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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-3-7, Page 1(13 T. Volume 17. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1890. 1 THE EXODUS TO T.IN] .4+ UNITED TA'1 k31$ . araxal l nt.'trAepONA4t), STr. Slaodonald, Huron, avid : Tide question one ohpolitical parties.Thimportance thing clearer than the fent that a number of our people are leaving our country and finding a home hi a foreign country, thea depriving Oanuda of its strength and prosperity ; mud, whatever may bo the uausoe whioh lead those people to de- part from Unmade and seek a tome iti 1- another country, I think it is the deity of e this Parliament to uso.rtain, nod, if et ie in he power, to remove the causes which lead these people away front us. I think it ie the duty of members of Parliament, irrcn active of political Warnings, to find mead to remove tlt000 causes. I neon .t understand why so many , I our people leave tins country, because I think we have the finest country in the world. There is no country whose soil is more fertile, whose people posBasn such energy and such enterprise. Our country is a storehouse of the best qualities of man. kind, and there is no other that has as b1gher or better system of oducatien than we have. Our educational eysteln is higher then that of the United States. Our aommeroial faoilitiee are equal to, if they are not higher than theirs. We n have every facility in this country which wo could expeot to have for the advent. age of our uummetee ; and why ab it that so many of our people leave onr country for another ? It ie not on account of the system of government, beoause we have a better ey9tem than they have in the United States. We have a bettor system 11/ regard to the judiciary, and our rights and our privileges are respected in that reapeot more than they are in the United States, or, shall Isay than they are in any other country; beoause the judiciary of this country are able to administer justice in a more impartial manner than judge. who aro elected. Then, why are these people leaving this country ? Ie it because of the maladministration of tho Government ? I do not think it is. Is it because of the operation of what is r called the National Policy ? I believe 'hut does cause some of this exodus, but I believe there aro other causes which lead to these people !caving the country. The preeent leader of the Government stated the cause of the exodus from this country in 1877, and I will read an ex. tract from a speech delivered by hien, and reported in the Ilanoard of 1878, page 857 : "Wo have no workpoople. Our work. people have gond off lotto; United States. They are to be found in the Western Statee, in Pittsburg, and, in fact, in every plane where manufaotures are going on. The Canadian artisans are adding to the strength, to the power and to the wealth of a foreign nation, instead of adding to ours. Our workpeople in this country, on the other band, are suf- fering from want of employment. The hon. gentleman opposite sneered et the statement that thousands of people bad left this country to seek for employment is the United States. Why, the fact is notorious that tbo Governmout of the Province of Quebec. have been taking atopy to bring bank their people. If these people have not left this country, our Government would not have tried to get them back. Let any man visit any of the manufactories of the United States, and there ho will find the Canadian artisan toiling and doing well, and, there. fore, not going beck. If Canada had a jndioious system of taxation, the work - people would be toiling and doing well in their own oonntry." Now, sir, the hon. gentleman was re- turned to power in 1878 and he placed on tit slatnte books of this country what he called "a jndioious system of taxation." Now, in the face of this "judicious sys- tem of taxation" bays bite people Contin- ued to remain with us ? Are they work- ing. in mar factories instead of the fad. tortes of the United States ? Are they remaining on the farms of our country instead of going to tho Western States and tutting op positions on farms there ? No, Sir, but the "judicious system of taxation" has driven from this couutry a larger number than the system of taxa- tion that was in vogue previous to hie coming into power tbe last time. Only 22,000 people, according to•the estimates of hon, gentlemen opposite, were leaving the country every year during the regime ef.nty bon. friend from East York (Mr. Mackenzie) ; but nearly 8000 per an- num have gone under the "judicious eye. tom of taxation" whioh the hon. goutle mon have planed on the statute books of this oountry. I believe that the "judic- ious system" whioh was to foster the in. tenets of the farming community of this country has boon the strongest element among the causes which hove driven people from this oonntry. True the re. solution that was placed before the hones in 1878 by the present loader of the Gov- ernment stated that it would foster the agricultural interests of this country. Sir, it has fostered them, At first they were "Tilloy'd," and then they were "Tuppotod," and now they are being "Fostered," and they will be fostered be. fore the end of the Session by the lion. Finance Minister, who will foster them to such on extout as to add to the taxa- tion of the agrieullurists of this oouniry ! and matte them more dieeontented with this great country than thoy are tut the present time. Wo have been frequently told that in pointing out these foots, which ate regret, we aro decrying our country ; I have no doubt that !port. gen- tleman will tell this House and the men - bey tbab I have boon clooryiug tate oottnbry saying that eo many people wore leav- ing, eaving, But, Sit, if it is disloyal oil my part, if it is unpatriotic of my part, if it is decrying the oouhtry on my part, as a simple member of this node, tow 11111019 more unpatriotic, how muoh Wrote ills. loyal, dote ntn011 more is it dcorying the oonntry, when snob statements as I have read come from the tnouth of a roan 00 - spying such a proud and dietinguiehed posibio0 in the (data of tide 08intry. I ilo not charge leirn with unpabriotisnl, r ilii not charge hitt with dieloyelty. Ib was his duty us et public man, and it is my duty as a public man, to point out the fate that ate transpiring in our country, and to call the attention of the Parliament of Canada to them, so that by their wisdom they may adept some Oen by whioh our people will bo prevent. ad from taking up their homes in the United Status, slut, Sir, that was not ell 1110 hon. gentleman said, He blamed the Government that wa0 hp pow'Or that day for driving people from thee country, and I think, that, using an expression of his Own that "that is sauoe for the goose is sauce for 1110 gander," I could turn rouncl and impute the whole exodus to the action of the Governmott now. Lot me read to you what he said in this re. sped, endeavoring to 0(404 the whole blame u4,01; the Government t•1 that (ley. This is an extract rrotn n. speech deliver ed by the feeder of the Govc•r.5nent at Shernroolca, Qnoben, on 7th July, 1877, na reported by the Toronto Mail, a v. ry great friend of rho Government at that time. He said "15 grieved m.• to the soot as a Caned. hen, when in Sherbrooke the other day, to be told there, le teat beautiful and rising place, which had grown, in my recollection, from a village to et town, and from a town to a city, that the pope. nation had decreased under the malign influence of the present Government, and that the yeuug men and young women, who had gone into fautorial there, were uuable to support themselves, and unwilling to be a burden to their parents were obliged to expatriate them. solves and add to the strength and p•os- perity of the United States. People whom we ought to have kept among our- selves, mon, women and children that ought to have been working in ourfao- tories, have been drawn away by the un- wise, by the demented, to use a good Scotch phrase, by the insane p,licy, or want of policy, of the present Govern- ment," Now, Sir, that was a broad densali01 to bring against the Govotnment of that day, Would I not be quite as justifiable as the hon. leader of the Government in making suah a charge as that againet the present Government—that by their un- wise, by their demented, and, bo uee the Scotch phrase, by the insane policy of the Government, they were driving peo- ple from the country ? I da not believe that the whole amuse is in the policy of the Government, end that is one reason why I support the resolution of my hon. friend from North Norfolk, when he askt for a committee to investigate into rho causes—for I believe they are many— and to ascertain what they are, and re- port to this House, so that the Parlia- ment of Canarlu may take stops to re- move these causes, whatever they may be, so as to keep the bone and the sinew, and the energy of the people in our qwn midst, to add to the strength and power and influence of our own canary,iuetead of adding to the strength and influence of the United States. Sir, it has been denied by the present Government, that so many of our people were leaving the =tutu. Shave a foie etatistics hero whioh will convince the membore of the House, if not already convinced, that a very large number of people are leaving the country every year. I have a very simple calculation which is easily under. stood and which I will submit to rho 'douse. In 1881 the population of Oan. ada, according to the census of that year, was 4,345,293. The natural increase 10 that population would be at least 1,60 per oont. over the death rate for these seven years, 5913' 10 per cent. The ad. dition, then, to the population in 1881, would be 434,529. Now, according to the report of the Minister of Agriculture, I find that since 1881 no less 111en 710,- 510 immigrants mine into this country, who stated their intention of remaining in Canada. Adding those three sums to - gather, we would have the number 5,490,- 531 of a population at the proeont day, if we had not lost any. Subtraob from that the present eslimnbed population of Canada, 4,972,101. and we have loot dor. ing tbe seven years, 527,230, or each year, 75,321. Now, the lose each year during the regime of the Reform Governmeet was 22,000, as &garnet 76,321, notwith. standing the policy which was to foster the iutorests of the agriculturists .Ind the interests of the manufacturers of tele country, and not only that, but ib was to add to the population of this country largely by bricging in from foreign eoun. tries a largo number of people, who were to make Canada their hone, and find work in, the tnanufaturing establish. monts of this country, which worn to be fostered by the National Policy. Ac- cording to 5tatemeuts I have seen i0 the Quebec papers this year, no less than 120,000 people from the Province of Quo. bet had gond to the States during the year. Ilon. Mt. Mercier denied that, but he acknowledged, if the papers re. ported him properly, that no less than 00,000 people had left within one year to find homes in New England among those who wont before thorn. If that fact went to the loader's heart in 1878, not to his home alone bub deeper still into his very soul, surely it will be his deep regrob to find that the people of Canada aro still going to the United'States, to add to the strength, wealth and prosperity of that oonntry. xvoeording to the report of the United Metes Consular ace in Toronto, 576 heads of families node application there for consular ccrtilicates lest year. Ib is well knout that hundreds and thousands of young poop/e, /non old women, who grave no effects to 141110 to the United Stator, do not require con- sular eerbifioates 1 hub the 576 hen's who obtained thorn represented 2,880 settle, or an average of five to a lewdly, who loft that ono particular point, Toronto. Bub from a report for 1885.0.7 from eighty. 1000 consular pointe in this country it appee 5 that 13,908 consular certificates were granted to people going to the United Slates, whioh mead 60,555 Soule, I dosiot to elate a fat, which I know by personal observation and experieloo. I reprosen1 a riding of 22,000 inha11(1n1110, I made ingairiee in different parts of my riding as to holy many people left within the last ton years to go to the United States. 1 huvo 1C 00ts trent roar of the eight i/nutcipalittts whielt (*esthete the riding, and I have the figures befor roe, showing that no lees than 442 ie those mnu)uipalities within the last ten years. If f add elle number who won from the other munioipalities, the num bot would reach about 2,000 out of population of 22,000 or about 9 per want. of the total population. And yet' gentlemen opposite will maintain the there is not such a largo exodus as ow ourrod during the year of the Grit Gov - eminent. I find the cause of this exodus i5 largely owing to the dtaooutent amoug the farmers. They have been deceives by the statements made in 187d as to the benette they would chive when the National Policy wend bo established Tho farmers w. re told that their markets were glutted by American produce levetyuu0 i0 aware that our markets to- day are snore glutted by American pro. duce than they were in 1878. Perhaps the House will allow me to give a few my to prove y statement, and if any ouo doubts them they can bo found in the T. ado and Navigation Returns. 'There were imported from tho United States in 1878, 1,010 horses. Tho farm ors 100'0 told by 1110 Conservatives that tome those American horses re flooding the Canadine markets and if a tax were im- posed the Canadians would have their owe marke.o. What is' the feet today ? We imported last year 4,089 horses, or almost three times as many as in 1878 under 17& per cont. tariff. Our farmers were told something similar in regard to sheep. A buyer would come round and say : I would give yule $4 per ileac' bat the duty prevents me, and a large num- ber of sheep tiro coming in from the United States and so 1110 market is glutted. When we refer to the returns we find that only 10,505 sheep came into the Canadian market in 1878, whereas last year the number was 43,255, In tbo fame of that fact, where ie the protection for the formers and the home market for Canadians ? Tho farmers have no pro- te0ci u. In 1878 Ivo imported front the United States 2,800,557 lbs. of bacon and ham. The Canadian farmers were told this came into competition with their Products end .11 a duty were imposed, they would have their own market and a higher prion. The returns, however, show an tinport of 8,653,828 lbs. No lase than 10,204,257 lbs. of pork were brought in during 1878, but now the quantity reaches 15,2.5,072 lbs. Thus I (light continue to show that the prom - fees made to the farmers in 1878 have not been realized b; them, and therefore they aro beo••tniug tired of the National Policy, which promised so mush and has given so little. Many of our young men are leaving this country, and the older men, under the depression of trade, have been unable to make ends meet, and many of them have sold out and gone to a country where they believe they can enjoy better advantages than they do hero. Another fact to whioh I wish to draw the attention of this /louse is this : Our farmers believe they aro ltandi- uuppod in bio market, not only in selling but iu buying. On whatever we sell to the United States we have to pay a largo duty. Our farmers sold 17,277 horses hast year and paid a duty of 9422,756. They sent 87,360 horned cattle and paid ,t duty of 9976,583. They sent 307,775 sheep and..paid a duty of 9183,860. They sent of barley, 9,934,501 bushels, on whioh they paid a duty of 9983,450. And so it was' in regard to other items, the total lose on these few articles beteg $2,076,110. Ile ooneequeneo of these burdens impo.ed on articles exported to the United States, our farmers aro determined to go into that country and be free to raise anti sell without being called upon to pay duty. But we are told that the Canadian form- ers do nob pay the duty, and I have no doubt I shall be confronted with that argument this evening. The loader of the Government made a deolarabion on the subjet, and I like to quote his words, because he stands so high ire his party and in hie country, and his judgmeut is relied upon by his own followers, by whom bo is looked 0500, and rightly ao, as the head and orown of the Consorva. tive party ; and when they lose him they will lose their ground. I do not believe, and I speak my honest convict - bion, that the Government of whioh he is tread would last one week wore they so unfortunate as to lose him. I believe, Sir, that during tho 1as1 elections bo re - calved one•balf of the Conservative votes in this country wholly on amount of his being popular as a man and being the centro of the organization to whioh he belongs. Ho 15 vboethy of that confidence from his party. He is a man of groat ability, end, Sir, I want to quote the authority of snob a man. I want to pot him in the witness box ; end I always like to choose the beet witness. I like to have the testimony of a tan of the groat. oat integrity and a man in whom hon, gentlemen oppoeite will have the greatest confidence. Tho right lion. Premier settled this question in 1878 in the words I quote bolos on "Who pay the duties." I know that last Session, a pertain hon. gentleman had the hardihood to try and get around what the leader of the Gov- ernment said by an argument to tho of. feet that the farmer diel nob pay the duty and that the parties in the United States paid it. I have, however, more confi- dence in 1110 leader of the Conservative party than I have in the 'Whip. Sir John )ixaodonald, speaking in 1878 on the question "Who pays the duties," wanted to mance a point with the fann- ers, and he did mance it, and the ferment believed 11. Ila said : e "I put et ode In the Eastern Town It ships of a mum upon the imaginary lin witch was between this country and tb t U. S. Suppose a male had 100 woe 0 the Canadian side of the line and 10 t acr05 on the American side of the line Suppose he grows 1,000 bulbuls of bailey 011 each of his farme. Ile Oleos his 1, t 000 American bushels 1' the America' • market and gets $1 a bushel for it. II Fie takes his 1,000 bushels of Canadian barley to the American market and get but 85 conte per bushel. Because he has 1 to pay 16 par cont, for taking it 9aross that imaginary line, How can it in this ease, bo said that the consumer pays the duty ? It comes out of the pookots of the Canadian farmers." I 1,13.v0, Sir, another authority on Ude emotion, n,•d a tory important one, to put in the s ,I,,ess•b„x to prove my con. toutinn that the farmers pay the duty upon horses. Tho witness ie an lion. gentleman who occupied a very promi- nent positron in the Cabinet of the hon. the louder of the present Government. He is a man 10110 was selected from his party and placed in the Senate, end who was again eeioo'ed from among tho Sen- ators and made Speaker of tits body ; in fact ha was afterwards taken from that position because he was considered to bo of value in this Ilouso, and was made Minister of the Interior. Yes, more, his excelled() and abilities were recogniz- ed ey H. r Gracious Majesty tate Queen, and en honorable title was bestowed upon him. Surely, be can give good testimony o0 this question, and surely ho is a good witness to place in the box. I refer to Sir David Macpherson. He stated in July, 1878 ; "Suppose a farmer in (his country takes the horde, valued at 9100 each to Detroit to sell. The duty on horses in the U. 8. is 20 per cent., whioh the Cana- dian farmer must pay before be can enter the Detroit market. That is, be mast pay $20 for eaoh horse, and on hip five horses $100, or the value of onb. horse in the United Status Oustom House, before he can take them to the market. Then he will get no more than a Michigan farmer will got for five egad- ly good horses. Suppose that he and a Michigan farmer each sell five horses— each get $500 for his horses. The Ameri- can takes his 9500 home in his pocket, while the Canadian takes home only $400." Sir David Macpherson turns around and asks the question as I ask. Which of these two mon pay the duty on the horses ? I will still give further evidence in roved to this matter on the testi. mony of a paper which at that time oc- oupied a very prominent position in the Conservative party. In fact, Sir, I be. lievs it was the paper that largely con- tributed to the eucoese of the election of 1878, and there was at the hoed of this paper at the time a man of eminent ability and one of the most eminent journalists of this country. He wrote editor/110 then strongly sustaining the National Policy of the then leader of the Opposition and be afterwards claimed by hie ability and his editorials he added largely to the success of the party in the country. I refer to the Mail. Lot me read an extract from one of the articles written by the ablejournalist in reference to "4010 paid the duty." The extract is from the Mail of the 26th July, 1877, and says ; Tho buyer cannot give as much here as he deed there, because the 15 cents must be paid ere the grain passes the American Custom house. Does any 0010 mean to say that, quality being the same, the American buyer will give more for Canadian barley than for barley rais- ed in his own country or State ? The simple truth of the matter is,tbat, where- as, Canadian barley has to pay 15 cents toll ere it oan enter the market, Ameri- can barley passes toll free, so that the price realized by the producer here is eo much less then the price realized by the plodder there. It seems like child's play to try to prove anything so plain and self-evident upon the very face of the matter." Sir, 2 bavo now planed in the witness• box three important witnesses who testi• fy to the position whioh I take, namely, that the Canadians pay the duty on the articles they export, and. therefore, they are burthened to a large extent in getting tho prodttoe of their energy and toil into the markets of the United States, But, Sir, the farmers maintain that tbo high- est duties are placed on the articles con- sumed by thorn, while it was maintained here.litet year (and Isuppose will be maintained again) that a large number of the arbioles whioh are used by the farm. era of this country are manufactured in Canada ; that, therefore, theta is no duty Neon those particular articles, and, con- sequently, that the Canadian farmer need not pay ono single solitary oent of duty. Using the ordivary meaning of the word "ditty," they are nob called upon to pay ib, beoause I understand the word "duty" to mean the money which goes into the treasury of this oonntry. But they are called upon to pay an increased price on every =Mole they .00nsnm0 on aae0mob of the protection Mat is afforded the mann. faotttrees of similar articles in this oountry. Ib is stated now, and was stated hero last yoar,'thab rho farmer does not pay ooe single dollar of duly. Now, Sir, I ane going to summons to my aid auoterr eminent man, tvho i0 well known in tine 1 country, whose name 1s 11 household name, a man whose ability is recognized not only by tate party opposed to him in polities, as man who (tempted a high posh• tion in the c00ncil0 of this oonntry for loamy years, a 111511 selected by the leader of the Govorimonb, although opposed to t flim in polities, to perform the dutfos of arbitrator in the Washington arbitration 0 on the fishery question between the United Steles and Canada, and who die. charged his duties with honor to himoclf 1 and bnior to the country, and man win occupied the important position of b Finance 'Minister no loos than three times a in the Cabinet of the hon. ga ttlemau rep. posito, and whose ability and reputation 'Wore so noted 'bat the hon, leader of the f (lovornntont 011050 blot out to bo the flrab High Coutneoriu aur of this country a 10 iinglend and whose sut'vicne secro Men • feoo'nhtsd byHer Majority the Queen 1n O conferring high honors upon hint. I 5 bring him int t the witneoe•box to got hie n opinion on this aubjeot. The Hon. Alex• 0 ander Galt, in his Budget e.peeoh of 1863, • stated that whatever tariff is placed upon importations that tariff adds to the price of every artiolo manufactured in the 1 country in proportion to the tariff thus a Imposed, which as, therefore, a portion of the burden they are called upon to par, a not ander the designation of duty, but what is the risme to them, as an inereaoed pried on the geode they purchase. If eliob is the ease, I hold that a great in- justice is done to the farmers of this country in loafing them down with such burdens, Now, Sir, what are the articles used by the ferment which are se en. /lanced in price? bet me give es small list of them ; Iioee, rushee, spades, har- rows, geed drills, ploys, cultivators, sod - flees, reapers, mowers, threshing ma- chines, nails, binges, wagons, carriages, harness, fanning ruins, furniture, °rook- ery, clothing, blankets, sugar, flour, pla- tares, carpets, melee( instrument and a hundred and one other things. It may be said that all these are manufactured in the country, but, according to the statements made by the eminent men to whom I have referred, every ono of these articles is enhanced in price by the amount of duty imposed. Now, Sir, the ]ton. member for North Perth (tlIr. Hasson) said that the prices of goods are lower under the tariff than they were before. Any man who has elven thought to this question knows that goods ought to be lower to -day than they were twelve years ago, with all the improvements that have been made in that time in the application of machinery and labor, and with the die• ooveries and inventions which have taken plane. We should not expect everything to be as dear today as it was twelve years ago, nor are goods as cheap as they would be if we had free trade. The hon. gentleman in speaking ip that way is only begging the quo -tion and heating about the bush, and not presenting an argu• mens, because to compare things as they are to -day with what they were twelve years ago is to compare things entirely unlike. Sir, in view of the depreciation of farm property in this country, we need not wonder that a great many of our people are leaving us and going to the United Statee, Let ma inform the mem- bers of the house that no less than 9275,• 000,000 rests on the learners of Ontario in the shape of mortgagee on their farms. No less then 80 per cent. of the farms are mortgaged, and no loss Chau •10 per cent- of their value is covered by mort- gages, Again, I have read a paper pub. fished in the city of Montreal, called the Insurance and Finance Chronicle, that Ito less than 930,000,000 teats on the farms of Quebec in the shape of mort- gages. Ne leas than 24 per cont. of the farms of Qnsbea are covered by mortgage. When we find, in addition to that, teat farm property has depreciated in value, we need not wonder that so many of our people aro leaving the country and going to hetUnited States. Let me give you a few facts in regard to bhe depreciation in the value of farm property in my own neighborhood. I know a farm, within four miles of where I live, whioh was sold fourteen years ago for $5,500, and was sold again last fall for 94,200, or a depreciation in value of 23e per cant.; another was sold a few years ago for 94,500, and recently for 93,200 ; another was sold two years ago for 94,000, and re. eeotty for 93,200 ; another was sold four years ago for 95,150, and a few months ego the owner became insolvent and made an assignment, when it was offered at an upset pries of 99,900, bot con1d not be told et that ; another which was sold a few years ago for 915,000 was sold re- cently for $11,200, or a redaction of 25e per cent. ; another was sold a few yearn ago for $7,500, and recently again for 96,200 ; another was sold four years ago for 9.1,000, and recently for 97,500, et a reelection of 81, per cent. Oa tate whole of these farms there was an average ro- duotion in price of 22} per cent. Tbeso foots are known to myself, and that' cooly the reduction whioh has taken plume in the value of farm property in my own neighborhood. 1a many oases it has been found that the money raised by mortgage on the farms a few years ago leas swallowed their whole present valoe, so that many a farmer w'i'lt his family has been obliged to find a home in some other country whore he can find better prospects of prosperity. 'Therefore it is the duty of this Parliament aid the Gov- ernment to permit my hon. friend's reso- lution to pass so that a committee may be appointed to ascertain the muses which have led not only to the depression existing in the farming community of Maid country, but to the departure of eo many of the bone and sinew of our country to the United States ; and , when they have reported to the Houeo what they have found as enema then let us moat, not as political parties, not as a Government and Opposition, but let both parties put their heads together to devise some means for the removal of those oansoe and for the retention of our own people at home. We should seek to make this country happy and prosperous and great ; we have the elements within our country for doing so ; wq ]rave the people and the mooted ; and if we make that effort I believe that the limo will Oomo when 100 shall have greater reason to bo proud of our c0antey than we have to. day, and h0V0 no more 000aslou to speak of the men Ins that has been taking place. "I find t1,at the farmers of Ureal Canada and Beat Canada could not 1111. dorstead tlloro was anything iu Choir barley, for instance, being obliged to pay re duty of 15 per cent, upon going itlto thole. S., whereto the produce of the American farmers wore allowed to be brought into this coentry free, It i0 said the 0On51tm51 pays the duty, and that the farmer does not suffer uuythiug. That is the determent, but when I put a simple case, which I loom done fregUent. ly, I can get no answer." No, "Sir, ,you onnnot got en enema, Yost canna get any reply to shake the foundations of the truths yon 5lnted, And Sir John aonthlioe: 1)r, Mottegu0's total majority in 12wl. dinr,uul was 2.40, Notwithstanding the dyke tlfontraal is ln'natonod with n flood. It is said that a fish li111010 ry ie to be stebliahed for Leko Winnipeg, D. Jackson, of Normandalo, caught tt 17 pound lnnskiuongo in his nets last melt. Tho pleeteror0' strike in Montreal has eon ended by a lomprotlise ab 27e cents n hour. The kiontreat Strout Railway Co, has been fined for ov5rcrotediug oars and or no's ranting on time. It bakes the Froman Catholics to Wake Nurllber 34. Morrie Council Netteting'. The remind met pursuant to adjourn- ment fn thaoounoil room, on Feb, 24tH. Members alt present the reeve in the chair. Minutes of last meeting real lend passed. The au More' report was pre- sented and after being examined by the outwit it was moved by S. Calbick, see - ended by Geo. Kirkby that the report be adopted and that the abstract bo pub�isb- ed an. Ten I3nusson o Posr and Wiugham Advance, Cer,lod. Moved by James Proctor, seconded by Geo. Kirkby, that the reeve and treasurer be instrneted to deposit 92,0011 with accrued hooted in tbo Bank of Hamilton, in Wiugham to the credit of this oOrporttbinu, Carel. d. ;Moved by due. Vendor, seconded by S. Callaek, tbat.n,,,. Newcombe be reap- pninted t' enterer, at a salary of 9:00, on fume ling satisfactory security to the amonet of 910,0011, Carried. Moved by A. Ii,lbiok, secouelodby U. A. Ilooe, that John i11ga)ot hq r0 -appointed oolteutor, at a salary of 985 and leo exitus, on fora. i'biug sattstactc ry eeenrity, Carried. Moved by S. Calbick,- mended by Geo. Kirkby, that by laws Nos. 2, 3 anti 4 as now read be passed. Carried. The lel lowing accouuts were ordered to be paid : Wm. Laidlaw, auditor scatty, 910 ; R. Johnston, auditor's salary, 910 ; Geo. Proctor, removing floodwood, 50o. ; D. Herrington, gravel, 92.50 ; Jae, Osborne, charity, 910 ; Alex Cameron, wood for Murphy, $2.50 ; A. Cameron, attendance so Murphy, $2 ; Mrs. Livingston, a tend- anoe to Murphy, 92; W. H. Herr, print ing as•+essment biaoke, $4; Jo0ephSmith, repairing culvert, $1; John Hays, keeping insane indigent $16 ; James Newcombe, treasurer's salary, 9100 ; A. Eason, char. ity, $8 ; John Mooney, remission of dog tax, $1 ; John Muousy, postage, $4.62. The following fence -viewers, pouudkeep- ere and pabhmasters were appointed: Penceviews—Div, 1, James Pollock, Jas. Gibson and John Richmon.i ; div. 2, Jas. Murray, Geo. leaden and Geo. Helly ; div. 3, Geo. Hood, Wm. Bryans and Wm. Clark ; din. 4. James Sharp, Wm. Mo- Crackso and Wm. Barrie ; div- 5, John Elston, David Geddes and Geo, Proctor ; div. 6, R. Armstrong, Was. Galley and Geo. Turvey. Poundkeepsrs—Div. 1,3, Logan and S. Thuell ; div, 2, James Mur- ray and Geo. Jackson ; div, 3, Wm. H. Watson ; div. 4, J.,ms Sharp ; div. 6, John Geddes and Rich. Bloomfield ; div. 6, Allan Ramsay and Quintin Ander'on. Pathmnsters—North boundary, C. Head. erten, P. Fowler, J. Meereckon, R. Duff, D. Patton, J. Messer and A. Miller. 1st line—R. S analstine, 0• Campbell, Jas. Gray, A. Hughes, L. Fraser, R. gIatth- ers, Wm. Robb, W. J. Johnston and 11. Hiller. 2nd line—Ww, Casemore, John Elston, Wm. Garnese, I. Farrand, S. Paul, H. A. Shaw, Wm. Forrest and 3. Wilson. 3rd line—John Coulter, Wm. Geddes, R. J. Forbes, E. Oliver, R. Souoh, H, Sellars and Geo. Henderson. 4th line—R. Sterling, W. H. Brandon, Wm. Bryans, Thos. Wilkinson, L. Wheel- er, Wm, Little, Wm. Shedden";^Wni.:Mo- Cracken, Geo. Brower aud's.•;;':; Carrie. 5th line—A, Halliday, T. G. "efeey, F, Baines, Geo. Parker, 1'. 1YfoNeil, S. Love, J. Sommerville, J. Iiirkoonnell, P. Pipe, M, Cat'diff and J. Mooney. 0111 lino—J. Netbery, R. Young, C, Agen, J. Cook, 3. Douglas, T. Bernard, S. Forsyth and 3. Robb. 7th line—A. McInnes, J. Wallace, J. McCaughey, R. Hughes,' M. Hughes, A. McCall, J. Evans, J. airman and G. Roadmoud. 8th lino—F. MoConnel, A, Lindsay, T. Laidlaw, J, White, Wm, Phalan, Wm. Skelton, W. Jackson, S. Fear, Geo, felly and D. Moore. 9th line —J. Snell, H. Richmond, W. Scott, 0. Taylor, J. Jackson, J. Shortreed, N. Mc- Donald, Wm. Taylor, P. McArthur, Geo. Grigg and W. Carter. West gravel road —J. Golley, 0, W. Lawronoo and T. Gos- man. East gravel mud—A. Bryans, Jas. Bowman, Thos. Maunders and James Bulger, The conncil then adjourned to meet again on the 31st day of Edell next. W. Carni, Ctork- Sporting; News._ Baseball is becoming popular in Ans. Oahe, and clubs are being organized throughout the country. It ie especially popular in Victoria. Guerrero woe the six days' go-ao.you- please at Detroit last week, making 6091 miles. He was presented with his eighty- fifth medal, besides the money prize he wou. Beach, the Anatolian, wants to row Hanlon a race, and he has put up 23100 ea a forfeit in a oliallenge to him. Ho says that he oan'' stand Ned's blowing, and that he is prepared to row him once a month for a year. Hugh MoOormiok has Paulsen onto more fo championship of speed -skaters. mile race wee skated by t11 Bear Lake, Minnesota, on 9100 a side and Paulsen's medal. Oarsman O'Connor stop lulu, Sandwich Ielands, on Australia, and gave an e the sculls for the entertainment majesty King 1ialalctuta. lulu he engaged in a race 1 and another crew of six, a inn; was permuted with 95 arrived at Auckland, 15,I2., er Mat'ipas°. defeated Alex. r the world's A ben - em at White Saturday for championship lied at hone• his way to exhibition with of his White ab Hono- lulu the King's and before loss 00. O'Connor on the stemm- a A. Walton, the Dalian. Toad, boodles' who skipped to C:It11da with 435,000 of other pdople's move , was arroatecl in St. John, N.. 13., on Sat. delay night. A ecnum mrohin jumped upon an en - glee let the C. P. It, yard et Carleto, 1'laco and started it off, much to his sur- prise. A collision with another engine was the moth. The slow OV1de11t0 being considered in• snffioiont to warrant his forbher doteu. tion, Daniel McColl, hold on the charge of killing Blanoherd, at Parkhill, hao been disobargsd, The people of Sotthtampton and Vioin- t are ttct n e voontnn a scheme for b Y o betiding brave % line of rlilway from that town borough the village of Tara and tipping Ito 0, 1°. 111, at Cl,atalvorth. w flna0aial 5a10e53 et an en10rt5inntent. 4 Their baanne at 1?ortli net $0,800,113, t