http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0374073
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-05-05
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note: The Week A British Columbia Newspaper and Review Vol. XIV, No. 47—15th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, May 5th, 1917 5c. a copy $2.00 a year J The Unyielding Democrat OSEPH MARTIN, K.C., Member of the House of Commons in the Imperial Parliament, does not hide his light under u bushel. On the contrary, he has the faculty of shedding a little radiance wherever he is. Nor is he greatly troubled when adverse criticisms arise concerning his deeds and words. To him it is only a part of the business. Party ties do not worry him, nor demure conventionalities control. He is not burdened with undue modesty, and does not propose to use language devoid of tang or force. In fact, Joseph Martin, K.O., M.P., erstwhile Premier of British Columbia, is Joseph Martin and nobody else. Just now the astute political practitioner is resolved to keep the peerage out of Canada. Titles are his abhorrence, and coronets have no attraction. Dukes, earls and barons are not on his visiting list, and it is gravely hinted that he would rather smoke a corncob pipe with ono of his costermonger constituents then whiff the daintiest cigarette in the London drawing room of Her Grace the Duchess of St. Pancras. If Joseph had only thought of it in time, he might have written Tennyson's poem and sang: Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. As ho did not write it he did the next best thing. He proposed to debate the anomaly, tlie absurdity and the folly of introducing tho peerage system into the democracy of Canada, and gave notice of his intention to nn astonished and decorous British House of Commons. Whatever may bo said of a title, bestowed for distinguished service to the state, and wliich should bo bestowed for tho honor and use of the actual recipient and which is not hereditary, nothing can be said with reason for the bestowal of titles that are hereditary, aiid which have no further significance than the acquisition of wealth or real estate. To trace back the ancestry …
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has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
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language: English
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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