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a week ago by the war launch Mengajera which signaled the schooner. No answer being made a volley was fired, some bullets entered a box of cartridges and an explosion occurred. The men in the boat fearing the cargo contained dynamite, jumped into the sea and tried to swim ashore. The Mensa jera sailors opened fire on the swimming men, killed two and wounded another, who was drowned. Laborde, the leader of the expedition, reached the shore and was arrested. His family is well-known in Havana, his father was for several years in the Spanish navy and the Mensajera, form erly named Laborde in honor of the ancient Don Laborde. Dr. Bedia, Milton and an other prisoner, whose name the authorities refuse to divulge, were taken to Havana in irons and the schooner confiscated. Three men remained on the Competitor, among them Hamilton, editor of the Key West paper Mosquito. He surrendered without resistance and made his plight known to United States Consul Williams who inter ceded for him. A special to the World from London gays: The British government still maintains rigid silence concerning its action in regard to Cecil Rhodes in view of the disclosure of the cipher telegrams, but the facts of Rhodes’ position have been asertained. The World correspondent hears also that President Kruger has in his possession altogether fifty four incriminating telegrams, of which he has so far published only about a dozen. Many of those still unpublished are under stood to be innocuous, but of others several will prove very striking revelations. ‘The critical character of the situation as between Great Britain and the Transvaal, before President Kruger’s masterly use of the cypher dispatches, may be gauged from advices recently given by Sir Hercules Rob inson to the imperial government, which had invited an opinion from him on the policy to be adopted. He replied that there were two courses open to the imperial government, either to sit still and await Kruger’s action towards the Uitlanders, or to take immediate warlike measures. He favored the former policy, because it would take 60,000 men to conquer the ‘Transvaal, to any nothing of the consequential troubles and complications it would entail. The Guelph Mercury says: The failure of the government has been so marked that Sir William Van Horne recommends that a special commission be appointed to carry on a Vigorous immigration policy, and the recent convention at Winnipeg passed reso lutions, we believe, to the effect that the control of immigration should be taken out of the hands of the government and vested in a bureau, whose superintendent should be the controlling head, assisted by a commit tee to be appointed by the Western Immi gration association. From these two important quarters come these confessions of the incompetency of the government in this vital matter. For quite a number of years very large sums have been paid immi gration agents and for the printing of immi ration pamphlets with very few results. When Mr. Daly became minister of the interior he talked very big, and it ended in talk. The life and future prosperity of the Dominion depends largely on our securing more population. The present government have utterly failed to rise to the level of their opportunities in this regard. The clause in Sir Charles Tupper’s address to the electors of Canada dealing with the school question reads as follows: “It is unnecessary that I should attempt within the scope of a paragraph to fully review the position of the government in relation to the Manitoba school question. Although shamefully misrepresented by men who have had a purpose to serve in doing so or who have been misled by misapprehension of the real merits of the question, the fact is recognized that the government has taken a clear and definite stand on the constitution al aspect of the matter. We have simply done what we believed to be right in taking up the duty laid at our door by the judge ment of the highest court in the realm, and in endeavoring to redress the grievances of the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba by restoring the rights and privileges guaranteed to them by the constitution. Knowiing our case rests upon a sound consti tutional basis, and feeling we are doing right, it is our patriotic duty to adhere to the policy we have adopted in this regard, and we now appeal for a vindication to the sober sense and the justice of the Canadian people.” The Montreal Witness strongly advocates inviting Edward Blake to take part in the contest, saying: ‘“‘Blake’s appearance on the hustings in Canada at this time would create consternation in the ranks of those conservatives who are using his name in a very uncandid way to injure Mr. Laurier, a devoted colleague of Blake in other days and to dscredit the cause of tariff reform for which Mr. Blake worked with all his might There are those who represent his denun ciations of extravagance and regret for the delaying of free trade caused by the great piling up of debts as condemnations of trriff reforms. It is hardly possible for prevari cations to go further. Happily Mr. Blake ianot as Mackenzie was, beyond the reach of appeal, and this use of his name may suggest the advisability of inviting him to Canada to give the aid of his great influence i the liberal leader and cause of tariff re arm.
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Edmonton Bulletin
Edmonton, Alberta, CA
Thu, May 14, 1896
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