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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, JANUARY 27, 1899

A PITHY AND TELLING REVIEW OF BROKEN PROMISES

Addressing the Liberal Conservative Conference on Thursday the President, S-ne'or Fergueon, said

In the beginning of another year we are metas representative Liberal Coo- servatives to review the events of the past year and to discuss plans for future action in the best interests of Prince Edward Island aod of the Dominion of Uavada. Although a peculiar combina ion of circumstances, and the stil] more peculiar tactics of our opponents, placed the Liberal Conservative party, 1n a@ minority in the Houseof Commons in 1896, yet it isa matter of siacere pride to every member of the grand old party organized and led by Sir John McDonald to find that, in Opposition as well is in power, the principles for which the party has always céntended remain inscribed on our ban- vers. In addition tothis there has been vouchafed to our leaders in these days of our party’s reverses an overwhelming vindication of the wisdom and patriotism which iospired the Councils of Canada during the great formative period in cur history between 1878 and 1896. Instead of carrying into effect any of the numer- ous fads which they aiyocated when in Oppesition’® our Opponents when brougat face to face with the respousibility of administration, have merely attempted feeble, clamsy and erratic imitations of the pclicy on fiscal questions which they denounced with the greatest bitter- nesswhen out of power. The whilom free-trader has become afull paced pro- tectionisi, the blatant economist has de- veloped into a political spendthrift, and the advccate of unrestricted reciprocity withthe UnitedStates has hastened to raise the barrier of an )1!~considered British pre~ ference. ( Applause.)

So far from giving rise toa feeling of discouragement, the events of the last two or three years are calculated to inspire the Liberal Conservative Party, with greater hope aod sonfideace. Should doubt bave entered the minds of any of our friends as to the soundness of the Nationel Policy, the necessity of encouraging useful public improvements, or regarding our duty to the British Empire, they are forever dispelled. We have now tbe Liberal party led by Sir Wilfrid Laurier forced to come into court and give evidence that, in all these things, the Liberal Conservatives have always been right and the Liberals wrong.

At the next appeal to the people the issue will be greatly narrowed, aud the Conserva tives stand to gain from that fact. The cry that miilions of doliara were wrung from the taxpayers to pamper bloated monopolists ard legalized robbers will be nO more beard in the land. The solemn asseveration thatevery acre and every hoof is being mortgaged to foster great boodling enterprises will be dropped for very shame sake, and even an echo of the despairing wail which was once a familiar sound, that nothing can save Canada from bank- rupicy and depopulation exceptunrestricted reciprocity with the United States, will be as unpleasant to a grit caodidate as an appariation of his grandmother’s ghost. (Langhter).

Al:hough, bowever, the issue between the parties is narrowed by the complete capit- ulation of the Liberals on the main points heretofore contended over, there still re- mains much more for the people to consi- der than the the simple question of the best men,and these considerations will be & greathelp in enabling the ordinary elector to decide which party has the more honest and able leaders.

LIBERAL PROMISE BREAKING

In the private business of life, we trast men according to our experience with them and the reputationthey bave for acting honestly and telling tue trath, We never think of trusting important affairs of # private nature to a man who has de. ceived or cheated us. Thesame rule must obtain in weighingthe worth of public men. It would bea bad thing for Canada if the electors were to cease judging their public servants by the degree of taithful- ness with which they keep their solemn promises, Judged by this. standard there cau be no verdict but one of emphatic condemnation of the Laurier Ad ministrati~ op. Brazen appeals to race and creed, and the noscrupulous exercise of Govern- mnt psetrovage may fora littl while divert attention from promise breaking, but in the end the voice of the independent elector will be heard at the polls.

Weare at no Joss for data with which to compare the promises aud performances of the Libersl parity

They did much speechifyiog when wandering in the wilderness of opposition; and their words are on record; But, as if to put the matter beyond all dispute they met at Ottawa in June 1893, in convention, and there formally agreed ona platform. By that platform and subequent parliamentary and platform elaboratious of it they are bound, and thereis no loophole of escape.

The Liberal party in the Ottawa Conven- tion in 1893 denounced the then existing \ariif as founded on the unsound principle of Protection, and ennmerated a vast num— ber of evils which had arisen under its op- eration, ending with this declaration :

“We ienounce the principle of protec- tion as redivwily unsound and u-juet to the masses of the peujle, asd we declare }our conviction that any tariff changes

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based on that principle must fail to atfurd avy sub-tantial relief from the burs dea’s under which the country labors.

In expounding this platform of his narty.Sir., Louis Davies said, in Middleton, Nova Scotia, in the autumn of 1893,—

"There comes times when little party issues disappear and the great historical parties of the country divide open some yital issue which affects net only the pree- ent but the future interests of the people Today the people of Canada stand face to face with such an issue, and the next con test is to be one between Free Trade and Protection. The policy of the Liberal party isthe reform of the Tariff by che elimination from it of every vestige of protection.”

In the teeth of these solemn promises we have today in force in Canada the Field~ ing tariff, which, as far as protection is concerned, does not differ from its im» mediate predecessor—the Foster tariff of 1894. ltis true that the duty on kero- sene oil, which was reduced from 7-16 to 6 cents per gallon in 1894, was further reduced by one cent by Mr. Fielding, and tuat afew other miuor changes have been made; buat the principle of protection underlies the whole system. Indeed the Liberal party capitulated to the maunfac~ turers before the elections, although they did not tell the electors so, and one of their first acts was tosend Mesers. Fielding and Patterson around the country to consult with the manufacturers as to the changes to be made. As far as the tariff is con- cerned the pages of history does not afford a parallel! of such a wholesale abandgnment of principle as that which we charge agaiust the Liberal party of Canada.

Then let us look to the question of economy. Here are the resolutions of the Ottawa conference :

We cannot but view with alarm the large increase of the public debt and of the controlable annual expenditure of the Dominion and the consequent undue taxa- tion of the people under the Governments’ that have been continuously in power since 1878, and we demand the strictest economy in the admioistration of the Gov- ernment of the country.” .

Surely that is an explicit promise. Then we have Sir Wilfrid’s speeches at

Toronto and Brantford in 1894. At Toroato he said : “If we cOme into power we will follow

theexample of McKenzie, and I say that although we may not be able to bring the eXpenditures back to what they were we can reduce the amount to, yes, three mil - lion doliars a year.”

At Brantford he said: “Doyou imagine there is any justification for this increase of expendituee? The Conservatives tel! us there is @ justification. The population has increased, they say. Ob, yee, it has increased 9 per vent, but the expenditure bas increased 100 per cent. There can be no justification tor such an expenditure * * * Moreoverthey tell usthat if we were in power we could not retrench and enconomize But I do not believe it will be a

| very difficult ta k. (Hear bears) It would

not be # difficul: task to the extent of one, two, three, and Mr. Mills told his consti- tueuts @ few days ago that it was possible to retrench tothe extent of four millions.”

Then, Sir Louis Davies said in Parlia~ ment in 186: “Weare ready to go to the country with that statement on which we pledge ourselves that very large and im- portant reductions can be made in the ex- penditures of the cuuntry without impair~ ing the efficient administration of its af- fairs.”

So much for promises. We now come to performances, The ordinary expendi- tures forthe list year of Conservative administration was $36,919,142, and the average for 10 years wa- $36,787,772.

Wel, we have now two com}; leted vears uf Libers( administration. The ordinary expenditure has been as follows :

\ oe OTE ROE ison, os 39,832 525

an average Of $38.591,142 per year, or nearly two millious per annum greater than the expendit: re of the last Conservative year or the average expenditure of the last ten years Of Conservative administration.

But the Ottawa Platform said that the increase of the debt was a matter for serious alarm,and Sir Wilfrid Laurier promised that there should be an end of rolling up the debt. Well, this is how that matter stands. The net debt of Can- ada on the 30th of Jane, 1895, was $258,- 497,433; 0p the 30th of Juve, 1898, it amounted to $263,956,398, making an in crease of $5,458,965 in the netdebt forthe short period of two years of Liberal Ad- ministration,

Tostead therefore of fulfilling bis pro- misee of reducing the expenditure by three or four millions annually, and stopping the rolling up of new debt, Sir Wilfrid Laurier has increased the expenditure by two millions per annum, and has swollen the debt by five anda half millions in two years. Instead of excusing this prom ise- breaking and extravagance Mr. Tarte saye:

“We spent more money last year be- cause we made more, and we will continue to do so. Wait till you see us next year.”

It w due to Mr. Tarte to _ that this promise bids tairto be carried out, The figures publish-

edin the Canada Gazette for the half of the current finascial year show a further alarming increase in the expenditure both in ordivary aud capital accounts.

We all remember how fiercely the Lib- erals denounce the Conservative policy of land grunts in aid of railways in the North West, and bow solemnly they promired that alleuch grants would eud when they reached power. On this subject the following resolution was adopt» ed atthe Ottawa Convention in 1893 :

“That.in the opinion of this Convention the sales of public lands of th Dominion should be toactual settlers only, and not to speculators upon reasonable terms of settlement, and in such areasas can be rearonably occupied and cultivated by the settler.”

What a commentary on this resolution was the proposed grant of 3,750,000 ecres of selected gold lands and town sitesi n the Klondike to Mann and McKenzieas pay- ment for the construction of 150 miles of narrow gauze railway between the Stickeve River aud Teslin Luke !

The fir ¢ thing to strike one is the shame~ lessness of the party who made this con tract in the face of their Ottawa _ resolu~ tion. The improvidence of the grant is well illustrated by an Order in Council passed on July 7th, 1898, after the defeat of the McKervzie-Mann contract. This Order in Council provides that no lands in the district covered by that contract should be sold for less than $10 per acre or in greater quantities than 40 acres in one place, the minerals being reservei to the Crown.

Undue taxation of the people was an~ other charge by our present rulers against their predecessors in <ffice, anda reduction of the taxation burden was promised on bundreds of platforms from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Well, here are the performances:

Taxation for 1895 and 1896 under Conservatives......

Taxation for 1897 and 1898 under Liberals............

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$53,205,484

58,251,802

5,046,318

This is what Mr. Tarte calls “making money.” **We will make more money and we will spend more ; wait till you see us next year.” The figures for the current year showed thatthe taxation is getting heavier,or in Mr. Tarte’s language, the Gov- ernment is making more money. This is the supercilious way in which av unscruyu- lous misister refers to the broken promises of his party.

Another promise was regarding fees paid to lawyers. At Lindsay, in 1896, Sir Wilfrid said:

“Sir, they pay over $109,000 in extra lawyers’ fees, This expenditure is corrupt and indefensible. It was not so in Me» Kenzie’s time, and it will not be so when we have a uew Liberal administration at Ottawa.”

The amount paid by the Conservative Government as fees to lawyers in 1896 was $89,000.. In 1897 Sir Wilfrid broke his promise to the electors by paying $101,409 for similar services.

Time will not permit me to refer in de- tai] to otber brokeu promises of the Liberals, such a3 the expressed contempt of **Demo- crats to the hilt’’ for ‘tin pot titles” and the indecent scramble for knighthoods which has since trken place. Nor tothe equally indecent scramble amongst members of Parliament for lucrative offices in the face of the party’s denuociatioa of conferring appointinenis on members of the Com-~ mons by Conservative administrations.

Whodoes not remember the cre used

by the Liberals in the eigh ies about granting timber limits in the North West withont conpetition? All these

prants pale with ins'goificance compared with the dredging licenses given in the rivers of the northwest, including the Klondyke regions, to friends of the Gov- ernment. These grants have been used for speculative purposes ip many cases,— all of which is a violation of the pre~el ection promises of the Liberal leaders.

THE PREMIER AND THE SENATE

I notice thatthe Premier has made an annoncement of policy regarding the Sen- ale atarecent meeting in Montreal. He gravely declares that he is in favor of a second chamber, which he feels is indis- pensable ina country of Canada’s extent and diver-fied interests. Bat the present Senate does not please him because he rays it is irrespansible, and has defeated two measures of his Government, which he claims were of a Ligly meritorious character. Evideatly the kind of an Upper House which Sir Wilfrid would like when in power, is one that would open its mncuth, shut its eyes and swallow any- thing be sent toit. Itis difficult to un- derstaod how an Upper hoase could fulfil the important duties required of it, in Sir Wilfrid’s estimation, if it did not chal- lenge such measures as the Drummond and the Yukon Bills. His reference to these measures are fair specimens of tue vague and inexact language he i- in the habit of addressing to the public. If the Intercolonal exteusion over tne Drummond railway was a mea-ure of neces sity and high policy, it seems a lit le strange that bis party did not find this out wunti) after the elections of 1896. If the scheme was so self-evidently good and neces-ary, why did he aot make ita part of his policy atthe elections? Lf the Senate deserves to be condemned for rejecting the contract

of 1897, with the Drummond Co. and the !

Grand Truok, whatebail we say of the conduct of Sir Wilfrid in making new contravts with the same companies, one million doilars more favourable t@ Canada ?

The fact is that Sir Wilfrid’s reference to this subject at Montreal is utterly lack- ing in candour. The contract of 1897 bas been kicked, cuffed and disrespected by his

owo goveroment as the making of the new vontract clearly proves. Equally uofair and uncandid are Sir Wiifrid’s

references tothe T'es!ia Railway contract with McKenzie and Mano. ‘ihe sagacity of the measure, he says, commended itself toevery refl-cung mind. [cs notorious

that no language co tld be farther from the

Butit is in keeping “l'hrough the insane action of the Senate we have lost the trade of the Yukon.” ‘‘You the mer- chants of Montrea!” he said, “have lost the commerce of the Yukon which hes gone to Seattle and other American cities of the Pacific Coast” The plain geographical fact ie that both the Stickine River, which is almost unnavigable and the proposed railway, in all about 3£0 miles, would not bring freight and passengers a mile nearer or more accessible to Dawson than they would beata good harbor on the Lyon Canal aroute that wll be traversed by steam over iis whole length by August next. It is evident that Sir Wilfrid’s words ure the merest buvcumbe. Mr, James Domville’s declaration toa neWws- paper on his return fromthe Kloudike that the Teslin route was ‘“‘not worth 4 hair-pin” expresses what 1s to-day acon seneus of opinion regarding the bil! of last session. Mr. Domville said he was sorry he voted for the biil, but glad he did pot speak in its favor. Sir Wiifrid’s Order in Conncil of {July last, fixiog $10.00 per acre fur lands io the Yakon Country is » strange comment on his Montreal assertion that the Teslin Railway would not have cost @ cent to the people of Canada. Sir Wiltrid would do well to look home for evidence of insanity. Even if the bargain with McKenzie and Mann was 4 good one, and the route the very best, it is certain that it should sot have been open for the trade of 1898. Therefore the statement that the defeat of the bill lost Cauvadian merchants the trade of the Yukon is sim- ply lacking in the essential « lement,—truth. The fact is the senators bave been most careful and cautious in dealing with mea- sures sent them from the House of Com- mons. Such bas been the character of their actions under Mr. McKenzie, Sir Joho McDonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier. In every case,and they have not been many, in which thcy have rejected Commons

truth than this. with what follows,

Bills—they have been supported by the overwhelming voice of public opinion.

Sir Wilfrid’s declaration that the House of Lords and the Queen are responsible in a sense in which the Senate of Canada is not, may seem clever sophistry to that bon. gentleman; but few fairsminded men will form so favorable an opinion of it. The power to add new Peers setties the responsibility of the Lords, says Sir Wil- frid. There are limitations, constitutional and otherwise, to increasing both the Lords and the Senate and these limitations although different, are effective in both cases. How far, I wonder, were the mem-~ bers of the House of Lords affected by the possibility of Mr. Gladstone’s creating a suflicient number of members to carry the Home Rule Bill?) Sir Wilfrid says that the Queen is “‘ responsible,” but the Senate ‘irresponsible’, But bedoes not deign to give the grounds of his assertion. The truth is tbat Her Majesty the Lords and the Senate are all like re+ponsi- ble to public opinion. When the Lords defeat a Government measure, it is for the purpose of appealing from the House of Commonstc the nation. Had Glad- stone been sustained by the nation at the election following the etruggle over Home Rule he would have passed the bili again, and the Lords, following the traditions of their House, would have accepted it. But the nation supported the Lords. The ap< peals which the Senate made from the House of Commons to the people in the VDrureamoad contract of 1897 and the McKenzie and Mann contract in [898 have both been practically settled by public opinion without an election. Sir Wilfrid bas himself recorded the verdict againet the Commons by making a new contract in 1898

with the Drammon! and Grand Trunk people. It is in Sir Wilfrid Lanrier’s estimation mucb safer to practice the

lawyer's trick, when he knows he has no case, Of abusing the other side, than to go tothe country on the question whether 3,750,000 acres of selected mineral lands shouli be givea away to. se- cure the construction of one bundred and fifty miles of a cheap railway connecting two waterways, frozen two-thirds of the year, of donbifal navigability and af- fording aruinously circuitous and expens sive route tothe Yukon. (Applause) When an upper chamber, ander a British constitutional system, rejects a bill passed by the Commoas, its action ig an appeal to the people from what is considered the evil influences, passion or excitement whicb for tue hour dominated the lower house. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in his Mon- treal speech, fully admits the nece-sity of such asafeguard. But, with strange io~ consistency he proposes to do away with it in Cases where the influences for evil in the Commons are sufficiently strong to overcome by a jpint vote the Senate’s veto. The really important measores which the Senate rejected under all the diff-reat administrations since confederation can be counted on the fingers ofone hand. They are the KEsquimaul: Nanaimo Ruilway, the Harvey and Salisbury Railway, the Drummond contract, the Teslia Railway, and the bill of last session regarding tbe Manitovs School Laws. In every case the Sena'e has been in the sober second thoughts of the peoyle, found to be right. Io making amendments which the Commons accepted the Senate has, in allthe years of ite existence, done an epormous amount of useful work. But perhaps its greatest service arises from the barrier which i‘s very existence . raises against attempts to pass obnoxious iaws.

**What is done we partly may compute, But koow not what resisted.”

If Sir Wilfrid Laurier were a wise man he would feel deeply grateful to the Senate for the strength itis calculated to give bim in withstanding the unreasovable de~ mands of his supporters. The a*saalt on the Senate at this moment by the Pre- mier and his subsidised newspapers muy be regared. as an indication of the forty- coming of new measures of doubtful valu:. On the introduction of the McKenzie- Mann contract Mr. Tarte’s organ the LaPatrie attempted to intimidate th: ens e by threats ani abuse, Such tactics

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