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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-1-13, Page 4lie' +i eler �!. luta,too f 0.1 "the r oneAE mt lionitg mut t hr► e- ' THE TEMPERANC1 ELECTORS ANTI ..H1 limo a to o.License i ase Ins cctoe of n' $eeth ' I 1( MR. SWENEItTON S DEFEAT. o f kointees--- - I been in customs, T,.G17,337, and exetse, --^ ssho re,ca vex 00 annually #or services pup, r $332;248, hut Peat office and public works, I►,Ke, 1 %rbcs nosed to lra be the tenanere ce Iaw, iaand THU A , JAN,, 13h 185 ,. g y 1 In our is u4 of the 30411 tilt,, we g includin railways, show considerable i:n 1 p . ° creases, Taken altogether, the result of the ,first six months is highly satisfactory, DOMINION FINANCES. and indicates that after making allow - concisely, the reasons, for the greater 1 le our totem net aware that liquor is sold: as part, why 'dr. enies Sweuerton, the 1kton1y ns it was prow telle to the law dossing in force ; and that nota singly+ conviotion Conservative Temperance Candlidate, wad' has taken place. If this is not neglect of Pro for the half -yearly subsidies to the defeated at the polls on the 28th Dcc,, duty we would like to know under what Provinces, which were paid in aclvt ee on viz :—that the tern erarice #tefornteis "head" it might be eiasacd. AIF, mawat the brat of"tide month, a very handsome p has the power to enforce the Scott Act law ; surplus is likely to aocrue before the close voted against liiut. To this, our very but if, as the Expositor says, he has not suf. of the fiscal year. much esteemed contornporsray, the Huron mice Asareat deal of misrepresentation g 1 has been indulged in regarding the titian - Bial position of the Dominion, the facts connected therein should be placed, be- fore those who desire to know the truth, The year 1885 being the last for which an official statement has been made, the ac- count must be dealt with as it then stood. The gross debt at the end of that year was made up of the following ; Payable in England $154,105,123 " Canada 68,586,890 Miscellaneous 22,574,186 Temporary loans. 18,985,908 Bank accounts due 556,413 Total gross debt. .$264,805,520 Against this the assets were as fol- lows : Investments :— On acc't of sinking fund....$15, 777,973 Other investments 34,376,966 Bank deposits 130,000 Miscellaneous 1,794,296 Provincial accounts 7,501,548 Bank accts, due Gov't 8 664,952 Total assets $67,236,735 The net debt is arrived at by this sim- ple subtraction :— Gross debt 8264,808,520 Less assets 68,236,735 Net debt $196,571,785 It may be as well to state at this point that $68,586,890 out of the net debt of $196,571,785 has been borrowed from the people of Canada and the inter- est thereon remains in the country. This leaves the total net debt owed abroad at $127,984,895 about $26 per head of popu- lation, not a very heavy burdenas the in- terest, only is required to be paid. While the total netdebt is as shown above, must not be supposed that the Dominion Government incurred all the indebtedness. Over one-half is composed of Provincial debts, which have been assumed by the Dominion, the account in this respect standing as follows:— Provincial debts after Confederation... .$62,500,000 Noya Scotia, 1867 8,000,000 New Brunswick, 1867 7,000,000 Nova Scotia (better terms, 1869 1,186,756 Manitoba 472,800 British Columbia, 1871 1,666,200 Prince Edward Island, 18734,927,060 All the provinces, Oct, 1873..13,386,989 .f ,f it " 1874.,.7,172,299 Total assumed debt.. $106,311,894 By subtracting the provinorial debts as- sumed by the Dominion to lighted the burden on the Provincial Governments, we, ncl the debt incurred by the Domin- ion to be as follows :- - T�vul net-inclibt&.af s - .$196 1,-735. assumed debt... 106, 4,393 • Incurred debt. ... $90,260,391 This shows the total amount of the Dominion debt incurred by the Govern- ment to be in round figures ninety mil- lion dollars, yet the -Reformers will tell- the people that the Conservative party have piled a debt of three hundred mil- lion dollars upon the people. Against the indebtedness of $90,000, 000 should be placed the following sums, expended on public works since confed- eration :— Canals $28,538,378 Railways 92,575,599 Lighthouses and navigation.. 8,284,580 Acquisition and management - of the North-west 5,366,035 Gov't bld'gs and miscellane- ous public works • 13,147,318 Total $147,906,910 Strictly speaking these are not assets, but they show where the money has gone. A considerable portion of this expendi- ture was made out of the revenue instead of borrowing, so that, while we have public works, &c., costing 147.906,910 we have added only $90,000,000 to the public debt since confederation, a show- ing which should be satisfactory proof that the affairs of the Dominion have been managed most prudently. Nations do not, as a rule, pay anything but interest on their debts. The inter- est then is the sole burden on the people, and a comparison of the interest of one year with that of another is a fair way of determining whether the public affairs have been well or ill -managed. Looking at the question in this way we find :— Interest per hand, I868 $1.29 1879 1.59 " 1885 1.59 The fiscal year 1879, it will be observ- ed, is the year Mr. Mackenzie left office, the interest on the public debt then being $1.59 per -head of the population. That amount has not been increased. and when Grit electors tell the people that we are indebted to the amount of three hundred million dollars it should be remembered that the amount is ninety millions, for which there are substantial improvements to' show, and that the real burden is only $1.59 per head of the population, The statement of revenue and expendi- ture for the month of December and, for the first six months of the fiscal year con- tinues to show a gratifying increase in the fen'iner and decrease in the latter. The revenue• receipts forthemonth are :—Cus- toms, $1,'756,946; excise, $567,130; ether sources, $523,014;total, $2,847)990;as com- pared with $2,302,630 for the same month in 1885, showitig an increase of $545,360, of which 8448,044 is in customs, $41,916 in excise, and the remainder in postofiice, public works, 'etc, The expenditure for the month was $2,207,168, being $548,- 924 leas than for December, 1885. For the first six months of the fiscal year the result hits been as follows : Revenue, $17,- 027, 898 ; expenditure, , $15,380,815 ; sur- plus, $1,647,583. For the smile period last year the ''figures were :-Reeenue, $14,755,705; expenditures, $17,571,0l4; deficit,. $2,82(1,349. Or to put it in another ways the revenue has increased about two millions and a quarter and the expenditure ie lecreas El more two tttilions. A deficit of over two and thrwee- (tuattte — rnilliMIS tuts been Converted into l DIZ-Ol l.l11 NOTh,',J The brood of bribers who were oper- ating in North Perth previous to the elections (particulars of which appeared in last week's issue) have been examined and elected to stand their trial this week. As a result of a recount, Dr. Dowling, (Reform,) of South Renfrew, who was declared elected by two, has been defeat- ed and Mr. McAndrew (Independent) elected by a majority of nine. Count one less for Mr. Mowat. Ax the, annual meeting of School Sec- tion No. 4, Adelaide township, North Middlesex, a resolution ordering the ex- pulsion of the Ross Bible from the school and the use of the unmutilated Scripture and the Lord's Prayer in full was unan- imously adopted, a number of leading Reformers being favorable to the change. Tas Mail newspaper has declared itself independent, and will no longer behold to either Reform or Conservative party. Our contemporary is advancing a good cause, one with which many concur, and which in the course of a few years, will be sanctioned by the majority in Ontario. PROOF is furnished by the fire which occurred Sunday morning, that Exeter is in need of better fire protection. The stream effected by "Defiance" amounts to mere nothing, and would availbut little in the case of a large fire. The agitation for more efficient fire protection, will be rife, until the excitement of the recent occur- rence becomes quiescent. THE Goderich Signal, in blowing Mr. M. C. Cameron's horn, says :— M. C. Cameron, West Huron's able mem- ber, has by means of Sir John's Blue Books, posted as falsifiers and traducers each and every member of the "chestnut Combina- tion"—he has proved that they lied, and the truth was not In theme. Just so. But it must beremembered that Mr. Cameron's disregard for the truth in all things he undertakes to prove against. the Government, gives the above extract a vei ri ad face, and-ronrlers it impalpable. The extracts from the Blue Books read by him from time to time cannot be credited by his admirers, save the Signal, which is is vehement enough to believe anything— for party sake. TKERa is every reason to believe that the tendency of the price of wheat is up- wards. Europe wants' something like 2,000,000 bushels per week from the Atlantic ports during the next five or six months. The stock of English wheat is reduced to 10,000,000 against 27,000,000 at the same time last year. Then Europe is preparing for war, which now seems almost inevitable in the spring. War or not, the tendency of wheat in all present and D. D. Wilson, on the plea that it would probability is for an increase in price, for cause a split in the party and'tend to defeat it is quite certain now that India's power' workerrssth se ! COuvlcrteni s, ystMrpe. Swen of shipment of wheat this year is deficient 20,000,000 or 30,000,000 as compared with last year, and England looked large- ly to this part of her Empire for a supply. A County exchange says :—"Kent County carried the Scott Act by a major- ity of over 2,000. Mr. Clancy, Tory candidate, refused to make the pledge demanded by the County Scott Act As- sociation. Mr. Dillon, the Liberal can- didate, gave satisfactory promises. Still Mr. Clancy was elected. More recreant Tory temperance votes." Place this on the other side of the slate and it gives the reason for Mr. Swenerton's defeat;, In one particular, however, Mr. Swenerton's Expositor, takes exception; and beats around the bush in an irratio manner. in defence of the temperance element of the Reform party ; and accuses the Tfluss of being impudent for daring to prefer suoh a charge against them. The article reads:-- . lug, nodus,, Pal. aavu .,van .wU avubu 411 a 1'1 1 with a little oil. fioient machinery for its enforcement -Crnd Ire must have known this before the ap- pointment of officials ways made—then why did he appoint such officials, et large eater - fes who can do nothing but draw their sal- aries ? We Flo not imagine that it was done to impose an additional burden upon the people by way of tax—for we have now to pay the inn -keepers' license—but incline to the belief that it must have been done Artificial moerscltautn maybo mad , for the purpose of adding more subjects to e his long list of electioneering agents. Our immersing for some time carbonate of ma totem has a bad ease to bolster up. nesia in a warm solution of silicate of sod, ( or potash. 'Trym Ontario Legislature has been min- i Domestication softens the whole organi ,boned to meet on Thursday, February 10th, t• structure. ..In the feathered species tit for despatch of business, Mr. Swenerton did on many occasions —in fact wherever lie stood upon the platform --declare himself, emphatically, as a temperance pian, and we believe, at THE Globe had better go hide itself with the disreputable weather prophets as far as its foretelling the date of the election is con- Hensall he attested that had either Mr. l corned. If it keeps On it will meet with M. Y. McLean or Mr. D. D. Wilson been the correct date sometime before next a candidate in the interests of temper- winter. ance, he would have not only voted for -- then but worked in their behalf. He 1 AT,rvDINO' to the supposed dissolution dent furtrasifures politics were conceinedorsaid that he was laatnd en - of the Dominion Parliament, a county that he would, if elected, support all tem- perance measures that might be brought before that House, providing such mea- sures were calculated to promote the good cause. All of which the Expositor knows full well to be true. And what more did they want? Mr. Swenerton was sincere, as his past good temperance record gives sufficient proof, all to the contrary, not- withstanding. When it was learned that he had signified his intention to contest the riding, several prominent Scott Act Reformers held conference with him, and persistently endeavored to dissuade him in his intentions ; but to no purpose. Why was this done ? Simply for the reason that, it being known that he is a good and consistent temperance man, he would se- cure the temperance vote and thus defeat Mr. Bishop, whose only claim upon them is that of a Reformer, and which would mean a lost seat for Mr. Mowat. Failing in their attempt to induce him to resign, these same persons resorted to other tac- tics, and scraped and raked about until they had unearthed one paltry charge, of some six or seven years standing ; they accused him of having drank a glass—or a portion of a glass—of beer in a Reform Anti -Scott Act friend's house ; they ar- raigned him before a Temperance Alliance on several occasions to elicit his platform, which he gave to the satisfaction of all, save those who had previously at a politi- cal convention bound themselves• to sup- port Mr. Bishop, at the request of Mr. D. D. Wilson, the President of the South Huron Scott Act Association. He •cer- tainly then could not have satisfied their desires, and the purpose of Iris being so arraigned -=lime and simple -=was to be- wilder him,. and weaken him, in the es- timation of the temperance electors gen- erally. And it had its effect. The Ex- positor asserts that Mr. Swenerton was the selection of the Conservative party. We admit that ; but it was at the in- stigation of the temperauce element of the party that he was made their choice. Just here we would like to know whether the Conservatives have not a right; and are not as capable of selecting a temper- ance man as are the Reformers ? They did no do so until the Reformers and Scott Act workers had had their conventions, and learning that neither organization hacl picked up the temperance cause, the Conservatives decided to do so. At the Reform convention, a number of the members urged the necessity of bringing out a temperance candidate, but the request was quashed by such 'men as M. Y. McLean erton was opposed to the Mowat govern- ment. True, he might not altogether con- cur with the majority of Reformers that the Mowat Administration was not corrupt, but this does not render his temperance princi- ples none the less sound. From what we can learn and understand of temperance, the people of Huron are working for and are anxious to procure more effective working of the measure, To have these wishes gra- tified men should be sent to Parliatnent who will assist in that direction—let them be Reform or Conservative in politics. Tem- perance first politics after, ought to be an,l is the motto of temperance men. But this cannot be said of the majority in South Huron, The political situation is brought to surface, while temperance is allowed to iu- nonuniously sink. And the only excuse our totem can give in defence of those Temper- ance Reformers wlio betrayed their princi- ples, is that Mr. Sweuerton is a Conserve, - case is not in keeping with the above ; he tive. Then temperance must he a farce as did not satisfy the Temperance Associa- far as the Expositor and those who pc ncur with its sentiment; are concerned.' And tion, not so much as regards his temper- because it so happens that a temperance man ance habits, but because he was a Con- is a Conservative, does that prove that he. servative. should not be elected ? We Judge not ; but then the Expos:tot and certain temperance Reformers have peculiar perceptions, and to allow them to retain such ideas, we are asked to bury the hatchet, and work on as before, until such time as occasion requires, when they can `depart from temperance to serve political ends. Regarding the issue of the campaign, our contemporary says:— "Phe enforcement or non-iuforeernent of the Scott Act was, in no sense, an issue in the contest, and neither Mr. Swenerton or his spokesmen ever publicly attempted to make such an issue." THE recent legislative and municipal elections have illustrated in a very strong light the glaring defects of the present Franchise law. Tens of thousands of who, under its provisions, were entitled to vote, and up to the last minute suppos- ed that they were upon the list, on pre- senting -themselves at the polling booth found, to their surprise, that they 'were disfranchised. The confusing and com- plicated provisions of t1;e law a.e so 111- 1 b If the enforcement or non•enfotcenient of the Act was not an issue, then temperance had no connection, whatever, wills the con- Ti alI W eo n , ..........0 78 to 80 understood' t nab an enormous number exchange gives the following, amongst others, as a reason why Sir John will go the county :— "The reason why an election should be looked for immediately is because it is constitutional that, owing to the recent en- largement of the franchise, an appeal should be made to the people before another ses- sion of Parliament." Taking the above for granted, we can- not say the saine thing of Mr. Mowat ; while not more than three quarters of the Ontario Lists, were prepared at time of elect'on—meaning„ a disfranchise of thousands of voters— the Dominion Lists are all'in shape, and those given the suf- frage will be allowed to exercise it. JOHN BRIOHT, in answer of a corres- pondent, writes thus on the liquor quos - tion :—"The drink question is of first importance. Law can do something, but law is only the out come of public senti- ment, which only improves by a slow process. There is, However, a growth, and there will, I trust, be a result. If the sale of drink was not known among us, doubtless half the poverty and crime and suffering among our people would disappear. Civilization advances by slow steps. The future, I trust, may see what we can only hope for." There are a great many more political problems to be solved in England than there arehere. Yet Mr. Bright recognizes that the drink question is of the first importance. MR. S\vE;,VERToN's majority in the portion of Goderich township situate in the South Riding was 104—not 36, as is going the, rounds of the press Mr, Swenerton's defeat is accounted for by the defection of the tem- perance Grits. Re is a thoroughly temper- ance man and ran on that ticket. Such thorough going Conservatives as Geo. E. Jackson and Dr. Coleman opposed his can- didature, although Swenerton is a Conser- vative. Mr. Jackson is President of the South Riding of Huron Conservative Asso- ciation and is out with a letter stating that his principal reason for opposing Mr. Swen- erten was because that gentleman publicly staters that he would have supported M. Y. McLean had he been a candidate. The prohibition temperance Grits supported the anti -prohibition Grit Bishop, and the auti- prohibition Conservatives supported him also. It was a regular cut-throat game for Mr. Swenerton. D. D. Wilson, president of the Scott Act Association of the county publicly declared that he would not support any candidate but a supporter of Mowat. The upshot of the recent contest in South Huron shows that Grit temperance mouth- ers violated their pledged principles while the Conservative anti -prohibitionists, stuck to theirs and voted for the Grit candidate.— News-Record. SOME extraordinary instances of well- to-do tenants trying to profit by the pre- sent crisis %by swindling their landlords out of the rents, were reported recently from Limerick. One tenant, who has £2,- 500 in the National Bank, persisted in ignoring the landlord's application for rent. Aregistered letter was disregarded, but a writ finally brought the tenant to his senses, and he at once went and paid the rent and abused the landlord for dis- gracing him with a writ. The same ten- ant succeeded in forcing a second landlord under whom he holds lands to give him a great reduction, though he has just given one of his sons a profession, has two inure in college, and two daughters are in first- class hoarding schools. Another "poor struggling" tenant has also just obtained a substantial abatement, though he has no fewer than fifty shares in the National Bank. In another case a wealthy widow refused to pay her rent, although offered twenty per cent reduction.: Her stock was, therefore, seized for compulsory sale, but next clay the widow repented and promised to pay not only the rent in full, but costs besides the rent. The loss to her in ready cash was £49, the twenty per cent abatement being forfeited be- sides. MARKET REPORTS. (Corrected ats o'clockp.m. Wednesday. of test. We ask the Expositor to explain Spning ,Wnoat :. •.. 0 It to 0 80 whymembers of Temperance Alliances ::, a 2s to gp mistakes have been made. The unsatisi throughout the County signed rotted robins aiovor 8ee:1 7 00 to 20 factory working of the law has made con or agreementhe ping themselves to support Timothy '` .., 1 75 co 2 00 018100 r0 1 or o r,8 to o a7r, —no matter to which party they might be- l>iggs 0,17 to Under the plain, simple requirement of a "' .. ... 17 to a l7 long, if the object were not to compel the (3nttet for residenee, no such wholesale clisfran- manhood suffrage law, with• a. provision Govermm�ont to enforce the Scott Art? And r uni or bb) • ••• U0 to s ss eve would refer our cotem to Mr, ywener E'o oea,por bushel 1403800 8 to 0 b0 tort's address,in whioh it will be seen that `tl'Ioos'pn' b n .,. ... l0 to 0 60 �rterik, los r b .. ,.. O Cie to 00U the enforcement of the Act .:......lies one of ; ... ... 0 00 to 0 00 verbs to manhood suffrage in:r,}unihors. none but temperance men to the Legislature geCr chisemont as has ocourred in many local- ities under the intricate and : perplexing qualification system, would'be possible. Voters would be spared the mortification ,its clauses. Wepr•esnme,though, had either Mr. M. Y. McLean or Mr. D, 1). Wilson, been in the field --and such was previously, the intention of the Reform party—the elec- t,aoeeo foi'lb. ... 1urkevper Ib... ... 0 08 to 08 ,Ducks nor pr .. .. 0 20 to 0 80 Chickens per pt . .. .,, 0 20 to 0 40 Frogs, trosaedper100 .. 6 40 to 0-00 Hoof 406 10000 of going` so .the polls and tendering pini would Intoe been run trim the temper. F1Ctiesrouhg, ' ... .., 6 06 to 6 50• . their' votes onlyto have tliern rejected,, ance 1x8110,' nevertheless. The ' l x , osit r's' Sheepskins ,..I ; .,, 0 0 to C IC p Udo ,skins J t eaob .. .:,,, ,.. 0 10 to C 70 and thetnsei.ves, perhaps, looked upon article reads further -- tlaltakinti , . ,,,. o G0 to 0 Ira W ':, , Woo) ... ,.. 800 bo 00 It is entree that the Ontario 1 0 7, G overn- i ' claiming rrA,' per witlt,'susl>tct >n, clnimin„ sc 'privilel,+.e ttr ,heift or their officials have bum derelict in rsnyP n ... ... ,. to t0 tp .romugriorbuslr .,. ... 0 Go 0,70. wltreh they+were riot entitled., in their. attempts to enforce the Scott Act;" l Wood per cord „. 280 to 8 00 .au0fUlill } NOW IS YOUR TIME All Winter Goods Must Be Cleared Out REMNANTS AT DESPERATE PRICES. ALMAI 'S MET DAL Come and See, at RAN' roN 13RO'Sr. MOP NOTE IT ! 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