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knocking at the door for admission, and in less Shan four years the Island province was admitted to Confederation. gave the beet years of hie life to the people of thie province. In 1867 he was defeated, sod it was thought thaibis defeat belped materally to bring abcut his death which occured & few months later. D'Arcy Mc~ Gee has writien a lament over Whelan which be would quotes } “Long way thy Island home Look for thy like to come, Few may she.ever

Find « ore deserving trast, Freer from thoughts unjast, | Than this heart, iv the dust, | At rest abd forever.” | But he (Mr, M@Inerney) was not here 10 speak of Whelan as a pro- vincial politician. or provincial -tateemam. Whelan,.was more than

tuat, he was an. imperial statesman; ue pad the principles of ao imperial stat s-

WHELAN DEMQNSTRATION. |

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| mar io bis heart. He had no | hesitavion in placing Whelan with such eminent |

-catesmen as Sir John Macdonald, Hon. |

Geo.Brown, Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Geo Cartier. He had assisted macerially in laying the corner stone of the Contedera tion of the Maritime Provinces and tought ably forthe extension of religious und civil liberty.

Mr. Mcloerney cuncluded his able apeech by thanking those present for the aitention given him, and expressing the hope that the monument about to be erected to commemorate the memory of one who had sacrificed himeelf in early manhood ia theinterests of bis country would soon adorn the public square.

MR. J. H, BELL, M. P.

Mr. J. H, Bell, M. P., for Kast Prince followed Mr. McInerney, reviewing the character and life work of the departed statesman. Reterring to Whelan’s fight tor free education Mr. Bell pointed out that in Whelan’s time, the people of tbe differ« ent settlemente paid for the schools. Whelan contended that the achco!ls should

be made free, that they should be paid for out’ of the public treasury. The _—sresult of this

agitation was that in every district a school was established and education was in this way brougutto the door of every child inthe province. Then there,was the land question, and everyoue knows the result ot Whelan’s efforts in this matter. ‘Lhe proprietors did'not keep their agree- menis regarding the paying of quit rents or the seulement of ‘te lands. The ten- ants formed wha: was known as the Tenant League, and refused to pay rent. W belan did not like the idea of the tenr suis taking the law into their owo hands iu this way- He was opposed to the idea of not paying rent, believing, as he did, iu COusiItutional agitation, aud ia this way brought himself ioato disrepute. But the cause azainst landjordiem ultimacely triumphed, although Whelan cid nor live tv see toat happy dof.

While attending echool in Charlotte: owa Mr. Bell beard Whelan speak in the Legisiature. He wel remembered his casy fl_w of language, bis convincing argv- Mcuic, aud veiug thrilled with his elo- yieuce. Whatever faults Whelan had (aud we al bave our faults) were over- -u dowed by bis gr at public goodness. Let us remember and bonor the man who guve us free schools, res,cnsible govern- ment, trecdom irmm landlordism and viher bovns. All should unite ia doing uoucr to this mar.

ALEX. MARIIN, M. P.

Mr, Alex Martin, the energetic repres- entative ot East Queen’e, was the next gentleman to address the gathering,and he paid @ warm tr:bute to the life-work cf ine depa:ted stuterman. }Ex Governar How- lan was an intimate aseociate of Whelan. They trod the same paths aod were ia the same fights. The ex-Governor and Mr. Inerney bad weli éxpressed his (Mr. Mar- tin’s) feelings; im tact they had taken the ground from under h.s feet. Whelan, as was well known, was bora in Ireland,acouat’y whose history dates back hundreds of years before that of Englaud—a country of brave and warm-hearted men—men who have taken prominent positions on the bench aad at the bar, in chureh and state, and evéry branch of science, It is no wonder that the people of Prince Edward Island should spare a day to cou memorate the memory of Edward Whelan, whose name is a housebold word, Every measure that Wh-lan and Coles contended tor had a tendency to the greater freedom of the people of the Province. All ware proud to stand up and honor these men, .Free education was a great boon. Whelan’a sympathies were always with the poor and the down-trod- den. He never took up a question that he did not press to the end; hedid not cease to agitate when he obtained power. In 1851 Whelan was enthusiastic in eup- porting measures for the relief of the widows and families of the British soldiers who fell in the struggle with the Ruesians. He also advocated the eetabliehment of the Nor- malschool. He always took an advanced stand on all public questions. From the bottom of bis heart be endorsed all that bad beep eaid about the departed states~ man,

MR. A. C. MACDONALD, M. P,

Mr. Macdonald,'n open ng,congratulated the committee acd all cenuccted with the demonstration uponthe sp'endid _ pro- gramme, The memory of Edward Whe. lan was mort worthy of being commemor- ated. He remembered Whelan suffciertly

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to judge of his eloquence, and believed that as an orator he surpassed any mau to be found in the parliament of Canada to- day. It was fitting that « grateful

ple for whom he bad dove #0 much should erect a monument to his memory. But in his opinion the name of George Coles should be associated with that of Eiward Whelan. They fought side by side when they lived and their memories should be honored in after death,

SENATOR FERGUSON,

Hon. Senator Ferguson, who spoke after Mr. Macdonald, said it gave him great pleasure tosay 4 wcrd in regard to the life and work of the great man whose memory this demonstraion wae intended io perpetuate. When Edward Whelan landed in Prince Edward Island fifty seven years ago the Province was ina very backward condition in an intellectual as well as amateri.! sense, Its educational | outfit was very ineagre,and its trade was a

rude system of barter. The farm- ers were tepante, who were dominat- ed by proprietors and their agente,

and the goveroment of the country was ip the hands of an oligarchy who sought the approbation of Dowuing Street ratber than that of the people of the Province. The battle, for free inetitutions had been waged and won in tae other provinces, but at that time the people of Prince Ed- ward Island knew less of what was goiag on in the sister colonies than we do new regarding the affairs of Australasia, W belan was really a missionary. Having sat atthe feet of Joseph Howe in Nova Scotia, and :mbibed his sentiments re- garding Responsible Government, he en~ tered ardently ou the task of teaching the people of Prince Edward Island the ad- vantages of self g veroment. Throughont the struggles of ine next eight years he was the principal advocate in the press, On the platform and in the legislature of « British parliamestary system tor P, E, Island. Then came the batile for free education, during which his polished pen and eloquent tongue were in constant requisition in support of the cause of the education of the masses. Before Whelan’s day Catholic emancipation bad been car« ried, but stili the franchise was limited to a comparatively emall part of the pop- ulation, The voice of this eloquent friend of the people wae heard in favor of man~ hood suffrage. As has been already eaid | the men who tilled the soil, and had re- claimed it from the forest were not its owners, but were obliged to pay tribute-, in many cases, to absentee proprietors. Waelan did yeoman’s eservice in the cause of free land, but he never lent himeelf to any plan tor the spoliation of vested in- teresis.

Where is the man wo will today dare to say that Whelan was not right on all the great questions of hisday? That is the best of all tests to apply to the life work of a statesman afier he has passed away. He was tar-sighted and he was courageous. When the tenautry were so tar mirguided tha: they entered into sp organization for resistence to the laws of © the land Whelan waraed them of the folly of that course with the certainty before him that his action would make bim uopopular. When mieguided and lawless men in the United States invaded Canadian soil in the stupid beliet that they were edvanciug ibe cause of Irelang, W belan—every puisation of whose hear beat true to his native [reland—used his pen ani voice in deounciation of these Fenians aod in encouragement cf the Canadians who went to ‘he border te de- fend their hearths and bomes. When the great question of unitiog the Britich Norih American colonies come before che peor pie he manfully stemmed popular preju- dice and ignorance by saying what every- body knows today to be irue—-that con- federation would better the condition of all the colonies. Whea Great Britain was engaged in the great war with Russia io 1855 Whelan stood for a united Kwpire and made one of the most eloquent epeeches of his life in support of a band- some contribution by Prince Edward Island to the Patriotic Fand,

One of the finest traits iu the character of this great man was his loyalty to principle. What would be his verdict to~ day if he were alive and could uaderstand that nearly ali the young men of Prince Edward Isiand are deprived of voting for ove half the members of our Legislature? Wren Waoelan promised ResponsibleGov- eruweut he gave the people what he pro- wisedthem, What would be his opinion, if he were here to exprese it, Of the mea who promised the people tree trade and adopted protection, of the men who pro- mised sweeping reductions in the cust of the public , service and deliberately in the course of four years, added ten mi -’ lionu anoually to the public expenditure. When the people asked for bread he did not give them a stone.

Towards the end of his career Whelan, like hie great colleague Coles, became thoroughly imbue with the principles of what ie now koown as the Liberal Con- servative party. The speaker during these years, became intimately acquainted with himand knew his views well, Amongst all of Canada’s illustrieus dead tnere is not one whose memory should be more fondJy cherished than that of the briliiant Irishman who lived such a useful public life and who died too young

MR. EDWARD HACKETT.

Mr. Edward Hackett, the Liberal- Coneervative standard-bearer in West Prince, followed. He congratulated the committee promoting the celebration upon their good programme. It was fit.ing that the memory cf a maa who labored so earnestly for Prince Edward (sland, who slieviated the conditions under which the people groaned, should be perpetuated. His ability and eloquence

‘did much towards securing for us respou- | sible government aud the privilege of the franchise. The obtaining of free education was @ great boon. Then there was the

jand question, The condition of the tenants was bad in those days, but=Coles

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and Whelan Set to work to relieve them from slavery, They continued the agites tion, and fiaally the cause of the people triumpbed. Vhe union of the provinces was another great work in which Whelan took an active part. We have as free a conotry as the eun ever shone upon, and the patriotiem of its people was demon- strated by the readiness with which they responded to the call fer men for South Africa. Edward Whelan foresaw all this years agc; saw thatif the provinces were solidified a nation would be created. It is fitting th«t a monument should be erected on the public equare to perpetuate Whelan’s memory. But Whelan has hy hie own hand created a monnment that will be more enduring than any granite.

Mk. W.S. STEWART, Q C.

Mr. Stewart, Q. C , who is opposing Sir Louis Davies in West Queen’s, spoke afur Mr. ackett. In opening he congratu. lated the comusittee of management on the beautiful day and on the success which attended the demonstration, He alao congratulated the orator of the day (Mr. McInerney) on the magnificent contri- bution which he hae made commendatory of the fame of Hon. Edward Whelan. Cold and unappreciative must be the heart and peculiar the feelings of any patriotic P. E. Islander whose bicod cours- ings were vot warmed and tarilled as he listened to the rehearsal of the great things the Hon. Eilward Whelan did for us during the more thas thirty years he lived among us, the sturdy blowe he struck for liberty, for education, for responsible government, for free lands and forafree press. What was our position before the gifted Whelan visited our shores ? Ovr forefathers with etout hearts and unflinching spirits no longer able to satisfy the promp ings of their uatures in their European homes came to this beautiful Islaad in the Gulf of St. Lawrence boping for greater free-~ dom and better Opportunities than they experienced ia the lands they had left. ‘They however, found the landlord system firmly established here, little or no means provided for the education of their child. ren and a future of :gnorance and depend - ence on superiors seemed to be as certain for them in their new homes as in the lande’ they had left. They found that they had no voice in the government of the colony, and even the House of Assembly, elected by a very restricted franchise, was far from being representative of tne people and had no control whatever over the government —that the whole resources, revenue ani offizes of the celony were io the bands ana under the control of a few families that looked upon them ag their owa private property forever inseparably atiached to them avd theire as an incident of their birth Buatthebracing aod fres atmos- phere and wide expanse of this American contineut_were uncongenial conditions for the pe-petuation of ignorance and the con- tinuance of abitrary government, and so the settlers ideas eplafged and expanded abd their boeome swelled with longings for greater liberty. for education, for free lanas ead civil rigits, acd it coly reqaired the ability, the elc quence and the guiding hand of a Whelan to marsbai] and direct tne forcesthat were being prepared to storm the ciradel of family compactigm that fastened itself on the community,aod retarded ite progress. Whelan, the gified Oraivr, the easy and vigorous writer, the wiee sud pradent etateeman set about his wokwith a will imbued with the nigbert sympathy for the people and @ mind trained in the school of which Joseph Howe was a master. He gave the beet of his talents, etrength and lite :o the cause of popular rights in thie [eland. Very few stop tu think in theee daye how much we owe to Coles and Whelan for what they did, and the boona their united Jabors procured for our people- Their work wees grand, and their names ehall live enshrined in the hearts of a people who are not ungrateful, even as the names of Hampder, Howe, Wash- ington, Leonidas and Miltiades live. Their work, it is true, was in s emall field, but the result wae the enfranchise» went of a whole colony. Let a monument be erected to their names which shall serve as shrines to whish our people can go to recount their great deede and many virtues,

A WORD OF THANKS.

Mr. Gee. E. Hugnes, on behalf of the widow of the Jate Edward Whelan and the eurviving relatives of the departed statesman, thanked the committee man- aging the celebration for their good work, aud all who attended for their sympathy. Whelan worked his own way, and always labored iu the best interests of the people. W helao always worked for the people ; he never worked for himself. How maay politicians do that today? There is tco much partyism in P. HE. Island today. Partyism is everywhere rampant. All measures promoted by Whelan were ulti< mately successful. In the Crimea war Whelan said that Canada shouid assist England. The same ideais being acted upon today. ‘In conclusion Mr. Hughes agsia thanked all concerned in the demonstration,

AN EXPLANATION.

Mr. Peter McCourt, on behalf of the managizg committee, thanked those present for their patronage. He said that in the choice of epeakers the commitiee suught to have an equal number on both sides of politica limiting them to mem- bers ofthe Canadian Parliament and Federal candidates. Senator Yeo, how- ever, was notable to attend, but sent $5

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