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The Huron News-Record, 1892-06-29, Page 4PIM uron NeW$JN8Gord 1.44 M Vegas -040;n aAv ansa. ilie411e$dnY Juno 29Wt, 1$9 overtiteotted tr reason' •of WO, topple field for the • More intelligent and ambitious nR thew in factories, While we have thus matte ex:traor divary progress in laying solid the foundations of all civilized and euligl•tened national political and economical etractures•-,we have kept up frith the timed in ,tho 'Ono. tional, scientific RIO artistic adjuncts .o the well Whig of the most pros, perous and intelligent people on the faro of God's good earth. • We will not stop to dilate on the unparalelled enterprise of Canada in railway building— notably the Canada Pacific; in the exteusion of our oenaf system already aoeomplish- ed and that of Sault Ste Marie in course of conetruction ; of our sys- tem of lake, river and harbor im• provemeuts, lighthouses, etc., all of which are aboolutely necessary in order to enable the products of farm forest, mine, lake and sea to expedi- tiously and econmuically reach the markets of the world. Some one has said that the foot of time is "noiseless and inaudible," but Canada has made the hoofs of time tramp a rattling pace during the last twenty•tive years. We bale shod his feet with resounding sandals of silver and gold as he has pattered along distributing his shekels to our farmers and other industrial classes and to manufac• turers and commercial then. DQMINIQN ,Friday of this week ie the twenty- fifth anniversary of the Dominion of C+rneda.. When one looks back and considers the then and now of this Dominion, how the 11•aart leaps exultingly at;the progress this coun• try has Pada in a quarter of a century ! There is no parallel to it in the history of nations. We have reversed the point in Shake• speare's line. "sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste." \Ve have grown with weedy haste, but not in a useless or troublesome way, but decked with the typical sweet flowers of moral rectitude ae well as Imam iul progress. \Ve have grown during the period under review from shreddy patches of insignificant pro..iucea to a homogenous whole with a territorial arca of over three ar.d a half rail• lions of square miles, an area greater than that of any other nation on the continent to which we belong' and nearly equal to the whole of Europe. And our area comprises the choicest portion of this contin- ent whether considered from the climatic, agricultural, mineral marine or forest point of view. We have about 400,000,000 acres of arable land outside of the organized provinces. Our wheat zone covers one and a half millions of square mules, the coarser grains and grass zone covers two and a half millions of sgna:e miles. We have the larg- est extent of and most valuable forests on the continent, our dopes - its of gold, silver, copper, '.coal, nicklo and salt are the most valu- able in the world. But Rome was not built in a day, nor even the world created in that time by Omnipotence. But we have developed onr natural re- sources in a marvellous d sidoring that we only something over 3,000,000 souls and even not, with the remarkable growth of nearly eeventy•fivo per cent in population in a quarter of' It century,we are but a people of only slightly over 5,000,000 souls. Notwithstanding our sparseness of population we have already, upon tens of thousands of 'acres, Where grew the sharp thistle, planted corn, And grafted the rose upon the prickly thorn. Our exports are increasing. The first 11 months, of the fiscal your ending June 30th 1891 they amounted to $84,572,833 ; for the first 11 •months of the fiscal year endingJube 30th 1892 they amount- ed to $96,606,411. That is we sold over twelve million dollars more pro- ducts abroad the past year than the year before, and as our population has not increased in the same ratio the gratifying inference is logically deducible that our people must be becoming wealthier. Indeed this view is confirmed by the statements of the deposits in chartered banks and the Postofice and Savings banks. And it ia further gratifying to know that these deposits are largely the savings of farmers and other of the industrial classes. [hough, there has not been much increase in the industrial classes in rural -.:sections owing to the greater facility for using machinery on, the farm and the liberal introduction •of it through the greater purchasing power of the people, supplemented by the cheapness of the articles re, quired, brought about by the nation- al policy which has linen the means df establishing "factories for the manufacture of agricultural imple- enents almost at every man's door— •this lessor iecrease has been more than compensated by the large in- crease of employees ire manufactur- ing industries. In 1881 there were bot 144,915 artisans employed in the Dominion; in 1891 there were 367,406, an in- crease of 122,581 in the last ten years as against an average of only 56,941 in the previous ten yearn. It will be seen that we aro "getting there" in the matter of creating a home market by so largely increase ing the number of liome consumers of agricultural products. Our industrial manufacturing de, velopment has been of complex benefit. If our farmers could not be supplied with machineri ofUana- dian make they would have gone abroad for it, and the agricultural labor thus displaced • as well as the labor employed in manu- facturing would have had to go abroad also, to seek a livelihood. But it .would appear that es fast as the demand for agricultural help decreased the demand for factory 00 Mil- ted in with It goes without saying that have had our worries and cares. The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring;) Some cussed men a dangerous taint do bear, So roses grow ou thorns, and honey wears a sting. We have had and have now onr thorns and malcontents ; men who are so lost to all sense of patriotism and decency as to endeavor in our legislatures end in the press to sting the mother that gave them birth, to belittle the land that affords them a shelter and a living, and to lick and fawn upon the hand that strikes them. These base men can see no good in the grand inheri- tance to which they iv ere unworthily born, have no pride in the traditions of the peerless Empire whose glories• we have a pride and a part in. 'these ingrates are more lost to shame than the very devil himself, they seem to glory in their self abasement at the feet of foreigners who are not worthy, in all that col stitutes a free, noble, prosperous and virtuous nation, to unloose the latchets of the shoes of the people of the Dominion of Canada or of the Empire of which we form so inlpor tant a nation. They aro callous to the gooduese and virtues of our own government and people, and would not pine though all these were lost 'and we were swallowed up in the vortex of demagogism, deceit and deviltry of a conscienceless foreign power—foreign in nationality and foreign to all the virtues which have inspired, the world with reverence fur the term British. Even the devil, traitor as he was, is represented as ashamed and sorry that he lost his birthright, but Can- adian traitors have descended to even a lower depth. "Abashed the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely ; saw and pined his loss." \\chile we regret to see the micro- scopically small defects in our body politic, we are proud antd pleased to believe that the rank and file of the two great political parties that aim to shape the destiny of this country are oue in b•b-air-desire to perpetuate the glories of the mother in her Canadian offapring. However much these great parties may differ as to the best means to a given end—the welfare of Cadada and the perpetu- ity of the British Empire—we be- lieve this is the aim of both. And on, the 25th anniversary of the birth of this Greater Britain, Liberal -Con- servative and Reformer, Grit and Tory, can join in paena of rejoicing over our being members of the British Empire and in possessions so grand in extent, resources and civilization, that great Caesar in his wildest dreams never looked upon the like. Our country may be likened to Ceres dressed with our inland lakes for jewels and the sparkling Niagara for diamonds, and beneath all an eleva, tion of heart, mind and soul urging us on in loyalty to our country and "that we may prove that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." Well, wife, it's 25 years ago sence you an me wuz tied An' We hev clum the bills er life together side by side. How we hev prospered, haiu't we, wife t an how well off we be— \V'en we wuz spliced we owned rine cow, an' now, gosh, we own three. we VPITQA134 ArOrNa, The case of the filthy,. irreligious fanatic or fraud, "Prince Mlekr:lelf came off at Ann Arbor, Mich" last week Bud resulted in his being sen-• lanced to ftvo ''yesea imprisonment with hard labor. "Prince" Michael, whose name is, Michael Mille, ia a Canadian from Elgin County and' succeeded in duping a number of followers, among them minor and adult females with whom he lived in conoubiunge, he having deluded theca into the he that his con- nexion, with them was for their bodily purification and spiritual regeneration. Editorially the Signal endorses the paraphrased lines: No pent up Canada contracts our powers! The whole broad coutineat woul.l be , ours were we anuexod to the United States. Well,we hope the time will arrive when Canada shall control the whole of this North American continent. And more improbable events in the history of the world have happened. Tike little king- dom of Great Britain is an instance of what can be done by a compara- tively small population. But let Canada ever throw her 5,000,000 pore ple into the arms of our 60,000,000 neighbora and we would be squeezed iuto a resistless mass of pulp and be as easily moulded and manipu- lated as clay in the hands of • a pot- ter, and equally powerless to sou• trol ourselves or any other part of the continent. Cleveltnd is 000 iba,Daitt:onriFeal to opponent of,' Iarrison for the residency •of, the Vatted States.. Some Canadians atl'ect• to beliove that the .eleaiion.of C1exeland wo>+tld be an apgury of .fairer trade relations between 'the Union and Qahada. But itis six of one and hail a dozen of the other between the candidates in re- gardto Canada. The government of either one will attempt to"squeeze" Canada, so long as we have a cor- poral's guard of blatherskite traitors who give, them encouragement. help increased. reased Thus the market The Stratford Herald has pur- chased the Times of • that city. This is a good move. They were both run ou the same lines and it is likely that the herald will fill the bill for both constituencies. The Times has been an enlightened exponent of Canadian progressive ideas as well a's the Herald. Tho combine should be to the advantage of the public ; and the enterprising proprietors will now be in a posi• tion to cater with redoubled force, and with the exelleut judgment thoy have hitherto ehowu, to the enlightened demands of a very large section of this grand Province of Ontario. We heartily wish the Herald continued success, and long may it flourish to battle manfully and patriotically for the perpetua- tion of the institutions under which we live and which have 'produced the most perfect safeguards to moral and constitutional government, and inspired ,,and developed material prosperity for a free people in a full nessand measure never before ac- complished in the scene time. Tho Galt Reformer which is a Re- form paper without any gritism about it, rises to remark : "It is much to be regretted that advocacy of Political UUiQU with the United States has not ban left entirely to Mr. Sol White, M. P.P. Mr. E• A. McDonald, and other disgruntled Conservatives." This is a good advice. The great major- ity of Reformers have just as much At a conference of the Empire trade league in ,London last week the Right Hon. James Lowther said the people reef, England would be iu favor of preferential trade rates be- tween the mother country and the various outlying portions of the Empire. 1Sir Chas. Tupper strongly advocated a preferential tariff within the Empire. He said 'Canada was quite capable of supplying the em- pire with food products. He urged the British government to place a duty of 5 shillings per quarter on all foreign grain and that Canadian wheat should be admitted free, Sir Donald Smith spoke in the same strain. Rev. Dr. Douglass, the eminent blind Methodist preacher, is out in another virulent tirade against Sir John Thompson. He charges the Minister of Justice with being a pervert from Methodism to 'Roman. ism and with being a Jesuit at heart if not a lay member of that society. The. Rev. Dr's. utterances breathe anything but a Christian spirit, and his remarks in conference were studded with misrepresentations. We look upon Sir John Thompson as the ablest and most honest Min- ister of Justice we ever have had in Canada. The so-called religious spirit that inspires these att,tchs upon him is undiluted bigotry or fanaticism unworthy this enlighten- ed age or of any man or set of men pretending to hold views in accord• with the teachings of Christ, Sir John Thompson has as much right to be a Roman Catholic as:Douglass has to be a Protestant. As to the assertion that the civil or religious liberties of the people of Canada aro iu danger at the hands of Sir John Thompson, no sensible or reasonable man takes any stook in it, Sir John Thompson is not the Par- liament of Canada, nor can he con• trol it. All legislation must have the sanction of Parliament, and it is inconceivable that a hody of over two -hundred mon, at least three- fourths of whom or@ ProteQtenta,can be coerced by one man or one fourth of their number into sacrificing the Protestant liberties of this country. I owed five hundred on this ferm, five hundred dollars then, But I hev prospered far beyond the gen'l run of men. A kindly Providence hez shaped the rough course of events. An' now I owe only twenty-five and thirty' seven odd cents; 'Twas only 25 years ago you only had one dress To aggravate your beauty and increase your loveliness ; Now you've got two scrumptious dresses an' a most tremendous bonnet, With a mnnst'one horticultu'al fair •a - flourishing upon it. Three chairs. wuz in our sittin'•room but 25 years ago, ' But we hey prospered wonderf 1y, an' now there's five you know. We've gained a lamp, a pnddin' dish an extra yoke of steers, A paid for form an' a dingle cart, an' all in • for unskilled labor has not been `• 25 years. Suocossful Teale ! Can only be won by the combinatictit of Style, Quality and Price In the Goods which any store offers for sale. This threefold combination finds full- est expression in this Store's Goods, afford- ing you the opportunity of buying E BEST QUALITY of the most stylish goods at the lowest possible prit'e. Hence the wonderful suc- cess with which we have mktin the disposal of the hot -weather season's materials. Es- pecially has this been the case- with Our Summer Dress Goods. faith in British cotntnercial su- premacy and British institutions as Conservatives have, and it would be well' for the Reform party if those idiotic• •—annex ; ation Grits who are allied with it could bo choked off. ButSatan had a following among the angelic host. And it seems that the satanic aspir- ants for annexation can raise a small following out of the ranks of the Conservatives and Reformers. But such traitors are no more Con- servatives nor Reformers than Satan is an angel of light. Their former connexion with respectable party- ism is severed the moment they take up annexation, which no respectable man in either party approves, The ablest talent, as much' capital as the business requires, tireless seeking and suc- cessful finding of the best things, together with the command of Bargains, make the sum total of the great resources at your disposal. - The Most Exclussa ive Novelties An Ainerican traveller was here this week and be tells how greet was the excitement in Windsor the other night when Dan McGilllcudy, of Goderich, fired the hearts of a lot hoodlums that camp across the river from Detroit to attend an an• 4exatioti meeting. Mr. McGilli- cudy had put his herculean shoul- ders to uniting Ontario to Michigan, and had supplemented his work with well rounded periods of eloquence when' some parties shout- ed, "She's moving!" • "I tell you she's moving 1" Instantly the query wee put, "What's moving?" "Why," came the reply, "the whole doggast• ed thing is moving. Can't you feel i't. Why Canada is sliding over; the Detroit river is narrowing. We expect in a few minutes, if this thing ain't stopped, that there is not a boat in the rivei but will be jammed to pieces like a polar boat between two converging icebergs. Stop this thing, I tell you! I'm a steamboat matt and I don't want ter be ruined. And if this thing is kept up Windsor will be jammed up agin Detroit wharves and there will be nary a river loft. I was in favor of annexation, but I don't want my business ruined by having Canada fill up the Detroit river with her silo in order to jine her to the United States." And, notwith- standing vociferous shouts of "Let her go, Gallagher," this practical view of annexation killed Mr. Mc- Gillicuddy's efforts, and the long• shore men raised such a row that the dire cataetropho was averted and the Detroit river is yet water in• stead of Canadian "site", and the city of the Straits and Windsor are still ports at which vessels can call, and Windsor, which has just at- tained to the dignity of a city, will for a time, at least, remain under the old flag. What jai this Canada of ours com- ing to anyway ? Not long ago E. A McDonald ran, as an annexa- tionist, for member fur the Local Legislature for Toronto. He received 174 votes out of 22,000. Then at a public meeting one of the speakers called him a traitor and the acting Police Magistrate refused to fine the alleged traducer of Mr. McDonald as ho considered the allegation true and proven true. And now comes Sir Oliver Mowat and dismisses one of his County Attor- neys because he advocated poli• tical annexation to the United States of the country to which be had sworn allegiance and to pro- tect whose intereste,and fealty to the the Crown, he was especially charg- ed with. O. wurra, wurra 1 was there ever such tyranny. known, when a traitor can be called a traitor with impunity ; and when an offic- ial traitor, who glories in hie per- jury, can be dismissed from Her Majesty's service by that "little tyrant' Mowat. A little more such tyranny, Sir Oliver, and you will deserve even greater honors than the well merited ones you have already received. in Wool or Silk, or the cheapest Cotton fabric, and every intermediate dress ma- terial, ia great varieties, are the result of the exercise of these resources. Notwith- standing the large sale we have still a good variety of these materials. Ancl also the fact that every week they are repleted by fresh arrivals, should lead every lady need- ing a Summer Dress to come 'and inspect our Goods before purchfoAng. 0 The Dominion Parliament acted wisely, in agreeing to not sit on Dominion day this year as it most unpatriotically did last year. It his no hesitation to adjourn over mythical saint days,and it would be monstrous to ignore the dry which, of all the days in the calendar,should most command our reverence.— July lst. All the Yankee talk about Can, ada discriminating in canal rates against American vessels is based upon false premises. ' It is the veriest clap trap. No such prat• tice is followed, and the Detroit vessel men are a unit in conceding the absolute impartiality of treat- ment of American vessels in the matter of toll charges. But an American railway wants a"rebate of the Wellend Canal tolls which is only allowed to veeels, Canadian or American, which pass down the St. Lawrence. The United ,States have not carried out their agree- ment with regard to the Erie canal. The Yankee squeal over Canadian canal tolls is one instance in which tho perpetrators of meanness charge innocent persons with what they themselves are guilty in the hope of hiding their own nefarious - Cooper's Book : Store, Clinton. A new music book has been published called Fa\l-- vorite Song; Folio No. 4. It contains 77 favorite songs and is a Companion Volume to Nos. 1, 2 and 3, which have sold so well. You can have on& by sending us 50c. The Elite Song', Folio is popular at 75c. ness. The issues in the Imperial elec— tions will be of more than an ordinarily exciting character. Mr. Gladstone's only chance of success lies in the enlarged gains of the separatists. For home rule means all this and more. According to Lord Salisbury it means, "the put, ting of the protestants as well as the roman catholics of Ireland under the feet of Rev. Dr. Walsh and his political friends." Salisbury justi- fies the threat of resistance by the Ulstermen on this ground. "I do not believe," said he, "in the un— restricted power of Parliament any more than Ido in the unrestricted power of kings." Harper's New York Weekly holds that this is sound English as well as American doctrine. I't began at Runnymede and was inculcated at the American Revolution. Parliament has the right to govern the people of Ulster but not the right to sell them into slavery is Lord Salisbury's gumming up of Ulster's threatened resistance to any legislation which shall grant a separate Irish Parliament. Triumphant Songs No. 3 and Gospel Hymns No. 6 are both good. They cost 35c. and 40c. respectively. Richardson & Sudds or Karl Mertz are good piano instructors, and Doherty or Sudds valuable books for organ. students. Musical Catechism, stud- ent's edition, for 25c. Band instruments, sheet music or anything in the music line we procure on shortest notice. 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