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The Exeter Times, 1879-4-3, Page 44 TEE TIMES APRIL 3, 187 The Mo °ns Bank, xxconz ozhATmzt air ACT QV PARLZA*zmNT, 180. aritat nest, �C t 2 0 0 0 0 0. 40 000 , R 0 HEAD OERIC MONTREAL. Jelin I Or SON, Esq., .President. lieu. TH0108 W'OIUMAN, - Pine -.Pres., T,T CLAxTON, Vice -Pres SunMutu'l l)$ Oo }hon]) L Macpherson, Senator It W Shepherd, Pres Ottawa River Navrg Co Karat o Nelson, MPP, Miles Williams, F, WoLFrsus2Ai1 `Rito10.8, Esq., . Cashier. N1. 11EATON, I;Sq,,- - • - - • Im fetor. Exeter -E3ranr3h, 131;NBY 0, 13BRWNR - - MANAGUA, LOANS TO FAIBMaaRS. Toney advanced to farmers ou easy terms, on their own promissory notes with one or more god en. •clorsers, No mortgage required as security. SAVINGS BANE D• 'PAIiTMNNT per cent, Interest allowed o7a deposits. Gold aud currency drafts bought and sold, Star ugBxchaugebought and sold, Collections made in all parts of the Dominion amid returns promptly remitted, at,lowest rates o exchange. Exeter, August 15th 1878. 6-m 'fie •er% q Einem. THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1879. TRE CREDIT VALLEY RAIL- WAY. According to our promise of a eon- pie of weeks ago, we return to the question of the new railway proposed for Exeter. During the last couple of weeks this scheme has formed the chief topio of conversation in the vi• einity. The people who are concerned. in the welfare of the village and neigh- borhood very properly seem anxious to secure all the information available before they decide what attitude to assume towards the enterprise. For our own part, we have carefully oonsi- dorea the sobeme in all its bearings, sand until we have heard some stronger arguments than any advanced against it thus far, we see no sufficient reason why it should not be encouraged and assisted as liberally as the means of the villad di i alines ge an surroun ng inuniclp will permit. As we pointed out in a previous article, the Company are de- termined to push the road through to .Lake Huron, Sarnia being the object- ive point, after first touching at Port Frank, which is said by experienced engineers to possess the finest natural. leaidlaw, the originator of the scheme,: harbor on the lake. Exeter lies a few and President of the Company, visited supposition that the value of our as- it wee inaccurate in two or three part sessable property will not, during the oculars --most important partioulars,uo d:onbt he thought them, The 1'enetane guishene Reformatory, he believes, in- stead of being paid for by John Sand.. field Macdonald, was built a year or so aftet Christopher Columbus lauded on the adores of the new world, This be thinks is a. fact. Then again he never kept a store at Bruoefiold—.thinking the people oare whether he kept store there or labored in some other respect- able capacity. This we believe is the extent of the fault which Mr. Bishop's struggle with the pamphlet has resulted in. Ilaviug passed through his skilful hands without baying any gross and misleading orrors pointed out, one would have thought it safe from fur- ther adverse citicism, nhais a certain class "rush in where angels fear to tread," and our friend of the Expositor rushes at the pamphlet in his last is- sue. He has had it some titne,and the day of its demolition has been long postponed. His duty to the party de- manded that an attack should be made upon it. So lie concludes to shut his eyes, mount his Pegasus, and rush at the wind -mill. He says :— "Its (the pamphlet's) object was to show that under Reform rule the money of the Province had been wastefully expended • • • • • • • • - Such a conclusion can not be properly arrived at from the evidence aff•.,rded by the public documents." Those ratepayers who will kindly look at Mr. Jackson's pamphlet, page 0, "School Inspection" will see the ab- surdity of our totem's remarks. The figures are just as they are shown in the Public Accounts, aud prove most oouelusively that in this branch of the public servioe the expenditure has been wofully and wantonly extravagant. We give the table below. SCHOOL INSPECTION. PUB= SCHOOLS, Total No. Schools in 1876 5,042 " . 1871 4,566 period we have mentioned, viz., twenty years, rise above $460,000, But we i believe there. is a glorious future in store for Exeter. With the broad arca of the most fertile land in Ontario. stretching for miles to the north, south, east and west, occupied by thrifty and industrious farmere, and aided by the enterprise, ability and perseveranoe of her own oitizenv, Exeter a unot remain at a standstill. With the stimulus that would be given trade as a result do, new railway, and the increase of our. population with a corresponding in- urease of our wealth, the assessment ought to be in twenty years more thau double, at the lowest calculation, what it is at present. It has more than doubled in the past live years, owing almost entirely to the railway. The Dost then, under the anticipated in- crease in value, would be infinitesi- mally small in proportiotl to the bene- fits derivable. The fact that the Company contem- plate spending in the neighborhood of $100,000 in this vicinity, if theroad be pushed through, ought to be looked at. That amount, pat in circulation here, could not fail to very materially assiet both town and country around. There is one point upon which the people should xtot misinform them- selves, The road is a continuation of the main litre of the Credit Valley rail- way, which, in connection with another line under the same control, extends to rhe Atlantic seaboard. Since this scheme has been mooted, the route to St. Thomas has been abandoned, this being considered a more desirable sec- tion to traverse. It is, therefore, no; an insignificant branch, with all the, inconveniences attending dependent lines, but a main line from the Atlan- tic to Sarnia, the most important west- ern port. The financial condition of the Com- pany is another matter upon which the, ratepayers will require information be. fore they will give any assistance. We think there Deed be no fear. DIr, miles to ttte north of a direct line from St. Marys to this port, but if the rate- giayere give a liberal bonus, the line Would deviate a little and bestow upon gas the advantages which flow from leaving competing lines of railway, and at the same time give the company the beuefit of the already large and constantly increasing skipping trade of the place. The advantages would' be mutual. But should we not get the =cad by reason of refusing it a bonus, England during the past sunimer, and submitted the undertaking to the eon - sideration of the capitalists there, who, feeling confident that it world be IL profitable investment, have taken bold aud guaranteed to furnish any capital required; so that there need be no fear on the score of financial inability on the part of the Company. The people ill this seetion are begin- ning to take a deep interest in this question. Let them consider the few facts that we .leave briefly set before them ; consider the advantages of com- petition in freight, passenger and ex - the interests of the Company would pressrates,andother;advantagesweneed require then to build a station at some not stop to point out ; consider, too. •aouvenient place a few Hailes from the town., and then very possibly run through Crediton., which place, we are led to believe, is very anxious to secure the disadvantage of haring a line run within two or three miles of the place, witb the train of evils that would fol low, and against these considerations place the cost, which, as we have railway accommodation. To Exeter, shown, is a very small increase in the these circumstances would be most dollar ou the present assessment, and we believe the people will with one unfortunate. The town would suffer voice decide in favor of the railroad. materially in consequence. This is a This being a matter of public interest, ,fact that should be kept in mind. It we invite correspondence on it. Every - would also be a disadvantage to the 'Company, as entailing the loss of the .Exeter trade. The question of cost, wlrielz we shall cue who displays any knowledge of the question is welcome to express his; opinion tlaraagh the columns of THE! Ts sus. Increase in number.- .........479 Cost of Pub. Seboel Iuspection in '76 $26,935 ,, „4, " '71 11,527 Inerease under Mr. Mowat..... $15,408 11iig shows an increase of over 125 per cent. in the cost of public school inspeotioh under Mr. Dlowat.` men: SCHOOLS. No. High Schools 1876 1871 history. But if they were not extrava- guat, why were they ousted from power on that ground? If they were nob' ex- travagant, wily should they not be re- storedto the confidence of the people ? Mr. Jackson rapports them,and if they were not extravagant, why should he not be elected The Expositor complains of Mr, Jackson's mode of comparing the ex- penditure of the two G.rvernlnents. Ile complains that certain items of expen- diture in 1871 are ccmparod with cor- responding items in 1877. And why not, pray ? If a farmer wisbes to com- pare the expenditure on his farm in two different years be will take the dif- ferent branches, and see the increase or decrease, as the case rosy be, and, deducting the decreases from the in- creases, find what the total increase is. But in the oase of the Government farm we defy the Expositor to show a decrease iu any department of the con- trollable expeuditure. The expendi- ture of the Mowat Government shows. nothing but a series of increases. The first item our contemporary takes exception to, and in which he says Mr. Jackson should not make eomparisens, is the indemnity to mem- bers. During '67-'68 this item amount- ed to $01,800 ; in '09, to $44,519 ; in '70, to $5,480 ; in '71, to $37,806. The expenditure under this head for the years 1867 and 1868 the Expositor attetnpts to palm off as that of 1806 ! or only one year. But admitting that it would be unfair to " make compari- sons between particular items in differ- ent years,"—that it would be unfair to take the small expenditure of $5,480 in 1870 for indemnity, and compare it with the highest year in Mr, Mowat's time, which ]Ilr, Jaokson has not done in any ease—no objection can surely bo made if we take te series of years em- bracing the whole of Sa,udfield's term, and compare it with a similar period under Mr. DMwet. From 1867 to 1871 includes four full years ; the total in• demnit' to members for that time was $1:9,608, or an average of $37,402 per year. This was under Saudfield. From 1873 to 1377 Mr. Dlowat is re- sponsible. Pour full years are also 11 101 I included. The total indemnity for that time amounts to $391,804, or an aver- age of $72,951—an annual increase of 100 per cent, This, it will be noticed, is due to the increase of the indemnity from $450 to $S00 per session by the Reform Government. le it not per- fectly clear, then, that Mr. Jackson's method of comparison is as fair as any that could be adopted, consistent with a desire to tell the truth. But Mr. Jack- son's reference to the indemnity, we presume, was not made so lunch for the purpose of comparison as to show the Latterly indefensible nature of that vile transaction, the Salary Grab, Neither did Ifr. Jackson rummage among the public accounts to pick out a low item in 000 year on Sandfield's side and a high item in another year on Mr. Mowat's account, as the inevi- table infereuee of our contempoiary's article would lead its readers to believe. The Expositor is merely endeavoring by a pitiful quibble to throw discredit upon the pamphlet. It will not 'succeed. Our esteemed contemporary next proceeds to point out that the only fair method of determining which is the more extravagant Government is to compare the total expenditure of each year. That is all very well. Nothing could be fairer, and if our oontempor- ary had been honest enough to give the correct totals, and not pnreue a course which nese. ]Wade the Globe a butt for. the ridicule of intelligent people, be would have arrived at a correct oonclu• sion, an intelligent conolnsion, instead. of landing iuto the absurdity of saying that the average annual increase in the Provincial expenditure was .$184,000 more under John Saudi -Old Macdonald than under Mr. Iltowat—the most ex- traordinary statement, we venture to assert, that has appeared in print this century, and one which, we firtnly be- lieve, surprised' its author as much as those who know its absurdity. But he does not give correct totals, Mr. Sand- field Macdonald's total expenditure is oorrert.l), stated, but Mr, It swat's tbtals are misstated for the purpose of show- ing-that his average annual increase in expenditure is much smaller' than that of Mr. Macdonald. This barefaced atteript to deceive the electors will not eaaeceed. Below we plots ill juxtapo position the correct figures, as given itt the public accounts and in Mr. Jach- son's patnprhlet, and the ineottei t fig- u7res of the Expositor,,,leaving our reads .those,,, wink. tt.pntpuiporary: Clapadlen- cira,to etude whole is.the .better anther - Increase iv i iunber. 3 Cost High Sebool Inep'n in 1876 08,565 , " 1871 2,999 Increase under Mr. Mowat ..... ...65,568 High School inspection under John Saud - field oust $29.69 pe, school, while under 'ter. Mowat it rose to $83:36 por school. Is not this total increase of nearly twenty- one thousand dollars iu the cost of inspecting both High and Public Schools out of all pro- portion to the work performed ? Again our contemporary proceeds :— "It is true that the public accounts, as well as the figures in this pamphlet, show a largo increase iu the public exp euditurounder Reform rule • • • • • This is a fact which no person even desires to dispute." Undoubtedly it is true, and " We thank thee," 0 h.•ayrositor,for the candid admission. It establishes the accuracy of Mr. Jackson's figures, which may now be accepted with truth by those who doubted. But our totem ie slight- ly astray in the last sentence. During the election of 1874, the Reform party persistently maintained that the expen- diture had not increased, We are glad vow proceed to consider, is of great CRITICIZING A. CRITIC. to hear them impliedly rebuked by so excellent an antbority even if he have importance, especially to those who will .be called upon to bear it. Upon :that, we believe, rests the success .of the -seheme so far• as. Exeter is concerned. Ent the taxation required need. net. 'frighten anybody. For the purpose of giving an idea as tothe probable cost we shalt take lest year's assessment of .$150,000:, and, upon it base our calcu- lations. alcu-latioti . Sh,onld,the bonus be. $15,000, .extending, over a, period, of twenty years, the time for which debentures are ip .sued in rn0steases,• to telae the interest •rat six..per cell(. and. the. sinking fund to meet the, principal when due, we would.regn•ire an, extra annual taxation sof three eighths of a cent, or 3e mills, •oil each (loner of essossinent; ,or if we wish to adopt the more sensible and .often used method of raising only the, interest, issuing fresh debentures at the exlait+tttion of twenty years, arid,thete c ennel future getlerations to bear their share of aielate of widen they would reap the substantial benefit,, then the:extra. n.nnsial'takatfote would be only one•Sifth J! a cent on frhe dollar. This estimatejt 423181 1,0 re membered, inftensaded,.etaetlee According to our iutimation of last week, in t11i,i issue we intend to com- mence our review of the Mowat G:lv- ernment, but matt abandon that intens tion for the more congenial task of set- ting in the straight and narrow path our esteemed oou temporary,tlreSeaforth mcpositor, which when an election :ap- l roaclies,evinees a tendency peouliav to Reform, journal, to roam in the regions of ftetion. A, few weeks ago we an- uouileocl that Mr. Ge, E. Jackson, the! Conservative nonitnee for the Local,bad issued a pamphlet showing the expendi- ture of the ilnoteat G:overnrnent, and cam paring it with that of Mr. Sandfield tlaedonald. Mr. Wallop,the geutle- man who has had the good fortune (ex- tronie good fortune thesehard times) to Bay rang with the charges of extrava- draw $3,000 for salary from the Gov- gynoe aud waste hurled against that. ,er•nment eating ehopent four yearn, re- gentleman by the Reform party. Ev•, rceiafed tt oopy of thepamphlet, and ap- eey jeclaknife, and every poker, every plied himself, widn all leis knowledge of mucilage bottle and every pen punitive - elan, eeience , of meow*, tonne task of ed kVV' theGennti rraent formed the fruit- overthrowing the tables of expenditure fol thaw of'the khoueind limning ant in'the. work and, 4►our'io confusicau'up- peals to theeoouomy-loving people, We ora the. etltthor. After tz long wrestle wrould advise our,, friend to acquaint with tlio; ,parn,p1440 lap9 disoov©red, that to hide the censure under the garb of it naughty fib. And look at this :— "For that matter tela expenditure increased much more rapidly under the rule of Dir. Sandfield Macdonald than it has since done under Reform rule, and yet no person thinks of accusing Mr. ,Sancl/cold Macdonald or his Gov- ernment of shaving been wastefully.extravaaant." "For that matter," we shall show that the expenditure did not increase more rapidly under John Sandfield Macdonald's regime than it "has since done tender .Reform rule." But the statement that "no person thinks of ao- easing Mr. Sandfield 111aodonald or his Government of havin{:g, been wastefatly ex• tiavagamt" is simply astounding. Why, this Province, from Sarnia to Cornwall, and from Lake Erie to the Georgian ity in this matter, our contemporary or the public accounts ; ExrcemoI. rteurtls, 00131hwo'1' :rmouns. 1878 . , .. $2,460,212 ... , . „$2,940,808 1874 2,842,339. .... , 8,871,649 1875 2,063,550 3,004,524. 1876 , .... , . 2,154,063 , . , . 8,740,627 1877 2,363,806 3,117,413 $11,483,970 017,276,016 Correct total for five years.. 617,275,016 .l xyiositor " " , 11,483,970 Difference between right and wrong totals,.. . ,165,781.,056. It will, from the above table, be seen that the Seaforth Expositor, that news- paper which has a pious horror of de- ception (when practised by an opt on- eut), has misstated the total expendi- ture of Mr. Mowat from 1873 to 1877, both inelusiye, to the enormous amount of five millions, seven hundred and eighty- two thousand and fifty-six dollars 1 That cause must be in a desperate condition that requires suoh gross misstatements to bolster it up, Snell tactics cannot do Mr. Bishop much good. The total expenditure of Mr, Sandfield Macdonald from 1867 to 1871 was - 1867 -8 61,182,889 18 09 1,444,6W 1870 1,580,663 1871 1,816,867 $6,024,528 or an annual total expenditure of $1,506,157. Taking the first four years of the first table (the correct column), it will be seen that the aver- age annual expenditure of Mr. Mowat during that time was ,x3,538,990 Coder Sandfield ..........1,506,157 Difference per year....,$2,032,743 Does not this show an enormous, an. absolutely startling increase under the 'so -tailed Reform rule ? if our contem- porary wishes any further information upon this point, we are prepared to furnish every item comprised iu the above totals, so tbat there can be no question which is practising the decep- tion. But again, it should be borne in mind that the estimates for each year moire a distinction between current and gross expenditure. The current expen- diture is entirely under the oontrol of the Administration. This, with what cannot be entirely controlled, forms the gross expenditure. Tho following tables show the increase under Mr. 1liowat MIRE= rxPENDITURE UNDER. SANDFIELD M ACDONALD : 1889 $ 982,830 1870 1,05.2,516 1871 1,105,980 63,130,734 or an average of $1,043,578 per year. CURRENT EXPENDI'L'URE MUDER SIR. 110wAT. 1873 61,765,419 1874 1,678,573 1875 1,701,797 1876 1,795,125 1877. 1,906,737 1878 1,968,133 610,815,804 or an average of $1,802,634 per year. an animal average increase over Mr. Macdonald of $7C0,050. For this Mr. Mowat must be held to en account by the people. „ In the face of these facts," we do not see how any person can refuse to vote for Mr. Jackson, who supports men who, when in power, could not, according to the Expositor, be fairly accused of extravagance. This article is long enough, but we shall, at another time, expose .the utter absurdity of the method which our con- temporary adopts to show the average onnual increase is the expenditure, and for the sake of argument, allowing its figures of annual expenditure to be cor- rect—and or-rect—and they are far, far astray—we shall show the deductions to be erron- eous. We advise our contemporary to mend his nerals, for facilis descensus *Terni says Virgil ; and we challenge any person to point out the slightest error in Mr. Jacison's figures. The pamphlet is•uuimpeaohablo. IT is to be hoped the protection of political letters fromthe unclean hands of suoh men as Norrris, Huntingdon's. tool, will be:one of thefeatures of theNa- tional. Policy. CANADA' will become so desolate under the•National Policy that even the pota- to bugs, we fear, will desert ue, and the frogs forget to spawn, the thistles re- fuse to sprout, aud J,teform youngsters be'kuown no more. Truly this an is. unfortttaate conn try. Iltivs. yon noticed it ; these men who are now death on the N. P.,. are the. saaue men who condemned it,before it was put in operation, an evorl befaro• ttackenzie resigned, , Of coarse tlioy, are unprejudiced, and capable of giving.;. ern.urtb, assesi o ipion.,.