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Ir NATTY V GYAMINER THE VALLI CAABLLIIN IR. | MAY 6, 1890.
Notes and Comments.
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We are told by the Opposition organ | th = Mr. Davie a a! a the Patri t alike | favor Unrestricted Reciprocity.”” Of course hev a But the ground upon which they | d is n x lid. We vive edit rial prowl nence to-day toa letter from an ‘* Island-| er,” res ling in the States who puts the |
atter in a very clear light Read it.
It may be assumed that Charlottetown is unanimously in favor of maintaining
How much each
Queen Square Gardens. lowid nis in favor will be known
1nG aquet Cill af the committee of ladies appointed to-day have made a_ report The gardens have been in recent years such a ieli rht to the eye and have re flected so mud¢ cre lit ul on the town and the Pro- vinee that there ought to be no difficulty whatever in obtaining the money that is now required rder that the work of re- newing them may go on.
-The total number of persons who have
left Iceland in recent years must have been considering that the ss of births over deaths is 640, increasing
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af, annual exce and the population, instead of during the past four years, has fallen from 71,609 to 69,220. Butthis year the ex- odus is expected to be m marked than
‘ore, and it is said that 20,000 peo- ne iy one-quarter of the total pop- A great many | to
re ever bef ple, or ulation, will leave the island Icelanders have, in recent ye Canada, where they are doing well.
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The following resolution was submitted to the House of Assembly this forenoon, by
the Leader of the Jpop sition, seconded by Mr. Farquharson :
R ed, That acommiittee be appointed, on the part of this House, to join a committee of the Legislative Council, to prepare a me-
morial to the Governor-General in Council, re- presenting that, in the opinion of this House,
closer trade relations should exist between the
Dominion of Canada and the United States of America, praying His Excellency-in-Council to take such steps as may be most expedient
to b ing about the greatest possible measure of reciprocal Free Trade between the United
States of America and the Dominion of Canada.
Judging by the course of the discussion in the House of Assembly, yesterday after- noon, it seems certain that the city bill will either be lost or else held over for publica- tion and further consideration at the next session of the Legislature. Therefore, it is useless to say anything about it just now The bil would make five wards where are now two,—that isto say, Ward Four would be divided into two, and Ward Five into
three; and there would be but one Council- ior elected for each Ward. The amend- ment submitted by Hon. Mr. McLeod
would add an additional ward by dividing Ward Five into two; but whether it is con- templated to increase the number of Coun- cilors to twelve, or decrease the number to six, has not yet appeared. These are the two propositions now before the Legisla- ture.
Che hardness of the legal road prohibi- tion has to travel has just been illustrated in % decision of the United States Supreme Court, which affirms that an inhabitant of any Stiste may, under the operallions of the Inter-State commerce laws, and without license or supervision of any public author- ity, carry or send into and sell in other states any intoxicating liquors, in gases or kegs, oreven in single bottles or flasks, despite any legislation of those states on the subject, and although his own state should only one which had not enacted similar laws. The decision was given on an appeal from Lowa, and practically establishes tree commerce in liquor in that and every
er state which has adopted a prohibitery law, the only restriction being that the stuff must be sold in the original package in which it is put at the place of manufacture. As this package may be of any size commer- cially profitable, the result will be a practi- cally unrestrained traflic, except by the glass. This me that prohibition by states is a failure, and that the leaders of the new crusade can only*hope for succeas by a national law applying throughout the union,
be tiie
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City Council. AN emergency meeting of tha City Céuncil was called for this morning, at
tHE DAILY
' commended in the McKinley Taniff Bill, as
out the policy laid duwn in the platform ei
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Unrestricted Reciprocity THe leaders cf the Reform Party in Canada argued that the increased duties re-
reported to the House of Representatives at Washington, are retaliatory and intend- ed crease her duties certain articles of | merchandise imported from the United | States. Nothing could be further from ine | truth. It is quite safe to assume that the McKinley tariff measure would be reported on in its pre sent form if no such country as Canada ever existed.
The McKinley measure is simpiy carrying
on
‘he Chicago Convention. The campaign of i888 was, unlike many of his predecessors, fought out on a straight tariff issue. The Republicans put themselves on record as favoring a protective tariff, so formed as to absolutely shut out fureign competition, while the Democrats advocated a tariff for revenue only. This issue was put straight before the American people, and the merits of both systems were discussed in every towa and hamlet of the United States by the ablest public men; and the electorate, by a decisive majority, declared in favor of a high protective tariff. It is only reason- able now to assume that the Republican majority of the Ways and Means Committee in reporting the new Tariff Bill to the House, were actuated more by a desire to vive effect to the wishes of the American people as constitutionally expressed in the election ef 1888, than to playa paliry game of retaliation with Canada.
Unrestricted Reciprocity appears now to be the watchword of the Opposition Party in Canada. ‘The attitude of that party to- wards the United States, their cringing servility and want of self-reliance, is a most sorry and undignitied spectacle to a Canadian living on this side of the line. If those rentlemen believe Unrestricted Reciprocity to be a good thing tor Canada, they are taking the most awkward means possible to bring it about. The people and the Congress of the United States have shown no dis- position to negotiate a reciprocity treaty with Canada. And is it not humihating to see Canadians begging and whining for what has been so often refused? Mr. Cart- wright and his followers lose no opportun- ity of telling the American people that Cavada is in grievous straits; her farms mortgaged and deserted, her people crush- ed with taxation, her government incapable and corrupt, and nothing but poverty and bankruptcy in store for her, if the United States do not take pity on her and grant her Unrestricted Reciprocity! The effect of such talk as this can easily be conceived. The shrewd American politician, always alive to anything that will add to the great- ness of his own country, will naturally say: ** Well, those poor devils over there are in a bad way sure enough, but wewill let them alone for a few years and we can have them on our own terms.”
I know that a feeling is quite general in this part of the United States that the annexation of Canadais only a question of time, and | feel quite satisfied that in any Congressional action taken at Washington in reference to Canada, this view of the subject will be strictly adhered to, so that if Canada is ambitious to occupy a place among the family of nations—and there is no reason why she should not—she need not rely on reciprocity treaties, but on her own pluck and perseverance.
Bat would Unrestricted Reciprocity be such a good thing for Canada as its friends say it would? In discussing the question, it is idle to speak of the progress made by Canada under the old reciprocity treaty which was in force from 1854 to to 1866. Hardly any of the conditions exist to-day that existed then and tended to make that treaty beneficial to Canada. We had no trans-continental lines of railway at that time, and the great fertile West was a vir- gin prairie. Now the lands lying beyond what wasthen thought to be the western border of civilization, are tracked in every direction with railways, and are sending to the eastern seaboard a continuous stream of agricultural products, suflicient to feed alithe people of the Eastern States and leave a large quantity for export to foreign countries. This is no fancy sketch: it is cold fact.
There appears to be a popular delusion in the midst of a certain class in Canada that farmers on this side of the line are more prosperous and get better prices than farmers in Canada. I assure you there is no class inthe United States so hard pushed to make ends meet as those who are engaged in agricultural pursuits. Prices cf agricultural products have ruled much lower here during the last two years than | ever knew them to be in Canada. A year ago potatoes of excellent quality could be bought in Minnesota, in any quantity, from a bushel to a carload, at ten to fifteen cents
eleven o'clock, for ‘‘ the purpose of con- sidering » resvlution asking the Legislature to pass a law regulating the sale of spirit- uous and fermented liquors in this city, in| case the Canada Temperance Act should | not be sustained at the next election.”
The requisition calliog the jmeeting was | signed by Councillors Douse, Large and | Byrne. Whenthe hour for holding the meeting arrived there were present His Worship the Mayor and Councillors Douse, Taylor, Byrne, Eden and McCarron. Coun- cillor Morris was ill, and consequently un-| able to atttend. After waiting in vain for | som? of the councillors to put in an appear- |
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ance, In order to obtain & quorum, the } mee’ ing was dismissed, and the object fur which tt was called was thus frustrated.
Plow is the resolution which the meet- | ing was called to consider :—
' Lesolved, That in the opinion of this Coun. | a law iegulatiog the sale of spirituous and fe. mented | quors should be enacted by the Provincial Legislature now in session, provid- ing against the failure of the re-adoption of |
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the Canada Tempefance Act at the approach- |
ing election to be held under that statute. er?
tnfounded Report.
_Srr,—The report, now in brisk circula- tion through Charl.t'etown, to the effect that one of our Island master mariners had gut into trouble of a very serious and dis- graceiul nature in the city of New York, is untrue.
It is, in fact, without any foundation |
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“uitever, except what existed in the phan- {aay ot
verted nearly two years eg Cally we years ego,
Joun O’ConneELL. ‘Aoutague Cross, May 5, 1890, ileal ices sat ie lan Remember the sale of furniture at the resi« dena of Mrs, John Yeo to-morrgw at ll o a. * . fi } le val
of
a & few half-demented creatures at | “ontague Cross, where the story was in- |
per bushel. This year they are not so abundant, but can be had easily for twenty cents. Very good dairy butter can be bought for 12 cents, and eggs are retailing to-day inthis city for 10 cents. Dressed hogs could be bought in the market all the past winter from 44 to 5cents, and excel- lent beef, by the quarter, from 3} to 3} cents per pound. Oats have been a drug on the market all the past season at 20 cents per bushel, and what is called ‘* feed” in this country— that is, corn and oats in equal parts ground up together—can be bought from $12 to $14 per ton, which is less than three-quarters of one cent per pound.
I would like to ask the intelligent farmers of Pree Edward Island how much money they can save by selling their produce at such prices as I have quoted ?—and sup- posing Unrestricted Reciprocity were granted to-morrow, if they could expect to get anything like the prices in the astern States which were got back in the sixties, before the Great West was laid under tri- bute, and while the United States were engaged in putting down a tremendous re- bellion, which drew nearly two millions of her able-bodied men away from their legiti- mate employment as producers?
There are but two courses, in my opinion, open to the Canadian people :—A Protective t riff and the home market on the one side, and Annexation tothe United States on | the other.
ISLANDER. 5, 1890.
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St. Paul, Minn., April
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At Souris, on the 5th inst., after a short ill- ‘ness of menengitis, Ellen Jane, beloved wife of Norbert Pierce, and daughter of the late ‘John Muilaliy, of Gowan Brae, in the 32ad | year of her age. May her soul rest in peace.
AMINER, | -
t\ punish Canada for presuming to In- | and the Leader of the Opposition, Hon.
ae Ne Newfoundland. RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE HOUSE OF
ASSEMBLY.
Ln the House of Assembly, this forenoon, the Premier, Hon. Mr. McLeod, moved,
Jchu Yeo, seconded the following resolu- tion, which passed unanimously :—
Whereas, Tne claims of the subjects of Fiance to exclusive fishing and curing of fish on certain portions of the coast and waters of Newfoundland, retard the development of that Island;
And Whereas, It is the opinion of this House that as Newfoundland enjoys the privi- leges of Responsible Government, the coastal fisheries within the jurisdiction of the said Colony should not be granted or given away without the consent of the Local Legislature of that Colony;
And Whereas, The modus vivendi recently entered into between the Government of Great Britain and the Republic of France constitutes an alienation of such coastal fisheries without the consent of Newfoundland,—
Therefore Resolved, That the action of the citizens of Newfoundland in protesting against any further concessions of fishing rights to the citizens of France, and that the contention of Newfoundland in denying the right of the Imperial Goverument to enter into any treaty or agreement with the French Government affecting said fisheries without the consent of the Locil Legislature, meet with the approval of this House,
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Personal.
R. F. DeBlois, Esq., Provincial Auditor, is so much better that he was able to be at his otfice to day.
Mr. Montgomery, Superintendent of Educa- tion, is very ill.
Capt. Michael Hickey, of the firm of Hickey & Nicholson, tobacco manufacturers, left for Kentucky this morning, for a supply of leaf.
PARTNERSHIP NOTICE
J HAVE THIS DAY admitted Mr. Donald Nicholson a Partner in the Tobacco Manu- facturing Firm of HICKEY & STEWART, the business of which will hereafter be con- ducted under the name and style of HICKEY & NICHOLSON, and | take this opportunity of sincerely thanking the business public for their liberal patronage in the past, and respect- fully solicit a continuance thereof for the future.
M. HICKEY. Charlottetown, May 1, 1890.
Referring to the above, the undersigned beg to notify the public that they will continue the Tobacco Manufacturing Business in the old establishment, Lower Queen Street, and hope by strict attention thereto to be able to satisfy the requirements of the trade in their line.
HICKEY & NICHOLSON. may6—1m (lw dy then eod)
TEA AND FANCY SALE
On Wednesday, 7th, There will be a Tea and Fancy Sale
IN THE LYCEUM,
——IN AID OF——
Notre Dame Convent.
OYSTERS, ICE CREAM and Refresh ments of all kinds will be s rved.
Doors open at 2 p.m. Tea ready at 6 p.m. An agreeable time is anticipated.
Admission, 10 cents. Tea, 25 cents. ap2l1—dy
FURNITURE, PIANO, ETC, i
Wednesday, the 7th May, inst, 4ST 11 O'CLOCK, A. M.,
All her Household Furniture, consisting of Parlor, Dining Room and Bedroom Setts, 1 very fine Piano, 1 large Extension Table (mahogany), 1 Sideboard, 1 Hall Rack, Oil Cloth, Hall Stove, Kitchen Stove and utensils, etc., etc.
May
AM insttucted by Mrs. Yeo to sell by Auction, at her residence, Queen St., on
G. M. HARRIS,
Auctioneer.
Halifax and P. . Island STEAMSHIP CO.
(LIMITED.)
STEAMER “PRINCESS BEATRICE,”
CAPT. A. H. KELLY.
V ILL sail from Charlottetown every
Thursday afternoon, at 4 o’clock, for Halifax, calling at Port Hastings, Mulgrave, and Hawkesbury, Arichat, Canso, Isaac Harbor and Sheet Harbor.
Returning will sail from Halifax every Monday night, at 10 o’clock, making same calls, and Souris.
The above steamer will make the round trip every week, making same calls until the close of navigation.
Freight and passengers solicited at lowest rates, anil th-ough Bills of Lading granted to any port on the continent or United Kingdom, Apply to
W. W. CLARKE, Agent. Ch’town, May 3, 18990.
PB ISLAND ELECTRIC 00.
OTICEKE.is hereby given that the Annual General Mecting of the Stockholders of the above Company will be held at their office, in Charlottetown. on Wednesday, the lith day of May next, A. D. 1890, at the hour of Twelve o'clock. noon, Dated ist day of May, 1890,
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MIS*‘ES’ RUBBER
Charlottetown, April 16, 1899.
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VITE THE PEOPLE OF CHAR. LOTTETOWN and Surrounding Dis-
tricts to walk through their Store and inspect the Latest Novelties and Newest Fashions for the Summer, Every
Department full of Novelties and Bargains. The Latest Novelties in Manties, Jackets, Millinery, Black Silks, Dress Fabrics, Rib- bons, Laces, Gloves, etc. ; also, Special Bargains in Carpets, Curtains, Window Blinds, Curtain Poles, ete.
JAMES PATON & C0.
PRINT DEPARTMENT. —A_ grand selection in the latest styles of English Prints, Zephyrs, Sateens, Muslins, etc.
LADIES’ UNDERCLOTHING.—Enor- mous purchase of fine Underclothing— Chemises, Night Dresses, Knickers, ete.
JAMES PATON & CO,
DRESS DEPARTMENT. —London pur- chases are now to hand, and a magnificent lot they are. Immense purchases of duuble
big lot of single width Ail-Wool Beiges, only 13 cents per yard.
ROBES! ROBES !—We cannot help feeling just a little conceited about our col- lection of Robes. Our buyer has spared no pains to procure everything stylish, and the result is immensely gratifying. Borders, Vigoreux Beiges, Embroidered, etc.
JAMES PATON & CO.
CARPETS.—We are now showing the full range of new season’s Carpets, in Wil- tons, Velvets, Brussels, Tapestry, Scotch and Hemps. We have the largest variety, the best designs, and lowest prices. Before buying a Carpet, come and see our stock
We don’t press anyone to buy. Come and compare with what you see in other stores.
CLOTHING.—A
Prices as low
MEN AND BOYS’ big stock to select from. as any in town.
PATON & CO’S. MOURNING GOODS —This is one of our best Departments Our buyer takes special care in selecting the most suitable goods for Mourning Dresses. We are offering good bargains in Black Silk Warp Henriettas.
WATERPROOF CRAPE.—This Crape is made wholly of Suk, and may be exposed to rain, and after drying gradually does not spot.
For all kinds of Dry Goods,
--TRY—
JAMES PATON & 00,
TUESDA
Bankrupt Stock of Boots an
97 pairs WOMENS BUTTON BOOTS, A Job Lot of “OMENS and BOYS, 100 pairs CHILD’s ST&ONG BOOES,
We have bought a few hundred pairs of Ladies’ No. 4, and Gentlemen’s No. 7 Boots, which we are selling at invoice prices
JAS. PATON & 60.
width Black All-Wool Nun’s Veiling, 42) inches wide, for 27 cents per yard ; also, a!
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y, MAY CG. 1890.
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ING desirous of closing out our Bankrupt Stock of BOOTS & SHOES, we will offer greater inducements than ever for the next two weeks. Come and see us, and do not complain of hard times when you can buy
BOOTS, reduced from $1.50 to $1.00 f reduced from $1.50 to 75 cents.
ee o6 #1.30 to GS cents. 65 cents to 45 cents.
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GOFF BROS.
London and Paris Dress Robes.
We show Special Valucs in DRESS STUFFS, and particwarly invite your attention to our large variety of the Latest Novelties and Newest Cvlorings in DRESS LENGTHS.
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Fashionable Millinery intl Mantles.
Account Books!
x TAYLOR & GILLESPIE. —————{ x} UR STOCK OF BLANK BOOK PAPERS IS NOW COMPLETE Come in and
see them, and get prices for Ledgers, Day Books, Cash Books, Journals, Letter Copying Books, Invoice Books, Wailets, Po:ket Books, ete., ete.
We Challenge Competition!
Careful attention given to the BINDING of Werks of Art, Megazines, Periodicals, Music, Ilustrated Papers, O.d Books, ete., any style or price. Also, we clean Old Pictures, Steel Engravings, Wood Cuts, ete, from any stain, and make to look as good as new.
TAYLOR & GILLESPIE, NORTH SIDE QUEEN SQUARE,
Ch’town, May 6, 1890.
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HOSIERY, GLOVES, COLLARS, SHIRTS, TIES. New Styles and Low Prices.
HARRIS & STEWAR?. Ch’town, May 3, 1890.
Is what one of our Customers said the other day when he left his
Rockiord Watch
to be cleaned after wearing it constantly for nearly four years, and without costing him a cent.
A few Rockfords left; also Waltham and Elgin Watches
Prices reasonable. au. W. TAYLOR,
Charlottetown, Feb. 25, !899—2aw CAMERON RLOCK.
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Bargain Hunters
AT THE--———
STAR TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT.
We offer for the balance of February, a SPECIAL LOT OF STAPLE YWEEDS at Cost, over the counter or made up as you wish. Genuine Bargains Genuine Goods! Call and be convinced, as we mean what we say.
McLEOD & McKENZIE.
Charlottetown -Pah 17 PRON
CAMPBELL’S SKREI BRAND OF
God Liver
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that its excellent nutritive and medicinal! oualities are uot experienced. The Skrei Oil
is free frora these objections, being beauti.ully clear, pale and bright, aimost tastelers,
and readily assimilated by children and the inost delicate invalids, Sold by
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W. R. WATSON, Dispeasing Chemist QUEEN STMEET, CHARLOTTETUWS,