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A Criiwded Hall.

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Speeches by Fisher, Laurier, Davies aml Welsh.

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It was s crush.

hold such 8 large nnd representative pro- -vincul audience as that which crowded every corner of it last night. Many were Qn\blU to gain admit:-imce.

The meeting was announced to Iahd ilnco at 8 o'clock, but by '.".J0 there was ly an inch of 3 nnding room left.

The .\t-till:-ry Band had been secured for the occasion and the hill‘ hour was spent by the audience in listening, waiting, and up lsuding the arrivals.

n the latfortn were the city clergy- men, His Vorship the Mayor, Hon. D. Laird, members of the Dominica and local legislature, prominent Liberals and representatives of the press.

A number of ladies were present in the audience. ’

The wa'ls of the old hall were decor- ated with fltgs and bunting and bore three large uinttos, viz: “ P. E. Islanders Welcome L.‘lul'i~:l' the Liberal Leader." _“_ Economy and Retrenchment necessary to Save the State." " Canada is loyal to

her Queen." “Our Battle- ry~Rcci- ocity and Free Trade with the United te'.u .

Among those on the platform were Ilia Wot-chi‘ BI-iyor Havilautl, Hon. U. E C.; Senator llsythnrne, Hon.

L. H. Dsvies, M. P.; Wm. Welsh. M- R; Dr. -Robertson, M. P.; S. F‘. Perry. ,3. P.; Jan. Yeo, H. P.; Hun. B Rogers, H. L. C.; llou. P. Mu-.\'utt, M. L. C.; Hon. A. Laird. M. L. C.; Hon. A. B. McKenzie, M. L. C.; Hon. Mr. Kick- hgm, M.‘L. (3.; Hon. Mr. Hooper, 1].-,L. 0.; Hon. John Yea. LI. P. P, 0' _r of the Opp:-sitiou;A. McMillan, ‘II. I’ P.'; John Momgomery, M: P. *P.; D. Fnrquhnrson, -1. I’. P.: F. Peters, )1. P. P.: H. C. .\IcD-nnld. M. P. P.; John Mstheson, M. P. P.: J. Richards, H. P. P; Rev. Mr. Brewer. Rev. _Mr Kcfllhinney, and others. Hon J. Wur- burton, Dr. McLeod, F. L. Hssznrd, Dr. HICKS)‘, L. L. Beer, Wm. Weeks, Chan Pn1iner,— J... Gallant, Rustic.-o; Win. Me- Lln-fior, Arch. ‘Wright, S'side; Jos. Wise, 8. . Brown, A. B. Wnrburton, J. J. Ihvieo, J, Crockett, H J. Palmer, \V'ni.

T ' , F. 3. Beer, 0 Morrison. Tig- 9' : Dr. Honeywell. Rich. Reddin, H. c,.Dm.n‘;e, W. W. Beer, and msny others

yhoie "faces we could not recognize or see.

‘Hon Thou. Dad I, President of the Reform Club. presided

Mr. Iaurier entered the hall promptly .g gficlock accompanied by Hon. L. H. Dgwies nnd Mr. Fisher pnd was greeted with loud applause. .

Hon. Mr. Dodd than arose and after I few introductory remarks mtruduced

MR. SIDNEY FISHER.

cl B1-unis. Qflobec, as the first speaker. 31;, Fang is a farmer, ngontlcman of Paging _-gnd - manly oppoannce, -and n s or of no menu sbility.

r. Fisher on rising expressed the fltlsfaction it gave him to know that flit!

sndience before him represented not will 3 ':h§'city of Charlottetown but the Pro-

vince generally. lie was a. farmer bim-

. ‘"1; “,5 he represented a purely agricul-

ltslll constituency. ' He would not dc- gain them {fun} the treat that was in store for them, but he would say a fevv things rn«‘:e.p-trticulsrly from a farmers stand-

‘ ¢_ Eu-m-rs had no interests that p. to imniicnl to other intertsts, and it vvu the pulley of his party 1105. In 01'd9*'

_ go be, etit farmers or any one class, to '40

anything that would be llI]l.ll'lOu8 to the ‘interests of others. _ I farmers of Canada wanted no pr»-tectw".

Ilc believed the

but that with fair play and if not over- burdened with taxation they could com- in any of the if thpcglfllit T can c-ompebe Wit 8 mar 11 g‘ _ “:33 own home market. Tho arrest bulk of 0,". ‘gxyeultufgl products is exported .0 35. United States and that in the fees :1 grant barriers raised up agsmst trade between the two countries. To foster some tnsnufecturies that noyog mm uilling to stand on their mvn

. boggim the present Government of Can-

culn lied the rest of the people ::.,.h;'.n uhiicasonably heavy tax. Last yea,--ghgy bzsfifllafld of a surplus of two and a half million d illnrs. He believed this was unjust and more than this country could bear At the very time the Amen- pnul were agitating for A change Of "W30 gelntions the Tory government gave C‘ W}- “,-.“ um best of reasons to misc their dmj... gill higher against Canadian pro- ducti-,,ua_ .,m-‘Government adopted 5 conciliatory policy, the result would luvs been very different. T118 0 013°“ 5‘ fives afett to make very light of ‘the Agoricnn nnrltotl, but their own anxiety go and markets to take the place of _th96,0 the have lost is sulliciont contradiction to tyhc-no pretensions. TINY “'0 ‘WV’ mu‘ ning tug). Qugfi "0 In West Indies. China. -him» M" ' I .1,e.,},,,,-. {urn mnrlcet All $13890 ‘Mn’ kets were as open formerly us they M5 can be and if our traders did not Wt-’°“‘ ize them it. was because film? 554 “ “‘°"°

.-nfitable market nearer homo. '

y as did not believe any of our l«?Bm3“;‘t" mum!‘ - acturers feared competition with the Aflcricauaz be low" -''“'° “'‘““‘‘*°‘ cum. -2» wave? °°‘-""°.?.‘.i°"s ‘“‘1d 333 .....a.... ..e as .-nous mu 0 053;, ,, millivnl 11'“ W‘! ll“ ‘’°‘’“ "5. xlic d,51ayn)t_y_ , Ha could8lI01l3UW‘ °P‘, 7

[told that the farm on the top of that hill Thnlllnrket llnll has seldom if 1‘-Vol‘ “We” the Garden of America.

inntivc land, no matter where.

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Parry. MI‘. You, and otliers. It is still a I fret-rlom in religic-n nncl in matters civil nnrl political. trsulu.

gr:-titer pleasure to me to find volt-mus of the old Iiibcrril ‘Soho--I about me--the chnirmnn, Mr \\';irburlou, Mr. Ilrm D3\'l(‘H. Mr‘ B. Davies Illlll others. Still more would my satisfzictiuu It-we lwl-ll complete had I visited this lxl.~mr.l at a more auspicious season to Site the l‘l(‘llllt?.%l of its soil and the bloom of its vegetation. Ihcnrd my friend Hr. Davies at llnlifnx

in 21 moment of enthusiastic fervor nu.-ilt-~ that it i

a statement. for which I was not at all prepnn-d, namely, that this were {helluv- lleu of America. The plirnse is not by any menus new to me. When I was in ,3Iuskoka recently I was told, that that was the Garden of America. Another ;msn pointed to the crest of u hill, and I .luul to strain my neck to see it. and was

(Laughter) And all the time in my own liemt I knew thntthey were all wrong, tlmt the (inr- (Inn of Cnxmda was on the lJ‘.L|ll:‘.~l of the St. L-.m'rcnc9, in my mm lc'.'«~tl lnml. (Applause) Not-hing can be so clear, nothing so beautiful R3 the ‘soil of oue’s You will pardon me therefore in sn_ving——:\ltli-iugh I may be wrong-—thut the Linrtlcn of Amer- ica is on the banks of the St. Latvicnce. But much as I love my mum xntive prov- ince there is one thing in which I admit your superiority. I’. E. Island is the Garden of Canada so for as patriotism and liberalism are concerned. (Applause.) I will never f- -1-get with what pleasure we heard of the victory of the Liberals here in the last election. The enemy was routed, horse, foot, and artillery; their cannons were packed, their banners were Llraggu-cl in the dust. And I sin sure the heart of P. E. Island has not changed, that it ever beats in the Liberal CAUSO. All that it needs to complete its happiness is com- plete and Unrestricted Reciprocity with the United States- And since, you nre the Garden of Canada I would expect to find here a prosperous people, that emi- gration had certs-.-(l~— that every family was complete at its fireside. But is it so;-’ Is it not true that your population has been decimated by emigrstinn——tlmt your men have gone to till lands loss favored than their own. And is there not some- thing in such a condition as rotten as in Denmark of old. Such a conditirfm when it continues year after year is not normal. it is not a sound one markets. You raise more produce than

on can consume. Most of you remem- ber the meeting in 1878 in the Sloiting Rink addressed by the late Mr. Pope and Sir Charles Tupper. They promised that in two years you would hear the hum of modern machinery. Sir John was to do the triclt. He knew the secrets of Government. He had in his hand a magic wand and hewould but wave it when manufacturies would spring up on every brook, and on every ditch. (Laughton) There would follaw a team-

prices for the buyer and dear prices for the seller-—milk and honey would flow in the land. The people of Charlottetown believed in those promises. I do not blame you. We were at that time in the throos of commercial drpressirill--n de- pression that prevailed all over America snd ~Eur--pe, which she «ed that it could not be affected by u change of tszriff. The

things. But man often becomeztlie dupes of their own teachings. Once in the city of Marseilles a man met It friend on the street who naked him

what was the news. “News! fl’:-s, I have news for you. Jfhorc is it whole in the harbor." "A Wllulo ! Why

no whale was ever seen in our harbor ”

“Go and see." So the man gmugd off and he told others as he went. and soon there was a crowd, and bye and bye others followed to 309 the crowd, until at last the liar who started the story said, “ Vi ell, there must be whale after in ; I will gr too. (L lud laughter ) And 3 . it has been with the Conservatives. Tliey thought they had in their hands

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they lnon came to believe itthsrm-elv'es. But now I ask where are the tall chim- neys. There is just om in St. John and it is in the hands of the R ceiver There-

of the combiue—-an in_stitutinu winch produces sugar on one hand and draws blood from the slisreholders on the

other. Have those promises been fulfilled ‘l I am sure th it there sre some Conservatives here. It

‘news to use {see some fupe~ belonging to tbs: party about me (laughter), and while I value the presence of my friends I value more thstkof the Conservatives. I did not come the Lihnrals,’but to speak to the Conserv- atives in the lliupfi that some of them would repent froxn*-their sins. (Laugliter). I know it-is it hard task forsuoh a. humble

in history that Providence-has used the meanest instruments for tho" scc«3_mplish- ment of its ends. And after all the scales may fall from th+.-ir eyes, (Laughter), for is there one Conservative here who will

pgcrod, I respect ever mans convic- tions, and if I have all? fcpmach for my fellow countrymen of the Conservative fnldit is because they do not do enough thinking for themselves, and follow ton much the dictation of their leaders. I hsk every man of every party to look upon the state of existing alfalfa-

Mr. Luurier then went on to speak of certain taxes. The Conservative Govern-

snd later 75 cents a barrel on flour to help the wheat growers of Manitoba, etc. Flour is not ,5,Jux_ury and taxes should al- ways he placed on luxuries rather than on the people's bread. There can be no

tbgn we want. It is simply putting money out n‘ 3'0lll'

fellow 00llfll.l'ylflt‘fl in the West, Tllexi ‘Italic coal.

‘coal, and Nova Scotis has. Ontario con

pockets into those of -our P

brolul

that direction.

principle of free trade as in Eng-

tllo home nimket.

them.

territory.

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Into:-ly we have heard considerable cou~ ccruing eggs. Prior to the duty being levied on eggs we had established a busi- ness of some 14 000.090 dz-zen a year, which represented 8‘3.000,000, but new a ' .bsrrier has been raised and heaped up agnima: our eggs and the g-.9V8l'lllllcIl[ are making frantic efforts to create .1 market for them in England Liberal hope-r that they will be success- ful. But the English market will never be the some to us as the 17. S. Eggs cannot be trsmsported long Lllstancefi as if It is all very well to talk of G B. but trade has no sentiment What you want is and I defy'the very worst Tory in Canada to refuse to~.tvikefn dollar bill from the Yankees in preference to ninety cents from England.

31 . Laurier, for the benefit of Con- servatives, quoted from a speech made by Sir John Macdonald before confederation a declaration in favor of reclprscity——an argument for Canada having two strings to her bow—Eu laud‘and the United States, nnd he spo e in favor of that view. Then be quoted from the resolution pro- posed by Sir John in 1878 for the establishment of the N, *P., which con- iug population of Isborerx-;—witli clxcap eluded with the statement that such a policy would greatly tend to procure h But bspeaklipg at a later date upon t e same so "ect. e reverted to the y ' . same idea. Hethejn s retaliatory and FLR CAPS me policy and the reason was this: that if Canada was to get reciprocity she would only get it in that way. ten years ago.

reciprocity.

referr

elected.

farmers of

l‘:ll.~lo.~.l by Uanhtlri.

at the present» moment.

Fisheries $ Animals 6*’

other ucts

Ag: icult. products

they were bricks.

Americans in any such manner. simply treat with them for the purpose of obtaining reciprocity. I say that there are within the realm of--the government.» itself confusion worse confounded in regard to r-eciprocity—a confusion which the world has never seen since the confusion “Well, there :5; one there now," said the of the tower of Babel.

applause.l-0’

heart, mfg such icy is for the pros erity of our country. (Loud lievg rcciproc ty

In this we agree with could have found under the ’bls'nner of They are so often in the wfoug Franu-g. __(_EntllllSla'l‘.IlC applause.) Icome s a pleasure when we mu say that here-nuiong yr,-u".~.s rt Ctiuadian, as a-Brit. we agree with them, and we never fail to ish subject, and England is as dear to me do so, 'I‘lie lmme market is certainlv the as any other country (applause), but at best ave can lmve, but unfortunately the the mule time I lmveno hesitation in say- home um!‘-ltet prmnised us in former veers ing that my loyalty is like my charity—it line not been given us, nor has it given commences at home, and much as I love us What. we anticipated, but it is in my England I have no hesitation in saying humble opinion, nnd it is in that spirit I express it to you. that if we could remove tive land. (Che-.ers.) And if the day the commercial barrier that at l*ct\vecu us and thcli at once we would have it home market of native land. would not be the interests 65,000,000 of people. (.-lpplnusc.) I Mr. lisurinr drew attention to the pre~ sent. at-.it.: of nll’uir~a—--the barriers raised in fnvcr of my native loud, and therefore by the lfnited Htates and the barriers it is thstl do not reproach Conservatives Suppose those bar- riers were taken down, does it not stand to reaszm tlmt immediately the volume of sup].-orsccl that the interests of Canada was trade would be doubled beyond what it is the prime consideration: but the point ‘I Our trade flows object to in when they taunt us with want as naturally to the Uxiitccl States as the of loyalty when we trv to benefit Canada water of some of our rivers into their (Loud._applauBc.) " ' Here is .1 list of exports to the W United Suites and Great Brit-lin for the last liscul year:--

U. S. 0. Britain 311,682 $7,127 373195 730 83769 _ I2 ‘$676,646 $:.9 I9

(Lsughtein)

Mr.

I do not

ends today nit:-cl States; then

I hope and every

This was said The N. P. therefori: was to compel the Americans to give us Tories were going to remedy this relate of reciprocity, but it has-not had that efl'ect , F01‘ my P3?‘ I W001‘-1 NW8!‘ urge 5110 and we can therefor afford to keep the quality

I V0014 and quantity of our Stock away up and‘ " '

Lsurier pointed out that the ministers when they visited St. John had favored a renewal of the old treaty; be quoted from the speech delivered in the parliament by Hon. Mr

Colby, presidellt of the Privy Council, strongl op'>o-‘sing such ll policy, and he to t e support given the Conserva- tive reciprocity candidate in Napierville by Hon. Mr Chaplcau, who endorsed the the remedy, and by dint 0f.rcp-.-ativrg it reciprocity policy- In that election the Conservative candidate lied stolen the political clothes of the Liberal, and was In view of these facts, Mr. Laurier asked: Corrservzrivcs, where are is another in Halifax and it is in the hanrls you on this question l You have some of your leaders one way and some another way. -I would not be surprised if next session or before the next election you would see the whole government burning with anxiety to grasp our policy and going back to unrestricted reci rocity, which is now our programme. say, said Mr. Laurier, that the very moment Sir John Msodonsld will take up our policy he will have the whole support are to preach Free Trade to of my party. We have country at

have only to

rosperity of our & pol-

be- free and unrestricted person as myself to undertake, but I read would be disadvuntageoul to the |Il8lI.u- facturers of this country. It would not » ;i of course be advantageous to the monopo- -‘V lists’, but it would be of immense udvsu- , mg»; to the farmers on one hand and not ; injurious to the__manufacturer‘s on the " any lhe N. P. has realized nll that _he ex- other hand, and; if I have to chose be- tween the two 1 say it here, that my ‘choice is already made and I stand by the '51 the country. (Applause. Why 3 Because; there is no pr aperit when the agricultural industry of a coun __ try is depresse ', and if you want success: , ful nw-ufscturers then you must have ’ I -prosperous farming population and there-‘ fore my choice, is made. that under recipriigity there would be A men» to 5° W ¥.‘:?.i..‘:’.:;’:‘:f.‘.:‘::.}’.‘3f..:%;':?’§,‘3...7f:..°’:3?’.;: people. That could be met, for in the hands of in finance minister jucli as Sir Richard Cartwright there.is-nodoubt that we would be able to diminish the expen- naad of it because we have more revenue 3:0-"ér$a‘:£§:1°0§°‘;:‘g{ta::‘d£)‘l:’1dl’x,:;:"‘$g: sensed will‘ to it very large degree. Tak- ing first an inatsnt-:3 yheria large ‘shaving

, . can be elfecte —t 9 rant: e act. 6 re- ou ‘MO and Quebec hm‘) "0 vision of which costs 3400.000 or $500,000 and which has only been twice revised.

It is argued

French origin lmre found more freedom under the banner of Exiglsuicl than they

that still more do I love Canada-——my nu-

would come, which I hope to heaven will never come, that the interests of my

of the mother country, if I had to .maké

a choice. I would certainly make in choice

with having by the N. P. enrlangerecl the British connection, if in their he rts they

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§TIlA~.\’GlZRS‘ coming to r_ town frequently ask us why we are A WA Y D0 W.

prices are

AWAY DOW‘N, ‘

and customers are willifig to come AWAY DOWN because our prices in CLOTHING

AIVAY DOWN ;

Our expenses are

AWAY DUWN,

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We will just name in few of our prices’ that the public may know we are

AWAY DOWN’:

AWAY DOWN.

Ch’town, Nov. ‘L1, X890.

‘ 0 ., BRA2t_’.D}of FLOUR is superior to 1:nt” €Jx§3~.*.lllstchlcl;s." Always for 3 ‘ ‘Store. Try a b:mcl~_sn‘d you will '3 lliel. I for Sale-the best quality of BRAN, sud; CORNMEAL, etc.