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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-11-28, Page 41..- ...,MTM ^t,. 4.'1 Ti Hyr,on Newe-Recora OW a ag4—$l.26 1tt Advonoo. WiOAil SPesee, NOVEMBI.LR 28th, 1894. IVES 7' L1 URO V P4'l BONS. . The Patrons of Industry in West Huron have ,a respectable membership and at least tile to within a few months ago wade a rapid increase. The Order became so strong that they nominated Mr. James Connolly, a member of the Order, as a candidate to contest West Huron °in the PrOviucial election hast ,Tune. Mr. Gamow was nominated by the Reform party. The Conservatives did not place a candidate in the field. The fight) was between the Patrons and Reformers. The contest was a very warm one ; Mr. Connolly was in the contest politically almost alone, while Mr. Gamow had several Grit Cabinet Ministers and partisan Re- formers waging war to the knife against the Patrons and among the rank and file Mr. D. A. Forrester, of Clinton. The election went on swim- mingly until official nomination day, When false charges, repeatedly answer- ed, were rehas•ed and trumped up against candidate Connolly by the Grit party. Mr. Gaunt, ir, seems from his own periled statements, was in league with the Grit party. ile was a regular- ly authorised representative of the Patrons of Industry and County President. He endorsed the candi- dature of Mr. gonnolly. Notwith- standing this he repudiated his own candidate at the eleventh hour and supported a straight Grit who had and was then denouncing'the Patrons with all the force at his command. In con- sequence of all this treachery many of the Patrons went hack on their own nominee. Mr. taunt's own Lodge later on endorsed his action in knifing one of his own household of faith. The result was that Mr. Gamow was elected by some seventy odd votes over the Patron candidate. The climax was reached last Saturday when a Patron convention was held at Smith's Hill. A vote of want of confidence in Gaunt was recorded and he was com- pelled to step down and out. Gledhill, Bell and Forrester were nominated and the latter, in a telling address, re- pudiated all his former accociates and all his doings in connection with the Grit party for years, carried the con- vention sweepir.gly and, we are in- formed, accepted the nomination. Now, we have no objection to Mr. Forrester. He is a good and clean business man, an excellent citizen, and popular with those who know hien best. He nas prospered as a manufacturer and farmer under the rule of a Con- servative Dominion Government, and we are pleased to know it. In politics THE NEWS -RECORD has never agreed with him. Being a Reformer we could not do so. When he changed to an Equal Righter some four or five years ago we could not endorse his policy then. Last June when he opposed Patron candidate Connolly for the Local House and supported and worked for Mr. J . T. Garrow (grit) we could not agree. Now when Mr. Forrester is a Patron candidate we cannot agree with him. In the Canadian political arena there are decidedly too many political weathercocks. We believe in having some staid principles and opinions and sticking by them. Other- wise 'we can never build a nation. Mr. Forrester, we must adroit, is a strong man and shrewd. But that will not prevent thisournal from pursuing what we consider a wise course and in the very best interests of the whole people. REMINISCENCES OF MR. CIiARL•. TON. Mr. John Charlton, M. P. for the constituency of North Norfolk, during the past few months, brought himself Out prominently before the public by an act which described in its true col- ors, could only be called treason. He; as our readers will remember, simply advised the American govern- ment what kind of legislation woulp effectually tie the hands of Canada. This act of Mr. Charlton's was par- allel with the conduct of Ned Ferrer, whose ne farious work was exposed in 1891, and whose name ever since ,has been a bye -word in this country. It, appears that Bro. Charlton's attack of last winter is only the breaking out of an old desire to sneer at his adopted country. In 1866Mr. Charlton,it would appear, was living in the United States and was on a visit in June of that year to Canada. The Fenian business, being on, the Canadian volunteers were mustered at Paris. Mr. Charlton saw these volunteers, and could not keep in curb his desire to ridicule everything British long enough to prevent himself writing a letter to an American paper upon what he had seen. He poked fun at their movements (there were many of them farmer boys who had left their homes at a moments notice to do their hest in defence r.f the country); he sneered at their tunics which every true hearted Britisher feels it an honor to wear ^ he took oc- casion to poke aspecies of low bred fun at their figures and the fit of their clothes ; he called the speech of the Rev. Mr. Ryerson, who addressed the volunteers, a mass of buncombe and bombast because he talked patriotism and love of the British flag. And winding up he offered an insult ' to Canadians generally by declaring that "the masses in Canada were not remarkable for their intelligence." It would seem from this that Mr. Charl- ton s anti-Cenedirtnism is pretty nearly thirty years of age at any rate. The liberal party of Canada are per- fectly welcome to Mr. Charlton and his pro -American love. The latest report is that the false charges against Patron candidate ,games Connolly were hatched by the Grit, M. P. for South Huron and the editor of the Grit publication in Clin- ton. We do not vouch for truth of the rumor; but these worthies cin anstder for themselves. • - WHQSII OX The Hon. David Mills before he got into the Mackerigie government thought the Senate should he reformed and agitated on that gtlestion. Tht Globe sat on him as follows:— "Whatever may have been intended by the bulk of the members who voted for the resolution there can be no doubt as to the design of the gentle- man who introduced the resolution. He is an avowed supporter of the American system of government. His het is midsummer madness. Some of our representatives ought to be and need to be warned against constitution mongering, the grange for mere change sake." (Globe, March 30th, 1875. The Globe didn't want the grit government to be bothered. Now as the Conservatives are in, the Globe is agitating along the saute lines as those fur the taking of which it abused Mr. Mills. It makes a difference whose Ox is gored. SIR RICHARD'S ANSWER. When the 100,000 farmers in 1871-7 petitioned the Hon. Mr. Cartwright to put up the wall against American grains unless " the Americans took down their wall against our grains, Sir Richard replied to thein at Fergus on July 7th, 1877, as follows : "We believe that the people of Cana- da have spent a great deal more than they should have spent, and have earned considerably less than they should have earned, and I have to tell you that, under the circumstances, very much of this distress is entirely unavoidable, and that there is one way out of. it, and only one, the people of Canada can only grow richer by greater frugality and harder work." . This, as one speaker put it in parlia- ment, was an invitation to "work harder and eat less"—and all to keep these gentlemen in power. The peo- ple didn't accept the knight's invita- tion ; indeed they very indignantly declined on Sept. 17th, 1878. GLARING INCONSISTENCY. The Toronto Globe is .low very com- plimentary to Mr. McCarthy and Colonel O'Brien. This is because these two gentlemen are playing the Globe's little game. That journal's opinion of the honor of men in public life is altogether regulated by their political opinions. Just look back a little 1 On Dec. 8th, 1872, the Globe declared "Mr. Cauchon was guilty of jobbery and corruption and defiant law -breaking in connection with the Beaufort Asylum." It further declared "he had lost all self-respect if he ever had any, and that so heinous were his crimes that he was rank and smelt to heaven." By 1875 the same Mr. Ca uchon had got around like Mr. McCarthy and joined the Grit party. Then the Globe on the 9th Dec., 1875, declared, when Mr. McKenzie made a minister of him—"With so large and ripe a know- ledge of public affairs Mr. Cauchon will do good service to his country as one of the advisers of the Crown in the higher sphere of usefulness now open to him " THREE CRIES EXPLODED. Going to the dogs ! Being ruined by extravagance ! Increasing expendi- /tnre I Increasing burthens ! Such are the cries of the opponents of the Gov- ernment. Now first as to extravagance. We have been extending our Railways, building Canals, completing public works during the past sax years, and yet look at the expenditure ! Is it increas- ing ? The official and correct figures show not. The annual expenditure chargeable to revenue during the same years from 1888 to 1893, was as follows : 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 $36,718,441.1 36,917,834 35,094,031 36,343,567 36,765,894 36,814,032 It will be noted that though there have been variations from year to year, as might be expected, the expenditure was practically stationary during these years and the trend has been down- ward since 1889. Now look at the burthen of the debt. The true test is the amount of interest per year. The net interest paid by Canada during the several years of Mr. Foster's term of ofl`i.ceas finance minister vas as follows : 1888 $8,891,287 1889 8,813,530 1890 8,574,570 1801 8,506,069 1892 8,677,558 1893 8,056,722 It will thus he seen that the net in- terest paid in 1803 was actually $244,- 565 less than it was five years before. There has, therefore, been no "trend upward" in the annual interest charge Then as to taxation tie showing is still more favorable. We find from the undo ret urus that so far from there being any increase, the trend, especial- ly of late years, has been emphatically downward. During the same years from 1888 to 1803 the average rates per cent. of duty paid on all goods entered for home consumption in Canada were as follows : 1888 21.57 per Cent 1889 21.65 " 1800 21.21 1801 20.06 o 1892 17.56 " 1893 17.38 " It will be noted that for several years past the government has been reducing the rate of tariff taxation. But another loran reduction was made by the late revision, and from the official returns in the Canada Gazette recently pub- lished, it is seen that the average rate of duty under the present tariff is about 14 per cent. Here then are the figures that dispose of the three old cries of extravagance, increasing taxation and increasing weight of interest. A SW1441P OUT. In the recent United States elec- tions next in interest and completeness to the terrible route of the free -trade talking democrats, was the snow -under of the populists. They put up candi- dates in a great many dtstricts for vari- ous offices, from state governors down to coroners, hardly a man of them any- where was elected. In districts where a couple of years ago the populists were elected by large 'majorities, this year they are defeated by very large votes. Speaking of the result, an American Agricultural Exchange says :—"The people have got their sober sense again, and, consequently, the agitators have been given notice to quit for good. In Colorado, was the leader of the popu- lists, Governor Waite. His time had expired and he was a candidate again; he was, of all the populists, the loudest talking. A, democrat who was also a free -trade sympathizer, also ran. But the vote of both the democrat and Gov- ernor Waite combined, did not come within some thousands of votes of that of the republican candidates. Evi- dently, in Colorado, the people want the American market for Americans. IT MEANS NOTHING. The Patrons of Industry have a plank in their platform which calls for the reservation of the public lands, for the actual settler and some of their speakers have made quite a noise about it. It is also a plank in the s,i-called liberal platform which was tacked to- gether in the convention at Ottawa a year ago. Immediately upon the reso- lution upon this subject being publish- ed, the Manitoba Free Press, a journal of liberal sympathies, spoke upon this matter as follows : "There was one resolution moved at the liberal convention, which disup• proved of the sale of public lands to any but actual settlers. It was diffi- cult to imagine what was meant by it. What public lands are being sold to any but actual settlers, or have been for some years past? The policy adopted in boon) days of selling large blocks to land companies may have been a mistaken one, but it is not be- ing done now. Is it the policy of the liberal party to shut out ranchers? Let Mr. Laurier go to Alberta to see how settlers fare there. What other lands are there that do not go to the settlers almost at their own price and on their own terms ?" The Free Press being upon the ground and being a friendly critic, this opinion upon the resolution is valuable. The fact is just as the Free Press as- serts. For many years, no lands are being sold to any but settlers. Lands have been rented to ranchers, but even those lands have to be given up as soon as settlement at all requires them. The resolution is, indeed, buncombe. It is a pity that the Patrons of Indus- try had not thoroughly looked into all the questions upon which their plat- form was to express an opinion. ABOUT DEPRESSION. Prof. Wm. H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture in Yale University, which as is well known is. the second great university of the United States, recent- ly delivered a lecture upon "Farms and Farming in their relation to Na- tional strength." In the course of his remarks Mr. Brewer discusses agriculture in New England as follows :—“There is a great agricultural depression at present in New England; the vocation of farm- ing here is under a dark cloud ; the farrier must toil harder and for lower profits. Moreover he must in spite of his toil see his land decrease in value, and hundreds of farms are not worth one-half to -day what they were years ago." Prof. Brewer then tells how design- ing demagogues try to make the peo- ple dissatisfied by endeavoring to per- suade thein that this is the result of local preventable conditions, and then continues : "The depression here is not a mere local fact. It is pat t of a great depres- sion which extends all over Christen- dom in the farming industry. It is in west as well as east ; it extends to the old world, and those countries once the most prosperous in agriculture feel it worst to -day. It is worse in old En - land than New England ; Germany is groaning under it; France is bemoan - nig it, and thousands of peasants are driven by it from the shores of Italy to seek a livelihood here. "The real cause of this depression is economic. It lies in changed condi- tions ; in changed transportation meth- ods, in the lack of pestilences resulting from a better knowledge of sanitary science ; in the opening of new fields and a thousand other minor causes." We commend this address of Prof. Brewer to Mr. Laurier and Sir Rich- ard Cartwright, who are trying to per- suade the fanners of Canada—who by the way according to even Mr. D'Alton McCarthy are the best -off farmers on eau•th° that any ills they may suffer are due th local causes and atnost wholly to the fact that a Conservative Government is in power. This is what Prof. Brewer calls deinagogisrn ; that is the name too which Sir Richard ap- plied to any mention even of hard times in that desperatexeriod of 1874 to 1878. DREAilIS VS. REALITIES. The effort to persuade the farmers of Canada that their interests ate directly opposed to the interests of all the other clasrres in the country, must, it shears to ns, be at lamentable ludo^e. There are no more intelligent citizens than the agriculturists of this country taken as n whole and while there are some of them, just as there are some of every other calling, very narrow and short sighted. taken as a class they are citizens of broad views and therfore prepared to appreciate the fact that among everyeople who wish to be prosperous or hope to becotne great there must be unity of purpose and sympathy of action. The nation is like the physical betty. The ill health of ohe part or one organ destroys the good condition of all Lind makes life a urthen. The various callings among a people are none of thein independent; each looks to the other; and must be, if prosperity and happiness are to result, thorough appreciation of that fact. A country composed all of farriers never yet was a great country, nor can such a country ever he great The farmer, to be prospler©us, must have other callings around him; he mnst have other mouths to feed; he must have other businesses to which those who are not able to undertake farming, either by reason of want adaptabil- ity daptabil- itypr or health, may go to earn a live- lihood The praises of a purely agricultural -- a pastoral country have been sung by dreamy poets. In the ream' of poetry and imagination, such countries are veritable eldorados. In practical every -day life they are as unreal and disappointing as a dream. Let ns by all means have all the farmers we can get; but let us have along with them every manufacture, every artizan, every skilled workman and work - woman, who can be got to toil here, and for the product of whose toil a 'market can be found either at home or abroad. Their pres- ence here will help to make the country great and to enrich the farmers by saving the freight which, if they be not consumed at home, must be paid upon the farm products of Canada that must find a market in some distant lands. The liberal party, aided by some so- called independents, want Canadians to try the dream; but they will find that our people prefer to keep the reality which they now have. SLANDERING CANADA. Recently the London, England, Echo, published a letter (rem a Liberal gentleman in Montreal, named D. C. Barker. Mr. Barker says : "The Dominion is ruled at present by a set of self-seeking, tricky politicians, and it would be iniquity to advise -any one to settle in Canada, now." This gentleman is evidently a warn) disciple of Sir Richard Cartwright, and he will turn up one of these days with a letter in which the Dominion govern- ment are abused because we have not got aL larger immigration. But politics aside, isn't it about time that Canadians ceased to tolorate people who are con- stantly defaming Canada. We have always wondered how the Canadian loving Liberals could ever tolerate their Ex -Finance Minister after his tirade in the London Economist a couple of years ago. A FALSE GRIT PROPHET. The Seaforth Expositor is greatly incensed because Orangemen are allow- ed to breathe heaven's free air or even be permitted to prosper in this free Canada. A miserable wail goes up from the columns of our totem., ac- companied with all the fire and brine. stone at his command, because the Sovereign Grand Master and Secretary have the effrontery ? (save the mark) to promise to he present at Corrie and dedicate a new Orange Hall. Because a new Orange Hall is to be dedicated according to the rites of the Order the Expositor has the effrontery to slander representative Orangemen and the Order as a whole as follows.:— "The organization. in Howick must be out of joint in some way, when it i found necessary for two such dis- tinguished members of the Order as the Grand Master and Sovereign of British America, and the Grand Secretary, to attend a small gathering in a country hamlet. By the way, this will he the second visit of these dis- tinguished members of the Order to this same point within the past four months. The last time, however, they carne in their true colors, as politicians to attend the Conservative convention. It must he very convenient to have these gentlemen so deeply interested in both institutions; only, some in- nocent people may be foolish enough to believe that the distinguished visitors may be a good deal more in- terested in politics than in Orangeism. It is evident, however, that a dead set is to he made on Dr. McDonald, the present member for East Huron. He has, no doubt, rendered himself offen- sive to the powers at Ottawa, but he has earned the respect and esteem of the Orangemen of Howick. Bearing these two points in mind, the unusual zeal of Messrs. Wallace and Birming- ham can easily be accounted for." "Out of joint in some way" because a new hall is to he dedicated is an ex- pression from a ole; raved and dishonest mind. We could name scores of new Orange Halls dedicated by the Grand Master and Secretary and have known of new halls of other Orders being dedicated, one not long since by the Masonic Order, by the Masonic Grand Master, we believe at Brantford. And the Masonic Grand Master was and is high up in Ontario Reform political circles. But to make the charge against hien of advancing the interests of the Grit party instead of the "14lasonic Order would have been equally criminal. His zeal on the occasion was just as great es the zeal of the brethren above mentioned will be atGorrie. lin fortunately the editor of the Expositor holds his diseased opinions as though he were "ruler of the universe" and his hatred must be construed to mean . common-sense. Wilful lying about the Mazomc Order, the Orange Order, the Foresters, the Workmen and a hundred and one others, their chief officers and dedica- tion of new halls where the members are to meet, cannot fail to come home to public men who continue to falsify facts and repeatedly slander respectable members of the community. Tho brain of the editor of the Expositor is certainly "out of joint in some way," and the extract from that paper is all the proof sensible people will demand. If Gaunt obeyed the orders of the Grit party in warm June weather, he wits compelled to obey the (riders of the Patron party in cold November. Result --out in the cold and ,stormy winter. DO YOU WflNT* A fine Sealette Mantle this Whi- te ? 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After dis- posing of the old and unreliable can- didate the next question will be "How about the new ? The would-be member for South Huron is now taking a periodical turn at the Orange Order. He objects to the Grand Master dedicating a 'new Orange hall! But the objection will not prevent the ceremony from taking place. When our good friend of the Sea - forth Expositor is talking about "A Cainpaign of Corruption" we regret to notice that he loses sight of London. But that is "an )they horse of another color" and Grit cor'ruptionists are fit subjects for even the Kingdom of Heaven! If there has been bribery and per- sonation in London the offenders must be punished without regard to party. The Chamberlain lesson ought to have been sufficient for all queer workers in elections; hut, if it has not, the cause of good government imperative- ly demands that it shall be repeated with emphasis. The Toronto Globe of the 20th October in discussing a General Elec- tion bases its hopes for victory upon the fact that Mr. McCarthy and Colonel O'Brien are in revolt. Conser- vatives, take a note of this ! Here is an open confession that by helping these two worthies yon are helping the Grit party to score a victory. The Canada Farmer's Sun has a very strong Grit editor—a Mr. Wrie'ley. Mr. Wrigley, of course, has been posing as an independent. That he is undoubtedly "independent" he shows beyond all question by printing a; couple of weeks ago in his 'independ- ent' paper a four column letter written by that other "independent" gentle- man, Sir Richard Cartwright—four columns boiling over with attack of the Conservative party. The' latest—Gaunt has been "friz" out, so the Patrons say. Sir Richard in his celebrated letter to the Patrons of Industry thinks it wouldn't be hest "for the Patrons to join the Liberal party openly as an organization, but that the hest thing would he for them to remain friendly." Quite so! If they joined the Grit party as an organization no Conservatives would be caught. Sir Richard is right this time. Conservative Patrons, how- ever, are quietly watching all these little games. It should be remembered that Clara Ford, the alleged murderess of Frank Westwood in Toronto, has reserved her defence, and also that she is enti- tled to every lawful advantage in es- tablishingher innocence. It would be better, therefore, to suspend judg- ment until the case against her has been stated. Whether or not she has made a confession or has furnished any evidence implicating her in the murder for which she is held will be known this morning and until then the friendless woman should be given the benefit of every doubt. Canada Presbytersan :—A contem- porary, the Kingston News, publishes the demands of Canadian Secularists, who are organized as the "Canadian Secular Union," and have their head- quarters in this city. They snake very suggestive reading. They include the doing away of all chaplaincies provided for by the Legislature, and all public appropriations for educational a41. charitable institutions of a sectar (that is simply of a Christian) char- acter, haracter, the abolition of all religious ser- vices sustained by the Government, and especially the use of the Bible in the public schools in any way what- ever; Thanksgiving Day, and all such days, all laws for the preservation of Sabbath quiet, rest and order ; all laws for the enforcement of Christian moral- ity as such ; and they demand the legal- ization of purely civil marriage and some other thins to match these mod- est claims. Their impudence is simply sublime. That of the three tailors of Tooley Street was modesty in compari- son with them, and anything more utterly brutish and purely animal it would be difficult to concoct.