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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, JUNE 3 1898.

THE DAILY EXAMINER

JUNE 3, 1898,

A BIG JUMP.

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The expenditure of the Government of

Canada provided for in the estimates of the coming year—the financial year 1898-99— @mounts to $47,970,947. careful farmers who voted for the Libera! party at the last election, on the ground that they wanted economy inthe publle service instead of extravagance, to note these figures. Nordo the figures tellthe whole story; for next year, as this year, “ sup- plementary estimates” will be brought down and a million or two will be added, takiog the total expenditure of next year close up to $50,000,900. How does this compare with the $36,000,000 to $38,000,- 000 expenditures of the Conservative Gov~ ernment about which Sir Louis Davies used to raise such a shont? An increase of tens of of dollars in the yearly expenditures of the Goverament is something to make men pause and think: Witb al! this, the Southern Railway and the Hillsborough are not provided for.

A SCANDAL.

Tue Act of our Legislature which pro- vides that a creditor ‘shall not obtain a verdict jadgement or decision therein un- ess it is proved atthe trial of such action thatatthe timeof such sale, the said creditor or the person who acted or sold for him such goods, wares, or z2erchandize had duly taken out a license according to

the provisions of ‘An Act to impose! a

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direct tax On certain classes of traders,’ and which license was in force at the time the sale of said goods, wares, or merghans dise was negotiated ” is contributing tothe notoriety of thie Province, The Montreal Journal of Commerce declares that,—

“Legislation of this class is highly objectiovable for many reasons, but main- ly because of ite inequity, and the serious injury it is calculated to inflict upon the eredit of the province and its individoai merchants, where it is in force, We can hardly believe such result to have been intended, but the above Act is peril- ously near toone to enable Prince Kd- ward Island merchaots to repudiate their debts. Now, they are well known to us to be as honorable a body of traders as any in Canada, To them credit is quite as valu. able, and a reputation for uprightness as much cherished «s by any other mercans tile community. It is in their interest we protest agsinst the above Act. We expose ita evils in order to arouse them

to take the necessary action to protect themselves from the grave wrong and scandal to which the

Act subjects them. According to the Act, any merchant outside Prince Edward Ix|:nd who sells goods on credit toa trader in that Province cannot recover the debt by process of law unless when he sold the goods he held a license to do business in that Province. Another clause of the Act app'ies this power of repuiliation to in- golvent debtors, against whose estate no ‘claim can be legaily enforced by a non- provincial creditor who sold his goods in P. E. Island without baying a commer- cial traveller’s license todo business in that province. The P. EB. Island merchants by this act are practically prohibited from the purchasing any goods outside or intide the province frem any unlicensed merchants, Their range of credit is thus much restricted as many mercantile firms would be open to sell them a line of goods

who would not care to take ont a license.

Ou'side merchants are not able, nor is it at all reasonable to expect them, to keep track of the vagaries of provincial legisla

tion. An act which out- laws all debts unless the cre- ditor when making the sale was licensed to trade in P, E. Island, is utterly repug~ nant to the fundamenta! principles of hon- orable trade. Legislators who passed this Act allowed provincial selfishness to blind them to the obligations and the dictates of equity and justice. In over-zealously seek~ ing tohelp the trade of their province, they have brought scandal upon the legis- lature, aud gone far towards bringing a cloud over the fair fame and credit of the merchants of Prince Edward Island.”

The disgrace reflected from our Legis- lature upon our merchants serves our merchants right ; for they should long ago have risen in protest againet the con- temptible tax payment of which the Leg- isiation that has broughta cloud upon their fair fame is intended to secure. The tax vpon commercial travellers briogs in little money and agreat deal of ill-will It has made Prince Edward [sland notor- It is in direct

“open-door” business.

jous throughout Canada. Opposition’ to the principle of doing It savours of Russian or Chinese methods rather thar of those of a British people. The act which the Journal of Commerce denounces as “utterly repugnant to the fundamental principles of honorable trade ” is its fitting corollary. We cannot believe that the Minister of Justice will allow the latter act to pass. For the credit of this Province, we sincerely hope that he will eee bis way clear to pat his foot upon thie measure paseed by our Liberal statesman.

The annual statement of the Bank of Quebec shows a profi! of $200,000.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

(s0x,eromentor. > CODtaio loug ex- pisuaiivus, showing Why the increase in expenditure as foreshadowed in the Laurier Government estimates, is necesrary. The explanations do not, however, as the Montreal] Gazett points out, explain. Toey suggest thata keepiog ef the Govern- ment’s pledges to reduce expenees would have spoken for itself and needed no ex- planations.

—Halifax Herald: The epirit of nepo- tism, now sO rampant inthe grit party, has attacked even the clergymen in the house. Word comes from the Northwest that Rey. Mr. Douglas, M. P., the patron member for Eastern Assinaboia, who so slavishly supports the government, has got his son employment at the public expense. Mr. Douglas now feels, no doubt, that like Lister, McMullen et al, it is good to be where you have a “pull.”

--The Empire of London remarks that it is impossible not to teel surprised at Lora Rosebery’s blindness to the patent fact that he will sever be anything but an ostracised pretender to the leadership of the Liberal party. The MoJerate Liberals may support him, but they canuet prevent the noisy opposition of the vigorous “tail” of their party. Lord Rosebery is a political Ishmael, with every man’s hand against him. Too Conservative to be Liberal, too Liberal to make an acceptable Conserva~ tive, too conscientous to turn bis coat, he presents the lamentable epectacle of an ambitious, clever man whose abiiity no party can utilise. And he is not a stroag man, born to command and influence his fellows, Otherwise he would have imitated Mr. Chamberlain, formed a Ko-ebery party and forced his recalcitrant colleagues into obedience. Tried and found wanting, he must for the present be classed among our brilliant political failures.

— Commenting on Mr. Tarte’s admission under oath that he had liedto the house of commons last session rerpecting the cheque that paid for La Pa'rie, the Toron. to Mail and Empire says :—

“What makes Mr. Tarte’s untruthful story in parliament the more remarkable is the preface he gave it. He declared to parliament that he was about to tell the whole truth, end that if he did not tell the whole truth he would resign from the ministry in disgrace. Then cume the statement which Mr. Tarte now swears was false, the purpose being to prevent the tory press from ‘lying.’ Our public life is becoming degraded, otherwise a minister of the crown could not lie unblushbingly in parliament, and then, tefore a committee, and under oath, declare bcastfully and triumphantly not only that he did Jie, but that he lied with a distinct object in view. Mr. Tarte is as proud of the lie which he says he toldto parliament for strategic reasons as an honorable man would be of some worthy action.

ESTEEMED EXCHANGES.

Mail and Empire: When they cry “Down with the Senate! ” wkat they real-

ly mean is “Up with boodle ! ”

Montreal Gazette: The supplementaries contain an item of $5,000, ‘* to defray expenses in gathering information and otherwise with reference to a@ railway commission.” That reads as if some faith- ful one was soon going to his reward, too. There has not been suggested anything so easy since the Liberal Government of this province sent a coromission to Winnipeg at $20 a day to study the jury svstem.

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According to latest statistics the Span« iards at the battle of Manila Bey lost 78 killed oa the ships and 23 in the arsenal, orl0l inall. There were 235 wounded in ihe ships and 45 at the aracnal. Itw.s not a Trafalgar.

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TRIBUTES TO GLADSTONE.

LorD SALISBURY.

It was more on account of considerations common to the mass cf biman beings, to the general working of the human mind than sny controver ed questions of policy, that men recognized in him a man guided — whether under mistaken impressions or not, it matters no'—but gnided in all the steps he took, in all efforts he made, by a high moral ideal. What he sought were the achievements of great ideals, and whether they were based on sound convic- ticns or not they could have issued from notbing but the gra @t and the purest moral aspirations; and he ie honored by his countrymen because, through so many years, across ©0 many vicissitudes and coa~ flicta, they recognize this one character- istic of his action, Which has neyer ceased to be felt.

Eart or KIMBERLEY

It is, as the noble Marquis said, the ap- preciation of the moral qualities of the map, the bigbmindedvess of his conduct, aod of thesense which the nation feels that in him we have lost not merely a statesman of great power and of great rep- utation, but we have losta man who set an example to all the people of the coun« try, whether high or low, of a@ life nobly spent—pure in its intentions, pure in its conduct, and which lagtee will hereafter be considered a bright example to the na- tions.

Duke or Devonsuire

Deeply as we regret the difference of Opinion which caused the separation be-~ tween Mr. Gladstone and many of those who had been his most devoted adherents, we never doubted, and we «0 not doubt not only in that, but in everyoth: r matter, with which during his iong public life be had to deal,he was actuated by no other consider- ation than that of a sense of public duty, and by his conveption of that which was

in th hi_hest interests 9° the country. Eani or Rosesery

“There was noman,I suspect, in the history of “ngland—no man, at any rate, in recent centuries—who touched the in~ tellectual lifeof the country a. so many points and over so great a ranze of years. But that was in fact and reality uot merely a part of his intellect, but of his character for the first and most obvious feature of Mr. Glads:on’s character was the univereality and the humanity of bis sym-~ pathy. I do not now mean, as we all know, that he sympathized with great causes and with oppressed vations and with what he believed to be the cause of liberty all over the world, but [ do mean his sympathy with al] classes of human beings, from the highesttothe lowest. ThatI believe was one or the secrets of his almost unparal- led power over his fellow men.

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FRIDAY, is JULY, ISOs,

Prizes, Consisting of Gold and Silver Medals and Oiher Beautiful articles will be @ffered for the Following Events: —

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More particulars later

WA. x. PAYNE,

SECRETARY COMMITTEE.

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