Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-11
ManitoJa's Failure.
Toronto Evening Telegram. ]

Toronto Evening Telegram.]
The difficulty of governing Man itoba
| and British Columsia from so distant
center as Ottawa is daily becoming moro
apparent. British Columbia has always
| been anti Canadian, and is only prevailed
| upon to remain in the confederation by
| having her demands acknowledgements
| which, as we all know, have not been of
| the most modest kind. The monopoly
| of railway transportation granted to the
Canadian Pacific syndicate and the hand
ing over of large tracts of land TO compa-
MES ola speculative turn has created
feeling of discomfort In the minds of the
people of the Northwest that it will be
difficult to allay. The country is tied up
in the bonds of railway and land monop
oily for term of twenty ears, less than
two of which have passed and already the
prairie province is arrayed against the
government at Ottawa in regard to these
matters. With respect to the national
party, which is asserted to be doing so
much good for Ottawa,i is plain that 1t is
notthe kind of tariff which the people of
Manitoba would establish for themselves,
il the subject were one of local leglsla-
ton. Their natural market is with the
United States, and the wider open the
avenues of commerce are made be-
tween the two countries the better
it will be for our fellow-coun-
trymen in the Northwest. They are not
concerned in discovering what is best for
Ontario, or in establishing and maintain
ing what Is best when 1t has been discov-
cred. Their mission Is to discover and
establish what is best for themselves. 1t
seems to be inevitable that difficulties
must ensue, the upshot Of which will be
break off from the confederation. Mani
toba is already raising an outcry against
land and railway monopoly, and has put
forth claim that the revenues OF the
crown lands in the province, acquired Dy
the Dominion government from the HUI
sons Bay company, should De handed
to the Manitoba government, IN ora er
that it may be able to meet the expen d.
ture entailed IN administering the affairs
of the province. Sir John Macdonald
evidently saw the direction in which
things were tending when he declared
that it would be impossible TO check
Manitoba. although he did not show
much confidence IN his own judgment
when, by disallowing a provincial rail-
way charter, he forthwith proceeded
to check her. The confederation
has been likened to a fshing-rod
joined together at the ends. When
fishing rods break, as fishing rods
sometimes do, they break at the top, and
1t is almost certain that this IS the point
at which the break in the Canadian fish
ing rod will occur. Ottawa IS too dis
tant from Manitoba to control it, and the
fact that Manitoba is largely peopled by
Ontarioans, with their broad ideas OF pro-
vincial rights and their experience Of
local self government, will not decrease,
but rather add to, the difficulties which
seem to be gathering and steadily gain
ing force. 1t is serious fact for the
people of Ontario to reflect upon, that
for several years past steady drain has
been going on both of men and money,
northwestward, and that they have been
helping to build up province which will
soon be rival to their own, either as a
member of the confederation or as an IN
dependent state. The signs of the times
all go TO show that the first blow at the
confederation will be struck by Mani
toba.