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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-10-20, Page 4ngharn'e Dress Goods and Carpet House WAW+ WitilllMieWANANANIAVY+fVVAWeVAWM The House of Quality Fall Dress Goods Three lots we offer for balance of this week only, at the following Special Price Reductions 3 Pieces Wool Dress Goods, in Blue, Brown, Black, worth 161:,00 ----.for a 09e 8 Pieees Scotch Suitiugs, 54 in. wide, regular $1,00, $1.15 and $1.25 ---for 08o 20 Pieces nobby Shirt Waist Suitings, in a great vari- ety of colorings, ideal fabrics for autumn and win- ter wear, 45 in. wide, worth 00e, 75c, 85c --for. 490 Nobby New Fall Mantles. In all the new styles, hi Fawns, Brown, Grey and Black. Ready -to -don Skirts. A large stock to select from, ranging in prices from $2.25 up to $6.75. Mr—Our .Dressmaking Department is now in full swing. Come and get your work done by up-to-date artists. ee RITCHIE'S Dress Owes Alex e Ritchie ee Temples* BEAVER BLOCK - Wiriati M RITCHIE'S for Carpets, Rage, Rte. �t� auirdsu��as siewr ltl �!e mea• �Idss111� s�iiflAa■�tls Important .Announcement. With this issue we announce a change of busi- ness --dissolution of partnership. Mr. S. J. BaII, having plans which render his removal from Wingham a neeessity, has concluded to retire from the business, and in future the business will be conducted under the style of L. A, Ball & Ce. Ball Bros. WINGHAM, OCT. 181n, 1504. To the People of Wingham and surrounding country:— Having degided to withdraw from business, according to above announcement, I desire to thank one and ail for their support and favor, .personal and otherwise, during the past four years. Doing business with you was a pleasure; and now, nothing would please me more, than to see that same patronage continued in the same generous way to nay Brother, who continues the business, And whom 1 commend to you, by his ability acid uprightness, as worthy of ,your confidence. Dissolution means that outstanding accounts will have to be paid by November the 15th, by cash or note; after that date, accounts pass into other hands for collection, when 8 per out. interest will be added. Yours Truly, J. J. BALL. 41111111.11111116111110 111111111111111111111111016111111111041101111111111111141111111MISMNIIIIIIIM111111111.111110MPOINIII i i i 1 1 E For FURS Go To T. A. MILLS t1;i11i1}1i11i163111113 .011 APS W.. AMP 16,011 6.41,4 OttetOfl►tg%Abt i t 1~ Telsee HALL, Petorniaseens, --s-In his speech in West Middlesex:, Friday, Premier Ross intltnatetl his intention of endeavoring to n14100i11 his hold on office by ;tuother series of bye -elections, It is to be hoped the Trendier will think better of it. Bye - elections under such eirenunstcances as those now existing ere almost of nes. eessity corrupt elections ; and the Province bass had enough of corrup- tion, WIN IA DV"A TOR.. PROTECTION TO INDUSTRIES. Tfll CANADIAN DIVA OP THE 0. T, P. If it were not sad to see public men ofllee violate the pledges they made in opposition, it would be amusing to react some of Sir 'Wilfrid i aurier's statements tnauhe a few years ago. Ilene are kw of theta regarding "protection":-. "I will not he satisfied till the least vestige of proteetion bas been removed from the sot. of Canaille." "If the Liberals come to power, they will cut oft the head of pro- tection and trample int its body," "We denounce the principle of protection as radically unfair and unjust to the massesof the peo. pie,.„ "We will tax for revenue. but not one rent for protection. Taxa, tion is an evil that nothing but the requirements of the Government can justify, •when we are in pow- er we will free the people from lprotection which is a fraud, a de- usion and a robbery, for it is rob- bery, to take money from one ratan to give it to another." And yet when Sir Wilfrid obtained power, he did nothing of the kited. Ile, simply tinkered at the National policy of Sir John, and where he touched it, he injured the industry concerned, and did not lessen the cost (to the consumer) of the articles manu- factured, The Stratford Herald turns the tables very cleverly upon its Liberal contemporary on the subject of the fiscal policy. By the Government paper the remark was made that on the occasion of the visit of Mr. Borden to Stratford that gentleman found that the following industries were flourishing:-- Furniture, meat -pack- ing, agricultural implements, biscuits, candy, knitted goods and 'carriages, Look, exclaimed the paper, at what Fielding is doing for the workman ! It is pointed, out by the Herald that every industry cited as flourishing en- joys that condition because it is under the tariff of the Conservatives. The lines mentioned have the following rates of protection, which were given by the National Policy :— Furniture, 80 per cent. Canned meats, etc., 25 per eent. Lard, 2c lb. Agricultural implements, 20 per cent. Biscuits, not sweetened, 25 per cent.; sweetened, 274 per cent. Candy, 35 per cent. and lc Ib. Knitted goods, including hosiery and underwear, 35 per cent. Carriages, 35 per cent•. Wherever the Conservative policy has been left alone by the Ottawa blunderers, industries have done well. Wherever these men have touched the National Policy they have bungled and have brought disaster and loss. The woollen industry was pursued by Mr. Fielding, and was all but extin- guished. Binder twine and barbed wire have been driven out ; dozens of other industries have been embarrass-. ed and subjected to loss. ---At the first general election held in Canada in 1807, the Conservative party had a majority of 22, in 1872 this majority was reduced to 0. In -1871 the Liberal party bad a majority of 00, and this turned to a Conservative majority of 08 at the elections of 1878. The Conservative party won ' in 1832 by a majority of 67, in 1887 by 41 and in 1891 by 31. In 1896 the Liberals re- gained. power with a majority of 27 and in 1000 this was increased to 54. ** R —At a sleeting in Peterborough on Saturday the chairman said that "the Liberal policy had ruined the woollen industry. One null at Cornwall, em- ploying 250 hands ; two mills at Carle- ton Place, employing 200 and 250 men; a mill at Hespeler with 500 hands, and one at Waterloo, employing 200 men, had been closed. The Excelsior Mills at Montreal, employing about 200 hands, had been shut down. The cot- ton mills also were suffering, and the employees of these idle mills had gone over to the United States. * * There are now seven vacancies in the Ontario Legislature. The seven are as follows :—North Perth, John Brown, Liberal, unseated ; North Nor- folk, A, M. Little, Liberal ; Sault Ste. Marie, 0. N. Smith, Liberal, unseated; North Renfrew, E. A. Dunlop, Con- servative, resigned ; West Algoma, Jas. Coninee, Liberal, resigned ; and North NYork, Hon. E. J. Davis, Liberal unseated. An appeal in the North York case, however, is pending. In addition the trial of the petition against the election of A. G. MacKay, Liberal, forth Grey, is pending. * * —A correspondent signing himself "Mossback" writes to the Weekly Sun and says :-=1 wonder if really the Lib- eral Ministers have that contempt for us, for our memories and understand• ings, that they would dare to deluge us with such masses of proofs of their inconsistency and unfaithfulness. On the first page of Political Pointers No. 3, credit is actually claimed for taxing the people sixteen millions and a half more in one year than is necessary, about $2.755 more per head, or $13.75 per family, than even the present na- tional expenditure calls for. * * * —Speaking at Windsor, Mr. Borden said "If the Conservative party should be returned to power, with- out repudiating any contract, the Government would have the right if the whole people so declare at the polis, to expropriate the un- dertaking of the Grand Trunk Pa- cific, and build the line as the peo- ple's line from the Atlantis to the Pacific." (Applause.) "That, then is the issue. The door is not closed. I believe the people will decide in their own interest. I don't ask them to decide anything isufair or unjust, because vested rights must be observed and the sanctity of eontraets must be respected, but the door is not closed, and once more I declare to you it is for the people to say whether we shall have iu Canada a Government- owned railway or arailway-owned Government." (Applause.) + * —Nothing is more noticeable in con- nection with the Presidential election in the rusted States than the evidence thereby afforded of the steady trend on the part of aur neighbors towards public ownership. This is particularly true of the Democratic party. The Michigan Democrats are committed to what the New York Sun calls e. so- cialistic program in the matter of freight and passenger rates, and the public ownership of public utilities, while the platform adopted by the Minnesota. Democratic convention con- tains this plank : Private monopoly m o ist be ex- tinguished for the independence of the individual and foe the safe- ty of the republic. Efficient con- trol will either coinpswt its extine- tion or prepare the way for the one reniaining alternative, public ownership. -s; Where is the Canadian end of the 0. T. P.? Financially speaking it has the largest end. It supplies a guaren. tee to the bonde of the 0, T. P. for the profitable western section esti- mated by Mr. Blair sat $23,000,000 and by the President of the Grand Trains at $85,000,000. That guarantee (ex- cept on the easily built Prairie sec- tion) is not a fixed one per mile but is a percentage of the cost and as the coat is but estimated these figures eon be taken as an Approximate, based o» economical eonstrllctioll. They may be increased, Looking at the capitali- zation of the Canadian Pacifies Rail- way the returns from this expeaadi- ture, at the present 0% dividend paid by that railway, would give $1,380,000 or $2,100,000 per Annum as net income over working expenses and interest o» the guar4urtee bonds. Does Canada receive this or any part of it ? It gets not a single rent; but the Orand Trunk Ilaailway Co'y., upon its small capital expenditure of $13,400,00), stakes a net profit of from 10% to 15%. Can such a bargain be justified ? If, as is argued, the interest on the guar- anteed bonds sill be paid and there- fore Canada will lose nothing, what is there to prevent this country paying the additional $13,490,000 and instead of making and keeping 10% or 15%, re- ducing freight ratites? Sir Wilfrid Laurier at Sorel stated that all the G. T. P. would cost the conntry was $13,- 000,000 and that one year's surplus Would pay the whole amount, What more tuviting investment could Can- ada, make than to pay this amount' and gain entire control of the freight rates of the Northwest? ON CANADA'S CREDIT. Toronto Telegram. "'- The simple question of mathematics is :—"Who builds the Grand Trunk Pacific railway?" "Credit builds the Grand Trunk Pa- cific railway," is the answer to that question. Whose credit ? Assume that 200 represents the cred- it which builds the whole system, and this credit is stipplied by the country and the Grand Trunk Pacific Rai1Way company in thefollowing proportions: G. T. P. company 25 Dominion of Canada 175 Total credit ` 200 The Grand Trunk Paeifie promoters coned not begin to finance the con- struction of a transcontinental rail- way without the country's credit, And if the country's credit "finan- ees" seven -eighths of the liability for the whole property, why should not the country's credit "finance" the re- maining eighth, and why should not the country own the property whish its credit creates to the extent of seven -eighths of the whole -cost? Canada's credit is the erector of seven -eighths of the whole •system, and Canada owns nothing but the freehold of the eastern section, en- cumbered with a Sfty years' lease. The Grand Trunk Pacific promoters' credit is the creator of one-eighth of the whole system, and the C1•. T. 1'. owns two sections in fee simple, and the western section under the easy terms of a.fifty years' lease. — Say3 the SVeekt;; San e—ltn 1803 ate expenditure GI $40,f01,000 'Was de- elaredl to be mor that sufficient fora population vestin• lrrextee that this country ' oese. ssed € trier then or noir. And the state inerAt we., tri. Still. in the :seven veers evillsL evehel with 19031 our expenditure +rvtwra e d +ager $51,« 0100,009 a year- $l,l,t%%),t'j( rase 'the. w01a� in 18W derieresl euffieietat for AR legithnate purposes, Pleven inflIior. dollars a rear frs. sae v years siwitintkil tris total of V►,10i.fl. Had tiia't' aettrti been applied to a srerleetiets the natiesna3 debt, ss It * sduld. Were been, bur annual lite a ect r %Inge would have been nelu"ed by nearly two sold ( one4talf million dollars per etintwaee, .As it tr, iee Are priyfritg in inter rt mi borr"eneed Cooney, over and *hove Unit rewired on a tri bs b.Id lel' tire Do- ia *nee Una 1$0,1140000 a Veen n KEEP BOTH HANOS, ETC, ••,N.eep both hands" on timber limits that I can pick tip at $250 and sell for $9,500—sats Cap. Sullivan. "Keep both .bads" on the Yankee . pluggers and the Minnie M. says the Grit heeler, ;"Deep both hands" onfat�ssi- tions :earned by doing dirty intehine work arty--3aaekeon, .Preston, esti. ""Resp tx,th hands" on the rnion $ack .says Lord Dundonald. '"Keep botlls hands" m 160 million del- iars of goal Canadian money to pre- vent the railway grafter- fromget- tiny, it, sty the electors of Canada, A vote for Dr. C'•hielsoluc will help t-04l0it. ",IAPB bah lasndrs" Ofi Edit Huron for Dr. 'CMebe *rid you will elect a ood mese *ad &feet * railway s t Use ilatz. Kr. Blair (Liberal3(M stec' ri( Hwthways j eleeitat+ed to be "at irate Mlai.k+e." "K'e.is both Wade on the Treaaury areiws Anditor-ieenerel let IN,aigat#, who roes reit became Nee Govern. rent Wood to retie ins power* t1"+*rafter axed 'i'Ypitilitlr strong:rix. A Vote ll sweets Nutt w to sae use A LIBERAL ON "THE SURPLUS." An effective reply to the story that the Ottawa Government has created a huge surplus is given by one of the oldest of the Liberal papers—the Dun- das Banner. That paper says :-- "Remember that we have no sur- plus. "The so -called -surplus of $15,000,000 has been created by over -taxation. "The Customs duties have been in- creased since 1895, $2.40 per head of the population, and there are 5,371,815 people in the country. "There was, therefore, raised by this means, $12,891,156. "The Inland Revenue duties were increased 50c per head, which raised an additional 2,685,657. "We sold. Dominion lands during 1903 amounting to $4,275,526, and made in the Yukon 3052,740. "All of these sums aggregate 320,- 505,079. • "It is very easy to create surpluses if the farmers are -willing to be taxed out of house and home in order that men may be kept in power who force public contractors to subscribe for bogus .joint stock companies' stocks before they can obtain public con- tracts." The Banner maintains that there is no real surplus, but that there is an excessive rate of taxation. The so- called surplus can be made to appear bigger by the simple process of mak- ing further additions to the taxes tak- en from the people. f NoTien,—I have arranged with the, Dominion Bank to manage my busi- ness and all owing me on Notes or Mortgages can pay principal or interest at any time, After falling due, rem- ember you need not. pay until you are requested to do so by me. I thank alt those who have done business with me, and wish you every prosperity. ROBT. McINDoo. THAT'S THE PLACE TO GO. which re -opens Sept stb. 'rake the Commercial or the Shorthand Course. Terms reasonable. Send for College journal. C. A. PLehliN6 b. L. MciNTYRe President Seo'y. BOiMON BANKI • Capital (paid up) - $3,000,000 Reserve (4:4 11,10101. _ $3,474,000 Thursday, October 20, 1904 Jno. & Jas. H. Kerr More Clothing. For some time we've beet giving very close attention to our Clothing department. There isn't any one in the • business that will show you a better assortment of Men's and Boys' Overcoats than we will, New, nobby and well tailored. Boys' Dress Overcoats and. Ulsters. Youths' Dress Overcoats and Ulsters. Men's Dress Overcoats and Ulsters. Conte in and see how you look in Clothes that fit. CHINA DEPARTMENT. We import direct from the manufacturers. Never in the history of Wingham was there shown such a large as- sortment of Fancy china, Rich Cut Glass and Beautifully Decorated Glassware. The freshness and fulness of our stock bring forth con- stant expressions of surprise and delight from the women who view the display. We have every reason to be proud of our fine collection. England, Scotland, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, United States and Canada are all represented here. We have the best assort- ment of Real Cut Glass north of London. Be up-to-date and buy Cat Glass for wed- ding presents, ete. It ranks higher than silverware. The newness and beauty of our stock of Decorated Bohemian Glassware wins the admiration of every housekeeper. Possession is made easy. This Week's Store News From Our Shoe Department. We've just received a few Nrw LINES that we'd like to tell you about. NO, I. Men's Box Calf, winter weight, a fine, roomy, com- fortable and well -made Shoe. Our guarantee goes with every pair, Price $3,50.. NO. 2. Old Men's Box Calf, extra wide. If you want "solid comfort" and perfect satis- faction, buy this Shoe. Price —$2.50, NO. 3. Women's Don. Sid, patent toe cap and counter, dull kid top, Goodyear welted soles. A very comfortable and hand- some Shoe. We offer them at a very low price—$2.75. You'll like them for smart looks. You'll like the long wear you'll get out of them, and you'll like the price. NO. 4. Shoes that lead the feet to pathway of knowledge. Children's School Shoes. School Shoes bought here are sure to please. We guaran- tee satisfaction. NO. 5. Women's, Misses' and Chil- dren's Slippers and Oxfords for evening wear. To see our stock is to see Shoe fashions that are absolutely correct. NO. 6. Baby's Shoes. -- All sizes in Dong. Kid. Shoes that fit the feet. Special line for fat babies. THE ROYAL GROCERY sic S i No Place Like Home sicn No home made happy unless its clean. Now ,t is the time to begin fall house cleaning and to 'gr make it easy you require the following. . ar se Gold Dust Washing Powder, large packages................. 25c ,* Gold Dust Washing Powder, small packages 50 2a Liquid Ammonia, extra strong, in bottles . IOc A Powdered Ammonia, extra strong, in packages.,......,...... IOc Z Scrub Brushes, all kinds .Brooms, well made Pails, extra quality Fibre Tubs, hand made, guaranteed Scouring Soap, nothing better Gillet's Powdered Lye, in cans Wash Boards, all kinds Farmers' Notes discounted. Drafts sold on all points in Can- ada, the United States and Europe. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Interest allowed se deposits et t1.00 and -upwardds, and added to principal iOth June and:3let Iieoember two* Thar. D. !. HEPBURN, imager WINGHAM, CatrraL. kaon seP .$ 2,250,000.00 Ractseent ftiin 2,000,000.00 'VITAL Atieffre....«, F,... 2500,600.00 :Intel W' .mane 'Qltf, IIO+a. Wm. (Rime i'resideeut Mlle Prosier A. 11. Lee 3.5. liendrit; lass, ikailerrreard C. A. Mete J.'l eeisierf, a -pre e.sod Onsets i Mtanatter .lit. ' istems, Asst. Gash. Meister. S. Veneta+:, Tweeter. s 4 aseA wereetrais reos1tsd, fente axed totaptateetali Seth N'or erieber tee t tMl,etx 1 Oat.Nald Ft Dw 5c to 10c se 20c to 35c QOc K $1.00 to $1.25 la 20c to 40e rpf sr at G • *� Wingham Coal and Wood Yards We are sole agents here for the Scranton Coal, and will guarantee every delivery to be O. K, just ask a.ny person who has used same and hear what they say about It. The following prices will not raise for t 2 months :— September and seven following months 47.00. To take advantage of the above prices, orders must be in by the fifth of each month for immediate delivery or they will take the next month's prices. Farmers wishing to load and draw their own Coal will have 2 e per ton rebate. Parties not wishing to have their Coal delivered before Fall, but wishing to have their supply secured, may do so by requesting us to place their tnsme on our books as customers; this will secure them for the winter without fail. NOW FOR THE WOOD. No,1--Best il'odq Hardwood, per Dorsi $3 00 No. 2 --Hardwood, from Smaller Timber" per Oord 2 75 No. 8—Hardwood and Ash, mixed, per Ootd............. 50 No. 4--Aeh and Elm, mixed, per Cord................., ... , 2 25 No. 5--Slabe and Soft Timber, lam' Cord 200 Rough wood, chunks, ete., for turnaree and box stoves, per Pa 2 00 (Nos,1 and 2 are tut froth green timber'.) Our terms for Coal and Wood d arc strictly cash. +N s McLEAN4