HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-12-19, Page 12The Greatest Holiday Hit in 1894. years of Christmases
SOMETHING TO SUIT EVERYONE'S STOCKING AND STRAIN NOBODY'S PURSE.
Nothing can take the place of a Booklet or Card to send
to your distant friends. We have chosen our stock with
special, care tas to the words and -sent.iment, and for an •
assdrtment, our stock for this year excels in Designs.
and artistic beauty, while the lo* prices are astonishing
those who buy. CALENDARS for 1895 are shown
in rnany styles. An advertising Calendar is presented
free to each customer.
TOY BOOKS from the !toys dt Girls Own Annual
down to a 5 cent Pictorial Alphabet—mer stock is com-
plete. Beautiful Books at 15c, 25c. and 50c. Chatter-
box al Sunday Magazine $1, (hildre•n'sFriend.
British Workman, Family Friend and many oth-
er English Annuals at 50c.
MECIIANICAL TOYS
For the holiday season we have made our 2nd flat speci-
ally attractive with an immense stock of Taxa', Dolls,
Dishes, Stelerhs. Kock' erg Horses, &e. We claim
to have one of the finest toy show rooms in Western
Ontario, and as we buy our stock from the German
Manufacturers' Agents. we know our prices and goods
are right.
D�iis K. --
There is no toy so popular
is .l Doll, even the small
boys take special pleasure
viewing the immense as-
sortment we have shown
in our window the last 10
• days.
China, Kid, Felt,
Indestructible
stud Bisque
Are some of the kinds
found in our extensive
stock
Get a Dull or two at least
for your children at Xmas
PURSES, WALLET, PJ RTFOLIOS
A direct importation of Purses
and LeatherGoeds is part of our
holiday stock. Purses at 5. 10,
15 and 25e., that, are marvellous'
values. Beautiful goods at 50c,
75c, $1 and $1.50, while extra
good ones made from Russian
Leather being $3. Wallets and
Portfolios are also suitable gifts
FANCY GOODS . . .
FANCY CHINAWARE,
SILVERWARE . .
/v.
•
At no season of the year do the above lines sell so well
as at rristmas. y ecause ey are t e
nicest lines you can buy, and especially suitable
for Christmas Presents. A beautiful line of Poets, sumo Leather
Cl Wh ? B th h
BIBLES
International and Oxford Teachers Bibles in
all sizes, styles and bindings. with Methodist Hymns,
with Presbyterian Hymns and Psalms, with and ithout
references, India and rag papers.
A Testament for 3e. A Bible, (leather bound)15c.
and then as high as you care to go.
IIYMN BOORS of all kinds. Special Sale of Presby
terian Hymns is now on; each book at half marked price
POETS& BooKs
Miscellaneous Books by all well-known
authors, Poets, and Sets comprise our exten-
sive stock. Special prices given to Sunday
School teachers buying quantities.
Those who have seen our stock know it is by far the bound selling as iow f.s 1.25. O'Oth
best shown in Clinton, bound volumes at $1.
YOU CAN'T DO BETTER THAN BUY YOUR HOLIDAY GOODS FROM
WM. COOPER. & CO —
- CLINTON
The Huron News-Recora hada capital of $13,000,000 ; the Ontar-
io Bank share of the deposits would
therefore be about 20% of tbe,�, wool .
This is what it was before this agre�
ment, but after the agreement it such
denly got 48% of the whole, and after-
,- — wards 54%. In other words, because of
the corrupt bargain we have given the
facts of, Senator Simpson was given
hundreds of thousands of dollars for
deposit in his brink which in justice he
was not entitled to, and which he had
not received before the deal we have
referred to. Over three fourths of
these hundreds of thousands, it should
be said, bis bank paid no interest on
whatever. In other words the Domin-
ion of Canada was paying five and six
per cent for these large sums of money
and Senator Simpson's bank, because
its president had "mesmerized them"
according to agreement with Sir
Richard, "in batches," got the use of the
money free.
Senator Simpson made wealthy by
the deal and Canada paid the shot.
1 50 a Year—$1.25 in Advance.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19th, 1894
THE METHOD OF THAT DAP.
It is now fifteen years and more sinoe
a Cartwright -Laurier government held
sway over Canada. Thousands of the
voters who will cast their ballots at
the next general election were children
then, and in consequence have none or
at least very little knowledge of how
affairs were managed during the rule
of these gentlemen. The young voter
who listens at the present time to the
professions of virtue. and purity, with
which these politicians seek to woo the
people, would, if he had no informa-
tion as to the real facts, be inclined to
think that from 1873 to 1878 nothing
but angelic influences ever filled the air
of the council chamber, and that none
but beings only a very little less pious
than angels sat around the council
board to do the business of Canada.
Since the hope of the grit leaders is
that their career in office may be for-
gotten, it is just as well to revive a
memory of some of the Human devices
by which these saintly beings tried to
hold on to office. Let us look for in-
stance at, a transaction in which the
Finance Minister of that day himself
was involved.
Senator John Simpson was a govern-
ment,supporter; he was also president
of the Ontario Bank, and he thought
that his bank did not receive enough
of public money on deposit; hence this
story. It was all told under oath by
the senator and Sir Richard, so that
there can surely be no doubt about the
truth of the narrative.
The first scene is the sending of a
letter by Senator Simpson to all his
local managers in the Ontario Bank
branches, in the constituency where
Mr. Gibbs was running as a conserva-
tive, telling them to do their best to
defeat that gentleman and elect a sup-
porter of the government. And why?
"Because if the government is sustain-
ed, our bank will have the use of the
government deposits, till required."
Exactly so ! and the fanny thing was
that the man he wanted to defeat was
the vice-president of his own hank.
Now, what assurance did Simpson
have; by which he was enabled to
,make the statement as quoted above?
The answer to this introduces us to
scone two. SimpsonSenator was in
the witness box and told bis story
about the election ; how he "mesmeriz-
ed the electors in batches"; how he
turned "a hundred in one night"; and
so on. The senator also told the court
that he had discussed the question of
government bank deposits with Sir
Richarrd, and that Sir Richard had
assured him, previous to the election,
that his bank would be treated fairly.
Asked if the government had kept
their word the senator promptly said
yes.
Now, for scene three, which is a
glimpse at the figures to which these
deposits are expressed.
The Ontario Bank had a capital of
$3,000,000 ; the other banks in Ontario
SUPERANNUATION.
The superannuation expenditure is
one of the things in connection with
which the opposition charge extrava-
gance upon the part of the govern-
ment. There are two facts that sound
very queerly in connection with
attacks upon the government as to
their management of this fund. Fact
number one is, that the Liberals are re-
joicing that some civil servants, with
whore they sympathize, are about to
support them because of the mean,
stingy conduct of the Conservatives
towards the service in connection with
superannuation. Fact number two is,
that the government of which Sir
Richard Cartwright was financial
leader, increased the superannuation
expenditure at a rate four times as fast
as the Conservative government has
done. This is surely a reason why
Patrons of Industry should help de-
feat Mr. Foster and put Sir Richard
in!
DEMAGO0ISM.
For the decrease in the value of
lands which is to a certain extent
noticeable in Canada, the Opposition,
of course, lila meNhe Government. The
electors, we presume, scarcely need to
be told that none but demagogues and
political charlatans would make any
such assertion.
Values have decreaeed the world
over in all sorts of commodities, the
products of land included, and as a con-
sequence land has decreased in value
as well.
That decrease Li not confined to any
one country, but is to he seen all over
the older parts of the world. It began
when the new wheat fields of India, the
West, and the Argentine began to be
developed and has continued ever since.
It has rea' hed its worst in Free Trade
England, where land in the agricultural
districts has fallen within the past
twenty 'years, according to the Agri-
cultural Commission's report, nearly a
half. Canadian farm lands have de-
creased some—though not nearly so
much as those of many other countries
and they have decreased from the
cause which has affected other coma
tries.
AT LAST.
In its old age the London Advertiser
has become wise for a moment at least.
In the recent local election tlib'candi-
dates, as our readers know, were Mr.
Essery, barrister, and Mr. Hobbs, a
business man. In order to score a
point for Mr. Hobbs, the Advertiser
shouts "one puffing smoke stack is
worth more to London than a hundred
men who only talk and talk and talk."
Good, Brother Carneron ! We rejoice
that at last you have got around to the
sensible view, and now, pray tell us
how are you going to support Sir
Richard, Mr. Mills, Mr. Laurier and
the rest who "only talk and talk and
talk," and that, too, against the many
smokestacks of Canada?
WHA 7' HAVE 7'HE OPPOSITION
DO -VE 7
What have the opposition to the
Dominion Government done that they
should secure public approval ?
1. They opposed the purchase of the
North West Territories for $1,500,000.
2. They opposed the construction of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
3. They opposed the construction of
the Grand Trunk Railway, by oppos-
ing the public aid given to that enter-
prise.
4. They left our market open while
in power, to the American farmers
while their markets were closed to us.
5. They advocated in opposition a
Commercial Union with the United
States.
6. They were ready and anxious to
discriminate against Great Britain.
7. They increased our taxes while in
power three millions a year.
8. They taxed tea and coffee that
every reran uses.
O. They increased our debt $40,000,-
000 and left nothing to show for it but
a history of deficits.
10. They increased the superannua-
tion expenditure four times as fast as
have the Conservatives.
11. While preaching purity they
have practised the most open faced
corruption.
12. They have changed their trade
policy almost every year to try and get
into power and have thus shown them-
selves to he demagogues.
The above it seems to us are twelve
good reasons why these gentlemen
should he kept out of power.
THEIR FRIEVD, ERASTUS WIMAN.
The memoirs of Sir John A. l)ifac-
donald, as published by Mr. Joseph
Pope, his private secretary, contain a
vast amount of information of the po-
litical life of the old Chieftan, but
as the work will soon he in the
hands of the general public, to fore-
stall its contents is needless. One let-
ter from Erastus Wiman, written in
1881, when Wiman was in the zenith
of his prosperity, and when he was
ranked as one of the leaders of the Op-
position party, and a bosom friend of
Mr Blake and Sir Richard Cartwright,
is so suggestive of the nature of the
man that it is worth more than a
passing notice. That letter stated, (we
quote the words)—"That a dark plot
was on foot to wrest Manitoba from
the British Crown, by an armed insur-
rection, and among the promotors of
this nefarious scheme were Edward.
Blake, there leading the opposition and
Sir Richard Cartwright, his first lieu-
tenant. Sir John Macdonald replied to
this frgrn Riviere du Loup, under date
of Sept. 11, 1884, as follows:
"MY DEAR MR WIMAN:—Thanks for
yours of the 6th instant. I can quit;
understand —'s mode of action. He
goes to Washington and exaggerates
the state of feeling in Manitoba.
Most probably the gentlemen he sees
receive him politely, and say they will
he very glad if Canada can be induced
to join the union. With this state-
ment he proceeds to Winnipeg and pur-
sues the same course of exaggeration.
I don't believe a word of his statement
about Mr. Blake and Sir Richard Cart-
wright. The latter has expressed his
belief in the future independence of
Canada; but that is all. Neither of
them would countenance for a moment
anything like a rising in arms. I shall
look forward with interest to your
promised communication after visit-
ing Washingtou. I shall be at
Ottawa after this week. I need
not say how much obliged to. you I am
for the interest you take in this mat-
ter.
When dictating this letter, Mr Pope
says Sir John smiled grimly and re-
marked—"This is a new role for me,
defending Blake and Cartwright," and
when asked what could be Wiman's
object in writing as he bad done, said,
"Oh, he wants to ingratiate himself
with me, and he thinks that state-
ment with which' he has been stuffed
will be acceptable to me because it re-
flects upon my opponents."
CURRENT TOPICS,
Your Canadian grit free trader says
that a duty always increases the price
to consumcers of the home made arti-
cle on which that duty is protective.
Bat the great Adam Smith declared,
"Indeed I admit that by means of such
regulations (protective tariff) a manu-
facture may be acquired and that its
product shall be, after a. time, made as
cheap or indeed cheaper than the for-
eign product.
It looks now as though the Patron
grand lodge officers would add another
plank to the Patron platform, viz., the
advocacy of rag money, as national
paper currency 1s most often called.
If so they will have only speeded their
dissolution. Canada has the best cur-
rency and banking system in the world,
so good, ineeed, that the United States
are likely to copy it, and she is not
ready to take up with the played out
old rag baby fad.
When the Globe and the leaders it
supports are proclaiming their new
policy of "freedom of trade," whatever
that may mean, they do it with great
earnestness as though they really feel
that they had discoydred something
that would be for the benefit of Can-
ada. The electors, however, will not
he carried away by any such "ready-
made," pretended earnestness. They
remember that the same newspaper
and the same politicians literally wept
in advance over the awful fate that
would certainly befall Canada should
she refuse to adopt Unrestricted Reci-
procity--a policy, the very mention of
which now intakes its former advocates
mad. They are the same men and are
trying the same kind old of humbug,
with the same old teams.
John 'Stuart Mill is quoted as being
in favor of free trade for every coun-
try ; but this is decidedly incorrect.
..For England, be thought the best
policy to be free trade but as to Ameri-
ca he said : "1 do not presume to say
that Americans may not find protec-
tion wise at their state of development.
I do not even say that if I were an
American I should not be a protection-
ist." So thought Mr. Laurier in 1876
when he said : "If I were in England
I would be a free trader but here I am
for protection."
Port Albert.
Intended for last weak.
It is my sad duty to record the death
of Mrs. Griffin, wife of Joseph Griffin,
Reeve of the township of Ashfield and
ex -warden of the county of Huron.
The sad event took place at the late
residence, Kingsbridge, on the 6th inst.
She was buried on Sattrday following
at Kingsbridge, leaving a kind hus-
band and six young children to rnourn
their loss.
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McKillop.
A pretty wedding took place at the
residence of Mr. James Wiltse on
Wednesday last, when his daughter,
Miss Maria was united in marriage
with Mr. Harris, of Grey. We wish
the young couple many years of happi-
ness and prosperity.
Municipal matters are quiet in Me-
KilIop. The present council have been
diligent and economical and will likely
be returned if they offer for re-elec-
tion.
One of the happiest men in the town-
ship is Mr, Conrad Aikart. whose wife
presented him with a pair of pretty
baby girls the other day.
There are so many fellows travelling
through the woods with guns these
times that it is hardly safe for a man
to go into his bush to cut firewood.
Miss Anne Gray, one of Hilibert's fair
girls, has been on a visit to relatives
here.
Mi. Henry Irvine, of St. Marys, was
here last week on business.
We are informed that the English
Church people at Walton have got a
new minister in the person of Rev. Mr.
Griffin.
Sacrament services were held in Duff
and Cavan Presbyterian churches a
week ago last Sabbath.
Good and well attended revival meet-
ings have been going on at Bethel
Methodist church for four or five
weeks. Between 40 and 50 have mani-
fested a desire to lead religious lives.
The meetings were conducted by the
esteemed pastor, Rev. T. W. Cosens.
Ilea
Word was received by Mr. Jas. Petty,
of Hensel', the other day that about
five hundred of the sheep shipped to Eng-
land by him a couple of weeks ago had
beenwashed overboard during a heavy
ale at sea. As they were insured for
a head, Mr. Petty will be protected
rom actual loss.
Hood's Cured ,..-s
After
Others Failed
Scrofula In the Neck—Bunches All
Cone Now.
Sangervttle. Maine.
"C. I. Hood & 0o., Lowell, Mass.:
" Gentlemen:—I feel that I cannot say enough
In favor of Hood's Sarsaparilla. For five years
I have been troubled with scrofula, in my neck
and throat. Several kinds of medicines which
I tried did not do me any good, and when I com-
mended to take Hood's Sarsaparilla there were
large bunches on my neck so sore that I could
llood'ssi iltb Cures
not bear the slightest touch. when I had taken
one bottle of this medicine, the soreness had
gone, and before I bad finished the second the
bunches had entirely disappeared." Marini=
ATWOOD, Sangervllle, Maine.
N. B.. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsapa-
rilla do not be induced to buy any other.
Hood's Pills cure constipation by restor-
ing the peristaltic action of the alimentarycanaL
News Notes.
Fire destroyed most of the Oshawa
Malleable Iron Works. Loss, $75,000.
Mr. T Dixon Craig was nomirfated
by the Conservatives of East Durham.
A young man named Sly was fatally
shot while out hunting at Sharbot
Lake.
Dr. W. R. Wade has been selected as
the Conservative candidate for Mus-
koka and Parry Sound.
The bill to authorize railroad pool-
ing passed the House of Representa-
tives at Washington.
It is said the West Algoma seat
the Ontario Legislature will be vaca
ed, and that Messrs. Savage and Co
wee will contest the constituency
again .
Mr. F. X. Lemieux, Liberal, was
elected in Bonaventure, Que., by 150
majority. He succeeds the late Count
Mercier in the Local House.
George W. Scott suieided near Peter-
boro' by shooting himself through the
heart. His mind had been affected by
srinstroke, and he had been melan-
choly for some time.
Alt eady there is talk of Mr. F. X.
Lemieux, who was elected in Bonaven-
ture to the Quebec Legislature, suc-
ceeding Mr. Marchand as loader of the
Opposition.
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