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-LEADER** NOT LEADING.The regular reader of the Regina Leader previous to December 10th would form the impression that it might be coniidcred a champioo of the intercatii of the settlers in the Northweet, bat on reading the iaeue of that paper of the abovo data, he mast hare turned it over aereral times to make sure it waa the I reader be was leading. Haring aatisAed himself on that point, hit preooneeived ideas of that )aper aa a champion of the poople'i in-teraata, must liave been ruthlessly dispelled. In preparing their ad-reaa in reply to the lieut.-Governor* speech, the Noilhwest Council gave expreaaion to certain sentiments held almost universally by the settlers ia the temtoriea. Whilo not deair-ing to do eo in an nnfriendly spirit, that body plaoed on record ita disap-proval in certain renjieets of the Dominion Government's admiuiktrm-tion of Northwest affairs. That waa distasteful to the editor of the Lea-«ler. but inatoad of gracefully accepting the situation, be becomes rsm}iaut in hia issue of the 10th, and applies to the Council some not|1 very refined language which ia a1 diagram both to himself and hia paper. We select a few of tie 'phrasea which Uie iooonsuteul Leader uses iu epeaking of our legiaU-1 tors. It aaya XL N. W. C. may 1 stand for - Miserable Nincompoop 1 Worse Confounded,” and that they ' (the Council) made fools of them- * selves over the addruaa.** In order, if possible, to lower the members of the Council in lh« estimation of the puhlio it alaoaaja . - Did they retire 1 to their whiskey and brandy and cigars and solace them-aelvea with their pool permit I and ' then adds: the baneful dry rot of ' falsehood to doty marks the first official act of these men. In refcrr- 1 mg to the political aspect of the action of the Council, the editor of our unreliable oooloui|«orary aaya :- it never oocunvd to the Conservatives who voted for them (hat they were going to go outside their functions and Hy io the face of the cherished opinions and feelings of the electors.** When lie penned that sentence ho knuw it was false, or if ha had oot sufficiently observed public opinion io the Temtorioa where he has been an editor for nearly three years, to find it out, then lie got bis ayes suddenly opened when ha tried in (Ju'Appelle to get up an indignation meeting against the action of the Council, on which ooaa-aion ha received a liberal supply of the ooldest of oold water. Ws tell the Leader that it does not oonadly represent (1m opinions and feeling* of the Coueervaiitea of the Terri tones In view of the recent vieit of the Hon. Thoa. While, the .Vinister ol
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QuAppelle Progress
QuAppelle, Saskatchewan, CA
Fri, Dec 25, 1885
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