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The late Skeflington Elliot was the son of His Honor Judge Elliot. of L ndon. He was also the nephew of Hon. Edward Blake. When the troubles broke out in the North-West in 18*5 Skerfi'. Elliot was living xt Prince Albert. He at once volunteered for Service. At Duck Lake, havii‘g borne himself nobly on the field he was killed. He was one of the first in fill in defence of his native land. Since the rebellion the R‘form politicians have been endeavouring to mike some capital out of the death of Skefi. Elliot by declaring that he had Wiit ten letters to his father before his death, indicating that the halfbrecds had been badly treated. and that they were in comequence on the verge of re- bellion. This has been said so often, and it was repeated so circumstantially in The London Advertiser, that Judge Elliot has felt it incumbent upon himself to say Something on the subject. In a. letter to The Free Press, after giving the state- ment a denial, the Judge proceeds to say regarding his son : 1 never knew one who had a stronger hatred of injusuice or a keener sensibility of wrong than he had. I am sure I can confidently appeal to all who knew him dating his three years' residence in the North-‘th for a. confirmation of this as lertion, and I am sure that if to his know- ledge there were these instances of tyran- nical usurpation the sufferers would have had his warmest sympathy, and it would have gone greatly against his will to coerce them. Thvlr Symu‘nhv for Riv] -â€" And Then- flezuih gs Co duel Towards Ihc S'nuuln- ere'd Vol-ultrch -â€" The Last fluurn 01 Poor Sheff Elllot. But with alacrity he took up arms. In the dead of the night of the. 20th of March the news came to Prince A.hert that Rie and his followers had Seized private pro» perty, and had proclaimed their right to control the country. The regular military fierce at Prince Albert was very slender, quite inadequate to cope effectually with the iollowers of Riel should they carry .heir threats into eifuct, so the oflicer in Command called for volunteers to assist in upholding the law. To this call thirty- leven civilians, whose names I have, and who were under no military obligation to do so. promptly reoponded. My eon was among the number. I know his action me not taken in a reckless or thoughtless Qplrit, for during the short time he had for gmpuzation he made some thoughtful u’mngementa in event of a fatal issue, and confided his Inst mensege to a. friend. Ind we know that he had well considered Ghu‘t he wan duing. Of these thirty-seven. cine Wcl’D killed by Riel and hi- band, and Eve were Wounded. There are Home har- towing circumstance. relating to the: firearment which some of the wounded which were leln helpless on the field re moved 1.95 the hands of Riel’s Indians, which have eome to our knowledge, but which I omit. Suffice it to lay, the} were ruthlessly killed because they dnreo to vindicate the supremacy of the lawn Hovercheleas, these young Canadians, £01 I beheve they were nearly all young, he law-d with the courage of their race, am, (lied an I hope loyal Canadians “'11 he ever ready to die for their country. Here I might stop and in silence suffur this dark shadow across life’s path until “‘1? end. But itix; hard to bear that peo flex should be amongst us who do 110? hesitate to dishonm' the memory of them- mm by confining their sympathy to Riel. and by attrmptmg to justify his acts. I Riel was justified in what he did; if a they say, his cuurse W13 :5 just one, the) thOSe who wluutarily stood in the breach and oppoked hlm died in an unwoer (muse. Where is Mr. Laurior’s sympathy f0= theme men and for thme whose hearth Were torn with anguish? 01' where is ch: lympanhy of Mr, Blake, who has fine} emtealing relauions MiLh Mr. L «11 ier an to de‘iénaba him his “dear friend?‘ Al‘s! in is not for the brave men whose blood stained the snow; it is 01. the side of the man who mu dared them, and who did his best to incite the Indian to desolmion and alanghcer, am) whose patlinthm was measured by tht price of $235,! 00. Had the picture been reversed and ILch bmu a Haitian-Canadian and me {alien ones Frmch, we can bm faintly imagine the Ehrirk of horror than would have pxocceded from Lower CM}- ada, and justiy, too. But an the fac. Itands they were only Briiish-Canadlann who wure slam. Tnas is all. UDGV". ELLIOT, OF LONDON, 0N HESBRS. BLAKE AND LAURIER. As for those who are not French and we": not deluded, as tiifi French habitunh am, by falsehood, but who know how the truth stands, and profess to love Mr Eamier, and to approve his acts, the) only furnish another exampie of the moral gb‘xiquiby whim springs from a callous ant} fiagrading subnerviencu to party. W1LLm...‘ ELLIOT. The pu‘tfllc ear has been wearied so long: with tne franuu shouts of “ L'nodie " from the Grin puss and G rit speakers than one mouid fancy the whole patrimony of Canada. had been fielivcx‘ed into the hand A FATHER’S SUBKUW. of wicked and designing Conservatives. That genial and fruihful gentleman, Mr. M. C. Cameron, of Hum 11, has won for him- self fame and renown by his britiimt, no' a may pyrotel'hmo arraignment of Tor) ‘ boodlers." Thu fact that since than t: fiikmn. man to Cameron of Huron in a polite way of (marking him with being a 213.: by nose does not count. He started the bowl of “BJodlc,” and the who}. Gm puck have yelpcd to his yawp ever amne. London, Dec. 18. 18513 Then the benign and cbceaful loader 0f T7117 BOODLE GANG. But chiefly upon the esteemed Glob- has “Boodle” had the most disastrm: and terrifying effect. Diy afte day it has devoted columns an columns to showing how thz- “Bourllers” (which the same may l called Torie) were the essence of win tion and destruction. whiEe the Reformm were the salt of the earth. The Glol-K has shrieked boodle like an owl in da) time, with eyes Wade open yet seeing um It has raved against the “Boodlere” 1); name, sparing neither man, woman 0‘ 1 Hick child, and when The Globe groeum ,.,__..m....... M.» the whole Grit press of the Domihio gurgled. And while this was so, the hi the epindley Gdt lawyers who Iprirg u‘ on every concession and township lia during election times increased the dolcf. wail, until the welkin was shattered wit the hoarse cry of " boodle.” the Opposition has piped to the tune u " Boodle.” It is true that the Hon. Ed- ward Blake was forced to make the most humiliating confession a. statesman c an be called upon to makeâ€"to udmit upon the public platform, and through the public press, that he was wrong; that he had made false charges ; but then Mr. Blake is notastatesmanâ€"at least not particu larly and that count in the indictment goes. That dislinguished patriot and friend of timber limit!, the venerable Herman H. Cook, M.P., has bad words to say about “beodle.” There was only one man that ever debauched a constituency as Mr. Cook debauched North Simcoe, and that man was Mr. Cameron of Huron. But Mr. Cook is a heavy villian compared to Cameron of Huron, altogether wanting in the easy in- difl‘ereuce to truth, the elegant assump tion of all knowledge, and the fluent ability to recklessly lie, that characterizes his compatrio: in the election courts. "Therefore Herman’s arraignment was a clumsy and im Hectual attempt. rather an elephantine gambol or like unto the frisky sportivenesa of a hippopotumus on dry land, and is not much thought mi in Israel Mr. Patterson, of Brant, Mr. Davies, Ir Prince Edward Island, the strong-mindev‘ McMullen, who so touchineg pleade: for further information, What time tht House was about to divide on the Riel (le- bate,and whose coat tails stood ouhper pendiuularly as he shot out of the (1001 when the division hell rang, all thes‘ Waxed furious and frothed at the mouth as they denounced the iniquity of Tory “Boodlers,” and the lion. Divid Mills, whom the good Globe admits is neithe. rifted with the tongue of eloquence no‘ rim profundity of intellect, this hon, gentleman stuttered forth in chaotic phrase his detestation of “ Boodlers.” Anothex mun “hose soul loathcs “ B mile," in Hon G. W. Ross, and still mnother,yea chic: among ten thousand wl-en it comes to denouncing “Boomers” is the Hon Timothy Warren Anglia. This lattu gentleman, imported into Ontario at vs» expeme to write alleged editorials on Tim Globe, is popularly supposed to take : dagger and dip it into a. prrparation o gall and m rmwood when about to writi ,onuerning “Boodlere,” so great is hi horror and detestntion of the wickov~ Tories who “ fatten at the public crib.” It would never be imagined that ther could possibly be “Boodéers” in the Gr ranks. Perish the thought. Have thc. not all lifted up their voices against; ti :ame! Ewe they not cricd aloud m spared rob? And Certainly those who a eaders in the my Would new-r. no nave-i couch a cent of public money. Nevel thuless with gricf, items like those givv hereiubelow are found in the public .34 counts where Grits cannot break in an alter nor even the “Buodler” doth efl'am Here you have it: Lr‘t us take with Dominion cases t‘w public accounts of O :tario, and see wher- uur own province has suffered under t1. B odler. We rim that T H E H O N. ED\VARD MR M. C. CAMERON, 8.". Huron, the great rag-,3 agamsh boodleism‘ whme mighty sou) shivers with in- tenaest horror at the mere thought of boodle, mysceri- omly ar'quired . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GLOBE through Mr. Nelson, its chief owner, is given a school book monopoly that will yield him boodle to the amount; of . . . . . . . . . . E HON. G. \V. ROSS, now Min- ister of Education, and the gnrger of Nelson and The Globe got the snug little boodle of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HON. DAVID MILLS, purist, lawyer, editor, and states- man, has had his arm into the Ontario till right up to the shoulder. Mr. Mills managed to grabâ€"â€" In 1842........$3,4l0 00 In 1883 . . . . . ... 4,300 00 In 1585, balance" 300 00 Mhlfing a grand total in discovering three Betta of bnundarias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES DAVID EDGAR, M.P., a Globe director, B‘mke’s cnnfileniial adviser, and a. Buforr‘ boss (Iikewisa heir to ma Prsvinmal Ex cheqner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES DAVID EDGAR, M.P., &c., as above, not satizfied, still hungry, 3-p- pointed envoy extraordinary and p‘enipotentiary to Hi;- iah Culumbia by the Mac- kenzie Government . . . . . . . . EDGAR. 8; MALON‘}, the BLAKE has mad: another miamke, and émwn from ths P: oviucial chem: boodle tn the amount; of (including 3600 for one day’s work) . . . . . . . . . . . . same Edgar as wow, bub ho had raked in so much that he now got a partner to help AME. :3 6,918 44 200,000 a BoonLn. 16,674 0’: 2,913 m 6.199 1'. 8,010 00 6,003 or; him........... . . . . . (Mr. Malone is believed to have got the 43 cents.).. .. JAMES DAVID EDGAR, HENRY HE RM AN COOK, M. P.. champion screamer and Globe director. 100 square miles timber limits, worth at least” . . . . . . . . . . 100,000 00 HENRY HERMAN COOK, SUTH E RLAN D, Grit up-hold- er of purity, 100 square miles of timber limits, worth at 1¢ast................ . . . . . . HON. T. W. ANGLIN, Globe editor and Grit stumper (be- came Speaker of the House in 1874, at $5,000 per session and expenses. He was not taken into the Guvernme ,3, but when Hon. D. A. Mac- donald became Postmaster- General, the Speaker, 0113‘ todian of the honor and in- tagrity of Parliament, re- ceived printing to the amount of) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \Vhich he put in his private pocket. do do . . . . . A . . . I . . . . . . . .J GRIT PRINFERS, Scattered all over the Dominicn for printing outside the Govern- ment contract, at exhorbi- taut rates . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . The Government contractors sued the Government for this and recovered, by law, damages to the amount of $80,000, which lig'ntfully gee: under the “ Buodle " column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALFRED JONES, M. 1’.. Grit: patriot and chiwf pro- m‘ etur of The Halifax Citizen, and . . . . . . . . . . . . . HON. MR. VAlL, formexly member for Huldi- mand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {CM [LYUS IRVIING. ex-M. P., again . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . RCMILIUS IRVING, ex~M. P., once more................. (And still going on.) EON. R. W. SCOTT EMILIUS IRVING, ex Kiugwton. general utility man and drfeutei candi late. . . . .. 7,230 00 s'. H. BLAKE, Eon. Edward’s brother Sam, for acting for the Ontario Government in a conspiracy raised by the Gov- meot itwelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,270 00 COLIN MACDOUGALL, de- feated Grit candidate, salved his Wrenched feelings with.. 1,417 00 ' ’Be idesd Scorc of other patriots who hate to see Ontario robbed and who ab hair handle, but who manager! to get from $250 to $843 each. Jones, Vail, anr‘l inglin had to resign their seats, but tlh Government changed the law to let them nave the money. and parsed a whitewash ing bill to swe them from di=qualification Yet how is the foregoing for “mightier and, simple boodleism ? When Grin :om plai 1 of gentlemen who never reocived L cent of public money getiiug the fair re ward of professional service, when they «made tho privacy of a. house, and talk of Lady Macdonald’s Ch istmas gifts, when hth falsely accuse members of Parlia- ment, and recklessly slander every Con- lervative that; may have (me wion to visit. Ottawa, what have they to say to the ‘ore- (oing indictment ? “'hat have tilt loudest shouth about; booxile, The ‘lobe. ,he Hon. Edward Blake, M. C. Cameron, Cook, G. W. Ross, and the whole hriben and bribing gang to say ? How do Grim generally like the Boodle Honor Roll of their party. Look at if. ’IHE GRIP BOODLERS. \IR. THOS. HODGINS, gen- eral candidate and outer. ... \IR. THOS. HODGTNS, gen, The Giobe. Hon. E lward Blake. M. C. meron. Hon. T. “7. Angfin. Hon. Davxd M i l. Hm. M r. Vail. Hon. R. W. Smtt. H. H. CJOk, M.P. y. D. E lgar, M.P., nnd the mates of others. How Q0 F'ue names look when paw d up on the wall ‘3 And there are more so fo‘iow. The old time Bnodlei’s sit and mourn The happy days gone by, When “ ALECK ” ruled in Ottawa And the Boodlers I ved on pie ; When ANGLES in the Speaker’s Chair Was fed on printing pap, And the Goderich harbor job was dropped Into “my friend Moomc‘s " lap. When steel rail Boodle stopped around And “ BROTHth CHARLES " grew rich, Am] JONES and VAIL their pickings got From pa iating jobs and men; When CUNNINGHAM and BANNATYNI Declined to face the House, And NORRIS. VVOILKKMAN and the rest Kva quiet as a muuse; When NIXON and a hundred more E «:11 got his little share, And naught butjal‘s and perquisites: Were borne upon the air ; When thousands upon thousm d! Were spent in bribes and vice , And Canada was transformed to .‘The Boodler’s Paradise. But now when honesfi Government In Ottawa- dces reign, And the Boodlers get no Boodle They cry aloud in pain : “ Oh for the good old days again “ When Boodle W38 aboun “ They never will remrn unless " We turn tun-e Tories out 1" M. P., 8512., grand total of boodla in six years. (Still hungry) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. bundle on timber dues. . .. . eral, etc.. again M. BRl'l‘T(.)N, Q. C.. of THE OLD 'IIHE BOODLERS. only “10,000 00 .18,184 74 23,057 00 1,800 00 9,904 so 4,353 49 3,000 00 3.993 00 383 43 200,000 25_ 20L 944 OC 30,000 0m. NOW ABOUT THAT JUDGL SHIP; The esteemed Mail states, as the essence of its conviction, that the- story of Mr. Blake’s father creating, the Court of Chancery in order ti find a comfortable seat for himself or the Bench is 8 gm at slander, and tha it was invented as a blow at the so: through the father. Even so. \Vell let us see :â€" “ Mr. William Hume Blake was an equity law!) er, practicing befnre the Vice Chancellor. in the Court of Chancery, i Upper Canada, and took an mtive part iv an agitation to ‘ reform ’ that court; wit: the following result : “1&44, Mr. William Hume B‘mke wa appaxinted one (if a commisaion tn inquix- into the working of the Court. of Chancery and to report Sume scheme for We recov struction of, and by winch the expenses (1 the cvmrt could he lean-Amid. “ 1847, Mr. W'. H. Bmka secured a sea in Parhument. and was appointed Solics tor~Genem1 in the Baldwin-Lafontain Administration. “ M49, M. W. H. Blake introduced ; Bill into Parliament Chung 113 the constitu tion of the Cuurt of Chmceny. and pro viding for the appointment of a Chancello and two Vice (,‘hanCe-llnra, the Com t hax ins: but: one Vice~Chancellor at the time which 13:11 was pzs'ed. “ 1849, 30m May, the B=ll received fh Royal assent. Sept. 30th, following, beih just; lour mon'hs afn r the Bill becam law, Wm. Hume Blake was appointe Chancellor by the Government of whim he was a. number, to the highest poaitio in the Cunx‘t uwawd ly himaélf and hi colleagues, at a salary of $6,000 per an mun. “1862, Mr. W. H. B'aka was super unnuatcd on a pension of $3.333 23 p9 wnum, which he enjoyed until 18I0, thu drawing a pension to the amount 0. ‘rlfifl'vlifi‘ ‘ He (\Villiam Hume Blake) obtained hi‘ 1wt, and how digi he use the confidence ‘. iie WERE to Parliament. made a roarin 4039011 on the rAhellion losses bill, intrn. ‘uced his scheme of charcoal extension «named the measure through. and g0 inn-elf made Cnannnl‘m fur life, with ; utiring pension of $3,333 33 a ye" ’ " It has been said over and ovn again, that this is Sir Iohn A. Mai alouald’s Last appeal to his countr} men, noon behalf of his party uni Himsei't, as one who has served hi country not in vain. That it he. been so said by his enemies (loos m matter. No‘hing that his enemiz my does matter. “But, in the cours- =if nature, it is possible that Canada‘ favorite and most honored son ma; never again have the opportunity 0 learing that popular verdict Whicl is has so often before heard . ‘Woll done, good and faithful ser ~'ant.” That he will hear it again a. he end of this campaign is in most ninds a, foregone conclusion. His uemies feel it in their bones and ‘cgret it in their hearts. As to the slander, if there wa- r-alauder, it was of The Globe’s c112. tion. Not at; all a. remarkable thin; either. . “ 1n the year 1857, The Toronto G‘olw :1 discussing the pubic r» cord of the Hon \Vm. Hume Blake, wrote m the fuklowin; fizz-ain :â€" Why should he not hear it? Faults, 10 you my? Of course he has his. nulls. ‘When you find a faultless nan make him premier at once, but is name will not be either John A. \‘lacdonald 01' Edward Blake. There are spots upon the sun, but these do not prevent that luminary from being the centre of our planetary system. By a parity of reasoning that is Why the faults of great men do not preâ€" vent them from obscuring their in- ferior contemporaries. Supposing, then, that the weight of years should prove too great for the “ old man’s" shoulders at the ter- mination of the next Parliament ; is that not; an additional reason why he should not now ba treated with ingmtitude‘l Certainly it; is. It is a most; forceful reason for a renewal of confidence. Look at his record, read that you may reflect, and re- flect that you may act. What was Canada when the “John A.” of earlier years undertook to tmke her what; she is? A procession » of fortuitous atoms. Placing him- self boldly at the head of that pro- cession he has lead her up to her present vantage ground. Sectional and seciarian prejudices confr’onied him at every turn, but they did not ; ONCE 11101215" T0 TILE BREACH dismay him. For a quarter 01 a century he prevented those passions from destroying the union between Upper and Lower Canada. Had it not been for him and Sir George E. Cartier Confederation and all that folIOWeol in its train would have been imposdbilities. The secret of the man’s success has not been his mastership of tactics, as some people think and say, but his faith in his country and his country- men. “ Union and progress "â€"- these have been his watchwords. “Ask no man what province he comes from or what creed be pro fesses ”-â€"tbese are his principles. “Give employment to our own people at their own doors,"â€"tbese have been and are the ideas upon which he has acted and will act. If this be his last appeal, as his enemies say, he appeals upon his re cord, and not in vain. He skirks no issue as Mr. Blake does. Sir John A. Macdonald promised us the N.P., and we got it. He promised us that Canadian “Appian Way,” the C.P.R., and we got it. He promises us now that he will give us protection for our fisheries, and we shall get that, too. For long, long years he has been telling this people what was for their best interests, and this people has never yet found his promises falsified, nor will they now. Once more he calls them to the breach ! Once more he " leads the spears among the hills of Spain.” Whether he shall ever lead them again or not is in the hands of God, and not in the hands of man; but that he shall lead them to victory this time is as certain as any merely human event can he. Once more to the breach, men 01 Canada, and your leader will prove worthy of you i1} the future, as he always proved worthy in the past. Tha‘, the National Policy has de- veloped the coal trade of the Marx- time Provincea cannot be better shown than by the returns; from the Springhill, N. 8., collieries. The output has been incrpasing frog!) month to month, reaching 23,026 gross tons, for Um mgnth of DecemA her, and closing the yrar with the immense tOial’ of 412 000 gi‘rvsis’tpns) an increase over 1885 of 50,000 tona‘ The yearly figures from the last year of Grit depression to the present time tell their own story :â€" 1879 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,107 1880.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1353413 1581 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169929 1382...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 827 . . . . . . 198.883 1851...... . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 243,019 time tell their own story :â€" 1879 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 90 1880.. . . . . . ............. . . . . . . 135 158! . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 1C82...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 1883................. . . . . . . ... 198 1881...... . . . . . . .. . . . . . . ...... 943 18%5...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 3‘9 1856... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 412 The Grit candida‘e for North Sim- coe addressed the electors at Barrie on the 24th. We have the report of the proceedings in The Globe of the 26th. He began by denying that his candidature had been obtained by Wire-pulling, but, as “ he who ex- cuses accuses,” we may take the denial wish caution, the more so be cause it is hard to believe that the Grits of any constituency, except under severe pressure, would accept Mr. Anglin as their candidate, even though, as in the case of North Sim- coe, there cannot be the alighest hope of his success. He next pro- ceeded to denounce The Mail for the Bible agitation, and the crime of setting race again t race, evidently forgetting that the arch offenders in this regard are those who have fomented, abetted and encouraged, and who hope to basely profit by the Riel excitement in Quebec, which was transplanted to Ontario by Mr. Blake, and forms the forlorn hope of himself and his fellow conspirators in their unholy alliance with the revolutionary factionists in Quebec. Mr. Anglin referred to the gerry- mander, but was silent upon the re- construction schome‘ly which Mr. Mowat, to use Mr. Anglin’s strong exprCSSion, “ mangled and carved for the sole purpose of securing party aévahtages,” in nearly every consti- tuency in Ontario. The ex-Spenker would be nothing in the stump Without the Pacific Scandal, and Sir Hugh Allan’s state- ment of the $350,000 expenditure. It should be remembered that the accuser did not face the investigating Lribuna‘, and that the gravaumn of :he charges rests upnn a. speech in the ijmons, unsupported by trust worthy evidence, and upon the mpm'ie statement of The Globe, made in moxt reckless rib-stabbing fashion, before the investigation was held and while the queation "was sufi judics EEK-SPEAKER N. P. FA CTS. ANGLIN. 90,107 1359413 169 929 210 827 198.88% 243,019 339 559 412,000 In his Barrie speech Mr. Blake gave a. history of his Laurier Riel combination that cannot be too wide- ly circulated. He was replying to a statement made by Mr. McCarthy that he had sneaked to Ottawa to consult with the Quebec Rielite. Blake’s statement was that he did go to Ottawa by app wintment to meet Laurier, that Laurier and he met at the station and they drove to dif- ferent hotels, that afterwards Laurier came to his (Blake’s) hotel and they had an interview of several hours durati.n; that he had just returned from England and was about to speak at London on the Riel ques- tion, and had his speech on the sub- ject already prepared and written; that he had it with him at Ottawa and at the interview referred to sub- mitted it to Laurier for his apv prove], who read and approved of it. It is understand on undoubted authority that the Grits have been preparing, and have about; completed an elaborate attack, personally and politically, on Sir John A. Mac~ donald, following up the last year’s system of foul detraction and abuse. The Daqtards ! Well, let them come on. But we give fair warning that on the day that attack sees the light there will be sca‘ps taken. Two great facts stand boldly out in this statement; two facts that forever set at test any claim Mr. Blake may ever make to be consid- ered either as a. patriot or an honor- able man. The first is that the moment he landzid he had set the seal of his apâ€" proval upon the disgraceful and dis- loyal compact entered into between Edgar on behalf of the Ontario Ra» formers and the leaders of the Champ de Mars meetings in behalf of the Quebec Rielites, and had thoroughly committed himself to the policy out. lined at; those meetings in Montreal. 'l he second, that when during that London speech, which it will be re- membered he read from the manly script that had been submitted for Laurier’s approval, he gave utterance to the noble sentiment that he would not con'atrucb a plafifirru out of lhe planks of the Regina scafi’o (1. he did it with the fu'l knowledge of What his future course would be ; laughing in his sleeve meanwhile at the dupes who cheered his bogus sentiment. In the first ; by glaeping hands with the upholders of rebellion when, as he himself afterwards declared, he was not in pns-ession of all the facts, Blake forfeited his right to be regarded as a. law abiding citizen, aye, even to the right of citizenship. He had no feel- ings of nationality, no promptings of kindred, no ties of creed to excuse his conduct. In him it was nothing but the debasing lust of power, the miserable yearning after the flesh puts, that made him stain the name of Canadian by handing it in fellowâ€" ship with the muskeetering rebels. Joined with rebels, conapiring with rebels, he stands to day in the eyes of the world in heart, in fact, in deed, in efi‘ect a rebel. In the second Blake dishonored his manhood and shamed his kindred and people by acting the most tre- mendous lie that ever sullied Ihe pages of Canadian history. A lie said we? It was more, it was the carrying out of a conspiracy that shall forever blast his reputation as an honest and a truthful man, that shall leave his name a by‘word and reproach to the children of Canada. for generations. In admitting that he sneaked priv- ately to Ottawa, in admitting that he did it to submit his London speech to Laurier, in admitting that Laurier appr0ved of it after consultation, he admits the whole case. Before this he had approved of the Edgar com- pact, at that meeting the full plan of campaign was decided upon. And when a week later Mr. Blake stood up before that immense audience in London and made that statement regarding the Regina scafl‘old he did it with deceit in his heart, false words on his lips and with a mind already made up to use that very scaffold as a means to at- tain power; he did it with the com- pact between him and Laurier fully agreed upon ; he did it to depeive hoth friend and foeâ€"he lied willfully from a bid heart in a. bad cause as the outcome oi an unholy aléiance. her any country when her public men stand not by Law and [Truth- '}Od he‘p Canada. if such men ever get control of her affairs. I 1‘“ STAND FORTH BLAKE. THE DASTARDS. upon docummts long smce shown to be utterly untrustworthy. Mr. Anglin tells his North Simeon audience that the Conservative ox- penditure in 1873 was twentyâ€"four millions and that when the Mackenzie Government assumed ollice it found itself saddled with estimates for 1874 amounting to twenty {our millions and a half. These statements are on a. par with the reckless utterances of all the Grit orators and scribblers in regard to fiscal matters. The expen- ditures for 1873 were in exact figures $19,174,647; only a trifle of five millions less than Mr. Anglin stat» 3. There were no estimates of expenu i- ture for 1874 amounting to thnty- four and a half millions “saddled upon Mr. Mackenzie’s Government", The total expvnditure authorised for that year on Consolidated Fund account was, in exact figures, $23,- 130,892, and this sum included sup~ plrmentary estimates added by the Grit Finance Minister, of which the sum of nearly a million dollars, it is contended, was properly chargeable to the year 1875; and, with this large addition, the actual expenditure for 1874 was in exact figures, $23,316,316. For 1875 it was $23,713,071. Properly that of 1874 should have been something less than $22,400 000, and Sir Rich- ard’s expenditures, which were “saddled on” to that year should have been charged to the expenditure of 1875, making it over $24,600,000. The expenditure of the year ending June 30, 1879, was made under the Grit estimates, and amounted to $24,455,388, notwithstanding a forced reduction of $1,020,000, in the items of Militia and Public Works, which was no economy at all. While Mr. Anglin was speaking in his usual vi uperative and ex- aggerated strain Mr. Blake appeared and Mr. Anglin subside-d. Those who knew the Grit leader’s powers of sarcasm and do not forget his at- tack of hay or timothy fevoril 1877, will readily appreciate the following sardonic encomiummndfl which even its tough-hided subject must haw winced. “ Mr. Blah fluid that in had watched Mr. Anflin’O career since he entered PM twenty years ago, and hand 09 mire hm qualities as a public nu. u- kiddinâ€" itable determination to m facts, great fearlessuess in mugâ€" doing, coupled with great Mn of statement, and his great fimm in the assertion of his own opinion. coupled with due consideration for the opinions of Vothers. He had found Mr. Anglin a great man as a journalist, at great man as a parliap mentarian, a. great man asaLibera .” Of Mr. Angliu’s “ accuracy _ in mastering" even in the elementary fac‘s of the public expenditure» his Barrie speech furnishes illustration. Of his “ moderation of statement and due consideration for the opinions 'of others” a specimen may be foundin the Parliamentary journals giving the particulars of his arraignment for a wholesale libel, in the foul-st lan- guageupon the majority of the House of Commons of which he was a mem- ber, and it is suspected that most of the editorial atrocities of The Globe il ustrate “ his greatness as a. journalist.” as Well as “the modera- tion of statement” which Mr. Blake admires. ‘ As a. Parliamentarian the finding of the Special Committee (when Mr. Blake was suificienhly recovered from hay fever to attend it), to which a certain printing contract was referred gives him a spacial eminence, and, perhaps, Liking him allin all, he may be accepted as one of the (liberals whom Mr. Blake regards with his grimmest smile of admiration. Bot both in and out of Parliament his career has been ‘ “ Checquered with troubles and woes, ‘ e That chase one another like wave: of tho deep.” compelled to resign his seat in Parlia- ment in 1877 by the finding of the committee to whom was referred his printing contract, he was returned lry his constituency of Glouceater and again placed in the Speaker's chair, liy the so-called Reform majority. Ho was elected for Gloucester by accla- mation in 1878, and in 1882 he 'wa'sl so overwhelmineg defeated that forfeited llllS nomihation deposit}, His later Parliamenfary, career distinguished by numberless‘spreclmg, whose verbosity and prolixity were equalled by their inaccuracy' and verulence, and excelled by their iliogf'd cal incoherence. I “ That wretched ’noxtrum_(Prbtecti§fl)‘.' offered to the people a, few years 3gp. it”. thn invention of 'a unCkgfr-rfliofl.‘ Alb. Davin (1885). ' " '