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8 KOO POIATRD 7S LOT pk PAELWI NT, less.
Capital, $2,000,000. Rest, $400,000,
HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL.
7oax MonsoN, E.Q., - President.
NON. Thomas Woai g N. Vice -Pres.,
I'.J CLArroN, Vice -Pros SunMutusl Ice Co
Ron D L Maopphorsou. Senator.
R.VP Shepherd,Pres Ottiws River Walla Co
Horst o Nelson, M P P, Miles Williams,
P. WommnsTAN Thous, Esq., - Cashier.
M. HEATON, ESQ., • - • - - - In'pdetor.
Exeter Bran' h.
MENET 0. BREWER •- ALANAGL'R.
LOANS TO FARMERS.
Money advanced, to formers uneasy terms, on their
owa promissory notes with one or more good en-
dorsers. No mortgage required as security..
SAVINGS BANK DTe'PARTM15NT
6 per cent, Interest allowed on deposits.
Gold and °errancy drafts bought andsold. Stor
asExchange bought cud sold,
Collections made in all parts of the Dominion
and returns promptly remitted at lowest rates o
exchange.
Exeter, August 15th 1878. a -n
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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1879.
GRIT NONSENSE EXPOSED.
To the Editor of the Times.
Tho Seaforth /expositor, the organ of
311r. Bishop, having received instruo-
tions, refuses, for the present, to allow
me a reply in its oulutnu:s, but the odi-
ter graciously offers me a apace previ-
ous to the eleotious. I shall certainly
avail-nyself of that promise. We shall
see if his word is to be relied upon.
However, having a remembrance of
the,. treatment certain able letters of Mr.
Priugle's received,being only published
after the Domiuiou contest was over,
when their power of doing good was
lost, I shall nut trust Lay cause to such
uncertain eouditione,and therefore take
this method to place lily argumeute be-
fore the public in tue meantime.
I fully appreciate the kindly feelings
of the Expositor towards me, but under
the preseut ciroumatancee think their
motive is similar to that of the cow-
ardly assailant who fights au unarmed
opponent with a deadly weapon, fires,
and then runs away. I have heard it
caul by -troug Reformers, "that if they
could only lie sere that the figures iu
my pamphlet were oorreot, no support-
er of rLr. Mowat would fret their vote."
In the second column of the E.vpositor's
editorial, of April 18th, it is there ac•
Isnowledged th-tt 'sno objection could
be talon to them," or, iu oilier words,
they aro in aeoordance with the Public
Accounts, and from a perusal of the
pamphlet it is plain I have made
no other use of them, but to place
elle expenditure under tiro two adminie-
Stations side by side, Ie.1vieg my read•
ere to draw their own euuelusions. ThI,y
)required no oo.ntnents. But while I
have the direct admission that my facts
are oorreot, can the sem: be -laid of
these col,taiued in the I',r;post:tur's edi-
torials ? Not at all. Pilled with ince -
eietaucies, falsifications, and gross rale
etatemeuts, which are the result of a
blind party feelin;, which has uo other
object in view but victory to their aide.
The welfare of the o ,un try and its gne,d
government is of no ocusequeuce in
Weir eyee, It may twit the present
purpose ..f the editor t, tient with scut e
the good wishes of Hsi individual to the
press of Seaforth, to utatiiete rev let-
ter, to distort its meaning, stud with ar
high hand prevent free di.cu-Hiou, but
such • wily pruoeediug often frustrate
their own purpose. To show to tvhat au
extent these misrepresentations are
carried, mrd what reliance can be placed
on its etstetnent4, I refer my readers to
the Nrpusitor of March 28, and here
quote the -exact words of that sheet.
"In making this cemearison we shall
" give the Toro, Fx}►e rypereaa for each
of year, from Coeletteri;tiou until 1877,
" inclusive. 'dila ' being the • year Mr.
r=, " Adieu tapes, under Reform MIS.
fe pipes,for bis eutu{inrisous. We shall
�." place the expenditure of Saudfield's
"flute nudes ops heading,and that un-
e';tter adorns rulq under a different
!s fiettdtlug,
show -the i"rorease in 'each
t;' yesr iu each iustauce; and then stripe
• P ;atf average fur eaahr and ilea under
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;(.!_rtliigl► rule'the•increaee has been the
.thui euricius meshed of
r';oompartenn adopted by the Expositor is
bttt a-rp•baeb of ap'e f'0 be found in its
rnsetf.er,: the !dolls, Ire its:daily:issue of
.(etober 21st, I atilt fair iti.the judgment t
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When this unpardonable deception
is poiuted out wteare coolly told in the
next issue that specific statutory expen-
diture was left out. Specific humbug.
No such distinction exists. What is
the difference between ate Aot which
appropriates $250,000 for a lunatic asy-
lum, and au Act of Mr. Mowat which
hands over $,147,858 to W. H. Vander -
bat, the real owner of the Canada South-
ern Railway, (a .liue built iu American
iutereste,) after it was built, and after
he hail screwed the last farthiug by the
tvay of bonuses from the Cauatliau
municipalities through which it passed,
and thea matin; differential charges
iu favor of Yaukee shippers over our
owu, in seine iustauces of 50 per cent ?
What is the dillereuue betweeu an Aot
uf the Legislature which appropriates
$75,000 to build a blind asylum at
Beautfurd, and an Act of Mr. Mowat
.which distributes the Muuicipr'l Loan
Feud surplus in Lour of his supporters,
by giving a special grant of $23,542 to
the township of liowiclt, because ate.
Gibeon,au uuswervitlg adhorant,roeides
there, 1611d,•uly $19,000 toTuckereniith,
but when pttyrnents to this same Muni-
cipal Loau Filed were extotell, 'rook.
eremith stood Rloue iu the highest
ease? Why ? Beoeuso it had no oue
to look setter its interests -1 Tti ro ie a
ditl'ereuee, it is true, its these ACAS,
not in the name, but iu the justice and
wisdom of their s;ontents. To still far-
ther display t'he ignorance of our
worthy editor anti his protege, Mr. Bis-
hop, they take refuge io the Coueolt.
dated Revenue Fli'1,1. Here are lanai
.words iu sue /expositor or April 18th :
-'The said atnenute to be paid riot out
of Current Revenue, bat from the Con
solidated Reve.,uo Fund. whish mean:;.
)tit of t11s monies thole on hand." This
is uousenee personified. Turn to Sec.
'ion 126, British Ne, tit American Act.
Is it nit ;.here laid then "'Toes: all de -
Lies autl revepues reined by the L•,aris-
leture of the Previnces, shall, in each
Previus:, term ,t Consolideteed Revenue
Fuld, to be appeul•riated for the pnblie
service of the Provirte:e." so that the
$800 sossi nee iedemeityof ?i . Bie.h.,11,
.sari the $6,300 a year salary of Mi.
elu.val, at d the: $147.858 ,rift to Mr.
Veleta, hitt, and the $43,512 lfueticival
Loan Fund tat•or of air. Gibseu, are
et( paid out of precisely the Sallie Fina.
.1. here reproduce the statement of the
t,lobe of April 3rd, fur c)lnl)arisou :
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�.,,�.���� 'o�;w��� $143,000 ; city, of Loudon from $709,-
4 H �v w �; S' 00x1 to $486,000, and the township of
steo
mosa�%y p 3."rg�twty Stanley was obliged to pity its interest
a, se co w o W ^� W'° r o'E ,and prinoipiil to the very laet•oent. It
ty m m wit! be seen by these examples that the
w • (•lovereinent had no. principle to guide
them but a eornplioated procedure, for
THE TXMVS
wit." Where is the dodge'P The fig.
urea are the Globe's, exoept the receipts
for 1877, in which it, hod included
$725,133 borrowed. This large outlay
ie the disbursement of Mr. Mowat and
his Government, sanctioned by the
votes of the member for the South fid-
iug. of Huron, Mr. Bishop. If this ex-
penditure wail oorreot and proper in
years gone by, it will be still 'more ne-
cessary as the Pruviuoe iuoreasee in
population, and its settlements enlarge,
and the defioitefurther increased by lee-
seued receipts. As the iioome derived
from our Orown lands are deoreasiug
froze year to year to an alarming ex-
tent, the principal accumulated by a
wise Government to meet this decrease,
squandered, and the inteiest received
from those seourities,lost,a sum of$258, •
000 per year, the bugbear bf direct
taxation is n0 imaginary evil, From
a circular lately issued by the Govern-
ment it will be seeu they oontemplate
this emergency by proposing a license
on moo oe.rryi'ig on business, a meet
obnoxious system necessitating the ap-
pointment of a large number of revenue
officials.
A. reference to the eolleotion of licen-
ses, under the late Crooks Liquor Aot,
gives us some faint idea of what we
may expect. The total amount oollect-
ed for provincial purposes, under licen-
ses for sale of liquor, for the year end-
ing May 1st, 1877, was $79,589 while
the salaries to lioenae officials were over
$80,000. In the oonnty of Huron the
expeusee actually exceed the revenue
by eix hundred dollars it year. In 1871
the officials and employees in oonueo.
tion with the Government cost the
eouutry $361,926, a large sum in all
conscience for the work they had to
perform. Yet, iu 1873, two years af-
terwards, when 14Ir. Mowat was seated
in office, the officials and employees
cost the country $679.329, or an in-
crease of $317,403. It will not do for
a partizan apologist of an extravagant
Government to waive this disgraceful
fact by a oevert iusult about crocodile
tear=, or to shield thorn by a palpable
untruth "that this increase was sano-
ti iced by lir. Cameron, the leader of
the Opposition," as elicit was not the
ease. Turn to pages 801, 802,808,304,
305, 819,322 and $67, of the Jonrual of
lie House,'fon 1873, and it will be seen
that these increases dere strenuously
opposed by Mr. Cemerote, and oue of
the last acts of his Parliamentary life
was to leave on record a motion con•
damning the 1llowat Administration,for
this same extravagance ; this is to be
found on pege 159, in the Journal of
1878. Every man is interested in this
matter, merchants as well as farmers,
mechauics, and laborers, who, out of
their hard ear'uitigs, have to contribute
to the t,lxes of the eouutry. It is not
to the interest of the people to create a
ohtse of Government officials living
enmptuous idleness whose only care
-o keep their places and draw their sal -
at ie,=, even t ough they may have bees
et one time valuable pohtiuul assistants
to the Reform party.
Tim members of Mr. Mowers Gov-
ernment I,ev1•1' fail to ief tern us of the
great boon which they conferred on the
..sople of this Provinse in their settle.
n)eut of the Municipal L 1:oI Fuud eiilfi
,city, but ,hen this settlement is ex•
au)iut d it will be fotu.td te be most un-
jnst,a epeeiees of grab game by members
who, hal infinonce wi le the G,vern•
'neut., for the be,efit of their partronlar
c•en;tituenrs. A number of mnnicipel
r1 ie, ware indebeed to the petiole of this
Province eleven ' rutllion of dollars.
which wits redue'ed to a sntn of one:
million eight [loud ed thon,apd dollars.
Nuw this wad not a very difficult Last,
to perform. Some (six towns had
their debt entirely ettneelled. The
oity of Braettftn•d's debt was reduced
from over $800.000 to $194.018;
regardleee of tenth, toile. us "That not
one of Jaokeou'e political friends dared
insinuate, much"'lose make, such a
charge in Parliatuent." B.nt 1 havo
before sue .the, Journalsof the House
for Nov., 1874, page 83,. containing
a motion moved by Mr. Soott,and sea.
ended by Mr, Lauder, which .reads
as follows : `
"That while concurring in the grant
of two thousand dollars to provide for
the expense attending the settlement of
the Municipal. Loan Filed debt and
surplussohente, the House takes this
opportunity to exprese regret that the
policy pursued by the Ariuistratien of
the day, relative to the disposition of
the debeetures representing the reduced
M. L. F. indebtedness, resulting iu a
needlets sacrifice of the same, involving
a direct lose to the Province of a large
amount of money,and materially injur-
ing the financial creditaud standing of
the various municipal oorporatione
throughout the Province." Mr. Cam-
eron also moved a resolution to the
same effect.
After onr worthy editor has expended
four ool iinns of criticisms on my letter
of last week, he innocently tells ns
"The only point worthy of notices is
that reletting to iminigratiou," and thou
tries to make it appear my as.,ertion
was incorrect, that this department wee
handed over to the control uf the Do-
minion authorities. But 1 will ask my
readers to turn to page VIII Report of
the Imtnigratiou Department, for 1874,
and these words will be found :
°''.Che coutrol and direction of all mut-
ters connected with promoting immi-
nation from the Milted Iiingdevn and
Continent of Europe, to Canada, shall
be vested in and exercised by the
Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa.
2. Independent Ageucies for any of
the Provinces shall be discontinued."
And on the firet p toe of the Report
for 1876 will bo found these words:
"During the year 1875 all the Outer -
i° Immigration Agencies in Europe
were closed, with the exception of one
in London, England, which was retain-
ed as a means of communication with
the Dominion Officials."
We thick this anbject need be pro-
ceeded with no further.
But we arteagaiu.told that out of so
many hundred :thaueand imtnit.rants
who left the British Isles, Ontario re-
ceived .17,879 iu 1877. Yet the iintni-
gration returns for that year tell a dif-
ferent tale, but 11.654 arrived and re-
mained in the "Province. A large por•
tion of thea, 'dame from the United
States, (800 table 'A,"Report 1877.) our
immigration -agents having nothing
whatever to do with them, the real num
bee which lusty can take credit for were
arriving by the St. Lawrence and Hal-
ifax routes, • numbering 7,743. To
show that I have not drawn an uutruth-
ful picture of the Ontario Immigration
Department, in 1873 and 1874, I here
quote a part of the report of Hou.
.Adam Crooks, (sec page, VII, year
1874.)
"The undersigned having had the
benefit, in the year 1873 and 1874, of
observing the worltiug in Britain of the
immigration services of this Province,
as well its of Canada, was so imt•eesetl
with the imperfectness of the al.'eeiciees
employed, the multiplication of officials,
end tha.00mpliettiou as well as Iw,til•
itv of their efforts, and tire want of a
central0 nitrolling authority nudortooh
to devise some itnF rovemeut."
But his efforts in improvement have
been futile as nri;ht be expected, when
110 Same agerrti were rete inett, dote•
ing their pay from the Dorninioe, in•
ateari of the Ontario Goverutneartt twr•.
hundred and twenty-six thonia1nnl, four
hundred and tweiety l ur dollars, ap-
peasing in the Dosninin0 accounts for
that service. I have gone over, in it -
brief a manner 08 possible, the salient
points itt my wot thy friend'- tnemait .r
editorial of lest week, exposed its weak-
ne?•liH, laid bare its 1neoitsistelt0,e•5 '.stili
in the language sof a poet,t ley are 'van-
ished, lilts the baseless labric of a
dream and left nut a wrack behind.' It
is quite evident this eni troversy is dila•
pending into; a personal dispute between
the talented editor of the Se•alorth Ex
pusitor and myself. 1t would bo ninon
better to allow this matter to be a attest
between the legitimate Reform candi-
date and myself. However, if lie will
persist in fighting Mr. Bishop's battle
he ought to take uty advice, that is,not
to descend into the particulars of the
Mowat Government, but ring out the
)Id chimes and sing the old sang,
c which no explanation can be given, es•
which wa• all know so well. of J. A'r,
extravagance and the Pacific Scandal
G. F. ,7ACKCON. ...
sept the polities of the member who
W `r '4% 1-," o a P` p 'represented the .conetitneuoy, and his
use to the ministry. • But one of the
worst features of this settlement, was
the sale of the debentures which the in-
debted inunidipalities .were obliged to
give, and as Mr. Crooks himself said,•
were securities of the most uuquestiou•
m
ed kind. Yet, these sae' *,scarifies,
although drawing five per rent, inter -
oat• were sacrificed ata los' 40 thin
Province -of over two hundred and forty.
thousati l dollars, sold ate disoouirt of
emits On 018 dollar. Comitynf Hu-
ron debentures are worth three per
dent.' premium ; ooit,aty of perch,• al-
tbotigh only a Zseeond charge, readily
ilea at per, But the Xx ositori uttsrl7
Go w:D°D1Pr' on Imo1 W CIO 01 Otom ,h1
to -en oa W e n C0 f3- 1-654.1-.50(5
010WCiiD sea �+'c°o coCOi l0(o,
e owva,l•aat tet
But we are politely told by the Expoei-
ur "that this ie a dodge borrowed from
Segettor Mo'1 reont to flg'tre up 'deft -
MAT 1, 1379
THE COMING OF THE
Credit Valley Railroad !
IS NOT YET SETTLED.
But itis settled beyond a doubt
--e1THAT1—
LEATHORN
M'COTJBREY
Will open their new
store of
DRY -GOODS
and
GROCERIES,)
IN
r
Fanson's Biock 1
ON
Monday, 5th. May.
Having purcha sedtheir
Mock in the eastern mar-
kets at such low rates
that they are
Determined to sell them
at prices heretofore unheard of.
S0ME newirpapers have been attempt,
ing to redionle Mr. Hieoper, M. P..fot
Lennox:because in 'peaking of the
gar importstion,he used the ezpressio,t .
thottsand millions," but it world be.
better for
these same Jo rilei, la informr
� A-1‘1,`"-P-.thetueetves before they commence to,
teaop others: In point of foot Mr.
Hooper wart quite right, that being the'
French system of notation, 'which hiL A'1 BORL ak MoCOUBBEY.
used almost as often as the Eughslr,
and eanveya.p1cnseely the ettttlpgillitpt..sr
to ngtoptb@Ir,
out for Prioe List
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