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Clinton New Era, 1892-03-11, Page 4OEtE CLflON NEW RA Ot our Great §laughter Sale of goods saved from the fire. After that we stook up again with a complete new stock. Now is your last chance to get prime NEW ENGLISH DRESS GOODS, all wool, double fold, at prices never heard of before in this plaoe SHIRTING, Heavy and Wide tb.at were bought for Spring trade worth 15c, for lOic. GREY COTTONS 36 in., heavy, worth Rots., for Victs, CARPETS, UMBRELLAS, RIBBONS, BUTTONS and a host of other articles, all offered at prices that will sell them within a week in order to !flake room for spring stock. Loo .0 to Your own interests and lay hold of these bargains wbile you have the opportunity. NE CV PRINTS, New FLANNELS just opened out. Mara's old Stand, Clinton. J. C. GILROY. • ftw Advertionnenti New goods—Geo Newton Wall paper—Robbin Bros Wall paper—Cooper & Co Some one—W L Ouimette Spring goods—Taylor & Co Silverware—Rumba' 8c Co $1 for 75c—Estate J Hodgen Durham bull—John Harvey Spring Clothing—Jackson Bros Buggy for sale—Dr Worthington Tweed Suiting—Estate J. Hodgen Manitoba excursions—W. Jackson Clearing sale= -Walton & Morrison Spring goods—Plumsteel & Gibbings flintatt ew eta FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1892 Free Trade and Direct Taxation. -- Mr John Crerar, Q. C., of Hamilton, who delivered a couple of addresses in Hunan during the campaign, has ad- dressed an open letter to Mr Laurier, in which he advocates the acceptance of a platform of free trade with the world,and direct taxation. This is vir- tually what the great bulk of the Lib- erals have been in favor, of for some time, and is only the extension of unrestricted reciprocity to a broader basis. For years the NISW ERA has advocated "free trade with all the world and direct taxation," so that it is no new idea. The weak spot, un- questionably, of the unrestricted reci- procity platform, was the possible dis- crimination against English imports. .An argument that might be a,dvanced against free trade, is the assumption that the States would avail itself of our market under free trade, but would not allow us to use theirs, and there may some force in it, because of conti- guity to the republic. But over and above this stands the first principle of getting ourselves on a proper economic basis. England is the nearest approach ,,terfree trade there is in Una weejd, ,anst she threw open her markets, regardless of what any other country would do. So Canada might, with great benefit to herself, adopt free trade, no matter what the United States would do. As to direct taxation; our readers know perfectly well that we are heartly in sympathy with it. In brief,it is cheap- er than our present method of raising the revenue; it is much more satis- factory ; it is easier understood ; it is, right. By all means let us have both these progressive reforms and rue quicker we get them, the better for every resident of the Donainion. Mercier defeated. The Quebec, Provincial elections came off or. Tuesday, and resulted in a bad dpfeat for Mr Mercier, the Government securing 53 seats and Mercier only 20. Of course the Conservatives regard this as a victory, but they ignore the fact, that a great many Liberals repudiated Mercier and gave their support to the other side, solely in order to get rid of the disgraced Premier. Liberals gen- erally have no fault to find with the result, except that they would prefer to see a cleaner man than even De Boucheville as Premier. of the sister - Province; his record is far from being as good as it might have been, but as the people have expressed their confi- dence in him, and willingness to be governed by him, outsiders have little to complain of. Mercier has only t e- ceived what most people expected he would get—an unmerciful political threshing, and it is to the credit of the Liberal press of Ontario, that mot in a solitary instance, that we are aware of, did theydefend orjustify his rascalities. Merdier has resigned his seat since the elections, and announces that he will retire to private life. London Election Case. Judge Elliott, County judge, has decided that the whole 125 votes at issue in the London election case, are good votes, and accordingly Mr. Car- ing gets the seat. Commenting on it, the London Advertiser says:— "The judgment does not reflect credit on the judge It is one of the most ezteaordinary deliverances ever given in a court of Judie°. Hero wo have an obaeure County Court judge overruling the deliberate judg- ment of the Court of Queen's Bench and the Court of Appeal and setting up his own dictum as to what is Justice, nbtwithstandmg the fact that the men, who aa a last resort went to him. Had appealed to both these courts in support of the contention that bad votes should rennin on the lists, and were in each case worsted. Let it be known to the world that Judge Elliot has taken up a position in regard to the judgment of the superior courts that has no precedent in the jurisprudence of Canada, or, so far as leading counsel in the Province can remember, in the legal history of Britain. We say that the judgment is not in equity. We hold that the judgment of eight judges, six of them elevated to the Superior Court bench by virtue of their abilities, is certainly more to be relled,on than a judgment by a partisan of so pronounced a description as Judge Elliot. The Libor - 'al and independent electors of London are warranted In objetting to the stuffing of the voters' Hots, where- by the popular choice can beset aside,ercin though it bee been decreed by Judge Elliot. We say now that not five of the 125 persons whose namee Judge Elliot has decreed shall remain on the voters' list, CATI por- tend to be legally qualified. We say further, no honest man will contend that they ebould be pre - flatted to swamp the voice of the electorate ad honest- ly heard at the poll% Theend Is not yet." Mr Mercier will now crawl into the hole he made for himself, and pull it in after him. A majority of 16 is not much to hold a seat by, but for practical purposes it is likely as good as 160. People are becoming thoroughly incensed at, the rascalities perpetrated under the guise of the Dominion voters list. Time they did, too. This country should have no use for a franchise act that costs half a million dollars to "reyise" and then is very far from being revised when done. Notwithstanding the adverse vote here on broader trade reations with the United States, the discussions that have taken place have an educative force that will not be lost. Time and truth is 6ii the side of tariff abandon- ment. We congratulate our esteemed friend H. P. Moore, of the Acton Free Press, on his deserved elevation to the Pre- sidency of the Canadian Press Associa- tion. He is, we believe, the youngest man who has yet filled this position, but he is in every way well qualified for it, and will discharge its duties in an eminently satisfactory manner. The recount asked for by the Liber- al & of West Huron, took place on Mon- day last, before Judge Toms, and re- sulted in reducing Hon Mr Patterson's majority by nine, leaving the correct majority at sixteen. Perhaps those Liberals who neglected to vote, now wish they had done so when" they had tte, pppertunity. Mr Mowat his spressed his inten- tion to intmeatice a bill reducing the number of county councillors. This is right. , Mr Mowat, allow a friend to gi•-e you a word of advice. Reduce 03 number at least one-half. Let there be but one from each municipal- ity no matter what its population;pro- vide that there shall be only two ses- sions a year, and experience will prove that even this number is larger than necessary to do the work. Legislative Jottings Wonders will never cease! Mr Meredith the champion of prohibition What will Carling and his crew, with whom he hob-a-nobbed not many days ago, think of that? It was the biggest farce comedy that has been enacted in the Legislature for many a day. The leader of the Opposition waxed eloquent on the prohibition question. To hear him 0110 would think he had 13een the able ally and advocate of temperance all his days, in- stead of, as he has been, the opponent of nearly every piece of temperance legislation that has passed through the House. But why this sudden zi eal for temperance? The reason s quite evi- dent. The Conservative party at Ottawa, finding themselves in a corner on the question, think to get over by having Meredith give Mowat the bluff. Had the honorable leader of the Opposition thought for one momenitithat he would-be made the subject of such a severe °mitigation as was administered by Hon Messrs Mownt and Ross, we fancy he would have hesitated before taking the etand he did. The Attorney -General demonstrated quite clearly that the power of enacting it prohibitory law rested with the Dominion Government That in the Russel ease, which came before the Privy Council in England, it was decided that this power was vested in the parliament at Otta- wa. The Minister of Education followed in a vigorone epeech, in which he traced the pro- Rxessive legislation of the goverement in the matter of temperance, and showed how that the Government, by adopting this legislation, had almost taken its life in its hands by opposing the liquor traffic. Mr Hardy, last Friday, explained the aim and scope of the Forest Pork Reservation. The die- triot proposed to be eet apart for this purpose consiste of about fifteen or twenty, townships lying north of Haliburton, south of the Mattawa River, weat of the Ottawa River, and east of Parry Bound. In about half of these township; are numerous small lakes..which are the source of several rivers running oast and west. These townships are practieally unflt for agricultural purposes, and are,: Moreover, the natural home of many of the valet blewild animals. In setting !mart Vale district, then, we wohld have several interests see'ved—the coneervatien of timber, the maintenalibe of the water supply, and the•pre- servation of the•game. On Tuesday Mr Gibson's (Hamilton) Insurance Bill received its second reading. I don't think there will be any opposition to the principle of the hill, although it may suffer a few changes when it reaches the committee stage There was need of legislation such as this, to protect the public against all sorts of wild -cat insurance sehemes, and bogus fraternal societies. If the hisurance business of the Province was allowed to run wild for a few years longer, public confidence in insurance would be shattered. The bill indeed is a timely one Mr Hardy'a bill, to reduce the number on the Grand Jury to thirteen, is all right in principle, but—but, who would care te be the thirteenth juror? I wouldn't, would yell? We fancy twe,ve good and true men could pertorm the duties satis- factorily There seems to be some oppoeition to Mr Mowat's bill respecting the use of tobacco by minors. The bill provides that any boy having tobacco in his possession is subject to the penal- ties laid down. We fancy that some of the old fellows in the House, who are addicted to the weed, are afraid that hereafter, when they want a plug of T & 8, they will have to travel after it themselves, instead of the luxury heretofore en- joyed bf sending the smell boy of the home RBJB Impressions of Ottawa Parliament and its Members and other Matters. On Thursday and Friday of last week, the annual meeting of the Cana- dian Press Association was held in the Railway committee room of the Parlia- ment .Buildings, Ottawa. This gave the members an opportunity of visit- ing the capital when parliament was in session, (though some of them have conceit enough to think they should be entitledto visit it every session;) many publishers availed themselves of the privilege, a representative of the NEW ERA being among the number. The fact of the meetings being held in the parliament buildings also gave mem- bers of the Association a splendid op- portunity of quietly slipping out and entering the Commons room, while members of parliament also found it convenient to drop into the Press gathering, and renew their acquaint- ance yvith "the moulders of public opinion," the "leaders of public thought," the men who possibly may have done more to secure their election and get less for it than any other factor. THE CITY. Ottawa may be a picturesque place in summer, but it lacks this attractive- ness in winter. The view of a lot of unsightly barges and canal boats, left in the river just where the frost hap- pened to lock thein up, is not in a3sthe- tic one, and thus frozen in they, for the time, loose their commercial value and interest. There are a few very fine buildirtgs in the city and some handsome residences, but outsidelof the partiament buildings there is nothing at all that will compare with the beau- tiful structures of Toronto. Earns - cliff, the late residence of Sir John A., is an inpretentious house on a back street, though surrounded by fine grounds. Interest centres, of course in the Parliament Buildings, and these are stately and beautiful structures of stone, situated on the high bank of the river, and if viewed diereforiaqq-are- seen to much better advantage than elsewhere. Every opportunity and facility was afforded the press men to visit the various departments. STREET RAILWAY. The street cars are run, heated and lighted by electricity, the same current peaforming the various services. The cars are run much faster than when drawn by horses, and the greatness of the load seemingly makes no difference, as your representative was in a car where the passengers were packed in like sardines, while persons were hang- ing on outside, and the car went up and down hill as fast as was desirable. COURTESIES BY THE CITY. The mayor and corporation did all they could to make the visit pleasant, placing a large number of conveyances at the disposal, of members of the association, and driving them all over the city and to the various points of interest, a drive which lasted three hours. The cutters used by cabmen remind one of those seen in pictures of Russian life; the driver occupying a high seat in the front, and are entirely different to the double cutters one is accustomed to in the west. HULL INDUSTRIES. Crossing the river brings one at once into the Province of Quebec and the city of Hull, a place known the wide world over, more because of the fami- liar name on match boxes, "E. B, Eddy, Hull," than for anything else. The match factory is an interesting place to visit, and the press men were cour- teously shown through this and other establishments. The rapidity with which • the paper boxes are filled by hand, girls being employed, is astonish- ing. Let any one take a full paper box of matches, and see how tightly they are packed in, and they will naturally think that it took some time to do it, but it is done like lightning. A &irl snatches up a handful, and by a quick twist, forces them in. She takes just the exact quantity every time, does not drop any off or pick up more to fill in, and her accuracy is surprising. Pile upon pile, and pile upon pile of lumber along the bank of the river in- dicate the raw material that contri- butes to the nation's wealth. IN PARLIAMENT Sitting in the Speaker's gallery when the House is in session, (a favor only granted occasionally) you are struck with the very large number of young men who are members of the Com- mons' One usually has formed the impression that a majority of those who get elected to parliament are eith- er aged persons or those well up in years, but this is a mistake; there are members of this class, but there are a great many more who do not look to have passed their 40th year. The yonngest looking member of the House is the almost boyish Minister of Mar- ine and Fisheries, Hon. Mt Tupper; he would pass for a youth of 25, but may be more. And those who have follow- ed Grip's cartoons have no difficulty in picking out the different members of the ministry. Caron and Haggart dress in light colored snits of tweed, but all the other members of the Min- istry wear regulation dress suits. The desks look to be too close together, but on the opposition aide of the House there was "room and to spare" for all who were there. John McMillan and Dr. McDonald were both in their seats, but the member for West Huron was absent stumping the county of Monck. When it was learned that the NEW ERA representative was from West Huron he had to answer a good many questions concerning the recent con- test here. By reason of the positions they hold as the respective leaders, the two men who attract most atten- tion in the House are Sir John Thomp- son and Wilfred Laurier, and your representative was surprised and pleas- ed to find that, outside of political con- siderations, no public man is more highly esteemed by all classes and parties in Ottawa than the gifted and eloquent leader of the Opposition. This is so noticeable and self-evident that even political opponents concede it. RIDEAU HALL. The residence of the Governor-Gene- ral is not a very pretentious building, though it figures largely in the Public Accounts. It is a fair-sized place, but is made unsightly by the addition of a string of sheds at the back, looking as if each Governor-General had added a wood shed for himself. On the even- ing of Thursday, Lady Stanley gave a reception to the Press Association, a large number of the citizens also being present; the grounds were illuminated , by immense bonfires, Chinese lanterns and torches; the Governor -General's full band furnished music, while skat- ing:, curling and tobogganing were all in full sway; some of the visitors, who had never before experienced the thrill- ing pleasure of tobogganing,took a trip down the immense decline, and felt that the description of this pleasure given by the Chinaman was nearly correct, "Gee w-h-i-z—walkee milee backee." Refreshments were served, with wine or coffee for those who wished it, and the wine was in greater demand than the coffee. If the bill for this reception is included in the Gov- Srnor's.expenses paid by the country, your representative will guarantee that for once at least he will say the expen- diture was perfectly justifiable, and there should be no kicking. Lord and Lady Stanley did all they could to make the visit a pleasant one. FEASTING—NOT FASTING. The proceedings of the Press Associ- ation were wound up by a banquet on Friday evening, which was honored with the presence of Lord Stanley, Hon. McKenzie Bowell, Wilfred Laur- ier, and others of note. The Governor General, though he replied to a toast, is not gifted with any special powers of oratory, and he felt just as much embarrassed as would an individual occupying a lower social standing. Though liquors were provided for all who wished them, it was noticeable that most of the representatives of the press drank the toasts in cold water, in which, according to our yvtty of j thinking, they displayed good udg- ment and better taste. CASUAL NOTES. Everything in the city is tinctured with a species of snobbishness. No one would object to the highest social sta- tus, when maintained properly, but people who have not the means or the natural force requisite, assume an air of superciliousness that is disgusting. The cabmen, storekeepers and hotel men regard all strangers as either members of parliament, wealthy con- tractors or millionaires, and govern themselves accordingly. Mr P. D. Ross, of the Ottawa Journ- al, is particularly entitled to the thanks of every visiting press man, for no one could be more considerate, or do more for them, than did Mr Ross. What will the people of Ontario say if the Dominion Government offers to shoulder the Quebec debt of thirty-four million dollars? There is a rumor that it will be done. fttv Aduertionnento. Buggy for Sale. Good second-hand buggy for sale, cheap. Ap- ply to DR. WORTHINGTON, Clinton Durham Bull for Service. Subeeriber keeps for service, on lot 21, 91h ton. of Hullett, a thorough bred Durham Bull, of re- gistered pedigree. Terms, $1 payable next Janu- ary. wit° privilege of returning if necessary, JOPIN HARVEY. pd 1 to Manitoba - Excursions When looking over the thousands ef samples which the Canadian and American Manufactur- ers have shown us for this -season, one oould not help but think and wonder at the marvellous skill displayed in designing and blending o Patterns and Colors. By far the choicest ever shown were their patterns, and it was from these we selected our immense stock of wall Papers which now reaches 12000 ROLLS. -- Even among the 5 cent papers are there some of the most intricate designs while for 6, 7, II and 10 cents you can get some beautiful color.. ings. Then comes the Micas and Glimmers, which surpass any previous efforts either in patterns or finish, and the prices at which we sell our GILT PAPERS will astonish you for their good value. Is it necessary to offer you. any further comment on our stock? Then let us say that our stock is unequalled ei,ther in value or low pricn, and we will prove it to you by our works. YOU MUST HAVE some kind of WINDOW SHADES For your windows and just here let us ask you is there anything batter than the Opaque Shad- ing used in the Window shades we sell? The echo must come back No! In the manufacture of this shading the material used is the very finest Muslin made expressly for this purpose, and of a very strong texture, then three coats of paint are applied judiciously,which then makes the manufacturers so confident of its lasting qualities that they guarantee it to neither Fade, Crack nor Curl, and absolutely Opaque. THE ROLLERS we use contain a strong Spring which we guarantee to work properly or we will replace them. NOW FOR Baby Carriages This cut does not represent the designs we expect next week to contplete our stock, but it serves to illustrate our line. We may say that as usual we will have a specially attractive as- sortment of about 20 Carriages, which we buy from the best manufacturers at Cash prices. As also are our EXPRESS WAGGONS Not so specially artistic but good and strong, while the prices are lower than any previous year. Manitoba Excursions leave here every Thom:inv. Special Low Rates for all Dakota points. For coupon tickets and all information about travel consult W. JACKSON Town Agent G. T. R Bicycles Trycicles --AND— SPORTING GOODS Write for Catalogue or call and see our stock. W4 COOPER & CO amai\Trroi.7- \;-