Don Quixote in Finance, or Has Canada a Medici?

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W. H. P. Jarvis. Don Quixote in Finance, or Has Canada a Medici?

Don Quixote in Finance, or Has Canada a Medici?

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PREFACE

Book I. -- The Maelstrom

Book II. --"Patriotism—The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel."

Book III. -- In the Crucible

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W. H. P. Jarvis

Published by Good Press, 2021

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It is well to hold to constitutional methods and such, but, if our press and our Parliament are in the power of the money cult, how long will it be before they can be ousted, if the middle classes don't organize to obtain basic facts? Let us take the case of Sir Thomas White! There is no doubt but that this man entered Parliament for the particular purpose of serving—not his country—but his friends, of loading the Canadian Northern incubus on the broad shoulders of the Canadian People: that his name should be advanced as a candidate for the premiership is bluff—capitalistic effrontery.

To my mind the greatest enemy that a land may have is he who corrupts its government. Such a man is a traitor: he is a traitor to that greater thing called Civilization. When a people elect a government as a choice between two evils, there is the element of chance as to what the muddlers will do, and being of sporting instincts we are prepared to take what is given us; but when the muddlers are swayed by blackmail or bribes, or both, then should our virility be aroused.

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