The Clinton New Era, 1891-09-04, Page 4w
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o *ost Inknortant Railroad.
`.fire ";owners real estate at
1'ert Simpson are calling attention
40 that port,, as a railroad term
►nn Onost eon'tenient for transit to
�ia,. being 500 miles nearer to
Japan than is Vancouver. This,
Wanadvocated, long before the
e ,aprvpy for the C.P.R. was begun,
;and ?4r Mackenzie while .Premier,
vas feeling the way in that direc-
tion, See repast for 1874.
�Plien gold seekers were active
hu upper Fraser, Gov. Doug-
* sent out Mr Downey, to find
the was an -easier route than
up That river. Ria report showed
t't,by way of Fort' Simpson,
the flank ofthe Cascade Mountains
.was turned, and in rear.' of them
was n plain country.,' Lord Mil.
#,tirl ,and Mr Cheadle, in passing
''up `the Peace $Iver, advocated
fiat as the lowest pass through
Vis. Rockies, and a subsequent
*iter insistsd on a line direct
from Quebec to Fort Simpson.
jamb a lino would have secured
tie.• traf a from New York and
line Eastern States, as nearer by
s 1>liost'1,000 miles than through
~their own territory by the North-
ern Pacific to China and Japan;.
and also as the only possible rail
road route to Alaska. By what
;ever point of departure from the
P:P.R. may be eligible, it is vastly
more important than the project-
'od Hudson Bay road; than which
ever was anything so ridiculous,
Ven the route ofi the Intercolonial.
the most favorable years its
navigation is scarcely open two
months. -
That such branch need not cost
the Dominion anything, but that
.Americans would subscribe suffi-
cient stock,may be predicated upon
';'a, pieceof railroad .history. By
the disturbances pf 1887, the char-
ters of the two railroads from
Detroit ran out: the Great West-
.
. fern, to Hamilton, and the Southern
to Buffalo. Nevertheless, Mr
Merritt went to Boston, and se-
enred sufficient stock to construct
(the latter. Parliament, surmising
•fiat it would prejudice the Great
•'Western, whose charter it renew -
:ed, declined to renew that of the
abtter. Whereupon, Mr Merritt
offered to induce his subscribers
to coalese in a road to Brantford,
there branching to Hamilton
and to Buffalo; and an informal
agreement was signed. Sir Allan
afterwards repudiated it, and went
lY ,to Beaton, but the stockholders
Yefnsed to trust him. He then
Went to England, and his conduct
4;-.---was--so suspicious as to oall for
exposure by the Times, which
notice was copied here. A second
visit secured the stock; and the
subscribers complained that they
'were charged more for water lots
Alb Burlington Bay than had been
paid for stations in the centres Of
Liverpool and Manchester.
To show Hamilton's audacity in
the matter, a map was published
in the Gazette showina line to'
-that city, and from thence to Buf-
',''faro; down the mountain and then
up again at an acute angle. The
road was built to Clifton; Mr Mer_
iot; in conjunction with Mr
Washington Hunt, of Lockport,
being engaged in the construction
of a suspension bridge there.
In December, 1846, this gentle-
man carried a resolution in the
House of Representatives in favor
of that Reciprocity which resulted
in May, 1854, just eight years
after the ,measure had been intro
duced to parliament by Mr Mer-
ritt. Mr Grinnell. of Massachu-
setts, at the same time introduced
' the measure to the Senate,
The competitors for the bridge
were Mr Keefer, who had built
the Ottawa Suspension Bridge;
Mr Roebling, who had built the
viaduct over the Monongahela;
and the builder of the Suspension
Bridge over the Schuylkill, at
Philadelphia. Ile had Mr Roe-
bling preferred 'before him, and
got stock for the bridge at Queen -
sten, now in ruing.
,Anyonefamiliar with the>eetbw
tad of taking the last census, ks
foW
perfectly well that .an efl'gr�t wan
made to mare the 'ehawing as
good.aa possible. 'Omens onurne•
a�atore,,•while perhaps not desire is
of trialing ineorreeot retu,t'ge, were
zealous to get as, many' ponies as
possible, because, t`be: larger. the:
number- of nal. es, the snore. their
,.remuneration, Wherefore, it cyan
pot be said with any degree of
force that they might err on the
aide of an underestimate. If there
is an error it' would more likely
be in an over, rather than an un-
der, estimate. Taking the figures,
then, for the 3ounty of Huron, we
do not think any man will say
that they indicate a satisfactory
state of affairs. 'In a section of
country so fine as this' county,
there must be something radioally
wrong, when it not only fails to
show an increase of population,
but does not even rJtura as many
as it did ten yeas ago. The offi-
cial figures for this county are :-
1891 1881
Huron East 18,968 21,720
Huri'.r South 19,184 21,991
Huron West 20,020 23,512
,r°`{this indiciltes-a�-loss-o€4752- in
the East Riding; of 2807 in the
South, and of 3492 in the West, or
a total less to the county of 9041.
Of course quite a number of these
have simply transferred their
place of residence to the north-
west, but a great many have also
become residents of the United
States. Ot'�er counties in the
Dominion show a similarly unsat-
isfactory' state of affairs, and it is
high time to find out the reason
for this, and if possible, remedy
it. Even Conservative papers
are unable to extract satisfaction
from the returns, and wine of
thein frankly admit that they are
anything but satisfactory. It
Canada oannot grow at a more
rapid rate than it is doing it will
take until the day after doomsday
to fill up its fine inheritance and
make -it the prosperous country
its natural resources designed it
should be,.
When a Hilts like Clarke Wit__
lace poses as the champion of the
people, and the opponent of odor
Woes, it is pot as well to know
exactly where he really doesd. Wiest estsession iiuticodueed
a Mil dealing' with combines. It
was passed by the Senate, but
with the addition of tile. Words
"unduly' and "unreasonably."
He then found out, evidently,
' associa-
tions
such combinations o -
r s ..
sociations as -h% wanted to attack, to
gain a little cheap notoriety, were
neither unduly nor ugreasonably
restraining trade. But this was
not all; He discovered also that
in his attack against the wicked
man who ouiployed labor, and
invested his capital in such a way
as to produce the greatest possible
good, he wee also hitting equally '
hard the neehanic, the working
man of all and every kind who
associated or combined together
for the advancement and protec-
tion of their mutual interests. So
this session, this second Daniel
in judgment, goes to work and
brings in an amendment to his
bill to strike out the words unduly
and- unreasonably, in order -that
manufacturers -mark it well -
could be proceeded against who
associated themselves together
duly and reasonably, and also (oh!
time serving hypocrite) to exempt
from the operations or effects of
his precious bill any person or
persons connected with any han-
dicraft or performance of labor.
In other words, asking:6the
Senate to pose before the world as
a body of men, who say with one
breath to one class, this is an un-
lawful act; with the next breath
to another class of the same com-
munity, this is a lawful act.
We do not think much of the
Senate as regards its usefulness,
but if we are to have law makers
or bill framers of the Clarke Wal-
lace stamp, singular in tbeir ina-
bility and their overweening vani-
ty, it really becomes a question
whether the Senate had better go.
It would appear that any measure,
no matter how foolish, no matter
how undesirable, no matter how
unjust in its working upon one
class of the community alone, can
be passed by a party possessing a
bare majority.
The Senate, however, has, we
learn, with Mr Wallace's consent,
changed the wording of the Bill
to put it back exactly where it
was.
What would be thought of a
party that would pass a Bill in
parliament imposing restrictions
on the working men, not appli-
cable to any other class.. Why,
in commonest sense and reason,
should manufacturers, many of
whom in this country are as bona
fide working mon as can be found
anywhere, be selected as an object
for special, oppressive, and vexa-
tious measures ? We believe in
justice equally meted out to every
man, and do not believe in patent
humbugs of the Clarke Wallace
News -Record stamp.
Ali lb la
A Full Retraction
The other day The Montreal
Gazette was unwise enough to
give publicity to the stale false-
hood that Mr. M. C. Cameron of
Huron once spent $20,000 in cor-
rupting his constituents and was
disqualified. Tho ;