The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-16
PATRIOTIC CANADIAN .
Talks Good Sense About His Country
and His Ceuntrymen.
SALT LAKE Cry. Nov. 18th. 'ss.

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The ignorance of some Englishmen
regarding the colonial possessions oil
England is often and very Justly made
the subject of ridicule in American
newspapers. but when these same
papers betray an ignorance-which
any Canadian school boy would put
to shame-of the dominion lying next
door to the United States, the ignor-
ance is deserving of more than ridi-
Guile. The object of q newspaper is
(nominally st lesst) to supply the
people with information, but when
an editor places his assumptions
before the public as information the
effect is not always fatteriDg to the
editor. Your morning contemporary
appears, however, not only ignorant
of Canada politically but unable un-
der any circumstances to represent
fairly and honestly any subject in
which England or Canada is COM
cerned, and one might fairly presume
from all the mention OF Canada by
the Tribune, that its editors are very
anxious to see that country annexed
to the United States.
The evident gloating of the Tribune
over the natural political difficulties
which has arisen between Manitoba
and the Dominion government ia in
itself not very eourtesus 10 q aeighbor,
bat when the Tribune in it's omnipo.
tent wisdom prescribss seeeseions from
the confederation and annexation to
the union as an infsllible cure-all for
provincial political woes it becomes q
trife more absurd even than usual.
The boast. OF such Americans as
compose the Tribune staff is that the
of the United States is
one 'of the people, for the people, by
the people," when the al wise edi-
tors of that sheet need only to study
the political histories of the two coun-
tries side by side to learn that the
Canadian government is emphatic.
ally one OF the people, for the people,
BY the people, while the unlimited |
franchise of the United States has
placed the controlling maiorities in |
the hands of aliens and ruf6ans,
many of whon are outcasts from the |
lands OF their nativity, and tha. the
liberties provided for
American subjects have rapidly de-
generated in many instan es into foul
license. Any schoolboy's knowledge
of the constitutional government OF
Canada would show to the editors of
he Tribune the fact that as often as
difficulties arise between toe people
and the government the government
must either obey the will OF the peo-
pie or make way for a new govern
ment, end that speedily. Such a
thing as q government resigning and
going to the pulls for the verdict OF
its constituents ia unhesrd OF in the
United States. and the result has
been that year after year the loyal
and true Americans become more |
and more helpless to control their
OWE land against the influx OF for.
eigners who only require the certif- |
cate of court Itself IN existence by |
suffrance) to enable them TO vote, |
whereas the Canadians have scores of
times compelled their government
to resign or have defeated it at the |
polls when it's policy or specific acts
have been at variance with the wishes
of the people. The editors Of the
Tribune would place themselves in
absurd positions on this subject less
often if they would put away their
covetous longing for the lands lying
north of the United States boundaries,
and take the trouble to learn some-
thing OF the pride with which Cana
dams compare their government with
that of the United States. the proud
consciousness of pure and unsullied
homes, of an incorruptible judiciary,
which is independent of politics, and
OF laws which give to the poor man
equal protection with the rich and
which make private character q sa-
cred possession not to be asssiled by
self-appointed editorial diotators and
laws which make SANDER and perso-
nal abuse swiftly punished crimes.
There is evil enough in every form
of human government, but the Salt
Lake Tribune and all its staff will 60
down into their graves and out of
human memory long before the PEG.
pie of Canada become sufficiently
non compos nasntis to relinquish
form of government which they can
control at will and which gives every
man all the liberties compatible with
his neighbours safety and happiness
for one under which, according to
the Tribune's admissions, q handful
of men can defy the verdict of 3d.
900, 900 and can purchase for money
the action of its representatives.
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