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The Huron News-Record, 1886-10-06, Page 4The .Huron News -Record • Wednesday, .October Gth GIVE TOE PEOPLE, airii14 CE Trio' News-RnoanD is :eompli- zuented by, many of its friends: for having laid down lines for the gold - once of the Toronto Mail in tjw platter of prohibition.,* have certainly for years a+lvocatod the submission• of the question of national prohibition to the people. Wo have held that so long as intox- ieating liquors are made by and with the pearl consent of the State it is nothing less than o farcical fraud ' for tho State to permit secteonal legislation to. make the soiling of such legalized warnsa crime. The State receives $10,000 per day, 82,- 100,000 per year • from" ono firm alone, Goodorharo and Worts, for permits to manufacturespirits, The State of eials know that these spirits arc mztititfor consumption. as.bevor- ages. chiefly, and we Bold that those liquors sliould beallowed to bo sold, • 1' sally, for tho parpose for .which • they aro mado. Iledge the sale of thein around with high lipense and other restrictions if you will, but so long as the State inakos spirits a legal article of commerce to leo used for certain purposes, just so long should the • State protect the Salo of spirits for . those pur- poses.. Let us . admit ' that the sale 'of spirits is. on: injury to the State, to the 1 aeople,: thou b we ,should give. the people an opporttini.ty ato say that they •want the._ manufacture of them -stopped: The question, then,: . is: national prohibition, or prohibi-, tion of the mnanufactureof spirits for ;iso as a beverage. • And.it is'uo use. making it a party. question. Politicians •hove been making it a fopt ball • for a goneration. The remedy is talo submission of it to the people by a plebiscite, .dissoeiat-. • ..ed from n party votealtogether. It' the people want prohibition theycnn then say.so it es ective:cif any 1iear. • 1 ing it will leave. upon the fortunes. of * their party. • 1;F on overwhelmingly large majority wei•g • iii f iuor af: the 'government and 1iarliar ent of the, 'day would: set about bringing in and passing •i'egisltition'which they would ,.in this way bo assured that the .people demanded. 'Wo are told that, at sa the coming election, were 'a se torate••vote'taken .on . hi 1,ro p bitic.li , ;that .tho ;Gilts' would all veto - Oto f'01' it •S.{i; i1S, to. act 1110 Tories into a trap... That, :feeling :! coxtnlu the Tories'as a political patty. Wo.ulcl b0ustain s ed, t}1e would thus entitl., . Y 1 them into brin'giot in a prohib tory measure and have their represent- atives in 'the Itolise'- j pose scold 'flimsy 'pretext , and combine with anti -prohibition Conservative members and thus 'defeat the GeV- crnrrtentd We have no. forth' of this au+l would like to have a popular. voto_, taken on prohibition: • VOTING AN'v.D ,T.elA 'S.: Tor Globe. and the Mall aro both . out ,iil.•'favor of manhood. suffrage. 'Mt have hold.. that. the' Dentinieo 1F•rltuchiso.Act was 1aitii a'sapper and miner 'sent oti.t•to eIear:.thc way for a still greater extension :of/ the fran- chise- in. Dominion • matters. •` Line- vers:tl Dominion suffrage, with- of course some 'alight .ttualifications such a3 citizenship, residence, etc,, might be supported On logical grounds.: ,,r„ 'Representation should be contour - 'rent with taxation. So long tit' nvo hive costonn and cxciso dues to form the largest part of .'o.tlr revenue, which will .be •ff t' ,generations yet, • so long..is every' person taxed. ''Tltere- 'fure every, persua .shonlft be reprc- •sentrd inn lite body that has the fix:- ing of those taxes and their expiiu ditnre. Than body its the Dominion P:nrlin1nent, In Provinnial bintters it does not appear so deer that une- • vel'sol suffrage should . prevail. Though so careful antt'thoughtful a . statesman as V1fi. IL Meredith, the able deader of.the Opposition in the Ontario AAsetubly brought in a motion to that effeet,it was defeated. In municipal lInd\tees it would be a posit too injustice. to have universal stars a 1,lrcvttil. Cntilvittu al l 5-. cameo ltectauso a; follow -subject soya., party is the bas' of tatation in municipal matters and is responsible for it, therefore property should be represented. In fact the. cumulative system of voting might be a sound one in municipal ;natters. • T1''tat, is a certain fixed amount of property or tenancy to form annit for voting purposes, and votes to be given in proportion .to value of property or tenancy above that. As for instance,. $100 freehold, or yearly rent pay- ment of $20 to give one vote ;$500 freehold or rent payment of $100 to give two votes; $1,500 freehold or $300 rent payment to give three votes. Some such system as this anti the doing away of the levying .of taxes on property or its rent value would be a better system than that now in vogue,: The taxing of'. personal property and income as at present is a farce, Tax only pro- perty or its rent value and have these as the only bases of, repteseii- ttteon for municipttl•'purposes.. It is the giving equal voting power to the $2 taxpayer with $100 tax- payer that lentis to extravagance and corruption in the largo townsland cities. Tho man who has to pay tho piper has na more to say how much he shall be paid titan the man wlit o floes not pay anything,+or. com- pariativoly nothing. "FIIIEBilA1TD -LCT ALISTS• THURSDAY AFTEIN9ON othis tweet: oV. Dr. Kane . Ii. and Geo. ill Smith, of Belfast, delegates from, the Loyal Patriotic Union of .hcltintl, ..will address'a ft -men -tooting in Clinton. The subject will bo "Ilome--Ii'ule from the Union standpoint."The_ Grit or rebel wing Of the Ilofor-m ,party is opposed to these gentlemen• exercising the undoubted' right o1' liberty of . speech.- given .to all in every part of tho T tupire, 'Some of the organs leave called these spo al.-', ers "firebrand loyalists:" 'But this hide -bound rebel element- •of the Reform party, •knowii a's'Grits, had nothblot- to,sayagainst .fnrebran d .t1 is: loyalists or the paid :agitators of dynamite : wheuthey have spoken' in this'eanntry and elsewhere: i1T9,. no ! • the class of men who worship •Itiel'asn hero"ale quite consistent_ in worshipping 'fiends of the O'I)oiio- •van.Rossa stamp who •adyociite- in m= -dor in its worst form ; and by.perity • of reasoning..they • are• justified in hounding down men .of the : Bev, Dr. Ilene stamp ' 110'; 1v'ooato Ioy,11 •:ty. to .constitutional.. reform 'We. would. 'bo as' pleased 'asany ono to see, Il'onie Palle in' Ireland snail 1 Il 1 d if .ic s does not exist.. •;I ut that heme.rale 'inust.wifhiEmpire. beu the B nl ue and subject ..to . the supervision of the central taw -making body.of••tho Ern trite. That:that lins.not alis a} s ;detnit out justice to Ireland mostbe: ;admitted'.; that Englcndbes in years gon5-by pissed enaotments positively uujnst to. Iielanul we believe.. But SO 'fay as we can learn- there are. now. 110'enaetrneuts on .tlie ittatut, tr books of Britain ivil.l'eb boariinjtlstly upon the people, of Ireland. 'The., differ-. •erit el'aeds:00t1 races are one iiuw, in the eyes., of -the law,. • Then theao. Santo sympathisers with rebellion: say;' "Wliy shoufd Dr.. Kano..and. loyalist spe.tke.rs attempt to oulightet Canadians on ther'situation• in Ire-' lentil they will:oir_ly stir alp Strife about ' nnattere whieli . we hove nothing to, 40 with," ,Yot these .are the very;same persons who. favored the introduction of fi•iali'questiotis �, into the Dominion' l,ntluinueih't rat 'Ottawa. Tem_very•men 1i'110 role. uotntice loyal Irishmen for express- ing,loyal Irish views' in.(aanada are the of as, wlra are .stirring -up the religion and race' cr;y-:-both • Irish and Prt'.'Iich.Cannatl'itui, Latta crime or oven impolitic for an Irialtman, or any other British stihjeet to ,say he is a 1oy3144 and a Protestant'f• Wo 'think not. • Is., it a crime for any British subjeet'to say he is a loyalist tool a Boman Catholic$ Wo think not, And there are loyal Irish Catholics as: well as loyal Irish Protestants,` A ()atholie cannot by any ordinary, stretch of imagination feel aggrieved if any fellow subject, soya, he is a Protestant. Antel;;attrely no. Pruteataift can reasonably take 4 The following are a few of,tl>:e EXPRESSION: OF MI • •TIO By the Thousands that viewedl the Gran( l :Display .at 9 FOR WUtelt WE THA NIK 'MEM. "It would be a great pity to Leave gone home without seeing this. "ley dad, that's the prettiest Store in. Town !" "I wouldrather look at this than what I saw inside the Exhibition' building, charging 50 cents a peep." "Ob 1 gracious 1 gracious ous ! isn't that lovely !" "I guess that big*Red Ticket is a Special Prize. I - ton sure the display is worthy of it." "There's some pretty nice boquets there, isn't there r "fires? Tare you offing to got married soon ? there's ono for you and one' for eilth of the 'Bridesmaids." "Ain't them flowers gran(!?" "Yes, they are lovely." "That ought to be photographed. Anything; a person can say about it doesn't do it justice." "Why, they have the DOORS OPENED and GATES Cl.oSLia as advertised. Do you know, I leave always,' found Rn13L'IiT,SON one of the few Merchants that always does us he a'hertises:" "Oh, isn't that lovely ? ' I •Wouldn't have missed this fo>~ all the rest, of the Show Put together, and it was ' the best there has, ever been here." . •• "Won't Sarah be 'kickingherself;' as I30BEItTSoiv' says in his cloclgers,,because she went awaywithout seeing it V' "Let's have another•peep in here .before * e g'o.' 1 conk stand here all.night," "Let's climb the ;'ate„ Bessie?. It's moan to keep us out Here. ';Too much temptation !" There 'Onght:to .bo a man hero he is a Catholic. • But to 'ndvocat'.e the superiority of ono. creed over ailothnr"is' not, s1 e take it, the mission of the loyal Irigl dologates, It. is to disi auto the naiads of,•Cai adiatis of the false views •ctf, the pita govern meat of:..Ireland . so persistently. placed on.record :in..this country by. Irish-Aiii,orican enemies of Britain,. and their paid tools 'in Ireland end the.. United .States. .I)r..•Kane ie. neither a politician not a religious. "criticiser, IIe is a trutlifnl, pitri-' otie antl'•cultured clergyman, nooessarilyposted in the ati'aiis of his native country. ,• We should be' all gltid to hear •him, oven if . we should agree 'to disagree With hint: on matters- that are now engaging tho attyntiou .of the whole c civilized ud. world. • . ' !TOW • 4'EO17T PIWOIIIBXTION.. For +years • the bountry , several press, notably 'Ton 1 ii ws-II1Eoonn, in this sootion, have been lnatnniering. au ay to have the' Govt+ •haunt: sub- uiit:the q ncslion of Pio'ltlbition to, the people f.:Qsnnda , 'i l o Moil,. telt ioli Lehi out ag1Int iopttltr feel eis r - •te - y ret i' in.t11` •count r' res. In .s l cttd D n has at last had the...Odes taken•oll its eyes', anitA sLipe otlioitstonoTlnb ijf these, better ilifotmel, has.. been. •ibiiidouetl: Wo fail; to.notice,'how eyes:,. any prtiCticabl . •scheti.elI'_pro= pounded by the Mid . Itis aklmit- ted by the great`bu11 of those Tenn-. in the 'L+ury alid Gr t Parties, tlttit a' .purely prohibition ticket wqulil ' flail to Gaily the coun.tr•y as, each. of •tiro pulitic.tl, parties would a1worb a portion of that' vote: Aiitl,�'ueitlier of the great .parties will commit t1len1solvcs to,prohtbition; But the Government of nvhich Sir John A. 'iaedonnld. is •tho pren'1ier,•.is corn= lnitted.,to introduce naticlnal.iirohi bition When it is tssnroft the People demandit. , But if prollibitian ' le. not made ell issue -in electing 'mem- bete, Tem-bets, herr is J'ai'liement o1 the Gov - eminent overninent. to knoiv.that thti,lpeople demand 'it 1 Tllo,tem ody,'•ass'ot'ten• sttggc'sted' in these columns, is, to take t popular - ate national of on 'mo- a n U V U 1 hlbition . alonnnf tt then an over- whelming veto et' the people d;nolares. in favor: of i•t, legislation to cnriy it oat.- Would be enacted 'and,,,A4tbrie sontimeut would back up the en- fur•oement•.of such a law. tenting the Scott Act campaign in this county, aril pften.sincti, we pointed otlt'tll:tt sotno scheme, having for its object national prohibition was the only ono that would be effective. _Moly' of. 001 teetotal, friends who could not see with oe are now quite in hat'mouy with our views, allot ore personally ware that optional or sectional prol ibition is at fateo of the most denten iing kind: Liquores aro sold in, ane Minty ,or city and prohibited in int other, The conA;-• q,uenuiU is that•tltutiIs,ufigt whisky" x, in the so-called prohibited sections, and the Jest phase of the traffic worse than the 'first. And, as ni•o prodicthd Would be the case, ..the,. non success`of•Scott:tl.ct pt;oh hition• :has caused grave doubts of tiro sue cess . of national prohibition; oven though .Parliament should sanction it now.. They soy.if prohibition in "a small area cannot -be enforced, it ivoul'tl, bo impossible to enforce .it in the: larger or : national 'area.' 11'e' will not pretend to say that this is soundarguiu'ent, but we find it Used by Many who were ardent Scott #dt supporters. ' There -aro three modes that 'loom np which may ultimately result in national pichibetien. Wo ivi11 pre- mise the repeal of,'the Scott Act as 'an indispensable li1elirninary :—(1) An amendment of the Crooks Act and a"mtiehnio10 restrictive' licence. system'tli"in it is oi'(2) the licensed sale of onlv..beer and., light . wines or. (3) witional•-prohibition of the 'rnauufeetui•o'. sale etc. of •atil,ent,: spurts Y'Titlly • the liquor question' is 111 the worst kind ' a tnuddlo. ns and it is t t '' h National. itfs,a 1 ltl yo the • • and .�o .. •ninon ts't re nl( v a o nudy :the evils. by nlightened and vg • leg CCS � 1 .. even a le ,ave lc station on 011ie. 0 0 n. the toic: of the tittles. endrie: ara- mount question of the day.: TIII+1• PEOPLE BETE. Sooni.of Out GI it' Contemporaries are 'numb exercised -over the alleged faet. that the Toriea have no "organ" in Toronto,- noW that the Mail has flopped., The Grits measure in their own bushel the 'Tory corn.' . Ilrele the Globe to becoine an indepen tient journal there woloq be a long felt want among the "peitty" throUgh- out the country. lir -the masa' of country joutnals aro simply oeloes .of the Giob.e.and theil.readera ditto. Consetvatives, hONVOVer; think fey not lost ila grip beet. Ise of the Mail aasno.' It ifi the ppoi lo who form the Conservative party. 'I'he peoPlo are the power behind a journal, a Gov- ornment or a throoe. Sir Jelin A.:. Macdonald, has alwaya endeavored to govern b3r the people and for the people, hence his suecoss. , Tit ey will the future as they have in the past. lie ie responsible to the people,. he knows . it and eels ttecotdingly. The Mail eon - tains only the 'views ef irreaponsible writers unknown to the people and who tepreient no ote bot them- selves. The people have the ViOWS of Sir John Alactionald and his ca. lortguea as expressed by them in Parliament, on the platform and. as embodied in theft legielation, They will judge their responsible ropreaentatives accordingly, regard- less of the netversioxis of tho Mail,. or the Globe. The people rule this country • through their elected re, .presontintives, and have not cleleg.ft- ed and will not delegate their 'eon - science or their power til ;thy journ al, Tho only power a journal :cilni wield is by l;:fleeting.the • well uudorstood. wishes of .the people. • LIES 4 D S7'ICIiS TO IT. - .With'a persistcnco 'worthy Of "-a- -truthful cause the Era "last week 'reiterates its former statement, which it sayso1n bo proven it necessary,'''. that,'•"althotigh no •'conyontion .has . been lioltl; st certain Iit;fomthr.'in the Trest' t' Rainy was.selnz-o j%icially by C/widerzaiit*, to run as .a tem.' et•- aucc cadtlidctt ' n'opposition-t e 0 il%. Cameron, but pointedly, declined:" Last week we characterised the state- ment as. ti. 'fib," and we knew Mono - of we'wrilte.' The Era's persistence leaves ua no option,but to say that is a miserable and palpinble lie.. hia.' ., 1 as 't right ts. i t,e. nt. ysl,t. was richt .in a ni' g that ti.cei ain Ii f i•m 'ul sy ng t eo. 01 had •bee acini (euill ' ask "d ,•t n u i • o stand: i •. Y ,ll 1 i'1 't 11'•r at1] ' t. of l os t on. o Nth- C cion. In Ce t to 1T1 71.it le is la t st to e t avec out as '[ s. temperance cainilidate:" And, it.edds: "W o know what we aro talking, :about :In, -this instance." Vo take the liberty of questioning .ivhethet it sloes know what it is'talking about in thisinstance. Irn ft>ct' we know it' does, not, or.'if :it. does it must know :that it. is telling a lie: , Tor a leo it assuredly is.. It • said that 'its siker-trent can bo:proven, -_ We chat-. longed.- t. to .bringon its proof. lout no, like Many other of itsproofs .they eonsist.merlly'ru-assertion:and reiteration. We • know it cannot prove tlio . impossible.' And :we have the ttathority of the oliients of the Weat. Huron •Liborel Goose);va • tiro :Association tient-no Reformer, or-' anyone' else; has _ been asked, eidior • 'officially, or semi -officially, to op= pea() r., Cameron.. • Ilia our cotoiin will insist it ."is right," This. is a srtnlple-sif the: dei lorable depths to which the E'a'descend ..from time •to Limo in order to"benttlio Tories." Ocoasiou.ally. we lltivo lied to talo it tol task .: or boaring fele° witness,, and we thought after each Unto that • -we.00nvieliiul-it of its' bosotttng sin' that it•wou-ld in tho future endeavor ria"lie only • in instances where it 06011 not ho found ottt. • But, alas, N0;wcre nilistiken. I,t seems to have. become hardened in its inititiitorls habit. Our readers will seg that • it is no use correcting tho Bra's °trete,. it alipoars to ho outdo only the more rtiektcss by hw.itig`its lies brought home to it. They also know that if wo• were to refute every misstate— ment made in. the Bra 'Omit its op- i ponents we would have no space fon; anything else, This 'is our ex- ease for net oftener complying with. the request of out friends to "show uta the lies" of out Grit cotom. It would tudood bo a ►n, et,,tl loss. task. • EDITORIAL ' NOTES~ Tito Grit Papers are giving .duo . . honor fo ihe.ifeniinieri Government;. for making a pea. act l' „ 1 art n .a netTtlwetit :: to the -Scott Act by issuing an' order.-• in council that tines too1+'the Act he 'paid, over t0 the. mttniciptility where the convictloll", takes place: 'l'his.iti •as• It shun•ltl be. •' J) It though u r• S• John 'A, 'Macdonald voted f'oi- the Act it i*as not ltlsl 'measure. 11 was brought in by the (nits but has to rely 'upop • the fin,ishtog touch. of Gonseri•aeives. -to-Make it effective. The. it[out •eat" TKit .ivhicll has always supported the libeiil cause in Quebec "no* gi•ittloingly admits that "the Libelnls•as'a, It have forfeit - 0(1 thai-d 1 1TT9'T 1 t0) t1l port.: Their loader is n'ot...Pure,: oven while in' • opposition, .r nd.he tial appealed, to the passions .arid prejudie.es_ of tho people:'' What hope can there be.; of econoin ictal government as a result ' of the .1etui•n to .power. of ,spelt a•. leldi,t '.:upon `such appeals.'' Awl. tlio Liberals as a parts,` in Ontario party,' , have -forfeited their claims` to silo .1 Port bythetr,appeals tone passions;• andprejudicesof the people.. • :,Tho' official returns give the `Gert majority. in Ilaldiinalid. as 111. Thoro were 787 more .votes cast than at'lnst,eleotion when their tilajerity was .126 In a' pronouuced colt constituency it would, bo''.r©asbnablo to expect that antajority of the new. • votes.nnder the enlarged.franeltiso world be Grit • and. "'Tho 'Majority much greater titan fornely, • In- stead, though', of an increased major •ity we find, a rednced one.. Show.- . ing that if ,there has been any "re- • 'VIA -gen" of fooling in that constitu-. ency it hasbeen in favor of the Con servatives. ' . . • AnothitCanard, or rather. a •wit-• Ertl ..and maliciously" : itntrtithPtil stetenten.;' gotten' up by our,. Yankee 1'rionds last'week .was to the effect that the Indians had risen 'in, ;the Canadian . Northwest aaici Murdered. ' IUP whites bea.ides destroying a'. l'v n tanr4 .ort, ao cunt of 1).ropai•ty, Our b Tal contemporary took heart ofgrace thereat and. published what itshe old ' •t have known was a tissue of falaritstt- tiono. .."Still another uprising yin ' the Northwest". ill the disphly head- , ing to this.' sweet' morsel in. our ;,loom I,iel sheet•, As 111 many other, statements. Which the: lt'iolite sltoet • delights to publish; there is not ono word of nester. No uprising hes. . . - tak.en 1)1tice in the . Northwest:. ' neither 100 nor any other number of' whites have been killed by the In- • Mona, nor hag any property been destroyed, by them. With our cotcm. the wish was evidently father to the thought. . Another instance• of the anything-to-beat-the-'l.'ot•ees,• p'oliey of our. u11.nauitien•41;1tms'