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c4101. 6 264 LOYALTY AND RECIPROCITY, Britain are to he preserved—we are ENTRANCE EXAIVir$4.-T
C " lug 41111 ViAllit$ The report of the Legislative Conn Canaaa's two premiers, Sir John A, entirely a Unit on that issuo—but
rnittee of the Trades andLabor Council Macdonald and Oliver Mowat, upper- Whether a restrictive policy or one
FRID.AX, JAN, n, 1889. shows that the supply of mechanics in ently vied with each other, at the tending to secure -freer trade relations
every line is far above the demand. Torouto Board of Trade dinner, iu with our neighbors is to the interests
The fact is now patent to every think- protestations of loyalty and repudia of Oanada,
ing individual that labor is unprotected, tion of annexation sentiments. This DR. RiCHARDSON, the jail physician,
wages being regulated by • supply of is as it should be, certninly. The vast reetnumends, insteed of an inebriate
work. To pretend that labor is or can majority of Canadians are favorable asylunek that the law be eo unleaded
bo protected, whilst artisans aro en- to the maintenartoe of our present that longer teems of imprisonment
couraged and assisted to emigrate to relations with Great Britain. Whilst isiey be imposed upon offenders,
this country, is grotesquely absurd. this is right and indisputable, the" sufficiently loug to give them a chance
Speaking a the/repel:4 of the Oom- is a widespread belief that freer trade to overcome their diseased appetite, to
mittee, the Mai/ says : relations with the United States would form good resoIutinne and good habits
The Toronto papers report an over- be greatly to the advantage of both and at the same time to break ull•their
supply of labor by twenty five Per nations, .itelvances in the direction of old
cent. and the builLiers' laborers say associations,
g
employment. Half of the sae
lore relations between the two countries
have been idle during the summer, cannot be regarded by any sensible or
and forty per cent. of the stone ()utters thinking individual as an abandon -
have been. without work. In the other meat of our independence or national -
trades there have been on an average hp To assert that the utmost
twenty per cent. more men than there
has been work for, A. similar story freedom of trade Oant144 be enjoyed
conies from Hamilton and St. ()ether- whilst maintaining national iudepen,
ines. The effect of the excessive aerate, is the sheerest folly and an
supply has been two -fold. In the first persons only one reaches the age of
p1 h d d .fl
appeal to the credulity of those to 100. Of every 100 persons ()ray six
reach the age of 65, and not over one
in 500 lives to 80 years, Of the
1.000,000,000 inhabitants of the earth
83,038,033 die Avery year, 91,824 die
every lay, 3,780 ev(.ry hour, 60 every
minute, and every second. It is a
suggestive thought that with every
tick of the clock one human 'life is
WORE AND, Wanafte.
GOLDWIN SMITE ON CANADA,
Goldwin Smith, in a recent letter
to the Mail, speaks somewhat dispair.
ingly of the movement being made to
induce the Highland. crofters from
Skye to emigrate to the Northwest,
ITe claims that the damp and eonsaratively mild climate of the
Ilebrides is not likely to have -well
prepared the frame for the endurance
of Northwest severe winters;°also
that the life of a fisherman is not cne
well fitted to train men for pioneer
farmers in the Northwest. Whilst
the doctor's contentions may have
some weight, it roust not be forgotten
that many of the most successful
pioneers came from the same barren
highlands. Although circumstances
were entirely changed, the climate
eevere, the mode of working totally
different and the outlook exceedingly
gloomy, yet the pluck, endurance,
frugality and ambition of those ;lardy
pioneers accomplished marvels. Mee,
with prospects of improving their
condition in a salubrious climate, with
educational institution and political
freedom, soon adapt themselves to
eireurastanees. As yet farming in
the fertile regions of the great North-
west does not require any great
knowledge of scientific facts. This
five per cent. have gone ; of cigar respectively were in Ontario. The Stephen—Reeve, Reitz : first deputy,
oared from the doctor's letter we
makers, forty leave taken their depar- liabilities in these years were $16,. Eilber ; second deputy, Eilber ; cowl -
regard as worthy of reproduction: 'three of 'painters and piano makers, eiliors, Sherritt and White.
070.595 and $13,974,782 respectively.
That to which I want to call special "many" have gone; of plasterers, Teeswater — Reeve, Brink ; coun.
Whilst the number of failures has °wars, Thurtell, Howsen, Tnorapson
attention is the singular character of bookbinders, ironworkers and foundry -
a policy which goes to distant regions • men, a few have left ; and of printers, increased, the aggregate • liabilities
and Campbell.
and to doubtful sources in quest of as many as could find the necessary have decreased. The decrease is due Mipto—Reeve, John Dumb. ; de.
immigrants to people our fields, while funds have emigrated. From St. to the immense reduction in one prov- puty reeve, Geo. Fulton ; councillors,
it drives the very flower of our own Catharines thirty per cent. of the . Joseph Lavery, Robert Scott and
ince, namely, New Brunswick, where
population by hundreds and thousands bricklayers and masons have one. Shannon.
seouring greater freedom in our trade
• hundred. havebeen
Ax ,exaltent authority baSee on the
best authority the following statistics;
There are on• the earth about 1,000,-
000,000 inhabitants, the number of
women being about equal to the
ember of men, Of this vast popula
tion one.quarter die before they mob
the eget of 17. The overage length of
of life is 33 years. Of every 1,000
0 • whom it is addressed. Canadians can
the next place good men have been
compelled to seek employment across well afford to express freely a desire
the line. The carpenters mention that for freer commercial intercourse with
in their trade the reduction in wages the States. Our condition demands
has been accompanied by a lengthen- it. There are reasonable prospects ot
ing of the working hours. The exodus . „.
is thus reported upon : Of carpenters securing "
thirty per cent. went from Toronto to
the United States; of sailors, one-half BUSINESS FAILURES. ended. Thus it •appears that every
of the best seamen have left; of The Mercantile Agency of Dun, two years a population larger than
bakers, a dozen have crossed the line; that of the entire United States crosses
Wins= & Co. says that- there were the silent river to return mmore.
of ,stoneraasons and of stonecutters,
a large number have expatriated 1866 failures .in Canada in 1887 and
themselves; of boot and shoemakers, 1667 in 1888, of which 698 and 915 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS,
no;; land. The best •of all And from Hamilton forty hatmakers, the liabilities for 1887 amounted to . owick—Reeve, John Keine; first
schemes of immigration, it might be fifty iron moulders, thirty tobacco $5,350,115, as against only $741,691 -deputy reeve, Anson Dulinage ; second
thought, would be one which kept workers, fifteen printers, and a large for 1888. This is explained by the deputy reeve, John W. Jaques; cenn-
Canadians at home. Here is a land number of railway employees have cillors, Alex. Graham and Alexander
disaster to the Maritime Bank in 1887,
abounding in natural resources, in departed. These figures, large as they Robinson.
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mineral wealth almost unrivelled, are, indicate only the movements of 'crhh brought down some large lumber Kincardine—Mayor, Rebt. Baird ;
firms, and ' thus with, its own immense reeve,Dallfartyn ; deputy, J.H.Seott ;
rich, also, in the products of the farm, union men.
the forest, and the sea, yet unable to
• could te a stronger condemnation of ' T. D..Smi:11,.John.McLeod. , Janette',
The Globe of Wednesday, in a most Ontario, Quebec, Nova, Scotia and
the system of government than this? Majority against the free library, 18.
'We ere constantly, though most ab- refreshing fashion, trips up the Empire Manitoba there lave been considerable Walkerton —Mayor,R Truax ; reeve,
surdin told that in seeking, by the in its supealoyalty fad. The Empire increases in both the number and D Robertson ; deputy, 0 Stove'; wan.
removal of 'commercial restrictions, to for months peat has met all arguments amounts of -failures. Leaving New °More, E Pongelly, J Eemilton, 11
open new fields for Canadian energy, in fa,vor of real rocit byshouting Brunswick out of the total number of Bacon, E Bradley, J Standish, D Mc -
"disloyalty." TPhe moreYconvincing . 1,602Kerraeher, D McKay, E Swartz, J
we are playing the pessimist andfailures for la: t year is against
traducing the country. What utter-Tolton.
the argument the louder it shouted. 1,278 in the preceding year, and the Port Elein—Reeve, W 8 Johnston;
since of pessimist or traducer can be
so disparaging to the country' as the It praised Mowat's speech at the Board total amount of liabilities $13,283,096 deputy, John Burgess ; councillors, D
accusing voice of the exodus ? The f oTrade banquet and said: " The against $10,720,480. In.1883. the
immigration into the Northwest this whole spirit of his remarks was a number of failures was 1384 tted in
year seems to have fallen slightly
strong eondemnet ion of the unpatriotic 1878, 1697, with liabilities of $15, -
beim that of last year. In all that
brought up the totals to an councillors, W. J. Henry, A. Gordon,
find bread for her own children. What • MOWAT AND RECIPROCITY, enormous figure for that year. In Be Hunter J. Ballantyne.A.J, Evans,.
vast and fruitful reel= tbere are, it attempt," and "it.is a most unjustifi 949,361 and $28,908,677.
appears,barely three hundred thousand able falsehood to say that Mr. Mowat
settlers, while there are more than six counselled his countrymen to seek • EDITORIAL NOTES.
hundred thousand in Dakota. The
Northwest has been fatally handl-
Unrestricted Reciprocity." THE population of Germany is
capped and discredited by faults of The Globe answers thus: In October, 46,855,704.
1887, Mr.Mowel presided at the Inter- Ess 0 -
act unnistratiou, by the strangling tariff, MITRE repeated the Dunkin
Provincial Conference, which adopted EX
and by the railway raoitopoly, whieh, A.ct by a majority of ten, a few days
the following resolution : "That having
buy it off at what price we will, con -
reference to the agitation on the sub- ago.
finites to ride the country like a
nightmare. Otherwise the$2
prairie lent of trade relations between the THE public debt of France is 00
would have stn'd a fair chance of Dominion and the United States, this nilr h,,aa , that of the Argentine
Inter -Provincial Coeference, consisting ' - ----- '
being filled by the best and most Republic is $180 per head ; that of
of of representatives of all political par -
suitable of all immigration—that
'ho farmers of its own continent. ties, desires to record its opinion that Canada is less than $59 per head.
MM, signally, though rta less cen unrestricted reciprocity would. be of Tula great swindle, the Electric
advantgge to all the Province of the e
Willa, than the other parts of the . ., . auger Refitting Corapaey, has collapsed
Lavrock, John A Thompson and D
Geddes.
Clinton—Councillors, Jno Johnston,
Horace Foeter, Arthur Couch, H R
Walker, IY 13 Kennedy, 0 Overberry,
W 0 Searle, D Oantelon.
Exetee—Commillors, Jae Pickard,
T B Clarling, T II McCalltim.
Elma—Reeve, Roht Cleland ; first
deputy, W Lochhead ; second deputy,
Y Coulter; councillors, G Richmond,
3 Bray.
Seaforth—Mayor, R Wilson ; reeve,
D D Wilson ; deputy, A Strong; eoun-
cillors,G W Good,0 Wilson, I Dorsey,
H JPuncharti,J Gillespie, Dr MacKid,
3 A Wilson, James Bea,ttie, and .lams
Watson.
Goderich — Mayor, John Butler ;
reeve, Wm. Proudfoot ; deputy, Abra-
ham iineith ; councillors, a I Reid, D
Dominion, the' Northwest has been , Cantelon, Thos Naftel, F A Humber,
i c rice ail .,.
the people it represents eherishletrveatafter gulling the shareholders to the J W Smith, R Thompson, P Holt, 3
sacrificed. to the political interests of
loyalty to bet Majesty the, Queen and extent of about a million dollars. If Colborne 1' Pridhill and G Neiber-
Ottawa, combined with those of the
warm attachment to Britirh mimeo- Nicholson, It Dunlop,
Imperialist party in England, and to Joule WILMOT, brother of the late gall. Tie—be
tion; that this conference is of opinion A Morton.
the commercial interests of the pro -IL Wilmot, M.P.P , said at the King.
teeted manufacturers. In the moos that a fair measure, providing under e., . ,,.' Brussels—Reeve, R Grebain ; c u
proper conditions for unrestricted eillors, J McIntosh 1) ate -mama, (4)eolml
ston rarrners• institute that his
of unfortunate administration, there
is surely no more signal failure than
reciprocal trade relations between staunchness as a Conservative depend. Stewart, W Ain'
iey 4 Autent. &hoof
the Northwestern polley of the Gov- amide and the United States, would ed upon the legislation of the Dominion trustees, J. J Denroart, 3 Buyers, 3
not lessen these sentiments on the part Hargreaves,
ernment. That the hope of reimburse. Rouse in the interest of fhe faeiner
of our people; and, on the contrary,
rrient after our vast utlay by the osaleTHE public accounts for the last ' Havelok.
f Isf h - 1 d rd tl may
he'd out, has been so tu.dicrously even serve to increase thern, and
Appended are the names of '‘
who passed the recent Entrance Ex-
andustiomr at the different places
nutted,
WINGITA11.1.
Maggie Althea 478 ; Sarah Ann
Bray, 42; Agnes Leslie, 492; Jessie
Gibson, 446 ; Maggio Oilmen+, 588 ; •
Elizabeth Hislop, 127 ; Maggie
lister, 432 ; Lizzie MoLauchlin, 482 ;
Cassie MeMillan, 414 ; Lydia bate
Sellers, 484 ; Carrie M Beech, 888 ;
Elizabeth Weliwond, 441 ; Williane
Gibson, Robert Inglis, 4X2; Fred
Levels,- 418 ;. James MeEwe», 391;
Livingstone Stewart, 891 ; Recom-
mend —Jane Errington, 893 ;
Maggie Stokes, 388,
BEA7ORTII.
Fergus Campbell, 689 ; Halbe
Ooleman, 461; Lizzie Campbell, 407 ;
tipsy Dennison, 408 ; Lney Downey,
432 ; Dorsey, 430; Jessie Foster
418 ; Agnes Hays, 477 ; Marine
Knight, 395; Viet G Leatherland,
422 , Isabella Willie/pie!, 405 ; Katie •
eloNarnara, 404; Sarah Monde, 465;
Maggie Porter, 518; Hester Robin-,
son, 403 ,• Marion Watson, 479 ;
Robert Aitcheson, 399 ; Thos Case,
375; Joseph Carlin, 397 ; .Stephen
Downey,442 ; Harry Downey, 423 ;
Arthur Edmonds, 480 ; John Jack-
son, .455 John Me0onnel, 402 ;
Heber Marriott, 874 ; Semi McCall «
547 ; John _McIntosh, 418;' Fred
Westfall, 465 ; Recommended: James
Rumphries, 406 ; Agues Grieve, 406
Fran oie Hamilton , 390; Be rtie
Johnstone, 892 Lizzie Turner, 882 ;
.A.lice Watson, $98.
MANTON.
David H. Boles, 401 ; Alfred Car-
lisle, 454; Albert A. Cook, 411 ;:" Thos
Courtice, 420 ;' Rarry 13, Hunt, 368;
Stewart Lavin, 374; Hugh Moore,
447 ; Gilbert McDonald, 375 ; Wm J
Sims, 881 ; Wm Tainan, 398 ; _Felice, •
Cottle, 418 ; Mary E Chuff, 395 e •
Sarah I • Elliott, 878 ; Sarah •A
Hamilton, 409; Amy .Elowson, 883 ;
Minnie E Izzard, 403 ; Annie Johns,
898 ; Susan Kennedy, 468; 'damsel'
McGee, 532; Lizzie Middleton, 404 ;
Georgina Nesbitt, 456 ; Adeline Rath -
well, 405 ; Sadie Reeve, 402 ; Maggie
Reith, 465; Lucy Stevens, 498.
Recommended Mary Heffron, 463
McCupnell, 410,
DUNGANNON.
Jennie Treleaven, 548 ; MendWhyard.
Myer& 485 ; Mathew Blake, 391 ;,
George Darnin, 404 ; John Kinaluine
Joseph Moran. 416; Andrew Stewart,
418 ;, Otway Stewart, 440. e,.„
Salem.
Another of our young men hi the per«
son of Charles Kitchen intends before.
very long to seek his fortune in Uuclet.
Sitrn's Dominion. .tfis moral worth
indomitable perseverance, and native
genius will warrant . his success.
anywhete.—Jonathan Wilson, one o
our young nimrods succeededin shoot.
ing a rabbit recently. What fierce
denizen of the forest will next meet
-its doom is a question of only a • few
days.—We heard it remarked lately,,
a.
that young people must have the ide
that chur,„,11 choirs were a sort of'
public courting resort, frqm the fact .,
that as soon as a match is made the
interested persona resign their posit-
ion as choristers, as if . their voices
were not as musical, their hearts as
merry and their devotions as fervent •
after marriage as before. If that is
the case marriage roust be a failure,
and hence the matrimonial institution,
should be re -christened "Paradise Lost'
instead of "Paradice Re9ained." Be
that as it may it would be well if Imola.
'persons resigning their position would
realize the amonnt. of confession that
must ensue in the selection of persons
to 611 their vacancies ; and if they do .
that, then is little doubt but that'
they will continue their services a.,
as cheerfully sifter as before matrimony. .
—Mr. Henry Chrysler who- has been, • ,
working a. Port Arthur for the past
two years rettumed.home on Friday -of'
last week. He reports times as being
dull and labor scarce up there,—
Johnnie Mekeley while using ta,
o
would, at the same time, in connection year show a revenue of 35 908 468 The most notable event of the drawing -knife the other day was • SO
belied, is really the least part of the with an adjustment of the fishery dis- Am expenditure of $36,718,494, leaving past S ' ' ' aet week hr this neighborhOod was a unfortunate as. to make a gall in his
social
entertal=net beld for the knee. We hope to seehien around
misfortune, Restriction, keeping the • pute, tend to bappily settle grave a deficit of $81.0,081- The net debt behefit of Cooper's Sabbath School on again before long. ..,
diffieulties which have from time to .
resources of the country undeveloped,
thue arisen between the Mother is new $234,500,000. Xti 1878 the the second concession of llowiek,
by exelosion from their et, sends
Marneek.
in Country and tbe United States." net debt was just $140,800,000. The The entertainment was held in the
shmaclian youth. over the line and
place imports. Skye ceoftere, P swifts b e lit gation throe; h th
Farther: The words of Mr. Mowat increase since the resent Govern ant school house No. 11 where the The rielgrave Presltyteritn congee.
g e young /seep)°, last
Mennonites, Icelanders, anti possibly .
at the dinner were: "I repudiate the-
in reference toUarestrieted'iteeiPreoitY took office is $96,00,0,000. This is tt Y se se 89o. e
- 800008% in every way. The attendance
it
with a band.
was a week, presented Miss E.. 'Porterfield
2.1ormoria. Commereial liberty, de -pretty good jutnp in ten ears.ywas iarge atm the pregratetal good organist in the thine)),
veloping the resources of the eountry, tili.ltesgestion thatour trade relations with
l nt opening to them a free marlutt, Ra.OnNa despatches from Ottawa saenitivee8v.eryoetuteivaineekinethde tyootienilopyeotpliteeTil soirie -watch and dressin c i
t o United States will strain the
recognition of her valeableg sitilraveices!
Jnight keep the Canadians at hoine. I'lYahY of the opts The closest oint to the ossibilit of a only
ebbe rhood wtille) coinpare The giftd Were a"s P i 4 by a
4.10minercial -Unionists do not fear the trade retatione with the Unit
P4' . 13 P Y a this nei
United States dissolution of the House end an appeal favorably -With! an kindly and well word ;Deg e i a.
:irge of want of patriotimin levelled while valaable t6 1189 "ilicl neIth"
1111$teil alor retard Annevition 1 to the country. The question now i i y ta)aa rY. Tru/un` by „i G ° rila re'liS Pe
ty n ability to tem up a goo(literary sses. ritee itylor, Agnes.
ttainst them by the advocates of agitating th y
our trade reletions. "It involves the
ettiction,
rejoice top' e r the 0116 of prograttnne for 0,11 entertaillnleh- Anclereoh sod Margaret Irwin
" ttlovrrixon Miss, of Massachusetts, IT is said the Parnell Oommission application of the principle of political
• quiluend,1 the extension of female costs over $12 per minute during all . economy The question at issue is
• it' frage that State., ,tite One it was m sessiettt
not whether our present relations to
rotmers have 80 many' educationel
ptivilegee now in the way of cheap
Aiterinure, scholia, tire. that there es
110 eXellSE for them not being &Mott
.itwr1l ed u cat4t, town Reople,
Morris.
014 council hy acclainatiom Reeve,.
Mooney; deputy !fowls ; celmeillerset
03,1bion*.1roctor.,