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The Huron Expositor, 1921-09-23, Page 7'!*a tlhg LddLtor of The *lobe: M jetain Rii'k thinker that Catholic enjoy 'aai Undue privilege ht their po ,punn 'A -separate public schools in pptatio." Um looks at Ontario apar lkOM the rest of the Dominion, a to• Km it Booms strange that then should be this apparent inequality "I'eaanot coasenh," he says, ''to th enjoyment of privilege denied to other churches:" This is not in question. The Fathers of .Con federation were ,not thinking of On testa alone. Their terms of compari• Iseit''were the minorities in Ontario and Quebec, and they decided to pro. teatlthe Protestant minority in -Que- bec) and the Catholic minority in On- tario They did not consider it rteoesaa to provide ry p special protea - tion for the majority In either case. Majorities can look out for them- eelves. It is not true to say that Catholics have special privileges in the matter of school rights. They Lave, in fact, fewer rights than the Protestant denominations in Quebec. Sir A. T. Galt was responsible for section 93 .of the British North Am- erica Act. It was framed primarily In the interest of .the Protestants of Quebec, but necessarily it extended Bleb to the minority of Ontario. The Hon. George Brown had con- tended strenuously against separate public schools in Ontario. His article° on this subject in his newspaper, The Globe, had moulded public opinion in Toronto. But in the Confedera- tion scheme be found himself faced by the necessity of accepting separ- ate schools in Ontario as a condition of union.. The Protestants of Quebeo made such schools a necessary condi: Mon in their own case, and the min- ority in Ontario could not be differ- ently treated. In his speech of Feb- ruary 8, 1865, he declared: "Aaauredly I, for one, have not the slightest hesitation in accepting it (the Ontario Separate School Act of 1868)'as a necessary condition of the scheme of union." As -he understood it, as far as On- tario was concerned, the purpose in making the Act of 1803 constitu- tional was "to bind that compact of 1863 and declare it a final settle- ment." q , The Protestants of Quebec were strop at that time through o h bl strong g able over crit leaders. g Bade °. In the Confedera- tion debates, Bir John Rose indicated a just basis for the division of school assessments in the rase of incorpor- ated companies. Speaking for the minority in Quebec, he said: "Another point has reference to taxes on the properties of incorpor- ated com] tnies. As things are now, . the minor -,y of Lewes Canada is dis- satisfied v•th the division of such taxes (for school purposes).'I wish to know n }:other an equitable and . satisfactory method of,dividin!rsuch t taxes will b.• adopted. For instance, It would be n•ceptable if these taxes were divide,. .,n the same basis as Government giants." t This basis r " livision was accepted by. the Quebec majority, and has been part of the Quebec Assessment Ani ever since. If the Catholics f r ` Ontario had been effectively repre- sented at that point of time and e place, wo should afterward have hall the means of developing our colleges c instead of spending millions in con- e tribntions to supplement the school taxes for the support of elementary schools. Voluntary help had to be a sought in cities and towns where in- p dnstries attracted Catholic. workmen, t A public service under the rmrtrnl of t a Department of the Government f Mr ▪ should not 'be. thus obliged to prlso e around the hat. a- sir Joha Beep Doused the fact that school tares assessed upon company t properties are for the benefit of nd school children,- The sense of justice e le often hurt il' the effects a legal efforts to divide school taxes ea the he basis of the faith of shareholders. In December, 1016, when a school as- sessment case -was heard in Toronto - by the Railway and Muniei}ta1 Board, Mr. eibson, Secretary and a director of the Spanish River Pulp. & Paper Mills, said: "In our own mills at $turgepn Falls there are 87 per cent. of Boman Catholic workmen, and only 19 per • cent, of Pr otest xnt workmen. me¢. R 1e hen • this manor was brought to the at- tention of the board by Mr. Jones, although, so far as I know, they were all Protestants, it struck the board that it was manifestly unfair that the taxes leviable against our prop- erty for school purposes should all be paid over to the public school supportera." It is not good for any country that the eenae of :bodes should be thus in conflict with statute law. In the Sturgeon Palls case the directors of the company found that the law for- bade them to direct one-third of the school taxes to the education of the children of 87 per cent. of their workmen in a legalized school, unless they could also show that one-third of the company shares was owned by Catholics in the United States and other countries/ This law was en- acted in 1886, when companies were relatively few and small. It may hhve been possible then to know or ascertain to what churches sharehold- ers went on Sundays. This know- ledge is now imposeible. Our law- makers have overlooked the vast eco- nomic changes which have taken place in the poet thirty-five years, as far as separate school support is concerned. Tho -law seemingly en- ables sneh companies as the Cl. P. R. to divide its school taxes in Ontario. As a matter of fact, the law obligee the C. P. R. to support only the schools of the majority. What, then, has become of the pro- vision in the Constitution "to bind that compact of 1863 and make it a final settlement?" T he answer ' >e that it is not now fairly observed in Ontario. Part of tho compact of 1863 is to the effect that separate school supporters are to be exempted from all school taxes levied for the support of other schools. This is a very long way from being carried into effect. The National Railways nrc, in pert, owned by separate school supporters, though tho law, as it now stands directs all tho school taxes assessed upon these properties to the support of tho .'heels of the majority in On- arlo. The same is true of the Hydro ('untmission as to its taxable property, The Catholic Diocese of Toronto and other Catholic institu- ions, as well as many individual Catholics, are paying taxes to the tublic schools through hank shares. Most of the banks are in touch the ams position as the -Spanish River Pulp & Paper Mills. A list of the nmpanies and public utilities in which the law, as it stands, does not nable or allow observance of the nmpact of 1863, would take up too much space. The Assessment Act needs to ha mended in the interest of the ledges given anri accepted et thr ime of Confederation, and iu the in. erost of national unity, as well as of air play. The taste of real.tobacco tells you that you're smoking something worth while. There's a full flavor—and yet they're as mild as a May morning. —sure thing. Cured and mellowed—not parched—by the nun of oi'Virginny. P11111 (Continued from last week.) CHAPTER-. S%Ll In a certain sense she had been dragged to the place by her mother. Lady Ma'llowe had nlany resources; and above all she knew stow to her into resiatleasnesa'which waasaal- most indifference. There had been several shameless little scenes in the locked boudoir. But though she hid been dragged, she haft come .with an intention. She knew what she would find -herself being forced to submit to if the intruder were not disposed of at the outset, and if the manoeuver- ing began which would bring him to London. He would appear at her el- bow here and there and. at every 'corner, probably unaware that she was being made an offensive puppet by the astute cleverness against which she could not defend herself, unless she made actual scenes in drawing -rooms, at dinner -tables, in the very streets themselves. Gifted as Lady Mallbwe was in fine and lighthanded dealing of -her cards in any game, her stakes at this special juncture were seriously high. Joan knew what they were, and that she was in a mood tpuehed with despera" tion. The defenselessly new and ignorant Temple Barholm was to her mind a direct intervention (of Providence, and it was only LJoan herself who could rob her of the benefits and reliefs he could provide. With regard to Lady Joan, though Palliser's quoted New ' Yo'rlcism, "wipe up the earth," was unknown to her, the process she had in mind when she left London for Lancashire would have been well covered by it. As in feudal days she might have ordered the right hand of a creature such as this to' be struck off, for- gettingthat he was a man, so was she capable today of inflicting upon him an hurt which lch might sweep him out of her way. She had not been a tender-hearted girl, and in these years she was absolutely cal- lous. The fellow being that he was she 'had not the' resources she might have called upon if he had been a gentleman. He would not under- stand the chills and slights of good manners. In the country he would be easier to manage than in town, es- pecially if attacked in his first tim- idity before his new grandeurs. 'His big house no doubt frightened him, his servants, the people who were of a class of which he knew. nothing. When Palliser told his story she saw new openings. He would stand in servile a -we of her and of others like her. He would be •afraid of her, to begin with, and she could make him more so. But 'though she had come to alarm him so that he would be put to ab- solute flight, she had also come for another reason. 'She had never seen Temple Barholm, and she had dis- covered before they had known each other a week that it was Jem's se- cret passion. He had loved it with a slighted and lonely child's roman- tic longing; he had dreamed of it as boy and man, knowing that it must some time be his own, his home, and yet prevented by his uncle's attitude toward him from daring to act as though he remembered the fact. Old Mr, Temple Barholm's special humor had been that of a man guarding against presumption. Jem had not intended to presume, but he had :been snubbed with relent- less cruelty for boyish expressions of admiration. And he had hid his feel- ing in his heart until he poured it out to Joan. To -day it would have been his. Together, together, they would have lived in it and loved every stone of it, every leaf on every great tree, every wild daffodil nodding in the green grass. Most people, God be thanked! can forget. The wise ones train themselves beyond all alse to forgetting. Joan had been a luckless, ill -brought up, passionate child and girl. In her Mayfair nursery she had been as lit- tle trained as a young savage. Since her black hour she had forgotten nothing, allowed 'herself no palliating moments. Her brief dream of young joy had .been the one real thing in her life. She absolutely had Iain awake at night and reconstructed the horror of Jem's death, had lived it over again, writhing in agony on her bed, and madly feeling that by so doing she was holding her love close to her life. And the titan who stood in the place Jem had longed for, the man who sat at the head of his table, was this "thing!" That was what she felt him to be, and every hurt she could do him, every 'humilia'tion which should write large before him his presumption and grotesque un- fitness, would be a blow struck for Jom, who could never strike a blow for himself again. It was all sense- less, but she had not want to reason. Fate had not reasoned in her behalf. She 'watched Temlbarom under her lids at the dinner -table. He had not wriggled ore shuffled when she spoke to him in the gal- lery; he did neither now, and made no obvious efforts to seem unembar- rassed. 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We know it will help you as it did Mrs. Lindsay. in odd ways, and he was plainly not used to being waited upon. More than once she saw the servants re- strain smiles. She addressed no re- marks to him herself, and answered witfh chill indifference such things as he said to her. If conversation had flagged between him and Mr. Pal - ford because the solicitor did not know how to talk to him, it did not even reach the point of flagging with her, because she would not talk and did not allow it to begin. Lady Mal- lowe, sick with annoyance, was quite brilliant. She drew out Miss Alicia by detailed reminiscences ni scences of a visit paid to Rowlton Hall years before. The vicar had dined at the hall while she had been there. She remembered perfectly his charm of manner and powerful originality of mind, she, said sweetly. He had spoken with such affection of his "little Alicia," who was such a help to hint in his parish work. I thought he was speaking of a little girl at first," she said smiling- ly, ',but it soon revealed itself that 'little Alicia' was only his caressing diminutive." A certain widening of Miss Alicia's fascinated eye, which could not re- move itself from her face, caused her to quail slightly. "He was of course a man of great force of character and—and expres- sion," she added. "I remember think- ing at the time that his eloquent frankness of phrase might perhaps seem even severe to frivolous crea- tures like myself. A really remark- able personality." His sermons,' faltered Bliss Alicia, as a refuge, "were indeed re- markable. I am sure he must great- ly have enjoyed .his conversations with you. I am afraid there were very few clever women in the neigh- borhood of Rowlton." Casting a bitter side glance on her silent daughter, Lady Mall' we lightly seized upon New York as a subject. She knew so much of it frost delight- ful New Yorkers. London was full of delighted New Yorkers. She would like beyond everything to spend a winter in New York. She understood that the season :here was in the winter and that 1' was most brilliant. Mr. Temple Barholm most tell them about it. "Yes," said Lady Joan, L,oking at him through narrowed lids, "Mr, Temple Barholm ought to tell us about it." She wanted to hear what he would say, to see how he would try to get out of the difficulty or flounder stag- geringly through it. Her mother knew in an instant that her own speech had ,been a stupid blunder. She had put the man in• , exactly the position Joan would eni.iy seeing him in. But he wasn't in :t position, it appeared. "What is the season, anyhow?" he said. "You've got one an me when you talk about seasons." "In London," Miss Alicia explain- ed courageously, "it is the time when her Majesty is at Buckingham Pal- ace, and when the drawing -rooms are held, and Parliament sits, and peo- ple come up to town and give balls." She wished that Lady Mallows had not made her remark just at this time. She -know that the quietly servants were listening, and that their civilly averted eyes had seen Captain Palliser smile and Lady Joan's curious look, and that I he whole incident would form entertaintttent for their supper table. "I guess they have it in trite winter in New York, then, if that's it," he said. "There's no Buckingham Palace there, and no drawing -rooms, and Con- gress sits in Washington. But New York takes it out in suppers at Sher- ry's and Delmon.ico's and theatres and receptions. Miss Alicia knows how I used to go to them when I was a little fellow, don't yeu, Mis9 Alicia?" he added, smiling at her across the table. "You have told me," she answered. She noticed that Burrill and the foot- men stood at attention in their places. "I used to stand outside in the snow' and look in through the windows at the people having a good time," he Siad. "Us kids that were selling newspapers used to try to fill our- selves up with choosing whose plate we'd take if we could get at it. Beef - stake and French fried potatoes were the favorites, end hot oyster stews. We were so all -fired hungry." "Row pathetic!" exclaimed Lady arks p . 'reuterrlp) ' qJ 3 ate' et, * t1.a niton, 1t Ill it s l + Otte ta7„If 8110801., 14000 tiP Self in dilgaulttes qui whioh'ona's hasty retreat could-' be eroded' may' by 'gushing? 'puking into nottaitter, attion the a'wkw*dnesa of tile: whole ei'buat)o and,' seeing Joalt'e t ter and atki 't&de f there had not beets sq much Alt, Ste she !Wellllldd have gecesv:.' ed a stnoniig telegram from Lost,. don the neat day' and 'taken eight, Ent Shelled been forced to hold her ground before in, places she detested or w3sere she was not wanted,,asdihe ba must-TR/Id it-giain until she bad found out the worst or the best. And; great heaven! bow Joan -was eondueting her- self, with that slaw, quiet Moulting - nese of tone and look, the wicket, silent insolence. of bearing which no man was able to stand, however ad- miringly he began! The Duke of Merthshire had turned his back upon it even after all the world had known his intentions, even after the news- papers had prematurely announced the engagement and she herself had been convinced that he could not pea- stby retreat. She had worked desper- ately that season, she had fawned on and petted newspaper people, and stooped to little things no one but herself could have invented and which no one but herself knew of. And never had Joan been so superb; her beauty had seemed at its most bril- liant height. The match would have been magnificent; but he could not stand her, and would not. Why, in- deed, should any man? She glanced at across the table. A beauty, of course; but she was thinner, and her eyes had a hungry fierceness in them, and the two delicate, straight lines between her black brows were deep- ening, And there were no dukes on the horizon. Merthshire had married al - moat at once, and all the others were too young or had' wives alwady., If this man would take her, she might feel .herself lucky. Temple Barholm and seventy thousand a year were not to ,be trifled with by a girl who had made herself unpopular and who was twenty-six. And for :her own luck the moment had come just before it was too late—a second marriage, wealth, the end of the hideous strug- o was Jan the obstacle in her path, and she must be forced out of it. She glanced quickly at Temparom. He was trying to talk to Joan—naw. He was trying to please her. She evidently had a fascination for him. He looked at :her in a curious way when she was not looking at him. It was a way different from that of other men whom she had watched as they furtively stared. It had struck her that he could not take his eyes away. That was because he had never be- fore been on speaking terms with a woman of beauty and rank. Joan 'herself knew that he ,was trying to please her, and she was asking herself how long the would have the courage and presumption to keep it up. Ile could scarcely be enjoying it. 14.e was not enjoying it, but h: kept it up. He wanted to be friends with her for more reasons than one. No one had ever remained long at enmity -with hint. He had "got over" a good many people in the course of his career, as he had "got over" Joseph Hutchinson. This had al- ways been accomplished because he presented no surface at which arrows could be thrown. She was the hard- est proposition he had ever come up against, he was thinking; but if he didn't let himself he fool enough to break loose and get mad, she'd not :hate hint so much after a while. She would begin to understand that it wasn't his fault; then perhaps he could get her to make friends. In fact, if she had been able to read his thoughts, there is no certainty as to how far her temper might have car- ried her. But she could see him only as a sharp -faced, common American of the shop -boy class, sitting at the head of Jem Temple Barholm's table, in his chair. As they passed through the hall to go to the drawing -room after the meal -was over, she saw a neat, pale young man speaking to Burrill and heard a few of his rather anxiously uttered words. "The orders were that he was al- ways to be told when Mr. Strange - ways was like this, under all cir- .le In 110. unique 3 sour never: varies... All grace BeaIe'4}. me ,packet .o ,. at once. $nrrill walked back stifflyto t dining -room. "It won't trouble hint much to b disturbed at his - wane;' he muttered before going. "He doesn't know hock from port." When the message was delivered to him, Tembarom excused himself with lack of ceremony. "I'll be back directly," he said to Palliser. "Those are good cigars." And he left the room without going he 'I I Oan yon do it welt 8 8tte •. e I doses oft -E.8' NERV -I will -soothe tit6 hilts; d e7ed a 1 ad nerves: til}erantefldStt%1f a 1 Sold In Seaforth by Palliser took one of the good cigar and in taking it exchanged a glanc with Burrill which distantly convey ed -the suggestion that perhaps it had better remain for a moment o so. Captain Palliser's knowledge interesting detail was dined "by chance here and. there," he some- times explained, lained but i P t was always obtained with a light and casual air "I am not sure," he remarked he todk the light Burrill held for him and touched the end of 'his cigar "4 am not quite sure that I know exactly who Mr. Strangeways is." "He's the gentleman, sir, that Mr. Temple Barholm brought over from New York," replied Burrill with a stolidity clearly expressive of distaste, "Indeed, from New York! Why doesn't one see him?" "He's not in a condition to see peo- ple, sir," said Burrill, and Palliser's slightly lifted eyebrow seeming to express a good deal, he added a sent- ence, "He's not all there, sir." "From New York, and not all there. What at s eems to be the mat- y., ter . Palliser asked quietly. "Odd idea to bring a lunatic all the way from America. There must be asylums there." Us servants have orders to keep out of the way," Burrill said with sterner stolidity. "He's so nervous that- the sight of strangers does him harm. I May say that questions are not encouraged." "Then I must not ask more," said Captain Palliser, "1 did not know I was edging on to a mystery." "1 wasn't aware that 1 was myself, sir," Burrill remarked, "until I asked something quite ordinary of Pearson who is Mr. Temple Barholm's valet, and it was not what he said, but what he didn't, that showed me where I stood." "A mystery is an interesting thing to have in a house," said Captain Pal- lister without enthusiasm. He smok- ed his cigar as though he was enjoy- ing its aroma, and even from his first remark he had managed not to seem to be really quite addressing himself to Burrill. He was certainly not talk- ing to him in the ordinary way; his air was rather that of a gentleman overhearing casual remarks in which he was only vaguely interested. Be- fore Burrill left the room, however, and he left it under the impression that he had said no more than civility demanded, Captain Palliser had reach- ed the point of being' able to deduce A number of things from what he, like Pearson, had not said. (Continued next week.) " �v�gfgie'rrea ware ofou world ansi oc' g o _ ! W and Trestmekap s i tees eneoes3. 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