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f Referring to the Mennonite settle- ment in Manitoba, the Ottawa Citizen points out wherein their frugality, industry and integrity have been hap- pily shown. The Dominion Govern ment advanced the sum of $96,400 in 1874 for the settlement of a body of this people, refugees from Russia, in Manitoba. Every cent of this amount, gather with the interest, has now een rrepaid,-a gratifying example of a nancial obligation being fulfilled, even hough the obligee was a Government. _ oreover, the Mennonites are well ontent with their new home in the anadian Northwest, and are grad- ually inducing their brethren from the eighboring States of the American nion to migrate northwards. tho Ls he does not impair the value and sff'1ciency of the road. He has dischar- ked 380 men whose services were not 'equived. Of course in conducting this n a careful and economical mannex Sir. Haggart is but discharging the luty he has sworn to perform, but so instead of having Honor to whom honor is due. If Hon Mr. Haggart's estimate be cox-- 'ect, that this year he expects the re~ :eipts of the Intercolonial Rail way to nuance the expenditure, he will de- :erve unstinted commendation so long ifbeen years. fsoyt, I. C. R. has been TUI in the interests of the Tory party The Dominion Parliament after 'short and uneventful session was I rogued last Saturday. During the i. afternoon Sir Oliver Mowat was plesented with a magmifi- cent oil painting of himself executed by Mr. Harris of Montreal. The formal opening of the new par- liament buildings took place on Tues., day when the Legislature assembled for the first time to do business in the mvep1ifhsent structure erected in the Queen's Park. The speech from the throne, which is too long for insertion in this issue, congratulated the Legis- lature upon the increasing interest taken in agriculture and upon the appreciation of the efforts made to increase the productiveness of farming and dairying. A measure will be introduced tor the better protection of children from criminal and dangerous associations. It was also announced that bills would be brought in to establish a national park and to deal with tl- e qu' stion of drainage. msirtess-like The publisher of the CHRONICLE requests the prompt settlement of all accounts due this office for job- ing, advertising and subscriptions. The money is needed to meet maturing bills within the next few days. Subscribers for the current year will find it to their advantage to carefully examine the label on their paper and if not marked well in advance to save fifty cents by remitting at once. An Expanatiorr- 'sale-M rs. C. Oaks. r"t'hrle-Fred Donald. Local Notiee-S.K.C. Tukrlirt--Dr. Pierce. Public Notiep--B. Device, 1fillirtery---C, Steuernazvl. Local Notice-Chas. Clurhc. Local Notiees-Lrson Snyder. ' Dress Goodg-Boehmer Al Co. Renovation sale-Holler-t I, Co. Clearing Sale-Geo. Hagenpflug. A "Sunlight" PiGr--sunFeht Snap Co. The Montreal Witnesstohn Dougnll PARLIAMEN T PROROGUED THURSDAY, AI‘RIL (rrri., H93 New Advertisements this week & Son. - Why do so many people wear ghusses-- J. H. Laudreth. mama (0roniah. EDI TORIAL NOTES. Ontario Legislature, Ming been managed on principles. and this is the NOTICE. --Huber's, Berlin is the best place tohave your photographic work done. He keeps himself posted in all the latest points of the photographic art. His studio will be open on Easter Monday. The subscribers of the Cmuasucra, cm have it and the Montreal DAILY WIrytss for $3.00, the CHRONICLE and the WEEKLY WrTNEss for $1.60 and the NORTHERN MESSENara with either of them for twenty- five cents extra. The Montreal Witness, which is to move into its own building next spring, will be by far the best equipped newspaperiu a niechunv ical point of view in Canada. Its immense Hoe quadruple machine wlll be capable of turning out (30130 eight-page or 30,000 twelve or sixteen-page papers an hour, print- ed complete on both Sides, out, pasted, and counted in piles of fifty. This will be one- third faster than any other press in Canada. In addition, its matter will be set; on a Mergenthaler Linotype, which gives a. new, clean face of type every issue, and its form will be compact and beautiful. The Wray KISS, although old and reliable, is up to the front in respect of enterprise, and its readers expect and are not satisfied with' anything but the best. The price of the DAILY WIT- mass is three dollars a year, of the WEEK LY WITNESS one dollar, and the NORTHERN LIBSENGER, published from the same house. is thirty cents. Agents wanted in every town, village and P. O. Specimen copies will be sent free to any of our readers, on appli- cation to the publishers, JOHN DOUGALL & SON, Montreal. The ministers Vic-r9 stationed as foL lows: Prmiding E der, D n. She-rk , Berlin and Woolwich, C. W. Bmkus; Dundee J. B. Bowman ; Part Elgin and Hanowr, R. A. Clark ; Shriglvy, to he supplied by Pre Elder; Cunning, G. Wane; Niagnru, J.llowe; Funlhill, J. A. Luann ; Bavhmn, to he supplied by Free. Elder. It was deeid- ed tn hold the ttFatt; Annual Conference at Sherkston, WEN-and Co., Ontario The Conieretree was largvly attended through“): by friends from far and near. All the sessinnn wax-H pleasunf, peaceful and full " in: list,. The timsticvd results, were quul tn, and some a good den] above IKSC)HH-r]r. The Ministerird As>ociwtinn was like- wise hold on Monday, in Cullnectlun with the C-mfere-nce with much inter- ttt und profit. The Kuhn}; pvt-ruched three times during the Uonfererie and an Mv'vndnv night in Berhu, mud Krru- cafe twice in Dundee, Mild S'thMlh night at Roseville, earh time to large audim.ces lbw. C. w. Ruckus likewise preHehed on Sabin-uh night. to the Methodist Congregation 1n Wash ington. The Ontariu United Brethren Annual Cut-fwrence, mnwum in New Dundee, on Friday morning the 31st of March, Mid clam-d its setslulls isn More day the 3rd of April Bishop Burnaby of Mich presided. Dr. U. H. Kiraeofe of J)rrastrm, Ohio, Ccrrespondrrg Sscx‘utary of the mis- sionAry sociMrr, was also praxent, and contributed much to the 1lstertttsc of the Corderence. Po) Jaw No. 135 to grant certain rights and ft-anchises to the b'erhn and Waterloo street railway was given its three readings and titrxlly pass-9d. The Council then adjourned. A request from Mr. Chas Stark for the Use of the Town Hal} for an etlter. tainnwm for the Aucient()vdetof UU', ted Worktreu was grnulr-d. A motion wns basa‘vd to exempt the Dominion Emhrmdery Company ot T. - mum from taxation for a. period of hm years in the (wantof their moving their factory to Waterloo. The Import was: "dvd. The cummitrw on lihreand Weter "To trd that they lmd inspected the mritrity " rhe coluil luuxl‘suud found Jem in fairly Mood order, and recom- nwmh-d Hunt the system he continued until the contract with the. Waterloo Gus Gunman) s'xpires. The committee also I'comun MIMI than the Cuunml pur- vhase- for the tive depurum-Am, 12 coals, 12 caps, and 18 pr. of mits. The report was on motion rr‘ferred to the Town Property Cummitlee. $156 70, Mr. T. M Bu/r, ”Hunger of thr, Berlin and VVutPrloo erH-L Haiiwu) ()mnpmuy presented a petition praying the Council to uva tlm Gnmpwny coll sent and antlmmty by hy-law to t'recc poles and string when within Um municipaliry for Hm rlistrahrrritm of electricity fur purpuma oflislst, llud and power. 1% Prmesent.--The Ileeve in the chi-, the Deputy Reeve and Messrs. Altr, mnm, liesyelvr. Kaufman, Div‘er Sup gist, Ritzer, Davey, Hogg, Kumpf and DuPring. The minutes of the preceding sessim were veurl and adopted. sole cause of the immense deficits in the past. It is to be hoped that Mr. Haggart will continue to conduct his departure in the way in which he has begun. But it is doubtful if he willCbe able to resist the pressure that will assuredly be brought to bear at the next election to make this road once more a. political lever [Council Chamher, {April 3rd, 1803 The council met this evening pursu ant to adjournment The Montreal Will-(us. TOWN COUNCIL. U. B. Tortrerreare. It might help some farmers. Some farmers are borrowers. But some far- mers are lenders. It would injure them certainly, for they would be taxed with the ut1profieablet1ess of their share of the Government loaning business, while the productive or earning power of their own savings would be reduced. It would help those now under mortg- age, by enabling them to reduce thean- nual iuterest charge under which they labor. It would damage the business of banks, insurance companies and other great monetary institutions, through which capital is now distribu, butecl in natural ehehnels, and it might even precipitate a grave finan, cial crisis, in as much as having taken so gram e a step as to interfere with the natural price of credit in regard to one half of the community, it would be hard to say what such a Government 'rnuuv-1s you have followed my thought thus far, you will be ready to agree with me that a liberal use of the Government printing press in making more circulating medium would not help the farmer (m the laborer or any other honest man, nor the community as a whole. That being granted, we turn to the question of interest. Would it help the farmer if the country at large borrowed money in England and lent it to farmers at lower rates than are present current 1 V SEcosD,--A few thoughts on money. Money is t'ee measure of value ft r ex- change purposes. It is the counters we use to tally with. When a farmer borrows $1,000 he really does not want that money as so many gold pieces of a certain weight. He wants and he borrows goods, that is to say, he bor- rows the power to buy a definite quan- tity of goods of whatever kind he may require. It may be another farm, it may be a barn built or to be built, no matter what, it is goods, things of come sort or many sorts he really bor rows. Now some people think money is scarce but that is not so. There is plen- ty of it in the country. Anybody can get piles of it who has goods to ex- change for it. Those who think it is scarce imagine that the Government might greatly help things by making more of it. They could print more paper dollars easily enough, but that would not make the goods requiring a day's labor to produce any easier got. If there were twice as many paper dol- lors afloat in the land, the result often hours cord wood chopping would not not for that reason ue oo tainable in five hours. Money is simply the meas- ure of the values of things, just as a yard stick is the handy measure for cloth. Now, a law could be passed mak- ing the yard stick 18 inches long in- stead of 36, but a given web of cloth would not cover' any more backs on that account nor would a suit of clothes be ‘ any easier earned or paid for. FrRsr,-Government, has very little direct power to enrich & country as a. whole. The chief exception to this is the case of great public works of inani- fest utility and profit, such as irrigw tion canals in Indie, rendering great tracts of land otherwise waste, immedi- ately productive. But generally speak ing, Government interference with trade or commerce is never beneficial, unless it removes obstacles to trade, such as by bridging great rivers, Coli- structing tunnels or the like. Interfen ence with trade by making it, more difficult as by the N. P. for example is injurious to the. country as a whole, preventing the labor of the community from finding its most profitable chan- nels. It may and does enrich a few, but it does so at the cost of the many and the loss of the community as a whole is far greater than if all the In- ternational bridges were blown up and our finest line of Atlantic steamers were, lust at sea. The greatest boon Government can confer upon the com- munity, is to take its heavy tuning hand off, and let the people alone. The best thing the Dominion Government could do for the farmer would be to give us Free Trade with the world. The question is a very large one and involves so many considerations that I can only indicate my views without stopping to demonstrate them all, but I am satisfied they are correct and culpable of demonstrmiun. MY DEAR Srr.-In compliance with your request, I beg to submit a few thoughts on the question of whether it is advisable that the Provincial Gov- el'nineut, (01' any Government,) should borrow a large sum of money to lend to farmers at lower rates of interesi than the current- market mites. [Mr. John Tanner an old, highly in- telligent and impeded resident of this county, having requested Mr. Th v. Hilliard, Manager of the Dominh n Life Assurance Company, to give his views on the advisability of the Gov- ernment loaning money to farmers at a, low rate of interest, Mr. Hilliard has embodied his views in the following letter addressed to Mr Tanner. As the subject is at present a live issue we asked for, and received permis sion to publish the letter which will, no doubt, be read with interest by many of our subscribers, and may, perhaps, open the way for a full discussion of the subjeet.--EwTom), T CHEAP MONL Y Ft R FARMET S. Waterloo County Chronicle The gain then would huly belong, to the people in debt by way of mortgage when the new scheme came into opera- tion, but when the system was once es- tablished the whole burden upon the debtor class of farmers would be great- er than ever. For it must be, always remembered that though the price of farms would go up, their productive power Whether in crop or cash would It cannot give him cheap money in any beneficial sense. It cannot lower the rate of interest to do him any per- manent good. If it furnished an un- limited supply of money at half present rates, the net result would be a rise in the price of farms tempered by the ad, ditional burden of the gross debt upon the Province, which advance in price would compel the man wanting to buy a farm to make a bigger mortgage. right to tax the farmer who eeonornizes and gets ahead in order to bonus the shiftless or extravagant one. I need hardly add that to encourage industry by special bonuses is bad enongh, but it is still worse to do injustice to the in(lustri0us£for§the benefit of the idle. I close by repeating what I said at the beginning. The only thing the G'overn- ment can do for the farmer is to give him the freedom to buy what he wants wherever he can, and to sell the pro- duce of his toil wherever he can, tax- ing him as little as possible and im- peding him not at all. This proposal is open to the same fatal objection. It proposes in effect, to tax the community as a whole. in or- der to glve the result to a part of the community. That part may he ever' so worthy, but that is beside the issue. It cannot be right to compel one portion of the community to part with some of its earnings in order to eke out the earnings of another. It cannot he l We now glance for a moment at the question. Is this thing right I, If it is morally right it may be expedient, or it may not, but if it involves injustice or wrong, it cannot be expedient, and further argument is unnecessary. The final condemnation of the Protection theory is that is indefensible on moral grounds. It is the Government of the country taking £11m one man the pro- duee of his labor, or a part thereof and giving it to another. It cannot be defended on any ground on which the institution of slavery will not also find standing room. would do next, so no one's investment would be safe. The next effect would he to drive out of the country a great deal of the capital nowymployed in it, Only about a certain amount of capital for credit or loaning; purposes is needed in a given community at a given period That amount is freely supplied to it by the free play of competition, and the pate of interest oscillating easily to and for. about a certain point is an index to therelution betweensupply and demand. Disturb this by throwing 850,000,000 into the Province of Ou- tratio at a rate low enough to cause the speedy absorption of this amount, and and you displace almost an equal sum, which would flow out of the country in quest of better rates. The net re- sult would then be a very small addi, tion to the working capital of the coun- try obtained at the ccst of much de- rangement of business. C E3CfR/TCrliiiiiE and that we shall Imve the pleasure of presenting you with one of these articles in mind that we xlmlse no extra charges for goods on We have iesued a 5525.00 card for the use of yourself and family at our store. 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Her son in answer to a letter of condolence sent by an old friend in Waterloo, on March Blst writes: Your kind letter to mother was duly received but we are sorry to say that she was not able to learn its contents. Last Sunday morning she was in church although not well. Towards evening she took to bed with pneumonia and at once became very sick and kept failing so fast that yesterday afternoon a, little after four o'cloek she died. Since father died she has grieved very much and was anxious to follow him. They were both prepared to go. Before she became unconscious she expressed herself as ready and prepared to go. Her last words were, "Jetzt gehe ich in die Buh, in de 1tuh." To JOHN TANNER, Esp not rise a furthing. T rustin g you may see the reasonable, mess of these views. Yours truly, THos. HILLIARD. j'ieiii_i, t?sri'ii) C?“ fs 'tfjit,r,"f)"'),'l(,i'.il,jii(tiit" Death of Mrs. S. 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