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THE POLITICAL SITUATION

i{|':\iK\vi';i) i;n'

J. C. BROWN, M. P. P.

The immense gatJierintr of electors
that taxed the utmost limit of the Opera
Houae, Saturday niyht, attested not only
to Mr. J, C. Brown's popularity, but dis-
played in a striking manner the regret
so generally expressed that that gentle-
man was compelled to retire from Par-
liamentary life on the eve of the victory
for which he had so long and valiantly
struggled. The demonstration was a
maofniticent triumph for Mr. Brown— an
expression of public approval of which
any man in any country might justly be
proud.

Considering the unfavorable state of
the weather and the fact that Saturday
night being the busiest of the week
many business men were prevented
from attending, the turnout was the
more astonishing. The building was
packed to the doors, and scores were ob-
liged to stand in the aisles during the
whole evening. Between 1 ,000 and 1 ,200
people were present, among whom were
a number of ladies.

Except Mr. Brown, the only speaker
to addreea the meeting at length was
Mr. F. C. Cotton, M.P.P., senior mem-
ber for Vancouver, who made a splendid
impression, and the fulfilment of his
promise to return at an early date, and

, address the eli^ctore on the political is-
j sues of the day, will be looked forward
i to with interest and pleasure. The
j tumultuous and all but universal ap-
I plause of this vast assemblage of electors
I which greeted the lirst appearance on
I the platform of our next member, Mr.
j J. B. Kennedy, must have dispelled any
1 last remaining doubts in the minds of
memherd of the Government partv pres-
jentthat Mr. Kt-rmedy's election is a
I foregone conclusion.

j A few minutes after 8 o'clock. Dr.
j Cooper, who, by the way, made an ideal
I chairman, called the meeting to order.
I On the platform were Messrs. J. C.
i Brown, F. C. Cotton, Thos. E. Kitchen,
j C. B. Sword and Thos. Forster, M.P. P.'s,
j Messrs. H. O. Bell-Irving, Wm. Temple-
i ton and R. McPherson, Vancouver;
j Major-General Kincliant, Hatzic Prairie,
i and Messrs. J. B. Kennedy, J. A. Forin,
I John Reid, Sergt.-Major McMurphy, K.
; M. N. Woods, A. C. BrydoneJack, A. W.
[ Ross, »ind A. E. Rand.

'. Dr. Cooper, in calling the meeting to
order, said he was pleased to see so
many present, and he hoped good order
would be maintained. The audience
knew what they had come for. "We
have had a war-horse in the field," con-
tinued the doctor, "who has been trying
for some time to stem the stampede that
has been made for the destruction of the
country and the ruin of all classes ex-
cept the monopolizing classes. (.Ap-
plause.) We are present this evening
to give Mr. Brown an opportunity of

BpeakiriK on hie own record, and, if any .
of vou have anvlhiiiK to cliarye him I
with, you had better do 8o now, as lie
will Hooii he out of the biisinesp. We
fiave aadeiiiblnd to bestow on Mr. Brown
a mark of our appreciation of fiis services ;
and it is only rit^ht that tiiey should be
recognized. iClieers/ Witliout takiiifi
up more time, I will call upon Mr. Forin
to perforuj iiis share of the proceedinye."
[Applause.]

rreHtiiitiiiK the A(l<lr«Hi*.

Mr. J. A. Forin stepped to the front of
the platform amid aeneral applause and
said: "lam not a hero worshipper in
matters political. It is better usually to
keep the personnel of our representatives
in tiie background and centre our
thought around principles. These are
what aflect the people at large. I do
not think Mr. Brown is infallible, and I
do not aj^ree with every step he has
taken. Mr. Brown has made mistakes
—but who has not? Mr. Brown left his
office and fireside to battle for better
legislation ; he did not go to better his
position or seek ease, but lie went to ask
and work for necessary reforms. We as
a constituency have a perfect right to
ask for what is just, even if we are iu
Opposition [applause], and no good Gov-
ernment would withhold what is our
due. We all admire the plucky light
Mr. Brown has made. [Applause.] He
has been a hard and consciencious
worker, both in civic and political af-
fairs, and in retiring to private life is
entitled to the thanks of the people of
Westminster." In conclusion, Mr.
Forin asked the electors to support the
Opposition candidate, and turning to
Mr. Brown begged to present him with
the following address, which he read :

To John C. Brown, Esquire, lieprestntalive of the
City of Ne\u Westminster in the Legislative As-
sembly of the Province of Uritish Columbia.

Sir— On behalf of the citizens of New West-
minster who have seen and appreciated your
disinterested eflbrts for the promotion of good i
government and your >in wavering inte.!rity
under all circumstances, we, as a committee!
authorized by and representing them, desire to 1
convey to you an expiession of the deep regret. !
caused by the announcement that you iiave de- ]
cided not to come before this constituency as ]
a candidate in the approa hing general elec-
tion. I

In order to record, to some extent, their and |
our appreciation, we have caused to be en-
grosaed on this scroll a reference to those acts I
in your public career which are fraught with ;

the nioht important (!onse(|nence« and which
Hpi'ciiilly call (or aiipruval.

Your "cnfrgulic i)|i|i((sition to the Parliament
Buildings Act. Willie not Imincilialely succcsh-
ful, lias hud and will have an iiiciilculable
cft'ect on till' funire of the Province in ln.'lpiiig
to open the cvi-'s of ilie electors to the Improvi-
dent amis clioiiMl policy of ilu-ir present rulefs,

Your steiidy support of all temperance mid
mor.tl lenislalloii bus gained for you the eii-
(liiriii'.; regard of your fellow coiiiitrymi'ii.

Your per.slsieiU ell'orts for a just "iiiid diual
represeiiiation of nil parts of the Province in
thi! I.egislaiive assembly have iissisled largely
in bringing about an iinprovement in ibis re-
spect, Ihougb the Cjoverninent of the <lay ha.s
only reluclautlv and after de'ermined pros-
sure by yourself and colleagues, accordetl what
it could not lonijer wiililioM.

These ell'orts have also i oiiduced to the e.K
istinggood pr isjiei t that, iu the ni'ar future, a
mc'isure of redistribution will be Intro luced
by a party representing public sentiineiir, which
will periuanently {!stablisli the principles you
have so al)ly advocated.

Your prompt and ellective expostire of the
many extravagant and ruinous acts of the (iov-
eriinietii and your constant opposition to it:)
attempts to ( reate and I'oster monopolies, both
of a public and private nature, have materially
coiit ibuted, through the information thus
given, to arou-e toward it the recent wide-
suread and positive expression of aisapproba-
tioii ihrougiiout the country.

A.S the struggle for just nnd equalizing legis-
lative enactments, so valiantly inuiigurated,
approatJhes a victorious consummation, and
the dawn of a better autonomy breaks upon our
vision, we do not forget the work of those who
have laid the foundation of ultimate success,
and we oiler you this testimonial as a mark of
the continued esteem in which you are held by
your fellow countrymen.

MK. BROWN'8 SFKBCH.

When the hurricane of cheers and ap-
plause which followed the presentation
and acceptance of the address bad sub-
aided, Mr. Brown began his reply.
After a few words of cordial thanks for
the addreas which had been presented

to him. which, he said, was the culmin-
ating point of the kindness with which

his constituents had always treated him,

he said that, although the matter was

no news now, he felt that he should
make mention of the reason of his re-
tirement from active political life. When
he announced that retirement at a com-
mittee meeting some time ago, be bad
not felt at liberty to read the letter
which he had received from the Poat-
master-General, but, as it bad been
printed by an Ottawa correapondent of
a Provincial paper, there could be no

barm in liia doinsr so now. After read-
\un the letter, Mr. Hrown Biiid tlicy
would Hee that it wan written in a very
kind and coiTrteous way, and, as he liad
naicl on the f')riner occasion, tho new
regulation conl I not be called an nn-
reasonable one. It put hint in a <ii(!erent
pOHifion from that which lie had occupied
i)ei'ore ; but everv man who was in the
service of a company even — to say
nothin); of a government — mnet be pire-
pared to expect some chauKes of the
sort from time to time. lie had no in-
tention of cxpoHinn his private airairs
to malevolent criticism — and must,
tlierefore, content himself with asking
his frienda tc beiieve that, in wilii-
drawinjj;, he had taken tlie course which
was dictated by duty. They would ol»
serve that, in the letter vvliich he liad
read to them, there was no attempt at
dictation — no hint of limiting hia rights
as a citizen — eimply an objection to bin
occupying an office which made it neces-
sary for him to delegate to another, for
a considerable part of the year, the
actual personal supervision of his de-
partmental work.

Lien Law, Land Kefurni, Ktc.

In giving an account of his steward-
ship, as it was termed, he would en-
deavor as far as he could to avoid being
tedious. And he wished to say that he
would speak of the public acts of public
men. Personal abuse— sneers and slan-
der about private affairs, and all that
sort of thing— he left to those who were
compelled to resort to it for lack of bet-
ter material. He did not know that lie
had as a steward had much in his keep-
ing, as things had turned out, beyond the
honor of the city, and, although his
hearers must be the judges, he was not
afraid to say that he had kept that un-
tarnished. He thought he might also
say that he had done his heat to fulfil
his election pledges. When a candidate
for election, four years ago, he had
promised to do what he could towards
putting on the statute book a good
Mechanics' Lien Law, and as soon as
elected he had entered upon the subject
and drafted an Act which was law to-
day. He had been told that the law
was unworkable, but he could only eav
that he had taken the advice of promi-
nent legal men and also of men who had
worked under sucfi laws and understood

them, and no amendments had been
suggested bo far. This Act, as they
knew, was carried against the fierce
opposition of the present I'rime .Minister.

Another promise wan that lie wr)uld
work for land law reform, and thf work
he had rlone in thisdirection hail earned
him a large ainount of abuse. As they
all knew, the sfllini; of public lands had
been stopped — at !<aHt to a certain ex-
tent — and a special tax had been put
upon land held for speculation. In tliift
direction, a private member of tho
House, no matter which side he t.M on,
could 011I3' argue and HUirgest— nor could
he do even that, unless the Government
brought the matter up. It had been
brouu;hl u[) on several occasions, and he
thought it would not !)« denied that the
presHure brought to bear by the Inde-
pendents and Ofiposition— bsicked as
they had been by public opinion — had
had a great deal to do with the reform
of the laws, as far as it liad gone; he
was free to eav that, in liis opinion, it
had not yet gone far enough.

It seemed to him impossible; to over-
estimate the importance of this land
question. Only the other day, he had
found this m the Colonial ;

Au.siraliu lias oeasetl to 1)6 "tli' poor man's
parariisi\'' Times are Ijad in all the colonies of
the coiitiiuMU, l)ut the duprcssion in Victoria
anpears to be tho deepest anil most discounig-
inu. "The state of depression," says tlie Si/dnry
Tetr(irapli. 'which prevails tlir(iiii,'hout the
whole of the sourheni colony is uncxumplei.
In the aKriciiltnral districts einploynicnt is not
obtainable at any price, and the universal dis-
content of the farmers finds free expression,
in splt,e of the elTorts of ihe Government to pro-
pitiate them with beet and butter bonuses and
the establishment of produce agencies in Lon-
don. . . . In every important centre of popu-
lation within the province the resou'*ces of
benevolent bodies have been taxed to the utmost,
and nowhere have they been able to meet the
requirements of the occasion."

And it seemed but the other day, con-
tinued Mr. Brown, tliat people of all na-
tions were pouring into the United
States, which was considered a poor
man's paradise— and to-day we had
Coxey and his array ! The course which
thesis countries ran we were running
very rapidly. As land became monopo-
lized, the chances for the poor man be-
came less and less. Aa his audience
knew, the Province was making very
little progress in agricultural settle-
ment. Men came here, anxious to make
their homes among us, and they move

on to other comitriefi beciuifle we hav«
iiottiinij; to utler them iti tlie way of land
upon wliicli they ean make a living) and
which tliev can obtain ut a reaeonahle
price — and yet we are aeiwiing from two
and a half to three millioMH out of tfie
country every year for fooil HtiillH whicli
could he raised here on our tenH of
tiiousrtndH of acres ot fertile land, wliich
is lyinK unused. In it any wonder that
ti.'iieH are liiird'.' (Applause.)

ile iuui also declared himself in favor
of tiie restriction of Chineee inimiijra-
tion. and they litiew the stand he had
tiiken on the -uhject. The (|Ui'Htion
preaenlcd seriouH (lillicuities, and it waa
out', nnf(»r Innately, whicli readily lent
itaeif to the vote-catching; politician and
his tricks. He loDketi upon the lestric-
tive clauses put into ceilain Acts duriujj
last sesnion as one of tlie most important
stepB in adv.mce in this matter (iurini:
the whole of the present Parliament.

The IledlHtribiitlon (>ueHtl<iii.

Another matter— the thing that had

been, indeed, of the very essence of
politics at the last (dection— was redis-
tribution, i le confcHHcd his surprise to
hear men in this part of the country
profeseiuK theniHelves satisfied with
wiiat they had got in this matter. The
proportion all ovt^r the Province wan
about one member to two tiiousand
popniation, Imt cveiyotie agreed that
the upper countiy constituencies were
entitled to larmier representation than
this would give them. That beinjj al-
lowed, it followed tliMt other i)art8 of the
Province must have a lees proportionate
representation, and had that rule been
applied to all thp lower country — Island
as well as Mainland — the redistribution
would have been fair, as far as tliat was
concerned. But as it was, the Island
had been }^iveii the undiminialied Pro-
vincial proportion of a metnber for two
thousand, while the lower Mainland had
to put up with a member for three
thousand or over. VVfien examined, the
boasted fairness of the division between
Island and Mainland, turned out to be
only a wuiart trick to rob this part of the
country of its just voice in letjislation —
be said this in no sectional spirit, there
were hundreds of good men on the Island
— but, in fud view, a Government that
perpetrated tricks of that sort was un-
worthy of support. He would say noth-

injt about broken jiromiHee and (iehiyaiD
this matter. That was an old story,
whicii ills hearers knew as well as lie
did. As to details, they all knew wliat
a hotch-potch tlui .Vet svas. .Mr. Hrown
here gave a few instanceH of the irregu-
larilies of the arranuement.

N(it a 8irnii{l>t <)ov«rniii«<iit.

.\nother thing, Mr. IJrown said, which
lie iiad promised was that lie would be
found a supporter of a straight (iovern-
ment. He was sorry to sav tfiat he had
not had a chance to ful/i! that promise.
Before a man conid support a straight
Oovernmcnt, there must be a straight
(tovcrnment to support, A tTOvernment
miglit fail to be straight, and yet be
honest as far as overt acta went. A
straigiit (iovernment was one which
governed in tlie interests of the people —
and that was what the present Goveru-
ment had entirely faileil to do. "Failed"
was not the right word, for tfie fact was
that tliey had not tried to do it. Tlie
autocratic tricks whicli they attempted
to play in scbool and niuni(;ipal legisla-
tion—to give just two familiar instances
—showed what spirit they were of. lu
these and other matters they had been
compelled to back down, but the retreat
was a forced one, and was not carried
out with a good grace. Then sucfi
schemes as the Crofter Deep Sea busi-
ness — the Canada Western — the Naku.sp-
Slocan — to say nothing el the Parlia-
ment buildings matter — indicated ideas
about the administration of the affairs
of the couiitrv whicli stamped this Gov-
ernment as essentially a bad one for the
Province and tlie mass of its people, al-
though there were some individuals
who found the Government good enough
for them. (, Applause. '

He and his friends in the House had
been roundly abused in certain quarters,
but he had the knowledge that their ac-
tions were approved by the bulk of the
people, as the coming elections would
show. He confessed that the abuse had
troubled him very little, nor did he
mean to sav much about it now. There
was one point that was worth noticing,
if only to laugli at it. He would read a
statement from one of the Government
organs;

The ITouse lias been pnirogued aftor sitting
within one week of three moiulis, and now we
wonder what ex(Uise ihe Oppositionists will
give to the electors for thtir continued oppo-

Hltlon lo overy plec- of Icirislniioti that wait
brought la l)y tlie <iiiv<!riiin('iii, riu nrntti-r li<>w
r)erif(iciiil il inii,'li( h(i to tli<' ik'oj)!!.'.

The Htfttoment was (lt?ci<l«(Ily "imcIuh-
ivo." "ContiiiUHcl opposition to every
piece of leyisUitioti" diil nol Ieav(! iniicli
of a looptiole. Now turn to uuotluM-
<^overiitiieiit ornaii — tlie Cohmlxt—oi t\\ii
3ytli of Mrtii'li, and on the lant tJiige thin
wouhl he f(jiHul : "ilon. Vlr. Kavieeom-
plinienteil the hon. ineuiher tor VVest-
rainster (Mty for doiny; the 'loverninent
the juatiee of .Hiiftportin;^ it in an adniit
teilly Kood ineusuns mid for liaviiiy
givr'ii vahialile aHHJetaiuie in eonnecrtioii
witli tfie l)ill." And ui?ain, in the ('ol.-
onixt of tfie i;Uh March, Mr. Davie ia re-
ported aa aayiiig of an important Act of
a former aension of thia I'arliauient tiiat
it "pasaed tlie Hrjiine without division,
unaniinoualy." Mr. firown aaid fie waa
perfectly indilferenl ahlte to praiae or
I)hitno from tfiii aonrt^e, hut it waH worth
while to make theae qiiotationa juai to
show how tlieao j^ood folka contradicted
tfieinaelvea. Before leaving; Iheauhjet^t,
he init^ht point out the dillerence in this
matter hetween the parties. The Op-
poaition criticizetl the pnhlic acta and
utterancea of the Government, krivin;^
details, and pointiiij^ out the objection-
able thiniTH, while the Government and
their organs :uereiy abuaed their oppon-
ents per.sonally, or made ungupported
general statements— the dillerence waa
very aitrniticant. His feehiij? for t'ne or-
gans was only one of pity; they had
sold themaelvea for a mere meaa of pot-
tage, and now, with the apoon ratUioji:
upon the bottom of the dish, and the
laat apoonful in aiyht, their dearieration
and deapaii were [)itifnl to behijid.
I, Laughter and applause.)

It had bef.n diarged, continued Mr.
BroAii, tlip.f he iiad done nothing for
the city. Iri the opinion of the men
who mr*de that charge, tlie onposing of
bad luf.aaurea and tfie promotion of gooil
ones waa "notliing." ff a man was not
a successful grabber, he waa of no ac-
count. Well, he had not been verv
Buceeaaful aa a grabber — he atbnitted
that, but, all the same, he thought the
city iiad not been so very badly left, all
things considered. He had never failed
to urge any proper claim either for the
city as a whole, or for any constituent,
where his help had been sought. There
was an ineide hiatorv to tfiia buaineas

wliich it WAH not worth wtiile to go into
now, as he waa out of politica, but he
migiit say that he had very eiirlv found
that argument and reanon were very
blunt weapona, indeed, <lown at James
Bay. T » go back to hia tirnt HeaHiou.the
Government had promiaed to himself
and to the City Solicitor, to )>a8a the
(!elel)rat('d " iMiahhng Bill,"' t)Ut certain
influencoH had induced tln^n to c^hange
their view — flo tlit^v dclibcralely broke
that i)rf(!iii«e. and exciiaed rhemaelveB
on the ground that ho, Mr. Brown, had
refuaed lo oblige them by betraying his
conalituentH and aelling hia vote on the
Cool .Miiii't) Regulation P.ill. However,
he and iiia aaaociatea had put Itraina
againat brute force in the matter of the
eaaeiuie of the Knabling Bi'l, and "got
there" without anv thanka lo the (jov-
ernment. He would not attempt logo
into detail in the matter, but he
had certainly hail the satisfaction of
seeing certain thiiiga done for the city
which he liad urged, and, if he had had
to stand by and see some things which
had been refuaed to him irranteil on the
re(|Ueejt of various ilepntationa, he had
at leant theaatiafactionnf feeling that his
constituents supported him in reiuaing
to pay the base price demanded for some
of audi concessions. ( Loud apph'.use.)

As he had alwaya been proud to be
al)le to Hpeak of hia constituoncy as a

'"Provincial" one — that waa, one com-
posed of voters who thought inore of the
ri^;hts of the whole Province and its peo-
ple than 01 any litMe 'jpHinh advantage,
and who thought mucli more of their
righta aa freemen than of the grab
g.Miie, he felt that the ;.:ivinL' of an ac-
count of hia atewa.'d&iiip ahould to a
great extent resolve itaelf into a Htate-
ment of the things which hod leil to his
conviction that thia Wiia not a straight
(Tovernment, and that, th'^refore, he
ahou'.d oppose it. He had alluded to
some of theae already. In their school
and municipal legislation, and in dealing
with many of the acheniea emboiiiecf in
private bills, the (Tovernment had shown
that their attitude of mind waa one of
contempt, for and diatrnat of the people.
It was quite evident, too, that they had
their pets, and that one company might
ask in vam for privileges which would
be readily granted to another. It was
true that, in 1891, he had been able tc.

support the then leader of the Govern-
ment strongly in some things. He was
Borrv to say, however, that the present
leader had busied himself in pulling
down a good deal of what had been built
up then, in the line of teoiperauce, or
rather civilized, legislp.tion. Whatever
attitude the average man might assume
on strictly temperance questions, every-
body agreed that a good deal of restric-
tion was called for in the interests of the
community. The present Premier had
been active in knocking out these re-
strictions. Even in this last session —
although restrained somewhat hy the
dangerous nearness of the elections —
Mr. Davie had been busy and aggressive
in this direction. These and other
things, Mr. Brown said, had pushed him
further and further from the Govern-
ment, until the Crofter scheme, the
Canada Western scheme, the census
juggle, the Parliament buildings, a -id
the Nakusp-Slocan — not to mention
minor matters — had thrown him into
straight opposition ; had convinced iiiin
that the only way to reorganize this
Government was the way Paddy adopted
to repair his gun—that ia.give it a new
lock, a new stock, and a new barrel.
(Laughter and applause. )

Parliauiunt BuilriliigH K>itriivag)*iicH.

On one or two of the leading questions
of the last and previous sessions. Mr.
Brown continued, he thought it
due both to himself and to his constitu-
ents, to enter into detail, and first he
would take the Parliament buildings
Putting the work not yet contracted for
— heating and lighting fixtures, furni-
ture, laying out grounds, and extras on
contracts let and to be let, at the ex-
tremely moderate figure of $150,000, the
coat of the celebrated "anchor" to the
Province, he showed, will be as follows :

Plans and proi(nratf)iv work ? 16,50H 75

Contracts let und extrasallowcd 630,21',i 75

Land expropriated to adapt grounds

to building -i ri6,'2()t; 00

Total )il702,!)2!l 60

Add estimate lor work vet to be put

under contract " l.^COOCOOO

Making total Tor work, &c...1!S52,y2!) 50
And he had it on good uathority that
the (luantities were reduced in the speci-
ficat'ons, so that the contract price
should be as low as possible. This, of
course, meant a very big bill for extras.

But this was not all. The "shave" on
the $600,000 loan amounted to nearly
$78,000. In other words, while the
Province went into debt to the amount
: of $590,045, all t^ie ca^h it got was $522,-
082.38, 80 that we had yet to raise net
cash to the amount of at least $330,847.-
12, to finish the job, and, at the rate on
the other 'oan, this would cos* .M0,000.
We had, thtn, to incur a furthei debt of
$370,000 in round numbers, wl. icii, added
to the $600,000, .vould bring the cost of
the undertaking to $970,000. This was
figuring very moderately, and the Prov-
ince would be well off" it it got the thing
ofTits hands for a round million, or, say,
an annual charge ol $40,000 for 50 years.
It might be of interest to compare these
figures with the positive assertions made
by the Premier, in his speeches last
year, that the total cost of the undertak-
ing would not exceed the$60'\000 voted.
(Tremendous applause.)

Oovt.'s Financial JugeliDg Kxpostxl.

Mr. Davie, continued the speaker,
was fond of talking finance when he ad-
dressed the "faithful." As a man of his
large and wide and lofty views could not

be expected to descend to such comracu-
place and vulgar things as details, he
(Mr. Brown) proposed to do it for him.
Mr. Davie's utterances were to the ef-
fect th?t the net debt of the Province
was something like $2,000,000, and then
he exclaims that tliat is less than the
net debt of some of our cities. Then he
talks about the great genius displayed
by his Minister of Finai.ce in getting
money ac o^2 p«r cent, or thereabouts,
and so he jenda his audience away with
a happy feeling that we are only liable
as a Province for interest at 3>2 per
cent, on a trifle of $2,000,000. Unfor-
tunately, however, for the comfort of the
"faithful," there were in existence cer-
tain official documents known as "esti-
mates," and, although they were Gov-
ernment papers, they flatly refused to
bear out the too flattering tale of the
leader of the Government. Here ia
what the estimates said :

Charges on public debt, as per estimates-
Session of 1890, estimates ? 135,831.55

" " (supple-
mentary for 1889) 1,;W2 fi4

Session of 1891, estimates l.S7,33l .=)5

" " (supple-
mentary for 1889-90) M 37

Session of 1892, estimates 178,271 55

" " (supple- I

montiiry for 1892) 82,(XK) 40 |

Session of lH'.t2, estimates (supple- ,

nuMitary tor ISiiO-lU) Tii):? 72 |

Session of 18'.);;, estimates ISfi.tSO 95 i

(supple I

menlary for 1892-98) 15,000 00

Session of iS't:?, estimates (supple-

mnntiirv for 1891 92) 141,180 12

Hesslon of 1894. esti. nates 187,400 SO !

" " (supple

mentary for 189;i 01) . 74,019 27:

Session oi' 1891, i"<tim>ites (supple- i

mentary for 1892-y:i) 704 36 ;

Total charges for public debt.

5years $1,109,2:1128

Of course, this iricliiiJed ail the "shaves,"
but it was ail cash for which tlie Prov-
ince waB respouHihle. Tn tlie iantrua^e
of the committee of supply, it had all
been "j^tranled to Her .Majesty to defray
the expense 01 public debt." If we di-
vided It by five, we would find that it
came very close to $222,000 a year,
which, with all due deference to Mr.
Davie's liuancial ability, was a trifle
more than three and one-half per cent,
upon a debt of $2,000,000. In fact, most
people would be glad to pay ten oer cent,
on 12,000,000 out of it, on condition that
they could keep the balance. I Loud
applause.!

The next point was revenue, and here
Mr. Brown held up a Government caui-
paign dodger, lieaded"The Revenue Does ,
Expand," from which tie proceeded to
read a quotation from one of his own
speeches in the Houfte showing that the |
revenue was fa'.lini/, and, after this quo-
tation, lie read from the Government
dodger what was called, in that docu-
ment, "the Finance Minister's reply."
Would it surprise the meeting, con-
tinued Mr. Brown, to be told that
that "reply" of the Finance Minister's
was delivered first, and that his ( Mr.
Brown's) speech, from which the quo-
tation was made in the dodger, tiad
been delivered in the House, in reply to
the Finance Minister ! (The audience,
of course, saw the point, and was liter-
ally convulsed with laughter and ap-
plause for several minutes.) A trick
like that might be a small thing, con-
tinued Mr. Brown (it; undoubtedly, was,
in more senses than one), but it illus-
trated very well the dishonesty, mis-
representation, and utter unreliability
of all the Government's campaign docu-
ments and utterances. (Renewed laugh-
ter and prolonged applause.)

Ml. Brov/n then quoted further, from
the dodger, a statement showing the
revenue for the last seven years, in at-
tempted proof tliat "the revenue does
expand." He liad never denied tfiat
the revenue had expanded. About seven
years r.t.o, the Province had received the
great impetus of connection with the
o.itHide world by the C P. R., and the
advertisement v,'hich that had given it,
and had gone up, up, up, in itopulation
and the wealth thus accruing, for a few-
years, like a rocket ; but, handicapped
as by a dead weight with a Government
tliat, by its policy, encouraged only pet
ririgt* and monopolies, and slammed the
'oor in the face of independent (capital
and fret', industrious settlement, the up-
ward progress of the Province was &oon
staved, and then reversed, aiid now,
with this same weight hanging on, ii
was going down, down, down ! [Loud
applause.] Taking the revenue figures
quoted by the Government dodger, on
Uieir face, continued Mr. Brown, tliey
shovved that the revenue was iiiliing —
that there was less revenue bv about
$8,000 for tiie fiscal vear 1892-1)3 tiian for
the yepr 1891 92, When the details
were looked into, it was found that the
actual practical decrease was $32,000, as
in the 1892 9o revenue there was in-
cluded an item of $10,000 additional in-
terest on borrowed money lying in liank,
and $14,000 of an increase from Chinese
immigration head money! No one
could say that either of these items
showed a legitimate increase of revenue,
or one on which the Province could be
congratulated. [Tremendous applause.)

The public accounts for the current
year — 1893 94— were, of course, not yet
down, continued Mr. Brown, but the in-
dications showed a still falling revenue.
Proceeding, said Mr. Brown : "If von
take the estimates presented to the
House this year, you will find that the
revenue for the next financial yea' is
put at about $119,000 more than the
estimated revenue of the current year.
But examine a little more closely, and
you will tind a lump sum of $1.30,000 of
borrowed money is included in the esti-
mates for next vear. Now, when you
take $1.30,000 from $119,000 the bottom
Is apt to drop out. Then a further ex-
amination will show you that about
$40,000 of arrears is also included in the

estimate, |6,000 of a new tax — so that,
when the proper allowances are made,
the revenue for next year shrivels up to
Homething like, say, 150,000 less than
the revenue for the current year. Of
course, the Government will tell you
that tills borrowed mouey and
these arrears are quite properly
counted as the revenue for the
year— an ar<j;ument which auiounts to
just this, ttiat everythint; is all riyht so
lonji; as they can beg, borrow or H.,3al
the mouey lu pay for their extravat^ance.
Well, it 18 not necessary to squabble
about tliat. The point does not depend
upon that. The point is that these
sums do not coine from the natural in-
crease of ordinary sources of Provincial
revenue. Take the arrears. Let us
illustrate. Suppose a merchant makes
out his bills at the first of the month,
and tiiids that they amount to seven
thousand lioilars. He piit>' that down
as the estimated revenue for that month.
But he collects only four thousand.
Next month the bills atnount to nine
thousand, and he puts that down, and
three thousand for arrears — revenue for
the second mouth, twtlve thousand.
He collects altogether tive thousand, and
the third month's bills are ten thousand.
Dosvn it j<oe8 again — ten and seven of
arreaiH— revenue for the third month.
seventeen thousand, or a total of
thirly-six thousand for the three inonths,
while all tiie cash in the business is
twenty-four ttionsand, and only the half
of that is coUectt'd. Now you may say
that no m irchatit would be su(di an ass
as to furure in that manner, but I hope
you will be careful about your lanu'uage,
for that is just the way our Finance
Alinisler tigures. i!:«iTj;hrf.'r and ap-
plause.] Now, about the borrowed
money, it does not come from Provincial
souKtes -y(ju may say it is properly
counted as revenue, it you choose, i)ut
that does not alter the fact that you
must omit it from any calculation in-
tended to siiow, bv the state of the
revenue, the slate of the Province in re
gpect to the prosperity or otlierwise (
its pe"ple. .V prosperous Province w'
iiave a rising revenue — a falling reveni.i-
showa that the Province is not prosper-
ous. Now, when we confine our viev/ to
the revenue which can be propHrly
counted in sr»v.;h a calculation — omitting, i
of course, borrowed monev and "arrears"

— we find that it is, according to the
Finance Minister's calculation, falling.
In other words, we (ind stagnation, if
not ret."ogre88ion, where there should be
nrosperity." [Loud and prolonged ap-
plause.]

.Viter revenue, it was natural, said the
speaker, to turn to exnenditurn. He
could not go exhaustively into the s-ub-
ject, but would endeaver to give them a
pointer or two, so that they might judge
of tlie set of the current. While he dia-
{)Uted the statement that the revt'uue
h:id kept pace with the expenditure, he
would show that the expenditure had
not been backward about maKing prog-
ress, at all events. The most important
item of expenditure in this country was
that for reproductive public works —
roads, streets, bridges, and wharves, in
the language of the estimates. He would
give them the tigures fiom the public
accounts for seven years, using round
numbers :

lSSf)-7 $lS5,fJ00

l,S.S7-S ISO.CRIO

ls,ss-<) im,vm

isHiMio ■■ ■ior-ifion

IWKVJl ... iso.ooo

i,S'i-'i ims.ooo

I892-;i 2h;:!,000

He could not give them the expenditure
for the current year, ol course, as it did
not end till the 30th of June; but the
estimates had been about $214,000. It
thus appeared that, although Ministers
boasted that the revenue had doubled in
seven years, and, although a million had
been borrowed for works of development
in the meantime, the Government felt
itself able to expend on such works, in
ttie current year, only a paltry $9,000
more than they liad expended four
years ago. Then take the average before
and after the borrowing of that million
for works of development. The average
expenditure for these works in the five
years before the million was borrowed
was ^ISLOOO a year. The average for
the three years since was .$207,000 a
yeai'. The diSerence only made about
$258,000 out of the million; but the
million was all gotiH. Where? Perhaps
the next statement mikiht throw a little
light on the subject. It was a statement
of -he salary bill for the seven years —
that was, the regular Government offi-
cial salary bill — "soft snaps" like
the Boardof Health expenditures I laugh-
ter], did not appear in it :

1886-7 $l;;0,lKH)

1887-8 i;i7,000

1888-9 l'JS,0(10

1889-90 leO.tKK)

1890-91 181,000

1891-2 21S,{1()0

1892-3 24;»,ilO(i

Before going fur her, Mr. Browu said,
he woull read a few extracts from the
reports of the Public Accounts Couunit-
tee, which were official documents.
After readinj^ several of the statements
made in the reports — relating to tiie
using up by the Government, during the
current year, of over a quarter of a uiii-
lion dollars of trust and special funds
for general purposes, and other matters
— the speaker said his audience would
be at no loss to guess the condition of
the I'rovincial treasury, and he pro-
ceeded to tell au amusing story about an
Irishman and an Knglishman Vvith a
bottle of "the craythur," in illustration
of the state of matters, the point of
which was, if it's nothing you are looking
for, you'll find it in the treasury.
[Laughter and applause. I It would be
observed that, in Aiia matter of salaries,
there was regular and rapid upward
progress. He could not, of course, give
the expenditure on account of these
salaries for the current year, but the es-
timated amount was something over
$272,000. As he had already said,
this included only the salaries of the
gentlemen known as permanent Govern-
ment otiiciais.

!Saku8i»-Slocan Scheme I'nravellwiJ.

The Xakusp-Slocan matter was then
taken up. In discussing this matter,
eaid Mr. Brown, the Government had
taken a course which was rather a favor-
ite with them. They used a multuude
of words, in order to confuse people.
The matter was suthciently simple for
aay man to exercise his judgment upon
it. He proposed to discuss it under four
headings: The (iitference Ijetween the
first and t'econd bcirgains ; the statement
about cost; the conduct of the Govern-
ment in the matter; and the policy. As
between the two bargains, it luul to be
borne ia mind that it was impossible to
tell how the railway would pan out as a
commercial enterprise. If it paid, then,
of course, the Province was relievt-d from
responsibility. As a matter of fact, the
attack made upon th« scheme had not
been directed to any great extent
against the change of plan ; but all

the defence vvas made on that point.
This was another favorite dodge of the
Governraint — to ignore the real point of
attack, aiid blaze away about things
which were merely incidental. The
matter stood thus : The original plan
was to guarantee interest uuh/, on |1)25,-
000 t $25,000 per mile]; the present plan
was to guarantee both interest and prin-
cipal on !i;(547, 000 i!p 17,500 per mile.] He
would give tliem the actual ligures tirst,
and dej>! with the dishonest handling of
them by the Premier, under the third
h'-ading. The interest in both cases was
lOur per ciint., but under the present
plan, a ainkinir fund of two per cent had
also to be paid, making the annual
charge, six per cent, on the !f647,000.
Against these payments we had the
Dominion suhsjidy, pat up in cash by the
company, which amounted to $118,400.
The figures, therefore, were:

ORIGIN AJ. I'1>AN.

Aniuial interest piivmeui, at ( per cout.,

0!i .«'J25,0U0, equal ,,. .f 37,000

Total liability. .•fi:i,',000a year for 25 years,
$'.125,000, less Domiuioii subsidy of
$118,100, etiual 806,600

I'ltESENT I'L.\K.

.\iimial jmyment, interest and sinking

fund at 6 percent., on. fill?, 0*), equal. ..f 38,820

Total liability, .■fS8.82U a year for 'irj years,
$970, ■'>0J, les.s Dominion subsidy of
$118,100, equal 8.52,100

"So that the liability of the Province
under the present arrangement,'' con-
tinued .Mr. Brown, "is a matter ot $45,-

000 greater than under the old or original
agreement. We are told, of course, that
we have, under the present arrange-
ment, the railway at the end of the
term ; but, if the railway })ay.s, the Prov-
ince is relieved fiom responsibility, and
the railway belongs to the compariv;
and, if it does not pay, what value will
it oe as an asset? It will be a white
elephant-— and a scabby one at that.

"Now, take the statement about cost.

1 told them in the House, that the chat-
ter about the cost per mile of railway
building nut me in mind of the old say-
ing 'as tiig as a piece of chalk.' .Many
facts enter into the calculation, 'out the
only one necessary to ileal with here is,
the style of construction — the charaiiter
of the work done. Built iii first class
style, a line will cost more, naturally,
than it will if il is full of the steepest
possible grades, and the sharpest pos-
sible curves, and grasshopper trestles,

and shoo-fly side-tracks, and all the rest i
of it. Now, I have statements from i
three different sources — and one of them '
is from an enginner and one from a con- 1
tractor — that the road ought not to cost j
more, as they are huilding it, than from
$12,000 to if i;^, 000 a mile— or say. to be'
liberal. $4,000 a mile less than the:
amount guaranteed. And it will be
seen at once that this is quite natural-,
because the contractor had to put up in
cash the Dominion subsidy of $.3,200 a
raiie, and he may net ^ret it, as the Do-
minion rarliaracnt has not granted it
yet. Of course, lie added it to his con-
tract price.

"N^ow we come to the conduct of the .
Government in the matter. In the (irat
place, their duty under the Act bound
them to take reasonable means to satisfy
themselves as to the coat of the road,
and to guarantee interest on that amount
only, and not that until they were aat- '
isfied that the work would be properly
done; but, instead of that, they simply
guaranteed to the full extent to which
they could go, nor have they to this day
done anything in such a way as ths Act
contemplated to find out what the road
should cost or is coating. In the second
place, we have the Premier, by hia own
statement, spending a very considerable
time, (luring which his expenses were
charged to the Province, in arranging
details about the matter that he had no
business in the world to meddle with, as
Premier of the Province. In the third '
place, as everyone knows, the informa-
tion the Government furnished to the
House and the country in the matter
was extorted from them bit by bit,
under pressure — it was worse than draw-
ing teeth. In the fourth place, while
the Premier represented himself one day
as running the whole show — being the \
chief mover in the whole concern — he a !
few days afterwards answered a long
string of impo"tant questions about the
enterprise by saying 'I do not know ;
neither have I enquired.' In one
breath, the utmost indignation if one
insinuated that they were not thor-
oughly posted on the whole affair, so
that they knew exactly what they were
doing — in the next, a confession of blank
ignorance of a number of most important i
details. In the fifth place, there is the
fact that the bargain aives every cent of
possible profit to the company, and

every dollar of possible loss to the
Province. In the aixth place, we have
the absolutely dishonest calculations
put before the House and the country
by the Premier. He gave in the first
part of his speech a statement that the
difference was between four percent, on
the larger sum and six per cent, on tiie
smaller, wliich was correct, but he de-
ducted the amount of the Dominion sub-
sidy from the principal instead of the
interest. This was wrong, of course, as
the amount is to go towards the pay-
ment of interest, and does not reduce
the principal sura upon which interest
is to be paid. In the case of the four
pftr cent, it mikes no difference, as in-
terest and principal are etjual, tl)e term
being 25 years; but, in the case of the
six per cent., it makes a sufficient dilfer-
ence to sliow the coat as less than that
of the other plan, whereas it is in reality
more.

"But it is when we come to the second
statement — the compound interest busi-
ness— that the diihonesty of the calcu-
lation shines out resplendent. The ob-
ject is to make the new scheme appear
the cheaper one, and so we have a calcu-
lation of compound interest on the old
scheme at the correct rate of four per
cent., and under the new scheme at three
and a half! Of course, it should be six.
.\nd, when you come to compound in-
terest on something over half a million
for twenty-five years, the difference be-
tween three and a half and six is worth
making a note of. The two per cent, for
sinking fund is ignored altogether in the
calculation, and the interest is figured
down to three and a half, on the plea
that the bonds, being iu effect. Provin-
cial bonds, will sell over par at four per
cent. Well, that remains to be proved ;
but, if they do go over, who gets the
benefit? Here is a pointer on that point.
In committee on the bill, Mr. Sword
moved an amendment prjviding that the
interest should not be guaranteed at a
rate greater than was necessary to
realize par. The amendment was lost.
Mr. Sword moved another amendment,
providing that no more bonds should be
issued than sufficient to raise $17,500 per
mile. The amendment was lost."

Continuing, Mr. Brow.i said )ie hoped
he tiad made the point sufficientlj' plain.
What they wanted to remember was,
that the real difference between the two

Bcheraes in point of coat was the differ- :
ence between six per cent, ou $647,000, '.
and four per cent, on |i>25,000. And !
they also wanted to remember that the
Government had distinctly, aod beyond
all question, violated its authority in ,
pled^inn the Province, in the tirst placte, i
to a guarantee of four pev cent, on $925,-
000. [Applause.]

Now, he wanted to say a few words ;
about the compound interest fake. Any
business man would tell them that it
was utter nonsense and rubbish to talk
about compound interest in this case.
By ignoring the sinking fund and figur-
ing down the interest to three and a
half per cent., instead of four, Mr.
Davie had managed to make it appear
that the present scheme was a little
cheaper than the first one, and then he
struck upon the happy idea of figuring
it at compound interest, to ui ike the
difference look as big as possible. Had !
he figured honestly in the first place,
we should never have heard anything ■
about compound interest, because
honest figuring showed the present
scheme to involve the greater liability.

But, if it was right to figure this at
compound interest, it followed, of course,
that all the other liabilities of the Prov-
ince should be figured, the same way,
and he had taken the trouble— or rather
a gentleman who was an expert at that
sort of thing had taken the trouble for
him — to figure out the cost of the Par-
liament buildings at compound interest,
lie had already showed that the liability
incurred by the Province on account of
these buildings would be at least a mil-
lion, counting everything. Counting
that way, you must figure at four per
cent, for interest and sinking fund. And
the little bill ran up to onlv a trifle over
SEVEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!
[Sensation and applause]. "Now," said
Mr. Brown, "the next time you hear a
Government man talking any nonsense
about compound interes, just shove that
little bill at him, and ask him to put
thatin his pipe and smoke it." j Renewed
applause.]

The policy of the deal could be dis-
missed in a very few words. If the
Province built the road, the Province
should own it. If the Province put up
the money, the Province should have
and exercise the strictest supervision
over the expenditure of the money. The

whole thing had been managed in a way
that was loose to the point of reckless-
ness.

About the Royal Commiseion he need
not say much. The people liad made
up their minds about that. One remark
he would make, however. He had dot
asked the question aliout expenses in
the House, but he had caused it to be
asked, wishing to have a distinct state-
ment. The answer had been quite clear
and explicit — that the opponents of the
Government must bear the cost, out of
their own pockets, of presenting their
case before the Commission. He did
not remember the exact words used, but
Mr. Davie had laughed at the idea of the
Government paying the cost of prosecu-
tion — had scouted it ab an unheard-of
proposition. [Applause.]

Cnucludlns K«inark8.

There were many otlier things, Mr.
Brown said, to which he might allude,
but he had tried their patience too long
already. (Cries of "no, no!" and "Go
on!") He thought he had said enough
to account for the stand he had taken —
a stand which he felt a large majority of
his constituents had endorsed, and
would further endorse by sending Mr.
Kennedy into the House with an over-
whelming majority. | Enthusiastic
cheers and cries of "We will ; we will."]
It was getting on for thirty years since
he had polled his tirst vote, here in New
Westminster, for the candidate of the
people against the old Crown Colony
Government, and upon the platform on
which he had that day taken his
stand he had stood ever since
and stood vet. [Cheers and ap-
plause. I He had been called anarchist,
agitator, communist, and whatnot, and,
although it was not pleasant to be pelted
with that sort of mud, yet there was this
consolation about it, that it marked him
off as being at the opposite pole in poli-
tical thought and political method from
the present Government. Mr. Davie
had paid him the compliment of calling
; dim his "chief antagonist," and, while
! it would be most unfair to his colleagues
in the House, who hi.d fought nobly and
ably shoulder to shoulder with him for
; the past four years, were bs to assume
I that title, he certainly could say that in
j nearly every fight he had made for popu-
1 lar rights he had found Mr. Davie his
' chief antagonist. [Loud applause. |

Although for a few days or weeks yet,
said Mr. Brown in cor luaion, with evi-
dent emotion, he would be noQiinallv
inemiier for New Westmiuater, the time
had cotne for liim to bid them "good-
bye" in that capacity. He had only
juat begun to realize what that meant.
Once more he thanked them for all tlieir
kindly and iiniulgent treatment of liim
during the laat four years, and for the
splendid proof of their confidence they
had given liira to-night, and he only
wished to leave them one word in con-
cluaion. "Mf"; of tiik Roy.m. City,

ST.A.NI) KAST FOR TIIK KIGMT'"

Tiie applause which burst forth irre-
sistible as Mr. Brown took his seat was
a Btorni. an ovation, a triumph I

SHOUr ADDRKS8 BY SIR. COTTON

When the cheering liad auViaided, Dr.
Cooper rose and said :"Gentlemen, as on
previous occasiona there have been mis-
representations as to the feeling ex-
pressed at our public meetinga, if you
are in earnest in this mark of apprecia-
tion to Mr. Brown, I would ask yon to

signify it by etanding up." Instant-
aneously the audience broke into tre-
meiidous cheerintr, ami a thousand men
roAt' as one. It was fully a minute be-
fore the chairman got control of thtA
meeting again, and then he called on
Mr. Cotton to speak.

Mr. Cotton, wtio received a most hearty
welcome from the audience, said he
came before them with mingled feelings.
He was pleased to meet liis frienda in
New VVeatminster, but regretted that
the first occasion on which he addressed
them was one at whicii tliey were called
upon to mark the retirement of his
friend and colleague, Mr. Brown, from
political li'e. For himaelf and fellow
members in the House, he could say
that they all held Mr. Brown in the
highest eateem and fully realized the
eervices wliich he had rendered as a re-
presentative. He did not know where
good politicians went to when they left
the sphere of their labors — he was not
sufficiently versed in political theology
— but he believed they still watched
with interest the actions of those they
left behind, and be thought that Mr.
Brown looking down upon thnm on elec-
tion day would waive bis wings with exul-

tation at the victory they would achieve.
[Laughter. I Knowing the good nature
and forgiving apirit of their departed
friend, he thought that, even in that
hour of delight, he would from time to
time turn aaide and dipping his fingers
in water would touch the parched
tongues of the Premier and his support-
ers in that political hades to which the
popular votes would consign them.
[Uproarious laughter and applause, j

At that late hour he would not at-
tempt to delay them by a long speech,
but he would refer to some remarks
made by Mr. Davie at a closed meeting
m this city a few days ago, which were
reported in the Government newspapers.
Mr. Davie said he was pleased to see
the young men with their "bright,
honest faces." Doubtless he thought
they would not look so long if they re-
mained in his camp. He quite under-
stood that the Premier preferred those
who were not old enough to remember
the series of blunders and follies of
which he and his predecessors had been
guilty. When these young men had got
their beards and experience, they would
all be found on the other side. At that
meeting Mr. Curtis had aaid it was
"time to quit this agitation and drop
this nonsense." He [\lr. Cotton] agreed
with him. But the "agitation" was
caused by Mr. Davie's policy ; the non-
sense was the Premier's own. Follow
the course of events in the short time
since Mr. Davie had been Premier, and
there waa nothing but turmoil and dia-
content. Section set against section.
Mainland against Island, and the Pre-
mier rushing around and stirring up
strife so that by divisions among the
people he might hold on to place and
power. They had seen a demand for the
division ot the Province spring up sud-
denly as the result of the stupendous
aeries of follies of which Mr. Davie had
been guilty. Now he asked for a re-
newal of their confidence and waa lavish
in his promises of what he would do.
But his future course must be judged
by his past actions, and on that method
he would be refused hie request. [Ap-
plause.]

Mr. Cotton then briefly reviewed the
various details of the Government's
actions which had been so ably dealt
with by Mr. Brown. Mr. Davie, Mr.

Cotton said, asked what was the Oppo-
sition's policy? The Opposition had a
very well defined policy, which they had
been carrying into effect, &b far aa the
Government would allow them, tor the
last four years. It was based on the
idea that the prosperity of the Province
was dependent on the p-odperity of all
classes of the people. I Loud applause.]
He might fairly ask in reply what was
Mr. Davie's policy? The closest scrutiny
of his speeches failed to show that he
had any. Mr. Davie appeared to have
a defect in his political vision. lie liad
along sight for what Mr. Beaven did
twelve years ago, but could see nothing
of what had transpired since. In con-
clusion, he would ask the electors to re-
view the past four years, weigli the '
actions of the two parties, and cant their
ballots accordingly. He had no fear of
the result. The people everywhere <le-
manded reforms, and there was no doubt
they would place the Opposition in j
power as soun as the opportunity was ]
afforded them. [Tremendous applause.]

FEWKEHAKKS BY OTHKK8.

Dr. Cooper then rose and announct d
that, as the hour was late, there would
be no more speeches, and added : "But
I want you to look at Mr. Kennedy, so
that you will know him again."

Mr. J. B. Kennedy came forward,
amid a hurricaneof cheersand applause,
and he was obliged to wait some time
before tiie enthusiastic audience would
give him a chance to speak. He would
not bore them at that hour, lie paid,
with a long speech. They would have
many opportunities of hearing him be-
fore election day, but hf^ wished to add
his testimony to what had been said re-
garding Mr. Brown. [Cheers.] At the
meeting on Friday night, one of the
Government speakers said he [Mr. Ken-
nedy] was to wear Mr. Brown's mantle.
He thought, judging from the present
meeting, that man must be a prophet or
the son of a prophet. [Cheers.] He
hoped he would worthily wear the
mantle that fell to him. If elected he
would work for the best interests of the
city and country at large. [Renewed
cheering. I He had much pleasure in
moving a vote of thanks to the chairman.

Mr. Brown seconded the motion,
which was put and carried.

The meeting was now supposed to be
at an end. but the entire audience kept
their seats, and called loudly for
Mr. Kitchen, wlio was finally forced to
come forward, and was greeted with
ringing cheers.

Mr. Kitchen said it would be very in-
judicious of him at this late hour to de-
lain the audience longer. He would
say, however, that he would be glad to
meet Mr. Curtis on the platform in
Westminster and discuss politics for an
hour or two. [Cheers.] He was very
sorry circumstances compelled the re-
tirement of M'-. Brown. He tiad always
found him upright and iionest, and a
: goo'* friend. He was glad that in Mr.
Kennedy he would have a colleague
with a stiff backbone, and he iioped the
, people would elect him. [Long con-
tinued cheers.]
i Mr. Sword was next called for, and
i rrtsponded amid renewed cheering. It
; was nearly Sunday morning, he said,
i and time "to go home and to bed. He
joined with the previous speakers in re-
! gretting Mr. Brown's retirement. The
i feeling was universal Itiroughout the
j Province, except among a few who feared
I him politically. [Clieeis.]
I Mr. Forster was demanded amid lur-
i ther cheering, and added his regrets to
' those already expressed concerning Mr.
i Brown, who he said in every matter that
1 had come up seemed to know by instinct
the right side, the side of the people.
[Great applause.]

Mr. li. McPherson, one of the Opposi-
tion candidrttes for Vancouver, responded
to repealed calls, and also came in for a
hearty cheer. He would only say with
respect to the accusation of the Govern-
ment that the Opposition had different
platforms in different places, that these
platform-! were progressive, while the
(Joveniment had only one line of policy
' fostering monoDolies — and stuck there.
[Cheers. 1

Calls were made for Mr. Curtis, with
a few marks of disapprobation thrown
in. Mr. Curtis made his way to the
platform, and said he was sorry that, on
his name being mentioned, disrespect
had been shown. Before election day
he hoped to address the electors, when
he would lay down his own, and not Mr.

1()

Davie'e, platform. Continuing, be
thought Mr. Brown had endeavored to
do right, but, if he bad taken a more
moderate course, it would iiave been
better for the interesia of the city.
[Cries of "No; no!" and hiasee.] If
elected, he would follow a moderate
course and hoped to do something for
himself as well aa for the people.
[Laughter.] He meant that, by helping
his own interests, he would benefit the
whole city. [Laughter and applause. I

Dr. Cooper called for cheers for the
Queen, which were heartily given, and
the meeting dissolved.

The address presented to Mr. Brown
is written on parchment in Tudor black

letter text, with the first line and initials
handsomely illuminated in color and
metals. There is a Gothic scroll ex-
tending around the first initial and down
the side. The work of engrossment was
executed by Mr, James Bloomlield, en-
graver, of this city, who is an expert at
the art, and this masterpiece will be an
enduring evidence of bis superior skill.
The document is encloaed in a hand-
some Russia leather case with gold tool-
ing on the front, lined with pale blue
silk, the line of junction of silk and
leather being hidden by heavy silk
twisted cord, and the case tying with
antique green silk ribbons.

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