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1(1RIAL IsTOTES,
By bringing the elections on before
1l1SBSI) 1? Q• 9°1;4'185(4 great many of the new voters' lastsare
the masses.
"Nelson expects every' Grit to do his
duty !" This is the battle ery of the Edin-
burgh Nelson who steals x+20,000 yearly
from the people of Ontario by his sehool
book monopoly.
THE SCHOOL 1300K MONOPOLY.
In the year 1880 ta*'fiereo i�iveity exist-
ed in Ontario, between thea nelson, the
(cage and the Canadian l�nblishiNz Co's
series of school readers all of which had
been authorizes) by the Dept. of Educa-
tion. 'Tie pressure brought to bear on
the Ontario Government by Nelson and
his friends to secure the sanction of the
(.xovernzneirt to his readers in preference
to the others, was so great that the Gov -
eminent was put iii a very tight box.
Mr. Ross, the present minister of Edu-
cation, came to the rescue. He con-
ceives the brilliant idea of disallowing
the whole sett, and edits a new series
himself to replace those he disallows.
But in this masterly stroke of statesman-
ship, the publishers of the disallowed
books incur a financial loss as follows :—
Gage & Co., $19,175 ; Nelson, of Scot-
land, and owner of the Toronto Globe,
$25,000 Canada Publishing Co., 831,-
843—or a total of $76,018. This is ac-
cording to Mr. Ross' own statement.
Now these firms had to be re imbursed
for the loss sustained, owing to the bung-
ling of the Government. Was the
amount paid out of the public treasury of
the Province as it should have been ?
No. Mr. Russ, instead of submitting
the printing of the new series, which he
prepared, to public competition, he
grants these three firms the exclusive
right for ten years of publishing the
books at such prices as they aright them-
selves agree upon. This was done to
make good their loss. And what does
this amount to ? Plainly it means an
enormous annual tax, for ten years, on
every parent who has children attending
school. The remedy is within the grasp
of all who wish to accept it, and that
remedy is to support Mr. Swenerton,
who pledges himself to support Mr.
Meredith's platform.
FACTS FOR THE ELECTORS.
Or the eve of the Ontario elections in
1871, Riel having risen in rebellion and
caused the murder of Thomas Scott, Mr.
Blake moved, and every Reformer in the
Ontario Assembly voted for the following
resolution :—
"That the cold blooded murder (for his
outspoken loyalty to the Queen) of Thomas
Scott, lately a resident of this province, and
an immigrant thence to the North-west, has
impressed this house with a deep feeling of
sorrow and indignation, and in the'opinion
of this house every effort should be nude to
bring to trial the perpetrators of this great
crime, who as yet go unwhipt of justice."
Ix January, 1872, having in the inter-
val obtained office in the Province, the
Reformers in the House supported the
following resolution and it wase carried :
"That this house feels bound to express
its regret that no effectual steps have been
taken to brim* to justice the murderers of
Thomas Scott, and is of opinion that some-
thing shonld be done to that end."
Mn. BLAKE, the Premier of the day,
thereupon asked for an appropriation of
$$5,000 to be set as a price upon Riel's
head, and the House granted it to him.
This ends chapter one.
Chapter 2 is brief but remarkably in-
teresting. In 1885, Riel. who had escap-
ed the gallows, instigated another rebel-
lion, which involved the death of a hun-
dred loyalists. Riel also incited the
Indians to rise, and. a dreadful massacre
was the result. He was arrested and
executed, after a trial in which the Crown
showed hila every fair play. Ori Feb. 1,
1886, Mr. White, of Essex, asked the
Ontario Assembly to pass the following
resolution :
"We trust, now that peace, Lias been re-
stored, the supremacy of the law vindicated
and maintained, and just punishment in-
flicted on the principal participants in the
rebellion, it may be found consistent with
the public interest to extend the merciful
consideration of the Crown to the cases of
those who are now undergoing imprisonment
for offences committed during, or arising
out of it."
needs no argument urn, r
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IT cr t to show that if
Riel was worthy of death in 1871 he was
at least equally worthy of it in 1885. Yet,
at the bidding of Mr. Fraser, the Reform
majority°in the Assembly refuses to vote
for Mr. White's motion unless the words
"the supremacy of the law vindicated and
"maintained, and just punishment inflict -
"ed on the participants in the rebellion"
are omitted, that is to say : the Reform
party declines to admit Riel's guilt now,
though it condemned him for a less hein-
ous offence. The explanation of this
amazing change Of attitude, is simple.
1871 Mr. Blake was free to express his
honest convictions; but to -clay he is seek-
ing to profit by the Race . and Revenge
agitation that is being carried on by
Riel's apologists and admirers against the
Tory Cabinet upon which the duty of
suppressing that great criminal devolved..
'Wn refer our readers to the congratu-
revised Ala', Mowat smothers the voles of
WE would like to know what a great ad-
vantage it is to the people of Ontario to have
to pay 25 per cent. of a shave on every
dollar's worth of school books theypurchase
for their child en to that grinding Scotch
monopolist --Nelson, of Edinburgh.
COL. COLEMAN, of Seaforth, who was the
choice of tltelConservative convention, a few
days ago, has, on account of ill health, resign-
ed in favor of Mr. Jas. Swenertou, of Exeter.
Mr. Swenerton has been a life-long Conser-
vative, is a thorough temperance man, and
is well and favorably known throughout
the constituency. Mr. Swenerton is a good
business man, shrude and pushing, and is,
possessed of a mind of his own. We want
a mart who will hold his own at the House.
Tau attempt of the St. Thomas Re
formers to disfranchise the workingmen
of that place whose names have been ad-
ded to the voters' lists under the new
franchise has failed. Monday the Court
of Common Pleas decided that the, action
of the judge in giving notice of the bold-
ing of a court for the purpose of complet-
ing the lists in time for the elections was
perfectly proper. The new electors,
therefore, will be able to exercise their
rights notwithstanding the effort of the
Reformers to deprive them of the privi-
lege.
The Reformers throughout the country
have very little now -a -clays to say against
the tariff. The local managers have at
least realized that the electorate of the
county is solely in favor of protection to
home industry, and the word has been
passed round to say as little as possible
about free trade, so that the N. P.. .Re-
formers may be kept in line. • Some of
the party leaders pretend that their party
would make no serious changes in the
customs duties if they were in power,
and others affirm that they could not if
they would ; but protectionists should
nut be beguiled by these deceitful utter-
ances into supposing that the Reform
trade policy has been changed. Mr.
Blake, leader of the party, in an address
at Charlottetown is reported to have
spoken as follows :—
"Now I believe that free trade is best for
all sections of our community. * * *
You want the freest of productions with
other countries. You want free access to
the markets of the world. What prevents
you having these ? The hand of man de-
bars you by legislation. Your natural
market is the United States ; but by the
laws of both countries, free exchange of
productions is prevented * * * The
people of the United States foolishly be-
lieve protection to be the true business
principle ; but because they believe it to
he for the mutual advantage of the differ-
ent states of the union, is that any reason
for our inflicting upon them and upon our-
selves such a system '"
The fact is very plain that the Grit
leaders are bitterly hostile to the Nation-
al Policy. Let them call their policy
free trade, tariff reform or what they will
the fact is patent that they desire to de-
stroy Canadian industries and drag the
country back into the slough of dispond
out of which it struggled in 1878.
"Tax Reformers never did nor never
will accept any `boodle', " says a party
.exchange. Take as an illustration the
following cases from the public accounts
of Ontario, 1881 2. There was paid of
the people's money to :—
Hon. E. Blake (Including $600 for
clay's work) $6,918 44
tEmilius Irving (formerly member
for Hamilton) 9,904 80
Mr. Hodgins 4,353 42
M. C. Cameron, M. P., Huron,
(rager against Government sub-
sides and garbler of North-west
documents 2,948 00
J. D. Edgar, M. P. for West On-
tario, (Globe director, heir to
Provincial Treasury, Congratu-
lator of Riel in Chambly—To
wit ; "Welcome to our col-
league," aside, "and the cash.") 16,674 00
Here take a few moments to regain
breath.
J. D. Edgar, (the same), who
"Comes up again smiling" and
this time pulls in the enormous
sura of 6,000 00
For a trip to British Columbia
(in 1874-6 ; see Dominion public
account) which nearly drove the
Columbia;ns out of ,Confedera-
tion. Alas ! Edgar comes high.
G. W. Ross, Minister of Educa-
tion and Guardian of Nelson &
Co., (school book publishers),
and chief controllers of the
Globe, . ... 6,199 17
B. M. Britton, Kingston, general
touter and defeated candidate7,230 00
Hon. David Mills. M. P., cham-
pion purist lawyer, statesman
and editor of the London Adver. k:
tier, the newspaper that attacks
Mn Macmaster, most religious-
ly and quoted by the Cornwall
Free-lkar-
1882---In the year of Oliver's reign
David, (not the psalmist, but
the purist), boodlecl of the
people's money... 3,410 00
Ditto, in 1884 (Ah, David)..., 4,300 00
Ditto, in 1885, balance of boedlc
for discovering three different
sets of boundaries for
Ontario ! Ontario I
The purists' hand 15 on thy purse,
Ontario 1 Ontario !
300 00
Grand total for David........ 8,010 00
iCernwall Glietrgar(an.
latory telegram in another column, sent
by 0. Mowat to Mr. Mercier, the leader
of the Riel party, in Quebec, and also
would remind them, that Pacaud, 14Ir.
Mowat's candidate in North Essex anti
sessional clerk in the Assembly, said that
the volunteers who went to the North-
west assassinated the wounded metis,
insulted the women, burned and pillaged
their houses. What do those Reformers,
who are not blinded by politics, think of
the conduct of the party -leaders in sym-
pathising with rebellionand murder? We
have more faith in the loyalty of the rank
and file of the Reform parry than to be-
lieve that they will countenance Mr.
Mowat's conduct by granting hien a fresh
lease of power. Remember boat this
election will decide whether or not the
Anglo Saxon or the French Race will.
govern the Dominion at large There-
fore let every elector record his vote fe.i'
Mr. James Swenerton, who is an advo-
cate of one law for all, irroxpcctivc cif
fiationality or croon,
W1UiRE THE BOODLE" GOES,
Mu. Blake thew 8000 from the Oix-
tario,Treasury for a' single day's atteu-
dogee at the Supreme O.
1\'A'. Mills received 81,80.0 per day
on the boundary question ease before the
Privy Council.
Mr. L. H. Davis' little bill for attend -
lug the fishery arbitration only amounted
to $15,000. which was at the rate of $47,-
50 per hour
Mr, 3, D. Edgar was the fortunate
possessor of 88,000 on his return from a
happy, pleasant trip to the Yellowstone
Park and British Columbia.
Mr. Nelson, of the Toronto Globe,
gets a yearly suns of $14,000 fob• furnish-
ing Ontario school books at exorbitant
rates.
MR. MOWAT, APPARENTLY BE-
LIEVES IN FRENCH DENOMIN-
ATION.
After the recent election in Quebec,
the following telegram was sent by Hon.
Oliver Mowat, Premier of Ontario, to
Hon. H. Mercier, leader of the combined
Rouge and National forces, Mr. Mowat,
supposing at the time, as nearly every
one else did, that there was 110 doubt of
the triumph of the Rielite element at the
Polls :— ►'
To the Hon. H. Mercier, 111. P. P., Berri St.
"Penetanguishene, Ont., Oct. 16.
"Have just received here the joyful news
of your great triumph. I congratulate you
and all youe friends on your important vic-
tory ; may your premiership be a long one,
and full of advantage to your Province and
Dominion, and of honer to yourself.
"0. MOWAT,
"Prime Minister of Ontario."
Mr. Mercier, returns this support as
follows :—
"I thank you one and all, but must refer
to the contest that has just been opened in
Ontario. Our friends up there have invited
some of our best speakers to go amongst our
compatriots of that Province, and I sincerly
hope that a number of the young men of the
Club -National will respond to the appeal.
Mr. Weldon, the leader of the Liberals in
New Brunswick, has also asked for two to
speak amongst the brave Acadian popula-
tion of that Province. This will be a splen-
did mission, and those who take an active
part therein will have the proud satisfaction
of having contributed to the coming victories
of Oliver Mowat and Edward Blake."
It is to be regretted that Mr. Mowat
PROGRESSIVE
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'1'o the J+(eotors of tlaa South .Iticting of
C1r�NTz,siscs. f any the Neamnee of the
Liberal Conservative Convention of the
South Riding of Huron for a seat in the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The olee-
tions take place on the 28th ilei., and 1
respectfully solicit your roto and influence
on the following grounds
4111 opposed to the Mowat Govern-
ment on its educational policy, in separatin
our .Educational interests from all politica
infiuenees; 1 favor a non-political head,
rather than aL "'Minister of Education, '
2.—I condemn the School Boole monopoly
by which the parents of this Proyanee are
co'npelled to eontributo large sums to the
i political favorites of the present Admini-
stration.
3.--1 oppose the Centralization policy of
the present Government. I believe in the
extension of the Municipal powers, rather
than their curtailment. The present system
is a fruitful source of coercion and corrup-
tion.
t. --I will judge every question on its own
Merits, no matter by who promulgated.
5.-1 will try and maintain the strictest
religious equality in all public affairs—my
motto being, one law for all.
6.—I will work for greater economy in
the administration of all public affairs.
7.—I am opposed to the present irrespon-
sible system of disposing of our Crown
lands,
8.—I believe in absolute secrecy of the
ballot. The present Ontario ballot is not
secret.
9.-1 have been for thirty years a consis-
tent temperance man, and aux in favor of
progressive temperance legislation. With
Mr. Meredith, I believe that it is the duty
of the Government to enforce the Canada
Temperance Act, wherever it has been
adopted by the people.
I have the honor to be, gentlemen,
Your Obedient Servant.
JAMES SWENERTON.
Exeter, Dec. 8, 18S6.
P. S.—As the time is so short, I shall not
be able to see you all personally, but will
endeavor to see as many of you as possible.
J. S.
should have sent any such telegram to
Mr. Mercier. The contest from which
that gentleman has emerged apparently
in triumph was one of the importance of
which has seldom been equalled in any
country. It was a fight between law and
order on the one side and French-Canadian
nativism race predominance on the other.
It was an attempt by one section of
people to sdbyert British law in the in-
terest of the French-Canadian race.
The party headed by Mercier, appealed
to the electors to defeat the Ross govern-
ment because they had taken the reason-
able stand that the execution of Riel was
a matter wholly whithin the scope of the
Dominion Government, and because they
had refused to demand of that Govern-
ment the pardon of a notorious scoun-
drel and criminal. Mr. Mercier and his
supporters contended that the Ross ad-
ministration should have demanded a
commutation of Riel's sentence on the
ground that he was a French- Canadian.
Mr. Ross, on the other hand, was of the
opinion that a'French-Canadian criminal
had rio more claim upon the clemency of
the execution than a criminal of any
other nationality. Upon this sole issue
then was the French election fought, and
to such an extent'did the feeling of sym-
pathy for Riel and the hatred against the
law which hangedhim prevail among the
French-Canadians, that Ross, who, be-
fore the election, had 35 of a majority in
an assembly of 65, returned apparently
in a minority of from 10 to 12. Mr.
Mowat must have known what he was
doing. What clues he mean ? It means
that Mr. Mowat rejoices at the triumph
of the principle for which Mr. Mercier
and his French-Canadians fought—the
principle +hat French-Canadians shall be
allowed to dictate to the Canadian Gov-
ernment and to revise and ammend the
sentences passed in Canadian courts of
law upon the French-Canadian rebels and
murderers. , This triumph Mr. Mowat
appears to consider as an "important vic-
tory." Mr. Bishop is one of his assiduous
followers and one of the members who sup-
ported Mr. Mowat in his sympathy with
the French. The electors of South
Huron will do well to remember the
fact.
Mx. BURGESS said the other night, while
addressing an Exeter audience on temper-
ance questions :-"I would notadvise the for.
mation of athird party, but lithe temperance
men want to make their principles felt, they
must throw off the shackles of party, and
vote for a temperance man, no matter by
whom brought out. "I warn you," said he,
"to beware of pledges given on the eve o
election's, but judge each man on his pre-
vious record." Mr. Swenerton has a con-
sistent record of 30 years. He fills the
whole bill, therefore let party be thrown
aside and principle uphold by all temper-
ance electors of South Huron.
ALTHOUGH the Reform party profess to
be very anxious that the working men
should have votes, yet they have tried to
disfranchise 1,000 working men in St,
Thomas. Before Parliament was dis-
solved the judge had fixed the time for
hearing appeals, but as it would have
beim too Late to give the voters a chance
to vote at the Ontario elections, he
changed the date, and the :Reformers ap-
plied to a high court to obtain an order
restraining. the judge from changing the
date for hearing the appeals, but they
failed to obtain it. Working men should
remember this,
THOSE voters who intend to spend the
Christmas holidays with friends at a dis-
tance, but are prevented by the Ontario
elections occurring between Christmas
and New Years, should remember what
Government it is that interferes with
their customs. Ladies who are compelled
to forego the pleasures of a visit to friends
or who have to go without their husbands
should use their influence against the
Mowat Government.
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