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It wou.d have been little consolation to U3 to have received a sun: of money for the t-uuis that these (utrai.'es and these invasions cost us; audit would havi been little satisiaciidn to us if we, the peuple of Canada, felt that thismoncy wus to be taken out of the pockets of the Briti.sh people, our follow subjects'; this would have been no consola- tion. Canada would have been inclined to f^ubmit to the loss rather than throw such .i burden upon the orer-hurdencd i'ritish tuxpayers. (Hear, hear, and applauf^e). But Wi made an arrangement whieb luily repaid us without taking one farthing out < t' the pocket? of the British people. We asked England — not to give us money, but to lend us her credit, and Mr. CartwrigLt is now in England exalting his horn on this arrangement. (Laujrhtci and grwans lor the Finance Minister). Mr. Cartwright is at present exalting kis horn on the strength of the guarantee of the sum of money which Engl;;ijd a-zrecd to guarantee for ua, and which she has guaranteed lor us. (Applause). And tkis is another instance of our incapacity, (lleur, hear, and laughter.) Gentlemen, my friend, Mr. AVhite, has in flatterini; terms spoken of the couri^e taken by the several Governments of which I have been a member since 1854. It is not in the spirit of boasting, but it is, I think, in my right, as my record was very lately attacked, to point out and recall to you events which occurred from the year 1854 to the 1st of July, 18G7, when, with the exception of forty-eight hours in one instance. 9 taflp tliti Brown-Dorion Administration came into office (chceis), and with the exception of ]ofpity months during which Mr. SandGcld Macdonald's Administration lasted, I was a ibiber of the various Governments which swajcd the destinies of the old Province of "iCwada (Hear, hear, and applause); and I hesitate not to say that between these two dates no Odfintry in the world has ever developed so vastly, so quickly, or so thoroughly (loud applause •i^aiM voice '• that is so,") ; whether you look at her material, lior moral, or her intellectual irdJfelopment, in every possible respect the improvement and development of Canada has isjtgwn with scarcely a let or hindrance in the long period during which wo enjoyed the con- tifidfcnce of the people of Canada. (Applause). Wc claim for ourselves that wc governed this iiioountiy wisely and well ; and we point to the Statute Book for our legislation, and we point I to. the state of the country in 185-1, and to the state of the country in 187J to prove the lirith of my assertion as to the wisdom ol our administration. Durirg the whole of that ttiaie we were assailed, hindered, and harrasscd by a most unpatriotic Oj position. (Hear, I ha^r). I am a strong party man ; I will go as fur in favour of my party, and in upholding :jii| party, and in securing the success of my party as any other man — as far as a British listotesman can or ought to do (hear, hear, and applause) ; but I will not do it, and I have ineter done it, if there was a question of the interests of my country. (Cheers). Our maxim haf always been — by a party, with a party, but /or the country. (Ilear, hear, and applause). tBttt Mr. Brown's and Mr. Mackenzie's maxim has been — By a party, with a party, and for la party (hisses and groans) ; and Mr. Mackenzie very naively in his speech the other day, 5 admits it. I had said in the gaiety of my heart — inspired by the victory of my friend Mr. Robinson — (Hear, hear) — I had said that when the Grits came in about thirteen years ago, tm weevil came in with them, and that two years ago they brought in the Colorado bug. (liaughtcr). Mr. Mackenzie replied in his speech ; "Well, I have got to say this : if I have to choose between John A's Government and the Colorado bug, I would choose the Colorado bog. (Laughter). That is jnst the spirit of the man and of his party. (Loud applause, and voices, " that's correct"). lie would rather have plague, pestilence and famine ; he would rather have Colorado bugs (laughter), locusts and caterpillars, (laughter), war and ruin (hear, hear), distress and panic, anything, everything, no matter what it might cost the country, no matter how the interests of the country would bo prejudiced by it, he would rather have this country afflicted with them all, one after another, than see John A. go in and Mr. Mackenzie go out. (Ilear, hear). I say, gentlemen, from 1854 until wo resigned, we had to meet an Opposition of that kind. Mr. White has referred to the burning questions of those days ; ho has alluded to the clergy reserves which affected the people of Upper Canada, and l:e has alluded to the Seignorial Tenure, which affected Lower Canada. As far as tipper Canada was concerned, William Lyon Mackenzie declared in his place in the House and iohis book that it was the question of the clergy reserves which mainly caused the rebellion of l€37; and wc all know how Lower Canada was shaken to the very centre by the oppressions, it Iniay use the expression, of the old feudal system, of the old Seignorial tenure. These questions were used as means of agitation by the Rouges in Lower Canada and by the Grits in Upper Canada ; they did not want to have them settled, for this would have deprived them of their tools in trade ; and when we took hold of these questions — first of the clergy reserves and BCttled that question — we had the opposition of Mr. Brown and the whole of the Grit party, (hear, hear) and why? because we compensated vested interests. Although the clergy had the right, by a solemn act of the Imperial Parliament, to one-seventh of the Province for Church purposes, and although they had acquired certain vested rights under that act, we compelled them to .surrender all on the basis of their life interest rights by commuting for the life of the cumbent of the parish ; although the British Government declared that they would never llow the secularization of the clergy reserves unless compensation was given to those clergy- en — the Opposition knowing that, resisted with all their might that settlement, and we d to carry the measure at the point of the bayonet. (Hear, hear). And so it was in JEiower Canada. "Wc were opposed by the whole force of the Opposition of that day in the fettlemcnt of tho seignorial question, but we carried it notwithstanding the stem opposition the one hand of the Seigneurs, who naturally did not want to be deprived of their feudal ights, and on the other hand, of tho whole force of the Rouges in Lower Canada, and, gen- men, tho Grits of Upper Canada, who refused to give one single sixpence out of the public treasury to compensate the Seigneurs for the loss of their property ; so we had to carry that Question also by the point of the bayonet (hear, hear), despite the opposition in Upper Canada 10 a and the opposition in Lower Canada, (Applause). And if the halitant of Lower Canadn now feels that he is a yeoman, and a freeman, no longer weighed down by servitudes coming from an older and more barbarous age, and if, in Upper Canada, wo find that there is no question between the churchea — that there are no religious dissensions there, all standing ou an equal footing, and the clergy of the Church of England who were the great sufferers submitting calmly and cheerfully to their grieat loss for the sake of the peace of the country, it is duo to our administration, (Hear, hear, and applause). When these questions were settled for a short time the country was in a state of apparent quietude, which did not satisfy Mr. Brown and the gentlemen opposed to us ; and as Mr. White said a little while ago they looked around for a source of attack — for a "burning question," — and where did they find it ? Gentlemen, Lower Canada had been, against the will of Lower Canadians, and against ihe will of a considerable minority in Upper Canada, joined in a forced union in 1841 ; the old feelings of hostility still existed, and the ashet, of the old fires of 1837, '33, and '39, were still hot. It required the patriotic exertions of every public man — of every man anxious for the good of this country, to calm that excitement, to soothe the irritation of one race against the other, and to allay the natural suspicion of the people of Lower Canada, that their language, their institutions, and their religion,were likely to be assailed. It was the duty of every statesman to do this, and to have forgotten party in the doing of it. (Hear, hear, and applause). Was that done, gentlemen? Why, the most nefarious — I can use no less strong term — the most nefarious attempt was made to set the two races in hostility in order to injure the Government. You may remember, gen- tlemen, how I was called in Mr. Brown's paper (the Globe) from one end of Ontario to the other, a slave to Lower Canada ; I was a slave to French domination, and I was the tool of the priesthood, because knowing, as I did, that we must get Catholics and Protestants, Frenchmen and Englishmen to work together for the country's good (cheers), I maintained an even course — and to show that wo were right in the course wo took, I may say that while I was charged in Upper Canada with being a subservient tool of Lower Canadian interests, my revered friend and colleague. Sir George Carticr (great cheering), was told by the Rouges in Lower Canada that he was my tool and my slave ; that he was neglecting all French Canadian interests, and that he was little more than a French-speaking Englishman. You may remember how Protestant fanaticism was roused in Upper Canada •-^lainst Roman Catholics, and how Lower Canadians were insulted ; how their race, their lan- guage, and their religion were derided, and how the attacks went so low that even those houses employed in works of benevolence and of education, ia charity and devotion, by the Roman Catholic Sisterhoods, were assailed by the Globe in language I would not pollute my lips by repeating here. (Cries of bravo, and chcer»\ Wo had to meet that line of opposition, gentlemen, steadily and constantly from 1854 until 18G7; and our triumph is all the greater, and the credit wo ask at your hands, and the credit we ask at the hands of the people of Canada for our successful administration of our afi^airs is enhanced by the unholy, the unpatriotic and the wicked opposition that we persistently received (cheers). To show that this party have no right even to the credit of being honest or conscientious in their fanaticism, that same paper, and that same Mr. Gcorgo Brown, who insulted Catholics, their religion and their institutions (hear, hear), is now the humble servant of tho Archbishop of Toronto (hear, hear), publishing his pastorals, and through the nlaves of his lamp and ring, Messrs. Mackenzie and Mowat, bartering offices with tke Catholic League in Upper Canada, right and left in return tor political support (hear, hear), so much so tliat ia Toronto wo are told that unless you arc an Irish Roman Catholic you need not apply for office (laughter) ; but the great Irish Catholic body in Upper Canada will not long submit to that kind of thing. They are a noble body (hear, hear) — and I have reason to speak well of them. They will not allow themselves or their votes to be put up to bargain and fcale. (Hear, bear, and applause.) In my constituenoy, gentlemen, during my two last cintests, when the two Governments — the Government of the Dominion and the Government of Ontario — were pulling every strong string, and making every effort, and using every means, fair and foul, for the purpose of defeating me (hear, hear), the Irish Catholics stood by mo almost to a man (cheers and applause) ; and if I am here now speaking to you as a member of the Canadian Parliament, if I have the right to fight the battles of my party, and if I have the right to speak your sentiments, as I hope to be able to do (hear, hear, and loud applause) in Parliament, I owe it to the Roman Catholics of Kingston (loud applause). In 11 .... . ,1864, tho consequence of this unpatriotic course of the Opposition was that no Goveramenfc could last for any time. In 1862 wc were defeated bc^iauso tho Government of 'at day had brought down an ample, sufficient and carefully considered Militia Bill — and, • ^member, that was in 1862, when this country was in great danger; when war wasragiig in tho iJnited States; when England and tho United States had been on tho verge of war again ,;jiind again (hear, hear) ; and when it was an absolute matter of necessity that Canada should idbut on her armor and prepare to defend her own shores and her freedom (applause) — for Shat necessary measure we were defeated on that occasion. Mr Sandfield McDonald's Government was foruied, but it was so weak that in twenty months it was defeated, and resigned; another Conservative Government was formed by Sir Etienno Tacho, but ifc lasted only a few months, and that Govern ncnt was also defeated; and si» in 1864 it was found that such was the hostility between Upper and Lower Canada engendered by tho Grits, that all Government was rendered impossible. Mr. Brown claimed representation by population ; Upper Canada had a larger popula- tion, and therefore should have a larg r representation; but, gentlemen, t!i« course taken by Mr. Brown rendered tho grant of representation by populatiuii ^tion by Parliament impossible. No French ,Canadian who had any respect for his country — no French Canadian with a desire to protect tho institutions under which he was bre d an! torn, under which ho lived, and which ho respected and revered, could yield on tb.it question — although in tho abstract it was admitted that tho principle of representation by population was sound. But what said the French Canadians, — and if I had been a French Canadian I would have taken that line myself (cries of bravo and applause) — what said they — " representation fey population, if we were goin* to have fair play, might bo all right enough, but wo are warned beforehand — we are told by Mr. Brown and tho Grits, that they are going to sweep our language, our laws and our institutions away entirely, and that they aro going to forco British institutions upon us ; they havo assailed our religion, they have assailed o\. . priesthood, and they have assailed our religious institutions, and everything that is dear to tho heart of a French Canadian ; therefore as to the demand for representation by population, we will never yield to it ; we would rather sever tho Union, no matter what tho consequence might be ; representation by population cannot bo granted ; wo cautiot hand over ourselves and our children to tho tender mercies of tlieso gentlemen." (Cries of bravo and cheers.) The Government was at a dead-lock, and Mr. Brown at last became sensible of tho consequences of his unwise and factious course ; and tho only patriotic thing that man ever did in his life — impelled by a sense of fear for tho consequences ho had himself rendered imminent by his course — was to coalesce with mo for the purpose of forming a larger Union, and carrying out the Confederation of all the British Ameriean Provinces. (Hear, hear.) To be sure, gentlemen, he deserves the credit of joining with me ; he and his party gave me that assistance in Parliament that enabled ua to carry Confederation, and if we now aro a Dominion, wo must not forget that it was owing in great measure to Mr. Brown's momenta ry feeling of patriotism, of which, however, ho soon repented. It was not before it was time that Confederation was carried, for, as I have already said, the Government was at a dead-lock, and wc were in danger of anarchy and civil war, or severance. Now we have a Dominion } now wo have all the Provinces united; now we feel proud of being a great power — but not a power separated from England ; wo desire no such separation — (loud cheers) — but a great auxiliary power, strengthening the hands of the Mother Country — rejoicing in that alliance, proud of our Mother Country, and feeling that we are becoming a great people, as the peoplo of tho Dominion of Canada, but that we are a still greater peoplo in being a portion of the British Empire. (Great cheering and applause.) Gentlemen, as I said before, Mr. Brown Boon repented of his temporary aberration into patriotism (applause), and quitted the Govern- ment because we thought ho was not a safe man to go to Washington, and I think his late escapade there showed we correctly gauged his capacity. f'Cheers.) Ho left us, and al- though ho professed to be still friendly to the Union, and still anxious to strengthen our hands in carrying out Confederation, almost from the moment ho left us he and his party attempted to thwart us in every possible way, and coalesced with those who were opposed to tho Union. They joined themselves to the Anti-Unionists in tho Lower Provinces, and did everthing in their power to thwart our attempts to carry out the scheme of Confederation. (Hear, hear.) ~ust look back and remember how they treated Mr. Howe (hear, hear.) If any one had lai'ns upon the Liberal Party of Canada, Mr. Howe had that claim. (Hear, hear.) As w leader of the j^vcat. Liberal I'arty of Nova Scotia, as au early advocate of llcsponsiblo Gov- ernment, and as a foremost member of the Liberal Party for years and year' (hear, hear) — :ind not only as the foremost man of that party, but as a great man in himself (hear, hear) — ho had daiuis for their respect. But remember, sentlemon, how they ridiculed that man, when he came and lent his aid to Confederation in Parliament. With what ridicule, with what contumely he was attacked ; liow ho was sneered at and derided. Why, gentlemen, ho was charged with selling his principles by coalescing v.'ith mc and joining the Administration. Now 1 lake tliis opportunity of stating, in justice to tho memory of that great man, that of nil the patriotic acts Joseph Howe ever performed, he never performed a more patriotic act than in joining Mio G -vernmcnt of tho Dominion (applause and cheers). What had he done? lie had fought tho battle ai^ainst Confederation ; ho had fought it ably and well; ho had fought it in tho Legislature of his own Province, and ho had gone homo to England ;ind fought it in tlic Parliament and with the Government of England, and when he came back, finding his exertions were unsuccessful, there was only one thing for him to do — cither to accept tho position or tell tho Nova Scotians that they must take the next step and resist the Union by force. Mr. Howe was not prepared for that course. IIo had gone to the utmost extent of legitimate opposition to the measure, but when ho found that any further step was certain to cau?o bloodshed and ruin to his native Province, he accepted tho inavit- able, and came to aid us ; but ho camo only after ho had got from us a promise that certain claims which Nova Scotia insisted on through him should bo granted. Ho said : — " Grant us these ; we think we have a right to them ; grant us these, and I will consider my position." I said : — "Mr. Howe, wo will grant you iheso for tho sake of peace ; wo will carry them through Parliament. But wo will raeet opposition to such a concession, and we cannot hope 10 carry it out unless wc have tho assurance that it will bo accepted by Nova Scotia, which assurance can only be given by your coming into the Government." Ho was unwilling to do so; he fought against it and resisted it, but when I told him that it was a a sine qua non, — that wo could not guarantee better terms to Nova Scotia and make a settlement, unless on conditions of hia becoming a member of tho Government; then only he accepted the position. Mr. Howo sacrificed himself, knowing full well tho obloquy he was .submitting himself to, but for the sake of his country bo joined the Government, and all he foresaw came to pass. He visa derided ; his motives were attacked ; it was said that he came into tho Government for the sake of office, and they hounded that man, when he went to his constituency, gentlemen, almost to his grave. (Applause.) And bo with New Brunswick. It was part of the Washington Treaty that wo should purchase the export duties reserved to that Province by tlio Union Act. When we did pay for these duties for tho sake of enabling us to carry out the Washington Treaty, Mr. Blake tho other day, or rather last year, in his speech at Aurora, said that we had purchased New Brunswick by giving thrice the value of the rights and privileges surrendered. We had to meet that charge as to New Brunswick, as wo had to meet tho " better terms" to Nova Scotia. So in Manitoba. Tho Government was accused of having paid too much for tho North West Territories, but never was there a bettor bargain made by any eountry than when we got all the great North West, extend- ing from the western boundaries of Ontario to British Columbia — when we got all that country for £300,000. I believe that tho Hudson's Bay Company has sold in the vicinity of Winnipeg their land for nearly that amount (hear, hear, and applause), or nearly, the .-imount we paid for the whole, Gentlemen, when we endeavored to get possession, and when we sent Mr. McDougall in advance for tho purpose of examining the country and Ktudying its institutions, and preparing the people for the change, you may remember how fiercely Le was attacked, how the Government's policy was attacked, and how before Mr. Mc- Dougall even arrived there, tho suspicions of the half-breeds and natives and inhabitants were aroused, so that ho had no fair phy, and before ho reached there he was condemned, the policy of the Canadian Government was condemned, in a great measure by reason of the unpat- riotic conduct of the Opposition and tho suspicions instilled into the minds of the people where the lamentable disturbances took place which wo all lament; and England and Canada had to join in sending an armed force to the Red River in order to remove the fear of a civil war and to suppress an armed insurrection (Hear, hear). Then, gentlemen, with respect to British Columbia — I have now come to British Columbia. Canada as a Dominion would be incomplete without having a Pacific, as well as an Atlantic coast. (Applause). Why, sir, the sitaatioD in British Columbia bad become almost insupportable ; far remote from England ; ,18. muable to communioato with Canada in consequence of the wilds and wastes that lay between us and her, and the hi<'h rancca of mountains that separate ua ; severed from Britain by dis- •tance, and in close proximity to the United States, dealing witli the United States every day in comniercial matters, and the United States apparently j-Iannini,' to pet pos.^cssion of her. Why did the United States buy at an enormous price the coniparativcly worthless country kA' Alaska from Russia ? Obviously ihr tlic purpose of cnclosinj; IJritish Columbia between •the two— with the United States to the north of her in Alaska, and tiic United States to tho ■couth of her in Orepon— severed Irom Canada, severed from England, with all her trade and aJl her relations with the T'^nitcd Stat's, cxpectino; that the more despair of the people of British Columbia would eventually fwco them to seek for political connection with tho United ■States for the purpose of enjoying tho commorcial uuvanta^es that would follow. (Hear, hour). And, pentlemcn, tho loss of IJritish Columbia and her annexation to tho United States, giving her the control of the whole of the Pacific, woulJ. have been tho ruin of tho Dominion in the future — in its prospects and iu its greatness. AVhy, with the United States extending along our whole Southern frontier, and across British Columbia from the North Pole to Oregon, the consequences would have been such that the prospect of Canada being ft ]>ominion in reality would have been lost forever. (Hear, hear). Now, gentlemen, in 1871. we made arrangements with British Columbia, and you know what they were; you tnow how they were fought step by step by an unpatriotic Opposition. Although it is provided ■m the Act ot Confederation, which made this a Dominion, that"fcatish Columbia, Ncwfound- Jand and Prince Edward's Island should be invited to come in, and that a place should bo Jlcpt for them, they opposed tho union of British Columbia in every possible way. You know the stern oppo.sition— the factious opposition— that was ollered to tho construction ot* file Pacific Railway, and without such railway we could have no real connection with British Columbia. It would have been merely a union on paper, and no connection in fact; and «ho would still be alien, alien in interests, and alien in prospects and hopes unless wo liavo *he PacJtic Railway. (Cheers). Gentlemen, I sliall not discuss to-ni;,'ht ^vith youtheques- lion of the Pacific Railway. (Cries of (Jo on ! go on !). No, gentlemen, I shall not do so, ftnd for a reason that you will agree with mo is a sufficient one, because my friend Dr. Tup- »er takes it (applause), and I am leaving it to him. He will do it as he has already done before other audiences ; he will explain to you the policy of the late Government — how that policy was thwarted — the factious manner in which it was thwarted, the way it was defeated, «id the way we were driven from office; and explain to you also with his wonted power and «loquencc, the abortion which this Government has been attempting to father upon the peo- ric of Canada instead of our scheme. If our plan had been carried out, with tho company «»at was formed and the charter given by the "charter sellers," as we arc called (laughter) Ae charter that was given to 13 representative men from every Province in the Dominion, iftiat company would have been successful ; money would have been obtained on its bonds, tho road would ere this have been in progress, from Winnipeg to tho frontier would have been built by this time ; the railway would have been pushing its way through the valley of *(he Sackatchewan, extending from Lake Superior westward, and from Lake Superior cast- Urard, and that would have been done, gentlemen, done by a company of capitalists with a fbsidy of thirty millions of money and fifty million acres ol'land from the Government. (Voice 3ry true ! and applause). Now, gentlemen, you know well— you may remember the names . the men that undertook that great work; my friend, Dr. Tupper, if you wish to bo. ■"^minded of them, will repeat the names of the thirteen gentlemen who got the charter — men lose position, whose rank, whose wealth, whoso experience, and whose acquaintance with ilway affairs were a guarantee that they knew what they were about when they accepted 2 charter and undertook the work. (Hear, hear). They were willing to accept the respon- lility and undertake the work, and it would have gone on, gentlemen, if it had not beere ' ■ the unpatriotic course taken by the Opposition, and the reviling and the raising of false lues, and the telling of false stories with relation to the policy of the late Government, tear, hear). N^ow, gentlemen, the arrangement that we made was that this Company was get thirty millions of money, to be given them as the road progressed, and to give them ky millions of acres of land in alternate blocks, and that the Dominion of Canada were to ep fifty millions of acres also in altern: o blocks. It was calculated, that looking at the ice of land along the United States Northwest, at least this land should be worth $2.50 an and we agreed for a certain time, to give the Company a fair chance, to dispose of f4 the londfl, tliat the price of tlio lan.l 1 vin- nlon- tl.o railway sl.oul.l not be under that sum If wo. scntlen.cn, Rot for the fifty n.illions ..f acns wo U'vt, ^'^50 an acrc-or if wo ROt ond hunc?rcd ccntH per nore-this would have been Ufty niillionsot dollars, and would hav-e covcrc, j tho thirty millions we wo: o to advance as a subsidy and all tl.o intcrc.-t upon . (cheer, an,! . applause), so that wo would have the railway built by those Rontlemcn by a cash advance m thirty millions of dollars, with tl.o certainty of those thirty millions of dollars bc.n- recoup.. and returned to the people of Canada by tho sale of lilty millions ol acres of and rescrv-c,i. Ilovr thatcreat scheme was wrecked, my friend will tell you; and 1 must say to you that ,. was a bitter disappointment to mo, as it must be a bitter disappointment to every man who i- anxious for tho development of the country, and to sec its growth as a Dominion— that ... scheme did not succeed. Until that road is built to British Columbia and tho 1 acifac, tu- naturally a pride of mine-[ had hoped, old as i am, tnai i womu stui u«vu «... spared to see tho first train cross from Ontario to British Columbia (hear hear)— I bad hoped that 1 miqht have been permitted to havo seen the union take place, and then indeed, gentio- men as a Canadian, who had something to do in tho orisinat.oa of that uiKon and in the joining of these groat provinces, I could have cheerfully sung my nunc demittis. rCheers ) I will not discuss, for tho reason I havo given you, tho abortive plan ot the present Government, which has been substituted for our groat, our wise and patriotic scheme, but I will say this — that I do not believe tho schomo announced by Mr. McJlenzic a year a^o. will be carried out, and I believe that next session will see tho withdrawal or modi ficalion of tho proposition. Wo know perfectly well that Mr. Blake, who has come intc that Government, not more than a year ago, denounced the scheme, saying that it was an im- practicable scheme, an extravagant scheme, and far beyond tho means ot this country ; say in.' that British Columbia was merely a sea of mountains, and intimating that i^ri"8h Lol umbia, if she did not choose to accept what was offered, and would insist upon the lultiimcn! of tho original scheme, might go out ot the Union. I believe, gentlemen, we will see at the next session a further abandonment on the part of the present Government of tho plan imper- fect as it was, and as it is— and God knows what they are going to substitute mstead ot it (hear, hear). Well, gentlemen, wo went out— we resigned, in consequence of the cry that wasgot up a.^ainst us,— a false cry. False issues were raised against us by the insidious resolution ol that great and good man, Lucius Scth Huntington (laughter and groans) ; by his insidious- ly-drawn resolution it was insinuated, and almost in terms expressed— that the trovernmen^ had entered into a nefarious conspiracy with Sir Hugh Allan, with Jay Cook and Company, and with the Northern Pacific Railway, represented by Yankee speculators, to hand over the railway to United States influences and transfer the control of our land and to give the subsidy of thirty millions to tho Americans ; and that after having drawn and expended these subsidies, they would proceed for their own purposes, to tho building of their own Northern railway. This statement was widely disseminated, was sown broadcast over the land, and it went like a wave over tho Government. What though we explained and proved tho falsehood of it ? Tho popular mind was surprised and captured by the cry, and we resign- ed, gentlemen, in consequence of tho flow of that wave. Tho country now knows how false, these charges were, and that the real reason we were attacked was because wo would not give Americans' any interest in the undertaking— (hear, hear and applause)— because we would not dvo a sixpence into their hands, and because we insisted that the contractors, the share- holders and everybody who had any connection with the railway should be British subjects (hear, hear and applause), in order to keep the control of the road in Canadian hands. In consequenoe of our ejection of every attempt of tho Americans to get possession of our road, and the control of its affairs, they conspired with some gentlemen in Montreal, and by means gentlemen, -which you know well, -ignation became requisite. We resigned, and now, tlic sober second thought of tho couimy sees, that while we were fighting tho Canadian battle, while wo were attempting to construct that great railway through Canada, with Canadian and British capital, and with Canadian and British influences and means, the completion of the present scheme, so far as ascertained, is calculated to divert Canadian trade into American channels, and to open up to American Interests our great railway means of communication (Hear, hear.) 16 Oontlcmcn, ns wc resigned, Mr. Mackenzie was cent for to form a Govommont; on tha 6tb of this month they have been in two years, and I would ank you, pnntlemon, if their fecord for these two years has not been grow inj? pretty fast. If you looic back at all tho charges brought against the Qoverninpnts with which I have been connected Binco 18B4 — fbr twenty long years, — had there been such charges of incapacity, and inal-administratioa ggainst me as have been formulated and established during the} ^h* in tho country, the inevitable reaction took place, and Mr. Cartwright, with the financial .iM gacity which charactcrizea hirn (prolonged cheers and applause)— ot all times in tho worloJ when there was distress and want of confidence, and an approach to a panic, sends notice r'ol the Banks telling them to pay up (laughter) ; t!ie consequence was that they shut down , i »> denly on their customers, tho undue inflation was succeeded by undue restriction ; the t n tomers of the Banks were injured and crippled in their resources by these notices of .V'V* Cartwright. You see then Gentlemen, that the consequences of that inflation and the m Si* sequent restriction, were that a large increase of distress, of misery, and of commercial iii-h* has been caused, and aro both equally chargeable to tho Government (iVpplause and cries 3« that's true). Gentlemen, they are a happy family in this Government (laughter);— a v(3>|j happy family. Mr. Mackenzie says that he intends to remain in ofiBcc a long time (lauglit '^W - -ho has given his word for that, and yet it is strange to say, gentlemen, his colleagues do i'bj! them, and that is something in hard times, until fitly provided for [laughter]. First t!*Ji had the leader of the Eougo Party, tho Hon. Mr. Dorion, a gentleman of whom I wish ^ speak with all respect — a tower of strength to his Party : but he could not have had cur^a^ dence in the continuation of the Administration, and he accordingly took the Chief Jusii ship [hear, hear], which oflace he at present bo worthily fills. Mr. William Ross, the Mii: . IT Uf of Militia — the Minister of war— [laughter] ; he Jici not exactly chtnpo hi« sword info % ploighiiharc, but he took ap ii (juill at tlic Caltector'.s office, in Halifax. [ApnIaUHoJ. Tlicn tlMPe i.H Mr. Fournicr, tko Minister of Justice — Minister of Justice for a whil«\ and Post- inaikcr-('«noral for another little while, who, after liis long toil, \m anxious lubor:*, in the mMy matters of State, in which the country and public are interested, reaolved to take of- floi^worn out and wearied by his continuous labors — [launhtorl — retiring to the soft cush- iom of the Bonch of the Supremo ( 'ourt. [ Applause.] Then tBcre i» the other i'u.stnia.xtor- Oftcral [lauyhtor], my namesake, Mr. Donald A. Macdonald — the pontleman who put the lerwrs to the postofllcc enployes te make them vote for the (iovvrnniont. Mr. Donald A. MMd(>nald i.s now holding an anxiuu.s otficu — the anxious offico of LienteRant-Qovernoi* of On^Brio. [Lauphtcr]. It is said gentlemen, for rumours will get abroad too, that even thai ;;rcat and good man, Lucius Seth IluntingtoR [great laughter |, will bisAoa provided 'i)r; And that he ia going to deprive the Dominion of Canada of his wondrous ability, of his ac tif« zcul, of his indtiatry, [laughter], of his legal knowledge [laughter], and of his csmmcrctal probity [applause] ; ho too, it is said, i.s going to deprive th« country, and Parliament and GoYernmoat of his services, and what his future is to be, the i'uturc alone can tcH. It is al.«o runiored tbiU^Mr. Laird, the Minister of the Interior, having gone up the Sascatchowan, andlBeen what a lino country the North West is, and having sat in councU with the Black Fm* and (Irees, wishes to go and be the Lieutenant-Governor there, leaving Prince EJ- WMd island t© it.s fate, [Laughter and applause]. Then, sir, Mr. Blake, who resigned, as KKm as by the assistance wf his name I^lr. Mackenzie had carried the elections, from that iwlk for the first wcssion pave a vei}- feeble support to Mr. Mackenzie and his (jovernracnt, an# last session he showed ii scarcely concealed hostility. lie attacked souio of Mr, Mac- kwpic's measures, sneered at his want of parliamentary knowledge, and up.'ct him for a mil|&kc in parliamentary practice, just to show what he could do; and he further opposed bis railway scheme oat in Vancouver Island. I do not believe ho voted against it, but he beMTuc one of those vanishing vicwa [laughter], dissolving views. Oh, yes — ho did rote igttlDst the Nanaimo tunity." (Laughter). The duty was fixed by him at IG^ ad vahrrm daty ; "that is not enough," they said; " theu I will make it 17 j" (laughter) ; but, gentlemen, he coald not even do this in a gracious way, because, wliile the 17{rpcr cent, mitiht bo considered in some degree a protection for our infant manufacturers, he greatly diminished its value by taxing various raw materials before on the free list. (Hear, hear, and applause). "We had provided in our tariff years ago that thos'?. raw materials or products partaking of the nature of raw materials that could be worked up in manufactories, should be free of duty, but, while Mr. Cartwright raised the duty for a time to I7h percent, he destroyed much of the value of the increase to eur manul'acturcrs, by putting duties upon the raw material. As I have had occasion to say in the House and elsewhere. Mr. Cartwright said that this was only a tem- porary provision ; but Mr. Mackenzie denied it here the other day. Now, Mr. Cartwright did not say that the duty would be taken off, but that the duties would be readj ;stcd; per- haps he meant in the direction of an increase of duties, perhaps in the direction of reducing them, but that this thin tarifl' was merely a provisional arrangement. Well )iow, gentlemen, that announcement certainly did not increar-o the confidence of the manu- facturers in Canada (loud cries of no, no! and hear, hear), for if there is one thine calculated to panilyze trade in Canada, and one thin"; more than another calculated so shake our credit — already damaged by the iinwi?e financial conrjo of the prci^ent administration — and shake it to the basis, it would be the idea that Mr. Cartwright was *o be entrusted with the permanent control of that department. (Appliiuse and cheers.) !. ■, il as have been the consequences of the course of the Government, it would be trifling in comparison with the deep and lasting injury that would be inflicted on the country by any changes in our customs duties that would bo made under the capricious advice of sueli an ignorant and conceited man. (Cheers.) How Mr. Mackenzie will act with regard to the tariff, God only knovv^. In order to get the freedom of Dundee [laughter] he was a free trader — an out-and-out frci trader, a Pichard Cobdcnitc [hear, hear] ; and lie pledged himself that any tiovernment in which ho held oftice would, if necessary, carry rut the prin ip'.es of Free Trade as announced by himself [groans]; he came back to Canada; he went up (o Sarnia and made a speech there, Bhowing that he had changed a little. But then the atmosphere had changed, gentle men [applause] ; he had already got the freedom of Sarnia, and the whole support of Sarnia, ibr he was the member for Sarnia, gentlemen, and he was speaking to soothe the manufac- turing interests of Canada. [Laughter.] Therefore he told them that he was in favor oi incidental protection. He came down to Montreal for the purpose of defeating my friend, Mr. "White, and I think that he appeared in a new character — in the ch.araeter of an out-and-out Drotectionist. [Hear, hear and laughter.] Well, gentlemen, his course puts me very much in mmd of the western man in the United States. He was a leading member of the Demo- cratic party, and was seeking the suffrages of,some constituency in the far west ; so, addre.'-s- ing them somewhat in Mr. Mackenzie's style, he said to them : " Gentlemen, I have laid before you the platform of the Democratic Party — these, gentlemen, are the principles of the i 1 Democratic Party; I am a Democrat, a Jyed-iu-tlic-wool Democrat; tboso arc the prin- •oiples fastened oa my banner ; by these I will stand or fall ; but, gentlemen, if the;/ do not iuit they cxm he changed." [Prolonged applause and uproarious laughter.] Well, gentU'- men, the TariJQFand the Pacific liailway is ])rctty much all they did in that session, and a poor ghow they made in both ot them. [Cheers.] They passed, it is true, some in pection laws, but all they had to do was to take them out of the pigeon-holes of the lato Ministry ; this was all they then did, and last session they did still less. [Laughter.] They consolidated the election law, placing half a dozen statutes into one ; it was little more than simple con- solidation, with the exception of providing for the ballot. Well, gentlemen, I was opposed to the ballot, because I liavo always thought that a man ought to feel the responsibil ty of voting — of going up like a man and giving his vote. [Applause.] But as it had been granted in England, there was evidently no use in fighting it lere. It was carried ; but if the Administration had had only an idea of the effect the ballot was going to have, wo would certainly have had no ballot. [Applause.] It was the ballot tliat saved me at my last election. [Hear, hear.] Tlic two Governments were working against mo and had their eye on every man, and wore ready to como down with the hammer of Thor on every one, rich or poor, in their power in any way, as a contractor, laborer, or Government employee of any kind. I would have had no more the chance of being elected without the ballot than I would have for Centre ^lontrea! to-morrow. [Cheers and cries of ''We'll elect you! come out. Sir John!"] A greater than I, I foar, ■will be elected — I fear my star must wane before that of Devlin. But, gentlemen, they passed a Controverted Election Act. [Cries of oh ! oh !] Yet, gentlemen, that Contro- verted Election Act was pretty much a copy of the Bill the late Government had passed the session before. They say that they have improved the old law, hut I do not think they Iiave. They made a serious blunder in it, and the consequence of the blunder is, that sonic Judges of Lower Canada have declared the law to be unconstitutional, and it has to be decided whetlicr it is constitutional or not. It is not yet decided. I avoided all difliculty in my fbill ; but, gentlemen, they were determined to make some difference between the old law and the new, and they made this improvement, and a pretty improvement it is. [Laughter.] But, gentlemen, while they pretend to have made an improvement in the election law, my friends were tried, and their friends have been tried and unseated [hear, hear and applause] under my law, and not un'ler their law. [Voice: Good for you Q They say, gentlemen, " But didn't the Oppositiou .orco you to pass j'our Election Act ? You resisted ittheprevious session." Well, gentlemen, the I'act was that tlic law had only just been passed in England. It had never been tried there, and the Judges in England signed a rcmon;: trance against this new duty being thrown on them. It was most important to know hov/' the law would work in England, or whether the Judges would be able to work it. I therefore allowed it to stand nver for a session to sec how the measure succeeded in England; and if it worked well there, 1 said that wo would introduce it into Canada at the following session [applause] ; and, as I said before, if there has been a purification of the House — if the rotten sticks have been iirokeu — if men have been disqualified, and men shown to be elected by means of money ■irruptly used, it was under the law passed by the late Administration, and the lato corrupt I arliamcnt, that this purification has taken place, that these trials have l)eon held, and that ha wrong men have been unseated and the right men put in. [Loud applause.] Well, they passed an Insolvent law ; and I think that Mr. Mackenzie takes credit for that. Why, ^Ir. I^Lackenzie had always been opposed to an Insolvent law, and the man that has the right, '■]iQ real right, to claim credit for the Insolvent law is a resident of ^lontreal — the Ilnn. Mr. Abbott. [Hear, liear and applause.] When I was Minister of Jusitco and the head of i;e Government, he consulted with me on the occasion of the old Insolvent law expiring, ukI as I knew he had fully studied the subject, I asked him to introduce a bill ; a com- ;iittec was struck ; lie labored at the bill zealously; he got tho assistance of the Govern- i.icnt — we g.ave him all the assistance the Government could give him — but to him must be tho honor, to him must be the praise of that measure ; and tho Insolvent law passed at tho last session is, in substance, in all its material provisions and in its machinery — although with Rome improvements and some amendments — John Abbott's law. lie alono should get credit for it ; and Mr. Mackenzie, who was always opposed to a Bankruptcy or Insolvency Bill, lias only the merit of allowing it to pass. There were some acts passed in connectiim with tlie Department of Marine and Fisheries. Any of you, gentlemen, who were in tho 20 lobby at the time will remember that Mr. A. J. Smith, Minister of Marine ami Fisheries, did not understand his own bills, and could not explain them, and had to get the assistance of his predecessor, the Hon. Peter Mitchell, [Applause.] That gentleman, having the interests of his country at heart, and particularly tho interests of our shipping, of our commerce and of our trade, came forward and lent his skill, his experience, his earnest assistance and sympathy; and only by that assistance were those bills carried, and only by him and throuf;h him were those bills explained and defended. [Cheers J Tes, gentlemen, last session they passed another bill • which I think will be of service. They passed an Act for the further organization of the Xorth-West territory, introducing some provisions relating to the sale and management of tho public lands in that country. As to that portion of the bill which was framed by the Surveyor-General, Colonel Deni?, all arc acquainted with it ; but there is one provision which provides for a separate Lieutenant-Governor for the great North- West. Now, we were more economical ; we thought that until some white inhabitants went into the North- West, outside of Manitoba, the Lieutenani-Governor of Manitoba could do both duties. Mr. Morris was ready and willing to perform these duties, and he did perform them well and ably [applause] ; and he did so on his salary as Lieutenant-Governor, with a small aSditional allowance. Although Mr. Morris never complained of the work, still they pro- vided in tho Act passed in April last that it was necessary I'or ihe good of the country to have a separate Lieutenant-Governor. Yet they have allowed — although it was absolutely necessary that they should have a new Governor right off — the time to pass, and they have not yet appointed any one, because there is, forsooth, a quarrel as to who should got it. Mr. Laird wants to go tb^re, and other people want to get it, and therefore the country is suffering for want of a Lieutenant-Governor. (Cheers.) Then, gentlemen, comes tho Supreme Court Bill. I said the other day that tho Supreme Court Bill was my Bill. Mr. 3Iackenzie says I never drew it, and he also says that he always draws his own bills. Now, I will venture to say, gentlemen, and I think that we will prove it by the Law Clerk at Ottawa, that Mr. Mackenzie never drew any Bill (except, perhaps, a bill of parcels) in his life, [Great laughter.] As regards the Supremo Court Bill, it could not be evolveJ, as a German philosopher evolved an elephant out of his own consciousness ; such bills are not to be extracted from a man's imagination. The Government and I, as Minister of Justice, had to sit down and consider the laws of different countries, especially of England and the United States, and examine the constitution of their different Appellato Courts, with the view of endeavoring to construct a good working system for this country. In making these researches 1 had the valuable assistance of a late colleague, tho Hon. Mr. Archibald, at present Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, lie and I both worked at that bill, and we prepared it for submission at the first session of rarliumcnt. Then, cjentlemen, that bill was not passed in consequence of sundry diflScultics that arose with respect to the represent- ation of Lower Canada in the Court ; but before the next session we had consulted many of the Judges ; I had sent my bill to the Judges ; I received suggestions from all sources, and and I was very glad to get these suggestions; and I enjployed a gentleman, now one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and asked him to devote his time for the purpose of consider- ing the whole subject. After receiving all the suggestions that were sent me, I prepared a second bill and laid it before Parliament; and Mr. Fournicr, when introducing the bill now law, said in his place that his bill was principally framed on my own, and that if it had not been for tho assistance he thus got, he would scarcely have had the courage to have undertaken the task [applause and cheers] ; and I assisted him, as the Hon. Mr. Mitchell assisted the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, in every way in my power to carry that bill. And what did I get, gentlemen, in return ? On the third reading of the bill, just as it was about to be passed (hear, hear), without notice, without warning, an independent member — not Mr. Fournier— not the Minister of Justice, who is responsible for the admin- istration of that great Court and its organization, but a member from Hamilton, evidently "by concert, moved, seconded by Mr. Laflamme, that a clause be put into the bill at tho last moment, doing away with the right of appeal to the Mother Country. (Deep groans.) I at once, in my place, strongly protested against that. I said that it was a trick, a f-urprise upon the House, and that, had I known that tuch a qualification was cnutemplatod. I would certainly have opposed the whole measure from the beginning. (Applause.) Why, gentkmen, it waa the entrance of the wedge (hear, hear) ; it was just the commencement of the fccvcrance ■■''i 21 ^ of the connection between the Mother Country and Canada. [Hear, hearj It is the right of every British subject, his inalienable right, to appeal to the foot of tho Throne (hear, hear and cheers) ; it is the inalienable right of every British subject, if from any Provincial, Colonial or inferior Court he thinks he has not received justice, to go to tho Queen, our common mother ; it is the great mark of our allegiance ; it is the great mark of our being a portion of this great Empire, that we all of us, whether living in Canada or at the Cape of Good Hope, or in Australia, have the right to appeal to the foot of tlic Throne. (Cheors,) Wo will see at the next session, gentlemen, whether Her Majesty's Glovernmcnt has not told ithe present Government that this clause must bo repealed. (Applause,) Gentlemen, in their election bill the Government provided that the franchise for the Dominion Parliaments should . be the franchise existing for the provincial Legislatures. (Hear, hear) . I think this is most un- ■wise, and I will tell you why gentlemen ; because every Legislature does not legislate alike, aud persons having a right to vote in one Province, might have no vote in a neighbouring one, a most unseemly anomaly, likely to breed discontent, aud, beside?, would it not bo absurd, that I, a member elected, under one law for a constituency, should find that behind my buck and without my knowledge, another Legislature, and not the one to which I was elected hud swept away my cdbstituency and given me another. But, gentlemen, still further you can see what might be done, and know what would be done if the political exigency arose. Wo might see in the Province of Ontario, for instance, the franchise altered by act of tho local Legisla- ture when the elections of the Dominion were coming on, and carried under the new franchise and after they were carried this law might be repealed and no election held for the Provincial Legislature at all under that franchise. For these reasons, gentlemen, I am of opinion, that every parliament should have the control and the definition of the elective franchise by tho exercise of which its popular branch is constituted. However, we were out-voted — we were over-borne, and it was announced as a cardinal principle of that measure of theirs, that the Assembly in each Province should also oiect the members for the Dominion Parliament. But afterwards, when we commenced to look over the Government Bill, wo found a quiet clause respecting Prince Edward Island introduced — depriving many of the people of Prince Edward Island of the right of voting; men who had a right to vote lor tho Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island were to be deprived of their right under the Bill, and why? Gentlemen, they have an elective Upper as well as an elective Lower House, and for the Upper House there is a higher franchise than that for the Lower Chamber. Now, Mr. Laird, one of the members for Prince Edward Island, and one of the members of the Government, finding himself unpopular among his constituents, and that if he went back to the same body of men that elected him, he might perhaps fail, and be allov?ed to stay at home, coolly introduced a clause in the bill for his own benefit, depriving many of tho very men who had sent hira to Parliament of their votes, so that it should be the aristocratic body of electorsthatwere thereafter to send a member to the House and which might perhaps elect him again. The consequence of that limitation was this : It fell upon the working classes, and struck especially at one race and at one religion. The working classes in Prince Edward Island, as in many other parts of this country, are largely composed of lloman Catholics, and it was a direct blow at the lloman Catholic vote in Prince Edward Island in order that Mr. Laird might secure a constituency for himself. Mr. Chairman, Thank Heaven, they used to say in England, we have a House of Lords; and thank Heaven we have a iScnato in Canada. This clause in the Bill was corrected by the Senate, and Mr. Laird has got to go back and seek re-election from the very men he endeavoured to rob of their franchise; hence perhaps the desire he has not to go back, but rather to luxuriate in the wilds and on the prairies of the North-west. (Laughter). Gentlemen, I have talked about the legislation of the G^vern- raent; now about their administration. Look at tho Cabinet, two years in office and ibur changes ! Why, gentlemen, when 1 was in the Government, and they used to attack me and .say that business was being neglected it was a cardinal principle against which some of my colleagues would grumble occasionally, that on no occasion should Ottawa be left without a quorum of the Council, no matter what exigency might occur. There was never a d ly or night when there was not a quorum of the Council at the Governor's elbow to assist liiiti in carrying on tho affairs of the country (hear, hear and applause) ; but as for these minister-', why look at tho newspapers I I hope that they have got passes; for if not, one-half their salaries must be expended in railway fares. (Laughter). They are like tlio wandcrini^ Jew, go anywhere and you will find them; if you go to Manitoba, you will find them ; if you gi to 00 ' ■ ' I ■ ■ ... / New Branswick, you will liQcl Afr A. J. Smith ; if you go hero you find a minister, and if'you go there you find a minister; but there is one place you may go gentlemen, and not find a minister, and that \i Ottawa (Laughter). We have besides a Minister of Justice whose impor- tant duties require his constant presence at head-quarters, but whom wo find practising his profession. [Hear, hoar and applause]. Now, gentlemen, I do not wish to make Ms holding Eriefs a ground of attack upon Mr. Blake, as being wrong in itself, but I say as a Minister of Justice he ought always to be at headquarters [applause] ; and I know it took me all my time to perform the duties of my offlcc— when holding that po.sition— faithfully and well. [Applause]. It was charged by" Mr. Blake himself in the legislature of Ontario, that Mr. M. C. Cameron, while a member of the Ontario Cabinet, practiced in the Courts. But Mr. Cameron held the oiScc of Secretary ot the Province, and iiis duties were merely nominal. [Hear, hear]. Here, however, wo find Mr. Blake, the Minister of Justice, practising before the Judges he himself nominates, and whose salaries ho may rceoraraend to be raised, and whom he may promote from Puisne Judges to Chief Juistices, and from Yico ChaDcellors to Chancellors. [Hear, hear]. This is the experience we have of their administration of public affairs. [Applause]. Gentlemen, at first there was an under current, a growl, an un- derswell, and now, the roar of discontent is increasing in volume, and in intensity ; it is complained that the business of the country is neglected, and that it is no use to go to Ottawa on public business, for one Minister is attending to his farm, another perhaps looking for a new wife, [laughter], another is making speeches here, and a third is making speeches there, and the business of the country is neglected — no business is done at all. [Hear, hear]. Then, gentlemen, as to appointments. I have heard that appointments to office in Montrea , have been singulaily satisfactory [laughter]; that they never think of anything but fitness for office ; that no political considerations ever induce them to take a wrong man ; that the confidence of the public, that personal respectability, and the respect of the community are a sme jjja ?toji in their appointments (laughter). Well, gentlemen, I believe that the samples you have had in Montreal, of the mode in which they make appointments, are equally good samples of the appointments they are making all over the Dominion ; and you may judge then of the manner in which this country is governed, and of the manner in which new appointments are made [applause]. Gentlemen, it used to be the cry of the Jjiberal Party in England — and it used to be the cry in Canada, of the Party that assumes that name, that there must be no pensions (hear, hear). But this Covernmeat have introduced the sys- tem of pensioning in the most obnoxious way. We have a Superannuation Law on our Statute Book, providing for old servants who had become no longer capable of performing the duties of their office, the means of moderate livelihood in their old age. But it is highly improper, and entirely contrary to the spirit of the Act, to superannuate able-bodied and capable men, merely to make vacancies for partizan office-seekers. The country is thus de- prived of the services of eflicient men, probably replaced by inferior per.^ons, besides the loss of the retiring allowances, whatever they may be. One word more about the Pacific Railroad. Wo asked for bread and they gave us a stone ; we asked for a railway and they gave us little pieces of railway, connected by " magnificent water stretches." But while we cannot get the railway we have tbc rails thrown on our hands, which, costing an enormous sura of monqy, may possibly bo required for some purpose years hence [hear, hear]. I believe that the principles which have governed the Liberal Conservative Party in the past will actuate them while in opposition and afterwards, when, in the course of time, the Party will be restored to power. [Cheers]. One of the differences between the policy of tho Liberal Conservatives and the policy of the Grits, has reference to a ques- tion of revenue — concerning the promotion of the manufacturing interests of the country. Our policy in tho future will be what it has been in the past. [Cheers]. Wo hava always since 1851), when Mr., now Sir Alexander Gait, was Finance Mmister, announced our policy to be incidentally a protective policy in the interest of our native industries, and acting upon that policy we have held that our Customs and Excise duties should be so adjusted as to provide incidental protection, and at the same time not to be so excessive as to amount to prohibition, but to bo really and truly a revenue tariff. Then, gentlemen, another difference which exists between the Conservative Party as a whole and the motley group of conflicting opinions which forms tho " Great Ministerial Party " [laughter], is illustrated in another way. A c&rdinal point in our policy is connection with G reat Britain. (Cheers.) I have no patience with those men who talk as if the time must coiuc v.licn we must separate IVoiii ! '.ny.ljnd, 1 see no necessily for it [cheers] : I Hf e do necessity for such !i cuhiiination and t lie discussion or the mention of it and thesuEraestionof it to the people e.in only he niiscliievous. Sir, is it not tlic duty ol' every woU-wi-her of his country, and of every patriotic fitatesman, to muhC the pi ople of his country fiali.-^flcd with their lot, if their lot be a liap;iy one [apnlauso] ; and, Sir, I say that this country is one of the happiest on the face of "the eirth. [Hear, hear.] Wc govern ourselves; we tax ourselves as wo please, wo arc allowed even to tax the goods, the product^, and (iio trade of our fellow-subjects in the Muthcr Country; wo have full and ample rights of lepislation ; wo have protection for life, for property and for reputation ; we have our liberty in the widest sense ; we are free from the dread of being oppressed hy a de.-pot; and we are, I trust, equally frco from all chance of degenerating into licentiousness or anarchy. [Appla-jsc] This is a happy state of affairs, and yet, with not the .'^lightest chance or prospect of that happy position being altered for the worse, we are called upon to speculate upon the time when wo arc to sever the connection so happily at present existing with the Empire; to set up as an independent nation, and to cut nwiy all the links that bind us to the Mother Country and to our follow- Bubjects in Great Britain and in the other colonies. Wo are asked to run all the risks of Independence, all the hazards, all the cost, all the dangers and all the rcsponsiblliiies of an Ilidependent nation. Sir, we have got the pledge of the Mother Country, and, as I have said before, that pledge has never been broken, that the whole power of the Empire will, if need be, bo exerted in our defence [Applause.] Mr. Mackenzie has announced, in language so broad that it has brought upon him the censure of the English press [hear, hear], the informa- tion that hereafter Canada is to make her own treaties. Mr. Mackenzie could not have meant this in its v.'ide sense, but I believe and am sure I am quite correct in believing, us was the case in the Washington Treaty, when a Canadian representative was consulted, and as in the case of the IJeciprocity Treaty, when Mr. Brov»n was placed in communication aa a quasi ambassador, with Sir Edward Thornton — that in the future, in any question which interests Canada in her relations with foreign States, England will allow Canada to be fully and fairly heard [hear, hear], and be glad to have the assistance of a person in the shapo of a Commissioner, or Assessor, or co-delegate, in order that the interests, and more especially tlio legal claims, of Canada may be fully considered and fully cared for. (Applause.) Sir, as to annexation to the United States, I am opposed to that treasonable proposition altogether. [Cheer.s.] A British subject I was bom, and a British subject I hope to die [hear, hear, and applause] — leaving that precious inheritance to my children, and hoping that my children's children will have still the pride and glory cf calling themselves British subjects. [Hear, hear, and applause.] Consider this subject for a moment. Gentlemen, you may remetubcr — and I hope that I can aflord, at this distance of time, when instead of hostile races being set in hostile array against each other, there is peace and harmony in this country among all races and among all religions, all of us working together for the common good, to allude to the events of 1849 and the days of the Bebelliou Losses Bill, without giving offence — you may remember that in the excitement of that time, in consequence of the temporary feeling of irritation that was burning in the minds of British inhabitants in Lower Canada, very many of them, especially the younger men, in their anxiety to show their irritation, and in the temporarj' insanity, I may say, of the moment, spoke of annexation to the United States. It was a short insanity, but still it existed for a time. Suppose thai; annexation had taken place then, in the year 1849, what would have been the consequences? Gentlemen, your sons would liavc been carried away to fight the battles of the civil war (hear, hear); your militia would have been marched to the South, instead of staying at homo and enjoying peace and prosperity under British law and British protection. (Hear, hear and applause) Your country like much of the United States both North and South, would have been ravaged. Your young men would have been slain, and many households rendered desolate. Many a wife would have mourned her husband, and many a parent would have wept over the grave of slaughtered children (applause) ; and you would now have been suffering under the ruinous load of taxation, which clogs and impedes the prosperity even of that great country, the United States. And so too, gentlemen I ask you to consider what may happen here- after, if annexation "with the United States should at any time take pl^e. Why, a great country like the United States — a country like that, must and will have for ages — until it becomes an old and settled country — momentous constitutional questions arising. This is 24 now the case. The constitution is on its trial, is in a state of transition, with many problems of vital importance unsolved. I would deplore it, and I pray to God that it may not happen, but wo may sec again similar Btrifes, similar conflicts may recur, and should wo run any such (lanf^er as is natural in a union with the United States (cries of no, no), when we are safe under the rogia of Great Britain — safe and enjoying peace, liberty, happiness, comfort, family felicity and the means of improvement intellectual, moral, aud physical by remaining as wo are, British subjects. (Applause). As to Independence, — to talk of Indepen- dence is — to use Mr. Disraeli's happy phrase — "veiled treason," (hear, hear, and applause;) it is annexation in disguise, (hear, hear); and I am certain, that if we were severed from England, and were now standing alone with our four millions of people, the consequence would be that before five years we would be absorbed into the United States. (Hear, hear). Gentlemen, wo are in greater danger than before the civil war (hear, hear). Before the vfur the whole of the Southern States — the slavo-holding States — would have opposed to the death an increase in the number of free States, giving an additional strength to tlio cause of anti-slavery. Then the Southern States would have opposed the annexation of Canada, but now, slavery being abolished, the Southern American has exactly the same feeling that pervades the mass of the people of the United States— that tlio inevitable destiny of that country is to govern one whole continent, and that tlioy will ab.sorb the whole continent. We hear gentlemen like Mr. Mackenzie, in their coniidence, state that the great and good and wise men of the United States would not attempt such a thing; but, gentlemen, the great and the good and the wise — the educated classes — do not govern there ; it is the masses who govern (applause) — the many govern — it is the many-headed monster, that governs that country (hear, hearj ; and not only is it the practice to instil it into every child from the time he hears his first fourth of July oration until he is twenty-one, but also to work into the minds of the people ot the United States, the notion, that it is their destiny to be the biggest as well as the greatest nation on earth. We have an instance of what would happen to us, if Independent, by looking at Texas. (Hear, hear). Texas was a portion of Mexico, and a number of Americans from the United States settled there by in- vitation of the Mexifan (Jovornment; they soon severed themselves from Mexico, and declared tlicm.sclves a separate nation as the State of Texas, " The State of the Lone Star," and how soon were they absorbed ! Gentlemen, the same mode of absorption would go on here under similar circumstances, and so confident am I ot that fact, that if the question waH between independence or annexation, I myself would rather have annexation out and out than the danger of war, the loss of credit, the distress and the want of confidence that, with independence, would continually harass the government and the people, owing to the dangers threatening the new State. With such an extended frontier how many causes of quarrel would arise ? While now, backed by the power of England, we arc free from all those dangers. Left alone with tho United States, it may be, gentlemen, that the lion and the lamb would lie down together, but, as has been said, the lamb would be inside the lion. [Laughter.] Gentlemen, I look forward to a permanent union, and I look forward to it not as a mere Utopian speculation, but as tho practical result of our connection with Great Britain. It is not an idea of to-day ; and if you would so favor me, if you think it worth your while to look over the debates on Confederation in 1865 at Quebec, you will find that what I am now stating to you I stated then as being the hoped for future of Canada. It is this : — That England would be the central power [applause], and we auxiliary nations; that Canada, as one Confederation, would by degrees have less of dependence and more of alliance than at present ; and that wo would be all united under the same sovereign, all owing alle- giance to the same Crown, and all inspired by the same British spirit; and that we would have a close alliance, oflFcnsivc and defensive. You see now the progress of events in carrying out this scheme. You see South Africa about to form a great Confederation. The position of the Australian Colonics is such, strewn as they are around the edge of that vast continent, that they may not bo able to term a Confederation so closely allied as our Provinces of Canada, but a ZoUvcrein and arrangements by Treaty amongst themselves, by which their quota of land and sea forces, and their several subsidies for the purpose of doing their share in the defence of tho Empire is quite probable. Now, gentlemen, twenty-five years is but as a day in the hfetime of a nation ; let us go on as peaceably and happily as we are now going on, and twenty- live years, I fullv ex^ct, should see the solution of that question. Great Britain, by that 25 . , ; i time, will Imvc forty uullions ; Canada, ten millions ; Australia, }jcr millions ; and tbeso latter with South Africa, capable of unlimited extension ; and New Zealand, nearly as large ftH England, will bo separate auxiliary countries, all ranjijed around the Central Power, England. I do not look for Colonial representation in the Iniptrial Parliament, because the Imperial Parliament, with such representation, would oiaiiu the ripht of taxation, but I look for the alliauco of these auxiliary Powers with the Central (iovernment under Treaty arrangements similar to the cxistiai^ arrangement between Eni^land and Canada. The arrangement at this uionient is t^iat wc are pledsjod to expend a certain sum of money on our militia in response .-md return for the jiUxlgo obtained from England that the whole military power of the Empire shall bo used lor our defence; make an extension of that arrangement by providing that the Central Power shall contribute ?o much, that each of the auxiliary nations shall give their quota ; and then when any nation goes to war with England she will go to war with half a do/.en nations. (Hear, hear, and applause.) It will give an assurance of peace to the world, and it will give an assurance of peace to us when it is known that if one extremity of the vast Briti.sh Empire is attacked, Ikitish subjects and soldiery from every extremity of it will rush to the rescue. (Hear, hear.) Then, gentlemen, so powerful will be England that she will l)e safe from all attjick (applau.se), and instead of being a source of anxiety and a .^ource of weakness to the IJiitisli lOnipire, we will find our- selves standing by our grand old mother, become a defence, a fortification, an outwork, instead of being a weakness and a source of expense. (Cheers ; hear, hear and prolonged applause.) Ilemember, too, that Canada has aircady the fourth commercial navy in the world, and a large population of hardy seanion, and that all the Sister Colonics I have named must, from their position, become M.aritimc Powers. So that the Sovereignty of the Seas seems assured for all time to this United Empire. To this I look forward. It is a grand scheme, and it is a .scheme quite capable of being carried into practical operation, and when carried out, gentlemen, it will not be too much to expect that the great nation, our congeners on the other side of the line, seeing that all the different peoples wlio speak the Eng- lish language, but themselves are formed into one great nation, as it were, for the purpose of operating as a moral police, and of keeping the peace of the world — it will not be too much to hope and expect that our congeners, speaking the same language, and being of the same race, will assist in the great work of keeping the peace of the world, and if necessary, gentle- men, of enforcing it. [Applause]. Gentlemen, in the great war, when Napoleon, by the power of his arms, had forced the nations of Europe to clo,se their ports against England and English shipping, even then, gentlemen, although England's colonies were few and feeble, she fought that battle, and carried it to a victorious conclusion, and drove the tyrant from his thtone, with aid of the domestic commerce she had with her own colonies. And when all these become great nations, having one head, and being one people, and having one interest, England if all Europe were in arms against her, with her trade, her commerce, and her wealth, with the waves rolling about her feet, would be still secure, living in her children, and her children blessed in her. [Loud and continued applause]. One word more. While independence is generally annexation in di.sgui.se, some speculative philosophers, who look into the distant future, seem to believe that it will be our fate and our advantage to walk alone as a separate nationality. Mr. Goldwin Smith is one of tho^e. I would fain hope that the future that I desire for the empire and its auxiliary kingdoms, might strike his imagination and be accepted as a substitute for independence. If this policy could only en- list his magic pen in its behalf, it would be an infinite benefit to the good cause. [Cheers], It is a great privilege to me to address a JMontreal audience, and a great pleasure to be present at this magnificient demonstration to ray friend Mr* White. [Loud applause]. Gentiemen, if it is any satisfaction to Mr. Mackenzie and his 3Iinistry to know it, they shall know it — that it was a deep and bitter disappointment to rac, and to those who act with me, and to the Conservative Party throughout the Dominion — that Mr. White was defeated. [Hear, hear and applause]. They feared him — they feared liis abilities, and they feared his earnestness. [Loud and prolonged cheering] . But, gentlemen, the day will come thear, hear], and I am satisfied it will come ero long, when some constituency will feel itself onored [Voice — Montreal West], to be represented in Parliament, by so able, so competent, 80 high-minded, so honorable, and so experienced a politician as Mr. Thomas AVhite. The Right Ilon. Gentleman, when he resumed his seat, was given a prolonged and ex- tremely eathusiastic ovation. Tin-: FOLLOwixa are somk of thk PROMINENT WEILV ICONSEMAM IJ011RNA18 INaDNTARIO.i.iUou'.;: Name. • AVhkue i'uhlisiied. C'ouNTr, BRUCE HKIiALD Wulkoiton Bruce. PLAIN DKALEJt Pmscott (irenville. COURIER A Newmarket ('hathiiin Kent. Sarniii Lambton. Stvatliroy ^ Middlesex. MoiTisbur^ Dundxu. Woodstock Oxford. Milti>ii JJatton. • York. STANDARD .T Dundas Wentworth. TIMES St. Tlioiiias .. JSlffin. PLANET, Weekly ANi> Tri-weeki,v CANADIAN DESPATCH COURIER TIMES .• NEWS GAZETTE Dimville Mo7iek. BRITISH CANADIAN Simooo Norfolk. HERALD Stratford Perth. ADVOCATE Mitchell " STANDARD Pembroke Renfrew. STAR Aniprior " REPORTER Gait Waterloo. GRAND RIVER SACIIAM Caledonia Haldimand. STANDARD Napanee Lennox. TIMES Wimlsor Essex. REVIEW Kincardine Bruce. isTAR Goderich .'. Huron. TIMES Port Hope... Durham. TRIBUNE Inirorsoll Oxford. PACKET Orillia iV^. Simcoe. VICTORIA WARDER Lindsay Victoria. SUN Oran-rcville Halton. Prince Edward. Welland. Grey. . ^ i. -, ■ . Simcoe. Ontario. GAZETTE Picton TELEGRAPH Welland TIMES , Owen Sound COMET '• ENTPmPRlSE Collin^^wood N0RTIII5RN ADVANCE Earrie CHRONICLE AVhitby.; WEST DURHAM NEWS Bowmanviile Durham. VINDICATOR Oshawa 07itario. TIMES Windsor Essex. SENTINEL Cobur,. „„.„.. MAIL Toronto. LEADER FKEE PRESS London. HERALD SPECTATOR Hamilton. CITIZEN Ottawa. NEWS Kiniiston. INTELLIGENCER Belleville. COURIER Erantford. HERALD Guelph. GAZETTE Montreal. HERALD llalitax. REPORTER ; LA ALINERVE Mwitreal LE NOUVEAU MONDE.. LE CAXADIEN Queboc. LE COURRIER DE CA- NADA " !:■: SPEECH OF HON. C. TUPPER, C.B. •1 AT JHIj^LXjIiFj^Xr ^^^"^ I I Tuesday, November 16, 1875. Od the occassion of the Hob. C. Tupper's address there were present on the platform-, the Mayor of Halifax, Hon. Mr. Frasor, of Pictou ; Hon. Dr. Parker, Alderman Forsyth, Alderman W. Murray, ex-Mayor J)iinbar, ex-Mayor Sinclair, Hon. James McDonald, Mr. S. H. Hol- mes, M.P.P., Mr, W. H. Allison, M.P.P., Mr. II. Black, M.P.P. Dr. Almon, Dr. Sommors, Aid. Seeton.Mr. S. A. ^Vhite, Mr. Donald Keith, Mr. F. G. Parker, Mr. John Pugh, Mr. W. U. Neal, Mr. C. II. M. Black, Mr. W. S. Symonds, Mr. W. C. Moir, Mr. T. E. Kenny, Mr.jW. B. Alley, of the Truro " ,Sun ;" Mr. Kobert Scdcwick, Mr. G. R. Anderson, Mr. F. Allison, Mr. D. B. Woodworth, M.P.P., Mr. Wm. Conipton, Dr. Thos. Walsh, Mr. Bartholomew Walsh, Mr. J. T. Bulmer, Mr. J. C ]\Iackintosh, Mr. S. Canning, Mr. Poolo, Mr. Samuel Shatford, (Margaret's Bay), Dr. T. 11. Abnoa, Mr. Catheart Thoinson, Mr. James S. McDonald, Mr. George Johnson, Mr. B. B. Brown (Windsor), Mr. W. D. O'Brien, Mr. II. II. Bligh, Mr. H. A. Gray, Mr. F. O'Connor, Mr. P. Lynch, Mr. B. Duly, Mr. Stephen Tobin, Mr, P. Thompson, Mr. J. T. Wyldc, Mr. C. "Edgar, Mr. D. Wolf, of the "Windsor Mail," ». George A. Chipman, and many others. The Mayor, in introducing the Hon. «peaker, said: — When a few evenings ago I occupied a similar position, I expressed the hope that we might soon have others following the Pre- mier's example, and coming hare to address the citizens «f Halifax upon the great public questions of the day, I little anticipated being so soon called upon to preside at such a meeting as this to-night. It was a happy circumstance in connection with the meeting that it could not bo construed to bear wpon any imminent political movement. Those present, therefore, mis^ht be better enabled to enjoy a calm and deliberate examination of those great questions. It is not my purpose, neither would it become ray position to identify myself in any way with the particular political tIcws of any party ; nevertheless, in common with all those who were so fortunate as to bo present, I cannot but be delighted at this opportunity of hearing the public questions of the day diseiissed by so eminent a public man. According- ly, without any farther remarks, I will introduce the Hon. C. Tupper to an audience who I feel sure know him well beforo. Hon. C. TuPl'ER was received with a perfect storm of applause, which was long ia subsiding. He said : — Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, Citizens of Ualifax : — Those only who know of the happy years I had the pleasure of spending in the city of Halifax, can properly estimate the gratifi- cation it gives rao again to meet the citizens of the metropolis of my native Province, and the pleasure I feel at the magnificent ovation you have given me to-night. I do not assume that all whom I now have the pleasure of addressing are either personal or political friends, but I feel that you arc all Nova Scotiaos. (Cheers). That you are deeply interested in the affairs of your country, and that you came here prepared to give them that calm and dispassionate consideration which all intelligent citizens should give to questions affecting thft interests of the people. , My observations tins evening will be somcwiiat modified in consequcnee ofccrtaiii suggestions contained in the " Morning Chronicle" orto- III. tlio banking; capital, if you wi-'i to l;.irn thu increasing wealth of tho country. 'J lio priid-up bankin:< capital ot' Ontario and t^nobou alone ro.so from l;^.')0, 000,000 to filJO,- 000,000, and tho deposit.^ IVoni loss t.uu 8:]0,OUO,000 to moro than $7l»,000,0()0, while the (I'po.sils in their i^avin^s bank* bavo trebled in .seven year.''. You miy unk, What have I >:itarli» and (iuel)CC to do with ilalif.i.K? I wiil conio to Ilalil'a.t and direct incjui.sitive ;.-'ntleiiicn to cvidcncos whieii nro indisputable. Tho bunking capital in this very city, in liiat period, ro.so fronj Sl.TOO.OOO to Jf-JjOOOjOOO. i nin not ablo to tell you the amonut of tho deposits in that period, fn' tho ciinph; reason that tho banks think it lit to conceal facts whieii in cviry other city are patent ti) tho v/orld. From ono bank, howovtr, F havo been Jil)l(j to obtain inl'ormation which shows that, notwithstanding the introduction of tho Hank of Montreal and tho cstablislunent of imniorous country banks, which niu.st have absorbed a considerable amount of inon y, tho amount of depo.sita liavo aci;uul!y doubled. Another instance, more couchisivc sliil, is tho amount of money dopo-ifed in the savioL^a b:u»k^. J'>om ISO? to ISTli the deposits in IJalifax increased from §iji):i,GOO toupwardsof amillion. This . Khowsyou that the ineroased pro.sperity w;is not confined to the richer portions of the people, but that the mass ot tho piipulation had their circumstanees correspondiu'^ly improved. Tho evidence is uncontrovertablo to sliow that never was tho prosperity of this whole country S" rapidly iucrea.sed a.s under this Union, and that Halifax .'-liarod that prosperity in conur.oii with the other portions of tho dominion. (Cheers.) I am invited, Sir, to explain tho Canadian Pacific Hallway .scandal. There is not a question in tho whole ranpii of politics that I am prouder to have iu\ opportunity of di>- cussin.'^ iu tho prcsenco of this vast body of my fellow-country mem. The J'remicv. who preceded mo here, said that t!io late (iovcrmont bad left an elephant upon his buid'. Boforo 1 am done with this cjucstion you w:ll seo that it was ho himself who iuiimrtii I that elephant into this country. When wo found Buch nKi,'j;niticenfc results acon*in r iVom tho Union whieii wo had accomplished; when wo liad ae(juired the prairie land- ( f tho North-West, and tho small but important Province on tiio PaciQo coa>^t — W' i'olt that, with such moans as I'rovidenco liad placed at our disposal, wo were bound t. Itako up a question which was vitally iinportant to the continued prosperity of this country — tho construction of ti Canadian Paeillo Jiuilway. Althouj^h wo had been C!;rryin<^ on th" public work;} in a vi;j;orou3 manner, wo found ourselves iu a position to obtain tho me;iu- required to warrant us in jjrapplin;^ suecessailly with such a work, not only without brin^inLr additional taxation upon the people but f-ccurincc a continuance of the tsteadily risinsj; tide of '-'' prosporily which had Fet in with tho consummation of tho Union, and which was btill risin.;- • iii:^her and higher, when wo wero .struck down to make way ior our successors. Wliat i Ihis elephant we have imposed upon tho (lovornment, who succeeded in ousting us from :; ])OWer by means so discreditable that when they havo been transferred to tho page of history they vn.l not bo read wit'oout a blush ? Wo hud undertaken to construct a raiiw ly to Firitish Columbia. This hud l)een made ouc of the terms of the union of that Province with the Domiu- ion. Eutbtforo that Union was accoiiipiishod, wchud placed on tlio Journals of tho IIouso;! statement that our cllorta to procure thu construclion of tho railway wero to bo circumscribed within certain limits. Iu the iirst place, the work was not to bo done by the Government, bii' commit tod to a private company, which corporation was to bo aided by a grant of 8.'{0,000,00O and 50,000,000 acren of land. 1 laving placed that limitation upon the Journals, wo felt we were entitled to say to British Columbia: ''You see how far we arc prepared to go. If you likethi' terms, join us ; we limit our cngugcmonts to what wo have laid down." A good many statements have been made by our opponents which, I think you will agree with mc, are exceedingly inac- curate. First, the}'' say it would never have been possible to accomplish th(j work on these terms. [Men would bo insane who would talk of constructing a railway to British Columbia for $30,000,000 and 50,000,000 acres of land. I may say that $30,000,000 sounds like a large Kimi. but II woul.l only have oost us one u«a a half luilliuo per annuu). As I m,\ K-foro, ill the norio with ! (C eers.) .^rr. 3lackenzie says we gave the charter to Sir Ilu-h Allan. J>lr. Ulake, usiuL; stroD-^cr lanpua-e, says wo mid it. 1 deny, in the lace of the world, that wo over " Rare " the charter lo yir Hugh Allan ; and the best evidence that wo never sold it to hiiu. \^that h: neirr had it. Sir ]lu-h Allan, as you all know, is one of the gi-eatc.t capitaluti in Canada, lie recently .sworo, on the witnesi-stand, that ho wa.s worth ovc>r 80,000,000 It may bo asked why did Sir lluj:h Allan jrivo §15,000 towards elections lu Ontario, it L, did not obtain the charter ? Sir Iluf^di Allan owned a noblo lino of steamships runuin,- across the Atlantic, and he knew that the construction of this railway by anybody wouldcer means, ibr tho ealnumy that'tho liovcrninont of Sirjohn A.-Maedonuld ever sold a railway charter to any- body. (Cheers.) Jay Cook & Co., who b:.d undertaken the Northern J'acilic Juulway, seot their emissaries to us at once, beeau.«o they knew that tlio hand ot Nature had given Canada an easier, a better, and a more available track i"or a -reat lii-hway ironi the Atlantic to tho Pacific, across British America, than could be found in any other portion o! .his continent. And they knew that tho w^ik that they were en^'aged in never could coin- i)ete with tho Canadian IVilic llailwav. Geutlomeu, wo were accused ot obtaining niODcy from lbreij;ner3 for the purpose of carryin- our eleetioua ! I say it is untrui; because when an American company, a fbrei-n and rival body, camo to us, and endeavoured to obtain an interest and a cuntrolling influence in this srcat work, wo hlint the door in their faces and said : " No, this is a great national hi'^hway. and no forcij^u influence or power shall be per >- mittcd to control it." (Cheers.) Tho Parliament of your country had given bir IIu;.'!. Allan and his as.soeiates an act of incorporation, which only recpiired a proclamation t enable it to become law. Tho Hon. John Hamilton, one of the merchant-prnices of Canad:' a man of wealth, living in Montreal, was one of his associates. Tho Hon. David Christie w: another— !i gentleman who. when Jlr. Mackenzie was called to form a government, w^ invited into tho Administration as rresident of the Council to govern tho country, lie XW' sits, by virtue of tho appointment of the (jovornmcnt of this day, in tho high and exalte: po.-iti( u £>f Tresid-'nt of the Senate. Jle was one of Sir Hugh's ar-sociatcs. Andrew Al!;ii :i brother of Sir iJnuh, and a man of acknowledged wealth, was another. Donald Melnues, capiialistof Ham:'?(un, and Hon. D. A. Smith, a represcntativo man and then Govern o :■ > tho Hudson Bay Company, and a capitalist in Montreal, were also associated with Sir Hul.1 lion. John Hess, a wealthy citizen of Quebec, and last, but not least, I name Sir Edw;:; Kenny. ( Applau.'-:e.) Now, gentlemen, ;>ir Hugh Allan camo to us and said : " I have m .'H act of incorporation from the rarliament of Canada, incorporating myself and a numbn' tho ablest capitalists of this Dominion— both in Ontario, Quebec, and tho Maritime J'; viiices -and I wish you to let lue build this Canadian racilic llaihvay for you, on tho tor: •ot thirty millions of money and fifty million acres of land, provided by i'arUamcnt." 'i said : '-"Sir Iluuh Alhin, we arc told that behind you aro Jay Cooke & Co._ It is report that you aro associated with a number of the leading capitalibts connected with the Nortlr : Pacific Railway, and we may as well tell you at the outset that no company, no man or ccrj poration, connected with that foreign influence, can havo this charter at our hands." ill went away and disnolved all connection with those parties, returned them tho money tlicl liad placed in bis hands, .severed all connection with his American associates, ac| camo back and said: "I have complied with your terms and I want 81 Hshartcr for niysclf nnd my OaiiaJiati (iHSociatcs, whoso nainns you have ^Tcartl." Wo Huiil, " X<>, wo accept your Htiili;mciit, but vro nro dcterniincd that this shall Im! a ;iroat national work, if your couipaiiy will iticorporato and astiociato itnclf with thu liitiir-Occanio Company, and lurni ii broad and compn licn;slvo c()nii>any, ombracinj; all hcc lions of tlio country, wi- will allow you to build tlio road.'' Ho tried to tUcL't that I'ombiua- liou, but could not aocouipli.th it, and Sir jlui^h Allan and bis compatiy wcro driven away, and told that fhoy could not Iiavo that charter. Now, what will you think of thi> men who, with tiiat htuto of facts, which I hold myj^clf bound to bUJ'tain on tho lloor of I'arliainent, will daro to euy that the late government hold or gave tho charter to Hir Jliigh Allan ? With that law on the wtatuto book which, withont the proclamation wan a piece ofwahto paper, n-' rffusnl tlir. Oilier ill Council that vntld hnvc. iifililal lu'iii to liuild tin: roml. We divided tho nlock botwocu tho various I'rovinces, so that every man who waa di.spowed to acquire it could bavo influence and control in tho company. Wo s<'kctcd thirteen gentlemen ; (iovernor Archibald was ono of them, representing Is'ova Scotia; Mr, IJ'.irpee, representing New, Brunswick; landlord Fleming, who is one of tho mo.it distiiiguishcid engineers of tho day was another; Walter fShanly, an eminent engineer who built tho Jloosao Tunnel, was another. Wo wi.'^hcd to give the capitalists of England tho conruleneo that tho >nen who were best qualiljed to judge of tho matter believed that this was u feasible .and jiracticable •cheme. Sir llugii Allan, Hon. .1. ( ). r>eaubit:n, Hon. J. B. Heaudry, 11. X. Hall, Hon. ,1. 8. Hclniiken, Jtouald McFnncs, K. W. Cumberland, Andrew 3Icl)crmott and John Walker, Esqrs., completed tho number. Wo selected these thirteen gentlemen, the most distinguished ■ capitalists, engineer?, and representative men wo could obtain throughout tho country. Sir Hugh Allan was ono of tho tbirteen. That is all. "Wo gave him just ko much and no moro than I olVercd in the meeting of tho leading capitalists in this city, to give to any man among them who would (;onio forward and do what lie and every one of the thirteen were compelled to do, deposit their proportion of a million dollars ns a guarantee that they would carry on tho work. Befoio I pass invay from that matter there! is ono word that I omitted to tiuy. That is, that of thirteen gentleuien, of whom (ioverncjr Archibald was one, fieleeted for that Ecut work as directors, tho lirst act the majority of that Board did was to vote down Sir ugh Allan. They put him in the chair, ibr what reason ? Jlecauso they knew that there was no man i'rom this side of tho Atlantic whose name would go so far in the money market of the world and on 'Change in London for tho purpose of securing money. Ikit on tho first motion lie made to inllucnco the Board ho waa outvoted, as 1 know, and as the (Iovernor in your (.jiovcrnment House will tell you — lor lie was present and assisted in voting him down. I mention this to prove that tho Board was free from any control on tlie part of any particular individual. In the interests of tho country, and i'ov the same reason that induced tho Board of Directors to elect Sir Hugh Allan as their chairman, tho Government always held the opinion that he should occupy that position. That is, tj\c head and front of our ofi'ending. The Government went to tho very verge, probably beyond what they ought to have gone, in their care and caution to shut out foreign influence — for we made it a principle of the charter that not a man could transfer a pound of stock without the sanction of the (lovcrnor-Cenend and Cabinet, whoever they might be. So, having guarded tho interests of the country by every meaus that man could devise, you can understand tho indignation tliat I feel when men can be found who even at this hour, with these facts patent to tho whole country, dare tp sully their own characters and rcfjutations by keeping up this cry, '• You sold the i'acilic Silway." Why is it kept up? Because on that I'ulse cry they grasped tho Government, aving no policy and no principles — as I shallshow before I sit down — their only hope of ^talning the coulldeucc of the people is to keep up a hue and cry against the gentlemen ; whose seven years of Administration will stand to the end of time as an evidence that they ;^tiioticall3', ably, and vigorously did their duty by their country. Now, gentlemen, you^ " y say perhaps — " W^ell, you forced that plan on tho Hou.se of Commons and in Parliament, d perhaps the other plan is tho better one." "What will you think when I say that the icmc Avas a unanimous one ? "What will you say when I tell you that, not content with e resolution we put uf on the journals that it should be built, not by the Dominion Govcrn- nt, but by a private company, aided with a grant of lands and money — not content with lis bold, clear, and unequivocal statement, the Opposition leader.-", viz., Dorion, b::cked by !ackcnz:'„^ and the rc.-t of them, moved n, resolution, and voted for it, declaring tli.it it culd not only );c built in our way, but that it should never bo built in any other 1 And 82 vet tho men wlio thu.^ i.lcd-cd t.bcrasclves solemnly as man <-.:n pled.c'O hitnsolf to man, (because a puUio man by his record in the Common i of bis country i,nv« toe mo.t solemn pled".! tlKit one man cnr -ivo to ]m follow man) that tho Canralian Pacific Juiilway shouhl not be built ))y tho Covonimcnt, tho very moment they attained t^ov^ or their anxich/(o prevent the GoccrnmaU from hnUduvj Ihc Farijic. rulhra// vanldrJ, "od tho next day Mr Mackenzie was up bcibro bio constituents askin- thcin to return hiin as Ministor ol i ubUc • Work:^, with a dceluration upon his lips that tho Clovcrnment had decided to build it as u ( iovernmcnt work. The partv who during the elections of 1S72, had endeavoured to ludueo tho country to believe that tho Government had done a rash act in impo:-iii- upon the country a burthen lor this work of one and a half million dollars per annum ; so soon as thoy obtain- (dpo'.vcr declared that they had determined to go back upon their recorded votes ui tlio • llou-o of Commons, and to build that road as a Coverninont work! And what do you suppose was the reason given to tho unsophisticated electors at Sarnrx lor the decision to build it as a Governmcut work ? Why, tlic Premier said it was in order that tho prolits ot this work (tnat. was certain to ruin and destroy anybody that would touch it!) shouldbo -' onioycd and possessed by the people instead of contractors! Well. I am incuned to think- that before they construct it even as a Government .vorlc, they will liavc to let a few con- ' tractors take a baud in, unless they intend to take iho pick, the spado and Uic whccl-barrow themsclvc:-. ]]ut that was tho ludicrous reason given to tlic electors of fli tho energy, enterprise, and industries of the country, and would place it in suedi a position that ins-tead of being able to attract people to tho country, we should drive them away. There was one respect in which this country had a c;reat advantage over tho United States, that was tho clicapness with which people could live here. This bill, however, would deprive us of this advaiitago over uur nd-hbours. Tho measure, if adopted, would rot only be latal to the project, but ir would overw helm us with debt. With our credit gone ::nd our resources paraly/.cd,_ wo wo;ilii I'.ot bo able to draw capital into the country. "With this changed co edition of aftairs every Canadian would look back with deep regret to the time when, unlbrtnnately tor the history of the coi'.ntiy, a i^arty, drunk with sudden accession to powc r, should have tbrgotten wli:;: they owed to'tlic country, and engaged in an enterprise fraught with the most serious cou- scfiucnccs." Mr. Mackcn/.ie fold' you the other night— and it was a rash and extreme staie- nicntthat 1 am sure he would not repeal; after onco seeing it in print— that tho whole re- sourccaof tho British Empire could not build the Canadian PaciLio railway_in_ ten years. (Jentlemen, I need hot tell you that tho resources of the empiro would build it in oneycar with the g'eatc.-t case. There is not a contractor hi the country ; there is not an intelligent man in tii j Dominion who knows anything of such matters, and the powers and resources ot •the Brit'sh Empire, who does not know that it could be done in one year. The Govern- nicnt accuse us of having left an elephant on their hands, because wo had proposed to obtain the construction of tho Canadian Pacilic railway by a grant of wild lands, comparatively valueless, and a contribution of 81,^00,000 per annum. _ Tliey not only denounced us foi- providing for its construction as a great work, but said that wo were insane to talk about constructing it in ten years. 1 may tell you, however, that I never ixpcctcd it would be built in ten years ; but I k\icw that the people of British Columbia would be satisfied with our honest and straightforward etlbrts to obtain capital and forward 88 the work to the best of our ability, il" it .'hoiilJ take twenty years iiititcad of Icn. It was a bar<^aiii between the great Dominion of Canada and a very small colony on the I'acific coast. nnd I knew that the people there wonld he only too well satisfied if they saw that vigorous and cnerirctic oftbrts were put forth to carry that public work to completion. That policy failed. Why ? Because a party, hungry I'or power, Ijcini^' long out of office and deterniiuod to obtain it, had !;one to the elections of 1ST- and had been Ibilcd by the nmpnilicent record that wo were able to placa belbre the country t)f our successful administration of public affairs. They had conio back beaten and dishcarteucd, and wo had obtained the majority that wo were entitled to at the hands of our countrymen whom wc had f-erved sn faithfuHv. Foiled in that, what did they do ? The Toronto (Jlohc and " Eeform" part) raised a hvie-andory of "Corruption" airainst the Government of the day ; and M:ey ■'Aillowcd Sir Hugh All;.), Mr. Archiualdj and i^^ajor Walker — the committee appointed to i>bt'un the necessary capi: ;1 for this gro.it wovk — to London, and nnitcd with the great rivid inHucnco of tlio Crai.d Trunk Company. The whole of that enormous influence combined to strike a fatal blow at Canadian credit and jircvent the realization of that great work on terms that would havo bceu so advantageous to Canada. Yes, our policy v, as defeated ; but, gei.Menien, when it failed, and when we were driven from power by mo'ins which I. say the very men who used then: r.ill blush to see rscordcd upon tlie ].ag.;! of history — when that was riccomplishcd, those pjen- iKmon gavca Ministerial pledg? to ImiM the ixiad as a Sovcrnnicnt work. "Wcliad redeemed our pledge; wc had voted lhe'8:JO,0GO,OOO and (he 50^000,000 acres of land we had prom- ised ; il company had taken the contract a-id used their utmost endeavour? to raise the capital reciuircd. J'^vcry obligation Canada had undertaken wilh relerence to that road was per- lornicd; crily she was still bound in good fai. . t,> make every cfibrt to carry out the scheme of building the road by a company. IJut she was not bound to mortgage all her revenues to raise the ^100,000,000 necessary to build the road. Every man in British Columbia know^ that the provision ibr building the road in 'en years meant that the (lovernmcut would lue their best efforts to push (he work on. This Covernmcnt, therefore, took charge of this question with a tabula rasa; the statement with regard to a legacy, an intolerable burden, having been laid on the present Government and the people of Canada, is as baselcj.s as it is possible iiir any man to conceive. Hut, what next? Those gentlemen wlio say that the whole resources of (ho British l^impirc could not build the railway in ten years havo solemnly bound the faith of Canada to the British GoTcrnmcnt, as well as to the people of British (.'olumbia, io huikl, coitic qu>'. CiJiitr, /hose ifo thousand mifrs of raihcn/ ilirourjh fhc lioclnj Monntatns to the shores of Lahe Supa-ior h;f the first of JJcamhcr, 18^0. [Dr. Tupper here read the terms of the agreement, iVom a sj)cec!i of Mr. !Jraclcen':ic'.'i, as follows ; "l^astly, that on or before the .'Jlst of December, IS'JO, the railway shall be completed and open lor trnfiic I'rom the Pacific seaboard to a point at the western end of Lako Superior, at which it will fall into cniniecl ion wilh existing lines of railway through a portion of the United States, and also with the navigation on Canadian waters. So that the terms recommended by Lord Carnar- von, and which we have accepted, are dimply these — that instead of 01,500,000 wc propose to expend 62,000,000 a year within the I'rovincc of British Cohunbia, and wc propose to finish the railway connection through that Provinco and downward to the point indicated by (he year ISOO."] This is the written compact made with Lord ('arnarvon without any <|ualification whatever. The Premier says that the terms of this contract with Lord Carnar- \ on were simply to this purport: that the Government were to spend two millions a year t instead of one and a Inilf in IJritish Columbia. But those two thousand miles are Io he huitt infftanycars, u work which the Premier declared f/ic ivhoJc rrsoiirecsof (Urcat Briloin foidd. not haUd in tin years. (Applause.) I think you will agree that this is bad enough, but it -5s not th.3 worst. Parliament had determined to put the eastern terminus of the road at r^ipissing. Wc said that if wo brought the traffic of the Great West down to that point, all (ho lines of railway tending in that direction would bo ablo to raise tho money necessary to connect them with the Canadian Pacific liailway at that point. Mr. Blake said, (he other night, at Toronto, tliat down hero I had denounced (ho Government for subsidising railways ■in Ontario, and that iu Toronto I had denounced them for not doing so. I did not. I said [that, having promised certain subsidies, (hey wore as much bound (o carry out the one pledge s the other. They are now spending a million and a half in subsidising the Canada Central Kailway from Douglass to Lake IJurut. There is a certain f?cnator Foster who gave groat 3 84 Bupport to tho cnoniy in breaking down llio old Government, and he is the Canada Central ; and lie is now subsidised by tho Government to the extent of a million and a half, or $12,000 u mile. Senator Foster and his American friends have the contract to build the railway i'rom Lake Burnt to tho Gcorjiian Eay, eighty-five miles more. If you were in I^Iontrcal. nnd going AVest, you would not u.'-e a i'oot of tliis line ;* you would t;ikc tho route by .Port Hope, and reach the (loorgian Jiny by a line of twenty-fivo miles shorter. Again, tlio (Jov- (Tnmcnt arc r-pcndiug the money of tho country to build a road 100 milrs long from Pem- bina to the junction wilh the Canada I'acific ]|allway. Wo gay, there is "a magnificent watcr-strctcii,'' why not use that? Eut .supposing that railway desirable, and T frankly con- cede its imi:ortanco, a company had obtained a charter, and only required the assent of tlu' ^iovernment to build that road without the Clovcrumcnt spending a dollar ? They reply that thoy arc ibllowing our policy in that' matter. Cur policy was to pay thirty millions, and jiot to pay out a dollar extra, for that branch road. The road is now graded, all but soui'i thirty lailes, at the expense of Can-ida. Again, there is tho Nanaimo and Esquimalt brancli 'e were told that that road made all satisfactory witli British Columbia, and were inclined not to look too narrov.iy at it. ]5ut that road runs right ;dong in sight of a fine ghorc with splendid harbours. Next, we have a divergence to Thunder Bay of seventy miles — increasing the distance for everyone who ever travels over the Canadian Pacific liailway to that extent. Adding to these the thirty-five miles run down beyond Nipissiug, wo have 300 miles of extra road, which, at $15,000 a mile, — and it cannot be built for §50,000 — juiU mid no Irsx than sixteni and a quarter mii/iois to the burden of the 'ountrij. Add a million and a half for the Canada Central Hallway, and you will see how much tldcsc gentlemen are afraid of the elephant. (Loud applause and laughter.) Tlicy have pledged the country to do all this, and to build the road in fifteen years from the l^acific to the .'chores of Lake Superior, without any qualification whatever, so that we must be disgraced in the eyes of the world if it is not done, — and then they have the assuT^ance to charge us with having placed an intolerable burden on the shoulders of the people of this country. (Cheering.) The Halifax Chronicle wants to know tho cause of tho depression which prevails in every department of trade. [ do not say, for I do not believe that it is caused altogether by the Government, but I will give you some reasons which induce me to believe that Ministers are lai-gely responsible— that the Ship of State is among the breakers, because she lias passed into the hands o^ men who said that Confederation never would .-uccccd. (Applause.) "We said it would be a succes."", and' dowu to the hour wo left the -7i. Mr. Blake, too, in South Brace, asked what British Columbia had to complain of, and told his hearers that one-sixth had hecn added to the taxation of the whole country for the purpose of giving that Province tho road it demanded. One-sixth would be just §3,000,000. "Why did thoy not come before Parliament honestly and say that they required the money for that purpose ? But when instead of doing this they said it v/as to cover a deficit, they struck a blow at the financial position of the country and at tho confidence of tho people in tho sound cor tion of public affairs. That was the second cause of the financial stringency, from which the country is now suffering. Tho first was the attack made upon the credit of Canada, which resulted in tho defeat of the scheme for tho construction of a Canadian Pacific railway. This act was followed up by a budget speech, such as, I think, never came from tho mouth of a Finance Minister in any country before. IMr. Cartwright first stated to the House that we were absolutely bound to build this Pacific llaifway, and then, after recess ."-omeono having in the meantime directed his attention to t!;e limitation in llic journals, came in and said that he had discovered that our liability wa^ limited to a pledge of $30,000,000 and 50,000,000 acres of land. Then, having said that (he construction of the Pacific Pallway would impose npon the Dominion a debt relatively equal to, if not greater than that of Great Britain, tho CI;Ovcrnmeut before the close of tho session, placed on the statute book an act providing not only for the building of a railway to the Pacific, but 'MO miles additional. Subsequently Mr. Cartwright went to IJngland to negotiate a loan, and you have beard a good deal about tho way in ■\vhich he did that. Mr. iNlackenzic thouglit ho had settled the qusstion when he informed you that h\s friend. Sir Francis Ilincks, had told him it was a capital loan. Some years ago, when Sir Francis Ilincks was managing tho affairs of this country with an ability , surpassing that of any other man who had preceded him for twenty years previously, he was called a resuscitated mummy by the present Premier ; he was a Pip Van "Winkle, who had been asleep for half a century. But he no sooner whispers a compliment regarding a member of the Government's financial achievements than he immediately becomes the greatest living authority. (Applause.) "While a Government comes back from England with §15,000.000, and lends it out among the banks on what terms they please, with or without interest, 1 feel inclined to refuse to accept the statement of any gentleman connected with one of the institutions so favored on a question between the Government and Opposition. Mr. Blake also said he would bo willing to leave this question to Sir Francis Ilincks. Though I object, as a generrd rule, to the testimony of bank presidents, especially when they can borrow half a million dollars without paying any interest upon it, I make an exception in favor of Sir Francis Ilincks, and I pledge myself th:it for the criticism I made on Mr. ■dartwright's lonn, I can produce tho authority of Sir Francis Ilincks to sustain me. (Cheers.) :^I said to them: — What are you singing lo P-icans about this loan for? Bcbium went into the English market and got a three per cent, loan negotinted on better terms than you did a four per cent, one, and even the little Province of New Zealand placed a loan upon the eame market at the same time upon more advantageous terms than were obtained for X^Janada. But bow was it that when this loan was negotiated the fivo per cents worn bring- .ing 107 ? Why, it was tho union of British North America that did it. I went to England to negotiate a loan before Confederation, but could not sell tho debentures of Nova Scotia without a discount of four per cent, on debentures bearing six percent, interest, but I 8§^ obtained the money by dcpositini,' thcin with Messrs. Barings, because I know that the uioiueut Confederation bad been achieved tlicy would advance rapidly in value, us the credit ol' British North America would stand intinitely higher than that of Ontario and (Quebec, old Canada, or any of the Maritime Provinces. Tiie difference in the rate at which loans could be negotiated before and after the Union is the best evidence oi what was achieved for Canada by the confederation of the Provinces. But, gentlemen, I tcl! you that Mr. Cart- wright did not put his loan on the market even on those terms until Sir John Pvose had como oat in public in contradiction of the melancholy story that ]\lr. Cartwright had told in Parliament about our resources and linancial position, and until tho speeches of the Opposi- tion went home, and tho London " Standard" declared that tho deficit was a pretended deficit, and that tho financial position of this country was sound, 80 that if he made a good loan, he mado it in spite of himself, and because there were men patriotic enough to stand to the front when the character and credit of the country were assailed, and to save our character and credit in the markets of England. I criticized the transaction on several grounds, and you will be the judges whether they were sound or not. I said the " Globe's" statement is a little astray. Instead of Mr. Cartwright's loan being better by 8800,000 than a sale of five per cents at 107, a letter signed " Another Accountant," proved it was not so good by two and a half million dollars. I have the opinion ot Sir Prancis llincks in black and white, to prove the accuracy of that statement, but I never said that so good a loan as that could have been negotiated. I criticized his loan on another ground, and I will put it to you. I said, " Your predecessors have obtained the valuable commodity of an Imperial guarantee, you went to London to borrow money and kept that guarantee in your pocket, and negotiated the loan without using it. Is there a merchant that would conduct his business in that way, selling his notes at a discount of ten or twelve per cent., as Mr. Cartwright disposed of our debentures, when he could have sold them at par by using the name of a friend which he had for nothing?" That is the ground on which I criticized it, and I said he had pursued a course which no Minister having the interests ot Canada in his keeping should havo pursued. I criticized it in another respect — that Mr. Cartwright had fixed the rate of interest at four per cent, and the discount at ten per cent., instead of taking tho course that Sir John Rose and Mr. Tilicy before him, and every Piuanec Jlinistcr of Canada, had taken, of fixing the rate of interest and the term that the debentures were to run and then putting them up to competition. That was the way it was done before, and by tliat means Canada got the highest price that could be obtained for her securities. But when ho fixed the rate of interest and the discount, and then said — for I have the terms of the loan under his own hand — that he would give the debentures, not in proportion to the amounts tendered for, but to whom ho liked, and that people who did not hoar from him would know that uone had been allotted to them, he established a precedent by which any Finance Minister can put half a million ol' money in his own pocket and defy any man in the world to discover it. I said that was not the principle upon which our public nccounts arc cari'ied on, under which public money maybe traced from the beginning to the end. Mr. Cartwright has, how- ever, given us the best evidence of the soundness of my criticisms. lie went to London the other day and adopted the course that I pointed out as tho proper one and abandoned totally the course he had taken tho year before. He fixed the interest and said to the capitalists of the world, there are our debentures, what will jou give us for them ? lie has used the Jmperial guarantee, and the result is that otir four per cent, debentures sold at a premium instead of at a discount of twelve per cent., as in the last loan he made. But, while upon that subject, I havo a graver charge to make than any blunder in negotiating the loan of a year ago. 1 say he did not want the money, and I i^ay that the Finance Minister who goes to England to put debentures upon the market when he docs net need the money, does an unjustifiable act, prematurely and unnecessarily increasing tho pullic debt. I will give you my authority. A year afterwards you had only to look into the Canada Ga-^eitc and to sec the bank returns and tho statements mad« by himself in order to find that on the fifteenth day of June last — a jear after his loan had been negotiated — fil'tecn millions of that seven- teen and a half nallions he had borrowed was lent ;ihout among the banks all over tho Domi- nion. Now, I say, there is tho evidence that he did i;ot require tl c money. Although I am in the presence of eminent bankers and others who have a large .-mount of banking interest, I do not intend to be deterred from telling my coun'rymen that I do not believe that a more unsound and improper policy could not be pursued by any government in Canada. Cannot every 37 person undcrstaud that if banking is to be succossiully and effectually carried on, tbo capital must cost the different bankers somctliiD^ like the .same sum ? If JJr. A. can get capital for nothing wliilc Mr. ]}. gets it at the market price, you can readily understand that banking cannot be done on lair and equal terms. Ijut there is a greater objection than tliat, in my judgment. The banks have an enormous amount of power and iuUucnce. 1 hold that it is contrary to the theory of responsible government that you .should increase the power and influ- ence of the banks by giving them an unlimited ;imount of public money for nothing. Jksides just in proportion as a bank is necessitous it will bring political pressure to bear upon a gov- ernment, and I am afraid that even tlie iiiimaeulato governnient wo have at present is a little susceptible to political pressure. Thus, you will see, there is danger to the country in this policy. Just lis a bank may bo trembling in the balance, it will bring greater inllucnce tu bear upon the Government, and some day the country will sustain enormous loss through some of these banks going down. A more ruinous policy thiui that of the present Finance Minis- ter was never known in this country. At the very time when it was said that wc were over- trading bo loaned $15,000,000 to the banks — encouraging and aiding them to inflate the business of the country still more; and then, without any necessity I'or it having arisen, he put the banks into a tremor by a circular so vaguely worded that they did not know but they vrould be called upon to pay over the Government deposits on a d.iy's noticu, I am free to say that if the public sentiment had not prevailed, and the circular been virtually counter- manded, the Government could not have got their money, and a financial crisis would have occurred through their false policy. Their system is also corrupt, and calculated to corrupt the country^ and I will give aproof of this as-sertion. Pome of you have heard of the Hon. Geo. 13rown's celebrated IJig Push letter ; you have heard that this man, who has such a holy horror of corruption, wrote to a bank president a very urgent letter, in which lie said that by a lunited elfort power might be seized; This bank president sent out a circular to the customers ,of his bank, saying that if the (.Jovernmcnt was sustained the bonk would get large deposits iof money. Is that corrupticin ? Mr. Simpson sends a telegram to say that the story about Lis buying up people is a fiction. You have the Big Push letter in the first place, in which the leader and dictator of the Ileform party asks him to come down handsomely. What .more? You have in the last Gazette banking returu.s up to the 30th September last, which prove that if ho did not come down handsomely the licformer.9 are certainly most thankful for the smallest favors. Those returns shew that this bank president, this seuator who has degraded his position by this most infamous letter, has got now the use of $590,000 of your money without paying a copper of interest for it; in other word.s, that his bank is receiving at present $50,000 per annum of public money. Do you mean to tell me that with this letter from the Hon. George Brown to Senator Simpson, and this circular from Senator Simpson to the customers of his bank on record, any honest or intelligent man in this coun- try will not fo. that this money was paid lor political services ? The whole policy hi corrupt; it will :>t bear the light of day, and will have to be changed. But more, Mr. Workman told the people of Montreal, the other day, that they ought to support Mr. Cart- wright, because ho was selling debentures to prevent calling upon tho banks ibr his deposits. Last year Mr. Cartwright gave as his excuse for borrowing a larger sum than was needed, that it did not look well to go borrowing every year. Now he goes again for the purpose of being able to give half a million dollars of your money to tho bank of which Mr. Simpson is president. Capital is very sensitive ; such conduct as this is destroying tho confidence of the , commercial men of the country, and a great deal of distress is flowing from tho channel I liave indicated. Then there is the proposed llcciprocity Treaty. Does not every commer- cial man know that every manufacturing interest was paralyzed a year ago by Uon. George Brown going to Washington to negotiate that wonderful treaty ? As I said before, capital is very sensitive. ]']very man who is about to invent his capital in any new enterprise looks lahead to see if there is a prospect of that particular branch of trade being permanent, — and [it is easy to sec what a disastrous otfect the possibilily of Mr. Brown succeeding in his ncgo- ptiations must have had on tho investment of capital in tho manufactures of the country. I [need not detain you longer in holding an inquest over this dead treaty, but I will say this, sthat if ever a government was marked by incapacity, if ever a public man placed himself in [a position which ought forever to destroy all confldcnee in him, it was when the lion. George [Brown placed his name to that document without getting Mr, Fish's signature on behalf of ithc United States, — and Canada was forced to go down on hor knees to the United §tatcs, «8 only to bo spurned by the foot of tlio Amcric;iii. The Wiisliiui^ton Treaty — wliich buvic. tho feeling of irritation wbicli bad grown up between tbis country and tbo States, consequent upon the war, and disposed of all tbc unpleasant questions between us — bad paved tho way for a judicious and fair reciprocity treaty. Canada bad shown a desire to have tho frce;^t commercial iutercour,«e wilb the United .State?, but it was unwise to assume tbc position that she was in extremity for want of a treaty. If thoy bad taken advantage of the kindly feel- ing kindled in the States by the "Washington Treaty, and allowed the commercial men of that country to press for it in their own interest, tho j\nicricaii3 would, long oro tbis, liavc been offering us tho very thinuj which, when wo bogged for it in such a liumiliating mtinncr, thov refused us. I trust, however, that this much will bo accomplished : that G'corgc Lrown will never be asked to negotiate another treaty for us. There is another matter that has a good deal lo do with this depressed condition of our country. I have already alluded to tho three millions of additional taxation. How were they imposed '.'' Mr. j\[ackcnzie, who the other day in Dundee was an extr.avagant free-trader, avowing tho desire, as far as in bim lay, to make that principle the law of the whole commercial world, when bo canio down hero endeavoured to cajole tho manufacturers by informing them that ho bad inerenscd the duties levied on imported articles two and a half per cent. Mr. J]lake, in bis West Toronto speech, said I had one theory of free trade for these 1 'iovinccs and another for Toronto. ]\Ir. Blake ia wrong. I have never held but one theory. After I ended my criticism of ^Mr. Cart- wright's budget speech in J.'arliaraent, I was told by tbc Premier that I liad accused one pcri-on of being a free-trader and another of being a protectionist, but I bad not stated what I was myself. I have no objection to do so. iS'o man lias more; strongly and consistently urged the adoption ibr Canada of a national policy than myself. (Hear, hear.) When 1 bear the statements of other gentlemen advocating such a policy, I can go back to the time wdicn 1 urged similar views in Parliament almost single-handed. I was in favour of the i'rcest commercial intercourse Vihh tbc United States; but if they were not willing to grant us that, my opinion was that wo should apply their own principles to themselves. But even Sir A. Gait said : " We are only four millions against forty. .Do not do anything that might irritate thoni." 3[y reply was that the people of the United States were i'ar too acute not to respect tho adoption towards themselves, by others, of their own principles. I believe that in the adoption of that national policy of treating them as they treat nn, lies the restoration of that prosperity that seems to be last passing away. 1 regard it as a wrong to Canada, as a whole, that our coal and other products should be shut out from the United States by a pro- hibitory tariff, and that wo should receive theirs without any contribution to our revenue wbaicvcr. In tho year that we imposed a moderate duty upon American coal and other natural proJucts, was there any irritation upon the part of that country '■ The almost imme- diate consequence was a reduction of the duty imposed upon our coal by the United States of fifty cents per ton. Not only was that the case, but coal was never cheaper in Montreal or Quebec than during the ye;ir that the interests of your coal owners were stimulated to increased production by the slight duty thus aflbrded. So, in reference to every industry, I would adopt a national Canadian policy that would fo.-tcr and encourage our manufacturing iudu.-tries throughout the length and breadth of the country, upon which 1 believe the pro.«perity of Canada largely depends. I would foster not only manufacturing but mining and agricultural industries in this country a.^ well. I may tell you that not only did tho Covcrnment of tha United States under the change of tarilTtliat I have referred to, reduce the duty on coal, but on potatoes and lumber, and several otlicr articles. I would foster, 1 say, tbc agricultural interests of Canada, as also tho manufacturing industries, by showing our neighbours that we bad Bucb great respect for their wonderful sagacity as to ]iay them the great compliment of imitating their policy outst'lve.-. I believe that in that policy is the direction in which we will bavo to seek tho prosperity of tho great mass of the people, and tlic revival of tbc industries that, under the present, commercial depression, are languishing throughout the country. But there was another difiicuUy, and that was the mode in which the (iovernment levied these three million dollars. They go to Montreal and Toronto, and say, what splendid protectionists we arc; wo have given you a protection of two and a half per cent. Mr. Blake so i'ar forgot himeelf at bis ministerial election as to say that I paid tbc Finance Minister the compliment of Baying that be bad imposed a tariff in tbc most suitable and proper way. Why, who supposes that the tariff as it stands is Mr. Cartwrigbt's ? Is there anybody that docs not 39 Itnow tliat lio did not bring down a 171 per cent, tariff at all y He broui;ht down a tariff in which lie proposed to rainc three million doUar.-i of additional taxe?, mostly by specific , duties ; only §500,000 was to fall upon uuenunierated articles altogether. Hut ho proposed curioua things in relation to that tarilV. llo proposed to raise a considerable aaiouut by taxing articles used in the construction and fitting; out of ships, which, under the policy of Canada f(ir fifteen years, had been free. And, gentlemen, I dare say some of you suppose ^o man can have any power to inlluoncc the (iovornment unless ho is sittinir on the (rovern- ment benclu's, but among all jour ropror^entativcs from Nova Scotia deeply interested in the protection of this Province from so foul a wrong as thi.-!, not a voice was raided until I who sat on th3 Opposition benches led them on ti) opi)'),-c and obstruct a Government which was thus striking a blow at Xova Scotia and 2icv,' Drunswiok industries. And when I tell you that the trade returns show that that very year Nova Scotia, with four hundred thousand people, built St, 000 tons of shipping, while Ontario, with nearly throe million people, built only 7,000 tons, you can see Avhat an unfair mode th.is was of raisi' a revenue. 'I'liey en- deavored to impose u tax equal to a dollar a ton on every vessel Jit in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and while Nova Scotia, under that law, would ha aid about $S4,000, tho three million people of Ontario undor the same law would have contributed only $7,000. That was the proposition they brought forward, and yet tho representatives from Nova Scotia, who ought to have been the lirst to spring to the I'ront with the united influence they could exert, and say that tlioy could not sustain a Government that would thus trample under foot tho interests of the Maritime Provinces looked on in silence. It was not only the in- terest of the Maritime Provinces but of ail Canaila that were at stake, for it was the policy, and the sound jiolicy, of Canada to fo.^er by every means in its power the construction and owner5hip of the magnificent mercantile mi'.rine nhich is the pride of every Canadian from . shore to shore. Tho proud boast of Canada is to-day that she owns 1,200,000 tons of ship- ping, a mercantile navy which is one of the largest among the nations of the world. Yet tho po.iey to which they owe that commercial fleet these men were ready to strike down under an unfair adjustment of the tariff which would unduly press uj[.on one of the . most laborious and critical industries of the country, liable to sudden con- traction which would cause injury throuirhoiit the length and breadth of these Provinces. Yet tho gentlemen who have thus dealt with the interests of the country, who by a reckless andunfiiir policy have shaken public conlidenee in a great industry like that, who only found their rights protected by the determined attitude of a small contingent on the Opposition lide of the House, wonder that everything is not prosperous, and that everybody has not the lamc confidence in the commercial prosperity of the country that they had before. I say ihe tariff was a porics of blunders from beginning to end. After we had given Mr. Cart- Tight a little intimation of what a loyal Opposition could do, he disappeared, and was lissing for some time. lie came back after two or three days reconsideration with the tariff to a certain extent as it is, and commended it to tho House by telling us that he had ibandoned his own plan and gone back as nearly as he could to the principle adopted by his iredcccs.sors. "When Mv. Cartwright decided to increase the tax of 50 per cent, on sugar, on n article of prime necessity, regarded as only second to bread as a necessary article of diet, I id object. J said it was an outrage, and I asked what would be thought in England where they were sweeping away rll duties on sugar, what would be said there if we added to the duties on sugar already paying fifty per cent. Open this book, the 7/rt/(S'?rci of the Domi- nion Commons, and you will see whether I obstructed tho proposal to sustain the industry of sugar refining. What did I say in my place? "I gaid, when tho budget was brought in, now is the time to deal with sugar; you have got a handsome surplus; you have no busi- ness with a surplus ; a good government always gets rid of a surplus by taking off taxes, as wo did. Instead of increasing the tax on an article already paying 50 per cent., I said they should reduce the duty on lower grades of sugar, which would at tho same time cheapen that article to the poor, and enable us to rofine our own sugar. What did Mr. Cartwright say? 1iat he would consider it. After the J louse rose, he did endeavour, in a feeble half-hearted manner that could never accomplish 'anything, to reduce by an Order in Council the duties ,on the lower grades, but not to a sufilcient extent to meet the bounty given in the United States. Ho did not even do that correctly, and tho Montreal C!a::cUc pointed out tho error, and be withdrew his order and brought out another. But there is another matter. The late Govovnment never brought down a budget without the party now in power telling us that we 40 ftcro a most cxtravnj^'ant (Jovcnuncut. 1 admit wc were liberal, Init vc could afTord to 1. so. I state that with sucli a surplus revenue as wo possessed, and with a light taxation up-: the countrj, wo wore al)lc to provide liberally for all the public services, reduce tlio ta> of tho people $2,000,000 per annum, and yet apply §14,000,000 iu Bcven years to tho r duction of the public debt. When the gcntlonicn then in opi)osition denounced our (Jovcn iDcnt for extravagance, liad the people not a ri^ht to expect an exhibition of economy fro: them when they came into power that would have given force to their criticisms of others Butwc were .startled to observe that although a larL'O jiortion of our expenditure was upi objects which would not require any more money 'to bo continued for such services, the gentleman who saii • that tho revenue that goes into tkc collers of Canada to-dav is larger bv an amount (h:r wou.d iiay SIX per cent, interest on every dollar of tho cost of those works than wc couii Jiope to have it il tho roads were not constructed. Jf that is the case then the people of Nov, Scotia, who have been charged with the debts created by the construction ot these roads liav a riglit to liavo the principle carri(>d out upon which the roads were constructed. Eut look ing at It as a pure question of commercial economy and policy, the present Covcrnmen; wlule sending dismay and du tress throughoRt Nova Scotia from end to end by the unjust m- actions Irom the people using these roads, has actually received less money into the treasurv ot Canada from the operation of the roads than if thoy had not caused all this misery at.;, loss_ to all classes of the people throughout Nova Scotia. ^Vo are told all sorts of ra-u- stones about the wonderful skill of (Lis great Napoleon ofrailways, as iMr. JJryd^es is calFei: ilicre 13 a very curious little incident connected with this matter, and it is thfs • Tho C verumcut of Canada publishes a statement of the monthly returns of the railways in Canad;, Ibey publiMed that statement down to March, LS75, and it told a curiou- story._ Jt told the story that instead of this Napoleon of railways bein- alio to grind out the people of the Maritime Provinces tho amount of money that ho ha.i promiscd the Govcrj.ment he would give them if ihey would send him down liere. h agaiost 6G/,01G for March, ] &<4. Strange to say, from that day to this wc have not been able to drag out of them by all the pressure and power of the pre.-s or to compel them to d^^ the duty they are bound to perform by publi,^hing in (he "Canada Gazette" every montb gam of $o00,000 in the Intercolonial. I say the whole story of tho ..reat deficit M-as Gctitiou-, t^^^i'^''^''%\'^,'i^^^^ (hive quarters or halfamii^ lion it was Sl_2,000 and matters were so arranged tliat had there been no chan-^e nf Go- vernment there would be no deficit,, but the railways could have been handsomely payiu ,.a!. 41 working expenses as things were going on. iJut I unJertako to say tliat unless they chango tW5 form of the public aceouutu, if thoy bring thcni down this year as they did last year and do not charge to capital account anything in connection with them, I s^tatid pledged to show tllat instead of showing S^JOO.ono to tiic advantage of tlio railway it will sliow that it is g 00,000 the other way, and I trust that you will rcmeinber that, and when this matter is icusscd in rarlianient, when they no longer will be able to hido those returns, you will sco lActhcr I will bo able to make my words good or not. Hut, sir, suppose it were truo they Q(^ld get their three hundred thousand dollars. I say they would get the money wrongly. i'fiay Tho craiu would 1)0 insignilicant compared with the just niauagenicnt of the affiiir.iof this gi'cat country. It is enough to make a man weep to sec t!iQ oM roads covered with peopfo driven olYtlic lines that were built with their money, compelled to do with horses and oxen that which under the old (lovernment tliey did Kuccessfully on the railroad of the oouiitr'v. I am askeil why wo did not bring the road into Halifax. I am afraid tho •*Moruiiig Clironicle'' has. a •^hort memory. On the iloor of tho House I moved that the papers relative to this subj •cb bo brouglit duwn. They wen; brought down, and in thoin wUl bo found my vindicalioii. It is jiroved by tho papers that from the hour I entered tho Go- vernment, which wan only in the year ISlO, no subject more earnestly engaged my attention. I "ot tho Minister of Tublie Works to put ;i suiu ibr that purpose into tho estimate, and i!; received the 'jsscnt of tho House. Mr. M -Nab, tho Government, Engineer, cxamiuca tin road, iuid I came down to Halifax and said to tlic merchants "of this city, hero is our plan : ^c :iro ;'oing to strike ulVat the thre.) mile house and come out back of the Horticultural llJardcns" 'L'hey said it would not do ; that our plan was a mistake. .1 went back to tho Go- Iciument and said, we have made a mistake; we must stop. The Government sent dowu Mr. I'leming with instructions to look at tho whole subject, not only from au engineering point of view, but witli a view to the commercial hiterests of the community, lie did so, and ho said the best ]ilan was to cut right through the DocI:yard and bring tlie line down to West's wharf, where they could have both land and watm- communieatio'.i. We tried to carry but that plan.' AV^e went to the Admiral and used all the personal inlli.ence wo could bring to bear upon him, but iu vain. A\'e then went to higher authorities, and applied to th« Fir.'t Lord of the Admiralty, but did not meet with much .success there. We then went to tho Imperial Government, making our application through Governor Archibald, who was then in E.i2'land. I need not tellyou wo failed. I then tsaid to tho Government, wo must ijot pau.'o here; let us do the ne.Kb best thing, ask rarliamont to give lis money enough to fcuy the whole row of houses along Abator Street, and bring tho lino down through that street Ao Wc:-:t'a wharf, and make a new ptrect. Tho Government assented, and put the sum into .the estimates. They were pro.^ecutiug that matter as vigorously as any man could prosecute iw own ailairs and even Mr. Jones was compelled to admit that our vindication was com- pl.;te. I hare' shown you that wherever I am, and I am sorry that some of ray dear friends of the Govcrumeut pres.-} here seem broken-hearted that I do uot reside in Halifax, I am ia jjfeverything that interests or aiToct-,- this important city, tho emporium of tho whole Pro- rincc, as energetic on your behalf as if I held my seat in rarliamont by virtue of your suffrages. "^^ am asked my opiniou res[)ecting contractor's claiini on tho Intercolonial Pailway. A lumber of (daims which were prcsentad to the lato Government wero deferred until such progress liad been made in tho work that they could all bo taken up together, and some !ommoa principle adopted iu reference to them. At tho hist .session of tho House _oL' 1,'ommons a Bill was passed for meeting ju4 sncli cases a? these; such cases as tho official ■\rbitrator3 could dispose of being excepted from its operation. Whether claims, then, wero [well founded or not, the present Government, and every (Jovcrnmcnt wero bound, when [application was made under tlic new law, to give them a prompt answer and cnablo them to try their rights in a court of law. What are they afraid of^ They struck out of tho Bill feeforo they allowed it to pass the right common to all Englishmen of having a jury of his fellows [to try his case. Thoy have framed the law so that the judge appointed and paid by themselves lis to decide between the citizen and his Sovereign, Yet they refuse to actunder this law. [Contractors who approached tho Government six months ago by respectful petition asking per kaissionto try their claims under tho Bill of llights have begged and prayed and besecched [them for an answer, and aro still without it. Let the " Morning Chronicle" ask the Minister oi [j usticc, with his salary of $7,000 a year, to leave the practice of his own private business in th( co'^tts of Ontario, and attend to the work that he is paid by the peoples' money to do, and n 42 ivc justice to Her Majesty's hubjoets tliioiii;lu)Ut tlio Uoiuiuiou. Air. Muekcnzio Hays tlio jiliuLstcr of Justice has not been able to overtako these cases yet. Jle never will bo able to ovcrtuko them unt"l he leaves his private business to attend to his public duties, and docs the work that he accepts his salary of $7,000 I'ur pcrlbrniinL,'. 'Air. .Mackenzie says it is ii small matter. 1 am told he intimated to the contractors who had an interview with him— "Oh, there are only a half a dozen of you !' l>oes he not know what is behind these meny Docs ho not understand tiie ramitiealions of credit, and that if money is owiu^ to those men it is not only owin.t,' to them, but to p^'ople who arc sulTering in every Bccfion of the couat]-y in couueetioii with this depressed slate of trade, and that havo a ri!:;ht to receive an answer on this question from the (iovcrnment ? They will receive an answer. It can bo but one, and it will be an answer that will enable thcni to go to the foot of the throne, or at all events to our vice-rei^al throne — for we have that it cverythinj» else is taken away — and have the matter adjudicated upon by a judicial tribunal ; and that 1 believe is all that tliey ask. The feelincf of the whole couutry is one of blank disappointment with the present Gov- ernment. But 1 do not think there sliould be disappointment amonps-t those conversant with their past record. Take the whole history of the party now in power, and what do wc And ? They call themselves the Reform Party. Why, lientlemen, what havo they reformed? Mr. Mackenzie told you that they had pas:;ed all their measures. Jle should have told you -they had passed all our measures. Did he tell you of a single one that ho did not get cut and dried from his predecessors? I think it would puzzle him to do so. I have always claimed that I was as Liberal as I was Conservative ; that the broad name adopted by the party to which I belong, and which I believe is going to bo a power in the couutr3', i'rom one end to the other, was one that the late (.Jovernmeiit was justly entitled to, and they have by their Speeches at the opening of each session tacitly admitted that wc left them nothing to reform. When our late lamented statesman, the Hon. Joseph JIowo, succeeded in inducing Parliament to do a simple piece of justice to this Province, how was he met? lie was met by all the opposition it was possible ibr the lloform i'arty to produce. The "(ilobc" endeavored to show that wo were not entitled to a dollar. Tliey put up Mr. "Wood, their ablest speaker in Ontario, to prove that you had too much already. But the Liberal-Conservative party was too much lor them, and i^Ir. Blake hurried away to the Local Legislature of Ontario and got an address to the Crown passed asking that this piece of justice bo taken away from us. And yet tlieso arc the niou wlio would come down to Nova Scotia to woo you with their sweet voices. They may continue to say, we have been true to our principles of reform, but I say they could liiid nothing to reform. All tlic title they can find to the name of Belbrmers is to bo ibund in the records of the Courts that have consigned nearly a score of them to political destruction. They talk about Sir llugli Allan giving 8-15, uOO towards the election fund in Ontario, and 3Ir, 3Iackcnzic said on the lloors of Parliament that our statement that they had used money at their elections was lahe. And yet in Simcoc the Leformer Cook spent $23,000. Major Walker and his iriends spent from $20,000 to $;J0,000 oa his election, and M. C. Cameron over $20,000. Go whore you will, to Chambly, Argentuiel, Dorchester, wherever the courts havo pursued their investigations, tlic record is tlic same, shewing the most gigantic corruption ever attempted in any couutry. (Applause). But the result of these trials of contested elections also showed that the Liberal Conservative Party, rested on lirmer claims to the support of the people, and did not buy its way into Parliament. Again wo are told that wo resisted the payment of eighty thousand dollars to this provinco on account of tho Post Office, and I am taunted because I opposed that payment. I will tell you Avhy I did not press it. When Mr. llowc was doing battle in your interests on the iloors of J. \ul lament ho was met with this statement, if wc vote these two millions, you will come back for more, lie pledged his honor as a man that he would not, and when I went into the Covernmcut he had taken his attitude. The very men from Ontario who had taken tho ground that the money paid should be in i'uU went back on their record and supported that $30,000 more. So also they opposed the readjustment of the debt, which has furnished Nova Scotia with the uieans of carrying 0!i her public works. I am not obliged to ask you to take my testimony on this point. 1 can read you the speech of the Finance Minister, delivered before his last visit to England, in which you will find him complaining of the late Government lor readjusting the debt, thus placing a million more at tho disposal of JS'ova Scotia for tho public works of the country. When 1 have evidence of this sort before me, I am justified in standing here and saying'th.at tlicy arc not 48 « managing, but mi.smanaiiinj,', tho afl'uira ol' the country. What did your Kcprcscntativo, Mr. I'ower, Bay in aliudinj^ to the gcntlonicn composing the so-called Jiclbrm Party before they had come into oflict? " I havo no hojic I have hccii theso men and know them to tho core, and 1 am .sntislicd tiiat whenever tlio interests ol" this I'rovineo are at stake wo have nothing to expoet at tlieir hands." Mr. Power's testimony stands here upon record, and proves that whatever other merits he has, he at least has the merit of beinj^ a prophet and a trua on(;. What did the Jlun, A. J. Smith of Mtw Jh'unswieU sny '{ On returning to hisconstituontH ho said : — •• tlcnlk'nien, live years wjn you wnt mc to the Parliament ofoureountry with all my prepossessions in favor of the licform Party. JEavini; earcl'uUy watched both sides, I. have been fiivini^ my support to the Ijiheral-Con«crvativc Party, and I tell you us an honest man, that if you choose mo as your Jicprcseiitative a^ain it mu^t be on the uuder.standin<^ that I am still to support that p:irty, because J consider their policy more advantaguous to tho Maritime Provinces." In West Toronto [stated iu the pre-eiico of the Covcrnment candidate, who is not likely to have the gatisl'aetion of rcpresentinii; them in Parliament, however, that I was prepared to fcliow that they were a (jovernment without principles, who had systematically trampled iirinciplos under tlitir feet ever since they canio into power. I read from Mr. JMaekcnzie's lips, as reported in the '• (llobe." of July (itli, 1872, the followin;^ .statement: — ''The roLlcv uv Tin; Jiiur.H.VL J'.vurv is to make tlw; I'arliamentary (Jov(Mii- ment supreme — to j>htcc tlm Ciovernmrnt dircvth/ vinhr the control of J'arlianieut ; to take from them all I'owf.r to i>e anv vortion ov the pkoplk's Mo.virr wnnoi'T A imukct VOTE roil KACii HERVJCE. " I then .showcd that witli that statemeut on record, 1^1 r. Mackenzie took S-,titi").OUO of your money, without a dollar having been voted, and appropri- ated them to the pureliast- of steel rails for u.-e on tlu; Pacific railway. "Well, we asked him, •' did you want (he rails?"' ^We knew that he could not um bitv.'oen four ami five huadrcd mi'cs of steel rails fur many years to do his best, tlu; way he was <;oin'4 0U. And wc asked him if lie wanted them, lie had to eonlli-s that he did not. hut he .^aid, " Wc madr a etipital harj/ain." We asked ^Ir. Mackenzie it he had any reason, as a commercial man, t i suppose that that purchase of 50,000 tons of steel rails, at a cost of 8l',()I)."),()00, half-a-doz/n ye'ars before lu- wanted them ail, was likely to .save any money. Wo said iic would not only havu to pay a. (luartcr of a million dollars interest, takiujr the siverago time that it-ust elapse before thoy could be useJ. but that every commereijil man with a head on his slionUl.Ts knew that the same causes that had brought the price of rails down were still in operation, and likely (o continue for somo time. — ;md that ho bouuht on a fallinc; market, and had probably sunk a Liruc sum of money. Oh, he had no doubt about that ; there would never be such an oppor- tunity ap;ain. I ttand here to show that he saeriliccd the interests of the country by not waiting until the rails were required; thnt the same company I'roin which ho bought have since oft'ercd them ii)r 810 a t(in cheaper th;m he bought them. The rails tliat cost, on nii average, $."Ji laid down iu .Montreal, were alterwarJs oflercd lor .L'ts stg. in England, — and that with 8f a ton i'rcight, which is an ample allowaneo in the present condition of freights, liiaketi §10 por ton loss, which is but a small proportion of what you will sink by this very energetic 31niister of I'ubiic Works — in this instance, I think, a little too energetic. Jjut I :;ay thnt the amount of money lost liy this transaction — throe-qunrters of a million dollars of the money of tho people of Canada, which are scattered to the winds — is a small matter com- pared with the violation of tho iirinciples that Mr. Mackenzie had professed, aud which lie at the very loundation of good government, ((,'hcers.) Show mc such a transaction on tho part of the lato (loverument during the ?evcu years they held power, aud I will net again 7,000 duties collected from tho (ircat Western llaihvay Co., and banded it back to thcin. Tho transaction v/as precisely the same as if he were torel'und to any mcrehnnttho duties paid by him during the last three years. Tho next question asked mo is, "Why didn't I ji;ivo tho extra member to Halifax? That is a curious question to .ask at this juncture. Mr. .Jonci!, ponio time, ago, indicted nic before tho people of Ilaliliix lor that very thing. I at that tinio stated, over iny nwa signature, IVankly and fairly as I always do, my rcaj-on. The answer was accepted. Tho people allowed Mr. .Tones to remain at homo and attend to his piivato busi'/.css, and elected a supporter of tho Administration of whi'di I was a member. (Ifear, hear, and (•liccrs.) I can say that at the present moment Jlalil'ax would bo Letter represented in the .Dominion Parliament if it had no member there at all. (Cheers.) I think you mi.'jtako mo; I am perfectly serious about this, and I had not tho slightest reference to yoiir present members. What I mean to say is this: The member for Cumberland is a member l"ir Halifax, and the men I see belbro me would givo more weight to iialifax, even without a :ncmbcr, than most other counties could hope for with one. (Applause.) 1 wiy that no man who is the representative of any section of iNova .^eotiacan afford to bo indilll^rent to anything connected with the welfare of Halifax, knowing, as ho must, that the good of the coimtry, as a whole, is largely dependent upon the progress and prosperity of the great motropolis. '.But I think there was another reason that might have suggested itself. What have I peon ? I liavo Bccn tho people ct Halii'ax .^ubmiuing to have a' representative, after they bad elected ]um, turn his back on the Pailiament with scorn and contempt, and continue to prosccmts his own mcrcantijo all'air.«, while Halifax was left to take care of itself or to depend upon the caro of Eomo outside mcuibers. Therei'ore I thou-ht that any people or any newspaper that approved of his leaving tho aflairs of the city to take caro of themsclve's, have scarcely a Tight, in common decency, to put the question to me : Why did Halifax not get a third reprcseutative ? I am asked why British Columbia got six members, and why JManitoba got four members? Is there a man in my presence to-day who does not know tkat no por- tion of this Poniiuiou is more interested in having the Maritime Province of the I'acilic 45 largely roproBenteJ than tbo Province ot' Novu Scotiu ? TIm.'ic U no iiitere«t tlint touches \\n which does not touch them in the samo way. In re^arJ to shippiufr, fisheries, coal, or any- thing you like, thoy Htaiid in the same position as ourselves. Cut I any that, apart from this, it waa juat not to provide a representation for a wlioK; Province so small that they would feel that they had no representation. As to .Mimitoba, when you take into considera- tion the boundlesa prairies that are to lieconu; tiie homo of uiiilious of people, as ! hope, you will feel, I am confident, that we were entitled to ;,'ivo them lour representutives. It would bo on insult to yon to tako up any more of your time in iiislnictin;; the Morn'nuj Chronicle on that subject. The next subject referred to by ilic ('limuirlr is tlu! Wa.-hin'.^ton Treaty — (he coal and lumber question; why the rcpreHeiitalivc (.f Oanada, in the negotiations Icadinj; to the Washington Treaty, did not eloje in at nneu wlu n the Ami;ric:uis od'ered freo coal and free lumber. 1 think you would agree with n.e ih.it he would hardly like to nhow hi.s face in (Canada if the moment that thoy had iiiiide lh Fraser-lJoynolds supplies. I might answer these questions by reminding them of ihe liyuiaii Jjocehcr story, given them by tiic Premier, but I will not. I have never shrunk in tlic course of my political life from meeting boldly anything that could be brought against me by my most malicious enemy. A man who is not prepared to defend his ehuractor against all aspersions is not tit for a public man, and therofore, insulting and degrading as these questions are to tho.se who without the slightest warrant ask them, I am prepared to meet them, a.^ I b.ave over met the slightest in- sinuation on the floors of Parliament. I say that these are lying and calumnious insinuations and challenge any one to show tliat 1 have obtained corruptly, through any railway con- tractor or from any other source, a single dollar (cheers.) When the Finance Minister made an allusion in Parliament to my suppo.sed couneetion with I'raser, IJoynolds & Co., I said I would submit to tho clo.scst investigation, and if it could be shown that i had any connection with tho affairs of that lirni, that I would resign my seat in tho House. The hon. gentleman instantly withdrew the Insinuation and said he had not intended an Miing of the kind. So I stand here to-night, and humiliating as it is to be eliallenged wli. y- thing so utterly degrading, yet, as tho challenge is thrown out by the organ of a great party I hurl it back, and defy them to show any act touching iny personal honor. As for the Pictou Eailway, don't they know that tho Hon. -lohn W. Kitchic, the present Judge in Equity; the Hon. Samuel Leonard Shannon, the Hon. William A. Henry, are equally res- ponsible with myself for the Pictou Railway contract ? Mr. Archibald in vindication of his position as leader of the opposition, submitted that transaction to the closest scrutiny, but ho has declared over his own signature that be never dreamed nor insinuated na act of personal corruption against myself. But what is to he thought of the party who assail mc, when the contract was drawn up in the handwriting of tho very man whom they have put over the head of the Chief Justice, and appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada? They say it was through my influence that Fraser, Reynolds & Co. were enabled to furnish supplies to the Intercolonial Railway. The evidence on that question is before Parliament, procured after tho fullest investigation. Mr. Carvell testified that he had authority to order everything that was required without interference from the Government or any member of it, and that he, in fact, had no instructions whatever from the Government or any member of it to make purchases from that firm. Mr. Taylor his predecessor was interviewed by Mr. Jones, and when it was found that his testimony would only go to confirm that of Mr. Carvell, he was allowed to depart without being asked a word. As regards the Spring Hill IMines it has beon 4« proved beyond controversy that luy conuectiou with them took place after I had ceased to be a member of the Government of Nova Scotia, and was as free to speculate in Coal mines as any man in Canada. I am asked, lastly, to explain how it is that I came to this cirsr a poor man and left it a rich one, A portion of the press of this city has been vile enough to state that there was a period in my lifo when some of my friends were obliged to contribute to my support. Degrading as it is to notice things of this sort, T defy them to show that there is a particle of truth in this statement. J have spent between 30 and 40 years of my life in the most self denying industry, and, I hope, not altogether without some busmess tact. Ought it to be said of a man after 30 years or more of hard toil that because he is not a poor man he must be dishonest? But, from the records of my own county, I can show that I was loaning money upon mortgage as nmch as 30 years ago, and before I entered public lifo I had ac- cumulated a large amount of property. I am asked why I accepted the post of City Medical Officer ? Because, sir, I hold it to ho an office of honour and distinction to guard the lives and health of the people of this important city. But I will tell you how I filled that office. The very first report I made was to recommend the abolition of the office of which I was represented as being so covetous, and to urge the institution of a new method of dealing with poverty and disease in the city. When this change was accomplished I re- signed. I will not insult this audience by going into any further discussion of my private affairs. These gentlemen want to know why I deprive Halifax of my presence. If it is :i satisfaction to them to know it I am not ashamed to say that I do not live here because I am living now as I have lived all my life by daily toil and industry in the profession to which I have the honour to belong (cheers,; I fael that I have exhausted all this long string of questions, and disposed as I trust once and forever of the calumnies of the men who having no principles of their own that will commend them to public approval and sup- port, feel that the only means they have of obtaining public consideration is to drag other men down to the same level they themselves occupy (applause.) I have been asked how I can have the audacity' to come here and speak on a platform iu Ha- lifax, I am proud to say that I cannot see to-day on the face of my country a mark of progresi and prosperity that has not been placed there by the great party to which I have the honour to belong. The railway to Pictou, the Windsor and Annapolis line, and the great Interco- lonial line that connects this Province with the rest of Canada, and with the railway system of the United States of America arc all the work of the great Liberal-Conservative party. That party when I was on the threshold of public life was formed out of the old Conserva- tive party combined with a largo section of the Liberal party. Our motto was equal civil and religious privileges. The party was thus formed upon the great principle that underlies the progress and prosperity of every country. That principle wo held, not as a means of retaining power, but as a cardinal virtue, to depart from which would be unfair and would be an injury to the country. A\'o did not create a party one day upon religious and sectional antagonisms and the next day bow ourselves in the dust to win the support of those that we had denounced. We raised the standard eighteen years ago in this Province, of equal civil and religious rights for all, and we march under that banner still. Formed upon that glorious principle by the union of a large section of the Liberal party with the old conscrvatiro party, and at a later day by the accession of a still larger section of the Liberal, when Archibald, McCully, and a number of other gentlemen united with us on the great question of Union, the Liberal-Conservative party stands in a position to-day to claim from the people of Nova Scotia, whether in Halifax or out of it, the credit of having contributed to elevate and increase the pro- gress and prosperity of every portion of the I'rovince. That is our claim; and after the brilliant and magnificent ovation with which you have honoured me to-night, I feel that while such is the record of the Libcral-Coiiscrvaliv(> party the humblest member of that party may present himself confidently in your prdiscuce to discuss fearlessly as I have done, the great questions of the day. While doing this jlainly, and I hope in a manner that admitted of no misconception, I trust I have done it without giving offence. I believe there never was a time in the history of Canada, wh^n from the Atlantic to the Pacific, thoughtful and intelligent men were asking themselves with more earnestness whether it was not a solemn duty incumbent upon them, regardless of all party ties, to unite and endeavour to raise Vanada from the depression in which unhappily we have for the last two years been making considerable progress. But I have no hesitation, however, in telling you that there is a good time coming. Whether you look East or West, or North or South, 47 you may observe evidences that the momeut tbo people obtaiu au opf>ortuuity tLc Liberal Conservative party will bo restored to power. You may think, gcotlcmen, tbat this is ;:n empty boast. Let mo givo you some of the grounds on which I make it. In Ontario, the great Beat of the power and influence of the trovernmcnt, where, if they have not the means of being sustained they cannot find it anywhere, in Ontario I am in a position to tell you that since the last general election, against the combined power of both Governments, the Govern- Dient of Ontario and that of the Dominion, which were converged upon each individual election, we have swept from under their feet six of the finest constituencies scattered broadcast over the Province of Ontario, while at this moment they have not one of ours. (Cheers.) These triumphs make a difference in the Province of Ontario alone, of no lets than twelve votes on a division. If wo can do that in Ontario, what can we not do in Quebec, where they have comparatively little hold upon the public mind, nd where the recent local elections ehow that these men have been weighed in the balance and found want- ing ? They came into power upon a false issue, and have been engaged in trampling down those principles which are the safeguard of the people, until a complete reaction has exhibited itself everywhere. I said in Ontario, and I repeat it here, that those who scan the division list next session will find that we stand at least thirty votes stronger than wo stood two years ago, by the action of the independent intelligence of the people of this country. But it is no wonder that this is so. I defy any men, however powerful they may be, and though backed by the most overwhelming numbers to carry on a Government successfully without principles. What have we seen in this Province ? Who does not know that only yesterday (eight short years ago) the great Anti-Union wave that swept over the country like a Saxby storm, swept the Liberal-Conservative party almost out of existence, and nearly the entire representation in the legislature of the Dominion and of the Province of Nova Scotia was left in the hands of our opponents. But what was the difficulty ? They had the numbers, and probably the ability to govern the country but they had not principles. We asked them, vfhat are your principles ? You have power, what are you going to do for us ? They said : " We are going to punish the rascals who carried Confederation." That was the motive and animating principle that was expected to keep the great party together. What was the result ? Where are those men ? Go to the Government House, and you will find one of the most distinguish- ed of those delegates presiding as Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, and enjoying the confidence of an overwhelming majority of his fellow-countrymen, if not of the entire popula- tion. I am bold to say that if the position were put to open vote to-morrow, he would poll two-thirds of all classea of the people of this Province. Go into the Supreme Court and you will find Judge Mc'CuUy and Judge Ritchie holding two of the highest judicial positions in the country, respected and acknowledged by all classes of the people to be the men to whom the highest and dearest interests of the people may bo safely confided. Last of all, whot more do we find ? The most distinguished and striking evidence of the absurdity of the attempt to govern a country on the principles of a party of punishment is the fact that with those gentlemen themselves in power, and myself and William McDonald, from Cape Breton, alone representing the Liberal Conservative interests in Opposition, when they had to name a gentleman for a higher judicial position than any existing in Nova Scotia, away above the Chief Justice, this party of punishment hunted up Mr. Henry, the remaining un- provided for delegate, in order that they might declare in the face of the world that those whom but yesterday they declared to be unfit to hold any positions of responsibility are the men in favor of whom, when a most important public office is to be filled, they must pass over the heads of their own friends and take a. man from the ranks of those very gentlemen who committed the great wrong against Nova Scotia, as they said, of carrying it into Confec^ration. And now, sir, I alone am lefl, and I am almost afraid that they will come after me and want me to fill some office for which I am hardly worthy. But, sir, no one can be better satisfied than I am with the position I occupy, standing here as an independent representative in the Parliament of my country, having been nine times successively elected during a continuous period of more than twenty years in the county in which I had the honour to bo born. I envy none of these gentlemen. Though I could not fill their positions, it would take some- thing still better to induce me to leave the post I now occupy on the floor of Parliament, struggling to promote what I believe to be the best interests of my country, I believe what we i«ee in Ontario and Quebec will exhibit itself in this Province, and that when the people of Nova Scotia have an opportunity of again electing a body of representatives they will do 48 themselves the credit of choosing nieu who will be so qualified for public office, that whca the Government of the day have to find a successor to a gentleman like Mr. Wm. Rosb thej will not have to pass over the whole representation of Nova Scotia and seek outside for some person to protect the public interests. J. feel that I have trespassed very long npou your time (No ! no !), and that I owe you an afology. It has been so long since I have had the honour and the pleasure I have enjoyed to-night, that, coming face to face with the citizens of Halifax, I have cxpericncc'l a feeling of rrgret Hint the time would arrive when I should have to say, at all events for the present, " Good-ni^ht." T m:iy say, in conclusion, that as it is just possible that some gentleman may wish to havo a fuller discussion, nothing would give mo greater pleasure. 1 believe that the more our principles are discassed the better they will be understood and the deeper the hold thoy will take en the affections and judgment of Si' people. Nothing, therefore, will give mo greater pleasure than to discuss at any time those principles here with any member of the Parliament of Canada. Thanking you for your patient hearing and kind consideration, T will now bid you " Good-night." (Enthusi- astic cheering.) At the conclusion of the speech, after the applause had subsided, Hon. 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