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The Huron News-Record, 1891-08-26, Page 4L OP a Bigger BGoodsareBeingOfferedI 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 OUT ri 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, 75 EMI CL NTO T11e Huron News-Recora j withdrew because his tender was too ;' luw ; that Sir ]lector Merely sug 1.50 aYear-41.25inAdvance gested that he withdraw as at but Wednesday. August 2Gth. 1891 figures he would be ruiued. Though Starrs does not appear to be satisfied — - -- that he was too low, for he saes in LOOK ON 'L'Iflb', THEN ON another place that. he withdrew to THAT. Tile NEWS RECORD is sometimes charged with being too independent. but we prefer remaining coder that itepetatiuu rattler thin that of being a reek less p+u'tisan p titeriug with truth and justice. The Conserva• live patty IIIUst hold its own inde peudeut of trickery and dishonesty, and a Cousorvetive paper is no frieu l to the g,id cruse in uphold- iug frauds upon the public. The good of the party. as well as of the agouti y leulaud the fearless expos• ore el wrong tieing. ti l'it p, pet's, as a rule, however, conduce the swindling of their par- ty frien•is while exaggerating the mistakes and untruthfully reporting the state luau i5 of opponents. Here is a specimen of how our daisy Grit town contemporary manu- factures evidence against an oppon- ent. Quoth the Era of last week :— "Mr. Starrs, of Ottawa, a promin• ent Conservative contractor, whose tender for a certain work was the lowest, swears that he was compelled to withdraw it by Sir hector Lange - yid himself, for no other reason than that the contract might be awarded to a favorite of Sir Hectors." Now we will give the Witness' report of Mr. Starrs' evidence on Aug 14 :— Mr. Michael Starrs, of Ottawa, who tendered for the British Columbia graving dock was the first witness heard before the Privileges and Elec- tions Committee this morning. In answer to questions by Mr. Mulock he stated, in tendering he was a com• petitor with Larkin, Connolly hit Co., and withdrew his tender because it was too low. Mr. Muioek—" Was it ever sugges- ted to you that you should withdraw your tender?' Witness—(Very reluctantly) "Not for the first tender." Mt. Mulock —"Well, any tender. Did any one suggest that you withdraw your second tender, after new ten- ders were called for?" Witness—"Yes." Mr. Mulock—" Who made that sug- gestionr Witness—"Am I bound to answer that?" The chairman —"You must answer every question." Witness—"Well, it was Sir Hector Langevin." (Sensation.) Proceeding, Mr. Starrs stated that Sir Hector had sent for him to come to his office, and when he arrived Sir Hector and Mr. Perley ' were there. Sir Hector reasoned withithe witness, urging him that he should withdraw his tender on the ground thut.ht was too low and that the witness would certainly lose money if he undertook the contract In British Columbia. At last the wit. ness agreed to take back his tender, and his deposit cheque was returned to him. Witness said he saw that Sir Hector was opposed to his taking the contract, and "to please Sir Hec- tor" he acted on his advice. Then we give from the Globe of Aug. 21st, when Mr. Starrs was re examined, tho following extract :— please Sir Hector. This does nut indicate compulsion. And Chief Engineer Pettey swears that Starrs' figures for stone work would not pay the cost of the material at the quarry let aloue the cost of dressing them and transporting and placing then; in position. Starrs swears, Perley sweais Sir Hector swears that it was only suggested that Sterre withdraw in order to save himself from ruin. 'The le not iu Stares' evidence one word to show that he carted under compulsion. "Yesterday Sir Hector) Langevin in part denied and in part attempted to explain away Michael Starrs' evi- dence that the Minister persuaded hint, though the lowest tenderer, into giv• ing up the contract for the Esquimalt graving dock. 'To -day Starrs was re- called, He said that he had made no mistake in describing his inter. view with Sir Hector and that it was at Sir Heater's suggestion that be said in his letter to the department that errors bad been made in his tender. It will be noticed that our town contemporary says that Sir Hector "compelled" Mr. Starrs to with- •riraw -and '11Ytatiltir'=S'egrr$' Wo* il it. The Witness and the Globe in reporting Mr. Starrs on two occas- ions makes Mr. Starrs swear that he THE QUEBEC GRIT STEAL. "$100,000 CLEAN GONE. 'l'lle steal of Provincial and Dominion railway subsidy funds by members of the Quebec Govern• ment for their own personal use and for the purpose of corrupting the electorate is now a matter of record so indisputably proven that even the Globe is forced to denounce Mr. Laurier's and Mr. Mowat's Quebec allies. Fran, the Globe. The prima facie case against the Mercier Cabinet is complete. From the reports of the proceedings in the Quebec Legislature last winter it ape pears that Mr. Achille Carrier, the local member for Gaspe, moved for any papers which the. Government possessed relative to the Bale des Chaleurs road which had virtually collapsed in the hands of Uncle Thomas, Senator Rbbitaille and Arm• strong. Armstrong, who had been contrac- tor for the company, professed to have a claim for $298,000, but was content to accept $75,000 if he could get it, though, as has been seen, hir. Mercier estimated the outstanding liabilities at only $50,000. Pacaud said Armstrong could obtain the road and the bonus for himself end friends provided he made him a gift of $100,000. IIe was hard up, owed a lot of money to the banks and that sum would relieve him. Armstrong agreed to join in this fraud. He presented a claim not for $75,000, but for $175,000 and Pacaud, who had arranged matters with him in New York in April just after Mr. Mercier had sailed from that port for Europe, got a fetter of credit from the Provincial Government for the amount. Messrs. Langelier and Robidoux two of Mr. Mercier's colleagues, were in New York with Paceud when Armstrong went there to discuss the best way of perpetrat• ing the swindle. Armstrong handed $100,000 of the $175,600 to Pacaud, who passed it to his credit in the bank to meet his notes. On the day he left Quebec ostensibly for Europe, Pacaud drew every dollar that remained out of the bank, so that the $100,000 is cleae gone. EDITORIAL NOT'E'S. The new legislation asked for by the Ontario Express Co., giving them the right to conduct busiuess on the G. T. It and other railways has been passed by the Senate. Then. All the world is set to rhyme— Now it hs vacation time ! Now. All the world is set to gloom— Called to face the school room ! Laurier would make a precious Premier of the Dominion. The man who aided Mercier into power to defraud Quebec oat of a hundred thousand dollars, which was to be recouped from the Dominion Treas- ury when Mr. Laurier got into power! It is to be hoped the day is far distant when Laurier and his boodling Quebec horde shall get hold of the Dominion- purse strings. The crop report from the Ontario Bureau of Industries may be sum- nrarised as follows : Fall wheat, a very fine yield, estimated to reach 20,800,000 bushels as compared with 16,300,000 last yege ; spring wheat, above the average, yield 9, 600,000 bushels as against 7,600, 000 in 1890 ; barley a good crop ; oats, good ; peas exceptionally good ; hay and clover, unusally light ; roots, fair ; apples, light; small fruits, an abundant yield On the 21st of August the Globe had it in glaring headlines that "The Tory majority dwindles down to seventeen." This from an alleg- ed majority sulnelime previous of from thirteen to sixteen. Since then it has the Tory majority "dwindled" down to twenty majori- ty, and iu a few digs, on another vote, when there shall be a full House it will have "dwindled" down to twenty-eight or thirty majority. Long live such "dwind- ling"! Mr. Mercier's colleagues refused to appear at Ottawa because "the Federal Parliament has no right to hold- an investigation into a pro- vincial affair." But thisis not a Provincial affair. The Federal Parlia- ment has voted bonuses to the amount of $620,000 to the Baie des (Meteors road, of which $525,000 has actually bd paid. Assuming that they cannot successfully contradict Armstrong's confession and the very damaging testimony of the bank managers—one of whom refused to cash the letter of credit on the ground that as $100,000 of the pros coeds were to be given to Pacaud the transaction was an illegitimate one on its face—it follows that Paoaud, Armstrong, Langelier and Robidoux obtained money under false pretences from the Province for the benefit of Pacaud. Lieut. Governor Angers, who on the advice of his Ministers signed the Order -in -Council under which the letter of credit was issued, will no doubt take action. But t-rh'p from cups -thing;.- throb alae-,rtaa,y, see fit to rho the tact remains that these four persons have committed a criminal offence, and we see no reason why they should not be arrested and clapped in gaol. • . Mr. M. C. Cameron, with a ner- vous unrest born of an uneasy con- science, has been a particularly active member of the House this session. In hie purifying crusade he remarked the other day that theie "were only three honest men in--t-Ire Gov -ern -men t." I t -is w -all -€o-r those three that Mr. Cameron did not name them, else the public would be clamoring to know what political knavery had been al- leged against them to deserve the approval of the member for West H uron. By the Ontario Bureau of Indus tries report we learn that on July 1st, as estimated from schedules sent in by farmers, there were 678,459 horses an increase of 18,823 over the previous year; there were 1,978, 815 head of cattle, an increase of 84,103 over 1890 ; the ranch cows now number 773,234 or 4,60.4 lees than last year ; of sheep and lambs there are 1,693,751 being a large in- crease of 354,056 in the year, but is still 196,982 less than in 1884, since which year there have been regular decreases. There is a fur- ther increase of 15,757 in the num- ber of hogs, the present number being 1,156,216. The numberofTaultry.is 7,0 6,090, an increase of 151,225. The total clip of wool is 5,498,141 pounds as compared with 4,574,700 pounds in 1890. Premier Abbott, if he carries out the well defined principles of the Conservative party will fire out of office every public servant who is proven guilty of using his position to defraud the public treasury through irregular proceedings or any other fraudulent process. And he seems to he equal to the occasion, for he declares "that is the deternci• ruction of the Government." An exchange says : "We should put the present government out and pat in their places such men as Sir Richard Cartwright (who boodled $65,000 out of Northwest land grabbing during the McKenzie reign) ; Hon. David Mills (who was a party to H. Ii. Cooke's big timber steal) ; M. C. Cameron (who duplicated Sir Richard's North• west grab) ; Leader Laurier (who condones the Quebec $200,000 steal and advises Pacaud to "skip" with $50,000 of the boodle) If these are the best that can be offer- ed as substitutes, we had better bear the ills we have. The Globe in referring to the Grit steal of about $200,000 of Do- minion and Provincial funds, says : "What the country is mainly inter- ested in is the fact that it has been robbed. and not the political com- plexion of those who profited by the transactions." The Globe has in this, as in several other instances recently, enunciated good Liberal - Conservative doctrine. Premier Abbott had proclaimed the same doctrine some days previously when he said :—"We ask the Opposition to assist us iii dealing out summary vengeance upon those \wh-o are found guilty of appropriating public money —stealing—be they high or, low." Premier Abbott has declared war against peculation in all depart- ments under the control of the Government. He proposes some kind of a commission, or a perma• nent official, who shall_ be as inde- pendent as possible o„f the Govern• ment, whose duty it shall be to visit any department of public business at any time, and have access to all papers and report. It will not do for the Conservative party to merely in a formal manner, endeavor to conserve the inherent and cardinal 'principles of the party—the greatest good to the greatest number—hut it must also be alertly aggressive against all manner of dishonesty among those to whom are entrusted the functions of carrying out the well understood wishes of the people as formulated by the executive heads of the de- partments. The Ottawa liar who writes Amer- ican newspaper despatches has over- done it again. Erastue Winter) was reported in these as having been im- portuned to help the existing gov- ernment 'oy his knowledge of the situation and his influence. Mr. Whiten however, repudiates the soft impeachment. He says it seems the height of folly to give the Conservatives a new lease of life, as yielding to their blandish monta the Americans might make a half hearted treated which would spoil his scheme of unrestricted rocipfocf,ty •, alid'thus. Ind-etnitely postpone the annexation and commercial subjugation of Canada. He says he has a every confidence in Sir Richard Cartwright and the F'CDR TH H, Re- Opening of Schools ! WE HAVE SECURED Mangy.-. Special .-. sines OF School Supplies AND School Books OUR ASSORTMENT OF authorized Text Books --USED IN PUBLIC- AND MODEL SCHOOLS, OR COL- LEGIATE INSTITUTES, IS COMPLETE, WITH ALL THE Staildard and Classic Works ! and our stock is the largest in the county. --o 0 Remember, that a Teacher or a Pupil can have a Book mailed on receipt of price. --o Wm. Cooper & Co's BOOK STORM_ leaders of the Liberals, with whom the Americans could make betters terms than with the Conservatives. That one political party is as bad as the other is a mischievous gener- alization. The Conservative party is the party of intelligence, con- science, glod order, patriotism, sound national policy and honest politics to the greatest extent. We will not be so intolerant as to say tthat the Reform party does not possess these to any extent. But the majority who read and think have come to the conclusion that the prospects of progress, reform and honest government are fairer with the Conservative than with the Reform party. It is because the majority have so thought for the past thirteen years that a Con• servative Government exists to -day. And there must be no playing fast and loose with the principles upon which the party is based if we would avoid disaster. There must 'be a firm •reticki-ng-to the -old - ship, and by thoughtful advice and strong hearts enable the captain and officers to guide her safely through any dangers which errors of judg• ment on the part of friends or false charts gotten up by opponents may threaten her with. This be a queer world. And there be people who have queer ideas of tolerance. Some there are who define tolerance of opinion as the allowance of their own and the disallowance of all others. Even within a political party as within a religious sect there ale as many shades of opinion as there are mem- bers. There is a consensus of views as to the attainment of certain pur- poses, but always more or less divergence as to the mode. News- papers are convenient vehicles for giving those views. We must not attribute an unfriendly spirit to those who criticise party tactics. Spare the rod and you spoil the child. For this reason we shall always be pleased to publish cour- teously written communications commenting adversely even on our own views or on the party with which we are affiliated, however much we may differ from the con- clusions arrived at. And we shall always be pleased to publish correc- tions or any inaccuracies of fact which correepondttnitr or ourrselves---e, ---==—_--- may make. All discussion and writing should ne for the purpose of bringing out the truth. We invite correspondence having this object in view. k