“ 
     
     read the aon 
     
     roule stitution of this 
     
    
   
   
    
     ae countr 
     
     re mr rs AG, ne 
     
     the Ma o6i Act, I say that 
     
     a Within the provisions of the Dnhes « 
     
     Re given to the minority in Mani- 
     
     ur wherever they feel Oppressed by local 
     
     Re in the matter of education.” 
     
     r. Latrit: takes the gronnd 
     
     appeul 14 given within À ee ur 
     
     Constitution. The next authority is n 
     
     gentleman M”. Davies will give come re 
     
     un to. It 'athstofa gentieman by the 
     
     ame of Mr. L. H. Davies, (cheers, He said 
     
     JT'have not heard any lawyer who valued 
     
     his réputation, any lawyer of standing or 
     
     any Constitutionai authorit ever express 
     
     the doubt that there is a power constitu- 
     
     En vested in the Government of Can- 
     
     : a to hear an sppeal, Sd that afier they 
     
     have heard and allowed the appeal there 
     
     18 power On the part of this Parliament to 
     
    
   
   
    
     intervene and & : e : 
     
     nr enaci à remedial order, if it 
     
    
   
   
    
     I will now 
     
    
   
   
    
     uote vou t à : 
     
     Hon. David f you the opinion of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mills. He says : 
     
     Sn also a well settled rule that where 
     
     there is a right by law in the suppliant to 
     
     seek {07 rehefthere is a correspoudin 
     
     duty to hear his eomplaint, ard if a Se 
     
     etantial right or privilege Le ivjuriously 
     
     affected or destroyed, to re iress the griev-— 
     
     .snce and restore the privilege taken away 
     
     This legal sud constitutiona) obligation 
     
     'rests Upon every state functinary from 
     
     _ em down to the humblest officer 
     
     ones” portion of state authority is 
     
     Task you doës not the statemen 
     
     the Hon. Wilfred Laurier and those € Mr. 
     
     * L. Davies and the Hon. David Milk 
     
    
   
   
    
     prove that the ground taken b s : 
     
     AMINER is rigbO? en by Tue Ex 
     
    
   
   
    
     PROTESTANT SCHOOLS RETAINED. 
     
    
   
   
    
     nn 
     
    

    
     My friend, Mr. Davies: speaking the 
     
     other day saui that the Arch bishop and 
     
     the Catholic minority had alleged in their 
     
     Memorials that schools had been taken 
     
     from them and Protestant schools retain- 
     
     ed and the Catholies were obliged to send 
     
     their children to Protestant schools. Mr. 
     
     Davies says that statement has been con- 
     
     tradicted. Mr. Laurier says it was never 
     
     contradicted. He said that in 1893 he had 
     
     Carefully jJuéked over the docnments in 
     
     Parliament and he never saw it contra- 
     
     dicted. Tne schools establisheJ for Prot- 
     
     estants remat: there to this day. Hon. 
     
     Joseph Martin. the author of the Manitoba 
     
     School Act, declared that if he had bis 
     
     Own way he wouid sweep eve:y vestige of 
     
     religion from the schools, —and every 
     
     person w30 knows Mr. Martin believes 
     
     him. (Laughter.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     NOT A QUESTION OF SEPARATE SCHIOLS, 
     
    
   
   
    
     I am aware that a great effort is being 
     
     made in eome parts of the Dominion to 
     
     wake the people believe that the election 
     
     is being fought out on the ground as 
     
     to whether we shall have  separate 
     
     schools or no. You are asked to 
     
     Choo-e between those two. I] deny thai 
     
     statement altogether. There is no truth 
     
     in $ I will refer you again 10 the Hon. 
     
     Dagd Mills. This 18 what he says : 
     
    

    
     “The poliey of the country in respect to 
     
     separaie schools is already deciüed. That 
     
     decision is incorporated in the Constitu- 
     
     tion as much so as the principle of repre- 
     
     seutation between the provinces in the 
     
     House of Commons. It is only because 
     
     of this that the question can come before 
     
     Parliament at aii. Tle law grants to the 
     
     minority, whose rights and privileges can 
     
     be effectel, an appeal to the Governor- 
     
     General in Council, not to 
     
     decide whether it is good or 
     
     bad policy to have Separate Schools, the 
     
     constitution settles that, but for the pur- 
     
     pose of ascertaiaing whether a right or 
     
     run in à Protestant or Roman Catho- 
     
     ic minority of the Queen’s subjects in 
     
     relation to education has been affected by 
     
     aoy Provincial law or any Proviucial 
     
     authority.g Parliament is not called upon 
     
     40 decide whether, as a matter of policy, 
     
     sezarate schcols çought or ought sot to 
     
     exist. If they have not been created in 
     
     the province, no matier how favorable the 
     
     opinion of the House might be to them, 
     
     it cannct create them ; and if they do 
     
     exist, uo matter how hostile its opinions 
     
     anay be, icannot abolish them. These 
     
     two facts stand like walls of adamant on 
     
     æitber side of the narrow way which is 
     
     open to us of that narrow field of jurisdic- 
     
     tioa1 under our control.” 
     
    

    
     This is the opinion of a man who enjoye 
     
     the respect of every member of the House 
     
     of imons. So you see that this ery of 
     
     Separate Schools is not the policy the 
     
     Government are going to the country on. 
     
     My own views on this question may not be 
     
     worth a great deal, but as my views and 
     
     the position taken by me twenty years ago 
     
     when there was considerable discussion 
     
     and controversy on the matter, may be 
     
     drawa into this discussion before the con- 
     
     troverey is over, Ithink Iam right in 
     
     calling attention to some expressions of 
     
     opinion which I gave on this question at 
     
     that time—opinions that I bave not materi- 
     
     ally changed to this day. In 1876, I was a 
     
     candidate fur the Fort Augustus district 
     
     in what was called the “school election.” 
     
     Many of the young generation, and some 
     
     of the older ones, have been industriously 
     
     taught to believe tbat I and my friends at 
     
     that time endeavored 10 foist a separate 
     
     echool system on the‘ people of Prince 
     
     Edward Island. 1 will read my address to 
     
     the electors on that occasion, in o-der 
     
     that my position may be correctly uuder- 
     
     stood 
     
    

    
     & Gentlemen,—I1 beg leave to inform 
     
     you that I am a candidate for the repre- 
     
     seutation of this, my vative dietrict, in the 
     
     House of Assembly. Believing that 
     
     separate schools are wholly unsuited to 
     
     this colony, ! will, if elected, assist in 
     
     passing an education law based on the 
     
     free school system already in existence. 
     
     In Charlottetown the pubiic school system 
     
     has never been efficient, making no provi- 
     
     sioÿrfor the division of the city into dis- 
     
     tricts for school purposes. and giying the 
     
     inhabitants no power to assess themselves 
     
     for the erection of schoolhouses. As 
     
     might bave been expected, the public 
     
     schools—ill supported and ineflicient— 
     
     have been largely superseded by schools 
     
    

    
     rovided at great expense by religious 
     
     bodies. (Particularly by the Roman Cath- 
     
     olice, Methodi t and Church of en 
     
     people. W hile these schools are waintaine 
     
     independent of the state, 1t would be un- 
     
     just, in my opinion, to tax deucminations 
     
     who have thus provided ample echool ac- 
     
     commodation for themselves to builä and 
     
     maintain schools for the venefit of others. 
     
     Adsitting the principle that public money 
     
     should ouly be paid for secular instruction, 
     
     the dificulty mav be met 1n the ‘iowns ” 
     
     the Island as it has been in the cities ! 
     
     Scotland, where denominational schools 
     
     reccive Government +uppori on coudition 
     
     of their b. ing so far placed under CS 
     
     ment coniro! as to ensure tbe imparting Q 
     
     a go xd, sound secular education. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tha was my card, and in 1894, pes: 
     
     entered the Senate, it was my lot 10 take 
     
     some part in the discussion of this ques- 
     
     uov, which bad assumed its present cr 
     
     for the first time in many Year. ” 
     
     been called upon to pur my er 
     
     record, and I did sc; and before DT 
     
     into a general discussion 0? the _ Es 
     
     School question, I made use of thes 
     
     ser vaLiCDS : 
     
    

    
     “Ina mixed community, such 2 = 
     
     have in almost every part of age er Eu 
     
     have to fight the batties of life side b} 
     
     sidgwhether we are 
     
     as we have 10 do cr : 
     
    

    
     ink it is desirable 
     
     bal learn to know each other and : 
     
     trust each other and to appreciate 2 
     
     cther in the classroom and on the ee 
     
     ground, as well as when they nt c PR 
     
     their employments and assume t L nr 
     
     responsible duties of life. I myse _ 
     
     bad my children educated in the r jl 
     
     schools. Of course we look cart Le 
     
     after our schools, look after _ ET 
     
     morelity in them, and I have stil w + 
     
     that the fundamental principles of 
     
     common Chnistianity have been elimiuæ à 
     
     from those schools. They do "7 ve 
     
     details. My creed is not taug 7 br 
     
    
   
   
    
     damertai doc- 
     
     Les he fan eliminated 
     
    
   
   
    
     on my own part I 
     
     bat our childreu 
     
    
   
   
    
     dietivet from the creed of any © 
     
    
   
   
    
     nomination, V 
     
     trines of Christianity are not 
     
    
   
   
    
     Roman Catholies,acd | 
     
    
   
   
    
     mm 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     from the instruction, While I ho 
     
    

    
     View and hold it warmly, un! sl 
     
     here as I have on mapy previous occa- 
     
     Sions asserted it elsewhere, that a publie 
     
     schools system is best for a mixed com- 
     
     muaity, I have taken this further grouni : 
     
     [ recognize the fact that there is a 
     
    
   
   
    
     4 very 
     
     large Proportion of my fellow 
     
     sul'jects in this  couotry who 
     
     believe differently froin me, 
     
    
   
   
    
     with whom itis a matter of conecien 
     
     that their children sheuld receive a ue 
     
     inational education; and, therefore, more 
     
     than twenty yeare ago [I took the stand 
     
     that when the assertion of that right, or 
     
     when the granting of that privilege to 
     
     them ionches upon no right or privilege 
     
     which I or my fellow Protestan: citizens 
     
     Value or eteem, i am willing to let them 
     
     adopt the System of education which they 
     
     Conscientiously believe to be the best. ” 
     
    
   
   
    
     . This question of schools in Manitoba is a 
     
     different one altogether from that with 
     
     which we have to deal here in the Lower 
     
     Provinces. It cocforme more nearly to 
     
     the state of affairs in Quebec than in the 
     
     other provinces. The Catholics ani Pro- 
     
     testants of Manitoba are not msrely sep- 
     
     arated by religion, but by race and lav- 
     
     guage. There is à wide gulf between 
     
     them; and it is next to impossib'e, at the 
     
     present time, at all events, without doing 
     
     grievous ir justice (o the minority, to et- 
     
     tempt to force them to adopt the ‘common 
     
     school system in Manitoba. And whether 
     
     Wwise Or not, the highest court in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     realm, and the Coustitution have decided 
     
     that this 
     
    
   
   
    
     MINORITY HAD A GRIEVANCE, 
     
    
   
   
    
     which the Government bad a right to re- 
     
     dress, The Hon, Mr. Mills said that, 
     
    
   
   
    
     With this fact established, ‘the 
     
     duty  devolves upon the  Gov- 
     
     eroment 10 whom that  appeal 
     
    
   
   
    
     is addressed to give the necessary relief.” 
     
     And if that faith should be broken iu 
     
     Manitoba, and if the men who have broken 
     
     ‘hat faith are to-be upheld in that course 
     
     by others in the Province of Mauitoba, we 
     
     shall bave troublesome questions in the 
     
     Province of Quebec. If the majority in 
     
     Quebec would establish separate schools 
     
     ‘© suit themselyes and their own couscien- 
     
     tious convictions, and if we forced ibe 
     
     schools of that majority upon the Pro- 
     
     testant minority, speaking another lan- 
     
     suage, there would have to be a reckon- 
     
     1Dg with every man speaking the English 
     
     language and having the blood of an Eng- 
     
     lishman in his veine. The British and 
     
     Scotch of Canada and elsewhere would 
     
     come to the relief @f that minority and 
     
     help them. Why ehould we ns Britiel, 
     
     subjects Le less w:1ling to stand up for the 
     
     rights of one thousaod French Half 
     
     breel and Roman Catholic people in 
     
     Manitoba than for the Protestants of Que- 
     
     vec if their rights were infringed upon. 
     
     [t is not a question of whether separate or 
     
     public schools are the better. Is is a 
     
     question whether the constitution ot 
     
     Manitoba shall be maintained in its integ - 
     
     ruty. Ifthe constitution is not, confeder- 
     
     ation Can never be maintained. I coul: 
     
     take all the time you could possibly giv: 
     
     me this evening in qnoting most eminent 
     
     authorities ‘0 show that Confederation was 
     
     only brought about by compromise on this 
     
     question of education. The Protestants of 
     
     Quebec would never have entered conf:d- 
     
     eration and thrown themselves into the 
     
     power of the French majority in Que!ec 
     
     until their rights had been solematy 
     
     guaranteed by Act of Parliament. History, 
     
     sir, tells us that, and no one will deny it. 
     
     Sir Alexander Galt, the leader of the 
     
     English minority in Quebec, resigned his 
     
     seat in the Government of Sir John Mc- 
     
     Donald because guaraatees in this con 
     
    

    
     nection were not carried out as promised. 
     
     Neither were Mr. Holton, Sir John Rose 
     
     and other leaders, both Liberals and Con- 
     
     servatives, satisti. d until guarantees were 
     
     formally placed in the British North 
     
     American Act and confirmed by the Legis- 
     
     lature of the province of Quebec. I would 
     
     hke to deal with some other phases of the 
     
     school question. But, sir, I cannot take up 
     
     too thuch of your time. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE TRADE QUESTION. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I therefore, must address myself to a 
     
     question wh ch is a most important one, 
     
     complicated as it is, to every man, woman 
     
     and child ah over this “Canada of Ours.” 
     
     That is the trade question. My friend Mr. 
     
     Davies made a very important announce- 
     
     ment on this platform the other night 
     
     “with regard to this question. I had the 
     
     pleasure of seeing a report‘ of his epeech 
     
     as it apoeared in the Patriot newspaper, 
     
     aud ! will venture to read a few words 
     
     from it to show the position which he has 
     
     taken upon the trade question in that 
     
     speech. He says: 
     
    
   
   
    
     “If we were starting out afresh in the 
     
     Dom'n'cn,the L beral party weuld go for 
     
     practical free trada. They woulii not have, 
     
     believe, more than a 12 or 15 per cent 
     
     tariff, but the Liberal party know that to- 
     
     dav, with an expenditure of $38,000,000 
     
     a year, it is impossible to have free ‘rade. 
     
     You must raise sufficient revenue to meet 
     
     necessary expenditures, and do what you 
     
     will you must recognize the fact that for 
     
     15 years certain manufacturing industries 
     
     have been fostered and protected in this 
     
     country, and there is mota man inthe 
     
     Liberal party who would desire, at one fell 
     
     swooy, esuddenls to adopt a polie; which 
     
     wouli destroy these manufacturing indus- 
     
     tries. We will wage war to the knife 
     
     against all trusts and trade moropolies, 
     
     against a | exces::ve taxation, against that 
     
     portion of the tariff which exacts undue 
     
     protection in favor of one class of the 
     
     community ana takes itout of the mass. 
     
    

    
     I have read a pretty lengthy extract in 
     
     order to show, as announced by Mr. 
     
     Davie:, in opening his speech on this plat- 
     
     form the other night, what his present 
     
     views on the Trade Question are. Nowl 
     
     will ju:t turn for a moment to a speech 
     
     delivered by Mr. Davies at Middieton, N. 
     
     S., in 1893,to «how that he beld very 
     
     different views then from what he now en- 
     
     tertains, to show the wobbliag policy the 
     
     Liberal Party are pursuing on this great 
     
     question. Speaking at M iddleton, then, in 
     
     September of 1893, Mr. Davies said : 
     
    

    
     “But there come times when both party 
     
     issues disappear, and the great historical 
     
     parties of the country divide upou some 
     
     vital issue, which affects not only the 
     
     present but the future interests of the 
     
     people. To-day the people of Canada 
     
     <tand face to face with an issue, and the 
     
     ext contest is to be one between free trade 
     
     aud protection.” 
     
    

    
     Mr. Davies, speaking of this very Con: 
     
     test in which we are now engaged, said 
     
     the issue wasto be distinctly between 
     
     Free Trade and Protection, and he went 
     
     further :— 
     
    

    
     « Tre poliey of the Liberal Party on the 
     
     contrary, is the reform of the tarif by the 
     
     elimination from it of every vestige of 
     
     protection. In our convention platform 
     
     we denounced the protective system as 
     
     unfair, unjust and burdensome. 
     
    
   
   
    
     He now declares that they will take 
     
     çare that there will not be undue protec- 
     
     ‘os. À 120r 15 per cent tariff, remember, 
     
     will not be suflicient. Certain industries 
     
     bave grown up during the past fift-en 
     
    
   
   
    
     vears of Protection. and they would not 
     
     to wipe 
     
    
   
   
    
     dre, at one fell 8+o00p, 
     
    

    
     tiem *awav. But he will take care 
     
     that there will not be undue 
     
     prot-ction.” A very safe policy, 
     
    
   
   
    
     e vou stick toit for any length of 
     
     ou very d:ftereut from that of the 
     
     Liberal-Conservative Party. (Applause). 
     
     But Mr. Davies wenton in that speech 
     
     and he amplified on this question of pro- 
     
     tection. He found some dreadful things 
     
     and be used 
     
    

    
     VERY STRONG LANGUAGE 
     
    

    
     in condemning them. He found there was 
     
     an “enormous iniquity,” as 9€ called it, 
     
     existiog in the tariff of Canada, of a pe 
     
     of 14 cents à pound on cleaned rice, an 
     
     oniy 3-10 of a cent on uncleaned rice 1m- 
     
    

    
     rted, and this + one - 2 re 
     
    

    
     red the e, would” 
     
    

    
     ner of Doiade if the Liberal Party 
     
     were to come into power. (Laughter). 
     
     That duty of 14 cents on rice realized the 
     
     enormous sum Of $73,000 in 1895 ([ am 
     
     quoting his own figures), and it aimounted 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     to the large sum of 13 cents per head : 
     
     every Man, WOIMAN and child in Canada. 
     
    
   
   
    
     That is one of the great changes he will ef- 
     
     fect in the tariff (laughter). Mr. Davies then 
     
     tock up the question of cordage and kero- 
     
     ser.e Oil, which he described as in qui‘ous, 
     
     and which h: suid is were terrible to con- 
     
     teu.piate. The duty on kerosene oil is less 
     
     than 14 cents per head of the population. 
     
     He ne xt came to a subject of very great im- 
     
     portance, namely, 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE IRON DUTiES, 
     
    
   
   
    
     This, he said, wrested from the people a 
     
     large amount of money amounting to mil- 
     
     lions, and they were iniquitous in a very 
     
     strong sense of the term, in the way that 
     
     be uses terms, Without going into a 
     
     description of these iron duties, we 
     
     wust bear in mind that the press tele- 
     
     grams of the last four and twenty hours 
     
     bave brought news which appears to glad- 
     
     aen the hearts of the Liberals all over 
     
     the Dominion, axd it is to the 
     
     effect that Sir Oliver Mowat is going to 
     
     belp Mr. Laurier (if Mr. Laurier is strong 
     
     enough to he p himself) after the election. 
     
     (Laughter and applause). Sir Oiiver 
     
     Mowut will take a seat in the Senate al- 
     
     though there is co vacancy and although Mr. 
     
     Laurier is notin a post oa to put him in, 
     
     and is not very likely to be for many a long 
     
     year. (Laughier) The charming Sir 
     
     Oliver Mowai has said 60 many nice good 
     
     things for Laurier that the Liberal Party 
     
     feel in their hearts they have a right to fai] 
     
     down and worship him and do: everything 
     
     to please him. But if ne is actuallv going 
     
     to enter the Administration, what do you 
     
     this:k will be the load he will carry when 
     
     he goes over? Iron bounties. (Hear, 
     
     hear). Not merely the duties that Mr. 
     
     Davies condemns so strongly as being 80 
     
     burdensome on the people, not merely the 
     
     duties the Federal Governimnert exact, not 
     
     merely the Domivion bountiex, but the 
     
     the Province of Ontario has added addi- 
     
     tional hounties over and above those of the 
     
     Federal Government. (Applause). This 
     
     is the Liberal Party who go the people of 
     
     Canada and s:k them to support them ae 
     
     free traders, and in another breath say 
     
     thev will not give “undue protectior” 
     
     (Laughter). Why, their great biz little 
     
     staiesman, Mowat, for whom they say so 
     
     many good things, would carry to their 
     
     party the weight of these great iron duties 
     
     enhanced and increased beyond what Sir 
     
     John Macdonald, Sir John Thompson aud 
     
     Sir Charles Tupper ever said they would 
     
     be. (Applause). Had I time I would go 
     
     back a little and tell you what I dare say 
     
     many of you have not entirely forgotten, 
     
     that the Liberal party have had in their 
     
     platform in 1891 the big plank of 
     
    
   
   
    
     UNRESTRICTED RECIPROCITY. 
     
    
   
   
    
     We heard à great deal about Unrestrict- 
     
     ed Reciprocity on that occasion. Mr. 
     
     Davies said that was the policy that would 
     
     make the people of P. E Island rich. Sir 
     
     Richard Cartwright said it would increase 
     
     the value of all the farm lands in Canada 
     
     by $10 or $11 per head, and it would in- 
     
     crease the value of every horse in Canada 
     
     $20. Ir was intended to adopt this policy 
     
     of Unrestricted Reciprocity. Ithink you 
     
     will bear me out when [ say that in tha 
     
     campaign of 1891 my friend, Mr. Blake, 
     
     and myself, 17 contesting the County, took 
     
     no middle ground on that question. 
     
     We told the people that this 
     
     poliev of Unrestricted Recipro- 
     
     city was a bad one. We showed up all 
     
     the evils that would follow in its train, 
     
     and I think we satisfied the people of 
     
     Queen’s County that it was a bad policy 
     
     that reduced their majority from 1,000 to 
     
    
   
   
    
     300. (Applause, hear, hear.) During 
     
     that campaign it began to leak 
     
     out that the Hon. Kdward Blake, 
     
     the Leader of their party in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Province of Ontario, did not believe in 
     
     that palicy, and he refused to become a 
     
     candidate in that election, because he 
     
     wouid not support the policy of Unre- 
     
     stricted Reciprocity with the United 
     
     States. Î made that statement at a meeting 
     
     at Eldon during that campaign. Mes-rs. 
     
     Blake aud Davies were there,and Mr. Dav « : 
     
     spoke after me, and said it was entirely 
     
     without foundation. “Ferguson is entirely 
     
     wrong,* be said; ‘Mr. Blake would take 
     
     no position likethat. Mr. Blake declined to 
     
     run his election because he was in bad 
     
     health; he did not differ at all with our 
     
     policy.” { 
     
    

    
     I repeated that it was true and Mr. 
     
     Davies said ke would produce the proof. 
     
     He brought the proof atthe next meeting, 
     
     submitting a telegram addressed to him by 
     
     Sir Oliver Mowat in which he assured Mr 
     
     Davies that Mr. Blake ir his address to 
     
     the electors of West Durham on retiring 
     
     from the representation declined their 
     
     nomination in that election aud stated 
     
     that he had not discu*sed any political 
     
     question whatever in that contest. Of 
     
     course Mr. Davies bad the better of me. 
     
     Here was the telegram signed by Mowat. 
     
     I was from 1,000 to 1,500 miles away, and 
     
     I was not in a position to do auythiog but 
     
     accept the explanation. What did we 
     
     find?  Scarcely was the election over and 
     
     the ballots counted when out came the 
     
     address of the Hon. Edward Blake to the 
     
     electors of West Durham in which he 
     
     pointed out, step by step, their policy and 
     
     wound up by saying he wouid 
     
     prefer going down ain his little boat in 
     
     silence rather than support Ununrestricted 
     
     Reciprocity, a policy in which be did not 
     
     believe. (Great applause). That was 
     
     kept back during the elections and it came 
     
     out after theelecticns were over. (Applause) 
     
    

    
     The facts became known and the pecple 
     
     of Canada found that we had made the 
     
     diacovery.  lhe Libera]l Party abandoned 
     
     their policy vf Unrestricted Reciprocity 
     
     with the United states. They cannot al- 
     
     together  deny the advocecy of 
     
     it; but on every occasion they 
     
     will deny, most indignautly  deny, 
     
     thet they ever advocated Comrrercial 
     
     Union. Mr. Davies spoke at that Midile- 
     
     ton meeting to which I have already made 
     
     reference, and he said that,— 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Commercial Union may be a 
     
     good thing or a bad thing, 
     
     É will not now discuss it; but that 
     
    
   
   
    
     licy has never been advocated by the 
     
     siberal Party or by any authorized mem- 
     
     ber of the Liberal Party.” 
     
    

    
     Now, with regard to that, I will 
     
     jast confront Mr. Davies statemant 
     
     with an extract from a speech 
     
     made by himse'f at the Cape Travarse 
     
     meeting on August Z2{th 1887 oi: 
     
     which he male use of the followiug 
     
     worde : 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ The idea that we would be disloyal to 
     
     the British flag under Commercial Union 
     
     was humbug. He wanted to live under 
     
     the flag as well a: anyone, but he wanted 
     
     a flag under which he could live. (Ap- 
     
     plause). The key-note should be struck 
     
     in the banner Province. Commercial 
     
     Union means a uwniform tariff from the 
     
     North Pole to the Gulf of Mexico. The 
     
     Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 he was pre- 
     
     pared to accept, but he was afraïd the 
     
     Aniericans were unwilling to concede it. 
     
     As Commercial Union seemed more easily 
     
     attaived, he was prepared to support. it 
     
     because he believed it would secure to us 
     
     wealth, peace and happiness.” 
     
    

    
     These are the words of Mr. Louis H. 
     
     Davies himself, and when we come to coun- 
     
     pare this statement with that of his Midd'e 
     
     ton statement, that commercial union was 
     
     never supported or advocated by tue L'ber- 
     
     al party, or by auy authorized member 0° 
     
     the Liberal party, we must couclude that 
     
     his memory is very bad or that he rules 
     
     himself out of being an authorized member 
     
     of the Liberal party. (Applause) While 
     
     the Opposition party have been wandering 
     
     and wabbling on the trade question in ail 
     
     these different ways, the Liberal-Conserva- 
     
     tive party have sto2d, during twenty years, 
     
     firmly aod strongly on the 
     
    

    
     PLATFORM OF THE NATIONAL POLICY. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It became painfull apparentto everyone 
     
     in Canada and the United States before the 
     
     institution of the National! Policv, that the 
     
     protective policy was ruiniug this country. 
     
     The state cf the country was deplorab'e in 
     
     1878. I could read from the words of Sir 
     
     Richari Cartwright himself, in his budget 
     
     speech, delivered in the House 0° 
     
     Commons in 1878, in which be de- 
     
     plored the state of the country. We 
     
     were, he said, poor and not ab'e to 
     
     buy mucb, and the reductions 18 the rev 
     
     enue and in the volume of our trade were 
     
     extraordinary. The Liberal Conservative 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Party nailed the flag of moderate protec- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion to Îts mast in 1878. They went to 
     
     the country on that policy, and the people 
     
     of Canada, from the Atlantic to the 
     
     Pacific appreciated the new policy adopted 
     
     under unusual cireurmstances, ani they 
     
     supported it. In 1882, the Liberal Con- 
     
     servative Par:ÿ again went to the prople 
     
     of Canada with the sarne old flag and the 
     
     same old National Policy; and the people 
     
     ofthe Domirion agaia sustained them. 
     
     Again, in 1887, the l:iberal-Conservative 
     
     Party went to the country, and so strong 
     
     was the National Policy in the affsctions 
     
     of the peop'e of the country that it en 
     
     abled the Party to obtain power in the 
     
     face of the racial and other questions that 
     
     had been raised by the Liberal Party in 
     
     Quebec over the execution of Riel. Again, 
     
     ia 1891, the same banner was unfuried, 
     
     and once more the Liberal-Conservative 
     
     Party was victorions. And agaïn in 18%6 
     
     we come to the people of Canada with the 
     
     same old flag aud the same .old policy, 
     
     modified, it is true, from time to time, ac- 
     
     cording to the ever-changing circumstan- 
     
     ces of ile country;—whenever any 
     
     duty bas seemed to have outlived its use- 
     
     fulness or has ceased to foster any great 
     
     industry, we have cut offthe mouldering 
     
     braches. But wherever neces-ary we 
     
     have g ven moderate protection, not to en- 
     
     rich combines, but to develop the indus- 
     
     tries ot our country, and to cause Canada, 
     
     as you say in one €f the inreriptions on 
     
     the wall to-night, to be *Canala for the 
     
     Canadians.” (Loud applause). 
     
     REDUCTION OF TAXATION. 
     
    
   
   
    
     But before I leave this question I want 
     
     to put before youza few simple facts on the 
     
     trade quertious. It is stated that we ure a 
     
     a very l.eavily taxed people, The result of 
     
     the Government’s policy is to bear ne 
     
     down with taxes. If you wili take the 
     
     trouble to !vok over the figures yon will 
     
     find we are taxed about three dollars per 
     
     head. 1 am speaking of the general 
     
     taxation and customs taxation —less than 
     
     the people of free trade England. 
     
     But this is not all. We maïntain a rea- 
     
     sonable duty on articles we manufactire 
     
     our-elves, and we have thus protected 
     
     home industries. This has enabled us to 
     
     provide ample ineans for revenue pur 
     
     posse and the carryiog on of needful pub- 
     
     lie works. 
     
    

    
     The Liberal - Conservative Government 
     
     have, during four years, taken forty mil- 
     
    
   
   
    
     lion dollars of the people by 
     
     taking taxes oi the  neces- 
     
     saries of life. I will 
     
    
   
   
    
     point out in a few -words wh:t these 
     
     articles are. In 18+2 the duty was taken 
     
     offtea. The removal of the duty on tea 
     
     has from that time down to the present 
     
     saved the people of Canada in taxes $11,- 
     
     034 089. Up to that time, duringthe Mc- 
     
     Kenzie administration and during the 
     
     first few years of the National Policy and 
     
     Conservative Administration, we had a 
     
     duty ontea. But in 1882 this duty, paid 
     
     by the poor and rich alike, andoften more 
     
     by the poor than the rich, was removed 
     
     and the saving has been over eleven mil- 
     
     lions of dollars. In the same ysar the duty 
     
     was takeu off coftee and the amount saved 
     
     to the peopleof the Douinion by that is 
     
     $8832,5 8. In 1887 the duty was taken of 
     
     authracite coal and the amount saved in 
     
     taxes was $6,044,355. In 1882 the duty 
     
     was taken offtin. This is a most import- 
     
     ant itemto us, who are so lJargely 
     
     engaged in the lobster ivdustry, and sonn 
     
     I hope we are going 10 have other im- 
     
     portant canning industries. The amount 
     
     saved by this was $1,465,103. 
     
    

    
     In short, we have taken off duties 
     
     amounting in the last five years to $19,- 
     
     891,995. The duty on bill stamwps was 
     
     taken off in 1882. They still have that 
     
     duty in free trade England. The saving 
     
     thus accomplished was #3,267,388. The 
     
     tax on newspapers was taken off in 1834, 
     
     and $613,864 in taxes saved there. In 
     
     1830 the duty was taken cff molasses, or 
     
     reduced, and this amounted to $335,715. 
     
     lbe duty was taken ff window glass, 
     
     amountiog to $185,980.  Altogether, the 
     
     grand total of duties taken otf the neces- 
     
     saries cf life, and articles Auch a+ #ew3- 
     
     papers and bill stamps,is $43,631,027.;Alto- 
     
     gether about twenty-seven of te essentials 
     
     of life have been taken off the dutiable 
     
     list during these years vnder the National 
     
     Policy. 
     
    

    
     THE ORISIS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     My friend, Mr. Davies, sai.i a vood deal 
     
     with regard to the crisis in January, and 
     
     he said a number of things which EL will 
     
     not characterize as being actually incor- 
     
     rect or untrue, but to be explainei by 
     
     that extraordinary faculty he ‘as for 
     
     paraphrasing the sayings of other people, 
     
     aud at the same time thinking he is doing 
     
     justice. (Laughter) He said some seven 
     
     of Sir Mackenzie Boweli’s colleagues bai 
     
     separated from him and explained that 
     
     they did it becanse he was an old foo! aud 
     
     an imbecile, and that in consequence of 
     
     their action a great deal of delay occurred, 
     
     and in cous-quence of that delay the 
     
     Remedial bill was not passed. I do not 
     
     think there is any considerable number of 
     
     people in this city who will believe er 
     
     accept very much of that. The unfortun- 
     
     ate crisis that occurred in January, and 
     
     which was moitly due to misunderstand- 
     
     ing, consumed one week of time. Wien 
     
     the House met on the 7th of January, 
     
     after an adjournment, this question had 
     
     presented itself, and on the 14th of Janu- 
     
     arv the Government was again reconstruct- 
     
     ed and there had been lost just seven days, 
     
     only four of which were working days fur 
     
     the House of Commons. So there were 
     
     only four working days lost. (Applause.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     HIS OWN POSITION. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is due, I think, speaking to you for 
     
     the first time after my return, that I should 
     
     exp'&in my own position at that time. The 
     
     Leader, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, is a man 
     
     fur whom I'entertsin a great dealof re- 
     
     epect—I might say affection, but [ felt 
     
     in my heart that there was 
     
     one man in Canada and one 
     
     only more fit to lead the party to victory 
     
     and that was Sir Charles Tupper. ButlI 
     
     did not want to bring the change about 
     
     by any disruption among our friends. I 
     
     said 10 them, I wanted to bring this about 
     
     by means of conciliation. I felt for Sir 
     
     Mackenzie Bowell. He was an honest man 
     
     and a statesman, and [ sat by his aide in 
     
     the Senate for two years and observed his 
     
     actiens and feli he was à good and able 
     
     man.But I felt atthe same time that Sir 
     
     Charles was as good a man and a still 
     
     abler man. (Cheer:;) 
     
    

    
     I lent myse!f to the work of conciliation 
     
     and bringing about a r-union of these 
     
     gentleman whom I believe should be 
     
     working for the good of the country in 
     
     the Cabinet. I succeeded along with some 
     
     other gentlemen in bringing about concil- 
     
     ietion. There never was, however, any 
     
     breach between Sir Charles Tuvper and 
     
     McKenzie Bowell. There was not such 
     
     good feeling between Sir McKenz'e and 
     
     some other gentlemen of that Cabinet as 
     
     there shou'd have been. When he 
     
     was  re-constructing the Cabinet 
     
     he offered me a portfolio if I would help 
     
     him aud leave our forme: co!leagues: out. 
     
     I advised him not to doit. In the inte-- 
     
     ests of Canada and the Party I said I 
     
     would not be a party to disruption With 
     
     the aid and influence and advice of Sir 
     
     Charles Tupper, who was now more fullv 
     
     in touch with us, having lately come int) 
     
     the country, I felt they could be brought 
     
     back into the Government, tl'erefore I re- 
     
     fused to accept a portfolio until an offer 
     
     had been extended to these gentle- 
     
     men. Jsaid, if they refuse I will 
     
     stand by jou and dotli:e very best [ can 
     
     for the good government of tke country. 
     
     The gentiemeu returned. Harmony was 
     
     restored in every respect, and the Govern- 
     
     ment weat on with its work. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CPPOSITIOX OBSTUCTION. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Davies says we did not introduce 
     
     the Remedial Bill until the end of Febru- 
     
     ary, and it was not real a 3econd time 
     
     until the 17h of March. It was intro- 
     
     duced on the 1l1th of February—that is 
     
     what he called the end of February—and 
     
     most  valuable work had been 
     
     put inSbefore then. The debate on the 
     
     address had taken place. This is ucual!y 
     
     a long debate, and an important one, more 
     
     80 this year than ordinarily. This debate 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     was completed, the Budget Speech given, 
     
     ani the debate on that concluded, and this 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LA 
     
    
   
   
    
     was s long and important debate. I do 
     
     not eay =there was time lost on it, be- 
     
     cause before an election it is necessary to 
     
     have very full discussion of the trade 
     
     questions in the Budget debate. The 
     
     Remedial B:1l was  jiutroduced où 
     
     the llth of February, although its final 
     
     consideration was wot reached until 
     
     later, A great d:al of time was lost be- 
     
    
   
   
    
     cause the Liberals said that we had met 
     
    
   
   
    
     for the purpose of passing that Remedial 
     
     Bili aud not for any other business, and 
     
     they refused to allow business to be ad- 
     
     vanced stage by stage as 18 always done 
     
     when the time is econotnized.®One matter 
     
     after another was brought up, but they 
     
     refused to allow business to proceed. 
     
     When we moved 10 go into supply they 
     
     met us with a motion to adjourn, and day 
     
     aïter Gay and night after night time was 
     
     lost on the question of supply, and we 
     
     were beaten later on in getting the Re- 
     
     med'al Bill through. Wben it was intro- 
     
     duced aud reached its “ecoud reading it 
     
     gave rise 10 luufi discussion. 1 do not 
     
     complain of discussioa with the Speaxer 
     
     in the chair. Jt wa: a necessary and 1m- 
     
     portant debate and I do not charge a/ain«t 
     
     any man that he did wrong when he tovk 
     
     reasonable cime to place his views ‘on re- 
     
     cord on this important subject, but [ say 
     
     when the bill was read a secoud time there 
     
     still remained five week+, and one week 
     
     was enough if the House had done its 
     
     best in pertecting the details of that bill. 
     
     When a majority of the House— a consid- 
     
     erab'e majority — had declared in favor of 
     
     that bill, LI gay 1t was the 
     
     duty of every man who loved his 
     
     country to address himself earnestly and 
     
     carefully to the verfection of the details cf 
     
     that bill and do wuat he could to make it 
     
     better, and if it was defective he should 
     
     try to remedy the defects. I will not +ay 
     
     that the Lill had no defects. Day 
     
     after day and night after night 
     
     intermerminable speeches were made. 
     
     No sooner did the Ioue go into 
     
     Committee than a member would 
     
     move that the Committee rise ana then 
     
     the obstructionists could speak on that 
     
     and then there would be a motion to 
     
     adjouru and again the obstructionists 
     
     would go in and speak again, and time 
     
     was waste l: not in relevant discussion but 
     
     in ie obstruction, uvtil finally the time 
     
     had so passed andtke 15th diy of April 
     
     had come, and it was then apparent that 
     
     no time was left to complete the remain 
     
     ing clauses of the bill. The e were 80 or 
     
     90 clauses etill to be considered, and no 
     
     supplies had been voted. The conse- 
     
     quence would Le very serious to the 
     
     country were Parliament ciosed on the 
     
     24th of April without money being 
     
     voted to carry on the various services. 
     
     So the Government was forced to abandon 
     
     the bill, and try 10 pass such necessary 
     
     supplies as would keep the public service 
     
     ruuning until the lat of July, and as a 
     
     result of theextraordinary conduct of these 
     
     gentlemen the Remedial Bill was not 
     
     passed, and other important mea-ures 
     
     could not be advauced. 
     
     ‘THE LIBERAL PARTY BLAMEABLE, 
     
    

    
     It was the conduet, in the first place, of 
     
     the Liberal party in Manitoba that 
     
     iaunched this troublesome question on 
     
     of Dominion politics. They 
     
    
   
   
    
     arena 
     
     had brought up a  troublesome 
     
     question for the people of 
     
     Canada and ever since there has been 
     
    
   
   
    
     fighting over it. Elements as widely differ- 
     
     ent as possible combined in condemning 
     
     the Government for having sent the ques- 
     
     tion to the court. Mr, Tarte would rise 
     
     and move a resolntion, and Mr. Dalton 
     
    
   
   
    
     MeCarthy would #spea' and vote 
     
     in favor of it Men who pro- 
     
     fessed 10" hold vews exactly oppo- 
     
    
   
   
    
     -ite to each other, were one in their policy 
     
     ofstriring up opposition on the question. 
     
     They had saddled a dif:ulty on the Guv- 
     
     ernwent, and demanded why not manfully 
     
     take that difficulty up and settle it. When 
     
     the bill came befare the House what did we 
     
     find? We found that in tbe Gpposition 
     
     there was every shade of opinion. Mc- 
     
     Carthy objected, not because it was pre- 
     
     mature. He said everybody who had 
     
     eyes to see and ears t0 hear knew the 
     
     fact:, He opposed it because he wanted 
     
     to extirpat: the French language, and 
     
     force a certain kind of schools on the 
     
     people of every creel and race. That 
     
     was the view he took, and Mr. Geoffrein 
     
     and Mr. Tarte opposed it because it did 
     
     uot go far enough. They wauted the Parlia- 
     
     ment Lo pay over a part of the revenue of 
     
     Maaitobafor th: support of separateschor 1: 
     
     They complainel because Catbolic would 
     
     have a voice as to whether their euildren 
     
     should go to the public or separate schools. 
     
     They said that was interfering with the 
     
     rights of the Catholics, that they had vo 
     
     right to have any voice in the matter. And 
     
     then we have Mr. Laurier declarinz in 
     
     Chicoutimi that when he came into power 
     
     be would see that his compuatriots iu the 
     
     province of Manitoba should have their 
     
     rights restored to them, and he raid he 
     
     could do it because, said he, ‘“‘ihank God, 
     
     we have no Orangemen among u:, the 
     
     Liberals” Thus we have the Liberal party 
     
     using those shameful tactica, one section 
     
     inciting the people of Quebec to demand 
     
     more than the law aud constitution would 
     
     allow them; another wing trying to raise 
     
     sectional and racial feelings by painting 
     
     oatto tdem that the Government were 
     
     giving away to the hierarchy i1 Quebec 
     
     Thus by iaciting prejudices as widely sep- 
     
     araated as these to fight together to pre- 
     
     vent a settlement they are trying.t0 drive 
     
     the Conservative party from power. That 
     
     is their whole okject. So  intent and so 
     
     anxious are they fur power that they bave 
     
     resorted 0 all kinds of schemes, They 
     
     have resorted to this obstruction, to all 
     
     these different methods and mesns of ob- 
     
     struction in the hope -of gaining the sup- 
     
     port of the Protestants on the on: side, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and the French Catholics on  ihe 
     
     other. In one place they cry out Le- 
     
     cause we have gone £60 far, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     iu another, because we have not gone far 
     
     enough. This shows what kin 1 of ren 
     
     they are and what kind of meu their 
     
     leaders are. You remember some months 
     
     ago—some time in last year—that a younz 
     
     Irisbman named Shortis shot some people 
     
    
   
   
    
     in the town of Valleyfield, in the 
     
     county Of  Beauharnoïis. He was 
     
     tried, found guilty anl sentenced 
     
    
   
   
    
     trbe hanged, anlthe Governor-General 
     
     acting within the lines of the Constitution, 
     
     commuted the sentence to imprisonment 
     
     for life. Two of the men shot were 
     
     French-Canadiane, and a verv consider- 
     
     able feeling existed between the Irish 
     
     there and the Freuch-Canadians with re- 
     
     gard to this matter. The French people 
     
     became excited, and held imeetinge, reviv- 
     
     ing the memory of the Riel execution. Not- 
     
     withstanding the p'ea of  insanity, 
     
     demagogues aroused them to a white heat. 
     
     What do you think the Hon. Wilfred 
     
     Laurier d:d? This man, of whom so many 
     
     grand things are said, this beautiful wnite 
     
     man of the Liberal Party, the Leader of 
     
     that Party! (Laughter). He takes I-rael 
     
     Tarte and goes to Beauharois and plants 
     
     him as a candidate, and tries to get him 
     
     elected on the grouud of the commutation 
     
     of the sentence of Shortis. The law 
     
     they said favored au Irishinan, and his 
     
     se-teuce was commuted, and there not 
     
     being many Irish in he county of Beau- 
     
     harnois, Mr. Tarte went down and tried to 
     
     make political out of t. Ar. Tarte had 
     
     been driven out of every respectable con 
     
     stituency, and never showed himself # 
     
     second tnne after being once el:cted, Ke 
     
     is now the candidate trying to defea: the 
     
     Deputy Speaker, Mr. Bergeron, on the 
     
     question of whether it was proper 10 com- 
     
     mute this sentence of death on this man 
     
     Shortis, 
     
    
   
   
    
     SCANDALS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Opposition have issued a campaign 
     
     sheet and it is devoted to scaud 1l:—some 
     
     terrible things dune by Tonservatives, 
     
     There isthe McGreevy scandal, the Curran 
     
     Bridge scanda', tie Soutanges Canal and 
     
     the Tay Bridge aud a number of 91e: 
     
     things. There are a great ma. y charges 
     
     ayaiust Sir Adolphe Caron and Hon. Jobn 
     
     Haggart. Iwant justto say 1h12: Mr. 
     
     Haggart is the only gentleman who 
     
     ia now a member ofthe Cabinet who ji: 
     
     charged with wroug doing. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Haggart is charged with some con- 
     
     nection with the Section B contract of the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     mor 
     
    
   
   
    
     Canada Pacific Raïlway in 1879, Maty 
     
     years before he Lecame à member of tie 
     
     Parliament of Canada. That charge was 
     
     never preferred until the 21st of September 
     
     1891, at the close of a six mouth+ sesgi, n 
     
     Arter Farliament had been in sexs'on all 
     
     summer investigatnz One charge after 
     
     another, Parliament refu-ed to go into 
     
     committee, an from that time to the pre- 
     
     sent it has never been referred to by à 
     
     member of Parliament, and Mr. Hag- 
     
    
   
   
    
     gart has always been ready 10 
     
     meet it. He has been electel four 
     
     or five times t> Parliameat, since 
     
     the alleged wrong doing and 
     
    
   
   
    
     no man has ever brought it forward since 
     
     Mr. Lister did in 1891, when Parliament 
     
     could nat wait to investigate the charge, ] 
     
     am going to deal with this question in this 
     
     way. ÏI do nut claim during the time 
     
     the Conservatives have been in power that 
     
     every one of their men have 
     
     been pure, that there has beeu noih- 
     
     ing wrong. I make no such claim. 
     
     If such 8 thing could bappen, you would 
     
     calculate you had not human being, but 
     
     perfect angel:. I ask you is there anybody 
     
     in this community who would undertak. 
     
     to handle $ 8,000,000 of money, and find 
     
     that not a dollar had gone wrong, that no 
     
     ervant had misappropriated a dollar, and 
     
     ihat no contract had gone wrong. Jt is 
     
     plain, eo long as we have fail.ble 
     
     owmau beings something will go wrong, 
     
     acd I do not claim that the Liberal-Conser 
     
     vative party has not made misiakes, The 
     
     best politicians make mis'akes ; the public 
     
     records show it. And Id> nct contend 
     
     that the Liberal party ar& all lack sheep 
     
     —that they are all corrupt. I take no such 
     
     position, There are honorab'e men 
     
     among them. Thev bave good and bai. 
     
     a3 we have. The best test is 
     
     how do they treat their boodlers ? 
     
     [ ak you to Jook at what the 
     
     Lib:ral Conservative party have done. S:: 
     
     Hector Langevin held an exalted position, 
     
     but charges were made against him. No- 
     
     thing was proven to seriousiv effect him. 
     
     but something had gone wrong inthe 4: 
     
     pariment under him and he was pisiued 
     
     ont of the Liberal Conservative Cab net. 
     
     He had to get ont. In the same war 
     
     charges were made against Sir A tolphe 
     
     Caron. Thes2 «charges have not 
     
     been proven. His opponents did not come 
     
     to confront him still they inei t in making 
     
     these charges and have filled a great deal 
     
     of this wholesome, this beautif | pamphlet 
     
     with  aspersions agaivst Csron which 
     
     they had not the manliness 10 come for 
     
     ward and support. But Caro: has Jefithe 
     
     adinivoistration. He is not a member . f 
     
     the Government. 
     
    

    
     [ask you, gentlemen, how the Govern- 
     
     ment acted in the case of Thomas Mec- 
     
     Greevy. He had been a valuable public 
     
     man. But the moment 1ke was found to 
     
     be connected with tho+e transactions, Sir 
     
     John Taompson was the man who rose in 
     
     his place and moved that bis supporter 
     
     should be expelled from Par:iament, 
     
     (Cheers). When the member for the 
     
     Niagara District, (Mr Rvkert) was found 
     
     to be mixed up in some disreputable tran- 
     
     sactiov, be also was expelled. I say that 
     
     whenever the government fourd a man 
     
     who was connected in any way with fraud 
     
     or corruption he was immediately put 
     
     aside. Have the Liberal Party a record 
     
     like this?  Lo,k at Mecier the late 
     
     leader ut the the Grits of Quebe ; he 
     
     who plundered over $300 000, most of 
     
     which was spent to helpthe Literals in 
     
     the Dominion Election of 1891, and after 
     
     all this he was returned as leader of the 
     
     party and he died in the Liberal ranks. À 
     
     club in Quebec ia called after him, and 
     
     a mouument is being erected to perpetuate 
     
     thename of the man whowas without doubt 
     
     the great-st bood'er the country ha: ever 
     
     see». Ob,nc;thep .r' y never repudiated him. 
     
     Task you to judge the parties by the efforts 
     
     they make to keep down boodling and 
     
     corruption. That isthe way to decide. 
     
    

    
     From this platform on, Thursday last, 
     
     Mr. Davies said that for the tirat time in 
     
     a great many vears he went into the con- 
     
     test wÿth a good hop: of success. Bat you 
     
     know that that has been his giie since 
     
     1878. We have heard his cry Vhat Mac- 
     
     kenzie and Blake a 1d Laurier were ca-ry- 
     
     ing the banner of victory from the Atlan- 
     
     tic tothe Pacific, and that the Tories were 
     
     going to be downed on every side, 
     
     Then in 1891, he had the very date 
     
     fixed on, the Liberal party were going to 
     
     secure the reins of power. He declared 
     
     that he himself was going to be elected by 
     
     1800 of a mmajoritv. He now 
     
     says that for 1e first time in 
     
     many years he is going in with the 
     
     idea that the Liberals ur. going t be suc- 
     
     cessful. (Loud applause) 1 reel almost 
     
     sorry to have to puncture his hopes. From 
     
     what I learn from the accounts 1Lat have 
     
     coine to me, I feel thatthe Conservative 
     
     party are going forward tothe greatest 
     
     victory ever achieved in Canada.  (Loud 
     
     applause.)  Ifeel that the people of this 
     
     countrv. whether French or English, 
     
     Catholic or Protestant, no matter what 
     
     race or creed they belong to, are intelligent 
     
     enough to reccrd their votes in favor ot he 
     
     party that will stand by them and their 
     
     righte, who are marching steadily forward 
     
     to build up our industries and make 
     
     Canada one of the greate:t countries of the 
     
     world. (Great applause.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     A G20D HOPE,. 
     
    
   
   
    
     S'ort, stirring addresses were then de- 
     
     livered by Dr. Jenkins, Mr. Hackett, Mr. 
     
     Hunt, Mr. Martin and Mr. A.C. Mc- 
     
     Donaid. 
     
    

    
     The meeting broke np at twelve o’clock 
     
     amd cheers for the Minister and cheers 
     
     for the Candidates. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The Keign vf Love. 
     
    

    
     Were England to fall from her high 
     
     estate, to lose her pre-eminence among 
     
     the nations of the world, to sink to the 
     
     rank of a second-rate Power, not only 
     
     would our own liberty be grievously 
     
     impaired, but the cause of liberty 
     
     throughout the world would receive a 
     
     deadly wound. In approaching the 
     
     question it is essentially necessary to 
     
     clear one’s mind of that sickly senti- 
     
     mentality, that optimistic cant oi 
     
     ‘‘“humanitarianism,” as it is called, 
     
     which is so unpleasant a sign of the 
     
     times. ‘War and hate,” have not re- 
     
     tired from the world to make room for 
     
     men, and for nations of men. Yes, 
     
     and for ‘‘fruitful strifes and rivalries 
     
     of peace.” ‘l'he struggle for existence 
     
     is still the law for men, and for the 
     
     nations of men. Yes, and will con- 
     
     tinue to be so for generations far be- 
     
     yond those of which we need take ac- 
     
     count. Human nature may be trans- 
     
     formed in an indefinitelv remote fu- 
     
     ture. So may leonine nature. But in 
     
     this epoch of the world wherein we 
     
     have to live and act, 
     
     down at all with the lamb, itis, as 
     
     Sydney Smith said, with the lamb in 
     
     his stomach. And if men forsake the 
     
     use of swords and spears, it assuredly 
     
     is not to convert them into plowshares 
     
     and pruning hooks, but to substituts 
     
     rifled canon for those antique instru- 
     
     ments of slaughter, now found ineffect- 
     
     ively murderous. 
     
    

    
     Surely, never was the aspect of Eu- 
     
     rope 52 threatening as it is at the 
     
     present hour. Standing armies of a 
     
     vastness hitherto undreamed of con- 
     
     front one another, The frontiers of 
     
     every country are embattled. Rail- 
     
     ways are converted into military 
     
     roads. The physical sciences are ran- 
     
     sacked for engines of carnage. The 
     
     whole Continent is an immense parade 
     
     ground, destined—who can say how 
     
     soon?—to become a vast battle-field. 
     
     At such a time, who but a fool or a 
     
     scoundrel would promise security to 
     
     this country, so obnoxious to the jeal- 
     
     ousy, s0 attractive to the cupidity of 
     
     her neighbors, save on the condition 
     
     that she can vindicate it by arms?— 
     
     Fortnightly Review. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hong Kong is e&i tu ve iufected with 
     
     the black plague. 
     
    
   
   
    
     mme 
     
     — PR 
     
    
   
   
    
     if the lion lies 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     FOUND ON THE TRAINS 
     
    
   
   
    
     A MAN WHO FOR FIFTEEN YEARS HAS 
     
     BEEN PICKING UP THINGS, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A Few Items From the Notebook of Char- 
     
     lie—People Who Forget Portable Prop- 
     
     ‘erty—Umbrellas Head the List of For- 
     
    
   
   
    
     gotten Belongings. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Whenever during the daytime a New 
     
     York, New Haven and Hartford train 
     
     rolls into the Gran Central depot a stoon 
     
     shouldered, little ixan, with keen gray 
     
     eyes and a beard that doesn't grow with 
     
     sufñcient luxuriance to require frequent 
     
     trimming, strolls down to the end of the 
     
     platform. When the train stops and 
     
     while the most laggard of the passengers 
     
     are still leisurely alighting, he hops nim- 
     
     bly on the rear platform of the last car 
     
     and proceeds to literally ‘go through” 
     
     the train. Sometimes a much excited 
     
     passenger who has saddenly recollected 
     
     that he has forgotten something rushes 
     
     madly back into the train and discovers 
     
     his portable property in the hands of the 
     
     little man. Then, if he is of a suspicious 
     
     dispoation, he glares and scowls at the 
     
     little man, and sometimes pounces upon 
     
     him and indignantly demands to be told 
     
     what he is doing with “that.” 
     
    

    
     Then a tired look comes into the little 
     
     man's face and he mildly explains that 
     
     he is employed by the company to search 
     
     incoming trains for articles left behind 
     
     by passengers, which he conveys to the 
     
     lost property room, where the owners 
     
     can always get possession of them again 
     
     by furnishing presumptiveevidence that 
     
     the things belong to them. 
     
    

    
     When Charlie—that is what the other 
     
     employees about the depot call him, al- 
     
     though he has another name which ap- 
     
     pears on the payrolls of the company— 
     
     first began this work, his beard wasn't 
     
     tinged with gray, and he wasn’t a bit 
     
     stoop shouldered. That was 15 years 
     
     ago. All these years, from 6:30 in the 
     
     morning until 6:30 at night each day, he 
     
     has been picking up things that careless 
     
     passengers have forgotten to take with 
     
     them when they left the train. 
     
    

    
     It would make any man stoop shoul- 
     
     dered to be continually looking for 
     
     things that long. But his eyes are as 
     
     keen asever, and his honesty is still proof 
     
     against all temptations. If that were 
     
     not the case, he could have retired with 
     
     a suug little capital. From the pocket- 
     
     books and purses and ‘‘wads” that he 
     
     has found while pursuing his unique oc- 
     
     cupation he could have slipped enough 
     
     into his own pocket to render him quite 
     
     independent, > 
     
    

    
     There are no blanks in his daily rec- 
     
     ords, Never a day goes by that he 
     
     doesn't find something that somebody 
     
     has forgotten. He picks up fewer things 
     
     on Sundays than on any other days, be- 
     
     cause on Sundays travel is comparative- 
     
     ly light, and passengers are apt to be 
     
     less preoccupied with business cares and 
     
     therefore not so likely to forget things. 
     
     On some days his list of articles found 
     
     on the incoming trains is quite a formi- 
     
     dable one. 
     
    

    
     This, for instance, is what he turned 
     
     into the lost property room on Aug. 17: 
     
     Thirteen umbrellas, two rings (one plain 
     
     gold and one with diamonds), one over- 
     
     coat, one package of legal papers, one 
     
     satchel, one lady’s jacket, «re Derby 
     
     hat, one valise, one cape, one cane, one 
     
     package of underwear, one mackintosh 
     
     and one pocketbook. 
     
    

    
     And this is what he found on Aug. 27: 
     
     Seven umbrellas, one parasol, one shawl, 
     
     one overcoat, one pair of shoes, one pack- 
     
     age containing a suit of clothes, one pair 
     
     of spectacles, one”purse, one flask of 
     
     whisky and one smelling bottle, 
     
    

    
     When the articles are taken to the lost 
     
     property room, theŸ are labeled with the 
     
     date on which they are found and the 
     
     number of the train. Nearly all the ar- 
     
     ticles that have any intrinsic value are 
     
     redeemed. The rest are simply stored 
     
     away for the gnawing taoth of time to 
     
     prey upon. 
     
    

    
     Charlie is of the opinion, and surely 
     
     he may be regarded as an expert on the 
     
     subject, that everybody is liable to for- 
     
     get something at some time or other. 
     
     Umbrellas are the articles that are most 
     
     frequently left behind on the trains by 
     
     travelers. The man who could devise 
     
     an infallible system by which the owner 
     
     of an umbrella would always be sure to 
     
     remember it would reap a fortune. 
     
     Charlie has tried his own wits at it, but 
     
     was forced to give it up. 
     
    

    
     He has come to the conclusion that a 
     
     state of ecstatic happiness, edually with 
     
     one of intense preoccupation, is apt to 
     
     produce forgetfulness of portable prop- 
     
     erty. He has discovered that newly 
     
     married brides and grooms are quite as 
     
     apt to forget the little things they may 
     
     be carrying with them as the man who 
     
     has got so much business on his hands 
     
     he can't think of anything else, The 
     
     man who never travels without a flask 
     
     of whisky seldom forgets it. Perhaps 
     
     that is because the act of putting it into 
     
     his pocket immediately after taking a 
     
     nip has been so often repeated that it 
     
     belongs to the category of unconscioue 
     
     cerebration. 
     
    

    
     It is not an infrequent thing for a man 
     
     to leave a stovepipe hat on the rack and 
     
     walk out of the car with a little skull 
     
     cap on. But when he gets into the 
     
     streets the small boys are sure to shout, 
     
     “Shoot the hat!” or ‘Where did you get 
     
     that hat?” Then he discovers the mis- 
     
     take that he has made, but the fact that 
     
     he is never grateful to the small boys 
     
     for reminding him of it and never re- 
     
     wards them must be regarded as evi- 
     
     dence of that perversity inheritent in 
     
     human nature which s0 often puzzles 
     
     the philosopher. 
     
    

    
     Charlie is of the opinion that some 
     
     people would forget their own mothers- 
     
     in-law if they had half a chance, There 
     
     is one man whose umbrella he has picked 
     
     up in the train s0 often that he has lost 
     
     track of the number of times. And yet 
     
     that same man has told him frequently 
     
     that he never leaves the house with his 
     
     umbrella that his wife doesn't say to 
     
     him, ‘Now, dear, be sure you don’t for- 
     
     get your umbrella.” 
     
    

    
     Women, so Charlie has are 
     
     even more äpt to leave things behind 
     
     them in the cars than men.—New York 
     
     Herald. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     True Feminine Economy. 
     
    

    
     He (grumblingly)—What on earth do 
     
     vou want a bicycle for? Do you know 
     
     what they cost? 
     
    

    
     She—T cannot help what they cost. I 
     
     must have one. I picked up a pair of 
     
     Lloomers at à bargain the other day, 
     
     and I cannot afford to let them go to 
     
     vaste. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Knew What to Do, 
     
    

    
     Farmer Jones—You say you have 
     
     learned so much at coilege that I want 
     
     to test you. Suppose you were in the 
     
     field and the goat should run at you, 
     
     what would you do? 
     
    

    
     His Son—Grasp the horns of the di- 
     
     lemma. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     An Echo of the Rail, 
     
    
   
   
    
     “They say that one of Jameson’s 
     
     raiders had a bullet right through the 
     
     brair, and yet is getting well.” 
     
    

    
     “The story is obviously a fake.” 
     
    

    
     “Perhaps it is; but why ‘obviously ? ” 
     
    

    
     “wyasn't a man in the gang had any 
     
     brain. —New York Recorder. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A Natural Inquiry. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Chimmy,” said a curbs'one cherub, 
     
     “whut's de equator ?” 
     
    

    
     “Don't you know ? 1 learnt it in wan 
     
     lesson at night school D: equator 15 
     
     an imaginary line arovnd de eart’.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “Who put it dere ? Great Britain ?” 
     
     — Washington Star, 
     
    
   
   
    
     ELECTRIC ICE FIs:iine. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Incandescent Lamps Used to Lure Hungry 
     
     Fish to the Hook, 
     
    
   
   
    
     The recent cold spell of weather has 
     
     not confined its pleasure giving to the 
     
     skaters, for the ice fishermen have been 
     
     out in force and some very good sport 
     
     bas been enjoyed by them. The latest 
     
     trick in ice fishing is the use of the elec- 
     
     tric lighé, 16 was the Prince of Monaco 
     
     who first realized the possihilities of an 
     
     electric Might as a lure for fish, and he 
     
     made the first Geep-sea trap with a light 
     
     in it, and reaped a rich harvest. 
     
     A battery can bo made ata cost of 
     
     about $4, but it is easier to buy one for a 
     
     about the same money. ‘The outfit will 
     
     consist of two jars, contained in na hard- 
     
     wood box, with two clips to which to at- 
     
     tach the wires of the two pales, a three- 
     
     candle power lamp and a wide-mouthed 
     
     shallow glass jar, Take the lamp and 
     
     twist about its center some light wire 
     
     with loops sticking out in ali directions, 
     
     and place it in the jar, hanging it about 
     
     midway between top and bottom by pass- 
     
     ing the current wires through the cork and 
     
     wedging them in tight. The loop of wires 
     
     about the lamp will serve to prevent the 
     
     glass froin breaking when the bott!e 
     
     swings about. À piece of inth-thick lead 
     
     is attached to the bottom of the bottle to 
     
     make it sink and holai it stendy. This 
     
     lead is attached by stiings to the neck of 
     
     the bottle, and a double cord is carried 
     
     up to the surface, so that the bottle may 
     
     be lowered or lifted without hauling on 
     
     the wires. 
     
     When the lamp is lowaered into the wa- 
     
     ter and the current is turned on, it will 
     
     attract every fish within 200 yards. 
     
     About 4 feet to the right and left of the 
     
     lamp hole other holes ure cut in the ice 
     
     for fishing. In these are placed the baited 
     
     hooks on the old-time tip-ups. The light 
     
     attracts the tish, and the bait and the 
     
     hunger of the fish do the rest. The lamp 
     
     will cost about 56 cents for eight hours. 
     
     Care should be taken nut to cut the fish- 
     
     ing holks 60 close together, so as to 
     
     weaken the ice and make it dangerous. 
     
     The best way is to cut them in a semi- 
     
     cirole at the back of the lamp hoie and ap- 
     
     proach them from the far side. 
     
     As à rule the tackls may be obtained 
     
     on the ground, Ifit is taken aloug «a 
     
     braided linen ‘‘C”’ line is the proper one, 
     
     with a number of large sproat hooks on 
     
     good and new gimp soells; gut is almost 
     
     useless, as it is liable to tear from the 
     
     rubbing it receives against the edge of 
     
     the ice when it is drawn up, and -:!50 be 
     
     cause it is liable to get very brittle from 
     
     cold. It is as well to remember hat only 
     
     a very sharp ax shoulä be used to out the 
     
     holes. As to bait, minnows are the best, 
     
     and in places where they make a specialty 
     
     of ice fishing, the local guides will bave 
     
     plenty; but, as a matter of fact. the fish 
     
     are 80 hungry that they will take almost 
     
     anything eatable,and a strip of sait pork, 
     
     if very thin and fairly long, will do, with 
     
     strips cut from the fish as they are 
     
     caught. The one idea shcuiä be to make 
     
     the bait as showy as possible, for the cniä 
     
     dulis the perceptions of the fish to a 
     
     certain extent,and they do not appear to 
     
     see as quickly as in warmer weather, An 
     
     soon as they do see the bait they go for 
     
     it with ten times the voracity. This is 
     
     the reason why in several states fishing 
     
     through the ice has been forbidden by 
     
     law, The fish bite with such engerness 
     
     that people are afraid the suppiy of tish 
     
     for the summer would be seriousiy Ga- 
     
     pleted by the winter sport and especially 
     
     the pike, pickerel and other game fish. 
     
    

    
     1t is cold work, and a good fire on the 
     
     bank is essential, while warm clotning 
     
     and very thick, heavy shoes should bs 
     
     worn. Of course, skating can be indulged 
     
     in at the same time, but if the ice fishing 
     
     is good the fisherman wili not want 60 
     
     bother about skating. Ifitis desired to 
     
     keep the fish in perfect conditian during 
     
     the day, a good plan is to take the ax and 
     
     chop out a trench 2 or 3 feet long, 1 foot 
     
     wide, and nearly through the ice; then 
     
     bore a tiny hole through the midüäle and 
     
     let the water in. ‘This makes a perfeci 
     
     tank in which to put the fist, and if it 
     
     is covered with a piece of board it will 
     
     not freeze during the day. It can -be en- 
     
     larged to any size as tho fish are caught. 
     
     The modern fisherman is sparing of the 
     
     time-honored bottle, He has discovered 
     
     that coffee wr chocolate are infinitely 
     
     more warmth-giving and sustaining, a6 
     
     the same time giving an extra zest fur 
     
     the fish broiled over the fire when fresh 
     
     caught. 
     
     While the New Jersey lakes are univer- 
     
     sally held to be the best spots for ice 
     
     tishing, it is good fun in almost all the 
     
     streams and ponds of Long Island, Con- 
     
     necticut, and Westchester and Orange 
     
     Counties. An advertisement in one of 
     
     the fishing papers of a good spot will 
     
     bring any number of replies from novices 
     
     in the art; wbile the fish men at the New 
     
     York markets, if properly approached, 
     
     will often put a stranger on to a good 
     
     thing.—New York Sun. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A ‘hinese Legend. 
     
    

    
     “Very many years ago,’’ saida Chi- 
     
     nese fortune teller, ‘‘there was a red- 
     
     headed Chinaman äiu China, He lived 
     
     there so long ago thai no one now living 
     
     had ever seen him, Chew Fut was his 
     
     pame, and he was tall and fatr cf com- 
     
     plexion, For some caus: not plensing in 
     
     the eyes of one of the numerous gods, 
     
     Chew Fut was known all over north 
     
     China, where he lived azd grew to man- 
     
     hood. 
     
     ‘One day it was disclosed to à few of 
     
     the faithful that this particular Chinese 
     
     with the red hair must die, but 16 was 
     
     not explained by the ceity why. It is 
     
     not known to this day why the order 
     
     was disobeyed, for no steps were taken 
     
     to end the life of Chew Fut, and s0 « 
     
     fearful vengeance was wrecked en the 
     
     people. A terrible earthquake occurred, 
     
     azd the waters of the sen overflowed the 
     
     land, engulfing thousands of inhabit- 
     
     ants, who were carried out to sea by 
     
     the receding waters and drowned. à 
     
    

    
     “The red haired Chinese ‘was lost at 
     
     the same time, and it is belleved was 
     
     transported direct to the infernal re- 
     
     gious, where he musi always suffer fear- 
     
     ful torture. ’’—San Francieco Examiner. 
     
    
   
   
    
     May Men Shed Tears ? 
     
    

    
     “Is it weuk in a man to shed tearsf'” 
     
     ‘“Sooner mayst thou trust thy purse 
     
     to a professional pickpocket than give 
     
     loyal friendship to the man who boasts 
     
     of eyes to which the heart never mounts 
     
     in dew. Only when man weeps he 
     
     should be alone—not because tears are 
     
     weak, but because they should Le sa- 
     
     cred.’’—Bulwer Lytton. 
     
    

    
     ‘Tears spring from no weak and wom- 
     
     an source, but flow from the Inftiest of 
     
     amotion, Tears befit à warrior when 
     
     his troops desert him—a patriot when 
     
     his countrymen rush to their doom—a# 
     
     father when his sLilôren rebel against his 
     
     love.’’—1ytton. 
     
    

    
     “There is a sacredness in tears. They 
     
     are uot the mark of wenkness, but of 
     
     power, They speak more eloquently than 
     
     ten thousand torgues, They nre messen- 
     
     gers ol overwbelming grief, a deep con- 
     
     trition, and of wunspeakatle love.’— 
     
     Washington Irv ng. 
     
    

    
     Enggnie ns na Godinother. 
     
    

    
     It is euid that the ex-Empress Eu- 
     
     genie has more godchädren than any 
     
     cther person in the world; they nuni-: 
     
     ber, or rather did number 3,000, It car£ 
     
     about in this way: The Emperor hd 
     
     decided that he would be godfathet 
     
     and the Empress that she would be 
     
     godmother to all legitimatz chilären 
     
     born on March 16th. 
     
    

    
     In accordance with these instructions, 
     
     on the following day the births of 3,61/ 
     
     children were registered in the office 
     
     f the Prefect of the Department of {he 
     
     Seine as godchildren of Napoleon and 
     
     Eugenie. After her husband's death the 
     
     Emiress assumed the obligations 0f 
     
     the Emperor toward the children for 
     
     whomohe had been godfather. 
     
    

    
     An Alpaca Revival, 
     
    

    
     Last summer nearly all our silzs 
     
     were in striped patterns. This year 
     
     they will probably be checked or 
     
     plaided, as they were the Year pre- 
     
     vious, but taffetas wiil be the popular 
     
     wear, no matter what design is. Blue 
     
     bids fair to become owne Gf the favorite 
     
     colors, particularly the deïft enûà tur- 
     
     quoise blues, and alpacas of al shades 
     
     are to be worn. . This last Îs blessed 
     
     news, for if there was ever a fabric 
     
     designed for rough and tumble use, te 
     
     eschew rain and shed dust, to go 
     
     through sorching weather and àripping 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     days, the name of ft is writ large, Al