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PENSE, PROPRIETOR. {HE DAILY WHIG. Opiter per Orbem Dicor ---------------- ------------ BIDDING FOR POWER. About three millions and a half of dollars have heen expended on. eoloni- zation roads by the liberal govern ment, Time was when the conserva: tives insinnated that the government used this money and the road agents for election purposes, but now that the conservative leaders gre on a tour through New Ontario the progyamme bas been changed. The™Song of the leader is, "Turn out the Ross gov- ernment. Those fellows have heen too long in office. Put us in their places and we will make the money fly. You want roads and you shall have them if you help us into power." That sort of thing used to be called bribery. It is bribery still, though it is the stock-ontrade of the conservative [arty. and pretty nearly all it has to offer in 4 bid for votes. MR. WHITNEY IN TEARS. That was a very lame excuse which Mr. Whitney offered in Sault Ste. Marie for his refusal to support « the Algoma Central railway subsidy. Bé said he did not know enongh about the scheme. This he knew, however. The road was to run from the Soo to the Can adian Pacific railway, a distance of 140 miles. It was to open up a large area of country which, without it, would be inaccessible and worthless. It was to. develop the pulp-wood business and turn the mitifng lands of Michipicoten to account. The govern: ment proposed to aid the railway by a land grant only, and land that would only be made valuable by the railway. The goverhment was dealing with a man in whom it had every confidence; F. H. Clergue, and of whom Mr. Whitney bud reason to know quite as much as Mr. Ross. But what was ME. Whitney's atii- tude in the session of 190? One of stormy hostility to the scheme and the man. behind it. What are his words to them ? Said he, with many gesticulutions, and at the close of a furious speech : "Mr. Clergne, in his wildest imagi- nation, cannot expect nore than has heen given, and given to the eternal shame of this government, and to the disgrace of every man who will be concerned directly or indirectly with "the deal. They are 'handing over to him a million and a half acres of valuable pulp and mineral lands, and in return. The gov- ernment have made the pretence that they are securing certain concessions from Mr. Clergue, but everyone of these can be waived. I have no hesi- lic opinion will say with regard to it, that it is the, most phenomenal steal, Shesgrantent attempt at OH, WHAT A FAILURE! Toronto has its noon religious meet- ings, during the Lenten sesson for intan¥, when men, clerks, working and professicnil men, have halted in their occupations and listened pro foundly to Dr. DPumoulin's talks on the Righer and better life. It occurred to the Toronto conser: vative campaigners that they would run moob-mectings quite as well, that people were so much engrossed in political. affairs that they would give up fifteen minutes of their noon-hour to bear the learnsd men talk. One experience was real bad. It was disappointing. When the time for talking eame the orator for the occa sion, George Eulis Foster, was miss ing. There were four people present. Cappers gt the door button-holed the passers-by and swelled the number, eventually, to twenty-one, who stood in'a hall that could hold four hun- dred, While C. C. Robinson was saying something nime more persons entered the room, and the man at the door held them captive till the meeting was over, Then they escaped, vowing they would not be caught again. There is a difference, apparently, between the Lenten service and the conservative meeting. At one a new truth is accentuated in a very old story, and at the other the story is old gnd there isn't any truth in it. BRIBING IN VAIN. The great anxiety of the conserva tive party a little while ago seemed to be that the government was going to burden or bleed Old Ontario in its desire to develop New Ontario. But that anxiety is gone--forever. The Whitney party, realizing that the government was rising in popularity, started out to see what it could do. At North Bay Mr. Foy asked, dry- Jv, "What has the government done for you?" "Elect me," said Mr. Whitney, "and I'll give you anything in sight, and anything you cannot see ask for." The Temiskaming railway would, they said, be rushed through by them as the government could not think of doing. . At Huntsville things were not so rosy. There were liberals present, and they persisted, in season and out of season, in cheering Mr. Ross. The Whitney party departed, shaking the aust from off their feet. At Sudbury Mr. Whitney said he was going to give the miners a sen sible change. Mr. Carscallen promised them all the pine and all the law they wanted. At Thessalon Mr. Whitney, spoke of the immense sams he was going to ga- ther in, without taxing anybody, and intimated that he would see the people got all the colonization 'roads and bridges they desired. The purty kept on enlarging its plans as it proceeded, and, at Sault Ste. Marie, reached what the Mail has described "as "'the grand climax." Here it was announced that the con scrvatives, if in power, would estab: lish two customs smelters and give its member, (if 4 conservative), a seat in the government.' Were the people impressed ¢ very much. The man from whom they take their inepiration, Mr. Clergue, was not at the meeting, and the circumstance had a greater mean ing than language could express. Not SOME FIGURES AND FACTS. The Guelph Herald speaks of the work of the pulpwood syndicates as being 'a mere pretence at developing the country." Over five millions of money have been invested im the en terprises, and over 2,000 men have been given employment, all Canadi- ans, and using Canadian machinery and tools. Is there any pretence ab- out that ? Would that Canada had lots of it at the same cost and with the same effect. Then the Herald says that the pulp- wood, on which the syndicates are paying a toll of 40c.' per cord, is worth 83.50 in the rough. Is it? Some years ago, before paper mak- ing from pulp came into demand, this pulp-wood was not worth any- thing. It is hot now worth over 40e, per cord, in its scattered condition, now, for it does not grow up in great forests like pine, but in clumps, and in sections far apart. In hundreds of miles of commtry, it is alleged, there will not be found a spruce tree. The Atlantic Pulp company, whose it suggests the political slaying export, at 66c. a cord, and it is Que- bee's policy which Mr. Whitaey and the Guelph Herald so much admire. LIGHT AND LAMENTATION. Sir Mackenzie Bowell, at the ban quet which his political friends, the commoners gud senators, tendered him in Ottawa a few nights ago, grieved over the mistakes of Sir Wilfrid Laur- ier. The premier was not 'managing the business of the people with the wisdom which his opponents expected him to exercise. Sir Mackenzie gave it to be understood that had he the opportunity he could do ever so much better. Sir Mackenzie Bowell is a smart old man, and carries, in his advanced life, the vigour and jauntiness which char acterized his earlier career. He had the qualitics that marked him out for public life and raised him from one post to another until he reached the office of prime minister. It was a bad day when he entered it, since his colleagues evidently considered him unfit for its duties, and conspired against him, and rested not until they had displaced him. The banquet did not lead to re miniscences of this event. It was no doubt, i the minds of several of the speakers. So while Sir Mackenzie talked of the premier's mistakes the mind recalled the mistakes of other pedple, those of Foster, Hagoart snd Tupper, who undertook, in 1896, to modernize the party and made a wreck of it. Memories of this reverse are ever present, and they have peatedly turned the political quets, which are expecteil to be so brimful of hilarity, into occasions for lamentation, res ban- -------- VERY CHEAP BOOKS, The cost of school books is a ques tion which can, with great Propriety, be discussed during an election cam- paign, because edubation is a large isstie. one affecting the whole people, and to a most remarkable extent. So much was said about the books in past years that the government in 1807 deemed it expedient to appoint a commission of competent and im- partial men to enquire into and re port upon the subject. This eoramis- sion was composed of Jurlge Morgan, of York County; James Bain, the li: brarian of the Toronto public Ji brary; and C. B. Robinson, president of the "Westminster" pablishing com pany. They took evidence as to the cost of publication, with a régard to all the details, wo far as they appli- ed to material, workmanship, illustra tions and binding, and they reported the price was not excessive and in- deed lower than the figures at which they had been placed by the minister of education. In the agreement with the govern ment there is provision for giving some of the work fo other publishers and so guarding against monopoly, "In fact," say 'the commissioners, "some of these haoks are printed by more than one publisher, and com- petition has not the showing that the original price was reduced price, not excessive.' Oh, but some one may assert, what about Morang! Was he not refused a share of the public school pubtishing. He certainly had a collision with the publishers of a certain reader, because it contained an extract from the work of which Be held the copyright. But that is nol a matter that concerns the people. He is a school book pub lisher now and Mr. Latchford, in a recent address, explained the facts. Mr. Morang got out a new primer and desired to retail iv at 12¢. The government considered the profits,' fi gured that they were a trifle high, and, suggested that retail price ought be 10c. The negotiations hung fire for a while, but the primer is being published, and the selling price is 10. . School books high in price? Not when a comparison is made between Ontario and the States of the Ameri can Union. In not one of them is the scholar equipped fully and wo cheaply as in this province. sO EDITORIAL NOTES, The late General Sherman said. "War is hell." Mr. Laudis, of Indiana, in congress, said, "War is not a Sun- day-school picnic." ---- The barrel is up for adoration in West Hamilton. And the thought of of Mr. Colquhoun by his party ? Revivals are said to be losing their force. House to house evangelization is said to be the only effective meth- a ferred to what a former leader had done for Ontario. And for his party ? Fifty square timber limits for 85. That was a snap. miles of «Jr. Whitney's ides is to sell Qf the pulpwooa of New Omtario for $2,000, 000, ~-to speculators or Americans -- and give hali the money for colonia Ltion. Such is the talk with which he regaled his® audience at Sault Ste. Marie, Mr. Fairbank at Sarnia, speaking of the "opposition, said: "You would not 'dfeam that the cat that leans against your legs and purrs and purrs and purrs would eat the cana ries, but it. will" What did he mean ? Hon. Mr. Ross has had the degree of LL.D. conferred on him by MeMas ter university. Mr. Carscallen says Nr. Ross bought Dr. Grant and Dr. Potts. Has be bought the Baptists, too ¥ ------ Mr. Colquhoun, of Hamilton, a sui- ferer from the conservative michine, accuses the party of resorting to Tam- many methods, It is pretty bad when itd own friends feel that they must expose it. The conservative candidate in West Hamilton is lauded as a superior man because he has more money that the liberal candidate. 1s the man's money or his brains which counts for the intelligent regwesentation of the people in parliament ? Mr. the Whitney had not a policy when campaign began. He has gone one now, It isto our up and parcel out Ontario among his friends, as his party presumed to do before the liberal government took possession of it in trust for the peo ple. -- New according to Mr Whitney, is to be represented in the government, when it is Ontario, conservative formed.; The promise of an office to Mr, Miscampbell, in Sault Ste. Marie, may offset the Clergue influence, which is on the the govern ment, but it is doubtful. side of "The Machine," says the Montreal Gazette, "has made an Ontario elec tion symo-synonymous with an orgie of political debnuchery, and the only way the province's name can be clear ed is by its smashing alike the cor rupt organization and those who pro fit by, defend, it." Mr Whitney will kindly take notice, and govern himself accordingly or excuse A MAGNIFICENT SHOWING. Kingston Received Nearly a Quar- ter Million Dollars. The talk of the Ontario government bleeding the municipalities is idle bluster. Last year the Ross adminis tration handed over to public institu tions in Kingston nearly a quarter of a million dollars, made up thus : Public Schools $1,767 Separate Schools 471 00 Kindergarten Schools 70 20 Model School . 150 09 Teachers' Association . . 25 00 Public School Inspection 260 00 Collegiate Institute . 123 30 Art School 350 00 Public Library 200 00 Technical School | 1,500 00 Rockwood Asylum aries .... - Rockwood Asylum penses Rockwood pairs Fair Association ' Horticultural Society . . General Hospital Hotel Dieu . : Howse of Providence ... Orphans' Home Hotel Dieu Orphanage . House of Industry School of Mining Main tenance . . School of Mining Baild ings... sins ... 100.000 60 The county of Frontenae also re ceives generous aid from the provim cial exchequer, though it must be re membered that what Kingston gets for her institutions is shared in by the people of the county to almost as great an extent as hy the people of the city, as Kingston prospers so will Frontenac. Here are some of the di rect amounts received by Frontenac Publie schools ... . $2,382 00 Portamouth Pub. School 49 00 Howe Is. Poor Schools 220 00 - Wolle Is. Poor Schools 115 00 Sytignbam Poor School 40 00 Loborough Poor Schools #0 00 Frontenac Schools ... ... 665 00 Teachers' Aswociation .. 25 School Inspection ... .. 761 25 8 am High School 562 68 Garden Island Library . 183 50 Barrie Library .. .. 20 00 Mississippi Library 107 10 Colonization Roads . 3845 11 In addition ther® is the large out: lay for administration of justice, fish- ery and license inspmetion. The larg ext portion of this outlay, if it had not been assumed by the Ontario gov- on Sal 26,015 57 Ex . on 49,653 27 Asylum Re- 8001 58 210 08 140 00 3,180 39 6.019 59 5,575 73 330.08 363 68 1,056 25 18,500 00 od of hing the « ly, nowadays. - 1 When did Mr. Ross. or any one in hin bebali, say he discovered New On- tario ? When, by the way, did Mr Whitney discover it? Since the ris ing 'of the legislature ? er , would havéd bad to be borne by city and county. For Confirmation. Prevost, at the New York clothing store, Brock street, bas a splendid assortment of boys' black worsted suits fos confirmation, great variety of headac! down pains, pains in the easily, which always caused intense pain iy to go anywhere or see an tectin as I did. I coul one. I was call not lift anythiy suflering for days afterwards. Menstroat] tho first three or four days being almost con Nothing in this wide world has _ as has Lydia E. 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