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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-03-20, Page 4k .CIVA1<tdlftl'Xionitert5 tido pall Who's Your Flatten --Jackson Bros. Now Wall Paper—A. Worthington. $5,000—John Robertson. Special this week—J. C. Dotlot• & Co. Special Bargains —Geo. E. Pay & Co. The Hub Grocery—Geo. Swallow. New' Livery—T. C. Doherty. .• Young Women \Vautod—Williams, Greene & Rogue Co, Wall Paper, ect.—Chris. Dickson. The Huron News -Record $1.60 a Year --81.25 in Advance. Wednesday, March 131h, 1889 MR. PORTER AND PROTEC- TION. Out cuutouiporary had the check last week in winding up a duletul blue -ruin picture of the condition of the farmers iu Canada—deep indigo blue at that—to quote Mr. A Porter as saying in the House that "Neither free trade nor protection can influence the prices of agricul- tural produce." We have carefully looked over Hansard and cannot find auy statement of Mr. Porter's that will bear out the above bald quotation. The whole tenor of Mr. Porter's remarks convey a directly opposite ,weaning. Ourcoutelnpor- ary has again fallen into its old rut of distortion. The most detestable mode of lying is the suppression of the whole truth. In order to make a point our contemporary has sup- pressed the truth and paraded an untruth in order to'injure the mem- her for West Huron. Mr. Porter never used the words given above in the way in which our coteul. gives hire credit for. We cannot do better than use Mr. Porter's own words in the House when character- izing such despicable conduct on the part of members of the'Opposi- tion :—"But, Sir, I tell those hon- orable gentlemen opposite than he "who distorts a truth or exaggerates "a misfortune for selfish motives or "ambitious ends,' is guilty of a grave "wrong against his country." While ivir. Porter has not said "neither free trade nor protection can influ- ence the prices of agricultural pro- duce," he has said that by its in- fluence the home Cauadian market would not be depressed by the influx of the --immense surplus of American farms ; that though it , might not iucrease prices, which we all know are regulated both far the bulk of American and Cauadian farm produce by the English mar- kets, which in tura are'regulated by good or bats crops, etc., we would be benefitted by having the Cana- dian market for the Canadian farmer. We will quote from Mr. Porter's remarks in the House theoherday, as given in Hansard, and which is the the speech to which our totem. refers to :— farmers sold of their own products, in their own markets, nearly $78,000- 00 worth or nearly $10,000,C00 a ear, more than in the eight years prior to the introduction of the Nati- onal Policy. Does not that show, and prove as clearly as figures can prove, that the National Policy has kept the Canadian market for the Cana- dian farmer. Let me put it in another way. Of the $128,000,000 of breadstuffs imported for home consumption for the sixteen years from 1872 to 1887 inclusive, 80 per cent were imported before 1879, and only 20 per cent. since that year. In the presence of these toots, I ask how hon. gentlemen can say that, in these articles at least, the National Policy has not kept the Canadian market for the Canadian farmer. This policy has also contributed largely ,to the advantage of the farmer in other respects in his occupation. There is nee question that, in regard to the dairy interests and the cattle exportation business, which are now forming the main interests of many farmers in this country, the National Policy has had a beneficial effect. But it is said that, even if the farmers are receiving a little woreror their stock and their dairy produce, if the National Policy has benefitted them in that way, they are being charged more than their fair share of the burdens of the country. That I also deny. I contend that such is the condition of the Canadiann farmer that, sups plying as he does so many of these articles for his own consumption, so many of the commodities which he uses himself, he is effectually and safely guarded against any ex,- cessive imports. The farmer of this country is able and willing to pay his fair share of the amount required to provide for the good government of the country, and he is not flattered by hon. gentlemen who represent him as a pauper or as an overburdened drudge. Some. tiling has been said in relation to the fall of the prices of farm pro- duce. The hon., the Finance Min• ister alluded ti*that subject in his Budget speech, I will for a short time examine that matter a little further, and show how it is, apart altogether from any fiscal policy, that the prices of agricultural products of every kind, not only in Canada, but the world over, have fallen. When hon. gentlemen are discussing the low prices of produce here and the low receipts which farmers get for what they raise, they should be honest. They should not say that it is the National Policy that causes the fall in prices, We are often told that the National Policy has bad the most injurious ef- fect upon the interests of the farmer, and in this respect I am not at all inclined to agree with hon. gentle- man opposite .that certain promises were made to this country; and they have repeated in this House time and again that it was promised the National Policy would bring higher prices for farmers' produce. In fact the right hon. the First Minister has been charged time and again, with having made this promise. Now, I consider that is a wilful misrepre- sentation of the facts. It is a wilful misrepresentation both of the spirit and the letter of all the arguments that we ever heard on this subject. All that we say in defence of the National Policy was simply that since the people of the United States would not admit our produce to their markets upon the same terms as we admitted theirs to ours, and since their farmers wore driving our own farmers oat of the country and oblige them to sell their product in a foriegn land, then we would ' take a leaf from their book and pro tett ourselves, and whatever advan- tage was to be obtained by having a home market for the farmers, we would have. That was all that was ever said. Now, the question to be asked and answered in this ilouso is not, Ilas the National Policy made prices higher or lower, because no one ever contended that it could have such an efleet, but the question is, Has the National Policy kept the Canadian market for the Canadian farmer? If it has, then I contend 'that all the objections that those hon. gentlemen on the opposite benches make to the National Policy in regard to its influence on the farming eommunity, are perfectly groundless, and that that they have no foundation whatever in fact. I shall 'now proceed to show you from the few statistics 1 have here that this contention has been ful- filled, and that the Canadian market has been kept for the Canadian farmer. In the eight years preceding the adoption of the National Policy, $1(13,3.10,226 worth of wheat, flour and other breadstuffs was im• ported into Canada for home con, surnption. in the eight years succeeding. the National Policy only $25,459,169 worth has been imported, That is to say, that our EDITORIAL NOTES. our manufacturers have reason to complain. I don't know bow the Foundry or Mr. Fair find it but figur. ing on the number of organs going from and freight coming to the Organ Factory I find on investigation that there is a difference of say, 62,000 per year in favor of compet- ing points in rates, This is an im- portapt item in a years business and I don't suppose it has been pointed out or understood by our people. And if Clinton wishes to retain her factories she ought in justide to all concerned secure as low rates of freight as competing points have, or else make it good, that is, make up the loss to the manufacturers by bonus. Besides the great • question of freights, other places have more than one Chartered Bank with a correspondingly low rate of interest, which is quite important: And we bave no Water Works causing high rates of Insurance. No free delivery of freights etc. Don't think me a Jeremiah. Those questions have -never been laid before our people. I don't think Mr. Doherty has any desire to change location all things being made equal, which is only Lair. Yours, VERITAS An annexation journal says.— 'Sir Richard Cartwright advises Mr. Foster not to ransack. th'e antipodes for a trade which would not bo worth , unis hundredth part of that which lies at • his doors. This puts the policy of the Torics in a nut- shell. They loin• to far Cathay and the isles ut' the Soutlleru sous for a trade that is within trilling dis- tance." Jest so. The trade that lies' at uur dour would be worth one hundred tinea more than the trade of other foreign countries or of other portions of the British empire, to the—Americans. Mr. Cartwright's advice is very.guod from the Ameri- can standpoint. But. Canadians do nut want the surplus pf the pro- duct's -of 60,000,000 to compete with the surples of uur 5,000,000 people. We waut to extend our trade with customers who want to buy what we produce, nut with people whose products are similar to ours and who instead of buying . from us want to sell to us. THE JESUITS. Rev. Father Flannery's Reply to Ven. Dean Innis. Continued from third page. t:ouvioted afterwards for having forged letters attributed to the Jesuits, were the bitterest enemies of the Fathers. Even Henke, Protestant historian (History of the Papacy, iv., 494), says:—They per - seeded Charles III. that the Jesuits wished to put Iiia brotlfer,Luiz in his place. Choiseul had forged deco• rueuts circulated all over Spain to the effect that the king was the ille- gitimate child of Elizabeth Farness and King Philip, and, therefore, Hliuuld he dethroned. These letters were attributed to the Jesuits." The Protestant historian, Sizn ondi says (Hist. of the French xxix, 370) "the plots and c.;pabater plots,slander- ous accusations, forged letters, intended to be intercepted, and which were, in short determined the resolution of the king." Editor News -Record. S1a,—I quite agree, with the senti- ments expressed in your leader in last weeks NEws-Itutonn:—" To warn but not to alarm," and as yoe have asked for an expression of opinion I freely give you my views on the subject. It is a great pity our most important industry (The Orrtan Fac- tory) cannot be retained. The ques- tion naturally arises, what are the causes that have led to the contemp- lated removal of this factory ? Ilas the by-law exempting the factory premises from taxation for ten years (which was granted by a former council, unsolicited, before Mr. Doherty built,) been complied with? No. It has on the.part of Mr. Doher- ty, but not by the council. The fac- tory has been exempt for six years only. I understand that Mr. Doherty did not take advantage of it for the first four years. Now it is certainly contrary to the spirit if not the letter of the'bylaw to collect taxes on the propertyuntil he had receiv- ed the benefit of the full term of ten years exemption as agreed. It was certainly a mistake and looks like sharp practi.;e on the part of the council and had been detrimental to the manufacturing interests of the town as well, because others have noticed it and make a handle of it t , prevent manufacturers (of any note) locating here. The policy of the town and council of late years has been inimical to manufacturing interests. We have ,not unitedly watched and aided in every possible way our industries, other towns have, and among other things have their Boards of Trade, whose special duty it is to watch the interests of the place, securing the best possible rates of freight, better-accomorlation &c. 1 know of one town that has secured city rates of freight by giv- ing a cash bonus. have our people attempted or even thought of the advantage this would be to our manufacturers ? Not that I know of. Comparing Clinton with other places in the matter of freight I find Jonas was restored—and so were the Jesuits. Every other Pope sustained the Jesuits against their enemies, who were the JanseniHts, the infidels, the Jezebels, the corrupt statesmen and the Kings of Europe beset with infidel tendencies and tyrannical dis- positions. To show how Pope Clement XIV., was driven by the force of circum• stances to suppress the Jesuit order against his inclination, it is sufiicis ent merely mention the very first it Bull of hie ontificate "tales tiurn. menerum," which is in their favor, and in which he says :—"As we reckon among those faithful laborers, iu the fields of the Lord, the religi. ous of the Society of Jesus, we most assuredly desire to nourish and in- crease by spiritual favors the enter- prising and active piety of those religioua [nen." But to conte nearer home, let us find out the cause of the trouble between the Jesuits and Frontenac. Here, fortusnrrtely, we are not oblit• ed, Tike. the Dean, to quote a gar- bled sentence from Emmanuel, Aphor, Confessariorunl, or from fifty•hand editions of Gabriel ValasqueH, where neither volume, article or page is mentioned. I quote from something more easily procured, "The Child's History of Canada," by Henry Miles, M. A., LL. D., D. C. L., sanctioned by the Council of Public Instrustion, by. Here I find that Bishop Laval wire a member of the Supreme Council. It is not true, as stated by Dean Innes, that Bishop Laval was a Jesuit. In the capacity of Supreme Conncellor it was in Bis- hop Laval'n right to disagree with Governor Frontenac. And not only Miles' history, hut every other history relates how the Jesuits quarrelled with Governors D'Argenson, D'Avaneour and Front- enac on the question of the liquor traffic. These governors were feathering their own nests by ins' troducing, or allowing to be intro- duced. fire -water by the ship load among the Indians: The traffic nigh ruined the great work accom- plished by the missionaries, the savages came to like firewater so much that they would part with furs, clothing, even their children in order to obtain it. All the faults of the Indians were made worse by drunkenness. ; The miesionaries at Quebec complained that the use of fire -water supplied to the Indians had destroyed their labors of thirty years. But the Gevernor connived at the open infraction of the severe laws enacted by the Supreme Coun• til, and sanctioned by the kings of France, against this debasing, ruinous liquor traffic. If, there.. fore, the Jesuits came in conflict with the Governors of their day, it was in defence of the lives and souls of the Indians imperilled by the infamous liquor traffic encourag- ed by sold Governors. And now, we ask in all seriousness, is posterity going to condemn the Jesuit Fathers for protecting and saving their Neophites, body and soul, at the dictation of Von. Dean Innes? We trow not. But in this instance, as in all others where true history if allowed. to speak, we find the much slandered, much -al -weed Jeenit Fathers on the side of tehiperance, on the side of pure morality, on the side of the poor and oppressed, against the cupidity, the lust and the tyranny of the people's oppress- ors. Jesuits were the fathers of the poor and the pioneers,of pure moral- ity acid civilization in every land. They did in their day, and did effectually, what advanced Protes- tant missionaries are now striving for in Ontario. They established the White Cross League on every pnint of vantage ground along the lakes and great rivers of our country end they destroyed the liquor traffic which it would he well for the Von Dean to deeignate,instead of Jesuits, as "one of the greatest curses that ever visited the earth," hut which by implication he sustains with the corrnpt governor$ D'Argenaon and Frontense. The Ven Dean says that Protes- tants don't forget, if we do, that Ignatius of Loyola and Camila res newed the inquisition in 1542 Neither should he forget what occurred in England at the sante period. We are quite willing if he allows us, to forget how the church of which he is a dignitary, baptized its cradle in the blood of Sir Thomas Moore; of 'Bishop Fisher and •of others. Tt is the inen of to -day we have t.n ileal with, and not with the sanguinely code of three hundred years gone by, whose 'enactments prevailed both in Prot.estsnt and Catholic conntries. The Jesuits of to -day are known and revered by all who have met them, or heard them, or seen their good works. I am, yours, on the part of the l?eiord, W. FLANNERY, P. P. ' —The New York• Legislature has had presented for its consideration n hill, similar in its provisions to that Itsfore the Legislature of Michigan, requiring the inspection alive with- in that State, of cattle intended for cniasuntption within itH limits. The object is the same as in 'alichigen— to prefect the feeders of the State front cunt pet Hien witl. Chicago dre;;-ed meats. The Jesuits were condemned without a hearing. In a single day all the Jesuits in Spain, to the number of 6,000, were arrested, all their papers and effects seized. They themselves were thrown into the holds of ships unseaworthy and leaking, autt cast upon the shores of foreign lands. They were not given. a fair trial or asked to defend them- selves. The Pigotts and the Hous - tons were, in those days, allowed to triumph in their rascality. There was no Sir.Chas. Russel permitted to unniask the conspiracy and save saintly and l,ouorable men from, the punishment of confiscation, exile and death. Is the Ven. Dean going to ap- prove of all this? It would appear ao from his wholesale condemnation of this Fathers es "one of the chief curses that ever visited earth." The next argument adrltic•eri in favor of the condemnation of the Jesuits is the Bull of suppression by Clement XIV. It mast be adutitt eti that in 1773 there existed neither railroads nor telegraphic communi- cation. It took a long time for truth to travel across continents and over seas and mountains, especi- ally when very few travelled, except those commissioned by kings or their Prime Ministers. It was a very easy matter in those days to misre- present facts and events, and to calumniate religious bodies, whose pure evangelizing • teachings were opposed to the infidel tendencies and the immoral practices of the corrupt and effete Bourbon courts of Prance, Spain, and Portugal, Sicily, and even Austria.. It might be under- stood how the united influence of all Hitch wicked counsellors and arch plotters, through their ambassa- dors, could disturb the mind of a young, innocent Pope, who, as Ranke tells us, " was ore of the mildest and most moderate of men, who lived in retirement from the world and hated quarrels of any kind." It was represented to Hie Holiness that the Jesuits were giv• ing trouble to the courts and gov- ernrnents of Europe. A nd for peace slake he signed, not the Bull, but the Brief, which is quite a different thing, in which he says, not what the Ven. Dean writes, but what the historian Ranke says :— "Inspired by the Divine Spirit, as we trust, urged by the duty of restoring coneord to the Churt•h, convinced that the i4eciety of Christ can nu longer effect those purposes for which it was founded, and rnov• ed by other motives of prudence and wise government which we keep locked in our own breast, we abolish and annul the Society of Jesus, its, offices, houses and 1118111utiont," All may see how heeitat.ingly this Brief itt worded, aril how reluctant- ly it must have been wrung from him fry tilofears of greater -,evils than the suppression of the Jesuits. " Never. perhaps, in modern tittles," says Scholl, " has the Pontifical See found itself in a crisis so fearful." The anti -religious party . riled in every court, and it is certain that the vartoui Ht ate`: meditated schism. Clement XIV dispell...l the denser. The Jam its, thrown ever board, like Jonas, quelled the storm. But ----o—o FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF New :-: Spring :-: Goods JUST OPENED UP t ftobertso'n's WE HAVE SECURED SOME Tremendous :-: BARGAINS and purpose giving the people the benefit of them. We have an extra large assortment of DRESS GOODS. We are offering a Nice Line of All-Woolat 15e. See them. Our stock of STAPLES is complete and well assorted. In short, we are chuck full from cellar to garret, and we ourselves stand ready to serve you to the very best of our ability. We very respectfully ask au inspection of our Stock. Robertson's Groat Cash Store ' ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN TORONTO. Ae the Empire prophesied St. Patricks day 1889 was generally observed throughout Canada. Relig- ious exercises were the order of the day in all the churches from the plainest evangelistic to the ornate episcopal. In Toronto REV FATHER TEEFY sketched the life of the saint. How, boru of noble and Christian parents, he was et the age of 16 years stolen and carried into slavery, and in the north of Ireland spent seven years of hardship and prayer. How, freed, he became inspired with a desire to spread the Gospel through benighted, pagan Ireland. How he studied patiently for years, and was at Route, "the source and fountain of all faith," consecrated tee first bishop of Irelan•.l. How, returning to Ireland, hs spent sixty years sowing the seed of Christianity and with such success that he ordained 3,000 priests to assist and continue the.. work, The seed that Saint Patrick' sowed spread, and still to be seen on walls in Cornwall and Yorkshire were the crosses cut by the old Celtic priests. Lt elo- quent terms the virtues of Ireland's Patron Saint were extolled ; lie was blessed with every virtue, and like St. Paul might ha"e said to Itis people, "Walk itt myfootsteps as I 'walk in the footsteps of Christ." DR. WILD AND ST. PATRICK. must Bev. Dr. Wild claimed that Jeremiah planted the Hebrew Church in Ireland, and that the first Christian Church ever planted there was the Church of England ; it was there years before the Roman Catholic Church had any existence. He defied any RomPn Catholic priest to prove that the church existed prior to the middle of the 4th century. The church of England was theoldest Church in Christendom and had never been Roman Catholic, and it was that Church St. Patrick—if ha ever really existed—planted itt Ire- land. St. Patrick was not a Roman Catholic. The Church of England was planted in England and in Ire- land about 67 A. D. It was first planted in England at Glaston- bury, and the Church of Eng- land Arehllishop of Armagh was the direct successor of St. Patrick. Roman Catholicism in Ireland was nn'intruder and ought to get out and go home. (Applause). To day pro- perty that had been leased in Ire- Ianc for 999 years, and the lease ex- piring, was given by the courts to the Church of England. If Rome were banished from Ireland, in 50 years it would he the most prosper - 005 country in the world. CURRENTS TOPICS of secular education on the legal ex• tinction of the Jesuits of 1759, gets $140,000, $100,000 of which goes to Laval University, created and Utaiu- tained by the seminary at its sole expense, and $.40.000 to the snccur- sal of Laval University, established in Montreal. The Canadian miss- ions are not forgotten, $20,000 be- ing granted to, the missions of La- brador and the northern shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The eight dioceses of the Province of Quebec get each 10,000. CAN'T WE ANNEX BISHOP FOLEY Bishop Foley has astonished Home of the Catholic residents of Detroit by taking strong ground in favor of the Public school system. "I believe," he Held, "in the State pro- viding educational facilities for its citizens, and I think the Public schools should he non sectarian. Sectarianism shotild not be allowed to enter either into politics or the Public schools. When I vote I vote as John Foley, an American citizen, and I would vote for a Protestant candidate against a Catholic if the former was better fitted for the place than the latter." We should be very glad to Hee Canadian Roman Catholic bithopts taking Himilar ground. THE DIVISION OF TIIE SPOILS In r Rev. Bernard O'Reilly's weekly letter to The New York Sun the following passaue occurs regard• ing the division of the Jesuit grant in Quebec by the Pope:—"Thu Jesuits get $160,000, together with valuable landed property at La - prairie. The Seminary of Quebec, which had taken up the apostlesltip PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY In an interview a few days ago Bishop Huntington said comutercial forces are pushing their way in tri the church. This is seen repeatedly in the election of vestrymen. Spirit- uality seems often no longer the test of a church's official. Busitiest RUC - cess, high social position, shrewdness in the conduct of ofiairs are corning to be conaidered the more important qualifications for a good vestryman or trustee. I do not refer to the Episcopal Church alone, but to churches in general. The man poor in spirit but rich commercially j is preferred in a church officer to the man poor in worldly .goods, though rich spiritually: This commercial tendency is also obvious in pew rent- ing. The " rich occupy the choice places, is bile the poor Hit in the obscure out ()tithe way corners. The church becomes a club house, and this amounts in cases to an exclusion. of the poor. If the church was to be merely a means of providing com- fortable incomes fur Sunday orators, and cosy seats for wealthy listeners, the pew•renting system might be a success, but as the church is for a common salvation of rich and poor alike, no system that shuts out the poor or puts the rich into a fashion- able house, with a saint's name, at one end of the town and the poor into a bare chapel by themselves at the other end, can ever be a system that God will prosper. --The bill perutitting women to vote for school inspectors has psssed the Michigan Senate. MARRIAGES. SI'ooNER—SWAnls—At the residence of the bride's father, Clinton, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. W. Craig, 13. A., Mr. John Spooner, to Electa, socond daugh- ter of Mr. George Swarts, all of Clinton. PARE u—S'rEwnllT.—In h`tanley, on the 12th inst., at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. A. Stewart. Alice Louisa, fourth daughter of Mr. John Stewart, to John L. Parke, of Stanley. Mtt,rra—McLArcatLIN—At the residence of the bride's parents near Suruulethill, on Wednesday March 13,by the Rev. A. Stewart, Mr. James S. Miller to Miss Deists McLaughlin. IIEAttu-111OGINs—By the Rev. J. W. Biggins at the residence ol'the bt;ide's I'artht r, Monday March 18th, Mr. Thos. Beard to Miss Alice Higgins, allot Bayfield, IlARIPW.i RE STOCK ! By Public Auction. ESTATE OF ROBERT M. RACEY, Clinton, on WEDNESDAY, March 27t1r, On tilt premises, Albert St., CLINTON, at 2 o'clock p.m. General Hardware, about 48.305 05 Carriage and Heavy Hardware... 4,410 13 Shol, Furniture and Safe 462 25 813,178 83 • The stock will bo sold at a rate in the dol- lar. Inventory the stock may he seen onlap- plication to tho Assignee. Timms—One-third of tbo purchase money on day of sale, balance in 3 and 6 months se- cured,. with interest at 7 por cont. Further conditions and terms made known on day of sale. DAVID A. FORRESTER, Assignee, Clinton, Ont. MANNING & SCOTT. 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