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(Mm DAILY EXAMINER, CHAKLOTTETOWN, FEBRUARY, 22 1899

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THE CONSERVATIVE RECORD.

Ix the course of his great speech at Clinton, Ontario, Sir Charles Tupper, taking up the challenge of the Globe newspaper, provecded to point to the claims of the Literal-Conservatiye party upon the people of Canada. He referred to the historical fact, thet, after the union of 1867, the Government led by Sir John A. Majonald had rounded up the borders of the Dominion by taking in British Col. umbia and Prince Edward Island and the great North-West Territory. So leg as the Conservatives were in power, till [873

the country had great proeperity. Tae Liberals then came in. At that time the industries of the United States,

fostered bya protective tariff begin to make Canada a slaughter market, and to crowd out the industries established here The Government were implored by men of both parties to give protection to the industries #0 attacked.

“You will dnd,” eaid Sir Charles, ‘by reference to Haneard the remarkable con- feesion, make in 3 moment of weakness no doubt, but nore the less t:ve, by Sir Richard Cartwright, who was the Finaoce Minister of that dey, in which he said that the Gov- ernment had made up their mindsto do what we were begging them to do—to raise the daties in order to prevent Canada being made aslaugbter market, and to But what happened ? One of their friends in the Martime Provinces came upwith a

| free trade brigade, and he told Sir Richard

Cartwright that if the Government brought down that increasedjtar ff for the purpose of protecting Canadian industries that contin. gent would walk across tojthe other side of the House and leave the Governmentin the mivority. The Goverament did then what they always do, they hold office on any terme, and uoder any circumstances. (Cheers.) They abandoned their principles, and although they had their tariff printed and had already determined upon an in- crease of duty, they abandoned it and tore it up; they sat upon the Ministerial benches and let Canada gotoruin. That was the position while the Liberals retained the Government, and I say a more deplorable condition ef things never was presented in the history of Canada.”

In 1878 the Conessvatives again came

in. When in opposition the Conserva, tives had promised the people, if elected, te bring forward a policy calculated to protect and to build up the interests of Canada, to raise duties in so far as neces- sary to ensble the work for Canadian people to be cone by Canadian hands on the Canadian eoil. ‘‘The people took us at our word, and they sent us back in 1878 by a large majority. Did we ,hen turn our backs on pledges we had

made? Did we escrifice trade, honeaty

‘and honour,and having obtained power at

the bands of the people upon one pro- fession, turo around and carry out an ¢n- tirely different

principle ? No, our op-

ponents themselves +dmit we carried out our word to the letter, and acopt ed such » protective policy

The reeult of

| our policy was that Canadas was lifted out

ofthe slough of despotrd in which we found it when wecame into power, and was raise: into a position of which every Canadian proud. Our Opponents told us that by raising the tariff we would get leas revenue and would not

might justly be

have the means of meeting public centia- gencies of the couatry.”

Sir Charlies then referred to the con-~ struction of the Canada Pacific Railway in spite of the Liberals.

“We were told by our croaking Liberal opponents. ‘Yon will ruin the country. You will put such a burden of debt and obligation in carrying out that great work upon the country as will prevent capital from ever being obtained in the money markets of the world for any obj-ct in Can- ada, however impurtant, upon any terms,’ The result proved again that they were false prophete, and that they knew as little about the general principles of finance asthey did about the ordinary construc- tion of the tanff. When this great trans- continental highway was completed I went to London as Fiuance Minister, and pleced upon the market the first 3 per cent. loan that was ever placed by any British pro- vince upon that market, and at the highest rate that had ever been secured, showing that we had made no mistake in onr policy,

and that instead of lowering and depressing |

the credit of Canada, the course we had adopted had bad the very opposite result.” “I am sorry to say, notwithstanding the marvellous prosperity which existe in Canada todav, that when I lef: Londosr on the 4th of July Jast, the 3 per cent. of Can- ada, which when we went out of cfiice were selling freely at 106, a premium of § per cent. were down te par. I give you that as an instance of the wonderful finan- cial ekiil of the present Administration. Sir Charles challenged the Liberals t, show, at this moment one jot or tittle that they have contribu'ed to the greatness or prosperity of Canada, as it exists today. “You may eay i! is prond and extrava- gent, an extreme boast,” continued Sir Charies, “bat I am _ here tenight

to claim that you camsot lay your fin- ger on on @ single Act upon the statute

een

, book of Canada, or upon a great public

enterprise of a nations! character, you capnot point to anything that has contri- buted to make Canada a great, important aud influential nation, you cannot name one sirgls act that it is not in my powerto claim as the result of the efforts of the Liberal Conservative party. (Cheers.) 1 challenge our op- ponents to put their fingers upon one single thing they heave done to make Canada a nation, to put their fingers upon one single iota of policy or anytuing else, to point to one single Act upoa the statute books showing that this country owes them the elighest gratitude in return for anything they have accomplished,

arene CRD Preece

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

—The Conservatives have gained large- Jy in West Huron, and will probably elrct their candidate at the next opportunity, in apite of Tarte’s devic s,

—The latest date that we have from S*. John to-day (Fed 22) is Feb. 18; the latest from Truro, Feb. 17. Surely the Patriot will admit that something remains to be done in respect to the carriage of our mails !

— What we want is an arragement under which our mails will come and go right along as fast—well alraost as fast—as any in the country. We don’t want a two-mile-an- hour arrangement uoder any conditions of the weather! We don’t want our letters and papers to come to hand four days late

~-The Patriot attacked Mr. Dillon be- cause he omitted to state that there had been a storm—though most of us were awere uf that fact. Mr. Dillon has written a squelcher in reply, in which he points out that on the Wednerday after the atorm the train ran down to Tormentine in two and a~ balf bonrs. At the same time the poor horses heavily loaded with our mails were laboring along at the rate of perhaps two miles an hour, perhaps Jess. Mr. Dillon concludes that “ if the mail service was never more satisfactory than it is at the present, there 's still great room for im- provement,”

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DAIRY COMMISSIONER and Professor - Macoun:

Of the Experimental Dairy Farm will visit this Provtnee in the interests of the

Farmers and Horticulturists

And will hold meetings as follows :

Monday, 27th Feb. — At}Rustico Bank at 12.30; Bradalbane Hall at 7.

Tuesday, 28th Feb.— Kensington Hall, at 2; Summerside at 7.

Weipverday, March 1.—O'Leary Hall at 2; Alberton at 7.

Thureday, March 2—St. Souris at 7.

Friday, March 3—Chariottetown in Kindergarten Hall, at 2; alsoat a meeting of the Dairy Associations of the Province, specially called at Ch’tewn ai 7, iu the same place—same evening.

Saturday, March 4.—Eldon Hal] at 12 30; Murray Harbor South at 7.30,

lt is particularly requested, as there are two meetings to be held each day, that al! meetings shall be neid on sharp time.

Peter’s at 2;

The Inland Navigation Company (LIMITED)

The Annus! General Meeting of The Inland Navigation Company, (Limited) will be held in the room, (up stairs) is Mr. John McEachera’e building, corner of Queen and King Streets, on Thursday, the 28rd inst., at three o’clock p. m. L C OWEN, Seeretary

‘Ch’town,'4th Feb’y, 1899

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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

(Coctinued from First page)

was that these two valleys had been filled with ice up tu the summit of Citade! Hill, which taking into ac count the depth of the harbor, would give oa depth of ice of 300 feet at least; but when we take into consideration that the grinding force indicated on the top of the hill was «qual to that indicated below, there must have been several hundred feet of ice above that again, and consequently six or seven hundred feet or perbaps one thousand feet wasthe depth of the glacier at this point. But obserra- tions made elsewhere show that glaciers, as they travelled down the mountain sides, gradually got thinner, and inight ve only one-third their original depth wheo they reached the sea. Consequently the ice hergs that floated across the site of Prince Edward I-land might have been only 300 feet thick or less,and the depth of water about the same.

Two years after my firet journey to the west end of the island, | made another journey in that direction and went as far tas the North Cape, where I stayed some three weeks at a fishing stage about a mile from the cape on the east side. I was making some surveys in the surrounding country, but when I was not so engaged I spent the time shooting along the coast. During one of theee shooting expeditions I walked from the east side of the cape to the west side along the cliffs as far as the low brush then growirg ia that direction would let me. Just at this point, about 30 feet from the edge of the ciiff, I came upon a long ridge of clean gravel about a foot bigh or lese, wnich was running a!- most parallel to the edge of the oliff into

the bush. How far it went in that direction I could not see, but it at once gave me the impression of

a sea beach, where the gravel and shingle bad been piled up by the surf. The cliff wus about sixty feet high and the ancient beach showed an elevation of the land to that extent. Cons:quently we have now indications that the land at firat underwent an upbeavel of perhaps three hundred feet from the bottom of the sea, and afterwarde a further upheaval of sixty feet.

Now I shall describe several facts that I have observed that go to shew tbat the last movement of the land in Prince Ed- ward Islaud has been a suhsidence.In 1872, I wasemployed on the survey of the Priuce Kdward f[slend railway aod when making the survey of the Souris branch we crossed the mouth of the Marie River which falls into St. Peters Bay. It is a shallow islet o: the sea where it enters the bay, about 25 or 30 feet wide and only asmall stream further up. Where we crossed there wae less than two feet of water, and apparently a bard sandy bottom. An iron bar was obtained and driven into the sand t see if there was rock underneath the sand. Suddenly the bar almost disappeared. On taking 1% out we found it had gone into soft mud. We procured a longer bar, but found no bottom tothe mud Finally, on procuriag a still longer bar we found over thirty feet of mud. This clearly showed that the original bed of the stream had been ex~ eavaied by the running water ai least 30 feet telow its present ievel. But the level of the sea wae vow thirty odd feet above this, and under the present conditions the river could vot possibly excavate tte bed

much below the level of the ses. The only explanation there is is that the Jand has sunk at

least 30 feet, and during the process, the gully, 30 feet deep, tormerlyjexcavated by tue stream, had yradually filled up with mud. ‘The Morell River gave tie same evidence of a subsidence of the land in for— mer agee. When the railway embaok-~ meut was being Luilt were the lime crossed the river, earth and stone were dumped from: each side into the stream, but for & long (ime no appearent progress was made. All the earth and etone seemed to dis- appear intu themud. At last a bank of mud rose up oneach side of the place where theearth aud stone disappeared, toa height ef son:e fee: above of the water, and this continued to increase and #pread vut until the material tbrown in had found hard bottom, and then the embarkement was easily comrleted. I beliere more than 40 feet of mud was fourd here by actual eounding. The same thing was found at the bridge crossing Fullerton’t marsh, in Lot 48, when building the a abatteau a few years ago. A rod 30 feet long found no hard bottom in the centre of the stream which is perfectly dry when the tide is caly half out. I believe the same experience will be meet with at al] similar places al! round the Island. One raeber singular proof of this I found at Cove head abont twelve years ago. I was staying, at that time, at Point Pleasant fur a few weeke during the sum-~ mer. Mr McMil‘an the propietor of the hotel I was staying at, had a boat in which I used to sail about the bay, and some- times out to sea, OnedayI was sailing on the bay when the tide was low, and sudden= ly I f.uod I was aground in the middle of the bay. I wae forced to get out of the boat to try and push her intodeeper water. To my suprise when I got ont I found myself standing on old sod, and after a great deal ofeffort I pushed the boat off isto @ narrow chau- nel, which seemed tome to have been once the chennel of a siream. The next yeari stayed at Mr. John Leitch’s farm, which is situated at the head of the bay. There, one day, his son went down to the shoreand at some distance below high water mark began toshovel the sand off a space about 8 feet square, After digging down about a foot and ahalfor two feet became upon somedark looking stuff, which appeared to bs half mud and half sod. He threw thie out, and it was hau)- ed away to the barn yard. It appeared to be much the same kind of material all through, and was about 6 feet deep. Near the botiom some old sticks were found. Here was evidently the remains of anold marsh, similiar to those now existing at Fullerton’s Marsh, “Johnston's River, Pisiquid River, the dal of Hillsborough,

29-~Ban, mon, wed, friy i and other places, but with this difference,

on a level or slightly above high water

pression. Theold sod out in the bay and

down trom its original

ayear, the marsh would have grown sufficiently to keep ita head above water as it were. ly'that the marsh reeds and grasses were drowned by the sea,and now the marsh

lies beneath the waves, That this took place a long time ago, and that. the Iwnd iae

remained stationary at its present level for & great many years, is proved by the In- dian arrow heads that I found slong the present high-water mark just below Mc~ Millan’s house inside the point, and also Leetch's shore where the marsh-mud was dug frem beneath the sand.

campments, and had been occupied for a locg time. i

that instead of having its upper surface on

mark, it was a foot or two below low water mark, This was clear evidence of a de-

the mursh mud under the sand were tvidently part of of the same original mareh which had suok some four feet heigkt. And moreover, thie sinking must have been very sudden, geologically speaking ; for bad it sunk say only one quarter incb

But it went down so sudden-

These places were evidently the sites of Indian en-

A further corrokoration of the gradua lowering of the general level of the island can be found io the formation of the bot- tom of the straits between Cape Traverse and Cape Tormentine. The profile or plan of the soundings, taken a few years 8go, across the traits at that point, shows a sudden dip down in the ceatre, exactly similar to the profile shown by the levels ofa railway line crossing a stream on land. A person used to seeing profiles of railway lines would say at once that the depression in the centre of Northumber- land Straite was formerly the bed of a stream. ‘There is some seventy feet of water there now, so that the subsidence of the land must have been at least 70 feet, probably 100 feet.

This ieall I shal! say about the eleva- tion or depression of the land in Prince Ejward Island. But now I want to call your attention to another fact which may bedue to paturel causes or may be due entirely to human agency. Ronoing round some ef the ponds or lakes on the island, and also round some of the creeks is a bank two orthree feet high and ten or twenty feet from the edge of the water. I have only seen one, and that was 25 years £g0.

When the railway line was being eurvey- ed to Georgetown two or ibree different lines were run for the purpose of ascertain~ ing the best location. The first line ran about a mile north of Keefe’e Lake in Lot 49. OneSunday afternoon, I took a walk in that direction and was much struck with the beauty of the little lake, so much eo, that I made a sketch of it at the time, showing at the same time the bank run- ning round the edge of it. About three- quarters of the lake was surrounded by woods, which ran down tothe edge of the hank. The remaining portion was bori r- ed by open fields. Along the front of this portion ran @ bank about 20 feet from the waterand between 2 and 3 feet bigh. The farmer on whose farm was had cut through the*bank and made a roadway to the edge of the water I could follow tae bank with my eve easly in the cleared part ofthe land. Un the wooded side the bank ran into the bushes. I followed it for some distapce and observe! that the woods belonged to a second growth, the original foreat having beeo cut down. The bank sppeared to considerably bigher and more clearly defined in the woods than in the open fielde. On the side of the bank next tothe land a distinct ditch could be seen, and io one place tae stump of a large pine stood right on thetop of the bank, aith the roote growing down each side of it, clearly showing that when the pine first started growing, perhaps two hundred years ago, the bank was then in existence.

To me tbe bank seemed of artificial origin, and was perhaps con- structed by Indians for the purpose of enabling them to approach the wild fow! near enough to shoot! them with their bows and arrows. t

have seenit suggested somewhere tha those banks had heen forced up by tne action of theice. But I saw no evidence of that, and | think my explaoation comes { nearer the mark.

Interesting discussion followed, in which Senator Macdonald, Prof. Shaw, Dr. Beer, Principal Landrigan, Mesars. Charles Palmer, Jotun McSwain, Percy Pope, W. L. Cotton took part. A hearty vete of thanks was tendered Mr. May.

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