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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-01-09, Page 4The Huron News -Record 81..0e a Year -41.2151a Advance. Wednesday. ;am Oth, 1389 CO NSER VA7'I VE OPINION. to especially support him when he is wrong and that they do so is unworthy of e9nside)rattion. It is an unwarranted and .vi%e reflection on the honor and intelligence of the ,majority of the people of this Dominion who have so long sus- . The Seaforth Expositor is pound- Gained him iu power. They have ing away at the devoted heads of ! sj»stained him and will agaiu sut'taiu the East Huron Conservatives, on "im against the Grit idea of what the principle of Hon. David Mills; constitutes wrong, for what. the Grits tht►t'Grit philosophy and friend of hold as wrong is generally the right, and the right usually prevails as the policy of the Conservatives has. The B,cpvaitor begs the question of the Convection expressing itself as opposed to the centralization of petty power in the hands of the Local Legislature, and wants to know why sheriff's, registrars, etc., should not be elected by the people or coonty councils as well as license inspectors, bailiffs, etc., which lat- ter the Convention recommended should be elected in this manner The R.rpo,itor is not so obtuse as not to see the difference. Tho op- portunities for the invitliouaexercise of their functions, hy license inspec- tors and bailiff's, and the prostitutieu of thorn for partisan purposes aro so patent, and this prostitution in many oases so glaring as to defeat the will of the people by the coer- cion those officials can bring to boar upon electors whom they are in a posi- tion to terrorize and ruin if they do ,not vote the Grit ticket. It may be said that the ballot protectstho elector. This is not so in so far as Local elections go. The Ontario Government can find out how any elector has voted and the electors know- this. Registrars and sheriff's have no such opportunities to coerce electors as have license inspectors 'and bailiffs. An applicant for license can be told -that unless he and so many of his friends vote the Grit ticket he will not get it. Division Court debtors are mote numerous and more needy than those coming into the sheriff'shands and by leniency or conniving and the return of "nu goods" where there,- may be, property,, can be. coerced into voting their tnaster's ticket. rebels and annexatiouiste, who once remarked that when a Tory head or that of any friend of law and order popped up, be always endeavored to hit it. The East Huron Conser- vatives in Convention declared their pleasure with "the development of "the Northwest, which demonstrates "the wisdom of our chieftain and "his cabinet in the face of bitter "opposition, carrying out an active "and progressive policy to induce "the settlement of this vast granary "of our noble Demiuiun." The Ex- positor says this refers only to "a "!natter of policy and not to a ques- "tiou of principle and shows how "very little it takes to please some "people." It refers, however, to both policy and principle. Policy is merely the outcome of .principle. At least Conservative policy is. Grit policy may be the,, outcome of rant of principle. Our contempor- ary thea says "the Convention aro "pleased with a policy which caused "a rebellion, loss of Life," etc. Nothing of the kind. It affirmed nothing of the kind, nor cau any such inference be legitimately de• duced from the resolution. It was Grit-, policy and want of principle thlat caused the rebellion. The Grits instigated the rebellion. They encouraged those engaged in it. With some notable exceptions, of course, they both in and out of Parliament condoned the rebellion which they were mainly instrumen- tal in bringing aboet. . \'Ve must single out the lion. Alexander Mc- Kenzie and Sir Richard Cartwright as exceptions. And we cannot re- '' frai u rw--a-matter -of "pub! -ie -dttfy in naming M. C. Cameron of Huron as one of the chief sinners in giving aid and comfort to those engaged in defying the laws of the land and in shooting down our fellow citizens, destroying property and entailing a cost of several millions' of dollars on this euuutry iu suppressing• the re- bellion. And he paid the forfeit in the loss of his seat. The principle involved was tho .upreintcy of the law, the policy which cost money and lives was the eitfurceuleut of obedience to the laws of the land in the Northwest as avoll es in other parts of the Dominion. The same principles - aetuat.e and the same policy governs all properly constituted govern- ments. The carrying out of this commendable policy resulted in the hanging of poor Piel, the miserable dupe of designing Grit politicians, It cost money to bring about this. It costs money to hang a Mau in Ontario, but society must ho pro, tectod, and lives have boon lust as well as money expended in Ontario in bringing criminals to justice. We have seen nothing to ,justify the statement that Sir David'Mac- pherson was deposed, as the )'i.spos- itor asserts. Conservative Iepre- sent.atives in Parliament did not force bis withdrawal from the Cabi- net. Ho is yet filling the honorable position of Senator and 'was neither deposed nor disgraced. And the Goan whom the Grits• of that time blamed 'Moro titan they did Sir Davids now filling his position in she Cabinet, the Hon. E. Dewdnoy, and ho was returned by a constitu• ency in the Northwest not only without opposition- by those wjlo worn on the ground and intimately acquainted with the whole situation, blithe was universally endorsed by theta, and the policy of the Govern- ment in the Northwest, where the rebellion took place, was thoroughly vindicated. It is too lato in the day for the E.rpoaitor or any one else to de- nounce the railway policy of the Government. It has been sustained . by a'majority of tho representatives of tho Northwest as well as through- out the Dominion. Tho Expositor talks about the Dominion Govern- tnont abandoning the terms of mon- opoly embodied in the Canadian Pacific Railway charter. They did not do so. They purchased them for a consideration. Tho clap trap that Sir Jelin expects his supporters MAODOIVALDISM. The Toronto Globe is much exer- cised ,because a majority ,of Cana- dians do not believe in continen- tal free trade with restriction against all 'the world, including all of the British empire other than Canada. The Globe does not put all the case when it says "it is not ,just that our great producers should he--(sept—ou-t—ef— the Continental (American) market for the sake of saving the handful of (tomo manu- facturers from competition on Canadian ground." hut what about the greater producers of the United States being kept out of Canada ? Note the use the Globe makes of tho word "Continental'' in the sense it intends it. Free trade between the United - States and Canada would not be Conti- nental free trade. Mexico covers considerable of the continent. But apart from this would it not be "absurd," a stereotyped expression of the Canadian Thundorer, to have the comparatively limited markets of Canada freely opened to the 60,000,000 people of the ' United States, ovon for the purpose of hav- ing foroignerrr compete with "tho handful" of Canadian manufactur- ers upon Canadian soil, and crush- ing then out. Admitting for the sake of argu- ment that Canadian manufacturers aro the thirsty bloodsuckers that the Globe intimates they aro, they aro numerically less, and their pro- duct much loss valuable than that 'of our farmer,. But it would be ill advised to adopt unrestricted reciprocity to crush out this "hand- ful," if by so doing wo would crush out the scores of "hand- fuls" of farmers. And the market quotations invincibly prove that the immense volume of farm pro- ducts of the United • States, if allowed unrestricted competition with those of our own farms, on Canadian soil, would result dis- astrously to Canadian farmers. For wheat, oats, corn, beef cattle pork or hogs; apples and small fruits the Canadian market now affords butter prices than do the markets of tho United States. Throw the Canadian market open to Americans and down would como tho pricos in all those. Unrestricted rociprocity would be a death -blow to the larger interests of agriculture in Canada as it also might be to the majority of our infantile manufacturing iudus- tries. There may be, in fact we believe their are, a few factories -in Canada that would be benefitted by floe trade, as they can produce more cheaply and now sell at lower prices than those of a similar character iu the States. There may be, and we believe there are, a few branches of farming in Cana- da that would be benefitted by free trade for a short tilne, but the student of political economy !oust adtuit that even the product of those would iu a few months have to come down to the level of presout values. It is quito clear to us, anal will be quite ulnar to anyone who will give that • comsidoratiou to the matter which the subject demands, that unrestricted reciprocity with the Status, and restriction with the balance of tho• world, would moan industrial and commercial ruin fur Canada. Exceptional beneficial results aro no argument for a policy that would cause the ruin of the many. The greatest possible good to the great- est possible number should be the aim of all legislation. The great majority of' farmers aloud constitute the greatest number of people in Canada. We have above enumera- ted the greatest interests of this gloat majority, and the prevailing prices in the United States for the marketable output in those• lines aro lower in the United States than in Canada.,Tt will bo conceded by those whcompare prices across the border for farm products gener- ally with prices that prevail in Canada that the hone market is by all odds the best,. This being the case and it cannot be disproved, then the great bulk of the farming interests would be injured by un- restricted reciprocity, and wo have only to add that the greal bulk of manufacturing interests would. also -be injured by free trade,. to show- that the greatest possible injury would be done to the greatest possible number of 'Canadians by unrestricted reciprocity with the United States and a restrictive policy toward all the outside world, In reading the. leading editorial in Saturday's Globe oue cannot but be surprised at the assertion and reiteration therein that the policy of Sir John A. Macdonald for a series of years has beets to en^bio "Canadians to do all the selling", _and the fault findinL with that policy. No greater tribute was ever paid to statesman. It is the same with nations as with individu- als in this respect. The nnoro that the ono or the other can produce and sell and the less they buy the greater will bo their savings. The increased and increasing savings of the people as shown in the saving banks and as invested in productive enterprises aro the best evidences that Sir John's efforts have yielded good fruit-i•u abundance. Tha Globe has fear- fully and wonderfully constructed ideas of the duties of a Canadian statesman, 'when at holds that Sir John Macdonald should allow the United Status to select what articles to place on tho free list and what not. Its' contention seems to bo that he should favor a jug -handle policy, and give the Americans a full grip of the -handle so that'they could pour out npou Canada, freely, their immense surplus products. We do not want either restricted or unrestricted trade upon any such basis. The Globe goes on and asserts that the present Government is opposed to creating any such a " boons " for American products and that it will never bo brought about so long as they aro iu power. It says the present Governtent is hostile' to such a bargain, and very truly remarks that it would be the height of insanity to expect those hostile to it to carry it out. To quote its exact words : "To give the Macdonaldites another terra would be for the- electors to certify that they do not want unreatt•icted. reciprocity " That is quite true. The deluge may tomo after u.3. But we do not -dant to be a party to bringing about a deluge, in Can- ada, of tho surplus products of the United States, that would inevitably flood our people out of their com- fortable homes, without even an ark of safety that they could take refuge in, but would be reduced to to the extremity of many of the western American farmers who have to live in dug out lluloe in the ground, and deprived of the usual conveniences of Canadian life, on account of the very low prices they get from the free market conditions existing among their 60,000,000 of fellow .citizens. No, wo do not fear any such deplorable condition for our people so long as the \Iac- donaldites goveiu the country, as they are now duiug, in acuordauce with the well understood wishes and welfare of the people. EDITORIAL ,NOTES. Sir It. D. Mosier, .English am- bassador at St. -Petorsbueg, had a diplomatic positiuu at Berlin during the Franco-l't•ussiau war. Ilerbert Bismarck recently stated that he act- ed the part of a spy awl gave infer. math's) to the French Government during the war. Mosier has proved the falsity of thin accusation and asked Herbert Bismarck to retract,. The latter refuses. Lord Salsbury hats ask ocl;"old_ man" _P,ism areit 1e sot things right or Ile will agree with Monier that young Bismarck is "no gentleman" and consequently not the sou of his father. The Moutreetl.Herald building was insured fur $3,000. It was burned down. The insurance company refused to pay the amount of the risk, contending the policy had expired.. The firo occurred on the very day the policy expired, and was in force if the first and lust days •of the period the policy was to run were included. Tho court decided that if a policy is dated on a given day in ono year and is to run until the salve day in another year the days shall bo in- elusive, and rendered a verdict for the plaintiff. An exchange iu the following refers to Dr. hole taking the ground. A hole in the -ground, oh 1 . That hole holds to being filled up with 'something• other•than water :—Rev. 1)r. Hole, the well-known dean of Itochester, F,ngland, recently preach- ed a sermon iu which he took the ground that. tho person who partook moderately of alcoholic beverages was more Manly and more noble than he who, owing to a lack of moral strength, abstained altogether. Ile,' fur one, ho said, would always oppose the attempt to Brake the church a total abstinence society instead of :t temperance society. The prevailing idea in Canada is that tint vur�;tl sullrage prevails in the United Status. This is •not the case. Those who vote for President, tho Constitution says, shall have. the qualifications requisite for electors of the State legislature. Federal as well as State electors are subject to the con- trol of the respective States so far as the franchise is concerned. The qual- ifications vary in the different States, residence from three months to two years being ono of the requisites. Connecticut, in addition to citizen- ship, requires a voter to be of good moral character and bo able to read any article of tho Constitutiou or Statutes. Delaware, the payment of a. • county tax. Pennsylvania, payment of a tax within two years. !Rhode Island, ownership of real es- tate to the value of $137, or seven dollars annual rental. It will bo remembered that French capitalists with DoLessops at lea head have been digging a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, Central America. The company has failed after spending millions of money on rho work. Tho French Government is considering the pro- priety of taking over the work and completing it. The American Cov- et went threaten to stop the work if taken in hand by the French Government. America for Ameri= cans is the cry, and no foothold in America for any foreign power. The Monroe doctrine is thus again revived. It is this impertinence of some Americans that has been working up the annexation of.Can- ada. But the present throat goes farther than President Monroe ever dreamt of, He merely declared against the Americaa continent be• ing made use of for "any new col- onial settlement by a European power." ROBERTSON has decided, owing to the unprecedented a.uecesti of his GREAT G1GAN, TIC GIFT SALE, to prove to the people Isis appreciation of their patron- age and liberality, by holding during the month of JANUARY, prepara- tory to STOCK TAKING, a Tromelldous: S!aiightor : Sale. We willow!' our Goods WITHOUT RESERVE. Our object is to get thele out and LIMN make room for the mw'stuff iia the Spring. WOUR PRI(;ES will he CUT CLEAR TO THE BONE. We are mound they shall not stand in the a a ay of close buyers. - NOTE CAREFULLY THE PRICES : We start with that Magnificent GREY COTTON at 5„ eeuts. TOWELS AND 'TOWELLINUS at 5 cents. ALL -WOOL TWEEDS from 35c. A big stock of REMNANTS will be run off at HALF their original value. The balance of our DRESS GOODS AT COST. MANTLES et $2 and $3, worth $7 and $10. MANTLE GOODS CIIEAP. Every• thing AWAY DOWN. FW' The Goods at these prices must be erten to brt appreciated. Call and Nee us early; Rohortsoll's Great £ash L8tOfO RIVAL WIDOWS. THEY wins CONTEST EACH OTHER'S CLAIM To TIIEIR SUPPOSED HUS. BAND'S PROPERTY.. A stiange story, having in it the elements of a romance, comes from the township of East \Vawanosh, in the County of Huron. Over thirty years ago a man nonmed 'Phomas Price united in the township from Wales, and securing a tract of bush land, proceeded to make for himself a home. A few months after his arrival he married the daughter of a neighboring farmer. The bride was one of the.tnost beautiful girls in the township. Together the couple worked, almost slaved, to provide a 1101118 for their old age. They succeeded, and were soon in comfortable circumstances. The young wife did not stop at anything, and even helped her husband to plough and gather in the harvests. On Jan. 13, 1888, Mr. Price dropped dead from paralysis of tate heart. His• widow applied for and received letters of administration of the estate, and assumed the manage - meta. A few months ago she received a letter from Messrs. Kingston, Wood and Symons, Of Toronto,, claiming the property for a woman whom they alleged was the first wife of Price, and, whoa he had married in the County of Radnor, Wales, thirty•two years ago. They only lived together two years, Price working as a farm laborer, and they mutually agreed to part. After her husband had been absent some years, Mrs. Price No. 1 married again. Slie did not .hear anything of him until sI -x years ago, wheii Mr., Price visited his relatives in the next county. As soon as she: heard 'of his demise she placed her claim in the hands of an English lawyer, who communicated with the Toronto firm, and supplied them with all the proofs of the first marriage. Mrs. Price No. 2 die putes the claim, and will contest it in the courts should a compromise not be effected. The case will probably conte before the High Court at Osgoode Hall.—London Free Press. —Ontario contributes three•fifth of the total postal revenue of the Dominion. ng M. —The Dominion treasury shows a surplus of $4,250,000 at "the close of the six months ending December 31. • — Hon. Jas. McShane, ,ex•Minisa ter of Public Works in the Quebec Cabinet, has been disqualified for seven years for bribery. —It is reported that the English Salt syndicate is endeavoring to buy ug all the malt works on the Ameri- cau continent. "There is hope yet for the Huron s=alt potentates. —Emigration from the United Kingdom to Canada increased 3,000 ; to the United States decreased 5,- 566, to Australia 2,961, the past year. — City Solicitor Biggar, of Toron- to, has given notice of application to Parliament for power to compel the removal of telegraph poles and the placing of all wires under- ground. —The other day Mr. Peter Moody and John Zettle of Zurich, cut a green beech log, 16 inches in diameter, in 50 seconds, with a cross -cut saw. This is considered good work. • de - ng -The Dominion public debt c creased nearly $300,000 duri December. — Miss Nellie Morrison, of Bay- field, hats been visiting at Mr. A. Williamson's, Kincardine. —Mrs. S. Merritt, of Goderich — \ letter received from Van. •township, has rented the farm be. couver states that two cars of longing to Mr. Wellington Connor, Yokohama silk, valued at $300,000, on the gravel road, near Bayfield. left there for the east recently. There are 140 acres in the place, 80 cleared, and he gets it for $100 the first year and $200 fur the second. 1llontreal , woman minted Charest•was deserted hy her hos. bend 25 years ago. Since then she, has 018rtied twice, her last I ushaud still living. Iter first husband has returned with a fortune of $30,000, but it is eon-idered that this will not effect it arlianio in her present rela- tions. Hundreds have used Powell's Sarsaparilla and Burdock for dyspep- sia, indigestion, and as aBlood puri- fier. Price 50c. a bottle, Sold by all druggists. 488.21 lt1R'I'11S. \Vat.s11—I11 Cloderich on .Tau., 2nd the wife cd Mr. W. T. Welsh of a son. MARRIAGES. Rtori.Euoa—JllliNsl•oNa. —In Clinton on .Dec 24th by Rev. W. Cri(ig,M•. 1�'ilfiam Rutledge of Coderich 'Township to Mas Mary J. Johnstone of 'Clinton. 11cOEE—CRCICKSILINK—At the resiclencie of the brills father oil Dec 21st by.ltev. W. Craig, Mr. W. M. McGee to Janet It., daughter of M•. C. Cruickshank all of Clinton. krr1Ni ON--:leers•.--A't St, Paul's Churli, • Clinton Dec. 26th, by Rev. W. Craig, 11. D., Mr. harry J. Atkinson, Strat- ford, to Frances, eldest daughter of the late Philo Noble, of Goderich. Have you dyspepsia'?- it so, use Powe11'k Sarsaparilla and Burdock, the most powertul remedy in -the market. Price 50c. a bottle, Sold by all druggists. 488.21 FARM AND MARKET. —A Pnslinch farmer brought. to Galt market the other day two wain tooth geese which weighed --104 each and and were last June's goslings at that. —Dr. Chipman, presidout of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Associa. tion, writes to - the Halifax Herald that the last shipment of a cargo of Nova Scotia apples to London avers aged $2.50 per barrel clear of all ex• poises, and some ccrefully packed 131euheiuts realized $(i per barrel there and netted the Nova Scotia grower $.4.50 per barrel. —Warwick township, county of Lambton, is evidently as great place for raising grain. On ono hundred acre farms Messrs. 'Hugh and John Bryce raised 1,500 and 1,60) bushels of grain respectively, and on 200 acre farms Messrs Kingston, Miller and Craig raised 2,400, 3.000 and 2,700 bushels respectively, besides the usual concouiitants of other grain, roots, bay and pasture. TORONTO MARKET$.—Wheat $1.oa to $1.20, the latter price for No.. 1 Manitoba hard. Barley 65c to Glc. Oats 32c to Mc. Teas GOc. Potatoes '10c to 50c per bag. Eggs, fresh, 20c. Butter 10c to Ilk. Hogs $0.50 to $ 66.75. DE•rrorr Mansisrs.—Wheat to V.01. Barley 53c to 04c.• 27c to 21)c. Butter I0c to 22c. 21c. 'Apples $1.00 to 931.50. Burt;aLo MARicars.—Graded steers 1.500 to 1.600 tbs $5.00 t0 85.35 ; from 1.300 to 1.400 lbs $3.80 to $4.05 ; light butchers •from $2.50 to $3.50. (logs $4.75 to $5.504 MARKET REPORTS. (Corrected every Tuesday afternoon.) CLINTON Flour $6 00 to 6 00 Fall Wheat, new & old 1 00 to 1 03 Spring Wheat 1 00 to 1 03 Barley .. C 50 to 0 00 Oats .. 0 32 to 0 33 Peas . 0 58 to 0 58 Apples,(winter) per bbl 1 00 to 1 50 Potatoes .. 0 30 to 0 35 Butter .. 0 18 to 0 19 Eggs 0 17 to 0 19 Hay 12 00 to14 00 Cordwood 3 00 to 4 00 Beef ., 0 00 to 0 00 Wool 0 20 to 0 25 Pork . 6 50 to 6 70 80.02 Oats Eggs To have good health use Powell's. Sarsaparilla and Burdock, it cleanses and enriches the blood. Price, 50e. a bttole. Sold by all druggists. 488 2 t Auction Sale register Parties getting their sale Bills printed at this office will revel e n free notice up to date of sale, under shove heading. Otherwise, regular ado ertising rates will lie charged.