TTT ee Sat Te SSS TE SH Te ters Hew Adverticoments This Week. Look !--T. C. Chisholm > me--Calisthenic Entertainment Stratford "Times. mT. 7. BUTLER EDITOR AMD MANAGER Wepwespay, May 25, Lia NOTES FROM OTTAWA. SFRCIAL KDITORIAL COREESFOR DENCE TO ATER STRATFORD TIMES." Ormwa, May 23, 1887. E must confess that there have been times during last session when ee from the gallery the occu- of desks to 4 T's rent, I felt that the existence of the servative party hung by a single thread ;--that thread being the life and health of one man, a statesman who had already passed his seven- tieth-year..I1) health and advancing had deprived the House and Cabinet of the presence and services of one of its most capable and influ- ential members, Sir Leonard Tilley. Every one regretfully recalled to mind that strong lieutenant general of the Conservative party, whose place at the right hand of our be- loved and- venerated Commauder-in- Chief, then knew him no more--as we believed at that time, for ever. We 'thought of him as "one with- drawn for ever, at least in Canada, from party struggles and party triumphs, enjoying in the world's chief metropolis that position of dignity and utility to his country, to which the more stirring but not more valuable toils of his youth and maturity bad so fully entitled him. No more striking proof of Sir Charles 's- abilities can be given, than that the recollection of them has re- mained so indelibly imprinted on "e minds and memories of as to overcome the usually obliterat. ing effects of years of absence from the scene of their display. The rapid forgetfulness of past services, however great, is one of the faults to which ences from the era of Miltiades and the Athenians to our own days, hei ever been most of whi Tease, is an indisputable proof that} the even by ts to the future lead- ership of the party, his claims were, though perhans with a secret though ut@xpressed reluctance, admitted to be paramount. For what mau save Sir Charles Tupper, can successfully wield, or even attempt to wield, the 'maltngsiahed seeptre of Sir John M onald, when that great man succumbs either to increasing in- firmities 6r to Death, the universal gy cage he Who but he can treaa in Sir John's steps, and keep to- pether the jarring elements of which Canadian Conservatism is composed ? Not Mr. White ;--at least not yet ; bor et is still | young in yey and he Maritime portion of the Do- isto is as yet but little known. His chances for the Premiership, ten years hence, are good--for it must be remembered that Sir Charles himself is' nearly 65, while: Mr. ite i rs his junior. As one h fluent and pe cannot be elo- He is the Sir Robert Peel ian itics, his great strength being in his anblemished blic and private eager and in ty ofickl woke He is: is not a man 1 of genius, but he : an eminently safe, conscientious and upright man ; and, upon quently no North-Western rebellion, had he, instead of Sir David Mac- . been Minister of the Inter- wr four a ago. Sir Charles budget sail ig much i at least, he ployment and wages in cash for the In dealing with the irongduties, Sir Charles showed, that with Jus increased sauvity of manner, he |, lost nove of his old-tume boldness « action. He 18 one of those who pre fer facing and conquenng difficulties to evading them, pee dangers that turn'a weaker man from his purpose he enjoys coinbating, and if possible, ; surmounung. 'he taming and manufacturing of iron are, as he remarked, the base and foundation of all other manufactures ; and yet, although we have now had = enght years of Protection, no Finance Minister has hitherto dared to face the question and the storm of selfish opposition it was certain to evoke from manufacturers, who while clamorous for protection to their own products, care nothirig for the dével- opment of the country, but a good ear: about the cheapness of the raw material of their own industries. For iron, passing as it does through Pmany successive stages of manufac- ture, 18 at each stage the raw mater- ial of certain trades, from each of which opposition was to be expected. Sir Charles has acted in the interests of the working classes in making the duty depend on the amount of talioe]-aen expended on the article manufac tured ; and irf this res as well as by his abolition of the hard ¢nal duty, has deserved their gratitude. But probably the men of all men, that wil] derive most benefit from these duties, will be the hardy and hardworking pioneer settlers of our woodland districts, and especially of our Ontario free grants, mainly sit- vated in the Huronian and Lauren- tian ridges, and full of mines of gold, silver, lead and copper, and above all of iron. In such districts _ ee en -- ad duty, in the interest of Cans- dian millers. ~ ad}, | discord and ba¢ MR. O'BRIEN'S MISSION. ~ Mr. O'Brien has completed his short but eventful tour in Canada says the Mad. Looking at ectcal results, what has he accomplished * He did not come here to onvince the Nationalieta, who were already confirmed in bis way of thinking, but to "raise" the Canadian people against Lord: Lansdowne ; yet we think we are amply justified in saying that, Mr. O'Brien having come and gone, Lord Lansdowne ie today the most popular man in the Dominion. Nor has Mr, O'Brien succeed- ed in enlisting Canadian sympathy for the Nationalist cause ; on the contrary his at- tacks upon the Governor-General have served to alienate rather than to win Can Further, Mr, egacy of we greatly fear, Irish Catholics will feel or many a day in their business and social relations with the rest of the community. The fact that no prominent Irish Catholic layman, that no prelate or other dignitary 'of the Koman- Catholic and that not more than half a dozen priesta at most appeared with him on his five platforms, tells' its own story. Mr. 0" learned, and it is a most im t dis. covery, what value to place upon the Irish eiiticlnay, passed from time to time by roliticians on this side of the Atlantic. Ww ithout doubt the action of the Dominion Parliament and of three or four Provincial Legislatures, including that of Ontario, with regard to the Crimes bill and to the arg uestion at large, led him to suppose t Ca --_ could casily be -- Governor-General. Our mca in short, were seapensthie to some extent for hia visit--they invited it by their mock herolca. Qet not a single member, Federal or Provincial, not even Mr. Curtan, greeted him on his, arrival, or appeared at i. meetings, or countenanced his crusade ny manner whatsoever. They knew the drift of public sentiment too well to risk re-election by identifying themselves with the agitation ; and so, after misleading the agitator, they left a in thelurch, The treatment to whic' O'Brien was subjected in Toronto -- at Kingston by street rowdies was not much worse than that which he received from the potitictans. ~ With regard to these so-called © rivty agriculture must always hold a sec- ondary position, not more than al third of the total area being fit for cultivation, The cultivable land yields excellent root and other crops, | but being mostly broken up and di- vided by rocky ridges and ravines: covered with trees, clearance and ng-are-tasks' that none~ but those gifted with exceptional perse- verance can hope to perform. Now the manufacture of iron by means of charcoal is the only way by which alone these rocky districts can speed- ily be settled. it is therefore pre- eminently a farmers' question, for it is in these regions that farmers must ey are many--who pre- fer a forest country, with its abun- tag are scarce and costly. Sir Charles' tariff will encourage the use of char- coal in blasting furnaces in the dis- tricts where the iron is mined; and use-of charcoal means.a market | o¢ to the pioneer for all the surplus wood on his bush lot, as well as em- spare time of himseif and his horses aizsl oxen, Chapman, of Toronto University, a ton of iron requires for its manufac- ture 22 or 28 cwt: of charcoal. A small furnace, making 10 tons daily, will therefore require at least 11 tons of charcoal, or about 18,000 bushels, worth st present prices, $52, at 4 cents per bushel. A cord of wood will produce on an average 50 bush- els of charcoal, and as an acre usu- ally yields 25 cords, the settler in- 8 of receiving nothing for his timber, would earn, by turning it into charcoal, and taking it to the furnace, $2-a-cord-or An_.asra, besides getting his land cleared into the bargain. What a prospect does this open to many 8 worthy man, now at -- wits' end for means to support his wife and little ones dur- ing that long stern struggle with the wilderness which must be fought be- fore his acres of forest becomre a farm! How much pet how many privations, how mach actual ing | sufferin tien less chi small furnace thus prevent! We say nothing of the ready, accessible and market can produce ; for we are speaking, it must be remembered, of that early of his career, before his land look for free farms for those of their ba boya--an dance of fuel, timber and water, to| the According to Professor! eyes. which have been greatly exaggerated by the merican press, we who from the first de- manded a hearing for Mr, O'Brien ha-e simplv to deplore and condemn therm as disgracing the Canadian name, and crediting our claim to be an intelligent and fair-minded people. Nevertheless Mr, O'Brien himself is not guiltless. Were a prominent Englishman or Irishman or any other non- resident ne the United States to start the Union upon a raising ' campaign against Prartient Cleveland on the strength of something Mr. Cleveland had been charged with doing in his capacity as a citizen nll Buffalo, he would probably find that, m love free speech, the Anucana ss beve a still higher regard for what is due their magistrate. And, the adventurer fell into the hands of a mob and was roughly handled, which is by no means a wild conception, it uct cod mage upon the citizens of Toronto gare er At least an . manent ulness an rsbetineen in delnersily persisting in a blunder, ite the warnings and entreat- jes that him in advance quarter, ptoms popular annoyance that lay under hie own ~-Mr. O'Brien's miasion to Canada has vemulted, as everybody thought it would, in a couple of exhibitions of rowdyism, and in creating more bad blood between Protestants and Catholics than has existed in Canada since the Grits' No-Popery war- fare at the time of the Separate School agitation, back in 1855-6-7. No sensible, orderly citizen can justify the acts of the mobs in Toronto and Kingston, but @'- Brien came to Canada to excite those mobs and stir up bad blood, and if he got the xen it he has nobody to blame but himeelf,....People who-play with fire must expect to get burned, --it is Wwughable to read the howling | © against Canadian mobs raised by the Am- encan press. One would think there had neVer been a riot or even a " Donnybrook " in Uncle Sam's domains. They forget the soenes that New York city witnessed at the time of the celebrated hundreds of men. women and children were murdered, principally colored peo- ple, who were hunted down and beaten They 'iecgen the viete om. Secenten, Pac ever witnessed. But then 1, the Globe's anquesti iron duties, and the abolition ee = ne on a or -- 2 coal. measure is one, ero aces See Zon: boeetheinere whose paces. de pale. il no ayer aes if affect 'the ---- Nova organi + | Worth $50 cash per acre, and how, He --mee been whtoned, eo could the only ve "the 'trees ing their lands into a aes crop when the first and hardest toil was over, the existence of a thriving, wage- earning, and p roduce consum- ing would in "thei nee, aa ment of our wooded regions is worth a. slight. jpcreest,_shoald such. ever occur, in 'the 'cosi-of stoves: , ~~ "SRJANOS. ras must very | 924 Decorations, the nS sythpathy is not for 'O'Brien 01 or the injured--it-is simply votes the Globe is working for! 1t is a well_known fact that the Globe knew there would the signs and sym of | ra! dratt riots, when Bebe' In to-day's Trwes we devote a large space to William O'Brien, and his Cana- dian experience, and we think we are justified in doing so, as O'Brien has created considerable talk and diversion throughout Ontario during the past ten days. He has done no good to Ireland oer to Cansda but he has done-a vast amount of harm to both. He has turned thousands of warm friends of Ireland in the past into enemies, and has made others indifferent and care less to anything connected with Home Rale or the Land League. He has injured Canada's good name in setting Protestants and Catholica by the cara, causing riotious demonstrations discredit- able to all parties having anything to do with them, Canada will soon roll from under the little cloud, but Ireland will have cause-te-curse the day that O'Brien refused to accept the advice of Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, Father Dowd, of Montreal, either and Messts. Curran, also + Costigan, Fraser, and vther prominent Irish Canadian Catholics. Their advice to him was to abandon his disturbance breeding mission to peaceful Canada ' eee Not Willing to Give it Up. ( From the Dee Moines, "Tews State Keguter } standing argument against wisdom of England's commercial policy im the ea- ample of ite own province of Can whidh main tective system von thrives greati - er it. It enforces a tarilY not only againat the Unite: Stites, but against 'nce it opted the protective policy ! able to do what it never could do be tore develop home industries and make manu- . Smith, editor , and one of the most intelligent and influential of Cana- diana, recently said when speaking of the depressing period in © rs before a tariff system was adopted ; " None o ee tich men --_ rink money in factories jor fear that the imeportatioes rae their Englial brethern across the ocean or by their Yankee com- = on the South, Sir John Mac- onald haa given us a permanent and fixed tariff schedule and the result is that manufacturing has picked ap money is in circulation and business is in crous condition throughout the entire déminion. ~ Bank of Montreal, which has a capital of $12, 2,000,000, tinds the current of money fl »wing steadily, which is always a sure sign of the healthy condition of business." With such a state of prosperit: it is not surprising that Canada shoull ink well of tts tariff and decide to stand by it. But - t it a that with such protection in the t mn told Fell be people eluded enough to want to ph the costly and demoralizing experiment of free trade which the mother country is holdine to its sorrow ! Helping Canadian Railroadx, a ne Register, Des Moines, Lowa.) was predicted hefore the Inter-State pisos bill became oa law, certain seme aha ep Anon erage service to an roads, as if the bill had been dra oan ts their ly. It seems ao little hard that a law ramed for the benefit of American com- merce, should be so construed in respects as to work direct] can interests, and in favor o has had the effect of driving business out of the United States and over Canadian 3. A recent issue of the San Francisco Journal of Commerce says : It has teen suggested for some time that the Canadian Pacific would on formidable roa, ara to our railroads under the Inter-State Commerce law. The time has at lest «, Yosterday the "Walla Walla," which has been long em- ployed in the coal trade between here and Seattle, went out with her first cargo of merchandise m atter. It consisted of 620,- at $7,850, , over the same pe cc will not be the last sh way, unless section 4 of the inte: State Commerce law is suspended as far as con- mts over the Central, 'North. . We may expect for the next two or three months many million of sugar and coffee, tea, salmon, wool, wis --o lumber to find their way East by the samc means. For all this diversion of trade over Can- O'BRIEN'S EXPERIENCE In| THE ORIEN RIOT IN | CANADA. are J | safety, -he turned. down May street. | stances eae not have been regarded | aaa very serious pag ae cgger gar ree ig =a city feared brickbats und shows tay ths feparte { = ' CHIE? OF POLICE Chester' "EXPLANATION ' THE VACTS TO THE MATOR, | -- | The following letter from Chief of Police | Grassett has heen published | Cuter Coxstance's Orrtwr, ' Toronto, May 20, LSsT In ke Attack Uron Ma. O'Raues | His W ---- W. H. Howland, Mayor | of Tor | Stx,- I have Nhe honor to fueniah you | with the following facts relative to what transpired on Weduesday evening connec ted with Mr. O'Brien, from which you will see that the Police Departinent is in no way to blame for not providing ade quate» protection on that occasion :-- From what appeared in the papers and through the cil at my a of a New York day marning, I was led to believe that it was Mr O'Brien's. tatentlon tu leave To ronty for the east the same evening. Ac- cordingly J gave directions to have the ecessary precautions taken to ensure hia rt departure from the hotel and railwa station. When it was found that both the outgoing trains had left the Union without - O'Brien, ticer in charge of the men, conélus ding that there was No FURTHER NEED of their services, sent them back to their divisions, Two men, however, were sta tioned at the hotel and a eant was in the immediate | neighbor ood, Mr. O'Brien in the vicinity, cheer while others ag na When the patrol sergeant saw that \ Mr. O'Brien in- tended taking a walk, he «strongly urged him not to venture out on foot as i nosafe to do so without a strong escort of This advice Mc. O'Brien did not the sergeant with the other two constables followed to render all the assistance in their power in case he should be attacked. It soon became ap parent that Mr O'Brien had chosen an ESTIMELY HOUR To WALK ABHUAL, and instead of retracing his steps to the hotel, which he could have reached in Here it was that wo few stones were thrown, and while the three policemen were endeavor ing to keep the crowd in cheek, Mr. O'Brien took to bis heels ami Hse till he reached Mr, Lalor's shop on Wellington atrect, through which he passed to the rear, eventually gaining bia hotel by the back premises, which he did within ten minutes from the time he started out. we mob continued to throw stones, and broke the windows of Mr, Lalor's shop, the DANANESS PREVENTING THE CONSIALILS from seeing who were the aggressors, Had the crowd really intended to lay violent hands upon Mr. O'Brien they could have done so without serious opposition, but such does not appear to bave been their purpose, and it is believed their object was to frighten him more than anything else, oneel Mr. O'Brien bad made good his c the crowd reaasembled in front of the otel and continned eheering an and sing. ing till about midnight, when they quietly dispersed. Such, in brief, is what occur red, so far as Mr, O'Brien was concerned. In conclusion i would say, if the gentle- men who esi hag at Police gn the Tues given any intimation a the aromas for Wednesday, an ample force of police would have attended to pro- tect him wherever ent. The statements that have -- in print as to the occurrences of ---- evening have been much exaggerated, a Iam afraid are calculated to give cane importance to what under ordinary circum. matics, thesgh it28 Tt ocn ee be regretted that Mr. O'Brien was not per- mitted to come and go without any inter- ference from the citizens of Toronto, who are usually so and law-abiding. I have = honor to be, sir, r obedient, servant, H. J. Graset1, €.C. hs MOBRBED AT KINGSTON, O'Brien has Another Lively Experience. THE AGITATOR SURROUNDED BY A GREAT CROWD AFTER HIS LECTURE, BUT AS SOON AS STONE THROWING BEGINS UE SEEKS SAFETY IN A FRIENDLY HOUSE--UNUURT, BUT GREATLY AGITATED. Kingstov, May O'Brien and Kilbride was cordial. There was some opposition, but only cheers for Lord Lansdowne the rendering of the National Anthem. A reception was ac- the visitors at the Burnett House, were about 500 O'Brien spoke for an hour. from a severe rib injury which was A RIOTOCS DEMONSTRATION. Vheri O'Brien came out of the Koller to- was 2th.--The arrival of | w @ Brien at Bamilten. A CAB CONTATSING THE AGITATOR POLLOW- ED BY AMON --SHOTS FIRED AND OLD EGGS THROWS, BUT O'RRIEN ESCAPE UNMUCR®, Hamilton, May 23.- There are khout one thousand people at the Grand Trask Railway depot this afternoon on the arrivat of the train bearing Wim. O'Brien and Kalbride to this city, When ho train arrived and the visitors made their appear- e they were gree with cheera, An udrew of welcome pool Presented on b-- ralf of the loval tt, i | O'Brien addressed tee pine from t ron cony of the hotel at which he is stay ing. e meeting in the Palace ot to- ent was a rather quiet affair A squad of po lice patroled the street in front uf the rink, and kept a crowd of1,500 e back, while a crowd of sintilar size Brig inside the building. Rerry, Orange- man spoke atrongly in favor "ot O'Brien, the Land League, and Home Rule. After the meeting a crowd purcued the cab containing Messrs. O'Brien and Kil- bride on ita wa: shots were fi stale eggs thrown, bat t the visitors suffered ne hurt were safely housed in their hotel ander police ps O'Brien leaves is even tion was ample =e § the proceedings gex- erally gene sn orderrly peas ae . Pho nix Park Informers. After the Phanix park trials and the subsequent execution of those-convicted of the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendi and Mr. Burke, ae agsinst - the informers ran so high that they were kept in prison to save their lives. The sovernment: cast about for means wheraby to get rid of such loathson t a and finally, with much secrecy and dis- gnise, pimuggied Kavanagh, Smith, Carey and ut of the country to various colonies. News has jost been received in Ireland of the fate of the four informers. Kavanagh, the carman, has bee ead sone time, He always drank hard, = after Je: aving Ireland went from bad woree, and finally sucr umbed al delirium tremens. Joe Smith, ho from working for the » Board of Works Nnd mak ing repairs in Dublin Castle, knew Mr. Burke, and. pointed him out to. the aasas. sins, in also dead. He died under much the same circumstances as Kavanagh. Peter Carey, the brother of the notorious James Carey, who was shot by O'Donnell, has done reMfiarkably well, and is now in prosperous circumstances in one of the colunies. He was, when in Dublin, al ways regarded as a sober, steady and clever artisan. Bob Farrell, the van driver, who first turned informer, is also hdcving well in another of the colonies. The cowardly instigatora of the ---- are all doing well. Several of in the British Parliament, and one of eis has recently hada lively time in Canada. ---------e The Alleged Poisoning Case Mis. RYCKMAN RELEASED FROM CUSTODY - NOTHING AGAINST HER. Acting on instructions from We Attar: ney-General's office, Toronto, Mrs, Ryck- has been under arrest for several wa tema jury, , Which 'met at Ar- a on y, returned a verdict in accordance with the facts guanenited by Dr. Ellis' analysis. The Sarnia Observer, refi to her discharge, is :--In regar e death of her ter-in-law in Virgi in ae thing a: heard from Virginia authorities, it is not nv -- they -- now move in the oma, Sar Wie e ing ten fee G eee seemed * Lt crowd then dispersing and further cronhie | is not anti- pated. THE AGITATOR INTERVIEW £D. O'Brien was seen at 11:30 o'clock, He house. ea be ° . 5 d a r - iG FF ip i it Pleads bg iB cbt ar on sented. a. horrible af sa. wena. foaled Geek a oped had to be cut open in order relief. One authority 5 Ly 3. Fp} i ES in the z k Back River, tit bad taken place i i ef ia q