While the Reformers were enjoying the good things of office, Sir John and his principal colleagues were passing the summer in making a picnic tour. The political picnic had become of late years a Canadian institution, and although there were pleasures to be derived from the outings in the leafy woods, with their accompanying buns, lemonade and political addresses, these were not to be compared to the attractions of the Treasury Benches.
Grip, August 19th, 1876.
THE ONLY SATISFYING PICNIC, AFTER ALL!
BRANDED
The Mail proved a most vigorous and alert Oppositionist and lost no opportunity for an attack upon the Government, whether fair or foul. For the sake of political capital it did not hesitate to “run down” the country, and thus to furnish the European press with arguments against emigration to Canada. The incident which called forth the cartoon was the Mail’s endorsation of a baseless slander on Canada which had been forwarded to the London Times from California.
Grip, September 2nd, 1876.