Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-11-24
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note: The Week A British Columbia Newspaper aad Review Vol. XV, No. 22-15th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, November 24th, 1917 5c a copy $2.00 a year How Would the Kaiser Vote? A GOVERNMENT party advertisement asks the pertinent ques- f\ tion How Would the Kaiser Vote? The answer, of course, is that the Kaiser'would doubtless vote for his friends. And his friends are those members of the Borden mis-government who are now holding to office like leeches. The Kaiser would vote for those who, according to Sir Sam Hughes late Minister of Militia, were more successful in holding up the proper equipment of the forces than the-most ardent agents of the German Government could have been. He would vote for those who persisted in ordering untried and unsuitable trucks at retail prices against the advice of the military authorities. He would vote for those who by incompetence and dishonesty blocked the necessary equipment of the forces until the heart of the Quartermaster General of the Forces turned sick. He would vote for those who sent medical units to the bloody fields of Flanders only half equipped and thus sacrificed noble Canadian lives. He would vote for those who lost the sum of $302,575 in the purchase of useless horses. He would remember to the credit of the Borden Government that they purchased a knee-sprung horse for $150, a bone spavined horse for $100, a mare — rejected as too old during the South African war — for $130, a horse — previously traded for a duck and two drakes — for $90, and a horse which fell down unless supported for $105. The Kaiser would doubtless vote for the party of grafters who sent Canadians to war mounted on knackers wliich had to bo slain by the hundred by tbe British authorities. He would 1 vote for the Borden conspirators who insisted on buying Webb equipment— as supplied to the British Government — for $5.50 each from one of their friends, when they could have purchased from the manufacturer direct at $4.40 each. He would vote for those who re…
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: 10.14288/1.0374071
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