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TRUTH BEFORE FAVOR." PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. 70L. ML, NO 63 FLESHERTOB, ONT., THURSDAY , OCTOBER 12, 18 98 NEW WATCHES W. H. THUBSTOff, tT0 . (I t * |l (I ,> I AND CLOCKS. A big ,t,.-k of i-LtiCKS i.. .te-an't deigns. SometLing new and beautiful. NEW SILVERWARE A Midsummer lay acd an Orderly Crowd. VIA tOiat THOMPSON. BOS . T. M. DALY, sift ADOLraB OAEO.X, AUD 5 CLAV WAL- PACI THB SPI-AUKS A moms OF lid aeUction t in *nd examine, whether yi* are pre- .y t ahiiw guodaaud quote pricea. WATCH RCPURINO, AS USUAL, A SPECIALTY. Armstrong Bros, LADIES an*l Gentlemen ! Get your spring supply D( BOOTS and SHOES from the undersigned. New gcxxls just imported from which to choose. A LARGE STOCK, A GOOD STOCK, A CHEAP STOCK. Be sure to call and examine. Custom work as usual done on :hort notice and in a neat manner. JOS. SMITH, Flesherton, Stoves ! Stoves ! f r S. r. cr n a. 2 S A d. The political demonstration ia Mark dale on Friday last was the finest ever held in East Grey. Not m!y was the turn, ut Urge, hut the attention paid tn various speakers was such aa to prove the intelligence of the. electors pnerat,and to show that they were willing and anxious to hear tbe public questions diacuraed by the gentlemen who hare immediate con- trol of affair*. Mwkdale had superseded ac.ftb.ing the bus heretofore undertaken in the way of display and mif bt have put to shame many a Uiyer place in that re- spect Arches, flags, nmttoea, bunting etc., were dutributed in Uvuh profusion from the station up main street to Dr. SptvnU's residence, where the speaking took pUct. giting the place tuch a hob- day appearance as has never -raced it on any previ'^u octasii n. |U was 12. 30 when tbe special train ar rived fn m Owen Sound, having on board Sir J.'hn Thompson, Hon. Clark Wallace, controller of custotna ; Run. T. M. Daly ; Sir Adolph Carol., p. stmasttusi.iral ; Mr. Maasot.,of Oweu Sound, and other*. A deputatXM from the Farmers' Inat itute wasted upo* the monsters before alight ing, akn members of the village council, who delivered the civic addressee, Tbe processii n up town was "oeto be long re membereO. Tbe Urge number of school *Wrrn nmrching under the able general- ship of Priucipal Glendinning waa a pleea- am feature of the occaniou. Five band* graced the prweeaaiwa with their prissiu Duiham, Mark dale, Flenherton, Dun dalk and Tbornbury. A luncheon provided at the residence of Dr. Spronle at which a large number of invited guwt tt down. Seating accommodation had beeu prov!<j ed on the Dr's. beautiful Uwn for abu 3000 people, and still there wre bun dreds who were fores* to stand. An idea may therefore be had of tbe tinmen.-) i her of people present. luncheon Sir. John Thompson. Sir Adolphe Caron. N Clatk Wallace and Hon. Mr. Daly delivered sddreaae. which were li toned to with much interest The chi-f interest of course centered in that of the premier, who was accorded moat respectful hearing while be d.alt in a matter!/, earnest, convincing manner With tbe various phases of our _ economy which are at present agitating tit* people. Sir John Tbo:npaon's intetiae earnsstmes and tery apparent tin.-rity were especially striking, and forcibly re- Stoves ! Stovos I Stoves ! .1 AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE. Raymond Sewing Machines, Speihgt Waggons, Plows, Etc. Consult jour interests by examining my stock, and making your selections therefrom . vealed themaolvea to the large ni.nit ei , .( Reformer* mho wire preeem in the ciowd. While the apvechea <.>f S r Advlphe and M. Clark Wallace were clever and rau-i ing, that of toe premier .s auiid and bwineat-like. We h. . apaee <iuly for a synopaia of hia *peh. Thia, however, contaUM the main pcii.ta aid givee in fairly full Bteaiture hia reply to orrlaiu queruts who wie itcLiux to get n.fi-r- wiatiou. Before Sir John began tn speak Mm McKarlai.d tend. rd hun a beautiful boH- vjuet ..f it.t>, thick Le gracefoily ac- cepted aa a token of the tcoud-will of the ladies of Blarkdnle. Sir John laid that the both PHI tie* wore a^rwd that a ion- aiJmble ivveune should le rated, and the only difference ltwm theeA waa a* to tin- method u. hieing that revenue. ' liw.Htiiucli" Mid he. "aa that taxation hat to be rui-ed, lh beat way to levy it 14 to pat it on tboee tiling* cvrain^ from fur- eu{U cvuntnet ahich Cai-aua 13 able to pimlucw at houio. ' A voicv- That is (*"'e^-ti> n Sir J->|in Th. nij . i. 'lhat it what our opponent* call protectimi. aii<l that ia the fva'ure of mcideutal i-i>-Uxtiou that e I are going to stand by, and tu put before > you as t'ua.uvw iuu aa the bast policy for thia country. Our opponenU declare t v at inasmuch t* that pruterti >n ia a rub- bery and a fraud their policy would be the very reverse. There must be no ele- ment of protection in their tariff. Our opponents ssy tliat they are going to strike out the element of protection in the tariff, a pr. tecti.,a given yoe., firmer*, in the cities and towna of Canada for your prodocm. The proposal to put the tanff no articles which you coneume m you? honm which we do not produce ia thit country, tea, coftW, togar or rice, would put the burdens of the taxation ..f tbe tariff directly up.* ywu. to* ^p^ every person who consumes these thing*; which are prac'icslly th necesaariea of, life ia this countrv. The proposal of . >ur opf oneota is tim- ply that all those products of the farm which can be wrougU from tbe United State* shall come mto th.s country free of duty, because anything given to yon in the way of protection for your farm pro- j ducts is a sinful thing, a fraud, and like- wise a robbery. Sir John, after entering rrto soate de- ! tails uf tbe question, wound ap hia argu- ment agaiuet the Liberal policy by saying that it was a policy of protection in fav, r of thr. United State* producer, beoause it would give the benefit ., the taxation of this country as a boniu to the fanners and producers of that country. He seated [bat if it could be shown by the tariff nquiry that there was urer protection, UM! thst inanafactiircrs were able to rhanre the people m <re than they oauU get the same goods for in the United States, the* that protection would have to be reduced aa a matter of course, snd s* a matter of justice, to ths who con- sumed these nanufactared articles. In dMcvseiug the Manitoba school ques- tion, Sir John said that if the time came when the Govetnment had to deal with that question, it would be dealt with in trict accordance with the constitution. and with regard to the interests sod rights of every dam in the country. Then be addressed these vgnificant w >rds : "My >wn impress! n is that the time will not come, and that tbe question will re- ceive its sett lenient according to the terms >f the constitution by a distinct submia- tion to the constitution by those in the Province of Manitoba who primarily have 'be right and power to deal with it fairly themselves under that cooatitntion, m stead of its being 'hrust into the nationa polititics of the country." When Sir John had concluded a gentle- man in the audience asked this question "Did you consider the farming isil when you selected your Cabinet t "This gentleman asks me," said Sir Johu.m reply,' to answer whether I xm 1 tbe farming interest in selecting myCalin.t. The policy of the Govern- ment from the first, from the start, haa been in tbe interest of the farmer. It was in auawr to the request of a hundred thousand farmers who were Grangers that the piotective duties that I have spoken uf were put on, snd among those hundred housaiul fanner* you could pick out 30, Reform farmers, i' yo i like, who said hat they were profoundly dissatisfied with the rction of their own Govern iu (evArd to the farmer, and desired hau)<e. It *a* because the farmers were i that our policy was the right ike hat tha Liberal party were put oat of by the tremendous cyclone which truck them in 187& The gentleman wlio vked me that question had better wait ,-i little while ai>d he will hear from me wore of the Government n U> their olu-v iii regard to the farwiers of thia mutry.and th mierret that the Govera- neut take in the fanners. You will hear fr in Mr. Clarke Wallace, who is as much i. .[iaiM'd with the farmr s interests, I venture to say, aa that gentleman who put that qaistiaa to m*. A voice A good deal better. 8ir John A good deal better. A > <-.-v H has forgotten more. John And he will show yt>u he -member* a good deal. W* have put him in th Department of C<a*tome asui when those gr*Umn talk about tbe customs tariff bearing upon the farmer, you wi.'l find thai we have put in charg- of the customs the friend of the farmer. Y..U will find Mr. Daly, . lawyer, and therefore mv frind thinks no fnen agriculture, but who is sent to Parliament by the fanning Province par exccUeMe of the Dominiosi of Canada. My friend would like to make a point about the Minister of Ajrriculrure nut being a farm- er. He has been more or lees o-cnected with toe farming inter set for many jean P*st He i, the political head ol the De- partment of Agriculture, but he ha* n.-t only the interest of agriculture under hn charge, but all the patrnta. coprnghta and statixtics of the country under his :ontrol, and it ia a point upon which no or intelligent man can make ua that we have appointed cilman ef the Province of V*osc to preside over the political ae? m,niatrati, of that department His rork and the work of his department in * eapehnuntal farms, in the -vnlsl nd4%farma,ui the mstrm.. Prof. Robert^ whom h. * ending out air through the country t. pe hints to the farmer which are worth olid gold to the., and his work m nte- Tidi.g for y,. r exhibits at the augoi Sctenl show io Chicag-s where Canada haa *****& a snecea. that makes her the envweftheavitaml world, aud success, above all thwja, iu the agncultural pro' o^Itrjlll.!" * WU ^ > *"* ** * f aeeve toe aueers of anv as renarda hie ability. " C. J. LEITCH, Merchant Tailor, WHICH MEANS THE BIST- Oonse^uenUy Uw chcapeci B-lter flaking. ni TRAVELLING -*, DAIRY FROM THB 8ftf*wV9! '" >^k BW TW- if W^ ~ te"* "" ** *-"5-S SOUTH UJUT. Dorweea slarkda*. ."^".".""""; OUnJg. tnwasklB bail Durham * s.na ..Hoa. " * ** s Oimi.aDd brine ammplw of UM milk r . a kj your oow at two cupful* W eaab - out- rulof ta*niD|r'* milk ami tb --inii amooui of rnorulng milk adilwl thereto. ThM -. .,!,.! will b* l*stJ to fl..J ot t>>, quantity ol Huitor Pat in tk*m. awl th '.u 'k n pnvatnljt to you In tin* w* ? ,., u ,,,, r oo<n an wurth Com* and w ik 8AB(X>CE TBSTBR ,-. ration, afad kav* ft* workioc cxplaiad v> T^.t. Mas* a tsveial *ffor to come. V v > . hint* on Baktar Making Mcli will b wotU