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Reece ee THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesdey, February 1, 1967 Lore Lingers On Labrador LONDON (CP)--A curious bit of folklore seems to persist in Quebec about the 1927 Privy Council decision on Labrador. Anyone who has discussed the Labrador issue in Quebec is likely to have been told, fre- quently with great passion, that the Privy Council didn't realize how much land it was granting Newfoundland. The story has it that the law {| JOHN A. LAMPOONED-- Sir John A. Macdonald, in the midst of a scandal over the construction of the rail- way to the Pacific, is lam- pooned by J. W. Bengough, a well-known cartoonist of the day, in his book, A Car- icature History of Canadian Politics. Sir John Stands on the neck of Miss Canada while saying 'These hands are clean." One hand is lettered "Send me another $10,000," a reference to pay- offs uncovered in the scan- dal, while the other holds a " sign announcing "Proroga- tion and suppression of the investigation" inte the scan- dal. Copyright of the cartoon now is owned by Rapid Grip and Batten Ltd., a firm which began as The Grip, a Toronto weekly newspaper founded by cartoonist Ben- gough. The Grip stopped publishing in 1894, but the company continued operat- 'ing as an engraving plant, later merging with other re- lated service companies. (CP Photo) CENTENNIAL FLASHBACK By ROSEMARY SPEIRS OTTAWA (CP) --Canada's first prime minister looks a little weatherbeaten these days--75 years after his death --but his boots are planted firmly and his sculptured gaze over Parliament Hill is serene and confident. Wrapped in his bronze greatcoat, Sir John A. Mac- donald stands waiting for the 100th birthday of the nation he helped build and gives no sign he remembers the year Canadians first discovered he had feet of clay. That discovery, later la- belled the Pacific Scandal and made when this capital was little more than a crude and muddy lumbering town, came close to wrecking the great Conservative chief and even closer to destroying the coali- tion party that had built Con- federation. In 1873 Sir John was to in- sist to the Commons that the whole affair was just a "foul, false and calumnious"' inven- tion of the Opposition, but to this day historians have been unable to erase the dark doubts cast on his integrity. Even Prof. Donald Creigh- ton of Téronto who has chron- icled Macdonald's career in loving detail refuses to exten- uate the Pacific Scandal. "His crime was the crime of accepting campaign funds from the very man_ with whom he was negotiating a contract of major importance in the national! interest," Creighton writes in his prize- winning biography of the Glasgow-born prime minister. HE GOT CAUGHT But some defence perhaps for Sir John came with last year's Report of the Commis- sion on Electoral Expenses which notes Canada was born in an age so marked by cor- ruption it produced three ma- jor public scandals in the first three decades after 1867. It was not that Macdonald behaved worse than many of his contemporaries--just that he got caught at it--caught red - handed accepting some $350,000 for his 1872 election campaign fund from a Mont- real financier whom he in re- turn promised the presidency of Canada's first national rail- way. It was, writes Canadian au- thor Bruce Hutchison, "a deal too rough even for politics" and it loaded the guns of a delighted and vengeful Liberal Opposition. 1867 U 1967 Yet any bare-bones account of the scandal somehow leaves out the hopes and dreams for the newborn do- minion that drove the fore- most Father of Confederation into the notorious deal and embroiled him in its compli- cations as mere personal greed could never have done. At a time when British Co- lumia was but an isolated outpost on the Pacific and the Canadian. state little more than a paper creation, he wanted to conserve his last years to joining the far-flung north with the tin rods of steel that alone could bind the nation. WANTED TO WIN It was a task he trusted to no one but himself. Macdonald wrote during the campaign to his friend John Rose saying: "I am as you may fancy exceedingly desir- ous of carrying the elections again; not from any personal object, because I am weary of the whole thing, but Con- federation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five more years before it hardens into bone." Thus it was that in the last hectic pre-election days of 1872 when it seemed only lavish campaign spending could hold Ontario and Que- bec for the Tories, an ex- hausted, desperate, and re- peatedly drunk Sir John jumped at the golden bait "tendered by Montreal ship- ping magnate Sir Hugh Allan. 'Feet Of Clay' Bared By Pacific Scandal Passing over the claims of one of his oldest friends, Da- vid Macpherson, president of the Interoceanic Railway Co., Macdonald sent Allan his promise that "the power of the government will be exer- cised'" to give Allan the presi- dency of the proposed Pacific Railway. The pay-off money came promptly in return and, be- fore his meagre electoral vic- tory at last became clear, fnnocence and language that can be most kindly called hypocritical. "Neither by thought, word, deed or action has the gov- ernment done anything of which it can be ashamed," reads the yellowed newspaper record of his speech. "From the conception of the idea up to the placing of the charter in the hands of the Pacific Railway Co., we were actuated and moved by a de- sire to promote the best inter- ests of this dominion." DEFEATED IN COMMONS Short days later his begging telegram was splashed simul- taneously across the front pages of the Toronto Globe, the Montreal Herald and Que- bec's L'Evenement. The em- barrassed prime minister had to admit he was "'fairly stag- gered." Parliament limped on but the end was near. By Nov. 3 the inevitable Commons de- feat had come and Macdonald wearily handed in his resig- nation to Governor - General Dufferin. In his five-hour final speech, the battling old prime minis- ter told Parliament he could "see past the decision of this House' to a day when the nation would recognize his contributions. If he could see ahead, Mac- donald would have realized his luck was with him still, timing even his defeats for exactly the right moment. World depression followed hard on his resignation, doom- ing his successor Alexander Mackenie to quick discredit and sweeping Sir John tri- umphantly back into office by 1878, He was to go on te see hig dreamed - of transcontinenta) - railway push through to the Pacific and to win permanent fame as moulder of a nation before his death in office in 1891, Grateful future generations set up the bronze memorial on Parliament Hill to their greatest prime minister and soon forgot the days he had also been their greatest scan- dal, A. E. JOHNSON, 0.D. OPTOMETRIST 14% King St. 723-2721 East | Macdonald and his li ants had sent repeated beg- ging requests to Montreal. In the last days a fatal tele- gram had gone out to Allan. "I must have another ten thousand," Sir John had wired with almost incredible care- lessness. "Will be the last time of calling. Do not fail me, Answer today." RUMORS IN OTTAWA The Tories were returned to Ottawa with a bare majority. And somehow, this time, their leader's electoral jubilation was tinged with a chill of unease--there were rumors current in the capital, rumors suggestive of trouble ahead. By 1873 there were more than rumors. Macdonald didn't know it yet but the Lib- erals had the damning tele- gram, bought for $5,000 from a young clerk who had gone through the files of Allan's solicitor and extracted the evidence. April 2, an astounded Sir John could only sit and watch as Lucius Seth Huntingdon, an obscure Liberal MP who was to make his reputation as a scandal-sniffer, rose to tell the Commons that Sir Hugh Allan had bought the Pacific con- tract with election donations. For weeks "Old Tomorrow" eased his fears with the fa- miliar remedy of drink and, while the parliamentary in- quiry dragged on, faced the House with what Opposition Leader Alexander Mac- kenzie contemptuously la- belled a "studious silence." Stung finally to reply and unaware of just how far Lib- eral information extended, he made his answer to the Com- mons with an air of injured for a i FLOORS at Now is the time to have that new broadloom you've been dreaming about installed and save money too, Angus Graydon, the carpet experts, are now offering quality broadloom at reduced prices. Canadian PRINCESS Nylon PLUSH Acrilan TWIST Karastan BOLEREAU so, vo, 14.95 so. vo, 6.49 so. vo, 9.49 §Q. YD. 12.49 for only 106 aq. ft. If your rug is valuable te you... it deserves the best RUG CLEANING SERVICE Gur rug cleaning experts offer free pick-up and de- livery, top notch cleaning on breedlcom or loose ruge Ancus-(5RAYDON CARPET COMPANY LTD. 282 KING ST. 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