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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1887-10-26, Page 3fay Adttettionicris tbtt @1qj Furs --Jackson Bros. Boots and Shoes—W. Il. Simpson. Stove for Sale—This Office. $7 Suits—Jaeksou bros. New Qoods—Estate John Hodgons. Reward—Whitely & Todd. Insurance—Janos Thompson. Printing—Tuts News-Kw:one. The Huron News: Record Wednesday. October 26. ISST REVENGE—PERSECUTION. Sometimes ‘le aro asked about West Hurou. What is Mr. Porter's situation in the pending election trial'? The Grits say he is a "gone coon." And that the other " coon" that was trend last February will come down at anotherelection, which they aro sure is to be held. And that he will change places with DIr. Porter at the public crib at Ottawa. Were these Grit prophets in the habit of even oecasioually telling - the truth,when referring to the pro spects of their opponents, the Con- servatives of West Huron might take a serious view of the outlook. But the Grit prophets never toll the truth in such cases. And the general opinion among Conserva- tives is that the Grit charges against Mr. Porter are *he result of the coquetting of a superabundant amount of Grit ideality with the fanciful creations and devices of their friends. There is also another element supplementary to that of imaginary wrong doing on the part of Mr. Porter or his supporters—re- venge. To all hide -.bound minds revenge is sweet. There are just a sufficient number of this class among the Grit wire pullers of West Ilug•ou to control the actions of their party. And to this class of minds revenge is never so sweet as when they have been foiled in their objects though sought to be attained through seas of wickedness. Their wicked designs in West Huron failed last February partly through the pulpable deceptions they sought to practice on the electorate, but. mainly .by reason of the sterling personal qualities of Mr. Portor and the clearness with which he presen- ted the cause of god government. The Grits have no evidence of per-. sonal or coustructive wrong doing by Mr. Porter. Their idea is re- venge and persecution. They know Dir. Porter ie_..a_ poor man... They pride themselves that Mr. Cameron -is wealthy. With the instinct of an Indian following to the death an enemy the Grit wird pullers are following Mr. Porter in tho hope that they eau construe some possible trivial technical violation on the part of a supporter of Mr. Porter into a corrupt. act by . an agent. That Mr. Porter is personally free, from any corrupt act -goes -without: saying ; that any supporter whose actions ho is respousiblo for viola- ted the law is quite improbable. There may have been trivial irregu larties for which Mr. Porter person- ally' or constructively is not respon- sible, but there never was an elec- tion and never will be one in which venial contraventions of the election law did not or will not occur. Well, should the improbable happen and that M e.Porter's .seat is declared vacant through an indiscretion on the part of au unsophisticated sup• porter, -what then 1 Why the Grits hold that then 'they would have the Tories where the hair is short. An- other contest and they would down Porter. Porter has no money to carry on another contest so soon. Thu legitimate expenses of au elec- tion are enough to daunt a man of even the undoubted courage of lir. Porter. Andmr. Cameron has " bari's" of stoney. Our friends may depend that Mr. Cameron and his wire pullers will not lot up on ' Mr. Porter until they Wave exhaus- ted all the legal machinery within their re icb. In their bitter and un(13 ne revenge agaiust a pian whose ability and manly honesty overcame all their cunning and debauchery they will resort to all manner of persecution. But what will the honest electorate of West Huron say concerning the diaboli- cal attempt to have the Riding re- presented by Mr. Cameron's money instead of an intelligent and practi- cal representative like Mr. Porter 4 The Liberal and Liberal -Conserva- tive portion must fight the money bags of Mr. Cameron to the bitter end. To do this will also require money. It will never do after get Ong 4t victory Over theta once too allow lex. ' Catnexotls 41ollars - +1•.0 make better speeches than Mr. Porter. To this end wo hope that all lovers of honest representation will bend themselves, • lend that' Mr. Porter will bo backed up by tho material assistance of -his friends iu defending himself in court, and if needs be In again asserting his right to represent the loyid Riding • of West Huron. It is to be hoped that the days are gone by in Huron, never to return, when an honest re- presentative of the people can be persecuted and driven out of public life because he is a poor man. CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. Mn. ERABTUs Witco', of New York, has issued a pamphlet con- aiuing the views of several leading Americans who favor commercial inion. Tho Hon. Robt. Hitt, mem- or of Congress front Illinois, asks, 'who would oppose it 4" and answers, 'in this country (the United States) OMB special interests fearing Cana - lien competition in Iogs." Exactly. The whole scheme is to make Cana- dians hewers of wood and drawers of water for our neighbors. Neither Mr. Hitt nor his people fear cone- ietition in manufactured lumber. Seine of; his people might oppose ren trade in logs. For himself that s one of the benfits he thinks his eeople would derive from commer- cial union. Instead of bringing Cana - liana lumber ivanufactured on Cana- dian • soil, employing thousands of workmen and horses, and consum- ing Canadian farm produce iu this country, they would get our logs and have all the benefits of manu- facturing thein on American soil. And, frankly adds Mr. Hitt, "our rapidly disappearing forests which will all be gond in twenty,five years, would. be ra enforced by the vast woods -of •Canada. Everyone would see the benefits of a wider market for our manufactures, and an ampler supply of raw material." Tile whole gist of his and confreres' remarks in favor of commercial unibn is that it would furnish an extended market for American man- ufactures. Then the Hon. Mr. Hitt hits the Canadian.commei'cial union- ists,quito severely -when he includes among the class of Americana who would object •qto' the scheme, the farmers who 'grow barley, whcse interests would bo adversely affected: by the importation of Canadian barley. Mr. Hitt singles out these two American interests, log owning and barley growing, which would oppose commercial union. Lumber manufacturers would •get cheaper raw --material, and consumers , of barley would get that cerealchoaper. Surely the American consumer. could .not get his barley 10.eents a bushel cheaper and the Canadian producer get 16 cents a bushel more under free trade.. Mr. hitt is right in advocating commercial union in the intereas of his fellow -country- men.. And what would be their gain would be a loss to Canadians. In the pamphlet we have referred to the Hon. S. J. Ritchie, of Akron, Ohio, in order to interest his countrymen in an endeavor to steal the rip- Canadian plum under the mask of commercial union, gives a very •fair resumo'of the importance of Canada. He says : "The Dominion of Canada has a larger area than the whole of the United States if we exclude Alaska. To the five million Canadians to the north of us, we sold in 1885 $50,492.- 83'2 worth of goods, while to the forty- five millions to rho south of us we sold only $64,719,000. Her per capita of railway mileage is equal to that of the United States. 'Her growth of population from the date of our Declaration of Independence up to the present day has been equal to our own, "The records of her criminal courts show that she has a smaller per tentage of crime than we have. She is the only .country in the world whoso national debt is not a war debt, with the exception of two or three millions spent in putting down the recent Kiel rebellion. The whole of her debt has boon incurred in the development of her internal improve- ments. In addition to her line of railway extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, her goverumont is sub- sidizing a fast line of steamships to ply between 'Halifax and Liverpool, and the imperial government has agreed to subsidize a line to run be, tweon Vancouver. Yokohama, Hong Kong, and Australia. A company has been organized to lay a cable from Vai.uouvor, via Sandwich Is- lands, to Yokohama, Hong Kong, and Australia. An Atlantic ocean cable is to be owned by the same company which owes the Pacific cables. u ctiotk With itt sad the I!acific hue subsidized by. the Puglislt Reverts- rn,ent, which will also r..4tn in. source+ tion with it, will have both under its control; Its railways are reaching out for the carrying trade of the two hemispheres. Not only this, but the transcontinental telegraph system and both the Atlantic and Pacific cables, of which • I have spoken, will leo under the control and owned by her railways. 'These are not visions of the future. Most of them are realities of today. Already we can step into the most luxurious car which runs on this con- tinent at Vancouver, on the waters of the Pacific, and ride continuously in it for a distance of 3,700 miles until you reaeh Halifax, on the At. lantic. This country has also a great inland water way from the mouth of the St. Lawrence in the Atlantic to the head of Lake Superior, and all her own, except the locks at Sault Ste. Marie. "These groat lines of commerce traverse broad stretches of our own country, wile tap almost every im- portant ceutre of trade ou our uorth• ern border, and aro now stretching their arms across the State of Maine to the seaboard, south to St. Paul, and the vast interests that•centre in these grand transcontinental lines that aro knit together by them, in, vite to other fields of conquests this side of the great lakes, until Portland, Ore., St. Paul, Chicago, Buffalo, New York, and San Francisco pay tribute to these interests and share in the •wonderfnl growth and development ; and it may astonish some present to know that to -day the Dominton gov- ernment has subsidized, and is now subsidizing, a railway in connection with this vast system across the State of Maine, to shorten the route to tho cities of the easterii seaboard:" "Time her great railway, by moans of the steamships which will ply be- tween Halifax and Liverpool in con - des • POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. groan. 'c n>tervatiom tnttet be •ever on the move, but -Word stalling • a move it will be as certain ;as human prescience can make it that it will not be for the worse. The tradi- tions and history of , Couservatiana are identical with the history of Britain, and no thoughtful.person will say that Britain has 'stood still. The Liberal Conservative party is the progressive party of this country, the party which com- mends itself by its traditions and principles to the young men of the country. Of course the opponents of Con- servatism will toll us -that the aspira- tions of youth cannot bo gratified by orsatisfied with the Conservative pro- gramme. But we can point with confidence to the past as a guarantee of the onward march of ideas among Conservatives in the future.That` whatever is is right, is not the theory .of Conservatism. But we believe in maintaining unavoidable impedi- ments to absolute or perfect free- dom rather than remove these im- pediments and have no freedom at all. We are often told that Conser- vatives are opposed to ,reform. That is a stupid assertion. The existeuco of Conservatisne has de- pended upon and been maintained by the reforms. which it has effected ; by attacking the curable imperfect- ions in the body politic, from time to .time, and eliminating them therefrom. It would be unwise to destroy all laws and Government because they aro in sorne respects imperfect. Ono would not destroy all churches because they are in some respects imperfect. A farmer would not destroy all his apples be- cause there aro are some imperfect or unsound onus amongst them. He would be Conservative enough to pick out' the bad and keep the good. If after a time he found that some which he had at one time pronounc- ed good were unfit to keep he would eliminate them. And so on from time to time he would pick out the imperfect just as fast as he discovered them. He would not destroy them 'all, good and bad. So with Conservatives in polities. The laws which aro good this year may not be good next year, and as fast as they are shown to be useless Conservatives will bend their ef- forts to have them repealed and' cast to one side.,. It is easy for those so-called•inde pendants to say that politics is a, dirty pool and they do not want, to have anything to do with it. But where would our liberties or pro- gress bo if the majority had taken that view. It is every ones duty to take a part in public affairs—in politics—and a positive and enthusiastic _part. In political economy as in religious - oconomy- he that is not for us 'is 'against us. And Conservatism, as wo under - it, in politics is the corollary of Christianity. There are some very wise sayings by the so-called independent prosy about the tyranny of party. That party is a meaningless shibboleth except for the few wire pullers and party hacks. But those same inde- pendents are more tyrannized over than are the members of any regu- larly constituted political organiza- tion. They aro blown hither and thither by the fickle wind of popu- lar demagogues who have no fixed principles, but "catch on," to use an expressive phrase, only to ride with the ebb and flow of useless agitation. Those independents fill Lowell's caricature of a statesman. A ginoolne statesman should be on his guard, Et he must have beliefs, not to b'lieve em too. hard Hell never say nothin' withont he's compelled tu, • And then he won't say nothln' that he can bo htu. Even theneld when lie's done all his real meanin' to smother, The darned things '11 up and mean somethin' or -nether. But party is the • basis of Govern- ment, and it must have positive principles. Party is made up of minds as various as there are indi-- viduals. It is nonsense to say that A man cannot be a party man and have individual views of his own. But he is neither a•good party man nor a good citizen 'who will not'sac- rifico to some extent his individual- ity, his independence, for the gener- al good. ' Party_ is simply co-operation by_ individuals for the highest of all earthly purposes, that of self-preser- vation. It carries on directive and retraining functions for public ends. It seeks to subserve the welfare of society as a whole.' To some extent party organization possesses coercive powers and uses them. Did it not it would not be any more efficacious than any single unit composing it. A rope of many strands has more strength than any individual strand. Were this not the case thorn would be no use of combining them to- gether. Fifty several strtuids sepax- ately might bo used fifty separate times to lift a certain weight and failure would result every time. Combine together, make a party so to speak of those fifty strands end they would be strong onough''to sus- tain the weight that the fifty strands, separately, failed to do. So• with party. Tho separate working of a given number of individuals, though each has the common well - fare in view, will fail where their organized or combined efforts would succeed. Evoiy young whether yonng or old, is in duty bound to belong to a party. To bo apparently paradoxical, every man's individuality is lost except ho mer- ges it along with others in some po- litical organization. Tho Conser- vative' party wo believe provides the most efficacious organization for conserving and perpetuating the good in and for eliminating the bad from onr political structure. A false conception of Conserva- tism is hold by some. It is not the function of Conservatism to stand fast by what is, regardless of the fitness of things. The history of Conservatism is the history of pro - man, every man EDITORIAL NOTES. Sir Charles Tupper has declared himself in favor of Prohibition, in a letter to his constituents. Tho Globe wants to know if Mr. Chamberlain proposes to put the screws on Canada. We believe not there is a firm i `ten aim on, just removed there from Dundas, that intends to do all the Canadian business in that line. READYMADE_MANTL[8 BER Having secured a BIG LOT OF MANTLES CHEAP, we mean to give the people Bargains in that line. We offer for the coming week : 21. Mantles at $3 Each 8 Mantles at $4.50 Each 12 Mantles at $7 Each Ladies' Ulsters at $5 Each Ladies' Ulsters at .$6.50 Each Ladies' Ulsters at $8 Each Ladies' DOG SKIN • COATS at a Bargain* ger These aro all nice Fresh Goods and will boor inspection. ROBERTSON'S GREAT -CASH STORE, CLIN TON. United "States. Mr.. Duncan is a layman of the Church of England. His difficulty is with his church superiors, not with the secular authorities. The Government has no right to interfere in church dis- putes. Mr. Duncan is an arbitrary though well meaning man but has neutralized lately much of the good he did in years gone by among the Indians. The commercial annexationists told us the other day that the Ameri- can Executive had made Commer- cial Union the basis of negotiations for settling the fisheries question. There is not a word of truth in the statement. The big birds in their nests agree, At a banquet to Cardinal Tascher- tan Hon. Mr. Mowat, while in a confessional mood admitted hat there might be good Catholics—in spite of their Catholicism. And his Grace Archbishop Lynch of Toronto in his writings has admit- ted that there might bo good Pro- testants, but their goodness would bo in spite of their Protestant- ism, Those wary old birds are evidently adepts at throwing chaff at each other. The Opposition press are do- nouncing the Dominion Govern- ment for causing a British Colum- bia Missionary of the Church of England to expatriate himself and a number of converted Indians to the "A little girl sent a rhyming congratulation to the editor of the Toronto Mail congratulating him on his conversion. A few numbers of the edition containing the lines were printed before it was dis• covered that the verses were an acrostic, the first letters of the lines making up the following sentence, " Our Renegade Editor is an Ass." That morning edition was only about half an hour late in consequ- ence of leaving to kill those lines. Secretary Bayard last January ordered the release of three schooners and crews seized by American authorities in Alaskan waters. His orders wore not carried out and ho has recently reiterated his former orders both by letter and telegraph. Will this be another •Mason and Slidell case of too pre- viousness on the part of bumptious American oflicers'1 President Cleyeland, accompanied ley Mrs. Cleveland, has been. visit- ing various parts Of the great Ameri- can Union. He was everywhere received with demonstrations of respect, 'as should the head of iffy - nation. Opposition papers in Can- ada would say a good word for Judas Iscariot rather than Sir_Jolita A. Macdonald. But we only find one American opposition paper 10 throw dirt on their Executive. The Minneapolis Tribune remarked :— "It is hard to have respect for- a woman who will• sell herself- to so gross and repulsive a man as Grover Cleveland. The Toronto News has for years -been a vigorous advocate of the Scott Act and an upholder of the sneak detective system to enforce it. The we ia- very...inoonsistont. It de- nounces the employment of police in plain clothes for the suppression of prostitution, and adds : "It is not justifiable to hold out tempta• tions to violate the law for the pur- pose of punishing tho offence." That is sound 'common sense doc- trine. And if applicable in the en- deavors to suppress one social evil why not in tho endeavors to sup- press another but lesser social evil. It is certainly a moral wrong and should be made a legal offence for an officer of the law, or indeed any other person, to hold out induce- ments for persons to violate the Scott Act for the purpose of pun- ishing thetn for the offence. Reciprocity on equitable terms.' But our neighbors have invariably. refused to discuss the inatter official- ly. If they can obtain Recipro- city on their own and thus neces- sarily inequitable terms they shill agree to it. They always want the pig end of the stick. They are not even satisfied with the "whole earth" but want a slice of 100 miles or so of the sea adjoining their shores, while denying the right of Canadians to three miles. Sir Richard Cartwright has not forgotten all of his Tory creed. He is reported as saying in a public speech to his ' constituents the other day :. "I have no hesitation in stating that if the United States are willing to deal with us on equitable terms the advantages to both countries are so great that each should make concessions to secure them." Good Tory doctrine. Can- ada has a standing offer to, the United States to moot and discuss Mr. Chamberlain withinthe last few weeks made British speeches in Britain. He made no reference to American affairs at all. And now come some Canadians, who bow down and ,worship the American idol, with the cock and bull story that the American Government will remonstrate against Mr. Cham- berlain being a Fisheries Commis- sioner, because he expressed British sentiments about Home Rule. If the British Government had selec- ted Blaine,) of Maine, or our own Wandering Willie who is continu- ally looking to Washington for thirty pieces.of silver, probably the Americans and renegade Canadians would be satisfied. Mr. Chamber- lain must be a many-sided man. The Americans seem to think that he will be' a staunch upholder of the proven rights of Canada as well Britain. While the Globe—ane—day denounces him for those same, traits and yet the next day blames the British Government for appointing him on tho Fisheries Commission as- he will -give -tire Canadian case • away to the Americans. John - Morley, --the clever English - Radical writer and DI; P., is report- ed to have said that "Tory prin- ciples may divide a people ; but unite, reconcile a people Toy prin- ciples never have done, and never will de." Then all his tirades about the Tories bringing about the union of Ireland with England by disreputable means Must go for naught. And how about the union of the British North Ameri- can Provinces which was brought about on Tory principles by a com- bination of Reformers and Conser- vatives. And the Tory principles of to;day-are largely made up of a policy tending to the greater soli- dity and the perpetuation of this union. And the opponents of Tory principles have at every op- portunity sought to divide our peo- ple, from the time of their:attacks on tho railway union bond in 1872 all along that lino until they brought about the Riel rebellion in their efforts at division.. And now these apponents of Tory principles are doing their level best to divide our people and cause discontent by their diatribes in favor of commer- cial annexation. Governor Bodwell, of Maine, has been interviewed at St. Louis as to tho working of the Maine law. His statement, or at least the report of .it, is not cheerful in tone. It is fairly well enforced in the rural districts, but in cities it is defied. This is quite as good as could be said with regard to the Scott Act. This constitutes an indictment against the public and civic officials, including in Maine primarily the Governor himself. Mr. Bodwoll adds something that so far as it goes