A SPLENDID SP; FINANC rr tp 1 Review of Liberal Government's | 'Record Contrasted With That of Conservatives. rr pn. HARD FACTS DRIVEN HOME ED Startling Figures Presented to Give Idea of What Really Has Been Done, -- The address of Hon. W. 8. Felling at Massey Hail, In Toronto, was one of the most convincing campaign utter- ances that have been heard In Toronto in many a day. He began by dispers. ing the Opposition Illusion that the Conservatives would gain a victory. "l can't imagine," he sald, "when I recall the splendid spirit which I have found among the Liberals of Ontarle, I can't imagine, I say, what in the world has got into the heads of ouxf Tory friends when they say that they are going to sweep the country." He declared that "twelve years of the best government that Canada has ever enjoyed" should be a sufficient answer to Conservative ambitions. Mr. Fielding did not waste much time on the scandal-mongering campaign of his opponents, for one reason, as he explained, that those opponents appar- ent.y wished him to do £0. "In a game of politics," he sald, "a noble game, 50 long as it {8 honorably played, there is a rule well laid down for one's guld- ance: 'Find out what your opponents | want you to do don't do it,' They want us to occupy our time with the petty discussions which take their own attention. They do not wish us to draw the attention of the pubile to our | splendid record." | | -and Conservatives Lald No Charge. from saying was necessarily with an ex red milli to e y | of course, in| far Aft Mr. Flelding w that a charge of g to be considered petty, but nditure of one hi a 8 nec y le, differing honesty | essa He would 1 you he k rs at Ottawa yrrupt m this vita ! nt fact, n to this momer r has been laid! ber of the Laurier Ad. | never in the Opposition ra € courage to ma A £ | loor of the House, T tigation. They had cast + of offiolals, most.) f thera had been 3 would Ye leniency | corruption, the offi. in there wilful BO If yuld Total, Per Year, . $68,500,000 $3,500, 00 411,000,000 84,000,008 ling figures pre- felling when hie dis- upon ,the commercial the Dominion, The Con- ised to boast, he pointed out, eighteen vears of administra. sy had increased the trade of by sixty-six and one-half mil- dollars. Perhaps, after all, the achievement was a creditable one, If the Liberals ha oceeded at the same rate t 'e to show, to-day that ased the wealth of ) since taking office If they did this, the ould have to say, "Vell, you have done as well 1t was the fact? "The has been not forty. ed and eleven mil- nged cheers.) "Adequate Protection" The leader of 1 Opposition had asked for "adequate protect . Mr Flelding did know what that meant; he did not think his audlence did; was e M Borden didn't, | He was tempted, however, quote the retort of the Hon, Mr, Paterson to A& man wl niended that it was still the N.P. which is making Cana- dians rich 'Ther sald Mr, Paterson, "the Liberal Government apparently understands It 1 er and turns it to better account." (laughter.) "The Con- servatives may ted the ma- chine, ut vere never able to make-froget dnged-ohears.) Sir Wiltrid r's work as great unifie bringer, of © peace among diff wotions and creeds, was toucl by Mr, Fleldin 'It 18 one e greatest subjects pride of our ! nobler task public man, an nobly carried "And I, to conclliiator lowly (leld, managemen bring toget put down sc« the a f 3, 000, He I the (Cheers,) a des fleld; that 1is to the national ting and will remain agricultural coun manufactures may | lo-day It is grow- | he day is not far | men west of the ontrol the destinies | wise to embroil the to antagonize the a t the manu. | That is possible unless caution be try arise 1 ing distr Ere of East farmer facturer vos, | observed." Tariff Commission. { revised two over Canada| were ¢ ted on| The Tr 1t had When » was pears Ago men from all A every oo upation : i rover 1 tare oy i{ylng process, a better derstanding among the different cia es. Ne had been Inclined to take t e opposite view-point to every daqeie ga- | tion that he oy, the p argument He had sald to t "you must consider the right manufacturers, who make whe need," and to the manufacturer, must consider e Interests : Western farme 10 thin that these taxes are press n So such work as result to both sid Government I) selves had receive thought, for when © was brought down it wa out a division, Speaking' of Mr. Fielding tives had Been rs, but had « Ye hey were In nutull pre- nce, but in ti cou deal iy only one side of it, our side. The| other end rests with Mother Coun- try. The Laurier Government had taken the step t resulted in ti establishment of mutual prefer ence, so far as fit be done Canada. wat nation of the earth made the mistake of thinking that she cou 4 gnub Canada,' but surtax was Imp that Canada 3. ton, and could take a4 erselt I ro- | ¥ d applause Toned ding s remarks in the Ant!-| Dumping regulations of the { ment, aimed ¢ protection of the wt the could ol by | he German A natie Can- edlan industries against United States therein named: '| to the records ing the asse &N-ltax rate has been struck for the years Et MINISTER, POINTS FROM MR. FIELDING'S SPEECH. "Remember this vitally import. ant fact. that down to this mo- ment no charge of corruption has been laid against any member of the Laurier Administration." - "There may be a certain amount of patronage, but I do not sub- scribe to the doctrine that 'to the victors belong the spoils' The public service of this country Is not a part of the spoils given over from one party to the other. So long as a man is faithful. I do not mean politically faithful, but .so long as he. is loyal to his duty and does it faithfully, he is a free man under the Liberal Government." "The miser is not an economist, EECH BY CANADA'S LAURIER. AND THE LARGER CANADA DING MR. F Economy means the application of money to some good purpose for the development of this great country." "If we have given you a $100, 000,000 budget. we have given you a $100,000,000 country." "Mr. Foster Is trying to per- suade you to return to the condi- tions of 1896. when you did not pay so much into the treasury be- cause you did not have so much to pay It with." x "The time is coming when the men west of the Great Lakes will control the destinies of Canada." "The best kind of trade is that In Much both parties get a square deal" slaughter prices, were also given warm applause. Surplus and Deficits. Average yearly Conservative deficit, $415,000, Average yearly Liberal surplus, $9,- "A strong, wholesome, sound com- mercial policy," sald Mr, Flelding, "was accompanied by a sound policy of fin- ance." He proceeded to prove It. Mr, Foster had cried out in 1896 that the country would go to the "demni- tion bow-wows."" Never a year that Foster was in Parliament, and when he was out of it there was usually some- one else to take up the cry, that he did not yell "Wolf, wolf!" in connection with the Liberal finances, Then, as the end of the year the Liberals would show a surplus. The Conservative de- ficit had averaged $415,000 per year in the twelve years preceding 1896 Since then the Liberals had averaged not a deficit, but a surplus, of $500,000 per year. Of course, If this surplus was the result of increased taxation it had no right to exist But taxation had been lowered. The Government fixed the rate, not the amount, the latter lepending on consumption As a mat- ter .of fact, the Customs taxation per $100 worth of goods imported In 13% compared as follows with the same taxation now: ..518.28 : 15.68 Decreases... ... ' $2.63 If the Conservative rate of taxation had been continued, the people of Can- da would have pald $54,000,000 oil they aid pay. 1879-1988, per year., .. 1806-1908, per year., ... With these figures the T™elding dlsposed of the pub debt char 8 A young country like Can- must be expected to to its public debt, and with the derful progress made, It would not ve heen a matter for wonder if the 214 rate of increase had been kept up The disparity between Liberal and Conservative records In this regard, however, had been even greater than ft would seem on the face of it, for the debt Is a burden propor- tion to the number of shoulders which have to hear the burden. For eighteen years the Conservatives brought in Im. migrants at the rate of £0.00 people per year] for twelve years the Liberals haa brought them in at the rate of 150000 per year " As a result tha debt more 1,500,000 Mr. 1da. he contended add only In had been reduced to $40 and a fraction per head to-day. Misers Versus Economists. "They say we spend more money. They spent money when they didn't have it to spend; we spent when we d&{d have it to spend. miser is not an economist. Economy means the application of money to some good purpose for the develop. ment of this great country." In twelve years preceding 188 the Conservatives spent on capital account $94000000, but they added $76.000000 to the debt, "and there it is, and you'll pay interest on it forever." In twelve years tha Liberals spent a greater sum on capital account, no less than $163,000,00, but they added only $19.000,000 to the debt. That was the difference. In 1898 thers were 16,000 immigrants; in 1907, 26000--two Provinces the size of Prince Fdward Island every year Some undesirables came. It was In. avitahle. But the great progress of the last few years rested, In great measure, on the tremendous Influx to the West The Crow's Nest Pass, "I shall venture to say a few words | about thé Crow's Nest Pass Raliway," sald Mr. Flelding,"amidst some amuse- | ment. "I am not concerned in the at-| tack on the Toronto Globe; it has shown that It can take care of itself. But I am concegned !{f two millions of dollars were taken u stifia Iam . concerned if certain men, friends of | Mr. BE. B. the Liberal party, got possession of! Say that ¥ coal lands and made themselves mil- | thief, but Honaires. I am a.s0 concerned with the [that he cal & cor position of the Opposition on this ques. | Wa8 between Mr. Os! eT and tion They talk of the chloroforming | leagues and ihe ho TO ht it of the public. Whe chloroformed r "What a magnificent oppo un y Charles Tupper? Who chloroformed | my friend, Ames, and his Mr. Foster? Who chloroformed Mr, | show 1¢ Fielding, "ladies Borden? He was in the House at the | gentlemen have here, times of the eo-called 'deal' and never | Snormous opened his mouth M1 twelve years after it was a.l over, He says that |) the facts were all known." If he knew nd was silent, is he the kind of u want to make Premier of this| laughter) { e he y make a deal (Upreoarous who got P. R. that | the C.P.R |Ereatest p scattered | oronto, Ww ularly a to and | Mint st and | se HON. W. 8. FIELDING, Canada's Minister of Finance. ih | _-. Osler. He did not wan Osler was a boodler sald that his cop | the Roman ster. Click! {ewag!"" r stoler 1 It was to tha the money was pald. N was a large body of all over Canada, but small group of men Montreal. And one of the plause Mr 2 8s speech, one tical speeches 1s greeted with a per of the swag? ster resumed his seat, and in ifn 1808 of a little over $0 per head perhaps dearest to the aud uninterrupted. t to or a this, pt transaction, | col- for pee an . secured at expense, the greatest ploture in the world, which I will now show to Click! Behold the original checks hand.writing of | Here be- | ever heard fect shower of applause when the Finance for ral minutes the cheering went on THE CONQUERING OF A series of eight cartoons drawn by Mr. the men who are engaged in It. What the Fielding Figures Showing What the Actual Population--A Few Years tration Has The furnishes a capital iMustration of the dev elopment city of Toronto | that has been going on during the past twelve years, A great railway centre, a distributing point, a city, promptly responds to, any general na- | tional prosperity or depression, The | city had a phenomenal though not| wholly substantial development, reach- | ing arclimax about fifteen years ago | There came a reaction, beginning In | the early nineties, and there was a heavy shrinkage in values, until abouts manufacturing | Toronto feels quickly, and { 1888-9. Then another change came, un- | der the conditions of prosperity which began to prevail shortly after the ad- vent to power of the Liberal party, and ever since the growth has been rarkable for its rapidity and its sub 1tial character, | Some of the results attained are very as for example the in- pooulation. which, according of the Assessment Le- partment, rose from 199,043 In 1900 to 272,600 for 1907, Here is a table show- nt on which the city's {nstructive, crease of Lorne Rich Fruit. | lowing statement gives the value of | | ishowed tha following results; WESTERN CANADA. --NO. Ww, 7--THE ATTACK. C. Jefferys represent mo---- 1 1900. No. of establish- ments ..... .. 847 | Employes .. .. 87,6563 4 | Capital invested $52,114,042 | Salaries and wages Value of pro- ducts Growth Has Been in Industry and Under a Business Adminis. 15,505,468 58,415,498 1300 «oor vans. information illustrating statistical presented, teresting might be f Canada for civilization and Tariff Has Done for Toronto 1908. 235 4,841 $66,520,098 21,550,798 85,714,278 Out of the many other classes of In- that the same cheering progress, only.one other table will now be submitted. I value of the - ,088.990 | | the Another evidence of accelerating] progress is to be found in the record of bullding permits issued. The tol- | ing Ilouse Association, follows: the new structures and the improve- | ments which these permits aucavrize | 1901 . for different years of the same period 1903 1900 1306 ... .. 1802 1907 1804... Imports, «ev. $38,803,016 42.971.437 53,194,085 : 67.496,446 { Bare figures, however, convey 1 1906 .. | information 1907 .vs erie ov 14,280,8 improvement which this city has m The growth of street railway traffic, | The prosperity they indicate is which is a good index to bus tivity and general prosperity in the folowing table givin enue derived by the city from of the Toronto Railway Com; ceipts: a great structure of metropolitan advantage. churches, with associated colleges 1¢ have acquired a continental fame, character and cess Hospitals institutions gre Gardens, parks, theaters, 3 city's far famed Exhibition i ed | vide ample entertainment. Art v the Census and Statistics | literature flourish, and Ottawa ivi manufac cerning industries, It gives | imports entered at | the port of Toronto and the amount of | clearings reported by thé Bank Ciear- They are as Clearings. $625.228,308 808.748,260 1,047,4%0,701 1,228,905,511 ittle concerning the marvelous ade, the foundation on which has been erected lite, opportunity, and Social and educational There are over two. hun- the Provincial Uni- that pri- mary and secondary schools of high splendid records of sue- and other charitable on a commensurate and pro- and generally ing information | speaking, few cities of equal magni- tude have such a high average of com- and which shows that in the interval | fort, and so little of contrasting pov- between the vears 1300 and 1905 the|erty. Our citizens have reason to progress of these industries In Toronto | both proud and grateful in view the superior advantages they enjoy, & be of tale enon tuts SUPPLEMENT What Name of Latier Stands For Material Progress, Canadian Unity, and a Sane Imperialism. : What the name of Laurier stands for is clearly and briefly stated in the following extracts from speeches delivered by the Premier during e < L the present campaign: UNITY OF LOCAL AND IM- PERIAL PATRIOTISM. . Our policy i Imperial unity based on local autonomy. As fart of that policy we have re- ved the motherland of the ne- ile we are last, and all the time, we are of the British pire. e su- oe inspiration is to have a id_of union between the mo- therifnd end the daughtér na- tion, This is the policy which I commend to you, my fellow- countrymen, . Ww wm Ww THE PROPER TEST OF ECONOMY. 'What is, after all, the criterion by which to ascertain whether, in private or in public life, there had been extravagant expendi- ture? There is one easy cri- terion. If @ man has a certain income and spends within if a man spends beyond his in- come. then he char- . Like Mr Foster, Micawber Was always In difficulties. and always waiting for something to turn up. and also he .was fond of giving good ad- vica The advice he gave to David Copperfield was to keep his ex- penses within his income, in these words: "Annual £230; expenditure, £19 6s; result, happt- ness; income, £20; expendi- ture, £20 6s; re- sult, misery. The blossom is blight- ed, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary sea. and, in short, you are forever floored, as I am." What has been the record of the Liberal Govern- ment, which has been accused by Mr. Foster of ex- travagance? That record is that for for the last WHAT THE PREFERENCE HAS ACCOMPLISHED, ce has done three things: First of all it has given, especially to the farmers, a substantial measure of relief from taxation. Next it has opened the British markets to our uctions. You will vay the tish market was to us before, and it is true; but there is such a thing as senti- ment even in trade, and when the British blic saw the atti- tude of the nadian people they opened the door wider. There was another thing. It is an In- spiration, an example for the whole British world. It has be- come part and parcel of the Brit- {sh Empire of which we area part. It has been accepted in New Zealand, by Australia, and even by South Africa. It has been ac- cepted by the Transvaal, which only seven years ago was at war with the British army. To- day the Conservative party dare not give us battle upon this point, for the preference has gone around the world with the Brit- ish flag NOT AFRAID TO FACE DIF. ' FICULTIES, The Liberals are not to meet difficulties and to them whenever they ocous. the last twelve years we bad difficulties more than to solve, and we have them to the satisfaction 1 F H s13¢ THE TARIFF HAS BEEN RE- FORMED. Our policy was a tariff based upon revenue, and when we came into office we put these principles into effect. It was hard to find a measure of relief that would giv Deen high tantf, and it was difficult to bring down a reform without doing injury to the industries which had been carried on under the old system, but I think we can claim that we found a means of giving the relief the country demand- ed. al Is Wwue we dia nos rusi Int radical relorins, We are reiwwin- ers, not revoiu- uous, we gave to the peo- ple of Canaoa a considerable measure of re lef when we adopted the new from land. Then was made 206 per cent, and, last. ly, 88 per cent. it was a large measure of re- lief, because If an article is charged 80 per twelve years ox- cept one we have had surpluses. We had not a surplus in the the first year of ou nt tion, When we Toles an istrus ter We had a deficit of $500,000 In that year. But the year after that, In 1897, we had a surplus of $1,000,000, then of $4,000 000 then of '$8,000,000, then of $3 000,000, then of $7,000,000, then of $14,000,000, then of $15,000. 000, then of $7.000,000 again then of $12,000,000, then of $16.. 000.000, and at last $19,000,000. WW wm wm ONE PERIOD CLOSED FOR- EVER. For a great many years, we could not keep our own popula- tion, and our young men went by the hundreds, by the thous- ands, by the million even, to the United States, to favor with thelr labor and their brains a land no more favored by nature than their own, But, thank heaven, those days have passed away. That era has been closed, and closed by whom? Closed by the Liberal Government, Ww wm Ww VICTORY ASSURED. Unless I am greatly mistaken --and I am not mistaken--the verdict pronounced by the Cana- dian people on Oct. 26th will be the same as it was four years ago, eight years ago. and twelve years ago. Why should it be otherwise? Why should the people of Canada have lost the confidence they placed in us in 1896, in 1900, and In 1904? Ww mom HAS PUT LABOR ON A NEW PLANE. We have done for labor what has never been done by any other Government in the world The laboring man to-day is no longer the semi-slave he was formerly. He is a fellow-citizen now in every particular, He has rights which must be protected, and which are protected by the present Government. There are no more sweating shops in Can- ada where a man has to work sixteen hours a day for a thank- less master. and we have brought in the law " of conciliation by which disputes between employ- er and employed can be deter- mined without recourse to the extreme and dire remedy of a strike. THE MAN AND HIS WORK "If my eyes close upon a Canada more united than I found it, I shall die in peace."--Sir Wilfrid Laurier at Strathroy. | | | HIS GREATEST WORK. It is now twenty years since | assumed the leadership of the Liberal party, or, to put it more exactly, it is now twenty years since the too great .partiality of my friends in the House of Com- mons put upon my shoulders the responsibility of leading the Lib- eral party. When my friends chose me to be their standard- bearer | swore to myself that I would give to the task .the whole of my life, my soul, and my body, and that | have done. My days cannot be very long now. But whether they are long or short, | shall ever treasure as the most holy thing in my life the confidence which has been placed in me by men who were not of my own kith and kin. | have endeavored to maintain the principle that the Liberal party is broad enough, that Liberal principles are large enough, to give an equal share of 'justice end liberality to al! men, no mat- ter what may Eke their race or religion, This is the feeling that has animated me, and this Is the feeling which shall ani- mate me to the end. If | am to be remembered aftér | have gone to my grave, | would rather it should he because my name has been attached to the great work 3 advancing the unification of . races forming the Canadian Rat on. When my life comes to is _end, if my eyes close upon a Canada more united than | found it twenty years age, when Lit Sumed the leadership of the al party, | shall not have N fved in vain, and | shall dis In nm wm WHERE ARE THE ® are ch ¢ Been raged wis having charges? When have made? In the sessio oaths duration Tawn to a close a few weeks was there any charge made against the Government such as was made against the Conserva- tive Government in the days of the Pacific scandal, or in the days of the McGreevy scandal, or in the days of the steel rails scan- dal, when the Government were directly taken to task for acts of corruption for which chapter and book were given? No, sir. No charge of that kind was made mm CHARGES? against the present Administra- peace. cent, a reduo- tion of one- third makes the measure of tax- ation 20 per cent, Ww ww W STAGNATION THEN; GRESS NOW. What was the condition of Canada when the present Gove ernment assumed office? Trade was stagnant, manufacturing es- pecially was stagnant; something had to be done, and we undertook to do tt We thought that the policy of policies which would be essential to the progress of the Canadian people was the policy of transportation. We bulit the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, which brought all the wealth of miner als, especially in coal, in south- ern British Columbia, to the doors of the people of the west- ern Provinces, and we have brought the Intercolonial Rall- way to Montreal By building the Grand Trunk Pacific we are rolling the map of Canada over one hundred miles to the north- ward. We have deepened. ganals We have improved harbors. We have lighted the St Lawrencs, and the result of it has been that to-day we have not only cheap- ened the cost of transportation to the people of Canada, but we have so cheapened it that we are getting the carrying of American goods. We have made Canada the third commercial nation in the world. I think I can claim that 'when the pages of history are unfolded to the eyes of future generations<it- will be regarded that, though the generations which have passed laid the foun- dations, the supreme honor of crowning the edifice was reserv- ed to the Administration which you placed in power In 1894, the mandate of which you renewed in 1900 and in-1904. and which mandate, I believe, you will again renew. ww wm Ww THE LAND FOR THE SETTLER. There has not been given away by the Liberal Government one single acre ofyland which was fit for settlemen® but In the course of a few years we have heen able to plant in the three North-West« ern Provinces one million people PRO- oa! - - 6 87% 0 oF 0% oe i Fr rr POLL LoIofafod ot got Fodofubedegebogedod 1 1-1-ToT-1 1-3