Clinton New Era, 1893-11-24, Page 4It cones as a boon and blessing to ladies,
Silverware that will not tarnish.
Why bay ootnuion SILVER PLATE ?
when yon got the new . and popular en-
amelied'Ware from ns for about the same
prices.
Cooper & Co., Clinton
dna 6tvevttoicm lute.
Tares—T Nefiaae
Photos --J W Cook
Bearpig—H Joyner ' ! .
Hosiery --Beesley et Co
Over oats --W L Outmode
Pardus thanks -Mrs Amor
Ulster ooate—W L Outmode
Bull calves for eels—W Saelll
Overooate-Gilroy tit Wiseman
While the last- asokson Bros
Ifantlef--Estate Jelin Hodgens •
'Worth mentioning—Jackson Bros
Comforters—Estate John Hodgens
Poultry wanted—Jessop & MoFllroy
Buy what you need --W L Ouimetto
Seasonable compliments—Cooper dr Co
Thnton
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1893.
Thanksgiving Day.
The days are gray and chili and cola,
The wind goes whistling shrill,
The slight snow in the hollows hold
The rabbits' footprints still.
Above the beguile are brown and bare
Below the flowers are dead.
The songsters of the summer fair
To summer skies have fled.
But yet November, month of storm;
You have one golden day
That cheers the heart, and keeps it warm,
Although your skies are gray.
The Harvest Home of all the year
When all the barns are stored.
In earth's increase doth still appear
The bounty of the Lord.
Then those we love we meet again,
They come frora far and near,
For others, toe; we look in vain, -
They do not greet us here.
Yet while tor these all eyes are dim,
AU heads bow silent low.
Thanke-giving full, complete to him
"From whom all blessings flow"
It has been currently reported that
thy: Conservative candidate for the
. �I cal in West Huron would be Mayor
-McTaggart, of Clinton. We have the
best of reasons for stating that he will
not be the candidate.
Hugh J. Macdonald states that he
had no other reason for retiring from
public life than the demands of his pro-
fession and his distaste for public life.
He is quite evidently not "a chip off
the old block" in this respect. .
Winnipeg by-election for the Domin-
ion House took place Wednesday, but
-so far the result is unknown. As the
Conservatives carried the city by over
500 last time, the probabilities are in
their favor. Both candidates, however,
are on the tariff reform platform.
It is said that the Conservatives are
not satisfied with Robt, Birmingham
as their organizer, and intend to make
a change. Be this true or otherwise,
it is nevertheless a fact that Mr Camp-
,belI, M. P. for Algoma, is at present
looking after the Provincial intecests
a the party.
Whatever people may think con-
cerning the imprisonment of Mr
Ellis, of the St. John Sun, for alleged
-contempt of court, it is a just and
generous proposition to raise by sub-
•acription the expenses incurred by
shim, amounting to over $3,000, and
the amount will be raised without any
faculty.
The Empire recently published an
interview with Hon. G, Foster, since
his return from the northwest, and
even from Mr Foster's evidently guard-
ed remarks, it is plain that the people
thereare anxious for "tariff reform."
The northwest, of all places, is the one
deriving the least benefit from the N.
' P. because it is so far removed from the
centre of manufacturing, and the
peculiar trials and difficulties of that
section of the Dominion, make it es-
peciallydesirable for them to have every
possiblchance in order to succeed.
-We are told that the Comptrollers
•
who have been holding the tariff en-
quiry were desirous of getting at the
truth in all cases. This is not so, no
matter what assertions may be made to
•support it. We happen to know of one
place where they visited, when special
' pains were taken to call only witnesses
-who were supposed to be favorable to
the tariff. One or two of the witnesses
so called happened to be opposed to
the tariff, and as soon as this was dis-
covered they were told to stand aside.
'further than this, several of the most
—influential men in the same district
'Wanted to volunteer their own ex-
perience with the tariff, but were un-
able to do so—becapse it was feared by
the Comptrollers that their evidence
*would be unfavorable.
An Independent Opinion.
Windom and respeot, which Dome to the
great man with age, arra Sir Olivet Mowat
an he girds himself for still another fight.
Ontario's Old Man seems to have all the
litrength which a yonthfttl leader could
enrolee In the (Arnie° of the party. He
lute the respect also which his years of dis-
tingulehed and honest service have won
Item fellow countryman, without regard t
iolttield differences. A leader who ca -
>lned youthful vi or with all the advent ges
f +ego ie'11ard to b mit. Ontario Grits ave
eMigaorer In their own Sir Oliver, nd
heirt'ayer ie "Long may he wave,- or-
tat)Tell#g'rdtiii,i
Til ' l'i%gll1i3l'rrQ t 1 I+I l3.IoQl l'I3,
T'e tli0 fid,#tor or the, (T11:17011 Nbw gra-
S1:4I,,'4'4rith Voer hind per4niestolf I will reply
yew: yeori is Bn1a on rny'ictter of lee:
Xou object to 4 4, calling majority a
on filo gr.. and that isttt alillies t4t bitten, Aa n}oj4
olloi;aee,. tshould In aft. tads floe not
Yon are arguing'At the inanllei ec}t}11
Called %/tochperaiioe pcopie-' 'on cur
leek upon a sumptuary ittw. eat iiecl, bra ern
otteoeron 8 cuthee
ate limeyy, eenine &miens ashen
taY, et WOW break the fault tboy, have aided 10
enact as often as it suits diose, sed the very
largemajorityot whom, will not rn,znyacoount
lift their, finger to aid 3n its entorgonient; in the
same Alght as Yeti would- rot -19%14 law pail
by the repre.olytatl.ves of te; peeple..•whioh
would not, only meet with favor et the lar e -
ma qi:tty, but which the largo majority wread
sial 1u every War to enforce, To:.Rurtaer -prove
and filuttrate What I mean when I speak of
temperance arguments. It is Common to hear
an advocate of prohibition argue thus, in hie
simplicity—All la we are restrictive—there is
law against.4teaiing--it is woken ooenslonatty
rvli 'hould we not also say, "Thou shalt net
drink!'' •'Tele is not tar-fetelicd 9n MY part. I
assert, without fear of snccessfuI contradiction,
it is a Common stook argument As though
on oouviation, and ghat they believe to be res-
telt knit yam, aro stilt'net foot .echo reatest.
o', e'n 11 t31r1} Iiuirlsf0iost 'd Wilttbudltnft tole he right,
t week, though 1101 'approvit) C1 its tlevelo114t1c)1q it
f rates, thiel wdy.-.-I I). iV#W A,j
ofOrce,"
nits in 11dR. RAN,$FORD AND PR0jLII3ITION,
iuliow,
ar to s9* To the Editor 01 the O1i14teleXew gra+
identi te14 ri1, i►Ir Ransford sgept8 to think that
au through itis friend, 4 a termer resident of Olin -
ton no hag made a great discovery regarding
prentbttion iu Maine Title friend in half an
hour in a comparatively large city, saw three
drunken men and two planes whore liquor • was
sold♦ ,Did heltever,when be-w,4ssresidentof
Clinton see thre°drunken mere in itaitanhoer?
And, Clinton is not quite s0 largo as Portland.
If Mr Ransford were to take a walk with his
ftiond through Cli tq)4 to -day, they would th
10,34" than half art-Iibur be. able. to purohil,se
0ponl}r all the Honer the wished,in`' nt) vicer
different 'name. f Portland had s many in
proportion to population, his friend could find
there, not two, but one .hundred and fifteen
Pales for the gale of liquor.. It his friend cares
to ',alk through Brooklyn he will find within
three hundred yards ofva certain ohureh no
fewer than fifty-four saloons, Years ago, when
that mad enthusiast, that crazy crank, Neal
Dow, as Mayor of Portland, had a posse of men
go through the oity and empty on the streets
all the liquor they could lied, a poor widow in
the alms•houso said, "Oh! it this had been done
ten years ago, My husband would not have died
a drunkard, and I should not boa pauper hero."
No man can tell how many have been saved
from Buell a fate in that same pity of Portland,
not to speak of the State ib general, where the
law is better enforced. It ill becomes a Chris"
thin gentleman to sneer at Neal Dow. If that
veteran philanthropist and patriot is wrong it
is because of life lovetor his native country, his
love for humanity, his love for that Which is
good and pure. But he is not wrong, as is
shown by the phappiness and prosperity of
Maine—an although example,
le, as it to to all the other
attractive andleastnparodduucttive n11 such i8 the
result of the work of cranks, may Heaven in-
ereage the army o cranks...
Regardmg partial; prohibition in Canada, I
defy Mr Ransford to prove that, under the
Scott Act, -there was as much liquor con"
gamed, as much debauchery, HS much crime, aE
before and since. He must know that the offi-
cial record is all the other way. When, before
or since, did the sheriff of a county present the
judge with white gloves at eleven successive
assize courts in the same county?
lot men ask as
three questions. "brute
force,"
Combe hindered (by brute force) from selling
strychnine to any one who may ask for it?
Why am I hindered (by brute force) from leav-
ing my horse untied in the streets of Toronto?
Why is Mr Ransford compelled (by brute force
if he wishes to import a gold watch, er a barrel
of salt, or even an old gun, to Pay' perhaps a
hundred per cont more in duty than the revenue
should require? When Mr Ransford Mule him.
self able too answer these questions intelligently
he will be in a position to approach the infinitely
more important question, why should we pro-
hibit the liquor traffic? J. HOUSTON.
you can compare the Connparatively modern,
absurd, illogical, utterly un•eoriptural only.
partly supported "Thou shalt not drink r' with
the ancient God-given, man•approved, sus-
tained and enforced throughout ail airs of the
world's history, "Thou shalt not steal' While
on this line. Iet me tell you that talking only re-
centtyto a sincere, earnest prohibitionist,whom
I reepeot highly, fur his sincerity, I was plied
with tide statement. "In the first account we
have of the history of Mankind' we read of pro-
hibition. God told Adam, 'Thou shalt not eat
of it.' That le prohibition." This hi what we
nd roes
ee who
When,
Adam
garden;
reve-
the
sin to
of the
fallen,
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cause
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and
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did
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what
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nint,
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tell
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have thus, have thespow ritwho
em. the
to
know
ebtthinking mind, it is their
that, according to prohibitionists t levee,
could not have eaten of the fruit of the
because, it prohibitionists are right,• then
rently be it said) --Godarraswrong; an
source of temptation and suheequent
Adam, ought to have been removed out
bgarden. Adam wouLh then have not
a machine and free agencyat would
nonentity.
existence of the tettlsnation and the corn
Trot to touch it, is comparable to restri
There is no tothl prohibition in it, be
Adam was face to face, day by day, with
formed to him the temptation.. The oom
and could b not
His onta par with all the
of God. People say that drink does sn
harm; they point to the families impoveri
the blood shed, the thousand and one t
they say are all traceable to drink ! I
it. Such reasoning is fallacious; it is mo
is of the devil, to lead men astray trot
main point at issue. What is it then?
nothing more nor less than what St.
calls the flesh," "enmity against God,
maty against all that is right. As I he
clergyman of the W. S. Rainsford type, ash
across a, honest,
had been drinking, o and
wards indulged in the, to him, innocent am
Seizing hient of m byi the g shoo der hetas ed, Wh
you kick your wife? Oh, sir! was the ens
rt was the cursed drink that did it! The
Hyman as promptly replied, You lie, and
aanythiw ngg butothe righthi thing. t re your
6mie nexteticowardly
e y ul strike that is
to e I'll nth
you. The man has not repeated the °Moue
race that Adan, s fall did ear Then the God
not remove the cause of an infinity of mi
what reason or right has man to remove
he ignorantly concludes is the cause of a m
much lesser evil?
I have written at greater length than
tended on this, to me, the most important p
so my answer to your other criticisms mus
brief. The sales of drink in Maine cantle
provedlhere is drinkingg intMaine against 1
Government returns di not include this,
they are valueless on this point. Can you
from your books, when those of Mr Told
not open to you, the amount of money spen
printing in Clinton 7 You say the Scott
memorywas far lr� HavetyoufforgottenVthee intim
Lion, the violence, the dynamite, the whole
Perjury. the drink sold in stores, everLywh
the clubs formed by boys for card playing
drinking, the whiskey sold openly in the r
ground, and the fighting, rowdyism, the blo
shed, on that fauna na race ground, a scone Ile
seen before or since in Clinton. A scene won
of three anywhere, and
"fan fitting
' inn the tout
of Huron. Please, Mr Editor, spend an even
or two and road over your locals for the th
three years of that accursed Scott Act.
In who think asoyou think, tet me o the letter all
T. R. Preston, in the Mail of Friday, lith in
Speaking of prohibition, as it is found in Io
Mr Preston shows from Government retur
that ate are
follows: 1889, 1108;1890 1150ons ;1891 1218at ; 1892, 1.
There is oleo a vast amount of information th
would show any prohibitionist, open to a
argument, the absurdity, the crime of attem
ing such a measure here, But I have no ri
to trespass longer on your space. It can al
read in the Mail referred to.
Yours, etc., JofN RAN8FORD.
Stapleton, Nov. 18, 1893. •
a brur te majority"
sford orityeewhen show
ed to umpt,ua
legislation o only, and evidently regards 'sum
tuarSumptuary ary laws aregreally thfor ose which reetr'
the liberty of the subject, though a differen
construction has of late been placed upon th
term. The plebiscite in Manitoba was uphel
by about 15,000 of a majority; doubtless thee
bpeople voted y according to their con viction
other side, 11 does nwere ot follre ow numerous
they than
Ontario happens to be Suppose bya large mi
Ralornsford'a argument become, brutee majority"
itto " sim
ply because in voting__power, they outs ambo
the other side. If Mr Ransford's term appli
in one instance, it must in the other, and ex
actly in the same way it applies to all majora
ties—if his argument is correct. His attemp
to draw a distinction between sumptuary an
other laws,ggand applythe term that he does
tooridicule in public ebate r wThenbMr Hans
ford's argument about Adam and Eve eating
of the forbidden fruit is more than weak; it
decidedly erroneous and misleading. God pro
hibited their eating of it; it matters not whe
ther be left the fruit there or otherwise—he
most clearly and emphatically prohibited its
use; he did not in any sense restrict," for to
restrict.' was a clear thatit
of prohibitionoaten restrict-
edly—it nn
fallpacious argument can get around it. If God
onlshalt not meant o the forbiddenofruit " he he meant
tcommit adultery " when
ther"Thou ohdistinc-
tion whatever in principle in the commands,
and the consequences in Dither case have no
hearing upon the argument. They were either
prohibitory commands or they were not—there
is no evasiveness or latitude about them. Lotus
suppose, for argument sake that prohibition is
not scriptural, or, to take Mr Ranatord's view
of approval, gand it lodrinking
icallyfoilows that all dion has rink.
Mg—whether moderate or immoderate, accord-
ing to man's views—has the same approval, be-
cause it is the logical deduction of this argu-
ment. It is something new to find a man deny-
ing, as Mr Ransford does, that liquor is the
cause of so much misery, crime, etc., and attri-
buting it to the natural depravity of mankind.
We like to see a man who is not afraid to ex-
press his views, even if he has to stand alone.
It dons not say that ho is wrong—nor does it
prove that those who hold contrary views aro
wrong. Something mere than Mr Ra»Etord's
opinion is necessary, however, to prove his argu-
ment. Any criminal has a poor opinion of law,
or afact.p The lute Oh of Justice Galt trust
of ail the'arimocommittedaw s d rectly taco
able to liquor; Jtidg,e .Hughes, of Elgin, didn't
know what he was talking about, when he said
that 90 per cont of criminals tried by him were
brought there by drink; the criminal returns of
New orllno t o he nine 01 Ilgquor shhould have cent
it
read "natural depravity," the twothousand
persons (nearly) who are annually committed
to jail in Ontario, tor drunkenness, were evi-
dently not drunk at ail—their "miserable, cow-
ardly self" had got the best of them. And it
strikes us that Mgr Raneford's argument contra -
diets itself, for ho culls our attention to the
rowdyis and bloodshed on the race ground in
Cantor ' Ate Tek RESULT OF wtilelrkv 8080
oP$InL . How can such a result be obtained,
when r UanEtord denies that Whiskey is tbo
Cana f any of these things ? Mr Ransford re-
fers to Mr Preston's letter of the 17th; Mr
rS►nr
zit(
be the19th is an &tas�ver thereto,
acceptedequally with Mr Preston's.
have not space to refer further to tale mat-
h, than 10 nay,that as Canadeans—per govern-
ment returns—woo eponn $40,000 O0b anntiatly ter
s irltu us liquors alone, a d, dropping but of.
sight direct or indiroot los os, it seems to us
that this mono could be p It to a groat deal
better nee. Total abstainers in" their e1Thrtd
have no selfish ends to gain, no prejudices to �
serve, no inter or dislikes beg eider, belt noting
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NOT SO BAD AS MADE OUT.
To the Editor of the Clinton New Era.
DEAR SIR,—A letter appeared in your last
issue, signed "Fair Play," and we think it the
writer had known the facts he would not have
used such language, nor have called the citizens
of
town
o As ssemi-barbarians, leag event had ugly
en place, and it became known over town, the
young men of the band said that they would
serenade their liberal and tried friend, by Play-
ing a few tunes in front of his residence, not
with the least intention of giving an offence to
any one, and as every one knows if the band
plays, people will gather. I heard some of our
leading citizens say that they would give the
gentlyeman their hearty congratulations, and
sureboyslthought they would make a noise, but as
soon as the constable hoard them and could ar-
rive there he dispersed them. Any one well
knows we have not a constable at every corner,
to noineult was tch intended boy, and
any respectable that
Citi-
MI. Yours, A CITIZEN,
Church Notes.
The ladies of St. Paul's church will
hold a bazaar early in December,
Rev. A. Stewart and Dr. McDonald,
of Seaforth, exchanged pulpits on Sun-
day last.
Rev. W. Smythe has commenced
special services at Turner's appoint-
ment.
Rev. J. E. Howell, of Goderich, con-
ducted anniversary services of Blue -
vale .Methodist Church, on Sunday.
Rev R. L. Hutton, of Kirkton, has
been called away to visit his brother
in the Southern States, who is serious-
ly ill.
There will be thanksgiving service at
St. Paul's church Thursday, at 10.30 a.
m. The offertory will be in aid of
Huron College funds.
A Scotch Social, under the auspices
of the Mission Band, of Willis church,
will be held in the basement of the
church, on the evening of Dec. 7.
Rev. J. W. Holmes will give an ad-
dress at the gospel temperance meet-
ing, next' Sunday, (or possibly Rev. J,
S. Henderson, of Hensall.)
A meeting of the Plebsicite Com-
mittee will be held in the Committee
Room, directlyyopposite Foster's Photo
Gallery, on Friday evening, . at 7.30
sharp. All interested are invited to
attend.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Rotten -
bury street Methodist church intend
holding a social in the lecture room of
the church, on the evening of Friday,
Dec. 1st. A good program will be
given, and an enjoyable evening may
e expected. Admission 15c.
Rev. A. Stewart will preach in Hen-
sall on Sunday next. Rev. Mr Hender-
son, of Hensall, taking the Sabbath
School anniversary services here. Mr
Henderson is one of the most energetic
as-welI.as-oneof the ablest ministers in
the west, and is always listened to with
profit.
Rev, Mr Carey, of Ailsa Craig, who
has been conducting special services
in the Baptist church,is a good evange-
list, and as the result of his labors sev-
eral have resolved to lead a new life.
The rite of baptism was administered
on Sunday night to two persons. Rev.
Mr McKinnon took Mr Carey's work
at Ailsa Craig last Sunday. Rev. Mr
Pugsley, evangelist, will preach in this
church next Sunday, and conduct ser-
vices during the week.
The Kincardine Review says:—Stand-
ing room only was all that could be
obtained by those who were late in
arriving at Knox Church on Wednes-
day night of last week. This indicates
great enthusiasm in the temperance
cause, or it may be a tribute to the
abilities of the Rev. Jas. Livingstone
as a public lecturer, Probably a com-
bination of the two caused the congre-
gation of so many people to hear the
"Four Qeasons" why Mr Livingstone
would suppress the liquor traffic. His
treatnlent of the subject was brief but
pointed. He indicated his reasons
sufficiently and fortified them with
strop arguments. Hefinishedlhis ad-
dress ust when his hearers wished he
woulo
g on T- a happy conclusion
which all public lecturers would do
well to practise.
Mr E. 3. Madden, of Newburg, Adding -
tors, has shipped 2,000 bodes of cheese to
England lately, for which he paid 10 and
14 Dente per pound. \
Two more sessions of the Dominion
Liquor Commission a to be held before
the report to Parham, , t is finally drafted.
The report may be re dy before the end of
the session, but this s not certain.
NEW''.
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New Year 1894
Our Greeting' is Christmas Bargains/
a Barns
They are many, they are desirable,
they are reliable
We wanted to have the best selection of holiday goods ever
brought to town, and now that they are opened up we are
not disappointed.
Come in and be Pleasantly Surprised.
Surprised at the Splendid Assortment.
Surprised at the Superior Quality.
Surprised at the Nice Variety.
Surprised at the Low Prices
CELLULOID GOODS
Are very popular this year, and we have it made into many
beautiful presents such as PAPETIES, COLLAR and CUFF
BOXES, MANICURE SETS, BRUSH and COMB CASES:
LEATHER GOODS
Are far in advance of any past
year, and if you want nice
goods cheap, we are thepeo-
ple you should buy from.
Purses, Wallets, Portfolios
Card Cases and Calendars
of the newest kinds.
BOOKS & BIBLES
Are lines we always look for the finest type,
the finest bindings and editions, which are the
best values, and for this fall we can show you the
finest and nicest line we haverever shown.
Games, Toys & Blocks
Occupy our second flat, and we are safe in saying that our
equal to Mores in larger towns and cities.
stock is fully
Comforters
Blankets
..Flannel
Shootiog
We've got a good
stock of all
three
If you want • a good Blanket
that's not expensive, is
pure wool, thoroughly
clean, being free from al
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