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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1908-10-24, Page 44 SerVitur, October 24, 1908 THF. SIGNAL : GODERICH. ONTARIO Sh 11OL'.ltit 11. a\TAKI0,I PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY r 1VANATTIJK aKOBKRT$VN Telephone Cali No. 6d, Tonne of Subscription : 111.111 per amanita in ad vutoo.l 8t: wenthe, Enc : throe tuouttig. 960.. To l'ultod Stater .ubseriberr. •I.Ee a rear (strictly .0 e.tlr Subsrnb.sr whhoof fall to receive Tal SJONat regularly by ulna will confer s favor by ao- Queintl.tg u" ot the tact at as early a data as possible. When a change of 'Admen Is desired, both the ".:When Old sod the new addreee should be given. Advertising Rates : Land other similar adverU .omenta. lee per l egal are tor tint lusertiou and 4c per Hue for sad) subsequent insertion. Measured by a ..nonpareil scale. twelve lines to au Web. Nudes.. cards of dg Bum and water, >}. per year. Advertisements of Last, Found, Strayed. P1t- aatloµe Vaosnt, Situations Wanted, }loured for Sale or to lieut. Farms for Sale or to Kent, Articles for Sade, etc., not exoeeding eight line+, YSt each iusertiou :$1 for not month, Sue tor each subsequent tuouth. (auger advertise- ment.. 10 proportion. Announcements lar ordinary reading type tee cant. per fine. No nation lees than 930. the object of which Dec nt of diidual or seat atton,t oonsidetwd an advertisement aid to be charged a000rdtngly. Rate. for dilplay and contract sdverttae- osnlr will be given On apptioatlon. Add»ae all oommaolcation$ to VANA1-'KR a ROBIXB,T$QN.. Tae IONAr- 0.6.lab. OWL OODKRICH. THURSDAY, 0(1'. 24, Ise. MORE BUSINESS FOR GOOERICH. A few weeks ago The Signal repub- lished from •The Toronto World an article op t inCitiadittn'Yrain fleet, in which this statement was made : "Fifteen have ago one million dol- lars would havc_pu'obasedthet fleet id vessels engaged in the Can- adian lake grain trade. Todaythe fleet is worth about $10,000,000. on an exceedipgty-ooimenratiw--sada mate." Goderich is vitally interested in the development of the lake grain trade, which is the direct result of the splendid success of the Liberal Gov- ernment in peopling the West. Vote for Holmes and a continuance of the policy of development and progress. sp It.•tu le fur bis ac•tiuns 10 the pan}d. ��_���� who elret him. 1{..•mealier the salary grab. EDItONIAL NOTES. Flee years more of Laurier and pros. pertly. tat Uil>4e4'is4-.d!e_iprt Holmes r. squaw. deal. It is time for a change in }VestII Huron's representation at Ottawa. A - TOM for Hoboes is a Vote for the prosperity of Canada and the progress of Goderich. Look out fur Tory roor'bachs• Any stories sprung on the electors at this late date are false on their face. Sir Wilfrid Laurier luta devoted bis life to Canada. Give bite a hetptng hand with your vote next Monday, E. N. Lewis was one of the members who tented themeelves an inea crse of $1,11x1 a session. to you approve of t7 The ettorititignieo oTQode '1 h Se not want to go back -to -the d0tt -euros prior to 1888, when there were two men for every job. If you want to put Oanadt back in the bog -hole • of stagnation. from which the Liberal party •pulled it in INKvote for Lewis. s u Mr. Lewis inlu.:ky with his projects. The "free lunch" plank i another part of his platform which he W11.4 unable to carry out, Let every supporter of mood go vent - whole I meat Ito to the polls early next Mon- day, and then see tbat bis neighbors poll their vote.. too. THE SALARY GRAS. One of the most sordid spectacl1s seer seen in the Canadian Parlia- ment was the aalat$' grab of the Session of 1906. Without any previ- ous public discussion of the proposal, the -members conspired among theist- - selves to raise their sessional allow- ance from' $1,600 to 92,50*). and they Sneaked the bill through Parliament with hardly a word, like those • who know they are doing something that will not bear the light of day. It was the first session 'atter their election, and they trusted that before another election crime round the people would have forgotten the deal. The Signal protested at the time, along with uther papers of both parties all over the country. and resolved that no far as its voice could I* Heard the electors would be reminded of the outrage at the right time. The time has corn.... 1t is riot so much the amount of the money thus taken from the public treasury that is the ground of protect, although certainly the taxpayers have a right to criticize the transaction on that ground, Some members are worth a good many trues $'_',GIN) a ses- sion, and Bowe are not worth $60) to the country. To some members it is a considerable sacrifice to place their time at the disposal of the nation for $24(11) a seasian : on the other hand, solus members ,could not earn more than a fraction of the amount in pri- vate life. Here, indeed, is cot' of the evil results of the increase. At the old rate the indemnity perhaps .lid nut more than cover a member's rea- sonable expenses ; now it is nil attrac- tion in itself to a certain type of pole, tielan, end its inevitable tendency will be to attract to Parliament a brood of political adventurers --men with no important business of their e.wri who will le glad to spend six months. or light months. or the whole, year, at Ot- tawa for the opportttoity 491 handling flees 0 a session. But even this—while sorely serious enougb—is not the chid consid- eration onsuberation in this matter. It is this :— Do the people rule ? The grab took place in spite of a storm of public dis- approval. instead of placing the pro- pose' before the pet ople, 50 as to allow of discussion, and then, if public opin- ion was found to lb• favorable, fixing the indemnity ata higher rate for the following Parliament - which would have been the honest course—the members deliberately disregarded pub- lic opinion and in the fare of protests from all over the country grabbed extra thousand dollars a rN x- 510 . It was dishonest --these men were elected ••n the understanding that they should receive $1,500 a ses- sion and they at the first opportunity voted them/solvers $2,500. It was not in accord with the interest. ,•f go.xl government—its tendency is to de grade Parliament, to lower the stan- dard of its membership. It was a direct blow at popular table—the.inem- ben thought they could defy the pub- -- —Sic willsnddo as tTiey pleaded, eo long all they did it a good time baton the next election. The question is, Do the people rule, or can they be defied ? • -_ These remarks apply equally to Liberal and Oonaervati.-e members of the House. Untort+mately, with other questions before the people. it is im- possible to %swore A pronouncement on this straight issue and to make every member of the late Parliament feel the weight of public disapproval of the grab. However, every elector should briar the matter in mind end so far as possible make sure that the can, dilate for whom he votes in a man of character. 000 who is not going t.n Parliament for the sake of the eatery, lied one who considers that he is re- The -Star -tatts'sbont "guttersnipe barroom politics." Can it be that any person connected with The Rtar is an authority on "barroom politics" ? The Signal is tate only paper of any importance in West Huron. It you don't believe it ask anybody who attended the nomination meeting at Dungannon on Monday, . , Lewis has looked out for his own in- terests during the but four years. There is no Alligation upon 4he elec- tors of West Iluron to allow him to continue in his self-seeking course at their expense. Do the electors of West Huron en- dorse Lewis "still hunt" caiseetigo— one• story here. another story there, still smother story elsewhere ? Can the political affairs of the country be s.tfely conducted^on such methods ? At the nomination meeting 111r. Lewis, speaking of the increased ex- penditure, asked "Where has the money gone %Veil, Mr. Lewis knows quite well where ten thousand dollars of it dee gone—into his own pockets. Honestly, now, Mr, ,Elector, have you heard anything from the Conser- vative candidate or bis supporters in this riding which would warrant you in voting to put the Liberal party out ,4 "met. and place the Conservative party in pNower? At the nomination meeting Mr. Lewis quoted repeatedly from The Signal' its an authority. He took good-calla.-bow•yesr-not to 'quote The The Conservative par- ty offers nothing but pet- ty scandal. • The Liberalof- party fers thepeople a policy of progress and develop- UII meat. t.s� trrtw r>,t,t;�iwlWX?41i.:bnl�tt+t�sr.rr5lt .t' ^+tl s =....r��'"-�•rs".. thrift wastes a fortune, and created some grave problems for other gener- ations," It remained fur tile Liberal party to make the West a land of fulfilment. Will the people of Canada place that great young oountragain in the hands of Foster and hus"greedyeparti- sans ? -We trow not. THE, POLITICAL ARENA._._ Montreal Witness: We are con- vinced, halanring one thing with an- other, that the country should give Sir Wilfrid Laurier another term of oftice at Ottalwa.. rather than tette a party which threatens to rause our. tariff taxat' • make our clothes and other things we need cost ua much more than they do now and make our country, and especially this Province, the dearest place in the world to live in ; which threatens to kill the British preference. that has done so much for our farmers and ourselves in the ex- pansion of our trade and reducing the cost of living, besides being a bond of empire: which is etotuinatetl by Mr. Foster, and, over against the objection- able members of the Liberal party, includes such men as Fowler. Bennett. Lefurgey and the'vitaierative Roblin. Hon. A. H. Aylesworth at Bramp- ton : Mr. Borden had appeared to be rather ashamed of the term muck- raker, and had asked who made the muck. "i would say to Mr. Borden," declared. Mr. Aylesworth. "you and your political velealines made it, as intoe exist* except to your imagina- tion and untrue statements." It the Opposition thought they had any ease with which to go befiire a jury he challenged them to produce it and he was ready to prosecute the offenders, whoever they might be: but in the campaign of vilification, falsehood and malignity not one word had ever been levelled against the personal honesty of arty member of Sir Wilfrid Lauriers Cabinet. IF HE; BE- LIEVED THERE WAS ANY FOUN- DATION FOR THE THINGS WHICH HAD BEEN BINTED AT AND INSINUATED, BUT NEVER CHARGED, HE WOULD NOT STAY IN THE CABLNET FOE A SINGLE DAY.. He was prepared to pledge hie work' of that administration is to be lett in such hands as these. This is a pefnt at which Mr. Borden should be specific. and there is no point at which he can better afford to be so. No one &mbtsthat bill better instincts prompt him to be specific in this regard : but his mistaken loyalty to his associates and, perhaps. a leek of that wise courage- which- taeanlreeo much -to --a party leider, impel him to be indef- inite." •-OTwo Tscare wo elections went` by sc- motion on Monday throughout all Canada. These were in South York. where W. F. Maclean, the Conserva- tive candidate, was returned without opppoeition. and Roucillc. the,., where Hon. L. P. Brodeur, Minister of Mar- in end Fisheries, had no opponent. It as expected that Sir Wilfrid Lau 'er would be elected by acclama- tion i Quebec East, but at the last try, gr'o P minute r Fleet appeared es a cantle adwtt that it is a poor lot, ot that wont to the people that there d not - exist and there had not beenshows Migoal'r opinion of his own course as member for West Huron. 1f The Signal is a good authority in one casewhy not in another ? Mr. Lewis did not take the oppor- tunity at Dungannon on Monday to mention any single item of expendi- tu',Wendre by the ',Wend which he watt opposed during his four years at. Ottawa. The moneys spent by the Government are voted in open Parliament, where Mr. Lewis had a voice. - The Toronto News baa not reached the limit yet. By Saturday next it will have the oust of the National Transcontinental Railway up to 945e,- iW),tI00,000: the Grits stealing two hundred million square Wiles of tim- ber every week : Mr. Fielding spend- ing eight y millions et second, and Or. l'ugsley buying toothpicks at $4.7. a piece. The ice -cap for The News Mon day night. — T Hon. L. P. Brodeur, Minister of Marine. against whose Departnwnt much of the Opposition scandal talk has been directed, was elected by ac- clamation on Monday. The •only other member; returned unopposed i W. F. Maclean, of South York, who, although a Conservative, refused to take part in tike campaign of slander. It doesn't leek will for the scandal - m ongers. to exist. any foundation for the at- tacks which had been maligneastiy- and persistently made upon the Gov - Monte ten years ago Colonel W. E. O'Brien was prominent Conserva- tive member of the Dominion Parlia- ment. He was especially well known for his consistent advocacy of a closer bond between Canada and the Mother Country, and In Parliament and on. the public platform he was one of the moat noted advocates of Imperialism. A few date" ago, at a meeting held in the interests i d Daniel Wilson, the Liberal candidate in North elimcoe, Col. O'Brien spoke strongly for the return of the present Government to !Konen He said all other questions sank into insignificance When com- pared with the question of Imperial preference and Iniperial trade ; that -Sir, Borden if reterned to power had 00 option but to repeal the present Imperial preference as he wee in the hand* of those who'did not want- Brit- ish competition. While irremilarities were sure to occur with tiny Govern- ment, there wae no reason on that more to turn out the present Govern- ment and to renter.. them try such meo as Mr. Foster whom to mention was to condemn. As an et:Ample of a Mimeos fabrication of the Oppositioo to influence the electors was instanced the Grover Nest Pau Hallway. The true facts were stated and the Colonel paid his -thav Manitolta to teach int the amenities of debate and the proper language to 118P. in the conduct of a political campaimi. The whole clans (.1 politiciane and political methods ivpresented by the Fosters and Ileggarte, not to mention the smeller fry composed of the Bennetts and the Gainey's, be mentioned as something to ^void, end urged stippot t of the present Goyiernrnent as the only on.• in whose bomb' the count ry would be safe at the present deep impression upon the meeting. The Montreal Star (Coneervativei says in its eau, of Monday last : eMr. Borden promisee 'hone*. ad- ministretion of our public revenues.' Hee is *hie to acromplished ? By notking Foster Minister of Finance? By giving the Militia Department to Col. Mem. Hughes ? By eppointing Fowler and Left wpm)? to detal with the railway magnatea ? ft ix iiseleve. 10 talk to the peeve.. .1' giving them 6 more holiest administration the If you want Foster, the leader or t h.. "nest of traitors," the grafter and rakeoff dealer. the man of deft( its. to be Canada's Finance Minister. vote for Lewis. A vote for Holmes is X vote to keep Hon. Mr. Fielding in the office in which he has had stich illiant success. party. "Men who are distrusted by the country, even though Ithe unde- servedly, must make way for others. It will lee an-upfortunate thing country and- for the Coneervatice party should the latter come hack to power impenitent. -still hugging the este eielealo r-that-41—it-rntitied—to'- office, and that delay in the restora- tion is a . grievance." ' The article oust -Mom : A Few Sample "Deals. THE MARINE DEPARTMENT. I ode).* any bid not exceeding the up- set prier. diad amyl togat Ta � Certain transactions in the 11.-pa't• ment of Marine and Fisheries Gave been the objectut(oussrvative attack. Wien Klin. L. P. Brodeur, the pres- ent head of this Department, took bold of it in 11100 he noticed irregular- ities and immediately set experts to work to devise a better system of accountancy and control with a view,. to the thorough 1'eerg Unisation of the Department. As a result of the Min- ister'e investigations several amebae have been dismissed, and in order to get right to the bottom of the suCamelspectt+d irregularities Judge Camels has deco appointed W conduct a judicial Investigation, which is now going on. Did you ever hear of a Conservative n Government instituting touch an in- vestlggaon on the eve of a general election ? It shnwe that, no Matter whet happe'uv, the Laurier Govern- ment ie not afraid of the truth. lion. Mr. Brodeur, referring to the charges, of ecandel, said : "Thy (the Conservatives) iteve raile,l about the Arctic and the Monteslut, - on the extraordinary proal[. realised' by Merwin.. butt in- quiries have revealed the fallacious- ness of theirr rrfttrtems - and their accusations. • "The provisioning of the Arctic coat Seel* per. titan per day. UnderMcLean, the Conservative Minister in 1884, the provisioning .of the Nep- tune' for a similar voyage cost 91.19 per man per day. and under Foster in M. "the Alert hie a nimbler expedi- tion likewise cost $1.141 per roan per dey So far as the Montt-alin is ctonoerned, only tbat way spent which war. absolutely necessary to put her in Iol• the ddiois i.► --ell enee--the- high_ . dais of other Goeern metal- when pay- ing visite to l'anwlian water' ..."Now Now with 'espied to the Merwin affair. Ont of it total of $456,715 id ti rdertt li anit i*ie far nevi "Tn 190th, the Conservatives have found an over-proflt art 96.1100 in all. "'rt. Opirtsilins have been totally rata more or less pledged to each other. good or had. Had a national con- vention been held the party's re- sources in the way of men could have been au•ertained. r Needles to say a nit una ale to the Government. Their criticisms are 1' 'ted to petty acts of administration for which certain officials of the various Depertrn.:nts 'night be re- sponsible hut which cannot be re- garded as imperilling the reputation of the Government itself As long as 1 am at the head of the- Depart- ment of Marine end Fisheries, I shall see that its atlrninistratiop is honest and irreproachable." "The Conservative party should bot have left its fate in the hands of the caucus at Ottawa, a small group of men interested in thentselves, and date—at e.iostance, it is said, of the there is any. need to seek better men, Liberals t mselves, as Sir Wilfrid -is Best of all, Mr. Borden could have running al in Ottawa and his elec- been clothed with authority as na- tion by ace mation in one cnostit- timed leader. instead of being leader honey would in alidate his candidacy by favor of caucus. He would have in the other• re are a few seats in had inoreased moral force." Ontario for which here is do Liberal candidate, and a mber in Quebec for_ which there is o Conservative candidate. • IMPROVING GODERICH HARBOR. Ti ile Ceoii veers front July 1, 1iRI'; to June 30, 1806, the old Conservative Goverontent expended en tioderich harbor the total sum o*1 f 9,107.16. In the ten years {lees three months) from July 1, 1808, to March 31, 1908, the present Government has spent on Goderich harbor the total, item of In his "Life of Sir Wilfrid IAtiriet," ptietiabed in len, .1. S. Willison. now editor of The Tor,.nto Newt., gives t hie picture of conditions in Western Can- ada under Conservative auspices : "The itanguine expectations of rapid settlement ot the West fell lement. able -short of realization. The fairly eighties witnessed a tremendons boom in Manitoba, but the era of inflation wad brief and frenzied. and the results diesel:roue And enduring. Millions, Were ',ranted to colonization compan- ies. There was an immense waste of lat,,re and grapey partisans.. There wan a season of delirious gambling in prairie Iota, frantic competition in this plotting of paper towns, a reckless trading on the future that ocessioned widespread Ines and ruin. and put a positive Might on the country for years afterwards. We wasted nur patrimony in the Weft its a spend. The Star ring. in David Cantelon. of Clinton; to bolster up one of Mr. Lewis' nasty insinuations. Whu is David Cantelon ? He is the men who while member of the county conned did -his -utmost to knife the °Merle's hoopital project, canvassing the coun- cil to repudiate its pledge to support tbe hospital by • grant. Cantelon hates Goderich bitterly, and nothing wenhi please* him better titan to defeat Rob- ert Holmes and block the.project for improving Goderich harbor. Fortun- ately the majority of the people of much. Clinton are not built on the same plan Do the People of tiodericb say that as David Cantelon. They- are broad - this increase of expenditure is not minded enough and far-sighted enough to tiee that what helpm one pert of the county help all—the de- velopment of tiodericb harbor will give better shipping facilities for Clin- ton roanufguturers, end- -the -more rich the more the tradie of •Imr pot will be built up':. Mr. Cane -Ion want% to spend his time al ingleriog r. Flotsam. that is hie- own }mitred: but the electore of Goderieli should not help him in bus richeme to knife this town. right and proper ? During the later years of Conserv- ative government the harbor was wretchedly neglected, and the trade of this port wall ill.datIger of varesibing altogether. The present Government has made meat improvements, and Will make Mill more. What do the ratepayer* of (lode - rich think of the conduct of their municipal amessor and collector, Wil- liam Campbell ? At the last meeting of the town council he applied for an eatension of the time for receiving taxes at the usual discount, (-tainting that: be had not bed time to get'out the notices. And yet be his tinte to go all over the riding electioneering for the Conservative candidate. while the town is paying him to attend to the town's business ! And in the mean- time the town is paying heavy inter- mit charges on' borrowed money be- cause the tattoo are not. coming in. In it oot higb time to put a stop tongs sort of thing ? BANK DEPOSITS. Made by the People in Chartered Banks and Savings Banks. tele Elle -W.443 tee6 245.029.143 Increase in twelve Tears under Conservatives toe, entern 1896 245.029. 143 Increase in hvehre years ..under Liberals ose.oreolle When E. N. Lewis was Mayor of Goderich he haunted The Signal office to get articles printed concern- ing himself. This will explain some In Manitoba' the preparation of the voters' lista Is controlled directly by the Tory Provincial finvernment, and these lists are used in the Federal eleetions. Word TIOW compel from idsatftobtx -thistAaundreds of Liberal voters have been left off t he. 144- Pre - pared by the t'onservative officials. and will be disfranchised on Monday next. It was to prevent the rectify- ing of this abuse that the Conserv& you consider was the absolute worth ?" tive members itt Ottawa obstructed Ile answered : "I consider it tbe the leeriness of Parliament for weeks greatest bargain that they got of eoy during the last semion. la hat do the voters of Huron think of stich tacties ? .nr, Reform and Resti- tution" is the Opposition cry. Is the retrenchment to be of the kind prac- tised by the Whitney Government. which increaeed the Provinciel ex- penditures by 47 per cent. in three yeare? Is the reform to be et the sort' exemplified by the Whitney Goyeen- officielo to make way for party heelers and in addition adding 'cores to the number of civil germ:Oita at Toronto. ? What did the Conservatives do with the timber lands when they were iu office ? They dispueed uf tie less than square miles were absolutely given Sit1019 the Liberals Cattle into power they have alienated only 6,450 square los, all of which, es before stated, has been mdd by public cutupetition. It is estimated that at the rate at which the penitent Government ha. dispotied of timber lands there is enough. without reproduction, to last THE FRASER LAND "DEAL." Here is the way the Conservatiee •eA.IV. Fraser WAX given hie latest Wester's' limit for 91.850 ; he mold, Ac- cording fe his testimony in court. for Now, a ut the facts. The Con-. iently forget I tell the electors that Mr. Fraser (or the syndicate of whieh property 'were years ago, and that shortly after a gre t *hoe in the value of lumber took Mac' Neit her do t hey • say what must be paid by the purchasers. there being ground rent and timber drier to be paid to the Government in irld not asked that this bert we decided ig, hid. Tbere were tenders anti ieir tender was the got, viz., feenee. ' The seine peo who pui chased ; tie Fraser property quired *nether lima, width was given without „competRiatt and. ..without bonus." for the stun of $100,000. Mr. Fraser I4110W11 how lumber values have risen and gives several instances of largrekmountall made on timber trans- actions between private parties. --Bid why should I multiply in- stances ?'''' he asks. "We all know that this has been the experience from one end of Centel& to the other. Why, then, should I he blamed fee benefit - tine by the increase' in value ? I re- ceived no &detainee. I hid in open public competition. No one in all the years during sehich these sales were being' made ever complained that they were nOt properly advertised. No criticism was made by aeyone till metre after, when the rapid rise in !timber had given au increased value to them." SASKATCHEW.DAENALV,ALLEY LAND Thio ie one of the Opposition "scan. dais" which Liberals are particolarly willing to dimwits, showing as it doee the way in which the Conaervative Goverritneot tied up the IVestern epeutniniectry• by grants to railway • cone The grant in question wee originally made oy the Conservative 00"ml:- which E. H. Oeler. Conservative MTh' itil-otlitpat railny .dst:lected out of the was no more land in the tract "fairly tit for settlement." In 1900 it took steps to elle the Government under the writ* of the grant made to it. by the Tories of 1884 : and, in the follow- ing year, It was allowed to make •. choice of the remaining land dim them under the agreement from an area of 12,1kal,235 Mere*. the Government de- tilthet to hate all -"these grants closed out, so as to alien mitten to homestead in the territory. At flee stage Mr. O'sler M. P.. sett company elainied to be entitled to the . same Aiwa of selection as Ogler and his asisoatateek- Mat they did DOt The tioveeprnent reduced the area. from which they might select to 4,543.- 435 acree. In IOU the Government sold to tbe SaskAtchewan Valley Land Compriny 250,000 acres under very on- erous condiLions involving the placing of settlers in each township In a region wherein, up to that tittle, there had been no settlement and the tett i. tory had heen declen-d by Mr. Oelere crowd to be unfit for bet tlement. The purchase from the Government of this land was made not because it evas ob- tained more cheaply, but because it was Lichee/try for the land compeny to meceire the even numbered sectious intervening between the odd num- bered mettons purchased fr the rail- way company in order to carry out•sisc- cessfully the scheme of settlement by which they hoped' to intrease the value of the lends purchased from both the railway end the bloverionent. and so make a profit from the tramaction. ely elle male of this 250,00e acne' ,a_e_el even ieuttiliered :moan* Abe Governe e". %tient recured a contract wheel brought ,„,:e into settlement &leo the Kill,11,00 acres el which the Tories had grouted' to the' syndicate which Mr. Oslerei then con - induce settlement thereon. Among the conditiens under wheel the Government sold this land was one that the company should settle. thirty-two actual settlers in retch , towoehip. Tne company bad to put _ tip a deposit ot $50,11.10 to be forfeited if the conditions were Dot fulfilled within a certain time, and before the company could lit• eneithel to receive any towitehie they had first to place thirty-two actual settlers upon it. The Government's wise restrictions mid conditions of mettlement have been otiose atemeasful. The lend cowpony. e— at 'great expense brought in large numbers of settler' who demonstrated the bllities and advantages of the eegi erto country productiee factoritv reit THE HALIFAXLAND "DEAL." In this case there ie • hint that there wee collusion between the Gov- ernment officiate and B. F. Pearson to unload this property on the country at an extravagant price. The evi- dence given before the Public Ac- counts Committee at Ottawa shows plainly there was no such collusinn. The Star says : "The Government proposed to huy a block of land at Halifax for a round- house and shops for the Intel -colonial. Pearson and a emnpanion bought the land. and the Government bought from Pearson." Mr. Pearson and his emsociate. Mr. Henderson fa, Conservati ir el, had entered upon the purchase of the lands in question for industrial pur- poses, Mr. Henderson being a paint manufecturer with his works in the immediate vicinity of the land after- wards mold to the Government. Mr. Read, valuator for the Inter- coloniel Railway, gave evidence be' fore the teiblic Accounts Committee. lie wee asked : consider that the Government, in paying for this property. along the valuietion you have made, paid anything more tban all over Canada. hat the a fraction of ..ne that I had ginything to do with, ill W. R. MacKetizie, chief engineer of the Intercolonial lisilway, and an appointee of the late Conservative Government, was asked before ths Committee : "Now, natitrally, you. having to do witle,the construction part of the road, the buildioes and other matters of that kind, you would, I AMAUIlle. be able to give us POTOX format ion as te what 3 ou think as t -o the price paid fee this land, having regard to ite situation, the locality Is the reetittition to be the restria ion and everything connected with it. should he M- end hree le t h airy of the thousands -if Care yon tell 11t1 whether you regent miles of Weitern lands given ^weer to Tory politiciane by the old Conserva- tive Government ; or IN it to be the geeing up by Cleo. E. Foster o rakeriffa on land purchased by him for ment ?" ' a company from which he wee already He replied :under goalie) eNo. I do not consicier it an exceseive pay- ment. I know the pticep paid for other pieree of land thee hew. been purchesed by the Intercoloned Rail- way for this butt thirty years, and I feel quit tuife in saying that the prire keep the front reek please in the was a very reaeonehle ene." the amount as being right end joist which has been paid by the Govern- ment, or as being an excemive pay - its business, Torifintn Someday Night warns the Conrvatire party that it is making MilltAITO—"11 fatal sense le the term it usee—in allowing the Old Guard to IRRIGATION ••DEAL." The Robbins irrigate:in deal im an, other of the Opposition's pet 'mandrils. The Government sold 11 tract of land in the arid region of Alberta, near Medicine Hat, to • company st 91 per acre, upon condition that $1,000.10/ was +pent in irrigation. To protect the eettler the Government reserved the right to fix the price of water, and provided thee all land unsokl within ten years should revert to the public. This is a transaction «bleb the Guv- ernment not only defends, but boasts of, Tbe temutervittive candidate in Medicine Ilat applauds It. and con- demns his traders for their attitude toward it.. The city council, board of trade and agricultural society of Medicine Hat likewise approve the Tbe vote gentoid for Opposition charges of graft is that the land com- pany will probably make money out of the deal 1 Is there anything crim- inal in tbat ? Are they not entitled to a reward for their enterprise and a return on their investment ? Will the country not profit by a project which will tusk. an arid tract in Al- berta blossom like the rose ' TIMBER ADMINISTRATION. Mince it came Into power the Liberal Government ham not [sold a mile of timber except at politic competition ard to the highest bidder. Recently the law in regard to timber sales hits been improved, and now all timber areaa put up for sale sire first in- mpected by the Government cruiser and surveyed by the Government stir- veror. An upset price is then placed on them and this price is kept -wept hy tbe Government. The auction bikes place at the land office nearest the berth. The right ia reserved to ent that a large tract of bab- el:4W and unproductive ' tell become inhabited and ' ve been amply and minis - GREATEST CANDAL OF ALL. We have heard good deal during the election C11111 ign about "wan. the "middlemap" has a4 too good an opportunity, and a Chug' and cry is raised. The very t that the Opposition raise this i and that the supporters of the Gov anent are impelled te meet it ie evi ence that there is no great, dange to the country from etteendels of e kind now exhibited before the publi The treople will prick up their ears iery quickly to any charge of admin ra- mont•y or their property is ma feetiy wasted; But there is a scandal much nuore to be feared, and the return of tbe Con- aervative party to power would inev- itably bring it upon us. That is the scandal of a high protective tariff. Borden in °Mee, find Foster Minister of Finance we mhould Nee manufac- turers tumbling over one another to - get the wee of the Government and have their percentage of protection raised. In such canes it is not those who roost need protection who get it. The firm or the corporation that can thake the biggest noise and pull the biggest string's getiethe biggest prize : the young smd struggling industry, without much political influence, get.. the cold shotilder ; and the general publle, the farmer. the workingmen. the consumer generally, gets nothing but the privilege of paying for the favors granted to thmteg fellows. Time and again it fins been demon- strated that protection is the prolific source ef corruption. There is no greater graft than that which enishles the protected interest to free toll on the maw** of the people. We do nor. want graft or corruption in adininis. trative affairs in Canada ; still less do we want it incorporated in the publin merciel system of the country. The greatest scendal of all would be to give the country over to the tenets and the cornbines. To vote for the Conservative party is to assist in doing this ; to vote tor the Liberal party is to strensrthen the hands cA theme who are trying to do away with ' specie' privilege in the guiee of protege. It is impossible to follow tip and refute all the "'mender talk of the Oppose time What we have dealt with shove are semples of the distortion and mis- repreptentatlon indulged in by the Onneervotive press ond platform speakers. If they had a Mar agliatlat the Government. wmild it 1/(1 necessary for them to tell hall-truthe ? Their own plan of esenpaign show* how hard they have to strive to made even an appettrance of wrongdoing on t he part of the Govern- ment. And In all this talk it must he remembered that IN NOT A SINGLE INSTANCE 18 ANY CORRUPT ACT CHARGED AGAINST ANY MEM- BER OF THE GOVERNMENT. Vote for Holmes—it will do you