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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1891-02-18, Page 6The Hurt-1News-Record 431.50 a Ye... - -31. n ' Advance. ta' The gran d•.t's .ant do justice taAis bttainest w4, spends less en adee•tisinq than he dues in rent.—A. 'C. 3ra•.v.tar, the millionaire merchant f New Purl:. Wednesday. Feb. 18th, 1891. E. W. THOMPSON INTER- yinwico, A 11EPulttt rt TALKS WITH 'FRE 11rC— G1.u1.1t EDITOR. liotV TtII GLOBE IS 8TRENGTHENING SIR JOHN'S POSITION—THE FDN- NY FEATURE OF THE CAKE TO MR. THOMPSON'S VIEW —DIRECT TAXATION AND DISORIMINAT10N AGAINST Hnl- T.1 IN. Toronto world. Yesterday the World's young man asked E. W. Thompson what he thought of the political situ- ation. ''It amusing," said Mr. '1'homp- 8011. "What's the funniest feature?" "Well," said Gordon Brown's old pupil, "the funniest thing is to see Cartwright's admiring few taking the very line that Sir John must wish to see them on. "What line is thatl" '•Go look over the Globe editor- ials of this and yesterday morning. They aro mainly expansions of the assertion that Sir John can't get any reciprocity because he won't agree to free trade with the States and discrirninatieu against Britain. Now, that's really the strength of Sir John's position !" "I-Iow do yot make that out Mr. Thompson 1" "Very easily. In the first place multitudes of Libersls dislike the idea of discrimination against Great Britain, and therefore Sir John stands to gain votes from the Liber• ale when the Globe tells them loud• ly that the old gentleman won't con- sent to that discrimination." "That's clear," said the World man. "In the second place," proceeded Mr. Thompson, "limited reciprocity is itself popular with Liberale,while unlimited reciprocity, because of its incidents, is not. Liberals, you see, are generally reflective amen, who known as well as yo 1 and I do that complete free trade with the United States must involve Canada in cue of two things that Canada won't stand–either,texatiuu from Washing- ton without representation there, or direct taxation on a great uoale. There's no escaping both these disa- greoables. To avoid one we roust full over the other. If we had a custom union w ith the States, Wash- ington would, as Sir Richard has stated, control our tariff, i.e., give us taxation without rrpresent.atiou. If, on the other hand, we had unre• etricted reciprocity, i.e., free trade with the States and control of our tariff, and if we maintained our tar- iff against British goods, then Yan- kee goods would displace British goods to such an extent that our total loss of revenue would be $14,- 000,000 a year. I think this a low estimate, and the \Veek was recent ly of the eame opinion. Well, we should have to raise that $11,000,- 000 by direct taxation." "I thought you favored direct taxation 1" said the world man. "So I do. But I don't think the people do. Mr. Blake is, in my judgment, the true representative of public opinion aa to direct taxa- tion. He says, what Mr. Mills re- cently said that the people won't stand it. I'm sorry it is true, but facts are facts. The people have not been 'prepared for direct taxation. \VeII, then, what's the sense of ex- pecting them to agree to a fiscal programme which involves $14,- 000,000 of direct taxation 1" "What, indeed ?" exclaimed the World man. "No," said Mr. Thompson. "Lib- erals in general want reciprocity without discrimination against Great Britain, with control of their tarifa and without direct taxation. And the more the Globe tells them that Sir John is going for that or noth - ing, the more tho Globe throws Lib• eral votes to Sir John." "It seems to snake you very sad, Mr. Thompeon." "So it does. As a Grit and an old Globe man I'm grieved to see it driving Sir John's wedge in every lawful morning." "Who's to blame, Ferrer or \Vil- lison 1" "Neither one not the other, I'll bet a sixpence. M1'. Willison and Mr. Ferrer are both able and shrewd, and so is John Lewis, a clever edi- torial writer, who is too modest to got any public credit for hie work. Don't let us suspect any of thorn of being so silly of their own will and motion! No,let ns be just toSir Richard. He directs the line of the paper—that's an open secret. What insight George Brown had ! You remember he called Sir Richard a mixer and a muddler. Your dull machine politician is always impress - by any hullaballo that he has order- ed, and its probable that at this mo - I.. went the Grand Paujaudrum of the Globe Dictorate really believet?t that Liberals .want unrestrictod recipro- city, including either taxation with- out representation or diseriuiination against England and direct taxation. That'e a gross error." 'And you think Sir John will have a walk over 1" 'Well, Sir John'e-wastel'ly strate- gy will firmly hold to hirn his res- tive element ---those Conservatives Whp are eager for fie much reci- procity as den be honestly gained and who were vexed because he did not sooner propose negotiations with Nrashiugton. And this is the mom- ent when Sir Richard or his facto- tums drive off the many Liberale, the tnajcrity, who are not for the Cartwright programme of `Unre- stricted Trade, Discritnivatiou against England, Direct '1'axati an or Nothing.' Do you see the point 1 John A. makes bis platform wide enough to carry nine reciprocitarians out of ten, and strtiightway the Cartwrightiane narrow theirs to in- clude ouly tho extreme reciprocitar- ian element. An overwhelming Conservative victory in such circim- etencee will not be a Liberal defeat, but only a defeat of Sir Richard and his little gang." "How are you going vote, Mr. Thompsontl" "Well, that depends ou whether the Liberal candidate pledges hirn self to an intelligible or nn unintel ligible policy. l'n1 in hopes that Mr. Blake may be persuaded to come forward and save the party. He's not commited in the least to this Cartwrightian folly. Quite the contrary, if authoritative -look- ing reports be true." "Did he ever himself tell you what are hie views ou unrestricted reci- procity ?" It's a fine afternoon"' said 11r. Thompson, blowing his none in 0 huge •red bandanna, and departing swiftly and suddenly up Young street. SOME"1'HIING ABOUT KISSES. ANTIQUE ORIGIN OF A CUSTOM THAT HAS ROLLED DOWN THE AGES: The kiss smacks of antignity ; but like the fabled charms of Cloo- pat'a : "time can not wither nor custom stale her infinite variety." There is a curious lack of informa- tiou in literature concerning this piquant, if not profound, topic. Volumes have been writtou about th graces, the charms, and the accomplishments that have witched the world, but the testimony con- cerning the kiss has been, discreet- ly, perhaps, suppressed. A half dozen fugitive essays, twice as many poems, mainly Latin and French anal a thousand driftwood epigrams, more or less, have toyed with the kiss, or let is fantastically float like a bubble in the air. The Song of Solomon touches it moat beautifully iu Hebrew, but the Greeks were woefully wanting in their tributes to this tender topic. It remained for Plato, the Platonic philosopher, to say : "My soul then flutters to any lips, ready to fly and mix with them." The classic bow that Apollo leveled at Daphne, or Cupid at Psyche, was patterned after the dainty lino of the upper lip fashion- ed by nature, that Phidias and Prexitelles immortalized iu marble. Eight generic forms of kisses are mentioned in Scripture—Salutation, Sam., xx., 41 ; valediction, Ruth, ii., 9 ; reconciliation, 2 Sam., xiv., 33 ; subjection, Psalms, ii., 4 ; ap- probation, Proverbs, 11., 4 ; adora- tion, 1. Kings, xix., 18 ; treachery, Math., xxvi., 49 ; affection, Gene- sis, xiv., 15. St. Augustine writes of the kiss of reconciliation between enemies ; the kiss of peace Christ- ians exchanged in church at the celebration of the Holy Eucharist ; the kiss of love and hospitality, and the holy kies. The history of the early Chris- tian Church affords instruction ou this topic. At first the kiss was en adopted sign of fellowship—"Greet all the brethren with the holy kiss" (1 Thess., v., 26). It early passed into ceremony as the kiss of peace given to a newly -baptised convert, and in celebrating the Eucharist. But as it was found to have some qualities not adapted to religious or spiritual use between the sexes it was ordered that men should kiss men and women only women. The awkwardness of this practice, or perhaps the experience that pro- miscuo 1q kissing, even when limit- ed to the sante sox, was liable to convey contagious diseases, induced another amendment, by which the ceremonial kise in the Roman church was only passed between the ministrants, and a relic or cross called the osculator'ium or pax was passed to the people for their lips. It may, perhaps, be suggested that one reason for tho very long delay in the practice of the mutual kiss was in the general uae by one or both of the sexes of nose rings Or labrets, either of which would prevent the approximation requisite. If such iso be not admitted a8 a cause sufficient, it at least affords evidence that the kiss was not customary among the people by whom 11080 rings and labrets were worn. Indeed, Professor Dail gives instances where, labrets Doing gunman and the kiss unknown, the tongues are protruded in affec- tionate salutes. In some languages, notably the Japanese, there fe no word for kiss. When Muugo Park travelled in Africa he was astonished to hear the thick lipped natives express their abhorence of kissing the emaciated lips of a white face. In Feudal times the vassal kissed the 1 courtier Pae n luttrk 4f submissive lovnity + and in the dark ages the kiss was given only to the dying as a valedictory to the soul. When the kiss came to include women, like many other new fads it was carried to excess. The Rouran emperors kissed their offi cers, and female relatives were kissed, it is stated, to sec if "their breath smelt of wine." The kiss of Euglaud came from Friesland. A chronicle of 1622 Bays the pleasant practice of kissing was utterly unpracticed and un- kuown iu England till the fair Princess Rowena, the daughter of King Hengist, of Friesland, pressed the beaker with her lipk ins, and saluted the amorous Vortigern with a husjeu (little kiss). The learned Erasmus writes of Britain : "Just one thing out of featly here, there are lassies with heavenly faces, kind, ohligiug, and you would far prefer thein to all your muses. 'there is besides a practice never sufficiently to be commended. If you go to any place, you aro received with a kiss by all ; if you depart on a journey you ate disinissed with a kiss; you retain, kisaos are exchanged. Lastly, wherever you move there is nothing but kisses. And if you Faustus had but once tasted them, how soft they are ; how fragrant ; ou my honor you would not wish to reside hero teu years, hut for life 1" - John Bunyau did not agree with frisky Erasmus. He says : "The common salutation of women I abhor ; it is odious to me in whom- soever I have seen it. When I have seen good nten salutt; those women that I have visited I have made my objections against it. They have answered it was 0 piece of civility. I have told them it was not a comely sight. Some, indeed, have urged the holy kiss. I have asked them why they make balks 1 Why they did salute the most handsome and let the ill- favored ones go?" He should have been ou the jury that fined the lip -famished Puritan who, returning from a long voyage, insiated upon kissing his wife on the Sabbath. In Russia, when people meet ou the street on Easter Day, they kiss promiscuously. As no devout Ruesian can refuse the challenge for •religious salute, a chronicler says, "the custom is frequently a source of great profit to objection- able persons." A recent writer in the Popular Science Monthly says : "The kiss of the hand is undoubtedly ancient, and, therefore, is not derived from that of the lips, but probably the converse is true. The hand kiss is loosely asserted to be developed from servile obeisances in which the earth, the foot, and the garments were kissed, the hand and cheek succeeding in order of time and approach to equality of rank. But it is doubtful if that was the actual order, and it is certain that at the time when hand kissing began there were less numerous gradations of rank than at a later stage. Kiss- ing of the hands between men is mentioned in the old Testament, also by Homer, Pliny and Lucian. The kiss was applied reverently to sacred objects, such as statues of the gods, as is shown by ancient works of art, and also among numerous etymologies, by that of the Latin word adore, and it was also metaphorically applied by the inferior or worshiper kissing his own hand and throwing the salute to the superior or statue. The mouth kissing the hand, by which Job pescribes a species of idolatry, is a species of adulation practiced by every cringing servant in Italy. When the actual prac- tice has ceased, it survives iu }phrases. Austrian neon habitually say to one another "Kusa d' Hand," and St.ania'ds, "Baso a Vd. los mantis-" A variant form was found among the Algonkins and Iroquois, as Champlain related, in 1622, that "they kissed each his own hand and then placed it in mine." .te THE DOMINION OUTLOOK. 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It is said, and said truthfully, that twelve ur fifteen of the Conservatives were elected by majorities less than a1 hundred, and that a very slight change in each of these constituencies would make a change of from twenty to thirty votes. True—most true. But there ie no evidence that any such change has taken place. All the testimony s the other way. In I-Ialdimend the Conservative majority in 1887 was cue; lust year it was nearly 200. And so throughout the province: The indications are that the govern- ment of Si: John Macdonald is more popular now than ever before. We may say that as many Refurtners as Conservatives were elected by narrow majorities. There is no reason to think that Ontario will give any smaller Conservative ma- jority than that in the last house. West of Ontario the Reformers may get one or two seats. We look fur a larger majority be- hind Sir John Macdonald than that in the parliament whish has just been dissolved. A MONTREAL GRIT REPUDI- ATES ITIS PARTY. Last uight, Feb. 6, meeting of the Reform club held at the 'Wind- sor hotel, Montreal, for the purpose of nominating candidates to oppose Sir Donald Smith and J. J. Curran, was not a success from a party poiut of view, but it brought to the public notice the wholesale disorganization of the Liberal party in the city of Moutreal. The event of- the eveu- iug was a speech from Edgar Judge, a past president of the club, a load• ing member of the Board of Trade, and, in fact, the moat brainy man among Moutreal Liberalism. HIis address, which is the chief topic at the clubs and newspaper offices this evening, will act as the last deoieive blow to Witnanism in the comtner- ciol metropolis. Being called upon by the chairman to express his views, Mr. Judge said he would not do as several others had done, reserve his ammunition for another occasion. \Vith regret that he was forced to say that his appreciatiou of the policy of the Liberal party was not such as to find favor in that meeting, He was not in accord wit his party. It wan a case of annexation on one side and British connection on the other. (Applause ) You never can got the United States to admit Canada to her markets unless you make acom- nion tariff against the rest of the world, and that means discrimina- against the mother country, and as an Englishman he could not approve of that. It was a natter of regret that he must sever his connection with the party, but he could not anal would not approve of a policy that meant severance front the moth- erland. (Loud applause.) Contin- uing,,Mr. Judge said that at present it was a struggle between England and the United States manufactnl'- ers and merchants for the trade of Canada, and an unrestricted recipro- city tariff meant handing down the whole trade over to the United States: When he saw the Toronto Globe preaching annexation—flims- ily and gaudily veiled it might be, but yet annexation—and lauding the utterances of Goldwin Smith, it was time for him and all who valued British connection to rise up and oppose such a policy. Mr. Judge's remarks had such an effect upon the meeting that it broke up in confus- ion,• after naming a committee to look out for a candidate. c 11;9 ate_ f.WEM ° m-acxEl. RHEU A e� 9 Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Headache, Toothache, Sore Throat, Frost Bites, Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Etc,, Sold by Druggists and Dealers everyavhcre. Fifty Cents a bottle. Directions in 11 Languages. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO., Baltimore, Hid Canadian Depot: Toronto, Ont. 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"Tho character of the crop is much iuflu enced by the quality of the seed, and for this reason it is important that farmers shouldacertain wheth- er the grain they aro holding for seed poses:es the necessary vitality Provision has been made by the Government whereby this can bo done without cost to the individual, and any farmer in the Dominion who may have any varieties which he desires to have tested, may ob- teiu:the imformotion he seeks by for wading to the Cental Experimen- tal Fasts), at Ottawa, samples of such grain or other agricultural seeds. A special testing house has been built for this work which affords ample capacity. Samples may be sent free through the mail, an ounce or two is sufficient for the purpose and about two weeks are required to complete n test. 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She remonstrated some- what strongly, and tho result was that a couFle of days later the old gallant left Tuscarora on the even- ing train, the widow following the next night. They came here about Dec. 1 and, renting a house in Linicoe St., settled down to house -keeping as husband and wife. ;'1rem while the do sealed wife kept her eyes and ears. open, and at list observed at the railway station there a bundle of goods which she recognised as belonging to the runaway widow. The old package was addressed to P. Tracy,. Niagara Falls, Ont. Immediately the police were communicated with and the couple were located at their residence. The old lady and her son cause here and sworn out an information against the two. As the object of this prosecution was to induce Shutuway to support his wife and send away his daughter-in- law, she was permitted to sleep that night in the house she had occupied, receiving a strong recom- mendation to skip out before morn- ing. She took the hint and vanished, and when the old man was brought deforo Magistrate Hill he agreed to take his wife to live with again, de- positing a considerable sum of money a8 security thathe would ap- pear when called upon. The old couple then went to live ill the house in Sinicoe street which hid been so comfortably furnished for the young woman. (se I t