Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1915-03-27
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note: The Week R British Columbia Newspaper and Review The Official Organ of the Victoria Real Estate Exchange Vol. XII, No. Victoria, B. C, Canada, March 27th, 1915 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year Election Rumors ON SATURDAY last Sir Richard McBride left for Ottawa. It is an open secret that his visit was due mainly to differences of opinion in the party as to the desirability of holding a Provincial election in the near future. These differences were not due to any general disagreement, or to any lack of confidence in Sir Richard McBride as leader of the party, but to a determined opposition to any further Government aid to the Canadian Northern or the Pacific Great Eastern Railways. These important enterprises have reached an advanced stage in their development and may fairly be said to have entered upon the final stage of completion, but financial conditions the world over preclude the possibility of the promoters raising the necessary money to complete their several systems, at any rate in the immediate or near future. Under these circumstances the question of the moment is, "What is the best thing for the Government to do?" It does not help the solution of this problem to argue that a better bargain might have been made, or that other steps might have been taken to ensure the completion of the work by the companies themselves within the time originally contemplated. In spite of all that has been said to the contrary there is even now no reason to doubt that this would have been done if the financial conditions which prevailed three and four years had continued. The men who today are loudest in their condemnation of the Government were not a bit better able to forecast a change in financial conditions than was the Government itself. Any one can b.e wise after the event, and this is all that the Liberal party has shown itself capable of at the present time. The one thing upon which all sane men agree is that the railways must be completed. This is a matter of common sense, a…
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: 10.14288/1.0373926
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