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Date 1912-02-17

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o8 5 ,o- rer ae ee es So Pe ? id 3 S. cS DP ohoeion Have received businesses and property owned by the above and other parties, which include: : M Saturday, February 17th, 1912, f At The Assiniboia Hotel EDICINE March 13th, 1912 . BROWNE C instructions from H. C. Cooper and Messrs Cousins and Pingle and the owners to sell various AT H The Palace Livery and Feed Co. : The H.C. Cooper Ice Co. The H. C. Cooper Implement Business.. H. B. Browne Co. 519 Toronto which is situated within two miles of the city. a FOR TERMS, CATALOGUES, The above with an absolutely complete stock. Also several other - business lots, including a COAL MIN AND FURTHER PARTICULARS SEE LARGE POSTERS, OR APPLY TO THE AUCTIONEERS. Street. Davidson and Wil Solicitors. srbedeee tenet ; PEPEELOS SESS SESS SS Pooeeeeo ooo: Sr oSoeteao-eonte conte eoatyeate teste ete doctestocseaieste cos oe a a E tess srt Sripiteceeteseins LEMOS Oro PP PEEPS Alberta. osseesessosfecto Soto dtoste iret eiestetieate Pa Se So oateetedteeteete THROUGH THE HEART OF THE CITY (Continued from page three) have to reckon with the people of the city of Calgary for keeping the Grand Tronk out. of that city that is now represented by the junior member for Calgary, who is so very deeply in- terested in preventing these two com- panies from building any: railway in this country. Mr, Tweedie: Were-they not stop- ped because they had not complied with the provisions of the law, is that mot the reason why the C. P. R. hela-them-up?- Mr, Sifton; The hon, member has admitted the whole case, they did hold them up. Then hon. member tmows-of-no-good-reason that would justify the farmers of this country, or the people who want to ship wheat out PT EE If you intend building, let-us-figure-it with. you. We will give you an-accurate bill of the Our stock is the largest and best in the city, and our prices can t be beaten. Headquarters for Cement; Plaster; Doors, Fir Finish, and good straight dimension. :- material required. PO O-he Ore Ow Western Lumber Largest Stock in the City to select from. : Grade and Lowest Prices. SEE US AND SAVE MONEY. King Street and Road Allowance, Medicine Hat '. PHONE POPS OPS Oren Srtortododortoteds Best : Phone 59 Yard, North Railway POFO 0-1-0404 001 ST OTOL OPOPONS FEO 0HOLote CC : BUY YOUR LUMBER FROM of this country, or the people then in Calgary who want to get goods, why they. should have held them up wheth- er they had a legal right to do so or not is entirely aside from the ques- tion I Was discussing. Not a Justification. I admitted that everything th-y did was in accordance with the law. That Mr. Speaker is not a justification of it so far as the people of this coun- try are concerned, and it is a justifi- cation why the members of this legis- lature should give these companies more time. If the hon. member thinks it was a proper action on the part of / re big-enough for the city of. Ed- the C, P. R, I am quite satisfied, I have no doubt that their legal depart- ment is properly carried on with the very best advice they -can get, and. they are able to pay for it and ought to get it, and I have no doubt that everything they did in regard to that they did in the very best legal manner that was possible and the one that Sash, 3 : 3 z 3 3 + 4 3 ToThes pote : Canada; Co., Ltd. aS oi is 2s Seog soateete see RS os RS eS cog Peat 481. etoctonge would-cause the most delay in the building of the other lines. I can give you another example in regard to this and refer to that line that is being built by the C, N, R to the west of the C, FE. and the money ig being supplied by men in the Old Country who have an interest-in-the mines, and the C. P. R. through the Alberta Central which is admitted to be the property of the C. P, R went ahead 60 miles of their own construc- tion and hauled by teams steel rails sixty miles ahead of their own con- struction and laid out yards there that monton and Calgary combined for the purpose of blocking the construction of the Canadian Northern. Mr, Hoadley: Where were these yards erected? i Mr. Sifton: Rocky Mountain House. Mr, Hoadley: The charter of the Canedian Northern. Western was not procured until they carried on con- struction, so you are instancing a rall- way to support your contention which had no legal right. Sitton: Iam willing tobe set right by the hon. member for Oko- toks or any one who has made a study of these intricate legal ques- tions and who no doubt has received the assistance. of the hon. solicitor for the railway in question, and that the Canadian Northern Rallway built-some of its rallroad. He- is wrong in his.facts. It hadn t anything to do with-that portion of the Can- adian Northern Western Railway. But, though the legal question is an important-one-to-the members.of this. assembly, I have grave doubt whether tie-trom:-genttermen and the farmers of the country, the people who desir ed the coal from the Brazeau coal mines, are witting to wattuntit te hon, member for Okotoks and myself decide this legal question between ws, and decide which is right in re- gard to it. Not Arguing Legality ET legislature in the last session legal- izing the action of the Canadian Nor- thern Raflway.- That law was pas- sed ard ft has gone before the officers of the Canadian Paciftc-Railway, and f there was anything the matter with it t would not be here we would hear of it. The solicitors of the Canadian Pacific Railway would not have left It for the hon, member for Okotoks to bring it up here, --They keep 2 staff for the purpose, and ff they could this did -not get-a charter nll I. -had ston toes Canadian Northern to the Brazeau they would not have adopted the fool- lish plan of hauling rails 60 miles ac ross the country for the purpose of blocking construction at Rocky Moun- tain House. It is much cheaper, much cleaner work, much nicer em- ployment to send one of their lawy- ers to the courthouse at Calgary get an order for an injunction than it is; during such weather as that of Jast summer, with the roads in the condition that we are informed they are by the hon member for-Red Deer. to-go through those swapms and muskegs,to go and lay out yards at Rocky. Mountain House which are far in advance of anything that will be Tequired for years to come. But 1 was not intending to discuss it at all in a legal aspect; I was not intending to bore the hon. members with any question as to whether they. Hto-discuss- the question which hag been raised as to why more railways had not been constructed by the Can- adian Northern and the Grand Trunk Branch Lines Co. under the charters granted them three years ago, and I haye referred to these actions, and I think that, not only those actions that have taken place in regard to the question during the three or four years that have gone by, would justify legislature at this present ses: not only extending those guaran- to-the-31st December -next-in-or- der to give them an opportunity of doing a work which is in the interests of Alberta, but notwithstanding the statement that has been made here toxtay, show that they- have done their utmost to build railways in the country, and this House and this pro- vince are justified Inaccepting this tion they will beasked to pass in the interests of the country. K Serious Matter. This Is, as has been safd, a serfous matter. There 18 no reason why the hon. members who are opposed to Thig giveriment 35 hot Have policy that they consider in the Inter- ests of their party more than the poll- ey that has been supported by this government and this legislature, no reason why those members should not make suggestions as to an improved condition of affairs; but the suggest- fons that have been made up to the present time fn connection with rall- Way legislation have not been of such nature that I think would commend themselves t) the members of this House or to the people of the coun- try, We had ong only the other day Trom the hon. leader of the Opposi- have prevented construction of the tion, ho stated In the House it was the business of this assembly to give to the other right province, and that the government should undertake the responsibility of building colonization roads to the unsettled portions of the country. Ughted to hear them. I hope there will be something new in them. hope that he will not,attempt to lead I ask the legislature to continue the the-people-of this House or-the peo- ple of the Province of Alberta to.con- sider that we should take the position Pon- small scale, constantly. :n- of granting to other panies the most profitable portions o the country and'that the governmen' should assume what he intimated was the unprofitable portion of the coun- on the question: state what I think the most profit able portions of the country through which raflways can be built. on.that map outlined the portions of the province where Interests should be bullt, but as to which o these lines 18 going to be the mos xould not put his finger onthe por- compelled to take them over because Position in which it stands at the present time it would not be possible for Alberta to raise the 50 millions that might be necessary for embarking on a system of government owned railways. in the province. It would probably be the destruction of the in- Mr. Michener: The ledd r of the Op- tet sts of many people now resident railway companies a to build through the set- tled and profitable portions. of the position will give his views on the In the province if we went into it on question presently. any scale, When we have the as: Hon. Mr. Sifton: We shall be de- ance of lines of raflway with immeise capital and that have openings to 1 east and to west it is for that reason same policy in regard to these mat- ters. It would be possible for Alberta railway com- CFeasing scale, to go into this, but the people who have come to Alberta for the purpose of building up homes for themiselves and their families, for the purpose of improving their stand- ing in this world because that is Feason that Brought most of the ple to this western country are uot prepared to wait 50 years, as their-an- T have cestors waited in Ontarlo, They-are ot Prepared to walt the many years T think, im the that the people of the Maritime prov- Tattwaya 'nces waited, They are not prepared to walt the many years that the set- tlers on the western plains of the Un- ited States waited. The people who have-come here have largely come from places where they have these ta- cilities, where they have railway com- petition, where they have telephone competition; and they have come here expecting as soon as possible to se- cure the same rights and privileges that they have been accustomed to. While I don t take the position: that Gand ria SeOMatiear Ange ana PRIN me BE Ser Suny started upon this Ine of giving s- teary that they had In abe cence erat alias open ee from which they Sane cron even: that e igcens 90: TST. e farmers who settle on these plains ee cS Se ooo shodld get every advantage that they UF sates What the toney is edpancea Oult nave lot a2 home; shoold be ea- titled to all the accessories of civiliza tion that they had in the countries from which they came. Ds i I do hold that It Is the duty of the government of the day, the duty of the legislature, the duty of the prov- ince as a whole, so fast as-possible, to give them the advantages ct civiliza- ; and I hope that the manner, in hich the, gov rnment-of the day 1s proposing to do this in the interests of the civilization of this country, s in the Interests of the people who are coming here to settle up these plains, ahd not only down through the sduthern country, but to the west ot the Calgary and Edmonton line, where they have waited long years in the hope that that benevolent corporation the Canadian Pacific Railway, would I don't mind giving him a hint I am not going to of the people, pos profitable, I think, would accept a bint in t natured: spirit n Which it fs given, it would be wiser if the hon. member sly, if he tions of the province which he thinks are most likely to be profitable to a railway company. Only one Position to Take. properly In-the-constriction-of these ines; and any policy by which government of the country would it- butlding railways owned by the prov- ince would have fo be that they were built, owned and operated in com- petition with lines built with the credit and assistance of the people of Alberta, and you we be elther re- ndering those linet jess value Th earning capacity or you would be: you had practically broken the con- tract which-you iad made. That is the only honest way of looking at the matter, Government Owned Not Possible It is not possible for the province of Alberta, with Its present popula- tion, with its limited resources, in.the open up that.cointry. where there was- no railway that would come in com- Petition with it that having waited these long years down there it is in the Interests of the people of the prov ince that th y should wait no longer than fs absolutely necessary; and that that great portion of the country to the north of us, that country unknown to many people, that country that has been so largely advertised and 8 so Popular with people down through the American States and with the people of Eastern Canada, wha talk of noth- ing else but the Grande Prairie and the. Peace River as being-the-mecca: of their hopes I think they are mis- taken. Good Land Near Edmonton I think if they settled within 50 miles of Edmonton they woald get Just'as good land-as in the Peace Riv- er, but there is more of it up there; there are uncounted acres up theri eady for the advancing civilization of the world, and it is the duty of this legislature, because we. tava an (0- terest in-that country, to taks eteps to open it up. It has beet sald that t 18. now. owned by the federat gov- ernment but the fact that the people of Alberta expect anid intend to secure the ownership of those natural re sources is an excuse for the opening Up-of that country, and the coming of railway development to that country will be an added reason for the giv- ing- of their afd and their credit for the getting of those natural resources. Which have never been given by the Federal authorities, That, Mr, Speaker, is the one thing that will justify the province in enter- islation in opening up that country. The feeling that that country: belongs to th province and the value that will that far northwest country will re- bound) to the credit of the province and in'the, long years to come when they opened up that Peace River and the northi'to its fullest extent they will. which they did something for the pray ince.of Alberta and for future gener- ations for which they will long con- tinue to be proud, and they have en- tered upon an era of prosperity. for every farmer, every merchant and every manufacturer and every real estate dealer and owner, and for every inhabitant of the province whethor he be working for wages or an em- ployer, and they will s e that they continue this prosperity and the day will come whet the Colihtry will have: railroads to the North, South, Bast and West throughout the whole: length and breadth of the province, (Continued on page eleven) ees ing-upon- this system oF rallway Teg-- be given to these natural resources n Baturday, Febru THROUGH THE (Continued fre connected not only Mines and the Atl ern Jines and the P. son Bay lines to th E, Michener, lea don, sald that In intelligent criticts which had been so to them it would them to have a few comsider the detail: bill, He therefore 1 ment of the discus: The House agre committee of the sidering the Rural Evening The discussion of Palities bill was re ing sitting. A polnt which hi eral times recently the railway commit viz. whether elect be allowed to run lowances or whett obliged to purchas of way directly al allowances, The was arged by Gec toks, and supporter Calgary. Opinion question a8 tov room on the road be left for ordinar, roads were consti R, T. Telford, Led the room could ni from the road allov T. M. Tweedie considerably inere: ra municipalities : provincial governn confidence in them have complete con road allowances, J. R Boyle, St reasenable opportu en to encourage th railways, A motion to-ins the elause vesting: in the council of carried. The sut minister of railws power to make. re to railways along Hall Insurance The amendments ral Municipalities . Insurance provide ral municipalities selves into a hail the reeves of the the hail insurance. surance board wil erate the business assessing and lev insurance purpose may be taken up b a majority vote, of the municipality n the hail insurance aac 3 u y ue q io 1 q f re

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