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KESH M13 land In" clothes n6: 10 BY fi'fs‘ BETTER Tums -â€" PLEDGBS AND poucrr AT VARIANCE-SURP- Lusss OF OTHER DAYSâ€"ALARM- me INCREASE m EXPENDITURES ,LIBERAL CORRUPTION. nice Mr. Fielding brought down the [get it has been the subject of attack defence as usual but the ablest deliv- ice on the subject was uttered by Hon. L E. Foster ex-minister of finance on 553) of last week. F0110“ ing is an “give resume of his speech. Ir. Foster criticized the Minister of since for the delivery of what sounded i a campaign document on the occasion is budget speech. What would the 3}; House of Commons have thought 'ch 3. speech from the Chancellor of xchequer in exposition of the Imper- finances? However, in what Mr. 33;; had said as to the gratifying con- n of trade in Canada. he could happily ur. The continued trade and indust- dereiopment from 1886 down to the n: he was prepared to acknowledge onfirm. min}: to the question of the pledges d be four millions in excess of the estimates for the Liberal regime. In 31 expenditure there has been an ase in the same period, Without tak- 'nto account either railway subsides unties, from $4,693,900 to$5, 7,882. w both capital and ordinary expen- gether, Mr. Foster pointed to an ated expenditure for next year of 3.11%. and this without taking any : either of railway subsides or ies‘ and all this in the face of ‘ pledges for the reduction in the dizure. What a change, then. has :lLOI‘E ~wears wrought in the senti- of :he men who hold the reins of men: tc-dav. Against a total ex. are of 341900300 in the first year bem; administration, we now have templatud outlay of $50,688,000 for run: year's service. :5 [waxéé AN ABLE ADDRESS ON THE BUDGET. ning to the question of the pledges honey of the Liberal Government, aster found the two at sad variance. finance Minister had evidently not his new tunes in vain. His fol- rs on the government side signified concurrenceâ€"they danced ecstatical- u: what could be said of men like member of North Wellington (Mr. alien) or the member for Norfolk Charlton), whose denunciations of expenditure had been so loud in opposition days?- That Canada is erous to-day Mr. Foster conceived to aperfect vindication of the policy of onservative party. THE ESTIMATES. r. Foster next turned his attention to ,eszimates for the next year's public ices. Taking into account the supple- F } estimates yet to be brought h, Mr. Foster calculated that the ha: 5 on consolidated fund alone for e ’1. 0 amounted to $336,232, which STER’S GLEYEB SPEECH. ;m 1296 “2 ;in 1898, 7. m. Takin ‘Iditure, 1‘ Dtal percel h from 8.48 SURPLUSES : Im the way in which the Minister of! ace had spoken of his surpluses, the I: might be led to the conclusion that: were a. discovery of the Liberal ,. From 1868 to 1875, however, there surpluses of $12,000,000, with on” b the credit of the Liberals, in 1875. 1H1 to 1553, there were 318,250,000 0f sea. an average of $4,500,000 each The year 1866 saw a surplus of $97.' Freu: 1-.58 to 1592 there were 39 500- Surpl35es, an average of 3‘3 375310 2mm. In 1897-98, there was one > credited to a Liberal government. eta: surp‘uses from Confederation were $11,500,000. and of these only ,wr. are credited to Liberal adminis- :~.. Ir. the period between 1890 and ‘rinp; which the Dominion suffered commercial depression, the Con- amputation of the expenditure in ars from 1595 on taught him that r capita rate was in 1885, 7.53 per :1 1596 7.21 percent; in 1897, 7,39 per- 3 1:98, 7.41 percent, and in 1899 8.00 :. Taking into account the capital lizure, Mr. Foster declared that 2.1 percentage of taxation had been from “c.48 percent in 1885 to 9.84 per- . lrtb. or in three years an increase percent. fiif the Liberals were not fortunate lmatter of surpluses, they were in Batter of deficits. Of the total i§, amounting to $23,000,000 in all. Ye party had managed to adminis- Dubléc affairs with a deficit of only In. An addition was made to the debt in the same pericd of $15,500r 5? Wise economy the government of 3“ almost made ends meet, while the cut in sugar alone reduced the 011 by $19,800,000, which would have than wiped out the debt of this L and left a balance to the good of $9,316,000 belonged to the Liberal Native party. THE PUBLIC DEBT. Fielding again had made another lding statement in connection with crease of the public debt, when he Lred his increase of $3,000.000 per a of Liberal rule with an average of {that under Conservative adminis. . The statement was, he acknow- technically true and yet created a Dression. From 1878 to 1886 there npaid to the C.P.R. $50,641,000;¢on $rlv;â€"â€" vv vuv v.1. .15. W9W‘1WV) V“ $10 0000.000; and on provincial $31,000. Conditions like these THE WATCHMAN'WADER. were. he held, extraordinary, and formed no just basis for comparison. A more reasonable comparison would be of the period tram 1886, when the increase in the debt was on an average $3,000,000 annual- 1y. GROWTH OF REVENUE. Mr. Foster then turned his attention to the revenue. When the Minister of Fin- ance had been recounting revenue gains of two, three, and four millions per annum the Liberal members seemed hardly able to contain themselves. They applauded the declaration to the echo. But this money came out of the pockets of the people. The customs collections have grown from $19,800,000, in 1895 96, to $25,138,248 this year. Inland revenue has swelled from $7,900,000 to $9,885,000 in the same period. In 189596 a Conservative government was denounced for taking $27,750,000 of taxation from the people. But to-day ministerial supporters are dumb when the Minister of Finance, with perfect equanimity, announces to his subservient followers a taxation of $34,- 900,000. Was it not the member for North Norfolk (Mr. Charlton), who once said that the Liberal party, if in power, would reduce the public expenditure, and effect other savings to the extent of live millions a year, without injuring the efficiency of the public service? In the name then of all that is economical, if they could do with five millions less than the Conservatives expended, why do they ask for five millions more? The revenue was $36,600,000 in 1895-96. It is $46,000,000 to-day. Yet Sir Richard Cartwright in 1896 is on record as saying that ‘it was an outrageous and monstrous thins: that any government should ask from this country $37,000,000 to be expended upon the public services.‘ Mr. Fielding had spoken of buoyant revenues. Whence do they come? Mr. Fielding had given one reason; but the business men of Canada would, he ap- prehended, have quite another cause to allege. The Minister claimed the credit to his government; the business man would say that the buovancy was due to extra good crops. extra good prices, and THE TARIFF. Mr. Foster next produced an arrange- ment to establish that the tariff reduc- tions made by the Liberal government were not what they purported to be. a large reduction in the taxation. From‘ 1880 to 1887 the average customs rate in durable goods for home consumption was 26 24 per cent. From 1888, after the in- crease of iron duties, until 1591'», the average was 30.82 per cent. Either of these was an abomination to all free trader-i. The N.P. was then in force. In 1896, under the N.P., the average rate of duty was 29.94 ; in 1897 it was 29 96; in 1898 it was 29.22, and for the eight months of 159‘.) it was 29,:0 percent. For the month of February it was 59.58 percent. Under Liberal rule the diminution is only 72-100 of one percent. Yet the countrv is told that the N.P. no longer exists. The 1591 revision of the tariff had made a cut of 1.74 percent. in the duties. But they had not considered in that day that the N.P. was being swept out of existence. rm: PREFERENTIAL CLAUSE, The device of the preferential cut in the tarifl' he denounced as deceptive and had been so found both in Canada and foreign countries. The English manufacturers. by skilful manipulation, enjoy instead of 25percent. reduction about a twelfth, or one-eighth ; no more and no less. In sup- port of this argument he cited increases which had, he said, been made in the duty on cotton fabrics, fancy goods. damasks and goods of that class. Before the British heart was allowed the throb of joy the duties were put up and then the preferen- itial cut announced. This, however. was not the case with our cousins of the United States. Mr. Fielding’s statement of the “:ritish being too busy to look after the extension of their Canadian trade seemed to him a hog's reason. Mr. Foster quoted Mr. Courtney’s statement in the British House of Commons to show the keen rivalry belween that country and the I'nited States in coal and iron. Upon the comparative cheapness of these articles depended the commercial supremacy of any country. an extraordinary mining development. Other sources of wealth have remained stationery, or have come and gone. The government had claimed credit for its building of the Crow’s Nest Pass Rail. wav. But if it. had not been for the Con- servative party there would have been no Mr. Foster gave along list of importa- tions to show that' the preference on British goods was of no avail to them in many lines. Why, according to Mr. Fielding‘s own admission, had the pref. erence upon West Indian sugars proved of of such little practical avail? Because, forsooth, the United States had a pref- erence on non-bounty-fed sugars which operated in favor of the West Indies and which was even more favorable to them than our own. But did not Mr. Fielding know this in 1898? The practical effect because of the increase in the general tariff rate on sugar was an increase by four millions of the taxation on sugar. Mr. Foster claimed credit for the increase of ourfitrade with the mother Country for the N.P. tarifl'. To-day this tendency ls to buy more from the United States and less from Britain. By the lowering of the iron duties Canada is paying out to the United States ten million dollars for goods which we couldjust as well manufacture ourselves. We have destroyed, too, our trade with Germany, where it promised to be re- munerative. ' The Conservatives had criticised'the 1897 tariff as ruinous to Canada, and they were right. But the government in 1898 amended and improved that tarifi‘ Very materially. Trade with Britain had decreased by $2,600,000 after two years of the present administration, on the average of the two preceding years. With British Guiana our trade has fallen off 70 percent; and 33 percent with the West Indies. v vuv â€"___-‘ Mr. Sifton was right when he said the tariff would stand. The declaration of the Minister of Finance that no tariff changes are contemplated this session proved that Mr. Sifton was right after all. Napoleonic in everything that gentleman had not taken back what he had said. The whole thing forces one clear conclusion: That the question of protection for the indus- tries of Canada is settled, and settled for many years to come, and it is settled in accordance with the longtime conviction of the Conservative party, on the line of protection in which Conservatives will stand shoulder to shoulder with Liberals to keep the line of protection intact, and to make that line still stronger where to- day it is not so strong as it ought to be for the benefit of national industries. SOME“’HAT PERSONAL. But, sir, what did the hon. gentlemen come in to do? They came in to curse, and, 10, they have blessed. They came in to destroy. and, 10, they have been com- pelled to build up in most instances and they have destroyed as little as possilb. But other things they came into do. They came in. to lower taxation ; they have raised it $5,300,000. They came in to lower expense ; they have raised it $10,000,009 in a total revenue taken from the people of $35,000,000 as compared with that taken in 1896. They came in to stop an increase of the debt, the debt is going up despite the immense surpluses and buoyant revenue; the debt is going up notwith- standing that, whatevever they may say. they are not making larger expenditures on canals and railways than we made dur- ing the last five or six years of our term of office. They came in to destroy protection : they have embraced it. They came in to purity and elevate public life. Let the promise that Langelier held in his pocket. which was signed by the right hon. gentleman himself and by means of which he was dragooned into voting for what he did not like for two sessions in this Houseâ€"let that promise testify to the purity that the right hon. gentleman has introduced into public life. (Applause) And let the fact that when1 Langelier would stand it no longer and‘ kicked, the right hon. gentleman joined to such an extraordinary view as to the way of purifying public lifeâ€"a most deplorable weakness-for either he should have imt plemented his promise at first or he should have had backbone enough to let the man kick and refuse to implement that promise it there was reason for doing so. He was going to purify public life and prevent the \ irus of bribery from spreading among the electorate. but he sent aletter signed by himself to Mr. Migneault, and Mr. Mig‘ neault read it to the electors, that he was goingto subsidize certain roads that ran through the several contested counties. This is the way the right hon. gentleman takes to purify public life. Purify public life! There have been gentlemen sitting behind him put upon his cc 1nmittee to do his bidding, men who knew just as well what their reward would be 1f they did right’ as they had that reward already in their hands. They did what they were expected to do and they have got their re ward. But these things now, under the new philosophy do not count. The Bourassian policy has been introduced, the Bouras~ sian method has become current. (Laugh_ ter) Now it is to be recognized in Liberal politics that consistency does not mean consistency, that if a man promises to do a thing this very moment, and if two min- utes after he is minded not to do it, or to do another thing. he has been consistent both times, he has worked according to his intention; and he plaudits that that peculiar philosophy received from the hon- gentleman opposite, and the way in which myright hon. friend left the front seat and went back to congratulate the hon. gentleman upon the introduction of that brand new political philosophy of his, showed how greatly it was in accordance with his own heart. RULES THAT ARE OFTEN READ BUT THOROUGHLY KNOWN BY FEW. Summer and winter each has its perils. He is too hopeful who feels confident that there will be no more skating or swim- ming fatalities. The record ot the past makes: such a. confidence impossible. A1- ready the list of deaths by bathing 1n 1899 contains the name of at least one Ontario victim and it may be that during the next few months some persons who will read these lines will have an Opportunity of becoming lite-savers through a knowledge of the following rules for resuscitation, compiled by the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario: Rule 1. Proceed at once to employ means to restore breathinc. Do not delay this in order to procure shelter, warmth, stimulants, etc, Rule 2. Remove all obstructions to breathingâ€"Instantly loosen or cut ap- part all neck and waist bands; turn the patient on his face, with the head lower than the feet; stand astride the hips, with your face towards his head, and, locking your fingers tocether under his belly raise the body as high as you can without lifting the forehead ofl‘ the ground, and give the body 9. quick jerk to remove-5 mucus and water from the mouth'and windpipe. Hold the body suspended long TO RES'I ORE THE BROWNING. LINDSAY, THURSDAY, MAY nth; 1399. enough to slowly count one, two, three, four, the. repeating thejerk more gently two or three times. Rule 3. Next place the patient on his back on a flat surface, inclined a little from the feet upwards, raise and support the head and shoulder; on a firm cushion, or folded alticle of dress, placed under the shoulder blades. Cleanse the mouth and nostrils. Open the mouth. draw forward the patient‘s tongue securing it there either by holding it with the fingers, or by a. piece of string or an elastic band placed over it and under the chin. Rule 4. Grasp the patient‘s arms just above the elbows, and draw them gently and steadily upwards until thev meet: above the head. (This is for the purpose of drawing air into the lungs) Keep the arms in this position for two seconds, then turn them down and press them gently and firmly for two seconds against the sides of the chest, pressing at the same time on the breast and abdomen. (This is with the object of pressing air out of the lungs.) Pressure on the breast- bone and abdomen by an assistant will aid this action. Repeat these measures alternate’y and deliberately until a spontaneous effort to breathe is perceived. immediately upon which cease to imitate the movements of breathing, and proceed to induce circulat- ion and warmth. Rule 5. To excite respirationâ€"During the employment of the above methods irritate the nostrils with snufi‘ orsxnell- iog-salt, or tickle the throat with a feather. Rub the chest and face briskly, and dash cold and hot water alternately upon the patient. Rule 6. To induce circulation and warmthâ€"After breathing is commenced wrap the patient in warm blankets, and apply bottles of hot; water, hot bricks, or anything to restore heat. Do not be to soon discourazed. Re- member that at any time within two hours you efl‘crts may be successful. \Varm the head nearly as fast as the body, lest convulsions should be induced, rubbing the body with warm cloths. or with the hands, and slapping the fleshy parts may assist to restore warmth and breathing. If the patient can swallow with safety give him hot‘cofi‘ee, tea. milk or spirits. Allow the patient to have abundance of fresh air. â€"-On 29th of April at Whitney, Muskoka. Police Magistrate \V. P. Christie and Game \Varden J. H. \Villmntt convicted and fined the following persons for infrac- tions of the game act: Wm. Lavally, killing moose. $50; John Simiard, killing deer. $20; Armand Grattan, killing deer, 820; E. Constantine. possession of venison. 85. Also, at the same place the following were convicted: Frank Bin, killing deer, 325; H. Holsten, possession of deer skins, $27.50. Other parties are likelv to be pulled shortly. 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