John Sparrow David Thompson

Name: Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question
Author: John Sparrow David Thompson

Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

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“Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question”, is a work by John Sparrow David Thompson. It explores elements such as South Oxford, judges and constituencies.

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John Sparrow David Thompson, Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

“ The hon. gentleman is the only kind of man who ought to try a case, and above all is the only kind of judge who should sit on the trial of a political opponent. He is so pure, he is so above reproach, he is so well known outside of his own province, which those unfortunate judges who are appointed are not, that he above all others made in the same mould -- which thank God Nature broke when she cast him -- was fit to sit in judgment in cases whether political or civil in this country. ”

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John Sparrow David Thompson, Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

“ I will not make so little of the House as to ask the House whether that statement is true or whether it is false ; but I ask the House whether it thinks a man worthy to sit within its walls who stigmatizes as mock trial an investigation to be held by two of the highest judges of this country, who have not yet taken their seat and opened the investigation. ”

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John Sparrow David Thompson, Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

“ But for the party which is in power now I stigmatize that as disgraceful a misstatement as can be uttered in Parliament, and I have only to appeal to the recollection of every man who hears me to corroborate me in stating that above all other things the late leader of the Liberal-Conservative party achieved public respect for the course he took in selecting proper men to occupy the judgment seats of this country. ”

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John Sparrow David Thompson, Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

“ But, again I say, the hon. gentleman tried to drag me into his quarrel with the judges, the quarrel of a convicted man against the bench, because we all know that when a man has lost his case and been convicted of a disgraceful crime he has but two options -- one is to appeal and the other is to abuse the judge, and the hon. gentleman has chosen the latter course. He has dragged me into that controversy for the purpose of making the miserable insinuation that I bought the position I now fill by giving a seat upon the bench to a member of this House. ”

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John Sparrow David Thompson, Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

“ Having stigmatized his own party to whom he was pointing and whom he was addressing, with every crime in the political calendar, and many in the moral calendar as will, having reminded them of the sad fact that they had so polluted certain constituencies of this country with stolen money, that this Assembly was hardly to be regarded as a representative body, the hon. gentleman proceeded to attack the judges of this country. I have no doubt that the hon. gentleman as good cause for quarrel with the judges. ”

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John Sparrow David Thompson, Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

“ Confident of the position which this country has obtained in spite of the efforts of the hon. member for South Oxford, confident in the path that she has chosen for herself, they are not to be alarmed even by the threats of a leading public man who counsels resistance, and declares that the fate of his country is sealed; because they know as well as we know, that when the hon. gentleman talks of resistance, and the death of his country, and all that kind of stuff, his courage is all in his tongue, and that the motto which he carries upon his escutcheon is "Words, not deeds." ”

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John Sparrow David Thompson, Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

“ I doubt that they will consider that the occasion was the most timely the hon. gentleman could have chosen. They will think that the hon. gentleman might have got off his address at one of the earlier stages of the business of the House, when he forebore to intrude himself upon the attention of Parliament. ”

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John Sparrow David Thompson, Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

“ One thing which we have eliminated is the general charge that other persons interested in these subsidies may have given these moneys too, and the general charge that these moneys were used in some 24 or 25 constituencies, and in some three or four elections in each of these constituencies. But, so far as the charges against the Government are concerned, and so far as the charges against the Postmaster General are concerned, they are just as clear and just as precise and just as open for investigation has the day they were made. ”

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John Sparrow David Thompson, Speech before the House on the Manitoba Schools Question

“ Those who knew him, those who knew his relations in the county, and know the way in which he has discharged his duties, will say that I was right and gave sound advice, and they will not, stalwart Reformers as they are to this day, my leading opponents as they are to this day, thank the old-time leader behind whom their friend Mr. ”

John Sparrow David Thompson

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