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The Huron News-Record, 1892-06-08, Page 4Tawn leges loan the 6ostwdr And they 1 6 -Huron t.If far ,�i j :0t oily after they leave undergone' test by the V'ederatl Constitution. It Jig Allem-41.26 la Advaaco would be ridioulOus tooplead that the not of a Kentuoky Legielature is in , th1891, violation of the constitution of ellse W,tstlt ►Seal'. , talc Belly noir, but It would be sound practice to plead that en to of either or .both WE, '1'HI: 1'Rtlf'I.14' our aof them titut•lonlsif in d 4 e erUniited Statenen of the , for Agitators, disgruntled theorist' that Is the creation of "We, the peg. anti 1,,aes4iun,t1 grun,bie,•s, in and ple," who are the sovereign power. out. of Pattiament, would make the public believe that °auada is under the iron heel of a despotism. 't'h'tt we have Ito power to make treaties with foreign p0wt'rI and ether tell, wag the dog euphemisms. These cranks hu'1 everything that is is wrong eXce!'t what they hNVo bad a hand in. Their remedy forthe ills of the alleged despotism ander which we suffer is Coutinontal Union, that is Annexation. We have often points ed out that Cttna'le, as one of the nations pf the British Empire has far tnore freedom. and power than bee any State of the Union. Let Canada beconie a state of the United States and she wiabld be shorn of those powers which constitute her a nation of the most powerful Empire HOUSE OF REFUGE. FOR THE POOR AND UNFOR- TUNATE. A POWERFUL ARGUMIsNT IN FAVOR OF '1'IILt Elute loN OF .A HOUSE OF INDUs'ritY FUIt TUE FRIEND• i LESa Puolt OF EACH COUNTY. The following letter has been ad - ()reseed to the newspapera of, Grey county by a gentleman who has taken peaks to iuv'etitigate the working of Houses of Industry that have been in operation in other counties and who late been converted from au opponent to an advocate of the balm,. it is a powerful preaeutation of the case for Grey county but is equally applicable to Huron. "1 see by the published report of in the world. the January bubstun of the County It) this counect:'ou, and as sl101'• Cuuueil of Grey, that the subject of ing the relative position of the des'•the estabtisltuteet of on Iadu.etrial House ill thie Comity (where the eral States to the United Suttee, we poor could be properly cared for) reproduce the remallts Of Associate was again disco{aed, but "alas ,for Justice herr ln, of the United States the partly of Christian Charity." Supreme Court, in a series of lee �'utbtlsuffered ss a ell defeat.e i . coin you are ;ttee tures last week before tho Chicago (of which 1 was a member) watt ap- North western/ University, wanted by the County Council to It will be saes that Canada taken report upon the advisability of es• in her relation to Great Britniu has tablishing an industrial home in infinitely more enlarge& powers this County. In carrying out the than has any state iu its reIi tiuu to wishes of the council the committee the 'United States, One thing that visit'id the House of Industry tis tablished souse yearn ago by the elands oat in bold relief as showing County of York, near the town of the national power possessed by Newinurket, where after carefully Canada is our liberty. to melee our and critically examitiog into all tariff and our excise laws, which the cost, workings, detslls, .inters power is nut pussaeced by any ankle. viewing the members of the Yolk Comity Commit, thefk in eeesion, The several States of the Union are ,110 overseer, matron and many of in b;tby luno clothes, so far ;as un• the itn.ates, as also inspecting thm trammelled legislative powers are buildings, fart,, stock, etc., etc., and concerned, while Canada has arriv• from other information as to the eel at that period whet) she wears working of similiar institution•+, the committee were so strongly and fav, the trousers of national virility. Drably impressed with Lhe great and We aro the people. Britain is an lasting benefits to be derived from Empire; tlieUuiLed States is a untied; from the establiallI eat of such an Canada is a nation ; the several iustituLion in Gley Couniy that States are mere depeudeueies of the. they unanimously reported fav Oral/1y. 111 connection with Union .. :that report I night j ust say 'fiver what the e.iniuout American that from an avowed opponent to jurist tuentioned above has to say :— such inetitnti0lis after having fully No State can do: a National act. iovestlyttted their working then and No State has it solitary attribute of and since, 1 alt fully satistied on sovereignty: It can not coin money. the grounds of econotuy and the It can not make treaties with any still higher t;rounde of Chr;t+lien Other State, or with any foreign001heneliecuue every county iu Ontario power. It can not lay duties on inn States. It can not ports from other should aid in their establishmeother levy troops for use beyond its own and I stn thoroughly COUv;ICed limits and in its own behalf. So that if these members of the C.iuuty long as its own troops are used with- Council and others who are now la its limit's they are armed citizens opposing thong, wereto visit them rather than soldiers, being used to anti eels their working' they vv0uld suppress riot or domestic insurrec- tion, tttcome its 1 did a convert to their or possibly to repel a foreign invader, in 'which case their duty estul,lislllOettt. would be absolutely mtlitary ; but as There are now established in a general rule the State troops be• ootario Howe 13 homed, and front come purely military only when call.the public reports are in every ic- ed by the President to go beyond its stance giving satisfaction. Indeed limits. Indeed, "no State shall, without the consent of Congress e many of the county oflieials to whom * * keep troops or ships of war in I have written for information said time of peace," for such is the word, that upon the ground of economy •-•; - __ -jug-'Ur`pstragraybe-8-of--section 10 of alone a considerable sating to the article 1 of the Constitution establish- ratepayers is, 'wade annually, and ed by "the people of the United. States." 'The sovereignty of the Na- that they know of no dissatisfaction tion is ubsoldte, it delegates no net and would not revert • hack to the of supremacy to any of its component• old system of indiscriminate charity States. and gaol incarceration which work - Within their own spheres the ed evil and only evil cuntinually. States have ;goat powers. They can Are the ratepayors of this count) define offenses and ordain punish, aware that they pay out annually, ments for them. They can regulate directly through their municipal rates of interest. They can levy councils and indirectly through the taxes for domestic uses, hut for do- mestic some uses only. But there con b Yrate, no treason towards a State govern- dollars for the support and mainten- lnent, riot or insurrection being, it ance of their indigents'1 . But swat would seem, the highest form of is the fact, as I have taken the offense that the citizen can give to trouble to verify by getting the the State. Treason is an offense that amounts from the clerks of the can work against none but a body different municipalities and from endowed with sovereign attributes. If a citizen of one State have a griev- the Co. Treasurer and Gaoler. ante against a citizen of another he And how are they kept cud help can elect to have iris cause either the poor" that hare to rely for their before a tribunal of the State in daily bread upon some of the wuni- which he who grieves him lives or cipalities of this County. A very before a tribunal of the Nation. For scanty supply of provisions or a few both parties are citizens of the Na- tion, but only one is a citizen of the State in which the complaining party grudgingly monthly, in many cases lives. In all matters except those barely sufficient to keep body and of purely local interest the Nation— soul together. Indeed if it were the people of the United States -ex- not for private charity starvation in ercises supremacy, many cases would result from chis Yet State governments are need- system and doubtless does rho' fell. The area of the Nation is so Y vast, financial conditions of its vagi- uone but the All seeing o e knows ons parts are so dfferent, that one it, What care they so long as they law might not be made to apply can keep the rate down and make a with equal justice to all. For exam- good showing on nomination day to ply, a National law against interest lease the parsimonious wide their at more than 5 per cent would put miser) ecouam y. an end to loaning in Montana or "Rattle his b. nes over the stones, California, though it might work no He's a pauper whom nobody owns. hardship in New York. The theory d care sothall the Cleft 0 ml nM1s that affairs States that forlYourr, we horsesuse better shall be left 40 g concern their own citizens only, but than we Ido for our for our poor. that the Nation shall regulate all Again, we pay indirectly to the matters in which the ante eels e Ontario Government our portion of diverse States or citizens thereof are concerned, and all matters that ape of $873,450 that is appropriated by perttin to the welfare of all the them this year wisely, I think, for States, and of its people at large. the maintenance of the charitable rhe lines of demarcation are well institutions of Ontario, such if as ' Asylums, Reformatories, Industrial defined. The Constitution of the United States is the touchstone by Homes, &c., and of that large which the legelity of the acts of Iamount the cities receive ten fold ' every State are to b3 tested. The I more than rural districts bat we constitution of a particular State is a touchstone by which none but its II would only avail ourselves of the very generoutt efYer of i;btt govern. trent and •fstablish an Industrial 1IAUiti, We would receive Beek from thexu .e, large portion of our .motley. By an set Dashed some two years ago, to those. rural municipal cur• poratious who establish Indus. tt•ial Houten the Government grant twenty-tive per cent of the atuouut they welt up to $4,000. To illus- trate. 1f thin county erected u Hone that would cost say $10,000. which I think would be ample for our purposed, the Government would grant thein $2,50Q. I might jest say that this Act grunting these amout)tn passed vvithout a diem -Lite ing voice, which would he strong proof to us that they are needed and are beneficial. 1 ask the rate - mere of this county to avail them selves of t\l \ 10 offer and impress upon their representatives at the County Council the necessity of 50011 an institution. 1p>chettr)mr}L7P>;.7atrt;W'stird�,aha„�iw^+'�LT'^�•1�•n�#1�'tt5yxxtar+�rMw.'mlar�rsitF>,�'mit^v4"`tv>sca;.`£�xit!W'dR'JCF�tIWu!'rrt ... . ..... .,... yr T \I\fATHER STUFFS of nearly ntuettten hundred years ago insulated Mie prinoiele both by teaching and example 08 a earner 131013(1 int We tetuple of righleoubneee "The poor ye butte always with you," '1'hounauds and hundreds of thousands of dollars are annually contributed by well . intentioned ubristian people and others, for the Vupport of foreign 1111Nn1o104, whicl• u1 my humble opinion, if devotee towards the amelioration of the con- ditiuu of the homeless poor of our own country would receive the Divine approval quite as much aa if ept'Itt in the conversion of a Fiji Islander or au African cannibal. Dent contribute to the support of foreign minsiouaries on Sunday 'and starve your poor neighuors oil week day's. In conolnsion I appeal to you, Mr. Ediror,to use your powerful influence through the press and to all your pleople who are blel'sed with loving friends and comfortable homes, on behalf of the outcast, the aged, the honleleds, the destitute, the friend• less, those whose daily life is a per- petual et'uggIe for a crueteeho Have on unpaid, 110 income, 11101,0 to whom the prayer of our heavenly F.ther, "givelus this day our daily bread is unfulfilled. t'\Ve boast of our beautiful God, like creed. Of the love we feel for our brother man. hlut do we lnrac, Lice as well ne preach ] Iiowev'er, wherever, whenever we can 4 1)o we pray for the weary ones by ttoe way. And help them along from day today 4" Do woo W. J. isle aubereD. Further, let us look into these ikstitutious and see how they are Managed. The women inmates who are able, employ their tinge sewing, knitting, making fancy work of different kinds end attetntl- img to their sick or deformed conk. psnions, which they do with pleas sore and cheerfuluess. Attached to each Home ib usually a farm of front 40 to 100 acres, which ie work- er by the wen. '1'I1ey cultivate ditfen eat kinds of crops, raise cattle, pigs, poultry, ctrl., aid all th:.t not required for the use of the in'. mated is Hold and the proceeds go to. ward lessening the expense of the institute. An overseer and !nation is appointed on t,al+try by the county Council, to whorl they meta, account for the proper care of the iuuuites and the working of the institution. A. physician, laically p.'id a salary of $100 per annual, looks after the health, while the clergy and others attend to their spitit.ual • wants. Titus you see their ulnral end phv• sicial well•heing is carefully looked after. The ima11101 ou w'mubl be et1- tirely,l, under the control allyl man• agement of the County Council, and no municipality need pay fur the tuaiktenanue of any but 1110 roll gents they sent to it, and hi order to prevent tramps or worthless characters seeking refuge therein, a by-law could be passed prollibiting anyone becoming an inmate unless he hes first been a resident of the county six months, of longer if desired. The foregoing are a few of the provisions incorporated in the by-law est aoliehittg some of the Houses. Many night ask, what i- the cost per initiate for their main- Lenance i This is tt vel•y important question, and in answer I would just say that front the published Uoveruutent report, which is before me. 1 find the average cost per annum for each innwte• in the Homes already est, 1 Iislied is wititin a fraction Of $67. This amount iu•. c'uc ie all cost for food„clutlling, attendance, salaries etc., etc., in fact every item except interest on invested capital. FOR THE PEOPLE. Piles of New Light Prints, latest patterns. Piles of New Delaine Prints, black ground with grey and heliotrope patterns. Piles of Fast Colored Challies, only 5c worth 8c. Piles of Fast Colored Challies, only 8e worth 10c. Piles of Fast Colored New Carnation patterns. Challies 15c worth easily 20c. Piles Fast Colored Flanneletts only 5c worth 8c. New Black Silk Grenadines medium price. New Black Grenadines low price, New Muslin in Fast Black in lovely Check and Satin Stripe ; these are popular. New White Check Muslin only 5c. New Black Silk u .tearable gloves (2nd lot). New Fast Place Cotton Hose. Some beautiful things in New Dress Materials received this week. Every lady intending purchasing a new dress should see them. EDITORIAL. NOTES. Bed weather for crops in the Un- ited States cheers those who are interested in the advance of plain prices. 11 the Americau party press i+ to he relied on their will be two Presi• dents elected for the United States next November. It is generally conceded that the e3cel:'tional rains of the past ntontb have made it en utter imf)ossibilit\ for there to be anything like au average crop of cont. Au American paper tells tales out of school when it remarks on the unreliability of writers for the daily press :—'•Ouo of the best in• funned 1)emeelats” and "one el the best iOfornitld publicaua'.''tiro now giving out lento daily point* 1'01 JItinelttiusen:revised and A nef'.cen ized. The renowned English mathema• beau llooke calculates that the limit of ideas entertained by any mind during a lilotinlo is 3,655,- Now then, ,n rk this, I find that 7G0,000. There is one class of mind of which it would be rank the average east per annum to titin injustice to say it ornate county for each vagrant or indigent in ) Ythat1 person that is sent to goal, is to itself to be thus discursive. That less a sum than $250, or the ,larked class of mind is the Canadian ob- ditl'rreuce of $193 in favor of an structiouists who coufsne all c.rebra• Industrial home. tion to the gloomy idea, evolved I have no fault to find with the from their own intloG rction that gaoler, matron or other officers„ they p" ' havo done and are doing all in their "all !len are corrupt." power to keep flown the l•xpenses and to alleviate) the t'utYerings of such unfortunates as are committed to their- care, but I do find fault with the system that commits to the gloomy walls of a prison at such a marked ditlerence in cost those whose only crime is their poverty and which compete thein t0 associate with cIiminate a1111 the depraved of all grades. Their is now languishing in our goal au old lady, one of the pioneers of this County. Many a time be past years have I seen her with ready hands and cheerful Heart helping, her husband to clear the land and sow the seed to makefor themselves a home, and a more honest and Gad fearing, industrious woman I never knew, but as years rotted past, trouble came, (but thsough no fault of hers), her husband died, and an only son who should have been her support and comfort in her old age, squandered the property and left her a wreck, (through grief) in mind and body with no one to care for her, no means, no friends, no home but the gaol. Judges and Grand Juries have time and time again inveighed against the inhumanity of imprison, ing such parsons in a common gaol. The gaol appears to be our specific for despair. When all else fail we tell our aged, homeless, sick and des- titute, " to qualify you for free lodgings you must become a vagrant sleep out of doors,in barns,steat food, burn buildings, yea commit crime if you want shelter." Shall this continuer Shall we in this nine- teenth century of civil and religons freedom, with all our boasted philnn" thropy and Christian effort, allow the dark blot to remain 7 Less civilized nations than the Anglo, Saxon claim to he put the blush of shame upon our cheek when we compare their solicitude and brother ly care for their kindred who may have fallen behind in the race of life's existence. The divine teacher cognized. Canada has a coil of wonderful fertility. The labor that tills it is better fed, better clothed, better housed and more skilful than any other part of the world can boast. And if we are but true to our'Na- tional policy and our national itn- proveinonts we shall soon outer new fields of industry and enterprise, and our commerce shall extend to every part of the world. . But we !lust have courageous faith, none of your puling annexation slobber- ing. per QIL 0 Y ISEJ11R Tho Democratic pasty of the Un• ited States may be a free trade party, but the following plank in its platform shows that there is about as much differeuce between Democrats and Republicans on the tariff question as there is between tweedledum and tweed ledee. Hate is the Democratic plank referred to: "We declare that all articles the like of which can not be successfully produced in this country, together with all raw material not coming into injurious competition witb the pro- ducts of the farm, should be placed upon the free list; and that the burdens of taxation should be re- moved from the necessaries and im- posed upon the luxuries of life." Then here is a Republican plank : "We declare in favor of the pro- tective tariff, the beneficent influence of which has been felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, and has made the hum of machinery fill the air with the gladsome tidings of reawakening; prosperity. Under the influences of this system, from a Nation largely dependent upon foreign countries for many of the necessaries of life, the United States has become an independent Nation in fact, and her progroos has been observed with amazement, while 110r power for good and for the elevation of mankind lute been universally re - Are vehicles of Alio greatest convenience to ladies with children who are not old enough to ride a Velocipede or bicycle. Do you need one ? 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