Agitation Is The Marshalling Of The Conscience

Of All The Vulgar Arts Of Government, That Of Solving Every Difficulty That Might Arise By Thrusting The Hand Into The Public Purse Is The Most Illusory And Contemptible.

There Seem To Me To Be Very Few Facts, At Least Ascertainable Facts, In Politics.

Public Opinion Is A Compound Of Folly, Weakness, Prejudice, Wrong Feeling, Right Feeling, Obstinacy, And Newspaper Paragraphs.

My Object, Having A Surplus To Deal With, Is To Consider How I Can Deal With It To The Greatest Advantage To The Consumer - How, Without Inflicting Any Injury On Canada, I Can Secure The Most Substantial Benefit To This Country, To The Manufacturing, To The Commercial, And To The Agricultural Interests. The Real Way In Which We Can Benefit The Working And Manufacturing Classes Is, Unquestionably, By Removing The Burden That Presses On The Springs Of Manufactures And Commerce.

Can There Be A More Lamentable Picture Than That Of A Chancellor Of The Exchequer Seated On An Empty Chest By A Pool Of Bottomless Deficiency Fishing For A Budget?