Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-19
Saturda Morning, Nov. 1e, 1881.
AN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE ANNnx-

AN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE ANNEX
 ATION OF CANADA.
 The advantages and disadvantages of the annexation of Canada to the United States are being discussed by the English press with freedom and earnestness, and there is more difference of opinion than might be expected. Thus writer in the PGU Ml1H Gazette hearti- ly fayors annexation, and presents some con- alterations which he thinks may not be with out interest for those Englishmen who are perialist infatuation. He points out the im- poftance of an ''Americanized Canada" as 8 link between England and the United States, bond of friendship to unite even more closely the two great divisions of the Eng lish-speaking people. The Canadians are, or at leastit is so thought in England, influenced by B certain exaggerated personal loyalty to- ward the royal family of England, toward the old country as whole, and toward the insti- says the P0U MdU writer, ''of 5,OOO,OOO American citizens who were also well -wishers to England would in itself be incalculable but that would not be all. The intercourse between Canada andthe States is already very considerable and very friendly; when the Canadians were all Americans it would be- come closer and more intimate still. Every Canadian who settled on what is now the other side of the border would become cen ter for the dissemination of philo- Britannia ideas among the born Americans around him. Even now it is noticeable that the feeling of Americans toward England and Canada is most friendly along the border towns-there little or no spread eagleism, little talk about sending off the British lion with his tail be- tween his legs, in Detroit, or Nissera, or Rochester, or even Portland. Community of interest and daily intercourse have made these Americans of the border more kindly disposed toward their English neighbors than is the case in Washington or Philadel- phia If Canada was all American, if trade moved freely from New York to Toronto, and from Chicago to Montreal-if Cana dians, taught from their childhood to love and respect England, were drawn into daily contact with their fellow -citizrns, whose tra- ditions were less favorable to friendliness there can be little doubt that the general tone of America toward England would be even more generous and hearty than it is at this moment"
 There is one special danger which the writer thinks annexation would counteract. "At present." says he, Eve are sending daily CTS, driven from their homes by English misgovernment in the past, who carry with them to America fixed and settled hatred of England, and who become important factors whenever course of dispute with this coun- try is engaging the American mind. It is a fact that those Irishmen who go to Canada almost always lose their animosity to Eng land, and become merged in the general Can adian population. By union of Canada with the States we should thus obtain two bene- fits at once; we should add to the population of the States friendly Canadian element to eounteract the hostile Irish clement, and We should introduce body of Irishmen into America who are not pledged to seek cause of quarrel with us, and who might help to moderate the zeal of their fellow-country- men, especially as soon as remedial legisla- ton begins to produce good fruit in Ireland itself. These considerations for securing the friendship of the only other great industrial and non-military nation in the world are surely as well worth our attention as any i'm possible schemes of imperial federation or other impracticable plans for governing the universe by telegraph from Downing street D
 This is ingenious if not very practical. England can well fford to encourage the an- nexation of Canada to this country for more substantial reasons than those given above