Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1932, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press Mondat june 13, 1932 Bracken replies to charges made by Sanford Evans dealing with Grasshopper Campaign says none has Ever been so efficient positive made Tav contradiction of charges w. Sanford Evans chief conservative financial critic at Morden that he had introduced irrelevant issues such As the Tariff question wider markets and so Forth. The election Campaign instead of going to the country on debt by nearly three Hundred Mil Lions and the United states the , High Tariff nation in the world and a deficit of two thousand million dollars in one year. Or. Evans states also that practically of the provincial debt has been incur red during tie time or. Bracken has been in says or. Evans. This is approximately Correct. The increase in round figures is 000, every Dollar of which All Mem Bers of the legislature approved. During this period the Money was borrowed to construct roads to extend the Telephone system the Hydro system farm Loans drainage Public building unemployment Rulief and soldiers taxation re Lief. During this ten years we borrowed s39.000.000, it is interesting to note that in the same period the province of Saskatchewan borrowed 72 million dollars Alberta 72 ill Lions. British Columbia 84 millions and the province of Ontario some 230 Bracken. Millions. Yet or. Evans would have record of administration was offered Ivy Premier John Bracken., provincial treasurer in a Public believe that Manitoba is evening before electors a i the major culprit in Canada in so tie Sanie i As government borrowing is con in regard to by or corned. I have not yet heard him Evans that the government prep Era criticize his friends at Ottawa who in Lions to Cope with the last year increased their debt a menace had been inadequate and had fallen Down in the Morden District for that reason. Or. Bracken Thrift no Grasshopper Campaign in Man Toba had Ever before been so j Well organized or so efficiently j carried out. I or. Bracken said in part if the question of markets and restrictions on Trade is the subject of discussion in this election it is acc Cepec the present conservative candidates helped to fasten on West Canada a Trade policy which can have no other effect than to still further reduce the prices of farm products while increasing the prices of manufactured products. Or. Evans says it was to create the impression of non partisanship that he recently took three liberals into Cabinet. But for two weeks he hos of Man been fiercely re gang at i Over mint which for the the of exp Eiula urls dining the fiscal year which ended on april 30, the excess of expenditures Over income was far greater than in any previous year. By the end of the year there was a deficit on cur rent account of in other words the government As a. Business by itself went behind in 12 months s3.ooo.ooo. At the rate of s250.000 a Hays or. Evans. This again is a misleading state ment and or. Evans better than anyone else knows it to be so. The fact is the deficit of the last fiscal year will not be it will probably be not More than 20 per cent. Of that figure. Or. Evans knows and could let the Public know u . That in planning for reveries of last year provision past or months has Mcle for the Reserve in chief Benefactor the Ottawa government. Loans to Manitoba to deferred subsidy impose account rather to impose additional taxes. Ery Juhls was definitely and clearly set much lesser extent than to in the legislation of april "l931. Tin other Western provinces. It Nas the Money Wase definitely set aside loaned Money on a for part 01 one 25 k Reserve to meet any shortage in new York maturity and for Miler ju3t conditions i Dyment Relief. Both of these poli cies generally applicable 1o All province and not to Manitoba alone. Manitoba a requirements in both of these respects were Only a. Fraction of those of the other West Ern time Lias obtained in the last year. The result is that Al thong imposing additional taxes our accounts would have balanced had we not when the crisis became apparent last fall voluntarily relieved the City and the other j municipalities of nearly half a Mil ill ii Ini or lion dollars of land taxes. As it is e these the we probably be Little Aal or. Evans must live j More Rhan r ill lion dollars Rithma he income and so must thac of the other Prairie pro. For merits during the nine years prior 1p.32 the province of Manitoba a within i s income having had surpluses and two-1 deficits the result of the nine years being a of Over one third of a Mil lion dollars. The Man who heavily in the past is today in a Rcv weak and dangerous position. It too obvious to any that this is the position of the Bracken or. Evans. Or. Evans in tills statement is making political capital out of the depression. The borrowing of the Bracken government has Fresn much less than that of any other government outside the maritime. In the lust ten years every Dollar that was borrowed was approved by every member of the conservative party in the House. Had that party been in Powe a creams in debt instead o forty million dollars Wop i Piave been at least 00 millions. T Are that while we Torro Ved jets than 40 jul on a ten period the province Over of borrowed Lions the province of Alberta Over 72 millions the province of British co Lumbia. And the province of Ontario s30 millions while in the two years the Bennett govern ment. Came into Power the Domin Ion hrs increased its Vinces will probably be from eight to ten time that figure. Or. Evans is reported As having said also that " the f figures so freely atsed by the government Are incomplete because they do not contain the record of the last critical year. Or. Bracken borrowed heavily and the Public debt was increased by and the province s interest carrying charges were increased by at least another a year the first part of this statement As to the Book record of the Public debt is Correct. The inference from the last part statement How Ever is entirely erroneous and leaves an entirely wrong impression. Borrowings for any pm impose in crease the boo pc debt the pro Vince. Thirteen million dollars was thus in the last fiscal year added to the Book debt. This 13 million How Ever included 3 1-3 millions for wheat Pool guarantee. Millions of Arm Loans maturities which fell due and were paid by the government it includes also Over five million Dol Lars for unemployment Relief and Ivy millions to redeem the securities hypothecated to the Banks before Che close of the savings office which is in the nature of an investment rather than a debt. From the above it will be seen that fair weather of the week was fully utilized for the distribution of the Large volume of supplies referred to. 3 the statement the Sta Tion had been operated Only one Day since the end of last week is equally false As it has been in operation every Day and with a few exceptions almost continuously during the Day. To statement number four or. Evans would have been Well advised to omit it. The plans have not Only been Well Laid but very efficiently carried through. The figures already quoted Bear this out. The work has All been financed by the provincial government. In United states the Federal government is Aid ing in financing Grasshopper Campaign. In Canada there has been no similar assistance. We Are advised United states govern-1 ment set aside a huge sum for this work other hand in can Acia the Dominion government reduced its appropriation for entomology arid insect control work by Over one Quarter ill lion dollars. In Mani Toba alone at the present time the Cost of the control work now being done amounts to a Day. In carrying out the programme the municipalities have been end Are offering the very fullest Tion. 51 while 4 cars of Poison have Al ready been used 4 cars Are now on tie Way. On three of the in the period referred to by or. Evans. 45 cars of bran were moved to the different stations and these were in operation every Day and with a few exceptions almost continuously during the Day. Tie inference from statement number 5 is quite unfair and entirely misleading. As has been pointed out nearly .300 carloads of materials have already been Distri buted to Many Points in the province and Morden has received a reasonable share of the total. I absolve or. Evans from deliberate misrepresentation but it is to be regretted that or. Evans Lent his name to these statements without having investigated the facts. The Public May rest assured that everything has been done that can be done in this connection and no unprejudiced individual associated with the work in any municipality has anything but commendation for the plans or the department and for the manner in which the work is being carried out. Manitoba school problem is dealt with by minister aunt hex by Robert q0illen Dominion meeting of seed growers will open today dirt of town delegates taken on sight seeing tour on saturday relieves his own Mother of neuritis she s out of Bee and on her feet every Day now Hon. A a. Hoey Speaks in sup port of j. G. Smith. Liberal Prog. Candidate Assiniboia speaking at Britannia school Sti. James on saturday evening in sup port of j. George Smith. Liberal progressive candidate for Assiniboia Hon. A a. Hoey informed his Audi ence that in. Point of school Atten dance the record for Manitoba had shown a steady improvement during the past five years the Public school record for 1931 being better than that of any other province in Canada. He declared that adequate pro vision would be made to keep All Public schools of the province open. Referring to secondary schools he said at present his department was faced with a deficit of about fifty thousand dollars an amount which could with a Little Economy be pro Elded for if Vou Send men to the Legisla he said who Are sufficiently interested in the primary and secondary schools of this province to accept one thousand dollars instead of two thousand dollars per year As their indemnity that Economy alone would be sufficient to assure you of the same educational service next year you have enjoyed in the favors Sotl Emcil or. Smith referred to the Unzem be. P Titov n portion of these borrowings were for purposes not properly chargeable to any one j i Dyment situation declaring himself year and Many of which Are Revenue in favor of a Back to the land bearing. J programme and con tributary Unzem natural fund i i Dyment insurance. So certain Curito banish Siah Ca rheumatism nears Lisa Lumbago and neuritis that _ head of the Syndicate which has purchased this or. Evans stated. That the Money received for the natural re sources settlement was a Trust fund specially created for special or. Evans leaves the impression that this Money was improperly used. Tie facts Are that this Money was never anything else than deferred been so used Tatoo Mother it. Although at Ani time. In the hops however so years old she never that we might not need it As Revenue feels a pain a Achs since using it. Many who had despaired of Ever get tin Relief have Brett overcome with Joy after a. Few doses of Nurrito. For not Only has it stopped their suffering but it has done 30 without the use of narcotics or opiates. If you re tired of using ineffective reme Inanc this simple test go to your drug s St and ask for is Purito. If the. Very first rec doses do not Stop your pain be refunded without question. Don t a single unnecessary to your druggist Riffitt now. She lost 21 ibs ;