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Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and to? to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent atre film^s A des taux de reduction differents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour atre reproduit en un seul cliche, il est fiime i partir da Tangle supdrieur gauche, de gauche d droite. et de haut en bas, en prenant la nombre d'images necessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. ta ure. ] 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 19 THE INDEPENDENT PRESS 03sr A FAVORABLE VERDICT. The Financial Administration of the Province. ©n April 11th, 1890, the 'Mail said editorially :— " The Government can also make out a (food case for itself in regard to its administration of the finances. After dealing liberally by the municipalities and exhibiting a creditable enter- prise in building railways and erecting public institutions, Mr. Mowat is able to show a comfortable surplus. Instead of having a surplus of five or six millions in the treasury, Quebec has a debt of thirty millions, and, in spite of the direct taxes imposed on commercial corporations and of other revenne-raising devices a fresh loan is inevitable. It must also be admitted that Mr. Mowat has passed many progressive measures affecting the general interests of the community. AND THAT, ON THE WHOLE, HIS MANAGEMENT HAS BEEN CLEAN AND FREE' FROM s(;andal. These are powerful reasons for giving him a new term." The Ontario Ballot Act. The Toronto Telegram, of March 7, 1890, said: " As it stands, the Ontario Ballot Act is an improvement upon the systems that govern Dominion and Municipal elections. The provision for numbering ballots, it is argued, enables partisan officials to trace the choice of the voter. The Attorney-General guards against this offence by placing deputy-returning officers under obligation to respect the secrecy of the ballot. Oaths do not always bind excited partisans. The men wlio are bad enough to seek to identity the voter by the number on his ballot paper are qualified to profit by the opportunities which the Dominion and Municipal systems offer for spoiling ballots, and stuffing ballot-boxes. It is out of the fulness of bitter experience that our faith in the superiority of the Ontario system is speaking. The numbered ballot provides a way by which bad votes can be judicially subtracted from the total of a candidate who wins by fraud. When the ballots are not numbered the votes of dead men, of absentees, of repeaters, pass at their face value and cheat the choice of an honest majority out of his rights." The Government Temperance Record The Good Templar of Canada (the organ of the Good Templars), of January 1.^. ISPA aa\f\- «'TVr„ IVT^-^r^i'^ ™ .4- 1 „i \ i • ■ •'. ' ' '"'' -^'-^""at 3 yuvciiimcni, iin.-s aivviij'B siiuwii a uesire to meet the wants and desires of Temperance men in passing legislation favorable to Tem- perance Reform, and on no occasion, that we are aware of, have they ever refused to make any amendments to our laws that were deemed necessary. It therefore be«omes our duty to do aM in our power to strengthen their hands, and not to i be oarried aw.y b, wordy PolUimn^ wh^ are ful^^^^^^^^^ Actions are what we want, and the record ot tne mowat j. itself." _. ■ The Licensing Power. ,r ., cT ia,ta^kmga^ ^^ ^^^^ to ^ho safety and the dignity of the provi^^^^ ,. .ly needed. Ontario could not continue to house j^um^^^^^ The Government taluJ and VnUicrneno^Xr^^^^^ ^^^ ^.H supported an outlay that 13 ''"<^'y ™'"i., ■ , . of public Works is seeing that upThe dignity ^ ttarfre;ery celT pends. The country is not being the province gets value tor every cunu j • . wron« to the Hon. Mr. cheited, and when the ^1^^^-^^"^^^^^^^^^ Fraseritis unfair to declaim against an ex enaitue ^ j^.^^. ^^s right. is to the architect, the Government a^^^^^^^^ to originate Political interest would have dif ated he^^^^^^^^ o^ a Government puk and exe..-,ute d««^"^ .f«\^ \%iTof Se s and d d n?t allow the unpopularity aside every consideration but ^j^J^^^^XT'-^^ And again, on M..y 19th, of its course to deter i from ^^l^S-yXisLes ever imp into Ontario politics 1890, it said •■-': ^f^^f. f f,Xrit a:^v r-^^^^^^^^ -i^^ '''' Parliament the complaint about the ^ntano Gov-r .^ .^ ^^^^^ beginning buildings IS the smaliest ^here is aDsoiu y s country. It would t« end the Government has acted ^^ ^^^Jj^^;^^^^^^^^^ ^^d excuse his'mistakes by have been easy for it to emp oy a ^^^f^'^^^^^^^^ .^uld gain no political glory sr^-rn:^=tr^^^ int-g^d r^ r^^ot5^S?t^Tu|J'^S. o. w "■^^r^^iJrtWffl^^^oumal" on the Mowat Government .. Eegarding the P-™* ;f^t!^^ Mo^lt^Sf, tef ?™lX".Shrr« ,han a fomfj^^- Hon. Oln^er^ «- ^ „„„adence of the Legislature a.;d wu; p^v'f-- -- , , jg £ o^r readers will lumwn ou« vro «"•■"- ^"'TZl" of the whole world. Jj^y.^^^, estion. regarding the welfare of th. I 3 'on ea«h occasion has been successful Amnnn ^u^»^ i. Northern and Western BouXrief the Streams fifll ""^^^ w\'^T^T^'^ *^« etc. This, with his valuable legTsTativfeSmJnts and ^^^^^^^a' .Q"'^^^^*?"' abilities, undoubtedly ranks Mr Mowat as THtatlZn Tfr'/*^'^^ his Cabinet the Premier has had scmJable assistanr L^ .^^\^''' °''^^''' ^"^ different departments has not beenXw l rsuffe" ' MLf^ uZT.Jl^'''' are excellent speakers, able debaters and enthusi^tic workers Cvfv' active interest in the advancement of moral sniial ^^^ ^7 ^^^® *" work. They are gentlemen of high Chr&i^:2llZ^'":TJ'lt 'f ^^'^^ Ihe Government Commission as to the Eastern Ontario Schools. Referring to the Commission appointed by the Onfarir. c. their work thoroughly and conscientiouoly " """'^^'^^^^^ ^PP^ar to have done ^ni^'^^-'S? ^/'F^-^"«h-English Schools," the Mail of October 22nd IfiftQ said "The Instructions to teachers and trustees of VvLnhW^v iT c?'- .\ just issued by the Minister of Education are '4^^^^^ recommendations made in the renort of f Hp ( Z'^IJ. ? ^ ^ ■. ®°^°^ *^e recently visited the French disS^' * *^/'*^"^.^"^^ ^^o properly carried out. ought to do much to rprnp,!^ ^h. ,7 !® .instructions if affairs which has been found to exTstki tL F^S Si unsatisfactory .tate of The Canadian Baptis"2t ''l^^ls evidenflv ?^^^^^^^ "^ l^' Province." not perhaps add largely to the infonttfon a^^^^^^ followed up the dscussion in the Legislature arfdCtirprU win V.^'^'l great service as giving, in concise form a rpHabla l^Jlt • Z'^®^^' ^i" oe of Most unprejudiced persons wTl! we ?hink a^ree thai^^^^^^^^^^ ^'"^ "^"^'''''^ the commission are eminently jud^Lus The? inrb^d. 1 f ^P.^I^^ndations of seems necessary and desirable.'' ^ ^^ ^^°''^ ^^^ ^^^ ^«*ion that The Canadian Presbyterian said • " Aa wfl«) fn ho o^,.^^i. a c character and standing, they did their work wVf h d!S "^ fr" "^f" °^ ^^'^'"^ impartiality. Their report has in«tbppnT«cnJ ^^^Jf nee, thoroughness and thft it is uLnged byTolitlarcoC n^^^^^^ .to -y sents a clear and unbiassed statement of the actual ^Hfl^^^^^^ because it pre- « full, cretuUy prepared and cW Thl P "P°-' ''^ T """='' V^^^^- I' ine Ottawa Citizen (Tory) said '* It waq >imf«^ ;„ «Tar«{nif,- r^i.__ "rJ, . ^}^^^ *t ^ould not be attained: bnf. a. «„,.^f.,i tho«.i4(h mann™" **"'' ^"«"°^ *» "■•■» " » ■»»»' wreful and i!l - bl ' I A British Columbia Opinion, The Vancouver, B.C., World, an independent journal, saya :-" ^on. Oliver Lwat has been in power ukinterruptedly for eighteen vears. /deter, mined Xrt now as on previous occasions, will undoubtedly lo made to de Jhrone hi^a rhifl MiniBtry, some of whom are amongst the ablest men in the DoSor The Opposition n the Ontario House is not strong either m brain ?ower or adniinisSve ability. For many years Mr. Meredith has led a for- ?orn hope Hkaself a populai gentleman, of fair abilities, his following in capa- Sty are^hard ly equal to the ordinary County Councils of the Keystone Province. A Winnipeg Opinion. Thfi Winniuee Free Fress, also an independent journal, says :~ "The real obieci of Their^(?he Opposition) crusade is to get hold of the revenue and resources of Onterio on the strength of Protestant prejudices. They thmk there s a E'-e of rSg into power on the Protestant Horse, and they have taken tU ri^k of a fall o? the chance of success. Should they fortunately succeed whara Xrfous old time thev will have dispensing among themselves the spoils rffh« richest and heretofore best-governed Province in the Dominion ! It ISd not belong after ttLy got there before Ontario would lose her proud dis- tiSorofbein^the^^^^^^^^ country in the world that has no public de^t. ^^ose isourcesare u'^^^^^^^^ whose Government is the "^ost honest and econonn- l^r^hT was ever known , , K ever common sense was needed by . people fistededby the people 'of Ontario in the crisis created by designing and whX unSXd denmgogues. But, if the Liberal party will only stand true To tt msXes th^^^^^^^^ prevent a change of Government in Ontario which under the drcumstances stated. wiU be n othing s hort of a mttional^alamity . ^ Quebec Opinion. The Montreal Ga::ette, the ablest Conservative journal in Canada says :-- '?^- P;y; oiit nearl. one thi.1 of ^^^Z^X^i^^l^o^ ^^^^f m:^ t:X^ ^^^:^r^:tl^^^^^ th^.s^ the. S&n OntaAorwithout^api^ei^get^m^^^ juuch be^^- i ' J. scale than any community almost m America, the charges are ue» ^ ^ Quebec hTs to jepencU ^ to meet an outlay on this account. ~~ The Natural Conclusion. Among thoughtful electors Ontario is admitted to be one o-f the best-governed reputation, ihey are spoKen oi an ^vc . .^_^ rpu^ ^o„ whoRo abilities sons and the best and purest of ner aumim«t|^.-- ■ • ^-•- ••-™ ^--^^^^ ^ entitle them ^o this national pre-eminence, and ^^ohav. lifted Ont^^^^^^ proud place among the Provinces, ought not and ^Y^l/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ renewal of the confidence of their fellow-citizens, and will not be ?^ertnrown i by a sel of cries w^ich endanger the peace of the comvaun-ty and impe«l «ie true interests of all classes of the population.