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inucb with the bUingusl schools in
themselves as with the manner in
which they are conducted. It is
doubtless more dim,ult to secure com-
petent teachers for schools in which
two languages are used than to secure
them for one -language ecbouls: but it
appear' that, instead of making an
effort to secure instructors possessing
the special qualifications necessary for
such- schools, the authorities have
allowed the schools to remain in
charge of teachers whore qualifica-
tions were actually below par.
The difficulty has not been faced ; it
has simply been ignored. with the
disastrous results which Bishop Fal -
lent points out.
Obviously the first thing to be done
is to hove an official and authoritative
inquiry into the•conditions which pre -
rail in the districts affected. t\ ben
the results of such an hntestigation
are at band the -Department of Duca
tion mutat- proceed . to make iucb
changes in the method of conducting
the schools in these districts as will
give the children who attend them is
fair chance to secure the education
which is every child's tight..
In the meantime Bishop Fallon is
to -be thanked for bringing the ques-
tion to.public attention in his cour-
ageous. outspoken. plain -dealing man-
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GODLRICH. THURSDAY. OCT. 4 ,AIRS.
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A LOP -SIDED SENATE.
On several occa*ions during the lest
few years The `signal has protested
Against the one-eidel system of mak-
ing appointments to the Dominion
gemytecstent which filled the see•
ond-('hamper with Conservatives in
the days of Conservative Government
• and is now ttlliteg it with Liberals.
TheSwl ban' pointed outtbat. while
it is right and- props -TT -that the party
holding a msibi'ity of the seats in the
Commons should ale.+' he able to secure
a majority iti the Senate, it isnot
right norproper that one party ehould
pack the Senate to each s■ extent that
another party coining into power
could be the acted by an overwhelm-
ing adverse majority in the second
Chamber.
The Signal is thereto • lad to ob-
serve that other 1. Ovral kers see
the danger involved in the prevent
systelll, The Montreal Heherald. Toronto
Ke
ingston Whig a
Globe are three influential Liberal
papers which have been' advocating a
change. The til"ire says:
"If it war wrong to have a Senate
composed almost entirely of Tory par-
tilling
i1prior to b4111 eriutit ancot h� d sh-
in lino to have a P
most entirely of Liberal partisans. It
is true th.►t the Liberal tinkly has had
it!Wallet' of great questions to settle
since it assumed power. but there is
a
very general opinion among
the and file of the part) that the time is
fully i ile for some radical change- in
the composition of the Senate of Can-
ada,- •
Nu interest which the Liberal party
need recognize would be injured by
no!-i,artisen appointments to the Sen-
ate. if we ate to have a Senate at :ill,
and The Signal is not at all convinced
that a second Chamber is necessary to
desirable, at le:a.t lei twaveid tying it
up sO completely- to one party as to
render it a menace to representative
government.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Olympic, the, White Star Line
steamer launched at Belfast last week,
is uow the biggest ship afloat. Her
length is f3llL'?.. feet—over a sixth of a
utile.
these ships go to the bottom of the
sea. Lauf ier has sold us to the Eng-
lish in return for the honors he has re-
ceived, and in twenty-five years there
will be no French-Canadians left.'
The Conservative candidate for. the
Legislature in South Wellington- has
been elected by acclamation. This is
something for Premier Whitney to
thick of on Thanksgiving Das ,
Dowu in Quebec Bourasaae says
Laurier is a traitor to his race. In
Ontario Laurier is assailed as an
enrlay. of _the Empire. .Sir Wilfrid
smiles at both accusations as be can
well afford to do.
Color Time.
Autumn. like a day new been.
Flood* across the Weeping Isnd.
Ripening the fields sof corn. •
Till yellow throng, are nodding band in
band.
slowly thtotnth the world of mist.
4 old ta n red the sun mot w down.
Till the wooded hW-top. limed
Are amoliftg crim'a, like • plundered
town•,
France may stow of colored hind,
Vineyard* purple in the tall.
Emerald waters on white .and...
A yellow grove behind a gray t.,ced wall.
Ubalk•white turd. through tainted bloom.
Crooked hill. of crooked tree. .
Slashed with lavender and broom.
.And scarlet .rel• gamiest the vivid
But L know a woodlatd sow.
[there when autumn drifts and1dls
Colon bu4l as rich akaln, •
%nd of erflowiiia nod the silent hills.
Douglas Roberts.)dTbe Cans iltaa Magaxiue
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FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Where Agriculture Comes In.
Stratford beacon.
Last year the tour largest oc••upa-
tions iu ('anad:t employed the follow-
ing numbers : Agriculture. 716.Rf7
manufacturing, 3419,b33; domestic,
2T7,7:5: transportation. 2.i4.2W. Be -
bides these the professional clave num-
bered N4,ttip, twining employed AMIC ,
the fisheries gave work to L3,I1o4, the
forest and lumber industry employed
17,113, and a miscellany of occupations
engaged 4.413. In cousideriug mat-
ters of trade, including ouch questions
as reciprocity. the fact must be borne
in mind that agriculture is today, and
is likely to remain for all time, the
chief industry of Canada. and cannot
be ignored.
wishi d to enter Canada, and. being
*it hoot the $.3l'esch to pay the head
tax necessary- under our law, are be-
ing bun fled back to China ip durance
vile. -
Now, if the Chinese Ooverument
eb'ould object to these missiouatier
being admitted into China to pureue
the work which they hate set them-
selves. a British warship would prole
a ly fon e their admission. and Brit-
ish bullets and bayonets would guar-
antee them the libertiew which they
weak to exercise there. Canadians,
Christian ('anadiens, must have such
rights in ('bins. Canadians tuner be
free to refuse to Chinese cifwing to
Canada any such rights. If a Chiuere
missionary were to pi remit himself at
Vancouver, be would he• held up for
$ OI) bead tax. and his mierionary
career would be made extretuely un -
cocain table.
Of course we have a,perfect right to
deal with China and the Chinese fu
we please. Aren't .. e a tree. Christian
people? And wouldn't it he monstrous
for ('pine. to attempt to charge a head
tax on white Christian niiesion/tries,
or to circumscribe. their activities itt
the Celestial Kingdom ; • Certainly it.
would.
But. afterall. considering the mat-
ter in the light of the Golden Rule.
wbicbis as old as Confucius himself.
there i..otnething in therituatiou cal-
culated to stir up doubt. But why
should the rights of any measly
Asiatic be submitted to such a fine
test as the Golden Rule
shouldn't that be reserved for t bus-
t en white men atone
Good Roads.
Lund.o, Danner..
A good road increases the value of
the taros fronting on it ; give+ the
farmer bettet opportunities to get to
market quickly et all seasons of the
year with bis goods, and adds power-
' fully to the social intercourse of the -
people. Along with ruts! shows,
)cowry life becomes more pleasant
and lees monotonous. Sense seven-
teen counties have established county
seven-
,teen
systerus under the highway im-
As a contemporary declare°. the hi- I provewnent met. The act was passed in
lingual schools question is one for the 11101. and Wentworth wets the Hats
educationists, not for the politicians. Colylty to Create road system, being
folrowed, in IOW, by the counties ht
Simcoe. Wellington and Lanark.
Let it be nettled without any heroics
from those whore desire is to air their
prejudices tether than to' benefit the
people of the F rich-Canadiao settle-
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Toronto Star: Niobe, the name of cation system of the. Province. It has
the first ship of the Canadian navy to no patience with the manufactured ex -
reach • shores, is a word of three case that in abolishing them the Whit -
syllables, Ny-o-lx• with the accent on nes Government was -raising the
Not a•Bril iant Success.
Hamuton.Ttntes.
The Goderich Signal cries out for the
restoration of the Model Schools which
pia% rd so important a part in the edu-
the first. It is often e►roneously ac- status of the teaching prufelsiou." It
celled ..n the second s Ilublr, and
twee clearl- that is not the fact. More-
y oves, if that were true, tbeGovern-
sometilueo. quite as wrongly, divided i went buy a still higher duty to ler-
into two syllablee. Ny-oab. I form in providing all the children of
the Pi ()vim* with pa Nam aducat ionaI
A wonarr de natation of Uermet is facilities. And it it surely right. The
1 Edtici tion Depaa talent as it has
been of lute as. -not a brilliant success.
' Assessments and Taxes.
From The Square Deal.
There Feenis to be a fear in some
quarters that high SSsessIueuts neces-
sarily saran high taxes.
The fact is that just about so much
money per capita ot population mu -t
he seised to meet public expenses. and
underaiosessu'ent means a high rate,
For exampple, take the three town-
ships of tjoderich, Aberdeen and Der-
by. The following table show* the
population. the esteemed value of land
per capita, and the assessed value of
buildings :
l'opu. Lund. Bldg'. Rate.
Go derich Ti.,.l,$7() $706 $hill 0.2
Aberdeen Tp...1,1473 370 lit 111
Derby Tp......1,$02 310 1711 Ilk
It will be noticed that in Aberdeen
and Dethy the assessment on land is
only about half as much sal in Gode-
rich, but the tax rate is about twice us
high. The low assessment does not
lessen (be tax burden.
Thele can he no doubt on the other
hand that the practice of underaasess-
ing property does lead to inequalities,
and that nothing would do more to es-
tablish equitable assessments than the
enforcement of the rule that all prop-
erty shall lye assessed at full market
value.
From the figures given above it AO
pears that in Derby buildings hear
one-third the tax burden, while in
Ooderich they bear only one-fifth.
Either the assessors iv/ the latter
two townships have discriminated in
favor of the improver, or the nsesee'tt
in Derby has discriminated in favor of
the 'peculator.
This discrimination bet ween the two
classes of property by the a°seseore is
not legal, but it is practiced simply be-
cause there- is no cheek at present on
the assessor's work.
V% here the aaseeaor discriminates in
favor of improvement-', moot progres-
sive citizens will approve his action.
At the next session of the legislature
n measure will be introduced asking
that municipalities be granted the
right to do legally what assessor- have
for years leen doing. to discriminate
between the different classes of assess-
ments. The proposal is that the muni-
cipality be allowed to place a lower
rate on buildings, improvements, in-
come and business assessments than
on land values.
to wait upon the Government at
Ottawa in December to present the
views of organize.) agriculture in rela-
tion to the tariff. It is expected that
the deputation will number several
hundreds, representing the grmin-
growers of the Western Prot iuces and
ulsu the-tarming interests of ••Ontario,
Quebec and the Maritime Provinces,
The cruiser Niobe, the' pioneer ship
of the Canadian nae'., reached Bali•
fax on Friday and anus accorded an
official wflcome by representatives of
the Dominion Government, the,Pro-
. bidet Government of Nora Scotia
and the city of Halifax. The Cana-
dian navy is not so far a very formid-
able affair; blit "great oaks from little
acorns grow," anti Canada's flag will
doubtless some .lay fly over -a strong
fleet of big battleship*. The trouble
is that the hill. for the maintenance of
the navy will be growing bigger all
the time, too, and the country will be
spending :. lot of money for a rather
doubtful purpio —
The Toronto Neve' says : "Tens of
thousands of farmers voted against
reciprocity_
when Canada needed
the American market much worse
than it does toga),' The News is
probably referring to 151)1, when the
Liberals stood for unrestricted reci-
pr.ycity and Sir John A. Macdonald
countered on hie opponents by de.
claring for reciprocity in natural
products. it will be remelnbered flint
after the election Sir John Macdon-
ald's Government actually sent to dep-
utation to Washington to secure a
treaty, but failed. The News, there-
fore, is very much astray when it
says that "tens of thousands of farm-
ers voted ageinst reciprocity." As a
matter of fact they voted for it, as
they would do today if given the
opportunity.
BILINGUA. SCHOOLS.
The qut•stiou talked by Bishop Fal-
lon in -his tdatement-issued from Gude-
ri,Ch hilt week is one that requires
careful and tactful handling. No per-
son, we hope, desires to deprive the
French-speaking ,people of the
Province of any of their rights,
hut even a- movement to - give
real assi-tatfee may 1w gone about in
such a way as to arouse the alai en and
resentment of those whom it is pro-
posed to help. •
It will not do. to apprthicb the ques-
tion with the idea of fashioning the
schools of the whole Province accord-
ing. to some preconceived notion. We
have more than enough uniformity in
our school. already. The question
must be" sppr'•ached, if it to to he
settled in a tight manner, with the
view of giving the children of the
French-speaking districts the best
possible opportunities of securing an
education. To say that no language
but English must be recognized in the
public schools of Ontario may be the
language of sincerity, but it will not
help much to wive the difficulty . «e
can have no sympathy with the ides
of educating with • club. It is stated
that one of the difficulties in the
French settlements is the apathy and
indifference of the parents in the mat-
ter of their children's education. To
attempt to force the children abruptly
from French speech to English would
still further strange the parents from
the schools and would aggravate the
present difficulty.
Judging from the expressions of
opinion that have appeared in the
papers since Bishop Fallon's Mate-
ment was given out, a gnsd deal tan
be said both for and against bilingual
schools. 1t nay not ba far wrong to
conjecture. amongst all the confusion
of opinion, that the trouble is not so
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Here is a sample of the sluff the
Quebec Nationalists are haeyding out
to the French-Canadian electors in the
attempt to beat Laurier. It is s re-
port from Le Soleil of the remarks of
a speaker at St. Anselme a few days
ago :
"The navy is a conspiracy of the
English to drown the l'anayena.
Laurier has consented. after having
betray .d lis as regards our language,
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What About the Golden Rule ?
Aamllton Time..
The Empress of India which sailed
the other day from Vancouver for
China carried twenty-six missionaries.
who go out to preach the gospel of
Christianity to the Chinese and to
teach them the principles of brother-
hood and international good will.
These missionaries go prepared to en -
to man all the ships of war which we dure disoomfort and make personal
will ha.. with French-Canadians. sacrifice for the uplifting of the
This will take 60.00) to 80,000 este, all heathen for their gond in this world.
fathers of families or young men on and tor their everlasting welfare.
the point of so becoming, who will Alongwith them in the Emptww of
have to go to Japan. China, or India. ut in Lew comfortable quarters
Oceania, under the ooeamend of Bing- and very much against thou will. go
liah ofneere, who, wishing to make some forty or more Obin.ee. They
our race disappear, will see to it that an being deported because they
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