Liberal - Conservative © Candidates, FOR BELFAST: 4. A. MeLean, Esquire.

FOR TIGNiSH: Captain Frank Gallant.

THE DAILY EXAMINER.

PEBRUARY 27.

883.

Local Legislation.

A prRociamation in the Royal Gazette, issued this afternoon, calls upon members of the Local despatch of 22nd day of March.

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Opinion on the Fishery Question.

Legislature to ‘‘ meet for

business ” on Thursday, the

Ir is interesting to note the differences

of opinion which exist respecting the

Fishery Treaty. The Toronto Mail, Toronto Globe, Montreal Herald, Halifax Chronicle and other equally influential

‘** complete give away "on the part of Canada. In the words of the Montree! Herald, they contend

journals maintain that it is a

that the rights, possessions and interests of Canada are abandoned to the United States. Equally inf'uential journals in the United against it,

States are not less outspoken

from their point of view. Thus, the

Boston Advertizer says :

‘‘In short, the treaty as it stands is so far short of what it should have been that it has no chance of confirmation by an American senate.

Aud the Boston

the following straim

Journal denounces it in

vard ipperirance or the admtnis-

‘* Under « specious out fairness and mutua! concessio 1S, : tration has surrendered the chief points which our fishermen contendei for. * , The chief rights which the treaty seems unequivo eally and unconditionally to secure to the New England Fishermen—that vessels in distress may unload, tranship or sell their cargoes in Canadian ports, and that vessels in death among the crews or lack of supplies may ship men or buy provisions enough to en- able them to reach a home port in safety with out absolute risk of starvation—are not commercial rights, but simply what is due to ordinary humanity. There are rights which, if refused by Pacific savages to civili- zed seamen driven to their waters through stress of weather, would be deemed sufficient to call for the chastisinz of the inhospitable barbarians by the shot and shell ofa fleet of men-of-war. Yet the administration, through its negotiators, appears to have assumed that Canada must be recompensed for allowing the exercise of these rights of common humanity.

? The President and his advisers have surrendered the most important points to Mr. Chamberlain and the Canadians, and what they have received in return is either inconsequential in valu, or that which was undeniably ours by the right of simple human- ity. If this does not constitute a decisive defeat, it is because there is no such thing known to diplomacy.”

The New York Tribune says that Senator Bayard has made a treasonable compromise, aud that Canada has been only granted new facilities for operating against American fishermen.

The Bangor Whig says that the treaty provides that United States fishermen must be either taxed out of existence by license duties, for enjoying privileges which are rightfully theirs, or have their market turn- ed over to Cunada.

In the Gloucester merchants’ exchange as reported by associated press, ‘‘ all avowed that the rights of the fishermen had been sacrificed to the interests of Canada.” It is proposed to call a public meeting to pro- test against the ratification of the treaty, which it appears ‘* destroys the last right of the American fishermen.”

A Washington despatch to the Boston Herald reports that :

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‘The New England senators will control the action of the senate on the fisheries treaty aud the New England senators are opposed to it, so it will not be ratified. There will be a hot, and perhaps a lony fight over it, but the defeat of the treaty wiil be the vutcome of it. This is the substance of what the New England men say about it to-night. They say they are disappointed in it.”

That the treaty may be mutually advan- tageous is quite possible; but how it can at once surrender *‘ the rights, possessions and interests of Canada,” and ‘** sacrifice the interests of the American fishermen’

is the puzzle.

case of

As the Treaty must be voted for by two-’ thirds of the Senate before it can be rati- fied, it seems probable that the efforts of the

Commissioners will, after all, have been in vain. -_e--_—-—

A Frank Avowal.

THERE are some Commercial Unionists in the United States. The New York Star, which voices their opinions, says:

‘* We should not shut our eyes to the fact that the ambitions of Canadian statesmen are méking the Dominion a rival of the United States,

** She is reaching out, not only for a share cf the transcontinental traffic, but for the con- trol of it. She proposes to establish steamsnip lines on the Pasitic, and to compete for the commerve of Japan and China.

“* All of this is very interesting. It may be described as a brilliant line of policy, but it is a dangerous one. We are a pavific people; but perhaps our good nature has been developed by our surruundivgs. How long the good na- ture of tha country will Last when there is an active rival upon our Northern frontier the fu- ture alone can show. But there is but one way to establish a permanent peace all over this continent, and that is by placing it under the control of one endightened and liberal Govern- ment.”

this is frank. We need not remain any

ionger in doubt as to the motives which in-

fluence the Commercial Unionists. It is to be noted that the Hon. Hamilton Fish, late Secretary of State, in a recent inter-

THE DAI

Combines in the States.

PuBLic opinion in the States seems to. have taken alarm at the number and influence of the trade ‘‘combines "that have lately been effected there. Harper's | Weekly of last week has a eartoon in which | it appears that the good ship ‘* Competi- tion” has been destroyed and its defenders drowned, while the pirate ‘* Monopoly ”’ s rides tricmphantly on the sea of American commerce ; and the Portland Transcript SAYS :

‘The spirit of monopoly is abroad in the land. It grasps at the control of all the

natural products, all the manufactures, all the means of transportation of the country,

Manitou Springs.

It would store up and dole out all the bonntices of nature and limit the productive power of the people It destroys that healthy | competition which has been said to be the life of business. Its latest development is in the form of ‘trusts.’ by which all the manufactur: ers of any given article are made to enter into | a combination whereby the lesser concerns agree to abandon production or not to exceed limit. They turn over their busi- ness, their real estate, their capital, to a syndicate, which controls production and regulates prices, and in return guarantees each concern, whether producing or not, a certain pel cent. interest on its capital,

‘* The excuse of the smaller concerns for entering into these combinacions is that it is a matter of life and death among them. Competition has been so that it has forced pri es below.a living rate. They must either combine or go out of busizess with a loss of capital invested. But this is not the result of healthy competition bat rather of the monopolistic spirit of some one or two large concerns Which have undertaken to crowd out amaller competitors for the purpose ef con- trolling prices. It is monopoly pure and sim- ple.

Prices having thus, of sec purpose, been forced below a living rate, the *‘ trust,” it is urged, is resorted to only as a means of se- curing fair prices. But that is never the object of a monopoly. It grasps at all it can get. What guarantee have the public that after competition has been cut off, after production has been concentrated ina few hands, after the power has been granted of controlling the prices of raw material enter ing into the produet—what guarantee have they that the ‘‘ trust” will be content with fair prices? None whatever. On the contrary, all expe:ience shows that the power to contro! production will be used to increase

a certain

prices to the highest point endurable. The pretest eG

public is wholly at the merey of the mono- polists.

‘**Such combinations are believed by the best legal authorities to be unlawful. They are net for the public advantage, which is the true basis of all corporative privileges. They are in the nature of forestalling, engrossing, which have in all countries been forbidden by law. They are hele te be null and void, and those who enter into them are guilty of crimi- nal combination. Their effects are already seen in the growing of large numbers of work- men out of employ, in concentratin production in one or two localities, an enabling the ‘trusts’ to buy raw material at their own price, to the injury of the producer, who has a right to a competitive price in an open market.

** What is the relief to be looked for? Con- gress is investigating the matter and may at- tempt some legislation to control or suppress such combinations. But this cannot be count- edon. It more often legislates in behalf of monopoly than againsc it. The power of con- centrated capital to control legislation is. very great. Nothing but the aroused attention of the great mass of the people can saccessfully oppose it. Eternal vigilance is the price of honest legislation as well as of liberty. The growth of monopoly is calculated to increase the discontent of the laboring people, and bring about that conflict of classes so des- tructive of the best interests of all. A voice may go forth from the people which even the mvnopo lists will be forced to heed.”

The Maine Liquor Law.

RECOLLECTIONS OF HON, NEAL DOW. Tue Hou. Neal Dow writes to the In- dependent of New York and says :~-

**Beiore the adoption here in 1851 of the policy of prohibitios, the liquor traffic was everywhere in the State wholesalé and _ retail. There was no village so small, no rural neigh- borhood +o remote and insignificant that the rumseller did not find it and establish a rum- grocery there. Everywhere upen the lines of our highways throughout the State, there were roadside rumshops. Ina great many places there were wells and pumps and water- ing troughs for tlie refreshment of cattle, and there was sure to be near it a shanty where rum was kept for travellers. Many and many a time I have seen ‘the rum- seller fetch out to the wagon or ¢ar- riage or equestrian, the inevitable glass of rum, whiie the oxen or horses were taking water. The women and childrén would share in the liquor whatever it was. There were many distilleries in the state in those days, converting molasses into rum, potatoes into whisky and cider into brandy, called * apple- jack." Now thereis not a distillery or a brewery in the state, and nowhere within its territory will the traveler see any sign or other indication of liquor-selling. In more than three-fourths of our territory containing far more than three-fourths of our population the grog-shop is practically unknown, so that an entire generation has grown up there never having seen one.

In proportion to population, Maine’s share of the national drink-hill would be now about thirteen million dollars, but one million will more than cover the cost of all the liquor smuggled into the state and sold in violation of law, We save annually more than twelve million dollars directly, end an equal sum in- directly as the result of prohibition, which, buat for the Maine Law, would be spent, lost and wasced in drink. In those days, Maine was said to be the poorest State in the Union, but now itis one of the most prosperous, Signs of unthrift and Pee were seen everywhere in neglected, shabby honses, barns, farms, schoolhouses, meeting-houses, but now such indications of the saloon and the drink habit fare’ .seen nowhere. John Bright said: ‘If the evils a to the commu- nity from intemperance could be put away, England could not be recognized as the same country.’ Precisely that has happened to Maine. Some time since a stranger sat by my side in a railway car onour way to Boston. He knew me and said; ‘I am a native of Maine. 1wenty-five years ago I went to Minnesoti, where I now live. Iam home now in M:i.e for the first time, and tle change is so great in everything I sec, that | did nt recognize it as thesame. No more tumble-down houses with old hats and rags in the win lows instead of glass, no more dilapi- dated barns and shabby cattle, no more miserable school-houses and meeting-houses Evervthing now is neat aud in gvod repair in-

| day was fine

LY EXAMINER - - -_—

FINE SCENERY AND GLORIOUS WEATHER.

We pubiish to-day the following extract from a letter written January 30th, 1888, received by a friend from L. A. Norton, Esq., who is spending the winter at’ Muni- tou Springs, Colorado, for the benefit of his health :— eI

‘*The weather is simply glorious. For the past fortnight we have had unbroken sunshine with warm winds, making perfect summer weather—so warm at times that the shade is grateful. There is not a sign of winter anywhere, and the cattle and donkeys are out over the hills. We expect some cold ‘weather yet, but it will only be light. Of course veyetation will not start for two months-yet, but after that the mountains near here will be covered with wild flowers, very beautiful, I All nature is beautiful—man alone Yesterday was Sunday, and as the Manitou was thronged with visitors trom the adjacent towns. so many that at times it was difticult te get a» chanee todrink at the Springs. It did not seem like Sunday at all From morning till night, teams. heavily loaded, some with lumber, others with furniture, ete., were passing through the town, and nearly all the stores were open in the forenoon. * * ~* * J ‘got my poty and went for a very pleasant hour's ride up Eaglishman’s Canyon—a very pretty ride between huge mountains. nicely wooded and a fine stream coming down the valley. One day last week I went to the Garden of the Gods—you would .have to be there to know anythingabout it. About three miles from Manitou I entered a plain rising tothe east, and covered with grass, Scattered ‘all over this are numbers of mest remarkably- shaped rocks, as if water flowing past them in some past age had washed away their sur- roundings and left them standing around in all shapes and sizes. ‘Tourists, in imagination make all sorts of aninials vut of them, bears, lions, cows, and indeed a whole-menagerie. But though the shapes are grotesque, I failed to conjure up any of the beasts. On the east- ern side, and at the summit of the slope, is the gateway, which is truly wonderful. Rising immediately from the grass are two thin, smooth spars of red sand reck, one on either side, their height is about 350 feet, and they rua back quite a distance on either side forming a thin, high wall all along the east side of the garden.- The gateway or opening is about fifty feet wide. these cliffs are numerons round holes—the homes of owls, where they sleep nearly a] day. I said these spurs of rock were san‘l- stone, It is very like our rocks at home. Just as you get through the gateway you meet with several high, sharp spurs of gyp- sum. The valley beyond is of rich land, and contains a number of ranches, on some of which I would like to spend the summer.. 1 wish you had been with me during my visit to the garden, for I cannot go into the ecstacies of some over these rogks and mountains. I want the green fields and sparkling rivers of home.

am told. mars it.

Feprvary Ist.

Another day as fime as mortal could wish for. 1 am sittingon one of the seats by the trail to the Iron Spring. A_ pretty stream 1urs past in front, the mountains shelter me from the north and the sua is shining straight down. I gota darkey to cut my hair this morning. He only charged .35 -cents, Wouldn't that reconcile a man to baldriess?

‘Lhe pony and I went for a canter yesterday evening, — :

And * of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or.sang in rhyme,”

that one surpassed them—there’s a big green- tailed fly skipping around and bofhering me— 1 wont try to describe the scenes of yesterday; it would only be abusing them. They are building a carriage read from’ ‘Walliams’ Canyon across a spur of the mountains north of Manitou and oyt to the plains: on the east. The, eastern part and that along the top of the mountains is finished, but they have only got part way up the side of the Canyon. Up there I started. It was an awiul climb, for the sides of the Canyon are - almost perpendicular; but when I reached the top the view was wonderful. On the right was the Canyon deep and narrow, out of which I had just climbed, and to the left was the Garden of the Gods, and two good sized towns; also the-vast plain as far as the eye could see. Just before me was a prétty park all smooth and covered over with strongly gnarled and stunted cedar, while apparently just below me lay Maniton with its huge hotels looking like dolls houses, Away beyond was Colo- rado Springs. In the distance I saw the train of the Midland Railway running off up to Denver, and it reminded me of a cricket run- ning through the grass. Man's work Jouks so puny when compared with those of Him ‘who built the hiils,’”

rt Ae: + ee + Proposed Line from Ameriea to China aud Russia.

Certain capitalists and railway magnates in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago have been looking very wise and, mysterious for the last year or two. Their stupendous scheme has at length been discovered. It is nothing more or less than a railway from the twin cities via Bismarck, British. Col- umbia and Alaska, to Pekin, China,and Irkutsk, i: the Russian empire. The Miune- apolis and Pacific, the Aberdeen, Bismarck, and Northwestern and the Canadian Pacitic will form the line to Victoria, B. C., thence the road will be built to Cape Prince of Wales on Behring strait, a distance of 1100 miles. This body of water separating the American continent from Asia is only 35 miles wide, ‘and midway is’ dotted with is- lands. The water is only 20 to 25 fathoms deep and ean ultimately be bridged» On the opposite side in Asia is East Cape, whence a road will be constructed to Pekin, China, and to Irkutsk, Russia, and other points in the Chinese and Russian empires.

A readkis already being constructed by the Russian government to Irkutsk, and it is expected that this will be extended to form a juncture with the line from Kast Cape to Pekin, abovt 1600 miles from the straits. The distance between Cape Prince of Wales and Pekin is but little over 1600 miles, making.the whole route froin St.

‘Paul and Minneapolis to Pekin 5,169-miles;

The first trains are expected to run through in 10 days, but when the inevitable limited express.is put on, the passenger who leaves St Paul on Monday will take his breakfast in Pekin on Saturday morning and his sup- per on Sunday evening in Hong Kong. -

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Apvice To Morirers.— Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should always be used when children are cutting teeth. It relieves the little sufferer at once; it produces natural ‘yuict sleep by relieving the “child from pain; and the little cherub awakes as “bright asa bution.” ‘It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all poi regulates the Lowels, and is the best

- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 37, 1888,

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Big Railway Schemes. THE CANADIAN SCHEME Bell, who has bee east in the interests of the Ontaria, Manitoba and Western railway, says ali arrangements have been completed to put the scheme in effect. The company will ask the Do- minion Government te guarantee 4 per cent. on seven and a_ half millions, Manitoba ov feur millions, and Ontario on fifteen millions of dollars. Financial arrangements have been made to deposit with the Government suflicient stock to pay the interest for five years, on account guaranteed, after that the road will pay itself. A guarantee will be asked for twenty-tive years. The scheme is to run from Port Arthur tothe Lake of the Woods. A short branch will run to meet the proposed line from Bismark to Hallock m Minesota, which is to be built next summer. The line will also .connect with Tron range line from Duluth. From the Lake of the Woods, the main line will run straight to Winnipeg and thence taking a southern route to the Pertage. Crossing the river there it will go on west of Car- berry, touch at Brandon, and will continue to Moosomin, From Winnipeg a branch- will be run to Morris and two branches midway between the C. P. R. branch lines rnnning to the Souris country. The scheme is to purchase from the Manitoba Government the Red River Valley road, complete it and operate it in connection with the Northern Pacific.

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Major

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POLITIGAL MEETINGS

WILL BE HELD AS FOLLOWS:

PiSQUID ROAD.—On Monday, the 5th March, uw, 7 o clock, p. m.

_ALBERRY PLAINS SCH)OLHOUSE, on Tuesday, 6a March, at 2 o’cluck, p. m.

UIGG HALL.—On Tuesday, the same day, at 7 o'cluck, p. m.

ORWELL COVE SCHOOLHOUSE, on Wed- nesday, 7th March, at 2 o’ciock, p. m.

CaINA PUINT.—At Schoolhouse, ‘‘G]eason’s,” same day, &t 7 o'clock, p. m.

ELDON HALL.—On Friday, the 9th March, at 7 o’viock, p.m,

MONTAGUE WEST SCHOOLH®USE. on Saturday, 10th March, at 7 o'clock, p. m.

MURRAY HARBOR ROAD,—At Grandview Schoolhouse, on Monday, I2th March, at 2 o’cloc", p. m.

CALEDONIA.—Same day, at 7 o'clock, p. m. _ PLEASANT VALLEY.— At Schoolhouse, on fuesday, 13.h Marca, at 2 o'clock, p. m.

BELLE CREEK.—Same day, at 7 o'clock, p.m,

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Apples, Tea, Fish, Xe.

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Can Maker's ‘Tools.

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Young Men's Literary Society. st JAMDS' CHURCH

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