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The Huron News-Record, 1889-07-24, Page 4The IfiironNeaw-ftcrc ti .6Q M Year -4140 .i+tvance.. /Or The Hurn does tot (to lushes N ht¢ butanes$ Oho Vends test in ndvertising than he dues in rent. 1 A. T. thilsoet, rho rutin, aire merchan of New York. 4Vednesdaty, July 24t1r 1889 McCARTHY'S PAINTERS. The following at the salient points in Dalton McCarthy@ speech at Stayner on July 12. 1. I am a Conservative still, and such I propose to remain. but I could not give s dishonest vote. 2. The present agitation is but the beginning of the end. 3. This boasted nationality which begins and ends with the French race and those who profess the Roman Catholic religion, is fraught with grave danger to the nation. 4. It should be remembered who were the victors on the Plains of .Abraham. It was decided on that famous field that. on the northern half of this continent British rights should be enjoyed and British laws !prevail. 5. Premier Mercier has gone on his :knees to the Pope of Rome asking 'permission to sell the crown lands of a British province. Fancy Mr. Mowat going to Washington for per- mission to sell the public lands of Ontario. 6. This Jesuit .Estate q!iestion wfis no mere' family quarrel in Quebec. And the manner of its settlement was an insult to the Queen, and peo- ple of this country. That act was waste paper until endorsed by the Pope: If not disallowed before August 8th it will remain forever a blot on the statute ' book of this country. 7. Neither the Queen nor Imperial Parliament can interfere. Disallow- ance must come from Ottawa. ' 8. 1 do not desire to raise race cries, but we must remember Col. Amyot's order to the Quebec militia to keep their powder dry. Unless we in Ontario stand firm there is trouble ahead for us. 9. The difficulty is not so much one of race as language. In the French schools of Ontario theyare. teaching British history from a - French standpoint. 10. This is a British province, and the sooner all are made British in language and sentiment the better for posterity. Even in some schools in the County of Simcoe French is the principal tongue. 11. We must see to the abolition of the dual language in the Northwest. To my shame be it said, 1 did not know until sit months ago that the law was such there, but next session I pledge myself' to bring in a hill to relieve that great territory from the evils of a dual language., 12. The increase in material value caused by the National Policy is nothing in comparison with the maintenance of civil liberty. 13. "If this generation does not settle this question at the ballot box, bayonets will settle it in the next." In the main we are in thorough accord with Mr. I1IeCarthy. With regard to postulate 5 hole hardly fair. The comparison of the posi- tion of the Pope with regard to the Jesuits Estates and the American Government with regard to Ontario public lands does no credit to the statesmauship of Mr. McCarthy. The Jesuits have for the last century claimed the Estates iu question and the Pope is their legal representative The American Government never claimed the Crown lands of Ontario consequently the parallel is no parallel. With regard to 6, the manner of its settlement was no insult to the Queen.. Mr. Mercier made a bar- gain with the Popo the samo as he would have made a bargain with any other individual representing alleged vested rights, for the surren- der of those rights, and that bargain depended for its final ratification upon the assent of the Queen or her representative, not on the Pope as Mr. McCarthy alleges, for his con• sent as the vendor or eut•renderor of certain alleged claims had been obtained frrfnre the Act was passed. And instead of the Act being an r„ insult to tete Queen the preamble positively recognizes and aflirins her authority, without whose consent the Act never could have become law. The words are decisive: "Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of" Quebec, enacts as follows''—The; Pope is not once mentioned in the Act. As to the Act being a blot on the statute book of this country— this is impossible, because it is not .on the statute book of this country, but only on the statute book of the province of Quebec, it being a pure- ly Quebec measure. It is unfair to try to creat the impreasion that the Act was passed by the Dominion parliament when that body had no more to do with it than the lean in the moon. As to 7, Mr. McCarthy is right when bo says "Neither the Qneen nor Imperial Parliament can intor- Ioi,'e", But, be is wrong when he says "diseilowel;cemUati come from Ottawa," No power at Ottawa could legally interfere. The Court® are the only proper resort. ANGLO SAXON TRUTH. Were Canada as helpless as she is fair, Ther. were my hopes less than my despair. Some weeks ago the New Era a1.1491 P4 Elle rtl4li4 Efieteweft 4f the Ontario Minister of Agriculture that our "farmers had a good deal "more to be thankful for than they "generally believed." We remarked on the changed tone of our cetera. and said, "then the farmers are not "so 'helpless and hopeless' as the "grit press, the Era along with "others, bus been asserting and re - "iterating for years." The Era de- nied that it had taken the stand we intimated it had. We repeated our declaration that "our cotem. had for "yearn had been holding up the "forlorn and helpless condition of "the Canadian farmers." Last week the Era returns to the charge and again rashly denies that it had for years been harping on the helpless and hopeless condition of the farmers. It adds that "there ra "a simple Anglo-Saxon word of "three letters that 'applies. to the "assertion_ot'. Tia NEWS -RECORD." We will not charge our totem. with being unable to spell a word of one syllable; but wo.ild submit `that its arithmetic is at fault as regards the word that shou id: be applied to the assertions of THE NN WS -RECORD. The word it would be justified in using is "truth." Five letters, please, Mr. Era. Our totem admits its 'faith in commercial union, but denies that it ever advocated political annexa- tion, and asks us to prove our state- ments or accept its denial. We shall proceed to prove our state- ment& In April, 1885, it mourned over, the forlorn condition of fanners in Canada and contrasted their un- happy lot hero with the blissful state of the Canadian farmers in Dakota by asking : "What means "these hundreds of settlers in• "Dakota ?" and answering : "It "means that the land laws of Canada "are illiberal and unjust !" and more of the same kind, endeavoring to show the helpless and hopeless condition of those engaged or wish- ing to engage in farming in Canada. THE NEWS -RECORD, knowing the untruthfulness of this allega- tion of the illiberality and in- justice of our land laws operating against the farming class in Canada, took occasion at the time to publish both the American and Canadian land laws and regulations which proved the reverse of the Era's coutention, as will be admitted by any unprejudiced per8ou who will take the trouble to read theta. Then well do we remember bow it indulged in its chronic lamenta- tions over the iniquitous Franchise Bill about May, 1885. Farmers and everybody else would be driven out of the country unless that in- iquitous measure was defeated. It and its friends arranged a tueeting for 22nd May in the town hall, Clinton, to protest. It was an• pounced in the 'Globe, and the Era pictured the dolorousness of the eituation. in order to enthuse farmers to attend. Atneng other appeals saying to the farmers that the only resort would be to "Leave the coun- try or break up Confederation." At the same time, though not quite pertinent, adding to its dolorous description of the iniquitouteleave• the -country or break-up•Confedera- tion effects' of the Franchise Bill that : "The protective tariff is " hurrying the country to a contlner- "cial crisis." And again, it, in the agony of its perturbed helpless and hopeless condition, apostrophised : "What answer is there for the pre - "sent condition of public affairsl" It replied : "Thej answer is simple ; "withdrawal of Ontario from Con - "federation." The Era has not been content to depict the farmers and commercial men as suffering in order to make pointers against the government as well as for commercial union. It has not been content to preach tho "ruin and decay" of the country as it did in September, 1886. It has not been content to advocate veiled treason in its fanatical anxiety about tha helplossnees,and hopelessness of Canada by exclaiming •'Confedora- "tion meet go ;" "Tho withdrawal "of Ontario from Confederation ;" • "Leave the country or break up "Confederation," but it oleo in 1.885 vents the anguish of its gloomy soul by thelibellous assel:tiou : "There arethousands in Ontario,, "equally among Conservatives and "Liberate, who would gladly hail "'annexation to thea United States!" Whom, rather than see remain in their present Tory riddeu, helpless and hupeleee coutlitipnl it advised "To buret up Confederation or "annex this country to the; United "States!" And about February, 1889, ayinpathetic soul of our totem. the was so lacerated by the teeth of helplesa- nesa and hopelessness, which it also alleged had harrowed deeply into the souls of Canadian farmers, that in its poignent anguish at the dis• tressing circumstances it must needs falsify the public returns in an en- deavor to show how much better off the distressed Canadian farmers would be slid they• have conte sort of annexation to the United States. This it attempted to do by wrongly stating that the Americans; now purchased two thirds of our surplus farm products, Welt would require to have been 26 millions instead of 18 millions as it really was. There would have been no argument fn favor of anhexation or commercial union were the Americans the pur- chasets et. the bulk of Canadian farm produce instead' of Great Britain. lint great Britain is our hest cuetontel' and. alwaya will lie because the, Americans produce a much larger surplus of farm pro- ducts than we do. But our town totem has not been content to confine its helpless and aud hopeless diatriabes to dry speculation and t 'mancilig iu plain prose. It roust needs get astride its Pegasus and mount aloft to cont mune with the muses. It seems to have been successful iu its appeal to the gods to help it to portray the helpless and hopeless condition of the suffering and almost heayen- abandoned Canadians, The divine afflatus breaks out in its editoaial columns of March 8, 1888, whereiu we find : We work as hard as any men, To get " our daily bread," But, slave and toil as best we can, Don't get one cent ahead. With "taxes" here and duties "there" We know not what to do; The bnrden gets too hard to bear— No wonder we feel blue. Poor distraught soul ! No won- der, indeed, that it feels blue, it cannot get the public to believe that their burden is too hard to bear, that their condition is helpless and hopeless. A few weeks later its pondering@ over the heartlessly downtrodden condition of the people wrings from it the statement : " The Ottawa " government seems to have 0 A th 80 .r t ,f in ou co w _th st pe th fo di cia ba th Ca ob th wh for the an tha "U the the un pu a "ti ma cat up, too alti rea ho no higher aim than to squeeze all they can out of the people." gain, two weeks later, April 26, e poor farmers are sought to be laced with the recommendation : Unrestricted reciprocity is the only thing that will relieve the farmers and restore values to their depreciated property." Here, as numerous other instances, has r totem referred to the distressed ndition of our farmers. If they ere not in distress why should e.y. want " relief " or " values re- ored to their depreciated pro- rty." It won't do, friend Era, to 'deny at you, and all of that ilk, have r years been depreciating the con - tion of the farming and commer- 1 communities. And that.for the seat of all purposes ---,"to 'beat" e boat government we ever had in nada. We have given sufficient proof, tained from only a few copies of e Era, that we did it no injustice en we asserted that it had been years depicting the condition of farmers as well nigh holplens p hopeless. We have also proved t it suggested "annexation to the nited States" as a remedy for it evils. Even now it admits t it is in favor of commercial ion, the foster father of which blicly declared that the scheme is 'short cut to political annexa - on.'" We did intend to refer to what y be an ornate expression of our em,: "To either put' up- or abut " but we have already taken up much apace to establish propo- ons that aro self-evident to every dor of either paper. The phrase, lvever, smacks too strongly of the gaming :table or the gambling #'ta- teruity for Us, to be able to do just- ice to it, but presume the religiou8 public ,will be able to understand it all the seine, In the Ineaatinae we have confined ourselves to matters that we are conversant with, and complied with the more legitimate regneet to prove our former state- ments. And now to erring Era we might say Ab, worthless wit, to so indulge in woe, And by deceitful arts to nourish die. content: Ill has fared the folly that bewitched you sot Say to such policy, adieu! that now you will repent. REFER IT 7'O THE COURTS. After one has rear" a II the writ- ings and speeches for and against disallowance of the Jesuit Act, passed by the Quebec Legislature, the conclusion will be arrived at that the essential difference ' between the divergent contentious lies in whether the Act is constitutional or not. The ministry of the day and 188 to 13 4nembers of parliament declare the Act to'be constitutional. All Protestants are agreed that the' Act was an unwise one, and some hold that it unconstitutional. The majority are agreed that the wisest course to pursue now is to refer the settlement of it to the courts. \Ve have always held this view. ' The Act is. one that never shouldhave been passed, but it being within the power of the pro- vince to pass, it would be unconsti- tutional for the Executive to dis- allow it. • The proposal of referring it to the courte is, as we have said, agreed to by nearly all Protestants. There is, however, a difference of opinion as to who should take it there. The Executive say it has declared the Act constitutional and that it would be absurod to expect the Government to appeal against its own ruling or decision. This is a comtnon sense view. It remains for those who differ from the Government iu this view to appeal to the courts. Even the Montreal Witness, which is as anti -Jesuit as can be, is in favor of submitting it to the Courts, but very absurdly wants 'the Government to stultify itself by appealing against its own decision. The Witness says :— "The Witness DOES Nor OPPOSE the settlement of the,Jesuits' Estates Act by reference to the Courts. On'' the contrary, it has all along urged the Government to submit the Act. to the Supreme Court for a decision as to its legality and constitution- ality,., as it is empowered to do where there is any doubt on those points. If the Government organs are in earnest iu wishing the platter settled before the Courts, they will urge the Government to take this course and to take it at onoo, so that there may be time for the dis• allowance of the' Act before the time for disallowance expires." EDITORIAL 1V OTES. The trade between Britain and Canada was good during the raonth of June showing that Canada's importations decreased during that period by about 10 per cent, while our .exports increased by about 10 per cent. The exports to Canada during June decreased 10.82 per cont. as compared with June, 1888; the total for the half year £2,439- 594 being a decrease of 1.24 per cont. Tho largest decline was in horses. Iluports from Canada during the month, the total for the six months being £1,303,225—an increase of 10.53 per cent. The largest increases were in oxen,flour, cheese and wood. There waa a large decline in wheat. There were shipped last year. from the United status to Great Britain 1,407,409 barrels of apples, of these 170,840 were imported from Canada to the United States. Leaving 1,239,569 barrels as growth of the United States. Where was the 60,000,004 millions market that it could not consume this eurplus? Canada last year shipped direct to Britain 218,019 barrels of apples which added to those shipped from American ports swelled the ship- ments of Canadian apples to Britain in 1888 to 388,889 barrels. There will not be anything like these quantities shipped this year. The Canadian crop is almast a total failure. ROBERTSON is holding a THIRTY DAYS SLAUGHTER :: SALE. CALL and HT PRICES or SEND for SdMPLBS, Robertson's �roat Cash Store Our town contemporary, anxious. to drive home the helpless and hopeless condition of the people of Canada, referred a few weeks ago to the United States reducing its pub- lic debt duriitg May by '$8,000,000 and adds, "Canada's debt was not reduced 8 cents iu the same time." We have no figures at hand to show the contrary, but we believe our debt uius reduced during May. In any event we find that during the month of June the debt of the Dominion decreased by $904,987. But does our patriotic coteut as joyfully refer to the improvement in the financial condition of this country as it does to that of our neiglibors in tho proceeding month? Not at all. It completely ignores the pleasing condition of Canadian finances while tooting that of the United States. The idea that the,Uuited States would .consent to any measure of reciprocity ou an equal rights basis has long ago been exploded, and those Canadians who look to Wash- ington for an abatement of the helpless and hopeless evils they have for years been endeavoring to conjure up as existing in Canada, will have their oyes strained to an alarming extent, or rather their vision totally destroyed, in their attempt to see it. For each state is striving to protect itself from the competition of its neighbor by technical evasion of the constitution which prohibits interstate restriction on trade. Some time ago the legis- lature of Michigan legislated in such a way as to prohibit the impor- tation into that state of live or dressed western beef. And now the Chicago dressed beef combina- tion feel the loss of the Minnesota market for their moats so much that they are going to test the constitu- tionality of the bill by which dressed meats slaughtered outside the state are excluded from its mar- kets. School -book ewindles aro not confined to Ontario, it seems. The Buffalo Commercial says: "To -day, July 15, the School -book monopoly begins its bright and harmonious career. If the now agreement or 'plan of campaigu' dons not yield to the usual tendencies of monopo- lies it may be a good thing. If it does, the people will get good and cheap books some other way." Here is a chance for our American smitten totem to admire the better way they do things on the other side aa compared with the way little Czar Mowat allows things to be done in Ontario. There, the Commercial says, "the people will get them in some other way" than through the monopoly. In Ontario Mr. Mowat says, "No, you don't. You tnuet send your children to' school. You must get them books. *You must get such books as I order you, to get, and you must get them from my friends to whom 1 have given a monopoly of publishing them And you must pay my monopolis- ic friends just such exhorbitant prices as I have fixed. I must help my friends, even should the public pay them many thousands of dollars more every year for books than they would have to pay for thorn could hey get them in "some other way." t t —The Dakota wheat crop is re. ported to be deplorakjly bad. --`.there at'e uk` yea ilo `!topes: of ferrettiug, nut the whereabouts' of Wilson, the Warwick murderer; who, slept Miss Marebalt ea they bwere returning from church one- nS'.und.ty evening, and then .set fire to so.tue.barua to. teuruorarily delay pursuit. Tile story that lie had been ' arrested in Soitth America turns out to he a hoax. IIl11It'1'1[S. . Hot.LowAy.—In Clinton, on Saturday, July 20th. the wife of Mn A. .1. Hollo- way, of a daughter. DroxsoN,--In Ooderioh, oo the 17th inst the wife of John '1'. Dickson, of a son. III RR IAG ES. IIAMILTON—Rl'1'ER—In St Pane's Church, on Wednesday, July 17th, by Rev. W. Craig, B.1)., Mr. Charles W. Hamilton to Miss M. M. Rites, all of Port Arthur PE:ICOCK—WILSON.—At Goderich on tleer 11th inss by the Rev Dr. Hre, Mr. William T. Peacock of Goderich Town. ship to Mary eldest daughter of the late Mr. William Wilson of Goderich. DEATHS. TEwsLrv.—In Goderich on Saturday July 13, 1889,Adamiva Saretta Tewsley, granddaughter of Mr. Adam Cook, aged 5 years and 8 months. SrEwAI:'r —In Saltford, on Thursday afternoon, Isabella Jane Stewart, only daughter of .James Stewart, aged 21 years 2 mos. and 14 days. MARKET REPORTS. (Corrected every Tuesday afternoon.) CLINTON, Flour $5 50 to 6 00 Fall Wheat, new .& old 90 to 90 Spring Wheat..... 90 to. 00 Barley .. C 40 to 0 48 Oat .. 0 28 to 0 28 Peas 0 64 to 0 54 Apples,(winter) per bbl 1 00 to 1 50 Potatoes 0 85 to 0 40 Butter .. 0 12zto 0 18 Eggs 0 11 to 0 12 8 00 to 9 00 Cordwood 3 00 to 4 00 Beef .. 000 to 0 00 Wool 0 18 to 0 20 Pork 650 to670 STORE FOR RENT. The brick store, with living rooms overhead, Albert St, next to the Town Hall, presently occupied by Palliseer & Co, For particulars apply to CHAS. SPOONER. Clinton July 23, 1889. 5614( MORTGAGE : SALE Or VALOPUASLB TOWN PROPERTIES Business Stands and Dwellings. Pursuant to the Power of Salo contained in certain mortgages, which will be produced at Eine and place et 'sale, there will be sold by Public Auction, by DAVID DICKINSON, Auctioneer, on Saturday,10th of Aug. 1880 At the hour of 2 o'clock, p. nh., at the RATTENBURY HOUSE, CLINTON. The following valuable Town properties, viz : FIRST—All that certain parcel or tract of land containing 12 6/16 square perches of land, more or lees, and comprising a frontage on Victoria street of 46 feet, 9 Inches, more or lets, and which said parcel or tract of land and premises may he better described as comprising the whole of sub-diviaion A, of Town lot Number 292 of the said town of Clinton, excepting the northerly portion thereof, comprising a frontage on said street of 20ft. 6 inches, which was conveyed by John Finkle and sophla Finkle to one Ann McGowan, by Deed, bearing date the 2let day of October, A. D. 1860. Upon these premiees is erected a good rough cast house and a frame tenement, both rented at fair rentals. SECOND—All that certain parcel of land And premises In the said Town of Clinton, containing by admeasurement 22ft 0 Inches frontage on Vicosed of the nortoria herlys22Leet 6inehess01 T wning pot Dumber 292, on the west side of Victoria street in said Town and better deeeribed as comprising a width or frontage of 22 feet 6 inches on Victoria street as measured from the north west angle of said lot and extending back the samo width to the Base Line, otherwise known as King street. On this property there is erected a frame store which le well situated for a business stand. THIRD—That certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate lying and being in the said Town of Clinton, containing by admeasurement one rood of land, bo the same, more or tees, being composed of Town lot Number 877, on the west Bide of Usborne street, in the said Town of Clin • ton. On this property there Is erected a first. class frame cottage in good repair and well rented. TERMS. 10 per cent of the purchase money of each property to be paid on day of sale. Balance in 10 days thereafter. A portion of the purchase money of eget) property nifty remain on mortgage on easy terms. Further conditions of sale made known on day of sale or may be had on applica- tion to the undersigned. DAViD DiCTKINSON MANNING k SCO'i r. AucDated Mile 81ht ulys r. 1889, at ClintoVendor'sn, in lt Jsaid Ccunty.