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,. a year, as the recently elected Congress will not likely be called in extra sesion at the close of the present term next March; but instead a committee of; THE McKinley tarifl‘ from present indications will be in force another THE public meeting recently held in Sohmer park, Montreal, at which Mr. Elgin Myers discussed annexation whilst other speakers advocated inde- pendence, imperial federation, (he, and at which the annexationist scarce- ly got a hearing, has been greatly misrepresented not only in the Ameri- can press but in Great Britain. The Glasgow [Jerald told its readers that Mr. Mowat, of Toronto, appeared on the platform in Montreal along with Mr. Myers, the annexationist. As the Mr. Mowat referred to must be Sir Oliver Mowat, the loyal premier of Ontario, Canadians can form some idea of the kind of information about their country that is at times supplied to the British public. The ignorance of the latter on things Canadian, as it shews itself occasionally, is truly re- markable. Even men as high in authority as Lord Roseberry, and who should possess fairly accurate knowV ledge of the condition of things in the colonies, seem to be under the impres- sion that Canadians have for some , time keen ripe for annexation, and have been only held back in the past by l such loyal forces as Sir John Macdon- : ald. It would not be a bad idea to ‘ establish night schools for the informa- ‘ tion of the British public. : THE Toronto Board of Trade has attended an invitation to Sir John Thompson and his colleagues, which has been accepted, to be present at the banquet to be given by the board in January. The conservatives of Toronto had previously arranged to entertain the Premier and his friends: under the auspices of the Albany Club, 1 but very properly gave way to the claims of the board as representative of the business interests of the commu- nity. The new Premier and his collea- gues will therefore have an early opportunity of addressing an important non-political gathering in the Queen City, where questions in which all are interested can be freely discussed under non-partisan auspices. The present occasion recalls the great banquet of four years ago, when His Excellency the Governor-General, the late Right Hon. Sir John A. Macdon- ald, the Hon. Sir Oliver Mowat, Mr. IV. C. Van Horne, and other distin- guished men of all shades of politics addressed a splendid gathering upon questions of general interest. Editorial Notes. ' PRESIDENT Harrison’s allusions to the Canadian Pacific railway are not enjoyed by his own countrymen. The Springfield Repuélimn says, “ New England will not be pleased over the recommendation that the Canadian‘ railroads be restricted in their compe tition with American roads.” The- fact is, the Eastern states would be at the. mercy of the Western roads in the matter of car supply without the Can:- dian competition, which during, busy times would cause immense loss to the business of New England. PRIZE BOOKS. Helidéaâ€"Gaeds FINEST 1N LINDSAY. PflRTERS STOGK YOUR CHRISIMAS PRESENTS DON’T Go to PORTER? for your (the Watchman. THURSDAY. DEC. 8, 1892. UNTIL YOU HAVE CONSULTED __ _ yum... uuuac lcubul‘e in the sitbationo is the continued heavy deliveries in the American Northwest where the railroads are st 1892 was nearer 540,000,000 busheis than 500,000,000 bulhels; and if this be true. ‘the deliveries may well continue to be heavy, to the astonishment of the “bulls.” Advices from England are of a very discouraging nature. stagnation and con- tinued depreaaion in values being the Low as the price of cash Wheat in Chicago is at the present time. some of our leading,r exporters claim that it is Sc to 100 per bushel too high for the transaction of legitimate business in the English market; so that before new deals can be affected to any extent, values on the other side will have to advance, or else a further decline is inevitable on this side. Prices, however, are so unprofitable to growers, that it is to be hoped if any change occurs it will be in an upward direction. During the past week the visi- ble supply 0‘ wheat in the United States and Canada east of the Rockies was again ‘ augmented by 1,816,000 bushels, bringing ‘ it up to 73,581,000 bushels against 41.- 653,000 bushels for the corresponding date last year, showing an increase of 30,000,- 000 bushels. The total amount in sight on this continent and afloat to Europe is 103,293,000 bushels against 101,237,000 for the week previous, and 79,645,000 bushels a year ago. A remarkable feature ;_ ‘1‘- _:.___ - Ls - ian THE Dominion Parliament is an- pe nounced to meet towards the end of be- January. The early session will serve at the personal convenience of members, he and be of advantage to the trade of the country, as the character of the: year’s legislation will be soon known.‘ Speaking of the probable changes in the tariff, the Montreal Gazetfe says: “ In the coming session of Parliament tariff changes are looked for, and cer- tainly several can be made with advan- tage. In some instances there are anomalies to correct, as for example, when the duty on the raw product is as high or higher than upon the finish- ed article; in others the raw product bears a specific duty, and the finished article an ad valorem duty, the result being that the more the price declines ' the smaller the protection to the home manufacturer becomes; while in a ‘ third class of cases the duty ought to be revised and reduced in the interest of the general consumer. The article of coal oil stands in this latter category. It has been suggested, however, that I!- 57 he ducts. Neither of these recommenda- tions is at all likely to meet with favor for reasons that should be conclusive. In the first place, the Canadian tariff is not excessive in its protective charac- ter, save in an odd instance here and there, and to ruthlessly lower duties all along the line would simply lead to the destruction ofa number of home in- dustries, the contraction of the Cana- gr: jdian market for agricultural products 3]: and ultimately to the higher taxation dii of the consumer. Whatever tariff FT amendments the Government may i: think well to recommend to Parliament wa we are convinced that the basic prin- r0" Ciple of reasonable protection to home ape . . . . Pat indusmes Wlll be maintained. age senators and representatives will prepare a scheme of tariff reduction or reform, - which the ruling party will endeavor . to put into operation. It is clearly , not the intention of the Democratic l leaders to disturb the present high ' protection enjoyed by the United States industries to any great extent. 7 so that their work in connectiOn with k the tariff will be largely in the way of readjustment. The latter work will require to be handled with care, in order to avoid as far as possible dis- ‘ content on the part of those whose business will be afl’ected by the change in tarifl“. Mr. Cleveland and his party have to consider not only their pledges during the campaign but the effect the carrying out of these will have on in- ternal as well as external trade, and will govern themselves accordingly. Under the McKinley hill the United States customs revenue fell over 42 millions of dollars this last year as ‘ compared with 1891. Much more i cannot be sacrificed, owing to the ‘ increasing demands of the public serâ€" , vice. The British and Canadian press 1 are recognizing the fact that a great 2 deal commercially is not to be expected r from Mr. Cleveland's victory. The Wheat Question. the THE WATCHMAN, LINDSAY, A Young Man Takes a Revolver and Shoots Himself. James A. Pope, at man about 24 years of age, whose father keeps a grocery store at 307 Devenport road, was admitted to the General hospital Monday suffering from a wound in his left breast, caused by the discharge of a revolver in his own hands. It seems that his mother has been recently confined and a few days ago while she was in bed the young man went to her apartment, took a revolver; 7 from the bureau drawer, and was leaving the room when she noticed what. he was doing. She screamed, but he refused to 5 put back the revolver. Almost immedi- ' ately a shot was heard in the woodshed . and he was found there with blood issuing ' from a wound over the heart. Dr. Hen- wood, the family physician, was called ' and attended to his injuries, which were found to consist of an external wound, ‘ an injury to the lung, and a broken rib, ‘ which had undoubtedly turned the bullet from the heart. Since that time Drs. Henwood, Johnson, Wilson and Aikens have been in attendance. Members of the family and friends say that the shooting was accidental, and Dr. Henwood, when called up last night asked to be excused from giving any particulars in his professional capacity. The fact that his mother objected to his taking the revolver shows that there is some reason 1 1n the theory of the wound having been 1 intentionally self-inflicted,especially when the shooting followed so closely upon her objection. It is hoped that the wound may have no serious results, but there is 1 great danger of inflammation of the Inn from the injury. The bullet is located narthupino ____ “---J over $10,000,000. From papers calculat- ed by Prof. Carson for an agricultural experiment station, it is shown that on gravel a horse will draw one and wharf times the load. and on macadsm over three times the load, that he can on a lle} road. Of course, says the London Free Press, there is great economy in drawing power in the proper grading: of roads, and disregard of this fact has‘ wasted large quantities of money in the road-building of the past. The greater speed made on scientifically graded anl‘ patent race tracks illustrates the advant- age of the gradeâ€"Monetary T W68. a hand to the improvement needed. A former Commissioner of Agriculture for ?the State of Tennesssee, Mr. Hurd. estimated the number of hsrscs, mules and asses in that State in 1889 at 475,000. Now, taking,' the lowest estimated loss per horse, say $15 [Professor R. T. Ely, of the American Economic Association, makes it $20 a horse in the United States], an aggregate loss of $7,140,000 a year for one State is shown. In Ontario, in 1891, ‘ there were 678,859 horses, and at $15 a l‘ead, ()ntario would be losing annually A1n (\AA AAA 1 The farmers do not understand what a loss to them bud roads means in wear and tear of animals alone. or they would lend The subject of the improvement of the country roads. which we referred to edi- torially a fortnight ago, is attracting atten- tion in various parts of Ontario. Nor is it neglected in other provinces. Part of our article is quoted by the St. John’s, Que, News. which claims to have “ham- mered at. the subject with more or less‘ persistency for many years pastâ€"that is. the necessity of improving our country highways.” If, says the IVCHJS, people would only catch hold of this question practicallyâ€"especially the farmers and traders of the countryâ€"they would, we are satisfied, more fully realize its great importance. ”Had there been half the agitation during the past twenty-five years for good public roads that there has been for railways, and the money which has been expendedâ€"oftentimes thrown awayâ€"on railroadr, been devoted to the Construction and maintenance of the highways, we do‘not hesitate to say that the country would be infinitely better off to-day and that there would have been less migration from our farms.” President Harrison’s parting shot at the trade of Canada shows that he has learnt nothing from his late defeat and the defeat of McKinleyism. Nor has he learnt that to treat economic questions with passwn is the sure way to play a losing game. His Message to Canada, as we call this part of it, sounds like an echo from the other world : it is an anachron- ism, and like himself, is out of date. H: would be strange if Congress should act upon his suggestions after his policy has been condemned with an emphasis such as was. perhaps, never before heard in the 1 Republic. Nevertheless. to mark his ‘ good wishes, before the curtain falls upon ‘ his administration, the President suggests a radical revision of the trade relations of the Republic with Canada, including the cutting of the CF. R. connection. by the withdrawal of bonding privileges. These privileges, he forgets to say, are mutual, and quite as beneficial to his country as to ours. We are, it seems, getting too large a share of the trade of China and Japan; and he grudges us what we do in connec- tion with our own fellow colonists of Australia. The funniest part of the Message is that which represents British Columbia shipping as bolstered up by a system of bounties, while American is left. to starve by the niggardliness of Congress; as if every child who has mastered the horn-book of political economy did not know that the fall of American shipping from the second place in the world is due to restrictions which accord admirably with the long-since. repealed navigation laws of Great Britainâ€"Monetary Thus. garding the fate of the Anti-Option bill is another unsettling feature in the situation ‘fears being entertained in some quarters that it may pass the Senate after all, On rhe other hand. it is maintained that the impracticability of such 9. measure will be so apparent on its face that it is certain to be shelved In the meantime, however, speculation is bound to be checked at a time when it was never more needed to remedy the existing dullness and depres- sion in price s.â€"M0utreal Trade Bulletin. President Harrison’sMessage County Roads. Near the Market, and will 0 the Whole stock is disposed of. to make a specialty, and prices Store Formerly Occupied By W. AJGoodwin Having bought out Groceries at a l $37 and Straw}? Family Groceries Watchmakcrs and Dealers in Fancy Goods next door to Ontario Bani. All Leather Pocket Books I5c., Saucers me, fine large Plush Albums 750, linen Toy breakable Dolls with hair Ioc., Accordeons worth $ Children’s Tea Sets from SC. up, Flips (bone) 15c. 3 our Walnut Visible Pendalum clocks for $3.25, Hair Br member we lead, others follow. spe:ial line of China Just Notice a Few of the Snaps ', THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, I892 is what interests them. They are delighted V and Silver Watches, beautiful patterns and “LOW PRICES FOR undo coons BUY l8K. WEDDING RINGS HERE WATCHES , CLOCKS f JEWEL rowds of people are flocking to our 5. Xmas draws nearer we will have WE OFFER YOU A stock of General Groceries that for freshness and variety is not excelled in town. Taxing everything into account We feel that those Who purchase their household Wants from us will be pleased. An experience of nigh sixteen years in the Grocery and provi sion line has taught us something. In Teas and Coffees We maintain our old reputation, and have some superior value to offer. Visi- tors to Lindsay are invited to call and get samples. '. F. MCCARTY gagement Rings, Broochs )ut Eyres Graham’s Choice Stock 3 low rate on the dollar, I have rent GO TO ‘, all work warranted ., linen Toy Books 5b., Un- ans worth $4.00 for $2.25, ne) 15c. You should sec "3.25, Hair Brushes 15o, rc ted with the bargains in Gold and fine finish of our En. , Chains, etc. and Toys. 45 Kent CoaL st ‘PiikRCEL No. 3.â€"â€"Five-and~a-half acres in Block H. being lots 5 to 15 inclusive. These lots are central. and beautifully located within one block of county builtiings; they will be sold in one block. or divided to suit purchasers. Tor ma only. For further particular apply to . . J. R. DUNDAS. ‘ land-u. July 1581:, 189a , V , __-° _-v_-uv unnuuo. unnu on“ soft water, and every convenience. .111 tending purchasers "an see the premises by applying to the undersxgned. PARCEL No. 2.â€"â€"Lots No. 7 and 8 eest of Lindsay street. (immediately opposfle the Separate school) ; there IS a rlght of way reserved from N o. 8 and also a few feet of rear of same. FAMILY GROCERS PARCEL 1.â€"Lots No. 3 4 West Side of Mill street. being half an acre. on which is a two-and-a-half storey brick dwelling house, containing parlor. sit- ting-room. dining-room. china closets, library, kitchen. laundry, (Stationary wash tubs, with hot and cold water). bath-room. (hot and cold water) and eight bed rooms. The house is heated throughout with hot water; is exception- ally Well built, having 14 inch walls, and is in perfect repair; there is also brick stable and driving house sheds; hard and .__EA - TOWN OF LINDSAY VALUABLE PROPERTY Solicitors, c. Lin_d_say. WM. CALLAGHAN. LindSay, Nov. 14, 1892. 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