Another allusion to the ludicrous contradictions and inconsistencies of the principal advocates of the National Policy in their public speeches, when, in response to the popular demand, they undertook to “come down to particulars” as to what that Policy was to be.
Grip, August 17th, 1878.
“ALL AT SEA!”
CAPTAIN JOHN A.—“FOR GRACIOUS’ SAKE, LADS, GET INTO SOME SHAPE! IF THAT SQUALL STRIKES US IN THIS CONDITION WE’LL NEVER GET IN!!”
THE NATIONAL POLICY MINSTRELS
The point as to how a revenue was to be obtained under an exclusive tariff without a resort to direct taxation was of course raised by the opponents of the Protective theory, and no satisfactory answer had been given to the “conundrum” up to the date of this cartoon.
Grip, August 31st, 1878.