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MONDAY, APRIL 7th, 1884. REPORTED BY Official Repode of the Senate. A. S, WOODHURN, TRINTKR AND PUBI.ISHKR, O T i AW A. 1^. THE OPPOSITION PRESS -02sr — Manitoba and tlie ISTorth-West. si^eejcih: —BY THE— Hon. J. B. Plumb, IN THE SENATE OF CANADA. THE OPPOSITION PRESS MANITOBA AND THE NORTH-WEST Hon. Mk. IM.UMH Before the motion is adopted I have to asic the permission of the House to maiic some remarks on a subject which I promised to l)ring u\) before the close of the session. Hon. gentlemen will remember that when I addressed the House upon the representa- tion of the North-West in Parliament, I took occasion towards the tilose of my remarks to refer to what I deemed a con- certed attempt to injure the pros|jects of the North-West by an unfair and unwarrant- able statement of the hardships which the settlers were undergoing there, on account, as it was alleged, of the climate of the country, the tyranny of the (lovernment, and the grinding monopoly of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. I said that there had been in the Opposition Press throughout the country evidences that they were in sympathy with such an attempt. My statement was questioned by my hon. friend the senior member for Halifax, who ventured to contradict it almost directly. I promised him that in due time I would bring forward proofs of my charge. T am now prepared to do so, and I must apologise to him for delaying my reply so long. 1 did not wish to detain the House on any day when there was much business before it, nor do I wish now unduly to protract its sitting. 1 have no doubt my hon. friend will be gratified to know that I have not forgotten my promise, and that I intend to produce as far as time will permit, proofs of my allegations. 'I'he official report of the Debate, which took place on the 25th February, contains the following : — " Hon. Mk. POWER— Will the hon. gentle- man be kind enough to tell the House bv who!n Dakota was held up as .«- position. The condition of the country was studiously misrepresented, and its ability to undertake the svork denied. The finances of the country, we were told, were not adecjuate to the burden tiiat would be thrown u|)on it, and Mr. Mackenzie him- self, on the floor of the House, stated that notwithstanding the enormously liberal terms which he had offered 20,000 acres of land and $10,000 a mile of subsidy—- and another and further sum of four per cent, on such sum, as the contractor might offer, although he was zealously assisted by Sir John Rose and Mr. Sanford I""lem- ing in England, he had never been able to gel a single bid. His terms invohcd 55,000,000 acres of land, and nearly fifty millions of dollars in cash subsidies, ac- cording to the proposition made by the Lite Mr. Foster, on a four per cent, basis, for the Georgian 15ay Hranch. We suc- ceeded in making a contract for the build- ing of the Canadian Pacific Railway upon much more favorable terms. We have constantly been attacked for having en- deavored to guard that contract in such a way as to bring the trafific of the North- West down to the older provinces which fur- nished the money for the purpose of con- structing the Railway. It was the ])olicy of this ( lovernment that there should be a con- tinuous line round the north shore of tlie lakes which should bring trafific to Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. That policy has also been attacked constantly, from first to last. It was a necessary part of that policy that railways running southward into the States should not be permitted to tap the line west of I .ake Superior. That has been charged as a grinding monopoly upon the jieople of the North-West, but could the late Government, if the line had been constructed as a Government work, have done otherwise ? Would they have permitted the traffic to be diverted ? Mr. Mackenzie's refusal to give up control of the Pembina Branch answers these questions. The continuation of attacks such as I have indicated have had the most serious effect upon the prosperity of that part of the Dominion. Every device that could be contrived to ])rejudice the minds of set- tlers and of intending settlers has been resorted to for the purpose of hindering the development of the country, by embarras- 6 sing the (lovernment and the railway. A favorite inctliod has been to attack the land policy of the (lovernineiU : another to re- present that the Canadian Pacific Railway was a grindinj,' pitiless monopoly, ruining itself by its monstrous exactions ; aiiotiier to rei)resent that the people of the North West were in a state of revolt under the tyranny of the present (lovernmont, anil that their future relations with the Dom- inion were uncertain. It has been stated, and I have abundant evidiMK e before me to prove that such statements have been made, that the jjolicy of the ( iovernment and of the Canadian racific Railway ( !oin pany was drivinj^ hundreds and thousands of settlers out of the i ountry who had been disappointed and had been forced to migrate to the adjoining territories in the United States. Particularly it has been asserted that such has been the case with reference to Dakota. The Opposition Press have constantly, in s[)eaking of the exodus of the Peoi)le from the North-West, referred to Dakota as the place to whii h they were going, to escape from illiberal land regulations, high freights and a grind- ing tariff on agricultural implements and other articles of consumption in the North- West. That is to say, they were flying from a tariff averaging twenty-two and a half per cent, to a country whose tariff was nearly double on the very .same articles of consumj)tion. They were escaping, as it were, from the frying pan and jumping into the fire. The Globe has favoured us, in its attacks upon a protective tariff, with the following illustration of the advantages the United States offered to the agricultural consumer. These are the redu'-ed duties proposed, but not enacted last year. We can imagine what the unreduced tariff may be. Here is the list to which the happy settler in Dakota must contribute : - "First coineahis kitchen. The iron his stove is made of, 45 percent.; hollow-ware, pots, and kettles, .53 per cent. ; copper and brass uten.fils, if any, 45 per cent. ; crockery, ot the conimone.st kind, 55 per cent.; glas.^ware, of the cheapest kind, 45 per cent; table cutlery and fl|.K)on8, 45 percent.; pickled or salted fish, 25 per cent.; salt, lit) percent.; sugar, 42 per cent.; vinegar, 36 per cent.; pickles, 35 per cent. ; rice, 123 per cent. ; oranges and other foreign fruits, about 20 per cent. Tiien comes the farmer or mechanic's parlour, on whose contents he pays duties as follows, the aniouut of the duties being added by the home munufaclurpr : — Carpeth, it made ut' druggets, 7 1 per ci'iit, ; ciirpfl, iliiiiidc III tapestry, (!8 per I'ent,; liirnitiire, 3."t percent.; wall paper, 25 per w\\\. J winduw curtains, (."i per cent. ; Itjoking ghisH, t'nim 35 to (it) per cent. ; ornaments or ' knick-kniicks, .35 per cent. Xext comes the tarmer'« wurdinl"' : — Men's clothing, of wool, •\x per ii'nf. ; woollen hoHJcry ami nndersliirts, , 45 per tent. ;' woolli'ii iiats and caps, 75 per j cent. ; gloves, 50 [x r cent.; blankets, 00 per j cent. ; alpiicii dresses, (ill per cent. ; any other woollen (M'csscs, IVotn (10 to 70 per cent. ; a pair of scissors, 15 per cent.; lirass pins, 30 percent.; hairpins, .I'l percent.; penknives, 5(1 per cent. ; needles, 25 percnt. ; steel pens, 15 per cent. ; ink, 25 per cent. ; paper, 20 per (H-nt.; razors, -15 percent. I''inally here are various other contents ot the farmer's house aiid barn on which he must needlessly pay duly : — Castor oil, 102 |>er cent.; (Castile soup, 31 percent.; a dose ut lOpsom salts, 30 per cent ; insect powder, 20 per cent ; sivlad i>il, .'! 1 per cent.; the connnonesl window j^lsss tor his house, HO per cent. ; paint, white lead for his farm-house, .'SI per cent.; bricks, .35 per cent; rooting slates, 50 per cent. ; horse-shoo nail-, 31 perc'tit. ; trace ciiains, 5,3 per cent.; ii handsaw, K) per cent. ; tiles, -10 per cent. ; spool (hreail, (10 per cent. ; bags and bagging for his grain, 10 per cent.; a Ijurrstone, 20 per cent.; combs and brushes, 30 per cent. ; a wooden pipe, HO per cent.; an alpaca um- brella, 50 per cent. ; any iron or steel he may need, an average ot 45 per cent. These were tlie duties proposed on what was called the revised tariff of last year, which the secretary iif the treasury officially reports will, with the otlit'r ta.xes exacted, vield l(n' lHH5,$lO(i,()0(l,0()0 more than is rwiuired for the support ot the (Jovernment economically administered. As adopted, this revised tariif enacted a tew changes li'oni the above list ; but ol how little account tariff ' revision ' is may be gathered from the fact that an otlicial treasury re|)or( /nade last month, states that average reduction effected by that revison is less tlian 5 per cent, from the old war tariff." I think it can be shown that most agricul- tural imi)lements can be ])urcha.sed in Win- ni|)eg at a lower price than in Chicago, and that the land regulations in Dakota or any other part of the United States cannot be compared in liberality with those in this country. I propose to show also before I sit down that the tariff of freights along the Canadian Pacific Railway, notwith- standing the representation of a gentle- man who I am sorry to .say is not in his place now, are lower on the Canadian Pacific Railway than on the Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific or the St. Paul and Manitoba, for the same kinds of freight. I have not-gone back, in order to support tb<' allcK'.'Uion whidi I have made, in regard to the ()pp(jsili()n press further tlian the first of Jidy last, From that dale to the |)reseru tune the cohimns of the leaditin Opposition iiewspa[)ers in Ontario have teemed with incitements to the i)eople of tlie North West to revolt against the (iovernment. I hey have endeavored in every way to foment the discontent of those peo[)le. 'Tliere are sixty or seventy articles published in one newsjjajjer between July and January, all of which are written, 1 might say, with the same nefarious objet t. Almost everjh complaint which has l)een published in the North-West i)a|)ers, every charge against the (Iovernment or the railway, no matter how absurd or imaginary it may have been, has been admitted to the columns of tiie (rlo/w, and there has never been, so far as 1 can discover, an attempt made by its editors to modify the wildest statements, but on the contrary they have been encouraged and endorsed. Misstate- ments have been made, not only in the editorial columns of the Gloln; but in extracts from other ])ai)ers which have been published either without comment or with comment of ajjproval. During the whole of the six months, from July to 1 )ecember, I cannot find a single article in the Gl(>l>e which recommends the people of the North-West to state their grievances patiently and fairly, and to trust to an api)eal to the (iovernment or to Parlia- ment, if they have such grievances, to get them rectified ; but tliey are incited to immediately demand what they want with menaces and threats, \Ve are told b)' the Gl(>i)e that the people of the North- West mean business ; that they threaten to burn down the elevators and tear up the railway tracks of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and such alarming state- ments are made without words of coun- sel to the people to be prudent and to [jursue a legitimat(*course for the redress of their grievances. We are told in almost every number of that paper that thousands and thousands are going across the border and seeking homes in Dakota. They do not refer to other parts of the United States, but by implication they recommend Dakota only, for that is the point which is constantly mentioned. There is but one article which I can find which refers to any other State as a place of refuge, and that is a letter from a correspondent wlio states that there art 4,000 Canadians re- siding in Minneapolis. I might say in rejjly th i I think it can be easily shown that theie are more than 4,000 Americans residing in Winni])eg, and I have no doubt diat my hon. friend Dr. Schultz, who, I am glad to see, is in the House again, will corroborate my statement. It will be remembered that the first line of construction sele* ted for the Canadian Pacific Railway was far north of the then settled portions of the country. So much exasperation was felt at the time, that one of the most devoted *" 'lowers of the Gov- ernment of that day, a member from Mani- toba, joined our party on account of what he conceived to be the grjat injustice that was done to the part of the country in which he lived, by the selection of the northern location for the line. It passed for many miles through a succession of muskegs. As an illustration of the char- acter of the country, I may mention that a gentleman who was building the telegraph line there — a gentleman whose name is well known ; I think he was either a con- tractor or a sub-contractor — Mr, John W. Sifton -was present when one of his men was climbing up a telegraph pole to place the insulator upon its top. As he went up, the pole sank down, and when he arrived at its top found himself on a level with the ground. He stepped off, and as he did so the pole, with a sound like a cork from a soda water bottle, popped out and fell on the ground. I could give numerous other extracts from the Globe subseijuent to the ist July in sup])ort of my position that it has covertly in many instances, and openly in many others, shown inveterate hostility to die liberal land policy of the jiresent Gov- ernment, the Pacific Railway, and the development of the country through which it runs, and that it has covertly and injuri- ously promoted the interests of the neigh- boring territory of Dakota, the Canadiani- zation of which is one of its favorite topics; but I will pass over several others and turn now to the Glol>e of the 32nd of August, where I find the following charac- teristic morceau: " We learn on credible authority that Mr. Peter McLaren, who is ao good a Tory and 60 powerful a man in a party sense that Sir John jeopardized confederation to give him 8 the monopoly of ft floatable stream, has formed a most peculiar opinion of the Canadian Nortli- West. It seems that, speaking ^o a j^oung friend who had taken up land in Manitoba, he declared that he would not buy land there, ttS the Syndicate had killed that country. As emphasizing his belief that the Canadian North-West must be suffering from t'ne influ- ence of the Syndicate, he has invested some 112,000 in Dakota and proposes to send his son fo begi'i farming on the lands." Hon. Mr. POWER— Well, what of that? Hex. Mr. PI.UMB— Wait ? moment. On the 28th of August I find the foUov.ing: " With reference to the statement made in the Globe a few days ago concerning Mr. Peter McLaren having invested in Dakota lands, we are now informed that Mr. McLaren does not own a loot of land in Dakota, and that the statement is thereforo untrue." Very soon afterwards the 6VrV'( published, on the authority of their Ottawa corre- spondent, that the Canadian Pacific: Rail way Company had refused to take any land west of Qu'Appelle, owing to its inferior character, afterwards another arti- cle in its editorial columns was published, showing how superor was the location made by Mr. Mackenzie's {Government of the line north of Lake Manitoba. I (jiiote both : " The latest map has been issued by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, showing their land locations. It appears tlie (Jonipany have ileclined to accept any lands in the main line of their road, west ot Qu'Appelle, but have selected lands along the route surveyed by the late Government, in the Peace River district and Qu'Appelle Valley. Some luiuis have also been taken in the Turtle Mountain district. The Pacific Syndicate, in order to save distance and cost of cimstruction, have been allowed to deflect their line to tiie south- tvard over an alkaline plain, hut they are e^ireful to select their lands elsewhere, as their contract entitles them to do. Their action shows tlie wisdom of Mr. Mackenzie's pkoposal to construct a railway by the North- ern route, * * • * "Now, what are the 'facts' referred to? One of them is that the main line of the rail- way has, to serve the Company's own ends, been made to run for hundreds of miles through a region which the Company them- selves virtually declare to be unfit for settle- ment. Another is that the tendency of scttU - ment has from the first been away from the railway instead of along it, west "of Qu'Ap- fertile belt where the railway was intended to run, and where the Company should have been compelled to construct it. "• • Just as the contented settler is the best possible immigration agent, so the aggneveii one is the most effective deterrent of immigration. If the land west of Qu'Ap- pelle is as bad as the Canadian Pacific Com- pany themselves declare it to be, what pos sible gooil lum be accomplished for either themselves or the country, by mi.irepresenting its real character? The immigrant who set- tles on it will soon find out all about it, ami having been induced to settle tiiere on false )i'etences, he will cherish a very natural lostility for those who have deceived and ruined him. We have never said anythiii;' deprecatory to the North-VVest as a "whole. We have gone to considerable expense to make its great natural resources and agricul- tural capacity known to the world. The Globe has done more m this direction than the Government and the Canadian Pacific Company combined ; but we have never de- scribed the North-West as an unbroken agri- cultir'al paradise. We have known for years that the mid-southern portion of the territorv was occupied by the northern pari of a coiii- parative desert that runs far &,,uth into the United States. We pointed this out long ago, and warned the country of the injury that would be done to all parties if the rail- way were allowed to be deflected through this arid region instead of keeping it within tlic fertile belt, to which the settlers are even now ijoing in preference to following the line of the road. .... " The announcement that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company have refused to ac- cept r.ny portion of their land subsidy along their main line west of Qu'Appelle, will not surprise anyone who has watched the course of evei;^-i. Hy their agreement with the Gov- ernment they are not re(iuired to take any oild nunil)ereil sections which ' consist, in a ma- terial dejiree, of land not fairly fit tor seftle- inent.' By the same agreement the land subsidy ivas to be located along the main line of the railway ' from Winnipeg to tlasper House," that is, through what is known as the Fertile Belt. 'J'he obvious irtention of the clause is thai the road should run through a tract of country the chief part of which is good agricultural land, and that the Company should be permitted to reject such occasional sections as might happen to be largely unfit for agricultural purposes. To please the Com- pany the Government allowed this agreement to be violated. Tlu' former have been permit- ted to divert their main line so far to the south that for hundreds of miles it runs through land which is, on their own admission, unflt for settlement. When they asked lor such an alteration of the contract in their favor, they should have been warned thatthey would pelle. Another is that the Company have j still be compelled to take the chief" part of declined to accept the lands along the railway j their land subsidy along the line of the rail- as part of their subsidy, and are asking t'o way. Thev knew what the lands they wished liave the privilege of selecting them in the 1 to traverse'are like. Their general character 9 intended to lould have d settler is nt, 80 the e deterrent of Qu'Ap- aciflo Coni- what pes tor either ['presenting it wlu) sel- )ont it, and ?re on taise ry natural ceived and 1 anvthing IS a whole, expense to lid agricul- )rld. The ction than an Pacilic '. never de- 'olien agri- n for years le territory t ota com- h into the i out long ihe injury i( the rail- irough this within tlie ' even now the line of • Canadian iised to ao- isidy along e, will not the eonrse 1 the (iov- ke any odd t, in a nia- ; for settle- thc land > main line to tfasper known an tention of in through t' which ia Company Dccasioiiiil rgely unlit L> the Coni- agreemeiit en perinit- ) the south s through sion, unfit (or such leir favor, liey would ot part of if the rail- ley wished character has lieen known tor a quarter of a eentiiry. 'J'hey eonstidileihe northern portion of a great American desert which is projected like the apex of a (tone into CaniKiinn territory, hut which does nut run so far mirth us tlu' route selected liy Mr. Mackenzie for the railwav. rn.ing iiitdsnchachangeot scheme withlhe"ir eyes open, and avoweilly fortheirown henelif, they should now he held to their agreement and compelled to accept their lands wher" they liave chosen to run their road. " Will the Government accede to this most unreasonahle recpiest of tlie railway Coin- ]>any ? Fnfortunately there is very little ground for douhl. The Compa'iy have had many re((iiests to iireler since they undertook the wok, and their recpiest.'. liave alwavs sounded more like demands nuiile than favors asked for. As demands to he complied with, and not favors to tie gr.'inted, thev hnve evi- dently heen regarded hy the Government. 'J'hey have lieen ahle, heretofore, to get what- ever they wanted, and there is only too much reason to helieve that they have'not parted with iinv of the power they are ahle to exer- cise over the Government "whenever they feel disposed to do so. Moreover, the inilications are strongly in favor ,' : " Sir, — 1 ohservethat two articles published in the Ghhe on Saturday, the sth instant, contain statements substantially as t'ollows : '' 1.— That the main line of fliis Company's railway has heen made to run (or hundreds of miles through a country which the Company themselves declare to lie unfit (or setllement. "2 — That the Company have refused to accept any portion of iheir'land subsidy in the belt lying along ine main line west of QirAppelle. "The articles in .nicstiou assume these assertions to be correct, and base upon them a number of ob.servations convevin^ the im- jiression that the whole of the" railway belt from Qu'Appelle to Calgarry is admitted by the Company to he part of the great American desert, and to fall within the exception in the contriu't with the Government which excludes from the land grant lands not (airly fit for settlement. " .\s these statements could not have been made in language better calculated to uiislead the public, to injure this Companv, and to retard the settlement of the North- VVest, even if they had been prompted by the most bitter and malignant desire to .attain those objects, and as they do not merely purport to convey the opinions ot'tlie Glube, hut profess to state the views and to describe the acts of tlie Company, I feel it necessary to correct any erroneous impression the articles mightcreate, by stating the facts. '' I have therefore to say that the assertions in the articles in question as tt) the character of the land along the main line ef the railway west of Qu'Appelle, and as to the views of this Company in respect of that land, are utterly and absolutely unfounded. " That this Company have not, either virtual ly or directly, admitted ordi'claret! the lands in the railway belt west of Qu'Appelle to be in any degree unlit for settlement. " That this Company have not refused or declined toacceptany land west of Qu'Appelle as a portion of their land sulisidy. •• I might content myself with the foregoing categorical denial of the statements made, i^ut to jirevenl niisconceiition, I desire to add that this Company have not contemjilated, and do not contemiilate, refusing or declining to accept any of- the uneven numbered lots in the railway belt west of Qu'Appelle as part of their land grant, except in so tiir as any par- ticular section, for some special reason, may not be tiiirly fit for setfU'inent ; that this Com- ]iany liave examined a large portion of the territory referred to, and are satisfied not only that it is in a material degree fairly fit for settlement, but that to a large extent it con- sists of as line farming laml as is to be found in the North-West 'J'erritories or in any part ol (Canada; and as respects the jiortion of the territory not yet s]iecially examined, they have no reason to doubt that it is of equally good (piality. " I have further to request you to be good enough to give this letter insertion in your paper, in order that the statement of this Company may receive as wide a circulation as the article'to which it refers. I remain, Sir, Your obeilient servant, (JEO. STEPHKN, President. (!oir\inoiiling on this, tho G/obc says : " This is on the whole a reassuring letter. The public will be glad to have Mr. Stephen's opinion of the lands along the line of railway west o( Qu'Appelle, his disclaimer on his company's behalf of any intention to decline these land.s, and his implied admission thai our view o( the obligation resting upon the 10 Company in tlie matter of Hcceptinjj; lands adjacent to the line is the correct one. We regret that the teHtimonv borne by Mr. Steplien to the value of the laniVs between Qu'Appelle and, say, Medicine Hat is not endorsed by all those who travelled over this rejiion, some of whom we liave heretofore regarded as com- petent and disinterested observers; but since the Railway Company have determined to accept these lands as being in general ' fairly fit for settlement,' we do not teel disposed to press that view of the matter as against them. "We pointed out in one of the articles referred to by Mr. Stephen, that when tlie contract with the Company was entered into the ob- vious intention of Parliament was to have the railway lands ciiosen along the line of the railway, excepting only such occasional sec- lions as might from local causes be unfit for settlement. We contended then that when the Company were permitted to change the line oftherailway in their own interest, they should have been allowed to do so only on tlie condi- tion that they must select their lands along the new route, as the original contract bound them to do along the old one. We are glad to see that Mr. Stephen, tor the Company, ]irac- tically accepts this view of the bargain be- tween them and the Government, and to liave his express assurance th.at the lands will be selected on this principle. He en)i)lia.sizes the exception of sections " not fairly lit for settle- ment," but we are not disposed, in the fact of the accompanyino; assurance, to lay any stress on that pomt, and we are quite willing to leave it to time and the event to shew how many sections, or what proportion of the lands in the railway belt, may be rejected by the Com- pany." That is the kind of backing out by which the Globe attempted to reaffirm its malicious falseliood. It will be seen that 1 the correspondent of the Globe at Ottawa, ! first made the statement, and thai it was indorsed by the Globe afterwards. In the month of August the Globe had published a letter from its editorial correspondent, stating that he had been along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, that for miles there was not a tree or shrub to be found ; he said that a large portion of the country that consisted of sand hills, and that the lands were unsatisfactory, then what did he say also ? He said " I regret to say that the hostile attitude of the In- dian population, and the manner in which they are armed, is exciting grievous appre- hensions m this vicinity." The insinuation is, of course, that possibly the settlers might lose their scalps, or that there was danger of uprising and massacre. That was the way the Globe encouraged settle- ment. Within a fortnight after the publi- cation of that statement the Liverpool Courier., of August 22nd, published an editorial article which began with saying, that the Northern Pacific railway was soon to be opened and that a large delegation of capitalists, scientists, politicians and business men of ICngland had been in- vited to make an excursion over it. It continues thus ; "A considerable portion of the line is said to run through fertile cotuilry, but it is also undoubtedly a fact that a considerable portion passes through a sterile and unpromising dis- district, which is confirmed by ni;merons representatives of the Canadian press, ex[)ress- ly told otr to say a good word if possible. Again, it is generally agreed that the locality of the road is such as to render close settle- ment, a highly important factor, practically impossible, and that is the main reason for many intending settlers of the Canadian North-West becoming disheartened and going elsewhere. The demeanor of the I ndians also, is said to be far from favorable, and the man- ner in which they are armed is calculated to excite apprehensii^n." Could anything be more atrocious than the instigation of such an article. It contains the very words used by the Globe about fourteen days before. Now, the same statement was made by the London Adrertser. Immediately those statements were published, the Bishop of Saskatche- wan wrote a letter to the press contradict- ing them, with respect to the Indians, and saying that they were never more docile, and had never shown greater inclination to peaceable pursuits, and to turning their attention to getting their living by agri- culture thus the facts were exactly the opposite of the statement made by the Globe and copied into the Liverpool Courier. I will read in this connection, an article from the Montreal Herald : " There has been apparent in the Globe a malignant spirit, the evidence of a rule or ruin policy — a dtHTmination to accomplish its political purpu^-es regardless of the conse- quences to the higlit r interests of the cuuntry. It is useless for it to pretend that its attempt to prevent settlement in the Canadian Nortli- West, and its puffery of Dakota and other parts of the United States North-West are the result of its regard tor Canadian interests. It need not declare that the slanders it has raised upon all who have had to do with the opening up of the North-West in recent years are intended to promote the prosperity of that country, because no one is silly enough to believe it, What the country sees, what all unprejudiced people understand, is that great pr.v.ic interests are imperilled and 11 an and :ile, tion leir agri- Ihe ilie jool ion, be a I or li.sh luse- itry. ■nipt )rth- ither are ests. has the ears of ugh vhat that and great wrongs committed by a journal which once was a real fnend of the country whose proppects it would now blight in order to reach an ulterior political end. The writers in the Otobe are only deceiving themselves if they imagine the public eye does not penetrate the film of false pretences with whicli they would surround their attacks on the great Nortli- Wcst Their motives are plainly understood, their object is as clear as the noon-day, and their methods are generally condemned as unpatriotic and injurious to the party with which the Globe has been allied in the past." The Herald has always been a promin- ent supporter of the Opposition. I now leave the Globe for a moment and take up the lirantford Expositor. I find the fol- lowing : " There are Canadians we know of to-day who bought land in both Manitoba and Dakota at the .same time and for the same money. Tlie land in the one place is equally as valuable as in the other; yet now, while ofteraofsix dollars an acre in cash are made for tiie Dakota property the Manitoba land can- not be got rid of at any price, or two dollars an acre at the most." I wonder if that could be considered as speaking well of the North-West or not. On the 1 2th of September the following statement appears in the editorial columns of the Globe : " Protes,«or 'J'anner has returned to Tor- onto from the North-West, and although he is reluctarit to anticipate his formal report, which will be published immediately on his return to England, lie states that he does not find the land and water of that uniform high quality which some iiave describt'd it. With prudent cure and proper exercise of gootl judgment both may be obtained he says of a satisfactory character, and under conditions which will favur succesful results. He did not limit his journey to the railroad, which passes through land greatly below the aver- age quality, but drove in direct contact with the tanners holding the liimls. His report is favorable as regards croi)s Ac. Now, let us see what Professor 'I anner really has said. I have given the Globe interviewer's version ; it was half-hearted and discouraging. The attempt is made to represent Prof. Tanner as saying that his experience of the North-West did not warrant him in speaking favorably of that country. Now, there has been no more enthusiastic visitor to the North-West than this same Prof. Tanner, and I may say that before the interview was published, probably in order to prepare for it, the Globg said, referring to Prof. Tanner's report on the model farm in Guelph, that he was tlie highest, and perhaps the most trustworthy authority in his particular de- partment. What then does Prof. Tanner say in his own report ? (I am indebted to a friend for a coi)y of the report itself which has been placed in my hand since I rose to speak.) He gives an astounding contradiction to his interviewer. In his o[)ening remarks he says : " Emigration may be compared to a streant of wealth-producing power flowing into a new country, and as there are zealous agents for various countries eagerly seeking to secure as large a share as possible ot that stream, so we soon find the contest becoming shar'i and active. In the early stages the work is generally fair and legitimate, for the agents simply seek to place before intending emi- grants the important advantages of the coun- tries or districts they severally represent. This is too commonly followed by a series of misstatements as to the countries and dis- tricts which are represented by opposing agents. In order that the attention ot emi- grants may be secured to these misrepresenta- tions, it is found necessary to make them very pungent Piid very startling, otherwise littleor no notice would be taken of them. In this way rival agents whose duty it is to turn emi- grants from Canada, find that the lie.st way for doing so i.< to gi'-e some heartrending nar- rative of the miseries, and possibly the ruin which betel some emigrant who went to Canada. The person who is thus addressed caniKjt possibly judge whether the narrative be true or false, and thus in many cases he is led to believe that there must be some truth in the tale, because so many people tell liim ot similar difficulties and misfortunes. He appears to forget that for each Canadian agent there will be ten or a dozen representa- tives of other ilistricts. " One illustrative fact may be useful at this point, although it is but one of 10,000. I shall have occasion hereafter to draw atten- tion to the very successful settlement which has been establislied in the North-West of Cnnada, by the assistance rendered to her tenantry by Lady Gordon-Cathcart. As the first detachment other settlers were travelling to their ilestination, it became necessary for them to pass through a portion of the United States in consetjuence of the Canadian Pacific Railway being then incomplete." And it is intended, if the policy of the gentlemen in Opposition could be carried out that it shall remain incomplete — that emigrants shall pass through the United States unless they travel to the North-West during the season of navigation. He con- tinues : — " In doing so they were met by a number of persons who were to all appearance ordinary 12 fellow tmvellpr(=. Tliese urged tlioiii to re- main ill the Stiites, wliilst, the extraordinary accounts they gave of tlie North-WcMt of Can- ada filled their minds with di.suppointmcnt and fear. Some said they could not escape the fearful floods of the spring, others assured them they would he baked hy tlie tearfully hot suniiner, wliilsl {inolher group knew perfectly well that they would he frozen in winter. Am tliiy proceeded they gradually discovered the trick which had been played upon them, and they laughed at the doubts which had been so v'^asily raised. ' ' And now that you have t-eltled here, what •do you think of the place?' I eiKpiired of one ul' the party. "'Aye sir,' he reverently replied, * it is really a GodI" •ountry.' Incidents ujch as these are simply number- less in their variety and form, for there are large numbers of persons who are thus em- ployed throughout the emigration season, and whose duty it is to persuade emigrants to settle in some otlier district than that to which they are journeying.and these agents are remuner- ated accoi'ding to their success. In the ins- tance which I have quoted, the deception was attemjjted in the United States, but I neeil .scarcely say that there is no monopoly of virtue on either side of the Boundary Line tor if it is six to one it is hall a dozen to the other. " It has been a source of much surprise to me thai so very large a proportion of these lands should be of such a thoroughly useful character, and it is certainly undesirable to give an undue prominence to small portions which may be supposed to possess objection- able conditions." That is not the tone the Globe used in speaking of Professor Tanners report, he continues : — "Even if it he admitted (as has been stated) that the Canadian Pacific Railway does run through a district having, in so'me parts, u rather larger proportion of alkali laiKltlian is usual, it is also true that if you drive away from the railway, either on the north or on the south of the line, this alkali almost inimediately disap- pears. When the route of this railway Iiad to be decided upon, various considera- tions influencetl the minds of the engineers en- gaged upon the work, beside the quality of the land. The imperial requirements and the economy of construction doubtless received due consideration, and I venture to entertain a confident hope that any ditiiculties arising from alkali land will soon be known only a-, a thing of the past. Rather let every well- wisher of Canada rejoice that the glorious result of opening up so many thousands of square miles of valuable prairie land has been 60 promptly accomplished at so small a cost to the colony, and especially at a time when it will offer a home to many thousands who seek for the land which now lies ready for their use. Here, then, wheat lands are avail- able which even the strongest opponent of Canada must admit are unsurpassed in the world, and as these become occupied by suc- cessful cultivators they will not only produce an enormous amount of freight for the railway but they will become large consumers of Eng- lish manufactures, and they will give a power to Canada in which every patriot will rejoice. " They soon commenced ploughing the turf of the [)rairie, simjily covering in their pota- toes with the fresh-turned turf. They also sowed their wheat and oats upon the newly turned sod. Very rough style of farming, many will be disposed to say, still it must be remembered that they had no choice, but the results caused them no regret. Within eight weeks from the time of planting the potatoes they were digging their new crop, and before two weeks had passed I had some of those potatoes for dinner, ami 1 do not hesitate to say that tor size, flavor and maturity they were excellent. "On account of the bracing, dry atmos- phere the fluctuations of temjjerature are not inconveniently felt, as is 'he case where the atmosphere is more humid. The warm days in summer are generally followed by cool evenings, 'xnd such ■: thing as very sultry ancl oppressive heat is -oarcely known. ' The warm days, followed by cool" nights ant' quotes the following from the Edmonton Bulle- tin : "While (iovernniental injustice and popular discontent, lack of'iinniigration and dull times, are prevalent in the Nortli-West, the inferior adjoining lands of Minnesota and Dakota are filling up rapidly, and a very large percentage of the incoming population are Canadians." Commenting on this, the Globe says : — "The American pres.s is already holding out to our distressed bretliren active sympathy. and promise ot'lielp. In one day'vS exchanges we find nearly a dozen of the most iiitiuential papers in the Union telling the people ot Manitolia tliey must break with the Dominion, which is treating them so scandalously. Let there be no more ot ostrich-like tucking of the head in tht; sand and refusing to see what is patent to everyboily. The organization luove- nient of Manitoba means business. It means that justice must be done. Ottawa methods must be revolutionized, and that quickly." At the farmers' meeting in Manitoba, reported in the Winnipeg Sun, and the report reproduced in the Globe, one of the speakers said : — " It is all very well to talk of loyaltv to tiie Dominion, but we must be loyal to ourselves and to our families, and I fail to see iiow we can be loyal to ourselves ami to them it we any longer submit to the arbitrary and des- potic Government by wliich we are at present controlled. Gentlemen, I do not wish to be ruisundorstood. 1 am no annexationist. I Bhould be sorry to see Britain despoiled of any part ot her Provinces. But if the oppressive rule of Ottawa is to continue any longer, I fear that the secession of this Province from the Dominion of Canada will be inevitable." There is no remonstrance on the part of the Globe, no suggestion that it would be better for the people to come in a temperate inanner to the (Government and ex|)lain their grievances and seek legitimately to have them redressed. The same article states that not having access to the proper markets, grain cannot be profitably grown in Manitoba. If that is so, it strikes at the whole future ot the North-West. There is no refutation of that in the Globe : it ]iublishes the state- ment and seems to gloat over it. Then, the Globe states :— " It is bad enough that 30,000 Canadians are now in a few of the northern counties alone ot Dakota, who should be on our side of the line. It is worse that the tide of immi- gration lias been turned away b^' misgovern- ment." Hex. MfR. POWER— Hear, hear ! mis- government ! Hon. Mr. PLUMB— The Globe re- produces an article from the New York Sun on the Manitoba movement, which it describes as " perhaps the best American article which has yet appeared on the sub- ject of the North-West Troubles." The Sun article is as follows : "While Dakota has divided against itself, a number ot excited citizens in the bordering Province of Manitoba are uniting in the re- s(jlve to get better treatment from the Dom- inion Government or else to cast their fortunes with Dakota and the Unite.l States. The grumbling of the sturdy Briton and of the nu'rcurial French Canadian re-echoes along the sad Assiniboine, and is borne along to the lodging houses of Winnipeg, ' the first city of the great Nort-West.' "In fact, there isa veryseriousstateof things in Manitoba, and we take pleasure in calling the attention of our esteemetl contemporaries in Canada and En;,iand, who have always afforded so much encourgenient to the rebels of other nations, to tiiese possible rebellious and certainly very angry persons in the North-West. " " The causes of the excitement which now prevails among ths Manifobans are compara- tively lew, but they are definite enough, so that it cannot be diflicult for the statesmen of tlie Dominion to investigate the alleged griev- ances and to take steps to remedy them, if they are found to exist. There is an immense area of territory in Manitoba upon which no settlement have / 14 been maile. The Miinitobans nscert that tlieir hin(l and the nianapi-iiieiil of it belong to them, ami tliat tlie Doiniriioii Govcriiinent ouglit to let it alone, instead ol' attcniptini; to pass laws in ri'j;aril to it. Tliey innist tliat the tiiianciul policv anil the railroad policy of the Dominion Govt'i'nmetil are against the in- terests of Manitoba. They say that tiiis Pro- vince can never he prospercms while the Canadian Pacilic Railroad enjoys a tnonopoly and charges e.\orliitai;t freight rates. Tliese rates are so high as to make ii almost im|joH- sible to send to market the agricultural pro- ducts, on the sale of which ai a pnjiit the set- tlers must mainly rely lor support. They dcmanil that charters siiall be granted to compi'ting niilroa'ls, and denounce the Dom- inion Government lor refusing su<:li ijl.arters. They insist that the present nigh piotective tariir is ii permanent check to the growth of the Province. The high duty on airriculinral implements is an especial grievance. ll either keeps out of the Province persons wlio would otherwise settle there or it becomes a heavy burden on all persons who are en- gaged in agriculture." I call esjiecial attention to the clos- ing paragraph, which sounds soniewliat strangely in view of the items already <]UOted from the enormous prohibitory tariff of the United States. The article also slates that there does not seem to be " any immediate probability that the tariff will be reduced to any sufficient extent." It seems to have been written in with un- consciousness of the exorbitant United States Tariff, and of the unavailing attem- pts that have been made to modify it. There is no prospect held out to the settler in the United States that their tariff, which is double ours, will be reduced. The Sun thinks the Globe is mistaken in saving that the Manitoba agitation is not an an- nexationist movement, because the Glohe admits that "Before even entertaining the thought of breaking oti'fron; the Federation, they will do «very thing in their power by consiituiional means to arouse the Government and country to a sense of duty; and failing in that, afteV a reasonable time, tliey certainly will aiiopt other means tor securing their rights, and thev will be justified in so doing." What the otiier means will be is evident. The Free Press goes on to say : — "At the present time there is intense feeling against the Government iu several sections of the country — much more intense than is gen- erally supposed. But little would be reipiired to stir it into actual violence. We h'lve suth- cieiit confidence in the ^ id sense oi the peo- ple, how( /er, to believe that they will not allow themselves to be led into any demon- fitration of hostility. Let then give the Gov- eriimenl no rest until their wronRs are riglit- ed." "There is a fine little tempest brewing in Manitoba, and we shall watch it carefullv. A studied ap{)earaii(^e of moderation and an organization by delegates and representative bodies have preceded greater revolutions than Manitoba is likely to produce. But the pro- i:ess is interesting, am) the Dominion Govern- ment will probably yield." Here is another instance of fanning the flame of the country at which the Globe has so long l)een busy : — "Testimony is rnpidiy accmuulating to prove the utterly fatmuis character of the Government's North-West land regulations, i^ven lifelong Conservatives are awajtening to the magnitude ofthe mistake that has been m ^'. and are protesting against the Govoriu nient'.- gameof playing liirectly into the hands of Dakota. That the honestly intentional squatter should be helile entitled to no re- muneration for the improvvinents effected by him is an outrage of the first magnitude, and however such conduct may be ciiaracterized by the Government and its officials, private (titi/.ens accustomed to the use of hanl, homely Hnglish, call it confiscation The (iovernment lured well-meaning land hunters by fine promises to camp upon their reserves while instructing their agents to hustle them off the premises and confiscate their belong ings. The settlers are hopelessly set hack in their struggle for an honest subsistence. The (iovernment or the Canadian Pacific Railway, as the case may be, comes into tii(^ possession of an imj)roved property, the product of a poor man s toil." In view of the "utterly fatuous" and l)rohibitory character of the land regula- tions of the late (Iovernment, the follow- ing extract from the Globe incendiary, as usual, sounds particularly impudent : " ' An, Old Settler' writes to the Winnipeg Free Press advocating peaceable separation of Manitoba and the North-West from the Dominion as a remedy for the oppressive customs taritt and railway monopoly under which that part of Canada is suffering, as well as for the fatuous land policy of the Do- minion Government. That the people of Manitoba are sufi'ering severe but needless hardships in a variety of ways as the result of misgovernment at Ottawa is manifest to the most superficial observer; but have they ex- hausted all possible means of redressing their grievances within the constitution ? On the last occasion when the Kailwaj question was lip bet(jre iheni, they virtually endorsed the policy of disallowing Provincial charters by returning the Norquay Gover; tnent to power. If the Manitohans really want the railway monopoly broken up they should say so." The Globe heads an article on the aoth 15 I)cct;nil)er, "Manitoba Rights. What the Prairie Province farmers think about the N. P. Dominion Clovernment ar- raigned. The people's rights as British sul)je(ts fairly set forth. Magna charta the second." In that it claims : " That the Province should iii.sist upon the nlisohUf control of her public ItiiidH, ' inchul inj; si^hool land.*,' by tlic lit'sjislature of the Province, and cuiiipensation for the lands sold and used for Federal purposes; (hat the duty on a^rricullural implements and building ma- terials lie removed, and the Customs tarill on articles eiiterinown with monopoly. Threatening to burn elevators and tear up railways. The situ- ation very serious." Tlie correspondent says : " All tliroiigli the controversy wliicli iia.< been raging in regard to tlie Government ol tliis country no iiew-jiapcr lias displayed a fuller knowledge ot the requirements of this country than tiie Globe, uor has it gone be- yond the nuirk in predicting that, unless good governnient be at once vouchsafed to us, our Cosition in Coiifeiferation will every day ecotne more a matter of form, and that finally we will shake ourselves loose t'rou) the mon- otonous burden and seek some more conKenia! government. There is no doubt fiial the Canadians are a loyal people; they love tlieir institutions and their traditions, but they are common sense people as well, and will not allow their generous sentiments to he used against them to compel them to sit still while other loval people are steadily accomplislung their rum. " The day has gone l)y when, by a peculiar perversion, forms of government were wor- shipped for themselves, and every Canadian, at any rate, has learned that governments are made for the conveniences of men, and not men for the glory of governments Tlie day has come when the lumbering blue mould appendages of Government must be scattered to tlie four winds, and when a system ot gov- ernment i.s chosen like a particular kind ot reaping machine — because it is the best lor the purposes for which it is required, and for no mysterious or awful reason whatever. This is especially the case in Manitoba and the North-West. The country is young, the population is made up of all nationalities, people have come here to make money. We are independent of the eastern Provinces We are not independent of the United States. We have almost tlie certainty of a short ocean ronte to the ''Id World by means ol Hudson Hay, and, in fine, we are too young and too vijrorous to be plundered by a number of men under the constitutional guise of a govern- ment. ..... " The feeling in this country is one of dis- content and widespread resentment. The organizations whicli have b 'en formed tlirou;:lK)Ut the country by the farmers are not for the purpose of whilinj; away the winter merely. It has come to be with theiu a struggle for e.\isteiice, under the crushing weight of monopolies fostered and legislation fathered by tiie Federal Government, and it they are unsuccessful in demanding redress they will either adopt iiiii onstitutional means to brinj; their troubles before tlie notice of the Government, or rather gather up their beloiij'- injrs and follow the disappointed train whiidi daily (irosses the international boundary. It seems hardly necessary to say what is driving them away." The tanff on "agricultural im- plemenls is death to them. » • • • fn Manitoba City to day the indignant people are threatening to burn ilown the elevators and ))ull np the railway track. Peaceable and practical as the settlers are, special watch- men are required to save the property of these monopolies from devastation. A central inilignatiiiii meeting will be held at Brandon, on the 2t)tli inst., when delegates will attend from Winnipeg and many towns throuj;hout the country, and in the meantime whatshould have been peaceful settlements are placarded with hostile posters, damning a long and sveary series of monopolies. The evils of the elevator monopoly are due to the Canadian Pacific Railway. Ogilvie built elevators here and there along the track of the railroad. Every bushel ot wheat must go through an Ogilvie elevator or be shipped on Canadian Pacific Railway cars. No other elevator can be built because the Canadian Pacific Railway owns the land and v-ill not allow it. Every bushel of grain which is elevated incurs a charge of three cents, and every bushel which is not elevated must be re-shipped at Grena or Duluth at a cost often cents, as the Cana- dian Pacific Railway refuse to allow through cars by otiier line — and their yards are full of them — to be loaded witii any of the grain. " Is it much wonder that firebrands and rebellion are talked of in Southern Manitoba? Are we to believe reports that four out of every six fiunilies there Siltlfd will cross the interna- tional f)oundary bf iore another spring? " It would be well to remember that though ther:; is a Canadian sentiment here, a senti- ment is in any case but limited in its power as a spring of action. It would be well not to forget that the business men of this country are under obligations to Americans for what support they have received and are receiving during this financial trial." Just after this the general manager of 17 the Canadian Pacific Railway wrote to the Globe to say that my hon. friend, ^^r. Ogilvie, and his firm, never had the mon- opoly of the elevator business ; that the Canadian I'acific Railway had certain rules as regards construction of elevators to i)ro- tect neighboring station buildings from fii-e, and that any man who wished to build an elevator could get uermission to do so by complying with the same rules that were enforced by all the other railways in the U'est. There are over 300 elevators on the line, and my hon, friend certainly does not own them all. 'i'here is com- petition in wheat buying and storing wher- ever there is business to warrant it, and there has been every encouragement given by the Company to such competition. The cry was started for the purpose of injuring the Canadian Pacific Railway, the country through which the railway passes, and the (Government which had to do with the building of the railway. 'J'he Globe says, speaking of the land regulations :— "It i." but natural tliat they compare their own condition with that of tlio settlers wlioni •he reservations and the regulations drove out of tiie Canadian Nortii-West to he treated very differently at the other side ot the line. Mr. Macpherson, unless lie is bound to make no material change in the disastrous policy of his predecessor, may easily gain a high reputation by merely undoing as tar as pos- sible the mischief that has been done, ana by so amending the regulations as to remove the numberless barriers which now stand in the way of settlement." Hon. Mr. POWER- is sound. -Hear, hear I That Hon, Mr. PLUMB— -Yes, but nothing more. On November 24th the Globe stated :— "Our correspondent whose letter we pub- lished yesterday, states once more the griev- ances of wliich the settlers in the North- West complain. They are burdened with monopo- lies, burdened with enormous taxation, liarassed and worried by land regulations which are as absurd in some respects as they are nnjutst in others, and renaered almost desperate by misgovernment. From some districts it is almost impossible to get the wheat to a market. Those who do reacli a market find that, o^ving to railway monopoly and to an elevator mor.opoly which has lately been added to ail tht other grievances, they can get no more th?n sixty cents, insiead of the ninety cents which it should now be worth. The complaints of settlers, while they came from individuals, were unheeded at Ottawa, " The Tory organs say that the North- West land regulations are more lilieral tiian those o( Dakota. Hut as the Manitoba Free. Press says : ' Dakota's land regulations bave not driven Amcricaim into Manitoba. Can it ite truthfully affirmed that our land regulations havedrivfn no Canadians to Dakota? ' Un- fortunately it can not. The whole country is so '^iven over to monopolists, and favorites, and political parasites, and everything is managed so entirely in their interest, tliat thousands, desj)airing of justice or unable to find in all that vast territory a place on which they could settle in safety, fled across the lines. And thoy continue to flee in vast num- bers even to this day. Professor Bryce, of Manitoba College, in an interview, the report of wliicli will be found elsewhere, stated that ho found 1 larfje district in Dakota thickly settled, in which of the two or three hundred families all bnt twenty or thirty were Cana- dians, He knows" seven Presbyterian ministers, Canadians themselves, whose con- gr<>gations arc Canadians. In the part of Northern Dakota which he knows there are thirty thousand Canadians. These people still retain their love for Canada, and would not have left it if bad laws and misgovern- ment had not driven them out. What Prof. Bryce says only confirms what has been so often said of the exodus of Canadian settlers from the Canadian North- West, The mono- pulista, the land-grabbers, the political narasites, and the swarm of adventurers wlioin tlie Government would help to devour the products of the settlers' labors, were so greedy that they drove out ' the country all the settlers who could gel out," About the time that was written Mr. Moore, a well-known citizen of Toronto, returned from a trip through the Canadian North-West, and delivered an address at Shaftesbury Hall. His address was pub- lished in several of the Toronto papers ; I could not find that it appeared in the Globe. It was a matter of public informa- tion, and the newspapers generally endervor to give such information to the public, but it was favorable to the North-West, favor- able to the mangement of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the lands along the line, and it did not find a place in the Globe. 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IS i3 « ■.'ii!'i«j J')); ^ O trt s :2 g ■.)H!.)ii,i -iia -H Tl C5 2^88 71 CO « •jui.)Ba -uio -1 00 c and elsewhere in the |)ress aiul in I'.irliament, intended to dis- courage emigration, and to show that the settler is more liberal!) treated by roads whi( h are doing the same kind of business, through the agri( ullural country on the other side of tile line. 1 wrote lately to the manager of the (!anadian Pacific Kailway ( allmg his attention to a state- ment in the Glohe that a bushel of wheat is worth So cents in Winnipeg, and the cost iif taking it to l,iveri)ool i.>i $1.07. 'I"hf manager replied : " ()n till' opt'iiiii;.' ul iiiiviiifttion (iiir rati' (roin Wiiiiiipi'g t«i Mdiiti'cid will not Ix' fur t'nmi Iwt'iity-Hix ct'iit- per IhihIu'I, and us the nitt'.-* Irnih Moiitrt'iil to Livcrpoul iiveragc uhuiit h;{ cents pi>r quivrtor, the tlirmi^li rate from Wiiinipcyr to Livi'r|).inl will jirdtiulily lie sotin'tliiiij; miller to cent.- per hiisliel, inclmJ- iiig insurance Ar." I also sent him a letter of the Manit(j|)a correspondent of the (i/olh' in which he said that a prime necessity in \Vinnipeg was stone for building cellars : tliat it was carried over a branch of the Canadian Pacific Railwav from Stony Mountain ; that they could not get it elsewhere, and that the rate charged from Stony Mountain to Winnipeg when the Mackenzie (lovern- menl ran the road was only $5 per car load of three cords, and that it is now $14.40 per car of two cords. In reply the manager ^ays ; " I liavp to say that I ain unable to discover any evidence that there was a railway in orieration in Manitoha durinj' the Mackenzie Cfoverninent, and I'lirtlier that our rate on Stone from Stony Mounlaiii to Winnipeg in $1.20 per ton." " That disposes of another malicious in- vention. Now, I will finish what I have to say on this subject, by comparing the North-West land regulations, which are so strenuously com[)lained of, with those of the United States. I think hon. gentle- men will see that some reckless and malicious attacks have been already suc- cessfully refuted, and will not refuse to listen to what I have to say, so long as it is pertinent to the general argument. The statement upon the land policy which I am aboui ir^ read from the Mail, I pre- pared myself. I carefully examined the United Slates land laws, and the synopsis which I have given is strictly accurate, and (in be readily verified by any one who chooses to refer to published regu- lations. Mr. Ma( farland,thc I'nited States Com- missioner of the I.anil ()fti:e, indeed, if theri' were none dis- appointed or dissatisfied anu)n;^ the thousands who have undertaken a new lite which cannot be wholly exempt from privation und iianl- ship. Some of these may ;^o across the liorder, but we believe that Mr. Scott, M. I', lor \V'inni|te railway in the United States simihirly situated. The Unitc'l State-i ( "ommissioner says the abuses of the homestead law have been so great that he recommends that the Ciov- ernment r.|i(.Ml the .\it altogether. When we are told tluil lUii homestead settlers in the North- West are groimd down by our tariff it should not be forgotten that they received their laiul.s as a free gift. They took them with a full knowledge that the tariff was in full oiieration. No one for a moment supposed that they could be specially exemptetl from it. I'hey certainly have no reason lo( omphiin; it W..1 not p.is.ied after Ljeneral settlement began aiul the lion. j.ientlemen on the opposite side seem .ilways to forget that there was a seventeen and a half per cent, tariff not only on agricultural implements, but on the greater part of the necessaries of life prior to the [iiesent increase. Our tariff Act was acknowledged by Mr. Mac- kenzie to have r.iised duties only from seventeen and a h.ilt to twenty two and a half per cent, on the average, and yet the argument of our opponents seems to be based on the assumption that we have put the whole tax now levied by the tariff on those articles ; that we had found a free list and had levied duties to the average amount of twenty two and a half per cent. It is well to remember that until 1874 upon the general list of the tariff the rate of duty was fifteen per cent. It was rai.sed in 1S74, by Mr. Cartwright to seventeen and a-half per cent. Alarming deficits resulted and to recoup the Treasury and restore the e(piilibrium between re- ceipts and expenditures as well as to pro- tect our industries, the present tariff, as I have said before, was increased from seven- teen and a-half per cent, to twenty-two and a-half per cent, average in the first session of the Parliament elected in 1878, under the sanction of a great majority of members. As an issue at the general election of 1882, it was sustain- ed by the return of a large majority of sup- porcers of the Government. 22 I think it was due to myself under the hon. gentleman's challenge to vindicate my former assertions in respect to what seems to L:e a persistent intention to mis- represent the condition of the North-West and of its settlers. I have befoie me many more extracts from the Globe, in support of my position which would take up too much time to read, and I have already trespassed on the patience of the House. At least fifty such attacks as I have noticed have l)cen published in that paper within the six months, all bearing upon and cor- rolwrating my statement. During October, November and December, they appeared almost daily. I would net have ventured to address the House this afternoon had I not kn(jwn that there was no other business before it, and that I should occupy time that would i')t interfere with the public business. But the hon. gentleman chal- lenged me, and when a statement was made on the other side of the House with regard to the Canadian Pa*,;'. Railway rates, I felt that those statements rec[uired to be corrected ; and the House will see that I have shown that a great political newspaper in this Province and its echoes have taken advantage of every opportunity either by indirection, by innuendo, by in- sinuation or by direct attack to decry or oppose the progress and settlement of the invaluable heritage of Canada ; and also to impede and if possible thwart the operations of the railway v.'hich has been making such progress towards opening up that country, and •ruin its credit. Within the last two or three days we heard — I will not say exactly how or where, because I cannot refer to a previous debate — an echo of the Globe in a statement made on the floor of this House to the effect that a large number of settlers were going to Dakota. It is but a few days ago that ihe newspaper to which I have referred asserted that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, not satisfied with the advance which had been made to it, had applied to the Government, took it by the throat and demanded another $5,ooc,ooo. It was circumstantially stated, and stated in a way that was calculated to injure seriously, if not to ruin the financial standing of the Company, and although it failed of its intended effect, it was fjuoted by the " Bear " interest in Wall street and everywhere else where people were speculating in Canada Pacific Rail- way stock. The assertion of the Globe was that Mr. Stephen, the President, and Mr. Drinkwater, the Secretary of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company were here last week and had an interview with Sir John Macdonald in which they impera- tively demanded the loan. At the time Mr. Stephen was in Montreal preparing to go to lingland, and he actually sailed on Saturday. In the meantime, before his departure, he published a full denial of every statement in the article in question, and it has been denied by a Minister on the floor of Parliament. I wish to call the attention of hon. gentlemen to the fact, to show what reliance can be placed on the statements of a leading journal which lends itself to the promulgation of false- hoods for which it can give no shadow of excuse or justification and, as in this in- stance, when the falsehood is exposed and refuted, no explanation or apology has been given. Such a course is an insult to its readers and to the public. The hon. gentleman from Halifax, in constituting himself the champion of that portion of the Opposition press which has been hostile to the settlement of the North- West, gave me a fair opportunity to make a statement which I intended to be an exhaustive one, and I believe I have made it so. I must aj)ologize for having luken up so much time, but everything I have stated has been based upon authority which is authentic in every way, and I shall hand in the memorandum which I have read in regard to comparative freight rates, which I consider most important, to have placed in the record. Dr. Tanner's contradictions of the statement of the Globe respecting the conditions of the lands on the Pacific Railway I shall also hand to the reporter ; I beg to submit that it is a sufficient refutation of the state- ment that the original route for the road as located by the Macken^ie Oovernment was a better one than that which now passes through the richer and better set- tled portion of Manitoba and the fertile belt of the North-West, to state that it reaches the invaluable coal districts of Calgarry and Bow River, and I thank the hon. gentleman from Halifax for having unintentionally, no doubt, given me this opportunity. Pacific Rail- of the Globe 'resident, and etary of the ompany were ntervicw with 1 they impera- At the time .1 preparing to ally sailed on le, before his full denial of i in question, )y a Minister I wish to call en to the fact, be placed on journal which ition of false- no shadow of as in this in- i exposed and apology has is an insult to The hon. I constituting portion of the een hostile to ^'^est, gave me a statement haustive one, so. I luken up so have stated )rity which is '. shall hand have read in eight rates, nportant, to Dr. Tanner's iient of the tions of the vay I shall )eg to submit I of the state- tor the road Government which now I better set- i the tertile state that it I districts of nd I thank Halifax for loubt, given I