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ABOUT PARTIES.
The great baue•against all attempts
at constitutional government, against
government by the people for the
people, against government in ao-
cordaace with the well understood
wishes of the people is that sort of Ander the horns of eomruerQial
fanaticism which resolves itself into nnioniste, But the latest treason-
able designs of the factious wing of
the Reform party are worse than
the former one. Then only one
interest wee sought to be Lauded
over to the Americans, now it is
sought to hand Canada over to the
Americana, "body and breeches,"
territorially, commercially, and gov-
ernmentally. This in cruel disre-
gard of the ordinary sentiment of
patriotistui to say nothing of the
crushing -of the very life out of our
agricultural, artisan and other indus-
tries. But Canadians never shell
be the slaves of traitors at hotne or
enemies abroad.
time and pace -annihilating' marine
and eailevey system in 'the world: '
The Conservative party has ore-
ated, affirmed, projected and carried
out the series of rneagnr'eri which
have resulted in making the very
name of Canada a synonym for
progress, in the face of the most
unscrupulous opposition inside and
outside of the country. The most
notable traitorisrn being the efforts
of unprincipled Canadian politi-
cians to kill off the Canadian Pacific
Railway in the interest of the Amer-
ican Northern Pacific. And the
aarne traitorous conduct is being
pursued now by the same class
a sort of holier than tlrott dieti►tur-
ship, _Whluh, When it cannot con-
trol the tn"njorlty of the party with
tahioh it may be affiliated, attempts
to form a "no party" party, a third
party, an independent party, an
equal rights party, commercial union
`party, or some other figment of a
party gf guerilla tactics under a
delusive name.
To do effective work as a citizen
ons must belong to one or other of
the great political parties.
The turmoils in France and in
England to -day are largely attribnt-
. able to the existence of a third
party.
Such a party weakens both legiti-
mate parties without having any
practical strength itself.
Third partyisin is based upon the
detestably Jesuitical principle of
"trimming." The moving spirits
say : '.Vire cannot have things our
way with either of the other parties;
the majority of the people are
against us, but as a third party we
can so trim between the two great
parties, now giving our weight to
one side, now to another, that we
can obstruct if we cannot control."
Third partyism is an,emboditnent
of viciouenese. Wo will grant that
it may not be so iutended. But the
road to sheol is paved with good
intentions. It prevents that firm-
ness of conduct in either of the
other great political parties which
only can introduce and carry through
beneficient legislation. The Home
Rule party in Britain, the third
party there, prevents the domir.ant
party from .carrying out reforms,
because the moment these reforms
are introduced the '° trimmers
would cast their weight with the
opponents of reform rather than
see what they call only balf meas-
ures pass. It is thus that the pre-
sent government of England is
handicapped. They will not allow
the "trimmers" to bo dictators, and
the "trimmers" will rule or ruin the
country, and thus reform is hindered
by those vain, conceited and loud-
mouthed demagogues who pretend
to be the friends of the people, but
who in reality are their most dan-
gerous,enomies.
We have two parties in Canada,
Reform and Conservative. The
Conservative party is the crbative,
the affirmativo, the aggressive, party.
It was the Brief, though not only,
agency in the creation of this
Dominion of ours, by sinking minor
considerations and bringing about
the confederation of the British
provinces sof North America.
The Conservative party affirms
that it has done more and can
do more for the progress and_
prosperity of the country than
the Reform or ,any other party.
In proof of this affirmation it can
point to the public works it has
in-iugurated and carried out, the
industrial policy it introduced which
sustains a large army of artisans on
our own soil, causing the agricul-
tural products of our country
to be largely utilized at home
and thus enhancing their value
to the farmers. It can affirm
the immense saving it has effected
in the interest nccount of the coun-
try. Whereas formerly we paid 5
to 6 per cout. for money it can
now be obtained for about 3 rer
cent.
The Conservative party has showed
its aggressiveness by boarding the
neighboring republican lion in his
own preserve and successfully con-
tending for our fair share of the
commerce and carrying trade of this
continent. It has shown its aggress-
iveness by piercing the wilderness
and surmonnting mountains with
railways. It has shown its aggress-
iveness by projecting the faateetline
of steamers in the world, and in a
few years will completely encircle
yho earth with the most complete
COMMe89IAL UNION.
The basis of 1 e contentions of
our commercial unionists is fixed
upon the maxim of free traders
that international commerce is
always reciprocal. Now we have
the very beet proof that freedom of
trade between even states in the
adjoining union is not usually
beneficial. That proof consists in
the passage of laws by some of the
states prohibiting the importing of
the products of another state.
Iichigan and Ohio recently passed
laws prohibiting the importation
into those states of dressed beef
from Illinois, The courts have,
however, declared such interfer-
ence with trade by any state un-
constitutional. If unrestricted reci-
procity between states of the same
uniou is uot mutually advantage-
ous, is it not possible that unrestrict-
ed trade between two foreign coup.
tries might not be profitable.
. There is a very pretty c•ruplet of
Cowper's
"Each climate needs what other climes
produce
EXCLUDE THE CHINESE.
It is to be hoped that the Cana-
dian Government will not do any-
thing to lessen the restrictions or►
Chinese coming into Canada. While
they are not excluded now, the
charging a duty on all coming into
the country has a tendency to lesaeu
tho number of those moral and
physical pests. It would be a sin
against society to do anything that
would encourage this miserable
class of immigrants. Indeed, if
constitutional to do so, they should
be excluded. We get enough of
European immigrants of an undesir-
able class, without burdening the
country with Asiatic outcasts. The
majority of Chinese who come' to
this country aro mere slaves held
as chattels by their wealthier coun-
trymen. They never intend to and
never do, area class, become citizens of
this country. 'They take up the
place of those who would. They
interfere with a batter class of labor-
ers who would .become citizens.
,With any considerable influx of
Chinese, this better clary, who aid in
many ways in creating and develop-
ing public wealth, would be dri-
ven out. Chinese are mere parasites
clinging to the main body of Saxons
and Celts which form the people of
this continent. They will not be-
come farmers. They live cheaply
on Chinese products. What little
they do spend goes to China and
Chinese traders. What they save
is taken back to China to bo enjoyed
there by themselves and their
owners. There subjection to their
owners and masters make them de-
sired by some large employers in
factories, though uot as profitable as
white employees, and .thus they
would crowd out our own people
who would permanently domicile
themselves here. Their laundry
monopolies prevent widows and
other industrious females in cities
foam making a,yliiving. They have
their socret"" c? (eties which often
bring about murders which are
as difficult to ferret out as those
committed by the Clan -Na -Gael,
By all means lot our legislators
pause ere they dy anything that will
in the remotest degree encourage
this Very undersiable class of immi•
grants. They are the very anti-
thesis to all that is noble, or manly
er progressive in the Saxon, Celtic
or Gallic people with whom and
whose descendants this Canada of
onrs is settled and who have made
it what it is—the most prosperous
country under the sun.
The assessment in Cook county,
Illinois, in which Chicago is situat-
ed, has been increased this year by
$95,299,435, meaning an increase
in taxation of $5,000,000, nearly
$3,000,000 of which increase will
be from personal property taxes.
The Inter Oran is indignant at
this because the increase is largely
on the furniture etc, which is in
sight, of the poor man, while largo
assets of the rich escape because not
so easily reached. There are other
localities besides Cook county, Ill.,
where the personal property of the
wealthy dons not pay its proper
quota of taxation.
among the forming community watt
wide spread; Farina ore worts
gaged to the outside figure, and
there does not appear any way .out
of the trouble but a general repus
illation. The gentleman referred to
in conversation with a Free Press
representative said :—"You just
tell those parties who are in favor
of Unrestricted Trade relations, or
annexation, to go over to lllirtois,
Ohio, Michigan, or in fact any State
in the Union, and see the general
desolation among farmers, and if
they don't come back thoroughly
cured I'm a Dutchman. The farm•
eta of Ontario are oud hundred per
emit better off in every respect.
They have better land, better
building", better markets, and less
mortgaged debt than !Mihaly or any
other of the States I have mention-
ed, and instead of grumbling they
should feel thankful that they had
each a grand country. Any am-
bitien I ever had to go to the
Vtreetern •States has been knocked
out of me. Ontario is gond enough."
And otters something to the general
use."
But there is too much of a same-
ness in the staple products and
resources of Canada and the United
States to warrant the belief that
anything would be gained by com-
mercial uuiou. Then the prepon-
derance of might on the part of our
neighbors under such a system
would leave us at their mercy.
And even where the products of
countries are diverse it does not
always follow that the interchange
is mutually advantageous. For
take it in the case of the Uuited States
which purchases anuually from
Brazil $58,500,000 worth and sells
only $7,300,000 worth iu exchange.
On on the other hand Eugland buys
anuually from Brazil only $1,500,-
000 worth while sire sells the people
of that empire $46,000,000 iu re-
turn,
This reciprocity business eau cut
both ways, and with such a sharp
and populous people as those .of the
United States, and both having the
same class of goods to sell,very large-
ly, wo.ehould find the ground cut
from under us and they selling us
far more than they would buy from
us. And, at the same time under
reciprocity.witii the Staten wkshould
lose the advantages we now possess,
as part of the Empire, iu the British -
markets.
There is, however, nothing ou the
part of Canada to prevent, to a very
groat extent, a reciprocity of tariffs.
Both countries have to raise revenue.
Canada is not prepared to resort to
direct taxation by which tho great
bulk of taxes would be levied on
lands. The farriers would never
stand that, and that is what cam-
mercial union would lead to. But,
as we have said, if the people of
the United States want to be neigh-
borly, we think the people of Can-
ada will agree not to tax their pro-
dvcts coding into Canada any high-
er than they do similar products
going from here to the United
States.
THE AMERICAN F11 RJIER.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Mr. Wm. McLean, the well-
known cattle buyer, shipped 140
head of fiue cattle from tho Luck-
no,v station on Tuesday for the Old
Country markets. The free traders
say it is downright treason to send
our cattle to England and get bet-
ter prices for there theta than can be
obt►ined for American beef.
We have shower from American
as well as Canadian authorities that
the average farmer in Indiana,
Kansai, Michigan, Dakota and
other States is not any Letter off
than he might be, and that the
ditiou of the 'Canadian farmer
much more desirable one. A gen-
denten front Westwinater, near
London, Ont., has been out "\Vest"
for a few weeks and he has corse
heck thoroughly disgusted with what
he saw and heard. He did not go
as far as Dakota or Montana ,o find
suffering and discontent. Through..
out Illinois the crops have been a
failure. Whole fields of corn—
huudrede of acres—have never been
eat, it not being deemed worth the
trouble. The yield of $,beat and
oats was in the neighborhood of
about. eight bushels for the former
and seventeen fur the latter per
acre, while tit&yield of corn, where
it was cut, is a«uy down below the
average. While at Rockford,. Ill.,
he saw once sold at 16 cents per
bushel, while at the same time 26
and 27 cents was being paid on the
London market.' It was nliuost im-
possible to sell corn, the quality
being so inferior that the very out%
side figure was 29 cents per bushel.
Everything else was selling in about
the same ratio, and the discontent
con -
is a
?-A Grand Dispky!-?
A Great Stock.
Cenerous.'. Bargains I
The Yankees are bound to sit
down on the "faddists." The new
election law in Massachusetts has
embarrassed the third party people.
It provides that; the State shall print
the ballots but for no party that
did not at the last geueral elections
poll 3 per ceut of the total vote.
This shuts out the prohibition tic-
ket.
Premier Mercier, in a speech on
Sunday said the Jesuit Estates
money would be paid over on Nov.
5. And he framed the Act so as to
become kw on the 12th of July.
There is a peculiar coincidence
about these dates. It would seem
as though Mr. Mercier tried to
make his anti -protestant legislation
as offensive to Protestants and
Orangemen as he possibly could.
All Along the Line !
Dress Goods Cheap. Flannels Cheap.
Blankets, :-: Underclothing,,
ALL -AWAY DOWN !
A large number of people in the
Now England Stales favor annexa-
tion to Canada. A strong portent
in that direction was shown the
other day when the Massachusetts
Democratic Convention declared
strongly in favor of Reciprocity be-
tween the United States and Can-
ada. Those in Canada who favor
annexation to the United States are
also strongly in favor of reciprocity.
The Yankees who favor annexation
to Canada show the better sense.
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Geo. E. ray & Co.
THE LOW-PRICED STORE.
ment should at least protect the
public. A single, glance at a loco.
motive passing rapidly is sufficient
to cause the sante cerebral derauge-
rnent; consequently it is absolutely
necessary to build a fence ten feet
iff height on each side of the rail-
way." Tho Canadian Grit political
doctore have not even yet gotten
over the mental affection known as
delirium furiosum brought on by
the rapidity of construction of Can-
ada's national railway.
Government and legislation is
progressive science. Even we in
Canada can learn a little now and
again from our neighbors. The
other day Samuel McHalton, of
Marion county, I11., was sentenced
to the penitentiary for making false
returns rogardiug the value of his
property to the assessor. He is a
small farmer. But how about the
wealthy farmer(' and tradesmen and
speculators whose returns are below
actual valuation as much as those of
the " poor" farmer who has to go to
the peuiteutiaryi Were all those
who make false returns to tho asses -
sore sent to the penitentiary, there
would require to be buildings of
that class as big as all out doors.
It is quite right that every and
all citizens should scan the voters'
lists and see that they or their
friends who have a right to be
thereon are placed there. It is also
their right anis their duty to see
that any one not so entitled shall not.
be thereon. But there is a mean
iueinuation in the Expositor's ad-
vice to Huron Reformers to "Watch
the revising officers." The revising
officers in this county are the coun-
ty judges who are well known to
ill deserve this reproach. They are
not partisans and were judges be-
fore they were revising officers and
should have been spared the iuuen-
do launched against them • by the
Expositor. Take the result of the
Court of lievinion at..VVingllam the
other day when Judge Toms put on
29 Reformers and struck off l7Con•
8ervativee, 4 Conservatives put ou
and 13 Reformers struck otf ; the
net reedit being a gain of 29 voters
for the Reformers. Then at Brussels
about 40 Conservative names were
disallowed upon a trifling technicali-
ty, the clerk not receiving notice of
tkom in time though the notices
Were mailed in time. In fact the
revising officers in Huron invariab-
ly give tho Reformer, the benefit of
anydoubt, while the Conservatives
are not treated so generously.
That there were Grits in bygone
days is quite evident. And they
wore built of just as pullback
material as those whoopposed the
building of the Canada Pacific
Railway which has proven the most
successful national enterprise of
similar magnitude that the world
has ever seen. A European Grit
protest against railways was that
drawn up by the Royal College of
Bavarian Doctors, recently discover-
ed in the archives of the Nurnberg
Railway at Furth, tho first German
line constructed. It contnins the
following passage, pointing out the
danger of the new system of travel :
"Travel in carriages drawn by a
locomotive ought to be forbidden in
the interest of public health'. The
rapid movement cannot fail to pro•
duce among the passengers the
mental affection known as delirium
furiosuni. Even if travelers are
willing to incur this risk, the govern -
Our Weekly Round Up
--Mr. E. V. Bodwell, known by
the soubriget of "skitn-milk," for-
merly M. P. for South Oxford, and;
afterward superintendent of the:
Welland canal, died in Vancouver,
B. C., on Friday night. He remov,
ed to the Pacific coast two years
Ngo.
—A writ has been issued against
Peter Graham, M. P. P., at the iso-'
stance of James Oundick, of War-.
wick, Lambtou county, claiming
$5,000 damages for alleged criminal
connection with Mrs. Curidick and
the alienation of hie wife's affec-
tions.
—A despatch from Port Arthur
says : Most satisfactory 'reports con-
tinue to come float the 'sliver mine
district of Silver I'1ouitain. The
West End is taking out $5,004
worth per day, and the Badger mine
is taking out the richest ole ever
struck. This company has just
taken out a nugget weighing 250
pounds and worth $1,000.
—An English gentleman was
married a.t Antwerp the other day.
VVhan, the pair left the Hotel de
Ville, their friends bombarded them
with rice' and old show. This
friendly greeting was mistaken by
the presiding policeman for a hostile
demonstration ; he at once summon. -
ed a file of soldiers to his essietance
and the •Secretitry of the English
.Club wax marched into. the. guard-
room under a Arena escort.::, ,
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CANADIAN NRWS NOTES.
—Judge Falconbridge hes given'
judgment in regard to the costs is
the late Haldimand election case.
—Senator James Turner, of
Hamilton, died ou Saturday even-
ing.
—The King of Portugal died ou
Sunday, and his son succeeds him
with the title of Carlos I.
—A tidal wave on September
l ltlt washed away several Japanese
villages and drowned thousands of
people.
—Mr. Massie, Conservative, was
eluted in :Richelieu County, Que.,
Friday, by a majority of 334. The
late representative was elected by
the narrow majority of 58.
—The fall meeting_ of the Ken-
tucky Association, which begins
Monday at Lexington, marks the
couteniial of racing in Kentucky,
the first public race having been run
in October, 17 89.
—Mr. Gladstone is cooling round
to the Uunservative Home Rule
policy. He now expresses willing -
nese to add the retention of Irish
representation at Westminster to
his Home Rule scheme.
—A t Newcastle, Penn.,a few days
ago, Mrs. John Platt, while killing
a rooster, received a scratch from
one of its spurs. A few clays later
Mrs. Platt and a child she was
nursing exhibited symptoms of
blood poisoning. The child died and
Mrs. Platt can not recover.
—The jury returned a verdict of
"not guilty", Sattl. t•day, in the Hicks
poisoning case, and Mrs. White and
her nephew were at once discharged.
Decestted was brother and uncle of
the prisoners. • The belief is general
that Mrs. White was guilty‘ though
the evidence was circumstantial and
contradictory. It was a Toronto
case.
The judgment is as follows :—The•
petillioner will have the general
costs of the petition and trial. The
respondent will be entitled to .the
costs occasioned by the charges of
corrupt acts by agents on which he
has succeeded. There will be no
oasts to either party of the chargee.
on which evidence was taken and•
no judgment given. There will be
no costs to either party of the perso-
nal charges. I would give Mr.
Coulter his costa on these charges,
but that in both instances, namely,
jn treating on the afternoon of the
polling day and in writing the
letter of July 28, 1887, to Henry
Kinsley, Ise acted moat indiscreetly,
though not, I think, corruptly.
—In a difficulty at Dothen, Ala-
bama, seven mon wero shot. Two
are dead and another is dying.
The trouble arose between the
town council and:draymen of the far-
mers' warehouse, the latter refusing
to pay the lease required by the
town authorties. They were several
times arrested for violating the
ordinance and fined and this caused
the trouble between the farmero and
the town. Toth marshals were shot
and ono will die. Two draymen,
defying the law wore killed. Trou-
ble was expected last night and tho
town was well guarded. Many en-
raged farmers aro in town to -day
but all is quiet.
—The citizens of Olinda, Essex
county, were horrified Friday morn-
ing by an -appalling accident where-
by a young man, Louis Irvine, lost
his life. He had spent the night
with a young friend. and tho two
had decided to spend the .day is
hunting. Louis humorously re-
marked to his mother, while pre-
paring for the hunt, that she must
have the kettle on so as to cook his
black squirrels. IIe had loaded
ono barrel of his gun, and was
loading the other, when, by some
moans, the barrel was discharged,
taking effect in the young man's
chin, blowing out his teeth and
scattering his brains over the floor.
He fell backwards into his mother's
arms and died.
Auction Sale Itegiser.
CREDIT SALE of Stock and Imple-
ments, on Lot 31, Con. 2, Lake-
shore Road, Goderich township, on
Wednesday, October 30th at 1 p.
m. R. A. Hearn,,proprietor, T. H-
eading, auctioneer. 2t,
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