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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. irrata to pelure, tn d n 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 FOR GRATUITOUS DISTRIBUTION THE TRUTH ABOUT THE R^jean Olivier ExLibrii FRENCH CANADIANS. JOHN TALih'^N SMITH. Rrom tine N.V Catlio^ie W^orld. July, 1889. -i^- •*■";." LUBY'S ^FOR THE HAIR AS A DRESSING FOK LADIES' OR GENTLEMEN'S HAIR, IT HAS NO EQUAL. SOLD BY ALL CHEMISTS AND PERFUMERS. LUBY'S FOR THE HAm. I.v ALL AGES and ill all nations the iiair lias !)ecn the su!)ject of anxious soliritude, as indeed so well it might, for what is a greater source of beau- ty than a beautiful head n{ hair. Among savage nations hair is seen in its greatest beauty and abundance, and it is a fact well known to travellers that a bald savage is almost a wonder to behold. Civilisation with its many soarce.s of generating diseases takes in the hair as well, but " similia simillibus curantur," civilization can restore as well as rob, and it is now generally admitted that " LUBY S PARISIAN HAIR RENEVVER," .so justly celebrated for its renewing powers, has established itself as the grand restorative of the world. Sold by ill druggists. LUBY'S FOR THE HAIR. What is the whole world to a man if he has no hair. They say beauty when unadorned is adorned the most, but on the same principle beauty when unshaved is shaved (he most, and that as we all know is not true. Formerly it was thought respectable to be bald, and to wear spectacles, but now much hair is again becoming the rage. If hair be good at all 'it is good to have it beautiful long, soft and glossy, and what will yoii^ket to bring about those graceful attributes better than •' LUBY'S PARlSfesf HAIR RENEWER," which restores grey hair to its natural color. Half the young girls you see going around, whose beautiful hair you envy so much, use it. LUBY'S FOR THE HAIR. " No NEED of having a grey hair iiV your head," as those who use Luby's Paris,ian Hair Renewer say, for it is without doubt the most . ^. appropriate hair dressing that can be used, and an mdispensable article for the toilet table When using this preparation you require neither oil nor pomatum, and from the balsamic pro- perties it contains, it strengthens the growth of the hair, removes all dandruff and leaves the scalp clean and healthy. It can be had from all chemists in argc bottles, 50 cents each. t I THE TRUTH ABOUT 1* «'. I I THE John Talbot Smith. {:V. Y. Catholic flVrA/, July, 1889.) Vox various and oftentimes peculiar reasons, Canada has played a prominent part in United States history, both before and since the Resolution. To any one familiar with that history it is hardly 3iccessary to say that Canada's part has always been as agreeable to herself as it has been disagreeable to us. Before the Revolution, chivalry and rcmancesecm to have been chiefly on her side, so that her final defeat assumed the noble proportions of a tragedy. Can- ada had been the base of operations for that scheme, which purposed to secure as French domain the entire continent outside of the thiiiceii English colonies. In executing it, E'rench generals over- threw Braddock, captured Oswego and Fort William Henry, repulsed Abercrombie at Ticonderaga, and kept at bay for months three different armies in Ohio, on Lake Champlain, and under the famous ramparts of Quebec. In the Revolution, Canada, now under Eng!i.:h rule, was again the base of operations for Burgoyne's nearly successful attempt to isolate New England, a scheme which Cana- dians did nothing to aid, while many of them, mindful of the past, enlisted under Schuyler, and did good service against the British. In the War of 18 12 our manoeuvres on the New York frontier left a victory with the Canadians, and put an end to the idea of invasion ■on our part, while bringing us the little return compliment which ended with the battle of Plattsburgii. In 1865 our precipitate refusal to renew certain treaties concerning Canadian trade seems to have been the last impulse towards union, of which Canadian and iMiglish statesmen stood in need. What we intended as a kick for her secession sympathies, Canada accepted with joy as something much better, and was enabled thereby, not only to form the Dominion, but to make up in other countries her loss of American markets. For the fifth time in a century and a half we are again brought into contact with Canadians, this time on the matter of annexation, and are evidently preparing ourselves for the same process of bam- boozling, which has regularly overcome all our diplomats in their •dealings with the country of the beaver and the maple leaf t:T 4 The Truth about the Freiieh Canadians. Every one knows tliat the territory called Canada extends fronrr' the Atlantic to the Pacific ; but what every one does not know is that of all this vast territory the exact centre, socially and politically, the most sensitive spot in the whole area, the hub, the pivot, the balance- wheel of all things Canadian, is the province of Quebec. To defend this statement properly it would be necessary to go deeply intO' Canadian history, a temptation I shall resist ; but I can at least say a few words in praise of our own country by way of producing the precise effect to be gained from a historical narration. When Eng- land took possession of Canada treaty stipulations secured to the little colony a peaceful exercise of all privileges granted to it by the French king. These were increased when the American colonies began to raise the standard of revolt and to coax Canada to join them. They were again increased when the United States grew into Britain's commercial rival. In fact the entire success of Quebec in holding its own may justly be attributed in large part to American strength and consequent English jealouay, apart from certain power- ful forces employed by Canadians themselves. To counteract the strength of these left-handed favors, Britain with her right hand administered two gilded antidotes to wide-awake Quebec. She established the government free-school, and introduced English settlers into the new townships south of the St. Lawrence. The Canadians, maintaining their own schools, allowed the first to rot,, and crowded out the second ; and then by a popular uprising put. an end to the policy of antidotes. With America on the border, Britain could not say a word. The Catholic province retained her religion, her control of education, and her language. In other words, the French- Canadians went in for home rule with all their might, and, thanks to the American successes in that matter, spent not their might in vain. Then came the era of confederation, which demonstrated clearly the power and standing of Quebec. The union of the provinces was attained only by her consent, and her consent was won only on conditions, among which were that the French language should have equal place in the government at Ottawa with the English, . and that Quebec hold all her privileges. It has seemed to me that Engknd hoped sooner or later, in making all these concessions, to see the French province overborne and wiped out by the force of British immigration. That hope has long been dispelled. The English in Quebec province are a minority, whose deepest humilia- tion is that they must speak French in order to do business. Not- The Truth about the French Canadians. 5 f -■^nly are the Canadians firmly rooted in their native soil, they have .-also out-posts in Ontario, Northern New York, and New England, a break-water against the shocks of possible invasion ; and when- ever any question arises concerning the national interests of Canada, the first thought in the minds of Canadian statesmen is the opinion of Quebec. I have thus made good in a brief way my assertion of Quebec's all-powerful position in the Dominion oi Canada. It is a position which causes much irritation at home, and more misunderstanding abroad. The best mouth-piece of that irritation is Prof. Goldwin Smith of Toronto, and a daily journal in tlie same city known as Tne Mail. Both present some excellent English in their utterances, and both have posed to the American public as authorities in matters French-Canadian. It can easily be guessed, from a perusal of what I have so far written, just how an English-Canadian might feel towards the history and inhabitants of Quebec. Goldwin Smith is a good exponent of that feeling, and in his writings far more than in the thundering and hysterical periods of The Mail can be found that genuine grief and surprise which only an Englishman can feel at the audacity of British subjects making any language but English the official tongue of a British province. This is almost the sole crime which has been charged against Quebec by its sister prov- inces, and I sincerely believe that it is also the inspiration of the inflated talk about annexation and reciprocity. Quebec is an out-and-out Canadian province, and has a hearty natural contempt for everything not French-Canadian. The best standard is itself. It has refused all things English, even those which were good, more than content with its own systems and inventions. It has insisted on having share and share alike in the French government with Ontario. Politicians like Sir John Mac- donald strive in silence to keep order in the household ; but men like Goldwin Smith, having no other interest in Canada than what is persor.r.l, keep Rome howling with protests against Quebec and its un-English methods. No opportunity has been missed to stir up ill-feeling between the races, with a view to shaking the strong position of Quebec. This is a conquered province, is Mr. Smith's argument, and it should be Anglo-Saxon inside and out, from the color of the French-Canadian's skin to the beating of h's heart. He advocates that it be made Anglo-Saxon at once, by such wonderful measures as the stamping out of the French language, and the juprooting of the church ; and because no Canadian will undertake 6 The Truth about the Firuch Canadiaus. the task, he hopes to initiate a movement which, under the name of commercial union, will make the United States a party to the future crushing of French Quebec. It is a hopeful ^ign for the party to be crushed that Goldwin Smith has never succeeded in anything, except scolding in fine I'lnglish and making prophecies which are yet to come to pass. But he has impressed that class of people, which sighs for the extirpation of Catholicity in South America and Mexico, and he is often taken as an authority on Canadian matters by American c Utors. who publish his lame statements and extravagant inferences as truthful, and who, already knowing little of Canada, thereby learn to know less. For the benefit of these people I now turn to the three prime statements concerning the French-Canadians, which Goldwin Smith and his followers have made popular on this continent, and which they affect to believe, viz.: That the French-Canadians are super- stitious, ignorant, and degraded ; that they are unprogressive ; that they are priest-ridden. From which statements is to be inferred that the cultured, progressive, and priestless Anglo-Saxon race should go to Quebec, and absorb the French species from off the face of the earth. This policy is Britannic in conception, and Mr. Smith thinks it easy of execution. I. Are the freneJi- Canadians superstitious, ignorant, and dcfrraded ! Let us consult our figures. When it is said that a race is igno- rant. Englishmen and Americans mean usually that education is not popu ir or prevalent among them, that the government does not provide school facilities, that if it does the people do not take advantage of them. When it is said that a race is degraded, the same parties may mean a hundred different things. Usually the word degraded conveys to the English and American mind filthy personal habits, filthy social habits, low standard of intellect, and entire absence of refinement. It is an accepted truth with us that where education is well diffused degradation finds it hard to get a footing. If, therefore, I can prove that popular education has proper attention paid to it in Quebec, it will be in itself a sufficient response to the charge of Canadian degradation. However, not satisfied with that, I will then give my personal experience with this people, an experi- ence which Mr. Goldwin Smith never had, and the lack of which, renders him utterly incompetent to do more than theorize about„ them. ^ The T,-itth about the French Canadians. «« Thereportof the Superintendent of Education for the rrovincc of Quebec lies before me. The name of this superintendent is Gedeon Ouimet, a clever man who, it is said, owes his education to a curious custom in Canada. The 26th child of Canadian parents is entitled by tradition to a college course at the expense of the cure in whose parish the child is born. Mr. Ouimet is the 26th child, and got the full benefit of the tradition. The pop- ulation of Quebec is 1,360.000, of which the Protestants number one-seventh,— 1 86,000. Here is the tabulated statement of the con- dition of education : Universities, Collejjes, academies, model schools, Elementary schools, Science schools, Deaf mute and schools for the blind, State art and industrial school?, . . Totals, tan Cat hoik. Piolatant, Total. I I 2 56s 7S 643 3,586 99S 4,584 I I 2 4 I 5 — — 73 4.157 •,079 S.249 6,815 1. 416 8,231 — — 35 — — 1,720 575 772 '.347 185 96 281 74-795 6.155 80,950 143.84S 30,461 174,309 Teachers, State teachers, Pupils of special schools, Students of universities, . . " " normal schools, . " " colleges, etc.. Pupils of elementary schools, Totals, 219,403 37,484 268,617 The money spent by the French-Canadians on education Is par* tially represented by the following figures. The colleges and con- vents are self-supporting, and do not enter into these statistics : Assessed value of real estate in Quebec $320,309,259 Annual school-tax, fees, grants, and contributions, .... ','83,757 Cost per head of education (about), u The Studies taught in the elementary schools, and the time given to each study, during two sessions of three hours each, are: Re.iding, I hour ; catechism, i^ hour ; geography, % hour ; writing, 5-6 hour ; gram- mar, yi liour ; arithmetic, I hour ; history, _)^ hour. The normal schools are about on a par with those of our own country, the convents and academies hold a similar position, and the colleges aim to give a fair classical education to fit their students for any of the learned professions. The doctors, lawyers, clergymen, many of the business men, the professors and male teachers in the colleges and elsewhere, have, one and .all, made the classical course of these institutions. "'^■: J lie Truth about the French CaunHians. These figures arc by themselves very convincinj^. In proportion to ils population the province of Quebec is better provided with schiiuls and teachers than most countries of the civilized world. The whole paraphernalia of the modern educational system is there in modest perfection. The figures in this case do not lie, for they are backed b)- the testimony of Catholics and Protestants alike, and how Goldwin Smith and his supporters can look them in the face, and then call the Canadians ignorant and degraded, is one of those things no fellow can understand. Tlie figures, however, do not in this instance tell all the truth. The Canadians 1ki\ c that strong love of education which is inherent in any people long deprived of it by the injustice of government. For Jears there was no school fur ihem but the free English school, to which they would not send their children. They were able only to put up poor primary schools for teaching the commonest branches. From the necessity of providing a better means of education sprang the Canadian college and convent, the most popular method of education in Canada. Look at the statistics above. The proportion of Catholic to Protestant in the elementary schools is 5 to I ; in the normal schools, 2 to i ; in the universities, i to 1 1/^ : but in the collegiate schools it is 1 1 to i. It is the great desire of the Canadian parent to give the boy and the girl a course at the college or the convent. Another point fs to be observed. The attendance at the elementary schools ought to be as seven to one in favor of the Catholic portion of the community. It is less than that because the children do not go. Between the ages of seven and fourteen \ ears there are in Quebec 32,000 children who do not attend school at all. The reasons arc various. The parents arc poor, the winters are severe, and most of the parents belonging to this class have really not enough interest in the education of their chil'dren to send them to school. It i■^ this class which at first made up the bulk of the immigration to (")ntario and the States. They were not of savory reputation at home, and they gave their honest brethren a doub. ful reputation abroad. They are not Quebec, however, and our cvar*geli/.ing brethren, before raising their hands in horror at this statement, had better count the illiterates of Massachusetts and New York. U the Canadians are educated, can they be degraded.' I lotive the settlement of the question to those interested, and tell what I saw and what I know. If degradation consists I I I 'J'he Truth about the French Canadians. I I I *in the iteins c numerated above, the Canadians are still far from it. Tile)- are as neat and c'eaiily a people as ever graced the eaith. Their humblest; cabins ii.ivp about them a cleanliness unL(jualled by an}- people. I'oiiteness is a second nature with llicm. (!>f the ei<;Iit pro 'inces of the Dominion, ■Quebec is second in practising the viitue of >.obriety. In the year 1885 the convictions for different crimes in QueSec num- •bereu 7,223 ; in Ontario, 20,097. '" character they arc sociable and peaceful, in intellect very bright and witty. The young people •resemble their hrench ancestors in facial expression ; the old ■develop a Celtic ruggedness very closely akin to the Irish type. Morally, the peoi)le of Quebec are fur ahead of any other on this •continent. This is all the more to their praise because they are •of warm temperament, and might be excused for some excesses. I have here put down their virtues, leaving it to tlieir enemies tf) find out their faults, if they can. I challenge any honest man to say, from actual knowledge of Quebec, that its people are in any sense degraded. II. Are the Canadians at/progressive ? Before answerino- .his question, there is imposed on me the 73i Value of real estate «»/23' 47 Rate of interest : Ontario, 5 to lo per cent. " '•' Quebec, 4 to 7 per cent. There is progress for you, from the Catholic and Protestant standpoints ! Quebec is Catholic, Ontario is Protestant, yet the above proof shows that Quebec is si.xteen times less mort- gaged than its sister province. It has only i6 loan companies to- \. The Truth about the French Canadians. 1 1 V \: Ontario's 79! The Quebec people are certainly not in the hands of the Jews. They own their land, and they provide for their children in new townships, when they are ready to leave the paternal care. As to the business done b> both provmces, here are the figures for certain years : Ont.irio Quebec 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1' 1882 I 1883 ■j 1884 I 1885 [ 1886 Importation, $41,690,760 44,666,445 41,967,215 39,828,083 39,069,475 $53. '05.257 55.907,871 49,122,472 4(^.733.038 45,001,694 Expo'tntion, $40,765,921 42,890,019 26,891,517 2!<,434,73> 27,088,868 $38,972,121 32,642,986 42,029,678 39.604.451 38.i7«.339 In 1886 Ont.Trio exported of lier home P''"<1"<^'^ \ c,^ ^o, r ,a and manufacture, / * *'^ '■'^ In 1886 Quebec exported of the -ame, . . . 32,622,066 Value. per head. $20.75 16.46 13-24 1378 12.92 $28.21 30.47 29.67 27.64 2633 11.49 22.50 So that the trade of Quebec is double per head that of" Ontario. Is not this substantial material progress .-' There are in Ontario 140,000 Canadians, in the States at least half a tniU lion, the contribution which Quebec has made to her neighbors while holding her own at home. With a good educational system,, with steady increase in population and wealth, with the foremost position in the Dominion because of these things, well supplied with railroads and canals, telegraph and telephone lines, a natu- rally enthusiastic press — for a Canadian in print is usually wild — a large body of sharp business men who let no opportunity escape, we do not see, how Quebec can be called unprogressive. The worst that can be said of her will not gain.say the fact that she entirely surpasses Ontario in actual business and in future prospects. Moreover, Quebec has what her sister province has not — a distinct and important literature. The works of many o4~ her writers have been crowned by the French Academy. She has historians, antiquarians, and poets of such calibre as Ontario has not yet produced. She is constantly producing origirtal works of merit, where Ontario, with Goldwin Smith in her bosom, does not produce a single book. III. Is Quebec priest-ridden f Like our immortal Washington, and unlike our mortal separated meritorial brethern, we cannot answer no. Quebec is priest-ridden^ to an alarming extent ; to such an extent indeed that the priests, not «2 The Truth about the French Canadians. \ finding enough people to accommodate their autocratic instincts at home, are moving into the States along with Quebec immigrants. There are in this unhappy province perhaps fifteen hundred priests, and a small army of religious, living on the fat of the land and the strength of the people, and in spite of their number, their comfortable circumstances, and the efforts of wise men like Goldwin Smith and the editors of the Toronto MaM, New York Independent, Christian Advocate, Churchman, and like journals, to discredit them, they enjoy the tithes, the respect, and the love of their people. Again and again have humane politicians striven to root them out and to shake the people's esteem for them in vain. The Canadian of •Quebec will not be induced to take his church tithes and put them -into his own pocket, much as he loves and hoards money. The Protestant spiritual and political missions to them have been mourn- ful failures. Even Mr. Chiniquy had to retire to Illinois. We admit this is the one serious defect (as Protestants judge matters) in the Quebec province. There are reasons for it. The P^rench-Canadian of any rank in life feels that God can confer on his family no greater honor than to make one of his boys a priest, ■one of his girls a nun. This is curious in view of one or two circum- stances. The life of the ordinary priest or nun in Canada is not financially a happy one. The nuns, for instance, are bound to absolute poverty, and are of no manner of material assistance to their friends and relatives. The salary of the city curate in Montreal is •one hundred and twenty dollars per annum, with scant per- ■quisites ; of the town and country curates sixty to eighty dollars, with no perquisites at all. The ordinary third-rate parishes in a diocese as wealthy as Montreal represents an annual income of about eight hundred dollars, tl)e second rate twelve hundred or fourteen hundred dollars, and the very best do very well if they i^rcisent their cure with two thousand dollars. There are fourth-rate and fifth-rate parishes of which Vve shall not speak, and there are also poorer dioceses than Montreal which have also their fifth-rate parishes. *It seems to make little difference to the Canadian, so long as his son is the priest. There- fore Protestant missions have found it difficult to bribe this people. Plonor seems to mean more to them than soup, and they are •.evidently determined to continue in their present priest-ridden con- •dition. We apologize for them to our separated brethern. But as * The priests of religious orders in some cases get sixty dollars per year, and in others -~iimply thei r life support. The Truth about the French Canadians. 1?. r we have shown them to be a progressive, money-making, educated people, it is to be presumed they know their own business here as in- other matters. If they wish to spend their money on useless priest- and nuns, they have only that same fault which induces our Protestant brethren to throw away their cash ot Mexican missions. We have heard two recent writers express their deep pity for the taxes levied by the church on the Canadians, as evidenced in the magnificent churches everywhere met with in Canada. These churches are the admiration of strangers, Catholic and I'rotestant. They are always solid and durable, built of stone, of great size, and often of magnificent Canadian embellishment. It is impossible to find in Quebec a really poor or insignificant structure in a canonical parish, and the beauty and cleanliness of their sanctuaries are a delighl to the Catholic heart. Have these churches been really a burden to the Catholics of Quebec ? There is one feature of Canadian character which forbids us to say that they have. 'I he close, economical, almdst stingy habits of this people justify me in- saying that they will not impoverish, nor burden, nor even tire themselves in supporting the church. They are tenacious of the faith, but also of their cash. This is the testimony of my own long;- experience and of all their authorities. They are impulsive on every- point but that which marks the diftcrence between loss and gain.. They are ready for financial sacrifices, have made them often, but they have tried every other method first. These churches have been constructed by many generations- Quebec is in existence two hundred years. When a district desires to erect a new church, the taxable people have first to convene and state their willingness to) subscribe to a church of a certain cost., Monseigneur I'Eveque will hear of nothing until substantial aid is not only promised, but actually secured in the shape of cash or notes of hand. Then the Fabrique is organized— that is, the board of trustees — which is not, as with us, a formal affair, but a board of real oflficials, whose duty it is to look after the church revenues, and keep the property in good condition. Certain taxes are imposed for that purpose,' and as they fall on all alike, there is no such thing as a burden on any one. When a Catholic owns land or houses, he is taxed by government. If he owns nothing, his tax is two dollars ^i. year for the support of the church. The free-seat idea is carried to an extreme among the churches, and an immense charity and lati- tude prevail in the collecting of the revenues. This without fear of question can be said of the Canadian priests, that they are the lea.st provided with money of any on the continent. I call it a grievous ■WlfiJi . I IV' TI4 T/ic Truth about the French Canadians. fault in Canadians that with all their love for their priests, they .should allow them to live so poorly. Poverty is an ecclesiastical virtue, but it is carried too far among Canadian clergymen. A final word will not be out of place on the agitation which for nearly ten years has been kept up by Protestants and Orangemen concerning Quebec. The position which this plucky province has held and improved for fifty years is one which commends itself in particular to Americans. It is the home-rule position. The rights which it secu.'-cd for itself in the Dominion are precisely the rights which Ontario and Nova Scotia enjoy. Its people founded the province and reclaimed it from the wilderness, fought, suffered, and bled for it, held by treaty the old status of their social forms and religion and language. What they have is their own, and they pro- pose to hold it against any hostile power. The general laws of the Ikitish Empire they have honestly obeyed, but they have not per- mitted the Ottawa Parliament or the Privy Council to Anglicize them. The home-rule principle is their platform. It is thoroughly American, and the man who opposes them is a traitor to P' merican ideas. Who are their opponents } The Orangemen of Ontario, and the faction represented by Goldwin Smith, whose names are now, as they always have been, the watchwords of infamy or foolishness ; the Churchman, the Christian Advocate, the Independent, and their satel- lites, whose pretence is a profound Americanism in politics and religion, and whose practice is a compound of Lutheran bigotry and English malice ; whose principles admit Catholicity into the Christian fold, and whose practices place it beneath paganism ; whose words a«.e always for more liberty, and \yhose acts /or less. They wish the French language stamped out of Quebec because they who use it are Catholics, and the race wiped out because they are not Anglo- Saxon. What they advocate for this province they dare not even hint to the i'rotestant Germans in America. It is good for Quebec to have such enemies as these. That cause which they have once opposed, because it was Catholic, has always succeeded. Without principle in regard to Catholic matters, they have therefore been without argument, and their opposition has excited public attention and interest in us, and open contempt for themselves. The people of Quebec might be a better people, they could not be much kindlier or more hospitable. But whatever their virtues, this is to their credit, that they have nobly earned the hate of their enemies in sticking to their faith. John Talbot Smith. \ W^IS!^!m^ I LUBY'S PARISIAN HAIR RENEWER. STRENGTHENS IHE HAIR. Cleans the Scalp, and Restores Grey Hair to its Natural Color. CJy BE HAD AT ALL CUE3HST5. LUBl'S FOR THE HAIR. 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