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Much Is Said About English Severity, But Not A Word About Irish Provocation.

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

No Minister Ever Stood, Or Could Stand, Against Public Opinion.

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.

My Belief Is, From All That I Have Seen Of The French People And Their Government, That They Are Much More Likely To Presume Upon Our Weakness Than To Take Offence At Our Strength.