> . !

THE DAILY EXAMINER.

IU LY 12, 1887. The Case of Captain Welsh Mvucu as we sympathize with Captain

} | ; ] “as : John Welsh and his family, much as we

regret that by a single rash and hasty act

he has blasted the fair prospect of his lite, we are « pelled to admit the justice @ verdict rendered against him, ma

the jurymen who brought it in.

Ry his most unfortunate, most unhappy human life was cut short and an un mortal sinful soul hurried into another

aphere. We freely give the Captain credit

Si for not intending to do it, and for bitterly revretting that it was done But the deed

. kai a

was in itself one which could not e@ con dened by reason of his good character, 01

t reat | ! \ ibjected t I he ei i pica ivs S counsel. wan eenen jil he The sacredness of human life mus t MAaALIwWA v is els wher VW ce are bound to admit that public opinion here ; ; : — ) ms been none too st ithis respec ! rie

: f ls is all too common; and it 1s

use of pist« ; +e

to be feared that justice has not always had

Juries have

her due even mm our courts.

not always shown such a high sense of duty, such clear discrimination and such backbone as the jury of y esterday

other hand, we are bound to com

f honor dis

On the

mend the manliness and sense «

played by Captain Welsh in his return to take his trial on so serious a charge. We hope that, in connection with the « d character hk had established previous to

his unfortunate lapse, this circumstance wil the J

be taken immto consideration by le Judge

} } } + P Manta when awarding his punishment. If Captam

Welsh wer |

mean man, he would have been out of

; _ at heart a very Dad man, OF :

very when his

rm of our law

und,

the rea h of the

case cane to trial ; in our opinion, the

3 ‘

lury did well to merey of the court.

. , ; “. imprisonment be short or whether t be

: ah lad iy ae long, Captaia Welsh will, necessarily, sutfe1

remorse and misery on account of his rash ct ind his fate so different from wha t

cannot but prove a warn- the

effect of making |

trust that result of

ing to others. We this sad case eal! have the

everyone in the Province appreciate the

truth that deadly weapons must not be used in personal conflicts except when a man's

wn life is in such imminent and anavoid-

able danger that he is compelled to do so in order to save it. _-<o- « oe Sale of Postage Stamps. oa } ' the Postmaster-

THe recent order of

General is creating quite a stir in the Upper

Provinces. Vendors of stamps cannot, it th to pay them for their | y selling on commission at one per , and they have given up the business.

‘consequence is that the are

greatly inconvenienced

pec yple

In a recent interview with the Ottawa correspondent of the Montreal Gazette Hon. | Mr.MeLellan said that the reduction to one | was made in the interests of econ- |

think it

Th cent

;

my, and that he did not would

cause any inconvenience to the public or

reduce the revenue from the sale of stamps.

rhe minister has, in our ‘opinion made a

mistake. It is at all

he persists in reducing the commission

stamps, the vendor in the Post Office at |

} |

Charlottetown will have to stop selling ;|

THE

The Three Months’s Hoist.

MOVED BY MR. rok ERIN'S RE- RALFOUR RE AGALN

CRIMES BIL! HE PLEADS SECRETARY WILLIAM O BRIEN Is C(MINSTER,

or THE TRISH GLADSTONE. LIE} CHIKI PLIES, AND

| ARD AT WE

flouse of Commons on the 7th motion being made for the third reading of the Crimes Bill, Mr, Glad stone, amid prolonged cheers, made a coun that the bill be read a third time this day three months. Mr. Gladstone said the bill was the Conservative alterna- tive to Home Rule and, therefore, bore a different aspect from any ordinary Coercion

Bill

Thy the

nst., on the

ter motion

Che old coercion measures had been it crime only, but this new one, pass

+ bevond crimes, aimed at societies, (cries ol vs Hear, hear! ”) Further, this bill had been brought in without any foundation such as underlaid all former coercicn bills based on the existence of exceptional crime, Mr. Balfour had disregarded all precedents requiring that the introduction of coercion ; be prefa ed by a statement of ex ceeptional crime. Mr. Gladstone m that the increase of crime in 1886 over 1885, ricultural distress in lLre Comparing

neasure Lintained

of the as

in View Y land, was exceedingly small. the official record of the Tory Government in power in Ireland in 1885 with those im power the past five months in 1887, there was a marked decrease in agrarian crime, yet in 1885 they had refrained from imbtro- ducing a coercion measure from motives of policy.

\ COMPARISON OF PAST AND PRESTENT

STATISTICS

\fforded no shadow of justification for the

present measure. Another contrast was hat past parliaments had been nearly unanimous in assenting to coercion, while

| tions of

recommend him to the| was the extraordinary proposal making the

Whether his term of | viceroy maste:

| he

| Gladstone saia

|years of oppression and wrong, was

| Empire there was

i tery, but the Government

events certain that if | (Cries of ‘‘hear,

on | the whole literature of the world was against them. (Cries of ‘‘ne.”) He chal- lenged the Government to mention any

i and we are informed by other vendors, who |

deal in othe things as well,that the reduced |

commission ‘‘won’t make it worth their while

and that they intend to stop selling as soon

as their present stocks are disposed of. The

jarriving at a Home Rule solution. (Cheers. ) |The Tories professed to be fighting for the

result will be a general out-cry on the part}

of the public. We hope the order will be withdrawn.

Referring to the matter, the Montreal Gazette truly says: This is not a service in which regard for revenue alone should be observed. The convenience of the public must count for something. One can easily understand that by confining the sale of the Post

placing in charge of the work a salaried

stamps to Office building, and clerk, a saving of a couple of thousand dol- lars a year would be effected, but the pub- lic necessities will not permit of the adop- tion of such acourse. It would be quite the

boxes throughout the city, as a measure of

drop letter

withdraw I

as sensible to economy, as to reduce the commission on the that

practically drives every dealer out of the

sale of postage stamps to a rate

business. The Postmaster-General, it must be assumed, does not contemplate entrust- ing the sale of stamps to clerks paid by the department, for that would very greatly enlarge the expense, and unless there is assurance that the convenience to the pub- lic of the sale of stamps in places remote from the Post Office building will be con- tinued, at the present commission, it will

b necessary to restuTre the old rate.

The Queen has announced her intention of visiting Lord Salibury at Hartfield house to- morrow The only other Prime Minister

} = . . > . similarly honored was Earl Beaconsfield.

The Bulgarian assembly has chosen a new ruler in the person of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Cobourg, and if he accepts the throne, as no doubt be will, and Russia disapproves of his conduct, a renewal of the intrigues that led to Alexander’s deposition and abdication may be looked for, One thing the long inter- reguum has shown, that is, that left to them- selves the Buigarians are well capable of look- ing after their own affairs, and if trouble en- sues it will be due to the intrigues of outside

m8, Whose interests are not those of the

people of the principality.

minority

this bill was opposed by a large majority of the peo majorly that was not likely to diminish. (Cheers.) If Pa retained any regard for the tradi liberty or of party usages the mea What could

invasion of the

:

in the house and by a ple of the country—a

iLimiment

abandoned, such

people's While resenting mputation that the Liberals had done the ' ild admit that past mea- Among the dif- and the present

. nid } sure wouida 0 hey ur@e to warrant

ii} ty +} iLbervies Urilt

same thing, he W } a - sr sures had been tauures.

ferences between the past

l right

f the whole law an

of association. In the present century such a proposal was an o@rage upon every principle of public duty. Moreover new fences were created under the measure. Che attorney-general for Ireland had ad mitted, and it was too late to deny, that the bill ain ed uf the suppre ssion ofl excl i

t sive dealing. far more pardon- ble in the weak and poor than in the rich was the exclusive ng at

crime

And powse rful, put it ~ aeaiing of

} ] + 2 tne P OT AGAIDSI Line Stl which the bill v

was aimed. If a new

were created the measure [01 its suppres , 1? , .

sion sbeuid operate linpartlally, (Uineers., ) »>(rovernment dia not aare Lo lift a

finger in defence of the suggestion that it

apply to England

rovision such as it was He contended that bound to extend to Taunt } fag ireiand a pertect

5 forcing upon [reland. the Government was the occupiers of land in

EQUALITY WITH ENGLISH TRADES UNIONS

nd pr ictices enjoyed

h ¢

as regards the rights the |

oe and exclusive dealings

, 1 tter, among wohl mmolmations

tioned. As

iri hman il l an

were Sarit the bill stood, if--an for Mr. Balfour to say

associat! was

whether or not he criminal by heers.) In Mr. Ireland, after seventy

im a (Cries British square held by force force was from the

became a

the act. ( cONCLUSLON,

state of misery and wretchedness. of ‘hear, hear.’’) In the whole not, he land which England rept in lreland, where (Enthusiastic Ireland was held b refused to learn responsibility. They knew that

said, a rard of aione, eX employe d. heers Irish benches. ) y mas- involved hear.’’)

that raastery

authority who had

between England

relations without

reviewed the and _ Lreland

union of the Empire, a fight in which the Liberals joined. (Laughter and cheers.) The Liberals held that the charge of dis- union was ridiculous. It was evident that the present state of affairs could not last long, as Mr. Gladstone believed that every day tended to bring the Tories nearer their dvom. Mr. Gladstone then moved for the rejection of the bill amid cheers from the Liberal and Parnellite benches. MR. REPLIES.

Mr. Balfour, replying to Mr. Gladstone, first referred to the charge that the Govern- ment had brought in the bill as an alterna- tive to Mr. Gladstone’s Home Rule _ pro- posals. If that was the case, he said, he felt justified in saying that it was sufficient to recommend the measure to the accept- ance of the house. The Government was mainly justified in introducing its proposals by the state of social tyranny which had re-

BALFOUR

cently arisen in lreland—a tyranny that attacked the rights and liberties of minori- ties and most of those elementary princi-

ples, without which a country could never be prosperous. He contended that crime was worse now in Ireland than in 1870,

when Mr. Gladstone promoted coercion. He taunted Mr. Gladstone with having in- troduced, in 1881, an arbitrary coercive

measure, which enabled the Irish Chief Secretary to imprison anybody at will. He ridiculed the comparison that had been

made between trades unions and societies, whose object was the dismemberment of the Empire, and which WERE SUPPORTED RY FOREIGNERS.

Che trades unions might well be indignant at a comparison of their honest, peaceful efforts with those of boycotters and politi- cal conspirators. Mr. Gladstone had made

in insidious ard inaccurate statement re- garding this year’s crime in Ireland. Manly | in the year there was a visible improve- | ment, but at the last quarter sessions there were evidences of a relapse. In June sixty- two serious crimes were committed, ten above the average of the previous eighteen months.

O BRIEN SPEAKS.

Mr. William O’Brien praised Mr. Glad- stone’s brave opposition tothe bill. Mr. Gladstone, he said, was the greatest cen- |

queror of Ireland. While others conquer- | 2d by the might of arms, Gladstone con- '

quered by mere generosity of soul. After

DAILY EXAMINER, - }-~-

Major, Saunderson. and Attorney-General

Webster had replied on behalf of the Gov ernment, the debate was adjourned, The distressed unions (Ireland) bill-was read a second time.

—— LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. - - Lying, Perjury, ete,

Srr,—In your paper of Saturday last

there is an article under the heading * Peculiar Testimony.’ Now, | wish to

reply to the baseless and untruthful asser- tions running through the warp and woof of this puerile and shallow composition, — I will take the four corners of it and endea- vor, if possible, to keep entirely within the lines.

You begin by saying a liar is a very mean thing. Solomon says that ‘tall ‘men are liars.” If a liar be a very mean thing, then mean things are to be tound everywhere, for liars are everywhere. We need not the testimony and experience of Solomon who, by universal admission, was the wisest of mankind, to bring this home to humanity. Every man can find it indelibly engraven on his own heart. Wherever we go liars are to be met. ‘To lie successfully seems to be the serious business of men. In the market place, in the manufactory, on the streets, at the bar, in the courts of justice, in the Senate, at the diplomatic embassy, liars by the million every day utter their abominable lies in the face of high Heaven, and call God to witness that they tell the truth and nothing but the truth. Walk any day into a court of justice, and listen for a short time to the plaintiff and defend- ant and their attorneys, and even their ap- parently disinterested witnesses, and the

TUESDAY.

- ane amar

City Couneil.

A necuLaAR meeting Of the City Council

was held last evening. Ali members present. ' él After the regular routine business the

Mayor presented the bonds and sureties of the Water Commissioners for $1,000 each, which were on motion accepted.

ers requesting the city to issue debentures for the sum of $3,000.

Moved by A. A. MeLean and seconded by T. A. MeLwan:

Resolved, That debentures be issued from time to time to the extent of $3,000, as may be demanded by the Water Commissioners, said debentures shall be $500 each, and shall bear interest at 4 per cent per annum,

Carried unanimously.

A petition from Bernard McQuillan ask. ing for increase of salary was read and ordered to lay on the table.

A notice from R. D. MeLeod, lington, was read, in which he stated that

the city while serving a Scott Act suinmons$ that the city was responsible for it, and that he would sue the city for $1,000 damages. This was also laid on the table. Moved by Councillor Morris, and second- ed by Councillor Byrne, that the amount of $16 each paid by the late Councillors Douse and Kelly, as required by law on resigning their seats, be refunded to them. Yeas—Morris, Byrne McaRe, Davison, A. A. McLean. Nays —Horne. T. Crabbe. The following letter from the Stipendiary Magistrate to His Worship the Mayor was read :

A. MeLean,. Small,

July llth, 1886.

environment will furnish forth a diminu tive hell. Lies to right of them, lies in| front of them, volley and thunder.

Miscient truth Instances are to speak the truth is questionable.

You say perjury is common in our Sti- pendiary Magistrate’s Court, and that’ per- jury is committed there by men in Scott Act cases who would scorn to do so for the sake of houses or land or father or mother or wife or chidren. Ah, me, I have no such opinion of the general run of mien. | Neither would you, sir, if you had a wider experience. When men will jury in Scott Act cases, in which they have no interest, what will they do in cases of houses and Jand, fatherand mother in which they have the deepest interest and to which they are bound by the dearest ties? The gospel of Christ has not yet, | fear, so ele- vated our natures that neither our cupidity nor our affections can wrap our legal test1- mony. That day niay be approaching, but it has not yet certainly arrived.

Your reasoning & unsound. You say the perjury in our courts exhibits the terribly demoralizing and degrading power of the liquor traffic. Admitting that some who vive testimony do not tell the truth, 1 ask are men to be bound by coercial measures ind sumptuary laws. The poor man who requires his glass of whiskey to revive his drooping spirits,after the exhausting labors of the day,cannot in conscience believe that he should be the means of convicting the man who supplied him with what nature and nature’s God intended for his use. The poor man must purchase in small quanti- ties at the bar or the shop, he cannot send to Halifax and have it come in cases, casks, and hogsheads by the weekly steamer. Who are the persons that are continually brought to the Magistrate’s Court to give testimony against violators of the Scott Act? They are the poor and the middle class. The aristocracy and the rich have all the liquor they want at home in their own cellars. The rich me: when he wants a drink goes home and orders his servants to bring it from the cellar. Sometimes he opens the cupboard in his office, or the lower drawer in his desk, or plunges his hand into the deep and dark recesses of his iron safe, and brings the bottle forth for himself and his friends. The poor man goes to the violater of the Seott Act. The poor man has to break che law, and be pimped, and watched and in- formed upon, and dragged to the court against his will, and compelled to give un- willing testimony. Fiat Lux.

July 1ith, 1887.

comuilt

CosMOs.

The Police.

Srr,—An attempt is made to palliate the offence of the Police in re the subject of the late fire. Noone expects the ofticers to perform ‘‘impossibilities” but the public would like to know why, in their occasional parades on Queen Street, they go in pairs. If the force is ‘‘small” the greater neces- sity is it that the beat should be made singly. R. July 12.

OddfelHlowship.

Tue following are the offlcers of St. Lawrence Lodge No. 8 for the present term :-

N. G.—J. H. Clarke.

V. G.—A. E. Macdonald.

R. Sec’y.—D. R. Maclennan, (P. G.)

P. S.—H McLean Davison, (P. G.)

Treasurer-—-George M. Moore, (P. G.)

Warden—E. MacMillan.

Conductor—S. Keith, (P. G.)

I. G.—S. A. Macdonald.

O. G.—John 8S. Nelson.

R. 8. N. G.—Theo. L.Chappelle, (P. G.) L. 8S. N. G.-—Charles Lawson.

R. 8. V. G.—W. N. Riggs.

L..S. V..G.—W. McNeill.

R. 8S. $.—Pope Clarke.

L. S. S.—Thos. H. Robinson.

ae

It is not in human nature to keep attention fixed and strained upon one object for an in- definite length of time ; and we see this illus- trated now in connection with the Home Rule question, which, though not yet disposed of, and possibly still far from settlement, has, for the present, ceased to occupy the public mind to the extent it was formerly doing. We do not hear much of the enormities of the Salis- bury Government. These things will doubt- less come round again in their turn ; but it would be idle not to admit that a temporary respite from these long standing causes of ex- citement and perplexity is granted to most people.

+ +<*+-* <>>-.—-—_____-

EVERY man, woman and child on P. E. Island can get cheapicrockery at W. P. Col-

To Hts

SIR,

Woxrsuirv THE Mayor. I beg to inform you that I have dis- missed Police Othcers Charles Cameron and Peter Bradley for breach of Police Regula- tions, such dismissal to take effect on the. 3]st of this month.

I have also to report to you that the ru/e

nisi for a new trial granted in the suit of John A. Grifliths against the city was at this present sitting of the Supreme Court discharged. It will be

for the Council to decide what further action will be taken therein. I beg to refer to my letter to you of the 11th day of March last as to the conduct of the officers executing the warrant in that case. As the appointment, remuneration, and dismissal of the Police oflicers is vested in the Council, and the control, and a concurrent power of dismissal rests with me, would it not be well to appoint

per- ha Police Committee through and with whom I

could act, and who weuld be an advising committee in the selection and appointment of new men. R. R. FirzGekacp, Stipendiary Magistrate.

Moved by Councillor Horne, seconded by Councillor McRae, that a committee of three City Councillors be appointed a Police Committee. Carried.

Council adjourned.

CANADIAN

SUbSCripL

AND

STATION &Y STORE,

#&UPPER QUEEN STREET, next door West of Mr. E. 8. Bonnell’s Watchmaker and Jewelry Store.

SUBSCRIPTIONS taken at above store for J. &. ~ Robertson & Bros.’ Publications, Teronto; Family Bibles (Olid and New Version in parallel columns). These Bibles and other valuabie Books can be obtained by easy monthly pay ments, thus placing good books within the reach of all classes of the peopie. Prospectus of publi- cations can be seen at store.

In connection with above is a well-selected stock of Stationery, embracing everything usu- ally kept in a stationery store, which will be sold on very reasonable terms.

A. G. BREMNER, Agent, Ch'town, July 12—-2mo eod

Glen Stewart Market Carden Strawberries,

To the Citizens of Charlottetown :

AS I have too many Strawberries to dispose of +*% on market days, I will offer some for sale every evening—market days excepted—in front of Market House, sale commencing WEDNES- DAY Evening, July 13th, at 4.30 o'clock, and to continue during the season, JAMES BURKE, Southport.

July 12, 1887—-lwk

Card of Thanks

\p Rs. R. B. STEWART and the Misses Mayne -"4 most sincerely thank the Citizens, Firemen, and Volunteers who so kindly came to their assistance during the fire of Wednesday morn- ing.

July 12 li

Provincial Rifle Association.

HE Annual Priz? Meeting of this Association wili be held on Kensington Range, Chariotte-

town, on MONDAY, 15th August and following |

days. Firing to commence at 8.30 a. m.

G. L. DOGHERTY, Major, Sec’y Prov, Rifle Association, July 12t—3aw & wky tl dte

rst Ros:

—--

Guardian insirance Co.

Capital, Two Million Pounds Sterling

Ricks at Lowest Rates.

CARVELL BROS.,

AGENTS. Ch’town, July 9-2wks 3aw pat

Black Tobacco.

20 Boxes Black Tobacco, retailing at 32 Cents a ai\ pound,

JAMES BYRNE, ,Great George Street,

will’s.

jy8 3wks dy a wy

July 11—6i

A letter was read from the Commission-

MEDSUMMER

po

O

Oo —_ —=—_—_— —

SALE

F :

BUMMER &88B5,

| of Dar-

his doors had been shattered by agents of

PRINTS,

DRESS MUSLINS &

STRAW HATS,

at Low Prices to Clear now going on.

a er ee

HARRIS & STEWART,

SUCCESSORS TO

GEO, DAVIZS. & CO.

Ch'town, July 1), 1887.—-wky

aby —

Trousseaux

Infants’ infanis Infants’ Infants’ Infants’ infants Infants’ Infants’ Infants’ Infants’ Infants’ Infants Infants’ Infants’ Infants’ Infants’ Jnfants’

Merino D Merino C Merino P

Blankets,

Wool Gai

Ch’town, July 8, 1887.

o———_—-

Muslin Robes, Mustin Night Gowns,

onthly Gowns, ~

Frock Rodies, «c.,

r esses, loaks, elisses,

Wool Bodices, Wool Socks, Wool Hoods, Lace Hoods, Normandy Caps,

Wool Boots, Wool Infantees,

ters,

Bibs, &c., &c,

70:

BEER BRCS.

_— - —a —

CLEARED

OUT DURING

JULY AND AUGUST.

0 ———e

JAMES PATON & CO.

OFFER THE BAL

Prints, Printed Mus

ANCE OF THEIR

lins, Light Parasols

—— AND ——

SUMMER GOODS

At VERY LOW PRICES.

ee oo

JAMES PATON & CO.

MARKET Ch’town, July 8, 1887.—dy & wky

eS I te i ON NR

A Re IV

— AT '

“@UARE.

rH ——

CITY HARDWARE STORE:

Disston’s Saws, Buggy Tops,

Nails, Locks,

Paper, Glass, iron, and General Hardware.

ee ee

PiRmiCH B&B. tO w .

NORTON &

70;

FENNELL,

CITY HARDWARE STORE, QUEEN STREET.

May 26, 1887.—2aw & wky

~

Pie.

bo

id 6 En aS ae”