The question which was on all lips during the interim between the prorogation of the House of Commons on the 13th of August and the day fixed for its re-assembling, October 23rd. The prophecy conveyed in the unreasonable smallness of the hoop in the clown’s hand was duly realized.
Grip, October 18th, 1873.
“WILL HE GET THROUGH?”
“A CASE OF RIEL DISTRESS.”
The murder of Thomas Scott, at Fort Garry, during the Red River Rebellion, naturally excited great indignation throughout the Dominion, and a universal demand was made for the apprehension and punishment of Louis Riel, the leader of the malcontents, at whose instigation the deed was committed. This righteous sentiment, however, ultimately resolved itself into mere political “claptrap,” the Conservative Government, then in power, having secretly promised the rebels an amnesty, while publicly professing an anxious desire to “catch him.”
Grip, October 25th, 1873.