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Kat«n>' -iUba U Aot o( P«riUinsnt^ OftiMiU ia tha yMT USi, b/ 0«o. 0. OritU, in Ui* oAi» 9t HlnUtw U kftiUvUntu. m. .'^'^' n. f\ £3, . ; iMttiidODt morn* Ottn, » nktiou giwt iHXJ^*- ^ tWr God came here to stay. Caaaida, great «in-Ut lM»d,^ light of nations yet to nse, took at it in glory stand, Nations ga£ mth wondering eyes. Land of freedom, land ofligM, Onr glorious father-land ; AH her sons vfith honor bnf «, Will her brightness well defend. From the grand AtEwtic coast To the great Paafic sands, F»om thenars in dw^'^^^i^'V To the Arctic ocean's strands. From its brightness thw cast out To darkness all invaders, And with fierce and mkh^iaat Fre«8 Notice. Every periodical' inserting the above :<:eBtenm.l Anthem «d this notice, and ^'^Uig a m«ked copy, will be fumu.hed with I Scffltennial Book, in which it is pubhshed, '^ Ijm.^rhich {» given the Centennial Bwme^ i illottrations of Canada in iJiAi >884 and 4. And therewith the completie outline of a KMv system of government, combtoing all the Swi*g«» of the democratic with all thestabil- ^o< the true monarchical. It is one that Laave $3c.ppoiooo ottt of the $50,000,000 m anmially spe«lt hy W our va^ mumcL il, Provincial and Twleral governments. xf . Aak and ye shall receive." Ih «»»»«' *<» 1^ for a Canadiitt banner bytheWinnl- fel^ee P«esa, the Montreal Gacette. the St. ii».m) Telegraph v4 other jwtiodicals, ^— - 00 the cow of tliis b«A ^ for- *ei#MryhatJ«W*J^» Fe* evermore ^W****,,^ ^nce oinf ooontit's natal day, To-day so eelebratea. Let the nation's see oor j^ory, Otir splendid sun-burst banner Foretol And see all the Southern tents Will become our heritage. Canada, the home of lights vVSghteous laws divineljr tjne. For m them" there is no night. All can see what they must do. Tiiii«e to God our anthems gwnd, aSj our heart's love with them blend, F<* our kingdom ftwn^^ to «t^^» ; ; >%tt wilW-^»MU «rithottt end. FROM TH« WWNIPEO FR«B V^OS. Up to the present time to feeling of solid- Jy^^-P ^--i the Pro^eesj «2^ mWai^ «nct^f^^ ^tiodSfl^iovinces.and unleas sdf-mterest ««^np«led to in the fntnre much more !^S. we arc not likely to remain even that tC^«t length oM«e.^l*«J-J tttiJ^'forccsat work, and no centripetal ^ A Canadian tog wong^mjai l^ Sr go far toifprd sap^yNS t^ -^ ^Zzfm^ trie ^taed coheUon force «»"• .♦„««wli«enteientten. \i i.'a>.,'...Mj^ jtft?^ The Can&di&n Dominioq. ■%•(■ blend. KKSS. of solid- Dvinces or rely a M* df-intereit atiich more jjang from neventl)»t ^kh ctions centripetel inevitably til pfob»- tbe nmaf d cbbCfaiiA DMieAt tCD- qi#3flM8#o- This year 1884 terminates the first century of actual Canadian existence as a British Pro- vince. It is one hundred years since the loyal refugees from the United States began in On- tario and Quebec to lay the foundation of the ^seatness and prosperity of our Dominion. They cast behind them the thirteen "stars" or provinces lost in Republican darkness. They numbered ten thousand, the immortal ten ti ousand, who refused to bend the knee to Republicanism, to dark or false principles of government. Another ten thousand of these immortals settled in the Province; of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and being of kindred blood, kindred spirit, and kindr«l instincts, their children and children's children have affiliated with those of Ontario and Quebec, and with their brothers of French descent, unitedly lO establish themselves to be one great and enduring nation. We are now seven bright stars or provinces shedding out rays of light upon the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, beaconing the nations to our heritage. With only 5,000,000 of souls, we have already secured territorial possessions in extent greater than the whole of Europe with its hundreds of millions of inhabitants. It is a heritage blest above all other lands with the innate elements of national greatness, potency and perpetuity. In the light of these facts it is a suitable period in our history to take a comprehensive view of our position, to make manifest to the world some of the leading features of our pre-eminance and to float our centennial banner in the sight of all nations. Canadians Proud of their Country. Every wise and true Canadian feels proud of his counity, of his fatherland, and he has good reasoa to do so when he considers its immense extent, its wonderful fertility, its magnificent forests, its exhaustless ininsral riches, its grand fresh water seas, its inexhauslable fishing grounds, its fast increasing flocks and herds, its Its varied roots and fruits, and cerials, all for food, and in infinite variety. Look out upon the two great fisheries of the world, the wonderful fishery grounds of our long Atlantic coast and Maratime Provinces with a world wide reputation. They but illus- trate the richness of those upon our Pacific shore. On that shore and in all our eastern pro- vinces we have immense forests, and yet limit- ed when compared with th; ?.e of Quebec, On- tario, and our vast territorial possessions, all of them are full of the naterial ior building homes (or a great people, and for the construc- tion of vessels for the full developement of our fishery and commercial interests. We have vast coal and oil deposits from the Atlantic to the Facific. Our iron ores are of the richest constituents. We have immense deposits of them in the eastern provinces, in Quebec and Ontario, all through to the Pacific coast. Paradise is described as a land where the gold was "good." Gold from the Madoc mmes in Ontario lately assayed in New York was pronounced the finest ever seen in that city. We have silver, copper, leads, phosphates and various other minerals in inexhaustabie supply. Thus wonderful innate riches in a wonderful and glorious country *' the glory of ail lands." With them we have not only the fertile valleys in our Atlantic Provinces, the immense valleys of Ontario and Quebec, and in the North- West almost boundless tracts of the best wheat pro- ducing lands upon the face of the earth, now ready for the plow, and prepared for the husbandman by the Creator and kept through all the centuries for us and for our children the people of His hand. The United States in 1882 raised about 500,000,000 bushels of wheat, under proper tillage it is capable of producing at least three times the amount. Canada hasbeen estimated to possess three-fourths of the wheat producing area of North-America. Therefore Canada under good cultivation can ra'se 4,500,000,000 bushels annually, or ample to supply bread to 900,000.000 of souls, which there is no doubt Canada is able under wise government to sus- tain in vigorous existence. As Others See Us. The praise awarded to Canada and the pre- dictions of leading men and statesmen in other nations in regard to the wonderful possibilities of our Dominion are gratifying to all patriotic Canadians. A few selections will help many u. to more folly appreciate our glorious father- land. 1st. About the year 1853 the late Hon. Mr. Seward of President Lincoln's cabinet, after visiting Canada, wrote of our Provinces as " the Northern Stars " of which he said " they will grow brighter and brighter and our stars — states — pale in their brightness," and he might have safely added disappear. and. The Rev. Dean Carmichael, an able minister of the Church of Enj^land — late of Hamilton, now in Montreal — in r lecture pre- dicted that Canada would yet rule this conti- nent. 3rd. The Rev. Principal Grant, of Queens College, Kingston, has made a similar predic- tion. 4th. Sir Charles Dilke, now in Mr. Glad- stone's Ministry, who travelled all across our wide domain, as well as in many other lands, in his book describing Canada, calls it "the Greater Britain." In what has been called these last days Great Britain, is pre-eminent among the nations of the_ earth. She has a prestige and power which keeps all nations within their respective bounds. Not directly, but indirectly she con- trols them all. She holds all the ^tes of her enemieb. She can say to any nation, thus far and no farther shalt thou go, and her mandate be obeyed, as confirmed by Sir Charles Dilke when he said " Russia and Austria must not trespass on Turkey, and Turkey must carry out her treaty obligations.' As previously said by Ix>rd Beaconsfield, " If Britain should abdicate her position among the nations, war would be likelv to ensue." Then what wUl be the future of the Canadian Dominion, of this Greater Britain among the nations of the earth. 5th. Lord Dufferin in one of his speeches said " Manitoba may be regarded as the key- stone of that mighty arch of sister provinces which spans the continent from the Atlantic to the F afic — Canada —the owner of half a con- tinent, in the magnitude of her possessions, in the wealth of her resources, in the sinews of her natural might, is peer of any power on the earth." 6th. Lord Lome, after five years in Canada and of travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, not only while here but since his return to his native land has highly eulogized our Dominion. The General Intelligence of Canadians. At the United States Centennial, Canada, in afjt almost a century behind that country, carried off the price for general education, and, ccmseqaently, tor general intelligeuce, from all nations, and she held no mean position in regard to agnstile field, ands upon le United trarnins to land from Red River to value •x standard * tooth reg- known to ind endur- nt in the ians in the their civil by them at IS. It was strumental h. Americans they made en possess- r had four from Lake to march ned to get before the rded, but asion. As urled back ley secured their dead 1 southern h accounts prevailing orth being ce of earth nity to the :arth. declaration out of the out of the Qcy. tain extent mergy and with their ictical edu- indples of Britain, the a establish- : prindpies I jropoied farther on, Canada will become the fight of all other nations as represented in our centennial burner. Our Innate Wealth. It is not the gold of our land alone that is "good," better than that of other lands, but our other ore and minerals are richer and of more intrinsic value, pound for pound. That is the reason they are so eagerly soueht for from the United States, to mix with their coarser ores. The Canada pig iron from its London- derry works in Nova Scotia— used in this city, Hamilton, in fine iron work — has been proved to be far superior to the foreign, a ton of Canadian being worth at least tnree times as much to the manufacturer as the imported. Wrought iron from the same works has a simi- lar high reputation. Carriage axles made of it can, when cold, be bent double without break- ing. What is equally pleasing to Canadians is that our cereals, our fish, meats, roots and fruit are finer in texture, more nourishing, im- part greater vigor and stability to our people than the products of more Southern climes, which has been attributed by some to the full- er diffusion of the life elements accruing to our Dominion from t&e magnetic centre or pole of the earth being in Canada, naturally vitalizing our whole domain more fully than it does othei lands ; and not only the people, but their ani- mals, as seen in the superior endurance of our horses, which makes them so highly prized in American markets. The Glory of all Lands. Various speakers and writers have asked why oui vast domain, and especially the western portion of it, has been so long left a wilderness — ' ' the hunter's paradise. " Some of them have answered, " the Hudson Bay Company," but is it not more correct to believe it a providence of God, and. that said company was simply His agent to keep it in hand, tnat Canadians might go in and possess it when they should have ac- quired the facilities and population to do so ? That He thus kept it from intruders until Can- adians had so multiplied, and been so educated in monarchial prir"iples of government, and had inaugerated a system of national organiza- tion that the whole country could b« salted with them, and they not only be able to go in to pos- sess it, but qualified to oi^nize it into villages, towns, townships and dties in the way best suited to secure the ready adoption of that true system of government explained further on ? Was this vast domain not also thus kept un- til the spiritual or religious strength ot our peo- I pie had been so developed that, as " the armies of heaven," the various Christian demonina- I tions could go in and become potent factors in establishing churches and organizing the people into Christian brotherhoods, to thereby effectu- ally guard our grand heritage from the flood of infidelity and evil, which but for them would, as in other lands, curse our father-land beyond computation. The data presented justifies the forecast of the orators and statesmen, whose prediction we have recorded, and also indicate that the hand of Providence has been leading us on step by step to this centennial year, 1884, and that if we as a Christian people are true to Him and to ourselves. He will as in the past be for us in the future. Canadians under the true s)rstem of government referred to, under a government or- dained in truth and maintained in equity will, in the words of Sir Charies Dilke,be the Greater Britain, and in those of Lord Duiferin, ever re- main " the peer," or chief nation of the earth ; and in the language of Secretary Seward, in the light of our true principles of government all the republican " stars " of the United States f>ale and disappear. As "the glory of all ands," in our light all other nations will be able to see how they can secure deliverance from the great national evils in which all of them are immersed. Monarchial Government. Every Canadian should evermore beware of any attempt to promote the welfare and per- petuity of our country upon false principles of government, and to remember that it is much easier to learn to believe that the false is true; \ than to learn that the false is untrue. . ^ There are two systems of government nowf: prominent before the eyes of the nations, each has its numerous adherents, each class believes its own the true. There cannot be two true things of the same kind and one be difierent from the other. It follows that there can only be one true system of government, that is the monarchial. It is the system developed out of the family and patriarchial into the national, which is taught to be true, and is commanded in the word of God as the only one through which national perpetuity can be maintained. That deep and crying evils have accrued and now exist under the monarchial principle of government is no fault of the principle, but the fault of those who have grafted false systems upon it until in some the leading branches alone remain. For example, it is no fault of the water in a pure and living stream when polluted by the hand of man. It is no fault of the tree that bears rich and luxurious fruit when men ^raft upon it bitter and worthless twigs. Neither wiU the true ever harmonize with the false, any more than a building constructed of both sound and unsound material can ever be a sound structure. IV. A true ^stem of government founded upon true prinuplet can be seen farther on in this book, no one part of which it unsound^ every part of it being for the especial good of every family, a system in which no one part will ever conflict with any other part, which will ever remain a ivstem in truth and equity. The writer can show what the ultimate bearing oi each part will he upon every other part for all time to come, so that all can understand it from the beginning on through endless centuries. It combines all the energy of the Democratic with al! the stability of the Monarchial. Democratic Government. The monarchial principle of government having been seen to be the true one, all Cana- dians should beware of democratic or false Erinciples, for no matter how high sounding, ow benevolent or patriotic, no matter how much liberty is promised in the adoption of the false, the end will be disastrous, as much so as to the man who did not build on the rock, but erected his palace on the sands, and was eventually swept away with it. The " Shibtjoleth " of the believers in or ad- vocates of democratic principles of government is embodied in the declaration tluit it is "a government ofthepeople^ by the people, for the feople" which, like all clap trap declarations, IS the reverse of the fact, as history amply proves. The fact is, that all such governments almost immediately become " a govemtnent of thepeopU, at the expense of the people, by the rnurs,for the rulers" who feed and fatten on the spoils of office. To illustrate the absurdity of this false prin- ciple, let us apply it to family government, and it will read, " a government of the famih, by the fiunily,for the family" through which the children, no matter how ignorant they may be, should as the majority over-rule all the wisdom of the pareatft and either ignorantly or vicious- ly mismanage all the true interests of the family with ruin the ultimate result. PROOFS. Chicago, April i;.— In « letter to the Iroquoii club, a Democratic organiation, which held a banquet here to-night, Tilden said : Our cheriihed political lystem is slowly losing its hold upon life. Under fungus growths, false constructions artd corrupt practices, the Govern- ment itself has become a menacing factor in elections. Instead of standing as an impartui arbiter amid con- flicts of maturing opinion, and contending interests, it has descended into the arena equipped with all the wea- pons of partisanship. No reform of administration is powible so long as Government is directed by a party which is under the dominion of false doctrines, animated by an enormous pecuniary interest in the perpetuation of existing abuses. The first effectual step in the refor- mation of the government must be a fundamental change in the policy of its administration. He concludes that though he can no longer aspire to be one of the leaders in the great work, he bids those on whom the august mission may fall God-speed.— /'fVM Det^tUck. The following is of a still later date : " Our statesmen seem unable to see further than our we» ther bureau. We are standing just over the thin crust which conceals the passions and vices of 9,000,000 of persons, who cannot read our alphabet, who are in- capable of understandins the duties and responsiUlitiea of citisenship, and yet who are sovereigns. They have the balance of power. They can elect presidents, and make dictators. The country is in a great measure at their mercy. —The American kefomur. May loth, 1884. Canadians beware of all such forms of gov- ernment, and let all who advocate such get wisdom, ^nd with gll their getting get under- standing, and hereafter advocate the true, that they may have good reward of their labor. whicn the y may be, ke wisdom or vicious- the family •rJ i^ft.TTiil •jriV |iew ^J^tem of QoVei^DDieDt foi< danada. oquoia club, Knquat here »1 tyttem is [US growths, the Govern- in elections, nr amid con- interests, it » All the wea- inistration is d by a party les, animated perpetuation in the refor- lenul change >ncludes that if the leaders I the august ttek. ite : :her than our over the thin s of 2,000,000 , who are in- esponsibUitie* . They hi»ve ^dents, and at measure at [ay 10th, 1884. rms of gov- te such get l^et under- true, that labor. Necessity for National Regener- ation. " Whither are the peoples and nations drift- ing ?" is the earnest inquiry and great problem of this age, of this latter day of trouble and perplexity, so unlike anything in the history of the ages now numbered with the past. Every philanthropist, every true patriot, and the toilers everywhere perceive there is something wrong ; that in all our political and industrial relations there is nothing satisfying. They see that with all the literary enlightenment, all the christian beneficence, all the accruals of chemical, mechanical, agricultural and sden* tific knowledge, and all the latter>day improre- ments in production, transportation and dvil- icing appliances, there is no rest for the body, no repose for the mind, everything is run at high pressure speed. The man who does not push hard and fast is left behind and still there is no real advancement in so &r as it relates to permanent national well-being. There is no healthy inerease in that general comfort and satisfaction of mind which should increase with the increase of years, of popu- lation and of cultivatioo. Because of these well-known facts there is deep and wide-spread unrest, a hungering aad thirsting for reform, a ciy for deliverance, whieh is rapidly culminating in a desire for national regeneration and in a cry for deliver- Mce from the evils in which the nations, kiadsedt and tongues find themselves inuosersed. Unrest This unrest cukniBates in the minds of I energetic and patriotic agitators, some strivii^ I to sweq} aWay one evil and some another ; I some fay mond suasion, othecs through a I tof the 1mm. OdMTs, as ia Fnaae vui the United States, seek for ultimate deliver- ance though the dissemination of communistic ideas ; in Russia by Nihilistic methods ; in the British Isles by Fenianism. All of these are more or less insane attempts to secure deliver- ance upon false or chaotic principles in which are the abundant seeds of ultimate individual and national ruin or a hastening from bad to worse. National Arks. As we examine each national Ark, or system of government, we find it so water- logged that the captains and seamen, the kings and rulers, are at their wits' ends ; we find the timbers worm-eaten by a great army of paid guardians or officials, who are ever promising the adoption of what they call reforms, each of which, on trial, is found to end in higher and fuller taxation. One result is a multiplication of speculators and monop- olists, who, under the name of rings and corporations, are but the latter-day feudal lords, who in one way and another rob the poor and the needy. Under the name of freedom and responsible government they chain all the producers to their chariot-wheels, the only difference between these slave- owners and those of the former days is that the former only got the residue after feeding and clothing the slaves whereas these latter take the cream and leave their freedom-deluded serfs to exist as they can on the ever-decreasing gleanings. In the lig^t of these facts, is it any wonder that the tax- flayers, the toiling producers have found each promised reform a delusion, that it has been an onward move into deeper and looser quick- sands, where, like the antedeluvians, they ^gre becoming submerged in the latter-day waters of debt, notes, bonds, mortgages and industrial undoaUooal cwin. The Earnest Cry. In it any wonder there is an earnest cry of the people for deliverance, a trumpet call for the knowledge of a sure and certain highway and how to reach it ; one that will brine them to the promised Eden, to the long looKed-for earthly paradise, where they and their children may enter into the enjoyment of a solid pro gression and a soul-satisfying era of individual and national prosperity. In the ag78 long ago such an era was prophesied. Is it not possible that this earnest and wide-spread desire for such a deliverance as this that is now welling up in the minds of the people in all nations is one that has its primal origin in the Divine mind, in His mind who originally ordained that "every family should dwell under their own vine and tree," where but for transgression they now would be. Who, in His promise of a "restitution o> all things," Acte, iii, 21, will yet re-establish the nations under laws admin- stered in truth and equity. If this be so no matter how much the oppressor resist, this impelling desire for deliverance cannot be restrained until there is emancipation from al! the multliplied and prevailing oppressions ; an emancipation through which all these thorns and thistles and briers will be pulled up and the sterile national heritages become trans formed into blooming ahd fruitful Edens ; where the sound of the war trumpets will never be heard and where the sword, the spear and the battle-axe will become implements of husbandry and the word by Isaiah be fulfilled : " They »all not build and another inherit ; they shall not plant and another eat ; and thev shall long enjoy the work of their hands. Isaiah, Chap. 65, 22. Mjrsterious Wajrs. The poet Cowper says : " God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform," and if, as some claim, these are the last days that should precede the inauguration of a blissful and perpetual era or everlasting age then we can see cause for the great and prevailing unrest as described in the following extract from the Toronto Globe, April, 1883. " The rapid growth of Socialism is one of the pateat facts of the ^e, and demands and is receiving the earnest attention of the moat practical thinkers and statesmen. Extravagant as are many of the ideas, and misdirected as is miich of the eflfoit of Socialism, it is felt that beneath the crudities, extravagances, and anarchial methods of Socialistic u itators there is a basis of real wants and of rights which, not onlv on the higher ground of generous principle, but/rom the lower and selfish standpoint of self-preservation, the State cannot ignore in the work of legislation and govern- ment In that vaist substratum of society, into which the light of science and literature, thelove of htnXi, the JoyouMMM of life can Mnetrate but a little distance, there is deep and threatening unrest, begotten of a sense of the hardness of life, and, real or imagined, the grinding iiOustics of the social machine, and of the poMMtion of a political power which in this day is in th« pouesrion of every clau of society. An upheaval, mor* or leu disattroM, threatens. Self.tnterett there fore, no less than humanity, requires that an eflfort be made to ameliorate the lot of the strug^lin^ millions. How to effect these reforms on sound principles is the question'with the practical and enlightened reformer and philanthropist. We have given in full the warning to the oppressors sounded out by the Gl(^ because it IS confirmatory of the idea that this "unrest" of the people is of no ordinary character, a ad as well bwause it was so unlocked for in its columns that it sounded like a thunderbolt from a higher source, for the Globe has in its blind way from its birth to the present day been trusting in monarchial principles of government and it has at the same time been sowing democratic seed and indoctrinating the people with anti-monarchial ideas. During all these past thirty years or more it has been earnestly endeavoring to promote the pros- perity and happiness of the people ; but luce a legitimate son of the patriarch Dan, while riding the monarchy horse has " like a serpent been bitine its heels so that its rider falls backward, that it has been promulgating principles the natural effect of which is to undermine the financial and industrial strength of the people by multiplying the non-producing classes. The Globe, it appears, has at last in a passing moment of^ inspiration or of sanity discovered that its teachings result in a bottom- less pit in which its readers are fast becoming submerged in the rising waters. It refers to Reasons for Dissatisfaction. In its lost and bewildered position and cry for deliverance the Globe proclaims that the Socialists have rational grounds for their dissatisfaction and that the ereat question is how to lead them out of their crude, extrav ajgant and anarchial methods into a satisfactory system which will ameliorate the lot of the struegling millions, and that will be the means of delivering them from the hardness of life and grinding injustice which is causing the " threatening unrest." It also states that the question of dciliverance is receiving the earnest attention of the most practical thinkers and statesmen as to how> or in what way to effect these reforms on sound principles. No other way than the one sug^iested fiirther on in these pages has as yet been furnished by the thinkers, statesmen, reformers or philanthropists referred to by tbe Glpbe and the more this one is examined by all classes the more fully it will be bcod to be founded idle dUunet, ten of a mdm nagined, the and oif the this day it in in upheaval, nteNtt there : an effort be lin^ millions, nciples is the led reformer ling to the }b€ because 8 "unrest" racter, hilosophers and historians embodied in dead anguages are more instructive than the inspired records of Holy Writ embodied in both dead and living languages and also evidently blind to the fact that as the twig is bent so is the tree inclined ; that in a measure or mind filled with good seed theio is no room for the tares and that they are teaching heathen philosophy in place of Chrisiian ethics to the future teachers of Christian or divine principles, imparting a more thorough knowledge of heathen ideas, demons and deities than of the precepts and examples put on record for our instruction by the inspiration of the Creator and Divine Rulei of all things. In contrast how different the wordly wisdom of a certain lawyer in New Orleans, who, when asked why its was that the law students that he educated so excelled those taught in other offices at once replied " although I am not a religious man I require each student to daily analyze a few verses from the Bible, [forj it is the best text-book extant for such practice." If the occupants of the theolo^cal chairs or chairs of philosophy had done likewise the seeds of heathen darkness would not now be producing such a semi-heathen philosophy as that at present taught in so many churches of every Christian denomixiatioa in relation to religion and government. • i ^ ! ;• - ■uwv^n- A prominent example of the result df this teachmg from the theological chairs is seen in the testimony of Dean Stanley, an eccles- iastic of marked ability in the Church of England, who has \9Xt\y stated "that when he comes to analyze , his theological ideas he finds them more Miltoniaa. than Scriptural, more human than Divine." The Bewildered Leader. The Toronto Globe, the chief reform pa];>er of the country, in its bewilderment over its utter failure to bring either true national pros- parity or any deliverance to the people through Its imaginary reforms, now asks for political chairs m our national seats of learning. But all who know the Globe know that it would want a Free Trade chair and no Protection chair for them. Practically the Free Trade chair is what now and for a long time has existed in our national university at Toronto, the occupant of which could not possibly see that all important and national questions could have two sides, therefore hitherto the text books treating on political or industrial economy have been selected from Free Trade Libraries and protection books have been entirely dis- carded. This fact accounts for much of the political and industrial ignorance of so many of those educated in that mstitution, who have gone forth imparting darkness instead of light. These prominent facts should satisfy all thoughtful readers that a deliverance of the groaning millions from the political and finan- cial difficulties in which they are immersed cannot be secured through the creation or multiplier ^ion of political chairs. Any man fitted to occupy such a chair will be able to present in print full, clear and definite explan- ations of what are true principles of govern- ment, and how, by the inauguration of a system of government upon such principles every true national interest will be harmonized and every national curse be removed. When that is done there can be no necessity for the "chairs," for such a sjrstem can readily be tau^t in all the schools of the country as contemplated in connection with the $2,000 offered ; it could be taught as Christian prin- ciples are taught in sabbath schools. Thus in a short time all, from the least to the greatest, would be brought to understand the way of true national life, for true principles are " the old paths " are the way of life, and to shun false principles, for thiey »tt the way to evil and ultimate national death. Therefore it is not a raft of scholastic chairs that is wanted, but a true system, a national ark with true principles for walls and bulwarks whicb in tiherir nature are eternal and not like the costly and opprcscive laws and institutes of the ignorant legislatorH, who, at vast expense, auuuly tinker and mystify the laws of the country beyond the abiUty of lawyers, jurors ot judges to understand, as the constant appeals from c>ne court to another amply toatify, and in which th«re h no element of national titalky. Aav eood in them is more thaa coanter»oalaaeM isf th« eviU whkh acerue from their enactmiot, Worthless Legislation. Incompetent legislators have, under the name of reform, engrafted so much upon our monarchia) system of government that conflicts with true principles that simple reform cannot restore to national vitality and freedom from oppression. Our whole political system to become healthy must be passed through the refinine fire of a regeneration which will con- sume from our government all the false prin- ciples engrafted upon it. Such a system of r^eneration will now be presented and then explanations and datA clearly showing some of the chief causes of our industrial, financial, and other difficulties, and how, by this regen- erating system a full deliverance can be secured. S]rstem of National Regeneration 1st. The voters, as now, to choose a coun- sellor for each ward, who shall remain in office during efficiency and good behavior, provision being made for prompt removal for ineficiency or misbehaviour ; each of these counsellors should be a magistrate. 2nd. The five counsellors in each municipal- ity would, as now, choose one of their number for Reeve ; and the Reeves of each county would, as now, choose from themselves one to be the Warden of the country ; and the Wardens of each Province of themselves or another a governor of the Province ; and all the governors of the country would meet and choose from amongst themselves or others one to be the chief ru!er. All these officers should remain in office during efficiency and good behaviou. 3rd. All the officers or rulers should be sworn into office by the senior priest or clergy- man of the ward in which the ruler or officer resides ; and if none therein the nearest one. 4th. Divide each ward into two or mort sections, according to the number of families in a ratio to be fixed ; and the families in each section could choose of their number one to be their officer. He would be road master and official guardian or father of the section, to look after all requiring assistance ; if possi- ble, to settle all disputes between disputants, the magistrate assisting with advice when necessary. He would also have authority to arrest any transgressor, and, without summons or warrant, bring bim and the witnesses promptly before the magistrate of the ward to be tried, and if found guilty, to be punished in aMwdaace with the principles and scale of pwiishmentt commanded in the Word of God, but in #11 cases with right of appeal to the Heevc ; Irow the R«eve to the Waiden, from money Throuj for the once e< is rolii current poses ; current \ drawn ; preveni ' debt fo to pay bank about j 7th. each wi governr his wai bridges, or be c( I such lit I consent the WerCen to the Governor, and from the Governor to the Chief Ruler. 5th. — In every case, as under the Israelite system, a priest or clergyman regularly ordained must sit with the magistrate and swear the witnesses, and no judgment can be enforced unless concurred in by the priest, and through the said priest only can appeal be made. The priest ever being the |[uardian of the transgressor to see that no injustice is done him, and to see that there is no mal- administration. These provisions cover the whol equestion of jurisdiction to prevent evil, and of jurisprudence to punish transgressors. It does so without any cost for lawjrers, con- stables, jurors, paid judges, sherifn, jailors, jails, reformatories or penitentaries, every one of which is a relic of human, that is, of heathen systems of government. 6th. A true national currency is essential under a true government. We at present pay over $2,000,000 annually to the banks for the use of their debts for a currency ; whereas any voter in the country is just as much entitled to that sum for the use of his debts for a currency as the banks are. A true national currency is one alone issued by the government for labor done on public works, every dollar of which would be earned and not be a debt, as the bank currency or notes are. Every dollar issued would show a dollar increase of national wealth in national works. The savings in interest over the present system of borrowing, and the profits to the people by the issue of such a currency would build all our public works. The people would own both the works und the currency in place of, as now, the works belonging to the foreign money-lender and the currency to the banks. Through the present system we have to pay for the works over and over again, at least once every ten years, or rather the cost thereof is rolling up at compound interest. This currency would be l^al tender for all pur- poses within the country. Our international currency would always be our bills of exchange drawn against our shipments. This would prevent all over-importations or running in aebt for foreign productions beyond our ability to pay ; as we have done under our present bank currency system to the extent of about $540,000,000. 7th. PtTBLic Works.— The Counsellor of each ward would have authontv to appropriate government currency to a limited amount for his ward when necessary for drains, roads or bridges, which could not reasonably be done or be completed with the road work. Beyond 1 such limit he would be required to have the 1 consent of the Reeve, 8th. For a work relating to two or more wards the Reeve would be permitted to appropriate a further limited amount, beyond which he wouiu be required to have the consent of the Warden of his county. For a work relating to two or more municipalities the Warden could appropriate a further limited amount, beyond which he would also be required to have the consent of the Governor of the Province In like manner for provincial works the consent of the Chief Ruler would be necessary ; and inter-provincial works would be authorized by the governors and chief ruler in council. By that system each section, municipality, county or province would manage its resjiect ive public works, irrespective of any inter- ference in any way of those outside of the localities where the work is to be, or should be done, as is now so continually the case. No work be by contract, all of them by super- vision. The principal public works would be under the care and supervision of the wardens, governors and chief ruler ; under such a system there would be no members of Parliament, no legislatures, or any necessity for them. 9lh. The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages would cease and with it at least seven-eighths of all the wickedness, misery, crime and woe which prevails. Such manu- facture and traffic is alone permitted under false and ruinous systems of government. There would be no need for excise to leech out of the people money to be paid to office- holders, for there would be none to pay, except it may be to the chief ruler and govern- ors and any legitimate expenses, but no salar ies to the officers, councillors, reeves or wardens, their duties will be so light that there will be no necessity for salaries. The tariff would be arranged by the govern- ors in council with the chief ruler. Thus there would be no more use for parliaments, legislatures or municipal councils, and the lost time, corruption and fraud naturally incident thereto be forever removed away, and with them all expense incident to them. loth. In process of time all public works, railroads, canals, telegraphs, etc., etc., would become public property and the management solely in the interests of the people. I ith. The immediate savings in government expenditure would be about $30,000,000 annually. The savings to the people by removing the liquor traffic would be about $40,000,000 a year, and all the poverty, pollution, profanity, crime and woe accruing thereby. The law costs that would be saved that is not now included for government as it should be would not be less than $10,000,000 yearly. The earnings of all the lawyers, liquor dealers, and other similar classes, now drones living upon the labor of the toiling tax-payers would at least be $10,000,000 annually. Thus the direct and indirect sav- ings for 'government that would accrue to the people would be fiilly $90,000,000 for 1,000,000 of families or $90 a year for every family in the land, which is ample to build and nicely furnish a comfortable house for every fanuly in the land every ten years. I2th. Under this system every family in the land would be entitled to a homestead out of the public domain without money or price. The title will be occupation. It would be the duty of every officer and ruler in conjunction to see that all those thrown out of employment or occupation through this system 01 national regeneration should have work or means of livelihood, for this must be a paternal government for every class of the people and not as the present government, which is only paternal in relation to office- holders and un-paternal < all tax-payers and is ever devising some plan by which to leech out of the people to give to their official children. 1 2th. This system of national regeneration is founded upon the municipal system of the Province of Ontario, in which each county is divided into more or less municipalities and each of those municipalities into five wards. In adopting this system any Province with its counties not so divided would only have to so arrange for its adoption. Punishment of Officers and Rul- ers. 1st. Under this system of government it becomes the duty of anyone knowing of any tran^ression of the law to notify the officer of the section in which he lives. If the trans- gressor is an officer to notify the magistrate of the ward ; if the offender is a magistrate to notify the reeve ; if a reeve to notify the warden ; if a warden to notify the governor of the Province ; if a governor to notify the chief ruler ; if the chief ruler then to the gov- ernor of the Province in which he resides. and. When information is laid aguinst any magistrate or higher ruler it must be done through the senior minister of the section, the ward, or the municipality ; it being possible that there may sometimes be no minister in a section or ward. 3rd. Anyone, be he citizen, officer, ruler or mioister, who neglects his duty in any sucb matter will be numbered with the transgressor and be treated with the same measure of punishment, which, if an officer or ruler, will include perpetual dismissal from office. 4th. Every transgression is the seed of a national running sore, and it is the duty of every man and woman to keep the body politic clean. 5th. Our system of education can be so simplified that it will not cost $10,000 a year of school monies to pay for distributing $4,000, as according to the school returns has been the case in Ontario. . ' 6th. All monies for public works will be paid on returns of overseers, and the receipts specify for what work it was paid or material furnished ; and at the end of each three monthu such payments with the name of the receiver, the overseer, and of the rulers ordering the work will be published for the information of all in the municipality, so that every citizen may know if there is any delinquency and at the end of each year the returns for each province, stating the aggregate amount spent in each, and as well for the whole dominion. 6th. It is not necessary to now publish the scale of punishments commanded in the Word of God for each class of transgressors ; that can be done when necessary. 7th. It will be difficult for those who have alone been educated under heathen systems of government, jurisdiction, jurisprudence and finance to at first realize that the foregoing explanations in relation to a government upon true principles covers all questions which relate to the government of a nation in truth and equity ; a system so plain that the most uneducated can understand. This system of government is ample for every emergency, all outside of it aire the expensive and fraudulent delusions accruing from an irrational and vicious education. Let the people rise up and organize for sweeping away our heathen system, which in Rome wab called the Dragon System, and replace it with (he regenerating system, whereby they can be governed upon Christian principles ; be governed in truth and equity. Every minister of the Gospel should become a leader in this regenerating and righteous warfare for putting an end to all the national evils with which our Dominion is cursed, and in the establishing of which Canada will become a light for all other nations. No Christian minister of the Gospel should have anything to do with party politics, all such are heathen. In this regenerating system there is no party, no heatheusip. t,^ n'S'-Jt'^ 7't-»f- isgressoi asure of iler, will ^ of a duty of he body n be so ooayear stributing •turns has will be receipts material ee tnonthsi e receiver, dering the rmation of ery citizen uency and IS for each int spent in linion. publish the 1 the Word issors ; that se who have n systems of ndence and tc foregoing rnment upon tions which ition in truth hat the most is system of tiergency, all nd fraudulent rational and organize for em, which in System, and iting system, pon Christian I and equity, hould become snd righteous II the national is cursed, and da will become No Christian have anything ;h are heathen. :re is no party, ti 'Hil 4o iita*- 1 Chief Causes OF OUR National Difficulties. In the following pages will be explained our present national position by which all can see the absolute necessity for the regeneration of our whole system of government Political Corruption and Incompetence. ist We have only to read the revelations in the party journals on each side of politics to be satisfied that all our governments, from the Dominion down to those of school districts are incompetent aiid more or less corrupt ; that they are centres and seats or schools of corruption, maintained at enormous expense by the tax-payers. 2nd. That while there are men honest at heart who from time to time attain to positions in cur varied school, municipal, provincJ!)! and dominion govern- ments they soon find that to overcome the unprincipled, or to countervail the ignorance or chicanery of their coadjutors in office they must descend into the pool of corruption. That no matter how much they may desire to do right they are powerless to secure it unless they resort to deceptive or corrupting arrange- ments. They are victims of a corrupting system. 3rd. The reported speeches of the members in all our dominion ind legislative halls amply prove that the number of those who can grasp national questions is exceedingly limited and that very few are able to either impart information or give advice of any value to the country and that their being there is an immense waste of time and money. 4th. Were it possible to furnish a comprehensive outline of the history of the dissimulation, treachery, bribery, chicanery and fraud, the profanity and filthiness embraced in the history of their doings, individual and collective, it would be a record alone fit for the archives of the bottomless pit— even to touch them would be polluting. What is known of them has disgusted every truly wise Canadian with such legislative institutions. 5th. Their incompetence is amply proved in the enormous cost for govern- ment laid upon the shoulders of the tax-payers. In the immense government indebtedness of the country, in the vast individual indebtedness of the people, in the drunkeness, profanity and debauchery, which, even in this land of churches and general education, is a source of contmual anxiety to every right-thinking man For in none of all our governments is there any rational effort made to sweep them away. Every enactment forced out of the rulers to secure that end is so full of illegal quagmires that at every turn the Christian and the philanthro- pist are met with impassable obstructions, ^nd why ? Because the hearts of the majority of our legislators are with the hearts of those who fear not God and regard not man, the well-being of the peopitj, or the real good of the country. 6th. The majority of the occupants of and of the aspirants to office whose hearts, are with the hearts of the; corrupted are well aware that the, good-wil) of 8 the corrupters of society is essential to their political success. The fact has become so clear to a large proportion of the voters that they have no difficulty in perceiving that the vast majority of those who attain to legislative seats secure them by the promise of direct or indirect collateral advantages. One sample of the political corruption in which the country is immersed was of late on full exhibition in connection with the Ontario Legislature. One member of which, who had been before the courts accused of the vilest and most heinous crimes against God and man — in which his accuser was justified — made oath that he had, by the use of profane language and dire threats, compelled the Ontario Ministry to give an important county office to his right-hand man, who had helped him to secure his election — thus a double bribery ; and then we have the Ontario Ministry using the vile scoundrel as a tool to try and seduce outsiders to bribe its supporters into covert acts in order to throw discredit on their political supporters. It is such open instances of corruption collated with others more or less hidden under semi-transparent veils, and so thickly set in the history of each political party that has assured every true Canadian patriot that Our whole legislative system is a crying evil, a delusion and a fraud, and corrupt beyond purification ; that our monarchial system of government must be refined in a regenerating fire, which will consume from it all Fuch heathen and fungus institutions ; all schools of corruption and idleness, and all sinecure positions for those who live on the spoils of office. By the system of national regeneration suggested we can 'Secure complete and perpetual deliverance. National Delberance Required. All sections of the Dominion are crying aloud for deliverance from the follow- ing prominent oppressing burdens, which they find growing heavier every day, so heavy that they cannot much longer be borne : ist Deliverance from our costly system of government. 2nd. Deliverance from our enormous national debt to Britain. 3rd. Deliverance from our vast internal or home debts. 4th. Deliverance from financial crashes. 5th. Exhibit of earnings and expenditure. • 6th. Deliverance from land and chattel mcHtgages. n 7th. Deliverance from unsound currencies. 8th. Deliverance from intoxicating drinks. 9th. Deliverance from shoddy goods. loth. Deliverance from land monopolies. I ith. Deliverance from railway monopolists. 1 2th. Deliverance from national loss in the wholesale destruction of our forests. 13th. Deliverance from Dominion and Provincial conflict of authraity. 14th. Deliverance from costly jurisprudence. 15th. Deliverance from labor strikes, tn^^n* 16th. Deliverance frcnn long hours of labor. Deliverance from Costly Goremment While the people feel the heavy taxes which bear so heavily upon them, very few are aware how much in excess of earnings octr cost of goverament is. At the time of the Umon of Upper sad Lower Canada in 1A41 it mammAf ct has iiiculty secure nple of on fuU which, crimes that he Ontario rho had lave the ►utsiders on their i or less r of each ir whole »t beyond fined in a d fungus sitions for generation our forests. Mity. $c per family offive. In i||^ i thjC cost was pnly i^b.65 per tzttdiy. A cohsicile^ awe portion oif tliat increase was in bur municipal expenditurte. Through tl^e corruption and extravagance which then began to prevail tKe cost oif all oiir governments in the yeaif preceding confederation had lenched $23 per family, for the previous twenty-six years it averaged $14 per family annually. In tfad' year 187 1- the cost of all of our governments biegani to exceed the earnings of aU the people aifter feeding and clothing themselves i it was ovei; $36 : per family andjeached $50 per family in 1876.1. {>ir.a r.rfi,'>mcah arfi '..:nit> It was prdved in the iDomtnian Watchman in 1877, from the bank retuf tl^, that thnragh customs and excbe the business men of Canada in the five years ending with 1875 indirectly advanced $4i>5i7«lS>-for taxes or cost of goyern- ment in excess of. the net earnings bf( the people, after feeding and clothing themselves.. No wonder there was a financial crash.. ,.j: The total coat of all our governments in excess of such earnings since 1870 has in round Btunbers been $137,000,000. Is it any wonder times get hard? Hard Time^ '*^^"'*' ^'^'^ ■''& .JUJ . , »i'i(tt'>i . ■ ( 'i.'Vt ■•;■•, ■■;• ', !;; /Si! ;. ,i'-j.!>.rncf j: xa .--.. . . __ ,.. ,xst Tliat it, is. hard times, that business is comparatively dull and that th^/i finaqcial oi^look is none the brightest^ i&, clear tp all observing business men. r ii^d* It is reasonable to suppose and no doubt a fa<:t that there are hut. few , who l^uy p^ credit wh9 do not desire and intend to pay for all their purchases^ ? yet mcKSt business men are aware hqnf, difficult it is to collect monies due tfa«m. ,3rd> ,The business men who carefully examine their books and in the scale of pi^bability we^h tjhe qet value of e^ch note apd each account are in the majority of cases certain to discover that the losses actual and probable are a thqrpugh proof that, "h^d times "is piessing with a heavy hand Mpon tl^ sbQuldiers/of their puslpmers, that ithe earnings are not up tp the e^^penditvr,?-! , .4th. Year after year accounts increase, notes multiply, the chattel mprtgagei - inildew increases^ and real estate is covered wit}^ mort^^ge iipon.fportgagie, ]>|rh|phr; : like f, deadly Jiight-$ha4e, sour and blast our cheijished homesteads, our rich forests ^d f^itile , valleys. ; Why should this be in Canad^i ? in i^ qpuntry pos^s* ing so intelligent and vigdroijis a, population ; in a cQ^ntry^nenc^Ini>ered with, a. standing army or navy, with no ambassadors or consuls to maintain in foreign countries ? Is it not am^e proof of imsgovernnvent, thisit true statesmanship has been yiex^^.inuqh wanting ? Is is no|t clear that those who, putj o^ ^he t^es, have helcl tiifanselves up as the chief pr most c9J^\^^iDi&cioii\ip covpjbry h^ve, \yith ; rare exceptional, been merely political, charlatans seeking for positions for ^If^^b purposes, ani) quite, incompetent to rule in. truth and often u,nwill^nsto let bth^n; try to ? "jTlKose who have not already attained to a knowleclge pf the fact wiU.|n reading these ^ep secure abunidance; of evidence to justify sudbi,,con9lti^iph^>i Throq^li tlieir Ig^primce and mi&manage^^t w<; l^av^ our multi{>li,ed govftrnr ments witb the greet airiny of paid offici^, whom Uiey have established, ^nd all, under the name of reform an4 responsible ,,govei:m;nent. This ff sponsible systeni does not make the members elected financially responsjbje fpr th^ir ignorance or for their mismanagement, and its whole history, frpm'itj^iinceptionfi proves thf^t such responsibility iqrithout a financial liability; j^j a delusioo an^ ?j snare, that . it is nothing better, than a cover . to hifliS'fiil k|pds of bribery ,an4i corruption. The true na^e is trnspdnstik goventme^, and untler jt t^e ina^. .Viiii'til "i:^ Cause of Each Canadian Financial' Crisis *^ '1 -i''"i'.' i{i: !t let -We had a financial cmis in 1837-8, one in rS47-8>, one^im 1857 8 and one in 1876-7, and we would have had one in i863'-4.hadit not been for thie fflUraor^v dinary prices the Americans paid us fonour products doi^tig their w^; ' ' * : The' British Government, in buildings the Rideatii' Canal froin 'KifigstxHi to Ottawa, ' which, if 'memory serves, was> ' completed ih 1833, expended- over $8,000,000. This influx of gold led oqrimpoiter&tc so increase their 'purchases > that it not only swallowed tip all that siiin/'butall tb receipts for all our expcvts, leaving us in debt to Britain for our oven4knportations, and without any iheneyr to pay for them. ' The result was that in' the extreme' scarcity of mdney mahy business men issued' '^'fractional currency/'orpromiEies to payi-wiiich; circulated as specie in the localities where issued. , . . It was the hard times thus catisecf by tlre'llii^orters that led to the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-8, for a prosperous people never rebel ; political revolutionists havid v^iy'littlfe' ittfluehice in-igbod tini^. It i^'true there ■#ere|grlfevancts, but they ^re hbt' of such sCi'iotis importance as to justify So futile aild «o iadiciarf' • a remedy, It i^ quitie possible tjiat through peaceful petsevertincfe all ekehHal reforms would halVe been secured, arid th6 countiy had been saVed froiri niany serious tVils arisirtg from the rebellion! Wfe iirfe' supported in this coiiclusiolt by its atithor, Williaihl Lyon M4ickenzie,^^hb ih^his at^r yeafs;"as given in the history of hfe life, admitted that it was i mistake; " afa drrdr' of the head,"— want ofjudgnient ■-■ ' '■ ■■•>■■■' ■ ■'■■■■' ■■■•' '-■ ■ '-/'.'.n, - ;,;.;..:. ■.',^...: r. ' While' hbr bf just ' the' sabc' d^criptibti, tTfeoppres^ioft' We nb^ tear ^litoiigK' ■ thibiigH^ the «t|*hty' df 'the '^iw'iss the people tire 'beeoming ^hT^e^ srtid are fonitiing, aS ' it ' ytrtie, ' coihpames ^nd battalKbtl^' li^Kieh' when tmited' ^1' Hmt An ' annfthat datitibtM in bringing dbout'd^sli'fedMoi^i ^''' '>''^' tni.^,iii .jrn -... ^ns ?BrtV]id3.ttRffi?.!i)ji}3 i>,'rjT»Ei FINANCIAL i-ijni;-j:> TKe T^m6h^'hM'Siii« led'to tlie'toh of tAe ^ro'vlhfe^ of Onl^b ^d" ' Qtiebec iii Mi. ' ThV Gqrviimrtent thfen bori-b^ed ^i,s6!6,obo ^teWlhg, 6t oV6t^'$^,b6o,oob,_frbAi Britain, foV the consttiiction blT the St. Lav«f^etice Canals arid bthW public ^Wwlcs. The borrbv^dd'ttioTOy thus exp^ndfed a^4ih led'tb' eaayti'm^s; ^ (he ex^hditlife of att' bbrfo#|'d\ft^'ohej/ mih %e coiin^^^ db^ ' for' a' tfrtifc-,' bn^t^ ultmiately' it ihiist prbve disa^trbus. As during thie time pre<;^d- ing \ht fbrmer cirisis thife' importers impbrted .faster than alt 'Mt W4s earned khd borrb^fed,' and wKdn^tTie BbrroWed'moheV'haditt'been used there Was rio'moriey tb payfbir the eicess bf ifltipbrts or balarice'df t^ade agairist^^" '^"""' T Tlve attempt '^ttsthih'^ ^ade to remo^6'^t%e'oppi^6saVfe Wi^6n'Mlcft' tl^^' iihpbft^rsf thils' i^fc^' Ut)^' otif shouldih, by borrowing ft^om tlie loaiicotntoahiesf a*iA »iuildihg^soipitti6^;''tb 'which the 'iiai-dtirties theh gkve birth: Biit as'the fil ;l iit te(liiJted^'Wa!s' alit^yi several tunes^l^'orfe than ebuld be m^de out bf or II * f!/:itr ?rk^ soon founcl,theiDselye& sjtfbinprged, and their last state wPii;$e than the first f they had tvifned all, pfthefr property over to their creditors they could not have l^een worse. oft .^wl-jthffic cr€;4itors, would have 1^^ Iq a much better position... .— ',■ ,-.!.■ (l!:'•—^.i■i .;".:'.;. '•..-.,.. .,-■> To sum up, the crisis of 1847-8 was caused by the importers i^lporting more than we exported. ^ ^Iqoyc! ariJ lo i.^tn\bi f>u:>iol aHj 1. ruhnxpbni .?f:ii -jv-d) .'jl<[<' A[ in;/ !•• tjaBTrmAi^CSAL CRISIS OP 1857-8. "Jf^ J !>"£ HioilJt->filjjne r > - ." ' -' t - 1-* i But, as in. the two previous insiahces, the imjpfortdrs imporfed latgdy in exdess of alt exports and oif all the money brought into the country by the constriiction of railways. Ac'cordiiig to the Government returns during .the nine years ending M^ith' ,1858, th(p over-importations amounted to. $79,356,537, and the annual interest on it t^rought it up to over $100,000,060, or an amount far in exces? of all that w^s spent for railways, during that period. The banks and the people were so completely drained of money that the banks found it impossible to mrnish the necessary, funds for th^ purchase of produce, unless it was shipped in time for them to get the returns tiefore the importers could collect their notes and demand gold or exchange for them. Thus the importers not only caused the crisis of 1847-8, but they perpetuated it, crippling the banks and every home mdustry, benefitting producers and manufacturers in other countries while ruining our own. As above statedj there would undoubtedly; hay^:been another crisis in 1863-4 had it not been for the extraordinary high prices paid for Canadian products by the Americjins during' their vr&r, and even then for several year^TfoUowing money was vel 1.0 n' ty scarce. "Vyith the commencement of the Iijtercolonial, Ae Air Westerp, tlie, Canada Southern and other railwaifs, the new ; ..0',■5£;,I^).;, Ofir "it liw/ (i;ii! in .-.i; ;:nij;.ti; Jilyft # oj )ii'jl^yi{/p> - Line of the Great Welland Canal and Other public works, a new floojd of borrowed, money was spread over the country, leading the importers to tmij^k, | if we may, judge by the exces^^ Imported,^ that they cpuM scarcely import too many goods. The result was that in the six years iendinjg with 1I877, 'th^y overTimported to the amount of $1^6,553,658, which added 1,9 the;: preYiQUS indebtedness to Britain and what has. accrued since, makes the present debt tb^ritain, according to the,£c0ftomist, $350,000,090, besides which t'hg inqpqrters Tiave drained the banks of fully $125,000,000, of capita,i andj depogfts to. pa)j for goods manufactured in other pountriesi, which under wise legislation would have been made ih Canada. . ~"^'''+ It^ has been the^ : creed of the, ignorant that financial ciises were uhavoidaDie, coming at regular periods. But jthe Government returiis of imports and exports dSterS. ^^^ -terM%, ^ ^R«rtec| ^% u^:jrif^ s^c^jv^, ifin^l Jhesie facts sjhow how vjnwise it is to sepd pe Importers tp Paruanjent, for paturklly they do not want tb help place any restriction^ thkt will interfere with l! 12 their importing, in reality with their ability to crush Canada and her industries. By this over-iinporting foreigners are sdppHed With work, food dnd clothes by the ithtoorters during each of our financial crises, while Canadians go tramping from town to town and city to city begging for work that they may procure food and shelter for themselves and families. The ruin and misery caused by ove^ importing is beyond description or computation. Independent of the forced idleness of the people, the ruin of merchants ah((i manufacturers and the periodical loss of all the savings of the people, there has been that semi-starvation and actual want and suffering that developes into sickness and disease and causes thousands to bLt'' As previously stated not one of all our legislators whom the country has brought up under our irresponsible system of government has ever considered it at all necessary to ascertain the earnings and expenditure of the people. Without such knowledge no government can rationally finance or have the least idea whether the people are able to pay the taxes levied. "ay fqir over-importations, fam $i< Js, fana nun fam 15 When of Sir lat has f than foreycr as our ^siness fungi^s oice in who are ive that earning, ke time ; impor- that our : full of ■ vf,,r intry has iidered it Without [east idea tsponsible r ideas Of e revenue le amount [ports and s, not one jvernment f they had of capital they were ►t being an 1 calamity. )revious tq get speech increase in of paid-up ifederation. deposits ink t^tum^ ws that not 5, that there hich clej^ly nportations, and in olace of the people being that much better off they were that much deeper That speech was received with " loud and- {Prolonged cheers," proving that this ' Minister of Finance was fully up to the standard of financial intelligence of his' audience, not one of whom understood the necessity of looking at both sides of' the account When the Hon. Mr. Cartwright became Minister of Finance he ' knew after a long parliamentary career so little about the earnings and expendi- ture of the people that in his budget speech he said the people could " ye^ bear a heavier burden of taxntion," and that when the taxes were actually $ic,ooo,ooo'' annually in excess of all the earnings of the people after feeding arul clothing' themselves. The "depression committee " at the same time reported thiat our') financial difficulties were " beyond legislative control." And the Hon. Mr. Blak6< said in his Aurora speech that there was "nothing more to reform." Wa& it'f because his party was in power? Every day since diose speeches were made we ^ have been runnii^^ deeper in debt. Is it not time for dispensing with all suchi legislators, committees and statesmen whose light is alto^ther darkness. It can^- be done under the regenerating system of government suggested in these page& With all our chief rulers and legislators of both political parties so ignorant ( and so unbusiness like in these vital financial points, what else but hard times^^ periodical financial crashes and ulttmat<) national ruin can be expected. < < Through the Hamilton Spec/ufor of October 27th,- 1873, and in the DominioH' expenditure and increase of national wealth in the United^ States for the seventy '• years previous to their civil war ; commencing with their first census returns in > 1790 and ending with i860. It was copied in full by one of the most prominent i journals in the c'ty of New York with the comment that "the data wasindispu^l table andithe infcMPmation startling/' for it proved that the expendittii'e fcv goverm^ ment in the States ever since the Civil War, aversiged $300,000^000 annuaUy in ' excess of any earnings of the people after feeding aItd^ clothing themselves. This > amount twas indirectly covered by notes, bonds and mortgages. The follov^ing ; was the cost of the Federal Grovernment for each family^ 6f theitensus years given ' which is a fair average for the: intervening years :-**»» » "i ''naauiwvu^ luo lit fo lac' I Jli I.Jtl li'd nv. 'in tmiz iftto. . . jrSoo fSio i84o.'..':H^I $8,40 i860 $12.10 The mcreased cost per family from 1890, to 1869 .w;as only 85 cents per family and the average per family dur^ig the whol^ period for government was $iai2. The cost for state and municipaL gqverninent in i860 was $i;2, whicj^i is, no (jouht, ,a fair, average, which ad^ecT to t^ie ^eder«ilmake^ $25.12 per,; family;, and if we. ,^dedu,ct the credit balah)c;e,. in the tii^asuiy it was in found, numbei;$ just $25 jp]er family, ,.Qr , hot mpre tnar^ on^-half yhfit it has be^nipei; , funily in Canada sin,ce 187 5i , 1., , ^ . ^^ During all tha( sevenhf, ye^$ the average ^ph^^inc^'ease: in nation^ w^ealtii^i frorh earnings, that is, after deducting for the slaves, and the unimprpy^ l^nds- was only $11 per family, which includes receipts by emigrants. Deduct those and it would be $10 pe;r family, , which,, add^d^l9.|hesuni of th^; annual cost tor all of theitr igOvertihients IsSi^ that tift^^'S, •.. Before that investigation was made it was assumed by various writers th&t the annual Increase in national wealth in the United States, Britain, Germany and France was five per cent, of the annual earnings. The discrepancy between that staMment aiid the census returns led the writer to altogether doubt the assumed data of those foreign writers, for, if true, the assessable wealth in the United States in i860 would have been $19,000,000,000, whereas it was only $12,084,560^000, of which $1,000,000,000 was for slaves and $1,000,000,000 for/ unimproved lands. If we deduct the $6ao,ooo,ooo of assessable wealth in 1790 and aoBount received by emigrants the net increase from earnings was onty $10 per family or two per cent of the earnings, in place of five; The Emigrant Commissioners in their report, issued in 18/3 and founded upon the census returns of 1870, stated that the average earnings of the whole people was only $fOQ- per head at the high wages paid in 1870. They divided the population into families of four and giving the various items in the cost of living showed that it cost each family $360 to live and that the other $40 of their incoine went for cost: of government. That data made it clear that there has not bdeh a cent of increase of national wealth from earnings since the civil war, and as the cost of government has averaged $75 per family, that they have been running intot debt; or consuming their previously accrued wealth at the rate of $40 per familyi annually, which agreess with the showing published by the writer in 1873 and 1876, All the official statemients and newspaper reports which conflict with that «UUi.€an be shown to be delusive. The cost of 2M our governments in 1876 as fully shown in the DominioH WatchitMti in that year was for municipal $13.51 per family of five ; for provincial, $10.22 per family of iive ; dnd for the Domtn- iont'$26.,i7.; and there ;hasi, been no. reduction since then. iThierefore the cost of all our governments is not only double per family that k ever was in the United States before the civil war, but at least $10,000,000 more anpually than all we earn after feeding and clothing ourselves. But that is v\i^% all ; our annual interest for over-importations oii the $500,000,000 due BritaiQ is at least $25,000,000. Dedt^ct from that sum about $7,009,^00 for interest on our Federal debt included in the cost of government, the balance, or $18,000,000,. is to be added to the excess Over-earnings pn cost of govemtnent, which proves that we dit going behind' ait the rate bf about $28^000,000 annually. All (if tha!isrtHn-is 'either dirtd^ or indirectly fldafed by bbrrb wing, 'in ihe fifsf place Jby over-irriportatibUi^, i^hfch again are balanc<^dby all kinds Of boi^ds, mottgages, and oAei^tieduritres.; This d&ta in regard to earnings and expenditure which cannot be disproved iis- fUrnisH'ed rtot Only to shbW 'that bur ^d tilled ^responsible goverh- ment is a d ' ' i- • •. , . . .,. . 1 > n . . ..j/vi ii^bnipetent r^toentcioh. is- turnisnred not only to snow tnat our socaiiea^responsmte govern- delusion and is an irresponsible on^, but thJaC 6\xi filers aire absblui^ty It aHd< that>«'ur annual at least it on our )oo,ooo,.is ich proves , ly. All^f It place 5)y gages, and cannot be ile govern-, ibsblutety' cbthtilete., Uv.'i 3J bm: } t(. II n irA i'lust-y^,' showed some $65,000,000 of real estate under mortgage. The Toronto Mai/, commenting on the exhibit, stated that futly three-fourths of the farms in Ontario were under mortgage, which agrees with a previous showing in the Dominion Watchman. There is a still greater proportion of village, town and city property encumbered. The regular reports of a collecting agency in Ontario returns about 1,000 fresh chattel mortgages every month. There is no better proof of misgovernment than real estate and chattel mort- gages. Under true principles of government there will be no necessity for any such heathen instruments of torture, every one is a goad, every one is a badge of slavery. If all these loanmg institutions conducted their operations in a straightforward or honest manner they would be bad enough. But the most of them have been conducted upon deceptive methods whereby the borrower supposed that he was securing a loan at a much lower rate than that at which the loan was furnished. They were authorized to do so by Act of Parliament which indirectly connived at their fraudulent operations. If the interest were all retained in the country it would still be ruinous to the borrower. But as some $40,000,000 of these Society funds are said to be from Britain the country as well as the individual borrower is drained and improvished government, in its utter want of financial wisdom and be- nighted legislative understanding has brought the country into financial bondage to Britain. The government has not the remotest idea of the necessity for a deliv- erance from such degrading slavery, for year after year they are piling up hill upon hill and mountain upon mountain of obligations to the foreign money lenders. We published in the Dominton Watchman the secret table prepared for the Directors of one company showing 23^ per cent interest to the company which assured borrowers it was not half that figure. This is a rate fully eight times as much as the borrower could afford to pay and secure any profit from the loan. Thousands, if not tens of thousands of Canadian farmers have through these high rates of interest been robbed of their farms and thus indirectly driven to the United States where similar consuming fires are in full blast Many to pay interest on the real estate mortgages have given chattel mortgages on their goods, and thereby had all their savings consumed in this great national Utt which has been lighted by out rulers, who ever financing upon the security of the producers, property have believed their ways the essence of financial wisdom. Under true principles of government or the regenerating system suggested in these pages, there will be none of those heathen systems of torture, there will be no necessity for them, the people will be able to pay as they go. Let every one who wants deliverance from them arise to help to inaugurate the system of government proposed. Deliverance from Unsound Currencies. There is a long and continuing cry for deliverance from our unsound bank and Dominion currencies through which originates our repeated financial crashes, all our foreign debts and a large portion of our home obligations. No currency can be a true or value currency unless it has been earned. Not a dollar of all the bank or Dominion currencies in circulation aire earned, every dollar of them IS debt ,ft . .} ^1 .;. .,.; f^fj.nri^ a_*i-' •• "i'fi'j' "'L- " • •'•'J ' ' I St The Canadian banks now issue about $30,000,066 of their debts for a currency at seven per cent interest, which yields them over, $2,000,000 annually. Thei'" monthly returns jgrove that there is not a dollar of it that represents their is earnings or capital. Therefore the $30,000,000 represents the capital or earnings of the people who through misgovernment are compelled to use bank notes, that is debts, for a currency and to pay $2,000,000 a year to those who have not and do not earn k cent of it, which is absolutely the reverse of a national currency issued upon true principles. 2nd. The Federal Government issues about $14,000,000 Dominion notes. The average amount in circulation approaches $4,000,000, the balance is held in the banks and so far as supply of currency is concerned or the people being benefited the paper might as well be in the bottom of the sea, and the cost of printing it have been saved. Against these Dominion notes the government makes returns that it holds specie to about the amount in actual circulation to redeem it For that specie we are paying about $200,000 a year of interest to Britain. Thus for the use of bank and Dominion currencies we pay fully $2,200,000 annually. 3rd. For the $30,000,000 of debt currency issued by the banks they hold an average of $7,000,000 of specie to redeem them, or about one dollar to redeem every four dollars of their notes. 4th. The returns show that the Government deposits for which the banks are liable averages full as much as the sum of that specie held by the banks to redeem their notes which proves that the government furnishes the gold which the banks are compelled to have on hand to redeem their notes, that it is a government asset and not actual bank assets to secure the notes. 5th. The Government is in debt to Britain for all the above gold and is paying interest for it to the amount of about $350,000 a year to a foreign country to float the banks to enable them to lend their debts at seven per cent for a currency. ^£ 6th. The gold that guarantees the Dominion notes has been definitely stated to be the same gold held to guarantee the bank notes which is practically mort- gage upon mortgage, or the $30,000,000 of bank debts guaranteed by the same $7,000,000 of gold held to guarantee the redemption of the $14,000,000 of Dominion notes, and with that the whole security a loan from Britain at a rate of interest double the percentage of earnings of the people after feeding and clothing themselves when the cost of government was only $25 per family, whereas it is now $50 per family with an additional load of $18 per family for interest on over- importations, as clearly proved in previous pages. The crookedness and finan- cial insanity thus exhibited is one of the marvels of this age of financial darkness, yet our Ministers of Finance who devised this system of currency have been glorified as eitcelling in financial ability. And the legislators who have in over- whelming majorities endorsed such fallacious financial ideas have been looked upon by some as statesmen, as an embodiment of the financial wisdom of the country. For Canada it has been the wisdom of the destroyer. A Comparison. Compare all the expensive and delusive plans for securing currency and funds for public works with that suggested under the regenerating system of Govern- ment proposed in these pages and see the difference to the people. I St That all our public works should be paid for in a currency issued by the Government, each dollar of w^ich would show a dollar increase in national wealth in the shape of public works and also show a dollar of currency for which we now pay seven percent interest and thus save interest for both. The sums arnings , that is and do r issued I notes, held in e being cost of jrnment ation to erest to ly fully hold an redeem anks are banks to Id which latit isa is paying y to float Tency. :ly stated illy mort- the same 30,000 of a rate of I clothing ereas it is : on over- md finan- darkness, lave been e in over- :n looked 3m of the and funds )f Govern- led by the 1 national r for which The sums 19 which we now pay for those two things is fully $9,350,000 anpually. For ten years it is $93,500,000, or sufficient every ten years to build a railway from Mon- treal to Port Moody. Iiow different the currency. The writer suggested in the Canadian Quarterly RevUw tor January 1864, such a place for building the Inter- colonial Railway, that is before a sod was turned on it The road has cost over $40,000,000 and we have already paid in interest for it and for currency in that twenty years sufficient to construct it, and now the road belongs to Britain and the currency to the money lenders and debt lenders. Our present Federal debt for public works is about $128,000,000. We have already paid more jthan that sum for interest on the money to build them, and during their construction we have paid not less than $50,000,000 for the use of debt currencies, or a total of $1 78,000,000, Will apy of our Mii^sters of Finance or Members of Parliament prove wherein there is any semblance to tru? states- manship in such doings. . . . ,^ The United States returns show that on Nov. ist, i88i there was of Baltic anhm ii>, 31,32." ■ - , .■../.:: ■:[ \ .■;,!• ,■■ ' ■...(■•,,; '. . ■ . , . . j ■ . ■ I .,, I . When the wine moveth itself aright, thajt i« upright, as alcohoJidqes whi^q the wine is in a state of fermentation as seen in iti^ l>ubDlin^ ui> intlje ipass, t;|en the Word pf God assures us that a curse foUow? thi? selling; an4 4j:inkii»g of it. ^' •,!'< 20 Alcohol is a burning deadly poison, diluted as it generally is, its action is more or less slow or fast in proportion to strength and the resistance of the physical constitution of the drinker, nevertheless the Word of God states, and all experience confirms it, that the end is certain. " It bites like a serpent," that is it acts gradually, secretly, but as deadly as the sting of an adder. Pure wine wiUiOut any alcbhdl in it is healthy and nourishing, with alcohol it is a deadly consuming fire devdui-ing body, soul and spirit. " No drunkard can inherit the kingdom of heaven." It follows that all alcoholic drinks or beverages of every description are deadly in their nature. The chief criminal judges of Canada have for the past twenty years been declaring from the seat of justice that at least sevep-ieighths of all the crime ' of the country has its origin m the manufacture and 6ale of alcbtiolic drinks, and the same proportion of the destitu- tion misery, and woe dpon men, women and children, and the profanity and lewdness existing in the country. From a financial standpoint the cost to the consumers — which however iiiditecitly falls heavily upon non-consumers — is at least $40,000,000 annually, or enough eveiry ten years to build a $400 house for every family in the Dominion. * ; The following is the certificate of character given ,i^, and dealers in it, by that noted infidel Robt G. Ingersoll : — - .-^. " 1 nttaiperance cots down youth in its strength and age in its weakness. It breahs the father's heart, bereaves the doting mother, extinguishes natural affections, erases conjugal love, blots out filial . attachments, blights parental hope, and .brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength ; sickness, not health ; death not life. It makes wives widows ; children orphans ; fathers fiends, and all of them paupers and beggars. It feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemios invites cholera, imports pestilence and embraces consumption. It covers the land with idleness, misery and crune. It fills your jails, supplies yaar almshoases and demands your asylums. It crpwds your penitentiaries and furnishes victims to your scaffolds. It is the life blood of the gambler, the element of the burglar, the prop of the highwayman and the suppcat they can do that which the Almligh^canbot 4b^ Hbir blind those Iir6 who purchase such licenses to believe that 1^ ijghts fte^ed or otherwise lire thereby confened on thefir, * '• 21 Even Ingersoll thinks that the Devil would not commit so insilne ah act, that all who sell such licenses and all who purchase them are already worse than Satan wants them to be. The Government is inately educational, and all these schools of crime which they license are the seats of learning which they have established at a cost of at least $40,000,000 annually to the people. All who manufacture, sell and drink are educated by the Government into the belief that it is right and good to do so. The result is that many of all those* three classes are the victims for time and for eternity of this government educational system. Very many who deal in the curse have been educa;ted into the belief by gpyernmei^ that \t is a perfectly honorable and even Christian occupation. [itih \^'n to sweep the Mirii^try and the legislators who sustain it forever away. They have been weighed and found wanting. Under the system of government suggested in these pages there mil be no heathen Parliaments or Legislatures to educate the people in wickedness until an infidel like Ingersoll is ashamed of their depravity ; practically until Sodom and Gomorrah have risen up in judgment against them. The lesson to be learned is that every voter should at once get an understanding of the system proposed and all unite to secure its adoption and deliverance from strong drink. ti.);. pi*} o^iw r ;j «r4 ^j wiuot« ' ;' ' c bielhrerance from Shoddy Goods. "* '"^^ 7 ' ^^^ To give a little insight as to the extent to which Canada has been robbed by home and foreign merchants through shoddy or fraudulent goods the following selection is made from the Dominion Watchman of January, 1878. WOOL AND SHEEP FOR OLD RAGS. ; , , , . .,l, . » , The woollen gtxxls we purchased in 1876 in round numbers amountedtb $9,OQO«ooa It is not ^00 much , (o estimate ,tbat at ji^ast 20 per qent., or $ij^3oo,ooo of these were shoddy ,^ ^¥f^ would be dear at the cost of making up. , ^ , ':''[• ' r . » In that year we exported $507,000 wortti oF^lieep, $933*60 1 worth of wool an^ $49,525 of sh?ep pelts, a total of $1,590,663. That is, it took all the sheep, sheep pelts and wool exported in 1876 to pay for the old cast-ofTrags of other nations manufactured into cloths, etc., etc, which we imported in that year, with a balance against Ui of $309,367, fd which must be added $55,000 for "shoddy wastb," ^tio^)imy, it may be supposed, for consumption in CanadtMi factories.^ ^'-"^' •'-'-'""*"'*' -'■■' ■»"^'';'"> '''" "'■ '' >v\t*«'t\vrx A^i 'j-\\ft"!>'» ^\i*^ jjVM Our tMleti liave piublicly declared that theirs is not a " paternal government '* and it ift unnnstaktibly true, for they are shei^erds who are devouring all the people earn, and borrow on tht people's credit to make up any d«flciende% and, if 2.2 moreover, allow the wolves of other lands to fleece us of our sheep and wool for old rags. Since 1850 we have imported about $2,800,000,000 of goods and it is no over- estimate to state that of the vast aggregate at least twenty per cent, was of no national value and would have been dear as a gift. This is a sum of $560,000,000, which our incompetent rulers have permitted foreigners to rob us of. 'The government enforces punishment upon those in the country who obtain money under false pretenses, "but makes iio effort to prevent people in foreign tountries from getting our earnings for what is of no value. It should be remem- bered that the above sum is at invoice ^nrices' and costs the consumers nearly double, because duties, freights, insuranire, commissions and wholesale and detail merchants' profits have to be added. ^•'"^'*'^^/"- '^'^'^ ' ' ; ■' ■ -^ ^\ Why do the merchants import such good^s? A 1eay rMitf-^ ri'ifffBifi It was the importation of such fraudulent cottons by our importers last season which so crippled our cotton industries, yet neither the government nor the I^ess, with but few exceptions, raised a finger or voice to stay the evil. One Montreal journal stated the jeason of such importation to be that the importers secured 15 per cent, profit on such goods when they could only secure 7 per c^nt on the Canadiacu . They evidently believe the fraudulent 15 cenis is worth more than the honest seven cents, not being able to perceive that in the financial crises which they create they curse the country and in the wreck Idose their fraudulent profits. It is not alone in such goods that we are robbed ; silks, satins, linens, hardware, groceries, all kinds of fraudulent jewelry, Geitnan, French, and Yankee notions run up to fabulous sums, and not least are the various kinds of deadly strong drink. Spain, to get rid of Britain's shoddy cloths, put on a duty of a dollar a poutM ; firitainy to get rid of ** fac^d" and^hoddy teas colnfiscat^s them. The Americans 9lsp do the same, but the government of Canada only gives Canadians protection firotn such robbery in bne article, and tKat is dangerous American oils, which tliey confiscate from the iiiriporter, and, with chaj-acteHstic wisdom, authori^ the sale by aviction t6 any merchant, who can siellh without I6t or hihdtahce. On the lintel of the door, of our Dominion Legislative hall$. there should be engraved in large letters that could be read by him th«t„ runs, thes9. word& : — The head tentre of National ruin. It should never be removed until the legislat tovs can show at least some one act of legislation which /S(^ far a^^eii^; apy good to the country is concetned, i$ not, nullified by other of theirj^$|^.<,(Qf^a# j^ h«4enfMigb of oil such he«ithen and iKresponsibl^ instUutiojD^t i Uy.-. ,mu^ o!qo>q •)Ki i 11$ 'il'ui. . * Deliveratice from Land Monopolists. The land shall not be sold forever ; for the land is mine. Lev., ch. 25, 23. Behold the heaven and the heavens of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also and all therein is. Deut., ch. 10, i&''^' "' • /• ■; ^^> fKjqo:-^:^} i.l 1. i These two quotations are sufficient t6 pt6\6 thdt not only the land of Israeli but that all lands over all the earth belong to the Creator, and that until He sells and gives a title deed all the title deeds given for land bought are simply worths less titles which are not valid under true principles of government. -..;../ It follows that all the land titles obtained by land grabbers or by land' titondiyd^ lists are of no more account than a title to a heavenly inheritance purchased with money. The Creator provides for all in earth and sea and sky. The method he adopted to provide for Adam was a garden which he was to cultivate, and he was made vicegerent on earth to divide it into gardens for his offspring. A land inheritance to every family without money or price. That thou mayest live and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Deut., 16, 20. And it shall come to pass that ye thall divide it by tot for an inheritance to you and to the strangers that sojourn among you which shall beget children among you. Ezek., ch. 47, 22. The Creator has never sold any land to any being or ruler whatever. Like His heavenly so His earthly blessings are given treely. Man has a right to the fruit of his labors^ the earth is not the product of any man's labor, it is the work of God. He has not sold and will not sell it forever, but will by the hands of righteous rulers give of it to every family sufficient for each to cultivate and obtain a livii^, where they can dwell under their own vine and tree without molestation of land- lords, bailiffs or sheriffs. The land monopolist will say, " I have paid for my land, my title is registered according to law. I have in it a vested right The answer is "It is a deed for another person's property, the seller had no valid title to it, the owner has refused to sell it and has declared it never shall be sold." You have been deluded out of your money by rulers who have devoured it; you will have to seek of them to get it refunded,and by the time you get it you will find that the bottom plank of our responsible system of government is yourself that you and you alone will bear the loss. The lesson you can learn is not t6 purchase land to which the seller has no title. At the same time remember that the Creator has made provision to give you all you actually need» all you c^n wisely use. We use the word monopolist as meaning ovt who speculates in the purchase and sale of lands and not one who has in possession for himself and family. But under a trt^ system there will be no necessity for the families that have no land to purchase, they can on application receive an inheritance free to be theirs and^their heirs forever and ever. The councillor of each ward will have a map with each man's inheritance marked thereon, and his name recorded upon it, copies will be in the hands of the reeves and wardens for security and reference. Theie will be no expense. If from any cause a, man wishes to remove he can sell his improvements but not the land. Then his name will be erased and that of the purchaser be recorded That will put an end to all the evils and expense of the present system. .yuU vs.'irt lifqO'Xj Deliverance from Railway Monopolists. ■»!U ** So far as any measure essential to its suc'^ss is conceraed the Canadfi Pacific Railway Company is the Government, no matter under uuder what constitutional fiction the irelatioiTslUp may be disguised. ~-/?! KSfi ■!*»; : While charging the Americans those low rates tHey were charging Canadians $35 a car for wheat for 50 miles, and $26 r^" car for 28 miles, or froTn $36 to $40 profit on a car from Canadians and $50 percar loss by the Americans. Thus indirectly the Canadians were paying the freight on American produce to the (Extent of $50 per car, and that while stockholders were denouncing Canadians because their road did not pay. Another class of unbusinesslike ways can be seen by a few examples : ist. A pork buyer in St. Marys found that the difference in the rate he had to pay for cars between London and St. Marys to points east justified him in teaming his pork to London, or 20 miles, and shipping it back through St Marys to its desti nation. '■''■' <^"^ t-'*'-'''"^'''' ri ti:»ui^;»frj:; ■^•M'idT and. On the Great Western, cheese was teath^ from IiigerSol to be shipped from London right back through Ingersoll for the eastern market 3rd., An apple buyer wanted to purchase in the Mount Brydges section, but as the charge per car from there to Toronto was $10 per car more than he could get them from the same company in Detroit for about 80 miles more road and right through Mount Brydges, he bought his apples in Detroit Thus the road was busy destroying the hbme market md. made its^f an instrunMnit of leaching the country out of its money, hastening a financial crbis and helping a foreign people t<^ the extent of fully $250 a train. In that way these roads which have tneen given, loaned and bpnded to their full value, have leaclied Canada out of vkil- And while the threats nised to the there should i\y they can (hways of a i|;gon roads, ;ign country he incompe- ind rates for charged to would have y and fraud : them upon ;d American ite that only per mile for ds, which at 15, a net loss Rrent on day Ived that the never paid a >,ooo, a sum ounded as it g Canadians fro!n $36 to ricans. Thus Dduce to the g C^madians cs : ist A 1 to pay for teaming his > to its desti » be shipped K:tioni t^iit as he could get tad and right he road was leaching the reign people \ have been ^, out 01" mil- thousands of 25 similar examples could be furnished if it were necessary. With all the roads under government control, managed upon business principles and without an Express leach in front and a Pullman leach behind on the principal passenger trams, they would rUn, for the good of our own country and not for foreigners. The Qrand Trunk under its present manager has had more of an eye to business and less to speculation than under former ones, but in freight r^tes there cou|0, yet be an improvement with advantage to the road and to the country. ', .,^1; In extending and perpetuating the railroad monopolies, our government lias given in completed road, money, and land the full cost ot the Pacific road to the Syndicate, and closed the session of Parliament by granting to a number of com- panies and Provinces nearly $10,000,000 for the indirect purchase of support There must come an end to the whole system of both home and foreign railway nipnopoUes and companies. It is not necessary to npw explain the system by which to effect it, but it can and will be done under the system of government suggested. .,; _ ^n\f^i..i.' ^W. <.AH^u'n- -^iiY National Insurance will go hand m hand with true government, and as fully explained by the writer in the Dominion WafcAmanylt vfiW not cost more than one-fourth the rates now paid and also relieve this property owners from all the uncertainty pf the compauy system. 006^0^ \o mm ixii^m, j, uui u.;u Preserving: our Forests from Destruction. ' v--^ Tn^riatibnal loss by the wholesale destruction of our forest's is altogether beyond computation. A few years ago a journal on the Ottawa, well informed on the lumber trade, stated that "all the Ottawa valldy^hAs to show for the magnifi- cent forest that once enriched it, is the stumps on which it stood." Here and there one made money, but enough was lost by others to counterbalance the gains. It is equally true of all Canada. The price obtained for the timber and lumber never justified the expenditure. Every dollar' of the pay received has practically been in foreign goods, our mPney received for other products has indirectly been paid to get out the timbei: and lumber. Every draft against ship- ment was paid for in goods — as proved by our over-importations — which under wise government would have been manufactured in Canada with advantage to the people and gain and not loss to the country. But each successive government encoutaged this distructidn of our forests to thereby increase the revenue. Tile result has been that our grand forests have b6en sWept'aWay as if by consuming fire WithPut even leaving the akhes tP enrich the soil. Arid in sections where we onCe had firie forests the |ieople are how paying nearly as much for freight as they cPuld formieily purchase the lumber for within sight of their homes. It foHows that if ther6 had accrued to 'Canada fair business profit on the timber and lumber sold the increase iii prices now paid for it fdr oilr owii iise would fa!r overbalance that forttitt gain. The extra cost for lumber -leads to extra cost fof houses and barhsMd fehces, leads to dearer houses, deatet' factories and deafer feoodi'^'^.-' ^'"^ "•'"^*^^ w^fi[^ii^^h.[ 'M^Ai lu. to^ocjo-rri Thfe unwisdom of our legislators is tKus'''clia-ly '^^'oWh, Mai?!^^^ been no steps taken by either th'6 tjoininjkjn t^r 'Provipci$d Governments towards the preservation and improvement of ptrf'^ibrektfe," They are in this matter also *reighed and found wahting. Vii^tT i^fe'aind true goverhibfcrft' the land* hot fitted for cultivation would be pre^i-veidaiid maihjtiihM as foi*st lirids to sfeu?fc abtihdance fbr all timt-tb'eotht. -^rid ih 'tlMs coiitffecfibh the prbliiir draittiigfe bf the country should be referred to, through which large tracts conveiti^it td linartet 26 and suitable for cultivation of food or forests which are now useless would be come valuable. The country would by such methods be delivered from the various evils accruing from the wholesale destruction of our great national forests. Freedom from Costly Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence. The gross injustice accruing through our present system of jurisdiction, and jurisprudence has made them crying evils of the day. Various periodicals over the country, prominent among 'which is the St CsLthAnnes Daiiy ybuma/, are repeatedly referring to the inefficiency of our present system of jurisdiction, to the worthless character of our present jury system, and to the heavy law costs which have made it more than probable that the winner in a suit will directly or indirectly lose more than if he had not gone into the contest, referring to which the Ottawa Free Press sisAtd that it "was formerly supposed our laws were for the protection of the innocent and punishment of the guilty, but it was found not to be so now." The Toronto Maii a few months ago stated that the law costs of Canada amount to $8,000,000 annually. At a Warden's dinner to the County Council of Middlesex in London, in 1880, one of the members of it — a lawyer — stated that if a disintegration of the law courts from Toronto was secured as then under agitation, the sum of $400,000 annually would be saved to London lawyers which they now paid to those of Toronto to do their business in that city, and that it would be spent in building fine residences in London. The writer heard the speaker make the statement and supposed he greatly exaggerated, but enquiry led to the conviction that it was too true. That accounts for the number of splendid residences in Toronto, why it grows so much faster than cities where the people earn their living by the sweat of their brow. The question arises, if the lawyers fees of the County of Middlesex annually paid to the Toronto lawyers is $400,- 000, how great is the sum paid by the litigants of that county to their lawyers each year. There are forty-five counties in Ontario, if we average the sum paid by each county to Toronto lawyers at only one-fourth the sum paid by the county of Middlesex, it will be $,4,500,000 annually. Then what is the total sum an- nually paid by litigants in Ontario to lawyers, and what by the whole Dommion ? Add the lost time to all concerned and it is evident that the statement of the Mail that tbe sum is $8,000,000 annually is quite too small. The history of our courts is that the sum paid does not secure justice, that the fruit is injustice. Christ said " \yoe unto yelawyers " and the litigants have long since discovered that the lawyers are a woe to them. Through sweeping ' away the necessity for lawyers they and the litigants will all be delivered from this double " woe." The last census returns show for Canada 2,700 lawyers and 1,100 law students. These and semi-lawyers constitute an army at least 4,000 strong continually engaged in tormenting plaintifis and defendamts. They are one of the prominent adjuncts of false principles of government Under the system of government proposed in these pages their talents and energies would be utilized in promoting the healthy prosperity of the country and not in pausiqg oppression. In the name of reform our legislators have added (:ourt to court, law cost t0[-law cost, expense to expense, with days and w^eksf and mpnths and years of Utigation over pa^tc^ which under true principles of junsprudence can be settled in a few hours in tr^th and pqaity and fre^ of cost Ninety-nine out of every hundred cases that pow come before (h^ 99wj3^jrj^ wi^ej^^j^^ re|^^» W^U |>rOp9fwi . ?t:!SiJ ^ftif.l ri,:id' dauoiiii ,^<: h;mdi'>i .-.(i {,tlu<">n>, v-unuo::) v/f' There will be no necessity for court houses, jails, penitentiaries, reformatories, parliament buildings and legislative halls, no distilleries, breweries, saloons, or other useless and oppressing structures, every stone of each of those costly palaces is a witness of existing oppression and of unwise rulers. None of those unhealthy institutions will exist under true principles of jurisdiction and jurispru- dence. The money spent for all such unprofitable palaces will indirectly accrue to the poor, the needy and the distressed, to provide them with comfortable homes, abundance of food and durable raiment. The evils so unbearable under the present system will cease forever. It is the duty of each to assist to secure this national regeneration. Dominion and Provincial Conflict. Confederation was the crude method adopted by the two political parties to lift themselves out of the legislative quagmire in which they had got stuck. The writer in an article published at the time explained the fallacy of attempting to build upon a false principle, as all confederate governments are built The his- tory of the United States just emerging from their bloody conflict would have been ample warning to able statesmen to shun the road that inevitably terminates in conflicts. The Provinces make laws that conflict with the Federal jurisdiction and the Federal with the Provincial, and each appeal from one court to another and from our country to a foreign one to decide whether their enactments are legal This is simply legislative chaos in which the longer they work the deeper they get in the waters of corruption, of direct and indirect bribery which naturally accrues from trusting in such false institutions. The system of government published in these pages will deliver Canada from all political corruption and all legislative conflicts, and all the envy and hatred they produce, and from at least $30,000,000 a year now unjustly consumed for government. Delirerance from Long Hours of Labor. There is no question but that the long hours of labor of all the industrial classes is practically one form of slavery in which there is very little time for recreation or information outside of their daily work. It cannot be otherwise so long as it requires so much of their earnings to pay for government, to pay for shoddy goods,to pay for strong drinks, to pay law costs and to pay for all the cor- ruption, the direct and indirect robbery to which both the worker and his employer is continually subject The importers are permitted by the government to flood the country with shoddy goods, to glut the market and displace the good Canar dian makes, as seen in the shoddy cottons last year, in two months alone, to an amount which would have paid all the wages in our own cotton mills for a year; Through the importation of fraudulent goods our manufacturers are liable any day to have no work for their esta,bUshments, no market for their goods, their capital idle and with large liabilities accruing. These difficulties also occuring when the banks and the country have been drained of all the money to pay for those shoddy goods preventing the collection, of debte. fuid causing our repeated fin^^ici^l crashes. , . . ■ 'i;w'^t.':s:; -■»i'^j *-»5*)'tp,rfi So long as our manufacturers are loaded and crippled by such difficulties, long hours of labor and the indirect slavery thereby will continue, or worse follow, that is a closing of their establishments. The remedy for these evils can be seen; as explained in the cheaper system pf government presented in these pages, whc^sebji %a deliverance can be secured from long hours of labor, and all the other evils enu- merated. Let all labor organizations fix these facts in their minds, and all employers like wise men unite to secure such a deliverance. Deliverance from Labor Strikes. *'•" When the industrial classes find that their wages are more or less on a starva- tion scale and that they must from time to time submit to a reduction, it is no wonder they are dissatisfied and strike while ignorant of the ever pressing difficul- ties of the employers in trying to make a reasonable profit ont out of their capital invested. Some of the difficulties are given in the previous subject, and are seen to be the natural result of dear government, fraudulent and semi-fraudulent acts and doings over which they have no control. It is also certain that all gain or increase of wages has been indirectly lost in enforced idleness. In numberless cases the manufacturers have run their establishments at a loss, hoping against hope for an improvement whereby they would be able to recoup themselves. Before there can be any permanent relief, business must be placed upon a healthy basis, that cannot be done so long as the cost of all our governments is as now, fully $10,000,000 annually in excess of earnings. From 1870 to 1876, as proved in the Dominion Watchman from the Bank returns, the business men advanced over $41,000,000 for cost of government in excess of the earnings of their customers, the result was a financial crash. While this consumption of the assets of business men is going on it will not pay to strike. The first step for relief is to regenerate our government and sweep away all the encumbrances upon our national prosperity enumerated in these pages. Then competent business men of all classes can do a healthy business. Then a general system for the whole country can be adopted, as done in isolated cases in France, England and the United States, which is that, after allowing fair wages to the workmen, to the employer, and fair interest on the capital, to divide the net profits pro rata to all in proportion to the wages they received. Those manufac- turers who have tried this system have found it eminently satisfactory to them- selves and their employees. As one example in England : A coal mine was being carried on at a loss, the owner decided to close it, but it occured to him to adopt the above system. The result was profit to himi elf and extra pay to his workmen. If the employees or any or all of them desired, a percentage, or the whole of their net profits could be invested in the business. The investors would be sleeping partners, without any voice in the management of the business, but the employer would, if wise, consult them as to the best methods of doing the work, the opmion, of many of them are valuable. The same principle should apply to all railroad employees, and they should as much as possible be located so as to be convenient to their homes. In these ways general comfort and continued national stability would be secured. This plan, however, cannot be safely adopted until a healthy cash business can be done, for the annual and periodical losses which acrue through bad debts for- bid it. At present there are but very few maitufacturers who could safely make any such division of profits oftener thaw once in ten years if even then. The Jesson that can be learned is not to strike against employers, but for employers and work- men to strike for a cheaper and healthier system of government as described in these pages, and they will all be delivered from starvation wages, from strikes, feovtk indfustrial slavery, from bad debts, and from all the other accompanying ^cn^si. c':j^^t^'[ otjix: <;! bsinarfO'i:"; m'j:'\.\v.,iv:j./\o ruvj; 1: Id 'd/^lili^}^-^'- . ■■■■ •»'"fi BURROW, ^^m^i^:.^ os^cm PALACE OF v-'|li|%& -■■7^-^r v;v--^- '^^ ,i,_.»«ev«ijffPf!'"-.v»" ■ , • ■ ' ^^ CAHADIAfI €rnT£MNIAL BANNER. ■: other evils en- r minds The New System of Govern- ■.<«pient advocated in this book ombinea^ the ,ad vantages of he Democratic, with all the ibility of the Monarcheal. fUcAD IT. Study it. Advo- VTBIT. I PUXOf:. 2ft CTS. evil ntlt The New Systen of Govern- ment advocated in this book will save Canadians $30,000,000 of the $50,000,000 taxes now an- nually paid to our Municipal, Provincial and Federal Govem- menls. i CAM A»A, A^O. MM. QEO. D. QRIFFIM, Publisher, Hamilton, Ont.