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diffarant reduction ratioa. Thosa too larga to ba
entirely included in one exposure are filmed
beginning in the upper left hand comer, left to
right and top to bottom, as many frames as
required. The following diagrama illustrate tha
method:

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D. B. Weldon Library
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(Regional History Room)

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la dfrrnlAra page qui comporte une telle
empreinte.

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A PARABLE

AND ITS INTERPRETATION,

FOR THE

EXjEOTOHS of G^AJIST^AJID^^.

In 1867, a man was employed to manage a large estate for another,
and had an unlimited control over his employer's money. He was not called to
account until 1873, when it was found that, through extravagance, and a
had and corrupt system of management, he had enormously in-
creased the expenditure. He was also discovered in an attempt to betray
his employer's interests to a contractor for a large railway which the estate was
going to construct, and he was summarily dismissed. This man's name was
John, and he was often called **Slr John," in Canada. The employer then
selected for himself one Alexander, who managed the estate very carefully and
successfully for five years. In all this time, altnough the population and the ex-
tent of the estate was increasing, .^nd he had to pay off many old debts,
Alexander succeeded in Iceeping the expenditure down, to what he had
found it when he was placed in charge. The old manager was not idle during
these five yeara He trumped up a number of false charges against Alexander,
which were so often repeated that they had at laf some weight, as a lie well
stuck to always has in the public mind. He also explained to a large class of
people, who possessed much influence with the employer, that he was ready to go
any length tr: aeet their views, and to arrange to give them the monopoly of
the busmess of the estate, if they would only use their money and influence to
restore him to the control of affairs. He pointed out to them that Alexander
would never enter into any scheme like this to sacrifice his employer's interests
and they fully believed him. They also knew that no scruples of that kind
would stand in John's way, because had he not been caught before, in 1872, in
betraying his employer for money ?

It is not likely that the emploj^er would have been influenced against
Alexander unless John had protested that he could now manage the estate much
more economically than Alexander, and had promised greatly to reduce the
Expenditure. At any rate the change was made in 1878, and John was restored
to power. He has been in control ever since, but what has he done for economy ?
While he has created all the monopolies that any unjust steward could
desire, he has enormously and flagrauily increased the Expenditure.

Kead the following simple facts about the Expenditure of Canada since
1867, and understand the parable.

Sir John Jllacdonald began Confederation in 1867-8 with an Expendi-
ture, in round figures, of Thirteen million OoUars. During six years of
Tory rule he increased it to Tweniy-three Millions, when Alexander
Mackenzie came in with '\ Reform Government, in 1873. He reniained in
power for five years, and although the natural growth of the Country increased,
the demands for expenditure, and many liabilities incurred by Sir John's Govern-
ment had to be met, he was ahle during the whole five years to keep
the Expenditure down to the Twenty-three Millions at which he had
found it. In 1818, Sir John succeeded to power with great promises of
economy and retrenchment. His promises were only made to delude the people,
while his extravagance and waste, his recklCsSliCSs and COrriiptsOn, nave
combined to raise the Expenditure, in 1885, to Thirty-five Millions ? 1 1

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