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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-01-23, Page 4Q The Huron Dews -Record 11.50 a Year—$1.25 1n Aayance• Wednesday. Janv. 43rd. 1889 WHO PAYS THE DUTY. It is wonderful strange how per- sons who have a pre -conceived idea concerning anything will close their eyes to the plainest proofs against their pet theories, while perverting far-fetched absurdities in favor of them. It is often stated, for in- stance, that were it not for the American duty of ten (tents on bar- ley, Canadian farmers would receive that amount more per bushel for what the Americans buy of us. The position is totally untenable. Of course this is -a case of "who pays the' duty ?" Now, there are cases where the consumer pays the duty, and there are cases where he does not. Circumstances alter cases. Where a country does not produce enough of or not at all an article which its people require, and if a duty is put upon it they pay the duty. Large quantities of tea and coffee are used in Canada. We eehno.t 'madam abeam There wee a duty on them and we paid the duty. The duty was removed and those articles did not. remain at the same price as when the duty was on. Nor did the foreign producers get au enhanced price for them equal to the duty taken off. Not at Those articles were lessened in value in Canada by the amount of the duty. Were such not the case we in Canada would be better off by keeping the duty on. Tho normal value iu the producing coun- tries remained the same. The same reasoning will apply to the barley question. The Americans want our barley. They cannot do without it any more than we can do without tea and coll'oo, though substitutes aright be introduced. If the Amer. lean duty were taken off Canadian barley, the normal price iu Canada would remain the same as it is, sub- ject of course to the ordinary market flucttfitions. In the matter of horses and lambs sold by Canadian farmers for American use, the positiou is the sauce. The consumers there do not raise enough of them for their own use. They buy from us be- cause 'of their home shortage. They pay the duty because they roust have them. That duty causes higher value there. Take the duty off and they `vou.id buy thept there the amount of the. d•sty less, but the present,or normal price at auy given time iu Canada, would re main unchanged. Just as when we took the duty off tea, we who paid the duty bought it at the amount of that duty less. One has only to refry to the flutter among Canadian importers of tea when the duty on it was proposed to be taken off. Those who had stocks on hand were allowed a refund of the duty they had paid. And were the American duty taken off barley, those who had in stock unusedimportations that had paid the duty would be allowed a refund of the amount., This would not be the case were it couceivable that the' price in Canada would be enhanced to the extent of the duty. Because then new importations would cost as much as former ones. Au inconceivable condition of things, because utterly at variance with the well kuowu laws of supply and demand. the catechumens 300, all of thinner() native Italians and converts from Romanian. There are elders and deacons in good order and number, three colporteurs, a Bible woman, and numerous Sunday schools and day schools, from whom it is hoped there will come many who will be faithful members of the Church of Christ. Speaking of the aggressive character of the work, Signor Gavazzi described it as fighting, without bloodshed, against Roman - ism on the one hand and skepticism on the other. The battle is not against conscientious Papists, in- dividually, but against the 'pony orrora of the Romish Church in general—against the human impo- sitions of Popery, whereby the Scriptures are kept from the people. Going to the Italians with the sword of the Spirit, the Bible—only the Bible, and the whole Bible, the in- spired and infallible Word of God —the Free Christian Church en- deavors to preach the gospel of Christ and Him crucified, and in- tends to follow the Captain of Sal- vation, starching ou to victory. LET US REST AND BE THANKFUL. The Canadian farmers are asked by the unrestricted weciprocists or commercial union advocates to throw open the Canadian market to the Americans who raise enormous quantities of like produce with the farmers pa this side the line. We aro asked to form a combine with the Americans against the world. We are asked to form a combine with the Americans agaiust Great Britain and other portions of the British Empire—against our best customers. One would think that Canada cannot get along without the American market. The Ameri- cans buy from us now just what they want, what they 'require, just as they buy from Britain, just as Brit- ain buys from them. Americans will continue to bny what they want from us . even under existing con- ditious. They buy from us • what they cannot ecouomically raise themselves or buy from themselves. They would buy no more under commercial union than they now do. On the other hand they would sell us more of their cheaper agri- cultural products. Take the duty off pork, corn, oats, wheat, etc. and the Americans would control our market. The duty is the Canadian farmers best friend. The market for Canadian farm surplus is Britain. A few floating paragraphs which have been published merely as matters of local news will show this. Tho Lindsay Warder of -a few days ago has this : " The poor Canadian farmer. •Mr. Ed. Burton of Cam - bray, Victoria county, last week sold to Messrs. Spratt & Killen of . this town, 52 bushels and 15 lbe Alsike clover seed, the product of a few acres of land in Fenelon, and received therefor the sum of $418 in solid cash. This clover seed goes to that terrible country, Great Bri- tain, and is largely used in dyeing" And another exchange gives this information : " There's money in butter making, according to a Peter• boro' paper, which proceeds to tell how Mrs John L. TeifS 1, of Ennis - more, kept an account during the past summer of the profits accruing from aix cows up to Aug. 15, and seven from that time till the ou.d of November. Besides keeping a family of seven, a hired man and a servant girl, and having a daily supply and sufficient to do over the coming winter, she has netted $150.- 44, and raised four calves, which averaged in value $4 each making a total of $166.44. The number of pounds of butter sold was 705, and was bought for export to Britain." And we all know that Britain is the market for our cheese and our cattle and our surplus of grain. Our export of grain in not large, which is very gratifying. The most of it is consumed in the country to feed our home population and realises the best price in conse- quence. With commercial union it is conceded on all hands that the Americans would so push the sales of their manufactures hero that they would destroy our manufacturing industries, end our artisans and those engaged in trade depending upon them would have to emigrate to the groat centres of American in - d ustries. Commercial Union, then, destroy - A. CHURCH RE'FORJAER DEAD. The notorious Father Gavazzi, of Rome, died there last week. Many Canadians will remember his visit to Canada about thirty years ago. Riots in Montreal and Quebec being the result of his propoganda against the Church of Rome. IIe also preached throughout Ontario. Ho returned to Italy and founded the Free Christian Church there. At the recent meeting of the Pan - Presbyterian Alliance, held in Lon- don, Eng., he gave an account of the progress of the new Church. Judging by his remarks there he seems to have abated somewhat from Ws ()oilier itirliseritninet' denuncia- tions of Catholics as well es Roman - ism. iluloeging to his church in Italy ho said there were fourteen ordain - el pastors, sixteen evangelists, a theological college in Rome, with several promising students, thirty r.,cular churches, and four , out- stations regularly visited. The communicants number 1,600 and ing our manufacturing industries and glutting our market with Ameri- can low priced agricultural products, would cort:duly produce uuiversul disaster. And to cap the climax, as we have several times proved by comparing American and Canadian statistics, our taxation would at least be doubled if uot trebled. O URSEL VES AND FRIENDS. As we have just passed 'another inilestune in the ntuudane and material existence of THE NEWS - RECORD, it may not ne out of place now to thank our inauy friends for their past favors and solicit them for the future. As regards friends we must object to the lines of Guy "Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless toone you stint the flame. The child whom many father's share, Hath seldom known a father's care. 'Tis thus in friendship, who depend On many, rarely find a friend." Nu, this is not by any means as bad a world as it is .sometimes represented. Friendship eau be more than a name and yet be diffused among many. Wo have depended upou many and found many who "Our and our country's friends have proved _ All happy, generous, candid and beloved." These we hope to retain and have their number increase.. So far this year our hopes are in a fair way of becoming realized. Renew- als are -,numerous, and besides the tendering of money we have been tendered innumerable kind expres- sions of appreciation of THE News - RECUR ID, both written and oral, some of them literally and others substantially as follows :—"The most eagerly looked for paper in our house" ; "a paper that broadly grasps public questions and intelli- gently chrystallizes public opinion thereon" ; "newsy, without con- taining anything that would injure the social standing or business prospects of . any person" ; "the only paper in which I find the selected and original matter interest- ing"; "a party paper without being partisan" ; "the best and cleanest printed, and most readable paper I have ever taken" ; "my eye- sight is failing and TttE NEws- RECOnD is the only paper I take comfort in reading, the print is- so plain, indeed it. is the only paper I care to road" ; "I don't caro about the paper tuysel'f, but the wife will have it" ; "some of my children are well up in their teens and they often call my attention to articles in THE NEws•RECOBD which stimulate their desire for reading historical and other standard litera- ture"; "I don't care much about novel nonsense, but the funny short stories in your paper make the young folks merry and I often catch that from them as I hear them reading it." We could fill columns with ex- tracts from letters 'and conversations in commendation of THE NEWS - RECORD. We have endeavored to merit the support as well as retain the friendship of our army of readers throughout the county and elsewhere. There are some few who should be our supporters as well as our friends and who are not. We deplore this. There are also a few faint hearts who have fallen away from us professedly because they are "too poor" to take a paper, but really, wo opine, because we are not so narrow-minded as they aro ; because we clo not run the paper to snit their several idio- syncracis. This would be impossi- ble. While we aim to offend none, we do not try to please all, which would be equally impossible. We aro pleased to say that this year so far the uew names added to our lists aro nearly double those taken off. Our friends can strengthen our hands very much. If every present subscriber would secure only 'ono besides himself, which ought to be easily dorso, our readers would approximate the 10,000 which wo desire to reach. The paper is only $1.25 a year if paid iu advance, and any honest man who says lie is too poor to take it but would like to have it, we will send it to him gratis. We may refer to the work wo have done and are doing and may justify ourselves iu the words of a couplet used at the annual Globe dinner a fow evenings ago, in Toronto. True modesty is a charming grace, And only blushes in the proper plane. Well, we claim that there is no paper published in the ;Quay that is the superior of TUE Nrwe- RECORD, and few its equal. We have three timoe increased' its size since we amalgamated the Guderioh NRws with the RsooRn. We have more then doubled the circulation of either of those. We set up wore newspaper matter in our office than is set up in any other paper in Wast Huron. Nothing is put in for the sake of "filling up." A large staff of correspondents in various parte of the county keep or renders well posted in local a tufai rs. Our selections are not taken pro- miscuously, but with an eye to please, iaterest and instruct. Matters pertaiuing to the welfare of town and county are treated in a tanner that is free from partisan or sectarian bias. Editorial ratter ire the well considered outcome of a review of official rind other reliable documeuts, and 'u this line a well conducted cuunry journal should carry more weight in its constituency than metropolitan patty journals, which too often have a largo pile of' loaves and fishes in view to tinge their sentiments. Our sole object as regards this, being by the party for the• country. And as the ltev. Dr. Briggs said of Rev. Mr. Jeffrey "We copy no oue." . Wo have the same documents to form ouropin- ions from as city papers, and in many cases are freer to eonseien• tiously use our deductions there- from. We have worked up THE NEWS -RECORD to a very envitble position and though, as Rev. Dr. Potts said of Rev. Dr. Jeffrey, "we are not perfect, we would be rather lonesome if we were," yet we have dune the best that our light would allow us to do for God and Country. EDITORIAL N07'ES. The Hamilton Spectator says of :llowat,the little man "never speaks ou the spur of the moment." Cer- tainly not, he has an easier seat than that. New Brunswick doctors will not attend ..patients unless they get their foes in advance, and clergymen re- fuse to perform the marriage cere- mony unless they receive spot cash. Hon. A. S. Hardy has been sworn in as Commissioner of Crown Lands in place of Hon. T. B. Pardee re signed owing to bad health, and J. M. Gibson, of Hamilton, has been sworn in as. Provincial Secretary in place of Mr. Hardy. Good enough. The Globe re- ferring to the protested election of White of Cardwell say s:—"There. may :—"There - may be no perjury in the Cardwell election case, and yet there may be some witnesses who will swear that White is black. The Hamilton police magistrate has declared that lotteries at church bazars are illegal, and the promoters of one in aid of the Reformed Epis- copal church were going to be prosecuted when they threatened to prosecute those concerned in the Art Fair, and that was the`"end of the whole affair, and church and art are benefitted by what the law holds to bo gambling. ROBERTSON hue cleci4 d; owing to the unprecedented sucures e„_,his GREAT GIGA.N• T1C Gllif'i' SALE, to prove to the people hie appreciation of their patron- age and liberality, by holding during the month of JANUARY, prepare-- tory repare.tory to STOCKTAKING, a Sir John Macdonald says the Government will shortly extend the franchise towards manhood suffrage, and this causes the word to go round that there will be a general election shortly. We do not believe that an appeal will bo made to the peo- ple in the near future, but if it were made it would only show that the "old man " is not afraid of "the people." Tremeuous : Slaughter: Sale. We will sell our Goods WITHOUT RESERVE. Our ohje t is to get them out and thus make room for the new stuff iu the Spring. FOUR PRICES will be CUT CLEAR TO THE BONE. We are bound they shall tot stand in the way of closeJuy'ers. NOTE CAREFULLY THE PRICES We start with that Magnificent GREY COTTON at 5 cents. TOWELS AND TOWELLINGS at 5 cents. ALL -WOOL TWEEDS from 35c. A pig stock of REMNANTS will be run off at HALF their original value. The balance of our DRESS GOODS AT COST. MANTLES at $2 and $3, worth $7 and $10. MANTLE GOODS CHEAP. Every• thing AWAY DOWN. lair The Goode at these prices must be seen to be appreciated. Call and see us early. Robertsoll's Great Cash Store It is .reportedthat in addition to performing household duties, she has to attend to correspondence and literary work. In order to econo- mize valuable time she has just commenced to learn typewriting. The example set by the talented wife of the Premier is worthy of emulation by all Canadian ladies. Harpers Weekly says with regard to the hearing of the absurd Monroe doctrine ou the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, "If the isthmian state should choose to open up a waterway within its own dominions, and without under- standiugs with great foreign powers we could uot object." Why object under any conditions. If the central American states raise 00 objection to the French government completing a work commenced by French citizens how is this to affect the United States? The United States are not the arbiters of the destinies or doings of central Ameri- ba any more than they are the dictators of tho policy of British North America. The TVeekly answers, "The express declaration of the United States is a conclusive reason" why the French govern- ment should not complete the canal although the states through •which it passes are agreeable. Tho St. Thomas Thees refers to the work of Rev, Mr. Cripps in a way that shows lie is a hustler. "On Tuesday he rode 6 miles and married a couple of young people at Courtland at ten o'clock. Then ho rode another mile and married two more couples. Again he mount- ed his charger and rode another mild anti made another couple happy, and made his journey home in the dark." Many young ladies pride them- selves on how little work they do, erroneously thinking that labor of any kind is undignified, But there is a good kind of angel always wait- ing upon diligence, while idleness, for its reward, is generally attended with unhappiness. Tho highest Canadian lady scents to bo diligent, taking a hand le such delightful past - times and to benefit by the distribu- tion of"swag" over there that the handful of annexationists in Canada are desirous of assitnilatiug the con- dition of things here,with that which_ prevails there? In its issue of Jan.4th the Specta- tor in referring to the disqualifica- tion of Mr. McShane M. P. P. for Montreal Centre, said: 'Well. good-bye, Jimmie McShane. It is only eight years after all. And then perhaps Mr. Mercier will come to your rescue as Mr. Mowat did, and relieve you from the effects of your indiscretions. Why not? Is not Mr Mercier as great a statesman as Mr. Mowat? And shall it be said that he is not able to aocomplish whitewash" ings which Mr. Mowat found so easy? All may .be well yet. Keep up a stout heart Jimmy." • And as if to make good the words of the Spectator an associated Press telegram. from Quebec of the llth says: "The legislature at the adjourn• ment today - stands, adjourned till Tuesday at 3 o'clock. Notice was given of the government bill to give the right of appeal to the Queen's bench in cases of personal disquata- cation for corrupt practices at elec- tions." Should Mr. Mercier fail in his present little game he can go ono better and even up with Mr. Mowat' by "whitewashing" McShane as was done in the case of several Ontario members by Mr. Mowat. In tho Gibson -Heys contest in North Huron some years ago, Mr. Mowat did a little of that business. Harper's Weekly, of New York, an eminently Conservative journal, is struck with the fact that both the Democratic Governor of New York and the Republican Speaker of the New York Assembly should both lay great stress uyon the illicit use of money by both parties at the late elections. The former says, "It is believed the recent Presidential election was the most corrupt of any in the history of the country.' And the latter says"Never before in the history of our politics has money played so important, 'nublushing, and corrupt a part in the election of government officials." When representative men of both parties thus unite in declaring universal political debauchery, ono may be pardoned for believing that it was prevalent. Is it for the rurpcse of Baron Ilirch, a wealthy Jewish Parisian hanker, is of the opinion that the only salvation for the Jews is their disappearance as a distinc- tive race, and their assimilation and conversion to -Christianity. Ho has given very large sums of money for this purpose, more especially for educational purposes on a non- sectarian basis, where schools are open to Christian as well as Jewish children. Speaking of the convers- ion of Jews to Christianity he notes as a favorable sign that he Inas not kuowu of any Christians converted to Judaism, whereas thousands have renounced Judaism for the Gospel of the Crucified One. During the coming'session of the Dominion Parliament some enter- prising member should move for the aunexation of the state of Maine to the Dominion. There is much to be said in favor ofsuch a proposi- tion. Yes, one has only to refer to the arguments in the Maine legis- lature, when such a measure was introduced there about twenty years ago, to see considerable force in the suggestion. Just as Minister of Customs McKenzie Bowell remarked the other day of the Mail's present arguments against protection ; one has only reproduce the Mail of ten years ago to successfully refute the Mail of to -day. • Our Weekly Round Up —Gabriel Dumont is ill at Mon• treal with inflammation of the I ungs. --MVlrs Sarah Charles, an Oneida Indian. died on ,Friday aged 100 years. —Chicago slaughtered 1,882,000 head of cattle for dressed and canned meat for 1888. —The tariff gnestiou has been discussed for almost nine months by the United States Congress. —An advance of about ten per cent. in grey cottons has been agreed upon by the Canadian cotton manu- facturers. —Mr. Albert Bean, barrister, of Orilla, who wits killed on the rail- way last week, had his life insured for $40,000. —In less than three hundred working days of 1888 the superior Judges of San Francisco decreed 450 divorces. —The statement for the Govern- ment savings bank shows an i.tcrease of over a tuillion dollars in the deposits for the past year. —The new election for Hatlilton� consequent on Hon. J. M. Gibson's acceptance of the Provincial Secra- taryship, has been fixed for February 7th. —Two youny lady officers of the Salvation Army at Welland narrow- ly escaped being burned to death in a tire at the barracks on Saturday night. The Dominion Govefnment has decided not to interfere with the Quebec Jesuits Bill, the Act being one solely within the jurisdiction of the Provincial -legislature. Archbishop Corrigan has issued a circular which implies that all members of the Church attending meetiigs of the A nti-Poverty Society will be denied absolution. —A carload of cotton was shipped to China January 8th via C. P. R.