oqual-d. (Laughtaranrt applause) Hehd no objection lo the Government asßistiog the Bank if it had been done openly, but it had been done secretly, and to make it worse the Government tried hard to pack Ibo com mi't e of enquiry and then pliced all sort* of obstacles in the way of tho inquiry to that the Committee gave it up "disgusted. One replj of thePremier was he had not kept such laree balan es at the b»nk as the Btout- Togel Government did, but he did not mention that the previous Government were carrying on publio works at three times the rate he had beon doing Mr I womey next glanced at tho doings of the Liberal party when in power. In reality this party never had a chance, never having a real majority. Bir G. Grey by a chance voto got in in 1887, introduced a land tax, village settlements, triennial parliaments, perpetual teasing, and extended the franchise, but carried uothing eicept the land tax. Sir John Hall resigned his srat in the Upper House, headed the I'ory party and put Sir George Grey out agiiin. and then to appease tho deßirts of the people passed some of Grey's measures i'Jr K Mout returned to power in 1881 but was met w'tb the cry " Keep the mini.-lry in aid their measures out," and could do nothing not having a real majority Nevertheless his Ca-inot passed the m.'St liheral land law that any country in Iho world ever possessed, U"der which dummyism was unknown, large estates did not grow larger, villigo settlements nourished, and people were properly nettled on the land. I hey also made preat efforts to throw the burden of taxation UDon the shoulders of wealth, and to cut up the large elated by an Acquisition Bill, and they brought out farmers with capital amoun'int t.j £41 1 00 This was the party he would support and stick to, the party which would make the country for the people and not reduce the people to mere money making machines and taxpayers. _ Toryism, now, and always and everywhere, said " Leave things as ttioj are." Their only proposals Y/ofu—no more retrenchment, no change of taxation, further borrowing The cry " You will frighten capital away," was eet up agiinst a land tax. Capital had been going away under the property tax. 