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MUMKAY, Auctioneer. uroiture Sales given special at tention Count: aie of Farms took, ete, ave besh m 3 1 ol vars I we Sigh Roliar. get my MARKET sgl ak sesssssene H PARKS & SON Florists Nin irons iss All kinds of Cut Flowers and Plan. in season Wedding and Funeral De signs a Sheclalty ipped to all parts 2% King Street 2 . Wood, Lumber, Shingles . > Prices, N. JACKSON, Residence, 280 Street. 'Phone No. 1019. 0000000000000 00000EIY FOR SALE CULL HARDWOOD CHEAP, W. DRURY, : Coal and Wood Yard. Phone 443. FOR. Health Drink -McCarthey"s Ale and Porter. It's the best. $ecssssesw 4] Agent, R.J. LAWLER omni re Hon. r. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY ,28. 101f. } Provincial Finances | CLEAR-CUT AND CONVINCING SPEECH Deficit of $553,363.25--Vigorous Colonization Policy for Northern Ontario Advocated--Industrial Edu- In Sudgst, Hon. Mr. position, ke follows Mr. raker : Thi a oocupi tovered a wide range subjects have been erwise, view that cation-4Scarcity of Teachers -- Reforestration==. | Reciprocity and Other Subjects Eloquently Dealt | With. contin the debate oa the MacKay, Leader of is debate has now some two weeks, and has re of sabjects. The : interesting or oth- largely, according to one's point; but I am glad to sey, Sir, in the main the spirit that has pervaded this debate has been one ef courtesy, moderation, and sweet res- sonableness. the jingling and In contrast to seme of somewhat jingoistic speeches of honorable gentlemen op- posite that of the latest acquisition to this H couse was rather a method and manner of delivery. The modesty he displayed was mo doubt due to the fact; Sir, that he site on this side of the House. Current Receipts The annual nd Honorable, as 0 the financial face at the close-of any always important. careful consideration. the correctness of the assets and Hi ably Expenditures, aunouncement by the the Provincial : . of this year and deserves The question of Eo pr aa dealt with by the has n the member for West ii 510 ZEEE $47.05 A 1! i FEE i that any sane intelligent accountant would make. May I be permitted to remark, Sir, that I do not idolize a surplus. There may occur in the his tory of this province, as in the history of any business enterprise, occasional circumstances which will demand that the province as an individual should draw upon his credit far a particular year, vendi series we have experienced in late something to be avoided. event, vince time A seeming s lus. virtue in the and should perchance make ex- tures beyond current receipts. A of deficits, however, such as ears is | n any . Sir, the finances of this pro- should not be juggled or shuffled after time in ol . will justify the production of a dis nest financial statement. I contend, %ir, as I have always contended, that the moneys received from the abso- 'ute sale of crown lands cannot truth- fully or reasonubly be treated as aught slse than receipts on capital account. When this provinee parts absolutely and entirely with any land all possi- bility of a future receipt from that land eys received from credited to capital account. Bir, is gone, and, therefore, the mon- the sale should be What, would be thought of a farmer who owned two hundred acres of land, who ance gain, xi for several years worked the a aes tas say, a year i.e, that his current ap his current expenditure b: particular year he old , says, $5,000 for it, at the end of that his current receipts exceed expenditure by $5500. made any such contention wand send for his e care of him, ander the that something: had i thi er to produce | . There is no such | aving of & surplus as | sale of lands must be treated as eapi- tal and not as current receipts. In thi was right. positioN to hil financial statement for which again the people of this, pro- find, Bir, that last year from the abso late sale of lands the province receiv- ed the following two jtems: $432, 109.47; $10,867.42, making a total capi- tal receipt under this head of $42. 966.89. The honorable gentlemen hav. the printed statement before them; there is no doubt as to the facts, and the dishanesty and the deception of this year placing such items in eur rent receipts, in order to produce an apparent surplus, is too manifest. Again, Sir, on timber sales: At p. 4 the Honor able, the Provineial Treasurer's bud- get speech of 1906 we find the fil ow- ing: "Now we distinguish the bonus received from pine timber sales a- being a special payment account'; then again at p. 5 he says "It is, 1 contend, a capital asset, and such 1 propose to treat it." Then again, Sir, at p. 4 of his financs statement of 1906 will be found th: following statement: "Of the revenue the bonus on pine timber sales sold under the former Government, $520. 000, may be considered as being pad on capital acesunt'; so that, Sir, in 1905 and 1906 he was very properly treating the bonus received on timber sales as a capital and not a current receipt, Apply this classification which is a proper classification, t his this year's statement, and we mu: deduct under the heads of "Woods and Forests" the amount reeeived as (a bonus on timber sales, namely $92, 396.36. Adding these two items fto- | gether, namely, the amount received for the sale of crown lands ($442 ' 966.89), and the amount received as a bonus on the sale of timber, namely, $62,306.36, you have in all under thes: | two heads, a capital receipt, wrongly and dishonestly placed in the current receipt column of $535,363.25. 363.25 you arrive, according to the own statements, according to his own der to mislead the ple of this pro- vince, the Hono! Treasurer deliberately transfers large items already mentioned from the column of capital receipts to that of current receipts, and thus produces a bogus and imaginery surplus of $3,484.59, while he knows, and every sane man in this House knows and every truth respecting man will agsert, i that there is an actual deficit of $531 878.66. If, Sir, I desired to go further and desired to hold the honorable gentle- man to his contention when financial critic of the Opposition," where would { he land? I find, Bir, at p. 6 of his | budget speech for 1905 the following statement: "Sir, we contended at times when we were in Opposition that all crown lands receipts should be treated as received on capital ac- caput. Loo The late Mr. E. F. Clarke, one of the ablest financial men whe ever represented a consti- tuency in this Legislature, was espe. cially wont to argue that that shoukl be done." Sir, were we thus to introduce the Honorable, the Provincial Treasurer to-day to himself as financial critic of thé Opposition in years by, and were to hold him to his n con- tention what would be the resalt? | I take up the financial statement is- im, and I find that for the A a he of ovale al it is not to become a mere laughing: stock, there must be continuity in the and classification of our fin- Hi EE i a Hi ; = ht i FEne i £ge Fria i ¥ ? F ly clear that the receipts from the! Let me apply this | vince pay, and what do I find? 1! painfully | take the item of bonus |; of capitel Now, Sir, if you take the alleged-| surplus of $3,484.59 from the $535. | Honorable, the Provincial Treasurer's | position, an actual cash deficit last year of $531 878.66, and yet, Bir, in 1 order to mislead this House, in or | , the Provincial | 'were no valuable discoveries then ft | conversation of the sawsie and for re | ; forestration were Laken ! Be a timber famine. For many years : a deaf ear was lent o.al gach: Jeg | gent warnings, with unavoidab. | result that our neighbors io the of us sre pow in many lines - | ing on a timber famine. Henee again, | Bir, ¥ repeat the necessity of dealing honestly with the facls 8s 0 our re + ceipls from crown lands. I, Sir, the | statement of the Honorable, the Pro- | incial Treasurer were an honest one, | ht prochuim to this House aad people of this province there was last year an actual finan- | it of $531,878.68. Then, Bir, should xi iit to there would | | monstrate i that t-thing less tha ---- Tawa enacted b y Ge mm which exp men ¥ ou © liar of the $82881. 04.6 Fears receipis, to the laws m the old Gove n and which in many cases we ed by honorable | % right, and as they divided t but twice, a: some cases three times. y 2, Sir, briefly S proposition, namely all of the increase of Fomine s between 1904 and 1910 save some fi $300,600, can be traced oo ry tle to des back to the ¢ | the old Libera say, that ii is no! inal for any public man with his figures as to inery surplus when ther asd very substantial deficit. gentle have indulged in their wonted jingling a as to receipts from the ines. Last year from mining licenses ing fees we received $193, 1904 we received but as compared with 1904, s ad the old Government aitied fined i Jower The teceips would sti n as were in 1904 ask, Sir, would still be selling for $3 an acre. In years gone by, when lands were sold for $3 an acre, it was considered by both sides of the House that this was all these lands were worth. There made; but, Sir, in their criticisms, the honorable member for Algoma and others forgot the fact that the mining laws as to revenues that we now have on the statuie book are nearly, if not exactly, in the form that was suggest- ed from this side of the House. Sir, honocable tlemen will recall that when the Bnorabie. the Minister of Mines proposed to bring down his min- ing laws as to revenue, and when in- terrogated from this side of the House as to what principle he would tax min- ing laws, he answered that the tax would be so much per acre; it will also be recalled that I at once ridi- culed such a proposition. While you may assess farm lands fairly by look- ing at the surface you never could assess mining lands equitably in that way. 1 pointed out then, Sir, that the tax should depend upon the revenue received from any particular mine; that if no ing ore were contained in that mine this province would have no right tw tax the purchaser, because it had given him no value whatever What was the result, 8iz? The Hon- orable, the Minister of Mines delayed for one the bringing down of his bill, when in the following year he introduced that bill, he announced that the tax would be upon the royal- creased receipts under | which this Governmen credit whatever, The Corporation Tax. 'Take first the corporation tax, which was opposed so bitterly 1} Cone servatives in this Hous i the re- peal of which was thre ied by the present Premier when he sat in Oppo- sithon. The receipts from of these wea) ) telephone companies, bar in 1904 were Nir, in 1910, amounted to the 338, or an increase $331,710. Sir, not a singie doliar of this $752.538 would have found Its way into the Provincial Treasury had honorable gentlemen opposite had their way; and yet, Bir, if we are to believe the supporters of the Govern. ment this increase under this head of $331,710 is to attributed to the splendid financial management of the present Government! Succession Duties. Then again, Sir, under the head of succession duties the receipts in 1904 were $408,699. In 1910 thev amounted to $758,446, or an, increase ¢ 299 744. To whem, Sir, belongs the credit for these large receipts? The people of this province right well remember, Sir, that when it was proposed to tax large estates that honorable gentle men opposite and their friends spoke of "taxing the gravestones, taxing the dead," etc. They had not the courag of their convictions at the outset to move an amendment to vote against the bill; but later on when it was re vised the present Provincial Treasur er moved an amendment that would have cut the receipls at least in half, 20 that, Sir, it is clear te us that if honorable gentlemen on the opposite side had had their way they never would have sd such a tax, and the province last year would, there fore, not have received the said $758,445. Licenses. Then again, Sir, take another illus tration of the splendid constructive financing of the old Government: Re ceipts under the gemeral head of Li censes in the year 1904 were $362.356 In 1910 they amounted to $580,162, an increase of $217,906. Part of this con sists, Sir, of the received for be a4 vain attempt by honorable gentle. en opposite to save their particular friends from a fair and just taxation dn r under the head of : Licenses and Fees" were but $1,504. In 1980 the receipts were $193 633, an imcrease of $192,085. But, Sir, to whom belongs the credit Agr such increased receipts? fir 1904 there wer. praciically no miming operations in our nerth country, fér the minerals had not been discovered. When they were discovered, and it was learned | that these was great miming wealth in the north it became at once advis- able to make revenue laws to fit the | situation, and as | have already ex | plained, the present law as it stands upon the statute book is there by #he | adoption of the Honorable, the Minis- ter of Mimes of the suggestion made by me when this question came-up. Dominion Subsidy. Yn. 190¢the grant that this-province received by way of subsidy from the Dominion Government was $1,134,660 in 1910, owing to the increaseof popu- lation m the Province of Ontario, and as a result of the action of the Lib- eral Government at Ottawa the sub- sidy was increased to $2128.79; or an increase as between 1904 and 1910 of $994,112. When the Liberal Gov- ernment was in power negotiations were opened with a view to oblaining such an increased subsidy. These ne- wers continued after the r ernment in this respect simply did their duty, no especial credit is due il cegls i g§ g : k il the fol- ye Ld B at1 ET . - --- [ As 10 "Mining Licenses sid Fees. | all our schools. "Both oir advice and $192,085. cur pleadings fell upon reluctant and As to the Dominion Subsidy, $994. | unappreciative ears.. The result is 12 : that about twenty or twenty-five per As to the T. & N. O. ehirnings, | cent. of the rural schools in the Pro« $420,000. * "vince of Ontario today are in the Or in all $2465.557.00. In other hands of unqualified teachers. That, words of. the total inerense in revensus . Sir, is the result of the Government's sinning against advice and against oft-repeated warnings. We pointed out over and over again that a larfe percentage of our normal trained teachers go west, to teach in the srestern provinces, and taking that fact with the fact of the wiping oul of the model schools there was bound {10 be a dearth of teachers. The edu« cation rppert for 1909 shows that 60 teachers left the Province of Ontaria for the west. The honorable the mem i ber for East Peterborough, as 1 have already stated, expressed the opinion {that in five years there will be a sufficient number of teachers, 1 beg, ; : : . Sir, to introduce the honorable mem- years ater they have gone out of pow: | hor 45 his own riding, that of Easy ie. nanciai acsigs of on pro' | Peterborough. i e il . J 4b » tracdesd back to fingncial legislation placed up- East Peterborough. off the statute box by them or to | Richard Leés, the Public School measures advocated by them, it spe Inspector for East Peterborough, ute volumes for their finsneia) 'and busi. [der date of January 24th, 1811, subd tive ability. mitted a report to the County Coun f would ever have been | cil, in which he says that last vear Province of Ontario | out of the total rural schools of thas ead of Corporation .Tax | Riding, numbering 7¢, there. were 27 ervativa Opposition had | teachers holding second-class certis ander ti ficates, fifteen holding third-class cers during the operation o tificates, six holding district certifi. date, the Government cates, dnd not less than- thirty-one $6,192,976 41. Bimilarly who were not regularly qualified; but Suceession Act who merely had permits and such has received in all other like temporary certificates. In alse der the Brewers' an ist | other wonds, during the, year 1910 has receive forty-two per cent. of the rural schools » three taxes the | in the old riding of East Peterborough s of the province up to i were in the hands of unqualified 3ist October, 1910, reached thé | teachers. This is the direct result of magnificent sum of $14,804,159 47 { the Premier's boast, that he had Sue. : led the educational system upsi 1 bl Expenditure. is a ldewn. It is indeed, Bir, entirely too 3 Oe nliemen opposite COM- | yyy that he has turned the edueas Pain that crits of the Government | 4,04) system upside down, with the a8. hot partisglarine a hy { deplorable result in East Peterborough objecting to excessive expenditures, |, . P . an This is &n easy remark to make, aud that the J ublie School Inapuctor salle ret there is much foree i 6 positia rd mb . Fe Drege A ach J in Aha goaitie i Northumberland and Durham. Wentworth (Mr. Rexl), w Let me give another illustration of save. that the Oppostion has done it the result of the mismanagement of duty when, for example, under the | educational affairs in this province head of Civil Government he point by the present Government 1 find, out that owine to the unnecessarily | according to the report of William E. sed number of emploves the Tilley, M.A, Ph.D, Public School nditure is unnecessarily increased. | Inspector for West Inspectorate Nou t for the Opposition members | 1, of these counties, that in the year whether John Smith. or Joe | 1900 there were 70 rural schools in his r particular em. | inspectorate; in which schools there This is juty | were, '2 first-class, 92 second-class, f the G« and 46 third-class, and not a single er holding any kind of a tems { porary certificate or permit, In 1910, same 70 schools, there were first.class, 927 second-class, 0 third-class, and not less than 19 hers with no regular qualifies. whatever, exeept temporary ¢, This state of affairs in these old ridings are but typical of is to be found all over the ce of Ontario, You may talk, I out the mineral wealth of the | pyovipee, of its forests, its fisheries, | ard ies agricultural wealth; but there no asset concerning which the Government should - exercise such scrupulous care as with reference to the children of the province. If this result, Sir, had been a mere accikdenty if the Minister of Education had not i bean warned over asd over againg his conduct might hawe been excus. able; but, Sir, as have already stated, he sinned aguinst advi against oft repeated warnings, against what every sane man in the Province of Ontario, save apparently himself, had clear knowledge. 1 cane not understand, Bir, why honorable between 1904 1 1910 of $2.762.646.00, I have accounted for $2465 ol, fe, the whole inereuse in the revenue has been accounted for under the above heads exoept $207 wr words, Sir, after the pre iment has power for six long years, I been in 1c make thi 3 be stantial staten i the pres- eni grevouue « province trifle less than $300,000 is scoounted for by laws placed upon the statute books by the old Government, or mes- sures advocated by Liberdls, Faults the old Liberal Government doubtiess had, but Sir, when seven 5 sweep Save a the the head aione, fas under the province 2 South ' , or some oth th vernment Contrast In Expenditure, j teact of Civil Government has 1904, ging the The cost jin the »d . gince cent, ; ° erown lands during the same. period the total! expenditure during the same period has increased 68 per cent., and vet the inerease on | fun agriculture is but 39 per cent. This | wh shows clearly that as to this impor. | tant field of work the expendit | has not at all kept pace with general 'exper ¢, nor yet with tl mnereased reve of the province is Much eredit is claimed by supporters of the Government t se of the in creased expenditure n education; they forget that soch expenditures would be absolutely impossible were it not for the increased revenue de. rived as already explained. They might do well in making compari i alsa to note the fact that the ex ditare in 1904 on education was 13 per cent. of the total expenditure of the provinee, whereas in 1910 the ex- penditure on educution reached only 19 per cent. of the total expenditure 65 per gentlemen to your right are such slaves to party politics; if this were not so serious a matter the explana< tions given by honorable gentlemen opposite as to the pn of teachers might be enjoyed as a burlesque on the facts that would have all the downtown theatres faded in the dise tance Explanations by Conservatives, . The honorable member for Algoma says, that the closing of the model schools has had nothing whatever to do with the scarcity of teachers, that the sole cause is the fact that they are going west to teach in the western provinces. The former statement is absolutely false, the Iaiter has an element of truth in it, which we pointed out to be the fect Jong before the model schools were abolished. The more astute and resourceful member for West Hastings gives as his explanation, that there is & scarcity of labor everywhere, on the farm, in the workshop and in the office ; and he gives this as his reasons for the scarcity of teachers. Appar ently not satisfied himself wilh this as an explanation, he volunteers o further statement, sud says that we ! British are nomadic, and hints thay crease of revenue wit injuring the teachers, gipay-like, sre folding anyone. Bimilarly' T advocafed white gheir tentsiand flitting out of Ontario. the Mining law was being put i 3 - 'e be coniinuel.) through, that the royalties migh yery well be graded so as to take t! Notes on New Knights. higher percentage from the excep Ki . 5 { hy ng George has celobrated hiv firey tional paying mine. It is not the New ho as sovere by add duty of a Government to make multi. | pop flee to the Lame gn " . tod millionaires of one, and tend to make "yoo . y ot One of the best known is "Sw paupers of others. Again, Bir, the Government might | . ' : well consider the overhauling of the {Joseph Lyons, who supplies 400,000 { people with meals every day. taxes on corporations. and also the | "What would you do," silway taxes, with a view to in | asked, "if you were ten times as.rich dreasing the taxation | a8 Rockefeller?" - ) Education. ha I would saver England witli frog 5 i { hospitals," was his prom re . Aust a word or two on education: | Henry J. Wood, ¥ he ad This House was not divided on the | , debate on the address: but 1 thea d0Clor, is another who exchanges the dealt fully with the question of edu. | COmmonploce "Mr" for the - distin cation, and 1 therefore at present do fuithed "Sir" He insists on silence not purpose to deal at length with "Dii® he is presiding over his orches- this question, (tra. On ome occasion, at Queen's but for the purposes of | of my amendment to the present mo- j Rat k, in , Anvyers was Pinenity tion to go into supply the two debates persi ly thas the Inid might very well be considered as con. ! i ; : : down his baton and left the pistform.: joined, thus to avoid the necessity of The srdittiee. had to choo repetition. . That educational affairs between particularly so far as the rural [00 and the Gaby. And they dda se are concerned, hava been |e fond mother's indignation. ! bad! addled i t even seriously | Cricketer, athlete, KC, MP. and dentad Conservative members. he mow, haight, Arthur Priestley is the fo the scarcity of teachers hongrabls Sentral figure of a fund of good gentlemen opposite express different . : views: one member expressed the | During a recent election meeting a hope that in two yeurs matters would Particularly irritating heckler pars rly adjust themselves, while the ticularly irritated Mr. Priestley, who Er le member for Peter. Jumned pn him suddenly with the de. borough says, that in five years time Mand, you, were in my there will be a sufficient supply of I Was fo interrupt you, what would This, Sir, is : you do? p; a downt™ "I'd jolly well knock pe bed the heckler, > our bo sh the Weel schools that for 1910 { Another point that might well give { the Government pause, and particu larly in view of the eversrecurring d ficits, is the fact that the ibcrease in { the per capita expenditure during th { first three years of Conservative ru! was as great the increase per I apita expenditure during the whole | 33 years of Liberal rule. as | Suggested Sources of Revenue. | Owing to the fact, Bir, that we have ntly had a series of ith province, it becomes imperativel { the duty of the Government to either lecrease the expenditure, or to devise ways and means for increased ra cei I have already dealt with the question of the conservation of our forests and pf reforestration as a means of se g a permanent rev in addition to that, Bir th Government might well consider whether under the Suceessiog Duties tax they might not grade the reent age to be taken by the province that when you come to large estates that run up to say $500,000, $1.000,. 000, $2.000.000 gnd so on, the Govern ment might take a much larger per. centage oni say the excess over $56 000, and thus secure Y deficits in enue, : To which the athieticeenndidatoraes "Then kindly step up?™ i A -- § y Doing the Lord's work ooh tor be ! sp LE -------- CE TS 0 fs gage or