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our roads, and to meet our other requirements ? 

 These are serious questions, and ought to be satis- 

 factorily answered. 



The wise and natural remedy for the evil of 

 ■which we have such undoubted cause to complain, 

 and the only one to which we can look for relief, 

 is clear enough, namely — the reduction of our pre- 

 sent enormous taxes ; the doing away with the 

 immense appropriation expended under the pre- 

 text of poor relief, employed (as is universally 

 reported) in electioneering-jobbing, in the limiting 

 that appropriation to the wants of those who are 

 really destitute, to the aged and infirm who are 

 unable to gain a living by their own labor ; and 

 not to be used in feeding the pigs of the well-to- 

 do, to be sold at half its original cost to purchase 

 grog, to add to the store of those who are in good 

 circumstances, and other discreditable purposes. I 

 have reason for believing, from all I hear from 

 every quarter, that not one-fourth of the money 

 voted by the Legislature for the poor ever has 

 reached those who were really in want of it. A 

 great many of these unfortunate and unhappy per- 

 sons have been left to pine and want, and are yet 

 in that condition ; and it is said that those who 

 have received some relief, so very inadequate has 

 it been that death from starvation stares them in 

 the face ; whilst the pampered and ** fat ofi&ciai** 

 paupers (like an imperial tyrant monster oi old) 

 are fiddling, laughing at, and disregarding their 

 miseries. To their second argument that under 

 Confederation, Canadians and their capital will 

 come in abundance into the Colony, I reply, that 

 if the Canadians are so disposed, what is the rea- 

 son they do not come here now ? There is nothing 

 more to prevent them than there is to prevent my- 

 self or any otiner British subject from doing so. 



