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Che Dailp Exanunet
JANUARY 14, 1886 __
he Pasriot's Attacks on Hon. D. Ferguson.
Tux Patriot has lately been hound- ing dowu the Hon. Donald Ferguson. “Hounding dawn” is a congenial employ- uient for a certain order of animals aud men; and the higher and betier the object of their attacks, the more delight such animals and meo take in it.
But, apart from the native pleasure the Patriot has in houuding down the Hon. Dona!d Fergusop,it has just now another motive which is well waderstood. It is, from au Opposition point of view, very desirable to weaken the force of the re-
presentations the Hon. Mr. Ferguson will make in the coming Legislative
Council election ; and the Patriot has vo better way of doing this than attempiing to lower the high estimation the public have of Mr. Ferguson’s character and abilities.
We thiuk it unlikely that the Patriot's vicious efforts will be rewarded with avything but failure.
Let us examiue the Patriot’s charges. [hey are—
1. That Mr. Ferguson gets $1,300 a year, and does practically nothing tor it.
2. That he employs “a large staff of unnecessary clerks to do the work that he is paid for doing.”
To give color t these charges, the Patriot contends that the work to be done in the Land Office now is not so great as it was some years ago when Mr. Davies (that great economist who wouldn’t touch a dollar of the people’s movey unless be gave full value for if) was ip Office. This statement is largely, if pot wholly, fallacious. ‘True, the cash receipts are not quite so large; but it does not follow thut there is avy the less work todo. The Patriot Pub- lishing Company have to keep just as large a staff to issue three or four huo- dred pupers a day, as they would have if there issue were as many thousands. Or, to give suother illustration : when a merchant has his warehouse and shelves full of goods it is a comparatively easy matter to take ia cash avd open credit accounts, but afier the rush is over avd he has ceased to import, much harder work is required to maintain his cash receipts from comparatively empty ware- houses and customers in default. So it is in the Land Office. The rush of sales and payments is uow over. But the work of negotiating with unwilling cus- tomers and of obtaining payments from tardy debtors renders the position of the Commissioner more onerous than ever, and necessitates the employment of a full staff.
With this fact established and borne in mind, let us examine the Patriot's chargea.
For the $1,300 that he receives every year, he performs all the duties apper- tainiag to the offices of Provincia! Secre- tary, Commissioaer of Crown Lands, Commissioner for the management of the Stock Farm, Commissioner for the man- agement of the Poor House, Trustee of the Hospital for the Insane, and Commis- sioner for the management of the Pro- vineial Exhibition. In the early days of Confederation, there were at least three heads of department to perform the duties of these offices, and every one ol! them was ready to asseverate that he had plenty to do, while the cost to the Province was more than three times the thirteen hundred a year which Mr. Fer- yuson now receives! Yet, though our population has increased materially, and ‘he duties are not lesa onerous now than ihey were then, the Patriot dares to say that Mr. Ferguson “ receives $1300 and does practically nothiog.”
If Mr. Ferguson does practically vothing, the public service under his superintendence must be in a bad way. But what is the fact? [t is well known that the business of the Proviscial Secre- tary-Treasurer aud the Commissioner of Crown Lands was never doue with less trouble to the public than it is at preseut. We scarcely ever hear a com- plaint from the public respectiog any department under Mr. ‘Ferguson's control. So smoothly is everything running that even the Patriot has uo- thing to say—but that Mr. Ferguson does vothing. The Patriot knows well that the entirely satisfactory state of Mr. Ferguson’s department is largely due to his painstaking supervision and sharp at- tention to details. We haszard the assertion that, instead of doing nothing, Mr. Ferguson does more official work for the money he receives than any meu who ever occupied a public position in
and its cost. When the Patriot was fat- tening on Government printing contracts the salaries paid to officials io the offices of the Provincial Secretary, Treasurer avd Public Lands, were as follows :
Provincial Secreiary-Treasurer.......--.- $1,600 00 Assistant Treasurer......-...-.ce0----.---- SU Assistant Provincial Secretary..........-- 600 00 Commissioner Public Lands............... 1,600 00 Assistant Commissioner Public Lands.... 809 90 Two Draughtsmen................--------- 1,300 © Pee CINNPEE, « co oan s+ os TA STG caeie 1,900 00
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Prince Eiward Island. Then,as to his staff
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Mr. Ferguson, the salaries are :
Provincial Secretary-Treasurer and Com-
missioner of Crown Lands...-+++++- is
Assistant Provincial Setretary...- 1 i
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$5,450 00 Three thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars a year less, and the work better done!
In view of this result, Mr. Ferguson might, we think, be permitted to have the staff he considers necessary. Ia his report for the year 1883, Mr. Ferguson explains that a large portion of the time of the staff has been applied to preparing and furnishivg statements of accounts to purchasers who are much in arrears, and in correspondence with tenaats who have not yet attorned; and says that while the cost to the «ountry in this connettiou is quite considerable, the cash receipts bear a fair relation tothe efforts put forth by the official staff.
However this may be, there are few men who, in view of all the facts here adduced, are likely to join the Patriot in hounding down Mr, Ferguson—even though a Council election is coming o» !
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Unfair Discrimination.
CoMMENTING upon the returns of ex- ports from this province in the past year, and the fact that a larger proportion of them are entered, pot in the Custom Houses in the Island,but in these of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the Herald point out that,—
“It is not only unfair that we should lose credit for one-half our exports, but it must of necessity work usa great injury, It may happen if an application be made to Parliament to subsidize the subway that the question may be asked, ‘What is the trade of the Island, and does it warrant such an expenditure? The only official record is the ‘Trade ana Navigation Returns pre- pared by the Customs Department, and members will naturally turn to them and find that our exports amount to about a million and a haif annually. It is the same with our imports; a large amount, possibly one-half, is received by way ef Montreal, Toronto and Halifax, and their value is never entered on our Customs returns, neither are the duties charged upon them credited tothe Isiand. We do not know at this moment the amount of duty annually credited to this Province, tut it should be in all fair play much larger than it is. Only that our importance as a Province of the Domin- ion is judged by the trade we carry on with the rest of the world, is the reason that we refer to this matter at such length.”
As to our imports via Montreal, ete. ,— here referred to —it is hard t+ see how they could appear as imports of this Province; but as to the exports, the wroog done this Province might easily be righted by simply abolishing all Pro- vincial lines, and ordering that all goods for export be entered in the Custom House at the first port of shipment instead of at the last.
Loopepeainnineiiadieasitiisiad maaan neaees
A Question.
The Moncton Times says it is stated that Hon. L. H. Davies, ot P. E. Isiand, will address a meeting of the Grits of Westmorland, whea on his way to O:tawa, probably uext month, But it is not stated whether Mr. Davies is to deliver his oration ou “ Great Men in Council” or on the “Execution of Riel.” Mr. Davies has so far been very quiet and pnon-committ- ed on this question about which his party are striviug to make a great dea! of capital. Is he preparing for a graod onslaught when he reaches the main- land ?
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,
Temperance Jottings.
Sir,—As I often see correspondence in your valuable journal, concerning the state of Temperance in the various sections of the country, itmight not be out of place for me to give alittle infornaaiion as to the progress of the same cause in the western end of our Island, la Elmsdale, Lot 4, there isa flourishing Temperence Division, which is largely attended by the inhabhit- ante of this and neighboring districts. On iast Monday evening the large and com- modicus schoolhouse was nncomfortably crowded. There were prerent parents and children, both male and female. The first part of the evening was agreeably occupied by songs, readings and recitations, which reflected great credit upon the talent of the Division. The spirited aud imsiructive debste which followed, as to whether the rumseller or the rumdrinker is the greater injary to society, was abruptly interrupted by the arrival of several young men trom Alberton, who wished to become members of the Order, and who, no doubi, will be quite an acquisition to our Society. This Division has a good effect, not only in drawing out any Jatent tal nt our young men may possess for public speaking, but also in preserving them from the ‘‘perfidi- ous destroyer.” I+ was a noble sight to see 80 many yorng persons present, who, if enshrounded by the same influences, will in fature years be stalwart meo and women in the Temperance cause. The Temper- ance principle of the Elmsdale people is manifested not only by words while in the Division, but by actions outside, as is evi- dent from the fact that no rumseller is tolerated in the community.
By inserting these few lines you may forward to some slight degree the Temper- ance cause, and will oblige a
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