. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. he south. Still, the electorate remained obdurate. The people did notcare, apparently, to entrust the administration of a protective tariff toleaders who had always been bitterly opposed to the principle—eventhough they now acknowledged a change of conditions and a modifi-cation of policy. The second failure, however, to carry the country,bitterly d
. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. he south. Still, the electorate remained obdurate. The people did notcare, apparently, to entrust the administration of a protective tariff toleaders who had always been bitterly opposed to the principle—eventhough they now acknowledged a change of conditions and a modifi-cation of policy. The second failure, however, to carry the country,bitterly disappointed the Opposition. They had fully expected tocapture the people upon the combined issue of Kiels execution—inQuebec—and an acceptance of the moderate protective policy—inOntario. Fate had decreed now otherwise, and In the autumnof 1887, after Mr. Blake had disappeared from the leadership and had done a little coquetting with the new Imperial prefer-ential idea at Somerset, Quebec, Sir Richard Cartwright declaredboldly in a speech at Ingersoll, on October 17th, for a clear-cut policyof reciprocity with the United States In agricultural and industrialproducts. Free trade with the American Republic was to be the new. PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. TORONTO
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