The Pacific Canadian
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-12-10
issued: 1916-04-14
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note: p '* Ll OT , V+��t��ri��, l^rl THE PACIFIC CANADIAN ��� < Weekly News Digest and Journal of Observation and Comment. Vol. I. NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, FRIDAY, April 14, 1916. ��� = Number 6 RAKED WITH A POP-GUN That political enfant terrible, P. J. MacKenzie, according to the indulgent and admiring Columbian, has been "raking the Opposition in the Legislature fore and aft in his effective speech in support of the Returned Soldiers' Homestead Bill." P. J. (to give him his full military title, which is something like the copper-toes to the small boy of an earlier vintage) Lieut. P. J. MacKenzie has quite a characteristic preciosity for saying smart and saucy things at his political seniors and betters, but he is not taken very seriously, as may be imagined from tlie role which he fills and the inconsequential and unconvincing nature of his jejune lucubrations. A sort of bored amusement Is about the only reaction to these performances, and the "raking fore ami aft" exploit we find to be no exception to the rule. The criticism of ^the Bowser Government bill referred to, by the Liberal leader, Mr. Brewster, in the Legislature, on Friday last, was characteristically thorough, serious and analytical, clearly distinguishing uetween the principle and general purpose of the measure (borrowed bodily from the Liberal platform), of which he approved, and the numerous defective and objectionable features which an examination ot the bill by clauses disclosed, which he unhesitatingly condemned and pointed out the better way. Among other criticisms Mr. Brewster made, was the evidently set purpose of the Government to yet favor the speculator from whom these lands were supposed to revert on account of non-payment; the tying up, out of any other use, of hiuch more land than would probably be availed of by returned soldiers; and the manner of allotment and selection���Mr. Brewster pointing out in this connection that the Government had spent thousands of dollars of the public money on an …
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
spatial: New Westminster
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language: English
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long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster, B.C. : Pacific Canadian Printing and Publishing Co-, Ltd.
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