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The Brussels Post, 1898-2-25, Page 44 gig $rasstis nt. FRIDAY, FRB, 25, 1898, Wan is said to be reliable authority prediote that the old rhyme about "John Brown's body lies mouldering iu the grave" will bo changed to read "Thos. Magwood" after the let of March. Mr. Brown, the Liberal candidate, has bright prospects of carrying his banner to via - tory in North Perth, It is also expected that the old time Reform majority will be given Mr. Mosarip iu South Perth as it was lost at last election by divisions in Liberal ranks that do not now exist. HDnoN County received $4,000 from the Ontario Grvernment to aid in erecting the Honse of Refuge at Clinton. This sum would have had to be raised ander he County rate otherwise and we all think our County tax is high enough now. The Public funds have not been squandered and people who say so, without producing an iota of proof to verify their state- ment, must imagine that the eleotors are either very ignorant or incredulous. Cold cash received is an argument; rather dif- ficult to combat. THE LUMBER POLICY. found that there was not more than the usual number of men in the woods, and blab the exportation would nob be greater than in the previoue year, Act the lum- bermen were acting fairly, wbo will blame the Government for preserving a like good faith on its part also ? The licenses were issued ou a oertaiu uncler- ebanding. It would have been eo.I3ribish and uu.Canadiau, too, to have broken that understanding in the name of the people of the Province of Ontario. The Opposition is quite welcome to bo spoil. ser for a policy of bad faith and broken agreements. Timm are six Lunatio asylums ; an Idiot asylum ; an institute for the Blind and another for the Deaf; the Central Prison ; the Mercer Reformatory ; and the Reformatory for boys, all maintained by the Province. In addition there are 50 Hospitals ; 82 Houses of Refuge ; 80 Orphan asylums ; and 2 Magdalen asy- lums also under the supervision of the Government and receiving aid, $195,- 507 were disbursed last year to hospitals and charitable institutions and is a direct relief to muni- cipalities who would have to bear he expense if the Government refused to do so. No one begrudges the amount ex pended in the relief of the suffering and it is 8 feather in the cap of the Provincial Mr. Whitney has discovered another authorities that these institutions have rievanoe. It appears that the Premier been and are managed without a blot or g stain against them although the etriokeeb, has again called attention to his comma - keenest enquiry is made by the Opposi- tion with the St. Anthony Lumber Com- pany. It would be of very little interest to the people of Ontario what lumber companies the leader of the Opposition belonged to were it not that this particu- lar fact illustrates the hypocrisy of the cry against the Government that it favors American lumbermen, that it is indeed sacrificing Canadian interests for those of the Miohigan lumbermen and all the rest of the Chauvinist buncombe that is the stock in trade of the Opposition in this campaign. The argument in a nutshell is that these Michigan lumbermen are such a bad set of people that they should not even have common justice meted out to them, why should Mr. Whitney be in partnership with a set of them, and not only in partnership with them but also bear towards them the position of legal adviser ? Every sensible man in the Province of course recognizes that the outcry against the Michigan lumbermen is a very bad specimen of demagoguery, but of all those who join in it or encourage it Mr. Whitney is in the most unenviable posi- tion. He seeks to excuse himself by say- ing that he owns but one share in the oompany, and that, moreover, it does not export logs. What the number of shares has to do with the principle (although it may with the interest) it is difficult to see. If Mr.'Whitney thinks that the Government is blamable for allowing the Michigan lumbermen to be bidders at our sales of timber limite, then he shares the blame in becoming a business associate of these objectionable persons. But, says Mr. Whitney, my Michigandere never ex- ported a log in their lives. The St. not ex- port an does ombe Company Anthony y y port loge. That is true. Is this dna to superior virtue contracted through associ- ation with their Canadian partner ? It may be, but the fact that owing to the situation of their Iimits they could not export logs, no matter how willing they might be, may have something to do with it. That this is the predominating faotor may be inferred from the fact that some of the members of the St. Anthony Lum- ber Company, Mr. Whitney's partners, are possessed of limits tributary to Geor- gian Bay, and they do not hesitate to ex- port logs, and their employees are at this moment getting ready to export some when navigation opens. If one were to go no further than the speeches of the members of the Opposi- tion he would be led to think that the Government had not determined to put a stop to the exportation of logs at all• That it has done so everybody who reads the newspapers knows, and it is therefore necessary to ask what all this sound and fury about Americans and Micbigenders means. Why all this talk of a "pro - American" policy 2 The object is plain enough. Itis to make the electorate be- lieve that the Government has not adopt- ed the polioy of compelling the sawing of all logs in the Province. Does the Oppo- sibion hope to spread this implied false- hood about in a community as intelligent as this is ? Is it not rather another proof of he feeblemindedness that pre- sides over the counsels of this forlorn band that thinks to capture this great Province by false pretences ? The Gov- ernment is quite prepared to be judged on its timber policy. It began rare ago to prohibit the exportation of logs by putting a clause to that effeob in the terms of sale and in the licensee, Tho evil grew despite these precautions, however, and promis- ing to take even greater strides owing to the Dingley tariff on lumber, the Govern - Mont at length determined to pat a more sudden stop to it. This course has been endorsed by the Opposition, and what the present stir is about may well oacaeion wonder. There is, it is true, one point tit departure between the two sides. The GloVernmepb decided to respect the Item - tee for the year 1897, Which had been toed eight menthe before, allowing the lumbermen to make any disposition of Wirt 88880&8 eta that tboy chose. Yb was bion. HURON County has not been treated with a niggardly band in the "gross nide- management of Public funds" for the past 26 years by the Liberal Government. Here are the amounts disbursed as bens. fits during the term, 1871-1896 :- 3284 778 6 739 8 090 21 060 47 880 300 464 69 515 53 259 38 848 Lunatics, Central Prison, Reformatory, Blind Institute, Deaf and Dumb Institute, Schools, Administration of Justice, Agricultural Societies, Public Libraries, THE BRUSSELS POST It ;condnots au extensive patent of Farmers' Institutes, It has established n pioneer farm iu Algoma, and published valuable inform- ation as to Ontario's resources, 18 pre• pares and publishes bulletins and reports, aggregating hundreds of thousands in the past font year's, Ib provided cheap money for tile -drainage to the farmers. ITB RECORD IN CONNECTION tt'I'r1t ''INE DEPART' BIENT OF CROWN LANDS, It has surveyed 315 townships, of whish 161 aro free grants and 43 sale townships. It has located 26,000 persons, equal to a population of 105,000, in Free Grant townships. It has collected on account of public lands, since 1870, 34,275,561. It has sold 4,893 milds of timber limits for $5,066.790, Bonus, say, 31,222 per mils, just for the right bo out, still retain• ing the land. Dues, 31.25 per 1,000 feet ; ground rout, 33 per s. m, It has collected for bonuses, timber dues and ground rent since 1872, 320,- 253,770. It bas created two Provincial parks— the Algonquin and he Rondeau,. It has built 4325 miles, and repaired 10,747 miles of colonization roads, and built ei miles of bridges in the MN Northern districts. It loosspeut on roads and bridges in the new districts nearly 53,000,000. It has established a Bureau of Mines and passed an advauaed mining law, and made provision for exploration with diamond drills and for Summer mining schools. It has encouraged iron mining and steel and iron manufacture. It has examined and granted licenses to 654 cullers of timber. It has established a forestry , branch and taken steps towards further forest preserve tion. Total 5830 142 In the above the oddcents have bean dropped off each amount for the salve of brevity. The figures opposite the various Public Institutions show the cost con- nected with the inmates sent from Huron. To this 5830,000 musbbeadded the grants to railways and the disbursements to numerous Municipalities from Land Im- provement Funds. Grey township lifted their whole railway debt from the latter fund and if we are not mistaken Morris township did likewise. Who would have bad to pay these sums if the government had not ? The people of Huron undoubt- edly. NExT Tuesday will be an eventful day in Ontario. Every man should do his duty in the exercise of his franchise and it should be done willingly. No elector with the interests of this grand Province at heart should require any urging as to the necessity of expressing his opinion as to which party is the more likely to ad - vane the interests of Ontario for the nest parliamentary term. The record of Liberal rule for 26 years is before yon and for want of better comparison we must put alongside the Conservative reign at Ottawa, the independent, intelligent elec. tors are the jury that must render the verdict. Have Messrs. Hardy, Ross, Dryden, Harcourt, Gibson, Davis, ,&o., been true to the trust reposed in them in the past ? Were the election odes of the Opposition in former eleotions simply fables or why are they not presented in this campaign ? The "Ross" Bible is still in use ; the Roman Catholic ministry is still treated as formerly ; the oalf with the cough got better and of course that plank had to be removed from bhe plat. form but the Humber hog was substituted and if there were any good and sufficient reasons why these questions formed the frontispiece in past campaigns why sepulchre them in 1898 ? Reoord of the Government, In Now York State a man assessed for $3,000 pays about 53 a year to support asylums. Iu Ontario the Liberal Govern- meut call its"squouderiug the country's roays thet, and osition organs au- res " '1'h, Liberals have increased the am- ount spout on .Agriculture in Ontario from 570,000 in 1672 to 5048,000 in 1897. One rssuib of the attention devoted by ths olovsnotosit to 181, impertanb source of Ontario's wealth is scam ru the greatly increased value of dairy and farm pro- ducts. A Government that is careful to look after the farmers' interests, in every poseibio way, is entitled to the farmers' support. The Conservative press is fond of quot- ing Sir Oliver Mowab's statement in 1886 that the occasion (then existing) was one in which there should be a Government in Ontario independent of the Govern• meat at Ottawa. And it was a wise state- ment at a time when he Government at Ottawa was trying to rob Ontario of her territory, timber and minerals. But that is no reason why those who would have plundered Ontario then should be put in power naw. Since Confederation, Ontario has spent over ten million dollars on public works and buildings, paid out of revenue, and has a surplus left of five millions. There is no debt beyond that incurred in aiding raihveys and which is being annually re-. domed, as it falls due, out of revenue. No other State or Province can compare with its record. It is the result of careful and honest management of its resources dur- ing a quarter of a century of Liberal rule. Suppose the Conservative party had won the Outario elections in, say 1879, and the same kind of corruption and mis- rule had prevailed at Toronto, as actually did prevail, under Conservative rule at Ottawa. Instead of a surplus we would have a debt. Instead of valuable timber possessions with a large income annually,. these lands world have been given away to political friends for next -to nothing. Instead of valuable timber and mineral lands in the North, the Province would have been out half its present size and alt this valuable and revenue producing section lost to us. Can we afford to place he Conservative party in power on its record ? IT8 RECORD A8 TO EDUCATION. It has expended 314,500,000 during 20 years on education. It put the Department of Education under the direct and responsible control of a Minister of the Crown (a course ap• proved by the late Dr. yersou, the Superintendent of Council of Publio In- struction). Quebec now proposes a similar change. It effected a useful and important con- solidation of the Provincial school laws. It has improved the school system on 50 distinct lines, making it the most com- plete and effective of any similar system in he world. It has done muoh to further Higher Education iu the colleges and nniversi- ties. • It has established a School of Practical Science, County Model Sobools, Training Institutes, a Normal College, Art Schools, Teachers' Associations and Mechanics' Institutes, ,&c. It has dealt satisfactorily with the French and German schools. Ont of every 56 spent by the Govern- ment, 51 goes for educational purposes. It has reduced the text books from a number in different branches of study to one in each branch of study and material- ly reduced the cost of text books. The Education Departmea took the only prize at the World's Fair for a oom- plate system of education ; for text books and the method of preparing them. ITS RECORD AS TO PROVINCIAL RIGHTS. It has established the legislative rights of the Province, after a series of appeals to the Privy Council, in the following cases :— The Insurance Csse. The Escheats Case. The Rivers and Streams case. The act as to Assignments and Pref- anco by Insolvents. The Liquor License Case. The Boundary Award. The Indian Titles Case. The Queen's Counsel Case. The Taxation of Brewers and Distil - bars. ITS RECORD AS TO PUDLIO wMRIIS AND BMW/. ING8. It has expended $9,855,098 on Public) Works and Buildings (including 31,300,- 000 1,300;000 for construction of naw Parliament Buildings) since 1872. It has expended nearly 33,600,000 on the erection and improvement of Asylums for the Insane and Idiotic. It has expended nearly 5425,000 on the erection and improvement of Institutes for the Blind and Deaf. It has expended nearly $800,000 for the erection and improvement of Educational Buildings. ITS RECORD AS TO THE AARILIRB, It has created a Department of Agri- culture with a suocessful farmer as Minister. It has spent 5988,580 in the interests of agriculture in the past four years, 1894-'97. It has Spent 54,920,500 (including ex• penditure on capital account) for the same purpose in the past 26 years, 1872- '97. It has handed over 51,684,761 to he various Agricultural Societies for the farmers. It has handed over 5488,070 to other Societies in 22 years to be expended by its members. It has carried on the most successful Agricultural College in America for 26 years, It has conducted the most extensive work in field experiments in America et Guelph. It has now in operation three success- ful dairy sohool,, at Guelph, Kingston and Strathroy. It sent travelling dairies throughout the Province for six years in sueeesaion. It has established fruit experiment statlone at 12 points ab little expense. It has giveu practical instruobions to the farmers in fruit spraying for the past three years. It has energetically taken bold of the he Tobe rotilosis e to and t OBe a a San d quos tion. It has established a live Good Roads branch with marked stmcess. It collects and Oubliettes accurate farm, muuioipal and other statistics, POLITICAL POINTERS. Morris Council Meeting. FEB. 25, 18PS The o Great Principles le The Council met pursuant to adjourn• meat in the Town Hall on Feb. 14th. Members all present, the Reeve in the chair. Minutes of lash meeting read and confirmed. Tenders for the Township printing were received and the tender of the Blyth Standard found to be the low- est. Moved by Cardiff,, seconded by Code, that the bender of the Standard, to do the work outlined for the sum of $20, be accepted.—Carried. A. petition signed by 48 ratepayers asking that the dog tax be abolished was presented, and on motion of Cardiff and Kirkby the prayer of said petition was granted. The Audi- tors' report was presented and examined by the Council. Moved by Isbister, seconded by Kirkby, that said report be adopted.—Carried. Moved by Cardiff, seoonded by Code, that the Clerk be in- structed to correspond with he Clerk of Turnberry asking them to appoint a de- putation to meet a deputation from this Council re settlement of B. line expendi- ture.—Carried. Moved by Code, second- ed by Kirkby, that the Reeve and Mr. Isbister be appointed to meet a depute- tion from the Turnberry Council as above mentioned.—Carried. On motion of Kirkby and Cardiff Bylaws No. 3 and 4 were duly read and passed. On motion of Kirkby and Code the following ao. counts were ordered to be paid :—Blyh Standard, advertising Court of Revision, 75 Dente ; Treasurer Bluevals sohool, balance Municipal grant, 53136 ; Goo, Kirkby, expenses and olothing for H. Hammond going to House of Refuge, 55.- 42 ; Howiok Insurance Go., assessment on Hall, 90 cents ; Auditors each, salary, 38.00; Municipal or ld, marriage regi- sters, e i- ers, 3.00'; T. S. Brandon, salary, 5100 ; Treasurer of Blyth Hall, rent for Div. Court, 57.50 ; Treasurer of Brussele Hall, rent for Div. Court, 36.00, On motion of Isbister and Cardiff the Council then ad- journed to meet again on the 21st March next. W. OLADx, Clerk. In 23 years the Liberals of Ontario have spent about 390,000,000, but not one dollar for corrupt purposes. In 1871 John Saudfleld Macdonald granted 376,000 in aid of agriculture ; in 1896 the Liberal Government aided agri• culture to the extent of 5192,000. The Toronto World asserts that the appointment of a Municipal Auditor by the Ontario Government, mood the municipalities in the first year of his ap- pointment, 3100,000. Yet the Opposition opposed the appointment. Ninety per Dent of the students wbo at. tend the Agricultural College return to the farm after taking their course, better qualified than over to be enooessful farmers. This is a tribute to the wisdom of a Liberal government. In the last year of the Saudfleld Mac- donald Administration ha granted for education 3351,000 ; in 1896 the Liberal Government grants& 5702,000. By. leas, ing the people to raise the balance rn tax. es the Government might have added 3351,000 to the surplus. The Saudiield Macdonald Government sold timber at an average of $260.41 a mile ; the Liberal Government realized 51,221.67 a mile, besides a greatly in- creased rental and per M, rate. The money thus obtained saves the people from higher mu010111al taxation. In 1895 the Ontario Government grant- ed to he aid the cause of education in the province $693,042. In the same year QProvince had notrant was paid the temoun 1 2a 0. f the he people would have been taxed locally for it. While the dispute as to Boundaries of Ontario was pending the Conservatives ab Ottawa parcelled out among thole friends and bangers on about two million sores of timber lands, mostly in parcels of fifty square miles each and without compedh tion or bonus. But for the long and as. terminad fight made by the Liberals of Ontario, all this wealth would have been absolutely lost to the Province, A Con• man an 8a 81801 0118100 ti ober 10e last 144. . THE . . Prince Albert Route is the Shortest, Cheapest and Safest TO THE SLUM IOU EMS. That govern the buying and selling of merchandise in this sture : Tt' supply every demand of the season, and to close out all odds and ends wham the season's business is over. J FREE PAMPHLETS WITH MAPS sent on application to the Secretary, Prince Albert Board of Tracie, Prince Albert, Saskatche- wan, Canada. VE YOU 0t 00 We're "Cleaning" up in all departments and if you come you'll fin( many odd lines at Special Prices. At 20e per yard -4 pieces 44 inch Amazon cloth in Black, Brown, Navy and Greon, worth of regula! price 30c. At 13?c per yard -2 pieces 42 inch Fancy Plaid Dress Goods, regular price 20c. At 20c per yard -8 pieces 42 inch Pure Wool Dress Serge in all shades, worth regular 35c. At 15c per yard -5 pieces 40 inch Heavy Melton Dress Goods, in Brown, Grey, Navy and BLsck, rep lar price 20c. At Se per yard -9 pieces 20 inch Melton Cloth in Brown, Black and Grey, worth regular 10c per yard At 85e per yard -2 pieces 40 inch Pure Wool Dress Tweed, regular price 60c. At 15c per yard -4 pieces 40 inch Tweed Dress Goods in Light Shades, worth regular 25c. At 89c per yard -3 pieces Fine and Heavy Beaver Mantling, in Brown, Navy and Black, wort; regular $1.25. At 750 per yard -2 pieces Golf cloth, suitable for heavy capes, worth $1,25. At 350 per yard -5 pieces Pure Wool Tweed, good patterns, worth regular 60c. 2 Balls for 5c-100 Balls Colored Knitting Cotton, were 5c per Ball. At 15o per yard -1 piece 60 inch Table Linen, worth 25c. At 110 per yard -5 pieces 25 inch Grey Flannel, in Plain and Twilled, Light and Dark Colors, regu lar price 156. At 37ic each -2 dozen Mens' Pure Wool Shirts and Drawers, well. worth 500 each. At 5c per yard -10 pieces Heavy Factory Cotton, would be good value at 6c. At 4c per yard -12 pieces Colored Embroidery, were 106, 15c, 20c and 250 regular. At 10c each -3 dozen Ladies' Ribbed Vests, high neck, long sleeves, were good value at 15e each. At 15c each -4 dozen Ladies' Vests, heavy weight, high neck, long sleeves, regular price 20c. At 12c each -1 dozen Ladies' Colored Cashmere Gauntlet Cuff Gloves, were 250. New Prints, Embroideries and Laces. Looked in our Show Window Lately ? Halm you read my Advertisement ? Have you glanced in our store to Bee the New Dress Goods, Now Trimmings, New Prints, New Silk and Cotton Lases, New Gloves, New Parasols, Now Shirtings, New Cottonades 2 Everything New for Spring. In the Wary Department Yon will find everything Fresh in Canned Goods and at old Prices. Tests and Coffees a Specialty. Agent for Parker's Dye Works. J. G. Skene. J. FE G -..JS Dry Goods and Groceries.' P�s Bookstore SPECIAL BARG-AIN S IN SCHOOL SCRIBBLERS. Writing Paper, Writing Pads and Envelopes Always in Stook, Posi Booktore. MONEYV ED is MONEY GAINED HENCE BY DEALING ,VITH llto .r .urnbull. You are well served and gain money. B st Makcseoff the Cook, Parlor and. Coal Stoves That Cannot be Beaten Large Assortment of Lamps and Lamp Goods, Lanterns; Cutlery and Graniteware. We make a specialty of putting in Coal and Wood Furnaces, and Warrant Satisfaction. Stove Coal for Sale and always on hand. Special attention to Jobbing and Repairs. Wilton & Turnbull, Brussels. WRIMMIESNm:m,o. .01.s•1112 AT SND BELOW GOSTI vercoa As and Readymade Clothing For Children, Boys, Youths and Nen, Furs at and. Below Cosl•..4w Men's Muffs, Ladies' Muffs, Storm Collars, Ruffs, Scarfs and Boas. We have had a good season's trade in the above lines and are satisfied to let the balance go cheap. Wishing all a very happy and prosperous New `Tear. vr•"" rachan.