The Greenwood Miner
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-11-30
issued: 1900-10-12
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note: [y^ilï¿½ï¿½^U> / / / {fi The Greenwood Miner. Published Weekly. Vol. II. No. 41. Greenwood, B. C, Friday, October 12, 1900. Per Year, $2.00. FIRST GUN FIRED In the Political Campaign by A. H. MacNeill. A MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT Messrs MacNeill and Macdonald Address the Electors at the Auditorium. There was a small attendance at the Conservative meeting in the Auditorium Thursday night. H. C. Shaw took the chair about 8:30 and introduced Mr. Macneill, the Conservative candidate for Yale-Kootenay-Cariboo, who commenced his speech by stating that he had not solicited the nomination from the Conservatives. He was a Liberal- Conservative, and as such was contesting the constituency. He would support the policy of that party because he believed it was the best for the country. The people would have to take him as a Liberal-Conservative from beginning to end. He was not an independent in politics, but a party man, and believed that the destiny of Canada could best be worked out by one of the two great parties, and there was no room for a third party in this campaign. Many of those present would remember that previous to 18110 Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his followers had advocated a policy of free trade as it existed in England They have not carried out this policy, but have only given a tariff reduction of 1-1-100 of one per cent. So far their only attempt at free trade was free trade in labor. They had placed the working- men of Canada in competition with cheap foreign labor. The Liberals had said that Conservatives were too extravagant, and that public expenditures would be reduced 1)15,000,000 per annum ; but had increased the expenditures %12,500,000; they would put an end to the public debt, but had added to it. Owing to Tarte's expenditures the public debt had been increased If8,000,000 in four years. He then took up the question of Chinese exclusion, claiming that the premier had not kept his promise contained in a telegram to J. C. McLagan of Vancouver, which stated: …
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Greenwood (B.C.)
spatial: Greenwood
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0081917
language: English
lat: 49.0883330
long: -118.6763890
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Greenwood, B.C. : The Greenwood Miner Printing Company
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