* This is true Liberty. when Fre e Born Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.” —Evnirives. Sixexx Corres Two Cente ee VOL. 25.—NO. 113 AGREED, their report did not come out in sufficient TE" ty & a> we cr aiid rear - P T . ~ ' , APP c NEW SERIES, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND. FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1890. 7 is Si hmels ea aes " ito. catch votes. But while no distinct Arnaud would be much more likely to br ; 7 wr ihit a} A us + ier s ‘SOME POLITICAL QUESTIONS pes: ad ie oc. eoveilibie in one whith would fader the ¢ esisipian and while every candidate ran the election | party. However, 1 believe the people are | »¥ | ~~ “ on a policy of his own, there was aie satisfied with the personnel of that as . a es ai i ommission. The Co ssioners wer \Mr. Fred. Peters’ “ Littlejox= vow vrox waren muey wane ats) erin ty ie competent men, and though fhe Exaniiner Publishing Co., THEIR OFFIC, ‘ : = awerem ¢ att ‘ — LONDUN HOUSE,” QUEEN SQUARE Charlottetown, P. E. Island. 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BLANCHARD, M.D. Member M. P. A., G. B. aad Ireland, OFrFriIcEe: Corner Pownal aud Water Streets. TELEPHONE dy 3m eod pd nov6 wky Electrical Gas Lighters. YO unsightly wires; no matches; no dan- » yer; anyone can use it; instantaneous, The most convenien spparacns for tne pur- pose. Will light a burunei 100 feet away. instrument fixture No Springs to ind no points Lo blac ken, asin other Satisfaction guarante ed. weak machiues. FRED E. MORRIS, Electrician, Corner Queen and Water Streets, City. meh TO Let. HOUSE WITH STABLE on Pleasant A. Street, at present oeceupied by Miss Tweedy Possession Ist of April. WILLIAM DODD. mchi¥ PASTURE LOTS 298 and 332, { ‘ONTAINING 12 acres each, being part ef Norwood Farm, in Charlottetown Royalty. Apply to re : — J. WRIGHT. &&c. GEO. April 1—2aw 2w whly 4i pi PAINTING, TPAINO® & COYLE PAINTERS. Whiitewashing, ‘Tinting, Hlanging, ei. ttended to. All orders prompt! rach2A—1m edd pitintimmanei —(x)——- B. 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Lew New Rew Rew Rey New New | | | | | Charlo 1b ll . 2 | | ’ i J. B. MACDONALD, Ch’town, March 3, 1890 —eod&wky QUEEN STREET. ONDON HOUSE! EW SPRING GOODS JUST OPEN ED.- ———x) Exmbroiderys New Embrotderys, Prints, New Prints. Shirtings, New Shirtings, Ginghams, New Ginghams, Sheetings, New Sheetings, Pillow Cottons, New Pillow Cottons, Tweeds. New Tweeds. New Worsteds, New Worsteds, HARRIS & STEWART bt Feb 12, 1890— AL vey. me WE ARE OFFERING A SPECIAL LOT OF wots a Teel, —_—AT FROM—— T) 30 PER GENT. DISCOUNT ON REGULAR PRICES. cen ance x ) pinateriahimentiniets Ye Call and examine Stock and get prices Paper Bargains ever offered. JOHN McLEOD & Co. Charlottetown, March 22, 1890. | One” Held Up. ‘THE LAND OFFCE DEFALCATIONS, — Able Speech of Hon. Donald Ferguson During the Debate on the Address. — Hon. Mr. Freravson,—The hon. gentla- man who has just resumed his seat intro- duced into his speech a story respecting the maiden’s excuse for her error, that it was oply a ‘‘littleone.” Well, the hon mem- ber might hive made the same apology for inflicting upon the House the eflurt whieh he has just made. L know that speech well. I nave heard it cvften, could i have delivered it almost as well as the hon. gentlem an himself. [could have gone over 'it almost word for The stery was | the only original part of it. ,A statement ‘made by the hon. member shows how un- | fairly he is dispused to di-cuss this ques- ltion, He said that the Government limited ithe inquiry of the Commissioners to certain ‘matters, instead of making provision for the ' fullest investigation. Ail hon. members of ‘this House are aware that the instructions and word. . , Fr ‘ . , , y \ iss > ‘ or j 1 » REMNANTS seiling off at your, s!ven the Commissior ers did not limit the |enquiry, but made provision for its being lot the widest nature, but calling for a pre-’ ‘liminary report on the defa'cations then known. The hon. gentleman further went ‘on to say that when the report of the Com- missioner of Public Linde was submitted last session, it was submitted with the full knowledge that the inform.tion which it ‘contained was net,correct. Now, the hon, ‘member knows very well, and every hen. ‘member of this House knows, for the hua. gentleman says that they all have read the ‘evidence, that su fur as the d-fa'cations for ‘the year 1388 were concerned, every dol- ‘lar kuowu to have been taken had been | made good by the family of the late Robert | A. Strong, before the 3lst December of that ‘year. A most desperate attempt has beer: made by the hon. member to fasten some wrong-doing upon the Government and the Commissioner of Public Lands, because, , subsequently, other defalcations had been discovered, and were not referred to in the Report. The fact is that what occurred after the Ist of January, 1889, did not be- long to the transactions of the previous year, and could not fourm part of the report lof that year, Fault has been found be- ‘cause no reference has been made to the | LAND OFFICE MATTER in the Speech, at the opening of the pre- sent session. Why make this case excep- tional? When there were defalcations in the Land Oflice on a former occasion, no reference was made thereto inthe Speech at the opening of the following session, in , 1877, and the Hon. Mr. Yeo was a leading ‘member of the Government in these years. | House adjourned until Monday at 3 |o’clock p. m. Hon. Mr. Fercuson.—When the House ‘adjourned on Saturday, | was repiying to some statements made by the hon. junior ‘member for Fort Augustus in discussing the | Address in answer to the Speech. The hon. geatleman travelled far beyond the Address for matters with which to make a speech, and ia discussing matters respecting the Land Office he made some very serious mis-statements. Before dealing with these I will call the attention of the House to an- other statement made by that hon. gentle- man. ‘He asserted that various promises had been made to the people in every sec- tion of the Province by members of the Government and their supporters, respect- ing measures not mentioned in the Speech ‘at the opening of the session. This serves a3 a REMINDER TO THE GOVERNMENT. It reminds them that they published a card containing their platform, previous to _the late general election. That card con- |tains their promises to the people as to their future policy. Where was the hon. ‘Leader of the Opposition and his policy / | We never heard from him at all on that ‘matter. He may have attended some ipublic meetings, but I submit that some- ‘thing more than that is looked for froim the ‘leader of a political party previous to a general election. The Leader should state | what his platform really is. Did the Op- | position Party promulgate any definite view or state their policy before the late election? No. Atevery public meeting their friends and supporters propounded a different policy. The absence of any card or platform enabled the hon. junior member for Fort Augustus to take advant- _age of every political wind that blew and to catch votes by every breeze. It enabled the Opposition candidates to appeal to ‘sectarian and religious prejudices and vo ‘ride the temperance horse wherever that could be of any service to them, and to cater tothe liquor interest wherever it would serve their purpose. It no doubt arranged that the Leader of the Op- position should lie low, so that every one ‘of his followers could run a race of his ‘own, and announce a policy for himself. | Though the hon. Leader of the Opposition did not announce his policy, he addressed a public meeting inthe Egmont Bay Dis- trict. I believe he there stated the! there | Was was LITTLE DIFFERENCE The Best petween the policies of the two parties, ex- cept that the outs wanted to get in, and the ins did not want t> go out. That was the only policy which tie hon. gentleman announced. In fact, the Op- position had only one policy, and that was— and that was, to abuse the Commissioner ot Public Lands—to denounce him at every public meeting, and to exaggerate some un- fortunate defaleations which had occurred in the Land Office, and for which they well ‘knew he was not to blame. 1, therefore, feel it to be due to the memory of the author of those defalcations, now deceased, that the Opposition in this Province should raise a monument to him for enabling them to attain so great a degree of success at the late election. A Judge of the Supreme Court once said that it was the duty of the barristers to raise a monument to the mem ory of a certain surveyor of lands, for the contradicting lines he had surveyed had enabled them to reap a rich harvest of fees On the same principle, it becomes the duty of the Opposition party in this House t& raise a monument to the memory of the time to contradict all the false statements which had been so industriously circulated, it came out before the election, and the peopie say that it is an independent one, and that the blame for the defaleations was laid at the door were it ought to be laid. The »eople, notwithstanding all the false- hoo of the Opposition, thought sufficiently on the matter to consign the hon. Leader of the Opposition and his party to the cool shades uf vupposition for the next four years, (To be Continued.) Proof posit ive—That good quality in boots and shves is appreciated by the public to old shop-worn beots at any price —by the fact that the Dominion Boot and Shoe Store has almost doubled its sale during the month of March. {April 2 d&w 4i late Robert Alder Strong, who thes given them so much ground for discussion during} the election contest. In the Nova Scotia | Legislature, there was once a Mr. Longley, | who made an unfortunate speech every time he took the fluor. A friend once saic to him: **You are always longly when you vught to be shortly, and shortly when you| ought to longly.” The hon. janior mem ber fur Fort Augustus had to import Mr. | L. H. Davies into his district’ to make} sfump speeches during the election contest. | Yet the hon. gentlemin rushed in and tried to make a stump speech on the floor of this House! Not long since, I heard a gentle- man say that only an earthquake could give the hon. member a seat in this House, as he had tried and tried again, bat had always failed. But the hon. gentleman had lately taken advantage of the defalcations of the late Mr. Strong, and by a policy of slander and misrepresentation he obtained a seat here. The hon. member, the other even- ing, undertook the task of leading critic on the other side of the House. He is not young: his head is beginning to become, like my own, a little grey; but he has chis fadvantage, that up to the present time he ‘ has NO POLITICAL RECORD, and has not identified himselt with any public movement, He has made his boast | that he has no interest in even the Exhi-, bitions, and does _not intend to have any. He has no _ political record, and has identified himself with no public enterprise. The only record which he ever made was in connection with a movement for the purpose of developing the mineral interests of the country in connec- tion with the Cape Wolf gold mines. (Laughter.) He was, | believe, at the back of that movement. (Laughter.) I hope it will be long before any expert pronounces upon me the same verdict as was pronounced upon that famous mining exploit of the hon. member for Fort Augustus. When, some months ago, it was announced that Robe:t A. Strong was short in his cash, and that defaleations had occurred in the Land Office, the organ of the Opposition Party came out with editurial articles on the mat- ter, which were remarkable only for their uncharitableneess, malignity and misrepre- sentations. The Opposition thought their time had come to ruin me. But the people have given their decision on the course pur- sued by the Government respecting the Land Office defalcatiuns, and have returned them again to power. The hon. meufber said that there was no necessity for a Com- mission to inquire into the matter ot the defaleations, as the Commissivner of Crown Lands knew the amoant of shortage. What did the Patriot, the organ of the Opposition, say a day or two after the defaleations were made public? Its statement was as fol- lows :— “There are hundreds in this community who wiil be slow to accept Tur EXAMINER’S statement that he (the late Mr. R. A. Strong) was the guilty man until they have sume positive proof of the fact offered them.” And again :— ‘** His (the Commissioner’s) duty was to have reported the facts to the Government, and then steps could have been undertaken to have sifted the matter by means of a Royal Com. mission, which could have ensured to ail in- terested and incriminated parties fair play.” That is what the Patriot newspaper said on that matter, although the Government had already arranged that a Royal Commission should issue and that the matter should be sifted to the bottom. But we now have the hon. junior member for Fort Augustus declaring that it was wrong to have that Commission appuinted, and that it was al- together unnecessary. It appears that they , did not think the Government would have taken that step, and when it has been taken they say it bas involved unnecessary ex-_ who pense. Let the Opposition Party, tried to injure both THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, | bear the blame. Seme hon. members on) the other side of the House criticised the appointment of the gentlemen who com-| posed the Commission. They said it was| wrong to appoint Mr. Lewis Carveli, as he | was a strong political partizin. That such | was not the case was evidenced by the fact | that his vote was split at a former and the last election. He stands second to! no man in the Maritime accountant. They said Mr supporter of the Opposition party, but that he had an interest the ‘ther way; tuat the! Merchants Bank of Halifax had received j Government patronage in the shape of de posits, and that he would lose that patron- age if he brought im a report untavorable to the Government. The Opposit same time announced that the G were going to b3 defeated. I+ did not re-1 quire much ingenuity to see that these two! statements were a direct contradiction a ' i wD : rrovinces as an Arnaud was 4 ’ i i on at the] vernment ‘each other. 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