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GODERICH, ONTARIO, CANADA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1891.
D. McGILLICUDDY.
FLOTSAM ANO JETSAM. THE TAY C ANAL SCAND the
seethe et ISM'that the I M, rof sy
•uw...a Calm* $14100,
neat $78,00) t�sn asked from Psalmodist b 18113 thst y work
A L t i• (,,anal was ten done, and 61 21 men them Sir Mertes Tey
of Cauda amkths •
TRx WATIW1MI CART.
That's a fine watering -cart you have
owe," said the mea hum Se.forth w
Mayor Butler Isla day last week as D. K.
Feschan•s patent street dust exterminator
raid along the Square.
1 r, responded his Worship, "sad it
would wit !.alosth even batter them
(:uler,eh. for our street. are go wide tied
although it throws a big w ter spread
t.0 tap, err uwrseery to make • good
jot, of 1t . while in Sedorth one tnp would
mol lady water the streets but wash the
windows of the stores all along the line."
It was fortunate for the mayor that the
sem from seaforth hal °coa•ioo to catch
ti.. train lout about that time or there
sight $tat.• been music from the choir.
A 11.11 .RORY.
One day durtug the week, I have been
fel i. a ewe basket df speckled trout arrives
,t the residers° of. One of our townenueu,
were brother-in-law is on • fishing trip up
the Lake. Naturally enough the wife of
.sur townsman thought it was a u.keu of s-
tern' fnoue her brother, and also caste to the
csiclu.tou that eighteen speckled beauties
were too easy for the use of the family.
V, alae mak •ust 4,na w the neighbors,
awl s prominent druggist rejoiced in •
three -and -A ,luar•ter founder dressed: •
' musty court official was giver • .garter of
4.h'Mn assorted, so that a fish diet would
mist him to mere deftly wield the sword
of lustiest. if there was any wielding to be
door: the mem across the road was also
Welly r'tm.n,ber'ed, and, in fact, the even-
ing Wes not allowed to close before en
..,wtable adjustment of the eighteen
vine. xl.•d trout was made, sad the moon
n.r• and brightly suiiled • benediction upon
tI.. exhalation of neighborly kindoes. In
the utormmv. by the bright light, there was
seeker chapter to the fish story. A carts
taller 10 town from Ko. VAN}vastrmy-
e.4 that the eighteen trout were for some
of no cronies in town and that a well-
loom.
elll wow. go..•ety man was to be the diatribe
ter Then there was hurrying in hot haste,
Mat t,.t late. too Lite The busy cook hal
4on, the work in nearly every instance, and
sot .. vestige of a speckled beauty remained
of go to the absence party it was originally
mewled for.
When the druggist stet the court official
next day, he quietly said
1 diet of speckled trout at this summon
of •lues year adds tone to the system awl r
a we.- Antidote for an overindulgence in the
hes,. amoral foodia"
" I ..free with you," said the court ofb-
err. " and I (night add that independently
of •10• toothsome gaalitism of the fish, and
ti. lenehta to the system., the appearance
of :1, trout in any larder acted s a writ of
4.' tweet upon tie beef, mutton and pork.
rr .wtera.'-
" Me, too." said the tram over the way.
. " said the grooer y man.
ABLE EXPOSURE BY M•C- CAMERON
• urea as ladle ea nix t..ailaa Te apse re
Mr Jena fnr4s aId called It "a Drabs
e p.. Ib. Treasury " A r.iulcsl fob be
bolus, sl... Jail Sammtmdrt
11'e nuke no apology to our readers for
presenting the following exposure of the
Tay ('anal expenditures which was made is
the Howe at Ottawa last week by Mr.i'ame-
roe, West Huron's able representative. The
speech, which we publish verbatim from
Hensarte, Masa complete exposure of the
methods of the (.,,vernment to allowing the
public treasury to be systematically robbed,
and evoked rounds of applause from the
F� the balsams slept of
to the th n ant Isla", sed 1 tsar t
he.. inW.d. The hoe. swelter for nag /at
, ot the Ta (.anal will never come. We
What find, Sir, in the Fatim este. !Of an
Will
Tupper it that cod Ma : as 1 understand it, of 830, -
will the total test be!" sad !tic Charles additional sum,
IMO. -
Tupper ted : "368,364." Is other words, 000 w complete the Tay Canal- Add that
'1ippe ass including $30,000 te the $440,613.21 which we were
to $118 86 ert1 am had increased Sir
dad upon it
to $118,864 over the amount which Sir
Charles Tupper assured Parliament m 1883
would be the total oust of the completion of
the work. One would naturally suppose
that atter the declaration nubile by Sir
Charles Tupper in the arseion of 1888, that
the work was Completed and the sum he
sought for not only pail for the oompletiou
of the work, but for the new basin, neces-
sary w excavate in the town of Perth, oa
further expenditure would have been neces-
sary. But, unfortunately for the tax payers
of theeountry, that was not the end of the
Tay tames, mid in the session of 1889 the
Ca:
Minister of Finanos asked Parliament
fora additional sum of 826,000 for this
ever -wanting Tay ('anal. Upon that meal -
ion, the hon. member for South Oxford (Sir
Richard Cartwright) said : "I thought those
works were finished last year." The hon.
gentleman had reason to think that the
work was finished, because Sir Charles
Tupper nese the statement in the House
of C'ooun ons,thet the works were enrnpleted.
The Minister of Finance on that onaminn re-
plied . "$26,000 u minuet' to complete the
basin awl carry out the other works." Sir
Charles, s 1 have pointed out, decimal in
1883, that the total cost would be$ 40,oe0
he declared in 1887, when he had obtained
an additional vrant from Parliament, that
the sum then obtained would complete the
work, 'Deluding the faais in the towu of
Perth : be declared in 1888 that the work
complete, and the sum he then asked Parlia-
ment would pay up the talance due on the
work. The Minister of Finance in 1889
asked an alditioual sum of money, and the
bon. member for South Oxford Sir Richard
Cartwright 1 asked him the follow ing qustion:
"What is the total cost d these works. and
a this really the last amount required'" The
Minister of Finance replied : "The total
Cost up toasts is $364,961." In other words,
$12t,961 more than Sir Chivies Tupper as-
serted to Parliament in 1883 that the work
would cast. But the Minister would not
pledge himself that it would coat no more
than 425,000, then asked. He was tow cun-
ning for that, he did not know exactly him-
self what it would test, and he was bound
to leave. room for leaks and the filling a of
leaks, and he did not &rawer the hue.
member for South Oxford ea to whether the
esteem asked for would complete the work
or out. 1Vell,onr would naturally in
after thaw v&riowgrants of Parliament from
1882 down to 1889. that surely Parliament
hal voted enough for the completion of thin
work. Not ,o,Mr. speaker : house I find
that in the session of 1890, Sir John A.
Ma..lonald, the late Premier, asked of
Parliament the num of $11,000 for the 'fay
('anal. The hon. member for South Oxford
$Sir Richard ('artwrightI asked Sir John
Ma.l.neld the following question,and made
the following statement :
•Tisa 1 undentend is really • useful work.it
drams the county of Perth."
Sir John Macdoaald'a eyes appear to have
been opened to the utter folly of the work
ren the beginning of it, and he replied in
the following language characteristic of the
late First Minister :
"1111 dos not drain the county of Perth. 1t
dais the public treasury pretty well.'
It wail quite manifest that up to that time
this little canal had drained the public
treasury pretty well, and Sir John further
said
-The amouet is to settle with the contractors
and 8nisb the work."
Now, Mr. Speaker, this is the third nma,as
I have shown you, that a Minister of the
Crown, when asking Parlianwiit for an ad-
ditional sum of money for this canal, de-
clares upon his responsibility s a Minister,
that the sum then sought for was the bat
sum that would he required to finish this
work. In 1888 the then Minister of Finance
declared that the worka had been completed
and that the $78,000 he thea sought from
Parliament was simply to pay up balances
that i suppose were due to contractors and
others. One would naturally trappms that
aper the statement mak by Air Dohs Mac-
dosal.l when he asked ler Noss $11,000,
this would end the matter,ad that tha Tay
Casal would sake so briber demmsld upon
Parliament. One wonM suppose that Parli-
ament had already been gsslseotu mid liberal
'rough to this little work, and that at all
events that should he the hast Was of
calling s Parliament for money.
Not so, Mr. !tpsker. The Ta Gaal
was just s as the Itaquimalt
(:raving Dock. t was just as htesgr•y se
the Kingston (:raring Dock : it was just as
anxious for public money as the Loris
Cranio/ Dock, and it was as keen to get ire
hand is the public exchequer as the 000-
tractrers for ten dredging of the Quebec Har-
bour. That was not the end d it, and the
end of it is not yet. We fhsd that io that
was for the purpose
of p. would oust Is that the mid of it ! No, `Sir,
anethe the ,ark ha m
Oxford (Sir Richard Cartwright) vied /Ur snit y t 1891 .
bridle. • but I venters to :Inset what the LOST TO CLINTON.
Government heves now ertakeu to do
without the aaasnt of Parliament and with Tb. Juror mes+sa OefrMsi as Lacrosse by
out as •pptr�prt►Lion Pezliamemt, will a were at / to w
reach from Rib ,000 to $30,000. it out more. boarded the 2:06 0 . w.
Now, what induced this "overnmiaot, with- About 100 persons
out ouawulttag the representatives of the thin cm Tuesday to act•lrnpauy the Junior
people, to enter upon this mad folly of ex- Huron lacrosse team to l'liuton, where the
tending this camel from the basin in the semduled match was played with the
town of Perth up w Haggert's mill ! It Iauntlem club, of that town- After two
was bad enough to enter upon the ccmatruc- hours' paying the score stood 4,to 0 to favor
tion of the old Tay Canal. I believe it is of the (atter team, but the circumstances
under which the garde was played made it
indeed • hollow victory for the "Dauntless"
mien of Clinton. Uespetwte effort' were
made to keep the Clinton team from being
left in the tailpiece in the district series, and
the means employed to secure that end are
fairly questionable. "Ringers' from outside
paces were on the tears which was deputed
to uphold the honor of the "Hub," and be-
sides these were others who violated the
rules ,.f the Association by paying with the
Clinton team after hating played with an -
soother club this season. fhe teams took
the field as follows :
told btbd been already e
sad ou have a soar 01 1477,V3.21 so tar ex of no public utility, .ad never will be.
Laurels during its delivery •
Mr. CAMERON (Hurlbut. Before you
leave the ('latr,l desire to call the attention
of the House to a public work toestrus:led
at the public expense, but not generally
known to the members of this Hous -1 re-
fer to the Tay Canal. The tint time, so far
as 1 oars learn, that Parliament granted .id
to the Tay Caral,was in the session of 1882,
when Sir Charles Tupper, then Minister of
Railways aril Canals,osked Parliament for a
grant of 860,000 for the purpose of entering
upon the coostroctioo of this banal. He
them represented to Parliament that,outside
the cost of the land through wbicha portion
of the canal would pas, the canal would
cost 4132,660. Parliament voted the sum of
1160,000. In the session of 1883 Sir Charles
Tupper, then still Minister of Railways
and Canals, asked Parliament for a grant of
$76.000 to continue the construction of the
Tay ('anal : and on that occasion, after
speaking of the plans,.pecificatios and esti-
mates, all of which, 1 gather from the dia-
cussioe, which was very short, indeed, had
been carefully prepared at the expense of
the department, Sir t •harles represented to
the Hone of Commons that the cost of the
canal would be 11240,000. Mr. Blake, then
leader of the (apposition in Parliament,
questiooel the propriety of this expendi-
ture. and asked) the Minister when moving
for that rote. as to the propriety of this
public weak, as to the necwity for it. Sir
Charles Tupper .14 not pretend that he
himself underxtood anything about the nec-
essity of the public work, but he referred to
his hon. friend the member for South Lan
ark t Mr. Haggard as tieing tolerably oom-
versant with the subject. Ile member for
South Lrtark tMr. Haggart ,in justification
of the vote, made use of the following Ian-
eunfr
-There is the Intik of wn of
sad morainewworks will hbetoerected pia ere
which neer, this .anal. In the back section
of the country. as we All know, utero are the
largest deposits of Iron are is Canada as well
as of phosphates of lime. 1t will also enable
freights to tie cheapened in the bri..grag to 0
coal for tee purpose 01 smelting iron and
tor other works intended in that section.'
('pan that representation of rhes Minister of
Public 1t orks,which has never been realized
and from the nature of things never will be
realized. the Parliament of Canada was in-
duced to vote 875,000 asked for the motin-
uMien of this politic work. In the session of
1884 Sr Charles Tupper asked Parlament
for an additional grant of 8100.000 to con-
tinue the 'construction iiamentthatthe
his easel, and
than also represented to
cal of the canal would not exceed 1240,000.
But httle was heard in Parliament of this
work until the session of 1887, and then Sir
Charles Tupper. Minister of Railways and
Canes, asked for an additional vote of Ot66,-
000. it will bre observed that, including the
seesion oI 1887, there was voted by Parlia-
ment for the construction of this easel
$280.000, or 140,000 more than Air Charles
Tupper repre anneal in 1883 the caned would
sets of the How
cat. Some hon. gran
by
this time became a little doubtful s to the
propriety of this expenditure out of the
Public funds of the Dominion, and the hon.
mem
ber for !coeds(xford(Sir Rickard (art-
wright r, ever vigilant in the public interest..
pat the following question to Sir Charles
Tumor, as will he toned in the Hapgrd of
laff. page 838
-thew levo hes this eased bese under c+n-
streethe herr mush hes It met mad hew mesh
�le a ett Then hay en aname
se
Ifltie�e lit
muss her fifteen yesra•
la reply to this pertinent question, Sir
Charas Tupper made the following re -
"The hes• will feel very smell re-
lieved wheal tell him the .spe.ditars
..sold la IA iron that dem ten Ila Merck
cllith uss W.IIS NW Mee es
will ewttlate the wart. heeled-
lea
twhich lo sot seder
he
W, benwill thee *bean • salxsl
�▪ ha ha MrKth at a me of n Yuen more than
.a\ M -Tains ortirto%.
viol an ebb-ursionist to me recently
Mom have • grand town here for excur-
'enlist. and .me plat could be developed
ens.ly into a regular retort if you ouly had
one '.r two men on your council board who
knew n.mething about what was required
to nuke a plates attractive- It would pay
y.oer tnwn u. mend two or three intelligent
men tot.nmaby, Port Stanley, Burlington,
e.r to the Island at Toronto, to see some of
tate attractions with which people are drawn
there and stn edema that don't oast much,
ether. In the first pine,, as much atten-
tion, if not more, Dight to he given to
mproving this beastihil Harbor Park as
hes heel given to the embellishmertt of the
t ..ort House Square As it ie sow, you mese
rt e. .imply degrees/id, and for practical
purp.ses an excursion party might jest as
well .amp on a rough " common " with the
hye paths running cram-creekaf over. Then,
there is um accommodation or oomvealeroe
Inc women or children, sad the result r the
whole side of that beautiful hill down there
where the cedars grow s plentifully is
pestiferous from end to end incisal of being
$ mea of neat arbors asst pleasant spots
for recreation aad .s jeyrnent Then, two of
these little metal "Cupid " which you am
pleased to designate fountains 'tight he
Seed on the Park instead of where they
are not that they are particularly actinic
bot it might relieve the dry-as-det ap-
pearanceot There other
padded u)sso l the Tay Canal, or, in other
words, $2.10,613,21 more than Sir Charles
Tupper assured us this coral would
cwt, in 1883. 7s that the ems of it'
Surely, there will be no further drain un
the public treasury. Itut the Tay Cause'
must be satisfied, and everybody connected
with the Tay ('anal must be sat died, and
that is not the end of it. There u now
under a onatruction, u we were informed by
the acting Minister of Kellwayeauit'an•b,
in reply to a question 1 placed upon the
(fader paper, en extessioa of the Tay Canal
from the basin in the centro of the town of
Perth to • place called Haggart'i Mill.
There u under contract an extension of this
canal, the dredging of the canal from the
basin up to H.ggart s Mill, the excavation
o clay and rock, the removal of the per-
manent atone bridge there, the replacing of
it b • a new iron swing -bridge, and the
pare of some property in onler to en-
able the awing•bri, g3 a to work properly. I
am told that all these things will cost well
on to $50,000 more. `to that, for the work
which Sir Charles Tupper assured the Park
amens of 1'anada would twat $240,000, we a i11
expo el at lest half a million of money. But
that is not alL In addition to the capital
invested in that undertaking we have got
annual burdens upon the tax -payers of this
country. We have got the interest on the
4500,000 to pay-. tt a have the retain, and
the wear and tear of the eanal,to pay, which
1 .m told will be a very considerable sunt,
and the a xpenditure for lock -keepers, and
keepers of the swing -bridges and so on, that
cannot amount to err than from $6,000 to is pot in the public interest, 1 will confer
$10,000 a year. Alt that will he saddled at once that i haye been misinformed. Ask
ups the people of this country. We yourself when you see it, for whose benefit
know perfectly well that perhaps for a year was this canal extended from the old basun
or two the wear and tear will not be very to Hagg.rt's mill, what public purpose does
much, but well we know from our experience it serve, and in whose interest (lees it exist!
in connection with other canals, that the I venture to say that of the 215 members
wear and tear will increase year atter year : sitting in Parliament today, if they all
asd s a return for this expenditure of visited this octal, everyone would say that
nearly half • million of money. and the an- it is of no public utility, ti#t 11 serves no
nsal cost of keeping up this canal, we have punt se except the purpose of Senator Mc -
by way of tolls from that venal, from the seven and the hon. member for South Lan -
1.t October to the30th June of this year,tbe ark. Believing, Mr. Speaker, that this is.
sem of $58.81. That is the return on this wilful waste of public money, believing that
ievstment : that u what the tax -payer of this extension waa not constructed m the
Can.da gab for expending nearly half • public interest, believing that it benefits no -
million of money. Now, 1 would appeal to y except the owners of that mill, be -
sensible me:: in Parliament and out of sieving that it u a squandering of the peo-
Parliament, if these statements are correct, ple's resources, believing that the Govern -
and 1 challenge them to say they are iocor- ment were wholly unjustified in extending
rect, If the whole thing u not a gross fraud. the canal from the basin to Haegart's mill,
They hove been take., from the records of without. the sanction of Parliament, witb-
Par1i.mxnt, so far as 1 have been able to out the approval of the representatives of
get them from these records. Was there the people,and without an appropriation bar
ever such a piece of supreme folly s invest- Parliament, I beg to submit to you the fol-
ing half • million of money an a work that lowing amendment :--
hs realized $58.81 in 8 months' We were That all the words after the word "That"
told in 1883 that plans, specifications and be lett out, find the following inserted in -
estimates were trade by the department. stead thereof : "In the series of 1882 Par-
e assume that these plans, estimates and lianient was iiluoe l to enter on the con -
specifications were carefully prepared. We structiuu of the Tay ('anal, on the assurance
were told that the cost would be $240,000. of the Government that the cost would be
I have shown that the cwt has now risen to 1132,660.
about half • million. Whet are the pitiful 1. That, in the session of 1883, Pa•iia-
resnits of all this' We were told by the meet was induced to continue the oon,truc-
acting Minister of Railways the other even- tion of the'1'.v Canal, extending from the
ing that this great canal is nay' ted by one Rideau Canal to the bairn in the town of
tug. properly called the John fiaggart, of Borth, on the amwranx of the t:overnmtent
117 tons, which 1 am told makes one trip a that the eon would be $210,000.
creek to Kingston : by another tug called 2. That, in the session of 1887,Sir Charles
the Harry lata, of 144 tons, which 1 am Tupper, then Minister of Railways and
told makes one trip • week to Montreal ; Canals, declared that, up to that time,
by a pleasure boat called the Geraldine, of $256,360 had leen expended on said °anal,
16 tons, belonging to Senator McLaren: by and that $66,000 would complete the work,
another little boat of 8 tons called the Fire- including the new basin at Perth. Partia-
lly, about the aisle of an ordi rowboat ; melt then voted said star.
by smother little boat called the R.nger, of 3. That, in the session of 1888, Sir Charles
8 teen, .bout the sin of an ordinary row- Tupper, then Minister of Finance, stated
boat ; and by an old meow, which I am toil that the whoa oust of the canal would be
made one trip in the season, in carrying 1368,364. He then asked for and obtained
coal, i believe, from the Rideau Canal to .n additional sum a 178,000, and stated
the dredge working on the Tay ('anal. The that "this amount is required to settle
whole result is that we have two little tugs, matters oonnected with the camel. The
one little pleasure boat, two little rowboats, work has both done."
and one old scow navigating the Tay Canal. 4. That, in the session of 1889, the
What. *creaming farce that must be to the Finance Minister asked for and obtained as
frisky Minister of Einem*: how the staid additional sum of (;$6,000, and then stated
and sober Minister of Justice meat enjoy it; tial 'o $2 6,000 u required to complete the
how the grave and solemn Postmaster (en- basin and carry out other -.vets," and that
eral most chuckle in hie sleeve; how the the Dost up to that time was $364,961.
member for L'ielet mon brace himself up, & That, in the session of 1890, the ate
and rejoice .t this profound stroke of (an- First Minister asked for and obtained two
adian rtatesmanshtp an ' expenditure d additional sums of $11,000and 190,000,—the
half • million resulting in • revenue of $68.- latter • revote,--respectively, and on that
81. But, Sir, it u not • fare* to the Caa- occasion declared that this amount s to
adieu people,. it s no joke to the Canadian settle with the conuwoton and finish the
tax -payer. If it s either • fame or a joke. work," said then also stated that this work
they meet foot the hila No, it s no joke "drained the public treasury pretty well."
to Omen ; its something else, and some- 6. That, according to the statement of
thing • gust demi worse. That canal, Mr. the Acting Minister of Railways and Casa,
Speaker, will stand then for all time the amomat expelled as the Tay Canal,
to cos as it s now, . Uviag monument of up to 3rd of Augers 1891, was $Fe40 61321.
dep.rtmtm.tal imbecilityif not of soaething 7. That, in tie Fitimais far the years
worse. That s not tand of the Tay 1891-2, .n additismal sum s asked for of
CansL There s something more yet The $30,000, or in all $230,613.21 mon than
prep{. are not relieved of the burden of the Parliament was assured by the Government
;lei Carl yet. The canal extended, the works would oast.
or wen ialeuded to extend a plena 8. That, without the assent of Parliament,
called Beveridge's Iday se the Rideau (gars the Government has contracted for an •x -
to the basin st the toms elf Perth. That tension of maid canal from the said basin --
was ten nal s and the the fernier terminus thereof —to Hagg, rt'a
only ead� that Air Tupper Mill at a Dost of 118,466.
asked the M Perliewuslt to. That 9. That the .easels uoea% said canal so far
wait what P.rliomsmi vim asked btasretieS, emristd two tugs d 11�ang 144 nous re a.c-
and what p elkms11t did ssastba ruder lively sae pleasure boat of lb toas,two small
riesprwtenoss saderthepeatsawthataeade boats d 8 toms each, ems .cow of 30 toms
woes" "ring 1p there te IMi dLM meal, .ad eme at, oA as ins.
maim the praises es that 3910.880 would 10, That aloe gram receipts from said
eemplate the week. It sus as gram • (read sand—from the Lt Ooteher, 1890, to the
pempsernall ea the tamers of Na country 30th deer, 1891 .mount b 311.81.
s sums wee psepslsstsd by say. Gat' 11. That this moee sof opinion that the
erntmese M MS people. i have saithat said expenditures ea the said e.aal w in
that was ret e�. Lent Spring, without the violatiem cd am bed rvssslraree el the
asset of tifrement, en far se f have boss Ooveraawmt to sad the How
able Oo i had met the hamar d s further el eeriness that add enemies
Wax is Padiemmet at that aim.-witheat a*, s min sans ts H.gHtted'e Mls f. not a
the .mast a the repreetet afve Of the week that ought to have hese mast takes
people in Partd.msa.t asssmN.d, without at the pehlie expense, sad a emanated
say appropriations by Parlament Inc the by may pea& ...esdty
p erpea tlitlrueewumena Met open them.
believe it serves no public interest now, anis
never will serve aqy pulite interest. 1 be-
lieve the canal was not 000structed lu the
public interest. But to extend that canal
frem the basin m the town of Perth up to
Hagg rtes mill was an act. of the maddest
folly that any Government ever perpetrated,
and I :enture to say that no Govern-
ment in the wide world except this Govern.
meet would perpetrate such an act. Now,
I chellmngge the acting Minister of Railways
and teak, with six of the most stalwart
supporters be has got behind him, to visit
the Tay Canal - I challenge every man on
that lade of the House to travel over the
Tay Canal from the Rideau Canal right up
to Hagaart's mill -and if they do not come
to the conclusion which 1 have come to that
this work u not in the public interest, t will
candidly admit on the door of Parliament
that I have been misinformed on the sub-
ject. lion. gentlemen need not be afraid
to visit it ; they need not be alarmed at the
warning notes uttered by the acting Mini. -
ter of Railways and lamas, tate other even
ing, when he told w that the high winds
blowing over this great canal often drifted
the vase. ashore. They need not be afraid
if the storms do rise and the winds do blow,
and the vowel springs a leak and becrnes a
wreck, because every one of them can easily
wade from the deepest part to the shore
without the slightest danger to their lives.
Ib visit the Tay Canal, by all mean, and
visit the, extention of it up to Haggart'a
mill, and if you do not come to
the conclusion that this extension
Goderich. Clinton.
Allen .,..(:cal Kerr
Campaigns . Point. - Robertson
Hall (' point. . Mitchell
l:r•hwmi .1st def. . Morrish
Nicholson . 2nd def. . Potts
Blackford .3rd def. . . t'antelon
McIntyre ...... .. Centre Read
Nicholson and home. Kennedy
Mclean 2nd home Ball
McVicar sat hdote. May
Fraser ..Outside home.... Vellowlees
Morrow Inside home (:ibbinge
Price. Field captain Spalding
Perry .... Umpire Morrison
Referee -R. Mc(ash, Se•forth.
The game that followed was certainly not
a first-class exhibition of lacrosse as it should
be played, but it was quite lively. The tint
goal given to the " Dauntless " players was
allowed, tly, only th ongh the good
offices oft umpire, s the goal -keeper and
• number of by -standee declare the ball did
not go between the A good deal of
time was lost in wrangling over the umpire's
decision, but finally play was resumed. In
the second game Ed. Campaign, being hard
pressed, tipped the ball out of bounds, and,
althoughihu was a thing almost impossible
to be avoided( on the cramped grounds on
which the game was played, the referee
ruled him oft the field. Some of the decisions
of the referee,who seemed to be partial to
(lintoo,were very unsatisfactory to the (:ode-
nch people and were strongly objected to.
The Ij•untles" men slugged their pp-
pdnents badly.Blackford was hurt 50 that
he
was not able to play the last game and
was laid off from work all nett day, and
the remainder of the (:oderich team bas
sore spots to rub. Inuring the last game
Robertson and Morrow became engaged in •
quarrel &nil were ruled off. At the end of
two hours the Clinton team hail been al-
lowed four goals and (.oderich none, and
then the good folk of Clinton. running over
with delight that their favontee had done
what • generation of Clinton lacrosee play-
ers had failed to do, viz., win • game from
a 4 derich team, Arose and did honor in
great style to their champions. The Hurons
returned home on the 10 r. it. train and
were met at the station by • large crowd,
which cheered then: heartily, after which
they were escorted down town by the Cadet
brass band. The Hurons have entered •
protest against the awarding of the game to
the Dauntlem club, but in the meanwhile
the standing of the teams in the district is
s follows :
Air Charles Tupper represested to Perla- very same esmioo of Parliament, after Bir
meat that the comet oT the work would be John Macdonald had got the $11,000 i have
gg10,000. In 1887 he stated m Parliament upoken of, soother sem o $90,000 was
that already 4966,360 had been expended, sought Inc owl was stated to he • revels, a
and he asked Inc x.000 aure.in .11, inched- portion of
rkich had net bessich had been �e� wpsmdsdl
Item. see •
year 1897, 3311,360, or $71,360 more portion
hale matters that would boom Yost tows thaa Sir Clarke Tupper roprsseoted to tie got the additional 190,000- Up to that
wothea ennui mash, and would ptovs a dyM..a..t 1■ 1863 cls work would east. 1 eirae the expenses 6, d this little ossa)
f..1 sdrertktmssemt roc (kulerieh h tis think abet if lot were. rafuaof pshhc work. people of
to 3396,967: a Ossa) that the
oos.rwcted in the $„terns of the peNie. people of tis eu.ntry and the Parliament
innctha off vannas, but 1 paw I'vs ledsd even eh/weigh it emended the estimates by Of this country were iwl.eed to undertake
you up with enough to mot the folks think. evwra1 thousand dlmllars,eO. would not have epos the sswraws of • Mishear of the
(hit. If you have nerve enough to pat it is
Tilt. et•:v err-. If saltine ens can be dos.,
year might arouse the people to tars eel
old to the mem►mrs of Na Herber Park
committee to soma the moof teste et it ••••meektome s the eek asst ten Mee kruegllt
there to • reslisa&ies of. what egettobe
`1"'" a the p.smya its ohms uav
a ohhe
s
"tc h repeeutoativs as • oeeslsfl Imam$ La
•l`•+err toes we alwapa. kill mlmrR.-.,,a)�; M
w l'eer's, .nal as mob,
ob,
yd
��we
have mews of the eaters' advantages
!"4•1!"4•11,01t.i, we have a far ma wide-awake
melt •
1,01t.Asa the mu Gem whistled •
ba,M"Masi.Ys"erti suss tr
m ,starch of which to aumphein if that were
the end of the mu
atter,as Sir Circles Tepper
stated is his place in Parllmsss
Int that it w
the d of the mater. Bet m
ie the mini
mel Tay sin l s. the .—&. -" respon-
sible.4 e
Mimirt4r. ddlhl
Thee"doers ef ailingt for as asadasd
g ter the =Mt awi Me Marin Tepper,
Mal
ways, seed li•
rlieae.t irr en adina1
ma ed $73,000. Os that Mei su
dthe s
(kerwa nkat
the cwt would be 3910,000- Up
to that time we had expe54sd on that Bial
dm the Master nowared
P more
188E the whale this would
eon the Tay (n.'lees that 1 frdihmd amid ma acme matter d►
mamas still made wee Pael Bonet te i.dH
the Tay Cana? Oto weatl.+turally imagine
oat. ale oratl., would the the last time of
'sang ra Phrlimast far a vete, bet it was
Net There we leaks to he Med : there
Mks te be gtraWad mai
at the him stenmher IF 3981Werd rase mere them aroma a ia
were
attwtkra of the Miller le the enerssw and mti�mi t r we were Ielif b► the
ssM p t Iflmi.tsr at Railways sad
Il Marin m.nma tamale en the third day of this premiss
is assestes• a t$. mostrnsWa el! W most_ et August that the Thewe. has heft dant" That amsmW be the am al
r eesw
Seatorth
I:oderich
Clinton
Stratford
Won. Lost. To Play.
4 1 1
3 2 1
2 3 1
1 4 1
CURRENT OPINION.
IMMORALITY IN 015:11 11. tCCv.
Hamiltm Herald : -Some b' the news-
papers are calling on the preachers to express
their opinion in „regard to the disclosures at
Ottawa, financial and mor.l,but, with a few
exoeptioos, the preachers do not respond.
The poetics the preachers find themselves
in is that if they make any reference to
matters that are transpiring at Ottawa they
subject themeless to attack at the hands of
some of their congregation for interfering in
politics --and there sear to be a wholesome
dread on the part of the prschers of saying
anything that world o(sod any of their
flocks But if all that isbeiag said at Ottawa
is true it is time that thspreacbers spoke out,
and spoke out fearlessly. There appears to
have bars wore efemoe committed at the
Capital by men high in Ake than robbing
the trssury, and if the preachers are to re-
main plat when immorality s rampant in
high place the pulpits might as well be
empty. What .re the preachers paid for, it
not to modem= vies wherever it may show
itself' Byall means let the preachers have as
lista to with politics as they can manage
to get along with, but to plots the life out
of some scriptural offender for weaknesses of
the flesh in a eeni•oivllised age, and then
sit with folded heads and sealed lips in the
presence of evil in our own days and at our
own doors, somehow dose not look quite
.elves be eater saes.. hies$ /.eared the Ten Oe.eeawwt rested the .m..dmn..t
cars ham the tads is the tem nl Perth et Mr. Caamseonm down ley • m.jerity of 18—
is !� .0411.tiet
l• ee ant re aro teN
Hogg
w�slltmr IhM laisshss elk
ems Ih. smalisw mgjwity wbieh they have yet
mot m ler
41, or, 1. idenet ha__
Rp l4mrwAt_
d O aha wee041 of pstr
��! �+LA�L�di� 1�r d do swine «.._�c _.... .
7tirerCite
ween 1MT lei ` °i r `� 1, "hIr wMasrrn of iiG rr wi a�� a.`�e a''t'-. ,
Pop WOWS UM11e11mnob t+'1 —,
reale
lea $.nwAL le wiz 11 a ear, ill Mrrblrtpr.,
right.
Tse OMI.r' WAT.
Mahal Witness :--Sias the rev.latioas
in regard to the dsssMalhati a of the
departments of P. Wallis and of the
Warier by the orminienaing eommittew,
Use di.coaics of the tr.samMueitse of the
Cahouet whish was etserW eat M the time
the Abbott Ministry sus formed has been
eseewd by the Ministerial press. In regard
to the reessetreetioo of the Cehiset, Sir
(fit isfgber W Ina a report "Toou oz {'oUthe condi-
tiou. Rase in Westminster would
have to be adopted "Far • substantial re-
pair," said Sir (a►ristopher, "it world have
to be taken down."
A ('071 IRIMMOR wren A WAWA!.
Owen Sound Su (Conservative) :--Ten
revelations at Ottawa are startling. W. all
Je, m >Dominion MOWiseiions were
t M M lane W. eIfir
re
blebs A. 11s.'.add_ ism& that.=
preatimehis
aid ,MAW_ with him Camaro
eat before wisely i en the
s a Al -