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The Huron News-Record, 1889-07-10, Page 4The Huron News -Record I supported Opinion as a fact. As in 01.50 a Year—$1.25 iu Ad%ritie . q".ri'• The man (toed not duinduce to hie bneinese who epode lead ata advdrtieiuw than he (tuee'in rent. I A. T. STKWART, the millionaire macho. of New` York. Wednesday, July IOth 1889 7'IIE TIVELFTH OF JULY. By the recurrence of the glorious twelfth of July mauy are once more ask;" •' what is OrauQeisnl2 Orange- istit �l.ia tO perpetuate an ep1)Ch in which through the instrumental- ity of William, Prince of Orange, the civil and religious liberties of • mankind were asserted with a sec - cam unexampled in the history of nations. Oraugefsm nleany the sup- port of the Altar and the. Throne— protestant suoeossion and the I3ritislt constitution. It menus equal rights to all, the persecution of no man for conscience sake, while counter- % aucing auti aiJling all christiau iu- Strutnentalities to dispel runtish superstition and sever the thralls which hind so many of' our fellow creatures in the bondage of priest - craft and semi -paganism. The vitality which Orangeisrti is skewing at the present time augurs • well for civil and religious freedom afn this fair Canada ut' out's. The very intensity of l '.olion to these principles niay carry sumo to view with unnecessary alarm the alleged uucroacliinents of ruuntuista.. upon Ih'itish suprenbacy and an open Bible. However, prevention is better than having to resort to a eure. Eternal vigilance is the pi ice of freedom. Oraugeism would be untrue to itself did it not watch with jealous care the insidious ad- vances of the papacy in civil legisla- tion ; but while cluing so it should not commit, the very orrots of iu- tolerance which it condemns in the papacy. "No surrender " was the cry of prutestants of Enniskillen and Lon• ,louderry even when they were flying at the latter place by the hundred, of fever and starvation, during the 105 days siege which ended on the 25th July 1689: No sit of what ? ,;‘-o sufrender to papal or other foreign domina- tion in matters of Mate. ur consci- ence. Au(1 w.itit that no surrender of their own rights was coupled the toleration of the tights of others who differed trout thele. \\"bile 4rano then differ i n non lesseutials, as do the members of all societies, they are all agreed that the essenti• els we have briefly referred to mast he perpetuated. They have done noble work in the past, and as (:oldwin Smith has remarked the time may' come again when they will be required as a bulwark against the most insidious, soul - dwarfing and liberty shackling sys- iettg. of ntisguiderl fanaticism the world has ever seen. THE 7'R I I'L!. Our town cotent. says he is asked why he dues not reply in kind to our "scurrilous language used weep after week." TILE YEws•RECOnD uses, r10 scurrilous language. But we would be untrue to our trust lid we allow any journal to publish lies with impunity con- cerning the doings of the Conserva- tive party and 1VIr. Porter. \Ve have time and again convicted the Era of.so doing, and whether we call a false statement a lie, an untruth, or a fib, auch characterization is not scurrilous. When that ,journal finds false statements in THE NEWS. RECORD Fws- RECORD regarding public matters, and proves them to be so, we shall not charge it with scurrility, but with a laudable desire to elevate the standard of journalism. Wo quite agree with the Rev. Dr. Woolsey, just deceased, president of Yale College, whose pet abhorrence. iu the whole list of vices was deceit. He once said from the Yule pulpit : "I would rather have a young man here a carousel' and of dissolute life, than a liar ; for with a Liar you have nothing to build on." We are not waging a personal warfare ; we have no private grievance to redress ; we believer the proprietor of the Era to bo truthful as an iudfvidualy but we are hound to wage war against unfair and untruthful journ'llism. Our contemporary, unfortunately, expresses a dogmatic opinion about that which, in the nature of things, it cannot possibly know anything, ar)d gives that fouudationless, un - the extract giveu elsewhere wherein he says :-"Mr. Porter went home with a heavy heart." Now:our cotem. had no means of knowing whether Mr. Porter's heart was heavy or light. .As a matter of faot Mr. Porter was highly pleased with his visit to Huron. Even were it ques- tionable that he had justification for be thankful for thau they generally being pleased, the foot is, to our believed," knowledge and to that of others, that he appeared as pleased as when Willourtown contemporary never tell the truth? It is waking very slow progress towards doing so. Not content the previous week with publishing a series of untruths regarding Mr, fetter's recent visit t0 Clinton, it must needs last Week emphasise its disregard for the proprieties of journalism and facts, by saying "Mr. Porter went home with a heavy heart. Tho general opinion undoubtedly prevails that the whole thing wasa huge blunder." The two assertions. in this short extract are positive falsehoods. Mr. Porter dial not "go home with a heavy heart," his manner and oral and written testimony being the proof that he did not. Our readers and the public will accept Mr. Porter's assertions as to the state of his own heart in preference to those of his virulent grit detractor. And the general verdict of those inter- ested in the welfal'o of 'Ir: Porter and good guvelnnlout is that many are now friendly to him who were undecided before and many of those who always trusted him DOW trust him the more. • • lion :lit'. Drury, Ontario Minis - 'tor of Agriculture, is repotted to have said at Niagara oil Dominion D,ay that, "Farmers had a great ileal more to bo thankful for than they generally believed." Our town cotcnl says the gentleman " never made a more truthful statement." Dear, dear, thou the farmers iu Ontario are not so " helpless and hopeless" as the grit press, the Era along with others, has boon assert- ingaud reiterating for years. Farm- ors,.the grit press yew aol.uuwledges it has been fooling thee. It now squarely admits this. It owns up that tip mote truthful statent'cut was - ever made than. tl'iat, " Farriers had a great deal more to be thankful for than they generally believed." That is if they believed the Eta and luanv of its grit confreres. We bolievo \1r, Drury's statement for it harmonises with the contentions of Tut; NEws•ItEcolin. And we think ever So much more of the Era for ackptowledging that Mr. Drury is right and it has bean wrong. , polity which has reigned paramount one would need to paint the natural in Canada has induced many to lily or gild refined gold. The op - look up reasons for their fuith in portunity was afforded ded those who that polity and caused thaw to be allege that Mr. Porter Lias lost the all the more firm in its support. confidence of the people, to show Even that good grit, Hon. Mr. that such was the case. The vi•tu• Drury,;Ontario Minister of Agricul- oua woman or the 1loneat man is not ture, publicly declared, the other in the habit the one of challenging day, that our "farmers had more to proof against her chastity or the other proof against his honesty. This of itaelf would create suspicion that matter's were not as they should be. Mr. Porter's friends were not called upon to publicly challenge the soundness of his politica, views. Left,ret returned to hie home iu 1587 after being declared the mem- ber elect for \Vest Huron ; and the so expressed himself. For he had been informed, in the language of our contemporary, that he would not find a "corporal's guard" to do Min honor, Whereas he found the gl't3:tt majority of his uld supporters welcoming hint as warmly as ever, though he also found a few dis- pleased with henssfor his vote in favor of equal rfglttg' to all the pro- vinces. And he was also made :aware of the fact that the majority of his former opponents were agreed that so far as this vexed vote was concerned they were iu accord with him. With those who honestly differ from Mr. Potter on his inter- pretation of the Constitution we have no quarrel, they have 5t8 touch fight to their Opinions as those who take au opposite view. lint is our our contemporary sincere in ' its berating Mr. Porter for hold- ing the sante views as the leaders of the grit party in and•out of the House? If our cuteul. i honest in its disapproval of Mr. Porter it necessarily follows that it must condemn Laurier, Blake, Mc- Kenzie, Mills, Edgar, Patterson, Joan McMillan and all the grit members of parliament, who, except four or five, voted tho same way as Mr. Porter. It does seam that it makes a vastdifference. to. differencto. our par- tisan cotetlli as to whose ox is gored. \Vliy has Uhu 2Vew Era not lashed Jbhn McMillan for his doing the same -thing for which it lashes Mr. Porter? BA no, it compounds the sin to which a grit is inclined while dnnulims a conservative. fur }laving the very. same mind. ED/ T OIlLAL i\' c) TLs S. Said is Grit the other day •:—"I f. we can only set and keep by the' elFs Orangemen and Catholics we shall extirpate the influence of both a111 bring to power our friends." Yea, and verily. - Not long since the 0/obe charac- terized Itev Mr. Campbell. a Metho- minister, as it liar because lie dared disputed that journal's view of the school law. As if to make amends the Globe next pitched into the Catholics, and when the Rev editor of the catholic Record corrected the 010t1,' it says.t}tn..oditor is a fit subject for a straight jacket. Though the Globe may have amon- opoly of all the truth and wisdom •of the country concealed somewhere about its King street premisea,there are those who would like to see the combine broken and some of those commodities put on the market through its editorial columns. • The anniversary of the battle of the Boy'ue will be celebrated this week iu commemoration of one of the most important events in British history. The. two leading points in this county where celebrations will take place on Friday, the 12th, are \Viuglianl and. Exeter. It is a curl • ous fact that it is owing to a deciaion of one of the popes that the anni- versary of the occasion, on which the most deadly blow ever struck at the papacy was consummated, now takes place on the 12th July. The battle of the Boyne actually took place on the 1st July, 1690. But in order to correct the old style which - w'as considered erroneous, pope Gregory put On the calendar from the let to the 12th and the amended calendar has been accepted by all nations. The Toronto Globe with all its faults is a marvel of journalistic enterprise from a business stand point. The supplements to its Saturday editions are newsy and natty. The letter press and illuatra- `t1r. Porter's newspaper critic in Clinton is utterly astounded, per- fectly flabbergasted, at the lack' of bun -feed buncombe at the meeting here. But as everjone knows who had previously heard the gentleman speak iu public, even iu the exciting time of an election, he never in- dulges in, flfapdoodle nor attempts to throw himself or others into hya- terite. IIo came to the people to make an honest statement on a public question. He accomplished what lie came for. On no important feature of his vote in favor of pro- vincial rights was the correctness of his position 01' statement questioned. 1'o create enthusiasm you must have opposition. MI'. Porter in Clinton was situated somewhat like his countryman in Glasgow, who, with a C011ll'ade, was having a friendly chat. Whatever viowa Donald ad- vanced David world assent to. This went on for some time until the onosidodness of the conversation began to pall upon Donald, when he indignantly turned to David, saying :—"Mon, why dao ye no contradic me 1 just tae prove that thele are twa o' us here?" Had Mr. Porter been rude 1th might have remarked as Donald did. Our town contemporary acts as though he felt very much disgrunt- led because Mr. Robert Porter, M.I'., did not propose a vote of want of confidence in himself after ad- dressing a public meeting in CLin- ton. This would indeed have been very bad form. ilritish ,jurisprud• ence as well as British fair play assumes a elan to bo innocent until tions are uniquely clear. Indeed proven guilty. The votes of the on the whole we are not sure that people established the fact that the that, 01111.' as a "disturbing clement" majority of them in this riding re- in national mattere isnot doing equ- posed confidence in him. Mr. Porter ally good work. Its exasperating had no more right to question the doubts as to the soundno9s of the civil existence of that feeling now than „4-% At ie'_. They have evory' confidence in his judgment Lind integrity. Why then aI16uld they stultify themselves by publicly questioning it? To du so would have given color to the as- sumption that they doubted hint. It is well known that Sir Rich- ard Cartwright is cue of the 'nest virulent opponents of Sir John A. Macdonald, personal animosity en- tering largely into his opposition. But what did the knight of the two. sided shield say at the Reform de- monstration in Toronto, Saturday of bast week. ale justified his vote against (J'IJnien's resolutions and said inuch as he would liked to have voted the other way, and by so doing voted want of confidence in Sir Jo4tu, ho could not do so without violating itis sworn ()blip tiou to support the constitution of Canada, He also said it was not the first time. he. had opposed a vote want of confidence in Sir John. Another occasion being when he supported him on the (tial vote. stud, tell it not in Gat.h, publish it not the caves of the grits, Sir Rich- ard said he was astonished to find Sir John doing right on these two occasions. l'ralse from Sir Hubert is praise indeed ' In the O'Brien vote almost every gait in the house agl sed with Sir Richard that Sir John did light, The Nc'•h'ra says the conservative ranks are split into several factions over' that vote. Seeing that tho grit Frit is rot agreed with'the grit leaders, and we suppose it mast represent others besides itself, would we not bo right in assuming that the grit ranks are split. into factions, with .our v ort iy :eotefn the head or tail of one of them. \Ve rather think it will fall into line and -.justify John ?sIeMillan and Blake and Cartvlright when. election times conte around. SETTERS TO THE EDITOR. We Irish if to be d'et,nctlp undeiweed that we do not hold baro'lose rrdponeible fur f!ae npininnx E'xpree,:ed by Currehpoudents.- Eu. Naws•Ra- - emir). Editor News -Record. DEAR Silt,—The JVetr Era last week while prating about scurrility refers to me as one who is known by his "street howling and silliness.” While condemning mo for an alleged sin he commits the very offence which he claims to have a holy horror of. Nero I guilty as he says, he is ten tittles rebre so. .My silk• ness consists in tolling the truth : his silliness in telling untruths. I am content to abide by the verdict of my fellow citizens who have read both onr statements. Yours, ONE WHO Was InFaE. CURRENT TOPICS. NO POLITICAL PRIESTCRAFT. J. L. Hugh's of Toronto has re- ceived the conservative nouninatithl in Nest :Middlesex to oppose 0. W. Ross, Minister, of Education. in referring to public matters Mr. Hughes says: "In regard to the whole 'natter, I would like to say that. .1 am not at war with the Roman Catholic Church as a re- ligious institution, but as a political organization. As I and true to the principles of the Equal Rights Association, I would grant to every man every legal right I ask for my- self."— Empire. ROSS' ROCKY ROAD The Toronto News says :—"When James L. 1-Iu'_hea canters into Mid- dlesex on his pure white Protestant horse, with ' Equal Rights,' ems blazoned on his banner, the Riding will be exceedingly rocky for Mr. Ross. Our James is not only smart but lucky, end there is more in luck than :nen think there is." AS OTHERS SEE US. Glen. Butler in a public ,speech the other day in Maine advocated the annexation of Canada and referrs 'ed to this country in the following terms :—"The climatic advantages of Canada are that it is cold enough to compel everybody to work in order to live and the land is fertile enough to give every man abundant returns fur his labor, Henca results RO ERTSON is holding a THIRTY DAYS SLAUGHTER :-: SALE. ‘4,-- CALL and GET PRIGS or SEND for SAMPLES. „- Robertson's �reat Cash Sore the wealth of the nation and the enterprise of its people. `The British possessions in North America which tlse D'nnieion of (Jtilttht Folds wv.thiu bis- boundaries have an area of 3,470,392 square nr't1es, whilt: the United States (out inellltlitt8 tllaska, Uf x'llleli til" limits lite uulutnwo) has an tlreat t:f 2,970,000 square utiles, ur raisin!; 500,000 squire miles less than Canada. The laud, of 0 'nada not. fertile 1 She has quit, one quarter More land fitted for wheat cultivation than has the whole of United States. The average pro- duction of wheat per acre in the (Tnit.'d States 111 the year 1887 ss 0. a little over twelve bushels, while in the same year of \Manitoba, where we can hardly realize there is aught to support life, the yield was 15,500,000 bushels, ,:at an averag. of twenty-seven hostels to the acre. It may be safely said, for 1 will trouble \nu with a ft w 1110n0 static• tics, that leaving out the warn out wheat lands of the United States, Canada has twice the extent of unworn -Out lands, which produce an average of more than twice the numhar of bushels to the acre that are produced by the nv,.•rage lands of the l'uitrd States, and .on sortie lands wheat have been raised iu the largest. producing qurintaties for twenty years in tiuccession without a fertilizer. _ -- In And About The County. . —'Tire Scott Act was defeated to Elgin by 1,6$'` votes so far as heard front. —Tele Masonic (rand Bodge tweets at Owen Sound July 17, and will be attended by several from here. — JI r. anti Dire. Woodman, of Londeshoro', were the guests of their daughter, Mrs. Roberts, Brussel.:, last week. —By the death of an aged rela- tive, D1 r. W. G. Betts, Arran, has become' the owner uta property in Picketing township, valued at :$10, 000. —Rogersoti's sawmill, et Blyth, Ont„ was burnt last Thursday. The twill was worth $4,500, insured for $2,000. The proprietor now lives its California. — At Exeter on Tuesday of last week DIr. II. Kinsman, dentist, while arranging a rainwater spout during a' thunderstorm, received a severe shock from lightning, his left side being considerably discolored ---Mr. John McLeod, of \Vest Zorra, hail the hest matched team of horses in the county of Oxford killed hy lightning while standing tinier a tree • during 'Tuesday's storm. —idr. HIerbert Elliott,we11-kiiowu in town. and formerly mail clerk on the 0. T. R. from Windsor to Lon• don, but latterly on the L. H. it 13. R.. is very 01 at London from.an attack of muscular rheumatism. —John Wilkie, of Mitchell, has brought a suit against Banker Smith and constable Dunlop of Seaforth, for $1,700 for false imprisonment and being charged with forgery. It will he tried in September, at Str'ar. ford: •—Arthur Roberts, a resident of Oakland, was chmrged before Squire Thompson of Brantford on \Vedneas day with an attempted criminal assault upon the person of (Tara Roberts, his sister-in.law, aged 22 years. The accused lived with his brother, and one day last May while staying at home he committed the alleged offence. Mrs. Roberts ran out of the house when he first approached her, but bearing • the baby 'cry, she returned, when the tumult was committed. The prisoner waasent up for trial. —Reports • received from Many sections of the Provinbe infiicste that high land crops give promise of being better than for many years r 411111110111111.01111 past, while low land crops are expected to revel the average. —Tire report comes from Albany, Minnesota, that black diphtheria has broken out iu 113 families. Both 0 101(10, and tit school'' have keen clew'!, and, tate celebration: 011111e 4tf1, was ahawk t;ttI. --\1 r. ;•4lunuel (:ox, a farutt•r a ftw toiler 8011111 taxa of Braudori, had the misfortune of httvinu+ his granary and aban t 1,000 oushels of wheat burnt un floe 28 Jute, along with a quantity of machinery which. was stored in the building. Caused. by the explosion of a lantern -lamp. OWENS R JOHNSON, lJarrf:Sleiw, :\LlJiare STREET, - ANn QUEEN STREET, E. 1V. J. OWENS. - CLINTON, • - 11i.1•TH T. V. %JOHN SON MARKET REPORTS.. (Corrected every Tuesday afternoon.) CLINTON. Flour $5 00 to 5 50 Fait Wheat, new ,t old 91) to 93 Spring Wheat (11 to 90 Barley .. C 10 to 0 48 Dat. .. 0 28 to 0 28 Peas 0 54 to 0 54 Apples,(winter) per bbl 1 OD to 1 50 Potatoes .. 0 85 to 0 40' Butter .. 0 12lto 0 18 Eggs 0 11 to 0 12 Hay 8 00 to 9 00 Cordwood 3 00 to 4 00 Beef .. 0 00 to 0 00 Wool 0 18 to 0 20 Pork 6 50 to 0 70 MORTGAGE : SALE Or 1ALt'AYL6 TOWN, PROPERTIES Business Stand and Dwellings.. Pursuant to the Power of Sale contained in certain mortgages, which will be produced at time and place of 'sale, there will be sold by Public Auction, by DAVID DICKiNSON, Auctioneer, on Saturday, 10th of Aug. 18 9 At the hour of 2 o'clock, p. na., at the RATTENBURY HOUSE, CLINTON. The following valuable Town properties, viz : FIRST—All that certain parcel or tract of land ordaining 12 9/10 square perches of land, more or less, and comprising a frontage en Victoria street of 45 feet, 9 inches, more or less, and, which said parcel or tract of land and premises may be better described us comprising the whole of sub•dividion A, of Town lot Number 292 of the said town of Clinton, excepting the northerly portion thereof, comprising a frontage on saki street of 200. a inches, which was conveyed by John Finkle and Sophia Finkle to one Ann McGowan, by need, bearing date Ole 21st day of October, A. D. 1850. Upon those premises is erected a good rough cast house and a frame tenement, both rented at fair rentals. SECOND --All that certain parcel of land and premises in the said Town of Clinton, eontatning• b) admeasurement 221t 0 inches frontage on Victoria street, and being composed of the northerly 22 feet 0 inches of Town lot Number 292, on the west side of Victoria street in said Town and better described as comprising a width or frontage of 22 feet a inches on Victoria street as measured from the north west angle of said lot mei extending burl: the same width t0 the Bye incL, Otherwise known as fling street. On Chia property there is erected a frame store whish is well situated for a business stand. TIIlRD—That certain parcel or tract of land' and prem'ses situate I%iug and being in the Bail Town of Clinton, containing hy admeasurement one rood of land, be 0,e same, moreor less, being composed 01 'mw tot Number 877, on•tbe west side of I.'shorne street, in the said Town of Clin ton. On this property there is erected a first class frame vottage in good repair and Well rented. TERMS. 10 per cent of the purchase money of each property to be paid on day of sale. Balance in 30 days thereafter. A portion of the purchase money of each property may remain on mortgage on easy terms. Further conditions of sale made known on day of sato or may be had on applica- tion to the undersigned. DAVID DICKINSON MIANNiNG K SCOTT. Auctioneer. Vendor's Solicitors. Dated this 8111 July 1889, at Clinton, in said, County. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. • A contract will he let at Holntesville bridge, Goderich Township, on Monday, the 22nd day of Jolt., present year, at one o'clock P. M. for letting the building of a bridge about one hun- dred feet long In same place. Plan and specitl• cation will be given one the grounds et the time of letting the contract. 555•td ,JAHN COX, Reece, NOTE LOST. A note made 1) the undersigned. in favor of l'arrtti d 'i'isdall, Clinton, pay able In .lilac, I88 , ne been lost or mislaid. All parties are there- fore cautioned against negotiating the same, as payment has bean stopped. ('iinb,, .1nnt' Itth, 1"t9. .JOiiN SCRi'•TON L•'. DINS1.1'JY. s a