Mr. George Brown was an earnest advocate of the Free Trade principle in political economy, and was always vigorous in his denunciation of the opposite principle in any direction. About this time the Globe had earnestly denounced the action of the Ontario Society of Physicians and Surgeons for having prosecuted an unlicensed practitioner, under a law which the Globe always regarded as narrow and tyrannical. This was not very consistent with the attitude it sustained towards Mr. Goldwin Smith as a healer of the body politic. Mr. Alderman Baxter, well-known in Toronto, is used as a metaphorical figure of Justice.
Grip, September 4th, 1875.
INCONSISTENT “PRACTICE” OF FREE TRADE DR. BROWN.
PISTOLS FOR THREE
Rev. Egerton Ryerson, D.D., was drawn into the Brown-Smith controversy, and it soon became what is known as a “game of cut-throat”—each against the others. Grip, believing that, in the stereotyped newspaper phrase, “this correspondence had gone on long enough,” was tempted to suggest a fatal shot all round as perhaps the only way of securing a “rest” for the reading public.