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A Bad Record.
How many of the 1,853,725 whose
names appear on the voters' list fully
realize the grave responsibility that now
rests upon them. In five weeks they will
be asked to determine whether for an-
other five years the same system of cor-
rupt and dishonest Government shall
prevail ; whether high taxation in crimi.
nal squandering of your hard earned
wages and savings shall continue, or
whether shall be invested in the bands
of Iuoh men as Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Ol-
iver Mowat, Sir Richard Cartwright,
David Mills, L. H. Davies, Dr. Borden,
A. G Blair and W. S. Fielding the ad-
ministration of your affairs. You have
already been told that the 0000ess of Mr.
Laurier at the poll means the entry of
Sir Oliver Mowat to his cabinet. To-
day I learn that Mr. Laurier's success
means the aooeptanoe of a position in his
cabinet by Premier Blair, of New Bruns-
wick, and Premier Fielding, of Nova
Scotia.
FAMILY COMPACT.
For a moment let ns look ab the con.
dition in which we find the Tory camp,
with Sir Charles Tupper and his political
allies struggling for another lease of pow-
er. How suggestive I "power." But
what is the first thing that strikes the
average elector ? Is it the great strength
of the personnel of the new cabinet ? I
should say not. Does it not impress
those of you who ars able to recall the
days of the "family aompaot" and the
desperate effort it required by the an-
oestors of those who are now fighting to
free the country of the viofous and nor.
rapt form of Government that has pre-
vailed for the past 19 years, of how
dangerously close we are approaching
Government by "family compact" once
more. Behold the Tupper trinity, a
strong combination ; Tupper the elder,
Tupper the younger and relation Dickey
in oar Government.
A 0110000 AND e0AT'rm2ED PASTY.
If we base our conclusions on the
axiom that in unity alone there is
strength, we mast have reached the
opinion that discord and dissension have
been doing their work well among the
Tory ranks during the past few years A
year ago we saw Sir Charles Hibbers
Topper retire from the cabinet and after
sulking for a few days return to the fold.
In July last we saw Caron, Ouimet and
Angers go ant and two of them return.
To January last we saw seven of them
strike and six of them come back, a game
of political "hide and -go -seek." Sir
Charles Hibbert remained hidden then
for modesty's sake, (be has not as much
modesty now) that his father, Sir Chas.,
might go in. That record in itself of
ministerial squabbling should have been
safficient to wreak any 'Government, but
on the theory that the devil is good to
his own, they were permitted to live and
the work of disintegration went on. In
forming his cabinet Sir Charles, after de-
posing Sir MaeXenzie, sent Caron, Oui.
met and Daly adrift, the three men who
had stood by Sir Mackenzie and reward-
ed Angers, who tried to wreak Sir Mac-
Kenzie's Government, by taking him into
his ministry. Thab is only es regards
disaffection within the Executive. How
do we find it among the rank and file ?
During the past season we saw Sir
Charles Tupper reading such life-long
Tories as McNeil, Weldon, Sproule and
Clarke -Wallace, out of the party because
they would not digest and swear to all
he told the House, For this he branded
them "traitors." A more impolitic move
was never attempted in the House of
Commons and there were not a few to
say that imbecility might prove even a
more dangerous trait to combat than cor-
ruptioo.
But what is this we read about the ex -
Mayor of Cornwall, Mr. Mulbern, who,
on retiring a day or so ago as President
of the Conservative Association, said :—
"The Hon. Wilfrid Laurier has declared
openly for the adjustment of the tariff
upon wise and conservative lines, and
not with the view of destroying the iA-
dustries of the country, and I believe
that the common sense of the people is
strongly in favor of a purer and more
economical administration in the ex-
penditure of tho people's money."
5. A. Chipman, a prominent merchant
of Halifax, has always taken a leading
part in supporting the Conservative
party. In announcing his ohange of
heart at a political meeting recently held
in that city, be said he bad for some time
been gradually coming to the conclusion
that the so•ctlied National Policy wee
beteg made a tool of the combines, used
to enrich the few ab the expense of the
=Seta, and bo had therefore concluded
at last to follow Mr. Laurier, "a noble
and honest patriot," "Ib is true of Can•
ada as it is true of the 'United States," he
Said, "bloat a man who forsakes his party
is a marked man. This is unlike Great
Britain where, when a Government doss
not do right, the people turn them out.
Here, however, a man stems to be under
an obligation to adhere to party—to sup-
port it in it's corruption."
We are hearing such stories from 0013.
verts every day. 'There are many life-
long Conservatives who have only been
•
waiting an opportunity to repudiate the
leaders by whom they have been deoeiv.
ed.
TUN MANaFL•8're.
'Xaa have read before tide the maid-
fesbo Sir Charles has leaned to the oleo•
torats of Canada in appealing to yon for
a renewer 01 velli e0naa000e• ire 5Gatea
out by saying"It is not my purpose to
present at length reas0ne which should
wide you to a hearty support of the Lib -
oral -Conservative eanae in this "National
020010," Sir Charles has had the honesty,
to admit that there 10 a"National oriels,"
but he does not toll you of the "National
_calamity" that would follow should you
once again invest himself and hie 001-
leagues with power to apply the remedies,
That National oriels is the result of an
increase from 9140,000,000 .to 6253,000,•
000 in our National debt ; of increased
taxation and of the vialous system of
boodling and corruption that has marked
every move of Government ab Ottawa
during the past 18 years.
The sinner on the arose .repented, but
we still find Sir Charles up to his old
tricks, although be knows he is on his
political death bed. Upon his being ap.
pointed Premier, the Bon, Joseph Cham-
berlain, Sooretary of State for the col.
mites, Gabled Sir Charles his congratu-
lations. The wily old saint took advent.
age of it to turn that cablegram to pelt-
tloal account, and from one end of the
Dominion to the other the Government
and their press prodnosd it as an evi-
donee that Mr. Chamberlain indorsed
the Conservative party and that eon.
sequently in event of Sir Charles return
to power he onuld be in a better position
to negotiate with the British Govern-
ment than Mr. Lauries. Sir Charles'
game has been exposed for Mr, Chamber-
lain bas cabled that his congratulations
were only personal. Tho ruling passion,
with Sir Charles, is strong in political
death. Is it a wonder, therefore, that
the Toronto Mail ahonicl have palled him
"the prince of politicalcracksmen," This
was in 1901. It would nosy be interesting
to hear from the Mail how they can sup-
port such a min as they have painted Sir
Charles. F. L. Imes. 11, '90.
Protection vs. Revenue Tariff.
To the Editor of Tun Posr
DEAR
Sin,—The readers of Trrn POST
were treated to a vary strange and unustt.
al thing on May 1st, viz., two political
letters in oue paper from one person, call-
ing himself H. Washington, of Ottawa.
Now that is a very sure sign that the
election is near at hand and that ho feels
his case getting desperate. For my part
I am satisfied with oue letter a week, for
I consider one ab a time is pretty good
fishing. It almost appears as if your
correspondent had a machine for turning
out these letters for they all appear as if
modelled after the same style and made
by the same machine, therefore when we
reply to one we reply to all. 11. Wash-
ington tells your readers in a very round-
about way in Tim POST of May 1st, that
the protectiouisb orators and press of
Canada are trying to make tate oleotors
believe that after Protection was abolish-
ed in 1842 free competition in farm pro-
ducts was the cause of the fall in farm
land values in Great Britain and the de-
pression amongst the farmers in that
country, which he says is absolutely false
and contrary to facts, for the reason that
farm land values increased steadily for 87
years after Free Trade became law. He
is right and he is wrong. He is right in
the first place, for Great Britain with her
highly protective and prohibitive Tariff
for 500 years, at the end of that rima was
fm a positron to supply the world with
manufactured goods ; agriculture was in
a flourishing condition and the farmers
could almost get what price they chose
to ask for the products of their farms.
Then the united wisdom of both Parlia-
ments decide in favor of Free Trade in
farm products, to give a sufficiency of
food for the teeming millions of Great
Britain's population ; in raw material for
her numerous and increasing factories ;
in manufactured goods, for she got the
start of the world and feared no com-
petition. Then for years farmers and
manufacturers prospered Snancially,
money was plentiful and in some in-
stances farm land did increase in value ;
but later on when other countries in turn
put on a Protective Tariff and became
producers of manufactured goods, with
the world's farm products iucroasiug
much faster than the population, and
with the world's great and increasing
surplus of farm products pouring into
Great Britain to compete with the Eng.
lish farmer, a reaction was sure to set in
and now the average English farmers'
profits will scarcely square accounts, al-
though in numerous cases the reit has
been reduced 24%, and now is the time
the protectionist orators and Canadian
press are speaking about, and there is
where H. Washington is wrong, for ex-
cessive competition will hurt the pro-
ducer. Again your correspondent says
it is equally false to assume that the com-
petition induced by Free Trade reduced
the farmers' profits. Then his theory is
the more competition the producer has
the better it is for him ; the more foreign
competition the English farmer has the
better it is for him, and that the more
foreign competition the Canadian farmer
and manufacturer gets the more money
they make. R. Washington apparently
doesn't see the point and to make the
view clearer we will take it for granted
that one political letter from II. Wash-
ington each week was needed in Toe
Poise, then suppose twelve more II.
Washingtons would each write two let -
tars in ono week for the same paper, then
the supply would be greater than the de.
mend and as a consequence there would
be a reduction in the value of the finished
article, It is the same with all other
lines of bueinese. A few years ago, just
after the shipping of beef cattle to Eng -
lewd got osbabliobed as a business, the
pries of beef was considerably reduced
and about that time some of ma remember
an English paper in which it was stated
that a Liverpool man was seen leaving a
butcher's store with a big hunk of beef on
his shoulder and he happened to look
back and saw the words in largo golden
letters "American Beef" on an arch over
the door, then he said "God blase the
American ox, for, only for him I would
not have this hunk of beef." 'roto cor-
respondent has repeatedly referred to the
U. S. as a poverty stricken specimee of (1,
protective tariff, and I now ask him where
under the sun eon he point to a country
which has made such progress in the last
thirty-four years, notwithstanding her
highly protected industries,' where can
he find a country which has increased so
THE l3]USS
in population ; is the extent of their
totvua and oltios ; In the number and ex.
tent of their factories and in National
wealth, If they had free atoms to our
market our rnautifaeturors would be .cony
tolled to alone their shops, then we would
tnvo ho depend on foreign : made goods,'
In faob there is one coniparatxvely small
town in the U. S., Grand Rapids, with 70
or 80 faetoriee which could flood the Do -
Minion with the IIt�roduets of their; fact•
odes and at aligner pries than our own
nlannfaetured goods. sell at, II, Wash-
ington evidently gots his information
from Mullhall's dictionary and from a
time when the English farmer did nob
get the excessive competition wide') he
had bo oonteud with lately and now there
is every appearance that England will
soon have to resort to some kind of pro•
teotion to probeot•her own interests.
Yours Truly,
A FAntoin.
Morris, May 0, '90.
More ELY EDr'on.—Our Morrie car-
respondent is estray 013 one point in jok-
ing Mr. Washington for having two let -
tars appear in one wook. As is often the
case in 'a newspaper office, a column or
two of type is set more than room can be
found for, so something has to stand over
until the succeeding week. This was the
case with one of the letters referred to,
without the knowledge or commit of Mr,
Washington.]
"I Do ,Ca•re, Jiin."
Dr. Josiah Strong, the stalwart author
of "Our Country" and "The New Era,'
its discussing the lacll of the sense of "in-
dividualized responsibility" among pro-
fessed Christians in these days,aptly and
wittily says —"The modern Good
Samaritan feels for the wounded way-
farer, but be cannot possibly stop, be-
cause be has a business engagement down
town, and so satisfies his oonsolecce
when he arrives at his office by sending a
check to the Society for the Relief of
Travellers robbed on the way from Were.
salem down to Jericho." The point Dr.
Strong makes is an important one. We
cannot, as Christians, meet oar responsi.
bility by merely giving our money to help
others, or even our influence, if given at
arre's length, without the touch of a
friendly hand, and the throb of a sym-
patbotio heart. Much of what we call
"sympathy" would not stand the test of
a careful analysis of that word, which
derivatively means "to suffer with"—to
put ourselves alongside of and in tomb
with those who aro suffering, so they
may know that we do care," as forcefully
illustrated in the following incident :
"We will oall him, Jim, fori Ido not
remember his name. H,e had lost all
respeotabiliby, and was a common gutter
drunkard. His family had disowned
him, and would not recognize him when
they met him. Occasionally he woald
get a job at the stables where Dr. Davis
kept his horses. One morning the doctor
laid his hand ou his shoulder and said,
"Jim, I wish you would give up the
drink."
"There was something very like a
quiver of the man's lips as he answered,
If I thought you oared, I would ; int
there is a gulf between you and me.
"Have I made any gulf, Jim ? Think
a moment before yon answer"
"No—you—haven't"
"If you had been a millionaire could I
have treated you more like a gentle.
man ?"
"No, yon couldn't."
"I do care, Jim."
"Say it again, won't you ?" There
were tears in the man's eyes now.
"T. do care, Jim," with a tender little
emphasis on the "Jim."
"Dr. Davis, I'll never touch another
drop of liquor as long as I live. Here;s
my hand on it."
That was fifteen years ago, and "Jim"
is today a respectable and respected man
and an earnest Christian. Saved by a
kind word t Will you males an effort
this week to win some one by kindness ?
The 7th Fusiliers of London have de-
cided not to go to Hamilton to partici-
pate in the Omen's Birthday military
celebration.
Sir Donald Smith left Montreal on
Saturday for England, where he will
undertake the duties of his new position
of High Commissioner.
Dr. J. G. MaPherson's suspicions that
an Eglinton cow was afflicted with tuber-
culosis were verified when the remains of
the animal were examined.
The building owned by the Auburn
Milling Company, and occupied by Mes-
srs. Meldrum & McAllister, Peterboro',
was destroyed by lire. The loss is esti-
mated at 3150,000.
One of the best evidences that Ayer's
Hair Vigor is an article of exceptional
merit is the fact that the demand for it
is constantly increasing. No one who
twee this incomparable dressing thinks of
trying any other preparation for the
hair.
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American Rheumatic Cure for Rheuma-
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is remarkable and mysterious. It re-
moves at once the cause and the disease
immediately disappears. The first dose
greatly benefits. 75 cents. Warranted
by G. A. Deadman.
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One short puff of the breath through the
Blower, supplied with each bottle of Dr.
Agnew's Cabarrah Powder, diffuses this
Powder over the surfaoe of the nasal
passages. Painless and delightful to
use, it relieves instantly, and permanenb-
ly cures Cabarrah, Hay Fever, Colds,
Headach s, Sore Throat, Tonsilitis and
Deafness 00 cents at G. A. Deadmau's,
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Good Workmanship and
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LATEST STYLES.
Suits made for' $4 and upwards.
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"No other blood medicine that I have
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thorough in its cotton, and effects so many
DPermanent cures as Ayer's Stu'saparillu."—
r. E. P. Min 101,, Augusta, Me.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
,Admitted at the World's Fair.
Atreus Fills for liver and bowers.
LESEHEENIEEPA
SPRING
1111.1LINE111
Thanks to the Ladies of Brus-
sels and vicinity for tho large and
appreciative number of 'visitors
to the Millinery Opening last
week. My aim is to show
Stylish Millinery,
The Newest Stock
at Reasonable Prices.
The Show Boom is filled to re-
pletion with the most worthy
ideas in headgear, trimmed and
untrimmed. Yours is among
thein, lot us help you select it.
All ready' for the Spring Trade
which has already made a Fair
start.
t'SATISFACTION ASSURED.
Miss Ito Lic1.
1VIAT 22, 1890
House Paining,
Paper Ranging,
Ka i
1so�lu�ng, &c,
Spring House Cleaning Time
is hero and we are ready to at-
tend to Paper Hanging, Kelso -
mining ahcl Painting in a prompt
business like style.
All work done in a workman-
like manner at a moderate charge.
Orders left at the stores of W.
H, McCracken or Wilton c Turn-
bull will receive prompt atten-
tion.
The patronage of the public
solicited. Estimates cheerfully
furnished.
McORACEEN & MOON,
BRUSSELS.
26 ata.,
B0 pts, and
51.00 Pottle.
One cent a dose.
It ie sold en a guarantee by all druggists.
It sures incipient Consumption and is the
beet Cough and Croup Cure.
Sold by .JAS. BOX, Bruselat, Br',,ssels,
Know What You Chew
1
Cheap and First-class Material.
Every Householder should call and see the'
IIIoGlary Coal oil Stove with Fountain.
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IT'S A DANDY,
Window Screens all Sizes and
Screen Doors made to order.
Is free from the injurious coloring.
The more you use of it the better
you like it.
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HAMILTON, ONT.
DROPPED DEAD!
Suddenly Stricken Down by 'heart Ido.
CELS¢.
" A cad and sudden death. occurred to
a wall -known citizen ou one of the lead:
ing streets this morning."
Nearly every large city paper eon*
talus daily some each heading. The
number of depths from hart failure is
very large, but it is only when they
occur in some public. and sensational
manner that general attention is drawn
to them.
Palpitation and fluttering of the
heart are common complaints. With the
heart itself there is nothing radically,
wrong. But the system is disorgan,
ized, the kidneys and liver aro out
of order, and the stomach is not in eon,
dition to do its work porperly. 13c,
tween them all, they arrow too .muelf
responsibility on the heart, and the
latter is unable to stand the strain.
A box of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills
at a cost of 25 cents will regulate the
system, purify the blood and make a
new person of every sickly man, woman
or child.
Dr. Chase's Livor -Kidney Pills may be
bad from any dealer or from the m0ua-
faeturers, Pdntansmt, Bates & Co.,
Toronto. Cue piel a dose, one cent a
dose.
Dr. Chase's Linseed and Turpenthtc is
and colds. Largest bottle on the mar-
ket ; only 28 cents.
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Real Estate & Loan
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