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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-07-03, Page 4!. • IN+ The Huron Nem4800rd 41.504 Year --41.20 Adv*.ace. 40' The matt does sot du Justice to lad Inktinedd ut* would lead to, atluorlising dupe lid does ill 1114e. I A. T. SniWAlcr, the aitittiunatre eterehatt of Neat York. WedueedaY, July 31-4 ISS) BARNUMS AMONG TIM THIR- TEEN. Doubtless the pleasure is ILO great . Of being cheated as tolaheat ; lookers-ou feel most delight That least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they understand, The mere they admire his sleight of hand. —Hudibras The humorous poet -philosopher, Butler, very aptly dectibes the foibles of human nature in the above Hues. In what is called the Jesuit agitation great pleasure is taken in cheating aid being cheated. Some of the noble thirteen having cheated themselves iu voting for O'Brien's resolution, although they knew it was mere buncombe, are DOW enjoy- ing the double pleasure of cheating others—those who the loss they un- derstand, the more they admire the thirteeu juggler's slight of hand. The "noble thirteen," at least some of them, have earned a cheap notoriety. Some of the thirteen can be proved to have said after the vote that they believed the posi- tion Luken by the government aud the Majority in parliarneut was theright one, but that their seats in. the House depended on their voting with the thirteen. These members foEswore. themselves iu order to retail.' their seats in the- House, and get the bub- ble reputation of being members of the "noble thirteen," while at the sante time they stand, on their own eonfeSsion, convicted of being perjured hypocrites. In a letter to his constituents, Mr. Geo. Taylor, M. P., of Ganan.oque, says: "more properly, yes, a thous -and times more properly, should they- brand as traitors 801110 of' the noble band of thirteen whom I kn)w, and whom every member ef the House knows, that they stated that if they did nut vote for Cul. O'Brien's amendinent, owing to the excitement being raised over this qnestiuu ni their constituenr.ies,they never could be elected again, and not because they approved of the amendment.". These be mauly men; ! These the : public men now held up for the admiration of preseut and coining 13,,e orations ! -It can be shown that it was by 'eolf abasetnen't, the, viola- tion of well reasoned convictions, and the sacrifice of what every honorable and honest man holds dearest that some of the noble thirteen arrayed themselves on that side. They preferred their seats with dishonor rather than face a hue and cry which they expected would be raised by unprincipled demago- gues. They are miserable wretches who concentrated all in self for the purpose of enjoying temporary renown, but in their political death they shall go down to the vile dross from whence they sprung. Of course others of the thirteen niust be assurned to have acted according to their light and conscience, as did Mr. Porter on 'the oppo •te side, Contrast his.. ' • with that o e time -servers of the the thirteen who supported O'Brien's amend- ment knowing at the tirne, and acknowledging afterwards,that they were perjuring themselves by so doing. These men martyrs '1 Yee indeed,martyrs to pocket and pelf! But Mr. Porter had the courage of his convictioge. What he believed was right, what he knew was right, he dared defend. And a majority of the /people ef West Huron will again show their confidence in him for his honesty and bravery. He had everything to gain by playing the part of the demagogue and charlatan, as John Charlton of Orange incorporation opposition fame did. Mr. Porter could have done as the abandoned portion of the noble thirteen did, and sacrificed his manhood and his intelligence (rather he could not, because then he would not have been Robert Porter). But he preferred to do right and trust to the intelligence of the people of West Huron for his vindication rather than do wrougand win ummerited popular applause, es evanescent as it would have been undeserved. Mr, Porter is sincere- ly patriotic, is more worthy of public confidence to -day than when he first sought the suffrages of the kr ralairetilakarv,eaMit7=reetairsreafealeienes, ........_.,traeletairallairrilkitavedereitatIrdOrMiereheeeroeseterfeilftrrree „.....0.10gereltertriSirrispritrexiip'esarefeeseSsireersre'neee*.i.g..2.5.iii•Seaste.:::.,. Liberal OtUservotives of Seutb and West IInron. It week' be meliseelealy eitisfeetion to him, indeed, to have marred the record of a hitherto spotless and statesman- like public career by pandering to the fury of a few,or even to",the farm- tioistn of a continuality, when their religious prejudices are worked upon. He has adhered tu the fundamental principles of both the British Canadiau Constitution, and the great tuaxims and established forms of British equity and law. To have departed form these would have been to have worke'l excesses of in- justice, cruelty auc1absurdity. Mr. Porter seetns' to have adopted the motto of "No Surrender" so dear to all protestants. Had Mr. Porter taken auy other course than he did on O'Brien's resolution he would have surrendered his civil liberty and his liberty of conscience. His civil liberty by trying to take away the civil liberty guaranteed Ly the constitution to the people of an- other province, and which liberty lie might expect in time be taken away from the people aids own province and himself as a resident of it. !Ms liberty of conscience, because, though as staut a protestant as ever drew freedom's breath in Scot- land's }leathered hills, he believes that others are fully entitled to be protected in the exercise of that religious faith which he protests againet. Ite squared his vote in the Housa in accordance with "equal rights to all; injustice to none," MIGHT NOT it L WA YS RIGHT. We have several times stated that the Jesuit Estates Act, of Quebec, is likely to be set aside if it is tested in the higher courts. Some have asked ne: "Why •then did not the Governor General in Council disallow it 1" The answer is that he had not the power to do so. By doing se he would he violating the constitution be has solemnworn to siinnort in its integrity. This because Quebec has theexelitsive pow pr weepy the constitution to deal with the subject, matter of the Act. But ,iu exercis- e. leg this . power the province can au Appeal t9 the powinion' parlitt. went, (sr even. to The imperial par- liement1 ; but by an appeal to a tribunal whose futons are to construe the laws and eet in motion the machinery for their enforce- meut—the courts. This is plain common sense : that parliament or any law making body is not the proper tribunal to decide legal questions, but That the courts are. $1000 IF THE 188 ARE WRONG. Mr. George Taylor, M, P. for South)tiding of Leeds, one of the 188, a prominent Oratagentan and a delegate at the recent meeting of Orange Grand Lodge has taken the same position 'on the O'Btien re- eolutione as Tne News-REconu has, and concludes a printed address to his constituents as follows :— And to more fully convince those who from iuterested motives or other- wise doubt that I have stated the case fairly, honestly and in accord. ance with the facts relating both to the constitutional question and to Parliamentary practice, I wake this proposition, that if any one believes what I have stated is not true in any particulars, either as to the course to Kaye been pursued by the Government or by myself as ouo of its snpporters, 1st. That the Government have to review all the acts of the Provincial Legislatures. 2ud. That they have no right to disallow acts dealing With local affairs. 3rd. That this act is one which the Governmeet could not properly have disallowed. 4th. 'Flint this act was reviewed by the Governor in Connell and signed by his Excellency, and allowed to be loft to his operation, on the littlt January, 1881i, 5t11. That by no vote of the [louse ou Col. O'Brien's ituieudtuent could the act be changed or disallowed. Etth. That if Col, OBrien's amend- ment had carried the only course the Government could have pursued would be to resign and ask his Ex- cellency to semi for the Hon. Mr. Laurier to fornaa Government. 7th. That the vote I gave was the only consistent one I could have given. To refer this letter to )Ts [tenor ,1 ulge 'McDonald, of Brockville, who is acquainted both with the constitu- tional question and Parliamentary practices, or any judge with similar experience who may be agreed upon, and if he ,does not answer these questions as follows: To No. l,,yes ; to No. 2, No ; To No. 3, yes ; To No, 4; yes ; To No. 5, no ; To No. II, yes ; and to No. 7, yes, then I Will COD, unlawfully use it. If itLloes 'un- tribute $1000 to any charitable pur- im;fully use it, it is for the courts pose the party referring the qnestions to determine, not fur any :legislative may uatue, or resign ruy seat, 1 have the honor to he, 011' llor making body, much less tiny lrours Faithfully, ministerial body or.assemblage of• GEORGE TAYLOR. Gananoque, M men devoid of judicial functions ay 28, 1889. id the restraint of sworn solemn obligation to interpret the law with- - EDITORIAL NOTES. out fear, favor or affectioe._ We may illustrate what we lateen by censtitutioual power and the un- lawful or illegal use of that power. A man 6i feet high, robust and muscular in proportion, has the physical constitutional power to assault, rob and maltreat a man 5i feet high • and of puny muscle. Nature has endowed the former with physical constitutional power. it is his`' rightfully and lawfully. Should he exercise it on his puny neighbor and rob and maltreat him he is making an illegal use of his lawful power. And if ho does do so the puny man h3a.141,--eestiergiii the courts. But. -leis would not think of going loseile municipal council, the county council, the Ontario Assembly, the Dominion Parlia- ment or any other law making body for that redress. He would go for his remedy to the courts. Now, the province of Quebec has the power under our constitution to devote monies to educational pur- poses. But it has exercised that power unlawfully. One way iu which,to our mind, it has acted un• lawfully is in granting educational money to an illegal body, the Jesuits. Also, it has legislated so that the apportionment of money which it has the power to grant to an illegally constituted body and to others, is coutingent on the dictum of the pope who is a foreign potent. ate, and who as such can have no civil power or jurisdiction in any part of the British Empire ; and legisla- tion in a British colony which can only become law on its ratification by a foreign potentate would appear on the face of it to be illegal. 'Thus by the 'recognition of the civil jurisdiction of the pope, and the recognition of the Jesuit society as a legal body, has the Province of Quebec vitiatod,and transcended the legal use of its constitutional power. How then shall the province be punished for this illegal use of its rightful constitutional power ? By In his address at Clinton Mr. Porter let light in on a very much befogged point in the Jesuit Bill. It is ,said that in it the pope is made to usurp the place of the Queen. .Now any one who will read the Bill will find that it com- mences :—"HEn MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, ENACTS AS FOLLOWS :" The Bill positively affirms that it is Her Majesty that enects• aud Completes just. THE PEOPLE of West Huron, the legielation. The pope comes regardless of busy -body political wire pullers, are free and by in' merely as the legatee or repro - endorsing Mr. Porter they litve tates, and Her Majesty ou the nutritive et' claitnants to the Es- showu how to be just. A few part of the province agrees to give soured politicians and fanatics a certain sum of money to are trying to make believe him . they are the people, but Robt. Porter renounce his claims to the property, has the confidence of the electorate claims which, whether just or not, of West Huron to a greater extent lessen the value of the property to the extent of five times the amount than ever, . ... _ .. .. the pope is to receive. If he _ Mr. Porter in his very lucid agrees to accept the sun offered Her Majesty assents to the bill exposition of the reasons why he ; voted against O'Brien's resolution it is not the Pope who assents to or asking the Governor-General to do confirms the Bill. And surely the province is doing a good stroke of a constitutional impossibility, inci- business if it gets a cloudless title dentally referred to a matter in which the people of this province to a property worth $2,600,000 for $460,000 given to Catholic and are interested and which they have Protestant educational purpoees. the control of -the permitting French And it must be remembered the to be the language of instruction in the public schools of Ontario. He province would have to give this h sum, and more, for therm purposes referred to Freud aggression in even though the title to the Jesuits Ontario where English speaking Estates remained forever unsettled. people largely predominated. He held that the French should con - The Globe cannot understand form themselves to our educational why thegreat political party of system if they wished to receive Canada is called the Liberal- public funds for sehool purposes'. Conservative party. The Globe But they have already buldozed the queries :—"Who ever heard of a ministry of this English speaking Reformer calling himself a Con- province into winking at Fiench servative Liberal or a Reformatory?" being the language of instruction in Certainly no Reformer should cell some of the public schools. They himself a Liberal, as this term is are even agitating for a French used now in connection with a speaking representative in the political party in this country. Ontario Ministry. It is even The so called Liberal party practice hinted, he said, that owing to many le illiberality in Canadian affairs, af thi ei people being only able to except when' speaking of This read tench, (the outcome of the', . °gantry, utcu they ave very liberal in their denunciation of it aud uuatiuted iu their.belittlewetit of it. Tho so-called Liberal pally are also liberal iu their offers of this country to the United States. If they bad their way they would hand it over, body and bones, to Uncle Sam. 0 dear, no. No Rea (miner could call himself a Con- servative -Liberal, This would tneau that he would conserve or preserve illiberality and treason to his country. A Liberal -Conserva- tive is one who wants to liberally couserve uud preserve the best iuterests of this country and liber- ally develop the valuable heritage which Canadians are the foitunate possessors of. Mr. Mowat is a Conservative -Liberal when he passes laws which oouserves the illiberal policy of making the French lan- guage the language of instruction ill some of the public schools in this English -speak ing province of Outario. 1ofn'ii conventione iu Welling- ton and Bruce counties not long ago passed resulutious coudemuing the course of patliameet iu not VeC411- 111eu(lii g the government to the Quebec Jesuits Act. Then they passed votes uf confidence in their respective members who were atoong the 188 which supported the governmeut. Consistency is a tare jewel and was conspicuous by its rarity at those Reform conven- tions. It seems as if tho " noble thir- tsen:' are made of very cenamou clay indeed, even of poorer stuff than the "perjured 188." Some of the 188 knew that their support bf the constitution would be teamed by demagogues among their protest- aut and orange constituents,by far the greatest number, into political capi- tal. But they were made of suffici- ently stern stuff to not be moulded by political tricksters as clay in,the hands of an expert potter. Some of the noble thirteen telegraphed their conscience keepers before .voting and allowed themselves to be moulded into conscienceless voting machines in . order to retain their seats at the next elections. Perish consciende, perish self respect,perish the constitution so they could but hold their dishonored seats. Mr. Robert Porter, M. P., for West Huron, visited his constitus onts last week and addressed thorn in public meetings at Clinton, God:- erich tp.', Belfast, Ilentuiller and Manchester. The chief topic of his discourses was the constitutional phase of the Quebec legislation in the Jesuits Estate Act. At all poiuts was his explanation and justification of the position taken by parliament tonsidered satisfac- tory. At only one place, Belfast, was a vote of disapproval offered and it was defeated. It • has been well remarked that they only are fit to be free who know how to be 0 ROBERTSON is holding a THIRTY DAYS SLAUGHTER SALE. pAbb and GET PEES or SEND for SAMPLES. Robertson's Great Cash Store not being taught English in the public schools) they want all the public documents of the province to be printed in French as well as English. This, as every ono knows, would entail au enormous expendi- tote. '111118, like the first lie, it is hard to say whore did first conni- vance' at wrong cl oing will end. However, there is time to check this French aggression in Ontario. Let our school system be carried out in its entirety Ft Id it will be better for all concerued, for both French and English speaking On tit:dans. There is certain i y cause to resist French aggression athome without going into a French pro- vince to seek to chuck it. Editor iVele8-Record. DIAfi Slit,—,1tISI a few words if you please in regard to the opinions and alleged Pets presented by your truthful local contemporary about Mr. Porter's reception and meeting. The .7\"( w Era lies when he says "Mr. Porter must be convinced that he no longer represents the elector- ate of West Huron." So far as this town and his vote on the Jesuit question are concerned, and that is where and what your very Christian contemporary is speaking about, M. Porter had the unanimous approval of the electorate of Clinton, if the teelings of the 300 or more who attended his meeting here may he taken as a criterion. 1 1 attended the meeting and must say I never was at one where the audience was so entire- ly in accord with the speaker. •Not a dissen tent voice .was raised,Ithough the speaker several times asked, "Din 1 NuT DO BMW ?" And the audience was a fairly representative one. It was not made up of hood. lums, and ward heelers and profes- sional politicians, and consequently there were no clap -trap resolutions, no frothy declamation, no empty sound and fury .signifying nothing. metssemisimmin CURRENT TOPICS. ' A SENSIBLE view. 1Ve are as earnest 08 any Cana. than .journal in our condemnation of the ineori.ortition 01 1141 Jesuits, of the grit of public money to that society, tel of the reference for an adjustnier t to the, Pope ; but we decline to advice fl resort to Olt - COliSul u Lionti.1 itit•ilifuls, or to play into the hands Of those who do not ch•sire. a sett letnen t of 41u cliffieult y, but who only ss isli to prolong the agony for. political purpeses, by arguing a eonrse of aution that they know well means nothing and will end in smoke,__ The fast is that the monieut Mr Mercier:. passed lis iniquitous measure the whole question became one of law eeetred upon the constitutiontdity or unconstitution- ality of the act. The matter, then - fere, should first have been tested hi the Canadian cout ts, and if necesss sal y carried to the highest tribunal itt the Emnire, whers. it must now go if finality is desired, It is plain, therefore, Illlt wit limanding what the Globe or pther pplitics1 special- ists no.), aver to the contrary, that the advice tiliiicrod to the, oreege... men and Pretest awe of Canada by this journal and by the highest legislative budy in the Orange order is sound, and in spite of every thipg ,inuet in the end be acted upon, unless, indeed, the Canadian people desire a civil war and the destruction of this Con- federe tion —borne of . the dilemma upon which' we do not think They are prepared to impale themselves. - 0 range. Sentinel. - Another fib is when the Era says only 123 persons present.' And he intensely lies when he says, "Mr. Porter made many attempts to pro- duce applause, stopping frequently at what he considered pod places." 1 appeal to youpir. Editor, as chair- man,whether 1 am not right. [You are —Emelt]. I will give from memory a few of the gentlemen present who listened attentively, and to all ap- pearance approvingly, indeed. rever- ently to Mr. Porter. Those I think of are Messrs Jas. Fair,• Jos. (ihidley, N. Robson, Peter Cantelon, sr. and jr., Ex•Mayors Forrester and Searle, Stewart Plummer, David Cook, S. Davis, A.. II. Manning and scores of others.Yourconitemporary says these men were too "mean to do bim (Mr. Porter) reverence." 1 know from personal remarks made by the majority of these gentleman that, on the matter which Mr. Porter spoke about, they are in accord with him. But the Nov Era must lyingly insult them by saying they are too mean" to be so. If the New Era calls such as these "mean" men 1 nould ask where does he find , his honorable ones ? Among those traitors and feline-pahied '1.7riah Sneaks" from whom he obtained his information in this matter as he has about others 5ot which he personally knows nothing ? Of course censure of Mr. Porter in this case is as much the funeral of the New Era and Reformers as of Mr. Porter. .gr. Porter did not cothe here, as I understand it, to indulge in party or partisan talk. And he stuck to bis text. I will give the Re- formers credit for common sense on this question. They do not find fault with Laurier and Blake and Mc- Kenzie, and Milia and Cartiright snd Patterson and Edgar for acting conatitutionally, It has remained for the New Era to say that these Reform leaders and the leading Re- formers of Clinton are too "mean" for anything. Probably the editor of° thatjournal will feel like going out into the back yard and kicking him- self now that be has found out be has again been made a °Marley, of, by his two-faced tory informants, to slander the most intelligent fleform, era and others in town, whom he says are too "mean"for anything; because, while endorsing their own party lead- ers, they necessarily endorsed Mr. Porter and the Conseratiye leaders on a constitutional question on which both are agreed. Yours, ONE Wito Was TIMER URON mteor) TALK, "fhatin the opinion of this.. Synod the Jesuit Order by its prineia pies and constitution and historical- ly has been proved to be dangerous, to civil liberty and a menace to the. rights of all classes or tIer Majesty's subjects, and that it is therefore most desirable that the legality of the incorparution of t he Jesuit Order,. and,by consequence, of the action of the Quebec. Legislature in the, matter of the Jesuit Estates Act,, by tested by din highest Courts of the Dominion and the Empire, and, that the members of Synod will, support every effort to obtain such testing of the said incorporation, and should the Act ultimately be found to bo lege!, the members of the L'yeod will use all constitutional means towards obtaining the repeal of such incorporation " . _ —In the Philadelphia dam flood disaster Johnstown physicians say 10,000 people perished iu the flood. MARKET REPORTS. (Corrected every Tuesday a(ternoon.) CLINTON Flour 85 00 to 5 50 Fall Wheat, new & old 00 to 00 Spring Wheat 90 to 00 Barley C 40 to 0 48 Oats .. 0 yP to 0 OS Peas . 0..Jto 0 54 Apples,(winter) per bbl 1 00 to 1 50 Potatoes .. 0 85 to 0 40 Butter .. 0 121to 0 18 Eggs 0 10 10 0 11 Hay 8 00 to 9 00 Cordwood 3 00 to 4 00 Beef 0 00 to 0 00 Wool 0 18 to 0 20 Pork 6 50 to 6 70 NOTE LOST. A note made by the undersigned In favor of Ferran & Tisdall, Clinton, payable in June, 18811, has been lost or mislaid. Alt parties are there• fore cautioned against negotiating the same, 35 payment has been stopped. JOHN SCRI:TON, E. MERLES, Clinton. June Mb, 1098. 585..it OWENS & JOHNSON, Orirristers, (Srd., ALBERT STREET, - - CLINTONe. AND QUEEN STREET, • - BLYTII E. W, J. OWENS. T. F. JOHNSON. 4. .