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M.l', fur West Toronto, delivered the following Hpcecli on ihc election outivigort in Wast Huron and Hrock- viUo: Mr. Speaker, tlie hour is late, and but for the fact tiiat I do not tresiui-^H very h.iig on the time of tlie HoUiH' whcMi I do addix'Hs it 1 would not Kpeak to-night. What a wonderful array we have had of technical ddences ot hand. It is iM-r- fectly marvellous to find one lawyer alter an- other on the ( Jovcriinu'nt side, getting uj) and quoting from law books and law ca.ses, as d they were arguing to defend not merely one criminal, but many cnininalK; the^^c criminals are having very strong and very able advocates in Uie mem- berd of the Ciovermueut and their supporters. NO MERE TlfiCUiSlCALlTIES. We ore not iicrc, 1 take ii, to discu.^s more tech- nicalities, or how one man can iirotect another man from the r^f^nalties of h's fraud. We are here, 1 take It. ti> br'nu' criininaU to justice. All the Fpecchcs of nicndwr^ of the (toverninent and their supporters have been for tne purpone ot whitcwasJiing criminals; but they are not succeed- imr 'J'hat there has been eler and honest inr|uiry. Nowr, 1 if a great fraud has been per|H'trated, as a great fraud has been perpetrated, it will not excuse the liovernment to say that for technical reanoiM this is not tiie way to bring these criininuls to justice, and you Hhould have proceeded other- wise. C'IUMINAl>i UEIN(; SHKi;iKHEI). The Government can only justify them- aelvcB by saying, this fraud has been lUTi^etratert, and we will use our bc-t endeavours to bring the criminalH to jii!»tice. Hut one lawyer after an- other gels up and argue as if he were in court, quoting from cases and giving reasons wliy thece men should not he brought to in-* ice at the court tliat hart been opened. I say nothituT about that; I say at once that I do not know whether or not it waB the right way to proceed: but the couit hiving been ojicned for the trial of theoe rriiiiinals. their trials ahonld be < oncbidcd. Th' T'ovcrnmcnt know they are criminals, the count knowd they are criminals, we all know th" crininal.». You may try to nhield their like. From what 1 saw of the ope^a^' com.^ittee last year, s{;<;aking for myself indi- vidually, if 1 had been an uutaidir, observing a case in which I had no interest, 1 would have come away saying that the Government advocates were trying to shield the criminals and burk the inquiry; and the action of the CJovernment now, in siiying that the: will not carry on that in- quiry, but will refuse it, juntihes, 1 think, to the fullest extent my impression of what 1 saw. No •mount of special legal pleading can justify them in the eyes of the jH-'oplc. The hon. the Minister of Marine mudc what he considered a magnihcent ineiuia who had cojnjuitled frauds were w( fully straight and honc«t, and could not l>y any j)08»ibility have committed these frauds. He argued t!\at the old farmer, whose hand was all knuckles and warts, had been bnjught before the committee to ijJiow how he could manipulate the «--ii^f« and had shown by his clumsiness that he - -i^no the sleight of-hand «nuld not possibly navw v. r J runbutcd fo him. Hut if that old genw- nian ha.1 sense and eunmng """"K^' '';"''^;''"^', « the balloU in rnvate, as no doubt 1»« J'^^'- ^^»« certainly had sense and cunning enough to .vp- l^t very awkward when before the committee. OBTAINED SEATS FHALULLiDMX^- The man who puts a pea under one thimble ap- Bcara T'erv awkward man to a oountry green- Torn .ben douig It, but is one of t^- cleverest manipulators m the country. And the men ^^ uo "ruipulatcd these frauds were as cunning and well educated in that particular Ime a* the Smble ringer at the fair. 1 was W "^^/^ « ^j^" prised at the claim of the last speaker Mr. leU Uiat because the hon. member tor NN^t "' nn W oven rejecting the ballots discovered to be fraudulent. sliU a majority of seventy or ejght>% consequently the fraud did not effect !"« ^ ^^'^^ .t all and waa not of mterest to the HouPe^ Wei- I claim that if there had been fraud to the ertent of only one ballot, that affected the whole :[it.n! no natter even if the gentleman elected hS 400 ballot3 of a majority in his favour^ 1 «ay that the man who sits here representing that consUtuency is sitting here fraudulently, and 1 Souldrvery sorry to think | -"•^^^-J/^J- .elf to realize that an honourable man could re Uin his seat in this House and vote under the conditions that hon. ^^""^'"'•.'^''h^the Prime Province of Ontario was described by th« *V.me Minister, when he ca ue in to power as his right hand..^6ntario. he thinks, is .still his right hand to.d.y. but that province has nhown to this coun Uy sich a ma^s. and such a system ^^«='«"^'^« l^rruptiou as has never before been exhibited m other part of the Dominion. 1 here is not a in this House, there i« not a member of th« .BUHit. that i. not ashamed when he thinks lity and the corruption and tl^e l'>* RCt«d ia the Uirturio elections. TO^K Jj L . DESTROYING THE EVIDENCE. The ballots in connection with one of the elec- tion-', whicii were vtry important fur the trial and bringing to justice of the men who had stolcu that election, were rcijuired when the investiga- tion eume before the courts. Hut unfortunately the ballots had shared the fate of the city ot Hull; they had been burnt, ihere was no morai insurance upon tlicm. If it had been possible for honest men to take out a policy to insure pro- tection of those ballots, the insurance company would have required a i)reniium of many hundred per cent, if they knew the ballots had been m the custody of the men implicated in these trauds. This is one of the things that I feel very keenly about. 1 feel that the election frauds affect my own individual honour and the honour ot every man in Canada, and 1 say that there has been U wave of corruption passing over this country since the present Uovcrnment have come into power. CRIME MUST NOT BE CONDONBJX I hope that this cou"' * '•'• _^vty ^i^ n"t be so d»- , ,„„ ^ -odone what has been done to T' Sv^ O'J- svh.a may have been done .n he- day, ' e^^r; " uia ^ay to the parly m power thatr. •'"'^V^'r ^r"aive party were guilty m thf ''■ '^'' /l^:lnZi<^l winch these hon. gentle • past oi t'^V'^^- '"^,; i,,,,.^ Mi.proved upon that men denounce. MkJ nave . . themselves m corruption and i^'-e no-:r k^epln* .^ ^^ power by means of it. 1 ani /rt-^-pavv. ,, ^j. without any hesitation, that 1 had a (f.ttsl «*^ sympathy with the Liberal party before trtti ia-^ election. I felt that the other party had beeti perhaps toe long in power, ond 1 had a sort of half belief that the promises and professions of' honesty and honour which the Liberal party made before they came into office would more or kss be carried out. Hut have we seen one single I " tary instanc-e of thisY ^Vrtainly not «n;j I have been in this House. 1 have seen a t.o\ern lent that has made me ashamed of my eountrjv "have sLn an attempt to put througli the Yukon Hill which was simply a gigantic steal. 1 have sc^n tue Drummond deal P"\ through which- was a most iniquitous transaction. i*e Jon^ member for King..ton (Mr. Hritton), m talking. St ihi« corruption said that it -J- a -a'^ matter not worth bothering about. Well, it ine hon me "ber for Kingston and the otjer f oUm^ crs ofS™ tiovernment, and the members oi the since I have been a member. ^JJ\^^1^^''\U >,nvP the country that we ought to 'i*^^'""** dSeri to have, we should have the member, ot the Gowrnment honeet. TRYING TO SHIELD CORRUPTION. I am not cavilUng about a little bit <^ extravaffance. We may differ about t»»* ">^- peadTt^ o« one public work and another, % ♦ L> 1 ..J-, 1 4' it ce le: O -j^ u t r the country c n stand it. But there is one thing we cannot stand. Ihere is a greater dia- honeiity than steal-ng mon( y from tne truasury of tlje counti*>— the dishoneflty of etoaJing the frauchiw! from the jieoi'le. ihia country can HtHind the utoaling of nultions of money, humili- ating and d?gn(ding aa that may be; but this country cunnut ^tand tlio slightest attcmiit on the part of Ihi, (Jovcrumcnt or of any man to shield election corruption. The CJovernment have tried for the last two gc^uions to siiield corrup- tion such UB h-'s never been unearthed before — it may have existed, but it never before came to the surface wliere the Government couhl grapple witii it and check it. England ia tiRhting to-day, and we are lighting to-day, for what? Wo are sending our sons to Africa to defend the right of suffrage, the right of proper representation of the men who own property. The Government todiiy are trying to suppress the honest opinion of tlj« people, they are trying to do that as* eflfectually as Krugcr and the Hoers tried to t-up- prcss the voting of the men who '.»y their money and their work have made South Africa. J he (iiovernment, in trying to suppress this inquiry into fraud so great tiiat the whole country feels degraded by it, is defending corruplioni.-t-8. As a question of- moral wrong, it is greater than the Yukon deal or the Druminond county deal. LTBEI/AL' I)KKENDEH8 OF COHRUFHON. , • • • • ■ • - -. rr--" May I suggest to ih^_ Minister of Manne and Fisheries (Sir Louis Da vies) 1 1ml all those accus- ed of corruption have had most magniHcent de- fenders in i,l,e Alini-sler himself and others behind ^im. If tliese men had been here to hear the de- fence made for them, they would hi've gone out of this House as the murderer who had been acquitted went out of court, saying: I never knew I was as good a man. I may be quite wrong in my premises as to technical matters, afl to whether this is a proper tribunal before which to bring this question or not. liut 1 say that all these difficulties were swept away by the one act of the Government la.«t se8.>iion in agreeing to the reference to the committee. I ■aw these men come dmvn last session, forty or fifty of them, and those of them that were accus- ed of wrong doing 1 heard defended by the hon. Minister of Marine and Fisheries and others i.s though they were paid defenders, u^■ing all tlu-ir skill in cross-examination and the raising of technical points to prevent evidence being given. PUNISHMENT SHOULD FOLLOW WKONG- DOING. I am not concerned with the question whether it wa:i right or wrong technically; but I am con- cerned with the broad fact that the impreeaion left on mj mind was that there was a deeire on the part of ihe memberc of the Government t9 ttliield and protect ti'ose who were doing wrong. Now, I have spoken a great deal longer than I intended to speak, but lliia is a matter u|iuu wiiieh 1 feel very keenly, it slioi " ', not be nmd« a technical matter at all. 11 tht!eciincn ot thii kind of oratory. But, though the Governmenv try to hide ihcniselves in tlii.-* way, they are not deeeiving Parliament, they are not even deceiving the men behind them. 1 he nun behini the tiov eminent arc feeling humiliated with the knowl- edge that they have to back up the action ot their leader;*. Nor aie the Government deceiv- ing the country. Sweeping a^ide all technicali- tie.-*, the country, knowing that wrongdoing has been perpetrated, believe that the Government should prosecute and puni>h the wronsi-doers. Wo eanr ot shame you; we cannot make yeu otlitr than you are. .. - ** 'niK COUNTUY WILL NOf GONDOME THK OUTKAGK. Hut I .should despair of my countrr if the j)eoplc condoned the aetion of this Govtri? mcnt going hand in hand with the Ontariij- (lovernment to shield corruptionisvs— if it iiact been necessary, they would have Inirned the bal- lots, as the Ontario Goveinment burned ballots to shield their Iriends. It the country, at thtr next election, docs not e.xpress its opimon ot these gentlemen, then I shall be Rorr> to tbinic that the poison of corniption has affected mon- than the members of the (Jovi rnment, that it has even a(fe*ted a section of the people, and has degraded and di.sgraced the whole country. At the general elections the voters are prac- tically asked, What do you think of these ci.uie"'' Wouid you like your children to practice them' Would von like your country to be known amongst the Kmpirti'o Colonies as a country wherw the public conatience is seared, hardened, or would you prefer to have the magazines of the world holding up Canada as an example to th» nations of the glolie? Hy your vote, will your answer be given. Ijet your votes bo a warniot; j to all GovernmenU', ^\ hether Libe-al or Conserva- tive. Thus, and tuuB only, will come the exalt- ing of the nation. •> I 4