iould not be faified.by their not carrng It being six o'clock, the Speaker left the
mt, to the very letter, the. idea with i*if chair.
tey staritd, and with which they went be- After Reces.
te the people. What was that policy Mr. FOSTrF.-In the remarks I wasad-
he olicy of .the Liberal-Conservative dressing to the House, I was dealing with
rty as ty een a railwray a railway on Can- the new or salient points of objection that
a[ian territry, a railwray corpletd just as had been raised by the hon. member for
qu/ckly as it possbly can be completed. In Queen's. I did not exhaust all the points
pmruance of tat policy, in 188U and 1881, which were made and which were
.theymade a contract with the syndicate merely iteations or repetitions of
WlllC . those that had been.made and largely an-
DBUND THEM TO BUILD THE BOAD BY 1891. swered in speeches which preceded. In the
;r,the Conservative party went to the coun- remarks which I shall now address to the
try largely on that, they relied on these House, I wish to speak first, Sir, of three'
terms and conditions, and the country took broad, general facts, upon which is based a
them at their word, and sent them back here necessity, as I thifk, for the position which i
with a madrityr of 70 to carry out that idea. we take with reference to this whole railroad
i say that we have an. honorable and honest question. I wish, then,.to speak for a few
rnight to state, that the Conservative party moments of the question as it is presented to
has a policy and a record in this respect-a us in the Resolutions which are before the
policy in favor of building this trans-conti- House; and afterwards I propose, with the
Mental line of railway as soon as it possibly kind indulgence of the House, to take some
cTan be built; and that the Conservative notice of the points whieh have been raised
party, by the vast majority by which it was and put forth as arguments why these Reso-
returned, in 1$82, has been sent here, com- !utions should not pass. In the first place,
aissioned to carry out that idea, and that then, with regard to the three broad or gen-
wrey would fil in their record, fail in the?ir eral facts upon which, as I tli?nk, is based
duty to this House and the people whi sent the railroad policy of this party,as embodied
them here by such amajority iftheydid not in its latest phase in the Resolutions before
orry out that idea with ali the speed and the House.
pro tness compatible with safet y and secur- ' We often hear the remark, Sir, that a coun-
jly. That is what the hon. m?mber from try does not amount to much without a peo-
jichinond and Wolfe meanit; that is what pie. That is very true; but I think it is
aon. members knew he meant, and that is equally truc that a people never amounts to
something which much without a country. I believe, Sir, that
SISOULD NOT BE MISUNDERSTOOD the material is not by any means the most
r, misrepresented. The hon. gentleman has important factor in the development of na-
:msked a question and asked it with a great tional greatness, and the
leal of earnestness. He ass a smge UPBUELDING OF NATIONAL PERaMAENCr.
meeting been held in this ountry, in favor of , I believe, Sir, that there is a sentiment,
this loan ?" The hon. gentleman knows that indefinable, but very` streng and very creat-
that is Just the reverse of the way in which ive, which is sometimes known by the nam?e
t shoud be put. When the people make no of patriotism, which is written as one of the
iagn, what is t.he inference therefrnn ? That broadest facts upon the history of the past,
they acquiesce; that they are in agreement which is no less a fact in the development
-with and favor the plan which is proposed. of the present, and which no statesman and
Ever since this house sat, and it sat eary, it nodeliberative assembly can afford to ignore.
mas been before the country that additional It is that feeling, Sir, which makes us proud
legislation would be had with reference to and confident of our own countrv, which
-the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the idea crestes within lus a desire, an overmastering
has been mooted and sent abroad that that desire, to make it rival, and if passible ex-
additional legislation would either make a cel, any other country, wvhich canh forth the
rovisio for an increased out-and-out gift best energies of a people to embedv and
;f a sunbsidy,or would take the form ofa loan. realize that desire, which joins together dis-
That information has been before the country membered parts and divetsiti?s of opinion
for a month or more. For nearly two and of interest in order to attain the object
months that idea has been before the country; desired, which throws itg halo, Sir, of hepe
nd yet I challeniged the hon. gentleman to aInd confidence over the darkest period of a
point to the record of a single public meet- nation's development, and which crowns
ing whicll has been called to protest against seeming impossibilities with triumphant
theaction of this Govetmnent. I-saythat is success. This feeling, Sir, I believe to be a
iroof eonclusive that theypublic mind settled factor which is indispensible in the develop-
rown to acquiesc?nce in theseprop?sals. Be- ment of any people, dowried even with the
fore this argument 'can have a feather's richest matenralresources,and a factor which
weight with the country or this House, the has been provea over and over again in the
iton. gentleman will have to get up an agita- history of the worl, to have brought forth
tion outside ,the party press, and show a wonderful transformations, to have built'up
:spontaneous uprising of the peopl8 here and spleudid and enduring nat/tonalities outof *
there throughout the country in protest elements which have been diointed, dis-
egainst these terms. united and surrounded with didfeulties. If
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