Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-30
HE WILL NOT SUBMIT
MANITO5A'S PREMIER DEFIES
DOMINION GOVERNMENT.
No Separate Schools Can BE Maintained
in the Province-Provincial Govern
ment Leader Warns Parliament
Situation Critical

Winnipeg, Man. March 26.-Ihe
remedial order of the Dominion govern
ment, calling upon the government OF
Manitoba to restore to the Roman Cath
olics their parochial or separate schools
as they existed prior to 1890 reached the
city yesterday morning. 1t was ad-
dressed to the acknowledgements and
by him was transmitted to the legisla-
ture, which was sitting in READINGS to
receive 1t. The legislative chamber was
crowded with an immensely earnest
gathering when the important docu-
ment was delivered. 1t was voluminouS
and reviewed all the evidence taken be-
fore the privy council of England, which
body declared that the Catholics or
Manitoba had a grievance and that the
Dominion government had the power
and authority to grant redress by
remedial order The tenor and language
of the order leaves no opening for COM
promise. 1t is command to Manitoba
to submit and plainly says that If the
legislature does not obey the Dominion
government will enforce it's authority.
Premier Greenway authorized the fol-
lowing statement of his attitude toward
the action of the Dominion government
and the order sent here from Ottawa:
There is nothing before us now but a
certain proposition. There can be no
compromise We must either reject or
accept the proposition made. The oroer
is peremptory. There is no room Tor a
suggestion from US. We earnestly de-
sire to act with the constitution, but let
all people know this trouble Is not OF
our own making. We claim the right to
make our own laws, and this right we
will not give up without struggle
THE governor-g generals order will be
rejected in it's entirety. The Dominion
parliament will then be armed with
Jurisdiction to impose upon Manitoba
law to which an overwhelming major
lty of it's people are are opposed.
TT will be wise for parliament, as Mr..
Gladstone once said, to think twice.
think thrice before coercing loyal and
law-abiding community. Few in num-
bers though they may be, they Will
never submit to this unjust coercion.
"This Is a struggle for our right. We
are a free people. we will not be made
slaves. We will not have the laws
which we have passed deliberately and
with full knowledge of our own condl-
ton, destroyed by a body to whom
these conditions are unknown, acting
without inquiry and without adequate
&C consideration
No definite action was taken last
night. After the order had been read
II was laid on the table for future con-
sideration. That the order will be re-
iected may be taken for certain. Ot the
forty members of the legislature only
four or five will vote against the re-
lection, these four or five being Cath-
olics and representing purely Cathohc
constituencies.
A sensational feature of the trouble is
hot hn
cabinet had appointed one of its MEM
bers. the Hon. John C. Patterson, MN
lister of militia, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
Manitoba. This change is believed by
the Manitoba government to be that the
Dominion authorities want man as
governor more pliable to their wishes
and who will unhesitatingly carry out
their mandate. Manitoba has always
contended that it's governor should be
a Manitoba citizen and this unlocked
for action has only added fuel to the
flames
The Hon. Robert Watson, Minister
of public works, was asked for an ex-
preston of opinion on the matter.
II have no hesitancy in saying, he
said, that the Manitoba government
will not accept the remedial order
There are many bitter expressions
heard here from the best citizens Maj.
Mulvey, formerly thick and thin sup
porter of the ottawa government, said:
1T cost the government of Canada
IS, 900 900 to subdue the half-breeds of
the Saskatchewan. What will 1t cost to
make slaves of the 200, 900 people of Man.
itoba? Let the government count the
cost"
The Greenway government, at pres
ent in power, was elected solely on the
school question in 1892 carrying thirty
seats out of forty in the legislature,
while but six of the minority were Cath
olics The present ministry is deter
mined not to submit to any interfer-
ence by the ottawa government with
Manitobas rights. Any attempt of the
ottawa government to forcibly carry
out it's orders or to compel submission
to its orders interfering with provincial
school legislation will cause little short
of a revolution, and much apprehension
is felt as to the outcome of the present
condition Of affairs.