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Proprietors. ^][7TTVT/^ A T'T^'O I This Medicim; is pr.'pnrcil from llu- puscription 'of the late W ll^llTA I r L^ ;>r. Win-iite, of London, Knuliind, iind !ias bucn in use all OTcr Europe tor many years, and is Constantly usetl by the best Physicians in both liosi)ital and private practice in all parts of the world. A a s|)ecilic for SCRQFTJLA, SALT RHEUM, FEYER SORES, TUMORS And all tlisoa.'^os ot'tho lilood. It, lius long stood , , WITHOUT A RIVAL ! PURIFIER ! ! !■'«« SALE BY ALL DEUGGLSTS. BLOOD STANTON'S .L ACHES AN PAIN r'IRES ALL ACHES AND PAINS. EOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL USE. RELIEF. Purely Yogctabl.'. Cannot do harm and u}v-;aya doe.s good. SOLD EVEKYWIIEKE. •{• Sm JOHN ^. MAC DON ATX) 4 ible i.i V can sintsH. ;or$. ■ the late all over lans orld. A JMORS tood lL ! 'S. IF. AT iv^oisrT:E^Ej^iii. SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE WHITE BAHQUEt, Wednesday, November 24, 1875. The follcwinj^ epecHi by tbo Kight Hon. Sir John Macdonalrt was delivered at a banquet given by the Conservatives of Montreal to Mr. Tlioinns White, Jr., on Wednesday evening, thr 'Itb of November hiHt. The ball wvu bountifully Iccoratcd with flags, the platform being draped with nntionul cinblems. l.i front of it waa a dnia occupied by the guests aud leading gentlemen present. Mr. John ^ . ,. nan presided. On hia right hand were seated Mr. Thomas Whitj. the gue.st of the c aing, he Hon. C. Tapper, Andrew Robertson, Hon. J. L. Bcaudry, A. Lcsjardins, M.V., Hugh McLcnnon, llichard White, A. M. Delislo, Waiter Shanlcy, M. H. Gauit, H. L. lloutb, and Col. A. A. Stcvenbon. On thclcff of the chairman were the Rif/nt Hon. Sir John Macdonald, IJ. Masson, Hon. Thos. Eyan, John Hope, Hon. P-ter Mitchell, Rev Mr. Black, John Crawford, A. Jjaoo8t«, A. Ouimet, M.P., David Law, John Kerry and David Sinclair. The Vico-Chpirs were occu- pied by Messrs. Ogilvie, Mous.'^cau, McGanvran and Bulmcr. About th.ec hundred guests were present. The CuAiBMAN having proposed " Heh Majesty's Loyal Opposition," The RionT Honourable Sia John Macdonald rising to reply, was received witli enthusiastic cheering, renewed again and again. The welcome was unprecedented in hearti- ness. When the applause had ceased, Sir John Baid: — Mr, Chairman and gentlemen, I, one of Her Majesty's loyal Opposition (cheers), have come from Toronto to join in this magnificent demonstration in liivor of my friend — my political and personal friend — Mr. White. (Cheer?.) I feci that it was due to him, due to the sacrificcj he has made, due to •the stand he has taken, due to the position he has attained, to testify my respect as one of the c'd members of the Conservative Party. (Cheers.) But while it was due |to hiiu, it 13 also a great gratification to myself. I long in public life have watched the course of Mr. White. I first knew him whos, at Peterborough, with all the earnestness aud enthu- .siasm of youth, he conducted one of the most able country ncwtipapers that existed in Canada. I have ocon his course ever since. It has been a truly Conservative couiac, not merely, gentlemen, in the party sense of the word, but in tbo higher patriotic sense, Coneer vative in thought, Conuoi'vativo in feeling, Conservative in advocating the connection with the mother country — that grand old country from which we c'l hai' (Ch -irs.) "'' have watched his progress in lifo, and I find him now with not less earnesiiess, with not ieo enthusiasm, but with matured mind and with the experience that he has giiued bv long, intelligent, and vigilant observation of public affairs, now standiug ono of the firot journalists in Canada (enthusiastic cheers), worthy of this demonstration, and worthy of the . exertions which have been made for bim bv thfl tnio plpnfnrH nf Wostcn Mnntrnal- Tt i.« true that, heha^Hold us, ho is a defeated candidate, and no one more regrets that defeat than I do ; not only on my own account, but on account of the party of which, for the present at all events, I may be considered the leader (cheers). Mr. White has tliis consolation, that the loss is to his party, the great Conservative party, that the loss is to the City of Montreal (we know it) — that the loss is to myself who looked forward hopefully to having him acting vith me, fighting with me, battling, as I said a few evenings ago, with the beasts at Ephesus. (Cheers.) But, in truth, it has been no defeat; it is a great triumph, for he had the real honest vote of AVcst Montreal, and he haa in this demonstration the testiinony of the wealth, intelligence, enterprise and commerce of ^^lontreal. (Cheers.) I might, gentlemen, at this late hour, content myself with making these remarks (Xo ! no ! ! go on !) and with thanking you for the honor conferred upon Her Majesty's Opposition ; only that being a lawyer I am fond of precedents, and I liud that at a similar banquet, perhaps not quite so numerously attended, which took place in IMontrcal in honor of a most estimable gentleman, Mr. Frederick Mackenzie, his namesake, the Premier of the Dominion, took occasion to enter into some of the political questions of the day, and following that precedent, I shall, with your permis- sion, do the eamc. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I feci bound to follow tlie example set me by the Premier of Canada — by the Hon. Alexander 3Iackenzic— for wo must be careful to speak of him as the lion. Alexander ]\rackcnzie in the future. (Laughter). "We all got a lesson lately, which I know yuu will tuko to heart, in politeness and deportment. We were told that no more must ho be styled ^andy Mackenzie (renewed laughter) : that no more must such an one be spoken of as Archie McKcllar, or another as Geordie ]3rown ; that you must speak of them as the Honorable Archibald McKellar and the Honorable George Brown. 1 didn't know, gentlemen, before I road that speech, what a deeply injured man I was myself; I didn't know that the people of Canada, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, had been insulting nic for thirty years by calling me " John A.'' (Laughter and cheers.) And then I could "not but reflect when that speech will be re-echoed, as such a speech dcocrves to be re-echoed, across the Atlantic, how Kr. D' Israeli and Mr. Lowe will feci, when their attention is called to the fact that they, great statesmen as they are, one of them Premier, have allowed themselves to be called plain Dizzy and Bob Lowe. (Laughter.) Ho, gentlemen, remember that he is the Honorable Alexander Mackenzie. It is said that in Spain the great old grandees, founders of the ancient families of Castile and Leon, the Duke of Ossuna, the Duke of Medina Sidonia, or the Duke of Tilcdina Cell, and such great nobles, addressed each other as Ossuna, Sidonia or Cell, and so on, but when they spoke to a new man they styled him the noble and illustrious Hidalgo, the Marquis of Nuevo Honibre.^ (Laughter.) Now, gentlemen, I know that every one of you are F. P. C'.'s (of the fir.st families of Canada), and so rcuicmbcr that while you are quite at liberty to address one anotb.or as Tom, Dick or Harry, you must always speak to and of '^Ir. Mackenzie as " the Honorable Alexander Mac- kenzie, Premier of the Dominion of Canada, rfiember for Lambton, &c." (Reiiewed laugbtor.) Having thus called your attention to the proprieties, and to the necessity of mending your manners in this respect, I would say it is very strange that this gentleman, who gave us a lesson in deportment, seemed to forget in his gpaocli that he was now Premier. It seemed as if he had Lcr i so long in opposition that he fancied he was in opposition still. Ho had told us in the House some ysars ago that the duty of an Opposition was to attack the 3Iinislry of the day, and to object to their measures, and that if they did not do so, there , was no use in an Opposition ; and yet, forgetting that he was a Minister, forgetting that he had to give an account of his stewardship, forgetting that it was his duty to d^t'ond his measures, to defend his position, and to vindicate his right to the position he now hold.^, his speech was entirely directed against the late Administration, against my late colleagues, and my unfortu- nate self. (Laughter.) You can judge ii'om reading that speech if it is such a speech as ought to come from a Primo Minister. ]\Ir. Mackenzie, in effect, said it didn't rest with us to judge of the competence of the Government, because we had shown our ov^^n Incapacity TO goveni. Well, gentlemen, if so, wo were out, and were now in the '• cold shades " of the Opposition ; we had suffered tlio consequences of our errors, and he ought to have known that a 'Minister -annot hold his position by the demerits or incapacity of the Opposition. You can judge, gentlemen, from the speech whn.h was delivered in this city the other niulit, the Ti.iturc of the answcrj thai we of the OprOsilioa r-'ccive in Parjiamsnt when wc arr ua the W cn-rhict of the Government. Just in accordance with the tone of that speech are we an- ■-vircd in Parliament when we perform our duty to our constituents and our country — when 5 « we perform our functions as an Opposition in arraigning their conduct, pointlnj? out their Bhortcomipgs, and warning them of the unwisdom of their course. Mr. Mackenzie instead of answering the attacks of the Opposition, instead of justifying the course of the Ministry, instead of vmdicating the wisdom of their measures and the justice of their administration turns about, as he did the other night, and personally attacks the members of the Opposition' tries to change the issue, tries to hark back on a defunct Administration, tries to avoid the discussion of his measures, and to avoid the necessity of defending hi=f course by makmg gross attacks upon members of the Opposition, endeavoring io°lead the House uway from the consideration of his own course, his own demerit" to past issues that are now of no coneequuenco to the country-of no consequence to any one. (Cheers.) We are out of office now ; we are suffering the consesequences of any errors we may have committed. It is no answer to say that we were reckless, criminal or incapable ; that wc had shown ourselves unworthy of tho confidence of the people Supposing that It were as ho says, is that any answer to a charge against him or his Administra^ tion ? If we say, you have ruined our tea trade, you have destroyed our manufactures you have shaken our credit, you have deprived our workmen . f work, you have forced our fac- tories to run on half or quarter time, is it any answer to say that Ministers before them were unworthy of the position they held ? Wo are in Opposition, and there the Conserva- tive Party_ must remain until recalled by tho voice of tho people, speakin^- throu-di their representatives. I can only say, gentlemen, that judging from tho iacts which have been mentioned by your honoured guest, Mr. White, this evening, judging from the evidence wa get every day, the time is not far distant when the people of Canada, risin- in their mi^ht will say to Mr , let me say the Honorable Mr. Mackenzie (laughter)," Sir, in your two short years of Qovernment, you have committed more sins of omission and commission than were charged against John A. during tho last twenty years. (Cheers.) I put it to yor gentlemen, if you have read (he eloquent speeches of my friend Dr. Tupper • I put it to you if you read my impromptu speech on the occasion of tho election of my friend i\]r J B Kobinson, to say if there is one word in those speeches which was beyond tho lino of our right, if wc did not confine ourselves to the discussion of the public affairs of this country if we did not limit ourselves to legitimate remarks on the conduct of tho Administration. Our views may be wrong, but I say this, if you read tlsose speeches, you will not find ono word without its warrant. We attacked no private character ; ^7C made no flin-^ at private con- duct ; we never ntruck below tho belt. (Enthusiastic cheers.) But before the people of this country, through the press of the country, wo arraigned the conduct of tho Administration tor their management of affairs, for their legislation, and for no other fault. xVud "-entle- men, what ?aid Mr. Mackenzie in response to these speeches ? He alleged in his spec'ch the otiicr day tint he was answering tho remarks made by my honorable friend and myelf Was tho tono worthy of the Premier of Canada, of a man standing up to defend his ccndact' and prove that he was fit for the position that he holds, to show\hat ho had been a faithful steward, to show the wisdom and justice of his administration, and tho purity of his party? (Cries of oh '. oh ! big push, &c.) Mr. Mackenzie made tho error that ho always docs of mistakiug coarseness for strength. (Cheers.) The Hon. Alex. Mackenzie is a countryman ot my om\ ; he is a hard-headed Scotchman. lie makes clear, well reasoned, lo-^ical speeches, but the gods have not made him poetical. lie wants imagination, and though his speeches are sound and sensible, and able, they are, I must say, upon tho whole as dr> as a imeburncr s shoe. (Laughter and cheers.) Tho other day ho assumed a new character ; ho broke out m a new place (loud laughlor), and for tho first time in his life he favored his audience with a poetical quotation. Now, it rather surprised mo whoa he, the Puritan Premier, had the whole range of British poetry to quote from, that ho had preferred to quote that rakehelly old cavalier, Sam Butler. (Laughter.) Poetry is called " a garden of sweets, a " garland of roses," cither raising the imagination by tho sublimity of the ideas or charming the fancy by the beauty of tho sentiments of tho poet. Now, let us call to our memory the quotation made by tho Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, which, mind you, he espe- cially applies to the Opposition. It is this :— ' •' ' r « The Prince of CamLay's daily loud Is asp and basilislc and toad, Which gives to him so strong a breath. He niglitly stinks a queen to death." (Laughter) You may judge, gentlemen, from this poetical outburst of the Premier of Canada, of the kmd of answers we get in the House. We tell him, " your Pacific policy ia ^vrong." He answers, " you are an asp." (Loud laughter.) We tell him <' that the Tt riff 18 a mistake. " iou are a basilisk." (Renewed laughter.) We say to him, " how about the steel rails ?" " You are a toad." (Laughter.) I have seen him again and again iu the House of Commons, give answers not more consequent and quite as polite as the answers I have been supposing at this moment. But I suppose the honorable gentleman considers that this was a specimen of what we call in Scotland '•' wut." (Loud laughter.) I might say, gen- tlemen, as I am in the poetical rein as well as himself, that looking at his Free Trade speeches m Scotland and his Protection speeches in Montreal, he might remember four lines of the poet from whom he quoted : — " What makes all doctrines plain and clear, 'Tis just two thousand poundg a year. And prove that false was true before, The answer plain, two thousand more." (Laughter and cheers.) In Mr. Mackenzie's speech, as vou must have seen, he attempted to change the issue by talking of our incapacity. He specially contrasted himself and me, and said, what right had I to speak of any one being incapable when I made such a mess of the Washington Treaty. Although that was nesotiated by an Imperial Commission, although there were five Commissioners appointed by Her Majesty, of whom I was only the fifth, ho said that Treaty showed the utter incapacity of myself, and therefore it did not lie m my mouth to charge any one with incompetence. One of the first instances he gives is that in the Treaty the navigation of the St. Lawrence was made free to Americans for all Ume, while Lake Michigan was opened to Canadians for ten years only. Now, Mr Mackenzie must have known, because he has had the papers before him, that instructions were given to the head of that Commission that the freedom of the navigation of the St. Law- rence was to bo yielded. The Commissioners had no discretion in the matter; it was an instruction from the Imperial Government, from the Liberal Government, from the Glad- stone Government, that wo should surrender the navigation of the St. Lawrence. It is true 1 mighi have taken my hat and walked back to Cauada. But that would not have done Canada any good, because the instructions were positive, and the navigation of the St. liawrence would have been handed over whether 1 was there er not. Well, Mr. Mackenzie knew that and in candour ho ought to have told his audience so. Had I been able to do any good hy doing so, I Might perhaps have walked away ; but as this surrender was a fore- gone conclusion, and as there were other questions coming up, involving Canadian interests moro deeply than the navigation of the St. Lawrence, I remained to pcrtbrm my duty, and A ^X ^'^^ colleagues in Canada, and of the Pariiamentof Canada, for doing so. And there was another reason— because the Americans, by getting the free navigation of the tot. I^awrence, did not, in fact, get anything. The Treaty provides that the navigation of the t5t. J^awrence is free for commercial purposes only, and not for war ; the United States boun- dary extends along the south bank of the St. Lawrence to St. Regis ; the Americans own one banic down to that pomt, and therefore have the ri^ht in common with Canada to the naviga- tion ot the river so far. From the point where both banks of the St. Lawrence belong to Canada, to Montreal, the Americans have really no power to use ii, because there is not a single inch in that distance where vessels can ascend tho river. They may run the rapids but they can never return. So we were not really giving the Americans anything. But the latter claimed it as a matter of sentiment, and as theirs by international law, though they knew that without the use of our canals it was worthless (cheers.) It may be said it gives the Americans the right to use the Lower St. Lawrence for commercial purposes. But we give the same right to every nation under the suu ; we court, we invite the trade of all nations ; and what would the people of Montreal sav if the right was ever exercised to excludo tins commerce from their port, and prevent the navigation from being free to the world .'' rhe Treaty was passed in 1871 ; it was ratified in 1872, and I ask you now whether the Americans, from 1872 to 1875, in their trade or in their interests, have gained any advan- tage tliat you can see ? The right the Americans have of navigating from St. Regis to Mon- treal IS no moro ft rliandnanfarra fn nc 4-l,»», 41,- _:~l.i c _; - water. We have the whole control of the ~ ~ i if .iCOif a— u\ uvi;r the ii)^u.i5 Oi a -ciOv ^ Lawrence yet, for at any ti ■ d out we choose . States, we ought rivers to British further, looking at the American canal the clause in at the St. Clair waters. That is just the question. we can shut our canals ; at any moment we can prevent the Americans from using the St. Lawrence above Montreal. So long as we are on terms we will allow them to use our canals, but wo will never surrender the right of closing these canals when we please. (Cheers.) This is one of the instances mentioned to show my incapacity. Then, agaiu, it was said that in the Treaty I actually got a provision inserted that the Yukon and Stickeen rivers in Alaska should be free to British and Canadian shipping, and it was said that liberty was given years and years ago in a treaty between England and Russia. W«.ll, gentlemen, I have told you that Mr. Mackenzie is not a poet. I may also tell you that he is not an international lawyer. I may tell you further that in inserting that clause in the Treaty, the advice of the highest authorities on international law was followed. These gentlemen were of opinion, and the British Government were of opinion, that as Alaska had been handed over from Eussia to the United to obtain a re-assurance of the free navigation of those and Canadian commerce. (Cheers.) Then Mr. Mackenzie said the treaty allowing Canadian vessels to go through flats tiiat the Americans had put their works in our The American Government say the improvements are not on our side ; we say they are within our line. The treaty says that wherever these im- provements may be, — improvements made at the expense of the people of the United States, they shall be free to Canadian vessels, whether on the American or Canadian side. (Cheers.) He goes on to attack the capacity of the late Administration as a whole, on account of the Intercolonial Railway, but if there is one thing the late Administration ought to be proud of, it is the construction of the Intercolonial Railway, which is the best railway of its class and the cheapest of its class in America, (hear, hear). And, Sir, as to the locatiou of that rail- way, the hon. gentleman states in his speech that he knew that I was opposed to it, that Mr. Tilley was opposed to it, that Mr. Howland was opposed to it, and that Mr. McDougall was opposed to it, and that for the sake of oflBce, and contrary to our opinions, and our consciences, we put the line in its present place, instead of running it down the valley of St. John. (Hear, hear). This statement has been made before, but it has been, denied and has been disproved in Parliament, and Mr. Mackenzie, when he was making that statement, knew that it had been disproved, and yet he repeated the old calumny in reiterating the statement, (I do not wish to use stronger language), and he was using this language and making this statement, although he had heard, of course, the statements of all my colleagues and of myself in Parliament. (Hear, hear). Gentlemen, consider for one moment. In 1858 there was an arrangement made at tho request of Nova Saotia and New Brunswick, with the British Government, by which the British Government agreed to give a guarantee for half the cost of construction of that road, on condition that the Imperial Government should have the selection of the route. (Hear, hear.) When Mr. Sandfield Macdonald's Goverument came ia, in 1862 — it agreed to endorse that arrangement, and carry out that promise. (Hear, hear.) More than all gentlemen, at a later date, in 1864, in the debates m the Parliament at^Quebec on the Quebec resolutions which were to form the basis of the Confederation and establish the Dominion, Mr. Mackenzie made an elaborate speech, in the course of which he stated that he was in fa- vour of the Robinson line (the Coast line) as the line worthy of adoption (applause); and I have no hesitation in stating, gentlemen, that that line and that route is correctly located for the purpose of connecting Halifax with the St. Lawrence. Running a line through New Bruns- wick down the Valley of St. John, with a cross-road to Halifax, would have been no carrying out of that arrangement, and tho people of Nova Scotia and a great portion of the people of New Brunswick would have had a right to complain of a bi'each of faith if the line were not located where it is now. (Hear, hear). But,8ir, there are other reasons, and conclusive reasons, why that road should be located where if now is. England had withdrawn her troops, but we had the pledge of England, and her pledges — the pledges of the British Government — have never been violated — (Loud applause) we had the pledge of England that in case we were attacked by ibreign foes, no matter from what quarter, and no matter from what cause, the whole military and naval power of the Empire would be exerted in our defence, providing that we gave England the means of defending us by constructing a road, a military road on WniGti snG couIq. F.GTifl \'\0'. ivciOTiH TPitn till*- lyi'litiir" stnrGfl int.fi C;S.nji{i.i in xvintor Jind iv* s*'***'*- mer, to fight our battkd. (Cheers). A road down the Valley of the St. John — would have been in no sense a military road ; and instead of being a source of strength, it would have a 8 been a weakness. (Applause). A railway running along the boundarv betweeu tl.o qf«f. onoo seize and take possession of the road, makie "it ft^ means it' Beodi,rAW °°f^ °' &?^.i4S::r«';r^»fSd-;;:tS;^M nri?ir1t^:^-L-f,-;i--^^^^^^^ was that thoy would sanction no such line-that 2y luld conside^KS t ■''1'''^ equally defensible in a military point of view as the pm^f lino Mr «««.^c "i rfi • ' sent there for the purpose of sLfng whether^ch 'ali„rou d he fid o'ufwt theTelr^t bu It in this part, there was nothing left for us but the present routef which after lllilrinT ?if LSter^Ja^'dr/n ttS^^ Im^^'^^rf ^' ^ ^^'^^^^ "^ ^'"« -^"-" United sl^tnf ]^T y' ^"^^'•"'"ent. (hear, hear) anxious to settle all mattei-rw th the S our Sr rr"^ '-^^^certaioed that the claim would not be entertained '-efuL to M^ie^ty's Governiuent for In^perial eon^idrtions refused tibrbn^ro"' ^^^^^^<^" ^f -pr-omised to be fatal to a final settlement ^ mcliir/dntl,,, ,,,!?" "^ ^''' 'i"''"^'^? ^'"^'^ s v.t^:i?.^i:LT*s;:dT':rn™rrhoi-o:r^^^^^ burden upon the orcr-burdoncd Ijri^i^h t.^n.vpr. nr^. u , , ^'"'^^^ '^"^^ =^ incapacity. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Gentlemen mv ft-Ld \ r WI . /"'^'^"Jf f/ 9"^ was very lately atlaeked. to point out and r.™ I l„ ,™ V,". -7.,.," "l^'^'W." "V. """1 !«.* to the 1st of July, im. when, with the-,.eV.iou of fc;;;^;^"^;;^.^ iu;s: vV- .■4 9 r-Nj [ when tlie Brown-Dorion A.dministration came into office (chcevB\ and with the exception of twenty months (luring which Mr. Sandfield Macdonald's Administration lasted, I was a member of the various Governments which swayed the destinies of the oid Province of Canada (Hoar, hear, and applause); and I hesitate not to eay that between these two dates no eay country in tlie world has overdeveloped so vastly, so quickly, or so thoroughly (loud applause and voice " that is so,") ; whether you look at her material, l4:r moral, or' her intellectual development, in every possible respect the improvement and development of Canada has grown with scarcely a let or hindrance in the lonj,' period during which we enjoyed the con« fidence of the people of Canada. (Applause). Wo claim for ourselves that wo governed this country wisely and wellj and we point to the Statute Book for our legislation, and we point to the state of the country in 1854, and to the state of the country in 1873 to prove the truth of my assertion as to the wisdom ol our administration. During the whole of that time wc were assailed, hindered, and harrassed by a most ur patriotic Opposition. (Hear, hear). I am a strong party man ; I will go as fur in favour of my party, and in upholding my party, and in securing the success of my party as any other man— as fu- as a Britisk statesman can or ought to do (hear, hear, and applause) ; but I will not do it, and I have never done it, if there was a question of the interests of my country. (Cheers). Our maxim has always been— by a party, with a party, but /or the country. (Hear, hear, and applause). But Mr. Brown's and Mr. Mackenzie's maxim has been — By a party, with a party, and for a party (hi&ses and groans) ; and Mr. Mackenzie very naively in his speech the other day, 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 oaino ia about thirteen years ago, the weevil canio in with them, and that two years ago they brought in the Colorado bu"-. (Laughter). Mr. Mackenzie replied in his speech : "Well, I havo got io say this : if I have to choose between John A's Government and the Colorado bug, I would choose the Colorado bug. (Laughter). That is just the spirit of the man and of his party. (Loud applause, and voices, '■ that'.s correct"). lie would rather have plague, pestilence and famine ; ho 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 hov/ the interests of the country would be 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. (Hear, 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 dsys; ; he has alluded to the clergy reserves which aflPeeted the people of Upper Canada, acd Lc has alluded to the Scignorial Tenure, which affected Lower Canada. As far as UppcrCaniula was concerned, "William Lyon Mackenzie declared in his place in the House and in his book that it was the question of the clergy reserves which mainly caused the rebellion of 1837; and wc all know how Lower Canada was shaken to the very centre by the oppressions, it I may xise the expression, of the old feudal system, of the old Seignorial tenure. These questions were ii^^ed as moans of agitation by tho Kouges in Lower Canada and by the Grits in Upper Canada ; they did not want to havo them settled, for this would havo deprived them of their tools in trade ; and when wo took hold of thc?o questions — first of the clergy reserves and settled that question — we had the opposition of Mr. Brown and the whole of tho Grit party, (hear, Lear) and why? because we compensated ^ested 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 vtsted 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 incumbent of the parish ; although the British GJovernment declared that they would never allow the secularization of the clergy reserves unless compensation was given to those clergy- men — the Opposition knowing *^at, resisted with all their might that settlement, and we had to carry the measure at the point of the bayonet. (Hear, hear). And so it was in Lower Canada, We were oj^poood by the whole force of the Opposition of that day in the settlement of the seignorial question, but we carried it notwithstanding the stern opposition on the one hand of the Seigneurs, who naturally did not want to be deprived of their feudal rights, and on the other hand, of the whole force of the Eouges in Lower Canada, and, gen- flotnpn ilnn !1 French Canadian interests, and that he was little more than a French-speaking Englishman. Tou may remember how Protestant fanaticism was roused in Upper Canada against 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, in 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 cheers). We had to meet that line of opposition, gentlemen, steadily and constantly from 1854 until 1867; and our triumph is all the greater, and the credit we ask at your hands, and the credit we ask at the hands of the people of Canada for our successful administration of our affairs 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. George 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 slaves of his lamp rnd ring, Messrs. Mackenzie and Mowat, laartering offices with tke Catholic League in Upper Canada, right and left in return for political support (hear, hear), so much so that in Toronto we are told that unless you are an Irish Roman Catholic you noed not apply for office (laughter) ; _ but tho 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 havo reason to speak well of them. They will not allow themselves or their votes to be put up to bargain and sale. (Hear, hear, and applause.) In my constituency, gentleaien, during my two last contests, when the two Governments— the Government of tho 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 iie (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 1 hope to be able to do (hoar, hear, and loud applause) in Parliament, I owe it to tho Roman Catholics of Kingston (loud applause). In i^^ ills i' k.. 11 1864, the consequence of this unpatriotic course of the Oppocition was that no Government could last for any time. In 1862 we were defeated because the Government of that day had brought down an ample, suflScient and carefully considered Militia Bill— and remember ix '. Vi}^. ^^^\ ^^? ^^^\ '^o^^try was in great danger ; when war was rajjins ia tho United States; when England and the United States had been on the verge of war a'^ain nnd again (hear, hear) ; and when it was an absolute matter of necessity that Canada should put on her armor and prepare to defend her own shores and her freedom (applause)— for that necessary measure we were defeated on that occasion. Mr. Sandfield McDonald's Government was formed, but it was so weak that in twenty months it was defeated and resigned; another Conservative Government was formed by Sir Etienne Tache but it lasted only a few months, and that Government was also defeated; and so m 1864 It was found that such was the ht)stility between Upper and Lowor Canada engendered by the Grits, that all Government was rendered impossible Mi- Brown claimed representatioc by population ; Upper Canada had a larger popula- tion, and therefore should have a larger representation ; but, gentlemen tho course taken by Mr. Brown rendered the grant of representation by population tion by Parhamept impossible. No French Canadian 'vho had any respect for his country- no French Canadian with a desire to protect the institutions under which he was bre d an 1 bom, under which he lived, and which ho respected and revered, could yield on that question— although in the abstract it was admitted that the 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 lino myself (cries of bravo and applause)— what said they— " representation by population, if we were going to have fan: play, might be all rio-ut enough, but we are warned beforehand— we are told by Mr. Brown and the Grits, that they are going to sweep our language, our laws and our institutions away entirely, and that they are going to force British institutions upon us; they have assailed our religion, they have assailed ouv priesthood, and they have assailed our religious institutions, and°everythin'' that 13 dear to the heart of a French Canadian ; therefore as to tho demand for representation by population, we will never yield to it ; wo would rather sever the Union, no matter what tho consequence might be ; representation by population cannot be granted ; wo cannot hand over ourselves and our children to tho tender mercies of these gentlemen." (Cries of bravo and cheers.) Tho Government was at a dead-lock, and Mr. Brown at last became sensible of the consequences of his unwise and factious course ; and the only patriotic thing that man ever did in his life — impelled by a sense of fear for tho consequences he had himself rendered imminent by his course— was to coalesce with me for ihe purpose of forming a larger Union, and carrying out the Confederation of all tho British American Provinces. (Hear, hear.) To be sure, gentlemen, ho deserves the credit of joining with me ; he and his party gave me that assistance in Parliament that enabled us to carry Confederation, and if we now arc a Donainion, we must not forget that it was owing in great measure to Mr. Brown's momenta ry feeling of patriotism, of which, however, he soon repented. li was not before it was time that Confederation was carried, for, as I have already said, the Government was at a dead-lock, and -ve were in danger of anarchy and civil war, or severance. Now we have a Dominion ; now we have all the Provinces united; now we feel proud of being a great power— but not a power separated from England ; we desire no such separation— (loud cheers) — but a great auxiliary power, strengtkening tho 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 people of the Dominion of Canada, but that we are a still greater people in being a portion of the British Empire. (Great cheering and applause.) Gentlemen, as I said before, Mr. Brown soon repented of his temporary aberration into patriotism (applause), and quitted tho 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.) He left us, and al- though he professed to bo still friendly to tho 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 the Union. They joined themselves to the Anti- Unionists in tho Lower Provinces, and did everthing in their power io Ihwurt our attempts to carry out tho scheme of CoufederaLiou. (Hear, hear.) Just look back and remember how they treated Mr. Howe (hear, hear.) If any one had claims upon tho Liberal Party of Canada, Mr. Howe had that claim. (Hear, hear.) As 12, leader of the great Liberal Party of Nova Scotia, ai an early advocate of Responsible Gov- ernment, and as a foremost member of the Liberal Party for years and years (hear, hear) — and not only as the foremost man of that party, but as a great man in himself (hear, hear) — he had claims for their respect. But remember, gentlemen, how they ridiculed that man, when he came and lent his aid to Confederation in Parliament. With what ridicule, with what contumely ho was attacked ; how ho was sneered at and derided. Why, gentlemen, he was charged with selling his principles by coalescing with mo and joining the Administration. Now I take this opportunity of stating, in justice to the memory of that great man, that of all the patriotic acts Joseph Howe ever performed, ho never performed a more patriotic act than in joininjf the Government of the Dominion (applause and cheers). What had he done ? Ho had fought the battle against Confederation ; he had fought it ably and well ; he had fought it in tho Iiegislaturo of his own Province, and ho had gone home to England and fought it in the Parliament and with the Government of England, and when he came back, finding Lis exertions were unsuceessfal, there was only one thing for him to do — either to accept the position or tell the Nova Scotians that they must take the next step and resist the Union by force. Mr. Howe was not prepared for that course. He had gone to the utmost extent of legitimate opposition to tho measure, but when he found that any further step was certain to cause bloodshed and ruin to his native Province, he accepted the inevit- able, and came to aid us ; but ho came only after ho had got from us a promise that certain claims which Nova Scotia insisted on through him should be granted. He said : — " Grant us these ; we think we have a right to them ; grant us these, and I wil' consider my position." I said : — "Mr. Howe, wo will grant you these for the sake of peace; we will carry them through Parliament. But we will meet opposition to such a concession, and we cannot hope to carry it out unless wo have the assurance that it will be accepted by Nova Scotia, which assurance can only be given by your coming into the Government.' ' lie was unwilling to do 60 ; he fought against it and resisted it, but when I told him that it was a a sine qua non, — that we could not guarantee better terms to Nova Scotia and make a settlement, unless on conditions of his becoming a men her of tho Government; then only iie uccepted tho position. Mr. Howe sacrificed himself, knowing full well tho obloquy he was submitting himself to, but for tho sake of his country he joined the Government, and all he foresaw came to pass. He was derided ; his motives were attacked ; it was said that ho came into the Government for the sake of office, and they hounded that man, when he went to his constituency, gentlemen, almost to his grave. (Applause.) And so with New Brunswick. It was part of tho Washington Treaty that wo should purchase tho export duties reserved to that Province by the Union Act, When we did pay for these duties for tho sake of enabling us to carry out tho Washington Treaty, Mr. Blake the 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 we had to meet the " better terms" to Nova Scotia. So in Manitoba. Tho Government was accused «f having paid too Hiuch for tho North West Territories; but never was there a better bargain made by any country than when wc got all the great North West, extend- ing from the western boundaries of Ontario to British Columbia — when wc got all that country for £300,000. I believe that the Hudson's Bay Company has sold in the vicinity of Winnipeg their land for nearly that amount (hear, hear, and applause), or nearly the amount we paid for the whole, Gentlemen, when we endeavored to get possession, and when we sent Sir. McDougall in advance for the purpose of examltiing the country and studying its institutions, and preparing the people for (ho change, you may remember how fieitcely he was attacked, how the Government's policy was attacked, and how before Mr, Mc- Dougall even arrived there, the suspicions of the hall-breeds and natives and inhabitants were aroused, so that he had no fair play, and before he reached there ho was condemned, the policy of the Canadian Government was coHderaucd, in agrcat measure by reason oftheunpat- riotic conduct of tho Opposition and tho suspicions instilled into the minds of the people where the lamentable disturbances took place which wc 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 in/>nmnlnf r X [TifVi/Mlf h'i TTlnn. o "Pnmfin na Trrnll ■ - ; - Wliw eir ■ ■ "J ) the situation in British Columbia had become almost insupportable ; far remci )ra England ; insiblo Gov- lear, hear) — ear, hear) — 1 that man, idicale, with ;entlemen, he ministration, man, that of patriotic act ^hat had he ily and well ; to England hen he came ,0 do — cither p and resist gone to the any further the inevit- that certain I :— " Grant ly position." carry them cannot hope icotia, which willing to do ! qua non, — it, unless on tho position, mself to, but pass. He rernment for , gentlemen, part of tho Province by to carry out 3 speech at ?alue of the 'unswick, as Government L'r was there ''est, cxtend- 1 got all that the vicinity r nearly tho ssession, and country and ucmber how "ore Mr, Mc- ibitants were Jomned, the oftheunpat- people where anada had to i" a civil war li respect to on would be »m England ; 18. unable to communicate with Canada in consequence of the wilds and wastes that lay between us and her, and the h,gh ranges of mountains that separate us ; severed from Bri tab by dS ance, and in close proximity to the U.uted States, dealing with the United States every dS hvTdT UntT^.'f f ^f '^^ ^'''''' apparentlfplanning to pet possession o^ht^ .^hy did the United Sates buy at an enormous price the comparatively worthless country of AlasKa from llussia ? Obviously for the purpose of onclosin-' British Columbb b Aen outh'orhTnVo ^"'^' ''''*'5 ? *'^'.""^^'' ^ ''^^ '° ^^='^'"' --i ♦'^'^ Unittstltet to" he south of her in Oregon-severed from Canada, severed from England, with all her trade and a 1 her relations with the United States, expecting that the mere despair of the people of ftatef for r^;r^'"^'^ 7"-"''"-^ 'r' ^'^"^ ^"^-^^'^ ^«^ political connec'tion with tboZited hear? Ani rT'' ^^^^^J^"". the commercial advantages that would follow. (Hear, S: A?'^' S="temen, the loss of British Columbia and her annexation to tho United DoSiSn^t^\%f '°-*'-^^ the whole of the Pacific, would have been the ruin of ho exSZ ;? ^"t"'-?-^" Jts prospects and in its greatness. Why. with the United States Pole tl (ii ° r '''''^° ^°"*^"" ^f *''■'■' ""'i «°™«« S"^'^^^ Columbia from the North n T^n!^;n^ °'^°' ^^V^o^^'^q^e^ccs ^o»ld Iiave been such that the prospect of Canada bein<^ LfsTr';/''''*^''"^'^.^''', ^'^".t'^*^^'-'^^^'-- (H^^'r. i-'^^r). Now, gentlemen! Innw ^ ' M "'^'^^^"a^Seinents with British Columbia, and you know what they were; you tZlV^'tVA ^'"?'^* '*?>^ '^'^P ^y ^'^ unpatriotic Oppowtion. Although it is provided LJnnl'p''* Confederation which made tnis a Dominion, tbat^tish Columbia, Newfound llllil f ' ^'^ •''PP^''^ *^° ""'"" ^^ ^"''^h Columbia in every possible way. You h^ PnJffi p"rPP°''*''r~S' ^''^'T oPPosiiion-that was offered to tho construction of Cnln^So ^^^ ^'^'u'l^ ""'^t""* such railway we could have no real connection with British sirown„S«f-I J"""!- T ''^^^.^erely a unionon paper, and no connection in fact; and JheTnl/p 1 '";n^° r '"^•^''''^'' '-'"^l ^1!«» i° prospects and hopes unless we have ^nnaito ^'T^i^ f^''''L .^^«»l'<^;^^<^"> I «hall not discuss to-niffht\vith youthequeg- and for . loi' ♦"! ^''''^--u ^^"'^ "/.^° '"^ ' «'' «" '>• ^'> gentlemen, I shall not do so, and for a reason that you will agree with me is a sufficient one, because my friend Dr. Tup- blro otW^^^f "''^' r*^ •„ '"" ','^^^°S it to him. He will 'do it as he has already done ^oW 1 ♦!, r/'lvV'- '^P^''^ ^"^ y°" *^' Pol^'^y of tbe late Government-how that policy was thwarted-the factious manner in which it was thwarted, the way it was defeated and the way we were driven from office ; and explain to you also with his wonted power and oquencc, the abortion which this Government has been attempting to father upon the peo- Fw Ih T ^" 'i"^/ r' '"^°."^'- ^f °"'' P'»" '^^^ b«^° o^"i«d out, with the company Jvo M ! . Tf ^^^ ^'^^''f S''"'' ^y *^^ "o^^"'er sellers," as we are called (laughter) the charter that was given to 13 representative men from every Province in the Dominion, that company would have been successful ; money, would have been obtained on its bonds Wn Sn-uT^l^"'.' ^'' ^.''™ 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 the Sackatchewan, extending trom Lake Superior westward, and from Lake Superior east- TlLl'^f^.t^^ ^°." .^ ^^^1 ^^e° iron link, as wo have bound Nova Scotia and New Brunswick by tho Intercolonial Hallway, wc are not a Dominion in fact. I had hoped gcrillemen---it was naturally a pride of mine— I had hoped, old as I am, that I would sfll have been spared to see tho first train cross from Ontario to British Columbia (hear, hear)— I had hoped " " " 3en the union take place, and then indeed,, gcfltle- ongmatiou that 1 might have been perriiitted to have seen men, ns a Canadian, who had something to do in tho in the joining of these great provinces, I could have cheerfully sung (Cheers.) I will not discuss, for the reason I have given you. of that union and my nunc deinittis. tho abortive plan of tho •present Government, which has been substituted for our great, our wise and patriotic scheme, bui I will say this — that I do not believe tho scheme announced by Mr. McKenzio, a year ago, will be carried out, and I believe that next session Avillseo tho withdrawal or modi- fication of tho proposition. -Wo know perfectly well that Mr. Blako, who has come into 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 the means of this country ; say- •.ng that British Columbia was merely a sea of mountains, and intimating that British Col- umbia, if she did not choose to accept what was offered, and would insist upon the falfilment of the original scheme, might go out ot the Union. I believe, gentlemen, we will seo at the next session a further abandonment on tiie part of the present Government of tho plan imper- fect as it was, and as it is — and God knows what th-iy are going to substitute instead of it (hear, hear). Well, gentlemen, we went out — wo resigned, in consequence of the cry that wasgot up against us, — a false cry. False issues were raised against us by the insidious resolution of that great and good man, Lucius Seth Huntington (laughter and groans) ; by his insidious- ly-drawn resolution it was insinuated, and almost in terms expressed— that the Government "had entered into a nefarious conspiracy with Sir Hugh Allan, with Jay Cook and Company, and with the Northern Pacific Eailway,. 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 the Americans ; and that after having drawn and expended these subsidies, they would proceed for their owl purposes, to the 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 wo explained and proved the falsehood of it ? The popular mind was surprised and captured by the cry, and we resign- ed, gentlemen, in consequence of the flow of that wave. Tho country now knows how false these charges were, and that the real reason we wore attacked was because wo would not give Americans any interest in tho undertaking — (hear, hear and applause)— because we would not give a sixpence into their hands, and because we insisted that the contractors, the share- liolders and everybody who had any connection with tho railway should bo British subjects (hear, hear and applause), ir. order to keep the control of the road in Canadian hands. In consequence of our rejection of every attempt of the 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, reeignation became requisite. Wo resigned, and now, the sober second thought of the country sees, that while wo were fighting the Canadian battle, ■while wc 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 jircsent scheme, so far as ascertained, is 'Calculated to divert Canadian trade into American I'hnnnclSi and to Q"on v.t> to American ' '^ts our araat roilw.ay means of communication. (^Hcar, hear.) If ^^ 15 Gentlemen, fs we resigned, Mr. Mackenzie was -cnt for to form r. Government: on th« 6th this month thcj have been in two years, .m.l I would ask you, gentlemen if their record for these two years has not been growin-? pretty fast. If yo-i look back at all the chargoi Diought against the Governments with which 1 have been connected since 1854— for twenty long years,— had there been such charges of incapacity, and mal-adminictration agaiust luo as have been formuiutod and cstabli.shcd during these trfo years against the Administration of Mr. Mackenzie (hear, hear), what would have been said? Why centle- men, the Government m the first place commenced with a politica" fraud on the face of it It wafl known that although Mr. Mackenzie was at the head of the Government, ho was a mere instrument m tho hands of Mr. George Brown, (hoar, hear, and voice— Big Push) • and that the influence of that gentleman although still groat, was on the wane ; and it was there- fore thought that to appeil to the people with Mr. Mackenzie only at the head of tho Gov- ment might not bo so sucesssful as could be wished. So Mr. Blake weut into tho Oovorn- lEont without a portfolio, in order to lend tho weight of his name to tho Ministry and they wentto tho polls as the Mackenzie- Blake Government, but the moment the elections were earned with the a&,istance of Mr. Blake, and tho aid of his friends, then, he resigned offleo and as I stated in tho House, instead of tho country having what they bargained for— ti o great Blake-Maekenzio Government— tho brand-new article, they had the old brown stuff af- ter all, (applause and laughter). Well, gentlemen, there was tho same want of candor with the new Mmisters, when they took office. They had pledged themselves not to dissolve m order to carry a vote against us, evidently, and that is proved by the fact that every one of the new Ministers went to his re-election for the old Parliament. To put us off our guard they made believe that there would be no general election, and having thus deceived tho peo- ple of Canada, they suddenly rushed on the elections— made what was called iu England, "the night march," They took us by surpi'se ; tho experiment was tried in England, but it fail- ed. Mr. Mackenzie tried it in Canada, and ho suceeedcd for a time, but ho sees now at an early date, that he is receiving as his reward the contrmpt of tho people of Canada— for his want of candor, and for the clandestine mode in which ho proceeded on that occasion, (Hear hear and applause). If you will look at his address delivered to his eonstitutents, gentlemen' yoi» will see that ho says, that ho was forced to dissolve in consequence of the corruption used in the election of 1872, (cries of Oh ! Oh !)— Ihat in consequence cf the corrupt use of money by the Government of the day— of 1872— he was obliged in order to raise the standard of political purity in Canada (great laughter), to do this; and, gentlemen, the revelations before tho Judges have shown you, where tho "purity" was [hear, hear]; the revelations made before the tribunals of the country have shown that the challenge I gave in Parliament —that I would prove that they spent $2 to our $1 in the elections, (cheers) was true; and gentlemen, these revelations are so extraordinary, that had I said 610 instead of $2 to $1, it would have been nearer the mark. (Cheers). Gentlemen, we have only touched the edge- we have merely efipped the shell, and wo have not got into the centre of the egg. (Great laughter) ;Rnd judging from the few trials that wo had, and tho exposures made on these few trials, it was clear that more money was spent in two of them than was cubscribed by bir Hugh Allan for all the elections in Ontario (applause) ; and, gentlemen, if wo had pro- ceeded in the same course that they did— if we had bribed their men— if we had stolen their papers (hear, hear and a voice: " Office letters I ")— if wo had filched their letters (cries of yes ! yes I and applause)— if wo had bribed their confidental eci-vants, to come and tell all they knew (applause), and if wo had stolen their cyphered telegrams (applause)— we would have an array of evidence, gentlemen, (hear, hear), to show that Mr. Mackenr' was not tar wrong in stating that the Parliament in 1872 was a corrupt one, and it woulu also show that the corruption was on his own side, (Cheers and voices '' give a Big push," "will you be one ?") But gentlemen, one letter did come out. The Hon, Mr. Brown wrote a letter, he who had denounced the late Government for their conduct, who had denounced tho late Governmcut for their expenditure in elections, and who had denounced the late Government for having corrupted more or less the political morals of the people ; and he writes : ", '-ave been doing splendidly in the elections (laughter); but we have exhausted ourselves (laughter), and we must make a big push (cheers and laughter) ; and we must carrv East and West Toronto (luugliter), and ' will you he one?'" Clauehter'! : and then Mr. Brnwn did tho. most incautious thing he ever did do, published "a letter in the Globe confessing the sin, and admitting the letter as genuine and really and truly, his. (laughter^ Hill irUnd, 01 mine ; if you help tben, in the first placc^^ "^if ' ^^bi ° (t :&i,.n^ttT:rr»n:i'^^^^^^^^^^ this arranccment between the Government and the Banks Gentlemen, »» "'^^^ ;° V° sutained by certain banks, the Government evidently promised to make o money they receu ed Kde'^t over the country; and^although the country ^vas ^^fj^^^f ™ «3^::;^^^^ and over-speculation, the consequence of a long series of successful years the Banks i^^^^^^^^ Jhe inflation by spreading this money broadcast, and then after t^>^^,7'^y„^,f .^j,°f " ^^^^^^^^^^ n the country; the inevitable reaction took place, and Mr Cartwnjht ^/^^'f « /.'T ^^^^ J" gacity which characterizes him (prolonged cheers and applause)-ot f ^J'"?;^^ J,^;^^^^"^'^^;, ^hen there was distress and want of confidence and an approach to a panic T t jowrsud rheBanks . 'n thc-i to pay up (laughter); the consequence was that they shut down sud- denlf on h ir "iJorL th/uH^ inlatioi'was succeeded by undue -stne ion ; the cus- tomers of the BaukB ifere i- ^ urea and crippled in their resources by these notices of Mr. Swright !^ou sec then Gentlemen, th^t the consequences pi that .^"fl^^^^^^^^^^j^f ;^t ^pmiPnt restriction were that a large increase of distress, of misery, and of commercial rum K^eVraurerand a" both equ&ly chargeable to th. ^--r-enU^^^^^^^^ that's true), Gentlemen, they are a happy family m s Government £"Shter), a ^ry hacnv family. Mr. Mackenzie says that he intends to i uiain in ofiice a long t me (la^Shtcr) ho has eiven his WM-d for that, and yet it is strange to say, gentlemen, his colleagues do not ;;emtXnkheisgoingtolastvery^ong [laughter]. Within ony two years^^or w>thin eXen months I thinkfthey have lost four of their M^msters [laughter! ^^^^^^^ iMader of the^I^u|_P_arty, ^«ie H^^^^ ljt2 dence in the continuation of the Administration, and he XM^^TOiam Ross the S Bhip [hear, hear], which office he at preseut so worthily fills. Mr. William Koss, tne ; '1 I - 'V t t^ t IT Ur of Militia — tho Minister of war— [laughtpr] ; ho did not exactly change his aword into a plovghiharc, but ho took «p a quill at the tolleotor's office, in Halifax. [Applause]. Then thoro is Mr. Fournicr, tho Minmtcr of Justice — Minister of Juhtico for a wllUe, and Post- aaaster-G«ncral for another little while, who, afYer his long toil, hia anxious labors, in tho many matters of State, in which the country and nublio are interested, resolved to take of- fice, worn out and worried by his continuous laborH~[lauKhtorl— retiring to tho soft cush- ions of tho Bench of the Supremo Coart. [Applause.] 'J'hcn taerc ib the other PostmoBter- Gcncral [laughter], my nameaakc, Mr. Donald A. Macdonald — tho gentleman who put tho Kcrcws to tho postoflicc eaiploycs te make them voi« for tho Governmont. Mr. Donald A. Macdonald is now holding an anxious offico — the ^anxious office of IjlcnteFant-Qovornor of Ontario. [Laughter]. It is said gentlemen, for rumours will got abroad too, that oven that great and <;ood man, LmoiusSoth HnntingtoB [great laughter], wiM bt «»o» provided for; and that h.? is goinn; to deprive tho Douniuion of Canada of his wondrous ability, of hi.'j ac tivo BOal, of his indastiy, [laughter], of his legal knowledge [laughter]; aad of his c»»mercial probity [applause] ; ho too, it is said, is going to deprive th« country, aad Parliament and Government •f hii services, and what his futum is to be, tho future alona can teW. It is also rumored thntMr. Laird, the Minister of the kutorior, having gone up the Sascatchewan, uni seen what a fine eountry the North West is, and having sat in councii with th« Black Feot and (irees wishes to go and be tho Lieutenant-Governor there, leaving Prince Ed- ward Island te its fate. [Laughter und applause]. Then, sir, Mr. Blake, who rcsigncu, as foon as by the astjistapce •£ his name .Mr. Mackenzie had carried tho elections, from that time for the first session gave a very feeble support to Mr. Mackenzie and his Government, and last session ho showed a scarcely not, because they had not sur- veyed the line— but Mr. David Glass had to bo paid for his ser.'ces, and the Government actually contracted for the construction of the telegraph before the location of the railway was determined upon. That was exposed by my honorable friend, and when a motion was made upon it, it was then that Mr. Blake and his party followed him. Mr. Moss and Mr. Mills, the philosopher of Bothwcll, became dissolving views, and popped out at tho back doors [laugh- ter]. I said Mr. Blake's opposition was scarcely concealed ; it was, in fact, not concealed (luring tho sacond session ; I tell you that ho opposed the Government measures, and gave tho cold shoulder to Mr. Mackenzie as leader ; he sneered at him, " he showed his toetii. " But its 1 heard Judge Sicottc onee remark to my friend Mr. Ilolton, who was making a ppcech iu the House, and "making big eyes" — *'Mr. Holton. you may make :is big eyes and look as ugly as you like, but you won't frighten mo" [hu^htcr]. Mr. Blake was making big eyes and looking as ugly as possible at Ike }Mrst Minister of the Crown. JIo started the Liberal newspaper in the hopeless attempt of writing down George Brown and the Globe. Then arose Mr. Brown, in his mipcht, and putting out his mighty paw on both Mr. Mnckenzic and Mr. Blake — for he knew wliat his power was — ho said: "Gentlemen, no more nonsense; you two cannot quarrel; Mr. Blake, you must squelch that Liberal of yours; Mr. Bkko, you must go into tho Government of Mr. Mac- kenzie; tho Premiership is not for you; that is meat for your master; yon must fall into the ranks; Mr. Blake cease mak-ing big eyes, and squelch the Liberal." "To hear was to obey," and t'own wont tho Liberal. He tell back among the ruck of the Ministers in \ took a back scat with the A, J. Smiths and Buipecs, and all that kind of pcoplo. (Laughtw.r and npp'ause). As Mr. Mackenzie has been of late in a poetical mood ho might, in thinking on the fallen state of Mr. Blake, like Timotheus or Drydcn " x;.;ve sung Darius great and good, " By loo Bevei'o u fiii.e ; " Fallen from his high estate, a " And weltering in the mud." [Appiduse and chsers. 18 Wei], gentlemen, that was the first session — look at that for a first session. They say it requires a new member of Parliament a session to learn where to hang up his hat, and it should certainly require one session for a Minister to learn how to manaj^e the House. However, Mr. Mackenzie did something — ho brought down the Pacific scheino, nnd you know all about the tariflf brou<;ht down hy Mr. Cartwright. Mr. Mackenzie said the other • lay that every tariflf is objected to by sonic one; that whenever m interest is affected that interest will object; but this was a tariff which holds the unique po.ntlon of receiving opposi- tion from every one. (Laughter and applause). Gentlemen, there arc !252 persons before me here, and (here are four millions pf people in the Dominion, and if you will find any one among these 252 or any one of the four millions of the inhabitants of Canada, any man, woman, or child, that could say a word in favour of that tariff, then J. will sit down. (Ijaugh- ter). Virgil tells us of Aeolus who went to the Cave of the Winds, and letting all the winds north, south, cast and west escapr/, they rushed out and sank the devoted ships ofAf^neas. U'na curusquc nctusquc ruuvt crcberque frocellis ouster. Just in the «amo way, from the north, south, east and weft, deputations flowed into Ottawa and overwbc'uicd Mr. Cartwright, (Hear, hear) They came from ali quarters, by all trains, and in all Forts of conveyances (laughter); and they protested not against one article, but against every item, against every clia:jge, and every imposition in the tariff, (applause) ; and Mr. Caitwright, aitcr a feeble attempt to vindicate his policy, said: " Well, i think we will put it off till a fitter opportu- tunity." (Laughteij. The duty was fixed by him at 16^ ad vahran (\aty; "that is not enough," they said; "then I will make it 17^" (laughter) ; but, goutlcmen, he could not oven do this in a gracious way, because, while the ITAper cent, might 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 thob'a 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 17^ per cent, ho destroyed much of the value of the increase to our manufacturers, by putting duties upon the raw^ material. As I have had occasion to say in the House and elsewhere. Mr. Cartwright f^aid that iliis was only a tem- porary provision ; but Mr. Mackenzie denied it hero the other day. iS'ow, 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 tariff was merely a provisional arrangement. Well now, gentlemen, that announcement certainly did not increase the confidence of the manu- facturers in Canada (loud cries of no, no I and hear, hear), for if there is one thing calculated to paralyze lra.de in Canada, and one thing -iiore than another calculated so shake our credit — already damaged by the unwise financial conri-c of the present administration — and shake it to the basis, it would be the idea tliat Mr. Cartwright was to bo entrusted with the permanent control of that department. (Applause and cheers.) I?vil 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 such an igiinrant and conceited man. (Cheers.) How J\Ir. Mackenzie will act with regard to the tari.T, God only knows. In order to get the freedom of Dundee riaaghtor] ho was a free trader — an out-and-out free trader, a Puchard Cobdenite [hear, hear] ; and Jio pledged himself that any Government in which he held office would, if neces.'-ary, carry out the prin:ipleK of Free Trade as announced by himself [groans]; he came back to Canada; he went up to Sarnia and made a speech there, showing that lie had changed a little. But then the atmosphere lad changed, gentle- men [applause] ; he had already got the freedom of S;irnia, and the wliola support of Sarnia, ior be was the member for Sarnia, gentlemen, and he was speaking to soothe the manuiae- turing interests of Canada. [Laughter.] Therefoie he told them that ho was in favor of incidental protection. He came down to Montreal for the pur^ioso of defeating my friend, Mr. White, and I think that he appeared in a new character — in the character of an out aud-out wotectionist. [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 moniber of the .I>emo- oratic party, and was seeking the sufFragcs of some constituency in the far west ; so, address- ing them Eomewha\ in Mr. Mackenzie's style, he said to them: "Gentlemen, I have laid before you the platform of the Democratic Party — these, gentlemen, arc the principles of the a 19 X^i 'Democratic Party ; I am a Democrat, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat ; these are the prin- ciples fastened on ray banner ; by these I will stand or full ; but, gentlemen, V/ thei/ do not suit they can he changed." [Prolonged applause and uproarious laughter.] Weli, gentle- men, the Tariff and the Pacific liail way is pretty much all they did in that session, and a poor show they made in both ot them. [Cheers.] They passed, it is true, ionie in yjcction laws, but all they had to do was to take them out of the pigeon-holes of the late Ministry ; this was nil 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 have always thought that a man ought to feel the rcsponsibil ty of voting — of going up like a man and giving his vote. [Applause.] But its it had been granted in England, there was evidently no use in fighting it here. 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 that saved me at my last election. [Hear, hear.] Tiio two Governments were working against me and had their eye on every man, and were ready to come 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 havo had no more the chance of being elected without the ballot than I would have for Centre Montreal to-morrow. [Cheers and cries of '' We'll elect you! come out, Sir John!"] A greater than I, I fear, will be elected — I fear my star must wane before that of Doviin. Eut, gentlemen, they passed a Controverted Election Act. [Cries of oh I oh I] 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, but I do not think they have. They made a serious blunder in it, and the consequence of the blunder is, that some Judges of Lower Canada have declared the law to be unconstitutional, and it has to bo decided whether it is constitutional or not. It is not yet decided. I avoided all difficulty in my bill ; 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 under their law. [Voice : Good for you !] They say, gentlemen, '' But didn't the Opposition force you to pass your Election Act? You resisted ittheprcvioua session." Well, gentlemen, the fact was that the law had only just been passed in England. It had never been tried there, and the Judges in England signed a remonf.trancc against this new duty being thrown on thcni. It was most important to know how the law would work ia England, or whether the Judges would be able to work it. I therefore allowed it tof^tand over for a session to sec how the measure succeeded in England ; and if it worked well there, I said that we 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 Vtroken — if men have been disqualified, and mon f^hown to be elected by means of money corruptly used, it was under the law passed by the Lite Administration, and the late corrupt Parliament, that this purification has taken place, that these trials have been held, and that the wrong men have been unseated and the ivjiht men put in. [Loud applause.] Well, thry passed an Insolvent law ; and I think that Mr. Mackenzie takes credit for that. Wliy, Mr. MackenKio had always been opposed to nn Insolvent law, and the man that has the right, the real right, to claim credit for the Insolvent law is a resident of jMontreal — the Uon. Mr. Abbott. [Hear, hear and applause.] When I was Minister of Jusitco and the head of the Government, he consulted with me on the occasion of the old Insolvent law expiring, and as I knew he had fully studied the subject, I asked him to introduce a bill ; a com- mittee was struck ; he labored at the bi oalously; bo got the fissistunco of tiio Govern- ment — we gave him all the assistance the (.iuvernmcnt could give hini— -but to him must be the honor, to him must bo the praise of that measure ; and the Insolvent law passed at the last session is, in substance, in all its material provisions and in its machinery — althongh v/itli romo imnrovenK'nts and some uinendmcnts — John Abhott's law. lie nlo'io sbonld jjot credit for it: and Mr. Mackenzie, who was always opposed to a Bankruptcy or Insolvency Bill, has only the merit of allowing it to pass. There were some acts passed in connection with the 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 and Fisheries, did not understand his own bills, and could not explain them, and had to get the >issistance of his predecessor, the lion. Peter Mitchell. [Applause.] That gentleman, having the interests of his country at heart, and particularly the interests of our shipping, of our commerce and of our trade, came ibrward 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 thvouc;h him were these bilb explained an ^ defended. [Cheers.] Tea, gentlemen, last session they passed another bill, which I thiuh. will be of service. They passed an Act for the further organization of the North- West territory, introducing some provisions relating to the sale and management of the public lands in that country. As to that portion of the bill which was framed by the Surveyor-General, Colonel Denis, all are 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 Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba could do both du;ies. Mr. Biorris 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 additional allowance. Although Mr. Morris never complained of the work, still they pro- vided in the Act passed in April last th.it it was necessary for the 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 get it. Mr. JDaird wants to go there, and other people want to get it, and therefore the country is suffering for want of a Lieutenant-Governor. (Cheers.) Then, gentlemen, comes tha Supreme Court Bill. I said the other day that the Supreme Court IJill was my Bill. IMr. 3Iackenzle says I never drew it, and he also says that ho always draws his own bills. Now, I will venture to say, gentlemen, and I think that wc will prove it by the Law Glerk at Ottawa, that Mr. Mae'-jnzie never drew any Bill (except, perhaps, a bill of parcels) in his life. [Great laughter.] As regards the Supreme Court Bill, it could not bo evolved, 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 .Tustice, had to sit down and consider the laws of ditTerent countries, especially of England and tlie United States, and examine the constitution of their different Appellate Courts, with the view of endeavoring to construct a good working system for this country. In making these researches I had the valuable assistance of a late colleague, the Hon. Mr. Archibald, at present Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. He and I both worked at that bill, and wo prepared it for submission at the first session of Parliament. Then, gentlemen, that bill was not passed in consequence of sundry diflicultics that arose with respect to the represent- ation of Lower <''anada in the Court ; but before the next session we hat^ consulted many of the Judges ; I had scut my bill to the Judges; I received suggestions from all sources, and and I was very glad to get these suggestions; and I employed a gentleman, now one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and asked him to devote his time for the purpose oft osider- 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 the assistance he thus got, he would scarcely have had the courage to have undertaken the task Fapplause and cIicits] ; and I assi-ted him, as the lion. },\t. Mitchell asvsisted the Minister of Marine aud Fisheries, in every way iu my power to carry ihut bill. And what did I get, gentlemen, iu return ? On the third reading of the bill, just as it was about to be pas.-jcd (hear, ho:tr\ without notice, without warning, an inilepondeut member — not Mr. Fouruier — not the 31iuister of Justice, who is rcspou:^ibIc for the aduiiu- istration of that great Court and its organization, but a member from ll:uuiltrn, evidently by concert, moved, seconded by Jlr. Lalhunme, that a clause be put into the bill i.t the last moment, doing away with the right of iippoal to the Motiicr Country, (i)eep groans.) I at once, iu my place, strong!}' prote::;ted against that I said that it was a trick, a f-uipri.so upon the House, aud that, had 1 known that fuch a qualitieation was cmiteniplated, I would eertiiinly have op]iOL-ed the whole measure from the begiimmg. (Applause. ) Why, geiit lomen. it was the entrance of the wedge (hear, hear) ; it was just the comuicncenient of i he f v:Vci jucc 1 ■ 21 1 ■ of the connection between the Mother Country and Canada. [Hear, hear] It is the right of every British subject his inalienable right, to appeal to the foot of the 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 the 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 the Throne. (Cheers,) We will see at the next session, gentlemen, whether Her Majesty's Gcvernment has not told the present Government that this clause must bo i-epealed. (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. (n2ar, hear). I think this is most un- wise, and I will tell you why gentlemen ; becauseevery Legislature does not legislate alike, and 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, and, besides, would it not bo absurd, that I, a member elected, under one law for a constituency, should find that behind my back and without my knowledge, another Legislature, and not the one to which I was elected had swept away my constituency and given me another. But, gentlemen, still farther you can see what might bo done, and know what would be done if the political exigency arose. A7c might see in the Province of Ontario, for instance, the franchise altered by act of the 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 francliiso by the 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 «iect the members for the Dominion Parliament. But afterwards, when we commenced to look over the Government Bill, we found a quiet clause respecting Prince Edward Island introduced-- depriving many of the people of Prince Edward Mand of the right of voting; men who had a right to vote J or the 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 tho members for Prince Edward Island, and one of the members of the Government, findinil 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 allowed to stay at home, coolly introduced a clause in the bill for his own benefit, depriving many of the very men who had sent him to Parliament of their vote?, so that it should be the aristocrat c body of electors that were 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, arc largely composed of llonian Catholics, and it was a direct blow at the Pvoman 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 Douse of Lords; and thank Heaven we have a Scnato in Canada. This clause in the Bill was corrected by the Senate, and Jlr. Laird has got to go back and seek re-election from the very men he endeavoured to rob of their franchise; honce perhaps the desire he has not to go back, but rather to luxuriate in the wilds and on tlic pruines of the North-west. (Laughter). Gentlemen, I have talked about the Icgislatinii of the Govern- ment; now about their administration. Look at tho Cabinet, two years in office and four changes ! Why. gentlemen, when I was in the Govcrnincnt. and the y used to attack mo and say that busincss'was being neglected it was a cardinal principle against wliicli snmo 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. Thcr.^ was never a a y or night when there was not a quorum of the Council at the Governor's elbow to assisthi.n m caVryin"' on tlio nW::m nf the country (hear, hear and applause) ; but as for these minister.^, wliy look at the newspapers I I hope' that they have got passes ; lor if not, o'le-half t hcu- salaries must be expended in railway fares. (Laughter). They arc like tlio wandcnn- Jew, go anywhere and you will Gud them; if you go to Manitoba, you will find them ; if you go {» 00 M New Brmiswick, you will finJ Mr A. ,1. Smith ; if you go hero you find a luiuistcr, anJ ifyou ij;o there you find a minister; but there is one place you may go gentlemen, and not find a minister, and that is Ottawa (Laughter). Wo have besides a Minister of Justice whose impor- tant duties require Ids constant presence at head-quarters, but whom wc Cod practicing his profession. [Hear, hear and applause]. Now, gentlemen, I do not wish to make his holding Briefs a ground of attack upon Mr. lilako, as being wrong in itself, but I say as a Minister of Justice lie ought always to be at hcadcjuartors [applause] ; and I know it took mo all mj time to perform the duties of my office — when holding that position — faithuilly and well. [Applause]. It was eluirgcd by Mr. Blake himself in the legislature of Ontario, that Mr. JNI..O. Cameron, while a member of the Ontario Cabinet, practiced iu the Courts. But Mr. Cameron held the ofTico of Secretary oi the Province, and ids duties were merely nominal. [Hear, hear]. Hero, however, wo find Mr. Blake, the Minister of Justice, practising before the Judges he himself nominates, and whose salaries he may recommend to be raised, and whom ho may promote from Puisne Judges to Chief Juistices, and from Vice Chancellors to Chancellors. [Hear, hear]. This is the experience wc have of their administration of jiublio alFairs. [Applause], tjentlemen. 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 u'o to go to Ottawa on public business, for one Minister is attending to his fiirm, another pcrlinps looking for a new wife, [laughter], another is making speeches here, and a third is making speeches there, ■ind the business of the country is neglected — no business is done at all. [Hoar, hear], l^hen, gentlemen, as to appointments. I have heard that appointments to office in Montreal, have been singulaily sati-l'actory [laughta-]; 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 rcspv,v-c of the community are a sine qua non in their appointments (laughter). Well, gentlemen, I believe that the samples you have had in Montreal, of the mode in which they make appointments, arc 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 Jjibcral 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 Government have introduced the sys- tem of pensioning in the most obnoxious r.-ay. Wc have a Superannuation Law on our Statute Book, providing for old servants v.dio had become no longer capable of performing the duties of their office, the means of moderate livelihood in their old ago. But it is highly improper, and entirely contrary to the spirit of the Act, to superannuate ;iblo-bodied and capable men, merely to make vacancies for partizan office-seekers. The country is thus de- prived ot the services of efficient men, probably replaced by inferior person.", besides the loss of the retiring allowances, whatever they may be. One word more about the Pacific Bailroad. We asked for bread and they g;ivo us a stone ; we asked for a railway and they gave us little pieces of railway, connected by " iiiagnificentwater stretches." But while wo cannot get the railway wo have the rails thrown on our hands, which, costing an enormous sum of money, may possibly bo required for some purpose years hence [hear, hear], I believe that the principles which have governed the Jjiberal Conservative Party in the pasfwill actuate them while in opposition and afterwards, when, in the course of time, the Party will be restored to power. [Cheers]. One of the dlflcrences between thepolicy of the Liberal Conservatives nnd 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 the future will be what it has been in the past. [Clieers]. Wo hava always .since 1851), when Mr., now Sir Alexander Gilt, 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 tarifl'. Then, gentlemen, another difference whlcli exists between the Conservative Party as a whole and the motley group of conflicting opinions which forms the *• Great Ministerial Party " [laughter], is illustrated in another way. A cardinal point in our policy is connection with Great Britain. (Cheers.) I have no patience with those men who talk as if the timemust oomc wlion we must pcparatc from I ]nj:l;inil. 1 sLAINI)KALKK Presrott (imwille. COmaVAl Newmarket York. i^TANDARl) jnindiis Wentworth. TIMHS St. Thomas AVym. PLANET, Weekly AND Tkmvekklv ... Cliatluim Kent. CANADIAN Sainia Lambton. DESPATCH Strathi-oy Middlesex. (^OURLm Morrisbui-;,' Dundas. TIMES Wood.stoek Oxford. NEWS Milton Jlalton. GAZI^7rTH Dunville Monck. BRITISH: CANADIAN Simco \orjolk. HERALD StratConl Perth. ADVOCATE Mitchell " STANDARD Pembroke Iknfrew. STAR Ariiprior *' REPORTER Gait. Waterloo. CRAND RIVER SACIIAM Caled.mia JJaldimand. STANDARD Napanee Lmnox. '"IMES Windsor K^sex. REVIEW Kincardine Hntce. ^TAR Crodorich Huron. TIMES Port Hope Durham. TRIBUNE In^rersoll Oxford. PACKET Orillia X Simcoe. VICTORIA WARDER Lindsay Vietona. ^UN Oranixeville JIaltun. <:^A7JJTTE Picton Prince Kdward. TELE(4RAPH Welland Wdumd. TIMES OwenSound 6'ra/. COMET u .y ENTERPRISE Collinjrwood".".".'.".'.'.'.'.".'.'.'.'.!." Simcoe. NORTHERN ADVANCE Ran-ie . CHRONICLE AVhitby '■.■.■.■.■.■.'.*.■.■.■ Ontario. WEST DURHAM NEWS Bowm'anville iHirham. VINDICATOR Oshawa Ontario TIMES Windsor iW.r. ?S?™^f^^ Coburg .\orthu»'hcrland. REVIEW Peterboro' Piterboro'. MONITOR Brockvillc Am/s ADVERTISER Fetrolia Lmmton ARGUS OUervilie Oxiord. DOMINIONiCONSEEVATrVi; DAILIES. MAIL ... Toronto. LEAJ)KR FREE PRESS London. HERALD SPECTATOR.. Hamilton. CITIZKN Ottawa. NEWS KiniTHton. INTKLLKiENCER Belleville. COURIER Branttbrd. HERALD Cuelph. GAZETTE Montreal. HERALD Haiilax. REPORTED LA MINERVE Montreal LE NOUVEAU MONDE.. LE CANADIEN Qiuboc. LE COUJMnER DE f'/i- NADA ■■■ '■■■■^':4fe SPEECH OF HON. C. TUPPEll, O.B. AT JEiA-LIIF^X: Tuesday, November 16, 1875. rd. nd. ill. 9. f On the occassion of the Hon. C. Tapper's aJdross there were present on the platform, the Mayor of Halifax, lion. Mr. Fraser, of Pictou ; Hon. Dr. Parker, Alderman Forsyth, Alderman W Murray, ex-Mayor Dunbar, ex-Mayor Sinclair, Hon. Jarnes McDonald, Mr. S. H. Hol- mes, M.P.P., Mr. W. H. Allison, M.P.P., Mr. II. Black. M.P.P. Dr. Ahnon, Dr. Sommers, Aid. Seeton Mr. S. A. ^Yhite, Mr. ])onald Keith, Mr. F. G. Parker, Mr. John Pugh, Mr. VV. H. Neal, Mr. C. H. 31. Black, Mr. W. S. Syuionds, Mr. W. C. Moir, Mr. T. E. Kenny, Mr^W. B, Alley, of the Truro " Sun ;" Mr. Robert Sedf:\yick, Mr. G. R. Anderson, Mr. F. Allison, Mr. D. B. Woodworth, M.P.P., Mr. Wm. Compton, Dr. Thos. Walsh, Mr. Bartholomew Walsh, Mr. J. T. Buluier, Mr. J. C Mackintosh, Mr. S. Canning, Mr. Poole, Mr. Samuel Shatford, (Mar"arct's Bay), Dr. T. E. Almon, Mr. Cathcart Thomson, Mr. James S. McDonald, Mr. George Johnson, Mr. B. B. Brown (Windsor), Mr. W. D. O'Brien, Mr. H. H. BHgh, Mr. H A. Gray, 'Mv. F. O'Connor, Mr. P. Lynch, Mr. B. Daly, Mr. Stephen Tobin, Mr, P. Thompson, Mr. J. T. Wylde, Mr. C. Edgar, Mr. D. Wolf, of the "Windsor Mail," Mr. George A. Chipman, and many others. The Mayor, in introducing the Hon. »peakcr, said:— When a few -ivenings ago I occupied a similar position, I expressed the hope that wc might soon have others following the Pre- mier's example, and coming here 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 upon any imminent political movement. Those present, therefore, might be better enabled to enjoy a calm and deliberate examination of those great questions. It is not my purpose, neither would it become my position to identify myself in any way with the particular political views of any party ; nevertheless, in common with all those who were so fortunate as to be present, I cannot but be delighted at this opportunity of hearing the public questions of the day discussed by so eminent a public man. According- ly, witho'ut any farther remarks, I will iutroduce the Hon. C. Tupper to an audience who I feel sure know him well belbro. Hon. C. Tupper was received with a perfect storm cf applause, which was long in subsiding. He said: — JUr. Mayor an<^ Gentlanen, Citizens of Ila^'^o^ .-—Those only who know of the happy years I hud the pleasure of spending in the cii^ .t Zalifax, can properly estimate the gratifi- cation it gives nic again to meet the citizens oi the metrf'polis 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 fed that you are dl Xova Scocians. (Cheers). That you aro deeply interested in the affairs of your country, and that you came here prepared to give them that^calm and dispassionate considcration^vhich all intelligent citizens should give to questions alTeeting the interests of the people. 28 M v.c,«r««tmns H.is ovoniniT will bo somewhat modiGod la conaequcnco of certain BUggcslions ' ?^ " ^in the ° M^^^^^^^^^ of to-day. 1 have eotne here with an infinity of pleaHure, rtrrcnues^ of a r"^ nu^rr of the eitizJns of Halifax, to deliver an ad.lre.sH upon the at tho '^^n"««; ° / '" n . . „„iy too happy to have my mind directed Irom any source, Sr S wi^; 'thormaTtJr, whiclf L'oHt ungage L attention of tl.i. -ction of the country I lo not suppose it will bo possible, with tho gr«at number of question, tlm press country. <»" ""^ Vn Lvcr all tho "round that has boon manned out for mo by tho. Halifax oTaVorthot.Jrnme;r;bu^wiUd^^^ '"'in'thrfirst place 1 am asked the question whether Confedcra ion has brought prosperity to flalifax V ^rhat question carries mo back to eight years ago when upon this P ^^tform I Icntured^o raise my \oicc in iavorof a Confederation of these l'rovmce«. On i) i occasion I was confJo ted L/gentlemeu who took a different view, and who, with great ?-^rneH tness and Imlv v-c^^ thJr opinions upon the eitizeiu. I have not tho pleasure to-night of moe ing unv SnCu iar L I am awaro, ^o wish to reply to my remarks, but the suggestion havin' b en t rown out that some one might wi.h to do so. without indicating who the person i'„ tlat'oH'e . Imi'-ht wish to discuss the affairs of the country with me, I may say that r m on' of tho X;^trong in a good cause, feel prepared to meet in the discussion ot public nue^tbn., a y gentleman who takes an opposite view. ^^ b»le on thu oc''^;'^^ ^ '"J'^J fS tie ilcastre of delivering an address to you, yet as on a former day I invited tho iSior to meet me before any "audieuco in Nova Scotia and gave him choice of time and ilace and on y yesterday, as 1 may say, went to Toronto, the very seat o^ the influence of tho fetcr or/ustTce, toVtate that^l was prepared to discuss tLese important qucs ions with hirt I may «tate now that I will '.o prepared at any time that can be conveniently arrang^ ed ; kave nfy homo in Ottawa, and come down here to meet any meniber of Parliament. I s V thiXause 1 am vain enough to believe that the more public affairs are discussed, the f,.,y t'"» Jj'«°a"«e -L '^^^^^ J ^;^i increase the eonfidence which they enjoy in the minds T;L T^ ol of thifcoun ry I am^asked whether Confederation has proved abeoelit to this of *1^« P'^"? ° ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \.no, no! ") A half a dozen gentlemen, however earnest, ' irh.&lT te taken a peLting the citizens of Halifax. 1 have said that eight years Jl tint Lest on was Su ed on this platform. Let me ask you, Mr. Mayor and this v?st td Tote i^ent body of citizens, whether I am right or wrong when I say that after lAonvcar of Halthis iLtility to Confederation was Imshcd, and that no man could be foS to reitate thelvild and groundless statements with which Confederation was then oppotd Tarn proudl know and believe that it is only since the gentlemen at present m Ser conti-oS^the destinies of the country that any voice of discontent with Confederation won rnisod- all complaint haviu2 ceased under our administration. ., t u r t ]f ti d Y I am no able to point to a continuation of progress and prosperity I believe I sh- 11 be able to Sow that the fault lies larsrely with those men who said the ship of state could tt bo nalated ruccessfully, and who are now at the helm. But who will .ay that the Su8 of cvciy Canadian, whether down here by the Atlantic or dwelling a^yay yonder uy trPacLhal not been r'aised V Yfc had expended all our resources -, ^^^e ^^^" ;J-/2l^ Zncot ourselves bv rail with tlie rest of the world. Where were wc then ? In a position nXh we had n^conneetion by rail with the railway system of the United States and no oommuni ation with the other British Provinces, lying m the J'?^^;/ .^^/^^J^^Ji ^hJn fLt i% already chan-ed. No intelligent man, lookmg at tho history of tbe past, and tnen Iw n« Jur pret ntfo tion, can feel for a moment that, as a Canad an, ho does not occupy aS hthe status than he ever could have done as a New Brunswieker, a Prince Edward T«kndcr or a Nova Scotian. Not only in Great Britain and in the United States, but in a thfother countries of the world, we now occupy a positica which never could have been oEedbv any other means than union. You may say that this is a mere matter of senti- W&itlet^me point you to the records and you will find that nH another country mthe world can exWbirsuTa Lady and constant advance in prosperity as Canada has enjoyed rrLthoS seven years of her history under the Act of Union In order to make this app^fnUo youThave^^ to say that from 1868 to 1873 the trade of Canada rose no less KnTsMOrOOO. Our Lc Je under a fifteen per cent, .tanff -c;^^^^^^^^^ ■mf^ro f hfin S«7 000 000 Bcr ttunum, ana, notwunsiauumg, tu;it m tne nam- j- •• ^ XeS taSa no les3^ha^ 02.000,000 a year. While carrying on the public servicea of ;gcsliona pUiUHure, ijion tho ? Hourcc, )n of the lut press , Halifax ; matters rosperity atform L occasion ness and ■ moeting iggestioa jc person say that of public I cannot vitcJ the time and ice of tho ions with y arrang- inent. I isscd, the \\c minds jlit to this r earnest, ^ht years ', and this ,hat after I could be was then present in federation ; believe I state could jT that the yonder by ndeavor to a position ;es, and no ntry. All , and then not occupy ce Edward itcs, but in have been er of senti- intry in the lias enjoyed ) make this rose no less 1 five years iod we hivd 3 services of 20 the country in tho mci^t gcufiroas an 1 liberal manner in every section of tV- L'tiion, we were onabiod by thi; enormous impetus whiiihhail been given to business to ivduce the taxation of ihe people by that largo amount. Tho duties wore strnck off tho important staples of to , and ooffec, ipukini; thorn freo. That amounted to 81,200,000 and 8800,000 were taken ort' other articles. Yet with this low taritV and decreased in'' ion we had in scvn years over $14,000,000 of surph < revcnuo whi"h wo applied ro the rednolion of th.; public at tho banking capital, if you vi\h\i to Ivarn tho increasing wealth of tho country. Tho I "id-up banking capital of Ontario and t^iiehpo alone rose from §30,000,000 to $(>0 - 000,00 J, and tho deposits from loss taan $:jO,000,000 to more than 870,000,000, while th'o dcposits in tlioir ,«ir llugh Allan camo to us a!id said : "' I have got :n act of incorporation from the Pa''iiamcnt of Canada, incorporating myself and a number of tho ablest capitalists of this Dominion— both in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Pro- vmei - — aiiu 1 wish you to let me build lliis Canadian Pacific Ptailway for you, on the terras ot thirty niillions of money and fifty milliou ticres of laud, provided by I'arliament." We said : '-Sir Hugh Allan, we are told that behind you arc Jay Cooke k Co. It is reported that you aro associated with a number of the loading capitalists councctod with the Northern Pacific Hallway, and we may as well tell you at the outset that no company, no man or cor- ]ioration, connected with that foreign influence, can havo this charter at our hands." He went away and d'ssolved ail connection with those patties, returned them the money they liad placed in iiis hands, severed all connection with his Ameraan associates, and came back and said: '-I have complied with your terms and I want this 81 charter for niyseU" aiul iny Canadian nssociutcs, wlioso names you liavc heard." Wo paid, " N(i, wo ncoopt your statement, but wo aro determined that this shaU ho a f^rcat national ^Tork-. It' your company will incorpur.->to and associate itself with tlio luter-Occanic Company, and form a broad and coniproli ■ ivo company, embracini^ nil Her- tions of the country, wo will allow you to build the road." lie tried to cfl'ect that oombiDU- tion, but could not accomplish it, and Sir Ifuj^h Allan and hi.s company were driven iiway, and told that tlioy could not, have that charter. Now, wliat will you think of thn men who, with that Htatc of facts, which 1 liold myself !)ound to sustain on tho lloor of I'arliamcnt, will dnro to say that tho lato governn'cnt sold or j,mvo tho charter to Kir llui^di Allan 'f With that law on t'lo statute book which, without the proclamation was n pieco of wasto paper, vr rr/used the Order in Council that would have cifililed him to Iniild the road. ^Vo divided the stock between the variouH JVovinccs, so that every man who was dispo.sed to aequiro it could have influence and control in the company. We selected thirteen geutlemcu ; (Governor Archibald was ono of them, represcntinj^ Kova Scotia; i^Ir. IJiirpce, representini^ New, IJrunswick ; Sandford Fleming, who is ono of tho most distinj^uishod engineer.-) of the day was another ; Walter Shanly, an eminent engineer who built tho lloosao Tunnel, was another. Wc wLshcd i:> give tho capitali'^ts of England tho confidence that tho men who wore best qualified to judgo of tho matter believed that this was a feasible and practicable .scheme. Sir Hugh Allan, Hon. J. O. IJeaubien, Hon. J. B. Ikaudry, 11. N. Hall, Hon. J. S. Helmikcn, J)onald Mclnncs, F. W. Cumberland, Andrew McDcrmott and John Walker, F]sqrs., completed tho number. Wo selected these thirteen gentlemen, tho most distinguished capitalists, engineers, and representative men wo could obtain throughout tho country. Sir Hugh Allan was one of tho thirteen. That is all. AVc gave him just so much and no more than I offered in liie meeting of the leading capitalists in this city, to givo to any man among them who would come forward and do what he aiid every or 3 of the thirteen were compeHed to do, deposit their proportion of a million dollars as a guarantee that they would carry on tho work. Bcfoic I pass away IVom that matter there is ono word that I omitted to say. That is, that of thirteen gentlemen, of whom Covernor Archibald was one, Bclected for that great work as directors, tho first act the majority of that Board did was to vote down Sir Hugh Allan, They put him in the chair, lor what reason ? ]3ecausc they knew that there was no man from this .tide of the Atlantic whose name would go so far in tho motrjy market of tho world and on 'Change in London for tho purpose of securing money. 13ut on the first motion he mado to itifluenco tho Board ho was outvoted, as I know, and as liio Ciovernor in your Government House will tell you — for he was present and assisted in voting him down. 1 mention this to prove that tho Board was free from any coated on the part of any particular individual. In the interests of tho country, and for the same reason that induced tho Board of Directors to elect Sir Hugh Allan as their chairman, tho flovtrnmcnt always held the opinion that he should occupy that position. That is, tlic head ai.d front of our offending. The Government wont 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 ot the charter that not a man could transfer a pounJ. stock without the sanction of tho ( Jovernor-General aud Cabinet, whoever they might be. So, having guarded tho interests of the country by every means that i:ian could devise, you can understand tho indignation that I fool when men can be found who even at this hour, with these facts patent to tho whole country, dare to sully their own characters and reputations by keeping up th's cry, " Yon sold the I'aoific railway." Why is it kept up ? Bccauso on that false cry they grasped tho Government. Having no policy and no principles — as I shall show before I sit down — their only hope of retaining the coufldcuco of the people is to keep up a hue and cry against the genucnieu whoso seven years of Administration will stand to the end of time as an evidence that they patriotically, ably, and vigorously did their duty by their country. Now, gentlemen, you may say perhaps — •' Weil, you forced that plan on the House of Commons aud in I^arliamcnt, and perhaps the other plan is the better one." What will you think when I say that the scheme was a unanimous one? What will you my when I tell you that, not content with tho re.'-'olulion wc put uj^on the journals that it should be built, not by the Dominion ('ovevn- mont, but by a private eompany, aided with a grant of lands and money — not content v.'ith this bold, clear, and ut;cquivocal statement, the Opposition leaders, viz., Dorion. bfcked by Mackenzie and the re. t of them, moved n resolution, and voted for it, docbiring thntit should not only be built in our ^^•^^y, but that it should never bo built in any olhor 1 .\;nl 82 v\i ycl llio uicu who thus pledged themselves solemnly as man r^an pledge himself to man, ^because a public man by his record in the Commons of his country gives the most solemn pledge that one man can give to his fellow man) that the Canadian Pacific Jlailway should AVorks, v?ith a declaration upon his li'is that the Government had decided to build it as a < Jovernmcnt -^ork. The party who during the elections of 1872, had endeavoured to induce the country to bclicvo that the Government had done a rash act in inipo-iugupon the country a burfhen for this work of one and a half million dollars per annum ; so soon as thoy obtain- ed power declared that they had determined to go back upon their recorded votes in the House of Commons, and to build that road as a Government work!_ And what do you suppose was the reason given to tiic unsophisticated electors at Sarnia for the decision to build it as a Government work? Why, the Premier said it was in order that the profits of this work (tnat was certain to ruin and destroy anybody that would touch it!) should be enjoyed and possessed by the people instead of contractors ! "Well, I. am inclined to think that before ihey construct it cveu as a Government work, they will liave to let a few con- tractors take a hand in, unless they intend to take the pick, the spade and the wheel-baripw themselves. But that was the ludicrous reason given to the cbctors of Sarnia for making the Pacific railway a Government work. Parliament met, and the new Government brought in the Canadian Pacific llailway Act, taking power to construct every loot of the Canadian Pacific railway from cud to end as a Government work without the intervention of any company whatever. Mr. Elake, notwithstanding his qualified antagonism to the Canadian Pacific railway, helped to force that bill through the House and Committee, where it passed with scarcely the semblance of a debate, in a single night. I maiatuincd from the fir.st that if Canada could obtain the construction of a great national ]ii,ghway through tlie country, it would be highly advantageous for every portion of the Dominion ; but wlien this monstrous proposition that the Government should construct, own and operate the road was advanced at Sarnia, J denounced it iu the county in which I was seeking election at the time. I also, in the House of Commons, used the strongest and most emphatic language of condem- nation in relation to the bill, founded i.pon that'policy, and although it is bad enough for you to have to listen to me, and still worse to hear me read one of my old speeches, I will give you an extract to show the view that I took of the matter at the time. These were ray words; — '• T?-c measure now before the House, however, would crush the energy, enterprise, and industries of the country, and would place it in such a position that instead of being able to attract people to the country, we should drive them away. There was one respect ia which this country had a great advantage over the United States, that was the cheapness with which people could live here. Thts bill, however, would deprive us of this advantage over (jur neighbours. The measure, if adopted, would not only be fatal to the project, but it would overwhelm us with debt. With our credit gone and our resources paraly/.ed, we would not bo able to draw capital into the country. "With this changed condition of affairs every Canadian would look back with deep regret to the lime when, unfortunately- for the history of the countiy, a party, drunk with sudden accession to power, sbottld have forgotten what they owed to the count.'-y, and engaged in an enterprise fraught with the most >rious con- sequences.-' Mr. Mackenzie told you the other night — and it was a rash and extrc^nc state- ment that I am sure he would not repeat after once seeing it in print— that the whole re- sources of the British Empire could not build the Canadian Pacific railway in ten years. Gentlemen, I need not tell you that the resources of the empire would build it in one year with the greatest ease. There is not a contractor in the country ; there is not an intelligent man in the Dominion v,'ho knows anything of such matters, and tlie powers and resources of the British Empire, v,-l;o does not know that it coul J be done in one year. The Govern- ment accuse us of having left an elephant on their hands, because we had proposed to obtain the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway by a grant of wild lands, comparatively valueless, and a contribution of §1,500,000 per annum. They not only denounced us for providing for its construction as a great work, but said that wc were insane to talk about eonstructintr it in ton Years= I may toll ynn, however, that I never expected it would be built in ten years ; but I kucw that the people of British Columbia would bo satisfied with our honest and straightforward eflbrts to obtain capital and forward 88 the work to tlio best of nur ability, if it should take twenty years instead of ten. It was a barcain between the great Dominion of Canada and a very small colony ou the Pacilie coast, and I knew that the people there wonld be only too well satisfied if they saw that vigorous and energetic efforts were put forth to carry that public work to completion. That policy failed. Why ? Because a party, hungry for power, bcin^- long out of office and dcterniined to obtain it, had gone to the ele.'tions of 1872 and had been foiled by tho magnificent record that we wera able to place before tho country of our successful administration of public affairs. They had conio back beaten and disheartened, and wo liad obtained tho majority that wo were entitled to at fhe hands of our countrymen whom wo had served so faithfully. Toiled in that, what did they do ? Tho Toronto Glnlc and " Eefnrm" party raised a hue-and-cry of "Corruption" against tho Government of the day ; anu they Ibllov/cd .Sir Hugh All i. Mr. Archibald, and Major Walker — the committee appointed to obtain the necessary capi, il for this great work — to London, and united with the great rival influence of the Gra:,;i Trunk Company. The whole of that enormous influence combined to strike a fatal blow at Canadian credit and prevent the realization of that great work ou terms that would liavc been so advantageous to Canada. Yes, our policy was defeated ; but, gentlemen, when it failed. and when wo were driven from power by nie-ms which I say the very men wKo used tho:i! will blush to see r«corded upon the page of history — when that was accomplished, those f^en- tlcmen gave a Ministerial pledge to build the road as a ^lovernment work. We had reduuuiod our pledge ; wo had voted the $30,000,000 and the 50,000,000 acres of land we had prom- ised ; a company had taken the contract and used their utmost endeavours to raise the capital required. Every obligation Canada Lad undertaken with reference to that road was per- formed ; only she was still bound in good faith to make every effort to carry out the scheme of building the road by a company. But she was not bound to mortgage all her revenues to raise the 8100,000,00(> necessary to build the road. Every man in British Columbia knows that the provision for building the road ia ten years meant that the Government would use their best efforts to push the work on. This Government, therefore, tork charge of this question with a tabula rasa; the statement with regard to a legacy, an intolerable burden, haviug been laid on the present Government and the people of Canada, is as baseles« as it is pussible for any man to conceive. But, what next ? Those gentlemen who say that tho whole resources of the British Empire could not build the railway in ten years have solemnly bound the faith of Canada to the British Government, as well as to the people of British Columbia, fo build, coiife que CQufr, those two thousand miles nf raihcai/ throvgh the liockj/ Mountains to the shores of Lalcc Superior hj the first of December, 18S0. [l)r. Tupper here road the terms of the agreement, from a speech of Mr. Mackenzie's, as fol owa : "Lastly, that on or before the 31st of December, 1890, the railway shall bo completed and open far trafiic from the Pacific seaboard to a point at the western end of Lake Superior, at which it will fall into connection with existing lines of railway through a portion of the United State?, and al>.o witli the navigation ou Canadian waters. So that the terms recommended by Lord Carnar- von, and which wc have accepted, arc simply these — that instead of $1,500,000 we propose to expend 82,000,000 a year within tlio Province of British Columbia, and we propose to finish the rrilway connection through that Province and downward to the point indicated by tho year 1890."] This is the written compact made with Lord Carnarvon without any qualification whatever. Tho Premier says that tho terms of this contract with Lord Carnar- von were simply to this purport: that the Governrannt were to spend two millions a year instead cf one and a half in British Columbia. But those two thousand miles arc to he built in fifteen years, a work which the Premier declared tlie irhole resources of Great Britain eould not build in ten years. (Applause.) I think you will agree that thi.s is bad enough, but it is not the worst. Parliament had determined to put tho eastern ternainus of the road at Nipissing. Wo said that if we brought the traffic of the Great "West down to that point, all the lines of railway tending in that direction would bo able to raise the money necessary to connect them with the Canadian Pacific Railway at that point. Mr. Blake said, the other night, at Toronto, that down hero I liad denounced the Government for subsidising railways in Ontario, and that in Toronto I had denounced them for not doing so. I did not. I said that, having promised certain subsidies, they were as much bound to carry out tho one pledge as ilic other. They are now spending a million and a half in subsidising tho Canada Central Railway from Douglass to Lake Burnt. There is a certain Senator Foster who gave great 3 84 Buppoit to tlic enemy in brcakiuft- down the okl Government, and he is the Cainda Contr >1 ; and he is now subsidised by the Government to the extent of a milhon and a ha f, or SIZ uUU a mile. Senator Foster and his American friends have the contract to build tlic railway from Lake Burnt to the Georgian ]Jay, eighty-five miles more. If you were in ]\Iontrcal and goiut; Vv'cst, you would not use a foot of this line ; you would take the route by lort ilore, and reach the Georgian Bay by a lino of twenty-five miles shorter. Again, the (.ov- crnmcnt arc spending the money of the country to build a road luO miles long Irom 1 cm- bina to the junction with the Canada Pacific Hallway. Wo say, there is "a magnihceut wator-Ftrctch," why not use that? But supposing that railway desirable and i frankly con- cede its importance, a company had obtained a charter, and only required tho assent ol the Government to build that road witliout the Government spending a dollar / Ihcy reply tliat they arc following our policy in that matter. Our policy was to pay thirty miihouf^, and not to pay out a ^dollar extra for that branch road. The road is now graded, all but son:. thirty miles at the expense of Canada. Again, there is the Nauaimo and_ Lsquimalt branc>i of sixty-five miles more. AVe were told that that road made all satisfactory with British •Columbia, and were inclined not to look too narrowly at it. But thi-t road runs right along in sight of a line shore with splendid harbours. Next, we have a divergence to Ihundcr Lay of seventy miles— in-rcasing the distance for everyone who ever travels over the Canadian Pacific Railway to that extent. Adding to these the thirty-five miles run down beyond :^ipissing, wo have 300 miles of extra road, which, at $45,000 a mile,— and it cannot be built fbr $oQfi{)0—wm add no h?ss than sixteen and a quarter millw.is to the burden oj the eouniru. Add a million and a half fo.- the Canada Central Eailway, and you will sec how much these gentlemen arc afraid of the elephant. (Loud applause and laughter.) Ihey have pledged the country to do all this, and to build the road in fifteen years from tho 1 acific to the .shores of Lake Superi. •, without any oualificatiou whatever, so that we must be disgraced in the eyes of the worid if it is not done,— and then they have the assuMnce to charge us with having placed an intolerable burden on tho shoulders of tlio people of this country. (Cheering.) Tho Ualifax Chronicle wants to know tho cause of the depression whic]i_ prevails in every department of trade. I do not say, for I do not believe Lhatit is caused altoccthcr by the Government, but I will give you some reasons which induce mo to believe that Ministers are largely responsible— that the Ship of State is among the breakers because she has passed into tho hands of men who said that Confederation never would succeed. (Applause.) We eaid it would be a success, and'down to the hour we left the Government tlie country was enioying a flood-tide of the most extraordin^-y prosperity. (Applause.) What is it that in two short y^ars has bo changed the face of affairs ( It the Mominn Chronicle wants to know, why did it not ask Mr. Mackenzie that question { (Ap- plause ad laughter.) He saved them that trouble ; he told them it was because a depression, caused by an inflated currency in tho United States, led to a crisis in trade, in consequence of which this ccantry was flooded with American goods. (More laughter.) Why do these gentlemen not accept liis statement ] It so happens that we were in power when this depres- sion in the United states was at its height, and that the United States are now more prosperous than when we went out of power. Let us examine this question a little. In view of the depression that has fallen like a pall over the country, it behoves every man, whether betakes a direct part in administering public afi'airs or only exercises the solemn trust of choosing representatives, to look these thincs in tho face and see if there is any possible change by which m-.tters can be altered and improved. T .y again that you cannot ajti'ibutc all ot tho existing depression to aflairsin the United States, though I am glad to sec Mr. Mackenzie take that view, because it will incline him to sustain the sentiments I enunciated long ago, that is the necessity of a National Policy for Canada. (Great applause). The depressed condition of trade in the United States has forced goods upon Canada to the great detriment of our own manufacturers. Tho fiscal policy of Canada has been such as to permit the Americans to enjoy uiifuir advantages in reference to the commerce of this country over pur own people, {.nd'wc have reason to believe that much of the depression which now exists is a direct result of tho policy pursued by the party now in power. I do not hold the Govern- ment entirely responsible lor th.o deprcssicn from which the country is suficrmg, but i have .^aid in the presence cf \h(\v cv,n ItM.lii;- n.ui. and I new repeat it here, that if all the ability they possess lad] ecu (xl i.ii,;, d rp n jriivli.g i.Ube mctlcd by whuh they might most efr.rtually brip'- ilor.t il,>^ i-r-M:l iii.artiiil (.'tprcsMcn, I knew of r.o means that they h^ve 35 left untried to secure that object. I do uot know whether their acts have been intentional or not, but having made such a statement I am bound to give you the grounds upon which it is based, I have told you what the condition of Canada was when the present Govern- meut came into power. Confidence in the commercial condition of Canada was universal. The public works were progressing, and there wa a firm belief in the future of the country. Wc felt assured that if our railway policy succeeded wo could bring in a hundred millions of foreign capital which, distributed o?er the country, would have the cfi"ect of continuing the prosperity which then existed, and the development of our great North West \yould be then secured. All thi was struck down at once by the unfair and unpatriotic combination to which I liav alluded. The Finance Minister, immediately on the accession of the new Government, put the mis-statement in the mouth of the Governor General that there was a serious deficit existing which must be met by additional taxation. That statement has been shown to liavo had no foundation in fact. Even the Toronto " Globe" admitted the other day that the additional three millions then called for was required more to meet the expenditures of 1874-5 than to cover an over expenditure iu 1873-74. Mr. Blake, too, in South Bruce, asked what British Columbia had to complain of, and told his hearers that one-sixth had been added to the taxation of the whole country for the purpose of giving that Province the road it demanded. Oue-sixth would be just $3,000,000. Why did they not come before Parliament honestly and say that they required the money for that purpose ? But when instead of doing this they said it was to cover a deficit, they struck a blow at the financial position of the country and at the confider ^c of tho people in the sound condition of public afi'airs. That was the second cause of the financial stringency, from which the country is now suffering. The first was the attack made upon the credit of Canada, which resulted in the defeat of the scheme for tho construction of a Canadian Pacific railway. This aet was followed up by a budget speech, such as, I think, never came from the mouth of a Finance Minister in any country before. Mr Cartwright first stated to the House that we were absolutely bound to build this Pacific Railway, and then, after recess someone having in the meantime directed his attention to the limitation in the journals, came in and said .at he had discovered that our liability was limited to a pledge of $30,000,000 and 50,0u0,000 acres of land. Then, having said that the construction of the Pacific llailway would impose upon the Do, inion a delit relatively equal to, if not greater than that of Great Britain, the Government before tho close of the session, placed on tho statute book an act providing not only for the building of a railway to the Pacific, but 360 miles additional. Subsequently Mr. Cartwright went to England to negotiate a loan, and you have heard a good deal about the way in which he did that. Mr. Mackenzie thought he had settled the quastion when he informed you that hia friend, Sir Francis Ilincks, had told him it was a capital loan. Some years ago,' when Sir Francis Ilincks was managing the afi'airs of this couniry with an ability surpassing that of any other man who had preceded him for twenty years previously, ho was called a resuscitated mummy by the present Premier ; he was a Eip Van Winkle, who had been asleep for half a century. But he no sooner whispers a compliment regarding a member of tho Government's financial achievements than he immediately becomes the greatest living authority. (Applause.) While a Governmsnt comes back from England with $15,000,000, and lends it out among the banks on what terms tlicy please, 'vith or without interest, I feel inclined to refuse to accept the .statement of any gentleman connfcted with one of the institutions so favored on a question between the Government and Opposition. Mr. Blake also said he would be willing to leave this question to Sir Francis Ilincks. Though I object, as a general n' ', 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 an favor of Sir Francis Ilincks, and I pledge myself that for the criticisni I made on Mr. Oartwright's loan, I can produce the authority of Sir Francis Ilincks to sustain mc. (Cheers.) 1 said to them : — What are you singing lo Pfeans about this loan for ? Belgium went into the English market and got a three per cent, loan negotiated on bettor terms than you did a four per cent, one, and even the little Province of New Zealand placed a loan upon the same market at the same time upon more advantageous terms than wore obtained for Canada. But how was it that when this loan was negotiated the five per cents were bring- ing 107 ? Why, it was tho union of British North America that did it. I went to England to ncjrotiate a loan before Confederation, but could not soil the debentures of ^'ova Scotia without a discount of foui* per cent, on debentures bearing six per cent, iuttrest, but I 86 obtained the money by depositing thorn with Messrs. Barings, because T knew that the moment Confederation had been achioved tlicy would advanc .apidly iu value, as the credit of British North America would stand infinitely higher t^aa that of Ontario and (Quebec, old Canada, or any of the Maritime Provinces. The diflfcrencc in the rate at which loans could be negotiated before and after the Union is the best evidence of what was achieved for Canada by the confederation of the Provinces. But, gentlemen, I tell you that Mr. Cart- wright did not ipu*. his loan on the market even on those terms until Sir John Hose had come out in public in contradiction of the melancholy story that Mr. Cartwright had told iu Parliament about our resources and financial position, and until the speeches of the Opposi- tion went home, and the London "Standard" declared that the deficit was a pretended deficit, and that the financial position of this country was Bound. So that if he made a good loan, he made it in spite of himself, and because there wore 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 bd the judges whether they tvere sound or not. I said the " Globe's" statement is a little astray. Instead of Mr. Cartwright's loan being better by $800,000 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 Francis Ilincks in black and white, to prove the accuracy of that statement, but I never said that so good u loan as that eould 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 «ould have sold them at par by using the name ot a friend which ho had for nothing?" That is the ground on which I criticized it, and I said lie had pursued a course which no Minister having the interests ol Canada in his keeping should have 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 the course that Sir John Rose and Mr. Tilley before him, and every Finanee Minister of Canada, hud taken, of fixing the rate of interest and the term that the debentures were to run and thtu putting them np to competition. That was the way it was done before, and by tliat means Canada got the highest price that could be olitained for her securities. But when he 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 iu proportion to the amounts tendered for, but to whom ho lihod. and that people who did not hear from him would know that none had been ailotteil to them, he established a precedent by which any Finance Minister can put half a million of 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 accounts are carried on, under which public m^ney may bo 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 the proper one and abandoned totally the course he had taken the year before. He fixed the interest and said to the capitalists of the world, there arc our debentures, what will you give us for them ? lie has used the Imperial guarantee, and the result is that our 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 have a graver charge to make than any blunder in negotiating the loan of a year ago. I say lie did not want the money, and I say that the Finance IMinister who goes to EngJand to put debentures upon the market when he does not need the money, does an unjustifiable act, prematurely and unnecessarily increasing the public debt. I will give you my authority. A year afterwards you kad only to look into the Canada Gazette and to see the bank returns and the statements mads by himself in order to find that on the fifteenth day of June last — a jear after his loan had been negotiated — fifteen millions of that seven- teen and a half niiilions ho had borrowed was lent about among the banks all over the Domi- nion. Now, I say, there is the evidence that he did not require tl.e money. Although I am in the presence of eminent bankers and others who lave a largo timount of banking intereat. I do not intend to be deterred from telling my countrymen that i do not believe that a more unsound and improper policy could not be pursued by any government in Canada. Cannot every 17 person understand that if banking is to bo successfully and effectually carried on, the capital must cost the different bankers somcthinq like the same sum ? If Mr. A. can get capital for nothing while Mr. ]3. gets it at the market price, you can readily understand "that banking cannot be done on fair and equal terms, But there is a greater objoctiou than that, in my judgment. The banks have an enormous amount of power and influence. I hold th'nt it is contrary to the theory of re.'-ponsiblo government that you should increase the power and influ- ence of the banks by giving them an unlimited amount of public money for nothin'.'. jJesides 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 the i)n)naculate government we have tw. present is a little susceptible to political pressure. Thus, you will see, there is danger to the country in this policy. Just as a bank may bo trembling in the balance, it will bring greater influence t-* bear upon the Government, and some day the country will sustain enormous loss through sonic of these banks going down. A more ruinous policy than that of the present Finance Minis- ter was never known in this country. At the very time when it was said thnt we were over- trading he loaned $1 5,000,000 to the banks— encouraging and aiding them to iullatc the business of the country still more; and then, without any necessity for it having ari.<=cn, he put the banks into a tremor by a circular so vaguely worded that they did not know but they would be called upon to pay over the Government deposits on a day's notice. 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 occurrod through their false policy. Their system is also corrupt, and calculated to corrupt the country, and I will give a proof of this assertion. Some of you have heard of the lion. Geo. Brown's celebrated Big 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 ho said that by a united effort power might be seized: This bank president sent out a circular to the customers of his bank, saying that if the Government was sustained the bank would get large deposits of money. Is that corruption ? ^Ir. Simpson sends a telegram to say that the story about his buying up people is a fiction. You have the Big Push letter in the first place, in wh=ch the leader and dictator of the Reform party asks him to come down handsomely. What more ? You have in the last Gazette banking returns up to the 30th September last, whicli prove that if he did not come down handsomely the Reformers are certainly most thankful for the smallest favors. Those returns shew that this bank president, this senator 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 words, that his bank is receiving at present $50,000 per annum of public money. Do you mean to tell mo 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 feel that this money was paidjbr political services? The whole policy is corrupt ; it will not bear the light of day, and will have to bo 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 the banks for 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 the bank of which Mr. Simpson is president. Capital is very sensitive ; such conduct as this is destroying the confidence of the commercial men of the country, and a great deal of distress is flowing from the channel I have indicated. Then there is the proposed Reciprocity Treaty. Does not every commer- cial man know that every manufacturing interest was paralyzed a year ago by Ilon. George Brown going to Washington to negotiate that wonderful treaty? As I said before, capital is very sensitive. Every man who is about to invest his capital iu any new enterprise looks ahead to see if there is a prospect of that p?.rcicular branch of trade being permanent,— and it is easy to see what a disastrous effect the possibility of Mr. Brown succeeding in his nego- tiations must have had on the investment of capital in the manufactures of the country. I need not detain you longer in holding an inquest over this dead treaty, but I will say this, that if ever a government was marked by incapacity, if ever a public man placed himself in n position which ouGiht forever to destroy all confidence in him it was whon thts Hon. Genr."'n Brown phiccd his name to that document without getting Mr. Fish's signature on behalf ef the United Statcs.-^and Canada was forced to go down on her knees to the United States. 88 only to be spurned by the foot of the American. The Washington Treaty — ^vhich buricu tho feeling of irritation whicli had grown up between this country and the States, consequent wpon thb war, and disposed of all the unpleasant questions between us — had paved tho way for a judicious and fair reciprocity treaty. Canada had shown a desire to have the freest commercial intercourse with the United States, but it was unwise to assume tho position that hhc was in extremity for want of a treaty. If they had taken advantage of the kindly fcel- in'' kindled in the States by the Washington Treaty, and allowed the eoinmerci!).! men of that country to press for it in their own interest, the Americans would, long ere this, have been offering us tho very thing whicli, when we begged for it in such a humiliating manner, they refused u?-. I trust, however, that this much will be accomplished : that George Brown will never bo asked to negotiate another treaty for us. There is another matter that has a good ^hat do we find? Th y^call themselves the lleforn. Tarty. Why, gentlemen, what have '^y - °"f ^ "^ ^^J^ Mackenzie told you that they had passed all their measures. He f '^^^^^ ''^^'^^ '^i'J^J^J^ ^ had passed all our measures' Did he tell you of a single one hat !'«/ ^^J"i S^.^^^^^^j Tried from his predecessors? I think it would puzze Inm to do so. /J jy^Yj^j ^/^'^^^^^^^ that I was as Liberal as I was Conservative ; that the broadname "^^'^f ^^^J'^ P^ " which I bclon- and which I believe is going to bo a power in the country, from one end to to her wa^ one that the late Government°was justly entitled to, and they j'^ve by th a- Speeches at the opening of each session tacitly admitted that we loft thorn nothing to reform wTen our late lan^ented statesman, the Hon. Joseph Howe succeeded - -^--sf-^'^ J to do a simnlo niece of iusticc to this Province, how was ho met ? Ho was met by all tlic onposifioTifw^as possible for tlie lloform I'arty to produce. The " (llobc" endeavored to Sw tS vc wcro^iot entitled to a dollar. They put up Mr Wood the.r ablest .speaker m OnTario, to prove that you had too much already. But tho Liberal-C onscrv.ativc p y was too much fbr them, and Mr. Blake hurried away to the Local Legislature of Ontario and 'ot an address tu tho Crown passed asking that this piece of .lustice be taken away Irom us And yet these are the men who would come down to Nova Scotia to woo you w h the ■ sweet voices. They may continue to say, we have been true to our principles ot ro o m, but i say hey could find nothing to reform.' All the title they can find to the name ot Ke orme s is to bo fbund in the records of the Courts that have consigned near y a score of them to poetical destruction. Thev talk about Sir Hugh Allan giving S15,u00 towards the el ction £nd in Ontario, and Mr. M"ackenzie said on the floors of Parliament that our statement that Ihey had used money at their elections was false And yet in Simeoe^ the Kf^-J^-l; spent $23,000. Major Walker and his friends spent from §20,000 to $30,000 on hs lotion, aid M. C. Cameron over $20,000. Go whore you will, to Chumbbs Argentuiel, Dorchester, wherever the courts have pursued their mvest.gations, the recoru is tl^c Bame shewing the most gigantic corruption ever attempted in any country (Applause), l.ut ho St of these trials of contested elections also showed that the Liberal Conservative Party rested on firmer claims to the support of the people, and did not buy its way into 1 ^J'- '^J^^ent^ A-ain wo are told that wo resisted the payment of eighty thousand dolUu., to pr'ovinco on account of the Post Office, and I a^u taun' d because I opposed - aymcnt. 1 will tell you ^vhy I did not press it. WhenP. r. Howe was domg battle •->tcrcsts on the floors of Parliament ho was met with this statement, if we vole these . -ons, you will come back fur more. Ho pledged his honor as ;i man that he would not, and when I went into the Government ho had taken his attitude iho very men rom Ontario who had taken tho ground that the money paid should be in full went backon tl c r record and supported that $30,000 more. So also they opposed the readjustment o t. e debt which has furnished Nova Scotia with the means ot carrying on her public works. 1 -m 4^ obll-od ^0 {^-k you to take mv testimony on this point. I can ro:!.l you the STjcech of tiic Finance Minister, delivered before his last visit to England, in winch you will imd him complaining of the late Goverumeat for readjusting the debt, thus placirig a million more at tho disposal of Kova Scotia for the public works of tho country NVhcn 1 have evidence of thi.^ sort before mo. I am justified in standing here and sayiug that they are not this that in two l\ / t / w\ i 48 manaKing, but luisnianagiog, the affairs of the country. What did your lleprescntativc Mr t ower, say in alluding to the gentlemen composing the so-called Iteform Party before thev had como into otiico ? " I have no hope. I ».ave seen these men and know them to too core and 1 am satisfied that whenever the interests of this Province are at stake wo have nothing to expect at tht-ir hands." Mr. P()wcr\M tCHtimony stands here upon "ecord, and provv.. that wliatovor other merits ho lias, he at least has the merit of being a prophet and a tru« one. Who' the Jlon. A. J. Smith of New Brunswick say ? On returning lo his constituent.s ho sc.u -'• (Jentlenicn, live yeara ago you sent mc to the Parliament of our country with all my preposseshions in iavor of the llefonu Party. Having carefully watched both sides I have been giving my support to the Liberal-Conso.vative Party, and I tell you as an honest inan, that it you choose m^ as your IJcprcseiitativo again it must be on the understanding that I am still to support that piirty, because 1 consider their policy more advanta'eous to tiio Maritime Provmccs. ' In West Toronto I stated in the presence of the Government candidate, who is not likely to liavo the satisfaction of representing them in ParliaiiKoot however, ihat I was prepared to show that they were a Government without principles, wlio had systematically trampled principles under tlicir foct ever since thcj uimo into power 1 read Irom Mr. Mackcue's lips, as reported in the " Globe," of July Gth, 1872, tb.e follow in" statement :— "The Policy of the LiBEi:.\r. Pautv is to make the Parliamentary Govern- ment .supreme— *e any poution op the people's monev wituoct a direct VOTE FOR EACH SERVICE." I tlicu showcd thut with that Statement on record, Mr. Mackenzie took $2,G(j5,000 of your money, without a dollar having been voted, and appropri ated them to the purchase of .steel rails fur use on the Pacific railway. AYell, wo asked him, " did you want the rails T' Wo knew that he could not use between four and live hundred miles of steel rails for many years to do liis best, the way he wa.s c'oini; on. And we asked him il" ho wanted them, lie had to_ confers that he did not, but ho .said,' " Wc made a capital bargain." We asked Mr. Mackenzie it he had any reason, as a commercial man, to suppose that that purcha.so of 50,000 tons of steel rails, at a cost of 8L',Gi;5,000, half-a-dozen years bcA>ro he wanted them all, was likely to save any money. Wo said he would not only have to pay a ^''j- about fifty per cent. ...ore than Iho present (Jovernnicnt paid ior the ra.Ls tor the 1 "c ficroad^ .Suppo.0 wi had paid 100 per cent, more, would not every commercial '"»" ''.'"f^^' " ;f .^^^^ roply ? Tiut what will you think when I tell you that, on the .lournalH. t ih pr^vcd t a Mr. Blake, instead of npcaking tho truth (mind, I do not mean to insinuate he means to fitatt what is untrue), but he should have been more ear..ful than ^'''V Sol^^Illo r?\\ I\ tfun nc^- unfounded statement as that, a small mistake, an.ount.ng to ^'nl/^^ -^♦^-^f'*^ ai' ah Ic^^i . tion. On the Journals wo iind,to a dollar, tin price paid lor 48,000 tons. W "--J^l^f ^'"'; ', paid m a ton ; lifty per cent, on that wo: ' ^ bo ^81. ^^ hat do you «"PP"^« ^ r»> ,; Fifty-cight dollars and sixteen cents for ral.s delivered at points nlon- the .>horo ot 1 1 1 qJ. I mention it because, out of tho wholo bill of =nd.ctu,cnt I brought against the (.o- .rnmont the other day at Toronto, this was the only point Mr. ]51ako ^"J'^'-^^!'"''^'^ ^^«,„ «"f^ " I told them, at tho Bamo time, that this Mr. Lrydges-wh., is anxious to ^'ring the last dol- lar out of the pockets of tho people of Nova Scotia, in order to make capital 1°^ "m el - m.do :. bargain with tho Spring Hill Mining Company, by whieh »'« "o^ ?ly m de luni a prtx-cnt of live miles of railroad which belonged to you, but p edged the <">rcrnment to K y tho whole with new rails. AUhough I havo tho most incndiy disposition towaids Mpru liill.in the county of Cumberland, I «« bound to stato that a ^'-'^P'"- 7"';; .f^ ",7" inflicted upon the people of any Trovince. That live miles of road would not only lui c Knc- fittcd the Spring Hill Mining Company, but the several mining ^«^°«'" !«"%.\"f' ,;;'° ircnsported their coal over it to tho main road, and it was al.o the connecting 1 nk between the latter road and tho line to the Basin of Minas. As a question ot public policy, fucI, transfer was calculated to injure the best interests of tho country. It you could Und o t instance of such a violation of everything like parliamentary governmont f'" *'•« Ff^ ^^ V'° lato Government, I would never present myself belbrc an intelligent audience like tins again. Mr. Blake had not a binalc word to utter in defence of this transaction. It was wholly ludc- fcnsible. No wonder public conGdcncc U shaken when public aflairs are guided by men so utterly reckless. Another act that cannot be passed over without comment was that commit od by Mr. iuaekenzic when he took from the public monies 607,000 duties collected Irom tho (Lat Western Hallway Co., and handc: it back to them. The transaction was pr;^'^'-'ly ^1'° same as if he were to refund to any merchant the duties paid by lum during the last three y cars. The next question asked mo Is, Why didn't I give the e^itra '"^'V*'",, *^ Halifax •/ That is a curious question to ask at this juncture. Mr. .lones, some time jgo indicted me before the people of ] [alilax for that very thing. I at that tune ntated, over m> own eisnature, frankly and fairl 7 as I always do, my reason. The answer was accepted The people allowed Mr. Jones f remain at home and attend to his piivate uusi«&^s, and elected a supporter of the Admiuistra'.ion of whidi I was a member. (Hear, licar, ami ehecra.) I can say that at the present ,'noment Halifax would bo better represented in the Dominion Parliauicnt if it had no membor thereat all. (Cheers.) I thmk you mistake ino; I am perfectly serious about ti.is. and I had not the slightest reference to your prcseut 'uembf .^. What I mean to say is this: The member for Cumberland is a member ior Halifax, and the men I see before me would givo more weight to Hahiax even witnoui a member, than most other counties could ho]ic for with one. (Applause.) 1 say that no man who is the representative of any section of .Nova Scotia cau afford to be indifferent to anythi.ig connected with tho welfrre of Halifax, knowing, as he mu-^t, that the good ot the country a.s :i whole, is largely dependent upon the progress and prosperity ot the great metropolis, but •[ think there was another reason that might have suggested itselt. W hat have i seen . i >iave Been the people ot Halifax submitting to iiavc a representative, alter they Lad cIgc cd him . .n his back on the Parliament with scorn and contempt, and eontinu9 to prosecute Ins own mercantile affairs, while Halifax ^vas left to take care of itself or to depend upon the care of Bomc outside members. Thcrefo' • I thought that any people or any newspaper hat approved of his leaving the nffairs c the city to take care of thfjf y^s, T„T' TI.' Tight, in common decency, to put the ciucstion to me : Why did Halilax not^get a thud representative i'our member tion of thi ..V. . I am asked why BiiLl^h Columbia got tils members, and why Manitoba get bers? Is there a man in my presence to-day who does not know that no por- IS Dominion is more interested in having the Maritime Province ot .lie i JO bondinc; r. IMaku in laid, ifioroad. t, Huch a ,cd tlint to Bttilo I grosHly trunsac- ickcnzic paid ? 1 of tlio the (lov- touch. last dol- limsclf — ) them a nt to lay s Mpriiig as never live bonc- t^ht have ; between f, Fnch a iind one irt of iho lis ne;aiD. oily iudf- y men so ommittod I'rom the oisely the roc yeai>. ;niber to time ago, , over my ncccptcj. iiucss, and hear, and ted in the lU mistake ar present lomber for without n ,at no man ) anythiim iouutry, as lolis. IJut [ fioen t I jad elected osccute his 3n the care paper that scarcely :i <;et a third anltoba set at no per- .he i I' JO 45 largely rcprosentod thau the Province of Nova fc^cotia ? TLet c is uo interest tl toucLea ui which does not touch them in the same way. In rega.-d to shipping, fisheries, coal, ur an/- thing you like, thoy stand in thosnmo position as ourselves. Hut 1 say that, apart from this, It was juHt not to provide a representation for a whole Province so small that they would feel that they had uo representation. As to .Mnnitobn, when you take into considm- iion the boundless prairies that are to become tli. home -f uiiliions of pcoi.le, as [ hope you wdl reel, 1 am conlid. , Uio^ we were entitlid to ^^ivo them four reprc-'Mtutivcs. It would bo an insulfc to you to tak . up n-y mot-o of your tiino in inslriiclinf< the Moniiiin C'lrv u le on that subject. The neyt subject referred to by tlx; C/,r 1 ior protection Ibr the shipping and ihe ai-rieultuial inte-ests of tl ' , great country, as we; ' 1 • tho coal and lumberinu' industries, liut immediately after the olfor of reciprocitv ^^hy ? Heeauso the (iovernmcnt found in th must and lumber wa:s nr '?, it was withdrawn. ai .0 Pennsylvania coal iacre^^t would jiievent Mich o 'ivuty from pa.ssin". The (JlironH,' list, th'>- jforo, go to Pennsylvania and arrai;,'ii tho coal owners thr-e. The (luestion as to the majority award allowed in the wttlemcnt of tho Ahilama Claims and tho unanimous award required in the case of the hsheries is otio Ihe then Mnr.iuis of Eipon wouh' better qualified to answer than 1 am. The ne.xt question asked is whether I made money corruptly out of tho Pictou Railway, the .Spring Hill Coal Minn, and th,; Fraser-lJeynolds supplies I might answer these questions by reminding them of tho Lyman Bccchor story, given them by tho Premier, but I will not. I havo never .Mirunk in the 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 prcparod to defond hi.s character again.-t all aspersions is not lit for a public inan, and therofore, insulting and de-rading as these questions arc to those who without the slightest warrant ask them, I am prepared to meet them, as I have over met the slightest in- sinuation on the floors of Parliament. I say that these are lying and calumnious insinuations and challenge any one • > show that 1 havo obtained corruptly, through any railway con- tractor or from any other .source, a .single dollar (cheers.) When tho Finance Minister made an allusion in Parliament to my supposed connection with Trascr, Picynolds & Co., I a-'i I would submit to the closest investigation, and if it could h: shown that I hud any connection with the affairs of that firm, that 1 would ri'sigu my seat in the House. The hon. gentleman instantly withdi^w the insinuation .Jind said he nnd not intc ded anythiu'^ of tho kind. So I stand hero to-night, and humiliating as it is to be challcnc'od with anv" thing so utterly degrading, yet, as tho challenge is thijwn out by tho organ of a great his position as leader of tho opposition, submitted that transaction to tho closest scrutiry but ho has declared over his own signature that ';o never drcam.d uor insinuated an act of personal corruption against myself. Hut what is to bo thought of the party who assail me procured after the fullest investigation. Mr. Carvell testified that ho had authority to order everything lufit was required without intcrfcronco from the Covcrnment o;.- any member of it, and that he, in fact, had no instructions whatever from the Covernmcnt or any member of it tn mntrt nnrohnana frnm flint firm Afr T""'''" 'i?" •i-/^'1~n 1 . ^i-t^- --.- 11 «r t .- - — ._ „_ I ., ... !!.. ... . , .i,tji-j: iii!3 pieateusaOi- was iutervr^wcd by At. Jones, and whea 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 Mines it has been f^ ll'. 40 proved bcyoud controversy that my connection with them took place after I had ceased to bo a member of the Government of Nova J^cotia, and was as free to speculate in Coal mines as any man in Canada. I am asked, laslly, to explain how it is that I came to this city 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 life w hen some of my li lends were obliged to contribute to my support. Degrading as it is to notice thmgs of this sort, I defy them to ahow that there is a particle of truth in this statement. 1 have spent between 30 and 40 years of my life in the most self denying industry, and, 1 hope, not altogether without some business tact. Ought it to be said of a man after 30 years or mure of hard toil that because he is not a poor mail ho must be dishonest? But, from the records of my own county, I can show that I was loanin" money upon mortgage as much as 30 years ago, and before I entered public life I had ac? cumulated a large amount ot property. I am asked why I accepted the post of City Medical Officer ? Because, sir, 1 hold it to bo an office of honour and distinction to guard the lives and >iealth of the people of this important city. But I will tell you how I filled that office. The very first ropoil 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 disciiso in the city. "When this change was accomplished I re- signed. I will not insult this auJicacc by going into any further discussion of my private affairs. These gentlemen want to know wliy'l deprive Halifax of my prjigcnco. If it is a batiufaction to them to know it I am not ashamed to say that I do not live here bccattsc I am living aow as I liavo lived all my life by daily toll and industry in the profession CO which i have the honour t j belong (cheers.; 1 feel that T 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 tliey have of obtaining public coni^ideration is to drag other men down to the same level they themselves occupy (applause.) ._ _ I have been ashed how .1 can have the audacity to come here and yj)cak on a platform in Ha- lifax. I am proud to say that I caunot see to-day on the lace of my country a mark of proar«86i and prosperity that has not boon placed there by ilie great party to which I have the honour to belong. The railway to I'ietou, the Windsor and Annapolis line, and the great Interco- lonial line ,t conne.-tstllis Pruvincc with the rest of Canada, and with the railway system of the Uti d States of America are all the work of the great Liberal-Conservative party. That party when I was or. the thri sliold of public life was formed out of the old Conserva- tive party combined with a large section of the Liberal party. Our motto was equal civil and religious privileges. The party was thus formed upon tlie great princii)lo that underlies the progress and prosperity of every country. That principle wo hold, not as a means of retaining power, but as a c.irdiual virtue, to depart from which would boimfair and would bo an injury to the country. Wo did not create a party one day upon religious and sectional antagonisms and the next day bow ouri^tlves in the dust to win the support of tho^e that we had denounced. We raised the standard eighteen years ago in this I'rovinco, of equal civil and religious rights for all, and we march under that banner still. I'orraod upon that glorious principle b^' the union of a laigc seel ion of the Liberal party with the old c" servatirc party, and^at a later day by the accession of a still larger section of the Liberal, ,. -,q ^Vrchibald, 3ic0uliy, and a number of other gentlemen united with U'^.on the great question of I'nion, the. Liberal-Conservative party standi in a position tn-fby to claim from the peoi)lo of Nova Scotia, whether in Halifax or out oi' it, the credit of having contributed to ckvatc and increase the pro- gres.3 and prosperity of every portion of the ]*'roviiice. 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