Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11
A Family Union.


ment, among the good people OF
Canada, for the annexation of that
province to this country. A writer
of the Nashua Telegraph, now So
iourning at Montreal, asserts that
never before has this sentiment been
stronger or more general than it is
at the present time. Not only does
such a desire pervade the masses,
but it is plain to be seen that it is
cropping out in the upper classes,
and even tolerated as topic of open
and free discussion by many gentle
men in official positions. Such a
state of things would not have been
thought of in years gone by. But
great changes have taken place in
couple of scores of years, and every
thing is not so thoroughly English
as was once the case. The days of
breeches and knee-buckles are fast
passing away. Even newly-arrived
representatives of the land of roast
beef are not so tenacious of old
customs as similar class used to be.
The causes which have produced this
radical change so plainly manifest
among all classes in the Dominion
are various but easily recognizable.
The sensitive Canadians are placed
in an exceedingly ilksome position
when they see the strides that their
neighbors on this side of the bound
airy are making in all things social,
political and intellectual, mainly on
account of the superior form of our.
Government, our free institutions,
and, more than all else, our utter
disregard of everything pertaining
to the miserable, worn-eaten and
fossilized regal systems of the old
world. The cornerstone of our
citadel, the inalienable rights"
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness, used to be a stumbling block
to them, but education, experience,
and the intimate association with our
people have opened their eyes and
they see no longer, as through a
glass darby. All along the frontier
of either country, the people have
become 50 thoroughly welded togeth-
er, that important issues have ceased
to be one-sided questions among
the intelligent portion of the people
of Canada who want to be Americans
in reality as well as in name. The
late favorable change in the value
of our dollar has done good deal
to intensity the desire for q nearer
relationship between the people of
the Dominion and our Government.
Our public debt is decreasing month
by month, while the bankruptcy of
England is growing more imminent
every day. The tariff of the United
States can be lessened at pleasure,
while the increasing debt of England
and her shockingly expensive Gov
eminent make it utterly impossible
for her to lessen the taxes which are
grinding her tradesmen' and mer-
chants into the dust. The business
men of Canada see all these things and
are made sick and sore in contemplate
ing them. Canadian producers and
manufacturers want a free admission
into our markets, but the failure of
the reciprocity treaty renders this inn
possible. Annexation is getting to
be a business necessity, necessity
which, is growing more and more i'm
perative as our own prosperity is max
ing itself known at home and abroad.
The common method of shipping
potatoes in sacks is likely to be i'm
proved upon, and perhaps, entirely
superseded. Potatoes have recent,
ly been shipped from the Sound to
the Sandwich Islands packed in ap-