Loading...
The Huron News-Record, 1891-08-19, Page 4Bigger Bargains, -Cheaper Goods,—aye 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 BE CLEARED CUT i Within the next few days, and it is PRICE that ig going to do it. So while the Goods last come along. You may depend you will not go away dissatisfied, J. C. GIL 07,-- - - CL The Huron News-Reeora 1.50 a Year—$1.26 in Advance Wednesday. August 19th. 1891 SIR HECTOR LANGEVIN RE- SIGNED. The Minister of Public Works has tendered his resignation as a Cabinet Minister and Hon. Frank Smith will have charge of the de- partment in the meantime. It is right that he should do so now that the charges brought against Thomas McGreevy have somewhat implicated him. It was only during the investigation that Sir hector was incidentally made a party to the McGreevy scandal. In the charges which were referred to the committee nothing was said about Sir Hector. When it became evi- dent that he was going to be brought into it he promptly and properly resigned. The questions which form them- selves in the public mind, and which must be satisfactorily answer-' ed, are those : 1. Did Sir Hector Langevin re- ceive from Larkin, Connolly & Co. direct payments of money for any purpose whatever I 2. Did he so favor Larkin, Con- nolly & Co. that the public interest suffered' 3. Was ho so negligent or incap• able in the administration of his office that extravagant prices were paid or that the public interest suf- fered in other ways without his active co-operation. This is a frank way of stating the matter ; but that is what the people are really saying ; and it is as well to use plain English as to pick out soft words as vehicles for hard ideas. And these are; the questions which Sir Hector last week set himself to answer before the com- mittee on privileges and elections. And first he put in a general but explicit denial. He never received any presents from Larkin, Connolly & Co., directly or indirectly ; while minister he never received from Thomas McGreevy any gift or loan; he never gave, nor authorized any- body to give, confidential informa- tion ; he did not even know that Robert McGreevy was a member of the firm of Larkin, Connolly & Co.; he administered the affairs of his office as he believed in the public interest, and he did not know that Perley had received presents until the acknowledgment was made be- fore the committee. • Passing from general to spepific charges Sir Hector takes them up seriatim. We regret that the length of the document is such that we cannot print it in full, and no con- densation would do it justice. It is enough to say that an absolute and unqualified denial is given to each; that explanations of circumstances accompany these denials and that documents produced throw addi- tional light upon the various trans actions. Sir Hector's explicit denial of personal wrong doing or any per- sonal knowledge of it gives rise to the hope that when the matter comes up in the House he will be able to clear his skirts to the satisfaction of all unprejudiced persons. But the whole staff wants purging of those wb.o were traitors to -their chief and to the public. a MURDER AND PECULATION. The murder of the young woman Handcock, near Toronto, for which her father is committed to stand hie trial, on suspicion, had no sooner quieted down a little than au ex- hotelkeeper named Daniel Whale, residing in Mitchell, is charged with killing his wife on Tuesday 1l th August, and commited for trial. Whale is worth nbout $50,000 and is about GO years of age. Mrs. Whale was found with several marks of violence on her :person, the blood flowing from a wound in the back of her head, and blood spattered about the floor, on the walls and over the victim's clothing. The evidence before the coroner's jury was sufficient to show foul play and to connect the husband with it. Then on Thursday a MITI, Car- rothers was arrested in Toronto on a charge of killing her husband in the Rainy River District on Jany. 3rd last. Her maiden name was Slack and she and her husband moved from Blanchard about a year previ- ous, at the instance of a former neighbor named Fother•ingharn who had a sawmill in Rainy River Dis- trict. It is alleged that Mrs. Car- sothers became too intimate with Fotheringham and shot her husband after he had caught them in a com- promising position. At the time she asserted that her husband com- mitted suicide, but the jury was in- clined to think it a case of murder and so reported to the Attorney• General who sent a detective to work up the case which resulted as stated in the arrest of Mrs. Carroth- era Thursday last. Then we have the peculation and plunder of Dominion funds by a gang of understrapper officials at Ot- tawa and Government contractors. On the top of this comes gigantic frauds of Premier Mercier of Quebec and members of his Cabinet and a small army of political Grit hangers. on. A case of individual peculation on a scale of of considerable magni- tude came to light in Hamilton last week to prove that Governments are not the only ones plundered. One Callaghan, an employe of the Ham- ilton Street Railway Company, had been for about six years in its em- ploy, at $40 a month. He had charge of the safe, and daily under the eyes of the Secretary deposited the receipts in the safe. By some ingenious device he obtained access to the safe whenever he wished and was in the habit of visiting it every night and taking what funds he wanted. A. detective was put to watch him and he was caught in the vary act. He acknowledged steal- ing $15,000 in six years and gave orders on the banks, where ho had it deposited, to pay it over to the Company. He will be tried ,on the charge of stealing the small sum the detective caught him purloining. J. A. McDonnell, of Alexandria, Glengarry, was written to by the Grip Publishing Co. to aid the Company in securing agents to sell the "Life" of Sir John A. Macdon- ald which the Company is publish- ing. Mr. McDonnell positively re- fused to insult the memory of his late leader, by aiding Grip "to achieve a fictitious respectability through its association with the name and career of the man whom in life, I loved to call my leader." We E li&-1'ikd` Mr. °M6I3odnolYa aoarifying of the measly Grip. THE. GRIT BOOMERANG. Look -at me ! Behold me ! Get your visual orbs fixed on we ! Seo anything re,tn•tr•kable about mel I'm loaded for bar. That's what's the matter u' me. I'm g -'in' to blaze away. Among them 'furies. Whenever you hit a Tory You hit a thief. Au' whenever you hit a thief You hit a Tory. Blaze away at random, An' you'll fetch one every time. Now, see me shoot : Bang ! Did you behold him drop'? What ! lie's a Grit ! You don't tell me ! Well, there's exceptions to every rule. Wait, till I try again : Bang ! Now look at that feller. What ! Another Grit 1 Must be some mistake. Well, I'll try 'em again : Bang ! Fetched 'ens that time, sure. What ! Another Grit I '?'here must be something wrong About this gun. 'Tisn't a good day for shootin', Any how. I guess I'd better go home. Among the Grit slain were de- partmental officials, Deputy minister Burgess, Chief Engineer Perley, Henry, Lightfoot, contractor Lark` - in, Globe Director Edgar, Premier Mercier and his colleagues Garneau and Langelier , and editor Pacaud of L'Elecleur, the chief Grit organ of Quebec, who disposed of among the faithful $100,000 of govern- ment money, $50,000 of which boodle he acknowledged was for his own private benefit. EDITORIAL NOTES. The other day the Globe editori- ally admitted that "We have no means at hand of compelling other countries (the United States for instance) to enter into reciprocity with us•" That is good Conserve tive doctrine. Finance Minister Foster's speech on the close of the budget debate is a clear exposition of the policy of the government and clearly shows that policy to be for the benefit of the industrial classes, who in this country aro the masses. A full re- port of it appears iu the daily and weekly Empire and should be read by every one without, regard to party prejudice. W. J. Woods, a Reformer of Paris, Ont., writes :— "I am areaderof the Globe, and not being satisfied with the garbled re- portslof that journal, excepting the speeches of Hon. Mr. Laurier and others who support Cartwright's fool- ish policy, I read your report of the Finance Minister's reply. Would to God that every Reformer in the coun- try could be presented with a copy. It, would rub the scales from thous• ands of eyes as it has done from mine. The truth is the Globe and the lead- ers have been humbugging the peo- ple, and placing the reciprocity ques- tion before us in a false light. The better plan would be now for local organizations all over the country to procure and circulate copies of Hon. Mr. Foster's speech. This should not be ocinsydered -a •question af^-arty politics at all, but a Canadian and a national one." EDITORIAL NOTES. The opening of the gates of Perry over 200 years ago was celebrated in Woodstock last, Wednesday. Among those taking part were two lodges of Lady True Blues. Mayor Douglas and others addressed them in a complimentary manner. In 1878 Canada exported 242,980 sheep, valued at $699,337. In 1890 the number of sheep exported was 415, 931, and the value $1,274,347. The number increased 30 per cent and the value increased 82 per cent. The declared value of each sheep exported in 1878 was $2 81; in 1890 it was $4.03. The Dominion Senate has brought to light the biggest steal that hale ever taken place in Canada. With the aid, connivance and participa- tion in it of members of the Quebec Government, including Premier Mercier, Commissioner of Public Works Gerneau and Provincial Sec- retary Langelier, nearly $200,000 of government fundsappearto have been stolen to help pay off Premier Mer- cier's debts and to elect members of the Local Legislature and put thou• sands into the pockets of corrupt heelers. Hon. George Brown's "big push" and. "Majaw" Walker's "come along Johujthere's plenty of boodle" are mere trifles light as air in comparison with this grand spec- tacular Quebec Grit steal and cqr cu pt ion. We presume that the reports of the cummitteos of the House that have been investigating the frauds that are alleged to have been per- petrated upon the public treasury, will soon come before the House for action thereon. It behooves the members, more especially the Conservative members, to brush aside all partisan or personal feel- ing and come down with all the force of the mighty sovereign people behind them and weed out any and all who have participated in fraudulently obtaining money from the public purse. The Con- servative party is the hope of the country. It cannot excuse wrong doing because the Grits have been guilty of it. There is no cry in all the political calendar by which the country and the Conservative party can be saved except HONEST Gov- ERNMIiNT. With all its sins, the Conservative party is shown to have been and to be the most strongly committed to that. The Conserva- tive party is entrusted with the championship of Honest Govern- ment. It cannot afford to let its escutcheon be tarnished by con- donation of venal conduct on the part of any of its members. Where there are rotten timbers in the Cabinet or in any of the depart- ments pluck them out. One faulty piece will endanger the whole structure. Let justice be done. The outcome of the investigations at Ottawa shows that there is hardly a newspaper in the Province of Quebec but is subsidized by the Grit or Tory party. Both Local and Dominion cabinet ministers seem to be directly interested in keeping alive newspapers that could not live three months without this adventitious aid. L'Elecleur is the acknowledged organ of Messrs Laur- ier-and.Meroier, Its . -editors Pacaud; is on his way to Europe having re- fused to attend the Senate investiga- A FAN To keep you cool in church, and HAMMOCK To recline in when at home, are two necessities for the HOT WEATHER. WE HAVE itARGE STOCK of both these lines and our prices will please .you. As we are now busy taking anis re marking stock it will pay you to SEE THE BARGAINS --we offer at Wm. Cooper &Co's BOOK STORB miraussammasio tion committeeand tell what he knows about the $175,000 Grit steal of public funds, out of which he pocketed $50,000. Before leaving Pacaud wrote Mr. Laurier and Hon. Mr. Mercier and had their sanction for his leaving the country in order to defeat the ends of justice, and also was advised by Quebec Cabinet minister Langelier. Reform, what crimes are committed in thy name ! The worst that can be said of Sir Hector Langevin is that he trusted not wisely but too implicitly his subordinates. By overconfidence in employees of his Department, vulture contractors have been prey- ing upon the very vitals of the Government He will likely pay the penalty. His good intentions will not shield him, and we are not sure they should. The road to aheol is paved with good intentions. The difference between Sir Hector and Mr. Laurier's Quebec Grit friends, is that Mercier et al, members of the Government, themselves wilfully put their hands into the public treasury and stole $175,000 for their own personal use and benefit, while. Sir Hector was the dupe of -a -com- bination of Grit and Tory oontrac- tore and officials from whose peoula- tions he received no personal benefit. Though the sin of otnis- sion deserves punishment it is com- parative innocence alongside the deliberate and monumental steal of his opponents. Editor Pacaud, of L'Elect cur , Quebec, did intend to go to Ottawa and face the music before the Senate and said on Saturday before last, previous to his leaving Montreal for New York : "I am going direct to Ottawa to be heard before the com• mittee ; I will admit that I got the hundred thousand dollars and tell them that it is none of their busi- ness what I did with it". Then he spoilt Sunday with Premier Mercier, Mr. Laurier's and Mr. Mowat'a bosom friend. He was doubtless instructed then to flee the country and not give away the "party of purity." —St. Catharines Journal :—"Mr. W. Case,of Exeter, Out., father of our towns- man Mr. C. A. Case, is here on a yisit to relatives and friends. The gentleman, who is in his 78th year, has still remark- able energy, audio as aprightly,as when, e young man he strolled through the olassie preoints of his natiye College Gr6Sn, Dublin."