Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba daily free press. Winnipeg March 16. Manitoba free press. In Ornis aka evening editions every Day except sunday at Sis o clock a. 31 and for o clock p. M., respectively it Winnipeg by Tho Manitoba free press co. W. F. Luxton director and editor in chief. Either edition by mail Ono year s10 six Ono month Cash in of Vinico. Dally morning free press delivered in Winnipeg on ammo tenon. Evening free press and Sun delivered in win Ning so per week 73 cents per month Lor Tureo months. Strictly Cash in Advance. Advertising rates per nonpareil Lino 12 lines makes Ono Inch in slept to for appearing in both Etu Lonb Orp Akaky advertising ten cents per Lino each insertion. 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Leafed and located rimmed Maloly Over the City and 10 cents per word each insertion. No notice inserted for loss than cuts inserted they Rubt to a not mounted on Wood. Cannot see us fur ahead As the Tintoc Ftp Leader of the party were disturbed Over thin loss of Revenue and the manner of providing Cor in and who looked Forward with Laorae alarm to an assimilation of to feb would have for canadians an awkward Bug certion of political or inferiority. Three tears May to ground Leah As we Are now assured but there is Home excuse for Tho Apprel reunion Felt with respect to them when we find now that they disturbed Tho mind of no eminent a statesman As or. Blake. It May to that or. By fib a wrong and Tho loaders right lit May be that the country is not reduced to such that id becomes necessary in seeking a remedy to take into Una iteration even Bho possibility of such a change As has been suggested. This at least will be the fervent wish of the people. There is no desire for annexation no desire for a condition of Hiuga out of which annexation May come. If we cannot obtain unrestricted reciprocity on other terms or without incur ring this risk we can leave it alone. If we can according to or. Blake it would to the Best arrangement that could be made. But if we have to leave it alone we must Caas about for other policy that will serve us if not at Well As we like at least As Well a it can be made to do. Daily edition. Freedom in Trade. Liberty in civil right to in monday. March 10. 1891. My. Lake a in. Sir. Blake has Tommu Nicator to the press Short letter in which he puts himself right m against certain inferences made from a sentence in Bis famous manifesto and which has been interpreted without regard to Tho context. It is to be regretted that both the manifesto and the explanatory inter were not made More explicit in their Terras go a to avoid any possibility of misunderstanding. The sentence quoted was made to mean that or. Blake would favor a commercial compact with the United states that would result and speedily too in a political in other words he favored annexation. This he says i not a Correct inference and adds that while he believes annexation a becoming probable he does Nob regard it a either the Ideal or the inevitable future of our country. This bears out the construction put upon his manifesto by the free press. There was nothing in that document to show that he favors annexation. Being unable to distinguish in their political effects Between unrestricted reciprocity and commercial Union he believed that the adoption of either policy would Load to n political Union and so relieving he held that it was the duty of the leaders to Ploce that Issue equate y before the people. If that was to be our destiny let us face it with a fall consciousness of what was ahead of us. Because in he View of it the people wore be inc naked to adopt a policy that involved consequences which they did not suspect he could Nob approve of Tho course taken by Tho other party leaders and therefore refused to work with them. We Are left too infer that he was prepared to put before the country the whole Case Asib appealed to his judg ment and to Dia Cusit in All its bearing s with the utmost frankness. Beyond this we did not understand that be was willing to go and his letter confirms the attitude we ascribed to him. Or. Blake believes that a Union with the United states a becoming probable. The careful Reader of his manifesto will understand the reasons for this belief. He would prefer a moderate Tariff and limited reciprocity but for reasons stated at length to regards these As practically unattainable. There re main the National policy and tire a rioted reciprocity of commercial Union. Tho former 13 driving us into in relation and the latter would Load us into a. Unless some Way of escape can to discovered Between the policies of the two parties annexation is inevitable. Here is cause enough a he regards the situation for be Lieving that a political Union with the United states is becoming probable. That is not however his Ideal of our future nor ibis some Relief to know does he regard it a inevitable. He Nosb therefore have thought of some Way of escape some Middle course by which we May secure a satisfactory measure of commercial Freedom while main Taining our present Independence. When or. Blake withdrew from West Durham he retired into private life and further than the ref on ability which attaches to every citizen he is under no obligation to Cornu late policies or to undertake the direction of Public affairs. But be has told us that the present tendency is towards annexation in saying in is not inevitable Ghe implies that the tend. Ency can be checked. It will rest with mar Bloke whether in View of Thia declaration he is Nob bound to go a step further and indicate Tho course he would suggest to escape the evils of the present situation. Between or. Blake and the Liberal leaders there is great divergence of opinion. We have said that Many of the most thoughtful of the electors throughout the Dominion in or. Apprehensions As to the consequences that might follow on the adopt. Icon of unrestricted reciprocity. But Tho leaders main Tain that those fears Are less. In an address to his constituents thank ing them for his election sir Richard cart Wright financial Oracle of the party maintained with great earnestness that annexation was neither contemplated nor was it in any Way involved a the question of Freer Trade with the United states. To May be very sure that it was not contemplated and the Assurance of sir Rich Ard that unrestricted reciprocity con a obtained without danger to our political free Dom will go a Lon it Way towards allaying pub Lic apprehension. He added that the difficulty with respect to the loss of Revenue had been fully considered and was quite capable of being overcome. This also is assuring. He Speaks with the Reapon ability of a Leader who hag nothing to gain and everything lose by breaking Faith with the people. Nor in he called upon to propound scheme in detail while in opposition therefore no quarrel can to had with him for Nob taking the country into his Confidence in respect to those but it we not unreasonable that others who personal journalism. A journalism goes these Days there Are Mauv practices that Are reprehensible bub none More Ibia presumed to be con ducted on an impersonal attacks on supposed writers. With Tho publication of every Well regulated newspaper there is a Sci att some person who Uatha us sunned editor properly be held personally responsible for its utterances. Personal criticism should never reach beyond indeed should be sparingly indulged in even in his cose. Impersonal journalism in the Ideal if English sea King people Winch involves considering and dealing with every utterance upon its merits without re Gard to the person who May have penned journal itself being always Given an individuality but As Diat Inci from the per. Aun Lity of its writers As from that of its Type setters or prot men. Speaking for itself the vice press Bomi not eur journalistic practices not kept within these confines. Dealing with Public men in their Public capacity is an entirely different thing. They must necessarily be personally referred to and treated As or dictates. Thebo remarks Are suggested by the cowardly i Nethon of the Tribune. In is the of bit of that paper to not Content by combating the opinions of Bhe free Porchr on their merits but to drag in men known to be employed by it it writers but who Are no Nitro responsible for its views than the mechanics who trans form Tho manuscript into print. One protest against this despicable practice is affected to be partially met by the counter charge that the frees is distinguished for the gusto with which it wallows in personalities. Whether to criticize with Good or bad taste is a matter Between the Public and ourselves but certainly our per Sonal criticisms Are strictly confined to Public acts and Public characteristics of Public men or if not of Public men in the Ordinary dense of the Terra to Octa which being themselves of Publio concern properly bring Tho actors within the legitimate journalistic Range. These Are our limits however vigorously we May move within them. The free Preas shrinks Nob from personal journalistic methods for fear of being worsted by having its writer pub in comparison with those of the Tribune. We object to personal journalism acc Nus it is of Job upon principle. For Thia once we will make n departure Juat to exemplify what we Don t like it May not in generally known bub it is a fact All the Jenme that Tho principal editorial writer of the Tribune for some time past has been and is now a Clergyman in Roguer charge of u City Church. To those who during the election Campaign Havo been Reading the particularly virulent matter that has filled its columns this can scarcely fail to be Well nigh incredible but Bis True Bis pity and pity tic tis True. In in the same Man who ascends the pulpit every sunday and exhorts his hearers to righteousness and who every other Day in the week is employed writing false testimony against bin neighbor for the delectation of readers who Delight not in the truth concern ing wordly things but who seek Only for argument specious or otherwise to support their own cause and to confound their whichever be right or which Ever is wrong. It is the same Man who fraternize in the y. C. A., with the president As an exemplary Christian and who to serve political ends portrays him in an editorial a canting hypocrite charging him with practising under the guide of religious Zeal the Corr upmost corruption and with conduct wholly unworthy of the lowest political Bac stairs and such a Craven is this clerical editor that in opening the political article particularly referred to Nob Leeling quite me with the anonymity afforded him by the screen of Bho editorial we he resorts to a most contemptible kind of mendacity to further Ward off suspicion of his identity by actually simulating an approval of ministers of religion being de barred by common participation in politics. Of pulpit How Art thou de filed by unworthy occupants of press How Art thou disgraced by unscrupulous contributors himself that electricity was a motor that could be depended upon in this climate. A month or tvo ago he was ready for the practical Tost and or since his experimental Lino has been working in a manner to give the utmost Bati faction. To has now made application to extend the line across the main Street Bridge in order to connect with the old system and in is understood with the View of ultimately supplanting it with electric railway. The whole question is now under and what will come of it we May expect to know in a Short tide. Perhaps the present Winter bait not offered a fair teat. It Haa been a More moderate Ono than usual. Know has been to of an impediment that the sleighs have Nob once been brought out during the whole in May to therefore that the capacity of the electric motor to contend against snowdrifts has not been properly gauged. In default of this it will be interesting to know what has been Tho experience in other places not unlike Winnipeg in its conditions. Only a few Days ag3 the St. Paul Pioneer press had an article on the working of the electric system in that City from which we quote it is clearly demonstrated that electric Power is More valuable in Minnesota for Street railway purposes than anywhere else in the country. The kind of weather which offers serious interruption to traffic is the kit id which the Eastern cities have frequently and which we do Nob. Ono of Tho Woreb things that an electric system has to contend against is the. Formation of ice on the rails. When there is a Sleefe storm rain fall ing steadily and congealing the instant it touches the Iron Highway there is a break in the circuit the pet feet Contact Between Tho a held and Tho rails is destroyed and thu motive Power is Gono. This is one of the great trials of the Street railway comi Muy in Boston and one which we do not know anything about More than once in ten years or so. Very moist Damp won her Hus its in permitting the escape f electric Energy from the conducting wire to the surrounding atmosphere. This is another condition that Nix n in Minnesota but very infrequently. The trial of All in experienced from a heavy of web clinging Snow such As they by in All the a aboard cities Many Umes during the year. When Tho upper Aii warm and full of moisture that begins to fall As rain while there is a surface Sti turn of colder air which a enough lower in u me Arturo to turn this moisture to snowflakes and freeze them As they fall there a Truu Blo indeed for an electric system. Its wires Toome great ropes of mingled Snow and ice v Hose accumulated weight is sufficient to them Down and even to snap off the stud by poles that hear them up. It was a storm of this sort a Fow weeks ago in new York i y which demoralized every kind of Busini dependent upon electric wires. It is storm of Tuia description that Are common in All Eastern cities to str Well a in Chicago and 01 tier Damp climate. In Minnesota they Are p tactically unknown great excitement at Walsh s clothing House no. 513 main Street opposite City Hall Worth of new Spring clothing hats and Caps gkehstts3 bought during or. Walsh s recent visit to the Eastern markets at a very Low rate on the Dollar Are now being sold off at prices never before heard of in the City. Men s suits for boy s suits children s suits men s Tweed parts 95c. Vests 75c. Coats now Spring overcoats undershirts 25c. Drawers 25c. Ovo shirts 25 and overalls 25 and 5oc. Collars cuffs handkerchiefs neckties braces etc., at proportionately Low prices. 11 cases boots and shoes bought at 50c. On the Are being sold cheap i a a to i . Is i All new and imported specially for this season s Trade. They were also bought at a very Low rate on the a and will be offered at extraordinarily Low prices. You must see these goods to realize their proper Evjue. They Are All new fresh and marked Down to sell at less than half the original Price. Jobbers and country merchants. Will find this a Good Opportunity to secure goods away Down below wholesale prices. The cheapest clothing House in the City. No. 513 main Street opposite City hair a double defeat. A probable repetition of mar tin s experiences in Selkirk. The opposition leadership no Folly of slander to by pursued but a More Vij orom one to to i Olla local notes. Ten barrels Pino Norway Ood liver Oil f. O. To. Winnipeg at Montreal Noia. Tionta. Slight Advance broken lots. Job Liot Clear Al prime bought from sheriff will Boll ii Lota of nne thousand or Over at Leas than factory prices. Manufacturers invoices produced. Oo.3 these conditions which in j the most unfavourable for electric it neb for vice Are realized to Seldom in St. Paul and Minneapolis that they Are scarcely More Tob taken into account the possible breakdown of an engine at the Power House or the burning out of Fusee. In is True and we think in May now be taken As a demonstrated fact that our climate is singularly Well adapted to the use of the Clec tic system. While our people see that its application still admits of improvement they no eminently satisfied with in As a Lystrom the facts warrant All we have said and much More in the same Strain bub it s enough to illustrate personal sort in which the Tribune novels the orb frowned Down not alone by All respectable but by All respectable that s enough for o t present purpose. Blk tric tba5iways. Six or eight months ago the City wont wild Over a proposition for an electric Tramway. Some gentlemen of a speculative turn of mind had come up from St. Paul to make an offer to the Council which they did. Some of the aldermen were for accepting it a once and every resident in the City in the least interested in land speculations shouted his approval. The City gradually calmed Down and not Long after the gentlemen from the truth took their departure without having accomplished anything. But their friends and they were both numerous and they clearly demonstrated the necessity that existed for one or More electric tramways in this City at the earliest possible moment in rested As that however to far As the original scheme was concerned. Or. Austin quietly bet to work to Experiment Over in fort Rouge. He thought if there was anything in an electric franchise be was at least a much entitled to in As foreign in but before committing himself too far in any offer he desired to aware tub conspiracy to buy up enough government supporters to turn the scale in favor of the opposition was of Tho thinnest kind. Simultaneously with the visit of a Laurier emissary to Nova Scott and new Bruns Wick appeared Iti a. Quebec paper three telegraphic dispatcher one from Princa Edward Island one from Manitoba one from the territories All surprisingly alike. That from Prince de War 1 Island said you Are authorized that the whole six members elected in province will vote for Laurier and reciprocity. And from Tho territories you Are authorized to state that or. Davin will oppose Tho government. This from a Winnipeg contradict to beg you Tho statement published by All Tho papers that Manitoba has returned Only Ono Liberal or. Watron for Marquette. You can positively state that with one exception or. Maedonald Sou of sir John a. Inc Domald All the others will vote or Lamier and the overthrow of Tho present we do Nob know Why or. Macdonald was left out he is just about As doubtful As the others. Fancy or. Davin voting against sir John he May some Day repudiate himself bub to will never go Back on the old chieftain. These dispatches were concocted in the office of the paper that published them but what purpose they wore expert of to serve it would be hard to Tell. Communications. Char ten and the port Fig. La the editor of Tho free Tress. Notice by the papers to hand to Day that Joe Martin intends to foist himself on this constituency again. Now sir i would like to know what he takes the electors of this division for does think that All he him to do is to say the word and Tabata the knew of every elector shall Bow before him if he he is very much mistaken. There is too much grit in the electors of this div Isi on for that. Now sir i supported or. Martin in the last election but i for one and i know Many othere have got too much manhood to support a Man who will desert us when be likes without saying by your leave or consulting us in any Way and then when he did Nob ret something bet Ter he comes Back to those he deserted and says to us hero i am Back again you Zubb vote for of no Joo Selkirk a your new love stick to her you have jilted us and if i mistake Nob the spirit of the electors they will Havo none of you. They will not be uis de Wewora of Wood and drawers of waber for you or any other Man. We Are no serfs Bud Are free electors in every sense of the Tenn and or. Martin will find our that although he owns Union Square he has no mortgage not even a Lien on this constituency. Votko. Portage la Prairie March 13. Current chronology. March 14 Vii of Eaglend Rennod a commis Sion of discovery to Cabot and Hea sons similar to that which cd uranus had received Iron Ferdinand Ami Isabella Hii j o of Aero by Napoleon. , invested by Tho British under French Defeated. Of Tho Netherlands constituted will Sra i proclaimed King. Of Trio Imp Valal Prince amnesty granted to political prisoners in Giuoco. O f Duchess of Kent aged 75. At Pound Gap Teun. Up St Elc s Bayou second division fifteenth and ii buy under Admiral Porter it aver Sboro n. C. Union loss554. 805. Of Mexico by Tho French of by Edgar Swan Teller of the City notional Bank Lynn mass., discovered. Of Island senator Chi oct of abode a terrible Ali Root. Brick Luxor on the scaffolding Strug gling with n bail that s the fourth match i be lighted and if Tho beastly Gli stick won t Burn now i shall really have to Start Blatter. Crool. That was a sympathetic Nudie Ace i said the lecturer. Yes. I thought they All seemed sorry for each said his bosom Friend. New York evening Sun. The indications Are that in the month of March in the yuru1 of our lord 1891, history will repeat itself m care of attorney Genet Al Martin. The overwhelm King defeat he sustained in Selkirk will is now Heli oved be repeated to a smaller scale in Portage la a Nirie where he is again endeavouring to seek the comfortable cent he surrendered in a vain attempt to or cab another and larger Ono from or. Daly. At All events his of and satisfied that the honorable Joseph will be just about As much out of local politics after the 28th a he was not in Dominion affairs after the 5th March last. Mayor Garland who is the opposition Standard bearer was in town saturday and expressed himself confident of the result and said he would not remain m to Field if to imagined that he had not More Chun a Mere High thug Chance for Victory. From other Portage people it waa Learned out or. Garland would have Defeated Smith Curtis in boat two to one As the canvass conclusively showed and wins largely owing to this that Curtis was withdrawn from the Field and Nib partner or. Martin substituted. In is admitted that the latter in stronger Man than or. Curtis and will secure arms persons whom the latter could Nob control but deducting All these from or. Garland s pledged vote and Tho result will Nob be materially affected. There will yet be a Good round majority for the opposition candidate. As Ono gentleman said Saltpetre won t save Martin thin time and it will be Only by the most extravagant expenditure of Money and profuse promises thab he can be our informant added i believe that the great major Ity will Nob be affected by such influences and the feb mayor Garland will the Ball opens to night at the Portage with a macs meeting called by or. Marcin at which or. Garland and Bia friends will be present. Tub Ori position leadership. An alleged interview with or. Gillies appears in the local government or Roo which is apparently one tenth Gillies and nine tenths Tribune and the usual tactics of that unfortunate reprint of stale news Aro Recor Tec to in order to give the impression that Tabata mints it makes Are those of or. Gillies. It would make it appear for instance that or. Gillies resigned the position of Leader of the opposition because to would not countenance the introduction of personal matters Anc scandals on the floor of Tho House and that unless or. Koblin was Rasado commander in chief he Goblin would Nob neb Wilh their party. Doubtless these Are merely the wishes of the Tribune writer Nob the utterances o or. Gillies. Tho actual facts Are thab or Gillies who at considerable personal sacrifice to himself and Jagai Nab Bis personal wishes acted As opposition Leader did not agree with Hia followers that a More vigorous policy Zhouk be pursued in the legislature. To believe that the government if left severely alone would shortly fall to pieces from Ita own in Kurenb weakness and incapacity without be ing attacked a All and at All eve Cuba the time Hod Nob yet arrived when All its bins of omis Sion and commission a hold be Laid Bare. government s numerous shortcomings should . This difference of opinion however caused no unpleasantness or ill feeling and or. Gillies at once tendered Hia resignation which wag a copied Andino Toily that but he seconded or. Rohlin d nomination made by or Marion As his successor. This effectually disposes of Tho Tribune s cock and Bull Story evidently print eel to pub or Gillies in a false or. Koblin Waw seen yesterday by it press repro tentative and while reluctant to speak on the subject said to had no aspirations whatever to the leadership and that before he would accept Tho position he o suited print try with air. Gillies whose allegiance Vaa proffer red in a most cordial and unqualified manner. Or. Koblin denied that any ill feeling was created or thab any policy of slander or rib stabbing was Conton plated or even suggested lob alone Ducus sed. Bub Tho opposition Felt there should be a More vigorous policy instituted at once. They wanted a Fuller Debute on the Addesa believing that some amendments should have been moved As the speech from the throne particularly Barren and did not mention soveral que Tiona which should have been dealt with. Amongst those were Tho Souris Extension the Hudson s Bay Road Fuller explanations from Premier grf away regarding recent changes in Tho Cabinet the voters list Tho mangled municipal act and Tho blundering legislation of the past so Salon generally. To had Nob formally accepted Tho position bub would probably do to although he was Nob Pardon ally Tiniou fur it. Or. Roblin disclaimed strongly against Auy intention of pursuing a policy of slander As wac intimated by government supporters would be done knowing that there were enough political sins committed by Bic government to condemn them without resorting to such contemptible an Effort won made to find or. Lillie bub he Bod gone Home to Minnedosa. A Coniku Yate oat1iebinu. The conservative association of Winnipeg will hold a special meeting this of Ching in Victoria Hall when Bhe election of officers will place. It is presumed that notion will taken respecting the South election. A number of names a eligible cad dilates Are already mentioned but to in doubtful if the stand non bearer will to selected it this meeting. Joves Nunt candidates in South Winnipeg. A number of or. Friends Are urging him to Agni to the government candidate in South Winnipeg by Froin what can be Learned they will not succeed. It is an open secret that or. Campbell Only accepted a nomination for thu commons at the repeated urgent request of his political friends Aud most unwillingly Enton d Artel Presb representative wan unable to find or. Cump Bill Jent erday bus he Learned from another Quarter which a hound be High authority thac that Leo Leman would positively Rufus to to offer himself again. No other names Are mentioned except meters. J. D. Cameron u and Fred wades neither of whom in. At present Likely to accept the Noinin. Or. Campbell s having instituted Toee Edings against Hevral pc Man for per Phoenix insurance company of Hartford Conn. Established 1854 Cash capital Canadian olt co 114 St. By. Of -11 fell of Cor Fer 1 t i for to ;