The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-30
THE DECEMBER MAGAZINES.
"LIPPINCOTTvs."

From Turner Brothers ~ 20. we nave re-
ceived the December number of LGppiRC0ttS
Mdgds5ne which has the following table of
contents s-"The Vicar of Bullhampton,
by Anthony Trollope, part vi; ''Too Late" q
poem, by Edward Remand; ''The Coming
Crisis in Canada;" Incompatible, a tale, by
Mrs. A. w. II. Howard; "With the YAM
Eaters, by Stephen Rowers "The East: How
1 Entered and How 1 Left It.; Beyond the
Breakers" a novel, part xii, by Hon. Robert
Dale Owen; ''The Banned Priest" a Legend
of Betsdorf ''The Seventy Thousand" by
Mrs. A. l.. johnson; "Tobacco;" cone
Woman of the World" tale, by Kate p.
Kereven; "Shall They be Educated?" Re-
ply to ''The Freedman and His Future, by
William r. Hooper; 'The Actuarys Story"
by Edmund Kirke "The Indian Summer"
by Cecil Dare; "Our Monthly Gossip" elite
rature of the Day."
From the article on the Coming Crisis in
Canada" we quote as follows
Seven men out of every ten will tell you
that confederation is failure. Why?
In the first place, it was a measure hastily
pressed to maturity, and deliberately intended
by the reckless faction then in Office to per-
petuate their own sway. Men said, 'With
union we shall have purity and economy
debt will no longer accumulate-publc works
will no longer be useless occasions for job
berry. The party lines and party strifes will
be lost in the grander era of national life. !"
What a vision of Already for so practical an
age! The same party still hold office; union
has broke up party lines so far as their oppo-
nents were concerned, while their ranks it has
linked more closely by the prospect of in
creased plunder. Extravaganza, jobbery
nepotism,a debt-seven other devils fercer
than the first-have entered into the house
| they found swept and garnished, and the last
state thereof is worse than the first With
| the same corruption on larger scale people
are tired
been prostrated by reckless over-trading and
abominable insolvency. The great importing
houses bought heavily, and We'd with each
other in disposing of their goods to the coun-
try traders These latter overtraded in turn.
| Indifferent harvests and cramped finances in
| duced serious loss to the honest, while the
dishonest, with every facility afforded by the
| insolvency act modelled for their express pro-
| lection, piled the competing "drummers"
| with orders, then failed for seven cents in the
| dollar. The Bank of Montreal notably with
| drew its circulation from Canada to speculate
in New York. A couple of smaller institu.
| tions failed, others were severely crippled
Manufacturers closed their works; mechanics
fled the country; an illiberal immigration
policy sent settlers to the adjoining republic
1t is wrong wholly to attribute depression o1
stagnation to political causes, but human
| nature is shortsighted, and the first idea of
man with bad crop is to damn the Govern
ment The opponents of the existing ordel
Of things would be fools did they allow Sc
golden an opportunity to pass unimproved
In the words of one of the earliest advocates
of a change, GA bad harvest will be hundred
thousand dollars In our pockets"
Besides, there were dissatisfactions laten
two years ago. The Nova Scotians were dis
gusted at the unceremonious manner in which
the union was forced on them. A large part,
in New Brunwick regarded with doubtful
satisfaction their union to a colonial rak
like Canada And the opposition to tn
dominant party naturally transferred thei
hatred to the policy of that party, although
it had been flched from themselves. Th
Protestants of Quebec gained nothing from
confederation. 1t left them at the mercy o
powerful and unscrupulous maj jority, hostil
to their religion, their race, their habits
The Province of Quebec is governed by tn
Catholic Conservatives. The English coun
as taxables-the French swarm in the offices
Agriculture may not be touched, so the bur
den is laid on trade and manufactures
Hence, the Protestant minority of Quebe
is peculiarly dissatisfied with the results O
confederation.
Over the whole country, then, we Sc
spread the germs of a crisis-a disordere
finance, struggling commerce, political dis
satisfaction and uneasiness, latent oppositio
without direction, and corrupt ADMINISTERS
ton unnaturally strong. Nothing can
nationally looked for but general movemeI
towards political reform or change, 1t is, il
this particular instance, question of ind
pendence or annexation
No other issue would be wide enough fl
common platform for the opposition of til
seaside and the opposition inland. A stagnaI
, period follows great national change, reforl
or convulsion. One great idea has bee
evolved-a direct precipitate- all IL
2 others are travelling together. Thus IL
Conclusion of the American Rebellion WI
I followed by time Of political insignifcanc
till now the Democrats are again regainiI
their activity. England, having wrecked OF
branch of the Church, is leaning on her axe b
t fore she lays it to the root of the parent tire
t So here, confederation so utterly swamp'
Q the opposition that they were left swimmil
!, frantically, each for himself, like the crew
q shipwrecked vessel amid the hencoops al
spars Now, however, they are beginning
o form a raft. Mere reform is not radio
y enough. return to the old colonial state,
/, stultifcation of the principles of union,
impossible. All communities have at the
. starting an impulse given to them; and tn
cannot, having once set their hand to t
i ploughing, turn back or aside. Two gre
o issues, and two alone, are before us-Ino
t, } pendence and annexation.