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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-3-9, Page 4THE SANDERS & DYER, Props. THURSDAY. MAROE 9th, 1893 f' t1113 i1r' LI ITS, It is generally well , known that the Ontario Goveiumelit, in order to meet the auninal deficit which its extrava timber lim- genes occasions, has fur years past been wasting* file valuable. its of the Province in such a way as, to ea public: alter Some valuable statistics were lately brought out by De. Sproule in the House of Commons, in support of his motion "that it is ex pcdient to re.impose,au export duty on pine and spruce logs." Those statistics will throw inuclt light upon a subject in regard to whieh many are still in the dark. Certain parties, such as i%lr Charlton, member for North Norfolk, are personally interested in the lumber trade, and are therefore not qualified to spelt el fairly* on the subject. Dr. Sproule has no such axe to 'grind; and speaking as he does iu the iuterests of Ontario, his statements and statistics • aro all the more reliable. Now, it was contended by Mr. Charlton in the inter- ests of foreigners, and of his own finan dal affairs, that there was timber en- ough in this country for generations to come, and that leases had been giv- en. for 1,000 square miles—whereas the fact was that there were leased • nearly 20,000 square miles. On exam- ining Lovell's Gazeteer, it will be found that after making allowance for water and barrel: lands there were '(as a member of Mowat's Government had admitted) at least 19,000 square miles under lease to cut timber. The Ontar io Commissioner of Crown lands stated that only about 60,000 miles of timber yet remained in the Province. This timber found its way largely into the Western States, and according to the rate at which Amerizan and Canadian lumbermen were cutting it there would be no timber left to cut in the course of five or six years. And this explains the high price to which timber limits had lately increased. Limits • which were bought for $75,000 had been re -sold for $500,000. During' this very year, iia the valley of Ottawa alone, there would be cut over 400 million feet of lumber; while from the western part of this Province there would be taken out this coming season 450 million feet. To show our readers the value of this Lumber trade to Can• ada, the Ottawa lumbermen received about $1,000,000 for six months wages fn the woods, and nearly the same amount was paid to the men at the mills, Thus, if no export duty is im- posed on saw -logs going from Ontario to the United Sates, a million dollars in hard cash would be taken from our own people around the Georgian Bay district alone. Nothing more is needed to show the reckless character of the Mowat Government in wasting the timber limits of the Province to keep themselves in power, and no further argument is needed to justify the re- • imposing of an export tax on our pine and spruce fogs. Orediton. One day last week a horse owned by Mr. Cas Wolf and driven by Mr. Wm. Wiutzcl, who was taking a cutter to Centralis for shipment, dropped dead. —Mrs. E Sanders has opened out a dress making shop above Mr, James Clarke's harness shop. She is well and favorably known as a dress maker and no doubt will command a; large share of patronage, Farquhar. The Forester,' concert is going to be on the 15 of March, and is expected to be better than usual as some good tal- ent has been secured,—On Friday last a large number of neighbors turned one and helped lir. 'Daniel Brown to out, over 20 cords of wood. This was only paying debt, as Mr. Brown has al- ways been a good hand to:help 'others in a simrliar mariner—Mr, Simon Camrrhell sold a handsome team the other day fol $340. Some, people say that horses cannot be sold ;just now, but good horsemen always manage to sell. Our Weekly Letter from Ottawa. OTTAWA, March Gal, 1803, Tara 'CLOSE Ot Ttrio DEBATE, The `' galleries were filled on Tuescl v y t ne ht last to hear thec closing n shots of the, .Budget fight, The people were amply repaid fair their attend:a nee. The Hon. Mr. Laurier spoke after dinner. :His speech was a pleasantly 'delivered essay,well oonstr•ucted but tvcaal in argument. The Pi 'ran Minister „ CC niiyter re plied, We have not space here to des-, er'ibe his effort. It was by common con- sent one of the greatest speeohes that the Canadian Parliament has ever. 1tc:;4r& It uas indeed the advent of ,a p,ect 'Waterloo for the Opposition, tlon, '..'hey looked like pigmies' beside a giant as the lion, Mr.:.''oster-'-stnalt fir stature but mighty in arunlents-- stood; up and by the Force of irresistible facts andlogic brushed them aside one by one. First he completely answered Mr,Laurier, then s he demolished Sir Richard; next he cleared away the sophistries of Louis Henry Dayies, and lastly he spanked the roan from North Norfolk ti!! he looked like the historic bull that faeed a running locomotive. It is generally admitted that the Op- position have riot yet had such a ridd- ling for iddling'for years, If their supporters in the country could have heard it they would undoubtedly . have been more than sorry for their leaders. The speech will be given notice on. these letters hereafter. The Govern- ment majority was 64. There were a number of absentees.. ltR. EDGAR'S COMBINE, Mr. Edgar having' made a speech in which he found fault' with the com bines, Mr. Smith M P. for South Ontar io, reported that Mr Edgar was a prole in.ent member of the most iniquitous combine in Canada, the Ontario Law Society; and he had better cast out the mote from his own eye before he tried to remove that in his brother's eye. TIIE P. O. DEPARTMENT. The Post Office Department rs one of the most important departments of the Government of Canada, It is important not only because of the fact that upon its wise and business like management depends to so great an extent the successful handling of business operations in every part of OUr own count, y and with every other country in the world, but because two of the large expenditures which are necesza.rily made in connection with it. It is very satisfactory to compare itg management now with its manage- ment under the Liberal Government. In 1873, when the Liberals took of- fice, we had 4,518 post offices in the Daminion. These post offices cost per annum $1,553,000; they earned $1,406,- 000, During the five years of Liberal rule the number of offices increased to 5,378 and the revenue to $1,620,000, while the expenditure increased to $2,110,000 That is to say, the expenditure increas- ed $447,000, while the income increased only $214,000 or in other words, each post office caused to the country a loss per year of $93. That was clearly the result of bad and extravagant man- agement Since the Conservatives took charge again in 1878, it will be remembered the North West has been opened up by the C P. R. and in consequence hund- reds of offices—the mail routes to which are exceedingly costly—have been es- tablished. Indeed the whole North West has been given most extensive and satisfactory service; and yet look at the result of good management! The number of offices at present is 8,288—an it crease of 2,910 offices as compared with 1878. The expenditure is $4,205,000 and the income is $3,542,- 000. 3,542;000, The total loss is only $663,374 per year, by only $80 per office—S13 per office less than under the Liberal Government. Thus is saved to the country—notwithstanding the im mense cost of North West routes and splendid improvements everywhere, the sum of $107,744 per year. MR. M'LENNAN'S SPEECH. Major R. R. McLennan; M. P. for Glengary, made a capital speech upon the Budget. He has a splendid practi- cal mind, and always gives the House facts that have been well thought out and arranged to prove his contentions. He is a thorough Canadian. proud of Canada's position and thoroughly loyal to her instutious. He therefore speaks with no uncertain sound upon the anti- Canadian policy of the Opposition. Dealing with the statement made by the Opposition that there was unrest in. the country, the major said he didn't wonder that unrest disturbed the soul of the :net: opposite. The gloom of de- feat that had enveloped their party from Marquette to the sea was enough to make any political party feel that total extinction was impending. They said their hands were tied, so they were, their hands were tied when,Mer- cier was ousted and the money supplies stopped. Mr. McLennan urged upon Mr. Laurier to say whether he was willing. to accept a treaty with the United States that gave the Americans con trol of the Canadian tariff. He paused for a reply,but Mr. Laurier only smiled Neither he nor Sir Richard ever want to answer that question It is getting down to particulars that they always try to ayoid, The Opposition ciaimed that people left Canada because of the high tariff. [hen asked the speaker, "whydo they go to the United States where the tariff is twice as high? Mr. McLennan dealt lengthily with the condition of the fanning industry in Great Britian, which is a free trade coun tr, v Between 1880 and 1887, according to the best authority in the world—Mui hall -farming lands have decreased in. value in Great Britain to the extent of $1,036,690,000, an almostincredible certainly an astounding sum. This means $150,000,000 per annum at $7' per acre. British farmers find' the raising of grain unprofitable attd are'etoppiri, it. They raise less per•'year by 8,000,000 e. } usheis than theydid 40 years a .o. � e, Here is the evidence: of an agricultural expert giver' before the Royal Agri- cultural Commission in 1886:: "The present as eompared with ten years ago would show on a',11 average that the landlords have lost 80 per cent., the tenants 90 per cent , and the laborers • 10 per cent. Forty per cent. loss an farms, which are chiefly arable; secondly, upon farms which arra half pasture and half arable, 30 per cent, On hill farms, where it is • all' Moor or grass, 20 per cent, That is with re gords to file rand lertls, Witttb regards to the tenants, in first case chiefly ar- a 1e farms, capitalordinarily and no income as. a matter of fact from the farm. On the first class, the chiefly arable farms, the tenant's loss is 40 per cent; second Blass, 25 per cent, and. vrery little' income, and on the third, 10 per cent, and very little income: Wag- es have fallen 15 per cent from what they were ten years ago" , TAXAT1oN, Dealing with the subject of tal~atton he quoted the statement of the Toronto Globe, and showed that the taxation, of New "York State was enormous. There is a direct taxation,accor'ling to. the Globe, in that State, of $132 per annum on 200 acres; $125 on 150 acres' $60 on 90 acres, The falrmei•s of , On- tario know how inuch direct taxation they haye in the provinces of the Do- minion. But if our provinces were states they would got no federal sub sidy; they would have to build their own canals and public works, and _a thousand things all by direct taxation M01tTGAGEs IN THE UNITED STATUS. Fortunately the census returns of the 'Tithed States give the mortgage fig- ures. It had cost a million dollars to collect these statistics. They were such as showed the American farmer to be hying• in n0 garden of Eden, Here are the speaker's words: "I base my calculation upon the American census, which' cost some mil- lions to prepare. The mortgage' on 1st of January, 1890, in Alabama was $39, 027,000, or $26 per head: in Iowa, $119• 034,000, or $104 per heal; In Illinois, $384,299,000, or $100 per head, It will be remembered that Iowa and Illinois are situated in the very heart of the United States and are considered to include the best farming sections in the country, Kansas, that country whose circularscontain portraits of some Hon. gentlemen opposite, has a debt of $235,248,000, or $170 per head, $850 for every faintly of five, or a mort• gage against every 477 of the' whole population of the state. When I speak of a mortgage of $850 against any family, I do not mean against each family mortgaged, but against every family in the state. Those five states had, on lst January, 1890, real estate mortgages amounting to 8906,669,000, or an average of $83:80 per bead, sub- ject town interest charge for one year of $67,505,000. I have not time to go oyer the the statistics of each state in- dividually,but I will read to the House a statement covering the whole United States, prepared by Mr. Porter, the cen- sus commissioner. He says in Extra Census Bulletin No. 3: " 'A small army of 2,500 special agents and clerks have been employed to make an abstract of every mortgage placed on record m every country in the United states, and that the agents of the Census office have as. a matter of fact overhauled the records in every state and territory. They have • trav- elled on horseback and oii•foot through the most sparsely -settled districts of our vast domain m search of mortgag es and have done their work so''indus triously and so thoroughly that we have now on file in Washington as a result of their labour, the abstracts of 9,000,000 mortgages.' "There are about 12,000,000 families, in the United States. Comment is uu• necessary." AMERICAN' OPINION. Dealing with the subject still fur then, Mr. McLennan quoted an extract from General. Weaver's letter of accept- ance as a presidential candidate. "The people are in poverty; their substance is being devoured by heart- less monopolists, trusts and money sharks; labor is largely unemployed, and where work is obtained, the wages are for the most part ;unremunerative, and the prod:lets of labor not paying the cost of production. This is a mat- ter of serious concern to the waole peso• Further, the American Farmer, a leading agricultural journal; says, in its last issue: "The farmers are fast being reduced to the condition of serfs, and theAmer lean workingman is becoming the American slave. Such is the position of the American farmer is the highly favored` and advantageously situated western states," Mr. 'McLennan'closed with a glowing description of Canadian resources; and cotnpar(:d'the picture drawn by Amer leans of the American farmer, with the true condition of the average Canadi an farther, He was heaatily cheered, MR. PATE1RSON OP BRANT. Mr. Wm. Paterson, M. P., of Brant, is hard to please, He, lives in Brantford. lie is doing a prosperous business —a business which has trebled Since' the introduction of the National Poifc y — and all around him are prosper,us bussinesses, many of them established sine(: the name, date arid'maintairied by the same policy, and yet he shouts that the fiscal policy of the Goyernment is a• • iuln the manufacturer of h> • ruining y, S the CORD - try. It is amusing to listen to his statement and then look at the pro- gress of the city in which he lives.' Its population in 1881 was 9,61.6; its population in 1891 was 12,763, in 1881 the number of manufacturing estab- lishments in that • city was 140; in 1891 there were 250, The capital' in vested m 1881 was $1,028,000; in 1991 it was $3,231.,000, In 1881irs factories employed 1,306 persons and paid $1.133,- 000 wages; in 1891 its factories' em- ployed 2,185 hands and paid $1,031,000 in wages. The pr'oduets made in 1881 were, worth $1,93.1.000; in 1891 they were worth $4,280,000, When Mr, Paterson can ',;rumble in the face of such progaress there is no use in trying to please him. He is grumbling like those around him sung;• l,y because he is out of office. ,�•: THEiiih;'ll'I181 LOAN IN ENCrLAN17. The, fat in fads co'�ernection With. the small loan which Mr, Foster recently made. in England should be meat ptt,;is- `11'1 to Gw11 tdiari8, There. is no place ,., and in the world where the progress Al td prosperity of a people is so keenly e•. scrutinized as upon the English market, when a loan is asked for. This loan was o prod at 3 per cent. only alnd. yet there were offers to take over t111ee. times the antoui,1 at that 5111 itl interest Sir Richard's lotto's to the English, press 01 1115 speeches in parliament are powerless to ruin our credit at home. He tried it; but failed, 1 0 II'1 00RYAN IES. Recent returns of the the Loan Com- panies of Ontario 8110ly;that the stems becoming due on mortages in 1880 and remaining unpaid—was eight and three fifths per cent. In 1891 it was only two per cent, That Is a very significant fact, On notes the unpaid su . s due in 1880 was 4e; per cent; in 1892 only a fraction over one per cent. This is another significant fact. THE CIVIL SERVICE, 'The Government are introducing a b bill in regard to the Civil Service, Its provisions are principally to make the daily hours of service+ longer and pro vide more effeetive methods whereby the useful, industrious members of the service may be marked and rewarded, and whereby those who do not prove good or faithful offieials may he dis covered and dealt with as they de ser Ve. • TFIE FRANCLIISE ACT. The Hon. John Costigen on Monday introduced a bill to amend the Fran chise Act. The main points in it are: First to reduce the cost of print- ing by doing' always with the printing of the preliminary lists; second to pre- vent any chance of stuffing the lists with omnibus declarations Hereafter each non-voter who wishes to go on the list must' make a personal declaration under the new act for the preliminary list must bein by August 1st, The bill has only been read a first time and modifications of it or further amendments to the act itself may be made yet. CANADIAN. • MORTOAOE SALE Valuable Fars Property Under and by virtue of a power of sale contained in a certain Indenture of Mort- gage made by John McKinnon and Mary aroKinnon his wife, to the vendor (which will be produced at time of sale) default having been mane in the payment thereof, there will be sold. by Public Auction at Holt's Hotel in the Township of Stephen, on TUESDAY the 28th DAY CF f ARCH 1393, At 2 O'Clock P. M., by Mr. John Gill, Auctioneer, subject to such conditions as shall then be produced, the following valuable Property. Viz: All and singular that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate, lying and being in the Township of Stephen, in the County of Huron and Province of On- tario, containing by admeasurement. One Hundred acres be the same more or less, being composed of lot number eight (8) in the Fifteenth Concession of the said Town- ship of Stephen. Tuffs farm is situated about three (3) miles from Mount Carmel, and five and three- quarter (511) miles from Crediton. The land is of good quality and has a good frame house and a good log stable thereon. TERMS OF SALE: Ten per Cent. cash at time of sale. Balance in thirty (80) days or as may be agreed. For further particulars, apply to ELLIOT & ELLIOT, Vendor's Solicitor, Exeter. Dated 4th day of March, 1898. ql':= s$�r3 y a 11 Tr. Milo Gilson, A stalwart teamster in the employ of the Glens Falls, N. Y., Lumber Company, says that both he and his wife highly recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla. She °�' failed to gain strength after t4s a severe illness, felt awes. erablle, could not sleep, and had no appe tits, When site took UHoed". Sarsaparilla sire began to pick up and was soon allrighit. Ills own experience was that in the spring lie was all run down, had weakness and dis. , trees in rice stomach.IIoocl s Sarsaparilla, brought him isA round all right, ancdhe is now better and heavier' ��' • than f o r years past. Thousands, yes almost Millions' of People, testify to the wonderful valve of Hoods Sarsaparilla, for that tired feeling 9 or weakness of mind, nerves or body. It is the helping hand which restores full health and strength. Mr. John J. Scully, President of the - Seamen's ,;e Union, 250 Cather- i Inc Street,Detroit,���f � " •+ Michigan, voluntarily writes as follows: "0. L flood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: "Gontlernen: I feel in duty hound to tell of the benefit ,I de. asrived from Ilood'S Sarsaparilla. I have been troubled with nervous dyspepsia, was tired anal languid, with no ambition to work; my sleep was irregular. So I began } 1 + taking Hood's Sarsapa- ,, r n 4., t 1 a, om elle very Orsi ,k it r r seemed to be list the thing for me. The' nervous dyspepsia' has ,tow entirely gone, my appetite is excellent; I can eat heartily without distress after-. warcle; ]C slecip welly trot,Mid can no wo about my WOrk without that tired feeling se, frequent before I took Hood s Sarsaparilla. f have taken six bottles and redommeiid Mae the n%reg. oil 11iedicineulc" J. a. ScvcLi. II' cioa�•s;' Pe Out's 1118,ctsnstlprl, Yrtioustyess; jauniLLt ea stall Tut ±hO,indigestioatlon. • • h tayouke Cold and Cough. h. Generally caused by exposure to cold, wet feet, sitting in a draught, coming from hot and crowded places, in thin dress, or wearing damp clothes, stock- ings, or any other cause tending to check suddenly the perspiration. The result produces inflammation of the lining membrane of the lungs or throat, and this causes phlegm or matter, which nature tries to throw off by expectora- tion. In many cases she is unable to do so without assistance, and this is Why you use Allen's Lung Balsam. 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