Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-28

ISs. Paul Pioneer Press.


ISs. Paul Pioneer Press
Next Monday Lord Lorne gives place
to Lord Landsdowne as govenor-general
of Canada. the succession signifying
no political reversal. The retiring adj
ministration was the conceit of Dis
raeli, whose last accession to power was
marked by more fsats of sensational
politics than could have been expected
even OF him. The queen Was made en-
press of India. the Prince of Wales sent
to the East, war was made in Afghani-
stan and South Africa, and Canada was
treated to an amateur bit of royalty in
the appointment of the Marquis of
Lorne with his wife, the Princess
Louise, to establish a colonial court.
DisraeIi's sport with the Canadians
was failure. bot Lord Lorne has mace
a good governor for. the Dominion
His predecessor, Lord Dufferin, had
been the most popular governor the Do
minion had ever had. To follow him
was no easy task. To follow Lord
Lorne will be no less difficult. Ii was
five years ago this week that he was
cazstted "a gouernor-generai. The in
terval has witnessed greater industrial
and commercial progress than Canada
has ever enjoyed in an equal period.
The revenue of the Dominion has nearly
doubled. an inconsiderab dest has been
practically extinguished, and a credit
able surplus appears in this years budg-
ct. The most notable event was the
reorganization of the Canadian Pacific
railway three wears ago, whereby the
Dominion entered iuto contract
with the railroad company chart
cred to take the place Of the
government in building the road, giving
to the company all the railway then
wholly or partially constructed, on con-
dition that the company should COM
plete the road in ten years. In addition
the government gave the railway COM
panv public lands to the amount of 4.-
1000 acres, q subsidy of "a, 600, 600,
both lands and subsidy to b. paid as
the company completed each twenty
miles of road, and the government
authorized the company to issue $50
100000 of land grant bonds. In 1881
the Canadian Pacific and the Canada
Central were consolidated, making a
continuous projected line from Lake
Nipissing in Ontario, to British Colum-
bia. The completion Of the st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Manitoba to its con-
nection with the Pembina branch of
the Canadian Pacific, opened the pros
porous region of the Northwest Terri
tory to settlement, and marked Lord
Lorne's administration AZ memorable
in history for an immigration more
rapid. well-to- do, and enterprising than
any country, the United States not ex-
cepted, has yet seen. The Lorne gov
eminent was a most consistent and
Jealous aid to this settlement of Man.
itoba and the great wheat raising re-
giOns to the west. The personal
and social features Of the re-
firing administration have been made
the subject of great deal of agitation
in the press and the fashionable world.
The people of Canada had, bv the force
of example and climate, modified some
what their notions of court dress and
etiquette. Lord Lorne publicly stated
that IL vas matter of constitutional
Law that the royal family of Great Brit
ain. represented in the Princess Louise,
rightly or not, this was taken to mean
must appear "at court" in decollette
adame with discussion on etiquette
that time has not yet extinguished.
Only last month at Toronto the Cover
nor General felt under the necessity of
disclaiming any desire for suoh an alb
surd custom. "We have had no Ell
quette," said he, mo court, except the
courtinR Of the fair name of Canada -
For over year tho Princess rem ined
out of the country-it is said, to recover
from An accident in which she sustain
Cd a severe shook and painful injury
to her ear. Adverse explanations were
not wanting, to tie effect that she was
disgusted with the chilly treatment
shown her by the ladies Of her court
under the lead of Lady Macdonald.
Under Lord Lorne Canada has ceased
to maintain the differences with the
mother country that once fretted her
people. Her government has been more
independent and representative, and
her people have made substantial pro-
gress in self government. The spirit of
Improvement is upon them, and their
ambition is that Canada shall become
great and respected among the countries
of the earth. Now and then there APP
pears slight effervescence upon the
subject OF annexation, but it soon evap-
crates in the haze of industry and self
interest. Canada is diverse and pecu-
liar enough to be an integer among the
principalities of the New World, rather
than the common fraction that she
must be IL she is ever taken into the
Uuited States. Lord Lorne is leaving a
fair and thrifty land, where be and his
wife are BE- loved of contented and
honest people. Lord Lansdowns as.
sumes responsibilities in becoming Gov
ernor General Of Canada that he would
escape in any other of her majesty
colonies. None of them have advanced
90 far in civilization and 70 ched so
high q point toward self-government.
Loyalty TO the GROWN ia there tempered
with u foresight Of power and inds-
pendencs which is native to the soil of
this Western Continent. 1t is NO sat-
rapry to which he il coming, and only
. liberal policy can make him q suc-
coSsful Governor General. 4