; THE DAILY EXAMINER. SEPTEMBER 12, 189 w EDUCATIONAL REFORMS ’ ‘ a ared ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ w w ‘ ‘ exa . ¥ ' 4 ¥ ~) ‘ \ exact'¥ x} a . v 4 s - ‘ r ‘ } } . ~ a ™ ; y ‘ opK proress S ety pitch up ‘ al es ! r AS o n 41 BSsistsa . xan . = ca ‘ « : pe viv v eiative sla > 7 y ‘ ay ‘ ‘ ‘ 3 ‘id } s work ‘ f the put ‘ N , . pe ‘ a ~ ‘ \ ‘ * me s is ¢ stea ’ ‘ f > a ‘1 y . oss ; " . : “ = s .’ ‘ a8 r - e g , sick al : , 8 t g y pa Ss aK y & sir '» of : estly pur ' cass 4 x Uitc¢ rse a wi iG @DY bg ram T sta ° + <". i he rva Tl e are ¢ of = ‘ ppose refort s dire I 7 because, cg Yer ~ were adopt . marks = ired would * . ‘ ’ } pee | under the present system, and th reputation of the institution miygh Fy But thw ™m ght be ne what more liberal system of n *®* } . the gain 'n determining rea: mern a eo. 5 be incaicu'avit > . Taken together, the tw » § would very largely do away ming, and atthe same time unfair means and the possit es? employ ment * ’ - ; “ > hb er ° . ie MR HACKETT'S SPEECH > ; M TACKETTY’S 3} —a] es . be We commend it to readers of 18 * , r : “@ to the Province. A demand | a+ § made for additional raliway gf * r British Columbia. A line has a ‘ected through the Crows Nest r : & . make the newly openen nines t > " - a b o turtheranc? of this “<< ‘, ave l i i i » Liberal representatives of Brit : are com piaiuing (forse tb) that toere * : ince did not obtain fair play from the ° , . ° Government. Mr. Hackett sh ee that British Columbia bas, in * 3 I eral received g r atr a 4 7 the GU eu Us 4, & 5 t ajl the Prov } g 2 as t ‘ ? . ’ . treatm ow Wh peopie or ‘ province receive nothing io retura peas manifest that the demand of »* Columbians ought not to be grante ; ' additional ratiway fa ties are oe - to thie Province We trus ‘* t | L : & demand of Mesers M artin, Hecket = MeDonald for the railway fac : ed by P. E Island shal! be gre any additional railway extensior to British Colus a. Thea 1. of Mr. Hackett’s stateme reg '~ : * op 4 - 4 will be recogr l by every w . : at e ge rea ‘ j ‘ pre-erva® ; : ~———_ 4 7 NOTES ANDO COMMENTS : —— . > _ . \h * ame S ] 4 ‘ rthe Ma 4 , ‘ His friet M le , 4 Jean t erlate ‘ 1 nurier has deciare a Me 4 oF t t F Canadia: ° . * ihe t lor t pean pow al i s wientiy § t a* WwW oe era | + WW . oi rwis ey w } g or . Tu ‘ i 4 ' cation addrest Gd Fr Acad y Med ne OF ‘ nerance, Dr. Motet gives ’ yw rst tietics gathered from 1 ‘7 nisl n by the clerks« of sever Pais: OF 100 persons arr s murder, 50 are inebriates; of | 2 sentenced for indecent asranu t, 0} e>riatessof 100 prieoners couv - 57 are inebriate-; Of 1UU per te for. vagrancy, 70 are inehriates 7 af.und eu yor assau au : bi 90 are inebriates ‘ _ a ty be A " Kos S: * —— T he ' yaue as Stare * - aarat i egins mov Dosgola The m2) p an aa * has be ' reacned by th x pe t e; by a strong force oi carrying back the “ of the presence f troops at Vu Hritieh put will await the considerable more confidence watched the beginning of tne f nf The fight at Firket showed ’ Eevptian soldier was a match for som . tie Dervishes, and raised t pr that he was 4 match for any ort 4% Cheap pears aod bananas G s to-night t - Pe are 4! bananas ouly : ‘ * | tations were fulfil }@ dozen at Beer & Gott’s to-ni —_—— --— ee POINTS TO BE NOTED }« apital Speech by Mr, Hackett Important Matters in Which FP, EB, Island ts Interested, Mr. Hackett: Mr Spe aker, in rising to make afew I arkKs s not my mten to detain tl Ho se very long In et. I do not know that I should have ad jreaved the House at all this evening had i ot feit it a duly devo upon me, as I ya very portant | rtion of . y 4 my views ¢ | > I porta r discuss A iis isslo tl mover of Address spoke of the att province of Britis! ‘ imbia As to the greatness of those resources there can be nodoubt. They are W known io the whole Dominion of Canada i of thi at count from the | nce British Columbia on the Paciti Island of Cape Breton | 1 the Atlantic, all know perfectly vell , | the great iIrce th proving | British Columbia. I was surprised, how ever, to find the hon gentleman stating that he was pleased that a party were now power Canada who would accord to COpPie f that province more generous | treatment then had been given to them by : ate Government He went on to say | that t people of Britis Columbia were | paying o the exchequer of Canada a | very mu argeramountthan they were ving therefron Now, [ am not going ra a ite thi istice of | hop gea ic- } man’s compla I iV have @ reason | for that « " . butit isa most diff cu atter, indeed, for t representative ; Of any prov e to state the exact amount | paid into the ex er ¢ the Dominion | vy the people of that province. While we an cai ale exa vy ti amount received refrom, we Ca t state exrctly the la mnt paid But I say the province f British Columbia should be the la-t province to complain of having to pity in } & larger a int than it receives from the Ex le f Canada We kuoow that the | Canadian Pa Railway, which was un- lertaken by the Conservative party, ened ut I es that great pro vi r We koow that the building of that raiiway Was auet inced atthe time by the | party wi the hon. gentiecman now says | w ‘ rd to that province more generous treatment Phe peat fi aga the building Of that ra'iway Was Oo buted by ali the pr ovinces of Car vada I come rom a province down by the sea—in fact, 8 @ province surroun led by the sea— and the people of that island have not re- ceived any benefit, direct or indirect, from he construciion of the Canadian Pa:ifi Railway: yet they are to-day contributing their share to pay the interest On the noney borrowed for the construction of that work Now, I say it ili becomes any representative of a pr wince OF section of « yf this country to complain thata sup posed amount is being paid into the ex- shequer by that province or section ip excess of the amount received therefrom. Allthe provinces of this Dominion are | yntributing equally with the province of British Columbia Sir, the building of that great railway afforded meavus of transit through the province of British Columbia as well as through the whole | Dominion, from one ocean to the other, andthe placing on the Pacific Ocean f a fast line of steamsh'ps is tue to tl enterprise @ i the energy of he company that constructed that raliway, making a highway from east to the west for British | traffic through the province of British | . " . ‘| Columbia, so that large quantities o f goods which are consumed in ot ther parts of the ouptry are entered there The hon gentleman bad very sm all reason indeed for his attack on the late Government for heir treatment of the province of British inbia l remember, when I had the listinguished honor of being a member of this House some vears ago, thata gentle man pamed Mr. Buster came here from | the province of British Columbia, and | made a periodical complaint in this House | as to how the interests ef British Columbia were beipg negiecte 1. At last his expec- ed The Government f this country, led by the late Right Hon | Sir Joho é. Ma i nald, gave a contrac for the building of aportion of the Car adian Pacif tailway west of the Rocky mountains. Mr. Bunster was highly de ghted at whal was lone by the Govern ment; but what was the action of the leader of the party who now sit on the Treasury benches? Mr. Blake, the most listinguished member of that party who eat in this Honse, during my time, at least characterized the province of British Col- am bis as “a sea of mountains.” He held ip before this bcnourable House a map showing the province of British Columbia, nd stated that the mountains were yainted brown; and, Sir, the whole of sritishi Columbia was painted brown. He , ‘ ——t @ was doing it up brown, But, owing t» the great energy of the hon. gentleman who now leads this side of the Houses, the ontract was carried through, and after wards a company was formed for. the ding of the whole line of vailway, in the face of the most strenuous opposition fered by the gentiemen who are now sit ng on the Government side of the House. Was not this generons treatment for the province of British Columbia? No more generous treatment could have bgeeu given to any province. We were all glad of ause we all felt thatthe solemn com- pact entered into sho ild be carried out. It | had been agreed that British Columbia should be brought into ecmmunication with e other provinces by the construction of a railway, and we all felt it incumbant on us, and in the interest of the Dominion that this railway should be built. I want to show to the hon. gentleman who moved the Address that the party he is now sup- porting, and from which he expects most generous treatment has always been op- posed to the prog rvress ani j pros pe rity of Bri tish Columbia. In proof at this, I shall give him, not my views, but the views of agen tleman who, in 1°81, represented a consti- tuency in that province, a gentleman of ma ture years and great experience and who had then become the father of a fine boy, who has now the honor of sitting in this House as a representative of that distant province. I shall give the hon. gentleman the views of Mr. McInnes to show what Mr. McInnes, expected from the then Op- position with regard to the province of British Columbia. In 1881 Mr. McInnes said : “If it was not that British Columbia was a remarkably strong and vigorous child, the life would have been crushed out of ier long ago by the treatment of the bon. nember for Weet Durham (Mr. Blake ) He went on further to say: “if it had not been for her great recuper e powers, she would have been crushed jeath, and the mé mber for West Dur ham would have been placed on his trial, not only for assault and battery, but for niaot ie. This was the opinion of Mr. McInnes i with regard tothe treatment whi h the | province of Brit eh Columbia was ‘he: re céiving from the gentlemen now sitting on the Treze#irv benches Then he went on to refer to astatement made in 1894, when he National Policy was being int:oduced, e hon member for North Norfolk Mr. Charlton). He then quoted this tract from the hon. gentleman’s speech: ‘Who undertook the building of the crates , Canal but those hon. gentlemen ? Who THE DAILY EXAMINER “—s" 2 - a : a | Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Railway? The Hon. Finance Minister (Sir Leonard Tilley) and his associates. Who noder | took the enlargement of the St, Lawrence canale but his hon. friends and his asso- ? Who undertook the Weliand undertook the public works at Ottawa and the public paitdiogs of the Dominion but his hon. friend and his associates? Who undertook the building of the Pacific Railway, the most destructive and ruinous of all? Who undertook to fix upon this Dominion that incubus of British Colum- bia.—that cancer financially of British Columbia, that was eating into the vitals and edtailing a heavy financial burden » upon the country for all time to —_ W ho undertook that but the Hon. Finance Minister aud his associates ? ” “What kind of treatment,then,can the hon, ember fer Vancouver expect from: the | rentiemen now sitt ng on the Treasury | benches who expressed th smselves in that way at so late a period? Sir, it would have beer no great trouble for the hon. gentleman, if he wished, to inform himeelf of what these gentleme n did in the past Lo have gone to the hibrary and searched through the records, and he would have become enlightened to such a xtent that ve would never have ventured to charge the hon. leader of the Opposit on Sir Charles Tupper) wi th neglecting British | Columbia, or ventured to expect frora hon. ire ntlemen ¢ ppo te better trealmenot. Referring fora moment to the Speech ; from the Throne, I must say that I cannot ; see very much in it to comment upon. It | contains so very little, and that little has been so much commented upon by hon. getlemen who have preceded me that there is scarcely anything left for me to say. But the speech refers to one matter an i that is the tariff. We are promised that an in- } vestigation will be had into the workings | of the tarfff during recess, and that action will be taken at the next meeting ef Par iament. I trust that nothing will be done to take off the duties on raw materials, as promised by the hon. leader of the Govero- ment. There are some articles of raw ma- terials, at all events, which should be pro- | tected While Prince Edward Island, ' which I have the honor to come from, is not a manufacturing Island, while tbe people there are an agricultural people, and while a certain portion of them are engaged in fisheries, yet we are interested in having certaia mines and minerals in the neighboring province of Nova Scotia protected, We know that since the in- auguration of the National Policy |a great industry has gone forward and flourished in the province of Nova Scotia. I refer to the coal! mining indus- try. We know that in 1878 that indus- try was in @ languishing condition. The mines were then being closed up, the ininers were being thrown out of employ- ment, the greatest want was being felt by those people; but by the infroduction ot a protective duty a stimulus was given that industry, and it wenton increasing and prospering until now it has attained great importance. Around these mines, owing tothe large output of coal through the -ncouragement given by the National Policy, towns have sprung up, and the people of Prince Edward I+land tiod today in their towns and villages their best “cus- tomers for their surplus market products. Around the coal mines and the iron mines } ; anc d those manufacturing centres in the | province of Nova Scotia we find that we can sell our surplus products, our vats, our pork, our butter and cheese and other articles, while afew years ago no such market at all existed. Now, this is large- ly due to the imposition of the duty on coal, and I wou'd therefore ask that, in the interests of the great portion f the lower provinces nothing could be done to diseourage those industries, but that instead every protection be given them. Speak ing of protection we know very wel that oats are being sold at the seaboard in the city of Bost n for about the same price | asin the city of Halifax. Only remove | the protection which the farmers heve of | 10 cents a bushel on their oats, and you would have the markets of the maritime provinces flooded with American oats, and take away from ds the only means we have of disposing of our surplus products. Therefore, while you keep the duty on the rav material of coal and iron, you also ed to keep it on the raw material of oats aod pork and other products which come in from the south of us where they can be produced so much cheaper than we can prodace them, bringing undue competition to bear againstour farmers and driving us out of vur own market. I have no objec- tion whatever to a reciprocal treaty with che United States. I trust the hon. leader of the Gove: nment will be able to negotiate «uch a treaty. But, while they impose upon our products a heavy duty and thus shut us out of their markets it is only fair and jast and right that the people of Canada should be protected in their own markets and the people to the south of the line kept out with their products. I pass to another matter, which is "not referred to in the Speech from the Ti hrone, but which has been largely commented on here—the statement male by the leader cf the House to the reporter of an Americaa newspaper that certain important interests of the people of this country would be sur rendred to the people of the United States. I want to say here, and I Say it ia sll sincerity, that it would be a@ most se | ous thing for the people of the Maritime provinces if their valuable fisheries should be handed over to another country. This is the heritage of our people down by the sea and a great many of them gain their liv- ing from the wealth of these waters. It would be a suicidal course, a course. un worthy of a statesman, a course that would not be approved by the people, but would be condemned by them at the first oppor- tonity, tohand over these valuable re- sources toa foreign nation without any compensation whatever. Sir, we know the result of giving the use of there Atlantic fixtheries in vears past to the Americans. To-day we have thousands cf peop'e sailirg | 9 over these waters looking for that most valuable fish, the mackerel. But that fish is not now to be found in there waters. Week after week and month after month our fishermen are out, returning often with out any reward for their Jabor which should afford support for themeelves and their families. What is the reason for this? It follows from the use of purse seines in- troduced into these waters by Ameria fisherman. That erg ne of destruction has driyen from our waters this valuable fish. Are we to hand over without com- pensation these fisheries which with proper protection must be such an inexhaustible source of wealth ? Tamglad to see the Minister of Marine and Fisheries in his place, and I trust he will protect the in- terests of the people who have sent him here. But, as I have said,it would be a most uowise and unstatesmanlike thing to hand over these valuaole fisheries to foreign control without recieving due compensa- tiow. I am not speaking now ofthe canals, to which I hear reference has been maie ; [ confise my remarks for the present to the juestion of the fisheries. +