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The Huron News-Record, 1889-02-13, Page 4The Huron News -Record Van a Year—n.25 14 Advauce. Wednesday. Feb. 13116 1880 THE WHOLE TRUTH. What is truth 1 It ie the state- ment of something that comes within our own cognition or derived from the cognition of others. Some jour- nalists doubt the existence of truth. This paper has length, breadth and thicknoss, that is a self-evident truth. A person might be rash enough to deny .the existence of this or any other paper because he had not seen it. That, however, would not destroy the truth of the statement of another person who had seen and feltthe paper. Now, there is an official book published by order of Parliament, called the Trade and Navigation Returns. This book is sent to all newspaper offices. We have seen it and read considerable of its contents. Our local contem••orary we believe has ono. It is supposed to contain a true atntement of the year's trade in the Dominion. In its tables for the last year we find that Canada ex- ported to Great Britain of animals and their products $16,571,072 ; of grain and other agricultural pro- ducts $4,292,640, making the total export to Great Britain of the out- come of the farn.$20,863,712. We' exported to the United States of animals and their products $7,595,- 743 ; of grain and other agricultural products $10,306,278, making a total export of the outcome of the farm to the United States of $17,902,021. NOW some truths are not only tfne but they are necessarily true. Tho sum of 2 and 3 is 5. This is not only true but necessarily true. The converse also holds good. There are some statements that are untrue. We know that the sutra of 2 and 3 cannot be 4 or 6, in fact that it cannot be anything else than, 5. This brings us to a statement Made by our local cotton. last week that "in 1888 the Americana pur- "clia.ed ttro-thirds of our surplus "agricultural •products. We have above quoted from the official re- port that we exported of animals, grain, fruit and other agricultural products to Groat .Britain produce amounting in value to nearly $21,000,000 ; in the same lines we exported to the United States produce amounting in value to nearly $18,000,000. Tho state- ment of our totem. is as neces- sarily untrue as that the sum of 2 and 3 is 6. The total value of our exports of the produce of the farm to Creat Britain and the United States in 1887 '8 was nearly thirty- nine millions. Two-thirds of 39 is 26. To make up two-thirds of the value of the produce of the farms of Canada going to the United States' the latter country should have purchased 26 million dollars worth instead of only the 18 million • dollars worth they actually did. Therefore, the statement that the Americans in 1888 purchased two- thirds of our surplus agricultural products is necessarily untrue. Our cotern. will probably attempt to shield itself behind the quibble that because the Government Re- ports, for the purpose of classifying the different products of the farm, have two tables, one "Animals and their Produce," and another, "Agri• cultural Products," and as more of what comes under the latter heading' was purchased by the United States it is justified in its assertion. But in tho latter is weal, malt, bran, etc., which are no more agricultural produce than animals, not even technically speaking. And, practi- cally speaking the Canadian farmer who sells produce dons not care whether it is"classed as animals, or whether called agricultural pro ducts, or whether they are both combined ; and it may be gratifying to know that according to official figures we sold last year to Great Britain of " animals and their produce" $16,571,072 as against only $7,595,743 to the United States. 'Members of the opposition have given notice of their intention to attack the duty ou imported course grain, in pure Boyle Riche bunkum style, so that by the reduction of the price of Canadian coarse grains Canadian farmers will ho enabled to make more stoney from the sale of them, GODZRICH HARBOR. According to published Report of Hon. Minieter of Public Works, Sir Hector Langevin, the expenditure during the Noel year 1887-'8 on Goderich harbor and breakwater was ($1,699.54, fur dredging $2,- 123.28, a total for the year of $4,- ' 222.82. The recurring expenditure every year is not in the general public interest and more particular ly is not in the interest of the lake Matins trade, nor of the only rail- way which at present terminates at Goderich, nor of the general com- merce of the country. These annually expended amounts on Goderich harbor produce no per- manent benefit and are of doubtful temporary advantage. Those col- umns have from time to time con- tained complaints from Captains of large steam and sail vessels, of the difficulty experienced in entering Goderich harbor, owing to the pre- sence of and bars at the mouth and their shifting nature. As the harbor is a National one of Refuge, comment has often been made by seamen to the effect that it is more dangerous to attempt to enter it jhan to remain outside, even though stress of weather would cause the careful and judicious Captain to seek "any port in a storm," save whore sheer destruction awaited him. Both as a Harbor of Refuge and as an important connecting link in the enormously growing transconti- nental water and rail carrying trade' of the Dominion, it behooves the Government to give more careful consideration to effectually placing Goderich harbor in such a state that it will come up to the requirements of the times. That the Government has shown a desire to do this, it has given the very beet evidence of, and and in the person of the Hon. Mr. Langevin has shown an intelligent appreciation, both in the interests of humanity and commerce, of the importance of Goderich harbor., Iudeed so broadminded and liberal have been the views of the Hon. Minister of Public Works, and so evident has been the anxiety he has displayed on all. occasions to make Goderich harbor a standing monu- ment and practical -illustration of the foresight and practical ability for which he is so deservedly popu- lar, that we have often heard it re- marked by envious . critics :—"Sir Hector is playing his cards as though he wasgoing to contest West Huron some time." And indeed his freedom from sectional views might well give rise to such a sur- mise in the minds of those whose estimate of the statesman and the administrator of one of the most important branches of the public service in a government whose ter- ritory exceeds that of any other people on the continent, whose re- sources and enterprise are equal to the vast extent of their domain—are those of the parish politician and the hidebound, narrow-souled par - The strongest evidence, of the Governmental estimate of the im- portance of Goderich harbor may be guaged by the fact that sine Con- feele,mtioi, -probably $400,000 has been expended upon it for building piers, etc., besides an annual outlay for many years of several thousand dollars. For the last year over $4,000 as above stated. But the original outlay and annual expen- diture are comparatively thrown away, owing, we believe, to the non -completion of the original scheme of extending the north pier,' or piers at the river outlet, a con- siderable distance further dot into the lake. To utilize past expendi- ture and prevent an ever recurring sieve -like annual expenditure the pier or piers referred to will have to be extended. This would also do away with the necessity of ex- pending the sum of $13,000 voted 1351 year fur work of very doubtful utility—the cutting a sluiceway through the river breakwater into the harbor, Let us assume that the pier exten• sion would cost $100,000. There would bo " money in it " for the Government, the country and all concerned to have the work done. Taking $4,000 (it was $4,222,82 last year) as the average annual ex- penditure for dredging etc., this would pay the, interest ou the sum named as the probable cost of pier extension that would make dredg• ing unnecessary, while it would make tea harbor perinauently sc• cessible and a real Harbor of Refggo. While we have been dealing with .this queetion from the standpoint of national economy and national trade interest', and in behalf of those hardy men who " go down to the sea in ships," we as- sume that the matter is of sufficient local importance. for the Board of Trade of Goderich, the tuayor and council and others to take the matter up and endeavor to have a cum put In the estimates tide year eufficieut to do thin very moth need- ed work. The railway interests of this section would be benefitted, and as Clinton is now quite a manufacturing centre with a pros- pect of extension in the near future, the lake shipping facilities at God. erieh would give an alternative against exhorbitaut local railway rates. Mr. Porter will no doubt be pleased to forward t!:is business all in his power. SCRAPS OF HISTORY. lu 1812 Dr. Eustis, then Alnori- canSecretary. of War, said in Con: grass :—"Wo can take the Canadas without soldiers ; we have only to send officers into the provinces, and the people disaffected toward their own ,government will rally round our standard." And Mr. Clay said "We must .take the provinces from them (the British); I never wish to see peace till we do." And Von Shoultz, who with some two hundred men crossed over from the American side to Prescott in 1838 was as much deceived as Dr. Eustis was in 1812. Shoultz was led to believe that the Canadians were waiting with open arcus to receive him as their deliverer from the oppression of Britain. IIe was wofully deceived and paid the penalty along with several of his comrades by being executed at"King. ston Deer 8,1838. In his last letter he deplores the fact of his having _been deceived, and adds : "May God forgive those who brought me to this untimely end. I have made up my mind and forgive them." This talk of taking Canada whether by force or annexation would be even more fiercely rosieted now than in 1812 or in 1838.. Those who attempt it would as of yore be net with open.arms and bloody 'hands to hospitable graves. But there is no fear that such an attempt will be made. Canadian annexa- tion prophets are at a heavy' dis- count, WHY NOT? And still the claquers of the aunoxa- tionists persist in finding fault with the smallness of our trade with Great Britain ou account of our 25 per cent tariT', and propose as a remedy our joining the American Union when we would have a 40 per cent tariff. If an increased tar- iff under annexation would increase our trade with Great Britain, why would it not increase it without an- nexation? And if a higher tariff would increase our trade with Great Britain, why would not a higher tariff increase our trade with the United States 1 And if not why not, Messieurs frog trade — annexation — higher tariff protectionist howlers? Canadian annexationists to beconsistent should move for a revision of the tariff with a view to increasing it all along the line and bring it up to that of their much admired American allies. EDITORIAL NOTE. The lawyers must be a bad lot. The Hon. Commissioner of Crown Lands Hardy said in objection to a proposed amendment to the law so that a woman, if slandered, would not hate to prove specific injury in order to recover damages, that there were scores of lawyers who thought that "all roads loading to a jury were fair and honorable" and con- sequently the dockets would be "loaded down with actions" trumped up by his hungry brother limbs -of the law. Tho Empire is shocked because Treasurer IIon. A. M. Ross, in ac- counting for the backwardness of Government printing, said the print- ing office was "congested" with work. Now Mr. Ross might have said that the printers were full or had more than they could set up, but ho used a comprehensively correct term, though not a trade term, when - he said the printing offices were con' geared -heaped up-withjwork. Tha Empire meet not tlonclude that Iha member for Wa,tIIwon Dome, lrom "way back" so far that the nioetiee of English diction are among the unknown arts. 'Hon. Postmaster General Haggart announced that there would not be any reduction in the retell of postage thla session. Two of the Government measures promised in the speech from the throne were introduced by Sir John Thompson. That to amend the Electoral Franchise Act came first. He briefly explained its features. The Bill is eubstautielly the same as that introduced last year and withdrawn for want of time to put it through. It provides that im- mediately after the first of June In each year of revision the revising officer shall avail himself of the electural lists, the assessment rolls, and the other sources of informa- tion at his disposal, stake a supple- wentary list of additions and sub- tractions from the existing list. This -sum) tonsillary list vein ba pre- sentod at the Government office in Ottawa, and copies posted up for inspection of all interested, and re- vising officers shall fix a day for making such further corrections as may be shown to be proper. Then the supplementary list will be re- turned to Ottawa and incor'p'orated with the original list of voters. The list, as so established. is to be final as to the qualification of the voters. The polling sub -divisions are to be reconstructed from time to time, so that the number of voters in each shall not exceed 250 in place of 300 aa at present. MR. MOWAT'S FIRST GERRY- MANDER. In its attempts to show that Mr. Mewat was never guilty of gerry- mandering, or that if bo was lie learned it from Sir John Macdonald, the Woodstock Sentinel -Review has got itself into a pretty mess. It says : " As a specimen of The Empire's reckless style of writing, it declares that in his redistribution bill Mr. Mowat ' even cut townships in half to manipulate the ridings.' Wo challenge The Empire to specify any such case or stand convicted of wilful misrepresentation." We take up this insolent chal- lenge, and leave the people to be the judges between us. They will easily find the proof by turning to the Statutes of Ontario, where they will read as follows in 38 Vic (1874), cap. 2, sec. 2, in the clauses referring to the ridings of Huron : " The South Riding to consist of the townships of Tuckorsmith, Us - borne, Stephen, Hay and Stanley, and that portion of the township of Goderich south of the line known as ' the Cut line' and Huronroad and the village, otherwise called the town, of Seaforth and the village of Exeter. "The West Riding to consist of the townships of Ashfield, Wawan• osh (East and West), Colborne and those parts of Hullett and Turn - berry respectively which lie west of the road commonly called the Grav- el road, and that part of the town- ship of Goderich north of the said Huron road and 'Cut line' and the town of Guderich and the village, otherwise called the town of Clinton and the village of Wingham. "The East Riding to consist of the townships of Howick, Grey, Morris, McKillop and those parts of IIullott and Turnberry .respectively which lie east of the fond commonly called the Gravel road and the vil- age of Brussels." Thus it is shown by the records, in spite of the impudent denial of his organ, that Mr. Mowat cut in half three townships, namely, Godo - rich, Hullett and Turnberry. Their dissevered parte were distributed among no less than three constitu- encies. The South Riding of Huron had one half township, the East Riding of Huron had two half townehips, and the West Riding of Huron actually contained three of these mangled portions of munici- palities, We will not say, like the Sentinel - Review, our contemporary "stands convicted of wilful misrepresonta- tion," Wo have loft the judgment to be pronounced by the people.— Empire. eople.— Empire. — BIRTHS. STEEe.—In Goderich township, on Feb. Ota, the wife of Mr. J. 0. Steep, of a eon. •s. . DEN ttoi.m.—fn Myth on the 5th Inst the wife of Mr. Jelin Denholm of a son. A DOG IN TIIE BANGER HIS BARK IS WORSE THAN KIS BITE. 0 TO THE PEOPLE. Business Ls business every time, and when a Business Finn (t) will lower itself to Slander, which is the last :sort of a narrow mind, it is time they quit the ranks again and returned to fanning. Wo appeal to THE PEOPLE as to the GENUINENESS of our GREAT GIGANTIC GIFT SALE. They also know that not only do we lead the Trade itr COTTON AT THREE & FIVE CENTS, but that every other article in our store is equally cheap. When a Friend (1) runs down every other, in the same line, at the expense of Fair Play. and vaunts itself as the only one that advertises the truth, we ask you won't their claims bear testing t and themselves bo worth watching? We have sought during our business career to merit THE PEOPLE'S confidence, and sincerely thank then) for the liberal patronage they have afforded, and respectfully solicit a continuance of the same. Our Great Slaughter Sale is Still Going On. SEE OUR COTTONS, the cause of the fuss. SEE OUR DRESS GOODS, the talk of the Town. INSPECT OUR STOCK and be convinced that we are THE PEOPLE. Robertson's Great Cash Store LETTERS .I0 . THE EDITOR. We wish it to be drat"relly understood that we do ,tat hold ourselwee responsible for the opinions xpreseed by correspondents.- ED. Nawe•Rx• CORD. A FALSE STATEMENT, Editor News -Record. DEAR Stu,—It has been publicly stated that you wilfully omitted the chairman's name from the posters announcing the teameeting, concert and lecture at Bayfield recently. Kindly inform me if the statement is correct. Yours, etc., ANTI -HUMBUG. ANSWER.—We have the original— manuscript—of the poster, and there is no chairman's name on it. And, we were not authorized to add any name. Mr. Geo. Hanley, of Cltntou, was in our presence requested to act as chairman, but owing to illness declined. The statement that THE NEWs.REooan omitted from the pos.- ter the chairman's name is a false accusation, and if "Anti -Humbug" will take the trouble to call at this office he can have the proot.—Eo. Editor News -Record. My friend of the Era in his min - ail talk is pleased to think that the council adopted his idea of one as- sessor, and therefore it must be correct, and yet he well knows that it was carried by a little bharp practice I believe bad the council taken a little time to think the matter over, especially the new members,it would not have carried. It must be well known that it is more difficult to as• seas a town than a township. If my friend believed in representation by population and that in a multitude of councillors there is wisdom, well might he agree .that it were better to have two men to reason over the value of property than one. But he does not so agree. In the Era's re- marks about the chief constable he tried to have a fling at one of the council, Mr. Searle. Mr. Searle nor any one else at the council found fault with the constable for not at- tending Salvation Army ,meetings to keep order as is intimated. Now that the subject has been mentioned the Army has as much right to have the sidewalks in front of its barracks kept clear of disorderly loungers as any other place of worship, or any other place of business. ('here is considerable street obstruction caused by vagabonds pulling sleighs from Leslie's across the street and pulling pickets off the fences etc. The chief constable should have stopped this. Yours CITIZEN. CURRENT TOPICS SiR JOHN'S ARDENT ADMIRER. In the course of his speech Mr. Laurier said, en passant, he wished always to be a generous foe. Nay, more, he was an admirer of the premier. Sir John laid his hand on his heart, half rose and bowed low in acknowledgement. ANOTHER STATE HEARD FROM The Sheriff of Berke county, Pennsylvania, on one day last week sold teff fine farms in that county aggregating, nearly 1,000 acres. During the present winter the -Sheriff hag sold some twenty other large farms, besides the stock of twenty farmers, all of which had failed. This indicates that farm• ing rio longer pays, as a similur state of affairs exists itt other coup, ties in the, State. THE IMPENDING WAR. Lord Wolseley, at Birmingban. Those who study the map of Europe at the present moment and the con% dition of things in Europe must feel that there is Banging over us a war cloud greater than at.y which has hung over Europe before. It means that --when it bursts—and Burst it will as'a,prt-ly as the sun will rise to morrow—it means nut, ns iU former days, a contest between two highly trained armies, but a war of extinc. tion, of devastation, between treat armed nitions whose population( are armed and trained to fight. tt0 CONSOLATION FOR CAttPElr3. , The Halifax Herald publishes a table of the business failures in Canada each year since 1875. It . shows that during the five years of Reform rule, 1875 to 1879, the aggregate liabilities "f those who failed averaged 826,600,000 a year. In the nine years following, 1880 to 1888, the annual average of liabili• ties was $11,8005000, notwithstand- ing that the number of traders in the Dominion had increased from 55,000 in 1876 to 75,339 .in 1888. The blue ruinists cannot extract much capital for their party from the record of failures. CHEIPER THAN RUNNING AT LARGE. In a discussion in the Ontario Legislature regarding the cost of inmates at government asylums, there was a comparison between the high cost of the latter and the ex• penees of maintenance et county poor houses, which average only $55 per annum for each person. The Wat- erloo poor house had 87 inmates, and the coat $51.87 each; Elgin 69 in- mates, cost $55.12; Wellington 68, cost $63.80; Middlesex 64, cost $58• 85; York 101, cost $57.93 per year. 'Theme are low figures, and it would pay any county to errect a place for the maintenance of the poor as the cost to ,the municipalities by the present system is far in excess of the amounts given. FREE FRUIT NOT CHEAP FRUIT. Grimsby Independent. It has often been asserted that "free fruit" meant "cheap fruit'' for the masses. That this is a fallacy, pure and simple, was fully proved . last summer. The first straw- berries that appeared on the Cana- dian. market last summer sold at from 25 to 50 cents per box and the money went into the pocket of the Yankee. As the season advanced the price dropped and the America:: still held the market till berries were only worth 10 cents per box. At this juncture the Yankee, having Bold out his crop at a good price, drops out, and leaves the Canadian fruit grower with 10 cents to cont mance with and a lively tendency to reach 5 cents or even 2 or 3 cents before the end of the Beason. WHERE TIIE MONEY GOES. The report of the Depart}Hent of Public Works for the Dominion has been issued. It contains a detailed statement of the work done by the Depertment during the year. Tho total expenditure was $3,428,943, including the following work@ auth- orized by special Acts of Parlia• went : Deepening the St. Lawrence River between Quebec' and Mont- real $195,000; Quebec harbour fin.prevenient, $418,710 ; Lcvis grav- ing dock, $166,000. The total ex• penditures by Provinces front 1868 to the. 30th June, 1887, have keen as follows : - Ontario $56,341,141 11 Quebec 30,610,413 06 Nova Scotia 14,441,245 99 New Brunswick , , 17,916,476 01 Prince Edward Island„1,466,399 73 Manitoba .. 7,141,470 41 British Columbia.. 25,460,896 48 Northwest Ter.... 7,678,201 76 Miscellaneous, 313,443 95 Grand total . , .8161,372,678 50 An examination of the details of this Targe expenditure ethowe how usefully it has been 'distributed over the Dominion, whose steady growth and development necessitates a large annual outlay in the repairs and maintenance of existing works, and in the construction of new ones. --Mr. Frederick' William Mae. donald, of St. Catharines, has been appointed deputy judge of the coun• ty court of the county of Lincoln during the absence on leave of Judge E. J. Senkler.