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AMERICAN COMMENTS ON
CANADA.
One of the best papere on Canada
that we have seen is that by Charles
Dudley Warner in flarper's Maga-
zine for March. While not a preten-
tious or exhaustive commentary on
this country, its people and resources,
political'and govornmeutal cSndi-
tion, it is evidently writteu by a
broad-minded, wide-awake, and—
making allowance for his pro
American proclivities—unprejudic-
ed writer. Though he travelled
through Canada from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, he will be pardoned
for that in some cases he fails to
r -grasp the true inwardness of our
people, as night be expected from
the limited time at his dlepoeal..
'fake the paper all in all the writer
puts ta shame sotne native Canadian
.vi it! ,s iu his estimate of the mater-
ial condition and loyal sentiments
of our people. The frontispiece to
this number of thu Magazine is an
excellent portrait of Sir John A.
Macdonald. The paper takers up
wenty-eight pages and is 'alone
worth a year's subscriptiou to the
Magazine in which it appears. Ile
states that Canada is about the equal
of the United States in territorial
aslant. We append copious
EXTRAOTS.
"...: re that at present the senti-
ment of nationality is what sustains
i bo . conservative majority in the
')t Wye government.
The general policy of the conser-
vative government may fairly be
described as one for the rapid (level.
hnreut of the'country.
This policy of "development" led
the party to adopt the present
ntodv••ale protective tariff * • 'fhe
tariff' did stimulate and build up
manufactories in cotton, leather,
iron, including implements of agri-
culture, to the extent that they were
mare titan able to supply the Cana -
.;tan market, And gave, an extraor-
dinary stimulus to the general busi-
ness 01 the Dominion.
TLc provincial debts added to age
pnhl+' debt give a per capi,ta of
448,83. The united debts of the
several States and general govern-
toen', with municipal, in the United
States give a per capita of $55.
The C. P. R. was a necessity of the
national development. It is Eng-
land's shortest route to her Pacific
eoionies and to Japan and China.
It is noted as a significant fact that
the first loaded train that passed
over its entire length carried British
naval stores from Quebec to Van-
couver, andtho first car )f tnerclian-
li;.r i:•ne a cargo of Jamaica sugar
refined t:t Halifax and sent to British
', alu3 bia,
French peasant. It is our belief
that the best Christianity is the most
intelligent. Yet it is a matter for
consideration what sort of eooiety we
would have were the common schools
to have neither rolisioue nor ethical
teaching.
I believe the continuance of Sir.
John A. Macdonald in •p.wes is due
to his devotion to the national idea,
to the development of the country,
to bold measures—like the urgenoy
of the Paeifio Railway construction—
for binding the proxinces together
and promoting commercial activity.
The province of Ontario Is an em-
pire in itself. It is as large se France;
it is larger by twenty•five thousand
square miles than the combined six
'New England States, with New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mary-
land. In its varied capacities it is
the richest province in Canasta.
:f'he average yield of wheat, both spring
and fall, for the five years• ending with
1886, per acre, was considerably ub7ve
that al our best producing grain States
from Pennsylvania to the farthest
!fest. The same is true of oats.
The comparison of barley is still
more favorable for Ontario. It has
no superior as a wool•producing and
cattle.raising country. In water
power, minerals and timber it is un•
excelled, and every part of it is made
accessible to market by railways and
good highways.
As to unrestricted trade, Sir John
Thompson, the very able Minister of
Justice, -said in a recent speech that
Canada could not permit her finan-
cial centre to be shifted to Washing.
ton and her tariff to be made there,
and 1 believe he spoke the prevail-
ing sentiment of Canada, •
There is no doubt with many an
hongst preference for the colonial
condition. Which may be summed
up : "We have the best government
in the world, a responsible govern.
ment, with entire loos' freedom.
England exercises no sort of control;
we are as free as a natiou carr be.
We have in the representative of the
Crown a certain conservative condi-
tion, and it only costs ten thousand
pounds a year. We are free, we have
little expense, and if we get into any
difficulty there is themighty power
of Great Britain behind us."
1 was strongly impressed with the
o..tion that if the Canadian Pacific
ltsiiway was not built when it. was
:. would by this time have
gravitated to the United States, and
'ri}d only have been a question
';ftirne when the remaining North -
.se ,t would have fallen in,
it is only by traversing the long
distance to the Pacific, coast and
seeing the activity there, that we can
„ppr „°:ate the importance to Canada
and to the British Empire of the
('anadin.n Pacific Railway as a bond
-if volt„ a developer of resources,
tad a s,orld's highway.
i had boon told that Canadians are
only second-hand Englishmen. No
estimate could convey a more erro-
neous impression. A portion of the
:.'pie have strong English tradi-
tarns, het in manner and expecta-
tions . the Canadians are scarcely
roc,, -l' English than the people of the
':nited Mates.
a,suuuait animal spirits tend to
C,unadians good-natured and
't1Lto, quarrelsome. They would make
vets sut(.1ters. 'There was a time when
the drinking habit prevailed very
teeth in .'anada, and thei e are still
eiaseo wlare they do not put water
ssosigh 1.1 their grog, but temper-
• is refs)• m has taken as strong a
bold there as in the United States.
The underlying feet is that there
is a distinct feeling of nationality,
tri.? 1, is iucrensing. This is not in
consistent with pride in the Empire,
'•n,', Its to its'traditions and tnstitus
Lions.
tie 1 :+.itcb have always been loyal
t;, the 'English connection under all
temptations. In literature and sen•
imrit their connection is with
1"rnnc" ' in religion with Rome ; in
politica England has 'the guarantee
of both. There will be no prevailing
sentiment in favor of annexation to
the 1',;:ted States so long as the
^huts' re'.ains its authority.
In 1S; 5 the total number of school
pupils in the Dominion was 908,193,
t'ss sssis.sa attendance 554,404. The
total expenditure of the year, not
inch•dinr school buildings, was
$9,310,74.1. In the province of Que.
bet., out of the total expenditure of
Ssit,102,41(, only $55,677 way granted
b; the provincial legisleture. And
in (ntario of the total of $3,904,797
only :147,084 was granted by the
local legislature.
IT IS EASY TO SLANDER.
Our town contemporary is quite
right in standing on its dignity
and refusing to reply to anonymous
communications criticising the edi-
torial utterances of that paper, more
especially when such criticisms
abound in personalities with which
the public are not interested. A
letter appeared in last week's NEWS -
RECORD attacking the position of
the .New Era for stating that the
Stationing Committee of the Guelph
Conference wore " ringsters," etc.
1e letter signed "Reader" contain-
ed nothing but matter of public
concerti from the standpoint of a
loyal Methodist., Our totem.. says
"it would b13 as easy as rolling off a
log to name the writer of the letter
signed ,' A Reader,' but we ' spare
him the humiliation that publi
would give him:" It is not so easy
"to name "Reader." Our cotem.
with all its omniscience cannot do
so, and wore he to do it the humili-
ation would be all the other way.
Fur "A Reader" is an acknowledged
active member in good standing in.
the Methodist Church, whose only
objoot in writing is to strengthen
the hands' of those 'to whom have
been committed the serious respon-
sibility of caring for the spiritual
welfare of himself and fellow Meth-
odists. It is not incumbent on "A
Reader" to give his real name. He
strikes no one in the dark. He
parades in the light of day what he
considers a grievance against the
church body of which he is a mem-
ber. That grievance. consists in un-
justifiable and indiscriminate sland-
ers by our cotent. on the character of
ministers of his church—ministers
occupying an administrative or ex-
ecutive position in the church.
Who acts the most cowardly ? The
one who snakes use of his columns
to stab, aye, stab in the dark, the
Stationing Committee of Conference
by branding them as "ringetrs,'-_
"wire -pullers," etc., without adduc-
ing auy proof of his assertion, or
the one who refuses to believe such
aspersions, publicly made, and de-
mands proof or retraction ? Surely
the man who upholds the character
of the ministers of the church against
unsupported slanders, circulated in
the press, is not the ono who stabs
in the dark. The public will fix.
the stabbing ou the party who en-
deavors to blacken the characters of
ministers of the gospel and when
challenged to make good the state-
ments says "it is a cowardly thing
to stab a man in the dark." Our
correspondent has right upon his
sitlo. It is his undoubted privile$e
to take a journal to task for its pub-
lished utterances, and to do so
anonymously. That journal has the
option of replying or not, but mean
insinuations about humiliating the
writer were be to be named are u
It ;vas the remark of n high Chum}
dignitnry that the object of the
Frennh in Canada was the promotion
of religion, and of the English, com
int roc,. It, may be true that the
p:Llic schools of Quebee, giving
special attention to the interest, the
C', ,ref' regards ;as the highest, do
little to r 'moor the ignorance of the
cowardly as the original offence,
and shows leek of infurmatiou or
wauton matins in both oases. No,
our contemporary cannot Dame the
writer of the letter in Toe News -
Recoup signed "A Reader," and
were he to do so, he would be in
the position of the cow ou the track
when the locomotive Lune thunder-
ing along. The "coo" got the woret
of it. The upshot of the whole
affair is that "A Reader" has got
our cotem. in the position of a
slanderer of honest men, and who
brings unreliable extraneous evi-
dence to support the elanderous
statements instead -of facts which he
should have btea in possession of,
but evidently was nut, before he
libelled the ministers.
EDITORIAL A'O7'E.
The fisc frade IVitnees holds that
protection does not protect. In a
recent issue writing of the duties
ou wheat and flour it says, "The
farmers have lung since learned
that protection dues nut protect."
Aud yet the Witness suggests that
the duty on wheat be lowered from
15 cents a bushel to 111 cents a
bushel so that the Canadian millers
could buy it at a 1058 price and
produce cheaper flour. Now if pro-
tection does not protect the farmer,
if he does not get more for his
wheat with 15 cents a bushel. duty
how could a miller buy it cheaper.
if this duty were lowered to 11
cents? It is clear that if the Cana-
dian millers to produce cheap-
er flour than at present he roust buy
cheaper wheat; and if the less duty
makes wheat cheaper, the greater
duty must enhance its value—its
value to the farmer and its cost to
the miller.
,rC
mss,;
The Globe says " Bro. Mackenzie
Bowel' has made himself an accom-
plice of Bro. Sir John in allowing
the Jesuit Estates Act of Quebec."
Neither Hon. Mackenzie Bowell nor
Sir John allowed the Act, nor have
they disallowed it. It has not be-
come law yet. If it does become
law it will not be by any act of
those members of the Dominion
Government, nor by any other
members of it. If the Jesuits Act
becomes law, which we suppose 'it
will, the responsibility for it rests
with the Reform Quebec Legislature,
with whose lawful acts the Domin-
ion Government have no more to
do than with the lawful acts of the
Ontario Legislature. Sir John can
no more check the Quebec Reform
Government from voting away the
money of the people of that pro-
vince, that he can check Mr. Mowat's
Reform Government from voting
the money of the people of Ontario
to support a provincial Inspector to
look afterthe enforcement of; the
Scott Act and who does not see that
it is enforced, be...use, as he says in
his published letter, his doing so
might "injure the Mowat Govern-
ment.
CURRENT TOPICS.
A GOOD POINT.
The Dufferin Post demands the
dismissal of Mr. Leslie, postmaster
at Orangeville. It complains that
Mr. Leslie resides and has for the
past five years been residing in
Paterson, N. J., and spends there
the income which he derives from
his position as postmaster, hie duties
having been done by a subordinate
official. If these things are true,the
Post has good ground for its des
nand.
ONE OF JOE RYMAL'S STORIES.
Mr. Rymal one day called 1>on a
yery worthy elector of Weua.worth
to ask for a vote. To the candidate's
surprise the elector had already
promised to vote for his opponent.
"But," said Mr. Rywal, "yon don't
agree with Mr. Blank's principles.
You cannot conscientiously support
such a policy as he advocates." "I
am very sorry now that I promised
him my vote," said the elector. "I
would rather vote for you. But I'll
tell you what I will do, Mr. Rymal.
I'll pray for you." "Don't do any-
thing of the kind," said Mr. Rynial;
"vote for me and pray for the other
'man."
and have three ahildret} beeidep this
recent itccession. Hirsch is of
German deacent, and named the
boys Frederick, Mills, Cleve.L, nd,
and Thurman. The girls are Vic-
toria and Louise, All are perfectly
proportioned, but very small. The
babies all *went healthy. Tho
Hirsch family •'ia poor, and the
mother is a large, healthy woman.
The babies are all tagged topreserve
their identity.
A MISCHIEF MAKER.
If not a mischief.maker, the Tor-
onto Globe is nothing. The other
day it admitted that the pariaiug of
the Jesuits Act was within the ex.
elusive domaiu of the Quebec Legis-
lature, and yet it is busily engaged
in a malicious attempt to stir up an
agitation against the Dominion Gov-
ernment because the hill was left to
its operation, it having been decid
ed by the Governineut that in a
matte: affecting the disposition of
provincial funds it was not its ruts
to interfere. Disguise its motives
as it will, the Globe cannot help die
closing the cloven hoof.—Ottawtt
Citizen.
SIX BABES AT ONE BIRTH.
Mrs. George Hirsch, of Navaroo
county, Texas, gave birth to six
children on the afternoon of Satur-
day. The mother and children are
doing well, and the father is trying
to be happy. A reporter who
visited the houieetead found about
100 people present, all examining
the babies. There aro four boys
and two girls. The father George
Hirsch, is 31, and his wife 27.
They had been married five years,
Cid
,TEATS SAM JON LS.
The Rev. John Robertson, pan -
tor of the Free Church in the pretty
little rural town of Stonehaven,
Scotland, Ilan heenacalled upon to
defend himself front a charge of
irreverent sensatioialistn He ad -
'nits having called' Jacob a sneak,
aid thiiks that he was. And
staying that "God put on His specta-
cles to see a little faith," he claims
that be was not irreverent, but
graphic. When he adyertised in
the newspaper that he would preach
a sermon on the topic, "God with
Him coat off," his only•aiui was to
attract non churchgoers, and he
succeeded. The same was true of
his other advertised sermons, such
as "A 1 at the Devil," "Praying to•
day and Drunk to-morrew" and ' A
damned Fool." ThA interest for
Canadians in this far-off incident
lies in the fact that it occurred in
conservative Scotland.
IMPORTATIONS FRUST ENGLAND.
The goods we import from Eng-
land are of a class that we cannot
profitably produce or manufacture
in Canada, this in contra distinction
to goods Nliich the United States
would like to supply us with and
which would , enter into direct
competition with Canadian labor
especially that employed in agri•
cultural pursuits. The importa-
tions of silk goods have mounted up
in value very rapidly of late, years.
The import of raw silk, for instance,
was $82,000 ten years ago, and
$165,000 last year. The great bulk
Of the silk goods brought into Cana•
da come from England, the value of
the importation in 1888 having been
$2,434,336 from Great Britain;
$12-4,372 from the United States,
and $2,776,590 from all countries.
Ten years before, $1,494,000 of
silk coeds met.the 'requirements of
the DominionEngland supplying
$1,347,200.
•
BERiSON
has just received a large shipment of
Oorsets . .D�rsets
comprising the LEADING MAKES in all sizes, Try
• the "B. & C.", they are
orfect-Fitting& °rant d
llo ee
Sir NOT TO BREAK OR ROLL UP WITH ONE
YEAR'S WEAR ; if they do the money paid for them
will be refunded.
111= cc PANSY"
is the newest thing in a BUSTLE, and is just the style
the ladies want. Give us a call when you need the
necessaries. -
Robortsou's Great Cash Store
THE MILLS GROUND UP. a
In the debate on the duty on.
fertilizers Hon. Mr. Mills—who
speaks so much in the house that he
can scarcely be ho'd responsible for
the truth of all he says— was reek•
less enough to say that he was pre-
pared to prove that, during the past
five years, the value of farm land in
Ontario had decreased thirty per
cent. In reply, Hon. Mr. Carling
road from the report of the Ontario
bureau of industries, prepared under
the direction of Mr. Mowat's
government. This document showed
that the value of land in Ontario in
1882 • was $632,000,000, and in
1887 it had increased to $636,000,-
000 ; that the value of farm build-
ings in 1882 was $132,000,000, and
in 1887 it had increased to $184,.
000,000 ; that the value of farm
implements in 1882 was $37,000,-
000, and in 1887 it had incrersed to
$49,000,00(,, and that during the
same time the value of live stock
had increased from $80,000,000 to
$104,000,000. It was always thus.
The reckless Grit orators, in the
house and out of it, have always
mads the broadest and most sweep-
ing assertions about the decadence of
the country under "Tory" rule, and
it has always happeaed that theist
opponents have been able, by the
stern .logic of facts, to show that
the Grit orators have simply been
romancing. But it is not so often
that the Grits in the Dominion
house can be so completely floored
with figures prepared by the Grits
in the Ontario 'rouse.—Spectator.
SALVATION FREE.
On another page will be found a
state of things in another New
York church just the opposite to
that in the following. New York
Times :—Apropos of the discussion
over the treatment of strangers in
fashionable ehurches, here is an incl•
dent that occurred in St. George's
Church a few Sundays ago. This
church has been conducted on the
free -pew plan ever since the Rev.
W. S. Rainsford became ite Rector,
five or six years ago. Every service
sees it crowded to overflowing, and
a large part of the congregation its
composed of wealthy and aristocratic
people. J. Pierpont Morgan is the
leading Warden and the chief finan-
cial pillar of the church. He has
no stated pew, hut takes his cbances
with the other members of the
congregation in getting a seat. On
the Sunday alluded to Mr. Morgan
and his son occupied the outer end
of a pew pretty well' back on the
centre aisle. The chureh was filled
completely, and still people were
crowding into the vestibule and
aisles. An elderly couple evident•
ly nian and wife, cheaply clad, stontl•`
shrinkingly in the doorway until
the crowd , behind them pushed
them well up into the centre aisle.
Mr. Morgan caught 'eight of them,
and, without hesitation, stepped
otit of hie pew, motioned for his son
to follow, and the two humble tor.
shippers were provided with seats.
Instantly two fashionably attired
young men arose and tendered their
seats to Mr. Morgan. The bluff
millionaire accepted .them, only to
bestow them upon two ladies who
were standing. Mr. ' Morgan and
his. son stood dur:ng the greater
part of the service. Mr. Raiusford
favors the welcoming of strangers
to such an extent that; if he sees
any persons standing when he
ascends into the pulpit, he invites
them to come forward and sit on
the steps of the chancel.
In And About The County.
—Mr. George McKenzie, of
Wingham bas now interested him-
self in broom factory there, and will
no doubt "soap " he? up.
—The farmers of South Essex are'
ooniplaining of the number and bolds
nese of foxes. Two hunters killed
thirteen last. Monday. '
—Messrs. R. W. Hastings, of
Turnberry, and Thotuas'Riehie, have
decided to start a cider and jelly
mill in Wingham some time in April.
This business is to be conducted on
a large scale, with steam power, a
thirty horse power engine having
been procured.
—It is rumored "that Mr. John
Martin, the popular Dungannon
hotel -keeper will in the .near future
becoare' a resident of Wingham,
where he intends to enter into the
same line of business in a much
larger sphere and to a greater ex-
tent. '
NOTES FROM OCTA
The big lumberman, H. H. Cook,
"you -bet you " Cook of $29,000
bribery notoriety, hes a wooden.
headed resolution 011 the House
paper asking parliament to instruct
the home Government to give
Home Rule to Ireland as it would
be pleasing to the people of the Unit-
ed States. H. H. has a great head.
The Blue Ruin Knight, Sir Rich-
ard, tried to induce the Houao to
affirni hie proposition that a pate
is equal to the whole. ' This he .did
when lie proposed that Canada, a
part, of the Empire, should have the
power to independently -make treat-
ies with other countries, an imperial
prerogative which should belong
only to the enforcing or nipt•rial•ex-
ecutive: The House couldn't see
it.
The lumber millers want the ex-
port duty taken off saw logs and the
flour millers want the import duty
on flour increased to the equivalent
of that on wheat, and the Customs
and Finance Minintere are having
auytbiug but a merry tioselistening
to conflicting representations. It
is not likely that any change will
be made, though something should
be done to abate the flour miller's
grievance.
Personal recriminations vary the
stolidity of parliamentary proceed..
ings. Davin, the Demosthenes of
the House was called an " educated
crank." by H. H. Cook, and the
former claimed that that was better
than being au " uneducated crank "
'like the hon member from Simcoe.
The cruelty to animals bill of Mr.
Adam" Brown of Hamilton, which
among other things makes it unlaw-
ful to shoot birds sprung from traps,
passed its second reading by one. Pro-
bably no private member in the
House 'except Mr. Brown could have
accomplished this, though there are
doubts about the bill - becoming
law.
The prohibition gag came up as
usual. Jatuieseu'e annully roasted
chesnut provides for the entire pros
hibition of the manufacture impor-
tation or sale of intoxicating liquors,
except for manufacturing, medicinal
or art purposes. Mr. Taylor moved
an amendment that the question of
prohibition with compensation be
submitted to a plebiscite. Mr.
Wood that prohibition be adopted
when it is found to be favored by
public opinion. Mr.Taylor's plebis•
rite prohibition -compensation was
voted down by 85 nays to 58 yeas.
Mr• Mills nioeed an amendment to
Mr. Woods motion that "prohibition
be adopted when the country is ripe
for it " by adding, " and that a vote
of the qualified electors be taken at
a convenient time to ascertain the
opinion of the country on the ques-
tion " This was the same as Mr.
Taylor's with compensation left out
and it was lost by 125 nays to 35
yeas. Mr. Woods amendment was
then carried by 99 yeas to 58 nays.
The Department of. Agriculture,
so efficiently managed by the Hon.
John Carling, was critically dis-
cussed in the House Friday last,
but it was shown beyond any reason-
able cavilling that this important
arm of the civil service bad been
vigorously and successfully wielded
in the best interest of farmers and
agriculture. Even sturdy and pug-
nacious John McMillan of South
Huron had to admit that the.Cen-1
tral Farm at Ottawa had been mans
aged well and was accomplishing
the•laudable purposes for which it
was atarted.
—Mr. Richard Bloomfield and
wife, of Morris, purpose leaving for
Yale, B. C., about the first of March,
where Mr. B, will follow his av-oca-
t1on of farming. He will he greats
ly missed throughout this county,
being one of the leading Orangemen
of Huron.
—Principal Ayearst, of Wallace -
burg public school, had a difficulty
with. a refractory pupil' recently.
The boy's mother invade -1 the school,
aid .Mr.•Ayearst ejected her and
laid a charge against her. She sub•
sequently ,. acknowledged she was
wrong, and the charge was with-
drawn.
—A resideuk of Otterville.having
Purchased a house and lot occupied
by a widow., was troubled to know
how to get her to leave the place.
He finally, decided Co "pop the quee.
-tion "—was accepted—then told her
it would look better for ber to move
out and let him get settled in the
new home before the wedding. This
she did, and according to his report
she is likely to remain out as he
now claims to be unaccountable for
his doings at times.
-=Last week an accident of a very
strange nature occured in a stable
in Dundalk. Mr. McArthur had a
cow in one stall, and a horse in the
adjoining one. The cow had a strong
hankering after some of the hay in
the horse's manger, and to secure
some she thrust her tongue through
a crack in the boards, to such a
length as only an anxious cow can.
The. horse became suddenly possess-
ed of an appetite for fresh meat, and
seeing the protruding tongue in,
stantly seized -it, and bit a piece off
it several inches, in length. The cow
will probably die.
—Minnedosa, Man., had a terns
perature of 52 degrees below zero on
Saturday morning,
—The millers' deputation got
very little encouragement from the
Ottawa Ministers on Friday in re-
gard to the flour duty.
—The President has approved the
bill for the admission of Washing-
ton, Montana, North Dakota and
South Dakota as States.