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The Huron News-Record, 1891-09-16, Page 4TII PEOPL We are now ready to do business with you, and we are happy to say that ourosition is sue that we are able to give you such satisfaction as p h Centres of Trade and Fashion. you coup only hope to receive in the large we have packed our .place with the Best and Newest Stuff to he found in the principal Wholesale Centres of the Dominion. Already we have gained the reputa- tion of keppin . not a trashy, cheap, low-grade stock, but a Name for High -Class Stylish, Good Goods, which, s all buyers know, are the Cheap Goods. We have this season bought the best and Most Stylish Goods we could lay our hands on, and we are happyevery appreciate our efforts. OUR DRESS AND MANTLE MAKING DEPATTMENT h as people develop- ed into a most unqualified success. When we began we had no idea we would be so backed upbythe ladies of the saynothingof these who come from a, distance. Our MRS. town and country, to KENNET is certainly giving the Ladies of Clinton the Style Fit, Finish and Comfort in their Garments that they have long looked for in vain heretofore, as she has not had an alter ation of the most trifling nature. and we trust it may continue so. OUR • DRESS GOODS for the Fall are simply lovely p y yin themselves, and Ladies looking for Costumes in any of the leading fabrics of the season. may be suited at once. The same mayfbe said of the Mantle and Cloaking Goods. Come and see us. J. C. GILR Y, OUNON. rhe; Huron News-Recora 1.n0 a Ye.o- -41.16 in Ativan, e 't4'z41nessIstv. Sept. 16tia, 1591 .'-TI?!A7 A7' 1'HF. CAUSE. Amet dmet,i after amendment is being made to the I)owinon Elec- tions Act. A gaud deal of what is hropostid i more hiteeomher asmey be re.tdily imagined wheu the. ltiom- ber for West Huron takes an active hand in, It may he said that Mr. C.ammcu is no letter nor yet any worse than rho average politician. if we admit this there, must be a fearfully undesirable state of affairs. Recent developments before the Howie i'u'u'nittee on elections and privileges shuw that thct'o i.a much need fog' reformation among the "push at a" in election matters, There seems to be spreading a desire to "fight the devil with fire." \Vhicit ii iug ti.ulsla:cd means that the most looney and the most disre- 1,t;t .Irl te •tic+ elect Ilse (sandi.leto. T his aeons to be true in many cases, and pity 'tis 'tis true. Mr. ,Mowat has said that the more strin- as_ -te 1I%V-1 .line Corin elections the greater laxity prevail- ed. And he endeavored to prove this by rel erring to the greater stringency of the Dominion law as against the lesser in local elections, holding that mme corrupt practices prevailed at the former than at the latter elections. However justified Mr. Mowat was in cotoiug to the conclusion. he did, all will agree that there is too great a use of unfair means at Dominion elections. Parliament is now trying to frame measures that will lessen acknow- ledged evils in this direction. Sir John Thompson is asking the House to enable him to pass laws that will enable • the people to be represented ; not to have members merely the representatives of money bags and the most debased elements in human 11a:ute. But why allow a state of things to exist which we know is produc- tive of the evils which we are cry- ing out against, and then seek to prevent the resent withoutattempting to du away with the cause The chief cause of all the corrup• tion is personal canvassing. THE NEws•REcortn has for eight or nine years drawn attention to this evil of personal canvassing by candidates or their agents. We ate glad to notice that such a level headed paper as the Hamilton Spectator has taken up the matter and that it is endorset.i,by the Kingston Whip and many other representative jour- nals. It is proposed to make it a criminal offence to personally can- vass a voter during or immediately preceding an election contest. it is well known that it is during these personal interviews that un- lawful means are used to per.snade voters. public morality. Arguments that Vergenuea, Vt., is the third old - will not bear open criticism, elec- eat city iu United States, having tiuu means that will not bear the been chartered in 1788. Verges nee light of day, should be relegated to is probably the smallest and most the limbo of disuse. quiet city in the country, h cuing a The nee of corrupt n.vet a Icy population sit 1,773. do says en personal cauvaaseis has got to pee- Americtn piper. This is a wonder veil to such au alarming extent ful specimen of American progress', that men of moderate nteane will and yet to use it as s ech wool I be not allow themselves to be teat in nomination for parl:animnt. 'Hwy know they cannot be o rated unless they make a liberal use of shekels. Even when their moral scruples are overcome by the plausible excuse "the other fellows do it, we roust tight the devil with fire," they can- not afford it from a pecuniary stand- point. And where such are elected there is great temptation to recoup themselves by some "job" by which the public are swindled. And one job leads to another until we have a horde of worse than useless vam- pires sucking the very life blood out of the public treasur). It is nothing new to say that a candidate for parliament is not usually selected for his intelligent views upon public questions, or' for his honesty of endeavor to carry out is his "availability." Has he money, willbe spend it. If these ate not answered in the affirmative he is cast to one side fur one that is "available," fur one that has money and who will use it or allow it to be used for the purpose of debauch ing the electorate. A stream is seldom purer than its source. Corrupt the fountain source of legislation, the electorate, and it goes without saying that what emanates from this polluted source is likely to be corrupt also. If Sir John Thompson means business, he will favorably consider this proposition of prohibition of personal canvassing and give honest people a chance to send honest, though possibly not wealthy, men to make our laws and spend our money. Public meetings would not be interfered with. Candidates and the pushers would have every oppor tunity on these occasions to en lighten the electorate. And per• sua.e'ians that it would be improper to use publicly should not be allow ed at all. Then the public press _would be another legitimate means of presenting the claims of a party or a candidate. Publicity is the very essence of 1;1)11'URIA"1, iYU1'I:S. The Conservatives prefer foreign produce for taxation and home pro- duce for consumption. The Grits prcf,'r free foreign produce and direct taxation of home produce. Mr. Robert Birmingham, secretary of the Conservative Union of Outario was presented the other day by leading Conservatives with a hand- some testimonial for his persistent and unselfish labors in Conservative interests. Mr. Birmingham well deserved it. In the fiscal year 1878, the last in which Sir Richard and the Re- formers had full ODEtrol of the treasury, the public debt inceeased by $7,126,770. List year the in- crease was only $3,170. Yet' Re. former, complain that Conservatives are increasing the public debt. There are 1,335,259 horses in the state of Illinois, 1, 025,876 in Texas and so on all through the Union. The clays are past when a profitable market for average Canadian horses can be found there. They raise a largo surplus and raise them more cheaply than we can, bat the duty keeps values. upsothe wlr.at,,.,Take the duties off and the prices would be lower than ever prevailed in Can- ada. business than it would have to engego in farming as a comtuercieel speculation. Private enterprise can grow all the wheat that should be grown in this country ; priv rte uuterprise can lu :ill the printing needed in thi- country without the Government turning priu tors and givingSenocal and other uuc tuciun- about as fair :as for the Grits to use able rascals en opportunity to rub isolated cases of I melt en decrease the public treasury, as evidence of the depopel,tioe of - - - this country. 1110 lroyrrntnotrt has done well in refusing to allow American Talking of salt we are rt mintiest cc't.l.e to be imported into Qeebec that there is a plethora of the arti-for slaughtering purposes without cle in the United States. Nearly complying with tr a usual quaran every state in the Union from tine regulations. Canada cannot Maine to C,lil'ornia produces it, afford to risk the loss of free access Michigan It es the advantage in to the English markets for live cat- tle, even to gratify IS camp eny that point of producing it cheaply, by the use of cheap fuel and the ex- haust steam of their many mills. In that state the Salt Inspector re- American cattle. Even now shore is au alarming outbreak of plouro ports that 148,953 barrels were made and inspected during the pneu;nonI c among tiro c eltIc in Cum- mouth of August, two thirds of berlend, England. Canada must avoid even the appearance of con- tributing thereto if we would have Ragland receive our live stock upon conditions which cause Canadian would make a slaughter market at Three Rivers for thousands of which was made in Saginaw county. Charles A. Chapman, aged 35, was found the other day with his head bruised and bleeding from fatal wounds. He says lie was told by a doctor to butt his head agaiuet a tree and he did so, so great was his confidence in the doctor. Some of the people of Canada are trying the same experiment as young Chapman. They are taking the advice of Dr. Calamity Cal twright and butting their heads against the national policy of protection. They will only have their bruises and bleedings for their suicidal course. The Globe says that every French Canadian found across the line is forced there "by the insane policy cf tariff restriction that prevents him from making the most of his labor at home." As it is the Americans who make that tariff re- striction, what is the Globe going to do about, it I Were the Globe as anxious to prevent political annexa- tion as it says it is it would advocate a similar tariff' restriction on this side of the line which it finds worka eonadmirably on the other nide The Globe is grieved over the greater debt of the people of Can- ada per head as compared with the Aweeicans. It is their higher protective system and enormous direct taxation for state and municipal purposes that have been the means of reducing the U. S. debt.. Give Canada the same high tariff is the U. S., take off the sub- sidies to the Provinces, and reduce our expenditures for Public Works as low per head as in the States and we could reduce our public debt as fast as the Yankees. The same tariff here as there is in the States would in twenty years enable Canada to wipe out the public debt en tire- ly. The printing Bureau at Ottawa was never a necessity. The recent exposure of scandals in connection with it makes this more apparent than ever. The Government never had any right to invest $1.,000,000 of public money to compete with ptiv te.au,t5tpr eg.:_,: t. they e.e.g, proven to have been worse than a mistake. Government had no more sight to engage in the printing r i I . . . . head more than American cattle which have to be slaughtered at the ship's side. Mrs. Jane Hill, aged ninety nine years, died in Detroit last week after a residence of seventy-five years in that city. Mrs. Hill's maiden name was Hobbs, and she was born in the county of Tipper-Window ship which brought her to Canadaary, Ireland. On board the sante Shades in the year 1818 was Stephen hill. They settled in the same locality in Montreal and soon afterward were married. About the same time they removed to the vicinity of London, Ontario, and took up a farm. In 1827 they removed to 0 Detroit. BUY YOUR 4 - all Pa, --AN D r She leaves three children, twenty-one grandchildren, forty- one groat grandchildren, and six great great-grandchildren. All these and many more of like nature are included in those Sir Richard Cart- wright charges have been "lost" to Canada by the iniquitous National Policy. Great is Sir Richard on figures. He can make out that we have lost what we never had by the same mixing and modelling process that he added nearly $8,000,000 to the public debt in one year. Sir Richard has not ruany knightly qualities. He has not even those of a miserable Apache Indian. While a midnight gloom of depression is burying "the stupid people of Canada," to use an elegant phrase of Sir Richard, in forgetfulness he should have chivalry enough not to kill off a couple of million of our people. We were 4,500,000 in 1881, we are 5,000,000 in 1891. But Sir Richard persists that we have lost 1,600,000 during the last decade, which would leave us but 3,000,000 people now in- stead of the 5,000,000 we actually are. He kills off 2,000,000 of our people in his midnight sallies against the couutry. Now an Apache Indian would not do any thing so murderous after dark. He believes that his soul would walk in eternal darkness for such a treacheroxet _He would wait until theus nun was up before he would kill even an enemy. Bttt Sir Richard takes advantage of the Wn. Cooper & Co's BOOK STORE darkness he pictures Canada in to slay some 2,000,000 of his coun- trymen. Verily his soul shall walk in eternal political darkness forever and ever for this slaughter of so many innocents. With the exposure that less taken place of the irregularities among the civil servants at Ottawa comes the dismissal of those caught tripping. There has been too much pamper- ing of this class. They should be no more favored than employees of an individual or a firm. They should get fair pay for honest work. They should not be relieved from the obligations of ordinary citizens. They should be made to pay their debts even as a hod carrier is remade to pay his. Their salaries are now exempt from seizure. There can be no justification for this. Rather the reverse. One can understand a day laborer with the uncertainty of employment not being able to pay his debts, and where it would be a hardship to garnishee his small pit. tante of wages. 'But we cannot see why a government employe, with a fixed and assured salary, should not have his wages liable to seizure for honest debt. It may be said that the civil servant does not get pay enough to enable him to be an hon• est man. This is no excuse. Let him take up some other business. He is not impressed into thit service nor kept there against his will. The reverse is the case. He is all too anxious to get there. If he were treated as other ordinary mortals are, there would not be a dozen or more applicants for the same posi- tion. Nor would members of par- liament bo so pestered as they are now to use their "influence" to get worthless fr•iendsof"influential"con- etituents government billets. It is time that the same common sense business rules were made to apply to civil service employees that pre- vail in private affairs. —The eldest Ben of Mr t'e'm. North- cote, lot 7, eon. 2. of Hay township. had been engaged in unloading peas, anri while in the act of swinging him- self trom one mow to the other, by means , of -a-'hrace-irr• the pests nit litatef it cave way, letting him to the floor, a distance of 28 feet, with such fares as to break his thigh and cause other inter- nal injuries.