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WINGHAM BRANCH TIN1lllilil llile111 1110911111i1101111111111111101111111MM111 f111111111111NMlrl flfilflallilil f11 11'I tlf01111111111C. part of the town. 1 GEORGE SPOTTQ;N SPEAKS ON BUDGET (Continued from Page 2) the bulwark of the nation, are not as prosperous as they were. Recent- ly a millionaire in the city of ^ Toronto gave a million dollars to a charitable institution. God bless him. But right in his own company - there are. single men earning only from $12 to $16 a, week, and married men earning only from $18 to $20 a week, The inillionaire is more prosperous; but what about these men who are work- ing ie Iris institution? A few years ago a widow. showed me a letter she had received from the Torontb General Trusts Corporation, one of the best trust companies in the land—they always do what they say thej^ will do, and do it on the minute. I am simply using this as an illustration: They told her: Mon- ey is not ;worth as much as it was,;, and we cannot pay you 5el per cent. If you care to leave it with us we will pay you 5?: per cent. Periodically she received, similar letters until her interest had dwindled down to 5 per cent.. In contrast to this, out comes a financial statenient that the Toronto General Trusts Corporation have had WXNGlA,l4IADVANP;-`rIM�� Take nay silver end, nay gold, Not a mite will 1 withhold, The Minister' of Finance last year, pointing his finger over this way, said that we were asking for every- thing and at the same time were de- manding that expenditures- be kept down. I wish to ask him to -night to leave me out of that, because the whole bunch of thein carne over to our part,of the country, offering the People everything they had, But when they came back here they plac- ed. just $745,000 in the estimates for a matter of such importance as God- erich harbour, and later on they add- ed $100,000 in the supplementary es- timates. ates. That' -made $175,000, But they only spent $85,000. When the hon. member for Victoria was speak- ing the other night he said he ex- pected to go back, with $546,000 ac- cording to the promises that had been made to the people of his constituen cy, but he was afraid he . would have to accept $46,000.. Then Hansard re- ports: . Mr. S,potton: And see that iE is expenddd. Mr. Plunkett: Surely they always spend it, Mr. Spotton: No, .they do not. 'Mr. Elliott: That is a suggestion for the riding of North Huron. thebest y`ea'r in their history. Tice I should like to ask the Minister of hundred men or so who control the 'Public Works to explain to the house company are prosperous; but the fifty 1 some time just what was in the back thousand men and women who have of his head when he made that re - their money invested with .;the cot- manic. I thought that perhaps he was poration have less 'to • live on, and joking, but after he had had a night's their dollar does not go as far as it sleep he was still in an ugly frame of used to. I ask you, sir, where is the : mind. I will not go into details, Mr: much -vaunted prosperity? ' But 1 Speaker, but at anyrate I left the must not dwe11 further along this city .fpr a couple of clays. But I litre: would` ask the minister to 'explain I wish to say, Mr. Speaker, that what he meant by that statement. Is township councils, the women's insti- this the type of government we have totes, the churches, the United Far- - t to -day in Canada, that no member rncrs' Clubs of my eonstittiency have shall dare to suggest that the govern - been *urging upon me to ask this anent spend the whole of an estimate government to get out of the rum- without having the threat thrown out running business. I trust I shall be that the expenditure will be reduced, understood. They plead with the with the result that particular public government of Canada to get out of works in his constituency shall suf- the rum -running business. Either we fer? Let me say that in this house, are in it or we are not. For the sake sneaking in 1896, the late M, C. Cam - of a few millions of ill-gotten dollars eron made the statement in Hansard, it is -painful to read the incidents of -I have not the time to read it—that the rum -running business which re- in 1872 he, a Liberal member, had cently have appeared in the press. persuaded 'Sir John Macdonald to ap- Only to -day I noticed in a newspaper point/ a commission to go up . at,d that fourteen ruin-rurtners from Can- down that 160 miles of coast line, tak- ada landed a cargo at Atlantic City ing evidence • and looking into the worth a quarter of a million dollars. whole situation. The result was that We in the riding of North Huron, they decided that .Goderich was the Sir, •wish, to dissociate ourselves from only harbour of refuge from Sarnia such a business, and we call upon the to Tobermory. With `a conservative government to implement the recotn- government in power, and a Liberal nicndations which were made by the _a Liberal mark you, Mr. Minister royal commission that investigated of Public Weiks ci atilitioUsly repre- the customs! In my county we are senting from Confederation` to that prepared to go further, and at any date, 1896, the riding in which God - time vote for the prohibition of the erich is situated, an expenditure had importation or manufacture or sale been undertaken of $600,000 on that of alcoholic liquors. In this, Sir, I harbour. It was and isa, national am speaking only for my county and port. They handled 20,000,000 bush - myself but I am speaking for myself. els of grain this year and, as, I say, I wish to address a few remarks to it is the only harbour of refuge on the Minister of Public Works (Mr. thegreat lakes. But because I coni - Elliott)" -whoth I ani glad to see 'in mitted the indescretion of advising his seat. The other night when the the member for Victoria to see that hon. member for Victoria (Mr. Plain- the government •expend the money keit) . was speaking about the proe voted, then a threat is made, 1 should irises which members of this cabinet be pleased if the minister would as - made during . that by-election it sure ane that he was only joking; I sounded so much like `,`Horne Sweet shall have another occasion to ' i Home" to ane. that I: guess I looked justice to this great harbour, which pleased. And that displeased the this winter• accotnodated twenty-twc Minister of Public Works, so that in vessels carrying five and three .quar- his mind I have been guilty ofa great ter million bushels of grain. indescrction. When the hon. member I should like to Have said some - for Victoria told how the Minister of thing in regard to the mail service Trade and Commerce was going to but the minister is not in his seat. I subsidize shipping, and what trade he shall leave it for another occasion, was going to establish, the Minister However, let inc give one illustration of Finance said he was returning con of economy on the part of the •Post- vinced that Victoria needed special master General • (Mr. Veniot). The consideration. And this ii what the ,;Postmaster General, has shown con people of Victoria were told by the siderable human sympathy in my con.. Minister of Trade and Commerce: stituency and has done several things In succeeding Dr. Toltnie as for me for which I am grateful, But your representative at Ottawa, consider this incident, of a rural mail Dr. McLean will possess the add- " carrier in the village of Auburn. Let. ed advantage of supporting the us say the post office was where the government in power, an advan- Minister of Public Works sits. A dis tage so obvious that' I do not tance of thirty-nine rods and, a frac- need to labour it to an intelligent tion was involved, and the department audience. sent a highly paid inspector there to Let me assure hon, gentlemen op- measure that distance. Ile found it posite that they mistake the intelli- to be thirty-nine rods and so they,: e myau ;cn c of audience when cabinet docl,:eel' the luau $10.4$ a year• Yet ministers 'go about in by-elections this government is the friend of the promising the people',everything and working man. think they can bribe people with their This friendof the farmer -hes also own' money.Sir, they were up shown its interest in agriculture. In around our harbour, and the moment 1912 the late governinent put aside the Minister of Finance landed some-' $10,000,000 for agricultural instruction where in Quebec they rushed him on net, the different provinces. Mr pro the first train just to prove that what wince was to receive $336,303.26 per the rest were saying was all right. -Invent, and with the grant they got The, Minister of Public Works, the they built the Keinptville agricultural Minister' of Trade and Cornmerce college, and undertook to secure agri- (Mr. Maleolm), the Solicitor General cultural representatives in the. various (Mr, Cannon), the' l+.linister of Lee counties. In this regard I have a btiur---I will not take the time to -Statement which I will ask the privi- moution the rest—Were all there, and ' ege of putting on Hansard. It shows along cattle the Minister of Finance, how the grant was apportioned in 1 think I' see him on the platform in Qatari Ile surplice, with his surpliced. mitt- :Ontairio Agricultural Coi- isterialchoir, Leading the choir, with lege--Salaries and ex- the treasury of Canada in one hand 'eases ,..,. ...,.,..y$ 9,000 00 and the credit of Canada iii the oth- Agricultural School and er, he led in the song.. . Farm—(a) Capital ex - 'Were the whole realm of Nature pendtttre ..,.,...$3,000 mine, (b) Administrative and Char were an offering fat too teaching staff, and small, maintenance and equip - anent •,. . ,.,49,000 52,00 00-) Instruction and Demon- stratiot — ,Agricultnral representatives 136,000 00 Extension work in house- hold science 1.500 00 Deinoestratio,ns in veget- able growing Cooperation and markets 6,000 00 Short courses for winners of field and crop and live stock competitions incl - tiding travelling and liv- ing expenses • 1,000 00 Lectures on horticulture . 750 00' Demonstration work on soils 4,000 04 9,500 00 Drainage work • 4,751• b7 Fall fair and field crop judges Demonstrations in live stock .and poultry 3,500 00 Elementary Agricultural Education -To provide for and encourage the teaching of agriculture in high and 'public schools24,000 00 2,000 00 $254,001 57 But when this gqvernment came .in- to power they did not know what to do. Their love for the farmer was great, but it is great onlyduring el; ection; and this money which was h„ - tended to assist in agricultural edu- cation they could not continue grant- ing. They put up the sum of $200,000 for one year, and the minister said that they were going to bring in a resolution at the next session either to improve' or to extend the system, or just to leave it as it was. How- ever, the upshot of the matter was that the vote was cut off entirely, as, were federal aid to the farmers , for good roads and federal aid to the far mors' sons for technical education in my province of Ontario. The form- er administration had granted over $1,000,000 a year to my province to. assist in agricultural education, to 'en courage good roads and to assist in. And the hilltop gardens yield this fragrant tea TEA esh trent the' gardens 516 technical education. They continued it during the war, but this government rudely' cut it off. Now I should like to devote a few moments to the sales tax. 1 think a Mistake was made when the title of "doctor” was conferred upon the Min- ister of Agriculture (Mr. Motherwell) instead of the Minister of Finance, When this government came into of- fice they found, the sales tax at 3 per cent.; they forthwith raised it to 5 per cent. and then to 6 per cent. The consumer was carrying a bag on his back with three stones in it; this gov- ernment placed three more stones in the bag and then each year took out lone stone and said "What good fel- flows. are we." They got into the ele- vator at the third floor; they went :ip, Ito the sixthfloor and then returned to the third, but in the meantime they extracted hundred of millions of dol- lars fromH he buying public, the poor- er ,class of people in this province. Time and again the patty on this side of the house pleaded with the gov- ernment to abolish that tax. They have more than abolished that tax now; when the Minister of Finance made the reduction from 6 per cent to 5 per cent he said it was a .reduc- tion of 16% per cent; when hre- duced it from 5 per cent to 4 per cent it was a reduction of 20 per cent; when he reduced it from. 4 per cent to 3 per cent. : it was a reduction of 25 per cent and now that it leas been. reduced from 3 per cent to 2 per cent there is a further reduction of 33 per cent. If we, add :those together we find that already the .sales tax has already been reduced by 115 per cent. If next year it is reduced oeie per cent more that will be another re- duction of 50 per cent, giving a total'. of 165 per cent, and a furtherone per, cent reduction in another session will enable the minister to reduce the sales tax another 100 per cent making it in all 265 per cent; but the chances are 'that he will take it all off ii one swoop before the next election, 1, commend hint to the public; figures .; cannot lie. 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