The Huron News-Record, 1887-01-26, Page 4-77.77777777111"17.. 'F
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orbtons of, the editorial cot -
respondence iu.•the 04obit of. last.
5ali iiaay, from Ottawa; concerning
Sir Juhu A. Macdonald is of a most
malignant character.. The Premier's
laind is.saidt ttalao giving way, and
that,Iient, must. White is specially
.c;1ia+ set to "watch and guard the
head of Canada's Government, and
that any day may produce an an-
nouncement offthe 'Premier's' sad
condition•,'.°' tale brutal intimation
that Sir .1;o1in's mind is giving wily
has uot•the slightest foundtttion in
fact. When it is found that th'e
old chieftain will not die physically
leis opponents 'seem determined to
get revongoby by announcing him
mentally dead. The fact is that it
at the time this dispatch was sent to
the Globe, Sir John's intoned never
gas • brighter, and he was hand• at
'work with his soeretaries on. cor-
respondence connected , with 'the
elections. He .has also boeu re-
cei'dng deputations. and transacting
the business of his department with
remarkable vigor. The whole story
of Sir John's mental failing is a
wicked and cruel lie frombeginning
tel, end. It is quite possible that
Atiio GYcbe'•s•r"oorbaok ibuut Sir John
may havo been suggested by Mr.
Illalce, for wo find in 6Ir. Blake's
speech at Markham, the day before,
when addressing the eledtors at East
York : • "I.heve aso•r•t of hereditary
connection with the ;riding. My
poor father represented it and wrote
his address from a sick bud in Eiig
lead.. Ile • Toties said he novei•
wrote it—that it • was a• fogory.
They said he was mad and dyiug,
and that there was no use voting for
as mad. and dying min." Ono can
imagine Mr. ibko's..w•ink to tho
Globe reporter which tori him moret
eloquently than spoken wui`ks;
"Here's a pointer fur you; get in
our work. upon Sir john as 1 have
boon telling you the `fortes en-
deavored to getit in upon my poor
old father."' Filial affection is a
supremo' virtue, bute,even, had 111r.
Mak d's,father 'been treated as he
alleged,• it was no reaso:n for his
suggesting that similar lies should
be told concerning the living father
of his country, Sir John A Mac-
donald.. Lasanity tveuhr1 seem to
be the strong card with .I31ake. and.
some of • the leading G) its. Biel
should not have been hanged be-
cause he feigned insanity, and Sir
John should be disposed of because
he feigns- sanity. Too thin gentle-
men. T>iy.agfliu.
The Dominion Govern men t • has
expended ou canals, railways, light-
houses,.nay igation, tbo acquisition of
the Northwest government, public
building?, etc., since 1867, the sum
of $1I7,340,6O7. .
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Just like the fibbing croakers, our
town cotetu. says that " Ganadinn.so-
curitics aro no,.loanger attractive i.0
the money mat•1Cets, and, that finan-
ciers and capitalists aro afraid to in-„
vest , iia; Ca33ad'1ani uudo»•takings."
Now, the;. reverse of otte . cotem's
statement Is: tho,,faet. 7110 Pa'blic
Accounts will show that in the first
/tome r f Confederation, 1867, tho rite
of interest paid on the poblic.debt
of Canada was $5.40 pct' cont., .is
1885 .isle, average iuterest paid was
$3.80 per cent—a reduction of .$1.60,
her cent.„since the Union; and. the -
completion of •tl , Caintoelu Pacific: because it was written •is advance of
railway alone givueee ho lie to the the present situation. The pvlitiei-
. rse.t:. i'J iliveSL Ill awl )I)aE} ,in tert.r'vtt if,s meaning fur
?sin,
treat -
.Northwest
evernrneut.
this sympathy
s ' We could
reason except
pointagainst the
nd its administration
ho -Northwest. , "Well;';.
owson, "Lhave joust canto
re; have lived there for
over 'five years, have had dealings
with the Indtaus, the Pie a Pots
atie •the 11fi . Doing
business as 1 do in Regina, and the
Eoservosof the two bands I have men-
tioned being. about 25 miles froui
there, I have ofton•boughb, their pro-
ducs'from them. Aud-o1 n r own per-
sonal knowledge these who stay on
their Reserves are treated -Much bet-
tor by tho Government and have a
much better opportunity to make a
living than the average white man
in,asly part..of this continent. "It
is ta'ue,” ho contiuued, "an Indian
is an Indian, and in many points
with remain so to the end of the
chapter, but many of them have laude
good use of the excellent training
end supplies furnished. them. As I
said thuro-aalready-many of them
'doing very well at farming. They
have• e•,;cellent hay lauds, imple-
`ments and cattle. The products of
;their laud they sell and got fair
prices ; they also make and sell but -
tel'." As fur starving. or being in
want of food he hadnever known
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TAO Rena* pf;QQu ptQfS.k llht; 4ia=
solved. conttt<Jfle.4.2U woutomi-byin.
OntArioa 92; Quebec, 05:';: +`fob c o-
titti,,21; New Brtt;nswiiek,.16;: Prince
Eulvlvarl. Islami,. 6.Ir ]1Lunitoba„ 5;
Beitieh, Columbia, 6. The same
ne nbors will be elected:to the new
house, and, ise addition, four will be
sent from the Northwest territories.
Politically the lata Ilouse was di-
vided as follows
. Conservative Reform
Ontario 5•k 38
Quebec 48, 1:7
Nova Scotia. . . 16 5
New•Brunswick...,7
Prince Edw'cl Island 3 3
Manitoba , • 3a 2
BritislE.l;uluulbia6 0
of a case, although he had consider-
able. knowledge of the Indians.
The only Indians that seem in a
nertlected condition are stran,rline.
femilies of American Ina ans. who
are afreid ta return to tho other.side
gide owieg to there being implicat-
ed in masaacres,Of in Minhe.;
sota, and nomadic. Panadiau Ins
diens who weula not 'reside eipoe
their Reserves, and neither of these
classes ,had 'anyi eelaime.-upper the
son, theeludianslii-the Northwest
-are treated well and as a tele are
.concluding our talk with Mr. How-
son ho eaid that LieuteGovernor
Dowdney is one, of the best offieiale
poseihle and Assistant Commissieeer
Reed, he believed was ono qf the
most competent as well as hardest
worked mon in the bomittiou.
Syrupathy for the poor. Indians is
the veriest bosh. Mr, Howson is
also well atqueinted with our old
friend Mr. Dixie • WatA011, 80 well
known in this part of Huron County-
'Dixie- is also a gotA official and is
_popular with everyone.' "Dixie" has
just been made yeturning officer for
that distriet," and the elections are
fixed for the same. date as in Ontario.
AMA MAO.DONALD.
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It not be generally known
that in his famous epistle to the
Romans Catholic Bishop Cleary, of
Kingeten, took pains to say that his
quarrel was not with the Donduion
Government... but With t110 "No
Popery" cey raise( in thteprovincial
eontest. These aro the Bishop's own,
words as we find them printed in one
of the mule:
I have tbe honor to be well se'
(painted with Sir John A.' Macdonald,
Premier of the Dominion, and, we
have frequently esehanged coerte-
ides by friendly visits to „eae.h.other.
Against hitn or his Government
shall not say'one word. Ile has never,
to my knowledge, been an enetny to
the Catholics. He has often.spoken
well. of us) and done good services to.
us; .and lathe present "No Popery"
crusade be has openly and puuliely,
again and again, repudiated the
leading organ .of the,,poliey Of atroci-
ous slander and leget persecution of
• the Catholic, religion. T.Inderstand
me, thereforev in having,, no refer -
enact in this paetorai, to,8irolohn's
Go.verntnent or the elections 'tor tate
Tim above means a good deal, and
it' takes 051•Pll• the, more. meaning
Totals:ea.,. 139
The Conservatives- had not cptite
two-thh as of all the members. Some
Reform journals heve been in the
habit of considering that The Gov-
ernment was sustained by the solid
Bleu delegation from Quebec. That
view of the situation is wholly erro-
'moue. Oetside of Quebec there
were 91, Conservatives and 55 Re-
formers. •
Again, many pi,e4le are ap to
ass111110 1.00 Inue11 respecting Quebec.
At the local election parties were
pretty equally divided: But a bit-
ter fight was..in progress between
the two Nvings of the Conservative
party, while the Awl° peovinee was
then the Rouges gut only 27 or 28
seats out of 65. 1n 'the Dominien
contest the. quarrel between the
Castors and the Blew will 'not be
felt, as both sections will wurk for
the Conservative government at Ot-
tawa. It is certain, too, that the
Riel excitement has to some extent
subsided. But should tho Conser-
vatives have no inure limn the Wens
have in the a • will
hold. 31- or 3•2 of the 65 seats.
tho Reformers should have one or
throe majority in, Quebee,,where are
they to gaiu the 35 other seats
needed by thoul They will prob-
ably gain three ot four in Nova
Scotia bot they will lose two or
-three in New- Brunswie,kar It ie
hardly -To -agile -that the Reformers
will reach the Ott'awa river With
half the membtars 'elect '1 We fully
expect from ten to fifteen Couserva-
tive inejority in Quebec and the
maritime provincee.
West of Ontario the Comiervativee
wilt have thirteau and possibly four -
:teen of the members elect. In On-
tario the present. majority of eixteeu
will prebably he cut down to abuut
twelve. •
72.
EDITORIAL NOTES
, Dining tho Mackenzie Govern-
ment the expenses IA muting the,
machine of' State averaged Sa.eper
hoed of the total poparation per
amulet. During the last eight yeare
ot' the "corrupt" and "eXtravagant"
the cost. has only averaged $4.55
per bead of the population per
The Grit journeds paraded the
statements Of Mr. Blake aud the Globe
for about, three. :months back
the electIone were going to be held
"within three weeks." And yet
the dear fellow's now.. howl about
the elections beineepru•ne upon.
the people: If Mr. Blake and. the
Globe knew what they have- been
saying aud reiteratieg, for months -
there dou't seem to have been mucla
"springing," about the bttsiuess..
Bet so me people:a% hard to satisfy.
During Mr: Mackeuzie's fivp years.
(1873-8);tIte expenditure en public
works was 034588,946. The whole
of that sum was added to the debt
and two millions beeides for the or-
dinary expenditure of the goeern-
ment. In the , last conservative
period (up to 1885) tho.expenditure.
on public works was $7034,4•57.
Of that sum $24,731,553 was. paid
tatte of. eat:rent revenue and a $48r
conservative rule,. the. 'ordinary eve;
plus of 436470240.00?,,AritliflOrtut etas -
ordinary. expenditore by about tern
millions, of clonal's.
In one of hiespeeches-ou the Mel
question„Mr.-Bleke endeavored to
steer earefully, as he thought, be-
tween. lettingethe rebel go soo&free-
and hanging him. Ho fetid : •"I
saw: that I could not, honestly vote
iu hewn' of auy deeision but that
have been commuted—not that the
man should' have been pardoned, as -
so many have wrongly declared. 1
said that the man was guilty." , This
is extraordinary grounds for Mr.
Otlake to take. He admite _Were
guilt auitfinds fault with hiaexecu-
Lion. The only pessible ground jot.
clemency to Riel was ou the ground
of insanity. Hi'w sanity was estab-
,lished by medical mon, and now we
have the additional testimony of
Gabriel Dumont, who was Riot's
right hand man iu the Northweit
NotwithstaudIng the endeavor of
tho Grit distorter,ef this townwhich
seeks to bring ruin on our people
so far as newspaper perversions can
'do it, we. find from an official state-
ment just published, of the revenue
and expenditure of the Dominion
foe the Six manilla -ending 3rat
December, that there is a surplus fur
figures :tree,
Revenue
Expeuditure
. 15,380.315
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..INTE OFFER-a.—
BIG BARGAINS
BIG BARGAINS
In all•darpa Ante nftefar JANUARY it:ponder to, make room for our*
Robertson's Oreat Cash Store
which they wore granted,and havenot
sinee beetarenewed the only result
they paid, to the govertintente
that. the dispoted territory is not tile
.poorttr by a single stick of timber by
the action ot' the Consorative Gov-
erment iu respect of the niueteen
IP3Ve°115 named by Mr. Ross.
It is prOper, bOwever, to state
precisely what has been the action
-,uf the Government ,respecto to, the
timber in this disputed territm.
Ou the 26th deer of June, 1874e an
.arrangement wus made and confirm-
ed by order in council el the 8th
of July following, between"the Do-
minion and Ontario Governments,
the fortnor represented to Mr. laird,
Theseaiguree show a greatly improv- Grit Ministerof the intoriutand the
ed condition of things this year as Ilatter by Mr. Pardee, by which that
:territory" lying west of a lino pass -
period. of last year. The revenue
for the six._months is..$2,272,194
:more than for the same period last
year, and the expenditm•e $2090,-
739 leas. The greatest, increase is
•in the customs. revenue, which is
$2,617,327 mere than last year ;
and. in the exeise the increase is.
$342,248. There is also a cunsider-e
able. inereese in the, receipts from
the post office and public worke, in-
cluding railwaye, wkiek. as 'well as
the increase front (manatee and excise,
shows that the business of the coun-
try had increased considerably. The
Dominion finances are now in such
a healthy condition thet it Is believ-
ed that at the close of the fiscal year
there Will be a considerable surplus'
teethe good over and above expendi-
ture. This is a very satisfactory,
' PUTED TERRITORY OF
Ono of the meet conunou charges
made against the goVernment of
Sir John Maedenald is that it has,
in violation- Of the rights of the
Provincial Government of ()uteri();
given away, at nominal prices, aud
for corrupt .purposes, the timber
Bruits cemprised wit:hie the "disput-
ed territory." west of Thunder Bay.
speeches during the recent campaign
in Ontario, seid.: "What has the
Dominion Government done—not
"with their owu timber limits, but
"with.ourst They have sold large
"and valuable timber Ululate:in the
"disputed territory, after the Privy
"Council had declared it tti sbe
"within , thp limits of the Province
"of Ontario, at the rate of $5 per
square mile as "against our $400."
"Mr. Mowat aud others made sub-
stantially the same stetetuenta Mr.
Ross gave a list of twenty-six per-
sons who, he said, had received
these soa happens that
seven names Were duplicated iu this
list ; the first seven being„ repeated
teen,. thirteen never obtained'
licenses, though orders-iu-council
were passed authorizing the minister
to granKhem, and were, therefore,
never ineepositionto cut etiak
however, Reid one years'. Toned fit
advance, oir in the eggregate $1000a
which has not been refunded. TN.
ine through dm most easterly point
efnIlunter's Island, was to be ad-
eciinistered by the Government of
Canada the O'ntario„ Government
agreeine to confirm air titles given
be it, luting the period of such ad-.
miuistration. Under this arrang-
went four twenty-one years licenses
mire grauted to cut timber as fol-
lows,: S. As Fowler of Fort
Fraoees, the date, of tire order-in-
coe ttoiL, _being _19th. March, 187,5,
artd of the lease 2nd March .1876,
ler ORO huudied square miles ; Full-
er & Co., Hareilton, date .of order-
in-couneil and of lease respectively
being 2".2nd july 1875, for sixty
square miles ; W. Macaulay,
being 18th April 1878, and of tease
let May 18•78, for 74:5? -100 square
•ordor 5th April, 1880, and of lease
12th October, 1880; for 25 41-100
miles, this last lease being tea cum-
plete. the erea of 100 Fiqu•are miles,
authorized when the first lease was
subseqpently essigned• to the Rainy
Lake Lumber compeny, and Fuller.
& Co's. to the Keewatin Lumbering
company. These loaae8 are still in
ALITHORITY FROM THE COYERNmENT
oF CANADA, liNnER WHICH TIMBER 1114.8
BEEN CUT 1N,THE "DISPUTED TERRiT-
ORY," kINCE 71.1E ST.,, OF DECEMBER,
1885. The first three were issned
by Mr. Mackenzie's Go vernmeu a and
John Nfacdonald, in completion of
the arratignient made by his prede-
cessors.. Tho tertns of the leeses
wore mado by Mr.' MaCkenzio's-
Government,. and in view of the
complaint which is made by Mr.
Ross, it is worth while pointing out
that the annual rental was only $2,
instead of Sii'es- has been charged by
'the present Gorevntnent), that the
leases wore for twenty-one yearerill-
stead of yearly licenses since isstrett;
and that they gave the lessees con -
trot, of tho land, with power to evict
settlers—a power which has in at
lnaat 0/.0 case been exercised—while
the yearly licenses since grunted
gave no such power. Herois the
clause of the lease giving that power
"6. The present leeee shall vest itte
the said lessees during its continu-
ance the right to take, and keep ex.
above described subject to thecondi-
tions herein before provided 1 and
this lease shall vest in the holder
'ever in all trees, timber, lumber•and
other products of timber cut within
continuance thereof, whether such one. The persons to whom these
trees, timber end lutuher or products licenses were granted paid to tho
be nut by authority of the holdPr of department by way of advance tents,,,
such lease or by any other person the team of $8035.84; an1 two of
lioeuses,audtpaid on accotentsof rent- lease shall entitle the lessee' to.seize, them who htld to compete,
other six • •ete the list obtained) with or withont his conaent,,and his
al $1970 • butoas they did not erect , where the mime is found in the.pose, in nntisequenee
in replevin revendicatann meother-
1.$1124 by way of bonuses. Oenate
other applicants, paid in addition
of there being ;
the Ittoitaeof the lease. duritig the
at law or in equity against any party -
timber OR oF ANY LAND So LWASRD AND
TO VitueROUTP, ALL TitEsPAs$RitarlIrainoN.
to -convertor; and punii-hment und DS'
recover damages if any, and all pro-
ceedings pending at tlte expiration
of the present lease muy be confirm:
ed and completed as if the intule had
signatures of David Lai el,. i nisteee
tary of state, tied Ed ward Blake,
minister of itistieu. it is proper to.
state that in the case of Ile first
lease buttes of $20, aud tlte caw)
of the others a bouus of $ Veit squares.
m i le was given. But epreading
those bonuses over the twenty-ontr
yee.rs, the rental:would still be nut.
mum than an average of ;$3 a mile,.
IF, THEREFORE, TH ERE 18 T/ REV
TERRITOne UNDER ADTH0RITT OF THE
,ERNMENT. 9V. MR. MACILENZIE, -NOT
The present Guverument changed"
the poliey. • The system of weeks.-
aene year leases, with.theextraordin-
ary powers confained in them, was
abandoned, and a eystem of yearly.
licenses was-subetheited.. -The rental --
was nutdo i35 a mile, instead of $2 -
with a $15 'bonne speed over the
twanty-oue -years, as had before pres •
trailed. Where two or more perstine
applied for the same limit, they
were required.to compete, and .the •
person offering' the largest bonus got
the lieenae, if 110 complied ‘vith the
other conditions. Under this now'
pulley, 121 orders -in -council yet's, -
passed authorizieg the issue of year-.
ly licenses, averaging about fifty•
squint) miles each. Of these nine
wete in substitution for other orders,
authorizing the granting, of' berths.
iu the same district, which wevee
'can-col/ed.. These orders, however,.
gave no authority to tho persens
named in them to cut timber until
they had ruade the survey of Orb ••
limit applied for and obtained the
license. One year's rental in ad -
Vallee Wa„.3•,required to be paid, after
the order was passed'aud before the,
license issued:or oven the autlrority
tosurycy was granted. Altogether
only twenty-two yearly liceneee •
were issued under ffie aethority of
these orders,in-council.
It is complained the the •Govern- •
meta' continued to deal with the
timber the "disputed .torritory'.''
after tho decision of the Privy Courre•
oil. The facts are 'these : Imme-
diately after the deasion an opin-
ion of the Minister of Jestice,
Alexander Campbell, was obtaineer3
it was stated that inasin nal 418 the.
"Crown, as represented by the 'Gov:
aernment of Canada, aerpflied by:
"surrender from the Indians • thati
"right and titiothereol, the uutler-
"signed is of opinion that there Ise
"no objection to the Minister of the e
"Interigr elfeet to the
"rangements winch he . had made'
"anterior to the decision as men-
"tioned in his report by issuing ,
"conses in the usual way."
Acting under this opinion Melt.
sea were issued to such of those to
whew the Miniater of the Interior
had been. pteviously authorized to
issue them who returned their notes •
of.survey, to the number of twenty -
TWENTY -ONE WEN.
millieenti as flu licenses were not • ession eteany unauthorized *omen ONE :'0V THESE
• • "..; • , • , E t I E‘140 ta 1)1g eetioa foot eeee•leektit CIIT smog. eistnutteeu