l JUNEi10.i1‘939 
     
    
   
   
    
     iWhieretProvincial Legislature Meets 
     
    
   
   
    
     electoral distric H _nted by.two members. ~ 
     
     ._bcen the scene of many stibsequent wordy battles. 
     
    
   
   
    
     V I‘he‘I.,.egislntive Assembly of Prince Edwud Island consists ‘ of thirty members, fifteen eleotedens Councillors ind fifteen as Assemblymen, eat: 
     
     The first meeting ofathe-:1Jegislature intho room. above shown took-yplaee<in.Januar-y, 1847, and it has 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Premier and Cabinet‘ members sit tothe left of the Speaker"schair,<the Opposition to the right, 1 
     
    
   
   
    
     practice reversedvin mostof the other legislative assemblies. The portraits on the wall‘ are oftyformer-Speak_ers, many of them of pre-Confederation times_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     7  ‘Spirit   s 
     
    
   
   
    
     . (awn 0‘i.eory.'h the lawn‘ 11:-u_ “Ounce Nnnbu”). 
     
    
   
   
    
     I_‘he avemge'Canadhn"does not easily define in ‘words the ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     loyalties thothind him to the ‘British nnddemocrntic system; But 
     
     he knows instinctively why he would fight'to the last ounce of 
     
     his streng.th'and"give to the last penny of his wealth to keep that 
     
     system living in the face of any threat of its extinction. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It means to him the right to go shout the dnily business of 
     
     life as a free man equal before the law to those who sit in the 
     
     seats of power. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     It means the right to think as he pleases and to say what he 
     
     thinks without restraint, and to vote as his own judgment bids 
     
     him vote. ' ‘ " 
     
    

    
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     It means the right to worship in his own way accordinfto his 
     
     conscienoe, , .- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     it  ight to live ‘under a system of government deriv- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ ing its jtisfpowers from the consent of the governed. 
     
    
   
   
    
      . secure 'stnrbltnry powerof 
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     It mung 
     
     whatever .ldnd 
     
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     toifollow, eeootding to his own 1agM£.na_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     . ‘of sin .!Iic.h~.hu 
     
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     i neeompanied by 1.4. Colonel the H n. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ Sir. fiodftey Thoma. Colonel 
     
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     i*t.AVisit,i 1919 \ 
     
    
   
   
    
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     p The Prince of Wales - (now .i5itke_ot_ Windsor) visited Charlottetown on Aug, :9, 
     
     1919.7 in the course of a Guudnawlde tour and was given an enthusiostic reception. He was 
     
     H. G. _I-Ienderuin. representing His Excellency the 
     
     M11. Rear Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, Major Gen- 
     
    

    
     . Fotlierlngham. Maior General MacDonald. 
     
    

    
     -Martin, H. M. 5. Dragon, and Captdll 
     
    

    
     frlnce being welcomed by Chief Justin 
     
    

    
     he-absence oi the Lieutenant Gover ".. ‘and 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Governor General, Lord -Clnhnd y 
     
     ’ ii-Henryik. Buratnll, ‘ lei} 
     
    
   
   
    
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