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The Huron News-Record, 1891-08-05, Page 4PEOPLE TI3L T Bigger Bargains,—Cheaper Goods,are Being Offered NOW I For the next few days than have ever been seen in the County of Huron before. The Sale will continue for THE PEOPLE'S BENEFIT, for I want' you to remember that COST PRICE IS NOT CONSIDERED while this Sale continues, but =EVERY SUMMER ARTICLE MUST 4 E CLEARED OUT Within the next few days, and it is PRICE that is going to do it. So while the Goods last come along. You may depend you will not go away dissatisfied, Tele Huron Nevus -f; ecora 1.50 a Year -d1.25 in Advance Wednesday. August 5th. 1891. 7'HE VETERANS OF 1837 8 In the lfouse Mr. Kirkpatrick moved : "That iu the opinion of this House it is expedient that the Gov- erment should bestow some mark of recogni:iou upon the leteruns of 1837 8 fur their services to the cuun • try at that time." This eminently proper resolution brought out the latent disloyalty of some of the Opposition. Mr, Soul Orville contended that the rebels and patriots should be treated alike. Ho held that McKenzie end I'apin- ean ,r r" uaines that should be rever- ed. Mr Vasey, anolLor Grit, took the S3111d view. It also brought out the fact that the Reform e:ement of the Opposi- tion is, an we have always contend- ed, as loyal as Conservatives. Mr. Striver, a Quebec Liberal, saint, : -1 think my hon. friend who sits be- hind ore S mervitle) went a little too Err when be asserted that the report of L rd Uurham, with regard to the troubles of 1837 38 justified the rebellion which took place at the time. 1 do not thins, according to toy tee'lleetion of that report-whir:h was certainly a very able cue, and IA :o the adoption in tele counrry r f m ny important constitution- al reforms, and to the disappearance of man; of the abuses which exiet'-d prior to that time -I do not think the report went so for as to justify the resorb to arras on the part of those who rebelled at that time. It ie ti us that thr report alleged, and alieged justly, that great abuses existed at that period, a:,uses whie', cc, taray j.etificd the in ret deter- mined constitutional endeavors on the part of those who suffered from them, to bring about ri form. I may nay that while 1 have in my :onstituency a few of those old veterans, my reasons for sup- porting the motion of the hoc. member for Frouteuac ere rather cf a personal character, more so, . ierhaps, than the reasons which influence other hon. mem' bare of this House. I may say that I'am the eon of a m ret who took up arms on that occassion. Although he was a Lib- eral all his life, and although he aympe. thized to a great' ex eot with the views of those who west further than he did, yet, when armed rebellion broke out, he arrayed hime,If on the side ,,f the000.ti- tuted author hies, and believed it to be hie duty to do all iu his power to maintain, the .oneeet•ion between this country and the mother country. Wo must not forget that those who reb, lied at that time were aimiug nett ea much at the correction of the abuses which existed then, as at the. actual d!esofution of the connection bet aeel, this c'entry and the mother country I cannot myself see now, and I never euuld see, why it would not bee. graceful and a proper and a legi- timate step for the Ooveiamcnt to take, to recognize the services which those old mon rendered on an occasion very trying to them, and very imt.nrtant to the bast ietere t of this u,uutry, by giving them at !east a small antonnr of land:" Mr. McLennan, a grand Glengar- riau, took the edge off Somerville and Casey's deification cf William Lyon McKenzie, by quoting Mr. McKenzie's own opinion of what the result would have been had he been successful, and his expressions of regret for the course he had taken. This extract is taken from a letter written by McKenzie to Earl Grey in 1849 : "A course of -areful observation during the last twelve years HAS FULLY SATISFIED ME THAT HAD THE VIOLENT MOVEMENTS IN WItICH I AND OTHERS WERE ENGAGED, ON 130TH SIDES OF TUE NIAGARA, PROVED SUCCESSFUL, THAT SUCCESS \\TOI;LI) HAVE DEEPLY IN• JURED THE PEOPLE OF CAN• ADA, whom I then believed I was serving at great rinks. 'I have long been sensible of the errors committed during that period. No punishment that power could inflict or nature could stsctain, would have equalled the regrets I have felt on account of uucfltu.4.I.:rltcl ,rfri(1.,. u1'pte,',:[talcl published." Probably the rebels of to -day know better than the chief partici- CI• - pant in the rebellion of 1837-8 whether he did right or wrung. \Ve prefer his own deliberate and matured estimate, that, however well meaning his intention. he "deep ly injured the people of Canada•" Aud it does seem that it would be eminently proper to reward the lis- t ing veterans who prevented McKen- zie's further Beceess, which he ad- mits would have deeply injured the people of Canada, without includ- ing those who tried to do that in - jet ry. WHO PAYS THE DUTY, It requires no ru•gluuent to prove that au importing country which buys from a foreig,n country articles of prime necessity which it cannot ae;,t doss not see fit for economical reasons to produce, and puts a duty on them, itself pays the duty. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, au American statistician and econo- mical writer of national repute, in writing to the Chairman of the Commercial Union Committee in New York, remarks : "Las- year the imp ,rte of fish into this U,ited S-at':s were valued at two and a y3.rter million d,•lla:s. We taxed the fisc five handr..d teuusand dollars. Who pave it? Mainly thu working paopte r f New 1$vgland, wm, need the fish most, and wh.. barn rhe least where with to nay it We .mported !set yeiar 8650,000 worth of p -t -.t• e . ; we taxed them $292,010 A few years ag-, when the crop cf potatoes in New England was very Short, the people paid io that year a tax .an Canad`tri and Irish ta- toes of over $1,250.000. All these taxes on fish, potatoes, barley, horses etc., which Canaria provide.✓, for ifs, ender directly into the cost of the mann facturing and mechanical art., in the United Slates." EDITORIAL NOTES. Last welek it cost 13 cents to carry wheat from Chicago to Liveapool ; this -week it costs 15i cents. The public of the United States have to pay $15,000,000 bounties to home produced sugar. We do these things better in Canada. In 1890 there were 97 votes count ed against unrestricted reciprocity on a vite in the Canadian House of Commons. in 1891 there were 11.4 counted against it on a division. \Vith the kill -all McKinley bill in force, Canada exported the past year $26,179,136 worth of the pro. ducts of the forest, as against $19,- 511,575 under the last year of the Grit weak-kneed policy. In amendment to the Dominion 'Elections Act it is now provided that money deposited with revising officers or any other officer under the Act may be made in the bills of any chartered Canadian bank. Ex -Senator Iugalls placed hire-. self on record the other day as a prohibitionist—a Kansas prohibi• tionist who hover takes a drink when he cannot get one, and that .he found he always could get in any prohibition state. Last week eggs were selling in Hamilton, Ont., for 17 to 18 cents, same day they were selling in Buffalo, N. Y., for 16 to 17 cents. If the American duty of 5 cents hai3 caused the price iu Canada to be 5 cent less than Buffalo they ought to have brought only 11 to 12 cents in Hamilton. The Government pays fair salaries to its employees and those who are proven guilty of making money illegally whether by the acceptance of bribes or by false representations should -be,. made—to -walk as -plank outside civil service. This genuine Conservative policy, we are pleased to see, is being carried out. \Viteau's broilers seem to be at a discount in the 60 millions market. The St. Paul Pioneer Press quotes spring chickens, 121- to 15 cents. A good many of the Globe's charges against its political oppo- nents are entirely original—made on time plan the buy made the wooden ship, "all out of its own head." The prospect of good crops in Canada has caused calamity Cart- wright to give a large order for Burdock Blood Bitters to tone up his system so that he can hear up under the strain. 11 was a cold morning for the Op- poratiou at Ot.lawn when the trade policy of the Government was sus- tained by a voting majority of 26. The coolness reached even to Clin- ton. Itis not often we have frost in the latter part of July. The Pharisaical press that are rolling up their oyes in affected horror at the Ottawa departmental irregularities should have a more scrupulous regard for the most fundamental of all moralities— veracity—when reporting the evi- dence given before committee, The Stratford Times says the no- tion that the rain falls upon the just and the unjust is an exploded one, The Times has probably not noticed the fact that an Ontario Grit firm had received an order for 200 harv- esting machines as the outcome of the reins of last month. In the matter of controverted elec- tion the law is amended so as to have petitions tried before two judges in• stead of one. Hereafter a candidate will not be liable for corrupt acts of his agents committed against his express orders, and where the can- didate also took reasonable means for preventing the commission of corrupt practices. Last year Canada exported one and a half million dollars worth more of products than the year before, and we imported half a million dollars worth leas. This means that Lana- is two millions of dollars better off under the operations of the McKin- ley bill than we were before it came into force. Three cheers and a tiger for McKinley i "A great disgrace to Canada" is what some eminent men term the wrong doings of some of the civil servants at Ottawa. It is nothing of the kind. It is a disgrace to the delinquents. It is monstrous to as sea that a few rascally understrap- pers in the public service can dis• grace either Canada or the Conser- vative party. . The principles of the Conserva- tive party aro not compromised by the misdoings of office holders. These offences the Conservative party will not condone, as did the Grit party Speaker Anglin's illegal receipt of $20,000 contract money from the McKenzie Govj'nrnent and when Minister of Militia Vail received $25,000 illegally. Mr. John Robson Cameron. edit- or of the Hamilton Spectator, has been successfully showing that some of the statements of :lir. Cameron; M. P., of Huron, and truth are as far apart as the poles, The Toronto cele,grana.,Adroitly ...mixes...the two - Camerons together in an endeavor to prevent the public from knowing "which from tother." EN Mr. Dearness, school inspector fur East Middles.lx, who has been rusticating in Essex, Ont., heard a farmer there sty he had au offer of $8,000 for his crop of peaches on an orchard or 51) acre.. 'I'I:is, while western American papers Si'' the best they can do with poachers in Kansas is to to ,l theta to the pigs, to make pork that soils furl cents a lb. What's the Matter with the doclg.rsted 60 millions market, any- way . The Fanners' Alli+luees through- out lire Western States are discuss- ing whether it will pay to hold their wheat ur sell now. It is calcu- lated that it is worth one per cent a month to bold it, And statistics are given fur 21 years showing that iu only seven years out of the twenty-one did the tanner gain by holding his wheat until December. fn eleven years he gained by hold- ing it until May es against ten years ill which he lost by holding it,. There was a large balance in favor of selling iu September. The difference between the Grit policy of nurestrictad reciprocity or free trade and the Conservative policy of reciprocity, is the differ- ence between downright gift and even exchange. Conservative re• ciprocity means that each country gets an equivalent for whatever con- cession is made. Unrestricted reciprocity is unconditional cum- u,ercial surrender, which patliamei:t has just voted down. Mowat's inspector of registry offices has boon complimenting the management of the one in Halton at the expense of the others in the Province. lIe reports : "The regis try office in Melton is in every way admirably conducted, a statement which I do not often make." Could lie not have pointed out the defalca- tions in the Waterloo registry office without talking a drive at she many well conducted offices, such as the one in Huron for instance. Why should Canadian Grits be working heaven and sheol to get. the Americana to remove trade re- strictions which are working injur- iously to the Yankees. The platform of the Democratic State Convention, adopted recently, contains this plank :—"We favor close commer- cial relations with Canada, and the removal of the embarrassing and annoying restrictions which only vex our people without yielding any sub- stantial revenue to Dur Government." Let them alone and the fruits of their "squeeze Canada" policy will soon come home to them. Sir:John Thonrpson's amendment to the Franchise Act provides that a voter must at the time of voting be a British subject. The old form said he must be a British subject by birth or naturalization. ]erring the last, and we presuuli former elections, men voted who were Brit- ish subjects by birth ..and yet had become American subjects and were such at the time of voting yet took the oath because they were British subjects by birth. This fraudulent evasion of the law will not now work. And the revision of the ,rye• liminary lists is extended to the 15th of August. The American Government gave $554,558 to sectarian schools among the Indians. Of this the Roman Catholice received $347,689. Har - per's Weekly says "the purpose of theseAccheols, primarily, as it was in iheays-oil�ie eAily';Tesiiit roil ions in Canada, is to make Roman Catholics, rather than American To keep you cool in church, and A AMMOCK To recline in when at Monte, are two necessities for the HOT WEATHER. WE HAVE a LARGE STOCK of both these lines and our prices will please you. As we are now busy taking and re marking stock it will pay you to SEE THE BARGAINS --we offer at Wry. Cooper & Co's BOOK STORE 111111iSIMAtilAlt citizens," and objects to the expen- diture. And the Bureau of Catho- lic Missions, composed of Catholic Canadian tariff on Canadian bishops, demands more and says if and shout themselves it is not forthcoming from; the pres- eyes the meanwhile in line freenzy ant administration Republican heads will drop into the political rolling, in their avowed determin- basket in the presidential election ation to work for greater freedom to of 1892. buy and sell,and they immediately set The Government budget was about to accomplish the "greater approved last week after a vigorous freedom to buy and sell under a protest on the part of the Opposi- statute made monopoly" of a tariff tion. It was passed by an actual duty averaging 60 per ceut,as again - vote of 11.4 to 88—a majority of at a Canadian tariff duty averaging 26. But this is not the full 27 per cent. This "continental strength of theGoveruurent majority: free trade" scheme of the Canadian lied the full strength of the Op- Opposition and Grit editors; with its position been present there 60 per cent staked and ridered fen - would have been 92 against the Government, Messrs Tarte and ce, can scarcly give us "greater free- Saysrd, who are independent Con- dom to buy and sell" than our pre- servatives and protectionists did sent low barrier of 27 per cenb not vote. Two Conservative Beate which is falsely charged with re• are vacant, Kingston and Richelieu, stricting trade. If a 27 per cent then there is the speaker. These tariff hampers our trade, it is quite with the four absent makes clear tent a 60 per cent tariff will the actual strength of the Govern- not give us greater freedom. And ment 121 to 92—a majority of 29. if our comparatively low tariff Or if wo deductVallaincourt, another makes this a dear country to live in, independent Conservative, from the it ill becomes the "free traders" to -Op posationon d•give -.him. to, the Con, -shaut_.so. Lustilyfor, rt,.,hig.h,.double. sorvativee the Government strength t, -riff in order to make this a cheap would be 122 to 91—a majority of country to live in. The Grit edit - 31, ore are neither consistent nor right Grit editors are continually harp- ing about restrictions placed by the trade, hoarse, their •