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JOLT'S rilTFOm: 'mrvi . •* K/'X The electors of this Province a^e' -how called upon to make their choice of the men wft :jA-«o'44 :vtHV«V •♦ 1879 36,000 $ 1XH\ ..-....-■••,..■:,)..:.■. ^^^8r $13,600 Legislative Assembly : — ^. . - - • Expeiises 1877 lllTSOO" ^ . ,vaVM.A ., " 1878 128,430 . ..."' '^'^''''^' •* 1879 93,859 7 ^rar' JUTTl'^ i}Tfet 84,631 General Elections : — 1876*.... 80,813 — ^^i ^^ '^■:^^ai HdT \ ^ 1879 15,130 T .T^>r ' From 1876*, |16,68^ -'«*i\ - * Year of ^ner»! elections, whio'h are also included in 1879. Total Legislation f :— 1876#.... $200,420 ^ 1877 167,969 !1, t'X.K 1878 218,687 '^'^ H* :jiv«' >•> 1879 158,185 Redaction in 1879 from 1878: ( ! -f'i,; ' ;' t- Civil Government : — 1877 165,278 ' ■ • ' ' 1878 176,708 1879 167,710 • i-l' ft* 65,452 I 'ita! 17,998 ^l 66,394 ' ; Administration of Justice, Police, '''*^^ "•' ' "^'^ Reformatories and Prison In- >^''*^;''J'! spection :— '"■ '''■' '■A '' •'. '''^■- ' ^'■■■-■'^'f-- , 1877 620,368 — '-'-''^■' "'' '■■■^ 1878, 689,840 '^^^ ^-' - - "i' - .tw.:!r,;t?:'yvfi I87i9..:,.. 473,946 -^^mI-jv^^'-'j r:<:^ :;...^7/ Pw6/fc Instruciiok'(^\ i ^i > .' ^- ,1877..;;,.-.;-jB60,000 ;;''^ / ''1878.. ..;;••• 3-76,000 ' ^ ;."^^:i879 •::87riooo ^^r \::? ' ' -' '~^» f'* i>ns;i/j> 6,000 .J,, Agriculture, Immigration, Jfr,:- ;^„.,,n^;,f.., ,,, f 1877 $189,000 1878 167,00.0-. :•„ , , ,,o;; 1879 116,00tf I S » 1 If ' ', f -f- v' ;A ' .':i^A • . . • Public Works and Buildings : — 1877 $206,000 }, 'i:;^1878 260,000 1879 190,000 Uh 41,000 -^-i Chanties : — 1877 $246,000 .. :. 1878 240,298 ^'-^'' 1879 271,000 •n»-, 60,000 -i^ Increase nearly 81,000 dycUon of the Speaker's salary from f2,40O to $2,000 immediately after the Hon Mr. Turootte's »PPointanent, a fact which, combined with the h^ chaSrter Jf 5!?;u^' 1°*^ •"i^'^i Tu«)otte himself, is aBoffioient refutation of tKiJe that the latter gentieman's course was foUowed from improper motives. ♦ Year of general elections, which are also included in 1879, s Crown Lands Department .•— * ./ ..Beduction fn 1879 1877 1169.000 - from 1878: ..'.„..- 1878 176,461 r . rcf;^ 1879 15*2,758 ' ' . .- 22,708 On the above items the total reduction by Mr. Joly in 1879 as compared with 1878 was $236,552, allowing for the increase in the item of Charities, which was for the Beauport and St. Johns Lunatic Asylums. Total Expandituiv, Interest, ftc., Controllablt le^B RailwAVK, Ac. on <1ebt. Expendlfcoi*. 1877 $2,486,913 $407,176 $2,079,787 1878 2,681,617 482,661 2,198,866 1879 2,711,608 727,097 1,984,611 All the figures we give are from the* Official Public Accounts, and the totals there given, even neglecting certain items that are not properly •'■' cdhtrollable," show a reduction in controllable expenditure by Mr. Joly's Government in 1879 from that of: 1878 of $214,345. And this is exclusive of Kailway- management. Mr. Joly's plans were also laid ;for large reductions in the succeeding year, but his estimates were grossly ex- ceeded under Mr. Chapleau!^ 'administration. Mr. Chapleau assumed office in October, 1879, and the returns for a complete year ot his administration are not yet down. But by the i;eturh8 of the year beginning 1st July, 1879, and ending. 30th June, 1880, we find two items that may be compared with the above, which show the increase that had cdready begun to take place under his administration. ^,.,^. ,., , ^ ;i ^ ; mk? v^: vi i* ai Legislative Council : — • .: t ■ j^'^i /ijr'i. i ';}?«. -, .,„ .r- 1879 $ 86,000 ...u , .i, k;; ••; .u. , yf^.; t*,,, 1880 42,000 1. $6,000 increase. v/ Legislative Assembly : — - fe • . • i \ 1879 $ 93,000 ■' "Ji ii- ^ in;:. .;.lri.MiM -> 18S0 129,000 f t^^M^i .;; rr: $36,000 We must also give the following figures for the Rail- way management, that is, the management of the Q., M., 0. & O. Railway : — In 1879 paid for Salaries, Trafl&o Expenses, &c, Q,, M , O. & 0., Western Division #141,079 In 1880 paid ior same on the whole line..4 419,805 rai'.arr «»«i Here is an increase of $277,826 which is, it is true, for a longer line of railway than in 1 879, but the increase of expenditure is out of all proportion to thfe increase in length of line. For it is evident that the ex- pense of adding more miles of railway should not be so large as the expense of starling the first portion, since all the general expenses have already been incurred. This is, no doubt, due to (he management of the notorious L. A. Senecal, of whom a word anon. <'.- i\ 'V?* , , RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION. .,/,'/ We have now to direct particular attention to this Gov- ernment Railway. -'•)*. has cost the Province $13,000,000 for construction. Mr, Chapleau now endeavors to make the electors believe that he can sell it for $3,000,000, and if he gets such an offer' .'he .proposes so to sell it. Now it seems unreasonable to sell our railway for $5,000,000 lesb than it cost, and he explai,n£j that we were ready to give a subsidy of that amounl i^b' a company to construct it. There is a vast difference, however, between the Province paying a company $5,000, 000, tb take all the risk of con- struction and allowing that amount after all this risk has been overcome,and after the railway is actually built in the most expensive way. It ought to yield a larger revenue than $400,000 a year in the future if properly run, and that is the interest at 5 per cent, on $8,000,000. For though next year it might yield only $300,000, especially under its present management, it is probable that in two years it could be made to pay half a million, and in ten years it should yield a revenue of $600,000 or $700,000. Therefore, it is very questionable if that would be a good bargain. But even if it be so, and it certainly would be more profitable than leaving it under the management of Mr. Senecal, the people should see, as Mr. Joly has point- ed out, that this money is paid to the creditors of the Pro- vince, and does not pass through the hands of Mr. Sene- cal or Mr. Ghapleau. ^ ''^'' '^^ ''V'''*Tur^'n MM •iiiji t!<»i('iv 'tfrnt M.', MR. SENEGAL. iitiiU>.;/■ < 1 !; V '. ■ '\ ;■ DIRECT TAXATION. V .>u While referring to this railway, we must direct atten- tion to the statement of the Hon Mr. Chapleau in his speech in the Mechanics' Hall, Montreal, that no further taxation would be required iffhe Government could sell this road for $8,000,000, from which we must infer that if he cannot sell it (and we have no reasonable cause for be-t lieving he has an offer for it), he must now impose di- rect TAXATION on the people, in spite of his having al- ! ( ! >■ 10 ready added to our burdens by a |4, 000,000 loan, or an annual charge for interest of about |200,000 a year. lU •)VJ'fV^ loiik MR. CHAPLEAU'S RECKLESSNESS. Anothe"* 'st&fetnerit ma^e in Mr. Chapleau's Montreal speech was that his idea of economy was not to pick up the straws that fall from the load, but to float loans at 98 ; but we think that economy really consists, not in float- ing loans at 98, but in reducing the public expenditure so that no loans at all will be required ; and this is what Mr. Joly promises to do, and what Mr. Joly, if properly supported by the electors, is able to do. He has never had a full opportunity of showing his economical capa- city, for while he was in ofiice he was hampered by the most factious and outrageous Opposition that ever op- posed any Minister. How could any Minister economize either time or money in the face of an Opposition that moved twenty-two votes of want of confidence in the one session of Parliament, while the efforts of that Opposition were seconded by a lavish application of bribes to Mr. Joly's followers, and by a flagrant violation of constitu- tional laW on the part of the legislative council? > The people of this Province are not self-governing so long as a Council c*ppointed by the Crown is able to over- throw any G overnment elected by the people, by refusing to grant the supplies. If the Legislative Council is to in- terfere in the financial affairs of the Province it must be made a representative body, for no body that does not re- present the people has a right to interfere with the disposal of the taxes of the people. As there is, how- ever, no use in the Council which would justify the ex- penditure involved in making it a representative body, Mr. Joly proposes to abolish it entirely, and in this the electors are surely blind to their own interests if they do not support him. The members of the Council are ap- pointed by the Crown, keep their seats for life and can- not be removed but by death or insolvency, and their op- position to any measure (and they are sure to oppose all the measures of a Liberal Grovernment) is utterly insur- mountable. Are they to be administrators of the affairs of a people who claim to be the administrators of their oWn affairs? No! The people of England struggled I k 'lU n for ages for the ri^ht to administer their ox^n affairs, and having obtained it for themselves and for tis/ are we to surrender it to a factious cabal, who have shown them- selves ready to tear the country's constitution to shreds in order to procure for themselves a perpetuitv of politi- cal power ! ^._^ ,„ . j^ ^.j^ ,^)OtHH)r« u >.Iu<.hJ :,,,,; MR. CHAPLEAU'S UNTRTJTHFULteSS. .,4<;^ Mr. Chapleau also said in his Montreal speech that his Government had since its advent to power reduced the expense of the Legislative Council from $50,000 to between $35,000 and $30,000 a year. How much he really did reduce it is shown by the figlires we have already given and which we again subjoin :(lAiii.i5y >« >rj» Expense of the Legislative Council for the year ending 30th June : — , . ,.i v.,....* ,; \v>, yy, ..!;(i>j.iv»J.J;.).i V'''' 1876.....V... ..:•..::... \i '44,107 m^>T;i tf?i •k( ., oi 1877 41,607 .v'hH'ijaii* -.!. • ..^5 1878 49,600- hid jjuiw 'Hu ;^i<-! 1879 36 00(»'.Ki«jo hH-i^ i .; ; 1880 42 000> iuu; ; jmu.i from which it appears that Mr. Joly during the year he was in of&ce (1879) reduced the expense from $49, GOO to $3r),000, while Mr. Chapleau, instead of reducing it from $50,000 to $30,000, as he boasts he did, actually in- creased it from $86,000 to $42,000. i Vi T VAMA t-i)!.. - MR. OHAPLEAU'S INCAPACITY. -^ '''' Mr. Chapleau's incapacity and inattention to business are shown by the random way in which he deals with facts and figures. In his St. Therese speech he said {Montreal Gazette Report), '* In the Official Gazette of yes- terday a report was published showing that the Credit Foncier had loaned th;oughout the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario $56,600.000— this, at the average reduction of two percent on the former charge for interest, showed ia saving to the agriculturists of this Pro\dnce of $1,130,000 in one year." Mr. Wurtele, when afterwards interviewed by a Star reporter concerning this astounding state- ment, said that the $56,600,000 represented, not the amount of money loaned, but the total value of the hypothecated property, and that he himself had coached the Premier on this subject before he went to St. Thferesfe to deliver his speech. The $1,130,000 Would be the i ra m li \ ■ I • M amount saved, not to the Province of Quebec, but to the two Provinces of Quebec and Ontario. After this in stance of Mr. Chapleau's financial ignorance and incapa- city we need not be surprised to ear him estimating in his Montreal speech the revenue from the Crown Lands at $700,000, while Mr. Flynn estimates it at $540,000, the collection of which amount, by the way, costs the Province no less than $144,000. Mr. G-lad- stone, in his speech at Leeds, advises his political oppo- nents, in consequence of their financial incapacity, to abandon details and to confine themselves cheerfully to generalities. We recommend Mr. Chapleau to take the great English statesman's advice and, abandoning details, for which he is neither adapted by nature nor qualified by education, to confine himself cheertull.y to generalities. Be it remembered, above all, that while Mr. Chapleau distinctly declares that his policy in the future is to be what his policy was in the past — that is, loans at 98 in- stead of stopping to pick up the straws that fall from the load ; and the employment of men like Dansereau and Senecal in appointments in which they are not needed and for which they are not qualified — Mr. Joly comes before the people pledged to a policy of sw^eeping re- forms. MONTREAL COURT HOUSE. The scandalous state of the public service in the Court House in Montreal, is known to all lawyers and many clients. Mr. Dansereau, Mr. Chapleau's partner in the notorious "Land Swap," has been appointed to an office in which he does nothing but draw his salary of |2,400 a year ; and there are many employees alike useless and incompetent. Clients are outrageously over-charged. The surplus of the fees charged by Government in law stamps over the cost of the administration, was $86,460.60 in the Superior C ourt alone for the seven years ending 31st December, 1880, as Mr. Honey, the Prothonotary, itestified in his deposition in a recent case. The Court House Tax had yielded, four years ago, $190,000 more than the court house cost, and this has of course been largely increased since. Hon. Mr. Joly had already taken this in hand when he was in office, and a Commission had made a report, on which he would have taken action, but now things are worse than ever. ' • ,. i t 18 THE iJeCESSITY OF REFORM in ihis Province is too evident to all acquainted with the administration of every department of the public service to require much comment at this stage. The deplorabls STATE OF EDUCATION ought to rouse the indignant feelincs of eve/y lover of his country, and the public voice should be unmistakably given in favor of its improvement. A system of competitive examinations .or some effective means of purifying the Civil Service and diminishing corrupt patronage, would undoubtedly engage the atten- tion of a Liberal Gro\rernment under Mr. Joly. And the best guarantee for his policy is the unassailable integrity and the unrivalled experience of Mr. Joly himself. Can the people of Quebec trust him ? If so, let them give him th^ir confidence, give him a House in which he can develop his policy, and let any thought of coalition be treated as a disgraceful traffic wiih an enemy. If a coali- tion were formed with men who have been able to sup- port Hon. Mr. Chapleau, all hope of improving our condi- tion or bringing about honest and beneficial reforms is at an end. We cannot too firmly emphasize the utter- ances of our leader in denouncing this coalition, which in the past has always been a bridge by which false and feeble supporters have passed over to the enemies of all we regard as the good of the State. i , , In the foregoing pages we have in some measure stated what we understand to be the policy of the Liberal leader. We shall close with calling attention to the authoritative utterances of the Hon. Mr. Joly himself, as contained in his speech delivered at Montreal on the 9th November last. 'I I HON. MR. JOLY'S SPEECH AT MONTREAL. He began by declaring that he was prepared to con- tinue in the leadership of the Liberal party. He had made up his mind to retire, though certainly not because of the treatment of his friends, who were always kinder than he deserved, but when the bugle sounded he somehow found himself under arms. When the ship was drifting on the rocks he did not think it was a time for him to take the life-boat *' and leave the poor old stranded wreck." His reason for wishing to retire was that he was an obstacle to coalition, for he con- sidered that union in any representative assembly was I! Hi; I; ! 1 1 1 ■ti 14 impossible. Tliere always womd, and there always should l^e an opposition watcihing the Govfernmettt. As it was, he and his friends made a coalition only for so long as neces- sary to carry government measures that they considered good ; and they would not sit on the treasury benches and be responsible for measures they considered bad. "When the Prorince had heard these views, it could de- cide whether he should be the leader. ' The principal reproach he had received when in poW^f Was that he governed too honestly. He was proud of that. Men said— Don't you see the treacherous means your op- ponents use? — but there Was no use in the two parties both governing in the same way. And if he was to be the leader of the party he would request his friends to carbt with them, in political life, THE SAME HONOR \ND HONESTY THAT CHARACTERIZED THEIR PRIVATE LIVES. (Loud appiause.) He had been charged with ingratitude, too, but the grati- tude of public men seemed to consist in rewarding their own friends from the public purse. If they were to re- main in opposition till doomsday he would never be grate- ful in that way, and the right principles would work out some day. Their principles were the same as they were in March, 1878, when they went before the people and came back half of the Legislature of the people. They wanted to do honor to the fair fame of the Province of Quebec. If they could not make money, they must save money. Whfen in power they saved $250,000 by retrench- ment. Mr. Chapleau told them that they must preserve the Legislative Council, because it was a protection to the minority of the Province of Quebec, that is, the Eng- lish minority, the Protestant minority. But that was not what Mr. Chapleau had in his mind. His minority was the minbrity of the Conservative party while the Liberal party were in power. Then truly the Legislative Coun- cil was a protection to the minority. They played a part they had no right to, for they controlled the Province of Quebec without being answerable to it. Tii*ey did not even represent a landed interest, lik^ thte House of Lords, but only themselves. Out of the twenty-three menlbers, one man alone was on their side, and he had to represent the Ministry, mb^e an\i sfeeond motibn*, declare them carried and move that the Speaker le^e the chair —and the speakei* i 15 was himself. (Laughter./ The Council should have been abolished before because it was useless— now it should be abolished because it was a nuisance. When Mr. Chap- leau assumed power he said that he was going to form a Grovernment of union and coalition, that all party stripes were going tD disappear, that the lion and the lamb were going to lie down together, and there would be peace and happiness But what had happened. A few Lib- erals had betrayed their party and gone over to the other side ; that was the only coalition. Perhaps one reason why he should not be leader was that he would not ob- tain a majority by enticing men from the other side. He could not see any men in his enemy's ranks that he would be proud to see in the ranks of the Liberal party. Mr. Ohapleau had declare ^ that the Province of Quebec was in a prosperous condition. He speaks, for instance, of the 1700,000 revenue from the Crown Lands as being a re- gular revenue, and he tells us that this is a legitimate re- venue upon which he could rely forever. If a pine tree was cut down, it took 300 years for another tree to grow in its place. Did they call that revenue ? Every time a tree was cut out it was so much capital taken away. When they were in office the revenue was onl^ some $400,000, but Mr. Chapleau could not possibly guarantee that a crisis in the tijaber trade would never again re- turn. Then Mr. Chapleau forgot to say what he did with that $4,000,000 he borrowed from French capit