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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-4-5, Page 4THE ties after this year, so as meautilne to # a encourage home mauutacture-giving a ..Cr troo.cate, I scale of *nodified taxation for five years SANDERS es DYER, ''Prop. rIIIURSDAY, APRIL 5th, 1894 'THE BUDGET SPEECH. On presenting to Parliament his budget speech, the lion. G, E. Foster, Minister of Finance, occupied nearly live hours—in the course of which he reviewed the effects of the National Policy during the fourteen or fifteen years since its inception,—contrasting in boldfigures the present prosperity of Canada, its increasing trade and fi- nancial surplus, with the depressed condition of our country in 1878-79 as evidenced by its limited trade and rol- ling up deficits, It would be quite im- possible to do full justice to the]i'inance Minister's able and eloquent array of statistics; but for the sake of our read- ers, who may not be favored with a copy of the budget speech in extensor we glean a few of the more salient points in what we regard as one of the most 'important financial statements ever delivered on the floor of parlia- ment, The old state arguments against the National Policy were effec- tively answered and disposed of by the Hon. Mr. Foster, in his usual clear and incisive manner, by exhibiting the enormous impetus given to home in- dustries and native manufactures; and as a result of the National Policy, in the encouragement given to our own people to remain within our borders where they enjoy peace and a fair measure of prosperity as compared with other countries, and particularly the neighboring republic. Take as an illustration this one. fact—whereas, in 1878, the savings of the people were, represented in government and other banks by 587,000,000,—there were on the 28th of February 1894, to the credit of the people the sum of $242,- 645,358! Then as to the tariff, it was shown that taken as a whole our duties were remarkably moderate compared with other protected countries—not ex- ceeding on an average up to the pres ent time 17i per cent. Many of our imports which enter into daily con- sumption have long been admitted free -such as tea, coffee, sugar, ' &c.—on which millions of dollars have been an- nually saved to the people. The prin ciple on which the Liberal Conserva- ative government has proceeded in the past, and will continue to act in the fu- ture, has been to tax luxuries—and to reduce or admit wholly free from tax- ation the necessaries of life;—while, to encourage home industry and home competition, a necessary duty was laid, on goods imported from abroad which can be raised or manufactured at home, To show the different state of things under the former regime of 187S and that since the introduction of the National Poliey,—the Liberals when in power taxed our tea at five and six cents per lb;—whereas under the N. P that has been taken off; coffee they taxed at two and three cents per lb., where under the N. P. that tax was re- moved; on anthracite coal the tax at the beginning of the N. P. was fifty cents per ton; which was taken off in 1887 and has been free ever since; three years ago the duty on raw sugar was wholly remitted; coal oil duty has been reduced one half; and so of many oth- er articles, But the charges now proposed in the modification of the present tariff will still further benefit the great bulk of our people, and it will be especially gratifying to the farming com- munity to be informed that, while the present goverment have all along shown solicitude for the agricultural interests, in conserving for them the home market and opening up channels for exporting farm products to Great Britain and foreign countries, the new tariff now submitted to parliament pro- vides for further lightening the burthen of taxation so far as the farming coin- munity are concerned. By the new tariff, farm products are still to be pro- tected—while certain changes have been made such as reducing live ani mals from 30 to 20 per cent; live hogs Loin 2 cents per lb. to 25 per cent; fresh mutton from 3 to 2 cents per lb; canned meats, to 25 per cent ad valorem; and with regard to grains and certain other products, such as buckwheat, rye flour, beans, peas, hay, potatoes, ap- ples and vegetables, while the duty on . these are left very much as before, pro vision is made in the new tariff for ad- mitting all those products free from any country, that will impose no duty on such products going from Canada. Thus the offer of reciprocity is held out by the government to the United States, or any other country, that feels disposed to treat with us on freer terms of interchange of commodities. On the article of iron, the government propose a prospective reduction of du' to come. An itnportuiit reduction has been made on agricultural implements by which a cut of nearly' one half in the duty is proposed. This will tell in the next general election, as also the statement made by members of Opposi- tion that the government has "stolen their clothes"! It will be seen from the above mea- gre and imperfect sketch of the budget speech by the Finance Minister, that while the new tarriff will prove a re- lief to the tax bearing portion of the community—and particularly to the farming population—the ground on which the present government, and the Liberal Conservative party, have de cided to take their stand in the inter- ests of Canada is the principle of a moderate protection, such as will main- tain financial integrity and at the same time yield to the demands of the people by modifying the tariff from time to time "according to the circum- cumstances of iudustry and the condi- tions of business and trade at the pres- ent time." News of' the Week in Brief. The weavere of en ]pill have gene on sheik a algae stCatt10 A cut aggregating about 20 per cert ti .in the wages of the Wabash conductors, per emit . k nn. reser, FRIDAY 11laareli 30th. Hood's Sarsaparilla is absolutely un- equalled as a blood purifier and strengthening medicine. It is the ide al spring medicine, Try it. North Hastings, Conservatives met at Madoc yest rday and nominated Mr. A. F. Wood for the Legislature and Mr. A. F. Carscaelen, for the Commons. John Wilts' residence at McKendree, W. Va., was burned yesterday morning. His eight children and Miss Mollie Hem rick, servant, were burned to death. The house of Earnest Pietz, four miles east of Port Colborne, was burned on Wednesday night, and a fifteen - year -old hired boy, named unknown, was burned to death. It is now announced that Prender gest, who assassinated Mayor Harrison of Chicago, will be hanged on April 6. He is now kept in a dungeon owing to his haying become violent. Minnesota had another teriffic snow storm yesterday, withdrifts from two to ten feet deep. A man named Her shaw perished within 80 yards of his own house, and Frank Miller also was frozen to death half a mile from his home. At the next communion service in Central P resbyterian church, Roches ter, N. Y., 2,000 wine glasses will be used for the distribution of the wine. The management is of the opinion that the common chalice conveys disease germs from one communicant to an- other. SATURDAY, March 31st. Jane G, Austen, the authoress, died of Boston yesterday. Dun & Co. report 30 failuies in Can- ada the past week. Judge McGibbon held his first court in Brampton on Thursday. Campbellford is to have a new paper mill built at a cost of $350,000. W. G. Nelles, postmaster and town- ship clerk, is missing from Burlington, Ont. The license holders of Haldimand County organized an association at Cayuga yesterday. During the summer the agitation in Toronto for social reforms will be kept up by sermons in the churches. Charles Braithwaite, President of the Manitoba Patrons of Industry, says the new tariff is an "as you were" one. West Lambton Conservatives met at Sarnia yesterday and decided not to nominate a candidate for the Legisla- ture. A convention of the Liberals of the South Riding of Lanark will be held in the Town IIall, Perth, on Tuesday,loth April, to nominate a candidate for the Legislature. Sandy McDuff, who escaped after helping to murder Wilson Holton, an old hermit, near Tilbury Centre six years, has just been found guilty' of another murder in Gladwin, Mich, It is said that Miss Odette Tyler, who 's to marry Howard Gould, third son of the late Jay Gould, was for five weeks a pupil in the convent at Guelph, Ont. The young lady was then 12 years old. Fishery Overseer Clarke, of Belleville• has been instructed not to issue any licenses for seines in his division this year. Prof, J. Calloway, president of the Douglasville, Ga , College, committed suicide ou Saturday by shooting him- sell it, the heart. At Brockville jail on Saturday morn- ing a man named Covill, confined as a lunatic, snatched a razor from a fellow prisoner who was shaving and killed himself. Some uuiscreant threw a 25 pound keg of blasting powder, with fuse. at- tached, into the office of the News at Tweed, Ont., ou Saturday night, but the fuse became extinguished and the scheme failed, A Welland despatch announces that theForks Road Association. Patrons o Industry, have asserted their indepen- dence and their disapproval of the reso- lution adopted at the recent meeting of the Grand Association in Toronto. Halifax society is all agog because the Governor General has taken Maple- wood, on the North-West Arm, and will, with the Countess of Aberdeen and a suit of 40 people, occupy the beautiful residence during the sum- mer. A beastly fellow known as' Jack the Spitter" was fined. $100 and sent to the workhouse 'for four months at Indian• apolis on Saturday. His practice was to follow ladies and ruin their dresses by spitting tobacco juice on them. The sale of the entire herd of short- horn cattle of Bow Park Farm will, ac- cording to announcement, take place Oil April 25 and a large catalogue of splendid pedigreed animals will be put up at auction. With Inverness to hear from, the Nova Scotia plebiscite returns are as follows:—Votes. east, 52,878'; against prohibition, 11,419; for prohibition, 41,- 459, About 85 per centof the elector ate voted on the question. ' Laidlaw, the man who was injured in Russell Sage's office when the crank assailed Mr. Sage a' year or so ago with dynamite, and who claim ed that Mr. Sage used him (Laidlaw) as a shield, has secured a verdict for $25,000 damages. Mr. Sage's lawyers will appeal. 1 iori unit April 2n& Richard Gough died in London, Ont. yesterday aged 95 years. The Liberals of South Brant on Sat- day renominated Hon, A. S. Hardy, Earnest Mann,' bigamist, has been sentenced in Stratford to two years in Penitentiary: The 13th Battalion, Hamilton, has accepted an invitation to visit Galt on Queen's Birthday. Around About Us. Kirkton is to have a new bakery and butcher shop in the near future. A plot among the prisoners of Strat ford jail to escape was discovered a few days ago. W. W. Thompson, Cromarty, form erly of the 7th con., McGillivray, has accepted the Principalship of Campbell ford Public Schools, where he enters on his duties after Easter. The town of Mitchell, which runs the electric light at about $500 shortage annually, is considering the question of increasing the price of subscribers 2 cents a lamp and also putting in an incandescent plant to increase con- sumption. A Blanchard correspondent writes: -- "We are sorry to hear that Master Samuel Crawford, of the 10th line, who a short time ago underwent an opera ation in the London hospital, fur the removal of a tumor from his side, is again laid up, it commencing to grow again, also one on the other side. Sev- eral medical men say they never saw anything like it before." • Joseph Stenzel, a German living near Seaforth, has been committed'.tc' jail at Goderich.. on a charge laid by John McLaughlin, that he committed rape upon his own daughter, `Martha Stenzel, a girl not yet 18 years'of age. The evidence of the girl and her moth- er is to the effect thatthe offence was committed;. three times; and the giri told her mother, who with her told Conte of their neighbors, and NIecaugiilin laid the information; On Saturday afternoon.Judge. Rob; ertson sentenced at Stratford Earnest Mann, convicted of bigamy, to two years in penitentiary. On March 3rd Mann, who tape jewelry peddler, eloped with a daughter of Mr. Bryan, a Ful- lerton farmer, was married in Mitchell and a few days later arrested in Dublin He eloped with his first wife, who is a daughter of Mr, George J. Frost, janitor of Upper Canada College, and to whom he was married in 1889. Mrs. Simmons, living near ,.Odessa, county of Lennox, goes to the woods daily and chops wood and her hasband draws it to Odessa. She is fifty years. of age, smokes a pipe and can do as much work in the woods as the aver• age man. She is usually accompanied by her little son, aged about 10 years, and can fell a tree with the best wood- man. Her husband is eighty years of age, and it keeps Om hustling to market the produce of her brawny arm Last year they lived in Freder- icksburg, and she chopped 70 cords during the winter. On the evening of the 28th inst., an accident happened in the Ogilvie will, which might have cost a young man his hand. While Mr. John Sutherland was attending to his : work about 11 o'clock at night his fingers.got caught in a pulley and if it had not been for the fact that the only other man who was at work happened to be on the same flat and within call, his hand would haye been badly smashed. As it was his companion saved him and he escaped with flesh wounds that will lay him off work for some 'timo. He had bis wounds dressed by' the surg- eon. He is doing well.—Seaforth Sun. engineers, firemen and lirakesmen bas been, ordered. The reduction takes effect May 1st.. Weayers in the employ of the Mon- treal Woollen mills have -gone on strike. The trouble is similar b that at Halifax —the character of the work being so changed as to reduce wages. His Mail is Heavy. Fisheries Inspector Bricltwood gots .Getters from all over the Dominiox, askin g for Particulars about Dodd's Kid neyPills Curing him of Chronic Rheum- atism, .4011. .,.....-.. . Iiingston, April 2.—Enquiry devel- opes the fact that the story of. J. H. Brickwood's wonderful cure of his rheumatism by Dodd's Kidney Pills has brought him notoriety. Mr. Brick - wood daily receives letters from all quarters of Canada asking further particulars about his cure. He invar- iably answers that after all other rem• edies failed; Dodd's, Kidney Pills re- stored him to health. Dodd's was the first kidney remedy in pill ever offered the public. Its Wonderful success in curing all forms 01 kidney disease, has led to the introduction of many cheap. and worthless imitations. Purchasers, for their own safety should insist 00 getting Dodd's Kidney,Pills. Sold in large boxes; price, fifty cents per box, or six boxes for $2.50. To be had of all dealers. Toronto, Ontario. As Well as Ever After Taking Hood's. Sarsaparilla Cured of a Serious Disease. "I was suffering from what is known as Bright's disease for five years, and for.days at a time I have been unable to straighten myself up. I was in bed for three weeks; during that time I hacl leeches applied and derived no bene- fit. Seeing Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised in the papers I decided to try a bottle. I found relief before I had finished taking half of a bot tle. I got so much help from taking the first bottle that I decided to try another, and since taking the second bottle I feel as well as ever I did m my life." GEO. MEhx,ErT, Toronto, Ont. In Dreadful Condition ,Almost a Complete Wreck After the Crip Can Hardly Express Sufficient Crat- ttude to Hood's Sarsaparilla. "C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: "Dear Sirs—I felt it my duty to lot you know the good Hood's Sarsaparilla has done for me. I have been troubled with summer complaint for years, unable to do anything. I tried everything but seemed to get no relief. Then I became a victim of the grip and was left in a dreadful state, so weak I could scarcely work and when I did I wbrked in misery. The doctor said I liadBriglrt's disease. My kidneys were in dreadful condition. I found one of your papers at my door, and ou reading it decided to 400D'S Sarsaparilla CURES give Hood's Sarsaparilla a trial, thinking at the time it was not much use as nothing helped me before. But,. thank God, I got relief after the first bottle. I kept on taking it and used five bottles; am now a cured man; never felt better. I have loudly recommended Hood's Sarsapa- rilla, for I owe my life to it and hope this may be the•'means of leading others to give it a fair trial." JosnuA SMITH, Norwich Ave., Wood- stock, Ontario. Hood's Pills cure liver ills, constipation, jaundice, biliousness, sick headache, indigestion. YouNeedIt! ----n-•- -----Emulsion. IE'V ilt • • • • . CureThatCough, llealYourLungs, 1uitFlesh onYourBones Prevent Consumption. Exeter Luluhiell /IP OA The undersigned wishes to inform the general public that he keeps constantly in stock all kinds of building terial, dressed and un- dressed lumber . B. C. Red, Ontario, High Land and Pine Shingles. Special notice is drawn to B. C. Red Cedar which is acknowledged to be the most durable timber that grows; especially for shing les. 36 to 40 .years. . It is said by those who know, that they will last from 36 to 40 years in any climate. James. Willis LUMBE,R MERCHANT For that Rad Cough of yours e,• ' HIGHLY RECO.MMI NDE0"t9 "' As a,Preventive and Cure of all Throat and Lung Diseases. r. Henry Jones,„.....L. wishes to inform the farming community that he will have for sale the best line of farm implements in Ont. A Carload of Drills just in, also The Giant Cullivaters and Seeder; manufactured by. J. W. Mann, Ce A full assortment of Plows, Sulky Plows, Root Seufers, manufactured by the Cockshute Manufacturing Company of Brantford. • . If you want a Buggy, a Cart, or a Waggon, give us a call: If you want repairing, painting or horse shoeing done in a competent manner, give us a call. No matter how small your order it will be prmptly done If you want the best Steel Wind moter that is made give us a call. . . HENRY JONES, Prop. Shop, opp. Mansion House. 110! a BARGAINS. Atkinson's Furniture Ware - rooms is the cheapest and best place in the County to buy Fur- niture. . . . .• . . 9.00. A first-class Bed -room Suite for only $9 and every- thing else in comparison. All gobds guaranteed to be my own make, of first-class dry material, nothing but best hard lumber used. Lumber and Wood Taken in exchange for Furniture. Wire Mattresses. The only place in town where you can buy the Patent Dominion Nickle-Plated Wire ;Mattress,—war• • ranted not to rust. J.D. Atkinson, .Prop. Furniture? Furniture! I Furniture I ! We have moved back to our old store again and have the finest stock of Parlor, Bedroom and Din- ingroom Furniture in the town, at prices that can- not be beaten. Elegant new bamboo goods just coming in See 'our beautiful new warerooms. We are bound to sell if good goods nicely displayed at very low prices will do it. S. GIDLEY SON, ODD FELLOW'S Block CLOTILI NG Al J. SELL, a ii 1 r EXETER - ONTARIO Has now in stock and Smaer IN THE FOLLOWING LINES:. West of England Suitings and Trou cringe, Scotch Tweed Suitings and Trouser Ings. French and English Worsted Cloth All made up in the Latest Style, at best Bates. J SWELL tt's Livery G. Disse First Class Horses and Rigs. SPECIAL RATES WITH COMMERIAL MEN. Orders left at BissettBros.'Hardware Store, will receive prompt attention. TERMS - REASONABLE A TRIAL SOLICITED. . G. BISSETT Bicycles, . Sewing Machines, Baby Carriaes And Musical k Instruments. We are the only 'am who make a specialty of the above named goods and therefore claim that we can give the people of Exeter. and vicinity, . • Greater Bargains! Greater Choice ! ! Lowest Prices. ! ! ! The latest and newest at- tachments for all our goods can be had by calling at our ware-rooms,—One door north Dr. Lutz's drug store • PERKIWS & flITIW. J. MURRAY & CO„ Wholesrle Manufacturers of Plow points and Casti ngs. Liberal Discounts to Cash Customers. J. Murrey & Co, CHRISTIU LIvE)RY comma) First Class RIO'S And HORSES ORDERS LEFT AT THE HAWK SHAW HOUSE OR AT THE STABLE WILL BE PROMPT LY ATTENDED TO. Telephone Connection