HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1889-02-22, Page 4Eines lfree prtationo:frt.W believe
imtIu tnP nbPrf feel" .thiilizersn riding tite
••��► f�5 be one of the most ready, fluent,
:logical and effective speakers in our
!Canadian Parliament, This is no local
tweet or empty pule', The pen pictures
?l NVLBCTIOtIS ON TITB liTJl?l`Re.GI:. ! and personal estimates made by the
That eminent writer, 1Ya,shizahtonreportere are impartial and moderate.
.€iurllden, has a toast excellent paper , This is what a Globe reporter recently
in the Felernaty. Centro on "Safe said :
;tiards of the Suffrage,'? He says the There is no clearer speaker in the
genas question is not who we shall House than Dr. Macdonald, de has
vote for, but who shall vote. The a remarkably clear and accurate
federal and stateovernments have meino,-wch hm nk
g with cerrytaintylii►anenad anbles entire atobsencespa
to take united notion in the ►natter: of hesitation, upon natters where
He believes that boys who are taught others would not venture to assert
something about the history and 'themselves without quoting from the
s
cousttntion of their own county will documents direct. He has keen tried
tae able to vote intelligently when the over and over again by Minister}alishwho desired to heckle him, as the
time comes. The element he dreads Scotch people have it, but his replies
are so clear and pointed that the
experiment is never long sustained.
He made a strong appeal on behalf of
the farmers to an abolition of thin tax.
FRIDAY. FEB. 2t2 1888.
most and warns against conceding the
franchise to is the foreign (nigrt ut.
He believes it is the lesstntelligent glass
that the States receive as emigrants
and says it is absurd to contend • that
they are capable of voting at the end
of five years. He also deplores the
accession of several million of slaves
to voting privileges, saying the ballot
;<s a dangerous weapon in such hands.
Present attempts to suppress the
negro vote is injurious and dangerous;
The proposition for an educational
test he regards as a dost hopeful
symptom. He apprehends danger to
the constitution unless a 'change is
made iu it as to voting. Iguorauce
leads to bribery, and this to fraud in
the election machinery, Apprehending
clanger he enumerates remedies : 1.
By restriction ofn the frauohise by
amending the naturalization laws so
that no naluritization paporabe issued
for several months previous to an
election and by requiring the subject
to be able to read at least the constitu-
tion in English, also to show that he
has been neither a criminal nor pauper
during the lust ten years. 2. The
franchise being a privilege conferred,
instead of a right, it ought to be with-
held, he says, from those who would
use it to the detriment of the state,
Only the intelligent and conscientious
are educated by exercising the fran-
ehise; those ,bribed are seriously'
injured and corrupted by it. A man
rtho can not read and write at 21
years of age is apt to use the frau-
- ohise mischievously. He quotes John
Stuart Mill in favor of Woman
Suffrage, but also in favor of an edu•
cational test. As a voter is a ruler,
to say that every man should vote is
.to support the exploded view of the
divine right of kings. Presidents,
13elgrave•
The following is the programme
rendered at the literary contest on
Wednesday evening by Mr. D. Ander-
s:on ; Instrumental music, D. and J.
Anderson song, C McClelland t
recitation, Miss E:Iwards ; instumeu-
tali Joe Milleer; reading, J Nichol
song, tiles Stewart; dialogue, P W
Scott, J Fells, IUI Harrison ; duet,
McGowan and 0 McClelland ; . instu-
mental, D and J Anderson ; recita-
tion, J Fells ; song, J Miller; recite.
tion, Katie Godfrey ; instrumental,
Miss Stewart ; recitation, Miss Bran-
don; song, Miss Nettie and D Ged-
des ; instumental, 1) and J Anderson ;
recitation, James Bone ; song, Miss
Stewart; recitation, Miss McGowan;
instrumental, J thither; tableau song,
J Ellis; recitation, James Bone;
instrumental, Alias Miller ; song,
Miss McLean ; recitation, P Scott
song, Miss Geddes. ; reading, J
Nichol ; instrumental, Miss Miller;
trio, Misses McLean and Brandon. •
The subjoined is the programme
rendered on Wednesday evening by
Mr Wm Porterfield's side at the
literary contest : Instrumental, Messrs
David and Bell; recitatiou, Maggie
Irvine ; song, James Lawrence ; in-
steamer:est, A Hingrtun; recitation,
Miss Yon Norman ; iustrumental,i,fiss
Helen t'orterfield and others ; instru-
mental, lv1essrs S:ewart and David
tableau, '1'he Flower of a Family;
instrumental, Messrs Hingston and
Porterfield; recitation, Miss Godfrey;
song and chores, Mr Fred Kay and
others ; instrumental, Miss &fag;ie
Porterfield : recitation, Master Geo
Beilby; Quartette— irtstramental,
Most rs Bell and David ; dialogue, '1'he
House that Jack built ; instrumental,,
A Hingston ; tableau, Messrs Stewart
and David; recitation, Eobt Stewart;;
duet, MisseK Porterfield. and:. Tovell ;.
instrumental, Messrs David• and Bell •
recitation, Master��Charlie Van Nor-
man; song, Miss fella Stewart;
iJ
which some tit>te ago becanze defunct. DR, MAO �ONALA'l . S I Ff f °en the mrtrkot their wee you
Oa l4Tondiay evenilly very few turned .
out acid nothing was done, On Tues•
day evening quite a number were
present. None of the old members
4 1k.,+M wJrM•rNMr4Kb re.
ztot .permitted to import the am
Mr. Macdonald (Huron).In rising material free. We intr'tduee i•ttn
to, resume the debate on the resolution tl►ls c.,untry, fisc n£ thtty, no l�ec
of the lodge would have anything to of my hon, friend frog►. North York, .taiga 82.000,UOU linuuds ul' oattou ,as
do with. it and only four persons were I beg leave to trouble the clonso for a ra5v nit►tf'riul, as a hn,iis fol oar outtola
willing to become members. Mr. short tine while 1 express my views 1 utanufaoturers, Wo have permitted
Dowd stayed in the neighborhood for
on this gtaestton, ITnderlyin'� the to comae in last year trey of duty no.a week oanvatsing but without success question itself, there is a principle in- less then n4,187,000 tons of coalmen*and left at last without succeeding in volved whichie probably .gore inrpor- is, to a very Marge minute the raw
material of any menufnutures of
eont'try,. We allowed to be brought
in free of duty no less than 184,0u0,b
000 pounds of salt, which is raw
materiel to the tisherme]: os; the .•l.,''ast.
ern Provinces, in order that their,
employment might be thus made -more,
lucrative, 12 it is right to permit
such a large quantity of raw material
to conte in free to ,insist our menu-
fitc'turers and other parties engeged iii
various industries, twee the seine
principle it will be right, and just that
we :timid allow t -rtilizersr• wu;alt are•
raw materia to the termer► to 00100 in
free of duty, Now, 1: Want to draw
duet the servicesmorning and evening . greatest atnportauce and should be the attention of the anise to anotltt'r
and on Monday evening the Dr w `recognized by the representatives of featureot this questionThe :J
deliver one of bis celebrated lectures, the peep e, when a question of this has been wsdo by those who have
An address will be given by Dr Chis- ititturemis brought before thein. We spoken against the removal of t}►e•
duty to show that it would interfere,
with. the mannfrcturers of, this country,
bat under our Nation( Th t cy we Bevis
bound ourselves to expose, at the will.
of the United S ates, the prodaets of
our farms to open. cotepetition in an..
by Miss Addie Porter, will be held ou of the farm ruin the labors of .the 'open field, We have told the Milted.
Saturday, March the 2nd, begiuniug in `farm ; land therefore we are speaking States in plain words:, 12 you will
the forenoon.—Mr Thos. Gilpin has not-ia the mime of a few, but in the permit our wheat to go, into your
sold his farm, lot 6,. con. 10, to Mr. name of nearly a majority of the
Janes Anderson, and will remove to peop'l`e of tannin. Again, we speak
northern Alichigan, early in the spring. in the neette of that (plass who represent
The removal of such men is a cause the greatest ainonnt of it:vestiuent iu
for sincere regret, but the - betterment any class iii the Dominion. As corm -
of one's condition is a laudable and pared with their• investments, the allow our fertilizers to go in free of
manly ambition, We Lope his condi• iiivesttnenzs of the n a.tufacturera sink duty, and we will allow yours to coni
tion may be improved to 'Uncle Saline almost into insi eifiuttuce. 'I'}icir' in Erse, .lint mend be isi erfei'tttg with
gain and even at our loss.—Mr. J. S. +investrnents =emit to no less than our tnanufact,irirtg, industries. In•
Nilson gave Jeccures in S. S. No. 5, $1,500,000,000, and; therefore when rangy ways our farmers are exposed
Thursday and Friday evenings of last we speak in their name and on their
week, the first being a very instructive behalf. we claim the attention of the
address on "The J reatness ot Lpndon," people of this country;to what we have
the second being a phreuologioal clan- tosey. Not only are,they the greatest
course 011 the" Mind of Man." . Mr. in number and in ittvesttuents, but
Wilson appears to be well acquainted they are the greatest taxpayers in the
with his subjects and delivers his Dominion of Canada, and therefore
addresses in a pleasing manner,—We when we speak in their naive, we.
notice a pile of brick in Mr, James speak in the name of. the greatest
Thoinpson's field. He • is going to taxpayers of the Deininion. 13.uf.
build a house.—Mr. MT.00rhousn will • they, are not only the greatest tax:
deliver a lecture in school house in S. • payers,t}ley are the greatest employers
No. 6, Friday evening, on ",S'.uccess, of tenor; and ,therefore we .have the
and ltow to attain it." An entrance • right to consider their interests under
fee of ten cents will be cbamged, the all circumstances and to extend them
proceeds: to be devoted to procuring a , every consideration that would be
library.—Mrs. Thomas Henderson . is' conducive to the advancement and
slowly recovering from her illness.—.•development of the industry in which
A sleigh load froux• the boundary line + they are employed.. Now,slr,what do
drove to.Ed.Shaw's,near Whitechurch, we claim for this class ? We claim in
on Friday evening, and indulged in a '.this instance that the artificial for
social hop, • tilizers they use for the purpose 'of
increasing the fertility of the laud
Listowel• shall be permitted to come into thiq.
The snow storms of the past two ',country free of duty. Now, in a -king
weeks have so completely blocked the Glial, in the interest of such a large
roads that farmers find it uext to class, surely we are not asking too'
his purpose. ' tent te the class more partittutarly
Rowton• interested than perhaps any other
Mr. John Kingsley, of lot 4. con, immediately under consideration. 11 re
AA., has exchanged his farm with Mr. are not hero on our own responsibility
Geo McKenzie of Winethatn, for land to speak simply for ourselves "n this
in the Northwest, where lie wi 1 remove matter, but we are eutieavoriug to
early in the spring. His sale will take speak in the name and on behalf of
plana on this 27th instant. the greet class which we represent
-here, and which is kttnwn anthe agri-
Whiteehuralz. mineral class of t' e Dominion. We
Mr. and Mrs. Craig, of Lanark, are are not here representing, our own
the guests of Mr. C. Hamilton this individual opiniiou, but the opinion of
week. --Sunday 24th and following nearly one halt of the people of this
Monday evening anuivereary services " country When we eeitsider the num-
will be held in the methodist church ber of farmers in the Dominion, tie
here. Rev, Dr. Aylesworth will eon. must see that their interests are of the
ltohn., of Wiugha'n, and the choir will _nave no Wei than 208,006 farmers in
discourse sweet music. A ct,ifeetiou the. Dominion of Canada who are
will be taken up in aid of church foods. ; interested in this question; 20$,000
fanners represent no less than two
• Turnborry millions of people who derive their
. An examination of S,S,No.6, taught livelihood directly from the products
country free of duty, we wilt permit •
your wheat to c ,°ne into CaUIadlt free
of duty. But,, on the other hand,.
these hon. gentlemen contend that ii
we were to say to the United States,,
to competition. Why not open up any
markets so ,that our fanners will stand
on equal footing with the manuftt`-
turers? I will now refer to the.
objections that were made against this
motion by Lon. gentlemen the other-,
,day. My hot:. friend. frotn.Slterbrooke
-(Mr. Hall), wine 1. believe, is a pros-
•pective Minister, who is likely to be
.uppointed to that high position which
is occupied now by the Minister oft
Railways, and who therefore no doubt
spoke with authority, said,., in conn-
tnencine his speech, that if it was the
;general p,iiey of the Government,
'which was att'aoked by this resolution, •
•he would say nothing, but that there
was a sectional matter upon -which lie •
rose to speak; and he went on to show
,.lint there was a Marge factory of for-
t:tlizers in his section of the country,
that 'of Messrs. Nicholls & Co., who
have started a fertilizer manufacturing
•canpang, in Capelton, whit*, if this.
,resolution were carried, would be in-
furiously affected, I wou:d ask, is it
right. and just to tax the farmers of •
impo,sible to get to town with either much. of this Government. The lands this, country in cede► to support a
wood or.,grain. Previous to this, of this country are not so fertile as foreigt coinpany which established -
however, the streets. of Listowel have .they were many years ago, and they itself in the neighborhood of .Slier-
governors, &c , are not rulers, but instrumental, Messrs Hingston and 'not had a more business look about ;►require to be fertilized in order to be brooks for the purpose of inanufiiotur-
representatives exercising delegated Porterfield ; recitation, Master Percy them for years, the tnn2ket being lined. � brought up to such a atandard as will - in^ fertilizers ? The non gentleman
power. Nearly two minion males or Scandrett; instrumental, Richard with teama,from morning till night.. enable the farmers to produce from Went on 'to say that he placid the
Proctor ; Dialogue, Rejected ; Duet, Largequantities of „rain of every„ their lands sutiicient to meat expenses
15 f per cent of the people of the interest of the capital of this foreign .Messrs Porterfield and Kay ; inStru.- -:description have bean pouring into and to yield. a reasonable profit. I'ut . con:ins ne in 'the one scale and the
States could not reach or write in 1880 mental, Messrs Stewart and Dtiyid. Bay Bros'. trill and elevator alt winter, 'w°e find that the profits of the farmers ;,theory, as he called it, of the hon.
and to allow these to vote, the writer The deciding was -Messrs. G:.Owns, 'This firm has been doing a tarn trade for the last few years have not been "melt-ber'for North York (Mi. Muloclt)
thinks is positively criminal—capital Gee. Taylor and E, Wightmau. • in.coarse grains, as well as•wheat. Mr. • what we would like to see ; and wean
crime. 3. As all states disfranchise -.J..0. Hay is ou his way home from the we find that the soil is not so fruitful
•
for certain crimes, he argues that ib Bell:tore. Lower Provinces, where he has been an it was at a time when it did int
would be just to deprive a man of his Court Tuck, No. 30 propose holding fur the past few weeks Inoking after require the same mannriizg,.,under-•
p •a grand concert and oyster supper on. the. interests' of the firm. 'I udder • draining and outer attention that• it
franchise for any demeanor bringing .Friday evening, 22nd'iust. A great ',stand he has sold upwards 'of twenty requires today, it is the duty of this.
him under. censure of the criminal variety of outside arid local talent has oar loads ot &Dur, besides litrge gluon Government to extend every advent -
laws, as itis monstrous to allow law- • been, secured, mainly from: Win;ham. ..ties of acts.—Messrs. Austin. & Bell, age to this .great class, whose pros.
breakers to be iavr makers. The cuff-
Misses MenIardy and Billingsley will of the•fouudry, have diaanlved partner parity in my opinion is the foundation
rage uiihht not be permanently with- give instrumental music, Mass Cargill sliip,ibjr.Austin retaining the business, of the prosperity of -every other class
and S. Graney wits recite,' ilressrs. We predict for Mr. Austin a prosper• in the Dominion. But t again, the
drawn for the misdemeanors, but Clint., Billingsley and Mason will sine ons business career, as he has. the
violation of law ought to imply political
:forfeiture. Bribery or crimes against
the suffrage ought to be followed by
forfeiture of the franchise. Habitual
lawbreakers ought to be disfranchised;
itll who receive pabiic aid as paupers
or dependents ought to be disfranehis-
ed, they beitiLg frequently the bribable
ones. The writer esti, Cates that from
oue•twentieth to one•tiftieth would be
debarred abIto now vote thus, prevent-
ing most of the purchasable ' vote.
Temporary disfranchisement is too :been turning the sleighing into ae. church here, on the $rd of . March. A
great a penalty for lesser offences. It count and have got in almost their tea meeting will be held'ora.the Monday
b
and the harmonica band will'also be entire confidence of the comnianity.
in attendance. An address will also He is a practical mectianic and those
be given by' Mr. I.L. Elliott, High e,itrusting him with work in his line
.0hiet hanger, 0. O F. Messrs T. can depend on getting, it protitptly
Rae, of Wroxeter, and 0. Ress, of attended to. Mr. Belt is•goiug to try
Mildmay, will also sing songs. ' Mr. his 'fortune in the Northwest.'- -The
and Mre. I1aintott, the Messrs. Fry- - machine hands in Sess. 3.ros' furniture
fegle, of Delmore, will a:so take part. faotcry have been. put on.half time for
• - awhile. It is said the finishers cannot
Blaxev'ple• steep up with the machine hands since
Arr. 'Wm. btewart, principal of moving into the now factory, their
B'yth public school, was visiting Itis Work has boon so muoh simplified by
parents here last Saturday and Sun improved machinery. .•Rev. W. 1',
day.—The farmers of this.looality, as Wilson, of Toronto, will preach the
well as the. sawmill proprietors, have anniversary sermons of the Methodist
le the duty of patriotic citizens to
remits, the sufl'raee from ignorant and
corrupting influences, establishing a
xu rah qualification,
usual amount of. logs.—Out mails evening fullowirg,wheiy,Ilev. Mr. Wilson
were later last Saturday than on any. will deliver hia lecture on "Snags."
previous day this winter, owing to the 'These services bid fttir.to be the most
solid drifts of fine snow that gathered interesting of any:, anniversary for
on the railway during Friday night, years, ---The Charity 0uneert, held on
in the other. But you must remember,
-sir, that it was not a theory which the
hon. member for North York (Mr.
MuJook) a lvanced, and that upon the
one hand the bon. member for Sher
nrooke was placing the interests of •
this company, and on the other the
.interests of the farthing community,
end then asked Parliament to support
:the principle of benefiting that come
patty by a protective duty at the •
land his been not only depreciating in. expense of the Earner: 1 say it is ..
fertility, but it has been dhpreciatina unfair to a most imrnrtant class of the,
also iii velure and it is , trtt•,,onable to community that we should impose tt • ,
a:anpos° that it is depreciating la value duty for the purpose of increasing the .
because the receipts of the farmers for profits of a certain company and in.
the produots of their labor are not creasing . the burthen, of those whin
equal to what they have been Cu years already bear the heaviest burthens'.
past,and the consequence is that if imposed by the Nannona1 Policy.
they wish to dispose of. their. lands Another hon. gentleman, the hon. ,
they cannot reasonably. ett,pect to member for East Grey (.Mr. Sproule),
realize as much for them, qe they could who is generally fluent and pretty
many years ego. I, know it is eon- clever in putting laic case, attempted
tended
by lion. members. that farm to argue in favor of this tax, but oft
lauds are as high•ieprice today as they this occasion he had no case. Ile•said
were many years. ago, but this is that the ftirrners were being defrauded '
certainly not the case, L am sure I by artificial fertilizers brought into
shall be borne out by those who know this country, whioh were of hiferior .
the value of farrn,�lands. throughout (Plant -Y. lite must conclude that bur
the country when 1 say. that theft f trmters are not 8o sharp as they really
cannot realize with.4.►1.5.or 2,0 per cent are, • You will find. sir,, among then
of what they did' a nutxiber of Years men as sharp, as capable of•dtscharging
ego. Mow, •thy fertitizera are raw business and of iuvestigating matters
,ndteri,t;l to the felt tai+r, and we admit in their own behalf as you will find ie
Our sel,00l boys are to playa foot- Fraley evening last; in the ()peen the prinoip e in our legislation that this House today, The hon., gentle'.
Din ;StnC,Tf�:iALI), M. P. , i ball mateh with Mr, Robert Stewart's House, Was well attended. 813$ w.ta raw material should be brought in free,• lana said that beeauss n0 att111ysi was
in another c►.mean we give our !school, next Saturday.—Lent Monday realized. The progranitue we; very in fafit, in thi•t country we have no less °lade of importations of fertilizers,
and Tuesdays evenings Mr, Dowd, a interesting, oft account of part of it then 8,500,000 po.nndsnf wool brought inferior fertilizers were brought in, and
�ttferl the llans:►.rd report of a speech 'tr'presentative of the Grand Lodge of yeing'ntaJo n,, of -pieces having a loon in as the fora tatiotr of the mttnufac, our farmers cheated out of their
,.Adca by 17r. u'lirtoxontt1J, M. i'. for ,,Good Ternplars, held meetings here to significance. Tho town counoi a.± tt tori, Pi. tv,ut',t i:tttiY4, So that oar ,Honey. Another hen entletnau, the
nein Burnt°, on the question of the : re estel3118lh,tlzo decayed or an eatiotz brat caug two olaortisesi. - • • •' tenaulaoturet" fi
a - 1. y f�i, d .piny be able
,0 place hon. member for Weibull (qr., rot-. „