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Which is not $53 500,000 as stated by
THE DAILY EXAMINER) sir. | This surely is clear enough, It fully
DECEMBER 6, 1899 corroborates what the Ex-Ministey of Rail.
ways, Mr. Hageart, stated in the House of
NAILED. Commons on the 2od of August last, that
* the late Government had eame to the cone
eA whic 2 all a may be met clusion that the people of Prince Edward and x i Islacd were enti'l d, under the Cone lfera-
TENNYSON, tion agreement, to $60,000 or $70,000 a
Any ug were needed to discredit Sir | year, which would represent a capital Louis Davies, Mr. D. A. McKinnon and sum of from $2,000 000 to $2,250 000, and the'r orgat n the eves of the people of Mr. Foster puts ithe amount lown at ®2, Relfa avd Murray Harbor it is their | 000,000. Both of these estimates are persistert disregard for truth regarding | close approximations of Seoator fergu Mr. I er’s statements in Toronto in 8 | figuree, as contained in his Senate reply to Sr Richard Cartwright. Without | SPeee h of 1894, which were $2,174,318.
a semtlance of decency, or foundation a This shows that our representative in the
| fact,they have declaredon the platform and late Cabinet had com pletely Impressed his
in the press that Mr, Foster,bad stated at colleagues with the justi four case,
Foronto that the late Government did not | The $2,000,000 or $2,250,000—which | bring down, nor intend to bring down, io} Messrs, Fosterand Haggart said the late
| Parliament, in 1896, a vote for the | Edward I+land
withstanding
Not-
con-
railway branches.
the clear exp/anation
itained in Senator Ferguson's interview
with Tar Exawrver, Sir Louis Davies
land Mr. D. A distort and misquot Mr. E
McKinonoa continued to
reports of oster’s speech which had
appeared in the daily papers. None of those reports gave the elightest warrant to the statements of these veraciou® gentlemen. But they nevertheless per»
ted in them.
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| Happily we have nowa complete and
accurate report of what Mr. Foster said at Toronto. It appeared Star of the 24 Here what the ex-Minister of Finance said re-
in
5th November. is
| garding the policy and intentions of the
| late Goveroment in the matter of ra'lways
in Prince Edward Island,
“But Sit Richard forces his figares still more violently and declares that I asked for $53,490,000 in 1896 97. Now it is well known that the estimates submitted to Parliament.and passed in the supply bill inelude no sums provided ior by epecial legisiation. Let us see then what Sir Richard includes among the estimates which he declares I brought down tothe House for 1896-97. The following table | will show:
SIR RICHARD’S STAT2MENT OF ESTIMATES
FoR 1897. . Bstimates on Con. Fund Account...... “3 — 357 ,548
2. Supplementary estimates... 3. Estimates On capital ac> UE 5... ncccdnenn telein Gacdees 4. Railwey subsidies..... cece 5. For Prince Edward Island
rallways ...
4,660,000
19,000 } a 373" 000)
6. For Crow’s Nest Pass railway.. 1,650,000 | 7. For fast “Atleatic service 750,000 |
Nov. 1 and 3 brought down to the House by me. was never submitted to was never intended to be.
are the only estimates
CHAS. J, MITCHELL,
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Annual Meeting
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The Annual General Meeting of the share- nolders of the Merchan's Bank of P, E. Island will be held at its Fanking House, Great } George Street, Charlottetown,
the 9th dey of January,
He xt the hour of 11 o’eicck, :
A D, 1900, & m, Proxies must be left with the Cashier
least one day previous tothe meeting,
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Dividend Notice
MERCHANTS BAN® oF P. K. Ist ann, < harl .tiecown, Nov. 30, 1x99,
Notice is hereby given that a balf-yearly Dividend st the rate of § per cent per anoum, on the Capital Stock of this Bank, has on declared, payable at its Ranking House, on and after January 2nd, (900.
The Transfer boks will be closed from the } 19th Decem ber, 1899, to the 2ad Jantary, both days inclusive. "
By order of the Boar: J. M. DAVISON, Kec ?
Jawawv imo Cashier.
on Tuesday, at |
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cussed in the House and was not paseed | even to the Committee stage. No 5 as to amouut, is & pure invention of Sir Rich ard’s. A resolution was given notice of tsk pg pow.r to build certaim branch lines in P E I, but it never reached the com- mittee stage. No 6 was placed as 4 notice on the order paper and no furiher action wastaken. No 7 was simply sa act of Parliament authorizing a subsidy to the fast Atlantic service when tenders had been asked and the service couid be se- cured on the conditions named. 4 Nos. 4 and 6 would have been put through had the exigencies of the session permitted, and so, although not estimates, they are propesitions for which the Libe- ral Conservatives are respousible.
As to No. 5 the same remark is applic~
en’ Weekly Star. You want able except as to the cost, which was t, cbtain taose two splendid simply guess oe at by Sir Richard, The
a | po lie y would he ‘ undormbter i] Y been carried pictures, 5 out had the Libers! Conservative remained
If you renew through me you in power, but the cos: weouk d not ave
' been nearly so great and would hive been
wiil be saved the trouble of gradually incurred, Estima ing this cost
writing a letter and the cost of | at $2,000,009 my actual voted estimates,
| and unvoted propositions would have been
as follows :
Estiinates (actual) ..... coos seve P41 1775900 Special enactments (proposed) 7,672,000
BON ccteticus
the Montreal |
No 4 was given notice of on the order paper but never dis-~ lished under the auspices of of the Cou»
. .$48,849,000
: | Prince |
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Government were committed 1o—~—would
have built al) the branches propozed by the late Government, and the bridge in |addition. This shows what an incapable
» the somewhat meagre |
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representative we have In the present
Government, who rushed in, to mortgage our limited provincial revenues, to build a railway bridge every dollar of the cost of which should have been borne by the Fed eral Government.
We understand that
of Mr. Foster’s.
numbers of copies “Two Knights Reviewed” will be sent to electors of Belfast and Murs ray Hartor, who will thus be able to judge the
Liberal speakers and writers.
for themselves, as to veracity of
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THE GOVERNMENT AND OUR FARMERS.
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All over the country a decided change has taken place in the feelings of our farm~
| ers towards the Government, This change
was remarked upon by Col. Tyrwhitt, M. P. in the course of an address which he delivered at Barric, Oat., a few days ago. It is due, Col. Tyrwhitt said, tothe increas sed expenditure, the extravagance, and the broken pledges, the increase in the co-t of Government, the creation of unpecessary cflices, and the adding to ihe number of
officials. “They have broken faith with you farmers,” continued the Colonel. ‘* For years they went up and
down the country saying how they | going to assist the farmer. that under. their rule the
were But you koow price of what
2,500,000 , you bad tosell bas not risen, while what
you have had to buy much more for.”
you have had to pay All sorts of combisia-
— | tions have arisen to the prejudice of the
$53,598,548 | farmers,
No. 2} the House and |
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who are in a distinctly worse position than when the Conservatiyes were in Office. Fortunately they have had good crops, and the dairy industry, estab-
But for the Government
eervatives, has been successful. these benefits, (for which is entitled to farmers would be in a bad way in Ontario as well as here.
ee
THAT AGREEMENT.
no credit) our
AN agreement concerning the bridge over the Hillsborough in existence That fact is declared by Sir Louis Davies, Premier Farquharson, Mr. D.A. McKin. non and others. Then why not publish it? Why not Jet the people know all about its provisions? We ask the gov- ernment, again, to publish the agreement. It is suspicious—very suspicious—this holding back of the agreement.
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Bappeck. June 11, 1897. C.C. thicnarps & Co, Dear Sins,—MINARD’S LINIMENT is my remedy for NEORAUGIA, It
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NOTES AND COMMENTS,
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—Accordiog to the latest statistics, Canada vow stanis seventh among the maritime natronsof the world.
The Canadian regiment that of the
ghianders !
will fight in Biack Wat ch and Seaforth H
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sone id Postmaster Genera] recently nominated Mr. Beausoliel, a member of | the House cf Commons, to the office of Postmaster of Montreal. The Postmas-~
ter General is the three or four years appointments a+ a
same Mr. Malock who, tago, denounced such scandalous misuse of petronage ar d an ou'rageous violation of the of Parliament. Liberal consistency, thou art a jewel,
independence
Dr. So it
we do not believe that he represents
~The Guardian cannot say that Lucas is nota strong prohibitionist.
Saye se
the attitude of the Methodist Church” in regard to the 100,000 promises matter. Tié point is, does Dr. Lucas represent
that which is rigbt and true and reason- able, when he condemns this scheme, und advises prohibitioniets, firet of ell, to punish those who have failed to make good their p'ebiscite promises by ‘* voting them down.” It may be remarked that the probibitionists had a pretty good idea of the ability and earnestness ef Dr. Lucas when they chose him as their champion to discuss Prohibition with Dr. Grant.
—The Summerside Journal refers to the broken premises of the Liberalsin regard to Summerside harbor as “one of the un- mistakable instances of the manner in which the Laurier Government keeps faith with the electors.” Summerside harbor is not—so the Liberals say —fit tu admit ofthe Stanley, though means of winter communication were promised, and the Government has had dredges and “cwenty-five dollars a day” steamers at command. Yes! The electors of Belfast and Murray Harbor will do well tores member the lapses of the Government in respect to Summerside Harbor,—and vote for the Opposition candidates,
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