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_ 8t Clements, Mattell‘s Hall, Thursday, June j ul:- W o ;no. Lecture Hall, {Friday, June M‘n, Huchnergard‘s Hall, Monday, :.B.l.oonlnan’lp'l’ne-l June 16th, at 8 p m e, s 4 Wohubn-r“ m»o.:?-. Hall, Wodnxu. [ e cessn mlurima to be and Mr. secwram is Invited to be present, made known on a; piication *Waterloo, May 18th, 1896. Waterloo County (Chronicle. _ Weliesley, Acticultural Hall, Monday, June 8th, xt 8 p m h:b’omfixn-vum’n Hall, Tuesday, June V?Mflsw. Wednesday, June 10th, at Â¥. COLQUKHOUN, JOHN MOT & _lh-enw;. President North w.urzfin at 8 p m w od, Friedmann‘s Hall, Friday, June 4 b, at 8 p m. _ Erbeviile, school House, Saturday, June 6th, veat .the EState with . the righte to scate children. That‘right was given God to the father, and it rests with » prieat to see to the religious educa a df the child,for the priest alone has ;em'.‘"m. Township Hail, Tuesday, May 2 h, p m CUonesrog», Schweitzer‘s Hali, Wodnesdny, ; May Fith. at s pm * 7 “(x-“mfl. 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In the C:thedral of Three Rivers on unday June 17, after the reading of e collective mandement]Mgr.Lafleche, deesan bishop and senior member of e Ryman Catholic hierarcby in the lole province, delivered a most imâ€" etant sermon on the present political me, giving bis views and instructions Priestley‘s Master Procoâ€" For the Jeashoreâ€" & From Poor Sight to Good Sightâ€"Hel Woeokly Newspaper Published every Thurs DAVID BEAN, Proprietor, New Advertisements this week THURSDAY, MAY 28th, 1896 the State has to do is to help perning the Manitoba schoo‘s questâ€" which forms the basis of the conâ€" in Quebec. Hoopodbymfin‘ tit was his duty to axpound the trime contained in the mandement, llonulndmdomin*.lnho.u eceived, they must see in him not a m‘h.‘".mm“ story of the school question in obs, commencing with his own h.'h:b"‘llllfllimury and everything worked harmonâ€" by amequal distribution of the between Romsn Catholics and tante, l.vumoh.bo-p'bo of: the Presbyterians bey demanded their share of the fimhdto-ymm de. in parliament on the school questâ€" E given rise to expressions of on and the setting forth. of doct absolutely opposed to the doctrine URIER CONDEMNED in this matter, and the State respect the faith and morals of id to whatever religion he may but a bishop rising over and political parties and distributing m the word of God as a successor spostles. They must also place ives above all prejudices and il preferences and be ready to the teaching and apply it under R. =NIDER. the Reform candidate, and other« i. his interest, will address the md Nouth Waierloo at the fnilowing + board lines of the Roman Cat Uburch. Oune of the greatest errore was that of Liberalism that mission from God. All atages through which the . since 1890, b.nfqp. bill and‘ remarked law was not perfect, tolerable state of After givâ€" r After quoting from Mgr. De Segin as to the duty of ‘Roman Catholics in power to adapt their views to the teachâ€" ing of the Charch, the Bishop added : mumwmm..“.,. is a {warning which, in conscience, I feel ‘bound to give you. Under the circumstances, a Catholic cannot with. out sinning in a grievous matter, vote for the party leader who bas formalated monstrous and most dangerous error. Yo.villlborflyboosllodnpontovote. Here are two men whose fatal error I single to you. ‘This is the first time MI““.W formula of rationalism in the mouth of a Canaâ€" _| _ Referring then to the remarks of an ‘ | other member who, while he admitted ‘| Mgr. Langevin‘s right to be satisfied | with the bill in a religicus point of view | nevertheless clainsed his own right as a | Frenchâ€"Canadian, to differ from him on the national and constitutional point of view, Bishop Lafleche continued: ‘Here then the Church is put out of the quesâ€" tion in a matter where the very rights of conscience are concerned, Here is a member of the House who stands beâ€" fore the bishops and tells them squareâ€" ly: ‘You say that the b 1i is acceptable , I say that it is wot.:. Who is to be beâ€" lieved 1 Who has jurisdiction to épeak authoritatively on the matter! The COhurch, that is the hierarchy. The member of parliamght suys that he has. Wdl.Mhlibudhupunmddnph that liberalism which, under pretence that a raligions question refers to. poliâ€" tics in a certain measure, forbids reâ€" ligious authority to interfere. ‘It is my duty to give you a solemn warning,‘ continued the bishop, ‘and I donotvhhtohflindoinglo.unoeou fulfilment of this duty dopends the vation of my soul! and the salvation or denth of ‘the souls confided to my care. Tbo’dndpl.invohdbytb.o To make of a man two men, one a Catholic for private life, and the other a Liberal for public life, is an error, & This is the most outspoken declaratâ€" ion of Liberalism which has ever been made to my knowledge in a legislative assembly in this country. The man who speaks this language is a rationâ€" alistic Liberal, He formulates a doctrine which is entirely opposed to Catholic doctrine. It means that a Catholic is not required to be a Catholic in public life. This is a fundamental error which may lead to the most deplorable conâ€" not take from the point of view of Catholicism,nor from the point of view of Protestantism, but I will be guided by motives . which appeal to the con. sciences of all men,independent of their faith, motives which animate all men loving justice, liberty and tolerance‘ (extract from the official debates in the House on March 3rd, 1896.) Proceeding the preacher said that this right of religious education was tramâ€" pled under foot in Manitoba, and he continued ; ‘What spectacle we witnessâ€" ed during the last session of the Federâ€" al Parliament! ‘The remedial bill brought down the masks from the faces of many soâ€"called Catholics. The check which this |legislation underwent was was in that sense, an evil from which good resuited, A Frenchâ€"Csnadian member, who styles himself a Catholig, and the recognized leader of a great party made up of Catholics and Proâ€" testants, made the fcllowing declaration of principlee as to his political conduct: ‘So long as I occupy a seat in this House sn long as I fill.the post which I now do, on every occasion when it shall be my duty to take a stand upon any question whatever, that stand I shall ers. It is the right and duty of Proâ€" testants, although they be in error, t9 bring up their children in accordance with their faith. indifference, which is the p‘ague of the present age, and is reproved by the Church, After stating that the child must always be under the jurisdiction of his parents and the church to which he belongs, the bishop said that what the Church claimed for itself in this respect it was disposed to grant to othâ€" affairs. Unfortunately, infjtbe debate on that bill, it was made a political question, while it is a religious question affecting the sacred rights of conscience. He then referred to the four distinct classes of schools : the Roman Catholic atheistic school and the neutral l'ohool. Tb_o;l.mr system directly leads to school, the into insignificance, until Canada has ’ determined for herself whether her system of Government by the votes and the will of a free electorate is an elaborate sham or a reality. We do not wish to raise a Protestant oryâ€"it need not be, it ought not to be a quesâ€" tion of Protestant agninst Catholic, not 1 for a moment. It is a question of civil ‘‘Therefore dearly beloved brethren, all Catholics must support ounly those candidates who bind themselves formâ€" ally and solemnly to vote in parliament in favor M'M which will restors to the minority of Manitoba the school rights to which the Hon. Privy Council.of England recognizes them to be entitied. This grave duty is incumbent on every good Catholic, and you would not be justified, cither before your spiritual guides, nor before God Hilnllz”in tranegressing this obliâ€" It is perfectly clear from these paraâ€" graphs and a perusal of the whole mant dement only confirms these, that in effect, the duty of voting for the Tupâ€" per Government is laid as a religious obligation upon the Catholics of the Provinces cited, in such terms as to bring the unwilling wittin the inquiâ€" sition of,/the confessional and expose them, if stubborn, to the spiritual terâ€" rors of the church, f In the presence of an issue of this kind we repeat as we said last week, that all merely political questions sink go on to say : Again in paragraph 22, after reciting certain Papal Encyclicals the Bishops Paragraph 9 states that ‘"in the presâ€" ence of the electoral struggle about to take place, that an imperative duty is incumbent upon us ; this duty is to inâ€" dicate to all the faithful under our jurisdiction, and whoss consciences we have to direct, the only line of conduct to be followed in the present elections." That we do not overstate the effect and the intention of the mandate when we say that it makes it a matter of conscientious obligation for every Roâ€" man Catholio within ‘the ecclesiastical Provinces named to vote for candidates pledged to remedial legislationâ€"that is practically for the Tupper candidates, will now be made plain. those whose votes given intelligently on the issues of the day are overborne by the solid mass thus burled into the The difference between advice which the hearer may weigh for himself and accept or reject according to the dicâ€" tates of his own conscience, and an order which his religious training has taught him must be obeyed at peril of his eternal salvation, is wide as the poles apart. The first is the exercise of the bighest form of civil liberty ; the second means its annihilation not only for those who submit to the command but for Referring again to the Bishops‘ Manâ€" dement, the fol‘ text of which we pubâ€" lisbed last week, we call attention to the authoritative and precise tone of the "order," which distinguishes it so sharply from the advice or appeal that may sometimes be heard on public quesâ€" tions from Protestant as well as Cathoâ€" lic pulpits. It should be distinctly obâ€" served that we take no exception to bishop, priest, minister or layman of aoy church or any opinion tendering his advice or rendering his reason on‘ political questions to all who choose to ‘The first instruction "which I have to point out to the Catholics of this diocese, for the coming elections;, is to give their votes only in favor of candiâ€" dates who will pledge themselves to vote in favor of a remedial law accepted by the bishops. Do not forget that this vote will be of the greatest imâ€" portance. My second instruction is to entreat you to lay aside all party feelâ€" ing, no matter what it may be, and to judge men and events from the point of view of Catholic principles and Catâ€" holic teaching. This youy will do courageously, as Catholics,as Canadians and as citizens and the good God will bless your efforts and will permit you find here below a taste of the happiness which he reserves to his elect.‘ The sermon concluded with the following remarks :â€" such an erruor so publicly, or for the partisans who support him in such an error, so long as they have not publicly repudiated that error and taken the formal pledge of voting for a remedial law accepted by the bishops. The qaestion is, I rejpeat, of the greatest imâ€" portance, If children are brought up in godless schools, they will be made revolutionists.‘ THE BISHOPS‘ ORDER Waterloo County Chronicle, Thursday, May 28'1 It is no longer a question of tariff or & question of Separate Schools for Manitoba. ‘The Bishops bave given us another and much more important one, and it is a question we must meet and settle now,if ever. That question is in aword *‘Shall thepeople, Protestant and Catbolic, Grit and Tory, rule by their ballots, or shall the twelve ‘Bishops sitting in conclave issue their mandate and settle all questions of government for us!" | _ Nothing need be added to the words of the "mandement" itself in the light of this sermon,to show that the Bishops have virtually taken into their own hands the goyernment of this country. If their detuands are not resented and utterly defeated by the friends of liberâ€" ty, both Protestant and Catholic, we may indeed retain the form of liberty & little longer, but the substance is already gone. \ to submit his judgment without reâ€" serve on a political question to the dic tum of the Bishops, he is denounced as fallen into "fatai error" and ali Cathoâ€" lics are warned that to vote for him or his supporters is to "sin in a grievous _ We also> invite attention to the comment of the Bishop upon these qsanly words. He condemus them unâ€" reservedly. He says these principles are "diametrically opposed to Catholic teaching". He solemnly warns his hearers that "the salvation of his own soul and the salvation or death of theirs" is bound up in this question, Unless a parliamentary representative is willing | mey ware losing the s The Tupper alliance with the Bishops ‘ Bowman as he had been order who may be trusted with | the noblest gift a free electorate can beâ€" stow. We ask special attention to the exâ€" tract quoted by the Bishop from Hon. Wilfrid Laurier‘s speech in the‘ House of Commons in which the great Liberal leader defined his position as a parliaâ€" mentary representative in words desâ€" tined to become historic, words that stamp him as a statesman of the highest If any shadow of doubt remained as to the drastic character of the now celebrated Bishop‘s Mandement, it is removed by the sermor preached by Bishop Lafleche, one of the signers of the manifesto, in the Cathedral at Three Rivers on Sunday, May 17th last. So important is this sermon that we give in another column a pretty full report of it, the more important passages being given verbatim. CATHOLIC BISHOPS AGAINST A CATHOLLC PRLMILIHR. avod the triamph of Ultramontanism. Every vote for & Liberal candidate is a ’vote for civil liberty and Government by the People. It should be all the easier for many an old time Conservaâ€" tive to cast such a vote this time when be reflects that in addition to voting direct for popular Government, he votes incidentally for clean administration, economical managemeat, and for the triumph of a pure minded,large hearted statesman of the British school, who is toâ€"day under the ban of the Bishops of bis own church, becsuse he is a repreâ€" sentative of the people and not & tool of the hierarchy. 5 ces, Ontario and the West is clear enough. Every vote cast for the Tupper candidates is a direct and unmistakeâ€" able yote for the rule of the hierarchy It remains to be seen what Quebes will do in this juncture. _ With them it is the old struggle of Uitramontan» agaiost Gallican, with the full authority of the Bishops of the Ultramontane side. But whatever the result in Queâ€" bec, the duty of the Muritime Provinâ€" This question has been fought out inâ€"every European country and the people have won, In the most faithful Roman Catholic countries of Europe and even in Mexico, no conclave uf Bishops would dare to issue such an order as this on the eve of an election. It has been settled in these cuuntries that the church must keep within its own sphere, and while it does so, it receives all due respect, but when it attempts to assert its sovercigaty over the State, when it seizes the reigns of Government, as it is attempting to do in Canada on this occasion, the people while faithful and obedient in spiritual things have learned to resent sharply the transition from pastor to master. liberty against government by the twelve Billu;pe, a question in which we may fairly claim ‘the vote of every liberty loving C:tholic as weil as every liberty loving Protestant. Mr. E. W. B. Snider, Opens the Cam»â€" paign at Crosshill.â€" A Large Meetâ€" ing and much Enthusiasm. Mr, E. W.‘B. Snider, the Reform candidate, begap his series of meetings in North Waterloo, at Crosshill, on Tuesday evening. The attendance was large, the town hall being packed to the doors. The Liberal speakers were warmly received and were frequently applauded. The meeting was strongly in favor of Mr. Snider and Wellesley township will, no doubt, rall fup a big majority for the Reform candidate on the 23rd June. The chair was very acceptably ‘filled by Mr, J. G. Reiner of W;:llel{e + Mr. Snid’er said that he appeared beâ€" fore them under different circumstances at this time than on former occasions, Mr. Bowman, our late representative, haviog retired, it ibecame nesessary to choose another candidate and the choice had fallen upon him. He was sorry that they ware losing the service of Mr. "But in the Department of Public Works and in the Department of Railâ€" ways and Canals there is no public work completed within the last uen or twelve years that has not cost from 50 to 100 par cent more than it ought to have cost, and every one of them has been attended with ‘disgrace,fraud and scandal. And yet the Minister says : I did not know anything about it j:I was not there ; I left it to my deputy." the Soulanges Canal Sundol,‘wi:;; l;; Mr. Wm. Giboot:. the late member for Lincoln, and a practical contractor put the case fairly in his speech on ‘"The Liberala are not going to lower the tarif below twentyâ€"five per cent, and any industry that cannot after twenty years‘ nursing get along with that is not worth keeping up. So, though I never gave other than a Conâ€" servative vots before, I am going to vote Liberal this time." _ An electric cur',' containing about ’ eighty pereons, fell through a bridge on the Queen‘s Birthday celebration at Victoria, B. C. into the water below It is claimed that fally two hundred persons went down with the span and that over half of ther: were drowned. # "As regards tbe’m.nuhctnmn, as I bave already told them, they might for a moment get a higher price aftor the duties were increased, but the effect would certainly be to introduce disorder and disorganization into the whole trade system."â€"Hon. Alex. Macâ€" kenzie in 1877. i â€"A‘good many bous:rvatlm in this election will take something the same view as the Montreal man who said: The Czar of Russia and the Empress Alexangdra were solemaly crowned in Moscow on Tuesday with the utmost ceremony and in accordance with all the religious forms and ansient rites. Hon. Wilfred Laurier will open his Ontario campaign at London on Wedâ€" nesday evening June 3rd. He will be accompanied by Sir Oliver Mowat. We call upon every freeman in Onâ€" tario to vote for Wilfrid Laurier and the British Constitution. There is only one way of protesting against this unholy alliance, and that is by voting against the Tupper candiâ€" dates _ everywhere. There is neither sense nor reason in this matâ€" ter becoming in the slightest degree a Protestant or a Catholic ery. The us sault on the freedom of the ballot is a deadly blow at the essential principles of free government in which all citizens irrespective of their religious views are equally interested. The friends of liberty in Quebec Province recognize this and are fignting a splendid battle against terrible odde. They deserve the support‘of every freeman in Ontario Many thousand Catholic votes in Queâ€" bee Province will be cast for Laurier and liberty on the 23rd of Juue in spite of all the Bishops can do. If Ontario does not rebuke this gross and unpreâ€" cedented usurpation by burying the Tupper candidates under such an avalanche of adverse billots, that they will never know political resurrecâ€" tion, then Ontario deserves to lose the British freedom she is unable to mainâ€" tain and thereforglunworthy to hold. is now open and above board. All disâ€" guises are off and no one can justly plead ignonxnoe of the effact of his vote. Bir Charles Tupper deciares in his manifesto that he will grant all the Birhops ask, and he repeats the same statement on the stump. The Bishops on their side denounce as in "grievous sin" those who vote for Laurier and bhis candidates. | TRHRE FIRST SHOT EDITORIAL NOTHS a useful and un en Etm T 6.3 r+rs E0 Waterico ........ 8 08 9 32 10 5 3 0s 6 & Beorlin ............ 8 17 10 10 1156 4 30 710 Doon.............. .... "10 $ 12 20 a 30 7 2o 81.‘! ~.. 10 $3 1230 445 7 35 Alt ... .02 1045 11145 4550fi NoTRâ€"Trains leave at Waterloo at 9:20 a. m.and 844 p.m. to connect at Berlin with regular trains easse ard west on the main ine. Kimira.. Waterloo . §t_? Jacobs Klmira Berlin Galt ..... Blair ... Grand Trunk Railway GoInG wK&Tr. A.M. A.M. P.M. 3 Toronto ............ 11 30‘ 8 20 1 00 C Breslau ............ 2 03 10 50 316 ¢ lu,..m-s‘.‘;‘.......... su}}% 8 ue Raten ............:.. EU l H 5 B | New Hamburg .... 240 11 20 .3 53 ; | Mr. Soider then condemned the superanuuation system. He thought government officials should be able to ptovide forâ€" their old age as well as tillers of the soil. If: elected, he would yote to abolish the system. He strongâ€" | ly sondemned the Franchise Act. The list up on which the present election is beld is two years old and young men who have become of age sinee the revieâ€" ion are disfranchised. Others are in the cemetery or have moved to other ridings and so will not be able to vote. Mr. Soider ooncln?gd and : excellent address by expressing his intention if elected, of supporting the policy of Hon. Wilfred Laurier. Mr. Ferdinand Walter then spoke for ten minutes of bebaif of Mr. Seagram and was followâ€" ed by Mr, R. Y. Fish, of Linwood who raised the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm by his retort‘ to the taunt of Mr. Walter that Mr. Snider had done nothing while in Parliament by saying that he(Mr. Snider)had supportâ€" ed one of the purest and best governâ€" ments on the face of the earth. Mr. Fish was followed by Mr. Weismiller of Huron Co., on bebalf of Mr. Seaâ€" gram, who was most effectively replied to, by Mr. Bowman, the late member. The meeting closed with rousing cheers for Mr. Snider and the Hon. Wilfred Laurier. > Stratford to be met through the extravagance and mismanagement of the government Whon a business man is getting behind we expsct him to close down before he goes too far back but the government piles up the debt and do not seem tobe able to stop. Sir Charles is still ready to expend millions as we see in making his promise to .aid the Hudson Bay Railway. We don‘t want to have our turdens increased for surely they are large enough already. ‘The revenue must be raised through & tariff and either party will so raise it as to give proper protection. Iv is mere bosh to. say that the Liberal party would wipe out our manufacturers. No sane man supposes for a moment that the Liberal party will allow American goods to come in free while we pay {duty. We had a tariff under..@ufit:nzie'n governâ€" ment out it was lower and Mr. Macâ€" kenzie Mr. Snider thought, made a mistake, when he refused to raise the tariff, because more revenue was requirâ€" 79 ® P dBD C inintnaty ied tds‘ Aichs is ib shichuda id d Mr. Soider said he had been dubbed & protectionist owing to the eperches he made during Mr. Laurier‘s visit bere last autumon. He held. that a Ligh tariff would be required for a, number of years owing to the heavy expense After wasting the greater part of the time of the session in this way they briog in a bill but were unable to pres it though the «Government had a mejority of about seventy in the house. feople. The House was called together or a specific purpose. In a speech from the throne, it was stated that Remedial Legislation for.the Manitobs minority would be passed. What did they do ! They met and adjourned and met again and then half of the Cabinet went out on strike. & Within the past five years, be said we have had four Prime Ministers two of whom held seats in the Senate. He objected .to the selection of Prime Ministers from the Senate. The Senâ€" ate if we have it at all should be elecâ€" tive and be was of the opinion that it would be better to abolish it altogether than retain it as at présent constituted. The present Senators, having been alâ€" most entirely appointed by the Conâ€" servative &overnment,. will pass anyâ€" thing brought before them. Last session was witnessed the greatâ€" est farce ever prepetrated on a free The Reform psrtyui( entrusted with the Government would do what they consider in the best intereets of the country, â€" . _ He said we‘okject principally : to the present government because they have not managed the affairs of this dountry to our satisfaction." 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