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86 parison of -- t of maintaint ogfl in g'ny{! is :'%gle, why dfronot his ario asylums and those of the United . hon. mm,oppo-lte possess their souls | States, he said that it was worthless, in peace and allow matters to go along because the conditions were in _ no quietly and await the ordinary time for sense comparable. In the United States> holding the elections? Why, it was inti-- fthere were many wealthy patients, who . mated there that afternoon that hon. were willing to pay for their care in 'imembers will probably have to sit there these institutions, which were on a and do bus'ness on New Year's Day, an more extensgive scale than ours. In ad-- unheard of suggestion. Could anyone --dition the cost of living in the United imaginre any excuse that can be given | States was greater than it was in Can-- for bringing them back here between| ada. He characterized as childish the j Christmas and New Year's except thatl argument of Mr. Harcourt that the hon. gentlemen are on the gallop for Opposition, whilée now complaining of the elections. He warned hon. gentle--| Government 'expenditures, had chal-- men that the sooner they got before the lenged a very small percentage of people the sooner will they obtain an: them. 'The late Opposition at Ottawa expression of opinion from the people . had chalienged a much smaller pro-- that they are unfit longer to continue portion of all the monstrous and cor-- to dirsct the affairs of the Province. The rupt expenditure of that corrupt Gov-- House had been called to do hbusiness ernment at Ottawa. Mr. Whitney l'hbut they had no business before them. denied that he had ever said that John The luniber question,they had been told. | Bandfield Macdonald's policy was to was an important one, of transcendant | hoard up money. He had said that importance over all other questions be--. \ John Sandfield Macdonaw's policy was | fore the people to--day, and a careful protection of the revenues of that the members had been the Province, and that, having been' called together to take the able to save money, he was able to opinion of the House upon it. They spend it. He had never advocated, as | met on the 30th of November, and this no man of common sense would advo-- was the 17th of December, and with re--, cate, the simple hoarding of Provincial spect to the policy of hon. gentlemen: \ revenues. . The SandfReld Macdonald upon this question, the consideration of Government took account of their as-- which they gave a¥'a reason for call-- sets and sources of revenue and sat ing the House thgether-- ' down and calculated what their re-- Hon. Mr. Hardy--When did we give venue would be, and kept their ex-- | that out? P penditure within their revenue, and in | Mr. Whitney,,continuing,said that he so doing pursued the business policy : d'd not say that the Government is-- which every business man must ob-- sfivd a proclamation to that effect, but serve if he would not fail, and which 'hon. gentlemen'! who represented the the Government. of the Province must Government in différent parts of the observée. The Provincial Preasurer had country and thelr®'political organs did stated in one breath that the surplus give it out. Theéy"had been there two| left by John Sandfield Macdonala was weeks and noth! d&l\ad been done. His $1,350,000, and then in the noext breath hon. friend waq'fl,e ween two fires. He he had said that he comld show that it is afraid to take the step; he knows full was less than that amount, but he did well what the desires and wishes of the not fix the amount. The point of the people are, yet hé hesitates to take what Cpposition is this, and he was never is sometimes cailed a leap in the dark. tired of stating it . broadiy, Hon. --gentlemon n the Government that no matter what may have or benches bad cl#imgd that John Sand-- may not have been the expenditure of field Macdonald "(:as a Liberal. He preceding Governments, the hon. gen*® knew more about that matter than hon. tlemen epposite have not hesitated to gentlemen did, angaassortcd that that iC 1B a portion of the nesets of the hon. gentleman was in alliance with the Province of Ontario in erecting pub--| Conservative party. The Liberal party lic buildings, and they take credit for| drove him from office and drove him the use they have made of them. to his grave but a few years afterwards. e 1f statesman was a Baldwin Re-- Anything b@t Direct Taxation, ;I".};'ml:rfelt is true, but there was a wide Not only is the policy of the Opposi-- gap between that and the Reform party, tion not "diregtsaxation," but is "any-- and although he never called himself thing which wili put a stop to the écom-- a Conservative, he could not be called ing of direct taxation,". which is the a Reformer, and was in alliance with e}t'l'ect Tlnd rgmillt of the continuation of the Conservatives. _ the policy of hon.'gentlemen opposite. s He quoted from an editorial in The The Vice of Parsimony. Globe in 1871 or 1872%, which had been ceasurer 'boasted in a rollick-- previously quoted during the debate, In' I"Ehf'.fl'l;,l th:t the Government woul4d which it was stated that the time had not yield to the vice of parsimony, come for a hait. that the maxlmuml which was a proof of their attitude to-- of _ expenditure >« had been reach--; wards the finances of the Provincs. ed. The _ gentleman -- who wrote| Were they the parties to be the custod-- that editorial _ had, he _ declared, ians of the resources of the people ? a proper sense of the true condition of Nolbcdy suggested that there should be| the affairs of the Province. He (Mr. any hoarding, but every person who Whitney) knew and the hon. gentie-- tad the® welfare of the Province mi n;en knewt;'llm't' 'the poioplel of fth'*'!: Pf;")- heart would insist that the resources of | vince are nking serlously o e fin-- w4 t ancial affairs of the Province. and the ' the Province should be carefully v:srg ' supporters of hon. gentlemen knew it ! ed and that the expenditure sh%u +R *, as well as those hon. gentlemen on the kept well within the income. i fi"i t Ide of the House. and the as the Treasurer had said, that the ; fon mentiemenp lge k t.h late Dominion Government, which the, hon. gentlemen opposite took the matter | 0 ition had supported for eightcen | scriously. If they did not believe the ppos statements of the Opposition in this re--