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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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l support of theLiberal party as such,has the special sup-port of the French-Canadian element.The Conservative par-ty in the present con-test is headed by SirCharles Tupper, aidedby Hon. Hugh JohnMacDonald, who isprime minister ofManitoba. He is theson of the late SirJohn A. MacDonald,who served for solong a time as theConservative primeminister of Canada,and who was the fa-ther of the protectivepolicy. Canada has,of late, seen bettertimes than usual,and there seems tohave been far lessd r i f t i n g—both ofFrench - ( a n ad i a n sand also of young and ambitious English-speak-ing Canadians — across the line into the UnitedStates. Manufactures and agriculture have pros-pered more than ever before ; transportationinterests and systems both by land and bywater have greatly improved ; the prestige ofCanada in London was never so high ; rela-tions with the United States, in spite of variouso()en questions yet to be adjusted, are not dis-agreeabhi ; and to the onlooker there wouhl not
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By courtesy of the New York Tribiuie. SOME LEADING STATESMEN OF CANADA. seem to be any sufficiently clear reasons Droughtforward by the opposition wliy the Conservativesshould now be restored to power. Campaign Issuesin Canada. The best reason against such restoration of the Conservatives would seem to lie in the needless emphasisit would give to the race and nationality question.Some of the Conservative newspapers liave l)eenguilty, in the present campaign, of exceedingly 532 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF RE^/EJVS. rancorous and irritating attacks upon the French-Canadians, who are accused of being disloyal atheart, and ready at the first favorable moment tooppose everything English. There is no meansso likely to sow the seeds of disloyalty in theFrench - Canadian mind as these British jingoaccusations; and nothing could be so well calcu-lated to promote harmony as the indorsement atthe polls of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his admin-istration. The settlement of the Manitoba schoolq

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