The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-12 00:00:00

THE CANADA QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR or THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES.
SlR,—Without desiring in the least to provoke a
controversy with reference to the points discussed
in your articles and my previous letter on the
Canadian question, I shall esteem it a favour if
you will permit me to offer a brief rejoinder to your
remarks on my last communication. My object in
first addressingyou was toshow that, whereas Canada
is now enjoying far greater prosperity than the
United States, the discussion of annexation as a
means of bettering the condition of the former
country was a simple absurdity. In support of my
premises, I proceeded to show, and I think you
will admit my having succeeded i❑ my task, that
Canada, taken as a whole, shows a rate of increase
in what is generally conceded to be a just index
of progress, viz., population, about one-fourth
greater than that which obtains in the United
States. I also showed i❑ figures, of which you do
not deny the general result, that Canada when
compared with those States, which in climate and
position most nearly resemble her, shows a per-
centage of increase as between them, four times
greater than that of her rivals. Now, it may be
interesting to know why the States on one side
of the line are at a standstill when compared
with the provinces on the other, but the fact re-
mains, that the border line separates a rapidly grow-
ing country from one which is not growing in any-
thing like the same proportion. It may or may
not be true that the efforts made in England by
speeches, agents, &c., to induce emigration have
produced a greater effect in Canada's behalf than
the repellant influence of English rule has effected
in behalf of the United States, but the question is
here, not one of causes, but of facts. As to the im-
propriety of comparing the far Western States with
the Dominion, it would—seein impossible that
opinions should vary. If Minnesota, &c., are to
enter the calculation, let them be compared with
tke Red River country and British Columbia, either
of which will show an increase as much greater
than that of the most favoured Western States as

Canada's increase is greater than her neighbours.
And, in conclusion, I would ask whether any objec-
tion can be made to taking as a basis for computa-
tion the whole of each country during the most
favourable decade known to the United States, and
before half the latter country was exposed to the de-
solation and depletion of disastrous war. I re-
gret to say that I cannot see the force of

the objections urged against pro rata comparisons.
Here, again, as where you contrast the extent and
population of British America with those of the
States, as you have done, it seems to me you do not
make clear the diAinction that must be observed
between numbers and growth ; and although you
imply the contrary, I conceive that the progress of
a small town which, as a rule, should double its
population annually, would indicate far greater
growth and prosperity than obtains in London,
even although the former might be utterly insigni-
ficant when compared with the latter in respect to
size. Concerning the statements generally made,
and too generally accepted, as to the proportion of
emigrants that leave Cana h for the United States

:although it seems sufficient remain to give Canada

the advantage), I am convinced that they are with-
out good authority. Many, doubtless, pass through
the country on their way to the West, who simply
prefer that line of travel, because it seems shorter,
and who have never proposed stopping in Canada ;
but of those who may be truly termed Canadian
rnigrantsthe greaterproportion undoubtedly remain
n the country. This will, in fact, account for its
rapid growth, although the latter fact may also be
in part attributed to other. causes. We are aware,
for instance, that Canada is the most healthy
country on the globe, the ratio of births to deaths
being 3.75 to 2.G7 in the United States, and 1.93
in many of the healthiest of European countries.
Its annual death rate, too, is but 98 in 10,000, com-
pared with 124 and 184 in the two latter countries
respectively. As to American railways, and the
profits they bring to English stockholders, I must
refer you to the English holders of Atlantic and
Great Western and Erie shares for data as to how
far mismanagement and conflicting authority may
diminish dividends without showing lack of pros-
polity.
In referring to the implication contained in
your category as to which power would hold the
Canadian ship canals, ten d 'ys after a declaration
of war, I will simply remark that I was not aware
that you had revised your opinion of Senator
Chandler's " thirty days' " proposition, to which I
believe you alluded in your article on this question.
In allusion to that " broad prin&ple," the Monroe
doctrine, which was fashioned at first only as an
instrument wherewith to tickle the vanity of the
American people, does it not occur to you that its
recognition would require us to give up India on a
similar protest from the Chinese, as representative
Asiatics, resign Guaina to Brazil, and surrender
Cape Colony to the potentate of Timbuctoo? I fear,
sir, that it will take a long time to convince Eng-
lishmen, who can distinguish between nzeunz and

tuum, that my neighbours' property is mine by
Divine right, simply because it lies near enough for
me to seize it, for such is the Monroe doctrine. In
concluding this, which must be my last letter, as
I leave town at once, permit me to remark that
had I been led by your comments to reverse opinions
which have resulted from laborious investigation,
I should have written an acknowledgment rather
than an argument, for I am always happy to be
convinced ; but as I have not.been so led, I shall
esteem it a favour if you will permit me publicly to
give the reasons why.—Yours, YOUNG CANADA.

[lf we cannot convince "Young Canada," neither
can he convince us; indeed, we believe his "labori-
ous investigations" to have been on the path of
error, wherein he has become so encumbered with
what he has culled, that he cannot turn. We not
only did deny the accuracy of " Young Canada's"
figures, but actually pointed out the errors, declar-
ing that if corrected they would alter hiS deductions ;
yet, he coolly assumes that we acknowledge their
general accuracy. The whole frontier should be taken
from the Atlantic to the Pacific for the comparison
to be really fair, and the increase then calculated. In
that case, the ratio might be used as a test of pros-
perity, which cannot be so when particular places only
are selected. We have no objection to compare Nova
Scotia and New Bruns wick with Maine, New Ham p-
shire and Vermont with the Canadian Territory on
the right bank of the St. Lawrence; Michigan with
Upper Canada ; Minnesota with Red River ; Da-
cotah and Washington, with the Hudson's Bay Ter-
ritory and British Columbia. But our desire is to
take the people where they nearly adjoin, and com-
pare town with town, village with village, and farm
with farm. We see no reason to change our mind
as to the error of pro rata comparisons. People are
people, whether they settle in a country with many
inhabitants or with few ; and London, if its popu-
lation increases by 50,000 in a given time, is more
rapidly growing than any town.in Canada, which, in
the same period, doubled a population under that
number; just as the labourer who, in a week,
added five shillings to his former week's savings
of five shillings, has made less than the merchant
who cleared £l,OOO on that week, although the
former may have doubled his capital while the
latter added but a mite to his. Such comparisons
require to be honestly and intelligently handled in
order to be made a true index of relative pro;
sperity. Of all the curious errors held by an Ame-
rican, that of " Young Canada" on the " Monroe
doctrine" is the most astonishing. The unity of the
North American Continent is a destiny, in a word, too
good for any, not excepting Americans.
ave to improve in morals and education b eaniry," can realize this splendid idea. " Tickle v
Theyf o re t willh
y
in-
deed ! Why it is the m3st material, plain, easily
conceivable of benefits to a large section of the
world. Of course it would be of advantage to
Asia to form Asiatics into one community, amal-
gamated into one race, speaking one language, and
with a common law and religion. But, unfortu-
nately for Asiatics, this can never be—it has been
dreamt of for Europe, but, alas ! for Earope, it must
remain only a dream ; but for America it is a cer-
tainty, if the people prove worthy of such a des-
tiny—but that is the question. The Monroe do 3 -
trine is the very reverse of the conquest and theft
with which " Young Canada" associates it ; and if
he cannot see the benefit that must accrue from

I

ile
levelling frontier barriers and obliterating host
nationalities, the economy, and the security, wet
not going to tell him, as we write for many, and IW
for one ; and our readers have had an opportoiti
long ago of learning how we estimate such advanl
ages. Nor does " Young Canada" appear to na;
derstand the difference between Senator Chandlo
e
with the Michigan volunteers invading Canau
under contract, to conquer and annex it in thir 0
ti
days, and the United States hurling half-a-d°ze
armies over as many points into the Domini°ll'.....
[ED. A. A. T.]

" FINANCING" IN ENGLAND AND

AMERICA.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The correspondent of the London Times 'Ara
wl
attention to the science of " financing"
in vogue in New York, the practitioners ex'eod`l,l;
their operations to foreign investors, who bs
been taught this to their sorrow. Having said rfl:
the correspondent piles up in illustration such ir
star ces as the attempt to float a loan in Parise f -
the Memphis and El Paso Railroad under the illo
o 0
ea
pretences which he terms one species of "
financing," after which he goes on to the Marirf-of
swindle. This appearing in au English paper
City
sidering enlightenment of Englishmen is not bad,
'or
sidering that the verb to " finance" is of 13° of
coinage, representing a peculiarly English sy see r a
money-making, so extensively practised that foil:
el
five Englishmen who had any thing to lose can°°t go
together without finding that one of the number
least bad been a victim, while the operations of the
practitioners embraced the world. Yankee fiaatlfoo
or,
indeed ! While granting the merits of GouLP, of
VANDERBILT, and DREW, and of the directorate
the Mariposa, a long account of -which the coif
spondeut gives as something new, weeks after it,mbo
been discussed in these columns,
of
Yankee practitioners who desire to learn the ar.t
drawing up a lying prospectus should study
the Loudon school. Although the nation is sere
,e 0
we maintain 't
Wo
with wrecks, all the courts being clogged with C:00
of audacious, pitiless swindling, human nature isio
constituted that many of the men instrutnen
op
perpetrating these disastrous frauds will turuheo
the whites of their eyes iu holy horror at t ot
Yankee practitioners, on reading the Times °f
co
Wednesday. That we have no more notion of
so
cealing the villainies perpetrated in New Y°ric
f jotwe have of cloaking those of London is evident jot
the fact that more than all the Times had to sal 00
tbe
long since and much more fully been said i°
columns. So prone are people to forget their or
backslidings, so little do they recognise the ape
ante they present to others, that we do not
a groan of disapprobation will as readily rise bed
the hypocrite as if these London revelatiovsej of
never been made, and the talk will be reneviwoot
Yankee sharp practice. To us this is sco
as hateful as the villainy itself, and in its fs Cot
desire to assert that no such scoundrelism has ' l
been exposed as that which marked the coal°e rco
300
career of London previous to the gre tt fraud Pdet,
of 1866, which foreigners do not choose to N't:cio
however convenient it may be to the Coekcelf tbo
so. When the Philadelphia correspondent
tbb
Times raises the old tune, he can only call 0 g,
laugh of derision, for the mercantile name 0f ofot
land, once genuinely good, has been maintai.p„d
many a long year by cant and hypocrisy, he'.7o
posed and effectually blasted by the revelatil9oid,
1866. For every such case of New York flo,atil roe
as the Mariposa and the Memphis and r-'OOOO
Railway, we will undertake to furnish ten Lit Atii
cases as bad ; for every " well-known eitiieith
member of the Legislature "' mixed LIP /di°
American swindle, we will produce an cor
M.P. and a corresponding well-known niti/ if the
netted with a like swindle on this side ;
victims were almost wholly confined to Paged,'
men, it was solely because their prey abs9liiliel,
home while these operations extended everc,
throughout the globe. Some day or other w''aeoutlf
tell " how they do it" in Australia, in New Ice 01e
and in India, for our facts are all verified, and otioe°
only refrained hitherto from a natural rel
to give pain to individuals. But we can tejtitio
kudent a robbery as that of the Mariposadsdoilif
perpetrated by the model Church of Engla': ,c,ry oaf
of Canterbury, Ne AT Zealand. The b's'
" Tea " BARRY, late ALP., would tell "b°vi
do it" iu India ; but is would be needless to
,00
a fact well ascertained, that the Angle-535iagtli:
little to boast of lathe way of honesty, dcve' goo°Po
same propensity to appropriate the lands 5/i 101
of others unto himself wherever he proneedsf by the
ltd
cannot gratify this propensity as a baron ci
e
by taking him whose chattels he coveteu weft
e
throat, or, with DICK TURPIN'S "Stand and P
Are, b o
or, by seating a Jew on a gridiron over?aacieg•
embarks in the subtle schemes of ``Pl3 If ,'0
now so fashionable, and far more effective'Ortro
, the r so
a colony, after he has " choked off „its so
sors of the soil he has appropriated and tmteotioOd
more savages " to civilize," he directs his at bbero igloo
his brethren, while the descendants of r°,, in 9,, of
pirates, as the Times called the English t
'titione
article, become the "financing pra°,- „ad. ilia
the present age, both at home and a'--opifeil
for mercy's sake, let us have no cant ! 110,, for 'OO
denunciations of the dishonesty of other7g Ole
don must acknowledge, bad as New %.,c) footle
this metropolis still preserves a pre-e—
rascality.

000
The Philalelphia Public Ledger saYs'-i."01113/8t/3:tillit;
B. P. Wade visited Secretary Cox and Secrete
well, and had long interviews with each in r„
the ssoh
condition of the Pacific Railroad. He went over d to 'tire
ground of the enterprise with them, as it apPesrnd oS.,ce
Su
and gave them details of the construction The e tots' 1
equipment of the roads as he found them. ife"
A teaT
of his conclusions is that tall companies b n
• enL" a/
honestly in pushing their cads across the conti the si
briog
are still working with unal at ,d energy to - (10
the Doe
to the best possible condition, and maintain be f
f
state. He recommends the immediate lose
CO°3 ° t
lAN IP
still due the Union Pacific Road, so that th
tbr°llo°
have the means of keeping their force at withwi°l the pons
the remainder of the season. Who is reauY it s
statement on this vexed question ? Auc!
with this last, or will it run counter to it? coastiS,
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Tte, Yorkshire, to Elizabeth Margaq`ij,treisti„cie'Of
daughter of the late Rev •1. W. Borer, o' ~ 6t. J' Jo
LUX.Ng 10nE - ST. OEO '
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don, Edith Marian Northcutt, the beloved COI tlil
and Mary Ann Northcott, aged three niontb,.,.,rref,t hio
SELWYN—On the 11th inst., at Richn-ondt 'Tgord,u,"
Right lion. Sir Charles Jasper Seivr, yr), ";eci ~,•
Justice of the Coni•t of Appeal in ChancerY, 1","

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