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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-08-14, Page 4• ,t.60 A Year -7414A irsteeeee, td' The yuan does not do fustics 0.418 bueinss4 who *'pends tela in advertising than he dopa; in rent. -A: 'r• f rewear, the millionaire •inerckant of New York. Weduet$0, y, Aug. 14t4. 1889 01O BEARS TFZ, BURDEN, Tho assertion aa to undue taxa- tion has bean examined, in the light' of the official returns, by oar able contemporary, the Moncton (N. B.) Times, which declares it to be the reverie of the fact, and proves its etatemonts in the follow- ing satiafaatory way :— A lisle i irivestiglttion of the returns shows that last year, for for instance, the total revenue, using round figures, was 361 million dollars. Qf this amount—• Nearly a million woe received :from investments. -k Upwards of 31 milliona'coneisted of railway earnings. Nearly 2 millions consisted of N• poet offico'rticeipts And another milliou consisted of receipts that: cannot be , classed as tweetigp ;in any sense. of thfi, work The total taxation of this year was under. 281 millions. Of this amount— Six tnilliotie accrued ; from excise ,duties on whiskey and tobacco, not au objectionable tax. A million a11{la.a ;half accrued from coal, which is chiefly used by the much abused nianufadturers and is not- generally used, by far - mors. • "Fancy goods" paid a half million or more. Spirits and wines, imported, paid a couple of millions more. Silk goods paid three quarters of a million. Imported cigars and cigarettes paid a quarter of a million or more, and even a Grit editor can scarcely imagine one of our sturdy farmers smoking cigarettes. Carpets, fancy woollen goods, and a hundred other articles bought, principally by the rich or well to do classes, paid the greater part of the balance of taxatiou. Sugar pays a cent less taxation per pound than under the Grit tariff; the tax on molasses has been reduced and tea has been made free. Many of our Grit friends who profuse to love the fartner, favor free trade and the raising of the revenue by a direct tax—on the land of the country: This is the poor man's policy with a vengeance. The in- creased deposits in the savings banks, the increased consumption of sugar by nearly 100 per cent. in ten years, and the increased con- sumption of tea in nearly the same proportion show that the country is progressing and that the masses of people are better able than ever to purchase the comforts of life. This being so the people are apt not, to take much stock in assertions like those quoted at the head of this article. EDITORIAL NOTES. There is not likely to be any serious difficulty over the Behring Sea disputes. The American Gov- ernment and the leading American statesmen acknowledge that their Government has no more exclusive jurisdiction in that Sea their in t broad Atlantic. The three mite limit is theirs only, tho same as the three mile limit is ours cff Cana- dian shores. Our totem seems to hold that misstatements and misleading de- ductions from them should be venerated on . account of their antiquity. An untruth even "old 'enough to have grey hairs," to nee an expression off our cofltemporary, is no more to be venerated than the falsehood of to day. The denun- ciation of sin in the Good Book, recorded 2000 years ago, is as applicable today as then. "We have free access to the markets of Great Britain now, let us have the same privilege of enter- ing the markets of the United States and the condition of the farm& would bo greatly improved," says a Canadian writer. In the first place the United States will not give us that on fair terms, and we cannot compel them. Even if they did we should be compelled to give them- free access to ours, which any°? Gat#arl i01 farmer, gill see would mean lower prices for 'hie wheat,, his oats, hie catty, etc. The gravest inequality in rights which should be cotnnlon to alt is the denial of Incorporation to Orangemen. And many of those who prate about their anxiety for equal rights are the very ones who in parliament opposed this Act. Who opposed this measure of equal rights? Almost every Grit member. Who ao,pported it? Almost every protestant Conserv;• tive member. Conservative mem- bers vote to give inherent and constitutional rights to Catholics and pruteatants. Grit members vote to give those rights only to catholicity The American authorities en- deavored to show their desire for freer intercourso with Canada by taxing Canadian cars, going into the United States with American freight, 35 per cent. But the people of New England and western and north-western states kicked against the arrangement. They could uot see why the . carrying trade of Canada, which is kind enough to save them thousands of miles of freighting and thousands of dollars freight money every year, should be taxed for such kindness, And the Washington authorities have concluded to not carry out their illiberal and cutthroat policy. It is just possible that the Globe and the Witness will tell the Governor-general that he "don't know nuffin," now that be has given. as his personal opinion :—"I cannot say that I disagree with the course which, under the circum- stances, the Ministers have recom- mended (in the Jesuit Bill) ,believ- ing from the best authorities to which I have access, that course to bo constitutional.". There may be others who will say that the Gover- nor-Gene-ral, the Minister of Justice, all the members of the government, 188 out of 202 members of parlia- ment and the beet constitutional lawyers in the country aro all wrong, and that the handful of M's P. who differ, and the majority of whom voted for disallowance against their conscience, are all right. What is wrong with the Toronto meat market? One day last week two men named Joseph Maroney and Joseph Dwyer visited the Turner baths and while there quarrelled: It is said that Maroney threw his opponent down and then bit a portion of his ear off. Next day a constable named Beatty went to arrest a man named Fahey. Fahey finding that the constable had no warrant refused to allow the search to proceed. A fight ensued, in which it is alleged that Fahey bit Beatty's ear off and otherwise injured him. At first we thought that this penchant of citizens of Toronto for human ears was owing to a corner in the meat market. It would seem that this supposition is unfounded. That the demand for human ears is to be accounted for in that "tile elixir of life" which eminent French and American scientists are supposed to have dis- covered is more largely contained in that portion of the human ana• tomy than in any portion of any other„animal. On another page will be found a fair synopsis of the "Farmers' Posi- tion” taken from the Ontario statis- tics of agriculture. A comparison of these statistics with those obtained from American sources shows large- ly in favor of this helpless and hopeless Ontario of ours, as against that of our American neighbors whom some faddists want us to strike hands with and assimilate with. Heaven forfend 'the day when the position of the average Ontario farmer shall come down so low as that of the average Ameri- can farmer. American authorities say the American farmers are "over- burdened with debt ; their farms depreciated in value ; the mortgage companies are piling a load on the overstrained farmer; and its only too plain that they cannot long support ;families, pay taxes, ;oto." Surely this is a picture, and one painted by a friendly hand, not very attractive for the Canadian farmer. According to the Ontario official re- port referred to Ontario farm lands increased in value over eight mill - 1Rn\l. f:4oliars i'rom: .$*$ 4,4 sok id tilfr_t. *a4w lands, build;ngs, iinplemeutaud live etook Wormed $98,7Q00O IA, $ever} yeaep, 4ttd oo it rune all Moog the line. It is said that Burke, who wag recently extradited from Winnipeg and is now in Chicago jail awaiting trial for the murder of Dr. C3onip,, is in a very awkward• predicament. and acts as though he was afraid that if he did not confess to what he knew of the murder he. would be hanged,- and if he. did confess that he would be "removed" by th0 Clan na Gael. The United States has a yearly export surplus of about 250,000.000 bushels of wheat. Canada has u yearly export surpluseofabout 2;- 000,000. And our grit ,free trade friends declare that the''Yaukeo are yearning for Canadian farmeee to come over'and help to feed thei starving millions. It is not a 'very likely 'story that a people with a 250 million surplus demanding an outlet are sighing for the Canadian 2 mile lions surplus. - The Sultan of Turkey maiutaina 475 carriages which incur an ex• posse of $480,000 a year to the state. That's what the effete old oriental can do. Let's see what the grand old man, Sir. John,'Scosts this country for carriage hire, and he does as much work in one day as the Sultan does in a year. It is somewhere about four dollars and eighty cents, according to Me:1ul- leu of Wellington who almost went into conniption fits in the House over the Premier's oxtrava- gent habits. According to the county grit press our farmers are a hungering and thirsting for "unrestricted re• ciprocity with the United States." Yes, the farmers of Huron are as anxious to have more competition in their wheat market, their oats market and their corn market as six of our storekeepers aro to have the surplus stocks of sixty non- resident traders dumped in the town in order to help them to get bettor prices for their home st ck. The total yield of oats in the state of Illinois alone, this year, is estimated ae 130,000.000, bushels. Ontario will have oats to spare this year. What a glorious chance for higher prices our farmers would have in a country where one state along produces such an enormous crop and where prices will range from 15 to 20 cents a bushel i It has been decided that a bicyclist has a right to the road on the high- way. But it would seem that he has no more right to run his wheel'd vehicle on the sidewalk than the farmer with his wagon. Yet a Paris bicyclist who was fined under a municipal by-law for riding on the sidewalk does not mean to accept his fate resignedly. His counsel has served notice of appeal on the town council, and the opinion of an eminent Toronto lawyer has been asked on the poiut as to whether the statute gives such prohibitory powers in respect of the thorough- fare as those which the council of Paris is now exercising. Dalton McCarthy is no doubt a very good criminal lawyer, a very good common law lawyer—but when his worshippers set him up as a little god in constitutional law, they are doing the gentleman an injustice. They claim for him more than he claims for himself, He ie the only ''lawyer of any note who has taken the position ho has. O'Brien is a very common common law lawyer. Neither of these nor any of the thirteen over occupied positions of govenmen tal responsibil- ity that would educate thein special- ly in constitutional law. And yet, forsooth, the opinions of such tried and practical statesmen as Sir John Macdonald, Hon. Edward Blake, Hon. • McKenzie Bowels, Hon. David Mille, Hon. John Thompson, and others such as Prof. Weldon, Hon. Alex. McKenzie, Messrs. Edgar, Mulock, J. J. Curran, Hon. Alex McKenzie, and others must be set aside and the special pleading of McCarthy accepted in lieu of the plain words of the constitution as construed' by a large majority of legal minds of the country backed by the personal opinion of the Governor General Let McCarthy etic ' Wtilforming tits fnaohrontsm of 441 languages lin 0111ei'a buaincee t>t kris. nglitib, Opt ;liking cour}try 4nd.41to ,eomoyal, of the d tabilitiell under which both catholfo and proteetants laborin' school matters in Ontario, and he tint then be carrying out theosineervative princi- ple* which he lllrofoeeea and confer a' favor on the people if succeeeful. There was a grand naval review off England, Monday of last week, witnessed by the Emperor of Ger- many. If doubt was arising in any quarter as to whether Britannia still rules tho waves, this grand naval review of Monday was well calcu- lated to dispel that doubt. The marine display was unquestionably the grandest ever made, in respect both to number of vessels and to completeness of equipment for at- tack or defence. To the moralist and philosopher the thought of so many men and s� much capital and skill diverted from. productive to destructive uses may be a saddening evidence of human folly and de- pravity. But to that practical leat- riotisru Which takes the world aa'it is, the evidencethus afforded that Great Britain is still prepared to defend her coasts and commerce, if need be, against the combined •navies of the world, is profoundly reassuring. Canadian wheat producers aro much nearer the cousumiug markets .than are the producers of the United States. So patent is this fact that the Americans last year made use of Canadian water and rail highways to ship through Canada to Britain, nearly seven million bushels of wheat of Ameri- can growth. Sending Canadian farm produce to the United States is much like sending coals to Now - castle. .0 that Cauadian farmers had free trade with the United States so that our markets would be deluged with the immense foreign surplus! The grit press of the county say the farmers of Huron don't sleep o'nights because they cannot get the opportunity of freely selling their wheat in American markets at seven to ten cents a bushel lees than they can =get for it in Canada. Those alleged mouthpieces of the iron heel trodden on farineys of Huron hold it very wrong for the Americansto charge Canadian fanners 20 cents a bushel for the privilege of selling the citizens of the republic wheat ten per cent less than they can , get for it home. We have always held that the fanners of Huron are as humane and as wise es they are patriotic. And we shall wait until full returns are in from the back townships before we believe the statement that they are taking quinine to settle their nerves which are alleged to have become excited agitating for a condition of com- mercial relations which will permit them to devote to hungry Ameri- cans one-tenth part of their crop. And this is what they would have to do did they doll their surplus grain on the other side. Better introduce a church tithing system than carry out such liberality toward the greedy and godless across the border, INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS —Two Brantford barbers have skipped with two girls. One, of them leaves a wife and child. —In the neighborhood of Belle- ville farmers are paying $2 a day for harvest bands. —Mr. Chapleau says there is no truth in the report that the general elections will bo brought on in the autumn. Maybrick, of Liverpool Eng., was found guilty by the jury of the murder of her husband by poisoning, and sentenced to death. —Young Jim Turner was ordered by the Sowdere-Howard faction of Kentucky to leave the State. Ho refused and was shot dead. —P. Vances George, a lawyer and leading citizen of Portage is Prairie, has been arrested on a charge of incendiarism. —An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck the Manitoba and Northwestern train at Saltcoats, Man., by placing a do on the track. —The prisoners confined at San Juan Ulloa, Mexico, revolted the otter day. Tho troops shot twenty quelling the uprising. —A mad horse ran amuck in a street of California on the let,biting two men and eight horses. The horse was bitten amoat about two weeks ago. FOR OBE Offers bigger bargains than ever,,' OtK FAL, ] ANTI WINTER GOODS have already started, tti,ebme fn suet we must make room. And are therefore offering. 10c. Prints for 5c. ; Straw Hats for 5c. ; Muslins fox 5E:• ;. Dress Goods for 8c. ; Chalnbrays for 8c. worth Ise Your choice of our Seersuckers for 8c. ; Ribbons for 5c. ; Buttons for 5c. worth as high as. 25c. .Remember~ ear Summer Corsets at 25c. TWEEDS ! TWEEDS . I >0.0 they must go Call and get Quotations. Robertson"s Great Cash Store --It is reported from New . York that the hop prop has been almost if uot quite, ruined by blight. In many localities the crops will not pay for the picking. —A dispatch to the Tinges dated Port au Prince, July 28, says : Gonerrl Legitime has boeu cutting the throats of prisoners in the mar- ket place. The Montreal Witness says if possible the Jesuits Act will be got before the courts, from which it can be appealed to Her Majesty's Privy Council —At -Chicago James Dolan one night shot and killed his step; father, John McGann, a team- ster, because McGann had ordered him out of the house. The mur- derer escaped. —James Hicks, a plasterer, aged 30 died Thursday morning from the effects of poison that had been mingled with the contents. of his dinner can.. A married sister has been arrested on suspicion. Our Weekly Round Up —The wheat crop in Michigan will average 13 bushels to the acre. —A shock of earthquake was distinctly felt in the Adirondacks N. Y. one morning last week. —The wealth of Donna Isadore Cousino, of Chili, is estimated at $200,000,000. —A Minneapolis authority says the wheat yield of Minnesota and Dakota will reach 90,000,000 bush, and the price 80 cents a bushel • —At Buffalo last Friday the pacer Johnston made the mile in 2.084, going the last quarter at a 2.05 gait. Mayor Erratt, of Ottawa, will take . action of. libel against the Torouto Mail for reporting that he frequented a gambling den in the capital. ---Who wouldn't be a clam 1 Valuable pearls are being found in this crustaceous creature •at Rock River, Wisconsin. There is big excitement over the finds. —The First Presbyterian Church of Erie, Pa., gave a call to Rev. 11. C. Rose of Ingersoll, Ont. But the law against importing labor has stepped in and knocked the contract out. —John Robinson, a well-to•do, farmer who lived six miles from Orillia. was driving borne with a load of tanbark and a spirited team. The back of the Toad came down and frightened the horses, which ran away. The jolting of the wagon shook .Mr. Robinson off, and he was either kicked in the region of the heart by the horses or run over by the wagon. He only lived a couple of hours after the accident. —The Rev. Frederick Mayer, pastor of the Evangelical church Lansing, Pa., bagged $5,000 in a recent lottery drawing. He de- clares that be can see nothing sin- ful in acquiring money in this way, and he has put the money in the bank until he finds a suitable invest- ment. On the other hand the church society sees considerable harm in the transaction, and there is likely to he an early vacancy in the pulpit. —The acting under secretary of state has forwarded to Hugh Gra. ham, of Montreal, the government's reply to his petition asking that the Jeanite estates act and the act in- corporating the Society of Jesus be referred to the supreme court. The minister of justice, to whom Mr. Graham's petition was referred, made a report thereon, stating that he entertained no doubt regarding the constitutionality of the acts in question, and that lie sa re no reason why. the prayer of Mr. Graham's petition should be granted. This report was concurred in by the other members of the cabinet, and a copy of the order•inecouneil approv- ing it has been forwarded to Mr. Graham. —The•area of London (taking in the tetlitoey of tbe Metropolitan and City . Police dit{trict) le ^...”61,segs' miles. The area of PISA abou 30'square miles; Chicago; 174. MARKET REPORTS.. (Correctedovory Tuesday afternoon.) OLTNTON. Flour $5 50 to 6 00 Fall Wheat, new & old 0 90 to 0 95 Spring Wheat.... 0 90 to 0 05 Barley .. C 40 to 0 48 Oats .. 0 28 to 0.28 Peas . 0 54 to 0'54 Apples,(winter) pe: bbl 1 00 to 1 50 Potatoes . 0 35 to 0 40 Butter ...1.::..... 0 12 jto 0 14 Eggs 0 11 to 0 12 Hay 500to700 Cordwood 3 00 to 4 00 Beef . 0 00 to 000 Wool 0 18 to 0 20 'Pork 6 50 to 6 70 GIRL WANTED. At once, small family ; general, housework light. Apply at THE NEWS -RECORD OFFICE. HOUSE FOR RENT. That very desirable story and a half residence situate on Mary Street, between King and Isaac. Hard and soft water, and. all tho necessary con- veniences of outhouses, etc. Large plot of ground and good garden of fruit trees. For particulars apply to D. B. KENNEDY. Cijntun, August 5, 1889. 503—tf laby. Clearing Prices -only 4 left Baskets --Selling Fast., FANS—all kinds, at Low Prices' COOPER'S BOOK STORE. CANADA'S GREAT Austrial Fair —AND --- Agricultural Exposition 1889 TORONTO SEPT. 9t11 to 21s1. Increased Prizes, Greater Attractions and a Grander Display•thaa ever before. Newest :and Best Special Fea- tures that Ilioney can procure. The Greatest Annual Enter- tainment Jon the American Continent. Over 250,000 visitors attended this Exhi- bition last year. Entries close August 17th. For Prim Lists and Forms, Programmes, etc., drop a post curd to H. J. WILL, Manager, Toronto. J. J. Wi1'HROW, Pres. LICEWSED HOTEL FOR SALE. The euHeriber offera for sale the licensed hotel in Brucefbld new known ae Turner's, formerly known sr Rattenbpry'e. Doing a good business, is in exalient repair and up to the statutory re- qulrem4its, and has lately had considerable im. provenints effected on it. Terms :—Reasonable cash raiment, easy terms for balance. Apply to,R. J. TURNER, m -4t Brnceeeid. Births, Marriages and Booths By apter 40 Revised Statute. of Ontario, 1887, Births, Marriages and Deaths aro requir- ed to registered with the Clerk of the munici- pality p which such may take place. The person requirh to report a birth is the father or mother of s c d; registration must be made within 80 days r birth. The person required to register s mar age is the clergyman who celebrates It and hi report must be furnished Within 90 days after to date of such marriage. The person re. quire t o register a death is the occupier of the house n which the death takes place, and the returrhnust be made before the interment of the body.'Any medical man who was last In attend- ance tiring the tact Inness of any deceased 'per. son itequired to register the cause of death. —I�eglct to make any of these report§ within the spinet] tune, wi11 subject the person so negleeing to a penalty of $20 and costs. All persol interested will take notice and govern themelves accordingly. WiLLTAM COATS, 538 Division Registrar, Clinton