http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0374087
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-05-26
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note: The Week A British eelnmbia Newspaper aad Review Vol. XIV, No. 50—15th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, May 26th, 1917 5c. a copy $2.00 a year WJ To the Victor Belongs the Spoils 'HATEVEB of public service lias licen rendered through the exposure of the Dr. Mackenzie contribution, however great has been the purification of political life, the honor and glory lies with Mr. Cowper. His hand inflicted the blow; his tongue told tlie story that caused the withdrawal of Mr. MacDonald from the seats of the mighty. Around the brow of the sixth member from Vancouver must be bound the laurel crown of victory. The statement made by him which thrilled and startled the Legislative Assembly was in its broad outlines found fairly correct, otherwise Mr. MacDonald would not have resigned. Mr. Cowper, therefore, has the undoubted right of expecting the hero-worship which the public usually accords to a successful combatant in the political arena. Yet —must it be confessed ?—the public are not enthused. The plaudits of the multitude are not in evidence. The press do not seem to have generally burst into ecstasy over his achievement. There will be no statute erected to his fame by the grateful people of Vancouver. Yet, if he did good public service from disinterested motives, there should not be withheld from him a fitting recognition of his just claims to public confidence and esteem. Perhaps the causes for such lack of public enthusiasm are numerous and ill-defined, yet recognisable even amidst the tumult of party strife. These causes inter alia may be that the public do not approve of apparent treachery between political friends. Nor is there a love for one who becomes the recipient of spy information—as witness the celebrated Gniney case in Ontario— even though the use to whieh such information is put appears to be in the public interest. Then there is also the shrewd suspicion that Mr, Cowper did benefit in some measure from the funds contributed, even though the benefit was unsought …

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