The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-14
CANADIAN ANNEXATION.

The London Times, reviewing the speech
of the Earl Of Dufferin at the dinner given
by the Canadian Club. says that IL any Cana
dams formerly ielt lurking wish 10 Join tie
United States, they became loyal when they
saw the enormous load Of debt left by the
civil war. They might however, have
sought annexation ere this, il the mother
country had left them any cause OF grievance.
The Times hints that not outstanding the
admirable loyalty Of the Canadians. they may
yet be called upon for larger proofs Of patri-
otism, more particularly in case OF war
Baltimore AHericuH
The Canadians are not specially favored by
Providence in their means of subsistence. II
farmers, they are obliged to cultivate soil
comparatively unproductive, and to wrestle
with difficulties unknown in many Of our
States Their fields are weedy, stony, billy
and stumpy, and in many sections so poor
that they require imported fertilizers. It
takes considerable part of the summers pro-
ducts to subsist the family and cattle during
q long winter. The time of the farmer and
his boys is occupied much of the year in cut
ting firewood, filling the cellar, storing the
barn, building fences, earting away cobble-
stones from the field, beating tracks through
deep SHOWS, and nursing sick sheep and cattle.
They live directly on what they raise for the
most part, their surplus production being
small. They are industrious and frugal like
most of the Northeastern farmers south of the |
St Lawrence, and usually accumulate some
thing from year to year. The lumbermen |
have likewise pretty hard work with small |
profits 1t is the same with their fisheries, |
and nearly all other industries.
As they all work SO hard for the little sur. |
plus they have for sale, they, of course, want
full prices for their products in paper |
money which is worth only eighty three |
cents in the dollar, but in that which every- |
where and at all times represents the same |
thing will never fuctuate and will never lose |
its purchasing capacity. Such a medium of
exchange they have, but they would not have
it if Canada belonged to our republic.
The Canadians being poor they need an
government which will get along
with the smallest possible tax. They are in
possession of such a home government,
which they could not have if the glorious
banner of our Union waved over the Cana
ias. They are amply protected by the home
government, yet left entirely free in the
of their home affairs.
The Canadians get for all their exportable
products the goods and wares of British mar
sets without being obliged to pay duty rang
ng from 20 to so per cent on what they i'm
port. They have no desire to give up this
rec trade and cast their lot with us, for the
mere sake Of being annexed to the Gland of
he free, where they must Gay an enormous i
nnual tribute for the privilege of being ill =
governed. They are well content with hard
money cheap government and free trade. t
However little they may care for the Queen ,
nd royal family, the lords and magnates, the
raditions and customs, the fame and glory I
# Great Britain; however much they may adj
nire George Washington and the elective !.
Institutions of this country, they can not =
ford to be annexed just now. They prefer
} "groan under the British yoke" few 3
ears longer.