THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 1, 1897.
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THB DAILY EXAMINER.
DECEMBER 1, 1897.
CENTRE TORONTO.
Liberal
€eutre Toronto is only eleven votes more
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Tue fact that the mesjority in than it was at tie general election in 1896— even though a Liberal Gaverument in sow in powerand the era of great expecta- tious concerning it is not yet past—is not calculated to inspire the Liberal party with joy. Nor will Liberals, who are Liberals upon principle, take much comfort out of the means employed to secure thie small result. The Liberal candidate came ou; asa Protectionist,and declared that Free Trade was not jn the issue. He took the Conservative ground in respect to the tariff; and all those who supported him took the same ground. Eventhe Leaier of the Maritime Liberala, who went to his assistance, even Sir Lcuis Henry Davies who, previous tothe genera! eleciion, de- clared that every vestige of Protection would be “eliminated,” wiped, out and completely removed from the tariff if the Liberals gained power, was constrained to Bay :
“T am what Mr. Bertram calls a theoreti Gal iree trader. I rever scruple to say that in theory I believe in free trade; bnt I think I bave alittle common sense, and I aw dealiog with a condition and not with a theory; andas a man of common sense forced to deal not with theory alone, but with conditions, I found not only that in- vested capital, on which thousands of peo ple who had invested depended for thei- livelihood and which had inits ramifica- tions extended ali through the community.”
This is precisely the ground that was taken years ago by the mass of the Con- servatives of Canada. The very words used by Sir Louis are slmost identical with those which have been repeatedly used by Tux Examiner and by many other advocates of the Protective principle as applied to the Canadian tarifi. What will an outand out Free Trader think now that, instead of moving to “ eliminate every yestige of Protection from the tariff,” Sir Louis is maintaining Protection and has adopted the Conservative reasons for doing so! Surely a victory gained by such shameless abandonment ot principle is not a matter for rejoicing on the part of those who vote! fer Sir Louis Davies and siood by the Liberal Party because they declared themselves to be out-and-out Free Traders.
When we consider that Sir Louis Davies and Hon. Mr. Patterson were preceded in Ceutre Toronto by the truly honorable Mr Tarte, and that every device of ingenious rascality that qcould be brought to bear upon a city constituency was resorted to by the party in power, the wonder is that the gain of the addition tothe Liberal majority obtained at the general election was ouly eleven votes. The Conservatives
of course, were able to point to the large ia- crease of taxation,the heavy addition to the public debt, and the enormous liabilities iacurred since the Liberals gained power upon the strength of the hope that they would introduce an era of economy and zeform; and they were able to refer to the Series of extravagances and outrages per- petrated by our “standard elevators.” But these considerations were powerless to move the Liberal majority in Centre Toronto, seeing that the electors were pro- mised a continuance that they have aot yet begun to fully feel the results of Liberal mal-administration .
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The coal mining trike in the Northern Ii lois district ended last Friday. Twelve thousend men have gone back to work. One thousand meo remain out at Streator, the other poiot where the miners and Operators have pot agreed.
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T is announced that a reduction in the tage of English letters has beew decided After the first of January, next, an ounce letter may be sent toevery part o! the British Ewpire fur a three cent stamp.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
—The Free Trade flag—which Mr. aurier pr ymised to sail to the mast—-has ven hauled down and Tarte and Protection
now the Liberal cry!
—Tbe Mai! and Empire of the 27th gives a car‘oo. io which Mr. Bertran portrayed as tishiog with “British Pre
‘ferential Bait” with Tarte and the Globe | standing behind him. The Mail remark- | that “his baitis all right; but bin behind him ought to scare But it didn’t —Atthe annual meeting of the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture recently heid in Edioburgb a resolution was unanimously passed, affirming “that the agricultural education is one of the first importance to agriculture,” and strovug!y recommending the establishment of schvo! of agriculture “where theory and practice covid be taught and experimeats conduct- ed.
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—In the last issue of the Monetary Times |
we read: “Canada, like the United Siates, |
though ip a less degree, is in the hands of the protectionists, who desire nothing 80 much as to make it difficult for the manu- factures of other couutries, American or British, to come into competition with theirowp. “The Monetary Times does not, apparently, agree with the Patriot that Protection has been abolished in Canada and the programme of the Liberals fulfilled. Ithas accurately “ sized up ” our Liberal government.
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camp in New Brunswick, too. The Moncton Transcrip warped the Liberal party that its fortunes were going to is how the St. Jobn Gazette (deecribed as a Blair organ), re- torts ou the Transcript and its editor:
“Because Mr. Blair did not dress the little man in a Roman toga, place him on a pedestal somewhere in Moncion and then make daily pilgrimages to worship at the shrine thus established, he can see nothing good inthe Minister of Rail- ways. In New Brvnewick, where we know the littleness and nasti- tiness of Mr. Hawke, his opinion for or againstthe minister goes for nothing. His political insignificance has been demonstrated on 0 many occasions that no one but Mr. Hawke cares a button what Mr. Hawke’s views on any question are.”
How these Liherals love one another and how the interests of their country are cared for by Liberals with soup ladles in hanu.
ESTEEMEO EXCHANGES
before this how Mr. Paterson got the taritt fixed so a8 to increase hie protection on biscuits, and how Mr. Frost was likewise favored by reductions on his raw material; and bow comes Mr. George Bertram, the grit candidate in Centre Toronto, publicly declaring now he himself went over everv item ot the schedules with Mr. Fielding and arranged the several rates of duties.
—Mail and Empire: The beautiful idea elaborated by Mr. Bertram that the tariff ought to be stable and that it shouid be taken out of politics bas a slight element of humcur in it. It is something like the ‘Quebec cry of peace. A number of poli- ticians down in Quebec are wixing quite fat largely at our expense. They were very noisy when they were getting nothing, and frequently distributed the peace; but immediately that they struck a good thing, through being in offibe they propoundeu the comfortable theory that everybody, eolely in the interests of peace should, hear, see, and say nothing. When Mr. Bertram says he wants the tariff to remain Stationary, what we mean is that he does not want it to be changed, because it has been fixed up *o nicely to suit his own in- terests,
Tue Ciry Court was in sese on to-day: There were agood many cases oa the dock et.
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This was the eubject of a lecture by Master of the Rolls, that had been looked forward to with anticipation of “incere pleasure. Nor was the realization sbort of the expectation.
The lecture brought out all the passion- ate eloquence and pathos and €arnestness that so distinguished Dr. Hodgson at the bar and on the plattorm in the days gone by. It may be taken as an evidence of the desire again to hear him that, last night, a select audience nearly filled St. Peter’s Hall to bear the lecture upon Joan of Are.
De. Hodgson began by an impartial e¢ osideration of the customs and manners a description of the condi- and placed before his efly but plainly, a clear state- ~tate of the pation at the time
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ersecuted Dauphin; ber visions, and ioally the Maid’s achievement of her | purpose Spite of all obstruction and iiscouragement. Wonderful as was this result, nuraculous as it seems, yet the | :ccomplishment of her aesigu was not
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“God” said the lecurer, “ has given to woman two painful gifts, distinguishing her from man. They are the gifts of pity and of enthusiasm. From the gift of enthusiasm she derives imagination ; from the pity dwelling in her heart is created the spirit of selt sacrifice. To her, heroism becomes supernatural; in man it would stop short a: valour.”
Aud 80, with these womanly attributes, and filled with the purpose of driving out the English, Joan of Arc led the French forces into the field. Battle after battle was fougiit and won, and the kingdom was given back toits ruler. Then the Maid would bave gone home to ber father’s house, to the green fields beside the river and to the quietness beneath the trees.
They would vot Jether go. Thea that last battle was fought—against the advice of Joan. She was captured by the Eng- lish, and handed over by them tothe French for trial as a witch.
At this poiat in the lecture Dr. Hodgson ;
broke off to euter into a most interesting analysis (not devoid of humor) of what constituted thecrimeof witchcraft. He forcibly compared it with the present day spiritualism and asked his hearers what was the difference between the two.
In deecribing the trial of the Maid, the persecution ot the judges and the cruelty of her death, the eloquence of the lecturer rose to ite highest. Hetold of that last scene of all, when the slight form of the Maid was chained to the post, and the fagots were piled about her ready for the match; of the pitiless faces of her judges, and the shamefaced looks of the Englisbmen as they gazed upon the scene. In the silence of a sympathy which he is so weil able to call forth he described her pathetic, girlish appeal to the cruel Bishop: “ Ah, Bishop what have I done that I should suffer such a death,” and her last word : “Jesus.”
“A humorist” eaid Dr. Hedgson “ sat down to write the life of Joana of Are. The humorist was Mark Twain. The first few pages of his book are brightened by the humor we associate with that writer, but soon it gives way to the affect- ing sadness that dominated tLe brief career, aod on tothe end of his book he treats very seriously the history of the life of Joan of Arc.”
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THE GORDON H!IGHLANDERS. Sir.—We reada great deal those day: in the public press in praise Of Scotch va or as displaved by the Gordon Highlanders io
will stop you on the streets of Charlotte- town to relate the valiant deeds of t hese heroic soldiers. The names of those who fell in storming the heights of Dargai to belp England advance her brokea |i
he further into Afghaa territory have been published 10 many of the foreign papers but have not aa yer found their way into the columns of our
local press. Of the first ten mev brought in wounded after the engagement one was pamed Hogan. Near him on stretchers lay Lance Corporal Quinn aud Private Ry an The piper who continued to p'ay stirring
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had both legs sbot | off, aud whose picture appeared in a late | number of the Daily Star, was These men were They came from the | Higblands of Wexford and Tipperary not jfrom the Highlands of Scotland. Brit | perhaps they belong to that new race which sprung into existence in the —the Scotch-Irish race. Marcrs,
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The Welsh steamer Labarrouere, of Cardit?, bas foundered off Trevose Head, as the result of a collision with an un- known vessel. Her crew of 15 bas been landed at Cardiff, afier baving been 'n an epen boat for 24 hours
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I am instructed by Mr. Edward Harring- ton to sell by auction, on his premises, Nine Mile Creek, Lot 65, on Monday, the 6th day of December, 1897, at 12 o’clock, noon, the following:
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Crop.—l5 tons of pressed hay, good quality, 200 bushels McIntyre potatoes, grown in new land, 200 bushels turnips, 100 bushels mangles,
Implements —1 buggy, nearly new, 1 cart, iron axle, 1 trnck wagon, 1 spring- tooth harrow, 1 spike harrow, 1 gang | plow, 1 plow, I driving sleigh, 1 trucy sulky, 1 self binder (Massey-Harris), | | wheel rake, 1 roller.
Terms for land at sale. For the | moveables, Ll months credit on approved paver on all sums over $5.00: under $5.00,
cash. F. H. Horxe, Auctioneer.
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