Omineca Miner
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-12-01
issued: 1911-09-09
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note: VOL. I, NO. 2. HAZELTON, B. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911. PRICE $2.00 A YEAR. 1- IP iff V'5 Enthusiasm Aroused In Vancouver by Bowser's Arraignment of Reciprocity BORDEN AND SIR WILFRID Federal Leaders Continue Busy In Eastern Constituencies ��� Dominion Is Awaking tc Importance of the Issue��� Campaign in British Columbia Vancouver, Sept. 8:���(Special to the Miner) The feature of the week in the coast campaign was the address delivered by Hon. W. J. Bowser at the first Conservative rally in Vancouver on Thursday. In a vigorous address, amid a riot of laughter and cheers, the Attorney-general quoted Laurier's anti-reciprocity speeches in the House, as reported in Hansard and his public speeches on the same subject, concluding with the Prime Minister's reference to reciprocity at the banquet given by the Canadian Club of Ottawa to Ambassador Bryce in April, 1907, on which occasion Sir Wilfrid said Canada would have no more reciprocity proposals and no more pilgrimages to Washington, but was looking to the motherland. The Liberals, said Mr. Bowser, take joy in recalling the early reciprocity speeches of Sir John A. Mac- donald, but we don't have to go so far back to get Laurier's views the other way. Reciprocity, the speaker averred, would do incalculable injury to the growing industries of British Columbia. Under it the Panama canal would be of little benefit to the ports of this Province. That the adoption of the pact would lead to annexation was the view of American statesmen and leading journals. Referring to his prosecution of Canadian Northern contractors in Victoria for violation of the alien labor law In bringing men from Seattle he justified the fining of the contractors and condemned the Ottawa authorities who, he said, under a secret order-in- council, sought to void the Act by letting down the immigration barriers. Are Pleased With Northern Interior Laurier in Ontario Collingwood, Sept. 8:-Sir Wilfrid Laurier has returned to Ontario, and spoke here last…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Hazelton (B.C.)
spatial: Hazelton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0083397
language: English
lat: 55.2558330
long: -127.6755560
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Hazelton, B.C. : Macdonald and Rauk
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