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Island. | "sh to inform the public that I have ¥ opened one of the best as well as I the most commodious Ho.els on this I um prepared to accommodate the S public with a first-class table, "s apartments, and good stabling, a in L Aner 0 Yuderate A call fr ecelved, May 24 pa -» Where their horses will be tr the- ended to, connection with the House, are f the very best quality,— all at| prices to suit the times. om the public W..J. 8. GLOVER, Proprietor. | 1875. ° RIBE for THE EXAMINER | © Dollar and Forty Cents a year., | per CHA ROS PL EIR LF EST eT TA. oe RS SY PR aT ER EE YTTNY ’ ‘ f i ~ I ‘ t f i.) J : j x njnroa DS. MackKENZic & STUMBLES, Anctioneers, Commission Merchants, i." sects yeweses ue acts 0 AND GENERAL AGENTS, 77 North Side Queen Square,, > Charlottetown. - - P. E. Island. iS, i1diad. ly WILLIAM DODD, Corumission YWerchent and AUCTIONEER October QUBEN SQUARE, rETOWN, P. E. ISLAND. CARVELL BROS., AUGTIONEERS. Commission Merchants, AND t-ENERAL AGENTS. - tT an Ce Ch anlatiataceen DP wower wucen hel We basws AV UTS we VV ody Py ‘ a, o. F. Mi. CARIPBELL, Cieneral tierchant COMMISSION AGENT, MUCTIONE ER & BROKER TRINITY CORNER, GEORGETOWN, PBL AGENT FOR THE Standard Life Insurance Co. 1873. ly HASZARD BROS., Commission Merchauts & Auctioneers, FORWARDING, MANUFACTURERS, AND Se pt. a Creneral G1 WATER STREET, Opposite Merchants Bank, Charlottetown, - - - - PB. EL J. E. Haszarp, | Horace Haszarp. eS OC REFERENCES: Messrs. Greenshields, Son & Co., Montreal, Messrs. W. & R. Brodie, Quebec, Messrs. J. S. Fariow & Co., Boston, Henry Lawson, Esq., Halifax, N. 5. Hon. Daniel Davies, Charlottetown, P. E. I. May 3, 1875. INSURANCE. MARINE Agents, S I R Jf / / / N { . V { i if , \ 1 i / } . 1 7 . TH i } WHITE BANQUET. ri SITION LEADER REVI 3 CANA \ LATI i ry is O} IIs Oh NEN HE DISCUSSES MACKENZIE ON DEPORTMENT: CARTWRIGHT PHE TARIFI Gl THE ORGE BROWN ON BIG PUSH ” CORRESPONDENCE! BLAKE'S BMISSION : HUNTINGTON'S WITHDRAWAL, | rc., ETC. } (Continued from our st.) i ’ ’ 1 Well, gentlemen, there was the same want of candor with the new Ministers, when they took office. They evidently pledged themselves not to dissolve in order to carry & vote f ‘ ut us off our guard, they made believe would be no election, and thus having deceived the people of Canada, they suddenly rushed onthe election—what 1s called in England, made a night march. They took us by surprise; the experiment Was was tried in England but it failed Mackenzie tried it in Canada and he suc- ceeded fora time, but he sees now at an | early date that he is receiving as his reward | the contempt of the people of Canada—for ; that there his want of candor, and tor the clandestine | mode in which he proceeded on that occa- (Hear, hear and applause.) If you will look at his address delivered to his con- | stituents, gentlemen, he says that he was | forced to dissolve in consequence of the | corrupt mode in which the Parliament of [872 was elected (cries of Oh! Oh!) —that in consequence of the corrupt use of money by the Government of the day—of 1872— he was obliged, in order to raise the stand. }ard of political purity in Canada (great | laughter;, to do this; and gentlemen, the revelations before the Judges have shown you where the purity was (hear, hear) ; sion, THE REVELATIONS M\DE BEFORE THE TRIBUNALS | | of the country have shown that the chal lenge I gave in Parliament that I would | prove that they spent $2 to our $1 in the | elections, (che rs) —was true; and gentle. | men, these revelations are so extraordinary | that if Usaid $10 instead of $2 to $1,it would i have been nearer the mark. [Cheers.| | Gentlemen, we have only touched the edge | we have merely chipped the shell, and we | have not gone into the centre of the egg (great laughter); and judging from the few | trials that we had, and the exposures made in these few trials, it was shown that more money was spent-——certainly in two of them than was subscribed by Sir ilugh Allan for all the eleciions in Ontario[applause]; and gentlemen, if we had proceeded in the same course that they did—if we had bribed their men—if we had stolen their papers {|hear, hear, and a voice: Office letters !]— | 1f we had filched their letters [cries of yes ! | yes! and applause |— if we had bribed their confidental servants to come and tell all they knew [applause], and if we had stolen their cyphered telegrams fapplause]—we would have an array of evidence, gentle< men, [hear, hear,] to show that Mr. Mac. kenzie was not far wrong in stating that the Parliament in |871 was a corrupt one, and it would also show us that the corruption was on his own side. [Cheers, and voices: give a‘ Big push,’ (Will you be one ?’} But INSURANCE COMPANY PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. | DIRECTORS : President, BOARD OF RoBpert LONGWoRTH, Esq., Hon. Jas. DUNCAN, Hon. L. C. OWEN, Ifon. A. A. MCDONALD, Hon. J. C- Pore, Tuomas HaNDRAHAN, Esq., GEORGE R. BEER, Esq. Risks taken daily at their office, corner | Great George and Lower Water Streets. | F. W. HALES, Secrretay. Ch’town, March 22, 1875—ly -§T. LAWRENCE Marine Insurance So. OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. Authorized Capital, - - $300,000. | } | i | i i ' } and who had denounced the late govern- 'ecarry East and West gentlemen, one letterdid come out. The Hon. Mr. Brown wrote a letter, he who had denounced the late Government for their conduct, who had denounced the late Goy- ernment for their expenditure in elections, ment for having corrupted more or less the political morals of the people; and he writes : we have being doing splendidly in the elections, {laughter,] we have exhausts ed ourselves [laughter], and we must make a big push [cheers and laughter]; we must Toronto [laughter], and will you be one [laughter]: and then Mr. !'rown did the most incautious thing he ever did do, wrote a letter acknowledg. ing the corn, and admitting that he had. It is said of him that he is guilty of too much candor; but he was handed over to our hands, and he published the letter ad. mitting it, or the readers of the Globe would not have believed that he could have writs ten such a letter; and again we show his hypocrisy—the gross hypocrisy on the part of the Lon George Brown, who was malign- ing us, and attacking us, and assailing us personally, politically and socially, in our Subscribed Capital, - - 143,950. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, President. Joun F. RoBpertson, ARTEMAS LORD, P. W. Hyxpxuan, taLPH B. PEAKE, Tuomas MoRRIs, GEORGE D. LoNGwortTn. Risks taken daily at their office, Exchang: Building. FREDERICK W. HYNDMAN, Cl’town, March 22, 1875.—ly Secrelary FIRE AAS ERAMCE, IMPERIAL Fire Insurance Company LONDON. oF Subscribed & Invested Capital, £1.96G5,000 Ste. PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY, OF BROOK.I.W ive ee Me Cash Assets, - $2,015,383. 84. The above Offices being of UNDOUBT- ED STANDING, guarantee perfect security and Prompt Payment of Losses, DETACHED DWELLINGS insured for One, Two, or Three Years on SPE- CIALLY ADVANTAGEOUS TERMS. FENTON T. NEWBERY. AGENT. Jan. 18, 1874. ly THE AND CLOBE INSURANCE C0 Fire AND LIFE. | Invested Funds, Ist Jan’y., 1874, $21,628,356 | Deposited with Receiver Gener- | jects, and in our characters as gentlemen, | when he had been raising funds, stating | | that they had exhausted themselves and | and their funds, and asking for a big push to gain two elections on the following Satur- | day. [Checrs.] Now gentlemen, that | could not have been for the purpose of les vitimate expenses—must have been incur. | red, thatis to say, for printing, advertising, for the emp!oyment of canvassers, for get~ ting canvassing books, for paying for com~ mittee rooms, &c., &c.,—that is all gone | and past, and the elections are coming on within two or three days, next Saturday, and he asked them to make the big push— in other words, to have the money there to bribe electors [cheers] ; and he also asked the Hon. John Simpson, ‘ will you be one ?” {great laughter. ]—will you be one? Ard up to this time gentlemen, he was writing up, as if he were pure as the icicle that hangs over Dian’s temple; he wrote up the purity of the party they were going to elevate the standard of political morality, and crush and put down for ever these cor- ruptionists who had so long and so fatally governed this country. Mr. Simpson says that he never answered that letter, and that be never sent the money [laughter]; he says that ina telegram to the Ottawa * Free Press,” for Mr. Brown has never published the denial in the Globe. The fact of the matter is—Mr. Simpson's statement may be literally true; he may not have spent his own money, but he has a bank, and he spent the bank’s money ; and gentlemen, you see that the bank has got its reward (applause); and Mr. Simpson,with the candid cynicism character of the highwayman, writes—actually writes to the shareholders and to persons having an interest in and being customers of the bank—and states that the new men are great friends of mine; they are political friends of mine; if you help them, in the first place, I will get the patronage of this part of the country, and it will be a good thing for our bank ; and in consequence makes a first-rate thing out of the bank, and the result proves that he has been rewarded, Gentlemen, when acts of that kind are committed they always bring their own retribution, and much of the weakness of this government arises ‘from that time, from the consequences of inst us, and that is proved by the | fact that every one went to his election. To | Mr, | | make big eyes and look as ugly as you like, | but you LOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD [SLANT to speak with all respect-a tower of | acjusted; this provision of 17} per cent., native industries, and acting upon that to - — er a Sd [sar } OND i r Ty y ? e» Cyry °. 7 NT) 4 | Q : i iv ra 23 eS Wane = L e rs A 7 L ° . so 27 NAS ADSL EIS axe. senses j a EL RNS eee | given his word for that, and yet, strange to. es, these should be entirely free; and while | in course or time, the Party will be restor- | ment; thes i severed themselves from say. gentlemen, his colleagues do not think Mr. Cartwright raised the duty for a time |ed to power. One of the differences be< | Mi ) d declared themselves the State - te eoine to last very long. (La ‘witel it 173 per cent he destr« y d the whole | tween the pol cyol the Liberal Conservatives f ) ii ! ir, anda separate nation as Within only two years, or within eighteen te of it by putting heavy duties upon | and the policy of the Grits, has reference | t >ta ieXas how soon they months I think, they have lost four of thei: w materials; as Ihave had occasion to | toa question of revenue concerning th ut 1! Gentlemen, the same Ministers (laughter). Well, these gentle- | say in the House and elsewhere, Mr. Cart- | protection of the manufacturing interests | mode of rpt i zo on here under men did not risk retirement; no, not they weight said that was only a temporary pros | of thecourtry. Our policy is in the future | similar cireum-tances, and so confi lent am they drew $7,000 a year each of them, and | vision; Mr. Mackenzie denied it here the | What it has been in the past. We have { that fact, that juestion was inde- that ix something in hard times [laughter]. | other day. Mr. Cartwright did not say | always, since 1859, when ir, now Sir| pendence or a tion, 1 my , would First they had the Rouge Party, the Hon, | that the duty would be taken off of 17) | Alexander Galt, was Finance Minister, anx | rather have annexation out and out, than Mr. Dorion, a gentleman of whom I wish | per cert., but that the duties would be rez | nounced our policy in the interests of our | the danger of war. the want of eredit, the want of confidence that, with independence | strength to the Rouge Party; but he could | was a temporary one, and that there would! policy, we have held tbat the duties | w vuld continually harrass the government | not have confidence in the continuation of! be a readjustment, perhaps he meant in | should be so impored as to provide inci- | and the people, ithe Administration, and he accordingly i} took the Chiet Justiceship { hear, hear], which office he at present so wortbily fills | Mr. William Ross, the Minister of Militia ithe Minister of War—{laughter]; he did not exactly turn his swora into a plough | share, but he took a quill at the Collector s Applause]. Then there | Office in Halitax. | Minister ot Justice for a while, and a Post, | master General for another little while, who lis Mr. Fournier, a Minister of Justice,—= | ; the direction of an increase of duties, per- | heps in the direction of reducing them, but I th) it it was a temporary—merely a_provi- | sional arrangement. Well, now, gentle- men, that announcement certainly did not increase the confidence of the manufactur ers in Canada, (loud cries of no! no! and hear hear), for if there is one thing calculat. ed to paralyzed trade in Canada, and one than another calcu'ated to our credit already shaken by i | thing more | . shake credit dental protection, and not be so excessive } as to prohibit importations. Well, gentle | men, there is a cardinal pomt in the po —a cardinal difterence, which exists | tween the Conservative Party as a whole }and the little group of conflicting opinions | which form the great Ministerial Party. The | cardinal point in our policy Is Connection with Great Britain— enthusiastic cheers ' have no patience with those men who say that the time must come when we must lwith his long toil, with his anxious labors, | the unwise financial course of the present | Separate from England; I see no necessity | and his dealings with matters in which the | country and public are interested, resolved | to take office, worn outand wearied by his continuous labors—[laughter]—retiring on ithe soft cushions of the Judge of the Su- 'preme Court. [Applause]. was the other PostmasterGeneral,[laughter] my namesake, Mr. Donald A. McDouaid— | under the advice of such an arrogant and | the gentleman who wrote letters ordering | coaceited and ignorant man. [Cheers.] How every little postmaster to vote tor the Gov- | Me. Mackenzie will act with regard to the Mr | } ernment under pain of dismissal. | Donald A. MeDonaid is now holding an | freedom of Dundee he was a free tracer, anxious office—the anxious office of the Lieut. Governor of Ontiio, [Laughter]. It is said, gentlemen, rumors will get abroad—that even that great and good man, Lucicus Seth Huntington ‘| great laughter], will be soon provided for; and that he is going to deprive the Dominion of Canada of his wondrous seryices, of his active zeal, of his industry, (laughter), of his legal knowledge, [laughter] and of his commercial probity (applause); he ls going to deprive the country and Parliament and Government of his services, and what these are the future will tell. It is also said that Mr. Laird, the Minister of the Interior having gone up the Saskatchewan and having seen what a fine country Manitoba is. and having consulted with the Black Feet and Crees, wishes to go there and be Lieutenant Governor there, leaving Prince Edward Island to its fate. (Laughter and Applause). Then. sir, \'r. Blake, who re- signed as soon as by the assistance of his name Mr. McKenzie had carried the elect ions, from that time for the first session gave very feeble support to Mr. \cKenzie and his Government; and last session he gave a searcly concealed hostility. He ATTACKED SOME OF MR. MACKENZIR’S MEASURES, he sneered at his want of Parliamentary knowledge, and he upset him for a mistake in Parliamentary practice, just to show what he could do; and he turther opposed his railway scheme in Vancouver Island. [ do not believe that he voted against it, but he became one of those vanishing views (laughter), dissolving views. Oh, yes—he did vote against Nanaimo and Esquimault Railway, the dissolving views have reference to another measure. Laughter. The member for Cumberland Dr. Tupper, showed that the Covernment had been guilty of direct breach of their own Act; that the Act provided that the telegraph line should be built along the line of railway after it was located. Well they have not located t'e line, and they could not, because they had not surveyed the line and they had hardly made up their minds where it was to go; but Mr. David Glass had to be paid for his services, and actually the Government have contracted for the telegraph before the location of the railway was determined upon. That was exposed by my honorable friend, and when @ motion was made upon it, it was then that Mr. Blake and his party followed him —Mr. Moss, Mr. Mills, the philosopher of Bothwell—became dissolving news, and popped out of the back door. (Laughter). Weil, but I say Mr. Blake’s opposition was scarcely concealed: it was not concealed during the second session. I tell you that he opposed the Government measures, and the lion. Mr. Mackenzie as leader. he sneered at him, and objected to the bill, as introduced, as being altogether contrary to | | Parliamentary practice; and he showed his | characters and as men jin our characters as teeth. But as I heard Judge Sicotte once | citizens, in our characters as British sub- | remark to my friend Mr. Holton. who was }making a speech in the House, and maks | ing big eyes:—“Mr. Holton, you may | von’t change me.”’ (Laughter) And Mr. Blake was making big eyes and looking as ugly as possible at the first minister of the Crown. He started the | the Liberal newspaper in the hopeless attempt of writing down George Brown and the Glolx Chen rose my friend Mr. George Brown, in his might, and putting out his mighty paws on both Mr. Mcken- zie and Mr. Blake; he knew what his power was, and he said :—‘*Gentlemen no more nonsence ; you two cannot quarrel; Mr. Blake you must squelch that Liberal of yours; Mr. flake you must go into’ the Government of Mr. Mckenzie, the Pre- miership is not for you; that is meat for your master; you must fall into the ranks, | Mr. Blake, cease making big eyes and squelch the Liberal.” To hear is to obey, and down went the Liberal. He fell into the rut of Ministerial work, and took a back seat with the A. J. Smiths, and Burpees, and all that kind of people. (Laughter and Applause), As Mr. McKenzie has ; been of late in a poetical mood—as he | has got into that way I will give him the lines :-— The great and good By a very bad fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, And weltering in the mud. (Applause and cheers.) Well, gentlemen, that was the first ses- sion—look at that for the first session ; they say it requires for anew member of Parlia, ment 4 session to learn how to hang up his hat, and it should certainly require one ses~« sion for an honorable Minister to learn how to manage the House. However, Mr. Mac- kenzie did something—he brought down the Pacitic Scheme, and you know all about THE TARLFP BROUGHT DOWN BY MR. CARTWRIGH7. Mr. Mackenzie said the other day that every tariff is objected to; that whenever an interest is affected that interest will be object; but this was a tariff which holds the unique position of receiving opposition from every one (laughter and applause. ) Then there | ; Administration—and shake it to the base, | it would be the idea that Mr. Cartwright | was to be entrusted with the permanent |control of that department. Evil as has been the consequences, of course it would | be trifling in comparison with the deep and | lasting injury of any capricious changes tariff, God only knows. In order to get the he was a free trader—an out-and-out free trader, a Richard Cobdenite ; and he pledg. ed himseli, on every occasion, that any Government in which he held cffice, would if necessary carry out the principles of Free Trade, as announced by himself (groans) ; he came back to Canada; he went up to Sarnia and made a speech there showing that he had changed a little, but then the atmosphere had changed, gentle~ men jhe had already got the freedom oi Sar- nia, for he was the member tor Sarnia, gent. lamen. ‘Therefore he told them that he was in favor of incidental protection. He came down to Montreal for the purpose of defeating my friend Mr. White, and I think that he appeared in a new character of an ardent protectionist, of an out and out pro- | tectionist—hear, hear and laughter. Well, gentlemen, his course puts me very much in mind of the western man in the United States. He wasa leading member of the Democratic Party, and he was seeking the suffrages of some constituency inthe far West, and addressing them as Mr. Mac. kenzie did, or somewhat in his style, he said to them: ‘Gentlemen, the notions of the platform of the Democsatic Party— these, gentlemen, are the principles of the Democratic Party; I am a Democrat, a dyedsin-the-wool Democrat; these are the principles fastened on my banner; these are the principles I will stand or fall by; but gentlemen, if they do not suit they can be changed.’ Prolonged applause and uproar ious laughter. Well, gentlemen, the Tariff and the Pacitic Railway are pretty much all they did in that session, and a poor show they made in both of them - cheers. - e * . . . . . * | for it; | see no necessity for such a culmi- natio;:, and the discussion of it, the mens tion Gfit, and the suggestion of it to the people can only be mischevious, is it not the duty of every well-wisher to his country, and’ofevery patriotic states-~ man to make the people of the courtry satisfied with their lot, if their lot be a happy one ?—and, sir, I say that this coun- try is one of the happiest there is on the face of the earth. We govern ourselves ; we tax ourselves as we please: we ar allowed even to tax the goods, the produce and the trade of our fellow subjects in the mother country; we have full and ample rights of legislation: we have freedom fo: | lite and for property; we have liberty and are free from all chances of being attacked by a despot, and we are free from al chances of being degraded into licentious- ness — applause. That is a happy state of aflairs and with not the slightest chance, with not the slightest prospect of that happy position being altered for the worse, we are called | upon to speculate upon the time when we are to sever the connection, so happily | existing—to start as an independant nation | and to cut away the links that bind us to | the mother country and our fellow subjects | in Great Britain and in the other colonies ; and we are asked to run all the risks of Independance, all the risks and all the expense, all the cost, and all the dangers, and all the responsibilities of an Independ- ent Nation. Sir, we have got the pledge of the mother country,and as I said before that pledge never has been broken that the whole power of the Empire will be ex- erted in our defence. (Applause). Mr. | Mackenzie has announced in language so broad, that it has brought upon him the censure of the English press, [hear, hear], 1 | | SIP, this information, that hereafter Canada is to make her own treities. Mr. Mckenzie could not have meant it in its wide sense, but I believe, and am quite sure that I am } the Washington ‘Treaty, when a Canadian | ease of the Reciprocity Treaty, when Mr. | Brown was placed in communication, as a | quasi ambassador, with Sir Edward Thorn NOW ABOUT THEIR ADMINISTRATION, Look at their administration—two years in office and four changes! Why, gentle- | men, when I was in the Government, and they used to atteck me and say that busi- ness was being neglected—when I was in the Government, it was a cardinal princi- ple against which some of my colleagues would grumble occasionally—that on no oceasion would Ottawa be left without a quorum of the Council, no matter what exigency might occur, however so great. There was never a day or night when there was not a quorum of the Council at the Governor's elbow to assist him in carrying on the affairs of the country; but as for this Government, why, gentlemen, look at the newspapers! I hope that the Ministers have passes; for if they have not, one-halt of their salaries must be gone in railway fares.—Laughter. They are like the wan- dering Jew—go anywhere, and you will | find them: if you go to Manitoba, you will | wlll find them; if you go to New Bruns- | wick you will find Mr. A. J. Smith; if you | go here you find a Minister—if you go there you finda Minister: but there is one place in which you may go, gentlemen, and | never find « Minister, and that 1s Ottawa,— | Laughter. Gentlemen, at first there was an undercurrent—then a growl—then an | underswell, and now, gentlemen, the roar | ot discontent is increasing in volume, and | increasing in intensity; it is complained | that the business of the country is neglect. ed, and that it is no use to go to Ottawa on public business, for one Minister is attend- ing to his farm, and another to his new wife laughter- and another is making speeches here and a third is making speech- es there; and the business of the country is neglected —no business is done at al). — Hear, hear. Then, gentlemen, as to ap- pointments. | have heard that appoint ments to office in Montreal have been singularly satisfactory —laughter -- that they never think of anything but fitness for office ; that ne political consideration ever induces them to take a wrong man; that the confidence of the public, that personal respectability and the respect of the com- munity are a sine qua non in their appoints ments.— Laughter. Well, gentlemen, I believe that the sample you have of the mode in which they make appointments are just a very good sample of the appoints ments they are making ail over the Do- minion; and you may judge then of the manner in which the country is governed, and of the manner in which new appoint» ments are made.— Applause. it used to be the cry of the Liberal Party in England—and it used to be the cry in Canada of the Grit Party, that there must be no pensions.—-Hear, hear. But this Government introduced that system of pensioning in the most obnoxious way We have got a Superannuation Law—a law on our Statute Book that was passed for the purpose of providing for old servants who became no longer capable of perform- ing the duties of their office—a means of moderate livelihood in theirold age. But it is highly improper, as under the present system, to superannuate able-bodied mep merely to make vacancies for a throng of office-seekers, depriving the country ot the services of efficient men, very provably replaced by inferior persons, besides the loss of two-thirds of his salary or the amount of his retiring allowance, whatever it may be. We ask for bread, and they gave us a stone; we asked for a railway and they did Gentlemen, there are 252 persons before {this act. Gentlemen, in order to be sus- tained by certain banks, the Government i IVERPOOL & LONDON | promised to make deposits in certain banks; 4 - a3 and it did make these deposits—large des | posits, for the banks were cbliged to recoup themselves for the amount spent in elec and the banks had to lose the mo- | tions; TY] | ney they sowed broadecas: in the country ; and although all the country was suffering I | from over-importation and from free trade, | and the consequence of a long series of | successful years—they increase the infletion by spreading this money broadcast; and then just as this money wis out in the couutry, Mr. Cartwright, with the financial sagacity which characterized him—of all times in the world, when there was distress and want of confidence, and an approach to al of Canada, 162,800 | a panic, he sends notes to the banks tell. | Other Investinents in Dominion ing them to pay up (laughter); the conse- of Canada, 867,091 | quence was that they shut down on every FAIR RATES. Prompt & Liberal Settlements Farm Properties, for One, Three or more years, At Reduced Raies, will be thankfully | Office—Great George Street, Charlotte | town, P. E. I. R. R. FITZGERALD, Agent Ch’town, July 27, 1874.—6m Insurance against Fire effected upon Pri- vate Residences, Household Furniture,and one of their customers, and not only those men that got the money that was given | them for these unholy purposes—not only ,| these men who got the new discounts on | this new money, but they ask the custom, ers of the Bank to do the same; hence all are injured and partly crippled in their re~ sources by these notices of Cartwright’s ; and the consequence of that inflation was that a large increase of distress, of misery, of commercial ruin and of havoc, has been -caused. (Applause and cries of that’s true). Gentlemen, they are A HAPPY FAMILY IN THIS GOVERNMENT, ' (laughter)—a very happy family. | you here, and there are four million of | people in the Dominion, and if you will | find one among these 202 or any one of the | four millions of the inhabitants of Canada, | any man, woman, or child, that would say a word in favor of that tariff, then I will sit |down. (Laughter.) There was exactly | like what is spoken of in Virgil. _He tells | us of -Eolus, who went to the Caveo! | Winds, and letting the winds out worth, } south, east, and west, they went and sank the devoted ship of Eneas. notusque ruunt procerque procellis wstier. | Just in the same way, from the north,south, east and west, deputations flowed into Ot. tawa. (Hear, hear.) They came from all quarters, and by all trains, and by all con- veyances [laughter]; and they protested, not on account of one article, but on ac- count of every change, and on account of every imposition in the tarift [applause]; | and Mr. artwright, after a feeble attempt vindicate his tariff, said: ‘ Well I think we will put it off to a fitter opportunity.’ {Laughter.] the duty was fixed at 16} ad valorum duty, ‘that is not enough,’ hesaid ; ‘then | will make it 174’; but, gentlemen, | he could not even do that in a gracious | way, because while the 17} per cent. might | be considered in some degree a protection | pro tanto for our infant manufactures, he | | destroyed the whole value of it by taking | _from the free list raw materials, [hear, | hear, and applause.] We had provided in our tariff years ago that on all products | |mot give a railway, but they promised little | pieces of a railway, which wou!d connect by | magnificent water stretches. But while we j | rails thrown on our hands, which, costing an | enormous sum cf money, may possibly be | required for some purpose in six years | “ ; ei We have besides a Minister of | hence. | constant presence at headquarters, but whom we find practising his profession. Now ground of attack upon Mr. Blake, but I say | this- as a Minister of Justice he ought al- | ways to be at headquarters; and | know it | took me all my time to perform the duties | faithfully and well. It was charged by Mr. Vlake himself in the Legislature of Ontario, , that Mr. M. C. Cameron, while amember | the great and good and wis | of the Ontario Cabinet practised in Court. | | merely nominal, Here, however, we find that Mr. Blake, the Minister of Justice, | practising before Judges he himself ap- | points, and whose salaries he may Gentlemen, | | cannot get the railway we must have the | Una enrusque | gentlemen, I do not wish to make that a/| of my office—when holding that position— | ton—thatin the future, in any question which interests Canada in her relations with foreign States, England will allow Canada | ed to be fully and fairly heard (hear, hear), | and be glad to have the assistance of «| person in the sh°pe of a Commissioner or | Assessor, or Co-delegatae, in order that the | claims and especially the legal claims of Canada, will be fully considered, and fully cared for. (Applause). : THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANNEXATION TO STATES THE INDEPENDENCE HUMBUG MOLISHED. DE- THE | } { } of the temporary feeling and _ irritation | that reigned among British inhabitants in lower Canada, very many of them, young | men, in their anxiety to show their irrita- | tion, and in the temporary insanity I may | say, of the moment, spoke of annexation t> the United States. It was a short in- | sanity, but still it existed fora time. Sups | pose that annexation had taken place then —in the year 1849—what would haye been the consequence ’ Gentlemen, your sons | would have been killed fighting in battles of the civil war; your militia would have been taken away, instead of enjoying here peace and prosperity under British law— hear, hear and applause—and your country, like the United States, both North and South, would have been destroyed. Your | young men would have been slain, and many houses and many households render-~ ed desolate. Many a wife would have | mourned her husband, and many a parent would have wept over the grave of slaugh. ‘ered children; and you would now have been suffering under the ruinous load of | taxation, which clogs, impedes and ob- | structs the prosperity even of that preat | country, the United States. And, gentle- men, leok at what would have happened | if annexation had taken place. Why, a great country like the United States, going | ‘through such an ordeal—a new country | like that—must always, and always will | have—until it becomes an old and settled | country, momentous questions arisi:.g; this | is now the case, gentiemen, The consti- | tution is on its trial. 1 would deplore it } and I pray to God that it may not Lappen, | but we may see again similar strifes, ana | similar conflicts may occur, as have occurrs | ed: and should we run any such danger | when we are safe under the mgis of (reat | Britain—safe and enjoying peace, liberty, | happiness, comfort, family felicity and im- | provement, intellectual, moral, material | and physical,by remaining as we are, British | subjects. As to independence—to talk of Independence is—to use Disraeli’s happy hrase—‘ veiled treason,’ it is annexation | in disguise, and 1 am certain, that if we | | were severed from England, and were now | |alone with only four millions, the conse. | quence would be that before four or five | years we would be absorbed into the Unit- ed States Gentlemen, we are in greater | danger than before the civil war. lefore the war the whole of the Southern States | the slave-holding States, opposed to the | death the increase in the number of free the | Justice, whose important duties require his | States, giving an additional strength to the } | free vote. Then the Southern States would | have opposed the annexation of Canada, _ but now, slavery being abolished, the South. ern American has exactly the same teeling | that prevades the mass of the people of the United States—that the inevitable destiny | o! that country is to govern the whole con- tinent, and that they will absorb the whole | continent. We hear gentlemen like Mr. Mackenzie in their contidence, state that men of the | United States would not attempt such Gut Mr Cameron held the office of Secre-/ thing; but, gentlemen, the great and the | tary of the Province, and his duties were | good and the wise —the educated classes | do not govern there ; it is the masses who | govern—the many govern—it is the many- headed monster that governs that country, recom~ ba dl G and not only is it the practice to ingrain it | mend to be raised, and whom he may pros y I & into every child from the time hs hears his _ mote from Puisne Judges to Chief Justices, | fipst fourth of July oration until he is twenty- and from Vice-Cnancellors to Chancellors, one, but also to work it into the mind of | This is the experience we have of their ad- | ¢ne people of the United States, that it is | ministration ot public affairs—applause. | | THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PARTIES. ' kenzie says that he intends to remain in the nature of raw material, that could be | past will actuate them while in opposition | office for a long time (laughter)—he has | worked in our workshops and manufactori~ their destiny to be the biggest as well as the greatest nation onearth. We have an | Bastance of what would happen us, if inde- I believe that the principles which actu~ | pendent, by looking at Texas. ‘Texas was Mr Mac- | in the nature of raw material, or slightly of ated the Liberal-Conservative Party in the a portion of Mexico, and a number of , | Americans from the United States settled quite correct in stating—as was the case in| perial Parliament having representative was consulted, and as in the | ation, but allied by } k-nglan l, if all Bure owlag to the dangers threatening the new State. With such a lengthy frontier how many causes of quar- rel would arise? While now, backed by the power of Engiand, we are free from all tha Stand lone, it may be, gentle. men, that the lion and the lamb would he 1 together, but, as has been said, the m's would ! of the lion, —laugh. ter 4 ( ) BRITAIN ‘ os 4 I IES IX CL SE Gentlemen, I look fi rd toa union, ind | look forward not asa mere utopian speculation, connection with Gis ictical result of our i p! it Britain. Itis not an idea of to-day. If you would so favor me if you think it worth y« while to look over the debates on Confederation in 1865 at Quebec, yc ill find that what lam now going to state to you, | pronounced then s being the future of Canada—it is this-— Phat Eugland will be the cetral power and We wUXiliary nation that Conada as one ( fede ral nw 14a D4UVe ie@ss Of depends ence and more of alliance; and that we would | nited Lhe same sove ; reign—all owing allegiance to the same | Crown, and all inspired by the same Brite }ish spirit nd tuat we would have a close jallianze, offensive and detensive, You ‘fee now the progress of events as to the carrying out ot the heme. You see South Africa. about to form a great Contederation. lhe pusition of the Australian « olonies is such, strewn as th ire around the edge of that vast contin that they may not be able to form a Confederation so closely allied as our Provinces of Canada, but a themselves, making by treaty arrangements by which their quota 0; land and sea forces, and subsidies for purpose of doing their share in de- fence of the Empire, will be gentlemen, twenty-five years is but as a day in the lifetime of a nation; let us go on «s peaceably and happily as we are now going on, and twenty-tive years, I fully ex- pect ut least, should see the solution of that guestion. England by that time will have forty millions; Canada, ten miilions Australia, her million; and these latter with South Africa, capable of unlimited extensions,and New Zealand nearly as large aS Britain, will be all separate auxiliary countries ali ranged about the Central Power, England; but not represented in the Iraperial Parliament, because the lm. such represen- would also claim the right of tax. *he@ wilt ‘ settled. Now, tation the arrangement of # the existing arrange- arrangement at this mo- we are pledged to expend a money On our militia in e andreturn for the pledge obtain. from Engla t the whole military power of the hall be used for our treaty similiar to ment The ment is that Certaia respons um ol tefen ! nsion Of that pro» viding that the central power shall con- t t > mu thit each of the guxis i y mations, Miilal countries |] am eal- ling them, will give their quota; and |} gentiemen, when any nation goes to war with England, she will go to war with a dozen nations h hear and applause, I: will give an assurance of peace to us, : , | when it is known that if vou attack one ex Sir, as to annexation, [ am opposed to | tremi y of the vast British Empi . P ry ei i i 1 yi ul Vist id 4 iLUAplre, itish that altogether. <A British subject I was } .,) jects, from every extremity of it . il born and, a British subject I hope to die— | rush to U + Then, gentlem wd ; 4 ial ; U5. Hol Cu cp, pentieme sc leaving that precious inheritance to my powerful Enelend she w ‘coe - : 4 ve tah Vial al Wis e 8 children, and hoping that my children’s | f,om all atta nd instead of beiy * 7 children will have still the pride and glory | cyuree of ay ty and ) i a = of calling them-elves British subjects. Looks | to the Byit ls we : "ye " ; th SPitinih SUT} ‘ ’ hne oure ing at the subject for a moment, and con- ‘ a } , - u 7 . : : es he . th le ¢ our grand sider it fora moment. Gentlemen, you | oj y ' defer fortit in ef fi ica- |} may remember—and I hope that I can af- | 4; tead “tr ' 7 . ; 1 i i ‘ ( ‘ eing ¢£ ford at this distance of time, when instead kre of exy ‘ — > -” : . ‘ ‘ A pense cueers: of hostile races being set in hostile array | jen ' Ly ed } beside re | against each other there is peace and har- t I ! } i'o Lia ward itis a grand mony in this country among :!! race nd |. ob | a ; vs : ne : chen na i i eme thrt is quite among all religions, all of us working to- | eanab t } , carried into tical ‘ é ' Carri Inte ractics gether for the common good— to allude to | ope raion nd when we carry ut th 7 / , : , et ri ina \ ! arryv oO the events of 1849 anc the time of the re- | .4), t will : = ' ' schen pentiemen, it will not be too much bellion Losses Bill, without giving offence | to ex t that t freat nation. our : } A Pes t Kreae Datlion our con. —you may remember ‘hat in the temporary | gener: on the ot! de of the ling a : } g rs on t! her sid line, seein | excitement of that coment, in consequence | that all the different | B odies of population that speak the Eng!ish language are formed into one great nation for the purpose of operating «8 a moral police, and of kee; ing the peace ol the w rid, It will not be too much to hope and expect that our cons geners, speaking the same language, and being of th me race, wil assist in thet |} great work of keeping the peace of the world and if necessary, gentlemen, in en forcing it. Applause. Gentlemen inthe great Napol Obie Wars, when Napoleon, by his arms and his power, had torced the nations of Europe to close their ports against England and English shipping, even then, gentlemen, although England’s coionies were ew and ft eble, she fought that battle and conclision carried it and drove tv to a victorious tyrant from his throna, by aid of the domestic commerce she Lad with her own colonies: and if all were having one head, and aud having one interest, pe Were 1n arms against her, with her trade, h commerce, and ber wealth, with the waves rolling about her feet, would be still secure, and would live in her children, and her children would be blessed in her. —Loud and continued applause. Une nore word. While Inde- pendence is generally annexation in dis« guise, some spec ulative philosophers, who look into the Cistant future seem to be- lieve that it will be our fate and our ad- vantage to walk alone as a separate nation~ ality Mr. Goldwin Smith is one of these- 1 would fain hope that the future that | desire for the empire and its auxiliary kingcoms, might strike his imagination and be accepted as a substitute for inde- pendence. If this policy could only enlist his magic pen in its behaif, it would be an infinite benefit to the good cause, creat itions greav nations, , being one p Opie Cheers A story is told ofan Irishman who, bound over to keep the peace against all Her Majesty s subjects, exclaimed :—* Then heaven help the first foreigner I meet!” A proposal has been made for the oone struction of a ship canal from Biyonne in the Bay of B scay, through Toulouse to to Azde, in the Mediterranean. ‘The dis- tance is about 200 miles. Scene in a ‘ *n Bay, Wesconsin, police court, Just Westman presiding - Several gamblers were under examination, and one of the witnesses Ww questioned about what he knew about gambling in the saluons in town. Yes, he had seen gamb.ing going on in the mostof them ‘ \\ell, one, for instance? ‘! have seen men gambling in the Old York Saloo: ‘* What were the stakes ? ‘They were a horse on one side. and money the other.” Well, which won? * Judge Westman won the horse.’’? Peremptory command from the bench—‘* There, that will do this ex- amination Is reaching into too wide ¢« range altogether Otp saws and old songs contain often a good deal of trulh, though people now-ae days are 10 ‘lined to la igo at them as per- petuations of superstition. This year Christmas day fell on Saturday. Most persons will think this a slight matter, but if the least credence is to be accorded toa very ancient rhymester, it is a particularly unfortunate fact, for, says this venerable but unknown croker: If Christmas on the Sa That wynater is t Hyt shal be so fulle ct grete tempeste That hyt shal sle bothe man and beste, Fruit {corn shal fayle grete won, Awd ike dyen mapy on. Itis not a cheerful prophecy, but we 4 ¢ s from give it for what it is worth and what people. aad when, in consequence of the reaction | there by invitation of the Mexican govern, | belieyed some hundreds of years ago.