eatin : | os A ib A oe ee ee came ee | * This is trne Liberty, when Free Born Men, having to advise the Publile, misty speak free.”—Kvnrrivgs, a (if ya THE DAILY iARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, WEDN] =< % iS DAY, DECEMBER 31, 1890. EXAMINER. Ct en eiiestaase = ge — ge. Srxete Cerres Two Cexre ee ee anaes VOL. 27.-NO. 88 CHARES WORRISON, Commission | Werchant AUCTION EER, . y + 7.3 ai . aoall . ve Petr raiward isiand fo1 General agen" t ' . \ “deal” Was! ‘Ideal Churns @ " “8 106 Queen St., Charlottetown, P. E I. ACURE ISCERTAIN EVERY ¢ AN ——IN Wiea 3 WOCGDILL’S Worm Lozenge nov!2 is Gives a ZALED TENDERS, addressed to the vnder-|} S signed, and «niersed “ Tender for Port rel-} kirk Work,” will be received until FRIDAY, the 16m day of January next, inciusively, for the construction ofa Block and Span tothe Pier at! Port Selkirk. Queen’s County, P. E. 1, according | to «a plan and syceificition to be seen eon applica. | tion tf ye Postma:ter, Vernon River HMridge, | P, E. L, aud at the Department of Public Works, | Otcewa renders will not t mnsidered unicss made on! the form supc lied and sigued with the ac! ual sig- patures of tepaere! anacceped bank cheque, rayable to the erder of the Mivister of Pabhe Werks, equal to fire per cen’. of the amount of tender, must ace -m- pany each tender, cheq -e will be forfeited if the party decline contiact or fai! to com- piete the work contracted for, and will be re- tarred in case of non-ac ceptance of tencer, The Department does not bind itself to acceyt the luwest or any tender. By order, A. GOBEIL, Sccrerary. 32 ; Pais tne Department of Public Works, } 4 Ottawa, 15th Dec.. 1890. ‘ 3i deez? LIAR Endorsed by the best authorities in the world —— Nearly 14,000 in use and good accounts isa ot them. Over 40 years of honest usiness. WILLIS PIANO & ORGAN CO., Maceachern’s Building, Lower Queen St. | nove —dw ti —— - ' | i | Me! | e | Chairs, Tablas, Ze 73 ‘ | ? } } LONDON We are shown | ae ae iment of Goods suitable for Kmas HARRIS & STEW es HOUSE ‘us® thom 2 ————(x)—~—___- 2 a Nice Assort- j | } i i j i and New Wear Presents. | Charlottetown, Dec. 12, 1890. 4 =e 3 Picture Framing, ' ; | Parlor Sets, than ever offered. Chamber Sets! Sideboards, Cheffioniers, Bookcases, Looking Giasses very Lounges, Sofas, etc. Mirrors, cheaper Seis ! and good, Chamber | Kiverything in Household Furnt- ture. Call and inspect. Cheapest ! encieshmasmanemans) 3 emer eemnaman ‘ a 3 HEN NE WSON, SOUTH SIDE OF QUEEN SQUARE, Charlottetown, Dec. 26, 1890. (} kare Peo J : Tar «' Ni UL N ) AND: s* —ai FOR 4 a, we ho Pa ead COUG Co du! nous AOU D Y=i€! OLDS. ‘EARS IN USE. 23° PER BOT m Zi y deta & “Sur i £4. was ic FRED. de ©. DAVIES, DISPENSING CHEMIST, | Late With Smith & Woodman, cinists, At, tugustine, F orida. | URE DRUGS, CHEMICALS, PATENT | _ MEDICINES, PANCY ARTICLES, viz , Perfumes, Spon- gs, Nail and Tooth Brushes, Hair Brashes ans, Paris), Fancy Soapa, Castile (white Ped mottied), Colgate Soaps, Lace Soap, Pesr ‘901 ad Margerison’s French Soaps. ( “li and see our line for the Xmas Trade. Manicure Sets, also preparations for same. | Walkiny Sticks suitable tor Xmas Presents. | Rest line Havana Cigars in the city, and} fresh stocks, in 25, 50 «nd 100 boxes suitable! for Xmas presents for smokers. Also, Pipes : Hand out of cases, Tobecce, Cigarettes, To- 'CCO Pouches, Cigar Lighters, and every Fequisite for emokers. Try our 5c. Cigar - SU in town. dw— decd MUST 5 c Pe A 1D re 3 me te ae e LL 4 accounts rendered from Watson's Vrug Sore on July Ist, 1899, must be ® a Paid betore January let, prox., when the Sccounts for the past six menths will be rendered. tf--dec10 OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. U Whelesale and Retail, at Lowes Prices. _——-—— (x) DODD & Charlottetown, Nov 29, 1890—Im eod ROGERS. DEAL SALE MF BOUTS a Child’s Long Boots. $1.20, now SiSe.. Boys’ Long Boots, $160. now SH.22; Womens SE.28, now & 7.00; Strong Moots, Women's Strong i3oots, G4.00, now 75c.; 200 pairs Eien’s Long Boots, Ges cents a pair, at Charlottetown, Dec. 3, 1890-—~eod & wky Alcala reduced 83@ to GOFF BROS. | ! All ral } OCPD AP Ct * ma be, ‘ Ce on wwe oy Me ts band mo ein de ae } Lo? 0 pe pay Tiathote eth eee CREAR! Bee e 7) “VC must go to Bermada. If j ;eu do pot EF will not ve responsie~ i ble for the consequences,” * But, jdvetor, EF can afford netileer the (fume wer the maney.” “Well. { tha is tarpossi bie, iry , ‘ | Greer ee st a if ; a7 X-, 5 && ‘| Gee oo 1a ie ES GRE 5 SUC @agge ; a kee | va on = = Edi SF Rena GF BF BA PURE NORPWECIAN LIVER OIL. Ss cull if Beopmada Rete BAKY cases of 45 ea A Sa & “a NSUMPTION, chitis, Cough vr Severe Cold PER with ft; end the ivacsats 2 is that the most sensi« 32 rt ean take if. Another whek commends it fis the Cmwatitys ovoperties of the Hye rane hies Whielh if contains. em w'l? find if for sele at your > ESrevgSiat’s, its Salmon wieapper, o's . a8 FIOTFI EES BS Rae é Roos - f SS em ag ID ‘ have €U ~~ ne + -~ « * nai ’ Be 5 é a « enr® BRCUMING, ” cS tv HOIWNE, Vevewitie. ; tiated ete ee ed ae ee : aids - Digestion, Byspepticure cures ndise stion. CsThe 'most*¢erious and pticure he ] my ¢ long-standing cases ef 7 . ? diironic Spepsia \. positively cure SsDuspepticurely 3 . & Os ie ante Price per boitle 35cts and +00 (large hotties four times sizecf small.) ; prepared by Garles kG Short. St.gJohn. NB. SOLD EVERYWHERE, ¢ 7 > beak ees WATSON’S DRUG STORE ——WiLL BE SOLD—— At Cost wie EER cis NEW YEARS DAY. dec27—dy tl jan 2 LARGE STOCK ——AND—— LOW PRICHS HAVE just completed a large importation suitable for Xm sand New Year's Pre- sents, consisting of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Spectacles, Vases, Toys, Fancy Goods, etc., which will be sold at prices that wiil defy competition. Inspection solicit d. Aso Cleaning and Repairing done to Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Compasses at short notice, and guaranteed to give satis- faction. G. G. JURY, North Side Queen Square, Opposite Post Office. Ch’town, Dec. 3, 1890—-Jm 2aw dw WIRTER CAGSSING | rAyHE WINTER ROUTE between Cape & ‘Traverse and Cape Tormentine is now open. Passengers and Luggage at the regu- Jar rates. Passengers will find this route very much the cheapest Passepgers accom- modated in the very best manner. CAPT. GEORGE IRVING. dec26—3m eod wky P,E, ISLAND RAILWAY New Year’s Excursion. —_— — XCURSION RETURN TICKETS will 47° be issued at one first class fare to and from all Stations on this Railway, en WED- NESPDAY, December 3lst, inst., and on NEW YEAR'S DAY, good to return up to and on January 5th, 1891. J. UNSWORTH, Superintendent. Railway Ofiice, \ Ch’town, Dee. 24, 1890. J FOR SALE. c= SLOOP ** PET,” 9 tors, new, snit- all prs able for Lobster Smack ; is decked, and has a good cabin for two; carries 14 tons. Apply to John Lowrie, Charlottetown, or to the owner, PETER STEWART, decl9—wy eow 2m Victoria. / LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. -——_.~»—- Letter From Hon. D. Ferguson. Sin,—I listened attentively to the speeches of Mr. Laurier and his colleagues in the Market Hall, and I have carefully read the I'elegraph’s report of what these gentleman said at St. John, and J find that at neither of these places was there any re- ference made to the most fata) of all the objections to the policy they were propound- ing, Viz., that under it we would surrender the contro] of our own tarnff to Americans. it will be remembered that Mr. L. H. Davies, in the discussion before the Char- lottetown Board of Trade in the autumn of 1887, admitted that Commercial Unicn would have this effect, and illustrated the point in a way which showed what an ig- nominous position he was willing Canada should occupy in the new trade arrangement he was advoceting, by saying, ‘‘It is not the tail that wags the dog, but the dog wags ths tail.” He argued that the Americans would be ‘‘arrant fools” to agree to a scheme which did not provide for a common tariff for Canada and the United States. Since that time there has been a good ww Union. Then they changed its name to Unrestricted Reciprocity. But when it be- came necessary to sugar coat the bitter, unpalatable pill they offer it by the names of Free Trade and Reciprocity with the States. The real Jeader of their party, Erastus Wiman, when speaking in the United States, carries no mask, but fully declares the true nature of the scheme, and calls it Commercial Union, No amount of sophistry cau conceal the facet that the trade arrangement advocated by | Mr. Laurier involves the surrender of the control of our tariff to Washington puli- ticians ; that it means, in short, the com- mercial and political vassalage of the people of Canada. It is worthy of observation that Mr. Laurier, well knowing the im- portance of this objection, tacitly admitted its point by passing it over in silence. Let no man be duped by the subterfuge that it is possible to have Unrestricted Re- ciprocity without a common tariff. Under that plan insuperable practical difficulties would instantly arise. Take sugar for in- stance. The country having the lowest import duty on the raw article, or, as the case might be, giving the largest bounty on its importation, would monopolize the whole sugar business for the Continent, and so on in woolens and other branches of There would have to be acommon tariff, and in framing it the sixty milions weuld control the five millions, or, as Mr. Davies put it, ‘*the dog would wag the tai), not the tail the dog.” Intent as the Yankees would be to kill out every industry in Can-: ada, and thus drive us into the last ditch of annexation, they would frame the tariff with that end in view. Take pvtato starch as a case in point. That article can be pro-; duced cheaper in P. E. Islandthan in any. part of the United States. The free ad- mission of our starch would close all the American factories. 1 ask how long would | the sixty millions consent to pay high prices for their starch simply to protect the starch business in P. E. Island? Not very long. The next move would be to remove theduty, and then German starch would come into the United States and Canada, and control the market as it does in England now, where we cannot find remunerative sale for our starch owing to the cheapness of the German article. I mention the starch business, not because it is exception- al, but because some of our people appear to be under the’delusion that we could, under an Unrestricted Reciprocity scheme, get full control of the American market, by which our farmers would get good prices for their potatoes. We have now a limited but fair market for starch in our own Dominion, but this we would lose as soon as we gave up the control of our own tariff, We would lose the bone in attempting to grasp the shadow. The more I look at the policy propound- ed by Mr. Laurier, the more convinced I am that ii iscaleulated, if not actually in- tended, to bring about the annexation of Canada to the United States. The real leader of the Commercial Union party, Erastus Wiman; is no way backward in explaining to American audiences how an- nexation is to be brought about. If Com- mercial Union is once agreed to, he says, American influence will soon become domi- nant in Canada. “If the British Crown objects there will be another Boston tea party, and then we will tell the British Crown that we have no use for it in North America.” The tendency of the whole scheme is towards Annexation, and its Canadian advocates can only be acquitted of the charge of disloyalty on the plea of almost impenetrable stupidity. I am aware that Mr. L. H. Davies on the stump is not at best avery rational being, and he was especially irrational at the Charlottetewn meeting. I have, there- fore, no comment to make on his Market Hall speech. In St. John, the Telegraph reports him as saying :— “They of the Liberal party knew what could be done, and were fully aware what proper negotiations would bring about. * were ready to givea fair trade policy.” Now, in making this declaration, Mr. Davies either spoke the truth or he did not. Ifhedid not speak the truth, the Liberals have no understanding with the Americans, and his whole speech, and in fact everything else he may say on the sub- ject, deserve to be cast aside with loathing and contempt. If he did speak the truth, then we are to believe that the visits of Cartwright, Charlton, Longley and Davies to the States have resulted in a perfect un- derstanding between the Liberal Party in Canada and the dominant party in the United States. If an understanding exists, deal of hedging bebind quibbles and) phrases. At first they called their s heme an American zollverein of Commercial trade and manufactures. State in the American Government —who is, in the words of Sir Richard Cartwright, ‘the most important man in either public or private life in the United States to-day” —as an authority as to its nature in pre- ference to Mr. L. H. Davies. Here is what Mr. Blaine said not long ago in ad- dressing a meeting in the State of Maisie - Beyond the frontier, across that river, our neighbors choose another government, another allegiance. They are subjects of Queen Vic. toria, they are loyal to Her Majesty. They live under a foreign flag. They do exactly as they have a right todo. I neither dispute their right nor envy their situation, It ia their right to choose for themselves, as it is our right to choose for ourselves, But 1 am opposed, teetotaily oppposed, to giving the Canadians the sentimental satisfaction of wav- ing the British flag, paying British taxes, and enjoying the actual sot remuneration of Ame- rican markets, They cannot have both at the same time. If they come with us they can have what we have, but it is an abso'ute wrong against the rights of American citizens that millions of men who owe the United States no allegiance, who have no part or lot with us, who are not of us, but choose to be foreign to us; it is an absolute wrong for Con- gress to say that they shail have exactly the same share in our markets and the s»me privi- leges of trade under our flag thatwe have. So far as I can help it, Ido not mean that they shall be Canadians and Americans at the same time.” This shows what the understanding is, if there isany. 1 have no corament to make on the above, but leave the reader to draw his own conclusions. Lam, yours, D. Feravson. Dec. 30, 1890. A Baldwin S‘ation Notes. On the 22nd inst., Mr. Peter McKinnon, of Pisquid, while on a visit to Mr Samuel . Fowlers, merchant of this place, fell on the ,ice and had his leg badiy sprained, Mr. Edward Gay this season sold to Mr. Fowler the carcasses of two seven month's old pigs, whose joint weight wes 717 lbs. Mr, Gay has 9 more pigs of the same litter, an he expects the eleven to reach the total of 3300. Come on again, Kinkora ! Mr, Patrick Rice, our popular teacher, has ‘departed to his home for the holidays; he is entitled to under the new regulations of the school board. FaRMER. s anu vw. Bay Fortuue Notes. On Thursday evening, 25th Dec., quite a number of the young folks of Bay Fortune gathered at the residence of Mr. Archibaid McKenzie, where a Christmas tree, got up by Captain Croucher, who has come from Halifax to spend the winter on our Island, and wishing to get acquainted with the genial folk of Bay Fortune, tovk the op- portunity offered at Christmas times by stocking the tree with presents for all who would come, and no one went away disap- pointed, for when each one got their pre- sents they were glad fur having come. [ may just add, some of the presents were costly enough, costing, I can safely say, from four to eight dollars each, while the presents for the children were Christmas cards, confectionery, ete. After the presents were all distributed the evening was passed very pleasantly by playing games of various kinds. One game = interested me more than the others. It was called ‘** False Accusation.” During the course of this play some of the young men were accused (whether falsely or not) for having a hand in putting some a of the presents on the Christmas Tree. The evening was most enjoyably spent, and at 11 o’cluck all repaired to their re- spective homes, wishing that Christmas would come oftener than once a year. Ont Wo Was Presenr. School Examination. The semi-s: «il examination of the Tryon School w « ‘ion the 24th inst., and was highly savici tory to all interested. A mark- ed degree of progress was shown in all the branches studied. Inthe advanced depart- ment, under the supervision of Mr, Nelson Stevenson, solid work is being done. Mr. Stevenson has his work well in hand, and is laying a foundation in the minds of his pupils upon which, doubtless, solid structures will be reared in the future, He has proved himeelf ‘*a workman that needeth not to bo asham- ed.” The trustees consider themselves for- tunate in securing so capable an instructor for the young. In the primary department Miss Annie Alex under 1 eigns supreme, and hes her pupils well up in the different branches stadied. She has taught here for two years and has won the res of the entire community, She is doing faithful work, which gives evidence of diligence and good discipline. Among the visitors present'was the Rev. Mr. King, who examined some of the classea in different branches, and a himself as highly pleased with the work being done, and congratulated the teachers on the effi- ciency of their work. Mr Ernest Crawford, now a student of Prince of Wales College, and who received the rudiments of an education in this school, was also present and assisted in the examination and expressed himself as highly gratified with the results. here seems to be a good deal of dissatis- faction among the farmers in view of the vacation changes. The old plan seemed very satisfactory, the chi'dren be s home during the planting and harvesting of potatos. The people say they must have the children home The Liberals knew that the United States ik these times, and the uence will be o eficiency in the attendance, and as a result taxation will follow. Tyrnxo. Tryon, Dec, 26th, 1890. There are marriage ties, and friendly ties, And the ties which €3; There are solemn ties, and merry ties, And the ties in betting stakes; There are builders’ ties, and railroad ties, Which an actor can recall, But the HOLIDAY Ties, which we adver- lize, Are the pretties* ties of all. I take James G. Blaine, the Secretary of D. A, Braver.