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The Huron News-Record, 1891-03-18, Page 4.o...-e..:..s� aavn,R ogerad .iraw.a �-.� .*3ssa.: :7s7 r�;:�', +7r:Ra"-s /•* * 2ti w:.^-aF.r'..s.,.,w, ' ...-..........--:�..s_..-....�,-�...._..........�-.. ..-.� .--_.� ... _.. _..--._.....-..a_..� . •.. .- --�:fiL.'FI➢:.^�MWwT'+Choi''^fl•+3C`.T-+�4�It.�.�'FI.&•Xi,ori'�'li`-S$7S^w:�i'.AGL•�1n-..T-+-.?Mr �wYJ6+L'Ifi1♦ The Huron News -Record I the United States on account of the WE ARE THE PEOPLE. EDITORIAL NOTES. ouerous results to consumers of 59 a Ifraia---It.e4in Advance. Canadian products on the other In a -debate - ill the Ontario ` Save us from annexation with a side paused by the McKinley Bill, The Republican party may put a bold front on their defeats at last November elections, but many of them admit it Wes a warning note that they had gone too fn' in restrictive legislation against a friendly neighbor with which they have many iutereste in common. Iu order to repair the ill-advised McKinley measure which they cannot afford to repeal and thus Now itis well kuuwu that what acknowledge their political feili- th. Grits give the misnomer of "die- bility, they eau get out of the trap franchise" to worked u thousaud which they prepared fur Canadians times more grievously against the but in which they were themselves Libel el Conservatives than against caught, by arranging with Canada a the Grits. reciprocity treaty, a treaty of ruutual benefit that shall take the Wednesday. March 1S19. 11391 DiSFRAR'CHIS1 AND GERRY- MANDER. G. 13,. Paretmo, of Woodstock Seltliuel•Review farm, writes a long letter to the Globe on the political sitwo ion. As usual with Grit apolo- gists, he drags in "diefranchised" and "gerrymandered" to account for (li.t defeat iu the receut electious. lu the West Riding of Huron the deteet of Mr. Porter is to a largo ext,•ut the result of the so-called d=ef•rauchisiug. There was an aver- age 'use to the Conservatives in the 3t pulling sob divisions in the Rid iug of 20 in each one. 34x20 will give 680 votes that the Libdtal- Conservatives lost in Weat Huron by the "disfranchising" alleged to have been wrought through the voters' lists of 1859 being used. Flow did the Liberal-Conserva• tires come to lose that enormous vote ? It is easily explained. They wore :,oder the impression that there would be another list prepared be- fore en eleetiun and so gave little heed iu getting names on that ehould hove b.•n on. But the Grits, wise- ly holding that eternal vigilance is the price of succesa, had every fav- oreble name that was plausibly per - :lila put on. Mr. Cameron's friends allege that it cost that gela- tion! In $500 to have the lista attend ed to in his behalf. Mon who would not go otherwise to the courts of revision were paid by Mr. Cam- eron for their loss of time in attend- ing. \Vu find no fault with this. It is ranter to the credit of Mr. Camsrou and the Grit organization that they are ever alive to the in- terests of their party if not to the interests of their country. But the monumental rot that thousands of Grits wore disfranchised by the voters' lists is the most hyperbolical muuchausenism. The Grits gained many liundrede in this riding by the unlooked for dissolution of Par- liament. In the West Riding of Huron we can say, without being opou to the charge of exaggeration, that for every vote lost to the Grits by the use of the existing lists, fif- teen at least were lost to the Liberal Conservatives. As to the loss specially of young men who catno of age during the past year. Every one at all acquaint- ed with their views must admit, if they are candid, that the vast major- ity of them have sympathy with the Grand Old Man and his thoroughly Canadian principles. Tho future of the Liberal Conservative party and of Canada is quite safe in their hands. With the intuitive honesty of youth, their minds unsullied by ways that are dark and vain Grit tricks, they would and do instinct- ively cling, with God -endowed patriotism, io those who claim Can- ada for the Canadians—the Liberal Conservatives. It is the plainest of palpable bosh, the most unmitigated misrepresentation, to say that the Grits were losers by the absence of young men from the voters' lista. The loss is all the other way. We hope the Liberal Conservatives will never again be open to the charge of dereliction of party duty that lips against them with reference to the shortage of Conservatives on the Voter's' lists. \Vere it not that exceptional public interests demanded au appeal to the country at this time we should feel like saying that the Liberal Conservative party in West Huron was killed in the house of its friends. Nothing ahort of im- perative public exigencies could have excused the Government for bringing on the elections at a time •so inopportune to their friends. But we have reason to believe that the Government was justified in doing an apparent wrong to their -supporters in many constituencies. Thera is a tide fn tho affairs of nations as of men which if taken at its flood leads on to fortune, and which if not taken advantage of may never return. The tido of affairs in the United States has been, realising popular feeling to ebb away from the Republican party in ri sting out of the venenous fangs of the McKinley Bill which is pene- trating the vitals of their own people. The Canadian Government were aware of this feeliug notwithstand- ing the uncandid braggart brag• gadocio of Mr. Blaine. Conse- quently they acted quite right in approaching the American Govern newt at this time. Fur a mutually beneficial reciprocity treaty with Canada, if arranged within a short time will regain for the Republican party the prestige, which it is clear they lost at the November electious, in time to affect the next presiden- tial contest. Mr, Patullo like a good Grit apologist that he is charges the recent defeat of his party to gerry- mander. And how do you suppose he. would improve the present electoral district metes and bounds. Ile says :— "An illustration bear at hand may bo found in the three ridings, North and South Oxford and North Brant, where the aggregate majority will not fall far short of 4000 votes. These 4000, ,being a surplus, were practically thrown away and were quite enough, if distributed, to carry every seat in Western or indeed the whole of Ontario for the Liberals." So, so. According to Mr. Patullo the Grits would not gerry- mander according to geographical, county or municipal conditions. They would gerrymander, upon the arbitrary condition of transferring the surplus Grit vote from every riding where "it is practically thrown away" and transfer it like Grit boodle to whore it would do tho most good. For instance : They would credit Kingston with 500 from the Ox- fords and Brant surplus to King- ston; 250 to North Hastings and beat McKenzie Bowell ; 250 to Cardwell and beat White; 700 to Carleton and beat Dickinson; 50 to Elgin East and beat -Ingraham ; 175 to East Grey and beat Sproule; 75 to Haldimand and beat Dr. Montague ; 100 to South Went- worth and beat Carpenter, and so on all along the line of where there are Conservative majorities they would transfer their "practi- ollly thrown away" surplus Grit vote to down the Tories. The suggestion of Mr. Patullo is worthy of Grit paternity if scarcely practic- able. And it is equally as die - honest as impracticable. \Ve out- line it just to show what gerry- mander ideas are floating in the minds of Grits and which they would endeavor to carry out if they had the opportunity. EDITORIAL NOTES. Tho Globe says that Canada` could well afford to see all our baswooa: knights and baronets emi- grate to Pomo more congenial clime. Is this one way of telling Sir Rich- ard that the Globe has no further use for him and that he may go to shool, The English papers cotnment favorably on the result of the recent Canadian elections. The Post says : SirJohu Macdon• ald's majority is reduced, but his victory is decided. The Chronicle : It is shown conclusively that annexa- tion is repugnant to Canadians. Past experience warrants the belief that Sir John Macdonald will long be able to maintain himself in power. The Standard thinks the success of the loyalists in Canada is as remarkable as it it is successful The Times says the zeal of the American friends of the Canadian Liberals will probably cool when it is discovered that no practical result hes crowned their efforte. Legialnture the other day, IL E. Clark, of Toronto, showed by the official returns of the het Provincial electione that Mr.Mowat's aupportora had5,642 less than cue -half the pop- ular vote cast. ThusMr.i1>owat by his infamous gerrymandering holds the reins of power b, a minority of the popular vote. The votes given at the June elections being 162,803 for Governtnent supporters and 168,: 445 for the Opposition caudidates. On the other hand the returns of the recent Dominion electors will show that Government supporters received over 30,000 more votes than did the supporters of Laurier, Cartwright, Wiman & Co. And yet Grits will prate and blather about 'I'uty gerryinauderi ug in the face of official refutation of their baeeless assertions. But what Dare Grits about facts. There chief stock in trade is fabrication and iuvention, distortion and mis- representation instead of solid facts and honest statements. The Conservatives are an immense majority of the people of this Do- minion, and as the figures show they are a majority of the people of Ontario. There wore some great majorities piled up fur the Conservatives dur- ing the contest that ended with the 5th of March. Those running over a thousand were as follows :— Sar Donald Smith, Montreal West 3,706 Mr, Wood. Westmoreland 2,165 Mr. Denison, West Toronto 1,759 Mr. Doris, Alberta. 1,700 Mr. D4eilyd,ne, FFochela,ka 1,491 Mr. Coateworth, East Toronto.... 1,405 Mr. Curran, Montreal Centre.... 1,230 Mr, Pope, Compton 1,129 Mr. Mackintosh, Ottawa 1,076 The claims that the country is not with the Conservatives look some- what hollow in lace of such facts. CANADA ALWVAYS WJLLIN'. Canada has always beou willing to arrange a reciprocity troaty with the United Status. They have not been willing. Reciprocity moans the act of giving and receiving mutually. An Ottawa despatch says that the Canadian ministers have agreed to intimate through the Governor General and the British Minister at Washington to Secretary Blaine that the Dominion Govern- ment was ready to open negotiations with the United States in the direc- tion of reciprocity at once, and waited his rleasure to say when he would receive tho Canadian Com- missioner, who is to be Sir Charles Tupper. It is understood that Sir Charles will have associated with him Iron. Joseph Chamberlain as the representative of the British Government, and Sir John Thomp- son, Minister of Justice, as legal ad- viser. It is stated in official circles that the Behring Sea question will not enter into commercial treaty negotiations. A prominent official of the government stated to -night that in the event of Lord Saliebury and Secretary Blaine reaching an understanding on the Behring Sea question as to arbitration, Great Britain would select Germany as her arbitrator. THE CANADIAN SPHINX. Mr. Blake in his manifesto to the electors of Durham wrote : Assuming that absolute free trade with the States, beet described as oommercial union, may and ought to come, I believe that it can and only should come as an inoident, or at any rate as a well un- derstood precursor, of political union, for which, indeed,we should be able to make better terms before than after the sur- render of our commercial independence. If this does not imply Mr. Blake's assent to annexation, what does it mean 1 But the honorable gentle- man says it does not mean that. He writes to the Toronto Globo to say : The contradictory inferences to which a sentence in my Durham letter, detached from its context, has in several quarters unexpectedly given rise, conquer my re- luotanoe to trespass again so soon upon your columns ; and I crave space to say that I thunk political union with the States, though becoming our probable, ie by no means our ideal or as y -t our rnev• treble future. If Mr. Blake did not mean in the first given extract that he was in favor of annexation, what did he mean 1 And if he did not mean in the last extract that he was opposed to annexation, what did he mean It is said to bo the characteristic of a good writer that he leaves some- thing for the ingenuity of the reader to exercise itself upon. To be too plain is considered a reflection upon the intelligence of the persons addressed. Mr. Blake is not too plain. country of which one cf its own eminent authorities says :•—"The United States is the worst carried on Government iu Christendom— the most expensive, the must in- efficient, and tho moat corrupt. McNeill, of North Bruce, had a majority of 113 in 1887. Ho gave an unconstitutional vote in what is known as the Jesuit Bill and his majority this time is reduced to 39. The people will stand no monkey- ing with either the curtailing of their religious or civil liberties, whether those liberties are demanded by a Roman Catholic religious corpora- tion or by the individual units composing the electorate. o The gnantity of gall that can be exuded from a disappointed politi• cian must nut be judged by the small- ness of his soul. Sir Richard Cart- wright contemptuously speaks of Sir Johu A. Macdonald's majority as being made up of "the ragged remnants from a dozen minor provinces." But -Sir John has not the remnants- of the minor pro- vinces. He has their almost undi- vided support. Legislators have queer ideas down iu Arkansas. One member of the` Legialnture, after heaving all the inkstands and spittoons within reach at a fellow member, stoutly insisted that he meant no disre- spect to the IIouse. But this is no worse than the spewing of black - wash and bile in the Dou,iniuu ITouse of Commons by such teen an Cartwright and Cameron against those opposed to thein. We shall see what we shall sup when the IIouse moots. This vile vitupera- tive habit has become second nature with lite twin C's. That which bath been shall be. The impolicy of printing the Dominion voters' lists at Ottawa has been fully illustrated by the_ bungling manner in which names and places of residence aro placed ou the oxistiug lista. The Domin- ion lists should be printed in offices in the respective ridings, for the sake of accuracy, if they did cost something more thou at present, It is also unfair for the -Govern- ment to use public capital in com- petition with private enterprise in the printing line, those engaged in which do more public work gratt'itously than all other classes combined. A New York preacher, comment- ing on the proposed law to make the exercise of the franchise com- pulsory-, puts the case strongly when he says: "The man who deserts in the army is held to be a traitor and is shot. The man who deserts the ballot—the substitute for the bayonet—should be punish- ed by civil lew as acriminal. The crime committed is precisely the same in degree as that of the de- serter." And when one remembers that nearly all the abuses with which our political system is blam- od are directly attributable to the men who ought to vote and don't he will appreciate the force of the comparison. There is some talk of protesting Mr. Cameron's election in West Huron. Some ask : "What's the use, his majority is beyond reach- ing, and no good would come of unseating him." But if a man steals and got away with the goods by the apathy or with the approval of a large number of sympathizers, it would be immoral to say that there would be no use of prosecut- ing the thief. It is as much the duty of the Conservative party to prosecute those who by bribery or intimidation helped to steal a con- stituency as it would be the duty of all good citizens and thecounty attorney to prosecute the roan who ouly stole a few doliare worth of goods. It's a question of public and political morality. The Grit organ of Clinton has opinions, very peculiar ones, too. It is "of the opinion that Sir John "will make a curve in favor of reci- "procity." \Vhy, bless its dear soul, Sir John does not need to snake a curve to do this. It is what he and his government have bee in favor of for many years. It is a largo part of the old policy which he appealed to the country on and has been endorsed upon. Our cotem's opinion of what Sir John will do is on a par with that of the boy who throw a ball up in the air and ex- pressed the opinion that it would come down again. The boy was sure to be right. Sir John is in favor of reciprocity, and our cotem, believes "he will favor some form of reciprocity." That is as inevitable as that the thrown ball would gravi- tate to the earth. However, we aro glad to find that so strong a GrLt admits that Sir Juhn will do what er- �---- --- •---- lie has often sael he would if it were at all pos.ible to du it. But our fileud trust remember that reci- procity meane the giving something and getting something in return ---a mutual advantage deal ; not the giving of everything and getting less than nothing in return. "Canada may be a coy maiden"says the Chicago Inter Ocean, "but Sir John Macdonald, posiug ea a fond papa, has a hobnailed boot reserved for annexation." Tho first vote given by a woman at a parliamentary election in Cana- da was given March 5, 1891 by Mrs. Langford of Cameron, North Victoria. She voted fur Major Sara Hughes, the Canservative can- didate. Her name was on the voters' fiat through an oversight. Our town contemporary rises to remark : "We believe even Conser- vatives will admit that Mr. Cameron will represent Huron in the House better than its late repreeentatke did." No wonder our cotent is so often wro'ng when it is so credulous. There is not a Conservative iu the Riding that will admit this. Con- servatives are intelligent wen. No nue could bo a Couservative and ad- mit such an impossibility. Blue ruin Dick said, before the electious, that "1110 Canadian farmers had boon brought to such a low state figancially that they could not real- ize how pour they were." The groat majority of Canadian farmers came out on the 511) of March and showed Sir Richard that they did not know they wore so poor as he said they were. The Canadian farmer is like the British soldier who dorm nut know when he is beaton°bocauso as a matter of fact ho never is whipped. IIe may tweet with reverse but boat• en the British soldier never is. He is up and at 'pin again. The slander that Canadian farmers Were 80 irre- trievably bankrupt that they could not realize their poverty has boon rebuked at the polls. They may and do have their reverses, but they aro ready, aye ready, to be up and at their difficulties and have always overcome them. On the 5th of March they roused themselves to overcome one of the chief difficulties to their.progress—BlueRuin Dick— and they downed hint fifty fathoms deep. Hurrah for the farmers. The markets of the world for them. The markota of Britain and her em- pire, instead:of the cribbod,lcabined, confined and paltry markets of only 60,000,000 people with similar prod ucts to our own. Fisher of Bromo, Quebec, prohi- bitionist, received a majority of 379 1887. In the recent election he and his Conserva five opponent wero tion. The Returning Officer cast his vote in favor of the latter. Mr. Fisher de- manded a recount which resulted in favor of the Conservative candidate by a majority of 3. Are the people becoming impatient of parliamen- tary sumptuary legislation 1 It would seem so. Mr. Porter of West Huron voted in the House for con- ditional prohibition. He had boon elected in 1887 by a majority of 27. In 1889 there appears to be a major- ity of over 379 against him. There •aurrot be any manner ofedoubt that hie prohibition vote and the stand he took against • the repeal of the Scott Act and against the granting licenses for the sale of beer and wine in Scott Act counties were the most important factors in rolling up so large a majority agatnet Trim. Those opposed to sumptuary legisla• tion among the Conservatives voted against him. Those in favorofitarn- ong the Reformers voted against hint. It would appear that the reaction of the popular vote as shown by the repeal of the Scott Act in so many counties has extended against those who showed any leaning to the abridgment of civil rights by the Dominion Parliament. United Status Senators are elect- ed by the joint votes of the State Legislature. For two months they had been trying to elect one for tho State of Illinois. There are 204 members in the State Legislature. Gon. Palmer received right along 101 votes and his Republican op- ponent 100. Throe voting for the Farmers' candidate. It requires a majority of the members of the whole joint Legislature to elect. Finally the 3 Farmers voted with the I)enmocrats and elected Gon. Palmer. The election of this ono a 0 AND THE Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda. No other Emulsion is so easy to take. It does not separate nor spoil. It is always sweet as cream. The most sensitive stomach can retain it. CURES Scrofulous and Wasting Diseases. Chronic Cough. Loss of Appetite. Mental and Nervous Prostration. General Debility, &c. Beware of all imitations. Ask for "the D. & L." Emulsion, and refuse all others. PRICE 50C, AND $1 PER BOTTLE. Senator cost- the State of Illinois $150,000. Thera are 75 Senators for the whole of Canada with an annual allowance of $1,000 each per an- num. The cost of electing one United States Senator front the State of Illinois was $150,000. This would pay rho cost of our 75 Senators for two years. In Illinois the expensive farce has to he repeat- ed every four years for two Sen- alors,alternating. There is really an election of one Senator every two years. 'Thus, taking the recent election iu Illinois .as .a crilerion,the 75 Senators fur Cau•ula cost no more than two for Illinois. Think of Sir Richard Cartwright, Senator from the State of Ontario, costing the Province $150,000 besides his sessional allowance. 'rho "poor" farmers will hardly thiuk he would have been worth the money, to say nothing of the injury our farmers would sustain from the influx into Canada of the immense farm sur- plus of 60,000,000 of people had Sir Richard and his frieuds had their way in the matter of annexation. Our town contemporary in referr- ing to the great ".moral ehow" of last Friday which ended in a torch• light procession to the statiuu t 1 see Mr. Cameron off to Goderich, is un- wittingly funny or lihellons, as the the case may be. It says "the pro- cession was composed largely of young men who were disfranchised bp the aged voters' lists." The fun Comps in' when we state 11481 the "aged" voters' lints did not disfran• chine one individual. The voters' lists are really enfranchising docu. menta and any one whose name is thereon is entitled to a vote,suhject to conditions such as going 21 years of age, is a British subject,and has not received anything to vote or promis- ed anything to %ny other parson to vote. our contemporary's state- ment is on a par with much of the Grit distortion used during the elec- tion. It is positively untrue. The voters' lists used did not disfran• chise any one. As we have said they are enfranchising documents, giving the right to vote to those whose names are thereon, with the proper reservations we have named. Then itis excruciatingly funny to class such mon as Messrs. James Smith, W. W. Ferran, D. A. For- rester, W. J. Paisley, A. Arm - WILL LEAVE ON ESRUARY 24th, 1891 AT 9.00 P.M. AND EVERY TUESDAY THEREAFTER DURING MARCH AND APRIL WITH COLONIST SLEEPER ATTACHED FOR MANITOBA CANADIAN NORTH-WEST f'r�r;psarons wirhour Stock a Colonist Sleeper will be attached ro ixpress ojesin; leavin Toronto 11 ..m For full information and descriptive pamphlets of Manitoba, the North West Territories, and British Colum•, bia, apply to any C. P. R. Agent.