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The Senator’s

Tuk complimentary dinner to Hon, Donald Ferguson at Hotel Davies last eve

rng was attended by a very large compane,

“Geurre Peake, E: ;. ofcup ed the ehair. Ja his right were the guest of the evening, fon. Senator Prowse, Hon. Le: & Owen, Hon. William Richards, A. Martin, Esq.,

f Belfast, De. MeNeill, of Stan'ey, Hon. Wiliam Campbell, of Park Corner; on his left the United States Coneu!. Mr. Kane: lohn Mel ean. M. P., Souris; Dr. Jenkins, Rew. W. Corey, Hon. Mr. Arsenault and tev. Father Burke. The viee-cha‘r was oceu-

pied by M. P. Hogan, Esq., woth Lent. ‘olonel Moore. and Hon. James Clow m his right. and A. A. MeLean, Eq., and Rev. Father Curran on his ef. The following is a list of those who

in adiition to those already mentioned had hi &, | ne tickets ’

Neil **:Q iarrie, ArtharSimpson, J. ©. Taderhav, J. Weber Ha-lam, Atian Me- Phee, Stephen Srowr, Thos. Vesey. kK Ves-er, John Fergueon, Jdutn Forre tal, Peter Seott, F.H Horne, Henry Horne, Mie! uel H. McCabe, U.C. J. Lewis, Dr. Murphy, Geo. R. Montgomery, H. D. Me- Ewen, Jas. Kennedy, Montague Stephens, A'ex. Scott, Jos Kenne ty, D B. McLeod, Walter Lowe, R. Beairsto, W. S. McKie, \. N. Large, Howard Dingwel!, Harrison Carvel!l, Geo. A. D.xon, Geo. H. Foster, Eiward Hackett, John P. Esdale, Jas. Paton, Geo. Stanley, Ger. D. Longworth, W. H. Batt, M. Bake, Dr. Me Millan, Geo. Mutch, Capt. D. Siewart, John S. Me- Donald, Donald Nicho'son, S. W. Crabbe, €. Lvon:, A. Horne, W. D. McKay, Jas. Johnson, Geo. Wakeford, John Inge, T. J. Dliow, A. Herman:, Mark Wright, F. Perkins, C. D. Rankin, W.A.O. Morson, J. T. Mellish, Dr. Dold, Dr. Conroy, W.S8 Stewart, Tho<. Hantrahan, A. McKinnon, D. McKenzie,

John Newson, James Byrne, 1. O'M Reddir, Chas. McGregor, T. B.

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John Sterns, He

Among those who signified their regret that they were unable to be present were: P. Blake, President of the Liberal-Conser- vative Association; A. C. McDonald. M. P.; Hon. D. Gordon, Leader of the Provincial Opposition, A. F. Larkins, Tignish; Dun- ean Crawford, Wood Island; D: Schur- man, Donald McKay, David Donglass, Hon. J. Nicholson ; Uriai Matthew, A. Schurman, George W. Bentley, Stewart Burns, James EB. Birch, D. McLeod, J. T. Weeks, A. McKinnon, Coleman; G.lbert DesRoches, John Anderson, Capt. Frank Gallant, John R. Larkins, and others.

The dinner was one of the finest ever served at the Hotel Davie, the menu be- ins as follows :

MENU. Oysters. Lemon Points. Consomme Dubelloy. Clear Green Turtle aux Duenelles. Boiied Salmon. Sauce Hollandaise, Fisn. Egg Sauce. Cucumbers. Tomatoes. Potatoes. Fleurette.

Roast Torkeyal’Allemande. Ham. Goose. Apple Sauce. Sirloin of Beef and Horse Ralish. Fresh A-paragus. Brussels Sprouts. Potato. Lamb Cutlet and Green Peas. Lob-t:r en Caisse, a la Newburg.

tock

Roman Punch.

English Hare. Red Currant Jelly. Musbrooms. Pluin Padding. Pastry. Vanilla and

Brandy Sauce. Civtted Cream. Glace ala Reine. Venetienne Jelly. sorted Cakes. Water [ces.

Fruit. Cheese,

Coffee.

The toast list comprised :

‘he Queen.

The President of the United States,

The Governor General.

Our Guest. s

The Senate an! House of Commons.

Our Lieutenant Governor.

The Local Legislature.

The Agricultural and Dairying Interests of Prince Eiward Island. This Canada of ours.

The Clergy.

The Bench and Bar.

The Militia.

The Press.

Woman; The hand that rocks the cradle

8 the world.

ee States Consul response | te the “President of the United States” ina neat and eloquent speech in which he expressed his great pleasure at being present upon an occasion to do honor toa distinguished and honorable fellow citizen, and set forth in brief, the greatness of his country, in- habited by 59,000,000 of English speaking people, and presided over by Grover Cleve- land, eminent as one of the great states men of his age and generation.

Dr. Jenkins in response to the toast “The Governor-General” said that he thought that Canada was to be congratu- lated upon the character and standing of thestatesmen appointed G ee

Haunch of Venison.

As

Celery. Crackers.

and referred particularly to ability and standing of Lord Aberdeen, The care with which

the British Government selected the Gov- eynors.General of Canada proves that this country is rightly regarded as one of ne 10st important of Hriti=} pau an

in Lcates that the tie which binds it to ' the Empire will pot soon be seyered. He

one of the finest countries in It is great in natural resources. want is population and energy to” develop this greatness.

to the services of the distingnished guest, who, as a farmer, had set a good example,

antasa pol.tician had taken a_ leatinz part. and. done bis daty well Senator Ferguson he& been constan'ly

met by great opposition, and he ha constantiv, in the long run, overcome that

OL bhD of the people than he ever did. In his

ably advocate! the the

them the representatives of other parts of the

Province, and we need men of the

trv. Ferguson, and it is fitting that we should show our appreciation of him, (Applause.

seconded the preposition. est of this Province it tural rauks high. presentative agriculturist, who, a3 a poli- tician has occupied a prominent position in the beat Government this Province ever had (applanse) abilities of Senator Ferguson hal been re- ce ynized by the Government at Ottawa and that he now occupies a high the larger ep'iere of the Dominion. In this

drank my health, and I alxo thank the

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.

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~ COMPLIMENTARY DINNER

To Hon. Vonall Ferguson

BRILLIANT EVENT AT HOTEL DAVIES.

Great Gathering of the Senator's Political Friends.

SONDENSED R&PORT OF Tdb SPERsHeS DRLIVERED.

ee

Great Effort.

the maintenance of Dritish connection The United States had obtainel a | mir start of Canada. The stream of immigra- tion hal hitherto been in her direction But he felt sure that a fair share of Euro- pean immigration would soon get into Canada and that she wenuld never be “annexed” to any other nation. We have

the world.

All we Alexander Martin, Exq., proposed tie

health of the guest of the evening, am/‘d rapturous app'anse. He referred briefls

Pi Po.lay he vccup es a higher p+-itcon in Parliament and in the opinion

tio.

of Canada he has rights anit claims of Island Province, and obtained for the attention and consideration of

Senate '

place in the

weak best ability to bring oar case before the coun We have such @ man in Senator

Dominiow. This is a smali andl

Arthur Simpson, Esq., of Bay View The chief inter- is and must ever, vecesaarily, beagriculture. As an ayricul- Province, Prince Edward [sland Senator Ferguson is a re-

He was glad that the

position in

positon he had very ably presented the claim? of Prince Elward Island, and he had the greatest pleasure in seconding the propesition that had been made by Mr. Martin.

Hon, Senator Ferguson, upon rising to reply to the toast (which ‘was enthusiasti- cally drunk with all the honors) said : Me. CuairnwMan anv GexrLemMex :—

I thank you most heartily for the en- thusiastic manner in which you have

gentlemen who introduced the toast for the complimentary manner in which they have expressed them=elves. It is needless to egy to the gentlemen whom I see aroun! me that a pos.tion in peligical lif: is not a bed of roses. Bat such an oc :asion as this is a very good offset to the rough as- age to which a public man is often obliged to submit. There are, I dare say, not a few who think the aims and objects of politics are regulated by selfi-hness, the promotion of mere party interests and the gratification of personal and party anti pathies. Looking over this large assem- blage to-night and Jistening to the speeches which we have heard, I rejoice to know that you have a nobler and truer appreci- ation than that of political life. If there are cften, unfortunaely, antipathies in polities, there are also true frieudships, fair appreciation as well as manly and honorable torgiveness and reconciliations. But even with these redeeming features, a life devoted to politics would be a fear- fully wasted one if there were not some dominating principle to serve asa guid- ing star to a life of public service.

I know I am rege rded and have always been regarded as a strong pariy man, and I do not now, standing as | do in the pres- ence of many who have been my friends and comrades in many a well forghten field, as well as some who are here to-night more out of personal compliment than party feeling, desire to alate one jot or one tittle of my record as a loyal party man, But I do say, with the deepest conscious: ness of its truth, that I would never have been in pudlic life, nor would 1 have re- mained there, had it not been for one do- minating idea or principle, and that is my

AL{HISG PAITH IN THE UNION

and development of British America, now sonstituting the Dominion of Canada. — It was my fortune when very young to read two remarkable speeches which were de- livered in the Legislature of Nova Scotia in 1854 by two eminent men, James W. John-toue and Joseph Howe, the first in advocacy of a Federal Union of British North America, and the latter unfolding a scheme for the organization of the British empire. Mr. Johnstone in his speech outlined a plan of Federal Union for British Anierica remarkable for its re- semblance to the general frame work of the British North America Act, and Mr. Howe foreshaduwed the great project of an Imperial Federation. From that day for- ward I was a Unionist and an advocate of Iperial Unity and when, ten years later, the question of union was taken up at the Charlottetown Conference, I took my -tand asa supporter of the cause of Confederation, aad I have been, and still am, @ Liberal Conservative, be- cause | believe that that party which was formed in the struggles of 1867, out of the ranks of the old parties, bas been and still is the exponent of the principles of union, consolidation and development of the nor thern half of this continent under the British Crown. One of our city papers

Kk. ISLAND

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If incorrect,

o

ie times as opposed to the Financial! basis cf the Quebee scheme as far as it related to Prince Etward Is'and. Again in 1869- 70 when what was called the “better terms” were offered, | again as a member of a committee of the Union Association presented a report which was published shown that these terms were not just to P. E. Island, and again in 1873, I helped to defeat the Laird-Haythorne terms, as not being sufficiently favorable to P. E, Island. I was al! the while an advocate ofthe principle of Union, but inst-ted

that Prince Elward Island should be fa'rly treated. At Confederation the Liberal-Conservative Party, under the

leadersiiip of one of the greatest men of the 19th cen ury, adopted the idea of

THE CORNER STOXE

of their political system, and the great ra/]-

UNION AS

way projects of the last 13 years, the Natioual Poliev,. steam cerviecs on the two oceans, and the Imperial questions

discussed this year at the Intereo'onial Conference, have all fittel closely and compactly into the grand Union scheme. Sir John Macdonald might be said to have preempted the ground. He took grat care, when the opportunity came, to seize every gool thing which harmonized with ; the central idea of Union, and his oppo nents have always Leen put to the disad- vantage of having to construct a party platform out of material which he had rejected. Under the circum-tances, it would not be much wonder if abler men than the Liberal leaders should fail in for- mulating a broad, patriotic and harmonious plaifurm which would suecessfully chal- lenge the *upport of the people of Canada. The history of the last twenty-seven years j presents, as far as platform making is ; concerne!, a record «cf blunders, rash ex- periments (not of.en, fortunately, reduced to practice), sharp curves, and not very

creditable denials on the part of the great Liberal party of Cana- da. So thoroughly have they becn

in the wrong on every great public ques- tion, that the earne-t prayer and desire of the party to-day is, that their past record should be buried in forgetfulness. I say that at this moment any grit politician in Canada would rather meet his grand- mother’s gho-t than be confronted with any of the numerous pa-t policies of his own party. (Laughter.) Take confederation it- self, and it will be found that hostility to it formed the real bond of ~ympathy which brought the different elements of the Oppo- sition together in every Province, except partally m Ontario. Here is what Mr Laurier admitted in a speech in Quebec in January last:

**I do not ignore and Ido not forget the fact that the Liberals of Lower Canada feared Confederation, I do not forget that Sir A. A. Do:ron and the French speaking Liberals were afraid that Confederation would prove the grave of the things which we shall always re- gard as a sacred inheritance; but Sir George itienne Cartier did not share this apprehen- sion, and I, disciple as Iam of Doiron, pupil of the Doiron sch vol, I do not hesitate to say that my ideas are with Sir George Cartier on this point, and not with Sir A, A, Doiron.”

Every word of this is true. SirGeorge E Cartier was hounded to the death through the unjust suspic:ons and bitter animosities which were disseminated by the Rouge party (or Grits) in Quebec against Confed- eration. Here are his noble word=, spoken in 1866:

** Tn our Confederation there will be Cath- olics and Protestants, English and French, Irish and Scotch, and each by their efforts and their successes will add to the prosperity, the power and the glory of the new confedera- tion. We helong to different races, not to make war upon each other, but to work to- gether for our own and the common well being.”

Even Mr. Laurier is compelled to-day to admit that Cartier was right and his own party wrong. We have not forgotten the attitude of Messrs. Jones in Nova Scotia, Sir Albert Smith and Mr. Anglin in New Brunswick, and Messrs. Laird and L. H. Davies in onr own Proyince, towards Con- federation. They strongly opposed it; and the bitterness of their’ hostility has made them irreconcilibles to a teue Canadian national sentiment in the long years that have intervened since the battle of Union was fought and won. On the question of building

A TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY FOR CANADA

they have been equally wrong. The terms of union with British Columbia called for the con traction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in ten years. But Mr. McKenzie proposed to repudiate these terms on the ground that the resonreces of the British Empire were not equal to the contruction of that road in such a period of time. The Liberals went out of power, and the Conservatives came in and built that great highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific in-less than tive years, without even severely taxing the resources of Canada. The signal fail- ure of the Liberal party in dealing with the Canadian Pacific Railway was due, in no small measure, to their want of faith in Canada, and their absence of enthus- iasm in the great canse of Canadian union and development. But it cannot b: de nied that there was, as well, a want of gra:p of the demans of the situation, a simall ness of conception, which are weil illus:

traied by Mr. McKenze’s now famous propo-ition of utilizing the “water stretches,” and Mr. Blake’s pronounce-

ment that his policy was “the land for the settler. an {I the price for the Govern- ment.” That is, settlers were to be made happy by the offer of land which they could not get at, and the Government was to be enriched by the prices of land; which under the circumstances would never sell. (Applan e.) This policy reminded me of the munificence of the Eastern king who maie a show of presenting h's sub jets with all the fish in the sea, but den- ied them nets or hooks or lines to catch them with, (laughter.) But it is on great

QUESTIONS OF TRADE

AND FISCAL POLICY

that the Liberal party has shown the greatest weakness and the greatest in- consistency. At the termination of the great American war new conditions began to operate on the continent of America. The great obligations which the war en- tailef on the American nation forced the adoption of an excremely high protective policy. This policy, together with the re- turn to peaceful pursuits ofa va+t number of men who were engaged in the war, caysed an extraordinary deyelopment of United States industries, gnd the infant jndustfies of Canada, which had not re ceived any such abnormal stimutation, were threatened with complete de-traction. About the year 1876, Canada became a slaughter market fur American manufact- urers, whch was found to le injurious to even the Canadian consumer, for as. soon as any Canadian manufacture was crushed slaughter prices ceased, and the price in Canada was advanced beyond the price in the States. Under these circumstances the representatives of the industries of Canada approached the McKenzie Govern ment declaring that without the adoption by Canada of a sonnd fiseal sy-tem the workshops of Canada would become as silent as the ruins of Herculaneum. The anawer they received was that nothing could be done and that the Government

ntly alleged that [ was willing to ac-

He had always been strongly in favor of

cept the Quebec scheme. The statement

*

was as helpless in the mattey as the prov-

. of I placed myself on record of |

a re nae

». TUESDAY, DEC

aimee

erbial fly on the wheel in controling ite revolutions. Sr John Macdonald, who Was iu Opposition, was not slow in appre- ciating the demands of the hour. He knew that uo country without manufactures could «ver have even rich farmers, and

into a strong and self-reliant people was to ensure & S¥Ytnmetry in the industries. The Liberal Con-ervative party went to the country in the elections of 1878 under the lea'‘ersbhip of Sir John with the National Policy inseribed on its banners, The peo- ple of Canada recognized in that policy a plan whereby the material prosperity of Canada would be ensured and at the same

time the national sentiment broadened and strengthened, and at three — subse- quent general elections they have

repeated their verdict of 1878, and there cannot be a doubt tinat that policy, mod:- fied an ladaptedas it has been from time gti me to sult the wants of the cocntry, i+ the policy as regards trade in woue” an overwhelmning majority of tue people of Canada believe to-day. ‘The opposition

arty ever since they announced the fly on the wheel policy have been racking their brains to diseove: some trale pohey on which to carry the country, but tseir fail- uses have been most signal ant humiliat- ing. At one time they announced that

COMMERCIAL UNION

with the United States was the grand panacea fur all our fiuancial troubles. At another time the grit nostrum was Unre- stricted Reciprocity,and now | believe that, with bated breath, the opposition are ad- vocating what they call Pree Trade for Canada. At this place I am bound to say that deniais have beea made by the grit leaders as to their alvocacy of Commercial Union which denials are verv far fram be- ing creditable to the parties making them. Livery prominent man of the grit party ex- cept Messrs. Blake and McKenzie pat him- seit on record in the summer and autumn of 1887 as an out and out supporter of commercial union, I will not take up yonr t me, g-utlemen, with showing in de tail how untrue are the denials so boldly made on this point, but I cannot refrain from showing how very incorrect Mr. Davies ha: proved himself to be in deny- ing that he ever advocated commercia! union. Speaking at Muadlieton, Nova Scotia, last year he is reported by the Hal.fax Chronicle as saying :

**Now commercial union may be a good thing or it may bea bad thing. I am not going to discuss it, but wish to make this state- ment, that never has that policy been yet pro- posed by the Liheral party, or by any aythor- ized member of the Liberal party.” Now, gentlemen, that is a bold denial— butis it true? Many gentlemen present may remember that a discussion was brought on at the Charlottetown Board of Trade in the fall of 1887 by Hon. Donald Farguharson of this city introducing the following resolution of which he had given previous notice : ** Resolved, That in the interests of the people of Canada, and more particularly of this Island, this Board regards the proposal of Commercial Union or Unrestricted Free Trade between Canada and the United States as of the greatest importance, and demands our hearty sympathy and co-operation.” Speaking to this resolution Mr. Davies wasteporied in THe Examiner as saving: ‘** Unrestricted Reciprocity would differ from Commercial Union in this respect, that while under it there would be perfectly free trade between the two countries, each country would retain the right to form its own tariff as against the rest of the world. Canada, for instance, might have a 25 per cent. tariff, while that of the United States might be 35 per cent. The immediate consequence would be that exports to the United States would be taken by way of Montreal. To this the United States, whose people are not arrant fools, would never consent, and Unrestricted Reci- procity, although it would suit us as well as Commercial Unicn, was therefore impractic- able.” A few weeks afterwards Mr. Davies came out in parliament in support of Un- re-tricted Reciprocity, and he has ever since denied that he advocated commercial union or denounced unrestricted recipro- city at the Charlottetown Board of Trade in the fall of 1887. Ja-t session Sir Hibtet Tupper quote t his Board of Trade speech, but ie denied jts acenracy. Sir ibbert then p odaced THe Examier’s re- port of a speech made !y Mr, Vavies at a gtit picnic held at Cape Traverse on the 23rd of August, 1887, in which commer- cial union was lauded and unrestricted reciprocity condemned. This was met by another emphatic denial by Mr. Davies who said THe Examiner’s version was a “travesty” of his speech at Cape Traverse. Now, gentlemen, I am in a position to read tu you, from a pretty fuil report of Mr. Davies speech at Cape Traverse which ap- peared in the Charlottetown Patriot on the 24th of August, 1887 —the day after its de livery : ‘** The difference beetween Reciprocity and Commercial Union is that the latter would do away with all custom houses between the two countries, and they would have an uniform tariff against the rest of the world. Some have said that the United States tariff is double the Canadian. _It is only 8 or 10 per cent higher. Commercial Uniou does not necessarily involve an increase of our tariff; on the contrary it may lower it. I. 1883 they decreased their tariff largely, and will probab- ly do so again. _ There is no annexation in- volved in the matter. Commercial Union would also settle the nasty questions arising respecting our fisheries. * * The ides that we would be disloyal to the British flag under Commercial Union was humbug. He wanted to live under the flag as well as anyone but he wanted a flag under which he could live. The key-note should be struck in the banner province. Commercial Union means a uniform tariff from the North Pole to the Gulf of Mexico The age eH Treaty of 1854 he was prepared to accept, but he was afraid the Americans were unwilling to con- cede it. As Commercial Union seemed to be more easily attainable he was prepared to sup- ort it, because he believed it would secure to us wealth, peace and happines,.”

It is well known that Mr. Davies is one of the owners of the Patriot. JI am told he is President of the company, and the paper is well known to be his organ. The re- port which I have just read showe how un- reliable he is and how crude and unstable are his opinions. AmT not right in eay- ing that he would rather meet his grand- mother’s ghost than the policies which he and bis party supported a few years or even a few months back? (Applause.)

Gentlemen, when this policy of commer: cial union and unrestricted reciprocity wus proposed in 1887 an] ]888,] opposed it with all the earsestness and zeal I could command. Wher it was bronght up be- fore the Board of Trade I pleaded as well as I was able with my fellow members of that institution to vote it down. You may remember after we succeeded in defeating it inevery form and guise in which it was pre ented a compromise resolution was drawn up by Mr. Davies and myself ex- pre-eing approval of reeiprocity advocated as by the Conservative party. You can judge of my surprise when | heard Mr. Davies, in Parliament, quote that compromise resolution a3 con- tradicting Tue Examiner's report of his sopeech. (Laughter and applause). In 1889 Sir Richard Cartwright introduced the following resolution in the House of of Commons :

{ “That it is highly desirable that the largest possible freedom of coramercial intercourse

that the on'y hope for Canada to develop |

EMBER 11, 1894.

shall obtain between the Dominion of Canada and the United States, and that it is expedient

al products of either of the said countries,

subject to duty of excise or internal revenue alone excepted), That it is further expedient ; the Government of Canada should take steps at an early date to ascertain on what terms and | conditions arrangements can be etlected with

. . : ! full and unrestricted reciprocity of trade there-

with.” Gentlemen, I looked on that resolution as the MOST PANGEROUS PROPOSITION ever submitted to the Parliament of Can- | ala, and immediately on its introdaction I | issued an address to the electors of Queen’s County in which I tried to arouse them to the gravity of the situation. { have a copy of that addrese in my hands now, and I am proud to be able to say that every word it contains is to-day acknow- ledged to be true all over the country. (Applause) Three years later, in 1891, Mr. B!ake in his address to the eiectors of Kast Durham repeated almost every argu- ment I had advanced in 1888, and I de not believe there is today a leading public man in Canada who will dispute the ac- curacy of the coaclusion at which I then arrived. During the campaign of 1891 ] declared that unrestricted reciprocity meant the surrender of our fiscal inde- pendence to the United States, and that it would lead to annexation on any terms the Americans might choose to dictate. An- hexation to my mind would be the graye of many things which ax Canatiaas and British subjects we regard as a sacred in- heritance. But bad as it woul t be of itself

it would be intiniteiy worse if our commer cial independence was surrendered in ad. | vance of Our political anatomy. With our | manufacturing e tablisim.euts clo-ed and their employes transferred to the great industrial centres of the States, our rev- ennes wilted away except what we could collect on Huropean goods and direct tax- ation, our farmers obliged to abandon the pro luction of meat and content themsclves Wi h growing the coarse and exhaustive products of the land, our great railway- runing east and west, of which we are so proud and which have cost us so mre’ money, deprived of the principa! part of their traffic, and our cred.t, now the best in the world, trailed in the dust; nothing would remain to us but to go down on our knees to the Americans and implore them to take ue into the great Republic on any terms they might choase to dictate. Gentlemen, { fought that base treacherous scheme of commercial union or unrestrict- el reciprocity us I would the personifica- tian of evil, and I say that in that cam- pa'gn of 1891 Mr. Blake and myself con vinced the people of Queen’s County that we were right, and were i: not for the wicked and cowardly attemyts of my op- ponents to injure me on account of the fault of another man, Mr.Blake and niyeelf would now be the representatives of tbe County of Queens. As it was we reduced their majority by 600 votes an 1 our oppon- ents have since been compelled to aban- don the policy on which they ran their election, Speaking at Middleton last year Mr. L, H. Davies said

‘IT admit that the phrase (Unrestricted Reciprocity) was unfortunate and that it was capable of being misrepresented, and that thousands of voters were terrified by the pos- sible prospects that would follow its adoption. We have not introduced the phrase into our Ottawa platform.”

Mr. Laurier also spoke in the same strain at the Ottawa Convention in 1893. He said ;

** In 1888 we adopted a policy of untram- melled trade with the United States. This policy was distorted by the most wicked per- versions of our opponents. They asserted on the platform aud in the press that what we wanted was Unrestricted Reciprocity and nothing else.” I presume it would be in order for wick- ed Tories to bow their heads and aeknow!l- edge with becoming humility their great transgression in saying that “unrestrict- ed” means unrestricted, or,their stil] great- er wickedness in asserting that the true | meaning of the words of Cartwrig!t’s resolutions of 1888 was unrestricted reci- procity. .(Laughter.) “It is expedient that all articles manufactured, or the natural products of either of the said countries shou!d be admitted free into the ports of ihe other, articles sulject to ex- cise duty alone excepted.” Mr. Davies tells us this was not Unre- stricted Reciprocity at all. I say out upon such puerility. It is quite plain that the Grit leaders have found out that Canadi- ans cannot be fooled into supporting their wild-cat scheme of commercial union. But they are not manly enough to own up to their ridiculous blunders and rank dis- loyalty, but reek to escape from the dilemma in which they are placed by de- nying the past, and by quibbling of such a nature as is insulting to the intelligence of the people.

THE PRESENT GRIT PLATFORM. In June, 1893, the Grit party held a convention at the city of Ottawa, and they are never tired of boasting as to the im- portance of that gathering and of the wonderful wisdom embodied in the plat- form agreed 10 on that oceasion, [ hold a report of that convention in my hand, and here I have the full text of that platform, and with your permission, gentlemen, I will say a few worde about the policy of the opposition party. The first point that occurs to one is in the words :

‘* That it (the tariff) should be adjusted so as to make free or to bear as_ lightly as possi- sible upon the necessaries of life.”

To make free the necessaries of life is not at allafree trade principle. Quite the contrary. Tea and coffee are neces- suries of life, but ‘t is no part of the Grit policy to make them free. Here are the words of the Hon. David Mills, uttered dur- ing the la~t session of Parliament :

‘* There is no country in which there may not be customs duties, bet a customs tax does not imply a protective tax. The hon. gentle- man will not pretend to say that a tax on tea and coffee, at any rate in Canada, would bea protective tax,”

Jn his speech at the Qttawa convention John Charlton suggests that $3,300,000 in- come could be raise on sugar under a free trade tariff.

The Grit party in 1874-78 had heavy taxes on tea, coffee, sugar and other neces- saries of life that are now free, or practi- cally so, and yet in Ottawa the platform says that they are going to make the neces- saries of life free. In 1878 a pretty full list of the necessaries of life paid $5,305,- 938 in duties. Thesame articles only paid $3,067,419 in duties in 1893. A equally fall list of the luxuries of life paid in 1878 only $7,379,488, while the same ar- ticles paid $13,973,877 in 1892. This shows that underthe national policy taxeson neces- saries have decreased to about one-half since | 1878, while duties on luxuries have nearly | doubled in the some period. Inetead of re- ducing the taxes on the necessaries of life a free trade policy will, if adopted, increase them, (Hear, hear.)

The next point in the Otiawa that suggests itself is found in the words:

** The tariff should be so arranged as to pro- mote free trade with the whole world, more particularly with Great Britain and the United States.”

that all articles manufactured in, or the natur- |

should be admitted free into the other (articles |

States, the Government of about opening up new markets, and for

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2 condemned because “it has discriminat ed against Great Britain.”

This new formed zeal in favor of freer and larger trade with Great Britain would be very commendable if it were sincere | But what has been Mr. Laurier’s declara- | tion regarding the intentions of his party

On these points? In one of his speeches | On his western tour he declared that if he

the Un'ted States for the purpose of securing | Were returned to power he would at onee } Send commissioners to Washington, and it

the offer whieh the late Mr. Blaine made to the Canadian commissioners in 1892 was repeated they would at once accept :t. Now, what was Mr. Blaine’s offer? Here is Lis own version of it in his report to Congress :

** The (Canadian) Commissioners then en- quired if the Government of the United States would expect to have preferential treatment extended to the list of manufactured goods of the United States on their introduction into Canada by virtue of a reciprocity treaty, or whether it would regard the Canadian Govern- ment as at liberty to extend the same favors to the manufactured articles of other countries not parties to the treaty on their introduction into Canada.