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The following diagrams illustrate the method: L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grflce d la g6n6rosit6 de i'Atabiissement prAteur suivant : La bibliothique des Archives publiques du Canada Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour dtre reproduites en un seul clich6 sont film6es d partir de Tangle sup6rieure gauche, de gauche A droite et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nicessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la mdthode : V\. 1 2 3 .\ V J 1 2 3 4 5 6 /o Editorial from THE DAILY HAH of Tuesday, Febmary 5tli, 1889. Lbt there be iiu miiUke abuuc the re- fusal uf the Government to veto the Bill fur the Endowment of the Jeiiuiti. There i( nothing in the Briciih North America Act to limit the ozerciieof thevet.i) porer. That it ihull not be exercised merely on Hrounda of ordinary |iolicy, unless the Pro- vincial Lotfislnture has exceeded its juris- diction, is a good general rul^, which once more wo commend the Uovernraent for observinit. The authority given to the Pn)viucial Legislatuies over certain classes of subjects carries with it, like all authori- ty, a liberty of error which must be ro- spucted so long as the legal p<iwer is not exceeded and the error is nut manifestly subversive legally or morally of the prin- ciples of the constitution or uf the great objects of the Slate. But it would be preinwterouH to allege that the framers of the British North America Act, and the Im- (lerial Parliament which (lassed that Act, did not intend the veto to be used as a safeguartl ligainst gross and pal|>able folly or injustice. What are these Provincial Legislatures, and of what S4)rt of men are they com|Ki8ed, that on the most vital ques- tions society should be delivered unre- servedly into their hands ? The Acts of an American State Legislature are subject to the veto of the Governor of the State, which is exercised frequently and with the best e ..uct. The Logialaturu of Quebec has passed an Actcon)|>ellingtl e Protestant minority in that Province to contribute to the endowment of a conspiracy avowedly directed against Protestant rtiliginn and liberty. It has done this at thu instance uf an able but unscrupulous tactician, who styles himself a Liberal, and whose motives for buying the support of the .Jesuits it is impossible to niisunderstand. The Act not only contravenes common justice in the most flagrant manner, but is also a moral violation of the Constitution, sinca, as we have said before, religious equality and the se|Miration of the Church from the State, if not formally proclaimed in the British North America Act, are thoroughly recognized and accepted as the rule of our constant practice, social as well as political. Negativuiy, indued, they may be said to Im laid down in the Act, in which, in an enumeration evidently intended to bo exhaustive of the subjects of import- ance and capable ot speciKcation with which Provincial Legislatures are to have power to deal, no mention is made of re- ligion. Thei', is appended, it is true, a residuary power of legislating un *' all " niattore of a merely local or private *' nature ;'' but it is hardly credible that such a subject as religion shimld have been iitti iidud to bo tacitly included in a re- siduary power. No reason, So far as we can see, can be assigned for allowing the Quebec Legislature to |>ass this Act which might not have been equally assigned for allowing it to pass the Act forcibly con- verting the provincial bonds or any other muasure "' repudiation. We m»y give to the winds then tho pretence that Sir John Macuunalu, ill allowing the Act to go into operation, has been influenced by any motives but those of party ex|)edii)iicy and feai of the French and Catholic v<ite. The L surrender is a decisive proof and an open l> avowal that those who wield the French xai. Catholic vote are the masters of the Dominion, and may commit legislative injustice when they please. But we do not wish to be unfair to the (iuveroinent. Its omduct in this matter lias not been worse or more ignominious than that of the Oppositiim. Indeed, it may plead that by the conduct of tho Op- position it has been placed in a strait in ' which, having to choose between desertion of its duty to the community and the risk of losing place, it is absolved by party morality for desertion of its duty ti> the oomniunity. Thu silence of the Opposition leaders when every dictate of patriotism and public morality calls ufion them b> S|i«ak is tantamount tooomplloity with the act of the Goveruinent, and deserves to be visited with at least equal reprubetion. An Opp>iaiti<N' which fails to act m the organ uf popular right when popular right is assailed by the Government sinks into'a faction, which no right-minded citizen can desire to see restored to power. Never did a political party commit a blunder mure disastrous or mora disgraceful than the Liberal barty of Canada committed when, at the last general election, it allowed itself to be drawn into an alliance with the partisans of Biil. Both the folly and the dishonour of the step were emphasized by the famous S|)eech made a few short weeks before by Mr. Blakb, in which he had declared thai) the political platform should not iie built of planks from the scaffold, and that he would use no blixidstaiiied key of the oast to unlock the door of the future. Evi- dently osainst his cwn better judgment, though too much in accordance with his habit, Mr. Blake allowed liiinselt to be entangled in an intrigue, the evil conse- quences of which are not yet exhausted nor likely to be oxhaustud for many a day. Even tho cunning of the wirepuller, to say nothing of the larger wisdom of .the statesman, ought to have warned scheii'iers against dragging their jiarty imo so pal- pable a snare. Rikl, rightly or wrongly, hod been hanged, and the feelins which had been excited aoimt him among the French, frothy and artificial enough at best, was certain speedily to subside. As soon as it subsided, the French members, who for the iiioinent had been obliged to pander to it, were sure to be brought back by the Tory leader. In the u|)shot, the Oppusitiim netted at most a gain of half a dozen French seats, while in Ontario it lost fully as many, besides forfeiting its character. A lower price Satan never paid for a political soul. Tho true policy of a Liberal party in Quebec manifestly ;,' that of religious equality, re- pression of ecclesiastical aggrandizement, abolition of tithe, and limitation of the in- crease of church property. This policy, and the hops of future ascendancy which it carries with it, and which is coiiiirmed by the whole course ot" events throughout the civilized world, tho OpiHjsition re- nounced in its unhappy eaaorness to snatch a victory at a single election. Its present inability (v act is the penalty of its fatal error. The pretence of super- sensitive regard for liberty of provincial legislation, which is put forward to cover a paloable betrayal of Liberal principles as well as ao()uiescence in flagiant iniquity, will be received with no more respect than was the sudden conversion of the Liberal leaders to the belief in the insanity of Rikl. It is not the political organizations alone, however, or the organs which serve them, that h.kve failed the cause of the country and of public right on this occasion. Other organizations have failed in the same manlier, and essentially from the same cause. If Orangeisiu has any mission to lift it above the level of mere cabal, it is that of defending British and Protestant civilization against the assauiu of the Roman Catholic priesthood. By the pass- ing of the Jesuits' bill it is brought fainy in the face of the enemy, who advances with the banner of aggressi<m flauntinirly unturled in open and triumphant defiance of Protestant right. The trumpet simnds loud and clear. Hnw do tho self-elected champions of Protestantism and liber- ty act ? They make a faint-heart- ed demonstration from which some of their leading men dissent : then they lay down their arms ; go book tu the too familiar pay office in which patronage is served out br Mr. MACKlNclit Bowbll, and reeume their now established work uf paralynng Prutestantisin in the interest of a politioal patron. Their conduct half redeem* the Jesuit, who, at all events, does not intrigue against his own cause. Some of them, we ara happy to say, were ready to uke a line more' worthy of their name and profession, but it is too manifest that thee* are a minority. Theapathv ot the ProteaUnt Ohurohes, if not so striking as that of the Orangemen, is equally die- •pDointing, uid it aniea from much the same source. People flatter themsolvee, beoausn thera is no longer an established church or a formal connection between Charoh and State, that the Church is free, and that the spiritual realm is kept, as the Founder of Christianity ordained, nr'^'^ from the kingdom of this world. But while the Methixiist voteor the vote ol any Church is a political power and is itself controlled by political considerations, the principle is betrayed just as much as it would be by submission to Royal supremacy : indeed corruption in the subtler form is, as usual, the more profoundly depraving. It is by the p<ilitical poison in their hearts that all the Chur.:he9 are kept helpless and sneech- less in face of a monstrous aggression uiHin civil right committed by their reli- gious foo, and fraught with danger to the interest of the truth which is in their keeping. Even the Evangelical Alliance nervously hushes the voice of protest, probably from the same fear of awkward nolitical results. As to the feeling of the lieople in regard to this great wrong, there can be no doubt : we receive numberless proofs of it ; it finds expression wherever two men speak together on the subject. Bui oHicial organ or recognized loader it has none. There is nobody to give it utterance in Parliament or carry its pro- test to the foot of the Thrime. Since the abolition of the temporal power of the po|ies the energies of the papacy have been wholly turned to spiritual aggrandizement. Ultramontane doctrines have prevailed, and the Jesuit, as their embodiment, has ruled at Rome. The aims of Jesuitism are not masked or doubtful. They are proclaimed in the Encyclical and Syllabus with a frankness which has made the ears of Christendom tingle. In those manifestoes o|ien war is declared against the great organic prin- ciples of fraedom, civil and reliiiious. and of modern civilization. The claims of the Church of Rome to universal dominion, and her right to use force,' in other words to persecute, for the maintenance of that dominion, are asserted in language which would have satisfied Innocent the Third. The extinction at once of Protestant- ism and of liberty is the end pro- IKwed. What means are deemed lawful to accOniplish that end the hideous annals of Jesuit conspiracy tell. The Province of Quebec is now almost losing the character ot a civil community ; it ia being turned into a citadel and arsenal of ecclesiastical aggrandizement and propa- gandism. Economically it is being fast reduced to that state which the Church of Rome seems to regard as the Christian ideal, in which the people are devoted to holy poverty, while the Church, to save them from teinp;ation, engrosses tho wealth. The items of the Church's actual (Hissessions, in the slia|ie of land and buildings, are rated at not less than 980,000.000 ; those of her yearly income, indeoendent of those (Hissesaions, are rated at not less than $8,000,000. To this is to be added the wealth of the ecclesiastical orders, of which the amount is unknown, but which in some cases, especially in that of the Sulpicians of Montreal, is certainly very great. 'X'o increase this store and the power which goes with it the spirit- ual taxf^Uherer is always at work among in,, people from their cradlea to their giAves. A system of finance and mone,< lending, secretly but actively and skUf Illy administered, is at the same time sweeping into the coffers of the Church the gains which elsewhere accrue to financial corporations. The British and Protestant element in Quebec is evidently hastening to a doom which the oomipt and servile Toryism of the Province, so far from averting, due* all thit it can to pro- oipitate. If we have a man among us with the faculties of a leader, independent of the oorrupted or intimidated organiza- tions, and with a failh in his conviction* strong enough to foregt< praeent posses- sion 0* power and look to the future for recognition, it i* about time that he should oome to the front. Hi* appearanoe might change the i