. Review of reviews and world's work . of unfriendliness to thegreat Republic. No such spirit exists. The hubbub and noise and dust of a roaringstreet mob are one thing; the great, strongundercurrents of national life quite another;and anyone who has doubt as to what theCanadian rejection of Reciprocity means, hasonly to analyze the votes, province by pro-vince, to be convinced that the anti-annexation howl in Ontario had as httle todo with the real results as the anti-Britishhowl in Quebec. In both cases, the mob gotbusy and noisy and obstreperous; but inOntario street rowdies threw stones th
. Review of reviews and world's work . of unfriendliness to thegreat Republic. No such spirit exists. The hubbub and noise and dust of a roaringstreet mob are one thing; the great, strongundercurrents of national life quite another;and anyone who has doubt as to what theCanadian rejection of Reciprocity means, hasonly to analyze the votes, province by pro-vince, to be convinced that the anti-annexation howl in Ontario had as httle todo with the real results as the anti-Britishhowl in Quebec. In both cases, the mob gotbusy and noisy and obstreperous; but inOntario street rowdies threw stones throughthe windows of the Globe for advocatingReciprocity, while in Quebec street rowdiesof an o[)posite stripe howled at speakers foradvocating closer British relations. In On-tario, the anti-U. S. howl seemed to swaypublic sentiment; in Quebec, the anti-British; and in both cases, away down be-low the noise, was the very same motive—dollars and cents, the business balance sheet, ROBERT LAIRD BORDEN, THE \ E\\ FRLMltR OF .SS9. RECEPTION TENDERED THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT,ON OCTOBER 13, PREMIER BORDEN ON THE LEFT with political manipulators working thethoughtless crowd for all it was worth. AN ANALYSIS OF THE VOTE Take the vote, province by proxince! On-tario gave IT, mcml)ers for Reciprocity, 72against it; hut Ontario is jjreeminently themanufacturing center of Canada; and so youcome down to dollars and cents as the basicfact. Also, Ontario is peopled by the descend-ants of United Empire Loyalists—familiesdriven from the United States after the Rev-olutionary War and most unjustly over in Quebec! Before the Boer War,Laurier could count every vote in Quebec ashis own; but when the Boer War came andCanada sent troops, there were those amongthe French Nationalists who thought Can-ada was making a mistake to embroil herselfin foreign wars. In the family quarrel amongQuebec politicians, Bourassa, the leader of theFrench Nationalists, was
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