The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-10-20
AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE.
Which the Governor General Of Canada
Paid to President Garfield and the People
Of the United States.

Which the Governor General Of Canada
Paid to President Garfield and the People
Of the United States.
Extracts from the address Of the MARQUIS OF
Lorne at Winnipeg:
It was most interesting to compare the southern
mountains and prairies with our own, and not even
the terrible events which have recently cast deep
could prevent our kinsmen from showing that hos
pitaty and courtesy which makes u visit to their
country SO great a pleasure Loud applause.I I
am the more glad TO bear witness to this courtesy
in the presence of the distinguished consul of the
United States, who is your guest this evening. and
who. in this city. so hono7ably represents his
try EappiauSe] in nothing more than this that he
has never misrepresented our own. Loud ap-
plause.1 Like almost all his compatriots who occupy
by the suffrage of their people official positions. he
has recognized that fact which is happily acknowl-
edged by all OF standing amongst ourselves that the
Interests OF the British empire and of the United
States may be advanced side by side without jeal-
ously friction, and that the good of the one il
interviewer with the welfare of the other. [Cheers]
Canada has recently shown that sympathy with her
neighbor's grief which becomes her, and which has
been sc marked throughout all portions Of our
empire. She has sorrowed with the sorrow Of the
great commonwealth, whose chief has been struck
down. in the fulness of his strength, in the height
Of his usefulness, in the day of universal recogni-
tion of his noble character, By tLe bastard hard Of
the t,oasS assassin s,,rd We lave - felt in thi.
Gen. Garfeld's position and personal worth made
his own and his fellow citizens misfortune catas-
trophe for all English speaking races The bull
letins telling Of his calm and courageous struggle
against cruel and unmerited affection have been
read aud discussed by with as strong an ad-
ration for the man, and with as tender q senti-
they have been awaited and perused in the South.
1t is fitting and good that this should be- We have
with the Americans not only a common descent,
but similar position on this continent and like
probable destiny. The community Of feeling
reaches beyond the fellowship arising from the per-
sonal interest attaching to the dignity Of high Of
frs Sf9J Y1i Sr1fh hon and To fhn
for the tender ties of hearth and home, sacred
though these be, for Canadians and Americans
have each a common aim and common ideal
Though belonging to very different political schools
and Dreferring to advance by very different paths
We both desire to live in land OF perfect liberty.
loud cheers.) When the order which ensures
freedom is desecTated by the cowardly rancnur Of
the murderer by the t. ranny of faction, the blow
touches more than one life. and strikes over wider
circle than that where its nearer and immediate
United States have been directed mo one political
organization, and we are cherisling and developing
another; but they will find no men with whom a
closer and more living sympathy with their rri-
umphs or with their trouble abides than their Can
adian cousins in the Dominion. (Cheers.J Let
this be SO in the days of unborn generations, and
may We never have again to express our horror at
such deed of infamy as that which has lately
called forth in striking manner the proofs Of
international respect and affection.
Paris has more poor than any city in the
world. The number Of registered poor who
have received relief during the present year
reaches the number Of 354, 1872. of whom
200, 600 receive outdoor relief. The mum.
Der supported wholly by charity is over
150,00 In 1889 every tenth person was
confirmed pauper. The annual poor rate
of Paris is ia francs per head or S125 per
family. Paris supports $4,000 orphans and
foundlipgs, pays the expenses of $4,000
mothers, names of $1,000 poor families on
its official too poor to defray themselves,
and has the lists.