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CANADA FOR CANADIANS !
Continued fvom page two.
have extended our commerce, although
we have charged our Liberal friends
with having retrograded, as they
did in the five years,they were in power.
We show you that during the last fif-
teen years the country has expauded in
every direction. We have protaidod
means of communication all over this
country until Canada has the heat
facilities for marketing the products
of our people of any country in the
world. [Applause.] I was proud, 1
assure you, that in addition to the en-
comiums from eminent statesmen of
the British ,Empire, to hoar the most
eminent counsel of the United States,
in *the Behring Sea tribunal, declare
that Canada was one of the most
Wealthy, reliant, iudependont and pros-
perous countries in the world, and oue
of • the largest countries also. I felt
,that Canada was receiving eucorniuus
from every part. And I cone home to
find that the Liberal party have organ-
ized a Canadian party. 1 ern glad of
that, but 1 should like to see them pur-
sue a little longer the course 'of right.
And when I shall bee them, fifteen
years front now, uttering the some
sentiments, I %hall begin to believe
that they have the intereste of Canada
truly at heart, and that they can be
safely entrusted with power. Until
then, I shall waut to know what has
.become of that policy of unreetticted
seoiprocity that would have loft the
farmers in a bad poeitiou ; that would
have left the workingman in want and
his family without support. It was
. dear to their hearts—so dear that Mr.
Laurier said that they would never rest
until the sun rose upon free trade—
free trade with the world, but with
Uuited States. But the people
will accept a rood deal before.they will
run into ventures such as the Liberals
desired Canadians to do Live years ago."
Concluding, the Premier again ex.
pressed hie warm appreciation of the
courtesies shown to himself and his
colleagues, and assured his hearers that
the Government was determined to
pursue the policy which they had cen•
tinued for 15 years, because they he•
lieved it to be the beat. "Ant we
shall rely upon the people to see to it
'that Canadian interests aro kept first ;
that the flag remains flying, and that
we shall all, in all things, do our best."
[Applause..]
ILON. GEOItOE FOSTER •
was then introduced by the Chairman,
,and received very liberal applause. fle
, said he had no intention of making a
formal speech, or aimine at a perora-
tion, but advised them that Sir John
Thompeon's statement that those who
followed hire would speak in a pleas•
anter vein should be taken with a good
deal of salt. Tho Conservatives were
threatened with the increase 1 attention
and keener spirit of enquiry that was
abroad, which, the Liberals say, boded
no good to the Com 0 -•arty.
They say that during .:.u1 of in-
attention, false principles and a false
policy had been taken up, and the
people in their waking moments were
going to sweep it all away. I hail that
attitude of keen attention with delight.
If a•polrcy will not stand the searching
, and intelligent trial, it had better be
swept away, and if a government has
not got in itself that which commends.
it to the best intelligence of the people,
it had better be relegated to a back seat.
I rely on a searching out of political
affairs. I object to wen going about
uttering half truths or untruths. Of
the two I prefer the untruth, because a
half truth hits you on a plsueibte side
and may get possession of your mind
before you are aware of its error. I
am willing to rely on the decision of
the people after the wholetruth has
been laid before them. At the risk of re•
peating myself for the thousandth time,
and at the risk of again incurring the
displeasure of my opponests, I propose
to take up some of the half truths and
other statements they make about us
about the country. Is it a fact that
• the Liberal party tell you that the
'public debt of Canada is rolling up by
'Tmillions? Nota speaker, not a paper,
Den that side of the House but rings
with th same old tune. In the last
fivo years the public debt has been in-
creased by $4,000,000. One half of
that is simply in the bookkeeping. An
old asset, from which nothing could be
.realized, has been wiped off and that
disposes of one million of the increased
debt. One; Million more' of tare :tit
w i' c: t 1. tv ;.—Tho
a)1 q r+�.etaad i � t4t a. , a�! ,.-��Ito l:oet
WOO WO plut?ed Qtl tbQ tartlet 'WO) for
oltvigtla reasoud, placled a:t re low rate of
interest, The difference between the
Nee value and the amount realized by
the loan repreyeuts a large burn of
tnouey. .The only difference is paying
at the beginiing of the loan period ins
terest that otherwise would spread over
the terra of the loan. If we take
that off the increase in the public debt
is at the rate of half •e million dollars
yearly during the last live pears of.
Conservative adu►iui.;tr 1tlo.+. \V ,en
the Grits were in power it ii -reseed at
the rate of eight million dollars yearly,
or forty million dollars during the live
years of Grit rule. 111 Parliament
recently I announced that the time had
COMB when any increase in the debt
could be stopped unless iu case of Howe
extraordinary contingency. And if
we were to continue the duty ou sugar
the •awe t"x cif 1878, it would amount
to five williou dollars yearly, which
would pay the debt qff in a few year.
Their endeavor was to give the people
lower takes and tuahrteirt the debt at
no higher figures that at present
Posterity will benefit by litany of the
things fur which this debt was in-
curred. Let posterity help pay for
them. At one stroke of the lien we
reduced the duties of the country by
three and one-half millions of dollars
on one article alone--augur—a feat
never accomplished by any government
in any country in the world. If in 1893
the same duties were levied on sugar as
in 1891 a little over $5,000,000 would
have been realized from that source*.
So we have remitted one dollar a head
for every man; woman and child in the
country. The debt of Canada was in -
mired very largely in providing facili-
ties for-traifiic and communication be•
tweet] the Provinces and in improving
the magnificent water -ways that are
natural to this country. If there were
no railway( in this country, if all your
imports and shipments had to bo made
ly trucks and wagons you would realize
how it pays to provide the best means
of communication, even if we do go in
debt for it. We have the grandest
meene of intercommunication possessed
by any couutry in the world. A few
Feats ag i the U.S. tried to squeeze ue.
They thought by shutting the Sault
Ste. Marie canal against our commerce,
except on payment of enormous toll,
that they were euttiug us oft' from our
Northwest. Under those eircumetancess
we thought it bettor to increase the debt
by half a trillion yearly and build a
canal on Canadian territory. [Cheers.]
We will have it finished soon, and
when the ships begin to go through we
will find in return for our increase of
debt au 18 foot channel between the
Northwest and the groat interior. !ekes
[Cheers ] Let ale give you another il-
lustration of the public debt.
When a private iudividnal bor-
rows $10,000 for ten years at
5 per cent. he pays 8500 yearly for in-
terest, and at the end of the term ho
has to pay the principal, too. But with
a country, when the term forwhich the
wouey is borrowed expires, if it has
not the money to pay, it simply goes
into the market, again and borrows for
another term. hitt the liability of a
uationsl debt is measured to the
people by the interest they have
to pay on it•. Now put this
iu your cape and keep it thore. When
tee Grits went out of power the people
were paying on au average of $1.59
per head annually for inter(' t ou the
debt. To -day they have . • 81.74
per head. In '79 it was $1.59: in '93
it was $1.74 Substract that and it
gives you 15 cents more in a year.
[Laughter.] ?'hat's the crushing load
that they bay makes our farmers go
round with brokeu backs and bowed
heads. Six years ago the sum spent
onconeolidation fund account was $36,
700,000, and it ie exactly and idonti•
tally that sou to day—no increase in
six years. The next tirne some Grit
comes up and talks to you about the
public debt tell him he is in a fog and
had better take a born or something to
help him out of it. On capitalaccount
the expenditures were $4,100,000 in
1887, and last year only $3,000,000.
So the expenditures were constantly
decreasing. The Grits when in power
put $700,000 or $800,000 into sinking
fund to decrease the debt ; we put
$2,000,000. You must group these fig-
ures to realize how unfounded are their
statements. I1r. Laurier said a few
weeks ago that that man was not in his
right mind who could pretend that the
country was not in a bad way. Sir
Richard Cartwright—[Laughter]. By
the way, wnere is Sir Richard Cart
wright? Why aro the other lieuten•
ants and leaders away with Mr. Laurier
and lie at home? Ie4 lie not the bone
and body of the Grit party? The
other Grits aro all railing about their
leader—all but he. Is h n_ as big a
man as Edgar or Mulock, or Charlton.
Yet these men are "cheek by jowl"
with Mr. Laurier, and the financial
body and bones of the party is nowhere
to be found. [Laughter.] Let us gat
a boy with a bell, to go about crying
out, "Lrat,atrayed oretolen, the Liberal
mind. Where is Sir Richard?" [Laugh-
ter.] But Sir Richard was in P.1 entreat
a while ago, and there he declared in
his moat dulcet notes [if you can ima-
gine how he would say it—laughter]
that Canada was on the vergeof destruc-
tion; that he trembled if six years
more of euch rule was to be had
in this country, and that one
out of every three able-bodied men had
left the country. [Laughter.] Ho
said that where there was ono fox that
was sleek and fat, there was 990 geeee
that were plunked of every feather.
ellaWad-laagli#et j Sue)! ttatetneute•
alt theca *Ore Ore et Upop tlia, 4111411414
ts.ezt,tte9 of Bootle lobes we bad to
$ get A to et the mpwa needeeeWllere
t1IQy might injure us st the wit vital
point,
The Minister of Finance road an
artilde front the Buffalo Courier,
founded upon the Toronto Globe
editorials, telling the people of the
world that Canada wise being depleted
of her population. The extract was
as follows :—"The Dowiuiou is swift•
ly hastening to dissolution through
moral and material leprosy. Such is
the picture of affairs gathored f'row the
statements of the Toronto Globe, the
Hamilton Times and the Opposition
speeches in Parliament through the
seesioo." '
Cries of "Shaine !"
Hon. Mr. Foster—That is the way
that these dear friends of Canada in
their insane desire fur uflice help her,
Tittle reckoning that their vaporings
and wailings shall coma to the financial
centres of i:nglanc, as the voice of
truth. ,:Choy say that Canada is goiug
dowu hill, but in the luuguage of the
students: "Whet's the matter with
Canada 1" I wish I had them here.
R i•g-h-t they would say. 'She's all
right 1' [Applause.] How will you
prove il? The United State& fell off
last year $184,000,000 in her exports,
$112,000,000 of which was in agricul
Lural products and provisions. The
trade of Groat L'ritain fell off $155,-
000,000 in 1892, compared with the
previous year. In France their export
trade fell orf $83,000,000. Aud in
Australia their trade has gouo crashing
dowu and their revenue with it.
What was the matter with Canada all
time tirnoe? [Applause.] Look at
that trade barometer by the authority
of no less a man than Sir Richard
Cartwright, whose loss we deplore. In
1878 he oanlebeforeParliamentand the
people and said-: Our trade has fallon
off $50,000,000. Our revenue, which
should have been $27,000,000,basgone
down to $22,000,000. Our trade which
should have have increased, has dis-
appeared by $30,000,000. Those are
the barometers which show the period of
depression which thin country went
through. 1 have shown you the state
of trade in the United States, Australia,
and in Britain. You see it in Canada.
The trade of this country increased this
haat year by $5,000,000, making it
morn than $20,000,000 greater than it
was two years ago. Canada's export
trade, of ferment' products as well, has
been steadily increasing, showing the
state of stability and the health of
trade in this country. [Applause.]
And then about the savings of this
country—the infallible proof of the
prosperity of the country, Sir Richard
said. In 1878 there were $79,000,000
in our banks. To day the savings
amount to $226,000,000, an increase of
$196,000,000 in this period of calamity,
of misrule and of misfortune. [Ap-
plause.] Our banks •are stable. The
well clothed, well-fed and woll•paid
operatives and the whirl of the !mach•
iuery answer to the prosperity of Cun
ads. The broad statement is unirn
poachable that amidst this cyclone of
disaster in every cougtry of the world
Canada has, in her natural climate,
been happily exempt. [Applause.]
I{er mercantile and iuduatrtal life has
escaped the struggle, and site stands
with her roots deep down iu fertile
soil, and her bows that stand to heaven
clothed in fertility verdure. [Apr
plauso.] Are we in such a condition
to, with one stroke, uproot the policy
which stands to•dey—an act that would
make dire confusion and would de-
moralise business in order to carry out
the insane idea of rooting out every
vestige of protection. Voices"Never!"
[Applause.]
• Hon. Mr. Foster—I think not. We
are a thinking people. We don't want
to try experilnenta when the weal or
woe of the whole country depend upon
them. We will keep the old and tried
policy that has kept us in the last 15
years and has landed us in so safe and
good a port as we have the happiness
to be in to day. [Applause.] What
have our Grit frieude done with that
darling child of theirs—unrestricted re-
ciprocity ? Is it dead, or have they
simply given it an opiate for a little
while? It is not dead, but sleeping.
I Laughter.] It the only born, the
tirat, and 1 ani not Sere but the lest,
born of the children of the Liberal
party. And they are not so cruel as
to kill orf their only and only possible
offspring. It is sleeping between the
guilty somewhere. It is wrapped up in
the long verbiage of the resolutions
which they passed at Ottawa. They
are keeping it; where is it? [Laughter.]
They have not abjured it. It is in
their resolutions—that they will take
out the last vestige of protection from
the country, and that they will strive
for a r: siprocity with the United States
which will take in as much of selected
manufactures as p Bible. What does
that mean? They love that child. It
is their pecial policy. It is in their
hearts, and there is nothing in that re-
solution to prevent them from making
any day in the week a treaty with the
Unite 1 States, if they get a treaty, take
ing in oyery manufacturer in this coun-
try. They make , pecial appeal to
farmers, to the farmers whose farms
everywhere about hero ,are gcrdene,
men who have proepere 1 in the laat fifs
teen yr Ars. They are going to take the
1 t vestige of protection from the tariff.
They aro going to take it from the ferm-
ent as well as from everyone else. It
is impossitle for them to give you three
cents a pound on your beef and button,
and•two cents a pound on your bacon
and hams, and to leave you where you
will. std opeo to tho unlimited: •antitpeth
Boit of the neat Woeteru Statue+ whti.e
"ort t other 1 ao.it
.. hell.. �� yo:U ere hound bond•
end (Oat trQW taking your fltull' iei,o
the markets of this Ste tee. The farmers
meet thinly of that. [Applause.] They
malt un one aided legialatiou., I'he
Grit leaders way that •yon want .aome-
thiug that • will increase the value of
your farms—you want access to the
illnrkete of the United States. But if
you are a farmer and have raised 500
bushels of potatoes, where do you go
for a market 1 Do you go to your near
est brother farmer 1 Olt, no, I do not
want to buy, lie says, I have 500 bush-
els myself to Heel. Reciprocity is all
very well, but let us count the cont be-
fore we embark upon it. [Applause.]
in the United States things hate clhang.
ed from what they were in the old reel
pr0Cit time. It is a customary thing
for the Opposition to tell you that in
1834 you had prosperous markets in the
United St:►tea, and that if you could
get reciprocity you would have the sauce
happy tinge hack again. Are thioga as
they were? No, air, 'I'he great west
hail not then been opened. Railway
and transport facilities were just bee
ginning to be built. Today it has
erowu into the greatest grail produce
lug country in the world, and the Um
Red Staten to clay, iestead of being de-
pendent for its supplies, is to -clay pro-
ducing all of these anklet( sufficient to
supply its own people and to send uhil
lions upo,t millions of bushels to other
people who do not raise it for thews
selves. No, bir,if you raise wheat and
have a surplus you must sell it in the
British market. And the Fame ie true
if .you raise pork, and mutton and
beef, butter and cheese. If you
want to tnarket your surplus,
you have to send it, not to the
United States of America, but to Great
Britain, which is the world's market.
There are Home few things which tine
farmer could market to advantage in
the United States—eggs, barley and
certain kinds of horseflesh. But every
sensible man will come to the ('oncluH-
ion that the real market to be retained
—is Great Britain. And their !tow
much are you willing to pay in return
for the privilege of getting the few
products I have mentioned into the
United Suttee? Let us not depreciate
the value of trade with the United
States, but let us not exaggerate the
few privileges at the expense of the
greater adyantages. There should be
no quarrel between the farmers and the
alauufacturiug industries of thecountry.
Where do you farmers sell your pro-
duce? To the people in the towns and
cities of Canada. Last decade the
population of the cities and towns had
increased 400,000. That meant so
many more mouths to feed. There
were forty-seven cities and towns,
whose products of manufactured goods
exceeded a million. That meant that
the mechanics who -made their Homer(
there spent the bulk of their wages for
the profit of the farrier, The Govern-
ment proposed to stand by the principle
of protection. They were alive to
every interest, and to the welfare of
every clavas of Canadian citizens, and in
the revision of the tarifa' undertaken to.
clay and to be completed in Parliament,
they hoped to wake such changes as
the changing conditions of the country
required. giving to none one cent more
of protection than absolutely necessary
to maintain it unimpaired. The object
of the revised policy would he to main,
tain what was beet for the national,
the industrial and the social life of
Canada. Mr. Foster thanked his
hearers. He would no longer submit
them to the martyrdom of listening to
him, but in concluding assured his
hearers of the Gonernment's aim and
desire to raise the banner of 'Canada
higher and higher till it becomes the
watchword of freedom and progress all
the world over. [Loud cheers.]
nos. MR, IAOGART,
Mtnlster of Railways and Canals, was
roundly applauded on coming forward.
Ile repeated the apology of the morning
made for the unavoidable absence of
Hon. Mr. Patterson, and expressed his
sense of appreciation of the reception
tendered to the Premier, himself and
colleagues. He dealt with the vast
increase of wealth in the shape of the
savings ofithe people, and to other epi,
clences of the country's prosperity. He
reviewed the many changes in the name
given to the grit policy, and said that
unrestricted reciprocity had no doubt
only been laid away for a time. "I
remember the time,"•he said, "when Mr.
L'turier himself made eloquent speeches
in favor of protection. The coantry has
been settled for 203 years, he said, and
we are still an agricultural people. Let
us protect and build up manufacturing
industries. [Applause.] Mr. Laurier
now proposed to adopt British free trade
which admitted everything but liquor
and tea. Would this not make every
poor man contribute as much as the
rich man? That is the way he is going
to lighten the burden of the people.
The pea riga of -We, oouptry tor, their
M ney ge a better erticie than do the.
peopie Of the Utlitpd t tate§ .or tt.n
other country, Atiothet+:c.horgo wnsthet
the Ceperlcliture el this country was in
excess of the rogtilrmentsi 31,500,CeJ
were expended on public works, but
aside from this the whole of the revenue
was required to pay the various provin.
Drat subsidies and to provide for neees.
nary government. But you do not fur -
get that Mr: Laurier, the leader of the
Opposition, was a party to the scheme
whereby the provinces were to receive
immensely inoreased subsidies. lie
acknowledged it. Would that, bave
reduced taxation ? Iiow did the debt
accrue? At confederation it wits Fite.
000,000. '!'hen the provincial debts bad
to be seam -nod. Sixty.two million doh.
tars were expended upon the Canandia•
Pecifie Railroad; 'and even our Grit
friends do not guar tion the correct:u s
of the policy of the Government in this
particular. The Intercolonial Railroad
had also to be built ad a part of theCom
federation agreement, and that bound
the east to the west. 'Then we have exs
penditures upon our magnificent canals
that snake up the finest water stretchea
in the world. Gentlemen, every man in
the country is as responsible for the
debt as is any other man in the commun-
ity, yet the Grits go all about telling the
people how we are heaping up the debt.
The Government practices economy in
every department. Every Minister
takes pride in the economy of his depart-
ment. As for my department, 1 have to
state that we now have a small income
from the Intercolonial. [Applause.]
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IION. N. CLARKE WALLACE,
Controller of Customs, was next intro-
duced. Ile received round after round
of applause when he stepped to the
front of the platt•orw. The Controller
said be was pleased to see the farmers
of Huron and he would say that he was
unable to see any evidence from their
appearance of the despair which the
Gritorators had been preaching from
the platforhns of the country. (Hear,
hear.! Instead of the farmers being in
despair he thdught they could pretty
well congratulate themselves for the
prosperous condition in which they
were in. 'Then the Controller told a
first :ate story about an°ofd lady living
in the adjoining township of Goderieh
who was at the point of death when her
friends told her that she was going to
the better land. "I don't want to g) to
a better land," said the aged matron t•
"the township of Goderich is good
enough for me." (Loud laughter.) An-
alyzing the story, Mr. Wallace thought
his hearers would say that the county of
Huron in Canada w:e good enough for
them. (Loud cheers.) The policy of
the Government wits to keep Canada
for our own people. (IIenr, hear.)
When the Liberal C.:nse ::ative party
were in Opposition they adopted this
policy and they had kept their promises
'o the people. (Hear, hear.) The
Grits, however, had failed to fulfil any
re°arises w•bich they had ever made
when in Opposition. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) Now, the Opposition after a
lot of manwuvring had come back virtu•
ally to the old policy of 1873.-W. SP.
Richard Cartwright, it had been said,
was out of sightfor the present, but, he
had lett his imprint of the policy he be -
hayed in before he had dropped out.
It was the old policy of Sir Richard that
had been adopted by the Ottawa Liberal
convention, but it had been hidden
partially in the resolution. It must not
be a revenue tariff policy, said the party
leaders to themselves, because that
policy had at one time nearly ruined
the country. If that policy had been
continued from 1873 no attempt wo.i)d
bave been made to hand over this co
try to the United States, because the
United States would hardly accept Can.
ada today had the Gits been in power
all this time. (Loud cheers.) There
was a gentleman named Paterson who
came from Brant. Mr. Paterson wee a
free trader, hut he was also a manufac-
turer of confectionery and cigars and
he wanted a little more duty on con,
fectionery and cigars. (Hear, h. r.)
Mr. Paterson was not satisfied with t
liberal duty that had been placed upon
confectionery by the Conservative party,
but he had joined a combine, an illegal
combine in Mr. Wallace's opinion, to
raise prices and get more protection
than the duty of 80 per cent. (Cheers.)
Another gentleman was named Davies,
who was one of the leaders of the Re-
form party. Mr. Davies came from
Prince Edward Island and preferred to
be a free trader, but he desired protea'.
tion to be placed on pork and oats. Mr.
Lister was also a free trader, but they
found that gentleman strong for in-
creased duties on coal oil. (Cheers and
laughter.) Mr. Charlton, a bright light
of the Reform party, preached free
trade. I -Ie was interested in the tug
and towing bu„iness, and he wanted to
prohibit American tugs towing in Cana-
dian waters. Many other tree traders
wanted more duty on corn, and so he
could go over the whole list of incon'
sistent Reform leaders. They wanted
to stand in with powerful industries in
their constituencies. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) They had been told by Grit
leaders that the Canadian farmer would
not exist without the Amei ilan market.
The farmers of the United States pros
duced more grain than they needed in
their own country and the Government
of Canada today intended to protect the
Canadian farmer from that overplua of
the United States. It was estimated
that the Canadian agricultural products
amounted to $400,O0J,000 and of this
11350,0.3,03 was consumer] by the Cana.•
dian people. (Hear, hear.) The Cone
eervative party had not only adopted a
policy of protection for the ruandeses
Curer, :but had ;adopted a policy
of protection to the Canadian
farmer. (Loud cheers.) The Liberals
bad .,
flax r tra<(J • ,.Any vpttfitiltrtrttt;
le their OQUr►tr , Nuri m proof of this.
ofeertiOrt he inetanoecl the, oftieotiolptl
raided by. the Lulea! pomp 14 rar1104104
to the (titling sof the Cenadiaq lt¢itio !9r
a loan some few years ago. Thu Celts,
eervative party ba(1 built tbie road, AO
the t oneervat,ive-•party had aided tlte,
company. This ro'd was ,ens
of the feature% of Ibis great court.
try to -day. (L'rud cheers.) Ito
then showed • the position which
iilr. Laurier had taken on the question
o: hanging the rebel Mel. Would the
people not support Sir John Thompson,
who had done his duty as Mini'ater at
Justice before they would the mai, who
had ailed with the rebel, who bud the
blood of the Canadians on kis hands?
(Loud cheers.) None of this forSirJohn.
As the Controller resunied his seat amid
rounds of applause some one in the
audience cried out: "Laurier ought to be
shot." This expression immediately
brought the premier to his feet. "I am
sorry," seal Sir J.,i n, "that Ono single
expression should he used to uncharie
tably of our opponents. One want"
hearted man in the audience said that
Mr. Laurier ought to be shut. f ata
sore that that expression was not made
in earnest. It must have been a joke.'"
Ilon. Mr. Foster—"fie said 'Lawyers
ought, to be shot." (*Loud laughter]
Sir John 'Thompson said this was
worse yet; because that took in nut only
Mr. Laurier but himself. (Laughter).
Whatever happened, he hoped no harm
would come to Mr Laurier or hirnself.
[Loud cheers.] Mr. Laurier had chang-
ers his mind, and had become Canadian.
Mr. Laurier had taken this position be-
cause he had lound the Canadian send+,
mens that existed among the people.
All Sir John asked was to wait, atter Mr.
Laurier had learned this first lesson of
Canadanism, until he had learned the
book through. (Cheers),
Sir John then, nt the request of an
elector, explained the position of the
Government on the Manitoba school
question- (read it on another page in this
issue;) and resumed his seat atnid tree
mendous cheers.
DR. MONTAGUE.
The hour was getting late, but the
great gat:wiring wanted to hear the war
1101'80 of llrtldituand, Dr. W..H. Mon -
tet ue, M.P. He was received with
salvos of cheery. Glad was the doctor
to be able to return to West Huron in
a time of peace. He had been here in
tines of an election contest, but now
he was able to look at this audience in
the peace and sunshine of victory-
(Laughter
ictory(Laughter and cheers.) He was pleas-
ed to see . the seleodid interest which
the people of \t est Huron had taken
in the speeches of the Premier and his
collea;ues. (Reny, hear.) He was sure
Sir John Thoumson, the great Nova
Scotian, was ,highly gratifies: at the
W/11111 and hearty welcome lie had re-
ceived since he came to the provieee
of Ontario. The welcome had been
equal to old -title receptions which Sir
John Macdonald, the great and belov-
ed Chie;tain of Ontario, received when
he visited the maritime provinces.
(Cheers.) '!.'here was one reason for
which he (Dr. Montague) had visited
Ulieton. Their Liberal friends had
been painting a dismal picture in Par-
liament of a dismal region soutetvhere
where shadows of gloom had 00010 for
°'"od. HO had been afraid that Sir
.,olh,t and his colleagues from other
parts of the Dominion, alter listening
to the wail, long, loud and bitter, of
Sir Richard Cartwright, aright find
that Cie re'rion referred to was some-
where in tie province of Ontario, of
tvliich they were so proud. (Laiightea)
l -Ie was glad that the leader had not
found that this condition of gloom and
misery existed in Ontario. (Cheers.)
The gatlteri•ig at Clinton to hear Sir -
John Thoin'ason was a great gathering
•tut! 000 to Lc proud o. Yet there had
been no side s lows to attract the peo-
ple beyond the attractions of public
men to discuss public questions. Men
wii11 0 snarl:- of patriotism would come
to heat' .sir John Thompson. (Cheers.)
He, Dr. Montague, was reminded of a
demonstration got..;en tip not a great
while ago for Sir Richard Car', vright
at Whic.l.addh'esses were to be it.'. 0er.1
by the lights of the Reform party. A
sufficiently attractive piogramme had
been gotten up to attract the crowd.
The programme ran thus : First of all
was a boy's race—(laughter)—next they
had a girl's race, next a married wo-
man's race—(laughter and applause)—
then carne a blindfold race, In which
every member of the Liberal party who
Followed the policy of Sir Ricuard Cart-
wright and kr. Laurier were supposed
to be entitled to enter. (Loud laugh-
ter.) Then there was a bucket -of -water
race, which was supposed to represent
the coldness that Sir Richat•ct Cart-
wright threw upon the audience when
he presented his dismal spectacle of
Canadian affairs. (Cheers.) Then
there was also on that Political pro -
°Termite a potato race. 1, hat that re -
,erred to he could not tell, but it pro-
bably had some great bearing upon the
Liberal policy in Canada. (Laughter.)
Last of all tuc're wi'S a police race in
which Mr. Mercier and Mr. Pacaud
were star teres and Mr. Langelois was
stakeholder, with Mr. Laurier, Liberal
leader, as . eteree. (Loud laughter and
cheer's.) S..eh was the programme
which hnd been presented to the Liber-
als of Montreal in order to gather .a
crowd -to listen to Sir Richard Cart-
wright on the policy of that day.
(Laughter and e leers.) The Finance
minister hnd asked where was Sir
Richard Ca.'i;wri ;ht these days ? One
newspaper said Sir Richatd had failed
to appear bc'c..use the Liberal party
had gone back on discrimination
rage:net Great Britain, and Sir Richard
had refused to appear in their new
colors. Another reason elven by a
newspaper was that Sir Richard was
at home figuring out the result of the
financial disas!,er in the United States.
(Laugher.) the Hamilton Spectator
had, perhaps, put it as well as any
other paper when that ;journal
said teat Sir Richard did not
want to appear in public so
soon »thee)• tee death and burial
of that very near' relative of his, unre-
strici;ed reciprocii,y. (Cheers.) He was
glad that Mr. La.m•ier had been touring
the nrovince of Ontario, because she
coula witness for himself the magnifi-
cent prosperity of this great province.
(Loud cheers.) He could see for hint-,
self the wealth of our farmers and the
prosper Ly of the towns which he visit-
ed. Mr. Laimier had also found that
there was nothing -in the race cry
the province of Ont.atio. (Cheers.) Mr.
Laurier said he haat 1 e en art raked -
eaatso he was a French anal shabeh
the Conservative press h stated that
the Liberal party }ver • t t following
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