HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-4-12, Page 4TI.! URi8D4 l', „rl z'Ii. 12, 1900.
OUR OTTAWA LETTER.
OTTAWA, March 81st, --•Tho last bud yet
Of the century has been presented to .the
country and to Stay .that it paeb all the
most oanguioe expeotatione that have
been oreatod by the periodical statements
of programs and development that have
been made publio during the year, is to
pub the ease very mildly. Mr. Fielding's
speech in presenting his finanoial state•
merit wee oonoime, and held the close
at.
tension of the House and galleries ; but
had it the meet prosaic
st tom
on
t
on record it would have been tuteresting,
for ice subject matter was of a oharaober
to appeal to the most responsive feelings
Of every elector,.
Tan STOBX OF :ChD 000000.
Ib told the story of an increase :in Can.
ada's trade from $289,000,000 in 1890 to
9374,000,000 in 1900, an inorease of 9101,-
000,000 in four years as against 906,000,-
000 in the previous eighteen years, It
told of a growing reveune in each of
those years which culminated in an in.
crease of more than $0,000,000 in 1899
over that of 1808. It told of an estimat•
ed revenue for the current year, ending
in Jona of over 950,000,000, which will
be yet another 94,000,000 in excess of
last year or an increased revenue of 910,.
000,000 in two years, and this in the face
of substantial reduotione in taxation,
the result of large additions to the
ports placed upon the free list, to the
operation of the preferential tariff, to the
reduction in postage rates, ce;o. It told
of new sources of revenue and radoeti
one
in the cost of administering the old de-
partments. It told of every liability met,
including the heavyexpenditures e an the
South African contingents, and not a
dollar added to the publio debt, a con•
clition of affairs which has not occurred
for nearly twenty years, and it told of axe
estimated surplus for the year now draw-
ing to a close; of probably 97,500,000.
TILE OATS OF 0018080 ARE GOND.
In the old days when the national
policy was in the heyday of its glory and
the Dominion was protection made, the
bringing down of the budget was always
anticipated with nervous anxiety by the
business community, and the event was
invariably preceded by a period of un-
certainty and restless expectation which
had a most iojnrious effect upon the
trade of the country. . Ottawa was in.
vaded by scores of deputations represent-
ing every variety of "infant industry,"
the promoters of which were anxious to
obtain special tariff advantages at the ex -
penes of the community at large. But
this sort of thing has entirely changed.
Unrest has given place to oonifdenoe, and
the feeling of anxiety to a sense of se.
amity, The people have discovered that
there is a government in power able to
direct the fiscal policy of the country
along olearly defined lines, respecting and
conserving every legitimate interest in
the country, while at the same time
lessening the burden of taxation upon
the people, and returning bo the country
a hundred cents for every dollar of
revenue received. Appreciating this fact
they also understand how mach or rather
how little attention to pay to
TILE PERPETUAL CHATTER
about extravagance in expenditure and
increase of the publio debt. They
realize that while it is true that the ex
penditure during the last two or three
years has been increased, for example by
$2,370,000 through the cost of administer-
ing the Yukon, the revenue has been in-
creased to $2,570,000 from the same
source. That railway constrnotion has
been pushed forward with greater activity
and therefore that more money has been
required within a given time for that par -
pose ;
ar•pose; that our canal system from the
reat lakes to the sea has been Completed
in three years instead of in stoat thfr•
been, which would have been the time at
the old rate of progress, and they appreoi•
ate the fact that in all this and in a dozen
other ways: an added expenditure both in
income an:1 capital account, is an invest-
ment from which the country will reap
big returns. Moreover with all this
activity in the work of opening up the
Country and developing its resources the
aotualinm'ease has ibeen far less under
this Government than during the Tory
regime which preceded its advent to
power ; Inc while the average increase in
the public debt for the eighteen years of
Tory rule was over 96,500,000 each year
the average increase under the Laurier
Administration is only about 91,700,000.
WHERE SIR. FOSTER 11x5500 IT.
Mr. Foster, ex -Finance Minister and
Tory financial otitic, took four days to
prepare and four hours to deliver, a
labored and sophistical criticism of the
Finance Minister's epeeoh, but his efforts
lost much, if not all, its foroe from the
utterly unreliable data which he pre-
sented and upon which he based his de
auctions. As Sir Richard Cartwright
pointed out in his reply, and se has been
pointed out a score of times before, it is
utterly and most manifestly unfair to
take the expenditure of 1896 and quote
it as an indication of Tory expenditure,
for the simple reason that obligations
which ehoeld have bean inoluded in those
figures were left over for the next year,
and at least two big departments of the
public servios were so abominably starved
during that last ,year of Tory administra.
tion, that it cost the country many
thousands of dollars additional to repair
the damage done. The fair comparison
would be between the figures of 1895 and
those of 1800, or between the estimatee
for 1897 as prepared by the late Govern•
meat before they vacated office, and those
now brought down for 1900.
A LILT THAT 16 HALF TILE TRUTH.
1. second reason why Mr. Foster's oriEi-
eism is worthless is that a general com.
parison of capital expenditures is always
misleading unless reference is made to
any special features that may be included
therein. For example should the Govern-
ment decide bo expend $10,000,000 in that
nationalizing of the telegraph system of
the Dominion, it would mean an ad-
ditiogal expenditure that year to that
amount, but it would be a basiness in.
vestment promising very handsome re.
turns and would therefore iodioate pro-
gosesive st' homy and not extravagance.
Again Mr, Foster arrived at certain re.
markable conclusions as to the taxation
per capita, bub as Sir Riohard Cartwright
Clearly demonstrated' his estimate of the
population of Canada at the present time
is molt below all the indications and
therefore bbarougbly unreliable. And
lastly in ooinpar'fug the. sxpondiburee of
the preeenb time with those incurred
under the late administration Mr, Fosber
tools n0 a000uat of the two and a hal
million 5)1954050 14 the Yukon, a hal
million, in505a55 14 1ailwey tlavelopnlont
a half tnillio4 applied to the sinking ftinfl
a half million paid on interest account
Which should have been inet before the
present Gaysrnmenb assumed office, sod
many other items of a like ohmmeter.
1y11AT TRN 000N7.00 UNDIIRBTANDS,
After all, and ha spite of Tory criticism,
the cold Bard feet remains, unpalatable
though it may be to the Opposition that,
to fluote agate from Sir Tiiehard Cart.'
Wright, the people of Canada do not oars
to the extent o
an f point o 1 it one u for
tabulated stn n
d sea
b a is bub they i like 0
Y
do li t
Beart
bhe the trade a r of the country
has already doubted itself in the past
four year ; they like to know that the
Credit of Canada has so improved that we
can now borrow at two, or two and a half
per oent ; tliy,t imperial confidence has so
inol.'eased that her securities are to be
admitted on the London trustee list ;
that for every $2 paid by English imports
the Yankee has to pay 93, sad that the
Canadian consumer is reaping the benefit
of the difference. These are the substau.
tial facts which the average elector can
very quickly appreciate, and which will
weight with him at the ballot box when
the Government which has brought them
about asks for a renewal of power.
DUDOET POINTERS,
The total value of the mineral products
of Canada iu 1890 was 316,760,000 ; in
1895, 320,700.000 ; iu 1899, 946,245,000
The bank discounts on June 30th, 1896,
were only 9186,000 higher than they were
three years before, but on January 31st,
1 00 they h
9 t had inorea e
s d over975,000,000.
Y
The aggregate trade of Canada for the
first eight months of 1899 was $193,152,
000 and for the same periodof the ourt'eot
year,22 28
5. 7 ODO an increase $ ease f r b
ight months of over $32,000.0008 the
The domestic exports of the United
States in 1899, was 915 84 per bead and
of Canada 925.85 per head. The total
foreign trade of the United States in 1899
was $25.31 per head and of Canada 958.•
90p er head.
The number of immigrants arriving loon v in
Canada in 1890 was less than 17,000 ;
none of whom (speaking generally), were
from the United States ; last year 44,500
settlers came into the Dominion of whom
12,000 came from the Republic to the
South.
On June 80th, 1894, the wage earners
of the country had 943,000,000 saved up
in the Post Office and Government Say
Ings Baoks,in June 1896 this bad been
increased $3,700,000 ; bat in January
1900 the total bad grown to 351,533,000.
The amount of bank clearings is recog
nized as a reliable indication of the eon
dition of trade. The clearings in the six
principal cities of Canada in 1897 was
31,174,000,000 ; in 1898, 91,390,000,000 ;
in 1899, 91,550,000,000, an increase of
3375,000,000 in two years.
In 1995, 1896 and 1897, the Canadian
Pacific Railway actually cancelled more
land sales in the Northwest than they of
fatted new sales but in 1898 they sold
nearly 198,000 acres amain 1899, 267,000
acres. The Dominion Land sales in
1895-96 were to the value of only $93,000.
and the following year the amount
dropped to 960,000, but last year, 9188,.
000 was invested in Dominion lands in
the west.
The average annual increase of .the
trade of Canada during the different
tariff periods since Confederation is as
follows :-From 1868 to 1878 (tee years
of revenue tariff) 3.15 per cent; from 1878
to 1806 (eighteen years of extreme pro
taction) 2.14 per cent ; from 1896 to 1899
(three years of reduced tariff and prefer -
eine to Great Britain) 11.52 per cent ;
year ending
Jane 1900, (four months be.
ing estimated) 14.14.
It is universally admitted that there is
no better criterion of the general business
activityof the
country and of the con
dition of the working classes than the cir-
culation of small bank notes, the 31 and
92 notes. The value of these notes in
oirculation on October 81st, 1894, was 97,-
000,000, in 1895, 97,800,000 ; in 1899, 39,-
420,000.
there en lyscembsr 11, 09. 18. 11 and 161
The election of nllioere resulted as fallowv
Vreeidvut, John Elobeoil, Guelph Woe.
President, A, W, Smith, la'caple 1iodgo;
eeerebary•'rreasnrsr, A, 1',' `Veebervelt,
f Toronto. A vote of Omaha was passed to
f 13rantkrd,
Qrubssls to California.
The total trade of Canada in 1868 (the
first year of Confederation) was $131,
000,000; in 1878 it had increased to
$172,000,000 an increase of $41,000,000 in
ten years of revenue tariff ; or an average
of 33,760,000 per annnm. In 1898
Canada's total trade was 9239,000,000 an
increase in eighteen years (of extreme
protection) 968,600;000 or an average of
33,710,000. In 1900, if the remaining
four months of the fiscal year keep up
the average, the total trade will be 9874,
000,000 an increase of $135,000,000 in
three years of Liberal administration and
preferential tariff.
The average increase of trade during 18
years of Tory protection was $3,700.000
each year; the average inorease during
four years of Liberal preferential and
general reduction of tariff has been 383,
806,000 each year.
Cans-J.(11am N e a,.
It is said the Conners syndicate is in.
terested in a new line of vessels being
built by the American Shipbuilding Com
pony to oarry grain from the upper lakes
to Montreal.
Judge Dugas has been appointed a
commissioner to inquire into certain
obarges which bave been lodged against
the condi/Mot the Gold Commissioner's
office at Dawson.
A bull dog, weighing 150 Ibe., owned by
G. H. Gunther, jeweler, jumped on a
horse and tore the latter's neok very bad•
ly with its teeth, whioh required fifty-two
stitches. The oanse for the dog's notions
are unknown, except that it had been
muzzled for some time and when the
muzzle bad been taken off it took adven
tags of its freedom. The brute should
be shot if he bas not been.
ELMA V. ELLIOu,-Drainage Referee
Hedging, of Toronto, has at last given
judgment in oonesotion with .Elma'e
appeal against returning to Ellice a oar
talo amount of damages and law coats
which had beet) paid by the latter town.
ship subsequent to suite oonduoted nearly
ten yearn ago. Morninuton and Logan
were called upon by Ellice for similar
returns but Dina was the only one to
appeal. Their appeal was dismissed
with coats.
The Directors of the Ontario Provin•
tial Fab Stock and Dairy show at Tor
onto on Friday afternoon decided to
permanently locate the Fair in the oiby
of Guelph and to hold this year's show
Newsy yeller FNMA Mr. nomad
We lefli 11ruassia during the severe manly
etorton 0f six weeks ago and at Detrolt the
big oar fot]•ien were raking three to eight
hours to oruah through the solidice from
Windsor to Detroit thab if, sumlucr they
would cross in 10 minutes Tllo journey tn,
Cale land of remain : and sunshine le done
1
u
three An
e
frotu Cl
gr
, by to !e
a
r
trains, a ne0 cram bleak severe therEot e m551perfect midSummer weather
ie featcan most realize to Cully under-
stand and enjoy, The climate is soft,
mild
awl balmy, and if tin re la au Inkling of Para-
dise on earth this must be the anat. Tem -
aerators) is 000 in Winter and 080 in Sum-
mer with clan added fragruuee of 0 profusion
of oho least Sowers, roses and other tropieai
verdur a in endless variety gives us on idea
Of what this world in a higher state of per.
faction rusiY become-andhew much we
shall all ealoy ilwhen It does come.. Let
um be of good sheer "for Ito coming for.
a' that"
From DetroittoSt. Louis -keeping South.
of Clilongn-we passed throughparts of
Illinois' Ohio, Indiana and Mleaouri, said to
be goodfair oounary but we never elm a
farm,¢ farm house nor a barn at all to
egual our owu Oanadain well tilled. Solas,
lily hopaoe 804 big hares. It was at sur..
prise aswo wore looking for better things
end gob sadly dleupp,iuted. Probably the
land is all right but thepeople aro oertuinly
shiftless and apparently limy. The warmer
climate may have something to do with
their want of Caoadiau push and enemy.
St, Louis 1s an immense city of 700,000
people on the noble Mississippi, full of
bustle and life but its streets are fun of
slush and dirt, 00 doubt caused by n late
snowstorm. It is a great manufacturing
pity, one shoe factory fat instance, turning
out theca with v $6000,000 worts 0n boots and
nokand corn trnvollt a selling in evest,
Ag51 and tb.wes of the g, apt Soand
worse Again South-westward hal to find worse
111/111/1 t
]a a➢d mole ludo len fainters. many
al 1
ne n
9
peva
s and noses, 1li15 more likeerI, cattle
whenthen houses, until we reach TH e
when eral�id improvement is aeon, Here
are mob black, loam farms; well motivated
fields • better houses ; cotton is probable
three-fourths and oorn the other fourth of
product, Cotton is yearly raised from the
sr ed, a small best, ant a permanent plant•
White tm e ado the
r
en1 u
tv
ntio n
namesn
s
nnly help to piek the gotten ho
There are also seen a nettle eauohes;
nwn0T8 richest inhabitants', grand houses
.ahoy runt from the State thousands of
acres ; n Feet -1(.41,04040 acres, nnl0Pastures
20
to 26 cat tde. Iu each Beaton a rent e1 is
Paid. or 046, nr about 82 per head, When
two yearsold are worth 300 to 625, then
shipped to Armour',+ Packing Factory,
Chicago, at at lose of only about 81 per
head, showing the large prndts smutting in
ills business. All land is wire fetes and
these wires are telephone wires ruuufng to
rear. The cowboy's duties are mainly to
keep these wires and thewind mill pumps
for water. all in gond working order When
we leave Texas Southwest to South Pueltls
Ry. we pass through a sandy, trackless
wildernessfor hundreds of miles with pars
often full of sand dust; and thankful to
roach the beautiful 0001150 groves of Routh
Oslit"rota, One orange and lemon mama
near here aoutafns 40,000 sores. Tide die-
•rlcehes sent Dast this present season over
72,000 cars of fruit and yetlnte of trees ate
in full bloom. The tine golden laden green
tree is a picture full of promise, good for
sore eyes." Dales, figs prunes and all this
Ode fruit grows here in luxuriance under
irrigation
The Texas ootton, heretnfol a sent to Tang -
land via New Orleans, is finding new market'
in China and Japan via tbie city, several
large English steamers are now here loading
mitten for these destinations. These Orien-
tals now have cotton mills of their own to
do their non spinning and manufaottlring,
The Coronado Hotel here, maid to be one
of the Attest in the world, aoeommodates 700
pests in a moat luxurious manner to the
tune of from 88 to 510 a day, only syndicate
men and big purees need go there. It is
hunt ou the ocean beach on a neck of land
moms 8 mills -out from the city of Sao Diego,
a city of tourists of 20,000 population,
tlnronada being a suburb connected by
electric oars, The whole diatrot and traok-
way is decorated with beautiful palm trees,
cinnamon, rubber, orange and lemon, inter-
spersed with roses, daisiesgeraniums and
other strange plants, giving the peaee a
weird appearanoe of Aden loveliness, Lull of
fragrance, will the added eternal roar of
the Pacific ocean surf. Many neat large
and small cottaes bask in t hayand
e he
g
surround the big hotel. One Dan live very
cheap here, lots of restaurants giving good
meals at 16 to 2'S estate and good furnished
rooms for $10 a month. a
a We have v flee
strawberries,green
ee,&e. ,act oleos good
od
asparagus, a is
tt Deaf, in foot all the yo by
things of life to he found, aamostly by
Chinese In little
m5iso suburban pahes who are
both useful and industrious. Just wish we
could forward to our Smooths friends a.
large sample of these good 1511age
Coronado Seaet, JNo. D. RONALD.
San Diego, California, Mar, 27, 1000.
FLAX
Cameron MOS.
Have a limited number of bushels of the
RESP DUOCH 18101D for farmers in the
vicinity of Cranbrook who intend raising
Flax during the coming season, cehlob they
are prepared to deliver iu quantitlee to suit
flax growers.
Seed (110 be got at the Cranbrook Flax
Mill at 81.60 per bust. el. Order early and
secure a supply. For flax grown from this
seed
010.00 PER TON
will be pal I, if of good growth, harvested in
proper season, and delivered at the flax mill
as soon as at for threshing.
ta.We will rent a numbor of good sod
fields for the purpose of growing 11¢x,
CA11J;I1ON BIi08 ,
1h•enetetere Vranbroolt Rh,x 18111.
HURON
POULTRY
Y
ALF. BAEK€R,
Proprietor, Brussels, Ont.
Barrel, Buff and
White nooks.
Eggs and Fowl for sale
1n season.
Eggs $1 00 per setting.
Oorrespondence Solicited.
86.801
Th
I).l lt,8 P. 1,‘
ilii, a'I 1900 _
The J3usi �} EAST HURON
Oiltnt'io [��1ijisli1!ct Listo�Ro! a0 ,�£i E.QUAL, To•ANY IN QNTAfilo.
A thorough, complete and practical train. Liccuse
il,g in all branohee of Commercial work,
at oogeidorably lege than regular retro.
For full information apply
5880118 of College over Peet Oples.
L. HARTT,
1,I81QW1;i+, o'ouuiolPtlra.
1111111 WIlfifl
Skate grinding attended to
with neatness and dispatch.
I also Sharpen Horse Clippers, Sole
sore, breed knives and other edged mole
0 09.10 date style.
Saw Gumming and Filing attended
to in a workmanlike manner. Sable.
fao tion assured,
FRED. ADAMS,
Shop on Mill Street, BRIT 'SEL• S.
The East Hiuou License Com-
missioners will meet tit the .
QUEEN'S HOTEL, BRUSSELS
1�
Tuesday, a Aril r
90
AT 10 O'CLOCK A. M.
To take into consideration the Ap-
plications for Tavern Licen-
ses for 1900-1901.
The nunsber of Hotel Incenses
granted last year in the Riding
were 19.
The number of Applications
this year are 19.
J. R. MILLER,
I115PR0T011.
Jamestown, April 5, 1900.
II Do Yoii an1
TeBiiy Cheaply ?
IF SO, WE CAN
ACCOMMODATE YOU
Prices, you know, have gone up, but
that will not prevent us from selling
goods to you at Old Prices. We can do
this because we anticipated a rising mar-
ket and placed our orders early.
Men's Suits that would now cost you in
any other store $16, $18 and $20,
we are selling at $14, $16 and $18.
To. save $2 is worth something to
you. It cannot be done every day, but
on every suit you buy from us you will
save from $1 to $3. Money saved, you
know, is money earned, therefore you
will earn moneyby buying your Clothing
from us. ..
E.
C. 1111
011
011
Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters and
Gents' Furnishers.
YOU
WANT
A
GOOD
PAINT
TRY
IT.
e' beet We are showing the very b a $1
Kid Gloves in iiia trade, Black
with two large dome fasteners, with black and also white silk
stitched /melts, sizes 6 to 7f.
Colors -A.11 the new shades of Tans, Modes and Greys,
with two large dome fasteners, and silk stitched banks to
match, sizes 6 to 7i.
If you want the best value for your money be sure and get
theAlberti
rte Al b ne Kid$1.00per Gloves at > pair,
.
1 1
Crompton. Corsets.
We keep a full line of the Crompton Corsets in the
Up-to-date" at 50o Thelma at 75c "Quebeh" at 95c ;
Victoria at $1.00 ; "Magnetic" and "Zatisi" at $1.25.
Also Childs' Waists and Misses' Corsets.
Strachan.
M3 rare MEST:E�so,ru.r
BOOTS; I UI{SS
1 CI
RICHARDS VALISETRN.
I
SHOES.
Stylish, Seasonable Shoes
Are the kinds of Shoes we are showing for the 1
Spring
trade. you ou w
ant to know what let Shoesto
buy just ask your feet, they will reply for Comfort
and Durability give us the J. D. King Shoes -
Look in our window for some of' the new styles.
We have our Spring Goods in now -you know the
Quality and the Prices are right.
TRUNKS and SATCHELS
A. nice assortment and prices Away Down.
Repairs in Shoes and Rubbers
done Neat and Durable.
Remember the place for Harness,
Boots and Shoes is at
Ewan Innes
Although the season was not
one of the best for the sale of Cutters
g
and Sleighs,
e have s 1flutters,
3
12 sets of Sleighs and in connection
with the l 1 ' ahove sales s �t. have 1ft a
dis-
posed of
t5 Sets of Farness.
Our Harness cannot be surpassed
in Quality and Price. We deal with
a firm established,in 1867 and they
don't put out any Harness but .hand
sewed. We have a few Cutters to
sell yet and if Low Prices will clear
them out we are determined to make
a clearance. Come and see what
JPyF we have,
C Triage Builders.
ILL
13et Braaslis of
Is the best place to get your
Gristing clone. We have
the best Chopping rig in the
County and we are satisfy -
ing everybody who comes.
First-class Flour 111
Exchange for
Good Wheat, . .
Manitoba Flour for sale, as well es Ontario Flour
of first quality, and our popular Mixed Flour gives
great satisfaction. It makes an excellent family Flour.
Oatmeal and all kinds of Mill Feed
Always on hand.
Best Dry American Corn.
Oats taken
in Exchange
for
Et
for Oatm.eal,
Ross.'
MILL STREET, BRUSSELS.
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