PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 587 



items during Conservative and Liberal govern- 

 ment of the island. The totals were respectively 

 $392,667 and $674,628. From 1880 to 1890, he 

 said, the former party spent while in power an 

 annual average of $275,787, while from 1892 to 

 1901 inclusive the Liberals averaged $312,774. In 

 the first term of ten years a total of $2,727,863 

 was expended, and in the second period $3,127,741 

 an increase of $399,877. The estimates for 1902 

 were given by the Treasurer as $318,811 revenue, 

 against $284,431, estimated, for 1901. The ex- 

 penditures were placed at $312,792, compared with 

 $315,326 in the preceding year. The increase in 

 the expected receipts was mainly in the $15,000 

 additional Dominion subsidy and larger returns 

 from the road tax and income tax. 



Taxation. A question considerably discussed 

 was the relative taxation of town and country dis- 

 tricts in the island. The Charlottetown Guardian 

 pointed out, on April 9, that the population of 

 that city and Summerside was 14,955, and that 

 the rest of the province had 88,303. Yet of the 

 expenditures $53,264 went to the country dis- 

 tricts, while they only paid in taxes $42,928. Com- 

 paring the expenditures upon education, it was 

 said that out of $114,755 the two cities received 

 $10,650, or 71 cents a head, and the country $104,- 

 105, or $1.18 a head. 



An important issue also was that of the tax 

 on commercial travelers. On May 3 it was an- 

 nounced that the city of Charlottetown would 

 follow the example of the provincial Government 

 and tax all " transient traders " in its midst. All 

 commercial travelers, therefore, became liable to 

 a, tax of $300 from the city, in addition to the 

 Government's $20 imposition. Three days later 

 the provincial Supreme Court decided by unani- 

 mous judgment that the provincial taxation of res- 

 ident agents was unconstitutional and at va- 

 riance with the federal character of Canadian in- 

 stitutions. Meanwhile, the Opposition in the 

 Legislature were denouncing the increase in the 

 income tax, the road tax, and the tax on banks, 

 and one Conservative paper, the Examiner, de- 

 clared on April 18 that " the province is drifting 

 toward the brink of ruin." 



Prohibition. This question aroused a certain 

 amount of discussion, although public opinion had 

 often been expressed strongly in favor of effective 

 prohibition. On April 4 J. F. Whear presented a 

 petition from 800 residents of Charlottetown, ask- 

 ing the Legislature to repeal the provincial prohi- 

 bitin act or to give the citizens of Charlottetown 

 a plebiscite as to its application to them. It was 

 declared that the majority of citizens were not in 

 favor of the law, and that therefore it never 

 ould be properly enforced. 



On April 15 the question again came up, in con- 

 nection with an amendment to the act presented 

 by the Premier. He proposed to strengthen the 

 machinery of enforcement, declared that the act 

 was still defective, said that a great deal of liquor 

 was still being sold, and hoped that this measure 

 introduced at the wish of the temperance peo- 

 ple would do the subject more justice. In the 

 debate that followed a number of reflections were 

 cast upon physicians and druggists for their al- 

 leged misuse of their privileges under the act. 

 An amendment was accepted making it possible 

 for duly qualified druggists and chemists to sell 

 liquor for exclusively medicinal purposes. 



Education. On March 29, 1902, the annual re- 

 port of the Chief Superintendent of Education was 

 submitted to the Legislature. It contained the 

 usual statistical tables, special reports on the 

 Macdonald Manual Training-Schools, the Provin- 

 cial Teachers' Association, the Summer School of 



Science, the Charlottetown and Summerside 

 School Boards, Prince of Wales College and 

 Normal School, and from the 4 district inspect- 

 ors. The number of districts and schools in the 

 province in 1901 was 474, an increase of 4. 

 The number of school departments was 590, an 

 increase of 4. There was one vacant school. 

 The number of teachers employed was 589, an in- 

 crease of 3. The male teachers numbered 229, 

 and the female teachers 290. The average sal- 

 aries were: First-class male, $401.35; first-class 

 female, $306.61. The highest for males of this 

 class was $700, and the lowest $300; for females 

 the highest was $350, and the lowest $230. The 

 total enrolment of pupils was 20,779, a decrease 

 of 510; the average daily attendance was 12,330, 

 and the percentage of attendance was 59.34, both 

 showing a slight decrease. The expenditure by 

 the Government for education was $128,288, being 

 slightly less than the previous year. The amounts 

 voted at school meetings were: For supplements, 

 $8,935; school-buildings, $8.095; contingent ex- 

 penses, $19,616; total, $36,647. 



Agriculture. Two statements upon the po- 

 sition of Prince Edward Island in this respect ap- 

 peared in 1902. The first was the slight summary 

 of work published by the provincial department 

 and dealing with its expenditure of $2,635 in the 

 encouragement of farming and cattle-raising. The 

 other was the elaborate statement in the Dominion 

 census returns for 1901, from which the following 

 details are extracted: 



Agricultural values were taken for the first 

 time in this census. They show for farms and lots 

 in the island a total for land and buildings of 

 $23,118,946; for implements and machinerv, 

 $2,628,787; for live stock, $4,878,980; and for the 

 crops and animal products of the census year, 

 $7,467,773. For farms alone the value of land 

 and buildings was $22,988,508; of implements and 

 machinery, $2,618,597; of live stock, $4,826,984: 

 and of crops and animal products, $7,413,297. The 

 total value of farm property was $30,434,089. 

 The total gross value of farm-products for the 

 census year was $4,764,674 for the crops and 

 $2,648,623 for animal products. The average 

 value of horses on farms per head was $63.64; 

 milch cows, $22.04; other horned cattle, $10.63; 

 sheep, $3.06; and swine, $7.40. 



In the value of dairy-products was included the 

 milk and cream sold to cheese and butter facto- 

 ries, amounting to $464,032. There were in op- 

 eration in the island during the census year 47 

 factories, of which 27 made cheese and butter. 15 

 made cheese only, and 5 made butter only. The 

 cheese product was 4,457,519 pounds, worth 

 $449,008 ; and the butter product 562,220 pounds, 

 worth $117,735. In the former census year (1899) 

 there were four cheese factories in the island, and 

 the total value of the product was $8,448. The 

 rent value of leased farms was 95 cents an acre, 

 and the rate of wages for farm labor was $3.68 a 

 week, including board. 



The number of bearing and non-bearing apple- 

 trees in the island was 202,910; of peach-trees, 

 163; of pear-trees, 1,962; of plum-trees, 27,480; 

 of cherry-trees, 70,431; of other fruit-trees, 57,- 

 924 ; and of grape-vines, 749. The yield of fruit- 

 trees in the last census year was 184,487 bush- 

 els, and in the former census year it was 60,325 

 bushels. 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN 

 THE UNITED STATES. A summary of the 

 statistics of church progress in the year shows 

 the following: Within the United States and 

 their possessions there are 60 dioceses and 21 mis- 

 sionary districts, under the care of 86 bishops. In 



