Excerpt from The Political Destiny of Canada: Being Determined by Its Financial Policy A few months ago it required boldness on any man's part to utter the word annexation, unless he at once denounced the unpatriotic expression. Professor Goldwin Smith discoursed on the matter, dealing mainly in theories, and drawing deductions. Sir Francis Hincks' and lesser men could only meet him with one assertion: The sentiment of the Canadian people is against it. Unquestionably they were right; but recent events have shewn that the ...
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Excerpt from The Political Destiny of Canada: Being Determined by Its Financial Policy A few months ago it required boldness on any man's part to utter the word annexation, unless he at once denounced the unpatriotic expression. Professor Goldwin Smith discoursed on the matter, dealing mainly in theories, and drawing deductions. Sir Francis Hincks' and lesser men could only meet him with one assertion: The sentiment of the Canadian people is against it. Unquestionably they were right; but recent events have shewn that the senti ment of attachment to Great Britain was not so deep and strong as many had supposed. The money question coming on, we made it evident that we were not prepared to pay a heavy price for British connection. From that it is only fair to reason that if any other alliances could be made to appear more profit able, we should be prepared to consider them. At any rate it appears to me that our past and present mode of financing can have but one result, which will appear when I have laid my facts and figures before the public. For any Opinions expressed, the writer is alone responsible - the spectator is not committed in any way. I will begin with Canadian finances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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