Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1912-08-31
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note: L. McLeod Gould Public Stenographer Copying, Mailing, Editing, Expert Journalistic Work and Adv't Writing Accuracy, Despatch, Privacy 1208 Government Street Phone 1283 The Week A British eolnmbia Newspaper and Review* Fabllshtd at Victoria, B. C. HALL & WALKER Agents Wellington Colliery Company's Coal 1232 Gov't St. Telephone 83 IVol. 10. No a Tenth Year THE WEEK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1912 Tenth Year One Dollar Per Annum ANAMA CANAL—The expected has happened and the uncouth jelly fish which an unkind fate has placed in Presidential chair of a sister Republic flopped, as most people thought he uld with a Presidential election so near hand. A much abler man than Taft r was, Cleveland, tried to raise a little des over the Venezuelan affair many rs ago; although the incident is buried in limbo of things that matter not, it has not n forgotten and the feeble imitation of a on the part of Taft recalls the whole dent. The sole effect of Cleveland's k was to disgust all reasonable men, ther British or American, and incident- to low him so much in the public esti- ion that he never afterwards figured at The effect of Taft's dishonesty has even more prominent, for today he [els discredited in the eyes of the civilised d and condemned by the Press of his country, as well as of England. As the s-Advertiser very incisively put it, his ise only makes matters worse. In seek- for some possible plea of justification t remarked that as the Canal had been |structed by the United States on its own itory, at its own cost, it would be absurd the nation would not control the tolls give itself any advantage that might lesired, yet when Taft said this he knew . the territory did not belong to the ted States at the time the agreement was le. It was secured afterwards by an which some of Mr. Taft's own country- |i declared to be an Act of public robbery. re is no room for argument with re- t to the principle involved, it was a •pie matter of fact, that the United States ernment secured the ab…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0344050
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : ""The Week"" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text