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' " Come and see our " :large stock of Scrib- .‘.b]ers, Exercise Books Tiand Supplies. Get a. .; Prize Scribbler or Ex- .ercise Book and try u.nf01‘ one of the ESpecial discount on .HiQh-School Books. TRHAM CHRONICLE 96. The record of the Laurier nmcâ€"nt will not bear public in- . ation, and the sooner the po- ordeal is over, the .better for ilfrid and his colleagues. Mat- have not been going well, in fact )URHAM. OCTOBER 1. 1908. :alatest coup d’etat of Sir \Vil- 'Laurier in bringing on the Do- m elections :1 weck earli 1‘ than leXpected, even by supporters [of Pwn party, is a fair sample of {lass of administration the maple inada have been forced to submit Lee the Liberals came into power 1 any new ideas, and was one of! glorification, defensive and apolo- but carefully avoiding every- euggestive of detail. Already ilfrid has launched into a cam- ~ 0! retraction, and has admitted in original estimate of the cost‘ 'lding the Transcontinental was! w. Now, however, his figures lly were $30,000,000, 80 he, while, as a matter of fact, 80-: g to Hansard‘s for 1903, page; his exact words were: “The otal of the money to be paid by vernment for the construction line from Moncton to the Paci- ill be in the neighborhood of ,fi or $13,000,000. and not one ore.” With such a bare-faced t to deny his own ' original nt, in the face of such evi- which cannot be questioned, 'it Wilfrid's political sun has been ling backward owing to the 't disclosures, and he has sudden- cided to hold the elections and be whole thing settled as soon as le, and before matters get much E. The present Ontario tour has 6 almost hysterical, and to ohis brters in the province is given Fl) of making as Imuch noise as le in the hope of concealing to at extent the defections :in the School Books and School Suppfies I and government. Like his oration, the Opening speech \in ntario campaign was altogethexj ’ruggists and Booksellers acl‘arlane ((1 Co. IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. "I; ‘ovident that there is not faith to be placed in any of the moon of the present Premier of this in not the only moneyed mt h” tallen short of panning anywhere near the estimate of W Laurier and his Govern- thn he and his party took D. .1 government, the Inter- ; whiny had almost paid its In tho tour you: prefious. EDITORIAL THE \Vith such a record, is it lany won-v der the. Premier and his Government takes the defensive in again ;ppeal- ing to the pCOpIe for a return to power! \Vith a $13,000,000 project enlarging into a'$152,000,000 one before it is half completed, mmlouht- edly shows that Premier Laurier is not the man we want rat the head of our GUVLI‘nIlKnt to build our railways for us. \Vith an estixnat'12d annu l earnTnL: surplus of $310,000, which, in tw'elve years, would yield us a sur- plus'gf $3,720,000 dwindling down to a de‘ficit‘a‘r‘isaomoaoob irrro‘T'o sii'T'ric'i ient that his Ministers are. no more, capable tl an is their leader, and not the stamp of men to be desired in transacting the business of a country with the destiny of Canada. Apart from their hlunderings in the Icon- struction and Operating of the Gov- ernment railways, the regime of gra't and maladministration in every other Department, is entirely inexcusable, and the perpetrators of the offenses should be punished at least by a term‘ at home that would give them a chance to learn that they are at best. but the servants of the peOple, placed in Parliament to conduct their busi- ness intelligently and honestly, and not to bring shame ‘and dishonor on their country and themselves. .LI‘IL ‘th.’ ltl, H IIU UUIUIII|\)]I lJ‘lll‘lH Agent at the time the deal was 111.1(10, and now a member of Parliament, denies that he had any connection with the purchasing company in "the. beginning, but does not contradict the statement that he was afterward connectod with them. ‘3‘ And so on, all down 'the line, the same grafting las been going on, and the western settler robbed of his money just to fill the lp00kets of a few political parasites, who in the first place robbed him of 'the land that was in rrality his town, and in the second place charged him an ex- orbitant price, because they had the pick of the country, and lhad gobblrd up all the desirable sections ‘before the settler was allowed to lgo there. And these are the loudest Ihowlers at the present moment that Sir Wil- frid and his Government should ‘be returned to power in ordtr that they may finish the job. Such has been the ordeal lthrough which our western settlers have been made to lp ass, and still the man with the sunny smile has the au- dacity to stand before the lpeople his Government has robbed and solicit .their surmort on the 26th dav of this The Saskatchewan l..;nd deal is an-7 other thorn in the. flesh, and one that will require considerable pluck- in;1r t 1 r1 move. The d“‘(‘1'.1riltl0n of the L1berals in 1893 that “the. \sales of public lands of the Domonion should be to act111l settlers only, and not to: 3p.-,c11l1tors upon reasonable terms of €11 ttlement and in such area as can be reasol'ably occupied and cultivated by th: settler" has been lthrown to the four winds of heaven, and. inst-;_-ad of beingr a protection to the farming; class who settled in the province, the Government has turned tarter on them and granted whatever favors! they saw fit to the ‘speculator and; party heeler, the very men against whom they uttered their malediction.1 In 1902. the year of the great rush of' settlers into the Canadian \Vest. thei value of the lands increased by leapSl and bounds. Railway and land com-1 panies raised their prices, and easily accessible homesteads were taken as fast as found. The Canadian Pacific! Company sold 1,,362 478 acres, four times the quantity sold the year be-i fore, and received a very much «high- er average price. In the Regina 1dis-l 'trict the homestead entries increased‘ to 4,158, as against 1,308 the year be-l fore, and land that had l sold two‘ lyears previously for from two to five} dollars per acre now commanded from eight to ten dollars. Under the (cir- cumstances it was important that the land remaining ungranted should be 1held for the genuine settler 'and not passed out to speculators and middle- men, that they might hold Iup the prospective settler. But was this done by the Government that 'in 1893 had shown so much anxiety lfor the .wellare of the working farmer! At this stage. C. W. spec". General 001- onisation Agent of the Government, wrote to Mr. Bitten, then Minister of the Interior. calling his attention \to the land adjacent to the Bechtel»- wan. Long Lake and Begins Railway. between Lem-dental ,W'n. 1800, they declared there would ihe no, more deficits, and that the road would he run on business principles. They arranged the Grand Trunk deal, and in 1897, (Hansard, page 4268) the Minister of Railways issued a state- ment of what the results would be. It was: “It is estimated that the gross earnings for the year after the extension to Montreal will be $3,885.- 000, and the working eXpenses $3- 363.000. In other words, there will be ,a surplus of $520,000 in the first year’s Operation of the I. C. R. ex- tended to Montreal. Now, if I de- duct from the earnings. the rental of $210,000, I get a net surplus of $310,- .000, as a result of carrying (on this policy of extension." But the Minis- ter of Railways appears to have been affected with the same malady as his lleuder, for the “estimated” surplus iwas conspicuous by its absence. The .Very' next year there was 'a deficit j’of $209,978, which was counterbalance led somewhat during the next two years by surpluses of $62,654, and $170,667. In 1901 the deficit was $488,186, and in 1902-03, two surpluses of $96,822 and $127,670. During the seven years, from 1897 to 1903 the def- icit amounted to $350,303. or ($50.04., a year. With Mr. Emmerson as Min- ister in 1903-04, all previous {records were smashed with a deficit of $900,751, which in turn had tto take second money with a deficit of NS],- 725,304 in 1904-05. In 1905-06, Mr. Em- merson declared a surplus of $61,915, and in 1906-07 the Department “claimed” a surplus of $818,139. Not to be outdone, Mr. lGraham, in 1907-08 “alleged” that the surplus was $16,123. In other words, in the twelve years undir Liberal rule 'the' deficits of the Intercolonial have amounted to $2,680,000 as acknowledg- ed hy the Government itself, 'not in- cluding 'n the eXpense account a cap- ital raps-Juliane of $28,000,000. Thus it will he seen that the. Intercolonia] Railway las cost, in twelve yet-.rs. ($2,500,000 a year more than it has earned, while in the. ten years previ- ous to 1896 the average anmul («pen- diture above. the earnings, including capital on the same. basis iwas less than $700,000. With a surplus of $20,181 in 1893. $5,838 in 1894 and $3814 in 1895, a deficit of $55,188 in 1896 iollowed, making a deficit of $25,355 for the four years, or an average annual defi- cit ot $6,338. When the Laurier Ministers took hold of the road in ‘ Does Mr. Miller, when canvassing South Grey, think of the {Transcon- tinental, the Intercolonial, the Sas- katchewan land deal, the fake Ihome- steading, the grazing land deals, .the Robins irrigation deal, the ;Gal- tway deal, the timber limits scandal, the Blairmore Town Site scandal, the {western fisheries deal, the Moncton iand Halifax land deals, and a hun-a 'dred other scandals of like Imagni- ;tude, hatched and raised by a rotten 'administration for the enrichment of {a few Government Ministers and i'party heelers? In view of the 1fact ;that during his term in eParliament ‘he has supported, at every opportun- ity, the Laurier Administration. can Ihe reasonably eXpect any intelligent ‘voter who knows the facts (as they ‘stand, and who is desirous tof good, Iclean government to declare in favor {of such corruption by marking 'his , ballot for an out and out supporter . of the class of government that Sir . Wilfrid Laurier and his colleagues 3 haVe been giving us? A man is known 1 by the company he keeps, and in snug- gling so closely to the vbosom of Sir , Wilfrid Laurier and his gang of ml- 3 administrators, Mr. Miller must be ; considered as guilty as the 'rest. appointed by the Government itself, is a story of waste, .neglect' and in- capacity, infinitely discred table to the Government and humiliating to the country. “'e have the. confession of a deputy minister that in three year'sun one depertment $200,000 was sacrificed by conlining the purchase of supplies to partisans of the Gov- ernmtnt. A financial eXpert declares that $10,000,000 could be saved annu- ally absolutely without impairing the pu 11c servnces or withholding any useful apprOpriation. This is what the country pays for the patronage :list, and this is the system 'deliberately adapted and maintained by the .whole Government in order to feed an army of mercenaries, to confine contracts to supporters of Ministers, and to force firms and individuals whose na- tural sympathies lie with the Con- servative.1)arty to forsake their 'po- litical alliances and come over ‘to the Government in order to do ’business With the public departments. s It was clearly established that Sir Frederick Borden interested himself to secure from a fellow Minis BubSldy for a company in Iwhiciierhi: son was concerned and is 'inconceiv- able that any Brit'sh Minister discov-a ered in such {transaction could re- British Cabinet. Qttawa. Generally Minister h" - .BlSted inquiryj‘prote‘c‘tedfilsre 333:5- .ru gnt‘ An- Such has been the ordeal ithrough which our western settlers have been made to tpass, and still the nun with the sunny smile has the au- dacity to stand before the ipeOple his Government has robbed and solicit their support on the 26th day of this month, telling, at the same ltime, of his own greatness and wisdom, and intimating, in his own sunny manner, the debt of gratitude the rpeOpIe owe the great and only Sir .W'ilfrid Laur- ier, Canada’s self-called greatest statesman. Everything was now completed, and Adamson Co. organized the Sask 1t- chewan Valley Land Company and offered the land at from six to twelve. times the price paid. The Ordrr-in-Council confirming the. con- tract was panned on May '2,4th, 1902. just three months after the Ireport of Mr. Sheers. Just about this time the. Land Company went through sev- eral rc-organizations. Persons w<re taken into the. deal who 'cou-Id not conveniently be known to have lany connection with it. For instance, Mr. Turriff, who was Dominion Lands Agent at the time the deal was nude, and now a member of Parliament, denies that he had any connection with the. purchasing company in the. beginning, but does not contradiat the statement that he was afterward connected with them. a brother-in-law of J. G. Turriff, Chief Commissioner of Dominion Lands, together with several other speculators, began by buying the land grant of the Qu’Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railway Combauy. After this purchase, the Government very generously enlarg- ed the area of lands out of which the company could m'ake selection by 2,000, 000 acres, and Mr. Adamson and his friends were thrn enabled to go1 outside of the original boundaries and pick up the best land in sight. After‘ this deal the purchasvrs next ap-i proachcd tho Govirrmmnt, offering: to buy 250,000 acres originally scat ‘an'ido as fri‘eo homostoada l'or seltlvrs. 'l‘hoi outconw was that the Govwnnrnt: fell in line and these. mum were al- lowod to purchase the lands at one: dollar an acre with over Iona mil- lion acrcs from which to choose. For this favor, Mr. Adamson and his friends agreed to settle twi-nty settlers in each township on true homrstcads not includad in th. ir purchase, and tWI-IVC' more. on quarter sections contained in their grant. This was to the advantrge ‘of the in- vestors, who worn now able 'to of‘cr‘ to farmers who would buy from tiwm an additiOnal 160 acres of Gow rnmont land for nothing, and thus find ready sale for their own flands. I and 130 miles north of 'flegina res- pectively, stating that ' the railway ran through a great‘ many good Idis- tricte,‘ and that it it (was but demonâ€" strated that the country was all right it would rapidly fill up 'and incrvase in value the odd-numbered sections. No attention was paid to this recom- mendation at the time, but 'prepara- tions of another kind were limmed- iately made. A. J. Adamson, a then prominent politician, now a member of parlia- ment, and, fortunately for AQamspn, Laurier in many respects reminds the student of the tale of Arthur and hi! Table Round. According to the Celtic legend, King Arthur formed an Association of Peerless knights pledged to save the kingdom from all lawlessness, oppression and corrup- tion. The Knights were brave and bold and fought valiently for the good of the people. But as all moral King Arthur Lander. miles north of 'Regina res- THE DURHAM CHRONICLE The story of the transaction at Sault Ste. Marie, as told at the Bor-v den meeting, and as proth ‘by He public records, where a timber 'limit was handed over to Liberal sparti- ‘sans for $9,500, and sold out of land for $100,000, proves either deliberate corruption or shocking incapacity in the Department. The report of the Civil Service Commission, a tr-bunal appointed by the Government itself, is a story of waste, .neglect' and in- capacity, infinitely discredtable to the Government and humiliating to the country. We have the. confession of a deputy minister that in three years in one depertment $200,000 .was sacrificed by conlining the purchase of supplies to partisans of the Gov- ,W. Frascr, Liberal candidate for 0t.- staua las Just admitted that he :sold for $100, 000 a timber limit for which he paid $1,650. Possibly there |was no corruption. Surely there was a scan- 5dalous neglect of public [intern-st. Of this character is the .whole record of timber administration in the West- iern Provinces. Millions which should (have gone into the Treasury in relief of taxation have gone into ‘private pockets. The News is not concerned ’to strain the evidence in 'order to ’prove corruption. Who could desire [to establish rascality where any \Oth- {er explanation can be offcred? tBut is it possible to deny ".t lat there w as ignorance, indifference, a' pitiful fail- ure of vigilance, and the ’grossest ne- glect of the interests which the Min- isters as public trustees were bound ‘to protect. Were we as a nation born blind or have we gone blind 'that we can- not see the vital significance ‘of this contention? What toleration can the peOple have for a Government which blocks investigation in committees, appoints electoral crooks to public offices, and is at least criminally in the administration of the public domain? It is the business of Minis- ters as trustees of the peOple to aid investigation, to check waste and jobbery, and to punish electoral cor- ruptionists. Any other course is an absolute perversion of the ends of governnunt and an utter evasion of public duty. The other day Sir W'ilfrid Luuri'r was speaking in W'est Huron, where a Conersvutive candidgtc who was re- turmd by the honest votes of the di- vision was cheated out of his seat in Parliament. The two Liberal rep- resentatives for Halifax dodgnd t 9 election courts for a whole Parlia- ment, and regularly drew the sea- sional indemnity to which they ‘1)1‘0- bably never were entitled. Mr. ‘A. ernmint. A financial eXpert declares that $10,000,000 could be saved annu- all absolutely without impairing the puglic services or withholding any useful approm'iation. This is what the country pays for the patronage Ilist, and this is the system 'deliberately adapted and maintained lay the .whole organizations decay in time the' Knights of the Table Round became more or less corrupt. The more val- iant of the older Knights died or got killed off. The younger men followed their own pleasure and were a weak- ling crowd upon whom King 'Arthur could rot depend. The result was that the organization went to pieces and was overthrown. This old le- gend applies to-day. Lnufl‘ier. the peerless knight. formed a table round of the best men in Canada available for the purposes of government. They fought valiantly for the right and the Dominion prospered. But the ‘01-- ganization became degenerate. The newer members did not remember the noble traditions of the body and the older members who remained for- got them. The organization became corrupt around the peerless leadcr and the leader now has not the power to impress his own views lupon the body of men surrounding him. IThe result will probably be the Iresult that attended Arthur when the lor- ganization of Knights he commanded became degenerate. King Arthur Lauriir remains a noble and pn- thvtic figrur-r- among; a group \ol‘ un- worthy Knights.â€"Cowunsville, P. Q., Ohssrvir. Sir Wilfrid Laurier insists that there is no issue in 'this contest. There is, however, an issue .as vi‘al to free institutions as can 'arise in any country. It is the issue of decent and economical administration. Be- fore this all other questions sink into inisgnificance. A Spirited and :'ntel- ligent pe0ple should refuse absolute- ly to tolerate any Gow-rnment which wastes the public money or the pub- lic patrimony, screens jobbory in 'the public departments or corruption in the constituencies. son was concerned and is tinconceiv- able that any Br't'sh Ministtr discova ered in such a transaction could re- tain. his seat in a. British Cabinet. inisters have re- sisted inquiry, protected the offend- ers, and condone-d the jobbery and robbery. Sir Wilfrid Laurier says there is no issue before :the countr v. In 1896 he held that 1waste and ma - administration constituted a supreme issue, the, whole Liberal press and form could not be silenced .by any Spacious cry of "muck-raking," and to use Mr. Borden’s biting phrase. the had no mercy for .the men who ma e the muck. Any country that tolerates waste, jobbery and electoral stdolng writes its own dishonor,con- sents to the debanohorg of the public morals, and destroys t e virilti and efficiency at its inditntlou- ews. A GREAT ISSUE. Our Mr. Cameron has charge of the Repairing depart mum. and mum highly recommended, having had extra large expcrivnw .m 1in watch- es, clocks and jewelry. Extra values in Diamond Rings, Pearl Rings, \Vedtling I‘lmgs. En- gagement Rings, Birthday Rings.---Hundreds of Ring- M (11005? from. Grand stock of \Vatches, Clocks, Chains, Charms, Lm-ixm \ Links. Brooches, Stick Pins. 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