The New York herald., 1872-11-19
The Canadian Tempest I'm a Teapot
Plain but Unpalatabie Truths.

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The English journals are working them
selves into unnecessary fury over an article
| which recently appeared in the London Times
on the subject Of the provisions and settle
ments under the Treaty of Washington, and
especially over certain plain but unpalatable
truths uttered by that leading organ of British
opinion for the advantage Of the Canadians
The position taken by the London Times is
not fattering to the success of English diplo-
macy. From first to last the treaty is regarded
as disastrous to the interests of the United
| Kingdom and the Dominion of Canada; as
settlement of outstanding difficulties in which
England comedies everything and America
nothing, and in which Canada is unscrupu-
lously sacrificed between the two. No attempt
is made to conceal the extent of the supposed
injury to the interests of the Province in
ficted by the acts of the Joint High Commits
sion. The indictment is put into the mouths
of the Canadians in strong language. They
are told that they may say to the British gov
ernment, ''You have muddled away our in
terests without obtaining for us aught that we
desired. You have abandoned our fisheries;
you have sacrificed our frontier; you have not
given us open trade with the States; you
have not secured any satisfaction of our claims
for wanton injuries" and the charges are ad-
mitted to be well founded. The Canadians
are reminded that their own Legislature gave
its assent to the Treaty of Washington in con-
sideration of bribe of two millions and
half sterling guaranteed by the British govern
i hI,ti II 10 ,,ovarfhaIa oOnoa1a1 that
under its operation they have lost oil that they
had to lose and been denied oil that they had
a right to expect For the past the faults of
England are frankly confessed. ''It is true
we have failed; we did our best; but we had
to keep one eye on ourselves and another eye
on you, and all the time to watch the temper
and meaning Of the American Commissioners,
with very little intelligence to guide our inter-
probation of their words; and if the result is
not satisfactory to you, neither is it to our
Selves For the future the Canadians are
offered some blunt advice: "From this time
forth look after your own business yourselves;
you are big enough, you are strong enough,
you are intelligent enough, and if there were
any deficiency in any Of these points it would
be supplied by the education of self-reliance.
We are both now in false position, and the
time has arrived when we should be relieved
from it. Take up your freedom; your days of
apprenticeship are over
These last words constitute the offence
which, in the eyes of the rest Of the English
press, the London Times has committed against
manhood, honor and decency. There is almost
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ture which the great organ has drawn Of the
Treaty Of Washington. The condemnation of
that instrument in the light Of its results is
almost as unanimous and extravagant as were
the laudations showered upon it before the de-
cisions it invited were rendered by the arbtra-
tors against the wishes and expectations of
Englishmen. 1t is conceded on all sides that
the Canadians have been made to bear the cost
Of England's Cancellation of the United States.
ssWhen our government agreed not to press
the claims Of Canada for satisfaction on ac-
count of the 'wanton injuries committed on
her soil by raiders from America" !" says the
London Morning Post; ''when they gave up
to the Americans what they desired as regards
the Canadian fisheries, and when they yielded
point of submitting an unlimited reference to
the Emperor of Germany on the San Juan
boundary question, they simply bargained
away the interests and rights Of others for the
supposed advantage of England" The Pal
| Nall Gazette declares that the treaty is
Justly regarded as an outrage by Canada.
'What the general opinion is in England, it
- ,fI Mo;
Commissioners and Her Majesty government
we know; but damnatory as it is, it cannot
be SO hostile, SO angry as public feeling in
| Canada, and the Canadians have an equal
right to judge of the matter, as well as equal
claims to just and rational views Of it. In
their eyes-wc know it by official dispatches
sent long ago from their government to ours
the treaty seemed insulting and injurious
before it came into operation" But at the
same time that these admissions are made the
London Times is fercely assailed for bidding
the Canadians in future rid themselves of a
connection which brings all these supposed
grievances upon them, and, trusting to their
own manhood, stake their freedom" into their
own hands. The Morning Post brands the
advice rs 'un-English, ungenerous and insult
/ ing" 1t declares that ''the government that
dared first to injure and then to cast off loyal
colony would speedily be driven from office
by the voice of the country" The Pon Mall
Gazette regards the language of its contem-
porary as coarse, and, coming from a
newspaper accepted as an accurate ex-
ponent OF English opinion, as "a deep
disgrace and misfortune for England
The Saturday Recie,c enthusiastically
speaks Of the ''coarseness and brutality Of
the advice and pronounces the policy recon-
mended sas futile and absurd as it is pusil-
] lanirnous and dishnnnrahlen y In the nyes Of