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...political upset of last week is unquestionably attributable to the depressed condition of Newfoundland fisheries and other industries...
...avowed policy of Sir Richard Squires is to bring to Newfoundland both Canadian and U. S. "dollars and cents," by fostering exploitation of the illimitable Labrador forests, whence comes most of the wood pulp for Canadian and U. S. news organs, magazines, books. Ostensibly Sir Richard is perfectly willing that the Labrador forests should be transferred to the Dominion of Canada-for a sufficiently stiff price. But the exceedingly harmonious relations existing between him and the International Paper Co. with headquarters in Manhattan suggest that Sir Richard thinks a stiffer price can be got from Wall Street. The blatant nonsense...
Citizens of the U. S. have forgotten with what dread their revolutionary ancestors heard that Newfoundland had been made the war base of the British fleet. Soon the harbor of St. Johns teemed with captured U. S. merchantmen. In those days George Washington worried about what was happening in Newfoundland. Last week it was George V who worried...
...sufficient cause for Royal qualms was the Newfoundland Parliamentary Election of last week. Swept out of power was Conservative Prime Minister Frederick Alderdice; and swept in was Liberal Sir Richard Anderson Squires. The "Liberality" of Sir Richard is such that his principal henchman, Sir William Ford Coaker, has said...
...true destiny of Newfoundland, with her fisheries, her forests, and her mineral wealth lies in the direction of the United States. . . . The Dominion of Newfoundland is coming around to the idea of choosing to become one of the States. ... At present if a referendum were taken on this subject it would carry by a 75% vote of the whole electorate, not because Newfoundland has forgotten the old flag, but because the tendency of the times is to consider dollars and cents first. . . . Ten per cent of our population are continually going to and coming from the United States...