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The Huron News-Record, 1889-10-16, Page 4• The Huron News -Record E.50 a Year—$1.201u Advance. i The man does not du justice to his gamines who speeds less ,dr advertising thou he does in rent.—A. T. 6'rsw.(nr, the o,iiUunaire merchant f New York. YYcdnesday. Oct. HIM. 1889 THE BLOOMIN' AMERICAN FARMER. Though we will not say that the American farmer is the helpless and hopeless vagabond that Canadian renegades say our Canadian farmer is, we will say he ie not o4 the average as well off as the tiller of the soil on this side of the line. The American fanner could he 20 per cont. worse off thou our farmers and yet be in a good position. In fact statistics prove that ho iv nut within fifty per cent. as well otf and yet he lives and troves and has his being. The magnificent farms and buildings to be met with ocea- siunally across the border are often singled out as proof of the better position of the American farming class. It is theae exceptions, how- ever, that prove that general well- being is not the rule. Merchant maguates or manufac- turers who have made their wealth iu trade, or professional men, are generally the owners of these wealth indicating farms. Men who diver- sify the wear lit' head and brain by euipluyillg their legs and muscle and money iu dilletaute farming. But again as a rule these never pay. There comes to mind just now thy. disastrous experiences of Horace Wooly and Henry \Yard Beecher. Thu 'Toronto Empir i has taken 'the trouble to compare the official ret 1r'os of fanning statistics for the Shite of In liana and the Province of Outario, both fairly prosperous portions of their respective Confed- eration.-(. Unpatriotic Canadians will doubtless say these comparisons aro odious because they Shaw. the farmers of Ontario to be so much better off than their brethren in a generaily conceded prosperous Am• eriaan State. We may say that the yield per acre of staple farm products is shown to be from 50 per cont, to 150 per cont. greater por acre iu Ontario than in [Juliana. The greater yield tvith the bettor prices which prevail in Ontario give 'the following tables calculated for. say 10 acres in each locality. The Indiana farmer would .receive as below : 10 „rtes—\Vheat .. Cure .. Oats .... Barley... Rye Buckwheat BIay Potatoes Totals 1887. 1888. $107 80 $ 94 90 • 97 20 • 131 50 82 40 97 20 127 40 76 00 75 00 149 70 16.2 40 160 00 107 50 90 00 151 30 143 30 $877 90 $957 70 The Ontario farmer would receive as below : 1887. 10 acres—Wheat .. .. $113 70 " Corn , .... Oats..... .. Barley . .. Rye Buckwheat Hay Potatoes Totals 147 20 102 50 126 60 64 80 71 90 157 60 478 80 $1263 10 $1504 50 1888. $172 80 229 10 143 30 156 80 92 70 104 70 149 40 458 70 In a poor year the farmer would receive from the same acreage $1,263.10 in Ontario and 8888,90 in Indiana. In a good year he would receive $1,504.50 in Ontario and $957.70 in Indiana. Taking the good and the poor years together, the Ontario farmer would average $1,383 a year, while the Indiana farmer would average only $917. WHO CHANGES. The Globe wants to know :— "Does the leopard change his spots;" Authorities conversant with the habits of that quadruped say he does, about twice a year, when he is shedding his old coat and when ho is getting his new one. Tho point of the Globe is in reference to the poeitiou 'Dalton McCarthy has taken in politics. Taking the leo- pard as a standard Mr. McCarthy is surely justified in changing his political allegiance once in a life- time even if he should revert to it again, seeing that the unchange- able leopard does change hie coat twice .a year only to revert to his original appearance. But the Globe beats both the leopard and Mr. McCarthy in the evolutions of change which it develops. Naw it finds fault because we have not free trade. Then it ie wrathy be(.arse a higher tariff is not imposed on certain articles. NOW we should protect our fisheries and England should back us ttR. T'bea our fisheries aro not worth `he cost of incurring the enmity of our Republican neighbors. Now the Roman •Catholic(hierarchy is a foreign controlle4 lot of iguorant but scheming bigots. Then they are long suffering ehristiau men, whom the Orangotneu are seekiug to destroy. Now Riel was a right- eous rebel and the authorities at Ottawa were fiendish ty rantta Then Biel was a murderer of the deepest dye and the Ottawa i authorities vete pusillanimous cowards who dared nut bring him to justice fur fopr of offending French Canadian Roman Catholics. Now worryiug over the Canadian tariff Iowa because it tyles to believe they dis criminate against Great Britain. Thou advocatjug an outrageous palpable discrimination by desiring free trade with our foreign neigh- bors and the doubling of our present tariff against Great Britain Nuw denouncing the malcontents againat provincial rights and autonomy. Tho next week holding up these malcontents as., the up- holders of British supremacy. Ouu time petting Dalton McCarthy as one of the most thoughtful and bravo of Ca do's corning states• men. To-dayounaing hiiu down as a changeling leopard because he cauuot jump jinl crow with the Ham ease the Globe can, and is so consis- tent as to find fault with Grit as well as Tory who cannot see through his spectacles. 1 f Dalton McCirtlly is dishonest for once chatrging,uot his views but his party allegiance, how intensely so is the Globe for preten- ding to change' its views five hun- dred times, but its party allegiance not once 1 Anything to beat the Tories and help the Grits goes with the Globe. IMPIOUS PAPERS The city of Quoboc was visited by a calamitous event a few days ago. By some freak of nature a portion of the almost impenetrable rock upon which that city is built was traversed by fissurea. The laud or rather rock was city property at 'one time and portions of it had in the usual way passed into the hands of purchasers who had built on it from time to time. These fissures or rents in the rock Paused a'large portion of rock to separate from the main body of the cliff, of which it formed a part, and slide down burying houses and several people iu its relentless march. Now comp the Grit papers and charge the ;Dominion Government with assuming the power of the Omnipotent and splitting up the bane of that part of the earth at Quoboc. Tho Globe in mild im- piety calling tho Minister of Public Works "Shabby Langevin" because he did not control the Omnipotent, and it even goes so far as to call upon the Government to provide for the relatives of those killed by the rock slide. The city of Quebec controls the property in question and if this disaster could have been avoid- ed the city is responsible. As a matter of fact the Govornmont has, in years past, at the request of the City Engineer of Quebec, expended money to prevent loose rocks from sliding, which they had no right to do,andsocompletely satisfied the En- gineer that he made no more requests If the disaster was preventible the city or its Engineer is responsible. It is` a shabby piece of business for tho Globe to twit the Minister of Public Works fur his not having the power of the Omuipotent. EDITORIAL NOTES. In a trial at Montreal in which the Sisters of Il:otel Dieu are inter- ested, the opposing counsel wished to have some of the Sisters in conrt tti'givo testimony, but their counsel objected; saying they were "civilly dead and cannot be witnesses in court." Against this it was asked " if the Salvation Army passed a law forbidding their members from coming into court would the author- ities have to submit 1" Hie or said he felt disposed to resplEt th rules of the Sisters, but it was ne sary to ascertain if they can Bally be witnesses. It would seem strange if any body of people should be able to set their members above the law, no matter what obligations they may see fit to as - 8111110. • �. m114r1�. •. "may'":.... ^'�'sM"r Our town contemporary says that the people of the United States are in favor of tariff reform and recip- rocity and quotes from a plant: in the platform of the Democrats of Massachusetts: "We give our earliest support to the demand of our Massa- chusetts bnsiuesa interests for such removal of trade restrictious es will bring about closer commercial re1,1- tiona betweeu the United States and Canada." This is a • give away of our totem's position, which is that free trade would benefit Canada. Massachusetts is largely, a manufact- iug state. The business interests of Massachusetts demand a removal of trade, restrictions. There you have the pith of the matter. it is Massa- chusetts that would be benefitted, not Canada. But the people of Massachusetts are only a very small portion of the people of the United States. The presidential election turned ou this alleged tariff reform of the Democrats and it was meowed under. The people of the United States have unequivocally and offi cially declared themselves in favor of protection. When they bring their tariff down to the level of the Canadian tariff, we shall begin to think they want reciprocity. This charging us an average of 40 per cent. on goods going there while we charge them only 20 per cent is a curious way of showing their desire for reciprocity. A Canadian writing from Michi- gan to the New Era knocks the bottom out of that paper's allege tions that free trade with the States would benefit Canada, and also gives our totem, a left-handed compliment about belittling our confederation. Wo make room for the following : "If free trade would greatly conduce to Canada's prosperity, by ire icy of reasoning we should infer that this Wolverine State is rapidly gathering in the shekels. Such, however, is not the case. •Business is failing, farms are deserted. In this region aro many farm houses, some of them extra good, which are without in- habitants. Large piles of hard- wood logs lie spoiling iu tho yards of quiet saw mills. Real estate is. not worth fifty per ceut. of its value fivo years ago. From the latest re- ports I learn that over forty-seven per cent of the farms,here aro mort- gaged for more than forty-six per pent of their assessed value. Similar, or more discouraging, reports- come from Pennsylvania and many other States. If to form closer commer- cial connection with the United States means that Canada is to be- come in any way more like this country, the Dominion, we most assuredly think, would be a loser by the' transaction. Educators and prominent newspapers are urging the idea of making patriotism a special branch to ,be taught in all the public schools of the Republic. This is right ; just as it ought to be. How unlike the outs iu Canada, who, for the sake• of political posi- tion, descend to the sickening habit of belittling the Federation." SIR JOHN AT WESTPORT. At. a Methodist picnic last week at Westport, near Brockville, Sir John went over the oft traversed ground of the Jesuits' Estates Act. After referring to the fact that the issue was not a party affair, he said :— Why, Mr. Chairman, do you think that the opposite party, count- ing in its ranks Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Blake, were actuated by any other feeling than the patriot.ie (le. sire to do their duty when they vot' ed with the Government 1 If that vote had been carried against the Government it would have been a yote of want df confidence, and I should have gone to the Governor General and Raid, " Your Excel- lency, Parliament has declared against the Government. Here is my commission ; send for our atm. cessors." But it was because Mr. Laurier, Mr. Blake and Mr. Mac- kenzie and those who followed them, thought it was according to the law, according to the constitution, accord- ing to the principles upon which our constitution is founded, that they and the majority in Parliament said that the Government could not take any other course, and as honest men they voted according to their consciences. They said THE GOVERNMENT WAS RIOHIT end that we could not have done anything else without a breach of the constitution and without causing bitter war and dissension between the two great races, French and English. Do you RUppOae that Alexander Mackenzie, that old Re- former, belonging- to one of the Pq strictest Recta in Protestantism, the Baptist denomination, was truckling to the French Canadians or the Rowan Catholics ;or be was looking for office'? No, he has retired front office fur ever. During last Hession and the session before, out of regard for the !tate of hie health, he clever cane to the House of Commons after six o'clock ii the evening, but to anxious was he to show his re. spent for the cutlet itu tion, sodesirr,u8 was he to prevent a quarrel, whi l; might cause the most disastrous re• Ruin, and poesihly end in bloodshed between two 1•e1Bs, that he, an old man, a confirmed invalid, treulIJi13 in every joint, left his warm bed at two o'clock in the morning and cause to the House of (Qll1Ittone 10 register his tote in favor of the con- stitution which lie had helped to formulate, (Cheers.) Ladies and gentlemen, the Parliament of Can ada + nip NOT PASS THE JESUITS' ESTATE, ACT. The Parliament of elalaida had 110 More to do with it than the Con grecs of the United States. It was an act passed by the Legislature of the province of Quebec. Be it right or he it wrong that was no affair of .ours. It was within the limits; of ellen. constitution and they had the right to pass it if they chose. What is the meaning of free government 4 It means a govern- ment where the people have the right to rule or misrule themselves, ,as they chose. We had nothing to do with the wisdom or the unwise doin of that late. The only ques- tion for us was whether the Legisla- ture of Quebec wore acting within their powers—powers givt n to them by the Parliament of Great Britain when it gave us the constitution of 1867. That was the only question, and, mind you, we who are 113inis. tars, or have -been i1'Iinisters, take a solemn oath that we will give true cauneel to the Governor General, the repre,nntative of our sovereign, to THE BEST OF OUR JUDGMENT, We took tIlat.oeth, and diem the Cabinet case to the c„I,clnsi ,n that the Act was within the r•uwpeteucy of the Legislature we were bound to s:ty so. 1 would have committed mural perjury if, believing as a con- stitutionalist that the Quebec Legis• lature had the right to pass the Act, I had not said so. I would have degraded ,elyself as a roan. I would have sunk In my opinion forever if, believing and knowing that the Legislature was acting within their powers, 1 bee advised His Excels lency otherwise, (Cheers.) 1 might or might not have voted against the bill if 1 had been a member of the Legislature •of Quebec, but neither my colleagues nor [ had a right to say to them, " You have no right to legislate for " yourselves ; you must let us legislate for you." If that bill was within the jurisdiction of the' Legislature the only ground on which wo could have disallowed it was that it would hurt the rest of the Dominion. That is to say, by the Province of Quebec giving the Jesuits $160,000 we are going to injure the Dominion as a whole. Yon are a portion of the Dominion and can any man, woman or child in this meeting or in any portion of the province let hurt if a grant of that kind were made either to Jesuits, Jews, Mohammedans or Mortuons 1 (Laughter and cheers.) NOT LEGALLY INCOR- PORATED. A question of much interest to insurance men, and more particular- ly companies founded on the assess- ment plan, has just arisen. Seven companies which do business on that plan hate/ lately eprul,g into existence. According to law they have to be incorporated by the Provincial Government and obtain a certificate from the Dominion Government before they can com- mence business. A short time ago Mr. Taylor MpVeitis, of Ottawa on behalf of the 'Home Benefit Life Insurance Co., applied to the Ontario Government and received a charter of incorporation. Applica- tion was then made to the Domin- ion Government for the motel certi• ficate, but it was refused by the Minister of Justice on the ground that the society's incorporation was illegal. The . opposition of the older companies, it in said, resulted in this discovery, and as the other companies similar to the Home Benefit already in existence would be affected by it they have been notified that when their certificates run out they will not be renewed. This it is claimed, has resulted in eomothing't like a panic among the aaseaHment coutpanies, who have retained counsel to look after their interests. There aro four Canadian Companies who do business on the aHsesement plan. They are :—Cana• dian Mutual Aid Association, Toronto ; Commercial Travel lore' Mutual Benefit Society, Toronto ; Mutual ` Relief' Society, of Nova Scotia, Yarmouth, N. S., and the Provincial Provident, St. Thomas, Ont. Then there is the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, of New York, which has to give a de- posit receipt of $50,000. A Grand Display 1-? A Great Stock. enerous. .. Bargains! All Along the Line ! Dress Goods Cheap. Flannels Cheap. Blankets, :-: Underclothing, ALL AWAY DOWN ! 0— Geo. E. Pay & Co. ME LOW-PRICED STORE. THE APPLE CROP 1N NEW YORK. There can no longer bo any' doubt relative to the failure of the apple crop in western New York the present season. Every county heard from verifies tUhe fact that in apples of the winter varieties especi- ally only a small percentage of the usual crop will be grown, and that of small atd,inferior quality. It is said that • Orleans County will scarcely produce a single barrel of No. 1 fruit the present season. During au extended tour through the counties of Wyoming, Catarau- gus and Chautaugua, in the south- western portion of the State, I learn that the failure is universal, aud, in many localities farmers will be obliged to secure their family supplies from outside markets. All through the great fruit grow- ing counties of Niagara, Wayne and Monroe comes the report of the failure of winter fruit. Here also in Genesee County, from my window as I write, can be seen an orchard of 2,000 or more apple trees of the choicest varieties that will barely produce sufficient for home requirements, Consequently those ha'ing a surplus of this product to dispose of the present fall may well look for paying prices. Michigan is reported to have more thou an average crop, and of excel- lent quality, and while other locali- ties may be equally fortunate, yet a general failure in wester' New York cau but result in conditions nearly opposite to those experieuc- od ono year ago, when elle contribu- ted eo largely to overstock the markets of the world with hor green and evaporated fruits at low and comparatively unremunerative pri• ces.—Amerean Cultivator. BIG BLAZE AT SERPENT RIVER. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Oct. 12. --Fire started in Cook's lumber yard at Serpent River, Ont., 00 utiles from here, this afternoon, and the heavy north-west wind blowing extended to the docks and ware- houHes of this extensive firm. At this hour (2 p. m.) the whole town is afire and will be completely swept away before morning. There are 40 buildings in the town, general stores and dwelling houses, and over 300 people will be without a roof over their heads to night. Later.—Fifty million feet of lumber, this years cut, hart been. consumed. There will not be a board saved. Loss, about $300,000. The vicinity is strewn with house- hold goods and homeless families for acres. The steamer Africa and a schooner which were loadiirg at the docks have pulled out into the lake and are safe. Special trains with fire engines and fire brigades have arrived, and there are some pros- pects of saving the mills. SAULT STE. MARiE, Mich., Oct. 13.•—Further particulars from Sets pent River, the scene of the con.. 'flagration last night, say there were a few buildings and the saw mills saved, but no lumber. Cook Bros., proprietors of the industries, had the finest fire protection on their premises of any firm in this section, , but the strong wind spread the fire rapidly. The stock was insured for about half the loss. Temporary structures are being erected to house the inhabitants. The fire was extinguished early this morning. Steamer Africa anti schooner Mars quis, which have heen waiting for. cargoes, will be obliged to sail light. The Oatiridian Pacific's prompt action in getting fire engines to the scene is very favorably com- mented upon. —Michigan's new license law raising the saloon tax from $300 to $500 has been declared inoperative because of a mistake by the ene rolling clerk of the Legislature. —Mr. John Dale postmaster at Thorold, died of apoplexy on Satur- day — During September the net debt of the Donliluou has been reduced by $2,463,3$4. _—Sergt. Halston, a Keewatin officer; shift and killed Joe Perrau, who was endeavoring to release a prisoner. --A disastrous fire occurred at Cook's Mills, Algona• District, nm Saturrloy, causing a loss of some $300,000. —At Sherbrooke, Donald Morri- son the Megantie outlaw, was sent( need to eighteen years' inl- prisonn'ent in the penitentiary. — Thu ilei )ce Department, Friday, issued the final statement of revenue and and expenditure fur the last fiscal year, which shows a splendid surplus of $1,927,514. —Messrs. 11(:ss Bros. & Co., who were obliged to shut down their furniture factory in Listowel some time since, owing to financial diffis culties, will shortly start work again. —Among the wonders East Nissouri boasts of is Master Thur,. low, a short, chunky lad of 13 sum-. mere, who has sported a moustache for five years, and shaves as regular ly as a full-grown man. Cawthrop, miller,of Thames. ford, has .bought 10,000 bushels of wheat' at Brandon, Man., for 60c per bush. Unless the C._ P. R., put in a siding at Thanresford he will. have to team it from 'Ingersoll. —The demand for lizard skins for purses and similar objects is said to haye exhausted the supply in Java. The Gover•nnlent has interfered to protect the lizards, who aro wanted as geavengerN, and lizard skins have to he obtained now from South A merica. --Police Ma6istrato IL11per of Whitby had two Oshawa fellows 11a81011 Charles Reiimond and Patrick Gilgau up for unmerciful usage of a livery horse and fined them $20 and costs—half the fine in each cuss to go the liveryman who owned the animal. —Mr. John Stnellacombe, of Exeter, formerly of Woodstock, who has just returned from the North- west, is of opinion that any short- age which there may be in Mani- toba is attributable to bad farthing. He Haw farms side by side, one yielding 25 bushels to the acre and the other only 5 or 6. — In Leslie, Fifeshire, the people have an annual masquerade in honor of the birthday of Burns. This year twenty four ploughmen, farmers, and merchants paraded the streets dressed in the costumes representing as many characters from Burn's works. The Old Nick, Burns ititnself, Tam 0' Sltanter, Bonnie Jean, and Souter Johnnie were among the characters represent- ed. —A few days ago a flowing well was struck en the farm of Mr. Clark, on the 4th concession of Har- wich, south of the ridge. The drill was down, 130 feet, when it seemed to strike a cavity and sank down. It wee withdrawn and was follow ed by a great rush of water, which rose in a column over twenty feet. There is said to be quite enough flowing from it to supply all Chat• ham with -drinking water. John G. Lloyd, near Port Hope, aged 106 years, died a few days ago. He bad noC'sufered an ache or a pain during his lifetime. He was born near Kingston in 1784. During the war of 1812 he was a prisoner in American gaols for three months. ry He had the munificent pension of $30 per year from the Dominion Government. Eight children survive him. He had 62 grandchildren, 68 great grandchildren and one greats great grandchild. Ile was buried in Willow Bank Cemetery, Ganano- que, on which he farmed years ago.