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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-10-26, Page 4'HE xe er bttacatt. SANDERS ee DYERProps.. THURSDAY. October 26th, 1893 A FARMER'S DIALOGUE, The following dialogue is supposed ao hays takeu place between Farmer efohti and Farmer Richard in. Huron Cotuty :— Tamer Good morning Richard were you present at the government meeting the otlier day in Clinton to Lear Sir John Thompson and his col leagues? Farmer Richard: No! I wouldn't go to any such meeting, to hear the men who are ruining our country by in- ereasing.our taxes, heaping up the na- tional debt, and preyenting us poor farmers from opeuing unrestricted trade with the neighboring States. Farmer John: That is a very sweep ing assertion you make against the men who are doing all in their power to benefit eyery class in the commun sty, not excepting us farmers, Fanner Richard: I should like to know, if what you say be true, how it is that prices for farm produce are so row, and the value of farm lands so much deteriorated the last few years,. and mortgage indebtedness on farms so heavy. Farmer John: Well! if you must know the real facts of the case, I will tell you, Let us sit down and "talk business", and compare the preseut con ditiou of this country with what it was 15 years ago,—and also compare the condition of Ontario farmers with those of the Uri ted States. Before the Nat- ional policy came into operation, we used to get only 8 to 10 lbs of sugar for a dollar and other things in propor- tion; now we get from 18 to 22 lbs Of the same article for that money. Be- fore that time, we had a very limited home market for our produce, and be• sides, we were handicapped by the free admission from the United States of most of the articles we ourselves pro- duced, so that there was au undue com- petitiou between a country of 65 mil- lions and our own Dominion of only 5 millions of people. Since that time our home market has been greatly extend- ed by the increased number of from 112,000 to 113,000 extra hands employ- ed in our factories nurtured under the government policy. We have found a, more ready- sale and better prices for all we had to sell; and since the Ameri- can government put on the McKinley tariff; and we were shut out of their market by prohibitory duties, we have had opened to us a large foreign market in Britain and other countries where we can dispose of our cheese and dairy products, our cattle, beef, eggs, bacon, and many other farm products to any extent we can supply. Then you say that farm lands in Ontario have de preciated in value. Well! that is true, —but what is the cause of that depre- ciation? If you look across the border to that great agricultural State of New York, for example, farm lands have deteriorated in value more than in On- tario, and are less in yalue by 25 per cent than a few years ago. (See the report of a Committee addressed to Geo Taylor Esq. M. P. for Leeds, dated July 7th 1893.) The cause of decrease in the value of farm lands is owing large- ly to the exodus of farmers and far- mers' sons to the great North West Ter- ritory—where homesteads could be got for $10, and where wheat and other grains can be raised at une half the cost of production that they can in On. Lazio. From the published reports of t hat Comm ittee after a most careful inspection and inquiry among the farmers of the border countries lying North and South of the St. Lawrence, it was found that all the advantages were on the side of the Canadian farm er—in respect to mortgage indebted. Less, the prices of agricultural pro ducts, depreciation of farm lands• amount of taxes, the cost of implements and binder twine, and the general price of shop goods that entered iuto the daily consumption of a farmer's family. How is it, farmer Richard, that we are going to be benefited by joining in trade with a country whose tariff is 60 per cent or more, while our own tariff is only 25 to 30 per cent?, How is it, if reciprocity in trade with the United 'States is so desireable, that hundreds of families aro crossiag over into Western Canada and the N. W Territory to escape from heady taxa, tion,,iitortgage indebtedness,commeie Wil' deptePand a want of remun- erative erative employment ? Look at Vent prices• in the American market, and explain (if you Can) how it is that Canada Can bit. more for the we in Cttt . ,y nine money ant get more ler our farm predate than the farmers of New Yeelt or other Western States? All I eon say is this --if you appreciate fairly good times, cheat; living, light taxation, good laws, honest govrentnoht, nation- al credit, financial protection for far- mers, and exemption from a policy that would' involve our people in direct tax- ation, then I say `'Stick to Canada" and be contented with your lot! Farrier Richard: Well!;I do think there is much in what you have said; and I will go home and tell the bop) not to listen to fine oratorical displays from Mr, Laurier and other Grit poli- tieans, but to be industrious and sober, and when the time arrives to poletheir votes to go in for the hone policy, the home market, and the good old flag, that has brayed the battle and the breeze. Exeunt, fanners Richard and John. CANADIAN CHEESE. It is a great satisfaction to, know that Canada has been so preeminently successful with her dairy, exhibits at the World's Fair. This success is be- yond all expectation. It is highly im- portant also in a mere money sense because cheese is now more largely exported than any other article of fauna produce—more largely, in fact, than any other one article sent out from the Dominion. The yalue of the cheese exported in 1892 was $11,652,412, Planks and boards followed, with a value of $8,050,353; horned cattle. $7,- 748,949; and wheat $6,947,851: If the advertising given Canadian cheese shall increase the foreign demand for that article or improve the prices paid, that advertising will put money into the pocket of the Canadian farmer. It is gratifying too, to notice that the the awards were distributed over whole Dominion. We have been ac customed to think of Ontario as the chief dairying province; but we are warned that we must look to our laur- els, for Quebec is a close competitor, and the other provinces are by no means disposed to neglect so important an industry. We find in the Montreal Gazette the following table of exhibits made and awards gained the several provinces: Exhibits. Awards. Ontario Quebec -•- 119 Nova Scotia- - - ----- 10 New Brunswick--•----- 4 Prince Edward Island 19 Manitoba, ---------- 4 105 .9 2 8 ss The man who holds that each prov- ince in the Dominion is part of Canada and that the people living in all of them are Canadians, will rejoice that all parts of the Dominion have shared in the honors gained at Chicago, and are likely to share in the resulting pro fits. At the same time, our Ontario dairymen will no doubt be put upon their mettle to produce the best cheese that skill, improved stock and good grass can make, in order that their Quebec rivals shall not get the better of them. But they will rejoice at the success of those rivals, all the same. News of the Week in Brief, FRIDAY October 2Oth. A Shanghai cotton mill has been burnt, at a loss of $500,000. Mrs. Malo, mother of Mrs. Hooper,has been the mother of 24 children. Gov. Foster says the Mitchell -Corbett fight shall not take place in Louisiana. Canada has practically swept every- thing iu her cheese exhibit at the World's Fair. ' Thirty one new cases of yellow feyer were reported at Brunswick, Ga, yes terday; also one death, Charles Rathgate Beck, millionaire, who died in New York recently, left five or six millions to churches and charities. The fire in the Canada Bank. Note Company's premises in Montreal yes terday did considerably over $100,000 worth of damage. The joints and muscles are so lubri- cated by Hood's Sarsaparilla that all rheumatism and stiffness `soon disap- pears. Get only Hoods. A package containing $22,000 was abstracted from an American Express. Company car somewhere' between New York and Cleveland yesterday. The British admiralty has contracted withiarrow & Co for the construction of three torpedo destroyers, designed to exceed in speed any now afloat. Three New York policemen retired to a vacant house to sleep while' on duty yesterday morning and were asphyxiated by escaping 'gas, Two are dead and one is dying, Young Charley Fair, son of ex-Sen- atorFair, the California millionaire, is said to have married a woman of ques- tionable repute, and his ; father _ has therefore cut him oat' from his inherit- ance of about $15,000,000. SATURDAY' October 21. Mrs. Seabrook died near London yes - day aged 06 years. It is said the Hooper case „ will cost the province of Quebec $20,000. The Prohibitionists of Lincoln coun- t have organized for The IlO al Commission on the. i yl..quor t evidence ` Traffic tool a c,1 ec. at Owen Sound yesterday. Lord Aberdeen yesterday visited the Chicago Board of I rade, arid: met with the cur y the coming pleb sWar Ili reel.ptioll. The Belleville deaf and dumb Tusti- tuts celebrated its twenty'-thir'd anni versary yesterday, Elder John Simpson of ,the A. M. E. Church Chatham, was accidently drowned yesterday, Aconveution was held at Brussels, Ont., yesterday to organize for the com- ing plebiscite campaign. Controllers Wallace and Wood con- ferred with 1 Lincoln an Welland far• td e and mars yesterday at St, Catharines. The Cunard greyhound Lucania has cut all ocean records, averaging 21 knots an: hour during the entire yoy- age. World's Fair special train on the Grand Trunk and C. P. R. are passing through London at the rate of one. each hour. John Sullivan vat sentenced to two and a half years in Kingston at St. Thomas Assizes yesterday for shooting with intent. Sir Narcisse Belleau, of Quebec, cole- bratedtthe 85 anniversary of his birth yesterday. He is'still hale and hearty. The jury in the Young murder case at St. Thomas failed to agree on a ver diet and the prisoner will be again tried at the' Spring Assizes. A son of Mr. Win. Precions, grocer. St. Thomas, fell from a tree about noon to -day while out nutting, and sustained a very bad compound fracture of the thigh. Mr John Delahey, of Delahey Bros., merchants of Cobden Ont., has been se- lected to' contest North Renfrew in the Conservatiye interest for the Ontario Assembly. Itis understood that the Ontario Government have resolved, for the purpose of securing uniformity,,to issue stationary for forms etc., to be used in taking the vote in the prohibi- tion plebiscite on lst January next. A Buffalo despatch says Andrew Benner, of Ridgeway, Ont., who lately bought a farm formerly owned by Arthur Johnston, three miles from the village named, while making altera- tions in the old house, came . upon a couple of bags containing' $7,000. Before concluding its sessions, the Baptist Convention at Waterford pass- ed a resolution specially thanking the Globe for its reports of their meetings and expressing regret that none of the other morning papers of Toronto had seen fit to report their proceedings. MONDAY October 23rd. The first snow of the season in Win- nipeg fell yesterday. A number of Queen's Own compan- ies held their annual match on Satur- day afternoon. It has been decided not to closed the Liverpool immigration office'- of the Manito'oa Government. Miss Jane Harris, an elderly London deaf mute, has died from injuries re- ceived from being run over recently. A five-year old daughter of Mrs. Geo. Walsh, of Cobden, near Kingston, was burned to death while playing. with fire on Saturday. The South Wentworth Conservatives have chosen Mr. James Wilson` :of An caster, to oppose Mr. Awrey, M. P. P. in the coming election. The Campania's passage from Liver pool to New York was made in 5 da-rs 13 hours and 22 minutes, better than the previous record. Two men were badly hurt by a fal- ling truss, wei:•hing two tons, at the New Wentworth Presbyterian Sunday School, on Hamilton on Saturday. A Montreal plumber named Duha mel sampled several bottles in a drug store where he was working, and died from a dose of aconite shortly after- wards. Burglars attempted to break into the harbor'master's office et. Port Dal housie early yesterday morning, and one of the gang was killed by, Harbor- master Beverly Clark. George Chival, a meinber of'the French Embassy. at Washington, made two attempts to, kill himself at that city last night. Chival was on the yerge of delirium tremens, Mrs. James Gooderbam, Toronto, and Mrs. Dr. Carman, Belleville, have been again re-elected President and _ Vice President respectively of the Woman's Methodist Missionary Board. A deputation of influential Montreal. business men waited on the Quebec Government on Saturdayto. urge the g abolition of all tax exemptions, and the adoption of the single tax on land. Col. Lazier, of the 15th Battalion, Belleville, is about to' resign his com- mand because the militia authorities refused a postponement of the inspec- tion of his battalion as requested'by him. A verdict was brought in early Sat- urday morning at Port Hope' in, the Hooper case to the effect that deceased died under suspicious circumstances, but from causes the jury were unable to: explain. Two more attempts were made on Saturday to pull down the Union Jack which floats over the Irish village at the Fair. The second culminated in a riot, which was only suppressed by the arrest of the ringleaders, Tiff El4DAV October 24th. Paid admissions at the World's 'Fair Sunday 140,678. There i8 no criminal business at the Brant Assizes this fall. Three inches of snow fell at Grand Forks, Dakota, yesterday. The admissions to the World's Fair on Saturday last, Manhattan Day, to- talled $360,000. Martin l'oy was electrocuted ar Olin, ton prison yesterday foal',;. the ntitrder of his mistress. William 'bass, of Peterboor0' was' kill, ed by falling from the bridg'e in that town yesterday. fat FF AN'. HAS k'SS Rona HE POWDERS curs Al L. HeetsaEA0 DAaHE. ti.&,1 to cure evewy- thin i,but.siinptylead-, a(F e$. Try theca, it wilt cost but b/i' cents far a boa, d they a,»e Mkt arc not a Cathartic. armless. Mr. Wm. Mitchell, public school rn bencher, has been re-engaged, ag ed, at' a sal- b ary of $350, at Drysdale. Sir John Abbott has unproved in health considerable and is now con- sidered out onsidered'out of danger. The immigration inspection -agree- ment between Canada and the States went into force yesterday; Robert Brown, sectionman, was struck and killed on the Michigan Central R. R. near Welland, Ont., on Sunday .morning,' Two epistles ascribed to Mehemet and believed to be authentic have been purchased by the Sultan of Turkey, They may revolutionize Mahomrned• anism. Mr. John Cameron who resides near Farquhar was seized with an acute attack of paralysis on Monday and at time of writing is in a very low con- dition. Charles Davies, a farmer living at Whitewood, Assa., N W. T., this season grew 18,000 bashols of white fyfe wheat, all of which weighed 68 pounds to the bushel. The Government grain inspectors' report, just published at Winnipeg, shows that over 60 per cent of the wheat crop of Manitoba thus far in- spected has graded number one or bet- ter. A Frightful Disaster -World's Fair Trains Collide. Between 25 and 30 Charred Bodies Taken from the Wreck and many persons Badly Injured. Battle Creek, Mich., Oct 20.—One of the worst Railway accidents on record happened here this morning in the yards of the Chicago and Grand trunk Railway. Words are wholly inadequ- ate to depict the horrors of the situation. Twenty five human bodies, of frag- ments of bodies, are lying in oneghast- ly, charred heap in a building next to the offices of the Daily Moon. Not one of then can be identified. All are burn- ed and multilated beyond the possibil- ity of recognition. Two other persons lie dead from their wounds at the hos- pital; 22 more or less badly injured are also lying at the hospital. Ati this is the result of the awful Grand Trunk railroad collision here this morning. It is a carnival of death, a holocaust of the most ghastly description. Nothing so horrible has been known anywhere in the country for years. As the char- red remains were dragged from the .wreck they were piled in unrecogniz- able heaps in box ears. Every few moments the ghastly store was increas• ed. In some instances it was only an armful of bones, in other charred flesh in shapeless masses. Spectators were forced to turn aside, sick and faint, from the awful spectacle. The acci- dent seems to have resulted from crim- inal negligence on the part of some one, and the talk here, is all against the engineer of the east -bound train. As in the case of the .Jackson horror one week ago to -day, the dead and in- jured were all from outside the State of Michigan. The terrific collision oc- curred within sight of the depot. The locomotives crashed in to each other with awful force, the west -bound train go- ing at a rate of fully thirty miles per hour. Then followed one of the most heartrending scenes ever witnessed. Four of the thirteen coaches on the west -bound train telescoped, and al- most at the same instance caught fire from the lamps. The cars were old and burned like tinder, most of the passengers being pinioned iu the wreck and utterly unable to escape the flames Just how many of the poor victims were killed or rendered insensible ' by the force of the collision and escaped the horrow of being slowly roasted will never be known. It was 3.30 in the morning, and few outside of the train crews and passengers were in the vi- einity. A heavy rain had fallen a short time before, the air was still damp and murky, and ,it was very- 'dark. ery'dark. The identified dead are as fol- lows: --Mrs. C. W. Vandusen, Fort Plain lain .v Vandusen, Fort P N. N .Y.•C,w , Y., died at hospital; E. Wertz; James G Wortham, New York; Mrs. F. R. Mc- Kenzie, Stratford Ont;; H. Opperman, New York ; Harry Archhell, New York; Guion'Roberts, New York; Miss War- ren, Garland, N. Y.; J. F. Archbell, New York. 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'Those of our Subscribers who are two or more years in arrears; "i e requested to pay up within the next two months. 0 ADDRESS -0 IIYQOIITE PllllSE1J GIIMP1JY, Exgter, ll!flr. Dr. John C. Peters, the well known. authority on cholera and germ diseas- es, died on Saturday in New York. A brother of Mr. C, S. Hymn a of Lon- don has disappeared at Saginaw, Mich. It is feared that he has met with foul play. For some weeks past about 100 tons of hay have been shipped daily from Kingston to the United States and the old countries. Superintendent Porter, of the Buffa- lo Railway Company, a native of Ni- agara, was struck by a train on Satur- day and killed. FLOUR and FEED! Flour, Bran, Shorts, Oat Meal, Corn Meal Cracked Wheat and Rolled Wheat, constantly on hand. For sale in large or small quantities. A Call Solicited. CITR •0e!rIffl. WSa Oxeye Daisy. At least five processes may be named. for subduing that most obstinate pest, the oxeye daisy, says The Country Gen- tleman—viz: 1. 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