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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-02-20, Page 1UARY hundred pi ieee a differ cell are nor a pattern. 4E1...ETTE8, 1 patterns ia cheap. GFIA S • hoice patterns in goort dors. TTONS. hie or heavy hie white or, Salm. FrilNdS. goods, fast n color, an& rest prices_ r41 NA.rES. 1 rt• in the beet patterns, Colors, the kind to gita. aletisfactien. fgoods we hqd in large the public m y rely up. rn at the v ry closest &FORTH. EC-) ✓ a week's olicla,ya— hiylor intend tg r he 4 at preeent at. rge King 14 bout pin- t to sell a atent dog is popular, a di will un. 'IL—Mr Th mart King lrawing woo .to tawn alyth is flo lashing..., ing intends oving to y.—The Lath s' 'Aid of r intend holdi g a social rig te clefra Borne eitf - -Rise Ellen orterfield Belgrave, at Ir. Sohn titer from 13elgrane in - in the enterta'ament to r. Blackwell s sellooi i "Wet eld. i i preperatory and 'vices ire ItTniou ehurch, Rave. G. 'Needham, of d P. Musgrave, of Mc - Ay appreciated -by the ms. --The public Tem - under the auspices of t-runcril No. 219, Royal -perance, held in their evening was a grandht 11 was literally _packed. ' which was taken part of Kippen and Vain% ;ed of choice- eelections h, recitations and two les by Revds. Messrs. a Council, and S. Ache- ounciL—The Foresters e going to give an en he Royal. Templars of I, on Friday evening, tu excellent programme a:- °mai sting of musie„ 'times, etc.—Mr. and m and family have gone heir friends in Bruce rt tire-ie.—The eleventh. ution of the Sabbath 1 of Stanley, ' Tucker - will he held in the- n Vern* on Thursday, L good 4progranune .is large gathering is ex - W rn. _Dowser and Fred a week for Manitoba. re every sacceits,—Mrt ien, ia very ill.—Miete ere, of Brucefield, whe bath School Coeventiola ethe was visiting friend*, turned home. -.Inaley. 'T.—Those who attend-. a1 concert, held in Rev. urch on Friday even - expectation tec having. ere not (Heap ointed. met storm spo led the places, leaving neither d wheeling, yet the' eether brought out a - the church was well ✓ was occupied -by thee Fletcher, who officiat- happy manner. The reeltetions were well owed careful raining' d natural abiiitr on the- mers. Solos w re sung De of Seaforth ; Miss rty, ; Mrs. Manson, of ra. Choice recitations. Miss T. Bishcp, Mrs. Giffillan. The church art nobly as usual, and vell rendered edections I degree to the isuccess a enter tad n in ent. The at a. healthy hour, and orne feel* thet they selves. ra w&.—The Soclety eavor of the Themes In chureh, held a trieet- ed evening teat, The of the Inani- mation of the SocietY• •hers were preeent, as representation froin the dirkton. The evening's ndled by the different rotitable time was spent lose of the meeting a cious looking baskets, (nit in reserve by the ed, and their oontents fter all had doiie ample od things, th whole ii singing that grand vor hymn, "God be neet again," after which - dismissed. WHOLE NUMBER 1,210. TWENTY-THIRD YEAR SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, FtBRUARY 20 1891. 11S. McLEAN BROS. Publishers. _ 01.50 a Year, in Advance. • FEBRUARY._t pdreoeddu cwt se bheatvwe ebeenetnhien ftwo m ce do o u nt raiteso. vienr ,Large quantities of New Goods arriv- ing for the early Spring Trade. Already our stock will be found 'eery attractive, and those wishing to make early selec- tions will find a fine variety. Edward M'Faul, SEAFORTEE •0TH SIDES. THE POLICY OF THE REFORM PARTY — W HAT MR. LAURIE SAYS: The Hon. Wilfred Laurier has issued an address to the electors of Canada, as follows : The Parliament elected in 1887, and whose full term was not to expire for a year, has been prematurely dissolved. The electors of Canada are now hastily called to elect new representatives to the House of Commons. The questions before the people, and upon vrhich they have to pronounce, are of vital importance, and upon these questions Her Majesty's Opposition ap- peals with great confidence to the sober judgment of the country. To the issues which separate the Gov- ernment and the Opposition, another consideration is now added in respect of the manner in which Parliament has been dissolved. This premature disso• lution deserves the highest censure. It is to be noticed that Sir John Mac- donald in the manifesto just addressed by him to the electors of Canada makes a strong appeal to the loyalty of, the Canadian people, a totally uncalled for appeal, for in the present contest nothing is involved which in erne way or another can affect the existing status of Canada. But loyalty to the Crown of England would also and in no less a degree imply loyalty to those institutions whinh we have received from England and to which the people of this country have ever clung as embodying the best prin- ciples of government. 1 submit to the considerstion of the people of Canada that if to the advisers of bus Excellency the word " loyalty" was anything but a sham they never would have advised his Excellency to dissolve Parliament, for they have thereby placed the Crown in the moat painful position of having broken faith with the Commons and the people. :Ily the operations of the Franchise Act the Government have practically taken into their own hands the annual preparation of the lists which are to serve for the election of members to the Housed Commous, instead of using the lists prepared by the municipal author- ities under Provincial laws. It is eminently desirable that the lists should be prepered and revised at least every year, for the obvious reason that thousands of electors are every year coming to manhood's estate and to the rights of citizenship. During last session the! Government introdwied a bill providing that the preparation of the list, wkih under the law was to take place in the month of June now past, should be dispensed with. The reason given for this course was that•no general election was t ake 'place before the revision of the lis in June of the preserit year, Upon th s- surances thus given by the Ministers of the Crown, Parliament agreed to the proposition, and thus tbe usnel revision did. not take place. The consequence is that at this moment, when Parliament is dissolved, thousands of electors who by law are qualified to vote will be de- nied the exercise of their RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE. Parliaillt)nt never did the advisers of his Excellency- the injury of supposing when they made the above proposition that they were not sincere. Had Par- liament supposed that the pledge then given in the name of the Crown would be violated, that the electorate might be at any moment called upon to act, Par- liament never would have agreed to the proposition of the Government and would have insisted that the revision should take place as usual. It is manifest that under such circum- stances the power of dissolution should not have been advised except for the most cogent, sudden and imperative rea- sons. I Will not dispute that if some extraordinary event had suddenly taken place which required the immediate judgment of the people, a dissolution might have taken plaoe even though the appeal., lay to an imperfect electorate; but has any such event ta.ken place? No, not even in the opinion of the advisers of the Crown, and I charge it uport these men, ever prone to fasten upon their op- ponents the odium of disloyalty, that they have compelled the Crown to an act which in the motherland never would be tolerated. I call the attention of the people of Canada to the fact that in the manifesto of the Prime Minister not a word is ut- tered, not the slightest attempt is made, to justify the course advised by him to the Crown, thus plainlk showing that his position in this regard is absolutely untenable. The power of dissolution is pne of those powers which under the constitu- tion rightly belong to the Crown, but which should only be exercised only for adequate cause. Its present exercise is a blow at the Parliamentary eyetem of government which no Prime Minister would have attempted in England, or which if attempted would have been unflinchingly resented by the people. We have been led td, suppose by -the • Ministerial press that the dissolution -was taking place with the view of con- sulting the Canadian people upon the advieability of sending eommissioners to Washington; for the purpose of attempt- ing to NEGOTIATE A nnsetera lor the reciprocal exchange' of natural tures in that respect had been made to the Imperial -Government, yet strange to say, of this not a word is to be found in the manifesto of the Prime Minister. In this manifesto Sir John Macdonald appeals to the people upon the,merits of the N. P. and upon nothing else. Her Majesty's Opposition accept the contest on this ground. Sir John Macdonald asserts, and seems seriously to assert, that the N. P. has made the country prosperous," that the manufacturing industries in our great centres have revived and multi- plied, that the farmer has found a mar: ket, the artisan and laborer employment and good wages." I take issue with the Prime Minister upon such statements. I characterize them as false in every particular. This controversy, without any argument, I leave to the dispassionate judgment' of the electoral body, fully expecting that every artisan, every farmer who feels in his heart that the N. P. has done for him all that is here claimed would nat urally vote fer the continuation of such a blessing, !while on the other hand every artizan who has to work on half time and at reduced wages in those so- called revived centres of industries, ev- ery farmer whose farm has been steadily decreasing in value for the last ten years, would naturally be expected to vote for reform. I arraign the N. P. upon every claim. made in its behalf. I arraign it in this, especially, that it was, in the language of its authors, to stop the curse of erni. gration and give employment and good wages to every child of Canada, and that it has been in this respect not only a failure but a fraud. It was stated in 1878 by Sir John Me- -Donald himself that there were half a mil- lion of Canadians in the United States,andl now after eleven years Of the National Policy the number has been swelled from a half million to a full million at the lowest estimate. 1 Her Majesty's _Opposition submit -that- such a state of things in a country of such immense re- sources as Canada is intolerable, and that a reform is absolutely required. is unintelligible The premature fied and unjuetifi liament will force an imperfect electorate to pronounce up n a questioi which the Fon any other ground. uncalled for, unjueti- able dissolution of Par - SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. The reform suggested is absolute re- ciproeal freedom of trade between Can- . ada and the United States. The ad- vantages of. this policy we place upon this one consideration, that the pro. 'clueing power of the community is vastly in excess of its consuming power, that as a consequence new markets have to be found abroad, and that our geo- graphical pcksition makes the 1- great neighboring nation of 63,000,000 peo- ple of kindred origin our best market. Indeed the advantages of this policy are so various that they are not denied nor the statement of the same contra- dicted, but three objsctions are urged against it. It is asserted (a) that this policy would discriminate against Erig- land ; (b) that it would make direct taxation unavoidable ; and (c) that it is veiled treason" and would lead to annexation. [I] The chargeithat unrestricted re- ciprocity vvoulcl ihvolve discrimination against England cannot have much weight in the minds of men whose policy was to do away with the import- ation of English manufactured goods, whose object was to destroy Britieh trade to that extent. It is as well, however, to meet this charge squarely and earnestly. It can- not be expected, it were folly to expect, that the interests of a colony should always be identical with the interests of the motherland. The day rnust come when from, no other cause than the de- velopment of national life in the colony there must be a clashing of interests with the motherland, and in any such case, mnch as I would regret the necessity, I would stand by my native laud. Moreover, the assertion that unrestricted recipro- city means discrimination against Eng- land involves the proposition that the Canadian tariff would have to be as- similatedto the American tariff. I deny the proposition. Reciprocity can be ob- tained upon an assimilation of tariffs or upon the retention of its own -tariff by each country. Reciprocity is a matter of agreement to be attained only by mu- tual concessions between the two coun- tries. Should the concessions demanded from the people of Canada involve Con-, sequences injurious to their sense of honor or duty either to themselves or the motherland, the people of Canada would not have reciprocity at such a price; but to reject the idea of recipro- city in advance before a treaty has been made on account of consequences which can sPring only from the existence of a treaty, is manifestly as illogical as it is unfair. , (2) Then it is stated that unrestricted reciprocity would be followed by such a loss of revenue as to necessitate the int - position of direct taxation. Again this afar off, hazy conserinence to be pitted against an immediate result. The loss of revenue means a decrease of taxation to the extent of that loss. The equili- brium between revenue and expenditnre could be naturally re-established by ree trenchrnent in expenditure and by re- distributing taxation under the same methods as now obtain, and without in- flicting any greater burden then is now borne by the people. t (3) The charge that unrestricted re- ciprocity is "veiled treason" i a direct and unworthy appeal to paision and prejudice. It is an unworthy appeal even when presented with the great authority of Sir John Macdonald's name. Ae to the con- sequent I charge that unrestricted re- eiprocitk would lead to annexation, if it means anything,it means that unrestrict- ed reciprocity would make the people so prosperous that, not satisfied with a commercial alliance, they would forth- with vote for political absorption in the American Republic. If this be not the true meaning implied in the charge, I leave it to every man's judgment that it Government if t the right would advantage to See and fullest dii•ou door upon the charges reflecti ministration of 1 ey believe they are in have deemed it to their ubjected to the amplest Edon. It also closes the investigation of grave g "severely on the ad- ne of the greet depart- ments of State, and as to which any Government cateful of its honor or strong in the co victions of its innocence would have courted early and full in- quiry in th ii hi The Oppos tion question in th take precedence solution of the s indicated they a flinching devot finel triumph. Believing that effectually ad vo long as the' eco people has not most satisfaitor questions st)I1 • policy of the Op broad lines laid the future, as i to maintain t spirit in Which h court of the nation. hold _ that the trade present contest must of all others, and to the me on the basis above e prepared toive un- onf until comp ete and I no other reform can be ated and carried out so omic condition of the ben placed upon the dondition on the other emaining unsolved, the oeithon remains on the own in former y ars. In the past, itwill strive e conetitutien in the 't was conceived, to per- fect it where pe fectable, to kee intact Provincial autprionty, and in every manner to proreote harmony, geod-will and good fellow' hip between all, racee, all creeds and all classes in the lend. ' (Sigeed) WILFRED LAURIER. I THE P014CY OF TE1E CONSERVA- TIVE PAR .—WHAT THE FIL. NANCE MI ISTER SAYS: 1 1 .1 Hon. George 11. Foster, the Dominion Finance Minister, in his address td his constituency says : The policy of the Government has been to assist in developing, °reign markets for our natural and manufactur- ed products, an to that end they have liberally subsid zed lines of stea ere to the West lndie , China and Jap n, and the Mother C untry. Propos is for reciprocity with the British Weat Indies have been made by myself in jerson, acting for the everement, and I have good grounds f r believing that ei large and profiteble rade may be opened up with thesetiela de 'for meat of oue nat- ural ahd man of our manufactured prod ucts. In its trade policy with the United States', the Gov rnment has already fav- ored a fair and •ust measure of reciproc- ity, and has mOtie repeated peosteations looking in that i irection. Until lately, however; the U ited States have -made , no favorable re ponse. Now, howelw r, in the course of diplo- matic correspo dence, the Government of that country through its Secretary of State, has inti ated its willingness to enter into a conference upon this matter with the Do inion Government, and has declared its readiness to commence this conference after the 4th of March. The trade is e is the great imam in this contest, an it is of the utmost im- portance that ach elector should have a clear idea of he points of difference between the twi parties. 1 r The Oppositi n declare for unrestrict- ed reciprocity o commercial union with the United Stats. This means a d can only mean :--• 1 1. That no t riff duties areto belevied en any product of 'either country, pass- ing into the oth re 2i That Cana a is to adopt the tariff of the United States, which is,.on an average, twice s high as our own. 3, That we re virtually to give up the powepof m king our oven fiscal laws d --a thing which no free people has yet been craven enough to du. 4. That the t is to apply to imports—that i mite United St she must disc Britain ahd the virtually prohi imports which tj: That lose our tnanufactu seeport townket and,, conseq en 6. That an half her prese hahe to be mad I estimate the 1 000,000 per yea cessary to repo ent to $3.60 per ' '7. That ultin ately the bond Iwhich 'family of five, now unites us t , the Mother Land will, be severed, an i that Canada shail be-' come a part of t • e United States. i I Please coneid r all that is involeed in such spolicy, a d, then contrast it with the policy of ti e present Government, which is :- 1.1Tolcontin dustries and th ahd other resou the lines laid d 2. To keep i power of fraud ing to our own 3. Not to dii ritain-aour reat market fo 4. To raise o taxation onCus by direct taxati • bering.business s until in 1863 he began his career as a journalist as e writer on mes. The next year he , and becaine an active ocate of the protective the Hainilton T went to Toront journalistic ad policy that the ConservatiVe party after - he was connect d with the Mail, only wards adopted. For smile' eight years leaving it to as ist his son, W. P. Mac- lean, in the ma agement of the World. He was an able writer, and until a 'short time before his !death was actively en- gaged in newspaper work. The Co ing Elections, To the Fditor of 1iiaHu1toN EXPOSITOR. SIR,—I should like, if you can afford the space, to say some , words oz the above subject. I have, of late, taken little part in politics, but as I had, when duced, teuch to do with ational Policy, it is but the question of its per- cussed, I ehould state lve years' experience of its werhers, are my And inthe firat place, it was first liar advocating the fair that, when petuation is di what, after tw its 'working an present views. . this is not the National policy I advo- cated, but rather acaricetare of it We were to have hkel the great industry of smeltinii iron, nd the Touch greater in- dustrie of protucing from it the various finished article produced from that 'pd ot es metale—an industry greater than al others put tiogether hi point of in- cr asing the employment providing capacity of the Dominion. We have it not; it has, so to speak, been made a •gift to the rail aye, which have been allowed to imp tured metafs, t here wouldiha fit to the ceuntry. No one would object to this under a free- trade system. But under the present system we are charged the high tariffs agement, shou tries, but un not, 1 , Then the N stood it, conte the Northwes grants to actu have given up factpres, and a tlersi prospero seems to have road companie the result beim have but a cou people in the 'canals to the o enlarged, so as come to the la Our populatio home was one National Polic annual exodus to the States. In fine, Canada is not reaping the benefits which she pays should secure of home markets; nor riff of the United Statee , all British and foreign , that while Canada ad- • tee imports free of duty iminate against 'Great reat of the world, and it the great mut of the ow come in therefrom. and ruin will result to ing iodustries, to our our wholesale bheiness, ly, to our farmer* da will lose more than t revenue,which will up by direct taxation. es ef revenue at . The direct tax need - p this will be equival1 head, or $18 for, each • e to develop home in - agricultural, mineral, ces of the country on wn Since 1878. our Own hands the g our own tariff accord - necessities. eintinate , against Great other - Lend, and ,the our pier:Pets. ✓ reveleue by' indirect oms and hiteise, and not n 1 5. To meet the UnitedQct ates in a friendly way, and negotiate, with them for a reciprocity arrangement on lines that shall beju t and equitable, and in accord with the honor aid beat inter- ests of Canada, so far as it can be done without infringi1zig upon he lines above 1 laid down," -e-On Saturd Maclean, of T Mount Pleasan y last he late John Tinto, was buried in Cemetery beside the re- mains of his two sons who have died within the year. The deceased was ,born in GlasgoW, Scotland, in 1826, and came to Canadid When ten years of age. He was engagedi in the rug and lum- rt free those manufac- e production of ewhich e been of enormous bene- which,uoder proper men- d give Os these indus- er our povernment do 1 tional PolicyLas I tinder - plated the settlement of by a eystem of free 1 settlers, -which would large market for mariu- means of rnhliitig the set- s. Instead, the country •een largely given to rail. • and other speculators, that in all this time we le of hundred thousand whole Northvvest. Our eau were to have been to allow large ships to es ; it has not been done. , to give whcin 'work at of the reasons for the , still keep up a large • the high tariffs her in the way have her natural advantages been . pro- perly taken advantage of. I consider that this need not have been the case. And itInay be remembered that when it was known ,hat tiir John Macdonald was bringing back only his old friends to manage his ',wily policy, I left his party, stating that his Cabinet would do—pre- cisely what they have done, that is, to my mind, takei away the advantages which a systen of low tariffs gave with out being able ,o aubstitute thosh which a system of high tariffs might in capable hands have conferred. So Imuch for the past. Now, at pres- ent We are con routed with a dissolution of Parliament, for what reason Simp- ly, it appears o me, that tbe Dominion Government a e well aware of what is undoubtedly he case; that the Mc- Kinley Bill wi I inflict on this country great injury, a d that the resulting die- s,riefection w uld have ended in their' defeat had the waited till the usual time of diseolu ion. We may certainly then take this as settled. That this Bill will cause much loss and what are called "hard t mee " in Canada. The question is thei, " How can they be avoided? Wil the party in power be able to succ ed in avoiding them? What plans dpI they propose to attempt it ?" Principally ; o try, by negotiations with the States, to obtain a renewal of the reciprocity, treaty "with the modifi- cations regnired by the altered circum- stances of both countries." What these modifications are we are not told one word of, eAci yet he that lies the whole good or evil of such a treaty. Surely it is a ceeding to dies to gain the en they do not oat extraordinary pro - lye a Pailiament in order orsation of the people to now what. Canada is asked, in fact, to vote Sir John Mac- donald a blankl chequecif utter credul- ity. The alleged reasori for dissolving Parliament is en actual reason for con- tinuing it. Canada might have been atiked to endorBe by the election ef Parliament a treaty, vthen gee knew what that treaty ,proposed. But here we are not told what is oposed at all. facteSir John ,Maclioeald says to Canada, "1 w II propose a treaty to the tier] is, " Will Sir John propose a treaty ') acCeptable to the Americans'?" I have known—some of you may re- member that I have reason to know— eometbing of Sir John, who will be the ruling manager in this. Ile is a very erning body of the Empire, end no one, I think, has advocated any Other. • Yours, etc:, R. W. Pillers. TORONTO, February 13th, 1891. 1 1. clever—as distinguished from a very Canada. able--manand is, in his way, well in- tentioned towards his country. But all my experience of him proves to me that another motive, the love of power, holds him with far greater strength. It is most important to consider what he wiU do in this attempt at treaty mak- ing. Commissioners Will, if he is re- ' turned again to power', proceed to Wash- ington and make proposals. We must reflect that these need not be of a na- ture (in order to attain his chief object, the retention of power) to please Cana- dians in general. He will have the wishes of two other parties to consider. He wilt endeavor to carry out as far as possible the wishes of his manufacturl- ing friends. Next, he will endeavor also, as far as poseible, to avoid even the appearance of any discrimination against Eugland. Weighted with these - hind- rances to treaty -making, his commis- sioners (perhaps himself also) will ap- pear at Washington. Now I can but give my opinion of the result, which is this, and it is based upon some know- ledge of Sir John, some knowledge of the temper of those with whom he will tree , (having been in another linea gove nment commissioner to Washing- ton rhyself in my time), and much re- membrance of past negotiations there. What will follow is this: Negotiations will be entered upon, and will be pro- tracted for months or for a year. Per- petual praises of our negotiators, in their own papera here, will stun our ears. But the Americans will not give, in re- turn for what these commissioners will be Ole to offer,' that entrance of our products into the States, which the Mc- Kinley Bill has taken away. In the first place,our commissioners will be on - able, holding the views they do, to give what the Amerioans will surely den -hind in return. In the next place the Ameri- cans will not wish to give anything to the parties, who representing Sir dohn Macdonald's goverment; will then e Tog•re- quest it. my reasons for thinking thus, I must open up another branch of the subject. Americans, who are perhaps the most sensitive 0 nations to slight or censure, are well aware that it is the party led by Sir John Macdonald which, in Canada, has been apparently actuated by hostile and contemptuous feelings to- wards themselves. I cannot tell the reason; it has always seemed to me a most injudicious course; but all know that the leading moutiapieces, the news- papers of Sir John's party have for years endeavored to manifest an atti- tude towards the United States, which, if not altogether inimical, has appeared anything but friendly: Of this the American leaders are well aware, and two things will result therefore. First, the Reform party will have a far better chance to make good terms with the States than the 'Conservatives. Next, they will be far more likely to keep up that friendly feeling, which alone can ,perpetuate treaties. Next, with regard to discrimination in favor of the States. Let up take the plain truth. The States neither will nor can grant reciprocity in manu- factures to Canada unless Canada makes her tariff against the rest of the world as high as that of the States, for doing otherwit would allow the cheap manu- factures f the world to enter the States through the back door of Canada. Yet they will grant no treaty without maim - factures be included. In fact, if letting our goode in free they discriminate in our laver, they require that in return we shall discriminate in their favor against others, England included. Thie Sir John Macdonald declares he will not do. Therefore he can get no treaty with the States. Next, I consider it would do no harm to Britain, but 'great good, if Canada had free trade with the States, though at the same time we heightened our tariff against Britain. For, sioce 1861 the States have greatly heightened their tariff against Britain,. yet their volume of trade with Britain is far greater, owingeto 'their enormous increase of populetioti and wealth. And, in the same wayninder the, propoaed arrange- ment, thete is every reason to believe that Canabia would shortly so prosper that Brit46 would do, even in face of [a higher teliff, a trade far greater and more profitable with us than she ever otherwienihas done, or will do. But this, I think, must be managed by the Reform Party. The other will never work well with the States. It does not appear to me that there would be, as some fear, any neec‘ of direct taxation ensuing. There are many methods, both connected, with internal and external reVennd, ief continuing taxation on an indirett basis. - Washington g vernment. I give you There is, apparently, no reason why various heads of the rail:leas I will nego suchia course should lead to annexe- tiate on, but w_ ill not explain' to you tion. , It would rather, by improving clearly, or indeed at all, what I will do the position of Britain, Canada and the on any one of those heads. In return States, render each less desirous of change, North America would be bet- ter in the hands of two nations, if they were, as they shoold be, emulative hit stead of aggressive, than in those of one. The disparity of strength, under the new prospects opened out to Can- ada, would soon become much less. Capital and population would flow hither froml Europe and from the States, and greater developments of our natural reseurces be witnessed in ten years, pro- bably, than otherwise in <it lifetime. Any manufactures we might lose would be well replaced by far greater ones we iikeilLa1sn to gain. are fond shouldofusing et4 v e word " treason " in connec- tion with these matters. They abould reflect that it is in another country, if anywhere, that word should be first heard. No course can be reesonable for the offer of give Me a fresh fore, you will of two things, , doing this, I ask you to lease of power.1 There- erceive, he may do one ither of which i failure. He may propo e a treaty w ich tbe States will notaccept, or, he m y refuse' the treaty they` may pro ese. n either case his position is secure --he gets re- turned. He w ghee to be paid before- hand for doing a work—pr leaiing it " them a I think always ed by the wishes of the who, as la body i will not erican manufactures gain Yet nothing is more at they r•-•;st be to a con - or the I will e, injury which first contemplates gaining the he ques- good will and consent of the chief gov- • for the night deceased was seized with a undone—just as he likes. Now, is he ikely nil offer treaty which they will iceept? not, for his g vernment hav ben much gui manufacturers wish to see Arr entrance here. certain than t eiderable exte t given e tranc States will gtant no treaty afterwards consider the poeeib or benefit of this.1 Justi now The First 'Congregational Church, Kiogston, was destroyed by fire on Sat- urday. —Watson's foundry and implement works at Ayr will open in a few days. • • —A barrel of whisky was stolen from the station platform at Petrolia the other evening. — Itis estimated that from 200,000 to 250,000 tons of ice have been harvest- ed on Hamilton bay this' winter. —Rev. Dr. Day, Baptist mittiater, has accepted the Liberal nomination in Sud- bury county, New Brunswick. — 1'. J. McAlpine, of Glencoe; has sold his handsome pair of saddle horses to G. W. Glenn, of London, for $325. — Richard Woodworth, of Pickering, has had his leg amputated ou account of injuries received while felling trees. - —At Winnipeg on Saturday a boy named Simpoon drank a quantity of whisky from the effects or which he Flie—dRobert Reynolds, a boy of 16, has been sentenced at Brockville to eigh- teenernonths in the Central PrisonI tor burglary. —Hon. Robert Duncan Wilmot, ex - Governor ef New Brunswick, died at Belmont, Sunbury county, Thursday, aged 81 years. —The mayor of Montreal is overrun with applicants for work,and hehas ask- ed the road Committee for $15,000 t� provide them with work. —The little girl Beaule, the twenty- first victim of the Quebec factory ex- plosion, died Monday. The other sur- vivors are all improving. —While attending to horses' in his stable at Renfrew, James Macho, an old farmer, was so severely crushed that he fell on the floor dead. —The Ontario Government has offer- ed a reward of $1,000 fortheapprehension and conviction of the murderer e of th late John Heslop, of Anhaiter. —Archbishop Fabre has returned to Montreal after an absence of nearly fi've months in Europe. He was giveraa very enthusiastic welcome by the faithful of the city. .The new General hospital in Galt was opened Friday last. It commences work unencumbered by debt. A train- ipg school for nurses will be opened in cfmnection. —The 'Dominion Government has been asked to issue a proclamation granting immunity to the third man in the Ancaster tragedy if he will turn Queen's evidence. —At Orangeville last Sunday Noble Smith, 8 years old, while coaetg, ran into a team and one of the ho aes stepped on hie head. He died in a few hours. —C. A. Liffiton, spice manufacturer, of Montreal, has assigned with liabilities Of $51,000 and assets of $36,000. The chief creditor is the Merchants' Bank of Halifax. —Mr. John _,Fairgrieves, of London, has received word from the Highland Association of ,informing him that he has been appointed a director of 1 the World's Fair Scottish games. sudden faintness and had to be aseisted into the house. At eleven o'clock he quietly passed away. Deceased, who was a Reformer in politics, was born in the Isle of Skye and emigrated from Edinburgh to Canada SC me 35 yea* ago. He levies a family of five or six Child- ren. lOne of the sons, Reber% is the well-linown lacrosse player of Toronto. —The funeral of thedate J. B. Lane, . x.r eve' of North Dorchester,took place Satu ay afternoon, and was one of the most numerously attended ever wit- nessed in the County of Middlesex. The cortege was over a mile and a half in length. —At Berlin, on Saturday, Martin Straub was hauling coal from a car when his horses took fright, and in an effort to step them he was thrown down and a wheel passed over his arm, crushing - it terribly, besides dislocating his shoulder. —Professor Tyndall, the mind reader,, lies in a critical condition- at at Reginael where he has been giving exhibitions; Hie physicisna warn him that a coutinuh. ance of mind reading will speedily end has days or send him to a Lunatic asylum. Tyndall laughs at their opinions. —The postoflice at Sundridge was en- tered and robbed the other night. The front door was broken in and the safe opened. About $325 in cesh,belonging to the pest -office, express, and telegraph businesses, and other registered matter containing cheques, etc.', were taken. There is no clue to the burglars. —Hagan, the charripion Norwegian skater, defeated Cormick, the Canadian !skater, Saturday in a contest, for the skating championship of the world. The course measured about 4 '3 5 miles, and was covered by Hagan in 15 min. 56 25 seconds. Counick'a time was 16 minutes 27 3 5 seconds, —The Mesonic grandmaster, Brother J. Roes Robertson, of Toronto, has, with the close of last week, completed his visits to 110 of the lodges in the Prorince, talking to 10,000 Masons and travelling over 10,000 miles. Such a record is unique in Masonic appals in , Canada, or indeed in any other eountny, --.-The Paris Board Of education has •appointed a visiting committee for each of the schools in the town. It wes made the duty of these committees to visit the schools at least once a month. It is iiiiportent for the members of the Board to be thoroughly cognizant of school routine and the methods in vogue, — Georgie Higgs, a bright 11-yeartold son of Wm. Higgs, a respectable farmer living about five miles from Thaniesvilie, was last Friday, along with some other - boys, riding to school on :a load of wood. _In getting off Georgie fell be- tween the wheels and a wheel passed over his head, crushing the skull. He lived but an hour or so after. — The Life Boat Crew revivalists, sent out be', the Dominion Council of R,oyal Templars of Temperance,have been con- ducting Gospel temperance meetings in the Preabyterian and Methodist churches itt Orillia with large and interested audiences. The Crew consists of Mr. J. T. Mills, of Toronto, and Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, ot Chatham. - —The Galt Reporter of last week says: The series of Temperance meet- ings ,conducted by Joe Hess were brought to a close on Friday night. The hall was densely packed every night during the week, and upwards of one thousand persons signed the pledge cards, and attached the Blue Ribbon to their coats and -dresses. • "But I Loved Her "18 the title of a new comic song advertised for sale by Whaley, Royce & Company of Toronto. he composer of both words and music is Mr. W.I.Reid,of Reidville near Ayr,and the song is the same that has convulsed local audiences in that locality with laughter,ae sung by Master Inglis Reid. —Christian C. Gingerich, an old resi- dent of Wilmot township, died suddenly at his home near Victoriaburg on Sun- day 8th inst., in his 59th year. In the morning he prepared himeelf to go to church, before leaving the house he took suddenly ill, and unexpectedly to his family he expired in a few hours. His remains were interred in the Blearife road cemetery on Wednesday. —The Department of Marine has for- warded to idalifax a silver watch for persentation to Captain Richard Christ- ian, of Prospect, Nova Scotia, in. recog- nition of his hureatie and gallant conduct in rescuing fropi drowning Captain A. C. McLeod, Charles Mills and Neil Baker, of Prince Edward Island, whose -boat upset while crossing New London bar. A binocular glass is to be presented to Nicholas Christian, who assisted in the rescue. —Some &ye ago Mrs. Nixon, of Lyndhurst, in the Kingston district, was meowed by a smell of smoke. Her house was ablaze. She secured her children and got them out, but they were burned about face and neck. The mother rushed back for valuable papers, and was badly disfigured before she could escape. The skin peeled off her body in great patches. The building and contents were oompletely destroyed. —About two weeks ago there passed away an old resident of Bruce in the person of Mrs. Robert Vennard, at the age of 82 years. Mrs.Vennard, leaves a numerous list of descendants, there be- ing 15 children living and one dead, 74 grandchildren, and 26 great grandchild- ren, making 115 descendants in all. One of,Mrs.Verinard's daughters has a family of 17 children. The old lady went to Clinton lett 12th 'July to celebrate the victory of William of Orange at the Boyne. About two months ago she arose at 4 o'clock in the morning and drove with tbe doctor some distance to wait on one of her daughters, who was sick. She was a kind-hearted, open- handed, hospitable old_Irish lady. Her memory will live a long time on the 10th of Bruce, where she lived so long -and where she leaves so many relatives. Her remains were buried in the lakecemetery west of Underwood, the services being conducted by the -Rev. C. W. Backus, of Port Elgin. Swenson,a jeweller of Montreal worth e,bout $15,000, has mysteriously disappeared from the city, and the de- tectives have failed to find any clue to hirdwhereabouts. —Fire broke out in New Westminster, British Columbia, last'Sunday morning, and before it could be subdued a large portion of the business centre was, de- stroyed. LOV8 about $200,000; insur- ance, $80,000. =Mr. Angu-s McKenzie, of Kinloss, has recently purchased from Mr. Rose Anderson, of Dungannon a very fine • two year old Canadian bred stallion. Ile is a good colt and turns the scales at 4700 pounds. .)) —Peter Henning, residing near Branti ford city, has brought action against Brantford township councih for $2,000 damages for injuries through being thrOwn from his carriage by a defective or unprotected road. —The Owen. Sound Times tells of a Buffalo fruit buyer who has leased the roller rink in that town to store about 7,000 barrels of apples. They were packed in five tone of hay to prevent freezing. —A little son of Rev. J. B. McKin- non, of Lucknow, on Wednesday i last week, while hanging on a loaded sleigh, got crushed between the logs at McCar- roll's mill. and had a couple' of his ribs broken. —The other day as Mr. John Mc - LOU', of Keyser, near Parkhill, was watering hie horses they took a race through the orchard and one of his two- year-old colts broke its leg and had to be shot. It was a vidnable one. • --Maple sugar was made on Mr. Hugh McLaughlin's farm ip North Middlesex county, near Springbank, on January • 31st, and on the following Saturday an- other ," eugaring off" occurred. Both samples were excellent. . —Stephen Wright, of Windsor, arose Tuesday morning of last week' in his 'finial health, went to his stable and fed his horae. When he returned to the house he fell dead just as he was going to sit down. Heart trouble was the cause. —Quite suddenly, 'with ',only a few minutes' warning, John Macpherson, ex- Deptity-chief of the Toronto police force, was called to hie final rest. Deceased was one of the moat highly respected Scotchrnen in Canada, and was a man with few enemies. At the time of his death he was iu his 70th year. _ On Sat- urday he was out for his usual walk,and on the following day ate a hearty din - nes at his bowie on Seaton street. Early in the evening while going out to see that his dogs were comfortably housed •