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RICHMOND HILL. Thursday, Oct. 8, ’85 The Ottawa Cabinet has recent- ly been reconstructed. The chang- es made In the distribution of port- folios are unimportant except in one particular. We refer to the select- ion of Mr. Thompson as Minister of Justice. This gentleman had been, upto the time of his new appointment, 21 Nova Scotian judge. In other words he has stepped down irom the bench into the arena of politics. THE NEW MINISTER OF JUSTICE Thcre are few who give attention to Canadian political literature but remember the lashing bestowed by the Toronto Mail and other Conser- \Yative organs on the Liberal party when Hon. Oliver Mowat took a similar step. Then we were told in language at once scornful and scath- ing that public intelligence was in- sulted. justice was degraded, and an irrepalable injury was inflicted on the Dunty and integrity of the bench. But now we hear not a murmur of opposition to John Mac- donald’s periect imitation of the tactics of his ices. It would seem as if it was altogether a question of. whose 0); is gored. Mr. Mowat’s rc-cntry into public lite was bad, thoroughly bad, Mr. Thompson’s is good, thorougth good. Little won- der is there that consistency is held to be a jewel. It IS hardly necessary to say that, where faction reigns supreme, con- sistency cannot enter. The argu- ments of partizanship are entirely dependent on the attitude of the riv val parties. The merits of a quesâ€" tion, its bearing on the public weal, go for nothing. The one point is to gain and keep office with all its emoluments. and to crush in the LlIIS’t all who withstand its success. The Consequences oi this line of procedure cire sometimes very em- barrassing. The desrre to smite is not untrequently rendered impos- ihle to be gratified by a Inemorv inconveniently tenacious of words uttered in times gone by. Yet the genuine party organ is nothing if not piotean. The exigenmes of faction require it to be ready and able to make the swiftest and sharp- est of turns. It must be prepar- ed to declare right {0-day what yesâ€" terday it pronounced wrona. The sins of its on n party must be igâ€" nored, denied, or at most viewed through the large end of the tele- scope. For who knows not that a veryslightvrelation of these rules might deflect the. stream of- govern- ment patronage? .'.‘,. . \r For mu‘soives, we hold that Mr. Thompson‘s renunciation of the cr- miuo for the scarcely clean liabili- mems of public office to be a grave and threatening mistake. 33' no possible ingenuity. or love of party, can we V‘iC\V Mr. Mowat‘s action in any other Eight. It is patent to us that 1.110 (:zmadizm Judiciary already stands in imminent peril. The two cows just relaxed to, joined to tho 12:91 appuintment made by tre Gov- ernment, are more than sufficient to justiiy our alarm. And this alarm becomes all the greater 1mm the consideration that to the mad rage and violence ofiaction nothing is of so little, mmncnt as the great bulâ€" wark-w of public morality. & In Um Yorl,‘ Herald of last week uppcnrcid 21 Inner on our High Sch-:20}, signed, “An Interested Villâ€" ager." The writer begins by stat- ing: that he has obtained facts which he thinks would not be out of place to INCIJUCJ. “7e intend to offer no criticxszm offliosc so callcd facts, bocausc the report of the Head Master (which may be read in our reprint of the minutes of the last mmziz‘g of the Board of Trustees) Estate of Isaac Murrayâ€"Alex Nancy Annual Meetingâ€".1110 Clark For Sadeâ€"4x Remnun Changeâ€"Petley & Petiey 1': :1 full alt-d satisfactory answrr. \x c :m: not even disposed to find fault with our contemporary for pubâ€" libiiing (his letter, because the edit- or (if 2; paper is, as a rule, forced to believe, in the good faith of a cor- respondent: less he is in possess- ion of {air and sufficient reasons for believing the contrary. \Ve cannot, however, take :1 leni- ent View nf“An Interested Viliagcr.” \'\'0 do not dispute his right to make use of the press as a vehicle for con- Ir‘g his grievance to the public. 1.1m, beiore making such grave NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 1w (iii‘iimtl. OUR UGH SCHOOL charges as are contained in his let- ter, the very least that he ought to have done was to obtain incontro- vertible evidence of their truth. This was an easy matter. The school registers are the property of the Board, they are always access- ible to the public, and any one who had taken the trouble to consult those registers would not have penned such a communication,much less have sent 1t forth to the world. The writer’s intentions may have been good, but assuredly in this case his zeal outran his discretion. 'In a matter whose treatment de- manded the utmost \care and cir- cumspection, he has allowed 111m- selt to be led greatly astray. \Ve can only hope that the publicrty wh1ch will be given to the answer, will in some degree prove an anti- dote to the harm which may have been done by the letter. Smallpox continues to rage in Montreal with unbared violence. The death rate is increasing rather than diminishing. Yet vaccination has for some time been compulsory, and those who profess to have no faith in this treatment as a prophy- iactric jnbilantlv proclaim the vin- dication of their contention. This is, of course, absurd. The great remedy of jenner was adopted only alter the filthy disease had se- cured a giant hold on the ill-fated city’s population. No one ever claimed that vaccine is pmvex‘ful tor the expulsion or the contagion, but only for its prevention. Could everybody in Montreal be vaccmat- ed in a moment, there would still be many cases of smallpox. in the face at such well-authenti- cated data, it seems almost inrcedi- Dle that there should be men whose pretensions to knowledge are not baseless who hold the great Eng- lishman’s discovery to he a curse much less a blessing. Such is the fact, however. In Montreal, the opponents of vaccination have an organ, called the Anti- l’ucciimzw'erid its editor is a doctor of medicrne. ll. such a publication could give rise to other feelings than sorrow and indignation, it certainly would be mirth at the \VOllLlCrliUl deductions which may be made from statistics. Our readers will better understand us when we tell them that Auti- l'ur- nutor proves that death {1.0111 small- pox is in direct proportion to the spread oi the custom of vaccination. This is emphatically the iron age. All our activity, mental and physiâ€" cal, bears the impress of the hard and harsh metal which is at once the substance and emhlem of the progress made in the nineteenth century. And as we grow strong in the material, in the spiritual we‘ gmw weak. Sentiment is only a luxury, patriotism is only sentiment, easily and often wisely dispensed with. The victorious man is he who conquers (which properly means, acquires) wealth. The great thinker is he who succeeds, or pro’ tosses to succeed, in eliminating the very suspicion of what is not patent to the senses. To make a road sol- id, smooth, strong and swift, to im- tune, such is the ambition of the day. ‘. 1. So long as this is the fashionable goal, it is useless to inquire concern. ing the satisfaction of those who reach it. Experience may teach, but it seldom exercises much effect on fully become epidemic. A prevailing madness“ resembles a lever wliich must be allowed to take its course. Even if it could be forcibly arrested, it would be vith great danger to the afflicted. So the mad race must continue. \thit is to he done, then, by those who do not, and crinnot believe, that iron is the ‘ open sesamc‘ to genuine hap- piness. \Ve know not, unless it he to sit still and \ 'atch the whirring crowds. For this, and only this, Carlyle held Emerson to be the one wise American. 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