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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Times, 1891-09-18, Page 4tr. O. E. W IW AM S, c;r.zsT. —AND— DRUGGISTS ACT„ G. H. W. TELEGRAPH CO. o . Bru nswick Hose, Winghanal - - - Out e ` itt ttm (iuc5 p'RIDAY, SEPTEM,JER 18, 1891. EDITORIAL NOTES. IT wows very much as if the Dominion Government have determined to go into the whitewashing business. THE Clinton News -Record says the printing bureau at Ottawa was never a necessity, and the Ottawa Government was not justified in spending a million •dol- lars in establishing it to compete with private enterprise. UEE investigation into the affairs of thePrinting Bureau have been continued. One witness testified [that he had told Mr. Chapleau some time ago that Sone - cal and Bronskill were exacting com- missions from those selling goods to the bureau. THE Ottawa Government have decided not to allow American cattle to be brought into Canada and slaughtered. The representations of Canadian cattle breeders, dealers and others, forced the Government to recede from the stand they bad taken on this question. THE Montreal Star, which is friendly to the Federal Government, but which has no confidence in Premier Abbott, says that the Conservative leaders seem to have no policy but to hang on like grim death, to screen .each other under all circumstances, and to drift. $P.FFAOUBT DR IV,f.ACDQNAL12. iSE ,AUL? DISCUSSES firiin CNxKs AND oTIILlt gjinsTtOIZs. At the sittin of the Reese of Commons, on Oa 3rd instant spoke as follows ; With regard to the exodus, it is a very serious matter for this conn. try. Hon gentleman may talk about the want of increase in our population as lightly as they please ; but I tell you that we have been fighting the battles of this county for so many years that every one of us, without a single exception, should feel sadly dis• appointed at the,result shown by the census returns which have been placed on the table. But we are told in language eloquent and emphatic, that the Liberal party have been the cause of this want of increase, that they have belied this country and decried it, that they have run this country down during the last ten yearsa on public platforms and in their places on the flouref Parliament. Si; every single speaker en the other side who spoke in this debate said that this party bad decried the country ; but not one single line from any member of the Liberal party has been quoted to show wherein they decried the country. t'deny it in tote. There is no party in this country, there never was a party in this country, that stood so manfully for the interests of Canada as the grand Liberal party, which now stands just where it stood before. It is true we have pointed out the defi- ciencies of the Government and the flaws in their policy ; we have argued from day to day against their large expenditures of money, and against the fiscal policy which they have es- tablished. But while we were point- ing out their iniquitous effects and their influence for evil, never did we decry the noble country of which we are the inhabitants. This is one of the most glorious countries on the continent of America. It has grand natural re- sources, iL has an intelligent,enterpris ing and pushing people, and it has large and increasing facilities for trade. But what we ask is, why in the face of that greatness, people will not come and live among us as they do among those adjoining us. I think it was the Finance Minister who said that t'he United States received a larger pro, portion of immigration during the last decade than we ,did. That is not so. They received 5,500,000,which is only 10 per cent, whereas we received 866,- 000, which is 20* per cent Mr FOSTER. It is all very to make yodr argument. Mr MACDONALD (Huron). The hon gentleman knows that on that basis all calculations are made. ,Sup.- pose Sup..pose that in one place there was only one individual this year, and two in the following year ; that would be an increase of 100 per cent. Do they not count the increase in the smaller provinces on that basis' The figures I have givers prove the utter fallacy of the argument, which no man but the Postmaster General would bring for- ward, that the annual natural increase es usually counted, was 1.1 per ceut per annum. Sir, in the last census of the United States, the natural increase is put at 1.04 per cent per annum, or 14 per cent in ten years, which has been fully realized. Calculating our increase on that basis, we should have had an increase c,f 873,000 without a single foreign individual being brought in at an expenditure to this country of about $3,000,000; and if you add to that the 866,000 by immigration, we ought to have had to day an increase of 1,750,000, which is the number we should have had at the same rate of increase as existed in the United States. An hon gentleman yesterday undertook to give • the reason why there was a greater or a less increase of population, and in some oases a decrease of population in ridings rept, resented by Liberals in this House, He mentioned a number of ridings in which there was decreases, and said it was because they were represented by Liberals. But, as the hon member for South Oxford said yesterday, the larger number of those people who leave Canada are young and yir;orous, educated in our universities and col- legiate institutes and high schools, and the most intelligent peaple, such as these youog men, belong to the Liber - a1 party. Now, if I take the northern fringe of the United States, there are favourable opportunities for comparis son, because they are confronted by the same circumstances as out prov. itices, Take the group of states of which we very frequently hear, 'fake the four states, Maesaehusette, Maine, New Hampshire and Ver- mont. We have heard a great deal about the infertility of Vermont and New Hampshire. We were told last year by the President of the C7ouiloil in a dery able speech that TEE Kingston News, a strong supporter of the Dominion Government, confesses that it was wrong in denying that there was an exodus to the United States. It says that at,least three quarters of a million of people must have left Canadij for other countries during the last tel years. MAroaxTx and minorty reports will be presented by the sub -committee in the Tarte-McGreevy-Langevin case. As was expected, the majority report finds that " Sir. Hector had no knowledge of the doings of McGreevy, Murphy and the other scoundrels who have robbed the country of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Both the reports will be brought before the House. THERE are no new developments in the Pacaud steal. It is said that Pacaud sails for home this week from France. There does not appear to have been any truth in the reported strained relations between Lieutenant -Governor Angers and the Mercier Government. The Con- servative press is making the most of this scandal, using it to draw attention from the doings of their friends it Ottawa. ' THE Committee on the charges against E. Cochrane, M. P., failed to agree on a report, and majority and minority reports will be presented to the House. The majority report, while it exonerates Mr. Cochrane from any blame in the matter, on. the assumption that he had no knowl- edge of what his supporters were doing in regard to the patronage of his ridipg, says that the action of those supporters in disposing of the offices in the gift of Mr. Cochrane, is censurable. Both the reports will be presented to the House. Brussels. T G Holmes. 1T I3, paid Stratford a visit cu Tuesday.—Jas Ballantyne this week purchased a new "safety" bicycle from 0 Papst, Seaforth. -Miss S 3 Taylor, of Paris, is visiting in town,—A. Koenig has got nicely settled in his new hotel. ---0 ° Turnbull, of Galt, is spending this week with friends in .Brussels,• -Mise Bawtin- himor is spending the week in Seaforth,— I,tiss Chambers, el St Paul, Minn, is visite ing in the vicinity of Brussels. --A London bicyclist "put up" at the Queen's Hotel on rriday evening last. -targe cumbers of our residents are spending this week in Toronto.—Ifr and Aire Bruce, of East 'Aorta„ are visiting in the neighborhood. -- 'Brussels' rate of taxation this year is two cents on the dollar.—R©tarned-••-Ad€tm Reid, of this town, who has been on an ex, tended tour throughout Manitoba and the Northwestreturned on 1'''riday evening Iast, Air ileid visited alt the principal, points along the 0 1' R as far as T3anff and says the settlers are it a very prosperous state, the eters tine year being execeding ly good ; he twilight home with hire some fine specimens of grain grown in the vicinity of Mouse naw. well Vermont wag one of most depressed states in the American union, that you could buy a farm there for any amount from $3C0 to $500 inoluding the buildings anal the fences thereon, that many farmers were leaving their farms which they could not sell, We were told that New Ilampshire was in a very wretched state, and that the farms there were mortgaged to a great extent, Maine we were told was no better than New Brunswick in any particular. And yet we find that in those four states the population has increased 9 per cent in the last decade, whereas in the Province of Nova Scotia, Prince Island, New Brunswick and Quebec, it only increased 4 per cent. What reason do bon gentlemen give for this'? Do they suppose that, if New Brunswick had free access to the states to the south for the articles it produces, manufactured and raw, it would only have increased by 61 indie viduals'1 Nova Scotia is comparatively a good province. Large portions of it are fine arable land. Its largest city is Halifax, which is one of the best ports on the Atlantio coast. Halifax is supplied very largely with railways built at the expenditure of the Govern- ment. It has a subsidized line of steamers running to Liverpool and another running the the West • Indies., Notwithstanding all this, the increase in the population is only 6.6 per cent. A little way down the coast is the town of Portland, and its population has increased 13 per cent. I ask any hon gentleman looking at the two cities and the advantages possessed by each, to give any mason for this dif- ference; except that the one city is shut' • out from reciprocity with its neighbors, or isot because the Ree formers have said something in refers ence to the policy of the Government The City of St Johns has 4,000 less. of a population than it had twenty years ago. What do the members of St John think of that ? They have been putting forth their energies to establish a port there. The reduction of 2,000 between 187I and 1881 was inpart owing to the 'great fire, but since that St John has had no baeheet, and yet has not the population which it had twenty years ago. The City of Montreal' occupies the most command- ing position of any city in America. It is at the bead of deep water navi- gation on the one hand and is at the end of the export trade on the other. 1881 the popttletian q those ton cities amounted to 114,840, and by the last ()ensue the population was 150,668 showing an increase of only 31 - per Dent, 1 snppcse the statement as to the increase by 40 per cent took in Toronto, Montreal or cities of that kind, Now, lot me take another group of cities. I will take then in any state you please --take them in Michie gan. The province of Qntario is one generation older than Michigan ; that province was partly settled when there was not a living soul in Michigan. Ontario has better lands than Michigan, has minerals avast wealth, more than comparable to the minerals of Michi- gan. Take the following cities of Michigan:—Grand Rapids,Muskeegon, Lansing, Manistee, Saginaw, Alpena, Ann Arbor, Bay City, Marquette, and Menomonee. Those cities increased 70 per Dent as compared with 34 per cent in the best Canadian cities, and those are taken at randon from the cities of similar size in Michigan. Take another group of ten cities in Indiana, and the increase was 48 per cent as compared ' with the increase of 31 per cent in Ontario. Take another group of cities in New York, which embraced a pope ulation of 153,000 in 1880, and in 1890 they had a population of 215,e 971, or an increase of 40 per cent. as compared with the population in One tario. Take another group in Ohio, where ten cities had an average popus lation in 1880 of 18,957, and they have increased to an average of 23,890, or an increase of 60 per cent. Now, I would ask : What is the reason that that the cities on the other side in, crease eo much more rapidly than the most progressive cities in Ontario ? Can any lion. member recall any oity in Canada more progressive than the ten I have mentioned ? I first put in 'St Catherines, but when 1 found St Catherines had gone back, I threw it out and took in Owen Sound, which has increased more than any other during the last decade, namely, 69 per cent., one of the smartest towns in the Province of Ontario,and I hope yet to live long enough to see it one of the best cities of the land. Now,`I will compare some of the _Western Provinces with the Western States and Territories of the Republic. We have been accused of running down Manitoba. I say that Manitoba is one of the finest provinces of the Domin- Compare the increase of population in ion, and I challenge any person to Montreal with that of 'Rochester on prove that I have ever said anything the .other side, adh;ch has not the natural advantages or the central position that Montreal has, and you will find it has incrersed one-half more than the City of Montreal. ` Mr CHAPLEAU. No, it has not. Mr MACDONALD (Huron). It has. The proof of the pudding is said to be in the taste of it. Montreal has increased 40 per cent and Rochester has increased 50 per cent, A. large portion of the trade of Rochester is cut off by tbe railways which centre in New York and Boston, and it has not the advantage of position such as Montreal possesses. Then compare Toronto with Buffalo. Toronto has probably increased more than any other city on the continent of America except two or three, but that has been owing to the withdrawals from the surrounding towns and sections of the country, and you will find that other towns both in the west and east have suffered by Toronto absorbing the population. Compare Hamilton with Cleveland, Hamilton has a central position, it receives the trade of the west, it has the advantage of the lake, and yet Cleveland h'as increased nearly twice as much as Hamilton. Hamils ton has increased by 36 percent and Cleveland by 63.per rent and Detroit by 77 per cent. To illustrate this more fully and stow the falsity of some of the arguments wbich have been used this afternoon, 1 will take ten of the most prosperous inland cities of the Province of Ontario and compare them with ten cities taken at random from the adjoining states end see which has made the greatest improvement in population. 1 take Ottawa which has a central position and is the seat of Government, where $500,000 of the public money is spent every year, and which has large mills, and I find that city has increased about 41 per cent. London is one of the most central cities of the -vest, surrounded by the best agricultural country of the Dom- inion. St Thomas is another city which' is a central distributing point. Gttelph is another good distributing point. Stratford has very large works Wit by the Grand Trunk Company. Brantford is one of the manufacturing cities of Ontario, and so is Cornwall. Galt, the Sheffield of Ontario, is turn ing out some very fine work. Peter. borough is a very prosperous town, and Owen Sound is a flourishing town and the coming city of the north, In unexampled commercial depressio Surely that was very disloyal. Wl said that A very loyal igen, Six David Macpherson, "We have no work people, they are to be found employed in the United States. Our people are adding strength; to a foreign nation." Who made that statement upon tbs. public platforms of this country ? 'Tae late leader of the Conservative party. "No less than 10,000 immigrants left in ono year from the North-West for the United Stator, They passed through British Columbia to find work in the states and territories ad. joining British Columbia, and they found employment in the ver€ous cities there, Seattle, Tacoma, and other places." Who in the world uttered so disloyal a sentiment as to say that our people were leaving to go into the United States by the thousands? That dis- loyal man was a paid servant of tbe present Government, and that state- ment is to be found in his report ; and • hon gentlemen opposite were so disk• loyal as to publish that statement in his report and spread it to the world, and yet if a Liberal makes a statement something similar it is considered disloyal on bis part. '.Loan societie0 and official assignees are the only prosperous classes inthis country.' Who said that'1 It might have been the hon member for South Oxford.. But it was not the hon member for South Oxford, neither was it the hon member for North -Norfolk, but it was • an bon gentleman on whom Her - Majesty bestowed a high honor, Sir David Macpherson. "Farmers have to import corn for provender." That will be good immigration literature to send to the old country. "Farmers in some , districts have had to, import wheat for food." The gentleman who made those statements was the same person. And bere is another states ment from a leader of their party : "We have depreciated values. Welt have small dividends. We have limited markets. We have love prices." The hon gentleman who had been disloyal enough to make such utter- ,ances on a public platform and on the floor of Pediment was the Lieutenant Government of New Brunswick, one of the late Finance Ministers of the Tory Government. Here is another precious sample of the literature of the Tory party. "There is a loss of confidenee.There is great distrust. Thexe ,is a long etring of insolvencies,. Labourers are asking for work. Our workingmen are beggars. Our people are drifting to the United States." Who was the man who would stand on public platform and make those statements before the country 4 Surely neither the Minister of Finance, nor the Secretary of State,nor the Minister ' of Justice ; no, it was none less than"' the leader of the Conservative party, who built up the party and stuck to it, and they to him till he was taken away by a kind Providence ata time when it was a blessing for hive to leave this world. He could not have lived through the disclosures of the last three. or four months, No dowbt, the scandals and corruptions brought on. prematurely the disease from which he died, derogatory to that prevince..I say,,. on the contrary, that Manitoba is far more excellent in many ways than Dakota. First, it has better land than Dakota, it has better climate than Dakota, it is not so liable to frost, it has not so many blizzards in the win- ter time as Dakota. Now, while Manitoba ties increased 140'per cent., Dakota has increased 277 per 'cent. ; and remember that .settlement com- menced about the same time, about twenty years ago. But if Dakota is incomparably -poorer in many respects than Manitoba, will hon. gentlemen explain how it is that notwithstanding its poverty, both in land and in cli- mate suitable for the growing of wheat its population has increased 277 per cent, while' the population of Manitoba has only increased 140 per cent.? Take the North-West Territories and com- pare them` with Montana to the south; while they increased 140 per cent. Montana increased 370 per cent. Now, take British Columbia. Bri- tish Columbia is one of the richest provinces in the whole Dominion. In its coal there is none that can be come pared with it west of the Rockies. It has the finest coal on the Pacific coast. It exported last year to the United States no less than 500,000 tons, giving employment to a large number of men. It has gold, it has copper, 1 has lead and it has iron, all giving British Columbia a prominent position. Now, will the Minister of Finance say how it is that British Columbia only increased 87 per cent,, while the country immediately south, in the State of Washington, increased 366 per cent.? Seattle and Tacoma increased far beyond any City or town in British Columbia. Bon. gentlemen olrai;ge us with decrying our country and preventing people from coming into it, but aoobrding to their own evidence 886,000 immigrants came into this country during the last ten years, and not a solitary soul of them has remained, Now, Sir, I have a few things to place upon Mansard, some statements,made by the leaders of the Tory party decrying their country, and I challenge any hon, gentleman to find a similar number of ,statements derogatory to the interests of Canada, made by any Liberal in the land. It may have been their remarks that prevented the people from toning into the country. '"The Dominion is sueering from Morris. What might have been a very serious accident happened to Mr John ' Little. It seems that the poles on his barn bridge having become rotten, and while drawing in oats two of the poles broke, letting the hind feet of the horses through the bridge. A r` crowd of men soon gathered and sue coded in getting the horses out with- out injury, -- Messrs Denham and Powell, of Blyth, the veteran apple buyers, are again on the ware path,— Mr and Mrs Charles Proctor have gone to Toronto to spend a week with friends. --On Tuesday evening, the residents of Beigrave noticed as tin - usual stir about Mrs Welsh's residence, the event being to witness the marri- age of her daughter .Mary to Mr W B Wilkinson. The young couple left for Toronto the. same evening to spend their honeymoon, A short time ago, Mr J dohnstdn fell ori a load of, peas and sprained his neck. --Township Council met in the Township Hall last Monday.—Mr Jas Smith has left for Ow,eti Sound, where he intends tp take another terfn in the Northern Business (iollego.=-1lliss E Dulmage, of the N NV T, is at present visiting of on the lst and 2nd cons.• -•-The new bridge at Jamestown is how oompleted. It looks to be a stronttfwell built, structure, Mr Laing, of Ethel, had the contract. —The Zeus will be sent to new sub- scribers `from now till the let of January, 1: t2, for 25 cents, Yr THE .. Our sho to garret, , able new attempt to but we ext ;to ell inte us and so € o playing c their many Stacks o ;the best pripes aro When yo bring a gr Belling 18 p of tcoffee dollar. Our Te praises. 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