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T'HE OPPOSITION BANDITTI.
An accepted authority defines
politica as : "The .science of gov
ernment ; that part of ethics which
consists iu the regulatiou and gov-
ernment of a nation or state, for the
preservation of its safety, peace and
prosperity ; comprehending the de-
fence of it4 existence and rights
against foreign control or conTuest,
the augmentation of its strength and
resources, and 'the prutectiou of its
citizens iu thei r rights, with the
preservation and improvement of
their morals." Taking this as a pro-
per definition, which we unhesitat-
ingly do, We have but one party in
Canada that is in politics—the
Liberal -Conservative party, The
Opposition "is not in it." Those
who lead the Opposition aim at , e-
stroying the existence of Caw da as
a nation—a nation forming a glori-
ous part of the greatest Empire the
world .has ever knowu. The Op,
NIseaition . is trot. in politics because
its leaders aim.todestroy its peace
and prosperity. The Opposition is
not in politics because its leaders
oppose the augmentation of its
strength .and resources by decrying
and belittling them at home and
abroad. The Opposition is not in
polities because its leaders hesitate
not to ;resort to undue, unlawful
and illegal means to destroy the
liberty, and right of citizens to vote
for legislators as they please. The
Opposition leaders are not in politics
beeauye they oppose, thwart and
obstruct the will of the majority of
the people as represented in Parlia-
ment, and endeavor to frustrate_
legisl'a'tion, by dist majority, feuding
to the defence of the existence of
this country as a nation and to the
defence of its rights against foreign
control or conquest. Whether that
defence be directed against ineidi-
ous proposi'tious of commercial
union, continental union or unre-
stricted reciprocity ; or whether
that legislation be directed towards
the encouragement of our militia,
and volunteers whose services have
times proved successful
the' combined strength of
our powerful neighbors, or against
fenian 111arandere, or against inter-
nal traitors.e No, the pi•oseut Cana-
dian Parliamentary Opposition isnot
in politics. The leaders represent
only a faction which is outside of
politics as much as Italian cut throat
banditti are outside the pale of legi-
timate troops.
"Sir John capitulates," is „the
herding is a Grit papas when -re-
ferring to Sit John Thompson be-
ing backed up by a majorityb�of &2
in his support of McKenzie Bewell's
,notion to refer the slanderous
charges against Sir A. P. Citron to
a Royal Commission.
When the tUnited States forces
Canada to guy in the market which
they control and to sett in a tnarket
which they control, and this is what
the Canadian Grits are endeavoring
f.� ootnpaas, then indeed will ",Bri-
tons nevershall be slaves," be aterm
of reproach to this portion of the
people of the grand Empire of
150,000,000 people.
The election in Etat York last
week caused, by the death of the
late IIon. Alex. McKenzie, resulted
iu the election of W. F. McLean,
the Conservative candidate by about
250 majority. i This is a surprising
inejority in view of the fact that his
opponent Mr. Leslie took' very
nearly the same ground as Mr. Mc
Lean, in order to catch votes.
several
againPt
A Grit seeker for information
wants to know why it is that his
party endures rho alleged gerry
mender by the Couservativos. He
answers his own question by saying
that it must be by their being "mere
colonial elepeudeuts .and have de-
teriorated more thau they know."
It is ,possible that the Grits have
deteriorated more then Choy know,
not beoause Cauadiaus are mere
()dunk' dependents, for in no
country iu the world, Imperial Bri-
tain not excepted, have the people
greater or more independent con
trul in the management of their
own alf.tirs than in this •Canada of
ours. But the Grits not only en-
dure the gerrymander, but support
its ,Host infamous manipulator in
the persou of Mr. 1lawat, who has
gerrymandered Ontario accord' ug to
the moat invidious interpretation of
the term. Aud they alae hanker to
place themselves iu closer political
relations with the neighboring
country where the gerrymander is
indigenous and wlj,dre it thrives in
its most ofensi-'e form neoie rankly
than it does even in Outario. The
gerrymander is *not of colonial ori-
gin. It is the outgrowth ofre-
publican demagogism and in Calf•
adathrives, tinder Grit rule, in
Ontario ouly.
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The Opposition mouthers, whose
facial orifice should be bound up
with some of their adored "Cheap"
American binder twine, bad their
eyes opened if not their mouths
closed the other day by authentic
A number of Grit papers are
slauderiug the tnauufacturers and
merchants of Canada by publishing
erroneous statements of the cost of
various articles of general consump-
tion. They harp continually on tho
exhorbttant price of coal oil. They
say that American coal oil in Can-
ada costs 25 cts per gallon. But
What need have we to buy Ameri-
can coal oil None at all. As
good, au article of Canadian mann
facture can be bought in Clinton at
retail for 15 cents a gallon.
proof communicated only to Mr.
Speaker. However, if Judge
Elliott did-writepoliticalarticles to
the press, though there is merely
the assertion of his opponents for
this, which rattier exonerates him
than otherwise, he has erred in good
company if he did err at alt. The
greitest and purest judicial minds
have given their political ideas to
the press for publication. Such
jurists as Lords Bacon, K Imes,
Murray, Eldon, Campbell, Cock
burn, Sir William Jones and scores
of eminent Euglish judges have en-
deavored to aulightou the public on
political questions thro•tgh the
medium of printed publications.
Canadian trade with Bermuda
and the West India Islands is look-
ing up. The Sandford Mfg. Co., of
Hamilt.m, Ont., have received letters
. from, ..ther_e. Q_tho. foi.lowing-.pur-pGit;-
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Recent sales in England of Cana-
dian two rowed barley netted equal
to 68 cents per bushel to the seller
in Toronto.
As one of the terrible results of
the salt monopoly the best barrel
salt can be had at retail in Clinton
'for $1 per barrel. if there is 10
cents a hundred duty on salt the
manufactures don't seem to get much
of it. The barrel costs 25 cents
add 30cts protective duty and w
have 45 dents for the manufacture'
and retailer of 280 lbs of salt.
,
we
"We are ,snore and more of the
opinion that the Canadian market
will shortly be the one from which
we shall purchase aur entire stocks
of clothing. A member of our firm
will bevisiting Canada the coming
season for the purpose of purchasing
winter goode." Ono flour mill has
orders to forward 500 barrels of
flour by every steamer leaving Hali-
fax. Largo lots of bacon, split
peas, carriages and innumerable
other artioles are piled,,up on the
docks at Halifax, the steamers being
unable to carry all the freight offer-
ing.
FROM THE FAR WEST.
same as is drills
from
Canada, The drills are B .tteriek
all prose drills from 8 to 10 feet wide
with from 14 to 20 spouts, the shoe is
steel, the shape of a sleigh runner
abont four inches wide and inch
thick, sharper at the bottom and V.
-shaped, sharp at the point and split
at tho heel where the grain drops
down in the cut, which is followed by
,a wheel over every spout which
presses the shoe down iu the ground
and the wheel on thregrain after it is
sowed. The'press is put on with a
lever which governs the spring, as it
requires; according to the soil.
With some the press is all on the
shoe and no wheels but round .links
of chain that drag after the shoe and
cover the grain, It is much better
to sow with a drill than a drill than
a seeder as it puts the grain indeep-
er and ripens quicker when sown
with a press drill than by any other
method. Sotne sow the wheat on
the stubble and plough it in and
claim they get a good crop. The
disk harrow is used here as in Can-
ada. The idea of ,'arming het -e is to
keep the ground as rough as possible
not to get it fine as in Canada, as
the high winds blow it all away if it
is fine. The ground blows in drifts
like snow here some times it it is a
dry season and exposed to the winds.
Ilarrowing is only done here to make
the ground firm, as the wheat is apt
to lodge if not harrowed. It is al-
ways harrowed before the drill and
never after. Some never harrow at
all, but it is considered advisable to
harrow, once, never more. The
ground never gets hard here, always
loose. A roller is a rare thing here
as the ground blows worse when it is
used. The rollers are made with
striped .. .: r3° -LP :a altars eo as
-to makwr�ic ges to prevent blowing,
but they are seldom used. The bin-
ders are the same as it Canada. We
have the IticCormac, Deering, Woods
and others. Probably it would not
be out of place to give a few prices
of necessaries used here. Twine is
11 cls., wheat 65 cls., oats 25 cls.,
barley 85 els. "North Dakota "bar-
ley will not sell as it is a prohibition
state and brewers will not buy it,
" So people say." clay $4.50, pota-
toes 20 cls,, flour $2.35 per 100 lbs,,
bran 811 per ton, apples 3 for 5 cts.,
sugar 21 lbs. granulated for 81, buts
ter 15 cts. to 25 cts. Good butter is
very !scarce 25 cls being paid for
good Lfor people a own use. Pork
about $6, groceries about the same
as in Canada. There are very few
tenors in this country. It costs 816
to $20 to get ast tsif_elethos-made,
Soma oT the threshers started to
thresh but had to shut down owing
to the continued wet. I think, Mr.
Editor, I have imposed on you by
taking so much space, bnt thought
it might interest some of my old ac-
quaintances. 'thanking you and
wishing you every success, I remain,
Yours
G. C. Larrnwai•re,
Edinburgh, Walsh Co., Dakota.
TO A. M. Toppi Dime SIR AND
Fivallo.—I hope you will allow me a
small space in your paper for the
benefit of my many friends and ac-
quamtances in Canada, who asked
ine if 1 would"tvrite to them and tell
them hove I liked the great North
West, and what the propects looked
like for the coming; season. I like
the prairie life well, although people
live at. quite a distance from each
other as a rule, owing to one wan
owning so much land. No farmer
owns less than 160 acres and as high
as thousands, but generally about
from 163 to 480 acres is the general
run. So you can easily imagine
neighbors will be at quite a distauce.
We live 2 Miles from Edinburgh and
you can see St. Thomas, which is 25
or 80 miles distance, and several
other towns and villages. Buildings.
es a rule are log. Some th ey have
them sided with pine sed pointed.
Stables of log and sod roof. With
regard to the spring season, it has
been very backward and very wet
which has delayed farmers terribly.
From the 15th to the 25th of April
we had elegant seeding weather and
statistics, produced in the House by a good growth commencing. Since
Messrs Fairbairn and Henderson,
M. Ps., giving the prices of binder
twine in the States and in Canada.
According to thom,the ruling prices
of the last five years were its follows :
IN Trim c tTeD STATES.
Mr. F.irburn,__ Mr,_.Ib.enderson,
Sisal Man:1a. Sisal. Manila
1887.. 1;3 16 131 16
1888.. 14 16 14 16
1889.. 141 171 141 171
1890.. 12 13 12 15
1891,. 91 13 91 13
Those who would like to create
religious strife for the impious pur-
pose of helping some nefarious
plundering achome wrongly called
polities, perpetually harp on tho
string: "Don't see how' it is that
Catholics and Orangemen can vote
side by side" for ropreeentativos who
have the welfare of their common
country at heart, These faetioniats
forget that many Roman Catholics
fought under and for William
Prince of Orange at the Boyne and
are ready to fight under loyal lead-
ers to -day. That there are disloyal
men ,among Catholics goes without
saying ; that there are dioloyal men
among Protestants is equally appar-
ent. The latter condemn themselves
out of their own mouth as the most
wicked, because they say their reli-
gion teaches to "fear God and honor
the King", while they allege, though
wrongly, that the religion of the
former teaches to fear God and obey
the clergy instead of the otvil rulers
in secular matters.
then alias been cold and reining or
snowing nearly every other day.
On the 27th of April we had a snow
storm or a small blizzard ; wind very
high and severe frost at night. We
had frost nearly every night since.
and there is no growth yet. Today,
the 5th of May, it has snowed heavy
all day, probably _five in.chea,,_.ssery_
Cvo't; ri little corder tonight, will be
no work done for two days or pei'
haps more. Some of the farmers are
saying they will have to drill day and
night. Old settlers say if there is not
a heavy crop this year there will
never be one. They say if we never
get any more rain till harvest we
would1get a good crop, but there is
every indication of a wet season.
Farmers are behind very bad in some
parts with seeding. Down in the
flats or Red River valley towards
Minnesota there are many farmers
who have not done a day's work on
the land for water. There will he
thousands of acres not sown this
year and a great deal of late sowing
which is apt to get frozen in the fall.
Wheat should be sown here by the
20th of May by rights. We have
seventy acres sown and sixty more
ready to sow. Perhaps it would be
of interest to some to hear something
regarding the implements and mode
of farming here. In the first, place
one man can put in a far largr acre
age in this country, compared to one
pian in Canada. To give you an idea,
Mr. R. Murphy and myself did the
following work in two days, With our
two teams of horses 6 horses in all:
We ploughed seven acres, harrowed
32 acres, sowed with a drill 36 acres.
One team went 3 miles for a load of
seed wheat and 3 miles on other
business. This is good work in this
country. The ploughs are steel
mouldboards and shears, which are
kept sharp to cut the prairie roses
that grow very thick and which are a
great protection to the wheat in dry
weather by shading it. The ploughs
are single and gang. The single
ploughs cut from 16 to 24 inches and
the gang, or two furrow, cut from 12
to 16 inches each. You need three
horses or two large ones on the single
plows and plough from 4 to 5 acres
per day. Tho gang plough needs 4
horses and can plough 8 acres per
day. A gang plough costs from 845
to $65. The Barrows "three horse"
are 17 feet wide. You harrow two
acres every round, half mile rounds.
They always work across a quarter
section which is half a mile square.
The seeders are pretty muck the
IN OANADA.
1887.. 12 12 --131 12 131
1888.. 1311 131--141 121 141
1889.. 131 151--16 15.1 15
1890.. 121 121.15 124 15
1891.. 101 101-•15 104 15
And in addition to this we have the
authority of the Chicago Inter Ocean
for the following which indicates
higher prices the coming year.
"The National Cordage Company
has now for the first time given its
price on sisal twine, which is from 11
to 14 cents per pound higher than
last season. The dealers who are
compelled to buy sisal twine now
must of necessity sell at not less
than 12o per pound. Those who
were fortunate enough to place their
contracts before the National Cordage
company gained complete control
can make a shade lower price On ly
about one -fiftieth of what will be
needed is now in the hands of dealers.
Jobbers are completely out and will
be completely out and will be com-
pelted to pay Cordage prices."
A great deal of virtuous indigna-
tion is called forth against Judge
Elliott of Middlesex anent the Carl-
ing -Hyman election. The Judge
is roundly condemned by the Grit
press for writing letters to the Len -
don Free Press—letters alleged to
be of a political nature. But no
proof has ever been adduced that
the Judge did so. It it true that
so called proof was offered to bo
placed in the hands of the Speaker.
But it would be abserd to presume
that the House could form an opin-
ion on this charge with the alleged
Patterns.
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A lady told us the other day that
she did not know we kept patterns
and was surprised to find that in-
stead of waiting a week for the
pattern oho wished, was handed it
from stock by 1fiss Cooper who has
charge of this department.
We cannot tell you of the immense
variety of Garments that the
Butterick Publishing Company have
patterns for, but you may rest assur
ed that from our $503 stock you can
select the most popular styles.
Monthly in the Delineator and
half yearly in the 'Metropolitan, you
can choose your patterns and come
to us for them, as will get the New
Fashions as soon as published.
Do you take either of these
publications 7
Then why not, they are the
cheapest and best value in Fashion
Publications.
Particulars have come to light of
a vile outrage at Dreaney's Corners,
London township. A few evenings
ago two respectable young women
of London were driven out to
Droanoy's "Corners by a young man
to whom one of them was engaged.
About ten o'clock the young people
were preparing to return home and
the two girls stood in front of
Young's hotel speaking to a lady
friend while their escort was getting
his buggy out of a shed across the
street. Suddenly a gaug of five
ruffians seized the young women,and
in spite of their struggles and a
fighting effort on the part of the
young man, carried them off to a
lonely spot in the woods, gagged
them and outraged thorn in a most
brutal manner. The girls were
beaten insensible, and remained in
that state until the morning, when
they were found and brought back
to the city. The police were noti-
fied, but their efforts to catch the
desperadoes were very niuch ham-
pered by the young women's reluct-
ance to let the affair become known.
The members of the gang who took
part in the act aro said to be five
young men from the east end,natne-
ly, David Moore, Armstrong, two
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MODE," "THE SEASON," "NEW
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LADIES JOURNAL" and "HAR-
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As there are no stocks panted in
the acljouining towns or villages we
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number and price. •
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Booksellers S,c., CLINTON.
brothers called Lee and Allister.
Two of them—George Armstrong
and George Leo—have been arrest-
ed, and the police are after the
others.
The twelve year.old son of J. E.
Moorohouee, South London, had a
very narrow escape with hie life
yesterday. Ho was engaged pick•
ing water cress along the banks of
the river when he came across a jar
and picked it up, Another boy
was standing on the opposite bank
and saw Moorehouse with the jar
called over to him to "put it down
or I will shoot you." Almost im- ,
mediately thereafter the rascal pull.
od the trigger of a small revolver
and discharged it, the bullet etm`ik-
ing Moorehousind the left ear.
Fortunately the rte of the leaden
messenger was about spent when it
reached its victim, and striking a
bone glanced upward about two
inches and lodged in the flesh.
Had it struck a quarter of an inch
lower 'the effect would have been
very serious, but the lad is all right
again. A doctor extracted the bul-
let
uglet and dressed the wound. Who
the culprit was that fired the shot
is not known,