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[H Economical Reform. Despite the large revenue the Ontario government receives from crown lands, the periodical sales of timber limits, law stamps, license fees, the Dominion subsidy, etc., the cost at provincial government has developed to such an extent that, in order to meet the ever increasing expenditure, various measures are now before the Ontario Assembly for the purpose of 1 supplementing the revenue, that may‘ well make the people of the Province pause and consider the situation. The fact is, although the Province has been eating up its capital in the matter of its timber wealth, its revenue from other sources has been found inade- quate to meet its running expenses, without a gradual resort to various means of direct taxation. Meanwhile the machinery of government has been growing gradually more complicated and expensive, instead of retrenchment and simplification beingfihe order of the day. When a few years ago Mr. Mewat decided upon reâ€"organizing the liquor licenses fees, it was for the pur. pose of getting a large haul for the pro- vincial purse, the muncipalities getting but a tithe of the revenue from that source. And now that the agitation against the fee system in connection with registrars, sheriffs and other officials has forced the government to do something in the way of reform, we find that the measure proposed is entirely in the interests of the provin- cial treasury. Apart from the inequal- Prices PORTER’S Bookstore. 62 KENT STREET. ity and the immoral tendency of the? fee system, the salaries received by officials in certain localities had become to be justly regarded as nothing short of public robbery. In the “reform” proposed, nothing is offered in the way of simplifying and cheapening the machinery of government; as, for instance, by having,r one or two heads of departments with properly qualified subordinates, instead of four or five heads, as at present, running the:public interests at their own sweet wills; by having some standard of qualification for fitness, in addition to the only one now required, viz., party services; etc., etc. The “reform” proposed consists simply in lopping off the fees over a certain summfor the provincial treas- uryâ€"“only “this, and nothing more.” So far as the municipalities and the heavily taxed ratepayers are concerned, the “reform” means certainly the latter. The overburdened taxpayer will also, no doubt", be gratified to know that another reform proposed is to tax insurance companies and insur- ance agentsâ€"~for the benefit of the provincial treasury; and yet another reform providing for a tax upon estates of $100,000, over and above the present surrogate fees and upon estates of $10,000 and over, not de- vised to certain relativesâ€"and all for the sake of our g0verning Home Rule institution at Toronto. It remains to be seen whether the people of the Province will continue to have faith in THURSDAY. APRIL, 7, 1892. ”(the Watchman. Immense Selection Artistic. economical legislation on the lines these measures indicate, or whether they will not make a. demand for retrenchment of a. different kind. A RETURN, which was was laid upon the table of the Dominion House last week, shows the export of horses, sheep, barley, hay, potatoes'and eggs from Canada to England and the United States during the last six months of 1891. Of horses there were exported to England from July 1 to December 31, 1891, 524;to the United States, 2,801; sheep. 30,792 to England, 254,149 to the States; eggs, 3,283,111 dozens to England, 3,197,115 to the States; barley, 1,780,606 bushels to England, 1,988,579 to the Szates; hay, 9,065 tons to England, 28,476 to the United States. Six bushels of pota- toes were exported to England during during the six months, and 33,710 to the United States, whilst 239,001 bushels oi potatoes were sent to the Spanish West Indies, and 34,731 to Newfoundland. BRADSTREET’S statement of failures in the Dominion for the first quarter of 1892 shows a decrease of three in number, as compared with the same period of 1881, with an increase of assets of $186,373 and a decrease in liabilities of $186,762. In Ontario the decrease in the number of failures was 45, in comparison with the figures for the first quarter of 1891, whilst the record in the Maritime provinces andl British Columbia. fell considerably be-l hind. The record on the whole shows that the Dominion is recovering, slowly it is true, from the effects of the depresston of 1890-91, a. depression which affected the whole continent. in he same commercial authority, in re- iferring to the state of trade in the United States, says :â€" “ The period of practical stagnation in “industrial and commercial circles is 3 “beingr indefinitely prolonged, evident- 3 “ 1y tar beyond what had been anticipat- l“ed. With this go the long prevalent “features, declining prices for leading “ staples as well as low rates of money on “ best security.” THE Board of Education on Tuesday evening devoted considerable attention to important matters of school discip- line, as a reference to our report in anorher column will show. We do not know that the pupils of our Lindsay schools are worse in respect of the conduct with which the resolutions of the board deal, than the pupils of most towns in Ontario; but it will be admit? ted that there is much room for im- provement, to effect which will require earnest attention on the part at our teachers, and encouragement in their work on the part of the board. The resolution asking the assistance of the town council in the matter of suppress- ing street loafing, it is to be hoped will effect this much at least. the drawing the attention of the parents of the com- munity to the dangers of street associ- ations, especially at night, to our young people. It is positively surprising the number of children of tender years who are to be found at all hours loitering about our streets, many of them belong- ing to families of whose training better things might reasonably be expected; It is not necessary to dwell upon the evils such a state of things indicate, or of the necessity of some efiort being made in the direction of reform. As to the grosser forms of misconduct on the part of pupils of which complaints are made, and about the treatment of of which the board has pretty clearly ‘defined its intentions, we believe with l the Presbylcrz’mz Review that “ the u safest course to adopt is a pretty n literal interpretation, of Solomon’s rod u of correction. A smart whipping n administered without passiOn, is n worth a. score of ‘fancy’ punishments n to which some parents, and especial- u .ly theory ridden teachers resort.” We give the quotation in full without any reference to the methods of discipline employed in our town schools, but simply to combat that- maudlin sentimentality, which has been gaining ground in the public mind against the wholesome use of the rod in dealing with all juvenile offences. Editorial Notes. THE WATCHMAN. LINDSAY, THURSDAY, APRIL 7,, 1892. IN the matter of liquor and tobacco, the report of the Inland Revenue de- partment For 1590-91 Shows the re- ceipts to have been $6,905,005, as compared with $7,354,581 in 1889-90, The falling off was due to a. decrease of $954,464 in excise duties. The revenue of 1889-90 was, however: an abnormal One, owing to the large quantity of liquor Withdrawn from bond in anticipatiOn Of an increase in the tax. The collections for 1891 Were under the following heads ;._- Spirits. .......... . t . Malt liquor. . . . .t ..... Malt ................ Cigarst... ........ Tobacco ....... V ...... Petroleum ........... Manufactures in bond. Seizures ............. Other receipts ........ Methylaced spirits. . . . 1891. Spirits. ............ . ........ $3,546, 942 Malt liquor. . . . a ............. 10,495 Malt ....................... 591,399 Cigars ............ , ......... 615,179 Tobacco ....... V ............. 1,929,937 Petroleum .................. 40,407 Manufactures in bond ........ 34,581 Seizures .................... 2,727 Other receipts ............... 18,222 Methylaced spirits .......... 38,213 Total ..................... $6,825,152 The quantity of spirits produced dur- ing the year was 4,397,594 proof gallons, as compared with 5,091,475 proof gallons produced in the previous fiscal year, the raw material used in its production being as tollows : Malt ...... . .............. Indian corn .............. Rye ..................... W heat ................... Oats .................... Barley ..... . ............. Total ..................... 73,506,314 The quantity entered for consump tion was 2,687,664 proof gallons during the preceding year. The quantity held in stock on lst July, 1891, was 12,415,- 786 proof gallons, the largest quantity ever held by the distillers of Canada ; the production, however, decreased to the extent of nearly three-quarters of a million gallons. The revenue from malt has increased some $35,000 as compared with the, revenue of the preceding year, and some $85,000 as compared with the average revenue of the preceding four years. Of the quantity entered for consumption 52,335,914 lbs. were used, together with 47,816 lbs. of sugar, syrup, etc., in the production of 18,- 069,183 gallons of beer, being an average of 2.89 lbs. of malt per gallon. The tobacco taken for consumption in 1891 was 9,778,809 pounds, as com- pared with 9,875,000 pounds in 1890, and an average of 9,422,322 pounds since 1886-87. Spatial to the WATCHMAN. 'The following is the standing of pupils of Union school Section 11 and 20 Manvers and Cavantfor ale _r_r_10n_tl_1_ of_ Mafchzf "v Sr. IV.â€"â€"Levi Fallis, Lil ' Veals. Jr. IV -â€"Burtie Britton, Libby ritton, Emma Fallis. Sr. III.â€"Bruce McPherson, Lily 'PhoniPson. Emma. Graham, Mina Veals. Jr. II . ~VVillie Veals, Sande. Veals, Ethel VVainard, Clinton Sisson, Herbert Fallis, Lily Fallis, Martha Cunningham. Sr. II.â€" Jennie McCrorrio. Maud Britton. Jr. II.â€" Freddic Veals, Sadie VeaIS' Part 11.â€" Robert Sisson, Newton Siesson, Georgina VVainard. Thomas Cunningham, Ellen Cunningham, Jennie Hadoen, Maggie Wainard. Freddie Thompsou, .Hnrrold Noble. 1‘. GILLIS, teacher. The saloon-keepers have been stirred up by a remarkable sermon preached at a re- treat in St. Patrick’s church last evening by Father Doyle, an American Paulist Father. Mayor McShane and a number of saloon-keepers were in the audience. 9 Nine-tenths of the crime was described by thepracherasduetostrongdrink. Asanevil intemperance stalked abroad, and thcse who had the power to check it dil nothing. Public men in Montreal even went so far as to resort to subterfuge in order to evade legislating against it. Efforts were made to avoid increasing taxation, but what tax equalled the tax men put on themselves through this curse of strong drink ? It created enormous expenditures. Because of its effects men had to build gaols and lunatic asylums, which were filled with drink’s victims. Then the preacher handled the civic- authorities without gloves. The City Council was composed ot Christian men of various de- nominations. The priests and ministers of these demmiinations as one man had petitioned that Council for enlier closing, for less saloons. had done their very best to combat the evils wrought by strong drink, and who oppose their best efforts 2 The civic authorities. Laws covering the case had been put on the statue books, but the men in authority did all in their power to prevent these laws being enforced. What account, he asked them. did they think they would be able to render to Almighty Jod when they were summoned to appear before Him at the bar of eternal justice '? What account could they render of the lost souls, lost through their neglect to enforce the laws? 0f the 75,000 souls lost through the evils of intemperance in the United States and Canada every year, nearly everyone might be saved if the legislating bodies enforced the laws or created laws to prevent the unfortunates from killing themselves with liquor. It is a solemn thought, the preacher continued in an impressive tone, ‘Fto think that while I have been speaking to you not less thaneight souls, whose deaths were caused by drink, have been called to appear before their ,_Maker. You, public men, A Sermon Azainst lntemperance. FRANKLIN II.NIII¢O.... .c.oq-n.,.... o-ouoou..... .u:......... ouuouoooo... '°"'-D-Oooo bend........ o...o-u.no.. yucca-uncnuno 38...” ..... Lbs. 3, 674, 177 56,821,771 12.070.397 23,871 854.814 161.824 who are listenin to me, who have been clothed with aut ority, have you reflected on what account you will render to God for "these lost souls? While the best citizens are beseeching you. almost on their knees, to aid them, you stand idly by, or worse still, you thwart their benevolent efforts. The liquor traffic has you in its grasp. For God’s sake and your own best interests pause before you are called away.” am "”23 Messrs. Kimball and Ashman, of the Montreal Horse market, College-st. write as follows concerning the horse market: “Trade has been quiet the past week ; but prospects for the coming week are better as several buyers will arrive the early part of the week. Receipts at our stables three; sales, six at from $80 to $145 ; on hand, 34 drivers, carriage horses, cobs and heavy draught. We shall receive early in the week lots of horses from Fraser Bros., P. Lane and W. J. Todd, all of Lachute. There will be among them some extra good old fashioned Canadian chunks and drivers. We are also notified of the intended shipment of extra heavy duught horses from Farrell Pascoe, of Woodstock, Out. We have sold to J. Watson, of Glasgow, three fine specimens of van horses, for which there is a good demand. We have also purchased a car load of heavy horses for J. C. Simpson for Manitoba." The Montreal Horse Exchange, Point St. Charles, write as follows: â€" “There h-u been no improvement in the horse tride'this week. Buyers for the Ameri- can markets were scarce, and a little too early for those for the home trade. We have on hand for sale 29 horses. compris- ing heavy and medium draft choice drivers and saddle horses, with two car lands of western horses to arrive on Mon- day. Sales for week 12.” An illicit still was seized at Owen Sound Monday. A severe :torm raged Monday in the Dakotas and Minnesota. In New York city. on Sunday, the ther- mometer marked 74 degrees. The U. S. House of Reprelentatives has mused the Chinese exclusion bill by 197 to 42. The town of Barnhill, 111., was almost entirely swept 01? the earth yesterday by acyclone. Port Colborne yesterday carried s by- law granting a bonus of $4,500 to the Do- minum glass works. The vote was 167 to 5. Charles Paimer, aged 13, while shooting aparrows on Sunday in Tibury West, lost his left hand by the explosion of the gun. Mr. George Todd, aged 65, was thrown out of his buggy at St. Catherines on Saturday, and died on Sunday from interâ€" nal injuries. Mrs. Montagu has been convicted in Dublin of maneeaughtar and sentenced to ayear’s imprisonment at herd labor, for killing her daughter by over punishment. Dr. Springer, a prominent homaeopath- it of Oxford county, died on Saturday from paralysis. He 1nd been speechless for two years. He was 62 years of age. A young man named James Miller was killed m the Grand Trunk yard at Trenton Monday. H3 was on a. box car while some shunting was being done, lost his balance and fell, breaking his neck. On Saturday night a burglar entered the train agent’s office at the Union depot in Omaha and stole nearly $20,000 worth of tickets. From the manner of the theft the otficials believe the thief was an employee. The bridge over the Richlieu river at Yamaska, Qum, was partially carried away by the fresbet on Sunday. Traffic will be interrupted for considenble time. At a largely attended meeting: last night the Young Liberal-Conservative Associa- tion resolved tn recommend Mr. G. T. Blackstock, Q. 0., to the Conservative convention as a. candidate for the vacant seat for Toranto in the Legislature. HIGH-GLASS POULTRY Orders filled as received. His stock are all prize birds, as follows: HDUDANS. WHITE LEGHURNS, PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Parties Wanting THOROUGR-BRED POULTRY PLYMOUTH ROCKS. ThefHorse Market. NEWS ITEMS. G- TBEW- I. G. 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