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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-11-8, Page 4THE 45zeterbriticate, Chas, H, Sanders, Editor and Prop, THURSDAY November 7th 1896 OL44NG.L:/i With this issue the management of the ADVOOATla Chan ereS. The publishing: firm of Sanders and Dyer is dissolved and Chas. IL Sanders becomes sole editor and proprietor of the Exeter APvouATn. In making this partial change of own airship we wish to clistieetly emphasise' the fact that there is no change in the work, aspirations and principles of the ,journal, and locally the Anvownen is as it was. The editor, who with this number assumes sale ownership, thanks the public for the support he has received at their heeds as a member of the firm so lou„•, Brought up in the midst of the com- munity upunwhich he rehes for sup- port, his hope is that until the end he may be worthy of the eoutideuce so gen- erously given for years gone by. To supply healthy news, to advance mor- ality, to bring seller and buyer to. gether for the best interests of both and to be the mouthpiece of good men and good principles, will still be the aim of the young man who now appeals for a continuance of confidence uuspariugly ?elven heretofore. Briefly, for this is a time when brevity is demanded, we say a few words before closing this ini- tial article, Politically we hold the principles of the Liberal Conservative party, but think that no greater mistake is made by a local paper to continually hammer its party politics Into the comparatively small community in which It circulates. We in the lesser towns all follow the 3ead of the great city dailies, and as the source from which our common hi- spiration is drawn, is open to all and read by all interested, we intend to leave largely discussion to them, but -when an election is on in the ridings of Huron and Middlesex, we shall have our say from beginning to finish, In point of news, by observing eye and listening ear, as well as by the as sis.ancc of a state of clever correspond. ants we shall endeavour to i:eep our readers fully posted and up to date Business men shall have our support and young men who make themselves useful by advancing public interest in healthy sports shall have full encour- agement from us. Religious and moral institut pns- we shall try to advance in the strongest way and if, as it sometimes happens, we find it necessary to publish items of crime and wrongdoing, it shall be printed in the way we think best cal- culated to make the community hate and abhor the evil, not to feed an un- healthy curiosity. All men who wish to advance the town shall find us upon their side. When Reeve and Council are working in Exeter's interest, we ask them to make our columns a part of their working tools, For we have a pretty little town. We have a contented, in- dustrious and happy population. We have clever children being educated in our midst -minds shaping themselves for the honor and advancement of our common Canada. Our business and professional men, as well as our me- chanics, are the peers of all they meet. To make this record better if possible and to publish a paper for a contented and happy people will be the object of the Exeter ADVOCATE. Help this by swelling the list of our subscribers, forward this by using our advertising columns, and both journal and readers will go in a work that bears the name of the public good. VALEDICTORY. All lines of business pursuits in this world are subject to various changes and vicissitudes and the newspaper man is no exception to the rule. This week we let go our grip on the me• ihanieal work of the ADVoOATE—Mr. Sanders assuming full control. It is now three years that we have been eonneeted with the office and the amount of unsolicited patronage extevcled is that which very few country offices are enjoying. Whether the ADvocATn readers have°noticed any improvement in the nulls columns metier the hate firm,. we cauuot say, but this we do know, and that is, from three to five columns mole reading matter of local and coin ry news 18 "Set up" in the AnvoneTee •onto-, at the present time than was done awe yeairs ago, and the continued good management of Mr. Sanders in the ed- itorial and local peen "columns is bound to keep the ADVOCAT1,7 in the Ilir,; of progress and prosperity. While making this farewell we hope that the poi' patronage ill continue and in- eitclisri with Mr. Sanders anti items of siert t., kitfws will also increase. SUE IS • 1 POLZTJQIAY. A lady in Western Ontario, writing to a contemporary ou the trade question clearly proves, in a very spicy manner that she at least . thoroughly under- stands the practical side of the subject on which she writes, After saying that she "is a Grit's wife, but is sick of seeing such lies in newspapers whose editors. claim not to be fools," she adds Now don't this fool Grit who edits the London 4derti,er know, or can't his wife tell bite that everything a woman wears costs less than it did before the National Policy was adopted? Calico is 6 scents per yard; it used to be 15 cents. A good summer silk costa from 80 to 40 cents. a yard; it use to cost a dollar, .Sugar is four cents a pound that used to cost 10 cents. Tea is from 80 to 40 cents a pound that used to cost from 75 cents to a dollar. Ribbons are half the old priee,stockings the satire, and jerseys, since they are making them iu the country, cost half as much as when they used to be Ian ported. Ladies' things are all clown. We ladies know that Grit husbands can lie to each other, but they can't lie to us. We women are not fools, Let the Advertiser man stick to men's things when he lies, and not try to lie about women's . things. We won't stand it. I'm a Grit woman but I don't want any lying to keep the party up THE FREE LIST AND THE REA- SON. FOR 17'. The present Canadian Tariff Act puts upon the free list very nearly one hall of all the articles imported (last year 850,000,000 worth out of the total importation of $113,000,000 were free), while doing the "Reform" regime only thirty-four per cent. of the total impor- tation was free, and this included over 00 0 f agricultural products 814,000, 0 z, p which at that time were admitted free to the great detriment of our farmers. If we deduce this $14,000,000 of free agricultural products from the total im- portation. of free goods in 1878 we have only about $16,000,000 left against $50,000,000 of free goods im- ported last year under the N. P. The principle of Protection is this : Any article (except luxuries which are used only by the rich) which we do not and cannot raise, or produce with profit in this country, but which are necessary in the common household economy of the masses of the people, such as tea, coffee, &c., covering as we have said. above; very nearly one ball,of-alb the articles we import, we let in free of duty; but upon all articles we do not raise or produce here, and in the pro- duction of which our workingmen are obliged to compete with cheap foreign labor, we place a duty large enough to cover the difference between the low wages of foreign laborers and the high- er wages of Canadian laborers, in order that the wages of our own workmen may not be reduced. We also lay heavy duties on luxeries (nearly twice as heavy as the Grits did) such as coat ly furs, cloths, etc., which only the wealthy can afford; for the reason (that if they indulge in such expensive, for- eign productions, they should contrib• ute largely towards paying the expen- ses of the Government that grants them such exclusive privileges. EDITORIAL NOTES. The Toronto News says: The govern- ment at Ottawa has broken another pledge. The'Liberal press should see that it is properly and promptly rebut- ted. Mr. Foster in his budget speech solemnly promised a deficit of $4,500- 000, and now the best he can do is a paltry four millions. Even Sir Richard Cartwright could get a bigger deficit than that every time without any trouble. "With me protection isconviction.e nota theory. I believe. in it and warm- ly advocate it, because enveloped in it are my country's highest development and greatest prosperity; out of it comes the greatest gains to the people, the greatest comforts to the masses, the widest eucoura,;'ement for manly as- pirations, the best and largest rewards fur honest efforts, and a dignifying and elevating citizenship, upon which the safety and purity and per(naneney of our political systems depend•"—Wm. McKinley, Gov. of 011ie. The Hamilton Herald, Independent in politics, says. Mr. Laurier's idea now that we cannot have Free Trade as they have it in England, but that we ought .o be able to get on a Free Treacle dicker with the people in the next door republic, It world puzzle a bloodhound to keep track of hir. Laur. ler's footsteps on the trade question. A year ago, Free Trude as they have it in England was all the cry, but now the old reciprocity flag is waving aloft once more. fl.is policy changes with the Seasoris, SE\TE\ CED. S,iortis to be Hanged on January 3. HIS HONOR'S REMARKS. Prisoner, Counsel and Court Acknowl- edge Courtesies—The Jury's Deliber• ations—Mr. and Mrs, Shortis I11. Peauharnais,Nov. 4,—Judge Mathieu this morning sentenced the prisoner Shortis to be hanged on January 3 at 8 a.m. As early as 8 o'clock the crowds be- gan to gather in the neighborhood of the court house, and immediately on the opening of court' it was filled to overflowing. As soon as Judge Mathieu took his seat the prisoner was brought in. With the same sprightly step and jaunty air, even more noticeable than before, he marched between the guards. to the bar at which the was to be sen- tenced to death. Mr. MacMaster, Mr. L'aurendeau and the three counsel for the defence, Messrs, Greenshields, St. Pierre and Foster, were early in court, but Mr. Shortie, the prisoner's father, was absent for the first time since the trial opened five weeks ago. Shortie glanced at his counsel, and then, nodding to those around the press table, he tossed The Globe reporter what he called "souvenirs from Bertie Shortis." He remained standing, and never took his eyes off the Judge. Mr. MacMaster arose and said: ---"I now beg to move for sentence of the court on the prisoner." The Clerk of the Crown—Prisoner, you are indicted, tried. and convicted for the murder of John Loy on the. 1st cf March last. Have you anything to of- fer why sentence of death should not be pronounced against you, according to law? if you have you must offer it now, and you shall be heard." The prisoner replied, in clear tones:— "No, thank you." His I-lunor, with the black cap upon his head, spoke as follows:—"Francis Valentine Cuthbert Shortis, you have been accused of having murdered John Loy on the lit of March last. To that accusation you have pleaded that you were not guilty. Your ground 4,f de- fence was that at the time you murder- ed Loy you were laboring under natural imbecility and disease of mind to such an extent as to render you incapable of .appreciating the nature and quality of that act, and of knowing that such act was wrong. Twelve honest men have been sworn to try your case, and, after a month's close attention and re- flection, and after you have been most ably defended by able, eminent and learned counsel. they have returned a verdict of guilty, declaring' thereby that your plea of insanity has not been proved. It is now over eight months since you have killed Loy; it has taken eight months for the justice of the coun- try to declare in your case that he who commits murder shall be punished. Still the jurors have paused and reflected a long time betare bringing td you the just reward of your most atrocious crime. The law says that he who com- mits murder shall, after conviction, be sentenced to death. It es witQt the deep- est sorrow that 1 rem obliged' to -day to pronounce the sentence of the law. .A. father will easily understand the blew that this sentence will give to your father, and a son who had a' goad father will share to a certain went' the grief that cannot be expressed irf your good father, even when he. is bound to be the instrument of the in- exorable justice that must punish and cannot forgive. I am bound to -day to pronounce the sentence which the law pronounces in your case." Here his Honor apparently almost choked with emotion, and, in a trembling voice, he continued :— "The sentence of the court of our sovereign lady the Queen sitting now here is' that you, Francis Valentine Cuthbert Shortis, be taken to the common jail of this district of Beauharnois, and there kept in custody until the third day of Jan- uary next at 8 o'clock 3n the morning, where you will be taken from the jail and conducted to the place of execu- tion. and there you shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead ; and may God have mercy on your soul." Not a muscle of Shortis' face moved, and, as his Honor concluded, the pri- soner, in a calm, clear voice, said :—"I wish to thank you, my Lord, for the kindness and oonsideration you have shown to me, and which all the people connected with this honorable court have given me whilst I have been here." It was all over in just seven minutes from the time the Judge took his seat upon the bench. Shortis, was led from the court room under sentence to be hanged in just two months' time. He was taken to his cell with a smile upon his face, and in five minutes' time was carelessly glancing over some sheets of music. Judge Mathieu thanked the counsel on each side for the manner in which they had conducted the case, stating that, painful though a murder trial al- ways is. this would remain a cherished judicial reminiscence. The counsel thanked his Honor, and the fall term of the Court of Queen's Bench for the district of Beauharnois had reached its close. The only hope of saving Shortis from the scaffold is that a petition to the Minister of Justice for clemency will be favorably received. Had there e been the slightest reason for an ap- peal on disputed points the defence would have accepted the chance. But Judge Mathieu conceded every paint asked for by Mr. Greenshields and thus no hope remains for pardon. Before a ballot was taken the jury- men discussed the various phases of the case, and though none of them for a moment proposed a verdict favor- able to the prisoner, several of the 8 n- glish-speaking members threshed out a few questions, and. Juryman Finney suggested that if a verdict of guilty was returned a recommendation to mercy should be sent in. He was semi shown the folly of this, and the ballot was taken in leas than an hour after they retired, the unanimous ver- dict being that the prisoner was guilty and was responsible for hisaction. Mr.. and Mrs. Shortie are very i11 to- day. The heart -broken mother has broken down entirely, and some of those whp are attending her as she comes from one swoon only to relapse into another express the belief that she will die long before her wayward son. Mr. Shortie is bowed down with grief and cannot leave his room. American Commissioners Appointed. Washington, Nov: 4.—Um der author- lty of the act of Congress providing for a joint Canadian and United States comrnleion to inquire into and report on the feasibility of establish- tag deep waterways between the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean, the President to -day appointed James f3, Angell of Michigan, John_kP, Russell of Ma.eachuaetts, and • Lyiiian G. Cooley of Uiiriolta au American cern- 14116ulonei'i. Post Office Statistics, The following figures show the in- erease in the postal 'business for the Dominion of Canada between the years 18178 and 1894:— 1878 1894 Number of post oflces , , . , , . 5,878 8,664 Miles of post route 41,284 64,072 Letters posted .. 44,000,Q0Q 107,145,000 Total post cards. 6,455,000 23,695,000 Letters registered 1,980,000 .3,287,200 Newspapers and periodicals, 33,483,672 68,193,181 Reyen ne.... .$1;6210,022 $3,734,418 Nutnbei'of money orders,.., 269,417 1,052,410 Value of money orders.... .. , .$7,130,895 $13,245,990 The ant providing a sentence of two yeare for persons convicted of being drunk more than twice a year, which *as originated by Police Justice Whe- lan, of Detroit, will go into effect all over the state of Michigan, the enact mein of the last legislature to that ef• feet having been sent out by the sacra tary'of state, The law is intended to apply to cases of habitual drunkenness and its success iu Detroit attracted the attention of the state board of chari• ties and corrections. hereafter magis- trates will be obliged to keep a record of alt drunks and disorderlies brought before them and when it is known that the person has been twice couvicted in the one year he must be bound to a higher court, where, upon conviction, he may receive a sentence of two years. 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