend to deny that, but iconic to think of it, that was a pretty lively crowd that made up your set in the senior GREAT CASH STOR Will bo magniticeutly illuminated on TUESDAY AND WEDNESDA EVENINGS. Qur Stock in every department is now complete, alga from it you carr get abut* anything your !wart may crave for. e;,..;, REMEMBER$ ! sciTuRnav DOTOBER --IS THE DAYS OF -- Robertsons ranU Open!rjg MILLINERY, F[LFINTLE & CDSTUDIE sIIOw • RQQMS_ —Call and see the BRILLIANT DISPLAY OF NOVELTIES at— BERTSON'S GREAT CASH STORE, CLINTON. year. What was the name? I for- get." '`Oh ! you mean the -the -a non• sense name ; what was it 1 some- thing about the lower regions. Oh ! yrs --'Tile Plutonics.' Didn't we Kaye some roaring old tinea? Why, you were a regular old duffer, I re member, and wouldn't ,join Yon missed a lot of fun." "Did I? 1 got any honer' all the same." "So you did, but I don't see that it was much use over my plucking, for, between us, 1 haven't been un-' lucky in my business." "No, you are reported rich." "Well, I don't complain of my lot, and an occasional drink doesn't make me any unhappier." "Do you remember your first drink'!" "Indeed do I. That was brought off' at the jolly 'Flutelike,' when I was inaugurated." "How long ago was that?" "Let me see 1 Our class was '67. It was about a year before I was graduated. How time flies ! there's my boy, George, just begun his freshman year." "I supose George \vitt join thePlu- tonics 1" "George !-Plutonics !-by Jove ! as I come to think of it, there are every few of the old fellows left." "What became of that smart chap who was your President ? IIairy-l" "Oh 1 Harry Richardson. Didn't you hear 1 went to the mischief. kle always was good for itis t,liree bottles, but, like a fool, lie wouldn't attend to business, and he hadn't any money, so, as he increased his doses, he soon went to the dogs. When he was away down an old aunt fortunately turned up . and sent hila to an asylum. In. a few days ho had a fit of the rains, and bucked his brains out against the wall. Poor fellow !" "Dreadful 1 dread€ul !" "Too bad, but a map must draw the line." "Have you done it 1" "Yes, I have," "When you were at college you Warted in on how many drinks?" "Oh ! now, don't draw the reins quite so tight. ' I admit that I went a little too far at college, through the matter was kept very quiet." "1 didn't know it, honor bright." Didn't you 1 Well; I'd got though all right but for an all night we made of it during the final examinat- ion. The Provost got to hear of it, and there wasn't one of us that cause through well except poor Harry." "Well atter you were in business, did you begin with ten drinks a day 1" - "No, of course not, but T •knew what I was doing, and do now, and the limit is not over ten." "But you said just now that " on festive occasions you drank more," "Oh ! well, they don't count ; but excuse are, I didn't know* we had been talking so long. There goes noon;by the State House, and I have an appointment I must keep -Good- bye 6 "Wait just one minute. Do you intend to let George join the SRC% cessors of the 'Plutonic's'1" "Really -well !-a-to tell you the truth, George does give ale some bother. His mother tells me lie watches every chance at the claret after dinner, and I am a little afraid that chum of his is a rapid youth. I mean to look into the natter and set him straight. Good- bye 1" "One word more. Will you take any offense if I call at your office in three months, and bring up the same subject 1" "No, no, not at all. I am not afraid of it. Good-bye ! good- bye 1" Fatal :'elusion ! Unhappy vic- tim of a fiend tightening its grip every hour around this man's life, and which he thinks a friend. If we want real work to do for tem- perance, here is the work. Spot the wan you know is a "moderate" drinker. Go t0 him kindly ; ask his vote for OW esus,', Don't arra with him ; let him talk, and ou lister) to the evasions that he will make. In a spirit of sincere pity try to allow him where he really stands, and if you can't do it, nail him down to some kind of a posit'%N statement, and, as our friend did in the foregoing conversation, ask him to let you come to hint again after the lapse of a decided interval. Make a memorandum in your diary or somewhere, that you won't over- look it, to go to your friend on certain day, and when the (layman': go. A word or a comparison 01 conditions at the different times of your interviews shay awake the dhowsy senses, and the man through your instrumentality be saved from perdition. Who are there among the friends of temperance that don't know plenty such et►ties 1 --men and wo• sten both who are under the de' ion that they can drink a little, a,. not drink much 1 If w•e work it, sonic such way as this, earnestly and •honestly WORK, there would code a time when the general send - went of our people wouht he work. ed up to practice 'total ahstince as well es vote for prohibition. • Police Magistrates' Position. Mn.• Shaw, Q. C., Solicitor for the County of Bruce, !has raised the .question of the, legality of Police Magistrate Vanstone's appointment. Tho 'natter came up on the appli- cation of Mr. Vanstono ,.to the..,,_. County 'Treasurer a few clays ago for his first quarter's salary, and on the question being• referred to taro' Co. Solicitor, that gentleman ad- vised tho Warden and Treasurer that Mr: Vanstone's appointment ae Police Magistrate is illegal,'and in 1-• consequence he leas no claim on the county for the payment of salary. The following in reference to the question raised iJ taken from the Bruce Herald, which says :- '[r. Shaw bases his opinion on' the Ontario "Act respecting Police Magistrates for Counties," chap. 1F 48 via., which says :z --"Where County Council of any Cour passes a resolution affirming the,... pedicncy of the appointment of a salaried Police Magistrate for such County, the Lieut. Governor may , mako such 'an appointment, 44 salary to be paid by the County." Tho County Council of Bruce Wu? ed to pass a resolution affu'ininn the expediency of appointing n sal aried Police Magistrate, and.,thou the Government passed an stet lhst Session intended to coorde; them. It is intitled "An' Act respecting t1io appointment and proceodingd of Police Magistrates," chapter 11, 50 vie. Tho first section says "The Lieut. -Governor May appoint more Police Magistrates than ono for any county or union of counties or' dis• trict, or part of a district, in which tiro Canada Temperance Act, or a like Act, is in force. Any such Magistrate shall hold office during pleasure, save that he shall cease to bo such Police 'Magistrate in case, and from the time that, the said Act. or a new Act Which may iso substituted therefor, ceases, to ho in force in the county, or district or part of district aforesaid." Tho courts have already hold that the Legistaturo had • no power to pass that part of the above section giv- ing the Lieut. -Governor authority to make appointments for "part of a district," or "part of a county." Appointments must he made for a whole district of county, notwith- standing the worde of the Act. And again the Act says (sec. 3) : "Tho, appointment of a Police Mag- istrate under this Act, or under the Act rospecling Police Magistrates for counties may exclude any city