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Since we last met here, we have had two electionsâ€"a Dominion «and a Provincial. Both results have been very satisfactory to this side of the House. The Dominion elec- tions were fought out pretty squarely on one issue. While a thousand reasons might have been given for the defeat of the Laurier Government, yet the discussion hinged almost entirely on the one question of reciprocity, and the result apparently justifies the stand taken by this Legislature on that matter last Session. While I in not think it is wise to fimtrodruce Federal issues in Provincial Legis- latures to any extent, I think events have amply justified the course which we took last Session in passing the resolution against reciprocity. Had the campaign continued two weeks’ longer, with the splendid educational speeches and literature circulated by oppon- ents of the pact, there would not have been even the bakers’ dozen of its advocates returned from the Province, but it would have been unanimous. (Applause.\ Coming to the question of our f own election, we find objection c‘ was raised to the time of year inli which it was held. Here again, 2 the new Leader forgets the course 1 which was pursued by his own < friends when in office, and in his ( manifesto to the electors he saylszii ‘By the action of the Government '1 the Legislative Assembly of this 1 Province has been dissolved before :4 the expiry of the legislative term 1 and the electors are called uponZi to bear the trouble and expense‘: of an unnecessary general election @- during an inclement season of the " year.’ This was not the first Leg-1 isiature which was dissolved be-Zl fore the expiration of its term. In 1886 the Honorable Oliver Mowat dissUlved the Legislature after the : third Session on the 15th of Nov- f ember and held the elections on the 28th of December. right in the middle of the holiday season (Ap-i Manse.) Then. in 1904, the Hon. G.L W. Ross dissolved the Legislature. after the Second Session. on hi 15th of December and the eltec-i tions were held on the 25th of} January 1905, right in the holiday; season. Many Honorable Gentle-1 men will remember that that dayi was one of the coldest days we!‘ ever had in more ways than one. . It certainly was a very cold!i dav for the Honorable gentlemen opp08ite. (Laughter) In calling the election on December 11th, the Prime Minister gave ample notice and there was no interference with the holiday season. In fact. I believe the holiday trade was :better than ever before, for there was such a feeling of satisfaction prevailing in the Province that everyone was in good humor, and ready to buy things. (Applausen Sir Oliver Mowat used to hold that it was not a good thing for a Government of the same political Partv to be in piower at Ottawa and Toronto. and this old argu- ment was again brought out by the. hc-nm able gentlemen opposite. That may have been true at that time but 1 think the opposite is true to-da-y. .‘There are many questions pending between the Dominion and the Province, which WE DURHAM BHRUN‘CLE In View of statements like that, can it be truthfully said that this Government is making agriculture d side issue? It is no wonder the intelligent farmers of the Province showed their confidence in the Government at the last election. for they know what is being done, and are not likely to be misled by gentlemen who get their agricul- tural knowledge and training in city law offices. (Laughter and applause.) Continued from page 3. traduates of the Agricultural Col- lege. who had no farms to return toâ€"the very brightest graduates We could get, men who were a suc- cess on their own farms and Who in addition had taken an agricul- tural course and who were in a position to go out and give infor- mation to the farmers of the Prov- ince. were duly appointed to help the farmers throughout the Province} can be settled much more readily by meams of cordial co-operation between this Government and the Government at Ottawa. There is. for instance. the boundary ques- tion. I hear it is settled, but as to that I do not know. If it is not settled now. it probably will be in the course of a few months. I may say that no one is more anxious that Ontario shall receive g. port on Hudson’s Bay than the gentlemen om this side of the House. But as a matter of fact DURHAM. FEBRUARY 22, 1911 I fl. IRWIN Editor and Proprietor. Dr. Jamieson’siSpéech. FOUR. satisfactorily settled through having in office two Govennments which are in accord. (Applaused I am glad to; know Mr. Borden made this. one of the planks of his platform in the lastelection amd promised to :give substantial as- sistance towards it, and that a Bill has already been introduced in the Dominion Parliament for this purpose. I think some joint scheme can be worked out by which this Province Will secure the advantage of much needed im- provements in the highway sys- tem.~ lice. We have eVery reason to hope the Treasury of this Province will be some millions richer by receiv- ing the subsidy to which we are entitled for this railway. Then, there is the question of good roads. Canada is a country of magnificent distances, and the transportation question will al- ways be a most important one, and While the Government and the large transportation companies have given us splendid Water and rail facilities, for the movement of the products of every farm and factory, we must not forget that itt is in the ordinary country road most of this great traffic origin- ates, and it is just as important that We should have a good sys- tem‘ of highways and trunk roads. There is also room :for ico-opera- ‘ tionl in the matter of immigration. The (eyes of all the World. are on Canada to-day. and We may look for a great influx of settle-rs during the next few years. Ontar- io should [get its share, possessing as it does advantages Which ' are not surpassed by any other country or Province. lln carrying out the vigorous immigration propaganda which we may expect bv the combined efforts of the two Governments working in ac- cord. I hope their efforts 'will first be directed to Great Britain in order to secure as many settlers as possible from the old country. but if they have to go further, then they should go to Germany and the Scandinavian countries in the north of Europe, Where we can get people of the very best stock. more nearly reiated to ourselves. and who become more easily assimâ€" ilated with us, conform to our "laws learn our language and ad- ?opt our customs. We must retain i;this as a White Man’s Country fand an ,Eanglish-speaking Province. .(Loud applause.) Then, there is the matter of the settlement as to the jurisdic- tiom of the two Governments over the water-powers and the matter of securing «a. subsidy for the T; 8:, (N. 0., with negarrd to: 'which the late Government persistently re- fused to gnamt this Province just- :1 do not know that it really makes very much difference Whether that port be. in the Province of Ontario or in the Province of Manitoba. It would only be an imaginary line we should have to :cross in any case. and it will be just as acces- ible to this Province as to the Province of Manitoba, no matter in which There is nothing in the way revenue to the Province to accrue from it, but on the contrary, the expenditure for the administration of Eusti-ce, and other things, would it hangiiens .to be located. of During the campaigm speakers on the Opposition side, especially the new Leader, and also Mr. Malc- kenne King, devoted considerable time to a criticism of the GOV- eminent for having {granted aland subsidy to the Canadian Northeran Railway, and it is only fair that I should Show the total amounts :of land grants made by' both this ’iGovernment, and the old Govern- iment, so that We can intelligently ticomparc their records. The total iamounts, in acres. are as follows: .Algoma Central 3‘145,000 E'Ontalrio Western 575,000 ‘Manitoulin North Shore 2,957,000 Canadian Northenn 2,000,000 ‘Bruoe Mines 6,000 tLac Seal 20‘000 ’Su‘perior Western 7.,000 tThunder Bay Branch Grand [ Trunk Pacific RailWay 635,040 In other Words, a little over twenty per .cent. of the total ggrants to date have been made by {the Conservatives, the balance by gthe Liberals. In addition to this, the original grant to the Thunder 'Bay branch of the Grand Trunk Pascific was 6,000 acres per mile. éThe present Government arranged ito have that reduced to 3,375 acres 'per mile, or :a saving to the Province of 495,000 acres; or, in other Words, the original grant to ‘this railway was 1,130,040 acres, Of these grants, the only ones made by the Conservative Gov- ernment were as follows; Canadian Northern 2,000.000 Bruce Mines 6.000 Lac Seal 20,000 Of Total 9,345,040 2.026,000 It may further be pointed outl that the grant to the Canadian' Northern, the only substantial. grant made by the present Gâ€"o’v-l e-rnment, was 4,000 acres per mile, while the grants to the Algoma Central and Mamito-ulin 8: North (Sh-ore were 7,400 acres per mile, and. in fact, part of the Manitoulin Road 10,000 acres per mile :‘ but the most important difference is the fact that in the grants made by the Liberals, the railroads obtained the lands in fee. including surface] rights, minerals, timber and erv- erything. It is true that they had to pay for the pine, but they ob-,I tained all the balance of the! timber other than pine and all the: mineral without any remuneration! whatever to the Province, and no conditions were imposed with ref- erence to the sale of these lands, and they can be tied up forever if the company sees fit,-â€"!n fact, at the present time a tract of land large enough for a kingdom. of Egreat mineral promise, north of :Sault Ste. Mamie, is tied up from the prospector, causing consider- able dissatisfaction and complaint on that ground: but in the grant to the Canadian Northern the min- erals are reserved to the Crown, and a prospector can \go on these lands and stake out minerals ini the same ‘way {he lean go on other : lands of the (Crown. Then. the! company is compelled to sell these lands whenever the Government should see fit. and) at the prices, the Government should fix. Ln. other words. the railway company! is simply made a colonization; agent of the Government, and the . only benefit they get directly; other than the settlement of tlhei (country, which ensures to their; benefit as well as the Province, is whatever price the Government; think is fair to place upon these; lands. Then this railroad runnsi through the Clay Belt, opening it} up... and it will be one of the bestI colonization agencies the Governr: 'ment can have. ‘ It may :be argued that the grant to the Algom‘a Central and some of the other railways con- tained a provision that the rail- way company should place a cer- tain number of settlers, but the fact is that the country through which these railways pass is not suitable for settlement, and, as the Government must have well known, it was an impossibility for the railroad to fulfill this .con- dition,â€"in fact it would. have been a crime to have compelled the railways to have done this, and it was neVer intended or expected that they wo uld, and] these condi- tions were entirely abortive. An argument used in the last campaign was that the. present Government was too strong, and that it was the. duty oi the people to build up a strongOpposition. Possibly some kinds of Govern- ment might be too strong, but certainly that is not true in the case of the present Government. Prior to 1905, we -had a weak Government and a strong Oppo- sition, and there was snever such a rotten state of affairs as preâ€" vailed during that time. (Applfl I think ev ervone w as glad th 1t the last campaign was not marked by any thing that could be called a scandal. The only attempt that has made to make out a scandal against the Government \v as in an; ditmial published in ‘The Globe of Docemb er 4th under the head- inp; ‘The Cobalt Lake Scandal. Let us iefresh the memory of the members of. this House as to the facts of this case. When silver was discovered at Cobalt, it was discovered through the construcâ€" tion of the T.N.O., land the first men lto get in on the ground floor were members of the Commission. Government officials and their friends When this Govennment came into office there was very lit- tle left that had not been taken ape-except ICzobalt Lake and» a few other ‘properties. On the 14th of August- 11905, the Government bass 1d an Order-in-JC-ouinicil 1' with- drawing Cobalt Lake from .pros- Pecting In the winter following some men staked out a claim on the ice of Cobalt Lake- iand organ- izerl a syndicate, which included some friends of the Government, as it was thought that they would have a pull However, the days 01 'P 1111 were passedi and the GW- el'llm.ent put the property up for sale by public competition, and secumd the handsome sum of $11,- 085‘000 for the {Treasury The promoters of this company carried the. case from Court to Court until it finally-reached the Privy Council, and in «every case the :course of the Government was sustained, and the action dismissed With cost-s Thrat‘ Mr (Speaker, is “The Cobalt Lake Scandal,” and I 4am only sor- rv that We did not ‘have more scandals of the same nature (Ap- pLause) L ‘ After the election was over ‘The Globe’. endeavored to get some comfort out of the popular major- ity. The Honorable Gentlemen THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. Eseem to be talking. quite a friendly interest in popular majorities these Edays. I :can well remember the Etime when they held office with a popular majOrity against them of ‘2000 to 10,000., yet because of the skillful gerrymander :of the Prov- Eince. they held a majority of the Eseats. Now when we analyze the E figures as published in ‘The Globe’ of the Libenafl vote, we find that in 31908 it was 38 7-10 per .cent. of Ethe total vote polled,“ and on Dec- iember 11th,, 1911, it was 39.2 per 'oent. In other words. in the Par- liamentary term 11 hich had elapsed Ethey had increased their vote by ‘: inst one e-h‘alf of onet per cent.” but Ethey are still 11 per cent behind. EIf they keep going on at this rate, it will take them twenty-two Emore general elections before ?they work out a popular major- ity. and that will mean eighty- eight years. (Laughter and ap- .plause.) .After that they still have to tackle the sex enteen seats \1 hich Ethe (1m e111ment carried by accla- nation. 80 that in Iound figules. 1111 may 1-1tlace the time \\ hen they Eroturn to power at one hundred 'yea1s hence. The Leade1 of the EOsmOSitiOn is fortunately a young .man. but at this rate, the snous of Emany cold winters will P355 over Ehis head before he will O‘et within sicht of the swce ts of office. I Ethink Moses holds the record for 110119; teIm leadership, having led ;his party for forty years in the wilderness before they reached the gPromised Land. I do not think. Ehou evel. that Moses affmds a I E 11rope1 parallel in this [case If we mare to keep to a scriptural paral- l lell. I would say that the Honor- EEable Gentleman should have the |patience of Job and the years of ' Methuselah. (Laue:hter.l E The Government has carried out all its promises, has administered the affairs of the Province honest- ly and efficiently, and has initiat- ed and carried out as much {pro- gressive Legislation in .seven years as the preceding Government did in thirty years. They have again received .from the people of the Province a very marked evidence of public confidence. ‘But the Government must .not stand idle, but must continue its progressive program to keep pace with the spirit of the age. Agriculture "Ftuit-a-tives” is the only natural cure for Constipation and Stomach Trouble, because it is the only medicine in the world that is made of fruit 'uices and valuable tonics. Hundre s of people have been cured, as if by a miracle, by taking “Fruit-a-tives”, the famous fruit medicine. Finally, I read an advertisement of ‘ Fruit-a-tives’. I decided to give 'Fruit-a-tives ’ a trial and found they did exacify what was claimed fer them. I have {low taken ‘Fruit-a-tives’ for some months and find that they are the on_1y yemedy that docs_ n_1e_ gpogl. I. have fecommendcd ‘Fruit-a-tives’ to a great many of my friends and I cannot praise these fruit tablets too highly” PAUL J. JONES and education must both receive increased grants as the increased revenues of the Province will per- mit. Every effort must be made to make life on the farm more “attractive. We must realize that the life of a farmer has a social as well as a material side. The matte-r of producing a few more bushels of Wheat to the acre, or increasing the Weight lot a hog 'b-v' :a few :poundas.‘ is .not the only problem of farm life. We must ghave :g‘ood roadieâ€"either through this Government, or through the Dominion Government. We must have a rural mail box at every farm xgate. No doubt the Domin- ion Government ‘Will .give us that. “Electric power must be extended as far :as possible through the rural districts. Encouragement must “be given to. the increase of rural telephones, and this must come either from this Government or from the Government at Otta- SARNIA, ONT., Feb. 5th, 19:0. “I have been a sufferer for the past 25 years with Constipation, Indigestion am} Catarrh of the Stomach. I tried many remedies and many doctors but derived no benefit whatever. 50¢. a box, 6 for $2. 50, trial size, 25c. At deaIers. or sent on receipt of price by Fruit-a- t1ves LimItcd, Ottawa. FRIED [VERYIHING WITHOUT REE! Until I took “Fruit-a-fives” +++++$+4Â¥+++o§~i~+é~+++€ ++~I~~§~E°++MHM+++++M+++ u'a..jor from both. Rural telephones must secure connection with trunk lines in ev- ery community, so that every man who has a telephone in his house may talk to any other man who has a telephone in his house, on fair and equitable terms. They must not be held up by any monâ€" opoly. such as the Bell system. This is one of the questions which either this Government or the Government at Ottawa must grap- pie with. It is a big question. but Governments are in office to solve difficult questions, and probâ€" ably there Will rise up an Adam Beck in the telephone business just as there did in the question of eleCtricity. With all theSe matters solved we will have gone along way tow'ard's making life in the country more attractive, and have thereby helped materially to solve the problem of keeping the boy. and the girl, on the farm. (Applause) FOR DIASPEPSIA You risk no money if you try this remeoy. We want every one troubled with indigestion alnd dyspepsia to come to our store and obtain a box of Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets. They contain Bismuth-Subnitrate and Pepsin «carefully combined so as to develop their «greatest power to overcome digestive disturbance. If you give Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets a reasonable trial we will return your money if you are {not satisfied with the result. ' Three sizes. ‘25 cents, 50 cents, and $1.00. Remember, you can obtain Rexall Remedies. only at our storeâ€"The Rexall Store. Macfarlane Co. Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are very pleasant to take. They tend to soothe 'the irritasle, weak stom- ach, to strengthen and invigorate the digestive organs, to relieve nausea and indigestion, thus pro- moting nutrition and bringing about a feeling of comfort. Vie have one pair-Inf snow shoes. small size. at . . . . .. . . One Steering Sleigh, for cnasting. all steel bottom, at. ..... One pair of Bob Sleighs for coasting. at ..................... One Black Fur Coat. wort-h $25.00 at ....................... One Grey Fur Robe, worth $8.00. at ........................ One New \Vood Heating Stove, worth $12.00, at ........ . .. ()ne Second hand W'uud Cuoking Stove, at ................. A few pairs of Chuhe and Hockey Skates at; reduced prices. A full body string of Bells. worth $4.00 for ................. Lined Mitts in abundance. Canadian coal oil, 13c.: American coal oil, 15c. COME to the store where you can get every- thing you require from atoy wheelbarrow to an automobile. 7;? We have several articles of the tail end of stocks or left overs, that we are .prepared to dispose of at a low price to clear out. w W. BLACK Cocoo‘ooooooono 4000040039Oaanoooo-oocoooooaoao . 00 00. O 0 .00.. 0 Gr ’00.. O 00. 00.6900. 0 O O . | L ‘0 . co . 90. 006 090 Col .00 000 090 O. 00 99.0; o) 90 OM! OM! c A J... OKOOKOOKI Vt ¢ v 60 o o o 0 0| 0.. .0 ooool . 9» 0o 0>Ooo0 9-0 0... 9”. Out... fiftters stunilieS- Engines. and Thresha-s. Sash and Doors. Pianing and Ge menu \Vnntd \Vork. Iron anijx-ass Castings anti: ggneml Re‘gafving. Feed boilers. Steam SMITH BROS, TH E DURHAM FOUNDRY LEFT OVERS The increased demand for help in the furniture factory this year will necessitate the building of a number of new houses to accom- modate the demands. The need for such accommodation has been felt at times for some years past, and We hope soon to see an effort made to solve the problem. Ex- pensive dwellings .acre not what’s needed. High rents are quite a hardship to a laboring man, me- chanic or factory hand Who is cap- able of earning only small, or moderate Wages. Houses that could be rented for seven or eight dollars a month would be a great boon to the town under present Dressing conditions. A man with a few thousand dollars to spare will run no risk in "putting it {into dwellings in Durham, as the town is sure to go ahead, especially if other industries are sought for and obtained. WHITTAKER.â€"In ’est Toronto, on February 17th, to Mr. and Mr: Grant Whittaker, a son. DURHAM, FEBRUARYZZ, 1911 Fall Wheat.......... . $ 90 m $ Spring Wheat”... ..... 90 to Oats ..................... 44 to MORE HOUSES NEEDED. MARKET REPORT DURHAM, ONT. February 22nd, 1912. ........ $2.00 2. 75 6.50 9.1 0 95