A TOUCHING APPEAL.
(“TOUCHING” THE SECRET OF INCREASED TAXATION.)
YOUNG CANADA—“SAY, UNCLE JOHN, WON’T YOU GIVE ME A ‘DEFICIT?’ MA SAYS YOU GAVE THE GRITS ONE!”
“MRS. GAMP’S HOME-THRUST.”
Early in the session a committee was appointed to inquire into the cause of the North-West difficulties, and during the progress of the inquiry evidence was elicited (mainly from Archbishop Tache) which implicated Sir John A. Macdonald. The Reform Party is represented in the cartoon as facetiously anticipating a repetition of the right hon. gentleman’s famous asseveration of his innocence.
Grip, May 2nd, 1874.
MRS. GAMP’S HOME-THRUST.
SAIREY GAMP (The Reform Party).—“’AVEN’T GOT NOTHINK TO SAY ABOUT THEM ’ANDS THIS TIME, I SUPPOGE, MISTER SIR JOHN?”