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'penditure ? Besides, he is argu wee pended it ; that we are living on our that we have arrived at a state of pl::l'- 1 4 capital, and they have declared that perdom, that the resources are pract!-- we had no right to do so for annual cally exhausted. Let us see whether expenditure. 'They have gone furthor they are or not. We have $1,096,000 a=>-- than that upon every platform. _ Mr. rived under the constitution from the Hardy then read extracts from Mr. Dominion Government ; we have inter-- Whitney's speeches at Glengarry and est on our capital, our surplus, of $200,-- Orono charging that one of the ways 000 a year; we derive from licenses ' in which the Government got rid of | $280,000 to $300,000, law stamps $63,000, ' this money was by the appointment of | succession dutiee $165,000 last year, officials who were not needed, and that | casual revenue $109,000, public institu-- there are four times as many officials tions $146,000, Crown lands something now as when they took office, although near a million dollars, and yet Mr. the population is not much greater : Whitney attempts to mislead the peo-- that, finding they could not maintain ple by the statement that we have their establishment by ordinary re-- come to the end of our resources, that venue, they began to sell timber we must resort to direct taxation, that limits. The hon. gentleman says that we are face to face with direct taxa-- we had no right to use it for the pur-- tion, that this Province has no re-- pose, that if we had placed that money sources left. It is, as he admitted hay-- in the bank at interest it would have ing said yesterday, that we were about paid every dollar of annual expendi-- to advertise almost the last acre of our v, ture for many years to come. Surely timber limits. If it were Parliament-- 4 the hon. gentleman cannot have wan-- ary I would say that the statement " dered into the region of fable to state does not cover the hon. gentleman with | that ? If we were not to use the tim-- honor, nor does it cover with honor | + ber limits and the licenses and the | those of his colleagues who stood by ' succession -- duties revenue, : which | and allowed the statement to go un-- $ amounts together to about $1,200,000, !'('hallenged. I say a statement of that @ quite one--third of our entire revenue, kind is the wildest fable, the wildest the great features of our revenue romance, a statement which cannot be s apart from that which we receive from verified by any human being, and it is the Dominion under the act of Confed-- exactly like the statements of Mr. + eration, will my hon. friend tell me Whitney, who took exception to 'the | where the money is to come from. * remarks of Mr. Farwell. Mr. Farwell ~ where it is to be found, if we are not treated him mildly. Mr. Whitney bas 3 | to use that which we receive from the \ never given, I will venture to say, from «4 sources I have named, unless they de-- the statements which he has offered or M rive it from direct taxation ? But they from any familiarity which he has ever go around and say, as demagogues shown he has with the subject on the | ' they say it, that we are taking the floor of the House, three days' careful patrimony of the people and spending study to the mining laws of this coun-- it from year to year. _ Whereas they try or the mining laws of the countries , know that we are doing as all Govern-- of the world. Now, he quoted the re-- * ments did who have preceded us in marks made by Mr. McCharles of Sud-- this Dominion and in this Province, bury about " Hardy's silent hills." Af-- : and as is done in every State | ter the bill, which I had the honor to of the Union and in every | introduce, imposing royalties, became country that I have ever heard or read law Mr. McCharles became a very se-- I of. _ They even went so far at Lind-- | vere critic of the Government, and he ¢ say as to argue that we went behind ! has been a severe critic of our mining w &A $1,000,000 a year ; they meant of course | policy all along. When he pretends to 'S that we were doing so by using what say that the hills are silent he asserts | ' -- N they called capital. I defy my hon. that it was due to the imposition of 3 friend to contradict the statement royalty by the bill passed at the in-- 3 whith I bhave made more than once, stance of the Government _ He has -- ithat their policy is direct taxation, been quoted over and over again in 3 that there is nothing left for them but the columns of the Opposition press ; direct taxfl.t'on. that it is 1mp0!!slhle his arguments have been used by the for them to carry on the affairs of this predecessor of the hon. gentleman, and | Province without using the money de-- yet we find Mr. Whitney goes to Sud-- 'rlved from the sale of timber lands, bury, where Mr. McCharles now lives, t iicenses and succession duties. But lhe makes his specch in the presence | |my hon. friend went on repeating it, | of Mr. McCharles, and Mr. McCharles, I l and I was amazed that the hon, gen-- who has been a severe critic of the 'tleman would stand.up in this House CGovernment, writes as follows to The and repeat it, " that we are practical-- Sudbury Journal :--"In a column of 1y at the end of our resources.' I read mild criticisms in your last issue you from his remarks " that the resources tried to show the vague, unsatisfac-- of the Provinces were practically ex-- tory character of _ Mr. Whitney's \ hausted."_ This, I think, was at Glen-- speech here from the mining point of 'garry and four or five other places. . view. You might have said a great, ' 'But if they are exhausted we are face | deal more on this subject and in strong-- to face with direct taxation ; if we are [er terms. . . . But apart--from de-- * right or wrong in using the timber re-- | nouncing the Engledue deal and venues of this country, what is there blanket applications he failed entirely | left for Mr. Whitney ? Can he picture to define his mining poli¢y, and if he | his policy ? . Can he write it in any has any right here in the princi-- color he pleases ? Is there any other pal mining centre of the Pro-- h policy open to this country than the | yince was the very place to have done policy of direct taxation to raise the | this in. He never touched upon the amcunt which he says is improperly real grievance of the miners and pros-- 4 used for the purposes of ordinary ex-- preetors at all.'" The man who has 3 been helping Mr. Whitney and his i friends seemed to think very little of his i