| Show CANADIAN DECADENCE THE dominion of nf canada to ia at present passing through a political crisis an investigation relating to official corrupt corruption iori is being held at ottawa ont it is reported that one of the ministers sir sin hector longevin has been acquitted of the charges made against him but the canadian people regard the result of the investigation as a sort of whitewashing process however the rail railway y committee of the senate has foun found that mr mercier premier of the province of quebec ana several other equally prominent persons art are among those who profited 11 by the misapplication of the su subsidy baldy grant ed by the province towards the completion of certain railroad lines discontent and dissatisfaction prevails to an alarming extent in the various provinces of the dominion the exhibit made by the last census brings disappointment the disclosures of corruption in high places bring humiliation and the cost of government brings chagrin and angry remon st rances it was confidently asserted until the taking of the census during this year that canada would show a population of in 1871 there was a population of in 1881 and in 1891 these figures show an increase of 1731 per cent for the decade 1871 81 and only 11 per der cent for 1881 91 during this last named decade there was an immigration to canada of while the increase during this period to is but this means that either there has been no natural addition or that most moat of the immigrants simply passed through the dominion or if they remained took the places of native canadians who themselves left the country the eastern provinces of new brunswick nova scotia and prince edward island show actual losses by the returns of this year yearns Is census ontario and quebec bad small gains while the western provinces show the principal P al increase when it is remembered that tremendous efforts have been made by means of subsidy pro lection and immigration during the past ten years to develop the resources of canada the above showing is disheartening the national debt of canadas is now per bead making a total of about taxation at present aver averages agres per head of the population the highest probably of any nation in the world the cost of government is astounding the cost of heating and lighting tho tha governor generans Tesi residence dence is annually his salary is a year and his expenses usually aggregate more the lieutenant gov erners of provinces also receive large salaries and the catalogue of sinecure offices is enormous these are evils that even a change of administration can not remove the liberals though confident of ascendancy in the near dear future have no means of lessening debt and taxation unless by adopting revolution revolutionary my measures they may prevent and expose corruption butr but they can not reduce salaries nor dispense with figureheads figure heads in the government |
