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CHARLUTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH
The Irish Borough Franchise
(from the Toronto Mei. } The closéness of the division on. Mr.
| Meldon’s resolution for an extension of the
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borough franchise in Ireland—lost by only 134 against 126 votes—foreshadows, it may be hoped, the removal at no distant date of an anomoly as strange as it is irritating. The resolution was opposed by the Govern- ment, but we think mistakingly, for not only has experience shown that the Conser- vative cause and party have nothing to fear from an extension of the franchise; but also the House of Commons was only asked to place Ireland under a law precisely similar to that which prevails in other parts of the United Kingdom, Indeed, in the course of the debate the anomalous character of the existing state of things was brought out with great clearness. For ten years household suffrage has existed in English and Scotch boroughs, but in Irish boroughs the fran- chise is only possessed by occupying house- holders with a rating qualification above £4. Janadian readers who have some notion of the scale of rents and corresponding rates which prevail in England may naturally suppose that the class excluded from politic- al influence by the above limitation must be very small. Such an idea, however, is er- roneous. If we glance at the. proportion between the number of voters and the pop-
ulation—in certain. English and Trish bor- oughs—we find that while Birmingham,
with a population of 543,000, has a con- stituency of 61,000—whiech is practically household suffrage-—-the thirty-one Parlia- mentary boroughs in Lreland, with a popu- lation of 882,146, have only about 53,000 votes.. The same lesson is enforced still more strongly by a comparison between Leeds and Dublin. Whereas in Leeds at the last census the population was 259,212, against 267,717 in the Irish Capital, the electors of the Yorkshire borough were 49,- 300, or more than four times as many as those of Dublin, who numbered only 12,310.
Very dismal vaticinations are indulged in respecting the great democratic force which an assunilation of the Lrish to the English franchise would introduce into the electo- rate. But we think—setting aside the question of justice involved in different political qualifications for component parts of the same empire-—these are fallacious. The same predictions were freely hasarde1 respecting popular electoral power before Mr. Disraeli boldly ‘‘ dished the Whigs ” by giving household borough suffrage in Eng- land. It is altogether a mistake to suppose the ‘‘ working man,” or the lower stratum of the middle classes, is essentially revolu tionary or democratic. We, in Canada, know that whatever ‘ Liberalism,’ or ‘** Gritism” may see, or fail to see, it cer- tainly clearly perceives one truth ; thai it is easier’ and better for itself to talk about Re- form, Progress, and the like, than to put these things into practice. ‘* Liberalism” of the ‘‘ Grit’. complexion. certainly does not love the workingman. It may now and then (with gloves on) condescend to shake hands with him for a purpose, but, it’s end achieved, it is glad to pass over to the op- posite side, like the Pharisee and Levite, and have done with that vulgar and objec- tionable personage. Nominally “‘ progres- sive” and ‘* democratic,” there is really no more assumed enemy and hater of the popu- lar yaice in political affairs than your bla- tant Canadian ‘‘ Liberal,” and a poll of the entire adult Canadian population to-morrow
would be as fatal to it as house- hold suffrage, freely adopted by Mr. Disraeli, was to the kid-
glove ‘‘six-pound ratimg ” Liberalism of the English Whigs. Conservatism has not been destroyed, as was predicted, by the ‘‘Radical’” measure of modern Conserva- tives, and we doubt whether the result of franchise extension in Ireland would not equally disappoint the prophets of evil. The public at large in Great Britain will always support Pariament in refusing concession to any Irish demands which strike at the foundation of Imperial unity. But as we do not believe that if the ‘‘Grits’”—at pres- ent only tinkering for artful and selfish purposes with farmers’ son’s franchises and other ‘‘ pairty” devices—were to plunge into the ‘‘Liberal” franchise extension they profess to love, they would find the result favorable to their hold of the loaves and fishes, so. we reject the idea that there is any serious ground of apprehension either to Conservatism or anything else, from the assimilation of the Irish and English fran- chise) On the contrary, we hold that the surest way to remove hostile feeling in Ire- land, and to promote areal in place of a legislative union is to remove every solid grievance. And no way of establishing such a substantial union can be surer than the abolition of such an entirely indefen- sible discrepancy as that which now obtains between the laws governing the Parlia- itary representation of the two countries. eS
The Russian Nihilists.
There was an extraordinary scene in the course of the recent trial of the Nihilists m St. Petersburg. A prisoner named Miseh- kin complained of the merciless ill-usage and torture to which he had been forced to submit for two years. According to his statement, during the prolonged examina- tion, forty-three of the 180 prisoners had died from natural causes, twelve had com- mitted suicide, and twenty-eight had gone mad. He denounced the proceedings as a miserable farce. At these words the judge jumped up, and gave orders that the prisoner should be at once removed. An officer of the gendarmes promptly seized Mischkin, but at the same time two other
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tergee. rushed tothe aid of the latter, and a hand-to-hand fight ensued, in which | the officer had to contend against the three. | Mischkin continued’‘in a ‘louder key to rail against the court and the judges. At last a gag was forced into his month, and he, with his fellow-prisoners, was d
out of the chamber. sued im the court. Many women, some of
went into hysterics, and loud curses were heard. Eventually soldiers were called in and the room cleared.
Tue Daity EXAMINER.
MARCH’ 20, 1878.
‘DOMINION PARLIAMENT,
(From our Special Parliamentary Corres- pondent. )
Orrawa, March }4. RECIPROCITY.
That the issue of the next election will not -as Lintimated yesterday—hbe precisely that laid down by the leaders of the opposing par- ties is made more evident every day. In fact, the Toronto Globe ~par encellence the organ of she Grit Party—-has already thrown up the sponge. It has declined to meet Sir Johp McDonald on the grounds of his amendment. Referring to that amendment, the Globe says :
“It is called’a Protection resolution by cour- tesy ; but it was really nothing of the sort.”
And again (by a curious coincidence), on the very morning on which the division was taken, the Globe declares :
‘*Mr. Pope, the champion Free Trader, might safely vote for it, and boast himself, with perfeet consistency, to be the champion Free Trader still.” —Globe, March 13, 1878.
[ may remark, in passing, that the Govern ment, having made Sir John’s amendment a vote of ‘‘want of confidence,” Mr. Pope had no alternative but to show his ‘‘ confidence in the Government” by voting against Sir John’s amendment, or to show his ‘‘ want of confi dence” by voting for it. Mr. Pope has n6 confidence whatever in the Government, and therefore he had to vote as he did—-or else—o (a Blake—shirk the division,
To proceed, the position taken by the Globe is, I notiee, adopted by the Grit Press of On- tario. This fact, coupled with the other not less significant facts that every supporter of the Government who has spoken in Parlia- ment has taken the same position ; that Pat- terson, Norris, Jette, Workman and other true Grits have avowed themselves Protectionists on principle ; that Jones is notoriously in favor of Protection to sugar ; and that Laurier, Pel- letier, Laflamme (Ministers) are hardly yet off. of the Protectionist platform of the Parti Na~ tional—these facts are, I say, positive proof that the Grit Party, as a whole, will not face the square issue on the grounds selected by Sir John McDonald.
lt is equally clear that they will not—that they dare not—accept and defend the position taken by the Government and formulated by Mr. Cartwright. What does Mr. Cartwright mean? He means, if he means anything, to so adjust the tariff that any particular class, interest, or mdustry, shall receive an advan. tage through it, is to legally rob the le. Under the present tariff the shipbuilding in-- dustry receives an advantage to the extent of seventeen and a half per cent. of the cost of materials used in the construction of ships, Will supporters of the Government in the Maritime Provinces consent” that that advan- tage shall be taken away?’ If they do, they kill that industry as surely as they killed the sugar trade, Under the present tariff, the coal oil monopolists represented by the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior are ‘‘protected” to the extent of sixty per cent, ? Will those gentlemen consent to remove that Protection’? If they do, the coal oil monopo’ ‘ lists will certainly say to those gentleman, : ‘‘Never more he Ministers of ours.” ‘Under the present tariff nearly every industry in the country receives a measure of advan over the industries of other countries which trade with the Dominion. Will the Government carry out- Mr. Cartwright’s proposition, and levy an excise duty upon all home produe- tions equal in amount to the daty imposed up- on imported productions m order to neutral ize this advantage? If they do, they destroy the manufacturing interests of the whole coun- try. No; they may tax shipping, they ‘may levy a duty upon raw materials—which are now admitted duty free—in order to minimise, as far as possible, the advantage shipbuilders and manufacturers now possess.. They may work in the direction of their proposition. But they will not, they dare not, carry it out.
lf this be so, and if the (irits are afraid to atteck the position taken by Sir John Me- Donald—and.they have shown the white feather already--and if they dare not accept and defend the position taken by the Govern. ment, what is the ‘‘ trade issue’ in the ap- proaching contest? The Goverument has de- clared that Sir John McDonald’s amendu:ent was an ‘attack apon the hfe of the Govern- ment.” They made it a motion of want of confidence. Their must certainly be ‘* some- thing in it.” Surely they are not going merely to beat the air and make a noise! 1 am very much inclined to think that the contest witl hinge upon the means proposed by the Oppo- sition to bring about a renewal of the Treaty under which we enjoyed
RECIPROCAL FREE TRADE with the United States, Your readers wiil remember that, early in the session, the Government announced, in reply to a question, that they proposed to take no steps whatever towards a renewal of that Treaty. They are going to do nothing, and wait until the United States comes to them and asks for reciprocal trade relations with us. And this—so long as they have access so our ports--so long as our productions—our coal and farm produce is shut out of their markets—in other words so long as the policy of the McKenzie Government is
maintamed—they will never do. The Oppo- sition propose a policy which they believe will
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