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THE DAILY BXAMINER

DECEMBER | 6, ae =?

A FEW FIGURES.

Tue fact that Mr. Bell and his friends have brought the Minister of Finance into the ficld indicates a very real fear that the Liberal candidate may not lead the poll io East Prince. Mr. Bell’s friends affect

great contempt for “the boy.”’ But their tinkling champion, evident!y—in their opinion—needs the aesistanee of a strong

does not season of East Prince Mr. Field- ing will, without doubt, be met by the question, how is it that after spending twenty years in denouncing “Tory ex travagance,” the Liberals are spending more money than the Tories, and public taxation and debt are all increasing in this rtime?” In the last ten years

, the Liberal Conservative

The Finance Minister come over here at this the year to stump

forthe fun of the thing.

voice,

“ growit of their regime

Guvernment expended out of the Consoli-

ten years of $36,787,772 per year. Now turn to the Libere] expenditures. Tue Literal;

ending

expended in the

er . . £38 349 760 |

SEOs scence yoemettiae » 38.699, 823 1899 (e- stimated) dh dincup mended 40,987,812 Total in three years.......... $118,037 395

or a yearly average of $39,345,798—an increase of nearly two and a half millions upon Consolidated Fund alone.

Then take the

During the

Capital expenditures -

last Parliament controlled by the Conservatives, these were as follows :—

1892.... + 82,164,456

1893... i re ae . 3.862 969 1895... 3.030 490 L896. . . 3,781,311

Under the Liberal regime the capital expenditures are as follows:

ae , $3,523,160

ee ees 5 542 838 1899 (estimated)... .. 6,983,135 Mr. Fielding may well be asked to ex

plain the great increases shown in view of distinct and repeated pledgee, of which the

following is a sample:

Sir Loris Davies— WHICH WE PLEDGE OURSELVES, that LARGE AND IMPORTANT REDUCTIONS Gan he

without interfering with the efficient ad-* ministration of affaira,

T “T gay

Sin Bictsrnd Gatrwrkicatr— a disgrace and es to the Goverament th at bas been entrusted with oar affairs

that they come down to ask for an expen

diture of $53,000,000 a year for Fedeval purposes.

Yet the Finance Minister comes to East r oO attempt to make the electors tee | lieve that a’ Federal Expenditure of all but | $48,000,000 a year is oli right and econ- omieal ! We fee] sure that the electors will

not be: ect by cock and buil stories abont the Klondike and the extension of the Intercolonial railway.

ql he Liberals pledged themselves also to This they might in view of increased

uce taxation. wi 1 do j

which duty was paid in the past two years,

very imports on

The taxes paid by Canadians amounted to

1894 5 co SOOB. 2. so coceee 25,446,192 De DBeacakes * uiehsgadlasnenen Aa ae RTs 5 bse iaebadaliand eave 28,649,004 ae made 29,602,799

years |

} }

“We are ready to}

go to the country with that statement, IN,

very .

| party were used to prevent-the free €xpres™ le in ft ve

mace io the ex pendi' ure of the O¢ yn! ry a tir a of the poy pul lar wi i}.

it is }

.

| Liberal | Bell.

|

| are being

| pledges made to the people by the Reform

coward’s dodye.

ters

prohibition actually cast will be disregard- red, ag it was intended to disregard it from

‘friends can get rid or

THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 6, 1698

|

That the Liberals, last year, took from the people, in taxee, $4,156,607 more than the Conservatives took in 1895-

is to say

Lastly,as to the public debt. Notwith- standiog the bounding revenues enjoyed by the Liberals, they have, also, broken thei pledge not to add to the public debt of the country. Io 1887, the addition to the n2t debt was $5,041,163, and in 1898 $2,794 580 ur in two years close upon $6,000,000, More than this, in the month of July last —the first month of the current financia! year— there was added to the public debt $4,069,- 414.49. The Finance Minister may attempt ‘to explain away these damning figures— copied from the Canada Gazette. The N. P tariff still in force, and heavy imports by our merchants have given him a large revenue this year, and there are large bal- ances at the banks jast now which go ty reduce the net debt at this moment. Bu, the amounts we have named have gone to swellthe debt; and atthe end of the year, when all the expenditures have been ac- counted for, it w.1l be found that they will stand as a permanent addition to the bure den of the tax payers of the country.

—

Thus with added expenditures, added

taxation and added debi instead of reduced ; expenditures, reduced taxation and reduced debt, as promised by Sir Louis Davies and other gentlemen now in the Goverument, Mr. Fielding appearsto ask the electors of East Prince to jastify the conduct of th® admini ane by Will they do it?

ee —

THE PLEBISCITE PLEA.

electing Mr.

Tue Temperance electors of East Prince the Libera! account of prohibition and

Now,

why they should vote against him

asked to vote for candidate on the plebiscite. this is a principal reason Everyone knows, now, that the plebiscite was hur bug, pure and simple—all but the cost, which was about a quarter of a mil lion of dollars of the public money. This i8 at Once so true and so damaging to th® Government that Liberal papers in the other provincesare striving to relieve the Government of responsibility forit. Thus the Free Press of Ottawasays :

not the work of the however, carried out the

“The plebiscite v. Government. It,

convention, which was alone responsible for the scheme.”

Commenting upon this declaration The Montrea! Gazette remarks that “ip is easy, to understand a Liberal newspaper’s desir, to repudiate the plebiscite. It was the grossest humbug ever perpetrated on an oft-humbugged people. It was ap unsanc, tified attempt by ths Goverament to shirk ite responsibility of dealing with a public issue,

an attempt without precedent in

British constitutional history. It was a [t was aud was meant to Tie eftoris of Laurier’s minis~

organization of the Laurier

be a fraud. and the

The majority for

The ; l¢bisc

those who think prohibition

he first. te was more than an outrage Ou practicable; it was an outrage on the com- mon sense of the peopl>, a quarter of a

illion of pakir But dislike it as they may, there

ig no way in which the

whose mousey was wasted in ig it. Government and its its respovsibility io the matter. The record is on public view.> The remarks of the Gazette are absolutely true. The Government and the Govern- ment only, are responsible for the plebiscite —and the plebiscite was a “fraud.” If Mr.

than

Bell did not care more for his party he does for temperence, he would have denounced the deception perpetrated by the Government in the name of prohi- bition. As temperance men and as tax

payers, the electors of East Prince ought to condemn the Government’s conduct in respect to the plebiscite. The way to do so

is to vote against Mr. Bell.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

—Are our farmers growing richas a result of Liberal rule ? Look out for our farmers reply on election day.

— Blair's way of taking the intercolonia! “out of politics” is to mske ita mere ac” cessory to bis political and buciness enter- prises.

—Accordirg tothe official returns, the imports of iron from Great Britain in 1896 amunted to $1,158,699 and in 1895 to $652,125. The prefe.ential tariff is evident» ly not doing Great Britain any good in res« pect to iron.

—Of seven constituencies, including Simcoe and Bagot-vacant by the death of the members, five are vacant. by the mem-~ bers being appointed to office. Mr Cam- eron, M. P., for West, Huron, was ap- pointed governor of the North West; Mr Lister, M. P. for West Lambton, was made a judge; Dr Quay, M. P., for Levis was given @ porition as quarantine officer; Mr Cocquette, M. P., for Montmagny was appointed to a judgeship, and Mr Yeo, M. P., for East Prince, wae moved into the Senate.

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ESTEEMED EXCHANGES

St John Sun: The government organs are still pointing outthat no one is making formal charges against the government officialson the Yukon. ‘That bardly seems necessary, since Mr Sifton is turning them out apparently for sufficient reason.

Moacton Times: It is said that one of the arguments brought to bear upon Mr. Blair for giving the Moncton organ of gritism a larger share of the railway printing is that Editor Hawke is the only pos-itle Liberal candidate for the peat ciection in Wesmorilanc, and that be will religiously put by a share of the profits on

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Annual Meeting

Merchants Bank of P. E. Island

The Annual General Meeting,of the ehareboldera, of the Merchants’ Bank of P. E. Island, will be held at ‘ts Bankiog House, Great George Street, on Tuesday the 10th day of January, next, 1899, at the hour of 11 o’clock a, m.

Proxies must be left with the Cashier at least one day previous to the meeting.

J.M. DAVISON,

280 Cashier

Dividend Notice Merchants Bank of P. E. Islang

CHARLOTTETOWN,

Dec. ist, 1898

Notice is hereby giveu, that a half-yearly |

dividend, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum

on the capital stock of this bank, has been de-

clared payable at ~ aes house, on and after J anuary 3rd,

Transfer book will be closed from December ,

A. oe 3rd of Jauuary, 1899, ae on ™ J. WM: nay

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