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The Huron News-Record, 1891-07-01, Page 4d The: Huron Mews-Recara 1.Ge u• Peat- 1:ze la 4tdveaeo R'tdue.Stzlav, Jun,A Hotb., I891. IiOMA.N CFIWWII DEDICA- TION. Ere most 'of readers will have seed ,hie, the-firet Ronan Catholic church in Clinten will have been dedicated to the worship of Almighty God. Weduesday of this week being the day on which the ceremony will take place. A few desultory remarks may not be out of place at this time iu regard to he position we have held and now hold toward our Roman Catholic friends. bout six years ago when report- ing the doings at out result of a picnic in Hullett, the net proceeds of which, several huudred` dollars we belirve, were understood to form the nucleus of a fund for the build- ing of this church, we wished the Romau Catholics God -speed iu their efforts, Some of our friends took exceptiou to this good wish as ex- pressive of a desire to see Boman - ism progress. Iu one sense we did and do. We are not of those who see eye to eye w lice, iu matters But they have exis of years and we be while the world last may they tt ill not be ants, however much th be modified to suit the tellig•ance which the gen ment of educational faci cause to permeate peopl classes and creeds as years a We knew that exception w taken to this. Is nut semper their motto? Those of the Cat faith say they have the truth truth never changes ; Protests say they are confirmed iu error an will never change. Whether the 1 omenf t creed con- tains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, those adhering to it are satisfied with it. And its teachers have the very best system for its perpetuation. Believing then, as we do, that it will be perpetuated, and that its adherents, with rare exceptions, will not become Protestants we have no hesitation iu wishing that denomination every success in pro- viding the necessary facilities for worshipping Gud according to their conscience. We say this advisedly. ]'ar both from observation and read- ing we feel convinced that Romauists as well as those of other denomina- tions who have the opportunity of attending church are better citizens than when deprived, from lack of church premises, from attending to their religious duties on the Sabbath. Romaniets •ill not at- tend Protestant churches, land the proverbial trusim applies; in Oda as in other cases, that Satan always finds some wickedness for idle hands or minds to indulge in. Our liberality towards those of a different faith does not imply an abnegation of views directly oppos- ed.to those embodied in Romanism. We can find sermons in stones, books in running books and good in everything. We can see good in Romanism : we can see greater good in Protest- antism ; we can see the greatest good fn simple Christianity. But we have no more tight to interfere with a man's way of worshipping God than we have in intereferiug with his way of eating at his own table. however much the plain teach- ings of the Bible may be befogged by theologians, casuists, and sceptics, they have survived the support of questionable friends and the opposi• tion of avowed enemies. And how- ever much of paganein we may affirm has become engrafted on the original parent stock of Cliris• tiauity in the early Church to adapt its. requirements to the needs of those who were witatout God iu the world, in order to effect the convers ion of the worshippers of an un- known God, the salient points of revelation still remain iutaot even in Romanism, though they may be surrounded by formalities, ceremon- ials and paraphernalia which dim their spiritual lustre even as the fleecy glouds, though fringed and .tinged. with many and roseate colored 1..19 els -.dtlu,_khe _arigb.tnesa,of -the great orb of day.' The sun is behind the clouds, though we may not dee it ; God ie behind Romanism ith Roman Catho- of religious faith. ted for hundreds iove will exist Talk as we owe Protest- eir faith may rowillg in. ral better- lities will e of all dvance. ill be idem holic and nts d th0U h the brigh-tnoaa Of. face xray be, obaeuyQd by ploy og o formalities Odell the Church placett heal een, I•lim avd. peal= mortals. >avel, MX unreasoning faith, in what we believe to hethe.exrotleoua teachings of the Rollie"), Qathelio church has made many poor lives and souls happy. • Waiter Resent, in the current number of Iltnr er's ¥ontltty Maga- zine, in referring to Saxon and Norman Loudon about the time of the Conquest eaya "The citizens of London at this time were joyous, happy and hopeful, tor the fact of their blind and unrea- soning faith. It is impossible to ex• aggerate the importance of unreason- ing faith as a factor inhuman happi- ness. The life of the meanest man was filled with splendor, because of the great inheritance assured him by the Church. We must never leave out the Church for one moment in speaking of the past. We must never forget that all people, save here and there a doubting Rufus ora questioning Prince of Anjou, believed without the shadow of a doubt. Knowledge brought the power of questioning. As yet there was no knowledge. Therefore every man's life, however miserable, was, to his happy ignorance, the certain ante- room or heaven. We are fond of dwelling on the mediaevel hell, the stupidity and brutality of its endless torture, and the selfishness ot buying salvation with masses. Hell was always meant for the other man. He looked upward for his hope. There he beheld loving angels bear- ing, aloft in their soft arms tate soul redeemed to the abode of perfect bliss. Iu that soul he recognized himself, he saw the potraiture, exaot and life -like ot his own forgiven and sanctified features." Now supposing, as Protestants, we concede, which we do, to Romavists the right to live and die by all "unreitsoo1ng faith," we also cleiw the equal light to hold by what lhutnauiste may call our un-. reasoning faith or an unreasonable lick of kith.. And the rights of both faiths are maintained by the moat prououuoed Protestauta— tJ tangenieu. Civil and religious liberty is the basis of Orangeiem. The members of this Society are obligated to defendltoinan Catho1h e in the exercise of such privileges as will be afforded thew in their new church in Cliuton. Ancj yet we have been told time and again that it is a mural impossibility fur a country composed of these conflict- ing religious faiths to get along har- moniously. Uufur•tunately there are those who endeavor to fan this alleged religious antagouism. There can be wide difference in belief without antagonism. Whether rightly or wrougly we charge Jesuit teachers with creating autagouism where there should only be divergence. Sometimes we attack what we call faults in the Jesuit hierarchy for its interference iu matters political. Hereupon we are charged with attacking Catholic religious faith We think the children of this country should all .be taught in public schools, where no creed is taught; and we find fault with the hierarchy for pro- hibiting children of their faith from attending public schools. This is construed into an attack upon their .faith. We fail to find in revelat- tion any groundwork upon which to build an. article of faith which can rightfully condemn the co- education of the children of Catholic and Protestant parents at the same scuools. When we have cond Jesuit branch of the Cath as political fire brands, their directand indirect int in mutters of State, the ar told that we are attackin religious faith ; whereas we a told iu the next breath tha awned the tic church ecause of erference e again their re also t the Church has no politics. Civil liberty should be as bro based as religious liberty. there cau be no real civil liber when the clerics of any religiou denomination assume to exercise their usurped monopoly of heaven to enforce political adherence to any political party. So long as Roman Catholic elerios abstain from attempting to control the civil authorities in the manage- ment of secular affairs no true Protestant can have any objection to their churches studding the land as thickly as peas in a pod. But when Jesuit ascendancy, which has always been opposed by the best thought in the Roman Catholic church, steps in and dictates the civil administration of the common- wealth, then every Romanist as well as Protestant should exercise what influence he heti iu combatting all aueh baneful profanation of a high and holy calling. We again wish the Roman Catho- lic church iu Clinton all possible prosperity consistent with civil and religious liberty, To show that the beet thought in the Roman Catholic church is opposed to the political aggressive- ness of the Jesuits, as above referr- ed to, we subjoin the following from Pat Grant, himself a Catholic, which appeared in a daily news- paper of Chicago last week :— As an instance of the vicious teaoh- ings of those Jesuits and of the deter- mined manner in which they seek to „en kap =t e„[:atholie-people<vtYis= 'er's- tinent IS this subject to state that no later than last Sunday morning, at 9 o'clock mass at the Jesuit Church on Twelfth street a Jesuit priest said ad- ut ty e that the Popo hada@ food right to dtreot the politics of the Catl?,irli0. people: in this country as -he; lied ,to safeguard their religion. A, lid, mere. oveertbe glued on the atnooaaion that a Pope knew the issues which underlie politics better than, the people, Comment On this statist?Oent, about which more will probably be heard, is wholly unnecessary. It is, however, right to ware the people who are in the habit of res garding the followers dfLoyo]aae the true expounders of Catholic doctrine that nothing could be more injurious to ::.their worldly fortunes, or to their interests as citizens than to follow the advice of Jesuits in any matter whatever - out. side the clear and well defined fano.. tions of religion. . Wherever they have proved a curse to Catholics by bringing them into antagonism with the laws, 11 was simply monstrous for this man to tell the people In have interfered in politics they. Twelfth St. parish that the Pope had as good a right to look after their politics as he had after their religion He would not do so if be thought his words would be published or that the people who were listening were pained and insulted by his language. Upon such occasions loyal and self- respecting Catholics should protest against such interference with their rights asoitizene by taking up their hats and walking out of the church as the Lord Mayor of Dublin recently dtd. It is just snob language as this which has caused the Jesuits to be driven out of every Catholic country in Europe. Such advice was down• right treaohery to the Catholic peo- ple. It was moreover akin to lying, and I say so without either irrever• once or personal disrespect, for the ,jforesaid priest knew or ought to lave known, that from either a human or divine point of view the Pope had no such rights. It is by Catholics trying to act upon such advice that organizations are called into existence in order to boycott them in the exercise of their civil rights. It was such language and the desire of pious Catholics to set up to it whioh gave cause to Prinoo Bismarck to once say to the illustr- ious lMalinokrodt ; "1 would not admit any Catholic to be a member of the government." It is such language which prevents even in this country a Catholic from being Presi- dent of the United States or Mayor of Chicago. Against the particular Jesuit who waa guilty ot such a horrid anachron- ism, and who, it is stated, worked himself into such a rage becore the altar that he"got black in the face," 1 do not desire to say anything. Ilis reverence is no worse than the general body, which has the same objects in view whether located in Spain or Germany or America, name• ly, to operate in large cities in a secret way : to sell out the people as they did theGermau socialists and to rear the church upon their shoul- ders; to press them down by turning them against the country and the coun try against them, and to make them virtually the ohuroh'a friendly slaves. Any man the tool of another, and especially of a Pope, who takes his political convictions from him; and has no mind of his own, can not be trusted by any government, and ought not to be. Jesuitism is plac- ing the Catholic people in a false position, and, like the fox in IEaop's fables, climbing along their backs. The incident in Twelfth street last Sunday morning conveys a lesson, and it is entirely creditable to the good sense and patriotism of the people who were present that tbey reported it to the press as the most significant protest under the circumstances it was probably in their power to make. One would like to write patiently and con• siderately of these mets and of their faults for the sake of what they have done and what they have endured. But whatever good they have done in the past is wholly eclipsed and discounted by what they now moan to do, and the villainous uses to which they would obviously turn the people in the present. r GOOD AND BAD POLICY. The taking the duty of sugar is commendable. We cannot raise sugar cane and land can be put to more pro- fitable nae thanin growing the sugar beet. Being non -prod ucers of sugar, a duty on it wit; ouly jestifitble is order to raise revenue. It wasnot a rotective duty. The reducing the duty on salt is a mistake. it is in- digenous. Can ho found iu hund- reds of square miles of territory. Can he produced in unlimited quan- tities. Horne competition has kept and always will keep the price down to very nearly °bet of pro- duction. Often it has been sold leas. It is the cheapest article of commer- ce in use. Canada salt is the purest in the known world. Ito manufac- ture implemtinte the labor market and supplements the revenue by the duties paid on articles requisite for its manufacture and those consumed by the cousidetable number of men engaged in its production. Canad- ian salt will keep its savor, but re- ducing the duty means ruin to our manufacturers and the Government in bad ordor with a very important element of home industry. The Governtnoi 't a ipuid give On- tario industries a fair show. The maritime provinces have free salt for their fishermen, and Ontario -paved ty. an ton 9°irttt'pctte'dIn' dile? to protect that produced in those provinces. If the interests of On- tario are to be totally ignored while tboeoof the ttleritime proviix.' get} aro protected , and materiel: used in en important industry there allow ed. to come in free, ,while material peed in an important industry 'here is taxed, somebody will get hurt. One law for all in regard,to i>adus- tries as well as in regard,to .arced and races. The farmer is protected just euffigient to keep out the cheap- er products of American farmers. Tho salt manufacturer should be protected enough to keep out the cheap and trashy American salt. The salt duties should remain as they were. The trashy talk about salt combines that is sometimes used for political purposes should have no weight. No one has suffered by having to pay $1,25 retail for salt. It -is as well worth that money, take the capital, labor etc, used iu its production, as wheat is worth 90 cls a bushel. Labor should support labor interests as well as he support- ed by them. EDITORIAL NOTES. , A Huron salt manufacturer re- marked that the Government had ruined his husinees by taking the duty off salt and added insult to in- jury by putting an extra tax of three Gouts a gallon on his beer. Governor Filer of Illinois has just approved a bill entitling women to vote at all school elections. Poor old pokey Ontario with even so con- servative premier as Mr. Mowat has had such a law in force for many years. The taking of the duty off sugar moans a loss of $3,600,000 a year to the revenue. About one half this sum will be made up by an increase of duties on liquors and tobacco. The country will approve the change the goverunwut has made. In discussing the Budget Sir Richard Cartwright roma, ked : "We must more or less discriminate against Great Britaiu." His pulicy is to discriminate more rather then less against -trading with our best customer—Britain. • Senator Gowan wants grand juries abolished. Premier Mowat does not, though he has done much to take power out of the hands of the people. We will stick by the little Premier in this matter. Bet- ter abolish Senator Gowan and tile whole Senate rather than grand juries. Senator Macdonald bas introduc- ed a bill to establish divorce courts except iu Nova Scotia anti New Brunswick, which have them already, and in Quebec which does not want thorn. The Supreme Cou't of the provinces to have jurisdiction, with the right of ap- peal to the Supreme Court of Can- ada. This legislation is in the right direction. The Empire says "One-half the duty is taken off salt, another gift of value to the consumer. Protection to native industries,aud low taxation are watchwords of the Administra- tion." The latter clause of the pre- ceeding extract the completely agree with. But reducing the duties on salt is not in accord with the first part of it. The manu- facture of salt is a "native in- dustry" of the most accentuated nativity, to the manner born, and developed by native capital and labor from native raw material. In the debate on prohibition in the House "The Dominion Alli- ance" want this or don't want that was intrusively brought in as an ar- gument that the people did or did not want this or that. How would it have done to have used per contra, "The Licensed Victualler's Alliance" want this or don't want that. What parliament is for is to legis- late in the best interests of the coun- try and not for the special behoof or at the special dictation of any of the thousand and onn mushroom or- ganizations that spring up like fungi outside the people's two great representative parties. The Globe is the same old oppon• eut of the development of the material resources of the country as it was when it tried to obstruct the building of the Canada Pacific Rail- brcy: It -altjtietli grant of f87,1- 000 a year for twenty years which parliament is asked to give to aid in the building of the Hudson Bay Railway- which will open" op an isnflteuae tract of land to the Worth of Wixtnipeg. It asye the "hinds will not he filled at the present rate of settlement in a hundred years." Admitting the force of this ergo ment,ie not dile all theetr'onger reason for . having a railway built which shall accelerate the settlement of unoccupied lands. The building of railways through unoccupied lands is the very Means to overcome the objections nutforwaril by the Globo. Mr. Iroetcr in his' budget speech gave irrefutable proof of the irne prosperity of the country. The ag- gregate trade of last ,year was $11.1,- 000,000 in excess of the preceding year, and $65,000,000 In excess of thelastyear of the McKenzie admin- istration. Our exports alone were last year $7,500,000 in excess of the previous year, and $25,000,000 in excess of 1878-9. If people are leaving the country, the remnant that is left are doing a -mighty big trade and getting wealthy. Our trade last year was $11,000,000 mote with Great Britain than the preceding year, while there was a decrease of about $1,000,000 with the United States, showing that our people aro getting their eyes open to the greater' advantages of the British roerket for our surplus product$. It is reported that the Imperial Colonial Office is considering a sug- gestion, coming from Canadian sources, that Lady Macdonald should be raised to the peerage. That lady's letter, which we published last week, is the crowning act of many years devotion to the interests of the Canadian people. And any honor the Canadian people can offer Lady 'Macdonald through her impar ial prototype is well merited. A 1018 - apprehension exists regarding these titular honors. Though necessarily coming from the fountain head—the Queen—when bestowed upon Cana dianv they emanate from the power behind the throne—the people of Canada. Lady Macdonald is Cana- du'e Queen. A right royal sovereign she,'who reigus supremo in the af- fections of every true -hearted man and woman in this Dominion. Sir Charles Tupper uever receiv- ed an invitation to form a Govern• ment and he is said to be quite re- lieved that he had not to decline an offer which nothing but a grave cris- is in Canadian affairs could have in- duced him to 'accept, and be knew that such a crisis did not exist. Sir John Thompson declined the honor and accompanying arduous duties. Though this is a well attested fact the Opposition, whose itch for office overrides every other consideration, can hardly believe it, They cannot imagine that so able a man as Sir 'John Thompson should have declin- ed the honor of being the first Min- ister of the Crown in Canada, when any one of their mannikin mixers and muddlers would have jumped at the chance and thus afforded evidence of the trite truism that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread." POOR p 4N'S Comm i'rfday lest JndgeDnyle iseTs1I ivi'. sign- Court" ire Clinton, There was considerable gofer° the, court, some of the cases being oompltcated, box ea egpeditione were matteracgnduot." ed that all were got.through in fgulr hours, court sttttng Irom 9 to l' o'olook. The bar was representex't by Messrs Ilartt, Meoning, e.eatt, Clinton, and Campioxn, Goderich. We give a resume of several °.pees, Smith v. Canteton.--Tbis case was to have been tried at thiti Division Court sittings I,ut the Judge, owing to the defective claiw, adjourned ,the case until next Court. The plain- tiff claims $74 and the defendant offsets it by aclatm of $00 for vari- ous services. The case was to have been tried by a jury. Campion, Q. C., who appeared for plaintiff, refer- red to the folly of litigants making out their own claims and running the risk of being saddled with costs by delay. In this case the plaintiff pays the costs of the day and it oomea up again next Court. Manning for deft. Rossu. 1Crys.—This was an action brought by Mr. John Ross, of Clinton, against Mr. Wm. Keys, of Stanley, for the use of a horse for about a year. Campion for plff., Scott for deft. Plaintiff alleged that defeat• dant agreed to take a horse to work on his farm and pay him what it was worth "between man and man' for the use of it. Defendant denied that any such arrangement had been made but that he took the horse on condition that its keep was to be an equivalent for its use while working, and put in a claim fur its keep while it was not working. Deft alleged that the horse would have been returned long betore it was but that plff would not receive it. When plff didacceptitdeftalleg- ed that he detnanded pay for the time deft had it at the rate of l:, cents a day. Pltf alleged that he made this claim in response to an inquiry by the son of defendant when the home was returned. The deft's son positively denied that he asked what charge would be made for the u.,e of the horse as he knew there could be uo charge as the keep of the horse during the year was far more than an equivalent for the few weeks they had worked it. It bad been ted oats regularly during the winter and not worked. PM' said he bad demanded the horse when he wanted to use it but that plaintiff said he was working it and could not spare it, but that pili could hire a horse at the livery, which be did and it had cost him about $20 for livery hire in order to allow the deft to nae his horse. Campion asked if this state of things was consistent with deft's statement that he had not worked the horse or that he did not expect to pay for its use. It was un- reasonable to assume that dell ex- pected plaintiff to hire a horse and allow deft to use his own without compensation. A 'hired lad with Keys testified to the horse having been worked only six weeks during the year. Bates testified to plff asking him to sell the horse for him during the time it was with Keys. He wanted $75 or $80 for it but understood he afterward sold it for $20. Scott pointed out that no con- tract was made out whereby defen- dant had agreed to pay f r the use of the horse. That it was shown the horse bad not been worked for a time that would repay the deft for the many months he kept it without working it. Il's Honor decided that the burden of proof of contract rested with the plaintiff. IIe had, it is true, testified that deft had agreed to pay a fair tax for the u -o of the horse. This deft and his son had as positively denied. He there- fore dismissed the case, each party to pay his own costs. Grit journals are perfectly flabber- gasted at the audacity of a Tory government completing the provid- ing of a free breakfast table which they began when they took off the duties which the Grits had retained on tea and coffee. The Tory gov- ernment has taken the duty off sugar. The (alone says "the only complaint Liberals make is that the govern- ment has not gone far enough." Probably the Globe would like the government to give a bounty of 2 cents a pound for all produced in the country and thus neutralize the benefits the consumer gets from the duty being taken off. But then "the government is tardily following the policy of the Americans." It could not more quickly have followed the policy of the Americans. It ie only since the first of June that the Americans have taken tite duty off sugar. It may be the Globe does not want the duty off sugar at all. It has had the wind taken out of its fault-finding sails. It has lost the leverage of argument that it might have used by pointing to the bliss- ful state of Yankee palates tickled with free sugar, as against the vine- gary condition of Canadians with taxed sugar. But neither the devil nor the Yankees should have a mon- opoly_of sweet thingainthiaxrvorld., —Mt. MuInnsa, C. P. R. excursion agent, went, -through London last week with a larga'parfy of Miohlgan far.nere bound for the Canadian North-west. T, -ick v. Wiggington.—The parties to this case reside in Goderich town- ship. Campion for pill., defendant conducted his own case. Plaintiff sued for the value of twenty 'one bushels of oats got by deft. When he asked for pay or for their return deft said be thought they were re- turned, but that his son would know. Deft's son, when seen, said the oats had been returned and he could prove it by Mr. Glen. Defendant admitted getting the oats, but want- ed Of to state how he got them as he wanted to test his credibility. The Court held it was not necessary for pill to answer this in view of the fact that defendant admitted getting them. Defendant sworn, admitted getting the oats but claimed they were returned by his son. Son testi- fied to returning them. Took them to plff's mill along with three bags of peas which he got chopped. Return- ed 18 bushels and paid plff's son for three bushels and for chopping the peas. Put the oats in the hopper. Glen helped put the oats in the wagon at the barn. Robt. Trick re-. ceived them at the mill and weighed them. They bad also been weighed at the barn. Miss Wiggington was in the barn when the oats were•oleaned for delivery toTrick. Glen swore he was at defendant's barn. Helped tocarry oats down stairs which were put on the wagon along with 3 bags of peas which deft's son said he was going to take to Trick. Was;at dinner when the young man returned. Trick jr. swore oats were not returned, were riot put in hopper, did not receive oats or money. Recollect chopping the peas and credited pay on his books for chopping them. If oats had been received at same time, he would have credited them also. Recollect taking three hags of peas out of the wagon. Was sure there was no oats. The Judge held that as defendant had admitted getting the oats, the onus of proof that he had returned them rested with him. He had failed to do so. It was oath agatnat oath. He therefore gave verdict for pili for the market value of the oats. DEATIIS. WATS0.t.—In Blyth on 8atnrrltiy June 27th, 1891, Thomas «lotion, merchant, egad 76 yea's. A native of Stirling. shire, Scotland. 14.