The Huron News-Record, 1891-09-02, Page 4".5
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Wednesday. Sept. 2nd, 1891
TILE UEN,SLS.
A summer; of the census returns
has been laid before Parliament.
They show that the population of
Canal's in 1881 was 4,324,810 ; in
1891, 4,823,31.1, an increase in ten
years of 498,53.4. Decreases have
taken place in some of the coon
ties in older Cauada,as iu puree fur
instance.
1801 1891
Huron, I' 18,908 21,720
Huron, 8 10,184 21,001
.Huron, W.... ....... ...... 20,020 23,512
Though we have decreased as the
'above figures show, yet as it' has
been largely owing t3 emigra-
tion to the Canadian Northwest the
loss is net altogether a deplorable
one. We find that the pop -
in
it
ulatibu of the Northwest
1881 was 168,165 ; in 1891
was 340,864, au increase of 172 per
cent in the tan years, Ontario has
increased from 1,926,92 in 1881 to
' 2,112,889 in 1891, an increase of
nearly 10 per cent. Quebec in-
creased in just about the same ra-
tio. The maritime Proviuces 1.17
per cent.
The falling off in rural sections
is compensated by an increase in in-
dividual wealth. Following is the
population of the towns and villages
named, at the respective periods.
ism 1881
Coderich 8,830 4,504
Seatk:th 4,011 2,480
Clinton ............. 2,035 2,606
Winchsnn 2,167 1,018
Exeter 1.800 1,725
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The frosts iu the Canadian North-
west have not been severe enough
yet to suffuse the face of Sir Richard
Jane Calamity with wreaths of
smiles.
Premier Abbott propuees taking a
t ur through the Dominion as soon
as his parliamentary duties will
permit. The public would like to
see the man who is placed to rule
over us.
Canadian calamity hunters are
very much displeased with the re -
Hutto of the census. Instead of
showing a decrease in population as
they predicted, the Dominion has
increased in population nearly half
a million during the last decade.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says:
"If all the countries in Europe were
`.o take the duty off American pork
.he pork packing establishments of
Europe would cease to exist," Just
so. Aud if Cruada wore to take
the duty off American pork and
other farm products the farmers of
Canada would cease to exist.
• Our cotew tominds one of the
Tooley Street tailors when they got
up a manifesto commencing with the
words"\\re the people of England."
It assumes, in consonance with its
partisan proclivities, that Sir Hector
Langevin had a guilty knowledge of
the peculation, of Thomas Mc-
Greevy. Forthwith it sends Sir
Hector to Coventry, as "the impres•
sion is strongly formed in the pub•
lic mind that he was a party there•
to." The public mind and the
mind of the Era man are as differ-
-en 'a§ thts 4mirrdar=oF-, the--7voley
Street tailors and the people of
England.
MN SIM 1611
11 ON.
Some of the calamity hunters
who see a curse in waving wheat
fields, ruin in our magnificent rail
and water highways and perditill
in e,very'thing, are not satisfied with
Canada increasing in population to
the extent of only half a million iq
ten years. They would have been
better pleased had the census re
turns shown a decrease instead of an
increase. ,
McGreevy is undoubtedly guilty,
The Conservatives do not condone
his guilt, And our cot.em is un•
truthful and borders on the blas-
phemous when it says that had a
Minister in Mr. Mowat's, Cabinet
resigned under like circumstances,
"the epithets and adjectives used by
the Conservative press would have
clouded the atmosphere till it was
stiff enough to cut with an axe."
Has our Dogborrian friend been
practicing with "cuss" words that
he knows just what blasphemous
adjectives will cloud the atmos-
phere till it is stiff enough to cut
with an axe. It would seem so, for
he never saw any such language in
the Conservative, press.
It is quite true that Canada has
not increased in population during
the last ten years in as great a ratio
as the United States have, The
cause is not far to seek. We pro
tent ourselves not quite half as
much as they do. The ratio 'of in
crease in population is in proportion
to the amount of protection each
country enjoys. We have got as
good men and as varied resources
as they. But our tariff averages
only 27 per cent as against their 60
pe,r cent. Give the same protection
to Canadian industries as is given to
American industries and dollars to
doughnuts we will increase in
population and wealth more rapidly
than they during the next ten years.
It is worth giving a trial. We see
the better result across the border un
der otherwise similar conditions.
In reference to our publishing
items with which we do not editor
ally agree, the fact is that earnest
discussion tends only to eliminate
and fortify the truth. The fact that
men disagree is no proof that the
supporters of either side are ignorant
or fools. The very reverse is de-
monstrated. Everybody in this
world disagrees with everybody else
upon some matters. But, perforce,
everybody and everybody else are
not fools or know-nothings. The
contrary is proven. The fact that
men can reason and give argument,
cumulated by ,reading and observa-
tion, to support their contentions
is one of the distinguishing features
between the higher and.lower order
of animals. The fact that men do
read, observe and discuss is tile best
proof of a higher order of intelli-
gence, because it is an exhibit of
reason as distinguished from mere
animal instinct or brute force. The
moment a writer or speaker says he
or they who differ from him are fools
he places himself in the unenviable
plight which he would by hie mere
'ipee dixit fix his opponents in. It
is quite tight and proper that the
holder of certain views or opinions
should,,by quoting facts and figures,
educe argument that may make the
gaition o>g_lirs_adverearyridfculous
and untenable. But this cannot be
accottipliehed by mere assertion.
A writer in the Globe says: I deny him the use
"Canada has a splendid harvest; I "Clark Wallace
other countries are not so well off.
Canada will be called upon to sup-
ply a larger demand than usual.
But suppose that our farmers had
concluded last fall that it was not
worth while putting in any seed,
what a pretty fix we would be in,"
.fust so. And he might have added :
Canada has a splendid natural sup-
ply of timber, coal, iron etc. Sup-
posing that our Government had
concluded not to plant the seed of
protection a few years ego ; instead
of increasing halt' a million in
population by the development of
these during the last ten years, it ie
quite possible wo would have been
half a usilinn less. Nothing like
foresight in Governments as well as
in individuills.
The New Era
cuss." it gut off
"goalie" last week
it in italics to poin
is au "atnoosin
one of its little
without putting
t out where the
fun came in. It refers to a certain
"gentleman who has been a warm
friend and supporter of it (THE
NEWS REC(•no), especially when
there is no occasion for it." Now
we are always pleased to know that
we have warm friends and suppor-
ters, but we would not consider
that we were under a monumental
load of obligation to any one who is
only a friend "when their is no
occasion for it." Well may cotem's
protege exclaim, "save use from my
friends." One can readily under-
stand that our cotem's little ',goals"
was "written entirely without
solicitation from the gentleman in
question." Any one who has read
our cotem's 'screed, to which we are
referring, and knows the gentleman
in question will readily ab<.olvo him
from being the author of it.
Ex-Ald. George Luther, of Wind-
sor, was until Thursday night super
intendent of the Methodist Sunday
School, and he is also engaged in
the restaurant business. Some
months ago it was discovered that
Luther was delivering ice cream to
hie customers on Sunday. The
pastor and teachers held a meeting,
a majority condemning Luther's
conduct. Luther said that as far as
the charges were concerned he was
guilty in the eyes of some of the
members, hut in his own conscience
he bad done nothing but what the
church hail been doing for years.
Ile failed to see that selling i3e
cream on Sunday was any worse
than a church charging an admis-
sion fee f or a Sunday camp meet-
ing, or even the passing of a con
tribution plate. But ho had no de-
sire to cause a rupture in the
church, and would at once resign
his position as superintendent, to
take immediate effect. According
to the reasoning of our most ex-
cellent town contemporary the
Methodist body is guilty of break-
ing the Sabbath because a member
did. This is as absurd as to say
that a Conservative Government is
guilty of fraud because some of its
employees have been dismissed, or
resigned because they were found
guilty of' peculation.
We have not been deeply im-
pressed with the conviction that it
is a crime to" be an Orangeman.
of our columns,
is a high up
Orangeman * * * • the
NEwa-Recotn's correspondent is
preen waist). one," triumphantly ex
claims our self-coBah tuted mentor
of the New Era who has suddenly
developed an all-absothing interest
iu the NEwa•REcoen and its friends.
What reason our cotem has for es -
awning that our currespondeut is
an Orangeman we know not. We
do not know—flat he is. Be this as
it may, we have always been no
respecter of persons. We have
dealt out evenhanded justice to
Orangeman and Romanist. No
Orangeman has a monopoly of
these columns, nor has any Roman-
ist. But admitting that our corres-
pondent is an Orangeman, as well as
Clark Wallnoe, what is out' logical
guardian of the New Era going to
du about it I Time was when
Radicals of the Era brand had ;t in
their power, even in this Ontario of
ours, to refuse Orangemen the"
rights justly due all British sub
jecte. And they made the most
tyrannous use of that power. We
remember, many others in this
country remember, when those
Radicals imprisoned Orangemen in
Goderich gaol for merely walking
in procession on the Queen's high
way. Those days aretlgone, never
to return. But the I;ra would
prevent them from having freedom
of speech as well as of meeting.
This crushing argument against our
correspondent is of the short pants
—shooting jacket—long hair style.
Orange or Green has nothing what-
ever to du with the Government re-
ducing the duties on certain articles
of general consumption, nor with
Clark Wallace's support of this
legislation ; nor with our corres
pondent's support of both. The
question at issue is : Is that legisla-
tion right or is it wrong Let the
Era put aside all buncombe and
marplot divertissement having for
its object the jaundicing of some
fi'lende of the NEWS•RECORD ; and
if it will "tussle" with our corres-
pondent let it manfully meet his
contentions. It is mere child's
play to say that our correspondent
is au Orangeman and therefore he
and .N,C.W.ar'e wrong in their views
of a politico -economical problem.
We are under a thousand obliga-
tions to our town cotemporaty, in a
Pickwickian sense, for admitting
that we have a right to to control our
own columns. We have not hills
erto been hampered in that way
by the Now Era or anyone else, and
don't propose to be in the future.
We had occasion to remark last
weok that. the New Era is notorious
for misstatements. We now repeat
it. It is endeavoring to pit a citi-
zen against THE NEWS REconn. So
far as we are concerned it's little
game will fail. We aro neither to be
taunted nor wheedled into criticis-
ing, let alone abusing,the citizen re-
ferred to. It would be bliss next
thing to a sight of heaven for our
cotenl to see :us "abuse" someone.
But we aro not in the abusing line,
notwithstanding the bald untruth
our cotton coins when it says we
have been "abusing a gentleman
who has been a warns friend and
supporter." Its no such thing and
we challenge the proof where any-
thing we have said can even iu the
remotest degree, by implication or
otherwise, be construed into flattery
or abuse of this citizen We chal-
lenge proof of our referring to him,
good, bad or indifferent. Give us
proof, Mr. Era, or stand convicted
as an Ananias.
And even should a correspondent V • a tNew Era .- ._ n..... �._, W, b t thaa,,Er expects :togain
uphold liberty of speech for a by falsely stating that our Port Al -
representative one, we shall not bert correspondent abused a certain
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THE NEWS -RECORD is quite appar-
ent. Every intelligent and unbias-
ed render of this paper who is not
determined to torture .the intent and
expressed words of our correspond-
ent knows that no personal attack,
abusive or otherwise, was made upon
Mr. Ransford, whose letters were
signer as secretary of an association.
Exception was taken to his letters
written in that capacity, in which a
Conservative member of Parliament
was roundly abused for language
used in -supporting the legislation—
tariff reduction—of a Conservative
Government. We eball leave it to
a higher power than the Era—the
public—to determine whether our
correspondent overstepped the liber•
ty of an elector.
Our totem in one of its measly
inuendoes seems anxious to convey
the untruthful impression that our
Port Albert correspondent "goes
hawkin around under fictitious
signatures or shields himself behind
the correspondent heading." From
the fact that our cotem attempts a
horrible pun by italicising hawkin
we have reason to believe he knows
who our correspondent ie. Who,
though he is not consumed by an
ter rzltltait"''d a e*l;a 86 see bf ei_:_.
� is name u
print, we believe he would have no
objection to attach his signature to
nq
his correspondence. We offered to
give his name to the gentleman who
feels aggrieved over his defence of
Clark Wallace and the Government.
Our readers will remember that our
oaten) was found gilty at the Spring
Assizes of libelling over a fictitious
signature, which he he had to own,
under oath, that he attached to cor-
respondence in his paper. This is
a matter of Court record and cannot
truthfully be contradicted. And
counsel scored him unmercifully
for allowing himself, according to
his own admission on oath, to be
made a "catepaw" if nothing worse.
Will this account for his readiness
to impugn the bona fides of others
who have no object in concealing
their identity, when those having a
right to know their names ask for
it I The NEWS -RECORD is not in
the "catepaw" business, neither
vicariously nor otherwise. We can
prove, if necessary, the bona fides of
our correspondents. Our regular
ones at Goderich, Port Albert,
Blyth, Bayfield, etc., are too well
known as such to be palmed off as
myths. And as for ourselves, it is
well known that we have the cour-
age of any convictions we wish to
have expressed in••print. \Ve resort
to no subterfuge to ,give baublicity,
to 'AY. `viowa on pulil.ic questions
and never ring in personal abuse
for argument.
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