Brown's "Globe" (Today's Globe and Mail Newspaper) Stood Unshakably for the British Cobdenite Principles of Free Trade and Economic Liberalism

But outside its walls there seemed little contentment to be found in Canada, what with depression, unemployment, labour unrest, ever-falling public revenues, and clamour for protection. Brown’s Globe still stood unshakably for the British Cobdenite principles of free trade and economic liberalism. Trade would right itself, it confidently proclaimed. The harvest had been good; the world- wide slump was a necessary purge after speculation and over-indulgence that would bring a return to economic health; and Canada was suffering far less than other countries. Above all, the Grit organ denounced the Conservative proposal to import the American high-cost protective system, which certainly had not saved the United States from deep depression. It constantly argued that this “cure” would prove a far more permanent disaster than the present commercial malaise in a country inevitably committed to the production of low-cost goods for the world market.

--J.M.S. Careless, Statesman of Confederation, 1860-1880, vol. 2 of Brown of the Globe (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1989), 352.