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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Times, 1890-02-28, Page 2, ...,a, 1. ant rt lm 1T .II,r 28, 11300. 0Q$.. +tack spirits and w hite> „Blue spirits null gray, eine, fn„tA, truitg,1s. While ye miegte .pray,. ipe:citetl it over and over, like •.titans, its site leaned forward Lee e'er camp chair, over the glow- . e insert# eiraSvn out on the he,Lrth. AW ° t'''en as she leaned forward, she eine tt hale shirk or stir to the long in Si pellet within Lica vas doing nit • n d y es c neins eal;tre % A. savory steam eame res groat it as she did so ; and graeteei a hungry mast who stood -h lee floor of the hut, behind • '1Ie Meati walked across from the .Luke ;seek, ta_s step deadened by the moss entire: spread its thine carpet between enips of the felled trees. Tne lural bark eituee in which he ,, rr p ;,,sled himself across the weter `_ ,', ;;uta;, Iudian feshiou, on his ''welt, serving for un,breaa and water woof oof n aiust the drizzle that was falling. His brow►zed fete and dark peal iyrered in keeping; startliiugly ", Meg thought, its :,be glai eed over • 1,ngiionlderat hire. F.r at some movement of his the edge a% his cartes Btruek the door Lvi#ii as euraping sound, which made leer look around suddenly. .slid. drew her breath iu- a quick gasp 'malt surprise, half fear. ed riot included any red eroi e iShe had her incantation, runt this tory of the curl hsh Wands to her, arta be puffed away, The pipe of peace, Moss Wiuscon, The girl started, too utterly taken by surprise to withdraw her baud. Yon know me, then ? site cried. 1 know my pipe, he said calmly, still.puflte.g away. Your --pipe ;' Rather, mine uutil I gave it to your molar at the office, .it was among' sundry other trines I brought tack with me from abroad, and your tooth er did me the honor to accept it one day when we salt smoking .in the oilice in Montreal. I do not.understaad_ Ti t I am Geoffrey Morris, junior member of the Montreal banking house where your father was cashier. A flush of pla"asyre brightened the girl's face. Olt, papa will be so delight- '.then she stopped sliurt, Would papa be delighted 1 In them, three months since they had left their vil- lage hype, neer Montreal, to bury themselves so strangely here in tho forest, he had seemed to dislike every reminder of the old life. lest us have But if every ono else tolls you Po, Meg 1 Has trot Geoffrey Morrie done so niready4 Meg, without losing JTPr hold of her father, glanced over her shoulder at Morris. 1 understand it now, aloe cried. Yoe have been ;seeping all this wicked u�piciou from my knowledge,' Itidio,K, Lire away from ail news of it, hero its the words. You need not have troubled, papa; I should never have believed it. .And hair Morrie does not believe it either, she said, sudden- ly turning round upon hint. He came forward, thus challenged. That 1 never did, he said, My I n collet). pea tea I ever did, And for the last month they have not either. How have you buried your- self, Aft.. Winston, ea n n, that for the fast month you have sewn none of the firm's advertisements for you 1 Poor old Dupre is. dead, Winston, but not before coufessing that it was he who robbed the bank, But 1 ask you to believe 1 knew that yon were limo-, sent, at drat, If you cannot believe done with everything about it, he had ' that, then refuse to take my hand. told her abruptly. Let us forget itnine, i p g it stretched out frankly. while we ca>}. We shalt not befiler glancing from the one to the other,drew the troubled witl hi two safety to ether who we are ; but mind, we cause from now where, and we mean to enjoy this euasicaamping out summer without' one recollection reaching back behind the July day we came. So Montreal, or Bank, had not once been nanet;d between them ; and as her father had said, there was no ueighbora to ask of their peat, A I stray sportsrnau now and then was more interested in the trout streams, li or a white fish hole, than in the his - r eseencomer looked uncommonly like as ! so little to say or the girl who nmat ag, o had rel Indian, as he paused in the door- l ed to keep out of the wary, WaY of the hat. So iiet.ffrey Morrie being her drab She had an idea that it was better . actual goers, tllarearet Winston was o ctpen eotiversation at once, by way of Bowing she was not at all afraid. So'how, howl she said promptly, havrne somewhere heard .or read th'tt enenesyltable was an appropriate eettatir,ti. Tee little word beiz g a not intimate New Eng a„d leterrttgative: the -eve-neer res . cubed .ae promptly: s ran=r a � spring house in a shelf oi`. rock over ley the canoe I lust my wey,aud the ' the briede; it keeps everything so cool ara'n of your lire shaming out; up p But if you will conte with be lake drew are aerus,s� to you. 311 me,t 's only a stone's throw, we'll ,tot know there Was a lutnh sr have ever tin - t netg ,ors, to ask even her own hand nestling in them both. I am glad, she said, looking straight up into Geoffrey's face. I could never have forgiven you had yon doubted hien. Bat I am glad we can be friends. Rave we not smoked the pipe of peace together ? said he, lightly. But already it had flashed through Geoffrey Morris' mind—well, perhaps of his rs mind, but his heart -- that one tide he glad to be something more than friend with Meg Winston. And s•arnehow or other be must have succeeded, 'though this summer, stow that he is planning another aping trip to the lakes that wind appu'•entty benr, o a d eine hitn hunor. Jin and out from Canute 1 have a spent -NJ beauty of a trent, It is not Meg Winston, iibuto MaMeg she read, 1 was leeepiltg him for break- Morris, who is prornisieg to go a. feet ; somehow 1 have to try to tempt fishing with him,— papa a hie in the naor+ting. 1 think jL, V. L(laittand.] he dues ur,t a eep wen, end se he leas THE EXODUS TO THE but tittle Appetit,. Ancl--oh, yes, UNITED STATES. scalae raspberries ! 1 have contrived a;_ Ion tea i snow papa, none in ..the, neighborhood. May I J will like -tit have a feast iu your honor Iaegple frr,Tti the Province 4)f come to the fire?' 1 athoroughly Mr. Morris. shaye gone to the Staten during Quebec s athe damp and chilled,Mr. Morris! year. floe,. Mr. Mercier denied that, 1e no did not add, and hungry, too, I The name reaehed the ear of a than I but he acknowledged, if the papers 'hen he stoodon tie; hearth beside who had approached the licit across reported hint properly, that no leap her, and the saucepan emit up its the mossy sod, not stealthily, hue as than 60,000 people had left within savory fumes to greet him, his eyes I uuesslessly as Geoffrey itorris had one year .to find (tomes in New Eng said it for him, , l h And Meg -answered, as if he had added it Supper will be ready presently, rayl eventing air father cannot be moth loner. She arose frons her low seat and 1 Mr stood still with Lt start, began to set the table as she spoke. The danoilag firelight within showed Tie ,van's glance followed her fur I him Geoffrey t grris seated smoking tivettj hi some surprise. She did not et ins heartii, has daughter spending Lok 1}ike a rough Iyuibertnau's laugh- 1 with her pretty head fumed toward er, this slender young thiug, moving Wienn eo deftly about her homely task. lier 1 Hose should Jahn Winston; know dress was of coarse blue flannel, and that the pipe he was smoking Was a :ler delicate hands were Sunburnt al . pipe of peace? tittle, up tb where she had ptelted the He will tell her ---she will believe streves baokfronl the wrists. But she hien, he said to himself, and turned r:ii,;ht have beau a dainty princess sharply cu his heel and. plunged inti a�;querading in pleasant costume • the surrounding wood, `a1 Meg was atandang with her back to the wiadow and saw asothing of the sudden faaee there, but Mortis did, and sprain, to Iain feet, peen= BY DI , MODU ALD” icoeTer noels ) papers this year, no less than 120,000 efore him. , land among those who went before Re had reached the small unglazed theta. If that fact went to the Ieader's vrindows which stood open to the heart in 1878, not to his heart alone but deeper still into his very soul, surely it will be Ins deep regret to find that the people of Canada are still going to the United States, to add to the strength, wealth and prosperity of that country. According to tl}p port of the United States Consular office in 'lorontn, 676 heads of families made application there for consular certificates last year. It is 'well keewn thtit hundreds and thousands of young people, men and woanen,who have no effects to take to the . United States, da not require consular certi- ficates; but the 676 heads who obtain- ed them represented 2,880 souls,or en average of five to a family, who left that one particular point, Toronto. But from a reportfor 1885-6-7 from eighty-four consctar points in thi the young Englishman had taken off his hat, as if to a princess of the 'alood, lie had time to take in his stir- euudings white she was engaged. Winston- i There was a tiny lean to , of a room Alt, is papa there? cried bled. >ehind this, through the Iratf open When they came out ,to item he was nem -way into which he could patch a standing at the entrance of the wood, liwpse of is hire draperies, end which •+ confronting them, haggard and ' wsid he guessed to be the girl's owns chem her, In the outer one there was a bunk filled with green spruce boughs >uiltinto the wall, and a shelf ebove eyed, like some savage creature of the forest brought to bay. Oonid you not have spared me this thing, Geoffrey elorris, to th t, ort v iich a pile of books stood yourself in here between ane anal r y zoside a tobacco jar. A callously I child? Alt tltingst £else I have given .aired pipe lay in front of thin; mid up to you; could you not have spared o barrow was the whole space that - me here? Per, after ell, that is alt he teaming ifames on the hearth you carate to do to Ina?, to take her eered, sn:theik.flickerin; to ruse fro, from tire. We are its the State of rr make a daslt at it and pluck at the 1Raine, rind swindling is nut covered earn of the grotesque face carved up. by the extraditions treaty. rt the bowl. Winston l Toe young nian'a eyea followed Papa 1 ierlt. Thu girl had gone straight to }Tim; By Ave! he said, tinder, his breath, titaitinr her scan in his, although he aro, as the girl turned ; 1 haven't would have put her front him, with y pipe with Lite. I coo your fattier that, ince ionate gesture of repuleioo. stokes. Would you kindly allay me leapt, if he means you any harm--. borrow his'? I assure you I would I don't think he insane you any ian,rrit joke the pipe of peace, although 1 ---yoriknow nothing, nothing, nothing a not an Indian, sire tette me from you. She smiled tt Tittle, perceiving that had observed her first ,nistake and rself put Whited, box and pipe in shawls. I dont think papa w,xutd fuse it you,=though he values it, It ink, l- e-•» tl''r ;quest woos looking it over eel. . Then h filled it, atsd.lightatd st tit 8rw sarl,leooly lifting himself neensenninFelleneenn noose will allow mo to give a few figures. to prove my statement, and if any one doebts theta, thoy eau i'o found in the Trade and Navigats.ou Returns, There were imported from the United States iu 1878 1,510 horses. The far. iners were told by the Conservatives t1iat those American horses wore flood - ittg tite Canadian markets and if a tax tv:'re imposed the Canadians would have their own mat•keta. Whet is the fact to --day? We imported last year 4,089 hors's, or almost three tinea I as many as in 1878 under 17i per cent I tariff. Our farmers were told soute- thing similar in regard to 'thee!). .�. buyei would come round and say: 1 w:,uld give you $4 per head but the duty prevents ane, and a large number of sheep are corning in from the Unit- ed States and so the market is glutted (Jmnada attd est f.auadit td not undors*eaad there was aoyt ifttt itr their barley, for itstauce, hem; oblig, ed to pay a duty of 15 per vett ttpert,, goin Luta the United .'tata's, whereas the Produce of tare Amrriean f rill�c.rs were allowed to be bronglit into titie country free. .It is s=aid the cunsum, tar pays the duty, anti that the tomer does nut sutler unytratng, hitt ie the statement; but when I put a eitnitic� case, wlttult 1 hove done frequently, I. can got no tluewer.” Nu, ,`a'ir, you canuat get tan answer. You cauuot get arty rHply to sltake tate foundations of the truths you stated, And Sir John o.anti.tua-s • "1 put a casein tate l -astern Town. sl Ips of a lean upon the imaginary Hue which was between this cnuntr and the United Staten suppose a hen we refer to the returns we find i Lean had 100 acres at, the Camelia that only 10,505 sheep Dante into the Canadian merlon in 1878, whereas last year the number was 48.55. In the face of that fait, where is the pro- tection for the fanners and the home market for Ctanadiaus3 The farmers have 'no protection. In 1878 we hie ported from tate United States 2,806,- 557 lbs. of bacon and batt. The Canadian fanners were tolyl this mime into competition will, their products and if aduty were imposed, they would have their own market and a higher price. The returns, however, show an import of 3,653,728 'he No lees than 10,204,257 lbs. of pork were brought in during 1878, but now the quantity reecees 15,20 ;972 lbs. Thus I might continue to show that the promises made to the fanners in 1878 have nor been realized b by them, ant therefore fore they are becornieg tired of the Nation al Policy, which promised so much and has given so little. Many of our young men are leaving the oouutry, and the older men, under the de pression of trod , h be unable t2 side of the line and 100 acres or this Atuerictio side of the line. Suppose he grows 1,000 bushels of barley on each of his farms. He takes itis 1,000 American bushels to the American market and gets $1 a blithe! for it. Ile takes his 1,000 bushels of Canad- ian barley to the American market and gets but 35 cents per bushel Ile cause he has to pay I5 per out. for taking it across that imaginary line. ' How can it, in this case, be said that tete consumer pays the duty? It ootues out of the packets of the Cana. dian fanners " e have, 8rr, needier authority on this question, Suri a very impnrtent one, to put in the witness -hoe to prove nay cum,ention that the farneets pay the,duty upou horses. '11 .re witness it an hon gentleman who ocoupiod a very prontiunut position in the gabi- net of -the Iron. the lewie of the present Guverntaet,t, He is a man who was selected from has party and placed on the Senate, and ,h0 was e have em 'ttgain',elected froth among the Sen - make eaads meet, and many of them acorn atad Invade speaker of th et body; hove end out and gone to a oouutry in fact he was afterwards t ee whore they believe the can that 1 a n from better advantages than they do here. ed to bel of value intion sethis House, he was aand Another fact to which I wish to draw was mad'. Miuitter of the Interior. the attention of this House as this • l Yea, utot'N, his c'xuellence and abit,tioa our fanners belies,. they are laand'l" were recog' „i7,,d by Her Gracious capped in the market, not only in •Majeety the Queen, and air honorable selling, but in buying. Ou whatever trtaea was bestowed upon hits. Surely, we sell tq the United aS'tutps we have he can give good testimony on this to payee large duty. -Our farmers question, and surely he is a good wit- sold 17,277 horses last year and paid ossa to place in the box. 1 refer to a duty of $422,746. They sent 37,- Sir David Macpltersuu, -He stated in 860 horned eattle and paid a duty of July, 1878 ; $976,533. they sent 307,775 sheep "Suppose a fernier in this country and pard a duty of $188,066. They takes Aye horses, valued at $100 each sent of barley, 9,934,501 bushels, on to L4'etroit to sell. The duty on horses which they paid a duty of $993,450. in the United States is 20 per cent., And so it was iii regard to other items, widen the Canadian farmer must pity the total loss on these few articles be- before he can enter tette Detroit niter, in $2,076,110. In consequence of ket, That is, he merit pay $20 for these burdens imposed on articles es each horse,, and on his five horses; ported to the United Statea, our $100, or the value of one horse in farmers are determined to go into the United Statea Custom houses that country and be free to raise and befrrre lie can take tl3eue to the tear - sell without being called ripen to pay kat. Teen lie wiltgetpo more than dirty. But we are told that the a Michigan farmer will get for five Canadian farmers do not pay the equally good horses, Suppose that duty, end I have no doubt I shall be he and a Michigan .farnaer each sell control'ted with that argument this five horses --each get $500 for his evening, The leader of the Govern- horses. The American: takes his $50R. ment made a declaration on the sub- hom in his pocket, while . the C jeft, and 1 Iike to quote his words, than takes home only $400. a Gaua- because he strands so high in his party Sir David Macpherson turns ztroun dt and in his'conetry, and his judgment and asks the geeatrou as 1 ask, is relied upon by his ouei t'ollowers, Which of these two men pay the duty by whom he is looked upon, and rigla- on the horses? 1 will still give ly so, as the head and crown of the ther evidence in regard to this mattes Conservative party; and When they on the testimony of a paper which at lose hint they will lose their ground, that time occupied a very prominent I do not believe, and 1 speak an.y position in the Conservative party, In honest conviction, that the Govern- fact, Sir, 1 believe .11 was the paper ment of which he is head tvoniti last that largely contributed to tee success of the eleu,tiou of 1978, and there was at the head of this til$ aer p at p the time a man on eminent ability and one of the most enzina•nt jourelists of this coup - try, .Ile wrote editornls the strongly sustaining the National Policy of the then leader of the Opposition and Ile afterwards claimed 1,y his ability end his editorials fee added largely to the, success of the party hi the country. 1 refer to the Mail. Let me read an extract fronx one of the articles written by the able journalist in refer - mice to ewbo paid the duty." 'l!ba extract is from the Mail of the 26th July, 1877, and soya,: 'The buyer c„ttnot possibly give as here as he does there, 'morose the 15 cents must be paid ere the gt'ain passes the American Caston house. ,Dohs any one mean to say that, `quality be- ing the same, the Amrricau buyer will give more for Canadian barley than for barley raised in his own country or Statel The simple truth of the matter la, that, whereas, Canadian barky bas t0Rdtty 15 gents to 1 ere it earl easter the market, Ameridat8 barley passe toil fines so that the price remised by the produee�r leery 18 shits0 0 ht este than the by the prbdtteer there. price aateMe like child'rt play to try to prove anything so plain and self.evident upon- tbn ye7 tete or the nnotor', country it appears that 18,903oonsuler one certitieates were granted to people f to I going to the United States, which inr, means 69,555 souls. I desire to state hat: a fact, which I know by personal con obse ryas• in . Ion and experience. 1 repro, a p sent a riding of 22,000 inhabitants, ht ade enquiries in ditl'erent parts of b Illy riding as to how many people left confi withi* the last tet? years to go to the rnan united States. I have reports from en qu four of the eight municipalities which I N a constitute the riding, and 1 have the aiTd figures, before are, showing stat no less while than 442 left those ;uunnieipalitias of a within the last ten years. If I add a mar week were they so unfortunate as ose hint, 1 believe, Sir, that dur- the last elections he received one - of the Conservative votes in this try ivholty on account of his be. opular as a man and being the re of the organizatron to which elorigs. He is worthy of that deuce from his party, He is a of great ability, and, Sir, 1 watts ote the authority of such a rnan. nt to put him in the witness box ; 1 always like to choose the best ss. 1 like to have the testimony man of the greatest integrity and a in whom lton,gentleuten opposite have the greatest confidence, ight hon. Premier settled this ion in 1878in the words I quote on a'Who pay the duties,” I that last Session, a eertain bon man had the hardihood to try et around what the leader of ove rnment staid by ati itrtrtinTent effect that the farmer did slot e duly and that the parties in sited Statea paid it, 1 have, however, more confidence in the lead. er of the Ootaeervati ve party' than 1 hays in the Whip. Stn John Mac.J aoaraxld, speaking in 1878 oil the question rt Who pays the cause," wanted. to make a point with tate end s, dl t . did make tt He said the number who- went from the other wall municipalities, the number would reach The r about 2,000 out of ,t popnlrttion of quest 22,000 or about 9 per Cent. of the oa=few total population, And .:yet; hots, know gentlemen opposite will maintain that gentle there is not such a large exodus as and g occurred durin°e. the year of the Grit the Ci Government. it find the Cause of this to the, exodus is largely Diving to the diecon. pay th the tit Stay, 11teg. Nov the knowledge l tent among the fartnote. They ha'4e that If this footof ground on which [ been deceived by the statements made *tend were just over the border in in 1878 as to the benefice they would Canada, inet ad of Mire Marie derive when the 1V'attottal Policy C}eoti'ry Morris eetng Beni rite may to would be eatnbliahed. The farmers prison for embezzling the funds of hie; were told that their markets were hank, for or w1uc1L t w glutted was d cA cashier? iqmtr' i h r7ose byproduce. Eva Father, i should never believe you Ryer u thief, 8 unless you told tea iter a air IS aware that our markets today i farnirr ban th w�r� ig It��$��� t'ha aS neat: .,,� ti t e >qd 1 C# l" d farmers believed it It idutrd the re more tatted t, A ` +-�alyll '. >strratolaju out Jriy lwu►t +oty w11 gait Olt eta ?f 1, p tag that the �t r53er44 Og' set