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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, APRU, 15,1899

THE GOVERNMENT VS, THE MAJORITY

A Disappointed Libera Prohibitionist Speaks

AND DENOUNCES LAURIER Lively Letter From Mr. J. T. Bulmer.

“Premeditation haunts criminals and it is in this manwer that treason begine. The crime ia along time present in them, but shapeless and shadowy; they ure scarcely conscious of it, souls blacken gradually. Such abominable deeds are not invented in a moment; they do not attain perfection at once at a single bound; they increase aud and ripen, shapeless aod indecisive, and the centre of the ideas in which they live keeps them living ready for the appoin~ ted day and vaguely _ terrible. This design existed for a long time in hie mind. It was classed among the possible events of this soul. It darted hither aod thither like larve in an aquarium mingled with shadows, with doubts, with desiree, wi.h expedient:, with dreams of oneknows notwhat * * * * Hardiy was he aware that he was foster- ing this hideous idea. When he needed it he found it ready to eerve him. His uns fathomable brain had darkly nourished it. Abysses are the nurseries of monsters.”

Six,— Whoever would read the history of } the present administration has only to buy two books— Victor Hugo’s History of a Crime and Mangio’s History ofa Cheat, and therein he will find everything to hand. In the above extract, Victor Hugo sketches with the haadcfa master the history of Grit dealings with the plebiscite. The governmeani did not become crim- inale all at once, because they were called tothe ravk of reformers by the suggestions of their bellies, andit took them some time tosee what they could makeout of it. This, once ascertained, they then turned around and gave the most opprobrieus lie to all the actual zeal that for these many years had filled their bellies and fed them fat on foolish people like myselt. Had Sir Wilfrid Laurier thrust the resolutions of the party conventi nin 1893 away from hiw with honest scorn, 1 would bave bad nothing to say, Save that, like Sir John Thompson, he was an bonorable opponent, But he did nothing of the kind. He accepted them with hisown interprevation, giving them ameaning utterly averse t» their plain intention and to the understanding of them which every journa! on his own side, from the Toronto Globe down, gave then,—thus preparing the way for the deception of one of one of the parties to the bargain. Now who to be cheated—the people who voted, or the Government who steod by aad profited by the vote? If the solemn and deliberate language of the re- solution i to be interpreied by contraries, | what rale of bermenuetics: ball we apply to the speech of the Premier the other day?

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If the convention meant precisely what it did not say, bave we amy assurance that! the Premier has not said precisely what he did not mean? The truth is, like his party, he hovers between that which he dares not. be openly and that which be wil! not te sincerely. Hence his promises, like manna, are agreeable to every palate. It appears to me thatthe government, in dealing with the question of prohibition, have acted from first to last on the great maxim of Charles 1., which was, “ to put something into bis treaties which might give color to refuse aj] that wae in other things granted, and to make them signify vothing.” To the credit of the English race, be it said, a scatiold darkening one of the chambers at Whiteha!! was the end of thet kind of dealing with the nation: and may we, in the seventh generation, here in Canada, prove ourselves worthy of our fathers by meteing ont to the present government exactly the same fate.

EMINENT ABSURDITIES

Some of the arguments used in favor of the government are groundel on eminent

absurdities, One of them is, that they are more deterred by the smallness of our numbers thas they are animated by the goodness of our cause. What a plight an admission of this kind puts them in may be seen from a quaotauion from the greatest of English patriots—Vans. Said he: “They who seek nothing but their own just liberty bave always the right to win it aod keep it whenever they have power, be the voices never so strong that oppose it. The honor, ihe conscience, the very soul of anation cannot be com~ promised without ceasing io exist. Whin you “propose to yield a part of them, there is already nothing left to yield.” If Vane is right in this the lofiiest note yet reached by man for the policy of a nation, then 100,000 votes, or eves 1000, voting for liberty and representing the best hope of the country, should count for more than the bireling rout scraped together from the drugs of the breweries and distilleries of Quebec voting for the slavery of the liquor shop. Savs Guizot :.“There isa right back of m#jorities greater than their numbers, aud it isa gross delusion to believe in the sovereign power of political machinery.” Said one of the heroes of the Long Parlia- ment, “The best affected and best principl- ed of the peopl+ stood, not numbering cr

computing on which side were most voicer*,

but on which side appeared to them most reason, most safety. The patriots of & nation might be more in weight than the otbers in Lumbers, their being ® numbers litle virtue.” I have purposely made theese quotations from the noblest names in Evglish and Freneh history in order to allay the fears of some that we had not votes enough. To put the votes on an equality as respects numbers, is but to repeat the infamous tactics of Pilate when he asked the Jewish mob, “What will ye that I should do unte hits whom ye call the King of the Jews?” The majprity shout of that mcb has not done much for Pilate. Will the Quebec yete do any- thing more for Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal party? We shall see. Al-

ready Quebec feela ber position, and with -

the ashes of herrevenge burnt out in the

damp of her cooled fury l»oks around fors

an apologist. She feels thatshe isa slice of Normandy towed across the Atlantic without the fractifying seed of the French Revolution in ber borders. But for Bri. tish power the fagot would still bura which the doctors of the Sarbonne before 1795 called “the beat light to guide the erring,” and men, a8 to~day in France, would be tortured for opinions. It is not in my heart to say one word against her except of pitythat she, like the man who went down to Jericho, should have falien amoug thievee. (uebec isthe slow st |l deposit of ages on the granite of the Laurer ~ tians which only a convulsion can rive, while weare the rich mud of the Bay of Fundy shifting every flooi from one side to the other of the channel.

PRIFTING BACK,

The members we sent to support tbe goveroment bave, in their consciences, sprung a sudden leak and have drifted back into neutrality or joined the malig~ nants of the government. Ip most of the speeches which I have read ihey paw and mammock the question in the interests of the government, likea tavern biscuit. Put ahound in the presence of a deer and he springs at ite threat, if be is a true blood- hound. Puta genuine prubibitionist io Parliament, and he would spring at the throat of the present government}, or any party standing between him and the sup- presion of the liquor traffic; but with a lot of mercenary noise makers such as we have supporting the government, Canada ia nothing bat a rammaging bag into which each man thrusts hishand. Every

} one of them is ill at ease over the betrayed

—feeis himself a fraud and knows hims«lf euspected. Wesent them there to sup~ press the liquor traffic, not to lie around the aoors of the ministers’ like alot of lame beggare, waiting to pop into an} Bethesda which offers. May they live and die in servile condition with the marks in their ears of the borings for which they have heldtheir heads.

A PRETENDER NOT A REFORMER,

Men ought not tospeak evil of dignities which are just, yet nothing hinders us te speak evil asoften as itisthetruth. No man ever had, on taking power, more love and acclamation from the people thaa Sir Wilfrid Laurier: never any people found worse requital of their lovalty and good affection. I went about Nova Scotia for months before the election picturing him like Condorcet in constructive ability,

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like Rousseau in enthusiasm and desire to serve the public, |'ke Vane in heroism and moral grandeur ; I even deecribed him like Luther standing between the living and the dead and drawing sirength and suceor from exbaustless eprings far up ir the Delectable Mountains cf trial which the All-wise had ¢et between man and the achievement ot every notle purpose. No thought ever entered my mind that, at the head of a Government with boundless patronage, cunningly biding his time, he would come down to Parliament and deliver a message in answer to the solemn vote of the people, more fatal to liberty than anything done in England bv the worst of the Stuarts. His answer to our request marks him as a pretender and not a reformer—one who can set @ pompous face upon the superficial actings of state, one who can go up and down the St. Lawrence, it may be, amid the bowing and cringing of the people, for nothing he has ever done, and who »n Ottawa or any- where else is only a pompous figure set to no purpose before thirteen other equally insignificant figures. It is not-my bnei- ness in this letter to answer him, only to discover him and his colleagues to the people of Canada, and how that they all lie in the same reeking sewer.

THE GOVERNMENT’S POSITION,

Since the Government has yoked its neck with those tigers of Bacchus, let us seein what positien we staad. For above fifty years, three of the great denominations o¢ Canada, if +ot four—but certainly the Methodiet, Baptist and Presbyterian— have declared that if ever this question got into politics they might be relied on to support any Government passing a probibitory act and to destroy any govern. ment declaring for the traffic. The great

organizations of Sons, Templars and other societies have declared to the same effect, and the whole education of the

country has proceeded on the assumption that when the hour struck iu the horo~ logue of time for the introduction of a legis- lative measure, all the reform forces of society would be found supporting the party passing the Act. Parliament has labored, debated, argued, coasulted for the public good, and passed asolemn Act with- out condition of any kind, & quarter m llion of dollars has been expended by the gov- ernment taking the vote; a million has been expended in the canvass and stirrirg the country ina great series of meetings from ocean to ocean, and certainly an- cther million on election day. Write it in letters as high asthe Rocky Mountaine, that we carried one bundred aud twenty con~ stituercies in Canada, with a good majority of all the votes cast, and polled a greater vote in proportion to the whole vote than was ever thrown in any Englishespeaking country Oa the adoption of a sing!+ meas~ ure, not excepting either of the Maine votes on Prohibition. But all this has been frustrated by fourteen men called the government — not men, but indefinable phantoms, carrying out a horrible task in which the Parliament which legislated and

the electors who voted have been struck as mute and motionlessas though both

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[Continued on 5:h page.)

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