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VOL. XIV. ---NO. 43,
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"M_IVAS.
WINGITAM, ONT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1885.
HURON LIBERALS -
A Large and Enthusiastic Gathering at
Lueknow.—Addresses by Air :diehard
Cartwright and Other Prom!.
neat Leaders,
A large and enthusiastic gathering
of the Liberals of Huron and rlruce
was he'd in the Caledonian hall, Luck -
now, on Friday afternoon last, to listen
to addresses from Sir Richard Cart-
wright, Hon, A. M. Boss, M, C. Cam-
eron, M. P., James Somerville, M. P,
for Brant, H. P. O'Connor, M P. P.
for South Bruce, James Somerville,
M. P. for West Bruce, and A. H
Manning, of Clinton, chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Provin-
cial Young Men'e Liberol Association.
The commodious building was filled to
the door by an attentive audience, and
it is pleasing to note that the farming
community was well represented.
Chas Girvin, reeve of West Wa
wanosh, president of the West Huron
Reform Association, occupied the
chair and introduced the viatious
speakers.
.Tames Somerville, M. P. for West
Bruce, was the first to take the plat-
form. He stated that he had no in-
tention of addressing them, as some of
the leaders of the party were preient
whom the audience were doubtless
more anxious to hear. Two of the
chiefs who had led them in the Com -
Mons during the last session were
present, and he was certain a tull ex-
position of Reform doctrine would be
given. He closed by impressing upon
those present the necessity of thorough
uraanization.
H. P. O'Connor, M. P. P. for South
Bruce, thought that brevity should be
the order of the day with the lesser
lights, and he eeould not inflict them
with a long speech. He said that
South Bruce today was not what it
was when he first went into politics.
Eighteen years ago it was a Conserva-
tive constituency. But trom that day
to this the Reform banner had been
held up until now South Bruce gave
10-1EU:VIATISM arli-tieeLf°olcuarlinLaejgoirsitayttotrfe5lOik5e. t(Alepbrioaltrisilei).
ion Parliament had passed a Franchise
Bill, but the local Bid was not open
to the satire criticism as that which
was passed at Ottawa. It was a bil
which met with general approved, and
which gave a vote to every man who
aeserved the suffrage. There must
be some standard for the selection of
THE CHEAPEST voters, and he thought that the Legis-
lative Assembly had gau [red that stan-
dard pretty well. Conservative pre -
to tended to be in favor ef manhood su2-
frage, yet not one Tory member from
Ontario had voted in favor of man
hood suffrage at Ottawa (Hear,
hear.)
A. H. Manning, of Clinton, follow-
ed with an eloquent and earnest ad-
dress on the results of the recent
Young Men's Liberal convention In
T youth. Mr. Manning's address was
a most masterly one, and we regret
that our limited space will not permit
of a more lengthy resume at present.
Sir Richard Cartwright was the
next speaker and he was received with
rounds of applause. It is quite true,
he said, that he could not claim that
he had been born and bred in the
Reform faith, as could some of those
who surrounded him, but he had come
in even if it was at he eleventh hoar;
and we had it on good authority that
there was more joy over one sinner
that repented than ninety and nine
just persons who needed no repentance
(Loud laughter.) Sir John Macdonald
and his friends never tired of referring
to him (Sir Richard) as a Tory --a
preadamite Tory—and he had been a
Tory before the fall—(laugliter)—
which occurred in 1873, hut the dia.
closures that led to the fall wore such
that no boned man could find a place
Dc yoll want to borrow money? To buy 4
rest his foot with the Tory party,
moretand for Yourself or Your Sons. To
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such a cry, for had they not prior to
1878 decried the country in every way
and shape, and attributed el ery cal -
entity that occurred during the five
years that preceded that period to
the male 'ministration of the Macken-
zie Government ? Of course, their
wrong doing -was no-exonee ter us, but
when they falsified the record in past
years it certainly was not wrong fol 118
to tell the plain, unvarnished truth in
the present instarce. (Hear, hear.)
At the present time the earnest con-
sideration of the country was wanted,
and to get,that consideration it was
necessary that the trne facts should he
made known to the people. For this
reason it had devolved upon him and
others to say unpalatable truths on
the floor of Parliament. Their nppon
ents contended .,thetethe clarges made
on the floor of ?Parlianaent and else-
where were false). If it were so, ail
who made the charges were deserving
of censure; but when it was known
that public statements often found
their way outside the bounds of Can-
ada., it could be easily seen that
speakers had to be guarded in making
their charges, and had also to get
their data from the best possible au
thorities. If they were wrong they
were willing to be put right What
were the charges made against the
present Administration ? lst. Look -
leg at our great national resources,
the progress of our country since con-
federatien has been alarmingly slow.
2nd. The debt had increased out of
all proportion to our population. 3rd.
No proper value had been received for
the large amount of money which had
oeen expended since 1867. Since
Confederation opportunities had been
given our rulers which had not been
turned VI advantage of the people of
our country, owing to the me ladmin-
istritaon of Sir John' Macdonald and
his colleagues in office. He (Sir
Richard) would ask no credence with-
out proof, and he was prepared to prove
the chargee which he made by Perilmentary documents, reports of the
Government s census Oomniissioners,
from the Bureau of Statistics, British
Parlimeatary records, United States
official papers and facts which were
patent to all who had traveled through
the country and in the Northwest, If
these were not sufficient evidence,
what better could be lead? Weil, in
1867 our annual expenditure w
$13,486,092, arid in 1873 it had In-
creased to $23,316,000 under Tory rule.
In 1874 it was $23,300,000, and when
Mr Mackenzie left office in 1878, it
lied only increased to $23,486,000.
In 1884 it had swelled to $31,187,706
and th!s year it had reached $34,000-
000 or $35,000,000. The gross debt
was $93,000,000 in 1867, and to day
it has reached the enormous figure of
$292,000,000. Compare our position
in 1867 with that of the neighboring
Republic, and then contrast it to -day.
The United States are our rivals in
the matters of commerce and intent
gration. In Canticle in 1867 the p ,p-
ulation e as 3,375,000; the taxes $11,-
000,006 and the debt $93,000,000; in
1885 the population had increased to
4.400,000, the taxation to $27,000,-
000, and the public debt to $292,000.-
000. In the States, in 1867, the pup
ulation eves 36,000,000, debt $2,773e
000,000, and the taxation $400,000,-
000; in 1885 the population had in-
creased to 56,000,000, the debt had
been decreased to $1,400,000,000, and
the taxation was only $316,000.000—
of which $100,000,000 was applied to
the reduction of the public debt. In
1867, Canada had a debt per head of
$28 and a tax of $3 ; in 1885, it had
per head a deb. of $70, and a roinieal
tax of $6, but an actual tax of about
$9. In the United States they had
in 1867 a debt per head of $80, now
it is only $28; and in the same year
they had a tax of $11 per head; now
the fax is only $5, which all goes to
show that, the United States has
1 steadily advanced, while we have re
trogracled—that our position now
1 after twelve years of Sir John Mac-
• donald's rule is ful'y as bad as was
that of the 'United Stales after the
expense of a great war that desolated
I that country for four years. (Hear,
Ihear.) if there was nothing else, teat
thoitld bo enough to satisfy every
1 honest man of the incompetency of
•
Sir John to govern this great country,
for the increases In the expenditure
and debt all took place during his ad-
ministration, (Cheers.) The Tories
were tond of saying •'Look to broad
results." Now, there is a very bad
result indeed—(laughter)—and 1 leave
it to you and the people of thIscountry
to study, ponder and inwardly digest.
No country can be progressive unless
it can retain and employ its natural
increase of population, and how had
Canada heen affected in this respect ?
In Ontario we has managed to make
some little increase), but not to the ex
tent that should have been, and the
Maritime Provinces were far behind
Ontario. In Prince Edward Island,
out of 6 constituencies, not one had in-
creased in population; in Nova Scotia,
not 2 in 21; in New Brunswick, aot 8
out of 16; in Quebec, scarcely 11 out
of 65. In Ontario, thecnost progress-
ive Province, only 28 out of 88 con-
stituencies 'tad succeeded in mairitain-
ing the natural increase. There had
also been a heavy drop in the price of
farm lands and produce and this year
showed a decrease of $30,000 in the
value of land, although it gave him
pleasure to state that there had been
a gratifying increase in the value of
stock and implements. All of which
went to show the prosperity of this
country under the benign influence of
the so-called National Policy. (Loud
laughter.) Before 1878 we heard a
great deal from the Tory press aid
. platform about the balance of trade,
and all admitted that a large export
trade was a sign of prosperity in any
country. Well, our export trade had
not advanced currespandingly with the
slow progress ot the country, for in
1873 we exported $80,384,012, while
in 1884, notwithstanding that Prince
Edward Island ana Manitoba had
come into Confe.deration, in only
i amounted to $82,017,390—certainly
not an abnormal increase:, (Laughter.)
!Another fact was that theeprice of pro -
1. duce was greater in 1883 than in 1884,
l and was certainly not higher to -day
than in 1884. (A voice—It's lower.)
To practically illustrate this question
ha would give the number of horses
exported during the past three years,
and show by the customs returns that
although the number of animals had
become gradually less the values had
grown conside. ably more. In mercan-
tile houses there is a system called
"marking down" goods, but in the
Dominion Customs Department they
evidently had some smart fellow who
had succeeded in making up the value
of exports. In 1.883 we exported 12,-
635 horses, which weir valued at $1,-
597,611, and in 1884 we sent out 11,-
595 at an aggregate value of $1,617,•
827. In 1881 we exported 22,000,
raid the valuP of the lob was $2,094, •
000, or about $95 each, whereas last
year the average price of each horse
exported was, according to the blue
book, $140. This was a very satis-
factory showirg if true, but it did not
WHOLE NO, 719
al
John Alexander Macdonald. (Loud
cheers.) Either the statements of
the Tories prior to 1878 were false, of,
the loss of the country from the present
exodus must be enormous. They ca n
take which horn of the dilemma they
choose. (Rear, hear.) Concerning the
increase of $200,000,000 in our public
debt,we had got na adequate value, and
upwards of $125,000,000 had been.
wasted. It was necessary to have an
Intercolonial Railway and to open tip
the Northwest Territory, but the 0.
P. R. as at present constituted was
not needful at this juncture. Great
opportunities had been thrown away
and millions of money had been worse
than wasted. The speaker here went
into the circumstances that led to
Confederation, and stated that a blun-
der was made when the childish vanity
of Sir John Macdonald induced hire
to make the absurd bargain with
British Columbia, when it heeame a
member, so that he could boast that he
had consummated the joining together
of all the British Provinces between
the Atlantic and Pacific. But Sir
John had another reason for bringing
in British Columbia. It was that he
could got six supporters from that
Province, although there were only
12,000 of a white population, and thus
be able to swamp the Liberal voice of
Ontaeio, by g:ving 12,000 Columbiana
as large a representation on the floor
of Parliament as the population of the
populous counties of Huron and Bruce.
Contrast our progress since Confedera-
tion with that of the United Stater,
and it will be seen that we have sadly
fallen behind. Here we have had two
rebellions in the Northwest, millions
of money and hundre.ls of lives spent
to settle the troubles, and millions
added permanently to our annual ex-
penditure; there the Federal Govern-
ment does not interfere with the in-
ternal economy of States, population
is rapidly increasing, the debt is less-
ening year by year, and the taxation
per head is being greatly reduced. Thea,
loss of life and treasure in the North-
west was whelly due to the incompe-
tency end neglect of Sir John Alec-
donald, and it was hardly to be won-
dered at that the Tory party was now
beginning to defend the construction
of the 0. P. R. by pleading it was a
military necessity. (Laughter.) Sir
John first built the road, and then
goaded the people to rebelden so that
he might have an opportunity to use
it for military purpose. The plea,.
though an impudent one, was very
ingenious. (Renewed :aughter.) He
tharged that the present Government
was personaly coerupt. Whenever
the public debt increased out of all
proportioa to the population, except in
tune of war, the honesty o the Gov-
' eeeei politid I periods
ri,
ernment should be quest,fned By
this test the.
should stand';the Mackenzie term
could be earn1 ° eid side by side with
the two terms of Macdonald. No
only was the present administration
tally with the prices that fame's hadicorrupt as a body, but five of the
eeen getting from buyers for the pastlmembers—Hon. John Henry Pope,
two years. (A voice—Neither it didilHon. Mr. Chapleau, Sir Hector Lan -
the prices are much lower.) Well,Igevir., Hon John Costigan and Hon.
the "merited up" fieures in tho trade
and navigation returns showed that
the peop e were getting richer although
they did not know it (Loud laughter.)
And as it was w'th horses, so it was
also with cattle and sheep, where sim
ilar resu ts were observable. He
would like to have an explanation
trona the Government and their sup-
porters on these points. Now, what
was our position? Our population had
aot %howl) even the natural increase,
notwithstanding aa immigration of
100,000 yearly; our annual expendi-
ture had grown $22,000,000 greater,
end our taxation has increased, by
$16,000,000 a year, or 150 per cent.
The Conservatives dispute the popu-
lation figures, but they could make no M
substantial denial. During 1.,he ac-
kenzie regime municipal returns slow-
ed that Ontario had increased 140,000;
while from 1878 to 1883 the same au-
thorities snowed that only 86,438 had
been added to the population of the
Province; which all went to show that
in spite of the cry that bud been rais-
ed about the exodue when the Reform
eea
Thos. White,all honorai le men ( angh-
ter)—were personally corrupt, and
were bought wi.h railway subsidies,
contracter's subscripticris or p inting
contracts. (Hear, hea, The rank
and file of the Tory party at Ottawa
were also bought up in nearly every
instance by timber limits, coal areas
or ether perquisites, ana it was for
this reason they proved impervious to
argument on the floor of the House.
Fifty-five members from Ontario were
dummies to nod at the beck of Sir
John Macdonal I, and until 55 men
true to their Province --w nether Be-,
formers or T Ties—were sent by the
people of Ontario to guard the inter -
este of Ontario, we would continue to
have our rights trampled upon It
was contended by the Tories that the
downfall of elacketizie was a proof
that an honest Government could not
stand in Canada and i that were true
Confederation was anything but e
blessing to the country. A Wave of
righteous indignation went over the
l'ind in 1878, but the fact that in 1878
the great corruptionnt was returned
Goverament was in power, the popu- showed that the wave must have spent
lotion grew four times faster than itse.f in one great effort and thee the
durrig the much vaunted reign of Sir (Continued on touath peo.)
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