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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-4-30, Page 4THE AbrocaU. SANDERS et SWEET, Props. THURSDAY, APR, 30th, ],891.. .UPERI'AL TRADE .RELATIONS. We lately took occasion to discuss the moot question of Imperial Federat- ion, chiefly on the ground of a unit: of origin and race, religion and literat- ure, and also on general principles of government, Practically, however, the question bas begun to assume a rommereial aspect, as itis viewed both in England and the Colonies. `fins is owing doubtless to the practical char- acter of our age, and the growing tendency of the different nation's to adopt a strictly protective policy- Boards au Boards of trade and chambers,o.F Com- merce both in England ' and Canada are conning to view their mutual trade relations as being in common; and it is worthy of note that the Manchester Chamber of Commerce has lately given forth expressions favorable to a fiscal policy which will accord a. preferential treatment to the Colonies of Great Britain. There is among the several Chambers of Commerce in the United Kingdom a determination to promote the Commercial interests of theEmpire; and, in more especially of the proposal to encourage the growth of colonial wheat, it is gratifying to observe the great cereal development taking place in Australia, whose re- sources in e-sources-in this respect are not to be compared to those of Canada. In a recent address to a trade delegation, the Prime Minister of England spoke of "unrestricted competition" and im- partation "from foreign countries as operating prejudicially to the interests of the Empire," And every one must see what a relief the repeal of existing taxation on the British farmers and other consumers would be, were the twenty million pounds sterling of rev- enue duties now levied on tea, coffee, and tobacco removed. Hostile tariffs are the order of the day in most coun- tries having trade relations with Brit ain; and this has led to the conclusion that the time has arrived for a closer alliance, in both a fiscal and. political point of view, between the various outlying sections of the Empire and the mother country. Of course it is contended by some that a discriminat- ing policy in faver of the Colonies, would be a virtual declaration of war byforeign nations in a fiscal point of view, and that it would increase the price of bread -stuffs to the British con.. s117nt'r. But the answer to this is to be found in the fact that every country not under the British flag has already erected a wall of hostile tariff; Russia' France, Switzarlaud, and the United States more especially, have all adopt- ed a high prohibitory tariff; hence the anxiety (as Lord Salisbury puts it) "-above all things to . conserve, unity, and strengthen the Empire of the Queen, because it is to the trade car- lied on within that Empire that we book for the vital force of the commerce of this country' The import trade of Great Britain at present amounts to the enormous suni of three hundred Million pounds sterling; and if a large part of that trade can be diverted from foreign countries to the colonies of the Empire, by a fiscal policy which shall be preferential to the colonies, it would tend. largely to the develop- ment of the Empire, while it would naturally increase by many million pounds the export trade of Britain; Then as to the trade ;between foreign countries and England, those nations are dependent to a large extent on the British market for a sale of their sura• pins eommodities; and to a certain ex tent, therefore, the producer has nec- censairly to pay a portion a1 least of the duty. .&.nd should' there be a large de- velopment of trade as between Eng - and and the Colonies, the countries that now supply Britain with bread stuff and other articles of food would' its all probability have to pay the whole amount of duty. 1+ron1 cyery point of - n. a, then, we judge, that the policy of n .federated Empire would be beneficial riot only to Canada and, the other colo- -ales, but also to Britain. herself.' I IEY DO THE BOYS LEAVE THE FAIf11L �l tierynow and. then, in our agri- vhlltural contemporaries, we come upon seitorial plaints as to the 'difficulty of Inducing farmer's sons to remain upon the farm, and giving suggestions, more O 1(:59 impracticable, a8 to the means3 1 hal: should be employed to accomplish shat cud. All these editorials seem to 'be based upon the assiimption that yiaere is ten irresistible attraction about *sin fife to'the average farmers boy that he longs to w o11s hard for small pay and live in a stuffy room iiia large` city, and that this rush; from the farm to the city is based entirely upon septi, mental reasons, ' 1t is nothing of the sort. The Cana- dian farmers' sou is far too alive to,his own interests to be led astray by any otherthan sound commercial consider. ations, There is no particular fasei- nation about a city to hind, He knows well enough what he has to expect; but he is quite shrewd enough to see' that if a farmer has three or four Sons the one who stays on the farm is the one who is gouie• to be worst oft in the long run.. The Sons who leave are sure of paiaental support for a while at least, At worst they r can return home: If they ydo et on, a small loan, now and than, from the father helps them along, and, if they thrive, they. 1uay. possibly borrow from him the necessary capital to see them u P in business for 1 themselves. When thelfather dies the farm is almost invariably divided among all -the sons, and the boy who has stayed at home and worked hard to make it profitable, firs himself the worst offof the lot. The sons who left home have businesses and trades of their own. Their share of the farm represents additional. and unearned capital. He has only his bare share to make a living out of. Is it any won- der then' that he contrasts their posit- ion with his own? If our agricultural friends want the boys to stay upon thefarmthey must offer them sound financial reasons for so doing. The doctrine that all the laborers in the vineyard should receive au equal penny whether they toil from the first or the eleYenth'hour, although lid theoretically correct, is not sou practically, and the boy who stays on the farm thoroughly realizes the fact. If the fathers would . give those sons who at heart prefer agricultural pur- suits some tangible security that they would be no losers thereby, we should not, see them so anxious to get into the', cities. But at present the advantages lie altogether with the adventurous. If he succeeds, well and good; if not, he can always return. What then does he risk? As to the moral dangers surround ing a young farmer seeking employ- ment in a large city :we mayy safely say that they are greatly exaggerated,. and when they exist, at all, are confin- ed entirely to the first weeks of his town -life. As a rule he is just as shrewd and clear-headed, if not as keen and alert, as the town -bred boy, and, as his home -training is usually pure and good, it is his own fault if he drifts into temptation. Speaking gen- erally the temptations of a large city are no greater than those of a small town., If a man wishes to be bad in either he can easily find the means, Similarly ifhe desire to go on his way unspotted from the World he will find numbers of societies and associations in a large city to help him to do so. His future lies in his own hands whether he live in country or city, and if he goes wrong he has no, one to, blame but himself. We may safety,' then, dismiss the moral side of the question from our calculations, and decide that the Question of whether it. is most desirable for a boy to remain on the farm, or to seek his living in the city,' must be decided entirely by. the particular circumstances of his ease. THE BRITISH "PRIMROSE } T�LAG U.�. Every one knows that the favorite flower of the late Lord Beaconsfield (B. Disraeli)) was the primrose.. -Very often the noble Earl would enter par- liament with his favorite flower fasten- ed to the button -hole of his coat or pin- ned upon his breast. And since the demise of their late honored leader, the Conservatives in the British House of Commons have often donned the prim- rose when attending the opening of parliament. Well! the other clay the annual meeting of the "Primrose Lea - Pette" formers in honor of Lord Beacons. field took place in Covent Garden The atre, when an immense gathering as. seinbled. Lord Salisbury presided: The Countess of Radnor opened tee meeting bysinging the"National An- rhem,"—in which the audience Joined most enthusiastically. Lord Salisbury then addressed the meeting, and com- menced by announcing that the mem a bership of the League had reached one million. His Lordship then entered upon the political situation, showing that the present aspect of affairs was. ttiost encouraging to the Conservative party. I:e.spceially singled out the Irish question as one in which the pre- sent go had done more to conciliate the people of that unhappy country, and to restore peace: and good order; than all that had been accomp. fished for many years, He gave great credit to Mr. Balfour'e .administration of affairs in Ireland, and also congrat- ulated the London Times upon its hav- ing done good service to the country by showing up Parr}ell's connexation with the Irish conspirators, He warn cd the Conservatives not to cease act ivity or doff their armor, because the battle was not yet won, and it was for the present generation to solve the problem of Home Rule. There were two rocks to be avoided—the Scylla of 1?uitellism, which had, the sympathy ath_v S and support of American conspirators, and the Charybois of McCarthyiem, which was bucked by the priestly pow- er of Roman Catholicism. What world be thought, said his Lordship, if the Archbishop I of Canterbury terUnry »eIe to summon the Established clergy to ent- ter the arena of politics, :and insist from the altar upon their peoplevoting' for a than e in the leadership of the Conservative p nrty? Yet this was the policy which the Irish Catholic Bishops and clergy were virtually pursuing in Ireland in regard to a political leader ---thus putting the Protestants in the North at thein mercy! Lord Salisbury concluded by affirming that we liye in times of great danger, and that it was the imperative dirty of all true lovers of the Constitution to defend their principles and thus defeat the. reckless course being- pursued in diff- erent countries. "Principle and not bluster" ought to be our watchword ord in Canada.' as elsewhere. B.IRTI-IS, .DMAPRIAGES AND DEATH S. The following is a report relating to the registration of . Births, Marriages and Deaths in the province of Ontario for the year ending 31st December, 1889. The total registrations during the year amounted to 86,747, composed of 48,588 births, 14,880 marriages and 23,329 deaths: Compared with the reg- istrations made during 1888, the births show an increase of 1,585, the marriag- es anincrease of 329, and the deaths a decrease of 405, making a total increase in 1889 of 1,509. The male births in the Province numbered 2e1,737, the fe- males 23,801, an excess of 936 hale births showing a proportion of 103:5 males. There was a small increase in the number of twin births registered. Three cases of triplets ' were returned 1889; the same rnumber in. " 1888• They occurred in the following count les: One in the County of Haldimand, one in the County of Peter:borou hand one in the County of York. , Of the 48,5J9 children, whose births were reg- istered during the year 1889, 47,581 or 98 per cent were legitimate and 958 or two per cent illegitimate. In 1888 there were 4e,953 births registered. Of these 46,335 or 98.7 per cent were leg- itimate showing a large increase in the number of illegitimate births register- ed in 1889.: The following exhibits the number and proportion of the marriage of the four principal denominations in Ontario: Methodists 9,920; Presbyterians 6,022; Episcopalians " 5,041; Roman Catholics 4,136. The marriages be- longing to other denomination were not so numerous. Little change took. place in the months chosen for marry- ing, October, December and January are still the favorite months, especially December, which heads the ' list with 1,753 weddings nearly 12 per cent of the whole number celebrated' during the year. Of the 2,842 person married under 20 years of age, only 259 were finales to 3,683 females. Between 20 and 25 years also fewer males than fe- males were married, but in all other periods of life,` given in the following table, the ages of the males when mar- ried exceeding those of the females: PERIOD MALES FEMALES Under 20 years 259 2583 Between 20 and 25 5017 6848 " 25 " 30 5202 3326 ,t 30 " 35 2123 1016 " 35 40 967 450 " 40 " 45 468 256 't 45 " 50 275 172 t` 50 " 55 193 86 " 55 " 60 157 63 G0 " 65 106 33 65 " 70 53 16 70 years and over 38 2 Ages not giyen 22 29 14880 14880 The united ages of the oldest couple married in 1889 was 148 years. The bridegrom was 81 years and the bride 67. Emir persons were married at SO years of age and over, three males and one female. In contrast to these mar- riages of persons advanced in years, the following youthful marriages were retorded, vizi—Nine girls of fourteen years ` of age united themselves to youths under nineteen years, and 30 were married at 16 years of age The youngest couple married was a girl of 14 years of age to a youth of 18 years. The greatest disparity of ages exhibit ed in any marriage was that of `a mail aged 79 year's, who married a " maicluii of the age of 15 ,years. The following' is the total number of births, marriag es and deaths in the County of Huron in 1.8o0.—Population 89:179; Births 1453; Marriages 401;; Deaths 620. For Sale. A clesirablerosfd.ence in Exeter North, new frame Neuse, one -fifths sore of land. The house was erected in 1888. Good terms to purchaser. ApPlyat this office: 140-t �ae�* Our foot -ball club is getting hand- some new suits made, They will no doubt loop well in them as they are all farmer's Sons. Mr. Frank Coats is the Secretary and will be pleased to re• ceive challenges from any other club. west of Toronto. All communications sent to the Exeter Post office will re- ceive prompt attention. County of Huron Teachers' Exam - mations, The Primary(III. class) and limier Lear - ing.andPass MMttrticulation (Il;, class) Ex- aminations at the Collegiate Institutes tun). High . Schools will be held at Goclerich, Ulin. ton and Seaferth, beginning Tuesday, 7th of )uly,at8.10A..Is. Senior leaving and Railer Martioulation (1. 0.) will be hold at Clinton, beginning Tuesday, 14 July, at 1 80 1•. nt. Can- didates who -wish to write at Seaforth or Clinton must notify Davidliobb, Ess,, I. P. Sohools, Clinton P '0, not later than 22nd May, stating at which of tho schools they intend to write; and those who desire to write at Crederich const notify J noL ram, Esq., I. P. Schools, Goderioh 1'. 0 , by the same date. No name Will bo forwarded to the Drtnleaatunloss the fee of 0 ac- companies a h f a,0 e companies the application: )leaclmasters of High Soheels and Collegiate Institutes will please send the applications and fees of their candidates to the P S. Inspector with- in whose jnrisdiotion their school is situated Forms of appiioation n111 be obtained from the Inspector' or the undc ,igned, PL 1LADAMSON, Goderich, April, 1891. County Cleric i i n9 as i� 'lP XECU ORS ilk" TIC � rthe, Estate of Thomas In the matte oft I;s a e Ching,late of the Township of Hay, in the County of Huron, Yeoman, deceased. Notice is Hereby given pursuant to the Re- vised Statutes of Ontario, Chapter 110 section 89, that creditors and other persons having any claims or demands against the estate of Thomas Ching., late of, the Township :of Hay, in the County of Huron, who died on or about the 4th day of A111.1.1,1891, are required to send by post,prepaicI,or deliver to Samuel Sanders, of the village of Exeter, one of the .Executors of the said Estate on or —before The First Day oi'Jime,1S91, their full names, addresses and descrip- tions and full particulars of their claims. dUly vertified, and the nature of the securit- ies (if any) held by then. And notice is fur- ther given that after the said last mentioned' date the said executor will ll proceed to dis- tribute the assets of tho said deceased among the persons entitled thereto, having regard only to the elaims of which notice shallhave been given as required and the. said' executors will not be responsi.blefor the assets or any part thereof'so distributed, to any person at whose claim notice shall; not have been received at the time of the said. distribution. . LEWIS 11. DICKSON, Solicitor for SAMUEL SANDERS:) Executor, and THOMAS CHING, JR.5 Dated Exeter 18thApri1,1891. NOTICE to CREDITORS. In the matter of George A, Hyndman, of the Village of Exeter, in the County of Huron, Grocer, Insol- vent. The above named George A. E,yndman has made an assignment to me in pursuance of Chapter 1214, Revised Statutes of Ontario, of all his Estate and Effects, for the benefit of his creditors. A meeting-ofthe Creditors of the said Geo. A. Ryndman will be held at the Law Office of Lewis Henry Dickson, Fanson's Block; in —the 'Village of Exeter, on— Monday, the 27th Instant, At the hour of 2 o'elockin the Afternoon, for the appointment of Inspectors and the giving ofdirectionsfor the disposal of the estate. Creditors are required to file their claims against the said estate with me or my Solic- itor of s with affidavit attached, also nature and value if any)on or before security ( held, The I5th day of May, A. D. I89I, after which date I wiilthen proceed to dis- tribute the proceeds of. the Estate, having regard for only those claims Which have been filed Lewis 1-1. Dickson, John Currelly, Solicitor for Assignee. Assignee. Dated, Exeter April 2.0thi, 1891. LOOKI HEAB! ANewTailorShop. 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