The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 14 Apr 1892, p. 20

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------'-'"r""'r'""--. t, ' Ipaike this friend and. comrade, Mr. Mac. Elimination on political offences, ttet:/,,,bic,'f,'t "we. rendered invalid)" service to th iv,- that men who have serve a": J . ' . F the penitentiary in Sir John's constituency , I m ot good goyortymrnt m Canada. He hue a, right to come back to society if they '., was in ofiioe for only-five years, and Brown behave themselves. If public incl! who forastill shorter perbd, but the two were htwo committed great Pour?" 1r,,i,11'S,f,',"g'l .lwsys mod .face in the wilderness. back to the countr whie 1 1M con a? ', ' . ' . - T those crimes, and ITC/ll; avow the wron ' boy were q n?!" to 'it ilop?ri dmit that they have violated the law of I tion so long as the principles tot. which they the land and say they are penitent. how. contended .were triumphing, and-whether WW long I should feel ditrirom11 which? lin or out of power they never'oe'asedto them on the . :,',at)t.i'//,1'l d, ohm," ( proclaim by "precept and example th l 'llut "a "'111, til2plf"'lll'. Canada see I ,ternal truth. that ' "righteousness exalteth _ to it that they pufever condone rascality IP nation." " at the present moment their in their rulers, whether Liberal or Iory. teaching appears to have been in vain, let 2: "my {kl'eudf Itt"2t that ii: Q," iii; us who are loft strive to reinforce it in th re ax the aws o nu) ic more t y places the contagion will spread "dit Plague ' me e'"ne2.te..eete?d',2ye and utuuMsh manner. _ ". all over the community, you Wt in lice , 7'C77,rC7-,T',T7rr"r'.- "' " ocial and financial disorder, t'f autqulr A UREA] DtsBANsit. . want of rincinle will be infuse no ony ' - . into carp Feddral and Provincial Govern. Atsyone who has heard Mr. Laurier talk8 ' :nents, but into the very centre of our mei- of the grand old man who lies dead at the " 'ipal and school systems, which 3'!" beardits . house of mourning on St. Alban'e street has . . . . . rove is . . .fJtt1,i.2,'rgt','ry {31:36: 'i',ov'1edlne/',rl'll.' g oe-y probably heard the Liberal leader drop the eminent " y . [mint remark that he' was N grand Prophetic words ! Of his own rigid adhe. [ Cl man on his legs." No 1r,"tetttryyy,et" " sion to principle, to what he believed to be ary debater ha. appeared Itt ttttt Canaduus ilright and best for the country, nothing Commons in our time. He had little of the Ant-ea be said. He fell in 1878 because hei movifis. empathetic eloquenoe of Mr. _ refused, being a free trader, to turn Protec- i Leaner; he le".1 no such mturtery of stately, Etiouist. At Ciiuton on July 5, 1878, a icw . ' majestic English" Mr. Blake. But he had 's weeks before his defeat, he said t-- ' k' quiclr, andmercdess 1ogio, a biting humor, "d believe, andl have always believed", " tswift P.i.it"tm."t' /rf "gurnent tha that it would be most disastrous to the? was irresistible in its advance on the . Liberal party to remain in power one P?I nenemy's position. He never played with ""."" longer than they can keep, their r. theiringes of a controversy. With mir principles and carry them into eliect by ' iii ' t * l t t . l t t the practical legislation. And, although I (in. .m een courogo 'e wen tr "full o C' not pretend to be lacking in a feeling: "if, , core of the subject, faced all his opponents' :pride inthe position I have received at meg forces in the open and drove the wholell, "rad" If, lilukl'eQI'F l" Emmi". 1,11.:g, "Y , array from the field. He was rarely if '?. wmm a e iiiinltoy more pcasuic mg e . . "., _ sitting on the furthest back bench " (hr,2 ,evcr overthrown in a Parliamentary con 'Iousc'of Commons as a purery independent}. ttest. He had such th mastery .0; details, member of Parliament than to occupy thor. , such a complete grahp of all the issues with irst (if the 'I'reisisuryI benches if conipcllcpi,'A which he had to' do. his methods 3 2 t on or to occupy tint seat to pi'cpoiiui a T ' l ', d . . th olicy at variance with niv 'previous utter- V were so Crt., an his y.ll'll .0 .- moon to the great party which Iliavo the high that he "as never overuustched (. honor to"lead. Sir, I hope there in still left even by the moat alert tusd power- ( "l this c'oupt.ry such: thing "8 high-mindcd-k . ful of his adversaries. His followers , "Ci" In Pol'llji'fl life. ll l t during the years that he led the Commons ., a private l e, as a who anew him can, 'N l ite in the testimon that whatever differ. F ' attest, Mr. Mackenzie was a singularly) _:;:co. arose on 'gl',',',',","":' policy whatever' I if?!" finaictoflt mer-Frou m the behind P? grievances of individual supporters, , Brit." in 1ili'l 2t,1t'feh LE: (firs: Lwhatever the oonfliet of views in the caucus . u, b . , . . _ . ,1 . . . or " the Council chamber, all was for- , :13 'li.')',,',':?:.;',']', "Mimi y' :,,i,'i'iC1a..'ll."' N Lotto" and forgiven when, as Mr. Laurier . . ' if i tr JA' ' K _ t . . . "He "we ti,',')':'),"', l he 1"2 t, it 1 ' . l l , "iwould say. ho was I'? his legs" making his: . . tonipnunt unt no otut cot! l 't Tdefence and establishing his case before tell what his suherings were. He lay quite , , . I tl d li still most of the time, neither inviting nor " Parliament. n ,streng l an rem mess srcfusing the "ourishmunt forced upon him, Hon. C. F. Frasers oratory has many of gar conscious ot the attempts made to . the characteristics of that of the dead Sminisier to his comfort. . . . . The _ ll leader. Hon. L. ll. Davies, whom Mr. 'li/ttttIhr:,:?,.':),', 'voei"etl'liigt'1tcg:,11tt Mackenzie ranked .. one of the very "New nauated. 'l'heiicrlorward , that could' . of the Parliamentary Liberals, ..a.nd tit, ' he done "as to soothe the patient by the '.d whom the old man had a strong liking and "madness of. the grief-Stricken but loving " " great admiration, speaks with a method ','Ji1"d1ir2, c., :31: tret the: tlSiltgrdldy " , 1 nd an energy that recall Mr. Mackenzie in p ' i ie m was ' I . , . . i very near. The long Struggle was at au? pu best days, but Mr. Davies " rather! ictui. (i'ltu once strong name bctanie weal: kinore of "I orator and rather les, of h' is an'iuiant's. The ootsive head-m on: dolmter than the dead statesman. The: tlf,,',"',),','),' features in'icated as much "O. higher qualities of oratory Mr. Mackenzie x l. r . tr , i ' , _ IR. at . . , 'i)y'i)yld1i,'veiytt'.,eyty/hattr,1re, " ',rNt 'Rdid notposssesm ttt '".'y pre-eminent _'yssrse.i. ly of the battle for life and the i'r),la"cgttil ~'. Mr. Blake, M r. Laurier and Line". ll . Ross; its clone. The angel of death hadeu Ahl ' .hnve a truer touch of eloquenCe. But a, :lie'reomand taken possession, and in Br l t more effective Parliamentary debater or N 11'lirt,',t2l/c1u:t.itiieye his presenge hnore powerful and convincing campaigner descriptid: In 'tldhhli'liillililg recalled "M! J . our politics have not developed. ' _ " c--- _' ' ' --rtt"r-eeer""Pe'"", 'fri21,"e/e':c:i/cr,i,:lr',r.t,y.:ix..m, ' AN vxcumwm POLICY. \'IVlil'Lsgil'cI _.. i-.' l I',',' ,' . ' Tr, . Ami sl,rt'ljdt7erefi,l',vu'."i'i'u:"t.c' slept, J J Shortly all" Uw, dvfcat of Mr. Muckcn- F Early Ott "nmiuy. a beautiful May morning, ')eicstiirvctutuient at the election of 1;...) a' liortly liciot'c'tlie break of day, the sad "political friend uho had contested " Cou-': recipe closed. Iiic Angel of the Cotennnt' see-Wit ,ive constituency in the interest of the"' " uuiue, urcouvcy the aptrit home,." i ILiberal t,'ovcrtunet" visited Ottawa and.I

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