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The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour 6tre reproduites en un seul ciich6 sont film^es d partir de Tangle supdrieure gauche, de gaurhe d droite et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la m6thode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^o DOMINM ELECTION. CAMPAIGN OF 1886. Hon. Edward Blake's Speeoiies. iSTo. 11 (First Series). PROHIBITION AND POLITICS. • OTE.— See Inside Cover for List of Mr. BlaKe's Speeches in first Series. Apply to "W. T. R. Preston, Reform Club, Toronto, for Copies of these Speeches. ■\ Toronto: HUNTER, ROSE & CO.. PRINTERS. ■^■•^•,. .-. 1886. •.,*.i '■;-...-..■ ^)^ ■ M •■ : ' i ■ 1 ',1 ..v.v .!■■ •■>'■■* ■' •' •V* • -i"^ L'.'t *'Y '■^:' <,V i' •" ! ■ ■■' -.i '■' i' i , V .. ■■■.'■^■>. .:^^.%l 1' 1 K— V ' . I ! n\ . rbV^--.;,. ,/\.. ' . ■ " \ •, I. LIST OF SPEECHES IN THIS SERIES. I % 1 ' i * * No. I. —(London) : General Review of Situation, Riel Question. '- (Owen Sound) : North-West Maladmicistratior. Rie!. No. 2.— (Beaverton) : Indtpenlence of Parliament. The Boodle Brigade. No. 3. — (Chesley) : Public Finances — Taxation and Deficits — Farmers. No. 4.— (Simcoe) : Federal and Provincial Rights— Ontario— Nova Scotia. (GuELPH)— Elections near. — Toi-y Dodges— Nova Scotia. No. $.— (OwKN vSouND): Principles of Liberalism— Duty of the Leader. (Welland) — Policy of the Party — Functions of an Opposition. (Oakwood) — Sir J. Macdonald on Functions of an Opposition. No. 6. — £xiraas—{GvzLVH) : Home Rule for Ireland. (Berlin): Firebrand Tory attempts to excite Germans. I (Galt & Orangeville) ; Indian Starvation Policy. ixy m, .id ^ A e i ('I'EM broke) : Maladministration felt at Cut Knife Hill. "i^o. ^, — Extracts— {Kh-sviKLV) : Business Methods required in Puulic Affairs — Degradation of Parliament — A few Boodlers. . (Hampton) : Civil Service Reform. (Galt) : Burden of Public Debt. (Orangeville) : Burden of Public Debt. (Belleville): Burden of Public Debt — The Interest on Debt. (Oakwood) : Burden of Public Debt— Our Public Expen- diture. No. 8. — (Newcastle) : Canadian Pacific Railroad Matters. (LisTOWEL) : Canadian Pacific Railroad Matters— The last Sacri- fice of $10,000,000— Collapse of Tory " Boom " Policy. (St. Thomas) : North-West Lands. (HuNTsviLLE) : R.R. Policy—Sir John's Subsidies to "Guinea-Pig" Directors — Assisted Immigration and Railway Frauds. (Parry Sound) : Railway Policy of Liberals. (Orangeville) : Railway Policy of Liberals. (Brantford) : The Kansas Slander. ; : (Lis towel) .- The Sea of Mountains. No. 9.— (WiNGHAM) : Blake's Tribute to Mackenzie. (Stayner): Blake's Tribute to Sir Richard Cartwright. (Bbantfokd) : Blake's Tribute to Paterson— Duty of Young Men. No. 10.— (Welland) : Liberal Party, Creeds and Classes. (Orillia) ; Leaders and Newspapers — The "Mail" Crusade. No. II.— (Aylmer) : Prohibition and Politics. No. 12.— (Toronto): Interests of Labour— The Tariff. (Welland) : To Knights of Labour. (Belleville): Legislation for Labour, (Deseronto) : Workingmen and Parties. (Hamilton) : Workingmen and Parties. No. 13. — (Hamiltoi^: Provincial Issues— The Religious Cry — Liberals and Catholics. No. 14.- (Lindsay) ; North-West Affairs — Neglect, Delay and Misman- agement—Race and Creed Cries. ^ ' 7.>.i»i' "r'.-: .1 ermans. 3t on Debt. lie Expen- ast Sacri- linea-Pig " fng Men. sade. }erals and MUman- PHOHIBITION AND POLITICS. Hon. Edward Blake, after some preliminary remarks, at Ayl- mer, said : — I desire, before entering? upon a discussion of party political questions, to trouble you with a few words with reference to a question upon which I have been anxious for some time to say something, but that no favourable occasion arose. I do not say that this is a specially favourable opportunity for the purpose, because what I was anxious to find was an occasion upon which no topic of party controversy would arise. But I see such an opportunity is not likely to be found in view of the nearness of the Provincial el- ection, and of the season of the year, and having seen that to be the case, and having found also that the Dominion Alliance had a few days ago stated what its programme and platform are, and recommended them for the adoption of those who are enrolled in its ranks, I have thought I would not lose the chp,nce of speaking to my first audience after that time, and saying a few words to them upon THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. (Loud applause.) But I have to talk upon other topics, and that compels me to compress my remarks. There is no time to enlarge upon reasons or arguments. I must almost confine myself to stating facts and conclusions. This is not very satisfactory to me; perhaps will not be so to you. It may seem dogmatic; it may tend to some misconceptions ; but it is inevitable under the circumstances. Why is it that I had desired to discuss this subject unconnected altogether with any discussion at that time of party political to- pics ? It is in the interest of the cause itself on which I am about now to touch. This is NOT AT THIS TIME A PARTY QUESTION. How do the political parties of Canada stand upon it ? The Lib- oral party embraces, I have no doubt, the majority of the Temper- ance Reformers and Prohibitionists, and for that I refer you not merely to the strong and active temperance Reformers throughout the land, but to the Parliamentary record of the Liberal represen- tatives at Ottawa. (Cheers.) I shall not go over the votes ; I suppose they are familiar to you all. But although that is the position of the Liberal party in that regard, it still includes many (11) . ^4 ' -'.xl •I .-! ,1 ■I! •s. ( " , M >• !i Sk ' - ■r .:,' *''■ 322 4 ^ , , sober, virtuous, temperate. Christian men who have not yet seen it their duty to become total abstainers themselves or to support laws to force either themselves or their neighbours to abstain. The Tory party embraces the majority of the anti-tempeiance workers and anti-prohibitionists, and it embraces the great bulk of the liquor interest. (Applause.) For tliat I refer you to what you know in your own locality, and also once again to the parlia- mentary record. I , REFER YOU TO THE RECORD OF THE VOTES in Parliament in both branches of the Legislature. In the House of Commons, springing from the people, trace the votes of the Con- servatives and those of the Reformers ; and in the Senate, where you see the result of eight years of Tory rule with reference to a body in which they have had the opportunity of making some sixty or seventy appointments, if I am rightly informed, and have made it a most decidedly and emphatically anti-temperance and anti-prohibitionist assembly. That has been their own work ; it is their own child, their offspring, and it speaks for itself. (Great applause.) Now, amongst the Ministry itself— those who lead the Tory party of to-day — you find one of the greatest of the brewers of Canada, and one of the greatest of the spirit sellers of Canada, and some very liberal consumers of the commodities which are made and dispensed by their colleagues. (Loud laughter and applause.) And so it is with the rank and file. But that party contains a certain number — a considerable number, though a minority — of the strong temperance men and prohibitionists as well. Now, the Coiiservative Government, through the various Ministers, from the First Minister down, down, down to Mr. Foster — (loud laughter) — has declared that this is not and CANNOT BE MADE A PARTY QUESTION. That is their attitude, and I admit that it seems absolutely impos- sible for them. I believe it would be the greatest example — the most gigantic example — of organized hypocrisy this world has ever seen or known. (Applause.) So much for that. Now, with reference to the Liberal party. Would it be possible for us to make it a party question at this time ? I believe not. (Applause.) And this for several reasons, some affecting the cause and some affecting the party, and affecting the party in the sense in which we may honestly and properly declare that we desire to consider the interests of the party, regarding the party not as an end but as a means, as a great instrument for effecting the public good and promoting good government through the land ; as an instrument whose eflficiency and capacity for these great objects we are bound I ' ' : • (11) "t, •;;-^*7'»^/.'' s^»"n ■'•ft-.' -7 " 323 seen pport stain, lance bulk what )arlia- House Con- where ice to a f Eome d have ice and ork ; it (Great ead the brewers Janada, made ause.) itains a ty — of ow, the :om the hter) — impoB- le — the Id has w, with r us to lause.) some which nsider il but as od and ument bound to preserve, and if possible to advance. Now, first of all, it would drive out of our ranks many good and sober men who, as I have said, do not yet see eye to eye with others of us on this particular question. I hope that time MAY SOON INDUCE A CHANGE OF VIEW « wilh many of them. I believe our present attitude favours such a change, and I am quite sure that expulsion would not tend to pro- duce such a change at all, but the reverse. Then it ,would not bring to our ranks the honest temperance Tories. They believe in Sir John Macdonald, Mr. John Carling, and Mr. Frank Smith. They believe in the general policy of the Government. They are opposed to us on all the geneial questions of the day. If honest men they cannot sac- crifice their convictions on all these questions, and, therefore, they cannot co-operate with us upon them. If dishonest men, we don't'want them. (Loud and prolonged ajjplause.) Then again, it would render impossible the conduct of the business of the country under the system of party organization, without providing any substitute for that system whatever. Then as to the cause. I conscientiously believe it would not advance the cause ; on the contrary, in my belief it would retard it. (Applause.) The cause would be weaker now and would be weaker later, and by intro- ducing the bitterness and nearly equal divisions of party into this special controversy, the chance of passing and afterwards of main- taining a law, which more than any other law I know of requires a very general assent, would be indefinitely postponed. But any- way, whatever may be desirable, it is not now a party question. It IS a question ON WHICH REFORMERS AGREE TO DIFFER, on which each one acts on his own judgment. I speak for myself and for myself alone. I express the view of no other man. I DECLINE POSITIVELY from my notions of public duty to assist in any way at tliis time to make this a party question. / have endeavoured, and shall co7itinue to endeavour,, to win every man. Reformer or Tory, to my tejnperance opinions hy argument and by example. But I shall neither drive away from my side of general politics Reform- ers who do not think with me on temperance and prohibition questions, nor shall I refuse on temperance and prohibition ques- tions to co-operate with Tories who oppose me on general politics. (Cheers.) I will act with all, I will do my best for the promotion ■■■'." ■ ' •• . , , « ■ ■■' -.\ '..■■-.. (11 ' '. Si '•"^ •■■■w ■ b . 'i ,1' 'r' ■ ^! ■1 I ' / If! ■i; ! ii I ! : >r ■, , f : 5 1 ■' .' '' : ■ •. ": ' ' 1' J 1 , *':,> ' .t-.:':Xii < J2d in the nature of a plebiscite on prohibition, without a firm de- termination to work it thoroughly if passed. I couHider the TEMPERANCE ACT ITSELF IS ON ITS TRIAL. I have been anxiously watching its operation in that view, as also to use it as one test, whether there yet exists in Canada such a tone and quality of public opinion as would render further legis- lation efficacious and permanent. This I regard as a much better test than the mere vote at the polls. I caimot say I think the test as yet justifies the proposed legislation. I am glad to say that in many places the Scott Act is working fairly, while in some cases the results are hardly known, and in some the results are not favourable. But I notice that large numbers of our citizens, good, sober, virtuous, and exemplary, are as yet unconvinced as to the ' duty of total abstinence themselves, and therefore unfit to enforce it upon others. I find many supporters of temperance legislation who do not look upon drinking, even in Scott Act counties, as a crime, and who refuse that moral support, and help to the enforce- ment of that law which they give to the general criminal law. JUST COMPARB THINGS. Suppose one of us is walking along the street behind a neighbour, a friend, or a stranger, and see his pocket being picked. He makes himself a special police constable at once, tries tc pre- vent the crime, and, if he is big enough, arrests .the crimmal. But supposing, in a Scott Act county, we pass an unlicensed house — for they are all unlicensed, no licenses being granted — and see some one going in and gettiilg drink, we turn to the other side ; we say nothing about that ; we do not propose to enforce the law ; we do not give the same support, the same sympathy, the same active investigation in the case of this law as is given in the other case. Now if that be the condition of the more advanced localities, what is the condition in the other parts of Canada ? I have no S3'mpathy whatever with the abuse some- times poured out on those honest men, who, not themselves in any sense slaves to drink, are not yet convinced of the duty of total abstinence. There are amongst these many better men than &ome of those who abuse them. (Cheers.) INTEMPERANCB IN DRINK IS NOT THE ONLY VICE, and there are things much worse at any rate than moderate drink- " ing. Unfortunate as I believe the habit, there are many better men than myself who honestly difter from me, who have not seen what I think the light in this matter, and their eyes will not be en- _ L-A", . .. .."?.«,■ ' aS:: Ah,-' ivL: : JiC'Sa I ■y ..fp- 327 lightened or their ears be opened by abuse; they will be only closed and darkened. I am ready to try and persuade, but I am not ready to abuse them. Let us endeavom- in all lovin^^ kindness to win them to our views. This is our most im[»ortant and most pressing work. Until progress is made in that, I am not of the opinion that Canada is ripe for prohibition. (Cheers.) / ,. \« ditures, high taxation, and large deficits is unfavourable to im- 'if)'VJ. mediate action. Next, I think that there are certain permanent ;.■ f i: i-erests existing under the protection of the law, in respect of ^. J/which justice demands that compensation on a limited principle Tj^^E*;^' should accompany their legislative extinction. But I think this I .; '/ demand ought not to prevent the passing of the law, if the gener- '- / al good ^requires it. In that case the law should be passed and the compensation provided. I dare say the views I have now ;A,v ^ Bjfpressed will not please the extremists of either party. I can- ;.-; ; yiot help it. It is my duty to give my fellow-countrymen my ; ;,: honest advice and take the consequences. That advice I have y:^ given and those consequences I am prepared to face. (Loud and prolonged applause.) -r. . (11) *«. . „ ■» V . ^t . --v... ,,, . . - € ^- t ■ ' ,.i'■^f^> '■': ■■■- - ■■ . , ' \ ■■ - _ ' U n- ■ '.' , . :■■ 1 ■: .-■., .' ( •-,- '• '■:' * ' 'i ■- ' . ' y ' * ■ W , '^'1 •'• i'^'"' -■"',. ■'■ : ■ ■ . ■ '.> ■ - ■- .. 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