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The Huron News-Record, 1891-09-30, Page 4We are now ready to do business with you, and we are happy to say that our position is such that we are able to give you such, satisfaction as you couldonly hope to receive in the large Centres of Trade and Fashion. We ve packed our place with the Best and Newest Stuff to be found in the principalWholesaleCt es of te Dominion. Already we have gained the reputa- tion of keeping not a trashy, cheap, low-grade stock, but a Name for High -Class, Stylish, Good Goods, which, as all buyers know, are the Cheap Goods. We have this season bought the very best and Most Stylish Goods we could lay our hands on, and we are happy to say the people appreciate our efforts. OUR DRESS AND MANTLE MAKING DEPATTPIENT has develop- ed into amost unqualified success. When we began we had no idea we would be so backed up by the ladies of the town and country, to say nothing of those who come from a. distance. Our MRS. KENNEY is certainly giving the Ladies of Clinton the Styles Fit, Finish and Comfort in their Garments that they have long looked for in vain heretofore, as she has not had an alteration of the most trifling nature, and we trust it may continue so. OUR DRESS GOODS for the Fall are simply lovely in themselves, and Ladies looking for Costumes in any of the leading fabrics of the season, may be suited at once. The same maylbe said of the Mantle and Cloaking Goods. Come and see us. J. C. GILROY, CLINTON. The Huron News-Recora 1.90 a Year—$1.25 in Advance Wednesday. Sept. 30111, 1891 RF,VPN(U AND POLITICS. 1 Lion between Mr. Laurier -.and Pre- I Whiten with a thud. mier Mercier. Regent developments I Turning to Mr. Wimau'e remarks have put this beyond a mere matter' he denied that the fate of Canada of opinion and belief'. It is now I depended upon the State election in established that the proceeds of the $300,000 steal from Provincial and Dominion funds by Mr, Mercier and his colleagues was largely used by them to return Mr. Laurier and supporters to Ottawa. A Parliamentary inquiry into these matters by either the Govern- ment or Opposition would not arrack of revenge. There ie abund- ant evidence ir; the Lieutenant. Governor's impartial official state- ment to demand the impeachment of Mr. Laurier and several of his Grit colleagues. However, as a Royal Commission, composed of members of the judiciary, has been appointed to investigate the perver- sion of the whole available funds of the Province of Quebec for the purpose of securing a Grit majority in the Dominion Parliament that would insist on an extra half -million dollars annually from the Dominion Treasury to help a bankrupt Pro- ♦ince and Provincial boodlers, it may be as well that events have shaped that way. In a letter to the Lieutenant - Revenge seems to be the leading motive that has urged the Opposi- tion in the Dominion Parliament to all planner of unseemly injustice during this session of Parliament, The Grits aro tired of remaining in adversity. The virtue of adver- sity is fortitude. Ilut the Opposi- tion has failed to realize the use of adversity. •It should have brought them the virtue of fortitude. In stead of that it has developed in them only the foolish quality of revenge. Could anything be more cowtrdly revengeful than Lister's impeach• went of Hon. John Haggart, Post- master General. 1Ir. Lister's mo tion was very properly defeated Ly a majority of 24. The charge was that in 1879 the Postmaster -General, he being then a member of Parliament, had a beneficiary interest in a Government contract along with Peter McLaren, Manning, McDonald & Co. The gross injustice of the re• vengeful conduct of the Oppoeition lies in the fact that the whole mat- ter was ventilated in a court of jus• tioe many years ago in a dispute between the partners, and it was then shown that Hon. Mr. Haggart had no interest whatever in the contract. What then was the object of re- viving a matter that had been set- tled in a non-partisan court --a tribunal which would certainly be more likely to act justly than would the high court of Parliament or a commission composed solely of strong partisan politicians. Of the many dastardly doings of the Opposition this exceeded them all. And it was as silly as it was cowardly. It was cowardly because the man had been tried once, so to speak, and honestly acquitted. It was silly bocauso of this, as it showed the weakness of the Opposition ; it showed the groundlessness of any real cause against the official integ- rity of Hon. Mr. Haggart; it show- ed that revenge Was of the att tck. Ilut small minds delight to revel in revenge. It may he that in this unstatesman like persecution the Opposition thought they were get- ting even with their enemy. But they would have showed greater wisdom had they passed over the paltry and malicious attempt to besmirch the character of a Minister of the Crown whore they well knew was innocent of the miscon- duct charged against him. That which is paet and gone and consequently irrevocable should have been allowed to rest ; it was simply trifling with the House to take up pest exploded charges ; there is enough of present or recent matters that could have been more profitably discussers. If the Opposition were honest in tb'bir endeavor to purify the House why did they not impeach their leader, Mr. Laurier? It has always _�. been- believadat=hatr:be .andamany-of= his followers were returned at the last elections by a corrupt combine - Governor of Quebec, Mr. Mercier says in reference to notes which were paid out of money stolen from Provincial and Dominion funds :— '‘The proceeds of tbese notes were not intended for personal purposes nor for purposes connected with the politics of the Province of Quebec; but, with the exception of one or two of the notes, were to be used in making the necessary deposits for contestations of Federal elections, for counter -petitions and disburse.. ments which might become necessary after the Dominion general elections in March, 1891. As regards the pro- ceeds of one or two of those notes, they were disbursed to pay some expenses incurred during the said Federal elections, for the benefit of one of the political parties (Grit) to which the persons whose names were on the notes belonged." IIere is a clear acknowledgment that Premier Mercier and his Grit allies trero corruptly helping Mr. Laurier and hie friends in the Federal elections. LYING WIMAN AGAIN. At the opening of the Grand Trunk interuatio..al tunnel under the St. Clair river, at Sarnia, Cart- wright's annexation double, Wiman, could not refrain from introducing politics. He lyiugly declared the "Dominion Government responsible for the trade barriers between the two peoples." Even hie Yankee friends were disgusted with hie ly- ing atatenlent, for they knew the Dominion Government had as much to do with snaking the high Ameri- can barrier as they had to do with formulating a theological thesis. He trade an equally senseless but far more impertinent remark fur- ther on when he said, alluding to the election now going on in Ohio where the iesuo is mainly on the McKinley bill and a modification of it :—"The fate of Canada depends upon the Ohio Stale election." At thie there was a stormy out• buret of "No, Never," from some Canadians present, one or two of whom erose frotn their Beats to Fro teat. It was left. however, f r that Mel - wart Canadian, Mr. James Harper, • Of ribs--Montroal:aW-itfnese where -tee plying to ''the press," to sit down upon the contemptible renegade Ohio. "I say the fate of Canada depends upon the election of no State in the American union," he continued, "but upon the integrity, honesty, courage and enterprise of her own people. Mr. Witnan would have our aatorns officers swept from the borders ; but he would have thein strong along the Atlantic coast to shut out the great empire from which we have sprung. Sir, and gentlemen—I am a Cana- dian; for Canada every tim3, but we shall never submit to the proposition to give away everythiuo to the Unit- ed States and get nothing back. (Applause). I yield to no man in my friendliness for the United States and her people ; but we Cana- dians have our destiny in our own hands, and we shall work it out in the manner in which we deem fur our advantage, commensurate with good neighborly feeling. Mr. Wi- nten has no right to call a thirty per cent. tariff robbery on our side of the lines and ask us in the same breath to caet ourselves iuto the arms of those who have put their tariff up to sixty per cent (tp- plause)." This incideut caused quite a breeze, and Mr. Ilarper received warns congratulations from Cann- diane present for voicing the senti- ments so much in their minds. EDITORIAL NOTES. Lister's motion impeaching Post- master General Ilaggart was voted down by the House. Mr. Lister's charge was : "That the said Ilon. John G. Hag- gart became and was beneficially in- terested in the profits of the said con- tract which accrued to the share thereof standing in the name of the said Peter McLaren, and has received large sums out of the said profits, and has otherwise derived direct and sub- stantial pecuniary benefits there- from.," Mr. Haggart read to the House a declaration made by Mr. Peter McLaren of Perth, in which Mr. McLaren said he had read Mr. Hag- gart's denial of Mr. Lister's charges. The charge, Mr. McLaren said, was and is absolutely untrue, and without shadow of any foundation in fact,and Mr. Haggart's denial was true in every respect. The Oppositiou ,at Ottawa are very particular as to the manner they have their political hash served up to them. They have had 1lcGree- vyisw and Larkiniam and Langevin- ism and Mercier-Pacaudism served to them in unstinted quantities, but they have kept continually calling for this fresh document and for that one. They especially cannot swallow the irregularities concern- ing their Grit friends without -they are served up on fresh plates every time, though they will swallow half a dozen courses of Tory scandal without a change of plate, which brings to mind a story of Velty Fiecher who kept one of the first hotels in Goderich. A newly ar- rived Englishman put up at Fisch- er's. After the guest had eaten of hero and eggs, he called for a clean plate, knife and fork, to which he added a cut of roast beef etc. This stowed away he called for another clean plate etc. when he attacked a goodly, slice of pie, Felty's home• bred• arotionweeonha-asterra this, -no longer, and he leaned over toward the guest and said, "I likes to ask you yust von kves- tion." "Nell, what is it?" was the re- sponse of the stranger. "Vy, I vants to know if you got barditious in your pelly." The Opposition would seem to have"barditiona in der pellies," they are so extremely fastidious and re- luctant to swallow anything that savors of wrong doing on the part of their friends ; while they will swallow t?irty plate and knife and fork so long as they are laden with Tury scandals. T,ieut-Govenor of Quebec Angers has suggested to Premier Mercier the appointing a commission to in- quire into the $300,000 Grit steal in Quebec Province. In reply to the allegations that money had been used in the con- stituencies by the Liberal -Conserva- tives, Mr. Dalton McCarthy scath- ingly exposed the corrupt bargain entered into between life-srs. Laur- ier and Mercier for the purchase of an entire Province. He alluded to the proposal of Mr. Laurier to hand $400,000 of Dominion moneys over to the Mercier Government every year, as the price of his (Mer•- cier's) support in the laet general elections. "If ever a member of Parliament was bought and sold," Mr. McCarthy exclaimed, "it was the hon. gentleman who loads the Opposition. Ile made a pretty good bargain, and money was put down too." From January let to July let the United States exports to Great Britain were valued at $228,565,- 625, two thirds of which were pro - products of the farm. To Germany, France and all other European countries U. S. exports during the same period amounted to $125,000,- 000. That is Europe, including Britain, took seven -tenths of all American exports, and England took over one•half of what was sent to all Europe. The United States that sends such enormous quantities of farm products to Europe cannot by any manner of means be the best market for Canada. Britain is the best market fur American farm products and by equality of reasoning must be the best for Canadian farm produce. Tho twaddle has been used that Canadians should sell to their next door neighbor : that Britain was too far away. But our next door neigh- bor has got more of what we have to sell than he knows what to do with at home, and he sends hie big surplus to Britain which is nearer to Canada than to the United States. If Britain is the beet market for American farm pro- duce it should be, and we know it is, the beat market for Canadian farm produce. We should cultivate closest relations with our beet custo- mer ; eo that both eeneo and senti- ment approve : British subjects we were born, British subjects we will die. WHEN LOOKINO OVER THE LIST OF FANCY WORK That you expect to exhibit at The iluroll Central Noxt Week You may find some of t.hern need re -trimming, with snit - able material, and just here 'we will tell you that we have received OUR FALL STOCK of Falloy:-: Goods :-:1ateria1 Consisting of' all the Latest Novelties.in Working Silks, Stamping Pat- terns, Cords, Pompons, Tassels, Fringes, &c. We have a large stock of the Best Felt which we are selling at $1 a yard (2 yds wide) also 24 -inch Plush from $1.25 to $3, Our stoc of Berlin Wools, 2, 4 and 8 fold, has been imported direct from the best man- ufacturers in Germany, and our Fingering Yarns are the best value in the market - 0 COOPER'S ;- Faijoij -:- Store, CLINTON_ 1111.1.11111111111 Rowell for about twenty years and our experience is that of "publish - We have always -found Row- ell prompt and straightforward -none could be more so—with:a keen eye to the interest of advertisers as well as to payment of publishers. We have received a copy of the Journalist publication. By a lettter in it from a 'publisher' we infer the editor had been sayingsomething not complimentary to Rowel's advertis ing agency. "Publisher•" says his motley= is-always-fortheom#rrueraltr Rowell the very day his bill is sent, We have been doing business with At the meeting of the Dominion Prohibition Alliance in Toronto the other day Hon. G. W. Ross, On- iario Minister of Education, talked in the same disingenuous way he did in Clinton at Cameron's meeting. Mr. Ross in referring to the ap- pointment, by the Dominion Gover- nment, of a commission to inquire into all matters connected with the liquor traffic, said': "The Govern- ment acted upon its own respons• ibility in appointing acommission." Of course it did. And that re• sponsibility is to the people and Parliament of Canada, not to a body composed a la the Tooley street tailors. Mr. Ross continues, "and they were not actuated" by the best of motives." We have a bet- ter right to say the Government was!y "sisa01014.thelest.ofrmotiYes"- tlian to say Mr. Roas was. He is apt to be the evil one who thinketh evil of others. As in individual life eo in the life of Governments, and indeed so in the life of churches, those who ex- pect perfection will always be bad- ly d'sappointed. There is no such thing as perfection in the life of the individual. Governments and churches are made up of individu- als. An aggregation of imperfect - ability cannot result in perfection. Some will see motes in the eyes of their neighbors in spite of the cotd- wood stick that is lodged in their own optics. Some will eeo bad men who are shining lights in churches whose creeds do not con- done the wrong doings of members. All this is to be expected and will continue until the end of time. Some see faults in Governments. The existence of faults in every- thing human is unavoidable. Th e only' action that just men can take is to support that which has the least imperfection; not that which claims to have none. When a government or a party or any inivdidual claims to have no imperfections it or he is advertising itself or himself as the greatest fiend on top of earth. Of two evils choose the least and trust "the devil we do know rather than t:hrednvfl w rltiftif-know.' -Mara ity is consistent with fallibility; viciousneese ie consistent with in- fallibility.