, 1888-02-09
Affairs Of the Dominion.

The national debt Of the Dominion
of Canada has risen from 500, ,046,057
III 1861, to S2T4,7I0,702 in 1887, or
$50 per capital. The population in
twenty years has increased from
3.3II. .59I to 4,70O.O00. That is. while
th' population has increased only
45.3 per cent s,uce the confederation,
the debt has increased 1880 per
cent The interest on the debt in
1867 WIS SL50I. .56S. while to day it
Is Sl0,50l5GS On railways since
1865, the Dominion has expended
$91. .U56.42 on canals, S26, $40, 900;
on lighthouses and navigation, S.
PSI, $50; on the acquisition Of North
wet territories, SJ,35G,O3j, and on
government buildings, S13,6SU, ,S29.
Prior TO the confederation there
had been expended ON railways and
canals. So, ,i56.O35; on other public
works, Si0,69O,9l7. Before 1868 the
British government spent S4,l73,92O,
on the Canadian canals, which added
to the subsequent outlay by the Do
miuion government makes the total
expenditure for these works $49, 9,59I,-
.S5S
The gross revenue per head has
risen from Sc OF IN 1868 TO S23 GS in
1856, bat the expenditure per capital
has risen from 50 G6 in 1868 10 SlS S5
in 1856. During the last nine years
but T25 coo immigrants have landed
i'll Canada, and against this must be
placed the enormous number of Ca
nadians that annually settle i'll the
United States The merchant ma
rine has rapidly declined.
The Canadian Pacific has been
costly undertaking to the people of
the dominion. The government gave
the company completed railways to
The value of S35,UOO,OO0; proceeds of
laud grant bonds, iown sites and 10
cal bonuses, $11,0OO,000; 100000
acres of land yet III the company's
hands at the price the balance was
taken back by the government, 81 so
per acre, representing 81, ,OO0,L0 90;
cash given and promised in other
deals, S17,O00,GO0; in all $l19.000,000
The company claims that its right of
way, construction, equipment and
cost of handing its lands has been
SS0,300,000. On its own statement,
instead of the road costing the com~
pany anything, the people Of Cana
da paid for building it, and gave it a
free gift of nearly S39,000,O0J beside.
This is without reference to the ex
emption from taxation and the mo-
nopoly which the company enjoys.
When the parliament voted S25,-
100000 acres of selected land to the
Canadian Pacific and represented it
with S35, 100000 worth OF completed
roadway the people were assured
that by 1890 the sale Of public lands
only repay every dollar of
the expenditure. Sir John Mcdonald
f! fixed the estimates of the net sales at
| sos, 100000 but from 1873 to 1886 the
total receipts of the government from
land sales has only amounted to
81. .831, ,2S3. No wonder the domin
ION is poor and full of discomfort and
that the government is trying to pac
ify Manitoba by getting surrender
1! ON the Canadian P.cific of the
company's monopoly with regard to
the construction of railways through
| -hdElNODi Giio llO 4NOIIuNSoJ 10 ll6
international boundary line to con-
meet with the American railway sys
TEN
Signal: Yakima leads all the towns
in Central Washington in the mat
ter of building prospects. The COM
ing season will see building to the
value of over 100000 under course of
construction.
Puget Sound ducks are hard to
kill. Their feathers are so thick
that they must be struck in a vital
spot to make them shuttle off," &c
A neighbor shot a duck last week
which dove under the water, came
up, futtered and few over hundred
yards and then died, but the neigh
Dor thought he had lost his duck
While eating the heart the neigh
boris wife felt something hard in he1
teeth, and on examination No. 2
shot was found in that ducks heart
l-Kitsap Pioneer