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BIG PUSH ” CORRESPONDENCE! BLAKE'S BMISSION : HUNTINGTON'S WITHDRAWAL, | rc., ETC. } (Continued from our st.) i ’ ’ 1 Well, gentlemen, there was the same

want of candor with the new Ministers, when they took office. They evidently pledged themselves not to dissolve in order to carry & vote f ‘

ut us off our guard, they made believe would be no election, and thus having deceived the people of Canada, they suddenly rushed onthe election—what 1s called in England, made a night march. They took us by surprise; the experiment Was was tried in England but it failed Mackenzie tried it in Canada and he suc- ceeded fora time, but he sees now at an | early date that he is receiving as his reward | the contempt of the people of Canada—for

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his want of candor, and tor the clandestine |

mode in which he proceeded on that occa- (Hear, hear and applause.) If you will look at his address delivered to his con- | stituents, gentlemen, he says that he was | forced to dissolve in consequence of the | corrupt mode in which the Parliament of [872 was elected (cries of Oh! Oh!) —that in consequence of the corrupt use of money by the Government of the day—of 1872— he was obliged, in order to raise the stand. }ard of political purity in Canada (great | laughter;, to do this; and gentlemen, the revelations before the Judges have shown you where the purity was (hear, hear) ;

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THE REVELATIONS M\DE BEFORE THE TRIBUNALS | | of the country have shown that the chal lenge I gave in Parliament that I would | prove that they spent $2 to our $1 in the | elections, (che rs) —was true; and gentle. | men, these revelations are so extraordinary | that if Usaid $10 instead of $2 to $1,it would i have been nearer the mark. [Cheers.| | Gentlemen, we have only touched the edge | we have merely chipped the shell, and we | have not gone into the centre of the egg (great laughter); and judging from the few | trials that we had, and the exposures made in these few trials, it was shown that more money was spent-——certainly in two of them than was subscribed by Sir ilugh Allan for all the eleciions in Ontario[applause]; and gentlemen, if we had proceeded in the same course that they did—if we had bribed their men—if we had stolen their papers {|hear, hear, and a voice: Office letters !]— | 1f we had filched their letters [cries of yes ! | yes! and applause |— if we had bribed their confidental servants to come and tell all they knew [applause], and if we had stolen their cyphered telegrams fapplause]—we would have an array of evidence, gentle< men, [hear, hear,] to show that Mr. Mac. kenzie was not far wrong in stating that the Parliament in |871 was a corrupt one, and it would also show us that the corruption was on his own side. [Cheers, and voices: give a‘ Big push,’ (Will you be one ?’} But

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| jects, and in our characters as gentlemen, | when he had been raising funds, stating | | that they had exhausted themselves and | and their funds, and asking for a big push to gain two elections on the following Satur- | day. [Checrs.] Now gentlemen, that | could not have been for the purpose of les vitimate expenses—must have been incur. | red, thatis to say, for printing, advertising, for the emp!oyment of canvassers, for get~ ting canvassing books, for paying for com~ mittee rooms, &c., &c.,—that is all gone | and past, and the elections are coming on within two or three days, next Saturday, and he asked them to make the big push— in other words, to have the money there to bribe electors [cheers] ; and he also asked the Hon. John Simpson, ‘ will you be one ?” {great laughter. ]—will you be one? Ard up to this time gentlemen, he was writing up, as if he were pure as the icicle that hangs over Dian’s temple; he wrote up the purity of the party they were going to elevate the standard of political morality, and crush and put down for ever these cor- ruptionists who had so long and so fatally governed this country. Mr. Simpson says that he never answered that letter, and that be never sent the money [laughter]; he says that ina telegram to the Ottawa * Free Press,” for Mr. Brown has never published the denial in the Globe. The fact of the matter is—Mr. Simpson's statement may be literally true; he may not have spent his own money, but he has a bank, and he spent the bank’s money ; and gentlemen, you see that the bank has got its reward (applause); and Mr. Simpson,with the candid cynicism character of the highwayman, writes—actually writes to the shareholders and to persons having an interest in and being customers of the bank—and states that the new men are great friends of mine; they are political friends of mine; if you help them, in the first place, I will get the patronage of this part of the country, and it will be a good thing for our bank ; and in consequence makes a first-rate thing out of the bank, and the result proves that he has been rewarded, Gentlemen, when acts of that kind are committed they always bring their own retribution, and much of the weakness of this government arises ‘from that time, from the consequences of

inst us, and that is proved by the | fact that every one went to his election. To |

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LOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD [SLANT

to speak with all respect-a tower of

| acjusted; this provision of 17} per cent.,

native industries, and acting upon that

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so 27 NAS ADSL EIS axe. senses j a EL RNS eee | given his word for that, and yet, strange to. es, these should be entirely free; and while | in course or time, the Party will be restor- | ment; thes i severed themselves from say. gentlemen, his colleagues do not think Mr. Cartwright raised the duty for a time |ed to power. One of the differences be< | Mi ) d declared themselves the State - te eoine to last very long. (La ‘witel it 173 per cent he destr« y d the whole | tween the pol cyol the Liberal Conservatives f ) ii ! ir, anda separate nation as Within only two years, or within eighteen te of it by putting heavy duties upon | and the policy of the Grits, has reference | t >ta ieXas how soon they months I think, they have lost four of thei: w materials; as Ihave had occasion to | toa question of revenue concerning th ut 1! Gentlemen, the same Ministers (laughter). Well, these gentle- | say in the House and elsewhere, Mr. Cart- | protection of the manufacturing interests | mode of rpt i zo on here under men did not risk retirement; no, not they weight said that was only a temporary pros | of thecourtry. Our policy is in the future | similar cireum-tances, and so confi lent am they drew $7,000 a year each of them, and | vision; Mr. Mackenzie denied it here the | What it has been in the past. We have { that fact, that juestion was inde- that ix something in hard times [laughter]. | other day. Mr. Cartwright did not say | always, since 1859, when ir, now Sir| pendence or a tion, 1 my , would First they had the Rouge Party, the Hon, | that the duty would be taken off of 17) | Alexander Galt, was Finance Minister, anx | rather have annexation out and out, than

Mr. Dorion, a gentleman of whom I wish | per cert., but that the duties would be rez | nounced our policy in the interests of our | the danger of war. the want of eredit, the

want of confidence that, with independence

| strength to the Rouge Party; but he could | was a temporary one, and that there would! policy, we have held tbat the duties | w vuld continually harrass the government

| not have confidence in the continuation of! be a readjustment, perhaps he meant in | should be so impored as to provide inci- | and the people,

ithe Administration, and he accordingly i} took the Chiet Justiceship { hear, hear], which office he at present so wortbily fills | Mr. William Ross, the Minister of Militia ithe Minister of War—{laughter]; he did not exactly turn his swora into a plough | share, but he took a quill at the Collector s Applause]. Then there

| Office in Halitax. |

Minister ot Justice for a while, and a Post, | master General for another little while, who

lis Mr. Fournier, a Minister of Justice,—= |

; the direction of an increase of duties, per- | heps in the direction of reducing them, but I th) it it was a temporary—merely a_provi- | sional arrangement. Well, now, gentle-

men, that announcement certainly did not

increase the confidence of the manufactur ers in Canada, (loud cries of no! no! and hear hear), for if there is one thing calculat. ed to paralyzed trade in Canada, and one than another calcu'ated to

our credit already shaken by

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dental protection, and not be so excessive } as to prohibit importations. Well, gentle | men, there is a cardinal pomt in the po —a cardinal difterence, which exists | tween the Conservative Party as a whole }and the little group of conflicting opinions | which form the great Ministerial Party. The | cardinal point in our policy Is Connection with Great Britain— enthusiastic cheers ' have no patience with those men who say that the time must come when we must

lwith his long toil, with his anxious labors, | the unwise financial course of the present | Separate from England; I see no necessity

| and his dealings with matters in which the

| country and public are interested, resolved | to take office, worn outand wearied by his

continuous labors—[laughter]—retiring on ithe soft cushions of the Judge of the Su- 'preme Court. [Applause]. was the other PostmasterGeneral,[laughter]

my namesake, Mr. Donald A. McDouaid— | under the advice of such an arrogant and | the gentleman who wrote letters ordering | coaceited and ignorant man. [Cheers.] How every little postmaster to vote tor the Gov- | Me. Mackenzie will act with regard to the

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ernment under pain of dismissal.

| Donald A. MeDonaid is now holding an | freedom of Dundee he was a free tracer,

anxious office—the anxious office of the Lieut. Governor of Ontiio, [Laughter]. It is said, gentlemen, rumors will get abroad—that even that great and good man, Lucicus Seth Huntington ‘| great laughter], will be soon provided for; and that he is going to deprive the Dominion of Canada of his wondrous seryices, of his active zeal, of his industry, (laughter), of his legal knowledge, [laughter] and of his commercial probity (applause); he ls going to deprive the country and Parliament and Government of his services, and what these are the future will tell. It is also said that Mr. Laird, the Minister of the Interior having gone up the Saskatchewan and having seen what a fine country Manitoba is. and having consulted with the Black Feet and Crees, wishes to go there and be Lieutenant Governor there, leaving Prince Edward Island to its fate. (Laughter and Applause). Then. sir, \'r. Blake, who re- signed as soon as by the assistance of his name Mr. McKenzie had carried the elect ions, from that time for the first session gave very feeble support to Mr. \cKenzie and his Government; and last session he gave a searcly concealed hostility. He

ATTACKED SOME OF MR. MACKENZIR’S MEASURES,

he sneered at his want of Parliamentary knowledge, and he upset him for a mistake in Parliamentary practice, just to show what he could do; and he turther opposed his railway scheme in Vancouver Island. [ do not believe that he voted against it, but he became one of those vanishing

views (laughter), dissolving views. Oh, yes—he did vote against Nanaimo and

Esquimault Railway, the dissolving views have reference to another measure. Laughter. The member for Cumberland Dr. Tupper, showed that the Covernment had been guilty of direct breach of their own Act; that the Act provided that the telegraph line should be built along the line of railway after it was located. Well they have not located t'e line, and they could not, because they had not surveyed the line and they had hardly made up their minds where it was to go; but Mr. David Glass had to be paid for his services, and actually the Government have contracted for the telegraph before the location of the railway was determined upon. That was exposed by my honorable friend, and when @ motion was made upon it, it was then that Mr. Blake and his party followed him —Mr. Moss, Mr. Mills, the philosopher of Bothwell—became dissolving news, and popped out of the back door. (Laughter). Weil, but I say Mr. Blake’s opposition was scarcely concealed: it was not concealed during the second session. I tell you that he opposed the Government measures, and the lion. Mr. Mackenzie as leader. he sneered at him, and objected to the bill, as introduced, as being altogether contrary to |

| Parliamentary practice; and he showed his |

characters and as men jin our characters as teeth. But as I heard Judge Sicotte once | citizens, in our characters as British sub- | remark to my friend Mr. Holton. who was }making a speech in the House, and maks |

ing big eyes:—“Mr. Holton, you may |

von’t change me.”’ (Laughter)

And Mr. Blake was making big eyes and looking as ugly as possible at the first minister of the Crown. He started the |

the Liberal newspaper in the hopeless attempt of writing down George Brown and the Glolx Chen rose my friend Mr. George Brown, in his might, and putting out his mighty paws on both Mr. Mcken- zie and Mr. Blake; he knew what his power was, and he said :—‘*Gentlemen no more nonsence ; you two cannot quarrel; Mr. Blake you must squelch that Liberal of yours; Mr. flake you must go into’ the Government of Mr. Mckenzie, the Pre- miership is not for you; that is meat for your master; you must fall into the ranks, | Mr. Blake, cease making big eyes and squelch the Liberal.” To hear is to obey, and down went the Liberal. He fell into the rut of Ministerial work, and took a back seat with the A. J. Smiths, and Burpees, and all that kind of people. (Laughter and Applause), As Mr. McKenzie has ; been of late in a poetical mood—as he | has got into that way I will give him the lines :-—

The great and good By a very bad fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, And weltering in the mud. (Applause and cheers.)

Well, gentlemen, that was the first ses- sion—look at that for the first session ; they say it requires for anew member of Parlia, ment 4 session to learn how to hang up his hat, and it should certainly require one ses~« sion for an honorable Minister to learn how to manage the House. However, Mr. Mac- kenzie did something—he brought down the Pacitic Scheme, and you know all about

THE TARLFP BROUGHT DOWN BY MR. CARTWRIGH7.

Mr. Mackenzie said the other day that every tariff is objected to; that whenever an interest is affected that interest will be object; but this was a tariff which holds the unique position of receiving opposition from every one (laughter and applause. )

Then there |

; Administration—and shake it to the base, | it would be the idea that Mr. Cartwright | was to be entrusted with the permanent |control of that department. Evil as has been the consequences, of course it would | be trifling in comparison with the deep and | lasting injury of any capricious changes

tariff, God only knows. In order to get the

he was a free trader—an out-and-out free trader, a Richard Cobdenite ; and he pledg. ed himseli, on every occasion, that any Government in which he held cffice, would if necessary carry out the principles of Free Trade, as announced by himself (groans) ; he came back to Canada; he went up to Sarnia and made a speech there showing that he had changed a little, but then the atmosphere had changed, gentle~ men jhe had already got the freedom oi Sar- nia, for he was the member tor Sarnia, gent. lamen. ‘Therefore he told them that he was in favor of incidental protection. He came down to Montreal for the purpose of defeating my friend Mr. White, and I think that he appeared in a new character of an ardent protectionist, of an out and out pro- | tectionist—hear, hear and laughter. Well, gentlemen, his course puts me very much in mind of the western man in the United States. He wasa leading member of the Democratic Party, and he was seeking the suffrages of some constituency inthe far West, and addressing them as Mr. Mac. kenzie did, or somewhat in his style, he said to them: ‘Gentlemen, the notions of the platform of the Democsatic Party— these, gentlemen, are the principles of the Democratic Party; I am a Democrat, a dyedsin-the-wool Democrat; these are the principles fastened on my banner; these are the principles I will stand or fall by; but gentlemen, if they do not suit they can be changed.’ Prolonged applause and uproar ious laughter. Well, gentlemen, the Tariff and the Pacitic Railway are pretty much all they did in that session, and a poor show they made in both of them - cheers.

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| for it; | see no necessity for such a culmi- natio;:, and the discussion of it, the mens tion Gfit, and the suggestion of it to the people can only be mischevious, is it not the duty of every well-wisher to his country, and’ofevery patriotic states-~ man to make the people of the courtry satisfied with their lot, if their lot be a happy one ?—and, sir, I say that this coun- try is one of the happiest there is on the face of the earth. We govern ourselves ; we tax ourselves as we please: we ar allowed even to tax the goods, the produce and the trade of our fellow subjects in the mother country; we have full and ample rights of legislation: we have freedom fo: | lite and for property; we have liberty and are free from all chances of being attacked by a despot, and we are free from al chances of being degraded into licentious- ness — applause.

That is a happy state of aflairs and with not the slightest chance, with not the slightest prospect of that happy position being altered for the worse, we are called | upon to speculate upon the time when we are to sever the connection, so happily | existing—to start as an independant nation | and to cut away the links that bind us to | the mother country and our fellow subjects | in Great Britain and in the other colonies ; and we are asked to run all the risks of Independance, all the risks and all the expense, all the cost, and all the dangers, and all the responsibilities of an Independ- ent Nation. Sir, we have got the pledge of the mother country,and as I said before that pledge never has been broken that the whole power of the Empire will be ex- erted in our defence. (Applause). Mr. | Mackenzie has announced in language so broad, that it has brought upon him the censure of the English press, [hear, hear],

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this information, that hereafter Canada is to make her own treities. Mr. Mckenzie could not have meant it in its wide sense, but I believe, and am quite sure that I am

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the Washington ‘Treaty, when a Canadian |

ease of the Reciprocity Treaty, when Mr. | Brown was placed in communication, as a | quasi ambassador, with Sir Edward Thorn

NOW ABOUT THEIR ADMINISTRATION, Look at their administration—two years in office and four changes! Why, gentle- | men, when I was in the Government, and they used to atteck me and say that busi- ness was being neglected—when I was in the Government, it was a cardinal princi- ple against which some of my colleagues would grumble occasionally—that on no oceasion would Ottawa be left without a quorum of the Council, no matter what exigency might occur, however so great. There was never a day or night when there was not a quorum of the Council at the Governor's elbow to assist him in carrying on the affairs of the country; but as for this Government, why, gentlemen, look at the newspapers! I hope that the Ministers have passes; for if they have not, one-halt of their salaries must be gone in railway fares.—Laughter. They are like the wan- dering Jew—go anywhere, and you will |

find them: if you go to Manitoba, you will |

wlll find them; if you go to New Bruns- | wick you will find Mr. A. J. Smith; if you | go here you find a Minister—if you go there you finda Minister: but there is one place in which you may go, gentlemen, and | never find « Minister, and that 1s Ottawa,— | Laughter. Gentlemen, at first there was an undercurrent—then a growl—then an | underswell, and now, gentlemen, the roar | ot discontent is increasing in volume, and | increasing in intensity; it is complained | that the business of the country is neglect. ed, and that it is no use to go to Ottawa on public business, for one Minister is attend- ing to his farm, and another to his new wife laughter- and another is making speeches here and a third is making speech- es there; and the business of the country is neglected —no business is done at al). — Hear, hear. Then, gentlemen, as to ap- pointments. | have heard that appoint ments to office in Montreal have been singularly satisfactory —laughter -- that they never think of anything but fitness for office ; that ne political consideration ever induces them to take a wrong man; that the confidence of the public, that personal respectability and the respect of the com- munity are a sine qua non in their appoints ments.— Laughter. Well, gentlemen, I believe that the sample you have of the mode in which they make appointments are just a very good sample of the appoints ments they are making ail over the Do- minion; and you may judge then of the manner in which the country is governed, and of the manner in which new appoint» ments are made.— Applause. it used to be the cry of the Liberal Party in England—and it used to be the cry in Canada of the Grit Party, that there must be no pensions.—-Hear, hear. But this Government introduced that system of pensioning in the most obnoxious way We have got a Superannuation Law—a law on our Statute Book that was passed for the purpose of providing for old servants who became no longer capable of perform- ing the duties of their office—a means of moderate livelihood in theirold age. But it is highly improper, as under the present system, to superannuate able-bodied mep merely to make vacancies for a throng of office-seekers, depriving the country ot the services of efficient men, very provably replaced by inferior persons, besides the loss of two-thirds of his salary or the amount of his retiring allowance, whatever it may be.

We ask for bread, and they gave us a stone; we asked for a railway and they did

Gentlemen, there are 252 persons before

{this act. Gentlemen, in order to be sus- tained by certain banks, the Government

i IVERPOOL & LONDON | promised to make deposits in certain banks; 4 - a3

and it did make these deposits—large des | posits, for the banks were cbliged to recoup themselves for the amount spent in elec and the banks had to lose the mo-

| tions;

TY] | ney they sowed broadecas: in the country ; and although all the country was suffering I | from over-importation and from free trade,

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and the consequence of a long series of | successful years—they increase the infletion by spreading this money broadcast; and then just as this money wis out in the couutry, Mr. Cartwright, with the financial sagacity which characterized him—of all times in the world, when there was distress and want of confidence, and an approach to

al of Canada, 162,800 | a panic, he sends notes to the banks tell. | Other Investinents in Dominion ing them to pay up (laughter); the conse- of Canada, 867,091 | quence was that they shut down on every

FAIR RATES. Prompt & Liberal Settlements

Farm Properties, for One, Three or more years, At Reduced Raies,

will be thankfully

| Office—Great George Street, Charlotte | town, P. E. I.

R. R. FITZGERALD, Agent Ch’town, July 27, 1874.—6m

Insurance against Fire effected upon Pri- vate Residences, Household Furniture,and

one of their customers, and not only those men that got the money that was given | them for these unholy purposes—not only ,| these men who got the new discounts on | this new money, but they ask the custom, ers of the Bank to do the same; hence all are injured and partly crippled in their re~ sources by these notices of Cartwright’s ; and the consequence of that inflation was that a large increase of distress, of misery, of commercial ruin and of havoc, has been -caused. (Applause and cries of that’s true). Gentlemen, they are A HAPPY FAMILY IN THIS GOVERNMENT,

' (laughter)—a very happy family.

| you here, and there are four million of | people in the Dominion, and if you will | find one among these 202 or any one of the | four millions of the inhabitants of Canada, | any man, woman, or child, that would say a word in favor of that tariff, then I will sit |down. (Laughter.) There was exactly | like what is spoken of in Virgil. _He tells | us of -Eolus, who went to the Caveo! | Winds, and letting the winds out worth, } south, east, and west, they went and sank the devoted ship of Eneas. notusque ruunt procerque procellis wstier. | Just in the same way, from the north,south, east and west, deputations flowed into Ot. tawa. (Hear, hear.) They came from all quarters, and by all trains, and by all con- veyances [laughter]; and they protested, not on account of one article, but on ac- count of every change, and on account of

every imposition in the tarift [applause]; |

and Mr. artwright, after a feeble attempt vindicate his tariff, said: ‘ Well I think we will put it off to a fitter opportunity.’ {Laughter.] the duty was fixed at 16} ad valorum duty, ‘that is not enough,’ hesaid ; ‘then | will make it 174’; but, gentlemen, | he could not even do that in a gracious | way, because while the 17} per cent. might | be considered in some degree a protection | pro tanto for our infant manufactures, he

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| destroyed the whole value of it by taking |

_from the free list raw materials, [hear, | hear, and applause.] We had provided in

our tariff years ago that on all products |

|mot give a railway, but they promised little | pieces of a railway, which wou!d connect by