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TEURSDA.1", JUNE 4th, 1891.
SIR ifORIAT i1fACDONALD,
To -day Canada stands in the pres
l -me ef a great sorrow and a calamity
When Saturday morning broke over
etais fair Dominion it became known
kom the Atlantic to the Pacifle that
Sir John Macdonald was dying. Only
a few days or probably hours would
pass until the inevitable should come,
and the man who for forty years has
eontroled the destines of the country,
would retire forever from service. Dur-
en*. the election March Sir John lab -
ere% beyond his strength, end, at the
.elose of the struggle he was much
worse, Unfortunately, instead of be-
ing able to find strength in rest,he was
eempelle.d to undertake new labors in
?remixing for the work of the approach.
ing session; and instead ' of growing
stronger, he grew weaker. Still noth-
ing in his condition alarined his friends.
The worst that was feared was that it
would become necessary to. withdraw
Aim from all participations in business
during the present session, and imnose
sheet retirement upon him. Either the
attempt was not made ar Sir John re
fused to be retired; for even when con-
fined to his bed, he continued to dictate
Setters and to coasult members of the
Cabinet on public affairs. The report
respecting him were reasuring, until,
without a few moments warning, there
was a rupture of a blood vessel in his
brain. partial paralysis set in, and his
-physicians at once recoguized the fact
that fatal results would inevitably fol-
low. From hour to hour the country
seemed to stand by the bedside of its
dying chieftain weeping while the
hopeless struggle went op; and Her
Majesty, with earnest affection, cabled
anxious inquiries under the ocean. it
is impossible at a moment like tbis to
convey any adequate idea of what Sir
John MacDonald has done or what he
leas been. His character Is one which
swan be better appreciated by the next
generation than by this: It can be bet-
ter understood when the petty passions
of partisan strife shall have been for-
gotten—when the unreasoning adulat
ion of partisan friends and the course
calumnies of partisian enemies shall
alike be stilied, and it will be
possible calmly to survey the complet-
ed life work in its proportions, with ac-
eoopauied results all in evidence.
John A. Macdonald entered political
life in Canada at a moment when the
old order was changing, giving place
to new. He clearly saw that the policy
ef neither of the existing parties wns
taiculated to secure the welfare of the
country; but that it was necessary to
eteer between the obstinate bigatry of
;antique Toryism on the one hane and
she revolutionary destructiveness of
konoclastic radicalism on the others,
He saw clearly thus the statesman who
WAS to govern Canada must set the
eountry above party; and must set his
eyes on the future instead squabbling
about the petty quarrels of the past.
The country was new, thinly settled hy
a scattered heterogeneous population.
The task was difficult, and only a great
man, able to see far into the future—
only a wise man, willing to bid his
time—only a strong man conscious of
'Power to wield the scepter, would have
dared to set himself the task of carry-
ing an empire, out of the scatteredfra-
grants of British dominion in North
America. That task Sir John set be-
fore himself as his life work. Much
preliminary work was to do. The
etround must be prepared. and. the
Inundations laid before the political
etreeture could be reared. Conflicting
Interests must be reconciled,timid hearts
:mast be filled with courage, opposition
must be silenced, and all the elements
,of success must be enlisted. At the
last opportune moment arrived and it is
a happy recollection that men like the
Hon. Geo. Brown were flghtin with
Sir John, laying aside their partisan-
ship, to secure the up building of their
toientry: The building of the Inter-
eolenial railway, the acquisition of the
North West, the adhesion of British Co.
inrabia, the construction of the Caelad
rrn Paeiflc rallesay, and the adoption
of the National Policy were consequen-
tes of confederation. These were Vast
works for the young Dominion to un-
dertake. The expenditure of money
required for them would be enormous
Weak men feared the burden ivould be
teo•fiaret to bear, timid men trembled
at the responsibilities of failure, and
there were, not wanting traitorous men
eabovienge in foreign interests who
would rather the young Dominion
Amid perish at its birth than that a
new empire should rise in the western
workl,owino. allegiance to Victoria and
sitting under the sheltering folds of
eiteneeritieh flag. But the great work
-3,3.8 done. The weak and the fearful
were encouraged, the unpatriotic were
Aeinced, and the great structure of the
.110W Dominion rose into grandeur—the
mew state took its place in the.. furdly
A nations, The Don -anion of Canada
es the monument whith will comm mo
Mite to all time the life and le,bors of
Str John Macdonald. Destroyers of Em-
eiree are remeinbeted by the 'marble
:pillars erected in honor of their exploits
fef 'knit few men
can it be said that an
empire is their monument and the laws
ef a free people their. history. When
•fteees shall have felled away and teem.
inillions Shad people the wide
eleties and throng the populons • ci',Ies
o ciaimda posterity will reihember with
„gratitude, ;.led teach the, children in
heir schools that the men chiefly in.
strumental in rearing this neat politi
cal febrie was Sir John great
The arehitect dies, but Ws, works re-
main, To day, with treaming eyes,
people litt up their hands as Joash did
for the son of Shaphat, crying "My
father! my fether! the chariot of Israel
and the horseman thereby!" The lea-
der leads 11Q more, the builder builds
no more, the voice of the
captain is stilled, the country sits deso.
late. Yet do we know that the state is
greater than her greatest son; the peo-
ple are more than their greatest man.
In the wise Providence of God it is ap-
pointed into all men once, to die—even
the greatest that ever have lived, But.
in good providence of God,summer and
winter, heat and cold, seed time and
harvest Continue, Canada will live,
will forget her sorrow, will prosper and
eejoice, The hand of the cunning work
auto is still, but his work will endure.
But these reflections do not soothe the
sorrow that fill our hearts as we stand
in the pale presence of dea.th. For
every man feels that a great grief has
reached to his own heart. The leader
can be spared and God will raise up
another; but the man who loved so well
can nevor come back to us.
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THE PRORIBITIOAT DELEGAT-
ION.
As was to be expected, a very large
Delegation from various Temperance
Societies and religious bodies waited on.
members of the Cabinet at Ottawa last
week, for the purpose of pressing their
claims in support of prohibitory legis-
lation. The Premier lihnself was con-
fined to his room from a severe cold,
but the members of the delegation were
cordially receiyed by Hon. Mr. Bowell,
Minister of Customs, and by Hon. Mr.
Foster, Minister of Finance. A gocd
deal of time was occupied in discuss-
ing the reasons alleged for urging im-
mediate prohibition. in terms of the
resolution already before the House, as
tabled by Mr. Jamieson, M. P. Much
stress was laid by the delegates on the'
numerous and largele signed petitions
which had been presented in the House
of Commons during the present session,
And no doubt the meet strenuous eff-
orts have been made, chiefly through
the Dominion Alliance, to persuade
parliament that the people are general-
ly in fayor of a prohibitory law. But
whether those petitions are to be re
garded as voicing the most thought-
ful and intelligent portion of the com-
munists may well admit of a doubt.
Many highly educated people, who
have no sinister object to serve—polit-
ical, commercial, Or otherwise—enter-
tain strongly the opinion that the pro-
hibition is but illogical. and nnscrip-
tural; that parliament has no right to
dictate what a than shall eat, drink, or
wear; that the British Constitution is
very „jealous of interfering with British
liberty.; and that were 'Such an enact-
ment passed as the total prchibition of
the manufactiire, sale, and use of ard-
ent liquors, it could not in a country
like Canada—which bas a coast line of
between 4000 and 5000. miles, and a
country to the south of us where liquor
flows freely in all directions—it is con-
tended, we say, by many intelligent
and thoughtful people that prohibition
is unpracticable and could not be en -
'forced. It is a difficult problem any'
way. The great evils of intemperance
are patent to all But is prohibition
going to cure those evils? Again—it
has been contended by some that three-
fourths of the crime committed in the
world is the direct result of intoxicat
ion. We doubt this statement. From
what we know of the history of those
nations where liquor is freely used,
crime is not so common Or frequent as
in some other nati0119. Speaking of
Canada, there is good reason for assert-
ing that most 'of the terrible crimes
committed are the result not of intoxi-
cation, but of.animal lust, and fierce
passion and base cruelty and an over-
powering demoniacal love of mon-
ey. No amount of prohibitory legis-
lation will make men moral or sober.
Should the .manufacture and o sale of
spirituous liquors be totally proldbi-
ed, what guarantee have we that men
who have a strong passion to indulge
will not resort to the use of ether, or
the use of absinthe, as on the conti
nent of Europe? An eminent British
divine once said that "lie would rather
see England a free nation than a sober
nation”;—and certainly if by legislat-
ive enactment men's freedom is to he
restrained, or curtailed, there is no
telling how 2ftr they may go in the di
rection of insobriety, immortality and
crime. In replying to the delegation,
both Cabinet members Messrs. Bowel]
and Foster, expressed the grave diffi
culties that lav in the way of prohibit
ion, --not the lease of which Would be
how to raise the ;given and a half mil-
lion dollars revenue, presently realized
from that source, except it be by di-
rect taxation, Were the people pre-
pated for this? Would they staid by
an, the consequences? ' Was parliament
ready, 'Without a plebiscite, to vcee like many other Grit statements, The
compensation for all the monies alrea-
dy invested in distilleries and public
licensed houses? However, the whole
question will come up for discussion in
parliament during the present week,
when the sense of the House will be
taken by a vote which ought certainly
to be divested of all personal and po.
litical considerations,
NATIONAL INDEBTEDNESS.
We are indebted to tne Empire for
statistics regarding the indebtedness
of different nations, as lately furnished
to the Bureau at Washington. It is of
interest to. Canadians to compare the
obligations resting upon other coun
tries, owing to debts contracted on ac-
count of war or from the construction
of necessary public works, with the ex-
tent of our liabilities in the Dominion
of Canada. The statistical tables fur.
nished are returns published by au-
thority, and are therefore perfectly re-
liable. First of all, we have as the
result of those published returns, for
the last ten years—ie. from 1880 to
1890—the debt per capital of Austria
$70; Germany, $40; Italy, $76; and
France, 160 per head of population.
Then, we have anotheetable or list of
indebtedness for strictly progressive
developraent, so far as the colonies oe
Australia are eoncerned,—showing that,
in the face of all the mournful repre-
sentations made of the heavy debt un-
der which Canada is staggering, we
are a highly favored people; and that,
considering our greater resources and
means of varied productions, as com-
pared with the Australian colonies, our
present indebtedness is after all so light
as not to cause any serious alarm to
those who are really anxioasjto see our
country take its proper place among
the nations of the world. Now, let us
for a moment look squarely at the
facts—as these are presented to us by
the blue books of our sister colonies—
and then we just ask our readers whe
ther there i$ cause for the alarm and
the outcry raised by certain political
pessimists. We shall W -trouble our
readers with a lengthy or tedious ar-
rny of figures, but simply give them
the result per capita of the present in-
debtedness of the Australian colonies.
We may state in general terms, how
ever, that during the last ten years—
taking all the colonies of Australia to-
gether—their delegations foienecessary.
public works and improveMents have
risen over $400,000,000 in exce.ss of
the previoes decade! In other words,
the present indebtedness per capita of
our sister colonies in the Southern
hemisphere stands thus: New South
Wales, $215; New Zealand, $298; South
Australia, e321; Western Australia.
$150; and soforth. Thus while their
total indebtedeess has increased during
ten years $100 per head, our own Ca-
nadian indebtedness has increased on.
ly $7 per head! Our present total in.
debteclness is $49 per head.—the inter.
est of which is a mere bagatelle! Now,
What have they to show for the present
national debt of Canada? We have,
besides the great canals and otherpub
lie works so necessary to the develop
ment and progress of this country, the
gigantic undertaking of the Canadian
Pad& Railsvay—which now coin
mends the admiration of the world as
a great national undertaking, which
has not only opened up untold resour-
ces in mining and agriculture, but
which forms the nearest route of com-
munication between Europe and the
Orient, bringing Liverpool, Eng., with-
in twenty•one days days of China and
Japan. If country could only rise su
perior to party, and patriotism take
the place of peseimism, this Dominion
of Canada would take (as she is entit
led to do) a first rank among the nat-
ions of the world,
11•010...irc=nra.pormstImreclard..
THE POPULAR MAJORITY.
The Grits have come to grief again,
through counting their chickens before
they were, hatched. Ever since the
general elretion they have been claim-
ingthat although the Government had
a "slight" majority in the House, the
popular majority was against it, and
that had it not been for the "gerry
mander," it would have been defeated.
A few days ago the official returns of
the last general election were, laid on
the tube of the House, and from them
it, appears the Government had a ma-
jority of the popular vote in every
Province but one, Prince Edward Is-
land, and that the total net majority
in its favor was no less than 22,843.
Even in the Provine of Quebec wnere
the, Opposition has a small Majority in
theeHouse the popular vote was heavy
against it. The cry that the Commer-
cial Union lead bad received the en-
dersement of the people is therefore
shown to have no foundation in fact --
following is the majorities by
incest
Liberal.
Ontario. . • •
Quebec ,
Nova Scotia
NewBrunswick......
Prince Edward Island. 537
British Columbia„ .
Manitoba.
The Territories,.
Provin.
Conser-
vative
734
3,855
4,441
6,799
2,453
1,425
3,173
Totals............ 537 22,880
Net Conservative majority. .... .22,343
The death is announced of Professor
Charles William.Naegeli, the German
botanist, and, of Joseph Romnanille, the
provincial poet,
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said estate among the par ties entitled there-
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thereof distributed to any -person or persons
of whose claim notice shall not have been
received at the time of such distribution.
ELLIOT & ELLIOT,
Solicitors for Administrators
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