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U-vvy` out. ADVANCE No. 5 DUNLDP ST.. TUP FLOUR. :B|NDERY PROPRIETO$. ALWAYS BUY Multiply them out. A factory making 31_1 kinds f shoes cannot "LARGEST cnncuumon, MOST News--Mos"r ADS. ONE ISSUE A WEEK, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 5| -"if; tcfor d per rates [SE25 do so ,1 not any emeno fol ll VII-Ll word, ompany ACCI LOAN 2313. XRRIE NSURANCB he Lon- Q-nu:-- mt? tion in the following words: We ,-view with alarm the large increase of the public debtand the annual`expendi- ture of the Dominion u-nder the Gov- ernments in power since 1878, and we` demand the strictest economy in the administration of the Government of the country. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Mr. Mills had both promised to plunge the pruning knife into the unwarranted expenditure if they were given the opportunity. It had been freely as- serted that a saving of six million dol- lars could be a'ect,ed. Well, how much had the Laurier Government done to redeem these pledges? Lesa than no- thing ; for while the net debt in 1896, wl en the Conservatives left oice, was $258,497,432, it was now $263,956,398, an increase of $5,456,966 in two years ;' while the gross debt in 1896 was $326,- 000 000, it was now $342,692,000, "an increase of $14,692,000 ; and worse still, while the net expenditure was in` 1896 $36 94-9,142., last year-"it was $38,. 832,525 ; an increase of $1,883,383, - instead of the promised decrease. When Sir Wilfrid and his followers had denounced the expenditure, the Conservatives had asked them to point to items which they would cut down, _ and had induced them to place them- selves on record -through motions. Thus Mr. Mulock had moved,` no longer before coming into- oicethan June ` 24:tl1,`1895, that the GovernorGeneral s salary be reduced from $50,050 to $35,000 a. year. Two years `had gone by and another Governor-General had come, but the salary was still $50,000. Mr. McMu11en too had made a strong 8peech'_in support of this saving, and had also advocated a reduction in the number of ministers and their salaries, but both remained the same. The attendance at the_OonservItive rally in Orillia on Jan..18th showed that people are takingea deep interest in the course of public events, andthat -even when there is no immediate pros-r pact of an election, the Conservatives like to hear the questions of the day- diecussed. , The seating capacity of the hall was taxed by the attendance, and the large audience listened with evident 1 unagging interest to a twb hours` 3 speech from Mr. W. H. Bennett, M.P., `in which he contrasted the performances of the Liberal leadersleince they`attein- ed oice with their promises and pro- J fesaions while in opposition. The speech was a telling arraignment of the Gov- ernment s actions. V During the years the Conservatives _; were in oice nothing` had been more % frequently on the lips of the Liberal politicians than denunciation of the ex- travagant eipenditure, and that thous- 1 ends and millions more than there was need for was being taken out of the pockets of the people`. They had placed V themselves on record at their conven 11.11. Bennett, l[.P.; Reviews the Record of the Lamar amm- 4 T ment. -inhabitants, and whioli._fi's situated Another `Tory outrage that had come ' in for much abuse was the alleged waste of money on unnecessary public build- ings in ' doubtful constituencies. In May, 1892, the Liberals objected on these grounds to the erection of a building for the postal, exise, V and 5 -customs business in the town of Chat- ' ham,vwith a population of ve thousand ` six hundred and forty six, and oils. post-oice building _at Farnham, a place of over fteen hundred inhabitants, in ` the centre of a rich farming country. Speaking of this latter expenditure, 4 Mr. Mulock said that the spending of i "this money was a looting of thepublio treasury, and asked fthe Government '0 supporters to aid in stemming this tide of wastefnlness. Sir Richard Cart- wright also denounced the vote in no ' measured terms. Lat year the Liberal Government passed a resolution to spend $15,000 ona post-oice at Liver-. -pool, a place of only two thousand four V hundred and sixty-ve inhabitants, in Finance Minister ..Fielding s county, and another to erect a post-oloelat .a_ `cost of $108,000 at Ke_ntville,'_ where` there are two thousand sve . hundred;- the riding represented-_ Minister of Militia. were being and Sir Riohar-_"4sa tiiii ` This Liberal _; _ leuma Liberal Penormanes Vs. Liberal Professions fnnni _` 2, ' h - of{F_shruary,- 1896, bill _:_ma`kingfit_. V forge, membsra'.ojthe` House `ogmmonsjto 'i6eepti'. iaivernment .iif-fv ace until ;. eemia ~-period had` elapsed ; . the-]H_ouse,_and insnpporting this man sure used the following `strong langu- age: __If the Government of the day, can dangle public oices before` their followers and induce a" few, and perhaps an increasing number, to `aspire to those `positions, they become more parasites upon the administration . . ., . . . L .Not only do that, Sir, but movingamong their colleagues they become as it were ranks, and so a small percentage of persons in that position are `likely to impair the independence of the whole body. V So it hashecome ih my opinion a very crying abuse. and parliament is cast down from its high position, and not only is the will of the people inter- tered with, but all through the country the electorate noticing` these things are coming to the` conclusion that the highest aim a man can have in seeking public life is that he may through par- liament nd his `way into a comfort- able position for life. But in the two and-a-half years during which the Lib- eral party had been inoice Mr. Ben- nett was able to point to this formid- able list of members of Parliament appointed to oice ; F. G. Forbes. M P. ; Joseph Lavergne, M.P.; P. A. Cho quette,.M.P., F. Langelier, M P., and Jas. Lister, M.P., appointed to judge- ships; F. Bechard, M.P.; Geo. King, M.P.; J. B. Fiset, M. P., and John Yeo, M.P given Senatorships ; C. Devlin, M.P., made an Irish emigrant agent; Senator McLel'lan made Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick; M. 0. Cameron, M.P.,_ Lieutenant-Governor, of the Northwe-stgg Senator Sir Oliver Mowat, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario; and Senator Molnnes, Lieutenant-Gov-V ernor of British Columbia. Several of these appointments were _ particularly iniquitous, the oices being given to secure constituencies for members of the Government who were not in the House. since he to`be.;a member of A corrupting agencies amongst their own . This led Mr. Bennett to a considera- ti_on of the Senate lreform" proposed by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. ' The Govern- ment had found itself` thwarted" in foistin g upon-the country such infamous deals as those knownas the Drummond deal and the Yukon steal. Finding themselves hampered. by this independ- entbody the Liberal leaders had insti- tuted a crusade against the Senate, and- Sir Wilfrid had a plan of reform which wouldenable a subservient ma- jority in the Commons, obtained and held together by such methods as those alreadfdescrihed, to overcome the veto of `the seccnd chamber. Under the circumstances, it would be interesting and instructive to inquire what stamp of men the Senators of Canada were. And it would surprise many who had heard them villied and derided to be told that the Senate was made up of the very best men that Canada had produced, men of high standing and of wide reputation, men who held. or had held high positions in. the nancial world, men; who were above suspicion, and who were, most of them,\of inde- I pendentmeans. pedplg of Ohuri and bf Oxmh think grin V _ ?% Mr. `Bennett then went with con- siderable detail into the circumstances under which the Government entered into a contract with the 'Drummond Obunty Railway Company to pay $70,- 000 for_ ninety-nine years, or three per cent. on a capital of $2,287 ,000 for an inferior lumber railway a hundred and thirty-two miles lohg, which, according to the Montreal Star, had been offered - for` [$400,000, V and g which had cost to build only $1,500,000, of which 8780,- 000 had been provided by, the local and ifederal Government grants, making the [net cost to the owners only $720,000. It was further `provided in this ex- traordinary contract that the rolling. stock should be purchased at a price to be xed by the company and the min- ister. It was shown that `the earnings: _of the road were, in round gures $100,000, of which $75,000 was de- rived from `the transport ofplumber and tanbark, and that the prots were $29,- l 0.67. Tho was to__} be bought` ostensibly? for the hpurposef-oft enabling the Interc0l_onial- . to_ compete" for the . trac from 3 Montreal, -to the ; 0 um-gene; reed ru1d~befror1wnd-cl; ; We ., > `,`,I_ _.`, vn`; pofsgjn rqgsbubig ito xpoot tr`-aftbud mm. a An nnppien-Mr: to and liog enable_ `the . Iutercoloniel to enter Montreal, an arungementlvbwas entered `into with the `Grand Trunk for running powers over vthsiriroad from Ste. Rosalieto Mon- treal, a distance. of 35 miles, and-for the use of A their terminusiin the city, for which ; privilege the Government were to pay the company $140,000 for ninety-nine years, without, becoming owners of the road. as they did in the other case. The Government was also to pay `ve per cent. on behalf of all the workdone on the road, and to grant a bonus of $300,000 to the Victoria Bridge. And when Senator Cox (8. Liberal) suggested that ve per cent. was too high a rate of interest, and that it should be changed, he was told that the contract was made and signed, and must .be accepted or rejected in its entirety. A ' Q 1. . I A` the first year s, revenue. They were .i#Mr.1l3ennett dealt at some length with the Yukon Railway deal. This . was another contract entered into by the` Government without consulting Parliament, and under very suspicious circumstances.` It bore several points of resemblance to the Drummond deal. For, instance, a private company was to get a large slice of "the public do- main for nothing. ' The railway was to 3 be a more narrow gauge `tramway from Telegraph Creek to Teslin Lake, a dis tance.of only a hundred and. fty miles. The estimated cost was only`$2,850,--' 000,_ while the rst year s revenue, based on a traic of fty thousand paso sengers, at $100 `each for themselves and their. freight, was $5,000 000. V The Company, of which Messrs. Mackenzie cit Mann were the promoters, was"to have a. moriopoly for ve years, as Parliament was to be pledged not to grant a charter` toanother-road, and they could charge what rates they liked, the only- stipulation being" that after four years-the rate should be reduced by twenty-ve per cent. and at the end of seven years by another twenty-ve per cent. The line was not to be an all-Canadian line, and as the Stickeen River, up which freight would have to` pass to it, was too shallow for ocean- going vessels, it would be necessary to tranship all goods at Fort Wrangel, laying them open to be charged. duty bythe United States oicials. If the line should be extended southward to a Canadian port withinve years it was provided that Mackenzie & Mann should be allowed to build it. A good thing `truly for Messrs. Macken- sic & Mann. But not only were they to be given this monopoly, and the privilege of building a line of rail- way which would pay for itself out of made a present of an immense tract of the richest gold-bearing land that the world had ever known. ., For every mile of railway these favored individuals were to be given twenty-ve thousand acres of land in the Klondike, ` or for the hundred and -fty miles, three mil- lion seven hundred and fty thousand acres of, land. Furthermore, they were to take their pick of `the gold-bearing lands, in blocks of six by twenty-four miles, the Government to have alternate `For preventing this transfer of the wealth of the Klondike into the hands of Mackenzie and Mann, the Senate had been threatened with virtual abolition. The plebiscite was another case where the Liberal leaders had endeav- oured to humbug thepeople of Canada, and especially the temperance people. The vote had served no purpose, except to close the mouths of the advocates of prohibition and provide a fund of -$550,000 to be spent among the faith- ful.-Tbere were many Liberals and Conservatives who honestly expected better things of the Government, and thought that they would carry'out the wishes of. the people.` But when` the Liberal leaders saw that there was `a chance of a large majority for prohi- Tarte and Mr. Fitzpatrick loose in Quebec, with -the result that they frightened that ,Province.into a majority against prohibition of from seventy to ninety `thousand. which it took weeks and weeks to compile. `Then, " "though . every other province `gave majorities tor prohibition, -aggreg I ating",in..V all over ._a . hundred thousand, bition, they let Sir Henri J 017 and Mr. ' the;Goietnment.sa1d. that the majdrityw. .w'wae}5\otvi-enough,.to: fin ling-:=any'; jaotion~.'T`--"Why had they] L I " i `onsbe fo`reg hum ` , block's.` m magmas AD vmols. begging the temperance people, end laughing in their sleeves at them. was ausuney, um - .III'lcIll.~ explorer, wk discovered the Kola V mat on the banksof the Congo River in A . ca, and sut- i.'erer's from Asthma have tothank him for the discovery of a permanent cure. Clarke's` Kola Compound represents this wonderful medicinal plant in a highly concentrated form. It is a `positive cure for asthma, and has been teste in severest cases. Endorsed by- eminent physicians ' everywhere, and borne out by the testimony of the cured ones. Mr. W. R. Hume of Kam~ loops, B. 0.. a C. P. B. engineer on the Western Dlvision,. was a suerer from asthma `in its worst form for over twelve years. Nothln gave him more than 3 the merest relief unti the railway physi- cian prescribed Clarke's Kola Compound. He took two bottles and was permanently cured. It you doubt it writehim for par- ticulars of his case. Clarke's Kola Com. ound is sold by_a1l druggist. Price two nllars per bottle : three bottles, with cure guaranteed. for tlve dollars. The Griffiths 8: Macpherson Co., 121 Church street, To ronto, or Vancouver, B.C. 1. Ill til ,0 yuutr Ill ve xuarnn ee w apanen Oats:-rh Curb you get out._money_- bu over)` [on _ 2e. 50 cents at DICK. 'J.`liI8l'E'l ll every box that 1 cure. No cure. Guarantee in drugglats. 115 While in" opposition the Liberals had clamored for a reduction in the duty_ on agricultural implements ; in oice, they hadreduced the duty on coal and iron, for the benefit of the manufacturers, but the duty "on implements remains the same. Again-, they had taken the duty as American corn, with the result that a large amount of the coarse grains grown by. the Canadian farmers had been displaced, ve and a half million bushels of corn having been imported for feeding purposes last summer. Even John Charlton was forced to admit that in doing this before going to Washington they had made a mistake, because they were not now able to get anything in return in the reciprocity negotiations. ' As an evidence that the farmers were awakp to the fact that they had been duped,'. Mr. Bennett quoted the petition recently presented to the Premier from the farmers of the East- ern Townships of Quebec, in` which they expressed alarm at the large and rapid increase in the public debt, and prayed Sir Wilfrid to call _a halt, for the safety of the agricultural commnn. ity, whose farms, they armed, had fallen in value-fully one--third, and upon whom the burden of increased taxation was falling heavily, while they were in the serious plight of not being able to make more than a bare living. even by the most akilful culti- vation of their land. HAYFEVER LC} 3 word ertions What, then, was the conclusion that must be come to as aresult of a review of the record of the Government, and a comparison of the performance of the Liberal leaders with their professions ! Had they been consistent? Had they even_been honest! Had they been on _` the side of the people or on the side of 1 the men who stood to-mske millions? The answer to` these questions was writ large in their -record. And the only excuse that Sir `Wilfrid and his col- leagues could` make when "taxed with the betrayal of the trust placed-in their hands by the people of Canada, was the cry, The times are good under our rule. Yes, the times were good. For which blessing Canadians might thank heaven, and the fact that the Govern ment had not upset the National Policy, 1 as they had threatened to do. hear.) A kind Providence had, while there were short, crops abroad, blessed Canada with bountiful harvests. This with the opening up of the West, and the development of the mineral re- sources, had made money more plenti- ful. (Hear, hear.) But would times have been good, even under these favorable conditions, if the Government had treated ourcarriage and implement 4 and other factories as they had treated the binder twine industry? There they had reduced the duty, according to 'promiee.: And what` result `ii The industry. `had been, swept out of existence, and the farmer; wer-e`pa_ying larger pricesgthan ever the Yankee _ imbnopolists, , ~ (Bear, I ' IUIIII `-S'o;d-a_t `s;a;e1-:7 l-):ug'V Store. Before Canada and Canadian indus- tries theta lay a grand future under the benecent nway "of a policy which would protect and. foster home?monn- faohnres land ndtivei industrien.--'.l.`he Packet," Orillio, _ L034. -'A_|;pl;-t;)-$j .LlY_ Anvmccsonia. A _ - I6-it -'l'ho nu jaunt proves the panacea. -10! till! ailment,` which -113; bullied nomad science for --conAtnr1u.. ' wai Stanle ' tn Afl . L . discovered the exam .nt .?3.'.'; BUILDING LOT Aron SALE." ,0O0. Curio : Kola Compound is guaranteed to cure Hay Fever. All Dtnuiptl sell in . A4_- Coffins and Gaskets of all kinds in stock or made `to order. Robes`, Grape and all F uneral Requisites furnished; Orders by Telegraph `or-otherwise promptly attended to. G.` 0. 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