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The Huron News-Record, 1894-06-06, Page 2Bright Lad. Teayouve of age, blrtwho Qeen:lei: to MINIMS Itsthe to the public, makes this authorized, (Qntideutial statemeutto as:. "When I was one year old, my mamma died 01:' consumption. The doctor Bald that I, too,, would soon • die and all our neighbors thought that ever, 1f I did not die I would never be able to walk, because '1 was so weak and party. A gathering formed and broke under my arm. 1 hurtmy Anger and it gathered and threw out pieces of bone. It [ hurt myself so as to break the skin, it was sure co become a yenning sore. thud to take lots of medicine, but nothing has done me so much good as dyer's Samna. Alla. It has made ole well and strong. -- T D. M:, l`torcatur, Kans. AYER'S Sarsaparilla ihepared by Dr. J.O.Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. es, others, will cure you • The Huron News-Reoora 1.60 a Year -$1.06 in Advance. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6th, 1894. , DIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY. History does not offer an example of re purely agricultural people who were great and prosperous. Diversity of industry must come before lasting pros- perity. When the Canndian ministers were at. Washington discussing the question of better trade rela- tions with the people of the United ,States, Mr. Blaine declared that the United States would gladly supply Canada with all the manufactures that she needed, "and," added he, "Canada would then be like many of our States, a greatagricultural and pastoral country." Mr. McCarthy, in Iles recent speech in the House of Com- mons, gave utterance to woi ds in the same direction. In his great mind there seemed to be a conviction that Mr. Blaine was right. Fortunately, however, the Canadian ministers did not hold the same view. In view of the facts we have referred to it is very interesting to look at the evidence of he value of a variety of industries as presented by the census of the United States. Mr. Dodge, Statistician of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has analys- ed. the census of 1881. He has divided the states into four lots. In the first one of these lots eighteen per cent. only of can be atten . in a/11044, valuable near- ket. The statlstaes show that the Cana, dian farmers ralse each year prodltce to the vane ° of $500,000,000. Of this rodttce $8,Ct'3,009 worth is exported to the 'United States. $42.000,000 worth is..ex orted to Great Britain, or a total of $50,000,000 Worth exported fro'xn Canada, The .nee of 10$50,000,00Q worth is cone sinned at home. The policy of the Libe sial party. Pays that we Shall not seek to encourage industries, in Short, that every vestige of production shall. be removed from the tariff., The experience of every other oown • } nchhas tried dsueha eoliceuntil hirldustries were Madimmnsely. strong by centuries of 'protection cert- tainl demonstrates beyond a doubt, that the fact of the removal of "every vestige of protection" would be to des troy our industries at home and maks• us consumers of the preduction of for- ign labor. Now whatdo our industries amount to ? Leaving. aside the amount of mon, invested in them,let us not forget that thee i,ndu tr. paby laborers and artisans each year the im- mense sum of $99,003,000 in wages. A great share of this $99,030,000 goes into the pockets of the Canadian farmer for what feeds the artisan and his family. We leave it to the Canadian fanner himself whether he is prepared to say that this yearly wage shall cease. Supposing that some capitalists were to come to this town and propose to erect here a factory and start an in, dusty which would employ El or 100 men. This town would be in a iitate of excitement, the people in the town and the farmers in the surrounding coun- try would no doubt, be willing to grant a bonus to be paid out of their own pockets and to relieve the pormoter of such works of municipal taxation no doubt for a number of years. Irl other words we should he glad to give every form of encouragement possible to any man who will employ a large number of people. Why then should we be so silly as to adopt any policy that would destroy the industrieswhich are scattered over Canada from its ex- treme east to its extreme west? The people of Canada will never do it. If there is one thing more than another that ,I hope will characterize the nations composing the British empire, it is the maintenance of our national integrity. -Meredith at Lon- don. 7IAfE HONORED PRINCIPLE. Mr. Charlton, M. P. for North Nor- folk, in a public letter recently ex- pressed his views upon each item in the platform of the Patrons of Industry. One of ,the planks in the "Patrons" platform is purity in the administra- tion of public affairs. With childlike simplicity, Mr. Charlton in comment- ing on this plank in the platform de-,, Glares, "this is an old time part of the Liberal policy." Let us revive Mr. Charlton's memory as to one act per- formed by the Mackenzie administra- tion which shews the kind of business methyl -cis they adopted in order to put into practice this time honored princi- ple. A gentleman named Timothy Warren Anglin, known of recent years well, and frequently in the pages of Ontario's public accounts for services en various commissions, was elected Speaker of the House of Commons atter the Liberals were returned to power in 1873. Mr. Speaker Anglin owned a small printing office down in St. John, N. B. It was purely a newspaper office, there being no job printing office in connection with it. While Mr. Speak- er Anglin occupied the Chair of the House of Commons, and was supposed to be thoroughly impartial as the head of the House, Mr. Anglin was also a contractor for public printing used in connection with the post office depart- ment. The money received by Mr. Anglin was as follows :- Year ending 30th June, 1875 $ 8,123 31 M'c044V.1 r $ 01:(g1,4% Mr, SeCarthy,, M declared dura ing last @un(1019r h* one Of hie spaechee in••Outnrlo,'Iuat '1511' John Macdonald only adopted: the 1`Tational. Polios; be-' cause: he drought it woulf/ be a good catch cry'to win. on." McCarthy ls, putting a'very high estimdteruponhia;i owns pa'ipclples,wh'en he declares this and adtnits that ha followed a, leader whore be knew to be dishonest in con neetion with that Polley simply for political effect.' Col,. O'Brien, however,. Who, is. fir. McCarthy s• bosom friend, gave;' contradiction to this statement on April Oh in Parliament, Ho said follows; "There_ was occasion to give industries such protection as was proposed. by the tariff Introduced in 1$79. It was also intended to promote the 1pvestment of capital in the coun- try.. It Was to give an impetus to busi- nese and financial circles, where at the time Veryreat depression existed, It was intended to give as far -as possible diversity of employment to the y ouog men and not compel them to look abroad, for that sort of employment they could find at home. All these things were intended to be accomplish- ed and to areat' extent they were m accolished by the National Policy." Mr. McCarthy will have to take his follower in hand. Agan! Mr. Mc- Carthy attacked the Government in his speech upon the tariff because trade with the United States he said would not be encouraged by the new 'tariff. Col. O'Brien in his speech gave Mr. McCarthy the answer again on the same day as the above. The Colonel's answer was as follows : "I do not :agree with the gentlemen opposite in their views on the subject of recipro- city with the United States. I wholly differ with them, not only with the policy they advocated last session, but also with regard. to that trade. I do not pretend to belittle its importance but I do say that the people Of the United States have told us in the most unmistakable terms that they do not want our trade." Strange sight! Mr. McCarthy calling out for the govern- ment to- be condemned because they have not tried again to get American markets, and his chief, in fact his only follower, declaring that the markets are not of great value, and that if they were, there is no use trying to get them. the people are engaged in the pursuance of agriculture, and in that lot land is worth $38.65 per acre. In the second lot 42 per cent of the people are engag- ed in agriculture, and the land there is worth $30.95 per acre. In the third lot 5S per cent. of the people are engaged in agriculture, and the land is worth $13.53 per acre. In the fourth lot 77 per cent. of the people are engaged in agriculture, and the land is only worth $5.18 per acre. These . figures are certainly very instructive figures. They show undoubtedly that the Pres- ence of manufacturing industries in any particular section of the country Bycreating a market for the produce raised upon the farms of that section of country, increases the value of these farms. The people of the fourth lot that we refer to above may be called to adopt the language of Mr. McCarthy "a pastoral people." Out of every 100 people 77 are engaged in farming, and only 23 engaged in other occupations; those 23 being people engaged in those trades and callings iriade necessarily attending upon a farming population. Manufacturers do not exist at all. It may be said, however, that these figures are not so conclusive as we make appear above. It may be pointed out that necessarily the fourth lot that we hayed referred to contains most of the States west of the Mississippi, where the great prairie lands are situated and where land could not he expected to reach any- thing like the value that it has attained in the Eastern States of the Republic. But the following figures do away with the objection that we mention. It is shown further by the analysis of Mr. Dodge that not only is land more valuable in those States in which manufacturing industries are establish- ed, but it is also shown that land is of much greater value in the manufactur- ing counties of those States we refer to. It cannot surely' be accidental that in every state there is a difference in the value of land in favor of the manufacturing counties, and it certain- ly is true that where there is little manufacturing there is scarcely any difference between the value of these lands and the value of lands in non- manufacturing States. Now take the figures. Take the first group forihstance, in the manufactur- ing counties of that group the land is worth $71.85 per acre, and in the non -manufacturing counties of that groupthe land is worth $40.33 per acre. In he second group the land in the manufacturing counties is worth $43.54, and in the nonmanufacturing counties it is ' worth $32.03. In the third group in the manufacting coun- ties, land is Worth $32.90, and in non- 'manufaeturing counties $17.14. In the fourth group land is worth $21.95 in the manufacturing counties and $8 .27 in the other counties. These figures certainly go undoubtedly to show that in order to be .prosperous the farming po elation must have near them an industrial population to, con - sumo the production of their farms. Now let us -look at thq position in Can- ada. It is true the home market is very often sneered at by' the Grit poli- ticians, but the home market accord- ing, to the very best statistics that " 1876 10,263 94 Quarter " Sept. 1876 2,CJJ 80 Total, 520,390 05 The only possible defence that could be made- for Mr. Anglin was that al- though the matter was illegal arid shameful, still the prices at which Mr. Anglin did the work were not too high. This however was not true, as it will be seen by, reference to page 824 of the "Hansard," of 1876. There Mr. Hunt- ingdom, who was Postmaster General, admitted that the prices paid to Mr. Anglin were 50 per cent. higher than the work ought to have been done for. The worst part of it is that Mr. Anglin as above stated had no job printing place in connection with his news- paper. He got over that, however, by the farming out of the $20.05) worth of printing referred to, to small offices in his province, thereby making a certain amount of miserably cheap political in- fluence for himseltand at the same time sweating from these poor fellows a good many thousand dollars for him- self. Notw,thstanding this act Mr. Anglin was retained as Speaker of the House of Commons, for though he was compelled to give up his seat the Gov- ernment in defiance of all the rules of decency when he had been returned again placed him once more in posses- sion of the highest honor that the House of Commons of Canada has to confer upon a Commoner. This and a hundred other acts which disgraced the career of the Grit Government at Ottawa. sounds strangely enough when put down opposite Mr. Charlton's de- claration that "purity of administra- tion has always been the time honored principle of the Liberal party." It should be mentioned that the condem- nation of the act mentioned above was not confined to the Conservative ive ranks or the Conservative press, and hence the action of the Government in re- electing Mr. Anglin Speaker is all the more condemable. Even as pronounced' a Government sheet as the London Ad- vertiser. at the time declared in answer to the cry of spmpathy which someone had started for the Speaker, "Mr. Ang- lin may be the victim ofisfortune, but misfortune encountered in the pur- suit of gain does not command the sympathy it otherwise excites." Does Mr. Charlton want some more samples of how his friends stood by this "time honored principle of purity of adminis- tration." It ought not to he forgotten that Mr. Charlton was a member of the House of Commons when this jobbery was perpetrated and took an active part in defending It. RCM biases$ RtLfav5n is 80 1ras0Taa,---All eases of orgonle or sympathetic heart disease relieved in 80 minutes nod gnlokly cnod.by Dr. Agnew's, Cure tor the Heart, Ono dose eonrineea. Sold by watts & Co. and Alien & Wilson, Druggists. I desire to enter my most emphatic protest against the ostracism of any class of the community by reason of the religious faith which they possess. -Meredith at London. HOW EXPENSES HAVE GROWN. Toronto Empire. In the last year of Sanfleld Mac- donald's Government, 1871, the ex- penses of civil government in this province were ,$114,613.99. As educa- tional affairs were then under a super- intendent, and not under a Minister of the Government, we add the cost of the educational office and contingencies in that year, $12,013 and 53,634.79 re- spectively, to this amount, bringing the total up to 5130,281.78. The following table taken from Mr. Harcourt's budget speech, shows how, after the Liberal party attained power, the cost of civil government has in- creased until it now reaches the enor- mous sum of 5241,621.63 : 5142,218 85 156,646 82 159,180 49 155,526 16 155,365 50 159,906 43 158,721 64 154,276 81 173,732 67 174.803 12 190,739,55 202,808 00 179,825 23 184,2E170 183,049 56 189,289 57 200,685 25 211,761 68 219,t 33 77 V1,126 28 235,760 61 211,621 03 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 What is meant by the expenses of civil government is the cost of the de- partments considered necessary for ad- ministration, that is, the salaries of the heads of the Government and their assistants with the contingent account. Let us see how the cost was distributed in Sandfield Macdonald's time, taking the year 1871 : Government House $ 4,50317 Lieutenant Governor's office, salaries ... 1,495 53 Lieutenan t -Governor's office, contingencies 305 80 Executive Council office, sal- aries 1,015 00 Execative Council office, con- tingencies 650 53 Attorney -General's office, 6,62465 Attorney - General's office, contingencies 1,951 74 Treasury Department, sal- aries 8,785 C 3 TreasuryDepartment, con• tingencies and repairs 2,253 24 Secretary and Registrar's office, salaries 9,495 00 Secretary and Registrar's office,contingencies and re- pairs Registrar -General's branch, expenditure Public Works Department, salaries Public Works Department, contingencies Crown Lands Department, salaries Crowe, Lands Department, contingencies Gratuities, public officers.... Inspector of Prisons Inspector of Prisons, con- tingencies Inspector of Prisons, clerk Auditor's office,salaries Auditor's office, eontengen- cies Inspector of Registry Offices Queen's Printer, salary Queens Printer, contingen- cies Official Gazette brought the Education Department *0- politics, acing' al. clotntrlissioner and. a depart ieut* greatly increasing, the coat, lit aua compare theexpen- ses of these different departaaents for 183 with those Of 1871 a , G oogverninent Houspe, �expein,^ �A{ l nen rui sea...•, A...,.,F.,...YA.'}♦1♦...1 W'.1,�95000 Lieutenant -Governors otUce, salsrles .., , ;,.,',.,F..,,... 2,48000 Lieutenant-Gover`nor'sofdee, 4 expenses � ..... F 1,50000 Attorney -General's Depart, amok salaries,, 17,350 09 Attorney -General's Depart•• meat, expenses 2,009 79 Education Department, sal, awes,..., ,...••. r Education Department, ex pensee.._......:• n,...,.',. Crown Lamle Department, salaries .................... Crown Lands Department, expenses Bureau of Mines, salaries, Bureau of Mines, expenses "Public Works Departmei t,. • salaries Public Works Department, expenses Treasury Department, sal- aries Treasury Department, ex- penses Provincial Auditor's office, salaries Provincial Auditor's office, expenses License branch, salaries License branch, expenses Registrar -General's branch, salaries Registrar -General's branch, expenses Board of Health, salaries Board of Health, expenses Provincial Secretary's De- partment, salaries Provincial Secretary's De- partment, expenses Public Institutions office, salaries Public Institutions office, expenses Agricultural Department, salaries Agricultural ;Depart -pent, expenses Imigration Department, sal- aries Imrgration Department,'ex- penses Miscellaneous: Official Gazette Queen's Printer's . salaries Queen's Printer's expenses Inspection offices Inspection of insurance office, salaries Inspection of insurance offices, expenses Special clerk, re investiga- tions 2,027 98 7,65312 10,385 00 3,496 49 29,88180 8,454 00 3,200 00 2,003 00 71555 484 00 2,730 00 11 18 2,000 00 1,200 00 7217 3,256 99 Total 5114,613 09 Educational office, salaries • 12,013 00 Education office, contingen- cies 3,643 79 Total . $180,261 78 Since then the Government has office, office. of registry 17482 (16 2,40$ 29 41,082 25 $,573 40 4,650 00 2,23482 10,25000 2,217 66 12,500 00 3,289 09 5,800 00 799 89 8,425 00 663 40 6,440,00 3,373 96 5,107 07 2,509 70 15,550 00 3,407 21 12,584 40 3,056 88 14,550 00 2,149 28 1,500,C0 222 05 2,323 90 2,600 00 501 C8 1,130 00 4,600 00 1,756 30 1,8(30 Total 5211,621 C3 These figures are taken from the public accounts, which is the official financial statement of the Government. It needs brit a glance to show that in every department there has been an in- crease of expenditure. The Attorney -General's office has in- creased in salaries from $6,621 to 517,- 350. The Crown Lands Department office from $29,831 to 541,082. The Public Works office from $10,- 365 to 519,250. The Treasury Department from $8,- 765 to 512,51.1 These are but a few of the increases, not in one year, but extending over twenty-two years, so that the in- creases, if gone through year by year, will show that certainly economy in administration has not marked the rule of the Liberal Government. Health and happiness are relative conditions ; at any rate, there can be little happiness without health. To give the body its full measure of strength and energy, the blood should be kept pure and vigorous, by the use of Ayei•'s Sarsaparilla. THE WESTERN FARMERS' PARTY. SITOVI.VCIAL MA 'S. Within the next w weeks: the; VA - 110 accounts'of the provincewl ll bert lead, Ing subject tor comment throughout the country, and as the. people ,have not ready access to thew accounts we will from time to . tiine furnish them with the figures, which, 'in every' ase, will be: taken fromofficial stateruents, re- garded as trustworthy by the leaders upon both sides. The budget speech of on. ,Air Harcourt,.; delivdred during the ar.liarnentry session• ust closed; haus been issued in pamphlet for for, use daring the campaign. From we take the. following statement of v'e- fedecel is and expeuntil ndit'theuresthn, c F'r'omwhen: tCohen*. ration Liberal pi arty came into power in 1.371,, four and a half years, the figures wore as follows: Receipts. Expenditure• 1867.. , , ... • .. $182,899 63,; $56,669. 97 1808 2,250,207 71 1,179,269 17 1809 2,625,179 29 1,.445,75173' 1870.. , ....... 2,500,005' 70 1/578'070 04' 1871 .. 2,338,179 62 1,816,78111 Total..... ,. $9,892,10108 $6,.077,4510$ From 1872 until 1893, during,which time the Liberals have been in power, the figures are as follows : Receipts. Expenditure. 1872 53,060,747 97 52,217,555'07 1873 2,961,515 31 2,940,803 45 1874 3,44.6,347 03 3,870,701 14 1875 3,156,605 81 3,604,524 42 1876 2,580,222 83 3,139,505 66 qg 1877 2,502,566 04 3,119,117 7. 1878 2,285,178 07. 2,902,388 37 187.9 2,287,951 39 2,941,714 27 1880 2,584,169 76 2,518,186 80 1881 2,788,746 78 2,570,802 28 1882 2,880,450 40 2,918,826 95 1883 . 2,439,941 42 2,887, 037 73 1884 . 2,820,555 45 3,207,889 67 1885 .. 3,005,920 71 3,040,139 07 1886 3,148,660 01 3,181,449 69 1887 3,527,577 95 3,451,372 43 1888 3,603,26214 3,545,234 85 1889 3,538,405 08 3,653,356 37 1890 3,423,154 99 3,896,324 38 1891 4,138,589 09 4,153,459 55 1892 4,662,921 57 4,068,257 39 1893 4,091,914 01 3,907,145 32 • Total $68,944,404 61571,752,795 59 Showing an excess of expenditure over receipts of 52,808,390.98, creating a deficit to that amount. Included in the receipts are amounts raised by the sale of annuities, that is sums borrowed by the Government on guar ante, to repay them within forty. years in annual instalments with inter- est. These borrowed sums cannot rightly be regarded as receipts, but still theyare included as such. This plan of raising money was resorted to in 1881 and the three following years, and again in 1891 and 1892 as follows : Annuites. 1884 $250,613 67 1885 271,399 69 1886 238,842 57 1887 .. 242,626 92 1891 269,5::) Q1 1892 . 160,006 21 The Western States and territories of the United States are largely agri- cultural, and ft might have been ex- pected that an absolutely farmers' party would exist and prosper there if anywhere. A year or so ago, a party known as "Populists," org:Jiized for the purpose of killing the old political parties, grew to great dimensions, its candidates 'being elected by immense majorities. In the recent State elec- tions however, these victorious results have not been maintained. Writing upon the subject recently, a western authority gives what is no doubt the true reason for the change in senti- ment. He says : "There were many men who cultivated the Populist senti- ment and adopted Populist principles in order toet support, but who, having got that support used their victories for their own benefit, or for the advantage of the old parties with which they bad been connected. In other words, the honest and conscien- tious supporters of the Populist move ment were hoodwinked, and made the tools of designing selfish and knavish leaders." Let us see in what better position the western people have been put by their break with the old parties. They have elected men of inferior - ability. In many instances these men were demagogues pure and simple, or perhaps better to use the expression of a late Secretary of Agriculture in speaking of the farmers, '`They did the very worst thing for the farmers because they farmed the farmers." Recent advices shew that the farmers of the west understand this pretty well, and in the recent election, to which we have already referred, thousands of them are returning to the old parties as the best instrument by which they may effect the reforms which they desire. In short the Pop- ulist movement of the western States• has proved a failure so far as the real' objects which the farmers of the west desire to see accomplished. It has, however, succeeded in throwing to the surface a number of tricky, demagogic politicians, who, having ridden to office upon class prejudice, are not Iikely to accept their quietus until they have tried to retain their hold by every questionable method known to men with whom fixity of principles is an unknown attribute. BAD BLOOD causes Blotches, Boils, Pimples, Abscesses Ulcers, Scrofula etc. Burdock Blood Bitters cures Bad: Blood in any form front a contr.-non Pimple to the worst&,refute, Sore. Total. 51,432,519 07 In the expenditure account under this head the following payments on aranunity account are set forth, but as the round sums are given it is difficult to see at a glance how much represents payment on principal and how much as interest:' 1881 $ 6,700 1885 20,400 1886 33,550 1887 45,950 1£98 52,200 1883 52,200 181.) 52,20 1891 59,200 1892 • 70,21') 181)3 74,2`3 Total $466,800 As originally stated, the annuities receipts :are set down in the accounts at $1,432,519.07 ; against this the expendi- ture by way of. repayment shows 5460,- 800, yet the provrncial'auditor certifies that the present value of annuities is 51,319,775.70, establishing that the Government has repaid only $112,743.36 of the borrowed money, the balance, $x54,057, being interest. Deducting the amount of borrowed money, $1,- 432,519.C6, from the total receipts and the 5112,743 repaid from the expendi- ture, leaves the totals $67,511,835.o5 and $71,00,052.59, showing the deficit of receipts, as compared with expendi- ture in the twenty-two years, to be 54,128,167.04. AN EMPTY TREASURY, W r rain + ti , ' • 1Pit4t Where 411 others Qilrlii, Throat, oatpsngli, hop„ i P.. Conan ik Awtlims, �'or �P P luhs.outcd thousand. an7�d• wQ111. takenita time. Bold 'p7lia Y yr ,int LOI1'8 PEL DOi3a lcPTA T LOWS CATA uve You ow. This temedyks 404tovu cryou.,gti ,NFt lnlacOr fold b*`'J.,Ti, CQMBE, And this man, Mowat, aOks to.be put back at the head of Ontario's affairs: He has squandered Sandfield Macdon aid's four millions. • . He bus sold for a song to Americana tirnber that in a few year% woatld ;ire ° >' worth a•fortune to the province. He has taken from the municipalities liquor license liponey which rightfully belonged to them.. , He has wasted the money remixed from every source, and the proVince has nothing to show for it but an empty chest.- . Electors 'of South Huron, vote for • Weismiller, a conscientious follower and supporter of W. R. Meridith. "Beware the pine tree's withered branch, Beware the awful avalanche"l was the peasant's warning to the aspir- in'g Alpine youth. Dangers greater than these lurk in the pathway of the. young man or young woman of the present as they journey up the rugged sidehill of Time. But they may all be met and overcome by a judicious and timely use of Dr. Pierce's Golden .Medi- cal Discovery, the celebrated eure for colds, coughs, catarrh, and consump- tion. Better than hypophospites or cod liver oil: unrivalled and unap- prochable in all diseases arising from a scrofulous or enfeebled condition of the system. The "Discovery" is guaranteed to cure in all cases, of diseases for which it is recommended, or money paid for i, will be refunded. Herina, or Rupture, permanently cur- edor no pay. For treatise, testimonials and • numerous references, address World's Dispensary Medical Associa- tion, Buffalo, N. Y. CURRENT TOPICS. I discountenance and ,disclaim any attacks that have been made in the name of any party, or of any body, against any religious community as a religious community. -Meredith at London. In his London speech Sir Oliver Mowat confessed that he had expended all the money left in the treasury by Sandfield Macdonald, and much more. He defended the spending of the money by saying that Sandfield Mac- donald had not intended that it should be kept as a permanent capital -that it was there for the purpose of being spent. What the opposition has found fault with in this matter has chiefly been the fact that Sir Oliver has, all along, pretended that he still had the money, when it was all gone. The ex- travagance which depleted the treas- ury was not;so much the point of at- tack as the lying pretence that the money had not' been expended, and that the "surplus" still remained in the treasury. By it hocus-pocus of figures Sir Oliver's treasurer has been able to claim, session after session, a large surplus, amounting to quite'uis much as the nestegg left by Sandfield Mac- donald. Session after session these bogus figures have been attacked by the opposition, and it has been clearly shown that it was absolutely impossible that any surplus remained : that, in fact, Sir Oliver had wasted the patri- mony of the province and plunged it deeply into debt. These exposures have always been treated with ridicule and laughter by Mowat's supporters in the house, and the Grit press of On- tario has sofrequentlydeclared that the Sandfield Macdonald nestegg remained intact, • that the rank and file of the Ontario Grits have come to believe that the money was actually there. The pro- vince of Ontario has been held up as an example of what economical gov- ernment had done, and pointed to with pride by Grits every- where. Now we and Sir Oliver -after all these years of deceit and crooked figures --coolly facing an audience of Grits in London and not only telling them that the Sandfield Macdonald savings had all been spent, but actually trying to snake excuse for the extrava- gant dissipation of four millions of dollltrs left to the people of Ontario b an honest and competent govvernment The Globe wants to know why Mr. Meredith didn't mention the calf inikis . London address. Mr. Meredith k¢s that the calf can cough for itself, and at the same time furnish such intelli- gible argument against Farmer Dryden that he cannot refute it. The sick calf is coughing so distressingly in South Ontario that it gives the Commissioner of Agriculture no peace, and will so curve its spine and hough on election day that Mr. Dryden's supporters will not have courage enough to go to the polls. However much may be said by way of theory in favor of the proposition of a political head for the Department of Education, the practical application of that system has been an utter failure. -Meredith at London; Dr. Low's Worm Syrup cures and re- moves worms of all kinds in children or adults. Price 25c. Sold by all dealers. Erastus Wiman's trial was post- poned until the 4th inst. GaNTLIasrEN.-I have used your Yel- low Oil and have found it unequalled for burns, sprains, scalds, rheumatism, croup and colds. All who use it recom- mend it. Mrs. Hight, Montreal,Que. 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