What Has Been Done In; Thirty In All Depa Years. riments of Government Activity There Has Been Wonderful Advance- Vote For Its -- Education. It has expetidéd $18,205,000 on edu- cation since 1871, The total gs for all education al purposes in 1901 was 8965951 (in- cluding' to agricultural and mining 8), or out of every ¥ spent, by the government $1 goes for educational purposes. It placed the department of educa tion under the ansible control of a minister of edfieation--a course ap proved by the late Dr. Ryerson, sup- erintendent of council of public in- struction. it minds the educational council a consultative committee to confer with the mimister on «euch matters as be may from time to time submit to them. It lized the school laws into a consolidation, It has ved the school system on fifty distinet lines, making it the most complete and effective of any similar system in the world. It has established a school of prae tical science, provimvial and county model , © normal college and schools, training ipstitutes, art schools, teachers' assopiatibng wd mechanics' institutes. It has assisted technical schools and Ite policy 0 text-books is Cana: da for the Canadians. In 1883, out of high books used ne She-public and bE anly "Nike were written by A how and 130 by Am. erican and British authors. In 1901 Svory hook Beh in dese Schon sls, with two C1 ng, work of a Ca nadian sothoe | Ithan reduced the text-books from a number in different branches of study to one in each. pile ie Sod wore used in the fi: 4 , 88 against fif- " in 1 enty-three were used in the schools in 1901, as com- hi, ared Ly ty in 1875. Pe has a eh ly reduced the cosi of = text-books. average annual cost to public school pupils in only 21 1-3 cents I The reduction in price in text-books from 1883 to 1901 shows a saving of 72,000. hi vs are 6,010 public schools and 0,440 " The number of depattmental exam- | ebb dbdbb bbb bbb Think It Out. Every elector is asked to refleet on the record of the Ontario administration and to these questions : « it ? Is homie: ' "w » pow and election A hear about it "we are satisfied how the ballots will be marked oii May 20th. Ross will be returned to power. inations been reilnced from twen- " ty-péven, under the coundl of priblie" instruction, 9 thirteen. work? dobbdebbb bb bbb pd a ture. tment of agricul Te" created a dep. in turn by succes ture, admini "ie expundod $264,000 on agriculture $5,142,296 on agri: 8 pe nb over $1900.75 (0 ht and hortleultural wo wers', swine J i ment = Read the Record and Rainy river district, which has been a great success. oF It fostered the dairy industry until the value of cheese produced in 1000 © reached $13,000,000, amd of cropmery butter nearly $2,000,000, it is assisting in the improvement of fall fairs by providing funds for export judges. + assisted in developing a pro- fitable trade with other provinces in pure-bred: stock. It has set apart $225,000 to aid the sugar beet industry It started the most successful farm- ers' fair in America--the live stock show at Guelph. Ontario won a large share of the chief prizes in live stock, horticulture, beekeeping and poultry at the Pan American exposition. No less than forty-five important acts, affecting agricultural and kin: dred interests, have been placed on the statute Looks since 1888. Mr. Whitney and his party bave opposed many of the important steps proposed by the agricultural depart- ment for the improvement of our On- tario agriculture. And yet the Mail and Empire stated (March 10th, 1902) : "Mr. den has pottered in the agricultural bureau without effect |" ---------- "A man of real ability' is the wav the Toronto Telegram, a conservative organ, speaks of Hon. G. W. Ross. 0000000000000 000000000 Pulpwood Policy. Canadian Manufacturer. ay ber Bo gh a san pre and the mis- taken idea that by oppos- ing every govern~ ment Aol mary. Th they can soniehow gain political cap- ital could have induced 4 plank 'platform to offer the vielent and wunreason- wool Rareont ade we on er Whitney and his fol- lowers: a3 0000000U000RN00OOGIOS DIRECT RETURN TO PEOPLE. -------- What Ontario Government Has Done in Thirty Years. Take the annual direct return to the people of provinciel révenues, and it will be seen that the grant, for the same services as compared with 1871, have wonaerfully increased as foliows: Ii the present government, which came into power in 1871, bad continu- oii the same scale of distribution as its for these same services, the people of this province would have recoived $26,000, less in past Shirt vears than has been refunded to m, WHY IT IS STRONG. Reward of Government Found In Faith. Toronto Star : There has not been a government, - great or small, gn the continent that ever held a party to gether with so stern and economical a use of power and patronage. may be at times have thought this woo far, but the of gh bir! tl pressed over and who, hile, tha growi ly, en he this that has #0 st that all sttem 1 have. . It is this and nothing LABOR LEGISLATION. Traditions of Liberalism Well Maintained. Toronto Globe. Ontario ministry has sustained the best traditions of liberalism in its progressive labor legislation. The me- chanics' lien act of 1573 was passed soon after the liberal government as- sumed office, and was Simo] to pro- tect mechanics, builders, contractors and others in their claims for labor or material furnished in the erection of buildings and machinery. This act has been amended from time to time, and other labor laws have been intro- duced, as changing conditions have rendered them necessary. An act to facilitate the enforcement of the just rights 'of wage earners, passed in 1N03, provides that "every device by any owner or contractor, which shall be adopted in order to defeat the priori- ty of wage earners for their wages under the several acts relating to me- chanics' liens, shall, as respects such wage earners; be null and veid." An- other section gives jurisdiction to Were police magistrates in cities in actions | for wages up to claims for thirty days, though the amount or balance exceed the limit of $40. This has re lidved workers of all the tricks and delays otherwise possible through the inerta of the law. Many a wage bill has been paid in summary order by a police magistrate that could never have been collected through the costly 8000050000000 03000000 Good Advice. { Judge the government. on its record, and decide " is the very sound advice of- fered the electors by the Peterborough Review, eon- servative. That is what the electors have done in successive general elections for some years past. They are going to do so again. The result can be anticipat- 000000000000 000° 0000000000000 0 PROB PENRNONNLBONINNNSS 2 and unwieldy courts. The various smendments to the mechanics' lien law have been made tp close all the loopholes through which dishonest contractors and other employers have succeeded in escaping the payment of their workmen's wages. The safety of employees in various occupations, and the sanitary condi tion of workshops, factories and oth er places of emplowment, have been taken up as demanded by the develop ment of industrial conditions, and the government bas been in all cases care ful to anticipate the néeds of the worker, and to prevent the develop ment of injurious or detrimental con: ditions. As in other evils of slow de velopment, prevention Kas beem found better; and at the same time easier than cure. The liability of employers in case of accident has been establish- ed. In the factories act of 1884, with aniendments down to 1901, and the shops regulation act, the safety and sanitary condition of employees are provided for. Legislation of this na- ture for various places and lines of employment is carried, when necessary, to the minutest details. The sincerity of this legislation is shown in the pro- vision that makes it jmpossible for any employee to bargain away his legal rights, The still more advanced legis- lation in this respect includes the es- tablishment of technical schools, the provisions for the adjustment of trade disputes, the regulation of benefit so- vieties, and the establishment of a provineial- bureaw of labor. In all these fields of legislative action the interests of wage workers have been carefully guarded. No detail has been omitted, and while many of the sta- tutes seem voluminous, the Breuliar and often technical nature of the mat. tors dealt with renders much legisla tive detail necessary. The liberal gov- ernment of Ontario has Jed all the provinces in this respect, and the re sult is seen in a more satisfactory condition in every line of industry. A Fine Record. Since the passing of the govern ments bill in 1808, placing an export duty on sawlogs, mew mills, with a capacity of 212,250,000 feet a year, have been erected, at 5 cost of $849. 400, and old mills, with' 5 capacity' of 147,800,000 feet, have been started to run at a cost of $181,500, These mills are employing over 2,300 men. Wherein Is He A Friend ? MAGNIFICENT SHOWING Last Year The City Of Kingston : cceived KR VERY CLOSE: TO $250,000 FROM THE ROSS GOVERN- MENT AT TORONTO. What More Could Want ?--Frontenac Also ceived Generous Grants. The talk of the Ontario government bleeding the municipalities is idle bluster. Last year the Ross adminis the People Re- J 4 E J o o ol 4 : o 4 4 o 4 J o Would Lose Heavily. Mr. Whitne, says he would repeal the tax on big corporations, yet from that source in three years On- tario has received nearly three-quarters of a million in cash to help pay school grants, etc. During the last three years it would have made a difference to Ontario ratepayers of $683,345.87 if Mr. Whitney had been premier, for that is the exact amount collect- ed from these big compan- ies which he and his party opposed in the house, and he declares he would have the law repealed at once if put in power. i BETRTT ITV TYTV YT YY yyy TTY EYTwy Pooled spedesieolecdesdeod ole bob fer ch seek hob sbob hob oboe tration handed over to public institu- tions in Kingston nearly a quarter of a million dollars, made up thus: Public Schools $1,767 00 Seperate Schools 471 0 Kindergarten Schools ... 70 20 Model School ... ... «.. wn. 150 00 Teachers' Association . . 25 00 Public School Inspection 260 00 Collegiate Institute .. . 1,223 30 Art School «ii sv vn wy 350 00 Public Library .. . 200 00 Technical School ... .. . 1,500 00 Rockwood Asylum Sal- aries sense 26,015 Rockwood Ex: on. lg conn ave. AE,083 Rockwood Asylum Re nis series oie BAT Asylum pairs... « Fair Association ... .. ... Horticultural Society . . General Hospital ... ..... Hotel Dien ... ..... ' House of Providence Orphans' Home Hotel Dieu Orphanage . House of Industry School of Mining Main- tenance .. vir ree 18,500 00 School of Mining Build . ings 100,000 00 The county of Frontenac also, re ceives generous aid from the 'provin- 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 sat an extent as by the people of the city, as Kidgston prospers so will Frontenac. Here are some of the di- rect amounts received by Frontenac Public schools ... .. I Portsmouth Pub. School 49 00 Howe Is. Poor Schools 220 00 Wolfe Ts. Poor 8chools 115 00 Swilenham Poor School 40 00 Loborough Poor Schools 60 00 Frontenac Schools 665 00 Teachers' Association ... 25 00, School Inspection ... ... 761 25 Sydenham High School 562 68 Garden Island Library . 183 50 Barrie Library . 200 00 Mississippi Library 10710 Colonization Woads ... . 3645 11 In addition there is the large out lay for admisistration of justice, fish- ery and license inspection. The larg. est portion of this outlay, if it had not been assumed by the Ontario gov- ernment, would have had to be borne by city and county. A GOVERNMENT OF UNITY, It Should Have No Age Limits To It. The Ross government, which Mer. Whitney and his supporters would see defeated, is o government of umity in its individual members, a government of experience and a government whose progressive policy has made and still making Optariy a greater pro- vince "than has been" by lacilitatiog the development of its rich resources. Ontario has to-day reached 5 degree of prosperity never before attained, and the government which has the province in this position should have no age limit if its gotions are honest and prudent, gs ¢ of the Ross government have been, CANADA FOR CANADIANS. In 1883, out of 184 hooks used in public and hig , 40 were written by Cal ,, aod 135 by outside authors; 87 of im- ported. In 1901, every text book used in Ontario public and gh schools, save the high school Euclid and Greek, is the of 4 Canadian suthor, and all the books, without atv exception, are made in Cavads Canada the Canadians" is wotte of i i®) "THE FACTORY LEGISLATION. One of the most noteworthy econ: omic changes of the last century was the general substitution of factory la- bor for the old process of hand work in almost every department of indus trial activity. The introduction of labor-saving machinery, and the sub- stitution of large establishments, em- ployeng hundreds, or thousands of workers, for the small factories and workshops where production was form- erly carried on, like other sweeping and important social changes, was found to have its drawbacks as well as its advantages. The employee was made more dependent upon the em- ployer, and was a good deal more of a "machine" than under the old sys tem. Competition among workers was increased and women and children were often engaged at low wages (0 do the work of) men. Then again the erowding together of large numbers of operatives in buildings where no ade- quate arrangement had been made for their comfort, health or convenience, and without protection from accident or death in case of contact with the machinery constituted a series of grave and intolerable evils, such as no en lightened or humane administration could long endure. In Britain, especially, where the question had assumed a more serious aspect than clsewheré on account of her industrial leadership, and = the strength of the trades' union move- ment, the attention of philanthropists and statesmen was early called to the subject. A large volume ol legisia- tion has been enacted, embracing every PEOIIIEPIOLIIIIPIPOODD @® ® Glad It's An Issue. The tax on corporations is popular; it is pronoune- ed just and scientific by re- cognized authorities on tax- ation; it prevails in nearly every state of the Union; it has come to stay in this province. 'Mr. Whitney has made it an issue. The gov. ernment could wish foy no- thing better. & ® * & ® ® ® ® shase of the question, and safe-guard- ing thoroughly the rights and interests of the workers. As the result of agi- tation on the part of the organized la- bor bodies in Canada, the dominion go ernment in 15881 appointed a com mission to make enquiry into the working of mille and factories and the labor employed therein. After a thor ough and exhaustive investigation, in | = visited and | = the course of which they reported upon 465 factories, they found that the existing conditions fully jus- 2 tified all that had been urged in favor of a factory law by the organizations. To show how crying and imperative was the need for reform, a few of the more striking conclusion reached. by the commission may be briefly marized : { They found that "the employment of children and young persons in mills and factories is extensive, and largely on the increase." They had much dif ficulty in obtaining, with any degr.e of accuracy the ages of children ployed, and the employers had no re cord thereof, and in many cases the | children having no education what ever, conld not tell their ages. Some were found at work at as early an age as eight or nine years. These children invariably worked as many hours as | 4 the adults, and were often "requested" to work over time. The appearance | and condition of the children, especial ly in" the summer months, bow | painful evidence to the unnatural | strain to which their undeveloped | frames had been subjected, being "any- | thing but inviting or desirable." "They have to be at the mill or fac tory at 6:30 a.m., necessitating their being up at from 5:30 to 6 a.m., for their morning meal, some having to | walk a distance of hali a mile or more to their work. This is undeniably too heavy a strain upon children of tender | vears, and is utterly condemned by | all except those who are being di | rectly benefitted by such labor." Con- cerfling the abuses attendant on the | extenmve employment of. female labor | without proper legislative safeguards, the commission reported that "Female | labor is very extensively employed, | not only in mills and factories, but al 80 in private houses and what may be be bed as workshops, which are very difficult to find, sometimes in the attic of a four storey building, at others in a low, damp basement, where artificial light has to be used during the entire day." The Conservatives Did Nothing. The effect of the publication of this rt was to im a great impet- to the agitation on the part of b unions for factory legisla- tion along old country links. It was that the conserva- ig ffs Hn sum. 5 em- | What The Government Has Done For Workers. Dominion Investigation---The Con- servative Government Disap- points the. Labor Or- ganization. session after session to pass without taking any steps or showing any dis- fashion to legislate on the question. ut the liberal government of Ontario took action. Considerable uncertainty prevailed at the time as to whether the power to pass factory legislation rested with the dominion or provincial govern: ment, Consequently, when in 1584 the Ontario government took action and secured the passage by the legislature of the factories act, it contained "a stipulation that it should not come into force until made operative hy a proclamation issued by the lieutenant- governor. Efforts were made to induce the dominion government to take measures to put an end to the doubt which existed as to jurisdiction, but nothing could be accomplished in that direction, and finally in October 1886 the proclamation was issued by which the factories act of 1584 be- came law. The provisions of this mea- sure were directed at the worst of the abuses found to exist by the commis sion, the more important being as follows : That the employment in a factory of a child, a young girl or a woman in such a way that their health is likely to be permanently injured shall be an offence punishable by imprison- ment or fine. That no boy undef twelve, and no girl under fourteen shall be employed in any factory, and that children un- der fourteen and women shall not be employed move than ten hours a day or sixty hours a week. PPEEeE & Can't Make A Case. JOO) iO W Toronto News. (Cons.) There will be some difi- culty in making a case against the government on the school-book atrange- ments. The publishers who are favored with the busi- ness at present may be making a pot of money out of it, and they may be con- tributing to the campaign funds in return for the con- cession, but the books are well made, and they are not sold at an extortion- ate price. There are weaker points in the armour of the Ross government than the school-book menopoly. @@e @® @ De® OOIOIOIOND Q@ FEE EERIIEEREEEEE That women and children shall not be allowed to clean machivery while it ds in motion. That working extra hours in a time | of emergency shall be done only with the consent of the inspector under the et. That factories shall be kept in pro per sanitary condition. That machinery and other sources of danger to employees shall be pro- perly guarded. : That each factory shall be supplied with the means of extinguishing fires, and also with fireescapes, if the building is a high one. . That the inspector shall be notified promptly when loss of life results to employees throtgh fire or accident The set conferred upon the inspector the powers requisite far the efficient discharge of his duties and provided the machinery weeded to enforce its provisions. The Act Extended. In 1380 & wumber of important amenaments to the act in the direc tion of greater stringency were made. A detailed list of & industries to which the act applied was given. The scope of the law was extended so ns to include all places where more than five persons were employed, places employing mot more than 20 having previously been exempt from ita op- eration The law was further amended in some important particulars in 1805, when more stringent provisions were made for the guarding of places dun- gerous to life and limb, avd the pro- viding of fire-escapes, and Senaitios neglecting to netify the i irs in cases of accident, fire or explosion. In 1901 the Ross government pro- cured the passing of several other amendments in the same direction. The owner of a factory who fails to ide the equi i Pe required vithin # ter receiving a note from the i tor to do so is made liable to a of $500. The owner of a factory of Ontario in the very front rank so fdr as c¢oncerns the th and careful protection of the fom- fort and safety of the class least able to protect themselves. Iv is an ex- ceedingly eveditable record, ro ted revisions and amendments of tle law, all in the direction of greater thoroughness or efliciency, show that the question Bas at alt tunes, received pe the bands of the government and egislature the full and m consideration which ita | merit This polioy has been in ao- cordance with the best traditions of liberalism, and hus met with the full approval and. support of right mind. ed men of all parties. As contrasted with the empty professions of oon servatism, which has resulted in Both- ing tangible or practical and would have allowed the shameful conditions formerly prevalent, to continue in- definitely, it must command the ad- herence and suppert of "Ontario work- ing men, who bave in the t record of liberalism the best possible ne tee that their interests tay safely entrusted to them in the futures. NOT GIVING ANYTHING AWAY, What Has Been Done With New Ontario Lands, Speaking of New Ontacio and its development by the Ontario govern. ment, the Mail- Empire says the min. isters "have given away 7,000,000 acres of cultivable land and 15,000 square miles of pulp territory to syn- dicates for nothing."" The ministers have not given away a mile of pulp territory. They have given rights to cut certain pulp wood at forty cents a cord, or such higher price as the lisiitenant - governor « invcouticil may from time tq time fix. That ia all: and for that they secure an expendis ture of millions and the employment of thousands of men. Some la grants have been made to seenre rail- way development in New Ontario, and contracts require the bringing in of thousands of settlers. ROSS' ONE AIM. To Promote Development Of The Province, The one aim Hon. G. W. Ross has kept before him since assumed the leadership of the government = hasbeen 'to promote the development of this province in the speediest and most ef fective manner, In carrying ous+ this idea he has run counter to tha tradi- tions of the conservative party. | a Mr. Whitney's Promiss, "I will, if given power, in six months bill which provides for the taxation of these corpora~ tions." The corporations referred to are: Life and fire insurance J banks, trust companies, loan companies, steam rails way companies, street rails way companies, express companies, sleeping and parior car companies, na: tural gas companies, tele phone companies, and tele graph companies, FLAP IAP P ote may have offendéd some of his. ov following who prefer to move along the beaten paths. To our mind hin readiness to adapt himsell to changing conditions and put into «f- fect hin ides by the shortest, quickest and most certain means, stamps him as pre-eminently the men to guide the destinies of the provinos at this time, Whitney's Only Plank. [if | bierls i