t to ae oF the most ect been oné of the : 3 le 'features of the Adminis. 7 of Sir James Whitney, for that Aare has handicapped tens of thou- ! sa of young Omtario men andj.. Smal he LU SE 54° ne "tucest LiDeTal Policy of Square Deal tichal m of the Government is | 2g mee Pr A . to. be found the Budget speech of to Northland. ative, Torunte Tulstam descr . £3. MacKay o ebruary 17, ! Bie of th 4 ; x: i i istration, was appointed by Pret! 138. On sducation ai { Whitney to represent the pew coun- Z iiry in his Cabinet. Mr. ochrane's | Technical Education. | interest was confined in the lumbering "Something has been said by the } i {GOVERNMENT HAS SLEPT, ond mining industries. © With the hon. member for North Huron as to] i | wonderful agricultural porsibliities thé amount spent In different stages | of the great clay belt of twenty mil. of educational work. Now, sir, I pre- | "As to the in this city of the adoption of sinee the change Jue only resenuy been. effected, it is probably um to make any em- phatle statements as to its effects. It may be of interest te" state that up to the present (say, October 15) the building perinits for this year totalled upwards of $4,200,000. The fotal of bulldt permits in 1910 was 2. 51,288 When I say that 1910 shows] by far the iargest figures of any year} 5 ih the history of the eity it can resd-] : i MR. MACKAY'S INDICTMENT. the' tthe new maliway. * i from w railway siding. When the § Whitney Government entered office; | they found their = predecessors - had { bpilded better than they knew. Hon. Frank Cochrane, whom the Conserv. 5 iemmpae Whitney Government - ignored it Entirely for Years. Statistics as to How Whimey Has Wielded Axe. But Sir James Whitney. Re- fuses to Budge an Inch, ------ CIVIL "SERVICE REFORM. fly be scen what an enormous expan- sion' in the direction of building en- terprise has taken place this year White it is Srue. that ghste has bath is large ty - throughout he west in vor this vear, [ think it perfectly true to say a proportion ol © Increase in this city is due to the adoption of tax reform methods by the mi | a OPPOSED TO' AN: OPTION. lion acres he" had apparently litle ; . i concern. With the colonisaticn of the Yume that the figures named by the | country he demonstrated little sym: ha + 4 on Wet { 5 3 member for West Wellington | yyjuiice and Anomaly Developed pathy. With the building up of ' | contented and progressive communi- . wough Whitney Policy of Leth.) (jos he showed small practical inter- pointment by Merit, and Not Wrgy -- Progressive Proposals Fest: With developing arteries of coms. Pull. o x of mubication and constrdeting mood | - - Liberal Leader. permanent roads he had not much tol Ie do. His concern was in the revenue- | . . producing abilitisy of the timber growth aud mining deposits. Country Left to Grow. As a consequence comparatively little has seen done along the lines or'- iginally proposed by the Liberal party when it projected the People's Rail way. Dissatisfaction throughout the north is general because of the many tnjustices and anomalies which have been perpetrated or permitted to! exist. Northern Ontario---like Topsy | ~~has "been ' graclousty permitted to so far as the Whitney| Experience of Vancouver Proves That Tperaly Dewand the Creation of w 'Municipal Tazes Can be Levied on Service Commission and Ap- land Values Alone to Advantage of Everybody Who Builds. Goverment Forced to Take Action awhiMr. McEwing) are substantially cor- 'o Agtion ay Tt is very difficult indeed to be a Result of His Demand--! abs . eaetain and accurate in Many Young Men and Women| Making any catoulation from our pub- cipalities a resolution wus adopted Have Been Greatly Handicapped. asking that counties, citjes apd towns J lic accounts, Because there are so be allowed to reduce or wholish the | i many. sub-headings and the sub divisions of the educational work are poll tax and the taxation of improve- ments, personal property and income, very varied, but, sir, 1 have no doubt whatever that the figures quoted by the hon. gentleman mentioned are or any one or more of them. The Town Council of Newcastle, N.B., has already gone on record in favor of substantially correct. Aecording to them the Government grant last year to public and separate. schools. aver- the change. It is time the 'muni- aged $1.38 per pupil ; the grant to cipalities of Ontario voted for free- high schools and collegiate institutes dom from an arbitrary Provincial averaged $4.66 per pupil; the grant control which denies the right to ex. to normal and model schools averaged periment and rejects every demand $112.43 per pupil and that to the for modern methods. A Little Rebellion. ieipality." At the recent annual convention of the New Brunswick _ Union of Muni- A ------ The spoils and patronage Sys. tems are mimical to the highest efficiency of the civil service and to the best interests of the coun- try. We propose the creation of a Civil Service Commission, and that appointments and promo- tions in the service shall be by merit after competitive examina. tion. The Liberal policy calls for the maintenance of the colonization character of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario. Railway, and the protection of shippers and settlers from inequitable rates by subjecting the rail. roid to regulation by/the Do- minion Railway Commision and the general railway law; remov- The Liberal party favors more liberal grants in aid of primary education and the promotion of industrial training and technical instruction in urban and rural communities, University of Toronto $126.36 per pupil. It is difficult to figure exactly what the average would he to' agri- In the pamphlet giving, the record exempt ovements from tax. tmpro of the Whitney Government, issued by 'ation, either' in whole "or in | ar For this greatly-needed * reform nearly 300 municipalities in Ontario Conservatives are beginning to break loose from Sir James Whitney on the tax reform issue. . The Ottawa Journal, a Conservative paper, com- menting on the fact that J. A. Ellis : e, the Con- the campaigh managers, it is stated that "the Government has taken steps to develop a system of dechnical and Industrial education. The Superinten- cultural students, although substan- tial sums are given. But, sir, 1 come now to a very important point. No member of 'this House is advancing honest criticism, either for or against the Government, who is passing over ing just grounds of complaint by permitting actions at law against the railway without the necessity of first obtaining per "grow," Government are concerned. There has| | been no stable, intelligent, progressivé| ard co-operative fi stering encourage | ! ment by an Administration who have | not hesitated to avail themselves of all} In these words from the platform of the Liberals of Ontario as lad down by Mr. Rowell lies the hope of redemption from a system of aphboint- have petitioned, while almost 200 newspapers including, 'With very few x ne all the leading dailies, and Controller Champagn dest of Education was se - jahd Controller Champagne, he Con: s sent to investl pledged themselves to vote for a tax ae S54. 7eport up = the latest meth A J 4 'orm "option," says : : Im en ve either eaitoriaififiiavored it E411 The-Journal were opposed to. theischools of Great-Britain, the-contin- signed a "press" petition - for 18 principle of a lower assessment of ent of Europe and the United States adoption. 'The Labor Uhilons of On- | building values than of land values,| report valuable and complete wis northern opportunities to augment their revenue. It Is true that certain extensions of the railway have been facts and does not point them out. 1 raise - the question, sir, that 1 have often raised in this House, a question that 1 have often pressed upon the Government dnd that is, while wegre doing very fairly by way of assisting the pupils who attend our public and mission from the Atorney-Gen- eral; placing the railway in the same position as other Tallways An the. of payment of municipal "taxes; the extension of "the railway with all practi- ment to public office that has long disgraced Ontario, "a system under made, but agtion in a4 cases was! Which "pull" counts for almost ever) - culy taken after long-drawn-out andd thing and allie onsen: repeated assaults on the lethargy By quence. oh 38-08. oS the Government, both by the railway , e Liberal party while In power at Ottawa appointed a Civil ye Davy, Commission and the people them- A a tario are a unit in favoring it, 'but the Premier of Ontario will have tone of It JThat there is pothing to warrant Sif James Whitney's uncompromis- fog opposition every time this change has been sought by petition and by amendment to the assessment act is shown by the success of Van- couver under the full application of the system to the extent of municipal ee ye ANES FOqUITeTHeNtS. 'Home 'fifteen years ago the City Council decided to encouragé building by' reducing the improvement tax 50 per cént. The ef- fect became immediately apparent in the erection of large buildings where it formerly seemed more profitable to hold: the land vacant or retain shacks or small structures. The ef- fect of the change was so marked that in 1906 a further decrease of 25 per cent. was made in the tax on buildings and other improvements. There was at once another increase which was, in comparison with cit- ies levying the old-time improvement tax, out of proportion to the increase in population, k No Tax on Improvements. 3 "fhe advance resulting een #0 rapid sol apparent thet THE COUNCIL DE- CIDED AT THE BEGINNING LAST YEAR TO ATE TIRELY or INGS AND n tions increased to after the system tion for ten years, the average value of building operations had increased 10 $284 per head. When the further red n improvament tax was made 0'per cent to 20 per cent. thers was a p rtionate advance in bw operations, the average has and its cause oF EN THE TAX BUILD: IMPROVEM' "(8 Before the oli if i BO per STILL WE MON UP COURAGE ENOUGH TO LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES. However, needless to repeat, The Journal is in favor of the principle, in common, we think. with most people in this city-- certainly in common with most busi- ness men, Nearly twenty years ago, the then City Assessor. Pratt, a con- servative and able man, with a long experience of civic assessment and taxation, addressed the Board of Trade with a strong plea for assess- nient of land ifi preference to assess- ment of improvements; after which the Board of Trade passed a resolu-| tion unanimously approving of his views, . ment spent on | grants during last year only $31,098, the result. Acting gt once on this re- port, the Government passed a meas- ure in. 1911 which devises a scheme of industrial training in urban centres, under the control of advisory com- mittees, on which manufacturers and workmen are represented, as well as the school boards" This has a very fine sound, but what, are the factg? The public. ac- counts for the year ending October, 1910, show that the Ontario Govern- technical education : Any Safficient If and when they are returned to power the Liberal members of the Legislature propose to make b- Phere is fo item of educational pol- ley in any country more important than the training and certification of public school teachers. If the State undertakes to make a certain amount of public school instruction ob.gatory on parents and children, 'the State must be held bound to see that thoze who impart the instruction are com- DEARTH OF COMPETENT SCHOOL TEACHERS Extraordinary Figures Showing How Great a Proportion of the Teachers of Ontario Are Without Qualification. inspectorate of Northumberland and Durham there were in 1.00, in sev- enty rural schools, two first-class feachers, twenty-two second-class, and forty-six third-class, and not a,sin- gle tegcher Noting Ady L of a iSmparary certificate or permit... In A seventy is in 1910 teachers, twenty~ with no t the de- Ahese statis- ¢ ne. sl! over the ce 1s 'quite ain by the fcllowing table taken from the report of the Minister of Education for 1910: No of 1st 2nd 3rd Play teachers. class, class, class, cates, «een 4,800 5 288 It 1569 2454 aT 3% 088 separate schools, our high schools and collegiate institutes, and our univer- sities, what 'are we doing for the lad who is forced to leave s-hool between the ages of thirteen" and eighteen years and bably ente shop ? SIR, TAST ¥ SISTED 450,000 ODD 438 PUPILS AT PER CAPITA ; AND WE ASSISTED 950 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ITA--AN oF TUTIONS, Proud of the University. "We are, particularly proud of our Provincial University, the largest uni- versity to-day in the British Empire. There are po#sibly one or two exam- ining bodfés called universities, such as Lendon and Calcutta, that may be EDUCATIONAL INSTI- colleges to-day in the British Empire with practical teaching faculties that has the attendance that the University of Toronto-has... In the whole British Empire we lead the way to-day, and sir, it must clearly be understood that I am not objecting to any of the grants referred to, but I desire clearly to point out that out of the 450,000 odd pupils who attend our public and separate schools a large mumber are forced to leave school earn thelr bread by the swe: like places. hey leave, sir, at ages varying from possibly thirteen to sov- enteen. The growing and important for those lads who nesd our assist- ance most ? We must face this pro- blem fairly. This is a serious ques- tion. high school, through the"collegiate in- stitute, through the University of To- ronto, and we assist him in every case. We follow the younk man to the Agri- cultural College and we make grants to assist in his education. We follow our intending teachers, and very pro- cable speed' to a suitable outlet the work- THE RATE OF $112.43 AT RATE OF $126.36 PER CAP- , SIR, WE ARE PROUD larger, but there is no federation of I am sure Ontario is proud of it... So, wigout ever, even entering i" high sc "and to of their brow in factories, workshops and such : The Needs of Agriculture | question I raise sir, is, with all our boasted education, what 'are we doing We follow the lad through the to Hudson Bay, and branches as required for the development of the country. "This is a large and' progressive order. Its adoption means a Greater Ontario in deed as well as in name. It means efficient, businéssiike service in all departments by the People's Rail. way and the development of very great possibilities in the north. A Liberal Ideal. The Liberal policy appeals alike to the imagination and the practical enterprise of the people of Omario. It is a policy of vision, based upon principles of equity and sound com- mon sense. It was a Liberal Govern- ment who, a decade ago,looked beyond and blazed the trall for a grealer Ontario than had been. It will be recalled that when that Liberal Govs ernment proposed the project of a governmepgt-bulit and government-op- erated railway the then Con- servative Opposition did not receive the suggestion kindly. Amid carping criticism the great work of opening up the practically unknown hinter- land was inaugurated. Sir James Whitney himself was among the sev- erest critics and scornfully designa- ted the district as "the land of the stunted poplar." : But Liberslism persevered in its project, and the Témiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway was con. structed with a view to open up com- munigation and assist in colonizing th t unsettled W®¥thern country, selves, after the Rip Van Winkles at their slumber. Fistehsion to Hudson Bay. i rallway to Hudson Bay. The Con | apparently satisfied, at Cochrane. advocating its extension "with al practical speed to a suitable outle to Hudson of branches "&s required for the de velopment of the country. "the Liberal leader is In line with of the p to do part in the building up and de velopment of a larger prosperous Province. Afterfan Ontario Port, an Ontario port on the Pay is practically useless for naviga tion. * For some miles out from are exceptionally shallow, but three to four feet deep. {3 no natural deep-water channel a a oint, and dred wogld be impracticable, and enormously « expensive. must, therefore, seek to obtain a por on Hudson Bay, that she may partiel pate in the trade of the great north ern sea, and in the boundary nego tiations between Ontario and Mani toba this "Constderation: Queen's Park had been prodded out of The -orizinal intention of the Lib- eral Government was to extend the servative Government have stopped. n Bay" and the construction and more . But. the Liberal party propose to go even further. They propose to seek udson Bay. It has been demonstrated that .Janies the shoré the waters of the: James Bay genarally There ng operations uncertain Ontario should be made fhe vital Service Commission that has done a civil ;servants out: of politics. Mr. Borden promises . to. enlarge the phe: of the commission's opera- tiong,. and for the sake of good gov ernment it is to be heped he will do 80. but already wholesale dismissals of Liberal ofMicials are taking place in the outside service.and. a Wid Scram- ble is in progress for miner positions 1 ti i new | among the victorious Conservallves. the | ideals whieh governed the initiation ject and the determination In Ontario Sir James Whitsey and his Ministers have never made any .| pretence of. encouraging civil 'ser- vice reform. In his recent mani festo telling what his Government has dcne ar what it proposes to do there is n6t a word about the creation of a Civil Service Commission. The definite, clear-cut declaration .|of the Libera! party in favor of the creation of a Civil Bervice Commission to' regulate appointments to ana pro- motions In the civil service commits tit to one of the most important and much-needed reforms. Nothing has had such an injurious effect on the : public life of Ontario as the opera- * tion of the polls and party patronage : systems. ere is no more insidious form of bribery: there is no more certain method of destroying true in- dependence of political actign. Under them. patei@tism becomes St refent to the "prizes." and politicians be jcome less concerned in the merits of the issues with which they have to deal than in their possibilities to fur- nish material benefits to themselves and their supporters. Have Degraded Public Service. The spoils and patronage systems have dons much to degrade public The Liberal policy on agricufl- ture is to stop the depopulation of rural Ontario, give adequate technical instruction In farming and fruit culture in rural schools, to bring suitable immigrants into ssked. He was powerless. ter how he endeavored 'to promote colonization, the rople would not stay. Farming in Ontario was not at- tractive, and under the circumstances settlers were drawn by the stronger magnet in 'the west, No mat men go to the west 7". he frequently and political service. They have be Come entrenched in our Provincial -| Party system, fostered dnd developed by the Whitney Administration: and in declaring for their termination and the creation of a non-partisan, busi- nesslike commission to deal with all appointments on their merits, the Lib eral leader takes one of the boldest, great deal toward taking the inside ' 'for 1908 being $302.66 and for-1909 $308.17 per ad. . This Inérease In the value of building operations per head was achieved while there was #n increase of population from 17,000 in 1894 to over 100,000 a year ago. 'The retord of growth is aiso marked by a decided improvement in the class of building, especially in the case of granite and steel construction. Build. ers no longer fear the assessor, Change Caused No Disturbance. The ehange in Vancouver was not spasmodic, nor did its results entail any violent fluctuations In, 1887, th a population of 5.000, the value of improvements in the municipality was $182,235 and the site was valued at $2.466.842. In 1891 the population was 13.685, the improvement values ati, and the land values $10, (ar hy : The entire exemption of buildi and other mprovements was applied in 1810, and in that year the land as- sessment advanced from $76,881,820 10 $98,771,785, and the improvement assessment from $89,572,445 to $37.- R45.260, the gain in both cases be _~ ing In the neighborhood of 28 pe © the Province, promote good roads, establish demonstration farms, and inaugurate a crusade to stamp out weeds and diseases among trees by a system of in- spection, to extend the useful- ness of the Agricultural College at Guelph. Along 'with the disappointment which, every Canadian fell over the census returns, recently published, there came to everyone interested in the growth of the Province of On-1 tario the significant knowledge that! the rural population of the Province was declining; that there were less people on farms than there were ten years ago; that almost the «entire in- crease in population was confined to the cities and towns of over 4,000 in- habitants: that the Province was in nowise attractive 'to immigrants who wanted to settle on the land. The Department of Agriculture, ipstead of delving to find the onuse of thi= decline, sets about to defend fteelf, and draws analogies from the U. EB. Loyalist movement in Canada a century. and a quarter ago. it blames the west. and it blames the cities and towns. 11 does not face the facts, The jncrense in the population of Ontario during (he past Aeeade is 336,955, of 'which Toronfo supplied almost half. Other cities and towns of over 4,000 fucreased 178.533. The entire urban population has infreased 344,753, while there are 7,798 less people on the land than there were ten years 280. Hon. Jas. 8. Duff, Minister of Agri. culture, seems to be suffering from a guilty conscience. In the report of 'the Departmient for 1910 the Min- f#ter aimost admits the coin: "I desire to dispel the impression. if any such exist=" he says, "that Ontario agri- culture le decadent, and to establish clearly the fact that. far 'from being n source of pessimism, there never wax a time when agrieunitUre was so prosperous of the outlook so bright." Strange it is that thése words should be fiecessary from the Minister of Agriculture, One ean Almost hear the voice of Macheth cry: "Thou canst most radical, far-reaching and advan- tageous steps towards the improves ment of public service and the eleva tion of the tone of pirddie life, This is Liberal: doctfine. "It is In line with the example of the mother country, and follows iu the steps of dent of the William Davies Company, | Le creation of a Civil Service Com: Limited, wrote to Hon. James 8. Dufr, | Mission at Ottawa by he Government Minster of Agriculture, a letter out. Sir Wilfrid Laurier ining the causes of the rige | 16 * price of food products, and kang | The Heafsman's Axe. at considerable length the various! reasons assigned for a decrease in the] population and output of Ontario's! farms. This letter was published in The News on June 18 of last year. Mr. Flavelle is a well-known. Conger- | vative, is high in the favor of the| Government, and any pronouncements | from him mwst he regarded as the! advice of a friend. He criticized the | methods employed on Ontario farms, | COUTS® pursued by the Whitney Gov- Those who go on the land, We argy.| STPment since coming inte power in ed, follow the line of least resistance, h 1295. They summarily dismissed ail He pointed out the new markets tN Justices of the Peace, License In- which were springing up In Canada, spectors but three, and License Com. and deplored a reduced acreage in missioners in the Province, and ap- barley and oats. "Everything hast pointed their own friends, to the num- been reduced which demands laboy| UOT, Of thousdnds, to fill those offices and 'intelligent, discriminating effort," Jt 1s true that a very few Grit Jus he declared.. More extensive farming; [10% 97 the Peace Were reappointed instead of more intensive farming had| PU! Pot In excess of 2 per cent. of been adopted. \ { the new appointments, The report of the Bureau of Indus- The Whitney Government yame tries. for 1908 showed thai for the| (9 Power in February. 1905. A care. past ten years, as compared with thel ful review of The OMcial * Gazette previous seventeen years, there was Commencing February 18, 1905, to the from a moderate to an excellent in.) *N8 of thal Sear shows that in this 'crease per acre of the yield of fipld] Period of ten und one-half months crops. But in the last five years of | there were 662 appointments to of. that ten-year veriod development hud 7° DY the Government. exclusive of apparently ceased. During the first] _OToners, Justices of ihe Peag haif of the present decade there was, Notaries Pubic end Commissions a healthy development: during =the (oF taking amidavits. This notwithe last half a blight bas come upon the MAnding that there were only thirfie enterprise of farming." i five vacancies from death or othes Leadership, Mr. Flavelle contended. | NOTMAl causes. There were 10; Boards was wanted for the departmentail Of license Commimioners. 16 Di staff. Organization, co-operation sud vision Court Clerks. 117 Divigien increased capital expenditure were | COUR Bailiffs. 76 License Inspectors, negessary. "It is a matter of litte! § Provincial License Officers, 3% Po. importante whether the sum expend. Hee Magistrates 6 Registrars of Deeds ed-anrually is $750,000 or twice $7560. etc. In fact, throughout that yest 009, if Back of the enterprise there! NOL ofie week passed wilioul the re- is not the character and effort which moval from office. of some ofitial produce results. There are ten times Make place for friends of the Govern ten millions of dollars. of ineremsed| ONL And. further, it has been stated curuings antuails for the farms of that throughout that year there was this Province dy the exercise of im.| D0 meeting of the Executive Conn! proved methods and IArge at which some officias vas pot decapt- ment." NA # | tated, This Prorvicee: vhouid establifh 0% hundred and sists five of the leadership. in constructive plane and) 18a] of seven hundred ang fogt sivhi in enthusiasm which will comm { vervice officials bn otfice on BDevembhe: . and R121. 1904 wees disrmisacd résighed following. | Within the next three Yours The. need for alert and effective action in regard to the seftiement of Ontario and the alafming , exodus! from farms had been previously | brought to the attention, of the Gov. ernment from the outside, On June 10, 1910. Mr. J. W. Flavelie. Presi- petent to do the works. it is the height of tyrannical cruelly fo Te- quire a parent to send his children to school withqut some reasonable guar- 1 antee that they will rot be wasting their time when they are there. It is not possible to secure every teacher in the public schools of Ontario shall be thoroughly qualified for the position, but it is possible to sécure that every teacher shall have certain qualifications which' ghould be regarded as an indispensable min- imum. | They shduld all have passed a written examination in certain pre- scribed subjects, and they should all have $pént some time in getting such a professional training as wise and experienced instructors may be able within reasonable limits to impart. If they have never received such & train. ing they will have to learn every. thing at the expense of; the children on whom they are permitted. io exe \ + i pesinent. ' The System Spreads Rapidly, Uhder the Ontario" public school This experience is impressing sish- | system 4s It ha been for the last few "years the intending teacher has had \| to: puss. an examination before his entrance to a Provinelal normal ne school, \where he has been spending a year in gelling his professional training. Successful graduation means 8.7 nent second-class certificate, peérly so, through the model and nor- mal schools, and we make grants and assist in their education. A Disgrace to the Province. "BUT, SIR, DO WE FOLLOW THE THE WORKSHOP OF AND FOURTEEN AND N OF AGE--POOR APS, THE SONS OF POOR PAR- WE FOLLOW THEM, 1 2° THE ANSWER 18 A DOUS NEGATIVE. We do not -- and it f= a crying shame and 'a disgrace to ' this Province --we do not follow these lads with an evening class school, as we 'well might in this Province. It is troe that the present GoV- ernment afre doing a little and the old Government did something alang the lines of technical education. ¥ think, sir. I am within the mark when I say that 50 per cent, of the iads who enter the workshop enter at between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years. The moment they leave our: schools the State drops its leadiug strings and pays no attention to them whatever. frade Schools Not Wanted. Prade - schools, of course, Mr. Speaker, are intended to feach and furnish a particular trade, and to turn the boy out a finished mechanic. 1 do not advocate such a school. The establishment of technisal scheals such as they have op te Sther side, v and such as they have in gland, is 8 Dropenis certificated vend the class of school we ought to have n the Whitney Government's cam. [here. It is not a little technical train- [eign pamphlet part of one page (41) [ing in our high schools and our colle- Elven up to a Driet discussion of [slate thsticutes Chat will reach the : node] sch certin. [great mass of lads (hat ought fo he valid fn any part ofithe Province. bY Ix admitted thal sevefal| reached. "THAT Prior to the commencement of the ch reopeted BE teu 3.887 2970 35 4332 that| + Starting with 1872, the first year after the new system came into force under the school act of 1871, the per- centage of other than regular certifi- cates for the whole . Province was ten and a half; in 1877 it was fifteen; in 1882, fourteen; in 1887, twelve; in 1892, ten and a third; In 1897, tend and one-fifth; in 1902, eleven; in 1907, nearly eighteen and a half; in 1908, seventeen and a half; in 19509, seven- teen and one-third, As rural schools suffer more than urban schools from this evil, it is interesting to note. that in 1907 the percentage of non-regular certificates in rural schools was twenty: In 1998, nearly nineteen and a half; and in 1909, nearly twenty- one." In short, the above officially compiled table shows that from 187% when the Liberals came into power, till 1905, when they went out of of. fice, the percentage of non-regular certificates steadily decreased, and that from the abolition of the model schools by the Whitney Government the percentage was materially in- creased. There never was a clearer case of cause and effect than the obvl- ous relation between the abglition of these schools and the ap acnpeity re 1,7 1,778 The record of the Government has been very bad in this respect, so bad that its own friends have frequently protested against it. The favorite weapon of the Ministers for sever! years after they came Into power was the headsman's axe The great need for civil service re- form advocated by the Liberal party is seen When atlehtion is turned to the Tr ARO irae ihe Ton SANE 15 MoRALLY OX Whitney regime the intending teach- dus A Pro. oe jo OTE LAD WHO TO ot could secure in w short session be-| vinces. OB SCHOOL FOREVER tween midsummer and Christmas a n hools, AND HAS GONE INTO THE WORK- Tl tew weeks of professional training this uh SHOP. TO EARN Mis LIVING. {apd on the strength of it obtain al as win available The technical schoo we onght | thipd-class certificate good for three |the number of thasc who hold tem- ito' have in this Province. that years. This training was prav.ded in athty sertitcates. This is not 'se! we should establish immediately and : : JE 1s Wat we dould easily establish if we enlisted the aid of the manufacturers and the employers of labor andthe husiness of us towns ang ities, . Ha is the Be! accessible to alk ah Sar i Selle a Bi ect is th workmen to- the following Re is inserted :---- = idav az com 2h the old days of o 1904. 1997. i} 3 is with them. not ee Th aad ne of the ivchuicall pot say] did i*; shike not thy gory 4.03% 3.718 4. aa 3 methed of tra'n- | jocks at me." . i bo - 8,3%8 3.347 2.955 1.04% : and proficient | Gut that is not All. - The Mjslster! oo cro oi pra (i i " x . 18] goes on to explain where the rural} ie Z4berki plattorm SUSEests Bi}... Call wo Reforh ! technical pe puiation has gone tor "When we once an attempt to Asiertaln dhe | o A : : Le nit. rural Ontario. with the. Joes of | tBuse of rural depopulation in-Ontas- | It 1s this kiS4 of thing that dlegusts iui lov Cha, Ten per com. a 141 5th 0a give oto Ando eon. Bons oF pups re. Fert 3 no mote ' s -. nu : fe ers 8 no ore we sho , gest meamires which should at onee | needed reform than that which will "prevent any further dec'ine and pro. jdo much to purge the 2 'm'Bistra- he Joke TR en agtiewsys yal In: tion = Ontaric Covernm .r from BS th tien. the suppiing-of a. busta} tarests of the Province, an? 1g Septt [tiie febseng stato cf ACH TP N, the development of the Provinces! bE iper ins ci lons nigel Snatruseons, termining war unten the ots and of the west. The Teport atempial io; tremmical saneatiay In fontt-eraw-|of Ax SRCIent non- orilias C0 B sep ps, ia ! ] e - : efficient non. art op the assertion that the to this is the! vice Commission the Liters! arty i inte' the Province i have inanrurated one of the mo t vital cr séttlement and | and usefv' r Tore mn fargis: assiet the 'oy roel e light, power, services; to establish more demonstration farms and devels op the apple-growing industry. to stamp wut mexions weeds by. a oF Ere MBERALY WAHL BE GLAD. Galt Reformer: Liberals all over the Province will hail with & great deal of wstisaction the broad 284 comprehensive piatfotm ad pob. t Tae ier tne sEnate ture of (He new Jewder, Mr. NW. Bowell