July 26, 1867
BROWN HOLDS 800 HOSTAGE IN BROOKLIN
Last night in Brooklin, on the fourth night of his election tour of the South Ontario riding, Reform candidate George Brown began speaking just after 7:30 pm. He did not stop for five hours.
It was not ten days ago that Brown declined to speak at a meeting in Vaughan after attendees passed a motion limiting his speaking time to 30 minutes. According to accounts, Brown said it was the first time that he had been “denied the freedom of speaking as long as the audience were willing to listen.” Brown later left that meeting and addressed followers around a tree stump.
It was approximately 12:30 am before Brown’s rival, Thomas Gibbs was able to take the stage and respond. With only thirty minutes allowed him, Gibbs’s defence was grasping at best. It is said that Gibbs “wilted under the flagellation” he received from Brown but it might be more fairly claimed that Gibbs was done in by the speech’s length rather than its strength, regardless of its merits.
Come 1:00 am, the Hon. Matthew Crooks Cameron, provincial secretary and registrar for Ontario, who had travelled to Brooklin in support of Gibbs had not yet taken the stage. The contents of his speech are not known as the reporter left owing to the late hour.
KIDS TODAY SPOILED; SHIRKING HONEST LABOUR
An editorial in The Globe decries the unwillingness of the youth of today to engage in honest labour, including “the great business of Canada — farming. The youth of today
would like, no doubt to make money — they would above all things, be pleased to appear genteel, but the great thing is to be, at any rate, relieved from any thing like hard work.
Across the country, they are taking positions at reduced wages “simply because it is thought more respectable to do that than something else which would oblige them to take off their coats and make their hands harder and browner than they have any taste for.”
Do not get the author started on young women who now refuse to do house work and insist on having hired help which, in turn, induces young men to avoid marriage on the grounds of the expense involved.
The author closes, incredulous at the notion that young people today have the temerity to believe that it is “absolutely necessary that they should begin life in the same style in which their parents are now ending theirs”.
CIGAR MANUFACTURERS ORGANIZE IN FACE OF FOREIGN IMPORTS
The Cigar Manufacturing Association of Canada was formed at a meeting held two days ago at the Globe Hotel on Yonge Street in Toronto. The Association was formed out of necessity as the manufacturers believe their industry is threatened by virtue of the fact that their products are subject to higher duties and taxes than foreign imports. The Association is calling on the Dominion government to “place such a duty on imported cigars as will give us the required relief.”