The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-12-10
issued: 1917-07-31
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note: The only paper in- the interior of Brltieh Columbia carrying the full service of the Wostern Associated Frees, over its own leased wire. The Dally News has the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in Canada In proportion to ths population of Its home town. VOli.''lH No. 92 NELSON,,B. G.,, TUEt»p^Y MORNlNtf, JULY. 31, 1917 50c PER MONTH LAURIER TO BE E OF tfi <8ir Clifford Sifton Depre^ cates Vague Stand ,; r«» in Disunion at Present Would be Blunder Worse Than Crime (By Daily News Leased Wire.) WINNIPEG, July 30.—A nonpartizan union government which hy control of the organizations could sec to it that men in favor of the war not blindly •fighting each other was strongly advocated by Sir Clifford Sifton in an address before the Canadian club today. He said that thc German waa in sight and there was no margin of safety. The war government wanted all the ■support it could get. It wanted to come back with a mandate from thc people of Canada to enforce conscription and to keep the army up. Disunion under such circumstances wns a blunder and n blunder worse than a crime. Sir Clifford, who made a lengthy review of the conditions existing In Canada at the present time, said that the people ln eastern Cannda were wrestling with the question. Their minds were, becoming clear on the subject, and If he might judge from thc letters ftnd telegrams ho was receiving from leading men all over eastern Canada, he did not think he exaggerated when he said that except for a few' very violent partisans, thc bulk of the people In eastern Canada wero looking to the west for leadership In the great national crisis. It was true that tho Liberal convention which was to meet in Winnipeg next week would, aider the circumstances, be one of tho uost momentous conventions ever held n Canada since confederation'and If hat convention should declare for a mg, and determined war policy, for a Igorous prosecution of thc war, for a ilon government and a properly or- nized fight, to carry those obj…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0387831
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text