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Sir LEONARD TILLBY moved that Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair, for the House to go again into Com- mittee of Supply. Mr. TASS^. As we discussed the other day the Irish Question in a manner which I sincerely trust will be beneficial to the parties interested, I will take advantage of this motion to oflfer some remarks on a subject which concerns more directly a large portion of the Canadian community. I wish I could avoid bringing this subject under the notice of the House, but the responsibility of the action does not rest with me. This subject is pressed so unfairly and so per- sistently on the public mind ; it has caused so much agita- tion and so many misrepresentations; it will become such a live issue during the approaching electoral campaign, that no alternative is loft than to put the matter in its true light before this House and the country. The subject is undoubtedly a difficult and a delicate one, but having learned to respect those feelings in others, which are the dearest to a man —his national and religious feelings — and representing, as J[ do, one of the most mixed communities in the country, the Oapitai of Canada ; having been returned by a French as wjll as by an English majority, by a Catholic as well as by a Protestant majority, I am confident that, while standing' up in the cause of truth and justice, to defend the people of my race, \ will say nothing that can hurt the feelings of, or that can be properly objected to by my hon. colleagues of other origins. For some time past you may have heard of thc/ so-called French domination of this country. For sdmo time past you may have read in the newspapers whioh ozercise a great, a controlling influenoe "^wi*^' Bomelimes on the other side of the House, that French men were the ruling power in this Dominion, that they were securing all the sweets of office, and had practically muzzled the British Lion. For some time past you may have read in the same paper that the hon. Prime Minister— although styled sometimes a one man power — was but a pliant tool in their hands, and that this groat Province of Ontario had to suffer once more the humiliating sway of her sister Province. Such is the temper of that press, that even the name of my hon. friend the Secretary of State has been cited lately by the Globe as a " couf^picuous repre- sentativo of the bleu interest" — these are the words of the paper — in order to scare the good people of Ontario — and why ? Because my hon. friend had signed, in his capacity of Secretary of State, a document touching the much vexed boundary question of Ontario, which document emanateii from His Excellency the Governor in Council. It is true this cry of French domination is not new in this country. During more than fifteen years it has been echoed and re-echoed on almost every stump, on almost every busting from one end of this Province to the other, and in almost every Grit journal from the Globe down. It is questionable, if but for it the Grit party could have existed at all. In fact, that cry was put into its mouth as its war cry, as its watch-word on almost the very day of its birth. Hatred of the French Canadian seem? to have been, I am very sorry to say, the first love of the Grits. Wo wonder that the French Canadian has been compelled sometimes most reluctantly to return the compliment. We all know that this cry of French domination has a most injurious ©flfect in inflaming the passions of the people, in creating an ardent jealousy between the two Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and an intense rivalry between two races which have spent already too much of their vigor and energy in fruitless struggles. We all know that, owing to that agitation, the administration of public affairs became almost impossible in this country, and Confederation became a political necessity. We all know that, owing to that agitation, the Conservatives of Ontario had to suffer seriously, had to lose many an election, being branded as the enemies of their Province, as the enemies of their creed, as the enemies of their race. But, Sir, thanks to the sober second thought of the people the clouds of public prejudice have been dispelled, and we have seen the great Conservative leader recognized as the best champion, as the truest friend of the interests of Ontario. Although the hon. member for Lambton, when inebriated with power, predicted that the Conservatives of Ontario would never regain the confidence of this Province, we have Been the day when the hon, gentleman himself scarcely eacapod defeat in the very county which he repreeenta; we have seen the day when his party almost found a grave in that very Province in the great Liberal slaughter of 1878. When thv3 Grits joined the Conservative party and estab- lished Confederation, and it is one of the very few acts in their history that commands my admiration, we heard no more of the cry of French domination. The French ghost van- ished for a time in the pigeon-holes of the Globe joflSce. When the Grits succeeded in capturing the Government in 1873, we did not hoar of French domination, nor during the whole of their term of office. To speak of French domination in thopo days would have been indeed like a sneer and a farce. The French element was represented in the Cabinet by men who were not always creditable to their race, and whose sole ambition, in most instances, was to serve their country in the capacity of governors and judges, far, veiy far, from the verdict of their electors. Such men evidently could not possess that fair share of public influence which they should otherwise have exercised. Is it necessary to men- tion M. Antoine Aime Dorion— a distinguished demo- crat fascinated by what thehon. member for North Norfolk (Mr. Charlton) would call the " flummery of titles " — who was appointed Chief Justice of Quebec after having declared from his seat in this House that no such appointment was contemplated ; Mr. Lotellier, who became Governor of Quebec, and who did, Sir, what Queen Victoria with all her might has never dared to do, thus inflicting what would have been a death blow on responsible government had such an act remained unpunished at our hands ; Mr. Four- nior, who became a member of the highest, if not the most popular, tribunal of the land; Mr. Cauchon, whose crime emelled to heaven, according to the Liberal organ, and who was then thought fit, in that capacity I suppose, by that very Government to represent Her Majesty in the Prairie Province, when my hon. friend from Quebec East, out of self-respect had refused to sit in the same Cabinet which made him Governor. It seems certain also that Mr. Laflamme would have been requested to adorn the Bench, but for the untimely transaction of the balU»t box in Jacques Cartier, where our friends opposite showed the people of this country how they could fabricate and manu- facture votes in order to raise what they call the standard of public morality. Sir, as my opinion on the 'personnel of the late Cabinet might be supposed unfair or prejudiced, let me adduce some witnesses whose impartiality cannot be questioned. My hon. friends opposite will not deny that Jja Patrie is the recognized official organ of their party in tlie district of Montreal. Well let us see what La Patrie 'fetated in an article of the 25th November, 1880: •' Mr. Dorlon, although senring under thelnadership of Mr. Mackenzie, •was really the chief of the party. His withdrawal from office was soon after followed by that of Measrs. Pournier and Letelliei . It is needless to recall the eyenta which followed. Power was concentrated in the bands of Messrs. Mackenzie and Oartwright who had no one to oheok- mate them." I do not attach much importance to the Octav;'a Free Press, but as it is the recognized organ in this citj' of mj- hon. friends opposite, I will quote the following opinion pub- iiehed on th^ 12th October, 1879 :— ' " Previous to the 17th of last month none were more obsequious than those who are now denouncing the late Premier as thci marplot of the Liberal party, whose defeat they at*nbuted to Mr. Mackcnzie'ti tyranny, stubbornness and want of tact. Referring to the ingratitude thus expresstid, the Montreal Gazette says : — ' No baser kind of ingratiiude can be imagined, than that of men willing to serve leaders when in power, and turning upon them when power passes from their hands. The Liberal party of Quebec added neither strength nor respectability to the Liberal party of t£te Dominio;i during the last, fire years.' Although we are far from includingall the Quebec Liberals iu the list of ingratei, yet there is much of truth, manfully spoken, in what our con- temporary utters. That the Liberal party of Quebec added neither strength nor respectability to the Liberal party of the Dominion during the last I've years, is too sweeping an assertion, as few will deny that the Hon. Mr. Dorion brought strength and respectability to the party. The Gazette' f remark might applv to the situation during the last year or two, when the accessions to the Uabinet were not always accessions of strength or respectability." Well, Mr. Speaker, there was no French domination in those days but there was French humiliation all around. Since the triumphant return of the Conservatives to power ■we have again heard the famous cry of French dom- ination. Q^he French ghost, which is more frightful than all the ghonts painted by Shakespeare, has le-appeared and is now haunting, agitating," disturbing, every Grit camp, every Grit meeting; that ghost even made its appear- ance the otier day within the walls of the Chamber. Sir, I draw the attention of the House and country to the fact that this cry is always raised when it is thought proper by the Libert! party to excite and lead astray the public opinion of thQ country, especially in the Provi nee of Ontario. Mr. Speaker, when the last campaign took place in Ontario during the year 1879 the same appeal was again made by the Liberal party, and a good many people caught the infection, and now that the day cannot be very far distant ^rhen both parties will have to give an account of their votej and conduct to our common judge, the people of this coun:ry, the same mean, disloyal and disreputable tactics are rasorted to. So commoji is this practice that you can hardly open a Grit newspaper in the Province o , 1879, the Globe com* the supposed French Ontario, from the Globe downwards, without seeing articles Jtgainflt that so-threatening French domination. I will lot worry the House by reading long extracts from those papers, but as that kind of evidence, I am sure, is familiar tci many, if not most of hon. members, I will take the liberty to read a few linos which willgivean idea, however imperfect it may be, of the work of misrepresentation and demagog- ism which is now so eagerly pronecuted by the Liberal party in the great Province of Ontario. The controUi.ig organ of that jiarty the Globe stated on 4th May, 1879 : " When Ontario joined the Confederation her suppoBition was by doin^: so she bad escaped from Lower Uanadian domination. The present subflervience of the Government to Quebec OonservatireB throws a duubt on this and our future position, and brings up the whole subject again. • • • • • x^e Tories follow the lead of tneir precious chieftain, and would put Ontario, which Province they know lliev cannot either cheat or control, back again under the rule of the Frf ncnmen, whom Sir John can humbug and swindle if he cannot control." In another article, 4th November plained Htiil more bitterly of ascendancy: '•Thf> old say. ig that Ontario is the milch cow for the remaining Provinc«'ii, wab nv ver more forcibly prcren than it is by the action ot the preaint Goveument in relation to toe distribution of patronage. Ontario with nearly one-half of the population of the Dominion, and directly md indirectly contributing a larger proportion than thut to the Dominion revenue only at the present time receives about one-fifth of the patronage. The Department of Finance, Justice, Railways and Canals, Marine and Fisheries, and of the Speaker of the Senate, are devoted to the three Maritime Provinces, while of the remaining Departments those of Public Work->, Inland Revenue, Militia and Defence, and the House of Commons, are given to the Province of Que-* bee alone. In the Department of the Sneaker of the Commons the French Canadians are receiving the lion's snare of the patronage, and the English speaking employees are being plundered to satisfy them. Last Session of Parliament in this Department pages and messengers were emjiloyed who could not speak a word of English. These are specimens of the manner in which Speaker Blanchet is administering tno afifairs ot his Department." Let us see now what says another leading Grit paper which is unde)'stood to represent the hon. member for Bothwell, the London Advertiser, which fulminates almost every day against the French domination. The following article is very recent, being dated the 15lh February last: — "The French Tories envy the prosperity of Ontario, and they are determined to dismember her, if possible. Mr. Meredith and hit followers are not representing Ontario, they are representing the Quebec Bleus — ibey have beeome their servile instruments — Ontario was for years subject to the annoyance of Quebec Toryism They obtained local self-government to maintain their local independence, and they find • fcann of conspirators, who, for the sake of the support of the most 'narrow-minded and unprogressive party in all Christendom, are ready to betray th"m Sir John Macdonald has upon this question surrendereif iiimself to Sir Hector Langevia and bis followers." In an articlo Btill more fresh, on the 22nd February, the Ottawa Free Prtss aeed the following language : — "The Dominion Itfinistrj aim at nothing lee> than reduoinj^t this ProTince to a position subordinate to Quebec, in order tu vest the OoTernmont of tne country in the hands of a party which could not •Ten exist without the aid of that most stupid, bigoted, retrogressire faction, the Quebec Bleus." The French element ruled this Dominion to the detriment, f>rejudice and exclusion of our English fellow-citizens — at east such is the gist of these articles and of a grout many other articles written in the same style and animated in the same spirit, but all calculated to stir up and levivo the national feuds of former days. I know puiBcient of the feelings of the people of the Province of Quebec to know that its members and its population do not wish to deprive or rob Ontario of a single inch of territory which properly, legally and constitutionally belongs to that Province. The unanimity with which the French members of this House voted the other day for the reference of the boundary question to the highest tribunal either in Canada or the Mother Country, is the best ja-oot of the spirit of justice and fairness which animates tnem, and thoy were aided on that occasion by followers of the hon. member for Quebec East. Mr. LAUEIER Your party could not show so much, independence as that. Mr. TASSlS. No doubt I have a strong faith in the French Liberals of Quebec, although there are not many in this House. The hon. member, in speaking of the question of boundary the other day Mr. BLAKE. The hon. member haS no right to refer to a past debate. Mr. TASS^. I am referring to a speech made by his hon. friend and supporter, as reported in the papers of the day, and I will make only a short quotation, which will be very agreeable to the hon. member for Quebec East. Here is "what the hon. member said, when opposing the reference of that question to the Privy Council Mr. SPEAKEE. I am afraid the hon. member is refer- ing to a past debate. Mr. TASSfi. I quite understand why the leader of the Opposition is so anxious that the utterances of the hon. member for Quebec East should not be read in this House to-day. Have you, Mr. Speaker, decided that 1 have no right to read the extract. Mr. SPEAKEE. The hon. member has no right to refer to a past debate. Mr. TASSE. I am only reading from a report of tho •peecb. Mr. SPEAKER. The hon. member cannot read it. Mr. TASSE. So the hon. leader of the Opposition does not wiuh to hear the reasons j?iven by hiw colleague for opposing the reference of the boundary question to tho Privy Council. Wo all know that the hon. member for Quebec East has been lauded by the Grit press for the exceptional broad-miudednoss ho dieplayod on this subject. Well, let me state that tho great argument adduced by tho hon. member for Quebec Eanu was, that by allowing tho question to bo re- ferred to the Privy Council it might add a great deal t« the Province ol Ontario, much more than was awarded. Some hon. MEMBERS. Order. Mr. TASSfi. If you deny that such language bns been Gsed I will have to read the speech. Now, that the question of order is disposed of, and 1 hope satisfnctorily to my hon. friends on the other side, I wili say this : that the French Conservative members of this House arc not respon- sible lor the fact that the Ontario Government has refused, for electioneering purposes — for party puiposes — to accept such a fair proposal as a reference of the qaostioii to the Privy Council or the Supreme Court, because that proposal, if I am well informed, was made by the preHont Premier as early as 1872, and for it the French members would have voted as they voted on a similar proposition the other day. Mr. SPEAKER. The hon. member will be kind enough not*to refer to u past debate. Mr. TASS^. I am now speaking of 1872. ^ Sir JOHN A. MACDONALD. Tue rule is that no allu- sion shall be made to a previous debate in the same Session, but there is no i ule preventing a reference to a debate in A previous Session. Mr. SPEAKER. The hon. gentleman has boon refer- ring to a debate of this Session. Mr. TASSE. I was referring to 1872, and T paid, that the French Conservative members cannot bo held respon- sible for the fact that the Ontario Government has refused for party pur] oses to accept the proposal which the f resent Premier made as'fiarly as 1872, and that we would ave voted then for it as we voted for it the other day. Now, Mr. Speaker, so far as the public patronage mentioned in the Globe is concerned, a return for which I have given notice in the Orders of the Day will settle that point. I trust that it will be made as accurate and com- " plete as possible. If such a grievance really exists, let as 8 know it and let us remedy it. We ask no favors, and I think I am fairly echoing the sentiments of the raassof tho French people of this country when I say that we only ask fair play, and equal rights with our fellow citizens of other creeds and origins. We ask nothing more but nothing less. A similar return was ordered last year by another Chamber but it has not been brought down. In the meantime, I have taken the trouble to collect a certain amount of statistics and other information, and while a portion of them may not be very complete or very fresh it will throw sufficient light on the matter to show that there is nothing like French domin- ation in the shape of public patronage ; that such domination exists, " figuratively speaking," only in the minds of the Grit press and their stump speakers. Nay, they fully demonstrate that not only have the French Canadians not been treated with favor or partiality, but that they do not receive even a fair share of the patronage if representation by origin is to be the determining basis. From the Public Accounts we may ascertain «vho are the French and English-speaking employees belonging to the inside service with the amounts of their salaries. Let me give the fol- lowing statement for the yeai' 1881 : INSIDE SERYIOB. (From the Public Accounts of 1881) Department. GoTcmor Genu's Secretary's Office. PriTj Council /. Justice , ..... Militia And Defence Secretary ofbtate , Interior Auditor General's Office Finance Treasury Board. Oustoma Inland Revenue Public Works , Railway-) and Canals Post Office Department ^ ^iculturn „.. Harine and Fisheries Giril Service Board. French. No. Salaries. 10 7 6 2 2 6 12 8 13 22 6 95 cts. 3,750 00 12,529 8,5«6 6,150 1,444 4,060 4,984 13,756 l',275 8,860 212 6,100 Other origins. No. Salaries. $10?,696 26 7 1'^ 17 20 32 50 16 42 2 24 21 11 18 101 8 20 2 $ Cts. 12,875 00 10,349 6« 19,03* 05 22,668 28 28,234 98 65,881 48 19,866 63 49,926 00 2,133 38 26,611 97 24,249 23 14,008 48 24,477 73 92,383 46 11,776 00 24,347 30 600 00 ^413 $439,2i7 7 It is irapoBsible to find a similar return as far as the officers of the Parliament end those of the outside service are con- cerned, their names, for some unaccountable reason, not being given in the Public Accounts. But a return like that which I ask for was produced in 1872, and from it I will draw the following statement which probably has nojt been materially altered since that year : PARLIAMENT. (From an official return published in 1872.. • French. Other Origins. No. 19 9 6 ss Salaries. No. Salaries. ClAmTimnn .... . ..>>•■••• ■••••••■• $ ots. 17,910 00 10,400 00 6,500 00 33 11 7 $ eta. 38,919 50 Senate Parliament Library 8,900 00 8,550 00 34,810 00 61 66,369 60 OUTSIDE SERVICE. Customs, Post Office, Inland Revenue, Marine and Fisheries, Publie Works, a'c. JfoTa Scotia Kew Brunswick.. . Quebec Ontario . Manitoba British Oolurabia. Oenerally.. ,.. French. No. 14 14 381 16 1 Salaries. Other Origins. 372 $ cts. 3,299 00 i,100 00 135,728 50 6,780 00 600 00 4,710 00 163,217 50 No. 891 509 431 714 6 12 41 Salaries. 2,604 $ cts. 293,393 25 21«,579 60 220,474 60 393,899 26 3,260 00 17,62C 00 26,322 00 1,171,638 50 Ab it may be interesting to know how we arrive at such figures to iching the Province of Quebec, I will submit the following detailed statement : 10 PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. f »* French. Other Origins. No. • Salaries. No. Salaries. 76 70 37 36 104 $ cts. 34,634 60 35,180 00 24,365 00 13,199 00 28,350 00 156 77 35 39 123 $ cts. 78,225 60 Post Office 61,239 00 29,000 00 18,6J6 00 Inland Revenue Public Works Ifurinft ,,.,,, .,.,.,, ,.,r 42, {.76 00 321 135,728 50 431 229,474 60 Now, if we include the foregoing figures touching the inside with the outside service, we obtain the following result : ABSTRACT « No. 682 2976 3588 Salaries. French. Other Origins. No. 128 372 Salaries. No. 454 2604 Salaries. Inside Service Outside Service... $ cts. 634,093 53 1,324,756 00 $ cts. 138,506 26 153,217 50 $ eta. 495,587 27 1,171,538 50 1,958,819 63 500 291,623 76 3058 l,6b''.126 77 This would give a proportion of French employes in those branches of the public service of 7 per cent. As those tigures are partly from 1872, the number of officers has undorJbted- ly much increased since, but I do not think, T repeat, that •the proportion of their relative origins has been notably altered. In connection with this statement, it may be properly asked what is the relative strength of the French population in Canada. The last Census puis it at 1,298,803 souls, apportioned as follows : Quebec, 1,073,820 ; Ontario, 102,147; New Brunswick, 56,635: Nova Scotia, 41,219; Pri'^ce Edward Island, 10,751 ; Manitoba, 9,949 ; North- West Territories, 2,771, and British Columbia, 915. Aa the French element represented an aggregate oi 1,082,940 in 1871, we have thus an increase of movo than -200,000 souls during the last decade — a result which is wondetful if we take into account the emigratir -o to the United States and the fact that such an increase is du^ entirely to their prolific qualities, qualities unsurpassed i 11 the history of mankind. The population of Canada * being calculated at 4,324,810 bouIs, the French element is thus a little more than one-fourth "while it receives but one-seventh of the patronage. In the face of these facts, I may well ask where is the French domination ? Where is the ghost, the horrid ghost which is evoked every day by the Grit press to terrify the people of Ontario ? French domination ! Do you see it in the fact that if the French element has more than its share in a few branches of the Dominion service, it is not fairly represented in some while it is almost ignored in others ? Do you see it in the fact that if you except Quebec, there are very few officei-s of French origin employed by the Local Governments of the other Provinces ? French domination I French domination ! Do you see it in the fact that there is not a minority treated as justly and as gener- ously as that of the Province of Quebec — a treatment which I would like to see imitated in all the other Provinces, in order to show to the world that there is not a spot on the surface of the earth where the rights of every one are more carefully guarded than in the free and happy land of Canada. Fiench domination I French domination I Do you see it in the most startling fact that in the very Province of Quebec — the very bulwark of our race— where the nine-twelfths of the people are of French origin, the minoi'ity has secured even the greatest number of the federal oflSces ; that in 1872 there were in the Department of Customs, Post Office, Inland Revenue, Public Works, Marine and Fisheries, 431 English speaking officers receiving ^220,474. 50, against 321 French employes receiving $135,728.50 — that is to say, there were 110 more Englifch-bpeaking officers than French? French domina- tion I Do you see it in the fact that French conptitaencies or constituencies with a French majority have elected, and are still electing men of another origin, of another creed, to represent them ? At this very moment, the hon. member for the county of Ottawa — the Kfng of the Gatineau, — the hon. member for Richmond and Wolfe, the hon. member for Gloucester, one of the lights of the Opposition, the hon. member for Chateauguay, the hon. member for Shtfford, and the hon. member for Victoria, New Brunswick, all represent counties having a French majority. In the pust, we have not been lessgeneroun, as it is fully exemplified by the following facts as related by the late lamented*^ Sir Etienne Pascal Tach6, the very man who predicted that the last gun for English supiemacy on this continent would be fired by a French Canadian : "Tlet the ffcflf of Ltwer Cecada alifayg aclfd Itwardp IheEuglii "Wiih literalitj veb bett «xiDip]i£((i ly facts. Etfore the UnioD, whil 12 the constituencies were almost exclusively French, English Protestant gentlemen were frequently returned to Parliament ; and he had now opposite to him an hon. member who had for twenty years represented an entirely French and Roman Catholic county. Uo doubts that in thA course of thesa twenty years, the hon. gentleman had ever been asked whether he were Scotch or Protestant. They took the man for his sterling worth. It was even a fact that the French had elected members with extraordinary names, and, as every body knows, there was sometimes a good deal in a name. Now, if there was one name which French Canadians disliked more than another, it was that of Luther. Yet they had elected a gentleman bearing that significant apfiellation. He was glad they had, and he had no doubt he had been elected because of his personal worth ; bui it unquestionably showed a ereat denl of liberal feeling on the part of the electors. But if aa £uc;1i3h Protestant was i9ad in the eyes of a French Canadian, a F'rench Pro.estant was infinitely worse, and yet the county of Lotbini6re had ele 'ted a French Canadian Protestant, without even questioning his religion. But again, quite lately in a division in Lowei Canada, num- bering only 50,000 souls, of which only 1,400 were Englisla, an election of a member to this Chamber had taken place, the candidates being a French Roman Catholic gentleman, long and well known, and aa English Protestant — and witli what result? Why, that English Protes- tant had beaten the French Canadian Roman Catholic by 1,000 votes. Could any greater proof of a tolerant and liberal feeling be exhibited." French domination ! Do you see it in the fact that the English minority, in the Province of Quebec, has five or 8i\ representativeR in the other Chamber and in the Legis- lative Council of Quebec? Do you see it also in the fact that the last nominee to the Senate from the Province ot Quebec is a genileman, well and generally respected, but who has not a di'op of French blood in his veins? French domination 1 Bo youseeitin the factthatwhile the English* speaking minority of Quebec is largely represented in the Upper Chamber — and I am glad to see a minority largely represented — the 102,743 Acadians, who diifer from us French Canadians only in name, but who are the same an ourselves in language, religion, politics and his- torical associations — that they and the 108,605 French Canadians scattered throughout the Province of Ontario have not a single representative in the Senate— an injustice I sincerely trust the Government of the day will repair at an early opportunity. Those 211,845 Frenchmen Bcattered throughout Ontario and the Maritime Provinces will become, ere long, a very important factor in the Can^uiian community. And their claims are the more entitled to the consideration of the Grovernment, that its ,hon. leadei-, at the time of the debates on Confederation, staled thct the Senate had been established especially to ■protect sectional rights. His very words were : "To the Upper House is to be confided the protection of sectional interests." French domination ! Do you see it in the fact that hundreds «of thousands of dollars, if not millions, have been spent to attract a foreign emigration to our shores, which, however 13 desirable and useful it may be to the country at large, can- not certainly increase the influence of French Canadiana Kow the Government should spare neither pains noi expense to facilitate the return of Canadians from the neighboring Eepublic. Thousands of them have been induced to return to their native land, which thoy -were compelled to desert under adverse circumstances. Let u& 4o for them what we have done for the Mennonites and the Scandinavians. The other day several hundreds of French Canadians left New England to become settlers in our great North-West. Let us encourage that movement by all possible moans, and we shall see ere long not only hundreds but thousands of Canadians of all origins returning to their country, which they love, to give it the benefit of their intelligence, labor and industry. In the face of these facts, it is quite evident there can be no sincerity in the cry of French domination. The Globe and its satellites know perfectly well, unless more ignorant than fanatical, and that would be saying a great deal, that such a cry has not the slightest foundation, that if any ascendancy exists, or is to be dreaded in this country, it is not cei*- tainly that of the French. Minorities can have no Eower or influence in a country like this, such as as been ascribed to the French ; they cannot rule except in exceptional cases with our well balanced system of (jroverument. How could the French minority rule when this Government is not only supported by a majority from Quebec, but by one still larger from the great Province of Ontario, and by a majority from Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Islandj Manitoba and British Columbia? And this majority is not a " brute majority " as it was so styled by the courteous member for Centre Huron the other day, nor is it a majority of " slaves," as was described by the leader of the Opposition ; but it is the majority of a House, which, according to old parliamentai-ians, constitutes one of the most intelligent and patriotic assemblies that ever sat in Canada. If ever the French minority had an occasional chance of ruling it would not abuse it. Its unsurpassed generpsity towards other races, where it is the controlling power, constitutes an everlasting monument that no penny- a-liner can either deface or destroy. And were it disposed to be either unjust or intolerant, we know that no such temper would be tolerated by our English fellow-citizens, who, how- ever divided by party lines and bai'riers, know of no division when the interests of John Bull are supposed to bo imperilled. Why then is the Liberal party raising the cry of French domination ? They raise it for mere electoral and political purposes? They raise it to wake up animosities that should have been buried for ever. They raise it to divert 14 the public mind from the real issues of the day — to make (he ?eople forget, if possible, the great boon of the Nati( nal 'olicy, and that they are now, instead of suffering fromi poverty and depression, enjoying unusual prosperity, and, instead of huge deficits, large surpluses— that they are ruled now by statesmen who are not mere muddlers of figures, nor mere flies on the wheel, but who are statesmen auocees- fully working out the great and glorious destinies of Cu riada. Power is their sole object. Power is their magnetic polo. To leach power they will sacrifice everything. To reach power they deposed their former leader, and now they extol him to the skies. He may well exclaim : " Save me from such friends." To reach power they are prepared to sow the seeds of civil war, to sot Province against Province, Creed against Creed, Eng- lishmen ai^ainst Frenchmen, to shake the very foutjdations of our political system, to break up the Union. The hon. leader of the Opposition will claim, perhaps, that he is not responsible for the utterances of the Globe and the Grit press. I know that before his promotion to that distinguished and responsible position — which I sincerely trust for the good of the country he will occupy for a great many years — he was accused by that very paper of delivering " disturbing speeches," one of which I presume was the Aurora speech ; but I believe his views and those of that organ are now quite in accord. The hon. gentleman has been trumpeting his views over one-half the Dominion, the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and even the Atlantic coast have resounded with the echoes of his eloquence — but he never thought proper to state in his numberless harangues that he had no sympathy with that cry of French domination . The hou. gentleman visited Mon- treal before the last local elections of Quebec, to organize, or rather to reorganize a much disorganized and dispirited I)arty, and I trust he is satisfied with the result of his abors. He then could exclaim at the end of a speoch : M, ' aussijje suis Canadien, " I also am a Canadian ;" but he did not dare to oppose the power behind the Throne and satisfy the legitimate anxiety of his French supporters in that Province, by stating that he had no sympathy with that an ti- French policy. The hon. gentleman, who knows so well how to make prospective judges " speak now^ " could not fi:nd a word to say for the poor Frenchman. I will have to conclude that, though not willing to sow the wind he is desirous to reap the whirlwind, though he will not himself plant the bad tree of discord in oar midst, he has not the slightest objection to gather the bad fi-uit. If the hon. leader of the Opposition has no sympathy with that cry of French domination, how is it that not only the Grit papers. 15 but some of the most active members of his party havo denounced from the hustings and in the Local Legislature, that so-called threatening Frenc'^ domination? How is it that the hon. the Secretary of State has been grossly in- sulted by a member of the Local Government on the sole account of his origin, that Mr. James Young, a former mem- ber of this House, and one of the most prominent sup- porters of the Government in the Local Legislature of Ontario, has used the following language in the debate on the Address on the 18th January last : — "In the old Province of Canada Sir John kept oflSce for fifteen years by denying the rights of Ontario to obtain a French Canadian majority, and hie action on the boundary award was evidently dictated by th? same motives. • , « The (government at Ottawa evidently hoped to ingratiate themselves into the confidence of other Provinces, and par- ticnlarly Quebec, by dismembering Ontario and cutting it down to one- half its actual size.' If the hon. leader of the Opposition has no sympathy with that cry, how is it that the hon. member for Centre Huron has qualified the French Conservative party in this House as a small selfish clique. Here are the very words uttered by him in the last debate on the boundary question: " I do not believe that the majority of the people of Quebec grudge us our ri(^hts, but I do fear, from past experience, that there is a small, selfish clique in Quebec who desire to deprive Ontario of her rights ia this matter ; and I fear they have too much influence in deciding thia question in the councils cf the Dominion." If the hon. leader of the Opposition has no sympathy with that cry, how is it that another of his colleagues, the hon. member for J!^orth Norfolk, is reported to have uttered the following observation — not from his seat in the House ; I d« not believe he would dare to use such language from his seat in this House — but in a stump speech delivered a fort- night before the opening of this House at Aylmer, county of Elgin. Ht said : "Why should Ontario submit to such injustice? It is the Province that pays three-fifths of the revenue of the Dominion ; it is the heart of Canadian virtue, intelligei ce and enterprise, audit intends to assert its rights. It has long enough been made the catspaw of French lick- ■pitiles, and build the harbors And public works of Quebec." I do not wish to min represent the hon. gentleman ; but if he has really used that language, even in a stump speech, even in the backwoods, I can only say as a member of this House that it is to be regretted that a man of the ability and standing of that hon. gentleman, who pretends to possess liberal and broad views, should have so forgotten himself as to use such coarse and unjust language towards a race which deserves better treatment — a language which I am sure, if it has been really used by the hon. gentleman,^ will be resented by every Frenchman worthy of that name* M II I am told that it is not incumbenl on the hoD. leader of the Opposition to stand by my countrymen "when they are unfairly and unjustly assailed, when they are ti'eated, for instance, as they were by the hon. gentleman for North Norfolk, as lick-spittles, such an excuse could not be urged in behalf of the member for Quebec East. Still that hon. gentleman, who is supposed to be entrusted with a peculiar mission in this House, has remained as silent on that most important point as his hon. leader — I will not say his master -although that would be a very fitting return for the epithet of slave addressed to us by the hon, leader of the Opposition. One would have thought, however, that the hon, gentleman had made sufficient sacrifices to please his leader. Was it not enough that he should have sacrificed the views of his party, or rather the remnant of his party — and even that remnant is not always true to the hon. gentleman — on a most important question, the question of protection to Canadian interests, without acceptmg silently the most humiliating role which has been assigned to him. No, my hon. friend and his friends are party to a comedy which is being played by the opponents of the Government at the expense of the people at large. Let me draw the attention of the House to the fact that while the Liberals of Ontario claim that Quebec reigns ':apreme, the Liberals of Quebec contend loudly that their Province is shamefully neglected by the Govei-n- ment, and that Ontario secures for herself the lion's share. In this way the Liberal party have pursued a wholesale policy of deception. They can exhibit at one time what the hon. member for Centre Huron (Sir Eichard J. Cart- wright) would call the two sides of the shield, in one Province the silver side and in the other Province the brazen side. To prove my assertion let me quote another article of the Ghhe of the aOth January last : "Sir Joha A. Macdonald has thrown overboard every afTectation of regard for Oatario, given up even the wish to copciliate this Province and now looks for his main force to Quebec. Bj bribery and political arts he trusts to keep raneed alongside hij Bleu^ a sufScient number of members from Ontario and the other Provinces to give him a working majority. Sir George B. Oartier promised his follo?7ern that they should rule the Oonfederation, and by the uid of Sir John the pledge is at present being fulfilled with a vengeance." As a matter of history, Sir Greorgo E. Cartier never {)romi8ed, and never could have promised his fol- owers in this country that they would rule under Confederation. That assertion is a deliberate falsehood, a deliberate perversion of facts. That great patriot promised his fellow-countrymen that under Confederation their rights as a distinct race in this country would be protected, and but for that solemn pledge which was given to them the French Canadians never would have consented to enter 11 the Union. Butj unfortunately, the French Canadians have to come to the conclusion that that pledge will not be respected by the Liberal party. Sir, at the time of Confederation one of their leaders, the late hon. George Brown, stated in a speech that the people of Lower Canada had consented to enter the Union, had consented to concede representation by population to the Province of Ontario on the express condition that Quebec would have an equality of representation in the Upper House. Here are the very words of Ml*. Brown : "Our friends from Lower Canada hare agreed to give us representa- tion by population to the Lower House on the ezprt^ss condition that they should have equality of representatires in the Upper Home." "V^oll, do we not know that the Liberal party is striving to-day for the abolition of the Senate, which would be a violation of the Federal Act and a breach of faith fraught with the most alarming consequences, and tantamount to a dissolution of this Union. But oven the maintenance of the Union does not much concern our friends opposite. At the present moment I see unfurled in the city of Moiitreal the flag of independence, and they mean to cheer with the hon. Mr. Jones, a former member of a Liberal C *oinet, when the British flag shall be hauled down from the citadel of Halifax. Now, Sir, that we have fully ascertained, accord- ing to the Grit papers and the Grit politicians, that the Premier of this Dominion is sold tO the Province of Quebec, is sold to the ** IJck-spittles " of Quebec, to use the delicate expression of the hon. member for North Norfolk. Mr. CHARLTON. That is an expression I have no re- collection of having used. I disclaim the language attribut- ed to me by the hon.' gentleman. A report of my remarks on that occasion was made by a person who at the time was a stranger to me, I never revised them, and I disclaim the woids which have been put into my mouth. I never used them with reference to the French Canadians or, to my recollection, with reference to anybody else. I should b© sorry to use so vulgar an expression, and if I had done so I should feel it my duty to make an apology. Mr. ARKBLL. I wish to inform the hon. gentleman that I have his speech here word for word, as published in his own organ, the St. Thomas Journal. Mr. CHARLTON. Ihavejuet referred to that speech, and stated that the report of that speech had never been revised by me, and was not authorized. Mr. TASSE. I am very glad to hear the hon. gentleman say that he never uttered that language, which would have 2 Id boen most abusive to my countrymen, and which would, I am sure, bo resented by every one of them. If I have cited that language it is because in the debate on the boundary question, these very words were quoted by an hon. member from the speech of the hon. gentleman, and that I find those words in the report of the Hansard. I am sorry my hon. friend has not taken an earlier opportunity to say that the language attributed to him was not used by him on that occasion. Well, now, let us see the other side of the shield as it has been exhibited lately to the electors of the Province of Quebec by a French Liberal paper, La Concorde, of Three Rivers. The article which I will cite has been complacently reproduced in the organ of my hon. friend for Quebec East (Mr. Laurier), L'Electeur, and also in La Fatrie, of Mont- real, which is the recognized Liberal organ of that district, and it will be quoted by the supporters of my hon. friend on all the hustings of that Pi'ovince. Let us see the article in that paper which will be an antidote to the French domination cry : " Never since the 17lh September, 1878 — the date of the last Oonserra- tive victory — hag Lower Canada been so clnmailj and so openly ill- treated as ever it was or probably ever it will be. Is it not a fact that the Macdona'.d-Langevin Cabinet has refused to our French Canadian members nine-tenths of the requests made them on behalf of their con- stituents? Is it not a fact that the present Government refused Mr. Vallee's application for a subsidy in favor of the Lake St. John Railway? Is it not a fact that the Goveruraeut refused Mr. Landry's request that it should build the St. Charles Branch ? Did it not refuse Mr. Casgraia the building of a station at Elgin in the countv of L'lslet? Did it not refuse Mr. Bourbeau the printing of pamphlets on the cultivation of tobacco, beet-root and agriculture generally ? Did it not refuse Mr. Gigault the dredging of the Cbambly River? Did it not refuse Mr. Bergeron the widening of the Beaubarnois Canal ? Did it not refuse Mr. Mongenais the building of the Cedars Canal? Did it not refuse Mr. Landry the building oFraiWay stations at St. Francis and at St. Peter in his county? Did it not lefuse Mr. Hurteau the dredging of the Assomption River? Did it no\i refuse Mr. Bourbeau the printing and distributing of pamphlets which would made our mines known? Did it not refuse Mr. Bergeron the building of a line between Lachine and Caugbnawaga to facilitate winter navigation ? Did it not refuse Mr. Grandbois the erection of a lighthouse at Riviere du Loup? Did it not refuse (Mr. Vanasse, we believe) the abolition of dnties on Canadian tobacco ? Did it not refuse Mr. Mousseau help for the people burnt out at Upton, St. Helene and St. Liboire in 18A0? Is it not a fact ihat tbo Geological Museum, an institution belonging to Montreal, a Lower Canadian city, has been removed to Ottawa, an Upper Canadian city, by this same Conservative Government? Is it not true that several unjust refusals made by French Canadians are bo flagrant that they have been loudly denounced by the Courier de Montreal, by Senator Bellerose and other authorized persons ? Lastly, is it not true that the influence of the Province of Quebec at Ottawa, amounts to a cypher to-day, as is shown by the distribution of portfolios under the present rtgime and that under the Mackenzie Administration? hWi^T&l rigime : Hon. L. S. Huntington, Post Office ; Hon. W. Laurier, Inland Revenue ; Hon. R. Laflamme, Justice; Hon. C. A. Pelletier, Agriculture. Conservative r*siff»«.- Hon. A. P. Oaron, Militia ; Sir H. Langevin, Public Works ; Hon. J. H. Pope, Agricultare ; Hon. J. A. Mousseau, Secretary of State ; or two IBlrl 19 portfolios to-day agftinst the four we had formerly. Can we ever bs more crushed, more powerless and more neglected that we are in the year of our Lord, 1882, under the reign of these political pigmies whoso names are Langerin and Mousseau? Let electors remember this." I will not enter into the merit of these articles. They sperik for themselves. They are nothing but shams, but frauds. I have cited them to expose the base- loss tactics to which tho Liberals are resorting to excite sectional jealousies against the Government. Such electoral dodges may succeed with some, but I trust that the vast majority of the electors are too intel- ligent to fall again into the trap laid for them. 1 see that a great fuss is made to-day by the Liberal party in relation to various matters touching the autonomy of the Provinces. Well, Sir, I am a Federalist in the fullest sense of the word . I am quite ready at any time to uphold the letter as well as the spirit of the Constitution. I regard the Act of Union as the true charter of our liberties. I regard our system as more perfect than the British or the American Constitution. I regard it as an improvement on both. But let me warn those who are raising this cry of French domination, that they are acting as the worst enemies of the Provinces, as the worst enemies of the Constitution. When the great scheme of Confederation was discussed, one of the main reasons urged by the late Hon. George Brown for its adoption was the following : "I favor this plan because it will put an en "' to the warfare between Upper and Lower Canada. A most happy day will it be for Canada when this Bill goes into eflFect, and all the subjects of discord are swept from the discussion of our Legislature." Well, it must be evident to every one that in prosecuting their mischievous work, in arousing Ontario against Quebec, the Liberal party is assuming a most dangerous responsi- bility and destrojnng one of the very objects for which Confederation was established, which was to put an end to the irreconcilable strifes of the old Provinces. There are some who hold that national distinctions should not bo made or recognized, but I could not favor such a view. These distinctions alone have created Confedera- tion. But for them a Legislative Union would have been established. They are essentially a part of our political system. But for them I could not speak here my own language when I choose to do so. But for them the practice of having three French members in the Cabinet would not pre- vail. But for them you would not perhaps, Mr. Speaker, oc- cupy to-day the proud position of First Commoner — a posi- tion for which you are so eminently fitted otherwise. But for them it would not have been necessary to enact that the limits of twelve counties in Quebec — another safeguard JO against French domination— -could not bo altered without the assent of a majority of their members. I have no hesi- tation to state, Mr. Speaker, that it this Union is to be maintained, we must take into account these distinctions as much as possible. This Union rests on a diversity of in- terests, national, religious, educiitional and social, and these interests must be represented. Those conversant with history know that one of the main causes of the political commotion of 1837 was the fact that the French element was not fairly represented in the Legislative Council or in the Public Service. That grievance is set forth in very strong terms in the celebrated ninety-five Resolutions adopted by the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1833. Those conversant with history know also that when that worthy Governor, Sir Charles Bagot, undertook with so much success to conciliate Lower Canada, one of his first acts was to confer some of the most important offices on those in whom the peoplo had the greatest confidence. Let us not repeat that page o^ our history. Let us benefit by experience. It is true that these destinctions of race may complicate to a certain extent the problems of govern- ment, but their inconveniences are counterbalanced by still greater advantages. Lord Dufterin has, expressing an opinion on that subject well worth recalling, said : "I do not think that ethnological liomogeneitv is an unmixed benefit to a country. Certainly the leaat altractivo characteristic ot a great portion of this continent is the monotony of many of its outward a -pects, and I consider it fortunate for Canada that her prosperity should be founded on the co-oporation of different races. The interaction of national idiosyncrasies introduces into our eUstence a freshness, a variety, a color, an eclectic impulse which otherwise would be wanting; and it would be most faulty statesmanship to seek their obliteration. My warmest aspiration for that Province has always been to see its French inhabitants executing for Canada the functions which France herself bns so admirably pertormed for Europe." Before concluding I will take this opportunity to refer to a statement made some time ago by the hon. leader of the Opposition, in the course of an answer to the congratulatory address presented to him by the Liberal Association of Ottawa : " I thank you for the very kindly allusion to my father. I am old enough to remember, though I was but a young lad at the time, those days m which we took part in the great events to which your address has alluded. I was in Montreal a portion of the time, and saw and was much with some of the leaders of that day, Mr. Lafontaine and Mr. Baldwin. I remember the spirit which animated these men then and for some time afterwards. I remember the strong phalanx of Lower Can- ada Liberals who were then the backbone of Liberal Qoyernment." Times have changed, as, no doubt, the hon. gentleman feels it severely when he contemplates the much mutilated band from Lower Canada — not even a corporal's guard—which surrouoils him. But how can he expect that this small bacd 21 will ever become Ihe backbone of tbe Libera] party with tbe doily and violent onslaughts of his press and of his colloagues against the so-cnllod " French domination." I only w 'uder that ho can obtain support at all from that quarter. The hon. member for Quebec East, who was preeeuton that ocousion, in order to encourage the few French Liberals of the Ottawa district, not only endorHod the statement of hi.s lo.itler, but evon exproH.«cd the conviction that " if the grand old loadorH, Baldwin and liafontaine, returned to earth they would not be found in the ranks of the so-called Liberal- Conservative party, but among the Liberals who believed not in legislating for personal aggrandizement, but for the greatest good of the greatest number." Truly, Mr. Sneaker, Lafoi»4aino and I3aldwin were two groat men. Their names cannot bo too much honoied, too much icspected. Their names will be forever enshrined into the hearts of a grateful peojde. Both will occupy a high place in the Canadian Pantheon. But why should the hon. member for Quebec East insult their memory in stating that if they wore living to-day they would bo found in the ranks of the Grit party. Baldwin was a Liberal, but he was not a Grit. He was chased out of public life by a Grit. Lafontiiine was a Liberal in the broadest e^tise ot the word, but he was not a Eouge. Lafontaine vsas the embodi- ment of the political unity of his race, and that unity was broken b/ the friends of the hon. member for Quebec East. His bitterest enemies were the Eadicals, headed by Mr. Papineau, whom the hon. member for Quebec East seems to discard, to repudiate now. Lafontaine has founded a political creed which is the creed of the French Conserva- tives of to-day ; his associates and his disciples were the Morins, the Taches, the Cartior^ who have been, with this great man, the real founders of the French Conservative party. If any one doubts that Lafontaine was opposed in the most violent manner by the party represented now by the hon. member for Quebec East, the following extracts from Le Pays and L 'Avenir — the French Liberal organs at that time — will show to what extent the leaders of the Opposition misrepresent history in claiming Lafontaine as one of them. On the 6th December, 1862, we find the fol- lowing language used by Le Pays -• " Oeceatralization and democracy are ope, but hewhoBajacentraliza* tion says despotism. Now, Mr. Lafontaine did nothing but centralize doling (our years, thus ignoring democracy. His sup) .rters ignored it also. Centralization has always been to this country tue hydra-headed moDBter of the fable, tbe beast with seven heads of the Apocalypse." Now, what will one think of the Liberals who claim as 'tb#ir/Own a man whom formerly they charged with being d2 'J toot only a despot, but with having introduced into the country the hydra of the fable and the least with seven heads. That is indeed a strange fashion of eulogizing one's leader. But let us proceed. In another number Le Toys, speaking of Mr. Lafontaino's retirement, says : "Messrs LKfontaine and Baldwin, the two most backward men in the late Administration, have both gone back to private life. Mr. Lafon- taine, the grenter tactician of the two, feigns ill-health j as to Mr. Baldwin, he was aimplj shown the door." If the Liberal party do not understand the interests of the country, no party understand better how " to show the door to their leaders." " Now, we are ot tbo?e who believe that Lafontaino ritired from public life simply because he had abardoned all hope of being able to continue his system of restricting the rights i.f the people, of invading the privileges of the House, and of increasinjr the prerogatives of the Ministers Tl^|B Journal de Qutbec acquiied its Conservatives ideas a( the school of the Baldwins and the Lafontaines." On the 24th August, 1853, we also find : " It is notorious that Mr. Lafontaine, notwithstanding the silence of his retirement, stood as a perpetual skeleton in the cupboard of the E resent Ministry. For us, we had no cause to fear Mr. Lafontaine, for is return to public life was an impossibility, owing to the principles with which he had tried to inculcate the Legislature during the last Parliament. We do not wish to say that Mr. Lafontaine would not have found aa electoral division to return him to Parliament, but he could never have found in tne House the elements wherewith to recon- stitute the despised party which governed us from 1847 to 1851. Mr. Cauchon is the only member or that party who has remained in the House ; and this small individuality, embodying in itself the debris of that party, could not send forth the slightest ray of hope." Now, let us see the opinion expressed by I/'Aveniv, of the 5th October, 1850 : •* The cause of Democracy la nothing new. From the day when these reactionary men (Baldwin and Lafontaine) shall fall, swept away by the flood of light of public opinion shed upon their deeds or by one of those occurrences in appearance accidental, and which no one can fore- see, but which are so justly called providential, from that day our pro- gramme (that of democracy) will again be that of the mass of the French Canadian population." I may observe here, that it is not surprising that our op- ponents should try to steal our mighty dead, when we see prominent members of the Liberal party eulogizing now the late lamented Sir George Cartier, whom they dis- paraged, whom they maligned in his lifetime, and even represented as the assassin of his nationality. But there is another reason why the Grits of Ontario and the Eouges of Quebec cannot claim Baldwin and Lu^ontaine as the founders of their party. These two great men would never, to rise to power, have attempted to kindle civil dis- cord in our midst. Their whole political life was devoted to unite two races which had been so divided in the past I I 23 Their whole political life was imbued with the fcame lofty sentiment which animated a British Governor when he ele-vated a common monument to the memory of two great soldiers, who nobly fought and died for their country, Wolfe and Montcalm. Their whole political life was devoted to teach the people that a spirit of compi'omise, of mutual forbearance, is indispensable to the Government of this country. Their whole political life was dovotejl to obtain, to maintain and to extend the principle of responsible gov- ernment, which Papineau and nia party repudiated and which the Liberal party have endeavored to destroy by foul means. Baldwin would never have raised the sham cry of French domination. He who had been roceive(i with open arms by the county of Eimouski when rejected by his old supporters. Baldwin would never have a/oused the prejudices of the people to reign thereby. No, he was too much the friend of truth, the friend of liberty, the friend of good government to assume the role of a demagogue. He had learned to appreciate the vii'tues of our race, and he knew that if they could be combined with the sterling qualities of the English-speaking race, we could stamp this half of a continent with the best features of the greatest r.qoples in the world . If the voice of the great Eeformer could again resound in our Legislative Assemblies, it would be to denounce the Eeform party as degenerated, as a party who has nothing to reform ; to denounce the enemies of our country, those agitators, those demagogues who, regardless of consequences, under the false name of Liberals, are endeavoring to undermine, to destroy his noble work of the union of the various races which inhabit our young Domin- ion — a union which, I am proud to say, the Conservative party is still prosecuting with an undiminished vigor, under the safe guidance of its illustrious leader — a union which you will admit, Mr. Speaker, is necessary, is indispensable, if Canada is to become, what should be our common aim, our common ambition, a great, a glorious and a free country. Printed bj MaoLban, Roobb & Co., Parliamentary Printers, Wellingtoa Street Ottawa. 1