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When that hon. gentleman (Mr. Wallace) said here to-night, that I was coerc-^d to vote jis I did on the second reading of the Bill, I have a right to rise in this House and to rebulvc that remark of the hon. gentleman. I want to tell the hon. member for West York that I think I represent as many Orangemen in this House as any man. taLs- inir tlie population according to the s(iuare mile, outside of the cities. I say that the Orangemen of Canada are a body of men that I am proud of ; a 'lody of men that are a credit to this country. I want to tell that hon. gentleman here to-night, in good faitli and in good feeling, that there wns not on man in South Victoria who asked me how 1 was going to vote on this question. I want also to tell the hon. gentleman (Mr. Wallace), that there was not one member of this Government, or not one member of this Parliament, who asked mo how I was going to vote. I want to tell the hon. gentleman (Mr. W.i1k".;(') lli;it my Protf-stant ideas and principles are just as strong as his. but T nm a lover of fair-nlay. and the minority in Manitoba have a grievance, and I, as an Orangeman, am willmg to relieve them from that grievance. I tell the hon. gentleman that I speak for conscience sake in this matter. I have a feeling for the men who went to that coun- try as pioneers, and who had the heavens for a blanket and only the sod of the prairie for a pillow ; and when the descendants of those people come aid ask for fair-play from the people of 1> < country, I think it would be a pity if . could not give it to them. Tlie hon. gentleman knows as well as I d , rhat the Protestants of that country asked that they might enjoy the same privi- leges as the Protestant minority of Quebec enjoyed, and their request was granted, by the Canadian Government. But when the descendants of the old pioneer missionaries of that country are reduced to a small minority, and a (Jrit government gets into power and takes away the rigiits and privileges which they had enjoyed under the government of this country, I say— and I will not take back on any platform in Canada anything I say here to-night— that these men have my sympatliy. and therefore I voted that this Government should give that miiioritv their rights. The minority la Manitolia might have been ProtestAnt, ju.st as they are Catholic, and I wonder how the hon. gVntleman would like it if a Protestant minorUv were subject to Catholic schools. For my" part I would not wish It. I believe in fiiir-play ; and when the hon. gentleman 4 aocuseis me, after thirty-flve 3?ears of public life, of being coerced to vote as I have done, I draw the lines on that hon. gentleman. Mr. WALLACE. Did I refer to the hon. gentleman ? Mr. FAIRBAIRN. You referred to every member on this side of the House. Mr. WALLACE. I beg the hon. gentle- man's pardon. I did not refer to every mem- ber from Ontario. I said there were mem- bers. Mr. FAIRBAIRN. You alluded to me, when you looked at this side of the House. Mr. WALLACE. The hon. gentleman says I looked at him. Perhaps I did. Mr. FAIRBAIRN. 1 wish to tell tlie hon. gentleman that it comes with bad grace from him, with reference to me, at least. There was no more anxious man in this House than myself when he was on trial a few years ago, and when Sir Adolphe Caron assembled his whole forces for the relief and saving of the hon. gentleman, in the ab- sence of our loader, Sir John Thompson, who was absent on that most important mission in connection with the Behring Sea ques- tion ; and it comes with bad grace from him to speak in the way he does to-day of men who take their political lives in their hands on behalf of justice. I offer my regrets and rebukes for that kind of remark, when it comes near home. I have given a vote, and I have given it conscien- tiously without being asked by any- body. After the argument made by the hon. Secretary of State upon the second reading of this Bill, it seems to me that those people in Manitoba should have settled this difflculty in three hours. As a Juror of this country, I fail to see tliat the argumeat laid down by the hon. Secietary of State has been answered or confuted yet. I, as a Juryman, if sworn as before a court, could not lielp giving the verdict I did, according to the evidence presented to this House. Every fair-minded man would have to admit the same thing, if he was a sworn juror. Now. I want to say to tlie hon. leader of the Opposition that I regret exceedingly that 1. as an Orangeman since the year I85f5, have to stand on the floor of this House and vindi- cate the rights of tlie Catholic minority in Manitoba when the leader of the Opposition will not stand up for tr..' rights of tlie ml- nnritv of his own religion, for the sake of political clap-trap. I say as an honest man and having the courage of my convictions that it is greatly to be regretted that a man would sacritice the rights of his own church and his own people for the sake of a little political capital. I pity the hon. gentleman. I remember very well a day or two after the opening of this debate, when I was standing up in defence of the hon. gentleman, and saying that I was pleased to see him in good health and good form and good voice, and tliat he had madf a good fight in such a bad cause, always having a sympathy for the " under dog " in a Sght, a nice little jurly-headed French Canadian remarked : " Mr. Lau- rier speak well, speak long, but, my God, he say nothing." I agree with that bright, black-eyed young French Canadian that Mr. Lauirer spoke well, and spoke long, but he said nothing. He never pretended to answer the arguments of the leader of the House. I say it is an outrage upon the sta- bility of this country that these people in Manitoba cannot enjoy the same educational privileges as the Protestant minority enjoy in Quebec. I would go a long way to allow them to have the same privileges, and I think the least we can do is to give them the privilege of putting their hands in their poclcets to provide for the e-.iucation of their own children. The religious teach- ing of our children is a sacred right that all Canadians have a right to enjoy. The hon. leader of the Oppo- sition made a remari- in his first speech which I tliink wns in bad taste. He pitched into his clergyman. If my clergyman inter- fered with anytliing pertaining to my farm, I would cross swords with liim very «iuick ; but I tliink any clergyman lias a right to look after the religious interests of his own flock. I had not looked at that letter until after I had heard the hon. gentleman's re- marks. Then I went and hunted it up, and I really tliought it v is very '"air, and gave good advice to tlie lion, gentleman, and he might be proud to follow a sheplierd like that. Now. Mr. Chairman, I do not intend to prolong the debate. I did not intend to say a word until I lieard the remark of the hon. memlier for West York whicli I thouirht it was my duty to rise in my place nnd con- tradict, i pity" tlio lender of tlie Opposition for the fact tliat he will sacrifice his religious principles for a little political capital, no- thing more nor less. .-\s I have spoken im- promptu and without notes, I re'.:ret that I have been un:ible to do justice to this im- portant subject.