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Their Several Changes of Front

POINTED OUT BY THE« HON. GEO. E. FOSTER

In the Course of his Excellent Speech in the Rink.

How. Geo. F. Foster followed Sir Charles Tupper at the big meeting in the Rink on Tuesday evening, and was given He said :

Ladies acd Gentlemen,—I wish first to pay a well-merited iribate of praise to the committe of Liberal- Conservatives who prepared and arranged the mottoes which adorn the walle ¢t tbie building. (Cheers» These wcttoes efford much inatractiou to those whottudy them, ase they epitom Z? the work of the Liberal ‘Conéervative party at d the reeulis of that work. Coms paring 1696 with 1900, how things have changed. In 1896 the LiberalsConserva- tives were the accused and the Liberels were the accuser#; iu 1900 the Literals are the accused and the Liberal-Conservatives are the accusere. To-night the men who were formeily the accueers are the ac-

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cused. We are here to night to teach them to respect themselves. I will not call them a Liberal Admiovietration—I

willcall thera the ‘“ Laurier-Tarte com- binato».” [have too much respect for the o'd Libersis pretent here to-night to give the new combication any other name than the name have given. Do they re- present the zooio'd Liberali*m of your fathers? .By no means. L-t me illus- trate. By what means did the eo-called Libers] Government of P E Island.retain power during their last eeeeion? By the yote of asingle man paid to desert nis party to sustain the Government in office and to enable it to rule the destinies of the people cf thislsland. Jt would be better to kid: away, to: be 9 dog and bay the gecon, ttan run a Goyerpment by tempt. '? o trick a8 that.

of a (#°<érnment whe bave attempted to keep themselves in power by a contempt ible trick--by the purchase of @ ma pledged by the people tc eppose the whci -h y clected him; but who proves a treicr to his policy andto hia electors,

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acceplirg a bribe to support his enemies Was tLuat the Lberalism your father- foucht for, and lived and died for?

Was that government for the people anc by the people? Was it the people in Pinezu’s conetituency who were repre-~ Was it tue

sent, or Pineau himeelt? pecple ty whem Farquherson’s Admiois- Ireuic was upbeld? (Cre of ne, vo, and roars of laugnter). Now, good old Liberals here, you are honest men yourselves’ what did you say cu this ; latform in 1896? Dido’t yoa say: ‘Pull the Tories down, they ere increasing the uutiona! debt ustil the people can siand:t vo longer : put usin power and the rnavonaldebt will be diminished.” Did veu vot elect your men to lessen the deb.? Certainly you did. Well, they have heeu in pewer four yeare, Gas the public debt teen diminishea? It is now exactly eight millions more than it was four years ego. Were you honest in 1896 when you ecour:d the streetsand lines of Charlotte towa tu recure the return to, Parliament of Sir Lonis Davies onthe ground that the Tory yovernment was to extravagant that

of ihe Dominion was in process of being ground out of it by a-calily Tories? You know you ‘his, and tbat Sir Louis gave his ied promiee that he would bring dowu tue vublic expenditure to its proper place. in 1896 the expenditure of the D mivion was $41,700,000- For that you parecd (he sentence of death upon the Couservatives, and put in power Sir Louis

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ana ibe restofthem. (True, true-) Well, whet) tthe Liberals expend during the Veur « vce ending on the 30th June last? Y.u don’t cach a Liberal answer tha: gnesto They will willingly epend a jo of! printer's ink on other matters, but they will not tell you vbastheir public expenditure has bern (laugbter) But we koow what it Was Fortyeone miliions? Ob no

(Hoo M: Poster here held up a paper.) Ud yon ever see this production beaded : **Pro +c ions, the sum ofall villainiey,”

“Free tv d-,the Eoglishman’s birthright,” “Prim:r sbout sugar,’ “Primer apcut

cotton,’ Primer on the rice quistion,” “Primer on kerosene oil.” ‘his is Davie-’ , olitical primer. (Roars of laugh- ter) Ov (hat primer he stood at the Dos Minion election in 1896. What did Sir Louis sav about the public expenditure ? He said that about four millions of dol- Jars must be dropped from the annua) Tory expenditure. That would lave it ebcut $17,700,000. But what was the Liber»! expenditure for the past dscal year? I bardly dare tell you! Pres pare yourselves for th: shock ! they expended no lees than $53,000,000

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' people than the Tories took out in 1896.

|Protectionists were scoundrels great ‘and -scoundrels small, etc., and that the National Policy was

| woree than war, pestilence and famine put | together. |in Charlottetown who has not

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* year, instead of forty-one millions, or' haye you got for the money? Sir Wil.

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about $11,300,000 more that the Coneer~ vatives! What did you eay in Charlotte- town, Summersideand Keppoch about the terrible expenditure of the Tories in 1896? You declared that we took millions of dollars more out of the pockets of the people than were necessary for the public r.quirements. ln 1896 the revenue from dutiee, eic., was about $27,700,005. What is (tt now? According to Tarte the Government are spending lots of money, butthey are also making lots of money, Where did they get it? What amount did they take out of the p.ckets of the people, Jast year? No lees than 38 mil- of dollars . Or $10,300,- (00 more taken out of the pockets of the

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Laurier eaid the other day that ‘after all he did oot think there wae much of a feeling in this country in favor of reciprocity, and thank God we can get slong without it.” Well, what are vou going to do with men Who make you suca promises and never Carry them out? [sit not true that nine-tenths of the business transactions of thie country rest upon the confidence which men have io their fellow men ? Supp-sing that promises are made by business men merely to be broken, what are those pro~ mises worth ? If your municipal cfii-

cers were {‘o meke . yon certaio promises which they never alttem pted to perform, what

would you do when they came toyoua second time for your vote? Would you not refuse to support them any longer ? Yes, you would leave them st bome aud iu. other men in their places. (Applause). Let us euppose this ia the 22ad June, 1696, and that your Leader, Sir Wilfrid, siends here before vou asking your euf- frages. He says, ‘‘ To-morrow is (he 23rd Juce, when the general election comes cff, acd you ask me what I will do for you it elected.” ‘* Well, I understand,” says he, ‘‘ that a great mapy Of you sre going about like bears with sore heads because you areover-taxed. Place me ia power and I will add eight miilious of collars to the public debt of this couvtry.” “ What else will you do?’ say you. “1 will add,” says he, ‘$10,800,000 to the burden of texation.” You ask him what else he wiildo, Hereplies: “1 understand you are finding great fault with Protection. Put me in power and I will raise the duties on cotton) and eugare. I will teach you to denounce protection.” If Sir Wilfrid bad told ) ou all these things atthat time would yox have voted for him? (No, no.) Well, be is there, where yoa have helped to place him. (Laughter) When I ask him in the House of Com. mons why he does these things he eays, “You are there and Iam here; what do you propose todo about i.?” He simply told us he was On top- and the Coneervatives were underneath. What was my aaswerto him. My answer to bim was Ithink the anewer of the electorate of this country. I said, “It is true, sir, that you are there aud we are here;aad you are there because you vio- lated the promises that you gave to the people, (hear Lear) and althoughI have not very much tosay about it now when

But there is not a good Liberal bowed down to the great image. You sent Sir Louie to wipe it off the statute book of the Dominion of Canads. Let me read you some figures, showing the amounts raised in taxes by the so-calied L'berale. When we went out of power the tariff on dutible and free goods was 17.47 per cent.; itis new 17 33 per cent. which is exactly 14 10U.bs of one per cent. lees than ours. They tell usef a buster who, in passing theovgh the forest metan Indian wander- ing about in a dazed sort of way, and esid

io him: * Well, brother, Indian Jost?” The Indian looked up at him and said: *Jodian vot loet; wigweam lost.” I

venliia:k ‘he good old Liberais, *‘ Te wowam ist, or are you lost?” Which? (4reat spplausé).

I ccme to you as aGcod Samaritan to ~d you to our ecol Literal-Conservative -'g am, which > io the tery eame place as it wasin 1896. It hae not moved ino he lea-t. lu the new wigwam of the Litcvals we bear ecunda., We liftup »@ {1 p and tetold Sir Richard Cartwright -iogivng “I cannot sing the old songs. ” And yonsay, “That cannot be our wig- vam.” Butyon open up another flap and see Sir Louis Davies. You sav, ‘This must be ihe Literal wigwam, for

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Sir Lours wou'd not be anywhere élse than in it.” Now,don’t your think you have been sbametuliy treated by those

Liberals, ia deserting you and your wig- wam ? WUut in the far west, the cowboys invite the teoderfoot to dance (to the tane

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their bands. We will apply this to the Liberala who bkave followed their leaders wutic. Yirst we saw :hem dance to the tune of

Continental Free Trade, and we heard the leaders cry, “Dance, boys, damce ” ; and they did danee with all their might. They were then ordered to dance to the tune of Commercial Union, and they danced equally well. Then came the dance to Unrestricted Reciproci.y wipb the United Srtater, and ser mina against England. Next came the da&ce to Free Trade «s they have it ir England During the who'e of the time thecry was ‘*Dance you raecals, dance,” aud they re- sponded. “Dance an Irish jig; now dance a hornpipe,’ and they, danced. Then came the dance of jag-hardl«d Preferential Trade with England, and we now seea lot of intelligent men dancing to that tune. Is it not silly? Why do _ people not use their common senee ? Why dane- at the crack of the partv whip and the ery of the party leader? So your Lib- eral party haS been holding these devil’s dances, ani you have followed them year after year; when they have pip-d, have danced. (Roars of Jaughter.). If you find your leaders have betrayed you, why elect them again to repeat the operas tion? They told you that Free Trude was the proper fiscal policy for thi- country. Did they secure it for you? They told vou that we mu-t have Com- mercie] Onion with the Wuited Sraies. Did they believe what they esid? They loug ago utierly discarded it, Every one of of their leaders declared that U orestricted Reciproc:ty with the United States must be secured, and that the United States manufactures and goode of all kinds must come into this country, duty free. They stated this as their policy. I have in my

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the elections of this country come around the electorate will have something to say and eomething to do about that ?’’ (bear, “What are you going to do about it ?” Let us look into that argu. ment. You go home to bed, and three or four o’cleck in the mornipg you are aroueed by a noise in your room. Yoa jump up,strike a light and there is one of your neighbors thatyou thoughta good citizen, an honest man, rifling your pock etsand taking away your valuables. You clinch him and say “My geod man, what are you doing here, You are violating the rights of citizen- thip, you oughtio bean hunest mar, you bave sworn tokeep the peace and be honest. These are my things, leave them, go away to your home, and try to be an hovest man.” But the burglar holdson to his loot, and he does more than that. He pulls out g suspicious-looling instrument *na he holds the rund end of thai to the forchead of the mas jutt awakened, aad he gaye, “Well,what do you propose to do aboutit. J am at this end and you are at that.” (Laugbter and applause) Now, ig there any difference in the two prin- ciples. Notthe Jeast. The very same flippant answer which was made -o Clear a government charged with violating all its promites, aud getting into power because of promises made toat were never ful filled, acd never intendedto be fulfilled, is bo better aaswer to an electorate than is the answer of the burglar who bas the superior position by virtue of hie strength and tke iostr. ment tbat he holdsin his hand. Not a bit more. New, some of you people are clergymen and yeu have churches and you preach in those churche~. Am [f saying too harsh a thing when I say to you clergy wen, that you might just as well shut your churches, close them up, and take a long holiday—a long long holiday —as to teach bonest truthful dealing and straightforwardness to the people of your congregations, and then allow public men and public parties to teach the wide broad ot ject leeeon of deception and security in deception. You are Sunday schecl teach- ers. What do you doin your Sunday school? Teach lots of things. What for? One thing andone only ; to make an vonest, truthful, good-living citizen out of a boy and out of a girl. You tell them “never tell a lie,’ ‘‘always speak the truth, do what you say you will do,” ‘grow up to be horest, and you will bave the approval of your conscience and acharacter that cannot be impugned, whether you make money, become rich and successful, or not.” Now, don’t you think, honestly, you mignt just as well shut up your Sanday ecbools, turn «n. the young ones and let them go tree,if you don’t see to it that the broader, wider object leseon taught by men who live in the light of public day and criticism, and who repudiate their pledges acd hold on to power and expect the eupport of the people in that—you might, I say, just as welltura loose your Sunday school scholars and let them go, as to teach them Loues'y there and support dishonesty int public life,—I don’t care what party 1 is. (Applauee.)

Now, sir, 1 etood on the platform in Winnipeg when Hugh John Macdonald wae reading his patform of principles « a vast audience in that city. He was de- nouncing the Greenway government for haviog gone egainst whatthey had pro-

hands, Sir Louis’ declaration on this question, just before the last general | election. “We canaot live without | it end must have it” were his words. |

Have we gow it? Are you today pros ? |pering without it? The Government * expended no less than $34,000 on negoti- ations respecting tbat matter. What |

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YES, Mother is goine to buy me a new suit at

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Tell your mama to try a pair of Paron’s 49e are Offering 200 pairs to fit school bo all at 49 cents.

Then there is their 75c¢ suit and their $1.60

and they have pretty pleated suits at $1. English made suit at $1.50.

Then Oxford Suits at $200 $2.50 $3.00, and littl a 75¢e and $1.00, » and little reefers at

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people to turn them ont for that; and then he said, “here are mv priociples, this is the platform that Land my friends laid down. Putue into power and we will carry that out.” In speaking afterwards I eaid to the people, ** You have heard what the Leader of the Opposition has said here. I counsel vou to do it.” “But,” said some one, *“‘Whatis the use of turn- ing out Greenway becauee he repudiated and not falfijled his promises and putting others in wh» will not carry out what will promis’; we will have

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tte end.’? Weil, my answer was thie, (Continued on page 5.)

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