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The Huron News-Record, 1896-04-08, Page 4J 4 ti +ry. • eee,Sela Eon ;91114 111193,0 spa sit [tor t►h lrgiid awl. It viva wlsli to have yours ready aeraaonaa the ieode are at youL epoald artier uowi we have already Welted several orders. If you have never ridden a •---UL,EV1.LAND II4iIcyuLE— y.Qu have not ball learned the'pleaeuree of wheeling, AT -mite au gaSr, is the exulamatton.of thou) vino hare tried it; then it's rigid and etroeg; in fact rrs 7PIAT TO 8Ta.`rD the wear an'1 tear Qt wwy seasons ; nae neoee$tty of getting a new wheel every year, 1f you ride It Cleveland. We are Headquarters fur Repairs and EMERSON'S BICYCLE AND Model 'p• : w in %DOM ottiet,dsalsKtlMN us. Os, We ofl. it 100 Might jnvt tee wen have X�716. butwe get It to knock nut taco $18 wheels, Wit�l, lT TAND THE TEST? Well we have had three in oar Aging soh . &tor Ane month, the heaviestpeople tRtowp'hbde totned 49 ride ou them and daily whirled aronud the hell ts1`• tog, running into, Chairs h0d,aide wplka-nreeolt° so far 050 115045 aeOBee- More ae0 Chou mi. lndlvl- dual rider would give one In a season mote &baso than they should get In avc ; then they ate tall guaranteed for a year. Yon are 14vited to inspect and try thew. Sundries. Catalogues for the asking. MUSIC HOUSE, CLINTON. 00000000000000000000 0e00o0 Making a Fine Display. papa e/000b000o0000O00000e ®00000 WALL PAPE R� Is just like everything else. The deal- er must give the people the best line to select from. It is neces- sary to let them know what you have and even when they come to see it to have it displayed in the hest way. We have the Goods. Our display 1s perfect and our showroom splendidly lighted: While our price touches a minim= figure. All Paper Trimmed free of Charge. Curtain Poles, Window Shades, Bicycles, Express Waggons, Baby Carriages, Sporting Goods, Are all special lines with us. (o.-0©—vri .Cuoper&Co., CLINTON. dear Ailuerti) eluellt5. Wanted—J. A. King. Bargains—G. J. Stewart. Coming—Prof. Chemberla.in. Beaver Plug Chewing Tobacco. A new conuection—A. T. Cooper. Corning our way—G. F. Emerson. See that square—J. W. Chidley. Men and Women—W. D. Fair Co. There are 52 weeks—Allen & Wilson. Ready-inade Clothing—Plumsteel & Gihbings. Making a fine display—W. Cooper & Co. There's money in Clothes—Jackson Bros. Our show room—W. II. Beesley & Co. Another Corset Bargain—Hodgens Bros. A work of Art—The Farmers Advo cate. Don't he deceived—Tonka Smoking Mixture. Many Dangers and Perils—Paine's Celery Compound. Wedding Stationary—TFTs NEWS - RECORD. Envelopes—THE NEWS -RECORD. the Huron News -Record 91,25 a Year-111.00In Advance WA:DNEBnAY, Arair, 8th, 1896. THIiI LIBERALS AND THE TRADE POLICY. The position of the Liberals on the general trade policy of Canada has un- dergone many and remarkable changes. In the time of the old reciprocity treaty, they were generally in favor of it and of a revenue tariff upon manu- factured goods, as indeed were both political parties at that time. After the abrogation of that treaty in 1866, they proclaimed themselves favorable to an attempt to have itnenewed, al- though not at the price of national honour or material interests. The Hon. George Brown, a shining Liberal light, thus expressed himself with reference thereto:— "But he this as it might, it was not for the people of Canada to he influ- enced by any such anticipation. They had shown their ability to open new markets for themselves wheu the American market was closed against them and the clear path for them was to follow with redoubled energy and perseverance the policy on which they had entered. Let them seek to develop their great natural industries, and es- pecially the agricultural, shipping, fishing, mineral and lumber industries. Let them open up new markets adapt- ed to their traffic, and let the Canadian flag he found floating on every sea." Hon. Alexander Mackenzie in a speech made a few years afterwards said : "1 deprecate the idea of cringin to the Ainer•icans. I appreciate full g y the benefits of reciprocity, but I do not think it becomes us, under present cir- cumstances, to make any efforts for its renewal. I believe that we should pur- sue our trade policy without regard to reciprocity." And Sir Richard Cartwright, .Char- lottetown, in 1878, made this declara- tion :— . It you say you are going to frighten the United States into reciprocity by imposing certain duties on articles now corning in from that country, all I have to say is this, that the men who tell Sou that reciprocity with the United tates is essential to your existence, are, in my opinion, playing a most un- wise and unpatriotic part. I don't deny the advantages of a free and fair exchange with the United States, hut I say that Canada is not so dependent as these men would have us to suppose, on the markets of the United States; that we are able to hold our own with United States in any market that is equally open to the competition of us both."—Speech at Charlottetown on Aug. 16th, 1878. These are all indicative of a policy at once honourable and manly, of a willingness to treat for a fair measure, but not to cringe for favour, or to dis- pair if reciprocity was refused. When, during the Liberal regime from 1874 to 1879, and after the failure of repeated efforts,to obtain a measure of reciprocity from the -United States, it became evident that some other policy was necessary to develop the industries, to protect the labour and expand the 'resources 'af 'Canada,, and the Liberal -Conservative party advo- cated the National Policy, a moderate protective fiscalsystem, asi necessary to Canada, the Liberals threw their whole force against It. 'They declared the protectivesy.item tchbre a "barbar- ous" one, that it was simply "leggrrdiped robbery," that it would diiJ i`tifsh the revenues, impoverish the people, enrich the monopolists, and in short bring only evil upon the country. They were then Free Traders in principal, emulated the British system, and in- veighed against protection in all its forms, citing that of the United States as the most dangerous of all. The de- feats of 1878 and 1882 did not diminish their opposition to protection noir lighten their assults upon its principles and its alleged effects. Along with their opposition to the National Policy, they pleaded for a reciprocity treaty with the United States, on the old lines of that of 1854, and blamed the Liheral-Conservatives for not successfully accomplishing it. Defeat and the most cogent argu- ment of good results seen on every hand which it was impossible for them to declaim away, brought a change in 1887, and the leader of their party, Hon. Edward Blake, announced that change in his celebrated Malvern speech in January of that year, in these words :—' "No man, 1 care not how convinced an advocate of Free Trade for Canada he may he, has as yet suggested—no man, 1 believe can suggest a practic- able plan, whereby our great revenue needs can be met otherwise than by' the continued imposition of very high duties on goods similar to those we make or can make within our bounds, or on the raw materials; I invite the most ardent free trader in public life to present a plausible solution of this problem, and I contend that he is bound to do so before he talks of Free Trade as practicable in Cadada. I have not believed it soluble in my day - and any chance of its solubility. if f chance there were, has been destroyed by the vast increase of our yearly charge and by the other conditions which have been created. The thing is removed from the domain of practi- cal politics." In these plain words he renounces in the name of his party, their former heresy of Free Trade as impracticable, and Found himself. Sir Richard and his followers to adhere to the policy of a Protection in all its essential condi• Cons. On this platform he appealed to the country, hut the country distrusted the genuineness of the party's conversion on the eve of a general election, and maintained its faith in the old policy of 1878 and in its consistent adherents. Shortly after the elections of 1887, Erastus Wiman, a Canadian, resident in New York, conceived the idea of a new propaganda. This was to he the salvation of Canada, or rather of the shattered fortunes of the Liberal party, and he was to he its chief apostle. it was in fact, the child of a united States politician of little note, named Mr. Hitt, and was known as Commer- cial Union. The idea was simply that :- 1. The tariff of the United States should he adopted by Canada. 2. The Customs Houses were to he abolished between Canada and the United States, but maintained against the rest of the world. 8. The import duties collected in both countries were to heooled and divided on a per capita basis between the two countries. I N, This was preached through Canada • th ��v�t9u1k od �&o1er� st�tt �d,t,iitt i 9 party iu Q flidt, , , .:�t: Sir Richard,, Qartwrigl e lit , on March 1Ath moved the.foJIowipg reso- •lution in the Hausa of 00ea fqt ne ;--r "That gyf that the larspoIssib highly desirable co}uerciial intercourse should obtain betwe, n the Dominion of Canada and the United States, and that it is expedient that all articles manufactured in. or natural products of either of said countries, should he admitted free of duty into the 'ports of the other (articles subject to duties excise or of internal revenue alone excepted) ; that it is further ex- pedient that the Government of the Dominion should take steps at an early date to ascertain on what terms and conditions arrangements eau be effect- ed with the United States for the pur- pose of securing full and unrestricted reciprocity of trade therewith." This is in substance, but not in de. tall, Mr. Hitt's and Mr. Wiwan's plan. The resolution wits silent as to details, but was accepted by Mr. Wiman as equivalent to his own scheme and as such received from him equal, and like advocacy as his own. In 1887, Mr. Laurier (the 'leader of the Liberal party), Sir Richard Cart- wright, Mr. John Charlton, Mr. Lang- ley Attorney -General of Nova Scotia); Prof. Goldwin Smith, and other lights of the party, put themselves in con- stant communication with Mr. Wiman, Mr. Hitt, Mr. Butterworth and other United States politicians at Washington ; they made missions to that city and to New'Tork-arldt:oi Bos- ton, and cabled with wen there for the purpose of inducing them to assist in the successful carrying out of their plan. What, then, was this new policy upon whicn the Liberal leaders settled as the policy for the Canadian people ? Let its sponsors and originators ans- wer. Mr. Hitt said :— "What is commercial union with Canada ? It means as set out in this resolution, the adoption by both coun- tries of precisely the same tariff of duties or taxes to be levied upon goods coming from abroad ; abolishing, alto- gether our line of custom houses on the north by which we collect tariff duties on goods coming from Canada ; abolishing their custom houses along the same line by which they collect duties upon goods we send into Cana- da ; and leaving intercourse as unre- stricted between this country and Canada as it is between the States. The line of custom houses would fol- low the sea and include both coun- tries. "The internal revenue systems of taxes on liquors and tobacco in the two countries would also have to be made uniform in both. "Tbe proceeds of taxation thus col- lected would be equitably divided, and the fairest way would seem to be In proportion to population." Mr. Butterworth said : "The adoption of the system pro- posed would involve the assimilation of tariffs, rates and internal revenue taxes, and possibly an arrangement for pooling receipts from customs and a division n some equitable basis."—Ad- dress by, on. 13. Butterworth, before the Cana fan Club, N. Y; Mr. Wiman said : "That as against the world, the same rates of duty should be collected by Canada as are now levied by the Uni- ted States, while between the two countries of North America the cus- toms line should be completely obliter- ated." Prof. Goldwin Smith said : "Commercial Union would, of course, involve assimilation of tariffs which, however, would present no insur- mountable obstacle to negotiation. It would also involve an assimilation of the liquor (excise) duties". Mr. Laurier, at the pavillion in To- ronto, October, 1889, declared for a uni- form standard of customs and cariff duties. On every platform from which he has spoken from 1888 to 1891 be nailed the flag of unrestricted reciprocity to the mast, and cited his co-workers in the United States, Mr. Hitt, Mr. Butter- worth, Mr. Blain and others. This identified him and his party with the plan proposed by them and their co-workers and which has been outlined above. The adoption of this policy for Cana- da would have meant: +b: 1. That. her tariff of 27 per cent on dutiable imports would have been ex- changed for that of the United States, which averaged about 60 per cent. 2. That Canada would have had to discriminate against and practically prohibit imports from Great Britain and the rest of the world. 3. That Canada would have lost in this way from her revenue over $8,000,- 000 now collected on imports from the United States ; at least $2,600,000 col- lected on sugars and molasses from other countries, and which on assimil- ation of tariffs must he made free, and about $6,000,(X)0 collected on imports from Great Britain and other countries which would under the new plan have been imported from the United States, --a grand total of from $16,000,i00 to $18,000,000. 4. That this deficiency in revenue would have had to he made up by dir- ect taxation, and would have fallen with telling force upon the farmers of the country, and rnen of small hold- ings ; being a sum of about $3.50 per head of the population, or $17.50 for each family. 5. That whilst being called upon to pay this amount yearly to the tax col- lector, the people would have obtained none of the anvantages of Free Trade, but, on the contrary. would have been placed, according to Liberal teaching, under the galling yoke of a protective tariff donhle that of Canada. 6. That the tariff -staking power would have heen handed over to afnre- ign country—made tor us at Washing- ton --and we should have virtually been left in the position of paying taxes without being represented. 7. That entrance upon this path would have inevitably lead to complete dependence upon the United States, and to ultimate absorption therein. Upon this fad the Liberals went to the country in 1801, and staked their all upon it. Happily for the country the intelligence of the electorate declared against them by en over- helming majority. Thousands upon ousands of honest Liberals to -day ac - Nervous Prostration It is now a well eotabltelled bet in medical science that nervousness I. due to impure blood, Therefore the true way to cure nervousness is by purify - lag and enriching the blood. The great blood purifier is Hood's Bares Farina. Road this letter: "For the last two years I have been e great sufferer with nervous prostration and palpitation of the heart. I was weak kit my limbs and had smothered sensa- tions. At last my physician advised me to try Hood's Sarsaparilla which I di and I am happy to say that I amt noW strong and well. I am still using Hood's Sarsaparilla and would not be without it. I recommend it to all who are suffering with nervous prostration and ppalpitatio of the heart.", MEL Desi o2r, 56 Alice St., Toronto, Ontario. Get Hood's, because Hood's Sarsaparilla is the Only True Blood Purifier Prominently in the public eye today. 11 Is not what we say but what Hoods Sar - t aparilla artaparilla does that tells the story, Hood's Pi118Hood. ansp' ,, swoe, knowledge their mistake at the hast election and thank their stars the traitorous policy did not prevail. Defeated in the elections of 1891, the Liberal leaders began to look about for some other plans and schemes to defeat the Conservative Party. Free Trade became the shibboleth once more hut in a new form. At a meet- ing in Montreal, on the 22nd January, 1895,Mr. Laurier declared as follows:— " The Liberal Party believe in Free Trade on broad lines such as exist in Great Britain, and upon that platform, exemplified as I have told you, the Liberal Party will fight its next bat- tle." Another distinguished leader of the Liberal Party has declared in most un- mistakable language that as soon as his friends get into power "every ves- tige of protection shall be swept away," which means that all the indus- tries of Canada that have been fostered and encouraged by the National Policy, and in which millions of�eaptial have been invested shall be subjected to merciless competition from all the older and stronger manufacturing countries of the world. But one result can fol- low the introduction of such a policy, and that is return to the condituros of 1876-7-8, when hundreds of the work.;' shops of Canada were closed, artizans 1 turnedout into the streets, thousands of them compelled to seek euiploymenk- in a foreign land while children and wives went penniless end starving in nearly all the large towns and cities of the Dominion. What do the work-. ingmen of Canada think of such a policy ? And what do the farmers think of leaders who declare that if returned to power they will adopt the old policy of Free Trade with the United States as far as farm products ar a concerned ? A policy that was universally condemn- ed by the agriculturists of Canada in 1876, and which can bring nothing hut ruin and disaster to farming opera- tions in this country ? Tho govern- ment of the United States has never offered to trent with Canada upon fair and honorable reruns, nor have they since the abrogation of the former Reciprocity Treaty ever proposed any other measure of reciprocity with Canada in terms that Canadians could for a moment, entertain. The policy of the Liberal leaders would destroy the farmer's hest market at home by allow- ing foreign produce to come in free of duty, and drive out of the country thousands of consumers who now find employment in the factor les and workshops of Canada. Canadians can- not entrust the affairs of this great country in the bands of such men. RIGHT IV ONTARIO AND QUEBEC; WRONG IN AtANI'OBA. The contention that the majority in Manitoba ought to rule in educational matters, is a clear and simple one, whether it is right or wrong. But it seems to involve a similar proposition in respect to other provinces. When Mr. Clarke Wallace, or Mr. Dalton McCarthy, or Dr. Sproule or Rev. Dr. Dewart claim this privilege for the majority in Manitoba, they suggest the question whether the majority should not rule in Ontario and Quebec. Ontario has a separate school system and there has been no attempt on the part of Rev. Dr. Dewart or Mr. Mulock, or Hon. George W. Ross, or Mr. Charl- ton to get rid of it. Yet these men all hold that separate schools ate theoretic cally wrong. They will not deny that a large majority of the people of On- tario would prefer a sectarian school system. The majority in Ontario do not give the force of law to their edu- cational views. If this is because they do not wish to impose their views upon the minority, then they would be ex - expected to show some consideration for the minority in another province. If they would like to abolish separate schools at home but consider themsel- ves morally hound to adhere to the compact of union, or legally bound by the letter of the Union Act, then the rnetjority does not have its way in edu- cational matters in Ontario. it may he true that the separate schools of Ontario are guaranteed by the constitution, though there is room for argument to the contrary. But if they are so guaranteed the compact was made at the instance of the Pro- testants of Quebec and in the interests of Prot.eitants. If the separate school system is inherently had, and if the permanent establishment of snch a NE Things. 'lave you, New Things. Store ; nothing them ever �yer�ep,�,•� Ra'1fY+rJd* Clinton berote." u 1egance, Style, Beauty, Newness, all here.' GILROY & WISEM .p.YYrifim, PLUMSTEEL & GIBRINGS. eata"% ars, oapv [BEADY MJkDE CLOTHING. °oapv We have.received another consignment of fine Clothing; to make quick Sales we will sell at prices far below the regular value. We sell only such Clothing as will give satisfaotion. , Our goods are perfect fitting, • Prides low enough to suit anybody's Purse. Men's Suits selling at $4.00, $5.00, $6.00, $6.50. Men's Pants selling at 98c., $1.25, $1.50. Boy's Suits selling as low as you cduld buy the cloth for, We save you the price of making and trimming on Children's Clothing. Don't fail to see this gigantic stock of Reliable Clothing. We are sure to have something that will interest you. 0 PLUIIISTEEL & GIBBINGS, - Albert St., Ciigtii. system in Manitoba would he a crime, we have the inference that at the time of the union the Protestantsof Quebec procured the commission of a crime in Ontario. In Ontario the separate school sys- tem has not only been upheld but ex- tended beyond the bounds which the constitution would call for even if the Union Act had been proven to contain a positive guarantee for separate schools. The Government led by Sir Oliver Mowat has not only done this but it•has upheld the principle of sep- arate schools. Rev. Dr. Dewart is be- lieved nevertheless to.hea warm politi- cal supporter of Sir Oliver. Six years ago, when it was proposed to do away with separate schools in Ontario, Sir Oliver Mowat came to their defence. He said that the Roman Catholic schools would continue in case the change in the law took place. "The change in the law," he said, "would merely be the withdrawal of the right of Roman Catholics to pay their school tax to their separate schools. They would be assessed for the public schools, to which they do not send their chil- dren, as well as pay for the support of the separate schsols, to which they send them. In this way the Roman Catholics would practically he doubly taxed." The situation would, in other words, he exactly what it is in Mani- toba. But we have this singular cir- cumstance that Dr. Dewart, then edi- tor of the Guardian, which is the organ of the Methodist church, did not take up the campaign against Sir Oliver's position. Neither, so far as we know, did the Toronto organ of the Baptist body oppose the position taken by the Premier of the province. Nor yet did Mr. Kerr, or Mr. Mulock, or Sir Rich- ard Cartwright, or Mr. Blake, or Mr. Edgar, or the" Toronto Globe. It will he seen that Sir Oliver was not in the passage quoted discussing constitution- al questions, but only the question of fair play and just dealing. The prin- ciples of fair pity and just dealing ap- ply as well in Manitoba as in Ontario. Whether the minority in Manitoba are right or wrong in their ideas of educa- tion, they ask no more than is given to them in the banner province of Cana- da, and no more than the Premier of that province defends on the ground of equity, while a majority of the antt- remedialists of Ontario have endorsed his sentiments or accepted them with- out protest. The whole question is one of great difficulty. Those who have thought of it least are' the persons who are the most confident that they see the hest way out. So grave are the objections to Federal control: over a province in this matter that the Gnvernment is evidently more than willing to accept a reasonable alternative. It roust be recognized by the Government that the effective operation of the proposed measure will not he an easy matter if the Provincial Government offers only passive resistance. But along with and against these strong oh•ections on the score of expediency and practical politics there come up the claims on - I the score of fair play and justice which have been accepted as valid by the old- er and greater Province of Ontario. It is surely not too much to say that these issues should he given the sarr,e value by the same men in one province as in another. Something Unusual, Our dlsplay of Men's York Tan shoes is something un- sual and people who ap- preciate nice goods should see the selection. Repairs. ,- AbA�-A�A-O•A�A�A If you want repairs done bring them to us. They will have our prompt and careful attention and our prices are very low. WATCH for'our future announce- ments. They will be of great interest. 0 JACKSON & JACKSON, W. Jackson. Fred T. Jackson al