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Those too ierge to be entirely included in one expoeure are filmed beginning in tlie upper left hand comer, left to right end top to bottom, ae many frames oe required. The following diagreme illustrate the method: Lee cartee, planches, tableeux. etc., peuvent Atre filmte i dee taux da rMuction diffironts. Lorsque le document est trop grsnd pour Atre reproduit en un seul clicli4, ii est film* A pertir de i'angle sup4rieur gauche, do gauche A droite, et de heut en bee. en prenent le nombre d'Imeges nicesseire. Lee diegrammes suivants illustrent la m^thoda. " 1 2 3 r f - .. ■ 1. i 4 S 6 ^ A CONDENSED RECORD OF The MoWJiT QOYER/l/HEltT -: SHOWING Eighteen years of Good Gk>vernment. Eighteen years of Wise Economy. Eighteen years of Beneficent Legislation. ^uch continuous confidence (viz. , eighteen years of Government) was never before extended to any Premier or Cabmet, in either the Mother Land or any of the Colonies. The largest record in the annals of British Parliamentary Government (the first Pitt Ministry which remained in power for seventeen and a half years) has been distanced by a Canadian Statesman — Oliver Mowat. How has the Mowat Qovemment dealt with its Finanoes? It has distributed $3,447,526 to the municipalities under the Municipal Loan J'und. It has invested $l,OS4,706 in drainage debentures. It has returned to the people no less a sum than $27,429,370 during eighteen years for education, agriculture and artn, hospitals and charities, asylums, administration of justice and colonization roads. In addition to this liberal expenditure it has a surplus of $6,427,252. What has the Mowat Qovemment done for the Municipalities? It has produced a Municipal Law which, in the opinion of the late Chief Justice Harrison, '* forms the most complete and perfect code of the kind that he knew of in any country of the world." This law includes : — Assessment reforms. Exemption reforms. Control of city police by commissioners. Improvement of the law regarding watercourses, line fences, bridges and public highways. Improvement of the debenture laws. Improvement and extension of the drainage laws. The local improvement plan for street improvements. Extension of the municipal franchise. The establishment of industrial farms and houses of refug*. Licensing transient traders. Facilitating the purchase and abolition of toll roads by municipalities. It has distributed $3,447,525 to municipalities under the Municipal Loaa IWd. It has invested $1,084,705 in drainage debentures. 'What has the Mowat Government done for the AdminJBtration of Justice 1 It has instituted radical law reforms and materially simi It has given us the Judicature Act. ;It haa given us the Division Court Act. It luM gtren MM two revisions of the Statutes. ia i .:i, rp- • What has the Mowat GoTenunent done for Education ? 4 II hM expended $9,448,828 during ei^teen yean on education. In conformity to the advice of the late Dr. Byerson (then Ohief Superintendent •f Education) it put the Department of Education under the direct, and respon- eible control of a Minister of the Crown. It effected a useful and important consolidation of the Provincial school laws. It has improved the school system on sixteen distinct Unes, making it the most complete and effective of any similar system in the world. It has done much to further Higher Education in the OoUeges and University. It has expended a large sum for the establishment and equipment of a School of Practical Science. It has established County Model Schools, Training Institutes, Art Schools, Teachers' Associations and Mechanics' Institutes. It has dealt satisfactorily with the French and German Schools, Separate Schools, and with Text Books. What has the Mowat Government done for Temperance ? « It has satisfactorily regulated the liquor traffic. It has given us the Crooks Act which has reduced the number of licenses from 6,185 in 1874-5 to 2,486 in 1888-9. It has increased the total revenue (Municipal and Provincial) from licenses to $422,809 in 1888-9. It has met the growth of temperance sentiment by more stringent legislation. It has conferred the powers of a local option law in all cases of new applica- tions under the amendments of 1890. This Act also Prohibits the sale of intoxicating iquor on vessels navigating the lakes and rivers of the Province ; . Increases the age of " minors" from " sixteen " to "eighteen," thus subject- ing to a penalty those who sell liquor to persons vjud^k eiohtben years or age : Provides a penalty when liquor is supplied to any person under twenty-one ▼ears, in respect to whom notice in writing has been given, prohibiting such Ucoased victualler to sell or supply liquor to the party in question ; And gives greater authority to search unlicensed premises and " dives ',' to seize liquor and arrest persons found on said premises. What has the Mowat Government done on the line of Public Works and Bt ildin^s ? It has expended $4,400,000 on Public Works since 1872. It is now superintending the erection of new and commodious Parliament Buildings. It has expended nearly $2,600,000 on the erection and improvement of Asylums for the Insane cud Idiotic. It has expended nearly $600,000 on the erection and improvement of Insti- tutes for the Blind and Deaf. It has expended over $760,000 Educational Buildings. What has the Mowat Government done to Maintain Provincial Bights? J% has established the legislative rights of the Province, after a series of appeals from the decisions of the Dominion Government to the Privy Council, in tbe following test cases : The Insurance Case. T)ie Escheats Case. The Rivers and Streams Case. The Liquor License CAse. The Boundary Award. The Indian Titles Case. i-_;^;. ..-^- :M ,/■■■ I , '•'-^■ )f n What has the Mowat (Government done for the Fanners ? It has established and success! ulhr carried on an Agricultural Oollege. It has facilitated the holding of Farmers' Institutes. It collects accurate agricultural statistics. It hiw nven liberal grants to electoral district, township agricultural horticulture societies, totalling $1,118 421 since 1871. It has given liberal grants to and The Fruit Growers' Association. The Dairymen's Association. The Creameries Association. The Entomological Society. The Poultry Association. The Beekeepers' Association. It has authorized township municipalities, under certain conditions, to bor- row money from the Provincial Government and loan it to farmers to enable them to tile drain their land. It has instituted a forest prop^anda. It has added the portfolio of IVfinister of Agriculture to the Cabinet. It has granted $2,114,578 under the head of "Agriculture and Arts " dur- ing the past 18 years. ' What has the Mowat Q-ovemment done for the Laboring Classes f It passed the Mechanics' Lien Act. It passed the Employers' Liability Act. It passed the Factory Act. It passed the Bailway Accidents Act. It passed the Act for the Relief of Co-operative Associations. It passed the Creditor's Relief Act (which applies to wage-earners). It passed the Franchise and Representation Act of 1885. It collects valuable industrial statistics. What has the Mowat Government done as to the Representa- tion of the People ? It has established Manhood Suffrage for the Legislative Assembly. It has provided the system of voting by ballot. It has passed " The Ontario Voters' Lists Act, 1889." It has perfected the law relating to election trials. It has readjusted and equalized the representation throughout the Province with equity and fairness. What has the Mowat Government done for Colonization Bail- ways? The '* Railway Fund " was increased in 1872 from $1,600,000 to $1,900,000, and a " Railway Subsidy Fund " was created by setting apart the sum of $100,000 a year for 20 years. Special appropriation to particular colonization railways were made by Acts passed in 1876, 1877, 1878, and 18S1. In the sessions of 1889 and 1890, aid was voted to certain colonization rail- ways in the district of Thunder Bay, Algoma, Parry Sound, and Nipissing. $828,000 was thus voted during the last two sedsions. Over seven and a-half miUions of dollars have been given back to the people out of surplus revenues by grants to railways. Their Uoerality in this respect has secured the building or projected building of 8,000 miles of railway in Ontario. (I What has the Mowat Government done for the Insane, the Blind, the Deaf, and the Idiotic? It hag expended 110,481,090 upon hospitals, charities, and asylums. It has four large asylums for the insano, and an asylum for the idiotic with patients, accommodatmg in all 3,167 patients. It has institutes for the deaf and dumb, and blind. ' A "^ ,' It grants aid to 66 charitable institutions. r^ ' '..i What haa the Mowat Government done for the New Districts 1 It has opened up for location as Free Grants 126 Townships. It has aided railroads opening up the back country. It has built 8,250 miles of Oolonization Roads. It has repaired 6,670 miles of Roads. It has built 63,708 feet of Bridges. It has spent on Roads and Bridges two millions of dollars. It has aided Poor Schools in the back country. It has aided Agricultural Societies in the back country. It has spent on Locks, Bridges and other Public Works nearly one million of dollars. It has located twenty-two thousand of people in the back country on Free Grants and has by its wise and liberal policy settled up thousands of miles of territory with a thriving population. What has the Mowat Government done with the Crown Domain? The total area of the Province is 126 millions of acres. Of this 30 millions of acres are surveyed — Leaving 90 millions of acres unsurveyed. The area sold and disposed of is 21 millions of acres. Leaving yet in the hands of the Crown 106 millions of acres. Mr. Mowat's Government has surveyed 242 Townships. It has opened up for settlement as Free Grants 126 Townships. It has located 22,000 persons equal to a population of 100,000 in Peno Grant Townships. It has sold one and a hall' millions of acies of Crown Lands for $1,700,000. It has sold 3,276 miles of Timber Limits for $2,460,081. Bonus, say |751 per mile or $1.17 per acre, just for the right to cut and still retains the land and dues $1.00 per 1,000 feet. It has collected for sales of Crown Lands $3,087,310 87 It has collected for Bonuses, Dues, etc 10,828,347 80 Total collections $13,915,658 17 What has the Mowat Government done for the general interests of the people of Ontario ? It has passed an important measure for the prevention of accidents and loss of life by fire in hotels and other public buildings. It has established a Provincial Board of Health, which has done much t* protect the public from the ravages of infectious diseases. By the decision of the Privy Council in the Boundary Award over 100,000 square miles of territory was added to Ontario's area. It has administered the affairs of th« Province in the interests of ths whd« pefpU and on a basis of eqmal rights. i^^