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Total, ... . 31,113 1904 $1,113,853 That is to say under the revenue tarifi of the Liberals the whole Dominion would havs in 1385 paid jusn $59 less than it. actually paid, the coal industry of Nova Scobia would have been closed, 20,000 persons would have been compelled to go to the States seeking a. livelihood and 315 000,000 or $20,000,000 of capital in- vested would have been lostwwnk in holes in the ground and in rapidly rusting out machinery. By paying $59 a year more under a feadjus’ced tarxfl' a. great ludmtry has been set on its legs and is growing sturdy and at; "g. Coal, tea and coffee in 1885 mid duty as In the first column of figures be! W. Had the Cutwright. tariff been in force they would have paid duties as givan in the Iecond column :â€" i‘ea L. .. Cofiee Further, had the Government been unable to obtain any revenue from coal it would have been compelled to retain the dutles on tea. and cofl‘ue. ' This increase in home consumption has been secured by the operation of the Na- tional Policy, Without increasing the burden of taxation borne by the general puElic. ' The price of coal at the customs houses of (huada, as entered by the importers in 1874, averaged $4.72 per ton. The aver- age last year was $3 70. The opponents of the present tavifi' say their plan is to place a duty on tea and coffee and take is off coal. What would be the result ? In 18°5, the coal sales from Nova. Sco tinn mines within the Dominion were five times those of 1868. In 1868 the prop-)r- tiou of home raised coal sales to imported coal was 2 tons to 15 tons ; in 1885 it was 2 tons to 10 tons. The home arncle gains on the imported slowly. it is true, but it. gains. Up to 1878 the imported articlv was outsuripping the home. The tide then turned, and little by little the home ani- cle has gained in the: market against the toreign. It is good news to learn that 1511‘ most recent returns indicate that last year shows even a greater propo: tionate im prOVement. THE TJIBER LlMIT QUESTION IN A hU'l‘aHELL. Four Orders in Council were passed luthorizing the issue of leases for twenty» me years each. Four such leases were halted, and they were all dated prior to August, 1884. They were, in fact; all issued prior to the change of Government in 1878, except one to W. J. Macaulay for 25 41-100 square miles, being the balance of the 100 square miles. to which he was entitled. 2. The present tarilf dues not. appear to Ilve preventtd the Nova Seaman coal owners from Belling to uubnide countries other than the United Suites, since the yearly average of such sales shows an in- crease of 14 per cent. Some thought the National Policy would increase coat of articles so that the Nova Scotia. coal would be prevented from succeeding in competition with coal mined in free trade countries. These fears have been proved roundless. . ‘,3. The table given above shows be- yond a doubt that the present tariff has stimulated the coal trade to a very great degree; an increase within the Dominion of over 100 percent. in the consumption of home reiaed coal within the short. period of six years is liatle short offgnar- velous. Now, had the province t een out of the Confederacy. the sales to the United States would certainly not have been otherwise than the records ehow,while the Miles to the other provinces would no: have shown the same gratifying increase Or anything like it. When it; is recollect- ed that nearlv 23,000 persons. big and lic- tle. live by the coal industry in Nova Scotia, it ought surely to be a matter of congratulation among the people of that province, as Well as throughout Canada, lhm they joined the union in 1867. One hundred and twenty-one Orders in Council authorizing the issue of yearly licenses were passed, covering a total area of 6,416 square miles. Of these, however, nine were in substitution for other orders [ranting berths in the name district which Since the present mer has been in force the sales to the United States have shown no improvement ; those " to other coun- tries ” considerable improvement, while those for home cousumpvion in Canada have r sen year by year from 554,605 tons in 1879 t.» 1,051561 tons in 1885. In 1873 the United States duty on Nova Soohian cual was 75 cents a. ton, and the quantity shipped (see trade returns) to the United States. was “226,058 tons, out of a total of 881,106 tons, the remainder being distributed ; to other countries. 138.847 tons. and for use W;thin the D..-minion, “6.257 tonsâ€"4m increase of 128 per cent. In 1875, ’76. ’77 and ’78, she years of gem” a1 depreesion, when Canada had no ence up to keep out poachrrs on her in- dustries, the total sales varied but little, While the quantity going to the United States dwindled till in 1579, it was but 63,936 tons, or three and a half time. less than the amount of 1873. During thus same distreszul eriod the sales for consumption within ‘anada, also varied but litxle. helm: as follows ,: ’75, 483 939 tons ; ’76, 4631590 tons ; ’77, 556.855 tons, and ’78, 5 8,068 tons. l. Confederation does not appear to have injured that great branch of Nova Scotiau industryâ€"me coal mining indus- try. The total coal sales in 1868 were 453.624 mun. There was then a duty of 81.25 per ton on Nova Scotian coal shipped to the United States. 0f the total sales of that year, 198 920 tons went‘to the United States and 53¢ 840 tons to other countries, leaving 200,- 864 tons to be distributed throughout the Dominion. Tote] coal sales. . .. . . . 696,141 1,175,589 Sold to United Stat” . 133,536 7,99 Sold to other rount , .. 83,306 94,034 Dold within Dominion. .. 480,299 966,898 The average increase! in 1850 85 period over the 1874 78 periad are : In total cos.) Isles, pronectlve period over unprotected, 88 87 per cent; in coal sales to other noun ries. protective period over Impro- tented, 14.25 per cent. ; in coal sales With- in the Dominion, protective pervod over unprotected, 101.30 per cent. Tue de- crease in sales to the United States is .627 ‘per cent. Lou};ng over the rows of figures which I have collated, I find three greut facts standing pup prqmineptly : SIR,â€"Desirinz to look into the elfecta of the Namonal Policy on the coal trade 01 Nova Scotia. I p spared the following table from oflicial records 2â€"- Sides in Tons. Total com sales . . . . . . . . .. Bx 1d {.0 United States. Sold to other cuumries Bold within Dominion . . fia Quos'lon of Dulyâ€"No More Revenue Collected from Coal than from Tea and l'on'rc Under (be old Thrillâ€"45m- plov men! for Labor Afl‘uruledâ€"lntcr- provincim Trade Promuzed. The following letter to Tne Montreal Gazette is worthy of careful perusal :â€" "‘3 GREAT DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE NATIONAL POLICY. THE COAL TRADE. First column. Second column. . .. $1,064,2ti1 . , . . . . . A ,. . 33,436 81,032,039 .. . 21,207 86 814 GEO. JOHNSON. 1874»7S‘ 3,430, 705 667,680 411,530 2,401,495 Per annum EVGI‘ELEB 187 ‘.-78. 696,141 133,536 1880-85. 7.05 £535 537,940 504,205 5,301,39u Peran “um L99. The half breeds of St. Laurent, St. Louis de Langevin, Batoehe 3nd Duck Lake have determined to support a candi' date favorable to the Government. The alleged opera- tiona of the Tory shoddv pedlar Hal- Eock.thou;zh perform ed in the dark,throw tr flood of light on two or three matters. Imaginea’l‘ory buying Tory votes!â€" Scratjbrd Herald. Down by the sea. a. statistician has pre- pared'figures which show the state of New Brunswick’s industrles for the years 1381 and 1886, By these it is found that in the manufacture of nails and tacks the folltwing improvement has been made :â€" EMPLOYEES ANNUAL WAGI-‘s PRODUCING 1881 ' 98 $29,800 $232000 1886 162 51,000 300,000 The rolling mills snow the following in- crease: The district named is that in which the rebellion took place. Is not the action of half‘breeda, in determining to support a candidate favorable to the Government, the most conclusive condemnation that could possibly be given of the iniquity 0' like Rielite agitation ?â€"Lo'rdo;z Free Press. The Stratford Rielite organ is invited to reconcile the following quotations,bot.b ‘mm the same editorial article In its last issue :- EMPLOYEES WAGES PRODUCING 1881 40 $16,000 8 801-00 1886 611 74,500 315,000 The car and locomotive work» «how the following increase : 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [acreage Liberal Ger-perva- pe~ iods, 1868-73, 1879 86, 15 yeaxs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Average increase per anoum, Grit period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Average increase 1 er anuum, Liberal Conservative. . . . . EMPLOYEES WAGES 1881 166 $ 83 OUO 1856 611 249,000 The cotton mills of the Province have made an unprecedented advance : EMPLOYEES WAGES PRODUCTS 1881 344 8 40.108 8 276.178 1886 1,440 369(000 1,590,000 The above figures quoted clearly show that the National Policy hah been a bene- fit to the trade of New Brunswick, and a similar benefit to the industries of other parts of the Dominion can be as clearly shown. Summarizing the statement of the debt of Canada. we“ha.ve these re- \ulbs: WeLt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sir Rnchard Carbws ighn’s de- ficits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sir Rwhard Cartwright’s losses on loans obtained. . §trictly Federal debt . ‘ . . A . . afreaae Gritperiod, 1874 78. .- ..“h-Llum Im,,”_ug. mu... F 1686 1159 2845 So that the number of heads of families in the North-\Vest, who were at the time of the outbreak emitled to scrip was 403, instead of two thousand a is usually stated, and of these, only about a score «rare in the disturbed district or took part in the outbreak. Blake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Made up as fo‘lows :â€" Prgvinfiial {19:th assumt-d by Treaty heads of lam' Truaty Children...“ Non treaty heads of famllivs. Non trcaby children . . . ‘ . . , . . Deceased heads of lamilies Deueased children. . . Ni {iebt as stated by Mr. A popular argument used by Mr. Lan- rier wi h the object of showing the num- ber of half-breeds who were interested in the distribution of scrip. is the statement that. the Government settled with two thousand of them. This statement is most misleading. The claims recognized covered the cases of children, of deceased persons represented by heirl, and of half- brecds who were formerly dealt with as Indians, but have now withdrawn from treaty. In the case of the latter, the an- nuities formerly paid to them as Indians, will be no longer paid to them. - The following is an analysis of the claims re- cognized by the commission during 1885 and 1886 : tlze Dominiom. . . . . . . . . . . \kaeys wxpended on railways Money‘ for purchase North- Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $112,657 01 Of this amount $63,406.09 was collected anterior to August, 1884, and $49,250.92 subsequent to that date. The following amounts have been col- lected : Rouuees . . . . . . . . ............$966150 G ound rent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,312 85 Dues on umber out under learen, licenses and permits. 70,215 63 Dues on seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,467 02 The amount; paid byway of rental on licenses issued aunsequent to decision of Privy Council was $8,039,82, and bonus $1,124. None of the licensee who paid these sums ever cut any 1; mber, and their Iicenses have all expired, the last on 3151: D camber. 1885. Sixty four permits have been issuedâ€" fifty-seven prior and seven subsequent; to the 11th of August, 1884. Nine of the sixty-four permits were to cut square timber and to cut logs to be manufactured into lumber, the dues on which aggregated $123439 30 ; the remainder of the permits, fifty-five, were to cut cordwood, ties, telegraph poles, etc., the dues on which aggregated $11,591 54. Twenty-four of the 121 Order: were passed subsequent to the 11th Auguat, 1884. but no licenses issued on these Orders. Of the total amount collected $3,145.16 hxve been refunded. Ii HALF-BREED CLAIMS SETTLED. Upon these orders twentyâ€"two yearly licenses were issuedâ€"one: anterior to August, 1884, and twenty-0&9. subsequent to that date. were cancelled, and three orders were can celled by request of the grantees. “The tariff is an iniquitous, an unjust, THE ILIELITES ANSWERED. THE PUBLIC DEBT. ANOTHER GRIP SAMPLE. N. 1’. FACTS. Had it not been forflall ck wem‘ght vae!‘ have known the price of a Tory vote in Wallace. 1885 131 $220,000,000 3 ‘20,8')0.000 113,000 000 107,000 000 103,000,000 40,200,000 72, 800, 000 8,000,000 4,800,000 1,500,000 4,500,000 4 800,000 1885 205 3W7 78 212 85 182 Total. 266 5:28 4 9; 243 433 Making the totalexceasinbush. 35 353,962 Now, what does this Show 'I It shows that under the National Policy 35,353,962 bushels of Canadian grain have taken the place of that number of bushels which under Sir Richard Cartwright’s po'zicy, we imported from the United States. It shows that. for the last seven years the far- mers of Canada have had a home market for 5,000,000 bushels of grain a year, which, under the Grit re- geme, we purchased from the Yan- kees, and. which we will again have '0 buy from them if the Grits were returned to power. It shows that instead of furnishing employment for American farmers, and putting money in their pockets, the National Policy has furnished employment for Canadian farmers and put money in their pockets. It shows that the cry of the failure of the National Policy to provide a, home market for agricultural produce is false, and that instead of hurting the farmer the National Policy has proved an inestimable benefit to him. The Canadian farmer is not a fool, and, therefore, he is not likely to be de- ceived by the Grit cry that the Nat ional Policy has failed to give him a. home market when he sees that in seven years it has excluded 35,000,â€" 000 bushels of American grain, and made room for that quantity of Cane.- dian produce. Summary of the Quantity of grain of all kinds and products of grain, entered for cnnaumption in Canada from 1873 to 1886 inclusive. Year ending Flour and 30th June. Meal. bar’ls. 1873 5?] 937 1874 504.676 1875 618686 .1876 524.577 1-577 845 51 1 1878 544.781 1879 535 392 Grain of 3.11 kinds, bush 7,712,412 6,491,160 4,330,6'll 4.911 935 8,467 138 7.1 .s arso 5,847,717 SWA PPING HORSES W'HE'N CROSSING THE STREAM. “Never swap horses when cross- ing the stream,” or words to that effectâ€"so said “Old Abe ” Lincoln once on a. time ; and the counsel has since been deemed a perfect “chunk” of concentrated wisdom. Yet this is preci:ely what the Grit party, through Mr. Blake, has done within less than a. week’s time. There is no change of leaders for the party, for these remain as before. But there is a. change, and a great one, in the party’s position on the question of National Policy, as laid down by the leader. It is a change so radical, so extraordinary, that people are puz zled to guess What the lieutenants and the rank and file of the party will doâ€"whether they will obedient- ly follow the general’s bugle call, or whether they will sulk and refuse. It is “ a d d sharp curve ” for them, without doubt, and they will not take it gracefully we may be sure. But yesterday they were eidler in- structed or allowed to believe that Protection in any and all its forms was essentially bad, and a. “mine- tion” to any country. Today it is their bounden duty as good Grits to believe that Protection may have, not only its uses, which are desirable, but also its necessities, which must be obeyed. The turn oyer is immense, astonishing, far beyond what any- body drcamed of before. Even Mr. One of the stock cries of the Grits against the National Policy is that it hurts the farmer. They claim that it does not provide him a. home market for his grain, as was pro- mised ; that he does not get a better price for his produce than he did under the Cartwright Free Trade tariff, and that it has increased his cost of living. All these state ments are without foundation; but they are repeated so frequently and urged so persistently that, although they have been refuted again and again, it is necessary to show their utter fallacy. Take the question of providing a. home market, The following figures, taken from the trade and navigation returns for the last fourteen years, gives the total quantity of grain of all kinds, and grain products, entered for consump- tion, which of course shows the amount of forign grain and grain products consumed by the people of Canada, in place“of grain and grain products grown by the farmers of Canada. Let us examine the figures: Tom! for 7 years Protection 3,009,333 Total for Free Trades period Total for Pro- tection period Reduction un- der Protnctinn 1,086,197 The 1,086‘1‘27 barrels o flour and wheat would be eq uiva- lent in grain Total for 7 years Free Trade 4,695 460 1880 ‘275 232 1981 376 783 1882 3W7 956 1883 396 448 1884 661,600 1855 664.516 1886 326,798 HOW IT HURTS THE FAR- AIER. 4,095,460 3,009,333 SUPPLEMENT. 44920.43? 15,006,105 44,929,432 15,006,105 29, 923, 326 1.789 534 2 L’IS.508 2,260g39 l 892 8-29 2 678 859 2 156 047 2,0 9,559 5,430,635 But what are we to think of the leader, and of the party, who have taken this. “d-~â€"â€"d sharp curve ’7 only four weeks before election day ’! We are to conclude thisâ€"that neither leatler nor followers ever had any principle or policy worthy of a great party at all, that they were merely drifting along by chance, and th it they had ignominiously to change their ccurse when they saw their ill- st'eered vessel grazing the rocks. That they are blunderers all,that they have not a statesman among them and that it is a mercy the country is not left to their guidance. From such an incompetent captain and crew, may Heaven save our precious ship and state. You will have great confidence, won’t you, in a b1under~ ing doctor, who coolly tells you that really the other doctor was right all the time, while he himself was wrong, but,nevertheless that he think: he has gotjyour case riéht now,and can carry you through? \Ve should say, rather, that you will prefer the reli able old doctor, who was right all 1h+~ time, as the 'other fellow now con- fesses. And you will say, using an: other similitude, that he is a danger ous guide who has a trick of swap ping horses While crossing the stream. We may be sure that so great a turn was not.f made without some potent and compulsory cause. We think the indications clear enough that it must be laid to two causes i,’ particular. The first, greatest an? most general cause, we hold to have been that of an intimation im- pressed upon Mr. Blake to this effect, that unless he greatly qualified his position on the questions as to changes in the tariff, which have been mooted. even business men on his own side of politics would be compelled to regard his success in the present contest as the signal for widespread disaster to the country: Bankers and wholesalemen, devoted to the Grit side as they might be, still could not wholly get rid of their trusty business instincts, which told them that a panic, and a commercial catastrophe would follow, just as sure as an avowed free trade minis- try came into power. Nay, that the event would not delay itself until such a ministry had come into power, or had formally met the new Parliament, but that it would be precipitated at once, immediately the dread certainty became known. Next, there must have been some- thing else, which we can see “ stick- ing out” in the Malvern recantation. The farmers, even those among them, who were Grits, were going to kick against the injustice of pro posing that American farm products should come free into Canada, while ‘urs must continue to pay twenty per cent. toll for admission into the. United States. That glaring in- justice must have broken the back of many a Grit farmer, We fancy, as far as supporting ‘ a one-sided tariff was concerned, and, no doubt, much of the preswre that made Mr. Blake yield at last, came from this source Yesterday morning THE STANDARD was able to give details afforded by no other journal in this province con cerning the determination of Sir Charles T upper to throw himself into the breach again in opposition to the Grit Secessionists of his native pro Vince. In thus sacrificing auseful, congenial and honorable position fo: the toils and trouble: of active poiiti- cal life Sir Charles i as pro-.94 tr :: to his record for courage and self sacrifice. Hecan sayof l‘onfederation as Grattan said of the Irish Parlia ment, that he sat by its cradle, but he does not propose to pursue the parallel to Grattan’s conclusion and add that he has been compelled to follow it to its grave. That grave Mr. Blake’s Nova. Scotia friends and allies have been engaged for months in digging, Mr. Blake undertaking to provide the corpse. If any man can forbid the funeral Sir Charles Topper is the man. To great mental capacity and physical vigor he adds a moral cour- age that is equal to the achievement of any victory and superior to any danger of defeat. This courage he displayed while the Dominion was still in its infancy. when he had for an Blake himself had not dreamed of if very long, judging by all that ha: been made known to the public in the premises. Up to the very day of disclosure, almost, the organs of the party were allowed to go on, all unconscious of the coming change, (lecl airing that it was “ Liberal ” policy to do away with Protection entirely and to make the terifi' one for re- venue only. A most remarkable case, surely, not only of swapping horses when crossing the stream, but also of making the “ swap” in such a. hurry as to astonish all bystanders. THE CUMBERLAND WAR HORSE g‘IN HARNESS AGAIN. opponent no less a man than Joseph Howe. The latter’s eloquence and influence secured him a powerful personal following, but Sir Charles rose superior to personalities and sectionelism,and before many years had elapsed Mr. Howe confessed himself a convert to the broad na- tional views of his opponent. As compared with Mr. Howe, the men whose unpatriotic efforts Sir Charles antagonists to-day, areas singed cats to a Bengal tiger. The only advan- tages they enjoy are the sympathy of Mr. Blake and the short time at Sir Charles’ disposal. Mr. Blake’s sym- pathy will not count for much while he is hard pushed to hold his own seat, and the time available will be more useful to the Napoleon of Canadian politics than it could possibly be to any other man in Caradian public life. His tactics are Napoleonicâ€" bold, aggressive and brilliant. His movements are distinguished by un- failing energy and surprising alacrity. Vi'hen he finds the enemy he never stops to count the odds, but falls upm him at once, with the enemy underneath. There is no Welling- ton to meet him in Nova Scotia. The people of Ontario know from experience that all this is true of Sir Charles Tupper. They will re- member that When Mr. Blake was stumping this province in an endea- vor to strangle the C. P. R, to which he now hypocritically pro- fesses to have been, friendly, Sir Charles came west and chased him from Toronto to London, via Hamil- ton, and back again, vainly de- manding that they should meet upon the same public platform. He was willing to go to Mr. Blake’s meetings, and that Mr. Blake should attend his, the people to decide be- tween them. All he asked was a full and fair discussion of the great scheme, which the mind of the leader of the Opposition, either would not, or could not grasp. Mr. Blake excused himself upon the plea that there was not time fora dir: cussion of the subject at joint meet- ings, but the spectacle which he pre- sented in fleeing from his opponent had its effect, and the public mind of Ontario was convinced that he lacked either courage or a good case, or both. I t is to be regretted that the Cumberland war horse, as he is popularly called in his own province, will, for obvious reasons, be unable to hunt Mr. Blake through the lat-- ter’s own territory again durng the present campaign, but he has a great and good work to do at home, and tens of thousands of loyal Cana- dians in the West have high hopes of his success in once more stemming the tide of treason and secession, which the musketeers have let loose in the M ariiime Provinces. W'hen the Grit candidate declares him- self as coming out in opposition to an N. P. candidate, that is to say, to do list-tie against the N. P. itself, it is well for the wage earners in every kind of industry to Inquire what this means to them. The matter was four years ago pithin put in our columns by Mr. Freeman, when be contrasted his own wages before the Grits came into office, and after they went out. His wages went steadily down from $1.80 to 75 cents per day. Truly the period of Grit rule, 1873 8, were da k days to the wageâ€"earners. They felt the ground gra- dually slipping away'from under their feet. Their work was sapped away from them by unfair competition, which the Grits refused to check by legislation. But the N. P. restored everything on a. firm basis. After it was introduced and got fairly agoing, there was no more trouble. The improvement was not confined to Ontario. All the provinces shared in it. Take the following in respect of the manu- factaro of nails and tucks, from New Brunswick, as an example :â€" Annual Employes. wagrs. Prnduce. 1831. . . . . 93 $29.8“) $233,000 1836. . . . .162 51.000 300,000 The rolling mills show the following in- crease :â€" Employes. Wages. Pro’ucts. 1881..... 40 $6000 8 80,000 1886. . . . .155 74,500 315,000 The car and locomotive works show the following increase :â€"â€"- Employee. Wages. lSSl..... . . . . . . . 166 $ 83,000 1886 . . . .. l . . . . . . . . . . 611 249,000 The muou mills of the province have an i» M: vwmreoedented advance :â€" 12 up ayes. Wages. Products. 1581..“ :44 $ 40,108 3 276,178 [886. . . . lnhU 369,000 1,590,000 Them t xr'ts evince that during the past five yea ' the Plovince of New Brunswick has mud-e meat industrial progress, which would um. have been possible under the fiscal poliv of the Mackenzie-Cartwright Adminlsm'w ion. And the same is true 01 all the pr: vinees.â€"L0ndon Free Press. HOW THE N. P. AFFECTS WAGES. A IAIN The L The L - Alon Advertiser makes a. com- parison between the Civil Service staff of 1878 and 1885 at Octavm, which contains the usual percentage of error. It is as follows :â€" 1878. 1885. Departmental servants. . . . 480 1,180 Increase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700 The extent of erroneousnevs may be as- certained by a glance at the Auditor- General‘s report for 1885, which places the number of Civil Service employes at 633 for that year. It erra by 100 per cent. but that is not out-ofâ€"the-Way for the Ad- vgrtiser.-C'lmtlmn Planet. 5'} PERCENTAGE OF ERROR» The publication of Archbishop Tache’s advice to his compatriots to ustain the Government in its vin~ dication of the law, has carried cone fusion into the Rielite camp. For many months these reckless and mendacious men have been loudly asserting that all who refused to hold that killing was no murder, if done by one of their friends, were Orange bigots who condemned Riel because of his religion. Musketeer Laurier led the pack who gave this cry in Quebec, and Mr. Blake joined the chorus, after dis- tinctly stating at London that he would not. According to himself Mr. Blake is a more intense Roman Catholic than either the Archbishop of St. Boniface or the Bishop of Three Rivers. The latter demon- strate most clearly that Riel was Without justification in his war upon both the Church and the State, and in setting himself up not only as the head of a new commonwealth, but also as the head of a new religion. Mr. Blake says that he was perfectly right in this, and that the bishops are ut- terly wrong and false to all true principles in taking the opposite view. Archbishop Tache was the best friend Riel ever had, and re- ceived in return only the blackest in- gratitude. Education and positionâ€"â€" everything that he hadâ€"-Riel owed to his patron. When Mr. Blake was offering $5,000 of the money of this province for Riel’s head the arch- bishop intervened to save his life. Mr. Blake exhausts the credulity of the most credulous of Grits when he tells them that the archbishop did not know more of Riel and his crimes than men who never saw him. The Rielites are furious with the bishops for the stand they have taken upon the side of law and order, but their fury only serves to emphasize the dishonesty of their assumed zeal for the weal of creed and country. For many months The Globe has been unfailing and unremitting in its attacks uponfi: J udge Morgan in re‘ spect to the revision of the voters’ list in East York. Even the Hon. Edward Blake, that man of stainless greatness, profound intellect and serene soul, has not hesitated on the platform, speaking as the mouthpiece of the party in Canada, to use aword of Globe coinage in this connection by referring to constituencies as “ morganized.” The causes that have led to these attacks form an interesting history. A history in every respect worthy of the party of purity. A history that is a full exposition of Grit tacticv when preparing for an election. It seems ‘that the purist wire- puilers had determined to seize upon East York at any cost, and the s heme evolved provided for the abuse of the provisions of the Franâ€" chise Act, with Mr. George W. Badgerow as the engineer. The method adopted was simple and is easily illustrated. For in- stance, take the Scarboro list, Where Mr. Badgerow made application to put some 141 names on the prelim- inary list by means of wholesale declaration sworn to by one John Crawford Clark, a well-known Grit partisan, who in the declaration de- clared, not that he had personal knowledge of the right of any of these parties to be put on the list, or even that he had made any in- quiry in the matter, but merely that he had been informed and believed that these 141 persons had the right to vote. This interesting legal document was sworn to before Mr. Badgerow, and there are those wicked enough to say that the aforesaid Badgerow, first made up the list and then “in- formed” his friend Clark that the list was correct. Whether this be the case or not Judge Morgan very properly ruled the declaration insuf- ficient, but he allowed and put on the thirty-two persons who appeared from the assessment roll and other- wise to have some sort of right to vote. This was the first act, and for this, because Judge Morgan would not allow the man Clark to vouch for a whole township, The Globe commenced that torrent of coarse- ness, untruthfulness and brutality which has never since ceased. Then at the preliminary court Mr. Badgerow appeared with a list of 117 persons from Scarboro, having drop- ped nineteen of the namesâ€"presum- ably because he recognized that evi« dence could not be adduced that they had a right to be on the list, though he tried to have them put upon the preliminary listâ€"and he had added twenty-seven new names. Present- ing this list Which he said was sub- stantially the same as the first, he BISHOPS VS. RIELITES. WHAT MORGANIZED MEANS. fought all the morning to have it ac cepted without however producing any further evidence than. holding in his hand the sworn declarationsâ€"- which he stated he had at. great trouble and expense procuredâ€"from each man on his roll. His Lordship again very properly ruled that he could not add names at the prelimin. ary, except on evidence which would be subject to cross-examination in the usual way, and Mr. Badgerow failed again. and again The Globe shrieked aloud in vituperative agony. It will be borne in mind that the dec amtions were produced and served as sworn to be- fore magistrates, While the men who are said to have been so sworn eta e that they made no affidavits. Mr. Badgerow, no doubt has the affidavits in his possession and by producing them will at once set at rest all doubts upon the subject. It is to be hoped that he will so pro- duce them at an early date, because even nowthere are people un‘charibâ€" able and reckless enough to hint the the frauds which were sought to b. practised in Winnipeg, were also at- tempted in East York. Be this as it; may, the other fact stands that Judge Morgan is being unmeasurably abused by the whole whelp brood of Ontario Grit journr lists, because as an honorable man and ass. sworn officer of the law he refused to allow a brézen wire puller to perpetuate what was unlawful and what would have been a. fraud on the rightly qualified electors over whom he had jurisdiction. The term “ Morganized " is one of honor even in the mouth of a. braggadocio like Blake. Now occurs a matter that may possibly require some explanation. A number of these eighty-eight per- sons have been inquired of on the subject, and they state one and all that they never'made any such declaration as Mr. Badgerow said he had obtained, but that they had merely been informed that they had the right to go on the list and had been asked to sign applications to be put on. After this fatal elforl; Mr. Badgerow disappeared but the Grit managers turned up again at the final revision with a list of 126 names, made up from the 117 from whom Mr. Badgerow stated he had obtained affidavits, and 9 others. Now what do our readers suppose became of Mr. Badgerow’s 109 authorized citizens when it; came to a, matter of c1'oss~examination’l Twenty- eight of the 109 were dropped with out evidence being called, while 41 others were shown on their own evidence to have no right whatevei to vole. Adding the 14 names pre~ viously dropped it. become; evidth that maasurelesai abuse was heaped upon Judge Morgan, simply for not allowing the list of one township to be stuffed with 88 names of men who had no right to vote. Confederation, A National Policy, A Canadian Pacific Railway. These, translated into the langu- age which properly describes their re- sults, have given us National unity, National prosperity, National development.â€"â€"Clzat/zam Planet. GREAT WORKS OF CANA- DIAN CONSER VATIVES. OBJECTS OF CANADIAN RE- FORMERS. Power, Race prejudices, Repeal of the Union. Which can have but the results as follows: National disintegration, National degradation, National death. "It is, therefore, with no little pain 1nd chagrin that as a Reform journal, we we compelled to make the reluctant ad- mission that our party is most shamefully misrepresented by the set of men who have held control of the Government since Sir John Macdonald fell, and who, after kicking out, one by one, the rungs of the ladder of principle upon which they mounted to eminence, are now sus- pended in mid~air upon two disconnected poles, which they are certain to find very shortly to be no better than rotten sticks. . . . .7 7 . “ II: is true that Manitoba can do but little to vindicate her sense of outraged propriety ; but if she does not send to Oh- tawa. at. the next general election four solid votes, hostile to the present (Mackenzie) Administration, it will be simply because personal or local, and in no sense politic-3‘, reasons prevail. Humiliating as the con- fession necesarily is of one’e party lead- ers, it is obvious that Mr. Mackenzie has now thrown over “principle” and set up in its place “ expediency ” as the rallying cry of his Cabinet. If any one desires an accurate definition of the meaning of this word in the sense generally understood, and in which we emoloy it. by consulting Webster he will find that it means “the quality of aiming at selfish or inferior good at the expense of that: which is higher ; self-interest ; self-seekinqâ€"ofnen opposed to moral rectitude.” We repeat that we still believe in, and have hope: for, the Reform party; but we have utterly lost faith in the political consistency and moral rectitude of those who:now mlO.”-‘Fifi The Wimipqa Free Prev. 00!. IO, 1m. GRIT VS. GRIT.