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r Sale or 130 for Sale. 3D HEIFERS RIGHT )USCS U {51‘ HF DECEMBERâ€"- fame. conveniently * 4 I Lambmn street "I. é». tap in kitchen. “fl m for Sale *or Sale. AND LOT ON ‘\ t0 Rent. =1 M? Venture. W ‘50. and a Q 1‘0“ the tam. w a »: water a: both w an partwulan . . .‘l t. Fuft‘st‘ of or Sale. éterCe. union. on Fur teln- sidem‘e to R h. Prom ale. UARAFRAXA 330d 3h)“: 2.“ 1w .‘M‘YOS, 60“ -.Ԥi MICKLE. Che-icy. (h. \ r8 ! raj; \\ ‘mltb U- I“: r 53" H E 3!!! CON. Sale. 30 D". PANTRY. Wt II C” 9 M75. 1. ’0. T3 13’ roe-I. am. OIL ale. «xx rial, “with. Prion. EZR'O abb to My. AN APPEAL TO UBEBALS THE NEW FAMILY COMPACT While I am aware that the prim digits of an elector, who hos hadno getive part in politics, m of little nterest to the public, I think that the reply of the Government organs to my letter is of some importance. The more so. when the same method at reply is adopted with everyone who diflers with the Government. Reason: for not publishing the let- tor were given by The Globe after days of profound silence in a column editorial of great wrath. Onereaeon ”Signed was “it had already been published in the evening newspaperl." This was not true. as the letter was given to The Globe at 9 a.m.. Dec. 19, in time for the evening edition. which the Editor boasts is as large as that of any other evening paper in Toronto. Duty of th. Indomndom SW of Ontario. The Globe editorial in a. tirade of abuse. Ono would have thought that. m..- Editor, it he had any detencqpr the Government, might have used his editorial space to better advantage. The Globe said: “What matter though, with E. King Dodds. he did campaign against temperance legis- lation in the interest of the liquor name?" In 1884, when I was a student. I delivered in my native county {our addresses against the Scott Act. I believed the Act would delay better legislation, that it could not be eniorced, and. if carried, would soon be repealed. I thought that it was a device to lucp from the tomporanco peoplo tho legislation which they (blind. 'lho loadod ro- lerendum o! a later day van a aimi- iar dovlco. I atated my petition clearly and everyone underltood it. I was not retained by the liquor party. and did not campaign in their intact“. A chap aimilar to The Glob-’0 was made. some years '80. by n Conneflntivo paper. '11:. chug. was withdrawn nnd nn apology published. The Globe editor. annoyed that he had no dolonco. couched tho put 0! twenty years ago to find something to injure my ego to find nonlething to injure reputation. The Globe also said that I was guilty of coquetting with both poli- tical partlee before the lat Provin- cial election. and that about the same time I expected a favor from Mr. Whitney. This statement in false. I asked nothing from Mr. Whitney. expeCted nothing. and would have accepted nothing. I was and have always been as free to criticise Mr. Whitney as Mr. Ross. I have been oflered nominations by both parties, and I have always declined. Before the last Provincial election I :ml not seek a nomination, I did not shire one. and I would not have ac- '«'_r)t(’d one. I have never desired a x -.»:Hlllati0n since. The Globe insinuated that I was a Legruntled office seeker. This is un- rmv. I never had a personal griev- Mice against the Ontario orOttawa Hovernments. or any member of eith- er Government. I never received a ”wanna! favor from either Govern- ment and was never refused one. The 124. communication I received from t‘ae- ()ttawa Government was a. cor- «:nl letter requesting me to be a candidate in their interests. The Globe also said, “His past is -w{lit'l'2‘('i.“ I graduated at Knox ‘- mvrgc sixteen years ago, when I ms :1 young man, and I have been a ixinister, in good standing. of the N...- has ever laid a charge against :uv character. The editor was aware 0‘? this when he wrote his editorial. New Family Compact. many Government organs are en- gaged, because the Government has no defence, indicate the necessity for a change. But there is another mat- ter for consideration. Not only by the Government has the Liberal Party been disgraced. but by that combination of which the Govern- ment is the centre. There exists an organiZed tyranny, which has been developed by long office-holding. 11 any one opposes the new Family Compact, he is hurried to jail, ifhc #911 be charged with an nuance. and. I! not. his private life is assailed. ”any men. fearing m1 _‘t_’“'°' hesitate itâ€"o' obgoaewtllis evil. But the Cfxmbination must be destroyed that there may be liberty ol Ipeech and a better public morality. The elec- torx‘ can do more than chw the Government fat, by doing that. they cap destroy the tyrannical mach}!!!1 When Mr. S. H. Blake, one of $110 foremost citizens this country ever had. criticized the Gavanment. '5“ _a whirlwind o! abuse was about hm}! The name of Blake recalls the . old day; Let Libcrfix 9 compare the Kiants of the davs of Baldwin and Maintain. with 11:}: . :eHo'I m 9' â€"‘_ A- -‘. J-â€" Pononol Atnok. In. was the lion oi the Reform par- ty. He served the country in the d”. of the “fit Family Compact; we live in the days of the second. His son. Edward Blake. was Pranier oi Ontario. He would have become Pre- mic oi the Dominion had he not is“. it his duty to enter upon another political struggle, in the land of his lather-s. The Reform party has had no greater family than the Blakes. No family be given more ability, time and money to the service of the Liberal party and the country. The evils against which William Hume Blake fought long ago, like the lion that he was, were no greater than the abuses which his son, Mr. S. H. Blake, opposes now. Mr. S. H. Blake, eminent citizen and philan- thropist oi note, because he opposed corruption, is denounced by the friends of the Government, masquer- ading as Liberals, while the once great Liberal party, fallen upon evil days, is duped and disgraced. Liberalism and Liberty. 1! Liberalism stands for anything surely it is freedom of speech. “Lib- erty of speech," said James Otis, “is inalienable " Can it be that this is true of the United States. and that in Canada a Liberal dare not express his opinions? The Dominion Alliance complained because the Government broke its pledges. They were at once attacked. When a Liberal enters a protest against corruption, the serv- ants of the machine, unable to make any adequate reply to charges estab- lished by the courts, heaps abuse up- on him. They do not hesitate to at- tack men like Mr. Blake, Walter Mills and others who are prepared to slider, it thereby they may serve their country. The strongest evidence against a man is his own admission. Is not the Government condemned out of its own mouth or by the chief organ which represents it? It is a whim of human nature that a man will se- verely criticize a friend and be very angry if another employ like criti- cism. When I reviewed the course of the Government. the Billingsgate vocabulary of The Globe was let loose upon me. All this time there was in the file of The Globe a con- demnation of the “present distress" as severe as any published by me. How do we account for this pheno- menon? There have been two occa- sions, and to the best of my know- ledge only two, when, by some hap- py combination of circumstances, not only has the editor been free from the controlling hands of his direc- tors, but there have recurred to him the conscientious scruples of former days. Even to The Globe there are vouchsafed a few rare moments of impartiality. I need not say that on these occasions The Globe is at its best. It is during these moments of independence and “vision" that it is reliable. On one of these rare occa- sion: The Globe contained the edi- torial which follows. When I re- member that it was during the pre- sent Administration that such a con- dition. as the editor describes. de- veloped. and read The Globe’s piti- leae condemnation, I wonder why the organ is so angry with me: “The canker of corruption has eat- en too deeply into the heart of Ca- nadian politics to have the malady cured by any judicial pronouncement, be it never so just, or by any en- actments of Parliament. be they nev- er so wisely framed. A boodler here or there might be discovered and punished, a grafter here and there might be cut on. one Government might be destroyed and another set up; but all that would touch only the surface corruption: of the dis- ease, it. would heal but slightly the hurt of the body politic. The poison is in the blood, the heart beats false- ly, and no remedy will avail that does not strike down to the springs of our political thought and activity with a power that recreates and makes clean. - “The curse of politics in every Leg- ‘ islature from Halifax to Victoria, and in the Senate and House of Commons at Ottawa. is the notion that political conduct has no rela- tion to the Ten Commandments, that, party expmliency is the first law of politics. that being found out is the only political crime. That notion is the political creed of those Who aver that. they are not in politics for their health, of those who affect to sit-er at Sunday School politics, and (if lhflht' who defend \‘ilOSt DOliti- (‘al crimes with the (lovil's argument that elections are not Won by prayer. 'l'hat doctrine is the. ‘facilis descensus .‘Vt'l'l'l. o!‘ (‘anadiun politics. It has «intimated lwymul repair more than one tiovct‘nmvnt. and is the almost incurable malady of both political parties. The present distress in the Ontario Legislature, the uncertainty of the Government’s life and the dere- lict helplessness of the Opposition, is not the result of accident or of blind, reasonless fate; it is the Nemesis of political crime, the inevi- table outcome of the defying and outraging of moral law for the sake of party gain. From the days of Simcoe's first Parliament until now there have been among us, in both political parties, forces making steadily for political unrighteousnees and something of their issue in hu- miliation and loss has come upon this generation. _And to the heritage AAA-) ..... -â€" of the past we have added our own quota of easy political virtue and lust for political power. We may not be in a worse plight than our fathers. but the burden is well nigh intolerable, and unlas lifted will crush as a millstone the life of our nation." h‘u.‘ a “a chequered past" would have been complimentary to the language The Globe would have used 11 the de- scription of the “present distress in correct, what is the remedy? The only remedy is the defeat of the Government. under which the “pre- ,_ ‘,__A“ This is the language of The Globe when at its best. “The poison is in the blood, the heart beats falsely, and no remedy will avail that does not strike down to the springs of our political thought and activity with a power that recreates and makes clean." A deplorable condi- tion! It I had used such language. The Globe on Corruption. Telling Connor“. lnéuhfie away. It 'sta’tea' {Eat the “pr-eat distress" is not the result of nccident or of blind, rmonlesa “to. Quite true! Corrupt methods hod ”nothing to do with it; the (film to punish culprits named by the Judges. Captain Sumnn'a tim- ber limits and many other incidents N do no honor to tho Govern- ment as closely related to the “pre- lent dietreu." What does'l‘he Globe moon by its reference to "last for' political power?" Is not the lust for political power of the Rose Govern- ment. which desperately clings to omce, lonely the cause of the “preâ€" Ient distress?" So seldom in The Globe in this rare mood it will be well to examine min the closing sentence. “We may not be in a worse plight than our (others. but the burden in well nigh Intolerable and unless lifted will crush as a millstone the life of our nation." The diagnosis of The Globe is good, but no remedy is oflered. It is unnecessary to suggest: one. There in. for such in. disease only one rem- edy known to the student of politics and that is change of Government. Ion Condo-nation. On Monday. November 19th. 1903. The Globe published an editorial. Another rare moment of “vision" had arrived. Whether the Sabbath exercises had exerted a beneficent in- fluence upon the editor and his direc- tors has never been disclosed. How- ever that may be, I ask the electors to read some of the statements made in The Globe editorial. 1 cannot quote all the paragraphs because the pressure of matter requires that “preference be given to those that make their points without any unne- cessary waste of space." “The condition of the Conservative party is not the first concern of On- tario Liberals, nor is their first duty the reform of the Opposition in the Legislature. There is a mote in our own eye which must be taken out if they would judge justly the quality of their opponents, or see clearly the way in which they themselves should walk, and the public service they are in duty bound to render.". LIU'sAlbu I’Q.V u-“-v-__, . Since the writing of the Barnacle 1 Editorial, I have not heard that any . of those rare and inspiring moments of vision have come to The Globe, but let us hope for the best. The “present distress" began and con- tinued under the present administra- | tion The logical conclusion ' is, that we cannot have a change of Government too 8001). The Coalition. Many independent Liberals. while unable to support the Ross Govern- ment, are asking if Mr. Whitney . could form a sufficiently strong Gov- ernment. Of late The Globe has been charging with incapacity, not only the Opposition, but everyone who op- poses the Ross Government. If the Government and The Globe believe the Ross Government incapable Why was coalition proposed? The offer of coalition is a guarantee to the people by the Government and Globe that Mr. Whitney and a number of his asâ€" sociates are qualified for Cabinet p08itions. It is now too late for The Globe to declare they are incapables. Mr. Whitney declared repeatedly that coalition was proposed to him. The ofler was made. he said, on three occasions. It was made by a Cabinet. i Minister. After a long silence Mr. I Ross discussed the subject in a char- ' acteristic way. As usual he dodged ; the issue. He did not deny that the ' 0301' was made. but he said it..wus i not made in a certain way. ‘ l‘,__ “The present distress has not come by accident or chance. or as the re- sult of a change of Government pol- icy, and not at all because of any growth of power or prestige in the ited election methods sometimes re- sorted to, and the activity of politi- cal parasites who‘ make party service Ontario Liberals? To let things drift? That is the policy of weak- ness and folly. . . . . A negative attitude and an uncertain control would but give opportunity to cor- porate and capitalistic plunderers to feed {at on the public domain. And from the party point of view to drift would be the part- of tools, for v“- r“â€" “â€"â€"â€" a means of private gain. Because of electoral corruption here and the prominence of party heelers there. Ontario Liberalism has lost some- thing of its old-time self-respect, and its note of confident and public spir- ited enthusiasm has lost something of strength and resonance." ‘ â€"Aâ€"- -l IOU. v-o ' _c part of fools." Many have thought so, but hesitated to use the rather indelicate language of the editor. “The reckoning day, a day of swift and certain judgment!" Can any doubt that, in the spirit of that Sabbath vision of November 18, 1903, the prophetic editor saw January 25, 1905, as the “day of swift and certain judgment."_ ~- A4 _â€".â€"‘:--A the reckoning day would come, a day of swift and certain judgment." Surely never came to any one a clearer prophetic vision. The editor in enraged because it is now claimed that his prophecy has been fulfilled. The Government has “drifted " Theirs has been a policy of “weak- ness and folly." Surely their atti- tude has been “negative." Can any doubt that they have had “uncertain control?" “To drift would be the The editorial so true, so suggesuve of the necessity for a change of Gov- ernment, so clear in its portrayal of the “swift and certain judgment" continues: “There is but one thing open to the Liberals of Ontario, and that thing is their first and most pressing duty. The barnacles on the ship must be treated with an iron hand. The interests of the Liberal party are superior to those of any individual, and the interests of the Province are superior over all." -_‘I_ uvv ”wtâ€"v â€" Whatever 111's Vmembers of the Gov- ernment may say about coalition, there can be no doubt as to the at.- titude oi-the Government organ. The Globe discumd coalition on Septem- V --â€"vâ€"â€" ber 11, 1902; also on September 17, 1902. The Globe said: “If the coun- try gives a decisive majority to Lib- erals or to Conaervativeg. there will true, so sugges_tive If it refuses 'onc" thing ‘WJé-s. not'fie mlitimu.’ if the people. by their votes. render my other kind of Government impalibla. When the Legislature meets, this question ought to he frankly dil- In its mend editorial. The Globe laid: “Without, therefore. conceding that party Government in Ontario is at an end, we certainly think that there are strong arguments {or sus- pending it 'uatil some definite issue arises. or until the people are pre- pared to give confidence without re- serve to one party or the other. We have no belief whatever in coalitions entered into for the sake of dividing emcee or on the principle that half the leaf is better than none. The sole question to be considered is that of honest, steady and efficient Gov- ernment for the Province of Ontario. '. . It is, we say, upon Provincial issues that Ontario parties should be formed. and no doubt, in order to reach that condition, a fusion of the existing parties, with an equal re- presentation oi each in the Govern- ment would be necessary. . . Such an arrangement would involve no humiliation to Mr. Ross or Mr. Whitney, would give each party an equal voice in determining Provin- cial policy {or the present, would put the strongest men of each party at the head of aflairs, and would insure the existence of a Government strong enough to give the Province aggres« sive administration." After such a guarantee of character 1 and ability to Mr. Whitney and the 1 leaders of the Opposition by the Gov- ‘ ernment organ, it is too late in the day for the Government and The Globe to declare that the Opposition is not capable of governing this Pro- vince. Corrupt Governments are retained in power by the unwavering partisan. The present Government would not have been so brazen and fallen into such evil ways had it not known that it could rely on the partisan who boasts that he always votes for his party. No party is always right or always wrong. An elector can be of service to his party and influence it for good by letting it be known that he has sufficient independence to oppose it. What influence for good has the elector who, whilehe some- times complains and deplores, always votes for his party? The useful citi- zen is the man who can vote against his party. For the independent elecâ€" tor to assert his power in this crisis may mean success to Mr. Whitney. but. far more, victory for indepen- dence. It will prove that no longer can a Government oflend against pub« lic morality and rely upon the army of partisans to line up and rescue it in.the hour of danger. As an object lesson in public morality it will be worth countless sermons or editorials. The Independents. There have been few occasions which appealed so strongly to the in- dependent elector as the present. The Government has been a transgressor. There is a great moral issue before the people. Now, if ever. must in- dividual responsibility be recOgnized. Everyone must be true to himsell. For one to say that, as he has al- ways ‘oted Liberal, he must no¢ change now, is that folly upon which corrupt Governments rely. The pre« sent. Government is Liberal in name alone; it has trampled upon the molt. cherished principles of Liberalism. Every Liberal may truthfully nay What hope can exist that the Ross Government will remove the “present distress?" It was by that Govern- ment that it came. There is no hOpe that Mr. Ross will have sumcient support to give us stable Govern- ment. He is appealing to the people on account of necessity; he could not control the Legislwature That is the real reason for dissolution. The elec- tors declined in 1898, 1902 and in the bye-elections to give him a work- ing majority. On account of recent revelations he is less likely than ever before to gain a working majority. If he should again by any chance have a narrow majority, can we hope for anything better than the des- perate struggle for political power which has well nigh paralyzed poli- tical virtue? Would such a state of aflairs be good for either the Liberal party or the Province? Ontario has suffered, in the eyes of the world, enough humiliation in the effort to retain in power the Ross Govern- ment. The attempt at coalition has done no more than furnish, at the hands of The Globe and the Govern- ment, a guarantee of ability to Mr. Whitney and his friends. The Liber- als have been in power. for thirty- three years; surely that is long enough. that; he was never so consistent u when he opposed ‘the Ross Adminis. tration. In 1896, thousands of Conserva- tives rose above partyism and helped to defeat the Government which had been in power so long. Are Liberals ‘less independent and patriotic? Can they do better than follow this ex- ample, vote for a change of Govern- ment, hold the new Government to a strict account and defeat it, at the end of four years, should it be un- worthy the confidence of the people. Yours sincerely, DONALD C. HOSSACK. Toronto, Jan. 13, 1905. Would not a term in Opposition be good for the Liberal party as well as the Province? Let us appeal to his- tory. Baldwin and Lafontaine lack- ed the “lust for power" of the pre- sent Government. When they might have remained in power they resign- ed rather than sacrifice the principle of reasonable Government. Neither they nor their party lost by their action, for after a short interval they went back to power to form the Great Ministry. 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