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WHITE'S PfilNTOa JOBS How the Minister of the Interior got Fourteen Prices for Govern- ment Printing. When Mr. Thos. White obtained a seat in Parliament, through the grace of Sir John Macdonald, the publishing firm of Thomas and Richard White, who owned the Montreal Gazette, formed themselves into a joint stock company in order tO eyade the provisions of the Independence of Parliament Act. According o that Act the Montreal Gazette could get no Government jobs without forfeiting Mr. T. White's right to sit !n Parliament. Hence the change from the simple firm of T. & R. White to " The Gazette Printing and Publishing Company." In the House of Commons, on July 2nd, 1885, Mr. Somerville (North Brant) dearly proved from the Public Accounts, published by the Government, that the Montreal Gazette, of which Hon. Thos. White was, and is, part proprietor, obtained fourteen prices for the one printing job I (See Debates, 1885, p. 3,036.) This is how the thing was done : — The Gazette Company was given the printing of a Government pamphlet on British Columbia, of which it published five editions. This pamphlet consisted of thirty-two pages, with cover and map. The account was rendered as follows :— October, 1883 185,000 copies, January, 1884 140,000 « March, 1884 54,000 " April. lf*8* 56,000 « June, 1884 25^250 •' Total in eight months 460,250 copies. For these editions the Government paid $11,^11.15. The composition of these pamphlets was paid lor four times, although stereotype plates were used TOVEIU ♦ [Form 20.] ' ^ HON. THOS. WHITE'S PRINTING JOBS— Continued. ill the prilltlllg. The composition was paid for at the rate of 35 cents per 1,000 emi, which, multiplied by four, makes the total amount paid at the rate of $1.40 per thousand, fourteen times more tiian tlie dovernment contractors* rate, which is 10 cents per thousand ! There was paid for press woric for these pamphlets, 11,046 tokens at 30 cents, $3,313.80, >y|ien only 5,5*^3 tolcens were a? *MalIy printed, which the con- tractors would have charged for at 10 cen^s per toker,, or $522.30, sliowing an OTCr- clmrge of no less than $'^,701.50 on press work over and above what the contractors would have charged, or Ave times the contractors* l»rice ! For binding 450,250 copies, the price charged was $4,768,02, and the work could be done for $4 per thousand in any bindery, which would amount to 31,841, or an excess paid on binding of $^,9137.0%. The following are the overcharges tabulated :— Excess paid on binding $2,927.02 ' '* " composition 1 17.30 ♦' " press work 2,761.50 $5,805.8*.S Thus, on a work which cost, all told, $9,211.15, there is an overcharge of $5,805.82, over and above the ordinary business profit! The Gazette Company received the following Government pap during the same year:— Pamphlets for Immigration Department $9,211.16 Printing Geological Report 2,876.14 " Reports on fossil plants 126.46 " Proceedings Royal Society 5,321.29 Advance for work in process 1,500.00 Advertising 737.70 $19,772.73 This is a nice little sum for Mr. Thomas White to turn into his OWn print' ing office in one year ! When the Public Accounts for last year are presented to Parliament, it will be found that Hon. Thoms White, through the " Gazette Printing Company," received not less than $60,000 in that way between 1883 and 1886. And this man, with these facts staring him in Public Accounts, has the brazen efllrontery to say on the stump that he had nothing to do with printing jobs ! Electors, shall such rascality be permitted ? You are called upon to say " yes " or " no ! " You can say « no," by voting for the Liberal candidates and honest Government.