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WedttesdatY. April. 2419, 1889
EXPERIENCE SHOULD
TEACH.
Political parties are supposed to
be, and we believe as a rule are,
broad-based upon the people's will.
The people's will is generally, in
fact we might saw is always, directed
to the conservation of the people's
welfare. The masses, though, like
individuals, sometimes maks mis-
takes. The very intensity of their
• desires to have a government pass
measures which shall be productive
Of the greatest good to the greatest
number occasionally causes them,
like vaultin4 ambition in other
cases, to o'erleap themselves and
come down on the other side and
tar away from the object aimed at.
The intensity of the desire of
some protestant conservatives to have
the legislation of this couutry so
shaped that it shall .tend to propa-
gate protostantism and •religious
freedom and protestant iustittiliens
would, in some cases, if acted upon
defeat the very object sought to be
attained. We will take the vote
House.
on disallowance in the
Supposing the O'Brien resolutions
had carried, what would have been
the immediate result The resigu Oran+otnou and demanded the
ation .af the Government, because ardor of Iliel he did not in dis
it was a direct declaration of *ant of allowance go with the Et,plish
• confidence. What theta'? Mr. s °akin "crowd" whoa they de•
Laurier; he of the shoot-the-voluu- p g
notoriet would have been mended. of hint unconstitutional
y'action. As "Loyal Protestant"
for to form a Government.
very truly and philosophically put
it in a letter in those colunus throe
weeks ago, "it is easy to go with the
crowd." Tho one public man who
stands head find shoulders above
any other to -day in Ontario is
Editor Clarke of the Orange Senti-
nel, for not going with the crowd
when his judgment and conscience
could not approve his so -doing.
went there during the McKenzie -
Blake regime.
And as we have auggested the
effeota of that mistake is felt even
to this day. The climate, land
rogulatious, prices of wheat, lowness
of freight rates etc ate all in favor
of the Canadian Northwest now,
yet many of our people go to Dakota.
Why 4 Blood is thicker than
water and stronger than mercenary
motives. And the sisters and
brothers and cousins and aunts of
the Canadians who settled in
Dakota under the McKeuzie mis-
take are drawn thither now by
yearnings to be uear their im medi•
ate relatives. Other detrimental
phases of the mistake of, the people•
in 1872 might be named.
Let the people of Canada well
consider, and thoughtfully, before
they condemn the "old man"
not commit an
unconstitutional act by recommend-
ing disallowauce.
Experience should teach. And
the experience the people of Canada
have of the statesmanship of the
"old chieftain" who has done so
much to consolidate the scattered
portions of this Dominion , and
harmonise the racial and creed
antipathies of its various peoples,
should bring him to day more
supporters than ever. He did not
go with the French Canadian
"crowd" when they slandered the
because he would
teers
sent
Mr. 111ercier, the Quebec premier
and author cf the Jesuit Bill, would
have been one of the first selections
for a seat in the new cabinet.
Ordinary gratitude would suggest
this to Mr. Laurier. And we may
readily imagine that a majority of
the new ministry would have been
of the same stripe as the Jesuit
Mercier. How would our protes-
tant friends like, thisl Would
,.:protestant.iuterests.and the interests
of the English .speaking people A Washington territory million -
be any safer in the hands of a
Government almost exclusively Aire residing in Paris where lie has
• composed of French • Caned:au
catholics, with A French. Canadian
catholic ponder, than in the hands
• of SirJohu..A. Macdonald and his
associates4 13y no stretch. of ,meg-,
•nanfmity or imagination can we
conceive that they wonld.
We are toed, sometimes, that we
might as well be betrayed by Messrs
Laurier and Mercier as by Messrs
Macdonald and Thompson. But
there is no pruof that we have been
betrayed by the letter, notwithstand-
the mauy allegations in that direc-
tion, and time will show the whole
of the people of this Dominion that
Sir John A. Macdonald was right
in the position he took on the allow-
ance or disallo.rauee question.
Sir John has wade complex
political problems the study of a
life time, He has seldom been
mistaken. Why should we doubt
him in in this easel On one mem-
orable occasion he lost; the confi-
dence of the people of the Dotniu=
ion. Did the change result to the
advantage of tho peoplel No, and
at the first opportunity after the
excitement of dolusiou had passed
away they returned him to power
again. But what an immense ma-
terial loss the country sustained by
his being out of power for five
years. Notably the retarding of
the settlement of the Northwest
by the indefinite policy regarding
the building of a railway there, and
in fact the positive declarations of
the McKenzie Goveramonl that
even the resources of the whole
empire were not sufficient to build
the Canadian Pacific Railway; and
if built Mr. Mr, Blake declared it
would not get trafftlenough to pay
for axle grease. And yet how egre-
giously mistaken. thoy were.
The loss to Canada from the
temporary absence of Sir John A.
Macdonald. from power
incalculable. But the
brought to our notice every year by
the emigration from Canada to
Dakota. Tho McKenzie uanlby
pamby railway policy deterred
Canadians from settling in the
Canadian Northwest where they
might not during an ordinary life
time see a railway. And the
Americans were booming, several
lines jut across the;, border.
The result was that many of the
st Canadian settlers in .1)akotl
EDITORIAL NOTES. -
been Commisiouer to • the Inter-
national Exhibition, the other
day logia his wife, 'self his nose
hie good name and in
his Commiesionership.
and
consequence
and the shareholders. The Coni
pang is also authorized to issue
£700,000 4 per cent hoods.
Seven of the American States
have adopted the Dominion system
of voting, it being considered the
most secret system known. If Mr.
Mowat would only introduce it
into our provincial system a con-
siderable amount of buldozing in
local elections would bo prevented.
is almost
'have it
The value of the annual product
of Canadian fisheries is 18 millions
dollars, Of this amount 13 million
represents the outfit of the Atlantic
coast fisheries. The value of Caua-
diau fish exported last year was 8
millions, or about one tenth of the
total value of our exports for 1888.
And this is only elle of the import-
aut• industries that commercial
unionists wish to hand over to the
Yankees, "floe gratis for nothiug."
From a statement of the Revenue
and Expeuditure of the Dominion,
ou account of the consolidated fund,
up to the 31at of March, of the cur-
rent year, wu find that financial
Waite are in a flourishing condition
just now. Total amount of revenue,
$27,940,616; total expenditure,
$23,729,291. This shows a surplus
of over four millions. There is
further a decrease in the public debt
of about ono and a half millions,
all of which is very gratifying.
The government has assumed
charge of Aar, Weldon's extradition
bill,SirJohu Macdonald saying there
was great moral impatience on the
part of the people of Canada to put
an end to the inflow of rascality
from the United States. Cynics
might say that' we had enough ras-
cality of our own, but it is as well
to tell to the world that we don't
want either these people or their i11-
go:teti gains. ile thought the hill
so unobjectionable in principle that
it would meet with little opposi-
tion.
Sir Richard Cartwright has again
been "mixing andlmuddling", as a
grit paper puts it, in matters of
Dominion finance. He introduced a
resolution- in the IIouse tha other
day coudetuuing the Finance Min-
ister for obtaining a loan of £4,000-
000 at 3 per cent. payable in fifty
years. Parliament, however, by a
vote of 117 to 47 said that Sir
Richard was yet himself -the same
muddler as of old, and approved of
the excollout terms ou which Finance
M_nisler Foster had procured the
loan. °
If it be true that Gabriel Dumont,
Riol's right hand num in the de-
plorable rebellion, is making use of
the insurrectionary talk in the
Northwest which is credited,to him,
it is time tho Government put a
stopper on gabby Gabriel. A man
who has received the clemency of
the Crown as did Dumont should
show his gratitude if not his loyalty
by refrainiug from doing as -he iif
now reported'to be doing among
the simple-miuded halfbreeda.
A Waterloo county well known
cattle buyer and exporter, Mr. Joe
Rellingcr, says that he cau buy
just as good cattle at Buffalo for 4c
a pound and at Chicago at $3.85 a
hundred, as he has to pay from
five to six dollars a hundred for
here1 If we had unrestricted
reciprocity all the cattle from the
Western States would come in
direct competition with our own.
The more that question Is looked
at the less desirable it becomes.
•
complied with. We hope to sea the
movement to carry the Jesuits
Estates Aut to the highest court in
the empire vigorously carried --out.
The Globe of Saturday publiehes
under the caption of "Death Abol-
ished" a sermon delivered by Rev.
M
D. J. Donnell. A portrait of
the Rev. gentleman embellishes! the
reported sermon. We must extend
our sympathies to Mr. McDonnell
for that death has not boon abolished
so far as his personell is concerned.
We eau imagine the tortures he
must have undergone on seeing the
alleged portrait of himself as above
referred) to -the living death of
himself -killed by the horrible
portrait while yet alive and a
passably good-looking gentleman.
Oh 1 Oh ! ! -
It is laid down as au accepted
political axiom "That neither house
of parliament has any power, by
any vot•o or declaration, to create to
themselves any new privilege, that
is not warrauted by the known
laws and customs of parliament."
This must not bo taken to mean
that parliament may not do sunle-
thing that it has never done before.
It can do something that it has
never done before, but that some-
thing trust not' conflict with the
known laws and custotns of the
couutry, wust not conflict with the
constitution of the country. Dis-
allowance, by the Dominion parlia-
ment, of proviucial legislation when
that legislation affects only the
province, as in .the case of the
Jesuits Estates' Act, would be an
assumption by Parliament of a
"now privilege not warranted by
the known laws of our conntry."
It would be arbitrary legislation
which no good citizen would advise
and which the citizens of Quebec
woul I justly not feel like submitt-
ing to, just as wo in Ontario would
certainly feel aggrieved were Parlia-
ment to disallow measures passed
by our provincial legislature which
dealt only with our money to bo
expended Within. the -province for
provincial purposes. Nor has the
provincial legislature the right, al-
though it has assumed the power, to
dictate and interfere in the raising
and expending of money by muni-
cipalities fur municipal 'purposes.
This is one of the damning features
of Mr Mowat's legislature. It
dictates, from a license inspector up,
to whutu the people's money shall
bo paid, and that the school taxes
raised frotn protestant's property
shall go to the support of roman
catholic schools, while money raised
from roman catholic's may not go
to the support of public schools.
It is not sound argument to say
that because the rights of the pro-
testant majority in Ontario, are
trampled upon by Mr. Mowat at
the bidding of the minority in the
matter of school taxes etc., that the
rights of the majority in Quebec
should be set under foot by the
minority there in the matter of
appropriations for educational pur-
poses.
THE NECESSITY OF THE
HOUR
The Grits are putting Dalton Mc-
Carthy at the head of the Conserve
Lives iii Ontario polities. They
have even gone so far as to
welcome Mr. McCarthy as the lea-
der of the Ontario Opposition in
the Provincial Assembly. But he
has given no sign of a wish to re-
tire from the larger field of
practical politics, nor has Mr.
Meredith signified any desire tobe
relieved front the honorable position
of leader her Majesty's loyal Opposi-
tion in Provincial affairs. He has
fought a good fight and never to
better purpose than during the
recent session of the Provincal
Assembly. It does not seem at all
probable that Mr. Merdith will
leave his present position until he
has brought his party to power in
his province, and the sigus of the
times indubitably point to such a
desirable consummation at the
next elections in this province.
Mr. Mowat has had just rope enough
to hang himself politically upon the
gallows of outraged public opinion.
The Chignocto Mariue Railway
will be 17 miles long, is expected
to save "from 300, to 500 miles for
vessels that would have passed
through the Straits of Canso, and
700 miles for those that would have
rounded Cape Breton, and the total
stun to be estimated at 2d. per ton
ou cargo and 5d. per ton on hulls.
Tho directors have contracted with
Messrs. John G. Meigga & Son,. to
complete the tvork for thoshare end
debenture capital ; the contractors
to pay interest on preferred shares
during conatruction. The Domin-
ion government guarantees an an-
nuli subsidy for 20 years, payable
half yearly, of $175,602, as long as
the capital duos not earn 7 per cont,
after which excess earnings are to
bo divided between rho goveriirii'ent
Another Lot of Those
Wonderful Dress Goods !
ROBERTSON'S
8c., 10c., 12c. and 15c.
Everybody should see thein. The best value in the
country. Going like hot cakes.
OUR SPECIALTIES
The disallowance resolution in the
)louse was decided on strictly con-
stitutional grounds. The legality
of the Jesuits Estate Act was not
under consideration. Some may say
that this is a distinction without a
difference. Lot us see, M. C. Cam-
eron was once upon a time declared
the member elect fr,r West Huron.
Flo took his seat in the House
although a protest was entered, He
or any other member had a constitu-
tional right to do so under the cir-
eninstances. The Honse had
divested itself' of the power to
dectdo the legality of members' seats
and conferred it upon the courts.
Mr. Cameron was unseated. Peud-
ing the result of legal proceedings
141r. Cameron had as good a right as
any other member to it in the
House. We believe the Jesuits
!':states Act to be constitutional' but
with technical defects which the
Privy Connell will be most likely
to declare fatal to it front a legal
point of view. Bet I'arliantent, is
not a court of law in the case any
more than it is a court of law to
decide the legality of the seat of a
member when all the r; tnstituti'onal
prottrietios have, )relent finis, been
�I�l�ery, Mulles and Dresses.
RoboFtsoll's �reat Cash Stora
schools. Thus, if a Roman Catho-
lic asks the assessor to rate him as
a supporter of public schools, any
person may notify the assessor that
that ratepayer is a Roman Catholic,
and straightway he goes down as a
supporter of separate schools. He
cannot resume his place without a
contest with his spiritual advisers,
and ho cannot seni1 his children to
the public schools without paying
double rates,
This most monstrous and unjust
law was made in return for Boman
Catholic support to Mr. Mowat. It
is one of the results of the cons
spiracy which dates back nearly
twenty yours, a conspiracy of which
the beginning was marked by the
Roman Catholic Teague, established
by the IIon. C. F. Fraser. It is a
disgrace to the statute book of the
province. It is an outrage on 'the
fre»lout of the subject. It is an in•
justice to Protestants, who are by
it required to pay more taxes thele
they ought to pay. It is an in-
pietice because in some eases it
causes Protestants to he rated and
taxed as supporters of separate
801100114. The whole coospirscy is a
dark stain upon the fame of Ontario,
an evidence of the fact that where
Rome cannot rule by force she
strives to rule by fraud, and to rob
men of the rights which we claim to
be the inalienable possession of free
Canadians.
Hamilton Spectator.
We firmly believe that separate
schools should never have been
established. However they have
been established, and they cannot
be abolished without a change in the
fundamental law of the Dominion.
That ch.nge it may not be profitable
to discuss _lust at present. If the
separate schools were needed, it 18
manifest that they were needed for
the Roman Catholic people, not for
the Daman Catholic clergy. They
were granted in the first place in
such a manner that they could be
used by those who desired to' use
them, and those who did not desire
to use them might decline to do so,
and might remain supporters of the
pu'ttic schools. That state of things
.lid riot 'twit the clergy, because too
many Roman Catholics, seeing that
a better education was given at the
public schools than at the separate
schools, continued to send their
children to the former. The desire
was to provide an act which would
compel Roman Catholics to send
their children to, separate schools ;
and„emenrloento were prepared cal.
cuiated, as the late Archbishop
Lynch expreesed.it, to "'carry out
the spirit and intention of the law "
-to take from the Romiotn Catholic
his absolute freedom to send his
children to the public or the separ-
ate schools as he might desire. This
ruuendtltent protides that the as-
sessor shall accept the statement of
any, p••rs.tn that he is a Roman
(;vth dn: as prima facie evidence
The necessity of the hour is the
repeal of ' that infamou.e ,provision
and a return at least to the law by
which a•toan was left free to choose
whether his children should he
educated at the public tachools or the
Roman Catholic school"!
Our Weekly Round Up.
-Strawberries are selling in De,
troit at 50 0euts per quart.
-Wheat, is already ripening in
California.
-Wild geese are passing over
Canada on their way north.
-A famine is raging at Bieze.
Wang and Bistritz, Hungary. Hun-
dreds are starving and dying.
-It is reported that yellow fever
has agate broken out at Jackson-
ville, Fla.
-A speculator is making money by
buying c,rts in Iowa and shipping
theta to Dakota.
and the printing plant had cost
$165,863.
---,Mrs. Jane McCarron, of Leger.
soli, has been granted a life pension
by the United States Government
and $600 back pension on account
of her sol James having been killed
in the war between the North and
South.
-The people of Luckuow do not
holt) with the practice of selling
and delivering milk on Sunday, and'
have accordingly petitiotned the
°out cit to pans a by-law prohibit.,
iug the same.
-Mr. E. J. Steele of St. Thomas,
recently killed a mamutotli hog,
which had been fed on corn -cob
meal ground toerelier fwd fed dry.
The hog dressed 938 pounds. The
hams and shoulders, weighed, close
trimmed, 192 pounds, the lard 236
pounds, and the sausages 53 pounds.
His market value was ?56, besides
odds at.d ends.
-Tire passengers awl crew of the
missing Danmark, uhnnt 700 souls,
were rescued by the; Adissouri and
tallier to the Azores. Half of diem
reached Liston, and the remnainder
aro 00 Lite Missouri bound fo Phila.
delphia. Th.. D.utntark was about
800 miles from Newfouudtaud when
her engines broke dowti
-During the thunder storm last,
Friday eight the barns of.Mr. Thos.
Cann, lot 11, 6th 000. of Hope,
were struck ley lightning and set on
fire. Tl.e stables, three barns, a
quantity of grain, together with all
the implements and machinery, were
destroyed. The loss amounts to be,
tween $4.000 and $5,b00, insured
for $2,000.
--The total approximate value
of the merchant navy of the British
Empire is stated to be £93,000,000.
That of the merchant navies of the
United Stat.es,France, Germany,
Italy, and [Lassie, taken together,
is said to be only £33,1100,000, the
value of that of France alone being
only £9,000,000, or less than one
tenth of that of England.
-A. quarter section of army land
at Portage la Prairie has Leen sold
fear $5,500.
-Edinburgh Town Council de-
cided by a vote of 8 to 5 to confer
the freedom of the city upon Mr.
Parnell.
-The popelatiou of Winnipeg is
now estimated at 25,000. The
aHHetiNrlletlt is about s million lower
than last year.
-The rush of ernigraetre from
the southwest. of Ireland is quite
noticeable The country is being
rapidly depopulated.
-Parliament bait rejected Mr.
Davin's proposal to permit the luau
ufacture in the Northwest of four
per cent. beer. •
-Mrs. Andrew Bauer, a lady
livingn near York Mills, Minnesota,
stave birth o ,abort time since to six
children, three of whom are alive.
--The eighth colonist train left
Toronto for Manitoba Tuesday of last
week. It consisted of three trains,
with nearly 400 passengers and 35
carloads of settlers. effects.
-Mr. Charles Wilson has been
appointed returning; officer for the
county of Oxford, for the vote on
the repeal of the Scott Act., on May
9.
-Mr. John Robertson, of Wood-
stock, on Saturday showed the
Times stalks of rhubarn, each of
which measured 15 ihcbee in length ,Eggs
and 3 inches in circumference, flay
FARM AND MARKET.
Buffalo, April 22. -The market for
horses has been fair for the past few
days and opens with encouraging
prospects this week. There was an
increased number of out of town
buyers here, and prices were gener-
ally satisfactory, with immediate
outlook favorable. Sales today were:
20 head of 4 year•olds, at $128 50; 19
head good blockey Indiana horses,
$166 per head, I pair Ohio mares,
$525; 1 pair heavy geldings, $425; 1
pair roan Cobbs, $340; 1 coupe horse
$225; 1 pair workers, $315; 10 head
of drivers and general purpose
horses, at 8125 to $185 per bead, or
an average of 8145. About 80 head
wore offered at auction, and nearly
all were sold.
MARKET REPORTS.
(Corrected every Tuesday afternoon.)
TORONTO MARKT rs.-Wheat 1.07
to $1.80, the latter price for No. 1
Manitoba hard. Barley 48c to 60c.
Oats 82e to 30c. Peas 60c Potatoes
'25c to 80c per bag. Eggs, fresh, 17c.
Butter 16e to 19c. Logs $6.25 to
$8.75.
DETROIT MARKETS. --^Wheat $0.92
to $0.98. Barley 45c to 550. Oats
27c to 2tic. Butter 12c to 14c. Eggs
100. Apples $1,00 to $1.50. Dressed
hogs, $5.00 to $,50. Potatoes, 18 to
18c. per bushel tri car lots.
BUFFALO MARKETS. -Graded steers
1.500 to 1.600 lbs $4.25 to $4.65;
from 1.300 to 1.400 lbs $3.80 to $4.15 ;
light butchers from 12.50 to $3.0.
Hogs $4.00 to $5.'25.
CLINTON
Flour 8t 00 to 5 50
Fall Wheat, new rpt. old 1 00 to 1 03
Spring Wheat 1 00 to 1 08
Barley .. C 40 to 0 48
Oats .. 0 28 to 0 28
Peas 0 54 to 0 54
A pples,(win ter) per bbl 1 00 to 1 50
Potatoes .. 0 '25 to 0 30
Butter 0 17 to 0 20
O 10 to 010
12 00 to14 00
3 00 to 4 00
O 00 to 000
0 20 to 0 25
650 to 670
-Sir Hector Langsays s the
Cordwood
> Beef
the hnilrling for the new pt intim; Wool
that he is a supporter of separate bureau had cost to date $130,586, Pork