WILL HE “CAPTURE” IT?
RENEWING THE LEASE
This bold prophecy was made on the assumption that the people of Canada clearly saw through the game of the newly-made Protectionists, and that the circumstances under which Sir John and his colleagues had demitted office in 1873 would preclude the possibility of their success on this occasion.
Grip, September 14th, 1878.
RENEWING THE LEASE.
MISS CANADA (to John A.)—“YOU WANT THE FARM AGAIN! YOU LEFT IT IN A SHOCKING CONDITION FIVE YEARS AGO, AND THE PRESENT TENANT HAS ALMOST RESTORED IT BY HIS INDUSTRY. YOUR ‘PLAN’ LOOKS BOGUS. I WILL RENEW MACKENZIE’S LEASE.”