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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1880-10-22, Page 4iI S TiE R CrRON SIGN A L. • PR I LA Y, 9j01r19111R— yI. 1880 TAB BXOI)fth Opp of the principal points ,*,hilt by r/ Richard (tartwnght u. hos recent great speech at tiodench. was that in reference to • the enormous emigration free, Canada t.. the United States dunng the past yar. For the year ending 1st duly, 1880, nu less than 75,373 Canadians registered at Port Huron, and over 15,- 000 are shown by the returns te have entered at other points on the American side. During the throe months ending October tat, ,,f the present year, over. 37,000 left Canada, rather than wait and experience the beneficial effect+ of the N. P. When this number is placed against the 25,000 alleged to have been "expatriated" from Canada during the last year id the Mackenzie Govern- ment, the inference is obvious. We do not say that the entire 125,000 who left Canada during the past nine months were driven from home by the malad- ministration of the present Government; but our Conservative friends, prior to Sept. 1878, stoutly contended that the Government of the day was solely re- sponsible fur an eicdus from the country over which it ruled. Would they like, to measure the harvest of the past fifteen months in their own bushel ? LAST week a most unwarrantable and cowardly attack was made on Mr. Dick- - son, the County Gaoler, by our "semi- occasional" contemporary. „ On Tuesday, Oct 5th, Mr. Dickson called at the office of THE SIGNAL, and left a copy of cer- tain gaol statistics which were inserted in the issue of Friday, Oct 8th. On the same afternoon, Mr. Dickson called at the office of the "semi -occasional," and left a duplicate of the gaol report. It wayinaerted in the issue of our contem- porary which shone on Wednesday, Oct, 16th. Next week our neighbor clipped the item out of THE SIGnAL, seemingly oblivious of the fact that it had previous- ly published it, and berated the unfortun- ate Gaoler, for what it was pleased to term, his "discourtesy and partiality," The attack on Mr. Dickson watentirely uncalled for, and unjustifiable, and we look for the ornende honorable from our erratic neighbor this week—,if such a thing can be expected from it. THERE is one gentleman residing in Goderich who, had he been present at the Reform meeting in Crabb's Hall, on Monday evening, would have been able to demur to the sweeping statement made by Sir Richard Cartwright that no person in this vicinity' had been bene- fitted by increase of business since the inauguration of the N. P. That gentle- man is 'Mr. Gaoler Dickson, who, as shown by the statistics of the past ,year (published a couple of weeks ago in these columns), has given accommodation to thirty-five more hoarders than on the previous year, notwithstanding the fact that the population of Goderich and Hu- ron County generally had greatly de- creased during the same period. WIrn the advent of the cold weather, inueicipal politics cones to the fore again. Mr. C. Crabb has declared his willingness to run for Mayor, if his friends desire him, and doubtless an- other candidate or two will turn up be- fore nom/nation day. Very little can he said at this early date about the Coun- cil, although we expect to . see fully u large a number of aspirants in the field as usual THE local editor of the Brussels Post evidently was not pleased with her ap- pearance on a recent visit, for he wrote the following bit of candid criticism : "To the male mind. nothing that a woman ran do to herself. short of lopping off her noes or her ears. would he more disfigurin than the arrangement of her hair in plastered curls upon her torehead. Why a respectable wo- man ever consents to mak,- herself hideous in such a fashion is an impenetrable mystery." She wears it plain now,and he is happy. SIR RICHARD CARTWRIGHT will return to Goderich on Saturday next, and will meetltis.frionds at the Reform Associ- ation moms, North at., on the evening Of that day at 8:30 o'clock. Every Re- former is cordially invited to be present. The day may come when weather-wise sailors will reed the newspapers and learn from " Old Probabitities " the weather pnopects twenty-four hours ahead. W tern that time comes, and when there .s less anxiety among vessel -owners to make money than to preserve the lives .4 their men and save their well -insured property, the list "f casualtienon thi :ekes ,n the fall months will lie in/Aerially sho.rtetied. The stone which hes caused m., much disaster on lake Michigan was foretold in the probabilities published •.n Fnday morning; hut that did not ,inter nearly all of the newels which are reported to have met with disaatwr ..n that lakr from leaving pone .4 safety on -tut day t..urauoe. founded ..n erten tete fate •• wetter than • ' weather ••r. now • days es 'h. '1ari. 'anfov,*dud • •tion wh. •a.w, +a• •• ,hr totrom tit THE HURON SIGNAL. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1880 OaNTIOaCIIWIT OPINION CENTRE HURON The Boal ter ring, with the assistance of the Dominion Government, is Hewing the people of Canada at a state that sl most tikes. Away • iltr heath I t ottaw,. Free Prow We art uuw able to eauntate with some degree of accuracy out wheat harvest for this yea. It will probably hr about 460,000,000 bushels. Allowing. say, 260,000,000 bushels for home use. chat would give us 200,000,000 bushels for export, against 185,000,000 nuahels ex ported in 1879 {N Y run No Reformer ever attempted u, say that a 40 per cent. tariff would not raise more revenue than a 17e one, but they said and maintained that it Is highly im- proper to impose u heavy tax un the people for tithe! than revenue purpo.ss, as was done by the present Government. - [Walkerton Telescope. According to Secretary Chapleau's idea id ,morality it is quite right fur a man to take a bribe to rob his employer of $241,000, ur any other sum, provided he duos it " after o83oe hours. • How many individuals, firms or corporations, would like to have in their employ a person known to hold such principles.— [Sarnia Observer. How do our "N. P." friends take the increase in the price of coal oil 1 Cm be honest, gentlemen, and own to the truth for once. You think it is a fraud, don't you ? On the other side of the line a better quality of coal oil can be bought twenty cents a gallon cheaper than in Canada. And the sole cause is the chance given by tbe present Govern- ment to dishonest capitalists to form rings.—[St. Marys Argus. Call it "good nature," call it infatua- tion, call it imbecility, or what you will, the practice still continues, and seems destined to continue, of people lending their names for business purpui.as to friends or mere acquaintances. The embarrassment or ruin of some estima- ble people results from this wretohed practice. We have just heard of a very respectable farmer and real estate agent, in the township of Luther, whose en- dorsements of friends have brought him into financial trouble. — [Monetary "!times. The doleful prophet has again swept down upon us with the most terrible of predictions. Prof. Grimmer is aptly named, for a grimmer outlook one could not fancy than that held out by this product of the neighboring republic. He says that from 1880 to 1887 there will be a universal mortality." Asia will be depopulated, Europe will become a de- sert, and 15,000,000 people on this cone tinent, in addition to the ordinary mor- tality, will succumb to dire disaster.. There will be tremendous inundations and floods. It is to be hoped that Grim- mer is a lunatic or an agent for some new kind of flying machine or balloon, which he hopes to float as the result of an attempt by terrified people to leave a sphere he has painted so uninviting. At all events, it will do no harm to any of us if we adopt the advice of the show- man, wait till we " see what we shall see. "— [Hamilton Times. Donut brook. CavaCH OPENING.—The new church erected by the Methodists of Donnybrook, West Wawanosh, was opened for Divine worship on Sunday last The Rev. Dr. Williams preached in the morning ark, 10.30, and in the evening at 6.30, the Rev. W. Birks in the afternoon. Al- though the day was rough and stormy, the congregations filled the house at all the services. On Monday evening a tea meeting was held in the church, which was largely attended. After an ad- dress from Dr. Williams, the Rev. Mr. Davy, the pastor of the congregation, made a statement of the cost of the building, and the amount of subscrip- tion already secured --when the congre- gation readily responded to the appeal made by Dr. Williams and subscribed sufficient to meet all demands. The proceeds of the o ping services were $106, exclusive of $190 in subscription. Myth- • Rzeovnno.—Our village is to lose an old resident in the person of Mr. T. White, who removes to Morpeth short- ly. We wish Mr. White every success in his new home. ACCIDENT. —A very painful aocident happened to Mr. H. McQaarrie, black- smith, of this village, .,n Tuesday, He hal the misfortuneto be kicked in the head by a hone belonging to Marrs. Belfry eft Gorman. The accident al- most prevented Mr. M. from performing his duties as Secretary of the Morris Branch Agricultural Society at the late fall fair, a duty which he has performed faithfully for a number of years. One of his eyes was entirely closed and one side 4 his face greatly swollen thereby. Not SOLO. — in our last issue we stat- ed that Mr. .1. Wilson had soil his farts situated adjacent to the village to Mr E. Watson, of Clinton, for the mom of $.'I,t00, and that he had !purchased Mr. Jos. Combs' farm for $4,200. Mr. Wilson still retains his own farm. he having per chased Combs' on condition that he all has, so the deed t, Comte' farm wain only admit of him holding levan-o.tgitt of a tattle Mr Willem dot n..t hu prion of Mr W,Ia,n . farm t n 1111400read $a 000 . n.tead •e $3 M O fait alae oil in .an ,Sam .f the 8th (Rerv.ed fah. tlliehiRar, meld hay. 'eat l& tad - ---- ,hot __ _,hot serT.vad riot efforts u1 slit n•eetit , RM' Roy au.•• Tano'Shim, .., teen art .et,h4. et.wei IAasih..e ?'hecto all the mere Bir Richard Cartwright Before his .Oonotittienta ran E/beta.tat N. r. Me name chid magma... gar Ms Roe The Lead Pawl ria she aortia-we.a--air ', feat- ' .la ►mise E♦•MeElea. Nu Richard Cartwright. who is mow making bis annwil trip through it's eou stltuencyi ernvod m floderlch un Santi- sday evening last by the 9:45 traui. He was met at the statoo by a number of R01ormetts, conducted to a oasriage, and driven It, the residence of Mr, IL C Came tun, It. P. , of whoa[ he was the guest un til Tuesday noon, when he proceeded to Londesboro'. to hold his second gather- ing, The meeting on Monday evening at Crabb's Hall, was very largely attended, and a pleasing feature was the presence of a large number of ladies, who with one solitary exception, seemed to take a decided interest in the prooeedings throughout. Many of the prominent residents of the town were present, of both shades of politics, and among themwe noticed Dr. McMicken, Captain Dancuy, Dr. McLean, D. Ferguson. Ames aaunders, John Passmore, George Swanson, William Young, Reeve of Col- borne; J. C. Currie W. Kay, Elijah Mar- tin, President Refortn Association, Centre Huron; Henry Horton, G. S. McDougall, Samuel Malculmson, Robert Walker, John Smith, H. M. McCarthy, Peter Oruro of Colborne; Wm. Jones, C. Crabb, D. McDonald, D. Doty, William Campbell, Chairtgan of the Liberal -Con- servative Association; W. K, Atkinson, A. Bremner, Advertiser, A. C. Campbell, Globe, James Campbell, F. J. Gissing, James Thomson, M. C. Cameron, M. P., South Huron; A. B. McWilliams, Harry Smith S. Platt, C. Nairn, D. McDonald, W. Strong, J. Colborne, J. Thompson, Capt. Gibson, and many others. The only formal proceeding was the reading of the following address to the speaker of the evening, which was done by the chairman. To the Hon. Sir. Richard Cartwright, B. C. M. G.. M. P. DEAR SIR, --We, your constituents re- siding in Goderich and vicinity, welcome you on this your third visit to our town with unfeigned pleasure. We have watched with deep interest your actions in the House of Commons since you have been our representative, and take this opportunity of expressing our entire ap- probation of the manner in which you have discharged the onerous duties that have devolved upon you. That your patriotic endeavors to keep the interest of the country above that of party, may in due time receive fitting r000gnition at the hands of the electorate of the Do minion; and that you pray ere long once again fill the permanent position which you recently occupied, and the duties of which your undoubted abilities qualify you so ably to perform, is our most sin- cere desire. Thanking you for your pre- sence to -night, and hoping to meet you on many similar occasions, I have the honor to be Yours very truly HORAI'E HORTON. On behalf of the Reform Association of Goderich. As he advanced to reply, Sir Richard was most heartily ivv"etved. Acknowl- edging the reception given him, and ex- pressing his feeling toward. his Centre Huron friends, and particularly to the Chairman, Mr. Horace Horton, the ex - member for Centre Huron, he proceeded to deliver a speech that was at once clear convincing and connected. He sub -di- vided his discourse into three separate and distinct heads, and under each ad- duced masterly arguments. His titles were (1).—What have been the effects, so far as we can trace them, of the groat change in the fiscal policy inaugurated by the present Government ? (2)— What is the present financial condition and burdens of the Dominion ? (3)— The policy of the Government in respect to the lands in the North-west Territory and the measures for the promotion of the Pacific Railway. Tits REVOLLTIONARY ETFECT8 OF THE N. P. Sir Richard said that it was idle to say that time enough had not elapsed to judge of the effects of the commercial re- volution inaugurated by the present Gov- ernment. Goderich is a town that should have been benefitted. It possesses good railway facilities, has one of the best harbors on the shores of lake Huron, and is the market place of a rich agricul- tural district, peopled by intelligent men and women. It has immense resources under foot in the shape of salt, and is a healthy location. Now, are there in Godench any factories that owe their ex- istence to the N. P. ? Has the popula- tion increased, and do the workmen re- oeive better wages ? The answer to these questions must be in the negative. It will not do to say that Goderich is a soli- tary exception. Or, as was said when it was shown that there were 320 vacant houses in Kingston, that this was a special mark of the di letuitire of Provi- nonce for neglecting the author of the N. P.. for Ooderich had been among the tarns that gave that policy a niajo.rity Turning from the town to the ommtry. Sir Richard asked if the farmers had ex penenoed the numinous advantages that were promised to then. two veers ago, They were to receive higher prices for their premium. and the rake of all Earn, land was to 1.e greatly enhaaeed These inerrraes are not aeon The • only in erases are in the taxis and in the pest•. oaf everything the farmer need* hie ask oil. a.tt'si anger and hardware Boit said Nat Rankard, the ••nowniry triumph .4 the National Policy] wee to 1. that it venni keel, rands few the Canadians Thu. like the ',thee teatime in ea hothalf has now heat fulfilled The wmigr$taow, to kite United relates is 'traitor nr- thew err Daring the l•at year ..f Mt Mar beast. • term .4 Aloe • nuinber "f Os neatens leaving few the Cronee) State. was 26,020 lest year the number reach ed 00.000 .( which term! 75.000 rrtestel a1 Por, H,ittw. Al..t.. ?'be. tare be. promises to be even greataa rw the curreut year, for in the first throw months 37,77U1have gone from among us to trek their fortuues in the United State. 10 order that one ,night hettei grad the ' weaning of the figures, d ilia) be tad that at the taking of the last eases Huron end Brae had • populatausi if 114,680 ovule, w that the emigrate', of Cauadiana w the United Staten u• the past fifteen months would have beet* suf 1lcient to depopulate these tai • oounttes. or. to make another oompenson the ex odus was grttete' than the entire puputa tion of Essea, Laiinbton,Bo thwell, Kent and West Elgin. .0 give' in the last census returns. He would of may that the whole of this was due to the N. P., but well-informed gentleuueu w the Marttiwe Province had uuproesed upon him that that fiscal measure is fast dur- ing the people into exile. What would be the result if every fano in the Dwain - Mn was mortgaged for $1,000 The National Policy (limpets every farmer to pay for his necessaries $60 or $70 each year, and that is about equivalent to the interest on a mortgage of $1,000. The speaker said he would put aside silly pretence that the N. P. had produced good dunes. Neither Protection nor Free Trade can avert bad times. A fiscal policy might mitigate or increase the effect of bad time, but it cannot avert depreaaion ur cheek the revival that na- turally succeeds the depression. The N. P. has been a success only in fostering the interests „f -monopolists. He read the returns for the past as published in the Canada fl Bette to show that during the decal of 1879 80 tine people of Canada ]havyeare paid t}53^,QOo fevr t io sole purpose of keeping in operation one sugar refinery in 1lfontreal that gives em- ployment to but a few hundred hands. Later on in the evening Sir Richard re- verted to this point, and said that in On- tario the average family would use from '250 to 300 pounds of sugar each year. Under the .present tariff the `average tax on this would amount to $7.50 or $9, the week's wages of an average working- man in fair employ. He did not say that it was absolutely impossible for the country to go on and prosper, even in spite of this heavy load of taxation, but this single fact was sufficient to cause the artizans to demand a more equitable system of taxation. As to the aseutnp- tion that the N. P. was to build up fac- tories, he had challenged on the hexer of Parliaanent proof that twelve factories have been started, employing an aggre- gate of 1,200 hands, that could by any stretch 4.4 the imagination be attributed to the N. P. Why, if every article that we import were to be made in Canada, employment would only be given to 30,- 000 people, and when we reflect that the policy that was to enable us to become our own manufacturers had been the ,means of sending out 125,000, it will be seen how slight is the prospect of its ever being the means of obtaining " Canada for the Canadians." OCR FINANCIAL PO'.IITION. Sir Richard then took up the financial condition 0 Canada, and ds - cussed it in all its bearings on the citizen. He showed the extravagance 0 the Con- servative party by quoting the fact that Sir John and his ministry had in the years from 1868 to 1874 increased the em- penditure from thirteen and a half mil- lions to twenty-three and a -half millions, and es a contrast he noted that Mr. Mac- kenzie's Administration left office in 18;8 with an increase of scarcely $200,000 a year after they had taken office. The reckless expenditures of past years are now being repeated,- for although Sir John h:e been only about a year and a half in office, he has increases the expen- ditures by $1,600,000. To allow the effect of this expenditure on the indivi- dual, let it be remembered that the, net expenauture oh Canada is about $20,000,- 000. Of this sum by the way, Ontario pays about three fifths, or $12,000,000. Taking five as the average in eachfaniily, it will be seen each head if a family is taxed $30 yearly for the pure uses of the Dominion Government. This is a bad enough showing, but it must be borne in mind that this is not all, for the taxation is largely in excess of the amount that finds its way into the treasury Of the Government. The tariff has been So framed that the greatest burden falls up- on those with incomes of $600 or less. A man on a salary of $600 per year has to devote at least one month's wages to the payment of taxes irrespective of his muni- cipal assessment, and in the Maritime Provinces it will require six weeks or two months 'Aber to meet the exactions of the present tariff. If it is said in reply that our business has improved. We must ask why it has improved. There is an increased demand for our lumber in the United States, and our wheat finds a readier market in the 1)W Country. Neither one of these causes can in the remotest degree be traced to the N. P. We have passed through the depression: The Government was very extravagant from 1870 to 1873. We lived above our income, with the natural resilt. A re- action canna bringing a depressed season. When Mr. M ackenzie was in office he de- cided not to increase the burdens of the people, and in the last year of his admin- istration the deficit was less than one per cent. of the net receipts. Sir John's de- ficits ranged from f10 per cent. to 25 and 23 per cent. in the final yeara. The posi- tion to -day justifies the policy of ]ler. Mackenzie. Had it been followed the Dominion to -day would have been able to pay its way. The speaker then adverted t. Sir Tolle s method of seeking to hide his deficit adding in $1.300,000 of revenue that beet, received before, but which be clamed was pard in anticipation of an increase in the tariff This was the fire tines, and Sir Richard hopes) it would be the lac that such s datagram* .-ver emanated tn.n, • Canadian Minister of Finance Been wen ,1 an allowable p.r•e.we.ing the egwres show that there was a, grnrnwt for the •ssumpuan older wawa watered in the arty pact 01 1870 u. anticipate* of the tariff. for in the whole ,4 l ''N the grans imports www til 199.0(i0 .hit.. in IAr•I AMA it was alleged the •ieasr .d team ►endo►, tank 07the grafi •iup„ttan..a• were only 341.a1118 `e der f roil there tieing as excess, ,t is Beett than there was in esality a falling ..II from the year 1.ahwwa A enno.w anomaly aboni the N P and what us elaitaewt few " was potased.ws hy Sur Rrrherd 11 ,s elatra•rt that it rat give a re venin 4111 el tM- sen.. Lure. ori ployment to ow .sen woo -knife Row. •w eater.••• (p. Mg), T'A.. ?.,,.or art .x ultarig imusuw immune ere mere. i iJ. of that will give us s revenue In that MON 11 Hurst decrease employment bare, and if it increases employment it roust deertrw tha revenue Sir Rkhand closed th' '.ee"nd part of his J Ay quoting au old English author who Held that the meassite •I .. natio[. .vire like the *eremite. If the mestere wen dis- honest w• al* were the servants He did not want o. believe that •n. isopia tat Canada want ,n the taint ours+l plane with Chapleau, the ;evil servant who helot that he had a perfect right ti rt ceive a brihr after office hours It tie we hay., reached low water nark res NORTH warn AND rue Starting error the propontttun that nor future greatnem as a nation depends un ow developeuient of the North-west Territories, Sir Richard went on to ray that he ~alai a very high opinion .,f that section of the oeu ntry and hoped it wouutldthbeadminirise hstntiour yu settler Be un otif atr `."aa in rho. North-west has been marked by sev;ral eggregious blunders. With trenchant sarcasm he remarked that he did not know whether Hon. Mr.-, Macdougall's trouble there arose, as he himself alleged from the imbecility of his political friends at Ottawa, or whether it arose, as those political friends affirmed, from Mr. Mac- dougall's hopeless incapacity for admin- istration. Let them settle that between themselves. But great mistakes have been made. One of these was in the half-breed reservations, which hal been set martin such a way that they were not available fur settlers, and were in fact merely used as count'_-, u, a gam. ging speculation. Speaking of his re- cent trip to the North-west, be visa humorous account of the Canada c Railway as it tint struck him, remarked that the theme he felt at seeing such ac- commodation offered to the emigrants was not lessened when the jeering crowd of Americans volunteered the information that that was -'The Canada Pacific Rail- way," and that a person could reach Em- erson in that way almost as quick as if he walked. On arriving at Emmerson the first thing that struck hint was a proclam- ation setting forth that no tine could settle on unsurve yed land belonging to the Dominion Government, and that there was no land to be had at the Kut- erson office. And in the cpurse of a trip along the frontier he saw tier after tier of houses on the Dakota border, occu- pied by Canadians drawn out of Mani- toba by the land regulations, who had taken the oath of allegiance. And when it was remembered that a stipulation of that oath was that the takur was sworn to "defend the United States against "foreign 'invaders and the subjects of Queen Victoria," some idea of what the working of the land policy of the ,resent Government s can be onned. Nearly 1,000 Canadians have taked that oath, and each one is an emi- gration agent in inducing his friends and former neighbors to locate across the border. In thu railway reservations there were two mistakes. One was to allow the reserved belts to stretch 110 miles on either side, and the other mei to set apart the railway lands in alter- nate blocks. Settlers could not locate oontigtrott ly, and the occupied portions would be far between. Another great mistake, and one tending greatly to re- tard settlement, was to throw open lands liar sale, and ask only ten per cent. of the purchase money to be paid down. This was to deliberately invite specula- tion. No lands .should have been sold except for cash, ur on the condition of settlement. Such a policy might put $1,000,000 in the treasury, but it was at the expense of driving away 10,000 set- tler Had the lands been givens -trey the returns in taxes would in a short time have indemnified the Government. As 'remedies for the existing state of things, Sir Richard would propose a diminution in the a'1dth 4 the railway belts. It would alsobe better n:,t- !o divide the belts and the Government lands into alternate sections. If it must be divided, let the division be by town- ships rather that sections. Then we might copy after the Americans in sell- ing the lands, and where settlement did not take place insist upon the cash being paid in full, and give the municipalities power over the non-resident lands in the matter of taxation. But the most im- portant remedy of all is to reverse the policy as to colonization railroads. Such is a lutely necessary. Settlementa now aro sparse. Freights are high, and the present land and hncal policies of the Dominion intensify these to the utmost. ala JOHN'S INe•OMPETEr&y. Sir Richard then wont on to criticise Sir John as an administrator, taking his conduct of the Department of the In- terior as a theme. His abilities as a politician are in his makeshifts. His motto is never to do to -day what he can put off till to -morrow. The heal of the Department of the Interior should be a man of practical knowledge. But the state of the present chief in that Depart- ment is masterly inactivity, and thin is a synonym for mischievous intermeddling on the part of subordinates. SirJohn com- mitted a great error when betook the office, and he committed a greater one when he went over to bdgland to sell the country he hast never seen. With the exception of the Hon. Mr., O'Connor, Sir Richard did net believe there was another Minis- ter se profoundly ignorant of the details of his department. Inst session the re poet of the Minister of the Interior was brought before the Hcuse. Mr Mills moved that It he read Sir John .-owed that motion down In doing so. Sir John lost the only chance he cnuld have for another twelve months of learning what had been done in his own depart mens laughter) Sir Richard went on t. give practical illustration of Sir John's tgr 4.ranae, citing the roars wherein he bartered the navigation of the St Law ,ween to the United thetas for the prier tsits_asingating a temple .of riven in privilege we possessed before -- acid other cases. And he is about too m- illet a greater injury nn Canada in the swatter now under consideration between himself sod certain capitalists at Ottawa. We know he has failed to interest &sty ldsglish capitalist id money in hi. scheme. 'Meas whom he is now negotiating with made him an offer before he wont to rid fie reinsed it, belie/vire( he mike hatter terms. He fab and now three people have him faat in a position into which he get solely by his own boasting. Hu speech at Montreal contained tea, remarkable mtatements One wee wncerumg h*•hopes of trans Intiou t, a itightr and hatter sphere, apo the other war tx.uotruu.,r hos extraordi,. sry sue-wir to England 1s t, the first Sir Richard said he had no wash to du courage frit astemmata. and no krww noprue ill gtea&er uwdihii Lhei iit'petiuu Apra Sir R,ic told an amusing anecdote of the lebrated freebooter Rob Roy He bye upon what he sup posed was tin death -bed, and he instruct ed hu 'syndicate' that, oa their a»zt ea *►read w'Le Loy/tends they tract "lift . preaches rhe prea:hel .v;a, hruught and Rub ask ed if there was any one The clergyman shook hos how+ ttoul 1 1). Rub celled e, wad the stutyy pi the that utt she Cruse, acid sugguatt•i the, as he had been pardoned there IW1 lit yet be hope. ' • 1 ell, Rob, ' says the clergy man, "I don't want to discourage you You Inure there is only ' one such ease mentioned. New, that one ono hs en It ough to keep you from despair, bet It is not enough to let you *esthete The eutire audieaco shook with laughter. $ir Richard next referred to the large pun!thee of land made by 1 r. )lr•arseg9 and said t. was a scheme that dtould never have beim initiated till the con sent of Parliament had been gained. Thousands of wealthy people in the L'nited States and Canada could be found who would be willing to purchase such tracts. Our hundred would fu.uel an area equal to the whole cultivated area of Ontario. What the effect of such transactions will be we could judge from the experience of the Prince &sward Island land speoukit,wu and the Canada Cuuilau . THE i'A •IF:c LAILWAY HARoun As to the Pacific Railway bargaiu, opinion must bit reserved. But when we are asked to believe in advance that it is advantageous, the peat record of the Government rises up and we aro com- pelled to reluse confidence. If we can- not believe their statements, the blame'• and the shame rests upon themtelve., for they destroyed confidence by their acts of seven years ago Ur the same wetter. The bestpolicy he believed would be to place 50,000 or 100,000 settlers in the `alleys of the Rel and Saskatchewan Rivers, but the bargain with British Columbia stood u a stumbling block in the way. Sir Richard expressed his dis- belief in many of the fabulous stories that are told concerning the vast ares of fertile land in the North-west, which he believed to be tl over-estimated, and then retorted tau the land purchase made by himself. He did not admit the justice of the criticism that because he disapproved of the land regulations be should not buy land if he w desired. It would be as reasonable to say that ho should not buy coal if he did not want to see it taxed. But, putting this aside, the fact was that all the land he had pur- chased he got from a private party, and the Government had nothingto do with it. The speaker closed with a brilliant peroration m which he set forth the rea- sons why the Reform party was against., the present order of thugs The N. P.,'' which the !.resent Government had in- augurated, threatened to diaintegra*e Confederation; the action of the (ihinet members had been w demoralize oon- taactors and civil servants; a policy of plunder was the order of the day; Tup- pers, and Chapleaus and Macintoshes were now to the fere ;the present Govern- ment was but the old Pacific Scandal Cabinet rehabilitated; men who had prov- ed false once would prove .false again; betrayers in the pest would be betrayers in the future; given simliar einumstan- cos and the iniquities of the past would be repeated. These were the reasons why Reformers did not work in harmony With the party now in power, and good and sufficient cause they were. The close of the speech was greeted with rounds of applause, after which cheers were given for Sir Richard Cart- wright and "The Queen," and a most successful meeting was brought to a I close. TBE.YEETIne AT LORD EsEOROLOH. Sir Richard Cartwright addressed his constituents at Londesborough on Wednesday evening.Mr. W. C. Searle, of Clinton, occupied the chair. A most telling speech was delivered by Sir Rich ard, and at the close a hearty endorse - tion was tendered by the meeting to the speaker. The greatest enthusiasm pre- vailed. AUCTION SALE OF FRESH RO('BRIES, SHOP PIX- TUREv, tbY. tam favored with instructions from MRS. A. 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