Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-29
MEMPHIS APPEAL
CANADA PUTrING. ON ANS

When the biggest boy in a family begins
to claim right to have his own opinions,
and TO follow pursuits of his own choosing,
perhaps even claim to have a night-key 80
that ne may go out and come in at all hours
at WIKI Iis assertion of the right Of dis
iinct individuality generally causes some
commotion in the household Canada is the
big boy among Eugland's family Of colonies,
and ID beginning to assert claims to the
rights OF manhood. As England had a boy
before Canada that made the same claim.
and when 1t was refused he left home and set
up housekeeping for himself, which led to a
hard quarrel and attempts to cane the
truant back again, experience has taught the
parent lesson by no means forgotten.
Still the restlessness OF young Canada
under household discipline-which has
been good deal sIackened in his favor
Is not without its disturbing effect. In the
Canadian Parliament, recently, there was
some talk about the colony entering into
some treaty or other with foreign power.
Little John Macdonald, the head of the
Canadian ministry, decidedly objected to
this Nge-as-you-please" way of doing things;
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with the mother country. If such talk, he
insisted, meant anything it meant independ-
ence, and Of that there was as much pos
sessed already was reasonable This
froWning reference of the stern tutor to what
was due to the authority possessed by the old
folks at home did not brighten young Canada |
bit. He even went 80 far as to say |
that he saw no harm in independence,
and he also limited that when he wanted
a night-key to carry in his vest pocket he
was not going TO the extent of asking any
body's leave about it. One of the members |
of Parliament-Mr. De Cosmos, of British |
Colombia-went to the length of de- |
claring that he did not see why |
Canada should not look forward to |
being an independent State; he was
born British subject, but it was no |
wish Of his to die "a tadpole British colonist |
without the rights and privileges of the citi- |
zen of nation" Other members took all |
this in good part, as matter of course, |
and ffty-eight of them voted for resolu- |
ton which stern tutor little Macdonald had |
declared was directed at independence and |
separation" The stern tutor himself, how
ever, at the conclusion had nothing to saw |
The boy, he saw, had got beyond either be.
ing set task or fecsiyins areproof. OF
course Mother Codn>Ey at home does not |
like this putting on airs like man." and |
considers that "the young puppy is getting |
to be altogether too uppish." Even the Lon |
don Netcs, the leading liberal paper in that |
foggy city, is positively shocked by such |
undisciplined irreverence," and solemnly as
serts that ''if every self-governiDg
portion of the British empire is
not only free TO set up different tariff, but
also to enter into a separate convention with
each independent country of the world, the
unity of the British empire is at an end, and
an important step is taken toward the disin-
tegration of the empire" An awful conse-
queuce, indeed, but young Canada will carry
his own night-key when he decides to do so,
Notwithstanding. Uncle Sam will have to
shake hands with still another republic be-
fore long. When Canada goes his brother
Australia will want to set up on his own
account next.