Litchfield enquirer., 1858-07-29
THE MONOPOLY of the Hudson Bay Com

THE MONOPOLY of the Hudson Bay Con- pany is not popular in Canada or in England, and it will not be likely to receive any favors from the British public. All that it can keep and get through it's charter it may have, but beyond that it has nothing to expect. Ever since the British Possessions were opened to the enterprise of the hardy hunter and trap per, that company has enjoyed the monopoly. of most lucrative trade And that monop- o'y has been so entire and exclusive that the Company has not only got immediately rich, but immensely proud and has come to think that the whole of the British Possessions in N orth America were created for it's especial benefit. No one is permitted outside of the Company's ranks to enter the territory to trade with the inhabitants, and no one is permitted to trap or kill beaver without paying toll, for all the beavers are the property of the Company, and it has just turned out that the profits from all the mines and minerals in the territory are to flow into the treasury of this corporation It has claimed that it's charter gives it the exclusive privilege of making mo- ney out of anything that may come from the soil of the territory. This prcposterous claim, which of course cannot be supported, shows how purse proud and naughty the Company has become. But the prover6 tells us that naughty spirit goes before fall," and ap- pearahces certainly are in favor of a verifca- tion of this proverb at this time If the hopes of the gold seekers on Frazer's river, and of those whose eyes are directed that way shall be realized, the days of the tyranny of tl.is powerful monopoly are already numbered. Let population go in there, such as will be very likely to go in, and the Hudson's Bay Com pany might as we'll attempt to exercise juris- diction over the State of Connecticut, as over those people. They would acknowledge no allegiance to them, and would be the very last people in the world to pay cent of their profits into the hands of the Company's tax gatherers.
 If the diggiugs on Frazer's river prove to be what they are now expected to be, and so offer inducements for large immigration, the people who go in there will not be for the most part British subjects they will be Americans. California will pour iu her thou sands before the first ship will havessailed from England. Multitudes will have gone from the Eastern States, crossed the Isthmus. and be- gun in good earnest to handle their picks, be- fore the British public shall have made up its mind what is best to be done under the cir CuinStahCeS. II Iuat ulStflct UecoMeS Hlleu up with Yankee population, there most cer- tainly will be change of some kind in the politics of that part of the territory. If nothing more important happens, the Hud- son's Bay Company will surely suffer some loss. But it is possible that something more important may happen An influential jour nal in Canada suggests that there may. It asks the question whether there would be no danger that an American population, forming majority in the Territory, would desire to set up government of their own entirely inde- peudent of Great Britain, and then ask for annexation to the United States?" The question is a pertinent one, and it is very pos sible that this Canadian journalist is not far ont of the way in intimating what may be the course of events in the northwest. -
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