Rock Island Argus., 1895-03-26
OMINOUS OF REVOLT
War Cloud Hangs Over the Do.
minion Of Canada.
MANITOBA III a HUMOR TO FIGHT.
The Separate Roman Catholic school Que s.
tion Reaches in an Acute Stage, and the
Will West Of the British Empire Has Its
Coat On-Premier Greenway Talk Very
War-iike and the Legislature Will Back
Him Almost Unanimously.


MIsSEAPoLIs. March IA special to
The Tribune from Winnipeg, Man, says:
The remedial order of the governor gen.
eral in council, calling upon the govern.
ment OF Manitoba to retore to the Roman
Catholics their parocaial or separate
schools, has reached the city. 1t was
addressed to the lieutenant governor
and by him transmitted to the legisla-
ture which was sitting in readiness to
receive it, The legislative chamber was
crowded with an intensely earnest gath
eting when the important document was
delivered. II was yOluminous docu-
ment and reviewed all the evidence taken
before the privy council Of England,
which body declared that the Roman
Catholics ot Manitoba had a grievance
and that the governor general in council
had the power and authority to grant re-
dress by a remedial order.
Leaves No Opening for Compromise.
The tenor and language of the order
leaves no opening for compromise. 1t IS
n command to Manitoba to submit and
plainly says that il the legislature does
not obey the governor general, or, more
accurately speaking. the Dominion gov
crnment, will enforce its authority. No
definite action was taken last night. After
the order had been read it was laid on the
table for future consideration. That the
order Will be rejected may be taken for
certain. OF the forty members Of the
legislature only four or five will vote
against the rejection, these four or five
being Roman Catholics and representing
purely Roman Catholic constituencies.
Premier Greenway, being interviewed
last night, said; I'VE earnestly desire to
act with the constitution, but let all peo-
Pile know this trouble is not OF our own
making.
Grecnway's Open Defiance.
I'VE claim the right to make our own
laws, and ibis right we Will not give up
without 4 struggle. The governor-gcn-
erals order will be rejected in its entirety.
IL will be wise for the Dominion parlia-
ment, as Mr.. Gladstone once said, to think
once think twice, think thrice, before CO.
ercing u loyal and law abiding commun-
ity. Few in number though they may be
they Will never submit to this unjust CO.
ercion. This is II struggle for our rights.
We are free people; we will not be made
slaves. We will not have the laws which
We nave passeU ueilOcrdVely anu Will luii
knowledge of our conditions destroyed By
"a body to whom these conditions are un-
known, acting without enquiry, and with
out adequate consideration"
Not safe to suggest Compromise.
\ sensational feature of the trouble was
the announcement that the Dominion
cabinet had appointed one OF its own
members, Hon. j. c. Patterson, minister
of militia, to take the place of Premier
G-ccnway. This change is believed by
the Manitoba government To mean that the
Dominion authorities want Il man as gov
ernor more pliablc to their wishes. aud
who will unhesitatingly carry out their
mandate. Manitoba has always con
tended that its governor should be a Man
itoba citizen, and this unlooked-for
action has only added fuel to the flames.
Hugh Macdonald, son of Sir John Mac.
Donald, publishes an nppea! for modcra'
ton, pointing out the dangers of the sit
uation. IL is the first appeal Of the dead
premicr's son To be unhecdcd. The tenn
per of the people of Manitoba is now such
that only a courageous man would sug
gcst Il compromise.