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THE M1" INGTIAM ADVANCE, T 1.,1 BSDA.Y, MAY 21, 1908,.
New Spring Goods.
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We've just opened out our New Goods for Spring
and slimmer. To say they are the nicest range ever
shown here, is putting it pretty strong. But really, the
Suitings are beautiful, both in design and material, The
prevailing colors are elephant grays and browns, in stripes
and plaids. Of course, blacks and bines are always cor-
rect, and we have a large range of these goods,
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in
IIA.TS.—A choice stock of Hats for the Spring and
Summer in all the newest styles.
FURNISIIINGS.----A good new stook in all lines of
Shirts, Underwear, Ties, Collars, Gloves, Fancy Vests, &c.
Come in 1 Come in 1
Robt Maxwell
Tailor & Men's Furnishers
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No formality or
delay in opening
Large or srfiall sums may
be deposied or withdrawn
as desired.
WINOHAM BRANCH
C. P. SMITH - Agent
THE CANADIAN ANK
OF COMMERCE
HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO ESTABLISHED 1887
B. E. WALKER, President
ALEX. LAIRD, General Manager
IPaid-up Capital, $10,000,000
Reserve Fund, 5,000,000
A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED AT ALL BRANCHES
DRAFTS AND MONEY ORDERS sold, and money transferred by
telegraph or letter.
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COLLECTIONS made in. all parts of Canada and in foreign countries.
FOREIGN BUSINESS. Cheques and drafts on the United States,.
Great Britain and, other foreign countries bought and sold. 113
WiNGHAM BRANCH - A. E. SMiTH, MANAGER.
E13.t ingbai ` h ran c
Theo, Hall - Proprietor.
tbitorfat
—The method of the Roes Govern-
tnent for collecting of taxes from rail-
ways, turned all the revenue into the
provincial Treasury, Mr. Whitney
gives half to the municipality, and
half goes to the Treasury. Hero is
what the municipalities
h
a
e re-
ceived from the railway tax
1001—Ross Government Nothing
1900 --Whitney " $ 80,820
1907—Whitney " „ $1,547
Total, $102,307
subsequent Government would f' el
that public) honesty was llnproitable,,
that there was no gratitude in the
masses of the voters, that corrupt
electoral methods and secret financial
alliances were necessary. to continu-
ance fn office, and that sharpn'essrand
crookedness constituted the science of
government in Ontario. It is there-
fore of the first importance from.
every consideration pf justice and fair
dealing, and for the great and per-
manent significance which the result
will carry, that Mr. Whitney should
be strongly supported, and that the
Government's victory should be abso-
lutely decisive.
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—The grants which aid the people
in building roads, in supporting their
schools, in providing for the sick and
i in municipal
the poor, and in reducing g p
taxation, have been increased thus.
since the Whitney Government took
office :
From railway taxes Nothing to $81,517
From license fees $928,781 389,579
For the schools 286,815 915,881
For roads 97,0.91 115, 09
For colonization roads 166,532 335,155
For hospitals and charities235,966 385,713
Total grants $1,015,128 $1,923,824
Difference $908,696
The Whitney Goyernment has re-
turned to the people $908,000 more per
annual than the late Government did,
so no wonder the Opposition can talk
about increased expenditure.
—Speaking of Premier Whitney, the
, Montreal Gazette says :—"He has
given.the people three years of decent
administration, marred by no gross
scandals and little weakened by mis-
takes, He has been courageous in his
dealing with public matters, and has
not sought to dodge unpleasant issues
nor to speak words of two meanings,
when threatened by men who boasted
they carried 'votes' rot d in their
mental gripsacks. He teas also as
Ministerial colleagues men of respec-
tability and strength, and in Messrs.
Foy and Hanna especially, two aides
whose capacity is making them
known outside of their own province,
and gaining them a place_among the
notable public men of Canada."
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IGo,,,l Goal
Wo are sole agents for We carry a fall stock of
the celebrated Scranton Coal, Lumber (dressed or tindres-
which baa no equal, sed), Shingles, Lath, Cedar
Posta, Barrels, eta.
Also the beet grades of ommoomMeOpmeassilmilamo ,0..101
Smithing, Cannel and Lo- Highest Price paid for all
'nestle Coal and Wood of I;
Ail kinds, always on hand. kinds of Logs.
eodaenee PhoneOffis I., Noo. 55
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J. 9, MoLEAN
—Enquiries -have*been made as to
the qualifications required for regis-
tration as a voter under the Manhood
Suffrage Act. The Statute says that
every male person of the full age of 21
years and a British subject, not dis-
qualified from voting under the Ont-
ario Election Act or,otherwise prohib-
ited by law from v6ting, is entitled to
have his name entered on the List.
There is a proviso in regardeto resi-
dence. The applicant for registration
must have resided in Canada for
twelve months preceding the day on
wl-ich the first sitting of the Registra-
tion Court is held; he must have lived
three months prior to the first day of
registration in the municipality on
whose list he seeks to be inscribed,
and in case of a city divided into sev-
eral electoral districts, he must have
been domiciled for thirty day's prior
to the first sitting of the court in the
constituency in which he wishes to
vote.
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—The shorter the campaign, the
better for Mr. McKay, the Liberal.
From every platform form ie makes
prac-
tically the same attack, and the audi-
ences who listen to it are not more
tired .of ii than he is lzimnglf, It is,
however, the best he can do. Not
that Mr. McKay is an antagonist
without energy or resourcefulness, put
he, is disabled by his political past.
He was a member of the old currupt
administration. 11e winked at all
their misdeeds ; ho condoned all the
ballot outrages ; he was part and par-
cel of the rotten affair, and though he
may be clever, he can never lift his
party. His own election was corrupt,
and he was unseated, and afterwards
got in by four little crosses made on
ballots after the election was over.
Be he ever so clever a speaker, he is
up against the good, clean record
of the Whitney Government. The
Globe referred to the bad men of the
Ross outfit, as "barnacles" that ought
to be scraped off. Whitney has scrap-
ed them off. Graft has vanished,
There will now be no finding out how
this man voted, and punish him for it,
for the numbered ballot has gone.
Cap. Sullivan is out of business, and
Ontario electors can vote with the
assurance that their ballots will be
counted as they intended them to be,
without being switched or spoiled
with pencils under the thumb nail of
any official. No Minnie M. trips will
disgrace this election.
—It is no wonder that the expendi-
ture of this Dominion is 'increasing at
such a rapid rate. Both the people
and the Government are to blame, in
many cases. The people demand it,
and Government fears to resist the
pressure brought upon them. Many
of these expenditures might be avoid-
ed, and ought to be refused. Take
Huron county alone, and a recent
return brought down in the Commons
shows, that in the last eleven years
$14,217 has been expended on the Bay-
field harbor, $28,053 at Grand Bend
and $15,701 at St. Joseph, all on Lake
Huron. St. Joseph is well remembered
as the point at which N. M. Cantin
`proposed to create a city, a scheme
which ultimately came to nought, for
the reason that the location of St.
Joseph ,posses'sed no advantages to
make it a city, although nearly
$10,000 was expended there. The
money was thrown away, and never
should have been spent there.
—In its management of elections,
the Government has been beyond re-
proach. There was a bye -election in
Kingston, but the Government would
make no attempt to commercialize the
constituency. At Hamilton the other
day Mr. Whitney made the blunt deo
-
laration that the ,attitude of the Ad-
ministration towards the city would
not be favorably affected by the elec-
tion of Conservative candidates, nor
unfavorably influenced by election of
Liberal candidates. This looks to the
,practical politician of the ~familiar
type like sheer stupidity. It is, how-
ever, just simple honesty rooted in
simple decenoy. There has been no
systematic organization, as in other
days, for the direct bribery of electors.
The numbered ballot has been abolish-
ed. The ballot boxes have not been
rifled by corrupt agents of Govern-
ment. There have been no secret alli-
ances with corporations. There has
been no improper bargaining with fin-
ancial interests,
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—The Whitney Go'verninetit has
been remarkably faithful to the inter-
ests of Ontario. It is not preteiided
k s or that
id mists e
that it has made ,
all of its legislation is finally perfect.
But it has hot been corrupt, it has not
been servile, and it has not been a
mere lnetrlitnent of party. Xf such a
Government should be defeated, any
A FEW POINTS.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.
While the Ontario Government has
been able to ,give more money for the
municipalities, it has also begun the
reduction of the debt. The liabilities
On account of railway subsidies, which
stood at $0,718,057 when the Ross Gov-
ernment
overnmont went out, have been reduced
by $223,700 per annum. The result is
the following showing;
1904 debt
1908 debt
0,713.057
0,042,475
Reduction $071,280
At the same time there has been an
annual surplus. The comparison of
revenue, with expenditure, under the
Whitney regime, is as follows
Revenue Expeud'ro Surp'us
100,rr
010 $020,160
.$0,010,170. 539 0
1900 7,149,478 0,7.20,170 429,220
1007 8,320,419 7,714,245 000,171
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Three years' surplus $1,055,503
After increasing the expenditures
upon education, agriculture, roads,
and charities by over a million, and
wiping out $071,280 of the public debt,
the Government has a cash surplus of
$1,055,563,
A notable feature of the policy of
the Governinent has been its effort o fort to
reduce municipal taxation by allowing
the municipalities to derive larger
grants from the provincial chest. In
conformity with this idea the people
have been given a share of the taxa-
tion laid upon railway companies and
a larger share of the revenue from
licenses. More liberal grants have
been made to schools, to roads, and to
hospitals and charities.
Here are a feel 'indispensable FACTS,
for the independent, fair-minded elec-
tor to ponder over :—
A. G. McKay and the Ross Govern-
ment gave 525,000 acres, of Ontario
land to the Grand Trunk Pacific, for
nothing. Mr, Whitney recovered all
that for the people of Ontario.
Mr. McKay and the Ross adminis-
tration gave away pulp limits to To-
ronto lawyers. Whitney took them
back and one of those limits has been
sold for $300,000, and the money de-
voted to the best interests of the peo-
ple of Ontario.
A. G. McKay sold Peterson Lake
for $750. The Whitney Government
sold Cobalt Lake (34 acres) for over
one million dollars, or ($1,085,000) and
expended it in educational and other
purposes.
The highest price A. G.' 111cKay
could get for timber, when he was a
member of theJ oss Government was
$31,500 per square mile. Mr. Whit-
ney has been able to secure $00,000 per
square mile. -
Not only did the Whitney Govern-
ment secure $1,085,000 for Cobalt
Lake, but they got $172,000 for Kerr
Lake and a ten per cent royalty on
the silver mined. Besides, the right-
of-way on the T. & 0. railway and Co-
balt town site brought in during 1900
and 1407, $201,042.46.
The Whitney Government secured
these large sums for the people, by
businesslike ' administration. Under
the—old regime, they were given to
favorites of the Government.
Why vote against a Government
that has done so much to conserve the
resources of Ontario for the people?
A GOOD TIME TO STAY
(Live Stock World.)
Getting out of the hog business at
this juncture will prole poor policy.
It is the logical time to stay in.
Tho average producer with a pen-
chant for jumping out when prices are
low and getting in on ever boom,
invariably misses the mark at which
he shoots.
"Jim" Hill, the railroad magnate,
owes much of his success to reversing
the methods of the average railroad
developer. It took nerve to do it, but
results count and Hill can show
them.
Hill built across the continent dur-
ing a period of financial and com-
mercial stagnation. Wise ones pre-
dicted. that he was headed toward
bankruptcy, but he had peered into
the future and realized that the road
he was building would be taxed to its
fall capacity when prosperity in its
turn, came along.
He built that 'road 40 per cent.
cheaper than if construction had been
delayed five years, and had it ready
for operation When it was needed.
The Man who 'sticks to the hog -
breeding proposition now will haat°
porkers to market at good prices
when the fickle ones are deploring
their bad Irick which diverted ever.
gies in other channels. They are the
will -of -the -wisp chasers.
The people of this country will eon -
sumo more hog product next year
than this, Some will quit breeding
and an over -supply is impossible.
Stick to the game, use only good
breeding stock, house and treat your
herd intelligently and yon will not
regret 1t,
—Tile Windsor Record is a staunch
Liberal newspaper. Yet this is the
kind compliment it pays the Whitney
School policy :—
Mr. Whitney's remarks on Public
School education in his Hamilton
speech were sound. For many
years the Record has maintained,
as the premier does now, that the
Public School should be treated as
Public School, and not as a link in
any ' fanciful educational chain
such as was woven by Mr. Ross.
The Public School to reach its
highest usefulness, must be treat-
ed as a self-contained entity and
only incidentally a feeder for the
schools above. This the Whitney
Government apparently has reali-
zed and ,seeins to be making an
honest endeavor to give the school
where 95 per cent. of all pupils
begin and end their scholastic
training its proper educational
importance and place.
These remarks from a Liberal paper,
show that the school policy of the
Government has been a good one.
Even Mr. McKay has practically ceas-
ed denouncing it, for he has found
that many of his own followers
approve of the Public School being
improved as far as possible.
Tenders For CbaI, 1908.
Canadian Hai lw' Restorer
Will restore gray hair to its natural color.
Stops falling hair, causes to grow on bald
steads. Cures dandruft,itching', scalp diseases.
By its use thin hair grows luxuriantly.
Contains no oily or greasy ingredients.
Is entirely unlike any other hair prepara-
tion ever offered for sale.
8. good, reliable Canadian preparation.
iinsoileltetl Testimonials.
Edith A. Burke, Missionary II. M. Church
.Akhlinhn, Egypt, and friends, greatlypleused
with results after two years' using.
L. A. Hopes, Wilner, Montana. My hair
and whiskers restored to natural color, dant
brown, by using Canadian Hair Restorer.
M. Orttm, Bur essvillo, Ont. Canadian Hair
Restorer is the best I have ever used. '
John G. Hall, New Aberdeen, Cape Breton,
Canadian Hair Restorer has worked wonders.
My head is nearly
all
cove
red
with Mel;
growth look hair, original oolor.
Sold byait wholesale and retail druggists.
Mailed to any address in tho civilized world
on receipt of price, 50o, Manufactured by
TUE MEIIWIN CO„ Windsor, Ont., Canada,
Sold is Wingham by—J. Walton McKibben,
A, L, Hamilton, le. II. Walley, Druggists.
W. J. PRICE
BSA., L.D,S., D.D.S.
Honor Graduate of University of Toronto
and Licentiate of Royal College of
Dental Surgeons of Ontario.
OFFIOE IN BEAVER BLOCK — WINOIIAM
ARTIIUR J. IRWIN
D.D.S., L,D.S.
Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Pen-
nsylvania College and Licentiate of
Dental Surgery of Ontario.
—Of lco in Macdonald Block—
Sealed tenders, addressed to the Pro-
vincial Secretary, Parliament Buildings,
Toronto, marked "Tenders for .Coal,"
will be received up to noon on Satur-
day, May 30th, for the delivery of coal
in the sheds of the following provincial
institutions, on. or before the 80th day
of July next, viz. :—Toronto, London,
Kingston, Hamilton, Mimico, Brock-
ville, Cobourg, Orillia, Penetang, Wood-
stock Hospitals for the Insane; also the
Central Prison and Mercer Reforma
tory.
Specifications of , the qualities and
quantities of coal required and.forms of
application may be obtained on applica-
tion to the Department or from the
Bursars of the respective institutions.
Tenderers are to specify the mine of
origin and the quality of respective
kinds of coal, and to furnish evidence
on delivery that the coal is of origin
specified, fresh mined and up to the
standard pf trade grades.
Delivery subject to satisfaction of
officers of Department of the Provincial
Secretary, who may require additional
deliveries, not exceeding 20 per cent.,
up to the 15th July, 1909.
Tenders will be received for the whole
quantity specified, or for the quantities
required 'in each institution. Au ac-
cepted cheque for $500, payable to the
order of the Honorable the Provincial
Secretary, must be furnished by each
tenderer, and two sufficient sureties will
be required for *the due fulfilment of
each contract. The lowest or any ten -
'der not necessarily accepted.
Newspapers inserting this advertise-
ment without written authority from'
the Department will not be paid for it.
W. J. HANNA,
Provincial Secretary
Parliament Buildings,
Toronto, May llth, 1908.
PROPERTIES
FOR SALE
Frame Cottage Minnie St.
Frame Cottage Patrick St.
Frame Cottage ..North `St.
Frame Cottage...........Frances 81.
Frame 1 Story Victoria St.
Frame 1 Story Edward St.
Frame Story Scott St.
Frame 2 Story Minnie St.
Brick I e Story Victoria St.
Brick 1 Story John St.
Brick 2 Story (new)..,Victoria St.
Brick 1 Story Josephine St.
Brick 2 Story (modern) Minnie St.
Brick 2 Story (new) Catharine St.
Properties in Pleasant Valley, Lower
Town, Town Plot, Greenville, Chis-
holmtown and in the central parts of
the town.
OALt AND SEE US.
WE CAN SUIT YOU.
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Choice Parra at right prices and
on easy terms.
INSURANCE --Ail kinds.
rAlIM LOANS -Low rates.
Ritchie & Cosens
REAL ESTATE AND
INSURANCE WXNCHAM
WING HAM
General Hospital.
(Under Government Inspection.)
Pleasantly situated. Beautifully furnished.
Open to all regularly licensed physicians.
Rates for patients (which include board and
nursing)—$3.50 to $15.00 per week, according
to location of room. For further informa-
tion—Address
MISS KATHRINE STEVENSON,
Superintendent,
Box 223, Wingham, Ont.
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Paying from $35 to $100 per month by
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Money Saving Opportunities
[0 Every Department.
See our large stock of New Goods for Spring
and Summer Wear. We can supply you with the
very Newest Fabrics for Skirts, Waists, Suits, etc.
No trouble to show goods.
$1.50 Pants For $1.19.
25 Pairs Men's Pants bought
last week at reduced price. They
are good material, well made,
correct style. On sale for ton
days at $1.19. Every pair worth
$1.50.
Flannelette. Shirts, 25c.
5 Doz. Dark Flannelette Shirts
on sale for ten days at only 25c
each. When you get a Shirt for
25e, all you pay for is the making
of the Shirt. ' Everything, else is
thrown in.
75c Shirts For 32c.
A quantity of good Summer
Shirts, white cotton body, fancy
Went. Regular price 750 each,
Special to clear quick, 32c each.
Something New.
Cameo Sash Pins ; get one.
They are the newest thing on the
market, very fashionable, Three
designs. Prices 25o to 350.
White Metal Brooches.
A large quantity of White
Metal Brooches, assorted designs.
Have always been sold at 250
each. We succeeded in getting
a quantity at a very low price
and will sell them at 10e each.
10c Elastic 5c.
A quantity of colored Elastin,
regular price 10o yd., special to
clear quick, 5o yard.
$1.50 Tan Oxfords $1.19.
Here's a bargain in Shoes that
you cannot afford to pass. Ladies'
Tan or Chocolate Oxford Shoes,
sixes 2-& to 7, regular price $1.50,
special to clear quick, $1.19.
Paper and Envelopes.
Wo are just in receipt of about
30 thousand Envelopes, all of
which we are offering at very
low prices.
Dutch Fabric Envelope, pkg..100
No. 6, Ladies' Dainty " " .. 6c
Good XXX Square " " .. 5o
No. 7, splendid quality " . 5c
No. 8, large, Linen Paper En-
velope, per pkg 5c
No. 7, medium quality Enve-
lope, 3 pkgs 10c
No. 7, faire quality Envelope,
4 pkgs 103
Note Paper, Dutch Fabric,
splendid quality, 24 sheets. 10o
Note Paper, medium, 24 " 50
Real Irish Linen Paper in
Pads, regular price 15c each,
our special price only 90
Large size Linen Paper in
Pads, regular each 20c for150
Combs.
Another lot of Combs bought
at a 19w price. The saving is
yours. Wo offer 10 dozen Toilet
Combs, black or white. regular
20c Comb, our special price 2 for
25 cts.
13 doz. Combs, regular price
15 ats., unbreakable quality, our
special price, 10 cts. each.
ELLIOTT di. MCLACHLANSEEDS FOR 4908
PRINCIPAIt
ICANADIAM HOME CIRCLES
Wingham Circle, No. 434
Meets the 1st Thursday in each month,
in the Chisholm Hall, at 8 p. m. Candi-
dates for cheap, reliable insurance aro
solicited. Ask to see oltr rates front any
of the officers. Ladies' risks accepted at
the same rate as men,
REV. T. S. BOYLE ' T. E. ROBINSON
Leader Roc. Secretary
W. J. WYL>Ls - Fin. Secretary
Protection and Safe
Investment
ARE COMBINED IN
The Endowment Policies
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The Dominion Life
A sound, well managed
Canadian Life Assurance Company.
Average rate of Interest
earned in 1900-
6.73 PER CENT.
'WALTER T, HALL
Local Agent — Wingham,
llOINION BANK.
HEAD' OFFICE, TORONTO.
Capital u
(paid$3,848,000
P
Reserve (aoa ;4 41- • $5,068,000
Total Assets, over $48,000,000
WING/1AM BRANCH.
Farmers' Notes discounted,
Drafts sold on all points in Can-
ada, the United States and 1i,ilropo.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Interest allowed on deposits of $1.00 anti
upwards, and added to principal quarterly,
D. T. REPBHIIN tanager
aa tofe, eo loltet
We have all kinds of Grain in stock for seed—
the purest strain of Manchuria Barley—Goose Wheat
for seed—Seed Peas—Silver Hull and Black Buck-
wheat for seeding—Millet—Hungarian Red Clover—
Alsike—Mammoth Lucerne and Timothy—all govern-
ment standard—White Clover—Evergreen Lawn Grass
—Kentucky Blue Grass—Meadow Fescue—Red Top
—Orchard Grass—Italian Rye Grass—Fall Oat Grass
and Essex Sowing Rape—Flax for seed, pure ground
flax—ground Oil Cake—National Molasses Stock Food
—Bibby's Cream Equivalent for calves, to take the
place of the cream taken out by the Separators.
SEED CORN.
This is going to be a hard year to get good Seed
Corn but I have secured a quantity of Early Leaming,
Bailey, White Cap Dent, of the best germinating quali-
ties, also Compton's Early, Salzer's North Dakota:
Call and get your corn early as you can keep a bag
better than we can a hundred, as corn heats in a pile,
' and you can test it before planting.
JUST .ARRIVED.
A carload of Stock Feed, composed of Wheat,
Corn, Oats and. Barley, also Shorts, Bran and Flour.
Before ordering your Seeds for this Springy, you
are respectfully invited to call and inspect o
Ur stock.
A. Mills
WINGHAM
JEWEL FLOUR
combines the flavor of pure
flaky pastry, those creamy
white winter wheat with
biscuits and appetizing
the body-building qualities
bread.' We have been
of the best„ "lard Manitoba
making
spring wheat.
Jewel Flour
Jewel Flour
for years and guarantee it.
is a blended flour. It is
Ask your grocer for Jewel
a sweet, wholesome flour
Brand the next time you
that makes that delicious,
want flour.
Manufactured by
PFEFFER BROS. Milverton, Ont. -
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No formality or
delay in opening
Large or srfiall sums may
be deposied or withdrawn
as desired.
WINOHAM BRANCH
C. P. SMITH - Agent
THE CANADIAN ANK
OF COMMERCE
HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO ESTABLISHED 1887
B. E. WALKER, President
ALEX. LAIRD, General Manager
IPaid-up Capital, $10,000,000
Reserve Fund, 5,000,000
A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED AT ALL BRANCHES
DRAFTS AND MONEY ORDERS sold, and money transferred by
telegraph or letter.
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COLLECTIONS made in. all parts of Canada and in foreign countries.
FOREIGN BUSINESS. Cheques and drafts on the United States,.
Great Britain and, other foreign countries bought and sold. 113
WiNGHAM BRANCH - A. E. SMiTH, MANAGER.
E13.t ingbai ` h ran c
Theo, Hall - Proprietor.
tbitorfat
—The method of the Roes Govern-
tnent for collecting of taxes from rail-
ways, turned all the revenue into the
provincial Treasury, Mr. Whitney
gives half to the municipality, and
half goes to the Treasury. Hero is
what the municipalities
h
a
e re-
ceived from the railway tax
1001—Ross Government Nothing
1900 --Whitney " $ 80,820
1907—Whitney " „ $1,547
Total, $102,307
subsequent Government would f' el
that public) honesty was llnproitable,,
that there was no gratitude in the
masses of the voters, that corrupt
electoral methods and secret financial
alliances were necessary. to continu-
ance fn office, and that sharpn'essrand
crookedness constituted the science of
government in Ontario. It is there-
fore of the first importance from.
every consideration pf justice and fair
dealing, and for the great and per-
manent significance which the result
will carry, that Mr. Whitney should
be strongly supported, and that the
Government's victory should be abso-
lutely decisive.
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..
—The grants which aid the people
in building roads, in supporting their
schools, in providing for the sick and
i in municipal
the poor, and in reducing g p
taxation, have been increased thus.
since the Whitney Government took
office :
From railway taxes Nothing to $81,517
From license fees $928,781 389,579
For the schools 286,815 915,881
For roads 97,0.91 115, 09
For colonization roads 166,532 335,155
For hospitals and charities235,966 385,713
Total grants $1,015,128 $1,923,824
Difference $908,696
The Whitney Goyernment has re-
turned to the people $908,000 more per
annual than the late Government did,
so no wonder the Opposition can talk
about increased expenditure.
—Speaking of Premier Whitney, the
, Montreal Gazette says :—"He has
given.the people three years of decent
administration, marred by no gross
scandals and little weakened by mis-
takes, He has been courageous in his
dealing with public matters, and has
not sought to dodge unpleasant issues
nor to speak words of two meanings,
when threatened by men who boasted
they carried 'votes' rot d in their
mental gripsacks. He teas also as
Ministerial colleagues men of respec-
tability and strength, and in Messrs.
Foy and Hanna especially, two aides
whose capacity is making them
known outside of their own province,
and gaining them a place_among the
notable public men of Canada."
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J. 9, MoLEAN
—Enquiries -have*been made as to
the qualifications required for regis-
tration as a voter under the Manhood
Suffrage Act. The Statute says that
every male person of the full age of 21
years and a British subject, not dis-
qualified from voting under the Ont-
ario Election Act or,otherwise prohib-
ited by law from v6ting, is entitled to
have his name entered on the List.
There is a proviso in regardeto resi-
dence. The applicant for registration
must have resided in Canada for
twelve months preceding the day on
wl-ich the first sitting of the Registra-
tion Court is held; he must have lived
three months prior to the first day of
registration in the municipality on
whose list he seeks to be inscribed,
and in case of a city divided into sev-
eral electoral districts, he must have
been domiciled for thirty day's prior
to the first sitting of the court in the
constituency in which he wishes to
vote.
.„
—The shorter the campaign, the
better for Mr. McKay, the Liberal.
From every platform form ie makes
prac-
tically the same attack, and the audi-
ences who listen to it are not more
tired .of ii than he is lzimnglf, It is,
however, the best he can do. Not
that Mr. McKay is an antagonist
without energy or resourcefulness, put
he, is disabled by his political past.
He was a member of the old currupt
administration. 11e winked at all
their misdeeds ; ho condoned all the
ballot outrages ; he was part and par-
cel of the rotten affair, and though he
may be clever, he can never lift his
party. His own election was corrupt,
and he was unseated, and afterwards
got in by four little crosses made on
ballots after the election was over.
Be he ever so clever a speaker, he is
up against the good, clean record
of the Whitney Government. The
Globe referred to the bad men of the
Ross outfit, as "barnacles" that ought
to be scraped off. Whitney has scrap-
ed them off. Graft has vanished,
There will now be no finding out how
this man voted, and punish him for it,
for the numbered ballot has gone.
Cap. Sullivan is out of business, and
Ontario electors can vote with the
assurance that their ballots will be
counted as they intended them to be,
without being switched or spoiled
with pencils under the thumb nail of
any official. No Minnie M. trips will
disgrace this election.
—It is no wonder that the expendi-
ture of this Dominion is 'increasing at
such a rapid rate. Both the people
and the Government are to blame, in
many cases. The people demand it,
and Government fears to resist the
pressure brought upon them. Many
of these expenditures might be avoid-
ed, and ought to be refused. Take
Huron county alone, and a recent
return brought down in the Commons
shows, that in the last eleven years
$14,217 has been expended on the Bay-
field harbor, $28,053 at Grand Bend
and $15,701 at St. Joseph, all on Lake
Huron. St. Joseph is well remembered
as the point at which N. M. Cantin
`proposed to create a city, a scheme
which ultimately came to nought, for
the reason that the location of St.
Joseph ,posses'sed no advantages to
make it a city, although nearly
$10,000 was expended there. The
money was thrown away, and never
should have been spent there.
—In its management of elections,
the Government has been beyond re-
proach. There was a bye -election in
Kingston, but the Government would
make no attempt to commercialize the
constituency. At Hamilton the other
day Mr. Whitney made the blunt deo
-
laration that the ,attitude of the Ad-
ministration towards the city would
not be favorably affected by the elec-
tion of Conservative candidates, nor
unfavorably influenced by election of
Liberal candidates. This looks to the
,practical politician of the ~familiar
type like sheer stupidity. It is, how-
ever, just simple honesty rooted in
simple decenoy. There has been no
systematic organization, as in other
days, for the direct bribery of electors.
The numbered ballot has been abolish-
ed. The ballot boxes have not been
rifled by corrupt agents of Govern-
ment. There have been no secret alli-
ances with corporations. There has
been no improper bargaining with fin-
ancial interests,
* 0
—The Whitney Go'verninetit has
been remarkably faithful to the inter-
ests of Ontario. It is not preteiided
k s or that
id mists e
that it has made ,
all of its legislation is finally perfect.
But it has hot been corrupt, it has not
been servile, and it has not been a
mere lnetrlitnent of party. Xf such a
Government should be defeated, any
A FEW POINTS.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.
While the Ontario Government has
been able to ,give more money for the
municipalities, it has also begun the
reduction of the debt. The liabilities
On account of railway subsidies, which
stood at $0,718,057 when the Ross Gov-
ernment
overnmont went out, have been reduced
by $223,700 per annum. The result is
the following showing;
1904 debt
1908 debt
0,713.057
0,042,475
Reduction $071,280
At the same time there has been an
annual surplus. The comparison of
revenue, with expenditure, under the
Whitney regime, is as follows
Revenue Expeud'ro Surp'us
100,rr
010 $020,160
.$0,010,170. 539 0
1900 7,149,478 0,7.20,170 429,220
1007 8,320,419 7,714,245 000,171
^
Three years' surplus $1,055,503
After increasing the expenditures
upon education, agriculture, roads,
and charities by over a million, and
wiping out $071,280 of the public debt,
the Government has a cash surplus of
$1,055,563,
A notable feature of the policy of
the Governinent has been its effort o fort to
reduce municipal taxation by allowing
the municipalities to derive larger
grants from the provincial chest. In
conformity with this idea the people
have been given a share of the taxa-
tion laid upon railway companies and
a larger share of the revenue from
licenses. More liberal grants have
been made to schools, to roads, and to
hospitals and charities.
Here are a feel 'indispensable FACTS,
for the independent, fair-minded elec-
tor to ponder over :—
A. G. McKay and the Ross Govern-
ment gave 525,000 acres, of Ontario
land to the Grand Trunk Pacific, for
nothing. Mr, Whitney recovered all
that for the people of Ontario.
Mr. McKay and the Ross adminis-
tration gave away pulp limits to To-
ronto lawyers. Whitney took them
back and one of those limits has been
sold for $300,000, and the money de-
voted to the best interests of the peo-
ple of Ontario.
A. G. McKay sold Peterson Lake
for $750. The Whitney Government
sold Cobalt Lake (34 acres) for over
one million dollars, or ($1,085,000) and
expended it in educational and other
purposes.
The highest price A. G.' 111cKay
could get for timber, when he was a
member of theJ oss Government was
$31,500 per square mile. Mr. Whit-
ney has been able to secure $00,000 per
square mile. -
Not only did the Whitney Govern-
ment secure $1,085,000 for Cobalt
Lake, but they got $172,000 for Kerr
Lake and a ten per cent royalty on
the silver mined. Besides, the right-
of-way on the T. & 0. railway and Co-
balt town site brought in during 1900
and 1407, $201,042.46.
The Whitney Government secured
these large sums for the people, by
businesslike ' administration. Under
the—old regime, they were given to
favorites of the Government.
Why vote against a Government
that has done so much to conserve the
resources of Ontario for the people?
A GOOD TIME TO STAY
(Live Stock World.)
Getting out of the hog business at
this juncture will prole poor policy.
It is the logical time to stay in.
Tho average producer with a pen-
chant for jumping out when prices are
low and getting in on ever boom,
invariably misses the mark at which
he shoots.
"Jim" Hill, the railroad magnate,
owes much of his success to reversing
the methods of the average railroad
developer. It took nerve to do it, but
results count and Hill can show
them.
Hill built across the continent dur-
ing a period of financial and com-
mercial stagnation. Wise ones pre-
dicted. that he was headed toward
bankruptcy, but he had peered into
the future and realized that the road
he was building would be taxed to its
fall capacity when prosperity in its
turn, came along.
He built that 'road 40 per cent.
cheaper than if construction had been
delayed five years, and had it ready
for operation When it was needed.
The Man who 'sticks to the hog -
breeding proposition now will haat°
porkers to market at good prices
when the fickle ones are deploring
their bad Irick which diverted ever.
gies in other channels. They are the
will -of -the -wisp chasers.
The people of this country will eon -
sumo more hog product next year
than this, Some will quit breeding
and an over -supply is impossible.
Stick to the game, use only good
breeding stock, house and treat your
herd intelligently and yon will not
regret 1t,
—Tile Windsor Record is a staunch
Liberal newspaper. Yet this is the
kind compliment it pays the Whitney
School policy :—
Mr. Whitney's remarks on Public
School education in his Hamilton
speech were sound. For many
years the Record has maintained,
as the premier does now, that the
Public School should be treated as
Public School, and not as a link in
any ' fanciful educational chain
such as was woven by Mr. Ross.
The Public School to reach its
highest usefulness, must be treat-
ed as a self-contained entity and
only incidentally a feeder for the
schools above. This the Whitney
Government apparently has reali-
zed and ,seeins to be making an
honest endeavor to give the school
where 95 per cent. of all pupils
begin and end their scholastic
training its proper educational
importance and place.
These remarks from a Liberal paper,
show that the school policy of the
Government has been a good one.
Even Mr. McKay has practically ceas-
ed denouncing it, for he has found
that many of his own followers
approve of the Public School being
improved as far as possible.
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Toronto, marked "Tenders for .Coal,"
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Tenders will be received for the whole
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