Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 26, 1877, Winnipeg, Manitoba I i it f Al i ii. Business announcement. With a View of bettor accommodating a Large number of the patrons of Tho free press we have opened Jbranch office and Counti Sci under charge of our or Macgregor in the building immediately North oath Post office. Kenny a Maxton. Free press Offlie july oth 1877._____________ she guilt pm Friday oct. 26, 1877 the sower nuisance goes on and the mayor and aldermen seem to be altogether indifferent to the danger threatening the health of the City. Complaints continue to reach us from various quarters and it if suggested that owing to some defect which has occurred near the outlet in the East Ward the authorities hesitate to order the sewers to be flushed. In the meantime the Atmos phere of the City continues to poisoned by unwholesome exhalations. Some people try to persuade themselves that All will be Well so soon As Frost sets in. This is a de Lusion the sewers do not freeze up and the poisonous Vapours will continue to Rise All through the Winter to Breed fever in Tho Community. It is useless for the aldermen to try to shirk their responsibility and a meeting of the City Council should be held without delay. Some time before the appointment of or. Cruchon actually took place the Metis undertook to state that the selection of that person to fill the highest office in this pro Vine be acceptable to its population an assertion which we at once contradicted. Whatever influence it possesses t ius helped by misrepresentation to bring noon Manitoba a flagrant insult the Metis which ventured to reply to the of. Sections we urged previous to or. Cauchon s appointment now presumes to upbraid Tho for reiterating its declaration that the Choice of the Mackenzie administration is unacceptable and exceedingly offensive to the majority of the population. We have not taken up the cudgels in the interest of propriety and morality without a full conviction of the importance of our course of action and we have no intention now of receding from our position or of calmly accepting the situation that a Reno Gade Reform administration would Endeavor to Force upon the country the Metis after taking nearly three weeks to consider All the ins and outs of the. Question and to Hunt up some sort of a de sense of the infamous appointment of or. Guichon has not one word to say in Contra Montion of the Universal accusations of corruption and political immorality. Instead oi1 doing so it undertakes to lecture us on the impropriety of exposing the unfitness of the person to be invested with the dignities and prerogatives of the Sovereign and Claros to insinuate that in doing so we Are exhibiting disloyalty. It holds that with the appointment All discussions on the Char Acter of or. Cauchon should cease implying hat this individual should to introduced to this Community unchained and mummies with Teeth und Rawn and claws uncut to exhibit himself As an example of How the Canadian government is disposed to Honor the most notorious politician in the Domin Ion. To May not be Able to Cut the claws or draw Tho tooth but it devolves upon u at any rate to sound the Tocsin of alarm. The Metis contends that the free press has failed to state in what Way the act of the Mackenzie ministry has imperilled the rights of the population of this province Declar ing that instead of reasoning calmly on this serious question a wholesome this journal attacks the person of her majesty s representative which audacious act our contemporary stigmatized As highly improper if not absolutely disloyal. Such a lecture might have been quite oven More effective had it come from a source other than that whence have emanated in times paste Tenn actions of not Only absolute disloyalty to the Dominion and open rebellion but Pallia son for objection Cauchon e obnoxious antecedents and bad political repute and Tia not without significance that the Metis like All other journals which have attempted to justify his appointment is entirely dumb upon this phase of the question having not one Good word to say of him. While however we Only raised the nationality As a secondary objection to or. Cauchon is lieutenant governor we advanced it with Good reason As Strong ground for regarding the selection As injudicious. It is All very Well for the Metis to dwell up on the securities afforded by our system of responsible government and parliamentary legislation to show that a corrupt or schem ing lieutenant governor cannot infringe up on the liberties of the people but there is a trite and homely saying to the effect that the proof of the pudding is in the eating singularly appropriate to this Branch of the subject. Though we cannot dispute the fact that theoretically lieutenant governor May constitutionally be powerless All those who Are acquainted with the first years of Mani Toba know what a myth is this Conception. They know by the Light of experience that it is possible for a lieutenant governor in a province like this to become practically die Tator. What 1ms been done once May be done again and with the possibility of itt being done we know of no Man who would be More Apt to Avail himself of Tho Opportunity for corrupt intrigue than or. Cauchon we have already in past times seen the noses of Tho English speaking people o this province held to the French Grindstone and that is in itself sufficient to inspire us with the Resolution to resist by anticipation the attempt to repeat it. In the honest performance of our Mission in this respect we can Velj afford to disregard Tho sneers of j our St. Boniface contemporary. It will be found that ignorant and foolish though the English speaking people my be in the opinion of the Metis those in whose behalf we protest have a sufficiently Lively recollection of past wrongs to support us in re sisting any step in the direction of restoring minority domination in this province. We have already said that the Metis n solvent act of 1875 and a amendments thereto. Cash wheat in the matter of Thomas Taylor of Mapleton insolvent. The subscribers have Boon favored with instructions from David Young esq., trustee to the estate to sell by auction at their auction room nearly adjoining j. H. Ashdown s hard Ware store main Street Winnipeg on saturday oct. 20th. And continue until Tho whole is disposed of the Stock in Trade and effects belonging to Trio above estate consisting of dry goods Bendy made clothing boots and shoos groceries crockery glassware 1 Ardward cutlery Hall fire proof Safe Quantity of bedsteads chairs tables stoves etc., amounting to about will be sold without Reserve. Sale at 2 and 7 o clock each Day a Dutour co., David you no auctioneers. Trustee Ami creditors Tisl Kitoe. 3st a 3d bushels hard wheat for immediate ship mint. A few car loads to b seed wheat for which the highest Price will be paid. Sin m Chicago Milwaukee St up u railway the great through Lino Between Chicago though previous to his appointment it spoke favourably of the selection has not dared to Advance a single word in defence of Tho assailed character of Tho now lieu tenant governor contenting itself by endeavouring to show that Cauchon will be so manacled and fettered by constitutional safeguards that he is powerless to assail the liberties of the people. Having pointed out the fallacy involved in this profession and having quoted Only this week a t town of Alexandria. The attention of Tho Public is respectfully called to die advantages of purchasing in Trio heart of Tho most flourishing settlement in the 1 Rovance. A limited number of lots for Sale at from Call mul see from the Globe which shows that passage Tho lend John a. Park heal estate agent Opp City Hull. Tons of actual red handed murder. We cannot perceive however that the expression of uncompromising hostility to the appointment to Rule our destinies of a my Whoso antecedents sire such As mi1. Cauchon s Are said to be approaches to disloyalty. To condemn the appointment because to think our coun try our people find our Queen Are outraged and insulted thereby. If our expression of this View be disloyal As the Metis imputes then we cannot help the imputation and we Hope we shall never have so Low an opinion of the Constitution of Manitoba or of the Sovereign As to admit that Cauchon is worthy to be the guardian of Tho former or to represent the latter. As we have stated before the Metis does not undertake to contradict the Universal testimony of our Canadian contemporaries us to the evil characteristics of or. Cauchon though one might have supposed that hav ing advocated Tho appointment it would have endeavoured to repel the aspersions which have been cast upon the individual whom it seems St. Boniface is ready to Swallow at a utterly corrupt Aid entirely a deodorized. Totally ignoring Tho abundant testimony against or. Cauchon s character which we have quoted and without venturing to con inv list or palliate the Metis allows our primary objection to Trio appointment to pass virtually confessing judgment and simply takes up a supplementary objection which we urged respecting Tho nationality of this person. Our contemporary s Assumption that our sole reason i or opposition to Cauchon is that he is a French speak ins Man is absurd and altogether pm founded. We have been most Posi Tive in our statements in this particular and our objections to Tho Man been based upon apparently incontrovertible facts that transpired without the province. To have Given As our prime Rea ing ministerial Organ has an equally High appreciation of the extent to which a lieu tenant governor May become an Active Power in the state we have Only now to consider the sole recommendation which the Metis can Lind for the appointment of or. Cauchon. Our St. Boniface contemporary produces just three extracts from the Cana Dian press in relation to this matter Viz the tame compliments paid by the Globe to or. Cauchon s Long political experience of Public Lii a without a word As to his Char Acter a few observations from the Quebec chronicle to the same Ell oct and lastly an extract from la Constitution Nel of three livers. In the last we Lind perhaps the Only ground that would afford even French canadians satisfaction with Buchli a Man boing placed Over them. This journal re that we cannot approve his faults Bien attend que Nous n approx Vojtis aug nement still it would 11 be manifestly unjust to refuse him the 11 credit that is due to him by Good right for the vindication of our political rights As French canadians in our glorious nor Are the Metis and the constitutions cd alone in advocating the appointment on this ground for the Courrier Ever sectional while taking a fling at or. Cauchon is glad of the appointment nevertheless because he is a French Cana Dian 1 in View of these organs of that nationality giving the fact of or. Cauchon s belonging to the same Section of the popu lation As themselves As their reason for rejoicing at the appointment How absurd it is for our St. Boniface contemporary to take us to task for daring on behalf of the majority of the people of this province to express an opposite opinion temp Oliance Book the tiaie3. Out of the Depths personal narrative of a tact Iris Sal i. Auction Sale of Tho following valuable farm Antl City properties Willijc Ostrei cil by Public nut ton on saturday the 27th inst., at the off co of or. We. , next door to Telegraph office on main Street at the hour of 7.30 . Lots at Point acres on Side Portage roil main Street. Acre on the River in the City of Winnipeg. Acre and House adjoining the above containing 8 rooms quite new and finished in Llzkt clinks style suitable Lor a family suburban residence. J lot on Morris estate. And House at Point Douglas containing nine rooms with stable coach House Well etc., subject to n lease with 5 years to run. Chains on East Side of red River with heavy Oak Timber situated in 1 Arlish of St. Agathe. Of 210 acres each in Kildonan and St. Paul s. Lot in St. Chur los with Good Wood and Hay improved. Chain lot at Bale St. Paul Well timbered. Terms. On turd Cash at the time of Sale balance in two years. For nil further particulars apply to my fall under the Power of Strong drink and my Complete reformation. By w. T. Cox. Sycamore 111., formerly Huron ont. Out of the Depths have i cried unto thee 0 xxx. I. Second edition. Revised and illustrated. And for Sale by messes. Washing ton Bros. And e. A. Thomas co., new York new England the can Abas and Sill Kathorn and Soiu Heri. Putits ind gnat North West connecting in Chicago with nil Kastern Gnu so Horn drawers extra a pair of for a Chicago Cor. Ier canal and West mail son hero ctr. Dorsc cure and stage Linen for a parts of to Holty constantly passing. The Only through Dine Between Chicago m Wankee St. Pull and Minneapolis. It traverses a 1 nor country Ullh grander scenery Ami pah pcs through More Buh Nesh Een Trei and pleasure resorts hum any other North veil can line and the Only railway line traversing Trio Valley of lie upper Mississippi River Ami along the shores of Luke Pepin. A to via ill Wankat Madison pro Irlo do Ihlen Mcgregor Austin Owatonna and Faribault. Two trains Dally leaving lit. Paul 10.10a.il.10 in. Through Palace coaches and sleeping cars of Tho Best and track perfect. Connecting at St. Paul and Minneapolis Ellb the he viral lines entering at those Points. Is. Paul depot Corner of Jackson Street and levee. City 118 East jacks Corner Thor l Street the sign of the Buffalo Cor. Main and poet age a Knob. Half Breed lands wholesale and retail grocer stationers Winnipeg. P. 0. Box 83. George of Carruthers real estate a inv 023-27 j70u double lot and two St Jiey dwelling House. On tilt Corner of James and Loosa streets Winnipeg lately occupied by Mckenney. Dry cellar woodshed Oak log stable and non Nashed Well. Sue of lot is x 100 feet enclosed by substantial Fence. Healthy Sincle Trees on James Street. Title perfect. Svihl be sold on easy terms. Apply j. M. Macgregor s29-2ms Fabek press Branch office. C e o citizens requiring ice put up this Winter can have it done by the undersigned on Liberal terms. Bust of references Given. M. Duclos 020-27 City. Is Vicci Viii daily Liis of general groceries wines and liquors Etc 500 cases Baltimore and California canned fruits and vegetables. 100 cases canned meats and soups Cross Bla Clavell s jellies and jams. 800 boxes celebrated Glasgow concentrated soap. 100 urls. Oatmeal. 75 Walker s and Good Liam s extra 5 old a Hiskey. 31 Artel 1, Ilcyn noisy and Jules jux Obin brandies in Wood and bottled. A few a. Casks Vorva Fine Sherry and port. Moselle sparkling Jock and other champagnes in ;