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It has created a Department of Agriculture with a successful farmer as Minister. It has spent 32,731,310 in connection with Agriculture in 22 years. It has collected and published farm statistics for the past twelve years. It has established the Agricultural College and Experimental Farm. It has organized and assisted 85 Farmers' Institutes. It gives grantH to 90 Electoral Districts and 857 Township and Horticultural Societies, From 1872 to 1893 it gave ^1, 836,793 for Agricultural Societies. It gave $20,550 in 1898 to 12 other Associations organized for the benefit of farmers. It has established a fund for loaning money to farmers on easy terms for tile-draining their lands. It has sent out travelling dairies which have visited 069 places in 3 years. It has started a special dairy school at Guelph at which 103 attended in the spring of 1894, and a special summer course for rural public school teachers at Agricultural College. It provided for the display of agricultural products at the World's Fair. It distributed 165,000 reports in 1893 and 1,200,000 bulletins in past three years. It will shortly establish experimental fruit farms. It manufacturers at the Central Prison a high quality of binder twine which is sold direct to the farmers at low prices. 1,434 awards in Agriculture were taken at the World's Fair, out of a total of 1,686 for Canada, or 85 per cent. Its Record in connection witli the Department of Crown Lands. It has surveyed 275 townships, of which there are now open as free grants 156. It has located 22,000 persons, equal to a population of 92,000, in Free Grants Tps. It has sold 1,601,520 acres of Crown lands for $1,880,845. It has sold 4,234 miles of timber limits for 05,101,627. Bonus, say, $1,205 per mile, or $1.88 per acre,justfor the righttocut.still retaining the land ; and dues $1 per 1,000 feet. It has collected for bonuses, dues, Bales, etc., since 1872 $21,634,662 It has createtl two Provincial Parks — the Algonciuin and the Rondeau. It has built 3,862 miles and repaired 8,417 miles of coluniztition roads, and built 69,946 feet of bridges. It has spent on roads and bridges in the new districts nearly $2,500,000. It has established a Bureau of Mines and passed an advanced mining law, made pro^ vision for exploration with diamond drills and for summer mining schools. It has encouraged iron mining. It has examined and granted licenses to 546 cullers of timber. \ I T Its Record as to Education. It has expended $12,000,000 during 22 years on education. It put the Dei)iirtment of Education under the direct and responsible control of a Minister of the Crown, (a course approved by the late Dr. Ryerson, the Superintendent of Council of Public Instruciion). It effected a useful and important consolidation of the Provincial school laws. It has improved the school system on fifty distinct lines, making it the most com- plete and effective of any similar system in the world. It has done much to further Higher Education in the Colleges and University. It has expended a large sum for the establishment and eciuipment of a School of Practical Science. It has established County Model Schools, Training Institutes, a School of Pedagogy, Art Schools, Teachers' Associations and Mechanics' Institutes, etc. It has dealt satisfactorily with the French and German Schools. Out of every 30 spent by the government, $1 goes for educational purposes. 1 1 has reduced the text books from a number in different branches of study, to one in each branch of study, and materially reduced the cost of text books. The Education Department took the only prize at the World's Fair for a complete system of education ; for text books, and the method of preparing them. Its Rcconl as to the Laboring Classes. It jMvssed the Mechanics' Lien Act, the Employers' Liability Act, the Factory Act, the Railway Accidents Act, the Act for the Relief of Co-operative Associations, the Creditors' Relief Act (which applies to wage earners), and the Franchise and Representa- tion Act of 1885. It collects valuable statistics on labor, wages, and cost of living. It passed the Masters' and Servants' Act, and the Act to secure compensation to work- men for injuries. It passed an Act to secure to wives and children the benefits of life assurance, an Act creating Free Grants and Homesteads, an Act providing for the establishment of Free Libraries, and an Act providing exemption from execution under the Free Grants and Homesteads Act. It passed an Act providing for the establishment of technical schools, an Act regulat- ing the closing of shops and the hours of labor therein for children and young persons, an Act for the protection and reforaiation of neglected children, and an Act to enforce orders under the Act respecting Masters and Servants. It passed an Act as to truancy and compulsory school attendance, an Act for the Erotection of pcraons employed in places of business other than factories, and the Man- ood Suffrage Act. It passed an Act under which labor organizations may incorporate and register, the Woodman's Lien for Wages Act, the Registration of Manhood Suffrage Voters Act, and the Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894 to settle disputes between employers and employees of labor. It has exempted from taxation living incomes up to f700 a yeai\ Its labor legislation is regarded as tlie njiwt advance I and progressive of any self- governed country. Its Record as to Provincial RiKlits. It has established the legislative right* of the Province, after a series of appeals from the decisions of the Dominion Government to the Privy Council, in the following cases : The Insurance Case. The Escheats Case. The Rivers and Streams Case. The Act as to Assignments and Prefer- ences by Insolvents. The Liquor License Case, The Boundary Award. The Indian Titles Case. Re the Pardoning PoAver. \ / T M 8 Its Rec»rd an to the Representation of the People. It has established Manhood Suffrage for the Legislative Assembly. It has provided the system of voting by ballot. It has passed effective and advanced voters' lists acts. It has perfected the law relating to election trials. It has consolidated and amended the election laws. It has readjusted and equalized the representation throughout the Province. It Ills provided for the ref;i5tration (jf manhood suffrage voters in cities. Its Record as to Administration of Justice. It has instituted radical law reforms and materially simplified the law practice. It has given us the Judicature Act and the Land Titles' Act. It has given increased jurisdiction to Division Courts, and has cut down the fees in it court. It has given us the Drainage Trials Act. It has decentralized the administration of justice by conferring jurisdiction on local Idges and providing for weekly sittings of High Court for the east and west at Ottawa \d London. It has cut down the fees of registrars, sheriffs and other officers from 10 to 50%. aelf- Its Record in Connection with the Municipalities. It has produced a Municipal Law which, in the opinion of the late Chief Justice larrison, " forms the mf)st complete and perfect code of the kind that he knew of in any juntry of the world." This law includes : Assessment and Exemption reforms ; control of city police by commissioners. Improvement of the law regarding watercourses, line fences, bridges and highways. Consolidation, improvement and extension of the drainage laws. The local improvement plan for street improvements. Extension and lowering of the municipal franchise. The establishment of industrial farms and houses of refuge. Facilitating the purchase and abolition of toll roads by municii>alitie8. Abolishing the rights of municipalities to grant bonuses to manufacturers. It has distributed ^,388,777 to municipalities under the Municipal Loan Fund. It las invested $1,180,175 in drainage debentures and works. Its Record as to Temperance Legislation. It has efliciently regulated the liquor traffic. It has given us an Act which has reduced the number of licenses from 6,185 in 1874-5 for population of 1,700,000, or one license for every 274 to 3,3(59 in 18C2 3 foi popula- tion of 2,135,000, or one license for every 633 of population. It has furnished a special Text Book on Temperance to the Public Schools. It has by means of education and legislation assisted in the diminution of drunkenness so that convictions for this offence have fallen from 4,032 in 1877 to 2,652 in 1893, although total population was increased as shown above. . It has given the Province a Local Option Law which enables the entire prohibition of the liquor traffic for beverage purposes in municipalities. It has conferred the powers of prohibition as to new licenses upon a majority of elec- tors in polling sub-divisions. It has given legislation which prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquor on vessels navi- gating the lakes and rivers of the Province. It has increased the age of " minors " from "sixteen " to " eighteen," thus subjecting to a penalty those who sell Uqnor to persons under eighteen [lears of aye. It has provided a penalty when liquor is supplied to any person under twenty-one years or habitual drinker in respect to whom notice in writing has been given, prohibiting such licensed victualler to sell or supply liquor to the party in question. And gives greater authority to search unlicensed premises and "dives," 1 3 seize liquor and arrest persons found on said premises. 4 lb gave tho electors of the Province an opportunity of exl)^e88in^' it<» verdict >m prolii- bition by menus of a plobiscito. . , t^ . „ -i i u u .1 . ., The Premier hn8 said :—" If the deoiHion of the Privy Council should bo that tht> Province has jurisdiction to pass a prohibitory liciuor law as to sale, I will introduce such a bill in tho following session if 1 am then at the head of the Government. If the decision of the Privy Council is that the Province has jurisdiction to pass only n partial prohibitory liquor law, I will introduce such a prohibitory liquor law as the decision shall warrant." Its Record a» to Fiiiiiiices. [Out of a total of $71,500,000, expended since 187"^, it has returned to tho people the following sums, amounting to about ^00,000,000 or 84 per cent, (with other smaller sums):-- Agriculture "■ • • ^ 2,731,310 Education 12,035,310 Maintenance of public institutions 12,271,170 Hospitals and charities 2,008,776 Public buildings and works 8,213,7 (cluco such he decision prohibitory warrant." people tho or sums): — ,310 ,310 ,170 1,776 ,7fi(> ,086 1,412 ',084 ,777 1,000 1,680 Opposition And in the lie per cent, n, 750,000, ne hundred )00, find a or 20yeafs. ays in the ing of over asylums, mmodating the States charitable HI, 300,000 syluma for 'vl ititutes for educational I per IfiOQ, THE INDEPENDENT AND CONSERVATIVE PRESS OF CANADA -O IM- THE MOWAT GOVERNMENT. A FAVORABLE VERDICT. The **lllair' on the Financial AduiinlHtratiou of the Province. On April 11th, 1890, the Mad said editorially : — " Tho Govecnmeut can also mnkt out a (food case for itself In regard to iti> (ulministratioii of Uie finances. After dealing lib- erally by the municipalities and exhibiting a creditable euteri>rise in building railways and erecting public institutions, Mr. Mowat is able to show a comfortable surplus. In- stead of having a surplus of five or six millions in the treasury, Quebec has a debt of thirty uiillioiis, and, in spite of the direct taxes imposed on commercial corporations and of other revenue-raising devices, a fresh loan is inevitable. It must also be admitted that Mr. Mowat has ^Missed many progressive measures affecting the general interests of the community, and that, on the whole, his managemrnt has ueen clean and fkee PROM .SCANDAL. TAejte rtre POWEKFUL /■ea*a>^» fof HIVING HIM A NEW TERM." In an editorial on Feb. 13, 1890, it also said : "... The Ontario Government' management of the finances has been thrifty, judicious and clean." When the Mowat Government was returned to power four years ago the Mail had this to say : — "Mr. Mowat's victory is due in the main to the fact that the people have confidence in his individual probity. liis administration of ait'airs has been singularly free from scandal, and it must be admitted also that his legislation has been progressive, and, on the whole, well in accord with the spirit of the people and their institutions " A OontraKt with 4|nebec. The M.oiitte&\ (ruzctte, the ablest Conservative journal in Canada, says:— "On the whole we are s])ending two and a half milliona annually more than Ontario, and how long we should continue to maint^iin this ratio is a problem well worthy the serious attention of those who take an interest in our public ^airs. It follows, of course, that Quebec collects a larger revenue than tho lister province. Ontario depends for her income princi- pally upon tiiree sources, the Dominion subsidy, the license tax and the revenue from crown lands ; while Quebec, over and above these, has been compelled to levy tribute upon commercial corporations, and to impiise a tax upon all trades and professions." The Montreal ** Witness." Montreal fTi^xeiw (Independent), Dec. 27th, 1893: — "Sir Oliver Mowat has given the Province of Ontario twenty-one years of administration so honest and economical, so capable and so free even from ill report, that his political foes have been constrained to praise both him and his administration. If the Ontario exchequer is to-day that of a ^wealthy Province, when all other Provinces are plunging deeper and deeper intcj public iebt, it is owing to the just and economical government of Sir Oliver Mowat." The ** Montreal Insurance Chronicle." The Montreal Insurance and Finance Chronicle, April 15th, 1894: — "The annual btatement of the Treasurer of Ontario, even if the criticisms of the opponents of the /. .4 A. Government are correct, is one to make the people of this Province acutely envious. . . Apart from all political considerations, it is generally admitted that whatever other sins may be laid to the charge of the veteran. Sir Oliver Mowat, he cannot be accused of ex- travagance." A Nova Hcolla Opinion. The Halifax Chronicle :— " The idea seems to be everywhere that the Mowat adminis- tration is absolutely certain of a return to office. This belief is based upon the fact that Ontario, alone of all the Provinces, has for twenty-five years been governed without the shadow of a scandal." Sir Oliver Mowat's Record. Toronto Evening News (Independent Conservative). Nov. 22nd, 1893 :— "It does not re(|uire another triumph at the polls to secure an honorable place in Canadian history for the Little Premier. He has already held office for a longer period than any other head of a Government in the Empire. He has blocked Federal attempts to encroach on the legislative rights of the provinces. He has won a victory which established Ontario's title to a territory enormous in extent and rich in resources. During his term of office a system of prisons, hospitals and asylums has been established that is at least the equal of that possessed by any other state in the world. New Parliament buildings have been erected which are the pride of every Ontarion. And in all the time that he has held office there has been no serious charge of boodling laid against either himself or any member of his Government. With a record such as this Sir Oliver, while naturally anxious to add one more victory to his credit, can afford to look forward to the approach- ing contest with comparative indifference regarding the result." EflHcicnt, Pure and Economical Government. The Toronto /Stor (Independent), Nov, 22nd, 1893: — "Ontario will hearken to the Elea of her Grand Old Man not only from sympathy, but because he has served her well, ecause his administration has been careful, economical, honest and wise. It would not profit the Province to change its government as the parties are at present constituted, for one side contains many men of acknowledged ability, while the other side is distinguished by a remarkable lack of men fitted to carry on a Government. It would be an ungrateful, ungraceful act to drive Sir Oliver Mowat from power to give the Government into the hands of such men as sit on the other side of the House. His hair has whitened, and his frame has grown feeble in the service of the province ; for Ontario's sake he gave up an honorable position un the bench and the practice of a profession that would have brought him immense wealth ; he has given efficient, pure and economical government. Let not Ontario show ingratitude and folly by defeating the oldest, ablest, and purest statesman in the land." And again on Jan. 16th, 1894 : — " Ontario may well be proud of her Premier* Canada's Grand Old Man. He has done a noble he scones and discover whether he really has been as honest as appears on the surface. There is no necessity for a change of government at Ottawa in order to secure informa- tion as to the extent of the political rottenness there. The sore is so serious in the latter case that it is impossible to Keep it hidden . If there is reason for a change in Ontario,^ so that we may Hnd out whether we really have been honestly governed or not there is still more reason for a change at Ottawa in order to see if such will not at least partially remove a great evil." The New Parliament Buildings. Toronto EverAng Telegram (Independent), April 6th, 189.3 : — "No Province over got more for its mcmey than Ontario secured in the New Parliament Buildings, and no build- ing was ever erected with less of jobbery and bungling in the work. . , . Altogether,, the building is a credit to the Government that planned the work, to Hon. C. F. Fraser, who supervised it, and to tho Province, the greatness and the hopes of which are not unworthily typified by the new abode of its Logislaturo." Toronto Evening News (Independent Conservative), April 4th, 1893 : — "Tho structure erected is a credit alike to the Government and the people for whom the Government has. acted. . . . It is doubtful if an equally good showing can be made in connection with the erection of any other great public building on this continent. " E. E. Sheppard in Tatonto Saturday ^jgi/it (Conservative), April 8th, 1893:—" I think that . . . Ontario is getting the worth of her money in tho new Parliament Buildings, and though I am no friend of the Government, I think it is in poor taste and belonging to bnto, and if t praise for 1 that Hon. ktion of the ery little tu personator , . Fraud 3ovemnient lurity at the erstaiid why tress, should . It will, Lat no better lering fraud ystem.' >d of selling , says :-" If ices obtained mcial rusults u and Algon- (l..:inistrHtive ' Hon. Oliver d effort now, his Ministry, on in the On- jr many years r abilities, his the Keystone le Opposition) ength of Pro- ;he Protestant Should 'they ing themselvei )ominion L It) I distinction^f purees are un- B ever knc?'". ictoria Street, tb» county vberaiii tne laods m quesuoa we ntoaCA. . une oertittoate of the mwimr"^ shall have the same effect as a judgment of court, and the fees payable, shall be as