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The Wingham Times, 1895-07-19, Page 3THE WINGIUM TIMES, JULY 19, 1895. Ii3XTogNDITIMES OQKrAB,ED, t4 cowman= lateg Pan 2,. entire Federal Government amount to $133,263„000, to be divided among 68,000,000 people, That is equal to barely $2 per capita., while we pay !$6 per, Capita, Now, I defy and challenge any bon, gentleman on the opposite side who may follow inc to give a fairer comparison of the finances of the two •countries. In. 1860 the United States, after al- most a century of existence, and after building many public works,. and making provision for various undertakings, had a debt of only $64,843,000, while we, a little country of only 5,000,000 people, with no larger history than they had at that time, have a net debt of $250,000,000. This is equal to $51 for • every man, woman and child in country, or $250 of a morgage upon the property of every family in Canada, on which they have to pay interest ; while the present debt Of the United States amounts to only $12.52 per head. INCREASE IN COST OF GOVER.NMENT, 13ut, Sir, let me eall your attention to the extraordinary—and if I had a more powerful. voice, I would put greater emphasis on that word—the extraordinary expenditure which is required to govern this country. The Conservative party, florin°.bthe last sixteen years have drawn from the people of this eountry, $518,560,000 to be spent in the various depart- ments of the Government, and they have added to the debt no less than $105;000,000, which makes $624,- 560,000 which it cost this country to be governed during the last sixteen years, or an average of $39,000,000 every year. I am certain that if economy had prevailed to a greater extent, large sums of that money could have been saved. Now, let us compare that with Liberal rule. During their five years, the Liberal Administration spent $118,440,000, and increased the debt ;$40,000,000, making a total of $158,440,000, or an average expenditure for eacb year of $31,688,000. The average excess of Conservative expenditure over Liberal expenditure was $7,- 347,000 per year. For sixteen years this would amount to the enormous sum of $123,452,000 in excess of what would have been spent had the rate of expenditure under the Liberal Administration been maintained. Sir, have you ever considered what an enormousamount $133,000,000 is ? Let nee make it a little plainer, so that may be able to grasp it. We are aceustomed in this House to talk so much of millions that we have little idea of their enormity. If this ,sun i were made'into coined gold, which is worth $17.60 per ounce it would make 316 tons of coined gold. If each ton of gold were placed upon a wagon, and a team Nailed the wagon, they would form a gold procession over three miles in length. That will give you..some idea, of the amount of money which has been taken out of the pockets of the people of this country in excess of what would- have been taken under the expenditure of the Liberal regime. If that gold were elianged into silver dollars, and one placed upon another, they wouldform a silver column 263 miles high. WASTE AND EXTRAVAGANCE. Now, it may be argued that this expenditure was necessary. Some of it was spent on works of no public utility, and other great sums were spent extravagantly, and shall I say corruptly ? ?think I can venture to use that word. Let me give you a few instances in which money has been spent corruptly, and blundering did not oppose it. There was at that time only $132,000 required. The following year Sir Charles Tupper brought in another estimate, and the ensuing years up to 1887 further atnounts were voted each year to build the canal. Do hon. members know what boats ply on the canal? There is the steamboat John Haggart, 117 tons; there is the Harry 13ateman, 116 tons; there is a yacht belonging to Mr. Peter McLaren, who goes up and down the river in it for the enjoy- ment of himself and family; tbere are two other boats called the Rover and the Firefly, and an old tug not deserving of a name, and which has not got one. This is the whole flotilla that navigates this grand canal, at an'expense to the country of a half milhlon dollars. 'What revenge is received from this publie Work every year ? The magnificent • Then, has It not been proven that in. connection with the Langevin block, $300,000 was spent corruptly, and that the contracts and agreements were drawn in such a shape as to place in the hands of Charlebois, the chief contractor, the power to extract fromthe sub-contraetors, 25 per cent of their contract prides ? And need I remind you of the discussion which has taken place on the Curran bridges, in which it has been ad - mated that there has been a steal of $200,000 of the people's money ? Nobody denies the steal, although the Government deny their responsi- bility; yet the money came out of the pockets of the people of Canada, and will not go back into them, Now, I refer to other extravagant .expenditures : Little Rapids locate.. . , .... $1.40,000 Frederioton bridge. , ...... 800,000 Sheik's Island dam.. , 150,000 Lake St. John Railwo.v.. .... 50,000 And now I come to the particular point, and I ani sorry the Minister of Railways and Canals is not in his place. I am going to give him some credit. He is deserving of credit. He took hold of the Intercolonial Railway two or three years ago and managed it in such 0. masterly manner that he saved $500,000, and I am prepared to give him the credit for this. He can give the credit to Mr. Pottinger or any 'other man he pleases, but I give it to him. And I give him the credit for this, that he says he has not interfered with the efficiency of the road in any parti- cular but ordered , his engineer to maintain the condition of the road and cut down the expenditure. The result was that he saved this country $500,000 or $600,000. But how many years has the Liberal party pointed out in this House to the Government their extravagance in the management of the Intercolonial? I have been hers nine years, and every year I have pointed out, and the Reform party has pointed out, that the road was not run in an economical manner. Wo proposed the appointment of a commission to investigate the matter, but one after another hon. gentleman opposite got up and said that everything was done as economically as possible and that not a 'dollar could be saved. Yet after fourteen years of deficits, $500,000 each year, making a total of $7,000,000 taken out of the pockets of the people, the Minister of Railways and Canals, Mr. Haggart, saved $500,000, and thus showed that the Opposition were right in their protests. But what about the Ministers of Railways who preceded him ? If credit is to be given the present Minister for saving half a million dollars, the responsibility rests on the Government of not hav- ing effected that saving years ago. NO MATERIAL UTILITY. Then there has been a great deal of money spent in works of no national utility. Will any hon. gentleman opposite say that the Tay Canal is a work of national utility ? In that canal, only 9 miles long, which runs through a level country, for the canal has only one lock where it empties into the Rideau Canal, $83,000 per mile has been sunk, or no less than $476,000 altogether. I never heard anyone yet attempt to justify that expenditure. I have heard the Minister of Railways and Canals plead this justification on the public platform, that when the grant wits asked in 1883, the Liberal party did not oppose it. But he must admit that I am not responsible. Had 1 been here I would have op- poSed it ; and it is no justification for taking money out of the pockets of the people to say that the Liberals and incapacity exhibited. You will remember that, a few years ago, a contractor named Onderdonk receiv- ed $209,000 which, it is proved, he should not have received. That was lost to the people of this country. I will not take time to go into the history of that matter; it is well known to all. It was admitted by the men then in office that that amount was lost to the people, al- though, like the Ministers to -day, they would not assume the responsi- bility of it. And who does not remember John Shields and the section 13 job in connection with which he was accused of stealing V65,000? He was accused by the "Globe" newspaper, openly and above board, and he had his alterna- tive to take the matter into the courts ; but, though he threatened to take an action for libel, the "Globe" invited him to come on ; but, after sum of $126, • How =eh does it letting the ease lie in Osgoode Hall I cost for maintenance ? Last year it for six months, he withdrew it. cost $2,000 besides the interest at 4 per cent on the $500,000, making $20,000, or a total of $22,000 for maintaining this canat which is not worth 5 eents to the people, Then another work of the national utility is the Trent Valley Naviga. tion Canal, That is a work which should belong to the province, and whieh will never become a national one, I challenge any one to show nv3 where at any point it can beeome national. You can only get six feet of water at any point on the canal, and in fact now one of the boats is only fitted for 5 feet of water. The shipping from, the northern lakes will never be able to send their boats through the canal, to reach Lake On- tario, because the cost ()flooding and reloading would be greater than the expense of going round by the upper peninsula, So eminent an engineer as Mr. Shanly said it would never be more than a local work, Yet this Government has spent no less than $803,000 on it, and they have now a contract given to Mr. Onderdonk, of Canadian Pacific Railway fame, for $492,000, making $1,250,000 which will be spent for the purpose of giv. ing a route—and a long route at that—to 12 or 15 districts. Had it not been for the late Sir John Mac donald, this work woulcl have been - in the hands of the local govern- ment. Arrangements had been entered into between Sir Oliver Mowat and the late Mr. Alexander Mackenzie, under which Sir Oliver was to take it over. All the negotiations were ready to be signed when Mr. Mac- kenzie was defeated in September, 1878, and the arrangements were not completed. Sir John Macdonald went before the constituencies and said he would make this a national work. Every year, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, and 1887, money has been voted until nearly $800,000 has been spent, and now, on the eve of another election, the Government is about to spend $492,000 more in order to curry favor with the constituencies along that line. I might go on almost ad infinitum pointing out the various extrava- gances, but I will be satisfied with pointing out one or two more. Do you really suppose that this Royal Commission on the . liquor question was not an absolute waste of money, $91,000 thrown away? The result of that royal commission is not worth the snap of one's finger, so far as any practical value can arise from it. It was appointed solely to avoid a direct vote upon the prohibition question; and if I could only appeal privately to the judgment of the men looking at me from the opposite side, every one of them would say that there was not a scintilla of justifica- tion for the appointment of that commission. INIQUITOUS FRANCHISE ACT. If we were economical in the ad- ministration of public affairs, we would never have passed that in- iquitous Franchise Act, which was passed in 1885, and which has saddled this country with a great number of inconveniences, and which has cost up to the present over $1,- 250,000. For seventeen years before that, we used the local lists and no one found fault with them until Sir John Macdonald, in 1885, sought to mani- pulate the lists in order to get more power into his own hands. The scheme was a fit sequel to the Gerrymander Act which he introduc- ed a few years before. 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