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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 6 e ■ If ROUGE-GRIT TRACTS. -:o: HOW FALSEHOOD IS CIRCULATED. •:o:- Tlio Ronge-Crit Election Committees are cii*culiiting in the Eaatenj Townships, and throughout tlie country, a .'^erii's of iiiiouymoiis j)oliti(Nil tnicts, containing mo.Ht unblush- ing and slanderous tals^hooils which no man of respsctability among tliem, or even one not poasoasiug such, would ever venture to sign. Th^y . are printed in the EnijlisJi language, and their mission is to ueceivi' the eonfidonct; of unsiiflj>ecting eh ctorK and poison their minds against the cuididates of the Government of Sir John Macdonald. We have before us seven of these ]irociou8 documents, marked and numbered respect- ively, "Form 2," " Form 3," " Form 5," " Form 6," " Form 7," " Form S," " Form 9." The types are apparently stereotyped for convenietice of supplying large (^-ders issued by th« Eouge-Grit Election Committee. FORM 2 Is called "The Stouy op the Blind Shares," "A Sh.^mrful Episode in Canadian Politics," and this is given in largo sensational type. The story is a stale rehiish of an exploded charge al)out certain transactions which took place as far bai,k an 1882, before the la?t general cloctwns, the sul>stance being that Mr. John White, M.P., and Mr. J. C. Jamieson, the son-in-law of the Minister of Customs, obtained leave to buy certain colonization lanila at the price fixed by the Government in the same way many conn^anies bought, but out of which nobody made anything but losses. The (jharge against the Government is that Mr. Bowel I favoured the application of Mr. John VVhite and Mr. Jamieson, although nothing is aliown to prove this, and Mr. Bowell was not the, Minister who had charge of the lands. That is all the charge against the Govern- ment, but it is said further that the conipany placed a number of shares in Mr. White's name for which he did not pay. But what ever may be said of this, it was a pei-sonal arrangenjent, which has its explanations, and not a matter in any way concerning the Government. It is, therefore, simple rubbish as concerns the present issues. FeRM a Is called "A Pabablr and its Tnteri'retation, kor the Electors of Canada." Thig story is a little romance about a man whose name was John, afterwards called Sir John.wha was employed in 18G7 to manage a large estate, but who, in place of keeping his expend- iture down, ran it up enormuualy. Then there was another manager ap|x)Lnted, named Alexander, in 1873, who went on till 1878, and who, according to this veraciout story teller, did virtuously, and succeeded in keeping tj^o ex|)enditure down. Wo are told that Sir John began Confederation with an expenditure of $13,000,000, but increased it t* $23,000,000, and that Alexander kept it at the $23,000,000 during his &ve years, whil* kince then Sir John has raised it to $35,000,000. 5-//A 7 2 To come at the fucts, it may be biiofly Htutod that the country has received for the innrfascd »'x|>('ii(lit:iir(' siiico (loiiftdcr.i', ion iiuTwised sorvico, hva\ iiicniiscd ])iil)iic' worka, tliw \vlioh> of which hiis chc^ipnned the cost of living and traiis|turt in the country to h nmch creator amount than that of the increased iny tiio amount of interest on tho net debt, in 1879, wliich was the first year of Sir Jolin's administration, the net interest for the public debt of ('anada was SI. 58 per he;id, and in 1885, tlie last year for which the accounts have been made up, it was $1.59 per head. That is one cent a head a V'vjr on the whole population for all the great public works which have been constructed, more than the interest paid in Mr. Mackenzie's time. The Electois can judge for themselves by the light of thia fact. FORM 5 Has the sensational heading, " \V*Hrnir;ii auk wk Drifttno 1" " Thk Ol'INlOX OF AN iNniCl'KXDHNT CoNSKItVAT>V:: .[oLMlNAT, ON THK SmiATlOV." The " independent Oonnervatim journal," — save the nmrk ! — which is quoted, is the Montreal Heraltl, a pa])er which is not a "Conservative" journal, but on the contrary, 'one of the maddest and most vioh>iit of (ill the Rouge-ririt papers in the Dominion ; a paper that ont-lleroda Iferod, and which is apparently actuated by the venomous malice of its chief proprietor, because Sir .John Macdonald refused to give him hia old place in the ministry at the head or the Marine Dc^partment. There is no secret about this. The fact is known to everybody. Why then do the Itouge ({lit election committees try to impose on the coutideice of Conservative farmers bv publishing this plain falsehood. 'J'he article itself (ront.uns not a single fact. Tt is a mer« tirade about " frig'itful abyss,' '< political autl tinaneiid bankruptcy," "blind shares," " boodle," "railway sub- sidies," <* tariffs," "ring," tfec, ka., written in a style that is unfortunately too congenial to the Rouge Grit editors and orators. FORM 6 Is headed, ** RiiinE,s to Ministkhs op thr Cuovvn. Contraotors Buy iNFtUKNCE 1VITH Gifts, Pursks and Fahii.v Sicrrr-RMKNTs." It is needless io say that not one fact is shown in support of this lying and libdlous licftiling. The ])ublic testiuuiuial which was piesented to Sir John Macdonald after his i-etirement from the Ministry iu 1873, personally a very poor man, notwithstanding all the charges of corruption which had been-niiado against him, and which was openly su')scribed to iu every part of the Dominion V)y his friends in small auK mts to the amount of $80,000, and settled on his family, fyrms the first and principal ground on which the 'libel above (pioted is based. The transaction was honoural)le to all concerned. Then t.h6 old Sir Hugh Allan affair is pit in for the next item of support. It would be worse than waate of tiu)o to thresh that old chaff again. It ia also made a crime against Sir D*vid i, M'iU'plierson tluit ho actml as ooIIf.c^di' niid trfHHiiror of tin- Icstiir.ntiijil fuii-l to Sir .lolm, iilthiHiwli it is ii fact tliiit Sii- I'ivkI riuI his hji'li»Min'8 wrif tin* mo t liit hy th« transaction with Sir Hiit liim n |)<><)r ninn in fa<«' of tlx- many fliar^^cs (jf r(n'iii|>tiiiii aj^iiust, hiin- ay;ain (liis is titruw ll.ut 'm.slxon llioroni;hlT thrt-HJicd. Nt'xt, the pri'sont ina'ie to Mr. (A^stiyati, l»y the Irish, of a hoiiHH un«l it« riirnitnrc. Jiy an open, jmlilii" siilisci iption, is tiic only rciniiiniiig allogatiun of i'a.87 1 .(If) f(rw<;ik which oouhl have been done for 81,8"0 ; and Le, Conrrier Je St. Uiiacintlu' with having received .S7,f)SS.74 for work which, at tho contract price, could have heen done for $5,8':1. !'•. The cliarges in the first thiee cases, we are told, have been made by Mr. Somerville, "a'nd not denied.'' This answer is simply that this stutcnu-nt is a gross Inl.seliood ; the <;hargeH have been specifioally mot and denied. The leal factK have i;o relation to th(! allegations hazarded. The outside printing work whi<-h was ordered l)y the OovernuKMit Dcpai'tnicnts to lie done at i)Utside ollici'S was paid fur at jirices fixed by what is know as the Onfnrio tariff ; that is tho tariff which the Ontario GoveruUient pays for' its printing work, and t!ii.s was .selecteil because it was a fair and reasonable conimei- cial rate and lietrer adapted to tho woik of printing paniphlelH than the tarilf of tie* Government with the contractors, which wa;s framed mainly for th ' printing of wiiat '\h known a.s "standing formss." The .stateijitTits of Mr. Somerville were shown, by the clearest evidence before the ootiiinittees, to be mo.'St audacious uiisreprescntations, .siujple inventions m fact, for the evident i)uriH)se of deceiving the i h'clors. Nothing more than the prices paid by the Ontario Government for all its work has ev(?r been paid l>y the r>e[tartnn;ntH or the ii-eil all ovf-r the Donn'nion 8200,000 more, (Th»*so thre(» items are taken from the Toionto Stdnihir-l.) Much more of the sauje kind might be given, but this •hows the value of the cry. FORM NO. a Is lieid(!ed ^8 the foiil(^st Vilot to be found upon the fair fauKj of I'anada. The charj^es consist of nial- adininistiation, and wrong done \Ai the Indians, and wo have hen? iigain a simple ti.ssue of ntis-iepi-es<;ntati(ms, which have Ixien again and again exposed. Tliese stories aie so long and of sncl» a nature that they have been met by a |«iniphlet calhid, "The I'mHs liiisix'.ctiiiii Tii'liini Affairs in the. Nnrlh-Wtst" which has been pul)lished by the Depart- ment of Indian Alfaii-a. A specific denial and complete refutation of the charges in this document are oontaine*! in this pamphlet, which may })e obtained by any one who drsiren •o do so, and to Ije informed of the actual facts. We shall not, therefore dwell on Lhiu matter. FORM No. 9. Ts headed, " The Army of the Civii- Skrvice Emplotees Stit.l Tn'creasing." ITer« again we have the same kind of unblushing mi.srepresentations. A table i» given of the niimber of employees in 1878 (the livst year of Mr. Mackenzie's administra- tion) and ISST). In the first named year this " form No. 9 " says the number was 480, and that in 1885 it had incn^ased to 1180, making an increa.«e, in seven years, of 700. The facts respecting this can be found in the Public Accounts, and the number of the Civil Servants actually en)|)loyed i i 1885 will be found in that authentic volume to have l>een 751, instead cf 1180, in which figures are included the extra clerks, as well as the r>ermanent otRcials and messengers. And if the officials of the Oeological Survey are deducted, who were jxiid in 1878 from a sjiecial vote, and who were not then, but ai-e now, include' ihe Civil Service, we shall have a total incroT?.se in seven yeara of 250. The avei-ago of all the salaries paid to Civil Servants in 1878 was $1140, and in 1885 $1,099. It may be explained that the pi-actice is now to employ extni clerks for s[)ecial Work, who are dis))ensed with when the work is done, rather than by increasing the jwrmanent staff. This is found to Ije a sounder practice, and on the whole much more economical to the public. Tlie total amount paid for all service in 1878 was $30,720.52, »nd the total in 1885 was $30,377.91. There was, therefore, less paid in 1885 than in 1878. It ia, however, to l)e remarked that there have been necessarily large increases in pxiblic service, particularly in the Post Office Department, in the Department of Interior, •onnected with the Dominion Ltmds, and in the Department of Agriculture, with the numerous services connected with its administration. As the business of the countiy grows with its progress of wealth and f>opulatfon, so must the number of public employees, but the fact is, that as a whole, the Civil Service of Canada is not highly paid ; the very reverse is the case, as would l>e fonnd by a conft- parison with the service of either tne united States or Englat d. And no man who is not a fool or a mere demagogue without a character to lose, would think of making a political outcry against any government upon the simple fact of increase in the pnblic service. Such increase may imply, and wo believe it does m Sir John Macdouald'« »d ministration, the necessary efficiency for carrying on the affairs ctf the public. •| \-