Nothing could be done with it, Mr Farquharson averred, as a mere prospect; it was useful only to its enemies.

We of the young countries must be invited to deeds, not theories, of which we have a restless impatience; and this particular theory, though of golden promise, was beginning to recoil to some extent, upon the cause which had been confident enough to adopt it before it could be translated into action and its hard equivalent.

The Elgin Mercury probably overstated the matter when it said that the Grits were dead sick of the preference they would never get; but Horace Williams was quite within the mark when he advised Lorne to stick to old Reform principles--clean administration, generous railway policy, sympathetic labour legislation, and freeze himself a little on imperial love and attachment.
"They're not so sweet on it in Ottawa as they were, by a long chalk," he said.

"Look at the Premier's speech to the Chambers of Commerce in Montreal.

Pretty plain statement that, of a few things the British Government needn't expect." "Oh, I don't know," said Lorne.