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We :Inesitity. Oct. 9th. 1889
DANGER AHEAD.
Tho eternal trying to fit a square
peg into a round hole without doing
Bonne paring down is what 'many
individuals, cowwunitiee and gov-
ernments are ceaselessly trying to
do.
Some of those square-peggers are
trying to fit this Canada of ours into
a misfit place in the federation of
the United States of America.
Canada will want considerable
trimming off before she will be fit
for Annexation, let alone assiwila-'
tion with our neighbors across the
border.
First we will have to be shorn of
that squire -cornered individuality
which protuberates •and finds ex-
pression in the flag that " for a
thousand years has braved the bat-
tle and the breeze " and which floats
over a larger area and protects more
peoples and property than does any
other in the known world.
There will be trouble ahead when
this fitting process shall have been
begun, whether it be by renegades
at home or by bumptious foreign-.
ers. But annexation isan uukuown
quantity in Canada and as a serious
subject is 'never talked of here.
Not only is it repugnant to our
national and patriotic feelings, but
annexation is improbable on account
of the many square material inter-
ests 'which Canada would have to
be deuuded of ere it would fit into
the hole circumscribed for it in the
United States compact, by some of
our mistaken American neighbors.
Of course aituexsiti.on in many
miuds takes the forty of Commercial
Union, Restricted ansl Unrestricted
Reciprocity,, etc. But all these
terms mean the same thing. They
mean the giving up of our preaeut
uniquely though profitably inde-
pendent position.
Unique in that while so far from
YBritain proper we are yet so near to
ter both in blood and .interests.
That the universally reaching ten-
tacles of the Mother Country are
protectiugly stretched abroad thro'-
out the whole world to guard our
commerce and our citizens is quite
true in. spite of the clap trap of
some blustering Canadians who aver
that Britain isallowing our people
to bo imposed upou and robbed and
imprisoned iu the Behring Sea.
The power of the British Goveru-
meut is not hastily exercised after
the manner of mob law lynchers,
but when the whole facts of the
case are made known in this or any
other case, the British tentacles will
reach forth and give the tyrants a
warning grip that will compel them
to snake ameuda for robbery of
Canadians on the high seas, if they
will not snake the reparation from
a sense of justice..
But not only is our patriotism
and 'our sense of protection •tho
square corners which would h'avo to
be whittled off us in order to fit us
into the great family of American
States to the south of ue. We
should have to put up with pieces
being whittled off our dollars.
Every bushel of wheat a Canadian
farther raises would have 10 or 15
cents whittled off the price of it.
Every bushel of oats he raises
would have 7 cents whittled off its
price, Every bushel of corn he
raises would have the same amount
whittled off its value in order to fit
us in the cosumercial annexation
bole. Every head of our horned
cattle would have $5 whittled off its
value, and so on to tl.e end of the
chapter.
Then the whole fabric of our
Government, the best the world has
ever seen, would be menaced as the
fabric of the American Government
is now seriously menaced. The
American people are now brought
face tl tileeAth nit iilnttaenae square',
peg right at home without (waking
abroad fat• Malterial to whittle down
to suit their circumstances. The
following from the New York Ex-
aminer will explain itself :
"The permanent and ultimate euo-
cess of our method of governing is
not yet conclusively established. As
our second century opens before us
we see many dangers looming into
sight. A republic form of rule is not
a perpetual motion machine only
needing to be well built, well oiled,
and well started, and then left to
itself. On the contrary, it is a living
organism, needing food and shelter,
and capable of growth, of increased
vitality, of even larger accomplish.
talents, and capable also of decline
and death. Any one familiar with
the history of our own time can call
to mind without effort many of the
besetting dangers that must be
warded off if the United States are
to hold their own through the twen-
tieth century.
" One of these perils rises to view
when we learn that since 1860 there
have come to our chores 10,000,000
immigrants ; that at the preeentthey
are, coming et the rate of 500,000 a
year ; and that the number for a
single year bas risen as high as 800,-
000. There were two years in suc-
cession in which Germany sentus a
total of 460,000. From Russia and
from Austro-Hungary come from
40,00 to 80,000, and from Italy
more than 40,000.
"Now it is not to be denied that
many—very many- of these
grants make excellent American
citizens. Thousands are skilled and
industrious artisans, and thousands
more are hard working, thrifty and
fairly intelligent. But it is also not
to be denied that there are tens of
thousands who are ignorant, lazy
and vicious, and from their ranks
come nearly all our dangerous anar-
chists and a large part of our crimin-
als. Their presence is an actual
menace to the well-being of the
Republic. And even when they die,
their children, who will take their
places, will be almost as unfit for
the duties' of American citizenship
as they. Is it not our bounden duty
to be considering this matter seri-
ously and to take steps to prevent
ourselves from this threatened
harm ?"
THE FRENCH 'SCHOOLS IN
ONTARIO. .
A 'line must be drawn between
the Catholic Schools, in Ontario and
the Freugh Schools of the Province
or rather the English' Schools in
which Freuch is made the leading
language almost to the total exclus-
ion of English. The Government's
own appointed , Commissioners
pointed out the defects in those
Schools and to souse extent suggest-
ed remedies. Will ,Mr. Mowat's
Imo In by not hug Net trade plus for 100,000,000 people,but have
with our next door neighbors who only. 60,090,090 to, sell to." Awl so
already have more of what we want they want to oularge the market of
to sell then they know what to`. do those who can manufacture for
with. Tho Atnerioan trade advo- 100,000,000 by opening free to
nate spreading out and trying to find them the Canadian market of 5,000, -
markets for their surplus in coup- ; Q00. Very nice; but what are
tries that do nut produce in kind. Canadian artisans and inauufactyr-
The American Mad and Export Tour- ere going to do about it? They
nal touches on the policy taken up will naturally say " no you don't,
to some extent by Caw* It You protect yourselves by a 40 per
ceut. tariff, we Canadians protect
ourselves by a 20 per cent. tariff.
If you are so mightily anxious for
free trade bring dowu your tariff to
at leant as low as ours just as a
guarantee of good faith. When.
you do this wu will be prepared to
talk to you about free trade."
g,5,71)rnniout or ll.') Hon. 'Mr, Ross
be equal to the occasion and alive
to the interests of the people by
endeavoring to apply the remedies?
If we were to judge by the past
we should say not. The next sitt-
ing of the Legislature will deter-
mine. If they do not, then outraged
public opinion will take eummary
vengeance on the powers that be.
For our School system is above party-
ism and must be maintained and
its efficiency increased regardless of
Tory or Grit party iuterosts. The
Toronto R'ep's writes of the Report
of the Commissioners dealing with
this matter :—
says :—
The Argentine Republic export
goods to about the value of 162,000,-
000 yearly ; of these exports tbe
United States takes a very large per
tentage. The imports of the Argen-
tine Republic average $98,000,000
yearly, of which textile productions
and clothes amount to $21,000,0001
iron and its manufactures to 110,-
000,000 ; coal, coke, etc., $4.000,000;
railway and telegraphic materials,
$3,000,000, and wool and its manu-
factured products to about $6,000,000.
As the largest purchaser from the
Argentine Republic we ought, accor
ding to the "mutual reciprocity"
theory of tree traders, to be the`
greatest Heller of gcods, but as a
matter of fact we are the smallest,
the dietribution of imports from
various countries to the Argentine
Republic being in this wise:—
England, 33 per, cent.
France, 17 per cent.
Germany, 9 per cent.
Belgium, 7.5 per cent.
United States, 7.4 per cent.
These figures knock the free
traders' plea of our lack of trade in
the Southern republics being due to
our "prohibitory tariff" out of the
ring. For the tariff of Germany ie
well nigh as highly protective as our
own, while that of England is higher
upon tho chief exports of the Argen-
tine republic—coffee, cocoa, and
rubber, to wit. In tact we admit
most of the exports of the Southern
republics and of the West Indies and
the Philippines duty free, while
even free -trade England,taxes most
of them. And yet the treedom of
importation does not create a great
trade between us and them. What
is lacking? What inducements do
England France, and Germany offer
to trade between their ports and
those of Spanish America which the
United States withholds? The
answer is plain, subsidies to steam-
ships. Germany, France, and Eng-
land have regular lines of steamships
plying to and from Spanish American
harbors. The United States has not.
Germany, France, and England have
such linos because they subsidize
them. The United States. has no
such lines because it refuses subsi-
dies. That is the case in a nutshell,
And it is a shell that shute out at
least a hundred millions of dollars
worth of trade from our coasts every
year.
EDITORIAL NOTES. '•
The American people " don't ap-
pear to have nothing." A leading
journal' across the burder sums up
the wants of the people there in
the following way : " Tis is country
needs a National Clower, a National
marriage and divorce law, and a
National bankrupt law.
"When the commission was ap-
pointed the • insinuation was made
that its report would be a. white-
washing one. The report we believe
'to be fair and honest in every par-.
ticular. The Commissioners have
not minced matters nor have they
attempted to cloak any objectionable
features which they found existir
in the schools they inspected. They
have reported impartially on what
they bave seen, and have been out•
spoken in stating their objections.
What has been denied in the Legis-
lature they have shown to be true,
and their report must lighten the
darkness for the Minister of Educa-
tion, who has championed the
Government school policy and given
the lie to those who asserted that an
alien tongue had driven English out
of the public schools in these two
counties in an English province.
The Mowat Government has now
the recommendations of the com-
mission before them. Will they act
upon them or pigeonhole them ?
Whatever they do will have to be
thorough, if they wish to show that
they have any respect for public opin-
ton on this important question. If
they do nothing they may expect to
heal, plenty about it before next elec-
tion."
FOREIGN TRADE,
The American trade. journals are
wiser in their dayand generation
than the commercial annexat.onists
of Canada who aro continually
figuring on the mythical losses we
Some of the New England and
Western States would like to make
trash ar•rangetuenta with Canada.
But the central or Federal author-
ities say, " No you don't, you have
no treating making power." Yet,
Canadian mugwumps would have
Canada contract a commercial
scheme with the United States so
that we could get a treating wakiug
power which the American States
themselves do not possess.
Pulitzer of the New York World
was a reporter in St. Louis a few
years ago and previous to that
was a stevedore. Now he is one of
the wealthiest newspaper men in
the United States. So wealthy
that the other day he subscribed
$100,000 towards the locating of a
world's fair in New York in 1892.
Mural : 1)oi1't give TuE NEWS -RE -
COED reporter a cold shoulder. Ile
may be a millionaire some of these
d,ty's.
Ns
Illinoie State is one of the free
and independent sovereignties whieljr
go to make up the United States
agregation of 60,000,000 of people.
From latest accounts the crop of
mortgages there has been increasing.
There are now, 1889, in process of
m stu:•ity $.402,053,118, face value,
of mortgagee as against a. measly
crop in 1880 of only the face value
of $196,656,074, and the value of
lands has not increased during the
period named. There has been a
decrease in land values in twenty
comities, an increase in twenty-five
counties and in sixteen counties the
average value has been maintained.
Just think of it ! ye hungerers and
thirsters after the flesh pots of the
modern Egypt, as that State is
called, 400 millions of dollars of in-
debtedness by individuals of that
one State alone, whereas the nation-
al iudubtedness of all Canada is
While we think it is time that
either the duty on flour should be
iuereased or the duty un wheat
lowered, there is no sense in the
absurd statements made by some
Canadian mills'( at their conven-
tions that the admission into Can-
ada, free, of cheap AsVeriean wheat
would raise the price of Canadian
wheat. Why do these millers want
American wheat to come into Can-
ada free 1 Surely for the one and
only reason that then they could
buy it cheaper, and buy Canadian
wheat cheaper thou now. The
illogical contention that cheaper
American wheat would enhance the
value of Canadian wheat • is on a
par with many other of the argil
ments of free traders.
les than 300 millions.
The laws of supply and demand
are as sure to meet as that the Crav-
ing -of hunger will be satisfied if
food is possible to be procured. Fast
ocean steamers and railway trains
are demanded by the travelling
public, and raciug and apeeding is
the order of the day to meet that
demand. This thing will be over -
dune some of these days. Fright-
ful loss of lifQ will be the 'result of
this senseless desire to annihilate
space, Collisions or bursting of
boilers will be the result of this un-
due tension. And who will be to
blame ? The public for, encourag-
ing such. reckless speeding in order
to Says a few minutes time that
would likely he frittered away any-
how.
Mr. ^Wiman and his American
manufacturing friends and his rene-
gade Canadian . allies say : " The
United States can manufacture sup -
Mr. Wilfrid Laurier is the leader
of the Reformers of the Dominion..
He says the Jesuit Act is all right.
The Toronto Globe is considered
the newspaper leader 4f the same
party. It says the Jesuit Act is all
wrong. Laurier is sincere.. What
about the Globe? By its support
of Mr. Laurier it supports the Jesuit
Estates Act, Many think that the
Globe's opposition is only put on to
make capital for Mr. Mowat. And
Mr. Mowat's masterly silence on
the quoetion gives color to this
view. The little premier is the
greatest political equestrian of
modern times. IIe is a Jesuit in
the most invidious meaning of the
term, and can keep ono leg on both
sides of the Jesuit steed in an amaz-
ing now you eco it and now you
don't see it style.
The Toronto Globe's financial
article on Saturday contains the
the following suggestive statement :
—"Canadian bankers give far better
accommodation to farmers in the
North-west than do the bankers of
the States to the farmers of the
North-west and South•wost. The.
rates in our North-west are 7 and 8
per cent, while in the States they
aro 12 to 15 per cent." And yet
the Globe and its fellow commercial
annexationists are eager not only that
American farmers shall have access
to Canadian markets to lessen the
puce ut'Cau titian growu wheat, and
oats and corn and cattle, but they
are also anxious that Canadians
shall pay that price for the purpose
of assimilating the conditions of
the two peoples in other respects=
even to tbo extent of paying 12 to
15 per cont interest for money in-
stead of 6 to 8 per cent as now.
of the Province, representing over
two and a -half million dollars in
value. The chief portion of the
salmon pack is shipped to England
by sailing veeaels, the average voy-
age via Cape Horn occupying 135
days. Seven vessels will be requir-
ed to carry the pack of 1889.
What's the matter with the 60,000,-
000 market right alongside British
Columbia? It ie. in this as in the
majority of the natural products of
the sea and soil. The Americana
have tuore of their own than they
know what to do with. Poor effete
old England is the market for both
American and Canadian fish and
farm produce.
At a meeting of the Women's Alli-
ance in Chicago a few days ago,
Mrs. Harley, in her report of the
Erring Woman's Refuge of that
oity said, "The public; it appears,
has not deemed it uecossary to
reform the erring men who- have
betrayed these girls and spade this
Refuge necessary. The most of the
betrayers are married mon." Our
own Canada has a sprinkling of
this class of married ,nen. In their
case especially the "permitted crime'+
should be made a criminal one.
Aecoi•diug to shipments from the
U•sited States of food products the
Americans must be sparingly diet-
ing themselves now a days, as com-
pared with their voracious tendon-
cies of a few months ago, wheu our
commercial annexation frieuts gave
out that the Yankees, would almost
be glad of a meal of tou-penuy nails
of Cauadian origin if the duty could
be taken off. But an American
paper recently points out the ad-
vantage of the English market over
the 60,000,000 market in these
words: " Choice turkeys command
$4 to $5 each in London market,
One steamship which sailed from
New York city last Saturday carried
700 cases of selected turkeys destin-
ed for the British markets. It is
quite probable that similar trans-
Atlantic shipments will be made
by all the steamers leaving the port
'of New York during the winter
months. John Bull has taken
quite a fancy to American apples,
oranges, cranberries and turkeys, as
well as to our breadstuffs, dairy pro-
ducts and dressed beef," ^ -
The salmon run tlnie .year on the
Fraser has been phenomenal. Dur-
ing the run every morning at each
of tho cannery wharves there would
bo from 10,00 to 30,000 fish—more
than could o handled. About
425,000 can s, containing 48 one -
pound tins each, is the total pack
Capital punishment has often
been discussed. • Its infliction Its a
deterrent of crime has by many been
considered of doubtful use. Some
light is thrown on how this matter is
viewed by citizens in a leading cen-
tre of the United Status. A jury is
sought to be impanelled in Chicago
to try several persona for the murder
of one Dr, Cronin there. Some
800 persons have been examined for
jurors, but only four competent
men out of all that number have
boon secured as yet, the larger num-
ber of the rejected having been sot
aside because they had read the
rvspaper accounts of the alleged
murder and expressed opinions
based thereon, as to the guilt or in-
nocence of the accused. But not
five per cent have declared their
opposition to the death penalty be
ing inflicted in clearly proven cases
of murder. The prime and funda-
mental question is that of the effect
of [Ise death penalty in .deterring
from the crime of murder, as com-
pared with that of other possible
modes of punishment. Nearly all
thoughtful persons are now agreed,
we presume, that this is the Main, if
not only, point to bo considered ;
that the idea of retribution, or ven-
geance, or oven punishment proper
is one with which the state, as such,
has nothing to do. So far as we
are aware tho experience of all
countries which have madetrial
has gone to el -ow that the death
penalty cannot be safely abolished;
that no other has the same terror
fur the cowardly and cruel class to
which the coop -blooded murderer
almost invariably belongs. If this
be so it should eettle the question.
The duty of society to protect the
lives of ita members is one that no
sentimental considerations can set
aside, and from which no people
with whom duty is a paramount
motive may shrink.
A BRUCE CQUNTY CLAD,
IAN DJ41141 THE H4TDS
OF TIIFT,
Archie: McLee►ra, stl'[Liited States
prisoner, died. 1n': LI* emergency
hospital, 'Detroit,"week. To
the physica f death was s he result of
slow fever, b.Ort litosg' r + io know the
circumstances oltioj A,titat his death
was caused by a (teen tieelitrg over
the disgrace of beiri arrested. On
the 25th of last month Detectives
Crandall and Greene:arrested Archie
McLean and Duilean-.MoCullougb,
and when the prisonere'were aeart;h-
ed a small amount of counterfeit,
money was found in their clothing.
They were taken into the United
States Courts, had a preliminary
hearing, and were bound over to
await action of the United States
grand jury. Since McLean's cath
a reporter, interviewed McCullough,
who is still iu jail, and heard the
following story from him : "McLean
and 1 lived at Tiverton,Bruce county,
Ontario. Vire left there together
and went to Oscola, Mich., where,
we entered the employ of H. M.
Loud, and ' went to the lumber
camps. 'When we got through
with our work we cave to Detroit.
. which was after the middle of
August. While on our way dowry
we ran acrdss a man who had some
bad. dollars. They were stamped
like the ordioary silver dollar, bet
were so smooth and black they
could not be passed ou anybody,
not, even on a blind man. We
were going to use the pieces as
decorations fur bridles. 1 had five
or six and McLean had two. While
in Detroit we ulet a young matt who
saw the bad money. After looking
at it he asked for one of theta, and
Mac gave hint one of his two. The
police saw the one he )sad, and he
told them he got it off us. The re-
sult was our arrest, .. The bad pieces
did nut look any more like the real
money than does paper money ,ad-
vertisements which are sometimes,
distributed about the streets. We'
had no idea of passing the money,
and even had we wauted to, we
had sense enough to know it was,
impossible. McLean had as nice -
people as ever lived. Ile was a.
young fellow, 23 years of age, and
had never been married. The die -
grace broke his heart.
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A CHAT ABOUT TRADE.
Mr. S. Carsley, of Montreal, war
interviewed by a Boston Herald re-
porter when in that city last week,
when the following interesting con.•
venation occurred :—
" Mr. Carsley, what can you say
of the state of trade in Canada I'
" The prospects for the coming
fall we consider good, particularly
,in Lower Canada, where the large
quantity of rain title increased the
hay drop, which is a 'very important,'
element down .there. All through
we consider the prospect good for
fall trade."
—Cattle et one time last year
were carried from Boston to fiver -
pool for 27s per head. Now the
shipments for October, and in some
eases in November and December,
run from 85s to 95s per heal,
several steamers being engaged for
the next three voyages at the latter
figure.
" Is the mercantile soundness of
houses in your section generally
satisfactory 1"
"I should say that our importing
houses are sounder than they have
ever been. One weakness, however,
is the large number of supply stores
throughout the country—branch
houses would be the term used in
the United States --retail stores.
opened by wholesalers."
In'what way is that a detriment
It i5supposed to extend business, in
it not 1"
" No ; the object of opening these
branch stores is to get rid of surplus
stock that cannot be sold in a legiti-
mate way ; also for financial pur-
poses."
" We do not see so many of your
Canadian buyers in our markets as
formerly. How do you account for
that 1"
"13y our increased facilities for
manufacsl,uring."
1° Do many Americans visit Mon-
treal during the summer 1"
" Yes ; the number seems to have
increased of late years, and they
have spent more money for merehan•
dice the last two summers than
they have for some years before."
"t What are your views on com-
mercial union 1"
" 1 think that alt the talk about
commercial union is a perfect.
farce."
CURRENT TOPICS.,
. WiLL tie I
If Mr. Charlton's devotion to the.
Equal Rights cause is deeper than
Isis devotion to the cause of Uritiam,
he, of course, will go to Haldiwand
to assist in defeating Mr. Colter—
assuming that gentleman will be
nominated by the Liberals of that
constituency—having voted in the
House of Commons against Mr.
O'Brien's motion on the Jesuits'
Estates question. if Mr. Charlton,
fails to put in an appearance, disims
terested onlookers will be inclined
to think that the age of .huusbug has
not passed away.
POOR, NEGLECTED 'IRELAND.
fret:red, is only a few hours dia.
taut from Wales., Will the Queen -
ever again visit that neglected por..
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