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The Huron News-Record, 1894-04-11, Page 211.11ammerly, a well-known business man of testimony eritAyyer's Sarsads parillhis a '`Seera years ago, hurt•my leg, the inlay leaving a sorewhieh led to erysipelas. y sufferings were extreme, my leg, from the knee to tate ankle, being a solid sore, which began to ex- tend to other parts of the body. Ater trying Sarsaparilla, various and, before I hacr Inished tris first bottle I experienced groat relief; the second bottle effected a complete cure.' Ayer's Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr.J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Maes. Cures otthers,will cure you The Huron News-Recora 711.60 a Yeaf-01.26 In Advance. WEDNESDAY, APRIL llth, 1804. THE MAIL AND THE TARIFF.; The Toronto Mail has strongly op- posed the present Dominion Govern- ment for six or seven years now, although it was ostensibly and proba- bly desired to be independent. Certainly its utterances upon the tariff, considering its strong articles against the Administration which have, almost every day, appeared in its columns, cannot be taken as the voice of a friend ; and yet they are strongly commendatory. We quote below what the Mail says upon the new tariff. The article is headed "A Decided Reduction." "The business view of it is bound to be moderate, and on the whole com- mendatory. Five per cent. is knocked off here and 10 per cent. there; while in respect of many articles the specific and ad valorem duties combined have given place to the more equitable, or, at all events, more easily understood, ad valorem standing alone. As regards certain of the products with reference to which there has been a very consid- erable agitation, a downward tendency in the matter of protection has been effected. The agricultural implement duties are pared down by 15 per cent., barbed wire, or wire for fencing, has experienced a Out, and nails have been reduced. There is also an .important change,beneficialto the con sumer, in the sugar duties. The iron schedule means w general drop throughout the entire list, and outside of these duties there are ameliorations which cannot fail to be dangerous. Among the latter may be classed the transference of manu- factured lumber to the free list. This change is useful to Manitoba and the Territories, where the people have been complaining of combine prices. The Finance Minister makes the estimate that the changes will produce a reduc- tion in the taxes aggregating a million and a -half. But the scaling down has been so considerable that four millions would seem to be • nearer the mark. The alteration from specific to ad valorem duties will itself involve a great reduction. Some of the old specific duties ran up to 50 and 60 per trent. on the ad valorem basis, and when there is substituted for these an ad valorem of 20 or 25 per cent. at a time when prices are low, the fall in revenue must be heavy. But the loss of income, even though a small defi- ciency should result, is not by any means to be regretted. We ought to draw in our expenditures, and we can do so now that the great public works are approaching completion, more readily at this particular period of our history than at any previous time. Moreover, there ought to be, when trade is not particularly brisk, remis- sions of taxation. The people require a lightening of their burdens. That the new tariff does all that night be done in this direction, that is as low as it ought to be, many among us will deny. But all the same, it is a step to- wards better conditions. It is. a de- rided improvement upon its prede- cessor, and for this reason, from the public and business point of view, it is to be commended." ,titive+gi s •', WIN DOES THE ABOVE REPRESENT? LOOK UP YOUR PHOTOS AND OTHER PICTURES. To the first person in the County of Huron that sends us a duplicate photo or other picture of the "above, or the nearest to it, we will give Tun NEWS-RRECORD one year FREE. The cut is one of the old Blyth Review stock of probably twenty years ago and has been used but little. The name of the winner will be published. taken off by the reduction in the duty on refined, and an indefinite proportion is lopped off by the admission of bright raws to the free list. Heretofore the uppermost limit for free raw sugars was what is known as No. 14, Dutch standard. Raws above that grade had to pay eight -tenths of a cent a pound, the same as refined. The new tariff makes raws free up to the inclusive of No. 16, Dutch standard. This throws open the market to a class of raw sugars that will compete with the lower grades of domestic refined. No. 16, is a bright, pure,, and wholesome sugar which does not need refining to prepare it for consumption. No. 15 is also an acceptable' grocery sugar, and even No. 14 is as good as some of the darker grades of refined. It can easily he seen that these will offer stiff competition to the soft sugars produced by our re- finers, and will tend to restrict their output to high grade yellows and to white sugars. Nor have the re- finers much margin in which to com- pensate themselves by increasing the price of these two classes of sugars, as the duty now allows them a latitude of only sixty-four hundredths of a cent a pound." AS STUPID AS EVER. When Sir Richard had concluded his speech upon the Budget on Wednesday last, he moved a resolution which ex- presses the policy of Mr. Laurier and his party upon tariff matters. That resolution is evidence that the party have learned nothing in adversity. The resolution declares that when the Liberal party succeed to power they will remove "every vestige of protec- tion" out of the tariff. THE SUGAR DUTIES. Viewing the new tariff from an inde- pendent standpoint the Toronto Mail which is rather hostile to the Govern- ment declares that it is "a great im- provement upon the\ old one;" that • `important reductions in duty have been made;" that "probably nearer four millions than $1,600,000 will be saved to the consumers ;" that "the Government have sat upon the lumber combine in the North-West Terri- tories;" that "from a business point of view it is to be commended." visions of advantages to agriculturists is the very best answers that these views have been very carefully con- sidered. Of coarse, in their stupidity, the opponents of the Government sneer at the protection on faun produce and say that it would do no harm to our farm- ers to have American products brought in free. Surely the farmers ought to be the best judges upon this question. Let es see hots they stand upon it? They asked for it in the first place and the Government of Sir Richard Cart- wright refused it. To this refusal was largely due the defeat of that Govern- ment in 1878. Ever snce they have contended for its maintenance and whenever, as in the case of fruits a few years ago, it has been disturbed they have objected. When the Ministers recently visited the farmers these farmers were almost unanimous in their outspoken demand that this agricultural protection should un- doubtedly be maintained. This., the Government animated by a desire to meet the wishes of the farmert and in accordance with their own convictions have retained in its .enl,irety. The pork duties have been remodelled so as to correct an anomoly but reduction has not been made to any extent. The Government, in relation to the corn duty, have made a fair proposition in thew Act to any other country—"Give us Free Barley in your markets and we will give you Free Corn in ours." The interests of the farmers have also been looked after in connection with the articles of prime necessity they are com- pelled. to purchase. Tea is still free ; so is coffee, and while sugar up to and including No. 14 Dutch standard (the darker varieties) wasmade free two years ago, the same article up to and including No. 10 Dutch standard is made free this year. Under this provision most of the coffee sugars will come in. The duty upon granu- lated sugar, which two years ago was put at eight -tenths of a cent per pound, is this year still fur- ther reduced and is now only a trifle over halt a cent. Cottons, have been materially reduced, so have woollens ; and are both immeasurably lower than in the Wilson bill which -the Liberal party seemed. to regard as the dawn of Free Trade in the United States. The duties have reduced about a half upon scythes, rakes, -hay knives, axes, etc., and they have been cut heavily upon waggons and buggies. Agricultural implements have been made to bear a little over one half what they dict, the former duty being 35 per cent., and the present one being only 20 per cent. Wire for fencing purposes has been greatly lessened and so have the duties upon nails, spikes, etc. ; wall -papers have been made much lower. These are but a few of the changes which we purpose giving in detail here= after. They are certainly enough to convince any one who is unprejudiced that the Government are determined to carry out the policy which they an- nounced last year, viz : That of with- drawing protection should it be found that through combinations among manufacturers prices were increased. The Minister of Finance, the Hon. Mr. Foster, and the Hon. Haggart, both took pains to declare to the House that as such had been their policy, so such would be their policy for the future. The interests of no one particular class but the interests of the Canadian people. NO COMBINES. To assist the farmers of the North- West Territories and Manitoba, the new tariff hill makes lumber free of duty. This is one of the good results of the visit of Mr. Foster and Mr. Angers to these provinces. The Fin- ance Minister in making his Budget speech stated that he found in those provinces a lumber combine, and if any agent in any town sold below the estab- lished rate he was immediately boycot- ted by the combine. "The Govern- ment," said the Minister of Finance, "cannot allow any such system to ex- ist, and consequently we put lumber on the free list." This ought to be a warn- ing to all combines. Do our readers understand what that means? Let us say a word as to it. Every bit of tariff placed upon any article that can be either produced or manufactured in Canada is to just that extent a measure of protection to the home producer or manufacturer. For. instance, if pork be put upon the tariff at three cents per pound, the home producer has a protection of three cents; if it is put at only a quarter of 'a cent per pound, it is a protection to him of that much. Another instance— lf boots and shoes are in the tariff put at 35 per cent., the manufacturer is protected at the rate of 35 per cent., but should the very low rate of 10 per cent. be placed upon them, a rate low- er by far than what would be called a Revenue tariff rate, even then the manufacturer would have a protection of 10 per cent. What then does the (notion of the Liberal party mean? It means simply that the revenue of necessity to be made up by tariff imposters shall, if every vest - age of protection is to be removed out of the tariff—be levied up articles that cannot be produced in Canada; tea, coffee, raw cotton, raw sugar, spices etc,. In other words, that the very articles of every day consumption that our masses use in large quantities must be loaded up enormously to get our revenue. Next, it means that the duties upon all the produce of the farmer shall be removed, and our market opened up to the Americans who are not even asked to give us one in return. When Sir Richard Cartwright goes before the people with such a policy he will be beaten worse than ever. It is an ab- surdity—one of the greatest absurdi- ties that daylight has ever seen in Can- ada. This is pretty strong language from such a source, but the Mail shows by dealing particularly with the question of sugar that it has carefully analyzed the tariff, and if certain sentences are to be taken as indicative of its leanings —that with none too friendly an eye. Yet it is compelled to admit a great deal. As to sugar this is what it says • we only quote a part of the long article : "The revised tariff makes a material reduction in the duty on sugar. The duty on refined is lowered from eight -tenths of a cent to sixty- four hundredths of a cent a pound, and the free list is opened to the higher grades of raw. These two changes constitute a very substantial concession to consumers, and involve only a trifl- ing loss in revenue. They withdraw, however, a very considerable amount of protection from domestic refiners. Twenty per cent. of that protection is A FARMER'S POLICY. The chief charge which the Liberal party , have tried to fasten upon the Government has always been that they were the servants of the manu- facturers and that the farmers' inter- ests have been sacrified invariably when they clashed with those of the manufacturers. How hollow that cry has been, has been demonstrated from time to time by the policy of the Conservative party in preserving the home market for flour, coarse grains, meats, fruits, etc., as well as by the removal of the duties upon the chief articles which the farm- er consumes, tea, coffee, sugar, and many others which were taxed very hirrhly by the Liberal party, but the new tariff leaves the Opposition not a leg to stand upon in this matter. Farmers have been advised with in every part and their views taken. The new tariff with its countless pro - their attempts by just the same kind of legislation as we have this year in- troduced." VIJN6114NCE. E ,A TUE•R. Through the windows of JIiu Peleesaloon, Irl trio l the town of U-,••:, file r+Itttng ettt etreaatsd in yellow patches, HOOK t1 tits g' lessen. scettorett on the table#,• am( iodide of p ytrel Olen wile were gathered nest the bat. Farmers mostly they were, with a sprinkling of shopkeepers, white prominent *Wont them was the village editor, avid all were r .4 NOTES. The "Hamilton Times", a most de- termined opponent of the Conserva- tive party, felt compelled to admit on the day following the delivery of the Budget that the promises of the Government had been carried out therein. According to the new tariff there is no duty on tea and coffee, and next to nothing upon any kind of sugar, while up to and including Dutch Standard No. 16 it is absolutely free. Do the farmers think what they and other consumers would have had to pay on their present consumption of these articles if Sir .Richard's tariff were still in force? They would have to pay each year the enormous sum of nuie million dollars, ornearly two dollars per head of the entire population. Along Ms .ui hwav, :ant{ into Form Brown's 4'ari MMO.l'the)" Mttul.II lap, ly guarding t •' it prisoner, e0o, w h" e, iutlternerli 1tt tot:: Ila bistclfar facet, ,•aikad ant'it ttirrnwith u.la{lt;iug step :fel:11 tter IropetM neat:, „ xltdd' a ' oodtree, .ti sirItad.r, presently, st4PRi►lg knit Polptng out a spreading oak; when lbs idipkuot was eettjactedand Stedman hail steppe on fire box, lie added; ,"if you've riot: anything to say, you'd ,better say ,it t'I am innocent, I swear b;Itore G i the dooiued wan. answered'. "I never took the life of Margaret Kelse' ." • "Give us your proof," jeered the leader, and when Stedman kept a de• 0p"airiug silemu% liir' laughed shortly, Ready, men " e order. The box was kicked aside, and then-- only a writhing body swung to ti fro In the gloom • WALTER SAW AN EVIL, SCOWLING, MUR- DEROUS yeeE. discussing a startling piece of news that had spread through the town and its surroundings. The tidings that Walter Stedman, a 1 borer on Albert Kelsey's ranch, had murdered Itis employer's daughter, had reached them, and had spread universal horror among Inc peo- ple. A farmer declared that ho had seen the deed committed, ae he walked through a neighboring lane. and, hav- ing always been noted for his cowardice, instead of running to the girl's aid, had hailed a party of miners who were ro- turniug front their midday meal through a field near by. When they reached the spot, however, where Stedman (as they supposed) had done his black deed, only the girl lay there, in the stillness of death. Her murderer had taken the opportunity to fly. The party had searched the woods of the Kelsey estate, and just as they were nearing the house itself the appearance of Walter Sted- man, walking in a strangely unsteady manner toward it, made them quicken their pace. He was soon in custody, although he had protested innocence of the crime. He said that he had just seen the body himself on his way to the station, and that when they had found him he was going to the house for help. But they had laughed at his story and had flung hint into the tiny, stifling calaboose of the town. What were their proofs? Wafter Stedman, a young fellow of about 26, had come from the oily to their quiet town, just when times wore at their hardest, in smell of work. The most of the teen living in the town were honest fellows, doing their work faithfully, when they could get it, and when tbey had socially asked Stedman to have a drink with there he refused in rather a scornful manner. "That infernal city chap," he was called, and their hate and envy increased in strength when Albert Kelsey had employed hint in preference to any of themselves. As time went on, the story of Stedman's admiration for Margaret. Kelsey had gone afloat, with the added information' that his employ- er's daughter had repulsed him, saying that she would not marry a common laborer.. So Stedman. when this news reached his employer's ears, was dis- charged ; and this, then. was Iris re- venge ! For thein, these proofs were sufficient to pronounce him guilty. Yet that afternoon, as Stedman, crouched on the floor of the calaboose, grew hopeless in the knowledge that uo one would believe his story, and that his undeserved punishment would be swift and sure, a tramp, boarding a freight car several miles from town, sped away from the spot where his Crone had been committed, and knew that forever its shadow would fultow hint. From the tiny window of his prison Walter Stedman could see the red glow of the heavens that betokened the set- ting of the sun. So the red sun of his life was soon. to set, a life that had been innocent of all crithe, and that now was to be ended for a deed that he had never committed. Most prominent of all the visions that swept through his mind was that of Margaret Kelsey, lying as he had first tound her, fresh from the hands of her murderer. But there was another of a more tender nature. How long he and Margaret had tried to keep their secret, until Walter could be promoted to a higher position, so that he could ask for. her hand with no fear of the father's autagouism 1 Then came the remembrance of an afternoon meeting between the two in the woods of the Kelsey estate—how, just as they were part. There is only one difference between the present Dominion Government and that of Sir Richard Cartwright, and that is this :—The present Govern- ment reduces taxes and has surpluses by the practice of economy—Sir. Rich- ard added taxes, and by foolish manage- ment and an impoverishing policy got deficits. In the new tariff the specific duties have almost disappeared, only being retained where for purposes of appraise - meat they seemed to be little less than absolutely necessary. The Minister of Finance, in announcing that fact, said that the Government were anxious that by no possibility should the tariff system be made to bear heavily upon the poorer classes of consumers who buy the cheaper goods, and conse- quently would be affected most by those duties. In his speech upon the Budget, the Hon. Mr. Haggart, Minister of Rail- ways and Canals, also dealt with the subject. He said: "If the Govern- ment find that by combinations any class of producers attempt to raise the prices beyond legitimate prices the Government will meet them and spoil When the Liberal party were in power, and they had a specific duty of five cents a pound on black tea and six cents on green tea, Mr. Burpee, the Minister of Customs, saidt:—"Yes, it is a good deal beavier on the poor people proportionately, but it will get them into the habit of buying better goods." Cold Comfort. It is reported that a; prominent Liber- al politician, who sits for an Ontario constituency was islet by a friend the other night after the delivery of the Budget speech. The friend said—"Well ! what do you think of the tariff?" "The Tories have done us again," was the reply. "They have completely disproved our most damaging charge against them, viz., that they were run by the manufacturers. Their tariff is undoubtedly a farmers' tariff," In front of the men stood their 1 _i, der, watching the contortions of the body with a silent glee. • •'1'11 tell you a secret, boys," he said suddenly. "I was after that poor murdered girl inyself. A. d---- little little chance I had ; but, by —, he had juet as littler A pause—then: "He's shunted this earth. Cut him down, -you fellows!" "It's no use, on. I'll give up the blasted thing as a bad fob. There's something queer about that there tree. De you see how its brunches balance it? We have cutshe trunk Hearty in two, but it won't come down. There's plenty of others around, we'll take one of theta. It I'd a long rope with me I'd get that tree down, and yet the way the thing stands it would be risking a fellows life to climb it. It's got the devil in it, sure." So old Farmer Brown shouldered his ax and matte off for another tree, his sou following. They had sawed and chopped and chopped and sawed, and yet the tall white oak, with its branches Jutting out almost as regularly as if done by the work of a machine, stood straight and firm. Farmer Brown, well known for hie weak, cowardly spirit, who, in beholding the murder of Albert Kelsey's daughter, had in his fright mistaken the criminal, now in his superstition let the oak stand, because its well-balanced position saved it frost: falling, when other treed would have been down. And so this tree, the same one to which an innocent man had been hanged, was left—for other work. It was a bleak rainy night—such a .night as can be found only in central California. The wind howled like a thousand demons, and lashed the trees together in wild embraces. Now and then the weird " hoot, hoot 1" of an owl came softly from the distance in the "But evil is wrought by want of thought, A's well as want of heart." By want of thought mothers allow daughters to become frail and puny. Over -study in girls induces uterine dis- orders and weaknessess, and blights their future happiness as wives and mothers. Joined to proper hygienic care, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a priceless remedy in such aihnents, its value becoming even more apparent every year. Using it, the wan, debili- tated school girl gains color, flesh and spirits, losing those deathly headaches; tormenting backaches, languor, dejec- tion and other symptoms of functional irregularities, and nervous debility. It never harms the most delicate girl. Robertsdale, Huntingdon Co., Pa. 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The gossiping townspeople had mis- construed this romance, and when Al- bert Kelsey had heard of this clandes- tine meeting from the man w ho was later on to appear as a leader of the mob, and that he had discharged Sted- man, they had believed that the young man had formally proposed and had been rejected. Bat justice had gone wrong, as it had done innumerable times before, and will again. An inno- cent man was to be hanged, even with• out the comfort of a trial, while the map who was guilty was free to wander where he would. That autumn night the darkness came quickly, and only the stars did their beat to light the scene. A body of men, all masked, and having as leader one who had ever since Sted man's arrival in town cherished a secret hatred of the young nian, dragged Stedman from the cala- boose and tramped through the town, defying all, defying even God himself, "DAMN HIM 1 WILL HE FOREVER FOLLOW ME?" lulls of the storm, while the barkisatel coyotes tr oke the echoes of the hills into sounds like fiendish laughter. In the wind and rain a man fought his path through . the bush and into Farmer Brown's "cross cut," as the shortest way home. Suddenly he stop- ped, trembling, as if held by some un- seen impulse. gofers lulu rose th e white oak, wavering and swaying in the storm, Good God! it's the tree I swung Sted• man from!" he cried, and a strange fear thrilled him. His eyes were fixed on it, held by some undefinable fascination. Yes, there on one of the longest branches a small piece of rope still dangled. And then, to the murderers excited vision, this rope seemed to lengthen, to form at the end into a slip -knot that eudircled a purple neck, while below it writhed and swayed the"body of a man! "D-- him!" he mattered, staring to- ward the hanging formas if about to help the rope in its work of strangulation; "will he forever follow ore?. And yet he desered it,tlte black -hearted %illianl He took her ltf--" He never finished the sentence. The White oak, towering above hits in its strength, seemed to grow like a frenzied, living creature. There was a sudden splitting sound, then came a crash, and undor tete fallen tree lay Stedman's murderer, crushed and mangled. "Bonnie Dundee." It was "in dejection," in the first an• guish of his ruin, that Scott composed tine most gallant of all cavalier songs, "Bonnie Dundee," wondering if it were good or not. and wishing that Will Er- skine was alive to tell him sootlt. The song has all the gladdest and -gay- est elements of his genius, a buoyant scorn of what le gray and sour—of "the cowls of Kilmarnock"—a splendid au• dacious loyalty ; so he parts from a hero; and strikes his last stroke lot Claverhouse. Here is the essence of Sir Walter's songs; here, in a clatter of hoofs on the causeway, a flutter of ribbons and scent- edlove-locks,a clash of clayrnoreson the target of harkened bull's liide,and, above it all. beyond It all, "the shade of Mont- rose," and a foreboding of that darkest hour when "low lies the bonnet of "Bon- nie Dundee." There are altnost the first verses I res member, and they rang in the memoryyf of a child who did not know their au- shor's name. who knew not what event they celebrated, who had never heard of Walter Scott. They are parts of a dead world, but to enrich our days with the very Ilfe-blood of the past is the gift of Scott as of Horner. --Andrew Lang. An *irate of Test' . 1 137 Oxbridge Undergraduate (from Amor- should like you to see our town of Pokereville, Professor—only 20 years in existence, and 60,000 inhabitants 1" .' The Professor of Archaeology—Ali— / yes --very interestingg. I should prefer, / myself, a town 110,0110 years old --and 2t1 inhabitants, you know 1—Punch. These Idiotle Questions. Visitor—Are you amok ing thothe beast• ly cigawettes again? Artist—No ; I am eating ice create. By the way, if you go by hero this morn- ing, I wish you would drop in ; I want to speak to you.--Harper's Bazar.