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SUNBURNT OF
Provincial Expenditure
COMPILED 814.
G. E. JACKSON
Liberal Cou,ervative nominee, and addressed
;o the 1':1ectors of the South Riding of Huron.
C- 'ontermed front lest week,
SCHOOLS.
Total school pop, in 1876 502,240
The Gov'tnent expending $524,903
Tatnl school pop. in 1871 489,615
The Gov'ment expending 351,306
$173,597
How is this increase of $178,597 to
he accounted for ? Outy $70,000 of
this huge expenditure woo used fur
t 'common sohool purposes, the balance
,eaten up by extra ofiioiale, a 13eard of
gentlemen being employed in Toronto,
at very high salaries, who have eutire
control of the Edi„ ational system, ma-
kiug rules and regulations unfitted for
s, rural, population. A monopoly in
the printing and publishing of school-
books is given to some favored firms,
whose prices are most exhorbitant;
and, as if stilt farther to favor them,
this Central Committee,. are allowed by
the Government to make continual
<:henges in the text boon.
In old times a Fourth Book sold by
eetail for 20 cents, but naw the price is
from 45 to 50 cents. The other books
have increased in proportion, while
they are neither better bound nor do
they contain improved matter. In
fact, the whole school system has be-
come more expensive ; but we ask,
Have the schools improved ? are they
snore efficient ?
I do not wish to be understood as
saying one word in disparagement of
'oar Public School teachers. There is
no class of men more deserving of en•
couragement and support than they.
The qualifications required of them by
law necessitates their being men of
superior mental. ability. Their duties,
when faithfully performed, are of in-
valuable service to the future prosperity
of the State, and I should be glad to
see them planed iii a position of com-
fort and respectability which they are
no doubt entitled to. While the Civil
Servants of the Goverumeut, appointed
through political influence, are pam-
pered and overpaid, the Public School
Teeoilers, a far more deserving holy of
people, are treated with indifference
and neglect.
SCHOOL INSPECTION.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Total No.. Schools in 1876 5,042
1871 4,566
Increase in number 476
Cost Pak). School Inspection in '76
./ t< „ '71
Increase under Mr. Mowat
$$140 per head, or a total cost of $407,-
284.
1,629 Prisoners and Patients were.
maintained in the year of 1871, at a
cost of $171,423, or $103 per head,
showing under this eo-palled Retornh
management, a direct loss' to the Prov
ince of one hundred aucl nine thousand
and seventy-six dollars ($100,0761?
Why should this be so ? Tho omit of
food and clothing has not inoreased.
IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT..
In the year 1874, the last year the
Local Government had control of this
Department, they spent $184,640, as-
sisting 25.444 iu aiigrante. while in
1871 the cost was only $29,712, bnt
25,842 immigrants were assisted. This
shows a five fold increase. How can
this be explained ? In this NI ay : Mr.
Mowat divided over fifty thousand dol-
lars a year amongst some lhalf•dozen
political friends whom he had appoint-
ed as immigration agents in the old
oouutry;
INCE , A.SEp COS'1' 01? OFFICES.
Mr. Mowat says the reason the ex..
pease of his office has increased, was
that "he had to write so many more
letters and fill up so mauy more
quires of paper with writing." But if
Mr. Mowat has lead so much more to
do, why is it that he and the other
members of his Administration are ab -
tient from their duties more than half
the year, attending to their private
busineae, pleading cases in the law
courts for all who will employ them. or
stumping the country making political
speeches -..while their work is left to be
performed by subordinates? But the
labors in aunnection with their offices
have not increased; on the contrary,
they have diminished in many inetauc-
es, while the cost is greater.
CROWN LANDS,.
No acres sold in 1877,
under Mr. Alowat
Receipts in 1877......
Expenses `°
No acres sold in 1871,
under J.Sandfield
Receipts in 1871
Expenses "
46,671
$628,712
$211,132
92,272
5869,585
5193,152
Increase in cost under Sir. Afowat....547,986
So that while the labor of this Depart-
ment has decreased one-half, the ex-
penses have increased by forty-seveu
thousand, nine hundred and eighty•six
dollars.
PUBLIC WORKS.
Works superintended in
1877 to the amt. of
Salaries paid in 1877,
under Mr. Mowat
Works superintended in
1871 to the amt. of
Salaries paid iu 1871
under J. ,Sandfield
$318,827
$16,702
405,733
10,3655
Increase under Mr. Mowat $6,337
' How is this ? Greater Dost and less
525,936 workerformed !
11,527 p
ANNUAL EK.P.ENDITURE.
815,408
This shows an increase of over 125
per cent. in the cost of public school
inspectiou uuder Mr. Mowat.
H1vI{ SCHOOLS.
No. High Schools in 1876 104
1871 101.
Increase iu number 3
'Cost high School inep'n In 1870
" 1871
48,565
2,9,99
Increase ander Mr. Mowat 85,506
High School inspection nyder John
Sa.ndfiutd cost $29.69 per school, while
under Mr. Mowat it rose to $82.36 per
school, an jsierease of two Atuul-red per
'cent.
I ask the fair-minded elector, Is not
this total increase of twenty -ono tlhons-
,and dollars in the cost of inspecting
Iligh and Public Schools out of all
proportion to the work performed ?
EDUCATION DEPOSITORY.
The Education Depository branch of
The Publie Service, when Mr. Johu
• ;Sandfield Macdonald was in power,
was bitterly assailed by the present
occupants of the Government benches
:as an expensive and useless ,encum-
brance. The object of this Institution
le' was to supply the Schools with maps,
• :apparatus and books at a reduced rate ;
the Government coutributiug one-half
the cost.
This Insti.ttttion cost, in 1876, uuder
Mr. Mowat 858d850
Cost in 1871, under J. Sandfield 39,914:
Increased cost under Dir. Mowat 818,935
Iu 1876, the Government of Mr. Mow-
at supplied books, &c., gratis, to
the amount of $24,850
In 1871 the txovernment of ,John
Sandfield supplied hooka, 4c.,
gratis, to the amount of 16,683
Difference 57,076
So that while nearly nineteeu thousand
dollars 01 an iuoreased expenee is in•
,curled under Mr. Mowat, the public
only receive the benefit of seven thou-
.eaud, six•hundred dollars.,
ili'INTENANOE OF PUBLIC IN-
aSTIT'I7TION$.
2.948 prisoners and patients were
tnatiiriteineii in the Gove1'nnaettt Prisons
Alla Asylums in the year of 1877,, at
Mr. Mowat makes it his boast that he
went into the Government to spend
pnblio mouey. He has done it with a
vengeance.
The largest amount expended by
John Sandfield catty in the year 1871,
and amounted to ,$1,816,S08.
But i4r, (Mowat spent 52,940.803 in 1873
Do " " 3,871,619 in 1874
Do " 3,604,524 in 1875
Do " " 8,140,627 in 1876
Do " " 2,117,413 in 1877
Total in fire yatrs $17,275,016
The ordinary revenue of the Prov
ince amouute to about $2,400,000 per
annum, made up of a subsidy and
grant from Dominion Governmont, in-
terest an special and invested funds,
sal of Crown Lands and timber limits,
and a number of smaller items. Mr.
Mowatt, therefore, to meet this expen-
diture, has-been obliged during these
five years to sell part of the capital of
the ecuntry upon which this revenue
to a certain extent depends. To meet
the deficiency in 1877 the public seen -
ices have been pawned and notes dis-
counted iu banks to the amount of
$725,183.
00MPARATIVE EXPENDITURE.
Mr. Mowat says his Govermmnt is
only responsible for the current expen-
diture of each year, and that he should
not be charged with the amounts ex-
pended on what he claims as capital
account. Such sums aught to be de-
ducted from the gross expenditure.
Let us accept this tsethod of com-
potation for the present :
Gross amount expended by John
auclfie.d in the year 1870.... 51,580,663
Menet Refunds,58o,313
" Cotonizati'�n Road 5o,ouo
Public Works anid
Buildings ... .. 407,731
538,047
Current expenditure, Wo......81,o12,010
Gross amount expended by John
•8atndfield in 1871 -the last year
,of his Government,. • 81,810,866
Deduct 'Refunds 1;181,o-14
" Ottawa 1?ire Assist 35,noo
" Cost of Election! 16,5o5
" Public Works ant
43uildinos '143n,63o
Uololouis. Roach 55,400
.44
711,578
4u -treat expenditure, 1171 .51,1o5,2s9
Under Mr, Mowat'S Adminirirxtion
the accounts stand as follows
Total amount expended by 16.
Mowat in the year 1877 53,112,9o4
Deduct Refunds 586,732
Colouiz. Roads 77,3oo'
Paulie Works ,k
and buildings 283,577
Aid to Railways 343;513
Surplus Dlatrib. 317,711
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1,206,148
Current expenditure 1877 $1,906,756
Totalanhount expended by Mr. '
Mowat in 1878 .. 2,9o2,388
Deduct Refunds 208,335
" Public Works and
Buildings 298,6o7
Colouizatiiou R'ds 85,612
Aid to Railways 262,529
Surplus Distribut, lo8,171
934,255
Current expenditure 1878....51,968,133
How, then, de the accounts stand ?
The ourreut expenditure for the year
1877 exceeds that of 1870 by the enor-
mous sum of eight hundred and sixty-
four thousand, one huudred and forty
dollars ($864,140), and 1878 exceeds
1871 by the enormous sum of eight
hundred and sixty-two thouaaud, eight
hundred and forty-two dollars ($862,-
842), or a total loss under this so-
called Reform Administration, in two
years, of $1,726,985 I
This question naturally arises in the
minds of oommou sense people, What
has the Government of Mr. Mowat
done that the people should renew their
confidence in his Administration ? In
what way has he attempted to parry
out his REFORM pledges ?
It is evident from the foregoing
tables that the economy promised the
country has resulted in profligate ex-
travagance, fur which the people have
to pay at the rate of at least six hund-
red thousand dollars a year for run-
ning expenses alone.
SALE OF TIMBER BERTHS.
He sacrificed five thousand square
miles of valuable timber berths in
1872, selling them for $119 a square
mile, whereas, similar limits the year
before, uuder a different Government,
realized $240 a square mile, which
chows a direct loss of six hundred
thousand dollars.
SALE OF MUNICIPAL LOAN
DEBENTURES.
He sacrificed one and a half million
dollars of Municipal and Government
debentures at a loss of two hundred
and forty thousand dollars -sold to a
one-horse company in the old country,
of which the Treasurer, lir. Crocks,
who conducted the sale, was at one
time the Canadian solicitor. That
Company has since become insolvent.
CENT1ie.L PRISON.
They increased the cost of building
the Central Prison from $200,000, the
amount contracted for, to $475,000, in
consequence of taking it out of a re-
sponsible contractor's hands and leav-
iug it to be done by day's work.
CROOKS ACT.
Instead of reforming the laws, mak-
ing them more liberal and just, they
have enacted class legislation of the
most obnoxious kind -reviving Tory
legislation of the days of King Charles,
which caused the rebellion uuder Crom-
well, and was the means,,of exticgui>lh-
ing a dynasty of kings. Oue of the
chief charges in the impeachment of
King Charles was, that he had grauted
monopolies for the sale of spirits. Is
no. the Crooks Liquor Act a monopoly I
of the worst description, taking away
one man's means of living and giving
it to auother ? They have appointed
Inspectors and Commissioners to carry
out this law. In the County of IIuaou
they cost $2,894 a year, while the
license revenue collected for Proviuoial
purposes amounts only to $2,271. Be-
fore this Government came into power,
this municipality collected the license
fees in tae Conuty at 0. cost of $300
per annum.
M11. BISHOP
It is claimed by the friend, of Mr.
Bishop, that as this is an agricultural
County, we should only be represented
by a fti,rhner, and therefore he is the
only man who should be chosen.
In the first place, Mr. Bishop has
no more claim to belong to that class
than I have ; he owns a farm -so do
I ; he malice the principal part of his
living outside of a farm -so do 1. It is
only a few year's since Mr. Bishop, in
company with Mr. D. L. Sills, carried
nn storekeeoping iu the village of
Bruoefiold, while a large portion of my'
life was spent exclusively un a farm.
But when a man is sent to Parlia-
ment, he goes there not to judge turn-
ips or dig drains, or to be a Professor
in an A,;rioaltural College, bat to at-
tend to the business of the country ;
and as the greater part of the business
of the Local Legislature consists in
the expenditure, his capacity and abil-
ity in that respect slhotttd be takou into
account.
Mr. l3ishop has been nearly seven.
yearl.in Parliament. Can he shore an
instance during that time when he trt-
tempted to Stem the tide of ruirrous•ex-
travagitnce of the Mowat Government ?
Oe the contrary, his dame is to be
found amongst those members who
voted against every reduction. He de-
terminedly upholds the unjustifiable
increase in his own salary, claiming
that $800 per session, or, as is the
Daae this year, $1,600 per annum, is
little enough for his valuable services.
But it was never intention that mem-
hers of Parliament should be hired
enemata, workiug from mercenary mo-
tives, but men of independent charm, -
ter, placed by the will of the people in
a high an honorable position to repre-
sent neither the interests of Grangers
and business men, neither Meohauios
nor farmers alone, but to farther the
prosperity, the welfare and the liberty
of all the people of the whole Province.
The pay to members was intended
merely as an indemnity, a remunera-
tion for the casts outlay, so that a poor
man might not be debarred from seek-
ing a seat in the legislative halls of the
country ; and will any man presume to
say that $150 is not an ample allow-
ance for a six weekb' stay at the capit-
al -that it is not quite sufficient to
support any gentleman in luxurious
comfort, and leave a handsome allow-
ance for pocket money ?
We are told that no man ought to
be elected who does not profess to be-
long to the Reform party. But surely
something more ought to be required
than a blind adherence to party. If a
Government professes to be Reform it
ought to be economical with the pub-
lic money ; it ought to aim at the most
perfect liberty compatible with public
safety ; it ought to make wise and
equitable laws, to be entirely opposed
to class legislation. It is foolish to
draw party distinctions in the Local
Assembly, as it is merely a County
Council with enlarged powers. The
questions to be decided in that House
are of a different character from those
which can be deliberated upon in the
House of Commons. We may disagree
u on the questions of Free Trade and
Protection, but at the same time con-
cur in the matter of granting a bonus
to a railroad, or iu the buildiug of an
insane asylum. It is asserted that the
Conservative party are not sincere in
this view, bnt facts speak more forcibly
than wordy professions. From the year
1867 to the year 1871, the Hon. John
Sandfield 3lacdonald,a lifelong Reform-
er, and for many years leader of that
party, was at the head of the Ontario
Government. Yet during his 9•egi/ne
he had no warmer supporters than Mr.
John Carling, of London, and M. C.
Cameron, of Toronto. Iu fact, Con-
servatives in and out of the House gave
him a cordial and generous support.
Why ? Because he carried out his
professions.
He paid the public servants iu a lib•
eral manner for HONEST SERVICES per-
formed, and not because they were po-
litical supporters. He used the public
reveuues in developing the natural re•
sources of the country, in the building
of useful public institutions, such as
the London Lunatic Asylum, Brant•
ford Blind Asylum, i'enetanguishene
Reformatory, and other public works.
He built a handsome and commodious
residence for the Govet nor in Toronto
and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at
Belleville. Ile built excellent roads
end bridges, and locks to improve the
streams iu Muskoka, planned a scheme
for draining tho swamp lands and ap-
propriated two hundred thousand dol-
lars for that purpose, sot apart one
million, five huudred thouseucl dollars
to assist iu the building of railroads
leading to our wild territories, and after
all this expenditure in furthering those
valuable public works, accumulated a
surplus of nearly four millions of dol-
lars.
ED OA.TION Di PART IENT.
Co..Se:�SIs0NS nrzwrEN Tan YEA£s 1871
AND 1877.
1871 1877
School: Population.... 439,015 49.4,804
Number Os Schools.., 4,566 5,148
Number High Schools
Normal School stu-
dente
Total expenditure $351,
101 104
174 106
306 $550,93.4
Tho people received of these sums as
follows --
To aid coin. schools $178,075 $251,962
" High Schools 69.986 77,199
" Library books 1,650 2,768
" Mapsand ap-
paratus 15,083 20,665
Totals $205,049;$351,504
The cost of expending these sums
oost uuder the two Governmonta as
follows
1871 1877
Public School in-
spection $ 11.527 $27,904
High "2,090 9,831
Examiners 000 0,577
E:lucation office
salaries
Education office
contingencies
12,013 15,800
3,631 5,347
187'1 1877
Training teaelhers Nil 6,569
Librery,maps, and
apparatus • '84,9049 - 59,988
Depository ealariee 8,408 5,105
" contiuginces 1,671 3,202
Museum ... 8,841 3,944
Journal of Ed,.,.-. 2,370 1,518
Normal St Model
Schools, Toron-
to, salaries 11,811 18,212
Contingencies do,5,977 7,568
Normal School,Ot-
tawa, salariesNil 7.568
Contingencies do Nil 7,480
ler, Ryerson's re-
tiring allowance 4,000
•
Totals $94,695 $1190,248
So that 5189 more scholars and three
more High Sohoole entail an addition-
al expense under the leadership of Mr.
Mowat, in management alone, in the
sum of ninety-five thousand, five huu-
dred and fifty three dollars. In other
words, it takes $95,000 to. distribute
$86.000 to the people. No amount of
logic or special pleading can get over
'these facts.
FALSIFYING THE RECORDS.
I wish particularly to warn the elee•
tors of South Huron, of all shades of
political opinion, against the persistent
misrepresentation of tho Publio Ac-
oounts which the Reform press and
speaker* have seen fit to carry on for
the purpose of misleading the electors
and biassing their minde in favor of
my opponent and against myself -for
the purpose of leading them to believe
that the Reform Government has been
economical when the eamparative ta-
bles on this ;sheet, which are itaken
FROG[ DOCVMENTS PRINTED BY MR. MOWAT'S.
ORDER, show them to have been extra-
vagant is the extreme. It has boon
their set policy to misstate the east of
Government under Mr. Mowat. From
1873 to 1877, inclusive, the total
amount expended, was, under Mr.
Mowat, $16,670,352, but my oppon-
ents state ib be $11,383,970, a mis-
statement to the amount of $5,286,382.
This is an unpardonable deception and
an unpardonable insult to the electors,
who have a right to know the truth.
The followiug table shows the total
expenditure of both Governments from
1868 to 1877, side by side with the in-
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Upon this gross deception the scr-
eened Reform party rest their hopes of
success.
DON'T FAIL TO READ
THIS.
Perhaps there is no subject
coming within the jurisdiction
of the Local Legislature which
demands reform to a greater
degree than the Law Courts in
connection with collection of
debts. Under the present sys-
tem a dispute between two
parties, amounting to say $99
can be settled in the Division
Court at a cost of from $6 to
10, but it it amounts to $101
it has to be tried in the County.
Court. The same judge pre-
sides in both instances, bat
the jurymen, witnesses, Plain-
tiff and defendant are dragged
to the county town, to remain
for days uuder expense, await -
in; d.eoision-and. in addition
the 'lawyers who conduct the,
case are entitled, to not less
than $ 20 each and as much
in:ore as they can get. The re-
sult is the case will cost the
unfortunate suitors from $100
to $200.
1,Vill it be believed. that Mr.
Bishop actually voted against
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