The Examiner,

Charlottetown, Oct. 9, IS76,

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ve LAIRD, GOVERNOR OF NORTHWEST. By a special dispatch to the Halifax Morning Chronicle we learn that “ Mr. Laird has been appointed Governor of

s}.o Northwest ; and has aecepted the ap~ Could we believe that Mr.

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pou tment

Laird had attained to the honor by honor- ‘ ru abs

able and patriotic conduct, we should be tainly a distinetion to our Island home

t it one her sous—anc Sie li 1 to our I land that one of its members—! Ss been

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setting

« BIG DONALD,’

is a troublesome cus- |

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‘“ Bra DonaALpD”’ | Our City Fathers have long been te for a tower in which |

: | it is questionable whether |

upen o to hang him. they beve found a final resting place ior | him yet. Shortly after his arrival, it was proposed to place him at the Kast end of | the market 4 and a contract was drawn up | with the view of carrying out the propo- | sition. Afterwards it was thought that he might suffer from fire if placed there ; and some said it would be better to build the iunction |

ndsama fenlatad arch at

vineial Building, with Queen Square. |

Thea a Committee of the City Council

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‘‘ British Columbia,” it says, “ must bea

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' to be a kind of rotten borough ;

a ’ ‘ a > i} about the Carnarvon cecaurs, eto, ! of Great George Street, Nort! of the Pro-

BRITISH COLUMBIA. Tue Putriot of Thursday last contains carping article on British Columbia.

ae se ag ag paradise for old fashioned politicians ;

; o& -€ the whole province appears in the

ewe sa ae “A House of Commons, “ British Columbia

exercises an influence out of all propor-|

| tion to its population, its importance In

the Confederation,” and so on; her re | ‘ommons | and | yet they dare “ to talk as big as the biggest | J ) -

presentatives in the Dominion ¢

are elected by small constituencies,

How different is the spirit in which

these remarks were penned to that which

‘inspired Karl Dufferin when he declared,

press, . ey | : i » wife of | hit upon the expedient of placing him at | : me es awarded the highest office in the gift of : t ; os > a c . 5 a | addressing the British Columbians at 1; ’ 1@ ‘ster a | or the Market OUGGs bu “ee fi - | the Canadian Government. the Westero enc ' | Victoria, after his tour through the pro- ° ildi re lieca oti . FOG ap » |} °

Oueces’ County is now witheat a re- building a police station and keeper s house vince :— |

” r » a awi ha lhceme aut- , presentative in the Commons of Canada. Ree eT « Your numerical weakness as a commun- i . fy ° ‘ : a W ume that in a very few weeks, its | ly on hand to guard and protect him. And | ity is your real strength, for it is a consider-

shar aes ; : hi 2 ation which appeals to every generous heart.

1] leet a man | this scheme has at last been adopted. But} * peals ye people will be called upon te elect a man | ¢ ae 7 Far be the day when on any acre of :oil to fill the seat vacated by Mr. Laird. We/still our City Fathers are not happy. | above which floats the tlag of England, mere ‘ “— — eee : nm . . ’ . : aterisg ror . » ic re TH trust that they will make selection of a} For first, ‘ Big Donald’ is as much in | mat so oa be naan ne c a —

- ' - : meaty a , ance shoule e per ed to decide such @ wood man-—-true to the interests of the | danger from fire on the Western as on the | controversy as that which we are discussing. 3 , P arke sa: | e like wirscely rhy stad a Dominion and the Province The Liberal | Mastern end of the Market House ; | is to men a yours . s who, a un

ee — : . . i“ . ‘ a Pant? os ee Ke qu iuing foruulude ana heroic energy have Conservative party should organize without second, the proposed erection will ee planted the laws and liberties and the bless- lelay If our frien ls work together and | tate the closing of the Western door of} ed influences of English homes amidst the pt “gs , me : | wilds and desert plains of savage lands, that

® ey : ye : i a ouse : . e steneh W is at s y 5 with a will there is not the slightest | the Market House; third, va : Kagland owes the enhancement of her press doubt that they cam nominate and elect | peculiar toa police station, will, it is fear-| tize, the diffusion of her tongue, the increase

oul é a hua . , . i . , i if ber commerce and her ever-widening re-

. 4) “ovince to | so disgust our healthy and independ- | ‘ .

one of the ablest men in the Province to | ot,'00 eens m J P nown; and woe betide the Governmeut or oppose the “ organized hypocrisy” at pre- | ent, and fastidious yeomanry, that they} gtatesman who, because its inhabitants are mppose 3 pg L 2 : & : : : : eee ae r r rae od eal PI 1 : lies will refuse to enter the market with their} few in number and politically of small ac- sent established in Ottawa. : . sims sad , count, should disregard the wishes or care- aw nie oe ae produce ; fourth, the City Council have lessly dismiss the representations however

MR, SLEWART'S CONSISTENCY, no authority whatever—iu fact they are | Diull, boisterous or downright, of the feeblest

Mr. W. W. Srumpces, Jr., one of the Secretaries of the Sabbath School Con- vention, has written a letter to the Pres- byterian, in which he says :—‘ As Secre- tary of the Convention, I endeavored to keep the minutes fairly and accurately. ; On referring to my notes, I find the following synopsisof the Hon. W. D. Stewart's speech; . ‘fle (Mr. Stewart) felt ashamed of Charlottetown that it had but one day school supported by an evangelical body.’”’ We understand that the Presbyterian’s re- port is also declared to be correct by other gentlemen whose words are above sus- We are loth to hold Mr. Stews We should much like to see an explanation over his own signa- ture tf what he meant to say at Summer- side. What he did say is certainly open to no other construction than that Mr.

picion. art up to ridicule,

Stewart is ashamed of the avengelical bodies of Charlottetown ; and that his shame will vanish away when each of those bodies supports a school (like the Protestant Academy) where childrea may receive a “ Christian education.”’

We sincerely hope that Mr. Stewart's shame may vanish quickly, Mr. Stewart though he keenly felt the burning of his shame. Although member of a Government established to maintain a secular system of Education, Board of Trustees who induce parents to take their children from

certainly acts as

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he is one of the

the public schools and send them to the Protestant Academy where they will re- ceive a “‘ Christian Education.”’

Mr. Stewart is so successful efforts as to secure the depart- ure of his shame, the policy of the Government of which he is a member must fail ; because good evangelical schools and good secular schools cannot co-exist in this small community. We have not the children. How ridiculous a man—even aclever man like Mr. Stewart—makes himself when he endeavors at the same

If, how- ever, in

his

"| be relieved ere the winter sets iv.

bound not—to use the market square for other than market purposes ; and it is teared that the iofluentis! gentlemen who oceupy the stores opposite the western end of the market house will interfere to pre- vent the consent of Government being given to theerection, ‘All these consider- ations naturally make our Fathers anxious. It is to be hoped that their anxiety will For our part we strongly favor the building of a monumental arch by the Government. Let us have an arch and tower to mark the year in which the great non-sectarian Free School party attained to office and power. The Province can afford it ; and the Uity is justly entitled to a share of the Provincial subsidy. If ‘* Big Donald” be hung upon the top of the tower, the Government might stipulate that he be rung on the 17th August in each year, for the special purpose of commemorating the glorious victory gained upon that day.

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THE PRINTING SCANDAL.

Ir the St. John Watchman be right, Mr. Anglia is almost as much sinned against as sinning in the matter of the Post Office Printing Scandal The Watchman declares :—

1. That Mr. Anglin never applied for this public printing. No friend of Mr. Anglin applied in his behalf. No intima- tion was conveyed to the Government or to individual Ministers that he wished to have it. It was the last thing he could have thought of or expected. The me- chanical resources of his printing estab- lishment were such as to preclude even the possibility of his application,

2. The Post Office Printing in New Brunswick was promised by the Govern- ment to Mr. Elder. There is, we opiue, geod authority for this statement. Mr. Eider naturally expected it, having stock- ed his printing office with all the printing material, presses, ete., for such work. It is understood that he counted on this work as confidently as he could have reckon- ed on anything not really in his possession.

3. Mr. Elder was deceived. The print~ ing was given to Mr. Anglin, who had not asked for it. Mr. Anglin at the time was a member of Parliament and the chosen candidate of the Government for

time to serve God and Mammon!

AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

Mr. Wm. J. Patterson, of the Dominion Board of Trade, has addressed an elabo- rate letter to the President of the Board, on the subject of Canadian trade with Australia. In his report for 1870, Mr. Patterson had introduced this trade to the notice of the Board. He showed that nearly all the timber shipped by the United States for Australia was Canadian timber, and that the profit realized by the American shipper might just as well be reaped by the Canadian. The disad- vantages of no return cargoes have to be faced by the Americans as well as the Ca-

the Speakership. It was done at the in- stigation and request of Mr. Isaac Burpee Minister of Customs, with the concur- rence of Mr. Smith, the other New Bruns- wick Minister. The transaction was re- garded as a political necessity.

Certainly it was hard for a man to re- fuse governmental patronage which was forced upon him. Mr. Anglin is not so much to blame as the majority of our people imagine. But what of the Gov- ernment and Mr. Burpee? They must have known thatif Mr. Anglin accepted their proffered patronage the law would be broken and the Iudepeudence of Parlia- tampered with.

GRAVE CHARGES. The Chatham Planet prints the fol-

nadia shipper ; and this disadvantage was overcome by proceeding to New South Wales, and loading coals for Chiha or California. Mr. Patterson concludes :— “Tt appears from what has been sub- mitted in this communication (1) That the Australian trade is great, valuable, and diversified ; (2) That a large number of the articles comprising that trade are such as are produced or manufactured in the Dominion; and (3) The natural in- ference is, that, with a view to partici- pate in that trade, the conditions to be kept in view are quality and price ot commodities, and facility of intercourse.” HOW THEY DO IT.

Tue Watchmen explains that the Gov- ernment, or, rather, Mr, Brydges, ap- pointed Mr. C. D. Thomson, provisionally, Uashier at Moncton. Then rumors came from Government quarters that Mr, James McAllister was to get the appointment. Next, information eame to the effect that Mr. McAllister was not to get it after all ; that Mr. Thomson was to have it, and that Mr. McAlister was to become an As- sistant Auditor of railway accounts at Moneton. This was a new and wholly ec, the maintenance of which was expected to cost $1,500 a year. And, then, lastly, came the aysnouncement that Mr. Smith would not submit to be done out of the office to which he had nominated his friend ; that he would not lie down and be kicked by Mr. Brydges ; that he insisted on Mr. MeAllister’s ap- pointment to the post for which he had named him; that Mr. Brydges had been obliged to eat the leek, and that Mr.

Thompson had to give way to Mr. Mc- Allister:

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MONUMENT TO THE LATE HON. EDWARD WHELAN.

We understand that a movement is ‘.... wade to erect a monument over the remains of the late Hon. Edward Whelan. ewe plan proposed, when submitted to the public will, we have no doubt, meet with approval, and the call for funds will be most heartily responded to. The small amount at which the subscription will be put, (ten cents) will place the privilege of contributing within the reach ofall. Weare much surprised that this matter has not been taken up before. We trust that the gentlemen who have the matter in hand will carry it out success— fully ; and that an intelligent people will

show their appreciation of the services of a man of genius who spent the flower of his

lowing remarkable article :—-

“A most astounding report reaches us, which, if true, must stamp the chief parties concerned with indelible disgrace, and re- fleet on the ‘ part. of purity’ in a way most damaging. It is this: That a certain p2rson was arranging to supply certain Chicago con- tractors on the Canada Pacitic Railway with machines, the cost of which was put down to $40 each. On this basis the agreement was made. But, sitange to say, it is alleged the person or persons who were to supply the machines to the contractors aforesaid were informed by a brother of the Hon, Alexander McKenzie, Premier of Canada, that the contractors money would pass through his hands, and that the person who was to supply the machine, wouid charge on each an extra $60, and that he would be paid out of each $100 -o0 charged for each machine the sum of $40 as atlirst agreed upon. And again, that certain materials were arranged to be supplied to the Chicago contraciers at specified rates ; but before the goods were shipped a letter was received from 4 brother of the Premier to say that inasmuch as the payments to the contractors would be made through him, he would res tain from the face of the bill the sum of six per cent, as commission agency fees in the matter! We can hardly credit these reports and only give publicity to them in order that, if untrue, they may be controverted by those who are in a position to do so.

* We have the ‘ steel rail’ transaction fresh in our memories and we think it cans not be successfully denied the Messrs. Mac- kenzie & Co., of Sarnia, are directly reaping large benetits from the progress of the Pacific on Railway the north shore of Lake Superior, and if, in addition to all this, there reports that have reached us be true, it is high time that the eyes of the country were opened and were taken to puta stop to such practices.”’

The Svar (Independent), in copying the above, remarks :

“Mr, Stevenson (the proprietor of the Planei), a sensible and responsible man, would hardly dare to make sucha formidable charge without having some good reason to believe that there was a gooa foundation of truth for it. Coming from such a source, it requires to be answered fully, and at once, for Mr. Thomas White's recent letter has left some very grave suspicions behind it which are doing the Government no good.”

THE SITUATION IN EUROPE.

By a despatch ot the 4th inst., it ap- pears that bad feeling is springing up between Russia and Austria. The opin- ion formerly expressed in Berlin that Russia would recoil from war if challenged by Austria and Turkey has changed, and it is now thought that Russia, after her repeated threats of war, might, if chal- lenged, deem it incompatible with her honor to remain at peace. It is asserted that Russia has ordered railways leading to Turkey and Roumapia to place trains daily at their disposal. The Times des. patch says the Porte's reply to the Powers is very grave, for it reopens the whole question, and strengthens the Opinion of those who have maintained that mere

life for the public good,

persuasion was useless,

of our distant colonies.”

Earl Dufferin has journeyed through and around British Columbia; and he returns with a report almost as glowing as that of the Israelitish spys on their res turn from the Land of Canaan. [ie says: “T think British Columbia a glorious province —a province which Canada should be proud to possess, and whose association with the Dominion she ought to regard as the crowning triumph of Federation.”

To the great speech delivered by Sir John A. Macdonald, at Simeoe, on Wed- nesday, 27th, ult., we are clearly shown that in order to secure this “ glorious Pro- vince ’’— io order to accomplish this “ crowning work of Federation,’’ it was ab solutely necessary to build the “ Pacifie over which such fuss has We make no

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Railway ° been made by the Grits. excuse for quoting at length from Sir John’s able and eloquent speech, for our readers will find the quotation pleasing as well as instructive :—

“At the time that the Pacific Railway policy was before the Government, the ques» tiop was taken up with the sincere desire to promote the interests of the country. (Hear, hear.) The Pacific Railway was a necessity, and, by the universal consent of the people, it was agreed that the Dominis on would be imperfect, would be a failure, without the means of binding together the whole of the British North American Pros vinces. Why, you may remember yearsand years ago, so long ago as 1853, that the Globe attacked the Government of which I was a member, because we were not suffi- ciently energetic in getting possession of the Hudson Bay Company’s Territory, be~ cause we had not forced the company out of the country and taken possession of it for Canada, Afterwards, in the same way, British Columbia, stretching along the Pacific Ocean, it was in our judgment, in the judgment of Parliament and cf the country, felt that so long as it was not a portion of Canada the Dominion would be incomplete. You remember the position of British Columbia, situated a= it jg far away from any other British Province, sep- arated from us by the Rocky Mountains, and with the United States on the south and north of it. The United States paid seven millions of their money in order to get hold of Alaska. It was not worth that money; it was a region of ice and snow, but they got it in order, as they hoped, that British Columbia would fall like a ripe plum into their mouths. The British Columbi ans were few, were far separated from their fellow colonists, and unless united to Can- ada, were in great danger of eventually being absorbed into the United States. So we should have lost that magnificent sea-~ board, and it would have been handed over to foreign Government. Supposing it had gone. Supposing British Columbia had be- come a possession of the United States, where would Canada have been? Having the United States extending all along our southern and western boundaries, and with the St. Lawrence closed during our long winters, we should he in a comparative state of isolation. We should have beén hemmed in, and the great object of the United States to absorb us might be realiz~ ed in the future. It would have been a calamity to Canada. It was important, therefore, that Canada should embrace the whole of British North America and have not only an Atlantic but a Pacific coast. We had to get the country, and we got it. Now we extend from sea to sea, In ter- ritiorial extent we are larger than the United States, great as that country is. Now, we have a magnificent future before us, and we can enjoy not only our Atlantic trade, but can compete tor the trade of India, China, Japan, and for our share of the future commerce of the Pacific Ocean, Our union with EFritish Columbia would, however, only have been an alliance on paper unless we had means of communicas tion with it, so the late Government agreed to build the Pacific Railway. [he Opposi-~ tion said that it was a most recklessly ex~ pensive undertaking. It was far beyond our resources. It would overburden Canax da and load you and your farms with a load of debt from which you could never free yourselves. But our scheme was not to build the road out of your money and your

kets, except in a very small degree.

he plan proposed was to get a company of capitalists to build the road who could go into the European market and borrow money for the purpose. We proposed to give such a company, as they proceeded with its construction, $30 000,000 in money and 50,000,000 acres of land. As regards the land, we should not have lost anything by giving them that, because, it is occus pied only by wild buffaloes and wilder In- dians, and the only means of making it of value was by pouring in a large immigration an you could only hope to do so by means of a railway through the country. So that when we promised to give that land we were not giving away what was of any pre~ sent value to us, but we were giving what would have been of value to the railway company. True we were to give them $30). 000,000 in cash, as the road progressed, Yes, but we proposed that this thirty mil- lion dollars should be paid back to Canada. Gentlemen, it would have been raised in the first instance on the credit of Canada, and we should have formed a fund for the purpose of repaying it. While we agreed to give blocks of land each ten miles in front of the railway and running twenty miles back, we were to reserve every al« ternate block of the same size in our own hands, and the policy of the Government was to offer for sae those 50,000,000, and the proceeds of sale would have repaid the whole of the $30,000,000 that we were going to pay the company. Now, look at the land given by the United States to the Union Pacific Railway and other Railways. That land is valued at an average of $6 per acre. Now, the land in the Saskatchewan and the Northwest on the line of this road is more valuable and more fit for settie- ment than the land through which the Union Pacific Railway passes, and we do not put any such high price on it. We do not say $6 an acre would have been its value, but we say $1 an acre—who will not say that this is not a ridiculously low figure ? —and if we reserved 50,000,000 acres and sold them at $1 an acre they would have realized $50,000,000." And as the land was sold the purchase money would have been funded and would eventually have freed the country from the debt incurred with interest, and so the road would have been built on your credit without a single farth-

Cheers.) This was our Pp ' were told that we were puttin

policy, and we | 1a burden | g that you could not |

yon your shoulder oo = upon y we were ruining this |

redeem, and that

country by our reckless a ae Bs Cartwright recently repeate t. ro childs | ment, and said that it was OW" Ms of this ish vanity to embrace my ia absurd ominion that we made suci fel Mus

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arrangement, I° ; . have cies the country ope =ivete a and not only that but the es. population of Canada—and you know we many men have been out of ra hae during the past few yeare—woe j “a me been employed; you would have eae no such depression in your country as _ have now; you would have no ee working, as they have been In porente, ae half time. They could have gone to the Northwest and got first rate pay In the construction of the railway, and there would have been a wide field of labor for all. There would also have been a wide field for immigration from England, Ireland and Scotland, and the farmers who went into that country would have become at mee tax-payers, and would have assisted to pay off the $30,000,000. And the men going west would not only have found em- ployment, but every man would have had a right to get a free grant of 160 acres of land—land in every way fit for settlement, on which it was not necessary to chop the trees down in order to make it fit for culti- vation. It would certainly not have been on the line of ralway—no farmer would expect to have a milway built past his own door for nothing—but it would have been in portions of the country in every way fits ted forsettliement. And why was not this carried out? Because the members of the present Ministry and their supporters raised the ery of the Pacific Scandal, Now, even if we were wrong in that transaction, that was no reason why they should sacrifice the interests of the country, But what did they care if the building of the Pacific Railway was postponed for half a century, so long as they could get Sir John out and Mr. Mackenzie in? Mr. Mackenzie as- serted that I said | would be quite willing to do the same thing over and over again. I made no such statement. I said that I bad money placed in my hands for the purpose of aiding our candidates in their election expenses, and I knew the other side had raised a large fund ana had two dollars to our one. When I received that money | was conscious of no moral wrong. Sir Hugh Allan was a man of money; he had enormous interests in Canada. It was of importance to him that the Pacific Rails way should be built. He was one of the largest shipowners in the world, and he was anxious to get freight for his vessels, and he knew that the Pacific Railway would bring down the products of the Great West to be placed on board his vessels, and he fully understood that while the scheme would be of great advantage to Canada it would be ‘f inestimable advantage to him. He was, consequently, anxious to see that the Gov~ ernment of which I was a member, and he knew was a go-ahead Government, with a liberal Railway policy, was sustained and he subscribed to the election fuad. The money, as Mr. Macdougall said, which Sir Hugh Allan sent to me, was not so much as had been spent on three elections by Re- formers in Ontario. (Here here.) And, gentlemen, there is nothing wrong in form. ing such a fund if the money be not used in bribery and corruption. It is according to law that the legitimate expenses of an election should be paid, It is recognized in Canada and England, and, gentlemen, it is recognized by the Big Push letter, [Laugh- ter,] Such expenditure is quite legitimate, as there are legitimate expenses, such as the cost of advertising, the cost of holding meetings, and so forth, to be met. And what was the $45,000 I got to pay the le-~ gitimate expenses of eighty-eight elections in Ontario? Why Mr. Cook’s election cost $28,000 for one county. [Laughter.] [ am not aware of one single instance of the money subscribed and handed to me be- ing spent illegitimately. It may have been that some of that money was spent impro. perly, but not that J am aware of, and not one sixpence was sent by me for that pur, pose. WhatI said was this, that I would again assist in a fund for that purpose. I believe that it is admitted that Mr. Glad. stone, the late Premier of England, is one of the most high-minded men in the world, and no one would say that he or his Gov- ernment would do what they believed to be wrong. Ata trial in Ireland, in 1874, two members of his Government, one of thom a member of his Cabinet, Lords Jarlington and Wolverton, swore that there was a fund for the purpose of aiding: Ministerial can~ didates, and that they had agreed to ad- vance £500 of it for one candidate, and no one took any notice of it in the Press or elsewhere, because it was quite legitimate that their party should come forward and help those who had to be elected. That is an instance which shows that it is quite legitimate in England. If the Reform Party, headed by Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Brown, formed a fund,.I could not object to that; but I do object to Mr. Mackenzie taking us to task and stating that we had raised such a fund for purposes of corrup- tion. But he said his party had not even been guilty of spending money largely. Read the Big Push letter—(laughter)— where it states that the party had expended their strength, that they had come down handsomely in the out-~counties, and that they wanted money as they were to make a big push. Gentlemen, the money I had was sent out !o the constituencies early in the contest to help our young candidates in the payment of their legitimate exs penses; but the money which Mr. Brown asked of Mr. Simpson was for the purpose of bribing the electors of Toronto, as he said he wanted it on Saturday and Monday, the two polling days, after all the legitimate expenses must have been incurred, And, as Judge Adam Wilson said in his memor~ able judgment, that letter indicated that it was written for the purpose of getting money for the bribery and corruption of the electors of the city, And, you remem-~ ber the obloquy and abuse which Mr. Brown poured upon him—a judge who ought to be protected because of his posi-~ tion. It was like striking a woman, because he cannot defend himself. But we were attacked for raising this fund when they had oneof a similar character. Do you think Mr. Mackenzie did not know there was a fund, and that the party had come down handsomely? He must suppose you are all very green if he thinks you believe anything of the kind. I was quite willing then to receive subscriptions and to divide them for legitimate purposes, but thank God there is no necessity for that unpleas- ant duty falling upon me again. We had been so long in power that some of our friends began to think that | would remain in forever, and they were quite apathetic, and there was no organization in our party, But it has been found necessary to organize, and I was”glad to know that you havea Conservative Association in both ridings, and that they were shaking up the dry bones of tha Conservative party. The burden is off my shoulde s, and if you con- tinue to act in the same way as you are act~ ing at present there will be no necessity for the money to pass through my hands in the future. And [ hope you will take care that no portion of the money raised for your legitimate expenses is spent like the Big Push money.—Laughter.—But to go back to the Pacific: railway itself. They said that it was a reckless bargain tha: we made to build it in ten years, But, as the lawyers say, time was not of “the essence ot the contract."’ Jf the railway could not be built in ten years the contract was not in spirit broken, By fixing a time in the articles of Union it pledged the Government of the Dominion of Canada to do everything they pos- sibly could to build it in that time, and if’ the Government did fuirly and honestly apply re to performing the work as speedily as possible they had in spirit performed the contract, and the people of British Columbia would be satisfied. At the time we went out some portion of the time had elapsed, and yet there was no discontent in British Columbia: there was no charge against the Government, no one got up in Parliament and said we were not doing our duty, be- cause British Columbia saw we were doing our best. ‘Ihe moment we got the author. ity of Parliament we sent surveyors to survey the line—and Mr. Mackenzie has been carrying on the surveys since — j all we could to we did L prepare for the construction of the railway, and the people of British Columbia were satisfied. How different it is now! British Columbia feels deeply aggrieved, and the visit of the Governor General has brought out marked evidences of discontent. But, said Mr. Mackenzie Sir John Macdonald advised them in q speech made some time ago to secede Gentlemen, there never was a more reck- less statement. WhatI said was that his Government was not going to carry out our seer they were going to build a bit of

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| oi i ‘ se the “ magnificent | they were going to use . mae oe eos,” Laughter. — And | said that I feared very much that it would raise f bg ML. » “= a ery of secession there. Phat was my re mark British Co umbia had enterea in 7| Confederation on the pledge _ ee would be built, and when pletion very: them in effect that it would not be built in ovr u¢ eect o. fofiarn | day, I feared that there would be a, on and that the cry of secession wou ve | It has been raised, and it is a maiter |

rawsed. i san | slieve they will of regret to me. I do not believe r. y to } secede I do not believe they cesire - secede, I am strong in my faith in their |

sritish subjects as we are, pride in ges Pipa Famed 7 at we bave, and they wilt adhere Tad bee even if the Government of Y ‘ know it is not the Canada is wrong. They Queen’s fault, nor the fault of the eid of England, and they will cling to t ae flag which we all love and honor so much, —Cheers. — The Government has been helplessly drifting every way as. to ny railway policy. r. Mackenzie said & Sarnia that they were going to build the railroad themselves, and at a much less ex- pense than we could have built it through the intervention of acompany. Gentlemen, they are driven out of that now, and are advertising in the public papers for com~ panies to come forward and build the road for subsidies in money and in land. They have found out after three years that our scheme was the correct one; they have given up their plan of “ magnificent water« stretches,” which Mr, Mackenzie now says he meant merely as a temporary resource. We may be sure, gentlemen, that we shall never get that road until we have a Gov- ernment who are sincere in pressing its construction and placing it before capital- ists who are able to raise the money and would build it upon the promise of a reason~ able subsidy of money and of land.—Hear, hear.—I am afraid I shall tire you with these dry details, —No, no,—but politics are dry. Before I leave the subject of the Pacific Railway, I will call your attention to a remark made by Mr. Cartwright at Brant- ford. Mr. Cartwright is very angry with me because | told tbe truth of him, so he thought he would take his revenge on me, and in a large number of well-mouthed sentences—they only wanted the elements of accuracy—he said that I had in Parlia« ment taken God to witness that there was not one word of truth in the charge that I had taken money from Sir Hugh Allan. Now, gentlemen, that statement is entirely inaccurate. How could I make such a statement when Sir Hugh Allan, Mr. Lan- gevin, and Mr, Abbot were alive, and could have been brought up against me to prove it? But you will remember the charge made against me and my Government; it was not that | got money from Sir Hugh Allan, but it was that we had conspired with Sir Hugh Allan and a number of Am- erican capitalists,—Jay Cooke & Co., and others—to hand over our Canadian railway to the Northern Pacific railway. That | ine dignantly denied, and the truth has come out that my friends were not Jay Cooke & Co., and it was because I would not allow Sir Hugh Allan to have anything to do with the Yankees, because I would not allow the Americans to hold a single share in the Pacific Railway, because I said he would have to sever his connection with the Am- ericans, and upon bis pledge that he had done so, only, that we treated with him, Mr. McMullen, of Chicago, set to work to sell Sir Allan’s letters to Mr. Mackenzie’s friends in Montreal, and to lay the basis of the Pacific Railway Scandal. If he had dealt with Mr. McMullen and the Ameri- cans we should have been all right; but we were true to Canada, and we said the work was for Canadians and must be built by Canadians for the developement of Cana- dian interests. It is because we did so that [am out and Mr. Mackenzie is in,”’

loyalty ; they are I

—_—_—_ -—_--~.+ «> oe THE PRUE SECKET OF THE HARD TIMES.

On the 15th of Oetober, 1867, as will be seen by the Globe of the 19th, Mr Mackenzie was present at a banquet in Sarnia. The views he then expressed with regard to the influence which affect public prosperity are well worth republication, especially at this season of utter prostration and hard times, and on this “ the eve of a hard winter!’

‘« In urging the necessity of a higher stan- dard of public moralily than that which marked the present occupants of the Cabinet Mr, Mackenzie showed that, notwithstanding the represenialive inslilulions of the country. the freedom of her press, and her general greatness, unless their representative men maintained a decent public morality, the people would look in vain for thal degree of public prosperity which should characterize the Province.” We heartily subscribe to the above. Over production and American ‘ slaughter’ mark to markets may affect our trade and manufacturing interests in some degree, but the true secret of the prevailing distress is, as the Premier foresaw, that our representative men have not maintained ‘ a decent public moralty!’ Look at the records of the Election Courts,—at Cook, Cameron, Jodoin, Walker, Barber, Norris, Neelon, Wilkes, O’Donaghue, McGregor, Currie and a host of others! Reflect on the indecent conduct of that representative man who lifted on high a banner inscribed with an invitation to all and sundry to come and help to put down bribery and corruption with a barrel of money! Read the + Big Push’ Jetter, that terrible exposition of the practices of the Governing party. Look at the Speaker of the House of Commons draw- ing double his pay in the shape of fat con- tracts! At Mr. itluntington sitting in the Cabinet although the very existence of his morality has been very seriously called in question by the Lord Justice of Scotland! At Mr. Parder sitting in anothor Cabinet albeit the Lord Chief Justice of England says he has no morality, and though Mr, Mackenzie himself telegraphed some English friends to heware of certain oil conspirators of whom Mr. Parder was chief! And there isno necessily for going a step further in search of the real cause of the hard times if the Premier’s Sarnia theory be correct—look at Cauchon, a person whose crimes ‘ sme!! to Heaven,’ presiding over the deliberations of the Council of the nation ; and at the Premier himself, giving his brother’s tirm exceptional advantages in a wholly unnecessary outlay of $2,000,000, and yet maintaining with a front of brass tuat his brother had nothing to do with the firm, that he showed no favoritism, that the outlay was not uncalled for, that the country had lost nothing by the job! Look at these things, ye who search for the hidden mysteries of this crisis, and read them aright by the light of the vision our great public moralist saw nine years ago !—Hr. Herald.