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‘sat elie Resolutions had been passed at pub-{mechanics aro agitating for redress,

lic meetings at Belle Creek, Argyle Shore, Little York, Centreville, ‘T'ry- on, St. Eleanor’s, Tyne Valley, Murray Harbor, and, in fact, almost every «>ttle- ment in the Island calling upon the Gov- ernment to repeal the Assessment Act, or resign. It was, therefore, evident that the course the present Government were purst- ing would be approved of by the people. He was satistied that the present Govern ment would carry out the retrenchment they had advocated in Opposition. Sooner er later the legislation and public service of the country must be carried on with less One house of 30 members was

expense. sufficient. Ho was satisfied that the present Government would devise some means oi guarding the interests of property holders.

Mr. McMrixay considered that the Gev- ernment were justified in appealing to the country. They had adopted a policy ana

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would stand or fall by it. Adjourned until Friday, March 2ist.

LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE

COMMITTEE ROOMS,

Terlizzick's Building, Queen Street, OPEN EVERY DAY, SUNPAY'S EXCEPTED.

THe Datty EXAMINER.

MARCH 15, 1879.

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~ GRAND RALLY >

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Mechanics and Workingmen. A Splendid Meeting. Speeches by Master Mechanics THE MECHANICS’ PLATFORM.

A Deaputation Appointed to Wait pon Messrs. DeBlois and McLeod.

“Tae ATHENTUM” was last night.

Mr. W. J. Fraser, of thefirmof McKinnon & Fraser, carriage builders, etc., was called to the chair.

Mr, M. Stevenson moved the adoption of the following resolution :—

Whereas. The mechanics and working classes of Charlottetown are without repre- sentation in our Legislature, and, conse- quently, their interests, with regard to local laws, have to a large extent been neglected ; and, as a general election is now about to take place, which offers a favorable opportunity to put forward their claims—-

Therefore Resolved, That it is necessary to consider the expediency of nominating candi. dates to represeut the interests of the indus- trial classes in our Local Legislatare.

He said the mechanics of Charlottetown have long expected that their rights and interests would be represented in the Local Legislature. But they have hitherto been doomed to disappointment; and there is to-day hardly a law upon the Statute Book for their protection or encouragement. It was to provide against a continuation of this state of affairs that the meeting was called. We are now entering upon a new era of _ political life. Old questions have been settled. New questions remain to be settled. Prominent among these are questions relating to the improvement vf the condition of the me- chanics 4nd working men. The mechanics had, he thonght, reason to be satisfied with the composition of the present Government. At all events, they have a right to expect better things of them than they received from that which has just gone out. He repudiated the idea that the mechanics have any desire to be sectional or to support a candidate merely because he is a mechanic. What they do want is to have their inter- ests represented in such a way that there would be an improvement in the laws re- lating tothem. And he thought that this would be better accomplished by having one of their own men to represent them— by having one who knew and sympathised with them—in the Legislature than by any one else.

Mr. Atexanper McKuynon (of the firm of McKinnon & McLean) came forward to second the resolution. He also repudiated the charge that the mechanics of Charlotte- town—in taking the measures they had/ taken —were attempting anything like class | legislation. The charge is not founded on| fact. The mechanics do not expect any-| thing more, with regard to legislation, than | has already been done to advance and pro- | tect the interests of the farmers and others. | It is not surely wonderful that the labour- ing class should ask that their rights and —_ should be defined by the Legis-

ature. They have been long overluoked and neglected. There is not a law to show what the mechanics rights and privileges.

over-crowded

are. The mechanics want to know what todo. They do not want to have themselves and all their workmen turned out of employment—they do

not want to have their shops shut up—at a moment's notice. It is right to ask our politicians to enact a law defining the wwechanic’s rights in this particular. Then, there is no Lien Law. There is nothing to secure to contractors and workinen pay- ment for the material they provide and the work they perfurm. For instane:, a house may now tke built, secured by m to some other creditor of the per- son for whom it is built, and the poor mechanic who has expended his money and his toil upon the house, is left without any- thing whatever upon which to levy. This yeing the case, it is not wonderful that the

He (Mr. McKinnon) was not, however, par- ticularly anxious to see a mechanic repre- senting Charlottetown in the Legislature. What he did want to see and secure was a ‘air representation of the interests of mechanics, so that the neglect of the past might be remedied, and that such reason- ableand proper laws asthe mechanics require shall be enacted. But he considered that we have mechanics as well able to takeythe sosition of a representative in the Houde of

-he Legislature. Mr. Gzo. W. Muituner supported the notion. He congratulated the chairman m being the presiding officer of a meeting this kind. The interests of mechanics iave, heretofore, been too much ignored. {t is time that they began to exert them- selves. With regard to the candidates in che field, he believed them all good men. Mr. McLeod is a rising young man of high talent ; and against Mr. DeBlois no man san raise a word of reproach. But the mechanics require a Lien Law ; and that most degrading and iniquitous law, author- izing imprisonment for debt, must be abolished. Whoever the mechanics sup- ‘port should be pledged to represent their interests in these and other particulars. Mr. Millner adverted to some excessive \charges on the part of the lawyers ; and thought they should be regulated in the in- terests of the mechanics and poor men.

Mr. R. Weeks rose toexplain that the pro- posed lien law would protect the interests of journeymen and laborers as well as those bef their employers.

Mr. Joun Newson said his business is to work, and not to speak. He would be the last inan to intrude himself upon any plat- form did he not feel and believe that the grievances of mechanics and working men are so great that tho time has arrivea when action is necessary. He alluded briefly to the Asylum contract, and said that the me- chanics of Charlottetown were not only de- prived of the employment which had been given to strangers, but they are also taxed to maintain those strangers in the commun- ity; and while our cireulating medium is very much contracted these strangers Carry the money away and expend it out of the Province. He quoted the old motto :—

‘- Greece, know thyself; and be free;”

and applied it to the mechanics and work- ingmen of this city. They should know themselves ‘‘and be free.” They shouid agitate for their rights and teach politicians that they are a power in Charlottetown. There are, in Mr. Newson’s opinion, many reasons why the mechanics and laboring class should identify themselves with the Liberal-Conservative party. One reason is that the Leader of that party—Sir John Macdonald—was the first to cume forward with a scheme for the protection of the mechanics in Canada against the wholesale slaughtering of the United States. I'he mechanics and laboring classes :wight have been ground down for four years more had it not been for Sir John and the Lib- eral-Conservative Party. For that, among other reasons, would like to support candi- dates on behalf of that party pledged to look after the Local interests of the mechan- ics and laboring classes of the Province. — Mr. J. P. ‘anton spoke in support of the resolution with his accustomed elo- quence. There had been years of agita- tion on behalf of the farmers. Their great grievance is satisfactorily settled; and the time is opportune for the agitation of the interests of the mechanics and laboring

classes. It is surely time to do something after we have seen a manu- facturing establishment in our midst closed down in a minute by

the operation of a tyrannical and diabolical law; and it is certainly not a time to send some automaton who, mayhap, has a long purse, to represent our interests upon the floor of the Honse. Good men selected to represent the interests of mechanics should be elected. Mechanics should not be ostracised from our halls of legislation.

The resolution was then put and carried by an almost unanimons vote.

Mr. Pavut Lega then moved the adoption of the following resolution :—

Resolved, That the industrial classés will support no candidate or candidates who will not pledge themselves to secure at least the passage of the foliowing measures :—

lst—A just and equitable lien law.

2nd—A Bill to secure to mechanics and manufacturers the enjoyment of their prep- erty under certain well defined laws.

3rd—To advocate such 1neasures as will pro- mote industry and give employment to the working classes.

4th—To enact a law to prevent actions be- ing taken to the Supreme Court to recover amounts which come within the jurisdiction of the County Courts, while at the same time it will meet the ends of justice.

5th—To abolish imprisonment for debt.

He said a Lien Law is required. He had seen such a law work with the most benefi- cial effects in the United States. The law would enable the workman to obtain his wages. If the contractor would not pay them, the owner of the house was liable; and the latter was protected by being privi

leged to deduct the amount paid by him to ‘workmen from the amount he had bar-

gained to pay the contractor. He thought the mechanics of Charlottetown should make the Government feel that it was neces sary to look a little more after their inter- ests than had hitherto been done.

Mr. Baxer said he had very much plea- sur’ in seconding the resolution. He thought, it ene which should be carried unanimously. He alluded to the rascili y of former Government Inspectors, some of

whom had pocketed 50 cents for each da: s_

work of each man employed upon the work in hand. He indicated the new Law Courts’

building, as one of those in the erection of

whieh this rascality had been perpetrated to the loss of the working man. He strongly favored a Lien Law.

Mr. D. H. McKinwon spoke at some length in favor of having a mechanic to re- present Charlottetown in the House of As- sembly. He would support the Liberal- Conservative party, and hoped it would be victorious as of old, -

Assembly as nine-tenths of the men now 1n |

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Mr James PHILLIPS hones that with three lawyers as candidates for Charlotte- town the interests of the inechanic3 would be overlooked. He advocated the nomina tion ef a mechanic on the Liberal-Con- servative ticket. Mr. Mvcrpny (Manager of the Gas Works) called to mind the old times when the ** Mechanics’ Institute”? used to meet

lie al- luded to the industry which had recently heen shut down by the strong hand of the law: and said that the establishment under his management was very nearly being shut up in the same way. He ad- vised a cautious policy at this juncture; for the enemy would be ready to take advan- tage of any slip. There are now four men in the field. Frem the two on the Opposi- tion side nothing could be expected. The mechanics of Charlottetown would hardly, he thought, be so foolish as to come out in opposition to the Government party —which is morally certain to be sustained. A for- mer speaker had alluded to the ser- vices rendered the mechanics by Sir John McDonald. Sir John is a law ver. And is it necessary that either Mr. DeBlois and Mr. McLeod should be cast aside because they are not mechanics. Both gentlemen are men in whom con- fidence can safely be reposed; and if they say that they will look after the interests of the mechanics and workingmen they will doit. Mr. Murphy endorsed the appoint- ment of a Committee to wait upon Messrs. DeBlois & McLeod with an expression of the mechanics views and requirements.

Mr. G. W. Mitiiner objected to the course indicated by Mr. Murphy.

Rev. S. G. Lawson favored it. Others spoke for and against it; and Mr. McLean (of the tirm of McKinnon & McLean) pro posed the following resolution :—

Resolved, That a Committee of ten be appointed to wait upon the Liheral-Conservative candidates to ascertain whether or not they will pledge themselves to adopt the mechanics platform as laid Cown by the meeting.

C. F. Harris, Esq., spoke with his usual force in favor of the adoption of a policy extending the privileges and de fining the rights of mechanics. He also favored the candidature of Messrs. De- Blois and McLeod.

The resolution passed without a division.

The following gentlemen were then nomi- nated a committeee to wait on Messrs. De- Blois and McLeod :—John Newson, Alex. McKinnon, Maurice Blake, M. P. Hogan, Thomas A. McLean, Geo. L. Doherty, Geo. W. Millner, John Tanton, D. H. McKinnon, Donald McKinnon.

On motion, Mr. J. P. Tanton took the chair.

In a neat speech, Mr. Alex. McKinnon complimented the Chairman upon the able and impartial manner in which he had presided over the meeting, and moved a vote of thanks to him. The motion passed unanimously, and the meeting dispersed. W. L. Corton, Sec’y.

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A ¥rightful Exhibit of Grit Ex- travagance.

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In the Assembly of Nova Scotia, on the 15th inst., Premier Holmes laid on the table the financial returns for 1878. It em- braces the last months of Grit rule in Nova Scotia and exhibits a frightful record of ex- travrgance and corruption, The total re- ceipts frum all sources including about $59,- 000 from Dominion Government for Light- house and railway stores not paid for at Confederation and $27,000 from Capital ac- count for Cape Breton reads, amounts to!

578,000; while the expenditure for the year amounts to $746,000, making a deficit of $168,000 to be added to the deficit of $148,000 from last year. The cash deficit at the end of the year is $316,000 with a large number of debts siill unpaid. Among other large sums that were taken ont of the Treasury and applied to private and political purposes, is the sum of $2,500taken to pay a judgment recovered in the Supreme Court of Canada last year by Mr. Woodworth, ex- M. P. P. for King’s, against a number of prominent Grits for trespass and assault. they also paid over $300 towards defraying the cost of a suit, carried on by one Lenoir about his precedence as Queen’s Counsel. It also appears that they paid out in addi- tion to $700 spent in 1877, nearly $1,400 in an unsuccessful attempt to fasten on Mr. Woodworth some read frauds in King’s County, where the whole amount in dispute did not exceed $800—the expenditure of the road money also exhibits the most ex- tensive frauds, and shows that nearly $50,- 000 of road money was misapplied, in a desperate attempt to buy themselves back to power. Itis proposed by the Govern- ment party to institute civil and criminal proceedings against the principal actors in these outrages, with a view to their pun- ishment, and if possible recover some of the money thus legally and fraudulently taken.

Tue ton of sugar beet seed, ordered by the Government of New Brunswick for distribu- tion among the farmers, has arrived in Amer- ica, and was stipped from New York last Monday, so that it may be expected in Sf, John in a few days. This will be good news | to those who desire to give sugar beet culture a fair trial in that Province.

SHIPPING NEWS.

Liverpool, Feb. 28.—Bright. Zetland, Banks, Matansea.

Liverpool Feb, 27~In port Erema, Gould, | for Charlottetown; Alpheta, Cameron. do; Lennie, Finlayson, do. |

London Feb. 27.—In port bright. Ethel | Blanche, McMahon, for Ciarlottetown,

Cardiff, Feb. 23—Sld. barque G. W. es ford, Murchison, Cienfuegos; New Era, Mc-,

Phee, do. Arrived Feb.

English, Bristol. Kingston, Ja., Feb. 52.—Sailed bright. |

Swiftsure, Beattie, Falmouth, Ja.

March 8.—Arrived barque Edith, Carmi McEachern, Havre. en man.

25.—Barque W. D. Stewart, |

NEWS

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BY TELEGRAPK.

“fttawa and Foreign News.

Vienna, March 14. Lord Dufferin, British Ambassador at St.

on the necessity of strictly upholding all pro- visions of the Treaty of Berlin, and to declare decisively that the San Stefano provisions must not be revived, under any pretext what- ever ~-Englana being convinced that the diffi- culties in regard to Roumania could be over- come by a’mixture of vigor and moderation or the part of the Porte. Prsru, March 14.

The Government Commissioner at Zedegin reports that he was rowed through the sub- merged streets and found three-quarters of the town in ruins, He thinks if the water re- mains a few days longer that scarcely 200 houses will be left.

The Burjomaster estimates that several thousand persons have been drowned. He at- tributes the disaster to the indolence of the inhabitants and to the fact that the Govern- ment Commissioners concentrated all efforts on strengthening the dams, and did not pre- pare for saving life in the event of their break- ing.

Loxpoy, March 14.

Much excitement prevails at Loniasiel, in the Island of Cyprus. All the shops are closed and traffic is suspended, in consequence of Sir Garnet Wolseley’s monetary regulations.

The inhabitants telegraphed to the Queen against Sir Garnet Wolseley’s decrees.

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Literary and Musical Entertain- ment in Aid of the Poor.

A LITERARY AND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT in aid of the poor will be given in the

Market Hall

unler the auspices of the BENEVOLENT InisH Society, on the evening of

MARCH IT, 1879

A Choice Programme of Vocal and Instru- mental Music will be rendered by a number of our most talented Amateurs, and Addresses and Readings will be given by gentlemen of weil known ability.

From the great success which has attended the former Concerts. of the Benevolent Irish Society, we feel warranted in soliciting the patronage of the public for the Entertainment on tke occasion of the forthcoming Anniversary of Ireland’s Patron Saint.

Reserved Seats, 50 cents; unreserved, 25 cents; CHILDREN, 10 cents; to be had at the door and from the Committee.

FRANCIS P. McCARRON, March 15, 1879. © Secretary.

AUCTION SALE,

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10 casks KEROSENE,

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POLITICAL!

trict of Queen's County are re- quested to attend the following meetings, where they will be addressed by the late Rep- resentatives and others :—

BROOKFIELD, Monday, I7thinst., a seven o'clock. CORNWALL, Tuesday, 1Sth inst., at seven o'clock.

NORTH WILTSHIRE, Wednesday, 19th inst., at seven o'clock.

NEW GLASGOW, Thursday, 20th inst., at seven o'clock. _ RUSTICO (Bank), Friday, 2lst inst., at seven o'clock. WHEATLEY RIVER, Saturday, 22d inst., at seven o'clock.

MILTON, Monday, 24th inst., at seven o'clock.

BRIEN’S CROSS, Tuesday, 25th inst., at seven o'clock.

NINE MILE CREEK (Ladner’s), Thurs- day, 27th inst., at seven o'clock.

LONG CREEK (Lowrie’s), Friday, 28th inst.. at seven o’clock. _ NORTH RIVER (Warren’s), Saturday, 29th inst., at seven o clock.

SOUTH WILTSHIRE, Monday, 3ist inst., at seven o'clock.

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—CONSISTING IN PART OF—_

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Prints, Grey and White Cottons, Hats and Bonnets, Fars, Blankets, Flannels, Pilots, Beavers, Coatings,

Tweeds, etc., ete. ete.

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Readymade Clothing

Hats, Caps, Linders and Drawers, Scarfs, &e.

Cotton Warp, Small Wares, ke,

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The above Stock must be cleared out from this date, and our Customers, and the public generally, can depend upon getting Bargains. ’

John McPhee, Administrator. Charlottetown, Feb. 4, 1879. CATARRE. Constitutional Catarrh Remedy CURES CATARRKH.

Hear what a Reverend Gentleman says of the Constitutional Ren.edy.

T. J. B. Harprve, Esq., Brockville, Ont.:— Dear Sir—Itis now two years since your

‘Constitutional Catarrh Remedy” was intro-

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FHXHE ELECTORS of the Second Dis-| Yours truly,

W. TINDALL, Methodist Minister. Port Elgin, Ont., Aug. 24, 1878.

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Ask for Littlefield’s Constitutional Catarrh Remedy and take no other. _T. J. B, Harpine, Dominion Agent, Brock- ville, Ont.

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OST — Last Thursday night, between _ Atheneum and Meltacker’s : ode Store, a Red POCKET-BOOK, with

two lottery tickets. The finder will be suit- ably rewarded by leaving it at the Union Hovse. {mar 14 2*

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