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Only once beâ€" fore has it been paralleled, and that was on the l16th of October, 1900, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier spoke in the same grand auditorium to a similarly transported audience, which, like the audience of last night, had left double its numbers outâ€" side unable to obtain admission Warn ed by the experiences gleaned on that oeccasion, hundreds of enthusiasts had by 6 o‘clock taken their stand so as to be "next" when the doors opened. Those who thought that 6.30 would be time enough to get to a meeting that would not start until 8 o‘clock were chagrined to find that the early bird had got hoid of the doorâ€"knoh, ana that between the 6.30 arrival and that lucky individual was a dense crowd, too fiercely desirous of getting inside to brook the formality of forming a queue. The coming of cight or nine hundred students in procession sent the excitement up to fever heat, anmd the injection of this flood of vigorâ€" ous youth into the ocean before the doors stirred it as if a fresh breeze had blown across its surface and ruffied it into billows. When at length the doors opened the man who has been asserting these many years that water cannot run up hill would have been wholly persuadâ€" ed that he had been endorsing a fallacy, for no image can convey the picture the stairs then presented unless the reader can conceive of Niagara flowing upâ€" wards instead of down. When the stuâ€" dents reached the gallery reserved for them the movement was reversed, and the headlong fight down the tier of seats made nervous people believe that the torrent would never stay itself till it landed, bruised and bleeding, among the chairs on the lower floor. _ But it did, and lost not a moment in convineâ€" ing all within hearing that, like most torrents, it was full of "sound and fury." The college yells were communiâ€" cated to the rest of the audience with an unremitting force, enthusiasm, and particularity of spellinfi that astonished the quiet citizen who had come out for an evening‘s tuition in current poliâ€" In the meantime other torrents were pouring into the body of the hall, and it micht almost be said that every seat was occupieca in the twinkling of an eye, and even those who â€" considered themselves fortunate in coming earl; found, to their consternation, tha: they would have to stand _ dur ing the whole evening. They con soled themselves, however, as they hear long after the mecting was under wa. the hub bub and cheering outside 0i A which he prophesied that Canada would be the prodigy of the twentieth cenâ€" tury as the United States had been of the nineteenth, stirred the audience to a perfect frenzy of patriotic fervor. The speech was stopped more than once, not by cheering merely, but by regular deafening salvoes of three cheers and & tiger. V\r. Aylesworth received a welcome only inferior to his leader, and his adâ€" dress was enjoyed exceedingly, and! was applauded with the greatest heartiness. Although some of the audience had been in the hall four houtrs when Mr. Paterâ€" _ Supplement to The "DURHAM octoBEr z20. 100. THE CAMPAIGN. he Most Enthusiastic Gathering Ever Seen in Massey Hall Vain to Secure Admission. Audience Occupied Every Inch of GREAT MEETING. son rose to speak, he held them reâ€" markably well by his finely argumentaâ€" tive style of address. Mayor Urquhart, Mr. Robinette and Major Leslie acquitâ€" ted themselves exceedingly well It was indeed the greatest political event of recent years. _ An interested auditor Launrier‘s predecessor as Liberal leader, the boxes. The Crowds Outside. night." observed a visitor who found Shuter street from Yonge street to Victorim blocked as if with a stome around on Victoria street half way to Queen a marvellous throng of men and women swayed this wey and that, as hall precisely at 5 o‘clock, at which hour mm'mmmnfimm orderly crowd that has ever gathered at a political demonstration It Was many times too large for the hall, and the people appeared to appreciate this and to understand that entrance to the rush after rush was made for the doors of Massey Hall. It was at once perâ€" hall creased to a score, and when the upâ€" town rush began at 6 o‘clock nothing could be seen from the Yonge street cars but a great mass of people stretchâ€" ing from the atreet crossing to far past the hall. _ From that time the crowd half a dozen men took up their station at the centre Shuter street door. In a Various were thoe schemes resorted to by enthusiasts to gain the inside of the hall before the doors were opened to the public. Under the guise of Ministers‘ secretaries, newspaper men or members of the committee many approached the police who guarded the doors, but even for those who succeeded in scrambling through the crowd, passing the guards was an all but impossible feat. One man was caught hoisting a ladder to one of the rear windows, up which he had planned to pass three ladies The wmylice took charge of the ladder. space in The great sceme of enthusiasm came, bowever, with the appearance of Sir Wilfrid and Sir William Mulock. Down from the gailleries and up from the main floor swept the deafening, cyclonic storm of cheering, now abating and then inâ€" creasing in volume, which kept the guest of the evening on his feet and bowing for almost five minutes. Far above the heads of the waving hbats of the stuâ€" dents in the upper gallery Sir Wilfrid eould see a huch portrait of himself could see a hugh portrait of himself framed about with flags and bunting and lit by a massive sign of electric lamps, which spelled the allâ€"prevailing word â€" "Welcome." Over his head, stretching from side to side of the stage, was a picborial representation of a Grand Trunk Pacific wheat train, laden with golden grain and headed from the west on the "National Transconâ€" tinental Railway" towards an Atlantic Canadian sea port. Over the picture hung a banner bearing the battle cry "Lavrier and the Larger Canada," and under it the stogan, "Cheap Transportaâ€" tion and Prosperity." Buntvia of red, white and blue had been lavishly used every pillar. a way A Tremendous Welcome. in the decoration of the the baiconies, and flags hung in graceful folds from On the walls were Dantmers DOAMINE â€"promig such expressions of appreciation 3e: ness t "SEE OUR TALL CHIMNEYS Now."l Evide: "GoOo0D TIMES." ‘The "D0o YOU FEEL ‘EM IN YOUR|j wis) POCKET ? ; prospe "xO sOUP KITCHENS UNDER | postal LAURIER." | the pr "LISTEN TO THE HUM." > |last y "CHEAP POSTAGE AND iA SUR.|LEY®® PLUS." 590. _ !. K. Kerr, was kept waiting for almost ifteen minutes before Inspector Stephen uind his foree of police was able to open Campaign Mottoes. «NO sOUP KITCHENS UNDER | postal returns are the best indication of LAURIER." | the prosperity in Toronto. In 1896, the "LISTEN TO THE HUM.*" ilast year of Conservative rule, the postal lark . _{ revenue of the city amounted to $447,â€" PLSEEAP POSTAGE AND iA SUR !536 In 1898 this revenue inci;eued to C ! $535,000, in 1900 to $546,020, 1902 to "CANADA LEADS THE WORLD AS| $848,000, and in 19034 the revenue A BUSY COUNTRY." amounted toâ€" over $1,000,000. "THE â€" TALL â€"CHIMNEYS ARE| Another very valuable evidence of the ivals paa:ad Sir Wilfrid, who arâ€" ived with Sir William Mulock and Hon. that at for the party to the platform at 7 ocock and oi Oe P a2 The ii i Pugd 4. of the bearing of SMOKING AS THEY NEVER SMOKED BEFORE." |__"GIVE THE COUNTRY FIVE MORE ‘YEARS OF PROGRESS." "LAURIER A GREAT CANADIAN, WITH . A â€" «BROAD CANADIAN POLICY." "LIBERAL FINANCE LOWERS TAXâ€" ES, INCREASES _ REVENUE, ~DEâ€" CREASES NDEBTEDNESS." "MAINTAIN THE BRITISH PREâ€" FERENCE." Sir Wilfrid Arrives At 8.04 the band commenced the‘ strains of "The Maple Leaf," the words of which were taken up heartily by the immense audience. â€" In the midst of the singing Sir William Mulock appeared at: the rear of the stage with the Premier] and party following, and the words of ; the song merged into a perfect roar of welcome, which brought every one in the hall to his feet. The noise was simâ€" ply deafening, and the scene which Sir, Wilfrid gazed upon has certainly never before been witnessed in Toronto, "Tory"| Toronto, and perhaps has never been: equalled in the Dominion of Canada.‘ Every person with anything to wave| held it aloft, and hats, light wraps, handâ€"| kerchiefs, newspapers and students‘ colâ€", ors mingled in an animated welo‘m??.[ Again and again Sir Wilfrid bowed his acknowledgment of such a loyal greeting, and again and again the cheering rose and fell. With Sir Wilfrid appeared the local Toronto candidates, Hon. A. B. Aylesworth, Hon. J. K. Kert, Hon. Geo. oo e i T ie on i t o e ra e t A. Cox, H. M. Mowst, K.C., Robt. Jlf-; fray, B. E. Walker, Hon. 8. C. Biggs;‘ George Anderson, R. C. Steele, E. T. Maâ€"| lone, K.C., Dr. J. E. Elliott and others,‘ and they had long been seated before the cheering died away and Sir William, Mulock was permitted to address the gathering. Sir William Mulock. | "Ladies and gentlemen," said he, .‘"i have to regret being a quarter of an! hour late, but it was not wholly ou.-r! own fault. We arrived outaide Massey Hall in ample time, but the thousands, who stood between us and the entrance| delayed us until this moment. (Cheers.)| Sir Wilfrid Laurier has on more than one occasion stated that the word adeâ€" quate in a special application had a very, vagueo and indefinite meaning. (Apâ€"| plause.) _ But when I say that we re-; gret that the accommodation of this hall| does not prove adequate to the demands upon it this evening I think there is no mistaking the meaning of the â€" word. (Hear, hear, and applause.) _ This is not the first occasion of Sir Wilfrid Lo,u-l rier‘s appearance before a Toronto audiâ€" ence, and it is a gratifying cireumstance that every time he has visited Toronto his welcome has been the more demonâ€" strative, the more earnest, the more hearty, till I think it may be truly eaid toâ€"day that no one in all Canada, in all the world, occupies such a dear spot in the hearts of the people of Toronto as the Premier. (Prolonged cheers and cries of ‘You are right !‘) Yes, and if I am right toâ€"night Canada will be right on the 3rd of November next. (Continued ;cheers.) If what has been in the past boasted of as Tory Toronto gives such a true welcome as it has given toâ€"night to the leader of the Government, what will not Canada do on the 3rd of Novemâ€" ber ? (Loud applause.) We have toâ€" night a number of gentlemen to address you, &and, therefore, I will not trespass upon their time. First I will introduce to you Mayor Urquhart, the candidate for North Toronto." As the Mayor stepped forward he was greeted with prolonged applause. Mayor Urquhart Popular. First, I would ask, "What is the chief duty of a Government ; what should be the aim and object of all government ?" It should be in every reasonable way to promote the prosperity and welfare of the whole people. The Liberal Governâ€" ment have been in power for over seven years. How have they, in their adminâ€" istration of affairs, fulfilled® this idea ? The country has never been so prosperâ€" ous as during the last seven years. The people have never been so bappy and contented. At no time have our workâ€" men received such large wages. Every department has been prosperous. Both agricultural and manufacturing indusâ€" tries have been developing and prosperâ€" ing at an unprecedented rate. Only yesâ€" terday, in speaking to one of the best known financial men of this city and this Province, he said there was only one reason why any manufacturer had not made money during the past five years, and that was bad management. Toronto‘s Skhare of Prosperity. How has Toronto fared in this era of prosperity ? There is no city or town in Canada which has enjoyed to so great a degree the results of the development of our country. Our trade has increased by leaps and bounds, until we are now rapidly becoming the financial and comâ€" mercial centre of Canada. Our manuâ€" facturers have doubled, and trebled, and quadrupled their capacity. New indusâ€" tries, with large capital, an«. «mploying many hands, have been established, and we are growing in population at a rate unheard of in the former history of the city. A fire, the greatest that Toronto, or Canada for t?mt matter, has ever bad, occurred this year, and the energy and faith and courage of our business men were such that within a few days nearly every firm was rcâ€"established in business, and looked forward to the erâ€" ection or acquirement of new and larger premises, providing for the greater busiâ€" ness they expected to do in the future. Evidences of Growth. There are two or three things which I wish to mention to show the great prosperity of the city. Probably the ? With this prosperity and the tremendâ€" ous increase in revenue the D°xt quesâ€" tion is, Have the Government in the administration of affairs dealt . wisely and economically in the expenditure of ‘ money ?" If we were to examine into each department I am satisfied _ we ‘ would find that the basis Of all expenâ€" | diture was the need of the Country, and ; every dollar had been expended with a ; view of obtaining more thaD & dollar in ‘return. aby" & | â€"I will toâ€"night, however, refer to oniy ‘ one departmentâ€"that |of the Postmas:â€" terâ€"General‘sâ€"which has been presided over by our distingui citizen, Sir William Mulock. Whatdid be find when he assumed office in 186 ° A deficit of | $792,000, about which the eminent finâ€" | ancier of the Consery ive Government, !‘ my opponent in Nor Toronto, _ the Hon. George E. Fostyr, said :â€""There | is now a deficit of somgrhere neSt $800,â€" 000 between the total receipts and total expenditures of our tal service, and this, I fear, makes t time so!_newhst distant when what otherwise might be fairly asked for can be grantedâ€"that is, ‘s reduction upon the rates of postage | in this country." 3 | _ Business men with broad vision and | full of faith are now at the helm, and . what is the result ? Postage rate reâ€" duced from three cents to two cents, ; Later still we have Imperial penny POStâ€" \|age, and the rate reduced from five : cents to two cents. and instead of a deâ€" | ficit of $792,000 we thad in the last finâ€" \ancial year a eurplus of nearly $300,â€" , 000. | _T need not deal further with the ques | tion of administration, as this is a fair i sample of the manner in which the afâ€" fairs of this country bave been adminâ€" prosperity of the city is the street railâ€" way returns, Good times AlwAy8 N crease the revenue of the local means$ of transportation. In 1897 the $108§8 ,*¢ ceipts were $1,020,000, and in 1903 this reached the magnificent sum of $2,050,â€" 000. Another evidence of increasing Prosâ€" perity is the assessment returns Of the city. In 1899 the assessment was $125,â€" 000,000 ; in 1904, $149,000,000. ____ _ A. voiceâ€"What . about street bridge ? j‘ _"For years" replied the . Mayor, "Conservative Governments dalli¢d with just such propositions 88 the Yonge street bridge, but under th*e Gover_n- ment of Sir Wilfrid Laurier We will have the Yonge street bridge bun}t at _the expense of the railway companies." Business Administration. Then the question amnses, natural resources of our CC developed during this period of adminâ€" istration?" _ Never in the history ‘of our country has theo been such a deâ€" velopment.‘ _ Capitalhas flowed into tha country: _ The grest prairies of the northwest have beome the granamies of the world. â€" Tes of thousands of settlers have been tiking up these ferâ€" tile lands and making them productive. Our canals have been improved, a large amount of money has been spent upon our waterways, but the present is not the time for me to go into these things. There are many things I would like to deal withâ€"preferential trade, the Transcontinental Railway, and other important questions, but time will not istered in the past seven Development of Resources. Allow me to say in conclusion that, while Toronto has been known as & Conservative city in the past, I do not, I cannot, believe that this prosperous city, with all the evidences of prosâ€" perity around us (mno argument is peeded to show that we are prosperâ€" ous), is prepared to vote in favor of the methods of government which prevailed during the eighteen years of Conservaâ€" tive rule I do not believe that the What Will Toronto clectors of this city gre prepared to eupport a policy which thousands of our very brighest best young people out of the yâ€"â€"a policy which wasted the rces of our country, a policy which ished from the hearts and minds of| our business men that faith which is\ mecessary to the prosperity of the whole country. The Man With a Past. I bave as my opponent in North Toâ€" ronto a gentleman who was one of the leaders and for years a member of the Government which for eighteen years ruled the country, He is mow posing as« the apostle of political purity. We al deplore political corruption, but was there ever any political corruption greater or more to be deplored than the corruption in New Brunswick &unng the heyâ€"dey of the Hon. George E. Foster‘s power ? Corruption ®o great that even other members of his own party demounced it, but never did Hon. George E. Foster say one wordl of reâ€" gret. _ Today, too, we find him posing as the advocate of public rights _ 18 there anywhere on record that he ever supported ‘public rights while he was Â¥ member of the House ? In the H‘(’“”' he was ever the advocate of the Canaâ€" dian Pacific Railway, and beh flo(tixit:dni!; every possible way those who wish the country tied neck and hfl it to that company. _ Where _ Hon. George E. Foster when was fighting for its rights * . The 7Ch;i;i;n then saif ; !?Jl;r ME(V; now heard the prospectivé mem oo You North Toronto. l’ now int uct;‘e us the you! man‘s cA 6 : ing 1}1,1emntÂ¥er for Centre (Woronto, Mr. Robinette. s h * A2CCCAIE CCE Mr. Robinette was greet#l with round after round of _ ApPPi# When he could be heard he said tlikre were difâ€" ficulties to he overcome if North Toâ€" ronto, but there were some hills to overcome in Centre IBronto. He had & very able opponent h Centre To ronto, a man who had mikh honey in his nature, and not much of . WOrMm: wood. (I‘ugh-tor.) "HMdvever," said Mr. Robinette. "this is a|Centre Toâ€" ronto meeting. _ Massey is in Cenâ€" tre Toronto. and this is tlh first n}o:tfl North ‘Toronto. I now intipduce t0 )U" ; 3@ the young man‘s cA idd&e, the comâ€" ; cha ing member for Centre (Woronto, Mr. wit Robinette. ers Mr. Robinette was greet#l with round me after round of _ ApP‘# When he wh could be heard he said tlikre were difâ€" of ficulties to he overcome if North Toâ€" toâ€" ronto, but there were some hills wh to overcome in Centre IBronto. He ; wi had & very able opponent h Centre Toâ€" ele ronto, & man who had mfrh honey iN the his nature, and not much of . WwoOrm, of wood. _ (Laughter.) "HMdvever," said in; Mr. Robinette. "this is a|Centre Toâ€" thi ronto meeting. _ Massey HMI is in Cen: pr, tre Toronto. and this is t first reetâ€" =* ing of our semesâ€"(laug and lovud _ cheers)â€"and Sir Wilfrid has E2 done us the hovor to apecially | sai dn CC 3: Hetialia f f i o o ie i deoie en o c nine â€"+ T she arises, "Have the our country been yer, refer to only of the Postmasâ€" E;;een presided citizen, Sir did he find when ?# A deficit of the eminent finâ€" ive Government, i Toronto, the P the Yonge Toronto Did we JRHAAM REVIEW" untried member of the Cabinet, Ron. A. B. Aylesworth." Mr. Robinetts exâ€" tended a welcome to Sir Wilfrid Leaurâ€" ler, who was revered as Canada‘s first citizen and hailed with acclaim from the Atlantic to the Pacific. _ The welâ€" come he had received was x truly Rriâ€" tish welcome, such as he would receive only in the city of Toronto. Development of the West. The New England States for half a century manufactured for the people to the west as far as the Mississippi. Then manufacturers spread on to the Misâ€" sissippi as wants began to be created and the citiee along the Mississippi for another half century have been supplyâ€" ing the west on to the Rocky Mountains. In Canada the east has been manufacâ€" turing for the west and north. The ;\"«nto olz:ghe prairie and the forest ml;;t‘; or a tod, be supplied by east, T.lmp::unt will eiglltinue as it does in the eastern States toâ€"day. A network of railways overspread the prairies beyond the Mississippi, and population flowed in and so filled the westâ€"tnat is, history and its repetition is occurring in our northwest, and will repeat i-txf when the railways cover our mm.thwe;t, and when free and easy :t"m ‘;h((heeu) A'Lk:,',u.l présence, and we have . with m’uni youngest and newest and perhaps most access is craited by another immense railway, perhaps two. Canada for Canadians. Population follows the railway. Peoâ€" ‘lfeen m) ple will not now locate 100 imiles from | Y°4 h1 a railroad. ‘They must be near it. The | tion as, railway and the manufactory are the | CAn be . two mightiest factors in nation building. : "Onto it They are the double, the two powerful | however engines on the train of progress. ‘The | yoursely people of Canada are building not for have be. 1905, but for 1955. ‘Their trusted bust | is such ness agentsâ€"the Liberal Governmentâ€"| ever rec are doing this, and the rewards of trust | all, and will soon be granted in no uncertain | words t tone. If, then, we are building railways my grat in all directions, if we are growing in | that fo population, and if we have in a few | came to years millions of consumers, who then tion, pe is to supply these Canadians with 'Ron.fie manufactured goods? My answer i§; the last emphatically, Canadians shall supply eeived / them, and Canadians alone, in &ll sentati goods they can now supply and | ing the will _ receive encouragement to proâ€"| ,,(5, bee duce and _ supply other needed | yoars, goods. Build Canadian railways all ONn |have fo \during the last eight years It is a satisfaction to see prosperity and comâ€" fort in every poor man‘s home, and rich [a.:nd poor alike share in the general |Â¥nosperbty. No Government is hurled ‘from power unless m have good and |ample cause. No cause now exâ€" |ists. _ It did in 1896, and the people ; spoke _in mumg‘rtain -to:_e‘, &nd Tif in Canadian soil, but send over them, to every part of Canada, to James Bay and the Yukon, Canadianâ€"made goods. Are there goods we cannot manufacâ€" ture? ‘Then, learn to make them, that our sons and daughters may have the benefit, and it is the duty of the Canâ€" adian Government to do all in its power, by wise legislation, to help us make these goods, and not have us buy in foreign, markets. ‘This is a youthful, growing country, and, like the lad, needs a helping hand. If we build great railâ€" ways, then the Government‘s first duty will be, in so far as it has the power, to see to it that manufacturing is placed upon a permanent basis. ‘There can be no full measure of prosperity in Canada unless we have a tariff perâ€" manency, and this should be fostered in every way by the Government. The ‘ fold standard in money is essential fo he prosperity of any country. and so a permanent tariff will aid and ensure true national prosperity. Opposed to U. S. Reciprocity. Let us trade with one another as much as possible. In a material, pracâ€" tical age trade friendships become permanent. _ What a genuine, hearty interest was aroused in Britain when our Government granted them a preferâ€" ence. It touched the hearts of the Englishmen as never before. And so, speaking for myself, and, I believe, many others, I would oppose with all banners in ph.mting on the best â€"the northernâ€"half of this American continâ€" ent another and as great an Angloâ€" Saxon people as our friends over the border or our mother beyond the seas. Now as to Centre Toronto. My workers report that the people of this city are satisfied with the preoethov- ermment. â€" They have experienced seven fat years of prosperity following upon seven lean years, and they are quite content to leave the reins o{Y power with those who have handledi them #o well ke in no uncertain tone, and if in :.K future, this Government, the Laurâ€" ier Government, proves recreant to its trust, the people will again speak at What would havre been the history of this country had it not been for the Goorge Browns, the Baldwins. and the Lafontaines ? 1t would have been & country whose history would have becn one of shame and degradeation. The Canadian constitution from chapter td Proud of the Government. h 1 £ 0d 13 & K 11 oA & 29 4 5 ctithcdth â€"Alh ds dn ie tcioctatint Ait aniat will cast your first vote in the oomlfi election, to cast that in the memory the beroes of the past. and in «upport of the men who are now in the fightâ€" ing line of the great Reform party in this country. _ (Cheers.) Mr. J. Knox Leslie, the candidate for East Toronto, was warmly received. He said : "I thank you. ladies and gentle Major J. G Vote for â€"Miller and the Laurier Policy. "I have now the honor to request Sir Wilfrid Laurier to address you," said Sir William Mulock, and a gigantic cheer went up, and it was some time before the Premier could begin. He stood on the platform bowing and smiling, waitâ€" ing for the applause to cease. Sir Wilâ€" frid said :â€" Cheers For Sir Wilfrid Mr, Chairman, ] Yet once more it pear before an a citizens of this t all, and my full heart vainly Jseekl for | words to convey to you the extent of my gratitude. Yet, sir, I cannot forget that four years have elapsed since J came to visit your city. In this connecâ€" tiox:rperhapl, I may be pardoned a perâ€" sonal reference. During the last months, the last weeks, of the last session I reâ€" ceived from friends in this city repreâ€" sentations that perbaps 1 was neglectâ€" in§ the Province of Ontario, smceef had not been in it during the four preceding years. The same remark was made, 1 have found, in several of the newspapers of this city. Let me tell you, my felâ€" lowâ€"countrymen, that, though in this there was a reproach, was deeply moved and deeply touched by it; though the words were of reproach, still they conveyed to me the evidence, the maniâ€". fest evidence, that in this city of Toâ€" ronto I could count upon w regard and affection of a many friends. And the words, though they were words of reproach, conveyed to me unmistakable evidence thay the work was appreciated to which, above all things, I have given my life, the work of uniting the heterogencous elements of eur population, of consolidating them and making of them _ a nationâ€"(apâ€" | plause)â€"a nation worthy of the British | Empire in which we live. (Renewed apâ€" plause ..) 4 The Work of Four Years. But â€"I wish to say this â€" redeeming feature, had come early I would | come under such . auspiciou ‘stances as those under whic! |wmght. (Applause.) _ 1 c« | surrounded, as the Chairmar But, sir, let me tell you at onceâ€"and you will forgive me, I know, a few words of digressionâ€"let me tell you something of the circumstances under which I have worked. Let me give you, even if I appear to be selfish and egoâ€" tistical in so doing, a bit of my hisâ€" tory during the past four years. The elections took place in the month of November, 1900. In the year 1901, after the session of Parliament, we had the | visit of their Royal Highnesses the | Duke and Duchess of Cornwall nnd’ York, now the Prince and Princess of | Wales. (Applause.) It fell to me. as head of the Government, to extend to them for the Canadian people the hosâ€" pitality of our country, I had to follow them everywhere, and in so doing I perâ€" formed a duty which prevented me thinking of any other. The year afterâ€" wards, 1902, there was the coronation of his Majesty the King, and the Imâ€" perial Conference. I had to attend | them, and I came back only in the | month of October of that year. _ Afterâ€" | wards, in the year 1903, there was a sosâ€" ‘ sion lasting eight months, in which we took up the great project, which is | there outlined (pointing to the diagram | over the platform), the construction of | the new Transcontinental Railway. The session lasted eight months, and I had | no opportunity to visit this place or any | other. This year we had a session lastâ€" | ing five months. (A voice, "What about Dundonald ?" and cries of "Shut up.") | That session lasted until the month of | August last. Then we had the dissoluâ€" | tion of Parliament, and as soon aAs the | House was dissolved I rushed to my | electors in the city of Quebec to place my fate in their hands, and then I came to Ontario. (Applause . ) Bo you see it | would have been impossible for me to | come sooner than I did. | Mr. Aylesworth in Public Life. | by WB Jvlll EApERTY NCOE that you have a amonopoly of his glory and eminence. _ The name of Ayles worth has travelled through the breadth and length of our land, and is appre: csiated not only in his native Province, but whereve; the British flag floats. (Cheers.) Mr. Aylesworth comes to u,cit,in(behuto(thoflght; he takes his share of the fightingâ€"and a big share of it he takes _ (Applause.) /. «»~ hawvs haan in office now for (Cheers.) Mr. Aylesworth comes to been Nncedea, us, sir, in the heat of the fight; he the task and takes his share of the fightingâ€"and a the British Go big share of it he takes, (Applause.) | people. _ Ren flr.flhnbeenhofiunowfor of the Diramor eicht yearsâ€"our record is bdi- the the Queen. many friends, old a supporter of Sir Wilfrid (Loud cheers.) _early I would not have r such auspicious . circumâ€" those under which 1 appear 1 you COnv aty, J am prepared to admit that in some things purely departmental we may have been led into errors . But this I may tell you at once, gentlemen of the Province of Ontario, electors of the Dominion o{f COanada®* we have given you a pure and honest government. (Gseercs We ate assailed, it is true, ::l assailed flth& the bitterness of Tory Eut w they are in = position; but ’I’et me fll\'yfllil, nnt?pl put it to the judgment of all who are friends or foes, that the head and front of the charges which are brought Against us is, after all, very «mall, very minute, and very trivial. ° There are no serious charges against us 1f viose made are to be compared with the offences proved and charged against those who are now our traducers, when tt:c_v were lon'ofllm.tht:ev are simply as e weight of a fea a mounâ€" tain of iniquity. (IJ‘;::n.) (Genâ€" tlemen, it is casy to criticize, it is always easy to find fault, . The probâ€" lean is, the difficulty is, to constract and to build, and I submit again to the judgment of friend and foe, that after Oi(htzlninofim there is not here, there is not in the r.mtry, a man, a citizen, who does not feel provuder in his heart to call himself a Canadian than he wus eight years ago. (Loud cheera,.) I do not claim crealt for w which this country has but I assert that as a result of the polkcy followed by this Governâ€" ment the name of Oranada has obtainâ€" ed a prominence which it had not cight years ago. (Applause.) 1 assert that the name of Ornada during these eight years has travelled far and wide, and whether a man be a friend or be a foe, mdlmown he must admit that there are thday in Euro thousands and thousands of men vz; had never heard the name of Canada cight years ago, and who toâ€"day, every day, tiwn thei* eyes toward this new «tar which has apâ€" peared in the western sky. (Applause.) Credit to Preferential PoBHcy. Gentlemen, you will be asked, and I ask you, what is the cause of this 1 If there are any Conservatives in this audiâ€" ence they would say Providence Yes, Providence is the cause of it I biess Providence on both my I nee« for the favors which He hinth showered upon us, but, sir, it has been written long ago that Providence helps those that help themselves, _ (Applause.) _ And during those eight years we have helped the people of Canada. We did not apend our time disputing, quarrelling or faultâ€" finding. We did not epend our time dis puting with one another or eonspiring of April, 1897, we launched agninst tho eastern winds our British preference, and when it was carried over the ocean to the British public, when the following day the words of my friend Mr. Fieldâ€" ing, the Minister of Finance, were heard all over Great RBritain that the goods of Great Britain would be admitted at every custom house of Canada at the preferential rate. from that day the name of Canada rose into fame. . (Ap plause.) _ On that day the British heart was touched as it never was touched before. â€" There was a thrill, there was a commotion which pervaded England. Everybody who up to that time had one agarinst the other. We spent our time in action, trying to improve for the Canadian people the benefits of Proviâ€" dence, the benefits which Providence had sbowered upon us And it toâ€"day I a= sert itâ€"and I put it as a propositionâ€" that if Canada has obtained the posiâ€" tion it has todGay it is due altogether to measures which have m?m-« and enacted bÂ¥ the present Governmen‘. >A_dfio‘l‘.oftb_n¢ ures, wen! . men, has been the Brm prwencs. (Cheers.) Mr. Foster‘s Stumbling. I read yesterday, 1 think, a apeech delivered by the candidate of the Onpâ€" servative party in Toronto, Mr. Foster, in which he stated that we «tumbled upon the British preference: we had not invented it, but we had stumbled npâ€" on it, I care not to discuss whether we invented it or stumbled upon it, but if we stumbled upon it this was not the kind of thing upon which the Governâ€" ment used to stumble in the days when Mr. Foster was a member of it. In the days in which Mr. Foster wa« a member of the Canadian Government it was not upon things noble that the Gow+« ernment stumbled, but it was rather up« on things ignoble, (Applause.) There were then factions and conspirnci boltmx and Nboltxm. mm in or going out, just as it suited the caleulation», the ambitions and the @elfishness 0f those in the Government. (Hear, hear.) But we did otherwise, and, whether «» stumbled upon this British preference o~ whether we invented it, the fact is that when on a certain night in the month revynd Queen to the humblest of her subjects. (Applause.) The press comâ€" mented upon it, the trade comâ€" mented upon it, indeed . it . inâ€" spired the poets, and the greai est of all the living poets, of all _ the _ Englishâ€"speaking . poets, Rudyard Kipling, made it the subject of one of those noble productions when he said in that famous poem in which he characterized Cannda speaking to the mother land, "Daughter am 1 in my mother‘s house, but mistress in y own." (Applause.) From that day, I say, Canada came before the British public, from that day Canada took the position which it has had ever since. (Applause.) Denunciation of Treaties. But, sir, when we had passed that preference our difficulties were nol a\ n end, they were simply commenc ing. _ We had to get it accepted \y the British public â€" There was no difâ€" ficulty, you may say, in getting it acâ€" cepted. _ Yes there was a difticulty, and the difficulty was in the shape of anâ€" cient treaties, the remnmant of what 1 will call the barbarian ages of the :stolon'ul l{lflefll Areaties which made 'impouietn'vethe erence to Britain unless d‘im u,x::e’dms we gave a preference to Germany and Belâ€" gium. â€" Well, we wanted to give a preâ€" {ference to Britain, but we_did not want to give a preference to Germany and Belgium. _ What was to be done ? We appealed to the British people, we appealed to the British Government to denounce those treaties. This was not the first time this appeal had been made; it had been made before by the Government which had preceded us, it had been made before by the Canadian Parliament, but those prayers had not been heeded. â€" However, we undertook the task and proceeded to appeal to the British Government and the British people. _ Remember, it was the year of the Diamond Jubilee of her Majesty of the Diamond Jubllee 01 Rer MAJOS\)Y the Queen. 1t fell to my lot as the a It is it Om